The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-23 00:00:00

- - EPiPAT PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review, apropos of the vote on the im peachment trial of President Johnson, declares that all but the most . extreme Republicans have long since dis co vered that the impeachment was a mistake ; but even prudent and temperate men may naturally anticipate disadvantageous consequences from an acquittal. It is almost certain that the rash and impulsive President would regard his escape as a decisive victory, and that he would be encouraged in his desire to thwart the entire policy of Congress. It is difficult to anticipate the trouble which he might cause during the remaining nine months of his administration, especially as his opponents would have been greatly weakened by their unsuccessful experi ili.;nt. The. Republican Convention for the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency is about to meet imme (:iately, while the Democrats have, perhaps judiciously, pcAponed their own assemblage till July. The party r. Lich Las so long been excluded from power would be stimn -I..ted to fresh exertions by their triumph, and their antago nists would probably be distracted by internal quarrels be tween the advocates and opponents of impeachment. It is not easy to foresee the bearing of the process of reconstruc tion on the Presidential election. The House of Repre sentatives has already voted the admission of Arkansas under the new Constitution ; but the Democrats will use their utmost efforts to exclude the negro voters, or to ad:nit the disfranchised whites. If, notwithstanding the vote on the eleventh article, the President should be con victed and removed from office, Mr. Wade will succeed to his functions by a doubtful title. The administration of the vacant office is entrusted by the Constitution to the President of the Senate, and it is not certain whether the Senate would not have the power, by dismissing its own President, to remove the temporary President of the United States. Mr. Evarts did not forget to point out the anomalous relations of the Senate to the Government, as an argument against an assumption of power which might perhaps lead to a popular agitation against the Senate itself. The final judgment, which will be delivered in a few days, will, -under any circumstances, lead to important results. Of course, says the Spectator, it is possible that the people of the United States are tired of the very word " impeachment," that the reaction has set in, that they see something ludicrous in deposing a man who has only nine months to reign, and that the voice of the constitu encies, when it is heard, will be for,dropping the proceed ingi. But all this carries very little weight. The " weariness" of the sole topic of political discussion is a weariness which is only felt in the small circles of great cities, and is no index of the feeling of the country, where any important topic of discussion must be fresh enough, since men meet so seldom and talk so little. As for " reaction," the country has long since seen the unfortu nate character 'of the form of procedure—namely, a judicial trial for acts which teehrically amount to little more than the exercise by the President, in a sense keenly hostile to Congress, of powers conferred on his office only for the purpose of delaying the action of Congress, and this in a time when it had become generally understood that Congress, as the legislative power, should be deferred to . as virtually supreme. The Americans—we confess we think with questionable judgment—have preferred the perversion of a special Constitutional form to the more natural method of providing by revolutionary steps for a difficulty for which no remedy was supplied, the difficulty itself having never before been practically encountered under the Constitution. Having chosen that method, we cannot think that they will shrink from making it effective. The London Review calls attention to the prevalence at Westminster of a pernicious practice, indulged in by counsel who are flooded with briefs, of appointing a deputy to do their work. This is not merely indulged in by the lower branches of the learned profession of the law. The practice is essentially peculiar to what is termed the higher branch of the legal profession. No one ever hears of au eminent 'physician receiving the fees of those who wish to consult him and saving himself the trouble of looking at them by availing himself of the idleness of one of his brethren, whose knowledge may possibly equal that of the American doctor who sent all his patients without exception into convulsions. because he happened to be a " stunner at fits." Yet things of this sort are by no means uncommon in practice at the bar. An attorney may have a case requiring the employment of a coun sel of peculiar capabilities. Knowing that every thing may depend upon a rough tongue and unsparing cross-examination, a rattling speech to the jury, or a piece of well-sustained chaff throughout the conduct of the case, he selects his man, and proceeds to retain him. A feeling of natural anxiety to make sure of the talent of which he hopes to availhimself, and the price of which he is prepared to pay, prompts him, as a necessary preliminary, to ascer tain that the counsel will be in his place when the case Comes on. His mind is set at rest upon this point by the assurance of the barrister's clerk that his master has no other engagements to divert his attention from the case. Now it may be the misfortune of the attorney to be a gen tleman, and, judging of others by himself, he pays away his money upon the promises he receives, fixes an hour for consultation, and returns to his chamber with the con sciousness that he has done his duty, and that his client's case is in the fittest hands to hold it. On the morning of the trial his first disappointment is the non-appearance of the distinguished advocate for whom such solemn promises had been made ; and painful doubt takes the form of yet more painful certainty when the clerk, who was so liberal of assurances the evening before, comes forward with an expression of sympathy upon his features that would be pleasing if it were not chronic, to inform him that Mr. So-and-so is unfortunately detained in the country, or in the House of Lords, or at the Privy Council, and will not be able to reach the court until late in the day.. ,The at torney then, upon searching for his brief, finds it in the hands of a young barrister, like him who made his griev ance known through the columns of the Times, or of an old barrister whose abilities had not been of a sufficiently marked character to gain him the confidence of attorneys, and who, having no briefs of his own, holds those of other people. The sabstitution, it is needless to say, is in most cases unfortunate. The clerk of the absent advocate, intent upon securing his own fees and those of his master, makes his selection with a liberal disregard of the 'fitness of things. A mild squabble, in which the witness gets the best of -it, takes the place of the proposed cross-examination, and a spirited speech or adroit chaff is looked for in vain from the staid individual whose eloquence in its highest flights cannot soar above the statute of frauds. The case may be lost and injustice done, and the person who is injured is left with such poor consolation as the general abuse of lawyers will afford him. The law itself leaves him without remedy. For some inscrutable reason it will not permit a barrister to bring an action for his fees, and, by way of set-off, it invests him with the power of being as negligent and as reckless of the interests of his client as he pleaseswith impunity. The Imperial Review declaims energetically against the new move of the Jamaica Committee. The opinion of the prosecution seems to be that martial law in itself is in no case justifiable. It matters not what may be the emer gency, the long formalities of the law must in all cases be adopted. Such a theory, if carried out in all its logical significance, might submit the inhabitants of any British colony to riot and massacre ; but the object of the prose cution, in this case, is not to prevent the salvation of a colony, but merely to punish its saviour. The main body of the Jamaica Committee are advocates for the abolition of capital punishment. Actual murderers are to be per mitted to live on, but no quarter is to be given to thou whom they conceive to . have committed an error of judg' meat. It becomes e. question, however, whether Govern ment should not assist a man, thus persistently attacked, to defend himself. When Mr. Eyre quelled the Jamaica rebellion he was a Government official, and acted as the