The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

arlitiTiiTHE PUBLIC JOURNALS There is nothing, says the Times, cheering In Count Cambray-Digny's financial statement for the kingdom of Italy. The imposition of the grist tax is the only intelli- gible proposal, the only one likely to bring any very cer tain or very permanent relief to the Italian Treasury. The eeficit for 1869 is estimated at little less than £10,000,000• Of this the grist tax is expected to provide for £3,000,000• By other economical measures, chiefly administrative, the deficit will be brought down to about £3,000,000, "to be covered," says the Minister, " by the development of com mercial prosperity." There is nothing new, nothing con- soling in all this. It is what we have heard every year from the Count's predecessors. When the Minister shall tell us how the taxes are to be collected, we shill believe in his ability to make both ends meet. When a balance shall be established between the revenue and the expenditure, the restoration of public credit will be certain and immediate. The liabilities of Italy are not in themselves desperate. The Cons°li. dated Debt does not exceed in round numbers £250,000,000, with an annual charge of £14,000,000, or about three eighths of the general revenue. The floating debt, including the paper currency, may be computed at £32,000,000, against which may be set the value of Church property, amounting to £40,000,000. With a capital amounting to £40,000,009, a debt of £32,000,000 ought to be easily paid off, no matter on what principle the liquidation may have to be effected. We said not long since that the Italian Parliament has hardly ever discussed a Budget. We may add that it has hardly ever voted a tax, that it has hardly ever intro duced an economy. Had it not been for the temporary exercise of unconstitutional powers by the Government, legislation would scarcely have moved one step forward in Italy since 1859. The Minister of the Interior, it is announced, has now bills on hand for the general re organisation of the central and provincial administration. The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to introduce reforms in every branch of his own department. We know what all this comes to. The Prefectures, which are more than sixty, should be reduced to less than thirty. Equally sweeping measures ought to be adopted for the abolition of the many superfluous tribunals, universities, and other parasitical institutions. Bills to that effect have repeatedly been laid before Parliament. In the abstract, such schemes meet with the applause of the people and of their representatives. But when the matter is brought to a practical issue it is found that every man is ready only to sacrifice his neighbour. The common welfare clashes with a variety of petty local and private interests. The Minister ends by finding himself alone against a multi. tude ; and bills that have been brought forward with a view to retrenchment often lead only to an increase of ex travagance. Wretched as the Government has hitherto been, it has been hopelessly hampered by the wrangling, time-killing, self-stultifying Legislature. The Herald, speaking on the grist tax, says that the notion of making up the balance of the deficit by au increase in the produce of the taxes to the extent of three millions beyond the additional six millions imposed strikes it as singularly chimerical. Italy is taxed already, with out the grinding tax and the addition to her income tax, not, perhaps, above her strength, but certainly above what her people will contentedly bear. It must be remembered that the events of the last two years have not failed to exercise upon Italian industry their natural effects. To anticipate any great revival of commercial prosperity with a depreciated currency, with a feeling prevailing almost everywhere of uneasiness and insecurity, and with the certainty that foreign capital is not at present available to fructify her resources, is little short of madness. The result in a highly-taxed country—and for her circum stances Italy is now highly taxed—of imposing a new and heavy tax, is to diminish the product of most of the old taxes. The Morning Post considers that the Emperor of Austria nas undoubtedly adopted the wisest course in establishing a constitutional Government in his dominions. Still, however, it must be admitted that he has very up-hill work before him. Financially considered the empire is bankrupt. Specie is almost unknown. An inconvertible currency has driven gold and silver completely oat of cir culation, and even a cigar is not purchased without the transfer of a note which represents nothing more than three-halfpence of our coinage. Specie is only to he pur chased at a loss of about twenty-five per cent. of the paper currency, and the prices of commodities are necessarily raised in order to counterbalance the depreciation. There are few countries in Europe in which more abundant opportunities are afforded for the indestment of capital, but foreigners naturally hesitate about sinking their money, much less making loans, when the State confesses itself unable to pay the notes which are issued by itself. Still, the only guarantee which, under such circumstance; the Government can give, is now offered in the shape of a political system under which every individual will not only feel interested in upholding the credit of the State, but will have the direct means of taking care that such credit shall be maintained. The Daily News, in an article on the release of Mr. Trait on his professions of strictly lawful intentions, says tha his arrest was a precautionary measure, and any elaborate discussion as to the possibility of holding an American citizen accountable in the United Kingdom for speeches made against this country in New York is rendered un necessary. If such a right exists, it is evidently one which our Government would only exercise in extreme cases. Train, however, cannot reasonably complain of his brief detention. Knowing that the Habeas Corpus was suspended in Ireland, he resolved to proceed thither, and did his best to notify the British Government that a terrible enemy was on his way to its shores. A man who, by his own confession, had put down all the generals and public men in America, from Grant to Jay Cooke, was not to be despised. Mr. Train, however, has given his word, and we are all safe again. His ideas have doubt less been considerably clarified and corrected since Friday evening, and if he should forget what he has learned he may at any time be re-arrested. He had better, however, go back to the place from which he came. There are those in the United States who would believe and cheer him if he described" his visit as a successful and brilliant cam paign. We understand that he claims £lOO,OOO damages of the Queen's Government for his three days' detention. It seems a moderate sum to ask, considering that he might just as easily have made it half a million. There is nothing treasonable, however, in asking for money. In answer to the argument used by the Bishop of L )ndon against the consecration of a new bishop in Natal, :hat such a consecration would be of doubtful legality as no person can become a bishop without the Royal license, the Standard argues that this applies only to consecrations to English dioceses, or to dioceses legally constituted by the Crown in our colonies. Otherwise the Crown has no rights in the matter. This is the case in all colonies which possess a local representative Government. The Crown cannot assign dioceses or territorial jurisdiction, and there fore declines either to issue its mandate or grant its letters patent. The consecration of Archdeacon Bethune as Bishop of Niagara is a case in point. The Metropolitan of the Church in Canada applied to the Crown for its license, to enable him to proceed