The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-07 00:00:00

gioUT OF THE PUBLIC) JOURNALS. It might be, observes the Saturday Review, that if the w ishes of the majority of Irishmen are to be taken as the gu ide to the future government of Ireland, the course before those who adopt this view would be very simple, because all they would have to do would be to let the Trish have their own way. But their path does not really lie so straight before them. For they limit their principle of leaving Ireland to the Irish by another principle, that Ireland is only to be left to the Irish so far as compatible with the safety of England, and with the dignity and ,strength of the Imperial Parliament. And this limitation very soon creates a host of difficulties, and separates off into distinct sets those who all start from the same general principles. The Catholic priests who met at Limerick, it is true, saw no difficulty in reviving, as they called it, Irish nationality, because they thought it was not their business iv ask how the Government of England could go on with an independent Government existing in Ireland. But most Englishmen shrink from running the great risk which they think is involved in having a separate Irish Govern ment, for the obvious reason, among others, that if the two Governments quarrelled, which they easily might do, very nearly the same evils would have to be encountered that would arise were Ireland to set up for itself as an independent Power. This reluctance to let the Irish judge entirely for themselves what they shall do has led to a great variety of propositions, according as different writers think most of pleasing Ireland or of keeping England safe. Mr. Butler Johnstone, for example, has published a pamphlet in which he urges that it would not be neces sary to have a separate Parliament for Ireland, as the Irish members elected to serve in the Imperial Parliament might sit in the recess as an Irish Parliament, and have the exclusive control of everything affecting or relating to Ireland. He is sanguine enough to think that this would give rise to no practical difficulties, and that every one would easily agree as to what are Imperial questions and what are only of local and Irish import. The ma jority, however, even of advanced Liberals in England seem to recoil from the idea of giving Ireland any distinct legislative existence, and think that, though the wishes of - the majority of Irishmen ought to be gratified, they ought to be gratified through the legislation of the Imperial Par liament, and in fact ought to be snubbed and thwarted so far as they are directed towards a separate nationality. Mr. Disraeli is, says the Spectator, obviously trying to gain time. Either because he has not made up his mind, or because he has not convinced his Cabinet that his mind is the right mind, or because he thinks delay will disinte grate instead of uniting the Opposition, he evidently avoids any exposition of the policy of his Government. It will be, he told his party, when assembled in Downing street at two o'clock on Thursday, a truly Conservative policy ; it will be, he told the House of Commons, three hours later, a truly Liberal policy ; but on neither occa sion did he give any hint of what the policy would be. He had been, he affirmed, Lord Derby's confidential friend for twenty years, and he knew what Lord Derby thought, but what Lord Derby did think he kept carefully to himself. Recalling the history of the Reform Bill, how the present Premier twice brought down to the House plans chsxged within a day, it is impossible to avoid the suspicion that the new First Lord is still engaged in educating his fol lowers, and does not yet know in the least how far he will be allowed to go in dealing with his immediate diffi culty, the Irish Church ; whether he will indeed be allowed to do anything beyond ordering another " full and searching " inquiry into the whole matter. We doubt very much whether this will do. Mr. Disraeli's hold over his party is not strong enough to enable him to continue the interregnum, or to get through another year by mere House of Commons' adroitness, and his hold over the country, such as it is, is mainly derived from a latent notion that once in the saddle he will do something great. He has admittedly no majority in the House, and his great adversaries are evidently girding themselves up for what Mr. Gladstone significant'y termed a "severe session." Earl Russell, for example, in the LosC.s, has declared openly that Mr. Disraeli's policy is one of " deception," and that he has no confidence in the Govern ment. The Premier's one chance is to induce his followers to endure measures so broad that the Radicals can vote for them, and this policy he seems as yet unable or unwilling to pursue. It is said that he relies much on his power of dissolving before the new Reform Bill becomes law; that is, of inflicting an enormous fine on members of the House by two dissolutions in twelve months ; but it seems to be forgotten that the fine would fall as heavily on his own party as on his rivals, that every election since the Reform Bill has resulted in a loss to his party, and that till January he can have no aid from the gratitude of the new electors. A dissolution would injure him too much with his own people to be risked, and he will, we imagine, find that unless his plans are very broad, as broad almost as his ultimate Reform Bill, his tenure of office will be but short. He, therefore, needs time, and how, with his present Cabinet, even time is to help him in Irish matters, it is hard to see. Those who had formed extravagant expectations of sen sational disclosures to be made by the new Premier, on meeting Parliament for the first time in his new capacity, are undoubtedly, says the Imperial Review, not a little out of humour. Those, on the other hand, who have sincerely shared the regret which has been generally expressed for the circumstances which have rendered necessary the re construction of the Ministry have abundant reason to be satisfied with the simple declaration that, little as the personnel of the Cabinet has been changed, there is even less modification in the course of 'its general policy. One of the most influential of 'the independent members of the Hcaise of Commons is reported to have observed, at the meeting of Mr. Disraeli's supporters, that Conservatives might almost find reason to be gratified by Lord Derby's resignation if, in consequence of that step, they might hope to enjoy a continuance of his lordship's counsel and direction, of which any further exposure to the routine of public busi ness would have been only too likely to deprive them altogether. Nor could those who listened to the modest and graceful homage which Lord Derby's successor paid to his late chief, both in Downing-street and in the House of Commons, find any reason to doubt his assurances that for the future he would be guided by the same considera tions as had shaped the course of his predecessor. As Mr. Disraeli most truly observed, the late and the present leaders of the Constitutional party have acted together in public life for the last twenty years in unbroken harmony and unison. If there is anybody . in England who must thoroughly understand Lord Derby's rules of political conduct, it must be the man who has acted as his lieute nant in the House of Commons ever since the death of Lord G. Bentinek. And if the course hitherto followed by Lord Derby has been influenced in a great degree, as the world is disposed to believe, by the suggestions of his most distinguished colleague, it would be idle to suppose, as some of our contemporaries would appear to have sup posed, that the change in the actual holders of the first place in the Administration should be accompanied by a sudden revolution in the policy of the Cabinet. The John Ball has an article on private asylums, divopos of the conviction of Mr. Shaw, of Elstree. It chews how easy a thing it is to ill-treat a patient, and bow the com missioners may quite as easily be hoodwinked. Even if the quasi-lunatic tells the commissioner, the keeper is always ready to say that the patient is " under a delusion." What is the remedy for this sort of thing? Our con temporary says boldly that the most thorough reform would be to abolish private asylums