The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-29 00:00:00

SP RIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, -:Pith the exception of Lord Cairns, the Saturday Be‘ixicza remarks, Mr. Disraeli has been unable to procure 4 a ny addition of strength to his Government. If the , seceders of last year are omitted from the calculation, the present occupants of office exhaust the capacity of the party, and even encroach on the wider field of its adminis trative incompetence. Mr. Hunt has not yet attained the Parliamentary position which has hitherto been ordinarily supposed to be indispensable to a Chancellor of the Exche quer. A ready and industrious manipulator of figures, and a useful assistant to a Minister, he has sometimes treated serious business questions with ill-judged levity ; and it is not known whether he has mastered the higher principles of finance. The appointment of Sir Stafford Northcote, who is the pupil and financial follower of Mr. Gladstone, vould have commanded greater confidence, but there is no candidate ready for the India Office, except, perhaps, the übiquitous Sir John Pakington ; and probably it might be inconvenient, as Mr. Lincoln said, " to swap horses in i crossing " even the little Abyssinian rivulet. If the rumour that Sir Stafford Northcote aspires to the Vice roy.alty of India is well founded, he may probably have been unwilling to resign the• Secretaryship of State in which he is gaining experience to support his claim. Zn the 'Upper House Mr. Disraeli must rely almost ex cinsively on Lord Cairns to defend the policy of the Government on important occasions, but it will be necessary to ar point another dinisteral representative, as the Chancellor cannot properly conduct the ordinary business of the House. Of the respectable peers who belong to the Cabinet, the Duke of Richmond alone possesses even the most elementary qualifications of a Parliamentary leader. The Duke of Buckingham would be more unpopular, and of course the Duke of Marl borough is out of the question ; while Lord Malmesbury, who by the favour of Lord Derby has hitherto been occa sionally employed as his lieutenant, is more than ordinarily deficient in the faculty of speech, and in Parlia mentary tact and judgment. It is impossible that Mr. Disraeli can, even if Lord Malmesbury retains the Privy Seal, use as the mouthpiece of the Government a nobleman who, having to announce the change of Ministry, perpetrated two or three awkward blunders in as many sentences. Lord Malmesbury might have remembered that he had not served, as he stated, long under Lord Derby in office, because Lord Derby has only been Prime Minister for the collective term of three or four years. It was a graver mistake to announce that Mr. Disraeli, who was practically chief of an almost unchanged Cabinet, was at the moment " trying to form a Government, if possible." Lord Malmesbury probably does injustice to himself in Parliament, but his management of the Reform Bill during Lord Derby's illness in the course of last summer alone proves his incompetence to act as leader in the House of Lords. The Duke of Richmond is not known to have paid serious attention to politics, but he is a steady, courteous, and accurate man of business, who may be trusted to understand any matter which may require his attention. When there is any appearance of a political battle Lord Cairns must take the command of the Ministerial forces. The Imperial Review rather regrets that no arrangement has been found practicable by which the debating power of the Treasury Bench could be increased in the Com mons. That our new Premier is beyond any dispute the first man in that assembly is, indeed; sufficiently apparent. But throughout last session it was too frequently evident that on great occasions he stood alone. Lord Stanley, though an effective speaker, is notoriously disinclined to take part in debates. Mr. Hardy has the ear of the House, and has frequently distinguished himself in grand parliamentary battles. But, if we except these, there is no member of the Government who can pretend to cope on anything like equal terms with such orators as Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, or Mr. Lowe. Nay, it would be difficult to name any oue who. is a match for even the second rank of the Opposition debaters, or can be consi dered a rival by such speakers as Mr. Forster, Mr. Stans feld, or Mr. Coleridge. It was much to be desired, there fore, that some step should have been taken which might have brought to the front some politician who should fill the gap left in the Conservative ranks by the promotion of Sir Hugh Cairns, Sir Bulwer Lytton, and Mr. Whiteside. It would almost seem, however, that while the cold shade of opposition is found the best atmosphere for developing parliamentary eloquence, the possession of office tends to blight the rising of a party. While the Whigs reigned in Downing-street, the Tory Opposition never failed to carry off the palm for eloquence, even if the Ministers could command the more solid satisfaction of a majority. .But now, with the change of places a change in the oratorical powers of the rival parties appears to have set in. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer is known, indeed, as a sensible man, and a most diligent and painstaking public servant. No member of the Ministry has toiled so hard in the discharge of his official duties ever since Lord Derby formed his third Administration. And those who thought his merits such as were scantly recognised by such a post as that of Secretary to the Treasury, will be glad to see them acknowledged at last, even if the promotion had been sudden and unexpected. It cannot, however, be alleged, that in the selection thus made by Mr. Disraeli he has added to the debating power of his Cabinet. Mr. Hunt will not, in all probability, care much for the terrible criticisms which his budgets will have to undergo from such a censor as Mr. Gladstone. But others will regret that .the financial policy of the Government will not possess a more eloquent expositor in such controversies. While the story of Mr. Speke is a strange one, the Spectator sees no reason for considering it in any respects bad. So far from being a worse man than his parishioners took him for, Mr. Speke seems to us to be a better, though a feebler one, a man who will need looking after perhaps for years, but who while master of himself is decidedly a good man, who wants to become abetter one. The extraordinary outburst of public petulance against him is perhaps natural, for what can be more annoying than to find one has speculated for weeks on a natural event as if it had been supernatural? But the feeling best expressed by the Western Morning News, when it says that Mr. Speke can hardly live in Somerset, is unreasonable, not to say absurd. We do not know Mr Speke, or Mr. Mur doch, or any of his family ; but the story of his hallucina tion is, we have good authority for believing, correct, and " the county" might as well be fractious because he had broken his leg. Besides, setting' aside all question of re sponsibility, what has he done that the public should be out of temper? His parishioners might be, though they suffered no more than if he had had a sun-stroke, or his fnmily, or bis tenants, or Dr. Phil potts ; but in what way has he wronged the public? Is it necessary to take a plebisl. citum before a man can change his mode of life ? Many a man, hundreds of men even in France, have retreated i o the monastery of La Trappe, and said net a word to rela tive, or friend, or business connection until the noviciate was over, and the step taken beyond the risk of preven: tion. Such men are fools, it may be ;we shall not deny their folly ; but theirs is not badness as the world under stands badness, nor was Mr. Speke's. His conduct was terribly hard upon numberless people,—upon his family, his friends, and upon us, who