The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-26 00:00:00

BPIIIT Or THE PUBLIC:IOURNALS. The Times appeals to the clergy of those constituencla which have not yet elected their representatives to recoil eider the judgment their brethren in the clerical office have as a body pronounced. It is impossible to defend the Irish Establishment. Lord Stanley, with cha racteristic candour, acknowledged so much months ago, and the Conservative Ministry, by their proposed legisla tion, spewed that they believed the only way to maintain it was by bribing the rival creeds of Ireland to silence. If a Roman Catholic University were established and endowed ; if the status of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priesthood were recognised ; if funds were set apart either from the surplus revenues of the Irish Church or by new grants of Parliament for the main tenance of the priests ; if the pittance of the Regium _ _ Donum were increased, the Irish Establishment might survive for another generation. Every one of the condi tions of this result is impossible, and the clergy not only know them to be impossible, but hate and detest the suggestion of them; yet they have raffled to the support, of a Ministry which, by hints, decla rations, and open propositions, by every eloquent indication of opinion, lave confessed that if they Le not adopted the Estalishment must be surren- dered. We entreat the cler,gy not to be misled by vague alarms, but to look the frightful proposition of disestablish• ing and disendowing the Irish Church in the face, and they will see that the policy they'oppose is the policy of justice, of peace, and of safety fur themselves and the high interests they have at heart. The policy they support is, in strictest truth, a policy of revolution and destruction. The Post expresses fears as to Mr. Gladstone's tact as a leader. With all his eloquence, and with all his earnestness and sincerity, Mr. Gladstone may again fail as a party chief. No one conceives that Mr. Bright, who is equal to Mr. Gladstone in eloquence, could lead the House of Commons, and if it were proposed to put the reins in his hands there would be some rude kicking over the traces. Lord John Russell, after leading the Liberal party for eighteen years, fell back into its ranks and acknowledged the supremacy of Lord Palmerston ; and Mr. Gladstone, who, when Lord John Russell was elevated to the peerage, took his place next to Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, though his financial ad ministration proved most prosperous, failed to obtain. a personal following. The truth may be that Lord Palmerston's geniality in a manner spoiled the House; but it can hardly be the whole truth, seeing that Sir Robert Peel was said to be " the greatest member of Parliament." The apprehension which has been expressed on every side cannot be ignored, and, perhaps unreasonably, it has been naturally enough intensified by an event the moral effect of which can hardly be calculated. Since Mr. Gladstone's defeat his friends have made no secret of the causes of their anxiety. But for our part, we have adverted to the subject, not without reluctance, because it concerns the interests of the country, and with no other end in view than that the policy which has recommended itself to the great body of the community should be carried out with statesmanlike discretion, and in a spirit of honourable conciliation, consisting with the requirements of the time, the manners of Parliament, and the antecedents of the Liberal party. The Daily News remarks that the members who were in the Liberal party without being of it exist no longer. The individuals may be the same, but they.live and move in a different political medium. The moderate Liberals, who fear extreme measures, have seen that Toryism can coquet with revolution. The advocates of progress and improvement note Mr. Disraeli's tendency to fall lack upon doctrines which it was thought had died out in the lunacy of George 111. The fond idea cherished in some Tory circles that there are aristocratic jealousies which will interfere with the success of Mr. Gladstone's leadership, is an entire hallucination. The gossip-mongers who are making unauthorised use in this connection of the names of Whig nobles, will doubtless go on inventing fables so long as there are fools to believe them. The truth is, that the events of the past three years have led Liberals of every class heartily to welcome, as the best guarantee for safe and peaceful progress, the leadership to which Mr. Gladstone has been called by the voice of a people who, when they are in earnest, cannot be trifled with without something worse than inconvenience. The Times has a leader upon the recent legal decision in its favour. It remarks :—There was no fear that, what ever the decision, the nation would allow itself to be deprived of its right, which is far more truly its privilege than ours, to know what passes in its own Parliament. The only doubt was whether judges, without being pro pelled by direct legislation, would surmount the fact that some of their predecessors entertained, in common with most of their generation, different views on what was for the public advantage from those which the whole empire, excepting always Mr. Wason, does now. The judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench, pro nounced by its chief, proves that the judicial intelligence has not lagged behind that of the country, and that the unwritten common law of England itself has, with many defects, the countervailing merit, as Sir Alexander Cockburn boasts, of elasticity and capacity for development with the varying needs of the age. We do not expect Mr. Wason to recognise that ho has brought his present vexation upon himself. He is quite welcome, so far as we are concerned, to think him self a victim for the general good. He has in truth, we will acknowledge, achieved something in being the instru ment by his defeat for obtaining the solemn affirmation of the privilege of publishing parliamentary debates. It is much for his name to go (lowa to posterity in company with the decision of such a question. The Morning Seminary thinks a comedy of Aristophanes furnishes an allegory of our own times. The father finds his former creed all wrong, and sends his son to learn the new one. Away with antiquated creeds and ideas of duty ! Let us worship the new divinities, the fleecy anthetic clouds, rose-tinted, of a new Liberal era in politics and religion ; the strange masses —cirro-cumulus and eumulo-stratus—which, though threatening, Mr. Gladstone says are not revolutionary ; but, above all, the great wind-bag, once Jupiter, which sends forth a daily strain to the world, as from may pipes. While we con template, we shall learn to believe according to the way of the wind ; we shall cease to wonder, or to have scruples, or to feel responsible. As, for instance : there was an old-world notion that the Church's tithe was a sacred offering, entailed on the land, and that the union of Church and State, like that between man and wife, ought not, save for utter infidelity, to be broken. But all that depends on con venience, and the use of right words. We have only to call the Church in Ireland " the Church of the minority," and give her a bill of divorcement. We need only take the figure of a tree, not of that type in the parable, but, as Gladstone paints it in his speech, a tree toppling to its base, " waiting the stroke of these elections ;" then it seems no sin to disestablish and divide the spoils. There was formerly a prejudice in favour of religious education, as an antidote to ignorance and vice ; but the doctrine would be inconvenient