The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 'Me Saturday Review remarks that Archbishop Lohgley succeeded Archbishop Sumner at Canterbury, the great Metropolitan See of England, which now stands alone in Christendom, not only in its ecclesiastical position, but in lts dignity, importance, and influence. The Church of England, as a mere matter of fact, is an institution of unparalleled importance if we look at it only as a social phenomenon. Its clergy are such, whether we like them or not, as the world has never known, whether we regard their education, their public and private influence, and the strange way in which they interpenetrate, while they represent as well as are acted upon by, the whole stream of England's political and domestic life. To be the first man in such an institution, in a sense to govern it, but in a truer sense to represent it—to represent it, that is, to friends and foes, to a jealous and divided Christendom, to active and in some cases malicious critics, to its own despond ing, and, still worse, to its venturesome and over-impulsive friends—is a work which must task the greatest powers. Our contemporary makes comparison between Dr. Sumner and Dr. Longley, much to the disadvantage of the former, who is described as weak, humble, gushing, sympathetic, fainthearted without discretion, and undignified without modesty and self-distrust. Archbishop Longley's character was the reverse. Mr. Disraeli is not to be congratulated on the strange stroke of luck or misfortune which places at his disposal so many dignities in Church and State. But in this matter he may be fairly trusted. The peculiar work of making such selections only requires tact and judgment ; and in many respects the Premier has that tact and judgment which may be trusted when his own inte rests are not concerned. It has for some private end suited the Minister to undertake the championship—for what purposes we shall not trouble ourselves to inquire— of that phase of ecclesiastical sentiment and rule which the late Archbishop so worthily represented and exempli fied. It ought not to be difficult to find on the bench one who more or less, and the more the better, suits the Longley practice and the Disraeli theory ; though we do not envy the present Minister the task of finding it among our bishops. But there are several considerations in his favour. A Conservative Government ought to make the best bishops, because it is an undeniable fact that the Church of England as a whole is Conservative, and an Archbishop of Canterbury out of harmony with the general feeling must be a mistake. Mr. Disraeli is less to be , commiserated on the occasion than Mr. Disraeli's nominee. Stormy days and a troubled sea await the ship of the Church ; a strong hand and will, and a temper and discretion, a zeal and manners, and the confidence, if not of all, of the best of Churchmen, are required. May such a man be found, and if found he will be a blessing, not only to the greatest institution of the nation, but to the nation itself. The Spectator says that the late Primate had that love of the good for the good's sake which Coleridge says is but a feminine virtue, it severed from the love of the truth for the truth's sake ; but we see but little sign of the latter. Stately and gentle, dignified and humble, zealous by fits and starts, but with fits and starts also of distrust of the policy of zeal, with a strong under-current of in clination to exalt the clergy above the State, and yet an involuntary perception at times of their unfitness for that position, the late archbishop trimmed without being a trimmer, and dissatisfied both the sacerdotal and the Erastian party in the Church without satisfying himself. He was no theologian, and not even a great ecclesiastic ; but he had at least an ideal conception of the Church above that of its actual condition, and endeavoured with a certain audacity, which his subsequent conduct shewed to be rash and inconsiderate, to realise it without fully counting the cost. When he discovered how wide the issues might fall of his own estimate of them, he shrank and hesi tated, and it is quite possible that the anxieties of his wavering policy may have shortened Lis life. We cannot think of him without esteem and regret. It was at least something noble in him that caused his mistakes. To him the latitudinarian and Erastian Church which he saw in rapid development was below his own ideal, and he could not help striking an uncertain blow for something higher. But his intellect was not as steady and strong as his senti ment was refined, and while he has left us a mild and fascinating image of himself, he has left also an ecclesias tical knot far more complicated than he found when he entered upon his archiepiscopate. The Spectator does not wish to see a colourless man as his successor, though if St. Paul were amongst us he would be the last man chosen. We want an archbishop who would lead. We would even rather see an honest attempt made by a genuine High Churchman to turn it into an honest High Church, de nouncing " Protestantism" and so forth—or by a genuine Evangelical to turn it into an honest Low Church, de- nouncing Romanism as the Babylonish woman— than see it ruled much longer by men whose only idea is to keep things quiet, without putting peace on any franker basis. The John Bull considers that while it would be wicked in the Prime Minister to refuse promotion to the best bishop because he was a Whig, it would be the height of Quixotism and ingratitude to pass over the claims of a Wilberforce or an Ellicott, who alone of the bishops sup ported him nightly on the Reform Bill; or of a Selwyn, or a Claughton, all of whom, in our opinion, have on ecclesiastical grounds far higher claims for translation than those Liberals who, with the Bishop of Chester, would, had the Liberals been iu office, have been the prelates from whom the choice would have been made. The Liberals broke the tradition of translating the Bishop of London to Canterbury, when they passed over the greatest prelate who of late years has occupied the see of London, and they cannot grumble if like measure is now for the Church's good meted out to them. The London Review holds that within a few months Mr. Gladstone will be Prime Minister of England. We seem to have passed through a whole age of change since men muttered in Pall-mall that " it would never do," and whispered in the corridors of Westminster Palace that " Halifax was the safest man." That a Halifax Premier. ship should ever have been thought of seems incredible-- so incredible that in all probability it may not find a place in history. If so, our times, or at least our official Liberal politicians will have the better prospect of escaping con tempt. But that Lord Halifax—a dry official, pledged only to the fortunes of his party—was gravely spoken of as our next Liberal Prime Minister, is as true as it is likely to be hereafter forgotten. Why do we rake up these wretched bygones? Not, cer tainly, because the conjunction of Gladstone and Halifax is likely to represent the coming phase of Liberal Adminis tration. The idea never had much life, and is now stone dead. It was the last remnant of the old Whig feeling, which shuddered at the supremacy of a leader who had not entered the Liberal sanctum through the portals of the Whig school, and that feeling is now, if not entirely extin guished, entirely exorcised by the free air of popular opinion. Let those, therefore, who deem Mr. Gladstone's leadership adverse to the union of the party— let these poor official gadflies who look upon Mr. Gladstone as merely a rather dangerous instrument which they must use in order to buzz back into Downing-street—let Mr. Gladstone himself, when he is tempted by generosity and esprit de corps to accept too absolutely the responsibilities of the old official Liberal party—understand and remember, firstly, that the party as reunited is a Radical party ; secondly, that it is so because Mr. Gladstone chose, with the people to back him, that it should be so ; thirdly, that with any relapse into Whig quietism the union of the party would be dissipated ; fourthly, that Whig quietism is to be avoided by Mr. Gladstone continuing to sever himself from it, and to make activity in amelioration the tenure by which his party shall hold power. The Saturday Review holds that there ought to be ample time to