The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-04 00:00:00

8P113.1T OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times declares that now the case of Governor;Eyre Is sent up for history, it is not a matter for justices, l a wyers, and juries, but for politicians, including in thatname every educated person in this country fora good many id es to come. In fact, the trial has only begun, and will aever end: Governor Eyre will be always in court, for 9.0 t even the stern functionary who relieves the worst niminals from their penalties and pains will stay the interminable pleadings for and against him. In the ) pinion of the Times he is not to be envied even for his present and, as one sincerely hopes, final escape from his' legal persecutors. Two years in a healthy gaol, or the pay ment of a thousand pounds, are a trifle compared with a posi tion by the side of Nero, Colonel Kirk, Judge Jeffreys, Claverhouse, the Duke of Cumberland, and similar notorieties in books for the young and religious periodi :!als. But this is the real burden of political life, and . ...hiefly of power, in that autocratic form happily so rare under a constitutional Government. Woe to the man obliged to act on his own responsibility, perhaps on the s.cl:ice, suggestion, and information of the unkno;n, the sheltered, the dishonest, or the incompetent ! Those in power feel most of all that power is not made for loan. It is they that make history, and history reviews them as saucy children do the doings of theft. fathers. An insurrection suppressed with a balance of some five hundred lives to set against less than a score white victims, with a multitude of gro tesquely cruel incidents, absurd extravagances, and trials d;most worse than the momentary acts of vengeance or 11 1 0 ,,-rn, will always occupy a prominent place in our annals. It -will always be canvassed freely and passionately. , m es as, Mill, Buxton, and their friends ought to be content with this. The best judges of political offenders, however, are political men, and ous statesmen home have already acquitted, or. at least absolved, Mr. Eyre. His real indemnity is not the Colonial ite...`; of which Mr. Justice Blackburn does not appear to thin:k much, but the thanks and compli• ments of his ercployers at home. It is quite possible they ,have their own priva.te opinions about his qualifications for office ; and it is possible they might hesitate to ertiploy him again ; but, we have very little doubt they f.cf also that, perhaps, they owe to him the eafcty of Jamaica, and the prevention of a hideous and unparalleled catastroPhe• The Pose wants to know what Grant will prove as 'resident. lie has taken particular care never to allow hit. political opinions to be known. He never makes p elle speeches, and in private he invariably resists every v.tcexept to draw him into the field of political discussion. ~ N aenever," said one of the chiefs of the Republican p a rty-, who some time since sought to obtain from the Gener. l .l some expression of opinion respecting the course pursued. by the President, " whenever I talk politics to General 4.-;rant, ho always talks horses."' And by this con; rt...mt habit of " talking horses" Grant has probably secured that unprecedented unanimity on the part both .o! Democrats and Republicans in nominat ing him for thei.Presiclency. No one can say what he will turn out when lie obtains the supreme power. He may be a second Johnsot -or a second Lincoln. His early associa tions were Democratic. Shortly after 'the beginning of the war he was viorettly " anti-abolitionist," and went se far as to declare to the troops under his command that if they were told that in the event of their being successful slavery would be abashed, they would be justified in laying down their arum and returning to their homes. The Daily News commences a leader on the defence which has been set up for Murphy, with some remarks on Calcraft and the character given to him by his pastor. It suggests that the rev. writer of this character has been hoaxed, and the; whiteheacled old cordwainer whom he takes to be Cal:raft, knows nothing more about public strangling than: ;lis ministen, and has no idea that he has been taken for tb e common hangman. Quite by accident, this odd defence of a man whom nobody had attacked has been ixnmedt etely followed by a vindication offered on behalf of a. very te iifferent public character. Mr. Murphy, the lecturer, ha 3 no other connection with Calcraft than that he is in a fair way of cutting out for .him a good amount of wcrir. Dr. Hugh M`Neile says that he knows nothing -of Murphy, and will not answer for him ; but the Itc w. S. Walker, rector of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol, knows. him, and in the columns of the Times deprec ites hasty judgment against him. Mr. Walker, ho wevsr, seems to forget the scene at Dukin field, in which Murphy produced a revolver, telling the people he was,a queer lad. All this is condoned—nay more, is extolled, for Mr. Walker is quite sure that he could not do Murphy's work so well as he does—because Murphy " not only desires to warn his brother Protes tants against the errors and designs of the Church of Rome, but to lead sinners to the Saviour." He is much more likely to lead well-intentioned, but weak and fana tical people to crime and the gaol, perhaps to the gallows. It is truly shocking to find Murphy defended by men publicly a ppointed to teach the religion of Christ and of Paul. lbtt fcr this there is a cause which we need not seek far to discover. Meanwhile, Murphy's acts speak for 'hems elves. The Standard expresses a high opinion of the way in which the Boundary Commission did what they were appoind to do. They discharged with great ability and perfect, fairness the duties entrusted to them by Parlia ment. Their instructions were to increase the limits of all boroughs by including in them all districts which, belonging practically to the town, ought to be included in it for the purpose of parliamentary registration. No 'one denies that these instructions have been fully adhered to. But the changes resolved upon in principle by Par liament, and left to be carried out in detail by a com mission, because Parliament could not trust itself with such a work, have proved disagreeable to a number of short-sighted Radical politicians, who, in pre sence of the vast revolution just accomplished, are filled. with anguish at the thought that a part of a great town should cease to exercise its improper influence in a county. The party might lose, and therefore the recommendations of the commissioners, which could only fairly be assailed on the ground of incompetency and un fairness, were objected to, and referred to a select com mittee, which has taken upon itself, after the smallest possible inquiry, upon the most insufficient information, and in direct disregard of the Act of Parliament, to recom mend that the conclusions of the commissidners should, in all important cases, be upset. Unfortunately, we cannot hope that the House will show itself more mindful of the public interest, and more careful of its own honour, than its committee. The Telegraph; judging from the various brochures which arc published on the vexed topic of the Government acquisition of the telegraphs, thinks it would appear that some of the directors at least are determined to make a good fight for continued existence, even if the shareholders should remain perversely supine. We bear little as yet of the views and feelings of the shareholders, who are wisely waiting to see whether or not they can make a good thing out of the proposed transfer. But heir representatives in the board-room are not so -reticent. The Electric and International Telegraph Company directors rush into print with a haste and sehemence to be paralleled by nothing short of the odium theologicum. A pamphlet, professedly under their aus• pices, was issued some weeki ago, and a second has since appeared, the latter signed by no less a personage than the Hon. Robert Grimston,. chairman. It is a notable production, slashing, passionate, one-sided, tremen dously vigorous in its language, conspicuously weak tii its arguments. No mercy is shown to oppo nents ; the Post Office authorities get it hot and strong. We look in vain, however, throughout the long tirade for any sistisfactory rejoinder to the overwhelm ing arguments adduced in favour of the Government proposal. An interview is mentioned between the Chan cellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Grimston, in which the very outspoken chairman, without waiting to hear parti culars, denounced the plan as " pure and simple confisca tion." But it is absurd to use such language in reference to a plan which would not make the proprietors sell against their will, and which, in any dispute as to the value, would permit them to obtain the decision of an independent arbiter. Further, the pleas put forward by Mr. Grimston, if they prove anything, prove too much for his purpose. 