The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times says : The suggestion that the task of disen dowing and disestablishing the Irish Church will be one of some intricacy seems to have surprised many who desire its fulfilment, and to have delighted as many who are opposed to it. We are sorry for both classes. It remains true, however much of a surprise the statement may be, that abolishing an establishment is a work of labour and pains, and the more it is thought over the more this fact will be seen. Disendowment cannot be absolutely complete while life interests exist. The reserva tion of part of the property of the Irish Establishment for the use of the future Protestant Episcopal Church in Ireland is defended as an act of grace and an act of justice. It is an act of grace because it is always a hard thing to deprive any set of persons of resources they have con tinuously enjoyed, and it is on this account that Mr. Bright has urged the propriety of the reservation. But it is also an act of justice. The private benefactions bestowed on the Irish Establishment have not been nume rous or large, but they cannot be forgotten ; and it would be altogether unjust to divert to public uses property recently dedicated to the service of a limited body. The Times holds it will be inevitable that the churches intended to remain dedicated to their present use shall be chosen with reference to the distances of one from another, the density of the neighbouring Protestant population, and the guarantees which may be forthcoming for their maintenance. The Times assumes that an Ecclesiastical Estates Com mission will be appointed, with powers to compensate existing interests and to re-convey such property as may be reserved, or to vest in the commission the Irish Church property subject to life interests, so that it shall not come into possession until the life interests have ceased. The Times prefers the second process. The question as to the purpose to which the surplus property shall be applied is altogether outside the question. The real difficulty is, not how to deal with the surplus, but how to deal with the funds reserved for the Arse of the Disesta blished Church. What is to be the nature of the society, what the status of the clergy, what the form of government and election of the chief officers for whose benefit and support churches are to be left and glebes reserved? Upon what rules of action must the Legislature proceed in deciding these questions ? Our contemporary says it will not be the business of Parlia ment to devise an ecclesiastical polity, and in determining the trusts none hut the Irish Protestants must be con sidered. When the Times asks who these are, and how their wishes are to be ascertained it comes to a stop, acknowledging the subject too wide for one article. The Post canvasses the probable duration of the Ministry. Their strength is indisputable, and, if they are prepared to pull together with a steady stroke, they should win the race. There is no legitimate object which a Government constituted and supported as they are may not attain if the conditions of success can be observed. But any general agreement that does not admit of con sen taneous action under particular circumstances will practically prove insufficient. Mr. Gladstone cannot be expected to answer for his Cabinet like Lord Palmerston or Lord Derby. His Administration will have to be tried as a whole, and with regard to the undivided responsibility on which its measures are sub mitted to Parliament. The question which has now most interest for the bystanders is, of what exact complexion will the necessary common mind be, and to what actual common action will it tend? What mean will be struck upon such questions, for instance, as the national defences, national expenditure, or national education ? He who could give an answer to this would, in doing it, sum up the probable span of the Cabinet's existence. The new Parliament, in spite of its outward appearance, must be actuated by different views and desires from those which have hitherto prevailed within the walls of St. Stephen's, and the question to be solved is at what point the general feeling will settle down, what may be and what must be attempted by the Minister who is to rule by directing it. The Standard says :—That, the Reform Act being passed, the first persons to be invited to Mr. Gladstone's side should be Mr. Lowe and Mr. Bright, is certainly a political passage without parallel in our history. The traducer and the traduced cannot be both fit to be members of one company. If Mr. Bright was right in his opinion of Mr. Lowe's conduct—an opinion which he has repeated within the last six weeks—Mr. Lowe can be no proper associate either of himself or of Mr. Gladstone. If Mr. Lowe was right in his attitude towards Reform, an attitude which he has justified quite lately, Mr. Bright is quite out of his place as an English Minister. It cannot be said in explanation of this sin gular coalition that either has changed his opinions since 1866. Mr. Bright, it is true, told the electors of Bir mingham that Mr. Lowe had now " put on sackcloth and ashes;" but Mr. Lowe emphatically denied his own peni tence before his own constituency of the London University. It is impossible to believe, indeed, that a man who spoke so vehemently and with such true eloquence in 1866 was uttering opinions which he did not conscientiously hold, and which he had not carefully considered. It is equally difficult to believe that Mr. Bright has changed since he held up the present Chancellor of the Exchequer to the scorn and opprobrium of the English working man. The Herald remarks that the position of a Minister of Foreign Affairs, even in a country at peace with all the world, as ours is just now, must be anything but a bed of roses. Lord Clarendon has hardly been in office a week before he finds himself confronted with half a dozen new imbroglios. It has been so much the fashion of Liberal Administrations to retire from office after some years of complacent inaction, and leave to their opponents the un. tying of some Gordian knot which they would never attempt to unravel for themselves—the grappling with some diffi culty which they never would look fairly in the face—that it is quite amusing to find the tables turned on them now. The Herald draws a dismal picture of. the Eastern diffi culty, and says : If the storm should break over us, as it may do any day, for we have no Lord Stanley now to keep the Eastern question in abeyance, there will be a terrible choice proposed to the English Government. Are we to remain passive while the great battle of the equilibrium of Europe and the possession of the keys of the East is fought out before our eyes ? Are we to take part with our allies of the Crimea against our brethren in Germany, and be instrumental in advancing the French frontier to the Rhine? Or shall we stultify all our policy of the past by refusing to do battle for the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and leave France and Austria to fight with Russia and Prussia for Constanti nople? So far from envying her Majesty's present Ministers their possession of place and power, we cannot but feel pity for Mr. Gladstone and his Foreign Minister, now groaning beneath burdens which were too heavy for Atlautean shoulders. Mr. Gladstone has engaged to pacify Ireland, and Lord Clarendon, with America impending over him like a Damocles' sword, will be called upon to settle the Eastern Question. The Daily News thinks the Conservative party have, within the last few days, shewn a wonderful power of making hay after the sun has ceased to shine. In Scot land they have filled up sundry offices with indecent haste. With regard to one of these the circumstances have been so remarkable as to create grave doubts of the legality of the appointment. In Scotland there is a legal dig nitary called a sheriff, attached to each county. The office is very different from that of a sheriff with us, and is held a very desirable one—as involving very little to do, and a good