The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-18 00:00:00

Er-rEIT 72 ME PUBLIC ,TOUBITAL3, In an article on the Government:and the telegraphs the Saturday Review blames the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the careless injustice of his original proposal for expro priating the telegraph companies. The most prudent plan would have been to negotiate with the directors ; or, if it was considered necessary to take the property of the shareholders without their consent, the Government should, in accordance with all precedent, have determined on a compulsory purchase of all the undertakings. Mr. MfarckEltuat, or his advisers, with an injudicious smartness, 'devised a plan for acquiring the telegraphs which was scarcely distinguishable from a partial confiscation. The remonstrances which were provoked by the reckless pro. posal of the Government have happily produced their full effect ; for, before the bill went into committee, the tele graph companies bad agreed to sell their property on equitable terms, and at a later period the railway corn panies and the owners of the submarine lines also agreed for sufficient consideration, to assent to the transfer. As the evidence of commercial witnesses in favour of the bill, was overwhelming, it only remained to consider the finan cial character of the operation. Mr. Goschen and one or two other members of the committee object to the terms of the bargain. It may well be that the telegraph system might be greatly improved and cheapened by arrangements which nevertheless would not be advanta geous to the revenue. The penny postage, although it never subjected the Post Office to actual loss, greatly reduced its profits for a long period, and the net receipts of 1839 were not reached for twenty-five years after the adoption of the new and admirable system ; yet, if it bad beenpossible to trace the collateral effects of cheap postage on the paper duty, and on other taxes, it is highly pro• bable that the scheme would be found to have been profit able from its inception. The original outlay of the Government for the telegraphs will not fall much short of £5,000,000 ; and probably the immediate receipts will scarcely amount to £200,000 a year. It may be argued with some plausibility that it is not allowable to tax the entire community for the benefit of a minority which sends telegraphic messages ; but it is desirable that Government should sometimes prefer a partial good, in volving a corresponding sacrifice, to absolute inaction. II Parliament is satisfied by Mr. Seudamore's statistics that the telegraphs will within five years pay a fair interest on the original outlay, it would be mere prudery to deny the country the enjoyment of a great benefit in order to avoid a small reduction in the surplus revenue of the Post Office. There will be a certain economy, and ar appreciable public advantage, in raising the condition and the qualifications of the servants of a great department of State. A functionary who manages the Government savings-banks, the annuities, and the telegraphs will be better paid and more enlightened than the simple distri butor of letters ; and the effect of superior competence will be felt in the discharge of the duties proper to a post master, as well as in the performance of supplementary functions. On the whole, Parliament will do well to con-, firm the arrangements which have been approved by the committee ; and the House of Commons will not listen tc the impudent proposal of seizing the property of the com panies without paying the stipulated price. The Controller-General seems to the Spectator to be get• ing rather scant justice at the hands of the Treasury and the public:—We do not wonder at it, or greatly regret it. for until the army has been made a strictly parliamentary department, obedient in all ways and in every detail tc the Minister at War, all civilian statesmen will exhibit strong jealousy of all military control over expenditure. Still, justice is justice, and Sir 11. Storks and Major- General Balfour seem to be getting considerably less than their share. Their plan may be inadmissible, but if so, it is only inadmissible because Parliament chooses to endure a prerogative which virtually exempts the army from full parliamentary control. Avoiding details which only per plex non-military readers, the plan of military finance laid down by the Controller-General and his assistant was sub stantially as follows :—Each head of each department in the army organism was to submit his estimate for the year to Sir Henry Storks and his colleague, who, after a revi sion possible only to men thoroughly familiar with details —who can decide off-hand, for example, whether there ought to be 1,000 rounds of ammunition in the fortresses or only 500—would submit the whole to the Minister at War, a civilian and a parliamentary officer, and through him to the Cabinet. If that - supreme civil authorit3 thought the estimate too high, or wanted it reduced in obe• dience to public opinion, either as to the whole amount oz any section of the whole, it would send the estimates back to the Controller, who would at once compel the departments to make the necessary change. If he did not, he must either resign, or the Minister must. It is on these estimates alone that economy can be elf, eted, fur the estimates once sanctioned are certain to be spent. The departments will never risk their efficiency, as they think it, by spending less than Parliament has allowed. We might as well expect a housekeeper, when limited to a figure, to expend less than her allowance. Fur the allow ance, however, the control thus exercised would be purely civil, would be entrusted solely to the responsible Allinsters, and could be exercised to any extent or in any direction they please. But when they announced their ?ecisiun, and the house of Commons had endorsed it, then the departments were to spend the money, subject, as we understand the plan, to the Controller-General, aided and checked by an independent audit, but not to the Treasury. The depart►nent would, in fact, be c9inpitte within itself, and therefore responsible in the highest degree for it,i acts through the Cabinet Minister, the Secretary at War, who, be it remembered, appoints and can remove the Controller-General. Such au arrangement is in accord with the practice of other departments, and is necessary to perfect the centralisation which is the life of an efficient army, and the very objet of the recent reform. The Imperial Recieta can by no means adopt the purist and doctrinaire theory, that the candidate who bribes is far more guilty than the voter who is bribed. In most cases the constituencies are the corruptors. If any man goes down to a county or borough hitherto the undisputed domain of pure disinterested patriotism, where every vote has hitherto been a matter of conscience, and every elector has acted for the public good according to what light lie had, and this unscrupulous juts uder, by lavish ex penditure, turns such an abode of innocence into a copy of Barnstaple or Bridgewater, let him be given up to the indignation of moralising newspapers. But the aspirant to a seat seldom desires to bribe for its own sake, from a sense of the value of cash, if not of the value of political purity. More often he finds reluctantly a number of his would-be constituents hungering fur gold and itching for patronage, and engages in a scale of illegitimate expendi ture, which he dislikes, to avoid a defeat, which he dislikes still more. Many who have often bribed would rejoice at the extinction of bribery. Those who have often been bribed are probably of another mind. We think it is well that the House of Commons should have abandoned its jealousy of others deciding upon the election of its own members. The present election committees are, perhaps, the most unsatisfactory tribunals that the present time would be likely to see. They are, no doubt, a great advance upon the state of things in a large part of the last century, when committees settled the legality of a return by a strict party division, which was either confirmed or reversed by another strict party division in the House. But it is impossible for members of Parliament to treat such an issue with the calmness and " dry light " which might be brought to bear by an external tribunal. It is a most invidious task fur them to fix a personal charge upon a brother legislator. It is equally detrimental to