to the consecration, but the Duke of Newcastle, the then Colonial Secretary, replied, that in consequence of the Westbury judgment it appeared that the Crown had no right to issue its license : that it would be contrary to its dignity to assume a power which it did lot possess, and that the bishops were quite competent to proceed to consecrate without it. Bishop Bethune is, as tounding as it may seem to Dr. Tait, a living example of the possibility of the Church electing and consecrating her ewn bishop without the intervention of a Minister of State it seems to the Standard that the Natal case is exactly Parallel with that of Canada, and that the proposed con_ secretion can hardly involve any of those appalling conse quences anticipated by the Bishop of London. Mr. Seely, it will be remembered, last session, attacked the Admiralty accounts on the ground that they totally raisrepresent e d th e cost of the work done in the dockyards. His argument was, that if any private shipbuilder had to 'wild a vessel, he would consider as part of the expense of building her a number of items which the Admiralty had either partially or wholly excluded. One of the ships selected by Mr. Seely in order to shew the untrustworthi. ness of the accounts, was the Frederick William, which he maintained had cost the country £281,694 or about £.30,000 more than was admitted by the A ccountant-General of the Navy. Now, from a paragraph in the Controller of the Navy's "submission" to the board on the 29th of January 1867, the Star learns that this same Frederick William was begun as a sailing three-decker in 1 841, was converted into a screw ship between 1859 and 1862, main tained in the first division of the reserve between 1862 and 1864, and in 1861 for the first time, went tG sea. In other words, it was not till twenty-three years after she was first laid down that she left harbour. It is perfectly clear, therefore, as clear as if we had all the office records before us, that the Admiralty for twenty - three years did not know its own mind abant this vessel, 'nd came to, perhaps, half-a-dozen different decisions et :ut her. The creditors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited) may legitimately indulge in some self-gratulation in the prospect of so soon receiving in full every shilling of their claims. But to the shareholders the Daily Telegraph I. , intB out that, while their position might have been ‘vorse, it might also have been much better. Little more t an twelve months ago they might have got the creditors to accept as a final discharge, in a few prompt instalments , that a moun t w hi c h h as now been doled out in small and nearly imperceptible driblets. But the pugnacious spirits of the Defence Association thought otherwise, scorning all compromise, and claiming entire immunity. It will not say that they were morally wrong in raising the question at the time and in the way they did ; but as a matter of expediency their course was about the worst possible. In repudiating . any liability whatever they compelled the other side ' in self-def ence , t o stand b y the. letter of the bond, and in the gradual embitterment of the struggle every chance of reconciliation became boneless. OUR NATIONAL INCOME. On Tuesday evening Mr. H. Dudley Baxter read a lecture on the above subject at a meeting of the Statistical Society, held at the rooms of the association, 12, St. James's-square, Colonel W. H. Sykes, M.P., presiding. In opening his paper, Mr. Baxter said that there could scarcely be an inquiry more interesting to those who took a pride in the country than the investigation of the statistics of our national income. What were the means and aggregate wages of our labouring population, what the number and aggregate profits of the middle classes, what the revenues of our great proprietors and capi talists, and what the pecuniary strength of the nation to bear the burdens annually falling upon us? What capital in land and goods and money was stored up for our subsistence and for carrying out our enterprise? What was the . relative magnitude of our National Debt? What progress had been made since the beginning of the century in the increase of our income and the accumulation of savings? And what were the risks to which our wealth was exposed, and the precautions that ought to be taken for our own protection and for the safety of posterity ? Having detailed the available data which afforded mate rials for such an inquiry, the lecturer proceeded to classify the population into the income classes and dependent classes. From the Census tables of 1861 it was possible to ascertain with tolerable accuracy the number of persons who might be presumed to have independent incomes. In England and Wales they were as follows in 1861 :-1, per sons with independent incomes (men, boys, women, and girls), 9,289,000 ; 2, persons without independent incomes, 10,626,000. He would classify the persons with indepen dent incomes into the upper and middle classes on the one hand, and the manual labour classes on the other, As regarded England and Wales, in 1861, the totals were :-1, upper and middle classes, 1,943,000 ; 2, manual labour classes, 7,346,000. So that the upper and middle classes with incomes of their own were rather more than one-fifth of the total income classes, or one-fourth of the similar members of the manual labour classes. From 1861 to 1866 the increase of the income classes had been as follows in England and Wale:—Upper andmiddla classes (one-fifth), 110,000; manual labour classes (four fifths), 440,000 ; total increase, 550,000. Of the popula tion of the United Kingdom there were in 1861 13,270,500 persons with independent incomes, and 15,506,500 with out independent incomes. In 1867 the upper and middle classes in England and Wales were 5,000,000 in round numbers, and of these nearly three persons were dependent for every two with independent incomes. The manual labour classes were 26,000,000 in round numbers, and were almost equally divided between earners and non earners. In Scotland at the same time the upper and middle classes were 692,000, and the manual labour classes were 2,460,000. In Ireland at the same time the upper and middle classes were 1,056,000, and the manual labour classes were 4,501,000. The numbers for the United King dom in 1867 were as follows :—Upper and middle classes with independent incomes, 2,759,000 ; dependent, 3,859,000 —total, 6,618,000. Manual labour classes with indepen dent incomes, 10,961,000 ; dependent, 12,130,000—t0ta1, 23,091,000. Having given an elaborate syllabus of the in comes of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland sepa rately, the lecturer said they would now be able to add together the aggregate incomes of these countries, and obtain the income of the United Kingdom. In 1867 the gross income of the United Kingdom was as follows : Upper and middle classes, £496,734,000 ; manual labour class, £324,645,000—t0ta1, £821,379,000. In round num bers their earnings were £500,000,000 plus £325,000,000, making a total of £825,000,00 0 , an amount exceeding all previous calculation of the income of the nation. It was a wonderful thing that the gross annual income of the United Kingdom should exceed by £47,000,000 the whole £778,000,000 of the permanent National Debt. After the reading of the paper a vote of thanks was accorded to the lecturer. STARVATION AND THE PRISON. An inquest has been held in the governor's room, Hollo way Prison, at which evidence was given illustrating the extent to which distress prevails in London, and the treat. meat which is now and then accorded to a certain class of distressed people. Last week an alderman sitting at the Mansion House, in three days committed fifty-one persons —men, women, and children—to the prison at Holloway for various terms of imprisonment. Most of them were