The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, In discussing the difficulties which surround the carrying on of government in Italy, the Times looks upon them as not so much political as personal. Italy exhibits the melancholy phenomenon of an orderly people living under an anarchy. The Italian people ask for nothing better than rule and guidance ; their political men, or what we should call their governing classes, give them no other example than that of discord and impotence. There is nothing but delay and inconsistency in legislation ; nothing but confusion and helplessness in the administration ; the equal distribution and punctual collection of the taxes, the maintenance of public security, the prompt execution of justice, all the merest rudiments of government, are still insoluble puzzles to Italian statesmen. With the most extensive means they obtain the least results ; with le most numerous and complicated staff of func tionaries ever known, they have arrived at the most complete dead lock in the management of public affairs that the world has ever witnessed. The evil springs from a variety of causes, but from one chiefly ,—that Parliament is split into parties, none of which is either able to govern or willing to allow the others to govern. The predicament in which General Menabrea now finds _himself is a flagrant case in point. The necessity for a strong Conservative Government is universally Acknowledged. The talents and principles of the present Promier are unanimously admitted. His conduct under most difficult circumstances defies criticism. His devotion in accepting a charge which everybody else declined meets with the approbation of friends and foes. It is neither ambition nor rivalry that keeps good and true men from him ; but there are a variety of petty antipathies, of mean punctilios, which bind most public men to a narrow line of action, array them in bigoted - sects and brotherhoods, and tie them down to paltry local interests, till the general policy of the country becomes with them an object of indifference. No party at the present crisis has given evidence of more glaring personal and provincial selfish ness than the Piedmontese, who, from the day Turin ceased to be the capital, seem determined that Italy her_ self shall cease to be a country. There are no abler men in the Chamber than these sullen sub-Alpines, but Pied mont, which was originally the bulwark of national unity, has been turned into as active an element of dissolution as Naples and Sicily ; only more dangerous. For, after all— painful as it may be to avow it—ltaly is in danger of dis solution, and from internal disorders rather than from foreign violence. If Italy falls it will be by her own hand ; by the improvidence and infatuation, by the blind selfishness of hei , leading men. The Post believes that the London Fenians, at any rate, are hares who only want hunting, not fighting. We have tried hunting them with greyhounds under the strict laws of coursing, and failed completely. What we want now are a few lurchers who know how to run cunning ; instead of which we have set on a pack of bull-dogs, and thereby produced much uproar, s and nothing else. The specials, indeed, are not only useless against the Fenians, but they, are also very dangerous to ordinary people, and if they are really sent "on duty " to any extent, we may look for some unpleasant incidents. A special walks his beat full of patriotic ardour and suspicion, " spoiling for a fight," and too ready to see in any soul he meets a promising Fenian with whom to bring it off. To send out untrained youths to patrol the streets of London, in fact, involves a very great danger, only to be incurred under the pressure of the greatest necessity. Fenianism has not produced a necessity either•of that gravity or of that nature which is to met by such means ; and as the fashion of raking special constables has been so extensively followed, we can only hope most devoutly that the custom will be grafted upon it of not allowing them to do anything whatever in the way of duty. The Standard pictures the astonishment of a British artisan returning to this country after a long absence, and witnessing the precautions at Woolwich Arsenal. What would he think of the throng of soldiery within, and of constabulary without the Tower, and the perpetual acti vity displayed? Or the lighted river front of the Houses of Parliament, and the guard upon its terrace ? Or the double sentries at St. James's and Buckingham Palace ? Or the watch for " suspicious " casks and parcels arriving by the after-dark trains ? Or the wild stories from the provinces? Or the packages of gunpowder picked up in unlikely holes and corners ? Or all the table-talk and newspaper correspondence concerning nitro-glycerine and other explosive substances, wet sand, uninilammable wood work, decoctions of soda, iron shutters, woollen curtains, a six-shooter in every house, and even " the unspoken word,' martial law for Ireland ? What, indeed, of the false alarms, the wicked and foolish hoaxes played off by brainless and cowardly scoundrels, the silly meddlings of ignorant people by anonymous letters? What, finally, of that name which the wanderer returned hears upon every lip, sees flaming in the columns of every journal and defacing every wall—the centre of the public thought, the topic of the public conversation, the chief anxiety of statesmanship, the principal 'care of adminis tration, the great mischief, crime, and folly of the day— Fenianism ? When the Londoner, who has come home, to see these strange doings in the pacific metropolis of Great Britain, and meets at length with an individual less perplexed, who can give an explanation, what will he learn ? That there is a wretched conspiracy underground somewhere in England, Ireland, and Wales. That it has broken forth in outrage and murder, and excited fears for the peace—though not for the safety—of the kingdom. That it is a plot difficult to unravel and trace to the last recesses of its dreary labyrinth. But also that it has evoked, from end to end of the land, an utterance of loyalty so loud and so emphatic, and has induced both the authorities and the citizens to make such efforts for the defence of law and order as to convince public opinion of the fate which, notwithstanding its powers to terrify and to destroy, is reserved for this stranger's marvel—the Fenian treason. The appointment of Sir Henry Storks as Controller- General at the War Office seems to give general satisfac tion. At the same time the Herald reminds us that, as shewn in Abyssinia, it is not only at home and in the chief offices that there is clashing, Want of system, and want of unity ; and the' Controller's department must spread out in every direction before its advantages can be thoroughly appreciated. General Balfour's appointment as Assistant Controller is an additional guarantee that this good work will be speedily begun and judiciously carried out ; and we Lope before long to see the time when every general of division and every brigadier will have his own controller, to whom alone he need look for all matters connected with transport and supply, and who will have supreme control over those departments, just as the chief of the staff has over the military departments. Then we are not likely to hear of transports lying idle for want of supplies while supplies are accumulating for want of transport. Then, too, the general on whom devolves so grave and onerous a task as that which has been confided to Sir Robert Napier will not be saddled with the burden of arranging every detail of transport and supply, and will be free to turn his attention to his own proper duties. If our authorities will only read aright the lessons that have been taught by every war, great or small, since the days of the Peninsula, they will strive with might and main to hasten the completion of a system by which both economy and efficiency are likely to be, secured. The Telegraph deprecates the idea of our carrying out an Affghan annexation policy. It urges us to shun it like the plague, for the simple reason that we have no right to the country. _We do not want it, because we are stronger