spent time and wasted thought in useless speculations as to his fate ; but if his primary business was, as all Catholics think, and as he seems to have thought, to put his own soul into better re lations with its Maker, what was the objection to inflict ing those hardships? Priests have honestly burned people for a great deal less, and the priests had no excuse in hypochondriac melancholy. The John Bull supposes that in Mr. Bright's opinion we were ungenerous towards the North by our very neutrality, and by accepting the South upon the footing of belligerents, and not as rebels against the United States. This was masked at St. Jamess Hall, but what can he said when, as proved by . " Ilistoricus " and admitted by Lord Hobart, the North had previously laid down the position of the South as belligerents, though now Mr. Seward, in the face of his own letters. tries to turn the tables upon us for having done so? Lord Hobart speaks of Mr. Seward's having been caught tripping here, but is a man to profit by his own lathes. and, after having first called another " black," 'to attack and seek recompense from some one else, who, fol lowing his example, styles the person after the sante colour? This is one of the numerous instances of the Birmingham member's habit to practise the sabstitutio foist by the suppressio veri : he omits the basis on which the whole matter rests, and builds up on fallacious assumption a very fine creation of imaginary right and w r o ng- We hive all the St. James's speakers full cre di t for their goo d wishes to preserve . peace ; for their appre ciation of Lord Stanley's powers and conduct ; but when we find their recommendations to an English public, how to behave, founded on a complete ignoring of the fact that America has s t u l t ifi e d h erse lf b y en d eavour i ng to put En gland in a false position, we are forcibly reminded of the hypo Critical footpad who demanded the traveller's money or his life, and then recommended him to accept his misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. The London Review the Promissory oaths Bill. Our weeklycontemporary hasanaTticleon • altogether dis satisfied with the religious oaths of d the present ay. What it wants or wishes is a secular oath. As . so society changes, the safeguards of society must change. If 't ele y re ligious pledge has no hold upon certain persons,let ' . there be instituted a secular pledge which shall bind It ought to be revolting to all our modern ideas of one. and toleration for us to turn round and o t justice men like Mr. Bradlaugh—" You do not believe s ' t 3 t ' s o y and therefore we shall not admit your evidence." We • have no hesitation in saying that it is the e. conviction of many olio-wise• worthy persons; :A that, if it came to an (pen struggle, there would not be wanting advocates in the press and in the pulpit of such a piece , of. petty intolerance. The fault does not lie with the person who disbelieves in the efficacy o f the oath, but in the oath itself. The inapplicability test is the blunder of those who invented the f the thing to be teted. It is required, tlic:•e -lo; oath or pledge shall be binding upon all— lw able to C.;C:i1)::: Vie ptllalty TO find plc,lge ought not to aprear. There may be persons w 11.: the next world ; there are n one who do • not believe in this ; and the penalty of breaking a secular oath must be inflicted by secular means. it is true that a secular penalty already exists in a certain sense. If a man resolves to brave the religious terrors of breaking an oath, he is further liable to be laid hold of by the civil law, found guilty of a misdemeanour, and punished according)y. But this is a cumbrous and incomplete arrangement. It practically admits the inutility of the religious terrors, in making sure that the offender, if he should escape in the next world, shall not escape here ,• while it altogether fails to provide for the case of those who cannot at the outset swear upon the Bible, because they do not believe in the Bible, - hat, t do_ nat CAPTURE OF A BURGLAR. At the Woolwich Polite-court, John. Adams, aged 38, of 27, Ordnance-road, Woolwich-common, was charged with burglariously entering the mansion of Sir James Wilde (judge of the Divorce Court) at Shooter's-hill, and also with committing burglaries at about a dozen other gentlemen's residences in the same locality. He was fur ther charged with cutting and wounding P.C. Lincoln, 146 R, on the latter's attempting to arrest him. The pri soner is a most desperate and successful burglar, and within the two years he has been out on a ticket-of-leave, it is believed, from the proceeds of burglaries found at his house, that he cannot have had less than an income of £5OO a year derived from his midnight depredations. He has on several occasions been detected by the police in the act of committing burglaries, but by the use of fire arms and knives has managed to escape. On one occa sion he successfully escaped from a force of five constables, and has never hesitated to resort to the most desperate and murderous acts rather than be made a prisoner. He has undergone eight years' penal servitml- for a burglary Deptford, and at the time of hit .est by the Shooters -hill police his ticket of leave had not expired. He has been in the habit of reporting himself and re ceiving- help from the Prisoners' Aid Society, and was dressed in their clothinit - at the time of his capture. Within the last two years almost every house on Shooter's-hill bas been entered, from that of Lord Truro down to the labourer's cottage, and it will be proved in evidence that the prisoner had broken into three or four houses in one night, and he had latterly become the terror of the district. Inspector Monahan said there were a great many charges of burglary against the prisoner, but he only proposed going into the case of Sir J. Wilde that day, and then to ask for a re mand.—Police-constable Lincoln said that he and another constable named Billham, 57 R, stopped the pri soner as he was making off through a field with the proceeds of the burglary committed at Sir James Wilde's. As a pre cautionary measure witness rubbed him down, and took a knife from one of his pockets, when the prisoner threw away the stolen property. Billham was in the act of going to pick up the bundle, when the prisoner drew forth another knife which he had secreted about him, and dis abled witness by slashing it across his hands several times, and ran off into Shooters-hill-wood, in the darkness and intricacies of which he escaped. They secured the proceeds of the burglary, and circulated a description of the burglar. Police constable Carr, 232 R, said he received a description of the prisoner, and the previous night came upon him at the Star public-house, Plumpstead Common. Witness told him the charge against him, when the prisoner, taken aback at the suddenness of the arrest, exclaimed, " Good God ! " Knowing the dangerous character of the pri soner, he instantly threw him on his back, and held him down until assistance arrived, the prisoner meantime making a desperate resistance. He said he would be —if he would go, and a female with him, named Mary Ann Brown, with whom he had been cohabiting, tried to rescue him, and told -the policeman to be aware of what he had got in his pockets. Having got the prisoner to the station, he ran to the prisoner's house, and arrived there before the woman, and brought away a cart-load of property and sixty-seven duplicates relating to articles which there is no. doubt will turn out to be the proceeds of burglaries. On hastily looking over the things, the police identified articles belonging to about a dozen cases of burglaries committed in the Shooter's-hill subdivision. The female Brown, finding the house stripped, went to the Shooter's hill Police-station, where she was at once placed under arrest. Mr. Patteson remanded the prisoners, both of whom are most forbidding and desperate - looking characters. LAW AND POLICE. ST. JOHN'S HOsrrrAL.