The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TRIO PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Timed days there are some things which are pleasant though wrong, and among them must be reckoned that of listening to Mr. Disraeli. We are all conscious of this. ,some very straitlaced persons, mostly those who have never heard him, are severe in condemning the low tone of morality which can receive any pleasure from Mr. Disraeli's speeches ; but who is there that has ever come within the circle of his influence and has felt no tenderness for this child of fortune ? Mr. Disraeli was never in better " form" than he was at the Guildhall. He was—the truth must be told—the hero of the hour. A virtuous few cried "Gladstone" when he was thought to arrogate to himself the credit of the Reform Act of 1867, but it was noticed that they were below the salt, and even there they were in a woeful minority. The citizens of London, as represented by the guests at the Lord Mayor's banquet, were willing to receive the First Minister of the Crown as the successful soldier who had overcome all accidents of birth and position, and Mr. Disraeli would not have been the personage we account him to be if he had not risen to the good opinion of the citizens. His assumption that he would reply totlttsgune toast twelve months hence was a miracle of assurance. We are thankful for this. In the very serious and high principled age upon which we are entering it is gratifying to be assured that there will be one man left to us to • represent the satirical element of life. Mr. Disraeli's career as Prime Minister approaches its term. He is near his wit's end. He has nothing new to tell us. There is the old story of foreign affairs conducted in a way to put to shame all previous Foreign Secretaries. There are essential principles at stake in the coming con test. Unfortunately, we have heard all this before, and the world, not without deliberation, has decided that it is • worth nothing. The conclusion is that Mr. Disraeli has no new card to play. He must succumb for a season to ad verse fortune, and trust to the strength of custom among mankind for a reaction in his favour when the act which is now imminent shall have been accomplished. His speech, with all its audacity and art, reveals the fact that .the speaker is driven to his last stake, and knows that he must lose. The Post remarks that, speaking as Prime Minister, and on the eve of the dissolution, it was thought that Mr. I Disraeli would seize the opportunity of appealing to the judgment of the country in the language of which he is a master. For our part, it would be mere affectation to express any sense of disappointment. As we anticipated, Mr. Disraeli entered a protest against the " endless agitation " sketched out by Mr. Bright ; and, for the rest, what he said may amount to this—that if his Ministry is not the best possible Ministry, it is the best possible at the present moment, and consequently that the country should make the best of what is unavoidable. We cannot follow him or anyone to such a conclusion. A statesman may not be bound to first principles; he must, we know, observe times, seasons, and conditions ; but that a Government which has, by.its own sheaving, just "reframed the Con. stitution," should claim public confidence on the ground that its policy' is simply the maintenance of the Constitu tion, is quite another thing. The Government have aright to shape their own course, and Mr. Disraeli is, perhaps, the only member of the Government who has made up his mind as to the course which, as a Government, they should take. The misfortune is that their political opinions appear to have been formed fortuitously, or to be, as Mr. Disraeli might say, "accidents of history ;" and people who have an aptitude for divesting unpleasant truths of the mitigating considerations by which they might be qualified will see nothing, or nothing good, inthe speech of a Minister who apparently was predestined to lead the Tory party to a " leap in the dark," and who has raised himself up to fulfil the obligation which destiny, or ambition, or circumstances imposed. As Mr. Disraeli says, " the battle is commencing," and if we are not very greatly in error, the end may already be foreseen. The Daily News hold that the guests at the Guildhall banquet went away mentally fasting. Mr. Disraeli's only policy is the defence of the Constitution. It seems to be Mr. Disraeli's part in politics to be always defending the Con stitution. That portion of it which he for the time being takes under his protection is sure to be the first that is surrendered and destroyed. Nothing could be more cor dial and genial than the welcome given to him personally; nothing could be happier than his response. But of political significance his speech had done. So poverty stricken was, it that he was obliged to go back for matter to Mr. Bright's last address at Edinburgh, and to find in that something at least to con tradict. The land laws, Mr. Bright says, are to be revised. Great estates are to be broken up. Great estates are good things. Are good things to be broken up by revolutionary violence ? The City Corporations have great estates. Let them look to their own interests thus threatened by the men who are for plunging the country into the whirl of ceaseless agitation, and for levelling our constitution and institutions. About the Irish Church Mr. Disraeli did not say a word. The Daily News infers that Mr. Disraeli's policy consists of three things : (1) the mainte nance of the Constitution ; (2) Lord Stanley ; and (3) a Bankruptcy Bill. According to the Telegraph, frank and courageous Ministerial statements of policy are only to be looked for at the City banquet when it is convenient to make them; and Mr. Disraeli's vague allusion to bankruptcy reforms and other measures of great practical importance which her Majesty's Ministers hope to propose at a future period, was obviously intended to cover the fact that the Govern. ment has no policy to propose. Those, therefore, who looked for remarkable addresses from her Majesty's Ministers, will alone be disappointed on perusing the conventional phrases about constitutional prin ciples which were uttered by the Premier and his colleagues. The Conservative leader is too practised a player to let anybody know that he has not a trick in his hand. He loves the game of life, and he holds his cards as carefully as if they were all leading trumps. Who knows but that at the last moment there may be a revoke —at the last moment an elaborate finesse may accomplish something. Nothing is lost until it is won ; and Mr. Disraeli talks as if he did not perceive, as wet as the world in general, that in the new House of Commons he will be confronted by an adverst majority, which, like Mercutio's wound, will be " enough.' Mr. Disraeli's departure from office will nevertheless evoke a sense of regret even among opponents who have keenly criticised his somewhat dramatic career. In England, we are proud to claim that we also afford la carrtere ouverte aux talents. The Premier of England has exemplified, on the field of politics, the familiar and cheering adage which places a marshal's baton in every French conscript's knapsack. "By my right hand I have done this "—such may be his fitting farewell to power ; and Englishmen, who always heartily sympathise with success, will bid a not unfriendly goodbye to the public man whose social life has been genial and unstained— who has never turned a deaf ear or uncourtcous front to those who sought his good offices in the time of exalta tion. The Standard thinks the Times has let the secret out at last. A week ago it prophesied falsely : to use a common expression, it was bouncing. Nothing less than a majority of 120 would satisfy it ; and it positively undertook to prove this by one of those rule of three sums which are rarely to be found outside its own columns. The other day it spoke more oracularly. It promised that by next Wednesday the Opposition would have "an assured majority which one may now cautiously describe as ap proaching a hundred." This is what A. K. H. B. would call " coming down " with a vengeance. What are we to . understand by " approaching a hundred ?" Eighty is approaching a hundred ; so is fifty, so is twenty-five, so is ten. Why, even a minority of five might be claimed as a verification of the prognostication of the Times as " approaching " a majority of a hundred. We can recall nothing equal to the marvellous foresight of our contem porary but the ingenious answer of Pat when he was asked by his friend to guess the sex of his newly-born child. "A boy ?" said Pat. "Guess again," said his friend. "A girl" was the reply. " Shure, somebody's been afther telling ye." The Herald commends the promise given by the Governor-General of India to snbstitute action for writing in the matter of irrigation. We have had too much letter writing upon the subject. There are folios upon folios of documents. But the question is one upon which every body is, in theory, and relatively to known facts, agreed. We know what the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company have done, and we know what has been &Me by the East India Irrigation Company, whose, works extend from Cuttack to Calcutta. The resulti exhibit at once beneficence and profit. British India its rather less than half cultivated. Indeed, to indicate half" of its cultivable area as under agriculture is largely to exaggerate. Meanwhile, however, the population grows, while the taxation does not decrease and the necessities of Government do not diminish. It will consequentlygladden all the friends of the Indian people, and inspire confidence in all who are associated with Indian interests, to learn that the new Viceroy will go out pledged to a policy of " action," as he says, rather than to a routine of " cor• respondence." "THE RICHEST LIVING IN ENGLAND."