The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT.' OP THE PUBLIC JOITRNALS. Whatever troubles may threaten Europe, the Times thinks there is at least one reassuring sign—that every where the mass of the people are beginning to take an interest in political events., and, consequently, to influence them. The commonalty will-lenceforth in every country make its own history. There are more and there are less advanced races, but west of the Russian frontier there is no country where the people do not hear the language, even though it be sometimes the cant, of Liberalism, and where their opinions do not more or less affect the acts of their Governments. This is a hopeful sign amid the darkest prospects of the future. Whatever may be the events of the next few years, there is ground for a confi dent hope that a happier time will follow. The present uneasiness of Europe arises in a great measure from the unstable construction of several of its States. The seeds of liberty have been too widely sown to be any where completely destroyed, and if each nation or race knows what it wants and takes the opportunity of demand ing it, we may hope for such a contentment of the Euro pean populations as will be an effectual obstacle to military ambition. Encouraged by such prospects of the future, we look with less regret and alarm on the agita tions which prevail in Europe. Spain, for instance, may possibly have to pass through a period of confusion, but, whatever happens, no ruler will dare to govern the people so badly as did the last two Bourbons. But the horizon of Western Europe is clear in com parison with that of the East. What may be called the Danubian region of Europe presents the greatest difficulties to statesmen, and gives the prospect of prolonged agitation. The Turkish questions or the Austrian questions can hardly be settled by a short and shi.rp war, such as might decide the claim to the Rhine. The greatest present problem of the European Common wealth has to be solved by them. It is how a number of feeble provinces, each too weak to form a State in the present age of the world, but each differing too much from its neighbour to coalesce entirely with it, may be best governed. Autonomy, Provincial Constitutions, Federalism, Protectorate, Suzerainty, are names represent ing various devices which have been tried or are demanded ; and by means of some or all of them we may hope that the Austrian and the Turkish questions may some day settle themselves. But at present the agitation in that part of the world shews no sign of abatement. Coming at the time it does, Dr. Magee's promotion to fill the vacant see of Peterborough will, the Standard says, have a certain peculiar significance, and, if we mistake not, a very considerable and salutary influence. In the first place, the Dean of Cork is, we believe, the first Irish clergyman who has been raised to the ecclesiastical bench of England since the Union. Dr. Magee's elevation is simply clue to the indefatigability with which he has worked, and the very marked power of Church organisation and administration which he has displayed. From the first the Dean of Cork has been asteady Liberal, but he has never been a partisan. His opinions have invariably been charac terised by courage, and to those opinions he has invariably been true. Nor is it only because the Bishop of Peter borough elect has steadfastly displayed precisely those harmonising powers which at present are so desirable in a prelate that his promotion is matter of congratulation. As his nature is just that which is calculated to enable to rally round him the loyalty of the Irish clergy to our Na tional Church, so, too, the fact of his elevation cannot fail to inspire them with new energy and fresh spirit. It seems singularly appropriate that a scholar like the late Dean Milman should be succeeded in his post by a scholar such as Mr. Mansel. But Mr. Mansel is far more than a scholar. He is one of the subtlest and deepest thinkers of the day—a profound philosophical writer, whose lucidity of expression is equalled only by the compact coherence of his ideas, a remorselessly active enemy of fallacy and error, and an unweaiying searcher after truth. The extraordinary ability which the new Dean of St. Paul's has displayed in repel ling the attacks of neology upon the doctrines of the Church is the best guarantee of his consummate fit ness to fill the post which has been vacated by the death of Dr. :Unman. London, it is true, will be the richer, and England will be benefited by the elevation of such a man ; but in Oxford a gap will be left not easily to be filled up. The chief recommendations to clerical promotion at the present time are moral weight, intellectual power, an un deviating affection to, and belief in, the nation's Church. We are merely speaking the simple truth when we say that in the two appointments which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve each of these requirements are fulfilled. The Herald observes that both of Mr. Disraeli's nominees are men of the very highest eminence in their profession. Mr. Mansel, some time Waynflete Professor of Philosophy and Bampton Lecturer, and now Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, is one of the profoundest thinkers, most erudite scholars, and acutest metaphysicians of the age, and the mere list of the works in which he has illustrated his splendid attain ments would occupy a serious amount of space in our columns. Mr. Mansel, we believe, has never served any cure of souls, and is, therefore, not the man for a bishopric, but if intellectual attainments and deeply valued services to his university are any claim to such a distinction, he has fairly won the right to fill the place of the late Dean Milman. Dr. Magee's scholastic attain ments are hardly inferior to those of Mr. Mansel, while as a theologian he far outstrips him. On the other hand, the bishop-designate has served his apprenticeship in minis terial work at Bath and in London. More than all, he is one of the most consummate pulpit orators of the age. The Daily News says it seems like an instance of the glorious uncertainty of law that for the great calamity at Abergele it should be so difficult to bring home a criminal responsibility to any of the officials, while for the minor accident at Holywell the signalman should have received two months' imprisonment. But the result of the Abergele inquiry hitherto has certainly been to render it doubtful whether any criminal negligence could fairly be charged on any of the officials yet examined, while the result of the Holywell investigation was clearly to convict the sig nalman of negligence. The Holywell accident was not a serious one. Nobody was killed, and but few were hurt. But it was quite clear that, . though a luggage train was still partly blocking the station, the signalman, on hearing the whistle of the approaching express, lowered the signals which stood at " Danger " to "All right." The driver was in the habit of stopping outside the station to supply his engine with water, and the signalman assumed that he had done so on the occasion in question. Had this assumption been true, the permission to come on would have led to no accident. The goods train would have just cleared the rails when the express came up, and there would have been merely one of those "close shaves" which leave nobody the wiser. But the signalman's assumption was not true. The whistle came not from an engine which was just beginning to move, but from a train rushing on at its usual rate, and when the danger signal was lowered it came into the station too quickly to allow the goods train to be out of the way, and the accident occurred. The sig nalman's plea of error of judgment was therefore quite a fair one if the case had been one in which any exercise of judgment on his part was permissible at all. But here his plea broke down. The case is a hard one for the indi vidual, but it is entirely satisfactory for the public. Railway servants will now learn that it is their wisdom to obey their