The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC/ JOURNALS. Having regard to the news from America, the Times declares that the doom of the Democratic party may be taken as sealed. The National Democratic Convention assembled at New York on Saturday for the purpose of defining the principles upon which they would appeal to the country, and selecting-the persons who should be ac cepted as their representatives and candidates for the Presidency . and Vice-Presidency in the autumnal elec tion. On Tuesday evening the first part of their work was accomplished ; their declaration of principles— their " platform," to use the appropriate term—was settled and published to the world. Its distinctive ele ments, or " planks," are financial. The Convention appears to have cast in the lot of the party with that Western and Middle section which has demanded a partial repudiation of the obligations of the nation, and by so doing to have rent the party in twain, and made it impossible that the distinguished persons who were suggested as its leaders should be chosen, or, if, chosen, should accept the nomination, The adoption of a policy which, however disguised, is a policy of partial repudiation, must dissipate any lingering hope the Democrats may have had of success in the Presidential election. It is, perhaps, possible that the more reckless "wire-pullers" of the party, recognising the fact that they had no chance against Grant and Colfax, have looked forward to another term, and are willing to see what support they can get in the interval by offering the benefits of dishonesty. Their conduct is de cisive of the present contest. It was suggested that Chief Justice Chase might be the Democratic nominee for the Presidency. With a " platform "of repudiation this is impossible. Mr. Adams has been mentioned as the Vice- Presideut—a selection now equally hopeless. The Western wing of the Democratic party has overcome the Eastern. The support they may gain from the Repub. I:eans through the adoption of repudiation cannot be considerable, as the Republicans who were favourable to it were Mr. Stevens, General Butler, and their immediate allies the men who have been discredited by the impeachment, of which they were the zealous supporters. Contempt for law has for a time brought Mr. Stevens and the Democrats together, and may carry General Butler back into the party of which lie was up to the time of war a member. But it is impossible that the alliance can succeed. The Democratic platform, as announced by the Atlantic cable, is a forewarning of Democratic defeat in the autumn, and must be followed by the continued exclusion from office, if not by the lasting disruption, of the Democratic party. The Poet thinks that it would have been better had the committee appointed to consider the arrangement of the House of Commons given more heed to the question whether it was desirable that there should be a larger House. Mr. Barry's plan, no doubt, is an exceedingly good one. If 569 members habitually attended to their legislative duties, it would of course be imperative to pro vide them all with seats, and nobody would ask the cost of :loing so ; but so tong as seats are provided for those who do habitually atteend, it su rely is a small thing to leave those who do not under an inconvenience to which they so rarely subject themselves ; and, after all, it is only inconvenience, for large divisions do even now take place, as is evidenced by the 599 who voted once on the Reform Bill last year. At any rate, it will be useful to see how the members of the new Parliament understand their duties. If they come every day in full numbers, it may prove to be necessary to carry out the proposed plan ; but, if they attend no better than the present members, the House may possibly be very well left as it is. The Daily News declares the present building puts a premium on non-attendance. It perpetually reminds members of the House that the country does not expect their diligent attendance on their legislative duties. It hides from the House its own thinness of attendance by enabling a small number of members to make a large show. Half the members being present makes a full House, and even one in four will make a considerable appearance on the benches. It will be worth the sum which the alteration will cost, to remove this encouragement to legislative neglect ; and should a more democratic Parliament, having no respect for the magic number of 658, resolve at some future time to reduce it to 500, or some number even nearer to that of other legislative bodies, the new House will be none too large even then. We ought at least to give members the seats to which the constituencies elect them ; and not to reward the toils which led to those summits of an English man's legitimate ambition by refusing them room to do their duty. By the goodwill of the Government there is still, says the Standard, a chance that the Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market Bill may become law. Though the bill has been twice " talked out," Mr. Disraeli declared in the House on Tuesday night that " it was the determination of her Ar.jesty's Government to advance the measure as fast as they could." At the same time the Premier intimated that the carrying of the bill this session depended on the energy and determination of the House. IVe might almost ask whether it is because the measure is felt to be a good one that it is opposed so strenuously. There are certain politicians who seem to make a point just now ' of obstructing useful legislation, lest the existing Govern ment should have the credit of effecting beneficial changes. Thus there is a drag put upon the Blectric Telegraphs Dill, though the companies have ceased to oppose, and the public are universally demanding the passing of the measure. If the Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market Bill were in other hands, perhaps it would receive more favour. Yet, as if to complete the anomaly, the bill originated with the Opposition, although Mr. Milner Gibson has thought proper to denounce in a long set speech as a " Protectionist "scheme. The bill also agrees with the propositions of the Cattle Plague Commissioners, as put on record two years ago. The Telegraph calls attention to the fact that a few days hence the House of Lords will be invited by Lord Abinger to consider " the Revenue Officers' Disabilities Removal Bill," which has now safely emerged from the Lower House. We trust that the reform will be so supported by its friends as to commend itself to the approval of their lordships. It is a measure of enfranchise ment against which little can be said in these days, when intelligence and independence are regarded as prime requisites for the possession of the franchise. Both qualifications are claimed with truth by the meritorious class of public ser vants to whom the project applies, and thus a case is at once made out in its favour. No doubt a good deal has been said about possible inconvenience to the public ser vice should the bill become law, but we regard such feats as purely imaginary. Awl we are fortified in that belief by the well-known fact, that the heads of departments are almost entirely opposed to the opinions ex pressed by the Commissioners of Customs and Inland Revenue, and are heartily in favour of the new plan. It is notorious that the Post office authorities—not by any means the sort of persons to encourage anything which would induce laxity of disci pline or inefficiency, support Mr. Monk's bill to a man. These gentlemen, speaking from an int:mate personal acquaintance with the class they represent, avow their conviction that the passing of the measure would tend materially to improve the service by checking agitation, and creating a feeling of confidence and content. That result is not to be despised, and by itself it is really a suffi cient answer to the poor pleas that can be advancedagainst the measure. FOUR. CHILDREN AT A BIRTH.