The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-07 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS. Curiosity as to the new Cabinet his been to some extent allayed by the assignment of the principal posts as follows : First Lord of the Treasury 77: Mr. GLADSTONE. Lord Chancellor Secretary for the Colonies Earl GRANVILLE. Secretary for Foreign Affairs Earl of CLARENDON. Secretary for India The Duke of ARGYLL. Secretary for War Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Lowr. First Lord of the Admiralty Mr. CHILDERS. President of the Board of Trade } Mr. BRIGHT. t Mr. CHICHESTER FOR- Secretary for Ireland According to the Daily News, these are all the appoint ments which have been positively made. The Post assigns the Duchy of Lancaster to Sir George Grey. It will be seen that some high offices of State remain to be filled, and the Observer was premature in its announce• went that the Cabinet was completed. As regards the appointments out of the Cabinet, the Times makes Mr. Justice O'Hagan Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and, as wo have already stated, Sir Robert Collier will be Attorney- General, and Mr. Moncreiff Lord Advocate for Scotland. It is probable that Mr. Coleridge will be content to serve as Solicitor-General. BRITISH PREMIERS FROM 1754 TO 1868. The following is a list of British Premiers during the last one hundred and4ourteen years : Time in Office. Yrs. Days. 52 322 87 21 179 Appointed. 1754 ... April s—Due of Newcastle 8 1762 ... May 29—Earl of But• 0 1763 ... April 16—G. Grenville 2 1765 ... July 12—Marquis of Rockingham 1 1766 ... Aug. 2—Duke of Grafton 3 1770 ... Jan. 28—Lord North 1782 ... Mar. f3—Marquis of Rockingham 0 1782 ... July 13—Earl of Shelburne 0 1783 April s—Duke of Portland 0 1783 ... Dec. 27—William Pitt l7 1801 ... Mar. 17—Lord Sidmouth 3 1804 ... May 12—William Pitt 1 1806 ... Jan. B—Lord Granville 1 1807 ... Mar. 13—Duke of Portland 3 1810 ... June 28—Spencer Percival 1812 ... June B—Earl of Liverpool l4 1827 ... April 11—George Canning 1827 ... Aug. 10—Lord Goderich 0 1828 ... Jan. 25--Duke of Wellington 1830 ... Nov. 22—Earl Grey ......... 3 1834 ... July 11—Lord Melbourne 1834 ... Nov. 16—Duke of Wellington 1834 ... Dec. B—Sir Robert Peel... 1835 ... AprillB—Lord Melbourne 1841 ... Sept. 3—Sir Robert Peel 1845 ... Dec. 10—Lord John Russell 1845 ... Dec. 20—Sir Robert Peel 1846 ... June 26—Lord John Russell 1852 ... Feb. 22—Earl of Derby 1852 ... Dec. 19— Earl of Aberdeen 2 1855 Feb. s—Lord Palmerston 3 1858 ... Feb. 21—Earl of Derby 1859 .:. June 13—Lord Palmerston 6 1865 ... Oct. 20—Earl Russell 1866 ... June 27—Earl of Derby 1868 ... Feb. 25—Mr. Disraeli 1868 ... Dec. 3—Mr. Gladstone It will be seen from the above statement, that only five Governments since 1754 have exceeded that of Lord Palmerston's in its duration, viz., the Duke of Newcastle's, Lord North's, William Pitt's, Earl of Liverpool's, and Lord Melbourne's. 132 266 260 80 180 239 300 45 111 128 249 238 281 MR. GLADSTONE AND THE WELSHMAN. A correspondent of the Liverpool Courier relates the following tale :—" Now that Wales has in so marked a manner come to the front in support of Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal policy, the following may not be uninteresting to your readers as an instance of the simple, honest, and hearty enthusiasm with which the working classes in the Principality regard Mr. Gladstone. We got the story from the Welshman himself, who is a resident at Llangefin, in Anglesea. He says that, having read so much of the great statesman, he became very desirous to see—only to see—the great man. One day last summer he set out early for Mr. Gladstone's house, in Penrnaemnawr. It was with many misgivings that, carrying carefully a small basket with him, he walked up to the house ; for, having but an exceedingly small stock of English at his command, he feared it would avail him but little with the servants. In that fear he was right ; for, on asking to see Mr. Gladstone, he was informed by the maid-servant first, and by the butler afterwards, that their master was then very busy, and could not be seen before night. Nothing daunted, the sturdy Welshman expressed his readiness to call again at night. Just then another maid-servant, a countrywoman of his, came to his rescue, and led him to Mrs. Gladstone. The kind lady waa much amused to seo the Welshman's determination to see—only to see, he said—Mr. Gladstone. The object of his admiration was told of this singular visitor, and coming to him, laughed heartily to hear the enthusiastic Welshman say that he only wished to see Mr. Gladstone, of whom and of his great services he had read so much ; and, thereupon, he begged Mr. Gladstone to accept the small basket of eggs which he had brought with him, and which were placed together in a very artistic style. Mr. Gladstone, of course, had the good taste not to regard this as in anywise a display of eggsuberant admiration, but took them kindly from the simple man, presented him with a book in return, asking him to take some lunch and making kind inquiries after the Welshman's family. It was with great re luctance that the visitor partook of food, for he frequently assured them that he came there, not to eat anything, but to see Mr. Gladstone. However, this warm-hearted son of Wales left highly pleased with his successful visit, and bearing with him the book he received, and a portrait of the great Liberal chief which Mrs. Gladstone gave him, with kind assurances that he would be always welcomed there." At Aifreton eight persons bane been com mitted for trial at the next Derbyshire quarter sessions on the chargo of rioting at Clay Cross on the 20th of November last, which was the polling day for East Derbyshire. THE NEW ARCHBISHOP. —At a meeting of the Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, on Friday last, the Dean presiding, her Majesty's cong4 d'elire nominating a successor to the late Dr. Longley in the archiepiscopal chair, was read and acted upon in the unanimous election of Dr. A. C. Tait, late Bishop of London. The bells of the cathedral were rung during the day in celebration of the event. A TITLED PREACHER. —Lord Cecil has advertised preaching twice each Sunday, and on Tuesday and Thurs day evenings, in the theatre, which he has rented at his own expense for those days. It appears his religion does not consist merely in preaching, as it is stated that a few days ago, in a neighbouring township, while visiting, he found a widow who was in danger of losing her farm, it being mortgaged for 100 dollars ; Lord Cecil presented this poor woman with a cheque for the amount, and secured her a receipt in full.— Toronto Globe, Nor. 17. THE WHL PPING-POST. —The - whipping-post is still among the cherished institutions of the State of Delaware. An old man, 70 years of age, was put to the torture of the lash, for some petty offence, at Newcastle, on Friday last, as well as half a dozen other offenders. The report of the case says that the punishment was " strictly in accordance with the laws of the State." So much the worse for the State. We are very glad that Delaware did not vote for Grant. We hope she will remain democratic while she remains thus barbarous and semi-sayage.—New York Times, Nov. 23. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO OSBORNE.—Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, will, according to the most recent arrange ments, leave Windsor Castle on the lGth inst., en route for Osborne. Her Majesty, it is expected, will proceed southwards by special train on the Great Western and London and South Western Railways ; and the arrange ments for the royal trip in that case will be under the control of Mr. J. Grierson. THE RIVAL BISHOP. —On Sunday morning the Rev. William Kenneth Macrorie, M.A., vicar of Accring ton, who has been appointed Bishop of Maritzburg, and who is about to proceed to Natal to do battle with Bishop Colenso, preached a farewell sermon at St. Lawrence, Jewry, a church which has become so well known in connection with the services which preceded, accompanied, and followed the late Arch bishop of Canterbury's Pan-Anglican Synod of last year. He selected for his text the third chapter of St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, verse 1: " Brethren pray fur us, that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified, even as it is with you." In the afternoon the bishop-nominate preached at St. Matthew's, City-road, and in the evening at All Saints, Notting-hill. He will leave England on Wednesday next, and will be consecrated at Capo Town Cathedral as soon as possible after his arrival in South Africa. DESTRUCTIVE GALE. The neavy rain of Friday night was succeeded on Satin.