The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Nearly; all the"morning papers give us articles on the subject of the Electric Telegraphs Bill. The Times admits that much of the original opposition to the bill was actuated by motives of party warfare. There is no man whose mind is free from prejudice but must acknowledge that the bill was obstructed in great measure because it was promoted by the present Adminis tration, and because the patronage consequent on the purchase of the telegraphs might fall into Tory hands. The cost of buying up the telegraph companies has increased from 20 to 50 per cent., and the taxpayer will have to pay for the ingenuity of the Opposition. The principal reasons against the assumption of the telegraphs by the Executive Government have crumbled away when put to the test of inquiry. It was thought that a Government monopoly might be tyrannical. It was proved that the monopoly of telegraph companies has outdone all that could be feared from a Government working under the censure of public opinion. Evidence was produced, to which no answer was attempted, which shewed that the provincial press had suffered from the caprice and wilfulness of the present telegraphic management. It is certain that if any Postmaster-General ventured on such a course either he or the Ministry which supported him would suffer for it. The committee could come to no other conclusion than that the transfer of telegraphs to the Post Office, if unaccompanied with any legal monopoly of telegraphic usage, would liberate the public from the danger of arbitrary management rather than expose them to any such oppression. With regard to the financial part of the question, Parliament will act wisely in accepting the proposal of the Government. Delay in such a matter would be very dangerous, and the scheme should be accepted now, lest worse should follow. The Standard does not doubt that the telegraph corn- panics have made a very good bargain. They have, of course, obtained payment for prospective advantages, but Mr. Gosehen ought to know that when individuals or companies are " expropriated " in this country or in any other in which the despotism of an individual or of a mob does not override law, they will always claim, and in nine cases out of ten will get, very liberal compensation for the property taken from them. It is sufficiently clear, how ever, from the original proposals of the Government, that nothing extravagant has been given to the companies. They hal, had liberal terms offered them, which they have accepted ; and if apparently a year's more profits have been given them than an arbitrator imbued with Mr. Goschen's notions might have allowed them, the Government gets full value for its extra expenditure in the information and other help which the contented com panies are now willing to afford it. The Telegraph thinks that in one or two respects a more advantageous bargain might have been made in the into. rests of the nation than that which has been so criticised. At the same time, out contemporary opines that the public will be no losers by the transaction, should it ultimately be completed on the terms foreshadowed by the bill. Mr. Goschen's objection to pay four millions sterling for the goodwill of a business which only cost two was acute, but, unintentionally, of course, misleading. The " cost" of such undertakings as the telegraphs is most imperfectly represented by the mere outlay on plant ; we must add the long years of effort, anxiety, and risk which were required to raise them from the rank of hazardous speculation to that of secure sources of profit. Like most City men, the critic would have hesitated to invest his money at the outset in an enterprise that stood every chance of turning out a ruinous loss ; but he would not have had the same feeling when the partners were dividing 10 per cent. annually, and laying up an enormous reserve against a rainy day. Now, the nation is buying up a property which has for years paid 10 per cent., which is annually getting more valuable, and the basis of whose gains is ascertained. The Herald is very indignant with the style of oppo sition offered to the Cattle Market Bill. The Opposition is not merely irregular, not merely virulent ; it is against all parliamentary procedure. Here is a scheme of legisla tion, on a subject of deep interest to the community, which, according to the sheaving of its most inveterate opponents, the House of Commons has minutely dis cussed, deciding in favour of it, and yet division after division is taken to hinder its progress upon simple ques tions of form. Mr. Disraeli gave a sufficient answer to those who insinuated that the large and constant majori ties supporting the bill resulted from passion. Those majorities were furnished from both sides of the House. But if there be passion, it must be, unequivocally, among those who declare that they will go on dividing from night fall until dawn rather than allow even the preamble to pass. Mr. Crawford and others affect to think that it is of little consequence whether the measure passes this year or the next. We beg to tell them that it is a matter of the utmost importance to the inhabitants of London. It raises the issue between cheap and dear, wholesome and diseased meat for a population of nearly three millions. Nothing could be worse for the agriculturist, for the importer, for the dealer, or for the consumer, than to have this topic hanging, as Mr. Henley put it, between heaven and earth. If the Opposition succeed, as it only can succeed, by talking against time, a full season is lost, and the public will have to pay for the benefit of Mr. Milner Gitmon'Y clients, the confederated butchers. The Standard, on the same subject, declares it is high time this child's play were brought to a conclusion. The whole sense of the House of Commons is stultified by the opposition of a minority. The proper functions of Parlia ment are at an end if such a procedure is to be allowed. It might have been thought that the ravages of the cattle plague would have disarmed the rancour of the bitterest partisan. But the real merits of the question are utterly ignored in order that the Government may be worried into a surrender of the bill which they have in charge. It is scandalous that any Administration should be compelled to see the public time wasted, and the proceedings of the House of Commons reduced to the level of a farce. The Daily News says however triumphant the agricul tural party may be in the House of Commons, it is impos sible that the bill can be forced through the House of Lords at this late period in the session. Not, indeed, that the peers are in any way disposed to stand up for a sound economical policy, or are specially solicitous to defend the food supply of the masses from the tampering of the squires. But it is understood, and the speech of the Premier on Monday night distinctly pointed to this result, that the standing orders of the Upper House will place an insurmountable obstacle in the way of the imme diate enactment of that protective scheme for which the agricultural interest clamours. The bill seriously affects not only the general public, but still more nearly a number of private interests, those of the metropolitan butchers, the wholesale cattle salesmen, the wharfingers, and others, which will all claim as of right to be heard and to give evidence against the bill before the House of Lords can pass it. Of course, this being the case, and the butchers being determined in their hostility to the bill, the contest may be, and if necessary will be, prolonged for months. Ultimately, therefore, the Government, having the meral election in view, will be compelled to drop the. measure. Commenting on the reception of Lord Napier of Mag• data in the City, the Star confesses that it is more inclined to sympathise with the spirit of the civic and popular honours paid to the Abyssinian victor than with those which the State bestows. To convert a brave soldier and a great engineer into an ennobled law - maker with a small pension a poor noble man in a houseful of wealthy peers seems an odd way of rewarding such services. It looks a little like the gratitude of the French king whose life was saved by a chevalier not over rich, and who paid the chevalier a formal State visit, entailed on him thereby an almost ruinous expense, and then on taking his leave told his host he was happy to have thus requited his faithful service. Still, as we seem to have no other idea of reward. ing a great soldier than that of making him a peer, it is right the honour should be conferred on so worthy a recipient as the man who was the other day Sir Robert Napier. THE WEATHER IN THE HOLY CITY.