The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT or THE MIMIC JOURNALS. There will, the Times remarks, he no want of Irish debates this session, and, though the nation will undoubt edly support the House in any measures which the welfare of Ireland may demand, we have a right to expect that in any coming discussion the chief men of both parties and in either House will rise superior to any political cowardice. The time has come when those who have at heart the honour of their country, the principles of justice and economy, and the well-being of the people, both English and Irish, should take a firm stand against the subsidsary agitation which has been begun under the shadow of Fenianism. The theories which have been propagated, and the demands which are to be addressed to the Legislature, require that every man should make up his mind whether the received laws of property are to be upheld in the United Kingdom, or whether, beginning first with Ireland, we are to establish principles which would unsettle our whole social fabric, and invade the rights of every class. It needs no great reflection to perceive that the alleged differences between the conditions of Ireland and England are exaggerated. if they be not imaginary. The only real difference is, that in Ireland a larger proportion of the population is engaged i i agriculture than in England. This is clearly only a difference of degree, and any legisla tion which should establish the right of the Irish occupier to the permanent ownership of the land merely by reason of his occupation must necessarily apply equally to the English occupier. The first thing to be borne in mind is, that every theory accepted for Ireland is accepted for England also, and that those who are now calling for " exceptional " legislation would be, if successful, the first to declare that such legislation was not excep tional, but normal, and that being acknowledged in Ireland it should be applied in Great Britain also. If the theories now proposed for Ireland were recom mended for this island, there would be no less danger in them. It would be a very absurd project for the State to lend money to the average English farmer, and to put him in possession of his land while holding a mortgage of it. The English farmer is not one out of millions of needy rivals. He has money of his own, he knows his business, he goes into it with the care of a capitalist and the quick ness of a tradesman. The State—that is, his fellow-coun trymen—might be justified in trusting him, and might have a fair security for his solvency and honesty. But it is Ireland, where these conditions are wholly wanting, that is selected as the first field for the experiment. The Herald discusses Mr. Pim's bill "to further amend the law relating to the tenure in Ireland." Mr. Pim aims at securing compensation to the tenant ; would abolish the right of distress, and give the landlord further means of obtaining repossession of the land should the tenant fail to pay the rent. Our contemporary considers that in the existing state of Ireland it would he far better for Mr. Pim, and members like him who have an interest in the welfare of their country, to leave legislation on the Irish land question in the hands of the Ministry, aiding them with their advice, and affording them the results of their experience in the solution of what we may term a party- raised difficulty, instead of endeavouring to take the wind out of their sails by tacking to their measures, as improve. ments, propositions impossible of acceptance. The rhapso dies and revolutionary projects of Mr. Mill are but little calculated to do mischief from their absurdity, because the Irish peasants will not be slow to perceive that they can never he seriously entertained, while the inevitable rejec tion of the equally objectionable, but more moderate re commendations for the redress of grievances, emanating from such a man as Mr. Pim, will but add to the existing discontent, and afford fresh arguments to induce the small Irish landowners to engage in a conspiracy from which they have hitherto held aloof, as the only means of obtain ing the concession of rights to which they are told by in fluential persons that they are justly entitled. The opinion which the new Solicitor-General has given the electors of llelston on what he calls " the condition of Ireland question" may, in the opinion of the Post, notwith standing the somewhat positive terms in which it was ex pressed, be sensibly modified when the learned gentleman has had a consultation with his leaders. At all events, the declaration that he " never will be a party to destroying the Protestant Church of Ireland," bold as it appears to be, was no doubt well considered with reference to certain contingencies. The Solicitor-General, it must be observed, contemplates the appointment of three additional judges, an arrangement which would probably be the occasion of his own promotion, and in that case the personal obligation which he has contracted could be fulfilled without regard to the Ministerial programme. It was, nevertheless, no part of his dtity to make a statement which shewed either that he had omitted to ascertain how the Government proposed to deal with the Irish Church before he accepted office, or that they had inscribed "No surrender " on their flag. The latter hypothesis is incredible. Of course nobody is play ing with words. We all understand that " destroying the Protestant Church of Ireland " means the settlement of the property now held by the clergy of that Church so as to obtain what Mr. Disraeli some years since described as " ecclesiastical equality." Mr. Disraeli may, indeed, have changed his mind ; that is possible, but in this instance, we repeat, scarcely credible. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer is not, perhaps, bound by anything lie said on the subject in 1844, as Earl Russell appears to suppose he is ; but, on the other hand, if his rile is, as the Solicitor- General intimates, to carry measures which no one else has been able to carry, he will hardly miss this great op portunity of distinguishing himself. There is no reason to think that Mr. Disraeli and Lord Stanley regard the Irish • Church with the romantic affection which the Solicitor- General has avowed, and the " stupidity " which cannot be " educated " may be eliminated. The Daily News conceives that the necessary result of the present co-operative movement will be, that a number of the smaller retailers must succumb to the pressure, and must turn to other employments for a livelihood. We shall have fewer shops. But this will not in itself be a disad vantage to the public. The fact is, that the inflation of prices and the multiplication of establishments have acted and reacted on each other, to the public loss and to the traders' gain. High prices have brought in competition. which has cut down the competitors' profits to a very mode rate amount. The necessity of supporting establishments that had but little custom compelled the shopkeepers to keep up prices. Then comes in the co-operative store, which lowers the prices, and of necessity extirpates the shops which were thus artifically kept up. The result is obviously a clear saving to the nation. But while this is the effect of the operation as against the smaller class of tradesmen, it by no means necessarily follows that the same result will follow in the case of the larger retail houses, whether of eatables or of articles of apparel. Except that they must pay more rent for mere frontage, these enter the race on greatly more equal terms. A very large business is necessarily far more equable and far more economical than a small. The space is more fully and usefully occupied in proportion. A comparatively small attendance suffices. Advertising is necessary till a name is attained, but when that result is achieved, the cost of publicity forms an inappreciable percentage on the trade done. Dealing with Lord Russell's recent pamphlet on Ireland, the Saturday Renew remarks that nothing is more striking in the whole of it than the ignorance it betrays of the real state of the Liberal party. Anyone who read