--The wife of John Guernsey, a mechanic employed in the factory department at Chatham dockyard, has been delivered of four children at one birth, the whole of whom were born A short time since the wife of a soldier attached to the third battalion at Chatham gave birth to three children, all of whom are now living. A STRUGGLE wITII TIME ,i,ND TIDE.—The Vau ban lock, which is the key of the port of Gravelines and a protection to the low-lying lands surrounding that town, fell down a few days back, fortunately when the tide was out. Fears were entertained that a disastrous inundation might ensue, but by activity and energy that calamity was averted. Defensive works against the rushing of the water were, improvised, and a company of the corps of Engineers arrived in time, with 4,000 sacks filled with earth, to consolidate the work already commenced and place the adjoining district beyond all danger. AN ARMY CONTROL DEPARTMENT. —The Secre tary for War'has just laid before the House of Commons the close of a correspondence between the Treasury and War Office on the formation of an army control depart ment. It Wail commenced by Sir John rakington on the 19th December last, when the right hon. baronet commu nicated his opinion to the Treasury* " that economy and efficiency in peace and war might be promoted by corn bin:n-; under one controller-in chief what arc called the departments of supply—viz., transport, commissariat, iJtorcs, purveyJr;, and 1 arcAcks." After a series of negotiations extending over c:. , . - cral months, the Tres wiry iimed a minute, stating that there will be " prospectively," in addit:on to the secretary and parlia mentary under secretary, a permanent under secretary, competent to advise the Minister for War on military natters, and he will be.." generally, if not always, a military roan ;" a controller-in-chief, " without the rank of under secretary," and with a salary of £l,soo'a - year—he will - be either a milita,ry man or a civilian, as may be most convenient at the time of hi s a pp o i n t ment ; a principal financial officer . ; with £1,500. a-year, who is to be of acknowledgel,....finapcial reputation and experience in" ace :Mitzi; I always a civilian', of equal rank 'with the tai y..;119.-in-Clo7ll774.lllb9.4lMilitteri_Vx." _ THE rvATERIMENTS AT SHOEBURYNESS. On Wednesday the practice was renewed with the two 13-inch mortars, at 900 yards range, four rounds being fired without any result, each shell failing to strike. The first round was from the 7-inch gun at the experimental casemate, the projectile being a shell with a 221 b. charge - Dtpowder. This struck on C section, six feet from the base, and two feet six inches from the edge of the plate, close to another shot, and making one hole with it. The second round was shot from the 7-inch gun, with the same charge of powder, and it struck five feet from the base and in the centre of the plate, pene trating 16'28 inches, making a clean hole in a part pre viously uninjured. The third round was the same as the second, and the shot struck the 6 - inch plate eight feet six inches from the base and two feet from the edge, penetrating eleven inches. The fourth round was a shot from the 9-inch gun with 431 b. of powder. It struck the 6-inch plate, C section, about three inches from the edge, making an indent of 25'8 inches. The fifth round, being the same as the fourth, struck the 4 i t r inch plate upon an old shot hole. and went clean through into the concrete. The sixth round was another repetition, and it struck the 4i-inch plate three feet from the top on an uninjured part, going clean through. The total actual penetration was four feet. This concluded the trial, for that day, of the experimental casemate. A salvo from the 9-inch gun with a 431 b. charge, from the 10-inch gun with GOlb. charge, from the 12-inch gun with 761 b. charge, and from the Rodman gun with 83/lb. charge, all shot, was then tried. The tube of the 10-inch gun having failed to ignite, only the three shots took effect ; and they all lodged in a spot two feet square, and surrounded by shot holes. This was on the part of the target which really represents the Plymouth Fort, having a 5-inch plate in front and two 5-inch bars on planks in the rear. The result was a hole being made large enough for the select committee to jump or walk through, several members choosing the more dignified mode of progression. The mass of metal displaced was estimated at three tons. This concluded the day's experi ments. GENERAL PEEL ON THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The annual Huntingdon Wool Fair was held on Wed nesday, at the conclusion of which a dinner was held in the Corn Exchange. Among those present were Lord R. Montagu, M.P., General Peel, 111. P., Mr. Baring, M.P., and Mr. Fellowes, M.P. After the usual loyal and consti tutional toasts, General Peel, who was warmly received, acknowledged the toast of " The army, the navy, the militia, and the volunteers." In the course of his speech he spoke in high terms of the services of Sir R. Napier and the forces under his comman din the Abyssinian expedition, which had been, he said, from first to last a great success. He hardly knew how to express in adequate terms his admiration of Sir Robert Napier with regard to the whole of his arrangements and his minutely correct calculation of the force that would be required without wasteful ex penditure of both money and troops. Some thought, and he (General Peel) was not sure that he was not one of them, that a less force would have sufficed ; but if ever there was a general who distinguished himself in every particular relating to the matter in which he was engaged, it was Sir Robert Napier on the late occasion. He com plimented the Government not only on their selection of Sir Robert Napier, but upon their having, as it had proved, so wisely given him the entire control of the whole matter; while he, in his turn, was equally successful in the choice of his officers. It was a grand military success, not only acknowledged and admired by our own tt ilitary tacticians, but acknowledged and admired by the military men of all foreign countries. The expedition was, no doubt, expensive, but he was sure no one would regret a small additional impost upon his income when he con sidered that it was the price of the rescue of his fellow countrymen from the clutches of a half-civilised barbarian who at any moment might have thought fit to cut their throats. Though expensive in the first instance, it may, in the end, prove economical. It may teach us—first, not to indulge in the expense of sending consuls where they can be of no possible use ; and next, that an army can move without all those incumbrances hitherto thought necessary for transport and other matters, and he trusted, at least, that it would teach other Powers that it is not possible to insult the British nation with impunity. (Loud and long-continued cheering.) He trusted, too, it would teach our military men the abso lute necessity of discipline, for it was discipline alone that enabled our army to do what it did—(cheers)—and it was the want of it that caused the Abyssinians to rush headlong to their own ruin. SIR ROBERT NAPIER AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. On Wednesday the directors of the Crystal Palace gave a fête in honour of the return of Sir Robert Napier from his successful campaign in Abyssinia. No addition was made to the prices of admission ; it was a shilling day, in fact, and a great deal was given for the money. There was a really good concert and some very good fireworks ; but on the whole it did not differ much from ordinary fire work days at this season of the year, when everyone is glad to get out in the evening to take his chance of finding a cool breath of air. Sir Robert and Lady Napier, with