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

SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times is anxious for us to bear in mind that the new year will not have done many mouths of its weary work before it brings us fresh, and, perhaps, still more painful illustrations of the evils which sit heavily on the public breast, and disquiet the peace of a great nation. But what remedies do we expect it to bring ? At home, at our very doors, there is a widespread conspiracy, the professed objects of which are ridiculous, but which is daily becoming more reckless and more mischievous. That is the evil case in which we begin the yettr at home, and it cannot be forgotten that circum7tances may arise, fro beyond the seas, which may teach us to our cost what it m is to have a divided family. But England hardly know 6 better how to deal with her own industiial difficulties — sometimes even more embarrassing than these fantastic Irish delusions. Our trades unions have lately suffered disgraceful exposures and signal reverses but the spirit remains, and there is not a branch of enterprise that is not endangered by it. Every day brings new proofs of the advance made by our foreign rivals, while our masters are engaged in internecine feuds with their men. For this and similar evils we might look for relief to improved education, amended law, higher commercial morality, and a sounder state of trade. But here are the very tasks which seen: only to grow as we gaze at them, and elude our grasp when we would handle them. He must be a veif sanguine man who expects to see before he dies a national education which, without offending class preju dices and violating religious scruples, shall reach all the children of industry and really prepare them to do their duty in their station of life. Can we expect even an earnest of such a measure this year? For some time past Parliament has been oscillating on the subject, alternating between liberality and cheapness, between progress and accuracy, between insulated efforts and comprehensive results. As to law, the stoutest British spirit must feel itself crushed at the colossal work before it. That we are actually driven into the path that leads to codification only spews the general sense of impossibility that paralyse:, law reformers. Then, we come to what seems even a snore utterly hopelec . s affair, as beyond the reach of all laws and all legislatures. .What is to be done to resuscitate, not commercial credit', A commercial morality? What can be done to close the gambling-houses which a nation sorely addicted to respectable disguises tolerates and encourages under the pretence of legitimate enterprise? The financial management of the immense and complicated companies we have allowed to grow up among us, and to share among them these isles and this metropolis, now passes all con trol, all simplification, all conclusion. They defy remedy as if they were huge natural disasters. Will the year now commenced see even daylight in this junglepf mad specu lation and scarcely questionable management? England has, it is true, taken a new lease of her public life, in the shape of a Reformed House of Commons, which is to be--at once popular, honest, and wise. That hope is for future years. This year we have to complete the great measure, the utmost possible glory of which will be that it reflects the national character, for good and for ill. Perhaps, consolingly urges the Telegraph, we must not expect any improvement in our revenue returns while commercial depression continues, but the most inveterate grumbler will admit that business must revive some day, and with it national prosperity. A very slight circum stance may bring about a revival. An unexpected an nouncement that the Abyssinian war had closed might, by giving a fillip to the languid energies of the nation, at once start us on the road to recovery. Such would unquestionably be the effect of peace on the Continent and a fair prospect of an abundant harvest. We must, further, bear in mind that the dulness of which we com plain is due to a complication of causes. The wants of the world do not cease, though the operations by which they are satisfied may for a season be curtailed, and the industry of civilised Europe will speedily be summoned to put forth renewed exertions. A-revival may take place at an unexpected time and in a most unforeseen way, and our rational revenue will at once benefit by the wholesome impetus. Meanwhile, of course, it is not a nice New Year's gift which Mr. Disraeli has just put on our break fast tables. But, in addition to the vague hope of better things, we may console ourselves with the reflection that we are better off than many of our neighbours. When the tide begins to turn, Great Britain will certainly not be the last to profit by the change. The Herald reminds us that our merchants are conti nually pressing towards new points of departure from the sea to tale great crowded interiors of the East ; and in the long run, impatient as we may be of the process, we de advance. Within living memory our importation of tea amounted to no more than the sixteenth part of an ounce a day to each individual. And so we might run through the category, proving how large the development hat been, but proving also how slight it is in comparison with the practical facilities of the universal market. In Europe ecmmercial treaties are even more difficult to negotiate than in Asia ; but we are carrying our commerce vic toriously into nearly all its harbours, the statistics of which are, on the surface, satisfactory. In reality arc they so ? The Board of Trade return states that " the exports are stated at their declared value, the imports at their computed real value." This, of course, is an utterly fal lacious estimate, because with these declared and com puted values we never really know —never, that is to say, with any practical certainty—what becomes of our mer chandise shipped, whether for foreign countries or the colonies. The fluctuations of those markets consume the profits of the home producer, and this is an active cause of the discrepancy we behold between the nominal immen sity of our commerce and the frequent tremblings of our positive social prosperity. The main figures, grand as they are, suggest a sensation of pride, which the underlying facts in some measure destroy. We are apt to forget that there are panics in the East as in the West, and that we have to deal where the exchanges are not less precarious in their operations than those of Europe. The Stcr confesses that it would face the future, even when it began to brighten, with a most assured thankful ness and serenity if philosophers and legislators had done their best to equalise the vicissitudes of speculation, and to make it at once the obligation and the policy of traders to trade soundly as well as to venture spiritedly. If this were only a moral aspiration our contemporary would not obtrude it in a financial article, but it believes it to be capable of practical fulfilment by commercial legislation, and with facts and figures to prove the existence for nearly two years of panic and stagnation, it is high time the question should be seriously dealt with. People not at all bitten by currency monomania are in clined to: believe that Chancellors of the Exchequer have hitherto viewed commercial crises too exclusively through the gold spectacles of Bank directors. As to our present fiscal condition, we are reduced to the meagre and miserable form of gratitude which confesses that "it might have been worse." Or, in Mr. Gladstone's more graceful language, though absolutely the state of the revenue is discouraging, it is better, relatively to the circumstances we have been passing through, than we could at any former period have expected. The Daily News is highly pleased at the choice which has been made at Eton. It says: In selecting the rev. James John Hornby as Dr. Balston's successor, we believe the Provost and