The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-13 00:00:00

EPirtiT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, According to the Times, the fact that so many special constables have come forward makes it highly improbable that they will be called upon to perform any real duty. The most deterinined conspirators are awed when they find society against them. It is, however, highly important that the efficiency of the new force should be maintained. It is obvious that the improvised police army recently created can be of the greatest service as supplemental andauxiliary to the standing police body. We have already a well organised force, trained and instructed, and what is deg: , able is that the volunteer constables should assist and in crease the existing force. It is accordingly recommended that the special constables should be associated together in parishes. Those enrolled in each parish should elect a superintendent to command them, and one of the police stations in the parish should be appointed as the headquar ter 3 of the division. It was originally recommended that men accustomed to command as officers in the regular or volunteer service should be chosen as superintendents; but it Las been apparently thought, and with reason, that the special constables themselves might be trusted to exer cise a wise discretion in their choice. The special con stables in a parish may be divided and subdivided where the parish is large, and may again be aggre gated with the constables of other parishes where they lie in the same city or borough. Subordinate to the police-station selected as headquarters, and the superintendent attached to it, every police-station in the parish should be used as a rallying-point, with a deputy superintendent commanding a subdivision attached to it, and the subdivisions again may be divided into sections, assembling at some outlying rallying point under their as sistant-superintendent. The hierarchy is thus complete, though it manifestly admits of indefinite extension. We might have a united division in 'cities and boroughs with its superintendent-in-chief, divisions or parishes with their superintendents, sub-divisions at every police-station, with their deputy-superintendents, and sections at outlying stations commanded by assistant-superintendents. Lists of all the constables attached to particular points must, of course, be kept at each, and the roll of the united force is directed to be sent to Colonel Ewart, at the special con stables' office, at the Wellington Barracks. The facility with which a body thus organised can be summoned to action in case of necessity is manifest, and the Instruc tions of a.) Home Secretary contain a caution against the abuse of a tempting power. The special constables who have been enrolled are mainly men whose time is occupied in their respective trades and employ ments, and who have come forward to defend the peace of the families and homes they labour to maintain. Such men must not be summoned to duty unless duty actually summons them ; and superintendents are warned to abstain from mating undue ells on their time, and, except under circumstances not admitting of doubt or delay, not to turn out their men without the requisition of the police or the order of a justice of the peace. Elemen tary drill may be taught if the men have time and are desirous of learning it, and the proper method of handling the constable's staff is declared to be an essential item of instruction. Under no circumstances should the loop be passed through a hole in the staff, or the staff be attached to the wrist by the loop. The Daily News gives the Government the credit oi being actuated by the best intentions, but believes that they make a mistake in prosecuting a hostile newspaper for matter the publication of which they condone in friendly or neutral journals. The pretence of public danger will not bear examination. The prosecution will do more to create disaffection than the conduct of the prosecuted journal. The Government, against their wish and better reason, are obeying a blind impulse which a few months ago they felt themselves strong enough to disregard. In Ireland, in almost all her times of previous trouble there has existed a force of calm and liberal opinion which has restrained the propensity of the Executive to gratuitous measures of suppression,_ and has been a counterpoise to the efforts of the more violent factions. There are few traces of the existence of this feeling now. The extin guisher has caught fire. The engines are pouring, not , water, but oil on the flames. The .demand of excited loyalty for acts of vigour is urging the Government into petty and irritating measures. By all means let Fenianism be struck hard and hcme. But let us have no ran dom blows, nor any mere beating of the air. It is a mistake to waste the forces of coercion and suppression. The prosecution of the North Briton made John Wilkes a martyr and a popular hero.; and the prosecution of the Irishman may do the same for Mr. Richard Pigott. The Herald, has no reason to doubt that the real evil of Ireland is the evil that prevents the develcpment of its resources, and that Fenianism is therefore only another form of the malady it pretends to be curing. The misfor tune now is the same which preceded the English conquest. Those who have, ana those who have not, are equally prone to keep unsettled the relations which fructify in dustry and beatify good order and manly indepmdence. All our legislation has been subject to these drawbacks, and till these disappear we should only deceive ourselves if we expect much more from any changes of the law we may contemplate than have already been realised for Ireland by the many great and fundamental legal changes which have followed our repeal of the Test and Corpora tion Acts. There has always been a worm in the bud of Irish industry beyond all the powers of treatment in the English Parliament, and the damask cheek and the hectic glow which we have been mistaking for the indications of health have been only the symptoms of an internal and deeply-seated disease that was undermining the patient in the proportion we were invited to admire her. Whatever we may do as legislators, therefore, we may expect little really to be done until the day when we shall see esta blished a cystem of honest industry and peaceful order based on the unwritten law of social fair play and manly independence. In the meantime, one of the best things we can probably do is to encourage people there to protect one another against the felonious violence they are unable to suppress, and to give the best help we can in the good service. The Standard asks the Daily News if it is content to regarded as a Fenian organ, or. at any rate, as sympathiz ing with the Fenian movement ; and its reason for putting this plain question is its insertion of a letter on Saturday. from Colonel Burke's solicitor, calling upon the charitable to subscribe to a fund for providing the expenses for that person's defence. Now this Colonel Burke has been busy for months in this country, purchasing arms, plotting and organising a movement hostile to the Crown and the em pire. There can be no reasonable doubt in the mind of any one who has perused the evidence upon which he has been committed, that he is a prominent agent in the conspiracy which is at this moment disturbing the three kingdoms. The columns of the press teem daily with appeals for the relief of overwhelming distress ; and amongst them the chief claim is that of the poor and populous district of Clerkenwell, laid desolate, as if by an earthquake's shock, by this accursed Fenian agency, and yet the Daily News lends the authority of its columns to an appeal for Colonel Burke. Our contemporary has for some time past taken rather a Republican than a Radical view of political ques tions ; and it certainly is a good deal more