The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PITBLIO JOURNALS' The Times alludes to the strenuous efforts being made to obtain the Royal authority for the consecration of 'Mr. Macrorie. Our contemporary refuses to believe that such a scheme can be consummated by a Minister of the Crown. Even if the Duke of Buckingham be so insensible to his duty as to attempt it, there must be others who would restrain him, We are ignorant what may be the precise points referred to the law officers, but they cannot be of the least practical importance. There arc plain considera tions on the face of the question which should prevent any such exercise of the Royal authority being so much as thought of. The object is that Mr. Macrorie should be consecrated to exercise episcopal authority within the diocese of Natal. He is not, indeed, to be called "Bishop of Natal," le6t he should interfere with Dr. Colenso's legal title ; lint he is avowedly consecrated for Natal, and is to assume an authority of which Dr. Colenso is sukposecl to have been deprived. Now, Dr. Colenso holds at this moment the Crown's patent as Bishqja of and for Natal. The law courts in this country have decided that he has a right to his salary in that capacity, and the law courts of the colony have decided that the Church property of the dioaeie is legally vested in him. In plain words, the Crown has appointed him to be Bishop in Natal, and the Crown, by its law courts, is now upholding his rights to that office and dignity. How is it possible, then, for the Crown at the t&me time to entertain a proposal for appoint- ing another bishop to exercise equivalent functions ? It is just as if, whfle the Duke of Buckingham holds the seals of the Colonial Office, the Crown should privately authorise some one else to transact the business of the department. It has not yet, indeed, been shewn that the Crown is des titute of authority to call Dr. Colenso to account. He demands to be tried, and if he can be tried the whole scandal might be legal dealt with. But it is, at all events, certain that the Crown and Church of England would exercise no authority over Mr. Macrorie. The Bishop of Capetown proclaims that he himself and the Church over which he presides are wholly independent of the English Crown, that the supremacy does not apply to them, and even that they are under no legal obligation to observe the if Articles and formularies of the English Church. He desires, indeed, to place himself under a " Pan- Anglican Synod " of some kind, but he utterly repu diates all other control. And this is the prelate at whose service it is now proposed to place the Crown's authority, and whose schemes are to be promoted in defiance of the express decisions of English courts. A Royal mandate was refused to the Canadian Church not long ago. The Bishop of Capetown claims that his synodical judgments and his sentences of excommunication shall be exempt from the revision of the Crown. By all means let them be so ; but, then, let him not claim the assistance of the Crown in carrying them into effect. 'We have not the least doubt that the Colonial Churches will find more than one inconvenience attached to the pleasures of independence. But they boast of their freedom, and they must take the consequences. It would be intolerable that the authority of the Crown and Church of England should be placed at the disposal of South African Synods. The Standard asks whether Mr. Gladstone has arrived at the further conclusion that he must now adopt the cry of the ballot in order to melee sure of promoting himself to the Premiership. Has he, or has he not ? That is the question. The voices in reply to the inquiry are eminently, though characteristically, ambiguous ; but it is evident that the process, which in the jargon of the day is known as the process of being educated, is going on with reference to this delicate matter in what we suppose we must call the right honourable gentleman's mind. The Standard thinks we shall be kept in suspense till Mr. Gladstone becomes acquainted with the result of the November elections and he can have felt the full force of the argument shewn in the returns from the various polling-booths. We shrewdly suspect this will he our fate, and we base our belief upon the unusual reticence which the right honourable gentleman is practising in other matters loudly calling for some elucidation. Mr. Gladstone is compared to the Emperor of the French. The latter says "I will say no more, for the newspapers might misinterpret me, and pretend that I had threatened war." Mr. Gladstone's words are almost iden tical —" I will not enter into explanations, for it might lead to a misunderstanding." Mr. Gladstone need not be afraid. Nobody misunderstands him now. The thing would be impossible. He Las deceived people in his time ; but he may make his mind Jiuite easy about his ever doing so again. That he will end by adopting the cause of the ballot, un'ess his own fol lowers abandon it, is certain. That they will now abandon it is highly improbable. " They are swallow ing it in heaps," we are told by themselves. Lord Amberley has just declared it " indispensably neces sary," though he rejected it at Leeds and at Notting ham. A straw is enough to shew which way the wind is blowing, and a nearer approach to a straw than Lord Amberley it would be difficult to conceive. Mr. Gladstone, no doubt, is something mere. Indeed, he resembles the floating dock which was launched the other day at Millwall. He is very inert at first, and offers some thing like a stubborn resistance. 'When, however, he has once been got to leave the stays he has a most beautiful knack of sliding into smooth water. Mr. Isaac Holden will prove a true pr .phet. " Mr. Gladstone and the ballot" will yet form the watchword of the great historic rabble. The Poet says that a revolution in Spain is regarded a. one of the regular Sunday amusements, but the in esent insurrection promises to be more formidable than any of its predecessors, and even the most sceptical are now in clined to look for some tangible results from a movement which two or three facts alone shew to be more comp'eiely organised, more widespread, and more simultaneous than any of the late infructuous attempts. There is as yet no direct information to make us believe that the civil population has actiyely or heartily taken up the movement, and it will depend upon the course taken by the people at large whether the insurrection really becomes a national move ment capable of regenerating the country, or whether it dwindles down to another mere personal struggle for place and the control of the public purse ; but if the announce ment that the programme consists of three main points— the expulsion of the Bourbon dynasty, the establish ment of a Provisional Government, and the convoca tion of a Constituent Assembly which shall decide upon the future destinies of the country—be true, the people will join the movement almost to a man, and in fighting for such a result the sympathies of half Europe will be with them. The Spanish people have now their destinies in their own hands, and all Europe is looking on to see whether for the first time in their history they will know how to work them out for their own benefit and credit. The Daily News notices that so far as it has hitherto gone, the rising has taken much the same course as that which Spanish insurrections usually follow. It is done for the people rather than by them. It is the revolt of armies and generals rather than the rising of the popula tion. The l inhabitants of Barcelona and Madrid may respond to the high-sounding appeals of the generals, but the country populations seem to be unmoved by them. Garrisons