The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Zn notini that the new House of Commons met an Thursday for the first time, the Times remarks on the position which the members took. Curiosit y and a desire to be instructed in the ways of the place in which they were for the first time assembled were the feelings most plainly manifest. It was evident that Mr. Denison might have been a very indifferent instead of an efficient Speaker, and yet the crowd of representatives elected under the Reform Acts of 1867 and 1868 would not have ventured to dispute the propriety of h is re-election. G o i ng on to comment on the compositi on of the new Ministry, the Times signifies its approval of the appointment of Lord Spencer to the Irish viceroyalty. It is likely to give unqualified satisfaction to the Irish people, and to reflect great credit on the Ministry. Possessing ample resources of fortune, in the perfection of early manhood, with abilities only too rarely displayed in the House of Lords, and a spirit of hospitality sufficiently known to all who frequent the annual gathering at 'Wim bledon, Lord Spencer is eminently fitted to attract the warm regard of those over whom he will be placed. A rumour existed that he was unwilling to assume the post. If he hesitated, it is well his hesitation has been overborne. The complaint Prime Ministers have more than once made, that they could not induce great peers to undertake the office of the Viceroy, points to a danger which must be deprecated. The 'Union has of course detracted much from the responsibility and the splendour of the post, and the time may not be far distant when it will be well to abolish it altogether ; but until the policy of reli gious equality is thoroughly adopted work remains to be done of a nature to occupy the highest ability. The only post of great importance which now remains vacant is the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster. Mr. Cowper has refused to take that post. The comple tion of a Government in eight days is a remarkable instance of despatch, and it is doubly fortunate that it should be possible. The re-elections must consume some time, and the interval then left before Parliament re assembles in February will be scant enough for the prepa ration of the bills which must be ready almost as soon as it is called together. Mr. Gladstone has doubtless a clear idea of the form which disestablishment must assume, and he may be prepared to submit a scheme for the application of the ecclesiastical funds of Ireland as they are diverted from their present uses, but it cannot be presumed that Mr. Gladstone's colleagues are fully instructed in the details of his plans either of disestablishment or of disenclowment, and it is, of course, necessary they should be completely familiar with them before they are called upon to advocate or defend them in Parliament. The speedy completion of the Ministry, though prompt, has not, therefore, been too prompt, and the Liberal party may feel grateful to Mr. Disraeli that he did not by protracted opposition further abbreviate the brief time left to the Government for the development of their proposals. The duty of the hour is plainly to get through necessary and formal business as quickly as pos sible. The swearing-in of members, the issue of new writs, and the re-elections must consume much precious time, the Christmas holidays will inevitably absorb some more, and the first week in February may be upon us before Parliamer tary draughtsmen have received their final instructions. The Post observes with regard to the Ministry that people who have been brought up in Whig houses and the Whig faith may not be entirely satisfied. The cir cumstance that seven Cabinet Ministers are unconnected either by birth or marriage with Whig families may touch their ss sceptibilities. But those who have watched the course of events cannot fail to see that now, when a cam paign of no ordinary severity awaits the Ministry, it was impossible to consider any merely traditional pretensions. The free lances of the Opposition will only be careful to find the vulnerable points of the Cabinet. Therefore, if for no other reason, it was incumbent on Mr. Gladstone to form a working and useful, rather than an ornamental Administration. He had the example of his opponents to guide him. Lord Derby advised the Conservative party to take Mr. Disraeli for its leader, and Mr. Disraeli has acted upon the instruction which his own elevation underlined. The Post has a word to say apropos of " swearing in." As a nation we have always had wonderful faith in the efficacy of oaths, and until comparatively recently we required them to be taken on almost every possible occa sion on which it was conceived desirable for the authorities to ascertain whether an individual was telling the truth. The sheet-anchor of the Custom-house was, so to speak, the New Testament, and we forget how many oaths used to be taken in due course about a pound of tea before it passed across the counter into the hands of the consumer. But although statutory declarations have in many instances been substituted for oaths, still it mnst be con- , ceded that we continue to swear a little too much and a little too often. A very exhaustive oath was adminstered to each of the members of the new Government (with the exception of Mr. Bright, who, being a Quaker, affirmed) at Windsor on Wednesday, the recipients being on their , knees, but nevertheless when they take their places in Parliament they will be obliged again to call God to witness that they will bear true allegiance to the Queen. Familiarity is proverbially said to breed contempt, and we cannot avoid thinking that a states man who has been obliged several times in the course of his life, from the period when he first took his degree at the University to that when he last took his seat in Parliament, or accepted an office from the Crown, to repeat the same formula, concluding with a solemn invocation of the Deity, must come to regard the ceremony with very little reverence. Without being so sceptical or so cynical as to suggest that no oath ever yet operated to prevent a man becoming a traitor to his sovereign or to his country, we have at least probability on our side when we doubt whether the needless repeti tion of the same oath on every conceivable occasion when a pretext can be suggested for its administration adds in the slightest degree to its binding force. The Standard takes comfort to itself in the conduct of the populace on Thursday outside Westminster Hall. If one-tenth of what our demagogues have been preaching to us for the last twenty years had been true, there surely ought to have been some kind of demonstration on such an occasion. It was the first day of the entrance, accord ing to the• Right Honourable John Bright, of the people into their rights. It was the beginning of that ominous Householder Parliament of which we had been warned in tones of more or less solemnity. It was the first day of the parliamentary life of Mr. Bright as a Cabin Minister. On that day the people burst their chains, and an unscrupulous and corrupt aristocracy were hurled from their seats. Surely there was something shocking in the tame and matter-of-fact way in which the populace celebrated this happy occasion. They ought to have been delirious with joy of their enfranchisement— ecstatic over their newly-found liberties. The conduct of the populace was more than disappointing. They cheered, it is true, the popular leaders, but it is a remarkable fact that they cheered scarcely less rapturously the outgoing Ministers. The joy at the assembling of the Householder Parliament was not so absorbing a passion but that the crowd were able to feel, and to express, an interest for the members of the late Government. The populace, with a shameful sense of impartiality—a sense altogether unaccountable on the Right Honourable Mr. Bright's late theories of the conduct of the governing classes—were about evenly divided in their enthusiasm for the rising sun-and for the orb whose race is, for the time, run. Of the two, Mar cellus had, perhaps, the best of it. The Dail; Ne;es . compares to some extent the powers and position of the two Houses. Between the House of Lords and the House of Commons the physical interval is email. Two passages and two lobbies divide the once rival estates. The moral difference is enormous. To an ob server the transition seems to be from death to life, from a galvanised to a real existence, front the past to the present, from the form