The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times says that an intelligent Frenchman residing in this country has remarked, almost in a tone of complaint, that Englishmen appear to regard the Spanish revolution with no warmer feeling than curiosity. The 'observation is not quite correct, but, if it were, we do not see that we should be much to blame. The revolution in Spain has given us no cause for alarm, compassion, or anxiety. The insurrection itself was accomplished with out bloodshed or disturbance ; the Queen and her followers removed themselves quietly from the scene, and a con vulsion which in most cases would have been attended by grievous suffering is passing away harmlessly, It is a matter of uncertain! y whether the Government is to be Republican or 31( nAzchical. It is true we do not contemplate the possible adoption of a Republic with the all-engrossing interest experienced by those who think Republicanism the test of political perfectibility ; bnt neither, on the other hand, should we regard that pheno menon with aversion or terror if the inclination or necessi ties of the Spanish people should be found to take that direc tion. The time has gone by when the spectacle of a Republic on European territory would alarm Monarchical States for the safety of their institutions. The time has not come for hailing such a spectacle with jubilation and confidence as a manifest step in human progress. But there is another branch to this question. The Republic which all people who prophesy a Republic are expecting for Spain is a Federal Republic, whereas this form of Republic is abominated beyond measure by all genuine advocates of Republicanism. In the eyes of these men Federalists are as obnoxious as the representatives of the Reform League in the eyes of Mr. Finlen and his followers ; and just as Mr. Finlen him self declared the other day that, of the two, he preferred Tories to Liberals, so a thorough-going Republi can might accept despotism itself rather than submit to any curtailment of his " one and indivisible " democracy. Spain is passing through this transition period not only without injury, but probably with benefit, and that the ultimate settlement, whatever it may be, is likely to be all the more stable from the very aspect of necessity which it will seem to carry. Whatever comes must come, to all appearance, because it cannot be helped, 'and a nation which has demeaned itself with such dignity through a stage of suspense may confidently be expected to do itself no less justice under the definite institutions which it may ultimately approve. The Post alludes to the Conservative victories in the counties, which it believes are in some measure to be attributed to the clergy. But Mr. Disraeli can hardly dream of building upon the Constitutional triumph in the counties. He is capable of discerning at a glance that it would be an unsafe foundation ; and he, who has moulded and modified the convictions of the Conservative party, and given it a new name, is, we may fairly assume, prepared to admit that an Opposition should he competent to do more than stop the way, and be more than a drag upon the wheel. Mr. Disraeli will under stand that in leaving Mr. Gladstone to carry out his policy he lays down a burden of responsibility which he may have to take up again, and, therefore, that it is incumbent on him to indicate an alternative policy. All that he can now propose with regard to the Irish Church is a measure based on the report of the royal com mission, and there are many reasons why he should hesi tate to submit such a proposition to the House of Com mons. In the first place it is incredible that the House would entertain anything of the kind, and in the next place Mr. Disraeli is not less committed to the principle of religious equality in Ireland than Mr. Gladstone is, and to arrive at religious equality without disestablishing the Irish Church he must trample upon the opinions which have contributed to make his majority in the English counties. The intolerance which has prevailed in Lan cashire would be a thorn in his side, and that which could not fail to rouse the better Protestant feelings of the country would be unhesitatingly condemned by its judg ment. Coalitions and compromises are out of the question, and both parties should exercise forbearance. The Standard returns to Mr. Gladstone's autobiography, and is convinced that as soon as the figures in the census return are against the Church of England he will abandon her. He has no other alternative if he has not belied his own state of mind. The maintenance of the English Church he admits to be only a question of time and of expe diency. The root of its claims is gone already. The exact force of Mr. Gladstone's resistance t 3 the Liberation Society may be measured. He will say nothing at present. He will dissemble, as he did on the Irish Church question. He will assume the appearance of a Church of England defender, yet he will let slip, now and then, words which some Whiteside of the future shall he able to quote against him, as a proof of his early conversion to pure voluntaryism. There is nothing more unstable than the mind of Mr. Gladstone when once it has " lifted its anchor." There is no knowing whither it will take him or where it will leave him. It is a mind of which nothing can be predicated, except that by some inscrutable route it will generally be found to have arrived, by a purely conscientious process, at the conclusion which is most popular and most favourable to Mr. Gladstone's ambition. There never was a more honest mind, yet by some strange chance it always leaves its slave precisely in the situation which secures to him the most votes ; it is always found to be working in parallel lines with the interests of the Radical party. Even when Mr. Gladstone drifts without any sails, he is somehow always carried into the port which it is most convenient to him to fetch at that particular moment. The ship may be wrecked, but the pilot is always safe, never the last man out, and always full of precious counsel when the danger is past and his own feet are on dry land. The Daily News says the old and intelligible language o ' English Constitutionalism has been abandoned by the Party which, to hide its apostasy even from itself, assumes the name of " Constitutional." The political dialect now fashionable in Tory speeches and essays is borrowed in about equal proportions from the slang dictionary of American democracy and from the vocabu lary of French Imperialism. The phrase of which lately we have heard most is " the popular vote." It is used in disparagement of the constitutional Majority gained by Mr. Gladstone in the House of Com mons by the votes of the constituencies. The term is borrowed from the political vocabulary in America, in which it is used to distinguish the votes given by the States from the sum total of individual votes on either side. Tolook behind the verdict as constitutionally given does not strike one as being either a very conservative or a very constitutional proceeding. The Daily News concludes by alluding to the Tory victories in the counties, and says : The ballot, which is the essential condition of honest voting everywhere, is more indispensable in the English counties than else where. The necessity of the ballot has been brought home to the minds of the doubters by the experiences of the last election. It is essential to the honest and incorrupt exer cise of a,wide suffrage, embracing the poorer and more dependent classes of society. The Conservative party, who have learnt to " Americanize " in so much else, must make up their minds to Americanization in this matter also. They have the instinct of yielding when they see defeat imminent. It is probable that in the next