The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, According to the Times, the fact that so many special constables have come forward makes it highly improbable that they will be called upon to perform any rea l d u ty. The most determined conspirators are awed when they find society against them. It is, however, highly important that the efficiency of the new force should be maintained. It is obvious that the improvised police army recently created can be of the greatest service as supplemental and auxiliary to the standing police body. We have already a well organised force, trained and instructed, and what is desir- able is that the volunteer constables should assist and in crease the existing force. It is accordingly recommended that the special constables should be associated together in parishes. Those enrolled in each parish should elect a superintendent to command them, and one of the police stations in the parish should be appointed as the headquar ters of the division. It was originally recommended that men accustomed to command as officers in the regular or volunteer service should be chosen as superintendents; but it has been apparently thought, and with reason, that the special constables themselves might be trusted to exer cise a wise discretion in their choice. The special con stables in a parish may be divided and subdivided where the parish is large, and may again be aggre gated with the constables of other parishes where they lie in the same city or borough. Subordinate to the police-station selected as headquarters, and the superintendent attached to it, every police-station in the parish should be used as a rallying-point, with a deputy superintendent commanding a subdivision attached to it, and the subdivisions again may be divided into sections, assembling at some outlying rallying point under their as sistant-superintendent. The hierarchy is thus complete, though it manifestly admits of indefinite extension. We might have a united division in cities and boroughs with its superintendent-in-chief, divisions or palishes with their superintendents, sub-divisions at every police-station, with their deputy-superintendents, and sections at outlying stations commanded by assistant-superintendents. Lists of all the constables attached to particular points must, of course, be kept at each, and the roll of the united force is directed to be sent to Colonel Ewart, at the special con stables' office, at the Wellington Barracks. The facility with which a body thus organised can be summoned to action in case of necessity is manifest, and the Instruc tions of the Home Secretary contain a caut ion against the abuse of a tempting power. The special constables who have been enrolled are mainly men whose time is occupied in their respective trades and employ. ments, and who have come forward to defend the peace of the families and homes they labour to maintain. Such men must not be summoned to duty unless duty actually summons them ; and superintendents are warned to abstain from making undue calls on their time, and, except under circumstances not admitting of doubt or delay, not to turn out their men without the requisition of the police or the order of a justice of the peace. Elemen tary drill may be taught if the men have time and aro desirous of learning it, and the proper method of handling the constable's staff is declared to be an essential item of instruction. Under no circumstances should the loop be passed through a hole in the staff, or the staff be attached to the wrist by the loop. The Daily News gives the Government the credit of being actuated by the best intentions, but believes that they make a mistake in prosecuting a hostile newspaper for matter the publication of which they condone in friendly or neutral journals. The pretence of public danger will not bear examination. The prosecution will do more to create disaffection than the conduct of the prosecuted journal. The Government, against their wish and better reason, are obeying a blind impulse which a few months ago they felt themselves strong enough to disregard. In Ireland, in almost all her times of previous trouble there has existed a force of calm and liberal opinion which has restrained the propensity of the Executive to gratuitous measures of suppression, and has been a counterpoise to the efforts of the more violent factions. There are few traces of the existence of this feeling now. The t xtiu: guisher has caught fire. The engines are pouring, not water, but oil on the flames. The demand of excited loyalty for acts of vigour is urging the Government into petty and irritating measures. By all means let -Fenianism be struck hard and home. But let us have no ran dom blows, nor any mere beating of the air. It is a mistake to waste the forces of coercion and suppression. The prosecution of the North Briton made John Wilkes a martyr and a popular hero; and the prosecution of the Irishman may do the same for Mr. Richard Pigott. The Herald has no reason to doubt that the real evil of Ireland is the evil that prevents the development of its resources, and that Fenioasism is therefore only another form of the malady it pretends to be curing. The misfor tone now is the same which preceded the English conquest. Those who have, and those who have not, are equally prone to keep unsettled the relations which fructify in dustry and beatify good order and manly independence. All our legislation has been subject to these drawbacks, and till these disappear we should only deceive ourselves if we expect much more from any changes of the law we may contemplate than have already been realised for Ireland by the many great and fundamental legal changes which have followed our repeal of the Test and Corpora tion Acts. There has always been a worm in the bud of Irish industry beyond all the powers of treatment in the English Parliament, and the damask cheek and the hectic glow which we have been mistaking for the indications of health have been only the symptoms of an internal and deeply-seated disease that was undermining the patient in the proportion we were invited to admire her. Whatever we may do as legislators, therefore, we may expect little really to be done until the day when we shall see esta blished a system of honest industry and peaceful order based on the unwritten law of social fair play and manly independence. In the meantime, one of the best things we can probably do is to encourage people there to protect one another against the felonious violence they are unable to suppress, and to give the best help we can in the good service. The Slandc:rd asks the Daily News if it is content to regarded as a Fenian organ, or, at any rate, as sympathiz ing with the Fenian movement ; and its reason for putting this plain question is its insertion of a letter on Saturday. from Colonel Burke's solicitor, calling upon the charitable to subscribe to a fund for providing the expenses for that person's defence. Now this Colonel Burke has been busy for months in this country, purchasing arms, plotting and organising a movement hostile to the Crown and the em pire. There can be no reasonable doubt in the mind of any one who has perused the evidence upon which he has been committed, that he is a prominent agent in the conspiracy which is at this moment disturbing the three kingdoms. The columns of the press teem daily with appeals for the relief of overwhelming distress ; and amongst them the chief claim is that of the poor and populous district of Clerkenwell, laid desolate, as if by an earthquake's shock, by this accursed Fenian agency, and yet the Daily News lends the authority of its columns to an appeal for Colonel Burke. Our contemporary has for some time past taken rather a Republican than a Radical view of political ques tions ; and it certainly is a good deal more American than lingli.,ll in its general reflections on the policy of this country. But we would respectfully pat out for its con sideration that it is possible to overdo things. There are American papers which do not advocate the annexation of Canada ; and American journalists who do not consider it necessary to espouse the cause of Juarez : nay, there are influential journals in New York which have denounced Fenianism in as strong language as any that has been employed on this side of the Atlantic. 