rules, and work the system entrusted to them as a system, and not to exercise their judgment in breaking through the system or dispensing with the rules. The Post thinks the conviction is decidedly satisfactory. The defence set up was " error of judgment" and a quibble about the word " wilful." But neither of these pleas were entertained. It would never do for a signalman or any other railway servant to exercise judgment upon points admitting of verification or absolute proof, and whatever partial excuse there was to adva nce on b e h a lf o f t h e accuse d could only be legitimately applied in mitigation of punish ment, and not in discharge of the liability to conviction. The Post, however, observes that the habit of trains some times stopping and sometimes not at certain stations along lines of railway must always be productive of irregularity, may possibly lead to accid e nt, i s w h o ll y unnecessary, an d should therefore be prohibited. The proper stations for taking in water for a train running day by day the same distance at the same rate can be accurately detailed ; and if properly done, and a sufficient quantity of water taken in at the right places, there ought to be no excuse for irregular stoppages. Cuba, accordingto the Gaulois, ha s t a k en up the c ry " Down with the Bourbons ! Long live the sovereignty of the people !"—of the people which has overtu rne d the throne of Queen Isabella. But Cuba has gone a step fur ther in its application of the revolutionary cries than the revolutionary chiefs may be pleased to see : it has not merely thrown off the sway of the Bourbons, but " declared its independence." Whether the leaders who have so energetically asserted the sovereignty of the people on this side of the Atlantic, will acquiesce in the decision of the sovereign people in Cuba, re mains to be seen. In the meantime, supposing the reports true, the Telegraph thinks Cuba has shaken off her connection with. Spain only to incur another risk— that of being forced to form a new connection with the United States. There was a curious significance in the fortuitous coupling of the news that the new Government in Spain had been recognised at Washington, with 'the state ment that the agitation for annexing Cuba to the States had been revived. The newborn independence of the island can scarcely last long ; the temptations towards annexation ::re too great for the States to resist, and Cuba has no why - plate power of defence. Should the United States size the opportunity to secure this glorious foothold in the "%lest Indies, the enterprise will not be undertaken, as in former years, to strengthen the power of the Southern and elaveholding States, but to enforce abolitionism in the, The Star is glad +o think that Cuba is much better prepared for the emancipation of slavery than were any of our own colonies. The project of abolition has been frequently mooted in Spain since the constitutional regime was established, Cuba has had governors notoriously in favour of abolition, and the failure of the Southern States in their gigantic crusade against freedom was felt by all intelligent slaveholders to be the knell of the spit= cyorYglignSANA______iCan Coll4nOnt and SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS, BIRMINGHAM, Wzmasmiy; The week's work of the Social Science Congress is over, having been brought to a close with what might not inaptly be termed a general thanksgiving meeting. Taken altogether, the visit of the Association to this town has been a pleasant one, despite the wet and cold that have prevailed. There has been much to see and learn—l mean,outside the sections . ; and wherever they have gone the members and associates have been received with unvarying courtesy, and made the recipients of substantial hospi tality. The sectional business itself, whether regard be had to the number and character of the papers or the subjects they have discussed, have been quite up to the average. One source of disappointment has, however, arisen. The dinner, which was to have taken place last night, has been postponed sine die. To tell the truth, the Council were unable to dispose of a sufficient number of tickets to -justify them in tarrying into execution their original inten tion. Probably they will discover from this fact that a guinea (half that sum for ladies) is too high a price to charge to those who must in every instance be put to a considerable expense in attending the Congress. The conference summoned by Dr. Martin, to consider in what way the licensing system might be amended, was duly held, under the presidency of the mayor, Mr. Avery, and the following resolution passed :—" That this confe rence believes that the time has fully come for establishing an association for promoting such an amendment of the license laws as shall secure a thorough reform of the beerhouse system ; of the regulations which apply to the sale of wines by grocers and confectioners ; stricter enact ments against the opening of gin-palaces and singing saloons, and a larger amount of popular control over the granting of licenses and the regulation of existing houses as to their hours of opening, &c." To carry out the object of the resolution an influential committee was appointed. It is at once a pleasure and an act of justice in this, my final notice of the present meeting, to mention that throughout the sitting of the Congress the utmost courtesy has been manifested, and every facility been given to the members of the press, in the discharge of duties that are by no means light, by the assistar.t general secretary, Mr. Robinson. 'Whither the Associationwill bend its steps next year is a matter still in abeyance. Invitations have already been received from several towns, but the question of a tem porary home for 1869 is not yet ripe for decision. The members and associates met to bid each other adieu at one o'clock, in the Town Hall. The Earl of Carnarvon, the president, was at his post in the chair, and the secretaries of the various departments presented an account of their doings during the week. A SCENE IN A CHURCH. A correspondent of an Irish paper sends from Portadown the following " plain, unvarnished tale" of a singular scene in a parish church which, he says, is not twenty miles from where he writes :—" A few Sundays ago, a gentleman and a lady from this neighbourhood attended church at the evening service, and were shown into a front seat, almost touching the baptismal font. A child was to be baptised, and its parents and sponsors came forward for the ceremony. A portion of the service usual on such occasions was gone through by the rector, and he then called on the congregation to stand up. Being in so conspicious a position, neither the gentleman nor lady obeyed ; and, after a pause, during which the rector kept staring at them he said loudly to the former, Stand up, sir !' There was no movement. Stand up, I say, sir ! ' roared his reverence, in a voice that made the roof ring, and brought all eyes on the unlucky objects of his wrath. Amazement was in every face, as the rector stood, book in hand, as if waiting for a reply, the service being at a stand-still all the while. Seeing he must say or do something, Mr. -- retorted : I think your conduct very impertinent. Though a stranger here, I have been brought up as an episcopalian, and for years have regularly attended the services of the Church, but I have nowhere met or heard of such unwar rantable interference. I'll keep my seat.' No one in the congregation said a word, and, finding he had caught a Tartar,' his reverence proceeded with the bap tism. He was all excited and confused, how ever, and indistinctly put some question to one of the sponsors. There was no reply, and his wrath broke out anew. `Answer my question, sir!' he said, in a tone louder than ever. This, after what had occurred, only irritated the other, who, though in poor circumstances (I trust not a tenant), replied that if he was to be insulted also, he would leave the church and never return. This had a calming effect, and the