The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. he Times looks upon the past thirty-six years.... a period of glorious improvement, disappointing the predictions of those who thought the country was going to ruin. There has been no such progress in any one generation—nay, we do not scruple to add in any one century. It may be ad. ma i mated that the country made a s t a r t, and quickened its pace, immediately upon the conclusion of the great war. That universal improvement itself suggested the necessity for political progress and development, for the people which achieved such marvels of ingenuity and industry had a right to be regarded as the citizens of the State. The marvellous progress made may be reckoned from the time of the admission of the British people to the pale of the Constitution. If there are still those who tremble before the rude majesty of the people now as their fathers did on the last similar occasion, it is pleasant to observe that it is not with quite so much sinking of hearts, such utter despair, such prostra tion of soul. Perhaps the high authority of the Con- servative chief has reconciled them to a measure which would once have been thought the end of all things. They who govern themselves may be as liable to blunders and to faults as they who govern others ; but, upon the whole, they will be more likely to govern with a view to their own benefit and improvement. Utility has become the test of measures and of expenditure more than it used to be, and the utility thus recognised has been of the higher quality. To govern for others, and to undertake any trust for others, is a task that demands a vigilance, a fairness, and a distrust of self that is found in very few men. Upon the whole, the work is better done by people for themselves, even though it be effected with a somewhat lower aim. But, be the aim higher or lower, the British people have not governed themselves without advantage, nor without glory, for the last thirty-six years; and it would be moat unjust to doubt that with better education they will make a good use of their new privileges now. The Star notes that the day fixed for the return of the writs, and consequently for the meeting of Parliament, is Thursday, thelOth of December. According to the estimate at present generally acquiesced in, the Ministry will he condemned by a vote of the House within nine days from the date of reassembling, and of those nine days five or six must be devoted to swearing members in. The majority will unquestionably use their utmost endeavours to arrive at a decision on the morning of Saturday, the 19th ; but the new Parliament will doubtless be eloquent, and the fox under whose nominal leadership its delibera tiuns will commence has many doubles. We shall not be surprised to see the great debate carried into Christmas week ; but the majority will not suffer it to be unreason. ably protracted. Everything, in fact, depended on the issuing of the writs, and now they have been issued, Mr. Disraeli has no further control over the events which so deeply concern his future. The Standard rejoices at the manifestation of Conserva tive feeling in the metropolis. This is a marvellous change from the old state of things, when a serious Conservative opposition in Radical constituencies like those of tlit metropolis was almost as mythical as the Conservative* working man. Speaking frankly, we do not ascribe it so'.. much to the growth of positive Conservatism. We have always held that throughout the metropolitan consti tuencies there has been a leaven of Conservative feeling, but that it has felt itself crushed beneath the dead weight of the Radical majority, and either from laziness or despair has acquiesced in its political extinction. But something more than the revivifying of this petrified mass was needed to produce the phenomenon now exhibited in the metropolis. It is not merely a dormant Conservatism roused into active life, powerful as it undoubtedly is, which has worked this result. The recruiting agents of the Conservative party have been Messrs. Bright and Gladstone. It is the reaction which has mainly aided to bring about this result, and the reaction is the work of the Liberal party and their leaders. The tyranny of Beales and the Reform League, the malig nant temper of Mr. Bright against the present order of things, and Mr. Gladstone's conspiracy against the Pro testant faith of the realm, have contibuted to drive hundreds of thousands of moderate men into the Conser vative ranks, as the true refuge and defence against the statesmen who for mere purposes of selfish ambition are seeking to subvert our most cherished institutions. The Times is very indignant that it has been found neces l vary for Sir Roundell Palmer to withdraw from the con. test for the University of Oxford. The preference of Mr. Mowbray to Sir Roundell Palmer by the University has no direct bearing on the question of the day, with respect to which there can be little doubt Mr. Mowbray is pre pared, when properly called upon, to go much the farther of the two. What it does shew is that the University of Oxford prefers to support anyone who will pro mise to fight for exclusive privileges rather than trust a man who takes a stand upon the prin ciples of equal justice. It is not the first time that Oxford has shewn this disposition, and not the first time it has shewn it in vain, save to its own dishonour. The university rejected Sir Robert Peel, but the Roman Catholic Disabilities were removed. The university rejects Sir Roundell Palmer, but the Irish Establishment is nodding to its fall. There are men for whom history is written, and to whom reason speaks to no purpose. Delighting in the possession of arbitrary privileges, they dream in their vanity that they can for ever withstand the claims of those who clamour for the right ; and well will it be for them if they are not rudely awakened by an outburst of popular indignation, robbing them of all they most prize as ministering to their pride and exaltation. The Telegraph. adopts " Retrenchment " as the Liberal cry. Five millions a year ought to be saved at once from the expenditure, and given back to the comfort and industry of the people, without diminishing national security by one iota. It is a matter of mere revision and business-like check on outlay ; and when this much is done, the duty of a far larger review of our imperial methods, with fresh ideas upon the better organisa tion of public defence, will remain, affording the prospect of savings compared to which this will be but a trifle. Not only have we men like Stan* feld and Childers prepared to carry out tin policy in the working of the departments—but the future Prime Minister has placed " Retrenchment" conspicu ously on his flag, while Mr. Bright has earnestly taken up the cause, and has contributed a grand practical suggestion. If any candidate mouths the word " Retrench ment " upon the hustings, yet means less by it than a root and branch reform, let him go to the Horse Guards or the Admiralty for a berth, while he has time : there is no place for him upon Mr. Gladstone's side in the House of Commons that will soon assemble. The Daily News says: Let the nation and the House oQ Commons determine what the relations of England are to be to foreign nations and to its own colonies ; let it fix the principles on which it will rule Ireland and India, and the amount of our naval and military forces will follow as a clear inference. A total sum being fixed, in confor mity with precedent and analogy, and on the scrutiny of existing circumstances it may be left to the departments to make it do as best they can. Mr. Bright's advice that every item should be made the subject of a special scrutiny, would involve the House of Commons in a pathless jungle of details. But it is well that his proposal should be put forward. A vague declaration of ends to be achieved is easily made. When men begin to canvass means, a sign is given that they are in earnest. If Mr. Bright has not struck on the right path, he has given an example to explorers which they may imitate with more success. The Post remarks that whatever else history may hay,: to say about the presidency of Mr. Johnson, it will at least record that it was during his tenure of office that the only remaining causes of misunderstanding between the mother country and her vigorous offspring were removed. The President's worst enemies can say no. worse