The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC jOMIITALO, The Times remarks that the prosperous Lancashire middle class consists of sincere but not energetic Liberals, who will at future elections probably find means to have their opinions represented. But they have had to contend ,on the present occasion with a party which has been roused to extraordinary activity by the nature of the question on which the national opinion was to be taken. No one can doubt the reality of the zeal and the efficiency of the preparations they made for this contest. Indeed, throughout the counties in general the whole strength of the party has been put forth, and no influence, political or social—may we not add pecu niary ?—has Leen spared in order to maintain the Coven - uncut and to defend the Irish Establishment. The principal cause of Mr. Gladstone's failure, however, is undoubtedly to he sought in the extraordinary prejudice which the Irish immigrants have created in Lancashire. It would really appear that some districts of the county are as Tory in their sentiments as in the days of the Pre. tender. The result of the elections it believes to have been accidental, but not such as to affect national politics. It is at least satisfactory to have a proof that ProtestAntism has not been denied free play, and that the battle of the Irish Church has been fairly fought out. The defeat of ,*,he Liberal policy in one populous district only gives greater weight to the general decision of the country. The Post thinks it remains to be seen whether or not the personal defeat which Mr. Gladstone has sustained will affect the strength or the discipline of the party he expects to rally round him when Parliament meets. Be Ibis, however, as it may, his ejection from Lancashire will prove a heavy blow to the leader of the Opposition. When, on Saturday last, he pressed his claims on the electors in a speech from the hustings, he deprecated on their part an act which would convert him into a species of parliamentary vagrant. The term was one of his own choosing. Although con fessedly the most eloquent statesman of his day, second in erudition to none, and more than once the leader of the House of Commons, it has been his strange ill-luck at two successive general elections to lose the con fidence of his former constituents and to be adopted by others whose suffrages he did not seek. Greenwich is, n,o doubt, proud of having secured for one of its members one of the foremost statesmen of the day; and just as, three years ago, for precisely the same reason, Lancashire wel comed the rejected representative of Oxford University, Mr. Gladstone may console himself for his defeat with the reflection that it is not essential that a great party leader should be the representative of a very important consti tuency. The Standard rejoices over Mr. Gladstone's defeat. He himself, contrary to custom, has diligently "stumped" the county, exerting all the force of his great eloquence, all his charms of voice and manner and rhetoric, appeal ing earnestly to the local predilection of his neighbours for one born and bred among them, whose eminence is an honour to his birthplace—and he and his friends have failed. His eloquence, his reputation, his Lancashire birth, are all outweighed by the one great fact that he is the leader of the Radicals, the chief of the, Dissenting- Papal alliance against the Church of Erp,;land. That alliance Lancashire has condemned. For its sake, she has rejected her late Liberal member ; and the chief of the Opposition, the Premier expectant, must take his seat as rnemb'er for Greenwich. The Tory losses are nearly all in small constituencies—the Tory gains nearly all in large ones. The former are par:- liamentary and incidental ; the latter national anarepre sentative. Mr. Gladstone himself observed, on Saturday, that voices must be weighed as well as counted. It was a strange thing for him to say at the moment ; it seemed as if the ominous feeling at his heart found vent in involuntary words. Mr. Gladstone was unmuzzled when he went to Lancashire ; but he still wore a chain. Nov he is perfectly loose there is no longer any barrier between himself and that gaol of utter Radicalism to which he has long been tending ; no bond between him and the sober Liberalism of the middle classes or of the great Whig families. He will be, no doubt, a more desperate and dangerous politician than heretofore. But in the same "roportion he will be weaker than he has been. According to the Daily News, South-West Lancashire has held itself unworthy to be represented by Mr. Glad stone. So much the worse for South-West Lancashire, which proclaims itself unwortrk to be reptesented by the Member for All England. The Liberal leteder, thanks to the public spirit of Greenwich, which has earned the bide ribbon of constituencies, was a member of Parliament before he was rejected by South-West Lancashire, and he is not less a member of Parliament for that rejec tion. Mr. Gladstone's enterprise was always known, by himself as well as by others, to be a doubtful one. It was an attempt to scale " the perilous scat." In the last election for the then undivided constituency of South Lancashire Mr. Gladstone's majority came from what is now the south-eastern division. In the western districts he was in a minority. That he should have been able, in the face of an opposition sleepless in its energy, almost boundless in its resources, and unscrupulous as to its means, to run his adversaries so close as he did yester day, shows a growth of opinion and courage in his favour. We say this for the credit of the people of South-West Lancashire, who need all the palhations of their conduct that can be offered. They have not yet emerged from Toryism; but they seem to be struggling towards the light. The Morning Summary holds that it may be worth while, amidst the excitement of the great victory on Tues day, to speculate as to the reason why Mr. Gladstone's defeat caused such universal satisfaction. The reason for the distrust of Mr. Gladstone is, we are convinced, th 6 widespread belief that his Liberalism is, after all, assumed, and that since, through jealousy of Mr. Disraeli, he would not join the Conservatives, the only plan by which he could obtain power was to lead the Liberals. They were desperately in want of a leader, and he, the moment Lord Derby retired, and not before, attacked the Irish Church in order to obtain power. The bait, of course, held out to his High Church supporters was, that the Church would be free, and we do Mr. Gladstone the justice to believe that he was fully persuaded himself that he was doing rightly. But, amidst the jubilant cry of Liberal victory, let him reflect on the strength of feeling • which he must have elicited against him when he is rele gated at Greenwich, and let him ask himself calmly whether the temporary applause of a motley band of Liberals who, glad enough to see the Church attacked by a Churchman, yet hate his theological opinions, can com pensate him for the manner in which he sees those prin ciples which he holds derided by his own supporters. Verily, the dirt to be swallowed in paying the debt for greed of power and hatred of a rival is unpalatable to a degree. The Star says: As all the minor and major difficulties of the Liberal party were combined in South-West Lancashire— as Lord Derby's influence is paramount there —as the dis trict has for many years been the most Tory half of Tory South Lancashire—we cannot but congratulate Mr. Gladstone's supporters on coming within some 280 of the number of votes necessary to have secured him the victory. It was a splendid fight, and, considering the boasts of the local Tories, may be considered in sae% a triumph over unprecedented obstacles, though not a victory in the practical result. Happily, it was only a success of honour that was being contended for. The substantial success was already gained. LorAPal merston, the most popular Minister of our tame; in the height of his undisputed success, and at a perfe-when the Tories were actually at their