remainder of the service was decently performed, but not without much blundering." DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE. About seven o'clock on Tuesday morning a dreadful ex plosion took place at a firework manufactory belonging to Mr. G. Norris, Doncaster-road, Barnsley, resulting in the death of seven persons, and so dreadfully burning some thirteen or fourteen others that scarcely any arc expected to recover. The first indication of the explosion was a loud report like that of a cannon, which shook all the houses in the neighbourhood, and was heard at a distance of more than two miles. One or two men who were near to the place at the time rushed to the building, which was quite close to the road, and were horrified to find it on fire from one end to the other, whilst a number of boys and girls whc had been working on the premises were running about, , most of them being enveloped in flames. A man named Robinson was one of the first to rush into the place, and at considerable risk to himself caught hold of a girl whose clothes were all ablaze. Ile tore them off as quickly as possible. Her name was Emma Hawkey. He got a stretcher and assisted in removing her home, where she died in a very few minutes afterwards. More assist. ance having arrived, several of the boys and girls, of whom there would he 16 or 17 on the premises at the time, as well as Mr. Norris, the proprietor, were got out, all very much burnt. The foreman, George By-water, was found at a distance of 100 yards from the building, lying on the ground, every portion of his clothing, even to his shirt, being on fire. They were at once cut and torn off, and the poor fellow, in the greatest agony, was removed to a house in an adjoining street. On examining him, it was found that, in addition to being dreadfully burnt all over, his back had been broken ; so that no hope of his recovery is entertained. Nearly an hour after the occurrence the engine belonging to the town made its appearance, and played on the fire, which was not extin guished until the whole of the building, which was about twenty yards in length, and divided into four compart ments, was completely destroyed. A search was then made for the sufferers, and amongst the first of the killed found was Mrs. Mary Cooper, the forewoman over the girls. Her remains were found, in a sort of fire-place which had been inside of the building, very much burnt all over. The body of a girl of about 14 or 15 years of age, and two boys, were also found where the building stood, the flesh on all of them being black, and shrivelled in some parts and hanging loose in others, and presenting a most sickening appearance. A young man, Richard Evans, 21 years of age, and his sister, a servant with Mr. Norris, and with whom both resided, were found very badly burnt. Mr. Norris himself was also very much injured, being burned in the head, face, and body, so much so that he is not expected to survive. The whole of the children who were working in the place at the time of the explosion with hut one exception, were got out, and three of them were removed to the workhouse, where every attention was paid to them, and the remainder to their own homes or to some of the adjoining houses. The four bodies found in the ruins were laid out in an adjoining stable, but the only one identified there was Mrs. Cooper. They were afterwards taken to the Ship Inn, where the inquest on them will be held. There were three or four lads outside the building at the time of the explosion, but they escaped with trifling injuries. In addition to those named, one girl was said to be missing, and for whom a search was made in all directions, but without effect. The cause of the explosion, owing to the state of the injured parties, who alone can give any reliable information relative to it, could not be ascertained. Nothing now remains of the building, its site being marked by a considerable quantity of masonry and timber, with vast numbers of empty and exploded squibs, crackers, and rockets, together with reams of paper and parts of casks of sul phur, which by some means escaped. The magazine, which is distant about 120 yards from the building destroyed, fortunately was not touched, otherwise the consequences would have been still more serious, seeing that it contained a quantity of manufactured fireworks as well as gunpowder. Further news received is to the effect that the missing airl has been discovered, thus making up the seven dead. IMPORTANT TORPEDO EXPERIMENT.—Some en gineers have just been making experiments at Antwerp as to a means of defending the passes of the Scheldt by tor. pedoes placed in three lines, the explosion of which is regulated by the use of a camera obscura. The instrument is fixed at a certain point, and whenever a ship passes oyez it its image is reflected on the mirror at the camera. When the image arrives at a certain determined point the electric current is applied, and the explosion takes place imme. diately. The [mines are numbered, and each has a corn. sponding'mark in the chambg, The mer4Al Of AtItIYALit.I PION* and sure. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER, 8, 1868. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7. The race established by Mr. Blenkirou has been called the Second Derby. It would be more correct to say it was a Derby trial, as some of the best of the year are there supposed to contend for the honour of being first favourite for the Epsom event, besides the line it gives to the running of others who are absentees. Mr. Merry's Belladrum, who had incurred a penalty of 71b, was struck out on Monday, and the penalised horses who ran on this occasion were Ryshworth, Badsworth, and Pretender. The dark horses who came with a great private reputation - were Pero Gomez and King Cophetua from Sir Joseph Hawley's stable, and Wild Oats belonging to the Duke of Hamilton. 'rho latter a leggy but rather short horse, standing apparently 17 hands, was, on the strength of a great trial with Leonie, made the favourite, Pero Gomez, a very muscular but rather common-looking son of Beadsman, run nf.ng him second. The field was a strong one, 21 runners coming to the post, and in addition to the above-mentioned there were Scottish Queen, a Blair Athol filly, Consternation, by the same sire, and King Cophetua. There was not much calling for description in the race itself, as Pero Gomez was always in front, attended by Scottish Queen, and the favourite, Wild Oats, never showed pronii- nently in the hunt. Sir Joseph Hawley's colt won very easily from Scottish Queen, and .the estima tion his victory was held in may be gathered from the fact that 100 to 15 was taken about him for the Derby. A feature in the race was the reappearance of the colours of the Duke of Beaufort on Scottish Queen, whom his Grace, we believe, has leased from her breeder, Mr. a. Dawson, during her rac ing career. The Beaufort Stakes of 150 sovs each, h ft, for three year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b; untried allowed 31b, if both sib ; R.M. ; 6 subs. Mr Merry 's Phcebus (51b), by Thormanby, Bst 51b (car. 71b) (Daley) 1 Sir tt.W.l3ulkeley's Sir David Gain, Bst 1 01b....(Goater) 2 Lord Stamford's Happy Thought (51b), Bst llb (Hammond) 3 Betting-5 to 4on Phoebus, and sto 2 agst Sir David Gam. Won by three lengths. The Bedford Stakes of 50 soya each, h ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of a sweep stakes amounting to 500 sovs with ten subscribers or upwards 71b, all other winners of sweepstakes or plates 31b extra; weights accumulative; Bretby Stakes Course: 8 subs. Count Batthyany's Typhon, by Weatherbit, Bst 101 b (Morris) 1 Admiral Rolls's Amara, Bst 71b (Fordham) 2 Mr Pryor's Misadventure, Bst 101 b (inc. 31b extra) (T, French) 3 Count F. de Lagrange's Masaniello, 9st 31b (inc. 51b ex.) (Grimshaw) 4 Baron Rothschild's Wildbad, Bst 131 b (inc. 3ib extra) (Daley) 5 Betting-5 to 4 agst Amara, 4to 1 each agst Typhon and Masaniello. Won very cleverly. A Handicap of 10 soya each, for two and three year olds ; T.Y.C. Mr C. Head's Bonnie Katie, by King of Trumps, 2 yrs, 7st 41b (liuxtable) 1 Mr Padwick's Lady Cecilia, 2 yrs, Bst 51b (Fordham) 2 Mr Crawley's Compromise, 2 yrs, 6st 41b (Wyatt) 3 The following also ran :—Tiatchment, Milton, Cork Jacket, Ritualist, Brother to Cambuscan, Aptitude, Vaux hall, Bretby, Pompeii, Young Melbourne colt, Topsy. Betting-6 to 1 agst Milton, 7to 1 each agst Pompeii and Compromise, 10 to 1 each agst Cork Jacket and Ritu alist, and 100 to 8 agst Brother to Cambuscan. Won by a neck. The Windsor Stakes of 20 sovs each, 11 ft, for two year olds; colts 9st, fillies Bst 101 b; winners of 300 sovs 31b, of 500 71b extra ; T.Y.C. 13 subs. Count F. de Lagrange's Masaniello, by Ventre St. Gris, 9st 31b (inc. 31b ex) (Grimshaw) 1 Mr Joseph Dawson's ch f Electricity, Bst 101 b (T. French) 2 Captain Machell's Champagne Charlie, 9st...