deputy.of the sovereign." When, after the bloody massacre at Morant Bay, he succeeded in nipping the rebellion in the bud, he received the thanks of the Colonial Office for his unwearied energy and courageous conduct. Soon, however, a clique succeeded in asserting its power, and obtaining the commission of inquiry which, after a long and patient investigation, reported to the English Parlia ment. The report was not, as many suppose, adverse to Governor Eyre, but bore testimony to the fact that he had saved the island, and to the widespread nature of the disaffection that had prevailed. It reported, however, that the p un i s h ments i nfl i cted had b een excess i ve, and therefore Governor Eyre was recalled from his office, and deprived of th e f ru i ts of the exertion of a lifetime. Most people will think that this punishment was sufficient, if not excessive. Many will hold that no punishment at all was deserved, but we are certain that few indeed will endorse the persecuting policy adopted by Messrs. Mill and Taylor. It is i m p oss ib le that any us t e . ful legal pre cedents can be draw n f rom these think, equally impossible th at a conviction secu can be obtained , is, we . , but perhaps the slender f or t une of Mr. Byre may be reduced to a minimum by l aw expenses ;. and this is, we imagine, the real object of the continuedof Sir persecution to which he is subjected. One point, the appearance Robert Collier as prosecuting counsel, calls for strong comment. It is, no doubt, usual for a barrister to accept a brief on either side , whatever may be his opinion o f t h e ease ; but there is, happily, no precedent for an ex-law officer of the Crown taking, as a private barrister, a position in a criminal case diametrically opposed to that which he had advised when in office. If the Liberal Solicitor-General imagined, when in office, that Mr. Eyr e was a criminal and a felon, it was his duty to have pro. tosed his prosecution by the Crown. The John Bull, while denouncing the disloyal expres sinus which have been drawn forth by the withdrawal of the Queen to Scotland. regrets that she has been obliged by tip state of her lienith to take the course she has. at th In lice absence, however the Prince of Wales should be called upon t o t a k e h er place. But there.ean be no doubt the Prince of Wales, in his laudable desire to fulfil the arduous and difficult duties of an Heir Apparent—never so arduous and difficult as at the present moment—has not had sufficient allowance from the nation for the carrying Out of duties which the nation expects him to undertake. The Governm en t desire to do this simple actof justice to his Royal Ili gliness • but with a characteristic 'Consideration for their position in the midst of unscrupulous foes, the Prince has desired them not to propose it. But the time has come when a spontaneous offer should be made by the -natio n to add to the income of the Prince of Wales, on who m so many duties devolve, and who has in a difficult and tryin g - position so ably discharged them. Our con te_nrearyy. trusts that steps may be taken, not only to Royal Hi g h ness w ith a s h oot i ng -b ox i n ' di : c 7 ll one of the b es t reme di a l measures f or Ir i sh mzent—but to increase an allowance which shall enable him to continu e on a suitable scale those hospitali ties- and charities which h ave so en d eare d t h e occupiers of Marlborough house to the people of the United Kingdom. THE CASE OP EX-GOVERNOR EYRE. Sir Roderick Murchison sends the following to the "Sir,—As in their unceasing prosecutions of Er• Governor Eyre the Jamaica Committee have so far sue. ceeded as to send my distinguished friend to stand a new trial at the Court of Queen's Bench, the means already subscribed t 3 defend his cause will soon, I fear, las exhausted. " Under these circumstances I was delighted to receive :his morning the following letter from Lord Overstone. " This spontaneous expression of the feelings of a noble. man so calm-minded and so just will, I trust, operate powerfully in eliciting fresh contributions, and thus enable the Eyre Defence Fund to cope with such persevering assailants.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, "16, Belgrave•square." " RODERICK MURCHISON. " Carlton-gardens, May 21, 1868. " My dear Sir Roderick,— I have hitherto abstained from taking any part, and indeed from expressing any opinion with regard to the legal proceedings which for so long a time have been directed against Governor Eyre. But these proceedings have now reached a point at which, it appears to me, he is entitled to look for the sympathy and support of the public. That appeal he has made in a few stirring words which he addressed to the magistrate before whom he was arraigned, and which appear to have ex cited a spontaneous outburst of approval from the by standers even in a court of justice. I shall be mistaken if they do not elicit a warm response from many a British heart. " Englishmen have always been ready and just in their recognition of services rendered in the faithful discharge A great duties, and at the same time considerate and generous when called upon to discharge the painful duty A criticising errors of judgment which may have occurred to circumstances of perilous emergency, full of difficulty and of danger. These virtues, I trust, are not yet oblite rated from our national character. " Funds, I understand, are really required for the effec tual defence of Governor Eyre, and that pecuniary ruin is one of the cruel and unjust consequences which may arise from the present proceedings. This can never be Permitted. " I enclose my draught for £2OO in discharge of my share of a public duty, which I doubt not will be widely recognised, and if recognised, will be cheerfully fulfilled.— Yours very faithfully, 66 OVZESTONE. " Sir Roderick Murchison." LAW AND POLICE. IMPORTANT DECISION WITH REGARD TO THE RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN.— The case of Fleet (administrator) v. Perrens was decided in the Court of Queen's Bench, and the judgment of Mr. Justice Blackburn shews what some of the rights of married women are. The case raised a question as to the capacity of a married woman to acquire and retain pecuniary interests when the husband does not intervene. The plaintiff sued to recover a sum received by defendant for his son's wife. He first sued as administrator of his son, the husband, who had sur vived his wife, and had afterwards died. He, however, being advised that he was wrong in claiming it in right )f the husband, discontinued that action, and now sued as administrator of the wife, and the question was whether he was entitled to recover in her right. At the trial before Mr. Justice Lush, letters toher from defendant were put in which were such as, if addressed to afemme sole, would beyond all doubt have shewn that the defendant promised tier to hold some money for her which he had received from a third party. There was no evidence that the husband had in any way interferred either to allow his wife to have the control of the money, or to prevent her from dealing with it, nor, indeed, whether he knew of its existence or not. It was objected that the cause of action did not accrue to the wife, and that therefore the plaintiff as her representative was not entitled to recover, but could only sue as representative of the husband. Mr. Justice Blackburn, in giving judgment, said there was no doubt that all personal property of a corporal nature, such as goods or cash, belonging to the wife before marriage vests in the husband by the marriage, and that all such property given to or acquired by the wife after marriage also vests in the husband. But rights of action belonging to the wife before marriage do not vest in the husband unless he does some act to reduce them into possession during the marriage. And even during marriage the hus• band may permit the wife to make a contract in an action in which he may join with her during her life, though he may disaffirm the interest, and sue on the contract as made with himself alone. If he permits the wife to make such a contract and does not reduce it into possession :luring the coverture, it survives to the wife. Judgment was given for the plaintiff. ACTION AGAINST SIR M. PETO.