Fellows have shown a wise dis crimination, and have deserved well of the school and of the country. Mr. Hornby was, of course, an Eton boy, and, we may add, a boy distinguished alike in the studies and the games for which Eton is renowned. But he is something more than an Eton man. He has been an active and able tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford ; he d h has been head of a hall at Durham ; ane was until Tuesday second master at \Vinci-ester, where he has done much to give a new life to that fine, but somewhat dry and crusted old public school. It is not perhaps always the most unexceptionable testimony to the merits of any man in publie or in private life to say that all his friends speak well of him. But to have been a popular and dis tinguished Eton boy, and in early manhood a fellow and tutor at two universities, and second master at a public school, and to have earned in all places and capacities, as boy and man, as pupil and as master, the general esteem, seems to indicate a force and superiority of character which may be pronounced scarcely less important, scarcely less indispensable, than those intellectual capacities and attainments, which in this case are certainly not wanting, to the complete fitness of a Head Master of Eton. Mr. Hornby has a great career before him at Eton. We cor dially trust that a renovated Eton may date from his reign. There have been, the Stanlard admits, more blunders than are necessary in the preliminary arrangements of the expedition to Abyssinia. There has certainly been nothing' to discourage us, or to make us lose our faith either in the commander or in the cause. A certain pro portion of loss we must make up our minds to bear, as the inevitable part of the charge of the Abyssinian war. But it is both absurd and useless to call fortune to witness to the dangers of the Abyssinian expedition. Whatever those dangers are, we are bound to undergo them. We lave, and have had from the first, literally no choice. To mil against the war bccAuse of its remoteness and because of iti difficulty, is surely only the part of a foolish and ill conditioned caild. Such as it is we have incurred it, and WO cannot escape from it. Blunders or no blunders, we inn4t go through with it, and the necessity - for it would be neither greater nor less, if the whole army of General Napier perished before it reached Magdala. To the Po st, it is impossible to avoid feeling more or lcs carry a'oout panic which has seized en the public mind as to the designs of Russia in Eastern Eur, - )pe. it would really matter very little what those designs may be, if there are designs, for it is quite clear to all men who know anything of the subject that Russia has no-means whatever of executing any projects of a hostile nature. The truth is that the very idea of a war would be in the last degree distasteful to every man of sane intellect in the Czar's dominions. Russia has nothing to gain by a war, and if she had she could not afford the outlay necessary to accomplish her object, for war is, like most other enter prises of importance in this world, an investment which demands a great deal of capital to be prosecuted success fully. All that we hear about Russia at this moment is mere Petersburg tea-table talk, filtered through a thousand channels of very doubtful purity, till it reaches us consider abiy adulterated and deprived of its original shade of meaning ; still people who indulge in nervous stimulants do strange kkins. THE FENIAN OUTRAGES. On Christmas Day Mr. Superintendent Wrenn re eived informaticn that a man at Dowlais, a large suburb )f Merthyr Tydvil, had had the Fenian oath administered ;o him. On proceeding to Dowlais ho found the man who lad taken the oath, whose name was William Casey, and after some trouble he succeeded in persuading him to give nformation about the organisation in Merthyr. Casey hen gave information as to the person who administered he oath, whose name was Patrick Coffey, 01(03 tlaggerty. The house of this man was searched, nit he was out ; the house was then carefully watched until eleven o'clock that night, when the sounds of men's voices within were heard, and on going up Ur. Wrenn saw about fifteen men inside, with Casey and Doffey amongst them. Coffey was singing a seditious song, - id the company joined in the chorus. After the song had Seen concluded, Coffey took a hammer, and, brandishing t about his head, dared any policeman to attack him, on aain of being brained on the spot. At that moment the police burst into the room, and captured Coffey and Casey, the others flying through the back door. Casey 'laving turned informer, the other prisoner, Coffey, wets brought before the stipendiary justice, Mr. Fowler, on the following day, and e :dense having been given to the satisfaction of the magistrates, he was committed for trial at the next assizes on the charge of administering an snlawful oath to one of the Queen's subjects. After his committal there was an unmistakeable expression of Fenian feeling in the court, and such threats were uttered against Casey that the magistrate deemed it necessary for his safety to offer him the asylum of Cardiff gaol, which he accepted. Since then the town (especially the Irish quarter) has been in a state of excitement, and all sorts of reports obtained belief for a time. During Monday night eight Fenians were captured at Dowlais, and amongst them were a head centre and two captains. * Their names are Patrict Doran, head centre of the Dowlais district, or circle ; Thomas Reardon, captain ; William Holland, captain ; Patrick Casey, Robert Barrett, John Marral, Mark Farley, and Patrick Ryan. The prisoners were arrested, some at their places in the Dowlais Iron works, and others at their houses, where they were found in bed. On Tuesday morning the whole of the prisoners, whose ages ranged from 24 to 30, and who were all appa rently men from the ironworks, were brought up before Mr.' J. C. Fowler, at the police-court, charged with treason-felony. The chief constable, Colonel Lindsay, was present, and Superintendent Wrenn prosecuted. The prisoners were not defended by any attorney. They were remanded until Monday next. Farley said it was a great hardship to confine him—an innocent man—for a whole week.—Mr. Fowler : If you are innocent it will no doubt be a hardship; but for the present I have nothing to do but discharge my duty, and it has been sworn to that evidence will be forthcoming to justify your remand. The prisoners were then removed from the dock, and conveyed by the next train to Cardiff gaol. As soon as the news got abroad in the town great numbers of the tradesmen and middle-clans inhabitants repaired to the police-court, and were sworn in as special constables. At the Surrey Sessions - house, yesterday, an ex tremely numerous and influential meeting of the magis trates of that county was held, and on the motion of the Duke of Northumberland, seconded by the Hon. W. Brodrick, a resolution was passed expressive of the indig_ nation of the court at the recent Fenian outrages, and of its conviction that the most severe and active measures are necessary to suppress a conspiracy which menaces the very existence of society. No further light has been thrown upon the raid at Fota. It now appears that the ladder in this as in many other towers is a permanent fixture, and was therefore down, although the original intention was that such ladders should be drawn up each evening. It is supposed that the leader of the party on Thursday night was Captain Mackay, an Irish-American, who was tried and acquitted at the Irish Special Commission in 1565, and who after wards, as second in command, took part in the attack on Ballyknockane Police-station in March last. 