altogether, and let patients of the better classs, when not taken care of at home by medical attendants or nurses, be placed ill superior wards of public asylums, where there would be no object •in detaining them, and yet where they could have every possible advantage and luxury. But the least that should be done is to enact that all private houses should be open to inspection, not at a definite time by a few persons however high in character and position, but by every justice of the peace in the county or borough where the asylum is situated, and by the clergyman of th( parish at any time and without any notice. But even thi: desirable reform will not probably he effected till a mem ber of Parliament has been kidnapped and kept n ithout a cause in durance vile. Mr. H. W. Peek, of Wimbledon House, Surrey, and a member of the well-km wa firm of Peek Brothers and Co., tea-dealers, Eastcheap, has intimated his inten- - . tion of building a chapel for the Surrey County Schoo: Cranley, at a cost of about £5,000. VESUVIUS AND THE GEOLOGISTS. —Th e Professor of Geology at Oxford, Mr. Phillips, has started for Naples, with an intention to visit and examine Vesuvius, and to test, by actual observation, certain views concerning vol canic phenomena to which he has been led. We shall probably be informed of the result some three months hence.— Athenceum. . _ DEFRAUDING BURIAL SOCIETIES.—At the Liver pool Police-court two women, named Julia Regan and Margaret Cotten, were charged with having wilfully defrauded the R o y al Liver Burial Society. It appeared that each prisoner had insured a relation the one a child, the other a husband —in the society in question, and, by producing to the officers false certificates of death, obtained each the sum of O. The prisoners were remanded for a week. THE QUEEN'S JOURNAL IN WELSH. —Her Ma- Testy the Queen, knowing that there are still great numbers of people in the Principality of Wales whose ordinary speech is that of the ancient Cymry, has desired that her lately published " Journal " should be translated into that tongue. Sir T. M. Biddulph has, by her com mand, requested the Rev. J. Jones, rector of Llandissil.), near New Quay, Cardiganshire, and who is known as an eminent Welsh scholar, to undertake the work of trans la! kt EXTRAORDINARY BURGLARY, At the Chelmsford Assizes, on Friday, two wing men, named John Pendrey, alias John Everett, labourer, and John Gladden, sweep, were tried before the Hon. G. Den man, Q.C. (who presided in consequence of the indisposi tion of the Lord Chief Justice), for burglariously breaking into the dwelling-house of Anne Nevard, at Ardleigh, near Colchester, and stealing a sovereign, some silver, a bottle of home-made wines, and other articles, her property. It appeared that the prosecutrix was nearly 85 years of age, and:that she lived alone in a small cottage at Ardleigh, near Colchester. She had the reputation of being possessed of a hoard of money. On the 21st of January she went to bed as usual, about half-past six o'clock In the evening, and a neighbour, a Mrs. Hale, as was her custom, locked the door of the cottage and took the key home with her, leaving the pro secutrix alone. About ten o'clock the prosecutrix was awoke by hearing a noise in the room adjoining her bed room, and she got IQ and lit the candle. She was then about to go into the adjoining room, when she found that some on•! was holding the dour on the other side. She Celled out, " Who's there; what are you after?" and the voice of a man replied, "We want your money." Aman who Was disguised by having his face blackened came directly into her bed-room, and said that he must have her money. The poor old woman, being dreadfully alarmed, told the man that she had not got any money, but he replied that she had, and he musthave it. She heard another man rum maging in the sitting-room. The first man came again to her, and asked her for money, and she told him she had a little in her purse. She found her dress and felt in the pocket, but the purse was gone. The men inquired what she had in her drawers, and she told them there were only a few of her clothes, but no money. They then searched the drawers. One of the men said that they had been sent down to do what they were doing by one of her London relations, and that they were " other countrymen—Fenians." They said that they were going into the other room to have some bread and cheese, and they would come and wish her good night befjre they went away. The men were in the house altogether about an hour and a half. One of the pri soners, she said,lnacle use of some very indecent language to her, and assaulted her in an inielicate manner, and also put a knife close to her throat, and threatened her. After they had regaled themselves the ruffians returned to the bedroom, wished the old lady good night, and threatened that if she made any outcry they would return and do for her. The prosecutrix made a search when they were gone. and discovered that her purse, which contained a sove reign and about four shillings, had been stolen. She also missed five shawls, a silk handkerchief, a loaf of bread, and two stone bottles, one containing red currant, and the other black currant wine. The prose cutrix was unable to speak definitely as to the prisoners, but it was proved that they were seen together on the night of the outrage going in the direction of the prosecutrix's cottage, and at a late hour of the night, or rather on the following morning, they were seen in Col chester, one of them having some shawls wrapped round his neck, which turned out to be those stolen from the pro secutrix, and the other carrying a stone bottle. One of the prisoners also appeared to have shewn a silk handker chief to a man with whom he was acquainted at Colchester, saying that it had been given to him by a "moll" at Colchester on the previous evening. The prisoners also appeared to have told an extraordinary story about the bottles they had with them containing poison, and they said that they had thrown one of the bottles into a pond. The jury, after hearing the prisoners' statement in their defence, which was merely to the effect that they were not the men by whom the robbery was committed, almost im mediately returned a verdict of guilty. It appeared that both prisoners bore a very bad character, and had been previously convicted of felony, and the learned judge sen tenced them to be kept in penal servitude for the space of fifteen years. LAW AND POLICE. WHAT CONSTITUTES AN UNRESERVED APPLICATION FOR SHARES ?- -There were two applications of importance before Vice-Chancellor Stuart on Friday in the matter of the Universal Banking Corporation. The first was an application by one Mr. Harrison to have his name removed from the list on which he had been placed as the holder of - . fifty shares ; the other by the official liquidator to fix a Mr. Rogers's name on the list as the holder of 100 shares. Both these gentlemen bad been induced to apply for the shares on the understanding between them and an agenl of ^ the company that they should be appointed local directors or managers ; both had sent in the usual uncon ditional form of application for shares ; neither had paid the deposit, and each had received an unconditional letter of allotment. Subsequently to the allotment Mr. Har rison had by a letter declined "to undertake the responsibilities and duties of the office proposed," but he had never expressly withdrawn his application for shares ; while Mr. Rogers, at an interview to which he was invited by the manager on the subject of his appointment, bad said that he was unable to pay the deposit, was then told that he could not have the appointment, and had a month later written to request the return of his letter of applica tion. The Vice-Chancellor held that Mr. Harrison had treated his agreement for the appointment as distinct from his contract to take the shares, while Mr. Rogers's appli cation for shares was conditional on receiving the appoint ment ; he accordingly refused both motions with costs, holding that Mr. Harrison's name ought to be retained, and Mr. Rogers's name ought not to be inserted on the list of contributories. The official liquidator was allowed his costs in Mr. Rogers's case out of the estate. REFUSING TO BUY AFTER ACCEPTING AT AUCTION. — Mr. Justice Lush has had before him, at the Lancaster Assizes, the case of Smith v. Morton, which was an action to recover the difference in price on the resale of a small plot of land. The land in question was sold by auction by the plaintiff, andthe:defendant bid 2260 foiit, when it was knocked down to him, and he afterwards signed the con tract of sale. He seemed, however, to have rued his pur- chase, and then said that he only bid to raise the price as a friend of the plaintiff's, he having heard the plaintiff say that he would not sell the land for less than £270. He refused thereupon to complete the purchase, and the land was resold for £lOO less than on the previous sale. To recover this sum and the expenses incurred the present action was brought. The plaintiff had a verdict for £llB. CONVICTION OF A BANK MANAGER.