- Jay by a gale, which blew for several hours over the metropolis, and generally throughout the country. At various periods during the day the wind was accompanied with heavy showers of rain, and its force was very great throughout the night. The gale was productive, as far le can at present be ascertained, of but little damage :n London, but in the suburbs its effects were more severely felt. During the day several collisions, which took place both above and below London Bridge were attributable to the gale. On Sunday the wind was again very strong, and there was heavy rain about noon. At night the wind raged with great fury. It is many years since so heavy a gale blew over London. CARIIIAGE OF VOTERS BY RAILWAY. In the City of London Court on Saturday an action to recover £3 railway fare and cab fares was heard. Mr. Lewis, for the plaintiff, said his client carried on business 'n the City, and the defendant was connected with one Df the branches of the Liberal Association for the tlection of the City of London in 1865. Plaintiff, who was a voter, was in Exeter, and defendant commu nicated to plaintiff's father that if plaintiff would come up and vote he should be paid his travelling expenses. Plaintiff came up, his railway fare being 505., and his cab fares about 10s. more. He had not been able to get his money ; hence the present pro :eedings. Mr. Buchanan, for the defendant, said that plaintiff could not recover. He was barred by Act of Parliament.—His Hononr: There is Sir F. Slade's case. —Mr. Buchanan : I would also refer your Honour to the 26th and 27th Vict. It was an illegal transaction.—Mr. Lewis : Here there was a special contract.—His Honour 'aid that, looking at all the evidence in the case, he should and a verdict for the defendant, with costs. MOB OUT.RAGES IN ELPEIN. A correspondent of the Dublin Express writes :—" When news came to Elpbin that The O'Conor Don was returned for Roscommon, a party of men and boys went about the town collecting money and turf. With the money they bought whiskey, and with the turf they lit a large fire just beside the cathedral. They went into some farmer's house looking for his son, and, when they could not find him, they took the father and pulled out all his teeth. He was nearly 70 years of age. They also took Due butcher's son, a young man of about 23 years of age, and beat him, then kicked him about the streets apposite our house. When the young fellow's friends heard of this they collected a large party, and arrived with big sticks and ropes. They went about the street beating every person they could meet. The two con ;tables were out, but only got themselves hurt. They have had more prisoners for the fortnight the men were away than they have had for the last twelve months. Up to two o'clock this morning they were fighting." FEARFUL SCENE AT A FIRE. On Saturday morning, a fire, nearly attended with the loss of six or seven persons, was discovered by a police•oflicer of the N division, in the premises belonging to Mr. Chalton, a linen draper and silk mercer, carry ing on business in Andover Terrace, Hornsey-road. At the time of the outbreak the whole of the inmates were in their beds fast asleep, and it was a work of no tittle difficulty to make them aware of their impending danger. That was, however, at length accom plished ; but the flames by this time had not only taken possession of the front shop and warehouse, but also the staircase, and were approaching the doors of three other rooms, in which Mr. Charlton, his children, and his ser vants were. To descend by the staircase was therefore an impossibility, and as a dernier ressort the affrighted persons make for the front windows, and there being a sun-blind over the shop-windows, the same was pulled out, and two of the children were thrown ont of window on to the blind, and they rolled down and were caught by the people below. The servants, with the pro prietor and his wife, next scrambled down in the same manner, and, fortunately, not one of them received the least injury. Mr. Benjamin Whitworth, M.P. for Drogheda, nas been peisonally served in Manchester with the petition of Sir L. M'Clintock against his return. Lord Strafford is reported to be very seriously ill. In the event of his demise Lord Enfield would go to the House of Peers, and we should thus have another election for Middlesex. There has been an affray at Macroom, county Cork, between the military and the inhabitants. The soldiers conceived themselves insulted, and fourteen of them—of the C2nd Reinvent—took off their bolts and rushed at the crowd, syho rejlied with stones. Ultimately the soldiers beat off their opponents. A FRAUDULENT PAYMASTER.—The result of the court-martial on Paymaster Lawes H.1%1.'s 90th Regiment, Is that he has been cashiered, sentenced to two years' 'mprisonment, and ordered to refund £723, for fraudulently misapplying money belonging to her Majesty's army, and caking false statements in reference to his accounts. A petition against the return of Mr. Sergeant Cox, the Conservative member for Taunton, has been presented, on the ground of bribery, intimidation treating, and other corrupt practices. A sub-committee of the Taunton Liberal Working Men's ♦ssociation have been engaged for the past fortnight in collecting evidence, and it Is reported that they have obtained quite a volume. The United Service Gazette intimates that the sud den resignation of Ministers has postponed—" perhaps in defiuitely"—a most comprehensive scheme of administra tive reform, which, it says, would have not only remodelled the War-office, but would have placed the relations of that department and the Horse Guards upon an entirely new footing. Counsel's opinion has been taken on the subject of the Natal grant. A proposal for a grant of money without the initiation of the Standing Committee is pronounced ille gal. The Standing Committee agree to recommend to the special meeting on Dec. 8 that the sum of .£2,000 be granted for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge in the colony of Natal ; such sum to be expended by the Standing Com mittee. The Nenagh Guardian reports " an incident among he strangest in the history of the English police force." Tne Earl of Rosse, accompanied by his brothers and some friends, when returning from shooting, were arrested within mile of Parsonstown Castle, by constables of the Annalt police station ; and it was only when brought before the sub-inspector that the mistake was discovered and a release obtained. This " constabulary escapade" is to form the sub ject of an investigation. RUMOURED ARMY REDUCTIONS.—The air is filled with rumours as to the parsimonious intentions of the incoming Ministry with respect to the army. This much is certain, that whatever *eductions do take place, will be their work, as not a single estimate had been prepared when Mr. Disraeli resigned office. It is said that two companies will be docked from the strength of each regi ! tnent of the line, but that the cavalry, always favourites, will not be touched. The money swing is expected to be about half a million, an immense equivalent for the national insecurity which is sure to be produced by this decimation of our national defensive force.— United Service Gazette. A SAVAGE.—Another shocking tragedy has just taken place in an adjoining district to that of Jarrow, where a murder, arising from jealousy, was perpetrated a few days ago. Two men named Dolan and Ward lodged at Sunderland, in the house of a woman named Keshan. Dolan and Keshan lived together as man and wife, and the former, it would seem, having read the events of the Jarrow murder, began to entertain jealous suspicions as to Ward, and talked of there being other cases before that of Jarrow could be brought to trial. On Thursday night, however, the two men were drinking together, apparently on friendly terms, and on returning home sat down to finish their revels over another quart of ale. A quarrel then arose, in which Ward was deliberately stabbed in the abdomen and elsewhere by Dolan. The injured man lies at the hospital in a hopeless condition, and Dolan is in custody. WONDERFUL CAPACITY OF THE RHINELANDERS FOR . WINE.