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

SPIRIT Or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday Review calls attention to a statemen which has been made within the last few clays, of a kin that may he considered almost official, that Mr. Disraft intends to make Lord Mayo the new Governor-General c India. This statement ha s been made so positively, an ,has remained so absolutely without contradiction, that w are obliged to receive it as expressing, at any rate, the pre sent intentions of the Prime Minister. It was lon thought that Sir Staffeird Northcote was to be the man He s had allowed it to be repeatedly and pnblic:y said tha he was ambitious of the honour of filling the post. He ha made a very fair Indian Secretary, quite as good a Secre tarn as, on the average of Ministries, we can hope to get Suddenly he is superseded by Lord Mayo, who, whateve other qUalifications he may possess, certainly does no possesi the special qualifications which distinguish Si Stafford Northcote. To Lord Mayo India is a blank and be starts with all the advantages and al the disadvantages attending on an administration which begins with puro ignorance of the systen to be administered and of the people affected by it Lord Mayo may be a most remarkable man, who has th art of concealing all his gifts from the public, and reveal:m the'm only to his intimate acquaintances. We do not is the least believe that Mr. Disraeli will make this appoint merit out of pure caprice. If Lord Mayo has cut out Sin Stafford Northcote, it must have been by the possession o some elements of superiority. Either he has establishei claims against Mr. Disraeli which the Prime Ministe finds himself unable to resist, or he has inspired Mr Disraeli with a genuine belief that he is really one of th most remarkable people in the country, and would make s first-rate Governor-General. It is certain that he has dons much for the Prime Minister. He has done work for him and even dirty work, and he has so done it that men have forgiven and pitied rather than despised him. He mad. himself the exponent of that ill-considered policy of th. preSent Government towards Ireland which has been th. source of so many evils and so much bitterness. He sho up the firework of the endowed Catholic University, ant when it was found not to fizz properly he had the courage and self-denial to say that the firework was not his fire work, and that on his honour he had only meant to light the absurdly little squib of a reform in the position of gao chaplains. The appointment of Lord Mayo may raise I very serious question. If he is appointed, as is probable, few days before the present Ministry is driven out, will i be incumbent on the Liberal leaders to keep him in office Generally speaking, appointments made by one Govern ment ought to be rigidly upheld by another, or men it a respectable position would not accept posts a so" precarious a nature. Nothing could be worse that to introduce into. England the American systen under which, when there is change of President a clean sweep is made of all officials, and every one starti afresh. But is it allowable for an outgoing Ministry tc appoint for five years a person holding such a position ar that of Governor-General of India ? Clearly it is not allowable, if we are to suppose that the outgoing Ministry appoints a Governor-General of whom the incoming Ministry would disapprove. Fortunately, Lord Mayo it personally rather popular, even on the Opposition side o' the House, and there may therefore be no willingness or desire to supersede him ; but if such a desire did exist, it is impossible to say that, under the circumstances, it would be unreasonable or absurd, or that it ought not within reasonable limits to be satisfied. • The Spectator says that it has become possible, no' to say probable or advisable, but it has become possibb for Great Britain to have a middle-class Ministry, I Cabinet in which the majority of members holding sub stantive office shall be men with no claim but their owe ability and the confidence of the nation. That is perhapr the greatest, though it has been one of the least noticed of the changes introduced or completed by the legislatior of the last two years, supplemented as they have been by the extraordinary decrease in the prestige of the House of Peers. So immense, indeed, has been the alteration it public sentiment, that many of our readers will wonder why we think the change so remarkable ; but they have only to carry their memories back eight years, over the chasm in our history created by the events of 1867, and they . will.appreciate its extent. So late as 1860 the idea of a Radical Cabinet, a Cabinet of men distinguished only for services or capacity, would have seemed to regular politicians ludicrous, to the electors disagreeable, and tc the body of the nation a mere dream. Outside the Whit circle the strongest Liberals, with the possible or partia exception of Mr. Cobden, were held to be excluded frorr high office by the revolutionary violence of ,their opinions about the suffrage, by want of parliamentary standing, anc by an ill-defined but immensely powerful political etiquette But now it believes that a Ministry in which Mr. Glad stone should be Premier, Mr. Childers Home Secretary Mr. Cardwell Secretary at War, Mr. Lowe Secretary fin •the Colonies, Mr. Goschen Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Stansfeld head of the Admiralty, Mr. Austin Bruce = Minister of Education, Mr. Forster Secretary for India and Mr. Bright, whose health scarcely admits of the , i depental work the position to which he is entitled would involve, Secretary for Ireland, is a Ministry whicl outside the clubs would be received by the Liberals o' Great Britain with no sense of shock, with litt'e surprise with no idea that the destinies of the nation had beer entrusted to unusual, or incompetent, or untrustworthy hands ; and that none of the changes which have occurred not household suffrage itself, is so fraught with meaning and consequences as this. These are all, without ar exception, men who owe nothing to aristocratic influence who, with many minor divergencies, belong properly tc the new class of statesman-Radicals ; who are preparre within the limits of the Constitution to remodel our insti tations with a view to their efficiency alone. That, sincf the suffrage dispute ended, is becoming the first test of z Ra ical—does he respect an institution for what it accom plishes, or merely because it is? We desire to guard our selves against any possibility of mistake. We are not trying to hint at a possible Cabinet, which as yet woulc be a folly, still less to suggest an advisable one, whirl would be an impertinence, and we believe that the nex' Liberal Government will differ very widely from the on we have outlined. What we desire to point out is MI( Immense change which has passed over the public mint with respect to the personnel of its governing class-1 Change which seems to us to be real, to be, in all proba bility, 'permanent, and to involve consequences of mon importance to the future career of Great Britain than even Mr. Disraeli's revolutionary bill. For one consequeuc Alone, the ability of some twenty thousand families is nor At the service of the State, instead of the ability of tw( thousand ; in other words, the chance of securing eflicien rulers for the empire has in three years been increase( tenfold. In a leader upon Mr. Gladstone's address at St. Helen the Imperial _Review complains of its unfairness. All tha the author of the celebrated resolutions said on the sub led of the Irish Church was, in fact, but a repetition o what had been said over and over again in the course o' the debates. We do not deny that it was in some respect. better put than in those dreary and spiritless haranguer In which the same orator i.Aro lined the Irish question ti the attention of Parliament. But Mr. Gladstone is stT as unable as he was at the cad ;et to appreciate either tin magnitude or the difficulty of the task which he has un ler taken. It is his nature