-- At the assizes at Lancaster, Mr. David Nicol, manager of the Blackburn branch of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, has been convicted of forgery, and sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour. A FRAUDULENT BANKRUPT.—At the Warwick Assizes, before Mr. Justice Hannen, John Pickburn pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with concealing and embezzling property and omitting property from his schejule, with intent to defraud his creditors. The prisoner was a• tinman and brazier, and was adjudicated a bankrupt on his ewn petition, returning himself as with out assets. Information having been obtained that the bankrupt had purchased quantities of metal from trades men in Birmingham, shortly before his bankruptcy, which was unaccounted for either in his estate paper or on his examination, a search was on the 28th of July insti tuted on his premises, when the goods in question were found concealed in various places, a considerable quantity of the metal being found in a pond near the house. These facts having been brought under the notice of the county court judge, he directed this prosecution to be instituted. The prisoner was sentenced to ten months' im prisonment with hard labour. UNLAWFULLY RECEIVING A LUNATIC.—At the Wor cester Assizes C. E. Sheward was charged before the Lord Chief Baron with receiving a certain lunatic without an order as required by the Lunacy Acts. Mr. Huddle ston, Q.C., said the prosecution was only instituted for the purpose of carrying out the law. There was no suggestion of improper treatment. The prisoner, having pleaded guilty, was ordered to enter into his own recognisances to appear if called upon. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At the North ampton Assizes Mr. Baron Martin had before him an action by a Miss Plant for a breach of promise of marriage against one Mr. Rawson. There was no doubt that the defendant had promised marriage, and had broken his pro mise by marrying another woman. The only question was one of damages. The plaintiff had given up a dressmaker's business at the request of the defendant, who was a haber dasher. A verdict was given for plaintiff ; 275 damages. ALLEGED FORGERY.—Mr. Goodman, a young man who had been clerk to the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Rail way Company, was charged at the Mansion House on Friday with having forged and uttered a cheque for £527 drawn on the bank of Messrs. Glyn and Co. Prisoner was committed for trial. SHOCKING CASE OF ALLEGED SEVERITY.— A very shocking case of severity on the part of a schoolmistress, of which an infant said to be not four years of age was the victim, has been investigated at the Westminster Police-court. Margaret Welch, aged 16, an assistant teacher at the school connected with the Convent of St. Vincent de Paul, Pimlico, was charged with having im mersed the feet and legs of a child named Ellen Brown in aeopper of boiling wa t er , w h ere by she was seriously injured. The child appears to have been unwilling to attend school. To punish her, she was "kept in" after school hours ; a knife was called for to cut her feet off for crying, and Miss Welch gave point to this terrorism by taking out a pocket saw and shewing it to the poor child. Eventually the little culprit was taken to the wash-house, and set to stand on the side of an open copper, in which clothes were boiling, four feet above the ground. Somehow the child got into the copper, and its legs as high as the knees were severely scalded. The charge is that the governess actually put the child's legs into the boiling fluid ; and the defence is that the child slipped in. The case was adjourned for further evi dence, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1868. STATE EDUCATION. Three or four weeks ago we drew attention to the fact that Liberals are fast abandoning their old incredibly shallow theory on the function of the State. They no longer say that ' a civil ruler transgresses his province when he aims at prOmoting the people's religious wel fare, but, on the contrary, agree with Catho lics that such is his very highest office. Error, however, is always in extremes ; and Liberals, accordingly, are now leaping into a wild ex treme on the opposite side. The Pall-Mall Gazette is in this respect a characteristic repre sentative of their views. Half a year or so back our contemporary maintained in set terms that the State should form a religious creed of its own, and should base all its acts on the assumption that this creed is indubitably true. The despotism of Liberals is a bye-word ; and we pointed out at the time that such a view as this, if consistently carried out, must lead to the most systematic and unflinching persean- tion. In its issue of February 23, the Pall Mat, Gazette returns to the charge, apropos of the Archbishop's recent pastoral, and claims in effect for the State a power to supersede alto gether the parental office in children's educa tion. We cannot do better than insert here that whole passage from the Pastoral, which has given occasion to so singular an outbreak : " It is evident the State has no authority to deprive children of the education which their baptism gives them a right, nor to interfere with' the authority of parents in determining the education of their children. The State has no commission, either natural or revealed, to educate ; and no jurisdiction over the rights of parents or of the Church in the education of its children. Here we are at a direct issue with the erastian and latitudinarian politicians. The wisest policy of the State, for its own sake, is to assist both parents and the Church in the work of education. The public revenues can not be better applied than in preventing igno rance and crime ; nor more unprofitably spent than in punishing what it ought to have pre vented. It is true, indeed, that the State may protect itself. If parents, through criminal neglect of their offspring, suffer them to grow up in ignorance, and thereby to commit crime, society in self-defence may punish the parent and endeavour to reclaim the child. But even then it has no rights against the faith and con science of the parents or their children ; for these things are of a higher order, over which the State has no control. Nay, more than this. The State not only has no parental duty to educate, but it has not itself the power nor the faculties to do so. The formation of the mind, will, and conscience demands the action of moral and religious influences which lie beyond the limits of all civil authorities. It has , no alternative but either to call in the aid, of parents and of the Church, and to assist them with the material means necessary for tliis work, which lies beyond its reach; or to reduce education to instruction. liet these never be confounded, even for a moment. A Minister of Public Instruction is intelligible; a Minister of Public Education there cannot be: The office is not vacant. The Church has received this commission from its Divine Head." The Pall=Mall Gazette admits that the Arch bishop has here expressed himself with " sin.. gular point and clearness." For ourselves we must further maintain that his doctrine is both undeniably true and inappreciably important. We have no right, of course, to constitute our selves the Archbishop's interpreters ; yet we will venture to draw out in our own way that general doctrine which we understand him here to express. In a future number we will con sider the truly surprising objections to that doctrine