American than English in its general reflections on the policy of this country. But we would respectfully point out for its con sideration that it is possible to overdo things. There are American papers which do not advocate the annexation of Canada ; and American journalists who do not consider it necessary to espouse the cause of Juarez : nay, there are influential journals in New York which have denounced Fenianism in as strong language as any that has been employed on this side of the Atlantic. No doubt the Daily News was only carrying out its principles in sup pertine: the strength of the Federals against the South ; no doubt 'Quashee was a very good client in his suit against Governor Eyre ; the King of Dahomey might serve a use ful turn, and even the great Neg - ns himself—hut Fenian fire and plot, never ! In alluding to the rumour of the probable retirement of Sir Richard Mayne, the Telegraph reminds us that in appointing his successor the principal object to be kept in view is the special fitness of the chief to develope the civil efficiency of the corps. The post is one very difficult to fill well, and, if filled by any one unequal to the position, the injury to the public would be of the most serious kind. Great firmness, rapidity of judgment, much knowledge of the world, the habit of command, the power of discerning character, are all required to make, not only a first-rate, but a respectable head of the police. When the late Lord Melbourne was urged to appoint a gentlejnan to a vacancy on'the bench of police magistrates, he asked if the candi l i - date had anything of a fool about him, "because," he added, " a police magistrate's is the one position in life in which the slightest element of folly is absolutely certain to display itself." What is true of an ordinary magistrate is still more true of a commissioner of police. Now, it is obvious that many of the qualities which we have enu merated are more likely to be found among military m en than amidst civilians ; and therefore, in case of a vacancy in the Chief Commissionership, it is not improbable the Government should incline at first to appoint an old soldier to the post. Yet, experience has shewn that such a selection would be inadmissible. A man trained in civil life, with a civilian tone of thought, civilian rules of con duct, and a true appreciation of civil relations, can alone impart to our police that character which constitutes its real strength, and its hold on the public respect and capport. The ro4, in discussing our chances of success in Abyssinia, wou'd have us remember that Theodore has already shown himself an adept in the art of keeping What he has got, and there is every prospect that he will take measures to send the captives, and, if he cannot reach those at - Magdala, at any rate those he has with him, as far away as possible from the reach of the British army which is seeking them, and a very slight start would enable him to place such a distance between the two as would render the return of the force with the prisoners by the end of March a simple impossibility. But, unless so much is effected, not only will the object of the expedition nut have been gained, but it will be exposed to the greatest peril even in the matter of bare subsistence, and will have to take up an entirely new position and task:, involving nothing less than a p e rmanent occupation of Abyssinia under the most unfavourable circumstances. As we know that at present such an occupation is not intended, it is probable that the eventuality has not been provided for. Nevertheless, there arc, as we have seen, the stronger t reasons for expecting that it w ill h ave t o b e met, and w• only hope that the difficulty of meeting it may be lesn than it at present appears. But there is a very great risk pf its proving F4ther greater than, leas THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1868. FA2AL EFFECTS OF IMPURE WATER. Kingship—the royal hereditary power posses sed by the crowned and anointed leaders of the nation—is becoming every day less honoured, less influential in Europe ; its essential character is changed:; government is shifting its basis ; power is passing from the King to a certain class in the nation. This class is not conservative in its instincts like the highest, nor destructive like the lowest, but it is influenced by either and partakes of the character of both. This great middle class in Europe preoccupied with its own business and ignorant for the most part of politics, allows in most of the countries of the continent the most incapable or the most ambitious or the most in triguing of itsmembers to become its spokesmen and electors ; and these, in their turn, areeasily swayed by popular demagogues, by self-consti tuted leaders, by organized societies, open or secret, and by the Press. Acting upon such mate rial, the Press creates a public opinion, which ex presses neither the wishes nor the interests either of the bulk of the people or of its most cultivated classes ; but before the dictates of this fictitious public opinion, law, legitimate rights, constitu ted authority, and religion itself are expected to give way. Society in Europe—those who govern and give the initiative to action—are falling more and more under the power of the Press ; it is therefore, to say the least, a curious study to watch and note, each one in his own circle, the influence and character of these irresponsible guides of the people, these teachers (of the intellectual Gospel of the nineteenth century, these priests and kings of modern society. In England the great organ of the unthinking multitudes in the reading classes is the Times. It cannot be called a representative paper, for it re presents no class, no principle; no opinions save the fluctuating opinion of the moment. Now Tory, now Whig, now Puseyite,now Broad Church, it is the great political and religious weathercock of the country. It is quick in catching the breath of every wind, and glides gently round from point to point without resistance or regret. In the days when the Puseyite movement was taking the lead i THE PRODUCTION OF A PERSON NAMED IN A LEASE Op in the country, the Times was only too g lad to LlvES.—Viee•Chancellor Stuart had before him a motion place its columns at the disposal of the great leader on behalf of the trustees of St. John's Hospital, Cirencester, of the movement. Indeed the influence of the for au order to produce a person named in a lease of lives, Times, or moreproperly speaking its power of dated in 1839. The motion was made under the statute of pleasing, arises from the fact that it is the reflex of Queen Anne. It was stated that the person referred to current opinion, and finds arguments to enable was some years ago convicted of felony; that after being men to justify to themselves the opinions they released from prison he worked at hisArade of a carpenter at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, and that h e ke p t u p a wish to hold. The conve rsion of the Times is not correspondence with his friends at Cirencester, but that hi infrequent. Sudden events happen which cause 1855 he discontinued such corresponde nce, and had not a revulsion in public opinion; this revulsion from since been heard of. It not being known whether the per- one point to another, as it is sharp and quick, de son named in the lease was living or dead, this motion had minds an almost instantaneous justification become necessary. The Vice-Chancellor ordered the lesse e There is no time for those gentle gradations to produce the person referred to to the steward of the which the Times delights in, and which it is so trustees at the door of the parish church of Cirencester that consummate a master of. An instance of such a day month. P OI NT UNDER THE CRIMINAL LAW.