justice and public advantage if they stretch a point against their own party, from serupu• bons sensitiveness to the suspicion of partiality, as if they, under the influence of less worthy feelings, strain the law or distort the facts in au opposite direction. We have heard of aggrieved sufferers by a decision of a committee who bitterly lamented that the majority had not been opponents instead of friends. In that case they might have hoped for the benefit of any doubts that would have occurred ; as it was, it was a point of honour to withhold such indulgence. We, therefore, comprehend and rejoice in the prudence of the decision by which those functions are to be entrusted to a tribunal, to be created by l'arlia ment, which the House has hitherto committed to small bodies chosen from itself. The London Perim is led, apropos to the Irish Church, to consider the po4ition of the English Church. It points out that the Church is eminently national. If it has enemies now, it is in no worse a condition than it has always been. It presents none of the glaring iniquities which forty years ago made it unpopular. And he would not be far wrong who should lay down the position that there are only two sources whence she is threatened with danger—one, her internal differences and the other, the insAne attempt t o represent her as indissolubly linked with the Irish Church—a living body bound hanil and foot to a ciirme. There is no institution with which the people would less willingly p ar t Were the Cl.urch allowed to stand upen . its own s ,„ and. Men, no doubt, there are who, working upon a principle, and with out any hos:ility specially directed against her, would he glad t see her and all other religious bodies reduced to the system of vilultary support. But though they should le !made their efforts, the Church will be unassailable if ber trusted guides : r true to her. There :ire n+,t a few 'D.ssiii.ters who would be unwilling to see tuy per ninuei,t harm come to her. For three centuries she lea:: been identified with the life of the nation, and has contributed mainly to form the national character. Even the lia!tie which hat Leen carried on for many years upon had sprun ,, nine!' less front towards her than from that sense of justice_ which Englishmen have :i!so felt intensely . when their • own interests have been concerned, and winch revolted from thee impelled support of a form of worship with which they did not agree. The Lo:Idon Reciew has no doubt of the sincerity of the argu ment that Dissenters would subscribe voluntarily for the repair of the parish fabric much more than the sum irri tatingly forced from them by the State. And our con temporary is also convinced that it is possible, supposing the time were ripe for it, to secure the position of the Church by placing it upon a broader basis than it now stands upon. A national Church is the Church of the nation. To be that it must represent, as far as possible, the religious sentiment of the nation. The Irish Church is perishing because it has failed to do that. The English Church is vigorous fur ,the opposite reason. But we are in a state of transition, and another generation may find the Church representing a minority of the nation unless La :Was Aud rims arc Win in burn. RALE 01 1 -GI.RLS IN INNA. The Indian Dail?, Arms publishes the following transla tion of an extraordinary letter which has appeared in the Shame Prokash, one of the leading native papers. The letter is dated May 25, and the writer signs " Unmar ried :" " For a long time I have been roving about from coun try to country ; and in these wanderings how many wonderful matters have I met in various localities I But what I have eyed in ;the bazaar of Manickgunge, situate within the Burdwan Zillah, far exceeds the others in singularity. There divers commodities are brought for sale from various parts of the surrounding country. Desirous of viewing the beauty of the bazaar, I was facing the narrow path between the rows of booths. Then, taking much trouble to wade through the crowd, I reached the place of sale, and in naked reality perceived a cluster of girls from 2 to 13 years of age brought there for Bale. I found some brokers walking to and fro and sum moning the customers. To obtain the girls everyone at first supplicated them. If they can settle a bargain, they generally get 10 per cent. as their commission, and over and above that at times some offerings. Having seen some customers cluster round a girl of 13, I went to the spot. I found all of them lost in silence and amaze ment. After hearing the boastful, high-toned words of the seller, struck with the exquisite beauty of the girl, I at once took it into my head to ask about the price, when an old man of 70 whispered an offer of Rs. 750 to the broker, and off I ran instantly. Then I inquired the price of a handsome girl of about 7 years of age. But her master was sitting coolly by fixing ber price at 450, and the broker said that many had bidden 350, but still he had not consented. Finding here also no chance for me, I came to ask the price of another girl of a similat. nature. Her owner, a female, demanded a prise which might terminate in a bargain, but she produced a list of appendages which I found it impossible to make arrange ments for. Then I went over to the spot where the blind, the lame, and the deformed girls were selling, but found that even they were not without customers. I turned my eye towards little infantlike girls, and per ceived that some Were *evidently newborn babes, and some were nut weaned. What stock I had could suffice only to buy for me a girl of such a nature. But I could not dare to take one, lest she expired from illness, Sir, I also saw the exchange of daughters in another part of that bazaar. Those who were concerned in it did not take much trouble, for a bargain was soon struck, but by that some party or other must be the loser. Mr. Editor, you are in the habit of dwelling on all questions, from spiritualism up to politics ; but if by your mighty pen you can turn the attention of the Government officials to this matter, then many Brahmin families may be saved from perdition. When they have given permission to sell girls, if they but fix a price on them by classifying them according to their age and beauty, that would be of service some day to unfortunate individuals like me. It is observable that while the rates have been fixed of carriages and palankeens, can there be any harm, if the population of the country is increased, when the prices have been settled of these girls for sale in the bazaar ?" LAW AND POLICE. TUE G BEAT SPIRITUAL CASE. -11 l Vice-Chancellor Giffard's court, this case, which was referred to his Honour by the chief clerk, came on for hearing. The chief clerk had refused to allow a sum paid for preparing the will of Mrs. Lyon, and also a sum paid for brokerage when she made the gifts to the defendant, on the ground that as the gifts were void the expenses attendant on them were also annulled.—Mr. Wilkinson asked the Vice- Chancellor to allow the matter to be argued in court. The payment to a solicitor involved a principle which he preferred counsel arguing. —Mr. Yetts suggested that as the certificate of the chief clerk would be i ued iu a few days, Mr. Wilkinson could apply to the court to vary the same. lie deprecated delay.—Mr. Wilkinson said there had been great speed in the case.—liis Honour remarked that the Court of Chancery bad been charged with delay, and not with haste.—After a discussion, the suggestion of Mr. Yetts was acted upon.—The Vice- Chancellor observed that there was no appeal from chambers to the Lords Justices. He would hear the matter in court as soon as pessible. THE PERUVIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.— Before the Lords Justices, Mr. Wallis appealed against an order of the Vice-Chancellor, under the following circumstances. The appellant, at the instance of Mr. Pickering, the manager of the company, was told that the company was a " good thing," and on this representation signed an application for 200 shares. 