pronounce ; fortresses go over to the insurrec tion, or stand firm to the Government ; but no such thing as a levy en masse, on either side, seems to be dreamed of. It is this apathy of the people which casts doubt upon the future of the insurrection. It can hardly be called a national movement, when the nation rather stands idly b: than enters heartily into it. According to the Star, the revolution does not seem disposed to parley with the Queen, but to open up negotia tions with others who may rule with less shedding of blood, less squalid superstition, and more in consonance with the material and moral requirements of the noble country which her rule has cursed. The revolution has not only the power to cut off her capital, but evidently the will to cut her off from the throne. If anyone would judge of its prospects of success, let him take a map of Spain, and mark with ua the wonderful position which it has already acquired. The march of William 111. upon London was not more rapid and conclusive than this move ment promises to become. The Herald was not far wrong in anticipating mischief for Mr. Campbell Foster, in consequence of his abundant boldness when dealing with the female franchise, erring only in deferring the day of wrath till that possibly remote period when lovely legislators shall sit at St. Stephen's, and matrons of the strong-minded sort shall fill the front places on the Treasury benches. The condemnation of the ruthless revisor has come upon him much more swiftly than we bad pre dicted. If he has escaped official destruction, there are those whose wrath at his inability to agree with Mr. Mill has induced them already to demand his dis missal. Not so very long ago the ultra Radicals were virtuously indignant at the refusal of the Lord Chief Justice to reappoint " the noble Beales." Now, from the selfsame quarters we have equally emphatic denun ciations of Mr. Foster, because he has ventured to think and act for himself when a purely legal question cams before him. Exercising his proper functions, the learned gentleman disallowed the vote of a Leeds lady, and ordered her to pay the costs she had occasioned by making a frivolous and absurd claim. Forthwith, such of our contemporaries as favour the female franchise and believe in Mr. Mill are irate beyond bounds. Forgetting all they ever knew about the importance of judicial independence, they sink their attachment to that constitutional fundamental in their wrath at its exercise on an occasion when it comes into collision with their particular crotchet. Mr. Foster.. sitting as j u d ge , an d l aw f u lly exerc i s i n g judicial autho rity, is an offender to be summarily dismissed, because on one occasion he happens to decide against the whims and wishes of his own political allies. Doubtless he will feel that in some things at least it is better to stand on the old ways and keep to the old traditions, and will depre cate the speedy advent of any Administration pledged to the enfranchisement of "persons," and possessing peculiar notions on the responsibilities of revising barristers. T.EM HATING ( OF ,4GRICULTURISTS, A meeting of the Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture was held at Newport on Tuesday afternoon, for the Pur pose of discussing and passing resolutions upon the ques tions of local (county) taxation and the management of county revenues. There was a large attendance of members, among others General the Hon. Percy Herbert, M.P., and Mr. Jasper More, M.P., being present. The discussion of the first point was introduced by the chairman, who defined the object of Chambers of Agriculture as being " defence of real pro perty in this country against burdens which, wholly or in part, ought to be borne by others." Mr. Atcherley vigo rously attacked the present system of local taxation, sup porting his argument by quoting a case given in evidence before the House of Lords, where a farmer renting a farm at £3OO a year paid 5"8 2s. annually to the poor rate, while a neighbour whose profits as a manufacturer were estimated at £40,000 a year paid only 241 Os. 9d. to the parish funds. Mr. Jasper More, M.P., moved as a resolu tion " That a revision of our local taxation is necessary," which was subsequently amended by the more definite declaration "That incomes from real and personal property should be liable to all local rates." In the course of his speech Mr. More affirmed that if every inhabitant of a county were fairly taxed a uniform rate of 4d. in the pound would have sufficed to cover what in 1865 and 1866 required a rate of 2s. Oid. on real property. Mr. Minor next moved, " That the representation of the rate payers ought to accompany county taxation, the rate payers being associated with the magistrates in county financial boards." THE WORKING CLASSES AND TRADES UNIONS. The proceedings at the late International Congress of Workmen, where such strange theories were propounded, give peculiar interest to an article entitled "Les Associa tions Ouvrieres en Angleterre," by Dr. Montucci, which has just appeared in the September number of the Revue Britannique. We glean from it the following curious calculation, by which the author endeavours to shew what the workman gains by contributing to a trades' union :—Taking the most common case, that of wages ranging between 30s. and 40s. a week, suppose the work man to pay into the savings bank the 4s. a week he now pays to the union. There his money will, at the lowest, produce 3 per cent, interest, payable every six months. As the workman gets nothing in that shape from his union, it is but fair to admit that, in the case under consideration, he leaves his interest to accumulate in the savings bank. Now, calculating the produce of his capital at compound interest, with the regular weekly increase of four shillings, the workman at the end of twenty years will find himself in possession of a sum of £3BO. Allowing for illness and other mishaps, let it be £3OO. Now, it is clear that, with such a 'capital at command, a shop may be opened, some profitable business or other may be carried on by the wife, while the husband, not older than fifty, perhaps, at the time, earns his wages as usual at his master's establishment, with the certainty of having secured comfortable means of living for his old age. Comparing this hypothetical state of things with the real one, the author of the article shews that the workman who contributes to the union fund at the end of twenty years has nothing; that by belonging to the association he loses not only the £lO a year to which his subscription amounts, but also, on an average, three months' work per annum, in consequence of strikes and other direct or indirect inter ference with the regular course of business ; so that his means are reduced to £72 per annum, instead of £llO, as they would be in the former case.— Galignani. LAW AND POLICE. FORGERY UPON LORD DUDLEY.-Mr. F. A. Farrar, of 6 and 7, Clement's-lane, City, described as a solicitor, any Mr. John Hullett, a clerk, residing at Waterloo, near Cossham, Hants, have appeared before the Lord Mayor, on remand, at the justice-room of the Mansion House, on the charge of being concerned in forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £BOO, purporting to be accepted by the Earl of Dudley, with intent to defraud. At the last ex amination it was proved that the prisoner Farrar began an account at the bank of Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. on the 10th of July last with £2lO ; that it bad been increased from time to time ; and that two of the cheques, proceeds of the discount of the forged bill, for £250 and £155, were paid in there. Many cheques were cashed paythle to Hullett—altogether amounting to £3OO. The hank had now a balance in hand on the account of £221 Bs. 2d. The solicitor to the Earl of Dudley gave his opinion that the signatures were forgeries. Lord Dudley was six days' journey from London. After hearing the evidence of several more witnesses, tending to discredit the signatures, the Lord Mayor remanded the prisoners for a week, and declined to take bail. A SWINDLER.