The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP T: The London Review deals with the woman's rights question in an admirably written article. Suppose, it says, a law was proposed in Parliament that ne man should ever be out later than ten o'clock at night ; that butcher's meat • should never be more than sixpence a pound (with a proviso excepting early lamb perhaps) ; that clubs should be abolished ; that the price of baby flannel should be fixed at two shillings maximum; that there should be a censorship of the press ; that no servant should be allowed to wear a chignon when she went out with her young man ; and that the clergy should be appointed household inspectors in every parish. Suppose, again, that there was a dissolution of Parliament before the bill was carried. Suppose, again, that women bad votes. Does anybody doubt that the majority of the ladies in the constituency of the member who had proposed this measure would rush to the poll in their thousands, as the stump has it, and vote for that member? Those who think it most just that women should share political power with men—those who have the strongest and most distinctly wrought ppinion that there is a woman's side to every subject, and that life can never be well regulated until that side is represented in the administration of affairs—those who would not even think it right to refuse votes to women, if they were decisively demanded, might well give them with a trembling hand. Women may say, " You, the men, have kept us out of our right places 83 long, hindering our culture, and in various ways degrading us, that even if we are not your equals in intelligence and in equity of sentiment, you are to blame for it. Give us the same opportunities as you have your s Ares, and we Shall equal you, and be just as fit to exer cise political power." But if we had no other means what ever of settling in a rough way the question of the inequality of the sexes in intellectual power, there is ono at hand, as old as the hills, but quite decisive. It is notorious that women have not the originating faculty. Whately, as we most of us remember, used to say that the only case in which he ever knew of a woman's originating anything was that of a lady in some Irish city, who intro duced a certain improvement in the making of soda -water. There is not a trace of a tradition, so far as we know, that a woman ever invented a domestic implement, or a' domestic process, or started any great improvement in dress. She has invented nothing in spinning, weaving, or sewing. It was men who invented stocking-machinery. It was a man who invented the sewing -machine. Is 14 known that any woman ever suggested an improvement in printing, in writing, in painting, in music, in dancing, or in science? For all the thousands of years the world has existed, we have never bad from a woman anything like high music or high dramatic writing. We have never, so far as we remember, had any attempt by a woman to create a philosophy. We profoundly doubt whether it was a woman who first thought of such a thing as a LAW AND POLICE. IMPORTANT DECISION.—In the Court of Queen's Bench he case of Aldous v. Cornwall was called on fur judg ment. It was an action on a promissory note, to which the payee, the plaintiff, had added the words " on demand." The question was whether this vitiated the nstrument. Mr. Justice Lush delivered judgment., to the effect that the alteration did not vitiate the note, as !t was legally immaterial. It would be repugnant to justice and to common sense to say that the maker of a note was discharged from his obligation to pay it merely because he had put in writing upon it something which the law itself implied for the instrument. Judgment for the The Spectator ha s o ft en won d ered why so many men, not (plaintiff. vicious HE DEBTS OF M tRRIED WOMEN —ln the Court of vicious or luxurious or stupid, find it so hard to save, ' ' • Queen's Bench judgment was also given in the case of whether it would be possible to implant in lads the spirit Bo 1 Foster, which lIS . eY V. which was au action for necessaries of saving, as it is possible to implant the spirit of study, supplied for the child of the defendant on the order of his or ambition, or, as we believe, though this will be denied, the habit of c a l cu l a ti on . N o d ou b t a born instinct las wife, who w as li v i ng separate from him, and who had the something :are of the c hild ( w h o was under seven years of to do with the ma tt er , f or t h ere are races which save age) by virtue of an order in Chancery. 'There while other s sq u an d er, j ust as there are mice which was some slight evidence th a t th e w if e had withdrawn accumulate grains a n d mice w hi ch starve two days to from her husband by rev. iou of redst - onduct, and there gorge themselves on th e thi r d . But much must be due to training and c i rcumstance, else the Saxon in Edinburgh er support. Th e ques ti on was whether the wasdefendant evidenc e th a t s h e h a d no separate income adequate to and the Saxon i n K ent, t h e F renchman in Brittany and was liable for the necessaries suppli e d t o h er for his child. the Frenchm an i n S p i ta l f i elds would not differ so violent! Juetices Blackburn, Mellor, and L us h held net the as they' do i n th e accumu l at i ve faculty. The evil, th e greatest of the defendant was li a bl e, an d th a t a w i fe separated from het economical evils in our society, must be curable, and th e fi rs t step to cure it is to a husband on accoun t o f hi s m i scon d uct was in the same peal. cause. rtain its cause. Th e Ti mes sa id a b out a year since it Lion as if s h e h a d b een t urne d out of doors by him, and was inability to do multipli ca ti on , to remem b er that a shilling a des was by law a ll owe d t o pl e d ge hi s credit for reasonable Y is -sxpenses. A s , th ere f cre , the claim was for reasonable 218 15s. a year ; and the suggestion was shrewd, but it supplies for he rse lf, it was eearly s u pp orta b le. The does not c over th e w h o l e case. No b ody saves less than the man who i s a l ways worry i ng over the details of his Lord Chief Justice was of a different op i n i on. He dailyexpenditu re , fi xe d, as it usua ll y i s, b y circumstancea he tai 1 that it was an es t a bli s h e d ru l e of law that a man was can hardly co n t r . Llt i s not l ove of luxury, for not legally li a bl e f or th e su pp or t o f hi s children unless by simple men very o ft en d o no t save ; and it is not, like y ver his neglect he b roug ht hi mse lf w ithi n t h e poor or criminal extravagance, due t o w ilf u l ness , f or th e majority Would taw. If i n th e presen t case th e w if e had been living with like to save if th e y on l y saw th e way. Patience is, we ; .her husband s h e cou ld no t h ave p l edged his credit con strongly suspect, the w an ti ng f acu lt y i n non-savers ; but Crary to his directions. The m a j or it y of the court believ , ing that th e c l a i m was a goo d one, judgment was for the that is a ver y d reary th oug h t, f or patience is one of the virtues whi c h canno t b e i nst ill e d from the outside. ' Plaintiff for th e amoun t cl a i me d. Is it ) however, possible to secure the results of patience 1 ACTION FOR MALICIOUS ARREST.