1I was entered afterwards on the register of members as the holder of GO shares, but no formal letter of allotment was ever sent to him. The question in the case was whether the evidence showed that Mr. Wallis was aware that an allotment had been made to him. He swore that he did not know that he had been enteed as a shareholder till after the winding up of the company bad commenced. The Vice-Chancellor, however, was of opinion that he must be taken to have known that his name had been placed on the company's register, and therefore held him liable as a contributory in respect of the sixty shares. Mr. Walls appealed. Their lordships were of a different opinion to the Vice-ChancAlor, and allowed the appeal. APPLICATION FOR AN INJUNCTION. —ln Vice-Chancellor Malins's Court a motion was made on behalf of Mr. Schmidtzler to restrain a Mr. Atkins from selling a prepa ration kn:,wu as " coceatina," in similar labels to those used by the plaintiff. The defendant called the article " cacaotine," which was of inferior quality, and it was packed in packages containing a larger quantity than that sold by the plaintiff. The defendant was a connection of the plaintiff's, and had been in his service, and it was alleged that lie was employing the plaintiff's agents at a larger commission. On the other hand, the defendant's case was that the article was superior in quality to the plaintiff's, but at a cheaper rate and in larger packages. There was no imitation ; the defendant sold his in his own name, and wished the public to believe that the article was his, and not the plaintiff's. The injunction was granted. FEARFUL CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.—At Lewes Assizes William Henry Cooke pleaded guilty to an indict ment charging him with wounding Phoebe Cole with in tent to murder her. It appeared that the child was his niece, but she had lost her parents, and her grandfather had taken her home to provide for her, and the only motive that seemed to have actuated the prisoner to commit the crime was the mean and sordid one, that he might in some way or other be a loser by the grandfather providing for the child. In order to revenge himself he seemed to have gone to the house of the grand father and made a deliberate attempt to cut the throat of the child ; and he then made an attack upon the grand father, and would certainly have done some serious mischief if he hall not been prevented and taken into custody. The accused was ordered to be kept in penal servitude for life. CONVICTION OF A FRAUDULENT BANICRUPT.—At the same assizes Berthold Miiller, a German, was indicted for fraudulent bankruptcy. The prisoner at the beginning of the present year owed £3,003, and agreed to pay his creditors by instalments of 2s. 6d. in the pound. Soon afterwards he petitioned the Bank ruptcy Court, and when his property was taken possession of it was ascertained that he had sent £BOO worth of jewellery to London, in which place it was found concealed. The learned judge sentenced the accused to nine months' imprisonment. MURDER BY A FATHER.—An inquest has been held on the body of a lad named Thomes Kemp, aged 16, who was murdered under very melancholy circumstances by his father, a labourer residing at Princethorp, near Rugby. The prisoner, who it appeared was very much attached to the lad, had been for some time in a state of great depression caused by pecuniary losses and domestic affliction. Ills statement was that he had killed the boy in order to save him from such trials as he himself had undergone. The case was sent for trial at the assizes. PERJURY IN THE DIVORCE COURT.-At the Westminster Police-court, Ann Porter, late a domestic servant, in the employment of Mr. William Bewick, of Threepwood Hall, Northumberland, appeared for further examination, charged with wilful and corrupt perjury in a suit insti tuted by Mrs. Bewick against her husband in the Divorce Court, on the 12th ult. On hearing sufficient evidence, the magistrate decided on sending the case for trial, and the accused's recognisances were taken for her appearance at the Central Criminal Court. THE ARREST OF MURPHY AT BOLTON. —On Fri day William Murphy was brought before the borough magistrates at Bolton, on thn charge of being likely to cause a breach of the peace by his ptoposed lectures. The court-rwm was crowded, great interest being manifested, both in Bolton and other towns, as to whether the magis trates had power to stop his proceedings. The informa tion upon which "the warrant had been issued alleged that Murphy, by his hcturea at other places, and by ut tering " provoking and scandalous words," had provoked breaches of the peace, and caused injury to persons and property, and that it was believed similar results would follow his lectures at Bolton. Mr. Leresche, who prosecuted, said the application he bad to make was, etat Murphy be called upon to enter into sureties to keep th:.t peace, and also for his general behaviour in the borough. The information sworn to by various persons baring been read, and several witnesses, examined, Mr. Torr strongly condemned the proceedings, as being an attack on the liberty of free speech. The magistrat. ordered Mr. Murphy to find sureties to be of good behaviour for twelve months, himself in £5OO and two sureties in £ 9 50 each. Mr. Torr raid he should advise Mr. Murphy that under that decision ho could leckm town s providing he, did so as a r.ati.94. l* r g. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY - 18, 1868. I'llE CECU.MENICAL COUNCIL. That the Papal Bull convoking the General Council is much discussed by the Paris press is not to be wondered at, for the meeting of such a Council will be one of the most memor able events of the 19th, as the Council of Trent was of the 16th century. In another column will be found the comments of one of the irreligious journals of Paris on the omis sion of the customary invitation to the Kings of Christendom to take their place in the Council. The writer, seeing in this act of Pope Pius IX. the formal separation of the Church and State, rejoices at the "severing of the chain which so long held riveted together the throne and the altar like two galley-slaves," and declares that " Pius IX. has entered on a revolution the most radical that the world has beheld for eighteen centuries." The revo lution, indeed, is most radical ; it is nothing less than a tearing up by the roots of the greatest work of Christian civilization, and a casting of society loose upon the earth, but this revolution is none of the Pope's doing. His is not the hand which has severed the bond of union between the Church and the State, between the political and religious life of nations, between the soul and the body of the commonwealth ; it is the Civil Power, under the dominion of an impious Liberalism, that has broken loose from the Church and from God. The Pope recognises the fact, and acts accordingly. What business have Kings who do not represent a Christian State, although monarchs of a Christian people, in a Council of the Church ? What share can they take in the work of regenerating civil society ? The Pope may answer the Kings of the Modern State desiring to enter the Council as Saint Louis in his captivity did the Saracene who wanted to be knighted—Become a Chris tian. It is not enough, as the Univers truly ob serves, for Kings to call themselves Kings by the grace of God, and to wear the cross upon their crowns. As long as the State lives outside the Church, its representative and head has no place in the Council. Such an exclusion of the Kings of Christendom is a significant testimony to the decadence of poli tical society since the Council of Trent. The Modern State lies under a ban, and one of the chief objects of the Council is to relieve poli tical society from the moral evils which it suffers in consequence of the apostacy of the State. Civil Power has to be reconciled to the Church, but to do this effectually the first and most needful step is for the Church as sembled in Council to show by its first public act to the peoples of Christendom that their rulers, as representatives of the Modern State, are outside the Church. They are outside by their own will—by acts done in violation of their duty as Christian Princes. The Church has not broken with the State, but the State has revolted against the Church. The Pope would be the first to desire a close and cordial union between the two Powers ordained of God to govern the world. But, in the mean time, the Church has to put its hand to the work of saving the peoples of Christendom from the effects of anti-Christian legislation and illegal violence ; and what more effectual means is there to this end than to assemble in Council ? Even its enemies concede that the Catholic Church knows its own mind, and that it is never turned from its purpose. But the