—In the same court an action was brought against Sir Morton Peto by a Mr. Vigers, a contractor, who had agreed to carry away the materials extracted from the excavations for the Metropolitan Railway, for which he was to be paid Is. 4d, per cubic yard. The point was as to the meaning of the words "per cubic" yard—whether that meant the yard in situ (i.e., as the soil lay in the earth) or the yard as it was measured after excavation when the materials were loose. The difference would be enormous ; a matter of some thousands of pounds. The Lord Chief Justice, in giving judgment in favour of the defendant, said, taking the words as they stood, it might be that the plaintiff's view would be right ; but, taking them in the sense in which they were understood in the business, according to the finding of the jury (upon evidence the court deemed ad missible), the defendant's view was the right one—that "per cubic yard" meant the earth as it stood before exca vation. SEnious CASE.—The Mayor of Henley held an inquiry as to the cause of death of Emily Stevens, a young lady Who died within Lis jurisdiction on Sunday. Several witnesses were examined, and the evidence shewed that the deceased had lived as wife with Mr. David H. Barling, a gentleman residing in London and a member of the United Service Club. They had travelled together some time, but latterly resided at Henley, and last week, the deceased being very indisposed, Mr. Brooks, a surgeon, attended, but before leaving told Mr. Barling that there was something that he could not make out, and the latter informed him that abortion had been procured. The lady died, and a post-mortem exami nation was held ; but it being thought necessary that Professor Taylor should view the body, the inquest was adjourned for that purpose. Mr. Barling was ordered by the coroner to find £5OO bail, and enter into his own recog nisance in the like sum to appear at the adjourned inquiry. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES FROM AN EMPLOYER.—At the Middlesex Sessions, William Rose was charged with steal ng nearly two hundred pairs of boots, the property of Mr. Henry Kelsey, his master, and John Purvis and Joseph Stoddon were charged with receiving the same knowing them to have been stolen. The evidence clearly shewed that Mr. Kelsey bad been the victim of an extensive system of robbery. Rose, who had been in his employ some time, was left to take care of the shop during the breakfast hour, and he managed that the other prisoners should be at a coffee-shop, and when he sent for his breakfast one of them should slip round and receive a bag from Rose. Rose was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, Purvis to two years' imprisonment, and Stoddon, who had previously been convicted of fraud, to seven years' penal servitude. WHAT IS A TRESPASS ?-At Wandsworth Police-court, Mr. J. C. Richardson was summoned for trespassing on the West London Extension in Battersea-fields, and refusing to quit the line. It seemed that one of the com pany's platelayers cautioned the defendant not to cross the line, and the latter replied he should do so when he liked. The witness, in answer to the magistrate, said that the defendant was in the public road when he spoke to him. Mr. Dayman said that being the case the summons could not be sustained, as there was no refusal to quit the line. The magistrate was then referred to a case in which a milkman had been fined in that court for trespassing upon the line at the same place. Mr. Dayman said in that case a watch was kept for the milkman,whowasknown to cross the line at a particular hour. In this case the defendant had passed over the line before he was cautioned. He thought that if the company's ser vants caught persons on the line who refused to return by the way they had come they would be justified in laying hold of nein, for trespassers had no right to choose their way of leaving. The summons was dismissed. The Earl and Countess of Kinnoull are placed in mourning through the death of their second daughter, Lady Evangelin e Hay. We regret to hear of the deaths of two of the medical officers of the British service in Abyssinia— namely,S taff-Assistant-Surgeon John Collins, and John IL Stewart, M.D. The former joined the expedi tion from this country, and the latter from Bombay.— Medical Times and Gazette. SCENE IN NORDEN CHURCII.-At the Rochdale Police-court, the Rev. Mr. Whitehead, the recently appointed vicar of Norden, has applied for a summons against Mr. James. Rawstron, the parishioners' church warden, for disturbing him while performing divine ser vice. Mr. Rawstron was lately elected with a view to checking the ugh Church practices at Norden, and on Sunday morning as the complainant stood in the chancel, he walked up to him and, as it is alleged, snatched the flowers from a vase which he (Mr. Whitehead) N y as hold ing. The application 1911 granted. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN liar arguments for and against the Irish Church, was con timed by Mr. Synan, Mr. Whalley, Mr. Sergeant Barry and Mr. Murphy, who supported the bill, and by Sir F. Ileygate, Mr. Vetoer, Mr. Karslake, and the Attorney- General for Ireland in opposition to it. Lord ELCHO opposed the bill as an unprecedented stretch of the powers of a majority, though he admitted that, having so strongly condemned a mere abstract reso lution, Mr. Gladstone was bound to bring in a bill of some sort. The principle of religious equality on which the Resolutions and the bill were founded was utterly incon sistent with our present constitution, and must lead either to the disestablishment of the English and Scotch Churches, or to the repeal of the Union. It could not be established unless the Act of Settlement were repealed, and not only the Woolsack but the Throne were thrown open to Ro man Catholics. And this was actually proposed by that "prolific legislator," Sir C.O'Loghlen, who had within the last few days given notice of a motion to relieve the Sove reign of taking the declaration against transubstantiation. That notice which, if there was to be a general election, Lord Elcho hoped would be placarded in six- foot letters in every borough of the kingdom, changed the aspect of the question, and it disposed finally of the assertion that the Roman Catholics had no ulterior designs. Mr. W. E. FORS TER, on the other hand, maintained that the policy of disestablishment was the best security for the Union. It would be taken by the Irish people as a proof that we were ready to treat them on the prin ciple of political equality, and to legislate in matters purely Irish in accordance with Irish feelings and interests. The English Establishment being supported by the ma jority of the English people—Dissenters as well as Churchmen—was a great blessing, but no greater blow could be inflicted on it than to tie up its fate with that of the Irish Church. He comment.d on the discrepan cies between the utterances of Mr. Hardy and Lord Mayo on the subject of "religious equality," and asked Mr. Disraeli to reconcile them. Mr. DISRAELI commenced by arguing, in reply to Mr. Gladstone, that the Government, by not dividing against the second and third resolutions, were net precluded from opposing this bill. And to Mr. Gladstone's argument that, as they admitted the possibility of modifications in the Irish temporalities, they ought to join in preventing the creation of new vested interests, he replied that if he would put in his bill a clause to reserve the income of the suspended benefices for the benefit of the Irish Church the Government might be more inclined to support it. Mr. Gladstone, new for the first time, bad declared that these funds were to be applied to secular purposes, and that Mr. Disraeli declared, amid loud cheers, he would oppose as strenuously as the policy originally ascribed to him of be stowing t hese funds on other religious bodies. Accepting Mr. F orster's challenge, he denied that it had ever been propc sad to endow a Roman Catholic University (as the recent cor respondence showed), or to endow the Roman Catholic clergy. Lord Mayo had never proposed it, and he himself had distinctly argued against paying the Roman Catholic clergy. Neither did ho believe that Lord Mayo had used the words "political equality," bat if he had it was a vague phrase to which people might attach very different meanings, and certainly a distinct policy like that attri buted to Lord Mayo could not be extracted from it. As to increasing the Regium Donum, not a word had been said by Lord Mayo about that, and the Government, though admitting that it was a "miserable pittance," had always stated that it would bo hopeless to ask Parlia ment to increase it. In reply to the argument that this was a groat act of justice to Ireland, Mr. Disraeli main tained that Parliament should deal with Ireland as practical men with reference to its existing condition, and pointed out that by offending and insulting a power ful minority the same discontent might be raised which it was desired to remove. Ho repeated that the bill was the first step towards the disestablishmont of the Church; that it would bring about a crisis in England, and if its policy was persevered in