of him than that his failings are resolvable into errors of judg ment, while it must be confessed on all hands that his foreign policy has been at once pacific and patriotic. We have always been ready to settle the matters in dispute between us on equitable and reasonable terms, and the initiative for which we have been waiting has now been taken by the Government of the United States. The Post also commends the conduct of Mr. Reyerdy Johnson. He has shewn much better taste than they who will not, as he is disposed to do, let bygones be bygones, or who think that criticism in season or out of season is always pertinent and appropriate, provided only that it be sufficiently ill-natured, or, as its authors would perhaps say, candid. If, in short, a gentle answer turns away wrath, Mr. Reverdy Johnson may rest assured that he has had very much the best of the discussion. According to the Morning Summary, of all the inflictions which the Times has imposed upon the easy-going English man, none can compare with the nuisance of having to wade through columns of the tall-talk indulged in by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright when they are on the stump. Time was, indeed, when the political world did eagerly devour the sentiments which fell from Mr. Bright's lips. People were curious to see what was the next extrava gance which he would recommend. But latterly, since he has been in training for office, his utterances have fallen comparatively flat, and he has been almost as much muzzled as poor Mr. Bernal Osborne in office. Such safe ground, however, as criticising the estimates, and raising so innocent a cry as a cheap breakfast table, depressed the meat tribune of the people ; and on the land question, the other day, he broke his traces, and has revive d t h e fears of his old' Whig friends, who hoped that Gladstone and he might run well together in double harness. M r . Bright's evening with the gun• makers will not, on the whole, we think, improve his posi, tion with his Whig friends, who will lift np their hands in pious horror at the very notion of a further onslaught on the power of departments to carry out nice little jobs for young Iniglings, such PA the 14Ment,e4_,..3222,1i az!. the sa,g4ci C.) us Arab eyley, • THB Nbr2MI3BP MBITOPS. nit pai/P Krtin It 1341181211 v an interesting aetiei 62 articles bn snetebrologieal subjeCts--a new plan for the Scientific education of the massed. Their last article was on the November meteoric showers. It endeavours to find out the laws which regulate these. Astronomers themselves, it said, had been unwilling to accept the theory that the recurrence of periodic maxima some three times in a century indicated that the zone of meteors had that enormous extension which 'corresponds to a period of revolution of thirty-three years. It was shewn that if the meteors really revolved 4 in such a period, their orbital motions must carry them far out in space beyond the orbit of the distant planet Uranus. Therefore, astronomers attempted to shew that the meteors may possibly revolve in an orbit somewhat smaller than that of our own earth, the richest part of the zone circling round in less than a year, but encountering our earth once only in thirty-three years. But the calculations of Adams have proved beyond all possibility of doubt that the zone of meteors really has the enormous extension indicated by the former view. The meteors which we watched in 1866 bad come from beyond the orbit of Uranus, and we might almost say that they were connected by a continuous stream of their companions with those far distant regions of space which lie between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. But this is not all. One of the most suggestive discoveries ever made by astronomers is associated in an intimate manner with the November shooting-star system. We believe that the Italian Schiaparelli was the first to notice that the August meteors seem to travel in the track of the great comet of 1862. The coincidence between the meteor zone and the orbit of that comet was sufficiently close, when a certain assumption was made re specting the paths of the meteors. The assump tion was permissible —at least nothing was known about the meteors which seemed to negative it. But a certain amount of doubt naturally clung round a theory which required an antecedent supposition of this sort. But as soon as the actual orbit of a meteor system was determined, it was hoped that more satisfactory evidence might be obtained on the subject of the supposed connection between comets and shooting-star systems. Therefore, astronomers began to examine the lists of cometic orbits to see if any of them agreed with the orbit assigned to the November meteor zone. For some time the search was unsuccessful. None of the larger and more conspicuous comets spewed any such approach to coincidence as had been looked for. But at length, when the inquiry had been extended to telescopic comets, one was found which presented the required elements. This comet had been discovered by Dr. Temple early in the year 1866, and it has been well pointed out that the coincidence by which the discovery of the comet fell in the very year in which the problem of the November shooting stars was finally solved, is among the most in teresting of the many coincidences which have been recorded in the annals of science. The agreement between the orbit of Temple's comet and that of the November shooting stars is too close for any doubt to remain that a real association exists between the meteors and the comet ; and since the discovery of the association we have pointed out, other shooting-star systems—for many are recognised by astronomers—have been examined, and in several other instances it has been found that a similar association connects comets and shooting stars. We think this dis covery may fairly be looked upon as one of the most remarkable ever made. THE PILOTAGE OF THE BRISTOL CIIANNEL. An important decision in reference to the pilotage of the Bristol Channel was given by the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday. The case of Jones (appellant) v. Carey (respondent) was a Crown case stated for the opinion of the court. On the 29th November the appellant was convicted before the stipendiary magistrate of Cardiff, for that he, the said appellant, on the 9th of that month, then being an unqualified pilot, did unlawfully continue in charge of a certain ship, called the Apotheker Diesing, after the respondent, a qualified pilot, had offered to take her in charge. The appellant was find 20s. and costs, and against that conviction he now appealed. The facts are these. By the 47th Geo. 111., c. 33, the mayor, &c., of Bristol were constituted the pilotage authority of the whole of the Bristol Channel, with the sole right of licensing pilots within their district, but in 1861, owing to the great extension of trade in the ports of Cardiff, Newport, and Gloucester, a separate system of pilotage was established by the Bristol Channel Pilotage Act of 1861. This Act appoints pilotage boards for each of the said ports, and gives to each board the power, subject to the provision of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, to appoint persons to act as pilots within their respective pilotage districts. By section 24, all Bristol pilots duly licensed before the 24th July, 1861, to pilot vessels within the Bristol Channel are authorised so to act within the same limits and in the same manner as they might have lawfully acted before the passing of the Act ; and they were likewise declared to be entitled to a supplementary license at the hands of any of the bald boards to pilot any vessel within the port or ports respectively under the control of such board. The district assigned to the Cardiff board was, by the Bth sec., defined to he the port of Cardiff, and that part of the Bristol Channel which lies eastward 'of Lundy Island, up to and including King's Road, and the River Rhymney up to Rhymney Bridge. The expression, the port of Cardiff, was declared to be and to mean by the interpretation of that clause " the customs port of Cardiff for the time being." The limits of the several ports was defined by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury in January, 1868. The respondent holds a license from the Bristol pilotage authorities and a license from the Cardiff Board as a pilot from the port of Cardiff. The appellant was a pilot, duly