—An application was made six weeks ago to Vice-Chancellor Stuart for an order, under the provisions of the Act of the reign of Queen Anne, upon the lessee of some property in Gloucestershire, held of this charity for the life of a person alleged to be living,to produce him to the steward of the charity at the principal door of the parish church of Cirencester, on the 14th of the present month. That order not being complied with, an applica tion was made on Friday that this person should be pro duced at the bar of the court on the 18th of March next, and if not that it should be assumed that he was dead for the purposes of this application. The Vice-Chancellor made the order asked. THE CASE OF BURKE, CASEY, AND SHAW.—An appli cation was made to Mr. Justice Smith, at Warwick, on behalf of Burke, to make an order on the prosecution to give the prisoner a copy of the indictment, a list of the witnesses, and a list of the jury panel. The application was made undera statute passed in the year of Queen Anne . An Act passed in the reign of George 111. enacted that to levy war against his Majesty, or to incite any person to invade the realm—the acts with which Burke stands charged— should be deemed treason. The statute was repealed by the Treason Felony Act, which enacts that such an offence shall be felony. The statute of Ann was, how ever, not repealed, and no mention was Made of it in the Treason Felony Act.—His lordship said that a similar application was once made More Chief Justice Er!e, who held that it could not be granted in a case in which only a felony was charged. His lordship was of the same opinion. ILL-TREATSIEN-2 TO A CHILD.—HEAVY SENTENCE.—At the Central Criminal Court, Mrs. Radelyffe, said to be the wife of a respectable shopkeeper, was tried for a series of brutal assaults upon Susan Russell, aged 13, who was in her service as maid-of-all-work. The learned counsel for the prosecution, in opening the case to the jury, said that the prosecutrix was a young girl, and she was employed as servant of all work by the prisoner and her husband, and the offence alleged against the former by the present indictment was, that on the 12th January she kicked the prosecutrix in a most brutal manner, and when she was examined by the surgeon at the hos pital her body was found to be covered with bruises all over, and she was in a most terrible condition, from which she was at present far from recovered. He was bound to say that, according to his instructions, the prisoner had been guilty of the most brutal conduct towards this unfor tunate girl. She was kicked and beaten with a thick stick until she bled, and when she cried the prisoner threatened to beat her until she was quiet. Upon one occasion the prisoner threw a quantity of boiling water over her and burned her severely. It was contended for the defence that the case had been grossly exaggerated. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. WITCHCRAFT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. — Maria Giles, widow, better known as " The Cunning Woman of Newbury," and William Tranter, described in the calendar as a labourer, were indicted at the Reading Assizes, before Mr. Justice Keating, with obtaining various sums of money from Isaac Rivers, by false pretences, on various days in January. It was a case of pretended witchcraft. The chief evidence was that of the prosecutor, who de tailed various occasions on which he had paid visits to the woman for the purpose of recovering a stolen watch, and described the pretended methods of witchcraft which she had employed, and stated the various sums of money which she and the male prisoner had demanded for that end. Altogether Rivers had paid the sum of £2 6s. 6d., though he admitted that the watch was only worth £2 l4s. Being asked by the learned judge " when he first became aware how great a fool he had been," he said it was on one occasion when the man and woman had gone away with a sum of money just given, and had left him sitting in their but more than half an hour without returning. The prisoner Giles pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. Tranter was convicted, and sentenced to six months' imprison ment. MR. GRAVES'S PRlNTS — Another printseller was on .eriday brought before Alderman Sir It. Carden, charged with pirating certain engravings, the property of Mr. Graves. Fifty eases having been proved, prisoner was fined £250, of fifty weeks' imprisonment. PEnvEnsroNs.—On Saturday last a clergyman of the English Church (one of the curates of St. George's in the-East) was received into the Catholic Church at Farm-street, and two other curates of the same church were also received the previous week at the church in Great Tower-street. These gentlemen make up the number of eleven clergymen of the Establishment who have become Catholics between Ash -Wednesday 1867 and the same day in 1868. WeekiF Register•. ME OAKS COLLIER-Y.—Within the last week an important circumstance connected with the above calamity has come to light. The men at Work in exploring the mine at the latter end of last week got to the bottom of the stone drift, which Was being cut by blasting at the time the disaster occurred. Since that time they have been able to penetrate the drift itself, and have found that the shot has blown through. At the beginning of the week Mr. Dickinson, inspector for East Lancashire, Air. F. N. Wardel, the newly appointed inspector for „South Yorkshire, and Mr. Low•thorn, the rcceut inspector, all visited the pit and descended the shaft along with Mr. Dymond, the mans gins partner, and Mr. Aiinto, the newly-appointed viewer, and went to the place, which they examined, and found that the shot Lad blown through. It will be remem. bored that at the inquest a great deal of time was spent in hearing evidence as to this important point, the majority of the witnesses believing that it had not blown through. The main road lending to the cupola has been cleared for a distance of from seventy to eighty yards, in which space a pony has just been found and got out. The work at the cupola progresses but slowly, on account of the walls gi&g way. MR. DISRAELI. ooth to say, it enfranchises women as well as negroes, and makes them alike competent as jurors. March 15 is appointed as the day for voting on the Constitution in the State, and the election of officers under the new Constitution to be continued for five days. The Florida Convention, having adopted its Constitution, has divided into a ma jority and a minority, and there do not seem to be any hopes of a reunion. The Ministry nominated Colonel Billings, Governor, and William B. Saun ders, Lieut.-Governor, and the majority voted to expel these candidates. The quarrel arose from a desire to appropriate the spoils of office, and it has been carried to such a pitch that a collision is im minent, and the troops have been called out to pre serve the peace.. By the Java, however, we learn that General Meade has re-organized the Conven tion. The Louisiana Convention has increased the original vote for the pay of each member 30 per cent., and having thus disposed of the.public funds it lingers, on doing nothing but swell the plunder to as large a sum as possible. It recommends the re appointment of General Sheridan, if Hancock should be removed. The Georgia Convention has ejected the Boston negro lawyer, A. H. Bradley. The resignation of Lord Derby and the pro motion of Mr. Disraeli to the Premiership has necessitated very few changes in the Cabinet, but it is not unlikely to lead to a freer de velopment of Mr. Disraeli's policy. However severely he may have been criticized for what his opponents term his spirit of tergiversation, the present Prime Minister of England has never been disloyal to his late chief or to his party. He has a wonderful capacity of expan sion, and a fertility of resource which