The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-19 00:00:00

MR, GLADSTONE'S ELECTION ADDRESSES. Mr. Gladstone has now really commenced his election tour. On Friday he attended (unexpectedly, it seems) a meeting in the district of Old Swan, near Liverpool. A vote approving the joint candidature of Messrs. Gladstone and Grenfell having been passed, the right hon. gentle man responded in a long speech. It was an attack on that party which had called itself in turns Protectionist, Tory, Conservative, and Con stitutional. Mr. Disraeli, he said, had stated that he had worked twenty years with Lord Derby. But there was nothing special in 1848 to lead to political friend ship. It was twenty-two years and a half ago that the ill-omened compact was struck between Lord Derby and the Premier. In the month of January 1846 Sir Robert Peel proposed the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the com pact, the basis upon which the Conservative party n3w stand, was to oppose that repeal. It was the restriction of industry ; it was the imposition of fetters upon the enterprise of this country; it was the shutting out of the abundant supplies of food from other lands, to make up our deficiencies with respect to our population, that was the basis of the compact which was made twenty-two and a half years ago. But the establishment of free trade—the abolition of Protection, had proved to be beneficial to the country. It has raised tho wages of the labouring classes ; employers have become rich, and confidence in the authorities has sprung up amongst the people." And now (continued the right hon. gentleman) if you were to go to any friend of that party and say, " You are a Protectionist— I know you., and want the mask off," he would say, " You are entirely mistaken. lam as good a freetrader as you are." And no doubt he would be perfectly sincere, but I remem. ber what happened 22i years ago Your friend, who now says he is a freetrader, in those days indignantly disclaimed being anything but protectionist, and so the whole welfare of old England depended on Protection. You know that so long as a trade is good you would stick to it, but when it gets bad, if you are sensible men, you would get out of it as soon as you could. Now, the trade of Protection, fog several years after 1846, was a roaring trade in all the agricultural districts of the country, and there were plenty of people to 'follow it. But free trade came into operation, and the landlord found that what he had said would destroy his rents and prevent him from paying the interest on his mortgages did nothing of the sort, but every time he had a farm vacant he had an increased number of bidders more and more eager to secure it." " What relieved us of Pro tection was this, that in 1852 the Protectionists came intc offices As long as you are in Opposition, you can pain upon the people—but I am aware this can be said d us at the present moment you may offer tc them whatever you please ; and my belief is that i the Protectionist party had never been put into office it would have been the Protectionist party to this day, because to this day the farming interest throughout thr country would not have been undeceived ; they would not have seen the total hollowness and the total untruthfulness of the professions made to them as to what would be done for them as soon as their friends came into office. But in 1852 their friends did come into office, and though I was not one of them, I was very glad they were going into office, because I felt convinced that the day they came into office would sound the death-knell of protection. From the first day it became perfectly plain that all the recollections, pledges, promises, and professions which had returned hundreds upon hundreds of members of Parliament would burst like a bubble, and that protection was to be remembered only as a dream. So much for protection. A great English poet has said The boy was father to the man,' and youth of a party will enable you to judge what it is likely to be in its matu rity and old age. This party was born in monopoly and restriction ; it was born for the purpose of maintaining it, and it abandoned it only when it was found that the responsibilities and power of office could not be held without that abandonment. From that experience —from what former years have shewn us—you may judge what is likely to happen in the future." Passing from this, Mr. Gladstone took up the subject of the paper duty. Mr. Cross, their opponent, had stated that he voted for the repeal of the paper duty as well as Mr. Gladstone. But whom did Mr. Cross find as his com panions ? His friends ? There were scarcely three Con servatives who went into the same lobby with him. What, then, was the use of Mr. Cross saying that he voted for a Liberal measure when he goes to Parliament to support those who resist Liberal measures. " There are a number of ern opponents," exclaimed the right hon. gentleman, " going about the country and disclaiming the character of parts men. I read in this newspaper to which I have alluded that at St. Helens the other night they said too much was made about mere party, and that there was too much mere personal discussion. What does it signify, they ask, whether Mr. A or Mr. B is Minister in this country? What we want is a good measure. Gentlemen, this is the last invention that has come out, in order, if possible, to entrap your understand frog. Is there any possibility of your getting measures except through the instrumentality of men? Measures de not come down from the moon, and I do assure you that they get through a great many stages in Parliament by dint of a great deal of effort, and if you are engaged in the war you might just as well say I den't care about men, I care about measures; I don't want the army, I want to see the country and the enemy subdued. That would be Just as rational as to say you don't care about Prime Ministers and about parties, that all you want is that the conntry shall have good measures. Gentlemen, it is a very strong expression to use, but it is a kind ol utterance which the Scotch call `deliverance,' but it is in fact neither more nor less than rank nonsense. You cannot ba * ve measures without men, and combination of men. The House of Commons is not a heap of grains of sand, all tumbled together in a bag; it has always been made up of men whose good sense and intelligence teaches them where they will find sympathy, and where they will not, and that in common council and common action is the best security for the attainment of the end they have in view. That is the basis, sound in philosophy and practice, of party action." Passing to the subject of Reform, the right hon. gentleman related again the history of the struggles over the various measures. In the course of hie remarks he attributed the passage of the Reform Bill to the fall of the Hyde Park railings. He also commented upon and condemned the circular which had been issued to the employers of labour at Blackburn, asking them to use their " influence " for the Conservatives. As to the Irish Church he said little. There was just a slight allusion to it in the concluding passage, which we subjoin : " We are in favour of trade, freedom of know ledge, freedom of the franchise in its possession, and free dom in its exercise. We are also to have freedom in religion. I am very far from telling you, for I do not myself think that freedom of religion is necessarily interfered with by a national Church, if that national Church has a very large portion of the nation for its adherents, and if it is greatly respected by the generality of those who do not belong to its communion. But if the national Church is associated in the mind and the memory of the people with every scandal and every horror that has marked the misgovernment of former times, our duty may be considered either as citizens or as Christians. As citizens, I say, we are bound to listen to the voice of civil justice, and no longer to permit the continuance of a system of monopoly so con ceived and so organised ; but I go further, and say that as Christians and members. And if it is attempted to be made a reproach against us that there are persons of the Roman Catholic religion favourable to the proposals that we have made, I say we must be cowards indeed if we shrink from such an allegation, as if it were a reproach. It is no reproach for Protestants of different denominations and for Catholics and non-Christians to join together in the pursuits of objects which are commended by the principles of national and civil justice. We are all citizens of one common country. Whatever be our particular convictions in reli gion, it is our duty to study the public goood ; it is our duty to combine together for purposes which are honourable. It is for the promotion of honour and justice that we ask your suffrages on the occasion of the coming election, and it is in the interests of honour and justice that I feel convinced you will give them." The next clay (Saturday last) Mr. Gladstone