to the substance, from the vest ment and draperies to the body and soul of the English Constitution. The only real thing in the ceremony, so far as it was enacted in the House of Lords, was the inrush of the Commons. • Thatanight be fancied to be symbolical of the living power of the Constitution, as the immobility of the Lords was of what is stationary and stereotyped. The Times comments at some length on the patronage of the Conservatives.. Mr. Disraeli himself, off his own hook, has made a viceroy, a duke, an earl, an archbishop, three bishops, several governors-gen era l, th ree d eans, an d several canons, seven peers, besides elevations in the peerage, eleven baronets, and a swarm of Irish func tionaries that fairly baffles English enumeration. The Conservative Administration, including Lord Derby's, has m ade twenty-seven great legal appointments. The total aggregate of patronage disposed of, and, for the most part, placed for the life interests in safe Con servative keeping, has been estimated at a quarter of a million per annum, and the Conservative cause is now that much richer and stronger. The Times cannot quite censure Mr. Disraeli for this. It thinks the patronage in Ireland at the last moment an outrage on common sense, if not of official propriety. At the same time it must still admire the audacity which has enabled the garrison to walk out, not only with the honours of war, but even with the property they were lighting about. Few chore'. igoers, the Telegraph appreh ends, can honestly declare that they have never felt somewhat drowsy during toe sermon. Of ceurse it is the fault of the heat, or of the architect ; it would he an outrage to hint that it could by :viy possiliility be the fault of the preacher. The difficult question, however, still remains— What can be done to keep the congregations awake? .."..aw may the weaker brethren be induced to forego their forty winks? The thing might be done, no doubt, by the employment of a particularly pungent kind of incense ; but insense is inadmissible, and, of the two evils, a snore itself is not so anti-devotional a.; a sneeze. We English are sofund of personal liberty, that a large number of sturdy patriots would probably maintain their perfect right to sleep in their own pews, as long as they paid the rates ; and we arc not, therefore, sanguine that a plan which was once tried in Denmark would be successfW in Great Britain. Let the public judge. A decree issued by a former King Christian com manded that, as the practice of sleeping in church was scandalously on the increase, every parish should select one or more persons to perambulate the sacred edifice, armed with a long Nvaml, for the purpose of tapping the ~ , ,,,pers gently on the head ! We commend the idea to those gentlemen who are busily introducing innovations on our Church service; since, if the plan did nothing else, it would at least provide useful occupation for the beadle. THE INUNDATIONS IN YORKSHIRE , During Tuesday the down-pour or ram water from the hills caused considerable overflow of most of the North Riding rivers. The Foss, from York to Sheriff Hutton, the Dement, the Ouse, the Rye, the Upper Dement, and smaller rivers, were all in flood, and from the hills their broad sheets of water could be traced for miles. Between eight o'clock on Sunday night and eight on Monday morning the rain fall at Halifax was 1.15 inches ; and between eight on Monday night and eight on Tuesday morning it was 1.8. As a consequence, the streams in the neighbourhood were very much swollen yesterday. The Oaleler overflowed its banks in many places between Ludden de n Foot and Brighouse, and many mills, both on this river and the Ityburn, were stopped by backwater. Had the rain continued a few hours longer much damage to property on the banks of the rivers would have been caused. There has been a "fresh" in the Don for several days, and on Tuesday night the water overflowed the banks and flooded an im mense tract of ccuntry. On Wednesday morning the in habitan Marshgate, Doncaster, a low-lying district of the , immediately abutting on the river, were alarmed by the rapid approach of the flood towards their very doors. In a very short time it was pouring down into the cellars, rising up into the kitchens, almost to the oven doors, and taking full and complete possession of the ground-floors of all the dwellings, both back and front. The street was flooded, and foot lassengcrs had to be con veyed in carts for a considerable distance. Of course the i n h a bitants had to betake themselves to the upper storeys, and there they remained up to last night, though the flood is fast ebbing. For several years past Marshgate has been almost free from these once very frequent inundations, and it is eight years since so high a flood invaded the locality. Two cases of drowning of persons pursuing the dangerous occupation of angling for wood and flotsam are reported. GUN COTTON. A great discovery in connection with gun-cotton has been made by Professor Abel and Mr. Brown, of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. As we have regularly laid before our readers the progress of discovery with this important explosive, we need only recall the last stages—the preserva tion from decomposition by the use of a weak alkali, and the employment of compressed charges. Used in the last mentioned form, we have said that gun-cotton, lighted by an ordinary fuze, has about six times the destructive force of an equal weight of gunpowder. Messrs. Abel and Brown, however, after experimenting with gun-cotton saturated with nitro-glycerine, igniting it necessarily with the detonating fuse, tried the experiment of igniting gun cotton alone in the same way. The results showed that cotton exploded in this way has, perhaps, a greater destruc tive force than nitro-glycerine. This is a great and valu able discovery, for we have here the comparative safety of the gun-cotton with the tremendously destructive powers of nitro-glycerine. For mining and quarrying purposes it removes the only source of danger from the use of gun cotton, for no hard tamping is necessary. It is sufficient to fill up 'the bore with sand. Gun-cotton, as we have recently shewn, may be carried and stored with perfect safety front explosion. The detonating fuze can be inserted in the charge when it is required for use. As with nitro-glycerine, the explosion of one charge provokes the explosion of another. Thus, if it were required to destroy a stockade, it is only necessary to place the charges at distances round the enclosure, and explode one. The explosion of all follows with instantaneous rapidity. Moreover, as said above, when the cotton is exploded by the detonating fuze, it is not necessary to confine it. Just as with its analogue, nitro-glycerine, the explosion is so instantaneous that the sh—tering effects are just as great when the charge is quite exposed. Large blocks of granite and thick plates of iron have been shattered by r xploding open charges upon them. A detailed account the expe riments made by using gun-cotton in this way is not yet made public ; but the discovers will, no doubt, soon supply it.--Alichanici Magazine. LAW AND POLICE. TOWN SEWAGE.—The town of Romford is unhappy in the possession of a board of health which discharges its sewage into the river Rom. One Masters objects to this arrangement. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Stuart, sees with him the inconvenience and annoyance caused by the proceedings of the local board, and granted him an order some months back for sequestration. He, however, stayed proceedings; or, in other words, he shewed the local board which way equity was disposed to regard its action, but gave it time to rearrange its sewage. The board, however, still uses the Rom, and on Thursday Mr. Masters again applied to the Vice-Chancellor to have the order carried out. His Honour was still unwilling to allow this, but gave leave for the application to be made in another form, viz., for an injunction to restrain the local board from emptying it sewage into the river. MANSLAUGHTER. - Mr. Justice Brett tried at the Durham Assizes the case of Patrick Convery, charged with the murder of John Dougherty. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. In passing a sentence of twenty years' penal servitude, his lordship spoke of it as a sentence " almost as terrible as that of death." Mr. Baron Bramwell, at the Glauaorganshire Assizep, also sentenced a labourer named Webster to twenty years' penal servitude. As in the other case, the accused was charged with murder, but the jury brought in manslaughter. POACIIING.