are not the least qualities in a statesman. We do not intend to enter now into a discussion of the motives which led him to introduce and pass a Reform Bill which certainly trumped Mr. Bright's proposals, and took the wind out of Mr. Gladstone's sails. Seeing that the de mand for Parliamentary Reform, whether Conservatives liked it or not, could not have been successfully resisted, may it not have been an act of wisdom and of far-seeing statesmanship on the part of Mr. Disraeli to have projected such a Reform Bill as would admit not only the seven pound house holders —the greatest supporters of democratic Libe ralism in the country—but the class just beneath them, who, as a rule, are more open than any other to Conservative influences as legitimately exercised by the great employers of labour ? But to leave the past, what pro mise does a Ministry under the guidance of Disraeli hold out for the future ? How will Catholic interests be affected ? The Irish Church and land questions and national edu cation in- England are matters of the deepest moment, and their satisfactory settlement will tax the resources to the utmost, even of so bold. and fertile a brain as that of the Prime Minister. We cannot help believing that Mr. Disraeli, with a view to gain a hold on the new Parliament, will invent a lever equal in power to that of his Reform Bill to remove that long standing and much-abused abuse, the Irish Establishment. There is a freedom in the use even of what seem at first sight radical reme dies by a Conservative Government, and espe cially under such a leader as the present, which is more likely to benefit so long-mis governed a country as Ireland, than the in effectual proposals of a sweeping character, which Earl Russell invariably excogitates in the cold. shade of Opposition, and as invari ably leaves unexecuted in the sunshine of office. The question of education in England, by its sifting and dividing process, will lead in the course of the coming struggle to a clearer demarcation of parties than has existed for a long time. The fight between rationalism and Christian ethics has now to be fought out in the political field, and no issue could be fraught with more momentous consequences than the success of the secular party over the upholders of denominational education. What side will Mr. Disraeli's Government take in this ques tion ? It is to be feared that Lord Stanley in clines to a compromise, but a compromise such as must necessarily jeopardize the prin ciple which has hitherto guided education in England would be to forfeit the confidence of the staunchest supporters of a Conservative Ministry. At such a moment when the policy of a new Ministry is being shaped—when we are on the eve of a new Parliament—no means should be left untried to unite in common ac tion all the friends of Christian Education. On this matter, at least, Catholics and Anglicans, Englishmen and Irishmen, can work together for a common purpose. Public opinion ought to be thoroughly aroused on this subject, for Mr. Disraeli is not a man to overlook the in dications of a genuine movement. Such test questions as these will try the metal of our patient, bold, and aspiring Premier. To appease Ireland by a just, and, by what seems almost impossible to attain, a satisfactory a c b e e a o f w thehiork Eh national whichnplacegwith England. n among would couragem sys temon w ge land-measure, by the dise stablishment of the Irish Church, by the endow ment —a measure already too long postponed—of the Catholic University of üblin, by the preservation of denominational education in England , and its i substitutionin p Ireland, would l justly tahreeinm oensntet need td successfull c : M f a great r . statesmen Disraeli statesman to a of g to carry out his ideas. Time will solve the problem, which party-jealousy propounds, whether Mr. Disraeli is a political mounte bank or a consummate master in the art of Statecraft.—Westminster Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ;From the Anglo-American Times.) The Virginia Convention has decided to elect the Secretary of State, treasurer, and auditor by the Le gislature. The South Carolina Convention has asked Congress to vote the State a loan of $1.,000,000 in aid of the poor, and that of North Carolina has de feated a resolution to prohibit marriage_ between blacks and whites. The President lately gave an audience to com mittees appointed by the meetings in New York to consider the naturalization question. They asked —l. That where American citizens had been im prisoned by Great Britain for periods varying from two to twenty months, and then discharged under promise to quit Ireland at once, the American Go vernment should make a demand for exemplary damages. 2. That where American citizens had been tried and convicted by ordinary and not mixed juries, a demand should be made either for their release or for another trial by a mixed jury, half British and half foreigners, and that in such trials this Government should furnish them with compe tent counsel. 3. The committees protested against General Banks' Bill pending in the House, as being too lenient, and as devised so as to defeat the very purpose it professes to have in view. 4. That the word " adopted " before the word " citizen " be stricken from all public documents, so as to place native-born and naturalized citizens on complete equality. In reply, Mr. Johnson stated that the attention of the Government was directed to the subject, and he informed them that a special com mission, consisting of Messrs. Charles O'Connor and James T. Brady, leading lawyers of New York, and other gentlemen, would be sent to England to confer with English authorities, to examine into the laws and facts, and to report the result. The Times says that they will meet with every assistance from the English Bench and Bar, and probably be surprised to discover how little prejudice they have to encounter, and how lightly we estimate the fig ment of perpetual allegiance which we are called upon to surrender. The Times correspendept wrote .from Berlin, February 24, that Mr, Banerat, the Aniericau Envoy, had just exalted a concession from the Prussian Governrueat which will be highly accept able to many adopted' citizens among his country men. " In accordance with a treaty signed two days ago, North German subjects emigrating to America at any time of their lives, the period of military service excepted, will, after an absence of five years, be free to return, exempt from further duties of the kind. A man, therefore, may leave at the age of nineteen, though a few months longer residence in the country would subject him to the conscription laws ; but if he has once enterel the army, he will be obliged to remain twelve years longer, though he may be on furlough three-quar ters or eleven-twelfths of the time. Considering the Government which concedes them, and the ordinarily inexorable service they refer to, these stipulations are unusually liberal. Not, however, to make them act as an incentive to mere temporary expatriation, it is provided that emigrants who have gone away before fulfilling their military duty shall lose the privilege of American citizenship two years after returning to their former home. This, be sides enabling young men to emigrate just on the verge of manhood, when they could not legally have got away under the old legislation, will ob viate the recurrence of such distressing incidents as the arrest and forcible enlistment of some Ameri can tourist who fondly fancied he had ceased to be a German twenty years ago. But for the intimate relations long existing between the Berlin and Washington Cabinets, and which now seem to be closer than ever, the endless quarrels arising out of cases of this kind would have long resulted in a serious difference." The President, on the 13th of February, nomi nated Lieutenant-General Sherman to be General by Brevet, which promotes him to