The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-20 00:00:00

Eri - RIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Most of the morning papers devote a leader to the Irish Reform Bill. The Times remarks that the principle of rating as the basis of representation, having always been recognised in Ireland, can easily be maintained, and the Government desires that another of the cardinal prin. tqples of Tory Reform shall be satisfied by the issue of a Boundary Commission. It is painful to add that a third of these invaluable canons, paraded with such pomp by Mr. Disraeli, has been ruthlessly set aside by Mr. Disraeli's Administration. Instead of carefully guarding every !xisting centre of representation, the Ministry proposes to 3isfranchise altogether six boroughs, and its proposal is advanced in such a manner that it will be difficult to pre vent the process of disfranchisement from going further. The explanation of the apparent linconsistency involved :n this proposal is to be found in the fact that the "principle" of preserving every existing centre of repre sentation conflicts with the more important " principle " if adding to the representation of counties. Lord Mayo proved last night, by figures of a character sufficiently Familiar to us in English precedents, that the counties if Ireland are insufficiently represented, and as there are no small boroughs in Ireland endowed with two mem bers, it is plain that if the counties are to receive more , nembers some boroughs must disappear. The plan pursued by the Ministry has apparently been to pick out the most populous counties, to ascertain the smallest borough in each of them, and to pro pose that the county should be enriched at the expense if that borough. It is plain that such a Reform Bill must be regarded as little more than a provisional scheme for the reform of Irish representation. Mr. Lawson perti uently asked why the proposed three-cornered counties should be divided instead of being brought, like Dublin, ander the principle of the representation of minorities, and there is absolutely no reason to be given in defence of the anomaly. The English counties which have been sill:- divided have been cut up into divisions returning two members each, just as it is proposed Cork shall be bisected, and the influence of ancient custom may be pleaded in favour of the operation. To permit the three -;ornered counties to be subdivided will be to follow an evil example without its excuse, and the proposal ought not to be adopted in Ireland, or, indeed, in Scotland, with cut a struggle. The make patent fault in the Irish Reform Bill is, however, the slight extent to which it teals with the small boroughs of Ireland. There are thirteen Irish boroughs below the line of 8,000 popula tion, the bill affects only five of them, and the five selected are chosen for the capricious reason that they happen to lie in the most populous counties of the island. Thus Bandon is sacrificed because it is in Cork, while Athlone, with a smaller population is spared. Ennis killen, smaller than either of them, is promised longer life, while Cashel is merged in Tipperary. Mallow, smaller than any we have named, is exempt from the stroke of !ate, though it is in the county of Cork, and might . have been called upon to yield up 4s member instead of the bigger Bandon, with its full 6,000 inhabitants. The truth is, none of these places can long be allowed to retain their privileges, and the Administration can only wait the assist ance of the House of Commons considerably to modify, if not to abolish, their anomalous powers. The Queen's University, which was promised a member by the bill of Lord Russell's Government, may fairly ask to have the right of representation accorded to it by the present Ministry. Antrim appears to deserve a third member at least as well as Tipperary or Tyrone, and there are other - ;onstituEncies in Ireland the representation of which it would be wise to increase rather than to maintain unaltered the privileges of the crowd of small boroughs now return 'ng members to the Legislature. The argument of the Post is that the Irish do not for a moment care for such a measure of Parliamentary Reform as this. The only aspect in which Parliamentary Reform has been regarded in Ireland has been one which con templated the repeal of the legislative union. As to the Government Bill, it is so meagre, that its condemnation would be certain if the unenfranchised Irish cared about electoral privileges. No justification could be offered for making the qualification in Irish counties the same as in ;hose of England. The virtual disfranchisement of five boroughs, and the unquestionable disfranchisement of at !east one—namely, Portarlington—offers a singular com mentary on Mr. Disraeli's celebrated speech in Edinburgh, and still more celebrated letter published ten clays since. Due of the great fundamental principles which he had im pressed on the conscience and conviction of his party was that no place should be totally disfranchised. Education on Irish affairs probably rests on different bases, and hence has arisen what the uninitiated might possibly regard as a trifling inconsistency. It will be seen, says the Daily News, that in Ireland the Government entirely throws overboard its principle of lot extinguishing any existing centres of representation. Lord Mayo attempted to palliate the contrast between the ?roposed extinction of small boroughs in Ireland and the refusal to extinguish them in England, by urging that the representatives taken from them would be given to livisions of counties in which they are situa' ed. But this act offers no benefit to the inhabitants of the boroughs. The counties chosen for additional enfranchisement appear ;o have been capriciously selected. It is absurd that ;OWNS which are not thought worthy of being represented lirectly should determine the counties which are to receive in additional member. The refusal to the Queen's Univer sity of the privilege of representation conceded to the University of London and to the Scotch Universities is Os° remarkable. Territorial authority is likely to be slight in a Liberal university; and the clerical influence which rules Trinity College is not to be found in its younger rival. Is this the reason why that rival's claims have been overlooked? Lord Mayo is bound to explain the grounds on which the principles and precedents of re. iistribution adopted in England and proposed in Scotland have been reversed in Ireland. The bill will, of course, observes the herald, meet with certain opposition from the boroughs which it dooms to 3i3franchisement ; and Mr. Gladstone, as he gave sufli ::iently to understand last night, will do what he can to liscredit if he dare not directly oppose it. On the other hand, it is eminently a bill which, as Lord Mayo said, wiL bear criticism, and we have every confidence that it will find favour in Ireland itself, and gain the cordial support of all who will give it a fair and honest con sideration. Neither the Standard, Star, nor Telegraph offer any Dpinion on the bill. The Standard closes an article on Charlotte Wingfield, who was convicted at Lewes Assizes of cruelty to William Tug wood, with the following observations :—Human nature siel:ens and shudders at the contemplation of conduct so s.bLorrent, not only to moral sentiment, but to animal in fillet, that one would fain believe a woman who could be guilty of it was not responsible for her actions. Of this, lowever, there was not the slightest indication. Her per 'ect appreciation of the facts sworn to was shewn by her ontinual contradiction of the witnesses, such contradic ions being emphatic exactly in proportion as their state ments were damaging. We fear that the only solution of er inhumanity is to be found in that " wanton and —icked lust of cruelty, that morbid, unnatural, and 'salf-insane pleasure which some derive from inflictin r.ain upon others," that "delight in tyranny and nmelty exercised towards the unoffending and the helpless," of which Sir Alexander Cockburn spoke n his eloquent and impressive address to the jury, when directing them to consider their verdict. Their leliberations were short, and their decision was the only •sne at which reasonable men could have arrived. 