--We read in a letter from Rome :—" The prayers for the cessation of rain, ordered more than six weeks back, and since daily repeated by the priests, have been stopped by direc tion of the cardinal-vicar. During the last three or four days heat has returned, and with it an end of that deplorable period of bad weather which had become a real scourge to the country. Th e p easantry are on all sides busy in reaping and thrashing the corn, which has suffered much from the continued rainsi." THE 11 ARVEST ON THE CONTINENT. The harvest in the South of France is terminated. The fears 'which had generally prevailed have baen dissipated, and the result is better than was expected. The crop, which in certain localities of the Var was sup posed to be in great jeopardy, will be abundant. At Angers reaping is going on everywhere, and farmers seem to be well satisfied. The yield will be large, although the quality leaves something to be desired. Letters from Normandy give the greatest I. opes, and on several points the product will be above an average. Similar accounts are received from the Fast of France. In Hungary the harvest is advancing rapidly ; great plenty is united to excellent quality. The country has still in its granaries wheat of last year's crop, and prices are conse quently falling. Throughout Germany also there is a great abundance of grain. In Belgium wheat is almost ready everywhere for cutting, and the crop is fine in every ••---- V . 0 -#PIO4 • - • - THE SEIZURE OF ARMS IN CORK. The Dublin correspondent of the Times gives the follow ing particulars of the Outrage committed in Cork on Monday : "At half-past nine o'clock in the morning four men dressed as artisans, and without any attempt at disguise, entered the shop of Mr. Morton, gunsmith, 50, Old George-street. They had crossed from the opposite side of the street, and their movements attracted no particular notice, as at that hour they were supposed to be work men on their way to or from breakfast. John O'Rorke, the shopman in charge, who was in another apartment at breakfast, went into the shop on hearing their footsteps, to see what they wanted. They closed the door quietly, and advancing to the counter, two of them presented revolvers at him, and commanded him to observe silence, assuring him that they did not mean to do him any harm. He readily obeyed, being, in fact, stunned by the suddenness and coolness of the proceeding. While the two kept guard with revolvers pointed at him, the other two produced a sack which they had brought with them, and, opening a glass case near the door with a facility which! seemed to indicate familiar acquaintance with the arrange ments of the establishment, they deliberately filled it with the contents. These consisted of a number of single and double barrelled guns and a rifle. Having taken as much as the sack could hold, they removed it into the street, leaving their companions still on duty as sentinels, and after emptying it returned and refilled it again. The whole party then left the shop, and passing up the street rapidly turned a corner and disap peared. They left several other cases of arms untouched, and it is supposed that they hastily withdrew, lest the police, whose movements they no doubt had been watching, should come up. It is thought extra ordinary that such a robbery could have been committed in a street which is a continuation of Tuckey street, where the chief police-station lies, and almost within view of another station in Caroline-street. It is still more strange that, after the repeated warnings which they have received, the Cork gunmakers still leave their establishments in an unprotected state, and the authorities have made no special provision for their security, or rather for the security of the public. No trace of the robbers has beer discovered. ma c , LAW AND POLICE. CLAIMS TO PEERAGES.—The House of Lords has decided that the claim put forward by the Duke of Buckingham to be placed on the roll of Scottish peers as Lord Kinloss was a good one. With regard to the Burley and Kilwin ning peerages, their lordships agreed to a resolution declaring that the claimant, Mr. Bruce, had made out his descent from the last Lord Blirley, but that owing to the attainder of Robert, Lord Burley, in 1715, he had failed to establish his claim to the Balfour peerage, and that he had failed to establish his claim to the Kilwinning peerage. THE AFFAIRS OF THE LATE ADMIRAL KELLY.-11l the Lord Justices' Court, the case of Braund v. the Earl of Devon was heard. The suit was instituted to administer the estate of the late Admiral Marwood Kelly, who bequeathed the residue of his property to trustees for the purpose of founding a charity to he called the " Kelly College," and to be situate in Devonshire. The lineal descendants of the testator's paternal grandfather were to have a preference, and then the sons of deceased officers in the royal navy. The bill was demurred to by the trustees on the ground, first, that as the suit was to establish a charity it ought to have been com menced by the Attorney-General by way of information ; and secondly, that the consent of the Charity Commissioners ought to have been obtained before the institution of the suit. Vice-Chancellor Stuart overruled the demurrer, and the defendants, the trustees, appealed. Their lord ships, on the second ground, allowed the demurrer, but gave leave to amend the bill. ACTION AGAINST A CHURCHWARDEN.—In the Arches Court a suit was instituted by the Rev. F. Richings, the incumbent of Atherstone, Warwick, against Mr. Edward Cordingley, one of the churchwardens, for vio lently entering the church and removing the super altar, the altar cloth, &c., on the ground that at a meeting of the vestry a resolution was passed that such decorations were unlawfully introduced into the church. An immense number of witnesses have to be examined, and the hearing will most likely last for some time. During the hearing of the case the Dean of Arches took occasion to remark that much litigation would be avoided in ecclesiastical matters if persons first obtained a faculty or permission to introduce things in the services, or proceeded in a proper manner to remove the same without taking the law into their own hands. STOPPING UP AN ARCIINVAT.—In the same court a suit was brought by a gentleman named Crawley, the lay impropriator of Luton, Bedfordshire, against the Rev. James O'Neill for plastering up an archway leading to the chancel. The defendant objected to the jurisdiction of the court, but this was overruled. The church had been restored, and since tile institution of the present suit defendant had commenced to remove the obstruction. At the suggestion of his lordship, the affair was amicably settled. STRANGE CAREER OF A CLERGYMAN.—At the Middlesex Sessions a clergyman was convicted of fraudulently obtaining certain sums of money on behalf of the male Lock Hospital, and appropriating them to his own use. Before sentence was passed, the accused put in a state ment, in which he attributed his fall to an unconquerable love of drink. He had been engaged to be married to a lady of great wealth, and everything was prepared for the ceremony, when, yielding to temptation, he became intoxicated, and " failed to be there as appointed." The match was consequently broken off, and from that hour he "rushed headlong into drink and gay company until he was quite mad." He had been in prison on charges of stealing toddy ladles, and of disappearing with his land lord's coat and watch ; then he was nine months in Beth lehem ; next, curate of a parish in Surrey ; afterwards he underwent eighteen months' imprisonment for forgery; and then became secretary to the male Lock; Hospital, Dean-street, Soho. For the offence with which he was now charged he was sentenced to five years' penal servi tude. ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIFE.-At the Mary lebone Police-court J. Crummins was chargedwith throwing his wife out of the window with intent to murder her. A policeman gave evidence to chew that he found the pri soner's wife lying on the leaden flat of an outhouse. As Mrs. Crummins was in a too precarious state to attend the court, the magistrate visited her at the hospital, and took down her deposition. She stated that on the night in question she was intoxicated, but denied that the prisoner had ill-used her. The accused was remanded. SHEEF• STEALING NEAR THE METROPOLIS.-At the Mid dlesex Sessions, Thomas Daly, 19, pleaded guilty to, and Edwin Winder and James Burns were indicted for, steal ing eighteen sheep, the property of Mr. J. C. Hartwell, farmer, Chingford, Essex. On the 17th of June the sheep were all safe, and the two first-named prisoners were seen on the same day in the neigh bourhood of Chingford, and subsequently Daly was seen driving some sheep, and was followed to a yard belonging to his mother, where every preparation had been made for slaughtering the animals. The prisoners were found guilty, and it was stated that Winder had engaged premises near King's-cross for the purpose of receiving stolen sheep, and, in fact, had been the prime instigator of most of the sheep robberies that have lately taken place. Winder was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude, and the other prisoners to five years each. FATAL COLLIERY ExrLosroN.--An explosion of firedamp has taken place in the coalpit of Sainte-Bartle, near Rive-de-Gier, France. Twelve workmen are said to have lost their lives, and seven to be wounded. FATAL CHASE AFTER A BUTTERFLY.—A lad, 7 years of age, named Binns Booth, was, a day or two ago, chasing a butterfly on the banks of the River Aire, at Shipley, and not being conscious of his near Proximity to the stream, he fell in and was drowned. THE CATASTROPHE TO THE BRIDAL PARTY AT BATTERSEA.—Since Sunday evening last the Thames police and several watermen have been engaged in dragging the river with the view of recovering the bodies of the bride, bridegroom, and bridesmaid drowned at Battersea. Their efforts were without avail until Tuesday afternoon. At that time the bodies of Mrs. Betsworth and her sister, Ann Chads, were found, not far from one another, on the Middlesex side of the river, opposite Chelsea. They were at once conveyed on shore to the parish dead-house. At three o'clock the body of the unfortunate bridegroom, John Betsworth, was recovered off Pimlico. MORT: SUPERSTITION IN CORNWALL—A fisher man of Alevagissey lately became impressed with the idea that he was " ill-wished " by a poor widow, whose son had been dismissed from a mackerel seine. To avert the evil consequences which he apprehended might ensue, he procured a large bone, and, after filling the hollow with pins, proceeded to place it in the chimney. During this interesting ceremony he read portions of the Bible, especially the 100th Psalm. Thi s i ncantation was in tended to cast a spell on the " witch," but hitherto it has failed in effecting the proposed result. As might have been expected, a full measure of ridicule has been showered upon the luckless victim of the machinations of the " witch." But the hard-working, quiet woman, who possesses an untarnished character, has been subjected to great annoyance. It is an acknowledged fact that many in Cornwall superstitiously Attach importance to such ocaieleta allr , ationz of witaortil—Wed(on Ast . r n bes Ytwi, ANO7IIER PRONUNCIAiIIENTO IN SPAIN. Nothing is so restless as the Revolution, it is as untiring in its efforts as the spirit of evil. Where it is powerful, as in Italy and Austria, it speaks aloud and declares its aims in the face of the world. Where it is weak, as in Spain, it whispers in secret and plots in the dark. One of these conspiracies in the dark has just been discovered in Spain and nipped in the bud, by the arrest of its leaders. The Revolution is a very chameleon, taking every colour as suits its purpose ; it is now republi can, now constitutional, now despotic, but un der every shape and colour alike it is the deadly enemy of the Christian State. Spain under Isabella is true, as a nation, to its Catholic character, therefore, the Revolution has de creed the overthrow of the reigning dynasty. The aim of the conspiracy which has just been crushed, was to force Queen Isabella to abdi cate, and if the conspirators failed to induce the Duchess of Montpensier to take her sister's throne, to proclaim as King the Queen's son, the Prince of Asturias, under a Regency, formed of the Duke and Duchess of Montpen sier, Marshal Serrano, and it is said of Espar tero. The leaders of the conspiracy belonged to the Liberal Union, the party of the late Marshal O'Donnell, who had often plotted to place the Duchess of Montpensier on Queen Isabella's throne. The failure of General Prim's conspiracy, and of the plot to create a Masonic " Iberian Kingdom" by the union of Portu gal and Spain, under the Kinc , of Portu g al, forced the Revolutio n t o t ry it s hand at a less daring game. But the Spanish Government, well informed and prompt, arrested Marshal Serrano and five or six other Generals impli cated in the plot, and shipped them off forth with to the Canaries, and at the same time in timated to the Duke of Montpensier the neces sity of his at once leaving the country. By such prompt measures the plot, deprived of military leaders, and of the countenance of the Queen's brother-in-law, was speedily at an end. The Duke of Montpensier had long treated the reigning family with studied cold ness, and cultivated friendly relations with disappointed Liberals. The House of Orleans, it must be remembered, is not famous for its family loyalty. The Queen, who by her Catholic and Conservative policy, and by her loyalty to the Pope, has conciliated the Spanish Car lists, and drawn to her throne the supporters of order and religion, and in the same measure exasperated the revolutionary and irreligious party. Hence her name has become a byeword in the mouth of Europeon Liberalism, that vast conspiracy against justice and religion, and her rule, under which Spain is gradually , recovering moral strength and material pro sperity, is the object of unceasing vitupera tion and slander in the Liberal Press. The recent marriage of the Infanta with the brother of the King of Naples has also given offence to the revolutionary party, between whom in every country a singular solidarity exists. The suddenness, without warning of any kind to betoken their approach, of these peri odical outbreaks in Spain has often been the subject of remark, but this suddenness arises from the fact that they are not popular com motions, but simply military plots. Their cause is personal ambition, not popular dis content. People in Spain do not trouble themselves about politics ; it is no affair of theirs. They love peace and quiet; they want a Government that will uphold order and re spect religion. Politics in their eyes is a game at which conspirators and speculators play for their own private advantage. Respectable men abstain from soiling their fingers by coni tact with politicians by profession, who are too often, indeed, in the Peninsula mere sedi tion-mongers. Were it not for ambitious and disappointed soldiers, encouraged by foreign intrigue and by that revolutionary Liberalism, which, even in Spain, is to be found in some of the commercial towns, Europe would not every now and again be startled by the an nouncement of the discovery and suppression of a new plot in Spain, to re move a Govern ment or upset a dynasty.-IYestminster Gazette. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The directors have issued their report for the half year ending the 30th of June, which is to be sub mitted to the meeting of the proprietors to be held at the International Hotel, Southwark, on the 30th instant. They state that the liabilities when the directors took office a year ago amounted, accord ing to the estimate of Messrs. Price, Holyland, and Waterhouse, to £2,323,177, in addition to £876,870 for lines which the company was under Parliamentary obligation to construct. Authority has now been obtained to abandon these lines, and the remaining liabilities are reduced, according to the latest estimate, to £293,611, of admitted lia bility, and about £175,000 contingent on the re sult of the reference to the Duke of Richmond in the Surrey and Sussex and Chichester and Mid hurst cases. To meet these liabilities the company has unexercised debenture power under the Act of the present Session for upwards of £500,000 ; so that, as far as they can see at present, the direc tors do not anticipate any necessity for issuing any part of the £1,000,000 of ordinary stock authorised by this act. The total amount expended on capital account during the past half yearhas been £178,800, consisting entirely of expenditure upon new lines in progress, or abandoned, or in winding up the ac counts of lines recently opened, every shilling ex pended on old lines or plant having been charged to revenue. The comparison of revenue receipts and expenses for the current and past half year and for the corresponding half year of 1867 shows the total traffic receipts to have been, on the 30th June, 1867, £534,559 ; on the 31st of December, 1867, £700,793 ; and on the 30th June, 1868, £575,358 ; and the total working expenses and renewals on the 30th of June, 1867, £442,537 ; on the 31st of De cember, 1867, £406,933 ; and on the 30th of June, 1868,i341,263. This result the directors consider very satisfactory. The receipts have increased by £40,799 over the corresponding half year, while the expenses have diminished by no less than £101,301, so that the increase of net profit amounts to £142,100. It is true that the expenses of the half year of 1867 were increased by arrears of revenue charges which had been allowed to accumulate, but a close ex amination of the accounts of three half-years will show that there has been a large and progressive reduction under every considerable head of ex penditure, which may fairly be attributed to the exertions of the officers, the greater efficiency of the line and stock, and the rigid economy which has been everywhere enforced. According to the rate at which receipts and expenses are now going on, the expense of the whole of the year 1868 will have been reduced in comparison with those of the year before the present directors took office from about 75 to 55 per cent of the receipts, and from about 4s. 4d. to 3s. 4d. per train mile. The sum included in the revenue charges of the present half-year for repairs and improvements of old lines and stations, which would formerly have been charged to capital, amounts to £21,369, which represents the cost of working with a closed capital account. The ac counts for the half-year show a balance of revenue over expenditure of £243,578 15s. 10d., to which must be added the balance from last half-year, £l,OOB 17s. 4d. ; making a total of £244,587 13s. 2d. Of this the payment of debenture and other interest requires £94,908 ss. 9d., leaving available towards payment of the preference in terest £149,679 7s. sd. This will suffice to pay the full half-year's interest on all the preference stocks up to the issue of £1,661,335 5 per cent. stock, No. 6, 1866, on which half the half-year's interest can be paid, amounting in all to £149,679 7s. sd. As the gross revenue of the second half year always exceeds that of the first by about £150,000, while the expenses are not above £30,000 or £40,000 in excess, it is morally certain that there will be enough net income at the end of next half-year to pay the full year's interest on the en tire preference stocks of the company for the year 1868, with a small surplus. The directors feel, therefore, that as the result of their labours for the year they have been in office they may fairly con gratulate the shareholder; on seeing their p r op er ty rescued from insolvency, and restored . to a pofition of perfect soundness, with a closed capital account and all preference charges provided for, so ter sat any increase of receipts from the development of traffic cannot fail to accrue to the ordinary sha rebolders. The company had two bills before Parliair lent, one to authorise the working union with the So nth-Eastern and Chatham companies ; the other fo r a slight in crease of tolls, abandonment of useless lines, defini tion of debenture power, and increase of capital. The principle of the working unit n was unani mously sanctioned, after full inquiry, by committees of both houses; but a clause was introduced by the committee of the House of Lords limiting the tolls over the whole system to the: maximum tariff sanctioned for the Brighton Corer any. The South- Eastern Company were of opinio a that this would involve a serious sacrific.3 of their pres ant receipts, and accordingly the bill was wi didra wn with the concurrence of the three companies in terested. The directors regret the loss of a measure which would have been attended with so much ad iantage both to the shareholders and the public, hut they will endeavour to mitigate it as far as possible by taking advantage of the :amic a bl e re l at i ons which now so happily prev.til with neigh bouring companies to make equitable arrange ments respecting the traffic at all competing points. The other bill, which has been passed, gives the com pany important advantages, and enables he direc tors to say with confidence that all the urgent dif ficulties of the company are now surmounted, and that its restoration to a position of p rosper it y i s merely a question of time. The directors propose to take advantage of this bill to create debenture stock, for the balance of their authorised powers, and also to convert the whole of the terminable de bentures into an uniform consolidated ° ill per cent. debenture stock, and resolutions to this effect will be proposed to the meeting. SMYRNA AND CASSABA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 28th of June amounted for 5,511 passengers, luggage, &c., to £419, and for live stock, and 991 tons of merchandise, to £741 ; total, £1,190, and for the corresponding week last year to £970, showing an increase of £220. VARNA. The traffic receipts on this company:s line for the week ending the 30th of June amounted to £Bl4, and for the corresponding week last year to £375, showing an increase of £439. STEPS TO A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. (From the Anglo-American Times) The tendency of the age to " uniformity" re ceives further illustration from a movement now on foot among the Germans to substitute Roman let ters for their own. Universal civilization means uniformity more than anything else ; that is, the general adoption of what is best in each nation. When the world has attained to what we in our" limited knowledge consider perfection, it will speak and write one language, be governed by one code of laws, and profess one religion—which means that mankind will become one family. This is the very essence of the " manifest destiny" doctrine professed by its citizens regarding the futureof North America. There it can be seen, appreciated, and in anticipa tion almost realized ; but visionaries may enjoy a greater future still, and claim for mankind the destiny the American limits to himself. Towards this goal these movements are but steps, and the quicker they are taken and the longer the stride, the more does the visionary rejoice in the idea that mankind is progressing towards his end. The in fluence in the return of German emigrants on Ger many is daily becoming more visible, and will in time leaven the mass. The emigrant, as a boy, proceeds to America, as a man of mature age he often returns; as a visitor at least he is almost sure to go back to look at the old Fatherland. He carries with him the English tongue as well as Republican ideas, and he helps to make the language of America the ruling language of mankind. Doubtless this fact