The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Speaking of Sir Stafford Northcote's observations on the Irish Church, the Times observes that the right hon. gentleman would like to ignore the centuries of wrong ; and begin afresh. Well and good ; but to begin afresh we must start, for Irish reforms, not from the state of things after, but from that preceding, the period of misgovern. went by penal laws. For what was the very object of those penal laws? It was that the Established Church might keep its predominance over rival persuasions. It is a pleasant fancy to say, so long as the solid profits are retained, "We got the predominance by usurpation, and we long kept it by violence ; but we find it was a mistake to try to keep it by violence ; the expenditure of suffering was brutalising ; it was even impolitic and dangerous to our own comfort and security ; we have repented, and will reform and amend our ways ; we will keep it without - violence." Unfortunately, there is not the slightest symptom at present of a likelihood that the proposed com pact to live henceforth as brothers on the footing of the status quo will be executed except by the party in posses sion. Irish Roman Catholics suspect that their adversaries have abandoned a policy of persecution from incapacity to continue it. In any case, they decline to withdraw their protest against one grievance in consideration of the relief they have already won for themselves from another. So much for what Sir Stafford Northcote seems to have intended as an appeal to the Catholics of Ireland to let the Protestant Establishment ride on its way, and be thankful that the spirited charger is no longer trained to kick. His appeals to sentiments and fears of a different kind will fall equally dead, we think. Owners of property will hardly be afraid that the Legislature will be as facile as he shews himself in argument in confounding the dis tinctions between public and private property. The friends of the Union will net be alarmed at a policy in conformity with the eager desires of the great bulk of the Irish population, in lieu of one agreeable only to an inconsiderable section. The friends of the Esta blished Church of England will view with philosophy the reduction of the Church of Ireland, which now suggests chiefly a burlesque of that institution, to a sober condition 62 more consistent with its owls favourite claim to be a missionary Church. Finally, the benevolent in a Liberal darty will, like the Barnstaple assemblage, accept as a joke the appeal to them to postpone eradicating a source of national discontent three centuries old on the ad mileri cordiant plea that all " ought to assist the progress made in Ireland, and not be in a hurry to pull up plants that are jut beginning to take root." Upon the question of policy the Standard thinks Sir S. Iftrthcote spoke with explicit and manly straightforward. rem Ile acknowledged the past wrongs of Ireland-- wrongs which, he frankly said, must make us feel, as the children of those who inflicted them, that Irish disaffec tion and rebellion only " astves us right." But those wrongs have long since been redressed, and the rankling resentment they have left behind would in no degree be appeased by a new wrong towards a different party—a new course of spoliation and injustice —a new policy of confiscation. Repose and security are the vital needs of Ireland ; and the overthrow of the Church must excite fresh quarrels and once more shake the foundations of pro. perty. Ireland wants capital ; capital will never go where credit and confidence are wanting ; and the confiscation of a property held by a prescription of three centuries must make confidence impossible for a generation to come. It is sufficient to call the reader's attention to the hearty sympathy with Irish feelings, the earnest desire for justice to Ireland, which pervade the speeches of the Conserva tive candidate for North Devon, and whose sincerity con trasts forcibly with the Liberal affectation of similar senti ments assumed to mask the intense selfishness of a policy which makes Ireland the battle-ground of English faction, and which sacrifices her last chance of peace and prospe rity in order to make, by the overthrow of Irish institu tions and the confiscation of Irish property, a breach in the Conservative defences through which 'Mr. Gladstone ma; force his way back to Downing-street. The Herald remarks that it is but a small consolation to us, and less to those who have perished, to call to mind that earthquakes have been as frequent in history as battles, and even more destructive. Yet so it is. Thirty three years before Christ an earthquake in Palestine swallowed up 30,000 persons ; seventeen years after Christ another overthrew thirteen great cities of Asia Minor. In A.D. 79 Mirenum was destroyed ; and in the year 115 Antioch was swallowed up. For 1000 years after these frightful disturbances continued in this part of the East, so that many other great cities were in their turn laid in ruins. In the year 1040, 50,000 souls perished in an hour at Tabriz, in Persia. In 1139, 100,000 more were buried under the ruins of Gansana. In 1263, 60,000 perished in Cilicia. In 1580 there was a great earth- quake in France and England. In the next two centuries Italy and Sicily suffered terrible visitations, and there were great rumours of disaster in China and Japan. In 1746 Callao, in Peru, was swallowed up by the sea. In 1754 Cairo was nearly destroyed, with a loss of 40,000 lives. In one year, 1755, Quito was thrown down, a city in Persia overthrown with immense loss of life, and the great earthquake of Lisbon occurred, which is said to have slain 150,000 victims. From that time to the present these terrible visitations have been chiefly confined to the countries of the Andes, which are now known to us as the home of earthquakes, as the West Indies of hurricanes, and whose giant volcanos of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi, flaming summits twice as lofty as the higher Alps, seem insufficient to relieve them of those bursting stores of molten rock which geologists tell us are ever blazing and foaming not so many miles beneath us, and will force their way up to the surface from time to time, now at one part of the earth and now at another, shaking terribly an rending every thing asunder if not allowed free exit. The Daily Ngtos does not hesitate to assume the authen ticity of the despatch sent from the Foreign Ministry at Berlin to the Prussian Charg6 d'Affaires in Paris. In that despatch the Prussian Government made known to tee French Minister of Foreign Affairs that by the gra cious order of the King the reserves of the Prussian army would be discharged as soon as the autumn manceuvres were completed, and that the annual levy of recruits would be postponed for three months. It may be that the dis tnisse,l of the reserves earlier than usual, and the adjourn ment of the annual levy for a few months, are in thems e l ve s very slight reductions of effective strength ; that they are measures of economy (are not all peaceful measures eco. nomical?) ; and that, according to the constitution of the Federal army, the whole armed force of the entire nation will be as instantly available on a supreme emergency after these reductions as before. Still, the despatch announcing this economical policy to the French Govern ment expressly declares it to be based upon a belief in the continuance of peace ; and however insignificant may be the figures in the budget which represent it, it is at least an example of acts instead of words. It is because the French Government speaks fair words which are incessantly con tradicted by its acts that the Emperor finds himself obliged to make the somewhat humiliating confession that his words have lost their credit and authority in Europe. In taking leave of his generals at the. camp at Chalons Louis Ne,poieon, if we may trust the semi-official Etendard, was obliged to excuse himself from saying more than