sent there for from fourteen to twenty-one days. Their crime was begging in the City streets. Many of the pri soners were in a sadly destitute condition, and some of them were almost naked. Of the fifty-one, thirty-four were in a state of physical exhaustion from want of food when they entered the prison. Amongst them was a man named Michael Lyons, a tailor, out of work, aged 27 years. He was committed to prison fur twenty-one days, with hard labour. That was on Saturday afternoon. It will be difficult to understand what "hard labour" the man could perform when the statement of the governor of the gaol is considered. When he entered the prison-gate Lyons was so thoroughly exhausted, so stupefied by want, that it was not possible for him to answer the questions put to him. About an hour after he entered he was sup plied with six ounces of dry bread and a pint of gruel. The doctor might have ordered the prisoner more suitable food, but unfortunately ho did not see him until Sunday. At ten o'clock on Sunday morning the prison surgeon went his "rounds," as his practice is, and saw Lyons amongst the other prisoners. He looked pallid and thin, and intellectually dull, but the surgeon still thought him capable of undergoing twenty-one days' hard labour, and could not see any necessity for deviating from the usual diet of gruel and dry bread. When evening came, the surgeon saw Lyons again, and had so altered his opinion respecting him that he ordered his removal to the infir mary. He died at midnight. Death resulted, according to the surgeon's statement, from " serous apoplexy, arising from debility and weakness of the heart." In summing up the evidence, the coroner took the opportunity to remark that he thought a workhouse or a hospital was a fitter place for the fifty-one than the prison. The follow ing verdict was returned :—" That the deceased died in Holloway Prison from serous effusion on the brain from weakness of the heart and debility ; and the jury desire to add that they consider it would be advisable that the governor of the prison should have the power of alter ing the diet of prisoners whenever he sees a necessity for doing so." THE LAND OF GOLD. —The trowel prepared for presentation to his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh on occasion of laying the foundation-stone of a new town hall at Melbourne is made entirely of gold, both blade and handle. Where the two join, the trowel is ornamented with pearls and turquoises ; at the other end, the handle has on it a duke's coronet, set off with diamonds and emeralds.—Melbourne Argus. NEW GOLD SPECULATION. —I find a profound calculation in one of the French papers. It is proposed to start a company in Paris to dig for gold in the cemeteries. What gold ? That which has been used in stopping teeth. There are buried in Paris every day more than 125 per sons. It is reckoned that of these at least ten have auriferous jaws, and that in these ten there may be an average of ten auriferous teeth. So the calculation pro ceeds, and Paris is threatened with a resurrection com pany. —Once 46 W eek. CHURCH CONFERENCE AT ROCHESTER. The first conference of the Bishop of Rochester with the clergy and laity of his diocese was held on Tuesday, in the Chapter-room at Rochester Cathedral, on which occa tion an unusually large number of the clergy and laity were present. The subjects previously arranged for dis cussion were-1. Compulsory Education; and 2. Diocesan Synods. The Bishop of Rochester, in opening the conference, expressed the gratification he experienced laityperienceefdhiina meeting so large a number of the clergy and diocese on that occasion for the discussion of the important subjects on which they were assembled to confer. The first subject, that of " Compulsory Education," was opened by the Rev. J. Leach, M.A., vicar of Gillingham, Chatham, the speakers taking part in the discussion being the Mayor of Rochester (Mr. V. Hills), the Ven. Archdeacon Grant, LL.D., 3,1 r. E. Bernays, C.E., Colonel J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., e l n tl e io ra u ll gh y Royal Engineers, the Rev. J. Whit e, no resolution was formally a 01)t expressed by the several speakers w ere in favour of some improved system of education, having especial reference to the compulsory attendance of children, ed , li & viewsc especially those at work under a certain age, and that employers of children should be compelled to see that such rules were carried out. In •the course of the dis cmsion which ensued, it was admitted by all the speakers that the compulsory school attendance of children not at work was impracticable, at least for the present, even if desirable, public opinion not being yet ripe for any such legislative movement, while sufficient time had not been given for a full and fair trial of the present system of education. The speakers, with scarcely an exception advocated the nece ss it y o f stamping any system of nationa l education with a re li g i ous c h aracter, a purely secular edu cation, it was contended, being the greatest possible evil. The subject of "Diocesa n Sy no d s " was introduced by the. Rev. J. G. Carey, M.A., r ec t or o f Snodland , near Rochester, who was followed by o th er speakers. In con sequence of the length to which the discussion on educa tion was extended, there was comparatively but little time for the consideration of the question of diocesan synods. In that which ensued, however, it was generally agreed by the speakers, both lay and clerical, that some system was eminently desirable by which clergy and laity might consult together, with the view of adopting concerted action for the good of the Church. AI; the close of the proceedings the Bishop of Rochester expressed his satin. faction at the part the laity had taken in the discussion. THE SUN, LONDON, W DN - SECRET DESPATCHES OF IHE ITA LI AN GOVERNMENT. The publication of the secret telegraphic de spatches which, while publicly professing to dia- ... countenance the Garibaldian invasion of the Papal States, the Italian Government sent to its official agents, ordering them to assist in every possible manner the lawless invaders, has done more to damage the character of public men, and to lower respect for authority, than any administrative act yet perpetrated by the Revolution in Italy. Were the motive for the publication of these dishonour able secret instructions not known, it would be set down to sheer cynical effrontery ; but, as it is, the motive is disgraceful enough, and shows to what lengths, forgetful of public decency and the honoin of their country, the statesmen of revo lutionary Italy will carry their bitter and jealous rivalry. Menabrea, on succeeding to office, knew no means better calculated, as he conceived, to in jure his rival, Rattazzi, than by showing up his double-faced, dishonourable policy, for almost up to the last moment that he was in office the public despatches which he sent to the Prefects, in ac cord with his diplomatic declarations to France, insisted upon the strict observance of the Conven tion, and the consequent necessity of disarming the followers of Garibaldi; whilst in his private tele graphic despatches he ordered these same Prefects not only to place no obstacle in their way, but to assist the invasion with arms, money, and men. Menabrea taxed Rattazzi in the Chamber with his double-faced dealings, and threatened him with the publication of his secret instructions. Rattazzi, stung to the quick by these taunts and threats, challenged the production of these despatches. He considered himself safe, since, to prevent detec tion, as he, thought, before leaving office he had destroyed these secret communications between himself and his subordinates. Moreover, he did not apparently believe that Menabrea would have the audacity, even if he had the means, to carry his threat