—In the Court of without securing the virtue, if it be a virtue, itself ? We Exchequer, in the case of Farhall v. Rivett and suspect it is, and that a very slight adjustment of our Kimber, which was an action for malicious arrest, social system would develope the habit in unexpected the jury awarded £lOO damages. The facts of the strength. The writer had once the fortune to live among case were these. The defendant Rivett is an upholsterer, an English community in which every man either saves or and a firm of persons, Messrs. Church, Farhall, and Co., thinks be will save , or is slightly .annoyed with hi mself employ e d hi m t o f urn i s h their offices in Cl ement ' s-lane, for not saving, and repeatedly saw men instinctively and the furniture not being paid for Mr. Rivett employed careless of money, born spendthrifts, succeed in the Mr. Kimber, his attorney, to recover the amount attempt. It was always done in one way, a way anyone due. Mr. Kimber, having heard from souse upon with an ascertained inc ome or sa l ary can adopt, but which which he placed reliance that the plaintiff was a bout to Englishmen seem to dread as a sort of slavery. mi . , was quit England to manage a plantation in South America, to apply the life-insurance principle to the entire income, caused him to be arrested on a capias issued upon an order Moat men, indeed all men who begin it, find in themselves to hold to bail, and the plaintiff remained in cos the nerve and the patience to pay the premium on life tody till Mr. Church seven days afterwards paid the debt insurance, and they have on ly t o compe l t h emselves to the and released th e pl a i n tiff. Th e p l a i ntiff's case was that same practice on a larger scale to make independence he was simply a clerk and not a member of the firm, certain. Let them pay away into a bank, month by month and had not held himself out as a member of the firm, or quarter by quarter, the sum th ey thi n k t h ey can afford, On the other h a nd,. the defend an t Ri vett swore that or rather are determined to aff or d, as a fi rst charge upon he had al wa y s b e li eve d th a t th e plaintiff was a member income, a life insurance, and th e y li ve upon t h e remainder, of the fi rm , an d M r . Ki m b er swore that the plaintiff running into debt, if necessary, rathe r th an b rea k the rule, upon one or t w o occa s i ons h ad most distinctly stated that h e was a p ar t ner, an d having heard upon It seems somewhat silly advice, and one t o b e defended good auth or :ty th a t th e p l a i nt if f was about to two years that his ideas of hi s own wea lth are contracted, , quit the only by experience ; b u t th e man w h o t r i es i t will find in country, he, i n th e i n t eres t o f hi s client Mr. Rivett, had , adopted the only course h e cou ld to secure the payment ol just as mu c h as if h e were p a yi ng th e same sum to a life insurance or'a mortgage. ACTION ON AN INSURANCE POLICY.—I n th e Court of Common Pleas, the case of B r i n k man v. S ir John ... AT us. grove, the chairman of the London, Liverpool, and Globe Insurance Company, was heard. The plaintiff had kept a 1 1 small shooting-gallery, and he sued the chairman of the i London, Liverpool, and Globe Insurance Company to recover the amount of loss sustained by his house being burned. The policy 'WM for £2OO, and the amount of c'aias sent in £lB7 103., but this sum was now increased by the addition of several items. It appeared that communications had passed between the legal advisers of the parties, and the plain , tiff was offered 150 guineas to settle his claim, each party paying his own costs; but the plaintiff's solicitor ! refused to accept this offer, after saying that his costs would probably amount to £9O or £:00. After this Mr. Rees, an agent of the :nsurence company, saw th I plain -1 tiff, arid .made an arrangement with him, in wri ing, to settle on the terms which had been refused by the solicitor, and paid him the 11;0 guineas. This settlement was now pleaded as an answer to the action, but the plaintiff said that he would never have agreed to the arrangement had lie not been told by hint (Mr. Rees) that the costs would only be £l2 or £l4. The jury awarded £205 damages. mirror. The Imperial Review declares that the practical lessons the Abyssinian expedition has enforced are of no little value and importance. In the first place, the tendency to exaggerate difficulties and to under-estimate our capacity for overcoming them, that is characteristic of many who hold the position of public advisers, has once more been displayed, and its want of justification once more mani fested by results. When future enterprises are rendered necessary, and similar objections are urged against the course that the national honour renders it imperative to pursue, it will be well to remember the moral that the present expedition offers on this point. The advantage; that a Government secur.s by desisting from any attempt to direct the progress of a warlike exp«lition from home, and by committing fill nu Iv3rify and unreserved powers to one able man, have, too, been brought out in strong relief by the conduct of the present Government. Tho importance of more complete organisation in the army, to render it possible for it to take the field at short notice, has also been manifested. It is evident that the formation of a transport corps cannot be left with safety to the eve of a war. If the teachings of the Abyssinian expedition in these, as w 1 a ; in minor points, is profited by, our experience will nut have been too dearly purchased FUNERAL OF A GRANDFATHER AND GRANDSON. A. day or two ago the funeral took place at Inverness of a grandfather and grandson, the former having died at the age of eightyfive, and the latter at twenty-five. They Iwere followed to the grave by nearly all the inhabitants of l l the district, where they were much respected. Both w. I 0 named John Gray. The young man came home in in health about two years ago. After a long illn6ss he ditd on Thursday, the 18th ult., and his grandfather died on the following day. It thus happened that their remains were interred at the same time and in the same grave. FRIGIITFITL ACCIDENT AT WOMBWELL'S MENA GERIE. —The other evening a seaman, named John Drown, belonging to her Majesty's ship Duke of Wellington, met with a frightful accident at Wombwell's menagerie, which is at present exhibiting at Portsmouth, through an act of s. He was in company with several of his ship znAtes, and ,by way of bravado said he would show them that he was not afraid of the lions. Ile accordingly thrust his right hand through tlie bars of the lions' cage, when one of the animals sprang forward and seized it in its mouth. The ag'nised cries of the unfortunate man created a most painful excitement in the menagerie, and it was not until the keepers had beaten the brute off with an iron bar that the hand was released. The back of the hand and the wrist were most horribly lacerated, the flesh having lite rally been torn off, As soon as he was extricated from his painful position Brown fainted away. lie was taken to the Landport Hospital in a cab, and it was found that the injuries were of such a serious charac'er that it was necessary to amputate the limb, which was at once done and the maimed man is now progressing favourably. THE HOLEORN VlADUCT. — Wurkmen are actively engaged in filling up the hollows between the arches with gravel dredged from the bed of the river and dry brick rubbish, so as to form a solid foundation preparatory to being paved with cubic blocks of granite. At the western terminus of the viaduct a pillar is to be erected with brackets, each supporting a handsome lantern with four burners. The place in which the pillar is to stand is of large diameter, perfectly circular, and is intended to afford a place of safety to foot passengers crossing the main thoroughfare. :C JOURNALS, j IZEMARK.ABLE TRIAL FOR POISONING. •1 ......