that he had been very happy at the camp, and much pleased with the zeal and devotion of the troops, because if he had said more, his words, however moderate, would be misinterpreted in a warlike sense by the newspapers. No doubt it is flattering to the press to find his Imperial Majesty so far susceptible to public opinion and conscious of his accountability. But it will occur to many neither captious nor adverse critics to remark, that if the the Emperor had said no more than the Constitutionnet has found so insipificant in the mouth of Prussia, he %would have done more to re-assure the public mind than by imputing to " the newspapers " the prevailing dis. trust which is engendered by the irresolution of arbitrary power. A large proportion of the candidates now before tr constituencies have dealt with the unsettled relations between capital and labour, but the Post thinks that Mr. Lancaster, the Liberal candidate for Wigan, treats the subject with the most particularity and distinctiveness. He says that " conviction is most absolutely impressed upon his mind that the time is arrived when, if the rights of labour and of capital are to be equally secured to the possessors of each, and if the position of the great in. dustries in the markets of the world, whether home a foreign, is to be securely maintained, the relations between masters and workmen must be placed upor a sound and simple basis universally recognised ; and then goes on to say that " he is intimately convinced that this object can only be attained by restoring thai. directness of contact and communication between the em ployers and the employed which, in the rapid development of trade in this country, has been thrust aside and tempo scarily lost." This hits the nail upon the head. The great error in the schemes which have hitherto been put forward bag been a fundamental one, and it is because they have thus been ill based that they have failed to secure confi dence or to realise success. They have proceeded on the assumption that the remedy should consist in interposing some third person or third body between the master" and the men, in the same way that buffers with powerful springs are placed between railway carriages to prevent or modify the shock of immediate contact. Inter vention by arbitrators, however able, has never prevented A n impending strike, and has rarely ever cured one or stard its progress. The masters have no longer the same individual acquaintance with their hands, and the men insist upon dealing in the niarketin masses. It is thus, as Mr. Lancaster correctly states it, that directness of contact and communication have been thrust aside and lost, and the only remedy of a restorative character capable of fruitful application now, and under the present condition of industry, appears certainly to be that which would include most largely in its composition the principle of representation ; that principle is, in fact, the very kernel of the organisation which has been so successful under the management of Mr. Mundella. _ _ A great step was taken towards the thorough educatio: of the people when the D e partment of Science and Art planned certain classes which, throughout the cuuntry, should, after work hours, give mechanics and others the means of studying such snbject3 as mechanical drawing, matherra`,ics, and clieznistry. But, says the Telegraph, the Yorkshire Board of Education has learned, the task is beset with a great difficulty. Where are the scientific teachers to be found': How, in remote country town, can we get men fit to teach organic and inorganic chemistry ? In Yorkshire the difficulty has hitherto been insuperable; but the county Board of Education has hit upon a plan which promises to be successful. In order to teach students, it has determined to begin by teaching schoolmasters ; and a Saturday after noon class will speedily be opened at Leeds, where a series of lectures on chemistry will be delivered by the head master of the s c i en tifi c sc h oo l s a t H a lif ax an d H u dders• field. In other towns similar c:asses are to he held ; and the plan might with much advanta•-e be adopted wherever mechanics' institutes l ac k teachers'of science. In most country places the difficulty is to get lecturers rather than rtudents. THE VOLUNTEERS AND THE _APPROACHING ELECTIONS. The following circular was issued on Monday morning to the lord-lieutenants of counties by Sir John Pakington : "War Office, Septemberll, 1868.—1 n view of the approach. ing general election, and of the proceedings preparatory thereto, I think it right to remind you that volunteers in uniform should take no part in any political demonstration or party meeting, and I have accordingly to request that you will give directions to this effect to the commanding officers of all volunteer corps within the county under your charge. I have further to request that you will also inform them that they are not to assemble their corps for drill or any other purpose between the issue of a writ and the termination of the election in any county or borough in the neighbourhood of their headquarters." There is nothing new in this circular, it being quite in accordance with former instructions issued 7th June, 1861, by Mr. Sidney Herbert. THE CLAIMS OF WOMEN. On Monday morning the female suffrage question was argued at great length before the revising barrister (Mr. Hosack) at Manchester. On the name of Mary Abbott—the first on the list — being called, Mr. Cobbett said he appeared for two or three persons nominally, but in fact for between 5,000 and 6,000 women who had sent in claims to be put upon the register, and who were legally qualified, but who had been omitted from the list by the overseers because they believed them to be disqualified. He argued that neither by common law nor by Act of Parliament were women disqualified, and that they were in fact qualified under the Reform Act of 1867, interpreted by Lord Romilly's Act. He discussed the various arguments pro and con at great length, and quoted the Lyme Regis case, in which there were three women (two widows and one spinster) on the roll of bur gesses as voters. Before the passing of the Act of Henry VI. it was clear that the whole of the inhabitants of a county or borough had a right to vote, and the only qualification for the knight or burgess to be elected was—he wished it were so now—that he should be discreet. In 1826 Lord Russell —no mean authority—made a speech in which he stated that universal suffrage must have prevailed in England before the Act of Henry VI.; and Lord Eldon, in the Privy Council, had said that all people in England had a right to vote for members of Parliament. The Revising Barrister: What I want, Mr. Cobbett, is a proof that women did vote for members of Parliament. Mr. Cobbett : Your want and mine, sir, are precisely the same. As to the Act of 1832, people from the time of Henry VI. down to then, were constantly being disfran chised, both by the Crown and the House of Commons. In the third volume of " Luder's Report," page 116, he referred his Honour to the Windsor case, with respect to which Parliament passed a resolution stating that " all the inhabitants of Windsor had a right to vote for mem hers of Parliament," and if he could show that women there voted, as no doubt they did, that fact would prove his case—that women had a right to vote at elections if pro perly and legally qualified. They were entitled to vote on all local questions now, and were compelled to hold paro chial and other offices : and that being so, why not for members of Parliament? The learned gentleman then went on to quote several other cases, and concluded by urging that if there were no legal incapacity as to women voting, there was no common-law incapacity. He argued that there was not now a legal incapaeity existing, since, in the Act of 1867, the enfranchised persons were " every man," and if there was any incapacity before it was now done away with by the Act of 1867 and Lord Romilly's. If the word