The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

CHURCH AND ST TEDEMONSTRATION AT THE CRYST.AL PALACE. - The meeting, or demonstration, which had been con vened by a special committee, under the auspices of the Protestant Union, in support of her Majesty's Ministers, and in opposition to the disestablishment of the Irish Church, took place, as we have already announced, in the central transept of the Crystal Palace. The original arrangement was that it should be held in the sports' ground, but the weather proving unfavourable, an adjournment took place to the transept. There were, including, the platform ticket-holders, about five thousand persons present, and the proceedingst were exceedingly orderly throughout. The business of the meeting having been opened with prayer by the Bishop of Perth (Australia), the 100th Psalm was sung, and letters were read from persons who, although concurring with the objects of the meeting, were unavoidably absent. The Bishop of Ripon wrote, expressing his cordial concurrence but pleading episcopal duties ; and a letter from the Duke of Portland, including a donation of 02,000 for Protestant purposes, was received with tumultuous cheering. Lord FiTswsLlEn having been called to the chair by acclamation, proceeded to say that they had met that day in an extraordinary place and in an extraordinary crisis. Their national Protestantism was assailed, but it was net so for the first time. It bad been established only after a severe struggle, and had not been maintained without bloodshed ; but he was proud to think that the great mass of the people of England were still Protestant to the backbone, and detested everything like an approach to Popery. The proposition of Mr. Gladstone—(hisses) — which they had met that day to oppose, meant simply the transfer of that country to the Government of the Roman Catholic priests. There was at present in Ireland a Pro testant Church, which as a nucleus did a world of good, and if that nucleus were taken away he should like to know what power or what organisation would be able to com pete with the power of the Church of Rome. No matter what might be the intentions of those who proposed to t'Usestablish the Irish Church, the result could only be to throw the whole country into the hands of the Roman Catholics. But he had no fear. The dissolute Charles and the bigot James had once before sought to establish Popery in these realms ; but the people of Eng land rose as one man, and said, "We will not have Popery nor will we have its supporters to reign over us." (Loud cheers.) Those attempts changed the dynasty, making way for the line to which we owed our present beloved Queen, than whom no one in the kingdom was more attached to Protestant principles. (Loud cheers.) He called on those who heard him to stand by their Queen, and to support her in resistance to Popery, no matter what might be the form it assumed. What was their obvious duty? It was to make the next general election a Protes tant election. (Tremendous cheering.) Let them return no Ritualists to Parliament; but, on the contrary, let them tell her Majesty's Government that they would be supported by the whole nation in bringing into Parliament a measure which should enable every churchwarden in the country to bring to account whatever person might attempt to introduce Roman Catholic ceremonies into the Protestant Church. (Great . cheering.) The noble lord, having quoted a passage condemnatory of Ritualism from the Times, proceeded to say that if these Protestant clergy persisted in practising Ritualism, the only remedy would be to turn them out. Let it not be delayed from year to ye sr, till everyone had forgotten the beginning of the dis pute. Let it be done at once. (Loud cheers.) He was proud to say that there was no man in that great assembly more entirely convinced of the rectitude and propriety of their bestirring themselves at the present moment than he (Cheers). Nothing had ever been gained by idle ness, and if they did not bestir themselves they might as well go to sleep for ever. (Prolonged cheers.) Mr. 11. GIFFARD moved the first resolution : "That this meeting, composed as it is of all sections of the community, strongly deprecates the attempts recently made in the House of Commons to effect a solemn and radical change in the principles of the constitution by hasty and ill-con sidered legislation." That man must have been cold, and his heart's blood of a sluggish circulation, whose feelings had not been moved by the noble aim with which these proceedings had begun. The question was whether they would have allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain, or whether they would have an -alle giance pledged to the potentate of Rome. (Loud cheers, and cries of "No Popery.") Let him not be mis understood. He never had said, and never would say, that the attack upon the Established Church began with the Roman Catholics. It began with a struggle for place. (Cheers.) But it was impossible not to see that where a number of forces could be called together, some for one object and some for another, that an astute and expe rienced statesman, finding his followers in the condition described by Mr. Bouverie, as a rabble, would take advan tage of the possibility of combining those elements, dis cordant among themselves, but united for the destruction of the Church of England. It was a " solemn and radical change" to strive to destroy those great principles of civil and religious freedom which were established at the Refor mation. No legal system would long remain in which the recognition of the Great Disposer of All was a,bolishe . d. Had any part of the civilised world at the present moment, not forgetting their friends on the other side of the Atlantic, more securities fir civil and religious liberty than we had? That meeting, held in a place from which no one could be excluded, was in effect a public meeting. Was there any other country where the views of speakers upon a subject on which there was great conflict of opinion could be expressed so freely ? John Stuart Mill—(" Turn him out.") From the latest information he had about the Westminster election, he believed he would be turned out. (Cheers.) But John Stuart Mill, who might be supposed to represent what he should call the enlightened philosophy of modern civilisation, said in his recently-published pamphlet on England and Ireland : " You are not to suppose that when you have cashiered the Protestant Church in Ireland, you will have satisfied the Irish people. Nothing of the sort." Mr. Mill entered into a disquisition to shew that as no mortal created the world, the land could be no mortal's property ; and in order to satisfy Ireland and make her perfectly pacific the land was to be thrown into a sort of general scramble for any one to take it who could, and that was the con clusion of philosophy, experience, and science. (Cheers.) Dr. COWAN seconded the motion. Mr. FOSTER, who stated that he represented the Orange lodges of Ireland, assured the meeting that the Orangemen of Ireland were ready to unite with them in the present 1,V:13. crisis. The resolution was put and carried with three dissen. Cents. The Bishop of PERTH (Australia) proposed the second resolution : "That this meeting is of opinion that the principle of an alliance between Church and State is not only in strict accord with the wise practice of Govern ments in all past ages, but likewise fully sanctioned and enjoined by the spirit of Christianity, whose holy mission it is to consecrate things secular by an indissoluble union with things sacred ; and this meeting hareby invites all true Chiistians,,of whatever denomination, to uphold by their vote and influence, at the forthcoming elec tion, the union of the State with the Church of the Reformation." ' Mr. NEWDEGATE, in seconding the resolution, said that for more than twenty years it had been his privilege to stand forward in the House of Commons in defence of the spirit of this resolution. He rejoiced that it was an Australian bishop he was to follow, because the loyalty of Australia had been tested by the dastardly attempt on the life of the Duke of Edinburgh. That attempt was made by a Popish-bred and priestly-raised miscreant, and Australia had dealt with him by the law, but with a will which would have dealt out justice even if the law had failed. Australia was determined to defend our sovereign and family—being Protestant. (Cheers.) Washington, the great American Republican, had