'the extra military force has been recalled, and only five men left in charge of the tower. On Friday night a gentleman who was driving to Queenstown about midnight met two men closely muffled, who came out of a field as he approached and asked the way to Carington-hill. He pointed out the road to them, and they proceeded in the direction as rapidly as possible. The story told recently by the captain of a vessel ca flaring seen boats pulling out from Cork Harbour to sea, carrying water-casks and bread-bags, and of these boats having been pursued by a man-of-war boat, is taken to be mythical. On the night of the alleged occurrence there was a furious gale blowing from the south-west, in the teeth of which, and the sea it raised, laden boats such as those of the supposed privateer could not live, and a man of-war launch or long-boat could not move. LAW AND POLICE. --- EI4II3EZZLEMENT.—TII7.I. CASES.—Tnrce very painful' eases of theft or embezzlement have come befor.: the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. In one, a con. fidential clerk to a firm of insurance brokers for eleven years, was charged with embezzlement to a large amount ; in the second, a copying clerk, nearly 50 years of age, was sent to a bank to cash a cheque, and absconded with the money ; and in the third, a youth of 20, a clerk in the London and County Bank, abstracted £5 from a sum paid in by a depositor. The two latter were committed for trial, and the first remanded. THE HON. MRS. 'WINDHAM SUMMONED FOR A CAE FARE.—At the Marylebone Police-court the Hon. Mrs. Windham was summoned before Mr. D'Eyncourt fot the sum of 2s. cab fan. She did not, however, answer to her name. The cabdriver said that after driving the lady about.for a long time, be charged her 12s. She refused to pay more than Bs. Complainant offered to take 10s., but afterwards took Bs., saying he would summon her for the remaining 2s. Mr. D'Eyncourt ordered the 2s. to be paid, and awarded the complainant 7s. costs. 'WOUNDED WITH A PISTOL.— Edmund Prest, a youth, was charged at Manchester with shooting at and wounding a boy named George Agnew. It appeared that on Satur day morning the boy was passing along Slade-lane, Prest wich, upon a pony. The prisoner, who was shooting at birds with a pistol, fired, the small shot with which the pistol was loaded lodging in the boy's leg and in the side of the pony. Mr. Mellor, to whom the pony belonged, stated that a number of pellets had been taken out of the boy's leg and the pony's side, but neither appeared to be much the worse, and he hoped the bench would deal leni ently with the prisoner. The magistrates cautioned Prest, and gave effect to Mr. Mellor's wish by fining him 10s. and costs only, with the alternative of a month's imprison. ment. ASSAULT BY A SURGEON.=-- At Walsall, on Monday, Alfred Freeman, surgeon, was charged with having as saulted a boy, aged 10 years, named John Bowring. It appeared that some lads had rung the defendant's door bell, and that he came out, and finding the complainant — who, with anotherboy, had been for some milk—and, sus pecting he was the party who had committed the offence, knocked him down, kicked him, and knocked one of his teeth out. The bench ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 40s. and costs. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT PILL. —Edward Hicks and Thomas Bryant Lave been aga,ir examined before Colonel Burrowes, on a charge of being concerned in shooting a policeman named Ogborne at Pill on the 14th ult. It will be remembered that on the morning in question the injured constable, who is scarcel3 able to walk, was en his beat on St. George's-common, near Pill, when he saw two men in front of him with their peck is very much stuffed out. He hastened after them, and had nearly overtaken them, when one of them dropped something. He found on examination t . nat 1 , was a number of fowls, dead, but still warm. He tried to seize the man nearest him, but fell in the attempt, the man being too far off. On recovering himself the mar turned round and fired a pistol at , him, and the contents lodged in the groin. The constable swore positively to the, identity of Hicks as the person who shot him, but could not speak so surely as to the prisoner Bryant as the com panion of Hicks, he (witness) having been unable to get close enough to him. Evidence was adduced chewing that the men had been in the neighbourhood about the tinie of the occurrence, and that some shot which had been ex tracted from Ogborne's wound corresponded with some that were found in a box belonging to Hicks. Both men denied the charge, and declared that they were unknown to each other, but they were both committed for trial. It is stated that it will be several weeks before Ogborne will be able to resume his duties. THE LONDON WATER S UPPLY. —Professor Frank lan d reports :—" The results of the analysis of the Kent Corn pony's water colleted this month at Bromley skew that ii is of an entirely different character from that delivered.by the same company at Deptford. Not only is the previous sewage contamination of the Bromley water very high,but the presence of a large amount of ammonia shews the con tamination to have occurred very shortly before the water was delivered to consumers. The use of this water for domestic purposes is very undesirable." A GOOD IDEA. —A contemporary says it is intended to instruct the large population of Stratford in the most prominent questions of the day by means of a course of four political lectures. The first, on January 20, is by Mr. Anthony Trollope, the well-known writer, on " Politics as a Study for Common People." Sir Fowell Buxton, M.P., will occupy the chair. The other three lectures on the Mondays following are by Mr. Mason Jones on " Work for the New Parliament ;" by Mr. Joseph Bormond on " The Ballot ;" and by Mr. Caryel.. Williams on ".The Irish Church." FINANCIAL EVENTS OF THE .YEAR. Subjoined is a summary of the principal finan cifil, commercial, and other events of the year 1867 : .JANUARY. Ist, Consols 90. Bank of England bullion £19,247,859 ; Bank of France, ditto, £28,580,000. 7th. Resolution in Congress for impeachment of President Johnson ; subsequently abandoned. Re suscitation of the Agra Bank. 14th. News of great fire at Yokohama, Japan ; less £500,000, of which £163,000 was insured in London. 17th. Chilian loan of £2,000,000 6 per cent. stock issued by Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co., ;I t price equivalent to 811, secured by mortgage on the Customs ; Flyable in instalments extending to November. Total applications 17 millions. FEBRUARY. sth. Opening of Parliament by the Queen in person. 7th. Bank discount reduced from 31 to 3 per cent. 11th. Fenian plot at Chester to seize the Castle discovered and frustrated. 14th. Fenian riots in the south of Ireland. 18th. Queensland Loan of £550,000 in Six per Cent. Debentures, announced at 91. 19th. Danubian 8 percent. loan for £1,264,420, announced by Fruhliug and Goschen at 71 (or reck oning allowances 684), secured by certain State domains and Customs' dues. MARcll. 2d.—Subscriptions invited for £250,000 deben- tures of the Ceylon Government. at 108, redeem able at par in 15 years ; only £90,000 was sub scribed, and the balance was withdrawn until the 30th of November, when £lOO,OOO was offered and subscribed at £lOB 13s. 6d. 25th.—Strike of engine-drivers on Brighton Rail way ; terminated on the following day. APRIL. 4th.—Budget introduced by Mr. Disraeli. Sur plus for past year, £2,654,162 ; estimated re venue for current year, £69,340,000 ; expenditure, £68,134,000, showing surplus of 21,206,000. Pro posal to cancel 24 millions of debt held by Savings banks' Commissioners by granting an annuity of £1,776,000 for 18 years, the extra annual expense of which will be £1,056,000, although the increase for 1867-8 will be only £750,000. Also, proposal to reduce marine insurance duties to uniform rate of 3d. per cent., absorbing £210,000, and thus bring ing surplus down to £246,000. sth—Expiry of annuity from Government to the Bank of £585,740, granted in 1823 for 41 years, and commonly called the " dead weight." 6th.