—.In the matter or sudden conversion occurre d onl y the other da y Under the pressure of the C lerkenwell outra ge a nd the Queen v. Brown, an applicat ion was made to the Court of Queen's Bench for an order, commanding the Commissioners of the necessity of justifying the severe measures of the Central Criminal Court to present the case for the of repression which public opinion loudly de consideration of the court. The Attorney-General had manded, the Times penned the followihg sound granted his fiat for a writ of error, and a record had been an d an ti -revolutionary declaration :—" The fact made up, but not the proper record. Brown, with others, is, we are reminded by this outrage of a truth was tried fur larceny in stealing and receiving silk. which has, perhaps, been too much forgotten— Objection was taken that the counts for receiving had not we mean that treasonable conspiracies, with ex been proved, as they did not allege the property was the same as that stolen. The Recorder, after considering the ceptions which cannot be taken into account be forehand, arc not only the highest offences against point, said the prisoners must be acquitted, and the deputy clerk entered the verdict not guilty. The Recorder then the bond of society, but actually bring in their directed the prisoners to be detained in custody, and a fresh train the worst kind of ordinary crimes." indictment was preferred against them. On the second trial This just and forcible condemnation "of trea theypleaded that they had before been acquitted, andon the sonable conspiracies as the highest offences againts production of the minute book it was found that the entry of society," might have been copied from the late the verdict of not guilty had been altered by the Clerk of Papal Encyclical or Syllabus, but sounds strange Arraigns, and upon that the court declined to receive the in the mouth of the Times—the great supporter plea, and the prisoners were tried, found guilty, and of treasonable conspiracies at Rome, the defender sentenced to penal servitude. The learned Recorder had of Garibaldi and the red-Fenian. of Italy—men refused to strike out the interpolation and return the record of not guilty merely. The court held that there was no who laid barrels of gunpowder in the drains u nder - the hospitals, and who blew up the Barracks in pretence for the application. 'TIE BASTES RAILWAY COMP ANY.--In the I Rome. But public opinion in England required Court of Exchequer a motion was made, on behalf of the that Garibaldianism should be supported in Italy Railway Clearing Committee for an order calling on one and Fenianism denounced in England, and the Mr. Plowden, a shareholder in the Bishop's Castle Railway 7'imes was equal to the task. Company, to show cause why he should not pay £545, the Such a paper cannot properly be called a repre amount of a judgment obtained against the company. In sentative paper ; it represents no principles, no answer to a writ is red against the company, the sheriff fixed opinions ; it merely reflects, though with sin gular accuracy, the passing changes of opinion in of Moutgomerysnirc, wh_re the company carried on business, wrote all the effects of the company had been sold a month before. Various persons were sent there the popular mind. Such a course of conduct in the and the adjoining county to see if there was anything be- Times, though wanting in morality, is profitable, longing to the company upon which a levy could be made, and its multitudinous readers are not ashamed of and they reported that nothing could be found. The themselves or of their organ. On the other hand, under-sheriff also said that all the surplus lands of the the Daily News is a true representative paper. It com pany had already been seized. The court granted t he has views of its own in which it believes and which application as against Mr. Plowden, and also a simil ar under all circumstances it consistently upholds. mo tion against another shareholder of the company. Although utterly differing from it s p r i n ciples and SHAM COMMISSIONAIRES.—At the Marlborough-street from its liberalism, which is closer to the conti- PeliCe-COUrt, a man was brought before the magistr ate nental type than is to be found else w here in Eng charged with acting and dressing as one of the Lond on Corps of Commissionaires without being enrolled in land, there is pleasure and profit in reading such a that body, contrary to the provisions of the Metropolitan paper, not only because it is ably conducted, but Traffic Regulation Act. It was stated that although because it represents truly and fully the views of there was no desire to prevent men from earning a liveli- its party. hood as messengers or shoeblacks, or to establish a monopoly The Pall Mall Gazette, the b es t p u r v eyor of by means of licenses, the protection of the public requi red news in England, is, as far as it goes, a represe that such persons if not in the corps must not wear the un if or m of those who were. The magistrate ( a s the proceed- ntative paper. It represents intellectual unbelief. ings were taken to establish the law and not to punish) But it would be unfair to put down all of its very inflicted a nominal fine and costs. numerous readers as supporters of its principles. A THE LATEST SWINDLE. — At the Westminster Police- certain number, it is to be hoped, seek only its ex cellently digested news, and do no t s h are its e s u urt, a young man named Thompson was charged with un obtaining money under false pretences. The wife of a Christian ethics. Saturday Review, again, i s th e mos t w id e ly- butler at a gentleman's house said that the prisoner c ame to the house and left a letter addressed to her master, spread and most popular of weekly papers among marked on the top, " Overland Route. Foreign dispatch, the educated classes, but it can scarcely be called ss. 9d," It was marked " Private "on the back. The prisoner produced a ready - made written receipt, receipted a representative paper, or said to be influential in it, and took the ss. 9d. As he was leaving the place wit- creating a school of thought, or of effectually sup ness's husband returned, and she gave him the letter, and porting any definite system. Its principles, and b e , h a ving an idea that it was a swindle from what he had the conclusions it draws from facts as they arise, read in the newspapers, broke it open, and found it con- are too contradictory and uncertain to create a tained a piece of old newspaper and an old envelop e . lasting impression on the minds of its readers. We find, side by side in the same number, or He ran after the prisoner , who ran away, and, havi n g often caug ht him, took him to Walton-street police-station. . in closely consecutive numbers, views and judg- Prisoner was searched, and a dozen letters were found on him, addressed to noblemen and gentlemen out of town. mee ts diametrically opposed to each othe r . N ow The prisoner said he knew nothing about the affair, ex. we are gratified by a just and thoughtful dis cept that he was sent to deliver the letters. He was re. quisition on the truths of the Christian religion or manded for a fortnight. the beauties of Christian ethics, and now we are THE ALLEGED MURDER BY A BOY AT FINSBURY.