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" I came," said be at the commence ment of his remarks, " to your country, gentlemen, 113 the messenger of peace ; that messenger I mean to be—l could not be otherwise if I carried out the instructions of my Government." It is not suffi cient that countries like England and the United States should be merely on external good terms—a far closer alliance is needed if mutual benefits are to accrue ; and hence the assurances of goo lwill con veyed by the American Minister are most welcome, and come very appropriately after the uneasy feel ings that have existed for some time past, and the approbensions which . well-informed persons en tertained on the score of the compensation question. Happily all misgivings may now be laid aside, and the prospect of a good understanding is undimmed by anxious s'iadows and dark forebodings. In most eloquent terms Mr. JOHNSON alluded to the many things that existed to unite us with the Americans, and these, in the language of one of our statesmen, are "ties stronger than links of iron." Those who have one design and speak one 7anguage should know better than to be led astray and listen to de signing parties, who seek to turn discord into open strife. Mr. JOHNSON declared that the kindly im pressions and good feelings entertained by the people of this country were more than reciprocated by the inhabitants of the United States. As for the diversity of opinion which prevailed here during the disastrous period of the civil war that was not to be wondered at, because the same diffaences were met with beyond the Atlantic, wherever people sought to solve the problem as to which was right in the sad affair. The struggle is now over, and happier and more fortunate than his prodecessor, the new American Minister has none of the painful part to perform which fell to the lot of Mr. ADAMS, and can consider the conse quences of the sharp struggle that convulsed America and disturbed the world without in quiring i❑to the causes that led to it. Great as the troubles were of that stormy time and heart-rending as many of the circumstances that were attached to it, undoubtedly there is still one bright gleam dis cernible in the reminiscences of those days, and that is the extinction of " slavery." That institution was not indigenous to the soil in which it too long flourished ; and Mr. JOHNSON, in recurring to the case in all its bearings, declared that in future times it would be said that all the loss and suffering of the war were well spent in getting rid of that " blot," which tarnished the fair fame of the United States and gave the lie to the Declaration of Inde pendence, by which they claimed their right to freedom and liberty. It is liberty alone "that gives to life its lustre and perfume, and we are weeds without it." The contest about to take place across the Atlantic will decide as to the party which,t hrough its represen tative, should be at the head of the Executive, but Mr. JOHNSON assured his hearers that ho was con vinced, by his experience, that whichever triumphed would be the friend of England. The Americans look upon the political contest that now occupies us with thehope that the result may be to strengthen the Government which rules the country, and as the able exponent of their policy declared yester day the two Governments united in friendship may defy the world. The political institutions of the one are fashioned from the other, and in the heart of both nations there is a deep and never-dying " attachment to human liberty." Respecting the immediate surroundings of the place where he found himself, Mr. JOHNSON made some appropriate remarks, and assured the President that the cutlery, penknives, and steel of Sheffield arc well known among his countrymen, and in the way of raz)rs it beats the world. At one time the hon. gentle man had feared that he might not be present on the auspicious occasion, but the stern duties of his posi tion did not compel his absence, which was the more fortunate, as it enabled him to give an ear nest assurance of the goodwill entertained towards U 3 by the people he represents, and of finding how fully that sentiment was responded to by those among whom he bad come to dwell. Mr. ROEBUCK made some characteristic remarks, and, in allusion to the House of Commons, he quoted an observation of GRATTAN'S that he was attending upon the hearse of the present House. In connection with this the hon. member had the grace to remember what so many of our busy poli ticians forget, or pretend to forget at any rate, that this House of Commons, the days of whose existence are numbered, has done for the country good service, and its claims must not be overlooked. The people of the country have been admitted to its administration and govern ment, and Mr. ROEBUCK feels great pride in having contributed his share to the work of pro gress. Regarding the distinguished guest of the evening, he expressed a hope that Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON would so conduct negotiations as to in sure the happiest results for both countries con cerned in them. In cpncluding Lis speech the hon. amber made some forcible observations 'on the political changes that had taken place, and very truly said that " it would not do for the educated classes too follow the example set in America and retire, but they should keep at their posts and be true to their mission. That mission was to exercise a just influence, and to mark well the difference that ex isted between the power of will and the power of mind over mind. By the exercise of this just power, and the influence of this superior wisdom, we may witness in this country what has never be fore been seen, a people governed by itself. America does not do it. There is a government of a people outside America, but here we shall have a people inside ourselves ; and of that people I ask, as I ask of you, not to be coerced by anybody, not to be misled and frightened by any Trade Unions, not to be anything but Engliihmen considering simply the good of your country. I ask you, working men of this town, to have confidence in yourselves and in the dignity of your own nature, not to be coerced or frightened by anybody, but to do what you think right, as your country demands." This is spirited language, and it is also very good counsel. We hope that not only Sheffield, but every