addressed a meeting at Newton. His subject was the Irish Church. He took that topic because he had been charged with trying to shirk it. It bad been stated that the property of the Irish Church consisted simply of tithes and glebe land. • But they would find by a reference to the report of the royal commission, that the Church of Ireland, besides glebe land, charitable and glebe land, parsonages and incumbencies, possessed bishop land and chapter land to an enormous extent, believed to be of far greater value than the annual income they yielded, and they were stated to yield an income annually of between £l-10,030 and £150,000. That error having been dispelled, the sight hon. gentleman proceeded to criticise the report of the royal commission. lie prefaced his criticism by st ating that there were just three policies before the as to th e I r i s h Ch urc h . Th ey m i g ht s t an d still— rhuatntserras impossibl e ; they might disestablish, which he proposed to do ; they might level up. But the Govern ment ' had p ro p osed no policy • had as yet set forth no course. Th e on l y plan which they could examine, there fore, was the plan proposed by the Irish Church Commis sion. First the commission proposed to bury four bislior' s r er —he did not m ean th e b ishops themselves, but th • offices; they propcs ‘d to suppress four " co rporations. ITo that be objected. Th en t h ey wanted to pay P°r t a li t o k se ng. bishops who sat in the House o f L or d s. This was r the old in p7lt, forward, the pay ment of members —one of ptrhecifislee volts of the charter— an d put forward, too, by a' roya l . Commis ion. That would not help them at all. " Let me say, however (the speaker explained), I do m* blame the commissioners. I really believe they have done the best they could. When a man undertakes an impossible task, you must not look too strictly to the performance of it, or judge him too severely. If a man says I will jump over the Thames' (or rather I should say the Mersey), and happens unfortunately to alight in the middle, the result is unfortunate, although the man may be a very good jumper. These commis sioners I believe to be perfectly upright, honourable, intelligent men, and I have not a word of blame to cast upon them for the manner in which they performed their functions. My object is to shew you the hopelessness of the functions themselves, and to confirm you in the adoption of that other plain, simple, and practical alterna tive which we have recommended to your notice." The next proposal they had was to suppress all benefices which did not minister to the wants of forty Protestants. But why forty ? He could not suggest ; except they took the Thirty-nine Articles and one over ; or the Jewish order, forty stripes save one. But, at any rate, this proposal would lead to the suppression of some 200 benefices. That was to say, 200 places out of some 1,400 or 1,500 were to be deprived of their resident clergy. Besides this, some chapters would be suppressed, sn 1 the sexton would, in some cases, be consolidated with the gravedigger. How much, he asked, would all this save? " I have often," declared the right hon. gentle man, " been surprised at things I have found in docu ments, but I never was so much surprised before at a thing that I did not find in a document. Why, if this commission was appointed for anything in the way of re moval of abuses, what they ought especially tqAave done was to have shewn how much could be gathered together by the removal of those abuses, and under what rules and to what useful purposes it could be applied. Gentlemen, it is a very hard case. I can get no assistance from the com mission ; but after looking roughly over the thing, and really having very few means of accurate compu tation, it seems to me, as well as I can reckon, that by the bishops they would save something between £22,000 and £25,000 a year ; that by the parishes they might save from £40,000 to £50,000 a year ; that by the chapters they would save £lO,OOO a year ; and I cannot tell exactly, but I think they might save £3,000 or £4,000 a year by the gravediggers. (Laughter.) Now, putting all these things together, this removal of abuses would produce a fund of £BO,OOO a year. That is a very considerable fund ; what is to be done with it? Well, gentlemen, the Inquiry Commissioners have simply said that the body which exists in Ireland—a permanent body and one which is called the Ecelesiastical Commissioners— ought to have large discretion to apply it to the increase of the incomes of the clergy in places where there are low incomes with considerable congregations." This led to the consideration of the question of tithes. What should be done with those of the suppressed benefices ? "It is proposed," said Mr. Gladstone, " that where there is a parish—say, in Mayo or Galway— with 5,000 or 10,000 Roman Catholics and a mere handful of Protestants, that the tithes of that parish shall be carried away out of the parish altogether. Where will they go ? They will be carried into the suburbs of Dublin and Belfast, where wealthy members of the Establishment abound. They will be exported from one portion of the country and imported into another portion of the country. While retaining all the odium of being applied to the Church of the minority, it will lose the graces, recommendations, and consolations which hang about it from the kindly relations between these Protestant clergymen and the Roman Catholic population. They may hear nothing more of it ; and, in my opinion, I am speaking truly, you hear some times that we are charged with confiscation, but in my opinion that is confiscation. Those funds, gentlemen, are local funds. The tithe of a parish was never given except for the purpose of maintaining religion in the parish ; and to take the tithe out of a parish of Galway or Clare for the purpose of meeting the wants of Protestant populations in Dublin and Belfast—l do not care who hears it—is, in my opinion, whatever the intention may be, dangerously like to an act of public plunder." Passing from the report of the commission, the right hon. gentleman repeated at length the arguments against the Establishment, and enlarged upon the abuses of the present state of things, contending that from every principle of right and justice the Church should be disestablished. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. FINSBURY.-Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., has issued his address to the electors. He is a staunch Conservative. ANDOVER.—Captain 'Wellesley, of Cornholt Park, near Andover, has announced his intention to contest that borough in opposition to the present sitting member (the Hon. D. F. Fortescue), who has been one of the repre sentatives of the borough for the last eleven years. The gallant captain is the heir presumptive of the Duke of Wellington, and grandson of the great Duke. As Andover will in future only return one member to Parliament it is thought that the contest will be a severe one. COVENTRY.—Mr. Alexander Staveley Hill, Q. C. , has come forward as the second Conservative candidate. He con ;tested the representation of this city in March last with 'lllr. Samuel Carter. PRESTON.— Mr. Thomas Farries, barrister, of Stockton- Mn-Tees, has come forward as a Liberal candidate. There are now five in the field, three Liberals and two Coeserva• tive3. BANBURY. —Mr. Mewburn, a gentleman connected with the locality, has accepted an invitation from a section of the Liberal party to become a candidate for this borough in opposition to Mr. Samuelson. Both gentlemen are earring on an active canvass. HERTFORDSHIRE.—It is now decided that a contest win be fought in this county, the Liberals having determined to bring forward another candidate with the lion. H. Cowper against Mr. Abel Smith and Mr. Surtees. OXFORDSHIRE.—AIthough Mr. Henley and Colonel North have not yet issued their addresses, it is understood that they will offer themselves for re-election. Colonel Fane will retire in favour of a Liberal in the person of Mr. W. C. Cartwright, of Aynhoe. ROCHESTER.—The division threatened in the Conserva tive party in this city has been avoided by the formal announcement of Mr. H. Haymen that he does not intend comin[ forward as a candidate for the representa tion of the city There are consequently only two Conser vative candidat now before the electors—viz., Mr. Alfred Smee, i. t .f.d Mr. Aldborough Henniker, special pleader. WARWICK.—The election for this borough is over, according to present arrangements. The committees on both sides have decided that as Mr. Repton had resigned no other candidate wou'.d be brought forward by either party, so that Mr. A. W. Peel (Liberal) and Mr. E. Greaves (Conservative) will have a walk over. GLASGOW. —Sir George Camborne, of Succoth, has con sented to come forward as a candidate in the Conservative interest. HUNTINGDON.—GeneraI Peel has issued his farewell address, and Mr. J. Baring asks the. electors for a con tinuance of their confidence. EXETER.