The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES. The Times has some suggestions to make aSqO the elections, and urges that they should be got overran soon as possible. This is a recommendation conceived in the interest of no party except that of purity and order. It is impossible to say whether Liberals or Conservatives would gain by further delay; while it is certain that the longer theelections are deferred the more violent will be tile passions excited, and the greater the expenditure of money. We have already had too much of preparation for the approaching contest ; but the worst influences are invariably reserved to the last. It is on the eve of the last day of the contest that a power is resorted to which all reprehend, but which all are not strong enough •to repel. If it be possible anywhere to hasten the day of election a great stroke will be effected in the cause of purity. The nomination for the counties on the Wednes day is recommended, so that the poll may be taken on the following Saturday. The Times objects to give working men it whole holiday on a day of general excitement, and suggests to•the heads of the great manufacturing firms of our par liamentary boroughs that they should make some arrange ment by which an extra half-hour might be given to the workmen who are electors, either in detachments through- out the day, or by way of addition to the dinner-time, for the purpose of recording their votes. With reference to the Bribery Act, our contemporary thinks that as yet, in spite of the months which have been spent in active preparation, the rumours of bribery have been excessively rare, and it is probable that no election has ever been held in which such decisive blows were struck at undue influence as have been inflicted in the last autumn. One after another the possessors of power have been compelled to disavow all intention of using it for the coercion of voters, and the election of 1868 will probably be more free from the influence of intimidation, if not from the seduction of bribery, than any known in the days of parliamentary government. The Standard considers the retirement of Sir Roundell Palmer from the contest for the University of Oxford as very significant. With one exception, the conditions of the contest were almost entirely in favour of the Opposi tion. They selected as their candidate the very best man of their party. We have never gainsaid the commanding qualifications of Sir Roundell Palmer for the representation of the university. His high character, his scholastic honours, his allowed abilities as a lawyer and orator, all pointed him oat as a statesman eminently fitted to be the mouthpiece of such a constituency. But the one essential question raised by his candidature was whether the university ,should depart from its ancient traditions, and deserting its Conservative principles, should accept as its representa tive a politician who was pledged to the separation of the Church from the State, and who preferred to remain doubtfully neutral upon such questions as the disendow ment of the Irish Church and the secularisation of the governing and teaching bodies of the universities, When Oxford rejected Mr. Gladstone be proclaimed that he was at length " unznuzzled," and the crusade against the Irish ,Church and the ecclesiastical prerogatives of the university have witnessed to his disposition to make good the covert threat. We do Sir Roundell Palmer, a man of far higher moral calibre, the justice of believing that his treatment of these and similar questions will not be in fluenced in the slightest degree by the reverse he has sus tained at Oxford.. The Daily News says: We should ourselves be guilty of bigotry and prejudice if we attributed to squires and clergymen exclusively what equally pertains to a very con siderable number of graduates who can plead no other bigotry than that of party, and whose prejudices are neither hereditary nor accidental. The loss of Sir Roundell. Palmer to Oxford is, to our thinking, one not without compensation. Neither on his own account, nor for the sake of the Liberal cause, can we consider it a subject of pure regret. His election at the present crisis of his political career could hardly have been pronounced an unalloyed Liberal success. Something of an equivocal signification would have accompanied and followed it, and might have thrown stumbling-blocks across Sir R. Palmer's future path. For the present, it may be, he will be more his own master in the modest Yorkshire borough he has so long and so brilliantly represented. There will always be Mowbrays enough in the land to point the moral of unreformed and exclusive universities, but it would have been a national misfortune if a Roundell Palmer and a Gladstone had surrendered to the keeping of non-resident Oxford graduates the conscience and the intellect which belong to their country. The Star believes it is justified in saying that a majority of the resident graduates of the university had tendered the Liberal candidate their active aid, but these, though they represented the intelligence and the scholarship, and the formative power of the academic body, are not in a numerical majority. The country clergymen, who vote by voting papers, now rule Oxford, and these, according to their kind, were bitterly hostile,without knowing why, to Sir Roundel Palmer. They detested his culture, his political eminence, his tempered Liberalism, even his devotion to the English Church. They could not understand his public conduct, and they recurred for base explanations to his private friendships. They were the stupid party par excellence, but they were also the strong party. In short, liceotia has conquered Athens, and the Thebans call them- selves Athenians. The Morning Summary says neither one nor the other of the representatives of Oxford, we may be sure—nor, let us add, of Cambridge either—will be found to sanction any revolutionary policy in Church and State. They will insist that the universities shall continue seminaries of sound learning and religious education ; they will oppose any legislation on Church matters in a Parliament composed of men of all religions and •of none, without the sanction of Convocation; and, moreover, they will give practical effect to their convictions. Let us hope that the example set by the University of Oxford will be followed throughout the length and breadth of the land ; and that agricultural, commercial, and industrial constituencies will not hesitate, to follow the lead of an intellectual body. Oxford men do not despise academic fame or great reputation, but they prefer principle to bril ' liancy, and refuse to sever the time-honoured connection which has ever existed between the university and the great Conservative party in the State. The Times threatens the university with _speedy annihilation for its daring to judge for itself at the present crisis. Threatened men invariably live long. Tho university trusts Mr. Disraeli ; Mr. Disraeli will not abuse its confidence ;. and both the leader of the Con servative party and the university have, we confidently anticipate, a great, long, and successful career before them. The Times is astonished at the conduct of the clergy in their devotion to a Church established. As for the Irish Church, the English parsons feel annoyed when an Irishman comes into an English town and by mere force of manner and words fills a church nobody had filled before, becomes a favourite wifh the people, and wins a domain for himself in that broad fringe of voluntary zeal existing within the pale of our Establishment. They have to keep their tempers when they bear of Irish adventurers filling fashionable chapels to overflowing, running rapidly up the steps of honour and preferment, and receiving our highest prizes. But this does not prevent their straining every nerve to avert the doom hanging over the Irish Establishment. The Church in its present condition dooms the bulk of the clergy to a hopeless poverty, from which a voluntary system would perhaps rescue them, and if it were discon nected from the State, the majority of the people and by far the greater part of the land, wealth, education, and influence are still on the side of the Church. At least fifteen thousand of our clergy have a great and direct interest in the remodelling of our Establishment upon a voluntary footing, or on the principle of adjusting the pay to the merit and to the work. They don't choose to see this. It is the transition state, perhaps, they dread. Any change of clothes involves a temporary exposure to cold. Any decisive act costs an effort. One cannot, then, be surprised at seeing people who have no comfort left them but a roof, a fireside, and a bed shrinking at the thought of having to turn out in the cold and start forth in the dark, they know not whither. But England is a warm place, and its people are warmhearted. These men would find firesides, and most of them a good deal warmer ones than those they had left, not to speak of tighter roofs, better filled larders, and