desired that there should be an Established Church combined with the State in that republic, but he was defeattd by a Popish cabal, headed by Carrol and Jefferson. Carrol had a brother a Jesuit, and that brother was tho first Roman Catholic bishop appointed in . the United States. They would see, therefore, that the union of Church and State had been advocated by the greatest Republican in the great Republic, and was prevented by the conspiracy of a Jesuit and a Voitairian. It was only Protestant Christianity that fitted men for self government. There was no self-government in Spain, in Bourbon Naples, or even in France, whilst in Russia, where there was . a connection between Church and State, the Pope had plotted against the sovereign, by stirring ur rebellion in Roman Catholic Poland. Austria, in the conflict of Sadowa, was conquered because the oppression which the Papacy induced her to practise upon her sub jects, and especially her Italian subjects, rendered only half her army reliable. She learnt a severe lesson, and the Emperor asked for a modification of the arrangement by which his Government was bound to the Papal Church, inf-rming the Pope that his people would not longer sub mit to have all education limited to chnical in.itruction. The Austrians, in fact, oht...ined a modification of the ninon, but the Pope denounced the Government of tint country because it was not blindly obedient to his sway. Was it possible to have a union in this country with a Church so arrogant? The people of England were deter mined to prevent such an alliance. (Cheers.) Let them, then, take the matter into their own hands, and say, Keith their forefathers, " We will prevent the possibility of an alliance between our Government and Rome, 1.3 , insisting upon the continuance of the connection between the Protestant Church and the State of Eng land." If the Protestant Church was disestablished in Ireland, there was nothing to prevent the direct establish• ment of the Church of Rome there. In fact, it was dots already, for the Pope was so proud, he would not accept otabli#44pt froplApY.WAtt. but claimed.that Church was established by at•.thority. (Cheers.) Let Protestant Dissenters remel nbei their religious freedom was derived from a State th itt was joined to a Protestant Church, and let them join: "iv!' th Churchmen, as their leaders formerly did, to maint4 in that connection as the only valid security for their; religious liberty. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. Professor PERCiVki seconded the resolution, which was carried. The Rev. Dr. KEARNEY, cho\described himself as tne representative of the Great Central Protestant Defence Association of Ireland, and its a working clergyman of the Irish Church of twenty-cm° years' standing, moved : " That this meeting desires tairecord its serious conviction that should the conspiracy firmed, ostensibly against the Irish branch of the United Church of England and Ireland, but practically against all State connection with religion, be successful, it will result in the secularisation of the institutions of the country, in great danger to the Throne, and in augmenting the power of the Papacy, against whose insidious encroachments mere voluntaryism is unavailing." Mr. GRANT seconded the resolution, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. KISBET proposed the fouith resolution : " That the thanks of the nation are due to tho House of Lords for their noble defence of a great Christian principle in reject ing the Suspensory Bill ; and this meeting feels that in the performance of that solemn duty they not only expressed their own independent sentiments as a distinct branch of the Legislature, but likewise the hearty desires of that large and influential body of the people, who were at the time represented by a minority in the House of Com mons." Mr. PITMAN, who was announced as a working man, seconded the resolution, which was adopted with one d;.- sentient. Mr. A. SmEE moved the following resolution :—" That a petition be laid at the foot of the Throne, praying her Majesty, as the temporal head of the United Church, never to consent to the separation of the Church from the State, which would offend the consciences of millions of her Majesty's Christian subjects, and tend to subvert the Protestant institutions of the country." Mr. J. T. HOLDEN, of Birmingham, in seconding the resolution, said it was the duty of every English Pro testant to protest against the robbery and spoliation of the Church. Let the robber be ever so high, he should not be allowed to plunder them with impunity. He did not wish to use harsh language, but after all that a certain gentleman from South Lancashire—(hisses)—had said and written, Judas Iscariot was a gentleman to him. (Laughter and cheers.) The one betrayed the head of the' Church ; the other tried to betray the Church itself. Every elector ought to remember that the settlement of the present great question might be in his own hands. Hissing and cheering would not do the work that was to be done. Let them put the touchstone question, and vote according to the answer. (Cheers.) The resolution was unanimously adopted. On the motion of Mr. LORD, seconded by Mr. Nucrwr, a vote of thanks was passed to Lord Fitzwaltcr, who briefly acknowledged the compliment. The proceedings terminated by the singing of the National Anthem. The total number of visitors amounted to 7,911, of which number 997 were season ticket-holders. POSTAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. A postal circular issued yesterday announces that the text mails for Australia will bo dospatched from London, via Southampton, on the morning of Saturday, tho sth of September. ald via Marseilles on the evening of Friday. tho llth of September. An alteration in the postal service to Natal is also noted; by "command of the Postmaster-General." " Under altered arrangements for the branch postal service oetween the Cape of Good Hope and Natal, the sailing of the branch steamer will, in future, be fitted to the arrival at the Cape of the mail packet leaving Plymouth on the 25th of each month, instead of that sailing on the 10th, as hereto-- fore." It is further stated that "arrangements have beea made for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany's packois to resume the practice of calling at Penang on their voyages between Point-do-Gallo and Hongkong. Commencing therefore with the mails appointed to be de spatchod from London on the 22d inst. via Southampton, and the 28th, via Marseilles, the direct mail service between this country and Penang will bo re-established." GLACIER FALL NEAR CHAMOUNIX. The Corriere delle Alpe gives the following accoun t of the fall of a glacier at Blatiero :—"Last Monday, at 3 in the morning, a denso cloud sprer.d itself over the valley of Chamounix. Thunder was heard, and its roar awoke the whole village, the inhabitants of which directed their looks towards the peak of Blatiere, where a cloud of smoke was observed on the crest of the mountain which supports the glacier del Pellegrini. All cried out that it had given way. The peasants of the valley ran to and fro to secure their cattle, and all contemplated in amazement the most stupendous spectacle ever seen in tho valley of Chamounix. The commotion caused by this im mense avalanche was indescribable. It carried away in its passage pines, bridges, and deserted cottages till it reached the cascade of Dun; the roar of which was deafening; it then took a different course from that of the torrent, and opening up a now route for itself it rushed on to the meadows and gardens of the Royal Hotel, de stroying whole crops of rye and potatoes. After having distributed itself over the meadows wherever it found an outlet, the great mass formed an immense lake which for some time will be the admiration of visitors to Chamounix. This is one of the rarest occurrences that has evex taken ulace in the valley." A QUARREL BETWEEN A DISSENTING MINISTER AND HIS DEACONS. The Manchester papers report some serious disturbances at the Windsor Independent Chapel, Salford. The affair arose out of a dispute about the Sunday school, of which the minister wishes to get the management. The announce ment was made that on Sunday last the minister would conduct the school. To this the deacons objected. But shortly before eight o'clock the Rev. Mr. Lee and the party who supported him arrived and took possession of the school-room, after which six or eight stout fellows were set to guard the