it and did not know the recent history of English politics would imagine, as Lord Russell evidently imagines, that if a scheme is proposed by Lord Russell and adopted by Mr. Gladstone, it forthwith beccmes the creed of the party to which they belong, and will be warmly supported by the votes and speeches of the party as a body. There is not a shadow of truth in this assumption. The Liberal party is difficult to lead, and becomes more difficult every year to lead, because its members insist on thinking for them selves, and because Liberalism means such a vast variety of things, and ranges from Socialism to a feeble preference for Wbig landowners. To give six-eighths of the revenues of the Irish Church to the Catholics may be a bad thing or a good thing, but it is a proposal to which the bulk of the Liberal party are by no means prepared to commit themselves. It is true that in the course of time the Liberals will hav e to assume a distinct attitude towards Ireland and the Irish Church, and that, when that time is come, individual members of the party will feel themselves obliged to waive their own private inclinations, and to go with their party, if its policy towards Ireland is at all to their taste. But how will the genera policy of the party be settled? By the adoption of a cut-and-dry schems emanating from Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone? Most certainly not. Mr. Gladstone is entirely powerless unles s h e acts in con cert with a considerable number of men with whom Lord Russell's recommendations are of no intrinsic value what ever. Mr. Gladstone, if he is to carry great measures, mist have the support of the Whig landowners, but he ieust also have the support of Mr. Bright, Mr. Mill, nab s Mr. Lowe. Men who have minds so independent, who have achieved so high a parliamentary position, and who anre so indispensable to a strong Liberal Ministry, must r , .:,2rc , c , their influence in the preparation of any great .'t , urt - . of whiJi they are asked to share the rospon3i b:l;,y. If they in the same Cabinet with Mr. Wad r!LlClll,l,t't_ to g:Ve up something. of what Ceey ivisl;el to see carried, lint they would aid in framing a general scheme to which they would all adhere. Put while they and Mr. Gladstone are in Opposition, such a conference and admixture of opinions and views is impos sible. Thus we are brought round to the very obvious conclusion that it is the Ministry, not the Opposition, that ought to deal with the Irish Church, whereas what Lord Russell wants is exactly the reverse. He wishes that the Opposition should introduce the measure, and control its whole scheme and scope, and that the Ministry should only be official instruments for turning it into an Act of Tilia will cover do, and if this had botti gLe way in which the engineers had made the road in Abys sinia, the donkeys and mules would be still drinking con densed water in Annesley Bay. A new Conservative Premier must, says the Spectator, be found ; and it is in the highest degree for the public interest that the new Premier should be made to feel the burden of responsibility properly involved in the office far more keenly than has been possible of late years, when three aged Premiers in succession have rested, rather on their prestige than on their capacity, in that position. He ought not to be a " figure-head" Minister, like the Duke of Richmond, to whom Mr. Disraeli is supposed to incline as the only possible successor of Lord Derby—perhaps partly by way of indicating his own disinclination to serve under Lord Stanley. Nor should it be Lord Stanley him self, who would necessarily go to the Peers if he were to accept the office, as he could not supplant Mr. Disraeli, even if he were competent to replace him. It should be no other than Mr. Disraeli. We are the more anxious to urge the importance of thus rivetting the full sense of responsibility on the next Tory Prime Minister, because Mr. Disraeli is evidently intending to play again this session that dangerously tentative and humble policy of appealing to the House to tell him what it wishes, which lie played last session, and which his position behind Lord Derby, as the real, but not the nominal chief, so unfortu nately favours. His mode of dealing with the Scotch Reform Bill on Monday is not, perhaps, as regards the particular measure, of the highest moment. If the bill be passed in a defective and mischievous form, it will probably be mended very soon after the meeting of the new Parliament. But the danger is not in the consequences to the individual measure, but in the symptoms of a ftlesl intention of Mr. Disraeli to diminish the Ministerial responsibility for the measures he proposes to a minimum, and make them appear at least as measures forced upon him by the House, instead of recommended by him to the House. The Scotch Reform Bill had, he said, only two principles— a very liberal extension of the suffrage, and an increase of the number of Scotch seats. All else was detail, open to alteration in committee, on which the Government, though they had suggested a course, were all but indifferent. If the Scotch members did not like the excision of all the im portant burghs out of the counties, and could persuade the House, they might. If they wanted more than seven new seats, and could persuade the House, they might. If they could recommend a scheme by which they could obtain these seats without adding to the total number of the House, and could persuade the House to accept it, they might. Everything was to be absolutely elastic to the wish of the House. Re cared for nothing, and had indeed em bodied one provision which he disliked in deference to the majorities of last session. Only give him a policy, and he would adopt it. Mr. Gladstone's Church Rate Bill proceeds, in the opinion of the John Bull, on the false and exaggerated assumption that in " many " parishes church rates have given rise to ill-feeling and litigation ; whereas it has notoriously been exceptional. He then practically ' adopts Mr. Bright's suggestion of getting rid of the beadle ; i.e., he abolishes a compulsory rate, and allows a voluntary assessment. The remaining clauses provide for the method in which the contributions are to be made, and for the application of the funds. Now, we say at once that the principle of church rate being yiel , led, we had far rather accept Mr. Hard castle's bill for total abolition than this mockery of a compromise. We shall lament that another tie which binds the Church and State together has been severed, that the public recognition of the national faith is weakened, that the interests of the poor man are sacri ficed to political expediency and to long-continued but over-estimated agitation ; and we would fain hope that an impartial select committee in both Houses may hit on some scheme which may avert the evil ; but if the Church is to lose her rates and be thrown on her own resources, let there be no pretence of church rates, no bottle without the wine, no shell without the kernel, no pretence of a privilege that does not exist. Mr. Hubbard, Colonel Barttelot, and others, imagine that church rates will still be collected if the bill become law, and so no doubt they would in parishes where the Church was strong. But what about these unfortunate cases where the landowners are aliens and opposed to her ? What about the power of district churches to levy rates, a F oint which in any real compromise the Church should insist on ? The fact is, that as Mr. Henley well pointed out, the cumbrous machinery of the bill is utterly unnecessary. The churches where rates are now levied will no doubt be maintained, but how ? No longer by the just contribution of the whole parishioners, but by the willing contributions of the few already overburdened by their support of nearly every charity. It is a further attempt to increase the too heavy burdens of the zealous few, while the 3areless multitude will give less than ever, and the enthusiasm of these comparatively few will be better sustained by there being no pretence of a legal machinery. We urge strongly on the country clergy and gentry, who are the most interested in