without it. And, once advanced to Cabul, we should have to go on to Herat, to Candahar, to Persia, to the sentries of the Russian camps themselves. Those who think it so terrible that Russia should be near us in the East, may already tremble ; for on the Kashmere frontier there is nothing but a predatory chief between India and the out posts of the Bokhara expedition. Should Bokhara, be come Muscovite—and some fighting remains to be done before it can be so— the Czar's soldiers could snap up this khan at a mouthful ; and then the British representative at Srinuggur would look over the frontier and see the black and white flags. That prospect, however, would occasion us no such disquiet as the news that the wise example of Gilbert, after the battle of Goojerat, had been forgotton. He drove Dost Mohammed along with his Affghans from the field, and hunted them across two deserts, and over two rivers, till they filed, dead-beaten into the dark shadows of the Khyber. There he left them, and called his horsemen off, like an M.F.H. w h ose fox has gone out of his own country. Did the Affghans and Afreedees say in Cabul that the Feringhee had not dared to follow them home ? No ! they said in the bazaars " The snow is melted at Jellalabad which wasred with the blood of the Lords of the Indus." INCENDIARY FIRES IN ESSEX.—During the past week three or four fires have occurred near Colchester, in Essex, all cf which are supposed to be the work of incen diaries. On Friday night a farm homestead was almost totally destroyed, the total damage being expected to amount to not less than £2,000. All the premises were safe shortly before the outbreak, and no cause can be assigned for it except incendiarism. RESIGNATION OF THE BISHOP OF MAURITIUS. It is stated that the Right Rev. Dr. Vincent Ryan, Bishop of Mauritius, who has recently arrived in England, intends to resign his see. The bishop, who was formerly Principal of the Training College at Islington, was consecrated in 1854, and immediate* afterwards went out to his distant diocess. The income of the see consists of an allowance of rl5O, as senior chaplain, from colonial lands, and interest of £6,150 granted by the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund and invested in the colony. The bishopric is in the gift of the Secretary a tAt,§lQr_tbv wouico. THE FENIAN OUTI?AGES. The late Fenian robbery of revolvers has been followed by a robbery of powder. The magazine of Mr. Murray, agent for Curtis and Harvey, gunpowder manufacturers, situate a short distance outside the city of Cork, was broken into, and the entire stock, comprising lOcwt. of blasting powder, was stolen. Three doors wer- forced during the night—one of iron, one of wood, and one of copper. The store was in the vicinity of a range of small cottages. Attention has been called in the press to the insecure state of the powder stores about Cork, and in most instances the contents have been removed ; but this one appears to have been overlooked. Two of the kegs have been discovered, and the police expect to recover more. The Gazette of Friday night contains the offer of £2OO reward for such information as may lead to the appre hension of the party who robbed Mr. Aliport, but there is little prospect of their detection. The police and military in the provinces are severely harassed by the extra duties they have to discharge. A. correspondent of the Express relates a little incident which illustrates the spirit of the soldiers and the friendly feeling of the people of Limerick. There being no band to escort the men to their new quarters, a voice in the crowd cried out, " Soger, give us a song." The request was promptly complied with byone of the redcoats, who struck up a negro melody, in which his comrades joined in chorus. Their performance afforded evident enjoyment to the inhabitants who thronged the streets, and, finding the vocalists agreeable, they called for various airs, which were given with the same good will. The company of the 52nd was escorted to the railway station with similar manifestations of friendship. The Rev. E. G. Lynass, Roman Catholic priest at Whitehaven, has addressed a letter to the local papers with reference to an alleged intention to hold a funeral procession at Cleater Moor, near that town, a few weeks ago. He says the alarm was groundless, and adds :—" I am most happy to declare the conviction of every priest in the neighbourhood that Fenianism has no hold here, and that no effort shall be wanting on our part to preserve our people free from its diabolical influences. Let me ask the public not to rashly judge our Irish residents. From all parts of England, through the Times and other news papers, it is proclaimed boldly that Irish and Fenian are not convertible terms." The rev. gentleman further states " that to become a Fenian is to incur ipso facto excommu nication. This excommunication entails the loss of com munion in the prayers of the Church, and the deprivation of the Sacraments ; and, therefore, were a man to die a Fenian, the priest must of necessity deny him Christian burial. No further proof is needed that Catholicity and Fenianism are not one, as many assert." A long letter was issued on Saturday by Mr. Water worth, a leading Roman Catholic priest at Worcester, on the subject of Fenianism and its supposed adherents, which has excited some attention. He alleges that the Fenians are " in open war with the Catholic Church," and that therefore it is opposed by all Catholics. As to the cause of these rebellious proceedings, he declares that foreigners affirm " that Lords Russell and Palmerston were the open factors of foreign rebellion ;" that they feted and praised and almost idolised that sad originator of Italian misery, misrule,rebellion, sacrilege, and blasphemy, that foolish man Garibaldi." Irishmen knew what had been done and said in favour of rebellion, and in justification of the assumptions of democracy over thrones and all constituted authorities. They ask why they who were once a nation should not he an independent people again. " Is that forbidden to us in the hour of our discontent and misery which is allowed to the Neapolitan and Sicilian, to the Florentine and the Parmese Duchies ? England told them to free themselves. Why are we alone inhibited from claiming for our people independence and an Irish throne ?" He adds that what is being done here in the way of precaution is " inconsiderate and mischievous under the circumstances." He adds : " There is not—l am sure of this—there is not a single Irishman, or Irish woman, or Irish child resident in the city who has the remotest connection with Fenianism. There is not one who does not detest it." A meeting of the Roman Catho lics is talked of. CREATING A DISTURBANCE IN A CHURCH. At the Mansion House Police-cmirt on Saturday, before the Lord Mayor, Charles Pembridge Langston, residing at Dalston, a leather agent, appeared to answer three sum monses, charging him, first, with having on the 29th December been guilty of very violent and indecent beha viour in the parish church of St. Ethelburga, Dishepsgate, during the celebration of divine service therein ; secondly, with having molested and disturbed the Rev. Mr. Rod well, the complainant, he being the duly authorised preacher ; and, thirdly, with having molested and dis turbed the complainant during the administration of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. The Rev. J. M. Rod well, the rector of St. Ethelburga, said that on Sunday, the 29th of December, when coming up the middle aisle of the church in the procession, being about to perform divine service, he remarked the defendant, who was sitting down while the others were standing. When witness passed him he made a noise like a turkey cock. During the first part of the service the defendant waved his hat in so extraordinary a manner that the rector forgot the fourth commandment. During the singing of the Nicene Creed, while the solo " And was made man " was being performed, defendant sung very loudly, disturbing the congregation. In the course of the sermon, Mr. Rodwell said that the principles that would lead a man to attempt to demolish a prison "proceeded from the