general election the voting will be by way of ballot. The Herald remarks that there is an expressive "Americanism " which the Radical party might do well to remember in the midst of their rejoicings over a showy, but brittle majority. It is the phrase "on the fence." A politician is said to be in that predicament when he is not quite certain which side of a question it will be for his future interest to take. Assum ing that the " fence " will be invisible when the abstract motion to disendow the Irish Church is brought forward, how many members are likely to jump upon it the moment a direct proposition is made for the disposal of the funds—the " plunder ?" Putting aside Liberals who have declared that they will not support Mr. Glad stone's policy as it stands--men like Sir Roundell Palmer, Mr. Briscoe, and others—what will become of Mr. Glad stone's Nonconformist supporters when his scheme for dividing the spoils is plainly submitted ? If he suc ceeds in satisfying them what will his Church followers say to the arrangement ? If none on either side were to be found "on the fence" Mr. Gladstone would probably be more amazed than any of his adversaries. The most skilful party manager in the world would find his hands full in the attempt to keep in working order an untrustworthy majority in such a policy as Mr. Glad stone's. Let him do what he may, he cannot fail to give deep and serious offence to his own followers. And no one has ever pretended that Mr. Gladstone is remarkably skilful in conducting a difficult and irritating question through the House of Commons. The Star notes that it is a favourite doctrine with certain new lights that the system on which the beads of our great Government departments are changed by the vicissitudes of party ought to be abandoned, and that certain eminently competent public men should be permanently installed to manage those depart ments of which the business is not affected by party considerations. One great argument against this proposal is that the departments not liable to be affected by questions which may at any moment become of party import are very difficult to discover. The army, the navy, and education, for instance, are not political departthents, but it is quite on the cards for a great reduction of our armaments or the withdrawal of education from the domination of a clerical monopoly, to become a party issue. And in that case a permanent War Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, or Minister of Education, ap pointed under the old rbiinze, would most likely prove a very awkward obstacle, if Parliament resolved to adopt a new cue. Ent an evally stning argument against per manent chief.administiators may be drawn from the prone ness of eminent men to dogmatise and to force their crotchets cn the country. Mr. Lowe's late pamphlet on middle-class education is quoted as an instance of this. It will be time enough to argue against public schools from University endowments when those endowments have been tardily restored to the popular and democratic uses for which th ey were given. And time the universitie s w ill f orm the s ilendidycetnt‘ret of an edifice of graduated p u bli c instruction such as must either annihilate private schools or compel them to be what -" supply and demand" are quite incapable of snaking them at present. We regret that Mr. Lowe is not disposed to help forward a consummation which he certainly wiliNtk AKe to PNYcAt. ELECTION HUMOURS. The Daily News contains an amusing article under tne heading " Country Election Humours." " Voters," it says, "will turn stupid if much pressed, and sometimes they will leave town, or stick in the house and not come out till the books are closed. One old man, who had never been quite staunch, was once looked up by the Blues at five o'clock on the polling morning. ' You needn't come nigh me,' he said ; `the Yellows were here an hour ago, and I'll get up for none of you ;' and so he kept his bed all day. We remember another who had been dozed through his beer, and then put away peacefully to bed. His shoes, coat, waistcoat, and hat were also removed from the chair, as a precaution, in case he did awake too soon. As good luck would have it, he awoke about twenty minutes to four, instantly realised the situation, and, rising from bed, just as he was, in his trousers, shirt, and stockings, ran down stairs and into the street, amid loud cheers, and just got polled off in time. His friends and the committee had been looking for him everywhere, and thought that the other side had taken him out of town for the benefit of the air, although they had guarded all the approaches night and day, and looked into every suspicious cab. In one borough bottling rose into a science, and it is among the tra ditions of its head inn that forty men were once kept there in bed, or (as they put it) out, for fear that the other party should secure and tamper with them. That borough knew its value to a nicety. It always returned one member for purity's sake, and if the second member would not pay the regulation price per head, bah parties understood each other's views so well on the currency question through their mutual solicitors, that a third was brought down to ruin him, and beat him if he did not con sent to pay. In some boroughs the electors got pay from both parties. A well-known money-lender used to tell plaintively how he invited eighty doubtful electors to an early breakfast, and that they found a twenty-pound note under each of their plates. They took the notes and enjoyed their breakfasts very much, but when they departed, after cheerfully grasping his hands, it was not to the poll, but to a second breakfast at their host's opponents, who gave them a pony,' and secured their ultimate support. The modes of paying by the Man in the Moon' and the Good and safe man ' hare all been told. At one of the university towns the members got a daring spirit—a second year man, and afterwards a very distinguished Indian officer—out of one of the colleges, to hold the sack, and he was such an able financier that he won the election. When the petition was tried before the House of Commons committee, the college tutor, finding that matters were becoming hot, gave him an exeat. Ile took a cruise in a yacht till all was over, and the com mittee failing to discover the missing link, upheld the mayor's return. An M.A. was also very much implicated, and the opposite party having searched high and low to find him, it transpired afterwards that he had been looking on disguised in the very committee-room where he had been daily inquired after with much affection, and when all was over he returned to the place and wrote a very lofty letter, saying he was surprised at the remarks which had been made upon his absence at the call of duty, and that he was there to meet his assailant,' and with that flash of safe valour a most interesting crisis ended. Some quaint old fellows hang on the skirts of elections. They seem to live for nothing else, and annual Parliaments would be meat and drink to them. One of these was so ?staunch to his colours; and some old common rights, that when he was buried a bunch of yellow gorse, plucked from there, was thrown, like an immortelle, on his coffin. In another borough the Blues were so proud of the Liberal cause, that one desired to be buried by the paved footpath through the churchyard, so that the voters might pass his grave when they went to poll in the porch. A veteran miner sported an immense blue hat. Under its shadow he had drunk oceans to the health of the cause, but once when a mean candidate came who wouldn't even ' give a poor fellow his beer,' his feelings were so outraged that, at dead of night, he marshalled a small procession of sympathisers, dug a hole, buried his hat, and