The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS. The Timef remarks that a man is commonly appointed ,to a post for one of three reasons. Sometimes it is . .because he is fit for it. Sometimes it because it is necessary that he should be removed from the position he has hitherto occupied. Sometimes it is because he has a wish to be, promoted and a power to enforce his wish which cannot be resisted. To which of these reasons can we possibly attribute the nomination of Lord Mayo to India ? Can it be said that he is the man of all men to be Indian Minister ? Will any one pretend that he cannot be kept at the Irish Dice? Is there any suggestion that he insists upon going to India, and cannot be gainsayed? Lord Mayo is generally popular, but hardly possesses strength of mind sufficient for the Governor -Generalship. The Viceroy is the greatest poten tate of our time. There is only one person whose power can be put in comparison with his, and that is the Czar of All the Russias ; but the Czar has no such population subject to his sway ; and his power, autocratic as it is, is practically limited by more potent forces than any which control the Governor-General. The Emperor of China nominally bears rule over greater numbers, but his power is apparent rather than real. It is needless to recapitulate the proofs that the Emperor of the French is again and again restrained from pursuing the policy which in his conscience he believes the best for his people. The Viceroy of India is invested with greater powers than any of these potentates. He has a foreign and a domestic policy, both of which take their shape from himself. That immense dependency, which is the wonder of the world, the greatest monument of our national capacity, is environed by nationalities of all degrees of civilisation. The Indian Viceroy is bound to deter mine separately the course of his Government towards each of them. He must range in thought from Persia to Thibet— nay, ho must have respect to the condition of China, for upon it depends the maintenance of an essential part of the revenue of the Indian Empire. He must be prepared to withstand by sheer force of character the promptings of the men who will surround him—who will possess a far more intimate knowledge of the several countries with which he will have to deal than he can hope to command. The Times concludes by a powerful appeal both to the Premier and Lord Mayo, and, without presuming to name a candidate for the honour, is of opinion that there is more than one person among Mr. Disraeli's associates who would be worthy of the office. The opinion of the Herald is, that whatever may be the certainty or uncertainty to be attached to the rumour that Mr. Disraeli has made choice of the Earl of Mayo to succeed Sir John Lawrence, there can be no doubt of this, that Lord Mayo's antecedents in this country are quite as good as were those of many who have from time to time been sent out to fill the office of Governor-General of India. The Herald alludes with satisfaction to the Irish policy of Lord Mayo, and finds in his character unfailing energy ; continued, untiring application ; the highest capacity for the dis charge of the duties of his office ; intimate knowledge of the conditions, wants, and prejudices of the Irish people ; and, above and beyond all, in dangerous and difficult times, in the exercise of power, conduct at once firm and humane. Mr. Disraeli is recommended to disregard the strictures of the Saturday .Rerielc, and is reminded that Lord Monck was abused by that paper in 1861, and that its remarks have not been justified by the results of his appointment. The Post draws attention to Mr. Forster's words at Bradford. " Mr. Disraeli has done the work of the Radi cals, and Radicalism has gained more than almost words can express." It is certainly not often that such a com pliment (if it be a compliment) can be with sincerity paid by one political opponent to another, and it is worth while to consider how it has come to pass that the leader of the Conservative party has merited such an eulogium from one entertaining such extreme Liberal views as the favourite representative of the working men of Bradford. Of the nature and the necessary results of the Reform Act no two different opinions can exist, although it may suit some to extol it as a truly Conservative measure, whilst others, with more apparent justice, point to it as a Radical triumph. It has extended the franchise farther than the Liberal party in the preceding year intended it should go ; it has vastly increased the electoral body; it has abolished—at least in borcughs—the " hard and fast line," and has conferred upon all who pay rates the privilege of recording their votes at the polling-booths. Mr. Forster has done good service to the Liberal party in nnfolding the tactics pursued by the leader of the Conservative party in connection as well with the Reform Bill as with the Irish Church question. If the former had been the spontaneous act of the present Government, and if its provisions expressed the convictions of the various members of the present Cabinet, then indeed the Conservative chief might with fairness appeal to the grati tude of those electors who have been newly created as well as to those who have hitherto advocated the cause of Reform. But it is obvious that with all his versatility Mr. Disraeli cannot be p:rmitted to blow hot and cold. If he seeks the support of the Liberal party on the ground that his policy has been Liberal, he must pledge himself to pursue with consistency the course which, as he pretends, he has ini tiated, and carry out the behests of his supporters. The confessed mistake which Mr. Disraeli made in attach ing himself to the Conservative party is making itself snore and more manifest every day. On the other hand, it must he confessed that few men would have con ceived his peculiar mode of correcting that mistake, much less have been rewarded with partial success. Instead of crossing the House of Commons and taking his seat by the side of Mr. Bright, Mr. Disraeli formed the bold idea of educating his followers to such a point that Mr. Bright might, with the most perfect consistency, have taken his seat amongst them ; and were it not for this most unlucky question of the Irish Church, the success of the experiment would have been unequivocal. The Daily News alludes to one of those social experi ments on which all who are concerned in the relations between capital and labour look with warmest interest. It may be remembered that two years ago, Messrs. Briggs, of the Whitwood and Methley Collieries, worn out with a long series of disputes with their workmen, and reduced to a point when the question lay only between closing their pits altogether or introducing some totally new system, made the proposal of an arrangement for co-operative working. They offered to the mer that, after providing for wages at the current rate, after paying all other expenses, and after securing a rate of 10 per cent. interest on the capital sunk, the surplus profits should be annually ascertained and divided equally between masters and men. It was also proposed that such of the men as thought fit might put their own small savings into the concern and become shareholders. The proposal was discussed and accepted, and it has now been acted on for two years. The second general meeting of the new firm—Messrs. Henry Briggs, Son, and Company (Limited)—was held on Monday last, and the balance-sheet for the year was submitted. It was highly satisfactory. After paying the 10 per cent. on capital, there was a surplus of 7 per cent. to be divided between capital and labour. Every workman shared in this bonus in proportion to the amount of wages he had received during the year. There were about 1,200 hands em ployed, and