same cause, and were symptoms of the same disease " as those which led men to violate churches, to profane the sanctuaries of God, and disturb the devotions of congregations." Here the defendant gave a loud "guffaw," and repeated it so often and so badly that the rector was obliged to stop and threaten defendant that if ho did it again he should be obliged to send for a police man. This effected an instantaneous cure, and there was no more " guffawing." He subsequently came up to the communion rails to take the sacrament. It was not, how. ever, administered to him. After the service defendant went into the vestry and wanted to know why he had been grossly insulted from the pulpit. On his saying that his name was Langston. Mr. Rodwell declined to speak with him as he knew he had been behaving unseemly in other churches. In cross-examination Mr. Rodwell admitted that the boy who went before him in the procession was swinging incense, but said he did not know if there was a cross carried at the head. From other evidence it appeared that there was a cross carried at the head of the proces sion. The defence was that the defendant only coughed once or twice, but the schcolmaster of St. Matthias proved that he had acted similarly on several occasions in St. Matthias, Stoke Newington. The Lord Mayor sentenced the accused to a month's imprisonment, and to pay the costs of complainant. Eventually, on being appealed to for the sake of defendant's wife and children, the appea being warmly seconded by Mr. Sleigh for Mr. Rodwell, the Lord Mayor reduced the sentence to a fine of £5, and £5 os. costs. The defendant then paid the money. LAW AND POLICE. A TRADESMAN FINED FOR NEGLECTING TO SERVE ON A LEET JURY.—Mr. Richard Hopkins was summoned a: Clerkenwell, before Mr. Barker, by the vestry clerk of St. Pancras, for neglecting to pay the sum of 210, the penalty imposed by the vestrymen for neglecting to execute the office of inspector of balances, weights, and measures. Mr. Charles Collins, foreman of the leet jury, said on the of August he sent a notice to the defendant to serve 01 the jury ;he did not attend. The case having been brough before the vestry, he was fined £lO. In answer to th defendant, witness said that it was not now usual to pay half a crown in lieu of service. There had been such custom, but it was done away with. The defendant said that when the notices came he was out of town. Mr. Barker ordered the defendant to pay the amount of £lO forthwith. Defendant said he was unable to pay, on which a distress warrant was at once ordered to be issued. THE FANCY BREAD QUESTION.—At the Surrey Sessions a trial of a baker who had been convicted by the magis trates for stllin,g bread otherwise than by weight occupied a great portion of the day. The defendant, when before the magistrates, pleaded that the cottage loaves which he sold without weighing were "fancy bread," and he there fore was not bound to weigh it. The magistrates, how ever, disallowed the plea, and convicted the baker. He now appealed from the decision. After a long argument, in the course of which it was stated that Chief Justict. Cockburn was of opinion that the loaves were not fancy bread, the chairman of the sessions said that the bench had come to the same concl-dsion, and the conviction was. therefore, affirmed with costs. EXTRAORDINARY SWINDLING.—During the sitting of the Lord Mayor on Saturday, it was stated that a person wa. , going about in the City making a collection for the City; Press Clerkenwell Explosion Fund. It appears that tip_ City Press has made no appeal for funds, and none of tip_ money collected in the name of the paper had found its way to the authorities. It is known that several mer 'ehants have made contributions varying from £1 to £5. ALIGHTING FROM A TRAIN WHILE IN MOTION.—Thc. extreme danger of alighting from a railway carriage while the train is yet in motion was illustrated by a case tried at the Hammersmith Police-court. A Mrs. Roberts was charged before Mr. Dayman for leaving the train before it had stopped. The defendant had been thrown down with such violence that she was unable to appear when first summoned, and was now very weak indeed. Evi dence having been given proving the offence, the defen dant was fined 2s, 6d, and 2s. costs. EASTERN NEVADA. The newspapers of Nevada some time since an nounced the intention of Colonel David E. Buel to open offices in Europe, where full information would be afforded to all corners of the mineral re sources of the Pacific States, more especially of Eastern Nevada—the very cream of the Pacific Mining States. Colonel Buel was appointed by the " Silver" State as Commissioner to the Paris Exhi bition. After performing his allotted work on that interesting occasion he returned to Nevada, where he was busily engaged for a few months in securing the fullest and latest information, in completing his collection of ores with the object of returning to disseminate through Europe a knowledge of this wonderful district. He has just arrived, and has opened an office in Palmerston-buildings, Ohl Broad-street, where those who take an interest in this most wonderful of mining regions may see specimens and obtain information. When Colonel Buel undertook the duties of a Commissioner for his State, a pamphlet was written as a guide by Myron Angel, at Austin, Nevada, dated April 8, 1867, and carried by him to Paris, setting forth in terse good English and French, a full account of the geography, resources, climate, and society of Eastern Nevada. Previous to 1860 nothing was known of the country between the Rocky Moun tains and the Sierra Nevada. From the slopes of the snow-covered western range to the Pacific stretched the grand State of California, so wealthy in minerals, in soil, in loveliness of climate, that few were tempted to cross the ice-bound Aierra into the uninviting wilds of the interior basin. The savage and the traveller alike condemned the un known territory as unprofitable and sterile wastes, and this erroneous impression prevailed until a com paratively recent period. The author confines him self to that portion of the vast country between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains known as Eastern Nevada, lying south of the Humbolt River to the Colorado, and east of the 41st Washington meridian, being near the centre of the Great Basin, whose peculiar characteristic it is to swallow up the numerous streams which in a circle around flow from the mountains into its valleys, and are there lost in the sand; having no outlet to the sea, yet forming no lake. Small as is this section compared to the immeasurable acreage around, yet it is nearly t a b s a l n a r F g r e a n a s G e e . r l e t a t is B f a r m i tai i li n a , r l a y n d k n b o u w t n o a n s e - t t h h e i rd R e less e s t s r e y d i n t too oßf i v N e r e R v a e d g a i o . n , T a o n p d o g r comprises aphicall y a b ito ut half presents the e S t a a p t e . g pe et a h r e a r n , ce ea o s f t a a n v d as w t es p t l , ai w n ri h n a k v li i n n g g b th ee e ll eo p u re n a parallel ridges of mountain and valley , whose lines extend with the utmost regularity north and south. The ranges rise abruptly to a height from a few huudred, up to 5,000 feet above the subjacent plain. The valleys average a height of 5,000 feet above the sea, and therefore the most lofty peaks attain an altitude of 10,000 feet from this level. Pine, cedar, and ma aspect of the hills and v alleys is forbidding, and hogany trees cover the mountains, though the usual a pp a rently barren. Even where they are so, a most nutritious bunch grass is produced, while many of the largevalleys and narrow canons are extremely fertile. Although scattered, these rich lands, in the aggregate, amount to a large area, capable of supporting a dense population with the farm produce of tempe rate climates. The discovery of the unbounded mineral resources of Eastern Nevada was made by accident, in May, 1862. William H. Talcott, employed at wood the co n t s i t n a e g n e t al r stationoti route, ,of while Jacob's hauling S p Spri ngs , ngs from the hill, on the Trans side, discovered a vein of metal-bearing quartz, a t