The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times calls attention to the statement of Lord Hardwicke, that we should have bread cheaper this year, and, in commenting on it, remarks : So far as regards the mental constitution of buyers and sellers, that must be the same whatever the article dealt with. The case of bread, however, is exceptional, because we cannot do without it, and a very high price involves not merely that we shall put off the construction of railways, econo mise coal, curtail the allowance of candles, have a pair of boots less in the year, or wear a coat till it is threadbare ; but that a good many people, especially women and children, are crying for bread, both because it is dear and because they cannot get work. When this is the case, and the agriculturist is the man to cry out, he has to choose between philanthropy and philosophy, but either will serve. We don't know how Lord Hardwicke will take it, but that is the choice we respectfully offer him after his speech at Cambridge the other day. His lordship reasons that because wheat has been rising for four years, and has now risen to a very high figure, and because there is an increasing importation from America, not so tremendous, after all, the market will probably soon go down with a run. The figures his lordship presents as to the prices of wheat are striking enough. Hero they are : March, ISO, * wheat,2llBs.lld. a quarter; 1866, £2 4s. 11d.; 1867, 23115.; 1868, 23 129.10 d. The last figure staggers. It is too good, or too bad, to last. We nearly got it a year ago, and we have been rather steady somewhere about it the whole twelvemonth. But what has been the state of the country meanwhile ? . What has been the condition of trade, or enterprise, of railways, of banks, of packet companies, of ironworks, and a good many other concerns dependent on general prosperity ? Repeatedly as we are told to our comfort that the ordinary trade of the country has been in a healthy state, there hardly ever was a worse time for all that part of our trading and commercial system which does not minister in a servile way to our everyday wants. Nor is there an agriculturist in these two islands, from the noble and generous proprietor of a model farm who is content to believe he re-invests his rent in the soil, down to the labourer toiling for a few shillings a week, who is not deeply interested in our com mercial prosperity. It is that which creates enterprise ; it is that which invites expenditure ; it is that which makes our tens of thousands congregate round workshops and mills, marry, and have families, in the hope that where there are mouths heaven will send bread. There is not a hamlet so remote from our great centres of residence or seats of manufactures which does not contri bute domestic servants, workpeople, aids of all sorts, to that affluence or that industry which hangs on the prospe rity of the hour. England was never very large, but railways and free trade have made it seem much less than it was, for it is impossible now to escape from the circle of the great British family. Go where we will, we find ourselves all hanging one or another, partners in one concern, bound by a com mon interest, and receiving our dividends at the same rate, be it one per cent. or ten. Wherever we go we are sure to find somebody busily, but not always pro fitably, engaged in scattering upon the land the fortune acquired in trade, improving, reclaiming, draining, and, anyhow, employing. But during the last three years commercial enterprise has been gradually sinking, and it is now in a state of abnormal inactivity. There is a want of credit in that high and genial sense which borders on enthusiasm. No project, be it wise or foolish, obtains confidence. Everybody, everything, is distrusted. Of course, one account of the matter is that a good many people have been severely bitten, and that even if they have the money they have been taught wisdom. But experience shews that material circum stances largely share with vicissitudes of sentiment the causation of fevers and panics. Enterprise always finds its wings clipped when food is dear, and also finds that when the contrary is the case it can soar to any height it pleases. The Post says it would seem that at length some serious attempt is about being made to relieve the Southern States of Germany from the equivocal and embarrassing position in which they have been placed since the termination of the Austro-Prussian war of 1866. The Southern States have resolved on forming a Confederation of their own, to be independent of, though doubtless in some respects con nected with, that of the North. The Bavarian Govern ment, it is said, have propounded such a scheme, and it has been favourably entertained by the Governments of Stuttgardt and Carlsruhe. It is unnecessary to add, that such a proposal has been favourably received at Berlin. No Power is more anxious than Prussia to see the Southern States united by some tangible bond and obliged to join in some definite foreign policy. No one under stands the feelings of his countrymen better than Count Bismarck, and he is well assured that the policy of any confederation of the