--11 correspondent of a contemporary, alluding to the death of the Rev. Algernon Peyton, the rector of the richest living in England, says: "Lest any of your readers should be led to covet and desire the presentation to it, I beg to say that the parish is one of the unhealthiest in England, and that the rector was long nonresident, putting in a curate to do the duties at a moderate stipend. It was my melon. choly duty, some few years ng ), to bury within one week all the curate's children, tLree in number; and his sister in-law, victims to the unhealthiness of the loeitlity. YHE SOUTH TVALES PAIL TVA. Y ACCIDENT, The incited on the bodies of the menkilled in the nullo Pill:railway accident was held on Monday at Newnham. The inquest had been formally opened on Saturday for the identification of the bodies previous to interment, and was adjourned to Monday for evidence. The jury, having been sworn, were accompanied by the coroner and officials to the spot where the acci dent happened, and also to Bulb Pill, to inspect the bodies. For this purpose a special train had been provided by the company. The spot at which the Collision occurred is at the north end of a curve with a radius of fifty-five chains, and on an incline of 1 in 300. It was shewn by experiments on the spot that the tail lights of a train could not be seen at a greater distance than 200 yards. The line was now perfectly clear, all the broken carriages having been removed, and the greater part carried away. The evidence given corroborated the statement of facts already given, and the jury returned verdicts in each case that the death was accidental, but they recommended that communication should be established between drivers and guards in all trains, and that certain local precautions should be adopted. The coroner, in summing up, entirely acquitted all parties of blame. It clearly appeared in the evidence that at Lydney, the last station which was passed by the two trains, the cattle train was twenty-two minutes in advance of the mail. They intended to shunt at Bullo Pill, about seven miles, but fog and the slipperiness of the rail re tarded their progress. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The first meeting of the session was held on Monday evening in the theatre of the Geological Museum, Jermyn-street. The Queen of Holland was present. Sir Roderick Murchison, the president for the four teenth time, delivered the annual inaugural address. He commenced by deploring that, owing to the demolition of the arcades, gateways, and wings of Burlington House, the society was unable any longer to hold its meetings in the capacious hall which had been so long placed at their disposal by the Royal Society and University of London. He hoped that before long the Government would see that they were properly accommodated. With respect to Dr. Livingtone, Sir Roderick said : "Of all the events, however, which have transpired since we last assembled, nothing can have gratified us so much as the news which has recently reached us of the progress made by our eminent associate, Livingstone, during the ten months which elapsed between the date of his last letters to me and others and that of his last letter to Dr. Kirk, of December 1867. His unrivalled perseverance and courage, in getting successfully through the many heavy trials to which he has been subjected, have been strengthened by his trust in that Divine Providence which has hitherto protected him during his heroic efforts, whether to advance human knowledge or to implant the truths of religion in the hearts of the negro race. In his last letters, which are extremely brief, he has not communicated the geograpical results of his journey to the southern end of Lake Tanganyika. He speaks, however, of a chain of lakes connected by a river with Tanganyika, and has visited Cazembe and other towns belonging to the powerful negro chiefs of this remote part of the interior. Awaiting, as I do, in fervent hope, the day when a national burst of joyfulness shall welcome the great traveller on his return to Britain, I may be allowed to say that throughout my long life I have never been so truly delighted as in finding that my persistence in the belief in the existence and in the successful progress of my illustrious friend has up to this time been fully verified. God grant that the last link may speedily be added to his long chain of adventures, and that Livingstone may bring us, in his own person, the history of all his wanderings !" A letter just sent to Sir R. Murchison from the Foreign Office, from Dr. Livingstone, was read, but it was of no later date than the last published. It gave some directions as to a supply of shoes and other goods, and mentioned where he was about to go. It was dated Cazembe, Dec. 14, 1867. LAW AND POLICE. MuniNs V. HussEY.—A case has been heard before the Master of the Rolls, of a disputed estate, in which the chief point of interest was the question of the validity of a marriage performed in Ireland between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant, by a Catholic priest, in which the Master pronounced against the validity of such marriage. DARBY V. BEALES AND OTHERS.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, this case, arising out of the attempted formation of a New Reform Club, has come on. Mr. Francis said that it had been arranged with all the defendants, except Mr. Sturgeon, a barrister, that further proceedings, in this case should be stayed. He had to ask their lordship; on Mr. Sturgeon's behalf, to allow the rule for a new trial to stand over, as in all probability they would be able to arrange to enter a stet processus in his case also. Application granted. URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS.—The Attorney-General asked for a postponement of the case " Wason v. Walter," on account of the elections. The Chief Justice promised to do all he could to assist the bar. EX - PARTE DIPSDALE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Lopes moved for a mandamus calling upon the Mayor of Exeter to insert the name of Mr. Dipsdale in the burgess list of that city. The applicant had been an in habitant of the city for many years, but lately he had removed his furniture and family to Exmouth, a water ing-place near Exeter, retaining a furnished bed-room and sitting-room in his house of business. He took his meals and frequently slept in the house at Exeter. Rule granted. A Glasgow publisher has issued an edition of " Waverley " in phonetic shorthand, the most singular, perhaps, of the many dresses in which Scott's works have appeared. - - A lawyer, not over young or handsome, examin ing a young lady witness in the court, determined to perplex her, and said, " Miss, upon my word you are very pretty." The young lady very promptly replied, "I would return the compliment if I were not on oath." Steps have already been taken to bring the case of Mr. Bennett before the Arches Court. The two cases now pending, " Martin v. Mackonochie" on ceremonies, and " Sheppard v. Bennett " on doctrines, will decide the great questions rife in the Church of England. ILLEGAL PROCESSIONS.—The secretary of the Scottish Reformation Society has called the attention of the Secretary of State to an illegal Popish procession at Ross, Herefordshire, but as yet nothing has been done. Bulwark. The Friend of India believes it has been almost decided that the successor of Mr. Maine next April will be the ablest criminal jurist in England, Mr. Fitzjames Stephen. The Times of India agrees with its contempo rary in thinking that India will be fortunate if it secures as Law Member of Council a lawyer and a scholar so worthy of the distinguished men who have filled that office for the third of a century. The Chicago Tribune prints a despatch from Van Wert, recording the saving of a child's life by the heroic action of an engine -driver. As the mail train, bound east, on the 26th October, approached the Van Wert station, the engineer, Israel Adams, noticed a small child on the track. To stop in time to save it he saw was impossible. Running out on the cow-catcher and reaching out, he caught the child and lifted it on the engine without injuring a hair of its head, although he was in great danger of losing his own life. LORD ALBEMARLE AND HIS IRISH TENANTS.