— startled by the avowal of atheistical propositions James Loader was charged before the magistrate at Wor- or offended by moral discussions bordering on the ship-street, with having caused the death of John Strange- indelicate. • Now De Maistre is praised, and no% ways, aged 13. The particulars of the case have already Voltaire. The Saturday Review is like an unre appeared, and the facts having been proved, the prisoner flective man lost in a forest in an unknown land ; was remanded. it makes explorations innumerable in various direc tions, but works on no settled plan, pursues no consistent aim, and, consequently, arrives at no conclusive results. The sum-total of the effect it produces, where it does not simply lead to mental dissipation, is an unsatisfied intellectual craving and a hopelessness of results which is near akin to scepticism. The Spectator, on the other hand, has definite aims in view, which it pursues with vigorous, almost ruthless logic. Every line that it writes converges to one end, and there is nothing written between the lines. It represents ideas, which it follows out on every occasion; it is a powerful, because a consistent ally of its own school of thought. It is a representative paper, and, there fore, more influential in forming the mind of the country than journals of a far wider circulation, which have no definite aims, or are subject to the action of contradictory principles. The English Press lias no abler representative than the Spec tator of the growing intellectual unbelief of the day. Pity such powers are devoted to such a cause ! And here we ought to stop, in our brief review of representative and non-representative papers, did it not seem incumbent on us to make a few re marks on our Catholic journals. We have, in reality, no representative paper. The Tablet is the best known and the oldest established paper, and it has earned for itself an honourable character foricon sistency as a political partizan ; but, in a body so divided on politics as the Catholics of England are, this very partizanship of necessity limits its influence. Besiaes the party questions to which it is chiefly devoted ate of too narrow an issue to entitle the Tablet to rank as a representative paper. the Weekly Register and Catholic Opinion are little more than industrious if somewhat indiscriminate purveyors of Catholic news and of other men's knowledge. Of the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE it does not beseem us to speak, if for no other reason that ?re are now only engaged in laying down plans for an extensive scheme, the results of which have yet to come, In the meantime we can only ask the REPRESENTATIVE AND NON-REPRE SENTATIYE NEWSPAPERS. A. fortnight ago eight or nine men of the Plymouth livicion of Royal Ilarine Light Infintry, stationed at 3tonehouse Barracks, died within a short interval of each )they from fever of a typhoid character. A circumstance so unusual caused much anxiety, and a medical court of :nquiry was held, under the presidency of the acting zolonel-commandant, when five or six medical gentlemen zonnectecl with the division and the military hospital made an investigation concerning the outbreak. It was ultimately found that the deceased men had been living in the recently-erected wing of the barracks, the men in which were supplied with water by a pump connected with a hit ge reservoir or well beneath a portion of the barrack yard, which reservoir was formerly used for the purposes Jf a brewery standing on the site now occupied by the bc.rracks. 'This water has been highly prized as beilg beautifully sparkling and pleasant to the taste, so much uo, that it was supplied on special occasions to the tables of the officers' mess. The court of inquiry, how ever, came to the conclusion that this water contained organic matter and gases detrimental to health, and srdered that tho pump in question should not for the future be used. This order has been in force for nearly a fort night, and it is satisfactory to note that there has not been since that date a single case of typhoid fever in the bar racks. Meanwhile some of the water from the well which is supposed to have caused the mischief has been sent to an eminent analyst. A theory may be suggested to ac count for the presence of organic matter in any deep well in that part of Stonehouse. It is h fact better known to the past than to the present generation, that beneath a large portion of the township a vast cave or caves exist in the limestone rock. These caves haye often been explored for hundreds of yards from various direc tions, and records of some of these explorations are con tained in the numbers of the European Magazine pub lished at the close of the last century. One of the notable features of these recesses were two or three wells of pro digious depth, and of admirable water. For the past fifty years the entrances have been closed, but when houses were first erected in Stonchouse some of the builders com pensated for the absence of any system of sewers by making openings into and draining into these subterranean chasms, and we be'ieve that to this day some houses in that manner dispose of their sewage. It is easy to sur mise that the accumulated sewage of generations may have percolated through the limestone into any well bored n the self-same rock.—Western Morning News, LAW AND POLICE. MUNIFICENCE OF THE BECKETT-DENISON FAMILY AT LEEDS.—A very handsome church has been erected and endowed at Leeds, at a cost of about £15,000, by Mr. E. Denison and his son, Mr. E. Beckett-Denison, Q.C., and was consecrated on Saturday by the Bishop of Ripon. This is the third church built by the members of this family in Leeds within a few years. The last edifice has been called the Church of St. Chad, and is a very noble addition to the ecclesiastical architecture of the distract. PICKPOCKETS AT A ROYAL ]ALL.—.A couple of swell mobsmen eluded the vigilance of the doorkeepers during the grand ball to the Royal visitors at Liverpool on Thursday night, but were identified in one of the drawing. rooms by Detective•of6cer Carlisle, who was himself in full evening dress. The officer watched them for some time, until, having seen them pick the pocket of a well. known local lawyer, he quickly arrested them, and had them locked up in Bridewell. The prisoners were brought up before the Liverpool stipendiary on Saturday. and remanded. STARVATION IN WEST NORFOLK. --Two shocking .aces of death by starvation have occurred within a day or two of each other ; one in King's Lynn and the other about six miles in the country. One was the case of a poor woman named Ann White, aged 67 years, who was in the receipt of half-a•crown a week, pari-h relief, out of which she paid ls. a week for rent, so that gie had is. Gd. a week to'find her food and clothes with. The evidence at the inquest shewed that she had been in the habit of sleeping on some mate and straw having no covering save an old sack or two. The medical man described the body as being in a state of the most extreme emaciation. The stomach and intes tines were empty. Death was occasioned by bronchitis, accelerated by want of the necessaries of life. The other case was that of a man named Robert Hudson, a sawyer, who was found nearly dead, lying on the snow by the side of the road, at Tottenhill. He was proved to have lived at Watlington, where he was found by the police officer lying on a bunch of straw—there being no bed or furniture in the house. Deceased left to go in search of work, and would seem to have fallen down from exhaustion by the tide of the road. The post-mortem examination shewed the existence of pneumonia ; and the jury returned a verdict " Died by the visitation of God, death being accelerated iv privation and exposure." generous forbearance of our supporters until our work is matured. What we need in a Catholic representative paper, is a capacity of joining in the larger issues raised by the intellectual strife and the war of principles which are going on around, and which reach down to the roots of social and moral life. Such an intellectual capacity is only gained by familiar and disciplined knowledge of Catholic principles. A representative paper must concern itself with both the lesser and the larger interests of Catholicism. But whatever it touches or treats of, great or small, must be done in perfect, and thorough, and joyful submission to the infallible authority of the Church. In defending Catholic interests or proclaiming Catholic principles, there must be no uncertainty or half-heartedness. Far less in a paper which has a representative charac ter and is regarded as such by those outside the Church, can there be permitted to papear those singular contradictions which we sometimes see_in our Catholic papers of the very first principles of Catholic ethics. Whether we shall ever have such a representative paper or not, depends on the will and the energy of the Catholics of the United Kingdom. But of this we are certain, that the need of such a means of defence, of cordial intercommu nication, of greater unity of action and of thought, was never so much needed as in these eventful days, in which questions affecting the highest in terests of social, intellectual, and religious life, are being continually brought to the test of public discussion.