now. The die should be clearly cut, as the Bishop of Oxford said to the teachers of Cuddesdon, to make a clear impression on the wax—but it must only be cut with the three R's, the monogram of the new Govern ment office seal, and as to the religion, we are advised to leave that—to the clouds! The Standard accuses Mr. Gladstone of a palpable false- hood in announcing a "second edition " of his pamphlet. An " edition" is something published. A book only privately circulated is no " edition" in a true sense. As to the excuses offered by Mr. Gladstone for not making up his mind, they are flimsy to the last degree. If the ques tion was not one of " practical politics," whose fault was that more than Mr. Gladstone's? The Legislature, we are told, " had other subjects to deal with besides the Irish Church." But the course of the Legislature was shaped, for many years, by the party with whom Mr. Gladstone was acting. He could have made the abolition of the Irish Church a practical ques tion if he had so chosen. The case, according to his own showing, was quite as bad a dozen years ago as it is now. Not only did not Mr. Gladstone attend to it, but he opposed every attempt to do so on the part of others. The conviction that the maintenance of the Irish Church was "grossly unjust" is a conviction that must necessarily have come to Mr. Gladstone soon after 1847. Yet he took no measures to put this conviction in force— even to make it known to the public—until the time had come when some great radical proposition for a change in the Constitution was necessary to unite the Liberal party and to bring back Mr. Gladstone to office. This is the substance of the matter of which Mr. Gladstone is accused, and to this accusation the " Chapter of Auto. biography" furnishes no reply. The Telegraph notices that an immense change has come over the Church since the days of Wesley. She has ceased to be a mere political institution, and has discovered that her power and authority may be supported on a better basis than Acts of Parliament, desirable as those aids may be to regulate her relations with the worldly side of society. The active controversies and struggles which are going on within her bounds may be in many respects painful ; but they are, at least, signs of vitality. Even the Litter strifes which exist, even the theological enmities which divide religious parties, are preferable to the numbness and dumbness of apathy. A judicious surgeon wou ld rather that a patient who has suffered bodily injury should cry out and writhe with pain than lie voiceless and unconscious in the torpor of utter nervous exhaustion. The Telegraph, criticises Sir 11. Phillimore's judgment in the Mackonochie case, which is elaborate, but contains some remar k a bl e historical blunders and looks anxiously for the decision of the Judicial Committee, and believes that the spirit which has animated Mr. Mackonochie in these labours of love is sincere—and in the same spirit it expects that he will comply readily with whatever reilations the Privy Couneii may decide to be nece.s:lri for the just main tenat;v of the relations between t! , . Church and society., mu' 1t at lie will co . utintie soot' terms with unrelaxed ENTHRONEMENT OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. Great preparatibns will be made for Me enthroni sation of Dr. Archibald Campbell Tait, 93rd Archbishop of Canterbury, in the metropolitan church of his diocese, but no day can yet be definitely fixed for the ceremony. Before the installation of Arch bishop Sumner, in 1848, the metropolitans of the Province of Canterbury had, for upwards of two centu ries, ceased to be induc.ked in person, the dean generally acting as their deputy. Archbishop Wake, who was en throned in 1716, was the last Primate who underwent the ceremony in person, until Dr. Sumner revived the earlier usage. Dr. Tait will appear in person, and will be installed by the Ven. B. Harrison, M.A., archdeacon of Maidstone ; the archdeacon of Canterbury, upon whom the duty would in the ordinary course devolve, being prevented by age from attending. The archbishop will be accompanied by Dr. Jackson (who will at that time have become Bishop of London and provincial dean of Canterbury), the Bishop of Oxford (as proxy for the Bishop of Winchester, provincial sub-dean), the Bishop of Rochester (provincial chaplain, or cross-bearer), and Dr. Wordsworth (who will by that time have become Bishop of Lincoln and provin cial chancellor), the canons residentiary of the cathedral, the six preachers, the cathedral clergy, itc. The archbishop will take up his position on the north side of the cathedral, with the Bishop of Oxford on his right hand, the Bishop of London on the south side, the Bishops of Lincoln and Rochester being also stationed within the altar rails. When all are seated, the Hallelujah Chorus will be sung. After morning service the archbishop will be conducted to the archiepiscopal throne, a handsome structure of exqui sitely carved stone, the gift of Archbishop Howley, este at the upper end of the south side of the cl rravcrs Twiss, the vicar-general of the prov then produce the Queen's mandate, in virtue 0 .eh the archbishop will be enthroned. Afterwards the arch bishop will be conducted by the Dean of Canterbury and the bishops present to the patriarchal chair in the south transept, between the altar and the chapel of the Holy Trinity. This antique seat, called the chair of St. Augus tine, is composed of grey marble, in three pieces, carved in panels, and rises in a solid mass from the pavement. According to tradition, the chair is that in which the Pagan kings of Kent were enthroned, and which, presented by Ethelbert to Augustine, has ever since served as the metropolitan cathedral of Canterbury. In the placing of the newly-elected Primate in this venerable chair consists the principal solemnity, or the enthronement, as it puts the occupant in formal possession of the metropolitan dig nity, authority, and emoluments. The new archbishop . will bring the service to a close by pronouncing the apostolic benediction. THE ELECTION RIOTS. The elections have not passed off without serious dis turbances. The one which has created most alarm took place in Monmouthshire, concerning which details are now to hand. The contest was between Messrs. Morgan and Somerset (Conservatives) and Colonel Clifford (Liberal). The result of the polling was—Morgan, 3,748; Somerset, 3,495 ; Clifford, 2,336. No sooner was the failure of Clifford made known in the. "hill" dis tricts, where he was the popular candidate, than the indignation of the mob was vented in the most reckless destruction of property. To be a " blue " was sufficient provocation for the general attack. In Pontypool the work of destruction commenced at the house of Mr. Green way, a solicitor, who formerly held Liberal opinions, but has during the last contest been engaged as one of the agents for the Conservatives. His windows were soon smashed, and it was feared that the house would he gutted. The few police available, therefore, kept guard, and the mob pursued their course without interruption. The Town Hall, thanks to the thickness of the plate glass, withstood the showers of missiles hurled against it without injury. Not so the Crown Hotel. There every window and the large and handsome mirrors and other furniture inside were smashed to atoms. The Royal Hotel followed, then the White Hart Inn, and a number of private houses belonging to the Conservatives were also attacked with the greatest fury. Members of the Liberal committee appealed . to the good sense of the people, but many refused to ' listen to reason. A Dissenting Minister, named Forth, was rewarded