which our contemporary has brought before the public. A considerable number of English parents are Catholics ; and there is a very large class of non-Catholics who have firm religious con victions of their own up to a certain point. These persons are (it may be presumed) invin cibly ignorant of Catholicism ; at all events, they sincerely accept the Bible as the Word of God, and believe certain doctrines as being those taught in the Bible. Consider the case of one of these persons. By becoming a parent he has brought into existence certain immortal beings, whose eternal destiny must greatly de pend on their clinging firmly to moral and religious truth. No obligation can be more formal and more indispensable than that of securing for them the possession of what he accounts to be such truth. Better for him that he had never been born than that he should betray the eternal interests of those whose existence he has caused, and whom God has so specially entrusted to his care. If he is a Protestant, he acts more laudably in pro portion as he uses more earnest efforts that his children should receive what he regards as true religious education. If he is a Catholic, the case is far more simple. He knows that the Church is the divinely-appointed guardian of religious truth, and the divinely-appointed educator of her flock ; it is she who teaches him what is his full duty towards his chil mdraetnt,era itsnbdywhehoro own peculiar ministrations. To in the To such a pa r e n t the State presents itself, offering peculiar creed, and claiming to educate in that creed. Now, there can be no legitimate conviction generated in the parent's mind by this offer. No one alleges that the State has any peculiar insight—still less any divinely-implanted insight—into reli gious truth. If the Protestant has hitherto held that the Bible is the Word of God, and teaches certain doctrines, he cannot cease to think so, because the State tells him that the Bible is not the Word of God, or that it does not teach those doctrines. Still less, of course—immea surably less—can the State's voice have any effect whatever in shaking a Catholic's faith. The State does not act on the people's convic tions, but only on their corrupt interests and on their fears. In fact, when the State desires to promote this or any other educational system, it has but two recognised means at its disposal : per suasion and compulsion. Let us consider these successively. Firstly, then, it may avoid compulsion ; and may merely seek to recommend its plan by making it far more - easy for every parent's temporal rest to accept it than to reject it. In this case it simply performs the devil's work ; it tempts a parent to the formal commission of mortal sin ; it pursues its aim by corrupt ing his moral conduct, deadening his conscience, ruining him for this world and the next. But let us suppose that, impatient of failure, the State resorts to compulsion. It requires the parent under heavy penalties to abandon his children's education to its tender mercies, and to give them up to be trained in what he accounts religious error. Straightway , every sincere Christian minister of every de nomination impresses on his flock the absolute duty incumbent on them of obeying God rather than man ; of refusing all obedience to this unjust and tyrannical command ; of forming an organised moral resistance against such intolerable tyranny. We are very confident that the religious feel ing of England is amply strong enough=strong enough with much strength to spare—for the triumphant overthrow of every scheme which may be attempted for promoting latitudina rianism in education : our only doubt is, whether this feeling will do justice to itself, and put forth its full strength. Let all Chris tian denominations unite politically against the common enemy—let them wage an inter necine war against the detestable aggression which is threatened—success is certain. We cannot feel equally confident, on the supposi tion that the respective denominations allow their mutual differences (most serious un doubtedly in themselves) to paralyse . their united external action, in the political sphere. But on this issue—more (we believe) than on all others put together—the future of England depends. The State's office in the work of education is, at least, no unimportant one, though subor dinate. It if 3 simply this ;to give the greatest available material help for securing to all citi- zens an education, religious and secular, which shall be in full accordance with their religious convictions, and to take full precaution that the secular part of that education be given with thorough effectiveness. Such is our own doctrine. In a future number we will consider the doctrine of the Pall Mall Gazette and the reasons adduced --- in its support.T6stminster Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The great news of this week is the progress of Impeachment. The article adopted by the House charged the President with having violated the Tenure of Office Act by his order removing Stan ton, and appointing Lorenzo Thomas, without the consent of the Senate. Another article was adopted, wherein Andrew Johnson was charged with having violated the Army Bill, by inducing the Adjutant- General to obey orders not sent through General Grant, the proper channel, as the Commanding- General of the Army. This was last Monday, but on Wednesday the House decided on the further count, in which the President is charged with high crimes, in having denounced and denied in public speeches the legality of the action of Congress. On that day the Articles of Impeachment 'were pre sented by a committee to the Senate ; and on Thurs day that Chamber was organized as a Court of Impeachment to try the charges—with Chief Jus tice Chase, in accordance with the Constitution, presiding. The Hon. Benjamin Wade surrenders his chair as President of the Senate during the time that body is engaged in the trial of Mr. Johnson —the Chief Justice of the Supreme Cond presides. The Vice-President is as officio President of the Senate, and succeeds, in Case of the vacancy, to be Presi dent of the United States. The Hon. Benjamin Wade will discharge the duties of President in either 'of these two events. If the Senate can within a short period decide the case, and that decision be against Mr. Johnsonwhen he will cease not only to be President, but will become ineligible for any public office, and liable to the ordinary tribunals of the country to be prosecuted for the infringement of the law of which the Senate will have convicted him —or, if Congress' finding the trial to assume the proportions of the great State farce which the brilliant oratory of Burke and .others of England's most eloquent speakers 'rendered famous--;-the pro. , mention of Warren Hastings.:—when the" bill will be passed suspending from his official flinctions any public officer during Impeachment. - Some-English journals imagine that Andrew Johnson's trial will resemble that of Warren Hastings ; but times have greatly changed, and the event will be decided, if we do not greatly err, with a rapidity that would startle the torpid mind of the venerable 'John Bull. 7:l:4•Aetaiblican, Convention in Ohio and the Deinoc aic Convention in \ Penn, Ivania, have passed reMlutions in favour of paying the hoods i n currency. This is not 'a bad text for the sermon of a European Conservative on the G overnment of a . Democracy. `A mob, they might well observe, from this is essentially foolish—is essentially dishonest— has low selfish instincts not ranging •beyond the wants of the hour. Contrast the Treasurer of Massachusetts financial report with the resolutions of the great and rich States of Ohio and Penn sylvania. Massachusetts, co m p arativel y ru gg ed, cold, and barren, pays in gold ; Pennsylvania, rich in agriculture, and teeming with mineral wealth, to use a plain word, defrauds first the State creditiors, next lends its weight to affix the stigma which attaches to itself on the national name. But Massachusetts finds that honesty pays, and Penn sylvania will learn, indeed it has been taught, if it could recall the lesson—that a financial taint is hard to obliterate, and is damaging to the value of the thing soiled. Massachusetts rings with the pure metal and shines like polished silver, and even as an article