— Westminster Gazette. THE NEW AUSTRIAN MINISTERS. Some interesting particulars are given by the Vienna press respecting the composition of the new Cabinet. A Ministry containing so few aris tocratic names, it appears, has never previously existed in Austria. Three of the new Ministers (Brestel, Herbst, and Plener) are Viennese born, and Dr. Beyer, the Minister without portfolio, is . . one of the members for the city. The majority of the Cabinet (Auersperg, liasner, Taaffe, Herbst, and Plener) consists of members of the Bohemian Diet. • No question appears to exist that the Ad ministration is altogether parliamentary in its character, three members being selected from the Upper House and the remaining six from the Lower. Brief sketches of the political antecedents of each will not be out of place. The new Premier, Prince Carlos Auersperg, was born in 1814, and became chief of his house through his father's death in 1827. He first entered public life in 1861, taking the Liberal side in politics, and displaying great interest in the conversion of Austria into a constitutional state. Elected a member of the Bohemian Diet in 1861, he became the leader of the constitutional party, and acted with the German members in most important questions. His appointment to the Presidency of the_ Upper House of the Reichsrath reached him only a few hours before the house assembled, but he showed himself during his term of office to be possessed of ample tact, and a man who under stood how to avert unpleasant scenes and disputes. The suspension of the constitution and the conse quent close of the Reichsrath, occasioned Prince Auersperg's abstinence for a considerable period ' from political life; but he was re-elected into the Bohemian Diet in 1867, and was conspicuous for his efforts to gain a majority for the party favour able to the constitution. The prince is distin- guished in society for especial amiability, and ex hibits so much nobility in mind and conduct that Herr von Schmerling styled him the " first gen tleman of Austria," a title that soon became popular. Count Edward Taaffe, the Deputy President, is the second son of the famer President of the Su preme Court, and has rapidly risen through the various gradations of official life. In 1861 he was secretary in the office of the Governor of Bohemia, became a councillor in the same department and head of the Provincial Court at Prague in the same year, and from 1863 to 1867 occupied the position of chief in the Duchy of Salzburg. He was then appointed governor of a district, became a privy councilor in 1867, and in the same year succeeded to the portfolio of Minister of the Interior. Very shortly afterwards he was elected into the Bohemian Diet, and chosen by that body as one of its representatives in the Reichsrath. Count Taaffe is in high favour at Court, and is upon intimate terms with the Emperor, whose playmate he was in early youth. Dr. Karl Giskra, the Minister of the Interior, time in legal periodicals brought him into notice. and in 1844 he was appointed assistant teacher o natural and criminal law at the Theresian Rit terakademie. In 1848 he published "Press Freedom and Press Law," and the same year was elected a member of the National German Parliament by a Moravian constituency. Frankfort gave him opportunities of displaying his striking talent as a public speaker, his speech against the proposed offer of the dignity of German Emperor to the King of Prussia arousing great sensation. Returning to Vienna, Dr. Berger obtained the appointment of advocate in that capital, acquired a large practice, and was especially distinguished in defence. Since that time he has published several legal works. PARIS UNDER THE SECOND EMPIRE AND SOCIETY IN ENGLAND. The Paris of the Second Empire is still the Paris of the Revolution. In its morality, in its tone of mind, in its popular literature it still belongs to the darker epoch. The politic conversion of Na poleon, his obedience to the will of the nation in regard to Rome must not be rated too high; at all events it is not the conversion of that cynical, self-indulgent society of Paris which thrives under the shadow of the Second Empire. Paris is still the city of contradictions and of startling contrasts. Side by side with its fashionable society, so offen sive in its tastes and by its ill-disguised immora lities, live sedate and sober men and women of the highest rank devoted to religion, and not more conspicuous by their simple lives than by their sted fast adherence to principle. Writers of the highest eminence, philosophers and politicians, unswayed by the favour of Courts, stand aloof in numbers from the corruption and venality which surround them, and which stand in perpetual fear of their just influence on the country at large. By the side of a press which, year by year, pours out a flood of corruption, inundating with its poisonous, anti-social, and anti-Christian princi ples not Paris only, but the provinces and the lands which are tributary to France I for their mental aliment, there is another press at work, earnestly and successfully engaged in restoring to the nation and to the nineteenth century the lost heritage of knowledge in things human and divine. Nowhere is Christian charity more self-denying, Christian faith more transparent and energetic in action ; nowhere are the influences of religion more pervading in every relation of life over the hearts and minds of numberless men and women, especially in the higher grades of society, than in the city where vice is a fashion and cynical Sin fidelity an open profession. In Paris there are two cities—the city of light and the city of dark ness ; and the best proof of the progress of reli gion in the land so long lost to Voltairianism, is the bitter struggle which is going on between the two for mastery. Evil is being exorcised, and, in its fury at being put upon its defence, waxes not only wroth and insolent, but seeks a refuge by endeavouring to plunge society into a mad vortex of dissipation. The Second Empire hates extremes. It sees in the triumph of the good the end of its own reign of intellectual stagnation and moral depravity ; but it fears still more the success of the chained Revolution, for evil once more let loose on the streets of Paris would be beyond the power of a Louis Napoleon to control. Hence the policy of the Second Empire is "bread and the games." It detests nothing so much as earnestness ; the mooting of serious questions troubles it like a bad dream. This desire to avoid at all hazards serious was born in Moravia, in 1820. His father, a tan ner, gave his son a careful education. After leaving school at Brunn in 1837, the young man studied at the University of Vienna, where he became assistant Professor of Political Economy in 1845. Elected to the Frankfo r t Parliament in 1848, he resigned his professorship, and, after the dissolution of the Parliament, practised as a bar rister in Western Russia. In 1850 he returned to Vienna, and sonic time afterwards obtained the position of advocate at Brunn. This proved the stepping-stone to fortune. From 1861 he en tered public life, was elected to the Reichsrath, and sid distinguished. Dr. Giskra is rapidresolution and energetic conconsidered