—The w on d er f u l ca p ac ity f or d r i n k o f th e hhmelanders is amusingly illustrated by Goethe in his journals. " The Bishop of Mayence," he says, " once delivered a sermon against drunkenness, and, after paint ing in the strongest colours the evils of overindulgence, concluded as follows :—` B u t th e a b use o f w i ne does not exclude its use, for it is written that wine rejoices the heart of man. Probably there is no one in my congrega tion who cannot drink four bottles of wine without feeling any disturbance of his senses; but if any man at the seventh or eighth bottle so forgets himself as to abuse and strike his wife and children and treat his best friends as enemies, let him look into his c.,nscieace, and in future always stop at the sixth bottle. Yet, if after drinking eight, or even ten or twelve bottles, he can still take his Christian neighbour lovingly by the hand, and obey the milers of his spiritual and temporal superiors, let him thankfully drink his modest (sic) draught. lie must be careful, however, as to taking any more, for it is seldom that Providence gives any one the special grace to drink sixteen bottles at a sitting, as it has enabled me, its un- worthy servant, to do without either neglecting my duties or losing my temper.", THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE MN(; DECEMBER 7, 1868. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times says Mr. Gladstone has failed to secure any new strength for his Administration in the House of Lords. The late Lord Cranworth is succeeded as Lord Chancellor by Sir William Page Wood ; and feeble as Lord Crary. worth's debating power was, the new holder of the Great Seal will be even less efficient in debate. The failure to obtain further support is doubly unfortunate, because it cannot be denied that the Opposition has gained inthe inter val. Lord Salisbury has taken his placein the House of Lords since 1866 ; Lord Cairns, unfettered by the responsibilities of office, will wage war on the Ministry with all the vigour of Protestant Ulster. On the other hand, Lord Russell has pleaded increasing age as a reason for declining office, or even a seat in the Cabinet without office, and though he will be a zealous friend of the Ministry, he will not be able to speak with the authority of one who has a voice in shaping its policy. The prominent members of the Government in the Upper House will be Lord Granville, who will be Secretary for the Colonies, and who will lead the House ; the Duke of Argyll, who has accepted the post of Secretary for India; and Lord Clarendon, whc has returned, as we announced, to the Foreign Office. It would be impossible to select three more efficient debaters, though each has a different style ; but it cannot be expected that, singly or collectively, they should be masters of the legal technicalities which must abound in the Disestablishment and Disendowment Bill. In the Commons the Ministry will possess undoubted strength. They have, in the first place, a majority of 115, or thereabouts, at their back, and with Mr. Glad stone, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Lowe on the Treasury Bench they possess three debaters of unequalled power. The appointment of Mr. Lowe as Chancellor of the Exchequer" will doubtless provoke criticism, and although no one will doubt his ability to adorn the post, there remains a sound opinion that his energy of character might have been more profitably employed elsewhere. Lord Derby invited Mr. Cardwell to become Finance Minister nearly seventeen years since ; Lord Palmerston made him the same offer in 1855 ; and had he been now placed at the Exchequer, and Mr. Lowe at the War Department, Mr. Cardwell would have had a more congenial office, and there would have been better hopes of efficient army reform. The acceptance by Mr. Bright of the office of President of the Board of Trade is understood to be a reluctant sacrifice to patriotism. Mr. Bright absolutely declined the laborious duties of Secre tary of State, but he could find no sufficient reason for refusing altogether to serve his country in Council, and he was thus prevailed upon to undertake the less exacting labours of the Board of Trade. Another accomplished speaker declined to take the office offered him, but, as we must frankly acknowledge, we think the effect is likely to be more injurious to his own reputation than to the Government. Mr. Coleridge would not consent to serve under Sir Robert Collier ; and when we remember that Sir Roundell Palmer was for two years Solicitor - General under Sir William Ather ton, we can only wonder and be silent. The Times concludes that, with one signal exception, Mr. Gladstone has brought into his Ministry all the ability and power that lay at his command. The appointment of Mr. Bright to the Board of Trade gives the Herald something to be thankful for. He might have displaced the Duke of Argyll, and governed India. What is to become of those other hopes of the party, Mr. Forster, Mr. Stansfeld, and Mr. Ayrton, we have yet to learn. But we confess that we shall consider Mr. Forster's services ill-requited, and his obvious quali fications neglected, if his claims to high office in Mr. Gladstone's Ministry are postponed to those of any member in the House of Commons whom we have named. Sir W. Page Wood, it is said, is to be Lord Chancellor--a learned judge and a good partisan, but not likely to be of much use to his party as a debater ; and Sir Robert Collier is to succeed to the office of Attorney-General—an appointment which he is in every way well qualified to fill. Of Sir Roundell Palmer, who, we presume, is to take Sir W. Page Wood's place, we need only say that the bench will gain as much as the House of Commons will lose by the transfer, and that no man's name will stand higher than that of the man who, with the highest prize of his profession within his grasp, sacrificed everything to earnest conviction and honourable scruple. The Daily New 3 considers Sir W. Page Wood a more. gain to the Cabinet. Many years ago, while he was a member of the House of Commons, he urged the disesta blishment of the Irish Church, to which he will now be instrumental in giving effect. The moral value of his adhesion to the Government is great, and more than com pensates any deficiency in those arts of debate in which bis immediate predecessor shines' brilliantly. In Lord Clareetdon's return to the Foreign Office the services are secured of a statesman who has the confidence of both parties, whom Air. Disraeli brackets equal with Lord Stanley, even in the hottest fervour of his eulogies upon the younger statesman ; one to whom all the ways of diplomacy and courts of Europe are known, and who possesses an authority abroad superior to that of any English politician since the death of Lord Palmerston. Lord Granville has not unnaturally prefeired the labours of the Colonial Office to the dignified ease of the Presidency of the Council. The qualities of judgment, tact, and moderation which he has shewn in the leadership of the House of Lords admirably fit him for dealing with communities sensitive alike in their attachment to England and in their jealous self-reliance. The Duke of Argyll finds at length an office worthy of his great abilities, industry, and con scientiousness in the India Office. The administration of India is a question which he has especially studied ; and deeper investigations have led him to renounce the policy of annexation by which his imagination and judgment seemed at one time to be taken captive. Mr. Cardwell's administrative ability and economic training will have abundant scope in the War Office. The list of Ministers does not contain a better appointment than that which places Mr. Childers at the Admiralty. Mr. Lowe's repu- tation as a financier has still to be made. • His ambition cannot but be satisfied, and his brilliant'abilities will be tried to the utmost in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Standard says Mr. Gladstone has formed an Administration in a remarkably, we might, perhaps, say unprecedeutedly, short time. Forty-eight hours sufficed him for the accomplishment of a task which has occupied Premiers supposed to have been far more favourably cir cumstanced ten days or a fortnight. He received her Majesty's commands on Thursday, and went down to Windsor, where—touching attention !