licensed by the Newport Board Pilotage District. By the 361st section of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, an unqualified pilot assuming or continuing in charge of any ship after a qualified pilot had offered to take charge of her, or using a license which he was not entitled to use, incurred a penalty not exceeding £5O. The ship in question left the Bute Docks in the port of Cardiff, where she had loaded on the Bth November, in charge of a pilot, and was by him duly anchored in Penarth Roads, within the port of Cardiff, and immediately afterwards the pilot left her without any intention of returning, the vessel remaining there until the wind should be favour able. After remaining twenty-four hours she signalled for a pilot, and she was soon answered and boarded by the appellant, who took charge of her. Shortly afterwards, the respondent, seeing the signal, went on board to pilot the vessel down the Channel, and requested the appellant to leave. The appellant refused, informing the respondent that he held a Newport license, which authorised him to pilot the vessel in any part of the British Channel eastward of Lundy Island. He afterwards got the ship under weigh, piloted her down Channel, and was paid for his services. The question was, whether Penarth Roads, within the meaning of the Act, was part of the Bristol Channel, and so within the jurisdiction of the Newport Board. The stipendiary magistrate declared it was not but part of the port of Cardiff. The Court held that their judgment must be for the appellant. It was much to be lamented that in a matte': of this kind, the terms used in the Act of Parliament, were so ambiguous for all that difficulty arose from the interpretation clause. There could be no doubt, however, that the term " port " meant the port of Cardiff the ordinary sense in which the word port was used as an harbour. I , AW AND POLICE. CONVICTED NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS.—The Municipal Revision Court in Dublin has decided that Messrs. Sulli van and Pigott, two newspaper proprietors who were sentenced to imprisonment for libel, were not disqualified from appearing on the burgess list through such convic tion. Objection had been taken to them on the ground that they were civilly dead whilst in prison, but it wa overruled by a majority of the court. GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.—Vice-Chancellor Malins nas made an order in chambers discharging the receivers of the Great Eastern Railway. The company has thus been extricated from Chancery much more quickly than was anticipated by the most sanguine. CONJUGAL AFFECTION.—A singular case of wife assault has been brought before Mr. Newton, at the Worship street Police-court. A hawker, named Morris, wascharged with throwing his wife out of a second-floor window, by which she was so seriously injured that her life is in jeopardy. The deposition of the wife, however, which was taken at the hospital, was to the effect that they had been out drinking together, and on their return home had a quarrel, in which the prisoner struck her several times. She could not escape by the door, which was locked, and so got out of the window, and, after sitting for a moment on the sill, threw herself down. The unfortunate woman's daughter, however, states that she was pushed out. Prisoner was remanded. The Dublin Express announces that Dr. Geisler has been appointed Professor of Modern Languages at Queen's College, Galway, vice the late Dr. Bensback. A deputation from the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, consisting of Mr. Deputy De Jersey, Mr. Deputy Farrar, Mr. Richard Cox, Mr. Pedler, Mr. Daw, and Mr. Haywood, had an interview on Wed. nesday with the Duke of Richmond, at the office of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the appointment of Mr. Evans to be one of the gas, referees under the " City of London Gas Act, 1868." TIM SUN, LONDON, TB URSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1868. FOREIGN NOTES, THB ALABAMA MAIMS. Mr. Reverdy Johnson has published "a correct report * of his important speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet. The alterations do not, however, affect the substantial part of the speech—the announcement that the two Governments have agreed upon a mode of disposing of the disputes at issue between England and America. The Standard's version of the terms of the settlement differs from that given by the Timm. The former paper says that the American Government has not with drawn the question of the right of England to acknow ledge the Southern Confederacy as a belligerent. " What Mr. Reverdy Johnson has withdrawn is a specific refe rence to arbitration of our right of recognition. What he has agreed to is a general reference of all questions at issue arising out of the war. In fact, the whole corre spondence between the two Governments will be laid before the arbitrator, and on that and that alone he will decide." The Telegraph agrees with the Times that the King of Prussia is the chosen arbitrator ; but the Standard maintains that no selection has yet been made, and that the choice is not limited to a European sovereign. The Emperor of Brazil, for instance, might be proposed. Possibly ; but it is hardly likely that such a choice would be thoroughly satisfactory to the English people. The affection exhibited by the Standard towards Brazil and everything in it is not con tagious. The same journal adds that the San Juan affair is to be referred to the President of the Swiss Republic. San Juan is a small island on the west of North America, and the question at issue here is, whether it should be included within the boundary of the United States or of British North America. hereby appointed for the meeting, of the said Peers to proceed to such election. Witness Ourselves at Windsor, this eleventh day of November, one thous tnd eight hundred and sixty-eight, and in the thirty-second year of our reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. At the Court at IVindsor, the 11th day of No vember, 1868—present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council—this day,Sir Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, G.C.B. (commonly called Lord Augustus Loftus), the Right Honour able Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., and Sir James Fergusson, Bart., were, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their places at the Board accordingly. seized the polls, but the whites drove them away, and several were killed and wounded. In Louisiana the fighting had been done and the negroes thoroughly cowed before the dayof the election. South Carolina escaped, because the Legislature there elects the electors, and North Carolina is beyond the pale of the extreme violence of feeling which has tended so much to outrage. The most interesting electiOn is that of the Empire State, where SEYMOUR was vic torious by 8,000 of a majority. The State census for 1865 gives the number of voters as 823,873, which had perhaps increased last Tuesday to nearly a million, which shows how equAlly divided the parties are. What we expected occurred ; the city cast a Democratic majority of over 50,000, which was worked. down to 8,000 by the State outside New York. That GRANT runs ahead of State tickets is seen in the election of JOHN J. HOFF3IAN, the Democratic candidate for Governor, who carried the State by a majority of 18,000 ; that is, 10,000 in excess of the vote cast for SEYMOUR. In the struggle between HOFFMAN and FENTON for the Governorship in 1866 the Republicans polled 366,315 and the Democrats 352,526, FENTON being elected by a majority of 13,789. We may presume that besides HOFFMAN, ALLEN C. BEACH, of Jefferson, is elected Lieutenant-Governor ; OLIVER BASCOM, of Washington, Canal Commis sioner ; DAVID B. M‘NEIL, Inspector of State Pri sons ; and EDWIN 0. PERRIN, Clerk of Court of Appeals. HENRY W. SLOCUM and DELOS DE WOLF Presidential electors at large. Out of the 31 Con gressional districts the Republicans have carried 17 and the Democrats 14, which is a Democratic gain of three on the present number. The term of the New York United States Republican Senator, EDWIN D. MORGAN, expires next March. The only personal items by the cable relate to the re-election of MORRISSEY, who has defeated GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, as well as HORACE GREELEY, in the Fifth New York Congressional District. BUTLER, too, has been successful, as the latest accounts by mail assured us would be the case, the De mocrats showing an intention of furthering his election. In Massachusetts, Michigan, and lowa all the Republican candidates have been elected. Illinois gives them 10 out of 14 ; Wiscon sin, 5 out cf 6 ; and Missouri, 5 out of 9. On the, whole, however, the Democrats have gained 27 members by the autumn elections in the Congres sional House of Representatives, by which the Republicans have lost the two-thirds majority they formerly possessed there, while the Senate has become almost solidly Republican. - _ Our correspondent thus writes from Frankfort on he election of the President :—The city of Frankfort-on the-Main was very much excited on the news of the elec tion of General Grant for President. Everybody who held American bonds consider the doctrine of repudiation as set forth in the Democratic platform as dead and buried. Seven,' houses of American citizens were illuminated, and as well also as the offices of the Consul-General of the of the United States, American flags are flying in various parts of the city, and there is gre.tt rejoicing over the result. COLLISION.