this matter, first, to procure the appoint ment of select committees in both Houses, where the case, stripped of the nonsensical and false plumage in which it is dressed out to meet the public eye and to catch political support, may be thoroughly sifted ; and it an appeal to a Reformed Parliament fails, then let the Church accept her position (the State will be the greatest sufferer), and set herself manfully to the task of supplying the deficiency. Mlt. GLADSTONE AND TRADES UNIONS. The adjourned meeting of the London trades delegates teas been held at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey, for the purpose of receiving the report from the deputation who waited upon Mr. Gladstone on Tuesday last. Mr. George Potter occupied the chair. The chairman reported, on behalf of the deputation. They considered the interview with Mr. Gladstone had been attended with the most satisfactory results. The hon gentleman bad met them in the most frank manner, and had acknowledged that many impressions existing in his mind about the actions of trades unions had been greatly minified. He had strongly urged the principle of co-operation on the deputation, and his suggestions were well worthy of consi deration. The deputation also confesAed, for once at least. that the London daily press had done justice to the trades. by the full report they had given of the proceedings. (Cheers.) The delegates had no doubt seen in the paper , of that day a letter from Mr. Moult, the secretary of the master builders. He would suggest that the delegates should send a challenge to the employers to appoint twelve of their number to meet an equal number of trades dele gates to discuss the whole question of capital and labour, with the object of arriving at some agreement by which the existing antagonism might be diminished, if not alto gether removed. (Cheers.) He thought this was a qws• tion well worthy of consideration at a future meeting. An interesting discussion then ensued, and a resolution was adopted, receiving the report, and thanking the depnta tion for their services.—Mr. Cohn then moved, " the thanks of the delegates are given to Mr. Gladstone for the frank and courteous way in which he treated the deputation. That the thanks of the delegates arc also due to the London daily journals for the full report they gave of the proceedings."—Mr. Bolton snonded thi resolution, which was carried by acclamation.—Mr. Dyer (delegate from the Masons' Society) then moved, " That this meeting of London trades delegates desire to expres their disapprobation of the conduct of the body callin • itself the Conference of Amalgamated Trades, in sending letter to Mr. Gladstone, signed W. Allen and' R. Apple garth,' with the evident object of castin,f discredit upon the representative character of the deputation who repre sented this delegate meeting before that honourable gen tlem an."—Mr. Clifford (delegate from the General Association of Painters) seconded the resolution, whieli was supported by several delegates, and carried unani mously. The winter general meeting of the Nation Rifle Association will be held at Willis's Rooms, at 2.30 p.m., Wednesday, the 4th of ; the Duke of Cambri4( president, in the chair. DR. LIVINGSTONE. —The Natal Mercury of f..e 11th of January copies the• following from the Transom! Aryas, received in December :—" Mr. Martinus Swarts, the elephant hunter, who has just returned from one of his annual shooting excursions iu the interior near th, Zambesi, informs us that in June of last year he spoke tt some natives who had accompanied the great traveller. whem they call Minarie,' signifying ' Good,'—the name by which Dr. Livingstone is known to the natives. These men Mr. Swarts met three days' journey north of the Victoria Falls, who informed him that in the beginning of April last `Mina,rie' (the doctor) stated to them tint! he was Low going away, and dismissed them. giving them various presents, and also sending pre sents by them to Itetanga. This took place at a certain spot twenty days' journey on foot from where Mr. Swarts met them, and close to some very large river whirl. runs in easterly direction. Pet:tun is chief of th, and Cepopo i s hi s c hi e f captain. This very large -er has it s sources at some distance from the Debebe. r t . h nd 13 diNCT larger ed 1:y th e nat i ves as considerably larger s f usrttal - thater ray natives a the d s theynot be very far i'.istant ea shells i~: their lasses ion, sheep s the big water, mea n i ng th e sea. Alr.w S:r 3 got t. , 4 it void, be impossible for the doctor to transmit ' a:3 o, M e e native could be induced to carry them beyond ' his " n° own tribe, for, venturing beyond, c er t a i n d eath to the mes senger would be the consequen ce . S o f ar as we know, this very large river is not laid down on any m a p, an d being hitherto unknown, it is very probable that the doctor, after dismissing three native servants, had proceeded to explore it, intending to reach the coast at a point where tl4;° ever discharges itself .into the Indian ocean." NATIONAL EDUCATION. The Government has announced its intention of introducing during this session an Educa tion Bill, but we are stil left in ignorance of its character. The readiness on the part of the promoters and friends of secular education to accept a compromise forebodes no good. Any attempt to attenuate the religious character of the education imparted in schools receiving Government aid, ought to be strenuously re sisted in the first instance, as our danger lies rather in such a compromise with Secularism than in the scheme advocated by Mr., Lowe. The country, fortunately, is not yet so far com mitted to the irreligious principle as to en trust popular education to the tender mercies of Mr. Lowe's plan of secular schools, supported by rates, by the side of voluntary denomina tional schools, or of denominational schools placed under the operation of the conscience clause, as a condition of receiving Govern ment grants. We fully concur with Arch deacon Denison that the conscience clause imposed by the State would either be wholly inoperative or lead to secularism. It would in no long time effect a complete revolution in the education of the country. The scheme proposed by Archdeacon Deni son at his education meeting, held last week in Willis's Rooms, offers a third solution of the difficulty. The vital points in this plan are the right of unconditional freedom in re spect of religion to be conferred on every school, the proportionment of Government grants solely to the secular results attained, and the right of purely secular schools to the same assistance from the Government as de nominational schools are now entitled to. Archdeacon Denison's plan recognizes the necessity the civil power in England is under in dealing with the education of the country, of practically acknowledging the religious divi sions which exist, and of giving equal rights to the various denominations. Against the ob jection that his plan would involve the sur render on the part of the Church of England of its place as national instructor, he 'argues that " the old formal identity between Church and State is gone," and that under the new order of things the State is not in a position to touch the religious portion of education in the Church of England schools any more than in those of Catholics and Nonconformists. The only result, indeed, of an attempt upon the part of the State to give a national and religious education would be to call forth a religion such as Mr. Lowe described "as a kind of Biblical Deism, created for the use of schools." The unconditional freedom of educa tion in schools of every and of no religious opinion, which Archdeacon Denison contends for, involves the withdrawal of certificated teachers, for he proposes that the Govern ment grant should depend solely upon the re sults, no matter how attained, or under what system of management a school may be. The managers would thus be made responsible for the working of their schools, but a danger of great practical importance in this scheme, it seems to us, arises from the fact that the results of religious knowledge go for nothing