1\ o doubt the Daity News was only carrying out its principles in sup porting the strength of the Federals against the South i no doubt Quashee was a very good client in his suit against Governor Eyre ; the King of Dahomey might serve a use ferl and even the great Neu is himself—but Fenian fire and plot, never ! In alluding to the rumour of the probable retirement n 1 Sir ItiehardMayne, the Telegraph reminds us that , in appointing his successor the principal object to be kept in view is th e special fi tness of the chief to develcpe . the civ il efficiency of the corps. The post is one very difficul t to fill well, and, if fill ed b y any one unequal to the posit ion, the injury to the public would be of the most serious kind. Great firmness, rapidity of judgment, much knowledge of the world, the habit of command, the power of discerning character, are all required to make, not only a first-rate, but a respectable head of the police. When the late Lord Melbourne was urged to appoint a gentlepan to a magistrates , on the bench of police agistrates, he ask e d if the candi date had anything of a fool about him, " because," he added, " a police magistrate's is th e O ne pos i tion in life in which the slightest element of folly is absolutely certain to display itself." What is true of an ordi nary magistrate is still more true of a comm i ss ioner of police. Now, it is obvious that many of the qualities which we have enu men merated are more likely to be found among milita than amidst civilians ; and ther e fore, in mac of a va ry cancy in the Chief Commissionership, it is no t improbable th: Government should incline at first to appoint an &Al soldier to the post. Yet, experience has shewn that s uc h a selection would be inadmissible. A man trained in civil life, with a civilian tone of thought, ci vi l ian ru l es of con duct, and a true appreciation of civil r e lations, can alon e impart to our police that character which constitutes its rea strength, and its hold on the public respect and sur port. The Post, in discussing our chances of success in rthrs.iinia, would have us remember that Theodore has already shewn hizasAf an adept in the art of keeping what I,e has got, and there is every prospect that he will take measures to send the captives, and, if he cannot reach those at Magdala, at any rate those he has wit!i him, as far away as possible from the reach of the British army which is seeking them, and a very slight start would enable him to place such a distance between the two as would render the return of the force with the prisoners by the end of March a, simple impossibility. But, unless so much is effected, not only will the object of the expedition not have been gained, but it will be exposed to the greatest peril even in the matter of bare subsistence, and will have to take up an entirely new position and task, involving nothing less than a permanent occupation of Abyssinia under the most unfavourable circumstances. As we know that at present such an occupation is not intended, it is probable that the eventuality has not been provided for. Nevertheless, there are, as we have seen, the strongei-t reasons for expecting that it will have to be met, and w , can only hope that the difficulty of meeting it may be less than it at present a p pears. But there is a - very great risk of its proving rather greater than less, teAIAL E FFECTS OF IMPURE WATER. A fortnight ego eight or nine men of the Plymouth livision of Royal Marine Light InfAtry, stationed at 3tonehouse Barracks, died within a short interval of each )ther from fever of a typhoid character. A circumstance so unusual caused much anxiety, and a medical court of inquiry was held, under the presidency of the acting colonel-commandant, when five or six medical gentlemen connected with the division and the military hospital made an investigation concerning the outbreak. It was ultimately found that the deceased men had been living in the recently-erected wing of the barracks, the men in which were supplied with water by a pump connected with a lar ge reservoir or well beneath a portion of the barrack 7 yard, which reservoir was formerly used for the purposes .)f a brewery standing on the site now occupied by the barracks. This water has been highly prized as tieing beautifully sparkling and pleasant to the taste, so iuucb so, that it was supplied on special occasions to the tables of the officers' mess. The court of inquirn.how ever, came to the conclusion that this water contained organic matter anti gases detrimental to health, and jrdered that thopump in question should not for the future be • used. This order has been in force for nearly a fort night, and it is satisfactory to note that there has not been since that date a single case of typhoid fever in the bar racks. Meanwhile some of the water from the well which is supposed to have caused the mischief has been sent to I.n eminent analyst. A theory may be suggested to ac count for the presence of organic matter in any deep well in that part of Stonehouse. It is u fact better known to the past than to the present generation, that beneath a large portion of the township a vast cave or caves exist in the limestone rock. These caves have often been explored for hundreds of yards from various direc tions, and records of some of these explorations are con tained in the numbers of the European Magazine pub lished at the close of the last century. One of the notable features of these recesses were two or three wells of pro digious depth, and of admirable water. For the past fifty years the entrances have been closed, but when houses were first erected'in Stonehouse some of the builders com pensated for the absence of any system of sewers by making openings into and draining into these subterranean chasms, and we beieve that to this day some houses in that manner dispose of their sewage. It is easy to sur mise that the accumulated sewage of generations may have percolated through the limestone into any well bored in the self-same rock.— Western Morning News. LAW AND POLICE. THE PRODUCTION OF A PERSON NAMED IN A LEASE OP LIVES. — Vice-Chancellor Stuart had before him a motion on behalf of the trustees of St. John's Hospital, Cirencester, for an order to produce a person named in a lease of lives, dated in 1839. The motion was made under the statute of Queen Anne. It was stated that the person referred to was some years ago convicted of feloky ; that after being released from prison he worked at his trade of a carpenter at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, and that he kept up a correspondence with his friends at Cirencester, but that in 1855 he discontinued such correspondence, and had not since been heard of. It not being known whether the per- son named in the lease was living or dead, this motion had become necessary. The Vice-Chancellor ordered the lesse e to produce the person referred to to the steward of the trustees at the door of the parish church of Cirencester that day month. POINT UNDER THE CRIMINAL LAw.--in the matter ox the Queen v. Brown, an application was made to the Court of Queen's Bench for an order, commanding the Commissioners of the Central Criminal Cour% to present the case for the consideration of the court. Tho Attorney-General had granted his fiat for a writ of error, and a record had been made up, but not the proper record. Brown, with others, was tried for larceny in stealing and receiving silk. Objection was taken that the counts for receiving had not been proved, as they did not allege the property was the same as that stolen. The Recorder, after considering the point, said the prisoners must be acquitted, and the deputy clerk entered the verdict not guilty. The Recorder then directed the prisoners to be detained in custody, and a fresh indictment was preferred against them. On the second trial they pleaded that they had before been acquitted, and on the production of the minute book it was found that the entry of the verdict of not guilty had been altered by the Clerk of Arraigns, and upon that the court declined to receive the plea, and the prisoners were tried, found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude. The learned Recorder had refused to strike out the interpolation and return the record of not guilty merely. The court held that there was no pretence for the application. THE BISHOP'S CASTLE RAILWAY COMPANY.