The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-25 00:00:00

sr . IRIT OF _TVE_PUBLI9 JOURNALS.' The public will learn with great satisfaction that Mr. Speke is said to be alive and Nfell. He is said to be living itt Padstovr„ Cornwall. But, asks the Zaia, what Is the cause of his eittraot)inSay escapade guppOAng him to be iris posseSsiot! 0 al his fkiiiti4, and to this at wi he44Tbetite reaniutioU Of :IFithdrav4ng ;Ira : self either for a tune or perritanentlY frein the soctleWOf all who knew him, it difficult to imagine . 14, M' bie heart less and mischlevous :acV. ge has brought the - most poignant distress otilififrienas, die hiainbjeCtect the" to infinite inctintenienCe and anxiety, he has in fl icted no little labour on the police, and he has terrified the more timid part of the public beyond measure. In short, he has made a public scandal, for which he will assuredly have to do penance. A man has, indeed, a right to go where he pleases, but he has no right to make off under circumstances which' Must bring suspicion of the most heinous crime upon the4neighbourhood, and possibly upon some innocent person. He has no right to make appointments for the purpose of persuading the world that he intended to go out only for an hour, the necessary consequences being a belief that he has met a violent end. Such conduct is not only an offence against morality, but against the public peace, though from its rarity it has never been brought under the penalties of the law. This strange affair con firms a remark we made in first commenting upon the subject—that it was a mistaken method to suggest only reasonable hypotheses when speculating on actions which were probably completely Unreasonable. It is quite natural that people in general should have thought it impossible that Mr. Speke should be alive and in posses pion of his liberty. They could not conceive such cunning and perversity as were indicated by the order to the groom to be in waiting the next evening at the station, the guying of the hat, and the appointment made for half-past six ; that, moreover, he should leave family and friends'in the deepest trouble, and remain indifferent to every call of affection or honour week after week. But ,experience in the morbid part of human nature teaches that men do these things, and that the very qualities which make the action strange and repulsive to the rest of the world' exercise a fascination over them. After the painful anxiety this eyelet has produced, it will be a relief if we are assured that it has only been the result of eccen ,iricity and folly carried to their extremes, and that thcre ig , nO reason t4I believe London to be more unsafe now than it has hitherto been. Great crimes are rare in this metropolis, considering its enormous extent and population, and it may b&said confidently that in no great city of the world are the streets more safe to one whO goes about his busi ness steadily and soberly. For the full and complete solution the Herald supposes we must wait awhile, until it shall please the person best able to';inform us upon the matter. But that some such explanation will be forthcoming we can hardly doubt. Mr. Speke owes: it to himself, no less than to his family, his friends, an the public, to tell us not only why he left London, but. why, when he had left it, he remained so obstinately silent as to his whereabouts, while his name was in everybody's mouth, and placards offering £5OO for his disc:Overy were on every street wall. At the same time, what we know already chews how difficult it is to draw a correct inference from a given set of somewhat singular circumstances. A number of sharp-witted folks have busied 4 themselves in accounting for the missing cler gyman, and almost by common consent they satisfied themselves that he had been brutally murdered. The facts were elicited bit by bit, but we were assured that . they all shewed a settled purpose in coming to London, ancl,a series of arrangements for spending his time while in it, rendering any sudden start highly improbable. We shall hope to hear before long what Mr. Speke has to say for himself, or what his friends can say for him. It may be that he went off on some sudden impulse, but why did he keep silence so long ? Perhaps he will publish his .experiences in a handsome volume, for though he has not gone very far, he must have a good deal to tell. It has long been a. common complaint of our ambassa dors and Ministers, the Post reminds us, that they are unable to negotiate with effect, because every petty prince and his courtiers are aware that there is nothing to gain or lose by them. We have treated our diplomatic service of late years in the same manner as we have treated all the other belongings of the old privileged class. We have made it thoroughly uncomfortable and unremunerative. There is no career in the service of the Crown so thoroughly unprofitable and discouraging. The road to diplomatic honours is long and difficult. When they are attained they are not worth having. It is not going too far to say that there is not a single British embassy or mission of which the salary is equal to the official claims upon it. The public, and especially the House of Commons, is apt to think that no one is concerned in this grievance but the ambassadors themselves ; and that there is certainly no want of candidates for diplomatic employment. The truth, nevertheless, re mains, that a physician, a barrister in fair practice, or a prosperous clergyman, are far better paid while living in privacy:at home than the men who, towards the close of life, are at last promoted to represent the majesty and power of England at the most brilliant Courts in the world. An embassy of the right sort would have pre vented the war in Persia a few years ago, as it did for merly in the time of Sir John Malcolm ; and ten or twenty thousand pounds properly expended at the right time would have saved us all the millions we are now throwing away in Abyssinia. Moreover, it is worth con sideration that money expended on the sober magnificence of foreign embassies is no loss to the national treasury whatever. Missions of equal splendour are returned to us, and we may by active negotiations reap whatever trade advantage we will without the burden of wars. By and by, in due course also, the Sovereign often comes himself to see us, and pays his travelling expenses royally in fifty wads. It may be worth while to think of these things before our penny wisdom brings about some other little war. It is doubtful, says the Daily News, whether the United States Congress will be content to leave the President in the undisputed possession of the Presidency till the end of his term. The crisis of the dispute between the two hostile powers of the Government has now evidently arrived. But nothing can be more unfortunate for himself than the clumsy and unstatesmanlike way in which Mr. Johnson has brought the crisis about. His correspondence with General Grant has been read all over the Union, and has rendered it clear to both friends and enemies that Mr. Johnson is actively desirous to frustrate the law which it is his function to execute. He seems to be de termined to push matters to extremes, and his opponents never had so many reasons to accept the issue and to fight it out at once. He has never consented to compromises, and seems now to have resolved to force on Congress an uncompromising policy. With what hope, or with what calculation of chances, if with any, he does this it is hard even to guess, unless he speculates on the possibility of nomination for the Presidency by the com bined Democrats and disloyalists of both North and South. But whatever his motives may be, his action is calculated to undo his friends, and to serve his enemies. The members of the United Executive Relief Committee sitting at the Mansion House at their last regular weekly meeting adjourned without making a single grant. It was not that they were without funds. Neither was relief withheld because of any marked decrease in the excel). tional distress in the East of London. But there was a " strike" in the Isle of Dogs, or an allegation of a strike, and the ugly question of trades-unionism was pressed home on the attention of the committee by