into execution. But the present head of the Italian Government was more than a match for his angry rival. By searching the telegraph offices copies of the telegraphic despatches, which had passsed between the late Government and its offi cials, were discovered and published. The revenge of the Minister in power was complete over his dis comfited rival; but, in the meantime, an indelible stain is affixed to the character of public men in Italy. Of course Rattazzi may plead in extenua tion that he only follows the traditional policy of the Revolution, which stops at no means, however dishonourable, in the pursuit of its object ; and that, had his policy been successful, he would have been held in as high an esteem as was Cavour, whose public conduct was not one whit less immoral ; but, being crowned with success, there was no rival in a position to make known the fraud, the duplicity, and the shameless lying, by means of which he succeeded in carrying the Italian Revolution to its present issue. The tone of political morality is so low in Revo • lutionary Italy, that the disclosure of his menda city and trickery has not so damaged Rattazzi as to make it impossible for him again to aspire to office. On the contrary the party of action, the ene mies of the Temporal Power, look upon him as a man after their own heart, as one who is not afraid to adopt any means, however base and wicked, to attain his ends. He is become in their minds a worthy son of Cavour, and the man whom the Revolution must take as a leader if it ever is, in spite of France, to gain possession of Rome. In another column, we have published the most characteristic of these official despatches ; and, re calling to mind the public declarations and the diplomatic assurances given to France that the Italian Government were using every means at their command to uphold the Convention, we can not but think that the publication will, in the pub lic opinion of Europe, do much bbtl t hiu o satht. discredit sele:ns wn aost th ttoo e political morality of revolutionary governments. Mena breatl 1 t One s eh o ff f aede t t h n l ot d “t e ph s e p u a re t sff e ur h eo e n s G , te i ary t ri i Garibaldi, d a p: publish. a This 7 2 ;, a n d d e c s p o u a t n c t h e r i s s i g s n a e i d d t b o y h t a h v e e K b i e n e g n . o signedvert a k b e y h R i m a . t ' t ' The friends of the Revolution in England deplore the publication of these secret transactions. The Times says they were nevermeant for public in spection, and that the secret means which the Italian Government made use of ought not to have been made known out of motives of petty spite. King Victor Emmanuel in his speech on New Year's Day declared that the only hope for Italy was in the concord of its sons; if that be the hope of Italy, the spirit which the party of action dis plays shows on how rotten a foundation this only hope rests. Never was disunion greater, never was public spirit, the essence of which is self-denial, less. The Chamber, like the country, is split into small parties, each intent on personal ends. Re venge, ambition, vanity, prompt every measure that is brought forward, influence the action of each of the numerous sections into which the Cham ber is divided. Government is fast becoming im possible, and, in the meantime, the country is sinking into a state of hopeless bankruptcy. Anarchy is springing up on all sides. Piedmont is jealous, and its political representatives hold aloof from the Government. Naples is discontent to the backbone. Sicily is in a state of almost perma nent revolt. Venice protests against a Govern ment which has only brought it dishonour and bank ruptcy. Never was Italian Unity more hollow than at the present moment. The dissolution of the ill jointed and ill-assorted kingdom seems to be the most likely issue of its present deplorable state. Rome alone, under the Pope-King, is united and strong in confidence and peacefulness. The sub jects of the Pope have shown by their conduct, their true and steadfast loyalty. They have no de.• sire to exchange a priestly for a revolutionary Go vernment, or to see Victor Emmanuel, or Gari baldi, or Mazzini, installed in the Vatican. —West minster Gazette. THE SECRET DESPATCHES OF THE um...IAN GOVERNMENT. No. 1. The Secretary General of the Interior to the Prefect of Ancona. " Sept. 27, 1867. " The Minister understands that General Gari baldi is preparing a movement in the Pontifical States. In any case you will keep an eye on his actions, and in the meantime will place 6,000 lire at his disposition, which will be immediately re paid you." 4 No. 2. The Same to the Same. " Sept. 30, .1867. " Find some means to obtain the 6,000 lire from the treasurer or some other person. To-morrow you will receive a cheque on the Treasury in pay ment." No. 19. The Same to the Same. The Questor of Genoa to the Minister of the Interior. " Genoa, Oct. 10, 1867. " Captain Giovanni Fontana asks leave to send to the frontier 300 rifles which he has to dispose of, of course by a cautious and secret channel ; and has also asked me to give him a hundred of the guns last sequestrated, and which are in my office." Answer from the Minister of the Interior. " Let the 300 rifles be sent; restore the other 100 to their owners. Use the greatest caution and secrecy." No. 37. Director of Police (General) to the Questor of Genoa. " Florence, Oct. 15. 1867. " I beg you to grant immediate transport gratis in the railways to the above destination to the in dividuals who have been indicated to you for this purpose by the Advocate Enrico Bruoscho and Cap tain Giovanni Fontana." [Six hundred third-class places were given from Genoa to Terni, corresponding with the list given by telegram.] ~ No. 38. IN To the Prefect of Reggio, 91abria. " Florence, Oct. 16, 1861. " The Government cannot prevent -the meeting as long as it maintains the limits of legality. " We wish that it should speak of the wounded as well as of the insurgents, and that the local jour nals should not make too much noise on such mat ters. " MoNzA.Ni." No. 39. To the Secretary General to the Minister of the Interior. " Perugia, Oct. 16. " The volunteers, commanded by Menotti Gari baldi, have taken Monte Maggiore. An immense number of volunteers are pouring into Terni. The night train from Florence has brought in 500. it would be as well that a stop were put to such an overplus. " The Prefect GADDA." No. 40. The Prefect of Cuneo to the Secretary of the Minister of the Interior. " Cuneo, Oct. 17. " Yesterday 20 emigrants disappeared from Saluzzo. It is believed they went to Turin. I have given orders for their arrest. I let you know, as I believe the greater part of the emigration has a similar intention." Answer to the Prefect of Cuneo. "Florence, Oct. 17. " The Ministry does not consider it necessary to proceed with rigour against the Roman Emigrants who abandon their residence. Be good enough to revoke the orders given in your despatch of this morning. __ " MONZANI." No. 42. To the Sub-Prefect of Terni. " Florence, Oct. 17. "If you have a trustworthy person, send him instantly to Chirilli, and let him know that he is to abstain from every act that would compromise the Government. To impose a tax is an odious measure. We beg him to proceed with modera , Lion and prudence. MONZANI." No. 45. To the Minister Rattazzi. " Passo-Carrese, Oct. 18. " An isolated column has been taken prisoner at Nerola. There is great want of a central direction in the provinces, without which an internal move ment is impossible. A concentric impulse is neces sary to support the insurgent column. Rome requires this. " The Political Delegate, BUGLIELLI." 