abjured the cause for ever. Some voters never will be on the losing side if possible, and watch the temperament of the candidates, and other indications of the political barometer, up to the eleventh hour, for guidance. A veteran of this sort, as usual, refused to promise his vote in a county. A day or two before the nomination he came and voluntarily pledged himself to plump for the Liberal. I won't vote for t'other men,' he said, they're bate (beat). One of them's been to me and given me such a blowing up for not promising —he's bate, I know it,' and the old political weather puppet was right at four p.m. Votes are often lost through nervousness. Men won't take cards, or they fling them down and can't refer to them. Some of them tremble like aspens when they are asked the question, and perhaps give the wrong name, and down go the fatal marks before they can recover themselves. At the Chelsea election one deaf man put down his card and shouted 'Freake and Hoare,' in a stentorian voice, and then came, ' Oh, no—stop ; Dilke and Hoare,' in a still louder key, and only just in time. Some voters, again, never care to get the candidate's name into their head—they all name the Premier of the day, and refuse to amend ;' and for some time after the late Earl of Carlisle had joined the peerage, a West Riding yellow would always declare for Morpeth, and nowt else.' Richard Cobden' was also honoured after this persistent fashion.' Such are termed the freaks of elections. There always will be some spirit thrown into them ; and all 's well that ends well." THE JARROW MURDER. —The coroner's jury in the case of the Jarrow murder have returned a verdict against Patrick Convery, and he will be sent to the assizes on the capital charge. AN IRrsH BULL—One of the two Liberals returned for an Irish constituency thus congratulated a large meeting of his supporters :—" The Liberal triumph is complete ; so complete that I cannot help remarking the absence of gentlemen of the county. I cannot see one of their faceS in the court-house." THE "NDAY EVENINGS FOIL THE PEOPLE. At a numerously attended meeting of subscribers to the defence fund, held at the Freemasons' Tavern, it was resolved to present Mr. J. Baxter Langley with a con gratulatory address on his able and successful defence of the case in the Court of Common Pleas. THE PUBLIC HEALTH.—During the week ending Saturday, November 28, there were 1,561 deaths regis tered, excelling by 54 those of the previous week. The annual rates of mortality in fourteen of the principal towns per thousand of the population were as follows : Bristol, 23 ; Birmingham and Dublin, 24 ; London, 26 ; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 27 ; Sheffield, 29 ; Liverpool and Hull, 31 ; Salford and Bradford, 32 ; Edinburgh and Manchester, 34 ; Glasgow, 35 ; Leeds, 36. "ALL THE YEAR ROUND."—The first number 01 the new series of All the Year Round is published, accompanied by the following notice :—" A very unjusti fiable paragraph has appeared in some newspapers, to the effect that I have relinquished the editorship of this publi cation. It is not only unjustifiable because it is wholly untrue, but because it must be either wilfully or negligently untrue, if any respect be due to the explicit terms of my repeatedly-published announcement of the present new series under my own hand. —CHARLES DICKENS." A FRIENDLY CA ITTION.—The banquets to Reverdy Johnson in England have lately been far too numerous to chronicle. We fear the effects of these constantly recur ring banquets upon Mr. Johnson's health. The English are tremendous eaters and enormous drinkers at their " banquets." The solid, sanguinary meats and strong, heavy liquors are such as no American constitution can long stand ; and, though we have no doubt Mr. Johnson is willing to suffer and undergo a great deal forhis country, yet there are limits beyond which patriotic endurance should not be tested.—New York, Times. We have to announce the death of Lieutenant- Colonel 'William Bruce, K.H., a Peninsula and Waterloo veteran officer. He entered the 79th Regiment at an early age, with which he served in the Peninsula from 1812 to the end of the war in 1814: and was present at the battles of the Pyrenees on the 28th, 29th, and 30th July, the blockade of Pa,mpeluna, battles of the Nivelle and the Nive (10th to 13th December), investment of Bayonne, and battle of Toulouse. He served also the campaign of 1815, and was present at Waterloo, where he was severely wounded. He was made a Knight of the Royal nano. verian Guelphic Order in 1837. He left the 79th Regiment for the 48th Foot, from which he retired in November, 1841. AN IRISH VOTER. —A ludicrous episode is re ported to have occurred during the polling for the county of Cork on Friday. A simple voter from Carbery, who was not accustomed to the exercise of the franchise, and did not understand how to go about it, was prompted by his ardent attachment for Mr. Downing to go into Bandon to vote for him. A person standing in the booth which he entered asked him, by way of joke, to vote for Barry and Boyle, judging from his emphatic observations that it was one of the last acts be would think of com mitting. The farmer got enraged at the proposal, and while the usual question was put "For whom did he vote ?'' he kept repeating in petulant tones, " Barry and Boyle, indeed !" The poll clerk recorded it as a vote for those gentlemen, and when the excited elector discovered he had voted the wrong way and could not amend the error, he gave uproarious expression to his disappointment, and finally, as the story runs, knockei down thu practical ktA• who cAltrappc.cl.l44.l, Constituency. ABINGDON ANDOVER AYLESBURY ASEITON-UNDER-LYNE. ANGLESEA. BRECONSHIRE BARNSTAPLE BRIDONORTII BA.NBURY BATH BEDFORD BERWICK BEVERLEY, BEWDLEY BIRKENHEAD BIRMINGHAM BLACKBURN BODMIN BOLTON . TON BRADFORD BRIDGWATER .. BRIGHTON BRISTOL BITCKING 11AM Bu RNLEY BultY B'JRY ST. EDNUNDS BEDFORDSHIRE BEIDPORT BEA 1-MARIS B RECO NI Bu CKINGHAMSIIIRE BERKSHIRE . CUMBERLAND, EAST CUMBERLAND, WEST CAMBRIDGE . CAMBRIDGESHIRE. CANTERBURY CARDIFF ... CARLISLE . CARMARTHEN CARMARTHENSHIRE CARNARVON CA RNARVONSHIRE CHESHIRE, MID CIIATIIA3f CHELTENHAM CHESTER CHICHESTER CHIPPENHAM . CIRENCESTER CLITHEROE COVENTRY CALVE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERS, CARDIGAN CARDIGANSHIRE CHELSEA CHRISTCHURCH . COCKERMOUTH COLCHESTER CRICKLADE CORNWALL, EAST CORNWALL, WEST CHESHIRE, EAST CHESIIIItE, WEST DENBIGH DENBIGHSHIRE DEVONPORT DARLINGTON DERBY DEVIZES DEWSBURY DOVER DROLTWICH DURHAM. - DURHA.3I, NORTH . DURHAM", SOUTH D MICH ESTER DUD LEY DERBYSHIRE, SOUTH DERBYSHIRE, EAST .. rERBYStuRr., NORTH DEVON, SOUTH DEVON, NdRTII DEVON, EAST DORSETSIIIRE .... EVESHAM EXETER . ESSEX, SOUTH ESSEX, WEST ESSEX, NORTH-EAST EYE FINSBURY FROME FLINT FALMOUTH FLINTSHIRE GLAMOROANSHIRE GATESHEAD .... GLOUCESTER .... GRAVESEND GREAT GRIMSBY GREENWICH GUILDFORD ... GRANTHAM ... GLOUCESTER, EAST . GLOUCESTER, WEST HANTS, SOUTH HERTFORDSIIIRZ .... HACKNEY HALIFAX.... HASTINGS HELSTON H ERTFORD HEREFORD HEREFORDSHIRE HULL HYTITE HANTS, NORTH HARWICH HUNTINGDON HARTLEPOOL HAVERFOREW/ ST Hogsium HUNTINGDONSIURE HITDDERiFIELD IPSWICH ISLE OF WIGHT KENT, WEST KENT, MID KENT, EAST KING'S LYNN KIDDERMINSTER K N A RESBOROUG 11 ENDAL LAMBETH LEEDS LEICESTER LEICESTER, NORTH . LEICESTER, SJIITH LANCASHIRE. S.W. .. LANCASHIRE, 5.E..... LEOMINSTER LUDLOW LONDON CITY LONDON UNIVERSITY LirMINOTON LAUNCESTON LINCOLN LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTE LINCOLN. MID LINCOLN, SOUTH LISKZARD LEWES ... , LICHFIELD, LivEarooL LAxcAanntz, NORTH . LANCASTURE. N.E. MONTGOMERYSHIRE MALLON MARLow MIDHURST MACCLESFIELD MAIDSTONE MA.LmEsnuRY MANCHESTER MARYLEBONZ MERTHYR TYDVIL MONMOUTH MALTON MA.RLBOROUon M ERTONET HSHIRE . MIDDLESBOROUGiI IsioNraomEßY MORPETH MONMOUTHSHIRE MIDDLESEX NORFOLK, SOUTH .... NEWARK NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE NEWCASTLE-UNDR-LYM, NORTHALLERTON NORTHAMPTON . Nonwlc II NOTTINGHAM NEWPORT, I. OT WIWI? NORFOLK, NORT II NORFOLK, WEST NORTHAMPTON, NORTH NORTHAMPTON", SOUTII NOTTS, NORTH NOTTS, SOUTH ... NORTHUMBERLAND, N. NORTHUMBERLAND, 8.. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. OXFORDSII IRE THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1868. THE NEW PARLIAMENT. * New Members.--t Old Members for New Constituencies. Members. Mr Lindsay Mr Fortescue •M• r N Rothschild •M• r Smith * Mr Mellor Mr Davies Hon G C Morgan Mr T Cave * Captain Williams . Mr Whitmore Mr Samuelson •M• r Tite • * Mr Dalrymple Mr Whitbread • * Mr J Howard * Lord Bury • * Mr J Stapleton Sir 11. Edwards • * Captain Kennard " Sir It Glass Mr John Laird Mr John Bright •M• r Dixon * Mr P Ii Muntz Mr W H Horuby •M• r J Feilden Hon F L Gower Lieut-Colonel Gray • * Mr J Hick Mr Malcolm • * Mr 1' Collins Mr \V E Forster • * Mr Riley Mr A \V Kinglakt: •M• r Vanderbyl Mr James White Professor Fawcett Mr II Berkeley • * Mr S Morley Sir Harry Vernoy * Mr It Shaw Mr Philips Mr Hardcastle Mr Greene , Mr FC H Russell Colonel Gilpin , Mr T A Mitchell Hon W 0 Stanley , Mr Howel Gwyn , Right Hon B Disraeli Mr Du Pre * Mr Lambert Mr Benyon Colonel Loyd Lindsay * Mr John Walter Hon C Howard t Mr W N Hodgson Captain Lowther Hon P Wyndham * Colonel Torrens * Mr Fowler Lord George Manners Lord Royston f Right Hon H Brand Mr Butler Johnstone * Captain Brinckman , Colonel Stuart Mr E Potter • * Sir Wilfrid Lawson * Colonel Stepney ,* Mr Sartoris • Mr John Jones Mr W B Hughes !* Captain Parry Mr G C Legh Hon W Egerton Mr Otway * Mr H B Samuelson Earl Grosvenor * Mr Raikes Lord H G Lennox Mr Goldney lion A Bathurst Mr It Asshcton Mr Eaton * Mr Staveley Hill ,* Lord E Fitzruaurice Right Hon S Walpole Br Beresford Hope if Sir Thomas Lloyd I* Mr Richards I* Mr C W Dilke j* Sir Henry Hoare * Mr E Haviland-Burke * Mr J Fletcher Mr Rebow j" Dr Brewer I Sir D Gooch * Hon F Cadocan * Sir John Trelawny * Mr B Willyams Mr St Aubyn * Mr P Vivian * Mr B C Egerton * Mr W Legh Mr Tollemache , Sir Philip Egerton '* Mr Williams Sir Watkin Wynne * Mr Morgan Mr M Chambers I* Mr Lewis ~* Mr Back house Mr M T Bass * Mr Plimsoll Sir T Bateson * Serjeant Simon Major Dickson * Mr Jessel, Q. C. , Sir John Pakington Mr Henderson • * Mr Davison Sir II Williamson I* Mr Elliott Mr Pease * Mr Beaumont Colonel Sturt Mr H B Sheridan * Sir T Gresley I . * Mr R Smith Hon H Strutt '* Hon Captain Egerton Lord G Cavendish " Mr. Arkwright It Sir Massey Lopes Mr Kekewich Mr T D Acland Sir Stafford Northcote Sir L Palk t Lord Courtenay Hon Mr Portman Mr Floyer Mr Sturt Col Bourne Mr Coleridge * Mr Bowring * Mr W Baker , * Mr A Johnstone Lord Eustace Cecil Mr S Ibbetson * Mr Round '* Colonel Brise Lord Barrington Mr MC Torrens Alderman Lusk t Mr T. Hughes Sir John Hanmer * Mr Fowler * Mr Eastwick Lord R Grosvenor Colonel Talbot Mr H Vivian Right Hon Sir W Hutt Mr Price Mr Monk '* Sir C Wingfield t Captain Tomline I Mr Alderman Salomons, Rt Hon W E Gladstone Mr Onslow * Captain Cholmeley * Hon F Tollemache I Sir M Beach Mr llolford Colonel Kingscote Mr Marling f Right Hon W Cowper ) t Lord H Scott l] Hon H Cowper Mr A Smith * Mr H Brand * Mr C Reed * Mr Holms Mr Stansfeld Colonel Akroyd • * Mr T BraaSeY * Mr F North * Mr Young Mr R Dirnsdale Mr Clive * Mr Wyllie Mr Biddulph Mr Bailey * Sir H. Croft Mr James Clay Mr Norwood Baron N de Rothschild Mr W B Beach Mr Sclater-Booth Major Jervis Mr T Baring * Mr Jackson * Colonel Edwardes Mr Hurst Idouble * Major Aldridge I return Lord R Montagu Mr E Fellowes Mr E A Leathern Mr II E Adair * Mr West. Q.O Sir ,r Simeon * Mr Mills * Mr Talbot Lord Holinesdale • Mr Hart Dyke Mr L Pemberton * Hon G Mulles Lord Stanl e y * Hon R Bourke * Mr Lea * Mr Illingworth * Mr Whitwell * Alderman J Lawrence * Mr W M'Arthur Mr Baines * Alderman Carter * Mr Wheelhouse Mr Taylor Mr Harris Lord J Manners * Mr Frewen Lord Curzon * Mr Pell * Mr Cross Mr C Turner Hon A F Egerton * Mr S Henry Mr Arkwright Colonel Clive Mr Goschen Mr Crawford Mr Lawrence * Mr Bell Rt Hon Robert Lowe Lord G Lennox Mr Henry Lopes Mr C Seely * Mr II Palmer Sir M J Cholmeley * Mr R Winn * Mr Amcoats I Mr H Chaplin. Mr Welby * Mr Tumor Sir Arthur Buller Lord Pelham Colonel Dyott Mr Graves * Lord Sandon * Mr Rathbone Colonel Wilson-Patten t Hon F Stanley " Mr Holt * Mr Starkie Mr C W Wynn * Mr Bentall * Mr Wetherhed Mr Mitford . * Mr 0 Brocklehurst * Mr Chadwick . Mr Lee Mr Whatman • * Mr Powell , Mr Bazley Mr Jacob Bright * Mr Birley Mr H Lewis Mr T Chambers * Mr Richard * Mr Fothergill * Sir J Ramsden Zion C Fitzwilliam Lord E Bruce * Mr D Williams * Mr Bolgkow Hon C H Tracy Sir G Grey Mr C Morgan Colonel Somerset Viscount Enfield * Lord G Hamilton Mr E Howes Mr C S Read Mr G Hoclgkinson * Mr E Denison Mr Headlam Mr Cowen Mr Allen Mr Buckley • Mr Hutton Lord Henley Mr C Gilpin Sir W Russell * Sir H Stracey Sir It Clifton * Mr Wright Mr Martin / Sir E bacon ' Hon F Walpole Sir W Ragge Hon T De Grey Mr Ward Hunt Mr S Stopforrl • Major Cartwright Sir Rainald Knightley Right Hon J Denison * Mr F C Smith Mr Barrow Mr Hildyard * Earl Percy * Mr Ridley Mr Beaumont Hon H Liddell Itt Hon G Hardy f Rt Hon J Mowbray Mr Henley Colonel North * Igr Cutirrisla Constituency. OLDHAM OXFORD PEMBROKE • PEMBROKESHIRE .. PETERBOROUGH .... PETERSFIHLD PLYMOUTH PoNrgrre,tor PORTSIAOI7TrI .. PRESTON POOLE READING RICHMOND RIPON ROCHDALF RYE RETFORD, EAST RADNOR ... RocuESTER RIDNOMIIIRE RUTLAND SUFFOLV, EAST SUFFOLK, WEST SALISB CRY SUSSEX, WEST SOMERSET, MID . SOMERSET, WEST .... SOMERSET, EAST SOUTIIAMPTON STROUD SURREY, EAST SALFORD SANDWICH SCARBOROUGII SHEFFIELD SHREWSBURY SOUTH SHIF.LDS SOUTHWARK STAFFORD STOCKPORT STOCKTON SUNDERLAND SHArrEsBURY SHOREHAM .. STALEYDRIDOE SURREY, MID SURREY, WEST SUSSEX. EAST STAFFORDSHIRE, EASTI STAFFORDSHIRE, WEST STAFFORDSTI InE,NORTH 1 STAMFORD SHROPSHIRE, NORTH SIIItOPSIIIRE, SOUTH Sr. IVES STOKE-UPON-TRENT SWANSEA TAMWORTH TAUNTON TEWKESBURY TOWER HAMLETS Tntuto TYNEMOUTH TAVISTOCK TIVERTON TIIIRSK WAKEFIELD WESTMORELAND WALLINOFORD WARE GAM WARRINGTON WARWICK WERNESBURT WESTBURY WESTMINSTER .. WEYMOUTH WHITBY WILITEHAVEN WIGAN WINCHESTER WINDSOR .. WOODSTOCK . WORCESTER . WORCESTER, EAST WORCESTER, WEST WYCOMBE WALSALL WENLOCK WILTON WILTS, SOUTH WOLVERHAMPTON WARWICKSHIRE, NORTH WARWICKSHIRE, SOUTH WILTS, NORTH .. YORE YORK, N.W. RIDING... YORK, S.W. RIDING .. YORKSHIRE, N. RIDING YORK, B. BIDING YORK, S.E. W. RIDING ABERDEENSHIRE, EAST ABERDEENSHIRE, WEST AYR BURGHS AYRSHIRE, NORTH ARGYLESIIME AYRSHIRE, SOUTH ABERDEEN BORDER DISTRICT BUTESHIRE BANFF BERWICKSHIRE CLACKMANNAN CAITHNESS DUMFRIESSHIRE DUMBARTONSHIRE •• • • DUNDEE DUMFRIES EDINBURGH EDINBUROHSHIRE ELGIN BultOns ELOIN AND NAIE-N • • • • FORFARSHIRE PIET:SHIRE FALKIRK BURGHS GLASGOW GREENOCK HADDINGTON HADDINGTONSHIRE INVERNESS INVERNESS-SHIRE KINCARDINESHIRE •.• • , KIRKCUDBRIGHT I KILMA R NOCK BURGHS KIRKCALDY LANARKSHIRE, SOUTH LANARKSHIRE, NORTH LINLITHGOwSH/RE .. • • LEITH BURGHS PERTH PAISLEY PERTHSHIRE PEEBLES AND SELKIRK ROXBURGHSHIRE Ross AND GROMARTY RENFREWSWIRE STIRLING BURGHS •.• • I STIRLINGSHIRE SUTHERLANDSHIRE .. • • ST. 