--LA the Court of Exchequer a motion was made, on behalf of the Railway Clearing Committee for an order calling on one Mr. Plowden, a shareholder in the Bishop's Castle Railway Company, to show cause why he should not pay £SMS, the amount of a judgraent obtained against the company. In answer to a writ issued against the company, the sheriff of Montgomerysair3, where the company carried on business, wrote that all the effects of the company had been sold a month before. Various persons were sent there and the adjoining county to see if there was anything be longing to the company upon which a levy could be made, and they reported that nothing could be found. The under•sheriff also said that all the surplus lands of the company had already been seized. The court granted the application *as against Mr. Plowden, and also a similar motion against another shareholder of the company. SHAM COMMISSIONAIRES.—At the Marlborough-street Police-court, a man was brought before the magistrate charged with acting and dressing as one of the London Corps of Commissionaires without being enrolled in that body, contrary to the provisions of the Metropolitan Traffic Regulation Act. It was stated that although there was no desire to prevent men from earning a liveli hood as messengers or shoeblacks, or to establish a monopoly by means of licenses, the protection of the public required that such persons if not in the corps must not wear the uniform of those who were. The magistrate (as the proceed. ings were taken to establish the law and not to punish) inflicted a nominal fine and Costs. THE LATEST SWINDLE.—At the Westminster Volice court, a young man named Thompson was charged with obtaining money under false pretences. The wife of a butler at a gentleman's house said that the prisoner came to the house and left a letter addressed to her master, marked on the top, " Overland Route. Foreign dispatch, Js. 9d," It was marked " Private "on the back. 'The prisoner produced a ready-made written receipt, reeeipted it, and took the ss. 9d. As he was leaving the place wit ness's husband returned, and she gave him the letter, and he, having an idea that it was a swindle from what he had read in the newspapers, broke it open, and found it con tained a piece of old newspaper and an old envelope. He ran after the prisoner, who ran away, and, having caught him, took him to Walton-street police-station. Prisoner was searched, and a dozen letters were found on him, addressed to noblemen and gentlemen out of town. The prisoner said he knew nothing about the affair, ex cept that he was sent to deliver the letters. He was re manded for a fortnight. THE ALLEGED MURDER BY A BOY AT FINSBURY.— James Loader was charged beTore the magistrate at Wor ship-street, with having caused the death of John Strange ways, aged 13. The particulars of the case have already appeared, and the facts having been proved, the prisoner was remanded. MUNIFICENCE OF THE BECKETT-DENISON FAMILY AT LEEDS.-A very handsome church has been erected and endowed at Leeds, at a cost of about £15,000, by Mr. E. Denison and his son, Mr. E. Beckett-Denison, Q.C., and was consecrated on Saturday by the Bishop of Ripon. This is the third church built by the members of this family in Leeds within a few years. The last edifice has been called the Church of St. Chad, and is a very noble addition to the ecclesiastical architecture of the disti :ct. PICKPOCKETS AT A ROYAL BALL.—A couple of swell mobsmen eluded the vigilance of the doorkeepers during the grand ball to the Royal visitors at Liverpool on 'Thursday night, but were identified in one of the drawing. rooms by Detective•officer Carlisle, who was himself in full evening dress. The officer watched them for some time, until, having seen them pick the pocket of a well. known local lawyer, he quickly arrested them, and had them locked up in Bridewell. The prisoners were brought up before the Liverpool stipendiary on Saturday. and remanded. STARVATION IN WEST NORFOLK.—T wo shocking Za3C,3 of death by starvation have occurred within a day or two of each other ; one in King's Lynn and the other about six miles in the country. One was the case of a poor woman named Ann White, aged G 7 years, who was in the receipt of half-a-crown a week, pariah relief, out of which she paid is. a week for rent, so that she had ls. Gd. a week to find her food and clothes with. The evidence at the inquest shewed that she had been in the habit of sleeping on some mats and straw having no covering save an old sack or two. The medical man described the body as being in a state Of the most extreme emaciation. The stomach and intes tines were empty. Death was occasioned by bronchitis, accelerated by want of the necessaries of life. The other case was that of a man named Robert Hudson, a sawyer, who was found nearly dead, lying on th e snow by the side of the road, at Tottenhill. He was proved to have lived at Watlington, where he was found by the police officer lying on a bunch of straw—there being no bed or furniture in the house. Deceased left to go in search of work, and would seem to have fallen down from exhaustion by the aide of the road. The post-mortem examination shewed the istence of pneumonia ; and the jury returned a verdict " Died by the visitation of God, death being accelerated w privation and exposure," REPRESENTATIVE AND NON-REPRE SENTATIVE NEWSPAPERS. Kingship—the royal hereditary power posses sed by the crowned and anointed leaders of the nation—is becoming every day less honoured, less influential in Europe ; its essential character is changedi government is shifting its basis ; power is passing from the King to a certain class in the nation. Ibis class is not conservative in its instincts like the highest, nor destructive like the lowest, but it is influenced by either and partakes of the character of both. This great middle class in Europe preoccupied with its own business and ignorant for the most part of politics, allows in most of the countries of the continent the most incapable or the most ambitious or the most in triguing of itsmembers to become its spokesmen and electors ; and these, in their turn, areeasily swayed by popular demagogues, by self-consti tuted leaders, by organized societies, open or secret, and by the Press. Acting upon such mate rial, the Press creates a public opinion, which ex presses neither the wishes nor the interests either of the bulk of the people or of its most cultivated classes ; but before the dictates of this fictitious public opinion, law, legitimate rights, constitu ted authority, and religion itself are expected to give way. Society in Europe—those who govern and give the initiative to action—are falling more and more under the power of the Press ; it is therefore, to say the least, a curious study to watch and note, each one in his own circle, the influence and character of these irresponsible guides of the people, these teachers :of the intellectual Gospel of the nineteenth century - , these priests and kings of modern society. In England the great organ of the unthinking multitudes in the reading classes is the Times. It cannot be called a representative paper, for it re presents no class, no principles, no opinions save the fluctuating opinion of the moment. Now Tory, now Whig, now Puseyite,now Broad Church, it is the great political and religious weathercock of the country. It is quick in catching the breath of every wind, and glides gently round from point to point without resistance or regret. In the days when the Puseyite movement was taking the lead in the country, the Times was only too glad to place its n itsc lo o v lum em n en s t. Indeed h at the disposal greateofitnhfieneneeof th leade e r of the p T l i e m a e s s in , g o , r that itis the reflex of ari m se o s re f p ro ro m pe t r h l speaking the fact faet its power of arguments to enable they enable m cu e rr n en to t findso j p n ini stif o y n, to and themselves rg the um opinionswish to hold. The conversion of t he Tim e s is n ot a infrequent. Sudden events h a pp en which cause a revulsion in public opinion; this revulsion from one point to another, as it is s har p and q uick, de mands an almost instantaneous justification. There is no time for those gentle gradations which the Times delights in, and which it is so consummate a master of. An instance of such a sudden conversion occurred only the other day Under the pressure of the Clerkenwell outrage and of the necessity of justifying the severe measures of repression which public opinion loudly de manded, the Times penned the following sound and anti-revolutionary declaration :—" The fact is, we are reminded by this outrage of a truth which has, perhaps, been too much forgotten— we mean that treasonable conspiracies, with ex ceptions which cannot be taken into