more cheerful society. . The Telegraph remarks that adversity snakes strange bedfellows, and we are not disposed to judge with extreme severity the devices of a party in extremis. Still there are limits to the license of electioneering strategy, and those limits have been overstepped in Chelsea. Mr. Freake and Dr. Russell have a perfect right to adopt the crown and bible for their symbols, to dub themselves the Con. stitutional candidates— Conservative being a word which apparently does not go down well in Chel sea—and to buttress their claims upon the electors by the anomalous declaration that Mr. Freake is the largest employer of labour in the borough, while Dr. Russell is the historian of the Crimean war. But neither the candidates nor their supporters have a right to arouse sectarian bigotries which they have not even the poor excuse of professing to share themselves. On the front of the Conservative committee-rooms at Chelsea, placards are posted appealing to the Catholic electors not to vote for Sir Henry Hoare because he subscribed to the Garibaldi Fund. In other words, the champions of Pro testantism undefiled are labouring to damage their oppo nent by the insinuation that he has no claim to the confi dence of Catholics. To hold with the hare and hunt with the hounds has hitherto been deemed an impossibility ; but the Chelsea Constitutionalists contrive to bid alike for the oupport of Exeter 11a41 and the Brompton Ora tory. All the arrangements fot this great race, which will be pulled off on Tuesday afternoon, have progressed in a most satisfactory manner. Rendforth, the man in whom the North-country folks have centered so many and such strong hopes, has duly put in an appearance at Putney, and had already two or three spins over the course, and the final stake of £5O a side was made at the Bells, Putney, last night. Kelley, the London man, is daily doing the work necessary to prepare him for the contest, and his friends are very sanguine as to his success, although the Northerner is the favourite at 5 to 4. Both men are in good condition, and since an opportunity has been afforded to aquatics of observing the performances of the two rivals for the championship, the excitement caused by the anticipated struggle has materially increased, and each day sees additions made to the number and figure of the bets that are laid on the event. "HE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS. -4 An inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Elizabeth Chandler, whose remains were on the Zth nit. ft,und in a secluded spot amongst the bills near Ludlow, has been concluded. It appeared that previous to the 17th August, the deceased had been for a few days in the service of a doctor at Manchester, but being ill and unable to do her work she was discharged, and after vainly trying to cbtain other situations she returned to the house of Mrs. Holmes, living at Shrewsbury. Mrs. Holmes stated that upon her return the deceased was suffering great pain, both mentally and bodily, and the witness then formed the opinion that " the poor girl had gone wrong," and was afraid to go home to her mother, who was very harsh with her. When Mrs. Holmes urged her to go home, she exclaimed, "Oh !I am done. I shall never get another situation, But it is all my own seeking —no one's to blame." On the 18th of August she slept in the same room as Mrs. Holmes, hut would not undress herself, and several times during the night, Mrs. Holmes awaking, found her kneeling by a chair. She left the house before breakfast, and from the evidence of other witnesses was shewn to have spent the evening sitting in the railway station, and the night in an adjoining shed. On the next day she went by train from Shrewsbury to Ludlow, and after being seen at various points on her way home to Wigmore, was lost sight of, and nothing more - was heard of her till nearly two months ago, when a man, accidentally passing through the wood, discovered her remains. The doctor who bad made a post-mortem examination was unable to speak as to the girl's condi tion, or to say from what cause she died, the pigs having left nothing of her body but a few bare bones. The jury returned an open verdict, and strongly censured the parents of the deceased " for their unnatural and inhuman conduct." LAW AND POLICE. THE TRENT AND HUMBER, SHIPBUILDING COMPANY.— :Ills case was an appeal from the Vice-Chancellors' orders Yn respect of a claim for damages sustained by the Cam briam Company in - consequence of the non-delivery of the steamship Plynlymon at the time specified in the con tract. Vice-Chancellor Wood's order gave leave to the Cambrian Company to go in and prove under the winding-up of the Trent and Humber Company in respect of any damage that might have accrued to them from the delay in the completion of the contract. The Cam brian Company had subsequently to this order brought in the two additional items of claim—(l) for £2,500 for loss consequent on the depreciation in value of the ship by reason her non-delivery ; (2), for £3,184 Os. 6d. in conse quence - the damage sustained by the ship while lying on the slip at Gainsborough. The case then came on before Vice-Chancellor Giffard, who held that the Cambrian Company were entitled, as regarded the first part of .their claim, by way of damages, to the net profit which they might have gained by chartering the vessel had it been delivered twenty weeks after the Ist of April, 1865. As to the third part of their claim, also, he was of opinion that they were entitled to the amount which it would have cost to rectify the damage sustained by the ship at the time when it was delivered. But the second part of their claim he thought inadmissible, it being inconsistent with the first part. The official liquidator of the Trent and Humber Company appealed. The Lord Chancellor dismissed the appeal against the order of Vice-Chan cellor Wood, with costs. The second appeal was from an order of Vice-Chancellor Giffard, which, besides the claims allowed by Vice-Chancellor Wood, allowed a claim for damages on account of injury alleged to have been done to the ship while in the hands of the shipbuilding company. Whether this was so or not, toe vessel had been received by the Cambrian Company, and sent a voyage, and their surveyor had not discovered Ile defect, nor had this claim been brought forward before Vice-Chancellor Wood, though the Cambrian Com pany had then made what they called a complete state ment. The second order would, therefore, be varied by disallowing that claim, and the appeal dismissed without costs. As to the claim for damages for supposed loss of profits, of course the depreciation in the value of the ship and everything else would be taken into account, and his lordship hoped that the parties would be able to agree on the amount. LORD AuTnun CLINTON.—In the Bankruptcy Court, before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, an adjudication of bank ruptcy was made, on the application of Mr. W. H. Roberts, against Arthur Pelham Clinton (commonly called Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton), of 31, Southampton-street, Strand, and 15, Great College-street, Westminster, and until recently M.P. for Newark. It is believed that the bankrupt's debts and liabilities represent an aggregate of about 270,000. THREATENING TO MURDER LORD HOWE AND FAMILY, —At the county police-office for the Leicester division. John Hill, an elderly man, has been brought up for final examination, before Dr. Sbaw, on a charge of having caused to be received by Lord Howe, Gopsall Hall, Atherstone, 'Warwickshire, a threatening letter. The threats appeared to be made with a view of preventing Lord Howe or any of his family appearing on the hustings at the ensuing election. Evidence was given to show that the letter was written by the accused, and he was com mitted for trial. EMBEZZLEMENT.—Reuben Arundel, clerk to a draper in St. Paul's, Covent Garden, has been brought up on remand at Bow-street, charged with several acts of embezzlement. It was prisoner's duty to collect weekly instalments from customers who could not afford to pay cash down for their purchases, and it had been his practice to keep back portions of the sums thus received, and after wards, taking advantage of his position as clerk, to enter the payments in the ledgers without their appearing in the cash-book. In this way he avoided detection for many months. He was now committed for trial. MR. WATERS.—Robert Short Waters, formerly steward to the Earl of Shaftesbury, whose differences with the noble loid have been so often before the public, has received his discharge from the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr. G. Lewis, on the bankrupt's behalf, stated that all matters in dispute had been settled, and the noble lord had abandoned the criminal proceedings against Mr. Waters. There is some talk of the Pall Mall reducing its price to a penny; and we have reason to believe the proprietors of the Times are seriously debating the question of reducing the price of the " Thunderer."