for his good endeavours by a general rush to throw him into the river, and he had to fly for his life, pursued by hundreds. Order was restored about eleven p.m. At Abersyschan matters were still worse. There houses were completely gutted, the furniture thrown into the streets, and the casks of beer and spirits rolled out. The mob set fire to the White Hart Hotel, and the fire-engine had to be fetched from Abersyschan. At Blaenavon there were similar outrages, but on a more extensive scale. Pianos and furniture of all kinds, groceries, beer, _ . spirits, and other trade goods were thrown out, and the mob behaved like fiends. The military were sent for from Newport, and arrived as soon as possible. They restored order, and captured 39 prisoners. The police captured five more at Aberyschan. These were marched into Pontypool, and arraigned before the Rev. J. C. Llewellin. No live were fortunately lost, rumours to the contrary notwithstanding. At Whittlesea, in Cambridgeshire, towards the close of the poll an organised body of navigators and labourers proceeded through the town with bludgeons and draining instruments, and demolished everything they could lay their hands an. The vicarage-house of St. Andrew's, the residence of Dr. Burgess, had all the windows and window frames broken, and much other damage was done near it. The rioters did not even spare the church windows. All this occurred although 250 svecial constables were ready for worlr the town. LAW AND POTACE. --.... ------- THE NOTTING•HILL OUTRAGE.-At the Central Criminal Court the man Seiler, who in September last broke into the house of a lady at Notting•hill, and nearly murdered her, has been placed upon his trial, found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. BRIBERY.— A man has been charged at Brecon with bribery and committed for trial, bail to the amount of £6OO being aequired. Sir John Ramsden, M.P. for the Monmouth boroughs, has sent a cheque for £5O to Mr. Grant, whose wife was killed by an unlucky bayonet thrust when the military were called to clear the streets at Newport during the election. THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN KING.—An inquest into the death of Captain King, who was murdered during an election riot at Sligo, has been opened. The evidence, so far given, shews that the deceased was being attacked by a crowd armed with bludgeons. While he was defending himself a flash was seen, the report of fire. arms heard, and the captain observed to stagger and fall. It is not yet known who fired the shot. The following advertisement appears in a Bristol paper Notice.—lf the Liberal intimidator who cowardly threw the clasp-knife, 6, inches long, through Mr. Allies's committee-room window, at No. 33, Wine street, on the morning of the Bristol election, when the organised gang passed through Wine-street, throwing stones and smashing windows, on their way to Prince street, will kindly apply to Charles Shackell, as above, he shall have the same returned to him." YE BANES AND BRAS.—Napoleon once charac terised this as the only good melody England had ever prod :ed. We should of course call it Scotch. Burns tho ght it so, and knew it as " The Caledonian Hunt's Delight," when he wrote to it the words which have made it so celebrated. But a lover of Scottish music in the London Scotsman says : " It turns out, however, that the tune is neither English, as Napoleon thought, nor Scottish, as Burns asserted, nor Irish as many have suspected—but French ;itisto be found in a French collection published in Paris long before Burns was born." A. telegram which appears in the Ungarische,. Lloyd of Thursday surpasses all that we have hitherto seen in the way of English election intelligence. " From the provinces " it reports the election of " Laird, Ayston, Beales, and Lordmayor Lawrence ;" for Greenwich, Lowe, Boumdell, Palmer, Forster, Fawcett, and Cardwell." ." At Grosvenor"—another fabulously over-represented constituency—" Childers, Layard, the Minister of the Interior, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Minister of War." The electric telegraph promises to supply the place of the lost " mythopoaic faculty in our prosaic modern life." THE RAILROAD AND TIIE INDIANS.—A freight train on the Union Pacific Railroad was stopped on the 30th of October, about two miles west of Alkali Station. The train was captured by cutting the tics in the centre, and thus spreading the rails, so that when the cars came along, about two o'clock in the morning, they were piled up together and made a perfect wreck. One of the firemen was jammed in between the locomotive and the tender, where he remained for three hours, suffering the most horrible torture, after beseeching the engineer to kill him, before death came to his relief. All the men on the train except the engineer fled the moment the disaster occurred, to escape from the Indians. He, however, re mained, and tried in vain to extricate the fireman from his terrible position. Great complaints are made along the line of the road at the inefficiency of the protection afforded by the Government troops. They are mostly infantry, and are utterly unable to coinpet" with the Indians, who, being well mounted, are enalled to cotriVit their depredations and effect their l , e beforo the infantry can reach the scene of trouble, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1168. THE NEW PARLIAMENT. 1,10, Constituency. The following are the members returned up to the time of making up this list. The asterisk before a member's name means that he was not a member of the last Parliament; a dagger before the name signi fies that the member represented a different con stituency in the last House of Commons. The two last columns chew the Liberal and Conservative gainl respectively:— OXFORD .. PEMBROKE PEMBROKESHIRE PETERBOROUGH PETERS , YIZLD PLYMOUTH PONTEFRACT PORTSMOUTH PRESTON POOLE READING RICHMOND Rirom L. C. Constituency. liembers. ABIN'CI DON AN DOVER AYLESBURY Mr Lindsay Mr ortescuey Mr N Rothschild Mr Smith 1 ' Mr Mellor * Mr Tfavies 1 Hon G C Morgan Mr T Cave Captain Williams Mr Whitmore Mr iii.finielson 1 Mr Tits Mr Dalrymple Mr Whitbread * Mr J Howard 1 " Lord Bury * Mr J Stapleton Sir H. Edwards 1* Captain Kennard ,* Sir It Glass Mr John Laird Mr John Bright 1 Mr Dixon 1 *Mr P Muntz 1 Mr W H Hornby Mr J Feilden Hon F L Gower 1 Licut-Colonel Gray * Mr J Hick Mr Malcolm * Mr T Collins Mr NV E Forster 1 ,* Mr Ripley 1 Mr A W Kinglake Mr Vanderbyl Mr James White Professor Fawcett Mr H Berkeley Sir * Mlrr S ti Morley Verney 1 Mr Philips Mr Hardcastle Mr Greene Mr F C H Russell Colonel Gilpin Mr T A Mitchell Hon W 0 Stanley Mr Howel Gwyn Light Hon B Disraeli M. Du I're * Mr Lambert Captain Lowther Hon P Wyndham * Colonel Torrens * Mr Fowler Lord George Manners Lord Royston t Right Hon H Brand Mr Butler Johnstone • Captain Brinckman Colonel Stuart ....... Mr E Potter * Sir Wilfrid Lawson * Colonel Stepney * Mr Sartoria • Mr John Jones Mr W B Hughes ,* Captain Parry Mr G C Legh Hon W Egerton Mr Otway * Mr H B Samuelson Earl Grosvenor * Mr Raikes Lord II G Lennox Mr Goldney Hon A Bathurst Mr R Assheton Mr Eaton * Mr Staveley Hill * Lord E Fitzmaurice Right Hon S Walpole Mr Beresford Hope t Sir Thomas Lloyd * Mr C W Dilke Sir Henry Hoare * Mr E Burke * Mr J Fletcher Mr Rebow * Dr Brewer Sir D Gooch * Hon F Cadogan * Sir John Trelawny * Mr B Willyams Mr St Auhyn * Mr P Vivian • Mr E C Egerton I* Mr W Lech Mr Tollemache Sir Philip Egerton * Mr Williams Mr M Chambers * Mr Lewis * Mr Backhouse Mr M T Bass * Ifrr3a 0 Plimsoll os Sir . !