'ound her guilty, and then the prisoner seemed fuliy tensible of her situation. She rose from her seat, mingling aysterical appeals for mercy with whining protestations 0; mnocence, and hypocritical professions of love for the pool boy whom she had so horribly maltreated. Solemn indeed was the scene when the Lord Chief Justice proceeded pass sentence, characterising her crime in terms of the severest reprehension, and only curtailing his address secause the conduct of.the convict proved that any appeal lo her better feelings would be thrown away. Amidst applause which the efforts of the officers could not wholly repress, she was condemned to fifteen years' penal servi tude ; and surely . no . sentence was ever more thoroughly well deserved tnan that by w hi c h the law has thus avenged the barbarities practised upon poor little William Tug wood. SIR JOHN ROLT.—WO learn with much satisfac tion that the health of Sir John Rolt continues steadily :o improve. Sir John is at present staying at Clifton ; 'lid there is every probability that, in a comparatively ;bort space of time, the country will have the benefit of pis long and varied experience as a member of her Majesty's Privy Council. WINDING-UP OF A BANIL—The liquidation of the Western Bank of Scotland, commenced in 1859, is dill not yet completed, although it. has been very nearly wrought to a close. The total. salaries paid during the :onrse of the liquidation from 1859 to 1868 amount to f. 11,703 ; the law expenses during the same period have ')cen £45,020 ; and the other expenses, £55,475 ; making he total expenses of the liquidation to this date, £145,198. THE MURDER, OF A BOY By HIS FATHER.-111 , inquest has been held at the King's Head, Essex-road, Islington, on the body of Thomas G. Woolcott, who it was alleged had been drowned by his father, Richard W.Wool -:ott, who has been remanded by the magistrate to the Rouse of Detention on the charge. The evidence at the present inquiry was similar to that given before the magis trate ; but the inquest was adjourned for the production of the accused, the jury having expressed a wish that he Should be present. It is, however, doubtful whether the 7ulice will produce the prisoner. ~_ ~~ DEATH FROM STARVATION. An inquiry has been held at the Duke's Read, White chap& relative to the death of John Cook, aged 44. Susannah Cook, a respectable-looking but very emaciated woman, deposed that deceased was her brother, and that he was a picture-frame maker. He had been ailing, and had no work for six months past. He and witness and another sister lived in one room at No. 3, Gower's.walk, Whitechapel, for which they paid 3s. a week. About nine months ago when the deceased was ill he got an order for the parish doctor, who gave him some nourishment. The parish people, however, offered to take him into the workhouse, but as he had a great aversion to the union he refused, and he only got the nourishment two or three times, and he never applied since. During the last six months deceased earned nothing. Witness had earned 205., and her sister had earned about £2 or £3. They had friends who assisted them a little, and gave them perhaps £2 altogether. The deceased got as much as they could give him ; he had as much as would keep body and soul together. The Coroner remarked that the three persons had only £0 to live on for six months, and when they paid their rent out of it they had only 2s. a week for food. The witness said that all the family once supported them. selves comfortably, and they were very respectably con nected, and therefore she did not like to tell more than she could help. They were afraid to apply to the workhouse for fear of being made to go into the house. They had meat once a week —sometimes not so often. Mr. J. Scott Sequiera, M.R.C.S., said that he was called in to the deceased after death. He found the body was much emaciated. He had attended the deceased over six months ago on a parish order, and he found him then with his sisters in a most distressed condition. There was not a particle of furniture in the room ; all three slept on the floor. There was something in the corner that might have been a bed, but he would not like to call it one. The man was suffering from sheer debility, and witness ordered him nourishment. The deceased died from exhaustion from want of nourishment. roe family seemed to be very respectable. The witness Susannah Cook was the eldest and she had been pew-opener at St. Mark's Church until about a twelve months ago. The other sister was a tailoress, and was now pew-opener at Whitechapel Church. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased akil from exhaustion from want of sufficient nourishment LAW AND POLICE- NO SMALL Less.—Vice-Chancellor Malins has had before him a curious case relating to diamonds worth £lO,OOO. It came before him in the form of a motion for dissolution of partnership. The partnership was consti tuted under a French instrument of special character, and the plaintiffs had under its provisions consigned diamonds of great value to the defendant. It appeared that the defendant had parted with diamonds of the value of £lO,OOO to a Pole on the 4th inst., and the plaintiff stated that the only account which they could get of those diamonds was that the Pole went to the Alhambra, Leicester-square, on the s une evening with them in his pocket, that he left the Alhambra in company with a woman, and on the next morning discovered that he had lost them. Under these circumstances the plain tiff desired to break up the partnership and have a receiver appointed over the partnership property which still re mained in London. It subsequently appeared that " the Pole " had only this week married defendant's daughter. The Vice-Chancellor said the best course to adopt was to let the partnership by mutual consent be dissolved from Monday last ; take an account of the partnership transac tions, and appoint Mr. George Cape, the well known accountant, receiver and manager of the partnership estate. HEAVY DAMAGES.—An extraordinary claim for damages sent clown for assessment upon a writ of inquiry from the Court of Exchequer has been settled at Shrewsbury be fore the deputy under-sheriff and a special jury. The plaintiff is a bricklayer named Edward Steedman, and the defendant is Mr. Thomas Wells, of Eaton Mascott Hall, Shropshire, and the Larches, Wolverhampton, one of the most extensive ironmasters in the Midland district. On the 23rd of August in last year the plaintiff, who is a tenant of the defendant's, was returning home from work, and in passing along the highway saw the defendant's game keeper shoot a rabbit which was running near the road. The plaintiff observed to the gamekeeper that he was making the dust fly in the road, and expressed a hope that he would not shoot him. The gamekeeper replied that he would take care of that, and the plaintiff proceeded on his way. He had not gone many yards, however, when a shot fired from the gun of the defendant struck him in the face. The plaintiff went home, and after passing a night of great agony, obtained admittance on the following day to the Eye and Ear Hospital, Shrewsbury, where it was found neces sary to remove one eye from the socket, while the sight of the other was pronounced to be permanently impaired. After the plaintiff had been in the hospital fur a fortnight, Mrs. Wells called to inquire after his health, and on leaving his bedside placed half a crown in his hand. On a subse quent occasion the defendant was driving, along the road in his carriage, when he overtook the plaintiff and pulled up to ask how his eye was getting on. Steadman replied that he was almost blind, and the defendant gave him a half crown and drove on. These two donations, with the ocla sional gift of a rabbit, represented, according to the plain tiff's state:rent, all the assistance he had received from the defendant since the date of the accident. After a long con sultation a verdict for the plaintiff was taken by consent ; damage:', t. 3 - ;0. . _ CUTTING NEWSPAPERS.