constituency in the kingdom, will act in accordance with the principle here laid down, and choose their representatives in the spirit of freedom, and not according to the letter as too often interpreted. Mr. E. J. REED, C. 8., responded to the toast of the Navy, and took the opportunity of defending himself from some of the charges brought against him in various quar- tern. tie had been, he said, for the last five years constantly "under fire." "It was not true," he emphatically declared, " as persistently represented, that he was an opponent of the turret system." lie had designed several turret ships. At this time Captain COLE is building a large turret ship, as sisted by the skill of Messrs. LAIRD, the eminent shipbuilders of Birkenhead. It may be mentioned that Mr. REED has not done himself justice hitherto in this respect, because an impression has generally prevailed as to his dislike of the turret system. At any rate his explanation of yesterday was satisfac tory, and it is to be hoped that he will still further prove his words by his actions, and he may depend upon it that the sooner those responsible for the Navy obtain a "thorough and efficient trial of the turret system" the better pleased the public will be. On the whole this feast was a great success, and the anniversary whosa proceedings we now com ment upon will long be remembered, in conse quence of the unusual features distinguishing it. A generation has passed away since a Reform Bill was discussed as actually completed, and the topic is as interesting as it is important. Furthermore, the presence of a new Minister from the United States was a source of satisfaction, and he was enabled to express sentiments that called for a hearty response, and promised to promote the true interests of the mighty nations so closely associated by ties of an indissoluble nature. Peace abroad and social pro gress at home are among the choicest blessings Viat a country can enjoy, and if the care of the educated classes and the moderation of the working members of the community can accomplish a reform worthy of the name in our representation, it will be indeed a fortunate thing, and conduce to the prosperity of the community far more than the realisation of the Utopian dreams of certain philosophers and patriots 0 Ara THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, S can ever do. To substitute one monopoly for an other is a poor way of showing how we follow the spirit of the age and appreciate the importance of progress, and Mr. ROEBUCK very justly compre hended the position of affairs when he said that there was work for all to do, and none should retire into the background because they are disappointed, but contribute their share, and devote their talents to the public good and the general interests of their country. In anticipation of the great forthcoming struggle oa the hustingq, our M.P.'s present and prospec tive are having a busy time of it. Every day meet ings are held and speeches made on one side or the other, and the public at large will run, we fear, some risk of getting weary of the chief topics of the day before the campaign has actually begun. Those earliest in the field have certainly the advantage of novelty, and can go over the ground with less apprehension of saying only what some one else has said before them. If Lord BURY has not altogether that advantage, he is at any rate one of the first to discuss the present position of public affairs in Berwick, and the body of electors, who on Tues day evening assembled in the Corn Exchange to hear the opinions of the Liberal candidates 'or their suffrages, was large and enthu- Lord BURY was personally a stranger to most of his audience, but he could appeal with confidence to a warrant for his political consistency which none could dispute, the register of his votes in the House of Commons. Lord BURY is no stranger to St. Stephen's if he is not known in Berwick, and it is some ten or twelve years since he first took his seat in the House of Commons. siastic. Lie claims credit for having been a consistent and unflinching upholder of the Liberal cause. lie has voted against church rates, he has fought under the banner of Mr. COBDEN for Free Trade throughout the world. lie has always, he tells us, been in favour of a cheap press, and of the extension of education, and on all other points in which Re- formers have been wont to move his votes have been recorded in a way of which, in addressing a Liberal audience, he is not ashamed. In this re spect, then, Lord BURY comes before the new elec- tors with some prestige, and he appears, to judge from his address Oil Thesday, to be determined to fight the battle vigor ously. llis great enemy is, of course, Major CARPENTER, the Conservative candidate for the suffrages of the electors, and a good part of his speech was occupied in answering Major CAR- PENTER'S statements on a previous occasion There is not much need to examine into the charges and counter-charges brought by these honourable gentlemen against their opponent's parties. With !Major CARPENTER naturally the Tories have done all that is worth doing of late years, and the Liberals have only been active as obstructors. With Lord BURY, on the other hand, it is equally a matter of course that we are indebted to the Liberals even for the good deeds which the Tories appear to have done, since, if the Liberals did not actually do them, they intended to do them, which comes to the same thing—on paper. As for the national expenditure, which is just no w affording an agreeable diversion from ecclesiastical perplexities, the real truth is that neither side has much reason to blame the other, and that the question of a million more in this year or a mil- lion less in that affects very little the general jus tice of the question. Our expenditure is un doubtedly lavish, but the fault lies with all our public men. Neither party is really in earnest in trying to retrench, and perhaps it is as well that they are not, since as they invariably I).4gin in the wrong place, cutting down the pay of our foot sol diers, or " spoiling a ship for a ha'porth of tar," instead of getting rid of official supernumeraries and amending the Pension List, the attempt at economy might cost tha nation a little too dear. A great part of Lord Buny's address was occu pied in discussing the rights and wrongs of the Irish Church, of which he is