-At a meeting of the electors Mr. J. D. Cole• ridge referred to a report that some employers of labour in that city had intimated to their awn that a vote given in the interest adverse to those employers would be attended with loss of work, and expressed his fear that such a course would promote trades-unioni: m as a means of obtaining political freedom. THE MURDER NEAR LE WES. —Martin Brown, a man of 21, who is suspected of the murder of David Baldy, an old man, near Lewes, a few days ago, was arrested on Saturday at the Maidstone Barracks. lie had enlisted in the Royal Artillery. Ile neither admitted nor denied his guilt. ACTION AGAIN ST SIR RICHARD MAYNE. —An action is likely to take place next term, in the Court of Common Pleas against Sir Richard Mayne by two ex-in spectors of police, lately connected with the omnibus and cab department, for libel, when it is expected most extraor dinary disclosures will be revealed respecting the system adopted. No little amount of anxiety is manifested by the proprietors of omnibuses and cabs, as well as the police, as to the result of the action, it being the first in which proceedings have been taken against the Chief Commis sioner at a, court of law by two of his subordinate officers. THE LICHFIELD NOTICES TO QUIT. —The Hon. Major Anson, M.P., addressed a meeting of his con stituents on Saturday night at Lichfield. He said that in justice to his brother (Lord Lichfield), in justice to him self, and in justice to the Liberal party who had adopted him as their representative, he felt bound to reply to the charges which recently appeared in the Daily News, and which were subsequently made by Colonel Dyott, in reference to the notices to quit served in the name of Lord Lichfield. There was not one particle of truth in the accusation. The notices had been served ; but they were served in the ordinary course of business, and had no connection with the contest for the representation of the borough. SINGULAR STORY.—The death of Mr. F. H. Wiggin, proprietor of the Northumberland Arms, Ber mondsey, took place on Thursday morning, the Bth inst• Mr. Wiggin retired to bed the previuui night in his usual health and spirits, but at five o'clock in the morning he ruptured a blood-vessel, and in six hours he expired from exhaustion. It seems a remarkable presentiment of his death was made known to him two months previously, when, to amuse his children, he drew upon a slate a coffin, and wrote an inscription, a verbatim copy of which was inscribed on his coffin plate, on his interment, as follows : " Frederick 11. Wiggin, died October Bth, 1868,, aged 40." This sketch and inscription he showed to his wife, and others who happened to be present. The remains of the deceased, who was much respected, were, on Monday, taken from London to Horton, for interment by the side of his father's grave. THE SUN, _LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1868 WETTING ON THE ELECTION. Colonel Richardson Gardner is very confident that he !hall win the election at Windsor. He is the Conservative candidate. His opponent, Mr. Eykyn, the Liberal can didate, is also very confident that he shall win the election. Colonel Gardner writes to Mr. Eykyn as follows: "Several of your friends have been offering to lay' braggart' wagers as to the result of this election. When they have been accepted your friends have invariably declined on one pretext or other. lam not a betting man, and very much dis approve such a mode of testing the probable success of a candidate. Nevertheless, I cannot submit to the effect intended to result from such boasted public offers on the constituency. Therefore, to save all further trouble, I go out of my way to offer to stake with you £5OO that you do not win this election and retain your seat ; the reverse being, of course, your bet. As Ido not want your money, or that of your friends, the conditions must be-1. That you aid I each deposit our money in the London and County Bank within twenty-four hours of your acceptance of the bet. 2. That your acceptance must be within twenty-four hours of your receipt of this letter. 3. That the manager of the bank has written instructions, signed by both of us, that the £5OO lost is to be handed over to the committee of the Windsor Infirmary for its use and benefit." To this epistle Mr. EYkyn makes the following reply:— " I must express my surprise at the contents of your letter of this date. I have no right to interfere with any beta (braggart or otherwise) your friends and mine may choose to make upon the result of the forthcoming election, although fully satisfied the verdict of the electors will be in my favL ur ; and, with you, ' disapproving such a model of testing the probable success of a candidate,' must decline your proposal. It maybe right for me to add, that I must refuse to enter upon any further correspondence on election matters." MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ,ttack of tha savages, 600 in number, of whom 80 were killed and wounded. The relieving parties found the dead bodies of Indians in every direction before reaaing the island on the 26th September. Forsyth was alive, and is doing well, though dan gerously wounded. Lieutenant Beecher, son of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the second in com- mand, was killed, as was the surgeon, Dr. Moore, together with five men, twelve being wounded. The action is described as the most desperate yet fought on the plains; the Indians of the three three tribes, well armed, worked to within a few yards of the force, against whom they fired 10,000 rounds, keeping up their attack through whole days. With reference to the suits of John N. and Wm. Cushing, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, owners of the ship Sonora, burnt by the Alabama, against John Laird jun., of Birkenhead, England, the deputy-marshal in serving thra process, could dis cover no property to attach, both the assistant trea surer and Messrs. Foster and Thompson having denied that any such property was now in their hands. Mr. Laird caused a letter to be written, not only asserting that no property of his was in the United States, but that the alleged action, as far as he knew, had not been taken against him. Frank's last sketch is the Water-street dialogue, where the first rowdy says Tom Hadcl'em wants you right away, whereon the second rowdy asks, what is it ?—a badger, or prayers. This is what Water street, New York, has come to under the in fluence of the religious revival. The Englishwoman's Review for October, is the ninth issue of that magazine, and contains some interest ing papers. A list of the Parliamentary candidates who support Woman Suffrage is given, among whom we see Handel! Cossham, Edmond Bealos, and Ernest Jones, Dr. Humphrey Saudwith, and other well-known gentlemen. The number of petitions to Parliament for the extension of the elective franchise to women up to the end of last July amounted for the year 1868 to 75, with close on 50,000 signatures. The following is the list of places where the names of women have been allowed to remain on the overseers' lists of voters, or where their claims have been admitted:— Ashford, East Kent No. of Women Voters. Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire Swiegfo . rd, East Keiii Rochdale, Yorkshire . not known Borough of Finsbury Todmorden, South-East Lancashire Moss-side Lydiate,South-West Lancashire SCarisbriek, 11 Sebergllam East Cumberland , Gorton,South-East Lancashire Denton „ Levenshubne 17 —not known 'o ' . King Victor Emanuel, is about to make a sojourn of some months in Italy, her medical advisers having reconr mended her native climate as a means of recruiting her health. THE BRIGHTON RITUALISM DISARMAMENT. It is obvious that the difficulties in the way of the dis armament project which has been ascribed to the Emperor Napoleon are very numerous. But the Saturday Review strives, and with a very plausible result, to prove that the scheme is a practical impossibility. To begin at home, England cannot disarm. We have no force for a European war, but a large army is required in India. Russia is every month annexing several hundred square miles of Asiatic territory, and must garri son her acquisitions with large forces. Austria desires to be as economical as possible, but her peculiar relations with the East compel the maintenance of a large army. Only Prussia and France remain. Are they likely to dis arm? "In the midst of the utmost distrust as to the prospects of peace, the belief has been almost uni versal that the Emperor himself did not wish for a war, and the fear felt was lest be should be forced into a war :of which he did not approve." A slight reduction in the French army would not, therefore, indi cate any new policy in the Emperor, but merely that he saw his way to making his peaceful policy prevail. COUNT BISMARCK AND HIS SOVEREIGN. Some of the correspondents of the French papers renew the old story that Count Bismarck's retirement at Varzin is the result, not of illness, but of a quarrel between the King of Prussia and his chief