* Serjeant Simon - • Major Dickson ,* Mr Jessel, Q,C. Sir John Pakington Mr Henderson * Mr Davison Sir H Williamson • Mr Hliott Mr Pease • Mr Beaumont Colonel Stunt Mr H B Sheridan * Sir T Gresley * Mr R Smith * Hon H Strutt • Hon Captain Egerton Mr T D Acland Sir Stafford Northcote Sir L Palk t Lord Courtenay Hon Mr Portman Mr Floyer Mr Sturt Col Bourne Mr Coleridge • Mr Bowring • Mr W Baker I* Mr A Johnstone Lord Eustace Cecil Mr S llibetson Lord Barrington Mr WC Torrens Alderman Lusk t Mr T. Hughes Sir John Hanmer * Mr Fowler * Di r Fastwick Lord R Grosvenor Colonel Talbot Mr H Vivian Right Hon Sir W Hutt_ Mr Price Mr Monk * it C Wingfield t Captain Tomline Mr Alderman Salomoos lit Hon W E Gladstone Mr Onslow • Captain Cholmeley * Hon F Tollemache Sir M Beach Mr Holford t Right... Hon W C .wper t Lord Il Scott Hon H Cowper Mr A Smith * Mr H Brand * Mr C Reed * Mr Holms Mr Stansfeld Colonel Akroyd * Mr T Brassey * Mr F North * Mr Young Mr R Dirnsdale Mr Clive Mr Wyllie Mr Biddulph %. Mr Bailey • Sir H 4 roft Mr James Clay Mr Norwood Baron N de Rothschild Mr W B Beach Mr Sclater-Booth Major Jervis Mr T Baring * Mr Jackson * Colonel Edwardes Mr Hurst 1 double • Major Aldridge J return Lord R Montagu Mr E Fellowes Mr E A Leatham Mr II E Adair * Mr West. Q.O SirJ Simeon * Mr Mills * Mr Talbot Lord Hohnesdale Mr Hart Dyke Mr L Pemberton * Hon G Milles Lord Stanley * Hon It Bourke • Mr Lea * Mr Illingworth * Mr NV hitwell * Alderman J Lawrence * Mr \V M'Arthur Mr Baines " Alderman Carter . Mr Wheelhouse Mr Taylor Mr Harris Lord J Manners * Mr Frewen Lord Curzon * Mr Pell * Mr Cross Mr C Turner Mr Arkwright Colonel Clive Mr Goschen Mr Crawford 31r Lawrence • Mr Bell t Rt Hon Robert Lowe ... lord G Lennox Mr Henry Lopes Mr C Seely * Mr H Palmer Sir M J Cholmeley * Mr It Winn * Mr Amcoata * Mr H Chaplin Mr NVelliy * Mr Turnor Sir Arthur Buller Lord Pelham Colonel Dyott Mr Graves * Lord Sandon • Mr Rathbone Colonel Wilson-Patten t Hon F Stanley * Mr Ilolt * Mr St.arkie Mr C W Wynn Mr Bentall Mr Wetherhed Mr Mitford Mr C Brocklehurst Mr Chadwick Mr Lee Mr Whatman Mr Powell Mr Bazley Mr Jacob Bright Mr Birley Mr II Lewis Mr T Chambers Mr Richard Mr Fothorgill Sir J Ramsden lion C Fitzwilliam Lord E Bruce Mr D Williams Mr Bolckow Hon C H Tracy Fir G Grey Mr C Morgan Colonel Somerset Viscount Enfield Lord G Hamilton Mr E Howes Mr C S Read Mr G Hodgklnson Mr E Denison Mr Headlam Mr Cowen Mr Allen Mr Buckley Mr Hutton Lord Henley Mr C Gilpin Sir W Russell Sir II Stracey Sir R Clifton Mr Wright Mr Martin Sir \V Itagge Hon T De Grey Mr Ward Hunt Mr S Stonford Cartwright Sir l.tinald Knightley Might ll,'n J Denison ' Mr F C Smith Mr Barrow Mr /I ihlyard I Earl Percy Mr Ridley Mr Beaumont Hon 11 Liddell Itt lion G Hardy Rt Hon J Mowbray , Mr Henley Colonel North Mr Cartwright Mr Hibbert NI Platt ASIITON-UNDER-LINE ANGLES:SA BREC6 SIIIRU BARNSTAPLE P. I ROCIIDALE RYE RETFORD, EAST RADNOR ROCUESTER 1 1 RADNOMiDIR.E.- RUTLAND BRIDCINOP.TII 11ANBuity BITII BED FO r.D SUEFOLE, WEST SALISBURY I i SUSSEX, WEST SOMERSET, WEST SOMERSET, EAST.. BEnwicic BEVERLEY BEWDLEY BIRICENHEAD BIRMINGHAM BLACKBURN BODMIN BOLTON BOSTON SOUTHAMPTON 1 I STROUD SURREY, EAST 1 I I SALFORD Sispwicit BCARBOROI7OII SHEFFIELD BUADFORD BRIDGWATIR BRIGHTON .... BRISTOL . BUCKINGHAM BURNLEY BURY BURY ST. EDMUNDS BEDFORDSHIRE BP.IDPORT BEA UMARIS ...... intECO N BUCKINGHAMSHIRE CUMBERLAND, WEST CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGESHIRE ... CANTERBURY SHRBWSZURY SOUTH SHIELDS SOUTHWARK ST/7701LD 1 I I STOCKPORT 1 I STOCKTON SUNDERLAND SHAFTESBURY SHOREHAM STALICYBEIDOE SIIIMISY, MID SUSSEX, EAST STAFFORDSHIRE, EAST ' STAFFORDSHIRE, WEST, STAFFORDSUIRIC,NORTH STAMFORD SHROPSHIRE, NORTH „„ 1 I I S _IIII.OPSIIIRE, SOUTH .. 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DEVOIsT, NORTH DEVON, EAST DOESETSIIIILE Evr SIIAM EXLTEIC ESSLX, SOUTH ESSEX, WEST EYE FINSBURY FnomE FLINT FALMOLTII FLINTSIIIRE GLAMORGANSIIIRE GATES HEAD . GLOUCESTER . GRAVESEND .... GREAT GRIMSBY GREENWICH GUILDFORD ... GRANTHAM ... GLOUCESTER, EAST - - HANTS, SOUTH HERTFORDSHIRE HAC K N EY lIALIFAX HASTINGS IiELSTON H ERTFORD lIEREFORD HEREFORDSHIRE lirLL HYTTIE HANTS. NORTII HARWICH H NTI N DON HARTLEPOOL HA EILFO ROW ST HORSHAM HUNTISIGDONSIIIILE lUDDERSFIELD .rswica ISLE OF WIMIT KENT, WEST KENT, MID KENT, EAST KING'S LYNN KIDDERMINSTER KNARESBOROUGH KENDAL LAMDETII LEEDS LEICESTER LEICESTER, NORTH .. , LEICESTER, S JUT II LA.NCASIIIRE, S.W. LEOMINSTIM LUDLOW LONDON CITY LONDON UNIVERSITY LYN NC:TON LAUNCESTON LI, COLN LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH LINCOLN, MID LINCOLN, SOUTH .... LISKEARD LEWES LICHFIELD LI VERI OOL L.VACA.SIIIRE, NO ATII LANCASIIIRE, N.B. 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United States Senator 'Willard telegraph correctly tells us, equivalent to his election, so Warner, of Alabama, has likewise encountered a overwhelming is the Democratic majority in that metro- hostile mob several times recently, been prevented polis. Mr. Hall is a lawyer of excellent standing, s - • trom speaking where he had appointments, and especially in criminal practice, has been prosecuting threatened with assassination. attorney for New York county, was originally an Aboli- TEXAS.—It appears that the officer commanding tionist and Republican, and has of late years excited great r , the garrison at Jefferson had less than 30 men influence as the leader of the Democratic party. He is , moreover, known as an agreeable writer and orator. ' guarding the gaol where Mr. Smith had taken re- The defeat of General Escobedo in the State of Tamau- fuge, and being surrounded by a well equipped lipas is among our American advices yesterday. Esco- body of 200 he judged it right to ground arms, as bedo was one of the most trustworthy of the Liberal he considered defence hopeless. Smith fought with leaders during the recent war, and at its close was a tenacity and courage worthy of any cause, only entrusted with the military command of the Northern ceasing to fire in death with 18 bullets in him. States. Early in October advices reached the city of General Reynolds is to be removed, as the Presi- Mexico that Canales, Quiroga, and other chiefs of the dent is dissatisfied with his administration of the Santa Anna party were organising an insurrection in Tamaulipas, a favourite seat of such projects, the prod-State. We fear the task to redeem Texas is beyond mity of the Texan frontier offering convenient facilities the Power of most officers, but so marked is the for escape in the event of failure. Escobedo failure of Reynolds that a change should be tried. hastened at once to Tampico, organised a sufficient FLORIDA. - This State voted by her Legislature ; force, and moved against the insurgents, who had collected and in doing so followed the former example of South at some distance north of the city. At the same time Carolina, though that State did not adhere to its General Carvajal was sent to Matamoras, with the design old practice. Florida has either from this, or for of flanking the rebels. The first results of these steps were some other cause, escaped the reign of terror. Her successful; the Santanists were beaten in several skin legislature, of course, voted for Grant, while it is mishes, and the termination of the pronuncianiento was ann ounced at the capital. The defeat now sustained by said that two out of her three Congressmen will be the Liberal leader spews the triumph to have been pre. Democrats. Governor Holden is represented in his mature, and places the highly-important port of Tampico : private letters as writing very hopefully of the in serious peril. : future prospects of the State. The Nation says of The South has manifested signs of decided improvement it—" It is almost the only State that we should feel during the short period since the