—Two young men, the sons of a market gardener in Sussex, have been charged before the magis trates of East Sussex, sitting at Cuckfield, with night poaching on the lands of the Earl of Sheffield. The prisoners and another man, who escaped, were detected by the keepers, and a hand-to-hand fight ensued. The poachers escaped, but the prisoners were identified, and, with the aid of the police, were shortly after taken into custody. They were committed for trial. FORGERY.-A case in which the mode of doing business at certain savings banks was called in question came before Alderman Causton on Thursday at Guild hall. A youth named Hodges was charged with having stolen a cheque for nineteen odd pounds from his employers, and uttered it after ho had forged their endorsement. He had paid the cheque into the Lambeth Savings Bank and opened an account with it. 3-T;s .mployers wished to know what security the public r er •ssed cheques, if estal , lisl like the Lambet i Savings Bank would take one from a boy like the prisoner. The prisoner was committed for trial. The Duke of Rutland has joined the Victoria In stitute, the society which professes to pursue scientific in vestigations with allegiance to the letter of Scripture. It waz, stated yesterday morning that a petition charging bribery and corruption has been lodged against the return of Mr. W. H. Smith for Westminster. Mr. Gladstone has begged to be excused from ad dressing the electors of Greenwich until the election. It has been resolved to return him free of expense. The mail train from Liverpool to London =Wednes day came into collision with a goods train on the London and North Western Railway at Ruyton Quarry. Both trains were greatly damaged, but no lives were lost. Queen Elizabeth's oak in Beddington Park has lately been felled. It was supposed to be more than a thou sand years old ; and Queen Bess, in her frequent visits to Dedelington _Park, used often to sit under its wide-spreading branches, attended by her courtiers and favourites. On Wednesday, at the Liverpool Police-court, Ellis Wharton, who for some twelve years, it was alleged, had set the Excise authorities at defiance, and had on many oc casions been fined and imprisoned, was charged with selling ale, wise, and spirits, without having a license. He was fined £l2O and costs, in default to be imprisoned during her Majesty's pleasure. At Durham Assizes, on Wednesday, Patrick Con very, aged 36, labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder of John Docherty, at Jarrow, on the 28th ult. The prisoner shot tho deceased after having some words with him, and the motive for the act was jeakuv. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and Le was sentenced to twenty year.' penal servitude. On the day of the Liverpool election a number of cabowners lout their vehicles gratuitously for the convey anco of voters and canvasses in the Conservative interest. This good service has just been acknowledged by the Con servative M.P.'s for the borough, Mr. S. It. Graves and Lord B:Auden. They have presented to each, catowner an ele gantly framed cabinet picture comainiug Lido by scle vig nette photographs of themselves, with their autographs be low, and an inscription stating the cause of presentation. THE LATE MR. COI3DEN.—The speeches of the late Mr. Cobden are now being prepared for publication by the night Honourable John Bright, M.P., and Mr. Thorold llogers ; and they will :liortly he given to the world under the ansp:ces of the club which bears the name of the instriou3 free-trader. FORGERIES By TELEGRAPIT.—BUSiIIC22 on the Manchester Stock Exchange on Thursday was, we learn, at a aandstill in consequence of the panic occasioned by the reception of a number of forged messages from London for the purchase of American bonds. As the time for the delivery of such messages and the execution of the order embraces only a few minutes, it is probable that a great amount of stock changed hands, thcl gh, of course, the validity of the transactions will be a matter for investiga. tion by the committee of the Stock Exchange. We learn that a number of forged orders were also sent by telegraph to Liverpoql during thp same day. THE 'SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, IE6B. FOREIGN NOTES. AMERICA. The New York Times says that thatiA l t Mr. Reverdy Johnson is making favourable progress towards a settle ment of the Alabama claims, the arrangement yet entered into is by no means final or satisfactory. " One thing is certain: all propositions tending to the subs pission of any vital point or principle to arbitration have been rejected by Mr. Johnson under his general instruttrons." This goes to confirm the statement that the Avterican Govern ment insists upon the whole matter in dispute being re ferred to the commission, and refuses to allow the primary question to be settled by the King of Primate. The "favour able progress" spoken of by the Now york paper, then, amounts to this : the American Government, having received every concession from England, land having made none in return, is waiting until the English Foreign Office concede the last and most important point of all. The Nation goes further than this. It says that England's liability to pay the damages must be admitted beforehand, and all the commission will do will be to assess the amount. The American Ambassador at Paraguay, Mr. Wash burn, has written a letter defending himself from the charge of undue interference with the Parnuayan Govern ment. He denounces Lopez as the common enemy of mankind, and declares Paraguay to be outside the pale of civilised nations. Mr. Washburn may be in the right, but the violence of his language is not in accordance with the dignity of his position. In charging with arrant cowardice the man who for six years has kept at bay the whole force of nations immensely superior in resources to Paraguay, he falls into an evident absurdity. The New York .Nation disposes of Mr. Washburn very summarily. It says : " Whether Mr. Washburn is an honest man, or has been selling himself and his flag to the revolutionists ; whether he was or was not engaged in one or more conspiracies against the Dictator, he at least made a bad failure in respect of that neutrality between Paraguay and her enemies which it was a principal duty of his, as our Minister, to maintain. Moreover, he has not succeeded, since he became a voluminous public character, in per suading anybody that he is a man of sense, whatever his character for integrity may be." and son, both eminent lawyers, and both knighted on attaining legal promotion. Fortunately, they have dif- ferent second names, and the Solicitor-General will no doubt be known as Sir John Duke, while his father is known as Sir John Taylor. It is by no means through any desire on the part of the younger knight that he will attain to this dignity. The Times and one or two other papers imagined that the post of Solicitor-General was s o tempting that it could have been refused only through the wish to get something better. The real truth was that Mr. Coleridge has such an enormous practice that he hesitated about taking upon himself other duties. There are limits to human endurance, and the fate of his brilliant predecessor in the Solicitor-Generalship and in the repre sentation of Exeter—Sir William Follett—might well make him hesitate about overstepping those limits. By this time Lord Mayo has arrived at the scene of his labours. It is, however, by no means certain that he will be allowed to enter upon them. It is still an open question whether he will not be recalled, and the matter will have to be decided by the new Cabinet. If this step should be taken it will be so entirely because it is thought necessary. There is too much reason to fear that India is not in such a satisfactory state as could be wished, and it is therefore the more important that the Government should feel confidence in the Viceroy. To-day is the last day for presenting election petitions, and as frivolous petitions are now costly and dangerous experiments, the total number of members petitioned against is much smaller than on previous occasions. The petitions had to be lodged in the Court of Common Pleas, and in order to assist petitioners a lithographed form was prepared for them, leaving blanks for names. A thousand pounds has to be deposited in each case as a guarantee for the expenses in Districts. Elected. the event of the petition not being