Mr. Samuda. Messrs. Pontifex and Co. had that morning published a statement that thirty carpenters, employed temporarily by them at Millwall (to repair, it was presumed, certain damages caused by a recent fire), had struck work under circum stances which seemed to constitute a peculiar aggra vation. Supposing, says the Standard, it were really true that thirty men had struck work in the manner stated, why should the committee stay their hands and cease to mitigate the wide-spread distress of the Eastern parishes? These carpenters were not shipwrights, and if they were, it is evident that East London distress extends much wider than the Isle of Dogs. But the question was put on a very broad basis. The offer which Mr. Bullivant had brought forward for the building of one or two iron ships had fallen through, and there was too much reason to fear that the failure was due to the interference of the trades unions. It was thought exceedingly likely that the affair at Messrs. Pontifex's would be traceable to a similar Cause, and it was suggested that there was danger lest the unionist element should also receive support—directly or indirectly—from the charitable subscription s of the public. The case, the Standard admits, is a very sa d one still, the United Executive was not constituted for the purpose of destroying trades unions, though it is un doubtedly the duty of its members to see, s o f ar as lies in their power, that public charity shall Slot be perverted into the promotion of those restrictive and mischievous in st; tu ti °us. Sir Colman O'Loollen has, in the opinion of the Tele giwidt, fallen into a common error of amateur legislators, and, in a measure inst introduced, has mixed up together things that are t( itally distinct. His Bank Holidays' Bill has two separate objects—one to increase the number of fixed holidays for the special belloof of bank and custom-110113e cleAs ; the second, to consult the conveniences of flier cmtile iyrn lv a:tering the due date of bills. Some of the iindoubt..;.lly improvements on existing and may be a•lopted ; others ought certainly to be r. , jected. For instance, the enactment of a bank holiday on ti;e 2'";th of Dec:nd - ier, or St. Stephen's Day, as Sir Colman persists in calling it, is an innovation that might cause grave inconvenience in London. The him. member can hardly he considered an authority on such matters as the business arrangements of this metro ; if he knew much about them, he would admit that while Boxing Day is an occasion of idleness and dissipa• tion for two-thirds of those living within the sound of Bow bells, it is a day of specially hard work for the remainder. To enforce a cessation of bank facilities on that day would, to a, considerable ex t en t, ma k e t h e fi ve f ollow i ng d ays of the year a term of greater slavery than they now are, by compressing more labour within the short spans which winch up Vlo Yt4le; Pr4cCe4rOsi LAW.AZTD POLION. INPORTAVT CASE BEFORE THE PRIVY COi7N6IL.—An application was made on Monday to the Judicial Com mittee Of the Privy Council for special leave to appeal from a decision of the Court of Chancery at Bermuda. The circumstances were peculiar, and the Colenso case, it was mentioned, was supposed to govern the present•bne. The 'governor of the colony had, on the part of the Crown, presented a clergyinen, and his induction had been re fused. That were two livings, and in one case he was opposed by force. The Crown applied to the Court of Chancery, and the application was refused on the ground that the Colenso case was in point, but the Solicitor- General submitted that it could not govern the present application, as the Bishop of Bermuda and the bishops in Africa were different, and the same view could rot pre vail. Their lordships granted the application. FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY.—At the Mansion House, Alexander Hannah and William Patterson were charged before Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., with various offences under the Bankruptcy Act of 1861, with intent to defraud their creditors. The prisoners had been grocers and tea dealers in the Nlw North-road since the beginning of 1867, and for a short time they paid ready money for their goods ; and within the three months previous to their adjudication as bankrupts they had obtained on credit from various wholesale merchants in the City £2,000 worth of teas. As soon as the chests were delivered in the New North-road they were sent to Glas gow, where they were sold by auction by direction of the prisoners, by Messrs. John and James Morrison, of Ren field-street. The prisoner Patterson had hired a room in a house in Elder-street, Edinburgh, in which he stored upwards of 100 boxes of tea, of the value of about £l5O, which were seised after the adjudication in bankruptcy, by order of Mr. Commissioner Winslow. The prisoners were apprehended at a fishing village in Wigtonshire, by John Mark Bull, a City detective sergeant, and Patterson then gave up a book containing entries of all the transac tions with the London merchants and Glasgow auctioneers. Both prisoners were committed for trial. THE DISCOVERY OF MR. SPEKE. It appears that information was received at Plymouth on MJnday afternoon that the Rev. Mr. Speke had been found by the Cornish police. It seems that on Wednesday last Sergeant Soady, of Padstow, Cornwall, received a photograph and description of a man named Ayre, who had absconded from Hull with a large sum of money. On the following Friday he saw a man at Pad stow, dressed as a bullock-drover, who, he believed, answered the description of Ayre. He conversed with him at his lodgings, and left. Soady then sent for Inspector Opie, of Wadebridge, who went to Padstow, and, with the sergeant, on Saturday took the person into custody, and found a large sum of money in his possession. The officer took him before H. P. Raw lings, Esq., justice of the peace at Padstow, who remanded him for three days. Meantime the police sent a letter to Sergeant Barnes, of Bodmin, who on receiv ing it went, accompanied by Mr. Vincent, deputy chief constable, to Pads w, and after minutely examining the prisoner, those officers were satisfied he did not correspond with the description of Ayre. They then waited on the magistrate, who considerately remanded the prisoner to Bodmin. On the way the police officers were struck with the gentlemanly bearing and deport ment of the prisoner, and were convinced they had no ordinary man. On arriving at their destination a more strict search was made of the prisoner and his luggage, among which were several books with the name of " Dick Madwell " written in them, besides articles of clothing to enable him to assume any disguise. The police, however, were not to be deceived, for having seen a description of the Rev. Mr. Speke in the news papers, they turned their attention in that direction, and after a most careful observation and comparison they were strongly satisfied that their prisoner was no other than the Rev. B. Speke. They charged him with it, and after con siderable hesitation he admitted he was the Rev. Mr. Speke. They communicated at once with London. It appears that the first intimation received by the London police was through the Home Office, the chief constable of the county of Cornwall having forwarded in telligence of the discovery of Mr. Speke to the Secretary of State, who immediately communicated the news to Sir Richard Mayne. Mr. Speke's brother-in-law, Mr. Mur doch, who has taken the prominent part in seeking to trace the missing gentleman, was also apprised of his where abouts. It is stated that Mr. Murdoch's information was received directly from Mr. Speke himself ; who, having exhausted his slender stock of money, and being conscious of having placed himself in rather a false position, desired the means of leaving the country for America. The Star says :—" Certain it is— and we state it on the most reliable authority—that almost up to the receipt of the eh:- f Commissioner's note by the newspapers, Mr. Murdoe.. sen. was in utter ignorance of what had become of Mr. Spekc, whose sister is married to Mr. Murdoch jun., and that it was after the publication of the evening papers when the latter made preparations o leave