settle the fate of the Ministry before Christmas if the elections are decisive. If parties are nearly balanced, things might go on as they are, for if a Liberal Govern ment came into office, it would not have strength enough to carry the great measure with regard to the Irish Church. It could serve no good purpose to turn out the present Ministry too suddenly, and the Ministry is not bound to go out of office simply because it has not a majority. But although it is right not to count on a large Liberal majority as an absolute certainty, and to consider what would happen if the Conservatives had the remarkable success on which they profess to reckon, still it is not worth while to waste time on what is grossly improbable. It is not easy to imagine how there can be anything but a large Liberal majority. Nearly half the seats in the three kingdoms are uncontested, except by members of the same party, and these uncontested seats give. the Liberals a majority of over ninety. The Conservatives, therefore, must expect to win three out of four of all the contested seats, in order to be on a bare equality with the Liberals. Who can believe for a moment that they will do anything of the sort? The Imperial Review thinks that the world is naturally not a little perplexed by the terribly contradictory accounts which are furnished by the organs of the rival parties. A man who pads bath the Times and the Standard. must, by this time, have reached a state of bewilderment from which ho can hardly ever hope to rally, if he is assiduous, as most people are just now, in studying the columns headed " Election Intelligence," in both papers. Without echoing the excessive confidence of either of the leading journals, or, on the other hand, subsiding into the languid indifferentism affected by the Saturday Review, we may be permitted to express our own belief that, while we can hardly count upon such an expression of public feeling against Mr. Gladstone's new policy as will convert the majority of last session into a minority, the prospect of a considerable accession of strength to the Ministerial ranks is one which an impartial observer can scarcely contrive to ignore. Take Lancashire, for instance: the foremost county in England, whether we estimate rival pretensions by intelligence, wealth, as political prestige, must neces. early speak with no ordinary authority in deoidm the ;refit MititAtional issues set 4. 0 W 1 A iti); trig. . MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM. Mr. fright's speech at Birminghtini on Friday was directed against " the evils of the ratepaying clauses," and the "monstrous minority scheme." He related at length how the former measure came to be accepted, and denounced Mr. Disraeli very energetically. "I under stand," said he, "that our opponents and their orators in the borough and their newspaper writers lay the blame on Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party for the abolition of compounding, and for the infliction of so much suffering and hardship upon a great many thousands of the cottage occupiers in Birmingham. This is what Mr. Gladstone said when Mr. Hardcastle made his pro position : "My hon. friend offers us, at the expense of an economical and social inconvenience—at the expense, at any rate, of foregoing an economical and social advan tage—he offers us, instead of an extension of the fran chise which we conceive to be limited and unequal, equivocal and dangerous, as tending ,in many parts to corruption—he offers an extension of the franchise which is liberal and perfectly sound. I am sorry, in deference to what seems an unwise judgment of the House, it is necessary to interfere with a system of composition which exists throughout the country. I must choose, however, the lesser of the two evils.' After wards, on another occasion, when Mr. Gladstone made a proposition to discuss the question, he made use of these words. He said, I have deprecated it all along, and have consented to it as I would consent to cut off my leg rather than lose my life, on the principle of choosing the lesser evil.' Well, what was the greater evil ? It was that there should be no enfranchisement ; and, unless for Mr. Gladstone's opposition to that bill, sup ported as it was by me and the great bulk of the Liberal party, that bill might not have passed, and you whom I now see before me, and 30,000 and more out side of this building, within the limits of our town, would have been still knocking at the doors of a Reformed Parliament, and asking for admission there. The Government—Mr. Disraeli is the Government—and the party by which the Government is supported are solely responsible for that measure. That harshness would never have been inflicted if it bad been left in the bands of the Liberal party ; and I believe I may say, with con fidence, that, if ever the grievance is remedied, it will be remedied, not by the Tory, but by the Liberal section of the House." In concluding with the subject, Mr. Bright exclaimed : "I hope I have shewn you clearly the diffi culty of the circumstances under which that grievance was inflicted—that the Government, and the Government party only, are responsible for it ; -that without Mr. Hodgkinson's clause without the abolition of compounding, in the then attitude of the Government— one of two things must have happened, either that the bill must have been wholly lost for the session, or the great bulk of the householders below £lO-476,000 of them— must have remained without enfranchisement. I did all I could for your sakes in the matter, and have done all I can since, with a view to inform the public opinion ; and when any rational and just remedy is proposed to the House of Commons I need not tell you that if you send me there I hope to be there to support it." Mr. Bright was also very fiery in his oppcsition to the minority clause. Here is one of his arguments: "If," said he, "we have the nomination outside— which in fine weather would be very pleasant and very grand—l daresay nearly every elector in Birmingham will go there, perhaps 35,000 men, and it will be a grand and magnificent sight—the mayor will put to you the different candidates, and you will have to hold up your hands for each candidate as he is named to you, and the mayor will have to decide which three candidates out of the five have the majority ; he will declare that A, B, and C, are duly elected, and then possibly—l am not sure of it—but possibly somebody will ask for a poll. But when you hold up your hands, can't the mayor say to you, You must only hold up your hands for two ?' Here we are three candidates on the Liberal side, and you would only be able to hold up your hands for two of us, if it were not that the law says nothing about the holding up your hands. Your duty at the nomination is as it was before the Act passed, and you will be permitted to hold up your bards freely, if right, fur the three candidates of your choice. What is it that a poll is for, the day after? Simply for this: to prove whether the show of hands did really express the opinions of the constituency. The candidate who has the minority says : 'I have canvassed all the borough, and have got a great number of promises, and I believe, if we go to the poll, that I may still have a majority ; therefore, I am not satisfied with the show of hands, and, Mr. Mayor, I demand a poll.' And the poll is accordingly granted ; and how is it that one of you electors, being only allowed to vote for two candidates to-day, can correct or in any way shew the pro priety and the truth of the great demonstration ? Is it not quite clear that our ancient constitution is entirely de parted from, and that the principle of the law, as passed last year, is directly in the teeth of all the principles in this matter which have governed our elections for six hundred years past ?" Here is another of Mr. Bright's contentions on this subject. " What would happen," he asked, "in places where there is only one seat ? I presume, if the minority is to be represented, that the majority is to be got rid of ; or else you must have that sort of two-faced man who can suit two parties and look two ways at once ; but he would hardly be able to go into both lobbies at once in a division in the House ; and what are you to do in boroughs where there are two members and two seats ? Clearly, if you give one to the minority the borough is neutralised, and is