election of General like recommending to Northern men as a region in Grant. As was expected, there is a pretty general dis- ' which they may settle in security. Its Quakers and position to "accept a situatio n " which will endur e f or Scotch, and its strong infusion of old Whigs, and four years at least, whether it is accepted or not, its solid-headed, honest yeomanry—there is a good A number of the leading Democrats of South ! probability of a valuable coloured yeomanry there— Carolina have called in a body upon General Scott, , and have expressed their determ ination for the future to make it, altogether, a State to be honoured, liked, give a unanimous and hearty support to the State Govern- i and trusted. It certainly is now more nearly re ment. This promise has yet to be fulfilled, but it is covered from the effects of the war than any of the decidedly better than openly threatening to subvert the other members of the Confederacy ; and this is Constitution and advocating a refusal to pay taxes. : directly traceable to the comparative moderation Outrage and murder appear to be slightly on the decline in ' and sensible political course of its people." The many of the States. But the intelligence from •Mr. latest mail news, however, is that the Governor has Reverdy Johnson's favoured land, Texas, is not a whit . beenimpeached by the Legislature for official mis better. The New York Nation hopes that th e Alabama question conduct . will do something to promote the es tablishment of an ARKANSAS.—Captain Mills, Bureau agent, and international tribunal for the settleme nt of such disputes. Captain Porter Andrews were murdered in Little The selection of a sovereign as arbitrator, of course, means River county, on the 24th ult., and Sheriff Stundle, the selection of the best jurists of the nation over which who was with him, was badly wounded. Two he rules. • Why, then, should the farce of putting forward negroes were killed near the same place soon after, monarchs as the arbitrators in these cases be kept up, when and at Crittenden, in the same State, six men have the real work is done by lawyers? "If two German pub- I been murdered in the night, and others have been licists, sitting in their own rooms, can settle such a con- shot tor attempting to bury them. The arms lately troversy as that now pending between two such Powers as reported as seized on board the steamer llesper, and America and England to the satisfaction of the disputants thrown over into the Mississippi, have reappeared, and of the world, the establishment of an internationst court of arbitration cannot be very long d ela y ed." part of them at New Orleans, and it is insinuated The Times correspondent estimates t hat a ma j orit y of that Forrest bad something to do with this matter the House of Representatives-1 45 out of 227--is in favour of redeeming the debt in greenbacks. It is probable that a compromise will be effected, and that the interest of the Five-Twenty Bonds will be reduced, instead of the prin. cipal being paid off in a depreciated currency. The same writer adds that the recalleet Mr. Reverdy J ohnson seems to be determined upon. FOREIGN NOTES. THE CHINESE CIVIL SERVICE.* (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Civil Service of China differs from all others on these two points—Literary attainments are the sole channel to office and political advancement, and these offices are not only open to every class of the people, but some carry with them when attained the highest social rank and dignity. Of course, SPAIN. The stampecla amongst the candidates for the Spanish throne has been complete. Of all the princes and nobles who have in turn been put forth, only one remains in public notice, and he has given the most positive assur ance that he will never reign over Spain. But in spite of this refusal, Dom Ferdinand of Portugal is still the only candidate spoken of. He is said to be greatly interested in all that passes in the country, and it is thought that his refusal will not retain its inflexibility if the Spaniards offer him a crown instead of a candidature. All that can be said of this is, that the affairs of Spain have relapsed into that state of uncer tainty which generally indicates intrigue, and is not unfrequently followed by a collapse. The Spectator's bold speculation that Prim is planning for a dictatorship or an imperial crown is not unwarranted. The Monarchists have no candidate, the Republicans no leaders of eminence, and yet Olozaga's compromise between republicanism and monarchy has been rejected by at least one of the two great parties. The text of Baron Beust's corrected reportof his famous speech on the new Army Bill is published in the Red Book. The Austrian Minister says of the first report that " even if the isolated expressions are accurately reproduced, the absence of the context frequently alters the meaning." This is beyond doubt a great truth, and this second edition admirably illustrates it. All the original " isolated ex pressions" are now so encompassed in a cloud of words that, like Zadkiel's prophecies or the decisions of the Delphic Oracle, they may mean anything. The strong smell of powder which marked the original report has altogether vanished. nothing in human institutions is pure, and bribery exists in no small degree. But, the fact that the Chinese Civil Service has been so constituted is the reason why China now exists at all as a semi-civilized power, and has not degenerated,excluded for so many ages from foreign intercourse, into irredeemable barbarism. It will readily be imagined that where literary attainments are so rewarded that the masses are literary, and it is calculated that 200,000,000 are literati out of the 360,000,000, almost every man of whom can read and write sufficiently for ordinary purposes. The press is free, and from it issues numerous works on every subject, which are gathered into the libraries scattered over the vast empire, every where open to the inhabitants. Mr. Jenekes does not consider he exaggerates in stating that next to the United States there are more books in China and more persons who read books than in any other country. The degrees of literary merit are four—SEW-TSEE, " men of cultivated talent ;" KEN-JIN, " elevated persons ;" TZIN-SZE, advanced scholars ;" and HAN-LIN, "the forest of pencils," or national institute. The examination for the first, which takes place twice every three years, is in country towns ; for the second, once every three years, in the provincial capital ; for the third, iu the imperial capital; and for the fourth, in the imperial palace in the presence of the Emperor. The rise is from one to the other, and the 10,000 competitors are c mfined and guarded in cells while they are working out their themes. Those successful in the fourth obtain liberal salaries, and are employed to deliberate on all questions regarding politics and literature, and to prepare public documents, while the three highest candidates, being mounted on horseback, are paraded for three days round Peking, signifying that " thus it shall be done unto the man the king delighteth to honour." Even among the three a distinction is made, as the first occu pies the most enviable post in the nation, and yet one to which all may aspire. Judging from the nature of the examination, we must conclude that memory is held in the highest account, as the chief requisite to success is to carry the five classics and the four books in, as they say, " their belly !" Al though a test of application and a test of a valuable mental qualification, it certainly is not a test of the highest capacity. The essays are judged by the quotations they can introduce