London for Cornwall by the night mail. What business or pleasure brought Mr. Speke to P , leow—what con dition he is in there, or what circumstances led to his discovery his nearest friends, last night, pro fessed to be ignorant of. The services of unofficial people, which his relatives secured to supplement the exertions of the police, were continued up to yesterday evening, and, so late as eight o'clock last night, a man em ployed in the search made his report at the house of Mr. Murdock sen. As is quite natural in a case of so unac countable and suspicious a disappeara - ice, every tongue is busy in propagating solutions of the enigma ; and now that Mr. Speke's personal safety is assured, invention has aban doned the c - arges so freely made against unknown assassins and transferred its attention to the rev. gentleman him self, whose absence is now set down to causes, posLible no doubt, but improbable when the character and profession of Mr. Speke are taken into account. One and all of his relatives and friends indignantly scout the idea that aught of disgrace can attach to him when the truth is known, and that he can be but blamed for a silence unpardonable under circumstances of so much family pain and public excitement. It is devoutly to be wished that, before this day passes, the expectations of Mr. Speke's friends in this respect may be realised." MEDICINES Fon THE USE OF THE Poor.. —ln April 1865 a letter was addressed by the Poor law Board to every union and parish in England and Wales suggest ing the advisability of providing a store of cod-liver oil at the workhouse, or some other convenient place, for distri bution amongst the sick poor on the prescription of tie medical officers through the relieving officers, and that quinine and r expensive medicineishould be supplied either by an order of the medical officer on a chemist, or by the medical officers themselves. It appears that in 401 unions the guardians have acted wholly or partially on the recommendation of the Poor-law Board, and in 225 they have not acted upon it. THE SINGULARITY IN THE CALENDAR.—It has been remarked that in 1868 there are five Saturdays in February. By a rough guess, it would seem, it has been added that this has not taken place for a score of years, Exactly twenty-eight years, amounting to a solar cycle, have elapsed since the same thing occurred. During that period each day of the week has enjoyed the honour of appearing five times in February in its own leap year, The calendar of the present century contains twenty-four leap years, which may be arranged in seven classes : February has five Sundays in 1824, 1852, 1880 ; five Mon days in 1808, 1836, 1864, 1892 ; five Tuesdays in 1820, 1348, 1876 ; five Wednesdays in 1804, 1832, 1860, 1888 ; five Thursdays in 1816, 1844, 1872; five Fridays in 1828, 1856, 1884 ; five Saturdays in 1812, 1840, 1868, 1896. Perthahire Advertiser. SUICIDES BY CHILDREN. —Dr. Lankester has held di inquest at the Empress of Russia Tavern, Owen's-row, islington, upon the body of a boy named Victor Ver. beyst, aged 13 years, who came to his death by hanging. Mr. Joseph Verbeyst, the father of the deceased, said he was a Belgian, and had been in London only a few years. He lived at 11, Rydon-crescent, Islington. His son was a very good boy, and on Wednesday last was working by his side at his business of a pocket-book maker. He in quired of him when he should he allowed to go to school again, to which witness replied as coon as he could spare him. He went out of the workshop, and witness saw no more of him until he was called to open the door of the water closet, wherein he (deceased) was supposed to have fallen asleep. He discovered him hanging by a cord. He was in a sitting position, quite dead. The cord was fastened to the handle of the door. Deceased had been reading some of the cheap litcrature of the day—" The Boys of E ng l an d , " and other similar publications - and his (witness' s ) impression was that he had been " experi menting" and had killed himself accidentally. He could never ke p his son from the books he had spoken of. He was not ve r y p ass i onate, but slightly so. The Coroner said he had know n many cases where children had been killed through " experimenting" at hanging. Dr. Goddard, who was called to the deceased, said he tried every proper remedy to restore him, b u t w i thout avail. He spoke against the theory of death being the result of an accident. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind," supposed through the reading of a certain class of literature.—On Sunday night, Edward Elkin, 15 years of age, son of a dairyman, living in Chisel'. hall-street, Liverpool, committed suicide by hanging him self. No cause can at present be assigned for the rash act, except that his father had spoken to him sharply a b out two hours Previously. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1868 BAVARIA. (From a Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.) MumeH, Feb. 14. The last few days have added considerably to the store of sad experience we have been gathering here. The poor King has allowed himself to be seduced into taking a step which proves but too clearly to his subjects that, not content with sliding quietly and unresistingly along the downward path marked out for him by Prussian intrigue, he, with an activity un usual with him, collects his last energies to rush headlong into the abyss that is yawning at his feet. He offers a singular spectacle — this young Prince, so sickly and so inclined to melancholy, and yet seldom showing any traces of serious aspirations after higher things ! A few days ago, indeed, the sight of the im mense masses of the Munich people pressing forward with devout eagerness to their Cathe dral, on the occasion of the festival of its anni versary being celebrated, the religious enthu siasm of so many thousands so artlessly dis played, made, it is said, a deeper impression on him. To this feeling is attributed his giving the Archbishop a highly distinguished order on this occasion. But little account, however, can be taken of such flickering and uncertain gleams of a better feeling in a young man, who does not believe in the existence of a God! Your readers may be surprized, perhaps, that I should write thus, and I would not do so were it a secret. But the King himself a short time ago asked in all seriousness of his Minis ter of Justice (the well-known Herr Leitz, who passes for a Catholic, but who brings up his children Protestants) whether he believed in the existence of God, and on receiving an answer in the affirmative, rejoined—Are you then able to prove the existence of God? Such is our young King—such the questions he puts to a lukewarm, milk-and-water Catholic, whilst he refuses to see his old teacher and former confessor, the Abbot Haneberg; at least as I heard not long since, the Abbot Haneberg has repeatedly asked, and has been repeatedly refused, an audience. But enough of this. I wished to say a word or two on the political doings of the King, who never stirs in political matters, except when something utterly dis creditable and perverse is in view. For instance, during the whole of the very important de bates in the Chambers he was absent from Munich to the' moment when it was thought proper to bring the influence of his person and presence to avert the intended opposition of the " Reichsrath" to the Prussian customs treaty. He came, he spoke, he conquered —as Prussian vassal ! Now, again, a similar vassal-service has been required of him. The election for the " Zoll-Parliament" was about to take place ; the patriotic party had every hope of victory, and were to have a great meeting immediately previous to the day of election, and intended to hold it in the great hall in the Odeon, a royal building generally used for such purposes. But lo ! at the last moment, when there was no longer time to seek out a suitable place of meeting for so large an assembly, the King caused the Odeon Hall to be closed. He thus, at the same time, restrained the freedom of action in a most important party question, and threw the weight of the Royal will into the scale of the Prus sianizers. The consequence was that the Con servative party succumbed, the great majority