it would disturb the social system of the country to its centre. He denied that he had raised a "No-Popery" cry; the only cry he had heard was a "No-Protestant" cry. That Mr. Gladstone had embarked on a dangerous policy there was a growing opinion through out the country among powerful classes who usually took little share in politics. The opinion of the people on a question of this character could not be changed by mixed majorities in the House of Commons, and that opinion would triumphantly assert itself. Mr. GLADSTONE wound up the debate, and, after replying to some of the minor speakers, entered on an elaborate analysis and comparison of the speeches of Mr. Disraeli and Lord Mayo, from which he insisted that the Government had originally contemplated the equalization and concurrent endowment of all religious bodies in Ire land ; and so far from the policy of disestablishmont being hastily thrust upon the country, it was but the counter plan to the scheme of the Government. Dealing with the argument that the attack on the. Irish Church would un dermine the English Establishment, he retorted that he had no more responsibility for the views of those who were opposed to all Establishments, because they happened to agree with him on this particular point, than Mr. Disraeli was responsible for the views of any Orange =mbar behind him. The doctrine on which the Opposition wereacting was that the English Establishment was a good institution and the Irish a bad one, and that by extinguishing the bad the good would be strengthened. Rut the worst friends of the English Church were those who persisted in tying together an Establishment which in the main was the Church of the people, and one which hal no pretensions to that character. Referring to an observation of Mr. Lid dell, he agreed with him that the policy of disestablish ment had been materially forwarded by the tenacity with which the Government had clung to their seats. For the anomalous relations of the Government to the house the Opposition had no doubt some responsibility, and if they had not responded to Ur. Hardy's valiant challenge to move a vote of confidence it was from a conscientious be lief that their first duty was to push forward and secure the success of this question. The Earl of MAYO made a short explanation, denying that he had ever proposed an immediate and largo en dowment in Ireland for religious purposes. In the speech so often alluded to he had sbni.ly advocated a continuance of the policy which had proved so beneficial to Ireland, and of which the Maynooth Grant, the Regium Donum, and the appointment of Roman Catholic chaplains in gaols and workhouses were the chief results. As to the Regium Donuw, he had always told deputations that it would be impossible to induce Parliament to increase it. After Mr. NEWDEGATE had vainly endeavoured to get a hearing, the house divided, and the second reading of the bill was carried by a majority of st-312 to 258. Mr. GLADSTONE fired the sth of June for the committee. The other business was disposed of, and the house ad_ journed at half-past one o'clock. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (Front the Anglo-.4m,erican Times) The trial of Jefferson Davis has been postponed to the 3d of June, the counsel on both sides having agreed to the delay, and the Chief Justice having signified that he would be ready to preside at Rich mond ten days after the close of the Impeachment trial. The witnesses and jurymen have been noti fied to attend on that day, though there appears little chance that the Chief Justice will be at liberty, judging from the late adjournment of the Senate Court to the 26th May. The bail bond has been renewed, Horace Greeley, C. Vanderbilt, and Gerritt Smith having again put their names on the new bond for the sum of $25,000 each. The New England delegation to the Chicago Convention has been completed by the New Hamp shire elections. Butler and E. B. Washburne tele graphed that the result of the Impeachment trial was certain. " Wade and Prosperity," said Butler, " are sure to come with the apple blossom ;" and Washburne placed on record his conviction " that the recreant will be put out of the White House before the end of the week." The Convention supports Grant for President, endorses Impeach ment, and directs the State Senators to vote for the President's conviction. The California Democrats in their Convention adopted resolutions denounc ing the Reconstruction policy of Congress, Impeach ment, and negro suffrage, favouring an eight-hour law, and instructing the delegates to New York to first vote fo r G overnor H a ight for President, and afterwards fo r P en dl e t o n..--The Illinois Re publicans have nominated General J. M. Palmer for Governor, Colonel John Dougherty for Lieutenant- Governor, General John A. Logan for Congressman at large, and instructed the delegates for that State to the National Convention to vote for General Grant. General S. M. Cullu na has been nominated for the Eighth Congressional District. The leaders of the New York Democratic Convention decline to name an earlier day than that appointed for the meeting in New York, July 4. No one outside that narrow clique knows the ticket, and it is pro bable that even the leaders wait the result of the Impeachment Trial. Conjecture has suggested General Hancock or Pendleton. A tornado passed over Illinois, affecting portions of Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and Missouri. The village of Shanghai was blown to pieces, four churches unroofed, and four persons killed, besides forty injured. A frame house was lifted up, and whirled to a distance of 300 yards. Much damage was done at St. Louis, a city which so lately has suffered severely by a great fire. The news from the South is not important. The State Conventions of both parties have been held in Virginia, and, notwithstanding the opposition of Hunnicutt, Mr. Wells was nominated for Governor, receiving 153 votes against 11 cast for Hunnicutt. J. A. Clement was named for Lieut.-Governor; IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING The LORD CHANCELLOR took hie seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. THE DEER IN THE NEW FOREST. The Viscount EVERSLEY moved for a select com mittee for taking away the right of the Crown in the deer of the New Forest, and also for compensating for the loss thereof, and for other matters. He begged at the same time to present a petition from the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, in which they stated their wish to be heard before the committee on the subject. He entered into a long discussion as to the vested interests in the forest, which was purely technical. At tho conclusion of the noble lord's argument the com mittee was agreed to. THE WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS. The Earl of MALDIESBURY gave notice that at the rising of tho House he should move that on this night wcok it adjourn for a fortnight for the Whitsuntide Holi days. THE IRISH CHURCH. The BISHOP of ST. DAVID'S presented a petition against the disestablishment of the Irish Church. • GRANTS OF LAND IN NEWFOUNDLAND. Lord HOUGHTON presented a petition from New foundland relative to restrictions with regard to grants of land on the so-called French coast. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took - t he Chair at 4 o'clock. THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL. Sir J . PALK said on the motion for going into committee on this bill he should move an instruction to the committee that it was expedient not to diminish the representation of England and Wales. IRISH RAILWAYS. Mr. MONSELL sake.' the First Lord of the Treasury whether the report of the Commissioners upon Irish Railways had been considered by her Majesty's Government, and whether they proposed to submit to those Commissioners for report the proposals on the Irish railway system drawn up last year by a committee of Irish peers and members ni Parliament ; and what steps it was proposed by the Government to take with regard to the Irish railways ? Mr. DISRAELI said it was proposed to submit the dncument referred to to the Commissioners. The Govern me\lt had the matter in their consideration with respect to prep,\ring a measure, but ho did not think it would be ready for-introduction during the present session. MR. BEARDEN ,AND HIS QUESTION. Mr. REARDEN said he wished to give notice that on Monday next he should ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it be true that her Majesty the Queen has been compelled, through delicate health, to retire from Eng land during the remainder of this season ; and, if so, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern ment, out of consideration to her