—the band of the Slough Rifles was waiting to welcome him, on Saturday with the list of the Cabinet in his pocket. Never was a Cabinet run together in such a hurry, and never was so odd a production exhibited to the British public. That it includes some able men, that it represents nearly every section of the Liberal party, we allow ; but its elements are singularly incongruous, and the different offices, with two or three exceptions, seem to have been distributed, not from any consideration of the fitness of the man for the Ministry, but by a lottery. A better illustration of the time-honoured British custom of putting the round men in the square holes and the square men in the round holes has never been furnished. The omissions in this list of the new Cabinet will strike everybody. Neither Mr. Forster, Mr. Stansfeld, nor Mr. Brand, whose presence the Liberal organs declared was indispensable, have a place in it. Mr. Milner Gibson, the Marquis of Harting ton, the Duke of Somerset, Lords Halifax and Stanley of Alderley, are also unprovided for. Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Cowper, and Mr. Hugessen and Lord Dufferin will will probably be content with subordinate places ; but the gentlemen we named before can hardly accept any office which does not give a seat in the Cabinet, and not even the acceptance of office by Mr. Bright will satisfy the Radicals for the exclusion, however necessary, of their representative " young men," Messrs. Forster and Stansfeld. The Telegraph, observing that Mr. Bright's post is his own choice, says that not for the first time has he shewn an utterly unselfish desire to postpone all personal considera tions, and to help his leader in any fashion or in any way— either by standing out, a friendly looker-on, or by taking a post which, while comparatively humble, will give him his full share of Cabinet responsibility. All things con sidered, the Chancellorship of the Exchequer is, perhaps, the best position into which Mr. Lowe could have been put. Not to out it too finely, he has " a temper of his own." In a department where he would have exercised direct rule over permanent officials, and been able practi cally to carry out his own extremely concrete ideas on some questions, his special qualities—those faults of his that " lean to virtue's side," and those faults of his that don't--would have brought him into constant collision with less acute intellects, and with men not always accustomed to obey. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer, wielding an immediate power in a small office, has a wide criticising control over all the departments of the State ; and we are quite sure that Mr. Lowe will be a fearless financial critic. All the other appointments have some indisputable and cogent recom mendation. At the same time, Mr. Gladstone cannot fail to observe that the Cabinet already contains an ample measure of the "aristocratic" element; and the country will not be satisfied unless the Ministry be further rein forced by the addition of more than one distinguished commoner. If that be done, we shall have, iu the best sense of the word, a strong Cabinet. The Post, admitting that the Cabinet is an amalgania• cion of all the Liberal elements, inquires whether, sup cpaonsindgri i ‘ A , e l r. it C . xll v ls i t li m iN e ir g . e i t 3 s r i a g whole htail d t i\ e f a r m i . L t w o e h i a ) r u n n ess to , g h e e . ther? It may be replied that on the question of the Irish t C r l y i Church rup t l i y i e y t o NN l • j i r l l n ; b k gtuhta questionA r. Gladstone tnth einevitable k iii a lkil ig conclu sion?• Mr. Lowe and Mr. Bright will hardly agree about education ; and as to V foreign affairs, Lord Clarendon, trained in the school of Palmerston, will certainly not entertain the notions which Mr. BEglit has eloquently expounded on a hun dred platforms. Mr. Gladstone's arrangements may be susceptible of another interpretation ; but political influence depends on political integrity, and if Mr. Bright or Mr. Lowe were capable of suppressing their convic tions, or compromising their opinions, they could bring to his Ministry no support worth having. In the opinion of, the Star, it is upon the preparation which Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet evinces for the work of retrenchment • that he is most heartily to be con gratulated. Mr. Gladstone himself, as First Lord ; Mr. Lowe—an absolutely implacable economist—as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Mr. Childers—who has vowed himself to naval economy—as First Lord of the Admiralty ; and Mr. Cardwell—a thoroughly Peelite administrator—at the War Office, will form a quadrilateral which the spending classes will assail in vain. MB. PEABODY. AI- The foriowitig letter has been addressed to the Right !lon. Lord Stanley, M.P. (chairman) ; his Excellency Reverdy Johnson, United States Minister ; Sir Curtis M. Lampson, Bart., Sir James Emerson Tennent, Bart., and J. S. Morgan, Esq.:— " London, sth December, 1868. "My Lord and Gentlemen,—l beg to acquaint you, who have so kindly undertaken the management of the fund set apart under my second deed of gift of the 19th April, 1866, for the benefit of the poor of London and its vicinity, that in pursuance of an intention which I hare entertained since the creation of that fund, I am desirous now of adding to it a further sum of £lOO,OOO. In con templation of this I purchased, about three years ago, a tract of freehold building land of about fifteen acres in extent, at Brixton, near the City of London School, easily accessible, and within a few minutes' walk of fre quent trains to and from London. This land has increased in value, and can now be let on building leases of eighty ; fears at rents producing about 8 per cent. per annum on the cost, which is £16,285 17s. 3d. This land I propose to convey to you with the same powers as are conferred by the deed over the other property of this trust, and with discretion to you either to deal with it as a source of income by letting it, or any portion of it, on lease ; or, should you deem it expedient, to retain it in your own hands, as sites for dwellings to be erected by the trust. Pursuant to my letter of the 29th January, 1866, I transferred to you, subject to a con tingency therein explained, 5,000 shares in the Hudson's Bay Company, which accordingly stand in your names, together with 642 additional shares purchased by the re-investment of the accruing income of the previous 5,000. These 5,642 shares I have since redeemed con formably to the deed of the 19th of April, 1866, by the payment of £lOO,OOO on the Ist of February last. I have now to acquaint you that it is my intention, so soon as the necessary deeds can be prepared, to hand the shares over to you, to be retained or dealt with according to your best judgment and discretion. The price of these shares shall be fixed on the 17th instant by the Stock Exchange sales on that day, when I will hand to you a cheque for the balance to make the gift a cash value of £lOO,OOO. This amount will increase my former donation of the second trust to £200,000, and, including my gift under the trust fund of March 1862, of £150,000, a total of £350,000. I trust you will see manifested in this further donation an expression of my entire satisfaction with the manner in which you have conducted the affairs of the trusts.