of the electors taking no part whatever in the elections ; and in numberless cases a remark now often heard in Belgravia, was uttered aloud—" If the devil has taken possession of the King he may take the kingdom too." But that your readers may judge for themselves of the shamelessness of this party, I will tran scribe the words in which, immediately before the election, a correspondent of a paper friendly to the Government dared to speak of the above-mentioned party manoeuvre : " The Ministerial party have succeeded in baffling the plan of campaign laid down by the Conservative party ; the election of Schlor is secured ; the candidateship of Hew v. Schrenk has now no longer any existence but in the hands of his adherents. This has been decid edly brought about by the withdrawal of the Royal permission for the Bavarian election committee to hold the large meeting fixed for Sunday, the 9th, in the Odeon. This defeat of his opponents in a perfectly legal way really does all honour to the talent of Herr Von Schlor ; as one can easily imagine, the ad herents of the ' particularistic ' policy are very indignant, an d f rom th e i r po i n t o f view veryjustly so, for the people are now fully aware of the will of the Monarch. The Bava rian election committee, left high and dry by this manoeuvre, must give up all agitation for the election, through want of a suitable meet ing-place." In that part of Munich which lies on the other side of the Isar (like South wark), and includes several country districts, the Conservative party has, nevertheless, been victorious, as well as the greater number in the electoral districts • even in Augsburg, Wiirz burg, and Aschaffenburg, where the party of progress is, as I hear, fearfully enraged at the electoral success of the Catholics. Letters from Wiirzburg say, that until two days before the election the Progressists had had it all their own way, and alone were bestirring them selves about the election, perfectly confident ofan the Conservative triumph, party suddenly ap peared, address . peared, which was respon d e d t o b y a l arge majority in the town itself, and an immense majority in the country districts voting for the Conservative candidate. The clerical and national party have decidedly gained a signal victory, and this is acknowledged with undisguised astonishment by the Progressist journals ; they feel that their predominance is at an end, a n d w hil e t h e C at h o li c and I Conservative members in the present Bavarian Chamber can be counted on the fingers of one hand, they will form the great majority in the Customs Parliament at Berlin, and yet this party is but just beginning to be in some degree organized. Even in this elec tion there were many omissions, and many faults have been committed. The party which has lost most is the Government party, which, placed between the clerical party and that of the extreme Left, makes a very sorry figure in deed. At the close of the election here, there were long faces to be seen among the Minis terial clique, for the consequence of the un worthy intrigue of the Minister of Commerce, Von Schlor, against the Conservative party was, that the Minister himself received fewer votes than the candidate of the extreme Left. It is true the election is not yet at an end. As the candidate of the Progress party has not the half of the votes received, a new election must take place, the contest lying between him and the Government candidate, the Minister ; but the Conservatives, however, have only to withdraw from the lists to ensure the defeat of the latter, which, doubtless, will be the course most humiliating to a Minister, who, a short time since, had the vulgar insolence to cha racterize the Conservative addresses sent in by eighteen hundred and sixty-nine communes for the dissolution of the Chamber as " rub bish, slime, and polluted streams." Naturally the indignation felt in the country districts is by far the greatest, and, in many places, where the Progress party were successful in the towns, they were beaten from their being conjoined with country districts, where the honest and healthful-toned country people had the preponderance. In a great number of villages the country people voted with one voice for the Conservative candidate ; in some cases going all together to the place of elec tion in an orderly procession, with bands of music, and with the beloved white and blue flag flying, on which was embroidered the name of the patriotic candidate. This elec tion excitement of the people is closely con nected with the indignation aroused by the new school law, a pernicious piece of Freemason handy-work by our Minister of Instruction, Von Gresser, against which lately eighty ad dresses were presented in one day to the Reichs rath. This same Minister, as I have already, I think, informed you, put Professor Sepp .of this university upon the retired list without specifying any reasons for the act ; and the true-hearted Bavarians have shown what they think of it by electing him, by a very great majority, to the Customs Parliament. Dr. Jorg, editor of the Historich Politische Bliitter, has also come off with flying colours, another brilliant victory on the Catholic and Con servative side. One may easily imagine what was the feelings uppermost in Ministerial hearts at such results. Nevertheless the same Minister, Von Gresser, has lately also put Professor Muller, in Wilrzburg, on the retired list likewise, without any intimation of reasons for the act, but, doubtless, because he has been, as the Volksbote very truly remarks, "for years a thorn in the side of the Progressists." Our Minister busies himself in clearing away thus the Conservative and clerical element in com mon with his " brothers "in Austria. But to all appearance he will soon himself be sent into retirement, and his retirement will be no plea sant one. When the poor King sees the results of the elections, a feeling may stir his soul similar to what he lately experienced at the sight of the devout crowd that filled the Lieb frauen Church on the solemn festival of its jubilee. It has always been loudly rung into his ears " The people are with us." He now sees with whom the people, more particularly the Catholic people, are. With their God, their Church, and its priesthood, the people stand and vote, and act ; and the idols of the Masonic lodges fall to pieces ! Whilst writing these lines fresh accounts have arrived of the great election day, 10th of February. The results are more important even than we ourselves had dreamt of. The patriotic party have achieved a brilliant victory. The Minister of Commerce, in spite of the most eager exertions of the Government, has been defeated in three or four places. And where the Catholic party has been victorious the majority in many places is quite astounding ; and the small minority returned by the party of Pro gress is insignificant in talent, as well as in numbers. One remark that has been forced upon us by these elections is of mournful im port, namely, that the Protestant districts have proved themselves even more (than was ex pected) anti-Conservative and anti-Bavarian friends of Prussia. Some Catholics of this sort were only elected by taking refuge in these Protestant districts. The cause of this phenomenon is a double one—first, the Pro testant population have been much more worked upon by the revolutionary spirit ; second, the Protestant clergy cannot, if they would, exert the same influence over their people as the Catholic clergy do. and struggles, and at the same time to uphold Catholic doctrine in its fulness and complete ness, is the most likely way of leading back to the Church those who, amidst the multitudi nous errors which surround them, are proclaim ing by their lives, and by their teaching, so many great Catholic truths.