Minister. The statesman had demanded the adoption of a Liberal policy, but the King had refused. Count Bismarck, after the manner of Richelieu, withdrew, and has made it an indispensable condition of his return to business that the policy of the Government should be changed. It is to be presumed that the "liberal policy" spoken of applies only to internal affairs. It has long been announced that Count Bismarck was in favour of granting a real and not a fictitious representation to Prussia. We shall soon see, however, whether King William and his Minister have quarrelled. A date has been fixed for Count Bis marck's return to business ; if he does not then leave Varzin it will be time to consider these rumours. Of course, a quarrel between the two leading men in North Germany would not be unwelcome in France ; but it appears that some of the German papers also tell this story. A deficit is expected to be revealed when the Budget is brought before the Chambers. Here is another difficulty. Loans are not thought of in Prussia, and the Chancellor will not consent to further reduce the army. GERMANY. A new treaty has been concluded between Prussia and Bavaria. It is of some importance, being a sort of reci procity treaty with respect to the sins of the press, especially those committed against the Government of either country or its functionaries. It is a further gua rantee to Prussia, says the Temps, and a new bond of union between the North and the South. " The work of unification goes on prudently and cautiously, but without ceasing." Mr. Purchas still officiates at Brighton. The service is as gorgeous as ever. A correspondent of the Daily News writes: " There - are other clergymen in Brighton who have advanced far beyond what would have been called High Church' ten years ago, but to Mr. Purchas belongs, at this time, the post of champion of the extremest ritualistic views. He is too well versed in Church ::eremonials, ancient end modern, too earnest a zealot in the course which he has chosen, to neglect any point that may give effect to the service. It is carried out with picturesque vigour from beginning to end, and though St. James's Chapel is an ugly, unpromising edifice, there are moments when the scene within may almost be called splendid. Alas, that the struggle to red. tape our beautiful old service should make so many scoffers among this crowded congregation ! They are not strangers to the church, as I can afterwards judge by their readiness in going through the ordinary forms, and by their ready responses, scarce heard amid the singing. But some smile, some jog their neighbour's elbow, and many make whispered comment while the holiest symbol of our faith is borne past in a cloud of incense. 'See, it is a crucifix,' cries one in a whisper loud enough to be heard in several pews. 'What handsome robes,' mutters another, leaning forward to catch his friend's attention. And there is an evident wondering how far they will go ; what will they do next ?' which cannot produce healthy excitement." In a description of the services of Sunday, the same correspondent says the altars were lighted up, a great deal of incense was used, and the vestments were of the most advanced description. They were more gorgeous than those used in the common services of the Roman Catholic Church. They recalled the festivals of that Church. There seems to have been nothing remarkable in the sermon. The correspondent of the Times says : "It was expected that the services of the day would not pass oil without a disturbance ; and, considering the excitement which prevails on the subject of Ritualism throughout the town, it is much to the credit of the people of Brighton that they offered no serious molestation to the incumbent of St. James's, but have left him to fight the question with his bishop, either in a court of law or elsewhere. The crowd in the evening, though immense, was quite orderly inside the chapel, and there was no occasion for any interference on the part of the police, who were stationed close at hand, though outside in the streets some roughs began hooting when Mr. Purchas and his friends left the chapel. 'Though the chapel will hold some twelve hundred worshippers, it is thought that nearly as many persons were turned away from the doors as those who were fortunate enough to gain admission, and a large and noisy crowd was gathered outside in consequence. The glove, however, has been fairly thrown down by Mr. Purchas, and it now remains to bo seen whether the bishop will rick it up or not. One thing only is certain, and that is, that the matter will not and cannot end here. Either Ritualism is a right thing in the Church of England and ought to be left to do its work in its own way, or else it should be put down by the bishops ; and if the bishops cannot put it down by legal measures, their hands ought to be strengthened by addi tional powers bestowed on them by the Legislature for that purpose." LAW AND POLICE. ASSNULT.—A fashionab'y-dressed young man, described as a merchant's clerk, has been convicted by the South• wark magistrate of a brutal and unprovoked assault upon a barman at the Rockingham Arms, Newington. causeway. lie was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard :abour. DAMAGE TO CLOTHING.—Two cases of consideral im portance to the public came before the City of London Court, in which the plaintiffs sought to recover com pensation for injuries while passing along the pave ment. In the first case, Downing v. Dingwall, Mrs. Downing said she was proceeding down Idol-lane, Tower street, recently, when a bolt sticking out from de fendant's cellar door caught her dress, and tore it. In the second case a gentleman was walking along the street, end a cart with the tailboard down turned the corner, the milboard swung up over the pavement, and damaged ;he plaintiff's trousers. In both cases his Honour gave plaintiffs verdicts for the amounts claimed, with costs. LOVE, JEALOUSY, AND REVENGE IN ST. GILES'S.— Bridget Dwyer, a rather pretty, but untidy young woman, if about eighteen years of age, was brought up at Bow street Police-court, on remand, charged with threatening John Lloman, a labouring man, and attempting to throw a phial of vitriol at him. The prisoner was extremely violent in the dock, attempting to throw chairs at the prosecutor and using obscene language. They had been living together, and he had left her. She was bound over to keep the peace for six months, but as she threatened prosecutor the magistrate increased it to twelve months. She expressed contrition during the day, and the term was reduced to eight months. There was no probability of the amount of bail (210) being provided. THE VOLUNTEERS' CAPITATION GRANT.—Another appeal is to be made to the Secretary for War to increase the capitation grant to the volunteer force. About 140 volunteer commanding officers of corps which number nearly 100,000 men have already signed a memorial to Sir John Pakington, asking that the allowances may be made on the following scale :-23 to light horse, mounted rifle, and field artillery ; £2 10s. to garrison artillery and engineers ; and £2 to riflemen. The name of the Duke of Manchester, who is the commanding officer of the Ist Huntingdon Light Horse, appears in the list of signatures. COErORAL PE AKE AND THE WIMBLEDON PRIZE. —Earl Spencer writes correcting a mis-statement of Cor poral Peake in his letter claiming the Queen's Prize:— " Corporal Peake says the Master of Lovat ' not only acted as accuser and witness against me, but was ono of those composing the court which condemned me.' It was my duty to preside over the inquiry, and I can say that this statement is incorrect. The Master of Lovat, being a witness against Corporal Peake, did not act as a member )f council, but withdrew before the council considered the evidence brought before them, and was not one of those who gave the decision." DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. —About half-past ten o'clock on Saturdaymorning a messenger in the employ of Messrs. Davenport, earthenware and glass manufacturers, Longport, Staffordshire Potteries, was returning from the National Provincial Bank, at Newcastle-under-Lyme, with £lOO in silver, when he was overtaken in an unfre quented part of the road by two men in a cart. They jumped from the cart, knocked the messengei down, snatched the bag containing the silver from his hand, and re-entering the cart drove off in another direction as rapidly as possible. After a time one of the wheels of t) - .e vehicle came off, and the robbers had to continue .their flight on foot. They got clear away, but the deser red horse and cart fell into the hands of the police, wit(' are actively following up a clue they have obtained. TIIE MURDER AT NORWICH. —On Saturday an inquest was opened on the body of Mrs. Clare, wY lose murder by her husband we have briefly reported. It appe 4 red that Clare, who is a shoemaker, had been a tcetota her for some years, but " broke out drinking " last weak, and had been more or less intoxicated