an uncompromising opponent. Of the Irish themselves he takes an un duly alarming view, quoting Mr. GLADSTONE'S as 'sertion that Ireland was only one degree removed from civil war. We have no right to suspect our fellow-subjects of such organised disaffection and disloyalty, and Mr. GLADSTONE'S declared belief, endorsed by Lord BURY, that if a foreign enemy landed on the Irish shores a great part of the people would join the invader is sufficiently contradicted by the attitude assumed by the great body of the Irish population with respect to the Fenians. The two great causes of the collapse of the Fenian move ment in Ireland were the loyalty and stedfastness of the Irish constabulary and the indifference of the people. Of the electioneering movements at Plymouth it is difficult to form an opinion, since an attempt at a public meeting ended in riot and disorder, which, we must hope and believe, was equally unwelcome to both parties. Mr. STUART LANE, the Con servative candidate, made a vain attempt to speak, and was especially anxious to make some personal explanations relative to his connection with the Credit Foncier of England ; but all was useless, and the chairman vacated the chair and the platform, followed by the chief parties present at the meeting, the rioters being left in full possession of the field. We hope that we are not to have many of these scenes among our electors, since they can hardly fail to defeat the purpose of either side, and must inevitably bring the new electors into discredit. Whatever opinion may have been formed of the public or private conduct of a candidate, it is neither fair nor reasonable to refuse to listen to his explanations or his statements. If such move ments are directed by party motives they indicate great weakness, since the cause must be feeble indeed that has to resort to such unworthy means. We hope the discreditable scene at Plymouth will not be repeated, but that our election contests may be henceforward conducted in a fair, temperate, and honourable spirit. The public will learn with satisfaction that the great undertaking of launching the Bermuda dry dock was yesterday safely accomplished, and the vast construction, weighing nearly 10,000 tons, now floats safely off Sheerness harbour. Any one who remembers the delay and diffi culty attending the launch of the Great Eastern some years back may well be surprised as well as gratified at the ease and rapidity with which all the obstacles attending the launch of the dock, weighing nearly as much as the Leviathan, have been overcome. On Wednesiay, it is true, the great mass refused to move, but this, it appears, was attributable to her immense weight causing her to settle down on the launching ways, and thus the pressure converted the grease which should have assisted her move ments into au adhesive glue. Fortunately, Mr. CAMPBELL did not allow himself to be discouraged by the delay. Ile perceived that what wag wanted was a sudden shock which should give the Bermuda a start, when her own itnpetus might safely be trusted to keep her going. Accordingly he strained every nerve, and a thousand men were kept working through the night preparing the several appliances, screw jacks, timber struts, and battering rams, which should produce the de • sired effect. A little after two o'clock yester. day, the tide being favourable, the word was given, and no sooner was the machinery set to work than the Bermuda began to move and glided slowly but surely down into the river. A large body of spectators, who had assembled to witness the proceedings, expressed their gratification at this triumph of mechanical science in enthusiastic cheers, and the launch of the Bermuda being successfully accomplished, we may look forward with confidence to the construction of many more of these useful additions to our navy. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (RECITER'S TELEGRAMS.) ANIERICA. (Per the China, via Queenstown.) NEW YoRK, Aug. 26. It is reported that the negroes in Northern Louisiana are effecting armed organisations. Senator Sherman, in a speech at Columbus, Ohio, declared his belief that the bonds are payable in legal tender. Advices from Cuba state that the Captain- General has ordered that no passenger should be allowed to land on the island without a passport certified by a Spanish consul. From Mexico it is stated that the forces of Juarez, under Alatorre, have been defeated by the insur gents in the State of Vera Cruz. A number of citizens of Charleston have peti tioned President Johnson to provide protection for the city against the threatened lawlessness, as the civil authorities are unable to preserve order. It is reported that secret armed Democratic or ganisations are being formed in Missouri, Ken tucky, and Tennessee. President Johnson has ordered the forcible ex pulsion of hostile Indians from Kansas. The rinderpest is spreading throughout the coun try. Advices from llayti state that Salnave is acting solely on the defensive. CANADA. The Nova Scotian delegates who have returned from London represent that the Home Govern ment regards its recognition of the Union Act as paramount to the colonial objection, but that that recognition was based on the apparent consent of the people of Nova Scotia, to whom, nevertheless, the right of appeal remains. The Royal Mail steam ship China, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived at Queenstown at 8 a.m. to-day (4th Sept.), with 41 cabin passtn gers. She landed 123 sacks of mails and 14 passen gers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 8.20 a.m. All well. SPAIN. I\IADRID, Sept. 3. The mail steamer from the Canary Islands ar rived to-day at Cadiz, bringing intelligence that General Dulce was improving in health. The Minister of Public Works has returned to the capital. OUT WARD BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 3. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah, from Southampton 29th August, reached Gibraltar at 9 p.m. on the 2d instant, and left for Alexandria at eight this morning. All well. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 3.—Three o'clock. —The market closed as follows per Cent. End of month... Italian Loan 3 per Cent End of month 7O 85 Mexican Loan 23 50 Credit Mobilier 285 Do. Bonds End of month... 285 -- Spanish Threes Credit Foncior ...1455 Homo Debt — End of month... Deferred ...... RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans ... 