—A man of military appearance, said to be the son of General Warren, has been charged at the Mary lebone Police-court with obtaining goods under false pretences. It was shewn that he went to Messrs. Thomp son's, in Comluit-street, and ordered an outfit for India to the value of £450, pretending that his name was Daniel, and that he was an officer in the 3rd Dragoons, and had been ordered to go abroad at once. A gentleman named Daniel had been gazetted to the 3rd Dragoons, and on a letter being addressed to him the fraud was discovered. The prisoner had also obtained goods of value from other shopkeepers. He was remanded that their cases might be investigated. The Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo has accorded to the shopkeepers of Madrid the permission to open their establishments on Sundays and fête days. THE DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S.—The health of the Very Rev. Dr. Milman is gradually though slowly improving. The Dublin Corporation have adopted the rams resolution passed by the Cork Town Council, express ing an opinion that "the time has come for the liberation of the Fenian prisoners confined at home and abroad." THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—It is stated that in consequence of danger being apprehended to the inte rests of the preference shareholders by the proposal of the directors to pay a further dividend upon ordinary stock, and the unsatisfactory character generally of the principles adopted in the accounts just published, further legal pro ceedings are in course of being taken against the company with the view of obtaining a judicial examination of the books and officials of the company, and a decision upon the alleged illegal practices adopted. The Miliwall Shield has stood another severe test triumphantly. After having previously received fourteen rounds from the 9-in, and 10-in. guns without a single important damage to its interior side, it was attacked on Tuesday by the 12-in. gun at 70 yards, with battering charges of 7441 b. of powder. The tremendous GOO-pounder Palliser shot was stopped dead, embedded 22in. in the iron and baking of this splendid structure, although the whole shield was driven back at one blow a distance of six feet. The Gibraltar shield was destroyed in ten rounds from the 9-in. gun. CHILD MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Tuesday evening a married woman named Culross, resid ing at Edinburgh, killed her child, a girl about a year old, by cutting its throat from ear to ear. She also attempted to take her own life by wounding her neck in several places. Her husband, who is a sculptor, left this country for America about eighteen months ago, and he had repeatedly urged her to join him there. She, however, refused to leave Edinburgh. She has been in ill-health for some time, and the medical gentlemen are of opinion that she was insane when she committed the murder. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY EXTENSION. The Government Inspector of Railways, Colonel Rich, accom panied by Mr. J. Allport, the general manager, Mr. Barlow, the engineer, Mr. Campion, the resident engineer, and Mr. S. Waring, the agent for the contractors, has completed his official inspection of the Midland Railway Extension from Bedford to- London. The works were found to be satisfactorily executed, the permanent way being ready for traffic. A large number of workmen are now engaged in preparing the approaches to the terminus in anticipation of the opening of the line on the Ist of October. SUDDEN DEATH FROM HURRYING TO CATCH A TRAIN.—On Sunda} morning Mr. H. Jennings, carrying on business in High-street, Strood, left his residence in company with his wife and daughter, with the intention of proceeding to Woolwich for the day. Soon after enter ing the train at Strood Mr. Jennings was seized with a fit, and on the arrival of the train at the Higham station he was removed from the carriage for the purpose of being conveyed back to his residence. A vehicle having been obtained he was driven to Strood, but before he could regain his residence he had expired, death having resulted from apoplexy, brought on, it is thought, by the excite ment of his hurrying to catch the train. THE KING OF SIAM AN ASTRONOMER.—A letter from Bangkok, dated August 2, says :—" The Supreme King of Siam is a very observant astronomer. His collec tion of scientific instruments would do honour to any European philosopher. He himself edits the• almanac which is published at Bangkok ; and lie now, with a num ber of the most intelligent persons of his Court, has left his capital for \Vai-Wan, in the Gulf of Siam, where he will direct the observations of the total eclipse of the sun. It will be curious to compare the report of an intelligent Oriental sovereign with acme of the various missions who have been carrying 0.1 their investig itions in different tro• pical regions.". TIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 18G8. IHE IRISH CHURCH REPORT. It is unnecessary to discuss the recommendations of the Irish Church Commissioners as if their adop- tion were possible, inasmuch as they all proceed upon the supposition that the Irish Church is to be maintained; but the report may serve a useful purpose in showing those who advocate the dis establishment of the Church precisely what it is that they have got to do. The word " Church " is one of those which introduces real obscurity into all discussions by its apparent plainness. The report just issued enables us to affix to it a per fectly definite meaning in relation to the disestab lishment and disendowment of the Irish Church. First of all, it enables us to answer with pre cision the question—What is the Irish Church ? The answer is, the Irish Church is a general name for the aggregate of the following establishments : two archbishoprics, ten bishoprics, thirty cor- porations of deans and chapters, twelve minor cor porations or quasi-corporate bodies connected with cathedrtls, thirty-two deaneries, thirty-three arch deaconries, and 1,500 incumbencies. There are, moreover, 500 stipendiary curates. The annual net revenues of these bodies amount in all to £581,000, of which £364,000 arise from tithe rent charges, £204,000 from land, and the remain ing £13,000 from stock in the Funds, &c. Of this amount nearly a fifth, or £113,000, belongs to the Irish Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Besides this the term " Irish Church " denotes the fact that a certain proportion of the bishops have seats in the House of Lords, and that there exist ecclesiastical courts which are, in the full sense of the words, courts of law having coercive jurisdiction upon certain matters over all persons in Ireland, the Roman Catholics and Presbyterians as well as the Protestant Episcopalians. If the bishops were de prival of their seats in the House of Lords, if the ecclesiastical courts were abolished, if all the cor- porations, aggregate and sole, enumerated above, were dissolved, and if the property now enjoyed by them were applied to other purposes, the Irish Church would be completely disestablished and disendowed. It would have ceased to exist except as a voluntary association for religious purposes. The report of the Commissioners incidentally throws great light upon the nature of such a pro cess:, and shows how it not only may be, but to a very considerable extent actually has already been, performed. A short clause in an Act of Parlia ment would put an end to the presence of the Irish bishops in the House of Lords and to the coercive jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, and with regard to the various benefices the report of the Commissioners furnishes abundant precedents as ........