the chief members of the Abyssinian staff, came to the entrance, or tropical end, of the Crystal Palace soon after one o'clock, and were there received by Mr. Thomas Hughes, :QP., most of the directors, Mr. Bowley the manager, and Mr. Grove the secretary. The party were all in plain morning dress, greatly, as it appeared, to the disappointment of the audience, who, no doubt, had expected them to come in fall uniform. The visitors were immediately con ducted to the Queen's Balcony to witness the great fountains. Rarely has a day occurred on which these great waterworks have been seen to more advantage. Per haps the first day on which the Queen saw them they were seen equally well, but never better certainly thal on Wed nesday. With high feathery columns of water reaching nearly 200 ft. into the air,!a breath of wind suffices to break their line and drown their beauty in a cloud of spray. On Wednesday, however, the day was intensely hot and still, so the great columns rose like huge white feathers from the ground, and even when once or twice they slightly drifteil it was only to turn the spray into rainbows quite as beautiful as the fountains themselves. An immense crowd had collected to witness the scene, and also to welcome Sir Robert Napier, judging from the large proportion of uniforms amid the throng ; and when Sir Robert himself appeared in the balcony there was a prolonged burst of cheering, which was repeated again and again, and, indeed, was continued more or less vehe mently as long as Sir Robert and Lady Napier were in sight. After the fountains the party retired to take luncheon is what is now called the Royal Corridor, which was fitted up in the same exquisite style as when it was used on Saturday last by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh. After luncheon the party returned to the royal box, and at this time nearly 10.000 visitors were collected in front of it. The instant Sir R. Napier appeared there was another great roar of cheering, so loud and so long that he was at last compelled to come to the front of the apartment and bow his acknowledgments a recognition which by no means tended to diminish the applause. Of the concert which followed very little more need be said in its praise than that it was fully equal to the high standard of the great set concerts by which the Crystal Palace has achieved so high a reputation. At the end of the first part of the programme Sir Robert Napier had to leave London, but Lady Napier and the staff remained till its close. After the concert a magnificent display of fireworks was given, and this seemed to be the most attractive portion of the whole entertainment. It was late before the last visitors returned to London, but on the whole the railway arrangements were satisfactory. The admissions by season tickets were 7,090 ; ditto, by pay. ment, 19,340 ; total, 27,030. A NONAGENARIAN HAYMAKER. — On Tuesday last, notwithstanding the great heat, Mr. Jonah Bulman, although in his 93rd year, might be seen working hay in a field, near Oakhurst, Cockerruouth.—Cunzberlani racquet. &Riots RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Wednesday morning, as Mr. Urquhart, of Liverpool, was hurriedly leaving the Hoylake train, near Birkenhead, before it had stopped, he was caught between the carriage wheels and the platform, and dreadfully injured. One leg was ampu tated, and the unfortunate gentleman lingered in great agony until the evening, when he expired at the hospital at Birkenhead.—A shocking railway accident has hap pened at Newport (1 Monmouthshire), by which a young woman, named Hodgkinson, aged 20, and residing at Maindee, lost her life. Thu Monmouthshire Railway runs across the principal thoroughfare of the town, Com mercial-road, and along George street. 'Across the road. way are placed large gates to protect the trafEc on the passing of trains, and oa each side of the gates were small wicket gates.for the accommodation of foot passengers. The gate-keeper heard the approach of one of the 'Western Valley Railway passenger trains, when he closed the large gates. The young woman was on the west side, and just as the train was approaching she opened the wicket gate on the left band side and attempted to pass over. She was caught by the engine and thrown a distance of thirty feet to the right hand gate, and the wheels of the engine and the whole of the carriages went over one of her legs, • completely severing it. The foot of the other - leg was smashed, one of her thumbs cut off, and her head fearfully cut .at the back. She was immediately taken to the niirraary, where she died in about half hour . after bias tdmitked.. THE SUN, LONDON, THtBSDAX EVEN SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET JULY MEETING—IVEmzsDAy. The settlement of the July Stakes, which many fancy throws some light on next year's Derby, seems to mono polise much of the interest in the present meeting, although there are other good stakes to be run for during the wo k in which the dark two.:year-olds are expected to be .made public The attendance was again meagre ; but when it is considered that few go to Newmarket for pleasure, all being business there, this circumstance may perhaps cause no surprise. The programme comprised eight events, and opened with a walk over for the Midsummer Stakes by Vale Royal, Puff, however, saving the forfeits. Harebell was the elected of the talent for the overnight £lOO Plate, which she won very easily indeed. This success was followed up by the filly winning another handicap over the T.Y.C., defeating Ettrick and Eglamour• Usurper, who was among the runners in this race, and who has been backed at outside prices for the Goodwood Stake , , broke down badly, and the extreme odds of 1,000 to 2 were offered against him. Backers received a severe facer in the 500 sous Sweepstakes, over the Chesterfield Course, for which Basilia was made a great pot, but she sustained a clever defeat from one of Lord Glasvw's cults from the prolific Miss Sarah, who showed excellent speed in the July Stakes yesterday. Martyr, who made his debut in this race, is a fine-looking colt, but evidently requires time. For the Exeter Stakes only three canto to the pest, and of these Flower Girl was made the favourite, while De Vero was backed for a good deal of money at 2to 1. The race was an interesting one, and the magnificent manner in which Fordham finished was universally pronounced to be one of the finest specimens of riding ever witnessed. There was very little speculation on future events during the day, and the details of this together with the day's racing are appended : The Midsummer Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for three yr olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b; untrieds allowed 41b. 8.31. 7 subs. Lord Stamford's Vale Royal, by Stockwell July, Bst 101 b (Bumby w.o. Admiral Rous's Puff saved stake. A Plate of 100 sovs, added to a handicap of 10 sovs each, for two and three year olds; New T.Y.C. Mr Stewait's Harebell, by Tower—Miss Martineau, .3 yrF, 7st 11Ib (H. Covey) 1 Mr C. Surface's Macduff, by Malcolm, 3 yrs, 7st 81b (Mordan) 2 Prince Soltykoff's Maia, 2 yrs, sst 121 b (Jewett) 3 The folio Aug also ran :—Verona, Lady Di, and Dun bar filly. Betting-7 to 4 agst Harebell, 100 to 40 agst Maia, sto 1 agst Maduff, 100 to 15 agst Lady Di. Verona was first away, but in a few strides gave way to Maia and Lady Di, Harebell lying at their quarters till reaching the plantation corner, where the latter took up the running and won in a canter by three lengths ; r. head only divided Macduff and Maia, Verona was a good fourth, and the others finished at wide intervals, as placed. A bweepstakes of 500 sovs each, 200 ft, for two year olds ; colts Bst 10Ib, fillies Bst 71b ; maidens at starting allowed 31b. Chesterfield course. 