The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT, or TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday .Review, in an article on the Budget, expresses a fear that the income tax will never again be reduced to fourpence in the pound. The future Parlia ment will be returned by majorities exempt from direct taxation, and, therefore, indifferent to the hardships which it may involve. Mr. Bright, in a less statesmanlike mood than at present, formerly anticipated a happy era in which the poorest class should impose taxes to be paid by the owners of property. In the United States enor mous sums are levied for the purposes of townships, of cities, and of States, at the expense of the minority; and in the city of New York the Irish labourers chiefly elect a corporation which raises and spends five millions a year. The traditions of justice and sound economy will perhaps, in England, to some extent survive the system which produced them, especially while the national finances are administered by Mr. Gladstone and his contemporaries, cr even by his immediate disciples ; yet there are already indications of mischievous changes, and ultimate power is vested in a class which has been educated in jealwasy of wealth and in impatience of equal taxation. Mr. Huelies, lately presiding at a meeting of so-calledl financial reformers, propounded to an admiring audience a scheme of an income tat at the same time discriminated and graduated. If his plan were adopted, the tax-gatherer would distinguish his subject matter according both to quality and to quantity, and money would no longer represent equal values, according to its amount, as it would be variously taxed with relation both to its origin and its tenure. The artisans, as they are described by Mr. Frederick Harrison in a very able essay, form a class capable of ideas, whereas the old con stituencies and their representatives were satisfied with the rules of arithmetic. No idea is older among the poor . than that the rich ought to be made to pay, and the finan cial refoimers will certainly agree with proposals which Mr. Hughes had not, perhaps, sufficiently considered. Mr. Harrison is also right in anticipating that the new constituencies will be vigorous as well as impulsive, and that the legislation which they inspire will be rapid and decisive. Ideas and property are generally antagonistic. The Abyssinian twopence, which Mr. Gladstone holds to be an English rather than an African twopence, will serve as the commencement of the impending change ; but the Government is scarcely responsible for a risk which could in no case have been averted. It was a sufficient objec tion to a loan that it would have been opposed by Mr. Gladstone, whose authority on a financial question would have been, not unreasonably, regarded by the House of Commons as conclusive. The John, Bull observes that inasmuch as al taxation is unpleasant, it would be too much to expect the Bull family to give up their beloved growl, upon so opportune an occa sion as the present, when statistics shew a serious increase of expenditure, and a corresponding failure of commercial returns. It is, therefore; much to Mr. Hunt's credit that his first assumption of the wheel of this' vessel of the State has elicited, if not, entire satisfaction, at all events general approval. Indeed Mr. Gladstone's sym. pathy with the difficulties of the present Chancellor, who is called at a most inauspicious moment to direct our finances, speaks no less for his candour than it enhances the value of concurrence. Of course so long as men prefer plucking jewels with Aladdin to carrying about a heavy burden with Sinbad, there will always be fault-finders ; but it is an admitted fact that among many means of meeting our requirements, Mr. Hunt has hit upon the one least objectionable. It has been said that the increase of the income tax, whilst it is the most obvious measure, has the objection of placing immense power in the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as a mere political engine ; but what can be more preposterous than in one breath to admit this to be the most popular mode, and in the next to deprecate its adoption? Who wonders that the House loudly approved the expressed resolution not to disturb trade by changing taxation on articles of consumption? When, moreover, the plan was subsidised by the very legitimate system of issuing fresh Exchequer Bonds, and of applying the successful method of levying the dog tax to other collection of the public revenue, it was felt that, though not possessed of any peculiar brilliancy, in this hour of financial gloom, the proposed Budget *as, at all events, of a sound and practical cha. racter. The Spectator confesses that there are many difficulties about Mr. Shaw Lefevre's proposal with regard to married women and their property. But what is now at stake is the principle of legal protection for married women. We must not let any questions of detail divert us from the main issue. If it be right to remodel the whole relation be tween husband and wife, a bill to that effect must be intro duced before we are asked to abandon the one now in progress. At some future time it may be well to ascertain how far the husband ought to be liable for his wife's debts, and what is the proper doctrine of necessaries. The present bill does not go to these legal subtleties, nor does it, so far as we are aware, touch on a great many other points which give rise to confusion and trouble in the daily transaction of business. Any one who is accustomed to the forms of laW is aware of the absurd complications which are needed before a married woman can have any legal redress against a stranger. In some cases husband and wife must sue and be sued jointly. In others the husband and wife together must sue for part, and the husband alone for the rest. It may be said that there is no great hard ship in all this ; and we arc far from setting up these remnants of an obsolete jargon as instances of the injustice of the English law of husband and wife. All that can be urged against them is that these cases are exceptional. It is not every husband that lives on his wife's earnings. It is not every husband that is reckless, improvident, or vicious. Some men would allow their wives to draw their money cut of the savings hank, or even to keep it there. Others are so scrupulous that they give themselves great trouble to procure their wives' signatures to bills which they might cash under their own endorse ment. For such people the change in the law will In needless, and all others may be disarmed, by the payment of £l5O to an attorney. If nothing more than this, and the pompous platitudes about authority and subordination, savouring strongly of the henpecked husband, can be ad vanced against the protection of married women, Mr. Shaw Lefevre's bill ought to be sure of pgssing. The London Review answers the statement made by the telegraph companies against the Government taking theiz property. It is contended on the part of the telegraph companies that we cannot take the experience of Belgium and Switzerland, where the telegraph service is in the hands of the Government, as a guide. They contend, in a state ment in which the subject is fully discussed, that no fail comparison can be drawn between the efficiency of tilt service here and in those countries from the proportion o telegrams to letters, because a system has grown up in this commercial country of distributing by means of the post millions upon millions of tradesmen's circulars. This is true, and if the test is fallacious for one purpose it i► fallacious to all. It is admitted, however, that 0,127,00 f telegraphic messages are already sent annually in the United Kingdom, and the question is whether the reduced rate and the increased facilities which the Post Office would provide would not before long bring the number ur to Mr. Scudamore's estimate. Nothing has been more clearly proved by the experience of the Post Office than aE power to extend its operations indefinitely, in the two con ditions of cheapness and facility. The question whether a man will write a letter or not depends often upor whether the receiving•house is half a mile off, or within few doors of him. Neither in point of cheapness nor facilit3 can the tele,, , raph companies compete with the Government. It seems to us that. the case of the Post Office ought ratite, to be argued upon this ground than by a comparison witl what has been done in Belgium and Switzerland. Then are important particulars peculiar to one