_____. _ to the manner in which both disendowment and disestablishment may be effected. In this point of view, the recommendations of the Commissioners, made in the interest of the Church itself, are highly interesting. They recommend, in the interests of the Church, that, " with the exception of eight, all the existing corporations of deans and chapters be dissolved, and the deaneries and other dignities connected with them suppressed." They recom mend a similar course with respect to all the minor corporations or quasi-corporate bodies. They also recommend that the twelve existing dioceses should be reduced to eight by consolidating four of them with the eight others. With regard to the incum bencies, they propose that the existing powers of uniting and suspending parishes should be ex tended, and that the funds of the united and sus pended parishes should be paid over to the Ecclesi astical Commissioners, to be by them applied to ecclesiastical purposes. In other words, the Com missioners themselves propose to disendow and dis establish utterly three-fourths of the chapters of the Irish Church, one-third of the bishops' sees, and an indefinite number of parishes. The diffe rence between this and a disendowment and a dis establishment of the whole Church is only a ques tion of degree and of the application of funds. It may, of course, be said that the manner in which the funds are to be applied makes the whole diffe rence. But this is not our point. We insist merely on the fact that the proposals of the Com missioners show us how the work is to be done, and what is its extent. With a precedent for the disestablishment of four bishoprics out of twelve, it will he no difficult matter to provide a goo 1 working meAsure, for the abolition of the other eight, and for making provision for the protection of existing interests. The report, indeed, shows us how convenient for such a purpose the machinery already in existence and in operation to a limited extent woul'l be. The Irish Ecclesiastical Com missioners are already in possession of nearly a fifth of the revenues of the existing Church, and the various proposals of the Commissioners tend to increase that proportion. Whenever they pro pcise the abolition of an existing corporation, ag gregate or sole, they further propose that its funds should be vested in the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners. The funds which they receive at present are applied to a variety of purposes which, speak ing generally, may be said to be those which in the present state of things are supplied in England by church rates. For instance, they pay for re pairs and " parochial requisites," such as church furniture, parish clerks, sextons, and organists. After meeting these expenses and the expenses of management, the surplus is appropriated to the augmentation of small benefices and to building and enlarging churches. Here, then, we have a hand ready to distribute all the endowments of the Irish Church. There could be no difficulty in vesting in the Commission (whose constitution, however, would require to be remodelled) the whole of the property of which they now manage one-fifth. They might be autho rised to hold such parts of it (the fabrics of the churches, for instance) as were to be reserved for the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in trust to permit them to be so used. The remainder subject to existing life interests, which the incum bent should be enabled, if he chose, to sell accord ing to a fixed scale, might by degrees be capitalised and applied to any useful purpose of a secular kind. Such matters as " parochial requisites " and repairs ought clearly to be provided for in a volun tary Church by voluntary contributions. The arrangements required for disposing of the property of the Irish Church would be easy enough. Nothing, indeed, would be required be yond an extension of the precedents already estab lished for its rearrangement. The erection of a body which would inherit what was left of the en dowments of the 1,500 and odd corporations which would have to be dissolved would be a more deli cate task. It ought not, however, to be one of in superable difficulty. A corporation aggregate might be formed by Act of Parliament, to be called the Irish Protestant Episcopal Church, which should be bound to conduct its affairs upon the principles of the Church of England as by law established. The existing bishops and incumbents might be the first set of corporators, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners might hold for their benefit and that of their successors such parts of the present endowment as they might be allowed to retain. It is obvious, however, to any one who will consider the subject fairly that the conditions on which so large an amount of property could be entrusted to any body corporate whatever must be rigidly defined by law, and in particular that the law must decide whether any and what judicial and legislative power should be conceded to the corporation over its own members and doctrines. Upon this point no doubt fierce disputes will arise, but they must be met and dealt with as well as may be, for the settlement of the questions which they will involve in some way or other is altogether inevitable. Of course, if the Irish clergy chose to throw up everything—if they were ready to give up all right to their houses, their churches, and their cathedrals, and to set up for themselves as an independent voluntary religious association—they would have a perfect right to do so, and to make their own rules and settle their own affairs in their own way ; but if they wish to keep any part of their present endowments, if they wish to preserve their churches and houses, and their more recent money endowments, their acceptance of a legal constitution is an indispensable condition precedent. Dissolve the 1,500 existing ecclesiastical corpora lions, and there would still be individuals called bishops and clergymen who would individually be entitled to compensation, but there - would be no body corporate known to the law and called the Church of Ireland, nor could the ex corporators form themselves into such a body by any amount of meetings and votes unless they received power to do so from Parliament. If, however, this diffi culty is overcome, the rest will be easy. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners could hold the en dowments of the existing bodies, make compensa tion to vested interests, and apply the surplus as it arose to such purposes as might be determined on. —Pall Mall Gazette. wasted ; for, What is not used in making bricks for a monument to be erected to his memory, shall be conscientiously made into chaff'." While we cannot help laughing at the " chaff" the critic mixes with his remarks, we are sensible of the pain it must give to Mr. Gould. But Mr. Moon very happily carries out what he proposed, and brings home to all of us the necessity of great care in com position, and the knowledge that, even then, we are certain to be found tripping. When we see our critics and our teachers —men held to be autho rities ou our language, making not only blunders, but gross blunders, we feel that we, who have to write so hastily and:so much, cannot fail to err griev ously. All would be benefited by carefully reading this book; for the author's method of teaching consists in exposing error in the highest places, and in showing the faulty construction of sentences in such common usage as to pass for good English. This he does amusingly, so that while he brings the lesson home, he entices his readers to go on. Mr. Gould will probably reply by publishing his letters to the Ildwal ant then we will have Mr. Moon's own errors exposed. Poor Mr. Gould was, however, caught in a false position, for he had com mitted himself to a high opinion of Mr. Moon's cri ticisms and knowledge of English. He had then to commence by unsaying what he had said, a recan tation which, under the circumstances, was at least suspicious. The book is a small volume of less than 250 pages, and will, we have little doubt, excite even more interest on the other side of the Atlantic than on this. ViIAT GEORGE WILKES GOT FOR RE CONCILING GRANT AND BUTLER. George Wilkes, the well-known editor and pro prietor of the Spirit, has come out in his journa with a defence, headed " Political Blackguards," against the attacks made on him for his share in the reconciliation between Generals Grant and Butler. It appears that while Grant has been de- nounced as a " butcher," and Butler as a " spoon thief," Wilkes has been styled " umpire of dog fights," and " the greatest gambler in the coun try." Replying to the attacks, Mr. Wilkes says : " The editor of the Spirit of the Times acquires his position among gentlemen by being himself a gen tleman by education, language, and deportment. He never tells a lie, either in his paper or out of it, and being in nobody's debt, and having at the same time a reasonable reputation for ability, it is fair to presume that no man outranks him in this country. For these and similar reasons he is al ways treated by General Grant and others of the like standing as an equal ; and for the same reasons the personal respect which he has earned for him self with a large majority of the United States' Senate, secured for him the proper compliment of a seat on the floor of their chamber, which has been so enviously alluded to. As to his having used the floor of the Senate ' to bet on the verdict of Sena tors,' the statement is utterly false, and was known to be so by the writer of it. It is true that we bat ou impeachment when home at our hotel, as did many others in Washington of much higher mark than of the Gazette; and we have quite recently bet, and right smartly, too—aye, and are ready to bet much more—that Grant will beat Seymour in the fall election. If this makes us a gambler, why then we are one ; but we never made a bet against a faro bank or other public game ; have rarely bet upon a horse race or other sporting affair, and have not, during the last twenty years, played at cards a dozm times, when there was a cent at stake. As for dog-fighting and cock-fighting, we have seen but one each of these events in our lives, and have constantly reprobated the former, and never per mitted it to be reported in our columns. As for prize-fighting, we merely give it the same notice as do all the other papers—with this difference, how ever, that our reports are the only intelligible ac counts of such affairs that are ever published. We, in short, simply publish a high-toned sporting paper, devoted in the main to the interests of the turf and manly out-door sports ; and when we say it is conducted with a literary chasteness and ability which have secured for it an honoured place upon the family centre-table of the most refined American society, we only state what is well known to thousands upon thousands of the best people of this land." We may here mention the advice Mr. Wilkes gives to a subscriber who desires to back Grant's election for $5,000, but wishes so cunningly to hedge so as under any circumstances to secure a gain. If Mr. Wilkes " knows how" his best plan is to do it himself. His advice to his friend is not to hedge at all, as he con siders the result nearly as sure as possible, but if the subscriber insists he suggests an investment of $lOO in Confederate Bonds. "He can secure about $lO,OOO worth of them for about the sum we name, and if Seymour and Blair should be elected, they would soon be worth fifty cents on the dollar." As there is plenty of this paper in the London market the hint may be worth something on this side.— Anglo-American 7imes. 711 E PIIIZE-FIGH7 IN VIRGINIA. Frank Blair's assertion that Democratic success is ordained by Heaven has lately received further illustration, and the accumulation of evidence will soon be so considerable that few can doubt its truth. At the recent prize-fight for the light weight championship in Virginia, when the pugilists were stripped and ready for business, a well-knoWn thief shouted, " Before proceeding to business, let us invoke the blessing of Providence by three cheers for Seymour and Blair." Perhaps the steamer Metamora never carried a larger gang of ruffians than that she took on board at Baltimore on the night of the 231 August to witness the fight ou Travers Island. A correspondent of the Spirit speaks thus of the men :—" Around me was a sea of faces expressive of ferocity, ruthlessness, and tho rough-paced ruffianism in its most virulent and loathsome ugliness. The steamer was deep in the water with her heavy load of ' poor humanity.' Among the pleasant diversions pour passer le temps were free fights in the crowd, characterized by play ful attempts at gouging or nose-chewing. Men with their hair grown white in the service of evil stood side by side with cunning, repulsive young faces, that appeared worthy their parent stock ;" but severe as is his language regarding them, their conduct quickly proved that he did not exaggerate. Here was an episode : Joseph Beard, jun., of Baltimore, jokingly remarked to a friend that a job had been put up to throw him overboard, accompanying the remark with a play ful slap in the face. Immediately friends and foes were ranged in hostile attitude, pistols sprang from pockets, knives glittered, and before any explana tion could be made the " ladies" cabin, selected for the entertainment, was the scene of a fierce conflict. The Spirit's correspondent, while moralizing on the horrid crowd by which he was surrounded, was in terrupted by the pistol shots :—" Hurriedly rushing to the cabin door, the sounds of a suppressed melee greet me, while on looking into the small space, overcrowded and ill-ventilated, my eyes light on a de moniacal scene, to which it is impossible to do justice. Firing, biting, struggling, fighting, scratching, and stabbing occupy the attention of the occupants of the cabin, and a slight set-to between two young roughs has been the prelude for as bloody a free fight as ever disgraced the gory annals of the Sixth Ward in New York. Among the weapons of offence are slung-shot, knives, six-shooters, clubs, knuckle-dusters, and other kinds of murderous looking weapons, the use of which is un ' known to your peaceable correspondent. Mingling with the imprecations and infuriated yells of the combatants are shrieks of terror from poor, pale ! faced women, whose faces and voices tell their tale of degradation—alas too plainly. The gloom of , the dingy little cabin is dispelled for a moment or two by the frequent flashing of the firearms." The Baltimore Commercial, whose reporter was also pre- sent, says that this fight was stopped by James Colbert and Barney Aaron, of New York, and Jas. llenrietta, of Baltimore, who sprang in with cocked revolvers in hand, and emphatically declared that they would shoot the first man who moved. Instantly the firing and cutting ceased, when it was found " that Patrick Mullen, residing at Canton, and