4 subs. Lord Glasgow's c by Melbourne—Miss Sarah, Bst 71b (Cannon) 1 Mr E. C. Clayton's Basilia, Bst 41b (Fordham) 2 Duke of Newcastle's Martyr, Bst 71b (Daley) 3 Betting-7 to 4on Basilia, 4to 1 agst any other. The favourite on the left held a lead of half a length of the other pair, who came on head and head till passing the winning post of the new T.Y.C. Here Lord Glasgow's colt drew away, and won by a head, two lengths separat ing second and third. A Plate of 50 sovs (Handicap), for three year olds and upwards; New T.Y.C. Mr Stewart's Harebell, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Hunt) 1 Mr J. Wood's Ettrick, 4 yrs, 7st. Sib (Goodwin) 2 Mr Batson's Eglamour, 4 yrs, sst 101 b (Wilson) 3 The following also ran :—Usurper, Lupus, Maid Marian, Helvellyn, General Sherman, Morning Star. Betting-7 to 4on Harebell, 6to 1 agst Maid Marian, 100 to 7 agst Helvellyn, 100 to 5 agst Lupus. Harebell got away with a slight lead of Ettrick, Egla mour, and Lupus, and retaining the advantage throughout won in a canter by a length from Ettrick, four lengths in tervening between second and third ; Lupus was a goed fourth. Maid Marian fifth, Helvellyn sixth, Morning Star seventh. General Sherman next. Usurper, who broke down badly, finished last of all. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; the winner to be sold for 300 sovs ; if for 100 soya allowed 71b. Chesterfield Course. Capt. Machell's f by King Tom—Agra (£100), Bst (Maid men t) 1 Capt. Machell's Crown Princess (.£100), Bst (T. Challoner) 2 Baron Rothschild's f by North Lincoln—Cressa (.£100) Bst (A. Hayhoe) 3 The following also ran :—Madame Strauss. St. Agnes c, and Odine f. Betting-6 to son Captain Machell's pair coupled, 6to 4 agst Crown Princess, 3 to 1 agst the Agra filly, 100 to 30 agst the Odine filly, and 5 to 1 agst the Cressa filly. The last named held a slight advantage of Captain Ma chell's pair, who ran head and head to the foot of the bill where the Baron's filly was in difficulties; and the Agra filly taking up the running, won in a canterby three lengths from her stable companion, the Baron's f being a bad third, the Odine filly fourth, St. Agnes colt nest, and Madame Strauss laSt. The Exeter Stakes of 40 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fiilies Sst 71b; maidens at starting allowed 31b. Last half mile of the New T.Y.C. 24 subs • Mr radwick's Flower Girl, by Orlando—Bouquet, fist 71b (For ham) 1 Mr Nonnan's .zEgean, Bst 71b (Parry) 2 Mr Joseph Dawson's De Vere, Bst 101 b (T. French) 3 Betting—Even on Flower Girl, 2 to 1 agst De Vere, 4 to 1 ngst lEgean. The trio ran abreast for a few strides, when Da Vere, in the centre of the course, assumed aslightadvantage, which he held to the corner of the plantation ; here 2Egean went to the fore, the other pair lying head and head till reach ing the foot of the hill, where De Vere dropped back, and Flower Girl, whom Fordham had nursed in a masterly manner, challenging, won cleverly by a neck, De Vera being beaten a length and a half for second honours. The Beaufort Stakes (Handicap) of 15 soya each, 5 ft, with 100 added for the winner and 25 for the second, for three year olds and upwards; winners of 100 sows after July 2 (at ten a.m.) 51b, twice or 300 71b extra. Suffolk Stakes Course. 21 subs. Count Batthyany's Nine Elms, by Stockwell— Lady Kingston, 4 yrs, 6st 41b (Butler) 1 Baron Rothschild's Hippia, 4 yrs, Bst 91b (I laley) 2 Mr Payne's Citron, 3 yrs, Est (Wilson) 3 The following also ran:—Lady Blanche f, Victress, Miss Sarah c, Casse Tete, and Black Diamond. Betting-5 to 2 each agst the Miss Sarah colt and Nine Elms, 4 to 1 agst Hippia, 5 to 1 each agit Mr. Payne's pair, Citron and Victress, 8 to 1 agst Lady Blanche filly, 100 to 8 agst Casse Tete. Victress cut out the work with a slight lead of her stable companion, Lord Glasgow's colt and Hippia lying in close attendance for half a mile, when Victress dropped hack and Citron was left with the command, Nine Elms and Hippia, however, being in her immediate wake, Lord Glasguw's colt having retired. Half-way up the hill Citron ran wide, and Wilson was unable to right his horse, so that Niue Elms was left with a clear lead, which he maintained cleverly by three-quarters of a length, three lengths separating Citron from Hippia ; Lady Blanche filly was fourth, Victress fifth, Lord Glasgow's colt sixth, Casse Tete seventh, and Black Diamond last, beaten off. The Town Plate of 50 sous for three year olds; colts Est 101b, 1 2eldings Bst 61b. ; B. M. Mr Pryor's Grimston, by St. Albans—Theodora, Bst 101 b (T French) 1 Mr Lambourne's La Belle Jeanne, Bst 61b (Lynch) 2 Mr Savile's Vertumna f, Bst 61b (Maidment) 3 Mr Skelton's The General, Bst 101 b .....(Parry) 4 Betting-5 to lon Grimston. The Vertumna filly made the running for half the journey, when Grimston took the lead, and having all his opponents soon settled, won in the commonest of canters by two lengths, three lengths separating second and third, The General being last, beaten off. weight for age ; penalties and allowances. About six furlongs. Mr Johnstone's Harvest Home, by Warlock—Greta, 2 yrs, 6st (Hudson) 1 Mr Jackson's Sorcerer, 3 yrs, ist 111 b (M.Eweu) 2 Mr A. P. Jay's Bluebell, 2 yrs, Bst 51b (W. Buck) 3 Betting— 7 to 4 agstilarvestllorne, 2 to 1 asst Sorcerer. Won by a neck ; bad third. Tfie winner was sold to Mr, Graham for 51 guineas. _ _ Consolation Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added. About five furlongs. Mr Easton nd Puritan, by Warlock—Revivalist, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b (Clarkson) 1 Mr Cradock's First Blood, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Cameron) 2 Mr Moffatt's Lady Lyon, 3 yrs, Bst 91b (Hudson) 3 The following also ran :—Little Nancy, Bluebell, and Glen mop. Betting-5 to 4on Puritan, 3to 1 agst First Blood, sto 1 agst Little Nancy. Won by a length ; head between second and third. SALE OF BLOOD STOCK AT NEWMARKET. A few lots of fourth-rate blood stock were offered by Mr. Tattersall, at Newmarket, on Tuesday : The Property of Captain Angerstein. Gs. B in (bred in 1860), by Costerdale out of Lateef, by Dromedary ; with a filly foal by Wild Dayrell, and served by Oulston B m (bred in 1862), by Nines, dam by Pyrrhus the First ; with a colt foal by Wild Dayrell, and served by Oulston • • (Mr Mather) 25 B m (bred in 18G2),by Nines, dam by Lanercost, with a colt foal by Wild Dayrell, and served by Oulston• (Mr Malcomson) 25 B m (bred in 18G2), by Trumpeter, out of Diego's dam, by Dromedary, with a colt foal by Oulston, and served by Oulston Br m (bred in 1862), by Ninus, dam by The Doctor ; with a filly foal by Oulston, and served by Oulston (Mr Roberts) 35 WEDNESDAY. Oh f, by Glenmasson out of Cicada, by Malcolm, (Ur C. Rayner) 150 Ch c, by Blair Athol, darn by Pollard out of Libusa, . _ by Mulatto Miss Evelyn, 3 yrs, by Orlando, out of Nun Appleton (Col. Maude) 200 Lifebuoy, br c, by Lifeboat, out of Golden Drop, by Stockwell (Mr Saville) 100 Knight of Kerry, cli c, by Knight of St. Patrick out of Azalia ('lr J. Dover) 100 TURF NOMEXCLATURE.—Mr J. B. Morris's yearlings— Bc by Carnival out of Feodorowna (Denidoff) ; ch f by Thormanby out of Queon of the East (Calypso) ; eh f by Ely out of July (Oliver Cromwell); b c by Chevalier d'lndustrie out of Tension (Prince of Wales); b fby Saunterer out of Margery Daw (Cradle); b f by Stock well out of Maggie Lauder (Helen M‘Gregor) ; b c by Macaroni out of Lady Chesterfield (Stanhope). PRINTERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. The anniversary festival of the Printers' Pension Almshouse, and Orphan Asylum Corporation was held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday night, pre sided over by the Very Rev. Dr. Stanley, Dean of Westminster, with whom were Mr. Eyre, Mr. Spot tiswoode, and many others whose names are inti mately associated with the progress of printing, as well as those of some who have acquired fame in literature. In the course of the ordinary toasts the chairman, alluding to the Queen, said her Majesty must have had some experience of that which Southey described as the greatest of all luxuries, the correcting of proofs for the press. In proposing the Prince and Princess of 1% ales and the rest of the Royal Family, the very rev. the dean included the latest and as yet un named addition to that august circle, the audience cordially responding to the chairman's introduction of the toast. In like manner honour was done to the army, navy, and volunteers, Mr. Spottiswoode, as the organiser of one of the first bodies of the last-named force, responding for that branch of the service. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing what he called the most important toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Corporation of Printers," spoke thus : There are two reasons that occur to me as to why I have been called upon to give this toast. The first is a special and the second a general reason. There is a sense in which the printers of England, all those whom this society is called to benefit, may be con sidered the children of Westminister Abbey. (Cheers.) I can never forget, and I hope you will never forget, that the first printing press of England was set up within the precincts of Westminster Abbey—(hear, hear)—and that the patriarch of English printers is interred, if not within the walls of the Abbey, yet immediately under its shadow, in St. Margaret's Church ; and this connection, ever since the art of printing became an institution, has been encouraged and fostered by those noble eccle siastical establishments of which Westminster Abbey is the chief representative. (Cheers.) Whatever spot within our precincts may have been hallowed by the first printing press it is difficult to determine. Whether St. Catherine's Chapel or the Armoury is uncertain, for all traces have disap fou is derived from that of your nders disap peared, but their memory still lingers in your pro fession. The name b y which I understand cYonnusestcirlal call place, your meetingswhere pro fession first met — namely , the chapel ; so that you are, as it we re, on e of the side chapels of our great nat ional sanctuary. t e (Cheers.) Caxton has always had a special claim on those connected with Westminster Abbey. Some may remember how the Dean of St. Paul's tried for many a long year to erect a memorial to Caxton in Westminster Abbey ; and I trust all of you will use your best efforts to preserve the memory of your founder, and will not allow the grave of Caxton to go from amongst the glories of England. So far for my connection with you as regards the office I have the honour to hold. There is another con nection in which I feel that I and many others are bound to you, and you bound to me, and that is through the general dependence and intercom munion which must always exist between the prin ters of England and those who iu any way have been reckoned amongst authors. (Hear, hear.) I think people generally hardly know how curious is the feeling which arises in authors when they receive back their proof sheets. "It is a feeling partly of shame, partly of gratification, and partly of amusement, when we receive from the hand of an invisible friend those printed sheets which they return to us. (Laughter.) I say a feeling of shame, because I am sure authors must acknowledge how great an infliction they must im pose on the ingenuity and the patience of the printer —(hear, hear) —because they are always conscious of the difficulty which is taken off their hands by the interpretation of the printer, who deciphers what is committed to him. I say shame, and I say also amusement, because nothing certainly so much enlivens an author plodding through the weary pages he has written as the ingenious conjectures made by the printer to decipher what he has written. (Laughter.) I remember on one occasion receiving some anonymous corre spondence, asking to know what was meant by a passage in one of my works touching on the 1 " horns of the burning beast." I looked at the passage, and was myself in some perplexity to know what was the meaning of the "horns of the burn ing beast." Perhaps some of you will discover, in the extraordinary sagacity w hi c h you possess, that this pas , age resolved itself into " the thorn of the burning bush." (Laughter.) I have also heard it often asked whether, indeed, some of those mistakes which are sometimes laid to the charge of authors do not really proceed from the humour of those who set up the type. (Laughter.) Doubtless some of you have seen that famous passage in the " History of Europe," by Sir Archibald Alison, describing the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, in which he speaks of the pall-bearers, including, among other distinguished officers, the name of " Sir Peregrine Pickle." (Much laughter.) I have often heard this quoted as an instance of the extra ordinary ignorance of that learned historian ; but I confess I have thought it was not so much an in stance of ignorance on the part of Sir A,rchibakl Alison as it was of the humour of some compositor in whose memory Sir Peregrine Pickle was more familiar than Sir Peregrine Acland. (Laughter.) I remember on one occasion, writing of a merchant in the Elizahethean era, I received with the proof sheet from the printer a qucery suggesting a name which I had forgotten. That I must say gave me an impression of pleasure and satisfaction, for it was the correct reading of the passage, and the true solution, showing that those to whom the pages_ were committed were not the mere mechanical interpreters of what was written. '(Applause.) Mall bra engaged Cs secret4ry to °gird Cosa- CAR T.ISLE MEETING-WEDNESDAY. The Lottery Stakes of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, with 50 added ; winners extra. One mild and a quarter. 19 subs. Mr Eastwood's Evelioa, by Kettledrum or Hubert Evadne, 3 yrs, ist llb (inc. 51b ex.) (Wyatt) 1 Mr Johnstone's Czar, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (inc. 51b extra) (Cameron) 2 Mr J. Osborne's Sister to Little Agnes, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (W. Platt) 3 Barmaid and The Gleaner also ran. _ Betting —5 to 4 on Czar, 2 to 1 agst Evelina, 6 to 1 agst any other. Won by a length; same between second and third. Scurry Handicap of 3 sow each, with 30 added. About five furlong 8. Mr Martin's Tripthoug, by Cavendish—Diptbong, 3 yrs, Cst 71b (Hudson) 1 Mr Samuel's Feodor, 4 yrs, ist 121 b (Peppier) '2 Mr Dobson's Flora, 3 yrs, ist 71b The following also ran :—Lady Lyon, Philippic, Light Cloud, Heiress of Linne, Stafford, Bonaparte, and First Blood. Betting-2 to 1 agst Tripthong, 4to 1 each agst Flora and First Blond, and 5 to 1 agst Feodor. Won by a neck; same between second and third. The Athletic Stakes (Handicap), of 3 says each, 1 ft, with 25 added. About sirfurlongs. 15 subs. Mr MtNiven's Miss Dayroll, by Wild ILyrell—Chief tain's Dan titer, 4 yrs, 6st (frulson) 1 Mr T. Lund's Little Naucy (late Popgun), 3 yrs, sst 7lb (Platt) 2 Mr W. Cowen's Leneva, 2 yrs, sst 7lb (car. sst 10%) (WEwen) 3 Falls of Clyde also ran. Betting-2 to lon Miss Dayrell, 3 to. 1 agast Little Nancy. Won by half a length ; three lengths between second and third, bad fourth. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Two miles. Sir W. Eliott's Three per Cent., by Bondholder—The Folly, 5 yrs, 9st 121 b (Snowden) 1 Mr T. Masternian's Honesty, 5 yrs, 9st 121b...