entrance gate to the chapel and other buildings. Shortly before 9 o'clock Messrs. Nicholson and Titley, with a considerable following, the majority of them being young women, made their appearance at the gate, and requested to be admitted, but were refused. Immediately afterwards a rush was made upon the gate, and persevered in for a considerable length of time, amidst hooting and cries which were understood only by those immediately interested. Ultimately the attacking party were compelled to retire. After some time the gate was attacked again, but with no better success, although the onslaught was fiercer and more prolonged than before. At this juncture Inspector Howell and a body :4 the Salford police force, who had been present from the beginning, but up to this time had taken no part in the affray, interfered in consequence of one of the pillars of the gate being likely to give way. They cleared the pavement in front of the chapel, and the attacking party, who held a third consultation, did not make another attempt to force their way in. Mr. Nicholson then mounted a rostrum in the street fronting the chapel, and, after giving out a hymn which was sung, offered up prayer. The services in the chapel were gone through without any interruption ; but at the assembly of the Sunday school in the afternoon the morning's proceedings were re-enacted, and had it not been for the interference of the police the result might have been serious. The Rev. H. M. Birch was installed on Saturday as a canon residentiary of Ripon Cathedral, by the Rev. Canon Holmes, in the room of Dr. Allay, now Bishop of Hereford. A Brussels letter says the health of the unfortunate Empress Charlotte is worse. Iler lucid intervals are less frequent and of shorter duration than they were. In the night-time she often gets up, turns her lyxl topsy-turvy, and throws the pillows out of window. A dissipated and unmannerly nobleman, pre- Aiming upon his "nobility," once asked Sir Walter Scott, who sat opposite to him at a dinner, what the difference was between Scott and sot. " Just the breadth of the table," retorted Sir Walter. THE IRISH CHURCH COMMISSION. —We (Record) are informed that there is no probability of a speedy delivery of the report of the Irish Church Commissioners. It will probably be delayed until the meeting of the new Parliament, or at all events till the elections are over. We think this is bad policy. A,Scotch baronet, being at a parish meeting, made seine proposals which were objected to by a farmer. " Sir," said he to the farmer, "do you know that I have been at two univer3ities, and at two coll eges i n eac h un i • "rsity calf W that r el' sir," said the farmer, " wh a t o ' t h at ? I had sucked twa kye, an' the observation I made was, the mair he sucked the greater calf he grew." An old-fashioned clergyman, named More, was riding on horseback one stormy day, enveloped in a loose cloak of large proportions, and having a broad scarlet collar. By the action of the wind the cloak was tossing about in all directions, when a gentleman rode up on a spirited charger, and the horse shied and almost threw the rider. "'Chat cloak of yours would frighten the devil!" said the irate rider. " You don't el , SQI " qpitej 14ra1e11..1: Wily tlat'§ Just ror TBE SUN LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1868. THE ASHTON 11107'S. The sequel to the Ashton riots is now la cwn. Mr. Murphy is triumphant. After a trial which lasted nearly a week, the rioters—at least those who were identified as taking part in the dis turbances in May last—have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, which may certainly be pronounced severe ; but the real author and the abettors of those disturbances remain at large, ready to reenact, on oppor tunity, the same scenes in other towns. We cannot help thinking that if the disposition to put down the cause of all this rioting existed in high quarters, the law would be found strong enough to accomplish it; but while to subserve party interests such men as Murphy are allowed to sow broadcast the seeds of strife there will always be plenty of work for judges and juries at the assizes. We confess we are far from satisfied at the results of these trials. No discrimination was made between the party who first broke the peace by sacking the houses of inoffensive people and destroying every portion of their church but the bare walls, and those who in defending themselves and their own engaged in a riot which was eventually only put down by the combined ac tion of the military and police, and, not least, by the good offices of the Catholic clergy. There seems to us, however impartial the conductors of the prosecutions and even the judge who presided at the trials would have themselves appear, that there was a one-sidedness not quite in keeping with established notions of impartiality and justice. A man is attacked in his own house ; his furniture is destroyed, and even his house is rendered uninhabitable ; he not unnaturally engages in combat with those who have committed the outrage, and in doing so is himself taken prisoner by the police, sent for trial, and convicted, and the judge in passing sentence, excuses, as it were the inconsistency of meting out the same measure of punishment to the man so attacked, by remarking that, though there were un questionably various degrees of guilt in the different cases, only an omniscient judge could properly distinguish between them ; that in fact it was not in his power to do so, and that he could only be guided by the results of the acts of lawlessness that had been com mitted. The difficulty of estimating the exact degree of guilt of each of the accused men was certainly great, but those who were proved to have acted in the first place as aggressors were unquestionably those on whom the severest punishment should have been visited. It is, however, to the charge of the judge in the case of compensation claimed by the Catholic priest at Ashton for the wreck of his house and chapel that we feel specially bound to enter a protest. In another column we give at length the charge of the Lord Chief Baron upon which the jury based their decision. The extreme minuteness with which he laid down the law and the fine distinction which he drew between the acts and the presumable intention of the ruffians who destroyed the chapel, leaving little but the roof and bare walls standing, are noteworthy. He said— " There was no doubt the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, unless he made out that the chapel had been feloniously demolished, pulled down, or destroyed wholly or in part, by persons riotously and tumultuously assem bled together. It would not be a demolition in whole or in part, unless there was an in tention on the part of those who were engaged in that undoubtedly riotous and tumultuous assemblage to destroy the chapel as a chapel. The pulling out of a single brick of a house, if it was intended by those who did it, if un interrupted, to pull down the whole edifice, would amount to a demolition in part ; but if there was an absence of that intention, then the mere doing of mischief to the chapel or house would not be a demolition, pulling down, or destruction in part, any more than a mischievous boy throwing a stone through a window would be a demolition or pulling down in part." Now, it appears to us that the Lord Chief Baron has acted more the part of an advocate for the Salford Hundred, against whom the action was brought, than the judi cious and grave expounder of tho law. What can possibly better interpret the intention of a man than his acts and his expressed deter mination ? The Ashton rioters' cry was, as the judge himself admits : "To the chapel; demolish the chapel ;" and they carried out that determination by destroying everything in and about the chapel upon which they could lay their bands. The windows were smashed, the crucifix was torn down and split into fragments, every ornament of the interior and exterior was defaced or destroyed, and if they did not succeed in razing to the ground the building itself, it was simply because they were interfered with and prevented. Anything , more like the intention of destroyinc , a build ing wholly or in part than the Ashton° rioters exhibited we have never yet heard of. " The crowd," admits the Lord Chief Baron, "seemed to have uttered cries which, if they be taken as exactly expressing their intention, would indicate an intention to destroy the place—' Lets' pull down the chapel,' and so on." But the Lord Chief Baron would have it that " lan guage in the mouths of low ruffians like these rioters did not always express the idea which was, prima fade, contained in the words. They were the means of expressing merely a high wrought state of fury." We have always been under the impression that the cry of a mob, expressed in terms so unequivocal, so little open to doubt as these were, indicate exactly the intention of the mob. But the learned Lord Chief Baron says, not always, and we suppose that he must be allowed to be the interpreter of the Ashton rioters' intentions. Yet it seems to no that this charge might be challenged with a good chance of success. It is certainly of a nature that no Catholic can be satisfied with.