proved. The three judges appointed to try these cases will arrange them in districts, and then go on circuit with all the usual cere monial observed when judges go to the assizes. They will be accompanied by a portion of the Bar. Of course it is impossible to say how long the trials will take, and therefore to assign a date for any one case. Election petitions being v no longer tried in the House of Commons, and railway business having been reduced to a minimum, there is now quite a stampede among par liamentary counsel. Several leading ones have found their way into the House, and others are retiring from parliamentary practice. This kind of practice, lucrative though it was, was never highly esteemed by the Bar, inasmuch as those engaged in it had to plead before laymen, many of them very obtuse. Election work will, of course, occupy a very different standing now that it busy time of the year. The Rev. P. Barham Zineke has Districts. Elected. added another to the numerous books of travel in America. The Rev. A. C. Smith has added another to those on the Nile. Mr. Frederick Whymper has a volume on Alaska, the territory in America lately ceded by Russia to the United States. Lord De Ros has published the " Young Officers' Companion." The author of " Brothers-in- Law" is already engaged on her second novel. Messrs. Chambers announce, under the title of " Extra-ordinary," a Christmas number of their journal ; and London Society has come out with a profusely illus trated number for the same season. Mr. Hitchman, of the Manchester Courier, will, I believe, have an article on Rossini in the next number of Belgravia. Finally, Miss Edwards, the novelist, has denied the authorship of the " Girl of the Period," and kindred articles in the Saturday Review, which had been freely attributed to her. P.S.—As I write, the eighth Parliament of Queen Vic toria has been opened. There was a very full attendance of members in the House of Commons. Mr. Denison was proposed as Speaker by Sir George Grey, and the proposal was seconded by Mr. Walpole. Mr. Disraeli was present, but received no mark of recognition on entering the House. The new Ministers were of course absent. THE PRESENT CONGRESS AND THAT ELECT. Present Members. MAINE. 1. John Lynch John Lynch 2. Samuel P. Morrill Sidney Perham 3. James G. Blaine James G. Blaine 4. John A. Peters John A. Peters 5. Eugene Hale Frederick A. Pike 1. John Taffo Present Ifembers. WISCONSIN. 1. Halbert E. Paine Halbert E. Paine 2. Benjamin F. Hopkins Benjamin F. Ilopkins 3. Amasa Cobb Amasa Cobb 4. *Charles A. Eldridge Charles A. Eldridga 5. Philetus Sawyer Philetus Sawyer 6. Cadwal. C. Washburne—Cadwallader C. Washburne ILLINOIS. At Large—John A. Logan John A. Logan 1. Norman B. Judd , Norman B. Judd 2. John F. Farnsworth John F. Farnsworth 3. Elihu B. Washburne Elihu B. Washburne 4. John B. Hawley Abner C. Harding 5. Eben C. Ingersoll Eben C. Ingersoll 6. Burton C. Cook Burton G. Cook 7. Jesse H. Moore Henry P. H. Broniwell 8. Shelby M. Cullom Shelby M. Cullom 9. *Thomas W. M'Neeley *Lewis W. Ross 10. *Albert G. Burr Albert G. Burr 11. *Samuel S. Marshall Samuel S. Marshall 12. John B. Hay Jehu Baker 13. Green B. Ratan Green B. Daum 3IISSOURI. 1. *Erastus Wells... William A. Pile 2. G. A. Finkleburg Carman A. Newcomb 3. *James R. M'Cormiek _James R. APCormick 4. Semprouius 11. Boyd Joseph J. Gravelly 5. Samuel S. Burdett Joseph W. MClurg Vac. John H. Stove• 6. *James Shields Robert I'. Van Horn 7. John F. Asper Benjamin F. Loan 8. John F. Benjamin Johu F. Benjamin 9. *William F. Switzler George W. Anderson KANSAS. 1. Sidney Clarke Sidney Clarke NEBRASKA. John Taffe CALIFORNIA. 1. *Samuel B. Axtell Samuel B. Axtell 2. Aaron A. Sargent William Higby 3. Chancellor Hartson *James A. Johnson NEVADA. 1. Thomas Fitch Dolos R. Ashley OREGON. 1. *J. S. Smith Rufus Mallory COLORADO TERRITORY. 1. Allen A. Bradford George M. Chilcott * Democrats. 711 E SALARY OF 211 E PRESIDENT. This theme, given by the New York Times, has been taken up for discussion by the American press. IVhat that paper urges is, that when given—which was in Washington's time—the $25,000 had as much purchasing power as four times that sum now has, therefore, to put the President of to-day on a level with the President of last century i❑ the matter of pay, the amount should be quadrupled. In the matter of work and responsibility his duties are now four times as onerous, so that the growth of the nation has been heaping on him extra work, and the diminution in the value of money clipping his pay, thus burning his candle at both ends. Some oppose on the old grounds of Republican simplicity, the sum paid being considered amply sufficient to furnish the means for decent living. Others argue that GRANT allowed himself to be put in nomination, 'knowing he was to get, if successful, $25,000 a year ; therefore he cannot complain of the amount nor propose an increase. It is true that the sum is under £4,000 a year, but the salary of a Cabinet Minister is not £1,250, and all these offices are striven for by the best men in the country, although no one for an instant supposes that these gentle men make anything beyond salary out of the offices; therefore good men can be got for the power and distinction independent of the pay, and if so, why should the nation, overburdened with debt, pay more ? In one place it is asserted that the argu ments which hold good for the President hold for all officials, and therefore all would have to be quadrupled ; in another, that this should have been done before the election was determined, but not after its being so proposed, showing a party, not a national move, for there was no desire to in crease Mr. Johnson's salary, nor would there have been had Mr. Seymour succeeded. Indeed, the World urges that being made for a President-elect it is a virtual though not a literal violation of the Constitution. It is a pity if this be so that the suggestion did not come before the election, for S JACK. LYTIEN. „ RING John Rann (alias Sixteen-string Jack) acquired a name about 1774, at which Hounslow postillions trembled. This fellow had been coachman to Lord Sandwich, who then lived at the south-east corner of Bedford-row, and he acquired his singular name by wearing breeches with eight strings at either knee to record the number of his acquittals. He was a handsome, impudent fellow, much admired by his companions; and he is described as swaggering at Bagnigge-wells in a scarlet coat, deep-flapped tambour waistcoat, white silk stockings, and laced hat. lie drank freely there, lost, with extreme nonchalance, a hundred guinea diamond ring, and openly boasted that he was a highwayman, and could replace the lost jewel by one evening's work. He once showed himself at Barnet races in a blue satin waistcoat trimmed with silver, and was followed by an admiring crowd. He even had the matchless impudence to attend a Tyburn execution, and push his way through a ring of constables, saying that be was just the sort of man who ought to have 3 good place, as he himself might figure there some day. Just before he was taken for robbing Mr. Devall near the ninth milestone on the Houns low road, he had stopped Dr. Bell, the chaplain to the Princess Amelia, and taken from him eighteen' pence and au old watch. This fellow used to boast that Sir John Fielding's people always used him very genteelly ; consequently if they held up a finger he would follow them as quiet as a lamb. Whe n brought before Sir John, Rann wore a bundle of flowers as big as a broom in the breast of his coat, and had his irons tied up taste fully with blue ribbons. At his trial he appeared in a pea-green suit, a ruffled shirt, and a ba t bound round with silver strings. He gave 4 supper a few nights before his execution. An intelligent observer, who saw the cart pass the end of John-street with Rann in it, bound for Tyburn, describes him in his pea-green coat, carry' ing, as he sat by his coffin, with the chaplain read ing prayers to him, an enormous nosegay, pre sented, according to cu6tom, from the steps of St. Sepulchre's Church. Nothing in life, however, s° well became Sixteen-string Jack as the leaving it, for he died penitently, not like desperate AbersbOt who, on mounting the gibbet, so long eager for bin i , kicked his shoes off among the crowd, and leap ed savagely into another world.—Dickens's All the Year Round." The Cossack, 20, screw corvette, 1,296 tons, 25 , ° ; horse power, is ordered to be commissioned for t ' East India station, and will have a compliment °f 275 men. --• CONCENTRATED GLUTTONY.