— In reply to a letter from Dr. Brady, M.P. for Leitrim, the following has been received from the Earl of Albe marle :—" Quidenbam, Attleborough, Oct. 28.—Dear Dr. Brady, in reply to your letter of the 24th, I beg to state that it is not my intention, either at the forthcoming or at any subsequent election, to interfere with my tenants in Leitrim . in the exercise of their franchise.—l am, do., ALBEMARLE. —John Brady, Esq., M.P." A WELSH NAME. —A claim was made before one of the Liverpool revising barristers on ,the part of John Pritchard, whose qualification consisted of a free hold house in How-street, and whose house was described as " Rosllanerchrugog, near Ruabon." Mr. France (to the friend who appeared for Mr. Pritchard): You say that he lives at —, you know the place?" The applicant : " Where ?" Mr. France : " Oh, I can't pronounce it, and I must leave it to Mr. Leader." Mr. Leader : " Does he live at Rose—, you know where I mean ?" Applicant : " Yes ; he lives there." Mr. Leader : " Well, we must accept that, for I can't for the life of me pronounce the word. It is sufficient to choke one." THE DESTRUCTION OF SEA -BIRDS.--Land and Water gives an extraordinary account of the destruction going on among sea-birds. On a strip of coast eighteen miles long, near Flamborough Head, 107,250 birds were destroyed by pleasure parties in four months, 12,000 by men who shoot them for their feathers, and 79,500 young birds who died of starvation in the emptied nestp. Cora. mander Knocker, there stationed, who reports these facts, saw two boats loaded above the gunwales with dead birds, and one party of eight guns killed 1,100 birds in a week. So great is the demand for plumage to brighten ladies' .dresses, that thousands of birds toe killed every day, and. co ck pheasants are flayed before cooking. The poor sea,-biro's ought at least to be let alone while bringing up their young, and ultimately there must be a !` close time" to the whole feathered race. Law alone can Preserve...them ; from destr , :cti by their inferiors_ TH SUN, LONDON, T UESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 186 a MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. cariSiZtelley 170 ceiits‘e `l,O - 11CtC;iir Lne aelloois, anti Di led on to abandon denominational for secular education ? DEAN ALFORD ON HIS DEFENCE. Dean Alford reviews, in his magazine, the Coidem porary _Review, the new volume of joint essays by Low Churchmen—" Principles at Stake." In doing so lie takes occasion to defend his conduct in taking part in the anniversary services of the Dissenting College at Cheshunt. He says that no act or word of his ever implied that he wished to surrender a single article of the English Church's stricter creed, to modify one tittle of reverence for the holy sacraments, or of belief in their efficacy. He has joined others in publicly deprecating any revision or emasculation of our liturgies and offices, having ever accepted, and hoping to accept to the end, the whole Church system, which he finds in closest accord with Holy Scripture. The desire to recognise as fellow Christians our Nonconformist brethren, does not imply, even were it carried as far as the wish for exchange of pulpits, any desire to depart from a single doctrine or disobey a single formula of the Reformed Church. Ile adds :," What I have done, and what I shall continue to do, cannot, I believe, be shewn to be otherwise than consistent with the spirit of the Prayer-book, nor other than a legitimate carry ing out of the mind of the Reformed Church of England." 711 E EXISTING FEELING BE7WEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. (From the Anglo American 1 Mmes.) A letter which appeared in the Times last Mon day, from an American in Dresden, has induced us to continue our remarks on this subject. He furnishes strong evidence in support of our asser tion that the English feeling towards Americans is a social prejudice, from which the latter are wholly free. The Dresden writer thus puts the case :-- A church was established by the English in that city, which the Americans joined in such numbers, though many of them were Dissenters, that they became the majority, and gave to it a liberal sup port, when it was styled the English and American Church. After the Rev. Mr. Wright had found that most of his flock were Americans, he introduced the prayer for the President of the United States follow ing that of the Royal Family of England and of the King of Saxony. A gentleman who witnessed the innovation appears to have been unable to control himself : he struck his cane on the floor, exclaim ing, "I thought this was an English church," and, on other days, persons abruptly rose and left the sanctuary. It is true that the time (aboxt four years ago) was one of great bitterness of feeling. Animosities grew and spread, until an- other, named the English Church, was formed by the authority of the Bishop of London, for which a new structure is now in process of erection. The influx of Americ ins caused the invasion also of this exclusive English pro perty, in support of which their money was freely taken and the❑ Mr. Krrro was requested to in clude the President of the UNITED STATES in his prayers ; but on trial such umbrage was taken that the pastor withdrew it—an ill-advised act, which could not fail to give offence. The reason advanced against the introduction of the prayer for the PRE SIDENT was that he was nominated every four years, and they did not desire to pray for such a number of "nobodies." The writer then says, "The Ameri cans sit, aild have sat, for years quietly in their pews, and have responded cheerfully to the repeated passages introducing the QUEEN, Prince of WALES, &c., besides hearing uncomplainingly the prayer that her MAJESTY may become "victorious over all her enemies," while the English will not permit tlact name of the Chief Magistrate of the UNITED STATES to be included in the service." In commenting on this letter the Times denies the conclusion at which the " American Resident in Dresden" arrives—viz., " that the circumstances are straws which show how the ►vind blows," asserting " they have nothing whatever to do with the general feeling between the English and the Americans." Now, we maintain that the American is right, and that his temperate and just statement of the facts, preceded a correct conclusion. If any newspaper is in a position to know what the feeling is it is this ; and, we repeat, that the English feeling is one of a social prejudice, generated and fostered by class distinctions, an 1 differs totally from the feeling of Americans towards Englishmen. When the two are compare I the Englishman, in this respect, appears at very great disadvantage—a poor feeble thing in presence of a man. As we before oaserved, with the obli teration of class distinctions these prejudices will disappear, and, that these barriers are rapidly going, before the invasion of the American tide of opinion is an un leniable fact. But no instance could better illustrate the trut i of our remarks on this subject than the offence given to the English churchgoers in Dres len by the minister introducing the prayer for the PRESIDENT, and their reason against it. The President of the UNITED STATES is " a nobody," and they object to pray for nobodies except en masse. # If these unfortunates are in the colonies driven to praying for :an elected officer, such as a Superiu dent of a paltry province of New Zealand, they salve their wounded pride by persuading themselves " His Honour" is her MAJESTY'S representative, though he be but an officer elected by the people for a term. Of course Americans do not suppose that Englishmen as a nation can be so supremely absurd as to hold the Dresden opinions about elected • officers, although we are satisfied they truly express a considerable breadth of Tory prejudice which tuns through the national min 1, and formerly foua 1 vent in the divine right of kings. The infallibility of the POPE is rational co.npared with the folly of such a doctrine, an I yet there are thousands of Englishmen who would be offended if asked to pray for a LINCOLN, but would readily respond for a GEORGE W. Were they to pray for the ruler that most needs it, there would be a focea in this we could fully appreciate; but no, the objection lies in the one being a mere elected officer, while the other was the descenlant of a line of kings. Th 3 