there was more than £3,000 to be thus distributed ; therefore there would have been an average of £2 10s. per head, supposing all had equal qualifications and all had worked regularly. As it is, we may presume that the superior skilled workmen received considerably larger sums, and that lads or new hands may have made only a few shillings. But in every case it was pure gain. Those who were shareholders reaped their 13. per cent. interest besides. Those who were not already shareholders were offered a new opportunity of taking shares, and so participating still more largely in future profits. Every one has naturally been satisfied, and strikes have dis• appeared. The Star says of the projected cable between France and America : If we believed that the new scheme would do any injury to the existing company, which under so many discouragements and difficulties solved the problem of submarine telegraphic communication with America, we should be the last to look upon it with favour. But that the limited competition which may arise will be not injurious to either company, and will be favourable to the public, no doubt accounts fur the readiness with which the old staff of the Atlantic cables have agreed to give their experience and assistance to the new undertaking. In fact, so complete is the absorption of the old staff, that the making and laying of the cable will appear a repetition of the performance which so astonished the world, and has already proved of so much commercial and genera] benefit. The new line cannot be completed and laid before next summer, and during that period if the busint se of the old company continues to grow in proportion as it has done hitherto, both of the cables will doubtless be at work, and the present enormous income still further increased. It must be remembered that the annual return of upwards of £lOO,OOO has been gained at a period when business was remarkably flat both in this country and America, and when the whole continent was suffering, if not from a panic, at least from a period of want of confi• deuce and reaction from former excessive speculation. Mr. Mark Firth was on Monday re-elected Master Cutler at Sheffield during the ensuing year. THE BISHOP OF PETEREOROUGH.—TIIO bishop has rallied during the last two days. The acute symptom of heart disease have, to some extent, been relieved, and, although his lordship is still most seriously ill, it is hoped that danger is not now imminent. He derives great beno fit from the air of Whitby. THE MANCHESTER TRAGEDY, The adjourned inquest was held on 'Wednesday on the bodies of the unfortunate persons crushed to death on the night of Friday week, at Lang's Music Hall, Manchester, in consequence of a panic created by a cry of " Fire." Police-constable Leicester, who was on duty on the evening in question near the music hall, said he heard a noise of some persons shouting. He and Constable Birkett went together to the hall, and forced their way through the crowd, and were told that there was a fire upstairs. There was a stream of people coming out of the door, and several were getting out of the windows facing Victoria-street. Was about five minutes in getting to the foot of the stone staircase where the ticket collector stood. At that point there are two staircases — one going into the pit, and the other into the gallery. At the bottom of the stone steps of the gallery staircase he saw a crowd lying down. They were piled up on one another as far as he could see. He and Birkett tried to release them, and sent for assistance. As fast as they recovered those who were trampled upon they handed them to assistants, who took the bodies away, and conveyed them in cabs to the Royal Infirmary. He and Birkett removed between thirty and forty, most of whom appeared to be unconscious. That occupied about twenty minutes. Went upstairs, and found on the landing of the fire gallery, where the chief crushing had occurred, three or four persons lying down, and also three or four on the stage, all apparently dead. Mr. Clifford and some of the singers were attending to them. He had them taken downstairs, and thence to the infirmary. Went over the building, and perceived a strong smell of gas. The bottom part of one of the gas pendants near the stage had been broken off, and the end of the pipe plugged. The building was very much crowded at the time of the accident. About a quarter of an hour before the alarm was given be saw 200 or 300 persons in front of the building, some of whom complained that they had paid their money, but could not get in. The steps were narrow at the bottom. The staircase was the only means of egress from the two galleries. There was an elbow or angle at the top of the stone stairs, which made it very difficult for the crowd to get down. The middle of the staircase at the angle was about Mt., the uniform width from top to bottom. Michael Donnelly, manager of the entertainments at the Victoria Music Hall, said that about 2,000 persons were admitted on the night of the accident. At a certain point, when a sufficient number had been admitted, the ticket-office was closed and further admissions were refused. He was downstairs when the alarm was given, and all was over before he was able to force his way in. All that had been done since was to make the railing so strong as not to be broken down by any pressure. The passage between the railings and the wall was a little over 4ft. wide ; from wall to wall the width was about Bft. He thought four might walk abreast down the steps. The hall, under ordinary circum stances, might be cleared in ten minutes. William Lang, part owner of the Victoria Music Hall, and a civil engineer, said he was simply the owner, and had no control over the performances. He never heard of any accident from crowding on the premises. He measured the staircase, and found the stone steps Mt. wide, and the wooden steps 4ft. llin. He had heard that the rails on the staircase had broken before. Should be glad to de anything which the jury might recommend to promote the safety of the build ing. There was another staircase, which did not appear to have been used on that cecasion. It was not generally used, and he did not know whether it was always kept open. It connected the galleries with the pit. It was a circular well staircase. After some additional evidence, in the course of which an architect who was examined .tated that the building would not seat more than 700 persons, the coroner summed up, and the jury came to a verdict of accidental death, at the same time expressing an opinion that the staircase and handrails were quite insufficient fora place where such large audiences assembled, and that suitable provision should at once be made for the safety of future audiences. They further recommended that power should be given to the corporation to appoint an officer to inspect theatres, music halls, and places of a similar description, and that no licenses should be granted to the lessees of such buildings unless they could provide properly for the public safety. LAW AND POLICE. DEFAMINC.' CHARACTER.-At the Gloucester Assizes an action was brought by Mr. Powell, a commercial traveller, against Mr. llawkes, who manages an extensive malt business. It seemed that during the last Cheltenham election party ran high, and the defendant circulated some bills about the town stating that the plaintiff and another person named Atkinson had been convicted at New castle of riding in a first-class carriage whereas they had only paid for a second clas, and had been fined for the offence. A number of these bilks had been circulated in Cheltenham, and half a dozen actions had been brought by the plaintiff against parties who had published the libel, but the other defendants had compromised by paying the costs. The defendant, it was alleged, had circulated a number of these bills after the plaintiff had contradicted the charges in them. The jury awarded £5O damages. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON A FAMILY AT ExErEu.—Wm. John Hoare, a respectably-connected lad, 11 years of age, was charged with attempting to poison Mr. W. Gilbert, of the Hommopathic Hospital in that city. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Gilbert, cor roborated by other persons, that the accused was under notice to leave. On the family taking breakfast on Tues day morning they discovered that something was the matter with the tea—it tasted sharp and pungent, and was very nauseous. Mr. Gilbert examined the water in the kettle, and found it the same as that in the teapot—it was of a yellowish colour. He then tested it with lime water, and discovered the presence of oxalic acid. In a wine glass of the water there were six or seven grains of the acid. A little girl, Mary Harding, had made the tea with the water from an iron kettle in the kitchen. It was shewn that the prisoner had access to this kettle during the absence of the girl from the kitchen, and that in his care in the " snuggery " room was placed a bottle of oxalic acid for cleaning the brasses of the shop. The bottle was labelled "Poison ;" the liquid which it contained was suffil cient to poison six or seven persons. The kettle had been filled by the girl from the tap in the scullery, but the tap water on examination proved to be perfectly wholesome. Mr. Superintendent Steel applied for a remand, in order that the water might be analysed by Mr. Herepath, of Bristol. The magistrate accordingly granted a remand. CONVICTION OF SHEFFIELD TRADES UNIONISTS. - At the Leeds Assizes, John Sheridan, Isaac Morton alias Hall, Henry Hineheliffe, Edward Beebe, James Butler, Alfred Staley, Joseph Armstrong, and Daniel Sanderson were indicted for unlawfully conspiring to injure James Powell in his trade of a mason and builder, by molesting, obstructing, and using threats and intimidation to such workmen as might be willing to be hired and employed by the said James Powell ; and also prejudicing, injuring, and oppressing the said James Powell in his said trade, and preventing certain workmen of the said James Powell from continuing to work for him, at Sheffield, on the 15th April and on other dates, The prosecutor was a mason, and carried on his business in a manner that does not seem to have gained the approval of his men, who struck and left. Some " free labour " men were had from London, and worked for Mr. Powell. A few days after their arrival the defendants met the men and said that Powell's was a " black " job, and they ought not to work there, and after wards a bill was pcsted telling the masons not to work at the prosecutor's. The evidence pointed clearly to Hind:. cliffe, Armitage, and Sanderson, who were found guilty, and the remainder of the prisoners were acquitted. ACTION AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY.-At the same assizes the jury awarded £5O in the case of Brearly v. the Great Northern Railway Company. The plaintiff, a plate layer, sought compensation for having been run over at the end of a tunnel near the Bradford Station of the Lan cashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, on the 15th of January. MURPHY'S LECTURES. —Eight young lads, named William Mansfield, David Greenwood, George Bunting, Levi Bennett, Nathaniel Taylor, Thomas Lever, George Howarth, and Thomas Hatton, were indicted for, together with other persons, riotously, " routously," and tumultuously assembling, to the disturbance of the public peace ; for beginning to demolish and destroy St. Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel; for breaking and enter ing the said chapel, and stealing one crucifix and other fixtures and ornaments, the prorerty of one Robert Hilton ; and for wilfully committing damage in the said chapel to the amount of £5O. This was another case arising out of Murphy's lectures. Five hundred persons assembled on the Dunkinfield, and rushed into the Roman Catholic chapel, mutilated an image of the Virgin Mary, and committed other excesses. The jury after hearing the evidence returned a verdict of not guilty. THE MURDER BY A SOLDIER.—At the Gloucester Assizes, John Maskell l a private of the 3rd Buffs, was indicted for the wilful murder of Roliert Sy non, at Horfield. On the day in question the accused complained to hi 3 officer about being overcharged for a letter. Soon after several shots were heard, and ware folud to have been fired by the prisoner. The people in the barrack square ran out, and the deceased, with Priva'e L3wis, was retreating to some steps opposite the sergeant's mess, when the latter fell, and the next mom(nL, j Ist, as Synon had passed him and was going up the steps, another shot was fired, and Synon fell dead. The prlroner was seized and put into confinement. The jury, after hearing evidence of the friendship that existed between the deceased and the accused, convicted the latter of man• slaughter, and he QrdMd- tune kept iu peu4l:ervitude for ton Yearn, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WOLVERTJAMP TON RACES-WEDNESDAY. The CHILLINGTON STAKES of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 100 added, for two-year-olds ; colts, Bst 10 - th ; fillies and geldings, Bst 71b ; winners once in the present year 31b, twice 51b extra ; maidens having started three times al lowed 31b ; the second to save his stake ; T.Y.C. (straight half mile) ; 26 subs. Mr Lincoln's Melody, by Macaroni—Nightingale, Sat 121 b (inc 51b extra)..... (Kenyon) 1 Mr Fleene's Luna, Bst 41b • G-^d. ' -'s Perfume, Bst 121 b (inc Sib ex)...(Lynch) 3 Mr Uoodwin The following also ran :—Tim Bobbin and Abyssinia. Betting-65 to 40 on Melody, 9to 4 agst Perfume, 10 to 1 agst Luna, 100 to 8 " bar three." Won cleverly by half a length. Borough Members' Plato of 60 soya, added to a Handi cap of 7 sous each, 4 ft; winners of any race after July 23 71b, of two or more 10113 extra; straight half mile ; 10 subs. Mr Wright's Venturer, by Acrobat—Varna, 5 yrs, Sat 91b (Peppier) 1 Mr Wright's Bouquetiere, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (inc 71b ex) (Clement) 2 Mr Barber's Susan, 4 yrs, 6st 111 b (Ciradwell) 3 Lady of Croome also ran. Betting - 5 to 4 on Venturer, 7 to 4 agst Lady of Croome, 7to 1 " bar two." Won in a canter by three lengths. The Stamford Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 100 added, for three year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 71b; the winner of this stake in 1867 51b extra ; maiden three year olds allowed 71b, untried 31b ; the second to save his stake; one mile and a half; 51 subs. Mr Hodgman's Vex, by Vedette—Flying Dueness, 3 yrs, Bst 71b Mr Naylor's Lady Highthorn, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (T. Chaloner) 2 Mr Ston's Ottoman, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (Kenyon) 3 Mr Barber's William, 3 yrs, Bst 31b (Payne) 4 Betting—Even on Lady Highthorn, 5 to 4 agst Vex, 6 to 1 " bar two." Wou by a length. The Holyoake Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sous each, with 50 added; winners of any handicap value 100 soya after August 7, at 10 a.m., 71b., any two such handicaps or one of 500 101 b extra ; the second t) save his stake ; once round (about a mile ani a quarter) ; 10 subs. Mr R. C. Naylor's Wild Briar, by Stockwell—Summer side, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b (Parry) 1 Mr Lincoln's Barnabo, 5 yrs, 7st 61b (Kenyon) 2 Mr Beverley's The Returned, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Fox) 3 East Lancashire and Abbotsford also ran. Betting-6 to 5 agst East Lancashire, 7to 2 agst Wild Briar, 4to 1 agst Barnabo, 5 to 1 agst The Returned. Won by a neck. The Wrottesley Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; two year olds 7bt 81b, three 9st, four 9bt 91b, five and upwards 9st 121 b ; straight half mile. Mr Webb's Alberta, by King Tom—Princess, 5 yrs (£3O), Bst 21b (Payne) 1 Mr W. F. Copeland's St. Valentine, 3 yrs (.C3O), ist 51b (Kenyon) 2 Mr H. C. Naylor's Caroline, 2 yrs (£3O), Est (S. Derling) 3 Mr Beverley's Abyssinia, 2 yrs (£100), 7st 51b (Peppier) 0 Betting-6 to 4on Alberta, 2to 1 agst St. Valentine, 10 to 1 "bar two." Won by half a length. The Cleveland Cup of 100 sovs ; three year olds 7st 71b, four Bst 101 b, five 9st 31b, six and aged 9st 71b ; mares allowed 41b, geldings allowed 71b ; winners extra. ac. ; once round (about one mile and a quarter). 