to warm to his work, and t acquire vigour from resistance. But it is, unfortn nately, beyond his capacity to gather wisdom iron experience, or to do justice to the views which ar entertained by his opp. nents. Some clay or o'her i is not improbable that, by o.ie of his remarkable flash e. of intuition, he will recognise the impracticability as h. once recognised the iniquity of demolishing the Irisl Chun'a Establishment. But until some such fit of in spitat:oa comes to him he will persist in believing th -opposition now encountered by him to Le the fruit, ,ithe of personal malevolence or invincible stupidity. We d not deny that it is the usual course of apolitical entl.usils to dwell only on his own side of the case, and to ignore al the arguments of his adversaries. But a politician of Mr Gladstone's rank, who aspires to the fiat place in the touncils'of his sovereign, has a different function, could h but understand it, from that of a mere party agitator Justice to Ireland is unquestionably an object well worth to be sought by all statesmen. And the suspension of th Habeas Corpus Act for nearly three years is certainly, i not quite the grievance which Mr. Gladstone app. a t thank it is, at the same time a painfully unmistakab!e i• d cation of a state of things whiel must be remedied. Tit sneer directed against Mr. Disraeli's satisfaction when abl 'to Say that the exceptional powers exercised by the Iris) Executive in suppressing the Fenian conspiracy had vir tually effected their object, was certainly stupid, and may by many, be considered ungenerous. The London Review, in alluding to the close of the session mmarks : What a tinge of melancholy must have pervade. the proeeedinc-s of the last debate ! The knowledge tha cater this session of tria.:s and labour, of debates prolonige• into the small hours of the morning, of the sacrifice o opinions and self-respect on the altar of duty to party, n. shooting on the moors or , yi!chting in the Mediterranean i in store, but rather a period of greater excitement, an. infinitely more disagreeable work to be done, is enough t depress the heart of the most serene. How many i a mar with the vision of a co ntested election before eyes, air whose return was a matter of grave uncertainty, must, he left that House a nd recallea his politicalc t a i r i e e er m , hay one much doubted whether, a fter all, it ! th ese entered and the anxiety expended on its acqopinston it may be, determined to obt ain political lion social si t icc h es i —imbued with a commenda ble desire to regencrae country, redress all wrol , gs, awl make for himself a narn that should resound thr,ugliont the land. In all this, ho' much, probably, has lie been disaipoint ! , I ! He has foun the 14 ..us.. of Commons a place r anarkAle for making man find his own level, and redo. in g him to the woral c common sense. Vain are the ais of that nia. rntr!ring the House without ta:cat a! d w:thout industi and whose only reconifileridaOur is his balance at hr banker's ; and well would it be fur the prestige o f Par liament were he cogril=ant of the fact, and refrain fror entering a sphere for which Nature never intended him. John Bull recommends the use of the ; II d!signatio of Tory. Cot servatives proper, if there be such a class Liberal Connervativ.:s, and Conservative-Liberal s themselves nowhere. Tm r . l o li are ext:nct species ; hy b rid fin which disappear. o armiesthe are in face—the Chum and King army, the army Revolution in religio and property. All outpost work and skirmishing is over dud the real battle—that which always has been the res battle in the country, tho Ugh itlebeen, ir4laye4 par . . 1 4 2. 3:1 . 1 A -71 #.1W r . 0.4117 begun. • THE PROMOTION OF BUBBLE COMPANIES At the Guildhall, Edward Yellesncl has been charged oe remand with obtaining several sums of money by fall pretences. Mr. Robert Donaldson said he lived at 6 Chelsea-villas, West Brompton. lie was chief clerk to the so-called insurance company. In February last he saw az advertisement in the newspapers for a chief clerk to az insurance company, and replied to it. He got a letter ir answer to it from Mr. Yelland, and, in consequerice went to 26, New Bridge-street. The defendant said tha' the business was that of the British Alliance Insurance Corporation (Limited). He showed witness a prospectus mentioning the firm of Valiance and Vallance as solicitor , to the company, and he knew them to be respectable He asked witness to take 100 shares in the company. and witness asked for time to consider it. The prisoner said the salary would be small at first. For the first quarter he said he would pay at the rate of £lOO a year, and for the next quarter at the rate of £l5O a year. On the 7th of March witness saw the prisoner again at the office, and paid him £25 in cash, as 108. per share deposit on fifty shares, and the prisoner then gave him a receipt (produced), which bore the name of the company on it, as if it had beer registered. Mr. Ilawkesley, M.D., denied being the phy sician to the company ; and Mr. Winscomb stated that he only consented to be secretary from the statement that Valiance and Valiance were the solicitors. The prisoner told witness they had a large staff of agents, but the busi ness was really at a standstill for want of assistance to himself. He raid that there would be 5 per cent. guaranteed on the Fell r. s. He then shewed him a pro• spectus, of which that produced was a copy. On this repre sentation witness consmted to act as secretary, at a salary of £2OO, which was to be increased at the rate of £25 per annum till it reached £5OO. While he was there not a single policy was issued, but several policies were ready to be issued tc the amount of £9,000, but as there was no capital he would not let the policies go out with his name. He knew nothing of an advertisement bearing his name and offering to lend £50,000. There was not a farthing of capital in the company. There had not been a single meeting of directors to his knowledge. His loss had been altogethez over £loo.—After hearing some other evidence the case was again adjourned for the production of further evi dence. LAW AND POLICE. HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS.—AI he Manchester Assizes, Mr. F. Nicholson, clerk, broughl an action against the Manchester Carriage Company, to recover compensation for injuries sustained from the negli• gence of the defendants' servants. The plaintiff was travelling from Stockport to Heaton Norris on the 26th December. The driver of the omnibus negligently drove, at a considerable speed, on to the causeway, and the plaintiff was thrown violently to the ground. He sustained a concussion of the brain. The jury found a verdict foz the plaintiff ; damages, £4OO. LIABILITY or INNKEEPERS. - At the same assizes blr. Slater, a bleacher, brought an action to recover £l7, and the value of a diamond ring, against the Chester Queen Railway Hotel Company. On the sth May the plaintiff, with a companion named Ainsworth, attended Chester Races. They did not arrive at the hotel till late, and were obliged to occupy the same bed. After supper they went to the subscription-rooms for a short time, and returned to the hotel about one o'clock, when they immediately went upstairs. Before the plaintiff went to bed he put his money, amounting to £l7 in gold, and a diamond ring for which he had given £5O, into the left-hand pocket of his trousers, which be placed on a chair near the door. Mr. Ainsworth put his money into his trousers pocket, and bolted the door before he got into bed. In the morning they found that the door was open, and that the trousers had been disarranged and the money and diamond ring stolen. They examined the door, and found that the bolt did not go into the socket, but slipped below it. On the manageress being called, she ridiculed the idea of there being a robbery, and insulted the prosecutor. For the defence it was urged that the prosecutor must have been robbed before coming to the hotel, and it was stated that the bolt was in a work ing condition. The learned judge, after referring to the flat contradictions, told the jury that as the Act of Par liament had been exhibited in a public part of the hotel the defendants were not liable for more than £3O, for which amount the jury found a verdict. ACTION FOR SLANDER.