man was used as distinguished from the word woman, surely it imported the masculine gender, and then Lord Romilly's Act dealt with it. If it meant mankind, why then it meant both man and woman, and both had then a right to vote under the Act. Mr. H. Robinson, on the other side, argued that neither under the Act of 1867 nor any other Act had there been power or a right given to women to vote. Mr. Cobbett, he considered, had totally failed to make out the case in favour of his clients. Wherever women were included in Acts of Parliament in contradistinction to men, they were specially mentioned ; and he cited in proof the late Act referring to the agricultural gang system, where men were specially mentioned in a special clause. The revising barrister said the question involved was so important that he would give his decision in the morning. A review and sham fight took place in Heaton Park on Saturday afternoon, awl it is said to have been one of the finest military spectacles which have been witnessed since the establishment of the volunteer force. Major Gene ral Sir John Garvock was the reviewing officer, and nearly 7,000 regular troops and volunteers took part in the move ments. Much sympathy is felt for the Bishop of Limerick, Dr. Graves, whose eldest son has just died from the effects of sunstroke, in the 27th year of his age. The deceased be longed to the India Civil Service, but in consequence of im paired health came home on leave of absence. A few days since he went to CaLir foi a game at cricket, and became ill on the field, and never rallied. The area of land under cultivation in the Aus tralasian colonies, according to the last returns, is 2,500,000 acres, and the live stock consists of 600,000 horses, 4,000,000 cattle, i 8,500,000 sheep, and 400,000 pigs, giving a total of more than 43,000,000 head of stock. THE QUEEN AND DR. NORMAN MACLEOD.—Her Majesty has kindly permitted Dr. Norman Macleod to write a description of Scottish scenery for the illustrated edition of " Our Life in the Highlands," which is soon to appear. PARTY SPIRIT. —When I was young I was r customed to hear pronounced with abhorrence, almost with execration, the names of men who are now hailed by their former foes as champions of grand principles, and as worthy of the highest public trusts. This lesson of early experience, which later years have corroborated, will never be forgotten.—Dr. Channing. A Derry paper hints that the meditated visit of the Lord-Lieutenant to Donegal, before returning to Dublin Castle, is to be turned to electioneering purposes. A requisition is now in course of signature calling upon Lord Francis Conyngham to come forward as a candidate for that county in the Liberal interest ; and the journal referred to conceives that, only for the threatened opposi tionto Viscount Hamilton, the visit would not have been undertaken. Sir Edward Leclimere, a well-known High Church man and Conservative member for Tewkesbury, has pro posed to settle the Irish Church dispute "by ceding the precedence of the Irish Establishment, by removing the Irish bishops from the House of Lords, and by placing the legal and social position of the archbishopsand bishops of the Roman Catholic Church on an equal footing with that of the Anglican hierarchy in Ireland." A letter from Berlin, in the North-Eastern Cor .tvondenee, says : - 11 Lord Stanley has written from Lucerne to Lord Loftus, din ctiug him to congratulate the Prussian Government on the measures of disarma ment adopted here. The English Ambassador, before leaving for Dresden, had a long conversation with 31. do Thiele, in which he declared that England could not but render homage to the dignified and significant attitude of the Government of King William, and that she would sup port with all her influence this pacific policy of Prussia." We have to announce the death of Sir William :,eggs George Hoste, the second baronet. He was torn in 1818 ; was a Roar Admiral of the Navy, a Groom in- Waiting, and naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. He served in Burnish and China from 1852 to 1837, and was married in 1858 to Caroline Dorothea, daughter of Mr. C. P. Brune. He is succeeded by his son, William Henry Charles, who was born in 1860. The first baronet was a naval officer, who particularly distinguished himself in gain ing a victory over the combined French and Italian fleets at the head of four frigates off the Island of Lessa in 1811, and the baronetcy was conferred in 1814, on the recommendation of the Earl of Liverpool, who was then Prime Minister. GENERAL • ORDINATIONS. - The Archbishop of Canterbury will hold a general ordination on Sunday next, snd on the same day ordinations will be held by the Bishop of Durham, at Auckland Castle ; the Bishop of Ely, at St. Paul's Church, Bedford ; the Bishop of St. Davids, at the parish church of Abergwili ; the Bishop of Oxford, at Cuddesden ; the 'Bishop of Lincoln, in his ;Itthedral ; the Bishop of Ripon, in his cathedral ; the Bishop of Carlisle, in his cathedral ; and by the Bishop of Hereford, in his cathedral. Bishop Trower, acting for the Bishop of Lichfield, will hold an ordination in Lich field Cathedral on St. Matti, W ' S Day, Monday, September 21 ; and the Bishop of London, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, on Sunday, December 20. On Sunday, the 13th inst., the remains of the late Madame Muslims., wife of his Excellency Musurus Pasha, were removed from their temporary resting place in Kensal-green Cemetery, and were placed in a " chapel:e ardente," specially constructed, on board the steamer Parana, for conveyance to Constantinople, where a hand some mausoleum has been erected for their final reception. It was originally intended to convey the body overland ; but, owing to the difficulty of having a " chapelle ardente " erected on board of one of the steamers of the Messageries Imp4riales, that idea was abandoned. The removal of the body was undertaken by Messrs. W. Garstin and Co., of Welbeck-street, and all the arrange ments were carried out to the /*ire eatisfaptiou of the igtuotcd partici% THE -SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,. SEPTEMBER 15, 1868. THE "MISCREANTS' OF ITALY. In a leading - wade commenting on the speech of Archbishop Manning at the Beau mont Institution, and on a discourse of Mon signor Talbot at St. Mary's, Moorfields, con cerning St. Thomas A Becket and the cause for which he was put to death, the Times asks triumphantly how is it that there are " mis creants in Italy " where there has not been, as in England, a Henry II: and a Henry VIII., and how comes it to pass that the first instinct of Italy, in becoming master of its destiny, was to follow in the footsteps of Henry 11. and Henry VIII. A fool may ask a question in a few words, to answer which may cost a wise man many. We have no doubt, however, that Monsignor Talbot could readily explain to the Times why it is that there are " mis creants in Italy" who assault the Papacy and plunder the Church in the nineteenth century, as Henry VIII. did in the sixteenth. A few of the more obvious reasons why there are " miscreants in Italy" who attack the Church, we will state for the benefit of the Times. To begin with its preliminary statement—ls it true that Italy has been bound hand and foot to the Pope, or to Princes in abject submission to Papal Supremacy, and. that consequently • the Holy See is responsible for the existence of " miscreants in Italy ?" Has not Italy dur ing the present century been to a large extent under the rule of French Rev olutionary pre fects, Bourbon Kings, and Austrian. Archdukes ? Who has not heard of the Leopoldine laws, the offspring of Josephism, transplanted by Austria to Italian soil ? Under the operation of these laws the minds of the Lombards were alienated from the Papacy, and from the spirit of the Church. The Bourbon Kings, if not as bad as Austrian Archdukes, were not famous for their docility, but who can doubt the cor rupting influence of the French Revolution