wits' end for a feasible cry, was thought to have achieved a marvellous victory when he obtained a majority of seventy pledged to nothing but personal fealty. We cannot, therefore, but glory in the prosperous issue of a contest which, in spite of all the forces of bigotry and national prejudice, will, at the lowest estimate, return a majority of 100, pledged not only to support Mr. Gladstone generally in office, but to accom plish the 'unprecedentedly great and good act of •statesmanship which is to be his first achievement in power. The Times says the question of the day, though it is speculative rather than practical, undoubtedly is, What is the cause of the Conservative strength newly-manifested in county divisions ? It has been powerless to arrest the judgment of the nation, which, in spite of this-drawb ac k has been pronounced wit h unm istakable clearness, yet it is sufficiently remarkable to be worth discussion. It would be foolish to pretend that we have lighted on a more de pendent class of voters by the reduction of the franchise. It is not easy to believe that there is a sudden development of Conservatism, to be always found as we approach the £lO franchise, but disap pearing again, as we know by old experience, when we reach that limit. We are driven to the conclusion that there is in the issue presented to the nation at this election something which has excited the fears' of a class ordinarily Conservative, but generally too much apart from public life to make any violent efforts to affect the public judgment. It is not astonishing—indeed, it is too consistent with previous knowledge—that the rural clergy should oppose the destruction of the Irish Establishment, from some blind fear that their own condition may become the next subject of inquiry ; and in nicely-balanced con stituencies, if a class like the clergy bestir themselves vigorously, they may turn the election. If such be the secret of the phenomenon, statesmen may well take courage to persevere in a policy the opposition to which is based upon fears so palpably unfounded. tin Monday, Mr. Welby Pugin. addressed Lady Sear'sbrock's tenantry, and indignantly denied the report that she has threatened to eject any of them for their votes. The meeting heartily acquiesced in the great architect's atittsgOnto._ ABCIIBISHOP MANNING ON 'ME GENERAL ELECTION. At the annual dinner of one of the Roman Catholic tharities which took places at the Albion, in Aldersgate street, on Monday evening, Archbishop Mannifig referred :o the general election. He said that the great question which had for its object the rendering of justice to Ireland was not so ;intricate as some would suggest. Those who considered that it ought to take a long time to settle were people who really did not wish it settled at all. Within the last ten days the people of this country had ')een performing a work which some prophets had foretold would be universally marked with tumult and slaughter. He for one had never believed so. It was true that there had been much disturbance in districts which had been excited by pestilential firebrands, but those disturbances were not widespread. The "No - Popery" cry had most signally failed. &Ten did not now believe that the Catholic Church meant Antichrist, or that Catholics worshipped stocks and stones. The English people as a nation loved justice, and to do as they would be done by, and he was convinced that they would not wish to take away liberty from their Catholic fellow-subjects. " No Popery" had gone to the limbo of all similar sentiments. The Archbishop's re marks were received with much applause by a large corn )any. LORD AMBERLEY ON THE HUSTINGS. Lord Amberley gave an interesting sketch on the hus tings of what he wished to have done in the coming Par tiament—explaining also his noble father's plan for the settlement of the Irish grievance. What were the objects, he asked, which the Liberals desired- to Attain? The present did not seem to him a convenient opportunity, to enter into any detailed exposition of hfs political opinions, especially as he had addressed them on various occasions .throughout the county. But he mentioned the great objects which he as a member of Parliament would have at heart, and which he should endeavour to pro mote by every means in his power. They would be the extension of education, the abblition of the tests at the universities—(cheers, and "No, no," from a young man in the crowd, clerically attired, and who was immediately bonneted)—the adoption of a more effectual means for the detection and punishment of bribau,-.4lie diminution of the expenses of elections, the reforin of the land tenure of Ireland, and tfe abolition_ as an Esta blished Church of the Protestant Irish Church. And in abolishing the Irish Church as an Establishment, they did not seek to obtain the endowment of any other religious body. He had been asked by his hon. opponent whether Lord Russell did not propose a scheme for the endowment of Roman Catholicism. He proposed to endow the Roman Catholics, but it was with the revenues of the Established Church. He did not propose, like her Majesty's present Government, that any public money obtained by national taxation should be applied to the establishment of a sectarian Roman Catholic college. All he proposed was to establish religious equality, not by disendowment of all sects, but by the endowment of Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Presbyterians, with the funds of the Church in proportion to their numbers. That was a very different thing from proposing the institution of a Catholic college at the expense of the nation. LONG SHOTS. The Daily News contains an article on "long shots" which is worth reading. It is written. d propos of the announcement that Whitworth's gun will carry the shot nearly six-and-a-half miles :—" Very few have any idea of the difficulties which oppose themselves to the attainment of a great range in artillery practice. It may seem at first sight the simplest possible matter to obtain an increase of range. Let the gun be made but strong enough to bear a sufficient charge, and range seems simply to be a question of the quantity of powder made use of. But in reality the matter is much more complicated. The artillerist has to contrive that the whole of the powder made use of shall be burned before the shot leaves the cannon, and yet that the charge shall not explode so rapidly as to burst the cannon. If he used some forms of powder, very useful for special purposes, half the charge r•nuld be blown out without doing its share of work. On the other hand, there are some combustibles —as gun-cotton and the nitrates which burn so fast that the gun would be likely to burst before the shot could be expelled. Then, again, the shot must fit so closely that there shall be no windage, and yet not so closely as ti' resist too much the action of the exploding powder. Again, there is the form of the shot to be considered. A sphere is not the solid which passes most readily through a resisting medium like the air, and yet other projectiles, which are best so long as they maintain a certain position, i meet with a greater resistance when once they begin to move unsteadily. The conoid used in ordinary rifle practice, for example, passes much more freely through the air, point first, than an ordinary spherical bullet ; but if the point did not travel first, as would happen but for the rifling, or even if the conoidal bullet `swayed about' in its course, it would meet with more resistance than a spherical bullet. Hence the question of ' fast or slow rifling' has to be considered. ' Fast rifling' gives the greater spin, but causes more resistance in the exit of the shot from the barrel ; with ' slow rifling? these con ditions are reversed. And then the cogunon notion is that a cannon-ball travels in the curve called a parabola, and that artillerists have nothing to do but to calcn late all about this parabola, and to deduce the range from the initial velocity according to some simple principles deduced from the properties of the curve. All