which are not tA be found in the other, and which, therefore, destroy any argument based upon analogy. For example, both it Belgium and Switzerland the railways are in the hands o' the Government, while in both countries the telegraphs d( a large business in what is called " transit " telegrams— that is to say, telegrams sent through them in transit fron one country to another. If, with a costly and compara tively inferior machinery, our wires already transmit up wards of 6,000,000 telegrams annually, does not all ow experience warrant the belief that, with lower charges anc greater facilities, we shall not be long in reaching Mr Scudamore's paying point of 11,000,000 ? The Imperial Review argues that capital punishment it necessary for the prevention of murders. The debate raised by .Er. Gilpin's amendment um interesting, an served to bring out the opinions of Mr. J. s, Arn e- Ti n only ground on which our contemporary can regret tht results of Tuesday's debate is, that it served to advanc( through another stage the questionable innovatim embodied in Mr. Hardy's bill. Although it cannon be denied that the measure has been received witl general approbation by the House of Commons, and that its principle has been i)revionsly affirmed by the House et Lords, it is not impossible that before five years have passed it will be repealed to make way either for total abolition or for a return to the old system of public executions Despite of all the exaggmted lan,L;nage which has beet nsed in depicting the sc..nes which are to be witnessed as the fo )t of tl what gro tl,i are yet at a loss to conceive s modifieAtion in err imtho(l of elf th can he defend .l. - No doubt tlu i c a,s e mble to witness au execution behave in very brutal inenner. To exi>ect that they would no argues an ign(iranc , of the materials of which such crowd 11111,it he composed. No doubt pockets are picked 01 such occasions. Then! never is a crowd in London in wide! pockets are not picket!. It is not for the especial effec produced upon the witnesses of an execution that we ad vocate publicity. It is for the effect which the publicit: pr . oiluces on the mind Of the criminal, and for the cer which it impreses upon the public that the penalt; )' 11 Y been inflicted. this measure these results() punishment aresanificcd, and it is difficult to per CQrapens;Ating advantages arc attained. THE COLLIERS' S.7.RIICE IN SOUTH LANCASHIRE. The town of Wigan was in a most :excited state' all Thursday night and Friday morning. The most disquieting rumours were afloat, and when several hundreds of the turnouts marched with bold step through the centre of the town about midnight, the greatest alarm was felt. The authorities, however, were fully prepared. A deputation of colliery proprietors had waited upon the Secretary of State in the forenoon, and in the afternoon the mayor of the borough received a telegram from Mr. Hardy, stating that a deputation of coalmasters had been at the Home Office, complaining that protection had been withdrawn from the peaceably disposed men who were desirous of working, and who had been interfered with by armed bands moving about the district. It was asked from the mayor whether his force was sufficient for the maintenance of the peace of the borough. His worship called a meeting of magistrates promptly, and laid the telegram before them. A reply was sent to the effect that no protection had been withdrawn by the borough magistratf‘q. and the complaint of the deputation must have had reference to what had been done outside the borough. It was, however, desirable that another company of soldiers should be sent into the borough, and that protection should be afl%,rded to the men in the sur rounding distiiets. A telegram was also sent to the military authorities in the county. The same evening no soldiers reached Wigan from Preston, and on Friday morning troops of infantry and cavalry were sent in, and were at once despatched to the several quarters which were threatened. Shortly after midnight on Thursday two large bodies of men proceeded through Wigan in the direc tion of Standish. They were followed by the borough police and a detachment of the military stationed in Wigan. The men proceeded to the Gidlow pits of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, where they pulled the fires from beneath the boilers, and tried to move the engines in order to damage the machinery. The special constables and county police, who had been summoned to the spot by rockets, attacked and drove away the mob. The police used their staves freely, and several of the rioters received very severe wounds. One of the men had to be conveyed into a neighbouring cottage. The mayoi has issued a further proclamation, giving notice that the magistrates are determined to suppress unlawful meetings and processions. LAW AND POLICE. THE " ST. STEPHEN'S" MAGAZINE. —ln the Court of Ex chequer, before Mr. Baron Channell, the case of Bennett v. Lewis was resumed. The plaintiff, a printer, sued the defendant for £2OO. The defendant paid £l4O into court, and alleged that that was a sufficient sum, as the magazine was badly printed, and there was so great a delay in getting it out the, instead of appearing on the Saturday it was impossible to place it in the hands of the public before Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £5l beyond the amount paid into court. THE CASE OF SCALDING IN A CONVENT. —The charge against a pupil teacher at a convent in Pimlico, for scald ing a child under three years old, has been tried at the Middlesex Sessions. The defence of the accused, that she placed the child at the edge of the copper to frighten it, and had not the least idea or intention of its getting into the boiling water, was accepted by the jury, who re turned a verdict of not guilty. The judge, in discharging the prisoner, very properly reprimanded her for adopting such a dangerous mode of punishing infants of 'so tender an age. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF TEA. —At the Middlesex Ses sions William Tilly, 27, and Bernard Craven, 34, were charged with stealing 2001 b. weight of tea, value £4O, the property of David Cruttenden, from a barge called the Rosa, lying in the River T;iames. On the Ist of April a quantity of tea was stolen from the barge in question. About seven o'clock on the morning of the 2nd Tilly and another hired a cart in Shadwell from a man named Fearn, who sent one of his own men with it. By direction of the hirers this latter man drove the cart to Millwall, where the tea was loaded - nto it, Tilly being one of those assisting to load the cart. A witness, named Collings, a fireman, saw four men on land and two in a boat un loading something from the boat and taking it to the cart, Craven being one of them, and at once give information to the police. Craven was taken into custody the same day, and made no answer to the charge. Tilly denied having been near Shadwell on the morning in question, or having hired a cart there. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. Several previous convictions were proved against Craven. Tilly was known as a companion . _ of thieves. The Assistant-Judge sentenced Tilly to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and Craven to seven years' penal servitude. _ FRIED DT A FIIIENDLY SOCIETY'S OFFICEItS.-At the Worship-street Police court, Robert Welton, described as a stonemason, was charged with embezzling certain sums of money, the property of John Willis and others. It seemed that the prisoner was elected secretary of a society called the Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons, and for performing that office received a salary of 30s. quar terly. Richard llarlott, general secretary of the society, stated that in April 1867 he was with the committee at Bradford and Dolton, and an account (produced) was sent to him by the prisoner in April 1867. It bore no entry of any money having been sent to him on the 9th of April, and he had not received any money from the Shore ditch branch of the society on the 9th of April. He did not receive £5 on the 18th of June, as was stated in the fortnightly account sent to him. In consequence of not having received such money he wrote to the prisoner respecting it, but he did not receive any reply. The accused was remanded. — William Ilockie, the treasurer of the same society, was also charged with embenlement. James Wilks deposed that prisoner was elected treasurer in May 1866, and his duty as such treasurer was to keep a cheque-book and a cash-book. The cheque-book should contain the entries of all moneys paid by the members. The prisoner, as treasurer, had a key of the cash-box, and Welton, the secretary, had another key. Witness had seen it pro duced at the meetings, and had seen prisoner put in and take out money, but on the 4th of March, after the prisoner was discharged in consequence of some dis coveries made, the box was broken open, but no money was found in it. He was also remanded. THE BANKRUPTCY OF SIR MORTON PETo.