— Printers' Register. Is AMERICAN HAY DAN GEROI73 ?- -This question was discussed at the monthly meeting of the council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. The chamber desire the removal of the restrictions upon the importation of American bay into this country, and have prepared a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the sub ject. Mr. Stoltefohrt, one of the members of the council, objected to the adoption of the memorial, saying that he bad been told by an American farmer that the hay might re-introduce the cattle plague into this country. The majority of the chamber, however, thought there wasvery little evidence as to any such danger, and agreed to the memorial. BLESSINGS. OF CHLOROFORM.—One of the first .:ases was a patient operated on at Guy's Hospital; it was an old case of resection of the elbow-joint, in which eighteen years previously Mr. Aston Key had per formed, or had striven to perform, this then very novel experiment, leaving the poor man (who is a letter-sorter in the General cost Office) a very imperfect use of the elbow and forearm. The man had a most perfect or correct recol lection of the agony, torture, and horrors of the first opera tion, and wished now for amputation of the limb, which had recently begun to pain him very considerably ; this, however, was denied him, and it was explained to him that th e parts could now be explored and cut into without any pain ; he said lie could sooner (lie than go through Mr. Key's operation again— yet go through it he did, like a child asleep, and on my speaking to him when conscious ness was restortd, and he opened his eyes, he wished only to know when the horrid operation would commPnee, for he had been in a beautiful dream —not knowing, poor man, or associating in his dreams all the ancient ug saws, mallets, knives, &c., th a t h ad been again delving elving and cutting through his elbow, and half forgetting, or puzzled to find, that the "ivory gates of sleep," with all the sawing of bones and blood, through which he had now again passed a prisoner, were, no longer guarded by the dogs of the Inferno painted so deeply in his memory, but by the gentle spirit of chloroform I—pr, 111•1(44 Work on Chloroform, TFIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, IE6B. MISCELLANEOUS NE !VS. Wllry -me estnaters are nemg tang= tetegrapny, anct will probably, when discharged, be able to obtain work from the telegraph companies. These soldiers are being taught, and are teaching themselves,- in other ways. In Sir William's general orders of Sep tember there appear the names of not less than forty seven men who have been selected from the artillery and line regiments in this presidency for admission as students at itoorkee in the second department of the Thomason College. It happens to him, Sir William says, nearly every month to observe the names of soldiers who have passed in one or other of the examinations in the native languages ; and men are now rushing to obtain admission to the army. BOYS AT PLAY. Thomas Hood has described boys coming out of school— Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only boyhood can. He could hardly have included coffins among these " things of earth." This, however, is the version of the Cockney youth. It appears that the houses and warehouses on the south side of Old Fish-street, St. Paul's-churchyard, have been lately demolished for the construction of a new street from Blackfriars to the Poultry. Here assemble a number of lads to play. The other day they ex humed a coffin from the rubbish where the church on Bread-street-hill formerly stood. They carried it about, trying if it would fit in any of the adjoining places, and at last the side of it fell out. We are not particular about defiling the graves of our ancestors, and our modem improvements spew little regard for the sanctity of "God's acre." This care lessness, however, is absolutely indecent. As usual, we hear nothing of police interference. 260,106, against Hubbard's24o,o3l, the Republican majority being 20,075. The three counties not officially returned give Democratic majorities, which reduces the total of the State to 17,450. We regret to learn that the Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton has been confined to his room by inflammation of the lungs. He has been compelled to give up appoint ments to speak in Missouri, Michigan, and New York. Ohio returns 13 Republicans and 6 Democrats to Congress; Indiana 7 Republicans and 4 Democrats, while in the Legislature of that State, the Republi cans have a majority of 24 on joint ballot. The State Senate of Nebraska is unanimously Republi can, while there are but 5 Democrats against 34 Republicans in the State House of Representatives. The Democratic nominations in Kentucky for Congress for the nine districts are as follows : Lawrence S. Trimble, *William M. Sweeney, Jacob S. Golladay, *J. F. Smith, J. Proctor Knott, *Boyd Manchester, Thomas L. Jones, *James B. Beck, George M. Adams, the asterisk showing those now in Congress. We give the Democrats only, be cause there is not a ghost of a chance of a Republi can being returned except for the Eighth District, and even this is extremely improbable. The most strenuo xs offorts were being made by both parties to carry New York. The Tribune appeals to the citizens to do their duty and redeem the Empire State, which " has too long been go vet ned by her idle and criminal classes—her thisves, bullies, pimps, and blacklegs." lt contrasts Gris wold with Hoffman, much to the disadvantage of the latter. " W hen the hour came in which the nation needed to inaugurate a wholly new system of naval warfare, and that too at once, as the rebels then had their rams and ironclads far advanced towards completion, and when the Navy Department, with its proverbial drowsiness, could not be aroused to the necessity of. incurring the pecuniary risk of building a monitor, Mr. Griswold staked $275,000 on the success of the enterprise, every collar of which he would have lost had the Merrimac sunk the Monitor, instead of the Monitor disabling the Merrimac. Where are the acts of patriotism and self-sacrifice by which Mr. John T. Hoff man commended himself to the country during our trying struggle? Do they consist in hav ing raised the city taxes of New York from $11,000,000 per annum under Mayor Opdyke in 1863, to $24,000,000 under Hoffman in 1868 ? Do they consist in levying on the population of New York city $24 per capita, when under a Republican Mayor, four years before, they were only $l2 per capita." We know the result, which, according to the Tribune, has thrown the Empire State into the hands of the above enumerated classes. The can vass was, however, maintained with great spirit; a tremendous mass meeting was held by the Re publicans at Albany on the 22d ; at Syracuse on the same day ; and at Rochester Governor Bullock, of Georgia, delivered an address. On the 20th of October the Democratic address was published in New York, signed by August Belmont, chairman of the Democratic Committee, and his signature is just under these words, and of their truth we leave our readers to judge : —" Our ranks are unbroken, our courage is un abated. Once more to the breach, and this time victory." The document is long, considering how little it says, and we are only able to extract the objects of .the party and the description of the men opposed to it. " What the Democratic party in tends to do, if placed in power by your suffrages, is to restore peace and union to our country ; to heal the wounds and sufferings caused by the rebel lion ; to give to the people of the South the rights to which they are entitled under the Constitution, and by which alone we can bring back prosperity and quiet to that distracted section ; to reduce ma terially our military and naval establishments, kept up now on an immense scale, and at an enormous cost ; to introduce into every department of Go vernment the strictest economy, and to develope by an equitable system of imports and taxation the growing resources of our country, and thus to place the Federal finances on a solid and stable footing, and to pave the way to a gradual and safe return to specie payments We are charged by the Radical party, the party of violence and usurpa tion, which for the last four years, to prolong its own existence, has set at naught the coustitutiou and the fundamental principles of our government, that we intend revolution and defiance of estab lished laws. The accusation is unfounded and ab surd ; it cannot be entertained for a moment by any intelligent voter who has even the most super ficial knowledge of the history of his country. Op posed to you are the men who have subverted the structure of their own system of representative self government, vindicated to the world by more than half a century of prosperity and greatness ; the men who have increased our enormous debt by pro fligacy and corruption unparalleled ; the men who in two successive Congresses have demonstrated their incompetency