The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUbLIO JOURNAL - Mr. Gladstone's address strikes the Times as somewhat feeble in composition, and not very weighty in argument. But Mr. Gladstone, like Mr. Disraeli, has his difficulties. Even were he willing to commit himself with a policy of a bold and original character, it b must be re membered that has to deal with a constituency newly called into existence, the representatives it has yet to choose, a Government that may never be at all, and circumstances beyond our present anticipation. The Parliament we are to have in full work four months hence can only be guessed, and the state of affairs may then be extraordinary. Mr. Gladstone contents himself with a survey in which one fact stands out prominent, and throws minor features into insignificance. It is that the British people govern themselves, and no man can say for them what they will do. The numbers will demand legislation for the numbers, and the numbers will carry the day. If a man is to lead a party with the least hope of success, he must do so with the figures before him, and count heads out of doors before he comes to the test of a division within. Mr. Disraeli, with the day of trial only four months before him, has sounded the trumpet-blast of "No surrender, no compromise," what ever the many may demand. The public, warned by events, look not at the imposing front of Mr. Disraeli's defences, but at theebscure flanks by which the position may he relinquished for one safer or further off. Mr. Gladstone could not do this. 'Whatever he promises is accepted without reserve. He is not credited with a loop hole for escape. So there is nothing in his address from which he is the least likely to withdraw. Respecting the details of the address, the Times says it is is not easy to see why Mr. Gladstone has re-opened the question of Reform, and given it so much space in hie address. A desire, natural as it may be, to pluck from the Conservative Premier the only feather in his cap— the security of personal rating—can hardly be thought an adequate reason for inviting the new House of Commons to begin at once to mend the constituency. In the matter of primary education we are to infer that Mr. Gladstone is prepared to make grants freely and equally to all schools and all denominations upon the con dition that the scholar so assisted shall be taught some religion or other. lie proposes equality, if it can be done, and if religion do not slip through in the process. But whether he offers it or not, the new British constituency will take it themselves, and so dispose of the question. The Irish policy of the Opposition has long been known. If Mr. Gladstone had published his address a fortnight ago, or even a day before that of the Premier was issued, the Hercad would have said it was weak, tame, disin genuous, and a failure. But as he had a perfect right to do, the Opposition leader preferred to wait and see what Mr. Disraeli would say. Having held back, however, in order to intercept the Conservative manifesto, it was impossible to shirk it. Having pointedly awaited the challenge, he was in a manner forced to accept it. Con. sidered in this light, as the reply of the Opposition leader to the manifesto of the Premier, it must be admitted that Mr. Gladstone's failure assumes the proportions of a catastrophe. So far as it deals with the points raised by Mr. Disraeli the address is characterised by evasiveness and inaccuracy. As regards the Irish Church question, Mr. Gladstone attempts no reply whatever. If Mr. Disraeli's allegations can be answered, we submit that the leader of the Opposition was bound to repel them, and that he could not afford to allow them to pass unanswered. That he has care fully avoided them—that he does not even make a single reference to the Church of England, to Protestantism, or to Roman Catholicism, is, we are bold to affirm, a convincing proof that he dares not, because he cannot, grapple with the irrefragable arguments with which the Premier has confronted him. •With respect to education, Mr. Gladstone has said that the schools are to afford religious teaching, but the State is to take no cognisance of its character and tendency. Each sect may obtain a grant for its schools and teach religion in its own way, without any check or warrant from the State. 'What does this amount to in Ireland? That the education and religious training of the great bulk of the youth of the country in the national schools will be in the hands of the Roman Catholic priesthood. The Standard says that with respect to the great ques tion of the day, the fate of the Established Church, we find in Mr. Gladstone's address no word of apology for convicted misstatements of fact ; no line of explanation, no hinted guarantee, in regard to those questions on which his Protestant supporters in Parliament vainly strove to obtain some sort of security. But we have the old sophistries repeated with the old confidence. Again, we are told that a National Church should be the Church of the nation—without an attempt to meet the damaging inquiry whether the Irish people be a separate nation, or part of the nation which inhabits the United Kingdom. Again, the Protestants, who settled in Ireland in reliance on the support of their countrymen, who accepted the Union as a fresh guarantee of that support, are treated not as the most loyal and English portion of the population, but as a minority dis affected to Ireland, whose alienation from the religion and sympathies of the majority is a reproach, and a reason fur setting aside their rights and disregarding their wishes. Again, we are told that the Church "misapplies funds meant for the advantage of the (Irish) nation at large," the truth being that nearly the whole of these funds belong to, and were granted for, the benefit of the Protestant Church and community. As regards England, Mr. Gladstone has given in his co hesion to the advocates of secular education, and intimates that the State should dissociate itself " from the teaching of particular creeds in schools aided by grants from any national fund." After having been the pioneers of national education —having lavished money and labour thereon, having made one concession after another to the demands of the State—the clergy and the friends of religious educa tion are now to be thrown over, and their schools not merely to be deprived of State aid, but to be exposed to State competition. What is to he done with the funds of the Irish Church Mr. Gladstone declines to say. On the subject of education, the Daily News thinks Mr. Gladstone speaks in terms which, though guarded as to detail, are satisfactory in principle. The neutrality of the State between various creeds in schools aided by the public money, and the necessity of additional security for the rights of conscience, are the guiding rules of educational policy which Mr. Gladstone lays down. The country, we believe, has made up its mind on them ; and though Archdeacon Denison may protest, he may be left quietly to the performance of that archidiaconal function. With respect to the whole address, the Daily News observes that it differs from Mr. Disraeli's in declaring a policy, whilst the Premier's literary skill was directed to the concealment of the fact that he had no policy to declare. The nation has, therefore, to choose between Mr. Gladstone's policy and Mr. Disraeli's perplexity, between a master of statesmanship and a master of phrases, between a consummate administrator and a dexterous parliamentary manager, between a man of earnest purpose and conviction and a man who, with many high gifts, has never treated politics otherwise than as a fascinating game of skill or a career of daring adventure. The Star considers that on the question of education Mr. Gladstone speaks with notable emphasis and compre hensiveness, and succeeds, as all trusty statesmen are succeeding, in harmonising the rooted preference of the English people for religious education with the conviction that education of a satisfactory kind must be pro vided for the whole population. Lord Russell, in Lord Melbourne's time, took the first step in this direction, by declaring, in connection with a tentative plan for aiding public education, that the rights of conscience should be respected, and that the youth of the country should be religiously brought up. Mr. Gladstone recurs to this declaration, and ham upon it the confession of his own educational faith. Some. thing, he says, is still necessary to secure the rights of conscience. These can be secured without militating against the religious element ; but the primary want of the time in reference to public