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Mr Serjeant Klnglake Hon A Walsh lion G J Noel Mr Finch Mr Corrauce Hon J Henniker-Major Major W Parker Lord A Hervey Mr Hamilton * Dr Lush Colonel Barttelot Hon H Wyndham Mr R H Paget Mr Neville-Grenville Mr Gore Langton * Mr A A H oo d 1* Major Alen j* Mr Bright I Mr Gurney Mr Hoare Mr Winterbotham MrDickenson Mr Locke King Mr C Buxton * Mr Cawley * Mr Charley Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen * Mr H Bra.Fsey Sir J V Johnstone Mr J D Dent Mr liadfield * Mr Mundella Mr Clement * Mr Fining * Mr Stevenson Mr Layard Mr Locke Captain Meller * Mr Pocbin Mr J B Smith * Mr Tipping * Mr J Dodds Mr Candlish * Mr Gourley Mr G C Glyn Right Hon S Cave Sir Percy Burrell * Mr Sidebotham Mr W Peek 1 * Hon W Brodrick i Mr Briscoe Mr Cubitt Mr Dodson 1* Mr Scott t Mr A Bass * Mr M'Clean * Mr Ingram * Mr Child Mr Adderley Sir S M Buller Sir .7 Hay Mr Ormsby Gore Lord :Newport Gen P Herbert 1* Col Corbett * Mr Ma.gniac Mr Melly * Colonel Roden Mr Dillwyn Sir R Peel * Sir H Bulwer Mr Barclay * Serjeant Cox * Mr Price Mr yrton t Mr A Samuda Mr Williams Hon. 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Seymour Mr O'Neill Sir J M Stronge Mr Verner Mr John Vance * Sir J Ennis * Mr Shaw * Mr Johnston * Mr M'Clure Sir Colman O'Loghlen Colonel Vandeleur * Mr Dalway Mr O'Beirne * Captain Fagan Mr Murphy Mr Maguire Mr Smith Barry * Mr Downing Mr Bagwell Sir H H Bruce Colonel A.nnesley Mr B Sanderson Mr Bruen t Mr Kavanagh Lord Hamilton Mr Conolly Lord H Trevor Lieut.-Colonel Forde Mr Keowne Major Knox Mr BUT' Sir A Guinness Mr Lef roy * Mr Ball Colonel Taylor Mr Hamilton * Mr Callan * Mr Matthews Mr Whitworth * Viscount Crichton Captain Staopoole Lieut.-Colonel Cole Captain Archdall Mr Gregory Viscount Burke Sir R Blennerhassett * Lord St. Lawrence Lord Castlerosse Mr H A Herbert Sir John GraY Mr G L Mr Agar ßryan Ellis Sir G Colthurst Mr Cogan Lord 0 Fitzgerald Sir P O'Brien * Mr Sherlock Mr Gore Dr Brady Mr Peel Dawson Sir F Heygate * Mr Dowse Major Gavin Mr. F W Russell Mr Monsen Mr Syrian Mr O'Reilly Col. Greville-Nugent Mr 0 Fortescue Mr Deese Mr Verner * Mr Moore Lord Bingham Mr Corbally Mr M'Evoy Colonel Leslie * Mr Shirley Serjeant Sullivan * Mr M'Mahon * Mr Kirk * Captain Darner Mr Fitzpatrick * Mr Digby Colonel French The O'Conor Don t Major L E Knox * Mr O'Conor Sir R G Booth The O'Donoahue Captain White Mr Moore Mr Corry Lord Claude Hamilton Mr Devereux Mr Esmoncle Mr De La Poer Mr Blake * Mr Delahunty Mr Pollard -Urquhart Mr Nu g ent Sir John Power * Mr D'Arcy Mr F Dick * Hon H Fitzwilliam IxQWegllclii3 FOREIGN NOTES. THE TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. The ground stated by our New York telegram as haiing been taken by the counsel of Jefferson Davis is, that the crime of rebellion, with which he is charged, has but one penalty attached to it by American law, namely, the loss of civil rights. This penalty was established by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was passed June 13, 1866 ; the third section of which reads as follows :—" No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President or Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. But Con gress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." The law officers of the Government win, of course, deny this to be the only punishment attached to the culprit, who, they contend, is exposed to all the com mon-law penalties of high treason. GERMANY. A very important constitutional alteration has been submitted to the Prussian Chamber of Deputies by a strong independent party. The object of this proposal is to suppress altogether the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and transfer it to the North German Confederation. In other words, the Prussian Foreign Minister shall act for North Germany, and the expenses of the department shall be borne by all the Confederate States. The change is not likely to be agreeable either to Prussia or its satellites. It seems natural enough, as the diplomatic representation of all the States is vested in Prussia, that the expense should be divided amongst them, and that the Prussian department should become a Federal department. But Prussia would not relish the necessary concomitant of this reform—the appointment of a Minister who should be responsible to the whole Confederation, nor would the small States on their part like too much con trol in their dealings with foreign nations. The Prussian statesmen have solved the difficulty with their customary ingenuity and disinterestedness. The Foreign Ministry shall remain a Prussian department, but the Confederate States shall enjoy the privilege of assisting in paying the expenses. The debates on this question promise to be interesting. TIIE CONFERENCE AT ST. PETERSBURG. The International Conference on the subject of the use of explosive balls in warfare has come to a decision. A protocol has been signed, stipulating that no explosive projectile under the weight of about ning-tenths of a pound shall be employed in battle by any of the consenting States. Switzerland and Spain, however, are not con senting States, nor is America. It is probable that all attempts to greatly restrict war by cut and dried rules must break down in practice by the dissent of certain States vitiating the agreement of the rest. THE INSURRECTION IN CUBA. The New York papers represent the rising in Cuba as a very formidable affair. The insurgents number 10,000 men, and hold a great part of the country. They include the wealthy classes, who freely risk their all in such a cause, and their organisation is very complete. Great confusion exists. Our own telegrams leave no doubt that the rising is one of considerable extent ; but it must not be for gotten that the Americans, who have always an eye to the annexation of Cuba, have every reason to hope for the success of an insurrection which cannot but further their great object', VEW ZEALAND. The state of affairs in New Zealand produced a sort of Ministerial crisis, the close of the session being charac• terised by the most vehement and most unsatisfactory political warfare. The Ministry were assailed by three "No confidence" motions. The Opposition were beaten in every instance, but it was a narrow escape. On the motion relating to general policy, the Government gained by a majority of nine ; on that relating to their finance by seven ; and on that relating to native and defence affairs by one. The Ministry declined to intimate their intentions, and so the war was prolonged. During the last fortnight of the session, supply was resisted at every step. The first item was discussed from ten o'clock at night until ten the next morning. Lively political strife this. GREENBACK REDEMPTION AND THE PREDICTED COMPROMISE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Those whose impressions on the English Elections come from the Standard would believe the Con servatives bad achieved a great triumph. By some unaccountable means the Radicals had a majority in the Commons, yet the judgment of the country had been unmistakeably pronounced against GLADSTONE'S policy. The man thenceforth lives in a delusion, and experiences the successive shocks of seeing measures carried into effect opposed, as he imagines, to the national will. Just so those who pin their faith about American affairs on the letters of many correspondents of leading London papers would live in a delusion and see things happening they thought could not happen, and events pre dicted as certain never accomplished. If it be the object of journalism to delude, some of our con temporaries admirably answer the purpose, more especially with regard to American matters. The correspondent of the Standard openly professes Copperteadism, is an amusing and genial writer, and all know that the view he gives fairly is through a party medium. But he of the limes, wherein such outspoken party views would not be tolerated, disguises while he advocates so as to deceive those unacquainted with the country that he is a mere party writer, so skilfully is his stripe obliterated. From time to time we have exposed his fallacies, which is a simple process when his predictions and the results were published side by side in the same paper ; the prophecy coining by mail and the fact by