— Westminster Gazelle. RITUALISM AND ITS REWARD. In things spiritual the mind of England is growing year by year coarser and more gross. The supernatural is not in the line of its pro gress. The cultivated intellect stands aloof, or trenches itself behind barriers of scepticism and of half doubts, whose nearest approach to faith is suspension of judgment as to the facts of Divine Revelation. The political mind of the country is also in its degree misled by the false lights of the new seers in the land—the philosophers and guides of the national intel lect. Politicians put theories into practice, and the theory that religion at best is but a matter of private speculation, about which the nation in its corporate capacity has no concern, is but too likely in the course of the next few years to become the political creed of England. The magnitude of such an evil in its immediate and practical consequences is fearful to con template. The religious mind of England also, split up as it ever has been since the Reforma tion into multifarious and minute divisions, is now, in addition, affected in its degree with the growing Rationalism of the day ; and if we turn to the immense masses of men who live and thrive in our great industrial haunts, with their appetites for gain whetted by suc cess, or to the working men in our dockyards, or in the mining or manufacturing districts, or to the agricultural labourers, we shall find in each class alike, though differing in outward form, either utter ignorance or a gross and coarse apprehension of spiritual ideas. Scep ticism, it is not too much to say, on the one side, and a low material view of religion on the other, have usurped dominion over the Eng lish mind. To r esist such a usurpation, to go against the current of such a stream, was the aim and work of Tractarianism in its day, and is now a work which fairly entitles the Ritualists, the heirs of the elder Tractarians, to the highest respect. Ritualism is a bold and public protest against the spirit and ten dency of the day ; it bears its testimony in favour of the supernatural in quarters where the presence of Catholicism is not seen, nor its influence felt. It is visited, consequently, with some of the obloquy , and, we are sorry to see, with some of the ribaldry which are the tributes that unbelief is wont to pay to the Catholic Church. For bearing the share of contumely which the Church, in its supreme Head on earth, in its priests and its monastic orders, inherits from the Cross of Christ, Ritual ism will not be without its reward. Public profession of faith, a spirit of self-denial, love of souls and unwor ldliness, are tokens that this latest development of Anglicanism moves in the direction of the Catholic Church. The result of this development is a clearer appre hension of Catholic doctrine, and a more pre cise teaching of the dogmas which the Ritual ists have learnt from Catholic definitions. And these Catholic dogmas are popularized and brought home to tens of thousands in the Ritualist churches throughout the kingdom. The results of this practical education in Catho lic doctrines are seen in the growth of more supernatural life, and, in its necessary conse quences—the innumerable and increasing con versions to the Catholic Church. These are the rewards of the spirit which Ritualism is cultivating in the minds of multitudes in the Anglican Church. The more the nation at large, as represented by the intellect and the masses of the country, is falling away from the faith and practice of Christianity, the quicker will those who hold to the belief in a revealed religion be driven for support in the tremendous conflict to the Catholic Church. It is the cleard uty of Catholics, under these cir cumstances, to aim at removing obstacles which may hinder the return of those who hesitate and linger at the threshold of the Church ; to stretch out a hand towards those who are struggling in doubt. Many of them look upon us askance, misjudge our motives in refusing to abate one jot or tittle of Catholic doctrine or Catholic practice on their behalf. In Catholicism they have yet to learn that there is no compromise possible with'error, however near that error may be to truth. Eclecticism is not Catholicism. It is of the essence of heresy to desire to select such truths only as are palatable, instead of accepting what the Church teaches by her infallible rule and her existing practice. But what it lies upon the conscience of every Catholic to do, is not to affront, not to embitter, not to turn away those who are, perhaps, angrily demand ing, not explanations only, but the surrender of certain portions of the Church's teaching. On the contrary, it is our part to show, patiently and kindly, 'and with the forbearance which men are entitled to who are honestly seeking after truth, the impossibility of such surrender. The Catholic faith is not of our making. We cannot palter with the divine gift. This im moveability of faith is what the Ritualists have to learn from the Catholic Church ; all that we can do in our controversy with them is to make the lesson as easy as possible. The momentous character of the issue at stake should induce Catholics to realize to them selves more and more the difficulties which beset those outside the Church, to throw them selves as much as possible into the habit of mind of Anglicans who honestly believe in the feasibility of the reconciliation of Anglicanism with the Church. They will then be better able to understand Anglican difficulties, or to offer with greater effect explanations of the insuperable obstacles which stand in the way of such a reconciliation. To put the best pos. giblo construction on ritualism, on its hopes MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. [From the Anglo-American Times.) On the 14th the only telegram relating to public affairs during the week was forwarded from New York. It announced that the new State Constitu tion had been defeated iu Alabama. In some coun ties hardly a tenth of the registered voters balloted, and in all the proportion had been up to the fourth day very small, the whites almost unanimously re fusing to vote. The defeat of the Alabama Con stitution will be followed by the defeat of those of the other Southern States, which will end the pre sent plan of Reconstruction. Whether the Senate will now pass Bill No. 4 remains to be seen, but, it is thought that this must be the result of the defeat in Alabama. The other message refers to the im peaehment of President Johnson, it was said, on the last news by mail from Washington to the 7th inst., to be untrue that the Reconstruction Com mittee even entertained the project. It appears to have been recommended on the ground of Mr. Johnson's opposition to the Tenure of Office Bill, that is to the Stanton-Rollins's affairs. It was de feated by six votes against three. Grant, Stanton, and Rollins are now at open war against the Presi dent, Randall, Browning, and Welles. A telegram, dated New York, 17th inst., says— " Intelligence received here from Japan via San Francisco, and dated the 27th ult., announces that the Daimios have revolted and made the Mi kado prisoner. The Shogoon had fled to Osaca, where he was organising a force to attack the Daimios. The town of Hiogo and two palaces at Jeddo had been burned. The foreign Ministers refused to interfere. The news from Shanghai was to the 20th of January. Rear-Admiral Henry H. Bell, commanding the United States squadron on the coasts of China and Japan, with his flag-lieute nant Reid, and a boat's crew of ten men, were drowned at Osaca on the 11th of January, while attempting to cross the bar. Rumours were still current of difficulties in Japan between the Mikado and the principal Daimios. From all accounts Theodore might well be de scribed as the Abyssinian Pet. He seems to be exactly suited to the idiosyncracy of the race. A delightful sensation of insecurity waits on those who wait on him, coupled with a charming antici pation of a novelty—a new thing in tableaux. The Times correspondent relates the following pretty little anecdote : "He summoned his chief followersaround him the other day, told them that they had better destroy him, as other wise he should destroy them, and then launched his spear through the body of the nearest. The rest, says the story, threw themselves down and kissed the ground. He does not spare even his own picked soldiers, and if a ti he of what is told of him be true, he is almost without a prece dent in history. Other tyrants have made the nobles, the people, and the soldiery by turns their victims; but Theo dore makes war upon them all at once, and is hated only less than he is feared:' It is almost a