this is founded on a complete misapprehension of the diffi culties in the way of the problem. It is only projectiles thrown with small velocity from the earth which travel in parabolic paths. A cannon-ball follows a wholly different kind of curve. The resistance of the air, which seems to most persons a wholly insignificant item in the inquiry, Is so enormous in the case of the cannon-ball as to become by far the most important difficulty in the way o the practical artillerest. When a 2501 b. shot is hurled with such force from a gun as to cover a range of six miles, the resistance of the air is about forty times the ; weight of the ball—that is, is equivalent to a weight of upwards of four tons. The range in such a case as this is but a small fraction of that which would be given by the ordinary parabolic theory. As regards artillery practice in war, cannon meant for battering down forts cannot possibly be used in the same way as Whitworth's was used at Shoeburyness. If the shot flung from this gun at , an elevation of 33 degrees could have been watched' ) it would have been found that it fell to the earth at a much greater angle—that is, much more nearly in a perpen- I dicular direction. On the ordinary parabolic theory, of course, the angle of fall would be the same as the angle of elevation, but under actual circumstances there is an im portant difference. If forts are to be battered down, how ever, it will not prove that they should be struck from above ; our artillerists must perforce keep to the old method of pounding away at the face of the forts they , attack. Therefore, an elevation which is all very well for mortars that is, when the question merely is of flinging a bomb into a town-. or fortress—is utterly unsuited for ordinary artiller34 The progress of the modern science of gunnery certaitaly tends to increase the distance at which armi es will engage each other. With field artillery flinging s h o t t o a di stance of two or three miles, and riflemen able to make tolerably sure practice at a distance of three-quarters of a mile, we are not likely often to hear of band-to-hand con flicts in future warfare. The use of breech-loaders will also tend to the same effect. Hitherto we have scarcely had experience of the results which these changes are to produce on modern warfare ; at Sadowa breech-loaders did not encounter breech-loaders, and it was easy for the victors in that battle to come to close quarters with their enemies. But in a battle where both sides are armed with breech-loaders, we shall pro bably see another sort of affair altogether. The bayonet will be an almost useless addition to the soldier's arms ; a charge of cavalry upon well-armed infantry will be almost as hopeless as the famous Balaklava charge ; and the I artillery on either side will have to play a game at long shots. We venture to anticipate that the first great Euro pean war will introduce a total change into the whole system of warlike manoeuvres. CHARTREUSE.—Two French noblemen, one a dis tinguished general and the other a lieutenant in the arm y mad both young, have retired to very private life indeed— ths motive for which is unknown. They have entered the monastery of Chartreuse de Grenoble, situated in the iepth of a forest. The rules of the order are more severe 4han those of La Trappe : —" Brother, we must die,"is their only salutation and conversation each day. The climate is rigorous—the only meal partaken of, and in the evening, is a few ounces of bread and a little wine—even in illness the most grave, no alteration is made in the dietary. ME,. GLADSTONE'S SPEECHES. —The amount of labour which Mr. Gladstone has undergone during his recent electioneering campaign may be estimated from the fact that his speeches delivered before the electors of South Lancashire, and sent by telegraph to London and elsewhere, comprise 59,915 words, or, allowing 2,000 words to a column, something like 30 columns of newspaper matter. In this calculation several addresses, of which copies were transmitted by post, are not considered. Mr. Bright's speeches, delivered recently in Birmingham and Edin burgh, comprised 33,989 words, or about sixteen columns And a half of newspaper matter. The addresses of the two hon. gentlemen would, if placed in succession, occupy shout the space of PA Fi.2* #491 gia rtiliff. KELLEY AND SADLER. MR. MURPHY AT BLACKB URN. Thesetwo men, who meet on the Champion yours° on the Ist of next month, were out for practice yesterday, when their form and style of going was very critically scanned. The defeat of Kelley in the late contest for the champion ship of the Thames with Renforth has by no means lessened the confidence felt in him by his backers, who are very ready in placing their cash upon him. On the other hand, Sadler's friends do not shrink from supporting their man to the utmost. The training of both men has been attended to assiduously, and all the preliminaries of the match have progressed without a hitch. At present the ex-champion is undoubtedly the favourite with the general public, and will probably continue to be so to the last. Mr. MurphY came out In a new light on Sunday last, at Blackburn. He was discovered as a man of order. He was to preach in a dilapidated music-hall, at Blackburn, A charge of one penny was made for admission. There was a large audience, consisting mainly of young men and women, with a sprinkling of unruly youths bent on mis. chief. When Mr. Murphy rose to deliver his sermon he gave out the sth chapter of Acts, and had read part of the first verse, when he suddenly stopped short, in consequence of the feigned coughing which went on in one of the galleries, After a pause of a few minutes, during which he gazed gravely around, he said, "I am a man of order ; good night !" This announcement called forth numerous appeals to proceed. One man rose in the body of the hall and trusted Mr. Murphy would not condemn the whole assembly because of a few lads. These remarks met with general approval. Mr. Murphy said his train of thought had been interrupted, and he would not speak ; all of them might have their money back. If it was a week-day night he would do it, but he could not then. He wanted to leave Blackburn as he came intc (F om Ik-- e Anglo-American Times) it—a man of order and of peace. The Sabbath he would not desecrate for any man. Several persons appealed to Mr. Murphy to "go on," one man saying he wanted justice to be done to the town. Mr. Murphy resumed. (Mr Murphy was said to be a Puseyite. Would he reply to the charge?) Mr. Murphy told the speaker the sooner Popery and Puseyism were crushed the better, but he would not speak to them then. A woman cried out for her penny back, whereupon Mr. Murphy pulled one out of his pocket and offered it to her. A man charged Mr. Murphy with insulting the woman by doing so. This Mr. Murphy indig• nantly and excitedly denied, and amid great tumult the meeting dispersed, almost all refusing to take their pennieg back. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1868. PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS. Besides the speeches of Horatio Seymour, two leading statesmen addressed the people on the coming elections. "William H. Seward, Secretary of State, at Auburn, N.Y., October 31, said his hearers were not to imagine that he was about to purchase on Government account, all the outlying territory in the universe, or indeed beyond the magic circle of the Monroe doctrine. In reference to his official duties and inadequate strength he remarked, " I have reason to thank God, indeed, that neither age, nor indulgence, nor casualty, has brought me to great decrepitude, as persons have sometimes imagined. Nevertheless, I certainly have some years, perhaps enough for a place on the retired list ; some wounds, perhaps enough for a pension, if 1 were in the military or naval Eervice. Moreover, every opinion or sentiment of mine that has a bearing on the present hour was spoken long ago, spoken as I thought in due time, spoken either concurrently with or in advance of political events. So true is this that no one has mistaken either my official views or political relations." He had come home to vote ; the present was the twenty first election, the twelfth in which he took part. He reviewed the last contest, showing the wisdom of selecting Lincoln and Johnson, and the po licy pursued by each, that of the latter being a continuation of the former. Secretary Seward then defended President Johnson's policy of reconstruction at great length, claiming that it was merely following the footsteps of Lin coln, which consisted simply in opening the easiest, shortest, and safest way for the return into the national family of the people of the Southern States, who now repented their attempted separa tion. He attacked violently the Radical plan of reconstruction as proposed by Congress, denounced the Impeachment project, and characterized the doings of Radicals as the wild and reckless proceed ings of inconsistent leaders, such as kept Mexico in a condition of anarchy through a period of forty years, and which has left hardly a stable or peace ful State remaining in South America. He said it was not his purpose to vindicate the part he took in those proceedings, and continued, " I simply say that, as I stood by the wise and magnanimous policy of President Lincoln in his life, so I have adhered to the same policy since his mortal remains were committed to an untimely grave, and I have adhered with equal fidelity to his constitutional suc cessor. All parties frantically utter the cry " Let us have peace." But the same is now needed as in 1865, the admission of loyal representatives from the late rebel States into the Congress of the United States, and it needs at this time at our hands no more, but it belongs to the people of those States just as much as it belongs to the people of this State, to say whether they shall live under one form of loyal Republican Government or not. It matters not whether Governors or Re presentatives are white, black, or mixed, so that they be representative men, freely chosen in those States by the people, not by outside compulsion or dictation. " I shall not take the sword in hand, or put it into the hand of any other person, to effect a reform by force in those States, which I am sure will be effected much sooner and much more per manently through the exercise of persuasion and reason. As little do I think it my duty to use the sword to undo and remove what has already been done in those States. Whether it was necessarily done or unwisely done, the ambitious of parties must come to reflect, with the close of the election, and calmness and tranquillity must sooner or later resume their sway over the public mind. It is pos sible that the dilemma of reconciliation may con tinue, and may require the attention of the new Ad ministration. It is in this respect that I deem the present choice of the future Chief Magistrate not only important, but perhaps critically so, as the last two choices were so." The civil war closed in saving the integrity of the Union, and in abolishing African Slavery. Those who preside in Reconstruc tion hereafter ought, like those who have carried on that work, to be drawn from and represent citizens who maintained the Government in the War, and, in abolishing Slavery ; for success could be expected from no others. " The attitude of each of the political parties in this canvass is in some respects different from what I myself could have desired. Very great crimes have been com mitted in the name Of liberty by the Republican party of the United States. Nevertheless, the Re- publican party neither rests under any suspicion of its loyalty, or of its devotion to human freedom; nor can it fall under any such suspicion. The Demo cratic party, I do not propose now to say with how much justice, has not so conducted itself with cor porate and responsible action as to secure the con fidence of the loyal people in its unconditional and uncompromising adherence to the Union, or in its acceptance and approval of the effective aboli tion of slavery. I entertain no jealousy of the Democratic party or its leaders, and no un friendly or uncharitable feelings towards that great constituency. On the other hand, I cherish a grateful appreciation of the patriotism, magnani mity, and heroism of many of my fellow-citizens, with whom I have cheerfully laboured and co-ope rated. While they still retain their adhesion to the Democratic party, how could • I distrust the loyalty of Andrew Johnson, Geneial Hancock, General M'Clellan, Sanmor Buckalew, of Pennsyl vania ; of Senator Hendricks, of Indiana ; or his associate, Mr. Niblack ; or of Cox, of Ohio, to whom personally, more than to any other member, is due the passage of the Constitutional Amend ment abolishing slavery? To confide the respon sibilities of the Government to the Democratic party in its present cmiclition would be perhaps to increase the lamentable political excitement which alone has delayed the complete restoration of the Union up to the present time. The result of the election, if favourable to the candidates of our ' choice, will prepare the popular mind to accept now what it has heretofore rejected, namely, the most practical and easy solution of the national embar rassments." We need scarcely add that Mr. Seward cast his vote for Grant and Colfax. On the same day Edwin M. Stanton addressed the citizens of Philadelphia at the Academy of Music. He replied to Mr. Seymour's late stump addresses. He said-- "The men who nominated Seymour met in New York a short time ago, and who were they ? Re bels, red-handed prisoners of war of the United States, and their associates. (Cheers.) These are the men who put in nomination Horatio Seymour. Who put in nomination Ulysses S. Grant? The great Republican party that loved this nation dar ting the war, under the Divine blessing, through trials and dangers and all the vicissitudes of the great struggle we have just passed through—the great Republican party. (Cheers.) The first reason, then, why we will prefer Grant . to Sey mour on the coming first Tuesday in November is to be found in the bodies who placed them iu nomination. And than whom do they repre sent? Grant represents the loyal heart of Ame rica. Seymour is the travelling agent of Wade Hampton and Forrest." He then sketched Grant and his career. Returning to Mr. Seymour, he asks, what reasons does he give why the banner of the Union, its honour and glory, should not be en trusted to Grant's hand. " Seymour has charged many things, but has he named a single remedy? He has told you of mistakes that have been committed, of errors that have been committed by the Repub lican party; but in all this long array of charges against the Republican party has he told you once that he himself stands forth as the representative and advocate of any measure of reform? For that his lips have been silent—he has been dumb ! The burden of his song, beginning at Buffalo and end ing at Pittsburg, has been mainly about items — First, of the expenditures of the Government; second, of taxation ; and third, of its extravagance. Now what have been the expenditures of the Go vernment during the last three years which arq complained of by Horatio Seymour? They have, all of them, been expenses of the war, and for war purposes ; they were expended to overthrow the rebellion—a rebellion declared by the wisest states men of the earth, by. all the foreign Governments of the earth, to be beyond the power of being I repressed. Yet it has been repressed—repressed by LONDON AND THE ELECTIONS, The greatest excitement prevailed in London yester day respecting the elections. Lord George Hamilton's return was safe from the first, owing to the personal squabble between the two Liberal candidates. In Mid-Surrey also the Conservatives kept ahead throughout. But the chief interest was in the South-West Lancashire election. At the Carlton Club telegrams were received every quarter of an hour. It was there reckoned that if Mr. Gladstone were not ahead more than seven hundred at twelve o'clock he would be beaten. His majority at that hour was