—Fall of 2 per cent. in the French funds on apprehension of war with Germany on the Luxem burg question. Three per Cent. Rentes, 66. Bth.—Panic on the London Stock-Exchange from apprehension of war between France and Germany. Consols, 898. Despatch of two ironclads in Gib- raltar in relation to the question of the capture of the Victoria, which was shortly afterwards satis factorily settled by the Spanish Government. 20th.—Improvement in the Stock-markets by re moval of apprehensions of war between France and Prussia—a Conference on the Luxemburg question having been agreed to at the instance of the neutral Powers. 30th.—During the whole of this month, and mostly through the rein:tinder of this year, con tinued and extreme depression characterised the railway market, owing to adverse disclosures re garding the financial position of the Brighton and subsequently of the Caledonian. MAY. 11th.—Treaty between France, Prussia, and the other leading Powers for the neutralisation of Lux emburg signed in London. 13th.—New South Wales Five per Cent. Loan for £832,000, subscribed at 851. 30th.—Bank of England rate reduced to 21 per cent. 31st.--Bank of France rate reduced . to 21 per cent. During this month a rally of 5 per cent. was esta blished in Consols. JUNE. 6th.-- Attempt at Paris to assassinate the Em peror of Russia. Sth.—Russian Loan of £2,000,000 in 5 per cent. guaranteed bonds of the Oriel and Vitebsk Railway, at 77i, introduced by Messrs. Thomson, Bonar, and Co. 11th.--Bill introduced in the Spanish Cortes for settlement of the Passive Debt. The terms pro posed practically involved confiscation, and excited great dissatisfaction on the part of the bishops. The Government, however, declined every appeal for less inequitable conditions. 19th.—Disclosures before the Sheffield Trades' Union Commission of a series of assassinations and other crimes during a period of ten years by Broad head, secretary of the Sawgrinders' Union, and trea surer of the National Organisation of Trades' Unions, numbering 60,000 members. 28th.—Chilian 7 per Cent. Loan for £1,120,920. introduced by J. S. Morgan and Co., at 89i, reck oning allowances. JULY. 2d.—Receiver in Chancery appointed for Great Eastern Railway. 3d.—News of the execution of the Emperor Maximilian at Queretaro in Mexico on the 19th of June. 12th.—Arrival of the Sultan of Turkey. 18.—Fete to the Sultan by the Corporation of London. 23d.—Departure of the Sultan. 25th.—Bank rate reduced to 2 per cent. AUGUST. 3d.—Russian Four per Cent. Railway Loan of £12,000,000 nominal capital, introduced by Messrs. Baring, in £2O obligations at 45., but without obtaining any material subscriptions. 15th.—Judgment delivered in the House of Lords against appeal of shareholders in Overend, Gurney (Limited), to escape liability. 21st.—Parliament prorogued. 27th.—Temporary opening of the Mont Cenis Summit Railway. 28th.—Tenders received by the Government for steamers for war against Abyssinia. SEPTEMBER. 4th.—Telegram of release of Abyssinian captives ; subsequently contradicted. 18th.—Bank bullion £24,493,447, the highest point ever touched. 25th.—News from Florence of the arrest of Gen. Garibaldi and partial recovery in Italian Stock, which had been seriously affected by anticipations of a filibustering attack on Rome ; Garibaldi was conveyed to the it , land of Caprera, whence be shortly afterwards escaped at night in a boat. OCTOBER. 2d.—Panic on the Paris Bourse from various causes—apprehension of war, the Garibaldian move ment at Rome, the forced liquidation of the Credit Mobilier Company, &c. 18th.—Great heaviness on the Stock Exchange from apprehension of re-occupation of Rome by the French army ; Italian Five per Cents. down to 428. 21st.—News of defeat of Garibaldians in the Roman States, and resignation of Senor Rattazzi, followed by the appointment of General Cialdini as the head of a new Italian Cabinet. Sailing of French squadron for Rome countermanded. Stop page of the Royal Bank of Liverpool, with liabilities for £1,650,000. 24th.--Failure of General Cialdini to form a Cabinet at Florence, and nomination of General Men abrea. 25th.—News of stoppage of the Commercial Bank of Canada. 28th.—Capture of Monte Rotondo by Garibaldi. French expedition to Civita Vecchia. NOVEMBER. Ist.—Allen and four other Fenians found guilty at Manchester of murder and sentenced to death ; one was subsequently pardoned, and one respited ; the remaining three, Allen, Gould, and Llrkin, were executed on the 23d. Entry of French troops into Rome, followed by advance of Italian troops across the Papal frontier. Cyclone at Calcutta, and loss of 1,000 lives. 4ila.—Gttribaldi defeated at Monte Rotondo 17 the Papal and French troops, and sut,sequently re arrested by the Italian authorities. 7th.—News of the loss of the RF.one and three other steamers of the Royal Mail Company from a hurricane at St. Thomas on the 29 4 th of October. Bth.—Colliery explosion at Rho Adda Valley, near Cardiff, and loss of 178 lives. 9th.—Honduras 10 per cent. railway loan at 80, redeemable at par in 17 years by annual sinking fund of 3 per cent., and secused by mahogany forests and other domains, introduced by London and County Rink and Messrs. Bischoffsheim an 4 Co. 15:h.—Telegram from New York of submersion of Island of Tortola, and loss of 10,000 lives ; sub sequently contradicted, the damage having con sisted of disasters from a hurricane, and the loss of from 300 to 500 lives. 18th.—Opening of French Chambers with pacific speech by the Emperor. Egyptian Nine per Cent. Loan for £2,009,200, introdaced at 90, by Imperial Ottoman Bank and Oppenheim and Co. Earth quake at St. Thomas. 19th.—Opening of Parliament. 3Z - ew Zealand Six per Cent. Debentures for £470,000 subscribed at 1041. 26th.—Vote of £2,000,000 taken by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on account of the Abys sinian Expedition. Addition of ld. to the Income tax. 30th.—Ceylon Six per Cent. Debentures for £lOO,OOO, subscribed at £lOB, 13s. 61, redeemable at par in 16 years. DECEMBER. sth.—Nova Scotia Six per Cent. Bonds for £125,000 subscribed at par. 6th.-13 , irning of her Majesty's Theatre. 10th.—South Australian Government Six per Cent. Bonds for £140,500 subscribed by tender, at and above £lO7 3s. 13th.--Incendiary Fenian explosion at Clerken well Prison ; five persons killed, and 40 or 50 wounded. 12th.—Portuguese Three per Cent. Loan of £5,500,000 Stock, introduced by Messrs. Stern, Brothers, at 38f (or 361 reckoning allowanceo, of which £3,750,000 was offered for subscription. 23d.—Ministerial crisis at Florence, from defeat of the Menabra Ministry by a majority of two. 26th.—Bank of France bullion, £40,600,000, the highest point ever touched ; Bank of England bul lion, £21,941,047. 28th.—Explosion of a powder-mill at Faversham and loss of 11 lives. 300.—Consols, 918 ; great anxiety regarding Continental politics. FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. ---~ - - (From Le Follet.) There have been many modifications in the style of the short costume during the last few weeks ; and as so very much of its gracefulness depends on the arrangement of the two skirts, we will endeavour to give our readers an idea of the most usual and truly Parisian make. The under skirt, though short, is not very short; generally either red, violet, or black, and is plaited round the bottom. The upper skirt, which is most frequently black, should be cut moderately trained at the back, and so looped up as to be perfectly flat at the front and the sides ; whilst the back, being set in at the waist in large plaits, is quite bouffant. Four buttons are used for the looping up, two at the sides and two at the back, those at the sides being so placed as to stretch the front breadth quite plain. This skirt of course is considerably shorter than the under- skirt. Fur is still much in favour. It is profusely em ployed as trimming. There are various ways of arranging it. For taffetas, cloth, or velvet dresses, a double row placed up each side of the front breadth is a very suitable