in the position of many boroughs of which we now speak with a sort of pity and contempt. It would return one man to say ' Aye ' and another to say No ;' therefore the borough would count for nothing, and, politically, it might just as well be extinct." The original clause which Mr. Lowe proposed next came in for condemnation. Mr. Lowe (said the speaker) had since repented in sackcloth and ashes for the course he took on the Reform question. " But he proposed—in this borough, for example—that every man should have three votes, and that he should give all his three votes to one, or divide them among myself and my colleagues, or to Mr. Sampson Lloyd. What would have been the result? It would have been just this, that if Mr. Lloyd had been the only candidate on the Tory side, and supposing that he could poll 10,000 votes in Birmingham, if every one gave him three he would really record 30,000 votes, and therefore, although he was a candidate who only had 10,000 supporters out of 40,000, he might come in even at the head of the poll. That, I think, I once described, as reminding me very much of a donkey race, where the last is expected to win." That proposition, however, was rejected, and when the bill went to the Lords, this " infamous clause" was not carried. On coming back to the Commons it was accepted, through the desertion of some fifty Liberals, who ought to have known better. "It is not a matter of the slightest importance as regards the two parties in the country; the minority clause will not at present, and I believe it will never, seriously affect the balance of power in the House of Commons. At present, as far as lam informed, it is probable that the Liberal party will gain something from that clause, but it may have a very grievous effect in places like Liverpool, where no one knows where the majority lies. Each side will bring two candidates forward, and one of the two twos will be left out; but when it is clearly decided where the majority lies, unless the majority is very enormous, as I hope it will be in Birmingham, it will put an end to contests altogether, and these large constituencies will become as sleepy and dead as some of the county consti tuencies which are under the thumb of the landlord." Mr. Bright could not understand how anybody could believe in the scheme at all. "I do not understand how any elector of Birmingham—unless his politics are of the most rabid and blind and unreasonable Toryism and Orangeism—l cannot understand how he can support men who have publicly avowed their approbation of this clause, and one of them, at least, had expressed a hope that it may be widely extended to other con stituencies. Every man of you comes to this election with one hand tied behind his back. Every man of you, but for this clause, would have voted freely for three can didates, and you would have carried your men to Par liament with a triumphant and undoubted majority. Even with this clause you are fighting, doubtless, a successful battle ; but it is a battle in which you are obliged to spend the large costs of an election, and an enormous sacrifice of the labours of hundreds and thou sands of your fellow-townsmen." Mr. Bright continued : " I hold that clause to be one of the most outrageous heresies against the popular representative system ever propounded in the Legislature. I do not care whether it has the support of aged statesmen or dreamers, or men who dream of political theories in their closets. I say that it is a fraud on the great constituencies. I say, further, that it is the duty of every Liberal elector to represent to every candidate who supported that clause his own opinion of its wrong, of its unconstitutional character, and of its injustice, and to urge him by all the arguments he can bring to bear upon it to recant his opinions, and to vote for the abolition of that clause. There are great men—men for whom personally I have great affection—who voted for that clause. I hate the clause no less ; but I think I have the right to say that it may be the duty, and is the duty, of every Liberal con stituency—l don't say to cashier men for one error they may have committed, hut to urge them in a friendly and earnest manner to consent to the abolition of that clause on the first opportunity when it shall again come before Parliament. Don't let us have any newfangled ideas; your fancy franchises, which we kicked to the winds; your minority clause, which ought to have come, not from the representatives of the people, but from Bedlam, or a region like that." The Rev. Dr. M'Neile, the new Dean of Ripon, was talled at the Cathedral on l'hur ay, TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1868. TREASURE TROVE. rattail has been issued to-day of all objeeth coming under the denomination of treasure trove, which have been claimed by the solicitor of the Treasury on behalf of the Crown, between the 10th May, 1867, and the 10th May, 1868, as follows :—On 16th January, 6,905 small gold and silver coins, found at Highborn Middlesex, together with two ivy leaves, and a piece of silver, value £44; now at the British Museum for inspection and report. January 17, 80 guineas found in the wall of an old house on the manor of East Parley, near Christchurch, Hants, value £B2 10s. sd. Eight of these guineas have been sold for £8 8s ; amount paid to Paymaster-General, to be carried to " Treasure Trove account." The whole are claimed by the alleged descendants of the original owner, and the remaining 72 are retained at the Treasury awaiting proof of title. On March 28, 261 old silver coins, found in a house in the city of Lichfield, value ..-C7 Os. lOid., now at the British Museum for inspection and report. ELECTION INTELLIGENCF BEVERLEY.--The two Liberals—the Hon. Marmaduke C. Maxwell and Mr. Anthony Trollope—have issued their addresses. Mr. Trollope says : "lam of opinion, in which I cannot but think that you will allagree with me, that the chief duty of a Liberal member of the next House of Commons will be to give a firm and continued support to the leader of the Liberal parties. Every session during which a Conser vative or Tory Government is in power, the political progress and improvement of the nation is impeded instead of furthered. Holding this as a principal article of my political creed, I beg to assure you of this above all things—that should you do me the honour of sending me Parliament as one of your representatives, it will be my purpose to give an active, constant, and unwearied sup port to Mr. Gladstone. The great question of the coming, and not impossibly of the following session, will be the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church. I can only assure you that for many years I have been one of those who have denounced the gross injustice and the absurd uselessness of the Irish Church Establishment. The Protestant Church, as it now stands established in Ireland, means the ascendancy of the rich over the poor, of the great over the little, of the high over the low. It has none of those attributes which should grace a Church. It does not open its bosom to the poor. It lacks charity. It assumes the virtues of the Pharisee. It is hated instead of loved by the people. That the Irish Protestant Church wrl speedily be disendowed and disestablished, no intelli gent politician in England or Ireland now doubts." YOWL—Messrs. Westhead and Gladstone, and Mr. J. Lowther, the candidates for York, have commenced their canvass. The two former gentlemen have addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting in Walmgate, and at its conclusion a vote, to which there were only four dissen tients, was passed in favour of their candidature. Their success was referred to in the most confident terms. BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—Mr. R. Hodgson has come for, ward as the second Conservative candidate. Major Wallace Carpenter is the other Conservative seeking the suffrages of the electors. AYR Bunaus.—Mr. Anderson, Q.C., is expected to con test these burghs as a Liberal. His address will be issued immediately. SANDIVICH.—The split among the Conservatives in this borough is aggravated. The Conservative committee at Deal having passed a resolution to withdraw Mr. Capper, the sitting member, from the contest, the Conservative party at Sandwich.have held a meeting in support of his canvass. The meeting was very disorderly. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Capper and Mr. Denne, the Mayor of Sandwich, but the disturbance became so great that the meeting had to be hastily broken up. BARNSTAPLE.-Mr. Macleay, who travelled from Scot land to Barnstaple in order to offer himself as a Conser vative candidate, has declined to come forward, giving as a reason that his age and health will not warrant him in engaging in an active canvass or public speaking. LAW AND POLICE. DISTURBING A CONGREGATION. —At the Brighton Police-court, Edward Martin, a middle-aged man, has been charged with having disturbed the congregation at St. James's Chapel, on Sunday last, by shouting " Pro testants to the rescue !" while the procession was passing along the aisles. The defendant, who expressed his regret, pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s. and costs. In future the admission to St. James's Chapel is to be by ticket. EMBEZZLEMENT. At the Clerkenwell Police-court, Samuel Moyes, a town traveller, in the employ of Messrs. Betts, brandy distillers, was finally examined on a series of charges of embezzlement. The operations of the accused appear to have been remarkably extensive, and the gross amount of which his employers have been defrauded is more than £3OO. He was committed for trial. Another collector in the same service is accused of defalcations to the extent of £l,OOO. TIIE BROTHERS BENNETT.-At the Central Criminal Court, Thomas Henry Bennett, 21, and John Bennett, his brother, 25, who were convicted of robbery and felo niously receiving cheques to a large amount from the proprietors of Brewer's Quay, were brought up for judg ment, and the former was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, and the latter to be kept in penal servitude for five years. DEATH BY ALLEGED DRUGGING.—At the Woolwich Police-court John Newing, of Sandwich, was placed at the bar, charged with causing the death of Henry Doar, of St. John's-wood, by administering to Lim a quantity of snuff in beer. The case had been several times before the court, and it was now stated that Mr. Doer expired on Tuesday last, and a coroner's inquest had been held, when it was proved that the deceased had been suffering from congestion of the brain for some time prior to his being drugged. Another witness now appeared, a young man named Robert Owen, who said he had a con versation with the prisoner outside the " Waterman's Arms," whilst the deceased was inside, and the prisoner said that he did not want to rob the man, but he might as well do it as anybody, and that a little snuff in his ale would settle the job. The prisoner was again remanded. The authorities of Dewsbury, in anticipation of disturbances at the election, are already beginning to swear in special constables. Canon GirdlestoLe has written to Mr. Morley, the Liberal candidate for Bristol, to promise him his vote as a supporter of Mr. Clads:one's Church policy. It appears from a Parliamentary paper just issued that the number of paupers in England and Wales on the let of January last was 1,040,103. Of these 43,158, or 4.3 per cent., were insane. They consisted of 19,033 males and 24,125 females. The rumour that the body of Dr. Powell had been found at Willesden Railway Station is false. The body found there has been identified as that of Mr. Hardesley, of Duke-street, Smithfield. It was frightfully mutilated by the train which passed over it. An inquest will of course be held. The Brighton Gazette of yesterday publishes the fol. lowing notice, which has been issued by Mr. Purchas "S. James's Chapel, Brighton.— As certain evil disposed per sons have disturbed Divine service, it has been determined to admit by tickets. Tickets may be had at the principal libraries. Cards of admission will be sent to all seat-holders. —John Purchae, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. James's Chapel." The Liverpool Coroner has held an inquest on the body of Christopher Kelly, the lad whose death was caused by an explosion at the shop of Mr. Bradbury, fire work manufacturer, Lime-street, on Tuesday evening. Several witnesses were examined, but none could account for the explosion. The jury returned a formal verdict. They expressed an opinion that the police should exercise a strict supervision over shops where fireworks are sold. At Penistone Lord Milton said be would advocate appropriating the property of the Irish Church to pur poses of education. Being asked whether he would de vote the property of his forefathers to the same purposes, he said, in reply, that he would keep it, because it was given for services rendered to the State, and "not originally got by a priest going to a dying man, and saying, 'lf you don't leave this property to the Church I will send you, body and soul, to hell'" A harvest thanksgiving was celebrated at Bt. Alban's, Holborn, on Thursday. The communion table, chancel railings, pulpit, and lectern, were decorated with various kinds of grain, fruit, and flowers. The Rey. A. H. Alackonochie was the principal officiating clergy man at the mid-day communion service, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. A. Blomfield, son of the late Bishop of London. The preacher paid a tribute to the memory of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, whose con duct he especially commended for the part ho took in the Pan-Anglican Synod. Though the church was half full of people there were only four communicants. HOW A RAT STOLE EGOS.—The rats having made free with my eggs, I determined to watch the pro. cess of lowering them from the shelf on which they were kept. Having concealed myself, I soon saw a rat mount the shelf, nearly three feet from the ground, take an egg between his claws, and break at one end a hole large enough to insert the end of his jaw; clasping the egg against his stomach with his two paws, and steadying if with his jaw in the hole he had made, he walked back. wards to the edge of the shelf, and then deliberately threw himself down, so that he fell with his back on the ground, and the egg nestling at his stomach. He turned over, and was decamping with the egg, but I stopped him and recovered it, unbroken, save the little hole atone end in which he had inserted his jaw•77` C," tin qfiencl qgffiPt _ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 'FOREIGN NOTES, CUB FOOD sums; A tette from Buenos Ayres discusses de prospect of the River Plate territory becoming a British granary. The writer urges that some new sources are imperatively required, for the United States has declined as a food supply, and Russia, now our largest contributor, cannot always be depended upon. Of the most promising corn growing countries—Australia, California, and the River Plate country— the latter seems the best. Its geographical position is a great advantage ; it is some thousand miles nearer England than Australia or California ; its soil is second to none in fertility, and it possesses the speciality of being absolutely free from the impediments to the employment of steam-power tillage. The land is cheap and stock numerous and of small money value. The writer believes that England has only to stretch to the River Plate the powerful arm of a joint-stock association to open a source of practically limitless subsistence. This is undoubtedly true ; but the States of the River Plate must terminate a senseless war before they can expect the aid of British capital. Australia and California are thou sands of miles off, but they are at peace, propertyis secure, and they have made a start in corn-growing. THE NEW AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELD. The new gold-field in Australia continues to yield large quantities of the precious metal. At the Cape River diggings the population already amounts to 3,000. The gold deposits are irregular, but when a "hit" is made the metal is generally found in considerable quantities. From the Mary River the accounts are favourable : the ground has not been greatly broken, but the supply will in all probability be considerable. At Gympie the reefs still continue to yield " marvellous wealth :" in one day two " prospectors " secured £l,OOO worth. THE NORTH POLE. The Germans have resolved to send another expedition to the North Pole next spring. A meeting has been held at Bremen in honour of Dr. Petermann, and it has been determined to solicit subscriptions from the whole of Ger many. Dr. Petermann said the Germans had established