— At the Liverpool Police-court Mr. C. D. Wilson, shipbroker (Persian Consul), has been fined In and costs for cutting a piece out of a newspaper in the Exchange News-room. The defendant denied that he had any malicious intent. The paper was one of a file made for the use of the subscribers. CLARIBEL's SONGs.—The Master of the Rolls has had before him a motion for an injunction to restrain Messrs. Sinclair, the music publishers, from continuing the publi cation of a song called " Under the. Willow," as being " written by Claribel," the Plaintiff contending that such a description implied that not only were the words of the song written by Claribel, but that the music was composed by her. From an affidavit that had been filed it appeared that " Claribel " was the wife of a clergyman called Barnard, and was a writer and composer of considerable popularity. In the present case this lady had only written the words, but not com posed the music. These words she bad made a present of to a friend, and the friend had sold them to Messrs. Sin clair after they had been set to music by some one other than Claribel. The whole question before the court was whether the words written by Claribel led the public to believe that the music of the song as well as the words was written by that lady. The court held that the words written as used merely applied to the words of the song and not the music, and his Honour consequently refused the injunction. THE EARL OF JERSEY'S LO ANS. — Vice-Chancellor Stuart has bad before him the case of the Earl of Jersey v. Dicker and Yates. It was a motion on behalf of the Earl of Jersey for an injunction to restrain Air. John Campbell Dicker and Mr. Frederick Yates, from pro secuting an action at law for the recovery of £lO,OOO On acceptances given by the plaintiff in respect of advances made to him. These acceptances were only part of acceptances excce ling £lO,OOO which the plaintiff had given for advances of money to enable him to carry on his horse-racing pursuits. The plaintiff left Eton in July 1863, and entered the University of Oxford as an undergraduate at Balliol Col lege in May 1864. While at Oxford be had an allowance £5OO per annum. The groi:nd on which the motion was made was that exorbitant interest was charged to the plaintiff, who was young and inexperienced. Mr. Dickinson, during the hearing of the case, admitted on the part of the Earl of Jersey that, in respect of the ac ceptances amounting to £lO,OOO, the sum of £B,lOO ought to be paid by the earl.—The Vice• Chancellor thereupon directed that, if the earl paid £B,lOO to the credit of the cause on or before Saturday, the action should be stopped. Arrangements are now in progress, with the sanction of . the Bishop 'of London, for the organisation o a series of confirmations on the continent of Europe during the ensuing season. The Right Rev. Bishop Smith, late of Victoria, and other prelates, will administer the rite. The Irish Liberal journals can scarcely find lan,gnage to express their delight with Mr. Gladstone's policy in reference to the Irish Church. Meetings, adver. tiscd to be held in Kilkenny and Limerick before the speech of the Opposition leader was delivered, are about to assume a changed character. Originally the intention was to petition in favour of the abolition of the Church ; an event then contemplated. only as far distant. Now the promoters flatter themselves that their triumph is nearer and sure, and will use the opportunity to pass resolutions pledging the Ultrautoutane party to support Mr. Glads tone. AN INFERNAL MACHINE.—The day after the arrest of the reputed heal centre Murphy, at the residence of his father-in law, in Garryowen, Sub-Inspector Kelly, with a party of police, proceeded there, and having searched a room in the home, an affair resembling a torpedo was found concealed under the bed in which Murphy slept. This implement of destruction was conveyed to the New castle racecourse in a cart, escorted by a party of con stabUlary, under the command of Sub-Inspector Kelly, who was accompanied by Mr. Ambrose Hall. It was openedwith caution by Mr. Hall, but without the least accident occurring, and on examination of the contents of the charged tubes they were found to be highly explosive at the percussion or capped ends. This torpedo could or a building, or set fire to an y b e d e fi m e a e d c e o tont containing g up ship a timber work; so that the importance of the arrest of Murphy and the discovery of this inferno machine is beyond doubt. THE SUN, LONE ON, FRIDAY EVEN SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. last flight of hurdles, and won easily by a length and a half ; a bad third. A Steeplechase Handicap of 5 soya each, 2 ft, with 5n added. Winners of any steeplechase after March 12 (at ten a.m.) 71b, twice 101 b extra. Gentlemen riders, those who have never ridden a winner in a handicap steeple- chase allowed 61b. Two MUM and a half. 38 subs. Colonel Knox's Foxholes, by Fugleman, 6 yrs, lOst 7lb (W. Reeves) 1 Mr. T. V. Morgan's Lord Waldegrave, 6 yrs, lOst 61b (G. Holman) 2 Mr. Coslett's Wedding Peal, 6 yrs, lOst (0 wne r) 3 The following also ran :—Claribel, Garus, and Black Prince. Betting-5 to 4 agst Lord Waldegrave, 2to 1 agst Fox holes, and 6to 1 agst any other. Foxholes made play throughout, and won in a canter by 20 lengths. Garus refused the first fenco, and was not after persevered with, and Claribel fell a mile from home. Match, 25 sovs, 10ft. Half-a-mile. Mr. Bromsgrove's Psckwater i by Oxford, Bst 71b (cannon) 1 Mr. R. Herbert's c., by Sycophant—Heiress, Bst 71b (G. Sopp) 2 Betting-5 to lon Peckwater, who cut down his oppo nent in the first hundred yards and won easily by a length and a half. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. CITY AND SUBURBAN. 700 to 100 agst Blinkhoolie, with a start (taken) 100 to 8 agst Nemea (taken) 100 to 8 agst Abergeldie (taken) 100 to 6 agst Knight of the Garter (taken) 14 to 1 agst The Parson (taken) 16 to 1 agst Kettleholder (taken) 20 to 1 agst Nyanza (taken) 1000 to 25 agst Grey Stocking (taken) . 100 to 3 agst Lady Rosehill (taken) DERBY. 5000 to 100 agst Harvester (taken) WARWICK SPRING MEETING—TuuRsDAY. A Handicap Plate of 50 sous; winners after the weights are out 51b extra; five furlongs. Lord Westmorland's Mistletoe, by Lifeboat, 5 yrs, 7st 31b (Butler) 1 Duke of Hamilton's Exceller, 6 yrs, 7st 61b ...(Hartley) 2 Mr. Chaplin's Adamanthea, 4 yrs, 7st (Jeffrey) 3 Tyrone was struck out at 11.40 a.m. Betting—Even on Mistletoe,. 9 to 4 agst Adamanthea, and 3 to 1 apt Exceller. The favourite, or_ the inside, made play, closely attended by Excellor and Adamanthea in the order we have given them to the distance, where they closed and ran in com pany to the enclosure, where the favourite drew away and won cleverly by three-parts of a length ; a like distance separated the second and third. The Guy Sweepstakes of 3 soya each, with 40 added; two year olds 7st 81b, three 9st 41b, four lOst 71b, five and upwards 10st 121 b, mares and geldings allowed 31b, maidens 'in the present year having started twice and not won allowed 51b, thrice 71b, the winner to be sold for 100 sous; if entered for 50 allowed 71b, if for 30 141 b. Half a mile. Mr. Bromsgrove's Queen of Darkness, by King of the Forest, 3 yrs, Bst llb (no) ....(Cannon) 1 Mr. W. G. Benuett's Miss Sophie, 2 yrs, 6st 51b (.