not more than a quarter of this figure, and when the one o'clock return sheaved Mr. Gladstone second on the poll, and only eight ahead of Mr. Turner, both sides considered the Liberal leader's re-election lost. At two o'clock, Mr. Gladstone was found to have fallen to the third place, with 70 votes less than the second Conservative candidate, and the ultimate result was no longer doubtful. Long after dark the newspaper offices were besieged by a crowd reading the telegrams placed up in the windows. A swan from Norwich is yearly presented to the Pope as a tribute of respect from a devoted son of the Church of Rome. One contingent of 4,600 volunteers, who are to leave Spain for Cuba, is now ready. On the 30th of November, says the Imper ial of Madrid, an imposing squadron will depart from Cadiz for the Queen of the Antilles. HAD SEEN SERVICE. —Moses Smith, a coloured man, died at Washington on the 4th inst., at the age of 120. He was formerly a slave in Virginia, and retained a distinct recollection of the stirring events of the Revolu tion. He was servant of an officer in the Legion of Light Horse Harry, and remembered many incidents, which, despite his age, he related graphically, of the campaign of this cavalier in the Carolinas. His wife is still living, at the age of 115 years. MORE RuMouus.—The Post says that a rumour has been current to the effect that the Ministry would probably resign on the eve of the meeting of Parliament. The Post understands that this story is quite unfounded, and that the Government, having challenged the verdict of the country, will abide by the issue, and stand or fall en the result of the motion of want of confidence which will be at once put forward on the assembling of the new House of Commons. DEATH OF THE OLDEST GENERAL IN THE BRITISH Aintv.--We have to record the decease of General R. Pigot, which took place on Sunday, at his residence, Chieveley, near Newbury, where he had lived with his family for many years. The late officer, who was colonel of the 4th Dragoon Guards, was in his 95th year, and was the oldest general in the British army. He entered the service in 1793. The last male descendant of Gustavus Vasa, M. de Stjerneld, died on the 14th inst. at Stockholm. He was born in 1791, and entered the diplomatic service in 1811. In 1313 he went to Germany with the Swedish Crown Prince, was appointed Charge d'Affaires at the Hague in 1814, and came to London as Swedish Envoy Extraordi- nary and Minister Plenipotentiary in 1818. In 1838 he obtained the portfolio of Minister of Foreign Affairs at , Stockholm. He held this post until 1842, and resumed it in 1848, when a new Ministry was appointed by Ring Oscar. He finally withdrew from public affairs in 1856. THE RETURN OF MR, GLADSTONE.—With regard to the statement that Mr. Gladstone's return for Green wich would be opposed, the Morning Summary (a Cower. vative paper) has the following :—" There is a rumour that a petition will he presented against the return of Alderman Salomons and Mr. Gladstone for Greenwich, on the ground of treating and intimidation. There can, we believe, be no doubt that Conservative electors were pre vented polling ; and the same would have been the case with West Kent electors at Bromley on Monday, had not a strong body of police been despatched from London." The Record attempts to throw contempt on Mr. Gregory, the newly-appointed Canon of St. Paula, by describing him as a Ritualist, and by stating that a son of Mr. Gladstone is his curate. The Daily News also gives circulation to the statement. Mr. Gregory, it is now stated, is not a Ritualist as Ritualism is understood at St. Alban's All Saints,' Lambeth, and else where, but he has enccuraged a full develt , pment of choral service (as many Evangelicals rave, done), and the Evange lical Bishop of Winchester has designated him " The Quo( n Dee of the Diocese." It is not true that Mr. Gladstone's son is his curate, the gentleman alluded to not being in holy orders. It is, however, said that Mr. S. E. Gladstone in tends to enter the ministry of the Church, and it is possible that Mr. Gregory may give him a title to orders. Within the last few days several of the grand marble tableaux, executed in inlay work by Baron Tri queti, and intended for the decoration of the Albert Memorial Chapel, have arrived at Windsor Castle. Two of these beautiful works of art have been placed in their proper positions on the south wall of the interior of the chapel. The first to be noticed is that contributed by her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse (Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland.) The subject is, "Pharaoh creating Joseph Viceroy of Egypt." The next ta'bleau, upon the south wall, is " The offering of the firstborn of the Queen and the late Prince Consort." It is the picture presented by her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland), who with her royal husband, Prince Frederick Wilhelm, is now a guest at Windsor Castle. The subject selected for Princess Victoria's tableau is "Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph." Only a portion of the Princess of Wales's offering has yet reached the Castle. THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S RETURNS.—Accord mg to the Registrar-General's weekly return the death rate last week in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom was 27 per 1,000. In the metropolis it was 25 ; Bristol was the lowest, at 19 ; and Glargow the highest, at 36. The births registered in London were 2,126; and the deaths 1,507, or 125 less than the estimated number for the forty-seventh week of the year. There were 118 deaths from scarlatina, but the Registrar contrasts this with the very satisfactory feature of this week's return. During the past quarter only fifty-eight persons have died from small pox in an estimated population of more than three millions, and this favourable result may be attributed to successful vaccination. The authorities in the large towns where smallpox had been very fatal are recommended to lose no time in carrying out measures for checking the progress of this malady. SAILORS' HOMES WANTED.—Our own work is not yet half done, and it is forthe good of his own country that Admiral Hall is still actively working at the head of an organisation called " The Sailors' Home Society," which has its office at 6, New-inn-street, with Mr. John Davies for its honorary secretary, and Admiral Sir William Hall for its chairman and honorary managing director. At this particular time it is hard at work upon two endeavours. One is to set up a Home which is much wanted at Weymouth for the seamen of the Royal Navy ; the other is to add to the two Homes which are all that have been yet provided by the great and wealthy port of London; another on the south side of the Thames, at Rotherhithe. As to the need there, it is enough to say that at present there is no such thing as a Sailors' Home to be found on the south side of the river, where accessible lodgings are immeasurably squalid, and the docks—though less impor tant than those of the north side—receive as much ship. ping as almost any port in the kingdom.