'Lie defends the companies for what they have done within the last fifteen years in the way of extending ope rations and reducing rates. Well, • all that must have involved either a lore or a profit. If a loss, whence have come those new profits of 14 or 15 per cent. which have been earned, and which the honourable chairman himself boasted were " much safer than your Three per Cent. Consols, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer?" If a profit, what i 3 the value of all those denunciations of cheap and uniferm rates, and extended facilities, as impracticable, and sure to result in loss, with which the pamphlets are stuffed? Have the existing rate. 3 and accommodation pre cisely reached the limit where profit is earned, and will a - further proe - ress in the same direction not yield similar results? What the companies have to do is to prove that, to avoid loss, reduet'^- of tariff must stop short at its present p ; that the wide and elaborate orgaul,intion of the Post Idilice cal:paw:el take pul)iic wants much f c.ster than thee:-. perimental effol . t.s,..f a private co:111).131y, which looks first to it 3 own gaits and limits its operati(ms accordingly ; that the largo amoentssumnally disbursed in dividends is not equivalent to facilities retarded or rates unnecessarily high ; and, finally, that what has succeeded in the most prosperous and compact of the industrial States of the Continent ) in the most enterprising of our own trans-oceanic possessions, is in some mysterious way unsuited for this country. Until those points are affirmed, such matters as the wrongs of the post-office employes, or an accasional slip of the pen on the part of an official, are mere irrelevancies, which may give pungency to vitupera tion, but throw no light on the point at issue. One !memorial from a chamber of commerce, representing the interests of the many,- is worth any number 9f much Pazl)44o, 94411 g •di f til prep. dices o THE HORSE SHOW. The Times gives the following brief and graphic account of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall :—" The Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the Horse Show with a visit yesterday, and a full hall welcomed them with many rounds of cheers. Their Royal Highnesses wero accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark and Prince Christian, and attending on them were Lady Westmoreland, Lady Macclesfield, and Lady Suffield, Lord Hamilton, M.P., and Colonel Kingscote, M.P., The Royal party drove within the hall shortly before five o'clock ; they were received by Mr. Clayden, Mr. Shut tleworth, Mr. Leeds, Mr. Giblett, and M:. Comfort, and were conducted to a private box overlooking the ring, where Mr. Sidney, the secretary, directed the entertainment (luring the hour and a half their Royal Highnesses stayed. First the prize horses were paraded, 7.ommencing with the harness pairs and the stallions ; and when the qualities of Rapid Roan and Fire-away Shales had been exhibited, the ring was given up to a remarkable trotter, named Telegraph, driven in a fragile carriage known as an American machine.' Next the park hacks and ladies' horses passed in review, and among them an old grey charger, named Napier, attracted every eye by the execution of a kind of goose-step before the Royal box. Then the hunters appeared, headed by Lady Derwent, the winner of the gold medal ; the fences were set up, and a scene of the greatest animation ensued. Some twenty horsemen and a quartette of horsewomen occupied the ring, and at times they were all in motion together. Heedless of danger, they flew round the enclosure in hot pursuit of one another ; at the same moment a lady would raise a cheer by a well-managed leap, and a groom a shout of laughter by an awkward tumble over his horse's head ; flying hats were common even among the ladies, and every now and then a horse and his rider would fall crashing through a fence. But presently the whole party were grouped in a centre, while a wonderful little piebald pony, ridden by an equally wonderful little boy; frisked and curvetted round the ring with the spirit of a king's charger. Though less than twelve hands high, he answered to his rider's shrill heigho,' flew over the fence at a bound, and turned to prance before the Royal box, while his rider acknowledged the special commendation of the Princess. For the moment little Hawkes of Brampton' was the hero of the day. The Royal party left the hall at a quarter-past six." LAW AND POLICE. CHARGES OF MISCONDUCT BT A CORONEE.—In the Lora Chancellor's Court charges brought by Sir Chas. Anderson, Bart., and others against Mr. Charles Henry Holgate, coroner of the Parts of Lindsey, in Lincolnshire, have been heard. It seems that the justices were so dissatisfied with the conduct of the gentleman in question, that a committee was appointed to report as to the• accuracy of some rumours that were heard. The committee reported to the effect that Mr. Holgate's conduct when applied to for the purpose of or when holding an inquest had been indecent and improper, that he had excluded medical wit nesses on certain occasions, and that he had behaved improperly with regard to pecuniary transactions, viz., in takingreceipts from witnesses and neglecting to pay them, &c. In one of the affidavits the deponent stated that the coroner was accustomed to smoke a short pipe at inquests, and had refused to hold an inquiry as to the death of an old woman, aged 80, when applied to by the police, and on that particular occasion he made use of the words, " It is time the old devil was dead, unless she thought she was going to livo for ever." In the affidavit filed by Mr. Holgate he denied gene rally most of the accusations, but admitted smoking a short pipe at inquests. After hearing the arguments the Lord Chancellor delivered a long and lucid judgment, concluding with saying that he had no alternative but to direct that a writ of de coranatore cxonerando should be in ned. ISI£OII,TANT TO SIIMIEHOLDERS.—In the same court the Lord Chancellor decided the case of Kent v. the Freehold Land and Brickmaking Company. The plaintiff,Mr. Kent, applied for 100 shares in the company, which had been established very shortly before, on the 7th of November, 1865, and paid a deposit. They were allotted to him on the 16th of NoveMber, and he received the certificate for them on the 3rd of January, 1866. In February and in May in that year calls were made of £1 a share, and paid by him. On the 2nd of April he received a quarter's dividend of £6 14s. 11d. A. second quarter's dividend became due on the 16th of May, but was never paid. On the 13th of August he received notice of a third call, but having in the meantime, as he alleged, discovered gross misrepresentations in the prospectus, on the faith of which he had applied for his shares, be did not pay it ; and on the Bth of October, an action having been com menced against him, ho filed a bill against the company, the directors, and the promoter, to have the register of the company rectified by removing his name. Ile charged, among other things, that the prospectus con tained frandulent misrepresentations as to the price at which the property which the company was to work had been sold, the proportion of capital subscribed by the directors, and the number of shares taken by the vendor of the property. The Lord Chancellor said that he conld not distinguish the case from that decided by the House of Lords, in re Overend, Gurney, and Co., and the bill would therefore be dismissed. JUDGES AND THEIR PRIVILEGES.