account be forehand, are not only the highest offences against the bond of society, but actually bring in their train the worst kind of ordinary crimes." This just and forcible condemnation "of trea- sonable conspiracies as the highest offences againts society," might have been copied from the late Papal Encyclical or Syllabus, but sounds strange in the mouth of the Times—the great supporter of treasonable conspiracies at Rome, the defender of Garibaldi and the red-Fenians of Italy —men who laid barrels of gunpowder in the drains under the hospitals, and who blew up the Barracks in that Garibaldianism should be supported and n and Fenianism deno unce d i n England , and the Rome. - But public opinion in England r i e tr a e ly d Times was equal to the task. paper pare r ; it cannot re p p r r o e p se e n rl t y s be no called a principles, rep rneo fisexnSetaducthivae opinions ; it merely reflects, though with sin gular accuracy, the passing changes of opinion in the popular mind. Such a course of conduct in the Times, though wanting in morality, is profitable, and its multitudinous readers are not ashamed of themselves or of their organ. On the other hand, the Daily News is a true representative paper. It has views of its own in which it believes and which under all circumstances it consistently upholds. Although utterly differing from its principles and from its liberalism, which is closer to the conti nental type than is to be found elsewhere in Eng land, there is pleasure and profit in reading such a paper, not only because it is ably conducted, but because it represents truly and fully the views of its party. The Pall Mall Gazette, the best purveyor of news in England, is, as far as it goes, a represe ntative paper. It represents intellectual unbelief. But it would be unfair to put down all of its very numerous readers as supporters of its principles. A certain number, it is to be hoped, seek only its ex cellently digested news, and do not share its un- Christian ethics. The Saturday Review, again, is the most widely spread and most popular of weekly papers among the educated classes, but it can scarcely be called a representative paper, or said to be influential in creating a school of thought, or of effectually sup porting any definite system. Its principles, and the conclusions it draws from facts as they arise, are too contradictory and uncertain to create a lasting impression on the minds of its readers. We often find, side by side in the same number, or in closely consecutive numbers, views and judg ments diametrically- opposed to each other. Now we are gratified by a just and thoughtful dis quisition on the truths of the Christian religion or the beauties of Christian ethics, and now we are startled by the avowal of atheistical propositions or offended by moral discussions bordering on the indelicate. Now De Maistre is praised, and no% Voltaire. The Saturday Review is like an unre flective man lost in a forest in an unknown 1 Id ; _ man it makes explorations innumerable in various direc tions, but works on no settled plan, pursues no consistent aim, and, consequently, arrives at no conclusive results. The sum-total of the effect it produces, where it does not simply lead to mental dissipation, is an unsatisfied intellectual craving and a hopelessness of results which is near akin to scepticism. The Spectator, on the other hand, has definite aims in view, which it pursues with vigorous, almost ruthless logic. Every line that it writes converges to one end, and there is nothing written ' between the lines. It represents ideas, which it follows out on every occasion ; it is a powerful, because a consistent ally of its own school of thought. It is a representative paper, and, there fore, more influential in forming the mind of the country than journals of a far wider circulation, which have no definite aims, or are subject to the action of contradictory principles. The English Press has no abler representative than the Spec tator of the growing intellectual unbelief of the day. Pity such powers are devoted to such a cause ! And here we ought to stop, in our brief review of representativeand non-representative papers, did it not seem incumbent on us to make a few re marks on our Catholic journals. We have, in reality, no representative paper. The Tablet is the best known and the oldest established paper, and it has earned for itself an honourable character foricon sistency as a political partizan ; but, in a body so divided on politics as the Catholics of England are, this very partizanship of necessity limits its influence. Besides the party questions to which it is chiefly devoted are of too narrow an issue to entitle the Tablet to rank as a representative paper. The Weekly Register and Catholic Opinion are little more than industrious if somewhat indiscriminate purveyors of Catholic news and of other men's knowledge. Of the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE it does not beseem us to speak, if for no other reason that we are now only engaged in laying down plans for an extensive scheme, the results of which have yet to come. In the meantime we can only ask the THE SUN, LONDON, IVIONDAY EVENING; generous forbearance of our supporters until our work is matured. What we need in a Catholic representative paper, is a capacity of joining in the larger issues raised by the intellectual strife and the war of principles which are going on around, and which reach down to the roots of social and moral life. Such an intellectual capacity is only gained by familiar and disciplined knowledge of Catholic principles. A representative paper must concern itself with both the lesser and the larger interests of Catholicism. But whatever it touches or treats of, great or small, must be done in perfect, and thorough, and joyful submission to the infallible authority of the Church. In defending Catholic interests or proclaiming Catholic principles, there must be no uncertainty or half-heartedness. Far less in a paper which has a representative charac ter and is regarded as such by those outside the Church, can there be permitted to pap ear th ose s ingular contradictions which we sometimes see in our Catholic papers of the very first principles of Catholic ethics. Whether we shall ever have such a representative paper or not, depends on the will and the energy of the Catholics of the United Kingdom. But of this we are certain, that the need of such a means of defence, of cordial intercommu nication, of greater unity of action and of thought, was never so much needed as in these eventful days, in which questions affecting the highest in terests of social, intellectual, and religious life, are being continually brought to the test of public discussion.— Westminster Gazette. THE NEW AUSTRIAN MINISTERS. Some interesting particulars are given by the Vienna press respecting the composition of the new Cabinet. A Ministry containing so few aris tocratic names, it appears, has never previously existed in Austria. Three of the new Ministers (Brestel, llerbst, and Plener) are Viennese born, and Dr. Beyer, the Minister without portfolio, is one of the members for the city. Th e majority of the Cabinet (Auersperg, Hasner, Taaffe, Herbst, and Plener) consists of members of the Bohemian Diet. No question appears to exist that the Ad ministration is altogether parliamentary in its character, three members being selected from the Upper House and the remaining six from the Lower. Brief sketches of the political antecedents of each will not be out of place. The new Premier, Prince Carlos Auersperg, was born in 1814, and became chief of his house through his father's death in 1827. He first entered public life in 1861, t a ki ng th e Liberal side in politi cs , and displayin g great interest in the conversion of Austria into a constitutional state. Elected a member of the Bohemian Diet in 1861, he became the leader of the constitutional party, and acted with the German members in most important questions. His appointment to the Presidency of the Upper House of the Reichsrath reached him only a few hours before the house assembled, but he showed himself during his term of office to be possessed of ample tact, and a man who under stood how to avert unpleasant scenes and disputes. The suspension of the constitution and the conse quent close of the Reichsrath, occasioned Prince Auersperg's abstinence for a considerable period from political life; but he was re-elected into the Bohemian Diet in 1867, and was conspicuous