an important fact—that a road through the barrier of ice to the open sea beyond really existed, and could in future be relied on. SPAIN. Don Carlos has addressed a communication to the various Powers of Europe announcing the abdication of his father, and his candidature for the Spanish throne. He says : "If God and circumstances should place me on the Spanish throne, I shall strive to loyally reconcile the useful institutions of our epoch with the indispensable ones -of the past, leaving to the general Cortes, freely named, the great and difficult task of endow ing my dear country with a Constitution which will be, I hope, at the same time Spanish and definitive." The correspondent of the Post thinks the Duke of Montpensier lust the throne only by his excess of caution. Beyond doubt he was fixed upon by Serrano and the more conservative directors of the insurrection before it took place. He assumed in some measure the functions of a sovereign, making journeys in disguise, caressing news paper writers, entertaining malcontent Ministers, and the like. But when the hour for action came he too cautiously waited until the bisiness of revolt was over, and thus dis gusted his supporters. With respect to the Iberian Union, the Nord says that the Portuguese were never so greatly opposed to it as at present. A short time before the insurrection Gonzales Bravo had conceived the idea of invading Spain and esta blishing the Iberian Union as a diversion against discon tent at home. This project reached Lisbon; consequently, when Queen Isabella crossed the frontier, the Spanish Ambassador in Portugal fled precipitately, without taking leave of the sovereign to whose Court he was accredited. The Provisional Government continues to issue edicts and regulations demolishing the old state of things and building up a new social and political edifice. The course of public education is to be revolutionised; Latin is to be tabooed, or at least not encouraged ; and geography, history, mathematics, and science are to take its place. Young Spain has been prescribed a dose of nine hours of lectures daily. Probably the Minister of Education bas profited by the example of certain astute physicians, who order more medicine than will be taken in order to make sure of some. The intentions of the Government respect ing religious toleration are still the subject of dispute. But the manifesto just published must fairly be regarded as decisive on this point. Those who find fault with certain ambiguous passages should remember that Olozaga, one of the most influential members of the Govern ment, has for years past vehemently opposed even the slightest religious toleration. The tone of the last mani festo, though a little cautious, is at least utterly opposed to Olozaga's former policy. A good sign of the results of the revolution is instanced by the Post correspondent. The working classes were formerly rather disposed to favour the escape of criminals. They are now indefatigable in capturing them. Their eagerness in. handing over malefactors to justice spews how rapidly they are learning the art of self-government. THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. The Bourse has recovered from the effect of Baron Beust's speech ; that is, it fell per cent. when the extract from the Ilrezp Free Press was published, and it regained when it was announced that the speech had been largely " edited " before it was submitted to the public. But though the exact expressions attributed to the Austrian Chancellor appear to have been elaborated by the Vienna newspaper, the substantial fact remains : Austria must have a war army of 800,000 men. The Austrian forces have been reduced to a peace footing since 1866, but in case of hostilities Baron Beust declares that nothing less than 800,000 will suffice. This is not to be wondered at. The example of increasing armaments was not set by Austria, and if her neighbours arm she must do the same. The French official papers, doubtless self•con victed on this point, are endeavouring to attenuate the import of this step on the part of Austria ; but beyond the assertion that the state of Europe is perfectly satis• factory, and that the Austrian policy is peace, they have no comfort to offer the anxious public. ' ANCIENT GREECE. A letter from Athens announces that a Greek peasant has discovered the remains of the cemetery belonging to the city which formerly occupied the site of the village of Idalion. Search has been made, and several tombs have been found in perfect condition, containing quantities of jewels, gold and silver coins, &c. A little deeper, more tombs, bearing Phcenician inscriptions, were found, besides statues, bas-reliefs, vases in glass and marble, weapons, and ornaments. (From the Anglo-America n Times.) The President, by proclamation, dated October 12, has named the 26th of November as Thanks giving-Day. The proclamation was published with the great Republican victory in the elections on the 13th inst., an .1 the language of the President is made not only to appear as if designed to com memorate that• event, but is called prophetic. These are the words : " We are permitted to hope that long protracted politi cal wad sectional dissensions are, at no distant day, to give place to returning harmony and fraternal affection throughout the Republic.. Many foreign States have entered into liberal arrangements with us, while nations, which are far off, and which heretofore have been unsocial and exclusive, have become our friends." An order of the President, signed by Gen. Grant, has not, however, been so well received. He therein calls the attention of ar ny officers to the provisions of the Constitution a ithorising the Presidential election, ant the sectiai prohibiting any interfer ence by officers of the army or navy. The Order cites Acts of Congress passed' before, but not after, 1865 relative to the duty of soldiers in Presidential elections. Mr. Johnson's ignoring the Reconstruction Acts has furnished matter for comment, and General Grant is advised to issue a like Order, continuing the ci tations of law from 1865 to the present, together with th 3 Resolutions and Acts of Congress de fining the duties in elections of the General in-Chief and the army. The President's in tention is said to have been to • counteract General Reynolds's Order in Texas prohibiting under the Reconstruction Acts and Electoral Col lege Bill the holding of Presidential elections in that State. This order is fortified by a Circular from the Democratic State Committee, urging the citizens to exercise their Constitutional voting right, regardless of Governors and military commanders. Nor can we see why they should be prevented, for Congress can at least respect its own law and not count votes it deems illegal, when received, though journals in England write as if Radical brutality was about to prevent the at present excluded States from voting, even at the point of the bayonet. • But Congress had better look out for its Consti tutional rights—for there is a man in a newspaper office in New York who may interpht those rights to be wrongs; and then the legislative body may in deed beware " If he" (Grant) says this newspaper ogre, " Brick Pomeroy," " is elected by unfair means, or by the use of illegal power—if he does not receive a majority of the three hundred and seven teen votes of the Electoral College, fairly cast-- if he seeks to override a majority in America, he dies before his term of office shall one-fourth expire, and the party that would thus unjustly elevate him to puwer shall be strangled in the blood it cries for." Still it may be satisfactory to Grant, as the threat ened incoming President, to know that his outgoing predecessor is also in danger. The Washington Evening Express cline out thus in a large beading : " Highly Important, Startling, and True ! A Plot to Assassinate President Johnson ! ! Fifty negroes and three white men sworn to kill the President." The Express says that an employe in the Treasury Department has ex posed the plot, which has been arranged since the Im peachment Trial." Of course Gen. Butler is associated in the plot, as no conspiracy scene could be perfect unless' that gentleman acted a character in the play. This is, however, of a more bogus nature than even those of his manufacture, and has excited little interest. A telegram from America, dated last Sunday, reports a