purpose which the General Council pro poses to itself, as traced out by the Pope in the Bull convoking it, is nothing less than, "by the aid of God, to remove every evil from the Church and from civil society, to lead back into the straight way of truth, of justice, and of salvation, those unhappy men who have gone astray ; to repress vice and banish error, so that our sacred religion and its salutary doc trines may gain new force throughout the entire earth, and that it may recover its em pire over the world, so that piety, probity, justice, charity, and every Christian virtue may be strengthened and flourish to the great good of humanity." Could there be a nobler idea or a grander undertaking than this work which the General Council of the Catholic Church proposes to itself in this 19th century? It is a moral end, to bo accomplished by moral means alone. A new fire has to be kin Med in the hearts of men, a new light in their minds, so that faith may regain its empire over the world. Cynical observers, living in the depths of the sceptical society of our age, ascribe this great idea of Pius IX. to a vision ary enthusiasm, and yet, conscious of the mar vellous power which Christianity exercised in its origin over a state of society not very dis similar to our own, watch with intellectual curiosity the renewal of the mortal combat between faith and materialism. The heart of Europe is less corrupt than its intellect. In encountering Paganism, Christianity had to deal with a state of moral degradation such as has never since been witnessed, and in this respect the work of restoration which the General Council has to take in hand will not be so difficult a task, compared at least with the first introduction of Christian morals into Pagan society. But the intellectual apostacy, so far as it is complete, will be infinitely more difficult to subdue, for it has generated a habit of mind more sceptical, more self-sufficient, and more adverse to spiritual ideas, than that produced by the philosophy of Paganism. The apostate intellect of Europe is under a heavier ban than rested on the Pagan mind, for during eighteen centuries, it has known the Christian revela tion, which itnow in its pride rejects. Yet, if Christianity—if the Catholic Church—is to re gain its empire over the world, it must attack the enemy in its strongest citadel. The in tellect of Europe, as it was in the days of Paganism, must be again made captive. The means to storm this citadel, as the Pope points out to the Council which he convokes, is the " Christian education of youth." Scepticism has gained head in Europe, certainly, not by the strength of its arguments, nor by the power of its intellect, but by systematically undermining the faith in youth. It has adopted a cowardly mode of warfare. It has poisoned the wells. Governments out of opposition to the Church have betrayed the Catholic edu cation to the enemies of the faith. And this is the reason why, in the educated mind and in the governing classes, materialism and infi delity are gaining the upper hand—corrupting, the literature and un-Christianizing the legis lature of the peoples of Christendom. The work of Christian education, then, will be the ' first battle-field between the Church assembled in council and an impious Liberalism, which has, throughout Europe, made godless educa tion the symbol of its party. The struggle will be deadly, for on its issue the future of Europe depends. The Church, by summoning the Council, calls all Christendom together for the defence of the faith and for the mainte nance, of the supernatural principle against j infidelity and materialism, and the members lof the .Council in answer to the summons of I the Holy See, coming in numbers, never before approached, from all the corners of the earth, will find in the centre and unity of faith new force to do battle for the restoration of faith and unity in the minds and hearts of men, and for the recovery of the lost empire of the Church over the world.—Westminster Gazette. Th© engineer's estimate as to the recently re suinA operations in opening the channel of the Kennebec river, requiresloo,ooo cubic yards of excavation, ti make a channel between Hallowell and Augusta, 100 feet wile 7 feet deep. Some 20,000 yards were taken out last sea son. Two excavators, removing 1,000 cubic yards are now at work, and the enterprise will bo finished about November 1. 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Many in the United States dread the coming Presidential election, and the opinion gains ground that these four-yearly appeals to the country are injurious to its best interests and in the highest de gree dangerous to its peace. The appeal is preluded by tampering with interests of enormous magnitude, home affairs being sacrificed to secure votes, and foreign affairs being jeopardized by pandering to the animosity of ignorant immigrants. This we know, for we see it ; but there is something less visible behind more dangerous still, which may indeed kindle a civil war more disastrous than the last. As the country is circumstanced, either party might declare the election when made the result of fraud, and attempt to seat its own candidate in the Presidential chair by force of arms. Let those who doubt the truth of what we say read Gen. Blair's manifesto, which we give elsewhere. This gentle man was nominated Vice-President because he was known to be better prepared to act than to talk. Yet all our readers will allow that his talk is " tall." A resolution adopted by the House is before the Senate confining the electoral votes of the Southern States to those only who have complied with the prescribed conditions, and making the presiding officers of the Senate and of the House judges of the elections, and of the characters of the State Governments. Thus Colfax, a candidate for the vice-presidency, might be called upon to decide avote which made or marred the ambition of his life. Such menas Frank Blair would in this case be in the highest degree dangerous, and might actually, as Senator Trumbull remarked, " again involve the country in Civil War." The World has asserted that "if suc cessful in the election the Democrats would place their candidate in office, if necessary, by force of arms." The Tribune says the men who have put down rebels can again suppress them. The safe guard is, that the country now knows what a Civil War . means, and has been cured of the foolhardy confidence that such a thing was impossible in America. The extraordinary dry, hot weather we have now had for so long a period in England is creating some alarm for the crops. If all the root crops have failed, and the bay is short, there will be a difficulty in feeding the cattle and sheep. In the United States the reports are in the highest degree favourable, the average increase in the land sown in wheat be ing over a fifth more than la,t year. There is an increase also in oats and clover ; rye is about equal, but barley has fallen off. From all accounts the wheat crop is unusually large, and the reports on the whole are of a highly satisfactory character— the harvest was becoming general. Notwithstand ing the cry of the Nation about a decrease of cows, large numbers of cattle now find their way to Illinois from the boundless prairies of Texas, and in spite of the cost of the journey, the trade is daily growing in dimensions. The New York limes discusses the treatment of the 60,000 Chinese now on the Pacific coast by the Californians. That great paper, always earnest in advocating a righteous cause, directs itself to the work of this reform. It points out what the agricul ture, the mmufactures, and the mines of California owe (the two latter indirectly) to the Chinese. It shows what a hard-working, useful, law-abiding section of the comrnuaity they are. There is hardly a mine on the Pacific slop 3 in which they are per mitted to work ; the law forbids their locating claims ; and in many districts they are even pre vented by the local miner's law, and while Mexicans and Spanish vagabonds are free, the Chinese by State law are taxed $1 even on placer diggings. Though Mr. Barlingarne miy fail in removing these inequalities, there is a legal and formal in justice which loudly demands attention : " No testimony of a Mongolian with reference to crimes committed on his race by whites can be received by the Courts. Last whiter a vigorous effort was made by the civilized portion of Cali fornian society, which