weighed greatly in the change so many Germans now desire to effect. Romaniza the Garman cha racter, and the similarity of the language is at on ce n speaking peoples to detected. Not only does it make German compa araeatitvtierley, but, easy wfohrat is the English of more importance, it ma k es English comparatively easy for Germans to acquire. Considering that the Germans are the most name roue family of Europe imbued with the taste for absorptionemigration, any movement which facilit a t es th e i r into the growing English speaking peoples is of vital interest to both races. Since the erection of Babel, difference of speech has beenthe most serious bar to fusion and to the spread of knowledge. Every barrier removed in the confusion of tongue s is an advance to wards the period when nothing will be " re strained from mankind which they have imagined to do." T o assimilate the written characters and spelling among the nations of Europe is a very important move ; indeed, more important than the uniformity of currency, of weights and measures, and the passage of the naturalization laws, change is effected, s w a s Dnietion version Dictionary, o a t h ll e win progress. r n e o w a greater te n d ency to betweenassimila tion English and German. ilipr be og. When th e The gradual change of a languag e, and t he influence on it of ne i g hbouring tongues , is very clearly shown i n the ef aceto V Let any one the Anglo-Saxon f St. MarruEw, given in page 37 in the brief history of the English language with the transl ation —and to sa v e our comparepr AEnn readers the trouble of a reference, we will give the first line or two : (From the Anglo-Saxon version of St. Matthew, Bth chap., 1 verse) " Sodhlice tha so unload of tham munte nydher-astah, fyligdon him myele miinio." Translation. —"Soothly when the Saviour from the mountain came down, there followed him a great mul titude (tickle, many)." If time effects a change so material in a language, that the present generation cannot understand one word of what their forefathers wrote, is it too much to expect that assimilation can gradually be directed tow ards one tongue ? The and means a to the Gauls, rly act if they and d r g d hi bt Go certainly a with y i s willp ro beaCr y e a l t reference e i o g r h ig b i o n u , can effect the change, and adopt the characters of all the nations by whom they are surrounded, levelling at least one barrier of isolation. It is surprising to see the facility with which people supposed to be ignorant pick up English words. At Cairo every donkey boy can get on with the English or Ameri can tourist. He will mount him on a donkey he calls " Stevens," or " Butler," or " Andy Johnson," and he will run his " moke" as a candidate for the Presidency as " Governor Seymour" or " General Grant." We ha ve no d o ubt that many Egyptian donkeys have lately b een n amed " Napier," and not a few "Theodore." During the litnerican War the visitor was ass a il e l by these young Arabs with the exclamation, " T a k e my donkey, General Lee" or "Stonewall J ac k son. " " Here's Sherman," cries one. " But mine's the best donkey, it is Sheridan," exclaims another, "and it can fight," tickling the beast, which at once throws back its long ears, and lashes out with its hind legs. Though this may be ex petted along the great routes of Anglo-Saxon tra vel, the writer can certify that when almost within sight of the towering walls of Peking, shortly after the surrender of that city to the Allies, he was sur rounded by a crowd of young Tartar beggars, many of whom addressed him in English. " One, two, three," commenced a little urchin, going through the numerals ; " hand, foot, eyes," cried another ; " me English boy," screamel a third. At Tien-tsin the favourite amusement of the children was drilling in imitation of the sol diers, and it was astonishing t) see the facility with which they spoke the English words of command. The immense growth of the Anglo - Saxon'nations,' and the increase of intercourse with portions of the earth's surface scarcely heard of a few years ago, must eventually make English at least the basis of the universal tongue. It may require many gene rations, and centuries may elapse before mankind speaks but one language ; yet, we think, contem plating past progress, that this end will yet be at tained. We cannot be insensible to the enormous difficulties, when we see, even in Great Britain, the descendants of people who from time immemorial have inhabited the district without being able, even to this hour, to speak English. If there are in the Highlands of Scotland, in Wales, in Ireland, and in the Isle of Man, natives to whom English is an unknown tongue, how can we anticipate that the world will combine to talk one language? Indeed, we would not look for so marvellous a revolution were we not encouraged by the progress made on all sides. Some day or another to effect it will become the ruling idea of many minds ; and we have had such numerous instances of what mind can effect when devoted with enthusiasm to a single end, imparting its enthusiasm to other minds, and working through generations to attain the end, to despair even of so prodigious a result. THE COMMONS' SELECT COMMITTEE ON JURIES. The Commons' Select Committee on the summon ing, attendance, and remuneration of special and common juries have concluded their labours. They recommend that the sheriff should have a larger discretionary power to increase the special jury lists, and that the system provided by the Common Law Procedure Act for the summoning of special jurors should be adopted in the metro polis as well as the country, not taking away from the parties the power of having " a special special jury," as at present, if a judge should think fit. The Committee state their recommendations as follows :—" 1. That the jury lists ought to be pre pared with greater care, and to contain the names of many persons who are now either legally, or through negligence, omitted ; and in order to in sure these objects the Committee recommend— That the overseers should be paid for their ex penses in the preparation of the lists ; that the lists should be revised by the guardians of the poor before being sent to the justices ; that the overseers should be liable to a penalty for negli gence in the preparation of the lists as well as for wilful misconduct ; and that the present exemp tions from serving on juries should be carefully considered ; that many of them ought to be abolished, and those retained should be defined ! and enumerated in some Act to be passed relating to the subject. 2. That the mode of summoning special jurors for the trial of causes in London and Middlesex should be assimilated to that pro vided by the Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, for the trial of causes in other parts of England. 3. That a panel of not less than thirty special Ary men in each court should be returned each sittings for Middlesex and London for the trial of all special juries, and that special jurymen summoned for any one court be liable to serve, in case of necessity, in any of the other courts. 4. That the special jury list should be separately revised by the guardians of the poor, and that much more care should be bestowed than at present, in order to include therein persons qualified for special jurymen ; and that persons duly qualified by edu cation and property, as well as esquires, bankers, and merchants, ought to be placed on the . special jury list. 5. That the practice of relieving per sons liable to serve as grand jurymen from the duty of serving as common or special jurymen ought to be abolished ; and that their services as grand jurymen ought only to count as service as jurynaen. 6. That the names be taken by rota tion from the jury list, and that no one be called upon to serve a second time until the whole list be fairly and fully exhausted. 7. That a notice of not less than four days be given to every juryman summoned to attend the sittings of the Courts. 