—Before Vice- Chancellor Stuart, the case of Fielding v. Goschen and others came on for trial. In this case a motion was made, which was in terms to dismiss the bill in the suit for want of prosecution, but substantially for an order that the assignees of Sir Morton Peto might be made parties to it. The snit related to certain foreign concessions in which Sir Morton Peto was interested. He was a defendant to the suit, and had put in an answer to the bill, after which he bad been declared a bankrupt. The plaintiffs had since filed a replication in the cause, which it was now said must be taken off the file for irregularity; and, further it was contended that Sir Morton Peto's interest in ..he suit having vested in his assignees, they, rnd not be, •vere the proper parties to it. The Vice-Chancellor mad- :in order directing the assignees to he added as parties ti, the suit by a supplemental bill within one month from tliiB time, and that the costs of the motion should be costs in the Cause. It is expected that the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Leeds, will be opened by the Prince of Wales on Tuesday, the 19th of the ensuing month. At a private meeting of the To su Council, it was announced that his Royal Highness would also receive an address from that body, to be presented in the infirmary building im mediately upon his arrival there. ATROCIOUS MunDEn JN RUSSlA.—Details aro published in the Russian journals concerning the murder of the Gerearine family at Tamboff. The culprit, a tutor named Gorski, has confessed his guilt. He had gone, he says, to the residence of M. GLimaTine on the Ist March last to give a lesson to the son, but without any intention of committing a crime on that day. While he was thus occupied the father went out. Gorski then determined to take advantage of the oppor- tunity. He had carried a revolver and life-preserver about with him for a whole week. He at once struck his pupil over the head, and the latter dropped insen sible to the ground. On seeing him fall Gorski was seized with remorse, and his first movement was to escape, but, fearing fo be discovered, he again beat the boy until life was extinct. There were three other persons in the house—the mistress, the cook, and a man-servant. He first called to the mother, saying that her son Was bleeding at the nose, and when she entered the room he shot her dead with the pistol ; he next sumrnond the man into the ;lining-room, and killed him in the same manner; lastly, 7ic fired twice at the cook, wounding her each time, and on •ier attempting to escape he deprived her of - life with )lows of the life-preserver. He waited in the kitchen mtil the housekeeper returned, and on I:er arrival shot at )er, but as the pistol dial not go off he killed her by a single ,!ow with a log of Wood. As the mechanism of the revolve] etd become disarranged he went out to get it repaired, ud on returning met the eime:man and the nursemaid. 11l night have killed them both, he said, but his hand refuse 2 to obey his will. He then suffered so much from remora that he went home with the intention of committing sui Bide. He put the barrel of the pistol to his mouth, but ;he instinct of life was too strong, and he could not earn 3 out his intention. Gorski admits that his object was is rob Ganarine. He is only nineteen years of age, but o a most energetic character. He belongs to a Catholic family. but delarez that he himself has no religious belief THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1868. IBEPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The Loan CITA:MELLOR. took his seat on tho woolsack at five o'clock. THE SALE OF IRON BALLAST. Tho Duke of SOMERSET asked a question relative to the sale of iron ballast. The Earl of MALMESBURY replied that ho could not answer the question himself, but would inquire of his friend at the head of the Admiralty. THE ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES. • Earl RUSSELL said that ho had great doubts about the propriety of referring this bill to a select committee, but after having considered the matter attentively z he had come to the conclusion that ho should consent to such a commit tee. BANKRUPTCY REPEAL BILLS. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that since ho introduced theso bills he had received several communications which induced him to make some amendments to these bills; therefore he thought it would be best to go now through committee with these bills pro firma, and then to explain the amendments on the report being brought up. Ile proposed, therefore, to go into these details on Monday week next. Lord ROMILLY stigmatised some of the clauses of this bill, as containing the most arbitrary and unjust enact ments, and such that perfectly innocent persons might suffer from. After some argument on the part of Lord CRANWORTH and the Lout) CHANCELLOR, which was purely technical, the bills wore committed and passed. THE PROMISSORY OATHS BILL. This bill was committed and passed. OYSTER AND MUSSEL FISHERIES BILL. The Earl of MALMESBURY moved the second read ing of this bill, and it passed. THE PUBLIC PETITION BILL. The following select committee on this bill was ap pointed :—Marquis of Bath, Earl of Devon, &c. STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERS. The Earl of LICHFIELD asked whether a number of Staffordshire colliers had left employment in the coal pits of Lancashire in consequence of the magistrates and police having declined through inability to protect them from violence and personal inqury. The Earl of MALMESBURY said that he believed that that was the state of things, and he was sorry for it. There had been a deputation to Mr. Galhorne Hardy of the coal owners in Lancashire that morn ing, and he had inquired of the chief constable, and had been informed that his forco was not sufficient to protect these men Mr. Hardy had also telegraphed to the Mayor and others, and found that they had not force enough. lie then made application to the Horse Guards, and a troop of cavalry and 300 infantry had been sent to the spot. This, it was hoped, would be a sufficient force. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Mr. S. MILL gave notico that on the 6th May he should move for leave to bring in a bill to establish municipal corporations in the metropolis, and also for a bill for tho mention of a corpration of London. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. In reply to Mr. GRAVES, Mr. S. BOOTH said it was not the intention of the Go vernment to invite competition for the conveyance of mails to the West Indies. THE BANK OF BOMBAY. In reply to Lord WILLIAM HAY, Sir S. NORTIICOTE said it was not thought desirable to make special provisions with respect to the inquiry into the matters connected with the failure of the Bank. He had received a telegram from the Governor-General stat ing that he had given powers to the Commission to compel the attendance of witnesses, ecc. ; and ho had also asked him (Sir S. Northcote) to appoint a memberof the Commis sion, and he accordingly nominated Sir C. Jackson. Ho had reason to believe: the whole matter would be thoroughly investigated. Mr. J. PEEL asked whether the Act of 1863, which it war said had led to the mismanagement and failure of the Bank of Bombay, was not submitted to and approved by the Secretary of State for India before it was passed by the Council of Bombay ? Sir S. NORTIICOTE replied that it was not. THE DISTURBANCES IN WIGAN. In reply to Major ANSON (in the absence of Lord Elcho), Sir J. FERGUSON said it was quite true that disturb ances existed in Wigan, but he could not state the extent the acts of violence had proceeded to. Telegraph commu nication had taken place between the Home-office and the magistrates as to whether they had sufficient force at their command to compel submission to the law, but receiving an unsatisfactory answer troops had been at once de spatched to Wigan. TILE DISTURBANCES IN CIIETE. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr. MONK called the attention of the house to tho cor respondence respecting the disturbances in Crete, pre sented to Parliament by command of her Majesty in November, 1867. Sir F. GOLDS MID condemned the conduct of Greece with respect to the insurrectionary movement in Crete, as, instead of remaining neutral as she ought, kept up the flame by surreptitiously supplying arms and other means for continuing the struggle against Turkey. Had this not been the ease, tranquillity would long ago have been restored. It appeared to bo the desire both in Crete and Servia to drive the Jews away, and make them vagrants, and then to punish them for being that which they had been mhdo. After a short discussion the motion for papors was with drawn, and The house shortly afterwards adjourned. TRAINING REPORTS. KINGSCLERE.—On Thursday Satyr, Xi, Wolsey (with bandages on both tore-logs), The Palmer, Green Sleeve, Cotytto, Vabalathus, Vagabond, King Cophetun, Pero, Gomez, Nyl Gnu, and Sister to Rosicrucian all cantered up the hollow on the Cannon Heath Downs. In the Prince of Wales's Stakes Xi, The Palmer, and Cotytto aro etgaged, but in my opinion neither will run. Should, however, any be asked, it will bo the last-named, but she would have a poor chance, as she has been eased of late in her work. Spring Stakes—Blue Gown, should ho run, could win, despite his penalty of 121 b. He is likely, however, to be reserved. Two Thousand—ln Rosicrucian, Green Sleeve, and Blue Gown we have three superb animals, who aro sure to render their names illustrious. Rosicrucian is cer tainly big, but my present opinion is., that ho will after a II represent Sir Joseph Hawley for this event, which is con firmed by his work of this morning. Should ho run, he will not only win, but easily too, as I am quite certain he is one of the best horses the turf has seen for years. Blue Gown and Green Sleeve are both very fit, and if either is wanted at the last moment, will be found formidable sub stitutes for the favourite, and quite capable of taking his or her own part. Blue Gown will reverse the running with The Earl in the Newmarket Stakes, as the distance will serve him better than when they last met, for it is my belief that Blue sown likes a mile more than any other course. Green Sleeve and Adosiuda are in the One Thou sand, and should Green Sleeve bo reserved for this event she will be returned the winner. NEWMARKET.—On Friday Le Sarrazin, lOuragan, and Capitaine went a steady gallop across the Flat. St. Ro nan cantered steadily, and Bluekskin only walked. Bis: marck led Pace and Harvester, after two canters, a steady gallop of a mile. Vale Royal cantered, and then galloped with The Peer a mile. Julius, led by Lanark, went a good gallop of two miles. Leonia and Lady Coventry only cantered. St. Angela and Marmite went well for a mile and a half. In the Two Thousand Hayhoe, jun., has Slanderer and Lymington, whose late performances will be the best guide to their form. Godding has Kettle holder, and ho is a sound, useful horse, though rather small, and not good enough for this race. lie will win a good handicap some day. La Sarrazin is a small com pact colt, very sound and wiry, and has undergone a good preparation, and cannot be made more fit than he is at present. I am fully prepared to see him run forward. Lord Stanford's Vale Royal I have had but little chance to form an opinion of, but it is said, when tried with Python, he won very easily. The running since of Python does not speak volumes for Vale Royal, and all I can say is, he appears sound, and has, since ho came here, done a fair amount of work. Pace is a great big horse, but has created a good deal of divided opinion. I believe him myself to be no roarer, as ho is called by some, and up to the present day he has not been sick or sorry an hour. From my own personal observations, too, setting aside all "aristocratic" opinion, I venture to predict that Pace will be at the head of the poll on Tuesday next, with the French horse, Le Sarrazin, in close attendance. The Prince of Wales's Stakes the best of John Dawson's will win. BECKHAMPTON.—Er. Wooleot's team numbers fifteen horses, including Huntsman, Caithness, Scipio, Strad broke, Beanstalk, Janet Rawcliffe, Formosa, and several two year olds, and there nevsr was a lot of horses looking better, for they are all as clean and healthy as they pos siblE be. I saw Formosa stripped on Wednesday, and theilityleolied wonderfully well, in fact she is a perfect picture, her - coat shining. like satin. She is ono of the most improved mares in the country, as she has grown both taller and longer. She has undergone a long, steady prepitration, and She looks as bard as nails, and I feel con fident.lie will win. Wonlcot has taken great pains with her;*ited it will c..rtainly bo no fault of his if she is beaten. Ho Vas had her at work ever since Christmas, and she has notteen Sick or sorry all the winter. She is also engaged in the Ono Thousand. Janet Rawcliffe I do not like much, as and:has grown tall and light, but she may win a race or two - over a short cut. Caithness, Stradbroke, and Bean stalk are engaged in the Chester Cup. The first-named has very much improved, having thickened greatly, and is now a lengthy horse -just the sort to suit the Chester conise. Wp►TEs.—The Earl arrived hero on Tuesday night in a van from Danbury, to try William Day's Two Thousand lot next day. On Wednesday morning the weather was so fearfully bad that could not see the result, as I could scarcely see two hundred yards before me, but I have since learned that The Earl cleaned them out in a canter, Banditto being second ; so, of course, if that is their opinion, they have no chance for the Guineas. The general opinion here is that they are far from being good enough, in which I concur. RlClDlOND.—Friday.—Lord Ronald, Chelsea, and Virtue have left for Newmarket, all fit and well. Lord Ronald runs for the Prince of Wales's Stakes, in which he will take a deal of beating. 'Chelsea must be hacked for the Two Thousand, as he has greatly improved, and goes like a lion. Mysotis leaves on Monday. The horses I hear are detained on the road through an accident at Raskelfe. Beside those mentioned, we shall hive nothing at head- quarters. MIDDLEITA.3I.—We have nothing engaged in the Two Thousand or Ono Thousand, and the only horses from this quarter I find entered at Newmarket aro Tabouret and Skysail. The first-named is in the Spring Stakes, aid he is fit to run, but I should prefer him over a longer course. Skysail is moderate, and can have no chance. Our Chester Cup horses have been sent along the last two • days, viz., Miuster Bell, Priest, Mercury, Bracken, and Palisade. Weather Star and Fortunio, engaged iu the Great Northern, are also doing good two miles work, look ing and going well. Mercury, Dena Main, Tabouret, and the colt out of Viscountess, our Derby representatives, are also in good work, and going well. The first-named has grown into a very nice colt, and should he keep well ho will be found about the best outsider in the race. La Mousse is going on well for the French Derby, moving first class. STOCKBRIDGE. —At Newmarket on Monday there is a match between The Earl and See-Saw, which I think the former is sure to win, as ho will bo found a little batter than he was last week. On Wednesday ho went to Wm. Day's, and I believe galloped away from all the Wood yeates Two Thousand horses. He has returned, and did a very nice gallop this morning (Friday), with Logarithm and Athena, of a mile and a half. In the Two Thousand we have Herald and Cock of the Walk. Both have done plenty of work for this engagement, and are fit and well. Herald your readers saw run at Newmarket last week, which I fear was his true form, and I think he is a very bad horse, and has no- chance at all. Ono Thousand.— Lady Elizabeth has been doing remarkably well of late, but of course cannot be got ready for this race. Athena has clone plenty of work since she last appeared in public, and I am sure will run a much better animal, and will give some trouble to whatever may win. lam quite certain in my own mind that Beauty had no business to beat her. Newmarket Stakes.—The Earl and Athena are eagaged, and I think The Earl is sure to win. I hear they are going to try the cutting down game with Blue Gow n ; if so, all I can say is, the latter will get beaten much easier than he was in the Biennial. Lady •Elizabeth galloped on Wednesday, led by Athena, over a mile and a half. Thursday—Lo garithm led her the same distance. Friday—lt began rain ing hard, so all the horses were sent in after having can tered once, with the Exception of The Earl, Athena, and Logarithm, who galloped. FINDOX.