known as the captain of the Fountain Wreckers,' hid been shot in the back, the `bullet glancing upwards and lodging in the BAD ENGLISH OF ENGLISH TVRI7ERS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Those in the habit of reading the American news papers must, a few months ago, have seen a series of criticisms by Mr. G. Washington Moon in the Nation, and chiefly in the Round Table; first, on the llon. George P. Marsh's " Essays," and after wards on Edward S. Gould's " Good English." This book is a collection of these essays, together with five on Lindley Murray. There are many who turned impatiently from the length of the news paper controversy, appalled by disquisitions on "shall," " only," and the use of such words, who, in this shape, will read these criticisms with inte rest, instruction, and what may perhaps surprise— with great amusement. The truth is that no man writes English which a keen and learned critic can not riddle if the writing be stuck up for him as a target, and " Bad English" is an amusing proof of this fact. We are accustomed from our childhood to regard Lindley Murray as the test by which to try the correctness of English composition. To prove Lindley Murray himself to have written un grammatically is to demolish our foundation. But when we follow Mr. Moon's criticisms, we see that Lindley Murray broke his own rules, and is, there fore, condemned by himself. Lindley Murray did not enunciate false doctrine ; what he did was clearly to lay down the rules of grammar, and pro ceed straightway to infringe them. He was per fect in theory, but faulty in practice, and if Lindley Murray has so erred, what chance have any of us —the host of scribblers, more especially newspaper scribblers—to escape the writing of sentences through which men like Mr. Moon could, if they chose, drive a coach and six. When what is written is carefully analysed, the authors are amazed to find so many errors in so small a space, and those who hug them selves most complacently and with full confidence in the purity of their diction and its freedom from error, are often the greatest blunderers. Mr. Moon follows no small game. The first man he attacks is, as we have said, Lindley Murray, but as the grammarian is dead and gone and Mr. Moon dearly loves a fight, he selects the living writers on the English language. Some time ago he published a series of criticisms on the Dean of Canterbury's " Essays on the Queen's English," and having de molished the British champion who undertook a reform among English authors, he turned to America. The Dean, who we presume, from the cloisters of Canterbury desired to correct the abuse he witnessed of our mother tongue, was found under the severe test to be tripping at every step, and utterly unqualified for the task to which be had elected himself. Giving way before his critic he made ahost of alterations and corrections in his book. At that time Mr. Marsh was contributing to the Nation a series of articles on the new edition 6 Webster's Dictionary, and here was an opportunity for Mr. Moon. But Mr. Marsh would not fight, _ _ and Mr. S. only, offered himself, who proved alto gether too tame and unworthy the lance of the re doubtable knight errant of the English language. Mr Moon was able to extract no more from him than the use of a noun in three totally different senses in one criticism. Mr. Moon adds, "If that were not enough he makes confusion more confounded by prefixing to the noun when next he uses it such an adjective that his description of a term in grammar is iden tical with the storekeepers' hackneyed description of his wares. I speak of facts. The Hon. G. P. Marsh's champion, Mr. S. of Trinity College, for I have not yet finished with him, tells us not only of an article' (a criticism) upon the article' (a or an) ; but, after mentioning grocers and druggists, and their articles' (of commerce), speaks of the little word ' an' as " a genuine article' ! " But we must hurry over the criticisms on Mr. Marsh, for his champion, Mr. S., is not of that pugnacious dispo sition from which fun can be extracted, and we be lieve the world looks more for fun than for instruction. finally bid each other good parted. Then, with a hud A b l y r e . , S s h . , o a o n k d h the an critic, anl flourish of trumpets—another champion enters the lists. It will be observed that it was not Mr. S.'s work that Mr. Moon was criticising ; that the end might then have been different may be shown by the result of the approaching combat. Nothing can exceed the civility of both gladiators. The most punctilious Frenchmen met for a duel could not have more gracefully bowed, waived every advan tage of weapon, saluted with the most profound appearance of respect, and ended by dashing the hilts of their weapons into each other's faces. No thing is too polite to say at first ; nothing too bad to say at last ; and although Mr. Moon never de scends from the tone of a gentleman, he certainly 1 closes the controversy by insinuating very mean practices against his antagonist, and that he is not remarkable for veracity. Nor is Mr. Gould one whit behind ; in fact, he is, in this respect, in ad vance of his antagonist. What Mr. Gould finally said we cannot tell, for we have lost the very sheet of the Round Table which was the last column the editor gave to the controversy. But we have be fore us the number of January 4, 18G8, wherein Mr. Gould leaves it to " the readers of the Round Table to draw their own conclusions as to Mr. Moon's claims to the character of a gentleman." Turning to the first criticism on Mr. Edward S. Gould's " good English," we find that Mr. Moon says, " There is in it much to be commended, much for which we owe him our thanks. His re probation of errors, common to the current litera ture of the clay, is timely and valuable ; but far more so is the evidence which he brings forward that even our careful writers are sometimes off their guard—himself among the number." After Mr. Gould's laudatory remarks on " The Dean's English," Mr. Moon feared that adverse criticism of " Good English" would be considered discourte ous ; but he judges it to be necessary, and he hopes that Mr. Gould will accept what he writes as a mild rebuke for carelessness, and couple it with the fact that he acknowledges much that is excellent in his work. First, he shows from " Good English, or Popular Errors in Language" that the author of such a work may fairly be held responsible for every error it contains, and that extreme carelessness is in these instances hardly to be excused. On the contrary errors in grammar are not to be wondered at in hastily-written contributions to journals ; " but that there should be in treatises on those errors the identical faults which those treatises are written to condemn, is a circumstance well calculated to impress all students of the language with the necessity for in creased vigilance." If Mr. Moon really imagined that the wrath of Mr. Gould would not be aroused, he must hate a much better knowledge of the English language than of human nature, for we can hardly conceive anything more calculated to excite intense indignation, and indignation which would be i proportion to Mr. Moon's success. What be un dertook to do was, simply to show that one who put himself forward as a teacher required to be taught ; that a scholar who publicly criticised the faults of others was himself in the maze of error from which he professed to lead the others; in cne• word, though not an impostor, he was blindly self deluded ! Lindley Murray was dead, and therefore could not make a public display of his anger. We do not know how the Dean took his punishment, but we do kriow how Mr. Gould comported himself on the