towards obtaining the Government grant and, conse quently, managers or schoolmasters are under the perpetual temptation of sacrificing the re ligious teaching to that which alone is judged of pecuniary value. The natural desire, not only of partaking largely of the grant, but of standing well in the esteem of the Govern ment inspector, will at least tend to lessen the zeal and abridge the valuable time devoted to religious instruction. This is a point of great practical importance, on which we should like to hear the deliberate opinion of those who are familiar with the working of schools under the present system of inspection. The weak point in our present system is that where help towards educating the people is most needed, as in the poorest localities, or in a scattered population, there the Govern ment grants do not reach. The grant is only intended to help those who can, to a certain extent, help themselves. But in localities where people are too poor to contribute towards their own education, they remain in the grossest ignorance, such as is unknown in any country of Europe. To remedy this undeniable evil which serves Mr. Lowe as a lever to introduce his compulsory school rate and secular system, Archdeacon Denison suggests that Govern ment should build and partially support, but not by means of a local rate, schools in such places as were totally destitute of the necess ary means of education, and hand them over to the management and control of the deno mination which predominated in point of numbers in the locality. Of course the minority would remain without a school of its own denomination ; but this evil is by far a lesser one than depriving the majority of the religi ous teaching, without which education fails in its highest and most necessary purpose. The difficulty which England now experiences in instituting a national system of education is a striking illustration of the evils of numer ous religions. The country is paying the severe penalty of its fall into heresy and schism, and should the Protestant principle of private judgment unhappily force the coun try into the adoption of a secular system of national education, it will have effected its last evil on our country.—Westminster Gazette. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, _FEBRUARY 22, 1868 Mr. Stanton. General Grant refused to obey, and a sharp correspondence followed, which has been published under a resolution by the House of Re presentatives. On Jan. 25 the General desired the President to give him written directions, as his verbal order was to the effect, not to obey the Secre tary of War. Upon this note, the President wrote the following memorandum : "As requested in this communication General Grant is instructed in writing not to obey any order from the War Department, assumed to be issued by the direction of the President, unless such order is known by the General commanding the armies of the United States to have been authorized by the Executive. (Signed) " ANDREW JOHNSON. "Jan. 29, 1868." The next day, Grant in reply, stated that he would obey Mr. Stanton's orders until they were counter manded by the President, who answered by a long letter reviewing the whole question in dispute, and reasserting that the General had entered into a positive agreement either to give Mr. Johnson ample time to fill the office he (Grant) temporarily held, or to send Mr. Stanton to the Courts for redress ; adding, " My recollection is the reverse of your nar ration." This produced as long a rejoinder, wherein the General not only defends himself and reiterates what he before said denying the agreement, but also charges the President with an attempt to involve him in a breach of law, hoping to damage his re putation with the country. Captain Bury has discovered a truth it is a pity was not known to the General. The scientific sailor wrote :-- "I have always found iu my scientific studies that when I could get the Bible to say any thing upon the subject, it afforded me a firm plat form to stand upon, and another round in the lad der by which I could safely ascend." Grant could have found a precept in the Scdptures from the greatest of all authority, which exactly bore on the position he assumed, "No man can serve two masters." The President has prepared another dose for the General, which we hope will end this scan dal, compromising as it does, the two highest officials of the United States. The American Champions have concluded their engagement at the Royal Amphitheatre, Holborn, and they will leave with the greatest reputation yet earned by gymnasts in Europe. Their performances have excited the wonder even of a people so ac customed to extraordinary feats as the citizens of London. We regret that such a troupe, never be fore collected, should leave at the commencement of the London season, and at a time when their powers were becoming known and exciting a keen interest. We are sorry to hear that they will not make a tour of the provinces, where they would go heralded by a justly earned celebrity. The directors of the Crystal Palace Company have given Mr. Charles Morton, of the late Oxford Music Hall, the disposal of their magnificent building for a day and night fete on Monday, March 2, in aid of the artistes suddenly thrown out of engagement by the fire. M. Blondin, E. W. Mackney, and the Christy Minstrels, have already offered their valuable services. It is now said that Mr. Mapleson will succeed Mr. Gye in the management of the Italian Opera, Covent-garden, and that but one such establishment will be m iin tained in London. Mr. Mapleson has abandoned his intention of having performances at Drury-lane, and the whole strength of the rival operas will be centred at Covent-garden, which will place on that stage an assemblage of unequalled talent. Mr. Mapleson will be supported by a joint-stock com pany if subscribers can be procured for the required capital. Secretary Seward is named as well as the Hon. Reverdy Johnson as successor to his Excellency Charles Francis Adams, and it is thought that either would be acceptable to the Senate. The Standard's correspondent, who assumes to speak as Mr. Johnson's mouthpiece, says it is well known that the President and the Secretary of State differ in opinion as to the proper method of treating the questions at issue between the United States and Great Britain. The difference is serious, and aggressive action by the Executive towards England would follow the resignation of Mr. Seward. The .New York Herald considers Mr. Seward the most likely person, as it is believed that he is in full accord with the President as to the proper policy to be pursued by the United States, as well in the Alabama as in the adopted citizen questions which are now pro minently before the two Governments for final settlement. There is a marked difference of opinion here between the Standard's correspondent and the New York Herald; but of course the former, who is officially informed, is the more reliable authority. The condition of Memphis, under the rule of Governor Brownlow, may be imagined from the following story. On the 19th January, Michael Connell, nephew of Thomas Malone, late Street Commissioner, was Murdered, and three men named Winters, McPartland, and Costello were for several days under examination before Justice Hall. On Fri day,Jan. 24,while the case was proceeding, some sharp sparring took place between Mr. Gantt, counsel for the State, and Mr. Bullock, for the defence. The Court was crowded with excited spectators. Mr. Malone came forward on a remark of Mr. Bullock to Mr. Gantt, and addressing the latter said, " I would not take that from anybody." Bullock rudely replied to Malone, an uproar followed, and in the confusion the report of a pistol was heard. On order being restored, the wounded man was carried to Wilkinson's drug store, where the wad was found burning in his overcoat, the pistol having been discharged almost iu contact with his person. Malone has since died. In calling for the trial of the proprietor of the Memphis Avalanche for con tempt of Court, the Judge obtained a squad of United States soldiers, who were stationed in the Court-room. The attorneys protested against this justice under bayonets, and withdrew. It was stated in evidence before the jury of inquest on the body of Connell, that threats had been made against the life of Malone, and these threats were actually carried into effect in a Court of Justice. The lawlessness prevailing in . Memphis may be judged by the following despatch to New York : " Memphis, Tennessee, February 3.