to diminish our burdens by economy or apportion them with equity; the men who have so distributed our but...lens as that they press with exces sive weight upon the labour awl industry of the coun try, making rich men richer by making poor men poorer. Opposed to you are men who have denied for three years of peace, and will continue to deny until your votes arrest them, self-government to the people of ten States; the men who have taken away the power of our Chief Magistrate to insure a faithful execution of the laws or to command the army and the navy of the United States; the men who did their worst to expel the President from the White Housdfor obeying faithfully the behests of your supreme law ; the men who, being conscious of their crimes, dreaded to have the Supreme Court declare their qualicy, and therefore abridged its jurisdiction and silenced its voice ; the men who have usurped and are grasping and yielding powers not possessed to-day by any monarch among civi lized nations. Against-these men and all their des ' poticpurposes, which Gen. Grant would ke as power less to hinder as he whom they elected four years ago has been ; against these men, their crimes in the past, their nefarious designs in the future, you are soon to make one final and determined onslaught." Governor Seymour delivered at Buffalo his open ing campaign address on October 22, and though but two days' .notice had been given 20,000 people assembled- hoping to hear him, when a torch light procession of 4,000 or 5,000 in uniform escorted him to the rink. The Hon. James Hum phreys called the assemblage to order as chairman, and Mr. Seymour spoke to the following effect, las condensed by the Springfield Republican : " The first words uttered by the Republican Convention in their resolutions congratulated the country upon the scheme of reconstruction. The last words uttered by their speakers and presses declare that Reconstruction is a failure; that the South is still in a condition of rebel lion; that its social disorder demands the presence of great armies, and;that the first duty of Congress, when it meets, will be to turn .reconstructed Georgia out of the Union. Again, at the outset of this canvass, the Republican party asked to be continued in power because it had governed wisely and well. After three months' discussion of their reconstruction and financial policy, it is found that order has not been restored in the South, that the burden of debt has not been lightened, nor the evils of oppressive taxa tion lifted off the labouring industry of the country. Driven from their first ground, they now try to hold power by making the people believe, not that they have done well, but that the Democratic party would do worse, if they came .into power. To prove this, they . assert that the success of the Democratic ticket will. involve the country again in civil war. They declare • the ' Democratic nominees ready to overturn their legislation by force ; and to make the charge still more dramatic, I am to be sent to my final account by the hands of my political sup porters, and then General Blair is to trample beneath his feet the reconstruction laws as ruthlessly as Gen. Meade now stamps them out by his military orders, with concur rence of the Radical party. If General Blair should reach the Presidehtial chair, how would the case stand ? He would be cOnfronted by a Republican Senate, by a House of Representatives full of generals ; by the United States army, and by the Loyal League and the Grand Army of the Republic, under command of their own candidate for the Presidency, whom they declare to be the first captain - of the - age; and yet we are gravely told that, standing alone, shackled by Congressional restraints, he can crush out all opposing power and plunge the country into civil war. If this is true, then General Blair is the most vigo rous man that has lived in the history of the world, or the Republican Senators, members of Congress, and com manders of armies are the most imbecile who ever dis graced public positions.' This absurd fear of civil war is not the fear in the minds of the Republican leaders; they fear that the public mind, now turned to the financial and poli tical policy of the Republicans, is reaching conclusions which will sweep them from power,. therefore they seem to change issues, but we are admonished that it is a dan gerous thing to change front on the eve of battle. Gover nor Seymour then proceeded in a lengthy argument to show why the reconstruction policy had been a failure, because it neglected alike to secure the material prosperity of both the. white man and the negro. The first act in the scheme of reconstruction was to put a monstrous ex port tax of six cents per pound upon cotton, raised by the labour of the negro upon the plantation of the white man. He showed conclusively that this policy was un unwise, selfish, and vindictive. This tax was simply im posed that the Eastern manufacturer might buy cotton for a price six cents less than it was worth in the mar kets of the world. Its imposition was urged upon the Congressmen of the Western States, who voted against the interest of their constituents on the ground that it was a penalty upon the South. No fair-minded, thoughtful Republican will look over this action and not confess that fee policy of his party has not been unwise and hurtful. Ho then discussed at length the injustice of the unequal distribution of currency to the national banks, and showed that the white State of Massachusetts, with a population of 1,100,000, had $5,700,000; the State of Illinois, with twice that population, only $900,000. The people of the north ern Atlantic States held about two-thirds of the currency, while the great agricultural States of the West had pro portionally less than their due share. .There is a great wrong done here," said Governor Seymour, "at the very basis of business prosperity. When the western dealer in produce goes to the banker at Chicago, or other com mercial centres of the West, and offers a draft on an east ern city to get the currency to buy the wheat, beef, pork, or wool of western farmers, ho is charged a monstrous in terest, and when he objects he is told that the banker can do no better, that he has no currency of his own, that the whole volume of currency authorized by Congress has been taken up in, the Eastern States. He must go East to borrow currency, must pay interest for its use, and must charge that intoreet, and another interot for hie Oyu cal. AN UNENVIABLE DISTINCTION. The local authorities of Blackburn have received a communication from the Home Secretary that the general commanding the northern military district will furnish such troops as may be necessary for the maintenance of the peace of the town during the forthcoming election. It is to be hoped that the excitable people of Blackburn will yet spare us the spectacle of a free and independent elector recording his vote under the protection of the military, or, if not, that their example will not be followed by any other English town. An appeal is about to be made to men's passions and interests, as well as to their reason and sense of justice. The former will elicit the loudest response. When the battle is over, may both victors and conquered have fought not altogether unworthily. THE IRISH CHURCH AND THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Nonconformist is unable to deny that a Par- ' litment which is composed of persons of varied eccle siastical and religious views is not a fit instrument for taking in hand Church questions. But this diffi culty is likely to be aggravated in the next House of Commons. The number of Nonconformist and Doman Catholic candidates is largely increased. Nonconformity is represented by some fifty or sixty names, and more Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Wesleyans, Unitarians, and Friends are standing thari at any previous election. Looking at this fact, our contemporary is of opinion that perhaps one-fifth of the members of the new Parlia ment will consist of men who do not belong to the Established Church ; that religious equality will be an article in the creed of the next Cabinet ; and that it will have sufficient exponents below the gangway to form a separate party. We are told that in so heterogeneous a Parliament, religious equality must be a necessary article of faith, and the rest may be left to " the logic of events." MILL ON MATRIMONY. A curious question was asked the Liberal candi dates for Westminster the other night. An elector inquired whether they were in favour of separating married couples in workhouses. Such a question would stagger manya man who had devoted his atten tion to social questions, and Captain Grosvenor was hardly equal to the occasion. He was against married people going to the workhouse at all. They should not marry if they meant to g o to the union. He said : "If, however, unfortunate circumstances reduce them to the necessity of doing so, the probability is that in their poverty they will have grown so sick