cable. Blunders thus shown up were sufficiently numerous to sink a line-of-battle ship, but when plunged overhead in what would smother others, he appears to be in his element. Yet his say ings go the round of the world. The Times writes leaders on his statements, and the English accept them as facts. It matters not that " his careful sur vey of the field" gave the Presidential election as certain for the Democratic ticket—it matters not that " his dismal prospect " turns to a bright future, that his anticipated deficiencies prove a surplus—still he goes on predicting, and the Eog lish accepting—perhaps with somewhat diminished confidence his oracular words. But this man of parts does not confine himself to mere prophecies. He boldly gives circumstantial details of events still in the future; thus, he told all about the elections in lowa weeks before these elections came off. Lately he sent to Printing House-square the new Con gress, though Connecticut and New Hampshire do not vote till March, Florida till December, while Georgia and Alabama have not yet elected their representatives ; and the correspondent him self selected the men to be returned for those States. In his letter of the 10th inst., he thus returns to the attack where the United States is most vulnerable—its credit, " The new Congress, with the exception of the seven members of the House from New Hampshire and Connecticut and a few of the Senators, is now chosen, and the results of the elections show that the Greenback party has a decided majority in the House." Who would sup pose that three other States, besides the two he mentioned, entitled to fourteenßepresentatives,were not even alluded to? and their elections taken for granted, independent of the unreconstructed States, Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas. But this is his pecu liar style, and he presumes on the ignorance of his European readers. He then proceeds elaborately to analyse the composition of the House to ascer tain what its vote will be on the greenback redemp tion question, concluding that 82 Representatives are for gold, and 145 for greenbacks. As usual, he is positive as to the opinions of the men sent by the various States. For New England he gives 26 in favour of gold, and one (BUTLER, we presume) for greenbacks. From the Middle States all the De mocrats are pledged to greenback payment ; " but it is probable that three or four of the New York city members, when the pinch comes, will vote for gold payment, together with the entire Republican delegation from those States, thus making from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia, 41 for gold and 28 for greenbacks. Of the Southern members there is not one of either party who can be relied upon to support the honest side. There is no debt held there ; the southern people hate it ; and, consequently, the entire strength of the section, thirty-three members, will be for paper payment, while probably a good many of them would oppose any payment at all if they had the chance, There are 19 Democrats and 11 Re publicans elected to the new House from the South. In the West nearly every member has put himself on record against gold payment, and both the Re publican and Democratic parties in that section support greenbacks. The Republicans bad to do it in the campaign to succeed at the elections. Eleven Western members, however, may vote for gold payment ; while the others, 83, will, in all probability, vote solidly against it. The four mem bers from the Pacific States are put on the gold side of the question. . . . The next Congress goes into office March 4, 1869, but does not begin work until December next year, so that, as mentioned in my previous letter, the decision will probably not come until 1870. The Southern and Western States, being similar in interests, will, by a coali tion, soon rule America again on financial matters, as they did before the war." On this statement the Times wrote a leader asserting that Americans were applying a similar arithmetic to their elections to a , Tertain how the National Debt would be paid, as the English were applying whether the Irish Church Establishment would be removal. In other words, the Ti»iesconsiderS that the new Congress was chosen on the Greenback question, and that the country in returning a majority for currency redemption pronounced in favour of that finanicial arrangement. We all know that the Republican party were suc cessful in sending a vast majority into the House ; a majority so great into the Senate as to make that Chamber almost solidly Republican, and in elect ing the President and Vice-President. The plat form of this party was laid down at Chicago in sufficient time for the public to fully digest it. One plank in that platform was an interpretation of the contract favourable to the bondholders, and on that platform the party stand—President, Senate, and Representatives—and must continue to stand. If the people have elected a Republican majority, pledged to a policy hostile to the Repub lican platform, then Englishmen may expect to find a House of Commons in favour of DISRAELI, and opposed to GLADSTO:s.TE'S Disestablishment measure ; for the English-speaking people will be working by the rule of contrary. The Standard may tell us that the one thing may happen, and the 2 imes cor respondent that the other thing will happen, but would it be wise in those who desire to be right to accept such guidance? We doubt whether a clergy man would buy an advowson in the Irish Establish ment without fully discounting the contingency ; and are men going to sell and buy Five-Twenties under the influence of this financial prophet ? The subject to them resolves itself simply into that most important one, money ; and those interested should have as accurate a view as can be attained. If the 7'imesgave the other stand-point we would consider its Philadelphia correspondent as not without his use. But it does not, and thus circulates over Europe one-sided statements, alike prejudicial to the holders of the bonds and to the credit of the United States. The Southern Representatives are described a, " carpet -baggers"-men, at best of no principle, and he predicts that they will exhibit their want of it in this controversy. As usual, without grounds, the correspondent jumps straight to a conclusion, perhaps as allusive as his " careful survey of the field." If these " carpet-baggers" have no principle, neither have they property. Their sympathies being Republican are opposed to the great Southern element, and if the party platform be an honest payment of the debt, the " carpet-baggers" would support it as readily if without principle as with principle, being personally indifferent, not bearing the burden, and not holding the Confederates' dis like to being taxed to pay the cost of their subju gation. Our conclusion, then, is the reverse of that at which the correspondent arrives, and a little examination will show that the Republican party, in acting as the man in Philadelphia predicts, will not only propose a policy and then violate it, but in the very act, will do, not what the common sense of mankind says is wise and expedient to do, but the opposite. Take the just conclusion of the Timesleader: "So acute a people as the Americans ought surely to discern the whole advantage they can possibly hope to secure by thus dealing with the national creditor could have been secured far more certainly, and to a far greater extent, by a policy of the op posite kind. We are now told that the utmost to be expected from the approaching decision is a cer tain saving in the rate of interest paid for the loan. But what, let us ask, might be the economy in this very direction if the Americans would but raise their public credit above the reach of suspicion ? They now pay 6 per cent. for money brrrowed, and the whole interest on their public debt is something like £28,000,000 a year. If they could strike off half this charge by borrowing at 3 per cent., their gains would be enormously greater than any they can hope to realize by such proceedings as are now in prospect. These proceedings, indeed, will have the inevitable effect of impairing their public credit in the eyes of the world, and consequently of keeping up the terms against them whenever they enter the money market. Such a policy, too, is all the more extraordinary from the fact that the Republicans set out with a distinct conviction of its error." When the writer penned these remarks, did not the idea cross his mind that the Philadelphia corres pondent was wrong ? Why should he take it for granted that Americans were fools, while he was a wise man ? Perhaps the writer was not aware that the question had been elaborately argued out by the American papers, that its legal bearings, moral bearings, and financial bearings had been ably and fully discussed, the result being that the " acute" people had arrived at exactly the same conclusion as himself. There is as much chance of a green back redemption measure being passed by Congress as there is that an honest, straightforward man like GRANT would sanction this violation of his plat form if it were passed. The correspondent, how ever, acknowledges that it could not pabs the Senate, and he concludes that the Chamber, lean ing one way and the House the other, that a com promise will be the result, such as the Funding B:11 of last summer, by which the interest would be largely reduced. The correspondent makes use of these measures, introduced before the work of the session closed, although it was well known in Ame rica that they were all election dodges, brought for ward by men feeling their way in anticipation of public opinion. Thus BUTLER acted, and nearly met the fate he deserved. But is it fair to base arguments on such political moves for advantage of position before a great election ? The real ques tion is—ls the financial condition such as to make it necessary, even as a temporary relief, for men of common sense and honesty to resort to such an ex pedient ? Now emphatically we say it is not ; for in every part of the United States, more especially in the South, business is reviving, and that great agricultural section 'will shortly be exporting as largely as ever. The Prairie States have regained their rapid increase in population, and those of the Pacific combine in a wonderful degree an advance in agricultural and mineral wealth. The heavy ex • penses entailed by the war have been liquidated, and in every department economy is the order of the day. 'no Navy has been reduced to the lowest scale, and the annual report of the Adjutant-General of the Army, just sent to the Secretary of War, shows the total army strength on the 30th Sept. to have been 48,081 men. Four thousand five hundred of these were to be discharged before the New Year, and the main force will consist of cavalry for employment against the Indians on the plains. From an army of a million, from fleets comprising hundreds of vessels in these three years, the United States has returned to its old establishment. While the Go vernment expenses are thus reduced the taxes re main, and a surplus must be the result, which is almost assured by the election to the Presidency of the man of honesty and common sense —GRANT. Thus, then, we maintain that greenback redemption is not the policy of the people's Representatives— nor of the Senate, nor of GRANT. That it is inex pedient, indeed too plainly, foolish for men of ordi nary ability to adopt the Legislature being acknow ledged to be composed of men of ordinary ability, and finally that the measure is unnecessary, the wealth and progress of the country giving promise of ample means to meet all requirements. If the question of greenback redemption be not raised there cannot be a compromise, and the whole superstruc ture of the Philadelphia correspondent then falls to the ground, MSS KELLOGG IN AMERICA. The New York Express says :—" It is always pleasant to welcome back old friends, the more particularly so when these old friends have tick led the national pride and vanity by earning for themselves au enviable name and reputation where praise is hard to earn, and true and kindly criticism difficult to obtain. So it was that last night the large audience which gathered to greet Miss Kellogg w as enthusiastic to a degree which must have carried to her heart the conviction of the regard she is held in by the American public and the pride we all feel in her success across the water. In the face of the most powerful of rivals she has carried off the crown of victory ; her engagements at the Hay market were one continual series of successes, and she returns to us now with a European reputation second to almost none. This is a brave thing for our talented American girl to have done, and is duly appreciated and applauded by all of us. Miss Kellogg's musical talent has undergone no material change since her departure, save that we find in her voice a better sustained equality, and in the higher registers a more uniform smooth ness and power. The accomplishment of this latter has rendered the lady's organ as perfect 8 s the most carping of critics could wish ; before there was just the least suspicion of the criarde in these higher notes ; now they are soft, delicate, hai; monious, and the tout en senible is irresistible. The New York Evening Post remarks, " Th e reception given to Miss Kellogg at the Aca demy last evening was one of the most genuine and hearty ovations ever awarded to an artiste in this city. The main desire of the immense audience which crowded every part of the Academy seemed to be to give to our favourite prima donna a wel come worthy of her genius and achievements , and it must be admitted that this generous desire was most handsomely fulfilled. Showers of bou quets, which evidently were not prepared and paid for by the management, covered the stage at ever)" appearance of Miss Kellogg. The applause which followed each one of her performances was pro longed and tumultuous. Of course she was en cored again and again, until she sang " Sweet Home " with a purity and pathos which must have , touched all who heard it—giving to its hackneyed words a new depth of meaning and an affectiona te expressiveness which they seldom receive. -L he selection was a good one, as far as regards its at ness to exhibit the artist's mastery of some of the most trying feats of vocal execution, which, as usu al with Miss Kellogg, were met bravely, honestly, an d triumphantly." The New York 7 imes thinks the President'f4 salary ought to be raised to $lOO,OOO a year. In addition to the $l,OOO given by the I•T° o a Scotia Government, for the relief of the Red River Suf ferers, the people of Halifax have contributed $2,000. The Worcester County (Massachusetts) Fri Institute of Industrial Science was dedicated on Wed ne6 - day, Nov. 11, with appropriate services. It is desiPe d to furnish (practical training in mechanical and nat ure „ science, and starts with an endowment of about $3 00,00' , with Professor Thompson as president. Thera wa s large attendance of the leading educators of New Eng lena. i. The Montreal and Liverpool ocean steamers 11i begin their winter trips from Portland on Dec. 5 . 111 0 weekly Glasgow lino will also run from that port. T he , r s ' f will be 13 steamers, with an aggregate tonnage of 34, connected with this line. A STRANGE DISCOVERY.