deal of money for doing it. All of a sudden a gentleman holding one of the most desirable of these desirable offices has resigned, and his successor has been named frofn among the*Tory members of the bar. It is generallybelieYed that the resignation was not tendered, much lea the appointment made, until after Mr. Disraeli bad resigned office on the 3rd. Doubtless the Pre. mier's promptitude was an unpleasing surprise to the more distant members of his party ; but this cannot excuse such an unseemly display of greed. The matter itself is but a trifle ; but the principle is impor tant. Such ostentatious greed for public money should not be displayed by public men. It lowers them in the eyes of the nation, and is injurious to our system of government. We have no hesitation in saying that if this appointment can yet be stopped it ought to be so. Men who do these shameless things deserve a rebuke which, in the public interest, should be fearlessly given. We are sorry that the late Lord Advocate, who at one time gave proi - nise of better things, should have ended his official career by the absurdity of his Judicature Commission, and the discredit of such ajob as this. The Telegraph observes that the absolute and unquali fied exclusion of all members of the Executive from seats in the Legislature is inconsistent with, our established . scheme of parliamentary government. W e consider that the presence of the Queen's advisers in the two Houses is not only permissible, but absolutely essential: The whole system of Ministerial responsibility in this country is founded on the practice of calling upon the Ministers to explain and defwil their acts before Parliament. The present practice of vacating seats on accept mice of office is based on a curious and arti ficial compr unise made in the reign of Anne. Since tho,4,- days William the Fourth and Queen Victoria have acted in thorough union with the statesmanship of the day and vitii the people, showing exemplary reliance on constitittionel law ; and we might boast that the danger of kingly' aggression bas passed. But that is 110 reason why this country should surrender an important check on the possible mistakes of any future Prince who might be at once ambitious, clever, and foolish. Such a check We possess in the law that on accepting certain Ministerial offices members of I 'arl lament shall vacate their seats and be disqualified from again entering the House of Commons unless re-elected, The practice is not only a useful memento of the means by which our parliamentary liberties have been developed, but at every fresh transfer of power to any new set of statesmen it also serves to mark the warrant which is derived from the Crown and that which is derived from the people. On getting high Ministerial authority from the sovereign a member of the Commons' House must ,go back to the people and ask leave to use it. The fact that without the distinct sanction of his constituency he cannot become a chief servant of the Crown reads one of the mot important lessons which constitutional statesmanship has to learn. ILLICIT DISTILLERIES. L'wo extensive illicit distilleries have been discovered ir. Nottingham. For several months past the Inland Revenue officials have had suspicions of a wholesale manufacture of illicit whisky, and on Saturday, from information received, several excise officials visited a house on the High Pavement, occupied by a joiner named Alfred Methringham. They searched the place, but for a long time their efforts were ineffectual, but at length Mr. Southgate, supervisor of excise, on rapping the wall, found a concealed door, which was cleverly pasted over with paper, so as to match the wall. Having obtained an entrance, they discovered a complete distillery plant, com prising a copper still of about sixty gallons (which was in full work at the time), and other complete apparatus for the making of spirits. A similar seizure was made at the house of Henry Smith, in St. Nicholas-street, the articles being of precisely the same character, and a number of barrels of whisky were found at both places. By these means the persons owning the stills could defraud the revenue of between £6O and £BO weekly, and there is little doubt that they had been in active operation for a considerable time. Mrs. Methringham and the man Smith were taken into custody on tho premises, and brought before the magistrates the same day. They were each ordered to pay £3O, or in default of payment three months' imprisonment with hard labour. By the offence they had incurred a penalty in the aggre gate of £l,OOO, part of which, it was understood, would b 3 subsequently inflicted. EXPLOSION OF PA R.AFIN ON A RAILW Al Another explosion of paraffin on a railway has occurred, suggesting once again the question whether the dangerous material should be carried about so commonly as it is. The accident took place on Sunday morning last, on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. It appears that on Saturday night a goods train, containing two casks of paraffin left the Battersea depot of the company, and proceeded at five o'clock to London Bridge ; thence it was despatched with an additional quantity of goods, and pro ceeded on its journey to Brighton. The train arrived at Three Bridges, and a dripping noise having some time previously been heard, the two guards (Harris and French) proceeded to discover whence it came, taking with them their lamps. They had hardly commenced their investiga tion when a terrific explosion took place, and they were instantly enveloped in flames. The explosion was heard for a considerable distance, and the other persons in charge of the train rushed to the assistance of the guards, when they were found to have been fearfully burnt. The porters and officials on duty with the trains at the junc tion lent, of course, immediate assistance, and both the sufferers were at once sent to the Brighton Hospital. French was deeply burnt all over his body, and, though sensible and able to hold conversation during Sunday, died the same night at half•past ten. Harris is very much burnt about the legs and arms, and his condition is most precarious. The flames did not spread much. The truck which contained the cask was completely destroyed, with the whole of its contents, and the two adjacent trucks and what they bore were also damaged a good deal. The flames are described to have lighted up the locality for miles around. The intensity of the heat was such that the hand-lamps held by the deceased and Harris were almost completely fused. The rails have been displaced and twisted, and the keys of the main down line, some score yards off were touched and scorched by the liquid fire. The truck containing the inflammable material and its contents have been burnt to what looks like a cinder heap, but the number and initials of the railway are yet distinguishable on one of the beams. There is but scant hone of Harris recovering. ATTEMPTED MURDER. On Saturday night a young fellow named Edward Ueshall attempted to murder his sweetheart in Fox-street, Brightside, Sheffield. The girl is a Miss Maiy Ann Barthorpe, a dressmaker, residing with her mother in Wentworth-street. The courtship commenced on the grounds of Whiteley Wood Hall, on the occasion of the great demonstration of miners, and the nuptials were to be celebrated soon after Christmas. The details of the tragedy would lead to the conclusion that the young man is mentally deranged. There had been no quarrel. On Saturday night the girl met him, at his request, at Heshall's lodgings. Having washed and dressed, he walked out with her, and pressed her twice in the course of their walk to enter the Barrel public-house, Pye-bank, but she declined. He went into that house himself to look for his brother, and returned in a few seconds. Then, whilst they were walking together towards his lodgings. Heshall put his arm round her neck, with, as she thought, the intention of saluting her ; but in the next instant he drew a razor across her throat, inflict ing a wound four inches in length, from which the blood gushed in a torrent. The young man immediately ran away, and the poor girl, unable to cry for assistance, managed to walk to the house of a relative of Heshall. From thence she was taken to a surgery, where the wound was stitched; was taken to her home in a cab, and from there, at her own request—her mother being absent--she was removed to the Infirmary, and is, we are glad to say, likely to recover. Heshall, on the death of a previous sweetheart, who died in childbirth, attempted to destroy himself by taking a close of vermin killer. Lately Miss Barthorpe has noticed a peculiarity in his manner. On one occasion she refused to accompany him to Hillfoot Bridge, " lest," as she says, "he should throw her into the water." LAW AND POLICE. THE PRESS.