a rank similar to that of Grant, if it be confirmed by the Senate. In the excited temper of the public mind, when rumours of all kinds are afloat, this promotion has been laid hold of to give colouring to extravagant statements. It is said that General Grant is to be tried by Court-Martial for insubordination—that troops are to be massed in Washington —a new military dis trict has in truth been created, composed of the de partments of the East, the Lakes, and Washington, with headquarters at the seat of Government, and Sherman in command. Speculators in gold are deeply interested in the manufacture of rumours sufficiently probable to influence the quotations. Just now they are as active as during the period of the War, and affairs are taking so gloomy a turn that they do not lack material. General Sherman avoids rather than seeks the distinction the Presi dent desires to impose, and we believe he has even exerted his influence in the Senate to procure the rejection of the nomination, and it is now said he has declined the promotion. Dr. C. G. Page and James D. Linney arrived at California on the 2d of January to test; practically, Foot's invention for using petroleum for generat ing steam. At the same time a trial will be made of the invention of Mr. White, of San Francisco, which, as we reported some months ago, was suc cessfully tried on a stationary boiler at Santa Cruz. The Mining and Scientific Press promises full reports of the proposed trials of the rival inventions. James D. Linney was the constructing and operating en gineer of Foot's patent in the experiments made in the Atlantic cities. Secretary Welles, in his annual Report, alluded to the fact that $5,000 had been ex pended in the trials for substituting petroleum for coal in the Navy, but the conclusion arrived at was not favourable to petroleum as a fuel. We presume when Grant is riled, he lets off the steam by fast driving; for he has again been fined for this misdemeanour. Two ladies, the one in the city of London, the other in the city of Mexico, have also been fined for the same offence. Miss Rose Phillips, of Hill-street, Knightsbridge, was sum moned to Marlborough-street for furious riding in Rotten-row. She was galloping her horse as fast as the whip could make it go, and she paid no at tention to the constables who endeavoured to stop her or the danger to others. She was fined 40s. and costs. The other case was that of the wife of Juarez, who was arrested in Mexico and fined for furious driving. Juarez, it is said, thanked the policemen who thus ckecked the fast pace at which his wife was going. The Freedmen's Bureau ceased to be in opera tion on the 15th inst. in the States of Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in accordance with an order issued by General Grant, when Secretary of War. The law provides that it should continue in the other Southern States until the lstJaly, 1868 ; and nearly all the military officers and many prominent and loyal citizens have ptaitioned for the con tinuance of the Bureau till then in these three States. Secretary Stanton has not moved in the matter nor has Congress, and in default of such action the Bureau has ceased. The Mechanics' State Council of California has issued an address to the working men of the United States, advising them to keep away from California, and informing them that the average rate of wages on the Pacific sea-board was less than on the At lantic. They give the following tariff, neglecting, however, to state that the rate is in gold :—For So long as direct intelligence on the progress of impeachment is withheld, we must judge of the course of events by the price of gold. Last Satur day, when the resolution for Mr. Johnson's impeach ment was introduced, the price stood at 1431 ; on Thursday it had fallen 2 per cent., being quoted at 141+. It will often be found that the anticipation of an event injurious to the public inteerest has a more disastrous effect on the funds than the realiza tion of that event, as the tendency of imagination is to exaggerate the danger. The news by the cable, to which we have not elsewhere alluded, is to the effect that President Johnson has nominated General M'Clellan as Minis ter to Great Britain. The Indiana Republican Convention has passed resolutions in favour of the nomination of. General Grant for the Presidency and the payment of thes-20 Bonds in currency. The Peterhoff prize case has been finally settled in the United States District Court, and the moneys paid over to the English claimants' agent. Washington's ' birthday was observed as a holiday throughout the States. $500,000 in specie were shipped on board the steamers that left for Europe on the 25th. Messrs. Neill Brothers report on the 23c1 that the week's receipts of cotton at all United States ports have been 95,000 bales, and since Ist September 1,559,000 bales. The week's exports to Great Bri tain are 49,000 bales, and since Ist September 645,000 bales. The week's exports to France are 9,000 bales, and since Ist September 149,000 bales. The week's exports to other foreign ports are 8,000 bales, and since Ist September 153,000 bales. The total exports for the week are 66,000 bales, and since Ist September 947,000 bales. Stocks at all ports 370,000 bales. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate has re ported, advising that the simple majority of the vote shall decide all elections under the Recon struction Act. This would have been more effec tive before the defeat of the Alabama Convention, but now it is like locking the stable door after the steed has been stolen. Also a bill declaring that the jurisdiction of the national civil courts does not extend to political questions. We learn by the Java, which brings news to the 19th inst., that the Senate has passed a bill gradu ally to reduce the army. Mr. Sumner presented a memorial from Boston, praying the abolition of the Presidency. The House voted $50,000 for the re lief of American citizens imprisoned in foreign countries, and subsequently discharged. It has also passed a bill authorizing the surrender of foreign convicts who escape from justice and seek an asy lum in the United States. _ _ The Tennessee Conservative Convention has adopted a resolution, recomme ndin g the nomina tion of Mr. Johnson for the .Pres id e n cy. 'The Ohio Senate, by a strict party vote, has passed . a resolution in favour of the Reconstruction laws. A Democratic mass meeting, to endorse the policy of President Johnson, was held at New Orleans on Saturday. Ddmocratic clubs are being organized in Georgia. The Kentucky Legislature have elected Mr. Thomas M`Creery, Democrat, as the Senator to succeed Mr. Guthrie. _ . . Mr. Seward has issued a Circular advising all American citizens visiting Great Britain and Ire laud during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus in Ireland to procure passports from the State De partment. The Arkansas Convention has adjourned sine die after completing and adopting the new Constitu tion by a vote of 45 to 1. It provides for a Legis lature of 20 Senators and 80 Representatives, the election of executive officers every four years, and THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEW WARY 29, 1868. sh ip-wright , 3, $2 81c. ; ship-joiners, $2 75c. ; ca ulkers, $2 50c. ; house carpenters, $2 25c. ; pai nters, $225c. ; bricklayers, $2 75c. ; plasterers, $2 50e:- ; "stonecutters, $3 ; blacksmiths, $3 23c. ; boiler- makers, $2 50c. ; plumbers, $2 75c. ; gas fitters ,$2 75c. ; machinists, $2 75c. ; wood-turners ; E croll sawyers, $2 50c. ; stevedores, $2 50c. ; :s, $2 50c. ; lathers, $2 ; pattern makers, $2 50c. ; moulders, _ . s2 50c. per day. On the 12th of Yabr uary the Californian Legislature re-enacted the e;,ght -hours' law, after an experience of a year's v, •orking. It is stated that its operation has been to throw many working men out of employment. The Alabama Constitution has failed through tr to white men having registered in large numbers, esi 3ecially in Northern Alabama, to increase the list of voters, and then refrained from voting, so that the , ;majority required by the Reconstruction Act of the :registered voters might not be obtained. They have fully succeeded hi this manoeuvre, the defi ciency being 15,000 in the total vote. Under 70,00 ( ) votes have been polled, the proportion being 150 negroes to one white man. Of the 72,746 white persons who registered,about one in a hundred vot ed. Not only did they refrain from giving their vot ,:s, but, in some instances, they brought a strong pressure to bear upon the negroes in their employ ment. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has introduced a bill declaring Alabama Reconstructed and entitled to representation in Congress. If this be done, Alabama will be admitted to the Union, practically, without conditions, which in effect will throw the Reconstruction Act overboard. The fact that the whites could thus defeat the Congressional plan, aided by all the blacks, is a convincing proof of their overwhelming power in the South, and the vanity of Congressional legislation to nullify it. The Reconstruction Act provided for but one Con vention and one election, and these have been held, so that the measure cannot act further in this direc tion on Alabama. To reconstruct that State it would be necessary to pass a new law. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens called the Reconstruction Committee together on the 13th February to con sider further evidence on the question of Impeach ment. A resolution was submitted, that Andrew Johnson be impeached for high crimes and mis demeanours, and that the Senate be demanded to take order for the appearance of said Andrew Johnson to answer to the impeachment. On the question being submitted, John A. Bingham, of Ohio, moved that the resolutions be laid upon. the table, which was carried against the strenuous op position of Mr. Stevens by 6 to 3, the ayes being Messrs. Bingham, Beaman, Brooks, Beck, Hurl burd, and Paine ; the nays, Messrs. Stevens, Boutwell, and Farnsworth. Mr. Stevens, although still very weak, being carried to and from his place in the House, exerted himself energetically to secure the impeachment of the President. He considered the order given by the President to the General commanding the army to disobey the instructions of the Secretary of War was a clear violation of the Tenure-of-Office Law. Whatever might be .the question Of veracity between Grant and Johnson, they both agreed on that point, the only one material for the purpose of impeachment. It is clear from the action of the Committee, con sisting as it- did of seven- Republicans and two Democrats,that the impeachment afterwards decided upon has been forced most reluctantly on the Re publican party. The Times was moved on Wednesday into a re ply to the general attack made upon it for writing Lord Derby's obituary before Lord Derby's death. That obstinate nobleman, always grand in oppo sition, at once rallied to the confusion of the Times, who, however, escaped from the yelping curs at its heels under cover of the Earl's resignation. It was only of his coming resignation, not of his dissolution, that the Times had written—a statement which really required all the well-known assurance of the Thunderer to make. The Evening Stan dard gets a rap over the knuckles. After ob serving that it had been " the most spirited in its contradictions, yesterday it was happy , to state in one column that the ' noble Premier's' health con tinues satisfactory, though as yet he is still confined to his room, while a parallel passage in an adjoin ing column announces his resignation of office." It was the political . career of the Premier that had closed, and it was that obituary the Times had mit ten. This is not a bad piece of shuffling. A scene strange to English eyes was enacted in the House of Representatives on the 10th Feb. The House, on the motion of Mr. Poland on the preceding Friday, had ordered that the members on that day should draw for seats for the Fortieth Congress.. Mr. Poland had a seat far in the rear, and the chances were that he would gain, while he could not lose. Mr. Dawes moved that Messrs. Stevens, Washburne, and Thomas, as the oldest members, be permitted to retain their seats. To this Mr. Eldridge said he would not object, pro vided Mr. Poland was permitted to retain his seat also. The hall became a scene of such confusion that the Speaker threatened to call the members by name unless order was preserved, on which the Representatives retired beyond the outer row of sea's, and the drawing commenced. Mr. Eggles ton shouted, " Shake the box wall." A page was blindfolded and commenced drawing the names. As luck would have it the first that turned up was that of Mr. Poland, of Vermont, the mover--a re sult that gave rise to much merriment. The fun was mainly caused by the freaks of fortune which placed wide barriers between the closest companions, and seated bitter enemies cheek by jowl. Mr. Farn worth, of Illinois, who had been an active agent in supporting Mr. Poland's motion, got the worst place, and he was escorted by Mr. Spalding, amid shouts of laughter, to his out-of-the-way seat on the Democratic side of the House. It is authoritatively stated and confirmed by the Cable that the President has offered the English mission to General George B. M'Clellan, who is now in Europe, but it is improbable that the Senate will confirm the appointment. Nor, indeed, is it likely that the distinguished officer would accept the post, as he may be wanted to run for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket. There is little chance, therefore, that the General will represent the United States at the Court of St. James's, whatever may be Mr. Johnson's desire to get him out of the way. In deed, it is now said that S. S. Cox is not likely to be confirmed as Minister to Austria, although the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate reported favourably on the nomination, as Senator Wade is making a personal fight against him in return for the defeat in Ohio. The stipulations of the Treaty concluded between Prussia and the United States are in the main be lieved to be as follows :—" The North German Confederate Governments will consider North Ger mans naturalized in America as American citizens after five years' residence in that country, with the exception of criminals and deserters from their flag. If a German, naturalized in America, returns to his native country without intending to go back to America, he will be regarded as having abandoned his Americau naturalization rights. This clause also applies to naturalized Germans who may re side for more than two years in North Germany after returning from America. All clauses of the Treaty equally apply to American citizens naturalized in Germany. The Extradition Treaty of 1852, re specting criminals, is extended to the whole of North Germany. The duration of the Treaty is fixed at 10 years, and the ratifications are to be ex changed within six weeks. Mr. Charles Mackay, in a pamphlet on the con venience, utility, and necessity of street-tramways for London, allude., to the advantage they would have in the English metropolis over the Empire City, where there is no law against over-crowding, and where the whole inner passage between the op posite seats i 3 blo:;ked up by standing passengers, who hold on by straps fixed in the roof for the pnr pos of steadying them. Mr. Mackay will be glad to hear that Mr. Bergh, the president of the New York Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, prosecutes all drivers of horse cars, even when four horses are attached, if more than the lawful number of passengers are allowed to enter the cars. The United States, when the circumstances are at all similar, reproduce the same features as the United Kingdom. When the