—Dickens' s All the Year Round. STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—The first ordinary meet ing of the present session was held'on Tuesday, the 17th instant; Mr. James Heywood, F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair. A paper was read by Professor Jevons, M.A., "On the Amount of the Metallic Currency of the United Kingdom with reference to the question of International Coinage." The author described the results of a kind of partial census of the age and condition of the gold currency which he has lately carried out with the aid of a number of bankers. lie estimates the gold currency at 80 millions sterling, of which 12 millions are in half-sovereigns. The most practical result is to shew that about one-third of the sovereigns and one half of the half-sovereigns are below the least weight of legal currency, so that there are about 25 millions of light gold in use. Bankers who have to remit gold coin to the Bank of England invariably pick the heavy gold for the purpose, and considerable trouble and injustice is occasioned. As the present free coinage system fails to remedy this depreciation of the currency, a recoinage and the imposition of a small Mint charge were becoming a matter of necessity, and it was pointed out in conclusion how favourable were the circumstances for the introci,nction of an international coinage, Which might be adopted without the alighted disturbance of tzlitiost goolt4o EXTRACT OF 111E.AT- We have been asked to notice a paragraph which has men going the round of the papers, to the effect that ex tract of meat when injected into the veins of a dog caused death in a short time. The author of this paragraph, a Dr. Kemminch, adduces this as a proof that extract of meat is injurious and poisonous. Of course all medical men are aware that nearly every foreign substance, even the air we breathe, when injected into the veins will cause death; but it required the special acuteness of a German philo sopher to discover the fact that because extract of meat injected into the veins causes death, therefore extract of meat (which is simply solid beef tea) is harmful and poisonous when taken as food into the stomach. Before many years are over we predict that this extract of meat, prepared in countries where meat has merely a nominal value, will be almost as common an article in our households as tea or sugar. The following report on extract of meat was made by Dr. Parkes, Professor of Hygiene, Army Medical School, and has been pub lished by permission of Government :—" No article of food is known to me which contains so much of those salts essential to nutrition (phosphates of potash, soda, li magnesia, and lime, chloride of potassium, iron) as► the extract. These salts are especially those needed in many illnesses. . In all our trials at Netley, even small quantities produced a feeling of support aril vigour, which ensued very soon after it was taken. Those who took it expressed their sensations by saying that it stimulated them, and one friend, who tried it several times, after coming in tired and wet from yachting, compared its effects to those of hot whisky and water, and assured me that its invigorating effects were superior to those of the spirit. The extract seems particularly suited for cases of debility of all kinds, especially the latter stages of fever; so marked are its effects that I cannot but surmise it mush be applied especially to the repair of the nervous tissues. In conclusion, I believe the extract of meat to be a very valuable food for giving nitrogen salts and lactic acid, and it will, I believe, be extremely valuable in disease. For the military surgeon it is likely to be very useful in active service, not only for the wounded and sick, but for healthy men. Its small bulk, ease of cooking, savoury taste, and great restorative action, would make it most ”seful in rapid expeditions."—Produce Market Reviews: LAW AND POLICE. THE GREAT EASTER'. — The Great Eastern steamship case has come again before the Court of Admiralty. Mr. Vernon Lushington applied to rescind the order made last week as to one of the suits. Mr. C. P. Butt, on the part of the Great Eastern, complained of the harassing applica. tions in the case of this unfortunate ship. The parties had ample bail, and the ship was at hand, and would be so for months longer, and bail had been given to about £40,000. His lordship dismissed the application with costs. A. BoY CRIMINAL—At the Middlesex Sessions, a remarkable, although the students of criminal pecu- liarities will probably find it not a very unusual, case has come before the court. A youth of sixteen was tried and found guilty of attempting to rob the till of a dis trict post office, in which was kept about £2OO in gold and notes. It was stated by the prison warder that he had been frequently convicted of robbing tills, and had only been discharged three hours from his last sentence when he was taken in the act of committing the offence for which he has just been tried. His sentence was two years' hard labour. FORGERY. -An extraordinary career of crime nas received a.check at the Central Criminal Court. A young man named Piani pleaded guilty to several indictments charging him with forging post-office orders for the pay ment of money. He had in a great number of cases obtained orders for small sums, and then, having altered the figures to others of larger value, obtained advances upon them after post hours from unsuspicious tradesmen., His previous crimes, it was stated in court, were of a more dashing description. He appears to have played the part of a gay Lothario in Fermoy, in Dublin, and elsewhere, in carrying off the frail fair ones, to considerable amounts of property. He was penal servitude. sentencednh u e t t as alwayswell to t seveno ok a , re years' JOHN DAY V. ADMIRAL Rous.—From what we have been able to learn, we can state that the announce. ment in a weekly paper last Saturday, that "the action `Day v. Rous ' will not be brought into court, as the plaintiff, out of respect to the late Marquis of Hastings, is not willing to take up certain past events in connection with the unfortunate case," is a pure fabrication. The solicitors on both sides are, in point of fact, busy getting up their briefs, and several witnesses have already been subpoenaed. The case, being rather low down on the list, will probably not come on till February, although it may be heard in December. We understand that the leading counsel retained for the plaintiff are Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, while the Attorney-General (Sir John Karslake) and Mr. Henry Matthews will "sport silk" for the Admiral. .Although we do not pre tend to know what line of action John Day will ultimately take, our information respecting the progress of the suit is sufficiently reliable to warrant our putting it forth confi• dently to the public. — Sporting Life. BACHELORS.— " A Spinster " writes to the ifanchester Guardian suggesting that a first measure of the new Parliament should be to make some compensation to the large class of females considered by the lords of creation mere nonentities in society. Every bachelor of 30 and upwards whose income is over £lOO per annum shall contribute not less than 25 per cent, to form a sus tentation fund to be devoted to spinsters above 30 years of age whose annual income shall not exceed £5O. This lady points out that large numbers of gentlemen are content to live alone in the exclusive enjoyment of respectable incomes, while a vast proportion of ladies, educated and amiable, of social disposition and agreeable manners, fitted for companionship and essential to domestic happiness and well-being, are doomed to pine away in ungenial solitude, " and waste their sweetness on the desert air." Their celibacy is a great wrong to women, and the subject is becoming, the spinster thinks, too serious for patient endurance. We should like to know whether the age of the writer has anything to do with the aggravated importance of the subject. A voluntary fund for the purpose of supporting certain spinsters, on condition that they would take them. selves out of the matrimonial market, would meet with a ready response from some rich bachelors. LORD E. P. CLINTON'S RETIREMENT FROM NORTH NOTTs.—In an address just issued, Lord E. P. Clinton explains the reason for his retirement from the contest, and also the reason why the Speaker refused to propose a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff. Lord Clinton says : " It has been stated to me repeatedly that an understanding has been arrived at by the leading gentlemen in Notts, that if the Conservative candidates were allowed to remain undisturbed in the Southern division, the Liberal candidates of the Northern division were to be treated in like manner. Whether it is righ or wrong to enter into these arguments is a question with which I have nothing to do ; but when a compact is agreed to between gentlemen, my opinion is that gentle men should keep that compact strictly and honourably. The fixing of the nomination of the Conservative candi dates for the South at 9 am., on the first day the election could possibly take place, makes me believe that the Cot servative party were afraid that the Liberals migf upset one of their candidates ; and the fixing of the nomination of the Liberal candidates for the North on the last day but one that an election could take place, makes me believe that the Conservatives have been work. ing underground, and I don't hesitate to say that, in my opla9a. 403,klAire t Au =fair advantage."