Majesty's health, comfort, and tranquillity, and in the interest of the Royal family and of her Majesty's subjects throughout the em pire, and especially of this metropolis, to advise her Ma jesty to abdicate in favour of his Royal--(loud cries of "Order, order," "Chair, chair," during which the hon. member sat down abruptly). _ . The SPEAKER said the house had anticipated itself— (immense cheers) —by the expression—the indignant ex pression of feeling with respect to the question of the hon. member. (Great cheering.) No doubt . any member had a perfect right to ask any question of the confidential ad visers of the Crown with respect to the mode of discharg ing their public duties, but then such questions must be put in respectful and parliamentary terms, and the ques tion of the hon. - member did not appear to him to be worded in that language . . (Immense cheering.) Mr. REARDEN said he was very anxious to apologise if he had transgressed the rule of the house. Such a step was farthest from his thoughts, and he had no intention of doing anything that was not strict . ) , loyal. SIR IL NAPIER. Mr., DISRAELI - said on Friday next he should move a vote of thanks to Sir R. Napier and Ca) troops engaged in the Abyssinian Expedition. (Loud cheers.) An HON. ME➢nou said he wished to know, in the event of their being a combination of members of that house with persons out of it to prosecute Sir R. Napier for any thing be might have done at Magdala, the Government would be prepared to defend him, or whether the means for so doing were to be raised by voluntary subscriptions by a just and generous nation? (Loud cheers.) Mr. STANSFELD would like to know when the despatches of Sir R. Napier would be published? Sir S. NORTHCOTE said the despatches of Sir R. Napier were extremely short, and only the telegraphic mes sages announcing the arrival, the storming of Magdala, and the death of Theodore. He believed some despatches had been written by Sir Robert which had not yet ar rived, but which might bo expected in a few days. How ever, therts was quite sufficient information in the posses sion of the Government to enable them to bring forward the vote of thanks on the day proposed, (Hear, hear.) Colonel KNOX wished to know whether any informa tion had been received stating that the troops were on the way home? Sir S. NOIiTHCOTE answered in the affirmative. EX-GOVERNOR EYRE. Captain JERVIS said ID had oa a former occasion, when the right hon. gentle Man was Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked him, when it was at first threatened to take proceedings against Mr. Eyre, whether the Govern ment intended to afford him all the legal assistance it was in their power to give, and he had received a favourable answer. He wished to know whether it was still the intention of the Government to give that assistance to a gentleman in Mr. Eyre's position, which ho had a right to expect— (hear, hear)—and that it was not intended to put him into a felon's dock without a strong defence being made for him, a defence he had a right to expect. (Cheers.) No answer was given to the question. THE CUSTOM HOUSE CLERKS. Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether it was the intention of the Government to amalgamate the Customs extra clerks with the esta blishment, or place them in receipt of such a scale of pay as would place them on a footing with the establishment and enable them to provide-for their families. Mr. BOOTH said there was no intention of making any such amalgamation. ESTABLISHED CHURCH (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. GLADSTONE moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to suspend all exercise of patron age and appointment to the Established Church in Ireland until the month of Aug. 1869. The right hon. gentleman re ferred to the circumstances that had led him to introduce the measure. It was said that the great object of her Ma jesty's Government was to restore and maintain tranquil lity in Ireland, but if a determined opposition was given to a bill dealing out such a measure of justice as the one he had now the honour to submit to the house, the inten tions of the Government were but a mockery, and altoge ther of a character that the majority of the house would not sanction. (Cheers.) Mr. G. HARDY rose to move that the bill be read a second time that day six mouths. Ho opposed the bill, in the first place, because he looked upon it as a confiscation of Church property for secular purposes, and had it not been brought forward and supported by such persons as the hon. member for Birmingham and the right hon. member for South Lancashire, he should have looked upon such a measure as absurd and un reasonable. It had been said that her Majesty had consented to place all her rights with respect to the Irish Church at the disposal of the Parliament, but that he altogether denied. (Cheers.) Her Majesty had stated that she was ready to waive her right, but not that she was quite ready to give up her rights, and he contended that her Majesty had no constitutional right to abdicate her patronage, and that being so, the principle of the bill was altogether wrong. (Hear, hoar.) The bill was bad in principle, without precedent, and unjust in its action —(hear, hear)—but if that was not enough to induce the house to reject it, he had to say that in the opinion of a person of legal eminence the bill, if sanctioned, would be in fact a repeal of the Union with Ireland, without a sav ing clause was introduced into it to prevent such a result. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He should like to know in plain, unmistakable words to what purposes the right hon. gentleman proposed to devote tha revenues of the Establishment. (Hear, hear.) Ho denied altogether the bill was either expedient or just. The object of the bill was to paralyse the Irish Church, so that she could offer no resistance when the time for the real decision on her fate came. But it was the duty of English Protes tants nut to forsake their Irish brethren in their emer gency. The question would be referred to the now con stituencies at the earliest moment,, and Mr. Hardy con cluded his speech by expressing complete confidence that they would defeat a design which, quoting the words of the late Bishop of London, "begun in spoliation and sacrilege, must end in ruin and confusion." Mr. LAWSON, in supporting the bill, road the passage from Lord Mayo's speech to which Mr. Gladstone had re ferred, and argued from it either that the Irish Secre tary had declared a policy without the authority cf the Cabinet, or Mr. Hardy was endeavouring to slip out of the "levelling up" policy, that the Government might more easily raise their "No Popery " cry. lie replied at length to Mr. Hardy's criticisms on the bill, which he maintained was a natural corollary of the Resolutions, and would pro duce no kind of practical inconvenience. Mr. LIDDELL asserted that Mr. Gladstone had not cleared hiicself of the charge of wasting time on a bill which could come to no practical result, nor had he an swered the all-important question—what will you do with the money ? He objected to the separation of the Irish Church from the State as unwise, unjust, and unneces sary, and preferred the solution by endowing the Roman Catholic clergy. That the Ministry would have greater powers of obstruction to this attack if they had been in opposition was his reason for regretting that they re mained in office, and in all probability had not the Con servatives been in power thequestion would not have been raised now. The debate, which was mainlx.n repetition of tho fam- NO, AY . M 21, 1868. George W. Booker, of Henry county, for Attorney- General ; A. M. Crane, of Winchester, for Con= gressman at large ; and George Yeaman, coloured, J. 11. Platt, John Hawxhurst, and Charles Whitt iesey (one black and two whites), were appointed delegates at large to the Chicago Convention. A preamble and resolutions were adopted, the former of which pledges the State to pay her honest debts, asserts that the Government owes it to Virginia promptly to admit her when the Reconstruction Acts are complied with. One pledges the party to use its best efforts for the remo val of political disabilities from those who participated in the rebellion ; another main tains the universal equality of mankind supports free schools, regardless of colour, demands reimburse ment for the losses of the loyal during the war, sup ports Impeachment, Grant for President, and Sena tor Wilson for Vice-President. The Democrats named R. E. Withers for Governor, and selected delegates to the New York Coavention. General Buchanan has hastened the time for the meeting of the Texas Constitutional Convention from the 15th to