for his efforts to gain a majority for the party favour able to th e const i tut i on . The prince is distin guished in soci e ty f or e special amiability, and ex hibits so much no bility in mind and conduct that Herr von Schmerling styled him the " first gen tleman of Austria," a title that soon became popular. Count Edward Taaffe, the Deputy President, is the second son of the former President of the Su preme Court, and has rapidly risen through the various gradations of official life. In 1861 he was secretary in the office of the Governor of Bohemia, isenntgghaper d for became a councillor in the same department and head of the Provincial 1867 occupied the same year, and from 1863 to Court at Prague in the a district, became was then appointed governor of a privy councillor in 1867, and in the same year position of chief in the Duchy of Salzburg. He Interior. Very shortly afterwards he was elected goiCrsnacrhilnooG?llisoalasrtoaanvß'iara:nn in 1837, the young man that at of bo t d h y e isnutoccetehdeeßdotohenatihaen Diet, and c o h f os iV en lin b i y ste t as one of its representatives in the Reichsrath. playmateC upon on t is in high favour at Court, and is terms with the Emperor, whose was in early youth. the Minister of the Interior, in 1820. His father, a tan ner, gave his careful education. After i intimate i m a h a e ff a e t e . became assistant Professor of Political Economy in s lwe tu aasp d ir i nb ed at the University of Vienna, where he 1845. Elected to the Frankfort Parliament in 1848, he resigned his professorship, and, after the dissolution of the Parliament, practised as a bar rister in Western Russia. In 1850 he returned to some time afterwards obtained the advocate at Brunn. This proved the stepping-stone to fortune. From 1861 he en tered public life, was elected to the Reichsrath, position Vienna, ando f and speedily became distinguished. Dr. Giskra is credited with great administrative considered a man of rapid resolution and energetic talent. Proof of this was afforded the Prussian occupation of Brunn, post of burgermeister. The King Prince of Prussia are said to enter tainaaa lastnlic when td d i o y t n ah e eahearicnhgddrhe organizinguol rdwri and a story is current that the Crown Prince, when introducing Giskra to the King, made use of the expression, , 4 I pre sent to you here the most capable man in Austria." Dr. Hasner, the new Minister of Education, is now about fifty. Born in Prague, he became edi tor of the official Prager Zeitung in 1848, and im parted to the paper a moderately - Liberal tendency. In 1849 he was appointed Extraordinary Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Prague University. His election to the Bohemian Diet, and afterwards to the Lower House of the Reichsrath, took place in 1861. I n 1865 he became Professor of Poli tical Science at the Vienna University, and was appointed Hofrath. As he resigned his parliamen tary appointment at this period, it was supposed for a time that he was about to devote himself entirely to an academical career, but he again re turned to the arena of politics in 1867, .being elected to the Bohemian Diet as member for Tran tenau, and again transferred thence to the Reichs rath. An IMperial letter of May sth, which created several new peers in Austria, also appointed Hasner a life member of the Upper House. Dr. Hasner is favourably known as the author of , 4 The Philosophy of Law," and a system of Poli tical Economy, in addition to numerous contribu tions to legal periodicals. Herr von Plener, the Minister of Commerce, formerly Minister of Finance, was born in 1810 at Vienna, where his father, who was ennobled in 1850, was attached to the Court. He studied at the Vienna University, took his degree as Doc tor of Laws in 1832, and entered the public ser vice in 1836 at Eger. In 1851 he was sent on an extraordinary mission to Pesth, and upon the organization of the financial department in Hun gary in 18 52 was despatched with the rank of an Imperial Court Councillor to Pressburg, to take the head of the newly-established finance office in that district. After filling a similar position at Lemberg in 1857, he was summoned to Vienna, where he was made a privy councillor, and en trusted with the provisional direction of the Minis try of Finance, as the successor of Baron Bruck. Upon the accession of Herr von Schmerling to the Cabinet, at the latter end of 1860, Herr von Pleuer was definitively appointed Finance Minister, and held the office for five years, his tenure only termi nating with the fall of the Schmerling Cabinet. In 1867 he was elected to the Bohemian Diet, and thence passed to the ReiChsrath, where he joined the Opposition. Count Alfred Potoski belongs to an old Polish family, many of whose members have risen to the highest dignities in the State, the army, and the Church, since the 16th century. In 1861 he was appointed to the hereditary Reichsrath, and elected the same year a member of the Galician Diet. Ile again entered the- Diet in 1867, and was elected by' it to the Lower House of the Reichsrath. By the JANUARY 13, 1868. Emperor's desire he resigned his post in order to take his seat in the Upper House. The Count enjoys high reputation as an excellent landlord and agriculturist. He has introduced model farms and improvements into his native district, and administers his enormous landed property with great ability. Professor Edward Herbst, the new Minister of Justice, is just forty-seven years of age. He studied at the Vienna University, took his doctor's degree, then became Professor of Legal Philosophy at Lemberg in 1847, and was transferred to Prague, in a similar capacity, in 1858. His entry into poli tical life began in 1861 at the Bohemian Diet, where he was associated with Bring and Hasner in the leadership of the German party. Herbst is not only the hardest worker, but also the cleverest dialectician at the Reichsrath and the Diet. No one is equal to him in readiness of repartee, yet his quiet and self -command often drive his oppo nents to despair. His experience and knowledge of Austrian finance have been acquired in the Reichsrath, and it is not to be denied that he is among the severest critics of this department. His achievements, however, in the field of juris prudence are still more extensive, and his advent to the Ministry of Justice is generally approved. Dr. Rudolf Brestel, who has had the courage to undertake the most difficult post among all the Ministries—that, namely, of finance—was born at Vienna, in 1816. His chief studies in youth were philosophy and mathematics. From 1844 to 1848 he filled the office of Assistant Professor of Elementary Mathematics at the Vienna Univer sity, and became member of the Austrian Reich srath in 1848. He entered subsequently into journalism, and has held the post of secretary at the Credit Institution for Trade and , Commerce since 1856. In 1861 he was elected to the Lower Austrian Diet, and thence passed into the Reichs rath. He is known as a ready speaker, and a firm adherent of the Constitutional party. Dr. Berger, the Minister without portfolio, was born in Moravia in 1816. Losing his parents early in life, he had to encounter hardships while going through the Gymnasium at Olmutz, but entered with great zeal upon the study of mathematics while attending lectures on philosophy. In 1834 he went to Vienna, where he studied law, but still indulged his liking for mathematics by attend ing Littrow's astronomical lectures. Subse quently he devoted himself entirely to the study of law, and took his degree as Doctor in 1841. Several articles from his pen appearing about this time in legal periodicals brought him into notice, and in 1844 he was appointed assistant teacher of natural and criminal law at the Theresian Rit terakademie. In 1848 he published "Press Freedom and Press Law," and the same year was elected a member of the National German Parliament by a Moravian constituency. Frankfort gave him opportunities of displaying his striking talent as a public speaker, his speech against the proposed offer of the dignity of German Emperor to the King of Prussia arousing great sensation. Returning to Vienna, Dr. Berger obtained the appointment of advocate in that capital, acquired a large practice, and was especially distinguished in defence. Since that time he has published several legal works. PARIS UNDER THE SECOND EMPIRE AND SOCIETY IN ENGLAND. The Paris of the Second Empire is still the Paris of the Revolution. In its morality, in its tone of