is, of course, the Republican party, to remove this disability. The bill, in the shape of an amendment to their code of crimi nal practice, passed the Senate, but was difeated in the House. Governor Haight, who, though a De mocrat, is an enlightened man, is believed to favour this measure of justice. In the debates on the ques tion the most startling facts were stated as to the brutal crimes committed on unoffending Chinese by white ruffians who felt themselves protected by the old oppressive law. One member sail that many vagabonds made it a business to plunder and mur der Chinese miners. A miserable white or brown ruffian, perhaps a runaway Mexicali murderer, a Botany Bay burglar, a New York "rough," with hands stained with every crime known to humanity, could enter the cabin of honest Chinese miners, rob them of all their hard-earned property, then pistol or stab them, and no testimony of the survivors could convict him, and he would escape provided no white man saw, or would testify to the deed. If the code of slavery or the customs of the Inqui.i tion contain anything more iniquitous than this we shout] be glad to know it ; yet against such facts, glaring gted injustice of the l aw , th e C a lifornia to continue the oppressive L an e d gi t s h la e t g u l r a e r v legis lation." Arkansas is now fully reconstructe], the military commanders having turned over the Government to the civil authorities, and withdrawn the troops from all points not absolutely necessary to be held. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing from Little Rock, gives a full account of the pre sent condition of the country. He says the negro is gradually settling into better habits of industry than when freedom was sad lenly thrust on him, having learnt that it means the reverse of license or laziness. All his habits are improving; he is doing better and more work this year than last ; he is growiag more self-reliant, ani leans less on the Freedman's Bureau. In numbers he has held his own since the war, constituting about a third of the population. The laws are good in themselves, and will be found to work well. The old legisla tion was ruinous to every interest of the State, especially the educational, the school funds and lands being wasted and squandered. The principal dissatisfaction is from the old office-holders ; but the writer considers that if the question of return ing the coloured people to slavery w e re su bmitted to a vote it would fail by an overwhelm ing majority, and this doubtless is generally the case throughout the South. The negroes, he thinks, understand how to vote in their own interest, few being led off or deceived, and the Democratic party who expected to control the coloured vote signally failed. Mr. Cobb, of Wisconsin, succeeded in securing the passage of the following resolution in the House of Representatives :—.4g I hat the Ways and Means Committee be instructed to report a bill levying a tax of at least 10 per cent. on interest of United States Bonds, to be collected annually by the Secre tary of the Treasury, and sich subordinate officers as are charged with the duty of paying interest on bonds." He immediately moved "the previous ques tion" to prevent debate, but failing, General Butler put in his oar, and with the assistance of the De mocrats succeeded in passing the resolution. In compliance, the committee reported the bill else where given, although against their convictions, as they unanimously disapproved of it, believing it would injure the national credit and character. Mr. George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, has given notice of a substitute to authorize an issue of $800,000,000 in New Bonds, bearing interest in gold at 51 per cent., to be exchanged for the Five- Twenty Bondi, and to be valid only when in the hands of citizens in t'ie United States, and also the issue of $1,000,090 in Bonds bearing coin interest of 4 per cent., payable either in the United States, London, or Frankfort, without taxation or exemp tion of any kind, and to be exchangeable for Five twenty Bonds before July 1, 133. The bill will also provide for the use of $25,000,00J of the coin in the Treasury for the purchase of the Five twenties at the market price, to be used as a sink ing fund, t'ie interest on theM to be applied to re deeming other bon ls. The incessant tinkering with the National Debt, and the hankering so en 111)a have to wet dis honestly, is doing incalculable injury to the ceedit of the United States. The Funding Question has been discussed both in the Senate and in the House. Mr. Sherm In tried to get his measure tacked as a rider to the Civil Appropriation Bill, but failed, and Mr. Blaine, of Maine, ineffectually offered in the House a resolution directing the Com mittee of Ways and Means to prepare a Bill for Funding all the National Debt into Five per Cent,, Ten-Year Bonds; 41 per Cent. Thirty-Year Bonds; and per Cent. Interminable Securities; of which the present bondholders were to have their choice. James K. Moorhead, of Pennvlvania, reported the Tariff Bill to the House, slig'Atly increasing the duties on copper, nickle, zinc, German silver, iron, salt, and other articles, and he considers that it might be acted on this session. The Protectionists are very unwise in constantly screaming for more, a course which cannot fail to defeat their ends. It is impossible in such legishtion to be moderate. Men begin by being thankful for a little, and end in being thankless for much. It is just as in social life, the higher a class is permitted to rise above the mass, the more they despise and ill-treat that mass ; but this, carried to an excess, produces the re-ac tion that causes its overthrow. The Protectionists of America should never, unless compelled, bring up the question of tariffs ; but the greedy boys cannot refrain from glamouring, and the others, feeling that they, some how or another, do not get their fair share, will ask why they should be mulcted at all for the benefit of such an insatiable coin- munity. A great deal of abuse continues to be heaped on General Grant by the Democratic press. Of course his military genius is disputed, and one journal, in answer to the accusation of ruthlessly sacrificing his men, affirmed that under him the casualties of the Army of the Potomac amounted to but 106,501, while under the previous com manders the loss was 140,968. To this it was re plied that Grant only assumed command on the 19th March, 1864, and Lee surrendered 19th April, 1865, by which it appears that his losses occurred in thirteen months, while the period from the battle of Bull Run to Grant's assumption of the command was nearly . three years, making the annual loss of other commanders 34,469. The comparison, how ever, cannot be complete without contrasting what were the results attained. The World is very spiteful, and invariably calls him " H. U." Grant. We suppose this is meant to suggest to the reader's mind, " llew," and spare not ! The American papers anticipate with pleasure the musical treat provided by Mr. Mapleson for them. No city in the world more appreciates music or is a better judge, than New York, nor is there one where talent is more liberally remunerated. Madlle. Kellogg's engf...gement has closed, and Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg will return next month to Ame rica with their gifted daughter. She has accepted an engagement with Mr. Mapleson for the early winter season of Italian Opera in New York. Madlles. Titiens and Nilsson will proceed with Mr. Mapleson and the elite of his company ; he has rented the Academy of INlnsic at New York for the performances. We may hope that the new Opera House in the Haymarket will be ready by the time Miss Kellogg again visits Europe. General M'Mahoa has been confirmed as Minis ter to Paraguay by the Senate ; and Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren has succeeded Captain Vise as chief of the Ordnance Department. The Finance Committee of the Senate has purposely delayed taking ... action as regards the nomination of Mr. Evarts as Attornay-GJneral, an 1 Mr. Smythe as Minister to AAstria, awaiting the publication of Butler's report, now finished, and in proof slip. Ile has openly announced that he can implicate noth gentlemen in extraordinary transactions con nected with the President's acquittal, but people are so accustomed to Butler's sensational promises and tame performances that little weight is at