(Fordliatn) 3 Mr Chaplin's Scimitar, 9st (Custance) 4 Betting-6 to 4 agst Masaniello, 2to 1 agst Electricity, and 4to 1 agst Champagne Charlie. Won by half a length. A Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, 10 ft. ; a winner of a handicap after September 29th to carry bib extra ; T.Y.O. Mr J. Wood's Verity, by Sedbury, 4 yrs, Gst 61b (Butler) 1 Duke of Hamilton's Leonie, 3 yrs, 9st 41b ...(Challoner) Lord Westmoreland's Indian Star, 5 yrs, Bst...(Kenyon) 3 The following also ran :—Victress, Out and Outer, and Patrician. Betting-2 to 1 against Verity, sto 1 agst Indian Star, 6to 1 agst Leonie, and 100 to 13 agst Victress. Won by a length. The Middle Park Plate of 1,000 sovs, added to a Sweep stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, for two year olds ; colts Bst 91b, fillies and geldings Bst Gib; winners of a stake value 1,000 soya 71b, of 300 41b extra; maidens at start ing allowed 31b; the second to receive 200 soya, and the third 100 out of the stakes ; Bretby Stakes Course ; 180 subs. Sir Joseph Hawley's Pero Gomez, by Beadsman, Bst (lb (.J. Adams) 1 Duke of Beaufort's Scottish Queen, Bst 31b (Fordham) '2 Mr J. Johnstone's Pretender, Bst 131 b (including 41b ox.) (Osborne) 3 Lord A ilesbury's Bribery filly, Bst 31b (Challoner) 0 Count Batthyany's Typhon, Bst 9lb (Morris) 0 Sir B. W. Bulkeley's Tasman, Bst 91b (Goater) 0 Mr Chaplin's Brother to Chattanooga, Bst 61b (ea Bst 101 b) 0 (Custance) 0 Mr Cornish's ch. c. Consternation, Bst 61b... (H. Covey) 0 Duke of Hamilton's Wild Oats, Bst 6lb (Norman) 0 Sir J. Hawley's King Cophetua, Bst 61b (T. French) 0 Mr G. Holmes's b. f. Lady Dewhurst, Bst 61b (Snowden) 0 Mr T. Jennings's Perryllown, Bst 61b.. ... . (Parry) U Mr J. Johnstone's Derventio, Bst Glb (Cameron) 0 Mr G. Jones's The Drummer, Bst 61b (Page) 0 Count P. de Lagrange's Lo Saphir, Bst 61b (car. Bst 71b) (Urimshaw) 0 Captain Machell's The Priest, Bst 61b (Jeffery) 0 Mr Naylor's Chatsworth, Bst 61b (Kenyon) 0 Mr Naylor's Lurline, Bst 31b .. (Butler) 0 Mr H. Savile's Ityshworth, Oat 21b (inc. 71b extra (Daley) 0 Dr Shorthouse's Crucifixion filly, Bst 31b (Cannon) 0 Prince Soltykoff's Badsworth, Bst 131 b (inc. 41b extra) (J. Mann) 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Wild Oats, 100 to 30 agst Pero Gomez, 6 to 1 agst King Cophetua, 10 to 1 agst Scottish Queen, and 100 to 8 each agst Pretender and the Cru cifixion filly. At the third attempt they got away on excellent terms, and ran widely spread for a few strides, when The Priest went to the front, followed by Brother to Chattanooga, Perry Down, Badsworth, and Sir Joseph's two, the latter holding a position in the centre of the course, to the left of whom were seen the colours of the favourite, the Cruci fixion filly, Pretender, Typhon, Scottish Queen, and Rysh worth in a body; the others, headed by Lurline, The Drummer, and Lady .Dewhurst, lying close in their track. Approaching the Bushes hill the two leaders disappeared from the front, and for a brief period Perry Down held the command; but he immediately after surrendered his pride of place to Pero Gomez and his stable companion, the pair having Badsworth, the Crucifixion filly, Pre tender, and Scottish Queen as their immediate followers, into the Abingdon Mile-bottom. Here King Cophetua died away, and his place was then taken by the Duke of Beaufort's filly on the left, Pretender, with the Crucifixion filly, Wild Oats, and Lady Dewhurst alone being in the race. Half way in the rails Fordham brought up Scottish Queen, and for a stride or two appeared to have an equal chance with the cherry jacket, bat it was only momentary as Pero Gomez, 'answering with great gameness when called upon, quitted his opponent and won with great ease by half a length ; Pretender finished a bad third ; the Crucifixion filly, who ran past the pulling up horses, was fourth, Wild Oats fifth, Lady Dewhurst sixth, Perry Down seventh, The Drummer eighth, King Cophetua ninth, and Consternation next; The Priest, Brother to Chattanooga, Le Saphir, Badsworth, and Derventio last, beaten off. The Select Stakes of 50 soya each, h ft, for three yr olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winners of any ono of the following stakes 51b, of any two of them 101 b extra— viz., the Two Thousand Guineas or One Thousand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, the Derby or Oaks at Epsom, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, the Great Yorkshire Stakes at York, and the St. Leger or Don Stakes at Doncaster; ; 6 subs. Count Batthyany's b c Typhceus, by Stockwell, Bst 121 b (Morris) 1 Lord Stamford's Vale Royal, 9st lib (inc 51b extra) (Hearttield) 2 Betting--5 to 2on Typhceus, who made his own running and won in a canter by ten lengths. The Oatlands Plate (Handicap) of 50 sous, for three year olds and upwards ; Cambridgeshire Course. Baron Rothschild's Nyanza, by King Toni, 3 yrs, Est 71b (Wyatt) 1 Mr Hughes's Macduff, 3 yrs, Est (Studheart) 2 Mr W. M. Lambourne's Morning Star, 3 yrs, 6st 410 (Rolfe) 3 The following also ran :—Silenus, Professor Anderson, Sycee, Chivalry, Fakir, Artesian, Maid of Masham cult, Realite, and Eoughboy. Butting-4 to 1 each agst Silenus and Nyanza, sto 1 each agst Professor Anderson and Macduff, and 8 to 1 agst Chivalry. Won toy three lengths. A Sweepstakes of 50 soya each, h ft, for two year oils; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b, not engaged in the July, Chesterfield, Rutland, Clear well, or Prenderg t.st Stakes ; winners of 200 sews or upwards 51b extra ; maidens allowed 51b ; the second to save his stake ; Criterion Course. 7 subs. Lord Falmouth's Nightjar, bfWild Dayrell (Challoner) 1 Mr ?ryor's Becky Sharp (H. Covey) 2 Mr Heene's AttieNano (J. Adams) 3 Betting-5 to 4 agst Nightjar, and 5 to 2 agst Athol stunt). Morris weighed for Queen Esther, but elle bolted towards the enclosure on the flat, and did not get up to the post in time to start. Won by two lengths. LATEST BETTING. DERBY. 7to 1 agst Pero Gomez (taken freely) MIDNIG H.T BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 6to 1 agst Cecil (offered) 20 to 1 agst Restitution (taken) 20 to 1 agst Warrington 20 to 1 agst Mortemer (taken and offered) 1000 to 25 agst Monarch of the Glen (after 1000 to 30 had been laid) 1000 to 60 agst Lady Coventry (taken) 33 to 1 agst Boanerges (offered) 1000 to 15 agst Vauban 1000 to 15 agst Hermit 1000 to 15 agst Mercury 1000 to 15 agst Paul Jones (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Planet (taken) 2111. CARD WELL AT OXFORD. --~-- On Tuesday evening last a dinner of Oxford Oddfellows was held in the Town-hall, under the presidency of the Mayor, when Mr. Cardwell at tended, and the new candidates for the represen tation of the city—Dr. Deane and Mr. Vernon Harcourt—were also present. The supporters of both gentlemen mustered in considerable numbers. In acknowledging the toast of " The City Members," Mr. CARDWELL said—The first thought that oc curs to me on rising to address you to-night is the regret with which I reflect that this is probably the last public occasion on which my name will be coupled with that of the colleague with whom I have ever acted with entire confidence and un broken friendship. (Cheers.) Whether