£3O) (Butler) 2 Prince D. Soltykoff's Brine, 2 yrs, sst 121 b (£3O) (Jewitt) 3 . . The following also ran :—Alarmist, Adjutant, Vance, Oceana, Sunnyside, Portia, Lady Diana, and Sister to Lemonade. Betting-3 to 1 agst Queen of Darkness, 4to 1 agst Miss Sophie, 6 to 1 each agst Lady Diana and Brine, 8 to 1 agst Portia, 10 to 1 agst Oceana, and 12 to 1 agst Alarmist. At the third attempt they loft the past to a straggling start, in which Sunnyside, Sister to Lemonade, and Vance were left at the post. When fairly away Miss Sophie got away slightly in advance of Portia, the pair running together a length or so in advance of the favourite and Brine to the distance. Here Queen of Darkness, next the rails, took a clear lead, and won easily by three-parts of a length; a bad third, Oceana was fourth, Adjutant fifth, Lady Diana sixth, and Portia next. Sister to Lemonade and Alarmist were the last two. The winner was bought in for 135 guineas. Mr. Nightingall claimed Brine. Match-100 sovs each, h ft. Half a mile on the flat. Captain Humphrey's Nonpareil, by Hurworth, 6 yrs, list 41b (Owner) 1 Captain Burrell's The Kitten, late Emerald, aged, lOst 41b (Owen) 2 Betting-5 to 2on Nonpareil, who made all the running, and won easily by two lengths. A Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 20 added. The winner to be sold for 40 sovs. Three furlongs. Mr. Barber's Alicia, by Commotion, 4 yrs, Est (Gradwell) 1 Mr. Killard's Dr. Wilson, 3 yrs, Est 41b (Butler) 2 Mr. A. Heathcote's Columbine, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (G. Sopp) 3 The Star and Betlow Lass also ran. Betting-2 to 1 agst Alicia and sto 2 agst Columbine and The Star. The favourite jumped away with a slight lead of the Star and Dr. Wilson, and made running to the dis tance, where The Star gave way, and Columbine joined the leaders. Half-way up Alicia quitted her horses, and won cleverly by a length and a half. There were three lengths between the second and third. Betlow Lass was beaten off. The winner was not sold. A Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 23 added, for two and three year olds. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs with engagement'. Half a mile. Lord Westmorland's Eau de Vie, by Zuyder Zee, 3 yrs, 7st 31b Mr. W. G. Bennett's Finesse, 3 yrs, Bst (Mordan) 2 Mr. Chapliu's Pero, 3 y rs, Est 121 b (Jeffery) 3 Mr. Brornsgrove's Anxiety, 2 yrs, Est 41b (Welling) 4 Betting-5 to 4 agst Eau de Vie, 7to 4 agst Finesse, and 4to 1 agst Pero. Finesse held a slightlead of the favourite for 200 yards, when she gave way, and Eau de Vie, on the inside, came on, and won, hard held, by a length and a half. Twice that distance separated the second and third. The winner was not sold. The Grand Annual Steeplechase Handicap of 20 sovs each, h ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 added; second to save his stake ; winners of any handicap steeplechase. after March 6 (at 11 a.m.) 71b, twice 101 b extra; about four miles; 69 subs, 33 of whom pay 5 sovs each. The highest weight accepting being 12st, it has been raised to 12st 71b, and the others in proportion. Mr. J. Dixon nas. Musketeer, by Artillery, 6 yrs, lOst 91b (Mr. Edwards) 1 Duke of Hamilton's Shakespeare, aged, list 41b (Mr. Crawshaw) 2 Mr. T. V. Morgan's Globule, aged, list 101 b (G. Holtnan) 3 Pearl Diver, PhiloSopher, The Nun, Northern Light, Buszke, Moose, Pau, Tiger, L.S.D., and Thalassius also ran. Brayley declared to win with Moose. Be tto ing-3 Shakespeare, to 1 a a 9 e t h o 2 a g a s g t s t T P b e a a i r a l ss D i. u i s v e a r n , d 5 Tiger, 100 to 8 each agst Nun and Fan, and 20 to 1 each agst Philosopher, Buszke, Moose, and Musketeer. Imme diately they left the post The Nun took up the running, having Shakespeare, Globule, Philosopher, L.S.D., and Moose in a body at her heels, a couple of lengths separat ing them from Thalassius, Fan, Pearl Diver, Northern Light, and Tiger, Musketeer and Buszke lying in the rear. Half-way along the Swan meadows The Nun disappeared from the front, and Philosopher ran past his horses and assumed the command, Tiger at the same time taking the second place, closely followed by Moose, Northern Light, Globule, L. S.D., and Thalassius, with the others follow ing at wide intervals, whipped in by Buszke and The Nun. The water jump in front of the stand was cleared cleverly by Tiger slightly in advance of Philosopher, Moose, Northern Light, Globule, and L. S. D., in the order we have given them ; then came Pearl Diver, Fan, and Mus keteer, in close company, The Nun and the German horse still holding their rearward positions. Rising the hill, Philosopher, lying wide of his horses on the left, headed Tiger and led over its brow, and on re-appearing in sight the two were upwards of a couple of lengths in advance of Moose, Northern Light, L. S. D., and Glo bule, who followed in close company, in whose rear were seen the colours of Thalassius, Buszke, Fan, and Pearl Diver, Shakespeare and Musketeer having dropped back into the rear in company with The Nun. On entering the Star close Globule headed Moose, and followed the leaders down to the water jump a second time, which they cleared nearly abreast without a mistake, L. S. D. following next,with Moose, Northern Light, Thalassius, and Buszke close in their wake, with Pearl Diver, Fan, Musketeer, and Shakespeare next, The Nun being still a long way in the rear. At the mile post Philosopher was still seen in ad vance, Globule, having headed Tiger, going on second, Musketeer fourth, with Buszke, Thalassius, L.S.D., Fan, Pearl Diver, and Shakespeare lying up. Moose, having " cut it," was now seen in the rear of everything, and was shortly after pulled up, and walked home across the common. No material change occurred as they came along the Swan meadows, with the exception that they closed up and ran in a compact body to the fence into the Star close, half a mile from home, which Philosopher cleared in ad vance, but immediately upon landing he was headed by Globule on the one side, and Musketeer on the other, when he dropped away beaten, and his place was taken by Shakespeare, Thalassius, and Buszke, who closed with the leaders as they Caine along the bottom. On rounding the bend for home Musketeer challenged Globule, Shake speare at the same time joining issue ; the three raced for the last flight of hurdles, which Musketeer cleared in ad vance of Shakespeare, who blundered on landing, but was picked up so quickly as to retain his place, having Globule on his left next the rails. At the distance the three closed, and one of the longest, gamest, and most punishing sets to seen for years commenced, the three running locked to gether to the end, Musketeer just winning in the last stride by a head, a like distance separating the second and third. Thalassius finished fourth, a couple of lengths in their rear. Buszke was fifth, Fan sixth, and L.S.D. seventh. To them succeeded, at wide intervals, The Nun Philosopher, Tiger, and Pearl Diver in the order we have given them. The Warwickshire Hunters' Steeplechase Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, p.p., with added, for half breds ; 12st 71b each ; thorough bred horses 121 b extra ; three miles ; 10 subs. Mr. flolford's Talisman (h. b.), 12st 71b (Mr. Crawshaw) 1 Mr. W. T. Russoll's Old Court (h. b.), 12st 71b (Mr. Power) 2 Mr. Formby's Tyrone, late Spider (h b), 12a 71b (Col. Knox) 3 The following also ran: —King Arthur, Little John, Sly Fox, and Ryon. Betting-5 to 2 agst Ryon, 3to 1 'each agst Talisman and Tyrone, and 5 to 1 agst King Arthur. King Arthur, Old Court, and Tyrone alternately made the running, followed by Talisman and Ryon to within a mile of home, when the former was beaten, and the run ning was then taken up by Talisman, who came on in at tendance and won in a canter by 20 lengths. The others beaten off. On returning to scale each was objected to as being thorough bred, which was subsequently withdrawn. The Steeplechase Hunt Cup, value 100 sovs by subscrip tion of 10 sovs each, for all horses that have been regu larly hunted ; 12st ; horses never having started in any steeplechase allowed 71b ; winners of a steeplechase iu 1867 or 1868 value 50 sovs 71b, twice 141 b, or of a steeplechase of the value of 150 sovs at any time 281 b extra ; gentlemen riders, professionals 61b extra ; about three miles. 11 subs. Duke of Hamilton's Highflyer, by Orpheus, aged, 133 t (inc. 1.41 b extra) (Afr. Crawshaw) 1 Mr Heneage's Lincoln, aged, 12st 71b 71b extra) (Captain Harlon]) 2 Mr T. Golby's Rivets, 6 yrs, list 71b .(I.llr. Edwards) 3 Mr Herbert's King Alfred, aged, 12st (Colonel Knox) 0 Betting-5 to 4 agst Rivets, and sto 2 agst llighflyer. Lincoln was the first away, followed by King Alfred, who refused the first fence, and was not afterwards persevered with. This mishap left Ifighflyer in attentlanc, with Rivets a dozen lengths in their rear. On entering the Swan Meadows, Righflyer went to the fore, and came on with the running over the water-jump, but on reaching the mile-post he was pulled back, and the lead intruwed to Lincoln, the pair running together into the Star Close, where the favourite headed Ilighflyer, but dying away as ihey rounded the turn for home, he was again headed by the Duke's horse, who took a clear lead on jumping the NORTHAMPTON MEETING-APRIL 1. The Earl Spencer's Plate of 100 sovs, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 15 sous each, 5 ft; a winner of any handi cap after March 12, at ten a.m., or of the Whittlebury Stakes, 71b extra. The New Spencer Plate Course. 