—Westminster Gazette. equality with the most favoured pets of the state. Without further preface, let me ask the readers' attention to the following facts :- 1. The population of Ireland in 1861 was 5,793,967. Of this number the Established Church had 693,357 ; the Roman Catholic Church had 4,505,265 ; the Presbyterian Church had 523,291; other Protestant Dis senting Churches had 72,054; total, 5,793,967. Thus the Established Church contains 11 . 9 per cent. of the population; the Roman Catholic Church contains 77.7 per cent. ; the Presbyterian Church contains 9.0 per cent. ; the others contain 1.4 per cent. ; or, to make figures still plainer, only 12 out of every 100 Irishmen are Established Churchmen. 2. The number of Episcopalians in each province, compared with Nonconformists (Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, and others) is as follows :—Church population : Ulster, 20 . 42 per cent. ; Leinster, 11 . 89 per cent. ; Munster, 5.10 per cent. ; Connaught, 4.25 per cent. Nonconformist population : Ulster, 79 . 58 per cent. ; Leinster, 88 . 11 per cent. ; Munster, 94 . 90 per cent. ; Connaught, 95.75 per cent. We thus see that the Episcopalian Church is the church of a small minority, even in Ulster, and of a minority in the other provinces. 3. The number of parishes in Ireland. is 2,428, and the following table shows how the Church is situated in those parishes :—Num ber of parishes containing members or adhe rents of the Established Church in 1861 : No members, 199 parishes ; not over 20 mem bers, 575 parishes ; over 20 and not more than 50 members, 416 parishes ; over 50 and not more than 100 members, 349 parishes ; over 100 and not more than 200 members, 270 parishes ; over 200 and not more than 500 members, 309. parishes ; over 500 and not more than 1,000 members, 141 parishes ; over 1,000 and not more than 2,000 members, 106 parishes ; over 2,000 and not more than 5,000 members, 53 parishes ; over 5,000 and. not more than 10,000 members, 8 parishes ; over 10,000 and not more than 20,000 members, none ; over 20,000 and not more than 30,000 members, 2 parishes ; over 30,000 members, none. Total parishes, 2,128. Thus, in 199 parishes, there is not a single adherent of the Established Church, and 1,539 parishes, or nearly two-thirds of the whole, have not more than 100 adherents in each. 4. The revenue of the Established Church amounts in round numbers to Z 700,000. The Regium Donicm to the Presbyterians amounts to £40,000, and the Ma,ynooth grant to the Roman Catholics is £30,000. It follows from this, that 693,357 Episcopalians receive more than twenty-threetimes as much as 4,505,265 Roman -Catholics, and more than seventeen times as ranch as 523,291 Presbyterians. 5. Each Episcopalian, man, woman, and child, receives over £1 a-head, while each Presbyterian has to be pleased with ls. 7., and the Roman Catholic is the delighted re cipient of three farthin g s ! From this we may infer that in the eye of the State the soul of each Episcopalian is thirteen times more valu able than the soul of each Presbyterian, and 320 times more valuable than the soul of each Roman C atholic. 6. The Established Church is paid for, not by the tithepaying landowners, as is falla ciously alleged, bnt by every consumer of Irish produce—it being obvious that the landlord charges his tenant farmer with a higher rent, in order to cover the rent -charge to which the land is subject, and the farmer charges his customers higher for wheat, potatoes, &c., to cover his increased rent. All are, therefore, directly interested in the Irish Church ques tion, and it is evident that the Establishment is a real as well as a sentimental grievance. The Established Church is the church of the great and wealthy who ought to pay for their own spiritual teaching, while the Roman Catholic Church is composed of the middle and poorer classes, who ought not to be called upon to pay for the religious ordinances of their great and wealthy neighbours. The fol lowing table, compiled from the census of 1861, proves the truth of this statement :—ln 1861, 4,044 Episcopalians, and 3,576 Roman Catho lics were landed proprietors ; 139 Episcopa lians, and 52 Roman Catholics were bankers ; 824 Episcopalians and 539 Roman Catholics were physicians ; 24 Episcopalians, and 8 Roman Catholics were officers of State, from Lord Lieutenant to Attorney-General; 114 Episcopalians, and 15 Roman Catholics were nobility and gentry; 3,254 Episcopalians and 1,298 Roman Catholics were ladies and gen tlemen ; 45,838 Episcopalians, and 337,419 Roman Catholics were farmers ; 3,744 Epis copalians, and 43,54 4 Roman Catholics were ploughmen; 22,723 Episcopalians, and 378,064 Roman Catholics were farm labourers and ser vants. Surely it is high time that the landed proprietors, bankers, physicians, and ladiesh t ysicians, office and officers of State, nobility and gentry, gentlemen, cease to make the farmers, plough men, farm labourers, and servants pay for the especially as the m sa a id in l t a e n n d a e n d c e their p o r f opri eto proprietors, clergy, are aware that the farmers, &c., have also to provide for their own priests. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Aug. 11. This city will be shortly enriched with an im provement worthy a place of resort and entertain ment. The I)uke of Nassau has removed to this city, and intends permanently to reside in one of the most fashionable parts of the West-end, and has yielded to theturgent demand of a number of influential citizens of Frankfort, who desire to make the city attractive to s`zangers, to sell to them those renowned " win ter-gardens," so called; that is to say, the green and hot-houses attached to the Castle of Brebrich, and enjoying a world-wide reputation from the rich variety of very rare domestic and exotic plants they contain. Count de Castel!, the private secre trary of the Duke, and intendant of the ducal estate, at first demanded 180,000 florins for the whole garden establishment, an amount at which it had been actually taxed by experts. The Duke, however, in acknowledgment of the friendly re ception he has met on the part of the citizens, re duced the price at once to only 60,000 florins, an amount the purchasers are able and willing to pay. So now the glass-houses will be taken down at Bre ' brich, and removed to Frankfort, to be erected in one of the most fashionable parts of the city. The cost of putting up and renovating the establishment will be more than double the pUrchase money. To cover that expense, a joint-stock company has been formed, consisting of about 500 persons, the shares 250 florins each. Amongst the shareholders are the Prussian Princes, or Landgraves, residing at the neighbouring Castle of Rampenheim, with 45 shares, or about 6,000f1., and other distinguished persons. The leading committee of the shareholders is com posed of Baron d'Erlanger, known also by his branch firm in Paris ; L. Sonnemann, editor of the Frankfort Gazette; Theodor Kucher, the English consul ; Dr. Jur. Siebert, Ferdinand Heiner, Fritz Krayer, Joh. Dielmann (the artist), Ferd. Heiss, Dr. Med. W. de Neufville, J. B. Pfaff, Siessmeier Brothers, Carl Schlesonger-Frier, and Emil Koe nigswarter (the banker). Many distinguished Americans are at present sojourning at Frankfort, and at the neighbouring watering-place of Hom bourg-es-monts. His Excellency George Ban croft, United States Minister at Berlin, stopped here a few days with his wife on his return to Berlin, after completing his negociations on those much-discussed protection t reaties between the South German Courts, of Munich, Stuttgardt, Carlsruhe, and Darmstadt, and the United States Government. Commodore Inman, of the United States Navy, spent a few days here, and now has left for