8. That no juryman be summoned, as now fre quently happens, to serve in more than one court on the same day. 9. That the ordinary attend ance of jurymen ought not to exceed one week at a time. 10. That the remuneration of special and common jurymen be made per diem,' and not by cause, and that such remuneration be at the rate of one guinea a day for special, and 10s. a day for common jurymen. 11. That better accommoda tion than at present exists in most courts of justice ought to be provided for jurymen." The committee add that, during their investigation, other subjects connected with the jury laws have come under their cognizance ; but, believing that they were not strictly within the terms of refer ence, the committee forbear from making any spe cial recommendation on these points ; they believe, however, that such particulars are well worthy the future attention of Parliament, e.g., the power of having a special jury in criminal cases, the reduction of the present number of the jury, and the expediency of making such altera tion in the qualifications of jurymen as may best insure the selection of educated and intelligent men to perform duties so onerous and so responsible. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday the Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, visited Aldershott Camp, and saw the division put through some interesting field movements. At half-past 9 o'clock the troop; under the command of Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K. C. 8., formed up westwards of Cocked-hat Wood, in two divisions, the one commanded by Major-General Renny, and the other by Major-General Carey, C.B. The right of the first division extended to the reservoir at Bourley Bottom, and the left to Cocked-hat Wood, flanked by the Ist Life Guards at the foot of Pyestock-hill, all facing east. The 10th Hussars were posted on Chestnut-hill, and batteries of artillery were placed on the flanks and at intervals. The cavalry were under cover of the hills on the steeplechase ground, and the whole covered by a strong line of skirmishers. The division was thus arranged to attack a supposed enemy in position on Eelmore-hill, with his right resting near the canal and his left almost at the base of Camar's-hill. Shortly before 11 o'clock a battery on Long-hill commenced a tremendous can nonade, which was taken up by all the batteries along the line, and the skirmishers opened fire at the same time. General Carey, with his division of infantry, advanced steadily into the Long-valley, across which the heavy brigade made demonstra tions, and forced back the enemy's right until it rested near the Queen's Pavilion, and his left at Eelmoor-hill south. General Carey's division now changed front to right by degrees, until its left rested upon the Queen's Pavilion. Meantime the artil lery from every hill had been maintaining a heavy cannonade, those posted at the base of Caesar's-hill enfilading the enemy's position. The plan of action being so far developed, General Renny advanced with his brigade from under cover of the wood, and changed front to right gradually until it came into alignment with the second division, it then fired volleys by battalions, advancing 50 paces between each volley, and at the same time the artillery took him in front and in flauk. The 10th Hussars and 4th Dragoon Guards gained the plateau of Caesar's Camp, and commanded Hungry-hill, while the heavy brigade on the left delivered magnificent charges. The enemy now retired discomfited, and the infantry, forming column of battalions, pro ceeded to the saluting-base, which was fixed on a piece of level ground westwards of the Queen's Pavilion. The Duke then saw the troops march past the artillery and cavalry in open column of batteries and squadrons at a walk, and the infantry in open column of grand divisions. The corps on the ground were—C, D, and E batteries Royal Horse Artillery ; the Ist, 4th, and sth Dragoon Guards ; 10th Hussars ; A, B, C, and D batteries 11th Brigade Royal Artillery; Ist battalion Grenadier Guards ; 2d battalion, 2d battalion sth, 2d battalion 6th, 2d battalion Bth, Ist battalion 20th, 31th, 40th, 51st, 54th, 57th, 80th, 97th, and 98th Regiments. After marching past the troops returned to quarters, which were reached shortly before 1 o'clock. The duke returned to tov►n about 3 o'clock. The troops looked remark ably well, and the whole of the evolutions were ad mirably performed. The new theatre which is to be built on the site of the Strand Music-hall is to be called " The Gaiety Theatre." The Music-hall, which was built only a few years since, is in course of rapid demolition. Ilorniman's Pure Teas are Bd. per pound cheaper. Their 2 500 agents—confectioners in London, and chemists in the country—are constantly receiving fresh supplies of these long-wove too, 00cl only in packets. REVENUE FRAUDS. It is vain for the United States to attempt• the task of rooting out corruption without a total re form in the Civil Service, however severe may be the sentences passed on offenders. Besides the convictions in New York and in Richmond six persons in Philadelphia have been sentenced for defrauding the revenue of the whisky tax, to a year's imprisonment, and a fine in each case of $20,000. Theophilus C. Callicott had been re ceived as a convict at the Albany Penitentiary, which eight years before he had visited as Speaker of the New York House of Assembly. His whiskers were shaved off, bis hair cropped, prison attire donned, and he was locked into his cell for the night. The absurdity of the position is that he re mains Revenue collector of Brooklyn, having only been suspended, neither having resigned, nor yet been removed. He demanded the trial, and no one was so surprised as himself at the conviction. Enwright, who had lately married a young and estimable la ly of Brooklyn, was treated by the prison authorities in the same way, and feels keenly the disgrace brought on himself and those connected with him. It is really painful to see men of such position almost betrayed into the commission of crime owing to the lax system which every effort to remedy, has as yet failed. Prevention is better than cure, and if Congress instead of wasting time with such cases as that of Woolley, and occupying months in a State Trial ending in poor Vinnie Ream's ejection from her room in the Capit)l, would take up the Civil Service Bill of Mr. Jenckes and the Inland Tax Bill of Mr. Schenck, we would bear * little of such cases in the future. Both parties are now too intent on the Presidential campaign, and get ting up cries to attract voters, such as the taxation of United States Bonds and their redemption with greenbacks, to condescend to such merely useful measures as those ; and so corruption flourishes, and will continue to flourish, until Uncle Sam in anger with a broom sweeps lobbyists and politi cians into the Potomac. In Tennessee several officers of the Quartermaster's Department have been convicted of trafficking in Public Stores. It was proved that they sold timber costing the Go vernment $45 per 1,000 feet at $B, which was re sold at the prices paid by the Government=-all sharing in the profit. Each was fined $50,000, and their transactions must have been on a gigan tic scale if the payment of such a sum leaves a surplus. A neat thing in swindles has also turned up in the Paymaster's Department, by which some officers of the Freedmen's Bureau, in conjunction with Treasury and War-office clerks, appropriated the claims of negro soldiers.' A bounty, early in the war of $3OO was offered to every freedman who volunteered, and to every slave the bounty was $lOO. The conspirators purchased from the co loitred men their discharge papers, then applied for the bounty of those who were entitled to but $lOO for it3oo, pocketing not only this difference, but that betwien the sum at which the discharge paper was obtained and that it really represented. A rualour is afloat that an immense num ber of these discharges have been forged, and Congresi has appointed a committee to investigate the subject. If the revenue officers cannot make money by profiting in the frauds they endeavour to do so by exposing and counteracting them. On the 20th June a judgment was delivered in the United States District Court, at Boston, by Judge