pity to deprive the Abyssinians of such a playful monster, for he is one that they are not likely to be able to replace. The American pumps are doing good service in Abyssinia, though considered too delicate for the rough and constant work required of them in the expedition. A large supply of water was produzed at Mayen, and, in addition to Norton's pumps, one of Bastier's has been brought into use, raising 700 gallons an hour. _ _ The people of Austin, Nevada, pay high for sport sleighing has lately been the fashion, and we pre sume the price is so exorbitant because in such a climate the amusement cannot last long. The sleigh bells jingle pleasantly 012 Maine-street, and well they may in their owner's ears, as for every hour they are in motion the hirers pay ten dollars in gold, or two guineas. The New York Republican State Convention for the choice of delegates to the Presidential Convention at Chicago was held on the sth inst. at Syracuse ; General Charles H. Van Wick presiding, and Horace Greeley, Vice-President. The delegates elected were Daniel E. Sickles, Lyman Tremaine, Charles Andrews, and D. D. Brown ; and the New York delegation was ordered to vote as a unit, and to use their best endeavours to nominate Grant and Fenton. Grant clubs are springing up in every direction, and the Republi cans are working earnestly in his favour since the publication of the correspondence between the General and the President which has committed Grant to their party. The Arkansas Convention has passed a resolution opposing an amalgamation of races. This is very considerate on the part of the Arkansas Conven tion, and no doubt will effectually settle the ques tion and save further discussion. Perhaps the Arkansas Convention will next turn its attention to establishing a connection with the moon. Its legislation in that quarter will be quite as effective and little less ridiculous. The Georgia Convention denies to the Civil Courts, jurisdiction over debts contracted previously to the termination of the re bellion. The Louisiana Convention has rejected an ordinance legalizing illegitimate offspring. The North Carolina Convention has expelled a news paper reporter for calling the black members " niggers," whereupon the Raleigh Carolina terms it " the Nigger Convention." It has rejected a reso lution declaring that persons unable to read or write are ineligible for public offices. In the Mississippi Convention a resolution was introduced to expel such reporters as do not put " Mr." before the names of the African delegates. This is a title often omitted as a prefix to the most distinguished names in the United States, and certainly their owners never regard it as a slight ; in fact, the higher the name the less chance there is of finding a prefix before it. Whenever the President's name is given he is simply styled Andrew Johnson. As the coloured delegates have shown such sensitiveness the papers take a delight in describing them in the way most calculated to touch their pride. An Atlanta paper calls them " Sambo's Convention ;" others, " the Destruction," " the Black Crook," " the Gorilla Bayonet," " the Congo," " the Great Ringed Streaked and Striped Negro Conventions ;" and in each State the ingenuity of the editors is exercised in discovering a new epithet. Richardson and Simonton, of the Georgia Convention, quar relled, when the latter shot the former, it is feared, fatally. Class day at Harvard gives its honours thus : Orator of the day, J. B. Amos, of Boston ; poet, D. Tiffany, of Worcester; chorister, F. I. Eustis, of Cambridge; ivy orator, J. F. Wheeler, of Watertown; at the supper— orator, C. G. Falls, of Malden ; chorister, G. F. Becker, of Cambridge ; odist, M. Reed, of Erie, Pennsylvania ; shronicler, H. M. Whitman. of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Rev. J. W. Potter preached at East Bridge port, Connecticut, on the 26th of January, and informed the congregation that if all the factories, stores, and other places of business were not closed on Monday at the hour appointed for meeting he would leave on Tuesday. The Springfield Republican pronounces this, dictatorial and impudent, adding, it is about tim e somebod y snubbed him We do not see it in this light, as people have only to carry on their usual occupations, and the rev. gentleman departs in dudgeon. He thus left Belchertown, Massachusetts, but nothing happened to the good people, nor need those of East Bridgeport anticipate any calamity from the de parture of Mr. Potter. Had he threatened to stay, the matter would have assumed quite another aspect, and we strongly recommend the reverend gentleman to change his tactics and try that plan. The Supreme Court of the United States has eight judges, each of whom receives a salary of $6,000, with the exception of the Chief Justice, wko-receives $5OO more. Their ages are ; —Chief Justice Chase (of Ohio), 60; Grier (of Pennsylvania), 72 ; Clifford (of Massachu setts), 63 ; Nelson (of New York), 70 ; Field (of (Califor nia), 45 ; Davis (of Illinois), 60; Swayne (of Ohio), 55 ; Miller (of Iowa), 41; Messrs Nelson and Clifford are De mocrats; Grier, doubtful; Field, Johnsonian ; Davis, Con servative Republican; Chaser, Swayne, and Miller, Radi cal. The number of judges has been reduced to seven, so that when one of the judges—who are appointed for life or during good behaviour"—dies or retires, no successor will be appointed. The details of the court are left to Congress, which has a constitutional power to say how many shall constitute a quorum, or what majority shall be required for a decision. An emplo,ye'on the Orleans Railway, France, has invented an amalgamation of coal and other combustible materials, easci4ly petr9lvtun, vaado for mayaicaco of use in the form of bricks, which, it is said, is calculated to effect an immense saving in the fuel necessary for gene rating steam. It burns with intense heat for a long time, and is likely to be extensively employed very shortly on the Orleans line, where some very satisfactory experi ments have been made with this material. • The com pound is called briguettes bordelaises. Mr. Jefferson Davis has arrived at Jackson, Mississippi, where ho was well received, but without de monstration from the white inhabitants. Sergeant Bates is walking from Vicksburg to Washington, carry ing the flag of the United States, which he boasts he can do not only without molestation, but without money. He is everywhere received by the coloured people with acclamation and supplied with food. Mr. Holden, late Governor of North Carolina, and Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, as well as General Long street, have been restored to their civil and political rights by the vote of the House of Representatives. M. Outrey, Consul-General of France in Egypt, has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan, in room of M. Leon Roche, elevated to the rank of Minister. From the report of the United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, just issued, it appears that, on board the vessels in the navy of the United States engaged iu suppressing the rebellion, from April, 1861, to June, 1865, the total number of sailors treated was 141,058, of whotn 2,532 or •(1175 died, or rather les3 in proportion during the years of war than during the years of peace.