most cursory examination of the distinction leaves nothing but bare prejudice to the holder of such a sentiment. The Presideot of the UNITED STATES is the chosen of thirty-five millions of citizens. lie is sup posed to owe nothing to adventitious circumstances, but to have worked up by the force of superior per- Eioaal qualifications. Granting everything that can be said against this, enough still remains to show that a President of the UNITED STATES must in a high degree be a man of distinction. Step by step he has risen from the ranks of the people into a place of power, second to none, and far superior to that of any one in England. The British SOVE REIGN is little better than a nonentity, and when that Sovereign is a GEOaGE IV. he is something worse. Without ability, without real power, disre putable in character, and full of low vices, the ad .ventitious circumstance of birth is to weigh down all other considerations, and to erect this man into a sort of saint, tin whose behalf the ALMIGHTY is to be specially appealed to. Yet those who have dis played the ridiculous prejudice in Dresden, would assert that it. was the office, and not the man, while it is notorious that that office carries little power when compared with the Presidency. Both the occupant and the office are of more importance than those of the British throne, for the former, being elected out of a vast population of the most intelligent of nations, is, independent of the office, a conspicuous man, while the office itself is one of greater power. 'Now, if St. PAUL meant the prayers for kings and every one in authority, when he ex horted them to be in tie, to be a supplication to the ALMIGHTY, that the minds of these should be guided aright whose influence on their fellow mortals was greatest (as he undoubtedly did), then it is more proper to pray for a President of the United States than for a British Sovereign, and for a Governor- General of India than for either. We doubt even if Englishmen ever furnished the world with a grosser instance of snobbishness than that recorded by the " Ainerican Resident in Dresden." Per sonally, there was probably net an individual in the congregation who was not, according to their own definition of the word, a " nobody," so they objected to pray for those who, like themselves, were nobodies. Why should SMITH pray for JOHNSON or BROWN ? True, JOHNSON was President of the United States, but no " divine right" fell to his share ; for that only comes by birth. He was elected to the office of Vice-President by the voice of the people, which some—very erroneously—assert to be the voice of GOD, for that voice can only be shown in birth. It is true, there is a saying that it is " a wise child that knows his own father," but JOHN BULL has always been a wise child, within whom tho roots of feudalism cannot he eradicated except by slow and painful degrees. His reverence for birth, his disbelief in nobodies like himself, and his con tempt for honest labour, all contribute to make up his dislike to Americans, who offend his prejudices by holding the:n ia contempt ; nor is this lessened by the knowledge in his inmost heart that the Ame rican is not only right, but that his i lets are pre vailing. We extract from the Natio of 0ct.22 what follows, as sho .vin almost laughably the ignorance which, in our opinion, is, with the old prejudices nursed by feudalism, at the root of international an tipathies." That quality in Englishmen of the upper classes which does so mach to endear them to Ame ricans and to th !ir cilonial dependents —their super cilious, contented ignoraup of all matters and things American or provincial, has recently been excellently exhibited by Lord ROBERT MONTAGU, who is the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on E lucation, which is as much as to say that he is the British Minister of Public Instruc tion. He was making a speech at a political meet ing the other day, and in the course of his remarks spoke of some statement made by the British con sul at Buffalo, in Canada.' What the British Government have for a Consul to do in Canada his lordship did not say. In view of Lord MoNTAGu's office there would seem good enough reason for saying what we have heard said, that ignorant;; of the United States is really part of an Englishman's education. Nearly as many ludicrous stories might be told of very recent displays of this ignorance as were ever told of former generations of English. Their attention will, however, it is likely, be turned this way more hereafter than it has been hitherto." MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Oct. 24.) The week closes in the midst of another monetary con vulsion at New York, produced by the looking-up of greenbacks, severer even than that of three weeks ago. Tho money market at other commercial centres, however, does not scorn to be greatly affected in sympathy, though a good degree of tension is everywhere reported, as was to be expected at this season. At Boston the bank returns show a decrease in every item but loans, which have been increased a million and three-quarters under a strong de mand from customs, and with the temptation of high rates. To depositors loans are made at 7 per cont., while out siders have to pay 8. Prime paper with three and four months to run passes at 8 per cent., while second-class is in excess and has to pay 9to 94. At Cincinnati the market shows increasing stringency. The bankers do the least business they can, confining their loans to depositors at Bto 10 per cent. The open market is crowded with paper of every kind, and 14 to 14 per cont. per month is paid readily. The receipts on eastern exchange continue large, and the supply is already in excess.. At Chicago the demand for money is more pressing, and the loan market shows greater stringency. Neither here nor at Cincinnati is the tightness due to the natural process of trade, but to a general and determined effort to hold up the price of grain by holding it back from shipment. At New York the present stringency is the unmistake able result of a combination between banks and brokers to break bows the stock market. Early in the week money was plentiful, and six per cent. was generally accepted on miscellaneous collaterals—Governments invariably at that figure, with but little call. It was properly a matter of surprise, and -spoken of as such, that the movements of trade at this - stage had not made dearer rates and a more pressing demand for money. And the same would have been true to-day but for the treachery of the banks, which enabled the brokers to withdraw from use a sum stated at not less than 610,000,000. The effect of this was to run rates up from 6 to 7 in the morning to plump 7 at noon, 7 in gold at 1 o'clock, and later in the day at 7 in gold, with per cent. commission added. The time chosen was auspi cious; the banks generally were at their weakest, while prices in the stock market had been forced up unnatu rally high, end parties had been tempted in for large amounts who had no strength at all to carry them in a pressure. Joined to this, prominent members of the North-Western and Erie cliques were parties to the movement, leaving sold " short " heavily. The market thus being in its worst state and left without friends .e., any strong " bull" interest -gave way very quickly. A great many large loads, that were rather heavy any way for their owners to carry, were dropped incontinently. It is needless to say they were picked up—by parties in condition to do it. The stringency hai continued through the week, though not so severe at the close as on Tues day. Those _who have the business community in their grasp, do not seem inclined to let it off as easily as last time ; and the missing greenbacks may not appear for some time. The morality or legality of these " lock-ups" we have sufficiently commented oa before. A great deal of indignation is being excited at this abuse of banking privileges; and if the friends of the present system cannot find a way out its enemies will. Reckoning ourse!ves among the former, we hope some check may be applied to unscrupulous banks, which shall protect the business com munity from occasional cpavulsions and the system itself from blame. The gold rntrket has been activa throughout the week, and gold has continued to tend downwards, closing at 1351. The scarcity of cash gold is a hindrance to the bears and considerably disconeerts them in their efforts—with the best int3ntions—to reduce the premium. At one time during the weA as high as one per cent. was paid' for its use, a rate that has only once boon exceeded in the history of the gold market, and that was two years ago. In nine days more the November interest will b 3 paid, and then it will ba a free fight between bulls and bears. The continued and increasing export of bonds (not to speak of large amounts in Erie) has for