—There is one Pra c ' tical hint which we may give to all who are beginning the use of extract of meat, either for the sustenance of t`e valids, for which it is invaluable, or for ordinary donaes purposes—that is, to remind them that, when prop erl/ prepared, every ounce of this extract contains all the Pie° of about 2lbs. of lean rneat, and that it must be usod cordingly. The whole of an ounce can easily be dissolve . in a cup or small basin of water, but to take such a b 3sle d of soup as this would bo about as unreasonable 131, as unwholesome as to make a heavy meal of beef ste3 h without any bread or vegetables, and the effect upon th e system and upon the palate would be very nearly tb same. A few such meals would make one disgusted I ' l a the taste of beef, and cause the stomach to reject it; STI , a few such basins of soup or beef-tea would prod e similar nauseating of the extract. We have heard ' sl3 i a lij cases where people have tried extract of meat, and C °ll ; e "not keep it on their stomachs." Upon inqu ir f t o have always found that such persons have nc l° P,:jf the logic of the quack in recommending his pills Thep one box will cure you, what will a dozen do? have heard that the extract is very nutritious, an d ' a t , resolved to do their nutrition wholesale, and all at °"ca —which is a very great mistake. It must be ronoubere_ that the consumption of a whole tablespoonful of g ood P ir tract of meat at one meal is an act of refined and COne° trated gluttony, which must inevitably be followed by : e a sults corresponding to those of an effort of vulgar 9 THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. The wreckers who formerly carried on a pretty profit able business in the Bahama Islands, have found a still more lucrative employment in running the Cuban blockade and furnishing supplies to the insurgents. One of their vessels has been recently captured. The Cuban Executive bitterly complain of theaction of the American Government. It was the first to recognise the Revolution at Madrid, and it is now selling arms to the general who is in rebellion against the Revolutionary Government. The Paris correspondent of the Independancc Beige says that on the 4th of October Queen Isabella sent a telegram to General Lersundi, inquiring as to the manner in which the Revolution had been received in Cuba, and whether the island would rise in her favour. Lersundi replied that he much regretted the mischance which had befallen her Majesty, but that his duty as governor was to obey the Ministry which the Spanish nation had called to office. SPAIN. The Liberec announces the receipt of important letters from Spain. " Some of these are confidential, and cannot be reproduced ;" but their general tenour is that Spain is rapidly advancing to the fatal collision of parties which the Republicans are so anxious to avert. The democratic party is willing to do anything in order to avoid the calamity which is now impending—a reproduction in the revolution of 1868 of the results of that of 1854. The Liberec is the advocate of a republic for Spain, and is in some sort the French representative of the Spanish Democrats. TURKEY AND GREECE. The prospect of a pacific solution of the difficulty between Turkey and Greece has developed into a tolerable certainty. The Greek Government is said to be willing to accept the good offices of the three Powers which first guaranteed the existence of the Hellenic Kingdom ; but public opinion in Greece is averse to any change of policy. The annexation of Crete, to say nothing of other trifles in the way of aggra vation, as the Emperor Napoleon calls it, is a national desire, not a party ambition. A change of Ministry is likely to follow the frustrating of this national, but by no means justifiable wish. According to some very trustworthy intelligence from Paris, the Great Powers will not have war, and so the matter is virtually ended. The Temps says that all the Powers ate about to send vessels to the coasts of Greece, to exercise a surveillance over the restora tion of the Cretan refugees. GERMANY. Professor Ewald, the famous Oriental scholar, is to be prosecuted for treason. Some time ago he was deprived of his post in the Giittingen University, because he declined to take the oath of allegiance to the Prussian Government. These intimations that freedom of speech and political creed are not tolerated in Prussia did not prevent the professor from publishing a pamphlet in which he severely condemned the annexation policy of the Government, and extolled the deposed Ha nov erian monarch and his people. He has been ordered to discontinue his lectures, and in a few days will be tried on a charge of treason. 31E71?0POL1TAN GOSSIP-7hurstlay. - --- Although Mr. Disraeli's resignation took the country by surprise, Mr. Gladstone evidently was prepared for it. The result is that he has constituted his Cabinet in five days, and the greater part of his Administration in a week, an instance of speed almost, if not altogether unparalleled. It is not to be denied that the new Government does nut give universal satisfaction. Ido not here refer to the disappointed aspirants, of whom there must always be more or less. The dissatisfaction is shared by those who have no expectations, and who desire only to see the best pos sible Administration. When journals like the Daily News and the Daily Telegraph complain, you may be sure that there is some reason for grumbling. The cause of offence is, that while Mr. Lowe, the vehement Anti-Reformer of 1866, has been taken into the Cabinet, Mr. Forster, the consistent Reformer, has been excluded. Of course it was necessary to conciliate the Adullamite leader, just as Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell alternately found it necessary to conciliate each other. But that Mr. Forster, whose consistency, ability, and eloquence, Conservative, no less than Liberal journals have praised, should be excluded, seems as though faithful service were treated as a disqualification. The minor appointments shew one or two curious selections. I am doubtful, for instance, how far Mr. Otway is acquainted with the duties of the Board of Trade, and I am inclined to think that Mr. Norwood, the member for Hull, would better understand the work. But probably the fact that Mr, Otway has fought many battles for the Liberal cause, while Mr. Norwood is a young member, had something to do with the preference shewn for the member for Chatham. It is probable, too, that Mr. Norwood and Mr. Bright would not pull well together. The first was one of the chief promoters of the purchase of the telegraph; by the Government ; the second holds that the less Government undertakes the better. There is little doubt but that Sir G. M. Giffard will be the new Lord Justice, and the rumour that Lord Westbury would go to Lincoln's Inn while Sir W. Page Wood—l beg his pardon, Lord Ratherley —sits on the woolsack, was absurd. Lord Westbury would never play second fiddle to any one. Moreover, does he not enjoy his pension of £5,000 a year as ex-Chan cellor, which he would have to resign if made Lord Justice, a post worth only £l,OOO a year more ? The vacancy in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, caused by the promotion of Sir George Giffard, will, I hear, be filled by Mr. W. M. James (" Fat" James, his friends call him), Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and brother-in-law of Lord Romilly. It so happened that Mr. James was pleading yesterday before Vice-Chancellor Giffard, and that a reference had to be made to Lord Justice Page Wood. " I suppose we must call him Chancellor," remarked the expectant Lord Justice. " No, your lordship," replied the expectant Vice-Chancellor ; "he does not take the seal until half past two." It was then two o'clock. Mr. Young's friends in Cambridgeshire are furious at his defeat. They assert that Mr. Brand most solemnly promised that he would retire rather than endanger Mr. Young's seat, and though he now declares himself heart broken at the rejection of the old member, they are not satisfied, but say that the heart -breaking ought to have been reserved for Mr. Young on Mr. Brand's account. Of course there is no question as to which is the abler man. Mr. Young is so unsuited for Parliament that a sort of pledge was extracted from him on a previous occasion that if he were elected he would not open his mouth in the House ; and this pledge he kept. Nevertheless, he is so adored by the Dissenters of Cambridge and Wisbeach, that if Mr. Brand were to offer himself now, they would, Liberals though they are, vote against him. It is under these cir cumstances that the late Treasury whip has declined a post in the new Government, knowing well that it would cost him his seat in Parliament. There is a rumour that he will be called to the Upper House ; in that case Cam bridgeshire might again be favoured with the presence of its old silent member. The legal changes of the last few years have played havoc with the bar on the Western Circuit. First of all Sir R. Collier left, then Sir John Karslake, and now Mr. Coleridge follows their example. Under these circum stances it is expected that Mr. Lopes and Mr. Edlin, of that circuit, will be made Queen's Counsel.