tached to them. Perry Fuller's nomination has not yet been rejected, though that result is certain ; and it is supposed that Mr. Risley Long, an 'officer of the department, will then be named. The rejec tions include the nominations of James E. Hubbell of Ohio, as Minister to Ecuador ; George Hub bard, as Collector of Custotins at Stonington, Connecticut ; Andrew J. Moulder, to be Surveyor. General of California ; and General Mulford, to be Collector of Internal R2venue for the Richmond, Virginia, district. . _ The best notion of the change between the period of infl ttion and that of depression may be obtained by comparing a reprt of the Credit Foncier of Eng land in 1365 with one of the same Company in 1868. We have a vivid recollection of these charming books, got up on such good paper, in such pod type, all so replete with goo I things that the in vestor felt like a subject in the hands of Ma lame ii tehel, only instead of " beautiful" he wAs in the way of "'being in tle rich for ever." In those days the directors undertook to enlighten the world on fitranee. Tliera was such a sho vof knowledge, there was:mei' a clear perception of what was going to happen, there was such a substantial resalt in the dividen 1 of what ha 1 happened th it no shareholder coal I have the hardihoo I to ask for more information, or expert men so profound to draw up the curtain and give them a glimpse of the mysterious land of gold wherein they worked. This company thus did more to demoralize the in vesting public of England than any other. They admirably combinel mystery with so apparently frank a statement of all they desired the share holders to know, and with such a learned disquisitiin on Finance, that many suspicious of 30 and -19 per cent. allows I themselves to be persuaded that it was but the natural result of the unkno ova system of management then inaugurated. Those who turn to the money articles in the daily papers of yesterday may compare the midsummer. report of 1868 with these. The congratulations ,of the directors are now that the company is not " up . a very tall tree;" dividend, of course, no one could expect ; the pleasing mystery has given place to a full statement of the assets, and the shareholders have at least the satisfaction of knowing where their money is. It may weigh heavily in the burgo master's pockets of Brussels, of Milan, of Paris, and Marseilles ; but whether it will ever come out of those deep recesses is a question those interested can answer for themselves. Still the shareholders have an advantage over hundreds of others in this knowle3ge, for the marvel of marvels has been where the scores of millions that were paid by the public into the coffers of such concerns. The accounts of the difficulty between Comman- der Bridge and the Mexican authorities at Al Izat lan, if truly reported, ara not to the credit of the British officer. The quarrel appears to have ori- ginated in the habitual infraction of Mexican law, in which, strange to say, her Majesty's servants are openly engaged. A duty on the export of the pre cious metals is levied in Mexico, that is, theoreti cally, but practically it resolves itself into a five per cent. commission, divided between the admiral of the station, the captain of the man-of-war, the consul, and the agent employed. This, we under stand, has become so established a custom, that the Mexican export law is altogether overlooked, and the commander of the Chanticleer thought himsAf injured and insulted when the paymaster of the ship was searched on information given to the col lector. Captain Bridge, on this report, went ashore, and conducted himself in a manner so overbearing that the collector was provoked into ordering his arrest and the search of his person, on the same charge of smuggling. His indignation may -be imagined, and it appears that Mr. Session, the United States Consul, only saved the town from bombardment by acting as mediator. The captain's proclamation, which had caused great excitement, was so far malifie 1 that the port of Max Alan was placed under blockade, no Mexican vessels being allowed to enter or depart, pending orders from the British Admiral. The United States war steamer Sitwaliee had left Acapulco for Mazatlan, there to look after American interests. The advices from Mexico state that the first demand of Commander Bridge was that the ()fiber who searched the paymaster's person anti seize I the maney should be sent to the ship to be dealt with by him, but General Carona declared he would prefn - the bambarlncnt of the city to submission to such an outrage, and directed Captain Bridge to make his dens Ind i❑ the manner customary with civilized nations, and through the proper channels. It should be borne in mind that as yet the Mexican aceolut only has been received, and that the ch tractor of Mexicans is such as to j n - tify a ready belief in any folly and outrage attri buted to them. There has been smiething little short of a panic in Tenness2e Stocks. A month ago there was sent from Nashville t 3 New York the sum necessary to meet the July _interest on the State Bonds. The moment the chance was given to some New York creditors of the State this money was pounced upon, an injunction restraining payment being taken. The Fourth National Bank then gave notice that the interest due on the Ist July on the Tennessee State Sixes would not be paid. The Tennessee banks declined to purchase the coupons of the State bonds, and, in the general rush to sell, not only the Securities of that State, but of all the border States, rapidly declined. There is, however, as regards Virginia, a hope that the July interest will soon be paid ; the military governor, General Stoneman, is hard at work to effect this object. He says there are now in the Treasury $200,000, an 1 he feels con fident that the full sum due, $750,000, . can be raised, as the money is in the State, to preserve its financial credit ; and he has directed the railway and othersorporations to appropriate for this pur pose a share of their earnings. A correspondent of the Standard suggests that the Red, White, and Blue be purchased by a shilling subscription, and placed on the ornamental water in St. James's Park. The idea is good, as it would save a beautiful little craft, alike ornamental and interesting either on the Serpentine, or the place named by J. C. C. At present she is rotting on the mud bank at Greenhithe, and her poor owner and navigator, Capt. Hudson, seems to be in almost as deplorable a plight. A few thousand shilling sub scriptions would renovate both, and as the vessel is a real curiosity from her marvellous performance, she would certainly not be out of place either on the Serpentine or the ornamental water in St. James's Park. It appears that the Roman Catholic Archbishops of New York, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and St. Louis find that the proposed raising of an American regi ment for theragarService will not do in the United States. They protest against the enterprise, which could not, they believe, be successfully carried out ; and if it could, would be detrimental to the Papal cause. They desire to maintain the temporal power, but only by justifiable means, and they continue to urge their generous and faithful children to con tribute abundantly for that object, pecuniary aid being at present more wanted than military aid. They assert that the person now named as the re cruiting officer does not, and is not, entitled to en joy their confidence. _ It is noticed by a contemporary that the Ameri can device of fillibustering has been introduced into the British House of Commons. Five motions were on 'Thursday night brought forward in succession to adjourn, and the majority kept walking round the lobbies without sign of flinching, and the filli busters only yielded out of consideration for the Speaker, who hinted at what they owed to their own dignity. Our contemporary adds—" If all the personalities, exhibitions of bad temper, and distressing scenes of one kind and anot'ier which have marked the present session, were brought together, the public would arrive at the conclusion that we have not much reason to draw comparisons in our own favour between the British and the American Legislatures." The truth is that the battle is becoming earnest, and therefore more hot and furious. It is all very well for the Lords, who do not care a " rap," to main tain a calm and dignified demeanour, but stamp on the