ever since. About noon on Friday, when they were alone in the house, he murdered the poor woman by cutting her throat. Two or three hours after he called a !neigh bour's boy into the house, and the horrible deed NVDAS dis covered. No quarrel was known to have taken place, and the prisoner and his wife had always appeare 1 to be on good terms. It was stated that Clare, who ha d I♦!en in the 54th Fusiliers, and served in India, had fre quently complained of his head, and had appeared occa. clonally for brief periods to be deranged. The inquej t was adjourned. The Spectator is somewhat inclined to recommend the policy of rectifying the Indian frontier. How far the dull pressure of British rule, which has so often curbed the most turbulent by its unswerving steadiness, may operate on fanatics like those of Swat, it is difficult to tell. But the prefects of the Punjab have tamed men as wild as the remaining clans, and even the fanatics recognise in the arbitration of the sword the decision of Providence. Rectification has these arguments in its favour : it has succeeded elsewhere, and it is not a policy of pure destruc tion. The alternative course of extermination, the delibe rate stamping out of man from a valley where he has made a home, has in it a contempt of rights not to be justified even by the plea of self-defence. (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) It appears that the letter we last week gave as being addressed by Mr. Pendleton to Mr. Somers Kelly, Houston, Texas, was a forgery. Mr. Pen dleton states that he never heard of the man or the letter, although it has furnished a text for the Re publican papers and a campaign document of value to that party. The roving correspondent of the Cincinnati Commeicial, who goes about like a roar ing lion seeking great men to devour, appears, fail ing prey, lately to have drawn on his imagination. It was but the other day that he gave an exciting account of a visit to Fort Pillow with General Forrest, of all men. Forrest now says that the correspondent never had been at Fort Pillow, and that he, For rest, had not been there since 1867, when he went to make a map for his book. The Cincinnati Com mercial is bound to trace out the truth of the story scmarocreelyatbreoccioouns or to stand e f a o na r e p v a e ig r u dis t c a r c e t d ic i s ted. A could s c y ei s l, t -e e d m , o o r f one more calculated to injure newspaper property in the discredit it creates. Fenian Head Centre John Savage was to sail from New York for Havre about the middle of Oc tober. Senator John Conness of California, of decided Fenian proclivities, spoke at a big Re publican ratification meeting at Cooper institute, on the night of the 30th September. The Radi cals are making a great effort to drag or coax the Irish-Americans into their line of battle, but they might save themselves the trouble, for Celts are seldom Liberals unless as despots when they can use revolution in aid of despotism. they have secured the Trish People, which is now patted on the back and quoted approvingly by all the leading Republican journals. 'These efforts, however, are only time wasted, and strength exhausted in a wrong direction, for till the Irish really imbibe an amount of Republican air sufficient to affect their frame they have no more comprehension of the great aims and objects of the Republican party than a Hindoo has. They must become more American and less Irish before they are fit to take their place in the party ; and time only can work out such a result. _ _ lhe court-martial to try General Dyer, Ordnance Department, was postponed a week through the ill ness of General Hancock, who sits on the Court. General George H. Thonsa,s, the President, will pro ceed to Washington to preside when the Court assembles, and General Gordon Granger will start immediately for Nashville to assume command in Tennessee during the absence of General Thomas on court-martial duty. Of course an intrigue is attributed to the President in t h e arr a n gement , as it is asserted that by making Thomas, President of the Court, and installing Granger during his ab sence in the command, he will replace an uncertain friend with an officer he can trust to carry out his directions in the interest of the party he favours, both in Tennessee and Kentucky, until the Presi dential election be decided. Even the Indian war now raging is attributed to the President's wish to get the bulk of the army out of the way for a new Southern rebellion—as if Mr. Johnson had not sins enough of his own to answer for without such ridiculous inventions. The war is attributed first to the delay of Congress in rectifying the treaties made by the Peace Commis sioners with the unfriendly tribes, and afterwards by the Executive red-tape, which wearied out the Indians, who cannot comprehend how work is done in the Circumlocution Odices. If hair in Washing ton had been in danger of being " raised," proceed ings world have been considerably accelerated, but it was only the settlers in the Far West who could Ripply such a crop, and. they were accordingly left to the shearing process. We are, however, happy to learn that Colonel Forsyth and the remainder of his command in the late fight were not among the victims. Although on an island sepa rated only by shallow water from the main laud, and under cover of a little grass, with small sand breastworks thrown up by the bands of the soldiers, they succeeded in beating back every The fact is, however, that the process was granted attaching his property, and the assistant treasurer, and Foster and Thompson admit that they expect shortly to have funds of Mr. Laird in their hands, whereon a supplementary process had been obtained from the Court attaching any property of that gentleman that might reach them. It is said that a nice question will arise should any property be found as to whether an attachment will hold when a claimant is not personally served, nor a resident of the district in which the attachment issues. There was a meeting of the Cabinet on the 2d of October, when all the Secretaries were present ex cept Mr. Browning and Attorney-General Evarts. The latter is on business at New York, and will not attend till after. the October elections. Mr. Seward presented private despatches from Spain in rela tion to the revolution in that country. As the President will spend the last half of next month in preparing his annual Message, the Secretaries in formed him that they would begin to get up their yearly reports at the end of this month, so as to be ready in time for his guidance. The office hours of the Treasury Department have been prolonged until 4 p.m. Commissioner Rollins was expected in Washington Oct. 7. The Union Pacific Railroad now runs daily trains to Black Butler, 793 miles west of Omaha. The road is graded to within six miles of Salt Lake. The President has appointed General H. G. Wright of Ohio, Jesse L. Williams of Indiana, and J. Bleckensberfer, jr., of Ohio, commissioners to in spect the entire road and telegraph lines of this railway. Frank Blair has come out in quite a new character, which he was perhaps driven to assume on the tide of opinion setting so strong against him. Failing man, he turned to woman, and held forth eloquently at Indianapolis on the wrongs of the sex. It is a pity that he did not hit upon this earlier, as it might have proved a trump card. The Republicans, he says, " though absolute in Con gress for eight year, have not countenanced the slightest motion in favour of this grand religious idea that rose with them above all party politics, above all manhood assumption of selfishness." General Butler has justified our anticipation, and obtained his re-nomination for the sth Dis trict of Massachusetts. It is said that Mr.. Dana would be selected at the meeting on the sth inst. to run against him, but it would require not only a good man, but a hard canvass to defeat Butler in Essex. Although strongly opposed by some lead ing Republican papers, he has a firm hold of the extreme Radicals, great talent, and unbounded as surance. He delivered two speeches, in the first of which he stated that to sell the Bonds Jay Cooke said they would be paid in gold, insinuating that it was only the banker who did so, and the more readily to insure the sale. In his other speech before the Convention, after receiving the nomina tion, he asserted that he stood on this matter with Senators Sherman and Morton. He had voted with 61 Republican members that the taxes on the income of the bonds be honestly collected, and he asked who would oppose his election as the advocate of the rascals escaping taxation, and defrauding the revenue. lie called upon Republicans to shoot deserters, meaning those who did not support him self. Not a bad idea tliat ! One journal pooh poohed the movement against him as grounded on a " mere question of money." We believe, however, even that the editor would feel that to be sore point if tried, and it certainly is the essence of almost all contracts. The Hon. David Wells wrote from Norwich, Connecticut, to Treasurer Spinner for a true exhi bit of the receipts and expenditure for the current fiscal year. He intends immediately to reply to Mr. Delmar, whose statement he has carefully and critically examined. Mr. Spinner shows that Mr. Delmar is not only wrong in matters of fact, but in his estimates. For instance, the receipts from Cus toms for the half year ending Jan. 1, 1869, he esti mates at $70,000,000, when the receipts for the first quarter, ending on Sept. 30, have been over $49,000,000, and for the six months will be at least $100,000,000, instead of $70,000,000, as he cal culated. Much indignation has been excited in Wall street at the unscrupulous way in which Treasury figures have been used in the interest of speculators, and Mr. M'Culloch has been greatly blamed. It is said that within the year his Department has thrice , been used as the gambler's tool, more espe cially in the sale and lock-up of gold. Now it is asserted that the revenue will not nearly cover the expenditure—then that gigantic frauds have been discovered—and figures are freely given by officials to support positions detrimental to the national credit, merely to influence the elections, or, worse still, the markets. The newspapers of the United States still con tinue the attack on his Excellency Reverdy Johnson. 