on a people so impressionable as the Italians, and so open to the contagion of French ideas ? The Times will be the last to deny that nations are governed by ideas as well as by laws. Revolutionary France could not be put into quarantine ; she infected the nations. Her lawless spirit after her great rebellion against all laws, human and divine, passed into Europe, and has made it what it is. Italy was not exempt from the vast moral pestilence. Ideas divinely communicated by God and preserved in Italy, as the Times asserts, for seven centuries before Henry VIII., and for three after, by the teach ing of the Papacy, were rudely assaulted in the first instance by the violence, and then subtlety undermined by the intellectual scepti cism and materialism of the French Revolu tion. The Papacy is not responsible for this conflict of ideas, it could not exclude French influence, nor assure to Christianity the vic tory over unbelief. As France fell, so Italy has fallen. There are " miscreants " in Italy to day, because there were " miscreants' in France yesterday. Mazzini and Garibaldi are the feeble results of Voltaire and Robespierre. The French Revolution, too, is but a link in the chain. It was the logical issue of the revolt against the principle of authority in the six teenth century. The chief agents of the Refor mation, as we have lately been reminded by a learned Anglican divine, were more impious and less honest than Marat and Diderot and Robespierre. There are " miscreants in Italy" now, who assault the Papacy and pillage the Church, as there were miscreants in England at the Reformation, and in France under the Revolution. Christianity—or as the Times has it, the Papacy—is not responsible for the crimes of men; there is a devil abroad sowing tares in the fields of the Church; Henry 11. is followed by Henry VIII. ; Voltaire and Marat are succeeded by Mazzini and Garibaldi. The Church has nothing to do with this succes sion of evil. When Christianity came to re deem the world, it found evil in possession of the earth, and it has had ever since to war against the corrupt nature of man, " The instinct of the Italians, when they were mas ters of their own destiny," says the Times, "led them to follow in the footsteps of Henry 11. and Henry VIII." And why did the Italians follow their instinct, it asks, if the Papacy was not to blame? As well might we ask, in our turn, why did man fall, if God was not the author of temptation ? The answer is obvious, man fell because he preferred evil to good, and so the Italians, " when they were the masters of their own destiny," that is when temptation and opportunity combined, followed the instinct of a corrupt nature. Temptation and opportunity present them selves, and in various forms, to a nation--it need not always be under the. form of a Henry 11. and a Henry Vlll.—and a ration need not always yield to temptation and oppor tunity. Long and often Italy has resisted temptation and opportunity; France fell earlier and has repented to a great extent; England still sooner, and is now sufferinc , in wide spread religious discord, in the unbelief of the masses of its people, the consequences of its fatal apostacy. And if there are miscreants in Italy now, it is not because they were'once obedient to the Church, but because when the opportunity of evil offered, they yielded to the instinct of a corrupt and tempted nature. They are not the true friends of Italy who glory in the victory of her corrupt instinct, but rather they who denounce as miscreants those sac rilegious men who now, in Italy, are following in the footsteps of Henry 11. and Henry Vlll. —Westminster Gazette. PROTESTANTIUNG 711 E JEWS. -- -4.- A contemporary recently ventured the cal culation that every " converted " Jew repre sented an expenditure of at least £1,200, and that, conEidering the mode in which the finances of the evangelising societies are ad ministered, it can hardly be done for less. A case which came before the magistrate at Wandsworth on Thursday, gives some colour to the hypothesis, by showing that the " con verts" are evidently impressed with the belief that they represent amoney value, and that the evangelisers are not so careful as they should be to disabuse them of it. Two of these brands snatched from the burning were charged with pestering the " missionary " who " con verted" them. This gentleman acknowledged that he had given them money occasionally, but that they imagined because he had bap tised them he was bound to maintain them. He added, also, that there is a rooted convic tion among the " unbelieving " Jews that the missionary receives £l5O a head for every " convert." One would like to know how far there is any foundation for this tradition, and whether it is to be accepted as the key to the peculiar relations subsisting between the par ties in the case at Wandsworth. For instance, Mr. Sinyanki's " converts " affirm that he promised them £2O a head if they embraced his own particular gospel, and his explanation is that he did not guarantee them that exact amount, although he did " promise that he would write a letter to those individuals who took an interest in converted Jews to assist in raising a sum of money for them." It is to be hoped that the transaction is susceptible of a more satisfactory explanation, for it rather jars upon common-sense notions of evangelisa tion when it covers bargains of the kind hinted at, and presents us with this exhibition of a couple of " converted" Jews knocking at the door often, and refusing to go away until he has paid them the price in consideration of which they were good enough to embrace the truths of Christianity.—Sbotilard. rho London, Society has been a good deal criticized in the Times lately, and a correspon dent writes as follows : "I have always regarded the Society for the Conversion of Jews with much suspicion, and the letter of `Vigilans,' and more especially the lame defence of the secretary, Mr. John Gill, in your impression of this morning, tends to confirm it. Whatever else of good the funds subscribed for this specific purpose achieve, it is very plain they enable the secretary to enjoy a pleasant autumnal outing in one of the most beautiful localities in the world, and it was very unthoughtful in Vigilans " to disturb Mr. Gill's necessary recreation after such an ex hausting labour as that of converting Jews to Christianity. " I chanced some few days since to employ a Jewish glazier to mend my windows, and took the opportunity of questioning him as to the success of this mission among his people.' He informed me that he had resided in Norwich seven years, and that neither clergyman nor minister had ever called upon him. He is a very intelligent and a very well educated man, and would prove an over-match, intellectually, to any deputation ' I ever en countered at a Jew-converting meeting. He informed me likewise that when he resided in London he never knew a single instance of an honest well-to-do Jew abjuring the faith of his fathers, but that a few—only a very few—out casts and profligates were occasionally bribed into receiving the sacrament of baptism, and they only submitted to such an ordeal on the receipt of substantial charity. Would it not be wise, and especially would it not be more economical, to convert this Norwich Jew, close at our doors, and of whose conversion any sceptic might satisfy his incredulity, rather than expend large sums in sending missionaries to all the corners of the earth, whose reported successes very few subscribers can verify ?" SPII?ITU4LLSJI. ( From the Anglo-American Times.) Those who have a turn for spiritual manifesta- tions ought to expend sixpence a month on Human .Nature, a monthly journal of Zoistic Science, in telligence, and Popular Anthropology, Embodying Physiology, Phrenology, Psychology, Spiritualism, Philosophy, The Laws of Health, and Sociology—all for sixpence I However puzzled the ordinary mind may be with the meaning of this string of Greek words, it becomes lost