Southern States must, before every thing else, be German. Having at his disposal, so far as treaties can be relied upon, the military resources of the Southern States, he knows that he can with more ei.se mould a confederation into compliance with his designs than several independent States, each governed by its own distinctive policy. And, as regards Europe, this settlement will be regarded with approval. So lung as the Southern States remained disunited, they furnished a constant source of danger to the general peace. As a Confederation, they will be less liable to be the objects of intrigue. In one sense, indeed, the formation of the new League may, to some at least, occasion dissatisfaction. It is not necessary to be endowed with the gift of prophecy to foresee that, ere long, the two Confederations will merge into one, and the unity of Germany, w ith one great military Power at its head, become an accomplished fact. The Standard, apropos to the announcement that a medal is to be given to the New Zealand troops, and, it assumes, to the Abyssinian soldie:s, asks whether nothing can be done to break through the hideous monotony of the silver cheese-plates which appear upon, but do not deco rate, the breasts of our soldiers and sailors. Must every so-called decoration consist of a medal, with a bad likeness of the Queen on one side, and an extraordinary allegorical device on the reverse, and worth from four-and-sixpence to five-and•sixpence for the melting-pot, but nothing as a work of art? Of course, the first wish of a sailor or soldier is to get a decoration of some sort ; the next to get as handsome a decoration as possible. That is why both officers and men value the Legion of Honour, or the Medjidie, or the French war medal, or the bronze star of the Punjaub, so much more than any ordinary medal. A good oppor tunity was lost when the Indian mutiny medal was struck. That dark and bloody episode might well have been specially marked by a black enamel order with a blood-red cross ; but there was no difference made. And now that the subject again comes up, the Standard suggests that a universal war decoration should be designed, to be granted for all these smaller campaigns, with clasps to mark the special service for which it is gained, instead of a number of silver medals being struck, exactly alike on the side which, during the Queen's life-time, is always exposed to view. Such a decoration might be made elegant, and at the same time no more costly than the wretched five-shilling pieces, and s if once the idea were entertained, there would be no difhculty in obtaining good designs from the best art designers of the day. With the evident desire, remarks the Daily News, to conciliate the foreign citizens of the - United States who are ready to give their votes to the men or the party that will most openly display hatred towards this country, Mr. Seward has thought fit to renew a protest against the maltreatment of American citizens by England. He com plains of the " jndicial severity" of the British Govern ment towards those who maintained that to plead American citizenship was to ensure impunity for all the crimes with which Fenians have been charged. Now, we do not quite understand the import of the words "judicial severity," as applied to the conduct of our Government. The Government has uo control over the proceedings of a court of law. If s. man be fairly tried and justly convicted, it is not within the province of the Government to interfere. When the trial is of doubtful legality, and the sentence either unwar ranted or unnecessarily severe, the prerogative of pardon may be exercised by the Crow n , on th e a d v i ce o f a res p on • sible Minister. It is only when the pardoning power is not duly employed that the Government is open to an accu sation of severity. Can thi s be truthfully said with regard to the Fenians ? Has mercy been withheld from the transgressor who sinned through ignorance ? Have the forms of law been abused that the innocent might suffer and the guilty go free? A specific charge might be answered, but this vague denunciation of unfairness must be passed by without further notice. What, asks the Telegraph, is burglary? To the laity, the act of a fellow who, finding your door open, walks upstairs to your bedroom, helping himself to the contents of the plate-chest en passant, and filially makes off with your wife's jewel-case, is about as near an approach to impudent and flagrant burglary as can well be imagined. But, in the eye of the law, the spoiler of ycur spoons is only a little more advanced in the criminal hierarchy than an area-sneak. He has not yet reached the dignity of A burglar. lie Las committed a " robbery in a dwelling. house." To constitute a burglary there must be actual " breaking and entering." So says the English law, and so, also, says the Code Napoleon, which draws distin c ti on between a rot avec effraction and a rol qualifie. One Williams, a cook, has just been tried at the Old Bailey for burglary. lie was found, after midnight, in a bedroom of a house at Woolwich. The explanation he gave was that ho was starving, and had come to seek a piece of bread. It was elicited that