5 furlongs. 70 subs., 24 of whom pay 5 sovs each. Yrs st lb ~ 5 8 12 Yrs st lb ... 4 7 5 Cellium ... Pericles ... 4 8 10 Out-and-Outer 6 8 10 Salliet ... 6 8 9 Bismark ... 4 8 9 Dlr. Pitt ... ... 5 8 5 Leonie 3 8 5 Tibtborpe ...4 8 4 Indian Star ... 5 8 3 Vespasian 5 8 1 King Victor ... 4 8 1 Monitor (bred in Prance) 6 7 13 Reindeer ... a 7 13 Moonbeam ... 4 7 12 Tumbler ... 4 7 11 Verulam ...4 7 11 h by Promised Land —Rather 5 7 10 Wolsey 5 7 10 Zisca 6 7 10 Marshal Ney 5 7 9 Orion ... 3 7 8 Pirate Chief 4 7 7 Fakir ...4 7 5 Alruna 4 7 2 Belphegor 3 6 13 The Czar ... 6 6 13 Sycee ... 4 6 13 Man of Ross ... 4 6 11 Conundrum ... 5 6 11 Miss Hayes ... 4 6 11 Charnwood ... 3 6 10 Milton ... 3 6 ►3 Witchcraft ... 3 6 9 Bliss ... 3 6 8 Brother to Knight of the Crescent ... 3 6 7 Irontnaster ... 3 6 7 Chantilly ... 3 6 7 Sritfire 3 6 5 Eleanora 3 6 5 Rhino Wino ... 3 6 4 Prince George ... 3 6 2 Picnic 3 5 12 Patrician ..• ... 3 5 12 Laird of Scotland... 3 5 10 Ligurian ... 3 (pd) IVA VAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE. We are authorised to state that there is no foun dation for the report which has appeared in some of the weekly papers that there is shortly to be a fur ther distribution of the Order of the Bath among officers of the Royal Navy. The Matilda Atheling has been chartered by the Government for the conveyance of a large number of Fenian and other convicts from Chatham and the other convict establishments to Gibraltar, and is to be ready to embark them at the Nore on Tuesday next. A strong guard, consisting of detachments of the let Battalion of the 13th Regiment and the 2d Battalion of the 15th Regiment, will proceed in charge of the convicts, who are to be employed on the works connected wich the defences at Gibraltar. In addition to the Sultan, the new ironclad war ship of the Hercules class ordered to be laid down at Chatham Dockyard, a powerful turret armour clad ship to be named the Triumph is directed by an Admiralty order, just received, to be constructed at that establishment, the designs for both vessels having been prepared at the Admiralty, where the drawings and plans are now being made. The following detachments have been placed under orders to proceed from Chatham garrison for em barkation on board the troopship Himalaya, for con veyance to Bermuda and North America, to join the service companies of their respective regiments —viz., two officers and 54 men of the Ist Battalion of the 15th Regiment, two officers and 60 men of the Ist Battalion of the 22d Regiment, and two officers and 72 mcii of all ranks of the 30th Regi ment. The detachments for embarkation will be officially inspected by Major-Gen. F. Murray to day. Consequent on the large number of troops which have recently left Chatham for embarkation for India and the colonies the various corps sta tioned at the garrison have been reduced very con siderably below their proper strength. An order has been received at the Royal Engi neer establishment, Chatham, directing a party of non-commissioned officers to proceed to Persia to join the detachment of sappers of the Royal Engi neers engaged in laying down the telegraph over land to India, under the superintendence of Major Smith. The party will leave Chatham on the 28th inst. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Edward Seale to the Aboukir ; Navigating Lieut. John Aylen to the Fisgard, for the Rapid ; Charles H. S. Pretyman to the Doris ; Charles Cotton, chief engineer, to the Liffey ; Nicholas T. Connolly, assist.-surgeon, to the Pandora; Lieut. Herbert F. Gye and Lieut. Day 11. Bosanquet, to the Bristol ; Sub-Lieut. Charles Lindsay and Sub-Lieut. Henry C. Bigge, to the Royal. Oak ; W. W. Glanville, midshipman, to the Royal Alfred ; and Francis Powell, Alfred Vautier, Richard W. Fawkes, and Cecil H. Wright, midshipmen, to the Royal Oak. The Rev. Thos. Ashe, 8.A., has been appointed chaplain and naval instructor of her Majesty's ship Victory. RAILWAYS 7'o THE PACIFIC ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. General Palmer, about whom we lately wrote as exploring the route for the Eastern Division, Union Pacific Railway, on the Southern Pacific Line in New Mexico and Arizona, writes from the latter territory as follows :—" As directed by the Presi dent I have ordered the discontinuance of the Gila surveys, being not only satisfied of the practica bility of the thirty-fifth parallel, but convinced that it is the best across the continent. It is rarely that we have been obliged to resort to the maximum grade permitted by Congress. The climate is unexcep tionable on the mountains—rather uncomfortable from the warmth in this valley ; but it will be a little change for the passengers to eat water melons at Christmas time. The Mojave Indians are selling them around the fort now, and I saw some tomatoes getting ripe on perfectly green vines on the river bank yesterday. We shall not be troubled with snow on the San Francisco mountain, the highest summit we reach, in my opinion, as much as the Penn sylvania Railroad, is in crossing the Alleghanies ; and for a summer and late autumn resort, I do net believe there is a finer spot on the continent than ' President's Park' on that summit. The fagged out people of the Mississippi Valley will come up here, 7,400 feet above the ocean, and re new health and spirits by breathing the purest air in the most delightful climate, amidst the most striking mountain scenery probably in America. If they choose they can ride five thousand feet higher on the back of a burro,' to the summit of the old volcano, and find out there, if they can, where all the lava and ashes came from which are strewn around. In the Park the grass is very rich, the soil black, and capable of raising almost every thing but corn. The base of San Francisco moun tain is covered with little parks of a similar cha racter, occupying intervals in the great forest of pines. " Taking a practical view of the subject, we shall have a large passenger business to this Elysium, and as the road runs for over 100 miles through, or close to, this forest, our lumber busi ness, for the supply of the valleys and mining districts, will probably be goo 3. There is another such forest on the Sierra Madre, in New Mexico, this side ,f Wingate, but not equal to San Francisco. " I have been quite rejoiced at finding such al, excellent descent to the Colorado Valley. There was 3,000 feet to come down, but we found - a valley leading from the second range back to the river and turning the south end of the first, or river range, which NG, MARCH 20, 1868. has an almost uniform descent for fifty miles. For 100 miles east of this river there is no opportunity of grading, if we rquired it, as the surface is gra dual with light grades, except for three or four miles in crossing a divide to reach the Wallipi val ley, where work something like that at Harker will be required, and perhaps the maximum grade for four miles. But the 100 miles should be completed in the first year, as pine timber exists within 15 miles, on the Wallipi range, for crossties in abun dance. Our iron will cost about as much here as it has been doing in Kansas, unless we can reduce it by owning the boats. " I hope we shall obtain the subsidy next spring. If we do, the completed road can be run over in four years from to-day. It would be sheer laziness that would prevent it." As regards the roadfrom the Great Lakes through British Columbia, the following is an epitome of the paper read at the ordinary meeting of the Geogra phical Society in London last Monday, entitled "The Geography and Mountain Passes of Bri tish Columbia, with reference to an Overland Route," by Mr. A. Waddington, a gentleman who has devoted many years in exploring, personally or by his agents, the different valleys and passes, in order to ascertain which is the most practicable far a waggon-road and railroad from the Pacific across the Rocky Mountains. In ex plaining the nature of