—A decision given by the Master of the Rolls affords another illustration of the scrupulous care taken by the Court of Chancery to protect pending suits from the possibility of prejudice through comments in the press. In the case of Daw v. Eley, the defendant's solicitor had communicated a series of letters to a newspaper, calculated, as the plaintiff alleged, to prejudice ais case, and an application was made to commit the attorney for writing the letters, and the editor for insert ing them. Lord Romilly gave the former the alternative of publishing an apology and paying the costs, or of sub nitting to a committal. The duties of the editor were, however, of a delicate nature, and no order would be made. A LARGE CLAIM.—When Mr. Cannan, the official iquidator of the Agra and Masterman's Bank, had com pleted his labours, he claimed £38,000 as being due to him for the duties which he had performed. This was after wards reduced to £25,000 ; but the committee of share- holders, deeming the sum to be still too high, offered £7,000. The offer was not accepted, and a suit in equity was brought to determine the amount of remuneration to which the official liquidator was entitled. Vice-Chancellor Giffard has fixed the sum at £9,000. Ma. BRADLAUGH.—The action brought by Mr. Brad. laugh in the Court of Queen's Bench against the publisher of the Razor has resulted in a verdict of one farthini damages. THE OFFERTORY.—Judgment was given on Monday in the Consistory Court in the important case in which the right to the offertory alms of " Belgrave Chapel" was con cerned. Sir Travers Twist considered that the plaintiffs —the incumbent and churchwardens of St. Paul's, Knights bridge, to whose district it is alleged Belgrave Chapel belongs—had failed to make out a case, and could not claim the money. DEATH OF AN OLD ST. VINCENT VETERAN.— One of the last of Nelson's brave companions at the battle of St. Vincent has just died at Fremington, near Barn staple, at the great age of 97. Thomas Pile was one of the crew who boarded -the San Josef, and assisted th' immortal hero into the chains of that vessel, Nelson ex claiming, "Give me your hand, Pile ; I'm a good soldier, but a poor sailor." It may be mentioned that, although a sailor from his boyhood, he never indulged in a pipe of tobacco. PROFESSIONS IN THE NEW PARLIAMENT. —ln the Spectator we find the following analysis of the professions of the members selected to the new House of Commons : Deputy-lieutenants or magistrates—England and Wales, 251; Scotland, 30 ; Ire"and, 50. Officers in the army, now or formerly—England and Wales, 65 ; Scotland, 10; Ireland, 23. Officers in the navy, now or formerly— England and Wales, 5 ; Scotland, 2 ; Ireland, 2. Called to the bar—England and Wales, 81; Scotland, 9; Ireland, 12. Merchants, manufacturers, or tradesmen— England and Wales, 98 ; Scotland, 15 ; Ireland, 11. Yeomanry, Militia, or Volunteers—England and Wales, 95 ; Scotland, 12 ; Ireland, 18. Architects, medical men, &c.—England and Wales, 19 ; Scotland, 4 ; Ireland, 3. Bankers—England and Wales, 15 ; Scotland, 2. EXTRAORDINARY VERIFICATION OF A DREAM.— The Australian papers, recording the drowning of William nail in the Inver Murray, and his body being found high and dry in the bush, where itdiad been carried by a flood, mention the following curious circumstance. Some time after Plan had been drowned, a boundary rider on the station, named Greenwood, dreamt that he was fishing in the Murray, and that the deceased appeared to him on the bank of the river, and asked him what he was doing there. Greenwood, in his dream; replied , " Oh, lam fishing for your body, as I hear you are drowned." " You needn't look there," said the shade of the drowned man, " My body is lying on yon log," at the same time pointing towards the place where the body has now been recovered. Greenwood told his dream to several persons some time before the body was found ; the story was laughed at, but nevertheless a search was made round the spot indicated by Greenwood, and the body has been . found there. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, DECEMBER 15, IP6B. FOREIGN NOTES, THE OUTBREAK IN SPAIN. After ten days' fighting, the insurgents still held Cadiz at almost all the points which they occupied at first. They had 3,000 men in arms, consisting very largely of soldiers, 500 or 600 being regular troops, and from 1,200 to 1,500 rural guards, or gendarmes wl o were devoted to the ex-Queen. All the felons in the city were liberated and armed, and the appearance in public of these malefactors produced such a panic that the rich inhabitants were leaving the city in large numbers. The rising has been formidable, and has offered a very serious resistance to the Provisional Govern. ment. It is now probable that the insurgents will accept the terms offered them; but if they do not, the forces that have been sent to encompass Cadiz are so much out of pro portion to those which have gathered under the flag of the insurrection, that the result cannot long be doubtful. A great attack by land and sea will soon dispose of the entrenchments and barricades in the houses and streets, but this rising ought to be a warning to the Govern. ment. It shews that too little government amounts in practice to the same thing as too much. There is always danger of reaction in a country where the overturning of oue regime has not been followed by the establishment of another; and in this case there is a special danger, for Isabella with her money and her adherents is always at hand to promote a movement against the men who exiled her. The rising at Cadiz was, most accounts agree, greatly supported by funds which could come but from one quarter. COMPLETE LIST OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT. e New Members.--t Old Members for wew uonstitueneles. Constituency. Vembers. LI C. ABINGDON ANDOVER AYLESBURY Mr Lindsay Mr Fortescue Mr N Rothschild Mr Smith * Mr Mellor M r Davies lion U C Morgan Mr T Cave * Captain Williams Mr Whitmore Mr Samuelson Mr Tito * Mr Dalrymple ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE AxousszA Bluscossmnic BARNSTAPLE BRIDONORTH BANBURY BATH BEDFORD gERWIOX Mr Whitbread * Mr J Howard * Lord Bury * Mr J Stapleton Sir H. Edwards * Captain Kennard * Sir R Glass Mr John Laird Mr John Bright Mr Dixon * Mr P H Muntz Mr W H Hornby Mr J Feilden Hon F L Gower Lieut-Colonel Gray * Mr J Hick Mr Malcolm * Mr T Collins Mr W E Forster * Mr Ripley Mr A W Kinglake Mr Vanderbyl Mr James White Professor Fawcett Mr H Berkeley * Mr S Morley Sir Harry Verney * Mr R Shaw Mr Philips Mr Hardoastle BZVERLEY BZWDLEY BIRKENHEAD BirauNoßAM BLACKBURN BODNIN BOLTON BOSTON BEAD/02LD BAIDOWATZIL BRIGHTON BRISTOL BUCKINGHAM BURNLEY BURY B,URY ST. EDMUNDS BEDFOR.DSUIRE Mr Greene Mr F C H Russell 1 Colonel Gilpin 1 Mr T A Mitchell Hon W 0 Stanley 1 Mr Howel Gwyn Right Hon B Disraeli 1 Mr Du Pre * Mr Lambert Mr Benyon Colonel Loyd Lindsay * Mr John Walter 1 Hon 0 Howard 1 t Mr W N Hodgson Captain Lowther Hon P Wyndham 1 . Colonel Torrens 1 . Mr Fowler Lord Ge Manners 1 1 BRIDPORT BEAUMAILIS Bmaccog LICIZINGHAMMIRS ... • BERKSHIRZ CIIMBZIMAND, EAST . CUMBERLAND, WSBT . C.A3fBRIDOZ CAMBRIDOZSHIRE _ deorge Lord Royston Right Hon H Brand Mr Butler Johnstone Captain Brinckmaz 1 Colonel Stuart Mr E Potter 1 * Sir Wilfrid