—In the Court of Ex chequer, the important question of " Can a judge be sued for slander uttered in his judicial capacity ?" was decided. Mr. Scott, an accountant and scrivener, brought an action in which he claimed £2,000 damages against Mr. J. Stansfeld, the well-known county court judge of one of the districts of Yorkshire. The words were made use of when a judg ment was delivered, and were these : " You are a harpy, preying on the vitals of the poor." The defendant relied on the 15th and 16th Vic., cap. 54, sec. 6, and 9th and 10th Vie., cap. 95, sec. 138 ; but the plaintiff, in his replication thereto, set forth that the words were made use of maliciously and with out cause. The Lord Chief Baron, in his judgment, said that the court were of opinion that no action could be maintained against a county court judge for language spoken by him in the hearing of a case, even if it were spoken as alleged in the replication. THE CHAEGES AGAINST A CHURCH CLERGYMAN.— The case of Moss v. the Rev. Joshua Charles Edwards, rector of Ingoldswell, Lincolnshire, has been proceeded with, and is now complete, with th, e 3eption of the judgment. The defendant, who is charged with immoral conduct with two young women, conduettd his own case, and called the females in question, who denied that anything impronAv had occurred. THE CHARGE AGAINST A RAILWAY SEMI kRY.—At the Mansion House, Edward Bannister Ca ow was charged on remand with forging six cheques. It will be remembered that the prisoner was secretary to the Ellam Valley Railway Company, and absconded, and the next time he was heard of was in Wbitecross•street prison. After he had been absent a short time it was discovered that six cheques were missing from the cheque-book. Evidence was given that the accused, on the same day that two of the cheques were drawn, had changed some banknotes for a large amount for some of less value. The prisoner was again remanded. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST POLICEMEN.-At the Gates head Police-court, Police-constable Wilson, stationed at Ryton, and Police constable Young, stationed at Craw crook, were charged with a very serious offence. A pit man was sent to prison for two months for stabbing Wilson ; but their superintendent has since discovered that they committed perjury, and has made a charge against them. The case was adjourned fur a week. EMBEZZLEMENT.-At the Portsmouth Borough Police court, on Wednesday, Mr. Henry Hollingsworth; the late secretary to the Southsea Pier Company, was committed for trial on a charge of e mbezzlement. Bail (himself in £5OO and two sureties of £250 each) was accepted. 0 U TERE AK OF A NEW CATTLE PLAGII E. —.A very subtle and terribly fatal disease is now raging among the cattle in some portions of Illinois. Over one hundred head have fallen victims to it within the past few days. It usually kills in a few hours. No premonitory warnings are given, and although all the skill in the possession of ordinary practitioners has been brought to bear upon it, it yields to no remedy or treatment, and is fatal in every instance. Its name and nature have not yet been de. termined. BULLION. —The computed real value of the regis tered imports of gold and silver bullion and specie into the United Kingdom from various countries during 1867 was £23,821,047. Of this sum £61,446 came from Russia, £216,682 from the ITanse Towns, £37,143 from Holland, £23,338 from Belgium, £1,338,462 from France, £341,244 from Portugal, A z:ires, and Madeira, £26,751 from Spain and Canaries, £,',9,973 from Gibraltar, £54,312fr0m Malta, £52,328 from Turkey, £106,388 from .Egypt, £149,430 from the Nest Coast of Africa, £22,425 from British possessions in Africa, £205,328 from British India, £5,801,7f 0 from Australia, £2,335 from British Columbia, £148,718 from the British North American Provinces, 27,840,862 from Mexico, South America (except Brazil), and West Indies, £688,141 from Brazil, £6,408,006 from the United States, and £66,005 from other countries. By a comparison of imports during the past nine years, it appears that those of gold reached their maximum in 1866 and their minimum in 1861, and that the largest imports of silver occurred in 109, and the smallest in 1861, ARCHBISHOP M.ANNING Al BRADFORD. Archbishop Manning assisted at the opening of a large Catholic school at Bradford on Friday. The building is situated in Grafton-street, Manchester road, where there are a vast number of Catholics, and, until a chapel is built upon the same site, will be used for purposes of worship. It is a substan tial erection of stone, and is 100 feet in length by 32 feet in width. There are two stories, and it is the second one that is to be used as the chapel. The school has cost about £2,000. A debt of about £9OO rests upon the building ; but it is due to the congregation of St. Mary's chapel, who have promoted the work, to state that, although they are for the most part composed of the labouring cla , ses, they have been able, in the course of two years and a half, to pay for the site, which is an extensive one, care having been taken that it should be large enough to afford room for a house for the resident priest as wall as for the school and con templated chapel. In addition they have con tributed the amount which has been obtained for ,he erection of the school, and they are convinced that their efforts in this direction have not been made too soon, from the fact that already there are 250 children under tuition in the new building. The ceremony of opening was exceedingly im pressive. In the morning High Mass was sung by Canon Browne, of St. Anne's, Leeds, the Rev. W. B. Scrutor acting as deacon, and the Rev. T. Loughran as sub-deacon. The Archbishop of Westminster and the Bishop of Beverley assisted pontifically. The attendants at the throne of his Grace were the Rev. J. Illingworth and the Rev. A. Riddell, and Canon Motler (St. Mary's, Brad ford), whilst at the throne of the Bishop the at tendants were Canon Walshaw (Sheffield), and the Rev. Philip Vavasour. A large number of clergy occupied seats in the sanctuary. The music selected was from Righini's Grand Imperial Mass, and was caresully sung under the leadership of Mr. Stephen• Scholey, the Bradford " Society of Classical liar-. monists " taking the instrumental parts. After the first Gospel, the Archbishop preached from the words in the first chapter of the Acts—" Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you ; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth." Having described the circumstances under which this promise was made, be said there was a peculiar fit ness in such thoughts on such a day as that. 1 hey were met together to open one more of those lowly sauctuarieaof the holy Catholic Church in England, in the midst of a country in which the glories of the holy Catholic Church of other days stood, ruined indeed, but in majesty and splendour speaking the vastness and power and grandeur of ,the times that were gone by. The Catholic Church of to-day did not clothe itself in the splendour and the symmetry and the magnitude of days that were past. It as sembled in guest chambers—in upper rooms such as that. Its beginnings were in humility, and, in the eyes of men, in weakness, but in the sight of God in power—in the same power, which our Lord pro mised to his Apostles when he was parted from them—in that power which descended upon them on the day of Pentecost. And there was another reason why such thoughts were fitting