style, a single band being put round the cuffs and arm-holes. The paletots of medium length have a square collar bordered with fur. We have heard the question asked whether a low body wrs considered indispensable for dinner-dress. Without doubt it is so in Paris for all ceremonious dinners, so that it is quite customary for Parisians to have two bodies made to their silk, satin, more antique, or velvet dresses. Thin material is re served for young girls or very young married ladies. Last year black toilettes obtained an immense success—they were worn even at balls ; and our ladies of fashion appear to have no desire to give them up, so that it is expected many ball dresses will be seen made of black lace. Rich plain or broche silks will be also worn this winter ; buz, young girls should never wear anything but light vaporous ma terial for ball toilettes. The rage for gold trimming is as great as ever. Velvet spotted with gold, as well as velvet embroi dered with coloured silk, is in vogue for grand toi lette. For at-home dress, eachemere, poplin, and velveteen are much worn. Our list of dresses commences with one of claret coloured velvet. Short skirt over a satin skirt of the same shade, forming a train in large plaits. The bottom of the upper skirt is bordered with narrow sable, headed with five rows of narrow satin, match ing the dress. Robe of golden brown poplin, trimmed with a bias of the material, striped with satin pipings of the same shade. A similar piping is placed round the arm-holes, bottom of the sleeves, pockets, and waistband, through which is passed at the back twc scarf ends of satin. Very small satin bows are put on this piping, with a short space left between them. Small round paletot, trimmed with a square collar to match. A costume "Marie Antoinette" of violet satin, raised by bands of velvet of the same colour. The upper skirt of poult de soie to match, shortened at the hips by bouffauts of satin, the back forming a tunic. The body trimmed with satin ; tight sleeves, with satin epaulettes and cuffs. The paletot man telet, fastened at the back of the skirt in the style of that time. A costume " linperatrice" of white poplin, cut in points, falling over a baud of ruby-coloured satin. Upper skirt of ruby satin, raised a l'antique by braces, which pass over the shoulders and fall i❑ long ends on to the skirt, where they are fastened under the bows and ends with which the skirt is raised. A visiting dress of brown satin, trimmed with a bias fold of the same colour, raised in front over a skirt of black velvet, worked with steel beads. A "Psyche" band fastened at the side. Iligh body with revers cross in front. A dress of faille with double skirt, the upper one raised in the style " Louis XV." by a rich agrafe of velvet to match the colour of the dress, em broidered and fringed with gold or steel. The body high and round at the waist ; tight sleeves. The whole embroidered to match the ornaments on the skirt. Morning walking-dress. Skirt of black or violet silk, plaited ; dress of black faye, raised as de scribed at the beginning of this article ; a trimming of jet at the pockets and on the body only, consist ing of a galon worked with bright beads, and a fringe about four inches wide. The sash is very wide, and fastened at the back with rings of jet. Short polonaise, trimmed with Astracan. Black velvet bonnet and Astracau muff. Robe of rich black serge, each breadth trimmed with jets. The pockets covered with jet fringes, and the band of the polonaise made of white ribbon, embroidered with jet. The polonaise is of black Chantilly, lined with black satin. Robe of golden brown taffetas, trimmed round the bottom with a grecque of satin of the same shade. Polonaise, without sleeves, of golden brown velvet, trimmed all round the bottom and up the fronts with a satin grecque of a smaller size. Band of satin fastened at the side with a small bow. The sleeve of taffetas is open and hanging, and trimmed also with a small grecque. A very pretty and simple dinner-dress may be made of silver-grey foulard. Low body, opening over a stomacher with narrow revers of pink silk, the edge trimmed with a triple row of very narrow moss fringe, which has a charming effect. The skirt, long and plain at the back, has the front breadth trimmed with narrow robings of pink silk, edged like those on the body, and sigraouhted by three narrow pink galons. A wide scarf of pink silk tied loosely round the waist completes this toilette. Another of foulard, extra quality, the ground white, covered with pink spots and small bunches of light flowers shaded. The skirt is long, trimmed with a flounce of white taffetas, edged and sur. mounted by rouleaux of shaded pink silk. The low body, cut square, is t rimmed to match. Fichu " Marie Antoinette" of black lace, fastened behind with rings of gold. A white satin dress, the skirt very full and long, trimmed with a band of grebe placed quite at the edge ; a second band of the same trimming placed half-way up, so as to resemble a double skirt. Low body, with long hanging sleeves trimmed to match. This dress is equally pr,tty in coloured satin, but the trimming should then be of swan's down—grebe looks better on black or white. Fur toilette de bal, a green crape over white satin trimmed with steel-coloured leaves, the body trimmed with lacy; and leaves to match those on the skirt. Another of white tulle with seven flounces, one falling over the other, the edges trimmed with silver lace. Over this tulle skirt a second of satin flamme de Vesuve. The body low and square, and trimmed with silver lace. A skirt of poult de soie, pale green, with a long train, the bottom trimmed with a light bouillonne of white crape dotted with small bows of fine gold. cord and tassels. Over this a second skirt of white crape, spotted with gold and edged with gold fringe, drawn up on one side with a gold cord and tassels, and on the other with a scarf of green silk fringed with gold. The body is made with a narrow corse let of green silk edged with gold cord ; it is laced in front with a gold cord, the tassels of which fall over the points in front of the waist. This cotEelet is cotnpleled by a bouillonne of white crape, fastened round the shoulders and half down with gold cords. Full bouffantes sleeves. The coiffure to this elegant dress consists of a plait of green velvet and gold cord, raised a little in front to form a diadem ; it is then twisted round the chignon and falls over the shoulders, end ing in a fringe of gold. A gold butterfly, the body of emeralds, eompletes this head-dress. Dress of blue crape spotted with silver, over a skirt of white crape. TaLlier covered with bows of pink satin and pale pink roses, placed at unequal distance. Low body, trimmed round the shoulders with a bouillon of crape, on which are placed small bows of satin and tiny roses. The bonnets, although still worn so small, are made warmer and more comfortable by means of the crossway strings of velvet or satin, lined, and generally edged with lace. The " Duchesse" is much admired, and is certainly a very becom - ing head-dres3. Thus, a chapeau " Duchesse " of black velvet, trimmed with a wreath, or rather ruche, of lace, with a diadem of jet flowers ; at the side an aigrette of gold and steel. Wide strings of crossway velvet, lined with white satin and edged with lace. Or the same bunnet is grey velvet, trimmed with a ruche of blonde, and bandeau of gold and steel with hanging ornaments of steel. Strings of cross way satin, fastened by a bow of the same formed of ends. At the back a bow to match, with two long ends of satin edged with blonde. A " Marie Antoinette" of violet velvet, edged with small feathers the same colour and agrafes of gold and steel ; this trimming is carried down the strings, which are of crossway velvet and fastened with a bow of the same. Another, of ruby velvet, was trimmed with folds and rosettes of the same coloured satin all round the edge, with gold banging