'What some say is that he misrepresented American feeling in attributing to his countrymen so kindly a sentiment towards England. It is not easy to • see what can be gained by such a discussion ; for, if writing for Americans, the true feeling is known, and if to disabuse the English they wholly mistake the real impression. The English exaggerate Ame rican hostility towardithem. They believe that it has lessened within the last two years, but they still think it so great that instead of an ally they would have to count on America as a foe in any difficulty. What can be the use of intensifying the feeling far beyond the truth. It can neither benefit England nor America,except inasmuch as it may force both nations to act with the greatest moderation and circumspection. No people, however great, can be secure ; and it is scarcely wise for kindred na tions deliberately to add hostility to their inse curity. If Ireland, in rebellion, is to find an ally in the United States, the Southern States, in rebel lion, might find an ally in England. What must we think of the policy of a country which first in jures its credit without gain, and while a large portion of its population, fresh from a destructive war, remains in an attitude little less than hostile, endeavours to neutralise the efforts of its Minister in impressing a kindly feeling on a kindred people, whose animus might be the main element on which their enemies calculated. From Rio Janeiro, Sept. 24, the news was that Lopez had retired from Villa Rica, but that there was no further news of importance, had been brought by the steamer Estremadure which arrived at Lisbon last Thursday. A telegram from Paris, however (through Messrs. Pope, Ree, and M‘Lean's office), says that the Brazilians have taken Tebicuari. General Lopez is in full retreat in the direction of Villa Rica. Two foreign vessels of war were ascend ing the river ; it is supposed General Lopez made his escape on board one of them. Frank Leslie rever loses an opportunity of de picting horrors. His last effort in this direction is the ghastly spectacle of the upheaval of the buried dead from their tombs on the sea shore in Arica, Peru, during the recent earthquake. The peculiar way of burying the dead in a sitting posture makes the picture more graphic, and it forms a good vis a-vis to the scene iu Kit Burns' Dog Pit, where the religious community are in possession one hour, and the rats, the weasel, and the rowdies the next hour. General M'Clellan told the Brooklyn committee who tendered him a reception, Oct. 2, that although he had agreed to accept receptions in New York and Phila delphia, he did not propose to engage actively in the poli tical canvass. The General was entertained by August Belmont, Wednesday evening, Sept. 30. The Democrats met at Goodrich-hall, Springfield, Saturday evening, Sept. 26, and organized a campaign club with these officers :— President, Roswell Lee; vice presidents, ward 1, P. W. Brewster ; 2, E. B. Downing ; 3, Dr. T. Hooker ; 4, A. W. Lamb ; 5, D. Powers ; 6, L. Sibley; 7, J. Meggett ; 8, C. Pease; secretary and trea surer, F.E. Gray. Lieut. Frederick Beecher, who was killed in Col. Forsyth's fight with the Indians, on the Upper Republican River, in Kansas, was 28 years of age. He was a son of Rev. Charles Beecher of Georgetown, Massachusetts, and nephew of Henry Ward Beechr. He graduated at Bow doin College, Maine, in 1861, and immediately entered the service of his country as sergeant in company B, 16th Maine Volunteers. Subsequently ho was promoted to be second lieutenant and first lieutenant respectively. He was twice severely wounded —at Fredericksburg, the 13th of December, 1862 and at Gettysburg, the Ist of July, 186 3 . The last time wounded he was even then suffering from the old wound, but could not be persuaded to remain away from his command. The severe nature of his wounds necessitated' his transfer to the veteran reserve corps, in which he served as lieutenant until commissioned in the regular army by President Lincoln in 1865. He served with distinction after his ap pointment in the 9th cavalry. He had just been ordered to duty in the signal office, but was killed ere he could obey the order. The New York citizen says :—" It is announced that Ben. Butler has requested Anna Dickenson to stump his district. She had better leave her jewellery and spoons at home if she contemplates a personal interview with Butler." . Ex-President Pierce is very feeble, and is troubled by a severe cough. Among the deaths on Monday, Sept. 28, were those of Thomas A. D. Fessenden, of Lewiston, Maine, and Abner Greenleaf of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who were both of political prominence, though the latter had long withdrawn from active life on account of age. He was a contemporary and friend of Isaac Hill, and was one of the men on whom Hill, and afterwards Franklin Pierce, relied to keep New Hampshire loyal to their sway. Like Hill, he was an editor, having been long connected with the New Hampshire Gazette, the oldest newspaper in New England. His age was 83. Mr. Fessenden was 42 years old, being twenty years younger than his half brother, the Senator. He served in Congress for a single term. Captain W. Prescott, of Concord, has been ap pointed a special detective of the United States Treasury Department. Ten students, one of whom is a Choctaw Indian, were in attendance at the opening of the College of Agri culture and the Mechanic Arts, the new department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Edward J., son of Joseph E. Davis, of Barnard, Vermont, was killed in the recent Indian war. William Lloyd Garrison is the guest of Mrs. Stowe at Hartford, Connecticut. Captain Howard Stockton of the ordnance corps has been relieved from duty at the armoury, Springfield, Massachusetts, to enable him to accept an appointment as aid-de-camp on General M'Dowell's staff, who is now in command of the department of the East, with head-quar ters at Now York City. This appointment does not imply Captain Stockton's permanent disconnection with his corps, as he is merely detached on this special service. He served iwo years on General M'Dowell's staff during the war, when that officer had a command on the Poto mac, and there won the high esteem of his chief, who now asks for him as aide immediately on assuming this corn mand, to which he has just been appointed. Robert Morris, a coloured citizen of Chelsea, Massachusetts, for many years a member of the Suffolk bar, and the Democratic candidate for mayor a few years since, has just returned to America with his wife, from a tour in Europe, whither they went to attend the classes at the "Imperial College" of France. Their son, who has for the past eight or nine years been pursuing a course of studies at this college, graduated with honour, having been awarded the two highest prizes—costly gold medals. Young Morris was born in Chelsea in 1848. He has been thoroughly educated, and bids fair to attain positions of honour and emolument in New England. His case is evi dence of the capacity of coloured persons, when a fair and equal chance is open, to attain the highest point of intel lectual culture. Senator Sumner is under treatment for a disease of the throat, and his physician forbids him to speak in public. Rev. George B. Nutting, for twelve years a mis sionary in Mesopotamia, has returned to America. Miss Joanna Quiner, a self-taught sculptor, died in Lynn, Massachusetts, September 20, at the age of 72. A base-ball match between the English cricketers and nine from the Trimountain, Harvard, and Lowell Clubs, was played at Boston, Thursday, Oct. 1. The selected nine defeated the English nine by a score of 21 to 4. From Maine