to them. They were keeping the octave of the great Apostle of England, Saint Augustine. Some twelve hun dred and more years ago, when England had once again been flooded with Paganism—when the light of faith which once burned brightly was ex tinguished by the inundation of idolatry and un belief—from the side of the Pontiff, the Vicar of Jesus Christ, St. Gregory, the great in name and great in deeds, Saint Augustine came, the Evange list and the Apostle of Saxon England. The light which he kindled had never been extinguished From that hour to this the light of the faith of Jesus Christ had burned in every land, and its radiance had spread from sea to sea. The witness of the Apostles had been here. For a thousand long years in its brightness and its power, and afterwards in darkness, the light shone—pent up it might be, in secret places, under the earth, in the mountain side, in the lowly dwellings of the city, its splendour veiled, and its majesty overcast, bu burning still bright and unchangeable as in the beginning. Why was it that for more than twelve hundred years the Cathoic Church and the Catholic faith in England, from St. Augustine until now, had in the midst of persecution stood steadfast, immutable, unimperish able-7the same always—never varying in jot or iu tittle? Why was it that round about that unity of the Church and of the faith there were shifting, varying, fleeting, dissolving, and vanishing forms of Christian opinion and of religious thought ? It all pointed to one truth—that there was a divine rule of faith ; that that divine rule of faith was vital to the perpetuity of truth ; that those who adhered to it were inevitably united to the truth, whilst those who departed from it inevitably and by a necessary law lost hold of that truth and forfeited the light of faith. Let him, therefore, set clearly before them what that rule of faith was on which the Catholic Church and her children rested ; and also what was that rule of faith, if be might 130 spoak, which later days had tried to sub stitute in its stead, and in trying to substitute which bad failed to retain the faith. In one word the rule of faith in the Catholic Church was the Word of God. That Word of God was in part written and in part revealed. That which was unwritten was before that which was written, and was the in terpretation of that which was written afterwards. The Catholic Church retained the whole of that revelation of God, whether written or unwritten, with a jealousy and a zeal for truth which had never changed. More than this, it bad retained it not only by a human jealousy and a human zeal for the truth of God, but by Divine assistance and guidance it Lad secured the traditions and in heritance of truth as they were from the beginning and would be to the end. On the other hand, those who had rejected this rule of faith and who believed that the written Word of God, or Holy Scriptures, was the full, complete, and only rule of faith, had entered upon a path so devious, so wandering, and so dirk,—and had placed their feet upon an incline so slippery and so perilous—that three hundred years had sufficed to show the im possibility of such a rule. In the first place, the Apostles, illuminated by the Holy Ghost, were sent into the world to teach the revelation of Jesus Christ, and wherever they went that truth, harmo nious in all its parts, perfectly definite and certain, excluding all possibility of error, clear and intelli gible iu every detail, was preached by them to the world. The nations of the world became disciples, and as they believed they were baptized ; they learned what they called a creed—the summary of truth which constituted the necessary faith of a Christian man. This, then, wa3 the first founda tion of their faith, and the faith which was then declared to the world was incorporated, registered, and recorded, and made permanent before as yet so much as a Gospel or epistle was written. What was the Church itself but that one universal and indivisible body, the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit, of which the Saviour spoke when he said, "There is one body and . one spirit," &c. That one visible Church spread throughout the world in fulfilment of our Lord's promise, given at the time of His ascension. When the Apostles went to their rest their witness was perpetuated by the permanent testimony of the Church that they had founded. More than this, the Sacraments which the Church administered were more or less pregnant with revealed truths; some of them contained many doctrines. For example, baptism taught original sin ; for why else should infants be baptised. It likewise taught them regeneration by the Holy Ghost. Again, the sacrament of the altar taught them the incarnation of God. In the Blessed Sacrament the Body and Blood of Christ were preeilt, and, therefore, the Godhead anC manhood in one person full and perfect. In the sacrament of penance they were shown the power of absolving sin, the power of the Holy Ghost iu absolution ; and in the sacrament of order the authority and organisation of the whole Church were set forth. And so with all their sacraments : they contained a multitude of truths. Whereso ever the Apostles went they administered these sacraments from the beginning ; and, therefore, THE SUN, LOAD THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1868. the truths of the faith were incorporated and em. bodied in the Church. The same thing was shown in the worship of the Church—in the adoration that they paid to the ever-Blessed Trinity in all that they did. In this day many people believed that the New Testament was a book which came full and complete, and that from it men derived every benefit. The religion of Jesus Christ was never derived from the Scriptures of the New Tes tament. It was not the source or fountain from which that religion flowed. The religion of Jesus Christ was in existence before the New Testament. It was preached in all the world, believed in all the world, incorporated, embodied, and manifested in all the world, before as yet a letter of these Scrip tural books was written. The Spirit of God preached orally in the beginning ; and it wrote afterwards, and that which was written was the record and the recognition of that which had been preached, but no new article of faith was added. When it was written it was addressed to those who had received the fail h, for the purpose of remind ing them of that which they had received already. For ten years there was no Gospel ; for twenty years t".ere were but two; for more years there were but three ; and for sixty years the last had not been written. The Scriptures were written some twenty years, perhaps, after our Lord's ascension, and were written to the Church, per haps in Greece or in Rome, or to an individual. They were local mainly—personal—and they re cognised and pointed out that original faith already delivered and already believed. Now the Catholic Church, as its rule of faith, rested upon thelVord of God in all its amplitude, not only upon that which was written, but upon that which was re vealed beforehand. The whole broad bests of Christendom, from the day of Pentecost, was the foundation of the Catholic Church, and the Scrip tures that were written afterwards were interpreted in the light of that illumination, and not only in that light, but by the facts of the Church itself. For instance, from the time of Arius down till now • there had been disputations as to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity—as to whether or not the New Testament proved that in one Godhead were three persons. Those who separated the book from the illumination of the universal Church read its texts iu the twilight and mistook the meaning of its utterances ; but those who opened the page of the book in the light of the day of Pentecost knew this, that before the book was written every Christian soul was baptised in the name of the Holy Trinity ; and belief in the Holy Trinity was incorporated in the worship