910 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern-- Western Eastern • 568 Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 3. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to - day , to gether with the cor responding f i gures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Aug. 27. Sept. 3. fr. c. fr. 6. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits 'in addition to , capital (Art. 8, Law, 7 044 776 June 9, 1857) , 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank - and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation . Banknotes to order and receipts payable at 35,871,967 62 35 860 933 89 , , sight Treasury account cur rent creditor 191,601,715 51 159, 166 , 836 09 Current accounts, Paris 47'2,340,213 43 445,061,702 52 Do. branch banks 56,972,310 _.55,343,556 Dividends payable .. ... 4 603 ) 7 " 1,503,264 Discounts and sundry 2 848 963 interests Rediscounted the last 15 3,121,819 55 703,152 42 703,152 42 six months Surplus of receipts not — dfstributod - Sundries 6,333,116 01 11,637,316 60 Total CREDITOR. Aug. 27. Sept. 3. Cash In hand and in fr. c. fr. a Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 2 93 , 241,620 .87 263,540,682 92 2 Do. branch banks 22 6 ,584,842 23,706,767 Advances on deposit of 1,309, 892 , 775 78 1,314,298, 725 60 bullion 34,892,069- 32,316,500 Do. branch banks 8,423,200 8,754,400 Do. on French Public Securities ' 11,930 -- ,900 11,785,200 Do. by branch banks 8,535,500 7,399,110 Do. on railway shares —. 36,555,500 and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier 40,949,600 27;413:900 28,...... Bonds Do. branches 866,900 -- 858,190 Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 -- 60,000,000 Government Stock re (Law, June 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Hentes Immobalisdes 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed ...... propei ty branches Expenses of manage ment 941,916 61. 1,122,503 63 Sundries Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) ROULAND. TIIE STORM IN THE NORTII SEA. —The weather, which had been extremely stormy and boisterous for a week, and which drove most of the screw steamers bound from Hamburg to the Tyne back to Cuxhaven, was on Wednesday moderate and tine, and these vessels have all •arrived in safety in the north-east ports. The weather was fearfully stormy at the mouth of the Elbe in the later part of last week, and the steamers which reached the Tyne on Wednesday report that two sailing vessels were lost, with all hands, at the mouth of the Elbe, during the recent bad weather. IJ•./..04.• OP •• PROPOSED VISIT OF LORD NAPIER TO EDINBURGH. —At the ordivary meeting of the Edinburgh Town Coun cil, held on Tuesday, the Lord Provost read a letter from Lord Napier of Magthla, returning thanks for the resolu tion of the Council to confer upon him the freedom of the city, and stating that, as he proposed to visit the neigh bourhood of Edinburgh at the end of next month, he hoped then to arrange a time which would be convenient for the Couucil to present hint with the freedom of the city. PTEMBER 4, 1868. CORRESPONDENCE PROIL.,PARIB. (FROM OUR OwN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, September 3, The Emperor returned to Paris yesterday to preside at the Council of Ministers, and has left to-day for the camp at Chalons. The fine weather, report says, will induce the Imperial family to hasten their departure for Biarritz, where they are expected to arrive on the 9th or 10th. A short stay at Launemazan may probably form part of the visit to the Pyrenees. It is not precisely certain whether the Emperor will visit Havre, but he has graciously promised to do so " if possible," be it only for a single day. The visit of the Count and Countess de Girgenti still remains unexplained, though an official paper has thought it necessary to give an explanation. It says that the visit has no political meaning whatever ; the Count de Girgenti as received as a member of the Royal family of Spain and not as a Neapolitan prince. A s public opinion has generally taken this for granted, the cnig,ma, if it be one, remains unsolved. The war rumours of the last few days have been follOwea by an energetic peace demonstration on the part of the official press. This has not, however, succeeded in quiet ing the Opposition journals, who still contrivo to find plenty of war material. The Temps, a paper which con tains some of the best writing of the Paris press, says that Marshal Niel has long ago pronounced in favour of a winter campaign, because in that case Russia would be unable to render Prussia any very'effective assistance. War in winter would, moreover, be in favour of France, because the Prussian troops are less inured to the rigours of the cold season. En passant, I may remark, that it would be well for Marshal Niel to assure himelf positively on this point. People also talk of the excitation of the French army against Prussia, and of its "patriotic ardour," which will not tolerate too much inaction. The mortality amongst the natives of Algeiia is already becoming so serious this year as to cause considerable anxiety. Le Connie). de Tlemcen, announcing the death of an Arab through famine, says that the prospects of the winter season are of the most gloomy description. The misery which is to come will, in all probability, be greater than that which is past. This opinion is shared by General Lacretelle and others. It is observed that the number of deaths during the week ending August gist exceeded the total for the corresponding week of last year. The chances of the election of M. Dufaure for the Var have increased by the retirement of M. Phillis. M. Dufaure is now the only Opposition candidate. In the Moselle and the Nievre the authorities are confident of i”iccess. I am unable to find any justification for the repoits of Ministerial modifications. A laughable scene oc.urred ye3terclay molting fp an omnibus which plies to the Halles Centrales. A gentle man got inside and sat down, depositing a tolerably well filled bag on the seat. A young lady—in appearance, at least—followed, and occupied the next seat. The omnibus went on, but had not proceeded far before the lady began to manifest signs of uneasiness, casting indignant glances at her neighbour, who, however, took no notice of her. At last she rose with the exclamation " Insolent I" accompanied by two furious slaps on each side of the gentleman's face. The latter, amid the general astonishment, asked what had led to the unexpected reception of that favour. " You have pinched me," replied the indignant lady. The gentleman looked about him, and presently produced a magnificent lobster which had escaped from the bag ! THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY ._—..dp, _-- METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Extreme Sea 17, F. 1 ber 4, B. T. 01 I W. Ito F. D. W to n. 12 ------- 29 981. 