—For the Two Thousand we have only a soli tary- candidate, viz., Madrid, who is a good horse, but not yet ready. He is, however, at present doing very well. In the Prince of Wales' Slakes, on Monday, wo have Sir David Gam at Gst 121 b. He is under orders, and will run well. Sweepstakes of 50 soya each, on Wednesday.— Owain Glyndwr is a certain runner, an4 . l4iS.chailes is se-- eend, to none. • • 31.aVros.—Prince of' Wales's Stakes, Ta - rahan has un dergone a strong preparation, and never, looked cirivent better in his life, and I think he will win. On Thnrsihiy Flash Emma led Betrayal a three-parts speed gallop of a mile and a half. Consternation went a mtle., led. Agrippa a mile. Mother Neasham led Agrippa a se cond gallop of - half a mile at her best pace. Amendment, Vedette filly, Camillo, Buccaneer filly, and "Di Spanker galloped a mile. The following, after a couple of gallops, were sent a rattling sweat of five miles:— Westwick, Taraban, The Spy, Viscount, and War. After the first mile they wore joined by Kentish Fire, Toison d'Or, and IThe Clipper, all pulling up sound and well. The only horses we shall have at Newmarket will be The Spy and Taraban. CitlLToN.—ln looking over the programme for Now market I find we have nothing engaged, but we shall most likely send the colt by Muscovite (a three year old), for something, as ho is doing rattling work of a mile by him self. He is a big strapping horse, with plenty of bone, having some raro legs under him, and ig a id,. fit. Tho Scout, Osprey, Vigilant, Alberta, St. Agnes, and Cara aro in strong work. STANTON.—WadIow has been very busy the last few days with his horses for Newmarket. In the Two Thou sand we have See Saw and the colt by Thormandy out of Amalia. The last named will not go, and if he did would stand no earthly chance. He is only up to plating form, and is, moreover, short of work. See Saw has dole plenty of work, and has undergone a gradual preparation ; but I should certainly have liked his chance much better had he carried mote weight in his gallops. lam afraid when ho gets about 2st more on his track he will not move so freely. We have nothing here fit to try him with, and ho is sure to run untried. His noble owner was hero on Wednesday, when the whole of his team were marched past for his inspection. After that See Saw was led by Attack colt, and accompanied by Ranee colt, a little over a mile at a steady pace. Ile was sent on Thursday a rasp ing mile and a half gallop, and pulled up fresh. If he goes to the post I think he will be worth a place investment. He is also engaged on Monday in a match with The Earl, at 101 h, which ho will win. ILSLEY.—III the Two Thousand we have Ironmaster and Proctor engaged. Ironmaster is daily doing good work for this event. Ile looks as bright as a star in his coat, and goes bettor than over I saw him. This (Thurs day) morning he had two cantors of half a mile each, and a good gallop of a little over a mile at a good pee from end to end. No horse in the world can be in better con dition, tut with all this I don't think he is class enough for a race like this, and I hare no fancy for him even fora place. Proctor is a good looking colt, and a fine mover, but by the work he is doing I don't think he will see the post, as he is only taking trotting and cantering exercise by himself. Viridis, in the Prince of Wales's Stakes is well, but I don't think she will start for it. Cap-a-Pie is doing gooll work for the Coffee-room Stakes, and will run well. Slowman, in the Newmarket Two Year Old Plate, is a nice little _horse, and a capital goer, and will take his own part if he runs. Our Chester Cup nags—Dalby, Viridis, and Landscape—are doing well, as also Orion for the Derby. Lord Lyon has commenced steady work again, and is as fresh as a kitten. Achieve ment is taking long steady work by herself. She looks and goes as well as ever. HEDNESFORD.—The recent rains have done our training graunds a world of good, and our horses are enabled to do their work something like they ought to do. In accord ance with your instructions, I shall be brief in my report, as we have nothing with half a chance for the Two Thou sand or any other event at Newmarket next week. Uncas and Kidderminster are going on as well as ever, and I think they will both show up at Chester, when the public will see what improved horses they are. FYFIELD.—Ou Thursday the Marquis of Ailesbury and Mr. Payne were here to see their horses gallop, and the following five were stripped and sent a rattling spin of about a mile, finishing in the order named :---Moslem, Skipjack, Citron, Picnic, and Franchise. This does not may much for the latter's chance for the One Thousand, but I think it was too bad to be true. Two Thousand — Boanerges has not done much since his return from New market, though I see a contemporary states he has. Mosle m has been going on remarkably woll, improving daily, a nd should he keep right he will be very bad to beat. Ho is alto engaged in the Spring Stakes and Prince of Wales's Stakes. Prince of Wales's Stakes—Moslem, Citron, Skip jack, and Safety are all fit to run, but I like Citron the best at the weights. lie has been doing some good work lately, going well, and, if wanted, will about win. Friday.—After cantering, our Two Thousand horse, Moslem, galloped a mile, going well. Franchise and Citron galloped the same distance, pulling up sound and well. LAMBOURXE.—We have a few horses engaged at Now market next week, but I don't know yet which will be sent. The Parson, Mayflower, V o rtigern, Kingsland , Cawdor, and Student are in the Free Handicap on Student. Mon day, and they are all in good work ex ce p t p oo It would be useless for me to offer a n opinion on this event, but I may say that Mayfl ow er is the p mentioned. Glenderg, The Person, Patrician/ick of the lot r and Sun stroke are our Two Thousand nags. Glondoro has been stopped in his work the last few days, and will not run, Patrician is only moderato, and Tho Parson I cannot listen to on this occasion. Sunstroke I believe to be the be . st of our lot, but whether he will run or not I cannot say. He is a big horse, and, in my opinion, is not by any moans so fit as he can be made ; still I think highly of his chance, and should he be sent it would not surprise me to see him run into a place. I have never, however, seen his name in the betting, and I therefore suppose we shall not trouble the winner of the Guineas this year. EPSONI.—WO have not many horses engaged at New market next week. In the Prince of Wales's Stakes (li.M.), Redivivus and Melbourne are engaged, but I do not fancy either. Two Thousand.-3lelbourno is very moderate, and Redivivus is not a whit better. Balsamo has boon doing very well, and has much improved since Brom loy,and although, if he runs, be will meet different company to what ho has hitherto done, he has got an outside chance. He is certainly a fine, strapping horse, and as good a goer as anybody could wish to see. Two Year Old Plate.— We have Juanita, Baroness, and Glen Stuart, but their chance is next to hopeless. Prince of Wales's Stakes (Cesare witch Course).—Ailesbury is in, and it looks a good thing for him, as ho has only the shifty Taraban to beat. LEIVES.