—A. policeman named Johnson was shot in the shoulder on Saturday night while attempting to separate two men who were fighting in a saloon on De Sota-streot. Anne Melrose was stabbed very severely in a bagnio on Washington street the same night, by Joe Luxton, and her recovery is doubtful. Jealousy is the supposed cause. Ned Black burn shot and killed Butler Phillips, in an alley between Commerce and Winchester-streets, this morning. Both are freedmen, and nothing is known in regard to the cause. Eli Guthrie, a freedman, shot, on the Corner of Cansey and Linden-streets, this morning, Policeman S meat, who was attempting to arrest him for robbery." Last January was commercially a disastrous month in the United States. The prevailing stag nation in business culminated during the four weeks ending 25th January in 373 failures, with aggre gate liabilities of $8,060,000. Although the amount is comparatively small in proportion to the large number of suspensions, yet it shows how generally trade has been stricken. In New York City there were 25 failures, the liabilities being $2,950,000. The greatest failure occurred in Cincinnati, the house of L. C. Hopkins and ,Co. having stopped with liabilities of $1,250,000, of which it is calcu lated only one quarter will .be paid. The Spring. field Republican notices the fact that the firms which yielded to the pressure, with few exceptions, were not large or important, and anything ap proaching a panic had been avoided. The removal of unsound concerns from the business list is not altogether a misfortune, as it clears the atmosphere, providing a warning as well as an encouragement to those who remain. Apropos of Hippophagy, we commend to the ratigham, by way of furnishing a varietZ to the next entertainment, the following story :—A gen• tleman in Hartford (Connecticut) lately bought a crow, and had it cooked as an experiment ; he in vited two of his friends to dine with him, and they pronounced it the best partridge they had ever eaten. He is elated at having discovered a new game bird, and offers 50 cents apiece for crows. The answer to the stories of American corres pondents of London newspapers regarding the la mentable destitution and stagnation of work now prevailing in the United States is found in the exodus of Canadian families southwards across the border. In one day four passed into Vermont at Island Pond, numbering 64 souls, The MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It may happen that the spark destined to cause the explosion between the President and Congress may be struck by Mr. Rollins' dismissal as Commis sioner of Internal Revenue. The President has nominated Colonel N. A. Wisewell to the post. Mr. Rollins will remain in office till the new official is confirmed by the Senate. That confirmation will never be given, and, failing it, Mr. Johnson will be compelled to issue a commission to Colonel Wisewell to take possession of the bureau. If Mr. Rollins resists, the President must either allow him to remain or forcibly eject him. In the former case the President will be defeated—in the latter, he will be impeached. This nomination has placed Andrew Johnson on the horns of a dilemma, but it will be satisfactory if it tends to clear away the clouds banging over Washington. Mr. Patrick O'Dwyer, who has established a baking business at Sitka, strangely enough coupling it with stationery, books, periodicals, &c., has lately paid a visit to San Francisco. From his account the weather up to Christmas had hot been very cold, no more so than in British Columbia. He estimates the population at 2,000, including soldiers, civilians, Russians, and half-breeds. Fifty of the Russians had become American citizens. The Hudson Bay Company bad established there a branch of its business, and a considerable trade was anticipated next season in skins and in fish. In Tennessee they deal with editors in a much more summary manner than in Ireland. The two of the Memphis Avalanche have been sentenced to pay fines of $1,030 each, and to be imprisoned 70 days in the county gaol, and as much longer as they refuse to answer certain questions put to them by the Court. Her Majesty has been pleased, upon the recom mendation of the Government, to appoint the fol lowing Royal Commissioners to examine and report upon the proceedings and recommendations of the International Conference held in Paris last year, under the auspices of the French Government, re lative to the establishment of an universal system of international coinage : —Viscount Halifax (chair man), Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Right lion. Stephen Cave, M.P., Right Hon. J. Wilson Patten, M.P., Right Hon. M. Lougfield, Sir John Lub bock, Baron L. de Rothschild, the Governor of the Bank, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. Thomson Ilankey, M.P., Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., Mr. Hubbard, ALP., the Astronomer Royal, the Master of the Mint. Mr. Rivers Wilson, of the Treasury, who was de puted with the Master of the Mint to attend the Paris Conference, will act as secretary of the commission. A pretty quarrel has arisen between the Presi dent and General Grant from the late order of the former to the latter, not to take instructions from canad ian Assembly is taking into serious conside ration " means to check the lamentable emigration from th e Province of Quebec to the United States." A. tone of strong exaggeration both on the distress and on the war feeling in America characterize these letters. Capt. Long 'publishes, in a California newspaper, a full account of his discovery of the Polar Con tinent. He recommends that steamers be sent to the coast along the shore, as the current sets out from the 'land, leaving a wide belt of smooth water. He states that he was within ten miles of the posi tion whence Wrangell discovered the open Polar Sea. The W.ashington correspondent of the Standard has cooled down a little in his war news. Mr. Johnson makes a cat's-paw of the correspondents who hang about the White House for the circula tion of all sorts of false reports, but the gull that has most completely gobbled up the bait appears to be the correspondent of the Standard. It is just possible that the correspondent may re ceive his inspiration from Fleet-street, or perhaps he would not so ostentatiously parade his official information. We admit his great ability, his power of description, and the fullness of his de tail, but this is marred by the strength of his par tizanship and his desire to secure sensational e ff e cts. Of course " President Johnson's Ulti matum on the Alabama claims," " Anticipated war between Great Britain and the United States," are headings likely to attract readers, and we would have no fault to find if the Standard gathered up its coppers without widely disseminat ing untruth. The same barometer is open to us as to Andrew Johnson, only his is a larger and more sensitive instrument. He cannot go to war with England unless the feeling of the nation favours the intention. Now, what is the feeling ? The very reverse of bellicose. The people are more than satis fied with their experience, having found the results most unpalatable. We have in our hand a petition to Congress circulating in thousands through the States for the signature of citizens. It begins with asserting that the burdens of taxation are becoming too onerous to be borne. Spies and taxgathers in vade our homes and our workshops. When our nation is in danger we cheerfully submit to all demands. But we are now at peace with the whole world, and desire the expenses of the Government to be reduced to a strictly peace basis. We demand the reduction of the army to 20,000 men. Our northern forts can be taken care of by disabled soldiers ; the laid-up ships by the maimed sailors. We need no soldiers in the North ; we want the 50,000 able-bodied men now uselessly idling in the navy and army to aid us in the development of the na tion's wealth ; the steam revenue cutters at sea and on the lakes to be laid up, and their wasteful ex penses stopped. We want no large standing army or navy to exhaust our substance during pe ace . The English public will find that this represents the true feelings of Americans. An extraordinary impetus has been given to the cultivation of wheat in California, by the high prices in Europe and America. There are those who estimate that one million of acres will this year be sown, which would give, according to the average, a yield of more than three and a half millions of quarters. The Liverpool cotton market has been this week greatly agitated, the sales having one day reached 30,000 bales. The effect on the earnings of the Atlantic cable has been extraordinary. the average daily receipts have been £1,496, while, from the Ist January to the 15th February, the average was £1,265 per diem. A fire broke out on Tuesday in the Custom-House department of Charing-cross Railway Station, and a very considerable amount of damage was done. The roof was partially destroyed, and three men were injured by the falling glass. The next after noon a terrific explosion of gas took place at the office at the gate and injured two boys. John Young Brown, elected for Kentucky, to the House but not admitted, is to appear in Congress to defend himself against the charge of disloyalty. His opponent, Samuel E. Smith, has not been allowed the seat, as he had not received a majority of votes. Governor Swann, of Maryland, refuses to give a certificate of election to the Senate to his successful rival, W. T. Hamilton, asserting the violation of the law en titling the eastern shore of the State to a certain portion of the time, awl the Legislature is investigating the ques- Com. George R. Lancaster has sold his fast-tritting horse, Nevada, for 53,000 to J. R. Judkins and A. Savage, of Waterville (Maine), who believes he will make the fastest trotter in the State. Joel Parker has tendered the resignation of his Professorship in the Law School at Cambridge (Massa chusetts), which ho has held since 1817. The Senate has confirmed Gideon H. Hollister, of Connecticut, as Minister Resident and Consul- General at Havana, William It. Kenney, of Kentucky, and Georgo A. Maguire, of Missouri, C3mmissioners under the Act to reimburse Indiana for money spent in the suppression of the rebellion, and William H. Townsend as pension agent at Providence, Rhode Island. Secretary McCulloch, at the request of the Ways and Means Committee, has designated David A. Wells and Dr. 0. F. Presby as Conferees and Consulting Advisers on behalf of the Treasury Depart ment. Ex-Minister Burlingame, of China, is now on his road to Washington, by way of San Francisco, accom panied by two Chinese officials and two interpreters, and, after a short stay in America, will go to Europe to exe cute his commission as Ambassador from China to all the Troaty Powers. Mr. Burlingame had intended to resign in the spring, and settle on a ranch in California, which he had purchased several months ago, but the celestial flowery kingdom has appropriated him for a while. The Mississippi Republican Convention, in ad dition to the previous nomination of B. B. Eggleson for governor, has nominated for lieut.-governor A. J. Jamie son, secretary of State R. J. Alcorn, treasurer D. U. Wil liam, auditor William J. Morgan, school commissioner C. W. Clarke, attorney-general J. M. Morris. All the can didates are whites. T. M. Stringer, coloured, received 25 votes for auditor. The Convention is still in session. General Kilpatrick is returning to America from his mission to Chili, at the request of the Republicans of New Jersey, who want to elect him their governor. Lieutenant Speedy, late of the British army, has joined the Abyssinian Field Force from Australia, at Sir Stafford Northcote's request. He knows Abyssinia and the language, having been a "pasha Fellaka" in Theodore's army, from which he was fortunate enough to escape in 1861. It was then that the character of Theodore under went a change, and he took it into his head that God had decreed that he should be the scourge of the nation ho had failed to reform. Lieutenant Speedy, according to the Times correspondent, however, did not get away from Abyssinia in time to avoid grave risk of imprisonment, only escaping, indeed, by threatening to cut down a royal messenger sent to arrest him, and then going him self to tell the Sing that apparently " some mistake had been made." Luckily, the imperial humour had changed, and Theodore punished the luckless messenger, but let the Englishman go free. Colonel Dunn, of the 33d Regiment, who acci dentally shot himself in Abyssinia, was a Canadian, and had inherited considerable property in the neighbourhood of Toronto. Ho won the Victoria Cross in the memorable Balaklava charge, where he was a captain in an Hussar regiment. Shortly after be retired from the army, but on the outbreak of the Indian mutiny he raised a regiment in Canada, of which he obtained command. From the 100th he exchanged into the 33d, and met his sad fate when almost on the eve of coming in contact with the enemy. Mr. Casserly, lately elected to Congress as Senator for California in the room of Mr. John Couness, whose seat he will occupy next year, was born in Ireland in 1822 When two years old his family emigrated and settled in New York city. His father being a teacher of languages aided in his education, and at the age of nineteen he was enabled to assist his father in the preparation of "Jacob's Greek Reader." In 1844 he was admitted to the practice of law in the Supreme Court, and to support. himself dur ing the first three years he edited the Freeman's Journal, so as to secure the friendship of Charles O'Connor, James T. Brady, Horatio Seymour, John A. Dix, and Silas Wright. Ho emigrated to California in 1850, and the fol lowing year edited the San Francisco Public Balance, was elected State printer by the Legislature for two years, and has since been success fully engaged in the practice of his profession. Sir Curtis M. Lampson, of London, recently male a present of $7,000 to his native place, New Haven Mills, for the erec ion of a school-house. Even in the New England States, where religion prevails, the people are not immaculate. In Vermont the Supreme Court, in session at St. Albans, has granted 17 divorces and refused 24. There were in New Haven, Con necticut, in 1867, a total of 1,456 births, of which 777 were males, 19 plurality, and 21 illegitimate. The total number of marriages was 482, and the deaths 789. Rhode Island has elected Walter S. Burges, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by Judge Shearman's death. A movement is afoot in that State to increase the pay of Supreme Court J utes, who now get $3,000 apiece, with an extra $l,OOO for the Ohiei justice. • 7ELEGRAPHY IN AMERICA. Two American journals lie before us, de voted to the Telegraph. The Telegrapher is now in its Fifth Volume, and the Journal of the Telegraph but commenced. There may be, and doubtless are others, on this subject. No other discovery is more in accord with the American mind, or has taken more hold on the imagination of the people. Mate rially the railway and the locomotive is of incom parably greater value, just as a loaf of bread to a hungry man is worth a bushel of gems. It is of more importance to transport our persons, than to transport our thoughts, to carry things than words. Though we grant this—we maintain that intellec tually, the telegraph is the greatest triumph of the human mind. It appeals more than any other to the imagination. It is the most direct proof of man's conquest of nature. To put a girdle round the world has suggested itself to poets, but to make that girdle convey a thought instantaneously from one extremity of the earth to another, not even the boldest thinker ever imagined. The anni hilation of distance is only effected by this medium, and when we come to realize