the Ist of June. General Canby has written to General Grant, directing Congressional attention to the test oath by civil officers of the military districts, which he considers to be a serious impediment to the progress of Reconstruction. By an order the General has announced the result of the South Carolina election, directing the Legisla ture to meet on the 12th instant. He provides for the labourers discharged for voting against the wishes of employers by a levy on the poor-rates, maintaining them as objects of public charity. Louisiana returns show a majority of 18,000 in favour of the Constitution, and even more for War mouth as Governor, and a Republican majority in both branches of the Legislature. • The advocates of an International Copyright have been successful in placing the association formed at New York on a permanent foundation. Besides its president, the poet Bryant, Longfellow, Horace Greeley, W. Gilmore Simms, have with others been elected vice-preSidents. Among the committee-men are—S. Irenaaus Prime, Hon. S. S. Cox, George P. Putnam, Charles Scribner, E. G. Squier, E. C. Stedman, and Richard Grant White ; and a delegation has been named to proceed to Washington to forward by all means the enactment of an international copyright law. New York is at present filled with delegates to conventions, an niversaries, bible societies, and missionary societies. The American Medical Convention is sitting, after having visited, through its leading members, the President and other high officers. Indeed, the habit in New York is somewhat similar to that which prevails in London at this season in the "May Meetings." Well might the Sandwich Islanders tremble when " earthquake Bill" fixed on them a covetous eye. Hawaii has suffered more during the month of April even than St. Thomas in undergoing its pro posed ordeal of annexation. On the 27th March the volcano of Mauna Loa broke out afresh, and for nearly three weeks a series of earthquakes followed. Fire, rocks, ashes, were hurled from the crater, and molten lava rushed down the hill at the rate of 10 miles an hour till arrested by the sea, where it formed an island, everything in the way, of course, being destroyed on its path. An island three miles from shore rose and emitted columns of smoke and steam, while from Marna Loa came a great red earth stream which flowed down the mountain side with fearful speed, spreading over the country. The earth opened and swallowed a village containing 35 people, while a tidal wave sixty feet high swept in from the sea and drowned a hundred more. These convulsions of nature have lately been most remarkable and appalling. The Canadian House of Commons has made the ridiculous appropriation of £1,000,000 for fortifica tions. IV ho does the Dominion propose to fortify itself against? Surely not the United States, nor can we suppose that the House would elevate the Feniaus into the dignity of erecting fortifications to resist them. In the first case they would be use less ; in the second case needless; and the money would be much better expended in opening out communication and bringing in population. According to Messrs. Neill's report, May 16, the week's receipts of cotton have been 11,003 bales, and since the Ist of September 2,088,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 30,000 bales ; since the Ist of Septein)er, 1,170,000 bales. Week's exports to the Continent, 7,000 bales ; since the Ist of September, 428,030 bales. Total exports for the week, 37,000 bales; since the Ist of September, 1,598,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 180,000 bales. The steamers leaving New York on the 16'.h took for Europe $1,800,000 in specie; on the 19th, $100,000; on the 20th, $1,100,000; on the 21st, poo,ooo. m. Emile de Girardin imagines that the President was acquitted by 35 votes to 19 on the eleventh Article of the Impeachment charges. A correspon dent of one of the dailies comments on this, stat ing that the editor could hardly believe it ;' while the Times, if there is any meaning in words, made precisely the same mistake in its leading article on Mon d a y. " The Senate began with the last, and having dismissed that Article by a majority of 35 to 19, adjourned till the 2Gth without voting upon any other." Th a l Stevens was so annoyed at being called to order for speaking of Judge Nelson's " greasy career," that he withdrew the explanation he was then giving of his connection with the Alta Vela claim. Yet this touchy-tempered individual strives for the nomination to the Secretaryship of State. Speaker Colfax did protest against the speeches of Messrs. Donnelly and Washburne, but he has been much blamed for confining his action to this, and not insisting on putting a stop to the disgraceful scene. He excuses himself by stating that it was the will of the House that it should proceed. Mr. Brooks, of New York, took the opportunity of the Alta Vela affair, to raise a new scandal against Gen. Butler. He asserted that in Richmond the lawyer general was attacked and soundly thrashed by a common bricklayer for insulting his wife. In Great Britain the last public execution took place at Dumfries, May 12, and those who read the account of the hanging of Samuel Mills will con gratulate this country that such spectacles should cease, at least as public shows. Sam. Mills mur dered in an inhuman manner an old man named G. Maxwell on December 8, 1866. He expiated his crime at Haverhill, New Hampshire, on the 6th inst., in the presence of a vast assemblage. On being told that he had only fifteen minutes to live, and could say what he pleased, he addressed the crowd. " Samuel Mills," he said, "has acted like a man, and he will die like a man. Gentlemen, tell all of the folks that Samuel Mills says he is guilty of this crime, and that lie died like a man. Good bye, and good luck to you." He once nearly effected his escape, after several desperate attempts. He heard without concern the sound of the workmen's tools on the scaffold, eating his supper and smoking his pipe with his usual relish. lie had covered the walls of his cells with various inscriptions, accounts of his efforts at escape, queer drawings, and, among other things, this characteristic message to the world from which be has thus violently been cast for ever : " Sainma Mills murder, going to be 'ung to-day of May —good fellow, but no man dont no it." Surely a scene of this sort is not calculated to benefit the public. We perceive that, in the debate last Wed nesday, the Prussian Upper House rejected the Bill for the Abolition of Capital Punishment by 22 against 15 votes. The three clerical members of the House voted for the retention of the death penalty, and the Crown Prince in favour of its abo lition. The clause doing away with corporal punish ment was unanimously agreed to. The Springfield Republican announces George Francis Train's nomination in Dublin for the next Presidency of the United States. At first it con sidered the intelligence a gigantic lrish " bull," magnified indefinitely by the humorous rollicking Irish people, but o:i second thought it saw that in Ireland they had as good a right not merely to nominate but to elect and inaugurate American Presidents, as in America for years past to make Presidents of the Irish Repullic. Indeed, what the Republican says is too good and too true not to be given in its own words :-- "Once rise above the conventionalities of place and national boundaries, and it becomes just as easy to take Ireland for the United States as the United States for Ire land. Then, as a further logical consequence of the new principles of international law which have been promul gated of late in this country, we shall have our army reorganized—in Ireland—our Senate superseded, as soon as the patriots can determine between Sweeney and Roberts, our treasury nude over—in fancy—to the eminent financiers who have collected and disturbed the lucrative `tax on domestic servants' for the last three years, and our laws given us by the esllo, which, fortunately, has its eastern terminus iu the green isle of the north. It is im possible to see how we aro logically to escape such a con summation. Practically, the evil will be less oppressive than would at ' first appear. Tho se•no difficulties will probably attend the mandates of the Irish presidents of the American Republic as have embarrassed the authority of American presid nts of the Irish Republic. The same substantial anarchy that has in so great part neutralized the laws given by the Senate iu New York, may, in turn, limit the operation of the s!atutes of the new Congress on Dublin Green.' But, in pure theory, the idea of each is equally good, equally deserving the patronage of states men, equally ciumnauding the respect of loyal citizens." Mr. Train, after his lecture in Manchester, returned to the more genial atmosphere of Barney, but we fear the Blarney Convention for nominating a Pre sidential candidate will not be reeognizA in the United States. Some time ago we gave an account of a bill in troduced into the British Parliament to correct the criminal neglect whereby an enterprising American gentleman had lost the privilege of registering a patent which cost him a largo sum, and was likely to prove as beneficial to himself as to the public. We are happy to say an act has been passed to continue and confirm this patent of A.D. 1863 (No. 3,007), granted to Perry Green Gardiner, of New York, United States, for improvements in railway bar springs, and also to enable the said Perry Green Gardiner to pay the stamp duty of .