in consequence of the warm weather a scullery-window had been left (Teti, and by that aperture the prisoner had entered, using for the purpose a ladder which he bad taken from a boat house. The Recorder told the jury, that as Williams had entered by an opening large enough to admit his body, there was an end of the charge of " breaking and entering," but that he might be dealt with on the ground of his motive in entering the premises. So the jury found him guilty of entering with intent to commit a felony; and another felonious attempt in the same neighbourhood having been proved against him, he was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. It is rather alarming in this torrid weather to be told that ruffians who take advantage of open windows are not punishable as burglars ; but such is the law, and the fact that a similar doctrine prevails in France is somewhat in favour of its acceptance. But we may ask what the legal gentlemen were about who drew the indictment against this man, and sent it up to the grand jury. Had they never conned the lesson on the law which th e case to pointedly illustrates - - BABY FARMING. On Tuesday evening, Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, resumed and concluded an inquest touching the death, from alleged starvation and neglect, of a child nine months old, named George Pocock. Dense crowds, prin cipally composed of women and girls, filled the approaches to the tavern where the inquest was held, threatening per sonal violence to the woman, named Moarer, who was accused of starving the child. A body of constables rendered actual lynching impossible, but the mob yelled and hooted with extraordinary fury. Any person whom the indignant females took to be an official connected with the court, they addressed with such adjurations as " Do for her to-day, and God bless you I " " Don't let her off, she starved the child." The commotion in the streets was at times so great that it was difficult to hear the witnesses. The facts of the case, as previously disclosed in evidence, were briefly these :—The mother of the child was a cook in the service of a gentleman re siding in Kent ; its father was a coachman in the same service. The child was born on the Ist November in Lambeth, and was given to Mrs. Mary Ann Moarer to nurse when it was a few weeks old, in order that the mother might go back to service, The mother, according to her first statement, agreed to pay Cs. a week, but on Tuesday she said it was only 3s. 6d. a week, for the child's support. She found it impossible to get a place for some time ; ultimately her master took her back, but her money being all gone, she told Mrs. Moarer she could only pay her 2s. 6d. a week, and that she would pay that quarterly. That proposal was assented to. The mother paid, however, only 21 in all, besides Bs. for clothes. She proposed to pay in full at the end of June. Mrs. Moarer was the wife of a coal hawker, and she was herself a bead-worker, employing two little girls to work under her. The child was admittedly well taken care of until Easter. About the 15th June the motber of one of the work-girls wrote to the child's mother to say that the babe was dying from neglect and starvation. It died on the 18th June, and Dr. Burgess, who made the postmortem examination, stated that there was no disease whatever, and that death arose from starvation. Further evidence having been heard tending to verify the opinion, the jury found by their verdict that the child died from the mortal effects of neglect and starvation, and that Mary Ann Moarer was guilty of manslaughter by feloniously and maliciously killing and slaying the said child. The prisoner was taken away to Newgate in a vehicle surrounded by police to protect her from the mob. MURDEROUS OUTRAGE IN FRANCE. The Journal cr Amiens gives an account of an attempt at murder in a railway carriage. A manufacturer on an extensive scale, of shoes and boots, named Lhermite, residing at Rouen, after having passed the day at Amiens, left by the Paris train at midnight, in a second-class car riage. On arriving at Breteuil he was found by one of the railway men lying on the seat, all covered with blood. Every attention being paid to him, he recovered so far as to narrate what had occurred. At first, he said, he was alone, but shortly after a man entered and took his seat opposite. When the train had arrived near Ailly-sur-Hoye, the man suddenly attacked him with a sharp instrument, and in flitted on him several wounds. Still the defence made was so vigorous that the assailant at last opened the door and getting cut jumped 'down on the ironway. Blood flowed so abundantly from the cuts that 31. Lher mite fainted, and was just recovering from that state when the train arrived at Breteuil. A description of the man having been given, the station-master telegraphed to Ailly, and got back a reply that a man precisely answer ing the account sent had just left in another train for Paris. When this latter arrived at Breteuil, the man was imme diately recognised, and on being charged with the offence attributed to him admitted his guilt, and added that he had intended to rob the other after having disabled him. The perpetrator, whose name is Gurgot, was formerly a porter at the Amiens station,but some time back dismissed. The wounded man remains in an hotel at Breteuil, and his state is considered dangerous. LAW AND POLICE. ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY. — In the Court of Queen's Bench an action was brought by Mr. Gwynne against the South-Eastern Railway Company for an alleged lthel. The company had published notices stating that the plaintiff had been convicted of fraud for travelling without paying his fare, and bad been sentenced to three days' imprisonment. 'The defendants pleaded that the statement was true; but Mr. Gwynne denied that such was the case. The company did not prove their plea, and the original facts were entered into, and were found to be in favour of the plaintiff. The Lord Chief Justice, in remarking on the practice of puldishing these notices, said that at least they ought to be correct, It was nuisance enough to have Lem summoned on sus picion, hut it was no trifling thing for a placard to be posted stating that the defendant had been sentenced to imprisonment when such was not the case. Railway companies bad no more right to issue those documents than private individuals, and if they did it they must take care to keep themselves within the law. The jury re turned a verdict' for the plaintiff—damages £250, being £l5O more than the plaintiff claimed. ILLEGALLY ACTING AS BROKERS.—In the Court of Common Pleas, the Chamberlain of the City of London brought two actions, one against a Mr. Cousins and the other against a Mr. Inglis, to recover penalties for their acting as brokers without being admitted. It seemed that a person named Ainslie and a friend went to the office of the Open Stock Exchange Company (Limited) and inquired the price of Great Eastern shares. They saw Cousins, and went with him to the Stock Exchange, and waited! for him until he bought £l,OOO stock for each of them. Ainslie was not ready to take up the shares that day, and the transaction was carried over to the next account. Some difference arose as to the rate of continuation charged by the defendant, and Ainslie was subsequently informed that Inglis had sold the shares. For the defendants it was urged that they were merely the secretary and accountant of the Open Exchange Company (Limited), and had no personal interest in the transactions complained of. 'The Lord Chief Justice said that the defendants had clearly acted as brokers, the one in buying and the other in selling the stock, and were liable to a penalty of £lOO. The counsel for the defence gave notice that he should move the court above. A BANKRUPT SENT TO PRISON.—In the Court of Bank ruptcy Henry Sharpe, a bankrupt, was committed by Mr. Commissioner Winslow to four months' imprisonment under the following circumstances. The bankrupt in examination said that he had executed two composition deeds, and in one of them he had set down his father as a creditor for £4ll, and stated that that person held a bill of sale over his effects. He now denied that his father held any such security, and said that the statement had been introduced by the solicitors who prepared the deed without his knowledge, and that he had never seen them, though he swore that he had. Being sued by the National Guardian Insurance Company (Limited) on two bills of exchange for £7O, he had defended the action, and pleaded that he had not endorsed the bills ; also that he had been released from the debt under his second deed. At the trial he did not appear, being then iu Whitecross street, and his attorney refused to act for him any longer. Extra costs of about £3O were thus incurred. His Honour said that the prisoner had clearly been guilty of a frivolous defence, and he ordered him to be imprisoned as stated above. FATAL PERAMBULATOR ACCIDENT.—A few days since a perambulator, in which were two children, each of four years of age, one belonging to Mr. Newsholme, the other to Mr. Graham, both of John•street, Westgate, 13radford, was left for a moment by Mrs. Newsholme near the bridge, on the terrace at Peel Park. Mrs. Newsholme, though turning in a moment to the carriage from which she had taken her band, was horrified to find it going down the adjoining embankment, and instantly sprang forward and seized it ; but as she did so the two children were precipitated to the road beneath, a distance of 14 feet. Both children were much injured in the fall, and the child of Mr. Graham, which was the greatest sufferer, has since died from the injuries received. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT TUE DEVONPORT VOLUNTEER RIFLE RANGE.