serious accident as having occurred in New York upon the railway crossing the Hudson River. The accident was caused by a broken rail. The train ran off the track, and the carriages were greatly damaged. Three persons have been killed and 30 wounded. We hail one move of the South towards pushing their material interests, which will be found to be much wiser than spouting politics or shooting Biggers. The Southern Convention in Norfolk on ThurSday, the 15th October, opened a subscription for $300,000 for a line of steamships between Nor folk and Europe. Norfolk subscribed $50,000, Nashville $25,000, and Petersburgh $20,000. The tobacco planters met the next night to consider the propriety of subscribing $lOO,OOO. The delegates went on an excursion to Fortress Monroe on the 16th of October. The meeting of the 'Washington Cabinet on the 16th inst. was unusually long, when questions re lating to Spain, to the Canadian treaty, and to the despatches received from his Excellency Reverdy Johnson, were supposed to have been discussed. General Hale's first telegram announcing the Spa nish revolution is dated San Sebastian, Sept. 30th, 1868, after the flight of the Queen for France. To this Seward replied, " Keep me well advised." The Minister's next was from Madrid, and iu reply be was directed to recognize the new Government, so as to carry on the business of the Embassy. Gen. Hale then announced that he had recognized the Provisional Government, and at the same time a communication from that Government came through the Minister of Spin, at Washington, thanking the United States for its prompt recogni tion. 'I his was reciprocated in the President's name, with the best wishes of the United States, for the peace, prosperity, and happiness of Spain. Speaker Colfax and Senator Wade met Congress on the 16th October. From the dome over each of the Chambers, as usual on the opening of the Session, the Stars and Stripes floated. Less than a dozen mem bers were in the Home ; among them Messrs. O'Neill, Lincoln, Beck, Kitchen, Cavanagh, and French were noticed. The hall was completely furnished for the winter session, but the desks, chairs, and carpets had been taken out of the Senate Chamber, which looked dre.iry enough with its three Senators, Cameron, Cole, and Patterson of Tennessee. The President called the Senate to order, and after a blessing had been asked for the Senators at work there and among the people, an adjourn ment was declared till the 10th November. The proceedings were similar in the House, the chap lain thanking God for the evidence of right minedness prevailing over the land. Both Col fax and Wade were warmly greeted. The former looked as brown as a nut after his expedition to the Rocky Mountains. He said that he had been informed by a despatch roin Indiana that not less than 5,000 voters had been imported by the Democrats from Kentucky, and 10,000 more naturalized, the knowledge of which, and the doubtful character in consequence given to the State, had forced him to take to the stump. He had a pleasant conversation with Beck, of Kentucky, to whom he said, " I hear you are about changing your candidates." " Oh, I don't know," answered Beck. "I am inclined to think with Lincoln that it is bad policy swapping horses when you are crossing the stream." "But," said the Speaker, " what will you do with all your Sey mour and Blair banners, &c., if you change candi dates ?" " Oh," said Beck, laughingly, but with a meaning shake of the head, " I'm afraid we shall have to get rid of a good many other things as well as our banners." Senator Wade seemed in excel lent spirits, and pooh-poohed the idea of the new Democratic programme in his usual emphatic way. " The Democratic party," he said, " must change their principles as well as their candidates before they can win." Colfax took the train on the even ing of the 16th for Indiana, via New York. The Fenians do not seem to be in the ascendant, as their candidate, Mr. William E. Robinson, whom the New York Tribune terms " the nzost devoted and faithful Fenian in Congress," was on the 16th inst. refused a re-nomination. Indeed the name of this "faithful Fenian" was not even mentioned, while General Sl.ocum was nominated with acclamation by the Democrats. It is rich to hear the leading organ of the ruling party discuss the " devoted and faithful Fenian" as a member of the United States Legislature, when we shall probably have that con sistent journal boiling over with rage at Mr. Laird's audacity in dining at the same table with the Ame rican Minister. What is sauce for the goose is by no means sauce for the gander with this impartial authority. The representative of a secret organi zation formed in the United States for waging war against a friendly nation is " devoted and faithful" —but what is the builder of the Alabama? It is a pity that the New York Tribune cannot write in a more dignified tone, and express something higher than pothouse politics. General Sherman and the Indian Peace Com mission met at Chicago, when resolutions were passed recommending immediate arrangements for furnishing food, clothing, and protection to all friendly Indians located on reservations ; this granted, then that the policy of Government to wards the others should be changed. Henceforth the Commissioners advise that the Indians shall not be recognized as independent nations, but that each should be held to an individual responsibility to the Government ; that force be employed if neces sary to compel their location upon reservations, there to be fed and protected ; and further that the Indian Bureau to be transferred to the War Department. Colonel Tappan of the Commission wanted a resolution passed that the depredations committed by several members of the various tribes do not justify the declaration of war against those tribes, or the abrogation of their treaties ; but no one but Col. Tappan himself voted for it. If the wise recommendations of the Commissioners are followed the best thing will be done for the country as well as for the Indians themselves. General Alfred Sully, General L. P. Bradley, Gene ral William 11. Penrose, Colonel Baukhead, and Lieutenant Colonel Royal, at the head of five columns, are preparing to move against the Indians in different directions, covering in their operations the territory between the Smoky Hill and Republi can Forks on the north, and the Cimarro and Canadian rivers on the south. General Custer, some time since suspended, has been restored to command, and accompanies Sully. The columns will co-operate, those of Sully and Penrose, composed wholly of cavalry, being directed against the Indian families who rest in a deceptive security, while those of Royal and Bankhead, of the same branch of the service, will attack the warriors on the war-path. It is a terrible necessity which impels the United States to such a warfare, but they have no other course, and the chances are that the Indians have by this time bitter reason to rue, having commenced a game which, however dreadful to their enemy, is simply annihilation to themselves. The American Minister has accepted an invita tion to a public dinner from the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, to be given on Wednes day, the 2d of Deestnber, and he has accepted an invitation to dine with the Sheriffs of London at their inauguration banquet on Wednesday next at Haberdashers' Hall, Gresham-street. On the 231 instant his host, Mr A. H. Brown, asked a number of gentlemen to meet him ; the evening of the 24th, and Sunday, the 25th, was spent at Knowsley with the Earl of Derby and Lord Stanley. On Monday he was entertained by the Mayor of Liverpool, Wr. Whitley, when Mr. Johnson said thatthe differdnees between his coun try and this were trifling in comparison with what they had paled through iu America, yet the North and South were now intimate:friends. He had not come to England to foster animosities, nor did he fear censure for being friendly to those before re garded as enemies. He believed all pending ques tions would be adjusted ere the retirement of Lord Stanley, the most indefatigably industrious man he knew ; he pictured the benefits of free labour, and predicted that the South would yet double its greatest growth hitherto of cotton. The werl I would learn from the conduct of the two nation , , that friendly relations could be substituted for war by honest diplomacy. "What