—l am, with ,reat respect, your humble servant, GEORGE PEABODY." TIIE ALABAMA CLAIMS. (Prom the Anglo -American Times.) The settlement of the Claims for the damage done to American commerce by rebel cruisers brings up the discussion what those losses really were. We have already given a list of every ship captured, but the number, although numerous, and the losses, although heavy, could not have driven the greatest of all mercantile marines from the ocean. The opinion is general throughout America that the real injury can never be reim bursed,tbeing the decay, indeed the destruction, of the ocean-carrying trade, which, at the time of the war, was mainly in American bands. All allow that the merchant ships flying the American flag had increased to a larger tonnage than that even of Great Britain. All allow that while the ships that flew the American flag were native built, a con siderable portion of those sailing under the Union Jack were American-built ; and the deduction is clear that the ship-building trade of America must at that time have been the greatest possessed by any country. No one now disputes that American yards are silent, that the American Flag is compara tively seldom met with on the ocean, that the foreign carrying trade to and from even American ports is now mainly in the hands of foreigners, against whom American shipowners complain they cannot com pete. It neverseemsto cross the mind of an American that this can be accounted for by other causes than the havoc wrought by the rebel cruisers. Hence two errors—the one that a few contemptible privateers could almost irrevocably destroy the trade of such a nation, and the other that it would be for the in terest of Americans to leave the question open till they could cut England's commerce to pieces and transfer her trade to themselves when she became engaged in war. If it be not to the civil strife and mainly to these cruisers that the decay of American commerce is due, to what other cause can it be ascribed ? Now to this question we give the following answer with much diffidence and he sitation, as it appears to have escaped attention. At the outbreak of the Civil War a great change was taking place in the material for building ships. That change was simply from wood to iron, which latter was found cheaper, more easy of construction, requiring less repair and more lasting. With a few grave drawbacks iron established its superiority. One drawback was the difficulty of keeping the bottom of the vessel clean, but this has been remedied, as had always been expected. Another was the difficulty of adjusting the compass, influenced as it was by the mass of iron around, but this alio was rectified ; the third was the inevitable loss of the ship if she struck, holes being torn out where wood resisted. Water-tight compartments were in vented, generally a poor defence, by far the best being the clear knowledge in the mind of the navi gator that if he did not steer clear of rocks he would soon be at the bottom. For some time pre vious to the war and during the contest this change was making way; but another was simultaneously oc curring, scarcely less important as against the Ameri can shipbuilding interest. The successive improve ments and simplification of machinery were substi tuting steam for sails. Had it not been for MAURY'S discoveries, and his wind charts, which made a voyage to the antipodes, or around the Horn, little less certain under sail than with steam, the change would have been still more rapid. But its effect is very plainly discernible in the multiplication of the fleets plying between Europe and America, iu the almost total transfer of emigrants from sailing ships to steam vessels, and the preference given to the latter, even for the carriage of goods, not withstanding the higher rates. Thus then there was a double change at work, the one in .the ma terial, and the other in the propelling power —from wood to iron, and from sails to steam. Now how would these changes have affected the American builders bad there been no war ? Although Maine could contend, not only successfully, but under-sell English wooden-built ships, what chance had Maine in building an iron steamer against the Clyde? Supposing that we are correct in our assertion that the change was inevitable under any circumstances, and that it must eventually have silenced the ship yards of Maine, the war, and the rebel cruisers, only hastened the natural destruction in progress, of the American ship-building trade, and we now main tain that the destruction neither was, nor could have been accomplished, by such agency as the privateers. There are points bearing on this subject which ought not to be overlooked. America settling backwards from the sea, the first colonies were along the coast, where the inhabitants naturally assumed the habits nature enforced. They became sailors in proportion to their proximity to ocean, and as fishermen made the sea yield no small portion of their food. But as civilization advanced in the sun's course west, for ever west, the Atlantic was left behind, and millions poured over the broad face of the prairies, and myriads were born and grew into men who had never looked upon the ocean. They still keeping in Nature's course contracted rather an aver sion to than a pleasure in the sea, therefore while the nation grew in magnitude its proportion of sailors did not correspondingly increase. Thus it hap pened that America, which at the beginning of the century was emphatically a sea-faring nation, ceased so generally to have that character, and did not, and could not, in the common order of things maintain that character in a degree cor responding to the population of the country. The Navigation laws in force at the time of the change in the material for shipbuilding, and in the propel ling power of vessels, were little calculated to remedy the consequence. Grounded on protection, they enacted, that no ship, other than native built, should fly the American Flag or trade from port to port in the United States. Hence the disadvan tage at which American shipowners were placed in taking their part in the ocean-carrying trade be tween the United States and Europe. It was found to be impossible to build vessels to compete against the Cunard, the Inman, the Hamburgh, the Bremen, and the Brest lines, constructed on the Clyde, as the cost w ould be enormously increased if ordered in New York, against no advantages. But what is the consequence ?—Why, that Ame rican merchants have no share in the profits of the carrying trade—that all the transport fleets are the property of foreigners, and that one of the finest schools for sailors is lost to the country. But it is vain to attribute these results to such a paltry • squadron as the Alabama, the Florida, and the Shenandoah. A very material cause of the decay of the shipbuilding in Maine, and other States, was the change wrought in the expenses of living by the War. Taxation makes everything dear, and dear living makes high wages. In its turn, high wages creates costly material, and a ship from the yards of Maine almost from beginning to end is the na tional product of the country, American labour alone producing it. It was because land was plentiful and the country unburthened, that food was cheap, and labour not costly in former days, when Maine turned her forests into stately ships, and supplied them to all nations. It was then that in the decade between 1850 and 1860 the total tonnage of the United States rose from 3,772,439 to 7,361,639, valued at £44,318,496. Had it not been for the change in shipbuilding material, which enabled England to construct vessels more cheaply for her self, Maine and New York, Massachusetts, Penn sylvania, and Connecticut, notwithstanding the burdens resulting from the war, would have con tinued to supply the world with ships, and the trade would have been stimulated, not depressed, by th depredations of the privateers. Indeed it has been so much the fashion to attribute all the causes of decay to the Alabama and her consorts that many Americans actually believe that the shipbuilding trade was also ruined by that miserable craft. Why if she had been a magician instead of a vessel no yard ought to have been proud of, she could not have accomplished such a task—and Mr. LAIRD who built her is elevated into importance as an agent of an evil which he could no more accomplish than locate himself on an estate in the moon. The ravages of war are quickly repaired in peace, and trade resumes its old channels, flowing where the demand exists ; the ravages of storms, more destructive still, are equally met, the risks in both cases being covered by insurance, and in the former falling really on the people at war. They suffer and lose as nations who fight ought to do, but war never destroyed the trade of a trading people, though it may often have injured and checked that trade. If the American marine does not now begin to recover from the effects of the contest, Americans must seek other causes than the Alabama for the explanation, and if they look into the matter our opinion is that they will easily perceive them, as they are near the surface. THE TEMPLE OF FOLLY. You visit It on a Saturday evening about nine o'clock, Ad discover that you are unfashionably early. The attendance is as yet very small, and your first impression is that you are in a synagogue ; there is such a leaven of the chosen people walking about. While you listen to the band in the gallery (an excellent one, by the bye) you are interested in observing the dark whiskers, coarse features, and exaggerated costume of the children of Abraham. The German element also musters rather strongly ; your ear is