of barter—putting morality and high character aside—it would make a poor bargain by exchanging the State's good name for the value of Pennsylvania's Debt. The Senate has passed the Army Appropriation Bill. It was drawn up by General Grant, and re trenches the expenditure on the army to $33,000,000, being an estimate far below that of M'Culloch. The bill when introduced prohibited the appoint ment of civilians to military office, and was so severely attacked on this point by Butler, Logan, Schenck, Banks, Paine, and Washburne, that the clause was struck out, and volunteers now stand the same chance as West Point graduates. Mr. Logan, of Illinois, introduced a facetious amend-. meat, which was, of courss, declared out of order; and words having failed him, amidst much laughter he kissed his hand to an ally on his side of the House. The following are the appropriations for the fiscal year, beginning the Ist of next July : Army, $33,082,09 3 ; navy, $18,096,045 ; pensions, s A 3 cad o,o e 3 m o, y, 00$03;03,oInot ; debt Indians, interest, $130,000,000 ;, $3,000,000 ; West Point Executive i v 4 $ e 50 Department,ooo ; D $17,119,478; Post-Office deficit, Diplomatic List, $1,261, 431 ; xec 0 p Bounties, $25,000, 000 ; miscellaneous, $14,000,000 —a grans appropriations for the next fiscal yearof $n totals For the current year the 012 of 050. Appropriations amo un t to $393,269,226, which shows an estimated sav i ng during the ens uin g y ear of over $118,000,0 00 . On Thursday night, in the House of Commons, in discussing the Metropolitan Tramways Bill, Mr. Seeley said, in support of the measure, that in New York there were 160 miles of tramways, and, ac cording to the sworn testimony of the coroner there, accidents were far less numerous through tramways than through omnibuses. In 1866 in New York 5,500 horses conveyed 70,000,000 passengers on the tramways, while in London, in the same year, the London General Omnibus Company conveyed only 41,000,000 passengers, with 6,600 horses. The tramway cars as compared with omnibuses were much more roomy, wider, easier to get into, sooner stopped, sooner started, quicker in travelling, and more convenient to the public, and they were used by all classes of society. Colonel Mellor and Mr. T. Hughes also supported the measure, which was strongly opposed by Mr. Lewis, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Pease. The motion for a second reading was negatived without a division. The Springfield Republican quotes a case of despotism in discussing the new Army Regulations prepared by General Sherman, and about to be submitted for the sanction of Congress. Last year engineer Sawyer, of the Navy was tried, ,convicted, sentenced, and punished for saying in a political discussion that Congress ought to Impeach the Pre sident. Mr. Sawyer was not convicted of disre spectful ladguage towards the Commander-in-Chief as such, but of approving a resolution presented in the Legislature which the law allowed him to help in electing, supposed to represent him in common with the people, the resolution being aimed at an officer -for whom by law he was allowed to vote—his Executive serv ant in fact. The right of voting carries with it the ri g ht of criticism and complaint. It may be a mistake to permit army and navy officers to take part in elections ; but, permitting it, it is clearly a mistake to punish one of these voters for expressing au opinion on the acts of the elected. The Regulaticins of the Service enforce, officially, a respectful de meanour and obedience towards the Commander in -Chief, without barring an officer's privileges as a citizen. It was certainly a high-handed proceed ing, which could not occur in aristocratic England. The Republican calls it a gross outrage upon Ame rican citizenship, more deserving of impeachment than any other act -of the present Administration. Such acts, like straws on the current, show the drift of the tide, and warn Americans to be watchful, and not foolhardy in their confidence. The Philadelphia c orrespondent. - of the Tim.es devoted his letter of the .18th February to an expo sure of the Negro conventious sitting in the Southern States. The_report is not- just, for if the proceedings of an y deliberative assembly were given verbatim not one would fully bear the - test: Considering .the circumstances, these negro Con-. ventious have done as well as could be looked for. Indeed the Nation, a fair authority, although strongly favouring.' suffrage to the .freedmen, de clares the constitution, drawn up by the Alabama Convention, to have been an able State Paper, ',Cho account of the Richmond Despatch and Register• of the Virginia Convention is amusing, although.. costly to the State. They cannot afford in the: Old Dominion to pay so highly for fun. A new route to the Pacific is proposed, starting from Collingwood on Georgian Bay, and passing by river and lake navigation over 2,400 miles, out of the 3,200 from that town to Vancouver Island. Collingwood is connected by rail with Toronto,. therefore the communication from the Atlantic to► Ge ;orgian Bay, which leads into Lake Superior, i s complete; and the Canadian Government has agree to open the communication between Lake Superic 'r and Fort Garry on Lake Winepeg, a distance of son- l e 500 miles, of whick 300 are navigable. Briti sh Columbia will facilitate the work by grants of laid. Mr. Alfred Waddington, of Victoria, Vancouxer Island, the projector of the route, describes the. en terprise as easy, comparatively small in expense, :and not requiring more than two years for completion, when the transit could be made in about is days. He will discuss the subject on Monday next, at a meeting of the Geographical Society, giving full details of the nature of the pass through the "Rocky Mountains. The Supreme Court, on the 17th Febr awry, re fused Mr. 'f rutnbull's motion to dismiss the MArlle case for an error of procedure, and the question of jurisdiction remains to be settled before the merits are reached. The difference between the Georgia injunction case and the M'Ardle case is that the former does not involve a point affecting person or property, whereas the latter does, and the court has not jurisdiction except under such circumstances. Mr. Trumbull has introduced a bill to meet the contingency of an adverse decision. The case was to have been argued last Monday. The Court is to adjourn on the 6th April, and it is thought that a decision will hardly be reached by that time. It is stated that his Excellency General M. Clay, United States Minister at St. Petersburgh, has re signed, which will make the fifth vacancy in first class missions. We trust this may prove incorrect. If the English Tory Administration has been em barrassed by the amount of legal patronage caused by vacancies in so many of the highest posts, Mr. Johnson's Government has had a rainfall of diplo matic resignations—Mr. Adams in London, Gen. Dix in Paris, Gen. Clay at St. Petersburgh, Mr. Hale at Madrid, all pending ; Mr. Motley at Vienna resigned, but no successor confirmed ; Governor Wright at Berlin deceased, Mr. Bancroft being his successor ; General King at • Rome, whose post is abolished. This relates only to Europe. At Peking Mr. Burlingame has left a vacancy. At Mexico no Minister. General Asboth, Minister at Buenos Ayres, the friend and countryman of Kossuth, died on the 23d January. These relate only to the highest grades of the diplomatic service, and in themselves furnish strong evidence of the Govern mental lock at Washington. '' , 7 11 1 ho'Kenttieky Legislature, has elected Thomas C. *.c-•Ory, :of 'Davis County, a prominent Demo 'Crat: •United States : Senator, in- place of Guthrie, xeSigned frona 'health. .;.Crovernor Swann will prObably be elected by the Maryland 'Legislature 'in place of Mr. Thomas, whom the Senate rejected for disloyalty, but the Governor's loyalty is far more cluestionable than that of Mr. Thomas. A bill has been prepared for Congress by Mr. Baldwin, of "Worcester, relative to an international copyright law. It proposes to give authors residing in foreign countries exactly the same privileges in America as those countries accord to American authors publishing there ; that books copyrighted in America in favour of foreign authors must be manufactured by American publishers, and that original translations