--- o ._ No, exclaims th e S a t ur d ay Rev i ew . ; " it won ' t do " —to : The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Hews, writing on use Lord Shaftesbury's own minatory and dictatorial lam- he Ist inst., says :—" One of those causes dabres has just gunge in the Hou se o f L or d s . W e are not go i n g to make )een tried at Posen which would a l mos t j ust if y t h e b el i ef another Reformation of the Church of England, with the hat men are occasionally born into the world as entirely Protestant earl f or our H enr y an d C ranmer, L ut h er, lestitute of all principle of conscienc e as o th ers are o f Calvin, and Zwingli, all in one. Whatever else the Church ight or hearing. The trial itself presented no particular of the future is to be, we are not quite prepared to have )(Ants of interest beyond that of clearly establishing the m all the w o rk o f convoca ti ons an d syno d s, Conferences, of hilt of the prisoner, whose cr i mes a l most ecl i pse those Savoy and Hampton Court, undone by a short Act excogi- 'f the notorious Palmer of detestable memory. The tated by a committee in the Adelphi-terrace and subsidised acts are shortly as follows. The master bookbinder by Mr. Colquhoun's fund. It is just a trifle overdoing it Tit:mann, was accused o. having poisoned six persons in that we are'to consent to be puritanisedby the Coryphams ix years, namely, his four wives and two children. of Exeter Hall and the Church, be it of three or thirteen Wittmann had worked as a journeyman for a bookbinder centuries, unsettled at the dictation of a single person. A tamed Pirsch, oftWollin, where he made the acquaintance new Act of Uniformity has been presented to the House 4 Marie Gehm, Pirsch's housekeeper. Wittmann was on of Lords, avowedly founded upon the reports of the I visit at Wahl a - , the end of 1858 and beginning of 1859, Ritual Commissioners before that commission has con- In January lof which year Pirsch died very suddenly, and eluded its labours, and it seems without consulting OA irarie Gehm, according to a previous arrangement, commissioners, and without the sanction of the Govern tame into the possession of all his property. Soon ment which issued the commission. We make all alloy - Ater this Wittmann commenced business in ances for the necessities of the committee which has been tVollin, and in February 1860 married Marie collecting subscriptions to put down Ritualism. They 3 ehm, who in addition to Pirsch's property had must have somethi ng t o s h ow f or : t h e money they have got, ;Ise inherited some money through th e su dd en d ea th o f or got promised, an d, l oo ki ng at L ord Shaftesbury's bill ua aunt. Two sons, John and P au l, were th e resu lt merely as an ad ver ti semen t f or t h e last Protestant Asso- A this marriage. Mrs. Wittm an di e d very su dd en l y n elation, it may an swer th a t purpose, b ut it is not likely to 1862, leaving all her property to h er h us b an d an d t wo thildren, of whom the eldest died i n th e same mys t er i ous gain any other. W e are no t qu i te r i pe for a new Church, or for facing a new sc hi sm at t h e fag end of the last nanner three months later. In J une 1863 Witt mann n session of a dying an d di s h onoure d P ar li ament. Even if married his second wife, Charlotte H o h n , w h o possesse d some fortune. The latter made her will in the following nobody el se p ro t es t s aga i nst th i s hot haste, the Ritual December, leaving everything to h er h us b an d, an d di e d Commissioners themselves ma y f ee l aggr i eve d t h at the bread is taken out of their mouths by the very man who i week afterwards. In April 1864 Wittmann married thought his di gn ity an d cons i s t ency would b e lost by con- is third wife, Augustus Kor no t z ky, w h o was r i c h er descendin g t o ass i s t a t th e i r i nqu i r i es. ban her predecessor. Her fate may b e d escr ib e d i n a l mos t he same words. She died in August 1865, leaving her ?roperty between her husband and her mother. Only two months after her death, Wittmann married his fourth ind by far the richest wife, the widow Bose, who had me child by her first marriage. This child sickened inmediately after its mother's wedding, and died in a lay or two, by which the fourth Mrs. Wittmann in lerited its property. Wittmann then removed from warm to Posen. It is hardly necessary to add that the 'ourth Mrs. Wittmann's life was not of very long iuration, as she died in September 1866, having made a will in favour of her husband a month or two ,before. Under the pretext that she had died of cholera Wittmann iad made arrangements for burying her the day after her leath. But the extraordinary mortality in the Wittmann `amity had already excited attention. The police here ;ook the matter up, and their first suspicions were strengthened when they found that Wittmann had :ailed in no medical advice. Witmann was ar 7ested just as the funeral procession was about to start, and the burial of the body was prohibited. 3n searching the house, a large lump of arsenic, suffi- zient to poison a hundred persons, was found locked ap in a chest. All the bodies of Wittmann's former wives, as also those of his two children, were then exhumed, Ind submitted to a chemical investigation. The result was the same in all six cases ; a large quantity A arsenic was detected, and there could not be tbo shadow of a doubt that Wittmann had poisoned MS 'our wives and two children. He has been Found guilty snd sentenced to death. If we consider that the notice for these crimes was no higher passiwi than) ivarice, and then remember the relation in which he stood to his victims, and the deliberate perfidy with which :le entel ed upon those relations, I doubt if the whole . record of crim e can s h ow a blacker case. Indeed, it is not Improbable that he committed eight murders, as the very sailden death of Pirsch during Wittmann's visit, and also )f his first wife's aunt, are extremely suspicious coinci lences under the above circumstances." TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1868. ;11: CONDITION OF THE CLASSES 1N - EUROPE. The question which presses mos t f or so l u ti on in our day is the physical condition of the working-classes in Europe. From the statis tical returns of our own and other countries, especially of Germany, France, and Belgium, it appears beyond question that the average earn ings of the lower order of the labouring classes, of field labourers, of workmen in manufacto ries, of unskilled artizans, and of shopkeepers of tne poorer sort, are such as to be insuffi cient, in a very large per tentage of instanc es , to do more than just to keep body and soul together. The result of this state of semi starvation is that in bad times, resulting from failure in the harvest or dist ur b ance in trade, large masses of working people are thrown upon public or private charity, or sink into permanent destitution. The normal result of overwork and under pay in those trades which are not exceptionally destructive, like the knife-grinders of Sheffield, is to shorten life in grown-up people, and to destroy the lives of children in a degree which may be justly described as suicidal. Without burdening our pages with the statistical returns which lie in abundance before us, we may yet be allowed to lay before our readers the following re turns, published by Dr. Meyer, of Dresden, as to the comparative duration of life in that city among the upper classes and those engaged in various trades or callings :- 100 DIED. Under 50 Over 50 years. . years. Upper classes ... ••• ... 17 83 Day labourers ... •e• ••• 38 62 Tailors and shoemakers ... 47 53 Coachmen ••• ••• ••• 50 50 Bookbinders, weavers, printers, and watchmakers ... ... 55 45 Carpenters ... ... 58 42 Painters and glaziers ... ... 66 31 Stone-cutters ... ••• ... 88 12 Dr. de Neufville, in a pamphlet published in Frankfort in the year 1855, on the duration of life and causes of death in twenty-two diffe rent professions and trades, arrives at the following results : Average duration of life in the city of Frankfort. Years. Months. Clergymen ••• ... 65 10 T?achers and schoohnasters ... 56 10 Tradesmen ••• ... 56 9 Bricklayers ••• ... 48 8 Shoemakers ... 47 3 Carpenters ... 46 4 Smiths ... 46 3 Tailors ... ... 45 4 Stone -cutters ... ••• ... 43 10 Compositors and type-founders 41 9 Lithographers and engravers ... 