Lawson 1 * Colonel Stepney 1 * Mr Sartoris • Mr John Jones Mr W B Hughes * Captain Parry 1 Mr G C Legh Hon W Egerton Mr Otway 1 " Mr H B Samuelson 1 Earl Grosvenor * Mr Ratites Lord H G Lennox Mr Goldney Hon A Bathurst Mr R Asaheton Mr Eaten * Mr Staveley Hill * Lord E Fitzmaurice Right Hon S Walpole Mr Beresford Hope t Sir Thomas Lloyd Mr Richards * Mr C W Dilke • Sir Henry Hoare * Mr E Haviland-Burke * Mr J Fletcher Mr Rebow • Dr Brewer Sir D Gooch • Hon F Cadogan * Sir John Trelawny * Mr B Willyams Mr St Aubyn * Mr P Vivian * Mr H C Egerton * Mr W Legh Mr Tollemache Sir Philip Egerton * Mr Williams Sir Watkin Wynne * Mr Morgan Mr 31 Chambers * Mr Lewis • Mr Backhouse Mr 31 T Bass * Mr Plimsoll Sir T Bateson * Sergeant Simon Major Dickson * Mr Jessel. Q.C. Sir John Pakington Mr Henderson • Mr Davison Sir II Williamson * Mr Elliott Mr Pease * Mr Beaumont Colonel Stunt Mr H B Sheridan • Sir T Gresley * Mr R Smith * Hon H.Strutt * Hon Captain Egerton Lord Cavendish ▪ Mr. Arkwright t Sir Massey Lopes Mr Kekewich Mr T D Acland Sir Stafford Northcote Sir L Palk t Lord Courtenay Hon Mr Portman Mr Floyer Mr Sturt Col Bourne Mr Coleridge * Mr Bowring * Mr W Baker * Mr A Johnstone Lord Eustace Cecil Mr S Ilibetson * Mr Round * Colonel Brise Lord Barrington Mr M'C Torrens Alderman Lai& tMr T. Huhes Eiltr John lianmer • Mr Fowler * Mr Eastwick Lord R Grosvenor Colonel Talbot Mr H Vivian Right lion Sir W Hutt 1 Mr Price Mr Monk 1 * Sir C Wingfield t Captain Toinline Mr Alderman Salonions , 1 Itt Hon W E Gl a d s t one 1 1 Mr Onslow * Captain Cholmeley * Hon F Tollemache Sir Id Beach Mr Holford Colonel Kingscote * Mr Marling t Right.Hou W Cowper 1 t Lord II Scott 1 Hon H Cowper 1 Mr A Smith * Mr H Brand * Mr C Reed * Mr Hohns 1 Mr Stansfeld Colonel Akroyd 1 * Mr T Brassey 1 * Mr F North 1 * Mr Young 1 Mr R Dimsdale Mr Clive * Mr Wyllie 1 Mr Biddulph Mr Bailey * Sir H Croft Mr James Clay 1 Mr Norwood Baron N de Rothschild._ 1 Mr W B Beach Mr Sclater-Booth Major Jervis Mr T Baring * Mr Jackson * Colonel Edwardes Mr Hurst 1 double * Major Aldridge} return Lord R Montagu Mr E Fellowes Mr E A Leatham 1 mr H E Adair * Mr West. Q.O 1 SIrJ Simeon * Mr Mills * Mr Talbot Lord Hohnesdale Mr Hart Dyke Mr L Pemberton * Hon G Mills, Lord Stanley * lion R Bourke * Mr Lea * Mr Illingworth * Mr Whitwell * Alderman J Lawrence 1 * Mr W M'Arthur Mr Baines 1 * Alderman Carter * Mr Wheelhouse Mr Taylor 1 Mr Harris Lord J Manners * Mr Frewen Lord Curzon • Mr Pell * Mr Cross Mr C Turner Hon A F Egerton * Mr S Henry Mr Arkwright Colonel Clive Mr Goschen Mr Crawford Mr Lawrence * Mr Bell Rt Hon Robert Lowe Lord G u Lennox Mr Henry Lopes Mr C Seely * Mr H Palmer Sir 31 J Cholmeley * Mr R Winn Mr Anicoats * Mr H Chaplin Mr Welby * Mr Tumor Sir Arthur Buller Lord Pelham Colonel Dyott I Mr Graves * Lord Sandon * Mr Batlibone * Mr Holt * Mr Starkie Mr C W W ynn * Mr Bentall Wilson-Patten ! Mr Mitford I* Mr C Brocklehurat * Mr Chadwick Mr Lee Mr Mrhatman * Mr Powell Mr Baxley Mr Jacob Bright * Mr Birley I * HonC I 1 0l o" Colonel Stanleyt W h riled Mr H Lewis Mr T Chambers * Mr Richard * Mr Fothorgill * Sir J Rainsden Hon C Fitzwilliam Lord E Bruce * Mr D Williams * Mr Bolckow Hon C H Tracy Sir G GreY Mr C Morgan Colonel Somerset Viscount Enfield * Lord G Hamilton Mr E Howes Mr C S Read Mr G Hodgkins= • hir H Denison Mr licadiam Mr Cowen Mr Allen Mr ThickleY * Mr Hutton Lord Ileilley Mr C GdPfn Sir W Russell Sir II StraceY 1 * Sir It Clifton * Mr Wright Mr Martin t Sir Lacon * Hon F 'Walpole Sir W Bagge Hon T De Grey Mr Ward Hunt Mr S Stopford * Major Cartwright Sir Rainald Knightley Right lion J Denison I* Mr F C Smith Mr Barrow Mr 11 ildyard .* Earl Percy * Mr RidleY Mr Beaumont Hon II Liddell ltt Hon G Hardy RA lion J Mowbray Mr Henley Colonel North Mr Cartwright IIM CA.NTSZBUItIt CARDIFF CARLISLE CARMARTHEIT CIEMARTHENSHIRZ CAILITAIRVOIT CA RNARVONSKIRE CUIMUIRE, MID CHATHAM CHELTENHAM CHICSTER CHICHESTER CHIPPENHAX CIRENCESTER CLITHEROE COVENTRY CALNZ CAMBRIDGE UNIVERS CARDIGAN CARDIGANSHIRE CHELSEA. CuzisTcHuzcir COOKERMOUTH COLCHESTER CRICELADE CORNWALL, EAST CORNWALL, WEST CHESIIIRE, EAST CHESHIRE, WzsT DENBIGH DENBIGHSHIRE DEVON PORT DARLINGTON DERBY DEVIZES DEwssußy DOVER Dnorrwicit DURHAM... DURHAM, NORTE DURIIAM. SOUTH ... DiRCH..:STER DUDLEY DERBYSHIRE, BOOTH DERBYSHIRE, EAST .. DERZYBUIRE, Noarn DEVON, SOUTH DEVON, NOATII DEVON, EAST Doascrsnxisz EvrSAAM EXETER Essicx, Solna EssEx, WEST ESSEX, N ORTII-EABT . Err FIN SBU RY FROME FLINT FAL3IO L TII FrANTsninx GLAMORGASSHIRE.— G.kTESIIEID GLOUCESTER GRAVESEND GREAT GRIMSBY GREENWICH GU1LDF0RD.......... GRANTHAM .......... GLOUCESTER, EAST .• GLOUCESTER, WEST . . TIANTS, SOUTU ......... HERTFORDSHIRE ...... HACKNEY .............. HALIFAX ............... HASTINGS ............• HEL5T0N................ HERTFORD .............. HEREFORD .............. UERZFORDSIIIRZ ..... NULL ................. HYTHIC .................. }LINTS, NORTH ........ HARWICH .............. HUNTINGDON .......... HARTLEPOOL ••••.. HAVERIORDWL ST ...... liousaim .............. IiIINTINGDONSUIRE ... • lIUDDER>iFIELD ........ Irswlca ................ ISLE OF WIGIIT ........ KENT, WEST ...... . ...... KENT, MID ............ KENT, EAST ............ KING'S LYNN .......... KIDDERMINSTER ...... KNARF.SIIOROIJOU ...... K.ENDAL ............... LAMDETII .............. LLEDS LEICIESTER ............. LEICESTER., NORTII . • • • LEICESTEX &ATVS •• • LANCASHIRE. S.W. .• • • LAwc.csumr., S.E ....... LEONIINSTZR LUDLOW LONDON CITY LONDON UNIVERSITY LVMI NOTON LAUNCESTON LINCOLN LINCOLNSHIRE, Nonni LINCOLN, MID LINCOLN, SOUTH LISKEIRD LEWES LICHFIELD LIVERPOOL LANCASHIRE, NORTH .. LANCASIIIRE, N.E. .... MONTOOMERYSIIME.... MALLON • MA RLOW MIDUURST MACCLESFIELD MAIDSTONE MALIntsBuRY MANCHESTER hiARYLMEONE MERTIFYIC TYDYIL.. MONMOUTH MALTON MARLBOROUGH MERIONETHSHIRE MIDDLESBOROUGH MONTGOMERY MORPETH MONMOUTHSHIRE MIDDLESEX NORFOLK, SOTJTII Nr.w.um NEwcAsTLE-I:roN-TrNi: NEWCASTLE-UNDIt-L V3T. NOWCITILLI:RTON NORTHAMPTON No Rw lc u NOTTItiGIII3t NEwPoRT. I. OF WIGIIT NORFOLK, NORTH NORFOLK, IVEmr NOr.TLIAMPTON, NORTH NORTHAMPTON, SOUTH NOTTS, NORTII ~„ NOTTS, SOUTH .... NORTUUMBICALAND, N, NORTHUMBERLAND, S. OXIORD UNIVERSITY. OXFORDSHIRE 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 .111_ it 1 1 it 1 .( 1 .1 1 1! I 1 ::111! Constituency. 3LDH_tbi DXFORD .. PEMBROKE PEMBROKESHIRE PETERBOROUGH Members. I L. PIETIRRYIILD PLYMOUTH 1 1 PONTZPRACT POILTSMOUTH PRESTON 1 POOLE 1 READING 11 Ricumorrn Biros ItocunA LE RYE EZTFOAD, EAST .... RADNOR ROCILYSTEIt RA 1 I I Rtr IDN EEMS LA O N RS D 31IFFOLK, EAST 3UFFOLY, WEST 1 gALISH CRY I Suss x, WEST 30MXIL8ET, MID Mr Hibtert Mr Platt Mr Cardwell " Mr V Harcourt * Mr Meyrick 1- Mr Scourtield Mr Whalley * Mr 'Wells Mr Nicholson Sir R 1' Collier Mr Morrison Mr Childers Major Waterhouse Mr Stone * Sir J Elphinstoue Sir 1! Hesketh * Mr Hermon * Mr Arthur Guest Sir F Goldsmid Mr Shaw Lefevre Sir Roundel Palmer Lord John Hay Mr T B Potter * Mr Stewart Hardy Mr Foljambe Lord Galway Mr Price Mr W Martin.. Mr Serjeant Kinglake Hon A Walsh Hon G J Noel Mr Finch Mr Corrauce Hon J Henniker-Major Major W Parker Lord A Hervey Mr Hamilton • * Dr Lush Colonel Barttelot Hon H Wyndham Mr R H Paget Mr Neville-Grenville Mr Gore Langton * Mr AA Hood * Major Allen * Mr Bright Mr Gurney * Mr Hoare Mr Winterbotham Mr Dickenson Mr Locke King Mr C Buxton * Mr Cawley * Mr Charley Mr Knatchbull-Hugesisen * Mr H Brassey Sir J V Johnstone Mr J D Dent Mr Hadfield * Mr Mundell% Mr Clement * Mr Figgins * Mr Stevenson Mr Layard Mr Locke Captain Meller * Mr Pochin , Mr J B Smith SOMERSZT, WZOT 1 I I 30MERSET, EAST.... 1 I 1 30IITHAMPTON STROUD JURItEY, EAST 51LFORD SANDWICH SCARBOROUGH SLIZYFIELD 1 I 1 3ifitEwssuitY 3011TH SHIZLDS 501JTILWARX 1 I I STAFFORD STOCKPORT STOCKTON SUNDERLAND 11 a ,lIAFTESBURY (SHOREHAM 1 I I I 4T.t.LEYBRIDOE 3U2tItZY, MID SURREY, WEST 1 1 1 SUSSEX, EAST . 