8 subs. Mr B. Osborne's King's Cross, by St. Albans—Eleanor, 4 vrs, Bst 101 b (T. Cbaloner) 1 Mr Bry an'a Runic, 3 yrs, Est 91b (car. fist 111b)(Kenyon) 2 Mr Ilartley's c, by King Tom, dam Priuc, ss, 3 yrs, 7st (Viuell) 3 Betting-5 to 2on King's Cross. Won easily by two lengths. The Shakspere Stakes (Handicap) of 3 sovs each, with 25 added, for all ages ; three-quarters of a mile. Mr Stone's Ambition, by Brother to Bird on the Wing— La B lle Alice, 5 yrs, Bst 71b Mr Wadlow's Gordian Knot, aged, Bst 21b ...(Chaloner) 2 Mr Clayton's Slanderer, 3 yrs, Gat 71b (Fox) 3 Hunter also ran. Betting-5 to 4 agst Gordian Knot-6 to 4 agst Ambi tion, 4to 1 agst Slanderer. Won by a length. BROMLEY SUMMER MEETING-WEDNESDAY. The Railway Plate (Handicap) of 30 sovs ; the winner to be sold for 30 sovs. About five furlongs. Mr E. W. Taylor's Volhynia, by Voivode—Kuustou's dam, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (H. Jackson) 1 Mr F. Master's Weatherbreaker, 3 yrs, 7st (Hardy) 2 Mr Rover's Lady Fly, 3 yrs, tist 61b (tenfold) 3 Lady Ward and Joyful also ran. Betting-6 to son Lady Fly, 2to 1 agst Volhynia, 100 to 8 bar two. Won by four lengths. The Bromley Summer Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft (to the fund), with 50 added; winners of a handicap after Aug. 5, at 6 p.m., 71b extra. Nearly one mile and a half. Mr 11. Temple's Lionel, by Knight of Gwynne—sister to The Nob, 3 yrs, 7st Mr Lapidist's Vampire (11 h), 5 yrs, &3t 121 b (Holt) 2 Mr E. slayer's Isabella, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b (Penfold) 3 ___ _ The following also ran :—Crosslanes c, Lord Paramount, Triana, and Arkadi. BAting,—G to 4 agst Lionel, 5 to 1 azst Triana, 100 to 13 each agst Isabella and Arkaii, and 7 to 1 agst Vampire. Arkadi made play - , followed by Lionel, Lcrd Paramount, and Vampire, Triana next, and the Crosslanes colt, evi dently outpaced, bringing up the rear. No material change occurred till passing the stand, when Lionel assumed the command, the re:,t lying in a cluster, with the exception of the Crosslanes colt, who was still last. On reaching the far side Vampire joined the two leaders, Lionel and Arkadi, Triana being close up, and on entering upon the planta tion beforo the distance Vampire took up the running, having in close attendance Lionel, Arkadi, and Triana ; but, at the distance, Smith gave Lionel his head, when he came away, and won easily by a length and a half, a length intervening between the second and third ; Arkadi was fourth, Triana fifth, and Crosslanes colt last through out. A Welter Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added ; for three year-olds and upwards ; weight for age ; penalties and allowances; gentlemen riders allowed 51b. One mile and a distance. Mr 11. Temple's Fitz-Ivan, by Ivan—Diana, 4 yrs, list 71b (C. Smith) 1 Mr A. Deacon's Peninsula, 3 yrs, 9st lllb (Deacon) 2 Mr Hoiatio's Harold, 5 yrs, lOst 61b (Halley) 3 Mr Robinson's Lady Ward, 3 yrs, lOst 41b (J. Potter) 4 Betting-2 to lon Fitz-Ivan, sto 1 ag-t Peninsula, 6to 1 each agst Lady Ward and Harold. Won in the com monest of canters by tan lengths. The Bickley Stakes of 5 sovs each, 1 ft (to the fund), with 30 added; winners after August 5, at 6 p.m., 71b ; the winner to be sold for 50 soya. About six furlongs. 15 subs. Mr Taylor's Volhynia, 5 yrs, 9st (including 71b extra) (11. Jackson) 1 Mr W. Rover's Inheritance, 3 yrs, ist (Penfold) 2 Mr J. Lowe's Charivari, 3 yrs, 7st (Killick) 3 Tom Coke and Lady Skeynes also ran. Betting—Even on Charivari, 3 to 1 agst Inheritance, 7 to 1 each agst Volhynia and Toni Coke. Won by two lengths. The winner was sold for 106 guineas to Mr H. Temple, and Lady Skeynes was purchased for 19 guineas by Mr W. Johnson. The Stand Plate of 40 sous ; winners extra. About six furlongs. Mr H. Temple's Fitz-Ivan, 4 yrs, 9st 51b (inc. 51b ex.) (C. Smith) 1 Mr Beadman's Barcelona, 2 yrs, 6st 41b (J. Clark) 2 Mr Rover's Lady Fly, 3 yrs, 6:t 41b (Barker) 3 The following also ran:—Arkadi, Queen Ebba, Jennie, and Flash. Betting---5 to 4 agst Fitz-Ivan, 2to 1 aget Barcelona, 7 to 1 agst Arkadi, Bto 1 bar two. Won by a length and a half. A Selling Stakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added, for all ages ; weight for age ; selling and other allowances. About half a mile. Mr Nightingall's Skircble Scamble, by Joskin—Peahen, 2 yrs, (.£6O), Gst 131 b (Wyatt 1 Mr A. Deacon's Peninsula, 3 yrs (X5O), Bst 111 b (Deacon) 2 Mr Knight's Joyful, 2 yrs (£3O), 6st 131 b (Penfold) 3 La - Etase also rau. Betting—Even on Skimble Scamble, 3 to 1 agst Joyful, 4to 1 agst Peninsula. Won by two lengths. STOCKTON MEETING--WEDNESDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; weigh for age ; winner to be sold for 200 sues ; penalties and allowances. One mile. Mr Dawson's Waffles, by Ellington—Olive Branch, 2 yrs, Est 11lb (Hudson) 1 Mr T. V. Morgan's Lord Bothwell, 2 yrs, Est (Wilson) 2 Mr W. Nicholl's Rabbit Trap, 4 yrs, Bst 91b (French) 3 Betting—Even on Waffles, 6to 4 agst Bothwell. Won by a length and a half. The Cleveland Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 80 added, for two year olds; colts Bst 10Ib, fillies and geldings Bst 71b, . . penalties and allowances; second received 20 sows, T.Y.C. 33 subs. Mr Johnstone's Thorwaldsen, by Thormanby—Lady Ripon, Bst 101 b Mr T. V. Morgan's Dryad, Bst 41b (Snowden) 2 Mr F. Gordon's Sunshade, Bst 41b (Cameron) 3 he following also ran : —English Rose colt, Little Duke, Fitzwilliam, and Jeanie Deans. Betting-7 to 4on Thorwaldsen, 4to 1 agst Dryad, 100 to 15 agst Fitzwilliam, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Won cleverly by a neck. Tte Town Plato of 50 sous; winners extra. Half a mile. Mr J. Osborne's Jenny Mills, by the Marquis—Sadie, 3 yrs, Gst 7W (Platt) 1 Mr G Silverside's Progress, 3 yrs, Gst (APE wen, 2 Mr Johnstone's Holstein, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b (Cameron) 3 The following also ran:—Attache, Flying Jib, Thank ful, and 11asterrnap. Betting-6 to son Masterman, 4to 1 agst Flying Jib, 5 to 1 agst Thankful, 6 to 1 agst Attache, 100 to 15 agst Progress, Bto 1 agst Holstein. Won by a neck. The Stockton Tradesmen's Handicap of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 20 soya each, h ft, and 3 if declared, winners extra; second received 25 sovs. Two miles. 58 subs, 20 of whom paid 3 sovs each. Mr Watt's Strathconan, by Newminster—Souvenir, 5 yrs, Bst Bth Mr Johnstone's The Dean, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b ...(Cameron) 2 Captain Gray's Fortunio, 4 yrs, Bst 31b.. (Morris) 3 The following also ran :—Honesty, Tbree per Cent., Miss OsLorne, Rap, El Cid, Rel Tub, and Lady Zetland. Betting.-7 to 4 agst Fortunio, 4 to 1 agst 6tratlicotiar, 6 to 1 each agst The Dean and Three per Cent., 8 to 1 agst honesty, 100 to 6 agst El Cid. Won by a neck. The Second Year of the Eleventh Zetland Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each, 11 ft, with 50 added, for three yr-olds ; colts Bst 1011); fillies and geldings, Bst 71b ; penalties and allowances; second saved stake. One mile. 23 subs, Lord Durham's Apollo, by Thormanby—The Nymph, fist 111 b (inc 41b ex) (J. Osborne) w.o. Mr. C. Percy's Russian Bear saved stakes. The South Stockton Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added ; weight for age ; selling and other allowances. T.Y.C. 4 subs. Mr W. Cowen's Sleeping Maggie, by Loiterer—Sal; 2 yrs, (.