—At Newmarket, on Monday, we have the follow ing engaged :—Prince of Wales's Free Handicap—Leases, Choral, Ines, and Elmira. In my opinion Ines is the best, but as she has another engagement on the mine day, 1 should prefer her for the Princess of Wales's Stakes. I think she will about win, if wanted, as she is very fit. For the Two Thousand Guineas, we have Peter and Sam son engaged, but neither will run. Samson has done but little work this week, although ho 16 very roach improved in his action, and I think will win a good race before the season is over. Ines is in a Sweepstakes of 300 sovs ; she has a very moderate lot to meet;' and I think will win. Sweepstakes of 25 says. Leases is in ; he is looking vary well, and left Lewes this - Morning, bun did not hear if he was going to head quarters or not. Wivhave several two year olds engaged, but none of Ahem have been doing sufficient work to have any chance with the company they will have to meet. THE "NO POPERY" CRY. An abortive endeavour to revive that most ridicUlous of all cries, the cry of " No Popery," would actually seem to be the only device sug gesting itself to the Prime Minister of England -ith a view to the )ostponement, if )ossible with a ,_ postponentem,, for yet a little while longer, of the evil day when the Irish Church Establishment must be abolished. And it is not that the Pre mier has intimated thus much in a momentary ebullition of temper under the excitement or direct incentive of a heated imagination. His declaration he has endorsed in cold blood. His avowal at the close of an animated debate he has reiterated with the pen in his hand, and with the utmost deliberation. Related, as this is, of a cool-headed tactician like the present First Lord of the Treasury, the incident seems to be the result of little less than a hallucina tion. It appears, even now, almost inconceivable that Mr. Disraeli, among all our living , states men, that.he, with all his undoubted sagacity, should have failed so entirely, to appreciate a fact rendered sufficiently manifest, we should have supposed, to the meanest capacity, by one occurrence after another, recorded in our national history, namely, that of all cries a No Popery cry is, beyond any - comparison ' the most ludicrous. For, in point of fact, what is its significance? As well say—No sun in the heavens at noonday ! No air that we breathe ! No earth under our feet ! As well cry aloud "No mob," when standing in the midst of a vast multitude ! It is for all the world like the sweep, of Mr. Podsnap's hand when he swept everything he objected to behind him and utterly out of existence. It is-upon a par in its absurdity with those who are in the habit of speaking of us Catholics as a sect—we who constitute the bulk of the population of Christendom. A sect, forsooth, of upwards of 200,000,000 ! Why, the only appropriate leader or champion of this old fatuous cry of "No Popery" that has ever been heard of, was that poor crack brained Scotch lord who, in 1780, set all London in a flame with his incoherent fanaticism. Seventy years after wards, namely, in 1850, when Earl Russell, then Lord John Russell, penned his worse than simply preposterous letter to the Bishop of Durham—that document in which he hesitated not to number the holy symbol of redemption among ," the mummeries ,of superstition „ — that notorions. -- effasion may be said to have , lieen scrawled ','n.pen- •' leaf torn out of the ef Lora:Geor4e Gordon. -".But even that effort to revive for party ,purposes 'the tpkit of fanaticism, proved- onlypartially, Q A T very partially; 'indeed, successful. • Instead of any worse consequences .being, elicited, we had the vials of Parliamentary wrath poured over our heads in the Lords and Commons; we had effigies akin to those of Guy Fawkes paraded in the streets and afterwards burnt, here and there in the suburbs, for the especial gratifi cation of the street urchins of the metropolis ; we had scurrilous words scrawled against us, or rather against all we hold sacred, upon the walls and the hoardings and the pavements— and, to crown all, we had that utterly futile and abortive Act of Parliament called into existence which the Legislature is now, shame facedly, taking steps at length to obliterate, as a senile evidence of spleen, from the statute book of " this realm of England !" Any deliberate endeavour now to raise a similar cry to that articulated in 1850, so feebly and innocuously, by Lord John Russell, proves by necessity abortive. Years ago Mr. Disraeli spoke of the Whigs as—an obsolete oligarchy. As happily, and quite as accurately, he might, now, define any enterprise such as the one indicated by him, first of all viva voce in the House of Commons, and afterwards yet more clearly in his epistle to his reverend supporter down in Bucking hamshire—a politico-religious anachronism. That he, of all men should have stumbled into this egregious blunder excites our pro found regret, while it quite as certainly p asses our comprehension. It passes our comprehen sion that the keen-eyed, large-hearted author of "Sybil, or the TwO Nations"—the heroine of which romance Sybil to wit, is a Catholic, as generously imagined, and as admirably and gracefully depicted as the Haredales pere et fille" of Charles Dickens's " Barnaby B u dge"—Could ever have bungled thus into this incongruous position in our regard. He who stand's in a manner almost entirely apart among the Protestant statesmen of England in ( as w e very naturally conceive it to be) his wise and statesmanlike appreciation of the rights, the sacred and inalienable rights, of the Sovereign Pontiff. The attitude now assumed by him in this matter of the Irish Church— in general terms it might be said, in reference to Catholicism —is so at variance with all his antecedents, that, again we say, it passes our comprehension, again we say, it simply appears to us in the light of a bewildering and eccen tric h a llucination. —Westminster Gazette. EDUCATION IN FRANCE. The last publication of the Bishop of Orleans o n the education question, entitled, " Les Marraes de l'Episcopat justifies par les faits," has reached a third edition in the course of a few d ays . The bishop shors how the ene mies of Christianity are concentrating and banding themselves together with th e more especial purpose of usurping the functions of education, and particularly of female education, so a s to nip the religious feeling in its very b u d. He says that they openly boast of their intention of " laying the axe to the root of the all religious prej a tm)," and eradicating dices" from the minds of the rising generation. And he brings forward a series of tableaux which afecertainly very startling in proof of these atrocious designs being really conten tplated. His demonstration consists of five I parts, in which ho unfolds the various means by which the above ends are being worked out. These are the school of female free-thinkers, the Freemasons' Education League, the re- I f cently-established l ec t ures f or y oung f ema l e s (which implicate the Government directly in the irreligious movement), the materialism openly taught in the Medical School of Paris, and lastly, the active propagandism of infidelity by all these instruments together, and by irre ligious publications of every description. The bishop accuses all these parties of a common understanding among themselves ; and if he does not i nc l u d e the Government, ho includes at least the Minister of Public Instruction as their accomplice. He proves that regular schools had been erected in France for the for mation of female free-thinkers, and Of female teachers professing the same principles (Ecoles de flutes libres penseurs). The bishop learnt the fact only from a newspaper, in which he happened to read an account of the funeral of one of the female founders of these schools, which at once opened his eyes to the magni tude of the evil, and led him to make the in quiries and discoveries he now publishes. The schools were known as the Professional Schools of Madame Lemonnier. The published pro spectus of her society merely stated that the "reception of all creeds at her classes," the (necessary) "exclusion of all religious instruc tion" (as ly,ing no part of professional instruc tion), and the " abandonment of all such reli gious instruction to the parents or ministers of the pupils." But, as the Bishop of Orleans shows, these professions were a mere blind for parents to entrap or ensnare their children. into instruction in the most absolute infidelity. The language used at the funeral of Madame B. (the lady above referred to) can leave no doubt as to what her principles and practice /mast have been. Her husband, rho was the spokes man at her funeral, openly professed himself " a free-thinker," as had been also " his dear wife, who had joined herself to the great wor e of Madame Lemonnier, the education of young women, and. the teaching of morality without religion, because she also believed only in science and justice, and looked to no other beacon of safety either during life or in the hour of death." He went on to say that the blow which had struck his wife was "fatal and unjust ;" and the more " unjust," be cause " amongst this chosen troop of devoted women " she had been " one of the youngest and most beautiful." The bishop says that " one stands stupified over such language, spoken in the presence of 300 young girls, the pupils of these ladies and of their pro fessional schools, standing there with their teachers, and, as described, holding bouquets in their pious hands and throwing flowers over this tomb,' from which a priest and every sign of religion were strictly banished." A lady-professor afterwards delivered an oration in a similar strain. No wonder that the bishop as he tells us, " did not