0 8 AY UVENING, JANUARY 22 5 1868. the reserved leaves and margin of your instructions, I have the honour of informing your Excellency that on the evening of the 16th of October, in consequence of an urgent despatch in cypher signed by the Minister of Marine, and couched in the following terms This evening go to meet the train ; a ministerial envoy will arrive by it' —I went to the railway station to await the arrival of the Florence train. It arrived the same even ing about half-past nine, and I saw descend from it the captain of a frigate, Orengo, who, on pre senting himself to me in company with the Deputy Cadolini, gave me a despatch, folio No. 2,410, Ist division, dated from the cabinet of your Excel lency on the 15th of the month. " By this letter I received orders to second to the utmost of my power the verbal orders which should be given me by the bearer, Captain Orengo. These orders consisted in desiring me to do Pimpos sible, in order to subtract immediately, and with the greatest secrecy, from the naval stores, 120,000 cartouches for small arms and 61,000 for smooth bore rifles, and to consign them on a written receipt to the Honourable Cadolini at the railway station before the departure of the morning train. " Some difficulty occurred in carrying out such an order at so advanced an hour of the night ; but this was happily overcome by putting in requisiti on all the means at my disposition. Incurred, more over, a slight expense of 20 lire for transport and porterage, which was charged to the local command in expectation of superior's approbation. "The materials of war which were consigned were enclosed in thirty wooden cases and two bar rels, and sent to Florence directed to the Expedi tionary Canallini, under the denomination of mine- rals, "The receipt given me by the Honourable Cado lini was consigned by me to the Captain Orengo, with a request to present it to the Minister of Marine for the regularity of pratique. That of the expenses is preserved in the local bureau. " E. MONTEZUNOLO, Local Commandant." No. 7. To the President of the Council of Ministers, Florence. " Narin, Oct. 18. "Prevent the departure of volunteers; they are a trouble, and no use. We have too many, and do not know what to do with them. " CRISPI." THE FRENCH ARMY. After an interesting debate, the Army Bill has now been passed by the Corps Legislatif. The clause, increasing the time of service from seven to nine years, met with much opposition ; its opponents maintaining that eight years' ser vice was sufficient, and that an annual contingent of 100,000 men, after the usual deductions, would enable France to dispose of 500,000 men for a foreign war. The Government, on the other hand, insists on nine years' service, and on an effective force of 800,000, and has carried the clause. The time of service is to be five years in the active army, and four in the reserve—instead of seven years as hitherto. This diminution of constant service with the colours will be, in our opinion, in jurious to the efficiency of the regiments. The bill, on the other band, will increase the available strength of the army, and will, on the whole, weigh less heavily on the population. It was against this short service system that one of the French Generals warned the Chamber, saying that how ever great might be the valour of the Prussian army, there was not a General in France who would not greatly prefer to encounter 100,000 Prussians than the same number of British troops. The annual contingent is fixed at 100,000 men, of which 15,000 are exempted for various reasons; 9,000 are drafted into the navy, leaving 76,000 recruits for the army, of which, however, only 63,000 are sent to the regiments. The remaining 13,000 are merely drilled at the depots for a short time each year, and form what is called the young reserve. They are liable to be enrolled in the ac tive army at any time during the nine years, and number upwards of 100,000, so that it is obvious that the reserve of the French army is only in part composed of old soldiers. The prohibition as to marriage is to be maintained until the end of the second year's service in the reserve, or until twenty eight years of age, for all young men drawn for service either in the army or reserve. There was an animated discussion on this question Marshal Niel playfully saying that the men who were ex empted for defects in their eye-sight, for squinting, loss of a hand, or lameness, would make most excel lent husbands though bad soldiers ; and if the young women insisted on having the fine young men for their husbands, they must wait patiently until he had done with them. We do not know what the charmantes filler de France will say to the un gallant Marshal. But Marshal Niel seems to forget that this com pulsory defering of marriage until the soldier in the army as well as in the reserve has reached his twenty-eighth year, is open to grave objections both on social and moral grounds. We object on principle to the interference of the State in a matter so closely connected with morality. Such a prohi bition, especially as regards soldiers in the reserve, is but too likely to lead to immorality, and to serve as a pretext for a dissolute life. After this protest in passing, let us return to the consideration of the clauses of the Bill. The clause creating a Nationale Garde Mobile, tojconsist of all young men not drawn for the army, or who have been exempted for weakly constitutions (with the exception of workmen in the dockyards and Government officials), and to serve for five years, was passed almost unanimously. No substi tutes are to be allowed in this force, which is esti mated at 485,000 men, and only twenty days' drill are to be required in the year. If properly orga nized and drilled it might, no doubt, be made a valuable reserve for the defence of fortresses and coasts ; indeed, it was on the supposition of the National Guard being available for the internal de fence of France that the partisans of an eight years' service mainly rested their case. The Go vernment, it seems to lus, intends it rather as an organized nucleus for a general levee in case of an actual invasion, and in time of peace to do merely nominal service. The details of the Bill, after much discussion, have been finally settled. At ;present the French army consists of 620,000 men, including the reserve, and is described by the Minister of War as being in the highest state of efficiency. The following official statement of the strength of the army at the time of the Italian war was laid before the Chambers : The total strength was 639,000 73,000 Recruits just raised Troops in Algeria 7,000 Rome 71 Gendarmerie, prisoners, military departments, &c .. . Depots Frontier garrisons 324,000 Leaving available 315,000 Of these 315,000 men 229,000 were sent to Italy, leaving a reserve in France of 96,000. At the battle of Solferino the French could only bring 107,000 into line. The Minister gave the follow- ing returns : Detached corps in Tuscany 23,000 Ditto for blockade of Venice B,OOO Reserve at Alessandria Artillery reserve A reserve division at Milan B,OOO Men of the reserve on their way to join the • army Depot of the same at Genoa 96,000 Loss in killed, wounded, and in hospita... 26,000 Total .122,000 Thtis leavi❑b of 229,000 only 107,000 present at the battle of Solferino. We have given the above official returns, as they well exhibit what large deductions an army is subject to before it takes the field, as well as the number of men which must be allowed for depots, reserves, and detached service afterwards. When we call to mind the fact that the Prussians suc ceeded in bringing 280,000 into line at Kiinig gratz, besides having a reserve in Saxony and another army in South Germany, we must allow the French have good reason to increase their army.