occ ision, and it was in conformity with what we anticipated. Ile grew more and more angry, and Mr. Moon did not quite keep his temper—so, on the whole, it was as well that the gentlemen were se parated by the broad Atlantic. " Ile is not a hard taskmaster," says Mr. Moon--" one requiring me to make bricks without straw ; he gives meplenty of the latter material (errors) ; and knowing that it has been only " superficially" thrashed, expects that I shall thrash it thoroughly. Ilis expectation shall not be disappointed, nor shall any of his straw be right shoulder blade and fracturing the bone. He was also cut on the left shoulder and in the right side. The cuts, however, are of a trifling character, compared with the wound inflicted by the bullet, which it is thought will prove fatal. Young Beard received an ugly cut in the right side, but no serious results are apprehended. William Carroll had the middle finger of his right hand shot away, and a boy named Crisp was slightly injured in the calf of his right leg. Henry King, of New York, and Jacob Meyers, of Philadelphia, fell over board during the 7n6lee and were drowned. These constituted the casualties ; and it is a wonder that more persons were not injured or killed, as the saloon -was filled with men when the fight began." It was among this lot that the ballot was taken, when the vote was almost unanimous for Seymour and Blair. Alluding to the Prize Fight, we may mention that Edwards, the winner, is a native of Birmingham, England, is 24 years of age, stands 5 feet 5 inches, being slightly taller than Collyer, each weighing 1231b5. Ile is a new man in the ring, this being his first match, and the betting was three tnone against him; but the knowing ones, his backers, were well satisfied regarding both his power and science, which he showed in the first round, for after some skilful fencing he sent Collyer down as if struck by a mallet. After 47 rounds, Collyer being insensible, was unable to come up to time, and Edwards, who is said to have the face of a student, being the winner, notwithstanding his hour and a half's work, tripped gaily down to the boat. THE WAR IN PARAGUA K The French mail steamer G uienne, with the mails from Brazil and the River Plate, has arrived, and letters and papers received are, as usual, very much at variance with the telegrams published by the Brazilian agents. Humaita, it now appears, has been found evacuated by a French and Italian pedlar, who reported it to the Allied commander, and the Allies marched triumphantly in. The gar rison of Humaita had, since the repulse of the Allies on the Ist of July, begun to evacuate that place, and so completely was it done that none of the guns found are serviceable. It is now proved that it was not want of food that made Marshal Lopez order the evacuation of Humaita, but it was consi dered untenable on account of the river being partly in possession of the Allies. The small garrison of Humaita made their retreat good to the fortifica tion in the Chaco, called limbo, with the excep tion of a little force of about 800 men, who, after several desperate fights, with twenty times their number of enemies, have surrendered at discretion, having been without food for six days. Without taking Timbo the Allies will not venture to go up the river Paraguay to Asuncion ; this is the general belief at Buenos Ayres and Montevideo. Marshal Lopez, with the main part of the army, said to be 18,000 men, is well fortified on the Tebicuari guasu, on the Large Tebicuari ; but notwithstanding this appellation it will not ad mit ships drawing more than about four feet, and is therefore secure from any attack of the Allied navy. We find nothing in the papers before us of a revolutionary movement against Lopez, nor of the shooting of Berges, Lopez's Minister of Fo reign Affairs, for treason, but we see the shooting of General Burghes, an aid-de-camp of Lopez, an nounced. The summary of the last fortnight at the seat of war has very little in it of interest, nor has the taking of Humaita advanced the hope of peace. The most important news by this steamer is not, as the telegram has it, that General Urquiza was quiet and obeying the orders of the Federal Government, but quite the reverse; and civil war has again broken out in the Argentine Confederation. Gen. Casores, who bad rebelled against the Federal Government, and kept the province of Corrientes in open revolt, taking away all the transport belonging to the Allies, was pursued by the Government troops into the province of Eater Rios, where, with the help of the soldiers of General Urquiza, under the command of Lopez Jarvan, he was able to defeat the soldiers from Corrientes. The knowledge of the above facts had produced a deep feeling of uneasiness at Buenos Ayres ; and the Paraguayan war, which, like the Brazilian alliance, gets every day more distasteful to the people, was forgotten in the fear of a disas- trous civil war. It was believed that Gen. Urquiza would take up arms against Uruguay, which means Brazil, and declare Uruguay, Eater Rios, and Cor rientes an independent republic. At Rio Janeiro the news of the fall of Humaita has, as would be expected, silenced for the moment the peace party ; and it was decided to prosecute the war with all the activity and means the empire could muster, and mediation was not to be talked of ; but at the sailing of the French steam packet all the activity shown was the sending " three hundred" slaves to Paraguay. MORE ABOUT 711 E PACIFIC RAILROAD. ( From the Anglo-Anzerican Times.) This road has now an advocate which, though embracing the whole Western country from Omaha to the Golden Gate, will, we believe, be more espe cially devoted to it. The Overland Monthly, about the size of the Atlantic, is published by A. Roman and Co., and printed by Bacon and Co. The cover bears the device of a grizzly bear standing in anger across the track. When a member of the Com mons' Committee questioned Stephenson as to the result of a train meeting a cow on the track, the answer of the celebrated engineer was, " So much the worse for the cow ;" and the grizzly bear will but share the fate of the domestic animal. The Overland Monthly will help to teach us all about the Western country, now that the territory is rapidly rising into importance, but till we get this know ledge we will continue to gather information from other sources. The rise in the country from Omaha to Cheyenne at the base of the Laramie range of the Rocky Mountains is ten feet to the mile. From Cheyenne to the summit the distance is over 32 miles, and the grade nearly 80 feet. Then the highest point is reached on the line between Omaha and San Francisco, being 8,262 feet above the sea level, and 2,000 higher than Mount Washington. This spot named Sherman is sterile, with a few shrubs, low grass, and scattered rocks, and is wholly wanting in the characteristics usually found on the summits of mountains. But though itself deficient in that wild grandeur for which people looked it more than makes up by the magnificence of the view. For a hundred miles the eye ranges over a variegated country of hill, dale, and plain, on all sides bounded by lofty, snow-capped mountains. Not far from Laramie stands the house erected by the company for the United States Commissioners. General Frank P. Blair, who with General Buford and Dr. White are the commissioners, was lately residing with his family at that station. One of the accounts descriptive of this road gives an inter view with the Democratic candidate for the Vice- Presidency. " Well, Redpath," said Blair, who had known him in Kansas times, "are you as wicked as you used to be ?" " I guess so," was the reply, " for, old boy, you know that