from ancient authors, which they are compelled to spend five or six years in committing to memory, and the same number in acquiring a good style, but even after, there are many years of incessant toil needed to insure sue cm. The Five Classics are the Pike-King, " B)ok of Diagrams ;" the She-King, "Collection of Odes ;" the Le-Ke " Record of Ceremonies ;" the Shoo- King, containing the history of the three first dynasties ; and the Chun-Isew, an account of the life and times of Confucius. The first two of the Four Books, Chung-yang, "The Happy Me dium," and Tahco "The Great Doctrine," were written by Tsze-tsze, the grandson and disciple of Confucius ; the third, the Lunyu, " Book of Dis courses," is the production of different disciples of the sage who recollected and recorded his words and deeds ; the last of the Four Books was written by Mencius, the disciple of Tsze-tsze, and bears his name. The text of these nine books is equal in bulk to that of the New Testament and it is be lieved that were every copy to be annihilated there are a million of people who could restore the whole from memory. In former times the Chinese were divided into four social classes : the Tse, or learned, who govern and instruct the rest; the Nung, the producer of food and material for clothing ; the Kung, artisan or manufacturer; and the Chang, who distributed and exchanged the productions. But in China the reverse of Indian caste was the case, as the children of the lower were eucou- raged to aspire to the higher grade. In the Tse were the officials ; the list of subaltern offioer.s and literati alone being estimated at half a million. There are thirteen principal departments of Govern ment, mainly consisting of Boards somewhat simi lar to those of other great nationalities. The first is the Cabinet, with five principal and two assis tant chancellors ; the General Council, which is the second, is the most influential body, corresponding to a Ministry, and it embraces the chancellors of the first, and the presidents and vice-presidents of the boards of the rest of the thirteen departments, being a gathering of all the chiefs, together with the Princes of the Blood. There is a Board of Revenue, of Rights, of War, of Punishments, a Mint, a Censorate, a Court of Judicature, and the last is the Hanlien-Yuen or Imperial Academy. There is a national college, which differs from the Hanlien-Yuen, and also an astronomical college. The different ranks are distinguished by costumes and ornaments, acid the pay is according to the ful , lowing scale :—A Governor-General receives about £6,000 a year ; a Lieutenant-Governor less than £5,000 ; a Treasurer over £2,500 ; a Provincial Judge under £2,000 ; a Prefect about £9OO. The district magistrates vary from £250 to £6OO ; Lite rary Chancellor, £9OO ; the CJaimander-in-Chief, £1,200 ; General, £7OO ; Colonel, £4OO ; and other officers down to £4O. The feature of the Chinese system is to make officers mutually responsible, which leads the superior to confer various duties upo❑ one functionary, so that he may get a general know- Report of the Hon. Thomas Jonckes, 111 embers. Mr Cardwell * Mr V Harcourt * Mr Meyrick 't Alr Scourfleld Mr Whalley I 1 * Mr Wells i 1 Mr Nicholson 1 Sir R P Collier Mr Morrison Mr Childers Major Waterhouse Mr Stone * Sir J Elphinstone Sir T Hesketh * Mr Hermon * Mr Arthur Guest Sir I , ' Gohismid Mr Shaw Leferre ' Sir Roundeh Palmer 1 Lora John Hay 1 Mr T B Potter * Mr Stewart Hardy Mr Foljambe Lord Galway Mr Price Mr W Martin.. . 1 Mr Serjeant Ejnglake Hon A Walsh Hon G J Ncel Mr Finch Major W Parker Lord A Hervey Mr Hamilton 1 * Dr Lush liarttclot Hon II Wyndham Mr Gore Langton * Mr A A Hood Major Alen * Mr Bright Mr Gurney * Mr Hoare Mr Winterbotham " Mr Dickenson 1 Mr Locke King I 1 Mr C Burton * Mr Cawley * Mr Charley Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen 1 * Mr H Brassey 1 Sir J V Johnstone Mr J D Dent 1 Mr Hadfield 1 * Mr Mundella 1 Mr Clement 1 * Mr Figgins , * Mr Stevenson 1 , Mr Layard Mr Locke Captain Meller * Mi Pochin Mr J B Smith • Mr 'liming ,* Mr J Dodds Mr Candlish I " Mr Gourley Mr G C Glyn Right Hon S Cave Sir Percy Burrell * Mr Sidebotham * Mr W Peek * Hon W Brodrick Mr Dodson * Mr Scott f Mr A Bass 1* Mr M'Clean * Mr Ingram * Mr Child Mr Adderley Sir E M Buller Sir J Hay Mr Ormsby Gore Lord N ewport Gen P Herbert • Col Corbett * Mr Magniac Mr Melly " Colonel Roden Mr Dillwyn Sir R Peel • Sir H Bulwer Mr Barclay Serjeant Cox ," Mr Price Ayrton t Mr Samuda Mr Williams I Hon. Captain Vivian , * Mr E T Smith Mr A Russell Hon G Denman * Mr Amory Sir W P Gallwey * Mr Beaumont Earl of Bective Hon G II Lowther * Mr S Vickers Mr J Calcraft Mr itylands Mr A W Peel * Mr Greaves * Mr Brogden * Mr Phipps Captain Grosvenor * Mr W H Smith Mr II Edwards 1 * Mr Hambro t Mr W H Gladstone Mr Bentinck Mr Woods 1 * Mr Lancaster 1 Mr Bonham Carter Mr Simonds Mr R Eykyn 1 * Mr Barnett Mr Sherriff * Mr Laslett Hon G C Lyttelton * Mr Amphlett Mr Knight Mr Dowdeswell Hon. W H Carington 1 Mr C Forster General Forester • Mr Brown M r Antrobus Lord H Thynne Mr T Grove Mr Villiers Mr Weguelin Mr N. wdegate Mr B Davenport * Mr II C Wise t Mr John Hardy Lord C Bruce ... * Sir G Jenkinson Mr Lowther '* Mr Brown Westhead Sir F Crossley Lord F C Cavendish Viscount Milton Mr Beaumont 1 ilI , SCOTLAND. Mr Fordyce Mr M'Combie Mr Crnwfurd ," Mr Finnie M ^uie of Lorne .. 1 i 1 1 1 1 Aar q• _ _ Sir D Weclderburn Colonel Sykes 1 Mr Trevelyan " Mr Dalrymple Mr R Duff Mr D Robertson Mr Adam 1 Mr Traill * Sir S Waterlow * Mr Orr-Ewing Sir J Ogilvy " Mr Armistead 1 t Mr Jardine Mr M'Laren * Mr Miller * Sir G Maitland Mr Grant Duff * Mr Grant Hon C Carnegie 1 Sir R Anstruther 1 Mr Merry 1 Mr Dalglish 1 Mr W Graham * Mr Anderson * Mr Grieve 1 Sir H Davie 1 Lord Elcho * Mr Mackintosh * Mr Cameron Mr Nichol Mr W 11 Maxwell 1 Mr E P Bouverie Mr. S. Aytoun * Major Hamilton Sir E Colebrooke Mr Mlagan * Mr Macfie Mr Kinnaird Mr Crum-Ewing * Mr Parker Sir G Montgomery Sir W Scott 1 * Mr Matheson 1 Mr Spiers * Mr Campbell 1 Admiral Erskine Lord R S Gower "' 1 Mr Ellice Mr Baxter 1 Mr Young 1 1* Lord Garlies 11 1 1 1 1 IRELAND. Rear-Adml. Seymour Mr O'Neill Sir J M Stronge Mr Verner Mr John Vance * Sir J Eunis . Mr Shaw . Mr Johnston 1 Mr M'Clure 1 Sir Colman O'Loghlen 1 Colonel Vandeleur * Mr Dalway Mr O'Beirne 1 1 Captain Fagan Mr Murphy 1 Mr Maguire 1 Mr Bagwell 1 Sir H 11 Bruce Colonel Annesley Mr E Sanderson 1 Mr Bruen . f Mr Kavanagh Lord Hamilton Mr Conolly Lord H Trevor Lieut.-Colonel Forde Mr Keowne Major Knox Mr Pim 1 Sir A Guinness Mr Lefroy * Mr Ball Colonel Taylor 1 Mr Hamilton * Mr Callan 1 * Mr Matthews 1 Mr Whitworth * Viscount Crichton Captain Stacpoole ...... Lieut.-Colonel Cole 1 Captain Archda,ll 'Sir It Blennerhassett * Lord St. Lawrence Lord Castlerosse Mr H A Herbert Sir John Gray 1 Mr G L Bryan Mr Agar Ellis 1 Sir G Colthurst 1 Mr Cogs!? Lord 0 Fitzgerald Sir P O'Brien * Mr Sherlock Mr Gore Dr Brady Mr Peel Dawson Sir F Heygate * Mr Dowse Major Gavin ...... .... Mr. F W Russell .... . Mr Monse U Mr Synan Mr O'Reilly Col. Greville-Nugent Mr C Fortescue Mr Deese Mr Verner * Mr Moore Lord Bingham Colonel Leslie * Mr Shirley * 1 **: Mr S mi % ,CmiearrrrpjFDrte Captain nkb t p aaSbtar Fitzpatrick el Darner Sullivan a n Colonel French 1 The O'Conor Don 1 f Major L E Knox - The O'Donoehue Captain White Mr hfoore 1 Mr Corry Lord Claude Hamilton 1 Mr Devereux Mr Esmonde Mr De La Poer Mr Blake * Mr Delahunty Mr Pollard-ITrquhart 1 Mr Nugent Sir John Power 1 * hlr D'Arcy Mr F Dick * Hon 11 Fitzwilliam Mr C Wegueliu 1 i I 1 1 Some one asserts that the son of Judge Read, of Phila delphia, General Meredith Read, junior, will bo the next Minister to England ; but they presume, we suppose, that Grant, who, by the way, has refused a public reception at Washington, will recall Itoverdy Johnson when he comes into power, which is indeod taking a vaulting conclusion, and one unlikely to be realized. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, 11=ton-buildings, Strand, London, W.Q--[Ad TerUsemout.] THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN BOHEMIA. The railway catastrophe at Horowitz was very much a reproduction of the horrible affair at Abergele. A passenger train was stopped by a snowdrift. A goods train which was coming up behind was sig nalled to return, but the signals were not seen or not understood, and the enormous mass of .580 tons was dashed into the passenger train. The latter cor.tained 235 soldiers, of whom 38 were killed. The seats were impelled together with such force as to completely amputate the legs of some of the soldiers. To add to the horror the first van of the goods train contained a barrel of petroleum, which was scattered over the victims, burn ing them in a frightful manner. ITALY. Garibaldi has addressed a letter to the Society of Turin Volunteers, thanking them for the " recollection of Men tona." The Italian leader, like many other public men, is too liberal in the matter of letter-writing. His latest epistle contains one noticeable expression : " Garibaldi hopes that the clay when the youth of Italy will fight her enemies on equal terms may come quickly, and that he may participate in the glory." THE CZECH DIFFICULTY. The North-East Correspondence says that negotiations have been opened with the view of settling t'..e difference between the Czech party and the Austrian Government. The Czechs demand, as an indispensable condition, the establishment of a Chancellorship in Bohemia. THE SOUTHERN SIATES. LOUISIANA.—As the clay of election neared the reign of terror in Louisiana and other Southern States became fast and furious. General Rousseau had but 600 men in New Orleans, and he could act but little as a check. The club rooms and many houses of Republicans were broken into and sacked, and it is said that for several nights more than 20 murders were committed before each morning dawned. Governor \Yarmouth kept his place of residence a secret, for in truth the Ku-Klux are no respectors of persons. The despatch announcing the result of the election is not a bad commentary on the drilling administered to the Radicals. " The election passed off quietly, there being no trouble of any kind, and no interference with voters. The negroes in New Orleans abstained almost totally from voting. In the Fourth District, the strongest Democratic district in the city, out of 4,200 votes, 4,100 were Democratic. Throughout the country parishes the negroes voted freely, in some localities largely Democratic. The Democratic majorities from all localities heard from are overwhelming." The officers of the Ist United States Infantry have denounced the rumour that that regiment was dis loyal as a malicious falsehood. The entire number of recruits does not exceed 5 per cent., and they were sent from Northern recruiting stations, while the regiment is composed almost entirely of re-en listed men who presented honourable discharges from other United States regiments. John Valen tine Chase, who was lately assassinated by the rebels at Franklin, was a native of Ohio, and moved to Louisiana before the war, but came North in 1861 for safety during the rebellion. TENNESSEE.—A negro was discovered making a coffin for one of his race murdered by the Ku- Klux, and was whipped, but he had the indiscre tion to state he knew who had tied him up, where upon he was taken to the woods, and his friends will probably wait long before he reappears. ALABAMA.—At Huntsville the Radicals had a meeting, and unfortunately within firing distance of a Democratic procession. The opportunity could not be resisted, and the Conservatives fired with such effect that Judge Horton, a marked man, was mortally wounded, two negroes were killed, and many wounded. George L. Harrington, speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, and Senator F. L. Pennington report that while canvassing Choctaw and Sumter counties lately, several daring attempts were made to assassinate them. In Choctaw they were threatened with hanging, and at Gaston, in Sumter county, matters became more 'serious, The carriage in which they it II j a r ........ ledge of what occurs around, and report irregu' ties. It accomplishes the object of binding the main and lesser wheels of the huge machine to the rulers and to each other, as they become all respon sible and involved in what goes wrong. The Em peror's emissaries are constantly despatched to all parts of the empire, and though ostensibly entrusted with a particular duty, they are required to take a general surveillance and report accordingly. In the same manner the. governors of provinces are empowered to send especial messengers invested with full power over their jurisdiction, and even prefects and intendants dispatch their myrmidons. Thus a network of espionage exists throughout China, and the Emperor, who never himself visits the provinces, secures ample information and exer cises great control. No officer is allowed to marry in his jurisdiction, nor own land there, nor have a son, brother, or near relative in office under him, nor is he stational in the same province for more than three years. Triennially, full reports are sent to the Board of Civil Office from each province on the merits and demerits of all officers in the empire. Those in inferior office report upon their inferi vrs, while they themselves are reported ou by their superiors, who are again reported on by their supe riors up to the Governor. The Order of Demerit is classed under these heads—tho Undiligent, the Inefficient,the Superficial , the Untalented, the Su per annuated,and the Diseased. Sometimes officers are ele vated or degraded so many steps, and whenever they issue an edict they are required to state how often they have been advanced, or degraded, or recordei• It is their duty to accuse themselves when guilty of crime, either personally or by their subordinates , and request punishment. For high crimes death is inflicted, either by the executioner, or, as a favour, by making the culprit execute himself, a delicate hint being given in a rope, failing which he is deca pitated. A red book is published quarterly, giving the names and standing of all officers, their nation ality and place of nativity, the title of their office, its salary, and other information. The census is taken every tenth month, and for the purpose a constable is over ten and a bailiff over one hundred families ; each keeps a register for the magistrates, through whom it reaches the Governor, and event ually Peking. The revenue amounted thirty years ago to $286,000,000, which is generally under the expenditure, the deficit being made up by patriot!! subscriptions and new taxes. One of the peculiari ties of the Chinese service is the complete subordi nation of the military power to the civil; military officers are so poorly paid and so shorn of authority that they are at the mercy of every literal?' Mandarin. The general control of the armY ie under the Ta-ching, or great Minister, and the Go vernor and Lieut.-Governors, when it pleases 0011 assume command, and though civilians often take the lead of a whole army, yet it is held to be 3 maxim in China that he who can rule a provinc e can also command an army. The highest military grade is open to the humblest soldier, but the selec tion is so bad that the most ignorant men have risen to the highest ranks. The only military decoration conferred by the Emperor is a peacock's feather, t° be worn in the cap. Whoever distinguishes Wee self in battle receives a pecuniary reward, and . 