of the universal Church. Again, in this day there were controver sies, as there had been for three hundred years, as to whether or not the priests of the Church of God had the power of sacrifice, as to whether or not there were bishops over them, as to whether or not the Church was a unity which could not be divided—as to whether the law of unity was a divine law and a divine obligation. All those who,- took their texts apart from this unwritten tradi tion, and this illumination of which he had been speaking, mistook and could not put together those scattered truths of that Churcla which to those who knew the original were perfectly familiar. Those who knew that before as yet that book was written there was one body in all the world, mani fested by a perfect unity—a unity so indissoluble that separaton from it was schism, and schism mortal sin—knew that in that body there were everywhere grades of order, priests ministering at the altar, and above them the order of the apostles, with power over the mystical body, with power to absolve, to guide, to govern, to consecrate the Blessed Sacrament at the altar, and to ordain others to do the same. This was a fact of Christian history, and this fact was an interpretation of Holy Scripture. The Church was not only the interpreter of that book, but was the interpreta tion of it itself. The faith in a'l its fulness was committed to the custody of the Apostles and their successors. Inspired with the Holy Ghost, the Apostles afterwards wrote the Scriptures and com mitted them to the custody of the one Catholic Church, which preserved them, and hal preserved them from the beginning—both the faith which came first and the Scriptures which came of er - wards. The testimony of the one Catholic Church, considered as a human and historical witness, gave the most luminous and certain testimony of the truth taught in the beginning, and in a divine sense, it was the infallible, unerring witness of God himself. In conclusion, his Grace denied that the Roman Catholic Church had introduced new doctrines into the worship of God, but submitted that it retained the faith in its purity and accord ing to its primitive and original doctriues, and that there did not exist in the world any Church so scriptural as the Holy Catholic and Roman Church. After the High Mass, the clergy and many of the congregation sat down to luncheon in the Victoria hotel. The Archbishop was in the chair, and in proposing the first toast—the health of Pope Pius IX.—reminded his hearers that his Holiness had just entered on his 77th year. The l'ope's life had been prolonged in a manner beyond all their expectations. His Pontificate of now more than twenty years had been full of events, which were the most marked in history. He bad more than once quoted some words that had been used by his Holiness when, three or four years ago, he was first officially informed that the French army would be withdrawn from Rome after a period of two years. His answer was—" A great deal of water will run down the Tiber to the sea before two years are over." That majesty and confidence which his Holiness had exhibited had been more than justified by the events. (Cheers.) The waves of revolution raging against the walls of Rome had been cast back by no other than a divine hand. (Cheers.) He had been much ridiculed by the public newspapers for declaring that the Temporal Power of the Pope would not fail ; but he would tell them on what his confidence was founded. It had been prophesied that when once the French bayonets were withdrawn the Temporal Power of the Pope would fall. He had affirmed that it was not the French bayonets that sustained the Tem poral Power, and he had been asked in return — Why, then, did the foreign bayonets rem in at Rome ? Was it not by the will of the French Emperor ? He had answered that may be, but the French Emperor could not withdraw them, and that because the French nation would not permit it. (Cheers.) And why was it that the French nation would not permit it ? Because the French nation was a Catholic nation, and, its will was sup . ported by the unanimous wilt of Catholic Christen dom. (Cheers.) It had appeared to him that that will had another source and support than in any human agency, and he had felt, therefore, no difficulty in making the counter prophecy, which he had done, to the buld prediction of those who told them that the Temporal Power of the Pope was to fall. Last November they had a very fair sample of what the strength of that Temporal Power was as against the power of revolution. The present age had been said very truly to be an age of revolution. Beginning with the Revolution in France in 1789, the world had been inundated, wave upon wave, with a succession of revolutions; but this tide of revolution had never reached its highest till it came to the walls of Rome. It reached the great breakwater, and it had been cast back—(cheers)—and he thought the Pontificate of Pius IX. had been signally—in the eyes even of the world—that barrier which had turned back the inundation of revolution from the civil order of Europe. (Cheers.) The life of the Holy Father had been prolonged beyond the ordinary measures of men ; but it appeared to him that it had not yet reached its term, for his Pontificate had not yet csmpleted its work. He believed that the General Council which Pius IX. was about to de clare would mark an epoch in a reaction against the anti-Christian revolution iu Europe. (The toast was drunk with unbounded enthusiasm.) The Archbishop afterwards proposed " The Queen and the royal family." Her Majesty, he remarked, ascended the throne at a perilous time in our his tory, but he believed it might be said that her reign had restored the sentiment of personal and affectionate loyalty amongst her subjects. (Cheers.) The period when England legislated for itself was over ; its days of narrow and restricted laws were gone. When England united itself with Scotland it lost its identity. and became Great Britain, and when Great Britain united itself with Ireland it ascended to a higher unity. (Cheers.) The statutes of the constitution were like the raitnent of a child. What was fitted for its younger days was unfit for these ;—the stature, and the limbs, and the bulk of Great Britain and Ireland de manded another clothing. (Loud cheers.) There were days when restricted laws in matters of re ligion were possible—he would not say whether they were ever just. The days had come when these laws were not only unjust, but were impos sible. (Cheers.) The reign of Queen Victoria would, he believed, be written in history with this note attached to it—which would be its glory— that its glory was the period of the perfect religious equality of all her subjects. (Cheers.) He ap plied this most emphatic ►lly to Ireland, because he felt that England had litt'e to ask for, and in the name of justice she demanded it. ( Loud cheer-.) Canon Motier proposed the health of the Chair man, and the Archbishop, in reply, took occasion to remark that all over Britain so much kindness and amity was now being extended towards Catho lics as to make it their bounden duty to exercise the greatest degree of charity of which they were capable. He proposed the health of the Bishop of the Diocese, and afterwards that of Canon Motler. Canon Motler, in the coursa of his acknowledgment, made the announcement that whereas little more than forty years ago there were not above six or seven Catholics in Bradford, there were now two churches, having each congre gations numbering some two thousand souls. Those churches were St. Mary's and St. Patrick's, ar.d their success was an earnest of what was in tended to be done at St. Joseph's. (Cheers.) The company shortly afterwards broke up. THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS WHO ARE BELIEVE) TO HAVE VOTED AGAINST THE IMPEACHMENT CHARGES. (From the Anllo-American Timls.) The way in which the extreme Radicals have treated the Republican Senators who announced their intention of