• Still on legal matters, it may be mentioned as a curious incident that the late Solicitor-General did not receive the usual honour of knighthood until after he had resigned the post with which the honour is associated. Another curious circumstance will be the existence of two Sir John Coleridges, father VE R M ONT. 1. Charles W. Willard Frederick E. Woodbridge 2. Luke P. Poland Luke P. Poland 3. Worthington C. Smith Worthington C. Smith MASSACIIUSETTS. 1. James Buffinton Thomas D. Elliot 2. Oakes Ames .. Oakes Ames 3. Ginery Twitchell Ginery Twitchell 4. Samuel Hooper Samuel Hooper 5. Benjamin F. Butler Benjamin F. Butler 6. Nathaniel F. Banks Nathaniel P. Banks 7. George S. Boutwell George S. Boutwell 8. George F. Hoar John P. Baldwin 9. William D. Washburn William D. Washburn 10. Henry L. Dawes Henry L. Dawes RHODE ISLAND. 1. Thomas A. Jenckes Thomas A. Jenckes 2. Nathan P. Dixon Nathan F. Dixon NEW YORK. 1. *Henry 'A. Reeves *Stephen Taber 2. *John G. SebumAker *Dames Barnes 3. *Henry W. Slocum. *Win. E. Robinson 4. *John Fox . . John Fox 5. *John Morrissey John Morrissey 6. *Samuel S. Cox Thomas E. Stewart 7. *Harvey C. Calkins John Chanler 8. * James Brooks James Brooks 9. *Fernando Wood Fernando Wood 10. *Clarkson N. Potter Wm. IL Robertson 11. *George W. Greene Charles H. Van Wyck 12. John H. Ketchum...., John 11. Ketchum 13. *John A. Griswold Thomas Cornell H. *Stephen L. Mayhem John V. L. Pruyn 15. Adolphus Tanner John A. Griswold 16. Orange Ferriss Orange Ferriss 17. William A. Wheeler Calvin T. Hurlburd 18. Stephen Sanford James M. Marvin 19. Charles S. Knapp William C. Fields 20. Addison H. Laflin Addist,n H. Laflin 21. Alexander H. Bailey Alexander 11. Bailey 22. John C. Churchill John C. Churchill 23. Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy 24. George W. Cowles Theo. M. Pomeroy 25. William U. Kelsey William H. Kelsey 26. George W. Hotchkiss -William S. Lincoln 27. Hamilton Ward Hamilton Ward 28. Ncah Davis, juu. Lewis Selye 29. John Fisher Burt Van Horn 30. David S. Bennett James M. Humphrey 31. Porter Sheldon Henry Van Aeruam NEW JERSEY. 1. William Moore William Moore 2. James F. Rusling *Charles Haight 3. Vidal T. Bird *Charles Sitgreaves 4. *Philip Rafferty John Hill 5. *Orestes Cleveland George A. Halsey PENNSYLVANIA. 1. *Samuel J. Randall *Samuel J. Randall 2, Charles O'Neill Charles O'Neill 3. *John Moffat Leonard Myers 4. Wm. D. Kelley Wm. D. Kelley 5. *John B. Reading Caleb N. Taylor G. 'John D. Stiles *Benjamin M. Boyer 7. Washington Townsend Johe M. Broomall 8. *J. Lawrence Getz J. Lawrence Getz 9. 0. J. Dickey -.Thaddeus Stevens Vac. 0. J. Dickey 10. Henry L. Cake Henry L. Cake 11. *Daniel M. Van Anken_Daniel M. Van Auken 12. *George W. Wocdward George W. Woodward 13. Ulysses Mercur Ulysses Mercur 14. John B. Packer George F. Miller 15. *Robert J. Haldeman -*Adam J. Gloasbrenner 16. John Cessna Wm. H. Koontz 17. Daniel J. Morrell Daniel J. Morrell 18. Wm. H. Armstrong Stephen F, Wilson 19. Glenni W. Scofield Glenni W. Scofield 20. Geo. W. Gil fillan Darwin A. Finney Vac. S. Newton Pettis 21, John Covode .John Covode 22. James S. Negley James K. Moorhead , 23. Darwin Phelps Thomas Williams 24. James B. Donley George V. Lawrence WEST VIRGINIA. 1. T. 11. Duval Chester D. Hubbard 2. James G. M‘Grew Ben. M. Kitchen 3. John S. Witcher Daniel Polsley DELAWARE. 1. *Benjamin T. Briggs ....John A. Nicholson MARYLAND. 1. *Samuel Hambleton *Hiram M'Cullough 2. *Stevenson Archer Stevenson Archer 3. *Thomas Swann *Charles E. Phelps 4. Daniel E. Weisel Francis Thomas 6. 'Frederick Stone Frederick Stone NORTH-CAROLINA. 1. *David A. Barnes John R. French 2. David Heaton David Heaton 3. Oliver H. Dockery Oliver H. Dockery 4. John T. Deweeso .John T. Deweeso 5. *Livingston Brown lsrael G. Lash 6. Nathaniel Boyden *Nathaniel Boyden 7. Alexander- H. Jones Alexander H. Jones sOUTH-CAROLINA. 1. Benj. F. Whittemore Benj. F. Whittemore 2. *R. W. Seymour C. C. Bowen 3. Alexander S. Wallace Simon Corley 4. S. L. Hoge James 11. Goss GEORG lA. 1. *John W. Clift... John W Clift _. .., 2. *Nelson Tift 3. *Hugh Buchanan William P. Edwards 4. * Thomas G. Lawson Samuel F. Gove 5. (Jhas. H. Prince Chas. Il Prince 6. *Weir Boyd *John H. Christy 7. * P. B. M. Young P. B. M. Young LOUISIANA. New Districts Old Districts 1. *Louis St. Martin J. Hale, Sypher 2. *Caleb S. Hunt *James Mann Vac. *Caleb S. Hunt 3. *Adolphe Bailey Joseph P. Newsham 4. *Michael Ryan .Michael Vidal 5. *George W. M'Cranie ...W. Jasper Blackburn ARKANSAS. 1. Logan H. Roots Logan 11. Roots 2. Anthony A. C. Rogers *James Hinds 3. *L. B. Nash Thomas Boles TENNESSEE. 1. Robert R. Butler Robert R. Butler 2. Horace Maynard Horace Maynard 3. William B. Stokes William B. Stokes 4. Louis Tilman James Mullins 5. William F. Prosser John Trimble 6. Samuel M. Arnell Samuel M. Arnell 7. Isaac R. Hawkins Isaac R. Hawkins 8. William J. Smith David A. Nunn At Large-John B. Rogers Short term-T. A. Hamilton. KENTUC KY. 1. *Lawrence S. Trimble_Lawronce S. Trimble 2. *William M. Sweeney *John Young Brown 3. *Jacob S. Golladay Jacob S. Golladay 4. *J. Proctor Knott J. Proctor Knott 5. *Boyd Manchester *Asa 9. Grover 6. * Thomas L. Jones ......Thomas L. Jones 7. *James B. Beck James B. Beck 8. *George M. Adams George M. Adams 9. *John Al. Rico --Samuel M'Kee OHIO. 1. *Philip W. Strider Benjamin Eggleston 2. Job E. Stevenson ''Samuel F. Cary 3. Robert C. Schenck Robert C. Schenck 4. William Lawrence William Lawrence 5. *William Mungen 6. John A. Smith Reader W. Clarke 7. James J. Winans Samuel Sheliabarger 8. John Beatty John Beatty 9. *E. P. Dickinson Ralph P. b'uckland 10. *Truman H. Hogg James M. Ashley 11. John T. Wilson John T. Wilson 12. *Phila. Van Trump Phila. Van Frump 13. *George W. Morgan Columbus Delano 14. Martin Welker Martin Welker 15. Edward H. Moore Tobias A. Plants 16. John A. Bingham. John A. Bingham 17. Jacob A. Ambler , Ephraim R. Eckley 18. William 11. Upson Rufus P. Spalding 19. James A. Garfield James A. Garfield INDIANA. - - - - - New Districts. Old Districts. 1. *William E. Niblack William E. Niblack 2. *Michael C. Kerr Michael C. Kerr 3. *William S. Holman Morton C. Hunter 4. George W. Julian *William S. llamas 5. John Coburn George W. Julian 6. Daniel W. Voorhees John Coburn 7. Godlove S. Orth Henry D. Washburn 8 Daniel D. Pratt Godlove S. Orth 9. .John P. C. Shanks Schnyler Colfax 10. William Williams William Williams 11. Jasper Packard John P. C. Shanks MINNESOTA. 1. Morton S. Wilkinson William Windon 2. *Eugene M. Wilkinson Ignatius Donnelly lOWA. 1. George W. M'Crary James F. Wils'a 2. William Smyth Hiram Price 3. William B. Allison 4. William Loughridge.. William Loughridge 5. Francis W. Palmer Granville M.-Dodge 6. Charles Pomeroy Asa,hel W. Hubbard MICHIGAN. 