3TAITORDSHIRE, EAST, 1 I I STAFFORDSHIRE, WESTI, STAJTFORDSIIIRE,NORTHI STAMFORD 311ROFSRIRE, NORTH BILHOPSIIIRE, SOUTH .. T. IVIES iTOKE-UPON-TRENT * Mr Tipping * Mr J Dodds Mr Candlish * Mr Gourley Mr G C Glyn Right Hon S Caw) , Sir Percy Burrell , * Mr Sidebotham " Mr W Peek " Hon W Brodrick Mr Briscoe Mr Cubitt Mr Dodson 1* Mr Scott Mr A Bass Mr M'Clean ,* Mr Ingram * Mr Child Mr Adderley Sir E M Buller Sir J Hay Mr Ormsby Gore Lord N ewport Gen P Herbert * Col Corbett * Mr Magniac Mr Melly * Colonel Roden Mr Dillwyn Sir R Peel * Sir H Bulwer Mr Barclay * Serjeant Cox * Mr Price gWANSEA rAMWORTIi Mr Ayrton Mr Samuda Mr Williams Hon. Captain Vivian * Mr E T Smith Mr A Russell Hon G Denman I* Mr Amory Sir W P Gallwey ,* Mr Beaumont Earl of Bective Hon G H Lowther * Mr S Vickers Mr J Calcraft Mr Rylands Mr A W Peel * Mr Greaves * Mr Brogden * Mr Phipps Captain Grosvenor * Mr W H Smith Mr H Edwards * Mr Hambro t Mr W H Gladstone .. , Mr Bentinck MrWoods * Mr Lancaster Mr Bonham Carter , Mr Simonds Mr R Eykyn * Mr Barnett Mr Sherriff * Mr Laslett Hon G C Lyttelton * Mr Amphlett Mr Knight Mr Dowdeswell Hon. W H Carhagton Mr C Forster General Forester * Mr Brown Mr Antrobus Lord H Thynne Mr T Grove • Mr Villiers Mr Weguelin Mr N-wdegate Mr B Davenport * Mr H C Wise t Mr John Hardy Lord C Bruce * Sir G Jenkinson Mr Lowther * Mr Brown Westhead Sir F Crossley Lord F C Cavendish Viscount Milton Mr Beaumont Mr Milbank Colonel 0 Duncombe t Mr C Sykes * Mr Broadley Nir It F` Denison .* Mr J Fielden SCOTLA.N.D. Mr Fordyce Mr M'Combie Mr Crawfurd * Mr Finnic Marquis of Lorue ,* Sir D Wedderburn Colonel Sykes It Mr Trevelyan * Mr Dalrymple Mr It Duff Mr D Robertson Mr Adam Mr Traill * Sir S Waterlow * Mr Orr-Ewing Sir J Ogilvy * Mr Armistead t Mr Jardine Mr M'Laren ..... * Mr Miller " Dr. Lyon Playfair * Sir G Maitland Mr Grant Duff * Mr Grant Hon C Carnegie Sir It Anstruther Mr Merry Mr Moncreiff.. Mr Dalglish Mr W Graham * Mr Anderson * Mr Grieve Sir H Davie Lord Elcho * Mr Mackintosh * Mr Cameron Mr Nichol Mr W H Maxwell Mr E P,Bouverie Mr. S. Aytoun * Major Hamilton Sir E Colebrooke Mr M‘Lagan * Mr Mactie Mr F Dundas Mr Kinnaird Mr Crum-Ewing " Mr Parker Sir G Montgomery Sir W Scott * Mr Matheson Mr Spiers * Mr Campbell Admiral Erskine Lord R S Gower Mr Ellice Mr Baxter Mr Young * Lord Garlies * Mr Loch IRELAND. Rear-Adrul. Seymour Mr O'Neill Sir J M Stronge Mr Verner Mr John Vance * Sir J Ennis * Mr Shaw * Mr Johnston * Mr M'Clure Sir Colman O'Loghlen Colonel Vandeleur * Mr Dalway Mr O'Beirne * Captain Fagan Mr Murphy Mr Maguire Mr Smith Barry * Mr Downing Mr Bagwell Sir H H Bruce Colonel Annesley Mr E Sanderson Mr Bruen t Mr Kavanagh Lord Hamilton Mr Conolly Lord H Trevor Lieut.-Colonel Forde Mr Keowne Major Knox . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 Mr Pim Sir A Guinness Mr Lefroy * Mr Ball Colonel Taylor Mr Hamilton * Mr Callan Mr Matthews Mr Whitworth * Viscount Crichton Captain Stacpoole Lieut.-Colonel Cole Captain Archdall Mr Gregory Viscount Burke Sir It Blennerhassett Lord St. Lawrence Lord Castlerosse Mr H A Herbert Sir John Gray Mr G L Bryan Mr Agar Ellis Sir G Colthurst Mr Cogan Lord 0 Fitzgerald Sir P O'Brien " Mr Sherlock Mr Gore Dr Brady Mr Peel Dawson Sir F llcygate * Mr Dowse Major Gavin Mr. F W Russell .... Mr Monseil Mr Synan Mr O'Reilly Col. Greville-Nugent Mr C Fortescue Mr Dease Mr Venter * Mr Moore Lord Bingham Dir Corbally Mr M'Evoy Colonel Leslie * Mr Shirley Serjeant Sullivan * Mr M'Mahon Mr Kirk Captain Darner Mr Fitzpatrick Mr Digby Colonel French The O'Conor Don Major L E Knox Mr (Metor Sir It G Booth The O'Donochue Captain White Mr Moore Mr Corry Lord Claude Hamilton hlr Devereux Mr Estnonde Mr De La l'ocr Mr Blake Mr Delahunty Mr Pollard-Urquhart Mr Nugent Sir John Power Mr D'Arcy Mr F Dick Hon II Fitzwilliim US 0 WOCSOUS TA C (n gn 1 11 1 1 1 Ii ii ill 111 I 1 1 THE FUTURE IN OF SPAIN. The Liberte makes the announcement that the Pro visional Government has at last made up its mind. " From the most positive information on this subject we are able to affirm that the Prince de Carignan is the candidate of Prim, Serrano, and his colleagues. It is to this Prince that the throne of Isabella is destined, provided always that the Cortes choose the monarchical form of government. King Victor has refused to counte nance the candidature of the Duke of Aosta." The chosen candidate is Albert Victor, Duke of Genoa, and only son of Ferdinand, the brother of King Victor. The present Duke was born in 1854. His father died the following year. THE INSURRECTION. IN CUBA. The intelligence we received by Atlantic Cable, that fifty Creole planters had joined the insurgent party, proves that the outbreak must have assumed very serious pro portions, and that it is still far from being suppressed. We are, indeed, informed also that 400 insurgents have laid down their arms, and that the Government has proved victorious in another skirmish ; but the first portion of the telegram must be deemed of the greater importance. It is hardly likely that the planters—those who have most at stake in the island, and who must be most interested in the preservation of order—would have joined a sizing un less they were convinced that it was making way. The owners and the cultivators of land are always the last to countenance revolution. It is probable that the planters remained neutral until the insurrection became so formidable as to render it necessary that they should decide for one of the two parties. The Times Philadelphia correspondent says that finance at Havannah is altogether out of joint. The price of slaves has declined from 20 to 25 per ; cent, since the insurrection commenced. This lastis a very significant symptom, for the abolition of slavery is one of the war-cries of the insurgents. Of course, the difficulty of getting any news except that supplied from Govern ment sources, prevails in this as in all other cases of insurrection. But our telegrams and the letters of corre spondents all point to one conclusion—the Government is, acting wholly on the defensive, and the rebels are con ducting the attack. TURKEY AND GREECE. The accounts from Eastzrn Europe do not agree as to the probability of Greece acceding to the demands of Turkey. The French journals publish a telegram through Trieste stating that a portion of the Greek army has already received .orders to concentrate on the frontier. It is reported that thirty battalions of volunteers will be raised. The journals of Athena are full of bellicose articles, and the populace is so excited and so much disposed for a war, that it is doubtful whether the Government can resist the pressure of public opinion. The LibertJ learns that the Greek Government has declared that it cannot accept the propositions of the Porte without endangering public order and even the throne itself. Other accounts point to the conclusion that the difficulty will be solved by Greece accepting only a portion of the ultimatum. The Independance Delge says the Porte has not sent an ultimatum, but a simple demand, the rejection of which will be followed only by the suspension of diplomatic relations, and not necessarily by a war. The Ottoman Government has given up the idea of ordering all Greeks to quit Turkish territory. C MCA NY. The Wiirtemberg Chambers seem disposed to resist the Prussianising of their country—albeit that process i• carried on much more slowly than in the neighbouring State of Baden. The balance of public opinion in these smaller German States varies much according to circumstances. In Baden, which is situated near the French frontier, the fear of French aggrandisement is always uppermost, and the Liberal party, which adco• cates union with Prussia, is predominant. But in Wiir temberg, where the danger from France is much smaller, the democratic party, which favours the Federal system as practised in Switzerland, is in the ascendant. INDIA. The news of the famine is much the same. The reports from the Central Provinces are more encouraging, but the intelligence from the PunjAb grows decidedly worse. On the whole there is no improvement in the general harvest prospects. The Times of Indio. is assured that several months must elapse before the famine•stricken districts can get out of their trouble. The papers brought by the overland