voting against the Impeachment Charges will not tend to the elevation of the ex treme section in the opinion of the people. Trum bull was paid $3,000 for arguing the constitution ality of the Reconstruction Laws in the M'Ardle case before the Supreme Court, so says a corre spondent of the New York Tribune ; adding, that Republicans should ask to-night (flay 11) what the guerdon is for defending the President in the Impeachment Trial. The Illinois Delegation in Congress held that night an informal meeting, and concluded that Mr. Trumbull, the prince of be trayers, had more than all else helped to defeat Im-. peachment, and that were his term to expire next March instead of five years hence, he would take a different view. IVilliatn Pitt Fessenden was de: feated in his attempt:to secure the Presidency of the Senate - iviren. Andrew 'Johnson succeeded the mut= -tiered Lincoln, and he is not therefore supposed. to be warm in his friendship towards Mr. Wade, the successful candidate. The correspondent declares Fessenden gave his opinion to Andrew Johnson on Impeachment before be gave it to the Senate, and A. J. handed it over to the correspondent of a New York Democratic journal, in whose co luinna it might be found that morning. A prominent member from Illinois told the corres pondent he believed the State would buy the pistol with which Senator Lane, of Kansas, shot himself, and give it to Trumbull upon his first appearance there. Mr. Fessenden defends himself with great skill. He argues out the rights of Mr. Johnson under the Tenure-of-Office Act, and the status of the President, showing that he is not merely acting President, that he did not appoint Mr. Stanton, and that even under the provisions of the Civil Tenure Act he held the authority to remove that Secretary. He deals briefly with the charges of conspiracy and abuse of Congress, and after alluding to the imperative duty of each Senator to vote conscientiously, he thus proceeds In the words of Lord Eldon upon the trial of the Queen, I take no notice of what is passing out of doors, because I am supposed constitutionally not to be acquainted with it.' And again, it is the duty of those on whom a judicial task is imposed to meet reproach and not court popularity.' The people have not heard the evidence as we have heard it. The re sponsibility is not upon them, but upon us. They have not taken an oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the la ws. I have taken that oath. I cannot render judgment upon their conviction, nor can they transfer to themselves my punishment if I violate my oath. I should consider myself undeserving the confidence that the just and intelligent people imposed upon me in this great responsibility, and unworthy a place among ho nourable men, if for any fear of public repro bation, and for -the sake of securing public favour, 1 should disregard the conviction of my judgment and conscience. The consequences which m ay follow, either from conviction or acquittal, are not for me with Any convictions to ~consider. The future is in the hands of Him who made and governed the universe, and the fear that He will not govern it wisely and well would not e xcuse me for a violation of hi s l aw. " Senator Grimes has been bullied into a para lytic stroke, and is very ill indeed. It was thought that he would not be able t o vo t e, and i t was proposed that Senators Howard, who is also ill, and Wade should pair against him, two to one b e i ng the requisite proportion. Durin g th e 13 th Mr. Grimes was labouring under great excitement. He expr essed his surprise, having been read out of the party by the Chronicle, that any Republican should s peak to him, and commented bitterly upon the course the friends of Impeachment had taken, and he defied the sentiment of his State (Iowa). But those who know him best declare that he has keenly felt the loss of old friends. " Old Grimes is dead, that bad (32 man," is now the parody of the song . This is the style of the New York Tribune in reference to these gentlemen :—" Every one of the re creant lackeys who now knuckleand cringe before the President's superior courage knew when they passed t h e Tenure-of-Office Bill over the President's veto exactly all that they now know of the Presdent's argu ments except his pluck. They thought then that the law was constitutional. The votes of Grimes, Fessenden, Henderson, Trumbull, and the rest are so recorded at least four times. Trumbull aspired to be the champion of this law in its constitutional aspects. We do not know what the legal definition of such a course would be, but to us it looks like what the lawyers would define a perjury." Sena tor Henderson has had to withstand a fright ful pressure. The Representatives of Missouri, urged by the citizens, and backed by his colleague, Senator Drake, have applied the screw with such effect, that at one time Mr. Henderson, turning to Mr. Pile, of St. Louis, said, " What you want is the conviction of the President, I suppose, and if you can obtain it without my resignation it will satisfy you. I will examine the eleventh Ar ticle again, and if I cannot vote for it I will resign." The Senator's interview with the Mis souri members of Congress was published, and this annoyed him so much that in Washington they said he intended to violate his compact. A telegraphic correspondence passed on Wednesday, the 13th, between the Senator and his St. Louis constituents, which we give in full, as it helps to explaiictlie vote which we now know to have been finally cast against the charges :—" St. Louis, May 13.—T0 Hon. J. B. Henderson.—There is intense excitement here. A meeting is called for to-mor row night. Can your friends hope that you will vote for the eleventh Article ? If so, all will be well.—E. W. Fox." " Washington, D.C., May 13. —To E. H. Fox, St. Louis, Mo.—Say to my friends that I am sworn to do impartial justice, according to the law and the evidence, and I will try to do it like an honest man.—J. B. HENDERSON." To de clare his posi:ion more fully, Mr. Henderson, on Wednesday, sent the following letter to the Mis souri delegation that called on him a few days ago to request him to withhold his vote, if he intended to cast it for the acquittal of the President : " Washington, May 13, 1868.—Gentlemen,—On yesterday morning, being assured by you that my position on the Impeachment question was not only antagonistic to the unanimous voice of the Union party of our State, but that it would be likely to produce civil war and bloodshed therein if it should result in the acquittal of the President, I was understood to say, under the cir cumstances, that rather than have such results fol low, I would tender my resignation as Senator, and let some other person as my successor execute what you suppose to be the voice of the party that sent me here, and which has so generously sustained me since I came. Again, last evening, I stated to you that I was willing to accept your views as truly re presenting and reflecting the wishes of our party, and that I thought it my duty to resign if I found it impossible, on a full examination of the case, to carry out that will on some one of the Articles of Impeachment. I agreed to let you know my con clusions on the subject: to-day, in order th a you might consult further, if you thought proper, and advise with the governor in regard to my successor. Since that time I have seriol;ly reflected over the whole matter, and have come to the conclu sion that, having been sworn to try this case on the principles of impartial justice, and to render a verdict according to the, law an I the evidence, I cannot shrink or divide that responsibility with others. It is for the House to find Articles of Impeachment; It is for the Senate to try them. If I resign before the vote, it strikes me I have come short of the obligations of my oath, and as you are pleased to place this matter on purely political grounds, you will permit me to say that my resig nation can be of no possible service to you in that respect. A proper sense of delicacy would prevent my successor from voting, he not having heard the case, and you are aware that voting in the negative and declining to vote will be practically the same. Should he forego delicacy and even secure convic tion by his vote, the manner of securing it will de feat every conceivable advantage to be derived. I have, therefore, resolved to stand by the obligations of my oath, honestly discharge my duty, as it is given me to know it ; and appealing to Heaven for the rectitude of my intentions, I am determined to follow the dictates of my conscience, and trust to a generous and upright people for the vindication of my conduct.