assailed with gutturals, your sense of smell detects the full-flavoured cigar, and your vision is dented by the number of double-barrelled eye-glasses on the tips of the Teutonic nose. Anon the dancing begins ; the well-prepared floor is soon occupied by the Jews and the Germans, who dance excellently, and who find some lighter-footed partners. The dancing is by no means quiet enough for the exigencies of fashionable society, and some of the couples become exhausted before they have made half the circuit of the room. One solitary couple is going round so slowly and imperceptibly as to have the appear. ance of roasting before a slow fire. This is an exception. Meanwhile the stolid Englishman looks on. The first impression of the uninitiated would be that the West-end clubs had turned out their occupants to visit the Temple of Folly, but a further inspection convinces one that the fashionable exquisites with the curly-brimmed hats and well-fitting clothes are chiefly clerks and counter-jumpers. They will occasionally exhibit a hand covered both with rings and dirt ! It is a well-known fact that many an aspiring Tittlebat Titmouse will starve himself during the week that he may attend here on the Saturday night, smoke ill flavoured cigars, and fancy himself a gentleman, cherish ing the poor delusion that the company is deceived. The genius of the place, or Master of the Ceremonies, is an ex quisite creature, with wonderful hair and whiskers, whohas an imposing way of shaking hands with the habitues. He is always attitudinising, and is fond of gracefully waving his hands in the air, but the effect is somewhat spoiled by a habit he has of drawing the back of the right one cross his " bowsprit." The company is cautioned against smoking downstairs, but you find the rule entirely disre garded, and the air becomes in time much vitiated. You seek the gallery, but there the heat is worse than ever. Couples are sitting at the tables, deriving mysterious pleasure from the suction of long reeds. This is the correct way of imbibing sherry cobbler. By eleven o'clock the place becomes inconveniently crowded, and you make your way with difficulty at the expense of long trains and short tempers. How is it that you are under a slight impression that you are in the parrot-house at the "Zoo ?" The costumes of the women are very elaborate and in an exaggerated fashion; but the most wonderful feature is the mixture of colours. That bright green dress is accompanied by a hat with a scarlet feather, perched on the top of a golden chignon. The effect is very much that of a bright plumaged parrot ; and the senseless chatter you hear around keeps up the illusion. In one corner of the place there is a crush and a rush. Yo u seek the reason, and find that thet h last e queen half enof theplace has arri ve d t o s hi ne th ere d ur i ng hour. A little applause sometimes accom panies her entrance, and a recent newspaper notice causes the excitement. The last galop is on, and the Queen takes part in it. The place becomes unbearable from the heat and noise. You reach the entrance just as the dance is over, and find yourself in a hopeless crush. The gas is lowered, and the place slowly cleared. Outside are the inevitable roughs and a sprinkling of police. Amidst chaff and a few curses one or two broughams drive away, and then the hansom cabman has his harvest. Philo. sophising on the way in which the English youth takes his pleasure, you become " a sadder and a wiser man** LAW AND POLICE. MADAME RACHEL. — A fiat has been granted by the .outgoing Attorney-General for a writ of error in the case of Madame Rachel. The points relied upon in its support consist chiefly of objections to the jurisdiction of the court which tried and sentenced the prisoner, and to the corn retency of Mr. Commissioner Kerr to sit as a judge at the Old Bailey since the reconstruction of the City of London Court. The case will be argued in the Court of Queen's Bench in the course of next term. IMPRISONING A LUNATIC.—Th e lengthened action oa Johnstone v. Cotham, in which one clergyman sued another for £5,000 damages for assault and imprisonment, was brought to a close on Saturday. Chief Justice Cockburn summed up at some length, and the jury, after a deliberation of nearly an hour, found for the defendant. AN OLD TRAGEDY.--After the lapse of more than eight years the memory of the Stepney murder is revived. The Master of the Rolls is now called upon to decide who was the heir-at-law and next-of-kin of the unfortunate Mrs. Emsley, who left no will. The question is whether the intestate was the daughter of a man named Spencer, or of one Samuel Williams. The case was opened in the Rolls Court on Saturday afternoon. BRISTOL ELECTION OUTRAGES.—A solicitor in respect able practice at Clifton has been committed for trial fox engaging itithe late Bristol riot. A Fxx.—A laughable mischance happened the other D'ght to a thief in the prosecution of his unlawful calling. William Brown, aged 30, was charged on. Saturday at the Thames Police•court with breaking into the New Baptist Tabernacle on Stepney Green, with intent to commit a felony. Several adults had been baptised on the previous evening in a large cistern beneath the level of the floor, which had not been covered up after the ceremony. The prisoner in the course of his search for plunder fell into the water, and appears to have extricated himself with difficulty. In the vestry, how ever, he found a bottle of port, which no doubt was accept able after his bath, but taking too much he was found the next morning in a state of helpless intoxication on the floor. Prisoner was remanded. The Lord Chancellor has delivered judgment in the case of " Coles v. Bristowe." The question raised was very similar to that coLtained in the case of " Grissell ♦. Bristowe," in which the Exchequer Chamber delivered judgment the other day, and the decision was the saml. CHANOES IN THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.-- Jrreat changes are in contemplation, says the Athencetim, in regard to the Ordnance Select Committee and the manufacturing departments at Woolwich. It is proposed to abolish the former altogether, and place the latter under one head, who will be at the same time Director-General of Ordnance and Commandant of the Arsenal, where, as well as at the War Depart ment, he will have an office; An assistant director general and a deputy-assistant will take the place of the present Assistant Director of Ordnance, and Secretary of the Select Committee. Two assistant directors will be on the establishment at Woolwich, and two of the members of the late Ordnance Select Committee and one associate member will be associated to the Ordnance Department of the War Office. It is supposed that there will be increased economy and efficiency ; but the Ordnance Select Com. guittee has done a great deal of very honest work. THE LATE ERIE BATTLE. A remarkable book, about which we shall have something hereafter to say, " The Greater Bri tain," written by Mr. CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, implies that New York is not an American city ; and Americans will soon be thankful to any one who can show this, so unenviable becomes the notoriety of that great commercial capital, the head-quarters of fraud—revenue frauds, gold-jobbing frauds, stock jobbing frauds, and naturalization frauds. The rule of the city is so corrupt that the inhabitants are actually being driven beyond the boundaries of the State ; and had it not been for its unequalled excellence of position, the city might before this have sunk beneath its burden of corruption. The Legislature is no defence, and the law no weapon, for the one is influenced by the " rings" and the other is their tool. For many years America has looked on amazed and disgusted, while the corrup tion throve till it reached an intolerable point, assuming national importance, for, if unchecked, it spreads and infects the whole country. " Every hour," as a leading New York paper says, " new thieves and perjurors, and new combinations of thieves and perjurers, appear and vanish like scenes in a diorama." Indeed, lately they have all been coining on the boards together, and the spectator is bewildered at the groups hurrying on their fiend ish errands, retreating and advancing, crossing and re-crossing, the stage. The " last thing out" is the law-suit commenced by AUGUST BELMONT and E. B. LUCKE against JAMES FISK, H. J. GOULD, and other Directors of the