instruction is a system on which the State shall stand wholly apart from the teaching of different and conflicting creeds in schools aided by national grants. If it should please Spain to call our sailor prin! to be het King, we should, of course, says the Post, be profoundly sen sible of and deeply grateful for the compliment paid to this country and to our illustrious and beloved Queen. Without arguing for or against this idea, it is clear that the election of the Duke of Edinburgh to the throne of Spain would not in the least degree influence out continental policy. We have an interest in Spain becoming strong, liberal, and prosperous ; but it will not matter tc us what is the form of government, or who is the chief magistrate. But though the English prince would not have Gibraltar for a dower, and would not add to the material force of Spain, the choice might be a wise anc happy one. A Protestant Prime Minister has done wonders for Catholic Austria, and a Protestant king might be of vast service to Catholic Spain. Besides, it is all important for a nation that wishes for the government of constitutional me,narchy to have a constitutional sovereign It is but the bare truth to say that the success of constitu tional government in Belgium is due to the wisdom ant sound constitutional policy of Leopold I. ; and, although the Duke of Edinburgh is a young man, he has not onlj given ample evidence of ability, but has been thorou , dili educated and trained in constitutionalism. We do not a set how we could part with our prince, but if the idea could be realised we should have a very confident hope that England's loss would be a gain to Spain. The poet Longfellow is at pvesent on a visit to THE MEETING OP PARLIAMENT. Rumour as to the meeting of Parliament is getting very positive indeed. For some time past it has been dead against an early meeting. Several papers have stated authoritatively that the Premier intended that there should be no meeting until 1869. The Court Journal confirms this in even more positive terms than have yet been used. " Parliament," it says, " will not be assembled this year. This, our readers may be assured, we give on the best authority. The promise of Mr. Disraeli has been relied upon, but that was made in connection with different cir cumstances of the case Parliamentary, and is no longer applicable." EXPERIMENTS AT SHOEB URYNESS. The experiments commenced on the 2nd inst., to test Captain Moncrieff's wrought-iron carriage and platform, for 17-inch, 17-ton, 115-pounder, rifled muzzle -loading gun, are still going on. The ammunition used at the last trial was Palliser cored shot of 1151 b. weight, having a windage of o. oB in. ; the powder, large-grained rifle. The gun detachment consisted of one sergeant and ten gunners. The ground in front of the gun was marked off by pickets, placed in line from left to right, and numbered from 1 to 11, corresponding num bers being marked off on the edge of the outer or flat racer upon which the gun traversed. By this means, the ranges and elevation having been previously noted, the gun can be laid, elevated, and fired at the order of a single officer on the watch (and partially but pretty safely screened by the parapet from an enemy's fire if in action) at any moving object approaching the points thus indicated, without being seen at all by the artillerymen, who work the gun entirely under cover in the pit in which the carriage is placed. In the first ten rounds, which occupied 18min. 55sec., the gun fired 221 b. (battery) charges, at 1,800 and 2,000 yards. Five rounds followed with 141 b, (service) charges, from 500 to 2,000 yards, and the firing was so excellent that every shot would have struck a vessel of a small class. Practice was then commenced with the moving target of the dimensions of Gft. by 6ft., drawn by four horses with a rope. Nine rounds were fired with 141 b. charges, the horses moving at a walk, or about 31 miles an hour, and the course varying from 1,200 to 1,000 yards in direct line, as the successive points 200 yards apart were fired at. The practice was very good ; the time occupied in firing was twenty minutes. This experiment was then repeated, the horses returning in the opposite direction at the trot, or, say, seven miles an hour. Six rounds were fired with 141 b. charges, the practice being excellent. Time occupied in firing, 9 min. 13sec. The third practice was intended to ascertain what would be the effects and delay which might arise from a shot striking near and covering the carriage and elevating gear with earth and stones. The following rounds were fired with 221 b. charges at targets varying in distance from 1,200 to 2,000 yards ;—Four, after earth and gravel had been freely shovelled over with the gun in the loading position ; and six, after similar treatment with the gun in the firing position. The firing of the ten rounds only occupied twenty-nine minutes, the twice brushing and clearing away the dirt being included in that period. The experiments were conducted in the presence of several members of the Ordnance Select Committee. EXTRAORDINARY SPEECH AT AN EXECUTION. The New York papers contain accounts of the execution of two brothers, who had been sentenced to death for a most brutal murder. A description is given of the pre liminaries of the execution, and then follows the report of r: singular speech delivered by one of the culprits, when under the drop, on the subject of capital punishment. His reason for making the speech was that "people always like to hear what persons who are hung have to say as their last words." "In regard to the execution of myself," observed the younger prisoner, Charles James, " I would say--and of course it would be natural for me to say it under these circumstances—that I do not believe in capital punishment under any circumstances." And then he pro- ceeds deliberately to argue the question with as much coolness as if he were addressing a Social Science meeting instead of standing under a gibbet. It is of course (he says) in accordance with the laws of Massachusetts that we are to be executed ; but I don't know whether it will be justified in the eyes of God or not. The State of Massachusetts might make laws to execute every man who stole four dollars' worth, but that would not prove that they would be justified in the eyes of God. But I will not pretend to linger upon these points, as I know that it is useless to talk about it now. But I would say, as we are to be executed, that we are suffering the same ignominious death that Mr. Clark suffered, and our death is in the same circle of ideas as the death of Mr. Clark, and therefore I say that I think the execution is not really justified in the eyes of God. You know God says "Thou shalt not kill.' I know that I have not done his bidding, but, of course, when we have done wrong all we can do is to repent of our sins, and He has promised that He will receive repentant sinners. For He says, He that believes in me, and cloth truly repent, shall have everlasting life.' But Ido not pretend to quote Scripture. But I wish to say that, although I die in accordance with the laws of Massachusetts, I have a kind word for the officers of the prison, who have my sincere thanks for their attention." The culprit, curiously enough, wound up as if lie thought that he should have other opportunities of reviving the subject. "I don't know that I can say anything more to you to-day, so I bid you farewell." And he and his comrade were hanged a few minutes afterwards. The Rev. W. R. Magrorie, Bishop (designate) of llaritzburg, did not accompany Bishop Gray ou Friday, but will leave this country by the steamer of the 9th of December for Capetown. It is said that, in all probability, he will be consecrated in January. A London correspondent writes :—" The con certs at the Agricultural Hall are attracting enormous crowds. lam told, though I can scarcely credit the fact, that Sims Reeves gets a hundred guineas a night for sing. ing two songs. As some 15,000 persons go to hear him, there may be room for a profit." A PLEASANT SENSATION.---A young man who .-ecently fell in love with a beautiful young lady says that when he ascertained last evening that she reciprocated his passion, he felt as though he was sitting on the roof of a meeting-house, and every shingle was a Jew's-harp.