of each other that they will be glad to be separated in the workhouses." Then thero were hisses and cries of " That won't do, Grosvenor." Mr. Mill, either having had time to collect himself while his colleague was giving his answer, or having previously thought upon the subject, elicited loud cheers by his reply. The workhouse should be a place of discomfort for young and able-bodied people, and a place of comfort for the old and infirm. " Therefore," said he, " in order that the former class might not be able to enjoy the advantages of self-sup port while receiving the support from others, I would separate them ; but old and infirm married couples I would not separate." There is something inexpres sibly sadain the spectacle of man and wife jogging together on their weary way, through storm and sunshine, struggling successfully with poverty in health and strength, but obliged to succumb at last, and to separate at the final stage of the journey, to crawl to the pauper's grave alone. Yet clearly it is monstrous that paupers should be allowed to beget paupers. DISESTABLISHMENT ADD DISENDOW3IENT. Canon Trevor has a long letter in the Herald upon the subject of the Irish Church. lle first complains that the Guardian has refused to admit one of his letters in its columns, and then he pro ceeds to demonstrate that the Church cannot be disestablished without being totally disen dowed. " Property consists of three rights—title, possession, and succession ; and it is very plain that a disestablished Church can retain neither of these claims on the fabrics or endowments of the Esta blishment." Not only do the temporalities of the Church admit of no succession from a non-established clergy, but no new appointment can be made to the spiritual office of any existing dignitary. The only course open to secure the property of the Church is for the Act of Parliament to provide against the difficulties it creates. The Act can easily decide what shall be done with the fabrics and parsonages, as well as with the tithes and lands. In each case, however, it must define the perons who are to take the property ; that is to say, it must pro vide the machinery for electing, ordaining, and admitting the successors to the present bishops and clergy. It must further define the relations between them and their flocks, and provide some method for removing unworthy ministers. Then the Church will be, more the creature of the State than ever. As established, she has a good. claim ...to the churches ; disestablished, she has no better claim than others. Canon Trevor thinks it is Mr. Gladstone's intention to secure the property to the Church by Act. In a short time Mr. Gladstone's policy will be revealed. The discussion of probabilities begins to be tedious. THE SPEAKER ON EDUCA T ON. The Right Hon. the Speaker has added his opinion to that vexed question of classical education which has so long and so earnestly been discussed. I%lr. Denison suggests a compromise. He does not give up altogether to the reformers, but still some improvements might, he thinks, be made. .These improvements he foreshadowed in a speech delivered a day or two back at Nottingham. The occasion was that of the distribution of the Oxford local examination prizes. He thought in many cases Greek had proved a failure. Those who had attempted to study it found them selves really unable to master it. The want of success m Greek inclined people to an unfavourable feeling to all classical learning. This feeling extended to the mercantile and commercial world; and Latin was involved in the disgrace which attached to Greek. Therefore he would agree to overthrow Greek, m order to save Latin from the common wreck. There was another matter in which reform was possible. One modern language, at least, should be studied. The most efficient instrument of education was language. The man who knew a language other than his own was twice a man. A competent know ledge of French and German would probably afford more pleasure and profit to a man in the course of his life than any other subject he could learn at school. Then let these be introduced instead of Greek. PEACEMAKING BISHOPS. It will be remembered that the - Bishop of Chester recommended both High and Low Churchmen to adhere to the rubrics. Such an extreme Low Church man as the Dean of Ripon acknowledges that his party were not blameless in the matter, and advised the clergy to obey their bishops and regulate themselves by the Prayer book. A. Liverpool paper states that the leading Low Churchmen of that town have held a meeting and discussed the bishop's charge. It was unanimously agreed that, as a royal commission is - now sitting to examine the whole subject of rubrics, it would not be expedient at present, nor conduce to the peace of the Church as regards the laity, to make any departure from, or innovations upon, the established usage of the last two hundred years. This means that they would not obey their bishop nor conform to the plain instructions of the Prayer book, because they hope to have the rubrics altered to suit their views. The Bishop of Ely, in answer to a memorial re questing him to repress some Ritual excesses, has expressed his sorrow for the divisions of the Church which he pronounces comprehensive and tolerant, and says that he will never be a party to nar rowing the bounds of the Church so as to reduce it to a party sect. Still, he would like the law clearly to pronounce what is forbidden and what is per mitted. THE VICAR OF HAYDOCE. The Bev. Alan Greenwell writes to the Warrington Guardian to deny the rep or t th a t h e ret i res from Haydocke on account o f a correspon d ence with the Bishop of Chester. He resigns the living for reasons of his own, and the bishop's letter in no way affected his decision. Dr. Jacobson has always acted fairly and kindly town: d him, and among the many pleasures he has had at Haydock, one has been that of being a priest under a bishop he could love and respect. What a contrast does this state of things present to other cases of a like nature. The Bishop of Chester must object very strongly to the proceedings at Hay dock, and has, probably, expressed himself strongly to the vicar. He yet retains Mr. Greenwell's love and respect. The Bishop of Manchester disapproves of some comparatively mild proceedings on the part of the Rev. Mr. Sedgwick, and he treats him in such a way as to esasporate all the High Church party. ARMY REFORM. Sir Charles Trevelyan is not left to fight out the battle of army reform by himself. Ile has had hard work to convince the woild of the stupidity of many of the present arrangements. He lins done his weric well, and has been untiring in his advoc.tey- of a " sr, eeping" reform. Ile will not have the system reformed indifferently, but cries, like Hamlet to the players, " Reform it alto7ther." The plans for re cruiting and officering are, according to his idea, bad ; the arrangement is bad ; and the way in which we send the men adrift after service, without giving them a chance of advancement, is bad. So Sir Charles asks that .the whole thing may be reorganised, and that the military and civil services should be more closely connected by putting into civil offices the sol'liez who has sufficient intelligence and has served his country well. Now his hands are strengthened by Sir William Mansfield, who cordially supports Sir Charles is his effort. Ile_detailudtathas been done inlndia. WEAK BUILDINGS. No sooner is the verdict of the Liverpool jury given in the case of the warehouse catastrophe than the .Hull jury returns its verdict in a similar case. The warehouses were old and unfit for their burdens. The Liverpool jury thinks such places ought to be inspected; the Hull jury goes further, and recommends- legislative interfe rence. While the subject is yet new, part of a house .in course of erection at Morice Town, Devonport, comes tumbling down burying eleven people in its ruins, the master builder, who was killed, being one of them. In former times they erected buildings which, at any rate, should fall with dignity, and in a ripe old age; but the modern erec tions are so essentially feeble and bad, that they fall even before they are finished. A little inspection would prove that many of them were entirely unfit for human habitation; built for sale or to raise a mortgage, and for nothing more. INEBRIATE ASYLUMS. Our contemporary the Advertiser, with a fairness beyond all praise, devotes a notice to the subject of inebriate asylums in America. An extract is given from the Atlantic Monthly, which describes the treatment as follows :—" It occasionally happens that a patient, conscious of the coming on of a paroxysm of desire, asks to have the key of his room turned upon him till it is over. It is desired that this turning of the key, and those few barred rooms in one of the wards, shall be regarded as mere remedial appliances, as much so as the bottles of medicine in the medicine chest. It is, however, understood that no one is to be released from confinement who does not manifest a