d carried a small quantity with him to the station. It proved to contain silver, and the claim was named by the discoverer 'the Pony,' after the Express Com pany of which he had once been a rider. This hill side is now embraced within the limits of the city of Austin, the most rising town of the State, though it was but the 10th May, 1862, that the area of 75 miles east and west, and 20 north and south, was formed into a mining district, and named the Reese River. The title is derived from a stream flowing to the north, through a valley border ing the western base of the mountains. Its course is 15) miles, though the water is lost ere it reaches the Humbolt, of which it is supposed to be a branch. The mountain is named Toiyabe, from. the Indian word meaning a range of hills, and it embraces the chain extending along the river, rising from a base from five to 15 miles broad to a height above the valley at the lowest of 1,000, and at the highest of 5,000 feet. There is nothing in its appearance and formation differing from the nume rous other ranges running parallel with it, which form valleys from 10 to 30 miles wide, and give so marked a feature to the country. Austin was sur veyed, built, incorporated as a city, with its mayor and board of aldermen, with a speed after this dis covery, which in all old countries would appear magical. It now possesses a city hall, a daily news paper, banks of circulation and exchange, costly churches, public and private schools, halls and lec ture rooms, gas and water wor k s, i mproved and sewered streets, stages running in every direction, telegraphs, with all that constitutes a prosperous city. Its directory in its historical sketch says—" Should itslocality be sought for on the map of America it will be found where is usually marked the vacancy of the Unexplored Regions, in lat. 39 deg. 204 mine and in long. 40 deg. 4 min. W. from Washington, or 117 deg. 4 min. W. from Greenwich, being almost precisely in the geographical centre of the State of Nevada. Austin is reached from the popu lous portions of the world by the Trans-continental highway, plying a daily stage, mail, and express, be • sides two other stages running to the Pacific with passengers and freight. By the former the time to San Francisco is four days, and the cost $5O ; by the latter the time is five or six days, and the cost from $l5 to $3O. The distance is 473 miles, of which the first portion is traversed by a good road, and considerably more than half by rail and steam boat. From the East the Union Pacific Railroad has now attained the summit of the Rocky Moun tains, and the Kansas line is already far on its way, being complete to Hayes City, on the Smoky Hill route, whence the traveller reaches the Great Salt Lake City on the conveyances of the Overland Mail Company through Bridger Pass. Each day as the railroads progress the time is shortened both from East and West till the through line be completed, when Austin will be but a stage on the world's grandest railway, stretching from New York to San Francisco. The Toiyabe range extends 65 miles north of Austin, and near its terminus stands a grand and isolated peak towering up 5,0u0 feet above the sur rounding valleys named Mount Tenabo—which means, in the Indian tongue, "Look Out." From this height nearly all Nevada may be seen, with its chains of mountains, its isolated hills, its fertile valleys, and desert plains. Looking westward from its summit in a clear day, says the Reese River Re veille, the white peaks of the Sierra Nevada are seen stretching along the eastern boundary of Cali fornia, and many a hill bearing silver and gold and copper lie between. Northward, for 25 miles dis tant, is the long and winding line of the Humboldt River with its valley of meadow or sandy plain. Eastward the succession of hills and valleys meet the eye. In the other direction the dim atmo sphere of the great Smoky Valley limits the sight. But glimpses of the summit of Mount Hope, Smythe's Peak, and others of the Toiyabe Range, which pierce the clouds, trace the line for 150 miles to the south. We must reserve further notice of Myron An gel's instructive book for our next issue, when we hope to touch on the Mining Laws as well as the mines of this richly gifted district. As, however, we have reached the northern limit of the Toiyabe range, and stand on thelofty peak of Mount Tenabo we may as well notice what lies beneath ourfeet. The base and up thousands of feet towards us the cone is covered with a small scrubby pine, while its sum mit, and 1,500 feet below, are overgrown with grass and shrubs. " Some 3,000 feet above its base, a monster vein of silver-bearing quartz, cuts its face obliquely, burying itself in the mountain at one cud, and penetrating .into the valley at the other, after stretching out in pall:I/able view the enormous length of 18,650 feet. Its width is four hundred feet. This great vein, or perhaps it is more THE SUN, LOAt ON. MON DAY EV EN ING, JANUARY 6, 18€ 84 properly a stratum of the mountain formation, ' bears vast beds of very rich ore, the extent of which is only conjecture, but which ap parently can furnish an inexhaustible supply of ore, of value from 75 to 300 or 400 dollars per ton. The workings at various mills of large quantities prove this. This giant vein is encased in highly crystalline limestone. Twenty locations have been made on the vein, with the following names and dimensions :—Commencing at its greatest point of altitude is the Chieftain.—Genesee Company, 1,400 feet ; Murphy Company, 800 ; Gill Company, 800; Taylor and Passmore, 800; De Witt Company, 450; St. Louis Company, 2,000 ; Meacham and Brothers, 400 ; Niagara Company, 400: Savage Company, 400; Nebraska Company, 1200; Cortez Giant,Mount Tenabo Company, 4,000 ; Ehnore Company, 200 ; Russell Company, 600; Continental Comp my, 1000 ; Argentine Company, 1,000 ; Empire Company, 800; Coun and Brothers, 400 ; Travesse Company, 400 ; and the Anna Burr Company, 2,000 ft. The latter claim is somewhat broken, and at its termination the vein penetrates the earth, and is lost altogether. The vein disappears also at the upper boundary of the Chieftain. It has been opened at several points along its course, in every case disclosing good mineral. The Gill, Taylor, and Passmore, and St. Louis locations, near the upper end of the vein, have been worked, the two latter consi derably. The Cortez Giant, which lies near the centre of the vein, is the most fully developed location, and has yielded a large amount of bullion this season. Some work has also been done on the Continental, situated towards the lower end of the vein, with about the same results as in the other cases specified. Of this wonderful vein there is little exact knowledge, but that it stands out upon the mountain's face, a huge, palpable fact. It will be developed for its whole length ere a long time passes, and when that day arrives, we believe the Nevada Giant will be universally regarded as among the wonderful mines of the world.—Anglo-American Tines. CONGRESS. SENATE. On the 11th December Mr. Sumner presented a memorial from General James S. Brisbin and 30,000 coloured men of Kentucky, asking Congress to be stow upon them the right of suffrage, and stating that if this is done they believe that the murder, arson, and rape now so prevalent in Kentucky will be put an end to. To this Mr. Davis' took excep tion, pronouncing it a foul and mendacious libel on Kentucky. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, called up the Bill to raise the value of legal tender notes to par ; and read an elaborate argument in favour of its adoption, which occupied two hours. He said— " Its passage would establish such confidence that from the day of its passage the inequality between coin and legal tenders would begin to diminish, and by the time specified for the redemption of legal tenders iu coin (July 4, 1869) the legal tenders would be at par and equal to coin. The greatest danger might be apprehended from foreign exchanges, but we had a million and a half of solvent men just re leased by the war who are added to the producers. These, with the immense accessions from foreign emigration, will add immensely to the producers or the country, and he saw no reason why, even in the coming year our exports would not largely exceed our imports." Its further consideration was post poned until the 13th. On the 12th Mr. Patterson reported a bill limiting contracts for stationery and other supplies to the Executive Department to one year, which passed. A discussion followed on Mr. Sherman's Bill providing that all moneys accruing from the sale of captured and abandoned property, now in the hands of the Treasurer of the United States, shall be covered by warrant into the Treasury, and not be drawn thence unless by authority of Con gress. Mr. Drake's resolution, postponed to the 13th, censuring the President for the language of his last Message on the Reconstruction measures of Con gress, gave the floor to Mr. Johnson, of Maryland,who defended the President. He considered Mr. Drake would have better occupied his time in answering the arguments of the Message than by indulg ing in censure, and it would require all the &motor's ability to answer them. The Mess ige was before the people, and the President had no reason to be dissatisfied with their judgment. The true course was to attack the arguments, not the President ; to answer, not to vilify. In the course of his speech a discussion occurred between him and Mr. Drake as to whether the latter gentleman had ever been a supporter of Andrew Jackson, to whom the Senator referred as a President, against whom a resolu tion of censure had been passed. He commented on the action which led to this, and how it was met by President Jackson declaring it to be much more objectionable than any act of the present incumbent. No man can gainsay that the provisions of the Reconstruction Act vio late the Constitution, infringing the first eight amendments, striking down the personal liberties of the citizen and sovereignties of the States. If the President is satisfied of this,—instead of censure for his course, he should receive praise. The motion was postponed. The President sent the Senate a Message, giving his reasons for the suspension of the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, of a hi c h we have already g i ven a summary . Dec. 13.—Mr. Cragin, New Hampshire, from . the Committee on Territories, reported, without amend ment, the bill to regulate the selection of grand and petty jurors of the Territory of Utah and for other purposes. It affects the militia, marriages, expressly forbidding polygamy, making presents at the cere mony of sealing, a crime punishable by a fine of $l l. OOO and imprisonment with hard labour for two years. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, called up the bill exempting cotton grown after 1867 from tax. Mr. Johnson, Maryland, proposed to amend the bill by exempting the present crop from tax. Mr. Pome roy, Kansas, said this would not benefit the pro ducer, the cotton having now left his hands. The bill was postponed. Mr. Wilson, Massachusetts, called up the Bounty Bill, which was passed. It gives to the families of deceased soldiers the boun ties they would have received had they lived. Dec. 16.—Mr. Howard, of Michigan, introduced a resolution to furnish to the Senate a statement of the amount of the United States Bonds issued to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and to the Cen tral Pacific Railroad Company of California, and of the interest paid by the Government on such bonds ; also of the amount repaid by those com panies, and in what manner.—Adopted. Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, presented a joint re solution of the Vermont Legislature in regard to the establishment of a line of steamships to Liberia, which was referred ; also a joint resolution request ing their Senators to use their influence to procure a modification of the national banking laws, so as to permit and regulate the taxation of the stock of national banks by the municipalities where they are situated. It was referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. 'Wilson, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill to reorganise the Department of State, and to re duce the expenses thereof, which was ordered to be printed. It provides that the Department of State shall consist of a Secretary of State, with an annual salary of $B,OOO, an Assistant Secretary of State, with an annua l sa l ar y of $3,500, together with other officers at specified salaries. • The bill defines the duties of the officers and clerks respec tively, and provides that it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of State to fill the office of chief clerk, or to replace the heads of divisions. or branches by new appointments, but only by promotion. It shall not be lawful for the Finance and Disbursing Clerk to pay the salary appropriated for one office to any person discharging the duties of another office, nor to pay any. person the salary or money appropriated as compensa tion for the performance of any duty, which duty such person has not actually performed, nor to pay any clerk or messenger whose time, or any con siderable portion thereof, is devoted to the private affairs of the Secretary of State ; nor shall he pay the travelling expenses, in whole or in part, of any person connected with said Department, or pay for the telegraphing except in cases of . extreme urgency. The bill further provides that the secret service fund, so called, shall be abolished in time of peace, and that hereafter the President's approval shall not be a sufficient voucher for the expenditure of any money in time of peace, but that all items of expenditure from the funds of the Departnient shall be for purposes authorised by law. The bill fixes the fee for a certified copy of a pardon or amnesty, both at $5, and provides that no additional fee shall be charged for taking and certifying au oath in proof of citizenship. It also limits the charges for copies of papers not for use in the public service to 15 cents per 100 words, and $2 for the certificate and seal. Also a bill, which was referred, to fix and limit the compensation of diplomatic officers, and, in part, to define their duties. It provides for a reorganisation of the foreign service, increasing the compensation of some officers, and combining into one several missions and consulates. lie stated that the total appropriatio❑ for diplomatic and con sular expense would be lessened and their efficiency increased. The debate on the tax on cotton was commenced by Mr. Morrill, who moved to amend that, " after April 1, 1868, all cotton imported from foreign countries shall be exempted from duty." He consi dered that there was as as much necessity for repeal of taxes, North, East, West, as South. Woollens and pork required as much relief as cotton. He saw no reason why that relief should be solely in regard to rebels. Cotton was really a " king," and nowhere could it be so economically produced as in the United States. Good would result, and evil be averted, if that tax remained, and the drawback given on manufactured goods. If relieved by its re peal for all time, the people of the South would re main imbecile in industrial pursuits as they had always been. The crop of Brazil, Egypt, and India was decreasing, and must decrease, while that of China and Japan had almost ceased. The danger was from themselves, in increasing the crop. Mr. Sher man, of Ohio, defended the bill. He showed cotton was not king. If the tax were not removed, American cotton would never regain its former position. Mr. Pomeroy (Kansas) said that Mr. Morrill's arguments proved too much, for if other countries ceased to grow cotton, it was a reason for America to increase the crop, not to reduce it. Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, opposed the bill, considering the action hasty. He wished to build up manufac tures, and not to abandon what had long been the policy of the country. He denied the hypothesis of Mr. Sherman, that the price of cotton would be enhanced by free labour. The low price of the staple was caused by its surplus production, and not by the tax. Let them suspend it, if necessary, for a time, and see what the effect of the repeal would be on other articles. Mr. Morton, of Indiana, gave notice that, at the proper time, be would move an amendment to tax all cotton grown after 1867 one cent per pound. Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, advocated the bill at length, as also did Mr. Williams, of Oregon ; and Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, who ob served " that a tax on cotton in America was a pre mium on cotton in India." Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, replied, maintaining the ground he had before oc cupied. He even considered that it would be striking a blow at the South to repeal the tax. Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, again spoke, when he stated " that he had believed at first the tax was unconsti tutional, "alluding to the prohibition in the Consti tution from taxing imports. The cotton tax was ruinous, the universal testimony being that it could not be grown under the double burden of the pre sent system of paid labour and such a tax. Instead of discouraging its cultivation, bounties should rather be given for its production. He warmly seconded the desire of Mr. Frelinghuysen to see the South reinstated in everything except slavery. Mr. Conkling moved to so amend the bill as to make it applicable only to the year 1868. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 11th Dec.—Mr. Pruyn, of New York, in refer ence to the debate relating to Russian America on the 9th December, said " that the legal point made by Mr. Butler was incorrect. Mr. Butler assumed that the House was not bound to make appropria tion to carry out the treaty made by the Senate. He contended that when a treaty was made in good faith by the Senate it was the duty of the House to make the necessary appropriation to carry out the treaty, and any other course would be a violation of faith. A treaty made by the Senate was a law binding upon the House, and must be concurred in by the latter." Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, asked leave to make a personal explanation, but Mr. Wood and others objected. Mr. Dodge, of lowa, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill to amend the Act of April 10, 1806, for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States. [lt repeals Article 61 of that date, and pro vides that all brevets shall bear date from the time of the action for which the officer was breveted.] Passed. Mr. Garfield reported back the bill relating to officers of the army dismissed or cashiered by sen tence of court-martial, and which prohibits the re storation of such officers unless they shall he sub sequently confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Nlack, of Indiana, asked if the bill was to be retrospective or prospective. Mr. Garfield replied that it was tobe prospective, of course. Mr. Niblick said he was led to ask the question because it was supposed that the bill was to affect General Fitz John Porter's case. After some further discussion the bill was recom mitted. Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, from Committee on Foreign Affairs, presented a letter from the Secretary of State in answer to the trial of Ameri can citizens in England. , The communication sim ply relates to the copying of certai❑ documents. Re-committed. The whole House then resolved itself into com mittee, when Mr. Washburne, of Wisconsin, spoke at length, condemning the purchase of St. Thomas arid of Russian America. He read from geography and from books of travel. lie contended that the purchases were utterly useless, and could be of no benefit to the United States. Alaska was a bar ren waste, and he would vote no money for its purchase, and the fact that the Senate had rati fied the treaty would not induce him to vote for an appropriation. On which Mr. Pfuyn again stated that good faith required the appropriation, as the treaty was ratified. Mr. Maynard, of Tennes see, asked if Mr. Washburne was willing that Eng land should take the territory, who answered, Does England want it? when Mr. Maynard said, he supposed she would take it from her known grasp ing desires and her propensity to gather up all the property under the sun. Mr. Washburne replied that this country was not under the sun—(laughter) —and he doubted whether England wanted the territory. The select committee on Southern railroads sub mitted to the House of Representatives the testi mony taken. They report that they have concluded the taking of testimony upon all points except as to the expediency of declaring forfeit, lands granted in aid of railroads in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, in which case the tes timony is now being procured by the War De partment from the military commanders in those sections. Upon the other points they will be prepared to report when the testimony is printed, for which pur pose the testimony is now being reported with a request to that effect. A large number of witnesses have been examined at various points. A communication from Gen. Grant, Secretary of War, encloses a statement of the indebtedness of the respective heads on the Ist of November, 1867, from which it appears that the total appraised value of the property sold was $7,456,396 390. Total payments to Nov. 1, 1867, $3,459,314 29c., as follows :—By cash, $2,169,547 48c. ; transportation. of Government troops and supplies, $708,569 420. ; mail service, $581,228 39e. The payments were made at various dates between Nov. 30th, 1865, and Nov. 1, 1867. The balance due the United States on the Ist Nov., 1867, including interest, was $1,834,500 62c. On the 12th Deeen:ber, the Committee on Com merce was directed to inquire into the causes of the depressed condition of the shipping interest, and whether.that interest does not require a remismon of internal duties on material entering into building material for vessels. The Committee on Roads and Canals was directed to inquire into the expediency and propriety of making an appropriation for a canal around the Falls of Ohio, on the Indiana side, and that I f Ways and Means of levying a tax on family crests and coats-of-arms worn upon household furniture in actual use. Mr. Cary, of Ohio, offered a resolution, which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, declaring—" That in the opinion of this House the Secretary of the Treasury should not provide for the immediate paymeut of the bonds of Rbfuary, 1847, now due on the bonds of 18-18, due after July, 1868, but that the payment of the same should be postponed until the currency and legal tender notes are of the same commercial value." We have elsewhere noticed Mr. Maynard's resolu tion for selecting from among uegroes the diplomatic and consular representatives to Hayti, Liberia, and. other African ports, which was referred to Com mittee on Foreign Affairs. The resolution of Mr. Baker, of Illinois, was universally adopted, " That the military establishment should be as small as possible, and that the Military Committee should inquire into a reduction of the army." The Committee on Naval Affairs was directed to inquire into the expediency of locating a navy yard and naval depot at Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois, offered a resolution directing an inquiry into certain charges against Mr. Hale, United States Consul to Egypt. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. [The charges are preferred by Francis De Lacy, of New York, who charges Mr. Hale with having attached in Egypt several hundred thousand dollars' worth of goods at the instance of parties in New York City.] The Committee on Ways and Means is to in quire into an exemption from taxation of all in comes not exceeding $2,500 per annum. Dec. 13.—Mr. Eliot, of Massachusetts, presented a Quaker's memorial in the welfare of Indians, praying that the love of peace may prevail, and just laws be passed for their protection. Mr. Eldridge's resolution was adopted relative to the collection of income tax from the Shakers of :New Lebanon. Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, moved to inquire into the expe diency of amending the internal revenue law, ex empting from stamp duty official bonds executed for religious, benevolent, or charitable societies. Dec. 16.