Lowell ou the claims of collectors to an allowance as in formers. Large quantities of spirits had been seized at Buffalo, and brought to Boston, and the collector of internal Revenue there, the special agent of the Treasury department at Buffalo, and the collector, besides two Revenue inspectors of Boston, claimed a share of the plunder. The judge very properly disallowed the claims, but awarded about $l,OOO each to two gentlemen unconnected with the Government. THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. New York was in a state of great excitement when the City of Boston left on the 4th inst. The leaders had assembled in great force, especially the friends of Pendleton, the rank and file having fol- lowed him in shoals from the West. The Conven- tion was to meet in the new Tanimany Hall, cal culated to hold 3,000 spectators. It was known that on Saturday the Convention would only orga nize, leaving the nominations till Monday or Tues day. The New York and Ohio delegations held a conference on the 2d instant; the former pro nounced for Hendricks, and the latter declared Pendleton to be the sole choice of the West, affirming that he would receive 386 votes on the first formal ballot. A private meeting of the Kentucky delegates on the same day also showed a majority for Pendleton, as did the Kansas dele gates, who said they would support that candidate as long as there was a chance of his nomination. The Missouri delegates split between Blair and Pendleton, and it was announced that Mr. John.. son would receive the compliment of a few votes on the first two ballots. The Southern delegates held a general meeting on the 3d to decide their course. Maryland and some of the Illinois dele gation did not reach the city till the even ing of the 2d. The former favoured Chase, who, by a letter privately circulated, ap pears to be committed to much more advanced Democratic principles than supposed. Hendricks and Hancock, for President and Vice-President were generally talked of at the hotels. Rooms had been engaged from the Ist July, and, as far as known, the delegates were to be quartered as fol lows :—New Hampshire, Everett House ; Ver mont, Everett House; Connecticut, St. Nicho las ; New York, St. Nicholas ; New Jersey, Metropolitan ; Delaware, St. Nicholas ; Penn sylvania, St. Nicholas and Metropolitan ; Mary land, New York Hotel ; Kentucky, New York Hotel; Louisiana, New York Hotel; North Caro _ _ _ _ lina, New York Hotel ; Mississippi, Everett House; Michigan, St. Nicholas ; Indiana, St. Nicholas ; Ohio, part, St. Nicholas ; Missouri, Metropolitan ; Alabama, Metropolitan. The New York Evening Post rays :—" The new Tammany Hall, which is to be dedicated with such a loud blast of trumpets, in an architectural point of view does not reflect credit either upon the city or the organization by which it was erected. The large hall, which is on the upper floor, will hold about four thousand persons, more than half of whom will have to stand up during the proceed ings. The platform, at the north end of the room, will accommodate about 100 persons, and will be occupied by the officers and distinguished guests. In front of the platform tables will be arranged to accommodate 100 reporters. In the rear of these tables between 600 and 700 chairs will be placed for the delegates. The remainder of the floor and galleries will be occupied by persons holding tickets of admission, which will be distributed equally among the delegates, so that but few residents of this city will be able to gain ad mission. The equal distribution of tickets will pre vent the crowding of the rooms by persons from any one point, and thus protect the Convention from being overawed or influenced by the partizans of any candidate. It is probable that the meagreness of the accommodation will cause much dissatis faction on the part of thousands of persons who will be unable to obtain admission. The decorations of the room will •be splendid. No expense has been spared in making it as brilliant as possible, and the combination of paintings, bunting and other ornaments, will reflect much credit on the persons having this work in charge." The New York 7inzes thus described the prepara- tions :—"'!.'he great hall is fully dressed and cano pied, and very beautiful it appears with festooned coats•of-arms, the blue satin fringed with gold, the great chandelier of a pattern of unique beauty, and the draped flags. The walls, too, are pictured with the heroes, philosophers, and martyrs of the Demo cratic faith, being adorned with the imperial photo graphs of Chase, Pendleton, Hancock, iTelellan, noffwan,Van Buren, &c., but the rough-lined visage of Andrew Johnson, grown battle-scared on their skirmish line, is noticeably absent. The Demo cracy does not stop with these portraits, but hangs up also oil paintings of Jefferson and Washington, and seeks somewhat inaptly to teach the lesson of civil supremacy by a picture of General Jackson before Judge Hall at New Orleans. Taken as a whole the hall presents a sight worth some expen diture of time and trouble to look upon. The seats have all been placed, and the space allotted to each delegation already apportioned. Within the railing that separates the delegates from the auditors the seats are arranged in three tiers, designated as right, left, and centre. We give the places assigned to the different States, pre mising, for brevity's sake, that the States range from front to rear on the benches in the order in which they are named, and that the numbers at tached indicate the number of seats assigned to the State. On the right are Virginia 20, North Carolina 18, Pennsylvania 52, Ohio 42, lowa 15, Mississippi 14, Maryland 14, Minnesota 3, New Jersey 14, Missouri 22, West Virginia 10, and Connecticut 12. In the centre are Texas 12, Ver mont 10, Massachusetts 24, Alabama 16, Snith Carolina 12, 'Louisiana 14, Wisconsin 16, New Hampshire 10, and New York 66. Upon the left are Maine 14, Florida 6, Kentucky 22, Delaware 6, Kansas 6, Tennessee 20, Illinois 32, Rhode Islan 18, Alichigan 16, Arkansas 10, Oregon 6, California 10, and Georgia 18, making a total of 37 States and 634 se its." Frank P. Blair sent the following manifesto to the Missouri delegation on the 24 inst. : "There is but one way to restore the Government and the Constitution, and that is, for the President elect to declare the Reconstruction Acts null and void, compel the army to undo its usurpations at the South, disperse the carpet bag State Governments, allow the white people to reorganize their own Go vernments and elect Senators and Representatives. The House of Representatives will contain a majority of De inocrats from the North, and they will admit Representa tives elected by the white people of the South, and with the co-operation of the President it will not be difficult to compel the Senate to submit once more to the obliga tions of the Constitution. It will not be able to with stand the public judgment, if distinctly invoked and clearly expressed, on this fundamental issue, and it is the sure way to avoid all future strife to put this issue plainly to the country. I repeat that is the real and only ques tion which we should allow to control us. Shall we submit to the usurpations by which the Government has been overthrown, or shall we exert ourselves for its full and complete restoration ? It is idle to talk of bonds, greenbacks, gold, tho public faith, and the public credit. What can a Democractic President do in regard to any of these with a Congress in both branches controlled by the carpet baggers and their allies ? He will be powerless to stop the supplies by which idle negroes are organized into political clubs, by which an army__ is maintained to protect these vagabonds in their outrages on the ballot. These, and things like these, eat up the revenues and resources of th e G overnmen t and destroy its credit, and make the difference between gold and greenbacks. We must restore the Constitu tion before we can restore the finances, and to do this we must have a President who will exe cute the will of the people by trampling into dust the usurpations of Congress, known as the Recon struction Acts. I wish to stand before the Convention upon this issue, but it is one which embraces everything else that is of value in its large and comprehensive re sults. It is the one thing that includes all that is worth a contest. Without it there is nothing that gives dignity, honour, or value to the struggle.