—As the steamer Continental, which leaves her berth in New Haven for New York at eleven o'clock in the evening, was coining out of the harbour at an early hour, she collided with and sunk the propeller Northampton, Captain Stannard, of the opposition line. Captain Bowns, of the Continental, and Mr. James L. Amsden, of Westfield, Mass., a passenger and an eye witness, gives the account :—Tho bows of the Continental passed completely through the starboard side of the pro peller cutting her nearly in two, and reaching the state rooms on the opposite side. In the collision the steam p pe of the Northampton was severed, and the steam rush ing out filled the hold and state rooms. The fireman of the propeller was so severely scalded that his life is despaired of ; the engineer, Mr. Beach, and one Jame son, a coloured waiter, wore also slightly scalded. Im mediately after the collision the passengers and crew of the Continental, finding that their vessel was not seriously damaged, jumped aboard of the Northampton and gallantly laboured to rescue the wounded of the latter vessel. All who could be found after a diligent search were taken off. On a hasty investigation being made it was found that the Northampton was in a sinking condi tion, being only held above the surface of the water by hanging a dead weight on the bowof the Continental, which was still closely wedged into her hull and upper works. The stateroom struck by the Continental was occupied by Miss Carrie E. Brown, of New York, and was almost demolished, so that she was driven with the debris into one corner, whence she was with difficulty rescued, having suffered a few slight bruises. A steam tug, with a barge in tow, arrived from New Haven, while the passengers of the Nortiampton were being reseued, and, on the request of Captain Bowns, of the Continental, remained near and took off some of the passengers. The coloured waiters on board the Northampton are reported to have been very much frightened, and to have made a rush at once for the life-preservers, all of which they secured. After great difficulty, the bows of the Continental were extricated, and the vessel backed off to some distance. immediately the Northampton sank to her main deck, and. as the steamer put about for the return to New Haven, was rapidly sinking in four and a half fathoms. The wounded were landed at New Haven, where they received medical care, and the Continental then started, at 3 o'clock in the morning for the trip to New York, where she arrived three hours late. The Mexican Resurrection Plant is now being exhibited and sold in Broadway, New York. The plant is to all appearance dead; but unfolds leaves of an emerald colour when watered. It flourishes in Southern Mexico during the rainy season, but in dry weather curls up and appears to die, but when placed in water revives to its ori ginal brightness and freshness. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late illustrious .Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States, will spend the winter at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. Her son Fred will attend Professor Holiagen's famous school for boys. Few cities present such inducement for the education of boys and young ladies as Frankfort. The Welsh colony in Patagonia is suffering great anxiety from the anticipated loss of part of its resources. A small vessel lately purchased by the colonists, sailed from Patagonia in February last, and up to the end of July had not been heard of. She had en board sixty sacks of flour, a large fishing net, parcels of clothes, some cattle and six persons. At a meeting of the French RepublicAn citizens held at the Club Rooms. No. 636, Broq,dway, Oct. 23, ad dresses were delivered by Mr. Victor Faider, M. Constant, and Mr. Tuffer. Great enthusiasm prevailed for Grant, Union, and victory. Among the passengers by the Germania, which arrived at Southampton last Saturday, were the Rev. E. S. Thomas of Minnesota, and 0. Goettel of Philadelphia. __ . General Banks, Hon. John Quincy Adams, Post master-General Rindall, Hon. G. A. Grow, of Penn sylvania and ex-Confederate General Longstreet, have lately arrived in New York. Mr. Washburn, the American Minister in Para guay, had arrived at Buenos Ay)les. George F. Edmunds, who has been elected United States Senator for Vermont, to serve from March 4th, 1869, to March 4th, 1875, was born at Richmond, Vermont, -February Ist, 1828. He received his education in the public schools, and also was assisted by the instruc tions of a private tutor. He then studied law and entered on the practice of his profession. He served in the House of Representatives of Vermont from 1854 to 1859, having for three years been Speaker. He was next elected to the State Senate, of which body he was President pro tem , in 1861 and 1862. On the death of Senator Solomon Fo )t, Mr. Edmunds was appointed by the Governor, and subse quently by the Legislature, to fill the vacancy, and took his seat on April 5, 1866. Judge Williams has accepted the position of Justice of the Supremo Court of Pennsylvania, to succeed Justice Strong. Upon the - recommendation of the Chief of Ord nance the fcllowing changes in the stations of officers of the United States Ordnance Department have been made —Brevet-Major J. M. Whittemore from the Watervliet Arsenal at West Troy, N.Y., to the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal; Brevet-Major Buffington from Watertown to Watervliet, and Capt. Phypps from Watertown to the Washington Arsenal. First Lieut. M'Giunis is detached from duty in the Ordnance Bureau at Washington. and ordered to the Springfield Armory, and Second Lieut. Isaac W. Maclay is detaehedfrom the Springfield Armory, and ordered to report to the head-quarters of the depart ment of the Platte. Mrs. Ex-President Tyler has published a card thanking her generous and distinguished counsel, William M. Evarts and Judge Edwards Pierrepont, for their untiring devotion cf time and patienc3 in the prose cution of her defence" in the "Gardiner-Tyler will case," which has just been decided in her favour It is rumoured that Garibaldi is about to quit. Caprera for Am erica, as he is disgustel with the present state of Italan affairs. R. S. Stevens, of Attica, New York, has bar gained for the territory back of East Boston, known as Breed's Island, for $200,009, but there is some trouble about the title, to which several people in England hold an inherited claim, and the Supreme Court has notified all of them to " prove property" before the sth of next Ja nuary, or relinquish their claims. Ex-President Pierce has so far recovered his health that he is able to ride out. Benjamin Cutler, Surveyor-General of New Mexico, died on Sunday, September 18, at Santa F 6. Mr. John M. Butler, senior partner of the firm of Butler and Carpenter, engravers, of Philadelphia, and a director of Girard College, died on the 20th of October. Ex-Chief Justice Staples, of Rhode Island, died in Providence, Oct. 19. The Rev. Father O'Keefe, Catholic clergyman, of Clinton, Massachusetts, died ou Sunday, Sept. 18. PROBABLE REFORMS IN THE BRITISH ARMY. (From the Anglo American 2 imes.) The incoming House of Commons is likely to make some radical changes in the British Army, and an able reformer has taken up this