Senate was trying to abolish the State Departraeuts' corps of spies, Mr. Sumner pathetically appealed to the Chamber not to do away with the ancient and time-honoured abuse, which had been in force since the days of Washington. He did not call it an abuse, he called it the custom of their ancestors. Secretary 11l‘Cul loch nu the 12th February received two letters con taining $65 and $5O conscience-money. If the English Chancellor of the Exchequer had received these sums, he would have passed them to the public credit, acknowledged their receipt in the Times, and thrown the envelope into the waste-paper basket. But the American Secretary cast on the envelope an eye of curiosity. He found the post mark to be Palmer, Massachusetts, and he recorded this fact, perhaps with the view of sending there a Commissioner of Lunacy. If he could only esta- blish a conscience in the c3llectors of the Internal Revenue the taxpayers of the United States would at once feel a lightening of their load. A movement is on fo3t to call a General Convention of the producing interests in the Western States to meet at Cincinnati, and take measures ag dust the present prohibitory tariff system. Tho West strongly favours inflation an . 1 the payment of the national debt in paper. The programme of such a Convention, as is likely to meet in Cincinnati, would be the very reverse of the Commercial Con- vention which sat in Boston from the 4th to the Bth inst., which favours the protection of home labour, the duties to be so laid when the tariff is revised as to place the heaviest on manufactured articles in which labour forms the chief expense, and the collectio❑ of import dues not at the port of entry, but at the place of consumption, so as to do away with bonding, warehousing, &c. It declares that national honour and good faith alike repire the redemption of the 5-20 Bonds in specie, and that the expansion of the currency should cease. It affirms that the business interests of the country require a speedy resumption of specie payments, and recommends the contraction of the currency at the rate of $3,000,000 a month, commencing Jan. 1, 1869. It would limit the National Bank cur rency to $300,000,000 until specie payments are resumed, and the Convention closed its labours with three loud cheers for the national honour. The West and the East sail in different boats, which may yet bring them into collision. Last Monday, in the House of Commons, Mr. Ewart moved for leave to bring in a bill to intro duce into England the metric system of weights and measures. He proposed to leave the time blank, but thought that five years might be a sufficient interval before the bill came into operation. Mr. Cave said he should not offer any opposition on the part of the Government to the introduction of the bill, but wished to remind the hon. gentleman that one of the points contained in the measure would be brought under the consideration of the Royal Commission now sitting. The bill was brought in, and afterwards read a first time. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, as reported on the 12th Feb., appropriates the salary for a Minister to 'Portugal, provides Com missioners and Consul-General to Hayti and Li beria instead of Ministers, makes no appropriation for Ministers to Greece and Rome, reduces the State Department Contingent Fund from $65,000 to $30,000, and omits the salary of the Second-As sistant Secretary of State. The bill contains a provision that no consul-generals, consuls, consular agents, or commercial agents, shall be paid except those specified in the Act, and that all laws and parts of laws providing for the payment of any other consular officers than those in this Act specified are thereby repealed; and that all moneys received for fees at any vice -consulate, or consular agency of the United States, beyond the sum of $l,OOO, in any one year, shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury in the same manner as other moneys received by the consular offices. No money is sanctioned for the examiner of claims, superinten dent of statistics, despatches by the Atlantic cable, boundary commissioner of Washington territory, nor rent for the State Department building. Sena tor Patterson's bill has passed the Senate, and it provides that no more of these officials shall be appointed either by the President or by the depart ments, and that the offices shall cease on the expi ration of thirty days from the passage of the Act. It will make a sweep of a large number of Govern ment officials, special and general agents, and the President is barred the power of future appoint ment, except with the advice and consent of the Senate, a report being made to Congress at the beginning of each Session of the number of agents then in the service. The Act is thought to be an effectual measure of retrenchment without injury to the public service. The newspaper correspon dent, W. W. Warden, whose business it was to look through journals and select articles to read to Mr. Johnson, has also been struck off, as well as a pardon clerk. News from Hongkong of the 15th January states that a Japanese vessel had arrived with intelligence that the ports of Iliogo and Osaca had been opened on the first day of the year. Twelve British, six American, and one French war vessels were pre sent. Much adverse discussion continues in China regarding Mr. Burlinghaine's appointment as Envoy from the Chinese Government to the various Euro pean Courts and the United States. An earthquake had occurred in Formosa which lasted 32 minutes. Much damage was done. The Pacific steamer Great Republic arrived at Hongkong on the 13th January. The New York Chamber of Commerce has ap pointed a Committee to report on the propriety of opposing the bill now in Congress to assimilate the coinage of the United States to the French 5-franc piece, harmonizing it with many of the European continental nations. The difficulty with them ap pears to be the loss that must accrue to the public, as well as the private creditors of the country, who will lose by such conversion 31 per cent., the re duction in the value of the dollar. If Sherman's Consolidation Loan Bill is to pass a clause might be introduced to correct the discrepancy, and on that all other monetary transactions could be regulated. The difficulties of harmonizing the English currency with the French is far greater. Indeed, the United States are in the most favourable position for mak ing a change so desirable—an opportunity which, if now lost, may never occur again. The Hon. Samuel Ruggles, Commissioner to the Paris Convention, has published a long and able report on Interna tional Coinage. As we announced in our last issue, her Majesty has appointed a Royal Commission to report on this subject. The State of Pennsylvania has not been happy in its Treasurer, Mr. W. 11. Kemble, unless it wished to prove how much injury any man may effect if he is only given the chance. Messrs. August Belmont and Co., acting for the Rothschilds, applied to Mr. Kemble for permission for his clients to continue to hold certain overdue Pennsylvania stocks, in stead of receiving the principal in the depreciated currency, but if compelled thus to accept payment to do so under protest. To this letter, January 28, a reply was immediately despatched, refusing to allow the Messrs. Rothschild to retain the old loan, and draw interest on it —they had not, said Mr. K., the slightest objection to the protest, and the com plaints appeared to them " ridiculous." Consider ing that it was the injurer who thus addressed the injured, there was sufficient curtness and rudeness in this, but not enough to satisfy a Kemble. Taking a leaf out of the letter of Thaddeus Stevens, on Repudiation, about the sweet communion of Jew and Gentile—he endeavours in the same breath to plunder and to stigmatize--to add insult to injury. These are the Treasurer's words—" I have no doubt Messrs. August Belmont and Co. had many liabilitiesout when the L , gal-Tender Act was passed, which became due after gold had risen to a pre mium of 80. 