—An extraordinary e s . humation has just been made in the Strip Vein Coal 8 30 0 of Captain Lacy, at Hammondville, Ohio. Mr. J affe e Parsons and his two sons were engaged in making tb o bank, when a huge mass of coal fell down, disclosi li g ro large smooth slate wall, upon the surface of which per fcund, carved in bold relief, several lines of hierogYP hic a Crowds have visited the place since the discovery , many good scholars have tried to decipher the c li b s o ratters, but all have failed. Nobody has been I `, t , to tell in what tongue the words are written. How C L the mysteilous writing in the bowels of the earth, w''reos probably no human eye has ever penetrated ? BY w isn hci u t and when was it written ? There are several lines, ago three inches apart, the first line containing twenty fat, words. Attempts have been made to remove the fill .to wall and bring it out, but upon tapping the wall it gi t f forth a sound that would seem to indicate the existence leo a hollow chamber beyond, and the characters Wo uld , s , destroyed in removing it. At last accounts, Dr. g ar '. horn, of Mount Union College, had been sent for to e.'" amine the writing.— Wellsville (0.) Union. BROADWAY PHOTOGRAPIIS.—At a given b° 11 : every afternoon William B. Astor comes out of his l ittle den on Prince-street, turns the corner of Broadway, itfe... with a heavy step moves up on foot toward Laf a y ett d place to dinner. Ho is a heavy-moulded, large d-stye German looking man, eyes small, hair sandy, and e s I to utterly devoid of expression. At a given hour his t sons, side by side, for they are seldom separate, can be s'-'d %calking from Wall-street to Fifth-avenue, plainly d resse t i ) ' putting on no airs, shrewd, industrious, and con st ly at their business; few would recognize in them °c o wealthiest young men in New York. In ra . o . coupe, drawn by a single horse, sits a g entleman+ ima parently not fifty, yet in reality over seventy -t wiry, agile ; sandy hair ; with a face of unusual h d ness. The plate glass in his carriage gives you it g ss 0, view of him. He sits up as erect in his carrikr bo dy Mohawk warrior., His quick, restless eye sees ev ery and everything as he passes. That is A. T. S te n; 0 Here comes a man who just at this moment has !Da de os o mark on the city. Ile has been a judge, and is n ow der of the ablest of our lawyers. About 50, a little 1 . 1 ". „. sized, but thick-set, he walks with great deliberat;i7glo dresses plainly, and would be taken anywhere for a c° t bo professor or a Presbyterian minister. He is otl e ,„. ° lare, sachems of Tammany Hall. He is a type of a pret'q class among us. He is not one of Mr. Seymour's " fr, te e lect He has just drawn his check for $20,000 to help vot e Grant, the great captain of the age. He will put bls - .0 / • where he has sent his check.—Burleigh in Boston Jo t' ealt b, [.DVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Vigorous P O O' —With winter comes sore trials to the soundest 0 0 3 to Lions, while the naturally delicate and feeble fin t t re i r ieg . frequently a prolonged struggle against or under s".„ All diseases affecting the nervous system arise fro.' - ' O , or purities in the blood, irregularities of organio f0 n f 9 4 . 0 .0 - vitiated secretions. Holloway's pills are invaluablend are moving all poisonous elements from the body, !c o s/ famed for curing indigestion, flatulency, and cos a ,arbi, as well as palpitation, pain in the side, and other ' - or pou' feelings. The neuralgic pains attendant on the ! I lls , thl class of diseases soon yield to these purifying P` soo t ' sensations of anxiety daily diminish under their use , di sleep supersedes nights of watching, and calm reP° e " places hideous dreams. 17 0- , „ d i 0 1 ,„ o r (ADVERTlSEMENT.J—Dyspepstagndigestion), Consuev- 0 % P . bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach , complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and se,e by hi by chugs of every description, but perfectly curahleool Barry's health-restoring Revaleuta Arabica Food, as P r 0 , e lle • thousands of cases which had been considered hope co d as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, htemorrholds , li"eire ° plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore t o at! ), diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the 'loofa , ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, PO, a,. iraitability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartbueunr, ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spas us. nausea and 'l e rofi r „,j even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, 7,01 sltli tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the ston i ; Deny between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—TheP Op / 111 restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413. -- ""'" i eel fl oo ff 12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, rho he since, abandoning all other remedies, he has ectal,n e w hieh. o r entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food , e l a A ' T iOg consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produc% 00 c o prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Efoli ze tte tot praise this excellent food too highly. ~,T r "—From the te 6° O , Midi, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James W o o. merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disea - aeal ° or spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial i • Ae ot. if ti Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord,,r "x e os. Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,.isooseocl years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, T, e u x ies ° 09, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, e `'„ f vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Bewa r e„"b unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to vrke' authority. Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously 00 A In tins, at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 43 . 6d.; HS ot 12 lbs., 225.; 241bs , 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVAL,S S I . 2 ClW o os•s CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; r er Or tai 25., 0 . 2 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for „ for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny Per„Tol l .4 - 0 I" and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in E n g l- 00., of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and to. Regent-street, London and all Grocers and CheraS Births. the iiie Mums —On the 28th ult., at Bowdon, Che shire/ a Si t ' of Wm. Norris, Esq., of a son. ; fp of '-'' SEwARD—On the 28th ult., at Weston, the vi'-- , , ad , Seward, Esq., of a son. , p O.' Of WARNER—On the 30th ult., at 9, Cliftonl3,B,c-400 park, the wife of Major A. C. Warner, 20tb. P ' a son. Al 1 Marriages. AUSTIN—KEMBLE—On the 30th ult at Ch o E er ily Folkestone, °' illi f Folkestone, Thomas Phipps Austin, Esq. t °% e' o Ge Kemble. r c } 1 1,1 ~ E an —On the 28th inst., et ,'" t he ' — ' ll ; Hover-squa re, Roger Eykyn, Esq., 31. P Lora iroll-' Mary Caroline Mostyn, eldest daugiater of of Harrowden. Deaths. v , 0 01 0 BRp o oKE—On the Ist inst., at Hounslow, Plu";faci* Johnson h s u a s r o am n ra ß k r , o a o g k e e d , formerly Capt. 88th Beg t, it3j3 0 13, COWAN-0 the Charles C O' FA E tt s i g tZt ll — . o D a . the 30th ult., at 66, Linco ln s- g ageP lf L. Farrar, Esq., 29 eu th dd u e i n t ly, a a t g: l d eaBdoi7 GLADSTONE—At Blackwell, Mr. G. J. Gladstone, '-'' to the Board of Trade, aged 70. I:4 (1 ' SILVERING —On the 29th ult. Edward 11. Siov el ' ilig' late of Stamford hill, aged 79. ------ o .<3 'il, ______ ______ London : Printed and Pabliehed by WiLLIA.g 141; 40 11 'i a No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN 0i11e3t,,-, Pr (- Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tilts v -3liddlOOQX,-7Woanefiday, December 2, 150'