subject in the person of Sir Charles E. Trevelyan. As the 1 British Army will soon occupy national attention, it may not be out of place for us briefly to touch on I the military system of England, and to throw some light on the points about to be discussed. There are three distinct military organizations for the de fence of the Empire—the Regular Army, the Militia, and the Volunteers. The two latter need but a small outlay, and will occupy but little of the atten tion of Parliament, though we believe the tendency is towards resting the defence of Great Britain on these organizations, instead of on the Regular Army. The peculiarity of the English structure was the complete and perfectly formed bricks of which the edifice was composed, without mortar. No better constituted community could be devised than the ordinary marching British regiment before innovations were introduced, which injured it, with out remedying the defect, by knitting all into one machine. During the time of the Iron Duke, when a gradual change was everywhere in progress but in England, a British regiment, through the nature of its foreign service, became an isolated unit, per fect in everything pertaining to itself, but wholly unconnected with anything else. This made the model and the mess of the British Army ; the grand material in peace, and the hocus-pocus in war ; the power of effecting actions of extraordinary brilliancy, yet making a muddle of a campaign or of a siege. Towards the close of his life the Duke saw the necessity of modifying the system, and so far carried out the purpose as to strike the first blow, which was at the little peculiarities which distinguish the different regiments, and to which the British sol dier attaches a ridiculous importance. The pri vileges of crack regiments were abolished, and the King's Own Light Infantry, or the Royal Rifles, as the regiments delighted to designate themselves, became the 51st Foot or the GOth Foot. The 7th, the 43d, the 52d were material losers ; as hitherto they had been exempt from West India or East India service, their range being confined to the North American provinces and the Mediterranean. The Second Lieutenants of the Fusilier and Rifle Regi ments were turned into Ensigns, and the Royal Fusiliers, which had no such low grade, were put on a par with their neighbours. It was thus that the concentrated wisdom for which the Horse Guards has become renowned, expcted to fuse and amalgamate these perfect little communities into an army. This policy was pursued of er the Duke's dean though still in a measure based on the notion that the object could be affected by destroying the distinctions which gave the esprit de corps and by making all alike, so that the difference could only be known by the number on the cap instead of lay bringing into good working order the departments which move and subsist an army in the field. Thus depot battalions were formed to train recruits, both officers and men, work, formerly done, when a regi ment was abroad, by the companies it left at home forming a depot for the purpose. Gradually troops were accumulated in England, where a s Adier had scarcely ever before been seen. A great camp was established at Aldershot, and lesser ones elsewhere, such as at Shorticliffe. The object was to train for working in masses, and to drill generals in the art of handling large bodies of men, of which, out of India, till then they were so profoundly ignorant that the Duke asserted if a division were massed iu llyde Park, few General,: in the British army could get it out. The changed policy of the country re garding colonial defence facilitated this, enabling the Horse Guards to withdraw many regiments for home service. But these complete units constituted as they were for active operations on the coast of Africa, in Kaffirlaud, or New Zealand, are much too complete and costly for Europe, where the ope rations of war are wholesale, instead of in the retail quantities supplied by the British system. The difference is like the general store of a backwood village, which though there the correct, thing, is very unsuitable in a capital of Europe. The number of combatant officers is in excess in the regiments, and the non-combatant officers ought not to belong to regiments, but to departments. Now it is in break ing up the general store system, and in classifying the different articles in their proper establishments, that the difficulty exists. There are other questions of vital importance relating to the interior economy, such as the abolition of purchase, a more general promotion from the non-commissioned into the com missioned grades, and greater inducements to en list to the better classes by modifying the present stringent regulations which s' hamper the liberty of men, by adding to their amusements, pay, and furloughs, as well as by brightening the prospects in their calling. Those who think at all on the subject beyond matters relating to their conveni ence, are aware that regimental officers are two to one in excess of the requirements of a battalion on home service, and in that proportion the Geveru ment, without injury to army efficiency, could re duce the various regiments. In doing so, however, the country would be compelled to raise the pay of those who remained. Men accept the actual posi tion, but change the conditions when work will be increased and leave of absence curtailed and compen sation will be required. It is, however, a mistake to suppose that if the 40 combatant officers of a battalion were reduced to 20, with double the pay, that the ex pense would be equalized. The pay of an officer is only the chief item of his remuneration. Independent of his barrack accommodation, his perquisites in coals, candies, mess allowance, &c., every year of his service gives him an additional claim on the Go vernment, which eventually accumulates into a con siderable sum for an allowance on retirement. The country is compelle l to recognize the right of those to be supported by it who devote themselves to its service, but if the service is superfluous while the right remains, the nation is a loser, though it gave nothing at present towards the support of the claimant. The advisability of materially reducing the number of officers in the British regiments will probably be one of the questions debated in the labformed Parliament. Another, the Purchase System, now seriously discussed, is closely connected with it. In 1858, the Report to Parliament on the Sale and Purchase of Commissions estimated the gross value at over seven millions, and as upwards of three more would be required to compensate for sums paid over regulation, it follows that if the nation paid some five or six millions sterling they might get rid of half their officers and their system of purchase at the same time. If Parliament de cided to abolish purchase and to reduce the number of officers employed, those who disapproved of the new system, or considered themselves aggrieved or disliked the harder work, could sell out; the nation becoming the purchaser and cancelling the coin mission. Many would go voluntarily, and more still if they knew that the choice lay between that and interminable half-pay ; and although there would be an addition to the national debt, the sav ing in the Army expenditure would compensate, even if increased pay were given to the remainder. The efforts to reduce all British regiments to a uniform standard could not obliterate the pecu liarities acquired in centuries, and the composition still remains curiously diverse. The 109 regiments .lumbered) of the British Army contain Rifles, FUsiliers, Light Infantry, and Highlanders. Of 'the latter, the first is the 42d, officially designated the Royal Highland, and generally known as the " Black Watch." The number (42) was first be stowed upon a regiment raised by Colonel James Oglethorpe in 1734, for service in Georgia and South Carolina, which was disbanded in 1749, and as the " Black Watch" was placed on the esta blishment in 1739 it dropped into the nnmber formerly held by Oglethorpe's corps. The next, the 71st Highland Light Infantry, does not wear the kilt, and its dress is peculiar to itself. Nor does the 72d wear the kilt, though we believe the others do, consisting of the 74th, 78th, 79th, 91st, 92d, and 93d. Two Rifle Regiments only are in the regular line, of which one, being unnumbered, is designated the Rifle Brigade, and both (the other being the 60th, the