£5O on the said letters patent, and upon such payment to enable the Commissioners of Patents or their clerk to stamp the said letters patent or a duplicate thereof. We congratulate the enterprising owner, who has through such discouragement and unexpected difficulties carried this matter to so successful a result. The spring promises to remove for ever joltings and jerks in railway travel. It consists of a spiral helix of steel, packed with wool in cylinder, and compressed by a piston. Wool is now known to be the most elastic of materials, and the strength of the spring is multiplied by this means five-fold. It is said that with this spring carriages at the greatest speed will move on ordi nary railroads with perfect steadiness, and it is equally available for buffers. Au American newspaper, which is far from being a bitter opponent of Andrew Johnson, says " The President means to have a few friends when he leaves Washington, and continues to pardon the worst kind of criminals, especially counterfeiters and revenue defraulers. One counterfeiter, who had served only one • of a ten years' sentence, has been pardoned this week, also one illicit distiller.of whisky." It is singular to note the number of cri minals lately pardoned by the President. Passengers from Vera Cruz to Havannah report a revolution in the city of Mexico, and that Juarez having seized all the money in the Treasury—_ amounting to 7,000,000 —had fled for Texas. This $ may be mere rumour, bat it is known that the country is in a fearful state of anarchy ; rebellions are breaking out in all directions. General Corona's first act at Mazatlan was to squeeze from the mer chants $lOO,OOO. At Monterey six American mer chants were imprisoned and beaten, and a complaint through the Consul has been made to Mr. Seward. The Mexican Congress has condemned the conces sion to the English company, for building the Vera Cruz and Mexico City Railway, although the ablest men of the Republic are ardently in favour of the improvement. If the Mexican Government would but give back to the English shareholders the money these deluded individuals have risked in this affair there would be rejoicings in many English homes. At periods the United States are remarkable for strong religious movements and revivals—a subject with which the press deals as if it were Impeach ment, Protection, or Naturalization. The gather ings are announced, as though prize-fights or race meetings. The numbers converted are given, as for instance, " the Methodists. at Saratoga Springs report 300 conversions; 30 students in Lawrence ville, New Jersey, have expressed a hope in Christ ;" "at the last communion season in the Presbyterian Church, Kensington,Pennsylvania, 101 were admitted." Congregational, Baptist, and every sect seem simultaneously inspired. One paper says, " Even a Roman Catholic revival, or mission, asthey call it, has 'occurred in Norwich, Connecticut. The church was thronged for three weeks, the confes sional was crowded day and evening, and the re sults were 3,500 communions, hundreds of strayed sheep brought back to the fold, the establishment of the confraternities of the holy rosary and of the angelic warfare, and many other heavenly gracos.' " Another states, " All the churches in every part of Christendom are moving towards a simpler plan of faith, a plainer path to heaven." We are sorry to report Indian outrages. A train was attacked near Tularosso, New Mexico, on the 18th of April. The wagons and contents were burned, and all the mules captured. Of thirty seven men who went from Tularosso for the re lief of this train seven are reported killed. A short time before thirteen persons were killed by the Indians near this place. From Omaha accounts come of Indian troubles along the line of the Pacific Railroad. General Sherman passed Plum Creek on the 30th April, and saw from the train the bodies of four men just killed. Notwith standing, the intelligence is encouraging from Fort Laramie, where three great chiefs of the Cheyennes have arrived to treat with the Peace Commis sioners, and a full delegation of the Mountain Crows and Araphoes are daily expected. As it has been erroneously stated in one or two leading London papers that Colonel Forney, Secre tary of the Senate, had misappropriated funds placed in his care, we desire to publish that the committee appointed to investigate the accounts distinctly confirm what we lately announced, that Colonel Forney was the victim of his financial clerk, Samuel Wagner, who now confesses to the theft of $20,000, while $12,000 he refuses to ac count for. Colonel Forney may have been careless in not exercising a stricter supervision, but he has done what any gentleman ought to do under the circumstances ; that is, he has paid up the money himself, losing everything except the small sum which may be recovered from Wagner's estate. One of those deluded individuals who, having invested in Confederate Bonds, adheres to the belief that somebody will at some time refund the money, writes from the Junior Carlton Club to state that he is encouraged in this belief, as the opinion of the present Lord Chancellor was taken before the loan was subscribed, and he considered that it was quite in accordance with international law. Also, that Lord Stanley gave an assurance that if the Alabama claims were submitted to arbitration, the same Court would be open to the bondholders. It is extraordinary to see the pertinacity with which people cling to a pleasant delusion. While a con siderable number in the North are agitating to repudiate their own debt—how can Mr. Philips suppose that they are likely to refund a loan used against themselves for an illegal object ? Neither by law nor equity aro they bound, and the mass of the people of the United States would consider that honour forbad them under any circumstances to recognize this debt. It was contracted by a pseudo Confederacy in rebel lion against the lawful Government. All the States which formed that Confederacy have solemnly re nounced the War Debt, and the Bonds bear on their face that plyment is due after a ratification of a treaty of peace—that is, that the lender risked his money with a clear understanding that repayment hinged on the success of the rebellion—for sovereign powers do not make treaties with their citizens, and the very word signified the gain of the object striven for—separation. Lord Stanley will make a serious diplomatic blunder if he attempts to introduce such claims into the Alabwnnut question, and if he does Mr. Seward will throw a pile of Fenian bonds at his head. The St. George's Society of Baltimore celebrated their second anniversary by a dinner at Guy's Monument house, May 1. They appear to have had a very gay gathering, and the room was taste fully decorated with the flags of England, America, and France. This society was organized by Eng lishmen resident in Baltimore, in December, 1866, for charitable and benevolent purposes, and has al ready accomplished much good. It is under the control of the following board of officers : —Presi dent, Stewart Darrell; Vice-President, W. H. Perot; Treasurer, George Hawkins Williams ; Secretary, James Bebin ; Relief Committee—Rich. Coupland, John Holstead, William Holmes, Joseph Smith, Edwin Ifainpson ; Committee of Accounts —James Francis, Henry C. Brown ; Chaplains— Revs. Dr. M. Mahan and Horatio 11. Hewitt ; Physicians—Dr. Claude Baxley and Dr. R. Murdoch. We mentioned in our last issue that ten or twelve gentlemen owned a lArge portion of the real estate in the city of New York. The taxable value of New York property in 1867 was $555,442,012. The real estate on Manhattan island is officially returned at $175,000,000. Mr. Astor, it is estimated, owns more than $32,000,000 of this ; his municipal taxes alone for 1867 were $358,140. The other nine gentlemen who hold so large a stake are William C. Rhinelander, whose property is valued