49 I 47 , W.4.W,i 1 2 W.S.W.I c.O. o'l7 1 en • . 30'04r. 55 53 S. 1 1 N. 1r.0.10*05 1 30'07i. 54 52 S.E. 2 2 W. Ir.e. :0 30'lls. 61 19 S.W. 2 2 IV. 2 •ough 30'11r. 63 61 Z. 0 2 S.S.W. c.b 'o'o2' 1 11th 3o'l4s. 65 63 W.S.W. 2 2 S.E. 'c.b. 2 ••———— eau 3o'osf. 54 52 E. 1 4 S. r. 0•10 1 astle 29 961. 61 58 5,1 V. 3 4 N. r.c. o'o7 ad 101 la. 30'05f. 62 60 W.S.W. 4 3 S. o.r.f o'os 2 ear.. 3 2 04 f. 61 6) S.W. 2 3 S.W. c.r. 2 I Pt. 30'07f. 61 59 S.W. 4 4 S. Lc. 3 co .. 3:1'16r. 61 60 5.5. W. 1 1 S. cm° 2 ith 3.1163. 59 58 Z. 0 3 W.N.W. b.f. 1 ruth 30'16r. 61 62 S.W. 2 5 E.N.E. c.b. 1 .o uth 30148. 64 62 W. 1 2 S. c.b. , 1 30'15r. 62 60 W. 1 2 S.W. m.b l la Nor 30125. 70 66 Z. 0 1 W. b.f 1 130'125. 61 CO N.E. 3 4 N.E. 1 or 30'lls. 68 64 N.W. 4 1 N. b. 1 [ :30 7 195. FO ,70 N.W. 3 , 3 S.S.W. s Von, 6 a.m.! time) • 30'275. 41 40 S. 1 1 S. b. EXPLANATION. ter Corrected abd reduced to 1 , 2 chg. a sea level. The letter Friday, SeptentLer 4, 8 a,in. Nairn . Aberdeen Leith Shields Scarborough Yarmouth .. Helder .. Cuxhaven Skudesnros Ardrossan Greencastle Holyhead . Liverpool . Valentia Capo Clear. Roche's Pt. Penzance . Plymouth . Weymo nth Portsmo nth Loudon Brest L'Orient Roch efort Biarritz .. Corunna Brussels Paris Strasbourg Lyons .. Toulon heart's Con tent (i local time) Bar° ter corrected awl reduced to 1 , 2 deg. a sea lerel. The letter r., rising; f., falling; A., steady—indicate directi( n of inoticn of the mercury within last 14 hours. U'Leimemete r expoft din shade. Extreme Fence with Its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather: b.—blue sky; deft d ; I.—fog ; ; m.—misty, hazy : o.—orm cast, dull; r.— rain ; s.— snow; t.—thunder. Ealu-fall, snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. Very little change has taken place in atmospherical preKure during the last twenty-four hours, whilst a difference of only two-tenths of an inch now exists between the highest and lowest readings reported In these Islands. Tempera ture has fallen considerably at Nairu : in the west scarcely any difference is perceptible. The winds yesterday were moderate and variable. With the exception of a fresh south-westerly breeze at Holyhead, the winds are light from the S. and W. Calm is reported from the Channel coasts. Fog prevailed last evening in the west of our islands : it continues at places in the S. and W. Garibaldi's resignation of his seat in the Florence Chamber of Deputies has excited but little attention in Italy. The cause is perfectly well known. The health of the General is not all that could be desired at the present time, and his disposition is averse to parliamentary dis cussion. The weariness of unlimited talk is not unknown in the British Legislature ; but in the Florence Chamber of Deputies it must be intolerable. The members are at present engaged in discussing Ministerial modifications, with which they occupy entire sittings without the least result or the least chance of result. If a measure is brought forward, the deputies who oppose it will endeavour to secure its defeat by staying away. As a clear majority of all the members, excluding only those on leave, is re quired to form a quorum in the Italian Parliament, this plan is frequently successful. It was often adopted with "satisfactory results" in the case of the bill for the sale of the tobacco monopoly. If this easy expedient does not answer, the more difficult, but more infallible resource — talk—is tried. Mr. Vincent Scully would have been a treasure in the Italian . Parliament, though he could hardly claim to rank as the most valuable jewel in that mine of long-winded eloquence. Garibaldi is said to have been utterly disgusted with this verbiage, frequently turning round, and asking his friends " What are those babblers about ?" The regulations respecting the ceremony of marriage in several of the South German States are remarkable rather for originality than sound jurisprudence. A law of War temburg, for instance, provides that all the subjects of that State who are married in any foreign country must obtain the consent of the King of Wurtemburg, or the marriage is null and void. If they are married in their native country, the royal consent is not necessary. This distinction has given rise to much trouble, especially in America. The difficulty of obtaining the royal sanction across the Atlantic is so great that it is often dispensed with. Individuals of various nations who have married natives of Wiirtemburg have found, on going to reside in that country, that they were still in an undesirable state of single blessedness, and many children, who hoped for all the rights of legal paternity, have been declared illegiti mate. Mr. Bancroft, the United States Minister in Ger many, has applied for a repeal of this law, and has been promised its speedy disappearance from the Wiirtemburg code. A Swiss correspondent informs us that Sunday at Lucerne has been anything but a day of rest for the Queen. In the neighbourhood of her residence there was an incessant playing of skittles, and as the Swiss skittles are almost as big as balloons, the perpetual thunder of these royal salutes was anything but pleasing to her Majesty's ears. Under these circumstances the Queen made a request that the game might be dis continued on Sundays, and it is said that as much as £BO was offered in compensation to the innkeepers if they complied with the Royal request. They refused to do so, desiring to know who the Queen of England was that she should interfere. The luxury of defying a real Queen was too great to be resisted, and the price it cost these publicans undoubtedly added to ifs zest. Lord Lansdowne has written to his tenants in the village of Pewsham, stating that in the election of a member for Chippenham he wishes to exert no influence over them, and ti usts thatin their choice they will be guided by