— American, Paper. It is not generally understood how the.all-alive full sized train passes along the stage in the new sensational scene. The other night, at the Surrey Theatre, the audience were enlightened. The engine met with an obstruction in the middle of the stage, stopped dead, and the follow ing carriages and tender rushed on with the .momentum, and shot one after the other into the engine, and closed up like a telescope. It was very effective, and, as a railway accident, was quite as remarkable as the running-over business. Among the books recently presented to the library of the Hartley Institution in Southampton is a copy of Milton's " Paradise Lost," published by subscrip tion by Jacob Tonson in 1720. It is a large volume of upwards of 600 pages, and contains, besides the great p poem, a list of subscribers, Barrow's Latin and Andrew Marvel's English lines and Addison's essays on it, Mil ton's short preface justifying blank verse, and an index to the poem. Among the subscribers' names are Alex ander Pope, Sir Isaac Newton, Matthew Prior, Dr. John Arbuthnot, and Thomas Tickell. In 1720 the poem had been written upwards of fifty years, and had been previously published, and yet it bad to be published by subscription. A. curious discussion took place at the last meet ing of the Belfast Presbytery. A " call" was handed in from a congregation near Granard, which pledged itself to give the munificent salary of £45 per annum to the minister named in it—a Mr. William Moore. The Rev. Mr. Johnston said ho was exceedingly sorry to see a con gregation that numbered some of the most wealthy and respectable persons in the Presbyterian Church amongst 'ts members coming forward and offering the petty sum of £45 a year. One of the gentlemen in connexion with that congregation had an annual revenue of £9,000, while another, who was high sheriff of the county, was able to receive the representative of their church in a carriage and four. How these gentlemen could expect their pastor to be a gentleman and a Christian on £45 a year was more than he could make out. After a long discussion it was resolved to hand the " call " to Mr. Moore. TIIE EXPLOSION AT BARNSLEY.—Barnsley was thronged on Sunday with a large influx of visitors who seemed anxious to view the site where the disastrous works once stood, as well as to witness the funerals of Bywater, the foreman ; Evans, an assistant to Mr. Norris; and Harriet Ann Hinchcliffe, which took place at the cemetery in the afternoon. It now appears that the con dition of the sheds in which the work was done was far from what it ought to have been. It is alleged that in well organised manufactories not more than two lives could be lost at a time unless under very extraordinary circum stances, in consequence of separate huts spread over a great area being adopted. It is also a rule not to have more than a small quantity of composition at a time in the huts, and means are adopted for a ready removal of all goods to the magazine as soon as they are finished. These precautions seem to have been forgotten or neglected at Barnsley, and explains the second explosion, which blew the foreman into the field. - h.3.RIOUS CHARGE OF SHOOTING. The Brentford magistrates have been occupied in inves tigating a singular case, in which Mr. Philip Lugard, a retired surgeon, residing at Hounslow, was charged with ' firing a gun at Miss Ellen Gassner, a young lady living next door to him, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. It appeared that in the afternoon, whilst she and another young lady were playing together in the garden adjoining the defendant's, several stones were hurled over the wall, from the direction of Mr. Lugard's house, one of which struck the complainant. The females retired indoors. Half an hour afterwards, however, Miss Gassner and Miss Coles again went into the garden for a walk, when they observed Mr. Lugard peeping through the Venetian blinds of one of his upper windows ; he then drew up the blinds, threw open the lower half of the window, pointed a gun at the young ladies, and fired. Immediately after the gun was fired Miss Gassner felt that she was wounded on the right temple, and fainted. Mr. Lugard, in cross-examining the witnesses, tried to show that he had been systematically annoyed by the young ladies and their companions, who had called him a "nasty, wicked old man," and other irritating appellations ; but they all denied having ever vexed or called him harsh names, or having thrown stones into his garden. Mr. Lugard, however, asserted that he had been for a long time subjected to annoyances, and he could stand it no longer. He therefore frightened the young ladies. The mother of the young lady who was shot told the bench that Mr. Lugard had, on the contrary, annoyed and frightened her daughter and her playmates for some time past, and she' now appealed to the magistrates for protection. Dr. Cooper, one of the justices, examined Miss Gassner's wound, and said it was a merciful and remarkable thing that her eye had not been shot out. The prisoner was ‘ommitted for trial. BRUTAL MURDER IN SUSSES'. A brutal murder has been committed on the South Downs, apparently with the very paltry object of robbing a poor old man of the s um of £2llx. It appears that a farm labourer, named David Baldey, aged 60, in the employ of Mr. Hudson, farmer, of Kingston village, near Lewes, received from that gentleman 'on Friday night the sum mentioned above, being a fortnight's wages for himself and his two sons. Ile left Mr. Hudson's house about six o'clock on Friday, to go, as was supposed, to his own dwelling, a solitary building known as Newmarket-cottage, and situate at the summit of one of the South Downs known by that name. Nothing more was, so far as is at present known, seen or heard of him that night, and, singula rl y enough, his family—a wife, two sons, and a daughter—went to bed without inquiry or searching after him. Next morning, about six o'clock, as the two sons were proceeding to their work, they dis covered, lying across the beaten track, about 500 yards from the house, the murdered and mutilated body of their father. They raised an alarm, and the corpse was re moved to the cottage. The police were called in, and Dr. Smyth, police surgeon, who examined the body, found that the poor fellow had been shot through the back with a gun or pistol, the bullet being found in his breast, and that his nose and teeth had been regularly smashed, apparently with the butt of the weapon, which had been used to shoot him. The money which he liad received on the previous night had been extracted from his pocket, and the latter, when the body was discovered, was found to be turned inside out. The surgeon had no doubt, from the appearances which he found, that the ruffian who fired the fatal shot was at the time of doing so within a few feet of his victim. The deceased is said to have been a steady, hardworking, inoffensive man, and leaves an aged widow and three or four children. Suspicion has fallen on a man who formerly lodged with the deceased, and who is said to have left his house on Friday night with a gun, which he has not since brought back. This man was seen in the neighbourhood on Saturday, and the police are in search of him. LAW AND POLICE. A CAB PROPRIETOR AND THE PRIVILEGED CABMEN. — A 'curious case of assault arising out of the recent cab strike came before the Clerkenwell magistrates on Satur day. The complainant was a cab proprietor, and on arriv ing at King's-cross Station entered a cab. He was recog nised by the " privileged cabmen," and on refusing to alight was taken round to the place where cabs are washed. The horse was taken out, the cab tilted up, by which complainant was much hurt, and several buckets of water emptied upon him. The driver of the cab was charged with the assault, but the magistrate held that complainant's proper course would have been to have summoned the cab-driver instead of refusing to alight, and that he had thereby brought much of what bad occurred upon himself. The defendant, therefore, was fined only 408. and 2s. costs. SAD RESULT OF DRUNKENNESS. —At the county magis trates' office, Canterbury, on Saturday last, a ladylike person, named Catherine Her ron, who appeared in court attired in deep mourning, and is said to be highly con nected, was brought up in the custody of the police, charged with stealing an article of clothing at Herne Bay. The evidence adduced at the inquiry sheaved that on the preceding Thursday the prisoner, who had been staying at the Bay, entered the house of a person named Farley whilst the worse for drink, and stole a child's jacket, which she afterwards disposed of at a shop in Herne Bay. The magistrates ordered the accused to undergo twenty-one days' imprisonment in the gaol at Maidstone. PERSONAL LUGGAGE.