in amazement on reading the contents, half being above comprehension, and half beneath contempt. We can understand the letter from Andrew Jackson Davis, who from New Jersey criticises with great severity Mr. Hepworth Dixon's " Spiritual Wives," which he asserts to be from first to last a sensuous representation, a vulgar sensational work which ought to be suppressed; " so rapacious is the appetite of the Athenaum Dixon for details of passional attraction' unlicensed by law, that, in lieu of actual examples among Spiritualists, he gives free reins to his impure fancies, and makes no scruple of misrepresenting not only individuals, but also entire communities of honourable people." If we pass over "Psychological Inquiries" to read the " Remarkable Manifestations" by Mr. Home, we do what the editor may be assured the uninitiated will do, under the impression that even Mr. Harper, the miter, did not understand what he wrote. " Mili tary Trumpet Calls—The Spirit Voice—Sound of Guns—lnfantry and Cavalry Vibrations, &c:, &c.," will be found more ti the general taste then the paper on , the "Spiritual Body, or the Human Double." The recorder of these " Remarkable Ma nifestations" says " he intends during the winter to resume the crystal experiments so singularly interesting and so intimately connected with the laws of odic light," and so we may look for more. It appears that he has already in former numbers de scribed highly interesting crystal experiments, but the owner having demanded the return of the Japanese crystal ball he was barred from con tinuing them. Those not yet introduced into the " spiritual" world might imagine that he had ample reason to be satisfied with what was accomplished without the crystal ball. Mr Home desirel a cloth to be spread on the table, a suspicious request-- then an engine in motion was heard with its thump and vibration, and a sound followed re sembling the passage of artillery waggons—the dull, steady tramp of infantry came next with the clatter of horses, and Mr. Home holding an accordion at arm's length a bugle call rung out loud and shrill and was repeated. A voice was heard behind and above Mr. Home, who alone could understand the imper fect articulation. Then came the drum beat and the tattoo, followed by rolls of musketry, volley and platoon firing, and that of the breech-loader, not unlike a clock running down. The spiritual action appeared to be getting hot, for the boom of cannon shook the room, the explosions being felt and the reports heard in the adjoining house. Mr. Home passed into a trance, and, as might readily be supposed, the sounds ceased; but, after a pause of five minutes, which foll)we 1 the pr,anonitory spasmodic action of his limbs, he raised himself address. Here it g rstand "Psychological a st u t d ac d k e u li s v , er if ed we a c n an i a n o te t r u es a t d in e Inquiries," what cha n ce will we have of coin sparr,!plire on glancing e i n s d ing voicegaciag a fr t om Spirit-Land. To our the ad tress, we felt at who after a Parlia home with Mr. Houle. Sup er i or an d sc i ent ifi c t the entertainment and levitations. Nut strai n of this new truth." spirits r w y e r d e e present, bate d e cihdee decided s a t i h d a , can only l b y e a ‘ o r ti f te ra st p shouldal t e n c t s s i st Curious word that new, for, if a truth at all, it is a very old one ; and when he add s , ‘, that the light is we feel humiliated, for we (the not all) intellects. t,,0 know w Ao greats lae f l o v are r governsamong these is a i ll things;' ' the great laws are This great law bin is cycles exist, and all a n 1 0 l t t e o v g e e n t h k e n r o . w nCertain to spirits gre at . obey the laws which regulate these." We feel slightly raised from our humiliation when the spirit voice tells its hearers that they would not under- t details of their condition ; inspirits °ace on earth are missed, s ce a r n ta d if having departed, the o ther spirits know not whe- dreamt of, which they (the the we who re told were the whe ther." After assuring the m that there was more than spirits) would, if they could, communicate, the voice their earthly philosophy continued—" When a man says, I have done so and so or invented this or that machine, he is wrong ; he has done nought. All he knows comes from above. He cannot create himself ; his very nature bars this. Ile has but one way of acquiring knowledge, by quiet, prayerful, and candid investigation of the truths before him. Prayer does not change the un alterable laws of God, but it brings us nearer to God ; it is the only channel that links us to our Creator." Time bangs heavily on your hands ; but with us the echo goes ringing on for ever. We can see things, but dare not disclose them ; laws created from the beginning preventing us. Even the spirits are grasped for future resurrection and progress, the soul entering this cycle to be purified. " God does not punish ; we punish ourselves." Dropping from the sublime to a state little elevated above the ridi culous, the voice went on : —" You will ask what delayed us so long. We had to collect sufficient electricity to imitate the booming of cannon. It gives us so much pleasure • to aid you, we are never weary ; we were not when on earth, why should we be so now? We wish so much to teach you that life is the stepping-stone to the eternal life here after." After addressing several individuals pre sent, Mr. Home awoke with a shudder, greatly ex hausted, and wholly unconscious of what had passed. This paper is followed by " Whisperings from Far and Near, Direct Spirit-Drawings, and other Mani festations." We have no wish to ridicule even pre tended interviews between parents and the spirit of their dead child. We merely then say not only did the spirit write letters, but drew portraits of himself, which the editor declares to be exquisite, the pencil lines being fine, artistic, and to the purpose. Some of the drawings are coloured, the writing of the letters is backwards and in an awkward beginner's hand. Mr. Childs, who sends this paper, is an artist, and his colours were in the room where these remarkable seances took place; bat on examination no marks showing use could be seen on the colours. Mr. Childs evidently attributes the sketches to the spirit of his own father, who was also an artist, whose spirit must have been present with that of his grand-child. Under the head of Evil Spirits a correspondent gives solne very unpleasant per sonal experience. No sooner were he and his wife in bed at a quarter past eleven than she was seized with an excruciating toothache, and he was con trolled by some evil spirit. We suspect, and we have the less hesitation in giving the opinion, as the editor asks for an explanation, that the evil spirit ought to be called bad, deleterious gin, brandy, or whisky • spirit. The correspondent cannot see why he and his wife "should be subjected to such a spiritual persecution while greater sinners go free." But the answer to this is, that the greater sinners pro bably drink better liquor. We leave our readers to judge, g:ving the correspondent's own words : " There we were, one in the most acute pain, and the other writhing, kicking, and tearing, and uttering all manner of imprecations and curses (that's himself.) Shortly after my wife was controlled by other influences, who through her endeavoured to dismiss the evil ones who had possession of me. The manipulations and passes were very quick and vigorous, and for the time she seemed endowed with a power vastly superior to that in her normal condition, otherwise she could not have held me down. During this time I was making desperate efforts to get free and make all the mischief possible, and my countenance was in hideous contortions. At last it was overcome :we got up and washed bands and face, and retired again, but only to go through the same process in even greater force than before; so much so, that I was afraid something se rious was going to happen to my wife, she was so utterly exhausted with the