Lucerne. Commodore Livingston, of the United States Navy, - is also here. The Hon. T. P. Kennedy, formerly Secretary of the United States Navy, is at Homburg. That charming village is overcrowded with visitors, especially by hundreds of Americans. The King of Prussia will arrive there on Thursday next, and take his residence at the castle of the late Landgrave of Homburg. All Americans will hear with sorrow of an in crease of crime and rowdyism in the South. So marked is it in Louisiana that the Legislature passed a joint resolution requesting the General of the armies to furnish troops to the civil authorities. Although this was very properly vetoed by the Go vernment, as the channel selected showed the igno rance of the Legislature, the new bill was passed directing the application to the President, where upon Governor Warmouth applied to Washington for an additional military force to suppress the in creasing lawlessness of the State, sending an officer of his staff to Washington. At Elk-Lick, Missouri, July 25, a collision occurred between the Radicals and those they, style " rebels," in which pistols and rifles were freely used. Three men were killed, seven seriously wounded, and forty more in jured. In South Carolina a fight was with diffi culty prevented. In Augusta, Georgia, an affray took place on the evening of the 27th July, when one man was killed, another dangerously wounded, and several more seriously hurt. in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas the accounts show an increase of lawlessness, giving unmistakeable signs of the heat of the approaching political con test, which we in common with many Americans will rejoice to see well ended. The Reno gang has been further depleted by the lynching of three more of the members, Frank Spear, John Moore, and Henry Jewel, who were hanged on the same tree as their associates, being taken from the train while on their way to gaol. However dreadful it may appear to English men to hear of a mob tearing prisoners from the grasp of the law and executing on them its extreme penalty, they would modify their opinions if they f ully appreciated the circumstances. At times continued crime becomes unbearable, while the vicious and unscrupulous gang flourish on the impunity with which they can act. Side by side with civiliza tion is almost everywhere in the United States the primeval forest-- the prairie that has known no plough. These aid criminals, for while in England there is but the cover of the crowd for the fugitive, in America there is this cover, ant that still better one, the waste. ith half the means of detection, and four times the means of escape, a gang is often enabled to tyrannize to such an extent of lawless ness as to drive a community to desperation. Then they band together, form a vigilance committee, and setto work with genuine American energy to root out the pest, hanging the captured culprits without mercy. However bad this may be in theory, on the whole in some districts it answers well in prac tice ; in fact, it is a necessity of the situation. The railway robbers, lately executed at Seymour, In diana, confess to their crimes, and the coroner's jury who sat on the inquest gave the verdict that I the bandits had met their deaths by being strangled by parties unknown. William and Simon Reno, the leaders of the gang, have been arrested, and may have been lynched for aught we know ; indeed the chances are that the mob and not Jack Ketch hangs them, so .we cannot call them fortunate to escape the more summary end. On the 31st July the mob lynched two horse thieves near Memphis, Tennessee, placarding them " Horse thieves hung by an outraged community ;" and in Jacinto, Mis sissippi, a criminal was dragged from gaol and executed. Tho Spirit tells us :—"Madame Agatha States, the prima donna., is at Long Branch. Bonfanti's mother was taken ill in Chicago, and ordered home to Italy. The Worrell Sisters are at the sea-side on Long Island. Wm. WheAley takes his farewell of the stage on the 31st of August. Parepa-Rosa had the measles in San Francisco. An itinerant prostidigitateur awed the children and women at Stetson's Long Branch Hotel with feats of legerdemain and jugglery. Price Magrath, the Wizard of the West, is at Long Branch. Frank Lawlor has secured a London en gagement already, which shows that talent is quick of recog nition. He appears in "Under the Gaslight" at the Lyceum, under the management of E. T. Smith, the well-known and enterprising manager. The G. F. Rowe, " famous American comedian," now engaged in carrying Edinburg , audiences by storm, once played in this country as the " famous Australian actor," George Fawcett Rowe. The Dramatic Chronicle, of San Francisco, has secured the services of Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie as dramatic cor respondent from London. Stephen Massett is coming home by the next steamer. E. L. Davenport comes back shortly. Mr. Bateman must be puzzled at times to know what and who he is. He is variously designated Manager Bateman, Lord Bateman, Meastro Bateman, Colonel Bate man, and one attache of the provincial press, who wasn't pleased with his seats, called him Old Bateman.' " Policeman John Smedick was shot near Thirty second-street, New York city, by a boatman named John Real, on the night of July 23d. The assassin was gallantly captured by another policeman, named James Mill, who pursued him under a' running fire. The murdered man was a young fellow from Wexford, Ireland, noted as a good police officer, and his only crimp was having, on a former occasion, taken the brutal ruffian to gaol . when drunk. Admiral Farragut arrived at Constantinople last Saturday on board the steamer Frolic. The flag ship Franklin was left at Syra. The squadron is expected to arrive at Naples in September. • Congress appointed a committee to look into the affairs of the Printing Bureau, now that Clarke whose resignation has been accepted is out. This ought to have been done long ago. Isaac Russell, who shot Hopkins at Savannah, is indicted for murder. The heaviest thunder-storm ever known in that city had just occurred, when nine houses wore struck by the lightning, and oue child killed. The Ashburn murderers have been released by the State authorities on bail of $2,000 each. The Springfield Republican earnestly advocates the return of Charles Francis Adams to Congress as a Eepromatativo for the Fourth District of Irtuosachuotte. DEATH OF DISTINGUISHED PRELATES. Rome publishes quite a Thelon, official obituary j died during the months of May and June last. Mgr. Louis-Marie Cardelli, Arch-bishop of oulrnistalofof eminent prelates who Acrida (in partibus) died June 11, having re ceived all the usual sacraments of the Church. Born in Rome, August 28, 1777, this prelate entered the order of St. Francis, of strict observance, and on the 18th March he was named Bishop of Smyrna. Relieved from the charge of that church, he was, on the 3d September, 1832, transferred to the church of Acrida. He was Canon of St. Peter's and Con sultor of the holy Congregation of the Holy Office, of that of Dispensations and of the Pro paganda. The College of Bishops assisting the throne, of which he was a member, participated in the funeral services. Mgr. John Topich, Minor Observant, died on the ,11th June, fortified by the Holy Sacra ments, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. Chosen in 1832 Bishop of Alessio (Albania), and in 1853 transferred to the See of Scutari, he retired in 1859, owing to ill health, to spend the remainder of his days among his religious associates in the convent of the island of St.. Bartholomew, from which period, up to the time of his death, he bore the title of Bishop of Philipopolis, in partibus. Mgr. Rodolph de Thysebert, Bishop of Tiberiade, in partibus, died on the 12th May last. Born in Salzbourg, April 28, 1798, he was preconized in 1842, and, at the same time, was named Coadjutor of the Archbishop of Olmutz. Mgr. Sebastien Piuto do Rego, Bishop of Saint Paul, Brazil, died April 30 last. The deceased prelate was born at Axtgra. dos Reis, diocese of Rio Janeiro, April 18, 1802, and was preconized by the Holy Father, Sep tember 30, 1861. Mgr. Gastan, of the Counts of Berraghia, Bishop of Lodi, died on June 13, at the ad vanced age of nearly one hundred years, after a protracted illness endured with resignation and Christian fortitticle. He was born at Ber gamus, October 21, 1768, and was preconized October 2, 1837. The bulb growers of Holland have intimated