40 10 The above results as to the comparative mortality between the labouring and the affluent classes, in two of the richest and most thriving cities of Germany, is alarming enough, although by no means so appalling as the relative condition of the same classes in England and France. For instance, in "Chad wick's Report on an Inquiry into the Sani tary Condition of the Labouring Popoula tion," it appears that in Liverpool the average duration of life of the higher classes is 35 years, and of ordinary trades people and of skilled artizans 22 years, and of workmen and day labourers, only 15 years ; and in Manchester the relative proportions in the above classes are 33, 20, and 17 years ; in Leeds, 44, 27, and 19 years ; and in Bethnal green, 45, 26, and 16 years. In Paris nearly the same results are found. Villerme, in his Rapport sur les recherches statistiques sur la vine de Paris, shows that the mortality is far greater in the Bth, 9th, and 12th districts of Paris, where the manufactories chiefly are, and where the w or ki ng classes live, than in the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd districts inhabited by the richer classes. The following is the relative progor lion of deaths in the year 1852 in the above districts :—ln the 9th district, 1'35; Bth, 1 . 42 ; 12th, 143 ; Ist, 1.64; 3rd, 1 . 60 ; 2nd, 1 - 71. The same writer, in his Tableau de l' elat des ouvriers, says that almost one-half of the children of weavers diedbefore they had reached their first year, while one-half of the children of master manufacturers reached their thirtieth year. In the same way the Report of the Manchester Factories' Inquiry Commission reports that 57 per cent. of the children of the working classes died before their fifth year; but only 20 per cent,. of the children of the higher classes. It is needless to multiply such statistics. They may be ap plied in slightly varying degrees to the work ing classes of England, France, Germany, Bel gium, and Holland, and generally, though to a much less extent to those of the other coun tries of Europe. These returns as to the mortality of the working classes represent an amount of physi cal suffering, and too often of moral debase ment, so appaling as to be a flagrant disgrace to the civilization of the 19th century. Chris tianity at the present day has to grapple with this evil as it had in the commencement of its work of civilization to cope with slavery. It found the vast mass of the human race, under the highest rule of Pagan civilization, held in an abominable and degrading slavery. The Greeks, at the period of their highest cul ture, had not the remotest conception of the position which the working classes have since attained to under the ennobling influence of Christianity. Manual labour of every descrip tion was looked upon as only fit for slaves ; and a slave was regarded as a mere chattel, the absolute property of free citizens. The greatest and noblest of the Greek philosophers held a slave to be essentially and irreparably corrupt, and to possess no other motives for his actions than fear and sensuality. They taught that slaves was an institution founded in the nature of things, and such as must en dure for ever. Even Plato advises that slavery should be treated with severity, constantly, chastised, and esteems it a mark of well edu cated men to treat their slaves with contempt. Not only manual labour but every kind of trade was regarded as degrading for a free Greek. Even agriculture, which in the better days of the Roman Republic was held in hon our, was eventually relegated to the care of slaves. The proportion of slaves to free citizens in the heathen world was enormous. In Attica, according to the enumeration of De metrius ?halereus, there were 20,000 Greek citizens and 400,000 slaves, not counting female slaves ; in Sparta there were 36,000 citizens, and 364,000 slaves ; in Corinth there were 460,000 ; and in .iggenia as many as 470,000 slaves. The cruelties which were practised on slaves during the height of Pagan civilization is too well known to need recapitu lation —cruelties which, if perpetrated now even in a single instance, would cause a shud der throughout the world which Christianity has redeemed—were of common occurrence wherever the rule of the Roman Empire ex tended. Cruelty and lust went hand in hand, and presented a picture which we forbear to do more than allude to. Heathen society re vealed the depths into which man had been precipitated. It was nature without grace, intellect of the highest order without faith, man without God---the Fall in its most extreme consequences. The working► classes, whom Christianity has redeemed from bondage so degrading, owe espe c i a l grat i tu d e to the Church which has stood between them and their task masters, and is at this day their safest guarantee against the danger of lapsing back into. Pagan ignorance, barbarism, and misery. The materialism of the present day, with its false doctrines of political economy, forbodes but little good to the working classes—it too much resembles in many striking points the Paganism of the ancient world to be safe for those so dependent still for their daily bread on taskmasters, who value them only as machines for the production of wealth, or in times of a political or revolutionary crisis as instruments to be used fur the attainment of political power. But in times like ours, when great social changes are impending; when grievous wrongs, such as those which the working classes are enduring, when labour is unable to support life; when peoples have to fly the soil which gave them birth ; when, in the large manufacturing cities, the life of the workmen is unjustly shortened by over prolonged and ill-requited toil ; when their starved children are falling by thousands and tens of thousands into premature graves ; when one-third of the human race is painfully strug gling for bare existence ; when ignorance and physical and moral disease are plunging the vast masses, at least of our own countrymen, into practical heathenism, it is time that the voice of Christianity should proclaim now, as it did of old to a dominant Paganism, that " there is a natural and Divine law, anterior and superior to all human and civil law, by which every people has a right to live off the fruits of the soil on which they are born, and in which they are buried ;" that " this is a right older and higher than any perso na l r i g h t ;" and that the " civil law yields before the higher jurisdiction of the Divine, as the positive Divine law yields before the natural law of God." In advocating the redemption of the large majority of the population of the heathen States front an infamous slavery, what re proaches had not Christianity to bear ? It was taunted as being the friend of the vile and the enemy of civil society. In like man ner, modern materialism, with its false and anti-Christian doctrines of political economy, cries out " Communism," when it sees the Catholic Church endeavouring once again to rescue the working classes from the yoke of sin and misery under which they are once more relapsing, and hears it proclaim the ancient truths which conferred on every man Christian liberty and equality, gave him social and poli tical rights, and redeemed his body from slavery, as it did his soul from sin.