renewed purpose to refrain." Is it possible that the patients in this asylum devote their tune to theological criticism, and return good for evil by favouring our contemporary with their productions ? MR. DICKENS. A letter appeared the other day in a contemporary purporting to be addressed by Mr. Charles Dickens to Mr. Pope, the secretary of the Printers' Alms houses. It contained an offer to devote the pro ceeds of one of his entertainments to the funds of the institution, accompanied by a compliment to the printers, and an acknowledgment of what Mr. Dickens owed to them. Now it turns out to be a forgery. If meant for a joke it is an extremely pointless one, and if for a hint it is utterly undeserved. Mr. Dickens has never forgotten those who have been the means of communicating his thoughts to the world, and requires no such reminder. Mr. Dickens's hand is rather a remark able one, and it must have been a clever imitation to deceive our. contemporary, or else the letter did not receive a sufficient scrutiny. PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Our intelligence under this head has lost nearly all its interest excepting as a story which we are bound to tell for the benefit of those who file this paper and refer to it when events now progressing are matters of history. If the cable has its uses, it acts on mail news in something of the same manner as if the alcohol were extracted from your mint julep. Of course Andrew Johnson waited before he finally ." pronounced," till he felt confident he was running counter to the general opinion of the country, when he forwarded the following letter to Governor Seymour : Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., October 22, 1868. Hos. Holum) SEYMOUR,-1 see it announced in the papers this morning that you will enter the Presidential canvass in person. I trust this may be so, as the present position of p iblic affairs justifies and demands it. It is hoped and believed by your friends that all the enemies of Constitutional Government, whether secret or avowed, will not be spared, and that their arbitrary and unjust usurpations, together with their wasteful, profligate, and corrupt uses of the people's treasures, will bo signally ex posed and rebuked. The mass of the people should be aroused and warned against the encroachments of the despotic power now ready to enter the very gates of the citadel of Liberty. I trust you may speak with an in spired tongue, and that your voice may penetrate every just and patriotic heart thro ug h ou t th e l an d. L e t th e living principles of a violated Constitution be proclaimed and restored, that peace, prosperity, and fraternal feeling may return tp a divided and oppressed nation. ANDREW JOHNSON. It is believed that in West Virginia the Republi cans have carried at least two Congress districts, and probably the third, and with a working majo jority in both Houses they will elect a United States Senator in succession to the Hon. Peter J. Van Winkle, whose term expires next March. Duval, Republican, is elected for Congress for the First District by a majority of 1,000. The Second District Republican, over ,000 ma jo the gi v T e s ofh Nisrlod` oGDistricttot was believed to have given a majorityi ty ; also Republican. As the Legislature is said to be three-fourths Republi can, the United States Senator to be elected for Iklarch is secure to that party. The nominations were as follows :--Governor J. M. Camden, Democrat ; W. Stephenson, Republican. Secretary of State S. V. Yantis, D. ;J. M. Pipes, R. Treasurer G. J. Walker, D. ; J. A. McCauley, R. Auditor D. Mayer, D. ;T. Bosgess, R. Attorney-General W. P. Willey, D.;. T. Melvin, A. Appeal Judge M. Edminton, D. ; IL L. Berkshire, R. Cong., Ist District, H. S; Walker, D. ; J. H. Duval, R. Cong., 2d District, W. 0-. Brown, 1). ; J. C. blacrew. Cong., 3a District, C. P. T. Moore, D.; T. S. Whitcher, R. Governor Boreman (Rep.) was elected two years ago by 6,644 majority. The local elections last year showed no material change. The States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana polled in the aggregate-it the election, Oct. 13, 1,500,000 votes. As John Covode has been defeated for the Twenty-first District of Pennsylvania by Henry D. Foster, the Republican aggregate loss is 9 Congressmen, that party return being 16,...and the Democratie 8. The new State Legislature will consist of 18 Republicans and 15 Democrats in the — Senate, and 62 Republicans and 38 Democrats in the Ifouse. Galusha A. Grow is likely to be the new Republican United States Senator they will select. The official returns of the Philadelphia election give the following majorities :—Mayor, Daniel M. Fox, Democrat, 1,838 ; District Attorney, Fiirman Sheppard,- Democrat, 1,275 ; City Comptroller, Geo., Getz, Democrat, 724; Solicitor, lhomas J. Barger, Democrat, 892 ; Receiver of Taxes, J. M. Melloy, Democrat, 238 ; Commissioner, David P. Weaver, Democrat, 953 ; Prothonotary of Com mon Pleas, Albert Fletcher, Democrat, 681 ; Pre sident Judge, J. I. C. Hare, Republican, 25 majo rity ; Associate Judge s Thos. Greenbank, Democrat, 125 majority. On the State ticket, Boyle, Democrat, receives 175 majority ; and Ent, Democrat, 266. Fifty Republican citizens have been appointed to 'contest the election on the charge of fraud, it being as3erted that of the 120,000 votes in the city alone, over 20,000 were fraudulent. The walls were pla carded with appeals to law-abiding citizens against the triumph of villany. Baker's majority for Governor of Indiana, the returns being nearly ,all official, is 1,020. John G. Reid has filed a protest against issuing the cer tificate of election to the Hon. George W. Julian. He desires the board of canvassers of Wayne county to be compelled to return the vote of the south poll of Richmond, thrown out for alleged violation of the registry law ; and Mr. Hendricks intends to contest Baker's election before the Legis lature, pending which the Sentinel advises the De mocrats not to pay their bets. The official vote of 85 counties of Ohio gives Sherwood, the Republi can candidate for the secretaryship of State, pensation. The produce dealer takes his enormous inte rest of the farmers that raise produce. This unwise distri bution of currency lies at the foundation of much ill feeling against the bondholders. There are other great wrongs to which I will briefly allude. We say that taxation should be equal upon every species of pro perty according to its real value. The Republicans say so too. They declare in their fourth resolution that it is duo to the labour of the nation that taxation should be equalized. With this declaration upon their lips, will they tell us why they make it unequal ? Why, for four years, they have allowed this conceded injustice to remain upon their statute books ? They charge upon us that we are in favour of repudiation. Have those who make this charge frankly said how they intend to deal with the public creditor ? We have said that when the agreement was that he should be paid in gold he should have it, and when the contract did not so define, he should be paid in money as good as that which we use for the sacred pur poses of paying our pensions or rewarding the toil of the labourer. We have sought to place the claim of the pub lic creditor among the sacred things of the nation's faith. We have tried to sustain the policy of economy, which should make his debt sure, and a wisdom which should place the nation's credit so high in the annals of the world that the public pensioner, and he who toils for the public good in the workshop or field, should all bo paid in cur rency made good by a wise conduct of public affairs." Go vernor Seymour went on to say that if the Democratic party succeeded in this election it could of itself not make or amend the laws. It would only be able to hold the vio'out leaders of the Republican party in check. It could do no revolutionary acts. So far as actual power is concerned, the Democratic President would stand in the same position held by Andrew Johnson His vigorous nature, his bold and resolute defence of con stitutional rights, his able assertions of the true principles of government, have not saved him even from the violence of these opposed to him; much less has ho been able to inaugurate any invasive measures or any acts calculated to disturb the public peace. Our hope is in the election to put into the executive offices those who could stay the tide of corruption ; those who could save from further in juries the system of constitutional government ; those who could protect our people from legislative wrong. We feel, too, that our success would be a rebuke by the American people of the measures that have been condemned as strongly by many leading Republicans and Republican presses as by ourselves. If the candidates on our ticket should be elected, and if they should prove capable, honest, and true to their trusts, at another election the people of the United States could go further and make a Democratic House of Representatives. In time the