ornaments. Across the back a band of curled feathers forming a curtain over - the chignon and carried down the strings, which are ruby velvet lined with white satin, fas tened under the chin by a bow of velvet. A very comfortable and, at the same time, elegant bonnet may be made of black or coloured velvet, the front plaited, and edged with a wreath of small feathers to match the velvet, on which are placed small jet leaves. Soft full crown of black lace, over which falls a rich lace forming a mantille, fas tened over the satin. strings by a satin bow. For visits of ceremony, a vety charming bonnet was of white royal, trimmed with rouleaux of white satin and a fringe of marabouts. B Mean of steel and gold, and strings of white satin edged with blonde, fastened by a rich brooch. Bonnet of maroon velvet, piped with satin the same colour; small mantilla of black lace, fastened to a band of velvet piped with satin, which forms the strings; at the top a bow of velvet formed of ends. A ruche of lace forming a diadem, separated by a band of gold and steel. At the side a bouquet of small white flowers. A fanchon of bright black feathers ; strings of the same. At the side a bouquet of gold wheat ears, and a scarf of Chantilly, forming a veil at the back, and fastened under the chin. JOHN FRANCIS MAGUIRE. M.P., ON THE IRISH IN AMERICA. Our remarks on what Mr. John Francis Maguire, M.P., has published are not based on his book, which we have not yet seen, but on the review of it which appeared in the Times last Wednesday. What the Irish are in America is better known to every American than it can possibly be to Mr. Maguire ; and it is not likely that his eulogy of his country men will do more than amuse them, though it be coupled with the detraction of the native American character. What we are interested in, is the strength and object of the Fenians, and on this subject Mr. Maguire is an authority. He asserts that persons of all ranks have joined the order. Everywhere he speaks of the end to be attained as a great objet(, and he writes of many of the Fenians as desperate men who took part in the war, and have become so familiarised with death as to contemplate the pos sible loss of life with the utmost indifference. That they are desperate men has been proved by their acts—that they are so ready to meet death, has been shown, as is often the case, to be mere bravado. Take, for instance, Massey when arrested—contrast the scene in the court at Manchester and that on the scaffold there. However desperate, it will be found that there is often a wide discrepancy between talk and acts, and generally those who know that the most likely end of their en terprise is the gallows will shrink from putting their necks in the halter. Mr. Maguire tells us that Irish children born in America are fed on the sor rows, the wrongs, the ancient glories, the future hopes of Ireland, the most acceptable themes for these exiles—a training that may have a fascina tion for them, but which can neither be profitable nor agreeable to the American people. These chil dren are taught to nourish wrongs of which they:see no trace and can little comprehend, and their igno rance about the true state of Ireland is shown, we understand, even in these pages, where a man is de scribed as being about to declaim on a grievance abolished generations back, and who only expressed disgust when informed of this by the author. The Fenian leaders consider as a blow to their c ruse every abuse rectified, every wrong corrected, and these are the words of Mr. Maguire :--" They pre fer that the admitted causes of Irish discontent should not be removed ; for they naturally argue.— If our hopes of regenerating Ireland be based upon revolution, it is better for our purpose that the various causes and sources of discontent. and disaffection should be allowed to exist, and by their prolonged existence irritate and gall the public mind more and more, and thus keep the people in a condition most favourable to revolutionary teaching. Let the sources of discontent be dried up, the causes of anger and irritation be removed, and what can be hoped for then ?' If half a dozen new grievances could be improvised to-morrow, their announcement would be hailed with gle.dness by those who desire to keep alive the Fenian organisation, and impart a more vengeful spirit to theleeling against England, A grievance redressed is a weapon broken." It is important to obtain such testimony from such a source, for both England and America ought to understand the position. We believe it to be of the highest importance that the objects and inten tions of Fenianism should be distinctly known by both nations as well as by the Irish people. It is then 4yglyed that the intention is not to right ire land as O'Connell desired, but to erect the island into a republic, dividing the lands of the present possessors among the regenerators. The Fenians are aware that the only chance for such a scheme is to involve the United States in a war with the United Kingdom. This, therefore, is the object to which all their efforts are bent. Mr. Maguire asserts that the public opinion of the United States affords its sanction "to the con victions of the Irish in America, and a moral if not an active support to efforts unfriendly, and even hostile, to England." He adds " There are not many journals there which are not, to a certain extent, under the control or influence of Irishmen." To be an Irishman, according to him, is to be a person imbued with a fanatical hat red of England. " America will help us," is the bur den of their cry, and when the war he predicts breaks out, " with a bound and a shriek of exultation, the Irish would rush to meet their enemy. . . . To revenge, if so they could, the wrongs inflicted by monarchs, and soldiers, and statesmen, by confisca tion and by massacres, by penal laws and evil policy." He ought to have added, " and to aban don every advantage in the land of their adoption to wreak their vengeance on the grandchildren of those who a century ago injured their fore fathers." The reviewer treats with contempt the idea of the American people being led or dragged into a war with England by Irish firebrands, add ing, " If ever we have a difference with the United States, it will not be produced by Irishmen." Now, this is the point on which we desire not to be mis understood. Earnestly, emphatically, we assert, the ceaseless danger of Fenian success in this,which can be guarded against only by the exertions of influential men on both sides of the ocean. In America a political hostility has long and success fully been established, which has, in its turn, given rise to a dislike of Americans in England. When Mr. Chandler and Mr. Robinson bring for ward their Fenian motions in Congress, they may be sneered at by native Americans, but they here produce the effect they intend. What they state is read far and wide, the English papers giving to their propositions a publicity which might lead to the supposition that they were, in the inte rests of the Fenians, creating among the British people a strong belief in American hostility. No nation can find itself the object of a never-ending animosity without a feeling of repugnance growing up towards those who express such hatred. The Irish-Americans contrive to keep alive the idea in England that America is to it a hostile country. Be lieving this, many Englishmen would gladly have seen the disruption threatened by the civil war ac complished, and the expression of this feeling has been seized on by the very people who created it to generate among native Americans a reciprocal pre judice. Calumnies have been freely circulated against England throughout the United States, and every measure resorted to that could foster the baneful influence among the citizens of the Repub lic. Proclaiming aloud that Fenianism is an Ame rican conspiracy, the leaders carry out diabolical plots throughout England, making a street in the metropolis the scene of an atrocious outrage. What possible good could result from the Clerken well affair, or from the many attempts at arson ? Why this:--a bitter hatred may be excited against the source whence emanate these secret thrusts at the life and property of the inhabitants of England. if both peoples can only be brought up to the proper spirit of irritation against each other then the Fenians have but to wait. The spark will soon be struck to kindle the blaze, or, should they be im patient, a raid into Canada will be sufficient. Mr. Maguire appears to exult in the prospect of this contest, so says the reviewer, who gives the follow ing extract :—" Were the American Government so forgetful of international obligation as to close their eyes as to what might be going on, and allow a fortnight, or a month, to pass without any active interference ; and were their unwillingness to act a matter thoroughly understood,—in such a case the frontiers of Canada would be passed with a rush—and then ?