1 have not yet heard of their conscience compelling them to pay in gold instead of the Legal- Tender. We are willing to give you the pound of flesh, but not one drop of Christian blood." But he had caught a Tartar. August Belmont's reply is a forcible suppression of insolence. Briefly re viewing the correspondence, he proceeds as briefly to state the circumstances. He shows that the Messrs. Rothschild were acting for widows and orphans who would be reduced to beggary by the course taken by Pennsylvania. In this they evinced a fresh proof of their honourable appreciation of the obligations assumed by them as trustees of the innocent holders of the most disastrous loan ever negotiated by their house negotiation bawd principally upon the faith of the State of Penn sylvania, and its great banking institution : " Your reference to the liabilities of my house," reeled Mr. Belmont, " contracted in coin and assumed by you to have been paid in cur rency, is as impertinent as it is untrue in point of fact. August Belmont and Co. have never de clined to meet any demand for the payment in coin of any liability contracted by them in coin, before or since the Legal-Tender Act. If they had adopted the course towards their creditors which you pro pose to take on behalf of the State of Pennsylvania towards her unfortunate creditors represented by the Messrs. Rothschild, there might have been some excuse for the lack of courtesy which you have ex hibited in your letter to them. In conclusion, I take the opportunity to express my regret that the State of Pennsylvania should have for its Treasurer a person who coui,d so far disgrace the State he as sumes to represent, and forget the dignity of the offh:e he holds, as to reply to a civil business com munication in a manner which must raise the blush of shame ou the cheek of every citizen of that great and honoured State." It is a lamentable thing to see the best interests of the State thus sacrificed. Hundreds of thousands who know nothing of the circumstances will hear of Pennsylvania as a Repu diating State; as one whose authorized officer met a respectful protest from the greatest of monetary houses with a coarse insolence which made him travel out of his way to be as offensive as possible. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives de feated a resolution, censuring Mr. Kemble by a party vote of 23 to 53. The Republicans, to which party Mr. Kemble belongs, supported him, but though his course was so far sanctioned by a branch of the Legislature, it has been universally • condemned by the public, and as far as the corre spondence is concerned, Mr. Kemble certainly, as we have observed, caught a Tartar. Major J. H. Whittlesey, last summer, inspected the colleges of New England, preparatory to draft ing a bill for a system of military instruction. This has been approved by General Grant, and is now before the Military Committee. It is not in tended as a substitute for West Point, but as a supplement ; that institution being unable to fur nish on its present scale of organization and equipment a sufficient supply of well-instructed officers for the army. The provisions may or may not be adopted by colleges and schools ; but if theso rules are introduced a system of military education will be added as a part of the regular course at several of the colleges and schools. Mr. Yates, on the 12th of February, introduced a Bill into the Sena'z,e to provide for the admission of Colerado as a State of the Union, and said he would call it up next week. This is the third ap plication of that territory for admission, and it is thought that the present will be successful, even over ,he President's veto, The memorial states that since the Legislature of 1864 passed the Enabling Act population and wealth have largely increased, the internal revenue receipts of 1867 being four times those in 1864, and the post-office receipts double, that Colorado has now between 75,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, and is better able to support a State Government than many States at the time of their admission. If Colorado is admitted, the Republican strength in the Senate will be increased by two votes, and in the House by one. The revolution in Mexico continues, and affairs appear to be progressing against Juarez. At New Orleans vessels and arms have been collected to assist the insurgents in Yucatan. Lozada still go verns Jalisco, and defies the authority of Juarez. Generals Canales and Caravazal are organizing a revolution at Tamaulipas. A revolt has broken out at Simaloa. It was reported that a movement bad been inaugurated to establish a separate Republic of the Northern States in Mexico, and that a revo- lution is organizing at Puebla. Escobedo, Diaz, and other generals in the Mexican service have ten dered their resignation. A movement was disco vered and frustrated in favour of Santa Anna by the garrison of Vera Cruz. _ . A provisional triumvirate has been proclaimed in St. Domingo, composed of Senors Gomez, Baveanto, and Luciano, their powers to last until the return of President Baez to the island ; the citizens of Hayti and St. Domingo are protesting against the purchase of Samana by the United States, and fresh efforts are on foot to prevent it. The French clergy have excommunicated President Salnave of Hayti, on the ground that he has established a sort of Fetish religion. Salnave had been defeated, with the loss of 300 men, by the Cacos rebels, who were advancing ou Cape Hayden. The news froul Havannah to the 14th inst. was that the principal towns were in arms against General Salnave, and General Solomon had been proclaimed President. Mr. Justice Nelson, on the 10th inst., pronounced the decision of the Supreme Court in the Georgia and Mississippi Test cases. The arguments were heard last spring, when certain citizens of Georgia, representing the State, brought a suit against Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, U. S. Grant, the CoMmanding General, and Pope, the officer in command of the military district in which Georgia is included, to restrain them fro►n carrying into execution the Reconstruction Acts• The application was then denied, and on the 10th the reasons were given. From t hese reasons Chief-Justin e Chase dissented, though he concurred in the conclu sion. The opinion is of great length, and substan" tially that, the question being a political one, if the Court granted the application, it would exercise political power, no danger to person or property being specified as apprehended. Judge Nelson infer red that a bill showing these rights infringed by 311 Act of Congress might be differently treated. O tt the 7th Feb. the M'Ardle case was resumed. Sena- tor Trumbull supported the motion that it b ° dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Ile did raise the constitutionality of the Reconstruction AC but argued against the jurisdiction of the Court. The Judiciary Act of 1798, from which the Unite d States Courts derived their authority to issue writs of Habeas Corpus, did not permit appeals in suc h cases to the Supreme Court from the Circuit Courts 1 and that of 1867, while conferring additional jtariv diction, did so solely in reference to cases in whic h persons were deprived of their liberty under State authority. Ex-Governor Sharkie, of MississipP i ' opposed the motion. The court was crowded; the decision was reserved. Chief Justice Chase V s° delivered an opiniou in the Supreme Court, over ruling the motion to dismiss the case for want of j urisdiction. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and „2 1 15 ' Many persons neglect to take the commonest precau t ,r , against illness which they are exposed to—future s une o ing or probably danger. 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