r ed speedily a became man of action, and is credited with great administrative and organizing talent. Proof of this was afforded last year during the Prussian occupation of Brunn, when he held the post of burgermeister. The Kin,g, and the Crown Pri nce of Prussia are said to enter tain a high regard for him, and a story is current that the Crown Prince, when introducing Giskra to the King, made use of the expression, " I pre sent to you here the most capable man in Austria." Dr. Hasner, the new Minister of Education, is now about fifty. Born in Prague, he became edi tor of the official Prager Zeitung in 1848, and im parted to the paper a moderately Liberal tendency. In 1849 he was appointed Extraordinary Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Prague University. His election to the Bohemian Diet, and afterwards to the Lower House of the Reichsrath, took place in 1861. In 1865 he became Professor of Poli- Itical Science at the Vienna University, and was appointed Hofrath. As he resigned his parliamen tary appointment at this period, it was supposed I for a time that he was about to devote himself entirely to an academical career, but he again re turned to the arena of politics in 1867, being elected to the Bohemian Diet as member for Tran tenau, and again transferred thence to the Reichs rath. An Imperial letter of May sth, which created several new peers in Austria, also appointed Hasner a life member of the Upper House. Dr. Hasner is favourably known as the author of " The Philosophy of Law," and a system of Poli tical Economy, in addition to numerous contribu tions to legal periodicals. Herr von Plener, the Minister of Commerce, formerly Minister of Finance, was born in 1810 at Vienna, where his father, who was ennobled in 1850, was attached to the Court. He studied at the Vienna University, took his degree as Doc tor of Laws in 1832, and entered the public ser vice in 1836 at Eger. In 1851 he was sent on an extraordinary mission to Pesth, and upon the organization of the financial department in Hun gary in 1852 was despatched with the rank of an Imperial Court Councillor to Pressburg, to take the head of the newly-established finance office in that district. After filling a similar position at Lemberg in 1857, he was summoned to Vienna, where he was made a privy councillor, and en trusted with the provisional direction of the Minis try of Finance, as the successor of Baron Bruck. Upon the accession of Herr von Schmerling to the Cabinet, at the latter end of 1860, Herr von Plener was definitively appointed Finance Minister, and held the office for five years, his tenure only termi nating with the fall of the Schmerling Cabinet. In 1867 he was elected to the Bohemian Diet, and thence passed to the Reichsrath, where he joined the Opposition. Count Alfred Potoski belongs to an old Polish family, many of whose members have risen to the highest dignities in the State, the army, and the Church, Since the 16th century. In 1861 he was appointed to the hereditary Reichsrath, and elected the same year a member of the Galician Diet. • He again entered the Diet in 1867, and was elected by it to the Lower House of the leichBrath, By the questions which might rouse the energies of France —for happily France is not Paris, whatever Paris may say to the contrary—lies at the bottom of the policy of the Second Empire. It is in the interest of this policy to drown, if possible, the voice of conscience and quench the light of reason. What means better adapted to such an end than the enervating fascinations and the luxurious pro fligacy of such a city as Paris, and of such a society as it alone is able to bring/together, aided by the encouragement and example of a dissipated and extravagant court ! It is already become too trite to remark on the manners of the ruling favourites of fashionable society in Paris. Any thing more unbecoming can scarcely be imagined than the rivalry before the public eye of painted vice and the not less bepainted leaders of society. The great world is becoming a stage, to which the populace of Paris are admitted as spectators. They cheer and hiss, they stare at and mob, they publish criticisms in the newspapers of the beau ties, of the arts and wiles, of the dress and bearing of these actresses of fashionable society. The manners, as well as the license of speech of the green-room, are invading the Parisian salons. The privacy of life is destroyed as well as the sanctity of home, and woman, to say the least, loses what Schiller describes as her greatest ornament— womanliness : Des Weibes grogste Zierde ist die Weiblichkeit. _ The manners and tone of society under the Second Empire, combined with other causes, have not been without their influence upon England. London is not so far removed from Paris as it was twenty years ago. Twenty years ago French scepticism and social " fastness" were both shunned as un-English. No paper, for instance, of the cha ratter of the Pall Mall Gazette, without at least eliciting a storm of indignation, could have quietly, as it did the other day in a review of the year, put the question as a matter for consideration " whe ther any form of Christian faith be true." Such open avowals of unbelief, which pass unchal lenged, are not uncommon now-a-days in what is called the intellectual press. Statements of the kind wAuld never be made in so uncalled-for a , manner unless public writers were conscious that :Emperor's desire he resigned his post in order to their scepticism was very generally shared by their take his seat in the Upper House. The Count readers. Synonymous, whether consequent or not, enjoys high reputation as an excellent landlord with this growth in the cultivated classes of un and agriculturist. He has introduced model farms belief, a laxity in manners somewhat akin to that and improvements into his native district, and of the Parisian Court is creeping over English administers his enormous landed property with society. The cynical discussion as to the " disuse great ability. of marriage," the flippant homilies on women in Professor Edward Herbst, the new Minister of the Saila day Review, besides other instances Justice, is just forty-seven years of age. He studied which we forbear to discuss, are symptoms, if proof at the Vienna University, took his doctor's degree, were wanting, that the old decencies and respec then became Professor of Legal Philosophy at tabilities of English life are on the wane. It is Lemberg in 1847, and was transferred to Prague, impossible to look forward without misgiving to in a similar capacity, in 1858. His entry into poli- the breaking up of the hold which Protestantism, tical life began in 1861 at the Bohemian Diet, where as a system of religion, had on the English mind. he was associated with Bring and Hasner in the The lapse from Protestantism into unbelief, though leadership of the German party. Herbst is not longer delayed in England than in Protestant only the hardest worker, but also the cleverest Germany, is but too likely to lead to a greater dialectician at the Reichsrath and the Diet. No social deterioration than is now to be found in one is equal to him in readiness of repartee, yet France, for the decencies of English life are no his quiet and self-command often drive his oppo- substitute for the active defence of morality, and nents to despair. His experience and knowledge the reinvigorating power which the Church in of Austrian finance have been acquired in the France has always been able to bring to bear, even Reichsrath, and it is not to be denied that he is in the worst of times, on French society. More among the severest critics of this department. over, there is this difference between France and His achievements, however, in the field of juris- England at the present day : that the highest in prudence are still more extensive, and his advent tellectual activity of France—we are not speaking