—At the same assizes Mr. Law less, formerly manager of the Anglo-Egyptian Cotton and Oil Company, brought an action against his late employers for defamation of character. The plaintiff was sent over to manage the affairs of the corn. pany in Egypt, and whilst there one of the clerks left. and on the accounts being transmitted to Manchester it was seen that there was a deficiency in stock, and at a meeting of the directors a report was presented, which contained the following :—" The shareholders will observe that there is a charge of £1,306 is. 7d. deficiency of stock which the manager is responsible for ; his accounts have been badly kept, and have been rendered to us very irre gularly." This constituted the libfl complained of. Thf fury awarded £5)O compensation. BRUTAL MArtsLAl:Gin —At the Leeds Assizes, Thomas Ca - ey was ind:cted for the manslaughter of Elizabeth Davits. It appeared that the prisoner had lived with the deceased as her husband for two or three years. He was in the habit of ill-treating her, and on the day of her death he had threatened to murder her, and bad been beating and kicking her at different time/ during the day, both upon the road and in the house. Al last a blow was heard by some one in an adjoining room and the deceased was heard to cry out. She went away down the road, and he followed her. She was afterwards found nearly dead, and she died before the doctor came The jury found the prisoner guilty, and his lordship ( saying that his conduct was a series of brutal outrages sentenced him to ten years' penal servitude. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER.—At the Hamp stead Petty Sessions court, Robert Marriott, an owner O . horses and donkeys, was charged on a warrant with the following murderous assault on his wife, Emily Marriott. Both parties, are advanced in life, and it would appeal from statements made in court that quarrels ,frequently occurred between them, his wife stating that he hal threatened to murder her about a hundred times. Or the occasion now in question it appeared that the prosecu trix was on Hampstead-heath, giving some food to het husband's horses, when he beat her in a very bruti manner with a whip, striking her on the head ant shoulders, and causing the blood to flow profusely. The magistrates thought the justice of the case would be me by the prisoner being kept in prison for a month, and a the end of that time finding sureties. THE WOLVERHAMPTON BEER POISONER.—An Operativ brewer named James Lewis has been committed for trial charged with attempting to " aggrieve and annoy' Joseph Pavaton, landlord of the Star inn, Horeleyfields, Wolverhampton, and others, by giving nine ounces o muriatic acid to the prosecutor's servant girl, and request ing her to put it into a tub of ale in the prosecutor' cellar. The stipendiary said that it was only b 3 God's mercy that hundreds of people had -not bee: poisoned. THE OVERWORKED DRESSMAKERS. - Miss Hannet Axford, milliner and dressmaker, 8, Arabella-row, Pim lico, was summoned for permitting needlewomen in he employment to work after half-past four on Saturda3 afternoon, the 25th ult., contrary to law. Defen dant pleaded guilty, but said that she had order in the house to execute which obliged her tl keer her young ladies at work. They, however, left off a seven. Mr. Arnold observed that her having work in th house was no excuse. She was not to get a profit b 3 breaking the law. The defenclanthad been cautioned, ani ought to have attended to it. He fined her 205., and 8s L costs. REAPING BY NIGHT ON ACCOUNT OF THI HEIT.—The Dutch journals mention the scarcity o water in the province of Trisia. That derived from rail costs 30c. the pailful, and from wells sc. In the island o Voorne nothing is available except ditch water, which i 3 o! course, pernicious to health.. The heat is described a tropic - 11, and many persons have died in the fields. Ai enormous number of insects fill the air, numerous specie of which are quite unknown to the oldest inhabitants o those districts. In many localities the reaping of th harvest goes on only at night. ANNOYANCE TO PROTESTANTS IN SAN'TJACO The Valparaiso and West Coast Mail of- June 17 gives som lengthy details of the annoyances to which the Protestant of Santiago have recently been subjected by some of tin populace. It has for some time been the practice of th intolerant " roughs " of that city to enter the Protestan church, make off with the bibles, and tear them to shred in the street. Police watchfulness put a stop t this amusement for some time, but it was soon renewed and then the Rev. N. P. Gilbert, the Presbyterial minister, and some of the congregation, hit upon a play for securing the thieves, viz., to close the doors of th church when the next raid was made, and hand th offenders over to the police. Tha plan was eminentl: successful in execution, but not quite satisfactory ii results. The entrapped thieves turned Upon their captors and a row ensued which led to the interference of the police who, without much, if any, discrimination, marched robbers and robbed off to prison, Mr. Gilbert being amongst the number. The rev. gentleman and his friend were, however, at once released on arriving at the lock-up Nor was there any adequate punishment inflicted on th assailants, for the principal ringleaders were discharged b: the criminal judge with a reprimand, and the others wer set M THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY WENING, AUGUST 8, 1868, Irish." because it is a Church not for The right hon. gentleman ridiculed tb e notion' of reforming the Irish Church. " ron will find," he said, "that it means one of two - things —it either means that you will take the clergy men out of Munster and Connaught, i order to plant more of them, and make ther a more comfortable, in Ulster and Leinster, or else it means, and that is the only real mean/3 ag of it, that if you proceed to take away the a buses of the Irish Church, why, gentlemen, f here will be nothing left." The Church w a`,4 like an old house in a rickety condition, which will sometimes stand as long as you d.s..tet touch it, but if you begin to repair if it c times tum bling about your ears. You can't take away the pastors from people where they- :have no flocks and carry the money elsewhere without finding that, like a tinker, in mewl ing one hole you have made ten, and that you have a new set of complaints you can't ans% -er, and new demands for reform you will bi totally unable to meet. These plans, then, tre only futile. lam told there is a scheme coming forth from the Commission which lis s been lately sitting. I don't blame the emir( fission ; lam very sorry for the Commission; 'I don't know what better they could do; yo. a can't make bricks without straw ; you canr't take the breeks off a Highlandman." Mr. Glad stone answered at some length the argtu tents which identify the Irish Establishment with the cause of Protestantism and with the Clutrch of England. "It appears to me," he said, " that nothing is more idle than to attempt to draw a parallel between the case of the Church of Ireland and the case of the Church of England. The duty of a religious establish ment is a duty to the nation at large. That idea of a religious establishment ministering only to a handful of the people is an unnatural and monstrous idea, and when you have arrived at such a state of things it is time that estab lishment should cease to exist, as an estab lishment not performing its ministry for the nation. In many parts of the country the Church of England is the sole, and in many other parts the principal, if not the sole, reli gions agency ; and even in the most popu lous parts where she is confronted by the friendly competition of the other religious bodies, still, I think that the Church of Eng land enters into the natural