mind, in its popular literature it still belongs t o the darker epoch. The politic conversion of Na poleon, his obedience to the will of the nation in regard to Rome must not be rated too high; at all events it is not the conversion of that cynical, self-indulgent society of Paris which thrives under the shadow of the Second Empire. Paris is still the city of contradictions and of startling contrasts. Side by side with its fashionable society, so offen sive in its tastes and by its ill-disguised immora lities, live sedate and sober men and women of the highest rank devoted to religion, and not more conspicuous by their simple lives than by their sted fast adherence to principle. Writers of the highest eminence, philosophers and politicians, unswayed by the favour of Courts, stand aloof in numbers from the corruption' and venality which surround them, and which stand in perpetual fear of their just influence on the country at large. By the side of a press which, year by year, pours out a flood of corruption, inundating with its poisonous, anti-social, and anti-Christian princi ples not Paris only, but the provinces and the lands which are tributary to France I for their mental aliment, there is another press at work, earnestly and successfully engaged in restoring to the nation and to the nineteenth century the lost heritage of knowledge in things human and divine. Nowhere is Christian charity more self-denying, Christian faith more transparent and energetic in action ; nowhere are the influences of religion more pervading in every relation of life over the hearts and minds of numberless men and women, especially in the higher grades of society, than in the city where vice is a fashion and cynical in fidelity an open profession. In Paris there are two cities—the city of light and the city of dark ness ; and the best proof of the progress of reli gion in the land so long lost to Voltairianism, is the bitter struggle which is going on between the two for mastery. Evil is being exorcised, and, in its fury at being put upon its defence, waxes not only wroth and insolent, but seeks a refuge by endeavouring to plunge society into a mad vortex of dissipation. The Second Empire hates extremes. It sees in the triumph of the good the end of its own reign of intellectual stagnation and moral depravity ; but it fears still more the success of the chained Revolution, for evil once more let loose on the streets of Paris would be beyond the power of a Louis Napoleon to control. Hence the policy of the Second Empire is " bread and the games." It detests nothing so much as earnestness ; the mooting of serious questions troubles it like a bad dream. This desire to avoil at all hazards serious questions which might rouse the energies of France —for happily France is not Paris, whatever Paris may say to the contrary—lies at the bottom of the policy of the Second Empire. It is in the interest of this policy to drown, if possible, the voice of conscience and quench the light of reason. What means better adapted to such an end than the enervating fascinations and the luxurious pro fligacy of such a city as Paris, and of such a society as it alone is able to bring:together, aided by the encouragement and example of a dissipated and extravagant court ! It is already become too trite to remark on the manners of the ruling favourites of fashionable society in Paris. Any thing more unbecoming can scarcely be imagined than the rivalry before the public eye of painted vice and the not less bepainted leaders of society. The great world is becoming a stage, to which the populace of Paris are admitted as spectators. They cheer and hiss, they stare at and mob, they publish criticisms in the newspapers of the beau ties, of the arts and wiles, of the dress and bearing of these actresses of fashionable society. The manners, as well as the license of speech of the green-room, are invading the Parisian salons. The privacy of life is destroyed as well as the sanctity of home, and woman, to say the least, loses what Schiller describes as her greatest ornament— womanliness : Des Weibes grosste Zierde ist die Weiblichkeit The manners and tone of society under the Second Empire, combined with other causes, have not been without their influence upon England. London is not so far removed from Paris as it was twenty years ago. Twenty years ago French scepticism and social " fastness" were both shunned as un-English. No paper, for instance, of the clia, racter of the Pall Mall Gazette, without at least eliciting a storm of indignation, could have quietly, as it did the other day in a review of the year, put the question as a matter for consideration " whe ther any form of Christian faith be true." Such open avowals of unbelief, which pass unchal lenged, are not uncommon now-a-days in what is called the intellectual press. Statements of the kind wnuld never be made in so uncalled-for a manner unless public writers were conscious that their scepticism was very generally shared by their readers. Synonymous, whether consequent or not, with this growth in the cultivated classes of un belief, a laxity in manners somewhat akin to that of the Parisian Court is creeping over English society. The cynical discussion as to the " disuse of marriage," the flippant homilies on women in the Satin day Review, besides other instances which we forbear to discuss, are symptoms, if proof were wanting, that the old decencies and respec tabilities of English life are on the wane. It is impossible to look forward without misgiving to the breaking up of the hold which Protestantism, as a system of religion, had on the English mind. The lapse from Protestantism into unbelief, though longer delayed in England than in Protestant Germany, is but too likely to lead to- a greater social deterioration than is now to be found in France, for the decencies of English life are no substitute for the active defence of morality, and the reinvigorating power which the Church in France has always been able to bring to bear, even in the worst of times, on French society. More over, there is this difference between France and England at the present day : that the highest in tellectual activity of France—we are not speaking of the lower literature— is rising from the slough of infidelity to the knowledge of Christian truth ; whereas, in England, the tendency in the intel lectual classes is towards rationalism. Protes. tantism once dead can never revive ; there is, therefore, no reinvigorating power at present with sufficient means at its disposal to act upon English society in such a manner as the Church in France did when France fell a victim to Voltairianism. Though, in England, it is to be hoped that un belief will not come with such overwhelming force ; yet, as the means of protection and of restoration are less than in France, the danger of such an evil inflicting permanent injury is greater. What form the threatened religious and social Revolution, if it be not, as we trust it may, altogetheg, averted, what gradations it will follow, it is not easy to forecast. Old habits of mind, social traditions, reverence for the past, the soberness of the national character, are opposed to violent changes, and to public exhibitions of irreligion or of immorality ; but, in spite of these excellent qualities, indica tions are not wanting that the sanctities of domestic life are being held in lower esteem, and that the tone of English society is degenerating to that of Paris under the Second Empire.