— Westminster Gazette. No. 48. The Sub-Prefect of Terni to the President of , Council. ~ Terni, Oct. 18. "The Deputy Crispi has sent the following tele gram Put an end to all delay. Liberate Gari baldi. Pass the confines. Occupy Civita Vecchia instantly. Give no time for France to act. The honour and safety of Italy exact this, and it is they who are at stake.' " No. 49. The Prefect of Bologna to the Minister of the Interior. " Oct. 18. " Several individuals have passed this station who are evidently volunteers, with papers en regle, and with railway passes from Genoa, as persons returning to their homes in Terni. lam asked here for similar passes." The Same to the Same (private). " Oct. 19. " The numbers of Garibaldians travelling with requests for passes gratis renders those here more urgent with the committee for similar facilities. I must have a word to guide me, and beg you to send me a confidential letter by the post." No 54. Sub-Prefect of Terni to the Secretary General of the Interior. " Terni, Oct. 19. "As I cannot in any way prevent the departure of the volunteers, I suggest that at least Tuligno should be appointed as second centre, as the num bers here are excessive." No. 56. To the Secretary General of the Interior. " Terni, Oct. 20. " Cuechi has sent word that the action will take place on Monday without fail. " The Prefect AnGarri." No. 57. The Prefect of Perugia to the Secretary General of the interior. "Perugia, Oct. 20 "The trains of yesterday coming from Florence and Ancona brought great numbers of volunteers, some armed, and all started for Terni. There the state of matters is too abnormal. In Umbria it is no longer possible to reject volunteers, as they arrive freely from all the provinces. The local authorities are in such matters completely over ridden. At Viterbo and in Rome there reigns per fect tranquillity, a fact sufficiently significant in my opinion." No. 63. To the Prefect Mosea of Rieti. " Ponte Correse, Oct. 21. " Menotti, profiting by your kind offer, has asked me for the sum —of which he is in urgent need—of 12,000 lire—which you will send me as soon as possible, as he expects it, and counts ab solutely on it. Nothing new. The Roman insur rection is put off till to-morrow . . The Political Employe BUGLIELLI." No. 64. To the Sub-Prefect of Rieti and Poggio Mirteti, " Florence, Oct. 22. "Give me at once news of Rome, if you have any. Do it in such a way that the public may know as little as possible of it. _ " URBANO RATTAZZI." No. 67. The Prefect of Perugia to the Sub-Prefects of Rieti, Spoleto, and Terni. " Oct. 22 " I have received notice that General Garibaldi is in the train from Florence directed for Tuligno. I have asked instructions from the Minister. As soon as I receive I will communicate them to you. " GADDA." No. 70. To the Minister of the Interior. " Perugia, Oct. 2 " I await the nstructions of the Cabinet regard. ing the news of the arrival of Garibaldi at Arezzo, sent me by the prefect. " GADDA." No. 71. The Prefect of Arezzo to the Minister of the Interior. " The train which arrived here at nine brough 600 volunteers, it is said from Florence, who pur. sued their journey without impediment." No. 75. The Political Delegate of Correse to the Sub Prefect of Rieti. " Oct. 22. " I know nothing of Garibaldi. You will have heard that Menotti is at Scandriglia. I hope he will soon take the road to Rome. I have given him all the money in the caisse, 6,500 lire, and do not know how to go on. I have telegraphed to Fabrizi, and had no answer. We may claim inte rest. " BUGLIELLI." No. 77. The Sub-Prefect of Terni to the Sub-Prefect o Rieti. Terni, Oct. 22 " By omission of Signor Riva, Ricciotti Gari baldi has arrived here, having been only able to obtain 2,000 lire, 2,000 pairs of shoes, and 2,000 blankets. " ARGENTI." No. 78. To the Prefect of Terni. • " Florence, Oct. 23. " Communicate immediately the following tele grams to the delegate Buglielli, Passo-Carrese. " Be good enough only to telegraph to me with your baptismal name. The Ministry have resigned. (Signed) " CRISPI. (Countersigned) " MoNzAm." No. 82. Local Naval Commandery of the Gulf of Spezia. Report. To the Minister of Marine. ,‘ Spezia, Dec. 20, 1867. " Sir,—Zn obedience to the orders contained in A N AMATEUR DRAMATIC IHEA 2 RE. 40. - Notwithstanding what has been previously stated in a former article on the advantages to be obtained in having " A Special Theatre for Amateurs," we are induced, in consequence of the subsequent cor respondence we have received upon the subject, to again revert to the matter, the more especially as we have fully considered the possibility of carrying out what seems to be, and unquestionably is, the greatest possible desire of the Dramatic Amateur. One cor respondent in particular suggested, and we cordially thank him for his good offices, the renting of a theatre instead of building or purchasing one, and upon this suggestion we have built up, what we conceive to be, a very easy plan for obtaining a theatre devoted exclusively to amateurs, and we have great pleasure in placing the same before our readers. Let all the clubs, or so many as can be got together for the purpose, form themselves into " A National Amateur Dramatic Fund Associa tion," each club to be represented by its manager or secretary. The annual subscription to be five guineas, and assuming for a moment that fifty clubs start the association, there would. at once be a fund of upwards of £260 upon which to commence business, each club so subscribing to be entitled to one performance annually, and for every other performance to pay a like sum of £5 53. By this means the Association would be in possession of sufficient fonds to enable them to rent a really good theatre. And if the Association should be thoroughly well supported, and there is no reason why it should not, we fully anticipate, before any lengthened period has elapsed, seeing it in possession of sufficient capital to enable it to build its own theatre. It will, of course, be understood, that we do not mean to convey the idea that £5 ss. should com pletely liquidate the whole expense of an evening's perfcrmance. Of course, stage carpenters, the band, doorkeepers, dressers, and all the other minutia attending a dramatic representation, would have to be provided for ; still all this might be left in the hands of the association, and by co-ope ration and judicious management everything might be as near perfection in these details as possible. All the officers of the association would be chosen frotn the representatives of the clubs—a thoroughly efficient stage manager would be permlnently en gaged, and also an acting manager, who would be assisted by the members of the respective clubs, and thus the amateurs themselves would be enabled to make their arrangements complete and their whole organization perfect. In making the foregoing remarks, we sincerely hope they will be met in the spirit in which they are given, our object being to benefit the whole class to whom they are addressed. And iu con clusion, we can only add our entire willingness to assist in every possible way compatible with our position in promoting an association such as we have promulgated, and to lend our assistance in publicly making known, through the medium of our columns, any meeting which it may be proposed should be held for considering, and, if possible, i n carrying out the subject of these remarks. —Racing Times. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. --a►- CFrom the Anglo-American Times.) The Rev. Newman Hall, in a lecture on Wednesday night, in Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle, on his recent visit to America, gave his audience an account of a conversation he bad with Mr. Robert Lincoln, son of the late President. Mr. Hall asked about the Queen's letter to Mrs. Lincoln. ‘‘ Yes," said he, "we have been asked often about that letter—we have been asked to publish it. But it is a long letter of three pages—the outgushing of a generous woman's heart, and my mother and myself thought it would not be right to publish it." It is stated that Lennon, the Fenian now in cus tody in Dublin, headed a procession lately in New York, wearing the uniform in which he deserted from the 9th Lancers. He is branded with the letter " D," and his in genuity in assuming various disguises is declared by the Dublin police to have been surprisingly fertile. Mr. George W. Savage, late President of the Star Fire Insurance Company, has been elected president of the International Insurance Company ; Hamilton Bruce, vice-president; and W. J. Hughes, secretary. The com ploy discontinues marine risks, and will confine itself to firo and inland insurance business. William Henry Gardner, convicted in Jersey of forgery, falsification of books, and embezzlement, has been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. He was major of militia, and secretary to the Governor. The widow of General Miramon has, with her children, taken up her residence at Vienna. She is to re ceive a pension from the Austrian Government. Henry Ward Beecher has given $l,OOO to the fund for the benefit of Washington College, Virginia, and Messrs. Greeley and Horatio Seymour unite in an appeal to Northern men of wealth to support an institution sup ported by Washington. General Lee is at the head of this college. Governor Bullock sent a full and able message to the Legislature of Massachusetts. Among the subjects he advocated was the nomination of Grant to the Presi dency, irrespective of party. Mr. Davis and wife have arrived at New Orleans. A. J. Fergusson Blair, son of the late Admiral Adam Fergusson, has just died. He was a Canadian statesman of great repute, a barrister at law of Upper Canada, and had been Receiver-General, Provincial Sec retary, and President of the Privy Council of the Domi nion in turn. In 1863 he succeeded to the Balthayock estates, and assumed the 'name of Blair. A gentleman passing through North Union street in Cork, being mistaken for a detective, had his head made a target for Greek fire. The casing was proof against the missile, which bounded off, and breaking on the pavement, burst into a brilliant light. M. La Rientire succeeds Mr. Savage as American Consul at lla,vannah. Minister Rose, of Canada, reports the Dominion to be financially well off. Commodore James T. Watkins died on board the Costa Rica, between Yokohama and Shanghai, from inju ries received in falling down a hatchway. General Van Valkenburg, American Minister to Japan, was married to Mrs. Schayer, of New York, on the loth November, The American papers poke fun at Mr. Dolby, Charles Dickens's manager. They lay the blame of all shortcomings on his shoulders. "I wonder," one asks, "if Dolby is his real name, or if he adopted it from 'David Copperfield,' who recalls young David's adven ture when he sold his wardrobe piece by piece, and the buyer of the little vesket' was a Mr. Doloby." We can assure the wonderer that his real name is Mr. Dolby, well known in Regent-street, and brother of Madame-Sainton Dolby, a celebrated English singer. The United States Consul at Amoy has niade a treaty with the Formosa savages, by which wrecked sea. men will be protected. Mr. Vallandigham advocates war with England or any other nation that will not admit American claims as to naturalized citizens. It is impossible for poor Eng land or any other nation to admit claims as yet undefined. The first thing to be done is for America to state what a naturalized citizen is, and what rights it claims for the animal when defined. Mr. Ashley spoke before the Con vention to the same effect as Mr. Vallandigham wrote. One would suppose that the "Republican fool," as the Springfield Republican terms this man of impeachment celebrity, had lately been before the public sufficiently to satisfy even his craving for notoriety. The Rev. Thomas Baker and six native mission aries have been eaten by the Foejee Islanders. When Richard Pierce, printer, of Boston, worked off upon his hand press, on the 25th of September, 1690, the first newspaper ever published in America, the General Court took the sheet into custody, held solemn debate over the daring disturber of the public quiet, and voted that it "contained reflections of a very high nature," and its pub lication was contrary to law. It was not allowed to ap- pear again. James Brooks, of New York, has been appointed a Government director of the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany in place of C. T. Sherman. The Massachusetts Legislature met at Boston on the Ist of Jan., and elected Harvey Jewell over Charles A. Train, by 151 votes, out of the 216 east. George R. Bra stow was elected President of the Senate by a majority of one, in the entire vote of the 40 Senators. The Maine and Maryland Legislatures met on the same day ; that of Ohio was to assemble on the 6th, and of New York on the 7th. The Maine Legislature elected Josiah Crosby of Penobscot President of the Senate, Theodore C. Wood man of Bucksport Speaker of the House, and Thomas P. Cleaves and Sumner J. Chadbourne, respectively, clerks of the branches. The various state offices have been filled as follows: —Secretary of State, Franklin M. Drew of . Brunswick ; Attorney-General, William P. Frye of Lewiston ; Adjutant-General, Gen. John C. Caldwell of Ellsworth ; Land Agent, Parker P. Burleigh of Lineus ; Executive CJuncillors, Henry 0. Reed, of Norway, Geo. W. R. Randall of Portland, Daniel Holland of Lewiston, Joseph A. Sanborn of Readfield, Elias Milliken of Burt ham, Ephraim Flint of Dover, and Daniel K. Hobart of Dennysville. Both Maine and Maryland Legislatures have questions of the Senatorial succession to settle, and Messrs. Morrill and Reverdy Johnson are both candidates or ro-election. Ex-Vico-President Hamlin is the mos dangerous competitor in Mr. Morrill's path, and Gov . Swann is working hard to defeat Mr. Johnson. Robert Preston was arrested, Jan. 2, at Charles ton, South Carolina, with $lO,OOO, stolen from the Dorches ter Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Neponset, Massa chusetts, where he had been employed as a clerk till he absconded. Bryant T. Henry, the receiving teller of the Shawmut National Bank, of Boston, disappeared, and the bank books show a deficit of $60,000. The teller omitted to credit $6,000 he had received, and as he was compelled to go, he took the precaution of carrying away from the bank vault $27,000 in compound interest notes, and a like sum in bills. A New York paper characterizes General Grant's sense as reticence. The President has recognised George Raster as Consul-General of Hayti at Washington, and Leon de la Coza as Vice-Consul of the United States of Columbia at Philadelphia. Admiral Goldsborougb, who has reached the legal limit of the naval service, is trying to prevent his name and himself from going on the retired list, by pleading that the three years which he spent in the Naval School are not to be counted, although all precedent and Secretary Welles, equally ancient and venerable, are against him. The President and Judge J ere Black support the Admiral. The Report of the Hon. David A. Wells, Special Commissioner of Internal Revenue, will not be published before the middle of this month. General Butler has filed the application of Admi ral Farragut and his officers and men for the bounty of 5200 each, allowed them by the statute for the capture of the forts between New Orleans in 1862. Caleb Cushing gave $4,000 for the new Episco pal Church of the Incarnation at Washington, which was dedicated, Sunday, 29th December ; and the new Memo rial Methodist Church, which counts General Grant and Chief Justice Chase among its trustees, will cost $200,000, and will have free pews for the chief dignitaries, which it is to be hoped they will occasionally occupy. General Crittenden succeeds General Strong is command of Arizona, and the latter goes to Nevada. _ _ General Hancock defends himself in