there went into the Union army 1,171 Smiths, 777 Browns, and 365 Joneses. Senator Yates, it is announced, has again signed the temperance pledge. General Hancock is at Longwood, Missouri, suf fering from the reopening of a wound ho received at Got t) sburg. General Van Wyck and Mr. Jencks, a sub-com mittee on retrenchment, met at the Astor House at 2 o'clock, Oct. 1, to examine into alleged frauds on the re venue. They, without doing anything, adjourned till next day. Dr. Gurley, of Washington, who was Mr. Lin coln's pastor, was very ill in Canadaigua ' New York, and not expected to live; since report e d d ea d. Mrs. Kemble is in Rochester ; Mrs. Yelverton in Chattanooga ; President Roberts, of Liberia, in Boston ; Mrs. Bowers in Salt Lake City ; Harriet Hot mer in Chicago. The Spanish Minister at Florence, the Duke de Rivas, the Florentine journals say, left that city on the 4th for Paris. Senor Largo Del Valle has charge of the Embassy during his absence. The Queen of Portugal, Maria Pia, daughter of The Empress of Russia has been oblige.l to leave Como on account of the inundations. She is now at Milan. The King of Italy is there also. It is said that her 31a c i jesty will spend some part of the winter in Naples, an that the King will accompany her thither. The Spring field Republican says—Rev. Th omas Hill has resigned the Presidency, of Harvard Colleges to which he was c h osen near ly s i x y ea rs ago, a nd his resisnation has been accepted by the corpora" tion. No reason is assigned for his resignation, per a , we hear who is to succeed him. Very likely it will be D r. Peabody, who was in some sense a candidate at the time of Dr. Hill's election. The retiring president is one ° f h t e l '' youngest men who have ever hold the office, having but 44 years old when elected. He hal before been dent of Antioch College, leaving his parish in Waltham take charge of that institution. Senator Ross has received a severe rebuke o°lll the Republican Convention o f K ansas f or vo ting for the President's acquittal. ; the Jacob Flynn, for a lo n g ti m e Judge 0 ' d a re Criminal Court of Cincinnati, di e d S e pt. 30, an d The° Jones, the artist, died the same d a y. left The' flagship Franklin, Admiral Farragut, o f Trieste, 28th September, for Gibralter, to meet the ren' f f o the squadron. From thence she will return home wit h f e e Admiral. Commodore Pennock, of the Franklin, is bet in charge of the squadron, and transferred, with the officers of the Franklin, to the Ticonderoga; whil e tain Wyman. of the latter ship, and his officers, charge of the Franklin, bound home. The steam. sl e tia F s Swatara, Commander Jeffers, arrived at Gibraltar lst from Cadiz, awl the Ticonderoga, Captain R. 11 . man, from Lisbon, on the 2d. o iler The lion. John M. Brodhead, Second Contr of the Treasury, who has been absent in Europe se ' l • B- 1. nil months, is expected immediately to resume his dick duties at the Treasury Department. hag Surgeon W. E. Taylor, United States Nay'' , ~,r " been ordered to Mare Island, California, to relieve 0 " -- goon Brown. Of Samuel Babcock was appointed, on the a October, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sec ° District of Connecticut, vice Woodruff, decea - ed. the Mr. George D. Prentice has retired from a , Louisville Journal, a famous provincial paper. He Was very popular political journal. - r ho' The President has just appointed Simon E. u ° son, whom the Senate refused to confine last year a 5 sistant-Secretary to the Treasury, a member of 'the re , are to tar mission to codify the laws, in place of Caleb Cushing' signed. General Grant arrived at St. Louis, t he Missouri, the afternoon of 2d October. H e w as a t Ohicago.S a h , 25th September, on a visit to his brother at Un i ."4l, Avenue, but he was not found out till Sunday, Sep t ' hie when, accompanied by his brother an d a member ;be Staff, he walked to the Church o f th e Messiah. e re church, however, he was reco gn ised, an d the people W iis g astonished to find that that pl a i n ly-dr e ssed, unprete n gentleman was the foremost citizen of the Republic. or The new skating rink, at Boston, is on the c c/f fe et of Lenox and Tremont-str ee ts, and is 117 ft. wide, 24a re long, and is furnished with re f res h men t sa loons ` roa st you can see the skaters and enj o y hot 09s te , r dlesi the same time, with ample sitti n g-room for in re of and, gentlemen, and galleries for spectators. T h e, eel over this immense s tr uc t ure i s su pp or t e d by arche' c oce span the entire dis'ance between the walls. Th e e is to be lighted by 21@ gas burners, besides a central C bar lm a delier of 180 burners, and will contain 15,000 peoele' who archite as were Messrs. Hervey, Johnson, and C°l have erected 13 similar structures within a year. ~; it appears that a portio n o f the new skating t be at Boston has already given way, and a p f tiort e re ` e re wall has fallen. The rear e n d wa ll i s 110 f ee t lon,g',; than 40 feet high in the centre, 12 inches thickLfelli bottom, and Bat the top. We hope it will be car surveyed, before it is crowded in the winter. tan s A meeting of the Bank presidents of Bost on to held on Tuesday, Sept. 29, for consultation in regnitec the State law requiting assessment. of of non-resident stockholders. As the. t ax es on th e t er law was 1 ' ° 5 11 311 proved till June 11, 1863, the clause providing thatl:wris be considered as having been in force on the Ist of '740' 5 regarded as ex post facto in its nature, and the b.' propose to test its constitutionality. ; a itr General Carl Schurz, who is of a sanguill the publican temperament, made a speech in Detroit olio l'Ah September, in which he said that from his n`f a u bli' servation he was prepared t o promise that if the 11 14 cans of New York worked throughout the canlP 3 ,-7,11r ° they were workin g now th e y wou ld carr y the J , State by a glorious ma j or ity, suc h as s h e ga ve Lin, ce e ref 1860, and there wer e even s t rong h opes f e lt by t T l a o sic a , publicans of New Jersey of red eem i ng th a t State.;ser Greeley spoke at Roxborough, New York, on the 15 ',7 ba , V; The Hon. Butler G. Noble is on the "stump' ili bo' ing chalked out a round fron t C rown P o i n t, Sel l "' , 23, to Madrid, October 5. fron i On the 19th September a party of student s „or the University of Vermont were sailing on Lake v ber lain in the yacht Hebe, when a sudden squall str u .. u ll l3 ° sail, knocking overboard Edward Marsh, a menlbe: s , - 10.5 freshman class. He swam for three or four mi nute ai being encumbered with clothing, sank b e f o re n a b l o ss 4 could reach him. A rope, a plank, and an oar wer e t ict th e to him, but all fell short. Deceased was 19 years 0; 0 0 son of Charles P. Marsh, of Woodstock, and a yo u ' m o fgreat promise. ofThe American mission among the Chin - ~f to .j , California has been revived, after a suspension "1,03e.`, years. The Mission Church at San Francisco, 0,1 charge of Rev. A. W. Loomis, has sixteen I nemb, n e y lao of whom were converted to Christianity before ri t,,4stil China. The Chines, are not easily reached by u;;/ influences, and missionary work among them is disheartening. The Presbyterian m ission on W e lit'io"; of Formosa, in the China sea, has encountered Or e ', A Chinese convert has been stoned to death, L e o d e r catechist is in prison, and a mission chapel has c e p co o ; stroyed. The Roman Catholics claim over 100e. es te. c verts in Tonquiu. The iafluence of France Peed cicr,, general persecution. The apostolic vicar contion be 0 4,000 last year in a tour of five months among + 4 southern provinces. 'OS b leC o A letter from the White Mountains expla l o f a masked ball was improvised by the guests at o n 7 f°,„" e hotels : —" The problem—to borrow the style °, ;0 1 ; 5 Play'—is to have a masquerade ball in a het' o , ,,°" h e midst of the White Mountains, where there are 11° ,, j . ce or costumes within a thousand leagues, more or le e li d solution is at once simple and satisfactory. f r l/ ,asbe e o 'l doff their crinolines and array themselves in wh . `,: e ssObil with white masks made of linen, and head- 3r pocket handkerchiefs. the gentlemen wine g ° rpo'c,3 putting on masks of black cambric and ladies' 1 9 '"10t', 1 4 cloaks, with the hoods drawn well over the head higl l t e, garb the ball was opened, and the effect was in the d ot degree novel and striking. The disguise was ea r I ° so and not only was it next to impossible .to discove, o , s n nearest friend, but the similarity of the ghosts esepet great that, if you engaged a partner for a dance n h o. ,a then lost sight of her, it was no easy matter tn i A j os' h o again. The dress of the gentlemen was weird aZ1,,,e1,"1 enough to match the costume of the ladies."' JAI" sprightly company of sprites marched about the I , could think of nothing but the incantation scen e, j o g r e bert le Diable,' although the effect was ludicrous• re e' o , not speak of the pleasure of the dance, but th e , &O f e °lie° , 0 e some witches