their intention of offering prizes, open to all growers, for distinct kinds of hyacinths, at tho first spring or hyacinth show jof the Royal Horticultural Society in 18&. The prizes intended to be offered amount to £45 Bs. IADVERNISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills are unfeignedly the remedies upon which all may rely who are suffering from disuses of the skin, scrofula, scurvy, ulcerations, and bad less. Whon the warmth of the weather determines unduly blood to the skin all these complaints assume a worse appearance, and their symp toms become more harassing unless Holloway's ointment bo applied to check increasing inflammation and to soothe the excited nerves. No knowledge beyond that contained in the directions for use is required for using this cooling and belling unguent, which always acts beneficially. Thousands afflicted with bad legs, who were slowly sink ing under their sufferings, have been rescued from their perilous position (after all curative means seemed power less) by Rearming with LE9ll9waffi Ancliolllffilt§. THE IRISH CHURCH. A " Presbyterian Layman" writes to the Northern Whig stating some facts and figures regarding the Irish Church : The general election which is fast approach ing, he says, will be the most momentous for Ireland that has taken place in our times. The war cry under which the great Liberal party will appeal to the country is " Religious Equality for Ireland !" and evidently this will be met with the old rallying cry of unthinking and unchanging bigotry, "No Surrender !' The great importance of the question at issue makes it incumbent on each elector to choose his side and range himself under one or other of the opposing commanders. To add to the difficulty of the situation, there is the fact that thousands of newly enfranchised electors will be asked to record their votes for the first time, and the likelihood is that many of them have not studied or thought over the great question of the day, and are, therefore, ill prepared to take a side. In order to assist such to come to a proper conclusion on the subject, I beg you will allow me space in the columns of the Whig to state a few facts and figures regarding the Irish Church. As — Facts aro chiels that winna ding And darna be disputed ; and, as " figures cannot lie," I trust my state ments will have some of the all-conquering power of that " truth which is mighty aven to the pulling down of strongholds." If the Irish Establishment is fit to exist, she must be able to have the truth told about her, and if she cannot stand this ordeal, she must be swept away without compunction or remorse. I may add that, as a Presbyterian, I have looked at the facts and figures 1 formed regard ing the Irish Church from a Presbyterian point of view, especially as I wish to show the great inequality which exists at present, and to prove to Presbyterians how much need they have to join Mr. Gladstone under the fair and manly standard, which has " religious equality" for its motto. The day has, I trust, come when Presbyterians will not "yield the palm" or " play second fiddle" to any denomination on earth, but will demand to be placed on an It considers that he would there be enabled to second Mr. Sumner, and with two such men from Massachusetts, the one in the Senate, the other in the House, great good might bs achieved. It says with great truth and force : " There is no likelihood of his going to the Senate at pre sent, and, oven if he could, the House is the place for him. It was in the House that his father won his greatest fame, and performed his best service. It is the Rouse that most needs men like Mr Adams, and never more than now." There is some talk among the Democrats of Chi cago of naming Robert Lincoln for Congress, but the ques tion is whether he will stand. The Hon. G. Bancroft, who has now made treaties between all the German States and the United States, visited Frankfoit-on the-Maine, where he was shown all the sights by the United States Consul there. Mr. Ban croft had not visited Frankfort since the time he gra duated at the University of Gottingen, forty-eight years ago. Healey, a clever and well-known American por trait painter, who hss for several years been practising Lis art in Chicago with great credit and success, is at the Bagne do Lucca, where he has joined his family, who preceded him, to Europe. He goes to Rome for the win ter. Healey, in 1836-7 paint , 3d Louis Philippa, Goizot, Marshal Soult, and other ccdebrities, in Paris. Tilton and Freeman are also at the Bagne do Lucca for the hot season, and return to Rome in October. The Rev. W. Rogers, rector of Bishopsgate, we understand, has left England for two or throe months, to make a tour through the United States, leaving his two curates in charge of the parish. Having succeeded in esta blishing the great middlo school in Bath-street, City-road, where there are above 800 boys, paying only £1 a year, he wishes to examine the various educational establish ments in America, to see what improvements may be in troduced here. Mr. Rogers is chairman of the Dulwich College School. When Brigham Young pronounced the praise of Mormons over the grave of Heber Kimball, he gave him a character for honesty and rectitude. A correspondent of tho Troy Times tells a story that puts a new face on Heber Kimball's character. Kimball began life in Fonda, New York, kept a country store, got into debt, and per suaded his father to mortgage his farm to save the son [fluidal disgrace, promising to pay the iaterest. Heber joined the Mormons, left the interest unpaid, the wort gage was foreclosed, and Heber's parents died in want. The llon. John A. Griswold reached Troy from Washington July 24, and was received at his home with great enthusiasm. There aro some who think his chances as the Republican candidate for Governor of Now York to be by no means bad. Benjamin Gerrish, jun., of Dover, New Hamp shire, who has just been confirmed as Consul to Nantes, is at present Secretary of the Republican State Committee, and confidential clerk of Onslow Stearns, the next Gover- nor, and has held many offices in tho State Government.. Reinhart, the American artist, now on a profes• sional visit to Lexington, Kentucky, is to take the portrai of General John Morgan and others during his stay. Be fore the war he came to Lexington, and painted a portrai of Gen. John C. Breckinridgo for tho Boston Club of Now Orleans, which has boon much admired for its accuracy and finish. The diocese of Rhoda Island is entering on a second Tyng case, the offender being : the Rev. Mr. Hub bard. The case has already attracted considerable atten tion, and is likely to widon the broach already existing in the Church. The Protestant Churchman, organ of the Low- Church party, assures Mr. Hubbard that " the sympathies of all Protestants are with him." Albert Blaisdell, of Greenland, New Hampshire, an extensive contractor and builder, is said to be the com ing man for the Hoosac tunnel completion contract. Henry Turner Eddy, of North Bridgewater, a re cent graduate of Yale College, has been appointed profes sor of natural history and chemistry in the University of East Tennessee, Knoxville. Of the 122 candidates who applied at the recent examination for admission to Harvard College, 37 were ad mitted clear of cond:tions, 66 were lightly conditioned, and the others heavily. . A Boston lady, passing the summer at Somerset, drove her own mowing machine to cut 10 acres of grass, because she couldn't hire a man to do it. The work was well and skilfully done. Mr. Robert Coningsby makes his tour in the United States, with an introduction from Mr. Seward ask-. ing the good offices of all who can aid him, and we may shortly expect his report on the condition of the American working man, embracing all details of their proficiency in mechanical art, of their mode of living, and its cost, labour, morals, education, &c., which, we presume, will be pub lished by the British Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, whose agent Mr. Coningsby is. The work of carefully surveying Narragansett bay, which was begun 20 years age, abandoned and again begun in 1860, has been resumed, and will be completed in the most careful and thorough manner. Abraham Bells, Son, and Co., an old New York banking firm, have, we regret to learn, failed. A movement is being made in Massachusetts to seat Charles Francis Adams in the Federal Senate, but Massachusetts will have no place vacant till Mr. Sumner's term expires in 