to the Ministry of Justice is generally approved. of the lower literature—is rising from the slough Dr. Rudolf Brestel, who has had the courage to of infidelity to the knowledg of Christian truth ; undertake the most difficult post among all the whereas, in England, the tendency in the intel- Ministries—that, namely, of finance—was born at lectual classes is towards rationalism. Protests Vienna, in 1816. His chief studies in youth were tantism once dead can never revive ; there is, philosophy and mathematics. From 1844 to 1848 therefore, no reinvigorating power at present with he filled the office of Assistant Professor of sufficient means at its disposal to act upon English Elementary Mathematics at the Vienna Univer- society in such a manner as the Church in France sity, and became member of the Austrian Reich- did when France fell a victim to Voltairianism. srath in 1848. He entered subsequently into Though, in England, it is to be hoped that un journalism, and has held the post of secretary at belief will not come with such overwhelming force ; the Credit Institution for Trade and Commerce yet, as the means of protection and of restoration since 1856. In 1861 he was elected to the Lower are less than in France, the danger of such an evil Austrian Diet, and thence passed into the Iteichs- inflicting permanent injury is greater. What form rath. He is known as a ready speaker, and a firm the threatened religious and social Revolution, if adherent of the Constitutional party. it be not, as we trust it may, altogether averted, Dr. Berger, the Minister without portfolio, was what gradations it will follow, it is not easy to born in Moravia in 1816. Losing his parents early forecast. Old habits of mind, social traditions, in life he had to encounter hardships while going reverence for the past, the soberness of the national through the Gymnasium at Olmutz, but entered character, are opposed to violent changes, and to with great zeal upon the study of mathematics public exhibitions of irreligion or of immorality ; while attending lectures on philosophy. In 1834 but, in spite of these excellent qualities, indica he went to Vienna, where he studied law, but tions are not wanting that the sanctities of domestic still indulged his liking for mathematics by attend- life are being held in lower esteem, and that the ing Littrow's astronomical lectures. Subse- tone of English society is degenerating to that of quently he devoted himself entirely to the ,study Paris under the Second Empire.— Westminster of law, and took his degree as Doctor in 1841. Gazette. Several articles from his pen appearing about this MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. From the Anglo-American Times.) General Butler has been named for President, and the Hon. Ben. Wade for Vice-President on an ultra-Radical platform. A strong movement is being made by the friends of Chief-Justice Chase. The central committee of the Republican party of Louisiana met at New Orleans on the 23d Decem- ber, and unanimously nominated him for the Presi dency. The caucus of the Georgia Convention was almost unanimous for the same ticket—five dele- gates only responding for General Grant. There is a rumour that should the Chief-Justice's friends fail to carry the Chicago Presidential Convention, they will withdraw to St. Louis, and there organise one they can control. They feel sure that the Southern States will vote for him if they can get into the National Convention, and for this purpose the Radicals in Congress will, if possible, hasten Reconstruction. " General Hancock and Minister Adams" is a ticket talked of by the Democrats. But although a strong section of the Radicals are opposed to General Grant he remains the people's candidate, and it will take a great deal to shake him out of this position. The President's Message, asking Congress pub- licly to recognise the merits of General Hancock,, which has been received with such derision through out America, is explained by the fact that the De mocrats have turned their attention towards the General as a candidate for the Presidency. Some Congressmen of that party waited on the President and asked his aid by directing public attention to him. Mr. Johnson the more readily responded, as he could imply censure on Congress while praising Hancock. The step was a false one, as the Demo crats have found, and now they blame the Presi- dent for using his prerogative to advance the schemes of his political supporters. Its effect on the House of Representatives is seen by the resolution passed last Monday thanking General Sheridan for his services, and censuring President Johnson for re moving him from his command. General Hancock may well exclaim, " Save me from my friends 1" Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record for Jan. 1 announces a large number of interesting Ame rican works. In noticing Charles Dickens's story in Our Young Folks, called " A Holiday Romance," the Messrs. Trubner doubt whether the purchasers of the copyright are protected by American law, although Messrs. Ticknor and Fields believe it cannot be produced without their sanction even in England. This, however, is denied by another publishing firm, which, yesterday, in the Times , asserted that a foreigner in the Sta tes is protected i n his copyright by the law. If the tale can be pirated, it is considered another strong reason f or Amer ican publishers to unite in demanding an inte rnational copyr ight. We extract the following items fro m Messrs. Trubner's literary table : " The Letters of the Hon. G. M. Dallas, during his residence in London as Minister in England, 1856-60, will shortly be published under the editorial revision of his daughter, Miss Julia Dallas. " Gail Hamilton has in hand a new volume on " Woman's Wrongs." The Hon. William B. Kenney, formerly United States' Minister to Sardinia, and previously editor of the Newark Advertiser, has boen engaged for nearly ten years in the preparation of "A History of Tuscany." Messrs . J. B. Lippincott and Co., of Philadel phia, are publishing what they term a " Globe Edition" of Lord Lytton's novels at a dollar and a half per volume. The volumes are printed in long primer type on toned paper, and form very handsome, portable, and readable books. 4‘ Professor G. W. Greene is preparing an edition uf. the Works, with a Life of his Grandfather, General Greene. " Mr. G. P. Putnam,has just prepared and pub lished "An American Supplement to Hadyn's Dictionary of Dates." " Southern Society —a weekly4ournal of literature, society, and art—has just been commenced at Baltimore. In its list of contributors we recognise the names of many of the most distinguished writers connected with the Southern States. "Remarkable Trials of all Countries," is the title I of a book announced for speedy publication in New York. It will contain the trials of Charlotte Corday, Earl For rers, the Marchioness of Brinvilliers, Courvosier for the murder of Lord William Russell, Corder for the murder of Maria Martin, Robinson for the murder of Helen Jawitt, J. C. Colt for the murder of Samuel Adams, Sawney Deane, &c., &c. It is to form an Bvo. volume of about 450 pages. " We are glad to announce the appointment of our friend, Mr. M. C. Tyler, well known in England, to the Professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature in Mi chigan University." tinder Secretary Seward's superintendence and the authority of Congress, a handsome book, called the "Lincoln Memorial," has issued from the Government printing office. Three thousand copies are printed ; only one copy is given to each member of Congress. Foreig❑ Governments and societies w hich in any manner noticed the death of Mr. Lincoln are to have copies. The California Legislature has elected Mr. Eugenie Casserly to the United States Senate, in place of Mr. Conness, whose term has expired, after a ballot of several days. The Democratic party in the Senate gains one, and the Republican loses one by this change. Mr. Casserly's term, however, will not commence before the 4th March, 1869. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, who has pro mised to address the people of New York "on the condition of the South," is now on his way North. His aldress will be made at the Cooper Institute early in January. M-. Stephens is in feeble health, and has to travel by easy stages. B. F. Martin, of Manchester, New Hampshire, W. F. Daniels of Franklin, and the proprietor of the Sun cook and Webster mill at Suncook, were arrested on Dec. 17 by the United States officials, charged with re venue frauds. James W. Johnson, the Republican nominee for State Railroad Commissioner, is one of the most prominent and influential business men of northern New Hampshire. He in a native of Enfield, where he still resides, and which town he has three times represented in the State Legisla ture. His occupation as a wool and produce broker has given him an extensive acquaintanct) and strong influence. In politics ho has always been Republican. A court of inquiry into the c:rcuinstances of the recent railroad disaster at Northfield is being held at that town. Engineer Abbott, on whom the whole blame of the accident rests, testified that he was running only eight miles per hour when he reversed his engine, three lengths of the train from the chasm, and had the brakes been well manned he says that he thinks the train might have been stopped in time. He had not drank intoxicating liquor for six months, and had no particular care or responsibility on his mind on the fatal day. Ho was running up to the bridge a little faster than usual under instructions from Assistant-Superintendent Tenney, but none of his testi mony affords satisfactory explanation of his carelessness or cause for the accident. Another of the victims (f the dic aster was George R Bancroft, of Burlington, who refused assistance, saying, " 1131 p the other bays, there is no hope for me," and died in ten minutes. James C. Engly, went of the Merchants' Union Express Company, has been arrostedat Providence, Rhode Is'and, charged with a conspiracy and an attempt to rob the company's safe at that city of $300,000. is in gaol awaiting an examination. Engly is the man whose ope rations in connection with ItboJe Island ware the subjcct of legislative examination. Governor English, of Connecticut, has appointed Origon S. Seymour of Litchfield, William J. Hammersley of Hartford, and John T. Wait of Norwich, commissioners, to inquire what changes, if any, should be made in the joint-stock laws of the State, and as to the expediency of creating the office of State Attorney-G3neral. The report will be made to the next Legislature. Edward Rogers, a Philadelphia capitalist, has re cently bought the " Island" in the Washington lake, near Now Haven, and is to erect a fine summer country houso ,hereon. The Springfield Republican says :—The Democrats have a new candidate for the Presidency, and the strongest one named yet, General Di; who will resign the mission to France in a few months. Governor Fletcher has decided the closely con tested election of a successor to Congressman Noell, of the third Missouri district, by giving the certificate to Gen. James R. M'Cormack, Democrat. Francis Tukey, formerly a famous criminal lawyer in Boston courts, and chief marshal of the city under Mayor Quincy ten years ago, died recently near Sacra mento, California. In 1861 he was a member of the California General Assembly. M. de Bille, the Danish Minister to the United States, has arrived at New York. There is a report that the ion. John P. lisle , the United States Minister at Madrid, is to be trausferred to Vienna. General A. D. Wrass, of Boston, will be strongly urged for Sergeant-at-Arms of the next Legislature, and a letter of high commendation of his military abilities from Go7ernor Andrew is published. Gen. Wass went with the old Sixth Massachusetts Regiment as one of its first lieutenants at the beginning of the war, and rose to his present rank through the 19th, 41st, 60th, and 62d regi ments. He was three times wounded in the service. Henry H. Haight, Governor of California, is a native of Rochester. Neal Dow was given a complimentary break fast at the Quincy House, in Boston, o❑ Thursday morn ing, Dec. 19, by his friends and allies in the temperance movement. William Lloyd Garrison and others made speeches. Mr. Dow expressed his regrets that prohibition had been rebuffed in Massachusetts. A girl, ten years of age, was resuscitated at Rum ney, Massachusetts, twelve honrs after she was supposed to have been drowned. She did not regain full conscious ness for more than two days. Among the passengers by the Cintbria, last Tues day, at -outhampton, from New York, were—Mr. M'Clin tock, United States Consul to Bradford, England, and Mr. William Heine, Colonel and attaché United States Le gation at Paris. General Meade has declined the removal in suc cession to General Pope in the Third Military District, preferring to remain in command of the department of the East. Messrs. J. and F. Howard, of Bedford, and Mr. C. H. ll'Cormick, of Chicago, received grand prizes at the Agricultural Exhibition at Billancourt. There is a report that Commodore Vanderbilt, of New York, who has a controlling interest in the Long Island Railroad, intends putting a line of steamers on the route from Greenpoint to Stonington or New London, early next spring, to be run in connection with the trains on the Long Island Road, *so as to make the shortest route from Boston to New York A. H. Byington, of the Norwalk Gazet:e, is to have control of the publishing department of Dana's now enterprise, the New York Sun. Mr. Ashley, the impeacher, in his late letter, says :—" In the estimation of many the situation demanded a scapegoat, and I have been selected by the anti-im peachers to bear off their sins and to divert public attention from the stupid inconsistencies of the panic-stricken im peachers." Mr. Raymond, of the New York Times, has stated that in going into the Philadelphia Convention he hoped to inaugurate a true Union movement in the South, but the itepunnean party are not ready for it. Mr. Jefferson Davis and his wife have arrived in Havarti:lab on their way to Now Orleans. The Austrian frigate Novara, with the rema'us of the late Emperor Maximilian on board, arrived off Corfu last Wednesday. Jacob Barker, ruined by the civil war, is now before the courts as a bankrupt. His fortune at one time was immense. Freeman B. Smith, a counterfeiter, fled from Toledo, lowa, to Kingston, Canada, where he was fol lowed, and his surrender demanded by the State autho rities of lowa. This was resisted by his counsel, who maintains that counterfeiting is forgery, and f orger y is not within the provisions of the extradition treaty. An argument of Lucy Stone, on the 26th Decem ber, when holding forth at Brooklyn on Woman Suffrage, was to the effect that a soldier imperilling his life for hie country had in all ages and stages of civilisation acquired rights as a freeman, that is the right to vote ; but as e woman imperilled her life to bring the soldier into the world she also acquired a right to vote. Mr. James Hutton has resigned the editorship of the Leader. Chief Justice George Martin, of Ohio, died at Cleveland, on Sunday, Dec. 15, Rear-Admiral James S. Palmer, commander of the north Atlantic squadron, died at St. Thomas, West Indies, on Dec. 7, of yellow fever. The Maine shipbuilders aad owners held a con vention at Bath, on Thursday, Dec. 19, and appointed agents to press upon Congress the removal of duties upon articles used in shipbuilding, and to repeal all unfriendly legislation. Delegates were also chosen to the National Commercial Convention to he holden at Boston in February. [ADVERTISEMENT. 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