it is not Redpath, but Blair, who has recently changed his principles and his party." A sudden shower sent the party on a run to shelter. Blair was behind. " See, boys," cried Redpath, " how the Democratic can didate runs behind." The sport in the Rocky Mountains is consider- able ; antelopes abound, and elk in vast herds, some with antlers of a dozen points. Black tail deer are found in herds, and a wild sheep, weigh ing only twenty pounds, fleet, and as difficult to shoot as the chamois of the Alps. The English snipe are numerous in the marshy valleys, as well as t rairie chicken or save hens. The streams are full of speckled trout, bream, bass, and pickerel. So eagerly do they bite thata hook baited with a worm has but to be dropped into the stream and a trout of about a pound weight will at once take. The climate is exhilarating, the air been rarefied to the highest degree. When at Omaha the thermometer was over 90 deg., at Laramie it was under 65 deg., and double blankets were necessary, while the heat on the plains was uncomfortable at night. Consumptive patients are cured if they can endure the increased action of the pectoral muscles, if not they grow worse and quickly die. It is said that the builders of the iroad at first intended to scamp their work, making as much as possible out of the contract, and then to leave the line to the bondholders. But whether this be a slander or not, no such intention now ex ists. Experience has shown that the railway will be one of the most profitable works ever undertaken, and the projectors are too keenly alive to their own interest to lose such a chance. Although they push rapidly own and build flimsily in their eager haste to secure the Government subsidies, after parties fill up deficiencies, making the bed solid, erecting more substantial bridges, and in every way construct ing the works so as to last. The correspondent of the Watchman and 'left etor, writing of La ramie, says it is 572 wiles from Omaha, and had, when we were there, about 2,000 inhabitants, made up of frontier merchants, gamblers, liquor sellers, and harlots. A portion, say 1,000, had moved off to Benton, which, being a city of later days, was an attractive position for the worse por tion of the community. These " plain" cities are supported by bullwhackers," the labourefs of the road, and a general mixture of fellows who have nothing to do. The goods shown us at Lara mie were of a first class quality. The people want the best, and are willing to pay for them. The " flush times" are at Laramie, Cheyenne, and Ben ton. The Railroad Company are erecting a machine shop, a blacksmith's shop, and a round house at Laramie. They are good, substantial buildings, and such as will serve the company for years. The climate of Laramie in the summer averages about 65 degs. This is too cold for corn and the smaller vegetables. Since the settlement it is said that rains have been more frequent than in former years.Laranue beats the world on thunder storms. When the light ning comes there it comes in balls of fire and drops around promiscuously. The rain, when it does fall, falls in torrents, and the people often think that their city is the central magnetic attraction of • the universe. Laramie has a future; at present it excels Cheyenne and Benton in having more gain' biers and harlots, but it is gradually decreasing 111 this pre-eminence as Benton grows. It is singular , but it is a fact, that the " loudest" and " vilest" places are at the termination of a railroad. If La ramie was not controlled by a Vigilance Couunittee it would be pandemonium. As it is, the Vigilance Committee make it only New York on a small scale, with all the viciousness thereof displayed by daylight. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. A NEW MEXICAN RAILWAY.—The Mexican Go' vernment have entered into arrangements with one Don Ramond Zangronzie to build a railroad {roll Vera Cruz, the chief port of the Republic, through Jalapa and Preto to Puebla, a distance of about 16 0 miles. The builder of the road is to be granted a subsidy of $5,000 in Mexican bonds for every kilometre completed. This subsidy to be consi dered a debt to the nation, and six per cent. in terest is to be paid on from the earnings of the road. First-class fare from Vera Cruz to Puebla is to be $13.50, second class fare $B.OO. The Vermont and Massachussets Railroad be g surveyed a route to Turner's Falls, which vvil l probably be adopted, beginning about 200 fe et east of the Connecticut river bridge and running north through Montague City. The New Lond° ll Road is surveying a route from the same point' i south, through the centre of Montague town , a nd connecting with their road.near Locks Pond, w hich probably will also be built if the Vermont and Massachussets connection north to the Falls is , thus giving Montague Centre and the New I_4onde3 Road a direct connection with the Falls. JOHN ALLEN OF NEW I ORK• John Allen, about whom much has lately been written as the " wickedest man in New York,''. ° l/ t Saturday night, August 29, shut up at raid-ulg' t his dance-house, having kept it open to • the las moment, when he declared it was closed for eve s and assembled those who remained in a midnigbi: 0 ' r: prayer in the dancing saloon, his wife and the , heartily joining in the service. A crowd of loa fe gathered in front of 304, Water-street, and di° e);cussed the conduct of the " wickedest man," wh oth considered to be crazy. The New York Sun says t.b a , a dance. housekeeper delivered the following opi n- i _l'll tell you what's the matter. It's religi oa , i These cussed singin' and prayin' fellers have g f: hold of John, and he's gettin' to be damned yell, gious. Religion's unhealthy. It's worse'n 0 1; lera. It's took many a poor feller off, and now gettin' hold cf John, and it'll take him off-11,:a ways it 'll take him off from Water-street. see if 't don't.' This declaration was received wl silent awe, as though the entire crowd felt the al, of religion impending over them. Ou morning the following announcement, written 114 bold,.plain hand, was posted on the door of 30 Water-street : "THIS DANCE HOUSE IS CLOSED "No gentlemen admitted unless accompanied 11 tb eir wives, who wish to employ Magdalene as doraestics. „ "Jolts AL n o This notice attracted great attention, and g rn "lo were constantly gathering in the streets dur in g w et day discussing the matter, and making all manil r. of prophecies in regard to the result. In t he afte t , noon Allen attended the Sabbath school and 'Deco ing at the Howard Mission, where the fact that d. had closed his dance-house was publicly ann ounce Allen himself made a few remarks as follows JOHN ALLEN'S SPEECH. alo Ladies and Gentlemen Unaccustomed as I to public speaking, my address will not bs G e o lix. I simply say that although I have called " the wickedest man in New Y° r '' will show yet to the world that I arn the wickedest man in New York ; that " , an d help the outcast and fallen of all creeds denominations, and that I will begin from ~c 1 moment to achieve a moral reform wheneverAt/il wherever I can. I want my friends to St an ' I A me, as I will have a hard time of it for a w hile, a far I will in future devote my life to doing g ood as a is as I can." He seemed very frank and honest, downright earnest, and we hope he was an d - 0 0 continue to be. After Allen took his seat , it -tit announced that there would be a prayer meetiog_to his house in the evening, and a prayer meeting ; c o held that night at 304, Water-street, in accor° with such announcement. [ADVERTISEMENTJ—Henceorth no ono properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta. 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