in America can still be pub lished as original works. The bill limits the time in which foreign authors can copyright a book in America to within three months after its original publication abroad, and contains other details and provisions which will doubtless make it practical and efficient. The right and the mutual advantage of an international copyright law have long been agreed on by authors, and Mr. Baldwin will merit liberal thanks if he has framed a bill which will meet the wants of literary men. At present, as Trubner, in his Monthly Register, states :--" The American Copyright Law confers on American citizens only copyright privileges ; or, in a few words, foreigners may hold copyrights in England, but no foreigner can hold a copyright in the United States." The proposed bill will not only change this, but it will enable residents in England to hold copyrights in the United States, provided the edi tion for sale in America is brought out by American publishers. _The Quartermaster-General of the United States army complains that the transport of troops and stores from Omaha over the Union Pacific Railroad costs a third more than over the Kansas line, and he desires Congress to take action, and to regulate the tariff. This Congress has refused to do so. The public must submit to whatever charges the Corpo ration sees fit to impose, which, as a matter of course, will be the highest obtainable. Some day, considering the great future before this highway, Congress will be compelled to control the tariff, or the road will become a monopoly. The Pall Mall Gazette stated last Tuesday even ing that " the Irish papers publish a letter from John Mitchell's New York journal,.the Citizen, to Mr. John Martin, of Dublin, in which Mitchell de scribes the American Irish Fenians as having been systematically deceived by the organizers as to the men at home." We were aware that Mitchell had written to his old friend Martin, but not through the columns of the New York Citizen, and, in sur prise at the assertion, we searched through a file of recent numbers in vain to discover such a letter. John Mitchell is a bold man ; he has the influence that a strong belief in his patriotism, backed by ability, gives, but we doubted whether Mitchell would have published in the Citizen, that is in the face of the Fenian organization in New York, a letter describing "the Fenian Republic, with its farce of a Government, Secretaries of State, army, navy, Government bonds, and so forth, an jive rim in iniperio, excessively repugnant to the Ame rican people." It is not the less disagreeable be cause it is undoubtedly true—a truth which we, not having the fear of Fenians before our eyes, were not barred from again and again asserting. The case, however, is the reverse with Mr. Mitchell, and we are only surprised at his " pluck" in writing such a letter at all. It will certainly go back to America and tell the Fenians some wholesome truths. The organization, according to him, was established on a wrong basis by that wretched Stevens, i.e., the design of immediate insurrection in Ireland while England was at peace, to be aided by force and arms from the United States contrary to their laws. The project, he adds, was in itself wild, " and could only be made to look feasible by systematic delusion and imposture." False pre tences have been the main machinery of the orga nization from the first ; but Irishmen were " deli berately cheating each other from the two opposite sides of the Atlantic." The Irish in America were taught to believe Stevens's Fenian army was for ever on the point of fighting the British army, and " the men at home were carefully taught to believe that in America there was a great and powerful Irish nation, with unlimited resources, and army and navy, both willing and able to give their im portant aid in troops and arms, with the connivance, or even in spite of, the United States Government." The patriotism of the Irish cannot work in the United States, as the Government of the country in which his fellow countrymen and himself reside will not suffer that, and is able to hinder, and bound to hinder that." The American Govern ment, he further states, " has its hand firmly upon the whole movement, but it has made use of it by holding it up iia terrorein before the eyes of Eng land to induce her to be more compliant in the diplomatic discussions which are going on between London and Washington." No doubt Mr. Mit chell will have brought a hornet's nest about his ears if his letter obtains general circulation among t s he Fenians of New York. Above we have noticed a subject not in the Citizen, but ,now we -turn to a subject really dis cussed in: that journal by one of its best-known correspondents. Miles O'Reilly writes from Wash- Ington, 18th Feb., and heads his letter, " The great Conspiracy." " Shall our next PreSidency be de termined by a fight or an election ?" 5411 or next ruler be a President—the Lord Protector—or kis Imperial Majesty ?" "Two questions are fast being thrust before the country by the high-handed course of Congress : First, shall we remain a Republic or become an Empire ? and, second, as a corollary to the first, shall our next struggle for the Presidency bo decided by bullets or ballots—shall it be the successful champion of a fight, or of an election, who will be declared, or declare himself, our next National Chief Magistrate? Establish a dictatorship hero—an empire! Why you must be mad to think of it. It was thus all Paris cried about 20 years ago ; and just so all Paris kept crying, even while Louis Napoleon was writing orders of arrest for every opposition member of the Legislature; while his artillery and carabineers were getting their weapons ready for the slaughter of the French Republic, which took place, as by order, next morning. The South re bel, indeed! The South array itself iu a violent attempt to disrupt our Union ! Why you must b 3 crazy to believe such nonsense !' So cried our American wiseacres about seven years ago. Nor could they bo convinced to the contrary, until a Confederate Government, with all the modern improvements, held session at Montgomery in Alabama ; and the flags of a Confederate army, threaten ing Washington, could be soon from the roof of our Capi tol. What one generation of Americans have done—what one generation of American politicians have plotted and attempted— may not yet other American conspirators, of the same generation and with larger experience, now at tempt to repeat." Miles O'Reilly comes to the conclusion " that there is danger of a renewed and more terrible civil war, after much moving to and fro, and mixing in all circles in this distracted capital (Washington)" even his writing is a sign of the times. George Francis Train was arrested in Nassau street, Dublin, on his way to deliver a lecture in the Rotundo, where 600 persons impatiently awaited him. His agent, on announcing the arrest, professed his willingness to return the money of those who had paid, but as they only amounted to one in six, it was found impossible to distinguish them, and the affair was pronounced " a sell." The arrest was made by a London firm for a debt contracted on the street tramways during Mr. Train's last visit to England, amounting to over eight hundred pounds. - - The Royal mail steamer, Atrato, brings news tha in Peru, Callao and Lima had been gaily decorated to receive the new President, Canseco. The United States Minister had threatened that the new Go vernment would not be recognized at Washington. Efforts were being made to induce European emi gration to Chili by making liberal grants of lands to colonists. Massachusetts in financial credit has long stood first among the States of the Union. The Trea surer, Jacob 11. Loud, has issued his report on its finances, in which he states that " its policy, by in suring to the commonwealth a high credit in the negotiation of its loans, has enabled it to make a saving sufficient to cover all the probable cost of maintaining the honour of the State by payment of principal and interest of the debt in coined money. " Far beyond any consideration of pecuniary; gain or lots the people of this commonwealth should cherish the proud recollection that in a time of sore trial the. State paid to its bondholders their dues in real money without a moment's