efforts to get the evil spirits away, and thus we were kept going, with a few minutes' inter mission, till three o'clock in the morning, an& most of the time my wife was suffering martyrdom in her teeth and face." It must not be supposed that Human Nature is wholly devoted to this stuff. A long paper is given on a great philanthropic movement designed to for ward the cleaning of the Great Unwashed—to sup port the People's Baths. Another object is to fur ther the Temperance movement, to stop Sun day trading in intoxicants, and the Assembly of Universal Conventions to forward the advancement and interests of the human race. MINING IMELLIGENCE. Mr. Cronise gives the following returns of some of the leaditig mines in California :—" The total production of the Hayward mine in ten years was $3,725,000. The quartz raised monthly now is 1,800 tons ; the average gross yield is $2O 04 per ton ; the expense, $6 04 ; and the net yield, $l4. The total monthly product for 1867 was $36,000 ; the net earnings for the year, $302,400 ; the net estimated value of the ore in sight at the end of the year, $BlO,OOO ; the total vertical depth of the deepest workings from the surface, 1,049 feet. The gross yield of the North Star for four years ending December 31st, 1866, was 842,000 ; net earnings for five years ending December 31st, 1867, $375,000. For six months ending December 31st, 1867, the yield was $110,545 84, and the profits, $20,000. The Eureka Mine, at Grass Valley, in the year end ing September 30, 1865, took out 11,375 tons of quartz, the average gross yield per ton being $45 83, and the expense of extraction and re duction $l3 75. The production of the year was $521,431 41 ; the total expenses, $192,648 44 ; the net profit, $327,782 77. For the year ending September 30th, 1867, the total net yield, $348,102 37 ; the average gross yield per ton, $4B. The Empire Mine in fourteen months ending June 30, 1867, produced 37,840 tons, averaging $35 20 gross, and in the six months ending December 31, 1867, produced 3,500 tons, yielding 100,000 gross and $27,000 net. The Banner Mine at Nevada, in four months ending December 31, 1867, pro duced $67,512 72, the quartz averaging $23 74, and in three years ending at the same time yielded $207,949 66, an average of $2O 34 per ton." Gold has been discovered near Laramie, on the Uuiou Pacific Railroad. It was found in Moore's gulch, 35 miles to the S.W., in the Medicine Bow Range of the North Platte slope. Mr. St. Clair, the discoverer, who is sanguine of the value, is an old California miner. Only surface prospects have yet been made, and plenty of good colour is obtained from half an ounce to an ounce being extracted from the loose dirt by washing in pans. The bed rock is from 7 to 18 feet below the surface, and large results are expected when it is reached, as Mr. St. Clair asserts that they are the best placer dig. gings found for ten years. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. Pennsylvania claims to possess a greater length of railroad than any other State in the Union. In round numbers she possesses four thousand miles to New York's three thousand, or one mile of rail to every square mile of her territory. The San Francisco Bulletin says :—The railroad race for Salt Lake is becoming exciting. The Union Pacific has reached a point 700 miles west of o.ualia, and has 20,000 men at work on the line to S.►lt Lake. The Central Pacific is completed over 200 miles east of Sacramento, and has over 9,000 men at work, with the advantage of a more level coun try. General Case, chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, is now making the final survey and location of the north end of the line. There has been filed in the Secretary of State's office the res)lutions and order of increase of the capital stock of the Central Pacid-.., Railroad Coin. piny, from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000. The iron bridge on the line of the Catasauqua and Foglesville Railroad is the longest iron structure of the kind in the United States, the extreme length being 1,165 ft., and height 90ft. The stockholders of the Atlantic and Great Wes tern It tilway will hold a special meeting at the office, 40, Broadway, on the 21st inst., to receive a report from the board of directors, and to take such action upon the subjects touched oa in said report as may be deemed advisable. The annexed shows the gross earnings of the following-named railroads during the first seven months of the present and preceding year : ,--Seven Months----, Railroads. 1867. 1868. Atlantic and Great Western 82,860,346 $2,578,166 Chicago and Alton Chicago and North-western 5,476,623 6,933,089 Chicago, Rock Is., and Pacific 1,857,601 2,221,891 Cleveland and Pittsburgh Illinois Central 3,548,075 3,501,524 . . Marietta and Cincinnati 624,187 680,728 Michigan Central 2,257,709 2,406,411 Michigan South and North Indiana 2,363,581 2,613,793 Milwaukee and St. Paul 2,355,657 2,935,300 Ohio and Mississippi Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, & Chicago 3,917,747 4,338,734 Toledo, Wabash, and Western 1,969.628 1,937,855 Western Union 321,119 - 382,807 Total 32,585,217 $35,709,211 The gross earnings per mile of the same roads in the first seven months of the same years were as follows : Railroals. 1867. 1868. 1867. 1868. Atlan. and Great Western 507 507 $5,642 $5,085 Chicago and Alton 2BO 210 6,971 7,866 Chicago and North- westrn 1,152 1,152 4,754 6,019 Chic., Rock Isld., & Palle 4lO 452 4,531 4,916 Cleveland and Pittsburgh 229 229 5,661 6,083 Illinois Central Marietta and Cincinnati 251 251 2,488 2,712 Michigan Central Mich. South & North Ind 524 524 4,507 4,984 Milwaukee and St. Paul 827 827 2,861 3,549 Ohio and Mississippi 340 310 5, 46 4,637 Pitts., Pt. Wayne, & Chic. 468 468 8,371 9,271 Tel., Wabh., and Westrn 521 521 3,778 3,719 Western Union Total Wall-Street Journal. The extension of the Chicago, Rook Island, and Pacific Railroad, from Des Moines, is being pushed rapidly. By the Ist of September the road will be in operation 52 miles west of Des Moines, and, with good weather i❑ November, the managers ex pect to have the road graded to Omaha. It is said that the large earnings of the company will pay a great proportion of the expense of the extension and its equipment, and leave therm with two mil lions of dollars on hand to be divided among stock holders. The Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company report for the year eliding February 29th, 1868, their net earnings to be $1,880,831. After payment of interest, rent, taxes, sinking funds, So., 'there remains $849,751, which would yield 7i per cent. to the common stock, after paying 10 per cent. on 5,868 shares of the guaran tee 1. The expenses have been reduced from 65i per cent. in 1866 and 1867 to 601- per cent. in 1867 and 1868, while, daring the same time, the supplies have been increased to $78,809, a result quite unusual in railway reports when expenses are reduce]. The road is in fine order, its track and equipment being equal to any road in the West. The new line of railway between Suez and Alex andria via Azazieli was opened last Tuesday, and passengers by the next Indian mail will proceed by that route, which will take only ten hours, includ ing stoppages. Railroads are making good progress throughout Maine. The contracts for the grading of the Knox and Lincoln Road have been made, and the work is to be finished by the middle of June, 1870. The European and North American Railway is pushed rapidly, and trains will be running to Lincoln by January next. The Connecticut River Railroad has offered to establish a railway line between Greenfield and Turner's Falls, running part of the way on the track of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad. FRACAS IN BROADWAY 7 HEA7 RE. " FOUL PLAY." The action of the Deputy Sheriffs in New York city has at least the charm of novelty. On the night of Monday, the 24 th ult., they proceeded to serve a writ on D. 11. Harkins, manager of the Broadway