—Wesbnintser Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo American 2 imes.) The Chinese Embassy have not as yet lost the nterest of novelty, and they continue to furnish pictures for Frank Leslie mil matter for reporters. On the 17th June they were received by the Senate, Messrs. Sumner, Hendricks, and Shermin ushering them into the Chamber. Mr. Sumner, who ad dressed the President, said—" We present Mr. Bur lingame and his associates of the Chinese Embassy to the Senate of the United States." Mc. Wade's reply was equally brief. The visitors were con ducted to seats, but, business being suspended, they rose and shook hands with the Senators severally. The interview lasted some 20 minutes, and the galleries were crowded. On the next day they ap peared at a review of the garrison. A platform had been raised and decorated for the occasion, and was occupied by the President and all his Ministers as well as the Representatives of several nations, Congressmen, and Army officers. If the rumour is true, the Embassy will hand a protest to the President for transmission to Congress against the enactments in California regarding the Chinese, and the treatment experienced by them in the Pacific States. The President's veto of the Arkansas bill takes the ground generally anticipated. Mr. Johnson considers that approval would signify an admission of the constitutionality of the Reconstruction policy of Congress, while his opinion remained unchanged. The bill is based on an assumption which the President holds to be a fiction, that Arkansas was out of the Union. He denies the right of the Legislature to impose upon the State perpetual adherence to the provision of the New State Constitution regarding Suffrage, and as the penalties for violations of the bill are not defined serious future complications may result. In this case Andrew Johnson not only has a policy, but define d it. He urges Congress to re-organize the small States in the Union, requiring them to send representatives Congress may consider to be eligible. Not content with showing the ille gality of the acts, as well as the stupi lity, he points out what they ought to do, and he gives them the result of what they have already done ; their legis lation so far, according to the President, having proved ill-timed and unfortunate. Iu spite of all his efforts, Mr. Schenck's Tax Bill has been defeated, and re-committed. Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, on the 15th June, moved that two short bills be substituted, to deal only with tobacco and distilled spirits. The 'notion Wit 3 opposed in an able and earnest manner by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. He showed that already the heaviest portion of the work had been done—that the provisions still to be discussed were comparatively unimportant—that the short bill s suggested would still more confound the confusio n . Mr. Butler replied—" We are here when we oug ht to be in the midst of a campaign, in order to save this country to the men who have fought for it for the last sight years. And yet we are kept here, doing what? We are kept here modifying taxes." He was willing to take the responsibility, and so was every one who voted with him of throwing the bill out, and Mr. Shanks' motion was carried by 74 except the consideration of to 63. A resolution, however, was agreed to that no business shall be in order after the report of the himself t a s n o dA, f ,lh e mirs n . o r ßfd o ri l iufe l ty e nl ( i l edsnrg:s bills. toorawthoircyh Tax Bill as directed, such bill, unless it b h e im r ht e s : As the Nation very prop e t r h l y em sa a y w s a , y th fr e om qu l e v st a i s o h n . s r e ry country gain by releasing them are suggested by Mr. Butler'sspeech, IVhatis the im portant business to heWash ington, g talluded,o and what is, willo and over the plains of the "Simplylle f om a t n h eeignoblextr extra supplyduty o o f f through time valleys North on the subject of General Grant's merits as considered), overboard. a candidate, an d the sanctity of the publi c d e bt ;" and for this, on e of the most important m easures, carefull to y (preparedagis ro tatlomnd,i long sto b e thrown ever sub mitted Mr. Shanks declared that the whisky thieves had used the wealth they had accumulated to manipu late the element that ought to protect the Govern ment; and Mr. Price observed—" We must do something in reference to the tax on whisky and tobacco, or go home condemned by every Repub lican and every Democrat between the Atlantic and the Pacific." The whisky interest has been work ing earnestly at Washington against any reduction which would destroy the system now so profitable to them. It makes one angry to think that the time of Congress should have been wasted by Butler in the Woolley affair, and that he should thus im pudently tell the House that they ought not to pass in seven days a Bill the Committee had spent five months in preparing. A resolution has been introduced into the House of Representatives, couched in a hostile spirit to England. The President is directed to demand an acknowledgment as complete and ample as that given for the arrest of Mason and Slidell from any foreign country in which American citizens have been imprisoned for words spoken in the United States ; also where such citizens have been treated as subjects of a foreign Power, and that the rights claimed for such citizen should be insisted on for those now imprisoned. If the Representatives would adopt a more dignified and sensible tone it would better become the Legislature of ,a great people. .Such foolish threats may secure the ap probation of Irish rowdies, bat will neither advance the national interests, the cause of freedom and naturalization, nor the character of the assembly..lt is remarkable to see the contempt with which many of the Representatives are spok en of by the leading papers of the United States. A Supplementary B:11 to the Currency Act introduced on the 13th June by Senator Sherman, of the Finance Committee, was passed on the 17th June, by 25 to 14, after three days' discussion. The object is to give more circulation to the West and South by $20,000,000, withdrawing that amount from the Eastern banks, who have more than their fair share. In the original feral the bill of Senator Sherman proposed to increase the currency by $20,000,000. Thus it introduced the objectionable principle of expansion, which was earnestly at tacked, and eventually defeated by the Senators, who thought the step might be followed by others which would have a most injurious effect on the country. Some vainly urged the passage of a law resuming specie payments in 1871, and the employ ment of the surplus Treasury gold in cancelling bonds. As usual with Congress after a shocking wa6te of valuable time there follows a massacre of the inno cents, the poor fledglings who ought to be brought out in vigorous legislation, but who are smothered in the hurry and weariness of those who have been running about on wrong scents. Among the Bills likely to be thrown over for the present is that for the monetary unification of France and the United States. It can, however, afford to wait, not affect ing the Revenue and taxation. The Civil Service Bill goes over till next Session ; the admission of Colorado as a State with its present Constitution will be postponed until Reconstruction is so far complete as to insure beyond doubt the ratifica tion of the 14th Constitutional Amendment. The Legislature has yet to be elected, and if Democra tic might reject the amendment, it woall still further delay action. The House of Representatives declines to carry out the treaty between the Government and the Osage Indians, unanimously refusing the necessary appropriations. The objectionable part of the affair is the surrender of a large portion of Kansas, against which the House solemnly an 1 earnestly protests. George W. Julian, Republican, of Indiana, spoke bitterly as well of the commission as of. the treaty, which he described as an act which makes the ordi nary inmates of gaols decent men in comparison with commissioners, whom he did not hesitate to term "a set of thieves." The President is accused of the jobbery which is declared to be characteristic of the Peace Commission, and very serious impu tations have been made against Andrew John son for the gross corruption which has sprung up so rapidly under his administration. Talking of this corruption, the Springfield Republican furnishes a nut for the A'ew York World to crack, which, to write down Grant, brings all his tory to prove the incapacity of soldiers for the work of civil Government. Previous to the appointment of the Marquis of Cornwallis as Governor-General of India in 178 G, Bengal hal been a scene of riot and plunder, insurrection and massacre, all descrip tions of excess being committed upon the inhabi tants by the English officials, who betrayed every trust of their own Government. The state of India was, up to that time, such, that were the opera tions of the whisky ring or the cotton speculations of the Anierican generals 'extended through every department of the service, the result could not compare with the miserable condition of