the free and unfettered operation of nature, we discover what a marvellous triumph is secured by directing into channels of our own the hidden powers of creation. On the Ist inst. the wires of the Western Union telegraph, and those of the New York, Newfoundland, and London telegraphs were connected. The former from San Francisco to Plaister Cove, Cape Breton ; and the latter to Heart's Content. San Francisco and Valentia being then in communication, with the single break at Heart's Content, it was an nounced from Ireland at 20 minutes past 7 a.m., Valentia time, February 1, that a message was then being received from London direct. One minute after, the Loudon message was sent ou from Valentia to San Francisco. It passed through New York at 33 minutes past 2 a.m. New York time, and reached. San Francisco at 21 mi nutes past 11 p.m. San Francisco time January 31. This message, therefore, beat the sun from Valentia to San Francisco by exactly eight hours. It was immediately answered, and the San Francisco reply was in Valentia two minutes after the questioa was asked, the distance traversed being 14,000 miles. The operator at San Francisco then sent an eighty word message to Heart's Content in three minutes, and this was repeated back in two minutes and fifty seconds. A series of experiments are in progress to test the Morse system in comparison with those of Europe, which is being done at the request of the Professor. The Journal of the Telegraph gives these few specimens : January 19, Mr. W. S. Kettles operator at Washing ton, sent 91 messages of 20 words each to Plaister Cove, Nova Scotia, distance 1,300 miles, in one hour. Those Message were received by Mr. W. Sherman at Plaister Cove, without an error or interruption. This is one of the finest tests on record. January 19, Mr. M. Mareau, chief operator at Wash ington, sent to Buffalo direct, via New York, distance about 700 miles, 2,202 words press report iu one hour. This report was received in Buffalo without break by Mr. William Wallace. This also was a brilliant. per formance. Mr. Wallace's manuscript copy triplicated on manifold paper for publication is before us, and is a marvel of clear, regular, well-formed chirography. January 21, Mr. Charles Bagley, operator, New York, sent to Philadelphia, distance 90 miles, 2,50 U words press report in one hour. This message was received without a break by Mr. N. J. Snyder, operator, Philadelphia, whose manuscript, clear and clean, without a blemish, lies before us as we write. The average was 42 words per minute. The message was the speech of Mr. Bingham on Recon struction, and averages four and a half letters per word. Let any one endeavour to write down 42 words, and the merit of this performance will be manifest. By the repetition of a line the number of words sent was 2,510. We think Mr. Bagley and Mr. Snyder may be put down as eminently light lingered ! The test is unsur passed and wonderful. The record of time is curious. First 10 minutes, by Manager Marks, 410 words. Next 10 „ „ Mr. Bagley, 404 „ /I 10 71 71 369 „ „ 1U „ „ ~ 454 „ ~ 10 77 77 434 „ 1U „ „ 429 /7 Total ... 2,30 The Telegrapher states that the ' trial made on the evening of January 21, when the wires were connected to Buffalo, far exceeds all preconceived ideas of the rapidity with which the Morse system can be worked by skilled operatives. " The dis tance was about four hundred and fifty miles. Tile wires were iu fine order and worked well. TILe result of au hour's continuous work was as follows, New York sending simultaneously to Philadelphia and Buffalo.: First 9 minutes (MAlu sending) 3i3 words. Next 11 „ BAGLEY 450 „ „ 1U „ 37-1 17 77 71 „ 10 „ 77 460 7/ 1U „ 430 „ 77 77 433 „ 77 10 „ Total, GO minutes 2,520 words. " The average rate being forty-two words per minute. The above was received by sound, and legibly copied with a pen without a stop or break by Mr. Nicholas J. Snyder, of Philadelphia. This remarkable feat was accomplished by Mr. Snyder with the greatest apparent ease. The operator at Buffalo did not succeed in copying the despatch, but retired without breaking.' " The following calculation will give the uninitiated some idea of the rapidity of manipulation required to accomplish the above feat. As a fair sample, we will take the following sentence from the message blanks of the Western Union Company : The rules of this company require that all messages re ceived for transmission shall be written on the message blanks of the company, under and subject to the condi tions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message. The above sentence contains forty-three words, and two hundred and seventeen letters, to transmit which, in one minute by the Morse alphabet (ex clusive of punctuation), requires nine hundred and thirty-six distinct movements of the key, and conse quently of the hand of the operator. It will be ob served that this rate of speed was considerably ex ceeded during the latter part of the trial. We there fore find that Mr. Bagley is capable of making an average of fifteen movements of his hand per second, and of doing this continuously for nearly an hour ! This seems, at first sight, utterly incredible ; that it actually was performed as above stated is an incon testable fact. It may not be uninteresting to our readers to compare the above results with those attained by European operators in similar trials. Mr. E. B. Bright, Secretary of the - Magnetic Telegraph Com pany of England, in his recent work, states that the average speed of the " acoustic" telegraph used by that company is between thirty and forty words per minute, the operator copying by sound as with us. The sounds in this instrument are produced by short, quick blows upon two muffled bells of diffe rent pitch, instead of a " sounder." The maximum rate of speed in the trial recorded by Mr. Bright was thirty-seven and one-sixth words per minute. Culley, in his recent work on the telegraph (1867) gives the following as the rate attained by the double needle and Morse instruments m . a fair trial of speed. The highest speed on a circuit of a little under 200 miles was : Double needle Morse „ A' 38 If ',nd three hours' verage of between two a— con tinuous work reporting a speech of Mr. Bright : Double needle Morse 17 The speed of the American operators in the re cent trial was :-- Average rate 42 words per minute. Maximum rate 46 „ We believe that the highest speed on record which has yet been attained in the country was in the fall of 1860, when James Fisher, of Nashville (Tennessee), office sent fifty-five words in one minute, and at the rate of fifty-two words per minute for five minutes, Mr. James Leonard, of Louisville, re ceiving it. The "copy" was taken at random from the pages of Harper's Magazine. The greatest speed attained by Burns, the cham pion, was two hundred and fifty words in five minutes forty seconds, being at the rate of forty-four words per minute. Alluding to the numerous plans for increasing telegraphic facilities between Europe and America, the Journal of the Telegraph enumerates eight projects. We believe that most of these will hang fire even if they ever go off ; but there is one, on the eve of construction, from Brest to the island of St. Peter's, and thongs to the United States, This company will possess a capital of £9oo,ooo—one third to be taken in England, one-third in France, and one-third in the United States. The Franco- America Submarine Cable Company has contracted with the India-Rubber and Gutta Percha Telegraph Company of Silvertown for the manufacture of 3,700 miles of cable able to support itself in water a distance of 30 miles, and it is anticipated that it will be laid during the ensuing summer. A concession is said to have been granted by the Portuguese Government to Mr. Edward Medlicott, banker of Lisbon, and Mr. Thomas Rumbally, C.F., of London, for a sub marine telegraph between Falmouth and Oporto, thence to the Azores and on the American coast. A line is talked of from Spain via the Canaries, Porto Rico, and Cuba ; another from Scotland via Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. A curious table is given of the necessity for additional telegraphs between the Continents. During the first six months, while the land lines were unprepared, there were 33 days on which the Xew York Herald failed to publish news by the cable, of which four were on Sundays. On seven of these d lys the news was late ; on ten, the lines between New York and Heart's Content were prostrated by storms; on two the ste uner Dauntless, which at one time connected a link, was detained ; on one day the St. Ann's Cable broke, and the re maining nine are not accounted for. In the next year there were but ten days, of which one was Sunday, four too late, three poles broken down by storm, and two when the lines in Ireland were in terrupted by Fenians.Not for a single moment have the cables ceased to work, and the communication as far as they are concerned has been perfect, although , . _ _ one was injured by an iceberg. The lines which connect New York with Plaister Cove, Cape Bre ton, where the Newfoundland and cable line be gins, are about 1,100 miles long, and are worked direct with a rapidity never before attained. The correctness with which the messages are sent may be gathered from the instances we have given above.