—A case of great importance to railway travellers was heard at the Exeter County Court on Friday, before Mr. Serjeant Petersdorff. The question raised was, What can be deemed the correct definition of the term " personal luggage," with respect to the obli gations of railway companies in the event of luggage being lost by them? The case arose on a suit for damages against the South Devon Railway Company on account of the removal by the company of a box containing photographic apparatus from the train at Teignmouth, instead of send ing it on to Bovey Tracey, where the plaintiff was going. The judge, referring to Mr. Marshall's work on the liabili ties of railway companies, said it was there laid down that " the obligation to carry the luggage of a passenger, and the responsibility for its safety as common carriers, does not apply to goods unconnected with the personal use, comfort, or convenience of the passenger." In the case of Phillips v. the London and North-Western Rail way Company, it was decided that a solicitor's docu ments in an action in which he was professionally engaged could not be regarded as personal luggage ; and, in a case against the Midland Railway Company, argued in the Court of Exchequer, it was held that an artist's pencil sketches were not his personal luggage. The test, therefore, was whether the articles were necessary for the personal use and convenience of the traveller. If they did not fall within that description, the owner was not entitled to seek compensation from a company, and he must decide unequivocally that a mechanical apparatus used for the purpose of photography could not fall within the description of personal luggage. The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. THE RACHEL CASE. — It is feared that the public have not yet heard the last of the Rachel-Borradaile scandal. It has been stated that civil proceedings will be taken to obtain the restitution of the money obtained from the prosecutrix, and in that case the convict would be examined as a witness. Hitherto she has been excluded from giving her version of the transactions. A statement has reached Cork that th© Govern ment had ordered the discharge of six of the Fenian con victs confined in Dartmoor Prison. The only name men tioned in connection with this act of clemency is that of Edward Brophy, who, it will be remembered, was arrested at Sandymount, Dublin, in September 1865, in connection with James Stephens. Brophy was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. We don't make the statement on authority, but as the indirect intimation of the fact, which one of their relations in this city received. — Cork Examiner. STABBING CASES,—Several serious cases of stab bing were disposed of at the Thames Police-court, on Saturday. In one a negro was charged with stabbing an Irish shipmate, and the latter being in a dying state at the hospital the prisoner was remanded. In another a seaman was charged with stabbing the chief mate and attempting to murder the captain of his ship when on the high seas ; and in a third an American stands charged with the murder of a shipmate. The two latter are committed for trial. A HACKNEYED SUBJECT.-- It sometimes would appear that Pope's aphorism is reversed, and that the proper study of mankind is woman. We counted no fewer than three articles in a late number of a popular journal devoted to this one theme, and penned with a caustic earnestness of purpose that suggests a division of the sexes beyond the pale of ritualism. Nor have women themselves ceased to damage their own cause. All the folly, in fact, of both sexes has exercised itself on the position of women. Lecturers, male and female, discuss woman, her nature, and her mission, as though she were some abstract animal, instead of being half the Inman race : while not a few transcendentalists despise a partner ship of rights to assert an aptitude for universal dominion, and would reduce man to the servitude of which Cuddie Headrigg was so sensible, who bad all his life been trodden down by women. " There was first my mither, then there was Leddy Margaret, didna let me ca' my soul my ain ; and now I hae gotten a wife, and she's like to tak' the guiding o' me a'thegither." Jenny only anticipates much feminine pretension of our age in her reply, " And amna I the best guide ever ye had in a' your life?"—Blaavood's AN7azine. 4.; - -\ PRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1868. S 7 AI DE, MANCHESTER, Oct. 9The market for ship , ping yarns has been very quiet to-day, with scarcely any business offering, and even at lower prices buyers do not seem disposed to operate more freely. It closes quietly, with a downward ten dency in prices. In home trade yarns also prices are lower than on Tuesday, without any increased disposition to business. Practically, the advance asked at the:end of last week and the beginning of this is lost, and prices are reduced nearly to the level of seven or eight days ago. The Cloth-market has followed the same course. Since Tuesday prices have given way, and business has fallen off. The lower tone of the cotton-market has been freely re sponded to by manufacturers, and buyers appear at the present to have entirely lost heart. On the other band, manufacturers, as a rule, seem to be tolerably well engaged with orders, and stocks of all, except the lighter makes of cloth, are reduced to a comparatively small compass, so that there is no pressure to sell. To-day the inquiry there is has been exceedingly languid, and none but the lowest prices have been offered. The business of the day has been small. The fall of prices since Tuesday has been about id. per lb. on yarn and 3d. per piece on cloth. LEICESTER, 9th.—The change in the weather has had the effect of causing a little more cheerful tone to prevail in this market than for some weeks past, and in all branches of hosiery and worsted spinning more orders have come to hand. There lhas been much more doing in wools during the last six or eight days, and the better classes, such as bright haired wools, have made id. per lb. more money, while in the inferior sorts higher prices than have been made for the past few weeks have also been reached. But little is coming in from the growers, who hold firm and ask higher rates than the trade can afford. Worsted spinners are fairly engaged, and there is an improved demand for all descriptions of lambs' wool goods, repetition orders from London and Manchester having been received. The Australian demand continues good. In striped hosiery there is considerable activity as far as re gards low goods, and an improvement is noticeable in the cotton manufacturing district of Hinckley, consequent on the upward tendency in the price of the raw material. There is a falling off in the elastic web trade, orders being of a limited nature and only to meet urgent requirements. The boot and shoe trade, however, continues good. The chief demand is for boots for winter use, in the manufac ture of which all hands are actively engaged. Ma terials present no noticeable alteration in price at ,reset THE. MISSION FROM CHINA. is 1S OP THE CAMPAIGN. Al ISCE, NEIVS. (From the Anylo-American Times.) FOSSILS FROM TIIE CRETACEOUS FORMATIONS.-- L. Lesquereux has an article in S'illiman's Journal for July, describing some 53 fossil plants from Nebraska, mostly collected by Dr. Hayden, of the Geological Survey. Those make a total of seventy-three species from the American cretaceous formation. The great number of 'new species thus established is duo to the fact that cretaceous fossils have heretofore been scarce. The writer says that " the more wo know of the floras of the geological ages of Ame rica, the more we recognize in them peculiar types which in their grouping constitute what may be called an Ame rican facies, which by successive transitions has passed to our present flora, and assigned to it its general charac ter." These cretaceous fossil plants have a closer relation to the present flora of America than to any stages of the Tertiary in Europe. 1=0........ ' -"Ir Bowing an institution of learning in Hoboken, and ho has also directed that the "Stevens Battery" bo completed at a cost not exceeding $1,000,000, and then presented to the State of New Jersey. Intelligence received at Gotha, Oct. 4, of the progress of the Swedish Expedition to the North Pole says that the highest latitude at which observations were taken was 80 52, which it reached on the 30th of August, and it is believed the expedition has been as far as lat. 8110. Soundings were taken north of Spitzbergen Sea, showing the depth to be over 2,100 fathoms, or nearly 15,000 feet. The Washington Evening Star says it has every reason to believe that the cause of the protracted session of the Cabinet, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, was a discussion of the questien whether there was a session of Congress on the 21st. If so, all the appointments made during the recess had terminated, and the offices are now vacant. The President held that he had not been notified of aIY session, and therefore did not recognize any. A great change is about to be introduced in German schools, viz., the abolition of all afternoon classes. A terrible conflagration is raging in the forests of Oregon and California. The fire is estimated to have already spread over an area of two hundred square miles on both sides of the Columbia river, Oregon. It is feared that the towns of St. Helens and Ostoria will be destroyed. A tract of five miles of woods near San Rafael, Dilarin County, California, is on fire, the smoke from which core" pletely enveloped the harbour and city of San Francisco. A. contract has been entered into with the city of Paris to buy up all the old paving-stones for the par pose of shipping them across the Atlantic, where they are to be used to pave the principal thoroughfares of Buenos Ayres and Montevideo. It is computed that there are at present seven teen lines of steamers making 1,322 voyages per annum' between England and America. Rooms have been appropriated in the Cooper Institute for the use of the Artists' Fund Society, free of, expense. The only condition made is, that the society shall establish and maintain a perennial free exhibition of paintings and works of sculpture by American artists, and this will be a material aid to the development and culture . of art, as well as a benefit to artists. The propeller Congress, of Detroit, after fully testing the invention, has adopted and just commenced running with petroleum for fuel. The cost is half the cost of wood, while the oil to do the work of 40 cords of wood can be carried in the space of four cords, leaving the space occupied by 36 cords for freight. A Cuban vessel, at Boston, Thursday, Sept. 2 4 , had on board several rough sticks of wood, which on vestigation turned out to be nicely contrived boxes, con taining in all 2,000 cigars. By late news the steamship Japan had arrived at Yokohama faom San Francisco, making the passage i ° 22 days. Minister J. Boss Brown and party were on board, all well. They loft for Shanghai, August 28. TO Great Republic grounded in Yokohama Harbour, which bad detained her three days, as noticed last week. The milk train on the Housatonic Railroad WO to commence running from Pittsfield, October 1. A yea r ago this business was commenced as an experiment, w .llOO 44 cans of 40 quarts each was the whole quantity sent, which has increased to 340 daily. Ten cans are promised from Pittsfield, which doubtless will be increased ten fold. The net price to be paid for October is 4} Oa ° per quart, for November and December 5, January and February 6, and in March it declines to 5, and in A 1361 to 4, which will make a yearly average of 41 cents. With butter at 50 cents per pound milk is worth 4 eents P e _ k c quart, and as it takes four quarts of milk to a pound cheese that sells at 14 cents, it follows that the farmer who sends milk to New York makes more money than he could by cheese or butter making, besides saving an i t°- menso amount of labour. A conference of representatives from the differen t Swiss cantons will be held in Borne next Monday, to con' Sider what means shall be taken to alleviate the distresq of the sufferers from the inundations in the cantons Clll - Valais, Tessin, and St. Gall. DOTY'S DECK LIGHT AND SIGNAL LAMPS.—orb Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ell Bangalore, Captain N. Roskell, is being fitt id with a pair 0 these lamps, which, after a series of trials under the direction of committees, consisting of commanders and chief officers to the company's service, have been recommended to the &s e ,: tors for adoption on board the company's steamers. pair of lamps are accompanied by a small portable air pti° 3l : (easily worked by a boy), and india-rubber hose to conne c t the lamps with the pump, all of which are stationed on or ne s the bridge, one lamp on the port and theother on the st a r board side of the vessel, and theair-pump under the hal: diato control of the " officer of the watch," so that on sigi' rt °` ing a vessel dangerously near ahead, or on the po starboard bow without being able to make out her courSe, the officer in charge could (by turning the air-pump) i ll ; stantly present brilliant white lights directly ahead, an,, red and green corresponding with the " Board of Trade ' regulation sidelights to vessels appearing on the p ort starboard bow, and illuminate ship, spars, rigging, 'Stc,„l in such a manner as would clearly indicate his c ourse the strange vessel. In the event of a casualty at Oa ia h ; volving the necessity for lowering boats at night , t° , officer in charge could immediately command a clear vie '; of all the' boats and their surroundings, greatly faell [ tate their being properly manned, quickly an d 501°' 1 , lowered, and prevent much of the confusion always $ f tending these occurrences at night, whioh (in the absence c good deck lights) invariably fills the passengers with 11 ° - , governable fear, and seriously affects the good order, cipline, and efficiency of the crew, and not unfrequeu tij o causing the loss of life and boats. As each lamp prodeef a light equal to 300 sperm candles at au expense of 4d * P° , hour for fluid, they wall bo used for embarking and laud ing passengers, receiving and discharging freight, coaling ship, and for night signals, which latter will be o°l, plished by simply turning a cock in the "hose" connec,t ing the air-pump with the lamp. Short flashes of lig d % (one second in duration), and long flashes (three sec° ° in duration), may be produced, by means of which "D °l llo Universal Code for Night" signals Zan auxiliary tot commercial code of signals), may be successfully emploY. „ to telegraph arrivals, communicate with "signal stations' ,4 ) making distress and other signals, thus superseding the 117. of rockets, red and blue lights, &c. td DISI URBANCE A 7 AN OYSTER FISHEfi Last year Mr. J. Anderson, fishmonger, Geo r g e s street, obtained from the Duke of Buccleuell t".O sole right of taking oysters from the oyster scalps ° of Granton, belonging to his Grace, to the ex clusion, the Newhaven fishermen, who from timeimmeraori' had exercised the privilege of fishing from thesee; fee' As might be expected the Newhaven fishermen - very keenly on the subject, and there have be , e i some cases before the sheriff of alleged trespass Pio fishermen on Mr. Anderson's ground. There be the peculiarity in the case, we understand, that t ,. 0 fishermen have a right to dredge for mussels on t' ti ground (if such a term may be used for the ° e i bottom) leased to Mr. Anderson, but t be f may not legally retain any oysters that 111 10 ° '' s come up in the dredge along with the 11 11155e . n g On Tuesday forenoon Mr. Anderson, se e d ), about 50 or 60 Newhaven boats on his gr° ll ' o , got a steam tug to go off and inspect their P r o ceedings. The boats' crews, however, saluted t ' t , steamer with volleys of stones from their balt ° o and, not contented with that, they proceeded i% attack, in the same manner with stones, five O r i s t o English smacks that Mr. Anderson has h ireu t io dredge for him, and which were so employed 3t „l ‘ e time, and compelled the crews of the smack s to ", refuge with their vessels in Granton Harbour' Edinburgh Daily Review. n i h r, , LADVERTISENIENT.I Holloway's Ointment. -- + OlO l , Affections. —'.11 the var'eties of tulle distressing c0n11,1,00, may be readily and effecAvely treated by rubbing this Oi rit ':all s twice a day upon the neck and chest, and supporting the stro"ro, by suitable nourishment. By this simple means dipll t t e o ol , ulcerated and related throat, irritation of the windpipe, ' l ' l '; or and all glandular enlargements will have their p_•ogr e ,, i 6- thl ( r f rested, and the destruction they have caused repaired. way's Ointment is the most trustworthy remedy for all i nt ' e ell and eternal throat ailments, and may be safely and effecde" of employed in every case, without regard to season, se.":, ", } o ' constiaition. It is highly extolled for its ready cures of modic coughs, chronic hoarseness, and all disagreetibl° charges from the throat and nose. Births. oo', BATEMAN—Oa the 9th inst.. the Lady Bateman, Of A 0" Ok COURTNEY—OR the 10th inst., at Aberdeen, th e Captain Courtney, R.l;, of a son. t ie HAWES—On the 9th inst., at 11, Woolwich-oon 3o2° ' wife of Captain Arthur B. Hawes, of a son. Marriages. ATWOOD—GREY—On tho Bth inst., at the parish Ham, Walter, son of the late Richard Atwood, Pol.