Erie Railway Company. Some papers describe this action as in the interest of English shareholders; and the New York Sun asserts that Mr. GOULD, remembering the Alabama claims, like a true native American, declared that no Englishman 'should be allowed to sit at his board and turned out the only one representing Eng lish interests, when the aggrieved Britislaers deter mined to purchase the entire capital stock. To effect this a great London "pool" was formal, and the fight commenced, which has ended in a disas trous loss to the English. This is one way of ac. counting for these disgraceful operations which have brought so much dishonour on New York, and which will tell as severely against American invest ments as the greenback agitation has against the National Credit. If an English thief got on board an American ship at Liverpool and stole the cap tain's chronometer, he might assert his motives to be patriotic, for he had acted in remembrance of the tea thrown overboard by American hands in an American harbour. We daresay many English men will suffer, but the speculation has been essen tially one of Wall-street, where it is said "lame ducks"—the nicknames for those hard hit by the turn of events—abound. The history of the late battle has been told before Justice Sutherland, of the Supreme Court, New York City, in a bill of complaint. It is to be sure partisan, though supported by the affidavits of DREW and others, which crimi nate themselves. On the other side, a petition by CHARLES M'lNTosll, owner of 200 Erie Shares, made before Judge BARNARD, tells another tale, but both substantially agree in prosing dishonesty on the parties implicated. Originally DANIEL DREW acted in conjunction with GOULD, FISK, and the others ; and in his affidavit he states that he manipulated the shares entirely to influence the mar ket,aiding the speculationsby the company's money. The legally authorized common stock is 165,000 shares. To this was illegally added in May, 1866, 58,000 shares; last Feb. 50,000 more ; last March another 50,000, when DANIEL DREW resigned as treasurer and director in consideration of $1,000,000 given to settle claims, and he handed to GOULD, his successor, the company's funds, amounting to $1,600,000. On this they issued three millions of convertible bonds, which shortly after were con verted into 30,000 shares, not merely illegal, but in open defiance of an Act just passed especially to prevent such a course. They then entered on a job by which the company assumed the debt of the Boston, Hartford, and Hudson River Railroad, amounting to $5,000,000, on which Mr. ELDRIDGE was got rid of. Then indeed the board became ex clusively controlled by Messrs. FISK, GOULD, and LANE, who formed the majority of the five compos ing it. They appointed Mr. FISK sole auditor; they met in secret, and carried out their schemes without referring them even to the other two direc tors. Thirty thousand additional stock was first issued, but they had to prepare for the annual elec tion, and that they succeeded, notwithstanding the notoriety of their conduct proves, the difficulty of guarding against the machinations of such a clique. They actually elected the board they desired by the purchase of proxies, by throwing shares into the hands of their confederates, and other means, and commenced their New Year by the fraudulent issue of 230,000 more illegal shares. In a former number we minutely described the process by which these rings of speculators work. When DANIEL DREW acted in conjunction with the paper mill which turnedout the fraudulent shares he was a prosperous man, fattening on the ruin of others, but when DANIEL DREW lost his place in the clique and attempted to work on his own hook outside he dropped his money even faster than he had before made it. In fact DANIEL DREW got into a very close corner, where he was squeezed by FISK and GOULD most unmercifully. He had sold short, and had 70,000 shares to deliver when he was caught. Perhaps he forgot that he could no more manufacture illegal shares, and that fighting against men who could was merely backing his notion of where the pea was against a thimble-rigger. It was all very well for FISK and GOULD to sell short, but when BEL MONT and DREW did so they were operating against men not only armed with their paper mill, but with the enormous capital accumulated by the fraudu lent issues of Erie shares already made. Suddenly Fisic and GOULD, who had been " bears" turned " bulls." They had caught their opponents, and they quickly sent up the market from 35 to 60, after having previously knocked it down from 70 to 35, while the Bank vaults which held the locked up millions of greenbacks were opened, and the city flooded with currency. JAMES FISK, jun., makes an affidavit in support of CHARLES M`IN TOSH'S application, wherein he says that on Sunday morning, Nov. 15, DREW unexpectedly called to make a clean breast, as he declared, and to throw himself upon their mercy, being short of Erie Stock by 30,000 shares. FISK. told him he knew he was really short 40,000, more—he alleged that DREW desired to turn traitor, caring only as he himself asserted for number one, but FISK would not trust him unless he made the clean breast first. Then he 'told him WORK, SHELL, LANE, and THOMPSON were engaged iu a scheme to institute proceedings which he offered to break up, but he would not tell Iwho were the plaintiffs in the suit. FISK regarded this as one of DREW'S old tricks, who ought, he said, to be the last to whine about his position with regard to the Erie. However he brought Mr. GOULD, and he then learnt that the suit was in the name of AUGUST BELMONT. DREW made noim pression on the Erie confederates, although he con tinued to plead till 10 o'clock that evening, and returned at 11 o'clock, when he said "if you put this stock up, I am a ruined man," and offered nearly $lOO,OOO for the use of 30,000 or 40,000 shares for fifteen days. Finding this would not answer, he tried the bullying tack with as little success. All this is contained in Mr. FISK'S affida vit ; but the fact is certain that the stock was de livered, though some estimate the loss at 51,500,000. However enormous were Mr. DREW'S former gains as he dropped in the previous Erie battle more than $500,000, caught in the same way, and strange to say, by the same tactics, he had so suc cessfully applied to the ruin of others, no for tune can stand such tremendous losses. AN hen settling day closed, Nov. 19, Erie fell to 451, and on Friday evening, Nov. 20, to 431, and was quoted Dec. 2 at 38g. It is said that FISK and GOULD have cleared both by their bear and by their bull operations enormous sums, a portion being sent to Canada, another portion to Jersey City, while they have largely invested in real estate in New York, in Buffalo, and in other places, all made out in their own names. Indeed it is alleged that of the $40,000,000 brought in the illegal issue of shares a balance of $16,000,000 remain in the hands of the clique, nobody knows where kept, but probably used in these transactions. It is curious to watch the ramifications of such work. It was not Erie shares only that were affected, but the whole line of Governments, Bonds, Shares, Stocks, and every species of property dealt in at Wall-street. Gold, of course, became excited, money being swept from the " street," at once grew scarce, and discounts rose. The strain was felt severely by all who had commitments, and ran over the operations of the commercial world until the speculators themselves, as in former instances , took fright at the consequences threatening society. Still even this was but a part. We know the dis graceful scenes of violence which accompanied the previous fight ; but that was trifling in its injury to the community when compared with the contami nation of the springs of justice. Bribed judges openly used their authority in aid of this rascality; perjured witnesses swearing as directed, and a Le gislature controlled by such a clique. It is this which is so shocking, and has induced the long-en during, upright portion of New Yorkers vigorously to take up this matter ; but if society does notse its stamp of ostracism such acts, and vigorously expel those thus marked nothing can permanentlf stop such proceedings.—Anglo-American 7lines. Trouble is brewing in Utah, indeed we may sal that trouble has already commenced there. The "saints" are in a transition state, and transition states are apt to be unpleasant periods in which to live. The following is the latest telegram : SALT LAKE, Nov. 20.