—The coroner's inquest on the bodies of the two young men, °Norman and Gard, members of the 3rd Devon Rifles, who were shot on Thursday last while attending a private match at Keyham, closed on Monday afternoon, when the following verdict was returned :—" We are unanimously of opinion that the deceased, Alfred Norman and John Gard, were killed through misadventure, and we are strongly of opinion that under all circumstances, whether at private matches or regular practices, the strictest military discipline should be always observed, and very much regret that proper precautions were not taken on the occasion of the accident, and strongly recoannend that rifle-pits should be provided at all ranges." While the jury were considering their verdict the coroner announced that. the family of Mr. Gard would be in straitened circumstances as the result of his death, he being the only support of a widowed mother and several brothers and sisters. Messrs. Hodge and Co., bankers, Devotport, had kindly offered to receive subscriptions on their behalf. For his own part, he thought it was a case to call forth benevolence from all sources, and he should have pleasure iu subscribing a guinea. Subsequently, Captain St. Aubyn, of the 3rd Devon Rifles, stated it was hiS intention to give £2O, and that it was a case deserving great and widespread sympathy and help. The jurymen also gave up their fees towards the subscription.—Western Afes..nina Nerd. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1868. AN APPEAL TO ENGLISH CATHOLICS. The restoration of the ancient church of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Rome is a work in which Pope Pius IX. has taken a specW and personal interest; for the commission whom he has charged - with its execution is composed of his own private Chamberlains, Mgr. Talbot de Malahide, whom he has named Protector of the English College, together with the rector and Mgr. Stonor, who was sent a year or two ago to collect alms in France for this very purpose. The Sovereign Pontiff laid the foundation of this restored church with his own hands, has contributed to it out of his private purse, has presented it with vestments, and is prepared to enrich it with some of the most precious marbles that have been lately discovered. Indeed, the proof of the interest taken in the restoration of this church by the Holy Father is sufficiently shown by his having sent to England his private Chamberlain, with a special injunction to invite the co-operation of English Catholics in rebuilding their national church, dedicated as it is to their patron saint, and to the cause for which the whole Church has been for the last twenty years in conflict. The completion, therefore, of St. Thomas of Canterbury's Church in Rome is, a matter to which we cannot allow ourselves to feel a mo ment's indifference. Various thoughts press themselves upon us in connection with the invitation which has been issued to us by Mgr; Talbot. In another column the historic motives and traditions which ought to impel us to take part in this work are set forth ; here, therefore, we will touch only upon one thought. It is the depth of that supernatural wisdom which has bound all Catholic - nations to one centre, and has made that centre not only the i infallible guide in faith and morals, but the source in which is continually welling up the sanctity of the Gospel life and spirit. Rome, as the chosen seat of our Blessed Lord upon earth, as the Jerusalem and temple of the new dispensation, as the tender mother and mistress of all churches, and as the ap pointed interpreter and teacher of Christianity, occupies a position and a relation to all the nations of the world from which each one of them derives a peculiar and national benefit. For Rome, in her capacity of mother and mistress of all Churches, is continually breath ing forth upon each the influence of the Gospel perfections, and correcting the deformities of national character. In proportion as nations have withdrawn themselves from the action of her life and in terests, have they practically so far withdrawn from the teaching of our Lord Himself. As soon as the Eastern Churches, through jeal ousy, stood aloof from her, they almost ceased to live. The Greek Church became a bye word for ignorance and corruption when it parted from Rome. It was so in Germany, where an intellectual jealousy of Rome brought about Protestantism ; it was the same in Eng land, where pride and insubordination be g at Anglicanis m ; and in France, where self-suffi ciency and national conceit produced a coldness and reserve towards Rome, and generated Gallicanism. So also, in proportion as Spain and Portugal extracted from the Holy See exemptions from daily contact with her life and influence, did religion grow relaxed and ob scured among their people, and thus declined even in the .rank of nations. To show how true this view of the case is, we have but to notice how, in the present day, in proportion as nations draw near to Rome and humbly learn our Lord's teaching at her feet, does grace descend upon them, and they return to their primitive fervour. The Churches in Holland, Belgium, France and England, are examples of this. Even common sense comes in to point out how natural is this result. Nations, like indi viduals, have their failings and idiosyncracies which mar their character and bar their con formity with their divine model. While they wrap themselves up proudly, or disdainfully, or jealously within themselves,, they remain uninfluenced by their divinely-taught mother and mistress. They grow into the moral dis tortions of their natural and uncorrected cha racter. It could not be otherwise. Now, it is to be guilty of no peculiar dis paragement of ourselves to