the country, the author said that the two mountain ranges—the cascade, or coast range, having an average width of 110 miles, and the Rocky Mountains a width of 150 miles—nearly meet on the southern frontier of the colony, but diverge farther north, and leave a fertile, central plain 120 miles wide. • In the southern part of the country all attempts to discover practicable passes had been in vain, and no through route was possi ble by way of the mouth of the Fraser River. He had examined the various long inlets or fiords to the northward, and found Bate Inlet to be by far the most suitable as the Pacific terminus of the future overland road. He had discovered a river flowing into the head of the inlet, and had planned a dray-road through the narrow valley thus formed through the whole width of the coast range. The road that he had projected ran north-easterly across the plain, and struck the Upper Fraser opposite the mouth of the Quesnelle River. The Fraser is here a navigable stream, and affords a route to the Yellow Head Pass of the Rocky Mountains, which leads to the rich level country on the eastern side of the range, extending towards the Red River settle ment. The Yellow Head Pass is, according to Dr. Rae, 3,760 ft. above the sea level ; the central plain is 2,500 ft. in its southern part, and the Bute Inlet trail runs across it between 51. deg. and 53 deg. N. lat. ; the pasture is excellent, and the cereals (in cluding wheat) can be grown. Mr. Waddington stated that the Canadian Government had already begun to construct the eastern end of the overland waggon road between Lake Superior and Red River, but that no arrangement had yet been entered into with regard to the other sections, and he urged the importance of the undertaking on political and com mercial grounds. The president, Sir Roderick Mur chison, bora testimony to the great geographical value of the map constructed by Mr. Waddington, on which all his various explorations west of the Rocky Mountains were recorded. Mr. Wilson, the United States Commissioner, remarks on the advantages of the Pacific Railroad to New York :—The travel from Japan, Russian Asiatic possessions, Philippine Islands, Eastern India, the Indian Archipelago, and Australia, to Europe, must prefer the route by San Francisco and New York, if only on the score of economy in time. For the lighter and more costly articles of trade, the transportation of which furnishes but a small pro portion of the price, the facilities afforded by our ocean and continental lines will largely supersede even the continuous navigation of the Suez Canal route, which at any time is liable to interruption by European hostilities. The rapidity of transit will, in a large number of instances, counterbalance the higher rates of railroad transportation and the double transhipment, first at San Francisco, and then at New York. It may be expected that a very considerable portion of the teas and silks of China will reach England and France after transit over our railways, and a corresponding amount of their higher-priced exports will reach Asia by the same route. The teas and silks imported nto the British Islands during the five years ending in 1864 amounted to 441,428,239 pounds, valued at over $206,000,000. The foreign trade of Japan is of recent development, but rapidly grow ing in importance. The Colorado on her recent return trip brought to San Francisco a freight nearly three times the value of the entire trade be tween that place and Japan during the first quar ter of the year 1866, while our direct trade with China for 1866 was more than three times that of the previous year. The precious metals, which in times past, for greater promptitude and safety, went to the Oriental ports by way of London, will be sent by our own more direct and speedier ocean routes, at a saving of half the cost of transmission, beside the English insurance from London to China. This direct treasure shipment will make San Francisco and New York the financial centres, the clearing-houses of the world's trade, control ling as they do the production of its metailic cir culating medium. —Anylo-American 2 imes. PAN TO LTIIMES. Although one or two of the usual Christmas entertainments still linger on the stage the season of pantomimes has really terminated, and it may be interesting, and not now out of place, to consider them in their origin, their progress with us and their future application. Pantomime, as its Greek derivation conveys, is, or rather was, the art of expressing the passions, sentiments, and ideas by action and attitude, without having recourse to the use of speech. With the Greeks it was never more than an accessory to the dance, but with the Romans it was highly esteemed and separately cultivated. In their funeral ceremonies, the manners and principal events in the life of the de ceased were thus represented. In the time of Cicero, the famous Roscius portrayed, by an expressive pantomime, the most eloquent discourses of that Roman orator. In the reign of Augustus, Pylades and Bathylles were celebrated—the one for tragic, the other for comic, delineations ; each one estab lished a separate school, and public applause was divided between them. Nero himself figured amongst the pantomimists, and frequently the en thusiasm produced by celebrated actors gave rise to rival factions, and the perpetration of deplorable excesses. In the middle ages pantomime uas re vived in Italy, the celebrate) Scaramouche being highly distinguished in this style of acting. From Italy it passed to France, and ultimately to this country. The vulgar association of the word pantomime with us is that of a harlequinade. We have had it connected with the dance in manner of the Greeks, which is also of Italian revival, but it has never been really popular on our stage as the means of representing a drama ; in fact, we believe that many years have elapsed since its last essay. Formerly the harlequinade occupied almost the entire length of the performance—the burlesque being but its brief prelude or introduction. In these days, how ever, the public taste appears to be growing weary of its ceaseless noise and unmeaning bustle,—its endless dancing, fighting, tumbling, and purloining, and, year by year, burlesque has grown into greater importance. It is now no longer a mere prelude. [t is established as the most important part of the performance, and the harlequinade, dwindling in proportion, is but its adjunct, frequently most in artistically connected, The objects of burlesque are manifold. It jumbles past and present manners together, bringing them into immediate and hu morous contrast. It caricatures every station of life, most especially monarchs and their courts—to which we beg to draw the attention of the politi cian. It is made the vehicle of display- 7 -d splendid scenery, gorgeous decorations and a most liberal exposure of the female form under every variety of light; but of morals it has none, and this is its great defect. In this respect, it is as barren as the harlequinade itself. Such, then, is the state of pantomime at present, and we, who hold to our ancient predilection for clown, pantaloon, harlequin and columbine, would be glad to see it placed in a position of better secu rity on our boards. We love the motley and are I apprehensive about its future fate, fearing as we do that each accession of fresh patrons of the stage will be more and more set against its contortions and grimaces, and, in our anxiety for its preservation, suggest that a moral motive should be given to its performance. We see no reason why the harlequi nade shoull not be placed, in respect to the stage, in a situation analogous to that of the humorous critic in respect to the ordinary writers of public events, or of the caricaturist to the regular artists. It might be made the means of impressing on the public its follies, failings, and even faults. It might exhibit the unscrupulous struggle fur political power, the dishonest grasping after wealth,—either through companies or by trade,—and the management of our poor-law and other boards,—in short, represent all that might make us better acquainted with ourselves, and that in an attractive, yet whimsical, form. It would then afford not