mail were anticipating the great battle in Affghanistan which has already been announced by telegraph. It terminated in a victory for Shere Ali, the reigning Ameer. These victories, however, do not seem to count for much in Affghanistan. The victor never will, and seldom can, follow up his victory, and the vanquished, quickly raisir.g another army, returns to the scratch after a short interval. Abdul Rahman, the defeated opponent of Shere Ali, is beset with treachery and defection, and has just been overwhelmed by defeat. But he is a chief of great activity and resolution, and we shall probably hear of him again in the front before long. This internecine conflict has prevented the interview between Shere Ali and Sir John Lawrence, from which so much was reason- ably expected; and the same cause must always retard that important diplomatic work, the establishment of friendly relations between India and Affghanistan. A despatch from Cincinnati, dated Nov. 27, says United States Commissioner Halliday rendered his decision to-day in the case of John M. Pugh, Probate Judge of Franklin County, accused of issuing fraudulent natu ralization papers. Judge Pugh has been bound in $5,000 to appear before the United States Circuit Court. Vice-President Colfax has set the example in going in for two great events at the same time, and he has many bumble imitators, of whom Congressman Robert E. Schenck is ono, who is going to be married before Con gress meets, and also intends to start a new paper at his home at Dayton, Ohio, having quarrelled with the jour nal, the present Republican paper. The New York Commercial Advertiser denies the story that Mr. Thurlow Weed intends spending the winter in Washington. Mr. Weed's health is so bad that ho cannot leave the city, nor even engage in any business. We can readily believe this, as, when he left Edwards' Cambridge Hotel, Hanover-square, London, he was in very delicate health. _ _ The papers which failed in suppressing Benjamin Butler have taken to killing him, and stories of his dan gerous illness have been going the rounds. The Boston Journal contradicts these rumours. "He was, it says, out the other day attending to business, and with the ex ception of hoarseness, which prevents him from public speaking, is in excellent health." Congressman elect C. W. Willard, of Montpel lier, Vermont, is in Minnesota for the benefit of his health, which is improving, and he expects to return home in a short time.—William G. Shaw has been chosen city judge at Burlington.—Major Henry Bronson, formerly of Rut land, and late Quartermaster of the 12th Regiment, has been appointed general freight agent of the Union Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Omaha. An eminent American physician says that the Wall-street stock jobbers produce more lunatics than any other class of people in the country. The Right Rev. Henry C. Lay has been elected Bishop of the new Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Easton, 31d. Pyrn, Bolingbroke, Chatham, and Bright are said by Goldwin Smith to be the four great orators of English history. The Hon. S. Pendleton, formerly member of Congress from Virginia and Minister to Chili, died at Cul pepper Court House, Virginia, Nov. 19. A doubt has arisen in Washington whether the position of the United States Minister to Russia, held by Cassius M. Clay, is vacant or not. Some time ago Mr. Clay sent in his resignation, which was accepted by the Secretary of State. Shortly afterwards, however, Mr. Clay transmitted a second communication stating that he had reconsidered his action, and desired to withdraw the resignation. The question is exciting attention, and se veral interesting and difficult points of law must be con sidered before a decision can be arrived at. Mr. Donahoe, of California, has returned this 'eek, after visiting Europe. lUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re. commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. 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LEITRIM COUNTY . LONDONDERRY COUNTY LONDONDERRY .. LIMERICK CITY .. LIMERICK COUNTY .• • • LONGFORD COUNTY. LOUTH COUNTY LISBURN MAYO COUNTY NI EA.T]i COUNTY MONAGHAN COUNTY NT/Lr,ow NEw Ross NEwIY PORTARLINGTON QUEENS COUNTY ROSCOMMON COUNTY SLIno SLIGO COUNTY rRALEE riPPERARY COUNTY rYRONE COUNTY WEXFORD WATERFORD COUNTY WATERFORD CITY.... WESTMEATII WEXFORD COUNTY ... PirxmcLow DV91114. THE UN= OF THE AMERICAN CONTINEN7. (From the Anglo-American Times.) As Americans never approach this subject with- ; out being accusedlof highfaluten, spread-eagleism, and buncombe, and sneered at as holding the theory ' of the "Manifest Destiny," it is refreshing to fol low the steps of a clever, keenly observant young English member of Parliament, the author of the late book of travels, which he has well designated the " Greater Britain." There never was a stronger holder of the manifest destiny theory than Mr. CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, member for Chel sea to the British House of Commons. He considers North America to be geographically so constituted that it can form but one nation. Where are the boundaries in a valley penetrating the heart of the continent, and watered by streams navigable for 28,000 miles? The configuration is such as to make the country essentially and unchangeably one, thus stamped by the hand of its MAKER. This territory is possessed by a race so rapidly increasing that if the present ratio be maintained the inhabitants in 60 years will number 250,000,000, all moulded into the type given by.the early English colonists, which is eventually assumed by all corners. Mr. DILKE takes a view regarding Canada which Englishmen may consider peculiar, though it has been advocated by us since the establishment of this paper. 'We need then scarcely state that in our opinion his view is correct, and we earnestly hope it may have a con siderable influence:on his countrymen, but not too late for action—as so often happens with them. After glancing through the chapter on Canada, we turned to an article in the issue of this paper, March 7, 1868, among others, and the identity of the con clusions was manifest. In following, then, this author we are but following in our own track. The Canadian exclaims, " Help us for ten years to be come ten millions, when we can stand alone ;" but the difficulty is in reaching the ten millions, and no country furnishes a better instance than Canada itself. Every species of puffery to draw immigrants, every effort of detraction of the great Republic to divert the emigration from it to the Dominion, has been practised, with what result Mr. DILKE con temptuously tells. " The Provincial Government thus seems confess to the world," he adds, " that Canada can live only by running down the United States." " For such Government there is no pretext, except the wishes of the governed, who gain by the connection even for their defence, and the opportunity of gratifying their spite for their neighbours at our expense. Those who ask why a connection so one-sided, so opposed to the best interests of our race, should be suffered to con tinue, are answered, now that the argument of prestige' is given up, that the Canadians are loyal and that they hate the Americans, to whom, were it not for us, they must inevitably fall. That the Canadians hate the Americans can be no rea son why we should spend blood and trea sure in protecting them against.the consequences of their hate. The world should have passed the time when loyal dislikes can be suffered to effect our policy towards the other sections of our race; but even were it otherwise, it is hard to see how twelve thousand British troops or a royal standard raised at Ottawa can protect a frontier of two thousand milts in length from a nation of five and-thirty millions. Canada, perhaps, can defend herself, but we most certainly cannot defend her ; we provoke much more than we assist." "At bottom, it would seem that no one gained by the retention of our hold on Canada. Were she inde pendent her borders would never again be