hesitation or an expres sion of dissent on the part of any of its citizens." Massachusetts has learned the economic value of the Eighth Commandment, the truth of the old say ing, that " honesty is the best policy." Massa chusetts Five per Cent. Bonds are now quoted on the London Stock Exchange at 86 to 88, and the United States 5-20's at 711 to 714, although bearing 6 per cent. On the Ist of January, 1868, the total debt was $28,617,391, against in the previous year $27,317,127. On this the interest paid was $1,250,373, and in order to pay it in gold $183,751 were expended in pre miums. Massachusetts presents an admirable illus tration of the wisdom of resisting every temptation to obtain relief by means, no matter how plausible, injurious to her creditors. Not only does it pay the State hereafter, but she finds an actual imme diate gain, and her credit stands so high that she could obtain on favourable terms any reasonable amount in any financial centre in Europe, if required to meet a pressure. Iler financial arrangements will some day be quoted, and be generally recognized as the best proof of her superior civilization. An Ecclesiastical Court, consisting of five clergy men, was convened by Bishop Potter, in St. Peter's Church, Twentieth-street, New York, to try a charge preferred by the Rev. Mr. Stubbs, rector of New Brunswick, of the diocese of New Jersey, and a Mr. Boggs, against the Rev. Mr. Tyng, who, though an Episcopal clergyman, officiated ia a Methodist Church, conducting the services accord ing to the Methodist forms of worship in Mr. Stubbs' rectory. Mr. Stubbs protested against this to Bishop Odenheinier, who forwarded the accusa tion to his ',ecclesiastical superior Bishop Potter, of the diocese of New York. The Court sat for five days, and heard elaborate addresses from counsel on both sides, which, being fully reported, caused a general discussion on Church matters. The Court closed its labours on the 19th of Feb ruary, but the decision at which it has arrived has not yet been made known. The case has excited great interest. Mr. Phelps of Maryland is about to introduce a bill into the House, which is said to emanate from the President, proposing a scheme for mustering out the coloured troops now in the service. The object is to send them to Liberia, and the means to retain a portion of their monthly pay to educate them in the arts of peace, and to provide for the expense of transporting them to Africa. When educated, so as to be able to support themselves, they will be mustered out of the service, and be come naturalized citizens of ~Liberia. The City Council of Baltimore sent to Mr. John son, on the 19th February, resolutions of respect and sympathy, to which the President replied— " Our Republican institutions, if Congress be allowed its way, would soon yield to the most absolute despotism ever witnessed by the world," and that " hissole aim had been to bring back the Government to the plain principles of the Consti tution ; that accomplished, it would be his highest pleasure to yield his aspirations to others." It is thought that Andrew Johnson is working hard for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, and not without success. The Tennessee Conservative State Convention resolved strongly in his favour. Pendleton is losing strength even in the West. Irish citizens are obtaining possession of much real estate in Becket and Washington, Western Massa chusetts, and all the adjoining new towns. A general attack was made in Congress on the newspaper correspondents on the 20th February. In the Senate Mr. Trumbull was severe on a Western corre spondent, and in the House Mr. Paine, of Wisconsin, came down on him of the Tribune. Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, and Mr. Wilson, of lowa, complain of a libellous article by another correspondent,. but it is asserted that all these cases can be traced back to an agent of the Evening Press Association, at Washington, a gentleman of fertile imagi nation. The nomination of Mr. James D. Colt, of Pitts field, Massachusetts, to the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court, has been confirmed by the Executive Council. Governor Bullock has vetoed the Massachusetts Constabulary Bill. A grand dinner was given last week at the Hotel d'Angleterre, Frankfort-on -the-Maine, to General Carl Schurz, under the management of the United States Con sul-General, W. W. Murphy, Mr. W. C. Watson, 11. Mareuse, and H. Seligman, Esq., committee for that pur pose. The United States Consul-General presided. Speeches were made in German and English. Several of the lead ing Senators of Frankfort and the editors of the leading journals were present at the dinner. Gen. Schurz is to leave Hamburgh this week by the steamer Germania for Now York. His wife and family will remain for a few months at Wiesbaden. Among the arrivals at Naples are Mrs. Hannibal Hamlin, wife of ex- Vico-President Hamlin. Mrs. Park Godwin, wife of the poet., and ex- Chancellor 11. P. Tappan, are in Berlin. A grand banquet was given at Genoa, on Thurs day evening, Feb. 27, in the Palazzo Sarse, to Admiral Farragut, the commander of the American squadron in the Mediterranean . Fifty-eight guests were invited, in cluding the civil, military, and municipal authorities, and several Senators and Deputies. The mayor proposed the health of Admiral Farragut, and the utmost cordiality pre vailed. The Genoese Working Men's Association have presented a patriotic address to the Admiral. The Flo rence correspondent of the Times, writing on the Ist inst., says that Farragut finds great pleasure in returning to the places he last visited 50 years ago, and in proof of the im pression left on his then boyish mind and memory ho tells the following story :—ln the year 1816, being at Tunis, be was much struck with a ponderous piece of bronze ord nance, cud in Italy in the Lit century, and 91 which the breech terminated in a fine bald and bearded heal al, said to be that of the Apostle Paul. This gun took a firm hold of the midshipman's memory ; and 50 years later, when the Admiral was on his way to Europe, ho spoke of it to his officers and expressed his intention of looking in at Tunis to see it, and his hope that he, p:Thaps, might be able to acquire it. The topic seems to have been often up permost in his conversation, for " the Admiral's gun" came to be a standing joke among the officers. When Farragut was at Florence ho was taken to the most remarkable buildings, and among others to the old Palace of the Po desta, more commonly known as the Bargello, long a prison, but in which several rooms aro now set apart as a museum of antiquities. As Farragut was making the tour of the wonderfully picturesque court of f the build ing, whore some pieces of sculpture and other objects are displayed, he suddenly exclaimed, " There's my gun." And, sure enough, his gun it was; the very piece he had sqen more than half a century previously, and which he intended going to see again at Tunis. It is a remarkable piece of ordnance, which may have been mur derous enough in its day, although now more in its place in a museum than in a battery. Inscriptions upon it, cast in relief, show it to have been the work of the Florentine Cosimo Cenni, executed in 1638, under the reign of Ferdi nand 11., Grand Duke of Etruria. By that Prince it was sent as a present to Venice, and is said, according to the chronicle cf the Bargello, to have been taken by the Bar bary ct uisers in a successful raid executed upon the terri tory of the Republic. There is a certain amount of inter course between Italy and Tunis, in which latter country there exists a considerable Italian colony, and a year or two ago it occurred to the Pasha that the gun in question, having been cast in Florence, wonld ba a suitable present to the Monarch who had lately transferred his capital thither. Thus has it come to pass that St. Paul's cannon now lies in the inner court of the Bargello, with a ticket attached to it declaring it the property of the King, and it is to be feared the Admiral has not much chance of taking it with him on his return to the United States. It may be some consolation to him to know that the guardians of the gate and galleries of the old Guelph palace are perfectly acquainted with the circumstances of his first acquaintance with and constant