life and purpose of the country, associated in a great degree with the feelings, the traditions, as well as the history of England ; and there are, in my opinion, very many who do not formally be long to her communion who would, with deep regret, witness her downfall. The great dif ference between the two Churches is summed up thus : that the Church of Ireland is a Church established by law, which neither does nor can do the work of a Church establish , ment ; but the Church of England, established by law also, in most parts of the country, does the chief part of the work of an establish ment." committed that particular crime or not. This applies not only to Seymour, but along the line of the two roads, and wherever our organization exists. Law and order must prevail." The Indians assembled at Fort Larned on the Arkansas river to receive their annuities, have shown a bad temper, as they were denied arms and ammunition o❑ account of the recent depredations. The spirit of outrage they manifested was checked by the fortunate arrival of General Sully with 600 cavalry. Near Nebraska city they had attacked and killed several drovers. The remains of Mrs. Denville, who had been cruelly murdered by the Idaho Indians in 1867, had been discovered and brought to Fort Boise by a party of scouts. An Indian pony was found decorated with some of her hair. The Springfield Republican says: —"Elder Adams, whose colony at Jarfa has dwindled down to less than twenty persons, has gone t) England with his wife, to see if he cannot get a -- - einforcement of dupes and fanatics ;" and, we may add, he h Ls come to the right place. In no other country are idiots so tolerated and encouraged, and nowhere else have they erected so many memorials. People see more asylums in America because there they shut up the in sane, but here they are at large, and take a promi nent part in national affairs. Whenever anything peculiarly idiotic transpires abroad, an investigation of the circumstances almost invariably brings to light that it had its origin in England. Even the great Salt Lake is an English city, and is almost wholly recruited and kept alive by its English con nection. The best of the joke is, that English writers travel to these excrescences and discuss theta as if they were the native growth of the country where they appear. Doubtless Elder Adams, if he is here, will suco.ted, and we will soon have men in quaint attire preaching up a new religion, and Elder Adams established as a prophet in Pales tine in opposition to Brigham Young. Trains now run over 700 miles of the Union Pacific Railway. the United States Commission ers have examined and accepted 680 miles, and it is expected that 900 will be finished before the year ends, as there are 20,000 men at work on the line, and the whole will be opened before the close of 1869. A case is reported in the L nylon papers, taken from au American journal, against the Di rectors. An affidavit, made in the Court of the United States, accused them of jobbing away the land through the Credit Foncier of America, so as to deprive the stock-holders of the benefit. It is asserted that these Directors sit also on the Board of the Credit Foncier, and while they deprive the Union Pacific shareholders of the bountiful gift Uncle Sam has bestowed, they mop it all up them selves through the Finance Company. Perhaps George Francis Train can throw some light on this subject, and dissipate a scandal against the greatest corporation in the world. The majority in Mississippi against the New Constitution, according to General Gillem's official report, was 7,629. The General refutes the charge of fraud, asserting that the election was as fair as possible under existing circumstances, and that no undue influence was exerted at the polls. Indeed the pressure was as likely to come from the Radi cal as the Democratic .side; and if the Radical, Mr. Derweese, is to be credited, even more likely. That gentleman, who represents North Carolina, being called upon by the House for his views on the bill for supplying arms to the Reconstructed State Go. vernments, so strongly advocated by Senator Wil son, made a fine expose. tie declared that the De mocratic rebels will carry all the elections in spite of what the new State Governments can do, unless the blacks are armed and the Democrats kept away from the polls ! Iti hat Mr. Derweese ought to have said was one thing—what he did say was another, and how he ought to have said it differed widely from how he did say it, for his English was not of the purest brand. In Tennessee affairs do not improve. A rumour was current at Franklyn that the negroes were plotting to burn down the town. Jeremiah Ezell, anxious to ascertain its truth, proceeded to recon noitre, and speedily fell a victim to his curiosity, for he was killed. The bad feeling in Franklyn arose from the lynching by the mob of a negro named William Gustman, who was imprisoned on a crimi nal charge. One of the most horrible crimes, how ever, recorded by this mail comes from Owens. born', Kentucky, though none actually lost their lives. On the night of the 18th of July a hundred of the persons residing at an hotel were poisoned. This was done to gratify the spite of a rival milkman to him who supplied the hotel. Th's rival added a liberal supply of arsenic to the usual condiments— Kentucky milk differing so far from that of London that it is only partially, not wholly, manufactured by the milkman. On the 21st July there was a riot at Savannah originating in William Robert Hopkins, a negro tax-gatherer, being shot dead by Isaac Rassell, a white man, in a gin-shop. Immediately at the tap of a drum the negroes of Savannah • assembled in thousands, and an attempt was made on the gaol to seize and lynch Russell, but they were defeated in their design. On the 23d Hopkins was buried, being followed to the grave by vast numbers of negroes. The affair at Millican, Texas, has not yet ended, as the negroes sullenly maintain their posi tion ; a truce was established that the dead might be buried. The reports by telegraph throw the blame upon the negroes, but the wires being in the hands of the whites, such reports must be received with caution. Mr. Seward's proclamation in a provisional way declares the ratification of the 14th Constitutional Amendment, as the twenty-three States requisite have sanctioned it. He carefully avoids commit ting himself to the opinion whether the " Recon structed" are States or not, or whether Ohio and New Jersey can withdraw the assent they gave. It is supposed that Ohio will reverse her late deci sion when the Legislature meets, and whether New Jersey can withdraw will be settled by the Supreme Court. On the 21st July Congress passed a con current resolution declaring the amendment, which runs as follows, part of the Constitution :-1. That all persons born or naturalized in the United States are, in virtue of their national citizenship, citizens of the State in which they reside. 2. It forbids the enforcement of any State law that abridges the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, and ordains absolute equality of:all citizens before the law. 3. It apportions representation according to population, and when political rights are denied any class in any State it diminishes the number of representatives in accordance with the diminution in the number of electors. 