three months past greatly diminished the shipments of specie, and can tributed to the recent fall. The secretary's sales have gone on Steadily at the advertised rates, $303,000 daily; and •have in some small degree relievad the scarcity of cash gold, although not sufficiently to account in any degree for the decline in the premium. The im porters of New York city are greatly disgusted at the method of conducting the sales, and have memorial ized the department for a return to the secret sales. Whether the Secretary will renew his operations on the present system, after the ten days are expired, or will re sort to the old method, or stop short and do nothing, does not yet appear; and that is just the fault with th Sacra- tary's last arrangement. A ten-days' programme does not constitute a system, such as the business of a nation ought to he conducted on. Governments shared the fate of the market in the great catastrophe, bat their native strength kept them from any thing like so considerable a fall as railroad and Border- State Bonds. The decline, such as it was, was due, how ever, solely to the pressure to sell, and was not accompa nied by any falling off in the demand. On the contrary, the call for them continues to increase, both for invest ment and for export. The Five-twenties of 1867 suffered rather the most severely in the pinch, having been consi derably oversold ; but recovered early, and are now in brisk demand, as these Bonds still retain the preference for export to Germany. The confidence in the future of the Government credit is not perhaps stronger in any quarter than it Was six weeks or two months ago ; but it certainly is much wider, and the circle of investors ex tends every day. The upward movement in stocks, which was in such happy progress at the last weekly report, was rudely in terrupted by the explosion of Tuesday. Such a whole sale slaughtering is rarely seen, though the decline was not excessive on any one. It would be dreadfully mono tonous to attempt to trace the fortunes of the different stocks. The Western railways, which had been inflated to such a degree as to excite apprehensions of a collapse even without foreign pressure, gave way early, but showed more strength than could have been supposed, and were prompt to recover a part of their loss. We commented a week ago on the extraordinary character of the bull move ment, which has been going on now for two or three weeks. The end is certainly not yet, whatever may be the final result. It would not have been safe to prophesy that it would stand such a shock as has been given it this week, or that when shares once began to tumble they would stop so soon. But now that it has taken place, it is safe to say that it has at least elements of strength enough to protect it from sneers as a mere bubble of the market. Fort Wayne has stood the best during the panic, and has fully vindicated the confidence of the friends, who predict its steady rise to 25. North-Western, which was so near to par, at last weekly report, has receded to the neighbour hood of 90. The week closes with the market strong and active, and apparently unaffected by the stringency of money. The import entri3s for last month, exclusive of foreign specie, at the port of New York, amounted to $22,378,838, against $30,631,540 for the same month of 1867. Of these the free goods were in 1863 $1,121,652, and in 1867 $834,987. Carrying the comparison out to the first nine months of each year, we have the total imports in 1868 $192,956,158 against $202,474,786 in 1867, the average tariff in 1868 being 48 per cent. against 47f in 1867. The export clearances from the same port for the month of September wore $14,155,063, against $14,155,063 for the same month in 1867—and, for the nine months endin g September 30 they ware 5186,318,407, against $176,607,411 for the same period of 1867„or exclusive of gold and silver, $120,014,537 in 1868, against $134,575,203 the previous year. The market for dry goods has shown a better feeling during the week ; and more business has been done. There is a clearer outlook, and a greater degree of confidence is manifested. The holding back of Western produce, how ever, continues to postpone the Western demand, in a measure. The South is becoming more largely a buyer, as her cotton comes forward, though at still low . prices. Some classes of cotton goods have had to submit to a de cline ; and if the material continues to fall, must go lower yet. Thore is a general feeling that cotton will not rest where it is, and this sense serves to distract the market. Wool is firmer and higher; and tie batter qualities are coming more into request. Woollen goods are generally strong., particularly shawls and overeoatings. Flannel goods and blankets aro rather backward for the season. The market for foreign goods has been greatly disturbed by the fluctuations in gold; and until the premium steadies somewhat the importations must be expected to show a falling off. Seasonable goods in some classes, however, find a ready see. Breadstuffs still tend downwards. In flour the decline for the week has averaged 25 cents for all grades; wheat and corn are also lower, and there is more to come when the Western speculators break dews. In provisions we have a decline of 25 cents a barrel o i pork, while of country produce, butter, cheese, and eggs are all higher and in good demand. (From the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Oct. 22dand 23d.) Consolidation of railroads by lease is becoming quite fashionable among railway managers, and in some recent operations in this Ina no little sharp practice has been manifested. After it bad been announced recently that the Erie Railroad Company had leased the Northein Rail road of New Jersey it was discovered that the stock of the latter had been doubled. It is now reported that the Erie Company has leased the Patterson and Newark-raad for ninety-nine years, at 7 per cent., the stock having been first quadrupled. It is intimated that the managers and negotiators of these leases made handsomely by the opera tions, whoever may lose. As a rule in these matters, the poor stockholders are kept. in the dark until the bar gain is consummated, when the curtain is raised to the fact that they had been duped anal victimized. The " watering process" of increasing the capital stock of railroa•.ls had quite a run in the large cities, but this has now given way to the "leasing process," with the "doub ling and quadrupling" of share capital. The bids at the office of the United States Assistant Treasurer at New York have declined not only in amount, . but in the number of bidders. Ou Tuesday but $600,000 was bid for, and the $300,000• advertised were awarded to two bidders. This, it is said, indicates a lessened demand for gold, and yet the gross clearings at the Gold Ex change that day amounted to $111,186,000. The Customs demand for the day was $410,000, and ranges daily from four hundred thousand to four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. if the Government would increase its daily sales of gold to the full average amount of the demand required for the Customs, it is be lieved that a favourable and more satisfactory result would attend the present mode of exchanging the Trea sury coin for currency. In all the complaints made against the present public sales of gold we do not see a single reason for a change back to the old practice of secret sales, all the reasons rendered for discontinuing the present mode applying with equal, and, indeed, as we think, with greater, force against the old practice,;besides leaving the officers of the treasury liable to the charge of collusion with the gold speculators. The gold market, it is said, is in the control of the gold speculators, aed so it has been ever since gold has been an article of merchandise and. made necessary in the payment of duties. We have seen speculators, under the practice of secret sales, fluctuate the price two and three per cent. in as many hours. They have not under a system of public sales done nearly so badly as yet, and can scarcely do worse. There should be no change for any such reason that great capitalists have combined to speculate in gold to their own profit. They will do that anyhow, as they do in everything of a marketable character. While gold is, by law, made a necessity in the business of those engaged in • foreign trade, and is not a currency, speculators will try to make money from its purchase and sale. The only sure way to put an end to this speculation is to make gold a currency and the measure of other values, and not a coin modity that the law compels the use of, the value of which is measured by a fluctuating paper currency. There was urgent demand for money yesterday here, as well as at New York. It is still persisted that this strin gency is caused by artificial moans, in which the banks