stop there," but roused himself about these " schools of 300 young g irls," placed under such teachers. He sets to work and obtains biographies of the founder of the society, prospectuses of its schools, minutes of the general meetings for the propa gation of its instruction ; and convinces him self that " the systematic object of the move ment was the formation of free-thinking young women." Morality without religion is its motto. The founder of the society-, Madame Lemonnier, from being Protestant, became a St. Simonian and free-thinker ; and the object of her successors, as stated by her husband in her biography, was " to rear young women in her principles, who, becoming in their turn mothers, might propagate throughout all France the sacred traditions of the profes sional schools." The bishop asserts that these are no mere " exceptional eccentricities," but " a great work of propagandism." "We are in the face," he says, "of a deeply laid Viand vast enterprise of impiety directed against.the faith of the young girls of France." These schools exist in Paris, and he can name the streets and number of the houses. They exist by subscription ; and the bishop does name openly a long list of notorious names of male and female patrons and supporters. What is more, he says, M. Duruy knows these schools and these houses, where young girls receive such instruction for lifo and death, and " they seem to possess the full sympathy of the supreme head and official and all-powerful source of inspiration of national education in France." M. Duruy went to visit these schools, and more, in the Corps Legislatif, he pronounced a eulogy upon them, taking good care to say nothing of the spirit which ani mated them. The bishop forcibly points out the dangers to be apprehended to Christian society frcrm "the League of the Freemasons." We, have already more than once called atten tion: to die untiring vigour with which the Bishop of .Orleans has exposed the insidious atterapt.s of. M.,Duruy against religion in the establishment of the female lecturers. On the.'question of Propagandism, the bishop says that M. Duruy boasts of having dis tributed 70,000 books amongst commune and other school libraries, in the course only of last year. In the list of those distributed at St. Etienne, are found such works as Renan's Vie de Jesus, Proudhon's RAolution Sociale , Vol taire's C an did e, & c., w ith th e wor k s of George Sand, Eugene Sue, Pelletan, &c. Summing up, he concludes that, under the pretext of professional schools for younc , females, the Freemasons' league, popular libraries , the new lectures, and the light of science, materialism is maki ng extensive inroads upon State edu cation. The bishop's conclusions are sup ported by a formidable appendix of 150 pages of small type, containing nearly eighty letters to himself from different members of the French episcopacy, with pastorals, circulars, &c., ad dressed to the clergy—all adhering, in terms more or less forcible, to his own views, and joining in the cry of alarm raised apparently from one end of the country to the other on this important subject. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, (From the Anglo-American Timeß) They appear to be active in Jamaica in promot ing immigration from New Orleans. The Commer cial Association of Kingston is urging the Govern ment to subsidise a steam line between the island and the Mississippi, and a proposition for complet ing the connection by a telegraphic cable has also been brought before the Legislature. 'The Senate will pass the House Bill to continue the Freedmen's bureau for another year, but pro bably with an amendment by the Military Com mittee, empowering the Commissioner to sell, under suitable restrictions, the school and other buildings constructed for the refugees and freedmen, to the - corporate bodies of trustees who now use them, for the purpose of education or the relief of want. The House of Representatives met on the Bth inst. only to receive a resolution requesting the President to appoint a Special Mission to the hostile States of South America, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and 'Bolivia, for the purpose of settling their national difficulties and restoring peace, and a bill providing for a modification o f th e l aws disfranch i s i ng de serters. Both were properly referred. According to Messrs. Neill's report, dated New York, the 18th instant, the week's receipts of cotton at all ports amount to 35,000 bales, and since the let of September to 2 ,025,000. The week's exports to Great Britain are 33,000 b a l es, an d s i nc e the Ist of September 1,043,000. The week's exports to France are 6,000 bales, and since the let of Sep tember 191,000. The week's exports to other ports are 1,000 bales, and since the Ist of S3ptem ber 213,000. Total exports for the week, 40,000 bales ; since the let of September, 1,450,000. Stock at all ports, 270 ; 000 bales. The steamers leaving New York for Europe on the 18th took ,$1,000,000 in specie ; on the 21st $250,000 in specie ; on the 22d a similar sum ; and on the 23d one million. These large sums are the drain to Europe to meet the interest due at the end of this month on the United States Bonds. On Monday, the 6th inst., besides the Connecti cut and Michigan elections, Cincinnati elected City Officers, and Wicsonsin Judges of the Supreme Court, choosing Dixon and Paine, the Republican candidates, by a majority of between 3,000 and 4,000. On the 4th inst. municipal elections were held at St. Louis, Missouri, and Louisville, Ken tucky, wherein the Democrats triumphed by a large majority. At other municipal elections of Western cities on Monday and Tuesday, the Republicans carried Schnectady, New York; Cleveland, Dayton, and Toledo, Ohio ; Indianapolis, Indiana ; Law rence, Kansas, and Madison, Wisconsin ; Peoria, Illinois ; and St. Paul, Minnesota: The Democrats carried Columbus and Sandusky, Ohio; Evans ville, Indiana ; Keokuk, lowa ; Atchison and Leavenworth, Kansas, Milwaukee and La Crosse, Wisconsin ; and Sedalia, Jefferson City, Kansas City, and Carondolet, Mobile. The Naturalization question is rapidly approach ing a solution. The diplomatic correspondence relating to the Extradition Treaty with Prussia, just ratified, has-been laid-before Congress. From Mr. Bancroft's remarks the settlement with Eng ' land is virtually decided by that with Prussia. Writing to Secretary Seward on the 20th January last, he says—" Count Bismark informs me that the British Government has inquired of him as to What answer the Prussian Government would make to the American Government on the subject of na turalization. In reply, he informed them of the in tendon of his Government to come to an under standing with that of America, according to its re quest. The remarks of Count Bismark implied that the British Government is inclined to follow the ex ample of Prussia, and the settlement of the question here will be virtually a settlement for Greatßritain." On the 13th February Mr. Seward replied as fol lows :—" I have informally suggested to the British Minister here that a proceeding in the form of mutual and common legislation in the two coun tries would be simple, and probably easier than Lrmal negotiations on thennaturalintion laws ex isting between the United States and those of the two . Governments respectively, inasmuch as there are so many other questions which urgently require settlement between the United States and Great Britain, besides that of the conflicting naturaliza tion laws." A telegram from Washington, dated last Monday, informs us that on that day the House of Representatives passed by 99 votes against 5 a bill introduced by Mr. Banks relative to the naturalization of immigrants to the United States. This bill enacts that any declara- tion or decision of officers of the United States Go vernment which questions the right of expatriation is null and void ; that all naturalized citizens of the United States While in foreign countries shall be entitled to the same protection as is now accorded to native-born citizens; and that when any citizen of the United States is arrested by any foreign Go vernment, and his release delayed or refused upon the allegation that naturalization does not dissolve his allegiance to his native Sovereign, the Pre sident shall bl empowered to order the arrest of any subject of sue'l foreign Government who may be found within the jurisdiction of the United States. The organization known as the Kuklux Klan is rising in the South into similar importance as