_.. the expenditure of money—and now he complains of that expenditure. The agent of Hampton, the agent of Forrest, the agent of the whole body of the opponents of the war, makes this complaint with his party, and no others. It is said there has been extravagance. Extravagance where, and in what items? Has he shown that there has been a single item that could have been got for less ? Has he shown a single grain of gunpowder which could have been purchased for less? Has he shown that it required a less amount of gunpow der, a less amount of clothing, a less amount of arms, or less ammunition, to put down the rebel lion ? Not a particle." Taking Governor Curtin who was on the stage, he showed how he had sent 366,000 men into the field, and the enormous cost necessary to equip and support such a force even from one State. Then he asked, "Do you regret these expenditures? Seymour says they were un reasonable, but he has not shown another way to put down the rebellion. The inference is that he did not desire to crush it—hence every dollar thus expended was wasted. Of the $1,000,000,000 expended, Mr. Seymour has but named one item of extravagance. The only one made by Governor Seymour is the transportation' on vessels —the number of ve3sels employed by the Government. He says that thousands of vessels were chartered. When this war terminated the quartermaster had five hundred vessels bought and chartered, and by the blessing of God by their means we were enabled to throw twenty, thirty, forty, fifty thousand men now North, now South, and throw them wherever a rebel force was to be struck, enabling us in a great measure to achieve the victory. I say that 700 transports was the largest number ever owned or chartered by any Government, and our Govern ment did not exceed that number, although we had the greatest rebellion to subdue that ever existed upon the face of the earth. The War Department bought—the War Department hired or begged-- the use of vessels and transports for the troops ; and it is the glory and honour of the business men of the country that they refused not to lend every assistance in their power to further those efforts. Horatio Seymour, in his speeches, however, has brought reproach upon this glory and honour, upon the merchants of Philadelphia who aided the war for the suppression of the rebellion. This denunciation of the war expenditures and the extravagance of the Republican party makes the constant burden of Gover nor Seymour's speeches, only he varies the tune a little to suit the people of various localities. When he got into the Scotia Valley the other day, he put down his face and talked to the farmers about the low price of corn and flour. At Pitts burg he talked about the wages of labour. At Phi ladelphia he got a smaller point, because he next talked about the SeCretary of War. He says, in his Reading speech, the War Department has had a great many war vessels, although he al ways thought this was the business of the Navy Department, and would like to know how much was paid for the vessels, and who got the money." The President is Commander-in-Chief, and, as such, should know something of the depart mental duties, if as ignorant as Horatio Seymour in everything else. Behold that gentle man stating that the hiring of transports belongs to the Navy Department ; it is the business of the War Department, of the Quartermaster who moves the troops by rail, stage, waggons, by steamboats, or ships. Yet this man, who thus shows his ignorance, the Democrats would elect as next Commander-in- Chief. He wants to know how much, and to whom the money was paid ; yet this very man had been furnished with every item of the expenditure. Mr. Stanton then explained his oft-quoted de- spatches thanking Governor Seymour for sending on troops when Pennsylvania was invaded. They amounted to nothing, and it is a significant fact that they were sent alone to a Copperhead Gover nor, and when Governor Todd, of Ohio, asked why he should have been selected, the answer was, " They did not need them." That he was not in hearty accord with the Government, and that he was compelled by circumstances to send on these troops, is plainly manifest by his heading the " draft" riots in New York city only a few days after. Tie considered the election of Grant as the only salvation of the country, and prayed Gol to avert such a calamity as the election of Seymour. The excitement in New York at the elections was great, though the people were orderly. The day was ushered in with a bright clear sky and a cool bracing breeze. At an early hour the various poll ing places were surrounded, and before noon, so well was it managed, that in many districts nearly all the registered votes had been polled. The bar rooms and groggeries throughout the city had been closed till after the votes were taken, but notwith standing there was some drunkenness in the after noon, and though nothing approaching a disturb ance, still some single-handed contests. Later the crowds assembled around the offices of the principal daily papers, where they remained till early next morning. The 7 ribune had a great gathering, so also in froht of the Herald's office, though those of the World, the Express, and News had little to cheer them as despatch after despatch was an nounced. The Tribune got up an illumination, the device representing an angel bearing in flam ing letters the motto "Peace." The next day the Tribune gave the " Great Result," in big let ters, which were conspicuous also for its usual habit of blundering in adding up two and two. Let any one turn to its issue of Wednesday, the 4th instant, and they will see a list of States, electors, and popular majorities, giving a total of electors of 203. Let them add up the number, and the result is that the 203 should be 193, which we discovered by the impossibility of reconciling the Tribune's figures with the cable telegrams, as 22 States were given for Grant, which left 3 to be accounted for, while 3 votes only were wanting to make up the total he attained, that is one vote for each State, although the lowest, each commands, is 3. After scrutinizing the number of electors given to every State, and finding them right, we hit on the happy idea of adding up the 7 ribune's figures, and out came the blunder at once. It is singular that we should be unable even to day to give the certain returns of the way in which the States voted. The latest report leaves Arkansas doubtful, while it gives Alabama to Grant, making the returns for him as follows :-Maine 7, 28,000 ; New Hampshire 5, 7,000 ; Massachusetts 12, 75,000 ; Rhode Island 4, 6,455 ; Connecticut 6, 3,041 ; Vermont 5, 31,000 ; Pennsylvania 26, 20,000 ; West Virginia 5, 8,000 ; Ohio 21, 35,000 ; Indiana 13, 10,000 ; Illinois 16, 50,000 ; Michigan 8, 30,000 ; Wisconsin 8, 15,500 ; lowa 8, 55,000 ; Nebraska 3, 4,000 ; Tennessee 10, 30,000 ; Cali fornia 5, 1,500 ; Nevala 3, 1,000 ; Missouri 11, 20,000 ; Kansas 3, 5,000 ; North Carolina 9, 3,000 ; Minnesota 4, 5,000 ; South Carolina 6, 6,000 ; Florida 3 (By Leg.) ; Arkansas 5 (Probably) ; Alabama 8, 5,000. 26 States, 214; and for Sey mour-New York 33, 7,374 ; New Jersey 7, 2,733 ; Delaware 3, 2,500 ; Maryland 7, 45,000 ; Ken tucky 11, 70,000 ; Georgia 9, 35,000 ; Louisiana 6, 30,000; Oregon 3. 