& Kew, to Maria Alice, second daughter of Jame° Esq., of Falcon Villa, Kingston. SAUNDERS—TEATIME. --On the 9th inst., at ov; C. R. Saunders, Esq., of Nunwick Hall, Cu nbe° tO F. E. 'feather, second daughter of John Teo.tber, of Keswick, Cumberland. Deaths. ,10 0 EARLE —On the 9th inst., at 13, Great Cumberlan d -r suddenly, Emily, wife of Charles Earle, Esq. 1109' GREEN—On the 9th iust., at Sprangewell, Ware, off Henry E. Green, aged 30. c 0 • 6 I',ll GARDINER—On the 6th inst., Sir John B. W. S. , 3 a Bart., of Roche Court, Farehain, Ilants, aged 5 4. .,, t llowAnD—Ou the Bth ingt., at Donningtou Rect°N,icr Hon. and Very Rev. E. J. Howard, D.D., Nati ° field, aged 73. -- ---1 .,, T 0 l ' g , London : Printed and Published by WiLLIANI A. -: 0 , c i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan SUN oac ,, , o d Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the V 2 1 Aliddlosex.—Yonday, October 12, 1868. THE PROSPJ An evening paper quotes private letter from Peking in support of the assertio n that Mr. BUR LINGAME'S " roving mission" may be overvalued as showing the disposition of the Chinese to extend a hand of fellowship to the West. " A stupid mistake was made when the Queen received Old Pin, who is a nobody to begin with, while his suite were simply charity boys, the scouring of the streets, fel lows who rank " with but after" my s ervants. Even the present Burlingame mission, though more respectably con stituted, is unworthy of the countries to which it goes. It is quite a hole-and-corner thing, made up as a sop to Cerberus. Not a hundred people in Peking (I am exact in the figure) know of its existence. The general impres sion here is that we foreigners pay a large yearly tribute to the Emperor to be allowed to live in the Delectable City. None but the officials are exempt f rom this delusion, and they sedulously keep it up amongst the masses." This is the old and readily recognized cry by men who have lived in India and China. Those who attach so much importance to the rank of the Chinese are the persons who treat it with least respect on personally coming into contact with that rank in China. When an Indian, a Cingalese, a Chinaman, or a Japanese get out of their own coun try, the know-them - well - me n exclaim, " They are mere nobodies at home !" If the Chinese and other nations treated the English in the same way, refusing to receive any but those of high stand ing, China would be swept of Englishmen from Pek ing to Canton. We recollect the exclamation of an Affghan Chief, who made this very remark as regards India. He said—" These Feringhees, who lord it over us here, are nobodies in their own country," and the Chineie would but be repaying the English in their own coin if they did send in their Embassy people who had no elevated posi tion at home. Though Englishmen of rank will not go to the " Delectable City," the diplomatic busi ness of the country must be carried on, and as it can be done, at least as well, by men who are not nobles, and is thus done, the Chinese would be unreasonable to raise such an objection. As rank in China is not hereditary—is not separated into castes—and is almost wholly official, it is the office that makes the man. Both the Chinese En voys associated with Mr. BURLINGAME held high official rank in China, civil and military ; and that few people in Peking know of the existence of the mission may be due to the harried way in which it was got up, advantage being taken- of Mr. BURLIN GAME'S departure to carry out a notion which pro bably had been for some time working in the Chinese mind. The writer can assert that the general alleged impression in Peking, that foreigners pay a large yearly tribute to the EMPEROR to be allowed to live in the " Delectable City" was not the idea held there when he was in that capital. One would suppose that these very citizens of Pe go seen the Sum king Palacehad not extending a h ort time for of the hills in flames—nor Tien-tsin at the head waters of the navigation of the Peiho, and to the Capital, the most important town in the Empire held by a foreign garrison, who turned people out of their houses to make room for their horses — broke down the city walls for a short cut to their parade ground, and ran lanes through blocks of buildings to furnish the soldiers with better com munication. The Chinese Government is as little likely to forget these facts as are the people of Peking, that the father of the present EMPEROR, who is himself a mere child, died almost in exile — a fugitive from his capital from these very barba rians. Yet this man states that the general im pression at Peking is wholly at variance with these facts. He panders to two English prejudices —the one hitting at the rank of the Chinese portion of the mission, which he can do with impunity, as his countrymen know nothing about Chinese rank, while he is aware that the blow will tell severely ; and the other by bringing up old notions of the Chinese about barbarians, which creates in the English mind the impression that the mission is a deception, intended to throw dust in the eyes of the Western Powers. It certainly will be no fault of these newspapers if this " roving mission be overvalued ;" and judging merely from their tone—for we know nothing of the manner in which the m ission has been received by the British Government —we are surprised the Ambassadors prolong their stay in London, con sidering they must have business almost as important to transact with Russia and other countries, and that the main object of the mission has been ac complished in America. The only arguments put forth in a tangible shape against the work the Chinese desire to accomplish were given by a writer in the Times, and we showed their value in a late issue of this paper. Objection such as the notions prevalent among the coolies in Peking, and the button of the Chinese portion of the Mission, are childish, and betray a prejudice so poor, sup ported by reasons so puerile, as when widely cir culated will make JOHN BULL change places with JOHN CHINAMAN as the Celestial Idiot, and there fore, however much inclined to act on these no tions, we would recommend the English Press not to give them publicity.—Anglo-American Times. A coloured member of the Harvard law school recently attempted to enter the "assembly," when the de mocrats of that august body sought to bar him out by re pealing the clause of the constitution, providing that any member of the law school is eligible. They did not suc ceed, and Mr. Ruffin goes into the " assembly." Professor C. U. Shepard, of Amherst, with a party of his scientific disciples, and six other students, visited the Chester Massachusetts emery mine on Sept., 19. Professor Shepard claims, with Dr. Jackson of Boston, the discovery that the mine, first opened as an iron mine contained emery. He has found many choice specimens there, among them several sapphires. ( Prom the Anglo-American Times.) Next Tuesday will be a great day in America. The State elections of Vermont and Maine, of Ore gon and Kentucky, and the Territorial elections in Idaho and Colorado were but the skirmishers put forth to feel the enemy's strength, and force him to expose his position. But on Tuesday will come the shock of solid columns with a square fight and a clear issue. The manoeuvring and the subterfuge, the feints and pretences, will then be of no avail to disguise defeat, or avert results. It is just possible that the contest may be so evenly maintained that the relative position of the combatants may not be ma terially affected, when the final issue will be delayed till the beginning of November. But we believe this to be a highly improbable contingency, as American political contests at the polls are apt to be decisive, and the chances are that Tuesday will settle the question, who is to rule for the next four years in the United States. Indiana, strange to say, is claimed with con fidence by the Democrats. That Ohio should be is not surprising, but that party seem to calculate with most confidence on Indiana. Pennsylvania is by both admitted to be the Key State. Even the Tribune last Saturday week, in enumerating the Elec toral votes which are certain to be thrown for GRANT and COLFAX, does not include Pennsylvania, though it does Indiana and Ohio. It certainly states that all its advices leave no moral doubt of the 26 Elec toral Votes of that State being given to GRANT and COLFAX by a popular majority of not less than 20,000, and, it adds, that the verdict will be known on the 13th October. We see no reason to change the opinion we last week expressed, as the position has not changed in any material way, unless the popular feeling in the