—why, God knows what then. A rupture with England—to cease when ? Is it after a long and terrible or sharp and wicked con test, which would end with the realisation of the American idea of the natural boundaries of the United States at the other side of the St. Lawrence and the lakes, and from Labrador to the Pacific? The future is in the hands of Providence." The 'Times prefers not to speculate on such events, and cannot see what good purpose Mr. Maguire imagines he is serving by putting forth the statements con tained in his 30th chapter. We entirely differ from the reviewer, for we consider that these are the statements which should receive the widest publicity both in America and in Eng land. It is not by shutting the eyes that the dangers can be averted, but, on the contrary, by opening them wide. If both nations are aware of the Fenian plot, and clearly signify their intention not to cut each other's throats for the gratification of Fenian spite, with the object the Fenian outrages in England will cease. The United States could gain nothing by a war with Great Britain. Americans firmly believe that the North American possessions of England will, in time, of their own accord, enter the Union, and if England regarded America as a steadfast ally, instead of an avowed foe, she would consider that the sooner this happened the better. But it will be an evil day for the United States when Canada is coerced into the Union, and how such a conquest could compensate Ireland for her centuries of misrule, we are at a loss to understand. If the Fenians could have their way, the country North of the St. Lawrence would be desolated as was the country South of thePotomac,and the Northern States would have on both borders, conquered territories of fellow citizens who hated them. This would be the result of a successful war, and the wider it is known and thoughtfully considered, the less chance the Irish-Americans will have of bringing on the coun try in which they have received so generous a wel come, this fatal calamity. Mr. Maguire affects to believe that a war with England would not be un popular—" because it would most effectually solve the Southern difficulty." This is an Irish means of curing one evil by adding another, and then it will not be one, for it will be two. To balance the Southern discontent, create a similar discontent in the North. Settle the question between the freed men and the whites by treading the Canadians under feet. Mr. Maguire is a member of Parlia ment, and we have no doubt that the Assembly to which he belongs will be proud of the legislative wisdom he displays, which, we may add, is in keep ing with his patriotism. It is a pity such sagacity should not have been brought to bear on the financial perplexities of the United States. We have little doubt that the Fenian argument for a war with England might be further strengthened by the assertion that one of its first effeets would be to abolish the Public Debt. Indeed a war with England would be i panacea for all evils, whether financial or political, Irish, Cana dian, or Southern !—Anglo-American Times. AMERICAN GOMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From Messrs. L. P. Morton and Co.'s Circular). NEW YORK, Dec. 11. Since our last advices monetary affairs have remained in an unsettled condition. The largo curtailment of the volume of Government currency during the year has not only produced a limitation of the loanable resources of the banks, but has also induced an extreme caution, repressive of discounting o, orations, the result of which has been ap parent in a succession of heavy failures. The stringency thus induced has been aggravated by the withdrawal of about $15,000,000 of currency into the Treasury, during November, through sales of bonds and coin. The uneasiness arising from these causes is, at present, partially allayed by indications that the contraction of the currency will be temporarily, at least, 'suspended. The sentiment of the country predominates strongly against the continuance of this policy ; the House of Representa tives has voted by a large majority against it; the Senate is understood to sympathise with the action of the House ; while the Secretary of the Treasury has forborne making the authorised monthly contraction for November. These symptoms have produced a feeling of relief in credit ope• rations; and although the deranging effects of past con traction must continue for some time, yet a freer move ment in financial and trading operations may be expected to date from this change of policy. The financial schemes introduced in Congress have been so conflicting that it is impossible to_ forecast, as yet, tie pr9bAl4e 9ograo of ing,islAtion upon questions of debt , and currency. In view of the Presidential electio of 1868 both political parties are indisposed to incur the responsibility of any distinctive financial policy; and for this reason extreme measures find no favour in Congress. It appears to be felt that the sentiment of the cauntry de mands that something be done to arrest the consequences of contraction, on the one hand, and to prepare the way for the permanent settlement of the finances and the recovery of the specie basis on the other ; and in spite of leanings toward inflation in the House, it may apparently be concluded that the course of legislation will be regulated with a primary regard to these considerations. It will be observed, on consulting the annexed abstract of the Report on the Finances, that the Secretary of the Treasury sug gests the issue of a six per cent. loan, interest and prin cipal payable in coin, and subject to a deduction of one sixth of the interest for the purposes of State and local taxation. Tho proposal has met with little public favour and perhaps is not at all likely to be ultimately adopted. In correction, however, of an impression that it is proposed to make a compulsory substitution of these bonds for Five- Twenties, it may be proper to state that it is tho idea of the Secretary to make the exchange optional. The statement of the public debt, for December 1, 1867, shows an increase in the net indebtedness of the Govern ment, during the past month, of $9,701,301. This un usual result is due to the large disbursement of interest during the month, concurrently with somewhat 'limited receipts from internal revenue. The statement shows rapid progress in the funding of the three years obliga tions of the Treasury, $49,000,000 of Seven-Thirty Notes having been converted into Five-Twenty Bonds within the month; leaving for future conversion only $285,500,000 of the original issue of $830,000,000. United States Securities are at present unsettled; in sympathy with the weakness of the gold premium and the uncertainty as to what Congress may do relative to the consolidation of the debt, Some distrust prevails hero as to tiie probability of the Frankfort and London markets following the decline in gold; and at present the pre vailing disposition is to discount the negative side of the prospect. The present tendency of the gold premium favours lower quotations. The sentiment of Congress upon ques tions of finance proves to be more conservative than was anticipated ; which, together with the failure of impeach ment, has deprived the market of its principal element of strength. I,ast month $25,000,000 of coin became pay able by the Treasury on interest account, and on January Ist about $31,000,000 more fall due. This large supply of $5G,000,000 within two months steadily depresses the premium ; and as the period for the January payments approaches, the premium appears likely to touch yet lower figures. Foreign exchange has been temporarily advanced through the distrust of bills, induced by late failure, ; this feeling, however, is subsiding ; and, under the expecta tion of an early liberal supply of cotton bills, rates are easier, Sterling 60 days, 1091 to 1091; do. three days, 1091 to 1101 ; Francs, 60 days, 5.161-; ditto three days, 5.131. (From Messrs. Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.) Paris, Dec. 27, 1867. As usual at the holiday season but little business has been transacted at the Bourse. Prices are well sustained, but without activity. United States Securities are firm. We quote : For the issue of 1862 For the issue of 1864 For the issae of 1865 Our advices from New York are to the 23d instant. Gold .United States Bonds, 1862 (currency) loBi The Bente closes at 6Bf. 65c. The Italian closes at Exchange on London (From Messrs. Belding, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.) FRIDAY, Dec. 27. Wo have to report a further advance in American Go vernment securities, gold in New Yorleheving fallen to 1331. On account of Wednesday and Thursday be;ag close holidays on the Stock Exchange, we have but little to report. Five-Tweities of 1862 opened this morning 72 721, showing an advance of / per cent. There has been an equal improvement in 5-20's of 1865, which opened 701 71. Ten-Forties have risen 1 per cent. They opened this morning 68 681. Illinois Central Th...lwe,y Shares have, on the other hand, declined 11 per cent., and were last quoted 87} 881. There has also been a decline in Eries to the extent of 1 per cent., the opening price being 48 49. Atlantic and Great Wes,ern Consoli dated Mortgage Bonds have declined 1 per cent., to 18} 191. A declaration of Fenian principles, under dr.i.e Cleveland, Ohio, 7th Sept., 1867, by the representaftves of tie brotherhood in congress assembled, is published in the New York Tribune of the 13,,h inst. "We believe end de clare that freedom—the right to ' lire, liberty, and the pu - suit of happ:ness'—is inherent to every creature made in the image and likeness of God, and that, however indivi duals, by crime or violations of the law. passed for the maintenance and well being of society, may fol.:0A any go tion of those rigets, the enslavement of a homogeneors people, either by foreign power or domestie tyranny, cat not under any csrcutustances be justified. 'the God of nature, in placing upon the Engl - sh and Irish nations rot only the disiiuctions ma• ked by differences of nc tiunal cha racter, but also natural barriers, which—:n spite of spe cial legislation designed to ob:iterate the national:.y of Ireland—have kept them separate and distinct as poop_ has written on imperishable record the claims of our country to independent national existence, and made both earth and sea the witnesses to the inviolabi lity of our charter of freedom. Even had any generation of our race proved recreant, and voluntari y agreed to surrender their rights as men, the I:mits fixed to human existence, and the utter inability of man to legislate for anything appertaining to himielf beyond this mortal sphere, are the seal and testimony set by the _A:- mighty Creator on each of his creatures, to teach them, through all time, that the inalienable and indefeasible rights imparted with their being must come down to them undiminished or unimpaired by the follies or the c. imes of their predecessors. But the title of our people upon this point is clear and unimpeachab'e. Through over twenty successive generations they have never ceased to protest and st►uggle against the plunder of their national rights. From age to age the legacy of patriotic effort has been transmitted from sire to son, and the dungeon, the scaffold, and the battle-field have proved the fidelity with which the sacred trust has been discharged. The Irish people of to-clay are still the custodians of that great trust; and, iu their name, the Fenian Brotherhood has been organised to demand, and, with the blessing of Heaven, to achieve, what so many of our race have at tempted before—the libe:ation of our country from the domination of England. We demand it in the name of every man of Irish blood throughout the whole earth ; and we desire to accomplish it solely for the benefit of every Irishman, without distinction of creed, or class, or poli tical idea. We claim the land of our fathers for the benefit of the people whose birthright it is, who love it with a filial affection, and who, by the eternal decree of their Maker, have earned, in the sweat of their brows, the right to live upon, to possess, and to enjoy it. We seek injury to no man ; our quarrel is not with any class, but with the Government which has robbed and murdered our people, and with those who sustain it in its tyranny and usurpa tion., If on our onward march to liberty any such oppose us, arrayed under the flag of the oppressor—which Las been the symbol of slavery in Ireland, and is the ensign of the enemy of liberty every where—on their heads, not ours, be the conse quences. We ask only justice for ourselves and kindred; and the vindication of that principle requires that an alien power shall no longer be permitted, undisturbed, to devour our substance, while those who produce it by their toil wither and pine in bondage, which at once destroys their bodies and debases their souls. Our motto is ' Ire land—free and independent,' for our own people first ; and then, when her free will and action are untrammelled and unquestioned, for the freedom, the elevation, and the hap ness of humanity, the world over. In the language of our executive, Faction we abhor; sectionalism we scorn.' We seek all the rights that, as men, belong to us, and we seek them for the Whole of our people; we make no re servation, we tolerate no distinction that would divide the true children of Jreland." Births. BARRY—On the 31st ult., at 41, Addison-gardens, North Kensington, the wife of Edward S. B. Barry, Esq., of a daughter. DUKE—On the 30th ult., at 45, Devonshire-street, Port land-place, the wife of Sir James Duke, Bart., of s daughter. lIANBURY—On the 31st ult., at 21, Portman-square, the wife of George Hanbury, Esq., of a son. Marriages. Boom —HALL - On the 31st ult., at All Souls', Marylobone, Edwin Carton Both (late of Inglewood, colony of Vic toria), to Isabel Gordon Hall, of South Fiel&, Wands worth, Surrey. MuNT--Houßs--On the 26th ult., at Tottenham Church, Mr. George William Munt, of Stratford, Essex, and of Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, to Margaret Jane, eldest daugh ter of Mr. Robert Hobbs, of Tottenham. Deaths. EMBLETON—On the 31bt ult., at Carisbrooke Lodge, Stock well, Capt. Robert Embleton, aged 76. FALKINER—On the 30th ult., Lieut.-Col. Sir Samuel E. __ Falkiner, Bart., aged 77. GLASS—On the 29th ult., at Brixton, Joseph Glass, Esq., the inventor of tha machine which secured the emanci pation of the climbing boys of Great Britain, aged 76. JOHNSON—Ou the 30th ult., at St. Osyth Priory, John. Johnson, Esq., aged 70. WALKER—On the 28th ult., at Breadon House, Croydon, Anne, wife of Commander Leven C. F. Walker, R.N., aged 68. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tali Suit Office, No 11: , nd, in the Precinct of the St , voy, in the County 0 • Xidtpooz.—Wednesday, lagpry 1, 1864. fHE SUIT, LONoON, W'ED►NESDAY EVENIW JANUARY 1, 1868 I