8 States, 79. The accounts differ as to the exact relative strength in the House of Representatives. The present House stands 165 Republicans against 47 Democrats, yet, as far as indicated, the next Congress being 133 Repub licans against 79 Democrats, a loss to the former of 32.. New Hampshire, Connecticut, Alabama, and Florida, have still to elect their representatives, and they return in the aggregate 14. Virginia, Missis sippi, and Texas have to be reconstructed, when 17 more will be added. Against this there is a Re publican gain in the Senate in Wisconsin, where Mr. Doolittle will be replaced ; in Penn sylvani 1, and in Indiana, Buckalew and Hen dricks, losing their seats. The Democrats have but one set-off against these in Senator Fre linghuysen of New Jersey, who will have to give place to one of their party. New York will per haps return Mr. Morgan ; Massachusetts, Mr. Sumner ; Michigan, either Mr. Chandler or another Republican ; Minnesota, Mr. Ramsay or another of the same stripe ; Missouri, probably not Mr. Henderson, a half Democrat, and greenback redemp tion man ; and Nevada where Mr. Stewart's seat will also be vacant next March. It is clear that the Republicans cannot hope for the two-thirds majority in the Representatives; thenceforth it will be impossible for a mere party purpose to over• ride the President's veto. This is a sourco of hope to the Democrats, who believe at least in Grant's moderation, if not in his Conservative principles. We are awaiting the returns from the States which have not yet voted to publish the complete list of members of the incoming Congress. The State officers elected are as follow : MASSACHUSETTS. Governor William Claflin Lieutenant-Governor Joseph Tucker Secretary Oliver Warner Treasurer Jacob H. Loud Attorney-General Charles Allen Auditor Henry S. Briggs All Republicans. • 'MICHIGAN. Governor Henry P. Baldwin Lieutenant-Governor Alorgau Bates Secretary of State Oliver L. Spaulding Treasurer Even. 0. Grosvenor Auditor-General "William Humphrey Conunissionor Laud Oilice Benj. D. Pritchard Attorney-General Dwight - May Sup't Public Institutions Oramel flosford Meni . .)er Board of Elueation Daniel E. Brown All Republicans. NEW Yollli. John T. Hoffman Lieutenant-Governor Allen G. Beach Canal Commissioner Inspector State Prisons David B. M'Neill Clerk Court of Appeals E. 0. Perrin All Democrats. Governor KANSAS. Governor t• James M. Harvey Lieutenant-Governor E. V. Eskridge Associate Justice ..... . D. M. Valentine Secretary of State Thomas Moonlight Auditor A. Thomas Treasurer George Graham Attorney-General ......... A. Danford Sup't Public Institutions P. MlVicar District Judge All Republicans. ILLINOIS. Governor John M. Palmer Lieutenant-Governor John Dougherty Secretary of State Edward Rummel Auditor of Public Accounts C. E. Lippincott State Treasurer Erastus N. Bates Attorney-General Washington Bushnell /Robert E. Logan Penitentiary Commissionrs Andrew Shuman John Reid State's Attorney Charles H. Reed All Republicans. lOWA. Secretary of State Edward Wright Auditor of State John A. Eliott State Treasurer Samuel E. Rankin. Register of State Land OfficeC. C. Carpenter Attorney-General Henry O'Connor All Republicans. MISSOURI. Governor Joseph W. McClurg Lieutenant-Governor Edwin 0. Stallard Secretary of State Francis Rodman Treasurer W. Q. Dollineyer Auditor Daniel Draper Register of Lauds ....Joseph H. McGee Attorney-General. Horace B. Johnson David Wagner Supreme Judges Warren Currier All Republicans. NEVADA. Supreme Judges j*B. C. Whitman lfJ. Neeley Johnson State Printer... Henry R. Mighels Surveyor-General John Day *Long term. fShort term. All Republicans. NEW JERSEY. Theodore F. Randolph, Democrat. Governor COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Even:n9• Amsterdam Short ... 11 181 ... 11 19 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 f . ... 12 „ Antwerp — ... 25 35 ... 25 4 1 ; Brussels Hamburgh — ... 13 10} ... 13 10 } Paris 322t1 Ditto Mraseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ::: 1 . 201 Vienna — ... 11 90 ... 11. 9 Trieste — ... 11 90 ... 11 9 ° Petersburg - Copenhagen ••• ~ 9 18 ... 9 21 Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 481 „, 48/, Leghorn Milan — ... '27 15 „, 27 2, Genoa — ... 27 10 ~,, 27 2 0 Naples Palermo — ... '2 7 15 ... 27 ' 2 Messina Lisbon — ... 521 ,„ 521 Oporto — ... 52/ ... 5 2 4 Rio Janeiro New York --•— • ...• Judge Dodge, of New York, delivers 0 131 e original opinions. A woman was brought before him f ° ,' bigamy. Her counsel stated that she was insane, and 11 '7, only been out of the hospital a tow days. " That's cn Alg h ; said the judge: "a woman who weds twice must be f°° ' - ish." Acquitted. Samuel B. Stone has recovered $l,OOO in Bostoor from the Boston and Worcester Railroad CompanY f° injuries received on their road. The Venerable Dr. John M'Vickar, one of the most honoured clergymen of the Episcopal Church, a ll Professor of Moral Philoqophy, ecc., in Columbia CollegA, died at his residence, in Bloomingdale, Oct. 29, in the 824 year of his age. Rev. Henry T. Lawrence, a Baptist minist,eht; was killed in Boston on Saturday night, Oct. 31 , bl fr falling upon hint of a piece of stove casting from a l- gon. Mr. Bernal Osborne, the defeated candidate 11 0 1 Nottingham, made the best speech at the electious• h ig his opponent, Colonel Wright, he said, "I don't lit e 00 principles, but he has something about him that I do 7-be —I like his wife." Amid the laughter and cheers of 0 ,1 crowd, Mr. Osborne took the hand of Mrs. Wright ooo . pressed it to his lips gallantly, and in this strain be b ig tinned to the end. 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Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. 4 7, ' ) 0 .0 , Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross' oir i g of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, le ° 0; 11 and nervous fancies Important Caution.—Beware of iitll,l./. unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whie l i' o ell, l g. , authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audacious'' , a " , . 5 1. ; In tins, at ls. 11c1.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6u., At.- s 12 lbs., 225.; 241bs ,40s.—Also Du BARRy'S EtEVAIENV, :‘, CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 1 lat 50 4, 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups ai; 65., for 2 88 CuP1:10,0 for 576 cups at 555. Being about oae penny per c u p* r e ' and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England ° pis* of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and C: ) >/ Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. 0 fora' ButoN—On the 21st inst., at Stoke Talmag °l t, shire, the Hon. Mrs. W. Byron, of a daughter. ovelli KINDERSLEY —On the 24th inst., at 6, Stanbor;or Ilyde-park-gardens, the wife of Capt. E. 1•1• 10 e- Kindersloy, 19th Regt., of a son. P A r D a W d I w C 1. 1 t o k — , O n Esq.,th the u 2 n 3 . d , oirat.s,ona.t Horsham, th e 148 °C P' Marriages. .71' 3tpl , , JUDD—. COOKSON—On the 23d inst., at All Saillts:' o ft t i e ret-street, Bertram G. Scott, thiclsurviving 5r.t":10,,,,,' P. Judd, Esq., of Richling, Essex, to Enlr aa ' .. - 0 - 01 9..' '' eldest daughter of the late Christopher Coo , o , ,o, of 24, Montagu-square. gt . O Ari SOLOMON—TUCKER—On the 24th inst., at ' lol Islington, Stanley, only son of William Solnrilila Gore, Upchurch, Kent, to Emily Morgan, cul'Y Joseph Tucker, Esq., of Canoabury. 0 44 Deaths. gill, " ARNOLD —On the 23d inst., at HaFFONV-On-the - ~ %, 1•, Thomas, eldest son o Matthew Arn,ld, 5 " . VS° ir °VA BARNARD —On the 22d inst., at Piper's, ....L a° 0, Wm. Barnard, Esq., aged 86. kb 1 °lift° CLIFTON—On the 23d inst. , at Brompton , e or Esq., aged 85. f gea BAYLEY—On the 22d inst., Mr. Thss.BaYleY' e D ar' terrace, Lewisham, aged 50. ~ e, i 'itrO SOMERS—On the 23d inst., at 28, Norfolk-stfloun, lane, Jane, Countess Dow, Somers, Widow' ° _ ......1. 1) Earl Somers, aged 82. ,wS, A. NDO'' 11 2, London : Printed and Published by WILLII4I`:-., 14°,, pt of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN 001-0201., Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss TOY, in Middlefle;".W9draday, lisncnzber 25, 1866. 2I Car l na; ti 4 Cp abo Bee A, ale s Ora Pr I 1 li Wi] the etre Gol C I gor Loi Dir SCE