wasted by Fenian hordes, and she would escape the terrible danger of being the battle-field in which Euro pean quarrels are fought out. Canada once Re publican, the MoNhoE doctrine would be satisfied, and its most violent partisans would cease to advo cate the adoption of other than moral means to merge her territories in the Union." . . . "On the other hand, there is nothing stranger than the narrowness of mind that has led us to see in Canada a piece of England, and in America a hostile coun try. There are more sons of British subjects in America than in Canada by far, and the Americans , look upon the old country with a pride that cannot be shared by a man who looks to her to pay his soldiers. The independence of Canada would put an immediate end to much of the American jealousy of Great Britain—a consideration which of itself should outweighs any claim to protection which the Canadians can have on us. The position which we have to set before us in our external dealings is that we are no more fellow-countrymen of the Canadians than of the Americans of the North or West." These are new ideas for Britishers to ponder over. The author has travelled around the world as we did, and like ourselves found everywhere the domi nance of people speaking the English tongue. Our conclusions are identical, and that arrived at by all thoughtful, unprejudiced men who have seen as much when they cease to be bound by imaginary lines marking off States and Dominions, and accept and identify themselves in all its breadth with the destiny of the race, rising superior to the narrow nesses which so hamper mankind and deter the speedy accomplishment of the future in store. In deed we have cause to be thankful that vicious idiots have now little chance of throwing back the ad vance, for the increasing enlightenment of England on American affairs is producing an effect which it will be hard for Fenians and other haters of the race to counteract. We have at times been applied to, as the Anglo-Saxon paper, a name we consider a compliment, though American unity is broad enough for us, for there the grandest future will be developed, though other nations planted by England, may thrive vigorously elsewhere. There is a simple and very forcible way for Englishmen to regard this subject. They cannot henceforth prevent it by any efforts, even if the Civil War once gave them the chance, which we do not believe. Allowing that what we cannot help is disagreeable, there is none the less necessity for meeting and making the best of the position ; therefore, whether it be or be not injurious to the interests of Great Britain that the Republic should rule from Aspin wall to Alaska, it must be recognized as a future which cannot be controlled. But would it be in jurious ? and if so, how ? Canada would be no loss, the Hudson's Bay Territory would be sold, and even the rumour, would enhance the value of the shares. The possessions on the Pacific Coast cannot even provide decently for half a dozen younger sons, and the supposed loss would really on investigation prove a gain, as Mr. DILKE as serts. But what about the future? There, in the gloom visible to the eye of the Englishman stalks the ghost of a gigantic Columbia treading down the Lilliputians around upon whom she puts her foot, crushing them almost without seeing them. It is a positive fact that England's policy in this matter is governed by some such vision the nation is legislating on a distempered dream. Now let us take the testimony of this Englishman of the Republic's course upon a doctrine, as dear to it, almost as life, for from the past we can better fore tell the future—" In all history nothing can be more dignified than the action of America upon the MONROE doctrine. Since the principle was first laid down in words in 1823, the national action has been courteous, consistent, firm ; the language used now that America is all-powerful is the same that her statesmen used during the rebellion in the hour of her most instant trial ; it would be hard for political philosophers of the future to assert, a De mocratic Republic can have no foreign policy." This nightmare removed, and Britannia convinced that she can walk hand iu hand with Columbia without being snubbed and bullied by her cousin, however great and wealthy she may grow, then the policy of North American unity wall soon be recognized, as far as the States now desire that it should be. There is nothing more preposterous than the action of Canada; it is like a little cur snarling at a large good-natured Newfoundland whose angry action, would effect its instant annihi• lation. True, it has a friend iu another big dog, who allows it scraps with bad grace, under the de- lusion that in snarling at its big rival the small dog shows its friendliness. But, unfortunately (indeed it might be fortunate in case of a row), its big friend is chained to its kennel, and could do but little to save the provoking cur. Mr. DILKE re marks on the folly of Canadian statesmen in fos tering this feeling, as well as on the folly of the Canadian sympathy for the rebellion, showing that Canada, instead of being wiser and understanding the position better, as might have been expected from her proximity, was more wrong even than Eng land during that period. " Had Great Britain," says Mr. DILKE, " left them to their own devices, we should have had war with America in the spring of 1866." Now,at what does Canada aim in this senseless course? We may point to two instances as show ing, in an extraordinary degree, the perversity of human nature. here are the majority of Irish in an island alongside of England panting to be an nexed to the States, an arrangement nature has prohibited, and ruinous to Ireland, if not destruc- tive to the British empire. There is Canada bordering for 2,000 miles along the frontier of the States, engaged in a vain effort to erect itself into an independent nation, propped up by England, while every motive of economy, prosperity, secu rity, and grandeur should induce the Canadians to enter the Union as States. Surely it would be wise in both, the one heartily to amalgamate with Great Britain, the other to enter the Union. Is the unity of the American Continent, the darling idea of all true Americans south of the St.Lawrence,nothing to the American north of the St. Lawrence? Are Ca' nadians to reproduce along that frontier the mise ries only excusable in Europe by the issue there of races from their chrysalis of barbarism, with their frowning forts and threatening gunboats—with their custom-house officials and barriers,with their changed laws and differing currencies ? The mind of the Southerner, debauched by slavery, fostered a perni cious notion which overwhelmed in him the America n sentiment of unity ; but there is no such reason t° the north of the St. Lawrence for a feeling antag °- nistic to this grand Anglo-Saxon idea. We believe that it gains ground in England, and that it vial receive an impetus from Mr. DILICE'S book, which will be more widely read even than was HEPIVORTO DIXON'S "New America." The great object is to teach the people on both sides that they are one race ; when even a unity so mighty as that of Aine rica may be succeeded by a still greater union, that of the English-speaking peoples, which, as Mr., DILKE, asserts, will one day possess the world. so, and the bond of brotherhood can be established/ what was commenced on the American Continent will extend throughout the globe. The Sherman House at Syracuse, with a numb er of stores and offices adjacent, was burned to the gin ned November 13. The loss is estimated at about $130,000 insurance $65,000. The destroyed property is in t he heart of the city. The fire was discovered in the kitchen of the Sherman House, at about throe o'clock tu n. ' Many boarders escaped by leaping from the windoWs' Mrs. Burdick, the landlady, sustained a broken thigh b i falling from a window. The principal losses and ins' s. ; ances are as follows—Samuel Larned, owner of the b ote ' $45,000, insured for $25,000; C. L. Burdick, furniture, & e *' $12,000, insured for $8,500 ; V. G. Edwards, clothing, $lO,OOO ; insured for $l,OOO ; J. W. Yole, paper hanging' $lB,OOO, insured for $12,000 ; Chithior, clothi ng ' $25,000, partially insured. There are a number of losses, which are partially covered by insurance. r r''" Central Railroad depot, adjoining the hotel, was saved. Montgomery Gibbs, Esq., left Europe, pet- fau' l l last Saturday, en route for Washington, on offi c i a l busi es which will occupy him three weeks. Silas C. Herring, the safe man, gives $5,000 t° the St. Lawrence university and the theological school sok. Canton, N.Y., and P. T. Barnum, the showman, $ 2,5 % Daniel Drew is excused on account of his recent loss es ' Erie. the Admiral Farragut arrived in 'Washington 00 24th Nov., and was the gu e st o f the Secretary a ‘l e , Navy. Governor Fenton is at the Fifth Avenue i Pte i, New York. Among the strangers at the New York lO te r a are the Hon. Charles Sumner of 31assachusetts, 1.4°0 Alexander Russell, Edmund Boyle, Esq., and The ni ,t Tucker, Esq., London, and J. M. Beebe, Esq., Bostoe, the Brevoort House ; Senator Sprague of Rhode on, at the Metropolitan Hotel; Senator Corbett of Oreg° a the Hon. Hamilton Harris, Albany, Gene. Marvin sej., Merritt of Governor Fenton's Staff, General J. 5P 931 ,0 , ing, Washington, and General H A. Barnum , S Y A , cuse, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel ; General 3 0 b 0 by Green, junior, Syracuse, the Hon. W. D. 3111r11 0 : Albany, the Hon. Raine, Baltimore, and G. B. Li ndeul Pennsylvania, at the St. Nicholas Hotel; A. B. Cc )r o ee o3 ' , Ithaca, the Hon. E. M. Madden, Middletown, an d „ t° r Zielin, Commandant U.S. Marine Corps, at the ;$ House; General Burroughs, New Orleans, at the St. De u : g. Hotel ; Col. liildt, West Point, and Paymaster Bu r , t ,, a U.S. Navy, at the Hoffman House; Clarence King of U.S. Geological Survey, at the Albemarle Hotel. The President has recognized Ernest Van Brt ls : sel as Consul of Belgium at the City of Washington Cooper as Consul of Hayti at New York; and B. C. C h " as Consul of Hayti at Boston. Newell A. Foster, p ztidroprietor and editor of 0° it Portland Press, died of apoplexy in Boston on teho Nov. 20, where he had been attending with his w ife , t he woman suffrage convention. He had been a member ()tio Maine Legislature.--Joel Thayer, one of Boston's O t 9 /, merchants, died on Saturday, Nov. 23, at the kV f $ ‘ f Ile had been a resident of Boston for 68 years, an d .'„, A member for the first City Council.—Capt. D. Ja nyri diecl native of Newburyport, an old resident of Chelsea) , on Monday evening, Nov. 23, at the age of 65 yea op. Nehemiah Boynton, who died at Boston on Sunday , l B6o, 22, was a member of the State Senate in 18 59 and 0, and was for three years one of Governor Andreve s v ee r tol cillors. He was a native of Rockport, Ct.—Rev P r vs 'o its of the West Church, Boston, has returned from f tls :, - islf better health—Goo. B. Richmond has been unanin7,4,-, nominated for mayor by the Republicans of New Be dja iloty The coloured citizens of Ward Six, Boston, met on t d 1i day evening. Nov. 23, and decided that they s he° tba e represented in the city council, if for no other rea sc ts,ra; than that they hold the balance of power in that " for consequently they nominated L. G. David, ba rbs councilman.—Dr. John V. Do Grasse, a well - r r ace coloured physician of Boston, and the only one of who received a diploma from the Boston Medical uf, ce sso died on Wednesday morning, November 23, of O L" t. , contracted in the war as surgeon of the 54th Regita sn ot During the first week of December Gen. bo as,s was to leave Washington, accompanied by o ne of iit s who is to become a student in Harvard 'University. Da will visit Boston, where he will spend a few days, gel Iss entertained by the city, the corporation having Ps - t r ofi' order to that effect. On his return he will stop in ` dence, Rhode Island, and visit Governor Burnside. viol [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. ConfiZ o begt Advice.—To all persons who suffer from bilious disordered stomach, biliousness or flatulency, On. sti r are most strongly recommended as the safest, h e °, 3 "g e quickest mode of obtaining ease, without weaken' or, irritating the nervous system. Holloway's pills' °c olli e cially useful in clearing away any excess of bile, eg usually produces fever, unless remedial meneerd ova' adopted without delay. In asthma, bronchitis, an o viov pstion of the lungs they may be relied upon for renlolo' all danger; and, by purifying and regulating the F i tion, they effectually prevent relapses. 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We quote from the "O tt i e,S u Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21,1866. - The health of 0 0 4 Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning a ll othe;,10301, dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's T r y 0 0 0 Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at ev'ph•tqa It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his ne w •, o f his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too lligg:11610$ i i extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures :—Cure No. 00%0, the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' live r o,flitAtlio. wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous I ,3 i eSi JO all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and tli , c — ut A ts tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1.771: Lorl',„,peP4sio, Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' `,`,,,l o pePiao, No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony froal wspoSio, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatulenT/70: „Os sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 4 ut,„d tor o r James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diser;, s s• h ot spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial destore trio ortant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury an d„—,, , loppy imitations to which, without authority, lot . '" IA name is most audaciously attached. • 1/ In tins, at is. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. 9d. ; 2113. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs, cin.4 225. ; 24 lbs., 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTA ARAis t r2s.,,f ° , o " °0 LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups 3 ," r 51 0- 0 0 cups at 3s. 61, for 48 cups at Cs., for 288 cups at 300., . 3 d Ps 00 at 55s.—being about ono penny per cup. The 30s. &ta r o O vi r aro sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Orden—BAßßY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-st,- don; and all Grocers and Chemists, Births. BARING—On the 14th inst., at 65, Brook-street, ward Baring, of a daughter. o inl COOPER—On the 11th inst ,at Paris, the wife of C of dor J. B. Cooper, R.N., of a daughter. HAMILTON—On the 11th inst., at Bayswater, the John Hamilton, Esq., of a son. Marriages. 0° 0 of 11' ASHLEY —LEIGH—On the 12th inst., • soa og e f at st. Georg over-square, the Hon. Lionel Ashley, third vou of Earl of Shaftesbury, to Frances Elizabeth, th e iplo daughter of the late Capel Hanbury Leigh, 141' C- Pontypool Park, Monmouthshire. BAKER—NEWMAN—OD the Bth inst., at St. L sea, John Baker, Esq., of Portman-square,l'uNcittw widow of the late W. James Newman, Essex. Deaths. 1,- 1it i.4131 ALLEN—On the 12th inst., at 23, Leighton-grove/ - e ,40, town, Arthur Allen, Esq., aged 48 . . k rilbd! DUNLOP -On the 12th inst., at 17, Priory-road, -o' i John Dunlop, Esq., of G a i r braid, Lanarkshire, ageotec REID —On the Bth iu3t., It Da 1s t° Mr. Jones Rei d ' 14 Northbury House, ' Barking, Essex, n aged 7 6 . - THORNH .12, ILL—On the 9th iust ,at St. P aula' 'l is 9' Mrs. Elizabeth Thornhill, aged 91. ) 00 0 1 ', London : Printed and Plolighed by WILLIAAc of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THID SUN 001°3'00 No 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Se veY, is th. Iliddlesex.—Tuesday, December 15, 108. iEx e, et !