gouty toe of a Peer—and see what you will get. Specie continues to flow across from New York. On the 11th the steamers carried to Europe $1,750,000 ; the 14th, $275,000 ; on the 15th, $850,000 ; 16th, $125,000. Gold closed on Thurs day at 142, a steady rise ; 5-20 Bonds of 1882 were 114, which shows that no fall took place on the legislatioii in' the 'Senate with regard to the United States Securities becoming known in Wall street, a good sign of the opinion of those best able to judge. We learn by a telegram from Paris that in the action for damages brought by the United States against M. Annan, the French ship-builder em ployed by the Confederate authorities to build cer tain blockade-runners, the Imperial advocate summed up his speech by calling upon the Court to reject the claim made by the United State 3. The Court decided upon postponing judgment for a fortnight. The lion. Reverdy Johnson was to resign his seat in the Senate on the 10th inst. During the present session ho has only been absent ono day on account of sickness. Ife is the senior in years and iu service in the Chamber. Governor Swann, of Maryland, offered S. Teaekle Wallace, of Baltimore, the seat, but as the term expires on the 4th March, and W. F. Hamilton has already been elected. Mr. Wall declined to serve for the eight months, the more so as he is a lawyer in extensive and lucrative practice. It is thought that W. Piukney Whyte, of Baltimore, will be appointed, of course a strong Demo crat, for the Governor's stripe is pretty well known. A call had been issued by Generals George F. Shepley, John C. Caldwell, S. E. Conner, Frank Fessen den, George L. Beal, and 75 others, upon the Union sol diers of Maine to assemble in mass meeting in Portland, July 6, to ratify the nominations of Grant and Colfax. The Secretary of War has granted leave of ab sence for three months, with permission to visit Europe, to Second Lieutentant Loyal Farragut, who intends to join the squadron under the command of his father, Admiral Farragut. He has received permission to delay reporting for duty On the expiration of his leave until the Ist of January, 1869. David Makepeace, of Norton, Eastern Massa chusetts, who was 100 years old on September 9, is healthy and happy yet. He remembers well the .day of Bunker Hill and other stirring events of that period, and delights in repeating that his vote has been cast at every Presi dential election in our land, for Washington and Lincoln twice each, and that if he lives until November he will vote for Grant .and Colfax. Professor C. E. Stowe, of Andover, with his son, Captain Frederic W. Stowe, sailed from New York, the last week in June, for Cadiz in Old Spain, mainly for the health of the young man, who has never recovered from the severe wound ho received at the battle of Gettysburg. Professor Chadbourne, formerly of Williams Col lege, finds his health greatly improved since his resi dence in Wisconsin; indeed completely restored. lie is president of the State University at'lliadison, and is re organising and revivifying it with his natural enthusiasm. The bequests of the late Gen. Abijith Thompson, of Woburn, were $1,003 to the American Bible Society; $l,OOO to the Home Missionary Society; $l,OOO to the First Congregational Church of Woburn; $2,000 to Woburn for a Cemetery, and $lO,OOO to Warren Academy. Brevet Major General Nelson A. Miles, of the regular army, was married at Cleveland, Ohio, on the BOth ultimo, to Mary Hoyt, oldest daughter of Judge Charles T. Sherman, of the Northern Judicial District of Ohio, at Trinity Church, the Rev. Dr. Starkey officiating. There were six bridesmaids. Lieutenant-General Sherman and Major-General Sheridan wore of the bridal party. Among other military gentlemen present were Major-General Swayno, Brigadier-General Forsyth, Brigadier-General Kiddoo, commanding at Detroit, and Major Geddes, the latter of General Miles's staff. The bridegroom is Assis tant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina, with headquarters at Raleigh. He is Major- General by brevet, his full rank being Colonel of the 40th regulars. After the ceremony the guests wore entertained at Judge Sherman's residence. We rejoice to see that the United States are taking action with regard to Paraguay, the Senate having unanimously confirmed the nomination of General M'Mahon as Minister. An officer of high rank and good service has boon selected, as the present circumstances of that country are considered so important as to justify the appointment. • Mr. Cyrus W. Field left London last Saturday for Switzerland ; the ladies of his family having pre ceded him. . Mr.. Mozier, the American artist, so long resident in Rome, after a short visit to Loudon has proceeded to Germany to try the waters lei the benefit of his health. The Hapsburg family have sent services of plate to the value of 50,000 florins to the two advocates who defended the Emperor Maximilian and refused all recom pense in money. At the same time his late Majesty's confessor was presented with a cross of great price. Mr. R. M. Hoe, inventor of the famous printing press, has memorialized Congress for an extension of his patent, which expires on the 21th of this month. It was originally granted in 1816, and subsequently extended in 1801, since which last date Mr. Hoe says that becaese of the war he has sold but few presses. Mr. Cooper, the explorer, has reached the con fines of Western China, and, according to the last advices was 15 days journey from Thihet. Capt. Henry M. Jones, a gallant and well-known °filo, r of the English army, who iu the Crimea was deco rated with the V.C., has been appointed her Majesty's Consul-General at Tabreez. For some years this gentle man acted as her Majesty's Consul at the Feejee and Tonga Islands, and on his road home crossed the South American Continent. When a young subaltern of the 60th Rifles lie made his way through Persia and by the Caspian into Russia, and spent some time at the city to which he is now accredited Consul-General. The ap pointment is of the greatest importance in view of the Russian advance towards the Indian frontier, and it may become imperatively necessary for England to be repre sented in these regions by men of judgment and intre• pidity. The United States Minister, Mr. Bancroft, arrived at Carlsruhe last Tuesday on a similar mission to that which he has just successfully concluded at Muuich and Stuttgardt, which is the conclusion of a treaty with Baden respecting the naturalization and protection of emigrants. Mr. Anthony Trollope having completed his di plomatic mission in the United States with regard to the Post office was to sail from New York last Wednesday. Mr. Delmar, superintendent of statistics, 1 133 been legislated out of office by the Senate. Thomas W. Osborne has been admitted as Sena- tor from Florida, and Mr. Hamilton, for tho same State, has taken his seat in the House. A letter from Washington thus describes the newly-appointed American Minister to St. James's Reverdy Johnson has always had, to me, the look of one of the more voluptuous Roman emperors. Perhap' I got the idea from a remembrance of Gerome's picture of the Col )sseutn, where a self-indulgent, over- fattened Galba, or Otho, or somebody, is leering down at the bloody gla diators as they cry 'Ave Clesar ." His head and face ara strong and intellectual down to the lip ; the under lip an chin aro retreating and deciiedly irresolute and self enjoying to me. I know that it is often a mistake to judge public mon by these facial marks. Mr. Johnson has besides lost one eye, and while this does not make him at all unsightly, it gives a humorous suggestion of the arena to his face. His ears are large, like those of nearly all Senators. Politicians have habitually big 0 05 ' His head is solid and large, and the milk-white hairs hold fast to it, except around the temples. His eyesight is now very dim indeed. His life has been moderately successful in temporal things. He has a good farm, stock, a city residence, but scarcely ranks among rich men. There is no affectation about him. Perfectly at home over a dinner of roast beef and old port, old enough to fulfil a British idea of a statesman's age, and widely acquainted with th e personnel of American and foreign public people for half $ century, we send this most agreeable of our public men to England with the indorsement that he is more unlike Boston common, and also more unlike . a first family of Virginist than any type of man we possess." The following is going the rounds of the Ameri can papers :—" The Empress of the French has erased from her visiting list the American families B-- a nd - A—, who had been introduced during the absence of the Duke de Dusan°. Her Majesty, it is said, thought the young ladies too eccentric." The prizes of the Union League Club of New York for the best essays on the organization of the people at primary elections have been awarded in the following order : —ssoo to M. E. Banker, of West Chester, Pa.; $ 3OO to Charles G. Came, of the Boston Journal; $2OO to Russell Errett, of 'Pittsburg. The essays are said all to agree in the essential features of the plans of reform whicil they suggest. Andrew Johnson (junior) and the ladies of th e President's family have left Washington fur Tennessee t ° spend the rest of the season at their old home. Colonel N. 0-. Taylor, Cominis3ioner of Indian affairs, highly indignant at the charges made against Witt regarding the sale of the Osage lands to a railway com pany, has demanded an investigation into his conduct. , H. P. Baldwin, of Detroit, ha s b een nominate a for Governor by the Republicans of Michigan, 31 ,4 '0 1 Bates for Lieut.