Theatre, at the suit of J. I). Lloyd, of the New York Theatre, Foul Play being acted in both theatres. They forced an entrance by knocking down the doorkeeper, and stalked on to the stage like the " heavy villains" in a tragedy, only with real bullets in the pistols they did not hesitate to use in their attempt to capture Mr. Harkins. A boy was mortally wounded, and a man seriously, when the police interfered and overpowered the other slaughtering myrmidons of the law. The Sheriffs of New York must recruit their deputies from Roe buck's " assassinating Italians," as this appears to be a common method among them of serving a writ. Not long since, says a reliable authority, one of the fraternity went to a lawyer's office in New York to replevin a bill of exchange in a friendly suit, and not finding the lawyer who held it in the office, re fused, even at his partner's request, to wait a few minutes, and having failed to force the safe, got the partner on the floor, and proceeded to strangle him, when his life was only saved by the intervention of some clients. Then the deputy drew his pistol, but was overpowered and disarmed, and for this he got the party arrested for assault and battery. how it fared with the clients who prevented the murder is not stated ; but the Sheriff took no notice of the complaint made against his officer. Regarding the first case, Sheriff O'Brien has writ ten an impertinent letter to the police justice, of fering to take the blame of the conduct of his men, whom he justifies, on himself. Generally, says our authority, the Press exaggerates, but in these cases, strange to say, it conceals or diminishes, and the real horrors are only heard in private conversa tion. The bar has to bear, for a lawyer who makes himself obnoxious to the Sheriff's office would find it so difficult to get his writs executed that his business would leave him, and there is no use iu ap pealing to the court, for it would be a mere com plaint of the Sheriff to himself. On the following Wednesday Foul Play received further development, as an injunction was served by the Deputy-sheriffs on two of the company when acting and in view of the audience. This time there was a struggle but no pistol firing. Those present hissed and threatened to lynch the intruders. The next night the play was changed to the version by Boucicault, as brought out at the Holborn, and on Friday it was withdrawn from the Broadway, leaving the New York victorious. The deputies arrested remain in custaly, except one who was liberated on bail of $5,000. George Hickey, James Moore, Dennis Leary, James Ward, and Thomas Quinn, are the names of the deputy sheriffs who committed the shooting outrage, and they sound very Irish, as does that of their chief. They were taken before Justice Shandley, at the Jefferson Market Police-court, for examination. Acting Manager Moore, of the Broadway Theatre, Mr. De Forest, and others appeared against the men. The latter offered no testimony in defence, and were committed without bail to await the re sult of the men's injuries. The nick-name of these deputies is " O'Brien's Bruisers." One paper as serts that " they are not remarkably courteous and discreet in their manner of proceeding—they seldom are ; probably they acted like the boisterous ruffians they too often are." It goes on to say, although favouring the Irish interest in New York, " O'Brien's bruisers are usually selected for their fighting proclivities and political services, but they are not generally of a murderous character. The innocent boy who was shot, and the audience whose lives were jeopardized by the flying bullets of the combatants, were the parties principally outraged." Let Drury-lane or the Adelphi, or any other London theatre, imagine the interruption in the full performance of a piece by the appearance of bailiffs with a writ in one hand and a revolver in the other. Imagine the sham act styl ienly changed into a genuine tragedy, and a fight for life to take place on the stage. Imagine the whizz of the bullet over the heals of the scared audience, and the thud as it struck into the wood-work. Let them picture a boy mortally, and a Mal ser;ously, wounded before their eyes, and the battle only stopped by the entrance of the police to secure the bailiffs. There would be no gallows high en )ugh in London in such case on which to hang the offen ders and to satisfy the outraged public. Let them further suppose that the next morning the Sheriff declared his men to be perfectly justified, and that he desired to take the blame on himself. If there is a case in which the citizens of London would lynch a man, it would be that. The Sheriffs, however, can act with more impunity in New York, for the attack on the theatre was repeated, and on Friday the Sheriffs' party finally gained their point. MISTAKES. Those who believe that journalists always check figures, references, and assertions before they un dergo the magic of being transferred from manu script into print must be surprised at the errors in plain statements which often appear even in leading papers. A writer may hazard an opinion in pre ference to breaking the thread of his thoughts, and forget to look out the reserved point, when he is startled by seeing his conjecture published. Last week the Spectator spoke of England as being 7,000 miles from America—but if the editor was carried 7,000 miles West, and dropped, he would find himself swimming in the Pacific Ocean. The Star not long ago asserted that when the Union Pacific Railway was opened the traveller might go from New York to San Francisco in two days ! Not bad travelling that, considering that it would average 70 miles an hour for 48 hours ; we imagine six days will be the quickest attainable for a long time to come. A curious number of errors is contained in the following " Occasional Note" in the Pall Mall Gazette:— "New England, the stronghold of the Republican party, will certainly b 3 true to the cause. Vermont has given the leaders a majority of '27,000, a gain of 7,000 as com pared with the last election. If the East did not make a fight with the West now for the possession of power, it would be the strangest thing in American history. The West has begun in earnest a long-expected campaign, and the East will have to Sght hard for what it has gained by the war, or see the last chance of power slip through its fingers. We may expect to see all the New England States go as Vermont has done; but New England alto gether only casts 33 votes in the Electoral College, and New York alone casts the same number. The victory in Vermont was anticipated by all parties alike, and conse quently it does not throw any light on the probable result of the contest." The six new England States cast 39, not 33 votes. They will not all go as Vermont has done ; Connec ticut being Democratic Maine, and. New Hampshire doubtful. The whole question hinged on the in crease or decrease in the Republican majority, as throwing a light on the probable result. But numerous as are the errors in the statements, they are surpassed in the meaning conveyed. The West is represented as having begun in earnest its long expected campaign against the E.tst. The New England States are to combine against the West, and so we might naturally suppose would other Eastern States. But New York is made to neutralize the New England combination with its 33 votes. here we suppose the writer classes New York among the Western States, and he certainly represents the Re publican party as the champion of the East. That New York will vote the Democratic ticket no one doubts, as will Maryland and Delaware, very likely New Jersey, certainly Connecticut, probably Penn sylvania. These, we presume, the writer considers to be Eastern States. here then we have the East fighting against itself and knocking down its own champion ; and strange to say, if we look West we shall see the same result, for the most thoroughly Western States will most probably throw their votes ou the same side as the New