—Anglo-American Times. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AT BLARNEY. A specimen of George F. Train's oratory will not be without interest to many of our readers. He delivered the following lecture at Blarney, where he evidently found himself as much at home as any native. It was at Dr. Barter's Hydropathic Esta blishment, St. Ann's Hill, the ostensible subject being " The Laws of Health." Mr. Train, however, disdained all the conventional rules of oratory; and indulged in humorous digressions, keeping his audience in continuous laughter. Besides the patients sojourning at the rural retreat there were several ladies and gentlemen from town, and a toler able contingent of the village of palloi were also ad mitted into the room. The lecturer, who was greeted with applause, commenced by saying that he had come down to kiss " the Blar ney stone." Plymouth Rock was the Blarney stone of America. He was passionately fond of history, and especially Irish history, and as he looked away and saw that grand old castle, he felt as if he saw Sir Walter Raleigh bombarding it, and being gallantly repulsed by the Mac Carty Mores. Whenever, after Sir Walter sent despatches to Queen Elizabeth, saying he had taken such and such a place, she said, " Oh, that's all Blarney." Hence the origin of the phrase. He stood there on the spot where Cromwell once stood, in the days of Shak speare, Beaumont, and Fletcher, " Rare Ben Jon son," and Francis Bacon. When he thought of Elizabeth, a woman ruling a worldand sinking the Spanish Armada, he could not imagine why it was not acknowledged that the women of our day were worthy of taking their legitimate part in politics, and be allowed the exercise of the franchise. (Hear, hear.) But they would have the right one of these days. (Applause.) Alluding to the opposition which had been given him in certain quarters he said he liked antagonism—he loved it dearly. (Laughter.) He liked to have people Oppose him ; and he was never so much at home as when he was in the enemy's camp. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) The world had a way of destroying men of opinions in political and social life. If he thought he was sane he would blow his brains out. (Great laughter.) Ile never saw so many sane men as were in the world at thepresent time. (Continued laugh ter.) A man who had done what Dr. Barter did, he looked upon as a real specimen of insanity. (Much laughter.) To think that a man dared to face such au enemy as the most powerful organiza tion on the face of the globe—men who had macada mised the graveyards with babes, and men, and , women. Ile had clearly proved his insanity by his s success. Mr. Train then read some correspondence which he had received from England, which he said was written for the purpose of endeavouring to entrap him, and which he showed to the resident magistrate and the sub-inspector. He declared him self above the Fenians. (Cheers.) What he wanted was to try and free American prisoners confined in English gaols. He then entered on the subject of his lecture, and pointed out the tardiness of im provement observable in the science of medicine, in which reforms obtained success very gradually. Mr. Train detailed the great medical reforms which took place from time to time, alluding to Esculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, and Paracelsus. Galen lived 140 years, because he took none of his own drugs ; but Paracelsus, who did, died at 42. (A laugh.) One doctor said that when he commenced practice he had twenty medicines for every disease, and when he finished he had twenty diseases for which he had uo medicine. He was sure no one there would take drugs again as long as he or she lived. (Hear, hear.) After some further observations relative to the use and advantage of pure water, and the anti quity of the bath as a curative institution, he con cluded by saying he intended to establish a Turkish bath at the Rocky Mountains, and to introduce them generally throughout the States. There is an amusing cut in Frank Leslie where George Francis is represented as a bill-sticker with his-paste brush and a large placard, which he is in the act of affixing to the back of the British Lion, " George Francis Train has been Arrested ! First Class Advertisement ! !" Mr. Train lectured in Dublin on Thursday night, and talked much in the same way as he did at Cork. His audience was very boisterous, cheered vehemently for " the Green above the Red." Any body who expressed his dissent from the lecturer or from his admirers got roughly handled. —An glo- American 2imes . [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.— When winter checks to a considerable extent the natural exhalements of the skin an alterative is required to transfer them entirely from the body through some other channel. Holloway's pills can be confidently recommecded as the easiest, surest, and safest means of attaining this desirable end without weakening the most delicate or incommoding the most feeble. `Vhe❑ from frequent chills or impure air the blood becomes foul and the secretions vitiated, these pills present a ready and efficient means of cleansing the former and correcting the latter. By this salutary( proceeding disease is arrested at its outset, its pains and inconvenieacies averted, and the nervous structures saved from the depressing effects entailed upon them by an illness. Births. MACDONALD —On the 20th inst., at Chester-terrace, Eaton square, the Hon. Mrs. Macdonald, of a daughter. NEED —On the 20th inst., at Mansfield Woodhouse, th e . wife of Captain Need, R.N., of a son. NEWMAN-0 u the 20th inst., at Lee, the wife of Arthur O' Newman, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. BRYER CHADWICK—On the 20th inst., at Hornsey, Thog• John, son of J. Bryer, Esq., of Suffolk House, Wood: berry Down, to Elizabeth Butler, third daughter of P' Chadwick, Esq., of Stafford Villa, Green-lanes. IIsWORTH—CHARsocx—On the 2Uth inst., at St. Jatnee s Piccadilly, Edward Haworth, Es - q., of Church& lo Derbyshire, to Harriet Dorothea, relict of the late Re v ' John Charnock. Deaths. ARMISTEAD -On the 18th inst., Wilson' Armistead, ,544. of Virginia House, near Leeds, aged 49. BRODRIBB —On the 20th inst., at Retford, Notts, Uriall 17* Brodrihb, 11LB., 8.A., aged 35. FIELD—Ou the. 21st inst., at Clapham, very sudden 99 William Field,.}l-1., of 13, Parliament-street, and sou-street, Milbank, aged 68. FELLOWS —On the 20th inst., at , 11, Norris-street, W r a t „ e t r i; 100-place, Major Francis Wm. Fellows, late of the Foot, aged 41. GLASGOW—On the 19th inst., at Edinburgh, the Dow a g er Countess of Glasgow. HOLLIER—On the 19th inst., at Thame, Oxon, Charle s bonier, Esq., aged 80. '— -- - --- ---- ---.. , London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A NDIar 2, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tam SUN 031ce, NO li o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voy, in the Cow" 31"6521•775eA1rdail February 22, 1868. If • al gi