— Westminster Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) General Butler has been named for President, and the Hon. Ben. Wade for Vice-President on an ultra-Radical platform. A strong.,,movement is being made by the friends of Chief-Justice Chase. The central committee of the Republican party of Louisiana met at New Orleans on the 23d Decem ber, and unanimously nominated him for the Presi dency. The caucus of the Georgia Convention was almost unanimous for the same ticket—five dele gates only responding for General Grant. There is a rumour that should the Chief-Justice's friends fail to carry the Chicago Presidential Convention, they will withdraw to St. Louis, and there organise one they can control. They feel sure that the Southern States will vote for him if they can get into the National Convention, and for this purpose the Radicals in Congress will, if possible, hasten Reconstruction. " General Hancock and Minister Adams" is a ticket talked of by the Democrats. But although a strong section of the Radicals are opposed to General Grant he remains the people's candidate, and it will take a great deal to shake him out of this position. The President's Message, asking Congress pub licly to recognise the merits of General Hancock, which has been received with such derision through out America, is explained by the fact that the De mocrats have turned their attention towards the General as a candidate for the Presidency. Some Congressmen of that party waited on the President and asked his aid by directing public attention to him. Mr. Johnson the more readily responded, as he could imply censure on Congress while praising Hancock. The step was a false one, as the Demo crats have found, and no ?e they blame the Presi dent fog using his prerogative to advance the schemes of his political supporters. Its effect on the House of Representatives is seen by the resolution passed last Monday thanking General Sheridan for his services, and censuring President Johnson for re- moving him from his command. General Hancock may well exclaim, " Save me from my friends 1" Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record for Jan. 1 announces a large number of interesting Ame rican works. In noticing Charles Dickens's story in Our Young Folks, called "A Holiday Romance," the Messrs. Trubner doubt whether the purchasers of the copyright are protected by American law, although Messrs. Ticknor and Fields believe it cannot b 3 produced without their sanction even in England. This, however, is denied by another publishing- firm, which, yesterday, in the Times, asserted that a foreigner in the States is protected in his copyright by the law. If the tale can be pirated, it is considered another strong reason for American publishers to unite in demanding an international copyright. We extract the following items from Messrs. Trubner's literary table : "The Letters of the Hon. G. M. Dallas, during his residence in London as Minister in England, 1856-60, will shortly be published under the editorial revision of his daughter, Miss Julia Dallas. " Gail Hamilton has in hand a new volume on " Woman's Wi'ongs." " The lion. William B. Kenney, formerly United States' Minister to Sardinia, and previously editor of the Newark Advertiser, has been engaged for nearly ten years in the preparation of "A History of Tuscany." " Messrs. J. B. Lippincott and Co., of Philadel phia, are publishing what they term a " Globe Edition" of Lord Lytton's novels at a dollar and a half per volume. The volumes are printed in long primer type on toned paper, and form very handsome, portable, and readable books. . " Professor G. W. Greene is preparing an edition of the Work; with a Life of his Grandfather, Goneral Greene. " Mr. G. P. Putnam has just prepared and pub lished "An American Supplement to !Jaclyn's Dictionary of Dates." " Southern Society—a weekly jour?al of literature, society, and art—has just been commenced at Baltimore. In its list of contributors we recognise tie names of many of the most distinguished writers connected with the Southern States.. "Remarkable Trials of all Countries," is the ti tle of a book announced for speedy publication in New York. It will contain the trials of Charlotte Corday, Earl Fer rers, the Marchioness of Brinvilliers, Courvosier for the murder of Lord 'William Russell, Corder for the murder of Maria Martin, Robinson for the murder of Helen Jawitt, J. C. Colt for the murder of Samuel Adams, Sawney Deane, &c., &c. It is to form an Bvo. volume of about 450 pages. " We are glad to announce the appointment of our friend, Mr. M. U. Tyler, well known in England, to the Professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature in Mi chigan University." Under Secretary Seward's superintendence and the authority of Congress, a handsome book, called the "Lincoln Memorial," has issued from the Government printing office. Three thousand copies are printed ; only one copy is given to each member of Congress. Foreign Governments and societies which in any manner noticed the death of Mr. Lincoln are to have copies. The California Legislature has elected Mr. Eugenie Casserly to the United States Smite, in place of Mr. Couness, whose term has expired, after a ballot of several days. The Democratic party in the Senate gains one, and the Republican loses one by this change. Mr. Casserly'a term, however, will not commence before the 4th March, 1869. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, who has pro mised to address the people of New York " ou the condition of the South," is now on his way North. His address will be made at the Cooper Institute early in January. Mr. Stephens is in feeble health, and has to travel by easy stages. B. F. Martin, of Manchester, New Hampshire, W. F. Daniels of Franklin, and the proprietor of the Sun cook and Webster mill at Suncook, were arrestod on Dec. 17 by the United States officials, charged with ro venuw frauds. James W. Johnson, the Republican nominee for State Railroad Commissioner, is one of the most prominent and influential business men of northern New Hampshire. He is a native of Enfield, where he still resides, and which town he has three times represented in the State Legisla ture. His occupation as a wool and produce broker has given him an extensive acquaintance and strong influence. In polities he has always been Republican. A court of inquiry into the circumstances of the recent railroad disaster at Northfield is being held at that town. Engineer Abbott, on *heal the whole Name of the accident rests, testified that he was running only o ht miles per hour when he reversed his engine, three leng.ill s of the train from the chasm, and had the brakes been wel l manned he says that ho thinks the train might have bee° stopped in time. He had not drank intoxicating liquor for six months, and had no particular care or responsibility en his mind on the fatal day. Ho was running up to th e bridge a little faster than usual under instructions fioul Assistant-Superintendent Tenney, but none of his testi mony affords satisfactory explanation of his carelessness or cause for the accident. Another of the victims of the di aster was George E. Bancroft, of Burlington, who refuse d assistance, saying, " H.3lp the other boys, there is no kV ° for me," and died in ten minutes. • James C, Engly, agent of the Merchants' Uni° 3 Express Company, has been arrestedat Providence, Ithol e Island, charged with a conspiracy and an attempt to Oh the company's sa f e a t t h at city of $300,030. lie is in g: 1 " )l awaiting an examination. Engly is the man whose 0 1 '" rations in connection with Ithele Island ware the subje t Of legislative examination. Governor English, of Connecticut, has appointo l Origen S. Seymour of Litchfield, William J. Hammerslo) of Hartford, and John T. Wait of Norwich, commissioner'' to inquire what changes, if any, should be made in tile; joint-stock laws of the State, and as to the expediency di creating the office of State Attorney-aineral. The repori will be made to the next Legislature. Edward Rogers, a Philadelphia capitalist, has re• cently bought the "Island" in the Washington lake, Ol t New Haven, and is to erect a fine summer country hous e thereon. The Springfield Republican says :—The DeniocratS have a now candidate for the Presidency, and the stronges t one named yet, General Di; who will resign the missie s to France in a few months. Governor Fletcher has decided the closely con' tested election of a successor to Congressman Noon, o f the third Missouri district, by giving the certificate to GO' James It. M'Cormack, Democrat. Francis Tukey, formerly a famous criminal lawye r in Boston courts, and chief marshal of the city wide r Mayor Quincy ten years ago, died recently near Sacra' mento, California. In 1861 he was a member o f the California General Assembly. M. de Bille, the Danish Minister to the United States, has arrived at New York. There is a report tha t the Hon. John P. Hale, the United States Minister $ 1 Madrid, is to be transferred to Vienna. General A. D. Wass, of Boston, will be strolle r urged for Sergeant-at-Arms of the next Legislature, an d. letter of high commendation of his military abilities fro' Governor Andrew is p u bli s h e d . Gen. Wass went w ith the old Sixth Massa c h uset t s R egiment as one of its 01, lieutenants at the beginning of the war, and rose to bw present rank through the 19th, 41st, 60th, and 62d reg i. ments. He was three times wounded in the service. Henry H. Haight, Governor of California, is native of