4. It pro vides that the man who, having taken an oath as Senator, Representative, member of any State Legislature, or judicial or executive officer of any State to support the Constitution, afterwards en gaged in rebellion, shall not be eligible to any office, State or Federal, unless Congress, by a two-thirds vote, relieves him of his disabilities. Congress has passed a bill incorporating the Commercial Navigation Company, to facilitate the carriage of the mails between Liverpool. and New York. To this company is secured the postal service for ten years, with all receipts from that source, not in excess of $600,000, provided that the time spent on the voyage does not exceed that taken by other steamers on the same route, failing which the contract will cease. The company is not to receive inland postages after the sum secured on the sea postages amounts to $400,000 a year, and the Government gives further aid by authorizing the issue and guaranteeing the bonds of the com pany to an amount not exceeding in annual interest $250,000, principal and interest to be paid iu coin_ But the Government retains the postages as security for the bonds and the interest until the extinction of the debt. The company on its part undertakes to build within a year five first-class steamers, each of 3,000 tons burden, and two others, making a fleet of seven, to be officered by citizens of the United States, and to be maintained for twenty years. It is no wonder that Trollope failed to secure the contract for the Cunard and Inman lines, as it is the settled policy of the United States to maintain its flag on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at any expense. Nothing drives like rivalry and competition, and we believe that the stolid and egotistical Chinese nation is being impelled along by the progress of Japan, The Japanese baying a better country, and RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND ST. THOMAS A BECKE7. Archbishop Manning's declaration at Sal ford, that St. Thomas a Becket died in defence of the law of England and of the freedom of religion, has excited a great deal of attention, and has drawn from the Pall Mall Gazette and the Times elaborate attempts at refdtation. Every one regrets that the Archbishop's speech was so curtly reported in the newspapers, but condensed as it was the point at issue is very clearly stated. This point is, that St. Thomas died for the vindication of the principle of spiritual liberty against the excess of Royal power. The first article of Magna Charta was: " The Church shall enjoy its liberty." That article, said Dr. Manning, embodied and ex pressed the very cause for which St. Thomas laid down his life ; and, the Archbishop added, that it appeared to him that the great principle of the freedom of religion from the oppressive interference of the Royal power was the prin ciple avowed by two-thirds of Great Britain and Ireland at the present day. To meet the fact that St. Thomas died in defence of free dom of religion and of the law of the land, the Pall Mall Gazette deliberately, confounds two distinct ideas—freedom of religion and religi ous liberalism. Religious liberalism, as held by the Pall Mall Gazette and the Times, was neither the law of the land nor the principle for which St. Thomas died, but is an abuse o religious freedom, as repugnant to the true spirit of religious freedom as Communism is to the rights of property. The law of the land was that the Church shall enjoy its liberty, and this liberty secured to every individual the right to practise his religion according to the dictates of his own conscience, and in obedience to the Spiritual Power, charged by God, as his faith taught him, with the care of his spiritual welfare. But this freedom of religion was constantly jeopardized, in the teeth of the law, by the oppressive exercise of the Royal prerogative. As long as the Church produced men like St. Thomas of Canterbury, ready to resist Royal usurpations, the religious freedom of England was maintained, but no sooner did corruption and heresy gain the upper hand than religious freedom was de stroyed throughout the entire land. With the Tudors and the religion which was not that of St. Thomas of Canterbury, religious tyranny of the most oppressive sort fell upon England. The Royal Supremacy was the seal set upon that tyranny, and it was only by taking up again the principle for which St. Thomas died—the freedom of religion from the inter ference of the Royal Power—that the people of England at last regained their religious liberty. This emancipation, then, from State control in matters of conscience, the principle for which St. Thomas died, is it not, as Dr. Manning affirms, the principle avowed by two thirds of Great Britain and Ireland at the pre sent day? And is not their sympathy due to St. Thomas it Becket, the champion of religious freedom, and not to Henry 11., who antici pated the religious tyranny of the Tudor Kings, from which we have now happily escaped ? To avoid answering the question in the affir mative, the Times and the Pall Mall Gazette raise another issue and deny that St. Thomas a Becket held the principles of religious Libe ralism. But who said he did ? Not Dr. Man ning ! Religious Liberalism is not identical with the freedom of religion any more than Communism is with property. Religious Liberalism is as much a denial of the absolute rights of God as the Royal Supremacy in matters of conscience was a denial of the rights of man. Man has a right to reject every in terference on the part of the Civil Power with his spiritual concerns, but has no right as against God to claim the liberty of rejec ting religion. It was in vindication of this primary right of the conscience to be in matters of faith independent of the Civil Power that St. Thomas died, but he would have laid down his life as readily to resist the principle of modern irreligious Liberalism--the right in man to reject religion and deny God. Protestants may, then, it seems to us, readily agree with Dr. Manning's conclusion, that the principle for which St. Thomas died is the principle avowed by two-thirds of the people of Great Britain and Ireland at the present day. Whether they hold, in addition to this great principle of the freedom of religion from State control, the principle of. irreligious Liberalism, as the Pall Mall Gazette maintains, is another question. Whether they do or not, or how far they are contaminated with this modern idea, has nothing to do with Dr. Man ning's appeal for the sympathy of England and Scotland with the great martyr to the cause of religious independence. We entirely agree, we may say in conclusion, with the Pall Mall Gazette that" the differences" be tween irreligious Liberals and Roman Catholics " are deep and irreconcilable, and proceed from contradictory principles upon the most impor tant subjects to which the human mind can address itself." But in spite of this essential disagreement, there need be no misunder standing as to the true character of that re sistance to Royal tyranny which induced St. Thomas of Canterbury to surrender his life in defence of the freedom of religion.—West minster Gazette. MR. GLADSTONE'S ELEC7IONEERLVG TOUR. Mr. Gladstone met the new constituency to whose suffrages he has determined to ap peal, that of South-west Lancashire, on Wed nesday afternoon, at St. Helens, and was very warmly received. The right hon. gentleman was accompanied by Mr. H. R. Grenfell, who has been accepted as his colleague by the Libe ral party in the district. In reviewing the session just closed, Mr. Gladstone said he thought the country might be sincerely con gratulated upon the adoption of a measure, with a very general and extended consent of different parties, which has undoubtedly placed the liberties of the people upon a wider, and, he trusted, upon a firmer basis than that which they ever before enjoyed. At the same time he could not but regret that the concessions thatlave been made b haye been attended with restrictions and exceptions so vexatious that this work—great as it is—cannot be regarded as a finished work. "It will probably be neces sary," he said, " before we are many years older, that the Parliament about to be chosen, or some other Parliament, should endeavour to give a more consistent application to the prin ciples embodied in the recent measure of Re form, removing those anomalies with which it is unhappily defaced." The right hon. gen tleman went on to express his great dissatis faction at the increase of public expenditure by which the Tories had signalized their rule. He did not refer to the cost of the Abyssinian expedition, which nobody grudged, but he hoped that the candidates who might oppose his colleague and himself on the part of the Government would