—British Medical Journal. The ship St. Bernard is the first vessel which has proceeded direct from Melbourne (Australia) for Yoko hama, Japan. She cleared out at the Customs and sailed on the 22d December with a cargo more than half com posed of colonial produce. About 100 tons were beef and mutton, cured and preserved in various ways, and in addi tion were hams, jams, bottled fruits, leather, &c. The St. Bernard was loaded and chartered by Mr. S. D. Taller man, to whom belongs the credit of opening up this new field of enterprise. The fattest and possibly the largest cattle in the world are now to be found in West Springfield, Massa chusetts. Charles A. Ashley has a matched pair that make the beam of the scales kick at 5,600, and Ebene zer Colton still holds on to his wondrous heifer, that long ago • astonished the cattle kings of West field. The last animal has been fed uninterruptedly seven years, and the last four has not been out of the stable but once. She is a monster of fatness, and ought to "sit" for her photograph. Her greatest breadth is in her shoulders, which measnre more than five feet, and the natural spread of her fore legs is fully three feet. Her horns are naturally smooth, and with but a single slight wrinkle. She bas a wonderful constitution, or she could not take her feed so long or regularly. Her daily rations are a peck of dry meal and four quarts of shorts, all the rowen hay she wants, several sheafs of stalks, and five pails of water. Her owner declares she was never more hearty or thrifty than now, and he can vouch for her bright eye and mobility. The Saratoga races will commence on the sth of August, and last for six days. Wilkes' Spirit says :—" Goulding has had a letter from Mr. Price, of England, in which it is stated that Teddy Mills will run Harding three miles in England, but will have nothing to do with a gate-money affair. Harding tells Goulding that ho will run Mills a home and-home match of three miles for £5OO a side each race 100 to be allowed for travelling expenses. Mills' first proposition was to run any distance from four to ten miles, but he is now willing to run three. It only remains for him to consent to run a match in this country, as well as one in England, and Harding will meet him as soon as his present engagement with De Kelso is over. A monthly magazine, " The Billiard World," to be edited by Dudley Kavanagh, is announced. The first number will be issued on the 20th inst. The gathering of sponge among the Bahama Islands for conversion into bedding, cushions, &c., or for use in general upholstery, is becoming a business of much magnitude. Fifty vessels were engaged in the trade, and there have been recent sales of 12,500 strands of sheep wool sponge at $1 per strand. This trade originates in the success of a now American patent, and its growth would be still more rapid if adequate machinery for manu facturing were in readiness. IRISH GRIEVANCES. - - - The Irish campaign has commenced by two great bombs being fired into the enemy's camp. Earl RUSSELL discharged one, and Mr. MILL the other. But these are English projectiles, while we devote ourselves mainly to American opinion. There is a remark in the New York Nation on Fenianisin, which shows how truthfully it hits the nail on the head, " The idea that Ireland may be, and must be, treated exactly as England is treated, which has for thirty years been the curse of Ireland, and which Mr. WENDELL PHILLIPS, with his usual want of good fortune when he draws his illustra tions from history and foreign politics, seems to think is what the Irish are contending for—is being gradually given up, and the idea of different treat ment and exceptional legislation is being accepted by the English public." The curse of English rule is that the English cannot comprehend people dif fering from themselves. What is good and plea sant to the Englishman must be good and pleasant for the Ilindoo, the Ceylonese, the Negro, the Chinese, the Maori, and, of course, the Celt. Roast beef and plum pudding is the thing. The curry and kabobs, the chuppaties and ghee, the chow-chow of puppy and rats mixed with birds' nests, which may furnish a banquet for the Chinese, or the cold mis sionary of the New Zealander, are mere make-shifts to those who know not, nor can get anything better. JOHN BULL, the philanthropist, comes with his roast beef and plum pudding and tries to push the great red, under-done joint down the heathen's throat, with an indigestible ball on the top com posed of suet and raisins, and scarcely knows how to receive the resistance he meets with. He legis lates with one grand object of supplying the natives with the roast beef and plum pudding in which his soul delights, and it is only now, after centuries of misapplied generosity and good intentions that he is learning the lesson that what is one man's meat, is another man's poison. Poor JOHN BULL ! he has undertaken to rule the world, and his success is a marvel—showing not only good intentions, but, in the main, an appreciation of those intentions by the people he has governed. They do not like him and his coarse joint ; but the mass are per suaded that there are worse things in the world than roast beef and plum pudding. Let Jomr BULL for a moment reflect on the position in which he has so long been bsnt upon placing others. Sup pose the Germans were to take possession of his country, and insist upon his swallowing sour krout, we can well imagine the grimace of intense disgust with which the mandate, however well intentioned, would be received. English rule has failed in Ireland for the same reason that Austrian rule failed in Hungary. The Germans tried to Germanise the kingdom connected with the Kaiser's Empire ; but they could not make Germans of the Hungarians, nor an homogeneous whole out of parts essentially dif ferent. Neither can the English, who, while they see this in the Austrian case, cannot see it in their own. It is easy to comment on the ancient mis government of Ireland, on the present discontent, but difficult, very difficult indeed, to propose an efficient; remedy. Of all devised that for which the Fenians contend is the worst. Roast beef is better than starvation even to a cow-worshipping Hincloo— a legislation which may not tally with the spirit of the people, is better than anarchy. The defects of Irish character in organizing may been seen in Fenianism. Surrounded as Irishmen are in the United States by Americans looking on and sneering, they cannot refrain from splitting up into irreconcilable fac tions. If they cannot fight the enemy, they fight each other. An Irishman at a fair seeing a head bulging from the canvas of a tent, desiring to re sist the temptation, passed it—returned--pondered for a moment, and at last with a wild yell, brought down the full force of his shillelah upon it. The Nation seems to think that had the QUEEN built a house at Killarney, lived there more or less, and done half as much to flatter the Irish as she did to flatter the Highlanders, she would have found amongst them loyalty no less devoted, and Fe nianism would probably never have been beard of. Doubtless something could have been done in this way, but Irish discontent could not so easily be removed. It is a chronic complaint, grounded half in poverty and in a sense of wrong, and half in the nature of the people. Were the former half re moved the other moiety would for generations cause some trouble, and it matters not who rules— whether the Fenians, the Roman Catholic party, the Orangemen, or the British Parliament—lreland will be factious still. " Considerable difficulty," the Nation adds, " is anticipated in the collection of the Spring rents; and a general refusal to pay, such as that which marked the Anti-Tithe Agita tion in 1831, would create the most formidable difficulty with which the Government has had yet to deal. A whole people cannot be ejected or sold out." Thiti difficulty would certainly cziet for such a Government as that of Great Britain, although it would be quickly met, if a NAPOLEON, a BISMARCK, or a NICIIOLAS ruled. If the people could not pay, an attempt to make them do so would be useless, for no process known to law or f9rce, can turn bog into gold. But if they could pay, which they can, and repudiated the contracts into which they eagerly entered, it would be proper to coerce them into fulfilment. Such a repudiation would be nothing less than an outrageous robbery of one class by another class ; nor can we suppose that a whole section of people could combine to carry out so dishonest a scheme.—Anglo-American Times. MERCANTILE SHIP NEWS. LivEttrooL, Feb. 13.-Arrived, the Zintra and the Cir cassian, steamer, from New Orleans; and the City of Brooklyn, from Mobile. Sailed, the Eureka, for Havana ; the Alicia, for New Orleans; and the Amelia, for Charles town. Feb. 14. Arrived, the L. B. Gilchrist, from New Orleans; the Shandon, from Savannah ; the France, screw steamer, from New York ; the Ravenseraig, from New York. Sailed, the Bertha, for Halifax. CARDIFF, Feb. 13 - Sailed, the Howard, for Havannah. NEWFORT, Feb. 13 -Sailed, the S wif t,for Havannah, and Astrea, for New York. CLYDE.