Rochester. Neal Dow was given a complimentary break' fast at the Quincy House, in Boston, on Thursday mor r ing, Dec. 19, by his friends and allies in the te m peranc e movement. William Lloyd Garrison and others made speeches. Mr. Dow expressed hi s regre t s th at pro hibiti°' n had been rebuffed in Massachusetts. A girl, ten years of age, was resuscitated at RIO; ney, Massach use tt s , t we l ve h ours a f ter she was suppo sed to have been drowned. She did not regain full conscious' ness for more than two days. Among the passengers by the Cimbria, last Tile!" day, at ziouthampton, from New York, were—Mr. M'Cl'; tock, United St a t es C onsul to Bradford, England, 313" Mr. William Heine, Colonel and attache United States D ee gation at Paris. General Meade has declined the removal in su e : cession to General Pop e i n th e T hird Military District' preferring to remai n i n comman d of the department ° the East. Messrs. J. and F. Howard, of Bedford, and 1 41. ' 0. H. lil‘Cormick, of Chicago, received grand prizes a t the Agricultural Exhibition at Bi l lancourt. There is a report that Commodore Vanderbilt, of New York, who has a c3ntrolling interest in th e Long Island Railroad, intends putting a line of steamers on ti le route from Greenpoiut to Stunington or New London early next spring, to be run in connection with the trai ls on the Long Island Road, so as to make the shortest rout ° from Boston to New York A. H. Byington, of the Norwalk Gazette, is t° 4 have control of the publishing department of Dana's se" enterprise, the New York Sum. • • Mr. Ashley, the impeacher, in big late letter; says:—"ln the estimati on o f many t h e s i tuat i on doman de a scapegoat, and I have been selected by the a nti -O r peachers to bear off their sins and to divert public attentio o from the stupid inconsistencies of the panic-stricken itl v. poachers." Mr. Raymond, of the .New York Times, has s tated that in going int o th e Phil adelphia Convention he WV'a to inaugurate a true Union movement in the South, but the Republican party aro not ready for it. Mr. Jefferson Davis and his wife have arrive d in Havannah on their way to New Orleans. The Austrian frigate Novara, with the renzia :9 ! of the late Empror Maximilian o u b oar d, arr i ve d o ff C°t'l l last Wednesday. Jacob Barker, ruined by the civil war, is 13 ° 11 , before the courts as a bankrupt. His fortune at one was immense. Freeman B. Smith, a counterfeiter, fled fr° l : Toledo, lowa, to Ki ngs t on , C anada, where he was f°' lowed, and his surrender demanded by the State autll°- rities of lowa. This was resisted by his counsel, S" maintains that counterfeiting is forgery, and forgel 1 not within the provisions of the extradition treaty. An argument of Lucy Stone, on the 26th.flocU ir ber, when holding forth at Brooklyn on Woman Suffrage''.4 was to the effect that a soldier imperilling his life for 14 a country had in all ages and stages of civilisation acqu ire , rights as a freeman, that is the right to vote ; but 9 0 5 , woman imperill e d h er life to bring the soldier into t'o world she also acquired a right to vote. Mr. James Hutton has resigned the editor of the Leader. Chief Justi ce G eorge Martin, of Ohio, die d t a Cleveland, on Sunday, Dec. 15, Rear-Admiral James Palmer, commander of the north Atlantic squadron, dial at St. Thomas, West Indies, on Dec. 7, of yellow fever' The Maine shipbuilders and owners held a O r vention at B a th , on Thursday, Dec. 19, and appoint ed agents to pres s upon C ongress the removal of duties upon articles used i n s hi p b uilding, and to repeal all nufrioncil ~ legislation. Dele ga t es w ere also chosen to the Nation fL Commercial Convention to he holden at Boston February. LADvEnnsEmENT. I —Holloway's Pills.—The dark °!: 6 dreary days of w i n t er d epress the mind and disorder 'll body ;to the former condition occupation yield-the , be cl relief ; for th e l a t ter state Holloway's pills are safe t , certain remedies; they cleanse the blood from any t it ` l' s the body from every noxious matter, and exert sil , „ v , general good effect upon the system that indigeeti." te , bifiousness, headache, dimness of sight, loss of apP e „ tt c e. debility, and nervousness disappear under their influe' a ll These pills may be relied upon by both sexes, under w p climates and circumstances. As a family medicine are invaluable, because th e y ma y h e f ear l ess ly a dinivi'a tered the moment pain or indisposition is perceived, all thus avert a long illness and its many annoyances. Die [ADVERT ISEMENT.]-Ilenceforth no one will doubt the valit!io properties of Du Barry' s h ea l t h- restor i ng Revalenta Arno Invalids' and Infant s ' F oo d , s i nce to t h e thousands of blePleett it aria a'reatly received from Invalids whose position had J nn e deezied hopeless, we may now add that o f hi s H o li ness the 13701 whose heaLa ilb.B been perfectly restored by it a ft er thirty 38,06, of unsuccessful medica treatment. We quote from th e "d a), of du Midi," July 25th Rome, July 21, 1866.—" Th e heal the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning e 'B other re nedies, he has confi ne d h i mse lf ent i rely to Du Barj'itil Revalenta Arabica Food, of whi c h h e consumes a pla,eol at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene.', l ,l9 effect on his healtk, and his Holiness cannot praise excellent food too highly." We extract a few out r(5 O more than 68,000 c ures: —C ure No. 58,216, of the Marchio de Brehan, of seve n y ears ' liver complaint, wasting 0 10 debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, e r digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable' or d vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771 : L or d S tuart de Decies, , Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N 0.49, 73 00, " Fifty years' ind escr ib a bl e agony from • dyspepsia, nervous ne s s asthma, cough, constip a ti on, fl atulency, spasms, sickness, rith vom i ting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46 , 270 : M r. James Itohe_A, of Frimley, Surrey , o f 30 years ' diseased lungs, spitting of liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Cautio.%o Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy nnitat 3 N y to which, witho u t au th or i ty Baron Liebig ' s name is most s u" clonsly attached In tins at Li: lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lb s., 4 s . Gd' ; 5 lb s ., o.i 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.—BABUY Du BARRY and Co., 1•1 0 :_,,; itegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182 piecadTig, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and Ostord-street; 330 Strand; and all grocers and chemists. Births. laPrmaNN—On the 11th inst., at 50, Albert-street, G lol' tester-gate, the wife of K. B. Lippman, Esq., of a 0 0 ' Ponz—On the 11th inst., Mrs. Charles Thomas Port, 01 * son. WATNEY—On the 11th inst., at Bedf or d-p ar k , C roy d on , + llO wife of Daniel Watney, Esq., of a son. Marriages. .9 1 ! FRASER —CLEATIIER —On th e 9 t h i nst., at the p--.rlol church of St. Marg are t' s, L ee, C apta i n John Fraser,io Balnain, and Farraline, Inv e r ness - s hi re , l a t e of t , Bengal Army, t o K at h er i ne, youngest daughter of ," late Captain Thos. Cleather, Bombay Artillery. PAWSEY—PARRY—On the 9th inst., at Christ unu. f r. Ealing-, Arthur P a w sey, t o R ose, second daughter of S. Parry, Esq., Castlebar-hill, Deaths. ADAMS —On the 10th inst., at Bermondsey, Miss ° l l Adams, daughter of Captain Robert Adams, R.N., late ° Camberwell. KEMP—At Hendon, Middlesex, Brookes Kemp, VE' c l . ' aged 67. PAINE—On the 11th inst., at 7, Dudley Villas, ClapbO r road, Joh n Paine, aged 85. ROBERTSON- On the 11th inst., at 35, Queen's-garde, ll .,ll Hyde -park, Andrew Robertson, Esq., late Madras 0" Service, ag,ll 68. Vir STAINTON—At Great Cumberland-stroet, Hyde-park,; Nathaniel Stainton, Esq., MA., Oxford, barrister' sV law, of Lincoln's-inn, aged 53. London.: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDILB of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Trui SUN Office, No ' - 9 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Be v oy, i n the Qolluti Middleiez.--Monclay, January 13, 1868, AFTER After Drut After Hay. After Adel After Olyt After Stra After Nem After St, J After Prin London Since THE NI UNOTIEC CUI Righ-class dc• Private SENT OPP TO On and aft n.m. to One "(IN AII This celebr Prize Medal. 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