1869, and such a movement is therefore altogether premature. However much Americans may desire to see the late Minister to England in the United States Senate it would scarcely be at the expense of Charles Sumner, a man who would dignify any assembly, and whose place, once vacant, it would be almost impos &lle to fill. The Becket lumbermen's and tanners' colony planted by Wheeler and Claflin in the wilderness at Caroga, New York, prospers. Throo lumber mills are running, and the largo tannery has been put into success ful operation. T 9 the 14,000 acres contained in the first purchases of land, 1,000 more have been recently added. The old army road, cut through the region in 1812, has long since fallen into disuse, and is grown up with trees. It was some time ago rebuilt four miles, and is now being made through to the Sacanadaga River, the whole dis tance nine miles, being across the territory owned by Wheeler and Olaflin. The erection of another large tan nery will be begun early in the fall. The settlers wore obliged to send a distance of eight miles for letters, but have recently established a post-office at their principal settlement, named Pine Lake. Worthington, Western Massachusetts, counts on a grand centennial, August 20. At the meeting on Monday evening, July 20, hold to elect officers, the following choice was made : —President, Elisha, H. Brewoster ; secre taries, Daniel Ward and C. M. Parsons; treasurer, E. S Burr; Marshal, Captain William Streakweather. Among the natives of the town who are to bo pre sent from abroad aro William Rice, of Albany; Judge Samuel A. Kingman, of Atchison, Kansas; acd Hon. A. D. Kingman of Hickman, Kentucky. William Cullen Bryant, whose birth honours the neighbouring town of Cummington, has promised to be present. A mammoth booth, 150 feet in length, will be built on the common south of the church, and therein tables will be spread with a royal repast prepared by the ladies of the town. The best musical talent of the town has been engaged, and a band will be furnished for the occasion. The town has a good war record, and appropriate will be the presence of a field piece to fire a salute of 100 guns ; and equally be fitting the presence, as escort, of Captain Anson F. Stevens's company of the first battalion of infantry. The trotting horse Ben Franklin has been sold for $8,500 to H. A. Hall, of Boston. The hydrographic survey of Maine, at the State expense, is nearly completed, and a new and accurate map is being prepared from its data. The average level of the State above tidewater is 1,000 feet above that of Moosehead Lake, which is 1,071 feet above. Each of the Norwich papers, in order to serve its New London (Connecticut) subscribers promptly, runs a t considerable expense a " horse express," which carries its papers to that place in advance of the cars, thus sav ing two hours' time, and giving New London the news at the breakfast table. The distance is 14 miles, and the drivers of the rival teams have a nice race almost every morning. The Whipple file manufacturing company at Ballardvale are about to commence the manufacture of I cast steel anvils. I LETTER FROM GEO. IRANCIS MALY. (From the Anglo American 1 inies.) Dublin, Four Courts, Marsholsea, August 10. Dear Anglo-American Times,—You are right. lam wrong. When preaching in a Christian pulpit —a pulpit of peace—l have no right to advert to war; but lam na turally antagonistic. Born half-way between Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill, I drank in independence from the old oaken bucket that hung in Liberty's well. What crime did I commit in introducing a cheap car riage for the English people ? What wrong was it for me to entertain at my own expense all your leading editors, authors, and statesmen at my banquets? Was it an un pardonable offence for mo to sacrifice my pocket for my country ? Will England never forgive me for fighting the battle of the Union ? If my street-railways were a nuisance in 1861, are they not a nuisance now ? Take notice that as patentee, introducer, and promoter of tramways, I shall claim my £5OO per mile royalty. England has treated me badly: in the tramways; in the Shelley affair ; on the Union question—and my record since I was taken from on board the Scotia for " wcrds spoken in America," and belonging to the race, breed, and believing in tha blood of my ancestors, I am proving myself game—hut in future will not shock the sense of your peace-loving readers by declarations of war. Two millions of Gorman Americans sold out by the great American historian. Is not a blunder more than a crime ? This tampering with the naturalization law of 1802 is destroying our nationality. "Art. 1. Subjects of the kingdom of Bavaria who have become naturalized citizens of the United States of North America, and have uninterruptedly lived during five years in the United States, are to be considered as American citizens and accordingly treated by Bavaria." The idea cl sending a bookworm Ix= Autoxioa to cope with German statesmen. Read that clause in Bancroft' Treaty, and see how we have insulted the great German nation that has been raised up in America. This clause is also in the North German Treaty : "Naturalized citizen of one State may be indicted and punished after returning into the territory of the other State if he has committed any act threatened with punish ment before his emigration, providing the crime has not become obsolete according to the laws of his original country." How does it happen that the German writers and Ger man editors—many of them the cleverest men of our na tion—have not pointed out this insult to their nationality ? The New York World has at last got its eyes open to what I wrote them at the time the first treaty was being signed. " Observe the practical effect of this. A native of Munich comes to New York. He is naturalized here, mar ried here, goes into business here, prospers, and becomes in all respects one of ourselves. In the course of his business, two or three years after his naturalization, he ' is called to make a jonenoy to Canada, or M.ixico, or Cuba. Six years afterwards, moved by a natural heinzwelt, or a longing to see the old friends of his youth, or in the mere pursuit of health or pleasure, he crosses the Atlantic, and once more sets foot in the artistic capital of King 'Allis. Under Mr. BAncroft's benign treaty this citizen, as worthy of protection by the American flag, and very possibly quite ac useful a member of the American family as Mr. Bancroft himself, may be seized and forced into military service as a Bavarian subject, he not having "uninterruptedly lived during five years in the United S tates." The World of July. HAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN HUMAN AFFECTION THAT ENGLISHMEN ARE BOUND TO RESPECT ? SUE BELLE AT loam. "In this open two seated phaeton go the children of George Francis Train ; they drive a pretty pony, and the young Miss who officiates is herself a pretty lass. , For comfort and pleasure combined, nothing has come along since I took my seat on the kerbstone that has pleased me more than this group of merry children.—Newport News. "Cottage-on-the-Sea, Newport, R.I. Sunday, July 19, 1868. "My darling Papa—l received your sweet little letter last week ; I was very glad to hear from you. Elsey and I are sitting in my room, and I have just taken off my dress so as to bo as comfortable as possible. Elsey is in his shirt sleeves too. Aunt Emma and Georgie have gone to walk on the cliffs. Elsey is as cross as possible, so I am not in the best of humours. Dear Papa, I expect when your last letter was written you had not received my last epistle, which, as a matter of course, was exceed ingly interesting. lam so sorry you are in gaol again, but it is nobody's fault but your own. I cannot under stand why you do not come home. We all miss you dreadfully, papa, dear. Thinking you might like to know who all wore here this summer, I enclose you a list which I cut out of the paper.