at $7,745,000; Alexander T. Stewart, $6,091,500; Peter Goelet, $1,417,000; James Lenox, $4,260,000; Peter Lorillart (since dead), $4,245,000; John 1). Wolfe, $3,997,000 ; M. M. Hendricks, $1,690,000 ; Rufus L. Lord, $1,500,000, and C. V. C. Rossevelt, $1,346,000. Together these ten paid municipal taxes during 1867 to the amount of $1,182,326. The sales and transfers ofreal estate during the month of April were $24,000,000. Gen. Lawrence, American Minister to Costa Rica and Baron Kusserow, Secretary of the Prussian Legation to Washington, fought a duel near Bladensburg, on the 4th May. The General challenged the Baron for an insult to his wife, and the fire was in the first instance to be der vered at fifteen paces, then at tan, and finally at five. But the fifteen seemed to satisfy the combatants, who ex changed shots harmlessly, and came to an amicable ad justment. The body of Anthony Freynogle, a 'well-known merchant, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who mysteriously disappeared last January, was found, Saturday, May 2, in the Ohio river, with a bullet hole in the temple, which leaves little doubt that he was murdered. The uew woman's club had a meeting and lunch at Delmonico's, May 4, Monday —washing day. President Alice Cary made a speech, and the World, which of all the Now York papers seems to enjoy somebody's special con fidence in the ladies' affairs, says that " many of the ladies present wore young and distingud, and somo of the toilets were superb." Senator llenderson of Missouri is soon to marry Miss Mary Foot, ono of the most admired Washing ton belles, and whose home was formerly at Saratoga, New York. The Senator is forty-two, and his affianced eighteen years younger. 'The committee to investigate the charge of • Mr. Washburn° were appointed Wednesday, May 6, as fol lows : —Messrs. Banks, of Massachusetts ; Thomas, of 'Maryland ; Poland, of Vermont ; Griswold, of Now York ; Blair, of Michigan ; Woodward, of Pennsylvania ; and Beck, of Kentucky; and on the motion of Mr. Dawes the duty was also imposed upon the committee of iLvesti gating the charges made in debate by Brooks against Butler, that tho latter stole spoons, seized gold, and paid in paper. The delegates from the New England to the General Conference of the Methodist Church, now holding its quadrennial session of four weeks at Chicago, are :-- Revs. James Porter, E. R. Thayer, Jefferson Hascalf, David Sherman, W. R. Clark, Gilbert Haven, Daniel Dor chester, and Joseph Cummings. Captain Edward Field, 4th United States Artil lei y, stationed at Fort M'llenry, Baltimore, has just mar ried Miss Minnie Young, daughter of Dr. Noble Young, of Baltimore. The following acted as bridesmaids :-- Misses Fannie Lawrence, Addio Lawrence, Kate Field (sister to the bridegroom), Nellie Young (sister to the bride), and Miss Kate Addison and sister, there being no groomsmen. There were also present General N. I'• Chipman, Colonel A. A. Hosmer, and a number of military officers. American papers state that Queen Victoria tele graphed her sympathies by the Atlantic cable to Mrs- D'Arcy M‘Gei, of Canada. Mr. Chadeayne, of Titusville, Pennsylvania, whose wife and daughter were very seriously injured by the accident at Angola, has effected a settlement by which he has received 810,000. An ambitious fellow in Connecticut appeils, over his own signature: "Too thee michitnnieks and la b)uring men of my native town. I will reprizent you is the Stait:assemblee irrispectif of pollyties, relijion or eddi cash u n ." A Carlisle paper says that the poet Longfellow will spend arn 'nth this summer at the English lakes. Mr. Train's stay in England was short. He has returned to Ireland, and is now reported as staying at St- Anue's-hill, Blarney, a water-cure establishment where be formerly recruited after a tour of " lecturing." Mr. Rose (Finance Minister of Canada) and Mr. Macdougall are expected to arrive in England iu June on . business connected with the Interc o l on i a l R a il wa y, and It is understood that they will endeavour to settle with the Colonial-office the terms upon which the Hudson's Bzi9 Company's territory shall be incorporated wi.h the Domi nion. The Aboriginal black Eleven lately arrived in England will bo ready to play their first match on Monday and Tuesday in the Epsom week at the Oval. Three of thom—Mullagh, Cuzens, and Bullocky—will boar favour able comparison, a good judge declares, with the best bats men in England. The match will excite great interest. An individual has been swindling the citizens of Provence, Rhode Island, by representing himself as 0 . general agent for the principal newspapers in that and other cities. He induced Colonels Sprague and Smith to be very polite to him as the special reporter of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, and so worked upon the feelings of those gentlemen as to obtain an ad vance of two hundred and fifty dollars upon his (the re porter's) note, drawn curiously enough on a St. Louis bank. The non-payment of the note led to the detection of the swindler, and, much to his disgust, he was arrested , and is now in a station-house at Providence, with every prospect of speedily terminating his quasi-reportoria l career, and assuming the new diaguise of the penitentiary . This interesting person's name is H. E. Clark. The Baltimore Commercial states that on May 5 + a party of the Kit-Klux-Klan visited the houses of Levi Thomson and W. Fleming, at Williamson, Tennessee, and attacked them. They endeavoured to burn the houses down, but were resisted and repulsed by the occupants , The facts of the attempted outrage have been reported t ° General Carlon, and an investigation will no doubt be ordered. It is becoming very fashionable for young ladicg of the Now York ton to take an early horse-back ride around Central Park, accompanied by a groom in velvo" teen tights and high top boots. The ride is also fashion' able in London, but certainly not the velveteen tights. After Frederick Douglass's lecture at Ann Har bour, a short time ago, the son of a United States Senato r attending college there stepped upon the platform, advanced to Mr. Douglass, extended his hand and remarked, " 3 = 1 9 name is ---, I am the son of a United States Senator. "Are you ?" said Mr. Douglass, "I have reason to belie'''. that I am, too." The Tyngs, Rev. John Cotton Smith, Rev. Ale ander Vintc,n, Rev. Dr. Dyer, and other eminent clergi men of that school, are preparing to 44 fraternize with tll . O sects" during anniversary week, to an extent, it is sel never before witnessed. If the High Churchmen are be on drawing nearer and nearer to Rome, they say, it i° their duty more and more to draw near to Geneva. rev Dr. Dix has commenced a series of discourses iu favour. of the multiplication of Si s t er h oo d s i n the Episcop a ; Church. There is one such Sisterhood—the Sisterhoe. of Saint Mary—alre a dy i n ex i s t ence , b u t the necessit le° of the Church and of the times wo live in, he says, de ' mend more. Births. BLAIR—On the 21st inst., at 7, Atli°le-crescent, Per th ' N. 8., the wife of Robert C. L. Blair, Esq., of a son. IfAssALL r onthe 21st inst., at Widmer, the wife of L1°111" C. C. Ilassall, Royal Navy, of a son. MOULD—On the 21st inst., at 10, Scarsdale Villas, ington, the wife of George Stirling Mould, Esq. , ° daughter. Marriages. ELLis—wETTos— On the 21st inst , at St. Wi lfred Church, llaywarirs-heath, John Ellis, Esq., of blordo!1" bill, Blackheath, and The Lawn, Eastbourne, to Jes l i e : eldest danghter of 11. 'Javan Welton, Esq., of 113°' groves, Hayward's-heath, Sussex. HALsEY—Scorr—On the 19th inst., at St. John's, of dington, Richard, eldest son of Samuel EA",ss Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, to Elizabeth, you n g ' daughter of the late Abraham Scott, Esq. Deaths. DODWELL —On the 21st inst., Philip Dodwell, tsll., o f 1/ Stockwell Villas, Stoekwohl, aged 'lt. Fouv —Un theFouv 18th inst., at Lower Heywood, Ox.ford shirl't the 11ev. Charles Fory, rector, aged 41. Tr „befh HUGHES—Oa the 20th inst., at Chelsea, Mr. C. IL for 58 years with Messrs. Anderson, of St. J 1,31 — street, aged 72. IRELAND—On the 19th inst., 4G, Manor-plau', worth, Mr. John Ireland, aged 61. SALTOUN Ou the 20th inst., at Fron Fraith, 3.loutgoill°rr shire, Maurice J. Saltoun, Esq., M.L., aged 46. . et t WILLS—On the 18th and 19th ult. ' at Kurraehoe, 1131 1 1 : of Mary aud Ann Pauline, the infant t w in daugli t°l- Lt.-Colonel Wills, Ist Battalion Royal. Itegiu Loudon : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDI3SIst2I, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tag SuN 14° 1 t , 01 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, i n the C°u.l Middlesoz.—Saturday, May 21, 1868.