only subjects for mirth but for reflection, and would be useful—more beneficial, perhaps, than many a well-intentioned sermon. It is true the tumbler and the dancer would have to be replaced by the burlesque performer, but we should preserve the costume, and we must admit to have ' more affection for that than for the unmeaning grimace and action it at present covers. Let us have for each scene some worthy object—some hum bug of the day humorously represented, and if such changes be deemed too sudden, let it alternate with what is now extant on our boards. It is true two dis tinctsetsof performers would have then to be engaged —the comic and the tumbling, but two sets of the latter have frequently been employed, and managers generally appear to be utterly regardless of the number engaged in our pantomimes. In con clusion, were we not thoroughly convinced that such alteration would be appreciated by the public, and thereby prove lucrative to theatrical lessees, we should not have ventured to make the suggestion. Harlequinade might then trespass on burlesque, instead of being quietly squeezed out of existence by the latter ; and motley would continue the fa vourite amusement of our winter nights,—should we be right in our conviction.—Racing Times and Amateur Dramatic Chronicle. THE PRESIDENT'S DEFENCE. The President sent to the Senate the following message on the 24th February, which was read in secret session, laid ou the table, and ordered to be printed. The Senate removed from it the injunc tion of secresy :—To the Senate of the United States :—I have received a copy of a resolution adopted by the Senate on the 21st instant, as fol lows :—" Whereas, the Senate have received and considered the communication of the President, stating that he had removed Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, and had designated the Adju tant-General of the Army to act as Secretary of War, ad interim ; therefore, Resolved, by the Senate of the United States that under the Constitution and the laws of the United States the President has no power to remove the Secretary of War, or de signate any other person to perform the duties of that office, ad interim." This resolution is confined to the power of the President to remove the Secre tary of War and to designate another officer to perform the duties of the officer, ad interim, and by its preamble is made expressly applicable to the re moval of Mr. Stanton and the designation to act, ad interim, of the Adjutant-General of the Army. Without, therefore, attempting to discuss the gene ral power of removal as to all the officers, upon which subject no expression of opinion is contained in the resolution, I shall confine myself to the question as thus limited, the power to remove the Secretary of War. It is declared in the resolution, "That under the Constitution and laws of the United States the President has no power to remove the Secretary of War and designate any other officer to perform the duties of that office, ad interim." As to the question of power under the Constitution, I do not propose at present to enter upon its discussion. The uniform practice from the beginning of the Go- I vernment as established by every President who has exercised the office, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, have settled the ques tion in favour of the power of the President to remove all officers, excepting a class holding ap pointments of judicial character. No practice or any decision has ever excepted a Secretary of War from this general power of the President to make removals from office. It is only necessary, then, that I should refer to the power of the Executive under the laws of the United States to remove from office a Secretary of War. The resolution denies that under these laws this power has any existence. In other words, it affirms that no such authority is recognized or given by the statutes of the country. What, then, are the laws of the United States which deny the President the power to remove that officer? I know but two laws which bear upon this question: —The first in the order of time is the Act of August 7, 1789, creating the Department of War, which, after providing for a Secretary as its principal officer, proceeds as follows :—" Sec tion 2d. And be it further enacted, That there shall be in said Department an inferior officer, to be appointed by the said principal officer, to be employed therein as he shall deem proper, and to be called the Chief Clerk in the Department of War, and who, whenever the said principal officer shall be removed from office by the President of the United States, or in any other case of vacancy, shall, during such vacancy, have the charge and custody of all records, books, and .papers, apper taining to said Department." It is clear that this Act, passed by a Congress many of whose members participated in the formation of the Constitution, so far from denying the power of the President to remove the Secretary of War, recognizes it as exist ing in the Executive alone, without the concurrence of the Senate, or of any other Department of the Government. Furthermore, this Act does not pur port to confer power by legislative authority, nor, in fact, was there any other existing legislation through which it was bestowed upon the Executive. The recognition of power by this Act is therefore complete as a recognition under the Constitution ' itself, for there was no other source or authority from which it could be derived. The other Act which refers to this question is that regulating the tenure of certain civil officers, passed by Congress on the 2d day of March, 1867. The first section of that Act is in the following words :—" That every person holding any civil office to which he has been appointed by and with the advice and con sent of the Senate, and any person who shall here after be appointed to - any such office and shall be come duly qnalified to act therein, is and shall be entitled to hold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qua lified, except asherein otherwise provided ; provided that the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, and of the Interior, the Post master-General, and the Attorney-General shall hold their offices respectively for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been appointed and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." The fourth section of the same Act restricts the time of office to the limit prescribed by the law creating them. That part of the first section which precedes the proviso declares that every person holding a civil office to which he has been or may be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall hold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed. It purports to take from the Executive during the fixed time established for tenure of office the independent power of re moval, and to require for such removal the concur rent action of the President and Senate. The pro viso that follows proceeds to fix the term of 'office of the seven heads of the departments, whose tenure never had been defined before, by prescribing that they " shall hold their office respectively for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been appointed and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and con sent of the Senate." 