(Osborne) 2 Mr Barber's The Clown, aged, 9st 131 b (Gradwell) 0 Betting-7 to 4on Honesty, 3to .l. agst Three per Cent. . _ Wou -by a neck . . TtiO gtaiieS 01 3 loya nolaoritli - 20 added NO, JULY 9, 1868. mission there were no fewer than seven authors desirous of correcting the single sheets that each other wrote. My only hope to bring it to a conclu sion was the means of resistance I had from the printer's office. I knew that these remonstrances were the only means I had in my power to put a stop to these internecine criticisms. The first point I had was, '‘‘ You must not alter the paging," and the next was, " You must not alter the para graphs." My great dread was that in the last su preme moment there would he a slip between the cup and the lip in the printing office, and the whole of the concluding day I spent in Messrs. Clowes's office, to see that no hindrance took place there. When I apologised for the extraordinary annoyance and trouble, it gave me great satisfaction to hear them say, " You, sir, cannot have greater interest than we have, for after the toil, the labour, we have had, we feel as anxious as you can be that the report on the Oxford University should be out in a complete form by 12 o'clock to-morrow, to be placed in the hands of the Secretary of State." This proved to me that the labours of author and printer were shared in common. (Hear, hear.) The very rev. gentle man then, in a similar style, pointed out that, al though printing was well known in China long be fore its introduction to this country, there did not exist in that remote region the reciprocal associa tion of author and printer through which the press of this country derives its strength. In commend ing this corporation to general support, he congra tulated its members on the endeavours that are being made to purify the press by the suppression of filth and trash, and expressed his belief that upon the whole the literature of Europe has more of good than evil. (Loud cheers.) Subscriptions to the amount of more than £5OO were announced. At intervals during the evening selections of vocal and instrumental music were given by Miss Palmer, Miss Berry Greening, Miss Edith Kingsley, Mr. Alfred Weston, Mr. L. Burleigh, and Mr. W. Wil son. The duties of toastmaster were discharged by Mr. Toole. RAILMAY INTELLIGENCE. RAILROADS IN NEVADA —VIRGINIA AND TRUCKEE RAILROAD.-Mr. E. L. Mason, of the surveying party engaged upon the Virginia, Washoe, and Truckee Railro id, has been iu this city and reports that the lines for the grade have been run from American Flat to Empire City. Between Empire City and the summit at American Flat the grade will he 116 feet to the mile. Grading will be commenced in about four weeks.—Vir s qinia Enter prise. From the Report of the Auditor-General of the State of Pennsylvania, for the year 1867, we learn that more than two-thirds of the total tonnage of railroads of the State last year consisted of mine ral productions, as follows :—Anthracite coal, 15,482,140 ; bituminous coal, 4,931,387 ; petro lemn, 834,624 ; pig iron, 628,779 ; railroad iron, 358,939 ; other iron or castings, 849,2271 ; iron and other ores, 1,501.5641 ; lime and limestone, 736,6541. Total, 24,821,317 f. The board of directors of the Boston and Albany Railroad have fixed the annual salary of the pre sident at $lO,OOO ; that of the vice-president at $5,000 ; superintendent, $5,000 ; assistant-super intendent•, $5,000; counsel, $5,000; treasurer, $4,000 ; two assistants, $1,200 each ; clerk of board of director, $2,700. RAILWAYS OF THE DO3IINIONL—There are twenty railways in the Dominion in operation, with 2,530 miles of main track exclusive of switches, of which sixteen are in Quebec and Ontario, with 2,189 miles of track ; of the remaining four, 19.6 miles are in New Brunswick, and 145 miles in Nova Scotia. The total cost of construction and equip ment of these railways was $158.750,099, or an average cost per mile of $62,765 68. The Grand Trunk has been the most costly in its construc tion—namely, $74,683 40 per mile; after which the Great 'Western, costing $70,340 47 ; the Welland, costing $64,913 72 ; and the Northern, costing $56,411 25 per mile. The Halifax, Truro and Win tsor, European and North American, Lon don and Port Stanley, Truro and Picton, Ottawa and Prescott ; Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton,, Cobourg, Peterboro', and Marmora, New Bruns wick and Canada, and Brockville and Ottawa, cost in the• order they stani, from $16,722 down to $30,600 miles. The least costly in construction and equipment are the Carillon and Greenville, and St. Lawrence and Industry, the, former costing $7,746, and the latter $1.508 per mile. The rolling stock consists of 480 locomotives, 304 first-class, and 380 second-class cars. 4,110 freight, and 2,380 platform cars. About 2,900,000 passengers are carried annually. The Great Western is, in proportion to its mileage, best supplied with passenger cars and carries most passengers per annum. The receipts from passengers per mile per annum are $1,772 65, and from freight $2,522 96, making total receipts $4,558 24, against $2,930 75 working expenditure. This would give as the nett earnings per annum about $4,000,000, or 21- per cent. per annum on the cost of construction. Besides the railways in operation there are in New Brunswick 175 miles, and in Nova Scotia 85 miles under construction. A PROFITABLE RAILWAY.—The following table shows the receipts, expenses, and net earnings of the Central Railway of New Jersey, from the be ginning of the annual reports to the Legislature to the present time : Rlceiptg. ErpAnses. Net Earnings. 1853 $149.018 $197.629 $151.389 41 per cent. 1851 378.145 197,349 180,795 48 1855 393,729 298,856 184:873 47 1856 553,479 258,303 295,171 53 1857 682,315 340,5,02 341,812 51. 1858 816,931 34014 591,320 58 1859 971 ,7 0 2 385,716 583,986 61 1860 • 1,185,833 475,457 710,391 60 1861. 1,201,895 522,452 679,443 57 1862 1,397,586 623,245 774,341 56 1863 1;911,975 81.4,732 1 127,234 58 1864 2,537,185 1,231 7 ,554 1,305,631 51 1865 3,036,390 1,748,431 1,287,956 4.3 1866 3,581,241 1,963,976 1,617,268 45 1867 3,320,397 1,878,022 1,472,376 41 Total $22,396,853 $11,191,846 $11,205,997 50 per cent. The operation of clearing out the central shaft of the Hoosac Tunnel will commence immediately. It is to be done by bailing with two buckets holding each eight barrels. It is estimated that it will take twenty days to reach the bottom, where the thirteen dead lie. THE NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD COMPANY.—On the 17th of April of the present year an act was passed " to incorporate the New York City Central Underground Railway Company, and to authorise the said company to construct and operate a certain underground rail way in the city of New York." By the terms -of this act 41 gentlemen are created a body corporate and politic by the name of " The New York City Central Underground Railway Company." This company is to continue for 100 years, to be located in the city of New York, and the capital stock, it is provided, shall be $10,000,000, divided into 100,000 shares of $lOO each. The law provides also that the business and offices of this corporation are to he managed by a board of 13 directors, who shall be elected annually by the stockholders ; the first elec tion to take place in the city of New York within three months after the passage of the act. In ac cordance with this provision the stockholders held an election at 58, Broadway, between 12 and 1 o'clock, on June 18, when the following named gentlemen were elected :--William B. Ogden, John I. Blair, William E. Dodge, Lewis B. Brown, Geo. Griswold, J. Boorman Johnston, Clarence S. Brown, William B. Duncan, Andrew H. Green, Edward Dodge, George IV. M'Lean, Henry Smith, and 11. F. Vail. I tln Pittsburgh, a mortgage for $10,000,000, on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad, to J. Edgar Thomson, of Philadelphia, and George W. 111‘Cook, of Stubenville, has been recorded in the Register's office. The mortgage is given to the parties as ,trustees to secure the bonds of the company. THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS RAILROADS.