and speculative operators in gold and stocks act jointly. Th) purpose is to hold currency out of circulation. The modus operands is this—They borrow largely at their re spective banks, check against the whole amount to their credit, and secure the certification of their cheques so as to prevent the banks using the funds, and in this way tie up large amounts. It is impossible that the banks thus treated should not lar fully aware of the pur poses of the transaction and of the probable embar rassment that must necessarily follow. The banks that countenance and encourage the movement are even more censurable than individual operators, for in the banks is - reposed a public trust—a groat privilege, which it is supposed will be preserved from all abuse that may operate to the prejudice of the public interest. If they should not be so guarded, the next session of Con gress should be called on for such amendment of the bank ing law as will enforce them to a better observance of what is right and proper. Money on call, as the consequence of this stringency, is 6 to 7 per cent., and on the street the rate is 8 to 10 per cant., and very scarce at that. The banks discount comparatively little of the paper offered them. The only source of consolation in this matter is that as the stringency is artificial, it cannot in the nature of things be of long continuance. (From the New York Tribune.) FRIDAY EVENING, Oct. 23. State bonds ware higher. Tennessee 6 per Cents. sold at 70}; New bonds, 701. North Carolina 6 per Cents., 68 ; new bonds, 671. Missou►i 6 per Cents. ware, how ever, selling at 91. Railway bonds and miscellaneous shares were neglected. Express stocks were lower. Pa cific Mail was steady at 128. Railway shares opened strong, but declined at the Board. New York Central, Erie, and Hudson were strong. Reading was freely of fered, selling at 981. The North-Western shares fell off 1 per cent., and the balance of the Western list was from Ito I par cent. lower. Fort Wayne was in request at 1151 at the 1 o'clock Board. At the last Board there was an improvement of 1 to } per cent. on the leading shares, New York Central, Reading, Rock Island, Cleveland and Pittsburgh being in demand. New York Central sold at 128+, Reading 99, Rock island 1071, Michigan Southern 87+, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 89, Fort Wayne 116. At the close Erie became weak, declining to 411; the break affected the rest of the market, prices declining from to 1 per cent., and the market closing weak and unsettled. Government bonds closed strong and active. The features of the market have been the demand for 62s for shipment and the heavy purchases for country banks. CLO3ING PRICES. PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATrS. Sixes, 1868, registered — to Sixes, 1868 coupon .. to Sixes, 1881, coupon ll5 to 115 k U.S. 6s. Pacific Mhos(' — to —_ Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 18x5, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon . lO5l to 1054 Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties, 3d series Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 — to - CLOSING} QUOTATIONS n N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... - 941 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... 934 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est.. 90 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 90 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876...102 N. Y. Can. 7s, con. 76 ...124 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 ...124 Erie Ist Mort, Ex 104 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 100 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 93 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 87 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 86 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. & E. lstM,'77 Hurl R 7s, Ist M, '69 1004 Hod. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 101 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 103 Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 1141 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 1141 Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M — N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B 981 Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c.lool 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 116 Alton & T. H. Ist M Alton &T.H. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc B3 Han.&St.J. Land War ts 105 Han. & St. J. Con 100 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 11 11 Chi. & N. West, S. F 9 '1 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 97 Chi. & N. W. Ex'n B B3 THE IRISH FISHERIES. In default of that " vigorous Irish policy " which Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright advocate, Mr. Dis raeli's Government has put forward what we sup pose he would call a truly " Liberal policy" in social matters. At least we have hints and rumours of contemplated improvements. Announcements " having electioneering significance," the Oppo sition journals very wickedly suggest, are being continually made. The purchase of Irish railways, for instance, was given out in that semi-official style best calculated to catch cotes, and to bind the Government to nothing " should any difficulty arise." Now the Irish people are told that the Irish fisheries will " probably " be dealt with. The journal making the announcement says : " In order to make the Irish fisheries the source of employment and of wealth which they ought to be, there should be constituted an independent Fishery Department, separate from the Board of Works, with a sufficiently numerous and efficient staff. This department should bo empowered to grant loans on good security to fishermen, for the purchase of boats and gear, and for the building of properly-constructed curing-houses. There ought also to be an increase of small harbours for the shelter of fishing boats on various parts of the coasts, near the fishing towns where there is a market." THE PEERAGE. Rumour whispers that Mr. Disraeli is about to adopt the course which the "unjust steward " took upon a certain occasion. He has certainly been charged with having wasted his master's goods, John Bull being that master. Being wiser in his genera tion than the children of light, he will perchance make friends with the mammon of unrighteous ness. It is stated in a contemporary, that the Premier will create a new batch of peers. The rumour is by no means a new one, but now the names are given. They are Colonel Taylor, Sir John Pakington, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, and the venerable ex-Chief Justice Lefroy. We give the rumour merely for what it is worth ; but if Mr. Disraeli intends doing such a thing, he is decimating his party in the Lower House, sending some of his leading supporters to the Upper, and transporting some well-known p_►rty men beyond the seas. He perhaps thinks that when he has resigned his steward ship it may be a long time before he again obtains it. He may, at any rate, console himself upon having made a duke, created bishops, peers, and judges, and finally upon chosing the Primate of All England. MR. BRIGHT TO NONCONFORMISTS. Yet another letter—this time from Mr. Bright. Mr. Bright gives some advice to the Welsh Dissenters. Says he : " I cannot understand how any Nonconformist in Wales can have a doubt on the Irish Church question. Welsh Dissenters, of all men in Great Britain, should comprehend the uselessness and insult of a Church supported by national funds and property, and yet separate in feeling and sympathy from the great body of the people. Not one Dissenter in Wales should vote for a Tory candidate at this election. His self-respect and his religious interest should make him zealous on behalf of the policy of the Liberal party. lam sorry to disappoint you, but it is impossible fo: me to come to'your intended meeting." ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL. " A Bishop " has discovered a novel and ingenious mode of giving a candidate a lift without incurring any individual obloquy. He writes to the Standard to give Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., an excellent character, and to recommend him to the electors of Finsbury. For twenty years has this ecclesiastic enjoyed the friendship of the learned gentleman, watching his career with increasing regard and admiration, and his consistent course as a Christian man. The cause of Protestant Christianity would receive valuable assistance from him were he returned. The bishop refers to the circumstances of the Ipswich election committee of 1835, and remarks that he was in the gallery of the House of Commons when Mr. O'Malley was brought to the bar and formally released from temporary arrest for his alleged breach of privilege. A resolution of confidence in Mr. O'Malley having been lately passed by his supporters in Finsbury, the bishop endorses it, and says that the impressions left on his mind in 1835 as to the broad facts of the case are in accordance with the reported explanation of the honourable gentleman at the recent meeting. He confides his name to the editor, with whom it remains a secret. There is something very imposing in this mysterious benedic tion given by a right reverend father in the columns of a newspaper, and the task of identifying him will be an interesting pursuit. We suspect he will proye a bishop in partibus. BEHIND THE SCENES. It is a curious fact that in the electiOn proceedings of the last few weeks many men whose word ought not to be doubted have been placed in the very un pleasant position of havinr , to prove some man of honour a perverter of the truth, or to accept the character for themselves as the only alternative. A report was given currency by the Windsor and Eton Express, " that overtures had been made by certain Conservatives to Sir Charles Russell, Mr. W.Vansittart (formerly member of the borough, and Colonel Vansittart, requesting their candidature in the place of Colonel Richardson-Gardner, with whom some of the Conservative party were dissatisfied." This was contradicted by the Conservatives, and the Liberalparty challenged to produce its authority. The champion speedily appears in the lists, fully armed with his facts, and the heralds make way for Lord Vaux of Harrowden. He states that Mr. W. Vansittart (the late M.P.) told him last summer that he had been requested to come forward ; but as the royal borough had cost him ten thousand pounds ho would have nothing more to do with it. Some days afterwards Mr. Vansittart called upon his lordship, and stated before several persons that his brother, Colonel Vansittart, had been in town the day before, and had declared his inten tion of standing for the borough of Windsor if he could obtain £5OO from the Conservative fund ; that he had gone down to the Carlton Club to look for Colonel Taylor; and that, not having found him there, he had proceeded to Colonel Taylor's house. Lord Vaux then leaves Colonel Vansittart to recon cile this with his letter, stating that if he had received a requisition to stand for the borough of Windsor he should have declined doing so, being pledged to Colonel Richardson-Gardner. We must give the riddle up. GREENWICH. A statement having appeared in tne Standard to the effect that Mr. Soames, a new Liberal candidate, was to be brought forward at Greenwich, and that the friends of Mr. Gladstone would not press the nomination of the right hon. gentleman, the chair man of the joint committee of Messrs. Gladstone and Salomons writes to contradict both assertions, and to say that the friends of these gentlemen are doing all they can to secure their election. The Standard, the other day, ridiculed the idea of Mr. Gladstone representing Greenwich, and taunted his supporters upon the necessities which drove them there. Signs are not wanting that our contemporary at the end of the elections would like to see the right hon gentleman the member for—nowhere MR. BRADLAUGH. Mr. Bradlaugh some time go published in his National Reformer a fable, which excited a great deal of attention at the time, in which the Almighty was likened to a monkey. The Saturday Review devoted one of its " slashers " to it, which was copied into most other journals. Mr. Bradlaugh's "we " was disregarded, he himself brought before the public, and, as he thought, " scurrilously reviled." Thereupon he wrote to the papers, declaring that he himself was not responsible for the fable. As well as we can remember, he stated that it was translated, and given as a specimen of the style of treating the doctrines of the Deity which once obtained. It is not to be wondered at, however, that just now, when he is appealing to the electors of Northampton for their suffrages, this blasphemous and filthy story should have been circulated to shew who "Iconoclast " really is. Again he writes concerni ng it. " Permit me to deny for about the hundredth time r " he writes to the Standard, " that I am ' the author of the blasphemous simile,• and to express my regret that in the bitterness of election articles you should not confine yourselves to the matters really written or spoken by m). .‘ PROFESSOR PLUMPTRE UN TriE Ii iz a - -- - The current number of the Contemporary Reezew publishes the paper by Professor Plumptre which, by an unfortunate blunder, was not read at the Dublin Church Congress. In a note to that paper he expresses his preference, as Dean Stanley has done, for a concurrent endowment of the three principal Churches in Ireland, instead of the disendow ent of the Established Church. Ile says that at the risk of isrlation from those with whom he 4 1 , orooghly sympathises in their desire to do away L , -- a long established wrong, he is compelled to say that the concurrent endowment is " a far more statesmanlike and more just measure than disendowment pure and simple, within whatever limits, and administered with whatever equity and tenderness. On the one side you apply what was set apart at various periods fur the religious life of the people either in merely material improvements or in merely secular educa tion ; on the other • you adhere with a cy pres approximation to the uses which were originally contemplated, and recognise the principle that the State, which represents the several Churches of ti:.- nation, may help those Churches in the work whi:4l ministers to the well-being of the whole communitz-.'' The logical connection which presented. itself 1 - 4. ih statesman's mind remains there now. If we are not to e, , low the 64 el.-II:AIL" :2:11 'bVP , - rwler,so. Ss THE WORKING MEN AND STRIKES. The end of the wearisome days of " strikes" and " lockouts "is fast approaching. Arising out of a condition of things which, it is admitted, may no longer continue, the disputes between capital and Labour will, it is to be hoped, soon have a tribunal to which appeal may in every case be made. Whether eventually the matter might be decided by giving the man and master each an interest in the same direction, or by creating a court of arbitration, this much is certain—thing. cannot last as they are. The men themselves are now thoroughly alive to this. At a recent conference of the trades unions on this subject, the representative of the bookbinding interest said that after a great many years' experience of strikes and lockouts, he was convinced they had failed in their object, and that conciliation and arbitration boards ought to be established as speedily as possible. Ile would go beyond Mr. Mundella in: this matter, and make the decisions of those boards compulsory. A resolution was unanimously adopted at this conference, ap proving of the principle of arbitration. TILE STREETS OF LONDON. The cool indifference with which the police regard the woes and weaknesses of humanity is a sublime spectacle of philosophical composure. A barrister witnessed a curious incident in South Belgravia the other evening. He saw a man pass under the gaslight with his face and hands covered with blood. He was drunk and perfectly unconscious of his condition. He crossed the road to a cabstand, and was getting into a cab when the barrister prevented him, and, turning him round, found he was severely injured. Three men joined them, who said they had seen him put out of an omnibus and fall heavily on the pave ment ; they had taken him to a house he named, and found it empty. They stated that the police had been talking to him recently, and had gone down the street, leaving him helpless. The barrister routed up two policemen, and induced them to come and take charge of the gentleman, who presently remembered his number. These policemen complained that they were taken off their beat to look after the man. A policeman's beat is an undiscovered country. Is it "i' the earth or the air ?" If it had not been for this good barrister, the unfortunate man might soon have been taken care of by some person or persons considerably interested in the security of his valuables, and equally careless of his personal safety. (From the Anglo-Anzerican Times.) Paris, Oct. 31, 1868. SIR,—An exceedingly interesting gathering took place on Wednesday, Oct. 28, on the Seine, to wit ness a grand exhibition of J. B. Stoner's life-saving apparatus. The invited guests, numbering 350, embarked at Pont Royal on one of the largest steamers of the Seine, the L' Aigle, bearing the American flag, and supplied with music by the band of the National Guard. Mr. Stoner explained the nature of his invention, and exhibited his cork jacket and indiarubber suit, which were put on by his assistant, Mr. E. B. Craddock, in three minutes time; attached to his feet were leaden weights of seven pounds, to enable a man to assume and mails:- tain an upright