that of the Fenians in Ireland. We will soon see how it will be met and suppressed in America. The ap pellation is puzzling American etymologists, as the word Fenian did those of England. Some assert that it is derived from the Greek Ktimor, a circle ; others believe Klan to be a mare misspelling of Clan, but the general impression is that the sound was suggested by the click of the rifle when cocked. The organization has its stronghold in Tennessee, and is now ra?idly extending through the Southern Stet& Its arrival in Georgia was heralded to the world by the Columbus Sun, which wrote in vague and threatening terms, with big headings and pro fuse italics :-- " Woe to the degenerate." " Some thing terrible floats on the breeze, and in the dint silences are heard solemn whispers, dire impreca tions against the false ones who have 'proved re creant to their faith and country." Nor had the degenerate long to wait; for on the 30th March Colonel G. .k. Ashburn was murdered at Columbus by a baud of thirty, disguised with masks and various spectral devices. The house in which the victim lodged was surrounded; the rear and front doors brake!' open, and although Colonel Ashburn had a pistol in his hand, so sudden was the assault that he was killed before he could use it. One bullet struck him between the eyes, another below the hip, and a third in the mouth, ten or twelvo shots being rapidly discharged. The _gang left without interruption. Most contradictory accounts are given of Colonel Ashburn's character, but he is known to have been an unflinching loyalist, and one of the few who were originally so. lie served in the Federal army during the War, and left it with the rank of Colonel when he was elected me;nber of the late Constitutional Con vention held at Atalanta, and was an uncompro mising supporter of Congressional measures. They have been playing some practical jokes with politi cal leaders in Washington. Ben Wade received a paper warning him of assassination, which he threw on the fire. Butler tore his up, but Col. Forney is alleged to have been greatly alarmed. General Grant has given stringent orders to the military commanders for the suppression of this gang of • assassins. Mr. Wade's Cabinet continues to excite the greatest interest throughout the country. It is con sidered settled that Mr. Sumner will become Secre tary of State, that the " cold and classical Demos thenes" will succeed to the Senate, and that Mr. Claflin will obtain Mr. Boutwell's post. It is thought that Mr. M'Culloch will remain Secretary of the Treasury, though it is doubtful whether he can be induced to stay. It is also hinted that Secretary Stanton will relieve Mr. Adams as Anibassador to St. James's, and the lion. B. F. Butler will take Mr. Stanton's portfolio. Of course these little arrangements hinge first and mainly on President Johnson being deposed. _ . Wilkes' Spa it claims as one of its political victo ries the proposed amendment to the Constitution , presented by Senator Sumner : --" Resolved, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Con stitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the Legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, viz:: N o person elected President or Vice-President, who has once served as President, shall afterwards be eligible to either office.'" Mr. Wilkes, the editor in chief, has been in Washington from the commencement of the Impeachment Trial, and he has made a special hobby of the one term principle, never ceasing to urge it as a boon to the Constitution, that will repay the country for the treasons and mischiefs of Audreo f Johnson. The Spirit is in high glee at the result of its persistent efforts, and at this proof of the atten tion and respect it receives in the highest quarters. The above sporting paper is authorized to offer a grand bet, if there is any Tea House in London connected with China, or any shipping house, ot betting man who would like to go in for a big thing. The schooner yacht Challenge, just built for gr• Pierre Lorillard, now on her way to the Amazon river, Brazil, can be backed against the English tea fleet of clipper ships from Shanghae in China to the Isle of Wight in the Channel. Here is an opening for any party who will lay £lO,OOO sterling against £2,000 on the result. We must confess that the information given by the Spirit of the performanc es of the Challenge is notllUch as to lead any one to risk his Money. It is stated that the schooner yacht, sailing two points nearer the wind than a square rigged ship can lie, recently went 17i knots an hoar; She is faster than the Vesta, and the Vesta woul d have won the celebrated yacht race from New York to Cowes if her navigator had not made a bad land fall. The Spirit, 'however, considers the above p er.. formanee to be an exaggeration, not in the ac tual speed attained, but in the statement that she Wa s kept hard on the wind, which it denies. [ADVEnTISEMENT.]-11enestorth no one will doubt the valuab le properties of Da Barry's health-restoring Rove,lents, Arabi Invalids' and Infauts' Food, since to rue thousands of UlBBBlOOO it has already received from - .,uvalids waose position had 'N e es deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the P 0 91 3,0 whose health has been perfectly rel*,,o - 2eci by it after thirty Y tte of unsuccessful medics'. ‘ceatmettL. quose, L'om the "Gay e of du Midi: July 25th :—" Rome, July 2t, 1866.—" The health_ a the Holy Father is excellent, especially since,abandoning tly.o other remedies, he has condued himself entirely to Do 13 , 31 :501 Revalenta Arabica Food, or which he consumes a 1 )1 °T 0,1 at every meal. It has ptodnced a surprisingly ben effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise of excellent food too highly." We extract a few oat more than 63,000 - cares:—Cure No. 53,216, of the March iOa t: do Beehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting asTvi debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, digestion, constant sleeplessness, and tue most intolers.bleyfra vows agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Siaa,rt de Decies, > 2 ; "ieutenant of Waterford . , or many years' dyspepsia. No. 49 ' nes s. Fifty years' Indescribaole agony from dyspepsia, nervous .0 asthma, cough,' constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness Cits, vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James 110 " e f Woo of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Cauttotioo Be re of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy t or to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is mol t a eiously attached 11°' ln tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. I, ; 1 1,5 „.• 7/, 121b5., 225.; 24 lbs., 405 . — BARRY Du BARRY and Co. , Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 18 2 , Pi ce3 , and at 61, Gracechurch - street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 1 50, an Oxford-street 330. Strand ; and a Ilgrocers and chemists. Births. gCX BERESFORD—On the 23d inst , the wife of Denis W . Beresford, Esq., M.P., of ;son. HOWARD -On the 23d inst., at 40, Dover-street, t he 11°°. Mrs. George Howard, of a daughter. A til ° SCOVELL On the 23d inst., at 37, Ebury-street, wifo of Captain E. J. Scovell, 96th Regiment, a a ev". Marriages. c ht BARNES —BARTLET —On tho 23d inst., at S t. Peter's vol. rso Ipswich, Christopher 11. Barnes, Captain Royal I V 11. Artillery, to Lucy Caroline, second daughter of Bartlet, Esq., M.D., Ipswich. reb , PATMORE WEBB —On tho 23d inst., at the parish c.. 9 I ,s, Warminster, Richard W. Patmore. Fyfield Hall, lr').'o' to Kate, second surviving daughter of Wm. B. " Warminster, Wilts. eaths. COPLEY—On the 23 , 1 ins D Miss Copley; last st 11 :,'„:„ ' •'t - L" sister of the Right Hon. ' the late Lord L 3 ad aged 95. , Tu ttl 4 , HAY Oa the 231 inst., at South-hall, Soutb‘vell, Sarah Laura, wife of Sir Edward H. D. Hay. I Cool' Pommtn—On the 23d inst., at Greenwich Hospil-3.1 inander John Pollard, Royal Navy, aged 81. rt SitAw—On tho 23d lust., at 6, Stockwell-place , ° Shaw, formerly of the Westminster-road, aged "' 0 0, Tinos--On the 23d inst., at Tor Villa, St. John '- 6 d 60. Brixton, Somerset Tibbs, late of Cheltenham, 05 e g o- WAKEMAN -On the 23d inst., at the Craig 11 0 ' 15° ' mou thshire, Thomas Wakeman, Esq., aged DJ. 10 1 1413 10 Lond)n : Printed awl Published by WILLIdg it- go 1 .. ( of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan SUN oDieo , „, g " Strand, in the Precinct of the Be voy, the v ° Middlesex.—Stlturday, April 25, 18 s.