—The hanging of the roughs at Bear River City on the 11th, previously reported, created intense excitement, and this morning a mob of 200 men burned the Frontier Index office and gaol. The citizens armed themselves, and fired upon the mob, killing ten and wounding a number of others. It was feared that the mob would burn the whole town. The women and children were fleeing for safety. Bear River C:iti is eighty miles east of Salt Lake. Three hundred United States troops, destined for service on the Plains, arrived here to-day. General Grant left New York after a series of dinners more rapid in succession, if not more iod i " gestible, than those against which his Excellency Reverdy Johnson has been warned. Like g r ' Johnson, Grant met everybody—and was equally cordial with all—Democrat or Radical. He tooltci as the American Minister expresses it, every ba° that offered, under the common-sense suggest ion that it cost neither him nor the country anything' He arrived in Philadelphia on the 20th and left oo the 21st for Washington. Secretary Schofield had returned to work, and so has Secretary Sewar d ' The Ron. Schuyler Colfax has married g isS : Nellie Wade, and both afterwards went to Ba lfr more. An American paper thus comments on his 1t 0 3 41 Highness :—" The English Duke of Cambridge is a for t° ‘ nate office-holder. He gets $B5 a day as C omm ander 4,: Chief; $BO a day as Gener a l, and $12,000 a year for tu• three Colonels' commissions he holds in the British Ar l°l ; The Duke also has besides these $60,000 a year inconie't We do not not know whether the figures are correct, b u t we do know that he does not get $BO a day as Gen e r a : though he may as Field Marshal. It is said that a Fie%,, Marshal Commanding-in-Chief gets a much larger s 3lB ' d than a General holding the same post. General Henry E. Reed, late of the Confederate Army, committed suicide recently at Louisville. The Etoile Beige of Dec. 1 states that the (1 0 c tor 4 attending the Prince Royal of Belgium are waiting their patient shall regain a little strength to advise 1 11611 ; moval to a moro genial climat e , a n d th e y h ave good re 7, to hope that they could then vouc h f or hi s en tire ree ll° ,:;,o tion to health. All those who have w a t c hed the bull ed- o f and sympathized with his parents and in the suffering6lo, the little prince, who is not yet ten years of age, wil l ceive this good news with unmixed pleasure. We suppose some one has been taking the coa n t o name in vain, but if not, the matter should be broug ht his notice. "A ' nephew of Count Bismarck' rec e°tii appeared at New Orleans, and departed thence, neg lec ' ,4 to pay his board bill." 00 1 ' Mr. De Hell, the newly-appointed Co o General for France at Frankfort-on-the-Maine was f° merly French Consul at Charlevton, South Carolina. hi , The Boston Post calls Prof. Watson, of the NV ° e l gan University, who discovers all the asteroids, a "P ligl bagger." General Fitz Henry Warren, United States nister to Guatamala, was recently in Springfield, Ma s ;:, chusetts. His health has greatly improved from his re ; deuce in the salubrious climate of the table lands of t' e e , tral America ; and on his return to his post early in n cember, he will be accompanied by his wife. Colonel Drake, who sunk the first oil Wel l Oil Creek, is at Titusville in extreme destitution. n o The Cole-Hiscock trial continued up to the 2u rf November without any interest. Mr. Cole looked le well, and was observed to have grown stout. c o It turns out that General M'Clellan has,„ A s home to fulfil an engagement made with the late -v.', to A. Stevens, the Hoboken millionaire, and could aflor"to turn the cold shoulder to the politicians. Aluu ll „f a amusements of Mr. Stevens was the constructi on battery of his own invention, but which was undilis ite at the time of his death. In his will he provided,f°:ool perfection, at a cost not exceeding $1,000,000, and ue - ,.4 M'Clellan was engaged to superintend the work at a 1 14 7 a of $lO,OOO a year. This is not as much as he woul d ' OO 4 had if he had been elected President, but it is verl g ee d pay for what will probably not be very hard W ric .;oe 4 the job will most likely last a number of yoars.„ ' of completed the battery is to be presented to the o t t s t It New Jersey, and if not accepted is to be sold for iv will fetch, and the proceeds added to the estate. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Good piggy the Holloway's pills are universally acknowledged te lO safest, speediest, and best corrective for indigestjuiljo of appetite, acidity, flatulency, and a nausea are S '" t heo ° , tho inconveniences which are remedied with ease 13 / 10; purifying pills. They strike at the root of all abd a .% ailments, they excite in the stomach a proper secretwot' gastric juice, and regulate the action of the liver, Pr e sol ing in that organ a copious supply of pure, syll ° , - f e bile so necessary for digestion. These Pills r ani coa l : distention and obstruction, and from their harraletorsoo7 position are peculiarly well adapted for delicate P e t beo ° , and young children ; whilst casting out impuritletolP excellent Pills strengthen the system and give ra tone. WO° act [ADVERTISEMENT ]— Consumption, and all nervon_ g ' stomach,and liver complaints in every stage arc onll l9 'bf d ie rfej, and accelerated by drugs of every description, pu t, e kr f e4 curable by Da Barry'snealth-restorins• Ravalenta as proved by thousands of cases which had been D en y 4° hopeless; such as *ndigestion (dyspepsia), cough, as t '1,1 1111 :00, sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric °a en id ' meats, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ne . r 1 0 0 0, a' biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs , ' rit DS 4 0 , fluenza, 210:363 in the head and ears, rheumatism, g ° ,4 0 0. 0 , rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, ble e p di* of acidity, palpitaciom, heartburn, 7 headache, debility' ..0 , cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in preg 7l , one sea, soaking Ats, b:onchitis, scrofula, tigisi less of i d ere,,,,lo pains a, the plt or the stomach, and betwee.a the 811 .„ °° , We quote a few.—The Pope's lieftta res:or3d by m Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Roma, July 21, 1866.-1 10 ,708,0 the Holy Father is excellent, especially ::lace, shah j 3 0 .10/ other ie.nedies, he has confined himself entirely to 11 ' pile o oo l Revalenta, Arabic.% Food, of which he consaraes e' ve so ll o l at every meal. It has pro laced a surprisingly r siee 31, effect oa his healti, and his Holiaess cannot Pd, excellent food too highly." -Trom the " Gazettl D sr . „, i ga July 25. Cure No. 44,270. Mr. James Roberts, u e d chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseaS.dae'', a+ spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial ~ lo s ailrdif Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord LT,: .1 ;, 0 0. 4 : Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49, 8 7 1 : 1 0a 0 P 0 3,3 years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, l i i ck patO o ai, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, 1 “„ f the. oti . vomiting.—MariaJoly." Im,)orta.ntCaution.—Bewar e ._,),, unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to Aral' tt o,cl l . authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audacious,T 11400; In tins, at Is. lid. • 1 lb. 2s. 9d. ; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 1 "; i s/ c; 225.; 24 lbs., 408.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTA MU 10:;01'; LATE POWDER is packed in tin CanisterscuPs for bo cups at 3s. 6.1., for 48 cups at 68., for 288 cups at 30 0 . , d 5 5 ° 0 01 0 " at 555.—being about one penny per cup, The 3 05 . ;post iplr are sent free of carriage in England on receipl: t tr ot , order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Reg-- don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. wife 00. ALEXANDER —0 n the 4th inst at Ipswich, the ..flif Alexander, of a daughter. " k O P ' BURROWS— On the 4th inst„ at The Limes, 'ls"' e d the wife of R. W. Burrows, of a son. r' ; f 0 f I /. ERSKINE— On the 2d inst , at Torquay, the w-- ° Erskine, Esq., of a son. 1P Marriages. liti r r j, .I, 11 , BUSBY—CUMING —On the 3d inst. at St. Jam es OPlat Piccadilly, Henry E. 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