affairs till then existing in India. Cornwallis returned in 1793, that is seven years after, leaving the Indian Service more efficient and honourable than the Home Government ever was, or has been since. Abuse and corruption were relentlessly cut off ; regular and systematic promotion substituted for the loose and uncertain tenure of office which pro voked to fraud. This incorruptible and true hearted soldier wrought what appeared a miracle, and the Republican expects Grant to do for tlie United States what Cernwallis dil for India, if Congress will only join him in his efforts to pass a Civil Service law which will pat honest and efficient officers into every department. Senator Reverdy Johnson has accepted the nomi nation as Minister to Enelatel, and will start early in July, accompanied by his son, Edward C. Johnson, who will act as his private secre t try. Full instructions are being prepared for him by Secretary Seward, covering all the ques tions at issue between Eeglaad and the United States. It is said in America that they have been drawn up in a shape which c lanot but make them acceptable on this side. 11e will have full power to adjust the Alabeme claims, and, as one of the first constitutional lawyers of his country, Mr. Johnson is well qualified to handle the subject of naturalization, which will be ready to be submitted to him by the Beitish Government on his arrival. tweeting of the Rapt Commissioners for in quiring into the L tevs of Neturaliz ration and Allegiance was held on the 23th of June, at the Weetminister Palace H stet. Present—The Earl of Clarealon, E.G., the Right Hoe. E. Card well, M.P., the Attorney-General, the Q teen's Advocate, Sir Roun len Palmer, Q.C., M.P., W. E. Forster, Esq., M P., Mentague Bernard, Esq., D.C.L., Charles S. A. AbleAt, Esq. (secretary). No doubt the subject will be well digested by the time the - Minister reaches the metropelis. Susan B. Anthony was appoiatel a delegate to the Democratic Convention, which today assembles in New York, at a meeting of the Committee of the &reel Rights Association. The resolution was moved by Theodore Tilton, and pledges these heretofore Radicals to the support of the Democratic platform, provided it inserts a Woman's Rights plank. Th e Chi_ cage Convention is :313e lof int only giving the women the cold shoulder, bat falling from grace on the question of Negro Saffrage ; and it is evident to the advocates of Woman's Rights that the necessity of the Conservatives being greater than those of the Republicans, they may be willing to purchase sup port by more liberal concessions. If they could but get the women of the nation to take any interest in the question, and to throw the weight of their in fluence into the Democratic scale, the party might name any candidates, and carry not only the Presi dential nominee, but the next House of Repre sentatives, and . the whole. Government of the United States. Unfortunately for the Democrats, MiSs Susan B. Anthony spea';s as yet but for a very small portion of her countrywomen. The following is the resolution : " Wnereas. Itss Susan B. Anthony, through various published wettings in The I?evolution, has given the world to understand that the hope of the Woman's R . ghts c muse rests more largely with the Democratic party than with any other portion of the people ; therefore, "Resolved, That Miss Anthony be requested to attend the approaching National Democratic Convention in New York, July 4, for the purpose of fulfilling this cheerful hops by securing, in the Democratic platform, a recogni tion of woman's right to the elective franchise." We regret to see that the bill has been defeated in Congress by which shipbuilders designed to pro vide for a drawback equal in amount to the duties upon materials imported for use in constructing vessels. That once flourishing American manu facture seems destined to annihilation, and it is im possible for American builders weighted as they are to compete with foreign yards. A case of interest to shippers was decided in the Senate on the 18th June. The barque Golden. Fleece was built in the United States, but transferred during the war to the English register, nominally for self-protection. The owners, wishing to bring her back as an Ame rican vessel, introduced the bill, which was defeated by 20 to 11, all the Senators of the shipbuilding States voting against it. It would thus appear that American shipbuilders will at least be protected, not only against foreign-built vessels, but against home-built ships transferred to foreign registers, and those who buy such crafts ought to know that they can never again sell them to Americans. It is said that Judges Hoar and Foster intend to leave the bench of the Supreme Court, and resume practice at the bar. Efforts are being made for the election of Judge Hoar as the next Governor of Massachusetts. Some of the journals of the State have set themselves vigorously to root out the cor ruption which to the horror of the New Englanders is beginning to overrun their States. The Spring field Republican openly announces its intention to take every risk in this task, and asks for information from all acquainted with facts regarding the ope rations of the lobby at Boston to pass or defeat measures in the Legislature., the names of the mem bers, the considerations given and received for votes, and other " information calculated to expose the corrupt and degrading habits introduced of late . among the Representatives and Senators of our General Court. All cemmueioations will be treated confidentially, se far as their authors are concerned. What is wanted are the facts concerning the inde cencies and corruptions of Avoa-pl ice and the State-house, and the Republican will mom). 3 all responsibility for their publication." It considers that Judge Hear would effectually as Governor root out the threatened evil. A general meeting of t'le arehollers of the North-German Lloyd took place at Bremen last Tuesday, when it was unanimously resolved to con struct two new steatucrs to ply between Bremen and Baltimore, and to make a fresh issue of shares to the amount of 70,000 thalers. It was stated that the reserve fund of the cornpany is more than sufficient to cover this amount. The steamers are to be finished and handed over to the company within ten months, and are to run every fortnight between the One of those extraordinary stories on which novelists base their most sensational fictions to find their conceptions out-done by facts lately occurred among a party of " diggers" travelling over the Rocky Mountains to the Sweetwater Mines. A quarrel had occurred between two ; it was patched up, but afterwards re-opened. The party on the day of the disagreement wound up the mountains along a narrow ledge of rock—a fearful precipice beneath. Armstrong, a Nova Scotian, managed to allow his comrades to pass till he got in front of Hess, who was last, and with whom he had quar relled, when he took his place before him, checking the pace till the others were well in advance, when he stooped to tie his shoe, and Hess, unable to pass, stopped near him. Armstrong, by a sudden move ment, seized the unsuspecting Hess and hurled him into the abyss. A scraggy hemlock tree, growing from the face of the rock, caught the man some twenty or thirty feet down. The opportunity was, therefore, open to save his life if the murderer re pented. But the heart that could thus brood, and the hand that could thus execute, must have been as bare and cold as his own native country, so the fellow completed his work by hurling down stones until the victim was shaken from his list support, and disappeared into the yawning depths. From a distance the act had been seen by one of the party on the look-out for game. He told his comrades on reaching the camp at night, when Armstrong was seiz - ed, and could not deny the murder with which he was • charged. The question was earnestly debated by the party whether he should• be taken with them to the set tlements to be tried by the civil authorities or lynched on the spot. Fearing he might escape if the former course was pursued, the majority de cided against the respite. An hour after midnight Armstrong was taken to the top of a cliff half a mile from the camp, and, with his hands and feet bound, he was thrown into the chasm to furnish the same meal to the wild animals of the Rocky Moun tains that he had himself supplied but a short dis' ante away in the person he had murdered. Governor Bullock, after eight years of contio . nis service in one or another office at the Stet idoese of Massachusetts, is about to retire. He has eetoed five measures of the late Legislature; three ,f these were the. eby defeated, but two were passed )ver the vetoes, and have become law. Those de. 