'Thus, as to those enumerated officers, the proviso takes from the President the power of removal except with the advice and consent of the Senate. By its terms, however, before he can be deprived of power to displace them, it must appear that he himself has appointed them. It is only in that case that they have any tenure of office or any independent right to hold during the • term of the President and for one month after the cessation of his official functions. The proviso, therefore, gives no tenure of office to any one of those officers who has been appointed by the President beyond one month after the accession of his successor. In the case of Mr. Stanton, the only appointment under which he held the office of Secretary of War was that con ferred upon him by my immediate predecessor, Mr. Lincoln, with the advice and consent of the Senate. He has never held from me any appointment as the head of the War Department. Whatever right he had to the office was derived from that original ap pointment and my own sufferance. The law Ras not intended to protect such an incumbent of the War Department by taking from the President the power to remove him. This, in my judgment, is per fectly clear, and the law itself admits of no °tinr just construction. We find in all that portion of the first section which precedes the proviso, that as to civil officers generally the Presidvut is deprived of the power of removal ; and it is plain that if there had been no proviso that power would just as clearly have been taken from him, so far as it applies to the seven heads of Departments ; but for reasons, which were no doubt satisfactory to Congress, these principal officers were specially provided for, and' as to them the expressed and only requirement is that the President who has appointed them shall pot, without the advice and consent of the Senate, re move them from office. The consequence is that, as to my Cabinet, embracing the sama officers de signated in the Ist section, the Act takes from me the power, without the concurrence of the Senate, to remove any one of them that I have appointed, but it does not protect such of them as I did not appoint, nor give to them any tenure of office be yondthen, my op,letasuarte A n examination of this Act, clause there is a while in one part of the section provision i s ma d e for officers generally, another class of officers designated by their official titles, who are exempted from the general terms of the law, and in reference to whom a clear distinction is made as to the gene ral power of removal, limited in the first clause of the section. This distinction is that as to such of these enumerated officers as hold office under the appointment of the President, the power of re moval can only be exercised by him, with the con sent of the Senate ; while as to those who have net been appointed by him, there is no like denial of his power to displace them. It would be a violation Of the plain meaning of this enactment to place Nr- Stanton upon the same footing as those heads of departments who have been appointed by myself. As to him, this law gives him no tenure of office. The members of my Cabinet, who have been ap pointed by me, are by this act entitled to hold to one month after the term of my office should cease; but Mr. Stanton could not, against the wishes of my successor, hold a moment thereafter. If he were permitted by that successor to hold for the first two weeks, would that snccessor have no power to remove him ? But the power of my suc cessor over him could be no greater than my owe. If my successor would have the power to remove Mr. Stanton after permitting him to remain a period of two weeks, because he was not appointed by him but by his predecessor, I, who have tole rated Mr. Stanton more than two years, certainly have the same right of removing him, and upon the same ground, namely, that he was not appointed by me, but by my predecessor. Under this construc tion of the Tenure-of-Office Act, I have never doubted my power to remove Mr. Stanton. Whether the Act was constitutional or not, it was always rei opinion that it did not secure him from removal. I was aware, however, that there were doubts as to the construction of the law, and from the firstdeerned it desirable that at the earliest possible moment these doubts should be settled and the true construction of the Act fixedby the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. My order of suspension in August last was intended to place the case in such a position as would make a resort to judicial deci sion both necessary and proper. My understand ing and wishes, however, under that order of sus pension were frustrated, and the late order for Mr. Stanton's removal was a further step towards the accomplishment of that purpose. I repeat that nIY own convictions as to the true construction of the . law, and as to the constitutionality, were well settl ed and were sustained by every member of my Cabinet' including Mr. Stanton himself. Upon the question of the constitutionality each one in turn deliberate l y advised me that the Tenure-of-Office Act was °ll - Upon the question whether as to those members who are appointed by my predaees sor that Act took from me the power to r emov o them, one of those members emphatically stated In the presence of the others, sitting in Cabinet, th at they did not come within the provision of the A ct ! and that it was no protection to them. No eo v dissented from this construction, and 1 understo od them all to acquiesce in its correctness. (To be continued.) Prince Napoleon was at Frankfort -00 113° Maine last week, and dined with Baron Roltr an, French Consul-General. He also visited the theatre, 9 - 131 ; is said to b e studyi ng G erm a n politics . He was th ere f°- two days. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Few persons are so favoured by circumstances or so folt i o fled by nature as to enable them to pass unscathed sore trials of an inclement season. With catarrhs, coug'Z' and influenza everywhere abounding, it should be uul'ir b e;4 sally known that Holloway's ointment diligently r tib ;iell nt upon the chest checks the worst assaults of these ala — e g and securely wards off more grave and dangerous diseasst of the throat and lungs. Th e t ru th of this assertion 03 . 11 .. remain unquestioned in the face of .thousands of ' olra t .. peachable attestors, who h a ve personally derived th a t% most possible benefits from this simple treatment wil c o their present sufferings were appalling and their fatal. prospects most disheartening. Both remedies act 5 0 ° ably together. n . rs " ot e LADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always g, r ip% chronic comlaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-res o s ly Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the net i l e s, ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other ree 3 7 oi d and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, tot lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fun„ c " regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeeble.. r ed extract a few out of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health resTB66, by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, fo e& —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especiallY abandoning all other remedies he has confined himself 01 ,09 to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he cone; o r a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisinglY, ocel flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise 0 1 . 8 Cure lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 , vet No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Ye srs ,, r oel complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with au. palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessne n ,rd the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure ~ e a Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, ofmany Jiroel dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agoPri„„ci, ilatu dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria oly."—Cereoro 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 „ , diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangelne o ".„o9 partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, Tc`becl• ,uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously ate ils.; In tins at Is. 10.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 45. 6d, ; 5 11 1:fo. 11 ' 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BABRY Du BARRY and Ce: , Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, 1 110- .7,1 2 961 and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, a' Oxford-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers 9.nd chemists' -001. Births. boo ATHOLE —On the 17th inst., at, Blair Athole, the Clue- of Athole, of a daughter.. , 000. CLIALONER—On the 17th inst., the wife of Captain„hiret Chaloner, R.N., of Laighull, Guisborougb, York of a son, stillborn. , w ife GROVES —On the 18th inst., at Woodford, Essoc, tue Win. G. Groves, Esq., of a daughter. 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