be called upon to explain why it is that after for a series of five or six years the Liberal Government of this coun try, which certainly was not supposed to be fanatically economical, had found the means of continually operating some reduction in the charges and burdens of the country, upon the accession of what is called a Conservative Government to power it is suddenly discovered that the tide has turned, and that from month to month almost, as new estimates are pro duced, every estimate and every charge is in excess of that which preceded it." The greater part of the speech was devoted to Ireland. If Mr. Disraeli's congratulatory remarks upon the condition of that country at the Lord Mayor's table were to be taken as seriously meant, Mr. Gladstone said he could not de scribe his sense of the infatuation which they betokened. Of the two questions of the land and the Church, the Church was in the front and the land in the rear ; to the former, therefore, Mr. Gladstone said he would chiefly confine himself. He quoted Lord Lytton's words :—" We talk of Irish bulls, but the words Irish Church ' are the greatest bulls iu the lexpage, It called the Irissh Church MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the Java, which arrived at Queensto w n at (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) 7 a.m. yesterday, making the remarkable passage from New York of eight days and eight hours, we learn that General Grant has, with the approval of the President, abolished the Second and Third Mili tary Districts, and formed them into a Department of the South under General Meade. 'This finally withdraws military supremacy, and restores the States returning those districts to civil rule. The Fourth District is to consist only of Mississippi, under General Gillem, and the Fifth_of Texas, under General Reynolds. These two latter districts are now narrowed to the single un-Reconstructed States, the " Reconstructed States " coming out of them. The Department of Louisiana is to be com manded by General Rousseau, and that of Washington by General Canby. We learn that the Funding Bill, as finally passed, appropriates $135,000,000 of the imports towards the reduction of the Public Debt. As the imports are paid in gold, this must mean gold, which would give upwards of £27,000,000 a year. The Con ference Committee has struck from the bill the sec- tion legalizing gold contracts. Indeed, the recep tion it met with in the House left little chance of any other result. The Representatives appear to sympathize strongly with the debtor class, though we do not see why people who made contracts to pay in gold should not be compelled to do so ; nor, indeed, those who received in gold, or its equiva lent, should not be forced to pay in the same metal. Andrew Johnson, consistent to the last, has actually vetoed the bill discontinuing the Freed man's Bureau. That department was to the South more obnoxious even than military rule—a sort of badge of Southern degradation. It was instituted to protect the negro at an expenditure for which the Republicans have been greatly blamed by the Democrats, and which all parties desired to be lid of as speedily as possible. It appears, however, that the President, who condemned Congress for establishing the Bureau, has vetoed the bill discon tinuing it, because he considers it interferes with his Constitutional powers of removal and appointment. We venture to say that Congress could scarcely deal with any measure whether its tendency was Republican. or Democratic without finding that " cuss" in the way. The House of Representatives has passed a Bill to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury from sell ing gold, but the House might have saved itself the trouble, as its legislation has still more effectually prevented the Secretary by depriving him of any gold to sell. The Alaska purchase money was de livered to Baron Stoeckel, on the 28th July, and Mr. M,Culloch has a beggarly account of empty boxes to contemplate. It will take some time be fore he has again to deal with a large gold balance, and Congress will have many opportunities of dis cussing the laws ere that period arrives. The further news by the Java is that the Com mittee of Foreign Affairs has been directed to in quire into the expediency of negotiating a new Canadian treaty with Great Britain. The Georgia delegation have been admitted to seats in the House, and a proclamation had been issued by the Presi dent, announcing that the constitutional amend ment had been ratified by that State. This was accompanied by one from Mr. Seward, declar ing it to be now part of the fundamental law of the Republic as it had been ratified by the requisite number of States. Mr. Hamilton, a Ra dical Representative for Florida, had offered a reso lution to impeach President Johnson, which had been referred to the Judiciary Committee. One would think that Impeachment was now flat, stale, and unprofitable, and none but a " carpet-bagger" from the South would think of reviving it. A case of robbery and lynching occurred in In diana near Seymour. A gang seized on a locomotive and to rob an Adams Express car on one of the railways of the State, close to Brownston. After proceeding some distance the car was attacked, but the guards inside being armed shot one of the robbers and the others ran away. Three of the party were, however, captured and brought back, and being secured the train proceeded on its way, with the intention of lodging them in the county gaol, but the end of the story was not yet. The vigilance committee assembled, stopped the train, seized the prisoners, and hung them on a tree. A large reward has been offered for Reno, the leader of the robber gang, who is reported to have fled into Canada. His house was the head-quarters of the gang which lately has become notorious, but is now brokei up. The vigilance committee having taken the matter into their own hands, and fearing that their energy and sharp application of the law might be overlooked by those against whom it wis directed, published this announcement : "ATTENTION, THIEVES!—The attention of aN thieves, robbers, assassins, and vagrants, together with their eiders, abettors, and sympathisers, is called to the doings of the Seymour Vigilance Committee last night. We are deter mined to follow this up until all of the classes above-named, whether imported or to tho ' manor born,' are driven for ever from our midst. Threats have been made of retaliation in case we should resort to capital punishment. In answer, we say, should one of our committee be harmed, or a dollar's worth of property of any honest man be destroyed by persons unknown, we will swing by the neck until they be dead every thieving character we can lay our hands on, Whtlihtt we bare the moue who one more favourablysituated for foreign intercourse, inhabited by an intelligent race, are likely to make quick advances in adopting the arts and sciences of Christian nations. All European and American fruits and vegetables are being introduced, steam lines established, and the latest improvement comes from Australia, as Mr. Hoyt, the well-known coach proprietor in Victoria, has sailed for Japan to establish there lines of fast conveyances. The visitor to Yokohama will soon be able to take his place on the coach-box for Yeddo, and drive through rows of women bathing in their tubs, with a spank ing four-in-hand. Miss Vinnie Ream has been restored to her room in the Capitol, and the best of the joke is that the resolution was offered by Mr. Stevens. It will be remembered that the young lady was the victim of the Impeachment Trial, and we presume that Mr. S - evens desired to obliterate the last remnant of that proceeding, before making his way over to the Democrats. Bader asserts that to her influence is due the President's aciuittal. She acted on M. Henderson, and his vote settled the question ; but the only ground for this is that the Senator lodges in her father's house. A greater failure than the im peachment business and Butler's fire and fury -has rarely been witnessed. 