11 who falls in defence of his country has his nam e 01. scribed on the list of promotion in Hades. It e, sponsibility and a commensurate punishment ar e meted out according to the grade of the individual' ilari- Ex-Governor J. Madison Wells, of Louisiana, who was removed by order of General Sheridan , 1135 brought a suit for the recovery of the salary accrulss during the term for which he was chosen. The Boston Post says that " Secretary Sewar d marriage is said to have been prevented by the rers °l3 ; strances of his family against his ringing that little hell°. Ozias W. Whittaker, who has been elected bi‘ the General Convention of the Protestant EpiscoPs: Church missionary bishop of Nevada and Arizona, i 5 t native of New Salem, Massachusetts, a graduate of Anlhe rs u College, and for some four or five years resided i n Nert Brookfield, teaching the high school there. After cal la; pleting his theological studies he went to Nevad a as a Episcopal missionary in 1863, and has ever since been 1a bouring with zeal and success among the mining coranil nities in that region. The Spring field Republican of Nov. 7 has the f° l ‘ —" An unlucky Friday was the last to an Iris l r man who went to Lennox in the morning and was tal' ° , an American, returned to Pittsfield and got drunk , sp a was killed by the cars east of that town in the evening,'' The majority of John Morrissey in the Fifth Cow gressioual District, New York, is 11,221. Mr. Maynar.l is re-el !cted to Congress fr o Tennessee, and Logan 11. Roots, Republican, is e lecte d Arkansas. It is reported that the Democrats have Pr bably carried two Congressional Districts is Tennesseety General Butler was serenaded in Lowell , Ma n, chusetts, on the evening of the sth, and made a sp eecbi th - a which he said that Congress will find a remedy" for state of things in the South. it el Hon. Samuel R. Betts, Judge of the u Ol , 0 . States District Court for Nov York, died at Ne w on Monday night, Nov. 2, of apoplexy, an event 0 "; eg created a profound sensation, and a meeting of the 13 411. 0er , held on the 4th to manifest this in an appropriate ras u ich The representative of the King of the SanVigre, Islands, M. Crossmen de Varigny, has arrived at Deero to exchange the ratifications of the Treaty o f Gogn e de , of 1861 between Switzerland and the Sandwich Isl a % $ t After the inauguration of President NI`GI ,t 3 Princeton College, he having stated that the sill ought to have a well-equipped gymnasium, it Wat,:')of flounced that Robert Bonner and Mr. Marquan d, b° tioa New York, had each given $lO,OOO toward the ere . and furnishing of such a building. n •yiag LADvEnnsEmExT.] - Holloway's Pills. -- Ag? Pains.—On Ct change of weather, excess ive exerti" side, mental trouble, a distressin pain often arises in tll ioo , shoulder, or elsewhere. Its known cause is conqo'es' the liver. Its infallible remedy is Holloway's Di ls ' t1: 0 Roberts, of St. George's-square, Liverpool, state s 53 0 .0 after trying countless means for relieving these o Pl are cole; pains, without receiving the slightest benefit, be s hot; menced a course of Holloway's Pills, which in a d o tb e s time freed him from them altogether. Neuralgic aa.,,,t torments are as readily dispelled. Another Patinoru* Atcham, Shropshire, writes that he suffered seve re ' . ' s vbi c " long time from "brow ague," face and ear ache , fl air's' were completely cured by Holloway's matchless re''' ments. LADveansEMENT.J—Dyspepsia(lndigestion), Constipatiel'A bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, Constipated complaints in every stage, are only aggravated an d See' Dy by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur able r ov ed c y Barry's health-restoring Revalenta cons Food, as P r 0° • thousands of cases which had beenidered hopeleef el , as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, hemorrhoids, ild plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore g a d diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the hetiolgjo,, ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, oe irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburi,4oei, ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea an d T e ' ref ll ) even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis , VI 20 tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the 5t 003 . 9 11%19 between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—The PoP 1 0,: . „119 restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" e0"01( 12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, eSSOBIO since, abandoning all other remedies, he has ecnfloe,,,,,uicli, o r. entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta. Arabica, Food, of :d consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produ c "„ c,OP po t prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holia,e' z et,te re ; praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " tifid, Midi, " July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Rober.:4 itta4o. merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disen e of o° el spitting of blood, liver derangement, an d partial i sealiliff Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord ;0 5 ; Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49, 83 ' 1 00 0 00,, years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, I ',.. e x oe o° aari asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, f oe f D oa vo miting.,—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Bewareu wiej, uns avoury and more than sloppy imitations to Will a ' authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously 0 05 ., ,J I3I C , In tins, at ls. 11d.; 1 lb., 2s. 94.; 2 lbs., 4 s 61; „ 5 Ot 12 lbs., 228 ; 241bs 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S Rzve.LE l4l t9 caP 3 O:. CHOCLATE POWER is packed in tin anisters; V r „„ps t 25., f o r 24 cups at D 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at Ss., for 28 8 ye p t for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cu ron C . 11' and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in Engl.a ° oo ,, of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chonai,''' RS—On the 23d it i t rth at s. elm,Laurel ;cl l, wife of Robert C. ." Childers, Esq, of a sou. floor.- VACHER—On the 25th inst., at Alleyn House, ' Mrs. W. H. Vacher, of a daughter. ~, f 11 ' ". WELD—On the 24th lust at Rth s the W"" ° , 0 erWa , Lodge, gents, til° Weld, Esq., of a son. . Marriages. Joli ti ot, ,et' MASON—BELL —On the 24th inst ,at Leun g 9 P i lo Mason, of 2, Cripplegate-buildings, City, -W' terrace, Lee, to Eliza, only daughter of the late „,,1) 04 Bell, of Bradford, Yorkshire. vir- , ia' WEST —WESTALL--Ou the 24th inst at St.o.li, J., fa Kensington, William West, Esq„ of' M iuin.7: t,d o colnshire, to Harriet Mary, second daughter co _. Westall, Esq., M.D Holland V . ll. ~i as, Kensiag°' aci et Deaths. Ale ° Dinar—On. the 9th lust Captai n , ,gt Madeira, Cll r • Dirorn, R.E., aged 31. , lan e, Ca' ELLWOOD —Oll the '23d inst., at Nightinga'n" or, ham, George Ellwood, of 164, Aldersg.ite-str otP aged 38. Col MAQUAT —On the 24th inst. Lfi 13 Que °° ' ~ at As 0 7 b orl , John L. Maquay, Einst. a t Chieveley , D sq. IsTe' v o on ProoT—On the 21st , 014t.,u Dray Berks, General Richard Bigot, Colo nel Guards, aged 95. -.........':5 A,41),..- 112, London : Printed and Published by WILLIA-11 o f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THS SUS 01'74004 - In the Strand, in the Precinct of the So voY , Iliddlesex t —Thursday, November 20, Ida