-Governor, Dwight Day for Attorney" General, and Charles W. Craswell, wi.h J o hn Butt, f °l electors at large. Mr. M'Cormick, the Republican candidate, hn e been elected delegate to Congress for the territory °f Arizona. Senator Fessenden has declined the public dinn er at Boston. Governor Fenton also declined a public dint' : offered by some gentleme n o f N ew Y or k, an d the polite attention of Stanton's friends was foiled by that gentle man, who refused to be consoled by a public dinner when he retired from office. Ristori, Tostee, Ls Grange, and Henry J. 'l e l; mond all sailed front New Y or k for H a vr e in the stego e " Ville de Paris. Mr. Raymond will be absent two months, and La Grange and Tostee are both under engagem ents to return to America and continue their operatic singing ; General J. W. Phelps and J. K. Converse hO, issued addresses to the people of Vernipnt on behalf some 2,500 freedmen who have applied for passage t o La beria, and proposed that contributions for their aid sb cni be made in the churches after July 4. tei A month ago the Postmaster-General appo-la Henry M. Gillette, postmasterat Sharon, Connecticut, aliej now he has removed Mr. Gillette and appointed S amil L. Gager. General John A. Rollins, chief of the staff, Cori' ducts the business of the army during the abse nce ° General Grant in Colorado. Rev. George Beebe, the representative of G °s ' port, Isle of Shoals, in the Legislature, is the first seleci, man, minister, physician, justice of the peace, and solll t y master of that little town. He graduated at the Univ er h s- ,,i of New York, is denominationally a illetholist, and been on the island about 13 years, under the meagre P; trooaga of a missionary society. He was in the 3 105ic ,te war under General Scott, and was engaged in six of "00 severest engagements before the capture of the citY• „ fo r held a sergeant's warrant, and was awarded the s i'l a medal La. meritorious conduct, and in the rebellion aele as surgeon. L ie There are four Cubans, one Gorman, and „ African among the students at Wilb ra h a m . 11 c 3 ' A °- Western Massachusetts. The Rev. E-trl Guilford of Co nwa y, svh ° k il3 : gradually grown insane, was on Friday, J u n e 26, va ":. to the insane asylum at Northampt on , W es t e rn 3 - 11 ' 5-3 chusetts. W. K. Lewis and Son, of West Brookfield, c ° 0 doused milk manufactur er s, h ave rece i ve d a n order fr . ° 4 China for 1,728,00.0 cans thereof. This is not surp risl if the Chinese have learnt the uses of milk, which are known in China. 1.71 Thurlow Weed was to have sailed for Euroll e ad o ono of the late steamers, but was prevented by a °ll and severe attack of apoplexy. Ho was getting bettertio cording to last advices, and will carry out his in t° when sufficiently recovered to pay Europe a visit. at Zachariah Eastman, Esq., United States Co n a at Bristol, left Liverpool for America last Wednest l3 Nr , the City of Paris, on two months' leave of absence' ho pe Eastman has important business to transact, and W ° 40 4 soon to hear that a large me a s ure o f success has revo" so ingenious and indefatigable an inventor. Pie' Mr. James Gallatin, for nearly thirty yeah re sident of the Gallatin N a ti ona l B an k , N ew York, 11$41 t ioll signed the preSidency of that institution. The reeig l l , o' of Mr. Gallatin having been accepted, Frederick V' A iree' pen, cashier of the bank, was unanimously elected 1 ' ; tor, and subsequently p res ide n t, i n the place Gallatin, and Alex. H. Stevens appointed cashier. ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER n 74 Leer ERlE.—Among those lost by the sinking of the s tea Morning Star, in the recent collision on Lake Vr ie ' f tli Allan Iddings, son of Mrs. Mary Iddings, widen' ° ev il late Hiram Iddings, of Cleveland. He was about t i :00 0 years of age, a young man of excellent character s lll.4 "„rid ° promise, greatly beloved by all his acquaintances, the Flot of the family, and the joy of his mother's lit:A rt * l ,o4 d before the steamer sailed on h er ill-f a t e d voyage o tito Iddings was introduced to the Mi s s e s P a tchen, tvre;' ladies of Troy, by Mr. William Edwards, in - win/s e ,:ot , they had been visitin g , as th e y h a d no gentleman r c ota: tor on board. He was l as t seen after the collision, irjositiP piny with those yo ung l a di e s, aiding and eu eoll tb era them, and it is thought that his unselfish devotion may have contributed to his own death. His ino the roj ea a native of Westfield, daughter of Enoch Clark, f° l fitttr of that place, and sister of the Rev. P. K. Clark of neague. IV 0 The Naples and Florence Observer reo l3 0 ,0 11 , " English words are gradually creeping into 1 100 Continent—not only iu Franco but in many parts ? ng fi ta ' , The Neapolitans have a great liking for everlt h , l l- pae r o fish—from partners for life down to hats or ie ‘i loons. One never sees a French hat in Nal''''''jray,4 l , least one with a French maker's name in it : „7„, V' 10 that very few sold for English have ever o `:` 0 0, 4 0 dJn, but we would wager a trifle that 11 °' ~pitb ill ever turned out of a manufactory in Naple s o oeftd Christy's or Chapman's name iu it. Pale ale k' al e spelt Pelel) is beginning to be liked, although sq, 1 01 ; e clo wry faces have been made iu acquiring the t ` 3 ,,reCi s : to Amongst the lower orders too we seem to be t'P,,r o the,' for it is not an uncommon compliment for on e pay to another admiring her child—' Inglese" Quanta belle' Births. il 11° 91Iiret BIXNING—On the 13th inst., at Arderne ID . "' ° , 10 the Lady Binning, of a datlghter. f th e ELL IS—On the IGth inst , at 4, Eecleston - s tree. , e la ij 1 Mrs. Arthur Ellis, of a . daughter. t r $ SCOTT—Onrig the IZ.th inst., at 3, Tilney-stree./ the Lady Henry Scott, 'of a daughter. Marriages. Vr" i s, LEMNION- TOMLINSON-On the 16th in t , t - 17 1 -1 :4 °,. Embassy, Brussels Edward Birt ° te Suffolk-plaeo, to Matilda, third (-131-:. " T. R. Toinlius3n, Esq., of Smith's Falls, C'it'' i,l : J Al: l , i rl ge' STEPHENSON-ROGER-Oa the 15th inst., Newmarket, ltob..yrt Stephenson, o f B u rwell , r i'" shire, only son of Mr. 11. M. S .- 'pi • son to '"" v - ,tr eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel ' , •-e n r n,, , of cet Deaths. t efi •A ALEXANDER—On the 161,11 inst., at 30, Cainh fiti-e o otio Notting-hull, Jane Alexander, aged 83. A 0 1 DATES-On the Nth inst ,at 11, Belgrave-r°,74/. .., 0 . Mary, the wifo of Maje ' r-General Ba,tes, ag e ", `.: e q , DEwituitsT—On the 14th inst., at Konytta ~',,- 1- t ' 3 Manchester, Richard Watson Marshall - .190W" -r° ' (0 li'' aged 09. t wit D'' • IM - ARDS -Onth s 14th inst ,at Sc cVonottlo, "" , Jane Edwards, aged 77. ---------.Big n.N ' - - ----- ---- -- --- .... - 1 - 0 ,- Lontl9n : Printed and Published by WI LLIAYi 'l' Dio C. of No. 112, Itrand, Printer, at Tait SON 031c000:iti Strand, in ths Precinct of the Savoy , in tile Middlesex.—Saturday, July 18, IW. k iN4 Pri ze This ce me 4 Iti 8 P M „SON i n 448 lgentl 8, 4 44 's LLB Obs 1 / 1 111 14, nu All PVC - ° 1 ( 1 or L hie vreet P onta fr( 11,0 Y The GERAt their firs 4 411 e trag of th nv th e most: lirst Rust Mis s L( kiss sntlT tl Co:nic ; sc 'n ~, To Mr . 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