character of the Senate could be changed, and 1 believe the day is at hand when the judgments and votes of the American people will restore again to power that time-honoured party under whose influences our country was made great and pros perous. None of these changes could be made violently. None could endanger the public peace ; but they would all tend to promote the welfare and prosperity of these United States. General Blair does his best to neutralize what Seymour achieves. He has been traversing Illinois and blundering along in his attempts to explain away sayings and writings which will not admit of explanation. His Brodhead letter sticks to him like an arrow well planted in a buffalo, of which the poor wounded brute endeavours in vain to rid itself. He predicted at St. Louis that if Grant were elected he would " never leave the 'White House alive." He did not mean that he would be assassinated, although it looked uncommonly like it. What he intended to convey was that Grant, like still water, was very deep, that he would grasp the power en; trusted to him and never surrender it ; in other words, he -would erect himself into an Emperor, and never leave his palace till he was carried in state to the tomb. Every one screams at poor Frank, and all he has got by his nomination is a great deal of bullying and the credit of having wrecked the party. Even at St. Louis, where he lives, they have refused to register him as a voter on the ground of disloyalty. Senator Henderson spoke at St. Louis on the 21st October, advocating a modi fication of the tariff, the withdrawal of the military from the South, and the payment of Bonds in greenbacks. He defended his Impeachment vote, and said he would vote for Grant—very inconsis tently, as we think, with his programme. Indeed, if the Democrats should be successful in electing the State Legislature of Missouri, some predict that Henderson will be the rival of Frank Blair for U.S. Senator. MR. GEORGE W. CHILDS. Among the arrivals by the Scotia is George W. Childs, a " self-made man, as honourably known as he is well known throughout America. One of the most widely-circulated of newspapers is the Public Ledger of Philadelphia, and perhaps no news paper issues from a more magnificent building. If newspapers are remarkable for anything in London it is for the astonishing shabbiness of the holes and corners whence they issue, which contrast strangely with the Herald's offics in New York, with the Ledger's in Philadelphia, and " Brick " Pomeroy's at La Crosse, Wisconsin. There is no man at the head of a great newspaper who has earned a better reputation than Mr. Childs. Not only has he made money with a wonderful facility, but he has spent it as freely. The Ledger building is an orna ment to what many people consider to be at least one of the most beautiful cities of the world, and its proprietor seems never to tire of adding to the com fort and well-being of the numerous persons he employs. In alluding to his last gift of a lot in the Woodland's Cemetery the Philadelphia Press says : —" It is only due to Mr. childs to say that this is but in keeping with his entire course of action ever since he became a public mart. He has made a large fortune by his enterprise, perseverance, and probity, and dispenses it nobly. In particular, he has shown himself generous to the craft whose skill and intelli gence have placed the journalism of this country upon the high elevation it now occupies. To those who are engaged in the typographical department of the daily press of Philadelphia, Mr. Childs, him self proprietor and publisher of a journal which has become a public necessity' (to use the expres sive language of Mr. Henry C. Carey), seems to have intuitively known what manner of favours would be most beneficial and acceptable. The presentation of the title-deeds to the Printers' So ciety was most appropriately ma de by ex-Chief. Justice Lewis, who had' himself formerly belonged to the craft, and is proud of such an antecedent. His address, eloquent and truthful, was gratefully and gracefully acknowledged by Mr. Durborow, president of the society." Further on the Press speaks of him as " the type, the symbol, and the leader of charity in Philadelphia ; and few can for gat how liberally, on the occasion of a great disaster in his native Baltimore, ,he subscribed without a moment's delay for the relief of the sufferers. We rejoice that Mr. Childs, in whom every journalist in Philadelphia takes a just pride, can afford the costly luxury of doing good with a matchless gene rosity, in private as well as in public, and the more so because his prosperity is the fruit of his own energy and honesty. We express the sentiments of the entire press of Philadelphia when we cordi ally wish that after enjoying foreign scenes and society as his genial and comprehensive mind can truly enjoy them, he may return to us with restored health to resume the active performance of duties which become dignified by the manner in which he applies the affluence they supply to him." Mr. Childs, we believe, intends to return in January, and we hope he will do so with renovated health after a pleasant sojourn in this country, to which we heartily welcome him. THE RECENT CHAMPION BOAT-RACE.—The St. John's Boat Craw of New Brunswick, is to ba presented with $2,000 in gold by the citizens of that city, and the Common Council has been requested to have a medal made and presented to them to commemorate their vic tory over the champion oarsmen of America in their re cent contest at Springfield. Massachusetts. It is reported that the backers of the Wards left town soon after the de feat of that crew, and that the oarsmen, having been worsted in the rac,-, were left penniless by those wl o professed to be their friends. They sold their boat Chas. A. Peverelly to " Patsey", Harrington and others for $153. The Springfield Republican adds—" This doesn't look as if the race was sold, but there are a great many foolish rumours to that effect." _ . ---- The same paper has the following. :—" Importa tion of English Thorough-breds.—Mr. Belmont is taking the very best measures for the forniation of a fine breeding and racing stud. Ile has acquired Kentucky for a stallion, and if all signs and tokens do not fail that horse will be a very successful sire. He is also taking care to have good broodmares to cross with the famous son of Lexington and Magriolia. Two recently arrived from England in capital order, and they have proceeded to his stud-farm at Babylon. The first of these is Fluke, a chestnut mare, with a blaze in the face. She was bred by that fine old turfman Sir Talton Sykes, in 1854, and got by . Womersley (a son of Irish Birdcatcher and Cinizelli, by Touchstone) out of Michael do Basco's dam. This mare is in foal to Gladiateur. She was accompanied by a fine filly foal of hers by Voltigeur. The other mare is Beautiful Star, a chestnut, by Weatherbit, the sire of so many . fast and stout horses. She is out of Mrs. Dodds by Irish Bird catcher, grandam Sophistry, by Voltaire. This breeding calls to mind a wonderful list of winners, such as Volti geur, Velocipede, The Queen of Trumps, Stockwell, Ra taplan, Coronation, Crucifix, weathergauge, Beadsman, &c. The mare is in foal to Adanorts, a noted son of Touchstone and Ada Mary, by Bay Middleton. When the produce comes next spring, the students of breeding and of the histories of the winning families may cast an oye over the pedigree of the foal, and exclaim, " Here's richness !" On the Ist of November about $23,700,000 in coin is to be taken from the vaults of the Treasury De partment to pay the semi-annual interest on the 5-20 Bonds, which fall due on that date. About $100,000,000 in coin are held by the Government, $20,000,000 of which aro on gold cortificates. No further interest will be due until the Ist of January, 1869, when about $28,000,000 in coin will be required to pay the semi-annual interest on bonds for 1881. . _ The principal members of the bar of New York have addressed a lett6r to Mr. Evarts, Attorney-General, inviting him to a complimentary dinner, to which these signatures were appended :—F. B. Cutting, J. W. Gerard, Ch. O'Connor, Edwards Pierrepont, Win. Mitchel, Henry E. Davies, Wm. Fullerton, Charles A. Peabody, John K. Porter, Hopper C. Van Verst, Wm. H. Leonard, Jas. T. Brady, John H. Antilop, Daniel B. Lord, Charles B. Kirk land, &c. &c. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Blanfortrbuildings, Strand, London, W.O —[Ad- Yertiorunta THE PLANET MERCURY. _ It affords a a high idea of the watchfulness of the ancient astronomers that they should have de tected the existence of the planet Mercury. It is so close to the sun as never to be seen save in the full glare of morning or evening twilight. Laplace says—" A long series of observations was doubtless necessary to recognise the identity of the two bodies which were - seen alternately in the morning and evening to recede from and approach the sun ; but at length, as one never presented itself until the other had disappeared, it was concluded that it was the same planet which oscillated on each side of the sun." Yet, as the planet Venus was known by the two names Hesperus and Phosphorus, so Mercury was for a long time re cognised by t he Greeks under the two names of Apollo the God of Day, and Mercury the God of Thieves, " who profit by the evening," says Arago in explana tion, "to commit their misdeeds." Yet it is fully as ;,likely that the name Mercury was assigned to the planet on account of the rapidity of its movements and the difficulty of detecting it. In our latitude; the planet is very seldom visible to the naked eye. It is related that Copernicus, who died at the age of 70, complained towards the end of his life that though he had often tried he had never been able to detect the planet, " in conse quence, probably," says Gassendi, "of the thick vapours which ascend above the horizon on the banks of the Vistula, where the illustrious astro nomer resided." The author of this paper has twice seen the planet wite the naked eye in the course of this year, and once in 1863. However, Mercury fully deserves the comment of an old writer (named Goad) in 1686, who described the planet as " a squinting lacquey of the sun, seldom show ing his head in these parts, as if he were in debt." Yet we learn from Lepsius's " Chronologie der }Egypter" that the Egyptians had watched theplanet (which they considered sacred to the God Horns) from the earliest times. The Indians associated Mercury with Buddha; and the tribe of the Ase dites, in Western Arabia, directed their worship exclusively to this planet. The astronomer Ptolemy, in the ninth book of the " Almayest," records as many as fourteen accurate observations of Mercury, extending back 261 years from our era, and be longing in part to the systematic labours of the ancient Chaldean astronomers. The earliest Of these observations is dated in the year of Nabonasser 494, or sixty years after the death of Alexander the Great, on lthe morning of the 19th day of The Egyptian month Thoth. In the observations, the planet's place was carefully assigned with reference to two fixed stars, neither of which, we feel certain, has ever been visible in our letitudes in such full twilight as always surrounds the planet Mercury.- - Cornhill Magazine. A notification has been issued from the War Department announcing that the Ordnance Select Committee report that they have examined, with much interest, the drawings of the mechanism ef the new French breech-loading cannon, communi cated to the British Government by the Emperor of the French, together with a note which enters fully into particulars of the rifling and breech closing• The chief peculiarities presented by the rifling are: —The bottom groove is continued through the powder chamber, as a guide for the shot in loading. The grooves are all deeper at Oa breech than at the muzzle. The bottom grooke however, shallowed at the breeeh end of .161 13 . and .27in, while it is deepest in the gun there of •24in. The grooves have all been made 'egg deep since the pattern of the 16in. gun (which is the earliest) was fixed, and in the 19in. gun (which is the latest) are both narrower and less deep than the others, which tends to show that experience lo convinced the French, as it had previously convince d us, that the studs were made unnecessarily large• There is an arrangement on all the guns to preven t the lanyard being pulled until the captain of the gun is satisfied that the breech is closed; this con' sists of a catch, or loquet, acted on by a spir al spring, which closes the opening, so that a knot en the lanyard cannot pass until the catch has been forced down by hand. The bodies of the guns are of cast-iron, strengthened externally with steel hoops. The iron armour plated screw steamship Achille s, 26, was placed on Tuesday in Keyham steamyard, for the purpose of being advanced to the first divi sion at Hamoaze. At the recent meeting of the American Bo3ra (Presbyterian) of Commissioners for Foreign Missions the following officers were elected for the ensuing year :1 President —Mark Hopkins, D.D., LL.D. Vice Presides' —Hon. William E. Dodge. Prudential Committee- o h ° ' Stoddard, Nehemiah Adams, D.D., Augustus C. Thon3l3. son, D.D., Walter S. Griffith, Hon. Alpheus Hardy, 11° ,_, b ' Linus Child, Rev. Albert Barnes, Robert R. Booth, DJ." Abner Kingman, James M. Gordon, Rufus Anderson, DJ ) " Ezra Farnsworth. Secretaries for Correspondence...-seo: Selah D. Treat, George W. Wood, D.D., and N. Clark, D.D. Recording Secretary—Rev. John 0. Moll Treasurer —Langdon S. Ward. Auditors—Joseph a Ropes and the Hon. Thomas H. Russell. The Sec? Convention of the General Council of the Eva,ngeli Lutheran Church in America will be held in Pittsbut commencing on the 12th of November. At the last nis o s ing of the American Bible Society, eight new auxiliaris, were recognized and a large number of books greaten: besides $5OO to auxiliaries at the South. $5,440 We l ! appropriated for printing Arabic Scriptures in Beyron l 7, for work in Italy, and for printing Microvesian Scriptur e " Honolulu. The fountain on the grounds of Seth B. Fillo t ' t at Bennington, Vermont, cost 525,000, and is the highs l, but one in the world. It is drawn from the hills throng' a six-inch pipe, throwing a stream 168 feet, presenting the appearance at a short distance of a single silver bar. grounds about it are thrown open to the public on TO" - day and Friday evenings. A California correspondent of the Cincintia t . i Commercial, who has been travelling oa the Central Pa c , / ; fie Railroad, says "it costs ton cents a mile (in coin) ride on it, and if you lender your fare in greenbacks, O s insist on their reception, the conductor halts and pus h % you off the train. A few days ago a passenger offere4,, greenback dollar for a ride of ten miles. He was prone' ditched." The propriety of changing the site of Yale 0 1; lege to more ample grounds is being discussed. The 09 '4 of the present location would give a net profit of $200,0". over what it would cost to buy a new and better o nc Hillhouse-avenue and the Gerard_Halleck estate are the most eligible situations spoken of. The alumni 0 1 naturally oppose the change. The Watchman and Reflector says One of the gratifying items of the day is the association of no b ; versed Jews in Chicago, under the name of the Wester,. Christian Brotherhood. The plan is to put in immedisol operation a system of evangelical labour, consisting : / preaching, mission schools, tract distribution, &c., etc., which the Jewish population may be effectually reach se Chicago alone has not less than ten thousand Hebr, within its limits, 'and there are great numbers in ot her Western cities." ter The Citizen newspaper has been purchased Mr. Peter B. Sweeney for seventy-five thousand dollar The well-known "Agate" (Whitlaw Reid), of the CI cinnati Gazette, has connected himself with the edito rs ,( staff of the New York Tribune. Philadelphia has a O 4 paper, the Daily Globe, with T. W. Knot for its New x ° ' correspondent. ADVERTISEMENT:I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills Comfort, Health, and Safety. - These blessings are beY° B ,o all price in money value. Possessing those no reflect l ,„, person will complain of his position or pecuniary circ o 76 stances. Holloway's far-famed remedies can every dig' be purchased at a trifling cost, and with them most de . orders may be immediately set right and most diseases fled. Skin affections, sores, ulcers, superficial and deef s , seated inflammations, with a long list of other aihno. o , readily succumb to the virtues of his ointment, wbil!,!,o ternal complaints yield with facility to his pills. Inyi 0 having these invaluable remedies at hand cannot be „ e V loss for effectively treating their maladies, whatever ty lo p nature or duration, since " di r e c tions for use" VIC ° every packet. Births. 0 ° BOURNE—On the 12th inst., at Shooter's-hill-road, the • of C. W. Bourne, Esq., of a son. .e a Of JENYNS— On the 29th ult., at Toronto, Canada, the Colonel Jenyns, C. 8., 13th Hussars, of a daughter . TROOST —On the 10th inst., at Fallowfield, the wife °f Troost, of a son. Marriages. KNIGHT —WiLnEs—On the 11th inst., at St. Pau l 's Oa' pel, Samuel Knight, of 16, Maitland-park Villas(i.O. verstock-hill, to Helen, eldest daughter of the Wildon, Esq., of Leighton-road, , and Mark-lane (3 " ) . '0, O'CONNELL —PATTERSON—On the 9th at S . 1°11 , 1. 00' Bayswater, Thomas O'Connell, of St. Mark's -ore Notting-hill, to Amelia Patterson, of Leiceste r -0 ' Leicester-square. Deaths. CLARKE—On the 11th inst., Harvey William Clarke , of The Rookery, Lower Tooting, aged 42. 03 0 MATHEw— On the 9th inst„ Captain Wm. Henry 315 h.p., la 45th Regt., aged 35. 0 0- 0 1 MEncER te On the 9th inst., at Cowley, near Exe ter, lid ral Alexander C. Mercer, Colonel-Command ant Artillery, aged 8.5. 01591 glr WHITTINGHAM—On the 11th inst., at 35, Quee -- nsb terrace, W., Charlotte Anne , wife of Major-Gal' . 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