—Mr. Hubbard, of West Virginia, brought up his bill to facilitate the resumption of specie payment. It provides that after the Ist of July, 1868, 20 per cent. of all duties on imported goods may be paid in United States notes ; after the Ist of July, 1869, 40 per cent. ; after the Ist of July, 1870, 60 . per cent. ; after the ' Ist of July, 1871, 80 per cent. ; and after the Ist of July, 1872, the whole. Referred to committee of Ways and Means. As was also that offered by Mr. Brooks, of New York, relating to legal tender notes, which provides that the Finance Committee of the Senate and the Committee of Ways and Means shall inquire into the expediency, first, of making legal tender notes receivable in part pay ment of Customs duties, say five per cent. after the first of January, 1868 ; ten per cent. after the first of February, 1868 ; with like proportion after the first of March, 1868 ; second, of repealing the legal tender act on all contracts made after the first of March, 1868, or, if not repealing it, enabling con tracts to be made payable in gold and silver. Mr. Benjamin, of Missouri, offered a resolution reciting that the President in his late Annual Message had seen fit, in utter disregard of the popular will as expressed in the election of the members in the XLth Congress, to recommend the repeal of the Re construction laws, the effect of which would be to re mit the government of the late rebellious States to rebel hands, and abandon the entire loyal element there to the will of traitors, and that it is emi nently proper that the House should respond in emphatic terms to so extraordinary a proposition, and resolving that the House will never consent to take a retrograde step from its advanced position in promoting the cause of equal rights, nor to deviate from its fixed purpose of protecting all men as equal before the law, that there is no reason to doubt that the restoration of the rebellious States is being successfully accomplished on a firm and enduring basis, and that no good reason exists why the Reconstruction Acts should be repealed. Mr. Kerr's movement to lay the resolution on the table was defeated by 112 to 32, and the resolution and preamble adopted by a strictly party vote of 111 yeas to 32 nays. Mr. Butler, of Massa chusetts, moved to suspend the rules to enable him to offer a resolution, declaring that in the judgment of the House all the indebtment of the nation ought to be paid in exact ac cordance with the Acts of Congress creating it, but not otherwise; that is to say, all loans enacted to be paid in gold, to be so paid, and all loans not so enacted to be payable, ought to bepaid in lawful money of the United States. The rules were not suspended. Yeas, 63 ; nays, 83 ; and the resolution was not received. The Speaker pre seated a message from the President, transmitting copies of the papers relating to the trial of Albert Lusk, of Indiana, in New Orleans, and stating that no action in the case had yet been taken by the Pre sident. Th e message was referred to the Judiciary Committee. [lle indorsement on the papers by the Secretary of War ad interim is that the crime was a most fearful and brutal one; that this was the first trial for murder by a military commission under the Reconstruction Acts, and that the sen tence should be carried into effect.] The House then, in committee of the whole, with Broomall, Pennsylvania, in the chair, proceeded to consider the Deficiency Appropriation Bill, which appropriates $118,892, including the following items : for stationery for the House, $15,000 ; fur niture, repairs, and packing-boxes, $20,000 ; fold ing documents, including material, $50,000 ; news papers, $12,500. To the latter claim is appended a proviso that hereafter no member of either House shall be allowed or be paid for newspapers and sta tionery for any one year more than $125 in money, or its value. After the rejection of two amend ments the committee rose, and reported back the Bill to the House, when the rules were suspended by 84 to 39, and the Bill read a third time and passed without amendment. John Mitchell, editor of the New York Irish Citizen, but better known for the part he took in the out break of 1848, has been offered the presidency of the re united Fenian Senate, which, after some negotiation, is to be composed of seven nominated by Roberts, and seven by Savage, who is supposed to be the legitimate successor to James Stephens. If John Mitchell refuses, the senate thus constituted will elect a president. A PLEA FOR THE HOUSEHOLD FAlRlES.—Panto mimes are n'ot dull this year because we are blasé or de pressed with the badness of the times. They have taken away our children. There we sit night after 446111 iu gigantic Covent Garden or lordly Drury Lane, but no sweet music of children's laughter goes echolug-through the house. Where are. those .little golden-haired boys and fairy girls who used, in the good old days, to clap their little hands and jump about iu a wild ecstasy of delight ? Gone ! all gone to morning perforn.- ances, and we aro left to enjoy the banquet with no ex hilarating drink to wash it down. Not only on the selfish grounds we have mentioned do we object to morning performances of pantomimes. Are modern children more virtuous than we were ? It was not the pantomime alone tha.t delighted us in our childhood We liked the drive to the theatre in the carriage ; the gas-lit streets ; the dissipation of sitting up late, and a supper to crown everytEng. I We would have sneered at a morning performance. • It is only once a year, kind mothers. They aro a lit tle bit cross next day, perhaps; but that soon wears off. , Leave morning performances to the inhabitants of Surbiton and Streatham, Hen don and Edmonton,—forks who can't get back home at night; but let us have our little folks back at the even ing pantomimes, so that their shrill voices niay waken up the British audience, and -.their bright faces dissipate its gloom. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HdIoway's Pills.- Winterly Draw backs.—Whence fogs spriu,g or whether they retire, it is not our present purpose to .explain, we desire to point out holi their ill effects on the li.uniau frame can be neutralised. The blood must be freed .from superfluous carbon and mephitic taints by seine pnr. ifying medicine like Hello- Ava>'s Pills; which not only cleanse the circulation, but adjust iu every organ the defer is imposed upon it by that fluid when it has become foul .or sluggish. These Pills prevent stagnation, congestion, and are the best regu lators and preservatives against internal inflammations, irritations, and ulcerations, while expelling morbid matters . from the system, they cool it, )y their gently aperitive active, and stren4then it by their tonic Yk.tuefs. 1. . WHAT IS IT THAT _IRELAND WANTS? It is not unseldom asked, with an air of seem ing innocence, What in the world can Ireland want? The question carries with it its own answer, to a mind that will reflect upon it. For it displays the profound ignorance of the enquirer, whilst the state of Ireland calls for the clearest know ledge, and the most consummate wisdom and pru dence. It betrays the self-satisfied complacency of prejudice, indignant at being called to account ; whilst the condition of Ireland requires the most impartial investigation, and the well-being of Eng land the most rigid self-examination. It savours of the slothful pride of a master accustomed to take his ease, and Ireland needs the solicitude of a tender and unwearied mother. It argues disregard of Ire land's appeals for just consideration, and heedless ness of England's past iniquities. Those iniquities still cry to Heaven, for no reparation has been yet attempted. Nay, the injustice itself is not wholly done away. True loyalty does not consist in idle abuse of Fenianism, but in endeavouring to remove its cause. All the Fenians in America could do no harm to England, through an Irish channel, if she would but take the pains to consider Ireland's wants, and set herself in earnest to win Ireland's heart. It would be an easy and a grateful task, and the sooner it is entered upon the better. For, until it is taken up and followed out, Ireland will never be at