--Your friend, JOHN B. HENDERSON." These are the four outspoken Republican Senatort who announced their intention of voting against the charges. Trumbull's term expires in 1875,; Fessenden's in 1871 ; G-ritnes's in 1871, and Hew: , derson's in 1869. The other Republican Senators supposed to be committed to a vote against the charges are Senator Jos. S. Fowler, of Tennessee . ; whose term expires in 1781, and Van Winkle, of West Virginia, whose term ends in 1869. His col league, Wartman I. Willey, whose term expires in 1871, would, it is thought, vote against the second Article, and on the 11th Article Frelinghuyseu, whose term ends in 1869, and Edmund G. Ross, of Kansas, whose term ends in 1871, would, it was conjectured, go with the Democrats. But Fowler -was known at Washington to be opposed to Tin rpeachment as a whole. All these Senators are coin f, Pared with Burr, Arnold, and Davis, and " trai r tor" is a mild word for some of the stump speakers and violent papers to use. Indeed we fear that most disgraceful means haie been taken to terrify Senators into throwing aside all considerations which militate against party dictation, even to the threat of assassination. The degree of pressure in a more legitimate way may be judged by the following despatch sent broadcast over the country, signed as it is by General Schenck, of Ohio, chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee =— Washington, D.C., May 12, 1868. Great danger to the peac3 of the country and the Re publican cause if Impeachment fails. Send to your Sena tors before Saturday, public opinion by resolution, letters, and delegations. ROBERT C. SCHENCK, Chairman. These Senators, according to the Managers, are in imagination either suspended on a " gibbet of ever lasting obloquy," or making their way home " on a long and dark track of infamy." THE FREE-7RAI)E MOVEMi3NT IN AMERICA. Now that Impeachment is dead and all but burie 1, and Reconstruction in a fair way to be ac complished, the great question arising into promi nence in the United States is Protection versus Free Trade. hitherto the subject has lain outside the two parties, but it is of sufficient magnitude in itself to divide the nation, and the rallying cries are even now beginning to be heard around the stan dards of Free Trade and Protection. On the 12th May a meeting was held in New York to advocate the principle of taxation for revenue only, under the presidency of Dr. Francis Lieber. Dr. Leavitt, Dr. J. P. Thompson, General J. S. Schultz, William B. Scott, Edward Atkinson, Amasa Walker, Prof. A. L. Perry, and others spoke. Mr. Atkinson is connected with the cotton manufacturing interest, and his speech was supposed to indicate the opinion of New England, and from these circumstances it derived a peculiar interest. Ho was very severe upon the movement to increase the present exces sive revenue duties, and the drift of his remarks may be gathered from the following propositions with which his address closed :—" Ist. We should de feat any attempt to raise the rates of duty. 21 We should reform our currency and take positive measures toward specie payment, for I do not be lieve it is safe or practicable to attempt any per manent settlement of the tariff until we are on a specie basis. 3d. We should first adjust the tariff upon moderate rates upon many articles. In fix ing those rates we should adjust theta to the point at which they will yield the most revenue. 4tli. We should then follow the example of England by constantly enlarging the free list, as circumstances will allow, until we conic to a simple and effective system of taxation somewhat similar to that of England, but with such variations as our dif ferent circumstances and conditions require." The Free-traders are divided into two schools ; the one advocating an immediate change in the Cus toms' laws of the nation ; the other, a progressive change; but both were fully represented at this meeting, and thoroughly harmonized to defeat the endeavours of the ultra-Protectionists to increase the whole line of duties, and to secure the appoint ment of a Secretary to the Treasury who favours unlimited expansion. Among the resolutions passed the. most significant are the following:—" Resolved, That extravagant duties injure manufactures by inducing home competition ; that any industry is best established by regular and natural methods. Resolved, That In the revision of the tariff, now imperatively demanded, regard should be had only to the necessity of the Government for revenue, and that in•such revision all legislation intended to foster special interests should be avoided. Resolved, That a return to specie payments is most important, both to commerce and manufactures." The change of sentiment in New England on Protection was even more strikingly indicated, strangely enough, in a debate in Congress on the 7th May, when the resolution was brought forward instructing the President to send war-vessels to the St. Lawrence to protect-the interests of American fishermen. Mr. Pike, Republican of Maine, moved the resolution, and in reply to the remarks which followed described the decay of American shipping, attributing it to the high tariff on all materials entering into ship-building, and to high taxes generally. He complained that Congress had removed the taxation from rich manu facturers and had failed to relieve the humbler in terests of the country. Mr. Myers (Republic an ), from Philadelphia, interrupting him, Mr. Pike de clined to yield, saying he was familiar from his boy hood with the argument the gentleman desired to make ; he had used that tariff argument himself ever since he had learned to t ally in public. He had been a " Protectionist" in his day, and had tried to persuade the people that if the rich were protected the rich would protect the poor, and that if the rich manufacturers were protected commu nities of poor tnen would grow up around the manu facturers, who would receive the dribble of protection that filtered through their rich employers. He was getting somewhat over that notion—(laughter)- was getting cured of that idea. Ile had come to think there ought to be a reform in the revenue laws, and, instead of a higher tariff, there ought to be a reasonable tariff founded on reasonable principles. The decay of American shipping was caused by the tariff. It cost two dollars in an American port to build a vessel-, where it cost one dollar in an Foglia port. it coot 100,000 dollars to set a thousand-ton ship afloat in New York, and but 50,000 dollars in Liverpool, for which the high rates of duties was doubtless the reason. Mr. Miller (Republican), of Pennsylvania, inquired whether Mr. Pike was in favour of free trade in building vessels. Mr. Pike replied that he had stated his proposition clearly. We must have the articles that go into ships free of duty, or we cannot build ships. If it be an object to have ships in this country, you must allow shipbuilders to have their materials free. Mr. Eldridge (Demo crat), of Wisconsin, said he understood Mr. Pike, the gentleman from Maine, to be talking very much like a 'Western man, and to be expres , ing himself in favour of free trade; but he wished to inquire whether, if free trade were good for the people of New England in building ships, it was not also goof for the labouring masses of the West in regard to the articles