'eated were intended to abolish the State constabe . iary, and to incorporate the Boston Dental College. new bill was afterwards passed for the latter ob . Led, shorn of the features to which the Governor - ,ook exception. Of the two bills passed over his ;et°, one was to incorporate the East Boston bridge, he other repealed the Act authorizing the Hart ord and New Haven Railroads to consolidate. fudge E. Reck wood Hoar, of Concord, who is Lbout to vacate his seat in the Supreme Court, wil l perhaps allow himself to be nominated as the Ile' publican candidate for the post. The invitation of Senator Fessenden to a banquet in Boston has called forth a strong rebuke from iOlll3 of the friends of Mr. Sumner, who insist that t is an endorsement of the Senator's vote against impeachment, though this is expressly repudiated by the hosts. They have distinctly said that the! lesire to support an independent judge under a series of bitter attacks, but few of them think as sir. FesSenden does on the question of Impeach went. That gentleman had not as yet accepted the invitation, and it was even reported, but with' out foundation, that he had declined the honour. The National Intelligencer says that Horace Greeley's business in Washington was to engineer the appointment to the Commissionership of Inter nal Revenue in the place of Mr. Rollins. His first choice was General Butler, whose ability to collect. is undeniable; his second fell on General M. N. Wisewell. Mr. Greeley has returned to New York, but not before he exerted himself to the utmost to defeat the 20 per cent. increase in the Clerks' Salaries Bill, for which he is blamed by the Democrats. S. M. Clarke, chief of the bureau of printing in the Treasury Department, has resigned his office. ['his is said to be caused by disclosures in the Re trenchment Committee. Mr. Clarke, to save him' self from removal, threw up the office, "and the in . vestigation has furnished ample evidence of the necessity of reorganizing the bureau. Ode of the subjects exciting interest at Wash- e ington is the person likely to succeed Speaker Colfax. Ile feels so secure of being elected Vic President that he will not run for Congress. Both the President and the Vice-President being the se lection from the West, in ease the Chicago nomi nation is successful, the new Speaker, if the House be Republican, will be conceded to the East, and the names of three gentlemen are prominently tnentioned—Mr. Pomeroy, of . New York; Mr' Dawes, of Massachusetts; and Mr. Blaine, of Alaine, which of course hinges on their re-election. in Massachusetts the preference is given to Mr. Dawes, whose experience in Congress is greater than that of the oth:rs, and whose reputation is m ore national. He has generally presided when the House was in Committee of the Whole, and bath is this • and in the 'Net Congress has been highly thought of for ability in debate, for personal integrity, and for fairness in his Parlia:neatary capacity. For these reasons it is cenjecturel that if Mr. Dawes be returned to the next Clugre,se, he st ands the best chance of being selected as its presiding officer. Whisky, which cannot be manufactured &ity paid under $2 40cts., is often sold in the New York . market at $1 40cts, and these not in the secret might wonder how this is accomplished. A else just tried before Chief Justice Chase, at Richmond, Virginia, in which four whisky conspirators were convicted, revealed the fact that four distilleries Lgreel to pay $30,000 per annum for the privilege of shipping five-sixths of all the whisky they might • listil, free of Government tax. That this paid the distilleries, and enabled them to sell far under what would otherwise have been the cost price, may be gathered from the fact that the tax from which the $30,000 purchased the exemption was $250,000. The money was paid to the Internal Revenue officers of the district, and it has been fully shown that without the corruption of Government officials frauds on this scale cannot be perpetrated. The greatest culprit, who was collector of the F o urth district, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a fine of $lO,OOO ; the next, who was an assessor and inspector, got two years' imprisonment with a tine of $5,000 ; and the third, an inspector, was let off with a year and a fine of $2,000, but the Chief Justice spoke, when delivering the sentence/ in the strongest terms of condemnation. The con victions have struck the Virginians with amazement, who attribute them to the fact that Chief Justice Chase presided instead of Judge Underwood. General Buchanan, influenced by the passage 0 1 the " Omnibus Reconstruction Bill" has ordered the immediate convening of the Louisiana Legislature. At the same time he has strengthened his course ber publishing a telegram showing Grant's approval. The General Commanding-in -Chief suggests a mo dification of the oath of office, merely requiring the present loyalty of the elect, and their support of the new constitution. The State officials had not been installed up to the 15th of June, nothwithstand ing the proclamation of the Registration Board, . but the passage of the " Omnibus" Bill has settled that question. Ex-Mayor Heath hag procured the issue of a writ of quo warrant() . against Mayor Conway, who takes exception to the right of the writ to issue, as he holds the office both by military order and the election of the people. The Legislature of Florida has ratified the 14th Constitutional Amendment, and on the 17th June elected A. S. Welsh, Republican, from Michigan, to be United States Senator for the term expiring March, 1869. The other Radical Senator has been selected from Wisconsin for the same period, and without the authority of the general. Harrison Read was sworn into office as Governor on the 12th June, and delivered his inaugural address, notwithstand ing the protest of the military authorities, who con sidered the proceedings irregular. Governor Hol den, of North Carolina, convened the Legislature for July 1, when the State officers will be installed on the removal of their political disabilities. Texas proposes to adopt the Constitution of 1860, after annulling all provisions at variance with the provi sions of the United States. The Convention has appealed to Congress for power to raise and place a military force under the commander of the dis .trict. The bill to divide the State has been post poned by Congress for a fortnight, by which it will be passed over this Session. Mississippi will begin the election on the new Constitution on the 29th June, but it is expected to outlast the sitting - of Congress. News from Athens, June 27, states—" The semi official papers assert that the insurrection in Crete is stronger than ever, and that a Turkish division has re volted at Sphakia. The American torpedoes are success fully used by the insurgents." THE PHYSIC. WORKIIIII3 two ports. Messrs. Baird, of Greenock, are the contractors for their construction. The New York Citi:.2n is earae;t is its praises of Mrs. O'Donovan 119353, who male her first appear ance on the evening of June 16, at the Cooper In stitute, to real from the Irish and American poets ; in the hope of raising a fund for the einploymen of counsel to re-open her husband's 0253 She was attired in an appropriate semi-mourning