—Your friend, " FRANK B. BLAIR." MISCELLANEOUS .NEWS. (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) Madame Ristori sailed for Europe from Now York June 27. She performed on the 25th June at a farewell entertainment, and, in response to an enthusiastic call, came forward and spoke this farewell verse : "The end has come ' • the last words must be spoken ; From great and free America I part ; But never, never can the spell be broken— For-memory 1 take—and leave, my heart!" The Spirit of the Times gives the following items Parepa was enthusiastically received by the Californians. She was serenaded, and her opening night was unusual even for the impulsive, go-ahead Californians. Fanny Brown, whose erratic fascinations have charmed half a hemisphere, is in California playing Mazeppa. George Ryland, of circus eminence, has married the daughter of his partner, Lee. The family combinations in busi ness are always pleasant and safe. Relatives never gouge each other. George Coes, the banjo celebrity, at tenuated and famous minstrel, has returned to California , where first he gained his laurels E. L. Davenport opened in San Francisco to a splendid house. He is universally accepted by the critical fraternity there as one of the best actors who ever visited the Pacific coast. Manager Hooley, of the celebrated Hooley's Minstrels, in Brook lyn, sails for Europe for novelties and recreation• Mr. Crocker, of Moore and Crocker's Christy's Ann strel Troupe, London, is in New York for a brief visit. Mrs. Clara Jennings, of Wallack's, was married to Mr. Kingsland, a son of the ex-Mayor Kingsland. They are in the White Mountains on a bridal tour. Tho Babylo nians talk of building a theatre at Babylon, Long Island. Manager Wheatley and wife are at their country Se a Coney Island. Manager Wallack and family are at Long Branch. James Wallack has enlivened Long Branch. Billy Floyd also. Joseph Jefferson has retired for the summer to the mountains of Pennsylvania. Th e Convention helps the " White Fawn" materially. There is a very interesting article in the Players' Monthly for July on ' The King of Actors.' Theatricals are dull„ duller, dullest, everywhere. Shir Campbell, the handsomest and sweet-voiced_ singer, is in the city. M r ' John M'Croary, theatrical manager and agent, and at one time a journalist, died recently in San Francisco. Charles T. Parsloo disfigured the countenance of a Boston manager by way of recreation from his arduous histrionic' labours, and was fined ten dollars by a magistrate who admires Charles more as an actor than a pugilist." The Nation has taken a quiet but effective waY of punishing some criticism without knowledge, of which the Boston Transcript of June 1 was guilty, in ascribing ig norance to the writer in the Nation who reviewed Profes sor Stowe's paper on the "Talmud" in the Atlantic MonthiP The Transcript thus comments on the Nation's remark s —" The astute cr iti c says, 'M e i r, f or examp l e, is spelle d in three ways ; it never appears twice alike, and it nev er appears in its correct form.' The critic evidently does not know that' the names are quite different, the re being six, to wit—Mair, Maier, Mayer, Meir, Meyer, Meie r ' and in every instance Professor Stowe gives the righ t name. The cr iti c a l so accuses the professor of translat ing certain German (and Hebrew) letters wrong, whereal, the professor always follows the true German mode. The Springfield Republican picked this up on June 3, r peating the words of the Transcript. On June 8, 10W ever, the latter paper having discovered its error, acknoW" ledged it in these words :—" The Nation and Professo r Stowe.—On the first of this month we denied the correct ness of a criticism in the New York Nation on Professor Stowe's article in the lastAtlantie on the " Talmud." it ap pears, on further examination that the Nation was right , and that we were wrong, though our remarks we re based on the assurance of a Hebrew scholar whos e judgment in such matters, and in this particular case; we had every reason to suppose accurate authority . But the Watchman and Reflector of June 11, determining to have the benefit of consistency in being behind the times, although published in the same city as the Trans: cript, came out with the following :—The Nation makes ' l _ ridiculous display of ignorance in criticising Professo r Stowe's article on the " Talmud" in the last Atlantic. Th e very points made by the astute editor are so man y proof s of the Professor's accuracy. " A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." The Nation, now under the heading "Criticism without Knowledge," gives these papers the benefit of an advertisement. Know-Nothingism is reviving. Messrs. Moorhead, Simpson, and Bond have just published a book of travels by sea and land by a tho roug h Know-Nothing. 11",,- author objects to the whole syst em o f i mm i gra ti on a nd t, the importation of low foreigne rs , an d more espec i a lly the Irish. He denounces unive rsa l su ff rage, an d a rgu e f forcibly against both it and immigration. lie is a thorough English hater, which is unus ua l i n a na ti ve Ameril u with those ideas, but he seems t o d es pi se th e Iris h to whom he denies even the possession o f w it or humou r ' except of a certain very coarse kind. The party took ?it s ,: rise in Massachusetts in 1855, and an attempt is now bein g made to re• establish it on its old b as is, an d w ith its olvi object, to keep naturalized citizens f rom o ffi ce . S u ch A fus s has lately been made in the United States about nate ralisel citizens that it is high time for a reaction. Connecticut has abolished its Rate Bill, an d children of the poor have now no barrier between thelte and education in the public schools. [ADVERTISEMENT.' Holloway's Pills. Weakeni n g/ Weather.—The sultry summer days strain the ne rvesf e the feeble and decrepit, which stat e even t ua t es i n diseaV ) unless some restorative, such as these purifying Pill s ' , a found to correct the disordering tendency. Hollowel l() Medicine gives tone to the nervous system, which is t „„.. source of all vital movements, and presides over every .1 5 8 tion which maintains the growth and well-b e ing of it y body. No one, therefore, can over estimate the necess, to of keeping the nerves well strung, and the ease n o which these Pills accomplish that end is borne witness by thousands dwelling in hot climates, whose livers h e been saved and whose lives have been spared. Births. HALL n the 18th inst., at 5, Clarence-parade, Soutl? Se o l l the wife of Captain Hall, R.N., H.M.S. Octavial - a son. SMITH—On the 21st inst., at 38, Kensington-gara c r; square, the wife of William Henry Smith, Esq ., ° daughter. Marriages. cb BULLMORE—G lIY On the 18th inst' rat St. Paul's Cb l - 1 4 1 ,,, Bristol, Charles F orres t er Bullmoe, Esq., of Hel l ,;%, Cornwall, to Edith J ess i e , on l y d aug h ter o f H e nry Esq., of 33, Portland-square, Bristol. S lIARPLE IC—RUSTON —At the parish church, PidloYl e i T, Fenton, Henry, young es t son o f th e l a t e C ro ft SbarPiio, Esq., of Althorp e , near L out h, Li nco l ns hi re , to Alll- of youngest daughter of the late Robert Ruston, B s q" Norden House, Chatteris. Deaths. BLACKBURN—On the 18th inst., at Ramsgate, Jas. 4 7. Wormwood-street, London, age d TAYLOR—On the 16th inst., James Ducker Taylor, St. Ann's-lane, St. Martin's-le-Grand, aged 42. in Wn.xxNsoN—On the 16th inst., at the Rectory, F °° ;1 1111 - the 58th year of his age, the Rev. Alfred Nv , " son, M.A. • - London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM Allp iikj lS2, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan Sun N ° of Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voy, in the 0 ° 133 ty Midcllesei.—Wednesday, July 22, 160, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1868