on which they lived and with which they were eothed. Mr. Pike declined to go into a general tariff discussion. Mr. Kelly (Republican), of Philadelphia, asked whether history did not prove that every nation, from Phasaicia, and the Ilanseatic Le igue to England in her decadence, which had risen to commercial prosperity and depended on trade rather than on the development of land and material resources, bad not marched to decline from the day of the establishment of commer cial ascendancy. Mr. Pike said that nations rise and fall, and there were various reasons for their fall ; but his only comment was that the United States in the meridian of her power was yielding control of the sea. Mr. Myers said that since the inland revenue taxes on manufactures had been taken off one manufacturing firm in Philadelphia had increased its working force by 200 persons. He was in favour of imposing taxes where taxes should be imposed, and of removing them where they should be removed. Mr. Pile (Republican), of Missouri, said that he did not understand Mr. Pike to be in favour of free trade, but only that he had changed his opinion as to the propriety of a very high protective tariff, which was generally entertained by Nei' England some years ago. In welcoming Mr. Pike to the Western plat form on the tariff question, he did not wish to be understood as endorsing the idea advanced by Mr. Eldridge that the West is in favour of free trade. So far as he understood it, the West was in favour of reasonable protection to the manufacturing in terests—a revenue tariff, and not a high protective tariff. These are the straws which show the direc tion of the tide. The Hon. Ben. Wade wi's defeated in the nomination for the Vice-Presidency, and we believe his succession in case of Andrew Johnson's deposition had no small effect on the Impeachment verdict, as lie was known strongly to favour the ultra-Protectionists, whose grand parade of prohi bition duties on the advent of their acting Presi dent at once alarmed the numberless citizens who think the tariff already too high. The coming battle is the Battle of Free Trade. PROPOSED MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM Professor Agassiz offers Massachusetts the oppor tunity of establishing a museum, which, he says, will place science in America fifty years in advance of the Old World. He addressed the Legislature On the occasion of their visit to his Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, near Boston, setting forth the details of his plan, on which ne museum has yet been founded, and for which, though an effort is being made to remodel the British Museum on a similar scheme borrowed from one of his reports to the Legislature—neither in America nor in Europe can the material be com manded by any single institution. His own collection is immense, and has within late years been vastly increased principally by his Brazilian tour. Marione specimens are boxed up, so placed as to be impossible to inspect for lack of room. These are his words--: - - - "If we can obtain the means to complete this wing of 'the main building, it is my purpose to have a room imme: diately connected with 'he main entrance, which shah present a synoptic arrangement of the contents of the museum—a condensed representation of all the leading groups of the animal kingdom in their natural relations , perfectly legible to the intelligent observer. One side of this room shall be devoted to the illustration of the class of inaminalia to which we ourselves belong. By the &ale of the complete animal shall be its skeleton, to explain its na tural structure ; its fossil representative; to tell something of its history iu the past ages ; its embryo, to illustrate the story of its growth. Next shall come tho birds, illustrated in the mine ways, and in such juxtaposition to the preceding groups as shall explain their natural rela tions. Next the reptiles, and then the fishes, all being s° labelled and so arranged that it shall be understood hi every intelligent visitor why these groups are placed to gether, what relation they bear to each other in the living world as it at present exists, what relation they hav e borne to each other in past ages, what further relation they hold and have ev,r held to each other in the daily problem of their growth and development. On another wall of the same room I would have the insect world in i tS history and growth ; on another the molluscs in their order of succession, growth, and present relation; on the fourth, the radiates, or corals, sea-urchins, star-fishes, and the like. . . . With labels, perhaps with sane written explanations, and with further illustrations, h i drawing, I should hope to make this entrance-room es plain the general purpose and scheme of the museum. • ' Having thus laid down the general sketch in this entrance room, I would have four rooms separately devoted to these classes singly—one for the vertebrates and mauling' lia, birds, reptiles, and fishes, one for the molluscs, one for the articulates, and one for the radiates. Here my si n ; should be to show the fulness, richness, diversity, endie e f variety, end complications of forms belonging to each ° f these types, each presenting a totally different series ? idese and a wonderful wealth of impressions. Nor is thug all. Every part of the world has different representativ e* and their geographical distribution is established accord' ing to certailaws. Our Museum should explain this : should have its local area, its zoological premises, to sP' in scientific terms, where the inhabitants of different cent': nonts should be brought together in their natural juxtapes':, tion, showing how animal life is szattered over the surfa c ,, of the earth. In the next phase, the succession of aninuo,: in their introduction upon our planet should be illustrate d " There should be a room devoted, for instance, to the e!„ - tinct animals of the coal period; and then to those of t"" tertiary periods more immediately preceding our own graphical era. Aud, finally, there should be a room ", 0 voted to embryological series, showing the problem of ~ to-day, as wonderful in its ever-renewed miracles u growth and development as in its relation to past Ag es. 4 We would thus have the history of organic life from ev e ', ' point of view in which it has been studied, and our mus eu ': would be what every museum should be, a diagram of cr es Lion, so far as it is understood in the present condition °f our science." • The Finance Committee of the Ma,ssacbuset to Legislature has reported in favour of making th e appropriation for the Museum. We are . glad to see that our recent suggestion a g to the feasibility of introdpcing into New York Family 0 111 " h Houses, on the plan of the Balgravo mansions in Londnot bids fair to be put to a practical test. The World of the 9th inst. contains a plan and detailed description of 00 4 e building, which seems to meet every requirement of ne e : no:ny, elegance, and comfort. The averagerental of the val . ' . ous apartments is estimated at $2,000 per annum, vibl e4 seems to us moderate enough, considering the i m portanc e ' as is judiciously suggested in the paper, of erecting t h° pioneer building in elegant style, and in a fashionable quarter, to secure the countenance and support of a clad without whose example their poor; but superioiN neigh' bours could never be brought to the ignominy of liv ing over a store." The plan suggested combines s9me of 01e features of the co-operative system, with many of the ad vantages of club and hotel life; and we hope that a $ ll/6' cient amount of - enterprise and capital may be found l . ° give it a trial. We believe it is in successful operation 1 7 London, and we see no reason to d ou bt a t l ea st an eq u3 success here.—Round Table. Births. • ANDREWS - On NY the 2d inst., at Wimbledon, the "- Of John Andrews, Esq., of a son. &MUCK —On the 2d inst., at 26, Beaufort-buil dia* S.W., tha Hon. 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