North be excited by the in telligence from Camilla, Georgia, of which the Re publican papers naturally make the most. It is not easy to gauge the true measure of anger and alarm at this news, nor will it really be fully known till the vote is cast. The indignant howl of the Republican papers may partly express a genuine feeling of the writers, and partly be foigaed to create that feeling in the States about to vote. But it cannot be doubted that a dread did prevail before the extreme action of the Democrats in Georgia was known, and it is reasonable to suppose that it has been greatly intensified thereby. It is probable that Pennsyl vania has been chiefly affected, and it is known that Philadelphia, not many weeks ago, would have given a Democratic majority; while now the City at least is regarded by the Republicans as cer tainly theirs. Weighing the tone, the facts, and the arguments of the Radical press against those of their opponents, our own opinion is that GRANT and COLFAX will be elected almost to a certainty, and that the next Federal Legisla ture will be Republican only in a lesser degree than the present. The signs are too numerous and marked to be mistaken. The seeds of dissension have shown themselves perniciously in the Demo cratic ranks, while the Republicans, if we may ex cept such cases as the opposition of Massachusetts to General BUTLER, are united on the main issues, and still more so on their candidates. Again and again objection is raised to Governor SEYMOUR by those committed to his support, as well as to General FRANK BLAIR, while the former does not even pull with the latter, and one of the gravest ob jections to SEYMOUR himself is that he was the main supporter of another candidate who stood en a platform wholly opposed to that of the Democratic party. lu itself, this is a pretty kettle of fish, which our readers will readily believe has not the elements of cohesion, when it begins to boil. The essential difference between the tickets is that the Radicals in face of depression and gloom would have rallied with a dogged obstinacy around their standard-bearers, whilst the Democrats under the same circumstances appear inclined to turn upon their men and ask why arc they in the post of honour. GRANT derives strength from his place in the national mind, which the campaign and his own want of magne tism have only tended more clearly to display. His personal character, his fame as a General, and his honour as a man have been bitterly assailed, and the result has been to make every American know the truth of what before they had felt assured that he is among the few Generals of the century, possess ing some of the highest qualities with which men can be gifted. Hal it not been so, GRANT and his fame would have vanished like a balloon; for the tests by which a candidate for the Presidency is tried demolish pretensions and mere display, if they do not even deprive the individual of the re putation for many sterling qualities he really pos sesses. It is amusing to see GRANT written of as a " mere successful General," as if it did not take the best man of the nation to make a great, success ful General, the post by far the most difficult known to the world. The Northerners are a reasoning people, and they believe in the honesty, good sense, moderation, and ability of the Republican nominee. They hold the nation to be indebted to his military genius, and although as regards certain qualiti they could not have selected in the Union a man le calculated to arouse enthusiasm, he is in truth a tower of strength to the Republican party. The masses think that his election will have a quieting influ ence on the South. Personally, the Southerners do not object to him ; on the contrary, they admire and rather like him. There is a secret feeling abroad, too, among the Democrats, that GRANT'S proclivities are more Democratic than Republican, and no President will ever have taken possession of the White House less committed to opinions than the great Northern General. SEYMOUR'S political antecedents, on the contrary, form a source of weakness to his party ; and although he is highly popular in New York, the Western farmer is for the most part a hard-headed animal, who will argue the question out in his own mind, and obstinately vote according to his conclusions. Doubtless some will be affectedby the desire to shake off burdens by paying the nationaldebt in greenbacks, and by their aversion to negroes. But these are too shrewd men not to know that the first savours of dishonesty, and the second of an unworthy prejudice. State rights they are conscious can be maintained even if threatened in any State except those which had openly rebelled. On the whole, there is reason for concluding that the Republicans will eventually win by an overwhelming majority, although the struggle may be hard on Tuesday. If Pennsylvania, as we have all along said, votes the Republican ticket, the cause of the Democrats is next to hopeless ; but if it votes the Democratic ticket, Pennsylvania must be strongly backed by Ohio materially to damage GRANT'S chance, and even then a square fight would follow. But should the three States combine on the Democratic side, our readers will know that we are all abroad, that the Republican sources of in formation are unreliable, and that SEYMOUR and I BLAIR are the men. t ;he A telegram from Bremen states that the postal department of the North Confederation has concluded with the North German Lloyd's a treaty establishing the sys tem of post-office orders between the North Confederation and the United States of America, through the North German Lloyd's. It was officially declared at Paris last Sunday that the French financial agents have been instructed to favour the circulation of Pontifical coinago, as the Pon tifical Government will immediately join the monetary union. (AD VERTISEMENT.]-11eneeorth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health -restoring nevalento, Arahica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette do Midi," July 25th :_." Rome, July 21, 1 866 . The health of the Holy Father dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on h is health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven yea rs ' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1.771: Lord d Stuart tz) Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterfor d, of many years' yspep s!a. No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indesc r ib a ble agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No . . 46,270: Mr James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Im portant Caution-13eware of the many unsavo . ury and morp than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Lg s name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is. Id.; 1 lb., 2 s. 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., lls. ; 12 lbs , 22s ; 241bs ,'4os.—Also Du ARRY'S REVLENTA ARAB cu ICA at 12 ps CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters; A For 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6,1., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at 305., s for 576 cups at 555. Being a bout one penny per cup. The 30 and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt Regent-stir Office Orden—BAßßY Du BARRY and CO., No. 77, eet, Loudon and all Grocers ar.d Chemists. Ex-President Roberts of Liberia arrived in Bos ton, Sept. 21, having landed at Baltimore on the 17th. Ile will stop in America until December to look after the in terests of the Liberia College, of wbida ho is now presi• dont, and will visit several of the New England colleges to obtain information in relation to their management. Mr. lloberts, who is of unmixed African blood, was born at Petersburg, Virginia, and when a boy followed the occupation of drayman. He went to Liberia at the age of eighteen years, at which time he did not know his letters. He was never a slave, his mother being a free woman and his father a slave. Robert Lincoln, son of the late President, was married in Washington, Sept. 24, to Miss Mary Harlan, daughter of Senator Harlan, of lows. The wedding was a private one. Mrs Abraham Lincoln was present. The Envoy of the United States at Columbia had a formal interview with President Johnson on the 23d Sert. The President, in replying to the address, urged on the attention of the Minister's Government the advi sability of the ship canal through the Isthmus of Darien, and the willingness of Americans to help in such a work. General R. E. Lee and family have arrived at Lexington. The General's health was much improved by his visit to the mountains. We regret to state that his wife and daughter are still