Royal Rifles) are com posed of four battalions. Up to and including the 25th each regiment has two battalions—au objec tionable manner of augmenting an army scattered over the world, as the promotion of officers runs through the entire regiment, and changesinecessitate transfers, sometimes from Canada to India. The Ist, or the Royals, is perhaps the oldest regiment in the world, claiming to be formed from the Scottish Archers. The 2d, the Queen's, originally from Tangiers, became celebrated in Monmouth's re bellion, where, as " Kirke's lambs," they paved th e way for Jeffreys. The 3d, the Buffs, were formerly the train bands of Loudon, and retain the right of marching through the City with colours flying and drums beating. Many, besides those first on the list, have histories. For instance, the 103 d, the Royal Bornb ty Fusiliers, is one of the oldest regi ments in the army, being transferred to England with the Portuguese settlement of Bombay. Rank ing next to the 49th is the Royal Marines, one of the finest bodies of men in the service, though not in the regular Line. But finer still are the Guards, consisting of three regiments, termed the Grenadier Guards, with three battalions ; the Coldstream, with two battalions ; and the Scots Fusilier Guards also of two. The Household Cavalry consht of the Ist and 2d Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards. The cavalry of the Line is composed of twenty-eight regiments, of which seven are Dragoon Gulrds, five Lancers, three Dragoons, tnd the rest Hussars. Independent of the regular Line there are several Colonial corps, among which are four West India Regiments. ne, the Royal Canadian Rifles, was expressly raised for service on the border, where men of the ordinary English regiments often deserted in squads. During the Crimea it was fou,Ad necessary to organize better transport, aid the Military Train was the result. With the exception of the Artillery and the Engi neers, we have given an outline of the British Army; but there is another more numerous by far, main tained in the East Indies, at which we will here after glance, as the connection between the two is very imperfectly known, even by large classes in England. We shall touch as well on the Militia and Volunteer system, and at the same time strive to correct some erroneous impressions held in Ame rica regarding the Purchase System of the British Army. AMERICA. The precious metals will soon be at a discount. Gold and silver are being found all over the world, in addition to the gold that has been found in the west of the United States, Nevada, &c. Nevada is said to be very rich in silver, and making due allowance for exaggeration, it is an established fact that the district is remarkably produc tive of the less valuable metal. The best ore is so pure that it will receive the impression of a die without being refined. DEFEAT OF THE PORTUGUESE IN MOZAMBIQUE. The Portuguese have met with a sad disaster on the south bank of the Zambesi. An expeditionary force of COO men, which had been sent to attack a ferocious chief tain, has been nearly destroyed. The troops were surprised whilst asleep by an overwhelming force of natives, armed with modern weapons. Barely 50 men escaped alive. The Por tuguese force in this part ofAfrica is altogether inadequate to contend with the numerous warlike and well•armed inha bitants. Bonga, the chief of the natives, is the terror of the landowners of the district, which is besides reported as very unhealthy. Mozambique, in fact, only nominally belongs to the Portuguese, who first settled there in 1497. During the space of nearly four centuries they have been able to accomplish no more than the establishment of a few stations in the country. No doubt this failure is due to the fact that the Portuguese in Africa are the worst slave stealers on the face of the earth. THE DUKE OF BRABANT. The Prince Roy al of Belgium is reported to be de cidedly better, and the correspondent of the Post thinks even his recovery is not an impossibility. The poor youth sleeps more and more soundly, his appetite is still good, the cough abated, and no puncture has been found necessary for above a week. The water has disappeared to such an extent as to reduce the limbs nearly to their natural size. He is confined indoors, but is able to get up every day. SPAIN. The expected decree on the freedom of public worship has not yet made its appearance. The correspondent of the Daily News says there is a division on this point in the Ministry. Prim and others are for complete freedom and total separation between the Catholic Church and the State, whilst others desire Catholicism to remain as the religion of the State, toleration and protection being granted to all other creeds. Olozaga, who has much in luence with the Ministry, firmly insists upon the latter conclusion. The difficulty will be left to the Cortex. A revolution in the Spanish newspaper press is impera lively needed. The journals of Madrid are infamous. They are so badly printed that large portions of them are unreadable ; they dispense altogether with articles or cor respondence, and their contents are made up of hundreds of miscellaneous paragraphs jumbled together, a mélange of gossip, scandal, and lies. Sometimes a paragraph takes a month to "go the round." Yet, so eager is the demand of the Spaniards for mental food, that these prints are largely circulated, the Correspondencia selling 50,000 daily. DISSOLITTION OF PARLIAMENT. BY THE QUEEN —A PROCL ‘MATION, For Dissolving the present Parliament and Declar ing the calling of another. VICTORIA, R.—Whereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to dis solve this present rarlianis:nt, which stands pro rogue 1 to Thurs lay, the twenty-sixth day of No vember instant, We do for that end publish this Our Royil Proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for shires and burghs, of the House of Commons are dis charged from their meeting and attendance on the said Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November instant ; and We, being desirous and resolved as soon as may be, to meet Our people, and to have their advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all Our loving subjects Our Royal will and pleasure to call a new Parliament; and do hereby further declare, that, with the advice of Our Privy Council, We have given order that Our Chancellor of that part of Our United King dom celled Great Britain, and Our Chancellor of Ireland, do, respectively, upon n ,tice thereof, forthwith issue out writs in die form, and ac cording to law, for calling a new Parliament : and We do hereby also, by this our Royal Pro clatnation under our Grew Seal of Our United Kingdom, require writs forthwith to be issued accordingly by Our said Chancellors respectively, for causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, who are to serve in the sail Parliament, to be duly returned to, and give their attendance in, Our said Parliament ; which writs are to be returnable on Thursday, the tenth day of December next. Given at our Court at Windsor, this eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lora, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and in the thirty-second year of Our reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION. In order to the Electing and Summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland. VICTORIA, R.