position. Monsieur le Docteur Marquis du Planty, vice president of one of the humane societies of Paris, kindly mounted the wheel-house by the side of Mr. Stoner, : and translated the explanations of the in ventor. During the passage Mr. Stoner and Mrs. Craddock put on the!r costumes, and the three de liberately jumped over board, rising to an erect position with their arms and hands at liberty ; with them was thrown overboard a tin can, weighing about twenty pounds, containing provisions for a four days' supply, matches, signal rockets, a flag, a pistol, ammunition, and water; attached to it was a cord tied to the waist of the opera tor. The flag, by a combination of joints forming a staff, was adjusted to the can, and when thrown to the bre, Z'2 disclosed the word "Eureka," and would be visible at sea or upon a lake for a considerable dis tance. The three remained in the water for an hour, during which time they partook of refreshments, hoisted the flat', read the C on ti nen t a l G aze tt e , burned signal lights ' of intentense brightness, capa ble of being seen many miles at night, fired a pistol and sent up rockets, returning on board after a truly successful exhibition, amidst the cheers of the delighted audience. The Marquis du Planty, who has taken a deep in terest in the several exhibitions of this valuable life-saving apparatus, presented a beautiful bouquet to Ma dame Craddock, and announced to the audience that the society, of which he is vice-president, had unanimously awarded a gold medal to Mr. J. B. Stoner, and conferred upon him the title of Honorary Member of the Society for his exceedingly valuable invention. The guests were entertained for a couple of hours with truly American hospitality, and returned at six o'clock to Port Royal highly delighted with their afternoon's excursion. The utmost good feel ing prevailed, and at times was manifested in re peated cheers for its exhibitors —America, France, &c. It was frequently . remarked that no similar imprOmptu excursion had ever passed off so smoothly, or the promises held out so faithfully ac complished. Many ladies lent their genial influ ence, and gave their hearty congratulations on the success of the performance. The following were also present :—Baron Kohl brenner, Lecomte et Comtesse de Phillippi, Le Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Mattray, M. F. De Lesseps, President de la cie de l'isthme de Suez ; Marquis du Planty, M. le Directeur du Bulletin Official du Ministre do l'lnterior ; M. de Reins, Secretaire de la Banque Imperiale, Ottomane ; M. le Due Jamier de Castaluccia, Mme. La Duchess de Castaluccia, M. De Chagla, Commissaire de la Marine, represented by M. Valette ; M. Comtem bert, Dr. Hornor, M. Carcenae, Dr. J. W. Crane ; M. Benites, Chargé d'Affaires du Paraguay en Europe ; M. le Directeur des " Annales," M. le Directeur "de l'lnternationale," M. le Directeur "la Situation," M. le Directeur du Journal des Traveaux Publics, Captain Lynch, General C. W. Darling and party, Mrs. Colonel Gowen, daughters, and party • M. De Saint Albion, Professor Jules Marcon, M. Sirony, as head of the Foreign Press De partment at the Miuistere; Hon. Win. Slade, Mr. W. E. Johnston, J. L. Butler, United States Commis sioners at the Paris Exposition; Rev. Dr. A. Gur ney, Rev. W. Gibson, Rev. Mr. Carroll ; Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard ; Mdme. Lebeuf-Dolby, son and daughter ; the Editor of La I'atrie, the Editor of La Petite Presse, the Editor of Le Petit Journal; Mr. North Peal, correspondent of London Star. In addition were many representatives of the press, of the marine societies of France, scientific gentlemen, and others, including many ladies. The United States contains the following singu larly named post-offices :,--Marrowbones, Sorrel Horse, Ti Ti, Toto, Why Not, Alone, Backbone, Carryall, Fame, Time, Stony Man, Sal Soda, Newborn, Yankee Jim's, Rough and Ready, Pipe Stem, Shickshinny, Overalls, Snow shore, Miracle, Run, Simmer , Lookout, Paint, Last Chance, Ogunquit, Memory, Tally-ho, Spuyten Duyvil, Tired Greek, and Our Town. [A.OVEKTISHMENT.]-11enceorth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Da Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Inrants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 25th:—" Rome, July 21,1356. Tae healtl of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirely to Do Berry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprising:y beneficial effect on his health, an 1 his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too hlgaly." We extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures:—pure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1.771: Lord Stuart do Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years dyspepsia. No 49;832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No. 46.270: Mr James Roberts, of Frinaley, Surrey, of 33 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, anal partial deafness. Im port Int Caution—Beware of the inlay unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig*s name is most audaciously attached. !gin tins, at Is. 11d.; 1 lb , 23. 9 1 ; 2 lbs., 4s. 61; 5 lbs., its.; 12 lbs , 22s ; 2 ilbs ,40s —Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA CEEDCOLA.TK POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cups at 25., for 21 cups at 3s. 61, for 48 cups at 63., for 233 cups at 305., for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. The 303 and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt o Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77 Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. IR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. CM. & N. W. 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Ist M -- The Provincial System of the Protestant Epis copal Church, according to the report submitted to the Convention now in session, divides the Church in the United States into six provinces, as follows :—The pro vince of New England to comprise the dioceses of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut , and Rhode Island. The province of the Atlantic to con sist of the dioceses of New York, Western New . York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The province of Michigan to consist of the dioceses of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The Province of the Allegheny to consist of the dioceses of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maryland. The Province of Alabama to consist of the dioceses of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. The Province of the Mississippi to consist of the dioceses of California, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas, lowa, and Minnesota. The senior bishop of each province is to be primate of the same. There is to be a synod in each pro vince, composed in the usual manner. The Hell Gate obstructions in New York har bour are at length to be removed. The work is to b 3 done for $38,000. A " grand reunion" of all the soldiers of the war is to take place in Chicago on the 15th and 16th of De cember. vv Five millions of children are attending schools in the United States, for whom oach year 20,000,000 teat books, costing $18,750,000, are manufactured. In North Carolina a new kind of cotton, c allad •" wool cotton," nearly th e co l our o f woo l, i s being vela' vated, said to be a superior article. Births. CAREY—On the Bth inst., at Southsea, the wifo of Colonel lEFrancis Carey, of a son. STEwAnT—On the 6th inst., at Stoke, the Hon. Mrs. Stewart, of a daughter. STRETTEN -On the Bth inst., at The Rosary, Richmon d, the wife of William Warren Stretten, Esq., barrister - a t " law, of a son. Marriages. DEACON —COTTAM —On the 4th inst. at Bushey, Herts, ( - 1 * S Deacon, of Southampton, to Lydia Mary, elder daugt ter of the late George William Cottam, Esq., of Blue*" heath. HILTON—DRAY—On the 7th inst., at Broadstairs Chur ch g Frederick Hilton, youngest son of the late G ile3 r Hiltou, Esq.. of Seldwich, to Mary, youngest &light ° of Mr. Pearson Dray, of Broadstairs. Deaths. BRIND —On the Gth inst., at Bath, Jane, the wife of Itjai °l.- General James Brind, 0 8., R.A. FALCONER—On the 7th inst., Elizabeth Ann Falconer , °f Clapham-common. HoNNEn.--On the Bth inst., in Lower Berkeley-street!' Portman-square, Major-General Sir Robert W. kl" t°3 K.C.B , aged 69. LAWSON—Ou the sth inst., at 70, Welbeck-street , Lad h Lawson, the wife of Sir John Lawson, Bart., of Broug Hall, Yorkshire, aged 31. WESTCAR -On the 7th inst., at Theobald's-park,Wo ltl V l B, Henry Eanmerson Westcar, Esq., Royal llorsa Gnu and of Herne-park, Kent, aged 29. %WS London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM. ANDU— , 1 2, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Taft Sus 0.51c3, " o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voy, in the OaniU Middlesex.—Tues y, November 10, IdGB