we have been engaged in prosecuting what we have believed to be measures calculated to promote the general welfare of the country, or whether we have been employed in pursuing those of a local character, from which we hoped advantage or profit would be derived by our constituents at Oxford, I have always acted with the most perfect. harmony with Mr. Neate. (Cheers.) I heard with the greatest regret the determination that he expressed to relin quish the seat he filled, and we shall both look back with pleasurable feelings upon the time we spent together in your service. You will have daily opportunities in my past colleague's future career as a citizen of testifying how large a share he still retains of your confidence and regard; and I think I may be permitted to say that I am quite sure his vacant place will be seen with regret in the House of Commons—where his ability has been re cognised, and where his many excellent qualities have attracted to him a large share of friendship and esteem. (Cheers.) Were Ito mention one of those qualities in preference to others, I should select a certain sort of chivalric courage, which always prompts him, regardless of every other con sideration, to give expression to the honest thoughts of his mind, and express s entiments prompted by generosity and justice. (Cheers.) The chairman has alluded to the desirability of excluding politics, and also to the necessity of curtailing the speeches as much as possible to allow the ladies the opportu nity of participating in a dance. The former sug gestion reminds me of a remark I heard in the house of Commons. We had come, after a weary debate, to the hour of midnight, and the question was whether we should adjourn or whether we should finish the debate. The hoase was, pro tem pore, in the hands of an amusing member from the sister island. We urged him to go on. He replied that he had carefully calculated what he had to say, and it was all one whether he said it then or at some future time, but he thought if he attempted he could " compress it into five hours." (Laughter.) I will not detain you if possible for more than as many minutes. My friends here— Dr. Deane and Mr. Vernon Harcourt—have had the advantage of inhaling the pleasant breezes of Scotland ; I will not be the one to facili tate their return to the region of politics, and I will touch upon nothing which will interrupt the harmony of those present. My friend Mr. Neate has been occupied with the Social Science Congress at Birmingham. I will not disparage that excellent association, at which Mr. Vernon Harcourt has filled so distinguished a part ; but perhaps I may be permitted to say that by your favour, and in obeCience to your commands, Mr. Neat e and my self have been members of a far more important Social Science Association, which has had the power of carrying into effect the proposals it has made, and in respect to which we may look back on the past with some satisfaction, and to the future with a great deal of hope and confidence. The two principal measures of the last quarter of a cen tury, for which this existing Parliament has been distinguished, have been measures of a " Social Science" character. They have now, I think, both ceased to be questions of controversy, and there fore I thiuk without fear I may refer to them with out touching upon prohibited ground. One has of many burdens s a te l P d — hindered the com bweheinehthfeettreermedovtahle, s i t n e d p us b t y ry com forts of all classes of the community, but chiefly those who lived by labour. It was my fortune to enter Parliament first just at that particular time, that all my earliest votes were given in furtherance of the just measures of that policy, the result of which has been like the meal and cruse of oil of the widow sent to Elijah, as re corded in Holy Scripture ; it has furnished abun dant cause of comfort to the community at large, and, instead of diminishing, it has rather tended to increase the revenue received by the Treasury. (Cheers.) The other measure is that which has just been passed for admitting into the benefits and privileges of the franchise much larger M classes of the community. My belief is also that a n impulse will be given to the consideration of ques tions of a social character. Of these no doubt the chief will be the question of education. That ques tion is nowhere so interesting as it is in Oxf o rd, nor has there been any time when it h as b een more in teresting than at that when I now address you. It is a source of great satisfaction to me to believe that the citizens of Oxford are now engaged in amicable communication with the authorities of the Univer sity with a view to the extension of the advantages of University education in a manner that will be satisfactory not only to the University and the city of Oxford, but eminently conducive to the general welfare of the country. Historians tell us that long ago, before the Colleges were built, the number of students in this university was so much greater than we have known it of late years, that some writers put it at a number eqaal to the whole of the present population—over 30,000. That, I think, must be a manifest exaggeration, but at the same time we have reason to believe that formerly the number of students was much greater than it has been of late years. An ancient writer, in referring to those times, says there was " a com pany of varlets who shuffled themselves in who were not scholars at all, but only pretended to be scholars," and he goes on to say " they gave the burghers a great deal of trouble." Now, my hope is not that the consequence of the presen t University extension will be to equal the number of students as recorded by Anthony Wood, but that the mayor and corporation will find the quality better—(cheers)—that we shall have an increase of excellent students, who, so far from creating any trouble for the burghers, will be as welcome to the citizens of Oxford as they will to the authorities of the University. (Loud cheers.) I look for four advantages chiefly from these various changes. In the first place, the University extension should yield an increase of the high style of learning, which is properly called academical, among a much larger circle of the community than have hitherto enjoyed it, so that instead of being a privilege to the few it may in future be the possession and inheritance of many. (Cheers.) The second advantage I hope will be that the increase in the higher education may not be limited to those who have the direct en joyment of it, bat that, percolating by the influence of one class to the teachers of another, it may com municate itself throughout the whole, and improve the character of the teaching of the country. (Cheers.) As a third advantage, I hope that those large educational charities which are scat tered through the country, and which it is my con viction contribute much less than they might, may be so to contribute to the furtherance of the designs for which they were originally founded, in the benefit of the community at large. (Cheers.) Fourthly, but not least, I hope that the education of every class will be good of its kind—the " pH m,ry," as it is called, the secondary, and the highest —and that there will be established that connection and inter-dependence which will enable talent and merit, in whatever strata of society they may be found, to have the utmost facility of rising to the highest station to which they can advance. (Loud cheers.) I believe we shall in a few years in a great measure attain this, and then I trust that the education of this country may fairly be com pared to a pyramid, of which the broad basis shall be co-extensive to the whole body of the people —of which the parts shall be completely cemented and compacted together—of which the Uni versities, and not the least this one, shall be the apex and the capital. (Cheer. 