affection for it, and that the handsome piece of bronze, with its magnifi cent bearded head, is likely to become traditional as "the Admiral's gun." The trial of Colonel Nagle, at Sligo, has been postponed until the next assizes, as a sufficient number of aliens could not be obt%inad for the jury. The American Government bas declined to aid by counsel Captain Mackay (whose true name is Lomas ney) on his trial, on the ground that he violated British law on British soil. He was born in Boston, United States. One hundred and fifty recruits for the Papal Zouave corps have arrived ira New York from Canada, en route for Home. Their departure from Montreal on Feb. 19 was the occasion of imposing religious ceremonies in the Catholic churches. Admiral Bell, of the United States Navy, was drowned at the mouth of the Osaka river, Japan, on 11th January. The mouth of the river had been closed by sand bar, which had formed during a heavy storm. The admiral had been waiting for several days to cross the bar, when he finally started, accompaniei by Flag Lieutenant Heed and thirteen men in a boat from the Hartford. While passing over the bar, going in the direction of Osaka, the boat capsized, and all on board were drowned, except three sailors. The bodies were recovered and buried near the mouth of the Osaka river. The revenue officials at New York have so busied themselves in looking after the whisky frauds and illicit distillers that other wholesale cheating has been going on with comparative impunity. The Treasury Department lately commenced looking into the matter of the revenue collected on cotton, and it is found that the deficit during 1867 only was upwards of $2,000,000, and as the law pro vides a fine of $lOO for every bale of cotton illegally de livered, the whole amount of the.penalties is over,s2oo,o oo l with the forfeiture of the vessels engaged in bringing the cotton to the port. Five steamships have already been seized, and if their owners are convicted will ba confis cated. The Canadians complain that American hunter's are violating their genre laws by shooting deer out of season. The Convention in the cod-fishing interest, held at Boston, decided to go to Washington and attempt to secure a higher protective tariff and the entire abolition of duty on salt. " Carleton," writing to the Boston Journal fro ) . Constantinople, alludes as follows to one of Springfield' s wanderers :—" You roach a building of three stories, with a stovepipe coming out of the window. This is the Ligh t House of the East. Step inside and see the light—Bibl es in half a dozen languages, books, papers, tracts, maps ° f the world, showing the missionary stations. It is the Mission House, also the Bible House of the American Bible Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society. The lower floor is a salesroom. We creep up a stairwaYt and find a score of workers. Among them is the Bev' Edwin Bliss of Springfield, Massachusetts, editor of a paper with 1,700 subscribers, and the number constantly increasing. Here is his brother, Rev. Isaac Bliss, agen t of the American Bible Society, who has young native Christians penetrating, in connection with the British So ciety, every part of the Turkish empire." New post-offices have been established on the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad, with postmasters as follows: Ferryville,in the town of Southboro', Anna B. Newton ; West Berlin, S. L. Carter ; Pratt's Junction, T . H. Currier. There are 1,568 lakes in Maine, some of whic h are from 1,200 to 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. it is claimed that no other area of extent in the world pos sesses so much water power. Foreign Mail Packet List. . MAILS A DIJE. .ustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton...« Alarch 29 ' Ditto, via Marseilles ..« ....... „ „March 2 2. Ditto, via Panama ....... .......... ........ ...March 31' drazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video April 5. Ditto, by French packet March 23* Cape Vords, by Brazil packet ....« • ..... March 5., •.Ape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. Helena.... March •'" Uhina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. &larch 5 ,. Ditto, via Marseilles «,••• • March IJ Faikland Islands ... . March 5• Jibraltar, via Southampton .. March 4 tudia,via Southampton March "'' Ditto, via Marseil es .... 9 ' . Malta, Egypt, &c. airo Ditto, Marseilles March 9' ilauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via S ou th am pt on Marsh 21. Ditt ), Marseilles Marc h 16 ' Sewfoundland ...... ...... ..... ....... ....... March /. 4 ‘ Portugal ..,, . March ' Ditto, by prAt to ship to Oporto Ditto e itto to Lisbon United States, l anada, California, &c., by British 9. packet Ditto, by L sited States packet Ditto ditto (New Yorki Ditto ditto 'Nem York) Ditto dittc (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe West Indies and Pa .laic (except Mexico and Baha- 3Milarrc:lll:3. h 1 6 ' mas) Cuba and Mexico ....Marc'' 2 6 Bahamas, via New • boob it Bermuda, via Ilalit'ax • . MOO 1) 1° [AnvEßTlSEllENT.]—Henceforth no one will doubt the properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bierpeeP it has already received from Invalids whose position ha.rot deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the c o whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty Y o ttl of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the O t ; t li du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—" The be.t . g o . l g the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandouLarini other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du vr ii ie l '.,j Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a P` e ocl; at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly 0 00 „ effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pritie' t A excellent food too highly." We extract a few 01 . 1 n oev more than 68,000 cures:—Curo No. 58,216, of the.MarelusV de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting r debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all ove,„ digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intoleraln,,, vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Deeie s igA, Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N°' ..,00 " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nerve 7 , 5 asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sicklnf,Deri, vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James P 7 01 0 0; of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting 0 . `400 , ,,i liver derangement, and partial deafness Important CaTuVerie Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy lie v to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is Ws ,; ciouslyattached 11 10 In tins at Is. 1 4 d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., de. 6d,; sib - 1 §0., 1 1i ; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY DU BARRY and Co., co dilo Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Fi e to d and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, Oxford-street 330 Strand; and all grocers snd cheruiew_./ Births. l C el' CURZON—On the sth inst., at 46, Charles-street, Bei square, the Hon. Mrs. urzon, of a son. , O rl i ItiAcn—At the Deer Park, Cloughjordan, co. TiPr, i e the wife of Lieut.-Colonel W. A. Riach, litaci r6 ' f Corps, of a son. 0 , r, SPENCER—On the sth inst., at Abingdon, Mrs. SP/3"„ce a son. Marriages. ~0 o cf•";,1 COLMAN—STEPHENSON — On the sth inst., at St. J- L ,,. - d, o _,,'. Arthur Colman, of 2, Dudley Villas, Claphank-„j" 9, Mincing- lane, to Adeline, sixth daughter of P °- 4 11 , Stephenson, Esq., 25, Tavistock-square. b ,,,, A? STEWART—STIRLING—On the sth inSt., at V 4 ill tio"" James Stewart, Esq., of Garvocks, to Margare' lands, daughter of the late Wm. Stirling, Esq-' Deaths. l: /e' , f ee, DEXTER—On the sth inst., at Iligh,,,, a t o , Miss Ja n° ,4 aged 87. Wi llir KENNEDY—On the sth inst., at Edinburgh, Lora „lo' Kennedy. , ri , lb, r, MACGREGOR—On the sth inst., at Sussex-PO— ',.dett•° park-gardens, General G ag e e n d er B a B l . John Alexander Paul A1 : ., 3 , 7 0.1, 0 3 0 SIINTIE— On the 3d inst., at Thorpe Lee, °"'" Dowager Lady Bowyer Smijtb, aged 82. s S°' ---_-.------ 4 00 i ii. 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