* Elsey has gone off in disgust, so I am left all alone, which of course I do not relish greatly. Do come home, dearest papa. You do not know how much we want you to, or you would scarcely hesitate. I must close though now, darling papa, but with lots of love and bushels of kisses. —I remain your loving little daughter, " SUE BELLE. (This boy Elsey was named from John G. Elsey, tho head of the Discount Department of tho Bank of England.) * " Among the New Yorkers hero I notice the names of H. T. Tuckerman, the poet E. B. Willot, W. Mackey, Stuy vesant Le Hoy, Newbold Edgar, G. P. Wetmore, Partin Stevens, R. L. Maitland, R. M. Hunt, Daniel Fearing, and others ; also Mrs. August Belmont awl Mrs. George Francis Train, with their families. Mr. Belmont himself is expected, but as George Francis' movements are rather uncertain, his coming isnot much depended on. All of these gentlemen own places here, come early, stay late, iden tify themselves with the interests of the city, an,l, with many others, aro looked upon by the citizens almost as Newportafs. Among the foreigners are Count Rasen, of Stockholm, Commander Swedish Royal Navy; Baron Osten Sachen, Consul-General of Russia, and Baron Wes cisstide." A FATHER MATHEW MAN REFUSES TO BRIBE THE VOTERS WITH DRINK. When Nebraska was about changing its relations from Territory to State, I espoused the State question, and suc ceeded in carrying the vote of the people against the politi cal leaders who were against me. I was not ambitions to be a delegate, but wished to make my adopted home a State, and did. (From the Hudson Miss. Review.) GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON WHISKY.—Georgo Francis Train withdraws from the canvass as a candidate for ter ritorial delegate to . Congress from Nebraska, for reasons which are thus set forth : .....__ _ " I am told to-day that money is wanted for carriages to bring up the voters, and to scatter among the beer shops and groggeries. Any spare money I have, or may have, I prefer to devote to education and Christian chari ties. Purchasing vates debases the franchise and de moralizes the people. I. have lectured too often for the Irish Father Mathew Societies to go back on them by treating the voters. No wife or little children shall have reason to complain of a drunken husband or father on election day on my account. Whisky is the curse of our time. It is ruining our young men, and hurrying our old men into the grave. Rich and poor, high and low, alike are being destroyed under its blighting influence. When we have fewer breweries, fewer distilleries, and more Christian churches, more universities, and more schools, the law courts, the gaols will be lass patronized, and the world would bo better for it. (Extract of a letter from the Editor of the Revolution.) New York, July 25, 1868. _ _ Geo. Francis Train, Esq. My dear Sir,— * * * * The intensely hot weather, the depression in.business, the droning, do-nothing course of Congress, and the endless screeches of a Presidential election make times rather dull with us ; at least I over hear that from our counting-room, into which I seldom have occasion to enter. The Presidential contest is to be fierce. Both sides are full of confidence ; the sporting men telling of the many hats, and ;large sums they are ready to stake on both sides. For my part, had I the club of Hercules, I would smash them both into pumice, never again to be restored. We are calling for a new party, 3 people's party, or some kind of party that shall at least jeopard both, if not defeat them. But there is no leader, uo chi halo. Our Rome has lost the breed of noble blood, or never had it, and so every attempt at third-party opera tion fails. We know why Grant was nominated , but Seymour is a mystery, and Blair more so. We can get as good as they, but they would hav e no prestige, at least of the right kind, and nothing could be done with them. And, besides, we cannot harmonize between North :and South. The People's Weekly is all able journal, published in Washington and Baltimore, bu t full of negro hatred, and every way behind the nineteenth century. It would win the South and West by the rebel claim—or against " negro supremacy," and long and learned disquisitions in support of negro slavery, and ter rible denunciations of John Brown and the Garrisonia n school of abolitionists. But the North, where most strength and virtue are, will not brook such nonsense, and so much harmony seems out of the question. And then the "We man question" will be a still more disturbing element; and so prejudice, not principle, proscription, not justice and equality, will, I fear, hold sway for years yet to come' We appear to need a new Messiah able to take up the nation by the four corners, and shake the dust of dark ages out of it, and spread it out anew. But whence shall We look for his coming ? or for even his John the Bapti st heralding his approach ? The country is in great comnie tion. Strikes among workmen more extensive than even before; robberies, burglaries, suicides, and assassination s ; railroad and steamboat disasters unprecedented, and gen e " rally through most wanton carelessness ; Washington t den of forty times forty thieves, its weakness for g oo 3 only paralleled by its omnipotence for wickedness ;_ CO" gross disgracing itself every hour it sits, and yet not daring to adjourn and go home through fear of Andrew Johnson; pulpit, the deadest, dumbest dog of all the kennel ; if thi s be not an alembic out of which to distil the millennium' then it cannot always be true that one extreme follows another. We keep the revolution bell ringing and el whistle blowing as well as we can in the mids t the darkness. In the threatened deluge, if all else geel under, we hope at least that it shall find its Afoulld. Ararat, and save the seed corn for a new wor, Pardon the haste with which I write. The news y o i get daily per under the ocean, and weekly over it, se need not waste time on its tedious recitals. With kinde; regards, and remain yours in bonds as bound with you, am, very truly yours, PARKER PILLSBURY. Many pick up and pervert anything Spurgeon says to his detriment. As a plain, practical, straightforward person he detests humbug, and is 9 , 1' 4 t° shew this in a way his enemies can misconstrue. For /11- stance, when urging some of his friends to take part in the approaching political campaign, he was met with t he cant that they were not of this world. It was then that ela he burst out with " Why you might as well assert, being sheep of the Lord,' that it was cannibalism to eat a muttee chop." Of course, the remark went the rounds of the papers without the story which gave the meaning to the point. Governor Andrews, just before his death, related the following to a writer in the Transcript I w as 1 ; Washington just before Mr. Chase was nom inated th° Chief Justice ; and, at Mr. Lincoln's request , called g.t. White House. ' Here I am,' said Mr. Lincoln, "the rounded by documents relating to the vacancy on gr. Supreme Bench, and requests to appoint Mr. Chase- ice d Chase is a man of ability ; as a public office r, of 1 0r th e, fidelity ; as a politician, ambitious ; on the subject 01, ,no a Presidency, a little insane. He has said thingsrnloPyt ; which hav sent discord where there should be 0, but a man i e n my position should not harbour resent and I shall appoint him.' " h B. BIRT —On the 17th inst., at irths OAO, Whalebone House, West -.- the wife of George R. Bd, Esq., of a son. A : fftovf MAUDE—On the 16th inst i , at tho Rectory, Todu.n.- the Hon. Mrs. H. Maude, of a son. - Tar get ROWLEY— On the 14th inst., at Walesby Re ctory, Rasen, Mrs. Julius H. Rowley, of a son. Marriages. obi DAVIS DOUGLASS—On the 15th inst , at St. Paul's Ch i g o ßall's-pond, Herbert Hall, eldest son . of G. Dav is7 ee'st f St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, to Fanny Marion°ll,7oo daughter of Thomas Douglass, Esq•, of Sh-b Doc e-Ad East, Mildmay-park, Stoke Nomingto ci n, " N., an WIT commons, London. woig WITILYCOMBH—GILL-011 the 15th bast at East ep mouth Church, Wm. Withycombe, Esq., of G otli tc House, Bridgwater, to Ann Palmer, eldest &night ° the late Robert Gill, Esq., of Shurton, StogurseP Deaths. je utisli" Asir—On the 14th inst., at 12, Fortess-terrace, town, N.W., William Ash, Esq., aged 74. IltixTAßLE—On the 15th inst., at Craven Cottage' rri°ll; grove, Clapham, John Huxtable, Esq of St.folo-stree ' 1 Clerkenwoll, aged 47. , 4 „,. Goo. lIALDANE—On the 15th inst., at Cheltenham, Nittr-- Chlrlos Hanhury, H.M.I. A.. (Bengal), aged 71. jowl LIDDELL—At Monzievaird, near Crieff, the 1 1 ° 1 ' • Liddell, aged 65. splaci'-- MORLEY—On the 14th inst. at Brompton , Pr il liceioy, WO r borne Morley, widow of the late aiorga 810 of the Inner Temple, tarrister-at-law. ws, London : Printed and Published by WILLI/kg ANOttF) .r o 11% , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tun SuN OXON o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the a do - bliddlineZe•atteedayt august 18, 1888.