'lt is time that we should drop the Fort Fisher business, al)out which he has surely heard enough, and take up the Impeachment exploit, which ended in the ;expulsion of Vinuie Ream for a few weeks from a room in the Capitol, at an expense to the nation of many hundreds of thousands of dollars, and much time wasted. The Senate confirmed, during the week endinr , July 25, Reuben S. Torrey, collector of internal revenue in the second district of New York; An thony F. Campbell, postmaster at Brooklyn ; An drew S. Hunter, postmaster at Chicopee, Mass. ; C. B. Prescott, at Holyoke, and Eliphalet Wright, at Derbyshire, Mass., L. Sherman at Chicago, 111., Samuel Kingman at Wakefield, Mass., George C. Henry at Bedford, Mass., and 11. N. Barbour at St. Albans, Vt., and also the nominations of S. Day to be surveyor-general of California, T. J. Bowers Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, 11. 0. Warren chief, and 11. Knowles associate justice of Montana. The most important new no minations during this period were Edmund Cooper for Commissioner of Internal Revenue, William P. Wells for Assistant-Secretary to the Treasury, C. C. Cox (of Maryland) for Commissioner of Pen sions, Elisha Foot (of New York) for Commissioner of Patents; and for the foreign missions as follows: —Russia, John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania ; Spain, Gen. W. D. Rosecrans, of Ohio ; Austria, Henry W. Watts, of Pennsylvania ; and Mexico, Gen. John A. M'Clernand, of Illinois. Noah S. Jeffreys of Maryland was nominated for Com missioner of Internal Revenue with not Much chance of confirmation, as he is a Johnson man, and it is asserted that the President intends to re move Rollins when Congress adjourns, and to . place Cooper of Tennessee in the office ad interim, and the confirmation of Jeffreys would strengthen his hands. There being no chance of Mr. Cooper's success he was withdrawn, and the Senate COmmittee reported against the nominations of the Ministers to Russia, to Mexico, and to Spain, but in favourof Mr. Watts to Austria, who, as our readers are aware, has been confirmed. Oliver Smith Williams was rejected as collector of the second district of Connecticut ; and of the large number of minor nominations sent in during the same week most, it is believed, will meet that fate. The bill for the Protection of the Rights of American Citizens Abroad was warmly debated in the Senate. Mr. Conness, the Senator from California, by birth' an Irishman, offered an amendment authorising the President to adopt retaliatory measures. This Mr. Sum ner stigmatized as an unutterable barbarity, to which Mr. Conness replied that the bill as amended was an insult to the naturalized citizen, and that Mr. Sumner's sympathy was all with the negro against the white man. Mr. Conness was in a hurry to reap some political capital as he feared that the effete monarchies of Europe might be be fore-hand in granting everything that the United States ask or require, but he met an able champion in Mr. Sumner. The bill was so far amended as to enable the President to de mand the release of prisoners unjustly im prisoned, to withdraw the Ministers until justice be done, and after an ineffectual demand for re lease, to use such means as may be within his power, other than acts of war, to compel the release, But who is to judge as to the justice of the imprison ment ? If the President will not accept the decision of the Courts of the country, is it likely that the foreign nations will accept the decision of the Pre sident against the judgment of their Courts? Con gress ought not to permit itself to be driven on in a hurry which cannot facilitate an international set tlement of such a question. The lion. Thad. Stevens made a speech on the Funding Bill, which created an excitement in the House. He declared that sooner than see his con stituents taxed to death for the benefit of bloated speculators he would vote for even worse men than Seymour, although coupled with a Frank Blair. The astonishment of the Representatives, although accustomed to the hon. gentleman's vagaries, may be imagined, remembering that many of them heard the speaker on that floor when the Government Bonds were first offered to the public, declaring that A dollar in a miser's safe, unproductive, is a sore disturbance. Where could they invest it ? In United States Loans at Six per Cent.—redeemable in gold in 20 years—the best and most valuable permanent investment that could be desired." Of course Thad. had not long to wait before that speech came flying hack, hurled at him from the mouth of Mr. Garfield, whose answer was able and straight to the point. Mr. Stevens felt the sting, and replied by two personal explanations, even denying the correctness of the report, but in vain. The record against him is too strong, showing that in 1862-63 he fiercely attacked Congressmen who even sug gested doubts about payment in coin. There never was a more shameful exposure or one more in jurious to the reputation of the House of Repre sentatives—not that the people sent there such a man, but that the Representatives should have erected him into a leader. Another movement was made at Washington by the Southern members to impeach the President. They affirm his action regarding the new State Go vernments to be sufficient ground, and they urged Congress to remain in session to pass Impeachment resolutions, and to protect the South until after the Presidential election. They met in caucus on the 27th July, Representative Whittemore, of South Carolina, presiding, and unanimously adopted re solutions to the above effect. When the Senate's recess resolution was discussed in the House, Butler said the Representatives ought to sit again to im peach the President, whereon Mr. Randall sarcas tically observed that Butler had already got the glory out of Impeachment, to which Ben rejoined with a back-bander, telling Randall that he would remain long in that House before he obtained any glory whatever. When the Republicans felt convinced that the advocates of Impeachment were working for a postponement to introduce new charges against the President they changed their minds, and agreed to the Senate's resolution of adjournment which they bad before rejected. General Meade has issued an order handing over the State Government to the civil authorities, and declaring the supremacy of the law in Georgia, and on the 22d July General Bullock was installed and delivered his inaugural address. He congratulates Congress and the Republican party, and predicts a glorious future for the State. The house of Re presentatives pass2d a resolution favouring the re moval of the political disabilities of the white in habitants. lii the Senate of the State the Com mittee of Investigation hal reported that none of the members were ineligible, but in the house two were declared to be so. The Senate adopted resolutions expressing sym pathy with the Cretans, demanding in the interest of religion, civilization, and humanity, the close of the contest, and directing the President to instruct the American Minister at Constantinople to join the representatives of other Powers in effecting this end, and to communicate the resolutions to the Government of Turkey. In secret session the treaty with China was ratified. Several important k. , ...... treaties were also before the Chamber, among them that with the Sandwich Islands, wherein it is proposed to exchange, free of duty, the most im portant articles produced in either country. The intelligence appears to have been an error that the blockade of Mazatlan by 11.8.M.'s ship Chanticleer had been raised, nor has it been con- firmed that the Admiral had ordered Capt. Bridge to report at Panama. The correspondence between the British Captain and the Mexican General Corona has been published, as well as the procla mation of Captain Bridge and the letter of the United States Consul. The paymaster of the vessel refused to obey the summons of the Mexican autho rities to appear before a civil court. On the 20th June a demonstration was made by the Chancticleer