his country would think of his manner of executing his mission he could not tell; though he sanguinely b his policy would be approved, he would ac cept censure with Christian resignation. We are just as much puzzled on this subject as his Excel lency, and though we see several points in his favour, still the current is now against him. The first. point is the admiration Americans always feel for " pluck" and decision ; the second, - that the ruling party will be in too good a humour to quarrel over so small a matter ; the third is, that they have a'- ready abused his Excellency to their hearts' c )a tent; but our strongest reason is oar belief that Mr. Johnson is essentially in the right. A difficulty lies occurred in the contract for carrying the mails between the furthest point reached by the cars of the Union Pacific Railroad and the furthest point reached by the cars of the Central Pacific Railroad. It appears that two contractors offered ; the one at $350,000 was accepted, and the other at $1,055,000 was declined. The man who furnished the lower tender soon c)m pletely broke down, when it was handed over to the higher bidder, Wells, Fargo, and Co. The Post office agent at Salt Lake City telegraphs that that company only can perform the service, but they insist on a definite and immediate accept ance of their own terms. The arrangement is temporary, while they desire that it should ex tend over the period until the completion of the railroad. As they are in working order along the line they are prepared, while a new contractor would about have his arrangements completed by the time the railroad was opened. Among the many candidates Brigham Young holds a promi nent place. The break down is owing to the legis lation of Congress, which after the contract had been issued, and Mr. Spaid's bid accepted, altered the postage regulations, which confined stamped matter to letters. By this the expense was enor mously increased, though no appropriation had been made to meet it, the tender being calculated on Spaid's terms, without considering the changed conditions. General Hooker has been placed on the retired list in consequence of wounds received in action, of which one was in leading his corps at the battle of Antietam, where the desperate struggle occurred between his divisions and those commanded by Stonewall Jackso❑ ; he will retain his full pay and rank. General Sibley has forwarded to General Howard additional affidavits respecting the Camilla riot, which confirm the first report. General Han cock returned to Washington, Oct. 15. His health is much improved, though he still suffers from his wounds received during the civil conflict. He called on the President and the Secretary of War. The monument to Gen. Sedgwick at West Point was about to be dedicated; Mr. George W. Curtis delivering the address. This renowned officer commanded the Sixth Corps, which attained under his lead a celebrity which will make it known to distant ages. He fell among the myriads of brave men who died on the countless battle-fields between Washington and Richmond. In compliance with the request of Governor Boreman, the President has instructed General Hancock to furnish such troops from the Department of Washington as can be spared for duty in West Virginia. Company 11, Twelfth U.S. Infantry, has already been sent to Philippa, West Virginia. The President has recognised George W. Gibbs as Consul of Turkey at San Francisco, and John 0. Nixon Consul of Turkey at New Orleans ; William Grange as Consul of Turkey at Baltimore, and Adalbert Celestin Doisy as Consular Agent of Italy at Cincinnati. Secretary M , Calloch has ap pointed Thomas R. Laird to be Supervisor of Vir ginia and West Virginia, upon the nomination of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. As we anticipated, Solicitor Binckley has got himself into trouble by his attack oo Commissioner Rallins, as well as those who aided hin. He has violated in advertently a provision of the Internal Revenue law, which renders him liable to fine and imprison ment, and proceedings have been taken against him. M'ldenry, the principal witness in the case, has been indicted for perjury ; Fitch, who worked it up is confined in New York jail, and Moore has also been imprisoned, charged with embezzling Govern ment funds. The end of this attempt to show up fraud is not encouraging, and the " ring" must have heartily rejoiced that Binckley, to use a vulgar saying, had " got the wrong sow by the ear," and has come to grief. Under a decision of Attorney General Evarts, brandy distilled from grapes, apples and peaches, has been exempted from the payment of the $4OO special revenue tax. Mr. Van Dyke, the Sub-Treasurer at New York, notwithstanding his assertion that the means used by the Treasury for the disposal of gold are the best yet devised has so far given way to the clamour lately raised against the Treasury as to offer for sale certain quantities of gold during specified periods to the highest bidder. On the 13th Octo ber a Treasury notice appeared that the Assistant Secretary would for each of the ten ensuing busi ness days receive tenders for the purchase of $300,000 gold coin, each bid to be accompanied by three per cent. of its amount in currency, to be de posited at the office between 11 and 12 o'clock, at which latter hour the gold would be delivered to the highest bidders, but no tender was to be received for less than $5,000. On the 14th many firms sent n offers, which aggregated $3,330,000, at prices varying from 136 to 137 ; whether this system will answer remains to be seen, but it is to say the least advisable to try it. We overlooked a letter which we ought to have published last week, which the Secretary of the Treasury addressed to a house of business in New York, and which appeared in the Wall-Street Jour nal, Oct. 10 : "Treasury Department, Oct. 6, 1868. " Sir,—l am in receipt of your favour of the sth inst., inquiring 'if there is any doubt about the United States Bonds, Sixes of 1881, being paid in gold, principal and interest?' In reply T would oay that it has been the in variable practice of the Government to pay, both the principal and interest of the bonds of the United States, in coin, as they respectively matured, and I know of no rea son why a different course should ba pursued in regard to the bonds of 1881. "11. 111‘Otrixoctr, Secretary." The conditions of the bonds mentioned in the letter are the same as those of the Five-twenties. [ADvEnTisEmENT.] --Holloway's Pills.—The slightest indisposition, to prevent it rapidly running from bad to worse, demands attention before the winter fairly sets in. A few doses of these thoroughly purifying and strengthening pills will always be beneficial when the least disorder reigns or when nervous fears oppress. Two or three pills at bed time have the happiest effect in promoting perfect digestion, whereby the muscles are rendered more vigorous, the spirits more buoyant, and the entire frame more hardy. Holloway's medicine raises the standard of the digestive apparatus to its highest pitch, by regulating ang stimulating every org .n for the concoction of eac h meal, an thus this excellent corrective increases the quantity o f nutriment derivable from a given quantity of food. nvgansEstsrlr J— Consumption, and all nervous, bilious. stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea , allgastric derange ments, hasmorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu• rides, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders. ,&c We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pro laced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi,' July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.— Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Be ware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., 11s. ; 12 lbs, 225.; 241bs ,40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABIOA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cups at 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 6s.;for 288 cups at 305., for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt Post Office Orden—BAßßY DU BARRY and Co., NO. 77, AegentrotrOoti 1 4 1 20 1 1 ekrtnero and Oliemiata. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. (From time Anglo-American Times.) Next Tuesday will be a great thy in the United States, for however certain of victory the Republi cans may be, a President cannot be elected, and the mass of the State tickets, as well as the Legisla tures, both Federal and State, without a scene of intense excitement. Elections in England are tame iu comparison, for the English do not cast their votes for the Sovereign ; for both Houses of Parliament ; for Mayors and Corporations, for Ministers of State, Lord Lieutenants, and other officers of counties ; nor do nearly all the posts in the kingdom hinge on the majorities rolkLl off. If not only the heads of the several depart ments, but all the clerks remained oa the tip toe of expectation, as the &flees from which they derive their daily bread are in jeopardy, awaiting the result of the ballot—if the Government of India and the colonies—if Irish dis ffection the Irish Church—if the whole system of taxation and a reform of the Civil Service were the questions involved, then Englishmen might begin to under stand the cause for this climax of excitement. It is acknowledged that the Englishman is morn phlegmatic, neither so imaginative, nor of so ex citeable a temperament, as his American cousin. While, then, every stimulant—not omitting an enormous consumption of whisky—is applied to a comparatively explosive material, it would indeed be strange if it did not result in a "blow-up" which can here be but little imagined. The October elections have, however, taken much of the bitterness out of the contest, which might otherwise have become positively dangerous. Supposing Grant and Colfax's election to be con ceded, there will still remain for decision questions of vast public interest. Of these, the chief centres in the Empire State. There was a time when no one dreamt that Democratic candidate could there be defeated ; now Mayor Hoffman is by no means so certain. indeed, great anxiety is felt, and although we believe that the Democrats w ill carry New York, it is possible they may be defeated, and this possibility causes uneasiness. New York is, in truth, an Empire State. In popu lation, in wealth, and in all the attributes of a powerful nation it is in advance of any other political community on the American continent. lts great city, ranking third in the world, in itself far exceeds the whole population on the Pacific coast, from Sitka to the south of Southe rn Cali fornia, and back to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is the American gate to the At lantic, whence radiates, and to which centres a commerce second to none. We need not then be surprised when the government of such a State is in question, independently of its influence on the Union, that the result should be looked to with im mense interest. On the 13th and 14th October 138,000 names were recorded; 83,000 on the 13th, which was increased by the 15th to 92,669, while 46,000 had been registered in Brooklyn. In the two days more set apart for registration, it was expected that the number would be doubled' Within the limits of the city it is said the Demo cratic municipal majority would be 90,000, and that a large majority will be cast there, for the Demo cratic ticket is almost certain. B u t th e ques tion is whether the R e p u bli can ma j or iti es i n th e rura l dii tricts may not swamp their opponents' city majo rity, but notwithstanding the shock given to the Democrats by the r esu lt on th e 13th, we thi n k this improbable. " Brick" Pomeroy keeps the steam up admirably, and announced that he would turn his paper into a morning daily after the 24th inst. Although the Democrats will fi g ht for " a place" in the November elections in many States, and carry some, yet the interest of the elections now centres in New York, where the struggle at pre sent progressing must be hard and bitter. THE YORKSHIRE IVOLD TUJIULL The investigations carried on by the Rev. Canon. Greenwell, of Durham, and with him many lead ing archo3)logists of this country, during the last three years, have been brought to a cicse on the North Wold range, between Malton and Scarbo rough, this week, by the opening of the last two barrows that had been previously tampered with by curiosity hunters, who had mostly dug a funnel shaped hole in the centre. Of these many thus im perfectly opened remain, but they are gradually ' disappearing before the modern implements of the farmer, where in fact they are not led wholly away to spread on the fields as " marl." In a few years hence the mounds which for so maul centuries have marked the graves of the Britons will have totally disappeared before the plough and the drag harrow. In order tc rescue from de struction the valuable remains contained in the wold tumuli, Mr. Greenwell intends commencing similar researches on South \Vold range, and it is intended part of this work shall be done during the present year, in the vicinity of Bridlington. Singularly the last two openings near Scarborough were of yell, great interest, the barrows yielding fine samples 0 1 pottery, flint, and stone implements, and numerous burials, all in the contracted way, and interred in all directions. A third barrow, which years ago was opened in the centre by the late Lord Londes borough, yielded a brachycephalic skull of the most perfect type. The last but one of the undisturbed barrows was of 72ft. diameter and 3ft. high, com posed entirely of earth. At the, centre was a grave in the rock, one foot deep, which contained the body of a man, laid on the left side, con tracted, the head being towards S. by E: Before the face of the skeleton was a drinking cup. After the graev had been filled in a layer of very large that stones had been laid, and over them a large quantity of charcoal just at the level of the natural surface. Over this was a bed of clay, and upon that a bed of small flints, then the earth of the barrow. This was the only burial. In the materials, carelessly tbrowa in, were a few potsherds, several flint scrapers, and a most beautiful gouge of indurated clay shale, 7in. long. This instrument had its cutting edge perfect, and had a polish fine as glass over the whole surface. The last barrow proved one of the most interesting of the whole series, having both in humed, cremated, and disturbed interments. The tumulus was 3ft. high and 64ft, in diameter, and, formed of earth. At the centre was a large oval grave, 8f t. by 7f t., and 5f t. deep, dug into the c halk,. which had been filled in with chalk and earth In separate masses. The grave was E. and W. . 1 " the bottom, nearly at the north side, was the con' tracted skeleton of a woman; on the left side, with the head to E.S.E., and both hands up to the face. This was the only body in the grave which had not been disturbed. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Eroung. Amsterdam Short ... 11 181 ~. 11 181 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 0 ... 12 1 Antwerp — ... 25 321 ... 25 371 Brussels Hamburgh — ... 13 91 ... 13 10 Paris Ditto Mraseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 119 k ... 1201 Vienna — ... 11 8U ... 11 85 Trieste — ... 11 80 ... 11 85 Petersburg Copenhagen — ~ 9 2U ... 9 23 Berlin 47i POI% Madrid.. Cadiz — Leghorn Milan — ... 27 30 27 40 Genoa — ... 27 30 ::: 27 V Naples Palermo — ... 27 30 ... 27 40 Messina Lisbon — 521 Oporto — ... 521 Rio Janeiro ~, isiow York ... SOP Births. BEADON— On the 28th Oct., at Cirencester, Lady Beadoo , of a son. DAVIS—On the 29th Oet., at Upper Bedford-p!ace, Russell square, Mrs. N. Davis, of a daughter. FANE—On the 29th Oct., at Norfolk-crescent, Mrs. NV 4I/ * Fane, of a son. Marriages. CLOW—GRAVES —On the 29th Oct, at MaryleboueChur ebt Joseph Charles Clow, of Avenue Villa, North-gate, Re gent's-park, to Caroline Elizabeth Graves, of Gloucester place, Portman-square. MELLOR —SHAW—On the 29th Oct., at St. John's, ri" 1 :: dington, James R. Mellor, of the Inner Temple, thira son of the Hon. Mr. Justice Mellor, to Anne Jane, eld_ef daugiiter of Thomas Shaw, Esq., of 16, Hyde-parlc square. Deaths. Curerms- 7 0n the 28th Oct., at Bath, Frances, WidOW of Edward Ourteis, Esq., aged 97. CIIAPMAN—On the 28th Oct., J. Chapman, Esq., of 7, Or °s- venor-road, London, and the Chilterns, Weston Dix ville, Bucks. DODSON—On the 29th Oct., Ann, the wifo of Hy. Do ds°. Esq., 4, Manor-place, Brixton, aged 78. MORRIS—On the 30th Oct., at Maida-hill, Henry Ar °rrig ' Esq., aged 77. TURNER -On the 30th Oot., at Acton, Henry Scott Turiler' Esq., aged 59. 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