1. Fernando C. Beaman Fernando C. Beaman 2. William L. Stoughton Charles Upson 3. Austin Blair Austin Blair 4. Thomas W. Ferry Thomas W. Ferry 5. Omar D. Conger How'd E. Trowbridge 6. Randolph Strickland John F. Driggs will have to be done before judges. The budget of election stories seems inexhaustible. I am afraid to weary your readers, but the following are incidents worth relating. At Bolton, Mr. Samuel Pope, one of the Liberal candidates, thought that he would endeavour to raise the tone of electioneering by imparting a little useful information to the electors. So, having devoted his first speech to the usual personal matters, he discussed in his second the principle of taxa tion. He had not gone far when a lusty Lan cashire man standing just before him bawled out "Drop that, and pitch into Billy Gray "—" Billy Gray" standing for Colonel Gray, the Conservative candidate. This was rather discomposing, and so Mr. Pope had to give up the attempt to educate the constituency. At Dewsbury two Liberals opposed each other. Not the less did party feeling pervade the new constituency. It prevailed to such an extent that even the butchers arrayed themselves under the banner of Cossham or that of Simon, and called their joints after the rival candidates. On one occasion a woman went into a butcher's shop to purchase a pig's head. Being uncertain of the meatman's politics, she asked " Is that a Simon head ?" "No;it is a Cossham head," was the reply. "But I want a Simon head," rejoined the woman, and she was on the point of leaving the shop, when the butcher stopped her, and said, " I will soon make it a Simon head," and scooping out the brains, sarcastically presented the brainless cranium to the ardent female politician. Rarely have laymen or Churchmen witnessed such a scene as that which took place at Freemasons' Tavern on Tuesday. About 1,500 persons, of whom ten to one were clerics, managed to find their way in, but a large number could not get beyond the staircase, some not so far as this, and these wisely paired off and went away The others made a great uproar, and vainly endeavoured to force an entrance. But as two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time, these efforts were ineffectual except to squeeze the happy (or unhappy) occupants, into a most unclerical state of deshabille. A barrier had been erected on the stairs, and at this place everyone was required to shew his circular before he could , pass on. Reporters were admitted for the first time. The word " Colenso " seemed to arouse the audie nce to frenzy, especially if the word " Bishop" preced ed it. The re ception given to Canon Miller was simply disgraceful, and if it had not been for Archbishop Thomson' s firmness i and threat to dissolve the meeting, the vicar of Greenwich would have been unable to obtain a hearing. The result of the ballot took everyone by surprise, especially as the show of hands was largely the other way. When the result was made known, Archdeacon Denison and his friends charged the platform in the endeavour to get the vote set aside. Altogether it was a scene that quiet country clergymen will remember for many a year. There is a great feud going on just now in the English Church Union. The Conservative members complain bitterly that the president, Mr. Wood, took an active part in the county elections in Yorkshire. Mr. Wood and his friends claim that he had a perfect right to do so. The Union, no doubt, is politically a neutral body, but the members of the Union do not surrender their rights as citizens. They vote, whether for Liberals or Conservatives, as individual electors, not as members of the Union. However, the Conservative party are by no means appeased, and it is not unlikely that the society will witness a large secession. " Reform Tree " in Hyde Park has bad a narrow escape this week. During the frightful gale which visited London on Sunday night, the tree next to the Reform Leaguers' tryst had a large portion sliced off by the wind. "Reform Tree" is of greater girth than the other, but it is very venerable, and, whenever the wind blows strong, Mr. Beaks, M.A., should petition Aolus to "spare that tree." The Echo has at last made its appearance, and a very creditable one it is. The delay which has taken place arose through the difficulty of working the printing machines. They are of French construction, and it became necessary to send for some machine-men in Paris to make the apparatus work. They declined to come unless they were paid a handsome amount per diem, and having been promised this, were in no hurry to complete the job. But at length all difficulties have been surmounted, and the new halfpenny journal is now being thrust upon street passers by an army of boys dressed up in uniform. Clearly the publishers mean to succeed. They have spared no expense in advertising and bringing their paper before the public notice. In this respect they have adopted a very different course from the proprietors of the Morning Summary, which was started about three weeks ago. These neither advertised nor pushed, and the consequence is that the new Conservative organ died in a fortnight. The new Liberal organ will certainly have a longer life than that. Many of your readers will be interested in the play at the meeting of the British Chess Association. The pre liminary meeting, presided over by Lord Lyttelton, was held on the 23rd of November, and since then the play inthe various tournaments has been carried at the various London clubs, and at St. James's Hall. For the grand challenge cup several of the competitors have finished, but as some of the rest have not well begun, it is impossible at present to predict the issue. The clerical competitors, who at one time looked so formidable, have come to grief, without exception. The Rev. G. Owen, of Cheshire, who won six games in succession, followed this feat by losing four, and has no chance of success. The Rev. G. A. Macdonald, one of the strongest amateurs in Europe, has been thrown out of all the tournaments, and so has the Rev. Mr. Newham, a noted provincial. The game between the Rev. G. Owen and the Rev. A. B. Shipworth was a case of Greek against Greek. It lasted thirteen hours, and so exhausted both competitors that neither has won a game since. The highest scorers for the challenge cup at present are Mr. Blackburne, who has won five games and lost none, and Mr. Wisker, of Hull, who has won four and lost one. Sir John Trelawny, who made such a gallant fight when the cup was competed for on the last occasion, has not entered the lists this time, though the association still has his support. The Newcastle amateur, Mr. Duffy, does not play for the cup, but he took part in a consulation game at St. James's Hall, in which the Rev. G. A. Macdonald, Messrs. Duffy and Ewart played against Messrs. Blackburne, Stewart, and Wisker. The latter trio won. On Friday evening there was a match by telegraph between London and Bristol, and a display of blindfold play. Two new clubs are about to be established: one to be called the " Ladies' Club," at Newmau-street, Oxford street, which owes its existence chiefly to the energy of the Countess of Portsmouth ; and the other a debating society for the Inns of Court, similar to the Oxford and Cambridge Unions. I have before now called attention to the absurd rigour of the examinations at London University. This strict ness has been again manifested during the last few days. At the examination for doctor of medicine only seven passed out of fourteen candidates who originally entered their names. This, be it remembered, was not an honours examination, which, of course, may be made as hard as the examiners like, but a pass examination. So, too, with regard to the doctorship of literature ; it is so extravagantly rigorous that not more than two persons hold that degree. Literary news is wonderfully scanty for this usually there is certainly greater weight in the fact that the value of money has so materially declined while the duties of the office have increased that a generous nation is bound to make good the deficiency than in any objection. If a Pre sident declines to entertain visitors of dis- tiuction at Washington the nation that gives him nothing to entertain them with, could not ob ject. It might appear very mean when distin guished Americans met with much hospitality in the highest official quarters abroad, if distinguished foreigners should meet no such return in Washing ton ; but however disgusted Americans would cer tainly be if they observed anything approaching this, if they do not supply the means they have no right to find fault. Indeed we are fully persuaded that the sooner diplomatic and consular pay is in creased, as well as that of the President and Cabi net ➢licisters, the better fur the nation. The whole subject requires revision, and ought to be discussed with the Civil Service Bill of Mr. Jenckes, which, we .are happy to say, is among the great and coming questions of the day. RAILWAY IN7 ELLIGENCE. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.—A prominent official of the Union Pacific Railroad informs us that there is good reason for the belief that the two com panies—now rivals, but soon to be co-operators —the Union and Central Pacific Railroad Com panies, have come to a mutual agreement as to the point where their respective lines of road shall meet and unite. This will be at a point one hundred miles west of the northern extre mity of Salt Lake. This disposes of much of the rivalry of these companies, which has caused unnecessary expenditure in the rapid construc tion of their respective lines ; and now that the point for which so much extra expense was in curred and such unparalleled exertions put forward to beat each other in the race across the Continent, the two companies will work more leisurely and un derstandingly, knowing precisely how many miles of road each has to complete. On the 4th of July next it is intended to hold the grandest railroad celebration ever undertaken on the Continent, or in the world, at this point of meeting. The arrange ments will be on a scale of magnificence commen surate with the importance of the great event it is intended to celebrate.