-Sailed, the St. George, screw steamer, for Port land, United States; Hibernia, screw steamer, for New York. DUBLIN, Feb. 13.-Arrived, the Neptune, from San Fran cisco. OFF THE FASTNETT, Feb. 14. -Arrived, the Russia steamer, from New York; left Feb. 5. GRAVESEND, Feb. 17.-Sailed, the E. H. Taylor, for New York. DEAL - Arrived and Sailed, the A. W. Singleton, for Portland. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 16.-Arrived, the Hypatia, from Savan nah; the Colorado, screw steamer, from New York; the Germania, from San Francisco; the Onward, from Mobile; the Franz, from Charlestown ; the Salus, from Savannah. the Liverpool, from Havannah; the Mexican, for St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed, the Resolute, for New York; Feb. 17.-Arrived, the Leueothea, from Savannah; the Thomas Bell, from San Francisco ; the Eureka, from New York with petroleum, has taken fire at Antwerp. OFF THE NEEDLES, February 17. Arrived, the New York, screw steamer, from New York. HOLYHEAD, Feb. 16.-Arrived, the Sofia de Vile, from Liverpool for Havannah ; and the Excelsior, from Liver pool for New York. SHIELDS, Feb. 15.-Sailed, the An glo-Indian, for New York. CARDIFF, Feb. 15.-Sailed, the Amykos, for New York. NEW YoRK, Feb. 3. -The Erin, steamer, which arrived here Feb. 1 from Liverpool, experienced heavy north-west, south-west, to westerly gales the entire passage ; on Jan. 27 she sighted an ice berg at the eastern edge of the banks, and passed through a field of ice. The Hermann and Oscar, from Liverpool, which went ashore on Bird Island Jan. 19, has become a total wreck. Feb. 15-The Anticello, brig, from Liver pool, went ashore on Bird Island, Galveston, Jan. 24, but would probably come off with a calm sea. The Theresa, thence to Liverpool, has put back here leaky, and has since discharged. ST. THOMAS, Jan. 28.-The Crest of the Wave, Newport to New York, which put in here Jan. 16,- leaky, is discharging. CUSTOM HOUSE, Feb. 17.-Vessels entered inwards-the New World, and the City of Sydney, from New York. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 17 -Sailed, the Reso lute, for New York, and the Bertha, for Halifax. Feb. 18 -Sailed, the Molocka, for New Orleans. The report of the burning of the Eureka, from New York, at Antwerp, re quires confirmation. COWES, Feb. 13-Arrived, the New York, screw steamer, from New York, left New York on the 6th. She had on freight 447,245 dollars for England, 27,185 dollars for France, and 1,200 dollars for Bremen. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 17.-Arrived, the Catherine, from New York for Hamburgh ; the A. W. Singleton, from London for Portland, United States. OFF THE START, February 15-Arrived the Villafranca, from New York. HULL, Feb. 17.-Arrived, the Woodland, from San Fran cisco. BRISTOL, Feb. 17.-Arrived, the Merida, from New York. OFF CROCKHAVEN, Feb. 18. -Arrived, the City of London, screw steamer, for New York, left on the Bth, CUSTOM HOUSE, Feb, 18.-Vessels entered outwards, the Bellona, for New York. Vessel spoken with-The Cale donia, New York to the Clyde. Feb. 1, off Nantucket lighthouse, the Belle Creole, Calcutta to New York, Jan. 29, lat. 23, long. 70; the Germania, San Francisco to Liver pool, Oct. 21, lat. 4 N., long. 116 W. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 18.- Sailed, the Ohio and the Liverpool, for Havannah ; the Molocka, and the Charles Davenport, for New Or leans; the Carrie Wright, for Baltimore; and the Escort, the Aleppo, screw steamer, and the Jens Brandt, for New York. Feb.:l9.-Arrived, the Mozart, from New Orleans; the City of London, steamer, from New York ; the Chessica, from San Francisco. Sailed, the City of Antwerp, steamer, for New York. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 18.-Sailed, the Bremen, steamer, for New York. FALMOUTH, Feb. 15.-Sailed, the Tamio Syte, for Monte Video, and the Seevogel, for Philadelphia. HOLYHEAD, Feb. 19.-The Jafara, Dutch barque, from San Francisco, is ashore on Salt Island Point; crew still on board. Endeavours will be made to get her off next flood. CARDIFF, Feb. 18.-Sailed, the Cas par and the Mathilde Octavie, for Havannah. QUEENS TOWN, Feb. 18.-Sailed, the Edswold, for New York. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-The Elizabeth Yeo, Plymouth to New Orleans, Dec. 22, latitude 18 N., longitude 36 W. GRAVESEND, Feb. 20.-Arrived, the Sarah Payton, from New York. LIVERPOOL, Feb, 19.-Arrived, the Mozart, from New Orleans, and the City of London, screw steamer, from New York. Sailed, the City of Antwerp, for New York. Feb. 20.-Arrived, the Black Brothers, from Phi ladelphia ; the Chattanooga, from Havannah ; the Tecum seh, from Boston. Sailed, the Mauldslie, for New Orleans ; the Moreno, for Savannah; the Challenger, for New Or leans ; the Eva, for Savannah ; the Belgian, screw steamer, for Portland. The Mary Curley, from New York, has arrived at St. John's, after having been on shore ; part of cargo, say 200 barrels, of flour plundered. The Elec tric, schooner, Runcorn, to Campbeltown, has foundered off the Point of Ayr; master's son and one man only saved. The Japara, from San Francisco, is reported towed off Salt Island and docked. NEW YORK, February 7.-A tele gram from Havana of yesterday's date reports that during a severe northerly gale which visited Vera Cruz, Jan. 29, and caused great destruction, the Nightingale, steamer, foun dered at her anchorage, and the Blenville, bark, was driven ashore, and became a total wreck. Part of the latter's cargo had been landed. Crew saved except seven men, who were lost with the steamer. Jan. 7.-It is stated that the N. Mosher, from Liverpool to Boston, at Bar rington, Nova Scotia, derelict, had over four feet of water in her hold. 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Walls End Burn l4 6 Walker Primrose ll 6 [ADVERTISEMENT.] Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly Curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derange ments, hremorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other lemedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry s Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly benefici9: effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi,' July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. — Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness , asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the maul unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d, ; 5 lbs. 115. 12 lbs., 228.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly; and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street 330 Strand; and all grocers ii,nd chemists. Births. ASDERSON—On the 23d inst., at Uglebank, Abbey Wood, the wife of John Anderson, of a son. BELL—On the 22d inst., at Fairfield, Durdham Down, Bristol, the wife of John D. Bell, Esq., barrister-at-laW , of a son, stillborn. CHATTELL—On the 23d inst., at Bromley, Kent, the Wife of Mr. W. F. Chattel], of a son. Marriages. DAWSON—BODDY —On the 22d inst., at St. Mark's, Sur: biton, Andrew Dawson, of Upper Pulse-hill, younges t son of the late John Dawson, Esq., of Kingston-on - Thames, to Alice Matilda, daughter of John M. BoddY , Esq., of Surbiton-hill, and late of the Admiralty, Somer set-house. WEBB —AusTIN—On the 22d inst., at St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, Arthur William, second son of Win. Web Esq., of Albion-road, Stoke Newington, to Alice, second daughter of James B. Austin; Esq., of Glebefield House, Stoke Newington. Deaths. Btatcx —On the 24th inst., 422, Westbourne-terrace - r oad, Puddingtoa, Mr. Joseph Burch, aged 82. GREY—On the 23d inst., at 68, Stockwell-park-road, S'' Miss Eliza. Maria Grey, aged 71. JODRELL—On the 22d inst., at 7, Bryanston-street, Colonel Jodrell, late Grenadier Guards, aged 87. MITCHELL—On the 22d inst., at Plumstead, Kent, Georg e M. B. Mitchell, Esq , aged 62. Fiesta/ SELWYN—On the 23d inst., at 37, Eaton - squar e, wife of Lord Justice Selwyn, of Richmond, Surrey. _ London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.M ANDII,SWI' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUB SUN 031ce, No strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tho (WAY IgislcUtow-Tugulay, robruari 2i, 16.68! 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