their own judgment alone. But part of this village is only held on lease by the Marquis, and next Michaelmas may pass into other hands. The agent for the reversioner is said to be can• vassing for the Conservatives. On the same day that this letter reached the tenants from their present Liberal landlord the agent for their future landlord called to canvass, and pre sented the option—" Vote for us. How would you like to ; - )os turned out of year house ?" The state of mind in which these electors are thrown must be a very unenviable ono, and a vote must be more trouble to them, in the# cairns. tion. than it is worth. bkißiT OF THE PUBLIC JOIIHNLLS. The Times comments on Dr. Vaughan's sermon on tin disestablishment of the Church of England. Dr. llaughaz (it says) would be the last man to confound the Esta blishment with the Church, or the putting out of the Divine Shechinah with the withdrawal of State protec lion. Ire declares an - unwavering faith in the promises the very terms of which indicate that they are to be ful filled in a variety of forms, passing human anticipations. His fears and misgivings he freely and candidly con fesses to be a looking back to what appears nom behind—the picturesque effects, the decorous solem• nities, the gentle calm, and the homely consolation! of a State religion. He fears that the palace and the cottage may lose somewhat of their tone, now that no particular faith is to claim admission on the score of long pedigree or familiar custom. England no longer awed by Authority or trained by sweet use, he fears that a cold scepticism and a Christless education may breed a race without faith, without knowledge, and without hope. Whatever the Church of England owes to het present advantageous position— and she cannot but owe much—nrust go with the wreck when the institutions ha - ve foundered in the approaching storm. This par ticular loss Dr. Vaughan tries to measure and estimate, and for this bestows the tribute of a fond regret. The Church of England will clear itself from that wreck, and pursue its course as a branch of the catholic Church. The Times expects more than this. The Church of England is not national because it is established, but esta blished because it is national ; and we venture to predict that should it be disestablished by the most violent measures a doubly or trebly reformed Parliament is capable of—ay, if the House of Lords be reformed also—she will still continue the Church of England, not Dci gratit2, but kominum voluntate. If changes bring her loss, they will also bring gain. The benefit of a splendid and high-titled Fstablishment is very much confined to places, to classes, to cliques, and to families, to the owners of patronage and the possessors of influence. Of course they will lose something—that is, all they cannot commute into solid cash. But the many will not lose so much as either the friends or the foes of the Church of England seem to anticipate. Tile Telegraph observes that for once the Church is in clanger. Nor is it officious meddling that is wanted to avert that danger. It is a competent clergy. The Church wants a set of men who can really teach. It calls for thinkers and scholars. It demands men who are afraid neither to reason nor to speak. It requires the Sunday morning's discourse to be converted from what Mr. Car lyle calls an exhibition of " dead, damnable, putrescent cant," into an outpouring of living Christianity. But how can all this be got ? There is only one way of getting it, and that is to enlist in the service of the Church the very ablest intellects that can be obtained. At present it would be rash to say that the rank-and-file of the clergy are on a level with the average intellect sent forth by the universities ; and until the Church can draw into its service as able and earnest men as the bar, literature, or science, it cannot withstand the thousand shocks to which it is inevitably exposed In the very progress of human intellect and knowledge. The Post declares that Mr. Lowe struck the key-note of :he great education fantasianow being played throughout he country when he declared that, having taken new masters, we must, for our own sakes, teach them their A. BC. But this apprehension alone will not suffice to tarry the matter through, and, as soon as it is practically liscovercd that the working man is not such a frightful crea ture as he looks, the educational enthusiasm will probably !all pretty well to its former level. It behoves those, ;herefore, who have other and higher motives for support :ng it, to press on the movement now that the time is )pportune ; to press it with one will and one effort in the one right direction, and:to be satisfied with nothing less than a system of universal primary education, supple nented by large and easily-available opportunities for secondary education. Whether it should be purely secular or partially sectarian, whether it should be supported from .ocal or from national funds, and whether to be managed ay local or by central authority—all these are questions of letail which will not present any difficulties when once :he prime necessity is admitted and understood ; but to aressing this all true friends of education should work, and avoid as far as possible any diversion from it to partial ;themes which may be presented to them as a sufficient mswer to all their demands. The Standard, reviewing the late proceedings at Frome, iays that, metaphorically speaking, Mr. Hughes may be aid to be still in round jackets. At school he was set lome exercises in Liberal ideas, and he has been pervading ;he world ever since with what he calls his Democracy. this democracy England is supposed to have reached by ;he last Reform Act ; and the whole tenor of Mr. Hughes's ife, illustrated by quotations from the " Biglow Papers," s to try and persuade the Democrats to he good like imself. To this desperate task Mr. Hughes brings the 'reshness of perpetual boyhood—the charm of an art .css innocence. Going back to the great political inestions which bad been before the country since he xas a boy, Mr. Hughes, as he naively informs us, was - lever aware of a time in which what he calls "the misses," were not always in the right. First, he remem- Ders that the masses were in favour of the Reform Bill of L 832. Next there was the great question of slavery. On which iide, asks Mr. Hughes, were the people then? Why, of ;nurse, against the Tories, and in favour of Wilberforce and the pcor negroes. Mr. Hughes's English remi niscences are slightly confused here, seeing that Wilber !orce was a Tory ; that long before the period he is speak :ng of (which he mast be a very old boy indeed to remem :)er) Pitt, a Tory, was the first to introduce a measure 'or the emancipation of the blacks ; that at no time luring that contest were the Tories, as a party, opposed to emancipation, and that finally it was the present Lord Derby who introduced and carried the bill for the abolition A slavery. The Times remarks that on one point connected with the treat railway accident sufficient evidence has not yet been liven. If goods trains and passenger trains are to be kept running on the same lino of rails, goods trains must be got )ut of the way somewhere or other, and reasonable time must be allowed for the purpose. It is only necessary luring this time other trains must be warned or stopped, and that warning, it appears, was actually given at Llanddulas. No sooner had the ponderous goods train got up than the required signal was displayed. What should have been the effect of the signals? From what points were they discernible? Could they or should they have informed the people at Abergele, or the driver :4 the mail train, or anybody else, that the line was blocked, and that nothing could come on to Llanddulas till it was clear? If such was the case, there may be some sxcuse for all the complicated work undertaken at Lland dulas with the limited mail just behind. Short of this, however, it results irresistibly from the evidence that the calamity originated in the circumstances attending the redistribution of the goods train at its shunting station. The Daily News—by no means a lukewarm supporter of the Liberal cause in Italy—condemns very strongly some recent actions of the Italian Government. Some time since all the monastic establishments of the country were broken up, and it was made penal to assemble together under vows. Up to this time the education of the young had been con lueted by monks and nuns. The dispersion of these pre• vented for some time education being carried on. But means were soon found to give education to the boys. Girls, however, were still without teachers. Thereupon, those who had evidently been of late nuns took these girls in hand, giving them precisely the same education as would have been given in the monastery. 'The Government has now ordered none to teach but those who have certificates, and has made provision to prevent any but really lay teachers from obtaining these certificates, making more sharp than ever the law against the assem bling under vows. Surely, exclaims the Daily News, per secution could hardly assume a meaner shape. To own yourself unable to cope with women except by gagging them, to illustrate your zeal for freedom of thought by strictly forbidding the propagation of any opinions that are not in accordance with your own, to inculcate regard for the rights of conscience by interfering with people who are simply trying to do what they think their duty—this is the policy which the Liberal party in Italy appears to think honourable and consistent. They may be quite sure that their conduct will give genuine satisfaction to no one except the Ultramontane party throughout Europe. "If they would only persecute us !" Cardinal Antonelli is reported to have said of the Italian Government. It was a cunning if not a Christian aspira tion ; but what shall we say of the wisdom of a lay State which gives an ecclesiastical foe the precise vantage ground it most wished for? The third congress of the luteriatiaual Association of Workmen opens next Sunday at Brussels. The subjects of discussion are eight. Strikes and councils of arbitration are among them. The English and American workmen introduce the subject of shot toning the hours of labour; the Germane ask what ought to be the attitude of workmen in case of a conflict between the two great European powers ; the Belgians offer "a resume of the special grievances of the workmen of each pro!ession." DEATH OF A WATERLOO OFFICER.—On Wednes day, the 2nd instant, at his residence in York, Captaii Christopher Spencer Brearey, aged 82. Captain Breare, entered the army in 1808, was in the Walcheren expedi tion in 1809 ; at the siege of Flushing in the campaign d 1814 and 1815; in Holland and the Netherlands, including the action of Merzen, bombardment of Antwerp, storming of Bergen-op-Zoom, storming 9f caliabray, at Waterloo and and cant= 4f coo. Tonal . '''•Q' to ..,..,_,.--- II EIS iILLIESTY. PENSION WALLIS, LUCERNE, Sept. 1. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Colonel PonsonLy, &C , ) drove out in the neighbourhood. IRELAND. DuBLIN, Sept. 3. A man named Philip Dwyer has been arrested on suspicion of having formed one of the party by which Mr. W. Scully was attacked in the recent fatal affray at Ballycohey. Dwyer was arrested on Mon day at his residence near Tipperary, and was con veyed by the police to the Bridewell of that town. It appears that he has been absent from home since the day of the outrage, and that on venturing to make his reappearance in public for the first time, on Monday, he was immediately arrested. He was taken on Tuesday to Mr. Scully's residence for the purpose of being identified by that gentleman, who, says the Tipperary Free Press, had sworn not only that the prisoner was one of the attacking party, but that be had actually seen him fire upon him. The result of the interview has not trans pired, but Dwyer was again lodged in gaol. He is a nephew of the old man at whose house the attack was made. He has a slight wound on his forehead, and it is understood that this will be examined by a medical man with the view of deciding whether or not it is a gunshot wound. It is stated that the Hon. David Plunket will contest the representation of the city of Dublin, in conjunction with Sir A. Guinness, in the Conserva tive interest, it being understood that Mr. Edward H. Kinahan has definitively withdrawn. It is also stated that a colleague has been found for Mr. Pins, the present Liberal member and candidate, the aspirant to Parliamentary honours being Mr. Richard Martin. At Belfast the Conservative leaders have selected a colleague for Sir C. Lanyon in the person of Mr. John Mulholland, of Spring vale, a gentleman who would make an able and