—Chicago Republican. The Massawippi Railroad, which is to fill the gap between the terminus of the Passumpsic Rail road and the Grand Trunk, making a through and all rail route to Quebec, has been put under con tract, and the cars will be running in July, 1870. When open it will add greatly to the business of the Connecticut Valley line, the distance to Quebec being seventy mites shorter than by any other route. The Union Pacific Railroad Company are about to lay out a town at the mouth of the Weber River, 75 miles east of Salt Lake City. THE FIRST GIMENBACK.—Mr. Ellis, of Vine street, Philadelphia, bas in his possession the first green back issued by the Government. It is No. 1, A series, signed in Chase's own hand, and is in a good state of pre servation. It was received the other day in payment for goods by a merchant in this city, who presented it to Mr. Ellis. Mr. Ellis Luis since refused $5O for it. Some curio sity collectors would pay a big price for the first green back, but there are those who would give much more to see the last one. The "first greenback" is handsomely framed. A New York paper suggests as a means of paying the national debt that every office-seeker pay a dcllar a week towards its liquidation until he gets an office. LADVEnnssmENT.l—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revakenta Arabic°, Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 60 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 68,000 cures The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1566. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du 3lidi, July 25 Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agory from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomidaz,.—Maria Joly."—Cure No. 43,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is. lid. • 1 11). 2s. 9(1.; 2 lbs. 45. I.; 5 lbs, lis.; 12 lbs., 225. ; 24 lbs., 40s .— Also Du BARRY's REYALENIA ARARWA CHOCO LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters ; for 12 cups at 25., for 2& cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at es., for 288 cups at 305., for 576 cups at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DO BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-Street, Lon don; and all Grocers and Chemists. bulky gluttony.—The Grocer. the In the Recorder's Court at New OrWang/ other day, a merry-faced and bright-eyed Milesian arraigned for disorderly conduct. The Judge inq ui , r , e 4 very angrily, "if he was not ashamed to be there ?” " my soul I am, yer honour." "You aro in very diSroP"l-4 table company." "I knc w it, yer honour." "I t , if shameful." " Too true," was the penitent rejoinder. I permit you to go this time, will you ever be caught is such company again ?" "Not unless yer honour souV for me," was the reply. A New York paper estimates tint one rfonth': expenditure of money for liquor in the drinking 51.100i14 south of Chambers-street, in that city, would keel) whole population supplied with bread for six months. TEXAS.—According to the Texan newspailerbgo' the question of dividing Texas into three States Wi ll , .; brought up before the Constitutional Convention , wbic' b ' to re-assemble next December. The proposition, W e l l heretofore introduced, it is stated, was rejected by a gli' to 4 majority, and it is reported that several of the dele o r gs is who were previously opposed to the measure are no favour of it. t he The new steamship Maine, belong,ing • North German Lloyd fleet, and commanded by CaPii'dity Von. Oterendorp, arrived at Southampton nu °- : tc. tea morning from Bremen, and sailed hence for Now Y °r " - Tuesday, this being her first ocean voyage. The New York World, in estimating "Thris penses of the late election in that State, says tha t avoid was assessed $50,000 when nominated for G0 11 i5 ., , 3 9 0f $30,000 more for Pennsylvania, and further sums f °1. ,i04. York, making in all hundreds of thousands of c ic) The Union League Club contributed $200,00 0 , ari d tor Morgan a large sum. The total amount raise d /11 Republicans in New York is put at $1,500,00 0 , THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT.—TiIe laVil erB o turned to the new Parliament number exactly a Liu°, The although only about a third are practising barr isterS• ti or list includes the names of 22 Queen's counsel, and 51`c.acto will be added when either Mr. Moncreiff or Ur' '-,06 is returned for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities. of English Independent calculates that in the new 1 1° ' / I , e erOt Q . Commons there are 12 Independents, 5 Baptists, 5 ' . , - ;gl3 l ' 2 Wesleyan Methodists, 1 Calvinistic Methodist, 1.100 tarians, 10 Presbyterians (Nonconforming PresbYtie;o, are probably meant), 6 Jews, and 26 Roman Catht,°"glioll whom 1 only, Sir John Simeon, represents an ''„ 11 , 1 constituency. It is stated that the late elec tor- r iir Dumfriesshire is null and void. An old act a „ v a meut passed in the reign of Queen Anne has bsliro of up which enacts that no person holding the Po s " - i,lott' s a Government contractor can sit in Parliament. hi, Alderman Sir Sydney Waterlow happens to find :, co: in that, under other circumstances, not unpleas%6" ooli" gory. He is a Government contractor, and, as heat else on that day that he was declared duly elected, ti" tion goes for nothing. That matter can, hoWeirer'd be rectified. In the Gazette of next Tuesday, 01 ; rol srl ' ' day week, will appear a notice stating that the 0 . 1 ":0 05 : t interest in the contract has been duly assigned a n sq IP" ferred to AB,orC D, as the case may be. Alle will in due time be issued. eePt Dartmouth College, New liamplaire, 11/0000.1 brato its centennial next July. The :amber s.6,,itary at present is 370, of whom ten are in the agr„tiP 1. department, 48 in the medical, and 51 in th e sex F act" [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.---A-11_401.00 :ea; ties.—Almost all disorders of the human W u .' of tinctly traced to impure blood. The purification flo; fluid is tho first step towards health. Ilelloolfferefoo recommend themselves to the' attention 0f uo„efir no injurious consequences can result from ti l t; inn d be mistake can be made in their administration. a t,o o ty tion, confirmed dyspepsia, and chronic constir st De, Is , most beneficial effects have been, and always T il so 0 1 4 . 0 tainted from the wholesale power exerted bY tu e , ;si os ing pills over the digestion. Persons vrbos e , l ith' by been restored to ease, strength, and perfect be. vbse loway's Pills, after fruitless trial of the Wh °l° copaeia of physic, attest this fact. 0 1a Births. HOARE—On the 10th inst., at 9, St. James's -44u iali . j wife of Henry Hoare, Esq , of a son. IRVINE—On the Bth inst., at . Westbourne, Sasses' the of the Rev. W. H. Irvine, of twin sons. P ls' WYATT—On the 10th inst., at 4, Torrington-etilt'S4' sell-square, the wife of Thomas Henrywyatt, j u of a son. MEADE—JACOB—On t Earl of Clanwillial s°ll4: rn B 9 r t l l77 : bury, the Hon. and 11ev. Sydney Meade, third st'Aiter to Lucy Enuna, second' , i 1 . ,' st , the late J. 11. Jacob, Esq of Th Close, Salsba Prestbury Church, G. B.Wortshti ~ 0 n 4:h instlol/ WORTHINGTON—BROCKLEHURST—On the v.- ,-,, .ow- S►l.oenr 9 Hall, Cheshire, to Marianne, oldest daught.o 1 Brocklehurst, Esq., of Foden Bank., MaClesfield• so tbi Deaths. HARPER—On the 10th inst., at 12, Hyde-park e i' 3.' Lieut.-Colonel George Henry Harper, late 0.. -' aged 64. n re W4ll l MACLEAN—On the 9th inst., at 3, Oxford-sla-: 1 1- Lieut.-General Allan Thomas. Maclean, ColoPe ningtotnhCsqat.,boedfd:fe: af Hussars, aged 77. La rt OREBY—On the 7th inst.,at Nice, very au el Rokeby. , ui to REID—On the Bth inst• at Ralston, Mr• Jones Rolu' Northbury House, Barking, Essex, aged 76. 0 1 ' 4 ' A.N1)14" 11 4 London Printed and P.Colished by WILLIAL. o f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tas SUN 01°3'000 Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, 14. Middlesex —Friday, December 11, 1868.