£3O), 6st (M‘i-won) Mr J. Osborne's luon, 2 yrs (.£3O), 6st Gib (W. Platt) 2 Mr Dawson's f by Van Galen—Damsel, 2 yrs (.£3O), Est (Hudson) 3 Mr W. Nicholl's Rabbit Trap, 4 yrs, (£3O), 9st (Snowden) 4 Betting. - 7 to 4 agst Inon-4 to 1 each agst Sleeping Maggie and Rabbit Trap. Won by a neck. _ _ _ . The Harry Fowler Stakes of 70 sous., added to a Handi cap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ; winners extra; second received 15 sows. T.Y.C. 1G subs. Mr F. Watson ns Last Rose of Summer, by Newminster ,—English Rose, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Cradock) 1 M. A. de Montgomery's La Mousse, 3 yrs, fist 71b (Hudson) 2 Mr J. P. Craven's Bessie Dixon, 3 yrs, Est 5113...(L0wi5) 3 Donaldbaiu and The Prior also ran. Betting-5 to 4 agst Last Rose of Summer, sto 2 agst La Mousse, 4 to 1 each agst Doualdbain and Bessie Dixon, sto 1 agst The Prior. Won by a length. YORK AUGUST MEETING. THURSDAY, Aug. 20. The Great Ebor Handicap Stakes of 200 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if de • dared on Aug. 4, at noon ; the winner of any handicep value 100 sovs. after July 29, at ten p.m., 71b; twice, or of 200, 101 b; thrice, or 500, 141 b extra; the second to receive 50 sovs. Two miles, over the Old Course. 45 subs. . Age st lb Strathconan (inc. 101 b extra) 5 9 4 Mandrake 4 8 6 Maid of Masham c. 4 8 0 Three per Cent ... 5 7 13 Tarabau ... 4 7 9 Honesty (by Young Dutchman) ... 5 7 9 Fervacques ... 4 7 5 Tabouret 3 7 0 Emigration 5 6 11 Ilium ~. ... 3 6 10 Age st lb Mercury 3 6 9 Fair Wind 4 6 6 Deceit 4 6 4 Lord Palmerston 3 6 4 The Spy ... 3 6 4 Wildßria.r 5 6 3 Donaldbain ... 3 6 0 Makeshift c ... 3 5 12 Miss Osborne 3 5 9 Buttercup ... ... 3 5 9 Guinan) ... 4 (pd) Bandmaster 4 (pd) RA7TENING IN TB PRIN2 ING TRADE, TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Will you oblige us by inserting the follow ing statement of facts as the latest contribution to the " History of Industrial Organisations?" About six weeks ago-we printed a cheap edition of a book which made 104 sheets. As usual with this class of work, it was made up to 11 sheets by four stereoplates of advertisements, with blank pages at the back--two pages and two blanks at the beginning of the book, and a like quantity at the end. These four stereoplates had been set up and stereotyped by some other printer, and were sup plied to us by the publishers. They comprised a list of their own books, and we are quite sure no pub lisher would pay over again for such pages, nor should we attempt to charge them. The com positors, notwithstanding, wrote their bill for the 11 sheets ; but on our asking them to point out anything in the scale of prices for work agreed to between masters and men to support their demand, they avowed their ina .bility to do so, and rewrote the bill for 10. i sheets ; and we supposed the matter vas done with. However, two inefficient compositors who had been on the work, but were discharged on its completion, reported the case to the secretary of the Com positors' Society, and about a month afterwards this official ordered the compositors to rewrite the claim for the two stereoplates and two blank pages at the beginning, but not for those at the end of the baJk. These were not claimed, because they were " imposed" so as to cut out of the centre of the sheet. Those at the beginning were so placed as to form the two first leaves of the sheet. Had these been " imposed" like the others (and the imposing them differently was no gain whatever to us, but simply a matter of •convenience to the binder), there would have been no claim made. The question, therefore, is made to turn upon composition ; and, as weLpaid for imposing the pages, we consider that we paid every just demand. So indisposed were the compositors in our office to reopen the case that for some time no one concerned would obey the secretary's order, but ultimately the claim for four pages wa3 written, and we simply put our pen through it, stating that if they thought they had any case 17C should be ready to argue it with them in the County Court. This course was not pursued, nor did we receive any communication whatever from the Compositors' Society, but at the next meeting of the committee it was decided to withdraw the men from our employment. Directly we learnt this decision, and before it was officially made known to our workmen, we waited upOn the principals of three large printing offices, w h o h ave probably done more of the sort of work than the whole trade, and the opinion of two of them was the same as our own—that there was not the sha dow of a claim, either at law or in equity. We communicated this to our compositors, stating also that we had arranged with the chairman of the Association of Master Printers to submit the case at their next meeting. Notwithstanding this, a small number of men —about one-sixth— acting under orders from the secretary, gave us notice last Saturday. Now, here is a case which had been amicably settled between employer and employed re-opened by two people who have nothing to lose and every thing to gain by a strike, because, in the event of a strike, the men who leave their employment im mediately go on the funds of the society, and, as controversies are mostly provoked by inefficient persons, they get more from the funds than if they were at work. Many persons may be disposed to credit compositors with more than an average So share of intelligence; but w e believe the men be lmotuigehingthteo London s t a h m e easi a other ciety trades—most of the of Compositors are really good and efficient workmen, even if contri buting to the funds, taking no part in its management. The committee is ordinarily com posed of third or fourth rate men, who are disposed to magnify their office exceedingly. There is a secretary, who receives 50s. weekly for his services ; but, like some secre taries in larger spheres, we suppose he is too big a man to do the work, and therefore there is an as sistant secretary at 365. weekly. It is obvious that it is the interest of such persons to foster disputes, otherwise their, occupation would be gone. We have before us the last annual balance-sheet of this society, from which it appears that it received in contributions from its members during 1867 about £3,650. During the same period it expended in what is called " defence of the scale," £659 cdd, exclusive of the solicitor's bill of costs, which amounted to over £B9, paid for rent and taxes £B2 odd, for hire of rooms £22, for " trade and com mittee meetings," &c., more than £230, for salaries £261, besides grants of £3O each to the Derbyshire miners and London tailors. The society also con tributed to its unemployed members nearly £2,600 during the last year. It is evident, there fore, that there is a very considerable num ber of persons interested in things as they are. Ordinary people might suppose that a society which had paid to its unemployed mem bers more than two-thirds of its income from subscriptions would have done all it could to smooth matters. But the £750 expended in " defence of the scale" would seem to point a different moral ; and it is a fact that more than one house was " closed" to members of the society. The list of "closed" offices now includes the Times, Morning Post, Star, Sun, and Globe; Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode (her Majesty's prir. Hers) ; Spottis woode and Co., Woodfall and IC; cider, Letts and Co., Ford and Fill, Hansard's " Da'aates," the Vi ctoria Station Printing