—The St. Louis Democrat, 6th June, gives the following items respectiag these roads :—The BAleville Railroad Company have been negotiating with the Illinois Central Railroad Company for a lease of their road, the latter company proposing to give the former $llO,OOO per annum for a lease of their road, but they "ask $125,000. . To overlap this Illinois Cen tral Itiatoad cowsay's project, the Chicago and St. Louis Company have gone to work to try and secure the Belleville Road. If they get it they pro pose to extend the road from Belleville to Du Quoin, on the line of the Illinois Central, and from thence to a point opposite Paducah, Kentucky, and at that point bridge the Ohio River, so as to con nect with the Mississippi Central Railroad. "THE IGNORANT AND DEPRAVED." The Rock, which may be described as the fervid, and to do it no more justice, as the able and consistent representative in England of the black and ungainly Protestantism of Ireland, in commenting on a recent article in the WEST MINSTER GAZETTE, on the gradual transfer of political power from middle class Liberalism into the hands of the peoples of Europe, arrives at the conclusion, which it calls a gratifying one, that Rome has no hope of retaining " her hold on the middle class," and " is casting in her lot with the ignorant and depraved." But we had always thought that it was not a re proach, but a note of the Church of God, to preach the Gospel to the poor, to the masses of the people, to those whom the Rock de scribes as " ignorant and depraved," and that it was characteristic of the hireling to confine his attention to that small " middle class . ," which the Rock describes joyously as posses sing " the largest material resources." It is, we believe, true, as we said in the article alluded to by the Rock, that there is a movement going on throughout Europe, against Liberalism, against, that is to say, a class which legislates exclusively in its own selfish interests, and op pressively as regards the rights and interests of the vast majority of the people. What direc tion this democratic movement may take, will depend mainly upon the influence which Christianity in Europe, Which the Catholic Church can bring to bear upon the masses of the people. It is true that the corrupting influence of Liberalism has been long at work opposing Christian education and under mining religions faith, that the active agency of Communism is at hand, ready to pervert the minds of the working classes, oppressed and galled at the treatment which they receive at the hands of the well-to-do classes, whom the Rock patronises and flatters ; of the owners of capital, the masters of the labour market. If in this terrible struggle between an anti-Chris tian Liberalism and a Christian Democracy, sore beset by Communism and Infidelity, the Catholic Church casts in her lot, not with a class " whose intellectual and material re sources " are not on the side of Christianity, but with the people's, who is there to reproach her ? The Rock, moreover, in rejoicing that the middle and well-to-do class in Europe, and the intellectual class, as represented, we sup pose, in Germany by Strauss, in France by Renan and the Siecle in England by Jowett and the Pall Mall Gazette, are escaping alto gether from the control of the Catholic Church, and in relegating to her charge those whom it calls " the ignorant and depraved," can scarcely be aware what numerical proportion the despised masses bear to the well-to-do and intellectual classes. Happening to have at hand some statistics prepared for another pur pose, as to the relative proportion in Prussia between the well-to-do classes and the rest of the population, we will quote them here for the especial enlightenment of the Rock. In Prussia, before the recent annexation of terri tory, the population was 16,869,786, and of this population only 44,407 persons (heads of families) possess an annual in come of £l5O and upwards. Now, taking each of these heads of families to represent a family of five persons, it appears that there are 222,055 souls, or only 1 . 31 per cent. of the whole population which can be described as well to do. Applying these returns, subject of course to various modifications, to England and other countries, the result would show how small a number of souls is comprised in the affluent middle class, whom the Rock re gards with such exclusive interest, compared with the vast majority of souls whom it de scribes as " ignorant and depraved." Such a description would suit the condition of the working classes, the outcasts and the slaves of Pagan times, and perhaps may, to our national disgrace, be applied to the state of practical heathenism into which the labouring popu lation of England has sunk Under three hun dred years of Protestantism ; but it is not true as applied to the Catholic populations of Europe. The masses of the people in France, in Austria, in Italy, in Spain, in Catholic Germany, in Belgium, and in Ireland are not " ignorant and depraved," but are far better instructed in the Chriptian religion, and far more virtuous than the' middle class, in which selfish worldliness and anti-Christian Liberalism have taken so deep a hold. The Rock, in describing the vast majority of souls in England as " ignorant and de praved," has unwittingly brought a most fatal accusation against Protestantism. Out of its own mouth it is condemned.—Westminster Gazette. ST. PETER AND NERO. Last year, the Church celebrated the nine teenth centenary of the martyrdom of the Apostle Peter, Vicar of Jesus Christ. This year, at the same time, occurs the nineteenth anniversary of the suicide of the Emperor Nero, Vicar of Satan. We know what the fete of the Church was, and how the furious revo lution would fain have turned it into her last Vespers. The great journal of Catholic Italy, the Unita, recalls this to the revolutionists, and suggests to them to take their revenge by celebrating in their turn the centenary of Nero. And why should they not, seeing that Nero is their chief; as Peter is ours, and that both are still living and wrestling with each other yet for the prize of the word ? In truth, there are but these two personages in all humanity, and the history of the human race is the history of their conflict. Peter, the envoy and the substitute of Christ, the only Son of God, in combatting Nero, combatted humanity it se lf . H e com batted it to wrest it from the gods it had made for itself; and who were devouring it. In its madness it would fain have kept them, because it worshipped in them its own handiwork. Peter was beaten with rods, crucified. He died, and he was the victor. The Roman Empire, which slew always, whose strength was based upon vengeance, and whose duration was based Upon death, made its false seep upon the corpse of the man of peace, to whom Christ had given the supreme commandment to love more than others, and always to pardon. Peter wrested Rome from Nero, and gave her to Christ. And Nero also fought with humanity, ever divided and. in arms against itself. He strove against the divine instinct by which it sought light, against the groans with which it called. upon God. A hellish inspiration seemed to guide him, leading him to commit crimes more hideous than the corruption of man had yet invented, more brutal than any to which supreme power had yet accustomed itself, and outraging human society, nature and divinity. In the presence of Jesus Christ, already visible in the whole universe, Nero declared himself to be God. Base pagan servility had long demanded this outrage, but it was reserved for the madness of Caligula to accede to the demand. Augustus, Tiberius and. Claudius, overcome by this in famous servility, permitted temples to be de dicated to them ; but Nero was the first to believe in his own divinity. He erected altars to himself, and Rome, with her great, her wise, her philosophic, and her brave sons, fell down in adoration. Both Seneca and Burrhus feigned to adore Nero ; and Tacitus, resolved to have only the virtues which would not interfere with his becoming, a Senator, saw Nero