manning and arming the boats, when Gen. Corona drew up his force; but as the seamen were not landed, the anticipated contest did not take place. Thy herald appears to approve the British eapt,ain's high-handed proceedings, and to hold them up as an example to Americans ; but Captain Bridge, un less he cm shov strong grouud3 ia ju3tificatiol, will find that his G-)vernment view the uLttter iii another light. Doubtless he can ; for he would b.) uiad, except under the strongest provocation, to proclaim the blockade of a port and threaten the bombardment of a town. The Electoral College Bill was passed over the President's veto by 45 to 8 in the Senate, and on the same day by 134 to 36 i❑ th 3 House. The Tariff Bill has received its quietus for this session, not withstanding the efforts of the lobbyists. The Pre- sident signed the Tax Bill, with a protest attached, as the bill gives power to a subordinate officer to remove tax assessors and collectors. The bill fixing he military peace establishment has also been passed. The army is now to number 30,000 men, consisting of 30 infantry regiments, cavalry 8, and artillery 4. It contains a clause to which many of the Southern members strongly objected, providing for the distribution of arms to the Militia of the South. Most of the Southerners condemn the issue of arms, saying that they prefer the U. S. army and dread the arming of neighbours against each other. Mr. Hendricks asserted that the object was to control the election by force, which Senators Morton, Nye, and Ilowe indignantly denied, affirming that the protection intended was against the rebels. It led also to a warm debate in the House, where some leading Republicans—Mr. Washburne, for instance —disapproved the measure. The Supreme Court will settle the question whether a State has a right to withdraw its assent when once given to a Constitutional amendment, as the case of New Jersey is to be tried. Reverdy Johnson, Curtis, O'Connor, affirm the right, as do many other constitutional lawyers. But the oppo site opinion is held by men with names as strong, and it can only be decided after argument before the Judges. The question is now connected with the 14th amendment to the Constitution, which has been ratified by Congress, and declared to be part of the Constitution of the United States. Practi cally it embodies the plan of reconstruction first proposed by Congress, and so obstinately refused by the Southerners, who would neither confer suf frage on the negroes nor consent to be deprived of the three-fifths vote admitted by the Constitution on behalf of the blacks when slaves. To what height the flight of Republican genius may eventually soar before it succeeds in seating Grant in the presidential chair we may faintly con jecture from the announcement of the Secretary of the National Republican Committee, W. E. Chand ler. lle forwards a plan, approved by 33 Senators, headed by Ben Wade and a legion of the Repre sentatives, among whom we see many distinguished names, to organize a Society of Singing Soldiers, each minus a leg, or an arm, or otherwise disabled in the late war for the Union, to take part in the coming campaign. Special contributions are invited to defray the expenses of organizing, drilling, and sending on excursions the maimed howlers, to be forwarded to Horace Greeley, Tribune office, New York. If it were not for election times, and for the great names whose owners say they heartily approve of the suggestion , we would suppose the scheme a Democratic hoax to take a " rise " out of the Republican party ; but as it is the practice, this adaptation of it may prove an effective dodge. The time fixed for opening the Troy and Green field Railroad, from Shelburne Falls to the tunnel , is the 10th of August, when festivities will take place along the line, and the usual speech -making and prophesying will come off. On the 12th of August the contractor's bids for the $5,000,000 propriated this year will be opened, and the coun cil will proceed to make a contract, if they can. 115 is very doubtful if suitable guarantees for the fulfil m3nt of such a contract can be given, and it may be that the further squandering of the State's money will be stopped on this account.—Springfield lican. Colonel Edmund Rice, formerly of the 19th Ma o ' sachusetts Regiment, and now of the 40th United State Infantry, has been ordered to Springfield to superinte the manufacture at the armoury of 200 bayonets of a Del pattern of his invention. Colonel Rico's bayonet has bee° favourably received at the War Department, and has bee t; strongly recommended by many of the most distingui sheu officers of the army. It is extremely novel in desig'°:, and proposes to meet very different uses from flit traditional long sharp slender weapon first introduce d • the siege of Bayonne. The bayonet invented by Co loned • Rice is, in fact, a steel trowel, 9in. long, and Sin. or 4ie wide. It certainly is not as imposing as the old fashil; but claims to be more useful. it is designed to enau r troops to cover themselves very rapidly. In the last 0'6., the troops did this with knives, spoons, fingers, and th e ;., bayonets, with which, however, they could not scoop Tr, the earth. This provides them always with facilities Jo ia entrenchment. Colonel Rico estimates that a lino e °ll ' throw up twenty inches of dirt in ten minutes, so tlitt troops need never be caught out of shelter. That t1;c1 weapon would not answer all the purposes of the e't bayonet must be admitted ; but it is urged that t"„ 0 weapon is now obsolete ' • that not a hundred 111;4 were killed by it during five years of war ; that y , rebels persistently threw theirs away, and that tilceir were kept in the hands of the troops only by Pon l 'itti ing those who lost them, and charging them ' tit the expense of new ones. That if this was sO wer muzzle-loaders—the old bayonet will be still less l' ec i be sity with the breech-loader ; while at the same tirae t he urgency of being covered will be vastly increased by ne t deadlier efficiency of the new arm. Colonel Rice's beY ° il,o is intended to be worn habitually in the sheath e_ i t th e side ; the guns are to be stocked at the ramroad, au",,/el bayonet will only be fixed on guard, &c. This D'bt, weapon certainly makes a good case for itself at first sig re . and, however the Ordnance Department may come t° gard it, we have no doubt officers of infantry will ge rally look on it with favour.—Springfield Republican. Charles W. Lowell, just elected speaker of t b o , ° , Louisiana House of Representatives, was born at FaroeitTa ton in 1834, was educated at Bowdoin College, and wa ,ifl the Maine Legislature in 1861-2. He served in the We' Ullman's Brigade, in the Department of the Gulf. re - Lincoln University, at Oxford, Connecticut, D. cently conferred the degree of Master of Arts upon I .' o ci Bassett, principal for 13 years of the Waterbury eelt i ree high school. This is the first instance that such e.,r l ed has been conferred upon a coloured man in the lA' States. At the recent commencement of Hobart C At , of a class of eleven were graduated, the honorary deg r b ' s , LL.D. was conferred upon Professor John Broc lols Trinity College, Hartford • that of D.D. upon th e Rev. William H. H. Bissell, Bishop of Vermont, the r,. 30 te4 0. R. Howard and T. S. Rumsey. The trustees e` of as president the Rev. James Stone, son of Dr. St :0i Brookline, Massachusetts, a graduate of Ilarvel, e ar 4 lately professor in Kenyon College. Ho is only 2 aecl old, but a man of great culture and force of c haractel, much is hoped of him in his new position. fool William Warren has been chosen Senator Alabama for the term ending in 1871. atir iog Gail Hamilton leaves America for Europe this month, to be absent a year. Births. I,o 3 .g e h i KENICETT—On. the 6th inst., at Tilgate Forestscf" ISt- Crawley, the wife of the late Charles K enn ett, B ert Or Hussars, of a son. SELFE—On the 6th inst., at St. John's Villas, i-l o glr road, Brixton, the wife of J. Henry J. 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