efficient representative. There was some diversity of opinion at the meeting at which it was resolved to adopt Mr. Mullholland as one of the Conserva tive candidates, but the majority in his favour was nearly ten to one as against all the other gentlemen whose names were mentioned. Among these were Mr. Lewis, solicitor, London, and Mr. Stewart Blacker, famed for displays of genuine Orange ora tory at Orange gatherings. Mr. Mulholland acceded to the request of the meeting. One of the Limerick papers says that it is rumoured that the CitY of Limerick will not be contested. Lord Cre morne has commenced his canvass of the county of Monaghan, having on Tuesday visited Carrickrna cross. He was accompanied in his canvass by the Roman Catholic clergyman of the town, the Rev. J. J: Hughes. Mr. Cecil Moore, the solicitor of Mr. Shirley, the opponent of Lord Cremorne, writes to the Daily Express, in reply to a letter of Mr. it- C. Leslie French, in which the latter denied that the wishes of a deputation which recently waited on Mr. Shirley were, in effect, that he (Mr. Shirley) should retire from the contest. Mr. Moore says that Mr. French admits that " the mission of the deputationwas for the purpose of presenting the re solutions of the meeting of the 18th, wherein it was represented to Mr. Shirley the grave responsibility 11 ::: would incur by provoking a contest in the county. Mr. Moore pertinently asks by what means Mr' Shirley could avoid this contest, except, by retiring, and why the deputation did not wait on Lord Cre morne and Mr. Leslie, the present members, an d , ask them to consider " the gra v e r e s po n sibility 01 provoking a contest." Mr. Law, Q.C., has been feeling the pulse of the electors of the city o' Armagh, at present represented by Mr. J. Van ce ' Mr. Law's reception, it is understood, was B e, encouraging. Mr. Mathews has delivered a second speech to the electors and non-electors of Dungar van. lie said he had come to Dungarvan WOO ° he believed that Mr. Barry had painted the wes t generous feeling of their Irish hearts. He had also come to oppose Mr. Barry because he was 3 Whig, and he (Mr. Mathews) hated the Whigs: There was a talk of disestablishment of the Ir ish Church, but to him it did not seem much matter , whether or not an Irish Bishop sat in the House el: . Lords. What Mr. Gladstone t o ld th em w as that 1:1 0 ', a fraction of the endowme n t s o f t h e Establishe d Church in Ireland should ever b e l on g to the Catholic Church of Ireland, or to the poor, for whom, in some part, those endowments were e r !, - said ginally destined. R e f err i ng t o e d uca ti on , he - that " in the English workhouses and English 0 . 1 : rectional schools the children of poor a thole! o t were taught not only by a Godless system but 1: a Protestant system"—an observation whio e 1 cited from a bystander the words " Worse aga la : a M. Michael Byrne, who on this occasion introdu ce 4 Mr. Mathews to his audience, and w ho deser leu himself as a working-man, said he was pron d introduce Mr. Mathews to Dungarvan. lie ad de that the spirits of their martyred brethren; th „ II wounded pride of their exiled fellow-country men called on them to rise in their might and mark W ar scorn and indignation the base assassin, the strand of their holy race. • 0 4 The Belfast Town Council have unanimou s adopted an address to his Excellency the Lorc te 3 tenant congratulating him on his elevation w thst dukedom, and expressing a feeling of rejoicing l i coi „ on the occasion of the late calamitous railwaY 3 dent the lives of the amiable Duchess of Ah ereoo and other members of his Excellency's noble h°o3o were spared. A circular having been issued by the Archd eae° , l3 : of Armagh and Dublin to the Archdeacons of e. other dioceses in Ireland, inviting them to e e l l ito rate in soliciting the Bishops to pray that th e should issue convening the Convocation °I 0. Church of Ireland, Archdeacon Martin, Of . tatte l ' more, has published a reply to the illy' or de in which he comments on the use of the Sy O b or Church of Ireland," instead of " the Irish br3iilia;,, of the United Church of England and Ire la , and expresses the opinion that the revival- n ot vocation in Ireland at the present crisis co u l d o to enable the Irish clergy in the slightest degreg oo a," meet the hostility with which they are nowassa bo,p. io g This can only be done, he says, by parlia to increase the number of members of t he went favourable to the maintenance e ot s ee Irish Church, a work in which he does I l ass i s t. that the revival of Convocation woul d sa eetY On the contrary, he thinks that as th e tren gth of the Irish Establishment depends on th e , ° the We of England's conviction of the unity o f _ eo t to Churches, " it would tend rather at this me', . 6 , o ge shake than to strengthen the conviction fe_ l c '; t he lishmen generally to hear for the first time, con , Assemblies' decrees and debates in Ireland, 01 sof go' 0 vocations which, in their presidents and ~,• Inen t Lords and Lower Houses, resemble rar',. /rea dl and which thus may confirm an impression roily too widely spread in England—that ,we are per two distinct Churches, with separate, or P opposite, interests." • ce di ` lll The Cork Examiner, referring to the le t there fires which have occurred near Cork, says thg Wise jr e . f is some allegation of resentment towards e use because of what was considered the exees siv „ n d in machinery, but considering how extensive, r g oo; deed almost universal, the employment, %Or h 3 lO implements in substitution for m anual a_ tise 4 become, it is difficult to regard such a mu sufficient. f Ca rloo The annual cattle show of the County Tueo‘ Agricultural Society was held yesterday a: uuti ber_°: t It was tolerably sue , Tssful, although th? t he 13 : 0 entries was fewer than that of 1865, whens o f th°F t show was held at Tullow ; it was in exce e bet a of 1866 and 1867, when the shows we respectively Bagnalstown and Carlow NORTH GARD Fit z 11 , s e fla E-20......>zii5s who made quite a bit iu the character of Captain 1 1 . 1 L' c ''' jr f 3 in the "Beggar's Opera," on the recent occasion ° ai d Charles Morton's benefit, will repeat the charantBrl also that of Azucena, in the " Trovatoro," on I(lit 't next, when this rising singer and actress takes her b °l3- at thew delightful gardens. itrz res L, er a ter Pr( a r Dal bec