—Whereas We have in our Council thought fit to declare Our pleasure for summoning and holding a Parliament of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on Thursday„ the tenth day of December next ensuing the date hereof ; in order, therefore, to the electing and summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland, who are to sit in the House of Peers in the said Parliament, We do, by the advice of Our Privy Council, issue forth this Our Royal Proclamation, strictly charging and commanding all the Peers of Scot land to assemble and meet at Holyrood House, in Edinburgh, on Thursday, the 3d day of Decem ber next, between the hours of twelve and two in the afternoon, to nominate and choose the Six teen Peers to sit an 1 vote in the House of Peers in the said ensuing Parliament, by open election, and plurality of voices of the Peers that shall be then present, and of the proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies being Peers, and producing a mandate in writing, duly signed before witnesses, and both the constituent and proxy being qualified according to law), and the Lord Clerk Register, or such two of the Principal Clerks of the Session as shall be appointed by him to officiate in his name, are hereby respectively required to attend such meeting, and to administer the oaths required by law to be taken there by the said Peers, and to take their votes ; and immediately after such elec tion made and duly examined, to certify the names of sixteen Peers so elected, and to sign and attest the same in the presence of the said Peers the Electors, and return such certificate into Our High Court of Chancery of Gnat Britain. And We do by this Our Royal Procla mation, strictly command and require the Provost of Edinburgh, and ail other the Magistrates of the said city, to take especial care to preserve the peace thereof, during the time of the said election, and to prevent all m inner of riots, tumults, dis orders, and violence whatsoever. And 'We strictly charge and command that this Our Royal Pro clamation be duly published at the Marken-Cross at Edinburgh, and in all the county towns of Scotland, ten days, at least, before the time THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. ( From the Anglo-American Times.) The result last Tuesday justified the general anti cipation ; and what we, in particular, among Euro pean journals, had all along predicted. There have been changes of feeling during the contest ; a swaying to and fro of the hostile lines. There have been "Democratic Suicide" and frauds, Republi can forgeries, and skilful piping on the " New Re bellion" tune. GRANT was a drunkard, SEYMOUR a lunatic, and BLAIR an incorrigible ass. WADE HAMPTON brayed aloud " down South," and was answered in chorus by BLAIR'S followers North and West. BUTLER presented himself like PECK SNIFF to his constituents in Massachusetts as if he had never seen a silver spoon, while the De mocratic chief wept in his dairy. The true and the untrue, the probable and the impossible, the audacious puff and the lying slander, were all mixed up together. Such a contest, ranging over months, could not but vary, and at times sway so as to deceive the most practised eye; yet those who turn to our issue of August 8 will see a carefully compiled table, extracted from the New York Nation of July 23, wherein nearly all but the South ern States are accurately calculated, the predic tion giving GRANT 205 votes against SEY- MoUR'S 89. From Philadelphia a telegram on Wednesday evening announced GRANT'S triumph in these words :—" GRANT has secured 25 States, giving 206 electoral votes ; SEYMOUR nine States, giving 88 votes ; three States not voting." There is an error in the detailed account by telegraph which contradicts the above message; and we feel persuaded that West Virginia has, in reality, cast its five electoral votes for GRANT, notwithstanding the following statement in the despatch :—" West Virginia, which has five electoral votes, and ia 1864 gave LINCOLN a majority of 12,000, has now given a majority of about 7,000 to SEYMOUR and BLAIR." As, however, West Virginia is thus clearly enumerated among the States which voted the Democratic ticket, in the following table, we concede it to SEYMOUR : FOR GRANT AND COLFAX. NEW ENGLAND STATES. Total. 7 New Hampshire ... 5 Massachusetts 4 Connecticut MIDDLE STATES. 21 Pennsylvania WESTERN STATES 13 Illinois 8 _Kansas 11 Tennessee ... 8 Nebraska .„ ... I Wisconsin PACIFIC STATES. California „. 5 Nevada " RECONSTRUCTED" SOUTHERN STATES. North Carolina ..„ 9 South Carolina Arkansas ... 5 Florida Maine... .. Vermont .. Rhode Island 6-39 0hi0... Indiana lowa Missouri ... Michigan ... Minnesota ... 26-47 16 3 10 3 8 -81 6 ... 3-23 Total FOR SEYMOUR AND I3LAIR. NEW ENGLAND STATES. None. MIDDLE STATES. New York 33 New Jer,;ey... ... Delaware 3 Maryland 7 West Virginia 5 WESTERN STATES. .1 ~ 201 Kentucky ..• ••• -• ••• ••• II ractFic STATES. •• Oregon... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 3 "RECONSTRUCTED" SOUTHERN STATES. Georgia ... 9 Louisiana ... ... 7 Alabama ... ... 8 —24 Total ... UNRECONSTRUCTED, AND THEREFORE NOT COUNTED." SOUTHERN STATES. Virginia ... 10 Mississippi 7 Texas... ... 6 —23 The contradiction as telegraphed from Philadelphia is in one State counting 5 votes, as according to oar table, compiled from the telegraphic details, twenty-four States only casting a total of 201 votes went for GRANT against ten for SEYMOUR—casting a total of 93—transfer West Virginia to GRANT and the whole agrees. It is, too, scarcely credible that West Virginia should have swung round to the Democratic side, when by the last mails the result of the election on the 22d October, not a fortnight before, showed a Republican majority of four thou sand for the State ticket, the return of the three Republican candidates to the House of Represen tatives, and the assurance of a Republican suc cessor to Senator VAN WINKLE on the 4th March next. We have always said that General GRANT would run ahead of the State tickets, and the truth of this will be seen on examining the majo rities. Vermont gave on the Ist September a Re publican majority of 27,000. For the Presiden tial Election last Tuesday the majority was 30,000. Maine, on the 14th September, gave a Repub lican majority in round numbers of 20,000 ; last Tuesday, 28,000. Pennsylvania, on the 13th of October, 10,000; last Tuesday, 13,000. Ohio, on the 13th Oct., 17,000; last Tuesday, 35,000. Indiana, on the 13th Oct., 1,000; last Tuesday, 5,000 —all showing gains ; and it would be strange, indeed, if West Virginia in exception to a well-ascertained fact in American elections should have swung right round in a fortnight from a of 4,000 to a Democratic majority There are some points worth Republican of 7 ,o majority oo. noting in the returns. All the New England States, even to Connecticut, went Republican, the last by a majority of 3,000. We may here notice that the telegraphic despatch announcing the elec tions puts Connecticut down as counting for three electoral votes, while at this moment three Democrats and one Republican member sit in the Federal House for that State, with one Democrat and one Republican in the Senate, making a total of 6; and we may add that on the State Legislature depends the election of a successor to the Democratic Senator whose term will be up next March. The next point observable is that SEYMOUR'S strength lay almost wholly in the Middle States, all of which he carried except the two great ones of Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Western States, except ing Kentucky, cast a vote as solid for GRANT as did the New England States. The Pacific States were thought to be Democratic, and Cali fornia was conceded to SEYMOUR, although, could the Republicans reconcile their differences and act together, it was thought they might carry the State, and this they appear to have done. But what is most instructive is the result down South. The two States always calculated upon by the Re publicans were Alabama and Louisiana. The for mer was a pet Republican Reconstructed State. It had caused more trouble than any other, and it ac tually betrayed Congress into something like an in fringement of its own law. It had led the way in Reconstruction, and set au example by adopting a " model" Constitution. Yet Alabama, with its eight votes, is found in the Democratic ranks. But what shall we say of Louisiana with its seven votes? Georgia was expected to go Democratic ; but if there was a State which might reason ably have been counted among the supporters of the Republican ticket, it was Louisiana. There the negroes predominated in number and in the Legislature, and there riot and bloodshed prevailed in the contest between the races so as to make that State conspicuous, even in the South. The Louisiana vote can only be accounted for by the Radical prediction, that the negroes would be frightened away from the polls by armed violence. If so, the Southerners will learn another lesson, that all this ruffianism is worse than worthless to further their cause, for for every negro shot or frightened away fifty Northern meu transfer their votes from the Democratic to the Republican box. It would not be expected that the Reconstructed States could complete their elections without some personskilled; but, strange to say, Savannah was the onlyscene of a fight between the races. It is stated that the negroes RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. A correspondent of the