Euglanders. This paragraph is a curiosity of error, and one he who un' consciously produced it, might try in vain to equal. —Anglo-American Times. An American paper says :—" Oh Thursday, the 19th August, the first number of a new journal, called the West African Herald, vt as published at Sierra Leone, the editor, publisher, and printers being natives of the West Coast. The paper is printed on a decoy sheet, and is got up as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Mr. C. Bannerman, the editor, must have some good friends at the courts of the kings and chiefs of the West African coast. For instance, iu his prospectus to his subscribers —cash in advance—he states that parties desiring to be supplied with the West African Herald at the following places :—Winnebah, apply to Aquah, King of \Vint - kebab ; at Jellah Coffee, to Tay, prince of that place; and at Aqua pim, Akim, Croboe, Dinkerah, Wassah, Fautee, and Domi nassi, by applying to the kings and chiefs of those coun tries. Pending the appointment of several other eminent "blue bloods" at eight other places on the coast, sub scribers must communicate with the editor." The National Intelligencer says :—" Through the efforts of Colonel Norton, of Paris, the American banking house of Norton and Co. have Imui authorised by the Se cretary of the Treasury to attend to all business connected with the distribution of official information among the bankers and brokers of Europe." N:. N:. Pomeroy, commonly known as " Brick" Pomeroy, is remarkable for his extraordinary success as a journalist. He was born on Christmas-day, 1803, at Elmira, New York, and being left an orphan was brought up by his uncle, S. M. White. He was un educated, and spent his boyhood in working on the farm, and selling the berries he picked on the hills from door to door in Elmira. In 1850 he learnt the printing business in the ()Zees of the Corning Journal. For two years he published the Athens Gazette in Pennsylvania , but removed to Wisconsin in 1837, where he set up the Horicon Argus, without a dollar in his pocket. This he sold for $2,000, and worked as city editor of the Mil waukee News. In 1860 he took up a bankrupt concern called the La Crosse Union and Democrat, dropping the Union. He accompanied the army as a correspondent , but his uncompromising Democratic principles found little favour, and in 1863 he was driven off for a severe criticism of the Northern generals. When the war closed in 1865 the circulation of his paper was only 150 a week, now it is over 300,000, and his income little short of £40,000 a year. His printing office at La Crosse, Wis consin, a town which owes to him its name and reputation , is the finest in existence, filled with curiosities like a museum, and with luxuries like a palace. He has lately started a Democratic daily paper in New York, with s circulation of 20,000 to begin with. The style of journalism which has met with this marked success reflects little credit either on the United States or on the Democratic party, although we believe Mr. Pomeroy to be thorough l y honest in his convictions. George, " Artemus Ward's" favourite boy, is now at work in Houghton's "River-side Press" priuting-( 15 °1 under a provision of the humorist's will, which require d his apprenticeship to be "the best printer in America." There was a rumour that Garibaldi bad .1 00 Caprera, which is now said to be untrue. It is said that Lord Napier's share of the sig months' batta granted for service in Abyssinia Wi ll amount to 29,850 rupees. The death is announced of an accomplished United States literary man, Mr. George J. Adler, best known as the author of a German and English dictionary" which has become a text-book in American public schools. The Chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Vermcnt has been accepted by new H. A. P. Torry of Vergennes, and Rev. John B. Perry e l the Museum and Comparative Zoology at Harvard bag been secured as lecturer on Geology. Mr. Watts has received his instructions a g Minister to Austria, and will depart immediately O f Vienna. Baron Charles Von Lederer, the new Austriall Minister to tho United States, arrived in New York , °l2 Wednesday, August 26, from Liverpool. General M'Ciellan has promised to return t° Pennsylvania in time to take an active part in the Presi dential Election campaign. David L. Swayne, LL.D., late president of the Raleigh, North Carolina, University, died at that plac e °II Thursday, August 27. Some weeks ago he and Professor s Fetter were thrown from a waggon, and Mr. Swayue seriously, and, as it has proved, fatally injured. At the annual meeting of the assured members of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company , °II Monday, August 24, the old board of directors was Ed, elected, as follows :—Caleb Rice, Henry Fuller, jun., mund Freeman, Otis Childs, W. C. Sturtevant, 5 9 • 133 ' 113 Bowles, Ephraim W. Bond, James Kirkham, Joseph Stoat% Clark W. Bryan, F. B. Bacon and Sylvanus Adam s Springfield; Elliot C. Cowdin and Alfred Lamber t New York ; A. J. Benyon and R. W. Holman of Boston William Bross and Benjamin Lombard of Chicago ; ll ' Erringer of Philadelphia, John S. Kidder of Manchester, New Hampshire ; George J. Stannard of St. Albans, Ar°r mont ; James M. Churchill of Portland, Maine. Colonel C. D. Poston, formerly of Arizona, b ° late of Washington, accompanied the Hon. J. mss, Browne as Commissioner of Agriculture to China. 301 Richthofen also went with the mission as a geologist" The ol,ject of his mission will be a thorough and scientio° examination into the mineral resources of China. Mr. Edward Anthony, for many years the re sported President of the Lamar Fire Insurance 00n12501 died on August 25, in the 61st year of his ago. James Mann, the only Democratic member el Congress from Louisiana, died, Wednesday m orning, A e ,, 13: : 26, of congestion of the brain, and both branches of tm" State Legislature adjourned out of respect to his rners°roi. The Hon. J. H. Cameron and the Hon. Al•'r Cameron are to defend Whaler, charged with the ina ri ," h e o of Mr. M‘Gee, who is about to be tried at Ott awa. former gentleman is well known for his high Con servativ e principles and Orange proclivities. The Rev. J. C. Lovejoy used a horsewhip on the shoulders of Mr. Fisher, editor of the Cambridge CAN'libel: who attacked him in his paper while "stumping" Massae.;; setts in the Democratic interest. The rev. gentleman `"-ii compelled to apologize, and in doing so excused hi°' se , by saying, " It is better to endure the hell of y our psi ,,, "' thailthe self-reproach of one wrong act." The e ditor y lv t s wered by acknowledging that he was apt to irritate, b° his intentions are good, and he forgave, being a s f°rgilt ing disposition. The portrait painter Charles L. Elliott was buried on the 28th August. His funeral was attend ed by nearly all the profession in New York.¢Od An " Assassinating Italian" knows o f an A,,sir. in the Pacific which nobody else knows, an d being "'los ous to sell this treasure, and knowing whe re togo',. Of turned up in Washington at the office of the S ec rets n , State. Signor Moreno only asks for a ship to be so no t der his direction, and if the Government officers de e, report favourably the United States need not porc h° ye r. In the last 14 years nearly 4,000 aliens, an 3 10 . age of 283 a year, have obtained certifi ca tes of sa t" : De tion from the Secretary of State for the Britis h 001' partment under the provisions of the Act 1844 ' A , y , e rica The virulent cattle disease raging in '7„ you seems to be not without danger to human beiegs• at Troy, New York, whose hands had bees 15 ` .°31 :00 scratched by berry bushes, afterwards skin ned tvr" which had died of the disease, and soon after his s tra p iiedi oculated, it is believed, by virus from the coWs---SW" and speedily resulted in death. One of his xis covert attended him also fell ill in the same way, and her rece was declared doubtful. 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