print against Colonel Wynkoop's charges of the Indian Commission in burning the Cheyenne village last summer. General Custer writes against the decision of the court-martial by whose sentence he ,was lately deprived of rank and pay for a year, for being absent from his post, and not making sufficient effort to recover some sol diers of his command captured by th© Indians. A. J. HaHeck, brother of General Halleck, and Capt. Marshman were lost with the steamer Raleigh, burned off the Carolina coast. Mysterious disappearances have occurred in other cities of the United States besides Chicago, where four" persons were lately reported as missing. Edwin R. Colton, of Springfield, Massachusetts, disappeared at New York, and was missing by last advises for more than two weeks, His integrity is said to be above question, and the suppo sition was strong that he had been foully dealt with. Be sides several other disappearances, that of Thos. R Whitte more is mentioned, town clerk and Treasurer at Spencer , with $20,000 of the town's money. Among many others that of a highly respectable lady, Mrs. Nash, residing at 170, Hudson-street, Hoboken, Newark , who left her home on the evening of the 26th December to call on a friend, and has not since been heard of. It is feared she was overtaken by a severe storm which shortly after commenced. Robert S. Pringle, who was defeated by a negro for the position of sergeant-at-arms of the Georgia Recon struction Convention, was so much chagrined by the fact and the taunts of his friends that he committed suicide• Henry M. Tyler, son of Professor W. S. Tyler, of Amherst College, returned to Massachusetts last week from 18 months foreign travel and study, and will commends the duties of his Latin professorship at Amherst with the beginning of the winter term. In compliance with an order of the Supreme Court, Simeon Peck, the Coleraine murderer, was, on the 20th ult., consigned to the Worcester insane asylum. Torrey Wallace, formerly of the Housatoni c House, at Lee, has purchased for $23,000 the Phosni Hotel property at Hoosiack Falls, New York, of Cobra Quackenbush, now of the American House, at Pittsfield. The Republican State Central Committee of Nei Hampshire met at Concord, on the 26th December, an d organized by the choice of E. H. Rollins, chairrnan, Benjamin Gerrish, jun., secretary, and John Kimball treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. William Collins, of Somers, Coo' necticut, were married on New Year's-day, 1800. His ag e is 93, hers 92. He once represented the town in the Lees lature,.and has held many offices of trust. Not long since the American papers recorded the flight of Mrs. Sumner to Europe while her husband wen t westward on a lecturing tour. It was then known th at incompatibility of temper wasthe movingspring. A redo ciliation was effected, and prominent politicians rejoiced at the announcement that the hospitable house of the Senator would be again open to guests in Washington. We reg ret to learn that so desirable an arrangement could not, be maintained, and that the incompability of temper has proved too strong for all other considerations, and a P°r manent separation has been agreed to. " Colonel" O'Neil has been offered the post a Fenian Head Centre, which there seems to be some diffi culty in filling, in New York. O'Neil was one of ate fillibusters engaged in the raid on Canada. The Hon: Anson Burlingame, United State n' , Minister to Pekin, has be en se l ec t e d by th e Emperor 0 ' China to revise the treaties between China and the Grea t Powers. He leaves at once, by way of San Francisco , e ll his diplomatic mission, not by way of Europe, as we WI announced. Official despatches to this effect, da ted November 23, 1867, have reached the Hon. Cassia 3g. Clay, United States' Minister to Russia. The Archbishop of Quebec has given his bless' ing to several prominent French Canadians who have pro' ceeded to Rome. It i s sa id th a t a l arge number of n i°- will follow them, and that the Papal Zouaves will thus be strengthened. The Rev. E. F. Trefier, of Austin, Nevada) is f about to visit the Eastern States to deliver a course ° l2 lectures on the mini ng di s t r i c t s . H e h a s g athered general information, aided by the miners of different lee a d " ties, which, being c on d ense d an d p u t t oge th e r, is not only interesting, but conveys a knowledge and gives infe r°3 : o 4 tion regarding the Silver St a t e , w hi c h a ll may be 0" learn. He will arrive in New York about the Ist of DM' Au order has been issued by General Cac b f exempting homesteads from legal seizure, an d re vokil General Sickles's prohibition of the sale a n d di s tillation ° liquor in North and South Uarolina. Mr. Joshua Baker ha s b een appo i n t e d GoVer° ° : of Louisiana by Gen era l H ancoc k , i n p l ace o f M r . Flande rs: resigned. Governor Chamberlain, of Maine, in his spcec l delivered upon assumi ng office, was in favour of t' m, State taxation of Government bonds. Governor Swan, of Maryland, in his inaug ilti ; message, strongly endorsed the course taken by F l° o dent Johnson, and was rejoiced at the reaction ag ain Congress. A story of cross purposes is told of two brot 000 at Whately, Massachusetts. They owned a dog, l'f b life was threatened, as no license had been taken out' a s constable called to kill the animal, when the wife of o i r a of the brothers paid the license fee. At the same ticae.snm a husband paid for the dog at the town clerk's office , P.- o f the brother killed it shortly after to save the expels ° the license. These were agreeable notes to compare' Lo s Levi W. Barton, of Newport, Hampshire, :IA been renominated for Senator in the tenth district , Henry N. Blair, of Plymouth, in the seventh. T. L. Avery, of Springfield, has been adm it fl, as partner into the extensive New York firm of S utt° Clark, and Halsey. John Hadds caught a genuine cod at 10 Orchard, on the Chicopee River. It weighed five PO P O and is believed to be the first cod caught so far fre °/ water. Births. A ar BARBER—On the 21st kat., at 60, Kensington-el:7 of square, Hyde-park, the wife of Joseph Barber, x'" a daughter. 0 1 ' LAMBTON—On the 20th inst., the Lady Victoria 1,03 of a son. de r PEMBERTON—On the 20th inst., at The Barnes, unoo. land, the wife of Richard L. Pemberton, Esq., of t ' ° Marriages. e l dest Southsea, -- On the 20th inst., at St. ijew Southsea, William Brown, Captain Royal NavY , j o ie son of General T. Brown, to Flora, widow a tllo Commander John 0. Bathurst, R.N. n i r ' MOON —ASLETT—On the 16th inst., at Hols7 tai Church, Bromptou, Chatham, Edward M. 3 1 °10: son of the late J. P. Moon, Commander 0, Sprightly, Holyhead, to Esther, only daughter 04 Aslett, Esq., of Chatham. Deaths. 1 , 0 1 . Busic—On the 19th iust., at Ford's Grove, Winc" 4 hill, Edward T. Busk, Esq., J.P., aged 63. rrhoof" BENGouGH—On the 1111 inst., at Croydon, Alf . Bengough, late of Tichbourne-street, London, 8 6 .- P‘ BROWNE —On the 20th inst., at Oaklands, St. A- 11)4 0 , 1 ' 0 1 d ' d; Browne, Esq., of Oaklands, and 80, Mark-lane, ' ll ° OP BROTIIERTON —On the 20th hist , at his sou's , Esher, Gen. Sir T. W. Brotherton, G. 0.8., THOMPSON On the 20th inst., at the Hotel 3 114 ' o f t Ue Champs Elysees, Paris, C. T. Thompson, 1 3313 " 0 South Kensington Museum. 'o f til Al WATTS —On the 19th inst., at . Ludlow, Mary, relysof late Col. Ponsonby Watts, late of the (W el ' Regiment. - - - 11)1°t11' London : Printed and Published by WILLI/in A - o t of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tun SUN Oal°e , oi nti Strand, in the Precinct of the Sr toy, in the v Middlesex.—Wednesday, January 22, 1868. .Li M this Lon LlJ] II; &c. SENT p.m. Prize then • 0% hares 11 ADv hold able Fort TIC ENI NEE lien . Pi Mon in th Th at Mj Bt. ji A. 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