Ledger writes that the Central Pacific Railroad will not take greenbacks for fare, and, moreover, charges 10 cents a mile in gold. For this the passengers probably get "more exercise to the mile" than on any other road in the country. The Union Pacific Railroad has been so far com pleted that passengers by travelling continuously can pas 3 over the line from Philadelphi to San Francisco in eleven days. The time from Philadel phia to Omaha 'was recently three days, but the railroad is now opened to Bryan, 860 miles from Omaha. This shortens the time between Omaha and San Francisco to eight days. From Omaha to Bryan the time is forty hours; from Bryan to Salt Lake City, thirty-two hours, by stage; from Salt Lake City to Wadsworth, four days ; from Wads worth to San Francisco, by the Central Pacific Railroad, one day. The fare from Omaha to Bryan is $64 15e., and to Salt Lake $110; to Sa cramento $230. Gen. Sheridan has in a recent order highly com plimented the officers and men engaged in the late affairs against the Red Indians, of which five are mentioned :-- The affair at Arrickaree fork of Republican river, Kansas, September 17, 1868, where Brevet Colonel George A Forsyth, with 47 scouts, defended themselves for eight days against 600 Indians ; the affair at Big Sandy Creek, Colorado, where Captain George Graham and Co. I, Tenth U.S. Cavalry, defended themselves against 100 Indians; the rapid preparation, pursuit and attack made by Brevet Brigadier General Wm: H. Penrose, with a detachment Of Co. L, Seventh U.S. Cavalry, upon a party of Indian cattle thieves ; the defence made September 2, 1868, at Little Coon Creek, Kansas, by six soldiers against 50 Indians ; the attack, August 2, on an Apache Indian camp, in the Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico, by Cap tain Alexander Moore, 38th Infantry, and a detachment 0 U.S. troops. The widow of the late Bishop and General L. Polk has opened a school in New Orleans, and will be a ided by her daughter. It is thought that General Stoneman will be appointed to the Brigadier-Generalship in the regular army made vacant by General Hooker's retirement• A number of applications have been sent in for tho post/ some of them being from civilians who had served in the Volunteers during the war. The English cricketers who went out to America a few mouths ago for a cricket campaign returned on Tuesday by the City of Bultinwre. We are sorry to Fee that a celebrated General of the Confederate Army has been ignobly captured by the police of New York, and locked up in the Mercer-stree t station. They state that he, Jelin B. Magruder, and Ed: win Higgins, formerly of th e Confederate navy, were drunk and disorderly, and insulted some ladies in No. 667, Broad way, on the 23d October. A. H. Scott, rece,,tly appointed ju lge of elections for Harlem, Clay county, Misiouri, was called to his door and shot dead by some person unknown on the night of the 21st October. General Wurtenberg of the Prussian army and Prince Wurtenbcrg of Austria are at Washington acting in an offi..lal capacity for their Governments. Mr. Binckley has resumed his position of Soli" citor of the Internal Revenue Department, but Commis:: sioner Rollins refuses to have any communication with him. The Navy Department has ordered Lieut.-Coni mauder M. L. Johnson to the receiving ship Ohio. Ensign Wm. Welch to the receiving ship Vermont; Lieut.-Core: mander Chas. J. McDougall to the tiuerriere; Major IL • Reese, Paymaster, has been detached from the pay dis trict of California, and ordered to Washington. Mr. J. Ross Browne has arrived in Peking and presented his credentials. The Edinburgh Courant says:--" We regret to announce the sudden death, at the comparatively early age of 48, of Mr. James B. Manson, who has for many year s been connected with the local press. Mr. Manson W as found dead in his study on Monday morning. lie bad A been engaged in literary work, for his pen had droppe d out of his hand and a portion of fr e sh manuscript wa s before him. It is not known what was the exact callse of his death, although it is imagined that it was hear' disease." The Springfield Republican says :—" The net nominations already made for the Massachusetts State Senate, and those likely to be added, justify the expecte" Mon so often disappointed, that our next Legislature will be better than the last. In Suffolk the Republicaua have nominated Mayor Lincoln, Horace H. Coolidge. George H. Munroe, and Ellis W. Morton ; in Middlesex, lit:; Estes Howe • in Franklin, Whiting Griswold ; and in Norfolk ;hey are likely to nominate Frank Bird. Among the senators of last year will be Pitman an d Tweed of Bristol, Brastow and Needham of Middlesex, and Weston of Plymouth. Of these new mon, Mr. Bird , Dr. Howe, and Mr. Griswold among the elders, and Cool idge, Morton, and Munroe among the younger set will b e heart from. The Senate has often been avoided by act ive men desirous of making themselves felt in legislatio n + but it is not to be so this year. The House must 1 0 , well ballasted to match such a Senate as. the above naive' imply." General Hancock has arrived at New York, th e head-quarters of his command, the Division of th e Atlantic, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Mitchell, of the United States steame r Saginaw, was robbed and murdered in the streets of. 5 311 ,. Francisco on the 21st of October, at the corner of Sutte and Stockton-streets, in the centre of the city. Dr. Benjamin W. Carpenter, of Burlington, ba g been appointed Surgeon-General of the State of Vermont.. His Excellency the Hon. Reverdy Johnson Wi t ! be given a public banquet a t N ewcas tl e - on -Ty ne on tb" 7th December. Hans Christian Andersen contemplates a visit t° the United States. Sir George Grey, K.C.8., and Governor 9f, and Commander-in-Chief in N ew Z ea l an d h as arr ived P . London. bADVEßTlSEMENT.l—Holloway'sPills.—Annoyingra il l t :. trouble, a distressing pain often arises in the side, should e : or elsewhere. Its known cause is congestion of the life ...f Its infallible remedy is Holloway's Pills. Mr. Roberts., St. George-square, Liverpool, states that after trYPI . countless means for reiieving these oppressive pal; without receiving the slightest benefit, he commence course of Holloway's Pills, which in a short time fret; him from them altogether. Neuralgic and other tortnev_., are as readily dispelled. Another patient at Atcber o Salop, writes that he suffered severely for a long time fr ° l " brow ague," face and earache, Mach were complete f cured by Holloway's matchless medicaments. LADVEunsksiENT I—Consumption, and all nervous, Ma t ed liver complaints in every stage are only aggra" t ur and accelerated by drugs of every description, but per curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic" as proved by thousands of cases which had been conside; hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, eumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric deranZ ri , ments, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousn', biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, mess, rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessn e 4, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, droP°i't cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy 0 ,r,,„, t , sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the el eiv ,,,a, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between th e s houlders, We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Bar of Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning . .„ 4 •B other zemedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du 1 1 3 '411 Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Pie, ic ial at every meal. It has proluced a surprisingly bene. 4 ,o effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise .. .. ; ', L ' excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Dil_t,,7,•;- July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber 1, ..„4, chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased timber. spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deduce; o f Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutena Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. t O Ol, years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervonsm o id asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness of vomiting.—MariaJoly." 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