Works, &c. If all these houses—some of the Ilargest in the trade—carry on their business wiv,hout the help of society hands, other firms surely v eed not attach much weight to the vagaries of the ,lobodies whom it has become the fashion of late yoars to desig nate " trade councils." As a rule, we believe they are composed of voluble, lazy, at_ A inefficient persons, who have found that declamat ion and rant yield more money than the work of their hands, and who will not try to cultivate a food uuder- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST l3, 1868. standing between employer and employed, because snch good understanding is inimical to their inte rests. But we believe no employer has anything to fear if he will face their antagonism boldly, and pay fairly for work done. The most zealous society man we ever knew admitted that he did not think there were half a dozen persons in the whole trade who would not go on the limes if they had the chance ; and the probability is, that among the candidates for employment on the limes may be found the names of some of the most blatant up , holders of wht.t are called " fair " houses. We fear this letter may be already too long ; but there is one other point we should like to refer to. Like many other trades, the operative printers of London succeeded nearly two years ago in shorten ing the hours of work and in advancing the rate of wageP. But if there ever was a barren victory, this surely has been one. Directly this was attained the country printers seized upon the op portunity to come in and compete with those in town ; iu consequence a large quantity of work bas been diverted into the country and the Continent, and the opinion is pretty generally entertained that the printing trade of London li.ts not been so bad for the last 30 years. Notwithstanding this, and the fact already stated that the compositors' society last year expended more than two-thirds of its sub scriptions in relieving the unemployed, the society and its members have never been so arrogant. Much the same thing has happened in other trades ; and if the demagogues and dupes of the " trade councils" cannot read the signs of the times more clearly, they may yet awake to the fact that they have done all they could to drive the work from the country and their employers' capital into other channels. Your obedient servants, August 10. 0. AND CO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—ln your issue of to-day appears a letter headed " Rattening in the Printing Trade," and signed "0. and Cu." Into the merits of the dis pute between our members and the manager of the firm in question I do not propose to enter, as that would occupy far more of your space than I dare venture to ask you to accord. I, however, trust you will allow ine to state that the dispute set forth in your correspondent's letter is not the reason why our members have determined to leave Messrs. " U. and C 0.," the cause for the adoption of such a course being that incessant disputts have arisen between the society hands employed (who now number only four) and the firm through their endeavour to override the London scale and customs of the trade, and alto the insulting treatment our mein bers at all times experienced when they had any representations to make to the manager. With regard to the observations personal to my self, I pass them by as unworthy my notice ; and with respect to the committee, those who know its constitution can afford to smile at your correepoa dents' ignorance of the capacity of its members ; but I may state that the Committee of the Master Printers' Association, representing the immense majority of the employers of London, do not appear to entertain the opinion so flippantly put forth by " 0. and C 0.," as they always display their wiiling ness to enter into correspondence and conference with the representatives of our society on all needful occasions ; and notably was that the case in 1866, when our members agitated for an advance of wages, on which occasion an employers' committee appointed by a general meeting of the master printers of Lon don, met an equal number of compositors elected by the workmen to discuss the question submitted to them, and after nearly 12 months' deliberation conceded the advance desired ; and, as a proof that the compositors' claims could not be deemed ex cessive, two of the employers recently examined before the Royal Commission on Trades' Unions stated that even now they did not think compositors were too well paid. With regard to the sum expended by the society in assisting its unemployed members, I should have imagined that such a fact was to the credit of any body of working men who made such a provision, rather than a matter to be objected to or sneered at. Your correspondent also taken occasion to state the names of certain ()films which are closed against our members ; but, although that is so in the few houses named (and I very much regret it), I beg to state we have 240 others i❑ which our mem bers are paid by the London scale, and they em brace, with two exceptions, all the great houses in the metropolis. Again, your correspondent chooses to assume that the advance of wages in 1866 has driven work out of town, and thus caused the depression under which the trade has for some time languished. I am in a position to know, however, that that slack ness has beau equally experienced in the provinces ; the fact being that trade here has suffered for the last two years in consequence of the monetary panic of 1866, and not from work having left Lon don to be executed either in the country or abroad. In conclusion, Sir, I must energetically protest against the use of the word " rattening" which heads your correspondent's letter, in connection with the dispute between themselves and us —a word which is a convertible term for the most out rageous ruffianism culminating in murder. What, in the name of common sense, is there in the laboured epistle of " 0. and Co." that justifies such an insolent imputation ? All that our mem bers have done in regard to the 'firm of your corre spondents is to give them notice to leave, finding that they cannot agree with them, and that, they may rest assured, is all the rattening they will re ceive from us.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, 11. SELF, Sec. London Society of Compositors, 3, Raquet court, Fleet-street, Aug. 12. 711 E RISE IN 7HE PRICE OF GOLD 1N THE UNITED STALES. (From the Anglo-American Times) " The steamers leaving to day (August 5) for Europe take out $1,000,000 in specie. Gold, 149." This telegram from New York, last Wed nesday, tells of cause and effect—au effect suffi ciently startling to raise hair on bald heads. On all sides people ask—" What is the matter ? Gold, 149 !" Those, however, who have carefully watched the current of events in America, although surprised at the sudden ness of the jump, have anticipated and confi• dently predicted a steady increase in the price of gold. Although there doubtless are many reasons, which we either dimly see or do not see at all, why gold should rise in Wall-street, there are others so patent that he who runs can read. The first is the old law of supply and demand, by which a decrease in quantity adds to the value of the balance, and which may turn an Irishman's potato into the priceless luxury of a bloated English aristocrat, or macadamize a road with diamonds. Mr. APCUL LOCH recently informed Senator CATTELL that after the immediate demands upon the Treasury had been settled, inclusive of the payment for Alaska, but $37,000,000 in gold would remain, and no relief could be expected from the Treasury iu the event of a stringency which could scarcely fail to follow the continuation of the specie export on the present scale. From January 1 to July 10 $55,200,000 of specie were shipped from New York to Europe, being $24,600,000 more than in the same period of 1867, and over three times the amount in 1865. The United States is a gold-producing country, but if the export be a million, and the produce but half, any one by the Role of Three, who knows the entire stock held, can tell at this rate when the list dollar of the precious metal will leave the Union. The law, however, of supply and demand interferes, and on the drain being felt sends up the price. But why should the United States be thus lavishly exporting her treasure ? The most obvious reason is a cer tain spendthrift recklessness in Americans which leads them to live up to all they have got and more. This received a spur instead of a check, by the war, through inflation ; and the only way to bring them up is by what sailors call " a round turn." That is, that while galloping along the strain comes all at once, and they are suddenly jerked back by their own impetus. The war, more or less, destroyed moat of the great ktnerican exports, while the people continued to import or to use foreign goods as freely as ever. Failing p lyment in American produce or bonds, the balance must be settled in gold. To the vast sum required to meet the differ ence between their imports of goods and their exports of goods has been added the interest on the securities held in Europe. From the close of the war to the present time the volume of these has increased in European hands, and the readiness with which the bonds were taken on this side tended materially to check the export of gold from New York, equalizing the exchange, and making less apparent the burden that Americans were in truth piling on their heads from living be yond their means. Perhaps the only good effect of the recent agitation for the payment of bonds in greenbacks has bean in arousing Americans to the fact that they have been living too fast. Having discredited their securities in Europe people de cline:to buy, Five-Twenties cease to be a medium for equalizing the exchange, and the whole burden of working up the balance falls upon gold. Among the most palpable reasons is the fact that gold, as a commodity of barter, has not maintained its relative value in the United States. If the c)st of living has increased 80 per cent., if all domestic manufactures, labour, house rent, are even in excess of this, gold ought to respond and keep that rela tive proportion. If not, the high protective tariff is neutralized and Protection floored. Supposing that gold was at par while the currency of the United States remained irredeemable paper, and prices retained their present level, the finest market in the world for British manufactures, in spite of the existing tariff, would be the United States, and the domestic manufactures would be so weighted that they could not maintain the competition as long as any gold remained. When Japan was first opened to European traders the value of silver was out of all proportion to that of gold. The dealers who got the first inkling of this did a very smart and profitable business at the expense of the Japanese, who early awoke to the fact that their values were not in accordance with those of the world, and that if they did not speedily make a change, in a few months there would not be an ounce of gold in Japan. What happened in Japan would take place in the United States if the law of supply and demand did not speedily rectify the discrepancy of values. Exports to the United States have lately been unduly favoured by the low price of gold, which has been kept down by the ready sale in Europe of United States Securities. But in proportion to the success of the greenback redemption agitation, discrediting and rendering unsaleable these Bonds, has the pressure fallen upon gold. Perhaps the most obvious cause of the rise after the difference between the values of the exports and imports is the inflation of the currency. The Senate has passed a bill providing for the issue of Three per Cent. Loan Certificates to tha amount of $25,000,000, and it has been agreed to by the House of Representatives. This is virtually an increase of the paper currency, and although, as yet to no great extent, it fore shadows the necessities of the Treasury, and the manner in which the Wfficulty will be met. Every increase is seen in the rise of gold, and is felt iu a corresponding rise of every other thing, which simply means a fall in the value of the currency But putting aside these special reasons, and glanc ing at the financial position of the United States as a whole, enough may be perceived ou the surface to account for the phenomenon. The mass of the statesmen appear to be the merest financial tinkers, not only deficient in all knowledge of political economy, but utterly unable to appreciate that knowledge in others. The consequence is that a quack like THAD. STEVENS is able to produce, by a silly and most inconsistent speech, an effect in Wall-street and on the elections. A. large portion of the people, deplorably ignorant of their true in terests, cry aloud for a measure little short of re pudiation, and thus damage beyond calculation the credit of their country. They support politicians whose idea of paying a debt is to tax it and to finance it out of existence, who are mere children in the science of making the most of the national resources, and yet whose conceit is so great that they scorn to learn by the experience of older nations. To a bad system they have added a bad machinery, and repelled every effort to improve it. Thus they have a cumbrous and ill-adjusted burden —offices regarded as mere political prizes, to be used as the reward of the most successful, which often means the most unscrupulous, political sup port—and a tariff which, added to the irredeemable currency, tends to make the United States the most expensive country on earth. These, together with the unsatisfactory state of commercial affairs which leads many to anticipate a crisis, fully account for the rise of gold, and a large number of mercantile men will be agreeably disappointed if the price does not continue to ascend till it reaches a much higher figure. All this will work its own remedy ; for importers are checked, families retrench, the nation feeling the pinch is aroused to find a cure, quacks being discredited go to the wall, sound men acquire force, corruption is stamped out, and economy and work, backed by the prodigious national resources, quickly obliterate all traces of the check. Sir John Simeon, the Liberal member for the Isle of Wight, has issued an address seeking re election. He heartily concurs in the proposal for the disestablishment of the Irish Church as an act of necessary though tardy justice, and as offering the best hope of healing past differences and cementing a cordial and lasting union. The claims of the Church of England to special con sideration at the hands of the Legislature rest upon a very different foundation from those used on behalf of the Irish Church, and so long as she maintains her present attitude as the representa tive of the religous feelings of the majority of the population, and as a living institution deeply in terwoven with our social system, he shall feel bound to support her as an integral part of the constitution of the country. He would open the universities to members of all religious denomi nations, support a measure of primary education not injuriously interfering with voluntary bene volence, and hopes for the establishment of county financial boards. The Pall-Mall Gazette thus concludes an article on preachers and preaching :—" It is, indeed, wonderful that with all the prevailing pas sion for begging, borrowing, and stealing from the dogmas and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican authorities have never bethought themselves of establishing an order of intelligent preachers. The system of employing men to preach in different churches, and to do no thing else, is indeed far less in vogue in the Roman communion than in former days, and possibly it may be for this reason that no practical scheme for its adoption in the English Church has been put for ward. It is, nevertheless, the only possible system which can effect a reconciliation between Anglican preaching and the cultivated generation of English men. Once established, moreover, it [would lead naturally to the adoption of that practice of leaving the church before the ordinary sermon begins which everybody advocates, but which no body dares put in practice. Until then, as we have said, there is nothing for it but to face the uplifted eyebrows of a congregation, and depart after the prayers, or to sit and suffer in silence, or to stay away from church altogether." • LADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Reva..enta Arabica. Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 68,000 cures The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—"R0me, 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 produced, a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous p a lpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,332: " Fifty years' indescribable agoPy from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria, Joly."—Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. 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I accept without hesita tion the nomination tendered in a manner so gratify ing, and give you and the committee my thanks or the very kind and complimentary language in which you have conveyed to me the decision of the Conven tion. I have carefully read the resolutions adopted by the Convention, and most cordially con cur in every principle and sentiment they announce. My opi nions upon all the great questions, which discrimi nate the great contending parties, have been freely expressed on all suitable occasions, and I do not deem it necessary at this time to reiterate them. Uhe issues upon which the contest turns are clear, and cannot be obscured or distorted by the sophis tries of our adversaries. They all resolve themselves into the old and ever-recurring struggle of a few men to absarb the political power of the nation. This effort, under every conceivable disguise, has always characterised the opponents of the Democratic party ; but at no time has the attempt assumed a shape so open and daring as in this contest. The adversaries of free and constitutional Govern ment, in defiance of the express language of the Constitution, have erected a military despotism in ten of the States of the Union, have taken from the President the power vested in him by the supreme law, and have deprived the Supreme Court of its jurisdiction. The right of trial by jury and the great writ of right, the habeas corpus, shields of safety for every citizen, and which have descended to us from the earliest tradition of our ancestors, and which our revolutionary fathers struggled to secure to their posterity for ever in the fundamental charter of our liberties, have been ruthlessly trampled under foot by the fragment of a Congress. Whole States and communities of the people of our race have been attainted, convicted, condemned, and deprived of their rights as citizens, without presentment or trial, or witnesses, but by the Con gressional enactment of ex post facto laws, and in defiance of the constitutional prohibition, denying even to a. full and loyal Congress the authority to pass any bill of attainder or ex post facto laws. The same usurping authority has substituted as electors —in place of the men of our own race, thus illegally attainted and disfranchised—a host of ignorant ne groes, who are supported in idleness with the pub lic money, and combined together to strip the white race of their birthright through the management of the freedmen's bureaus, and the emissaries of conspirators in other States ; and to com plete the oppression, the military power of the nation has been placed at their dispo sal, in order to make this barbarism supreme. The military leader under whose prestige this usurping Congress has taken refuge since the con demnation of their schemes by the free people of the North, in the elections of the last year, and whom they have selected as their candidate to shield themselves from the result of their own wickeduesi and crime, has announced his acceptance of the nomination, and his willingness to maintain their usurpations over eight millions of white people at the South, fixed to the earth with his bayonets. lie exclaims, ' Let us have peace.' Peace reigns in Warsaw' was the announcement which heralded the doom of the liberties of a nation. 'The empire is peace,' exclaimed Bonaparte, when freedom and its defenders expired under the sharp edge of his sword. ['he peace to which Grant invites us is the peace of despotism and death. Those who seek to restore the Constitution by executing the will of the people, condemning the Reconstruction Acts, already pro nounced in the elections of last year, and which will, I am convinced, be still more emphatically ex pressed by the election of the Democratic candidate AS President of the United States, are denounced as revolutionists by the partizans of this vindictive Congress. Negro suffrage, which the popular vote of New York, — New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nlichigan, Connecticut and other States has con- lenined as expressly against the letter of the Con- 3 titution, must stand, because their Senators and R.,?presentatives have willed it. If the people shall again condemn these atrocious in , ,asures by the election of the Democratic candidate for Pre sident, they must not be disturbed, although they have been decided to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and although the President has sworn to maintain and support the Constitution. The will of a fraction of a Congress, reinforced with its partisan emissaries, sent to the South and sup ported there by the soldiery, must stand against the will of the people and the decision of the Supreme Court, and the solemn oath of the President to maintain and support the Constitution. It is revolutionary to execute the will of the people. It is revolutionary to execute the judg ment of the Supreme Court. It is revolutionary in the President to keep inviolate his oath to sus tain the Constitution. This false construction of the vital principle of our Government is the last resort of those who would have their arbitrary re construction sway and supersede our time-honoured institutions. The nation will say the Constitution must be restored, and the will of the people again prevail. The appeal to the peaceful ballot to attain this end is not war, is not revolution. They make war and revolution who attempt to arrest this quiet mode of putting aside military despotism and the usurpations of a fragment of a Congress, asserting absolute power over that benign system of regulated liberty left us by our fathers. This must be allowed to take its course. This is the only road to peace. It will come with the election of the Democratic candidates, and not with the elec tion of that mailed warrior, whose bayonets are now at the throats of eight millions of people la the South, to compel them to support biui as a candidate for the presidency, and to submit to the domination of an alien race of semi-barbarous men• No perversion of truth or audacity or misrepresen tation can exceed tLat which hails this candidate in arms as an angel of peace.—l am, very re,spectfullif your most obedient servant, FRANK P. BLAIR. [ADVERTISEMENT. 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