3.) I would just observe to you, upon the events which have happened within the last week in a neighbouring country of Europe, that when you see, first the navy, and then the army, and next the people, all, as if by one consent, rising in rebelling against their Government—When you see, without a conflict worthy of the name, a Sovereign in exile and a Government overthrown does it not awaken in your hearts a .ease of the deepest thankfulness, and a sense of the inestimable blessings of that people whose Queen is enthroned in the hearts and affections of her subjects, whose government is founded upon a broad and pcpu]ar basis, and the conduct of whose affairs is guided by the wishes and convictions of the community ? (Cheers.) I will only, in conclusion, repeat on the part of my friend and colleague and myself our sin cere thanks for the kind manner in which you have b een pl e ased to receive the mention of our names, and say to you that so long as it is your pleasure that I should be one of the representatives of the city of Oxford, so long shall I endeavour Co the utmost of my ability to promote every measure of rational improvement and progress, and more espe cially those which most concern the community in which we live. (The right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid loud cheers.) Dr. DEANE and Mr. VERNON HARCOURT also ad dressed the assembly, who drank their healths enthusiasm. AIR. A? KLNIS 'S ,SPEECH. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Edward Atkinson admits that the figures in his now celebrated speech on the United States Debt were arranged to answer the Democratic charge of extravagance brought against the ruling Republi- This is tantamount to saying that they were arranged to support the most favourable coucl'i sions for his clients, but be asserts their official character being furnished by the lion. David Wells, Special Revenue Commissioner. His weak point has been seized on and exposed, and we may ob serve, most grossly misrepresented. He adds to the Debt as it stood on the Treasury books on the Ist of April, 1b65, the liabilities the Government had then incurred, and the expenses of the Army and Navy department for fifteen months thereafter, thus arriving at the grand total of more than three and a quarter thousand millions of dollars. Instantly his conclusion that over eight hundred millions of the national debt had been liquidated since the war is stated to be reached by adding to the debt on the Ist April the whole Government expenditure for the next 15 months, amounting to $920,000,000. The wonder is said to be that he stopped at fifteen months, and did not add the full three years' ex penditure. Mr. Wells on this is declared to be so dishonest that had these figures been given by any Etiglish politician he would never thereafter have dared to show his face i❑ the public streets. We would strongly recommend the London Globe not to take as a text the assertions of the Standard's correspondent, and write its " snippetty" articles thereon, for it was betrayed la a st Saturday into a series of absurd blunders by so doing. In the first place, Mr. Wade had nothing to do with Mr. Atkinson's speech. Next, it was not Mr. Wells' speech ; it was that of Edward Atkinson, of Bos ton, known for the most able reply ever made to the repudiators, as well sustained and complete an argument as has been brought before the public. Finally, the assertion that Mr. Atkinson added the total Government expenditure for fifteen months, which amounted to over nine hundred millions, is a shameful perversion of Mr. Atkinson's facts. The writer had not read a word of what the speaker had said. He did not know where, when, or by whom the speech was made, but be accepts the dictum of an amusing writer, though one as unreliable as he is inimical to the United States. We may ask the Globe if the British expense for the Abyssinian expedition ended with the fall of Magdala, the death of the King,and the surrender of the prisoners? Suppose the British Treasury showed its outlay for the expedi tion up to that day, would financiers be justified in asserting that there ended the expenses ? There were transports to return and be discharged ; there were accounts for contracts entered into but not concluded to be settled ; the army had to be brought back ; extra batta paid to officers and men ; and, though there were few wounded, still liabilities for rewards and pensions were incurred. We ven ture to state that the heaviest portion of the out lay fell on the Treasury after the national success, as was the case in the United States ; and this fact is shown in Mr. Atkinson's figures, though not in the correspondent's letter, who desired to prove his own untruthful assertion. In the quarter com prised between the Ist April and the 30th June, 1865, on orders of the War Department the Treasury disbursed $414,196,377, or nearly a half of the total for the fifteen months. The sum for the next quarter was upwards of $165,000,000, and the amount within six months of the Confederate sur render paid on army account alone was just $580,000,000. Is not that the war cost, and: could it fairly be charged as the ordinary Government ex penditure ? Mr. Atkinson says it cannot, and estimates it as he does the disbursement of the Navy Department, as part of the war debt. He goes further, for he includes the pensions, bounties, and even cemeteries for the soldiers killed. But when the correspondent writes, and the Globe follows, that he made up his total by adding the immense sum which had not been incurred up to the Ist of 'April, 1865, but which was afterwards expended by the Government within fifteen months, they misrepresent Mr. Atkinson. That gentleman, who anticipates this misrepresentation, states that the war expenses under wholly different circumstances would have amounted to a moderate sum, which he has not deducted, as there was au extraordinary expenditure of between forty and fifty millions for the Indian war and harbour im provements which he put down as a set off. This is very different from all the Government disburse ments, and when they ask why he restricted it to fifteen months, and did not add the further Govern ment expenditure of the 24 months since then elapsed, we answer, because it was within the former period that the United States paid off and disbanded their million of Union soldiers. The marvel is that they succeeded in doing it so quickly, and we ven ture to say that even the paltry expedition into Abyssinia will not be finally settled for many a month to come. Indeed Mr. Atkinson might fairly have extended the period of extraordinary expendi ture. His fault perhaps is in not having deducted from the total the ratio of cost now incurred by the army and navy for the fifteen months. But in com mon fairness this should have been explained by those who prefer charges so strong against both him and Mr. Wells. The Special Commissioner, however, had nothing to do with Op cooking of these accounts, as the correspondent terms it, and even did the results wholly misrepresent the subject this would form no reason for Mr. Wells not showing his face in the streets. The plan and arrangement,said Mr.Atkinson,are mine; but the data was furnished by Mr. Wells. The questions the former put were an swered by the latter, and for errors of figures only Mr. Wells is to blame. But these people have not attacked the figures, but only the way in which they were used ; yet this, Mr. Atkinson says, was his way, forwhich he would claim credit or bear blame. Still the Globe never even alludes to Mr. Atkinson, treating the speech as that of a Mr. Wells, on data furnished by a Mr. Wade, but what Wells or what Wade is not indicated, and for the best of reasons —the writer did not know. Here, then, we have a London evening daily, said to be inspired by the cans. Government, which grounds an article on the loose statements of a correspondent bitterly hostile to the ruling party of the United States, without the slightest examination of the subject, but content with the simple fact that it was unfavourable to the Republic. In the columns of the Standard this letter is intelligible, but among the leaders in the Globe its assertions are not ; for the correspondent knows about what he was writing,states his case, ad vances his proof, and withholds what demolishes it ; while the writer in the Globe had no more knowledge than an infant of the subject, but a vague notion, gathered from the correspondent, that it was some thing very bad. Men truy wholly differ on the great American questions in dispute though very intelli gent, honest, and patriotic, and we do not deny honesty of intention to the Standard's correspondent, although his view is very different from ours, and he may often be unscrupulous in making assertions and garbling facts. But the Globe is simply pan dering to a vile prejudia?, and thereby making itself contemptible in American eyes; a sort of con tempt felt for those who express strong opiniois on a subject of which their own exposition proves them to be ignorant. But while desiring an honest discussion and deprecating garbled extracts, we are far from prepared to accept Mr. Atkinson's financial statement, except in a qualified way, making full allowance for the campaign nature of the document, and the evident desire to prove as much as the figures can be made to do. MONTLONG'S MEXICAN REVEL A TIONS. (From the New York Nation). Early in February, 1867, a few days before Maximilian set out on his fatal march from Mexico to Queretaro, the city which, after a seventy days' siege, was to witness his downfall on May 15, and his execution on June 19, he entrusted Wilhelm von Montlong, an officer of his staff (it is this officer and his friend% who state it), with the task of elaborating, from official documents, an exact and detailed account (" noticia exacta y pormeno rizada") of the conduct of the French army during its stay in Mexico, the evacuation of which it was then completing. The task was executed after the death of the Prince with devoted zeal, but without the aid of materials sufficient for an exhaustive work on so interesting a topic. The book, which embodies the results of what is introduced to us as a labour of love and devotion to the memory of " the unfortunate monarch," is too fragmentary, and the documentary evidence adduced to support some of its most important assertions hardly ample enough for their corroboration. But even so, these new " Revelations" are an interesting con tribution to the history of our time and continent. Written n)t " sine ira et studio," they have, at least, the merit of strengthening opinions generally current in camps hostile to that of the author. " The empire began with treason," says Major Montlong, " and treason brought about its end." Maximilian, he believes, would never have accepted the crown carried to him. at Miramar had lie not been most artfully and treacherously deceived concerning his election as emperor. This may be true only to a degree, but the grossness of the de ception which was to serve as the basis of a new throne and dynasty is revealed in the following : The principal inhabitants of Monterey having been assembled by the French General jeanningros— who acted precisely as others did in other towns— he addressed them in these words : —" The Emperor of the French, always anxious to promote the wel fare of all unfortunate nations, and desirous to establish your happiness, has determined to trans form the Mexican Republic into a rich and flourish . - ing empire, and has selected for your emperor the most liberal and enlightened prince of Europe, the Archduke Maximilian of Austria. But Napoleon wishes Maximilian to be elected by the general vote of the nation. I have called you here, therefore, to receive your votes." And advancing a few steps towards the assembled Mexicans, he added, with a threatening countenance : "N'est-ce pas, gentlemen, you accept the prince whom the Emperor Napoleon sends you?" To which the assembly, intimated by a squad of French troops posted in front of them, answered, " We do," and the general, turning to an officer of his staff who collected the protocols, said : " Write, sir, that this city has voted unanimously for the em pire, and let these gentlemen sign the document." The notables of San Luis Potosi, who refused to sign a similar declaration, were thrown into prison, kept for thirty-six hours without food, and thus compelled to submit. This is an example of the political dealings of the French invaders in Mexico. Of their mili- tary deeds in that country we learn some that hardly redound in a higher degree to the glory of the "great nation." General Mangin having on the occupation of the village of Montealto found out the suspicious disposition of its inhabitants, he had 46 of them, noted as the most " liberal," arrested in the night and shot without trial or sentence. This ferocious act may be ascribed to the prompting of incipient insanity, as the general shortly after lost his reason ; but other barbarities are related for which, unfortunately for human nature, no such plea can be raised. A Captain Charrier, of the Foreign Legion, is charged with having, by threats of execution, forced the prefect of a small town to sign the death-sentence of his own brother, whose only crime was his attachment to the Liberal cause. According to our narrative atrocities like these were much more frequently committed by the .• "liberal" Mexicans than by the French champions of " civilization." The native allies of the latter naturally make no exception, and in a retrospetive glance a butchery of almost unparalleled atrocity executed at Tacubaya in 1859.—is related in which the future Imperial generals, Miramon and Marquez, were the chief actors. Miramon—we read—in an order concluding with the words " God and law !" decreed the execution of all wounded officers found in the hospital at that captured place, and Marquez included in the hecatomb the seven physicians whom he found administering to the wounded. And vet Miramon is one of those few Mexicans of whom our author occasionally speaks with ad miration, a sentiment which Maximilian must have fully shared, if it be true that, a few minutes before their common execution, placing him between him self and Gen. Mejia, he addressed to him these words : " Even monarchs must admire the brave ; before dying I cede to you the post of honour." Miramon himself, who energetically rroteited his constant fidelity to the cause of order, died with the words, " Live the Emperor" on his lips. The Emperor lived a few seconds longer, during which he vainly tried to recover breath after the deadly volley. h is last words and acts—his enemies acknowled4ed it —were worthy of a better cause than was his, viewed in the mildest light. Mejia alone sank in silent despair, having, a moment before, seen his wife in mad anguish running through the streets of Queretaro with her baby in her arms. The men of whom our author speaks with al most unqualified contempt are Marquez, Lopez, and Marshal Bazaine. In Marquez's tardiness to relieve Puebla, then besieged by Porfirio Diaz, he sees the main cause of the disasters which terminated the last struggle of the empire. his obstinately prolonged defence of the capital after the fall of Queretaro—a defence made possible only by atro cious deceptions practised on the decimated and starving garrison—he ascribes to purely selfish mo tives. The treason of Lopez, who is stated to have sold Queretaro to Escobedo—yet with the intention of . aiding in the flight of Maximilian—is represented as a fact, the authenticity of which is proved by a mass of irrefragible evidence. Bazaine, whose im peachment before the tribunal of public opinion and of history seems to be the main object of the book, is charged, not without proof, not only with sordid selfishness, extortion, peculation, and cruelty, but also with duplicity, intentional abuse of instructions, falsity to the interests of both France and Mexico, hostility to the cause of Maximilian, and even con scious military treachery—the motive being the marshal's secret intention, fomented primps by his Mexican marriage, to make himself master of Mexico as President or otherwise. The bloody Imperial decree