in delicate health. Captain Maury, who is a professor in the college over which Gen. Leo presides, is said so to have devoted himself to politics during the time ho held a scientific appointment at Wash ington,that his successor in the office found that the branch of a tree had grown across the lino of sight of his tele scope. It is to be hoped now, in the quiet of the college, and with the example of the great General before him, that a man like Maury, who ought never to have allowed anything to interrupt his scientific researches, will prose cute them as earnestly as of yore. It is said that the Wards and the Paris crew of St. John's will row, Oct. 21, for sl'soo a side; but where is not stated. L. H. Grinnell, late Acting-Lieutenant United States navy, has been appointed overseer of the Japanese navy under the Southern Government. The Japanese Commissioners sent to the United States to purchase vessels of war, and who recently re turned to Japan in the ram Stonewall Jackson, have fled to San Francisco, it being unsafe for them to remain in Yo kohama during the 'resent political disturbances. The authorities of the Southern faction have threatened to de capitate them if captured. Passed Midshipman John M. Hawley of Spring field, with eleven of his comrades of the late graduated class at the Annapolis Naval Academy, have been ordered to join the South Atlantic squadron under Admiral Davis, whose station is at Rio Janeiro, and sailed for their desti nation in the steamer Mississippi on the 23d Sep+. The remainder of the class have been ordered to different naval stations, and six of them aro to repsrt to Admiral Farragut. The class numbers some eighty members. Major Bowen, of Washington, instituted a libel suit in the Supreme Court against a Conservative evening newspaper which has printed him twice as the "wickedest man in Washington," and otherwise slandered him. Ile claims $25,000 damages. Miss Louisa Lander's life-size marble statue of Virginia Dare was to be sold at auction in Boston. Miss Lander is a sister of General Lander. Tho statue was finished by her in 1860 at Rome, and shipped fro .e Leg horn, hut the vessel was wrecked on the coast of Spain, near Palos, the town whence Columbus sailed to discover the Now World. It was subsequently abandoned by the underwriters, but, being recovered, was purchased by the sculptress herself. The original cost of the statue was $6,C00. Mr. James Finlay, acting for Messrs. Allsopp and Sons, of Burton-upon-Trent, has issued a circular, addressed to the shareholders of the Liverpool Royal Bank, in which he makes grave charges against the late directors, and gives notice that at the meet ing to be held on the 19th instant he shall move a resolution to the effect that " proceedings be taken in the name of the bank against the directors, to make them re sponsible for the breaches of trust," and " for such other acts of misconduct as may appear from the reports." The Siamese twins have arrived in Paris with the object of severing their long connection. The opera tion will be performed by Nelaton. On the departure of Mr. K. G. Abbott, Consul- General of Persia, to take up the appointment of Consul- General at Odessa, Mr. J. Perkins, Chairmen of the Nes torian Mission at Oormiah, Persia, forwarded to him the thanks of the mission for the efficient protection extended to them as American citizens and. Christian missionaries, and for the sympathy he hal shown for the oppressed people among whom they laboured. Mr. Perkins accom panied the resolution of the mission with a private letter from himself, in which he says : —" As your oldest and most obliged American friend in Persia I cannot forbear also to tender to you personally my most unfeigned thanks for the kind and efficient protection and the untiring aid in various ways which we, as American missionaries, without the succour of any political representative from our own country, in this remote Mahomedan empire, have so long received from you as her Britannic Majesty's representative in Northern Persia some of us for a score of years, and myself much longer ; favours which impose o a us obligations of gratitude which we have alike no power to requite nor language to indicate." Dr. Goold, of Dublin, who has lately arrives from Cumberland Inlet, saw Captain Hall at Repulse Bay in August, 1867. He had been successful in discovering some further traces of the expedition of Sir John Frank lin. He had learned that Captain Crozier and another— thought to be a steward —had died so late as 1864, in Southampton Island, the head of Hudson Bay, to which they had made their way in the hope of meeting some whaler. Ho had obtained Captain Crozier's watch. He had also learned that he would in all probability secure further knowledge of the fate of the expedition—perhaps find some records—in King William's Land. The people there aro are unfriendly to strangers, and Captain Han had made arrangements with friendly Esquimaux to accompany him on an e xpedition—forcible, if neces sary—into the territory of those tribes, a fact indi cating that he had great hopes of obtaining some valuable trace. Captain Hall had with him, when thus seen, some five European attendants. It will be remembered that he left New London in 1864, intending to voyage to the Arctic regions, and leaving the ship in search of the Esquirnaux country, from the shores of Hudson's Bay towards the Polar circle, for traces of Sir John Franklin's company. The New York World doubted the trath of these state ments, which raised the ire of Dr. Goold, who wrote to the Herald that the editor of the World was a Copperhead, and something worse. TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.—The Washington Star says:—Now that Mr. Everts has returned to his duty it is expected that preparations will be made for the trial of Jeff. Davis, which is fixed for November. It is thought he will be tried this time or the case will be dismissed. Mr. Colfax had an informal reception, Thursday night, Sept. 24, of the New York Union League. He was to leave for the 'West on the 26th. When Congress met he was heartily congratulated by the Representatives on the certainty of his election to the Vice-Presidency, and, we presume also, on his approaching marriage. JOHN KNOX.—Her Majesty's Board of Works has just completed the re-causowaying of the Parliament square, Edinburgh, and on Wednesday a stone, brazed "I. K., 1572," within an orle, was set to mark the burial place of the renowned "Scots worthy" John Knox, over whose grave the Regent Morton pronounced the eulogium, "There lies one who never feared the face of man." — Scotsman. Mr. John Clark of Northampton, Massachusetts, has purchased the Josiah Parsons esta te on Bridge-street, and intends it for the Clark instruction for the deaf and dumb. The amount of land is nine acres, the price paid $lO,OOO, and lie intends to present the property to the in stitution in addition to the $50,000 already given. The present number of pupils in Gothic-street is 33, which will soon be increased to 36. Miss Rogers returned to her charge, and reopened the school. The general committee of the Everett statue fund have appropriated $lO,OOO of their surplus money to the erection of a marble statue to Governor Andrew. Thomas Ball has been selected as the artist, and will re turn to Italy early and October. The statue will be finished in about two years, n accordance with a resolve r of the last Legislature of Eastern Massachusetts, will occupy a niche in the north-west corner of the Doric hall of the State-house. BOARD OF TRADE, Oct. s.—The Right lion. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Washington, enclosing a copy of an Act of Congress, ex tending to the territory of Alaska the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation. London Gazette, Oct. 6. A $5,000 United States' revenue stamp was re quired on recording in the Surrogate's-office the will of the late Mr. Edwin Stevens of Now York. This sents a mo derate stamp duty, asqthe property of the deceased is now estimated at $50,000,000, rather more than half of its real estate. Ile has iNqueathed $650,000 for building and en- ! Th,(ileN te A le t b i r A ate N d i w I z t_i e , 1 : 1d Pura, Mild 1 theuAlgtiennitsitttt:'pi 0 , 8. GItEA.T :-.ser th e R ed Whi,ky., lf S(ISEL U TUAL jncoL-Pi rg r or ° CBS MOI , i abl e Leasehold w eekly, naont Forms free on reec nee e e , R oßOYAL exeitem kit 4)n, of M e ~,,_ . 4 8s Nelly 1 test usT naPhant sue ~,,"_.z,ruce Clarke, E 114'steti th, a c Mack e in Don ella, tho na Miss , T lau,k . re Fall orchestrag4l,:den and D rury ' Will Notice take their flr-. 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