dress. of black silk or poplin, only relieved by a bunch of shamrocks in her bosom ; and with a green sada scarf, emblematic of the cause for which her hus band suffers, passing once around her waist, an .1 thence falling in some sort of billowy loop over the left side of her dress to the floor. The lady is fully the average height, her figure is of rounded contour, her step elastic, and her arms have not only grace, but power also, in their movements. . In a word few better, more favourable, or more charac teristic types of the young ghis and matron to be found iu the south of Ireland could any wheru be seen or imagined." She was led to the platform by Horace Greeley, and, though nervous, the Citi zen describes her as being a young and very beauti ful woman. Registrar Halpine was in the chair, and James T. Brady spoke eloquently in her behalf. It is the intention to employ the great Dublin law yer, Isaac Butt as counsel in the case, and to asso ciate with him the best talent of the Irish and Eng lish bars. We hope that the utter failure Of Fenianisin will enable the British Government to do a graceful act and release these prisoners, leaving this indus trious lady to keep the money she has earned in so good a cause. Her success as a lecturer is, we understand, assured, and she is overwhelmed with invitations to every part of the country. On the 19th June the Joint Committee of Re trenchment made their report on the sale of the ironclads Onesta andjeatawba, lately being fitted at New Orleans, and now detained there by order of the Washington Government. It appears that the ves sels were purchased by individuals for $750,000, and sold for $2,000,000 to Peru, the neat little sum of one million and a quarter being the nett profit on the transaction. Of coarse corruption is at the bottom of sach a job, and it is stated that the Se cretary of the Navy shared the plunder. Congress is requested to prevent the delivery of these war vessels to Peru, which would be a violation of the United States' Neutrality Laws. They consider the existing laws sufficient to justify the President to take immediate action in the matter. A report has also been presented by the Senate Committee di rected to inquire into the ejection of a negress (Catherine Smith) from a railway car. Smith, one of the Senate employees, has brought an action against the company, and if she fails to recover damages, Congress, the Committee suggests, might revoke the charter, though it would injure several and interfere with the public convenience. The State of Virginia has after a long struggle succumbed to circamstauces, and it is now an nounced that as there is no money in the Treasury there will be no payment of the July interest on the State Bemis. The amount of the public debt on the Ist January, 1867, was $12,383,679 ; de ducting from this the amount held by the Sinking and Literary Funds, the balance on which interest was payable was $11,005,997. The State at that time owned about $15,000,000 in railway stocks and bonds. At present the State Debt amounts to 844,000,000, but on the per contra side there are railway bonds, &e., amounting to $ 1 7,563,299, and of the James River and Kanawha Canal to $ 1 0,400,000. Supposing • that West Virginia as sumes the third, which is her fair portion, the finances of the State are not in a condition to warrant the creditors taking a desponding view, though the auditor of public accounts has announced that thv payment of interest for the present will be delayed, and the Messrs. Baring did not re ceive remittances to meet the sums due on the Ist instant. But a rise instead of a fall has lately taken place in Wall-street, Virginia Six per Cents. of 1866 being quoted at 57i 4, the Ten nessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Missouri Stocks also having risen. While on the subject, we may mention that Secretary 111‘Culloch has commenced to pay and cancel the Six per Cent. Bonds issued for the Mexican war, amounting to $8,000,000 in gold, which became• payable on the Ist instant. The Treasury must feel very strong, as upwards of $27,000,00) ia gold fell due at the same time as interest upon the Public Debt. The correspondent of the Standard still maintain: that the President was only prevented from declar ing an ultimatum based oa the extrem e Ani :ricae view of the Alabama claims by the Impeach:neat Trial. He says the Teauesseean has never been die • tinguishe I by fon mess for things English, which is very unfair in Mr. Johnson, considering the view taken in Europe of his antagonism to Congress. The correspondent has been noted for his sensational paragraphs from Washington, and they certainly require some explanation. He now acknowledges that Mr. ReverdyJohnson has received conciliatory instructions, and he adds—" As Senater Johnson is a lover of peace and a believer in the common destiny of the Anglo-Saxon peoples, it is not difficult to suppose that his most arduous labours as our Minister to England will be directed to the esta blishment of lasting and honourable peace between the two great English nations." Last Saturday the Hon. Charles Francis Adams left Liverpool for New York in the Cunard steamer China. Mr. Adams was accompanied on board the china by Mr. Dailey, the American Consul at Liverpool, Mr. Moran, the Secretary of Legation in London, and several friends. Sach was the an nouncement in the Times, emanating from the fertile brain of the Liverpool reporter, who dreamt it, recorded it, and it was takes up for general cir culation. But Mr. Adams, accompanied by Con sul-General the Hon. B. Morse, proceeded by Holy head to Queenstown, where he embarked, and he did not, therefore, touch at Liverpool. The late Minister will not be is time for the opening of the Demo cratic Convention, with which rumour connects his name as a nominee at least for the Vice-Presi dency. Mr. Adams could scarcely stand on a Democratic platform, unless changes took place in the party, which, in spite of rumour, are not likely to occur. Doubtless he could run on the same ticket as Chief Justice Chase, but it is thought the movement to nominate that gentleman had received its quietus from the tone of the letter which we las week published. Births. BILLINGLIURST—On the 3d inst., at St. Alban's Villa, Granville-park, Blackheath, the wife of Mr. H. F. Bil linghurst, of a son. LUMLEY—On the 2d inst., at 3, Harley-place, Upper Har ley-street, the wife of H. H. Lumley, Esq., of a daughter. Twiss—On the 2d inst., at 32, Chester-street, Belgrave" square, the wife of Quintin Twiss, Esq., of a son. Marriages. CUMBERLEGE —GASCOINE—At All Saints' Church, Wor cester, N. Curnberlege, Esq., of B a th, t o Laura Eliza beth, daughter of John W. Gascoyne, Esq., of Clifton. THEOBALD --C tiNNINGTON—On the 2d inst. at St. Mat thew's, Oakley-squar e , St. Pancras, Tlieobald, jun., Esq., of the Geological Survey, India, to Anna Louisa, youngest daughter of John Cnnnington, Esq., of Tansor Lodge, Oundle, and Oakley-square, London. Deaths. COWAN—On the Ist inst., at Dildawn Castle Douglas Jag. Cowan, Esq., of Dildawn, LL.D. , , HocKLEr —On the ,30th ult., at 63, Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square, Joseph Hockley, Esq., aged 60. NEALE On the Ist inst., at Iffley, Oxford, Wm. A. Neale, Lieut.-Col. Staff Corps, Bombay Army, aged 45. STALKER—On the 26th ult., at 20, Burr-street, E., gr. Beecroft Stalker. SPRY—Oa the 30th ult., at Place House, Cornwall, Sir Samuel Thomas Spry, Knight, aged 64. WISHART—On the 2d inst., at Plaistow, Essex, Captain D. D. Wishart, aged 54. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tite SUN 011e3, No 112, Strand, in the Pt mina of the Se voy, in the Oonaty Middlesei.—Saturay, July 4, Iso3. liINAtrA eele yrt Z medal. brat It is Pure, Mil El old in Bottle the Agents in th 8, GREA Observe the B han's LL Whisk MUTUM nc° 14. RUSS(IEL] ADVANCES MC hold or Leasella able weekly, ma Forms free on.ro ROYAL TRIIIItPI Miss LOUIE Miss RAT E saturrisoN J. G. 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