of October 3, 1865, is represented as having been extorted by the heartless French man, and made doubly fatal by his still more san gumary secret instructions concerning its execution. These are certainly no isolated accusations, broad as they are, but, as we have stated, they are not sufficiently substantiated by the documentary evi dence. The little that is said in the hook of Juarez and Porfirio Diaz betrays, if it does not display, the writer's antipathy to the former and esteem for the latter. He detests most of the Mexican leaders la both camps, unveils the corruption and treachery that doomed the Imperial Government to bar renness and precocious decay, excuses the crimes of one party only by those of the other, an d finds the Mexican people, with their bandit warriors and ignorant and profligate clergy, " ut terly demoralized by a civil war of forty years dura tion, which has broken all the springs of the ma' chine of State, distracted all minds, and adulterated every sentiment of duty, honour, and social inte grity." lle considers the Conservative p ar ty, bath in Mexico and Central America, as doomed, finallYl to succumb to the Liberal, and that—the I s t B Mexican Imperial officer acknowledges it without hesitation—on account of its greater rottenness . and yet h is convinced that Maximilian under took the gigantic task of regenerating such a nation with the aid of such a party in goo d conscience and from noble mo ti ves , an d t h a t 1 03 victory alone could have secured to the distracted country the blessings of peace, order, and civilizi. tion. But was this victory possible after the down' . fall of the Southern Confederacy, even if Baza,ine and the Mexican Imperialists remained faithful ? W r a s it still possible in the latter part of 1866, when the French commenced their retrogade movements, preparatory to their return to France ? Was I . t still possible whe n M ax i m ili an returned from ON' zlba to the capital to continue the struggle sidgle" handed? Was not the gallant stand made a t Queretaro as useless a waste of blood—for honour's sake, perhaps —as was the post Imperial tic' fence of Mexico by Marquez, from less honour' able personal motives? Did princely or military honour command the leader and his enthusiast ic Austrian followers to cling to the last to a caus e which was already known to them to have bee° conceived in treason, and, if not criminal from tlf , ) , beginning, had certainly become a " lost cause? To none of these questions does our author attemp t to give an answer. We can certainly find no el planation strong enough to exculpate his hero froio the guilt of reckless adventurousness—a guilt winch he may have nobly expiated with his blood, thong b without repentance. It was a strange Nemesis tha t carried a scion of the house of Austria, three bun' dred years after the death of Charles V. to t he shores deluged with A z t ec bl oo d b y t h at monarc h's conquistadores, to p er i s h b y a b u ll et at the han d 01 an Aztec chief ! THE EXHIBITION IN THE PACIFIC STA7ES. The Pacific States have had a grand Exhibition called the Mechanics' Institute's Fair, held in e Pavilion built for the occasi on , l a t e l y completed at San Francisco. The structure is a parallelogram l ° form, with its greatest length running east and west. Its entire length is 337 f t. by a width of 205, exc lusili°, of boiler room. Th e num b er o f square feet of ground floor is 72,000, aga i ns t 55 , 0 00, occ upied by the pavili on o f 1865-6. It i s b u il t ent i re ly °f wood, and the chief points aimed at have been lightness, strength, and economy of cost and spac e ' The main hall is 272 feet long and 180 feet Wide; with a central arch e d nave of the same length, 80 feet wide and 68 feet high. Around the entire nav e runs a gallery nine fe e t wicle, with twenty fe et width at the end connections, which is used mair ti f for walking. It is reached by four wide staircases, t we upon either side, and a steam hoist-way near th e entrance, after the style of the most approved hoist; ways in use at the hotels in the Atlantic States an t ; Europe. The Pavilion is lighted by contiunoa,. windows along both sides, while the f ron t c onsist s of one semi-circular window, of forty feet radiu s ; The whole is brilliantly illuminat e d i n th e evening by upwards of 1,200 gas burners. The main ea' trance is from Stockton-street, and is flanked by O re towers 80 feet high, surmounted by flagstaffs. Th e grand vestibule is 50 feet wide, and leads direct t° the body of the building. As the visitor enters O ° door he finds on hi s r i g h t hand machinery 3°'A hardware in general, and on his left textile fabric s and lighter manufactures. The front wings a re occupied by musical instr umen t s , d raw i ngs , a° liquors (esthetics !) on the right hand, an d by restaurant on the left. The long traverse wig; at the rear, opposite the entrance, is devote d to art. In the galleries are wines, confer' tionery, bookbinders prod uc ti ons, &c. The Ar t Gallery is placed across the rear of the main It building, and is 205 fe e t l ong b y 30 in width. t receives abundant light from above, by a contitt ly ous line of perpendicular sash, placed upon t he t roof. Easy access and egress to and frOm the A l ' Gallery is obtained by five passage-ways—one frl the nave, and t wo f rom eac h of the wings or aisles °d the main hall. Th e wa ll s of the gallery are t i n ted so as to subd ue t h e sharpness of the light, a nd relieve the paintings, photographs, &c., which a re placed upon the walls. This will form a most il l ; teresting featur e o f th e ex hibi t i on, far exceedilit' anything of th e ki n d hi therto witnessed on that coast. The various artists of San Francis ° have largely engaged space —so that a 1 )° , 1. ,, tion, if not all th e p h otographs have to ' placed across one of the ends of the gallery in the main building, which is made of extra widt h ' and equally well arranged and lighted for such purl" pose as the Art G a ll ery. T he b uilding cost, ill a ll ' t $30,000. The quant it y o f l um b er used was a bu t 600,000 feet,a n d 700,000 s hi ng l es have been expen ded in roofing. In the centre of the nave a fount a "; is erected in an open space, th e spray f rom the wate r rising nearly to the roof, while along the middl e ' east and west from the centre, flowers are exhibite d ' The goods and manufactures are divided into thirty classes, and ores, as might be expected, have a PI; minent place. The F a i r was opened on the 8t August, when the Hon. Newton Booth of Sacra mento delivered an impressive address. At Arreton, in the Isle of Wight, there is a hone chestnut tree a hich is now in full bloom ; at Bally'; ca , rrett, Irela n d, th ere i s a pear tree covered with bloss i i as luxuriant a s if i n ear l y summer; and at Ballyna bine f there is an apple tree covered with a luxuriant crop °, blossoms, while a considerable quantity of this season ° fruit still remains upon the branches. [ADVERTISEMENT. I Holloway's Pills.—lmportant to the Sick.—Though the mind be downcast, and ba feebled by continued indisposition, the sufferer should et this season make a last effort to regain health by taloa, Holloway's purifying pills, whi c h, by c l eans i ng th e bleo b a; will search out the hidden cause of mi sc hi e f and expel t seeds of most diseases. No invalid is t oo muc h re d uc ed a, undergo this very gentle treatment with safety and . 3 vantage. Neither youth not old a ge nee d f ear any it)311,1 to the system from a regulated cour se o f th ese p ill s . , are infallible in stomach complaints, bilious affecti?o"' sickness, want of appetite, disordered bowels, constipatte i ; and the annoyances which spring from derangement of h P digestive and assimilating organs. Births. MILLS—On the ith iust., at Wilderness, Sevenoaks, t h° Lady Louisa Mills, of a son. MASSY—On the sth inst., at The Lodge, New Wi m bledl the wife of D r . M assy, Deputy-Inspector-Genera l ° Hospitals, of a son. 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