rest. Then would Ireland be England's buckler as now she is her thorn. What was it gave the Fenians birth ? What now gives them ground for action ? What is the fulcrum on which their lever rests to upset the hated English incubus ? It is Ireland's discontent which arises out of Eng land's disregard. England endeavours to govern Ireland from an English point of view. Would England rest content under an Irish mode of go • verning ? Let her do as she would be done by ! How many of our English legislators have been at the pains to visit Ireland, and inform them selves of what Ireland wants ? Ho% many of them who have crossed St. George's channel have done more than enjoy a pleasant tour, with a laugh at Irish humour, and, it may be, a chuckle at Eng lish superiority ? How many, out of the few who have done more than this, have sought their infor mation in the quarter which represents the Irish people ? They may have asked it of the wealthy Protestant landlord, and the intruded Protestant parson, but they ought to have gained it from the parish priest, from the industrious Irish farmer, from the enterprising and intelligent Irish mer chant. These are the true representatives of the Irish people, and the mouthpieces of Irish feeling; the others do but in general represent the do minant English power, and speak the voice of English interest. We are not Fenians, God forbid ! Nor are we Irish, though we might well be proud of such a nationality. We are English, but we are just. We are loyal, but we are true. Nor shall our gra titude as Catholics to the noble - Irish nation beguile Us beyond the limits of justice in estimating her due claims. As Catholics we are Ireland's debtors, but as Englishmen we are more. We belong to a country which has done her injury, and we are bound to call on our country to repair it. Loudly as we condemn the means to which a revolutionary faction has lately had resort, we cannot let it be supposed that we see no cause for Ireland's dis affection. We are not puzzled to answer the quer tion :—What is it that Ireland wants? First of all, she wants attention, and the attention of a mother. The Irish character is a loyal one, but loyalty requires reciprocity. If England had acted loyally to Ireland, she would have had no children so true to her as the Irish. Why is it that Ireland hates her ? It is becaus2 England disregards her cries. Better Fenians, better anything than England as it is, is the present feeling of the Irish race. And so it will contiune till Englishmen are at the pains to ascertain for themselves what it is that Ireland wants ! Westminster Gazette. SENSATIONAL ITEMS.—A crime of more than or dinary atrocity was committed by Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Chatham, New York, early last month. It appears ti at they bad insured for $5,000 the life of their little daughtL a girl twelve years of age. To obtain this money they murdered the child, and, to conceal the crime, set fire 0 the house.—A fire, accompanied by circumstances of unusual horror, occurred at New York on ti) 3 16th of December last. It broke out at two a.m. :a a six-storey building in Second Avenue, where 150 pe; - - sons were asleep. The dense volume of smoke penetrating into the rooms drove the occupants in a panic upwards till they reached the garret, when they endeavoured to escape by a ladder through the ventilator in the roof. The lad der broke, when, iu a frenzy of fear, the people threw themselves from this enormous height into the street, where all must have been killed but for the masses of snow which broke their fall. Some escaped by the gutter pipes ; others by ladders. Twenty-three were rescued by the police, and seven dead bodies were found in the upper room. The house was a " model" tenement, and against the owner, who is accused of murder and assassination, the people vow vengeance, as the building is supposed to have been set on fire, and 11 persons perished in the flames. As we have fairly embarked on horrors, we give the story' of Mrs. Boone, the widow of the actor, and he: four children, known as "infant prodigies." After act ing sham sensation scenes, these poor children being reduced to the last stages of want, enacted a real tragedy. Mrs. Boone having pawned everything, adm nistered laudanum to the whole family. Perhaps she had not money enough to effect the object she contemplated or the drug was adulterated, for they were all discovered by the police in a state of unconsciousness, and conveyed to the hospital. The family remain in a critical state. To these cases we add the railway accident on the Ver mont Central Railroad, which occurred on the 11th Dec. A carriage, with 75 men, employed in rebuilding a bridge recently burnt, was backed off the abutment. The fall was 60 feet, and the car, as it was precipitated, broke in three pieces; one part fell on a shelving rock, whore 25 men lay half-way down the bank; 19 were killed and 40 desperately injured. It is remarked as singular that none were killed who fell the entire depth. Frank Abbott, the driver, has been censured, though, it is said, the engine was beyond his control. Mr. Locklin, assistant superintet_dent of the road, and Major Tenney, the master bridge . builder, escaped by jumping from the train. Of the injured more than 30 belonged to Vermont, and many wore French Canadians. The dead were taken to North field, where the accident occurred, and five surgeons from that town, and six from Montpelier, were quickly on the spot. We cannot close this grand record without. giving a big thing in robberies. On the 13th Dec., while the snow fell end the wind howled over Now Yolk, a mes senger proceeded to the' Bank of New York, front the Clearing-house, by Wall-street, with his satchel filled with cheques and drafts. A man driving a sleigh stopped and seized the bag, with which he jumped into the vehicle and drove off, the messenger hanging on to the property till he was stunned by a blow on the head and left lying in the snow. The cheques and drafts amounted to $3,600,000, of which payment has of course been stopped, but the thieves have not yet been discovered. Admiral Porter gives a glowing report of St. Thomas, setting forth the excellence and defensive capa bilities of its harbour. The inhabitants, he says, " are hospitable to a fault, and they are mostly coloured and extremely well educated." His Majesty of Denmark has published a pathetic proclamation, in which he takes leave of his islands, commending them to the protection of the Almighty in-a way scarcely complimentary to the United States. Births. BLISS—On the 3d inst., at 54 Penshurst-road, South Hackney, the wife of Mr, Henry Bliss, of a daughter. GLANDFIELD —On the 4th inst., at 1, Leiden Villa, Vic toria-park-road, Mrs. G. Glenfield, of a daughter. JONES the 3d inst., at 10, Angell-park Villv, Wilt shire-road, Brixton, the wife of Robert Canning Jones, of a son. Marriages. CLARK—MATNE —On the 2d inst., at the parish church, Brighton, Lieut. Bouverie Francis Clark, R.N., to Maria Catherine Colburn, daughter of William Colburn Mayne, Esq. TOD —BARBER—On the 2d inst., at St. Luke's Church, Cheltenham, James Tod, Eq., advocate, Edinburgh, to Constance Mary, only daughter of the Rev. Meyrick Barber, rector of Simonburn, Northumberland. Deaths. DES VCEUX. —On the 4th inst., at Drakelowe, Sir Henry William Des VOMI X, Bart., aged 61. CHAMBERLAIN —On the 28th ult., at Versailles, the Dowager Lady Chamberlain, aged 82. CooK—On the 3d inst., at 47, Portland-place, James Cook, ' Esq., aged 76. DOYLE —On the 2d inst., at 40, Clifton-gardens, W., John Doyle, Esq., aged 70. EDIN'ARDS—On the 3d inst., at Spike House, Hammersmith, Thomas Edwards, Esq., aged 70. FRASER—On the 2d inst., at 4, Albyn-place, Edinburgh, Lieutenant-Colonol James Fraser, 0.8., late 2d Bengal Cavalry. JAMON—On the Ist inst., Wm. Janson, Esq., of St. Leonard's-on-Sea, aged 63. PaLmEn—On the 3d inst., at 46, Portlnd-place, Charlet; James Palmer, E6q., aged 61. London : Printod and Published by WiLLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 'lia SUN Office, No 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Sr voy, in the County ct f Alieldrosia.—Monday, January 6, 1868. i