there from whom not even Tain„ e s ter would have fled. Of course those disginsi i ,: e i taken off after a time, and then some very cu teat takes were discovered, and many persons found es ro' he were not so acute as they had supposed. found t er music was furnished by the Gorham Band,' t°, ee r y language of a bulletin posted beforehand in tR - E , P e te of the house, and, to copy further from the en ta rl os t i jet ment, the ghosts vanished at cock-crow. O r , of said, however, that the cock crew at a some"'", a e , tip hour than those noisy fowls used to do in i'eotly Hamlet the Dane, for the air of Gorham is not fa ti. tin e ; to dissipation, and the inexorable breakfast -13e- or ni s li here at an hour which would horrify editors a 0,„ newspapers. To conclude, in a word, the Plan nt° ,l P ie was pronounced an unqualifi e d s uccess , and a ye' sant novelty." Southern letters say there is a great-want Of o S it i t io, l o l among the coloured p eo pl e o f th e S ou th, an d that i ' b eeP ti who have learned t o rea d are anx i ous t o obtain f Bibles and Testaments. Oti'd in It is stated that the total capital investo— fri A lta tional banks is $422,804,666 ; taxes paid to States, $2,525,607 ; average rate of tax on capibose', the United States, 2/ per cent.; taxes paid to 9 0 ',. c ent) by State authorities, $8,813,127 • average rate Pe',,a State taxation, 21; total tax paid' United States„t"a P he t. authorities, 818,338,734 ; rate per cent. of (3 .13 ,, - Tie and State tax on capital, 41, and on deposits, ,1 34,", of 1i are deposited in the Treasury by national b 5 bone' per cent. bonds, $89,657,950 ; six per cow' to $247,763,500; six per cent. currency bonds, of lo g ° cific Railroad, 93,577,000. It 'a The new Berkeley-street Central church 1 ton has the loftiest spire in New England, be , J 3 500 4 0' higher than the top of Bunker-hill monument., al P, 41 '10 of the edifice and site will reach $300,000, and ir ° 0 010" dow in the spire Wachusett and Monadnock / can be seen. , a •P LA DV ERTISENENT.I Holloway's Ointment an o f 0$ Unfailing Restoratives.—When the climate, ag e, - pr o 's are ships have undermined the he a lth, s ki n disease- e 4 ba to arise and augment the existing weakness. der t ip medicaments daily pro ve mos t serv i cea bl e even 11/l a big',;, most untoward circumstances. His well-known a n o i t ' be esteemed unguent possesses the finest behest: ll o44 which soothe and heal without inflaming or irri ta ,e most tender skin or mos t sens iti ve sore. Hollovi a ; t4 , o ' meut and Pills are i n f a llibl e f or curing bad log s ' I° o' veins, swelled ankles, and erysipelas. They been famed for their power of subduing glandul ar „oef o r mations, local irritations, prickly heat, and that 0 " 14 eruption which frequ en tly s p r i ngs f rom negleeti door exercise. Births. Tr O CI' O f CHAPMAN—On the 14th inst., at Newbridgetr":o l r B ' wife of Major Chapman, 14th King's 8 1 — SOD. de ll' LovELL—On the 16th inst., the Lady Rego 14° daughter. • Marriages. LANE —PAuxiNs —On the 15th just, at AU Se cs ii 3 r l ;iit t Y le rick Quincey, son of John Lane, Esq, ~`"le r hampstead, Herta, to Eliza, yonngsst Parkins, Esq., of Oxford-street and Sr, Job° ' l/e trif i MANSBRIDGE —FLOWER—On the 15th inst., At 41Si" Switzerland, Mr. Willia n Henry Mansbridel den-square, to Emily Agnes, fifth daughter Flower, Esq., of Cantelowes-road, N. W. Deaths. Co CORNEWALL —On the 14th inst., Sir Yellers; do Bart., of Moccas Court, Hereford, aged 4 4 . C l' ' S' EMMETT—On the 13th inst., at Hornsey-roe ,, Emmett, Esq., aged 72. fjor ° 1 , HEATH the 16th inst., Thomas Heatb, °I 'lO road, New-cross, aged 73. HUNT-GRUBBE—On the 16th inst., at Eastlce' Hunt-Grubbe, Esq. 40 07 X- - I London : Printed and. Published by WiLLIA-%,, 40 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tits Surf 0. ,4 - CO Strand, in the Precinct of the voy, in o3 Middlesex.—Monday, October 19, 1868. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. The last traces of Austrian dominion in Northern Italy are fast disappearing. The recent arrangement between the two Governments respecting the archives of Venice is to followed by another commission for the purpose of deter mining the remaining questions of disputed property. Amongst these is the possession of the ducal palace of Mantua. The Emperor of Austria lays claim to it as a descendant of the House of Gonzaga. Italy maintains, however, that the palace is the property of the State. THE BOSPHORUS,. The Turkish Foreign Minister pro tem. has addressed a note to the representatives of the different Powers at Con stantinople, declaring the intention of the Porte to strictly adhere to the terms of the treaties of 1841 and 1856 respect ir g the closing of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. Those treaties stipulated that no vessel of war should be allowed to pass into the Black Sea, except those having on board a sovereign or the chief of an independent State. A3IERICA. According to a telegram from the correspondent of the Times, the Democrats have not gained Indiana. They have advanced in that State to the extent of 13,000 votes, but still the Republicans have managed to secure a majority of 1,000. In Ohio the Republican majority is reduced to 16,000. The Democrats have gained seven members of Congress by the elections that have been held during the week. THE INDIAN FRONTIER. Houghton 7 Winterton, Lincolnshire Cockermonth, Cumberland • . 77 The price of the magazine, which is a quarterly, is one shilling; the office is at 23, Great Marlborough-street, Regent-street, and post-office orders should be made pay able to Lucy Stone on the "Regent-street" post-office. The poet Longfellow has lately been on a visit to Killarney. We have not as yet received a copy of his last poem, although the London papers this week have been full of it. Those who have read the articles wo published on Salem Witchcraft will know the story on which, what is said to be the most interesting of these poems, is founded. Judging from the reviews at which we have glanced, the poet does not rigidly adhere to the story, which will be found in our humbers of July 25 and August 1 of this year. Ex-Governor Hiland Hall is about to issue a his tory of Western Vermont. Triibner's Monthly Register has the following notice of that able and useful publication the "American Annual Cyclopaadia " That for 1867 is just issued. It contains the history of the progress of reconstruction in the Southern Stales. One hundred and twenty-five pages are devoted to Bongress ; and under the heads of the Southern States the action of the military authorities and of the people during the year is recorded. Among the other titles is that of China, which gives information in regard to the extension of commercial intercourse. The account of the establishment of the new dominion of Canada is another contribution. Under ' Literature and Literary Progress' is a summary of what was done in the literary world during the year. A n account of the war in Paraguay is given under the appropriate head. The his tory of the close of Marimilian's career in Mexico, and of geographical explorations and discoveries in 1867. and an article on the finances, are among other contributions. The obituary department is as full as usual The volume is illustrated by steel engraving of George Peabody, Mi nister Burlingame, and Chief Justice Chase." Attorney-General Everts had not returned to Washington. Secretary Browning was at the White Sulphur Springs. Postmaster-General Randall is in New York, and therefore the Cabinet meetings are not well at tended at Washington. General &Mellen is in NOW York, having arrived on the 29th Sept. in the Cuba, after upwards of three years absence. He was serenaded on the night of the 30th, although rather a.woid;ng such honours. Ex-President Fillmore is also in New York, and Pierce remains ill at Concord, New Hampshire. Cyrus W. Field leaves Liverpool to-day for New York, in the Cunard steamer. His family remain in Europe, and Mr. Field will return in a short time from America. Lewis B. Parsons of the New School Presbyte rian Church, left b3tween 3,000 and 4,000 acres of land some years ago to found an educational institution in lowa, to be the property of the new school branch till the reunion of both branches, when it should belong to the United Church. This plan has been de layed ; but his sons, who are his executors, and are at pre sent in Europe, are, it is said, about to carry out the de sign of their father, and will even add to the legacy from their own property. United States Consul Beaubocher, at Jerusalem, who has been absent for a long time on leave, will soon return thither and relieve Acting-Consul Johnson. • At last we having intelligence of a " Singing Soldier." Mr. James D. Gay, the Union campaign singer, is now in New York, from Philadelphia. He served faith fully during the war, and is considered the finest cam paign singer in America. Sir George E. Cartier and Hon. 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