pass by, and went not to Christ. Under this _reign human degradation was most public. When the Emperor, himself given up to unspeakable debaucheries, a monster of lust and . ferocity,,, although the ruler of the world, appeared as, an, ignoble actor at the pabhs theatre, Myre brhanii and __- when behind him, not Seganus, not Narcissus or Tigellinus, but Seneca and Burrhus, were seen applauding, then humanity had come to its lowest degradation, it had been seen what tyranny could exact, and humanity could ,be base enough to furnish. There was the result of all civilization, the outcome of philosophy, science, art, literature and politics, of the lives of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Alexander, Cicero, and of Caesar, all was consolidated to form the monster who played upon the lyre in a public theatre, supported by the wisdom of Seneca and the virtue of Burrhus. Had he known that Tacitus was before him, little had he recked. He would even have let him live that posterity might not remain ignorant of Nero, and might hate him. As though aware of the command ment of love and mercy given to Peter, which raised him to be the head of the human race, Nero proclaimed the spirit and the mission of Satan which were in him, the spirit and the mission of hate. " I would," he said, "be hated, and it is my glory, for to be loved de pends not on myself alone, whereas it depends on me alone to make myself hated." For the rest, Nero was full of the learning of his day, lettered, artistic, humanitarian. A worthy disciple of Seneca, he said " good things." When a sentence of death was pre' sented to him to sign, he let fall the pen ; saying, "Would that I knew not how to write. He enrolled himself in the League of Peace. When the Senate praised the wisdom of his rule, he said, " Wait to praise me till I have merited praise." He long feigned mildness, and only ceased altogether to be a hypocrite when he was fully found out. It was well that by such a hand Peter should die. Nero in his turn died a year afterwards ; not of the wrath of Rome, not of the disgust of humanity, but of the fear which he inspired, and which lie felt himself. Fear, indeed, was the great cause of death in this haughty Rome. People died of fear and ennui. The Senate dared not hate Nero, the people loved him. His policy was to appal the great, and to divert the rabble, and it succeeded in keepis him for fourteen years in his place. If Jo had gone on as virtuously as he began, it may wellbe that he would not have last e d so long. Hewas a ruler who suited this world. At last, however, Galba being threatened, rises in his starving province ; places are promised; the Senate, reserved for massacres, tempts for tune, declares.for Galba, and seeks out Nero to put him to death. But he had already fled, having provided himself with poison and dagger; but he hesitated to swallow the poison , and gazed ruefully at the dagger, unable to make a choice. When the soldiers of the Senate approached, he cut his throat, but with so ill-armed a hand, that he was still able to lament that "he who sang so well should die such a death." The Italian revolutionists are the small change for a Nero. Between them and hil 3l there is no lack of analogies, e.g., severiql luxury, prodigality, rapine, murder, self-glory fication, buffoonery, and above all, th e h a te 0 , the name of Christian. Like Nero, they w o - ala have burnt Rome ; like Nero, they would have; slain their mother, which is the Church. And a Seneca is not wanting to undertake 'lll' defence of the parricide, and has, indeed; already commenced it. But the analogy s' go still further. It is to be foreseen that if th o Revolution does not itself die, the Government' in which it is at this moment incarnate, Wil l end by a cowardly suicide, and will perish of the blows which it inflicts upon itself 0 1 the midst of its own self-complacence. sung so well, and yet must I die." " Anctli g artilea Nereo 1" It is, therefore, quite in keeping for the Italian revolutionists to celebrate with all mag' nificence the nineteenth centenary of Nero' This noble Emperor is their type. They d ° his work, which is to wrest Rome and 1 1 ' 1 ; manity from Peter, the Vicar of Christ, an d r to hand them over to Ciesar, the man 0 ' Satan. As to success, indeed, they cannot look fol . it ; and even if they succeed in reopening the catacombs, it is the granary of plenty' The grain °I Christ is yet there, and will there multiply itself to nourish yet again the human race.—Univers. The Lombardia of Milan, of the Ist inst., relate.; the following :—" A deplorable fact occurred yes; terday on the Piazza Santa Sofi a . A num ber 01 " young men thraw stones at the Archbishop, wb ° had been to the Convent Santa Soda to visit the nuns. Some missiles also were cast into the church' The police hastened to the spot and put an end the disturbance." A letter from Athens, in the Journal de Par" speaks of scandalous scenes of which the H e ßerl Chamber of Deputies i s t oo o ft en th e th ea t re . 1 mentions, among others, th e f o ll ow i ng : —Th e elect tion of the members for Syra was recently unde r examination. The President of the Committee, 14 " Giacovato, deputy for Cephalonia, becoming ir rv a tated at a remark made by another member, us e some very improper l anguage t owar d s him. rfilt, other deputies took the pa r t o f th e i r i nsu lt e d ee' league, and violent words were followed by hloic°:, The President of th e c h am b er was at l ast o bliged to terminate the sitting ; but as the tumult wen d on still increasing, the ar me d f orce was compe lled to interfere to clear the building and close t he door. SWIMMING IN THE SERPENTINE.—The MlO Ol competition of those members of the Serpentine C 111 1: who are qualified to swim for first-class prizes, took pla ce on Wednesday. Th e di s t ance was 1 , 000 yar d s— fr o m tb' ,-, grating at the east end to Kensington-gardens Bridge. . 14 enormous mass of persons thronged the shore on eith er side. There were seven en t r i es , v i z ., W. Cavil! 0( Brighton), J. T. Stabbach, G. Parrott, H. Ward, J. C ol lard, H. Jenkins, and W. P. May. At 6.50 Mr. Evil' l36 a the honorary secretary, started them evenly, but in t/1 first dozen strokes Collard was in front. That position ~„- did not hold, as Stabbach and Cavil! soon began to sine themselves out as leaders, and in the first 50 yards Wel clear, Stabbach leading. Parrott, W ar d, an d Colla r were level in the second rank, Jenkins and May bell thus early disposed of as to their chance of winning. 150 yards Cavill got the lead of Stabbach by at least tvr" yards, Collard going well into the third place. In pass i l the green boat-house Parrott and Ward h a d b eco me let, for third, which position Parrott took de c idedly ti ", - 4 time they were abreast of the Royal Humane Societ.Y house. At the bend Cavil! swain most towards the tol d ; dle of the stream, having a commanding lead, so tt Stabbach, by keeping to the north shore, seemed to 1'; coming up, but in reality it was not so, for the fur tbe a they went the wider became the gap between thorn, nu the Brighton man was greatly cheered as he went uto e o the bridge at least 30 yards ahead of Stabbach, who 11 , 1 ten yards from Parrott, between whom and Ward for t hn c i' place there was not more than half a yard. C olli . dropped somewhat astern towards the finish. Mr. e Humphries, the swimming master to the club, was ju d o and the time was 18 min. 18 secs. Births. ARMSTRONG—On the 6th inst., at Castleflemyng, Queen County, Lady Armstrong, of a daughter. HADLEY—On the 7th inst., the wife of Edward A. Sadle r: Esq., of 31, Pembroke-road, Kensington, and LWOW inn, of a daughter. PERcivAL—On the 7th inst., at Balnaguith, Clapham , : wife of Hamilton J. Percival, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. 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