examine what may be the national tendencies which are most apt to lead us to a divergence from the Gospel type of Christianity. No doubt there are many such ; but we shall confine ourselves to noting one of those lesser ones, which the present occasion suggests to our mind. We Englishmen pride ourselves on being of a peculiarly practical and utilitarian turn of mind. We have become the wealthiest nation on the globe. We have " held the purse " with a tight and intelligent hand; other nations have paid into it. We are ever ready to re ceive. We are also famous in the world, as being of all nations the most devoted to creature comforts and the most successful in ministering It them. Nothing can exceed the cosiness of our homes, the nice appoint ments of our establishments, the success of our country houses, and the expenditure of our London season. Two consequences flow from this. First, as a nation, we are apt to view all expenditure in relation to its material result ; and, secondly, we are apt to be niggard in giving when we are not ourselves the centre to be enriched by the gift. Foreigners perpetually notice this at home and abroad. Such is our national cha racter ; we may personally be tinged by it without being aware of it. The appeal for funds to complete the resto ration of St. Thomas's Church in Rome, is just one of these opportunities which touch this national trait. We could quite imagine some hard and shrewd man of business say- I shall give nothing to this ; there are plenty of churches in Rome already ; I can't believe in a church being built for any other purpose than for a large population that has no church accommodation. We want churches aad schools at home. Why give money to St. Thomas's Church in Rome ! Ad quid perditio litre ?" The fact is, this utilitarian view of every thing has become so ingrained in the nation, that it would not surprise us to hear that even some good English Catholics might be found to pride themselves upon their sagacity in refusing to contribute to an object which does not bear the material fruit of utility or English comfort. This practical feature of the English character, however excellent when held in moderation, if, allowed to run out un pruned, tends to the hardness, material utilita rianism and calculating avarice of him who, " holding the ba g ," was rebuked by Our Lord for his view of how it should be dispensed. The woman who bought for a great price an unguent to pour over Our Lord, received a promise of praise for her loving generosity to the end of time. Her example perpetuates itself in the Church. Our Lord's praises are the rule of the Church's life. We may be hold in a hundred instances how the Sove reign Pontiff, pressed by numerous and im perative material wants, and dependent upon alms, follows the example which was praised by his Divine Master. The Church accom plishes her mission by the maintenance and spread of her great principles, and by the honours which she inspires for Christian ideas. The restoration of the Church of St. Thomas is an instance of her conduct in this respect. This church is a monuments to the rights of the Church for which the saint laid down his life, and for which Pius IX. has for twenty years contended with the world. The love of the Sovereign Pontiff for Eng land is well known. We have now an oppor tunity of showing some slight return of love by readily taking up the work which he him self began in connection with our National College, and which is so dear on account of the identity of the struggle which St. Thomas sustained in England, and Pope Pius sustains throughout the world in this our day. Our interests as Catholics are identical with those of the Holy See ; gladly will English Catholics testify to this identity on the present occasion. It is but a small sum of money which is required, and the work is done. We must raise it before Mgr. Talbot returns to his post by the side of the Holy Father. A meeting to consider this subject will be held in Hanover-squarellooms, at three o'clock on Monday, the 13th July. We trust that there will be present a large and sympathizing attendance.—Westminstee °lactic. union between the two countries; and we hope that these words will come more and more into the minds of Americans as they celebrate in future years, the birthday of their nation.—Anglo-American Times. SIR HENRY STORKS. - Except on the occasion of a national triumph, we have seldom seen a more unanimous feeling of satis faction expressed than when, some few months since, it was announced that Sir Henry Storks was appointed to the War-office as Comptroller-in-Chief of the Supply Departments of the Army. It was understood that he had powers so full, in regard, in the first instance, to the reorganisation of these de partments, and, in the next, to their control when consolidated and reorganised, that nothing but the constitutional authority of the Secretary of State could limit them. The public knew that he was an active member of Lord Strath nairn's committee ; they knew that the rccoill mendations of that committee tended to simplify administratiol, to bring under one head certain departments closely associated in their work, but ill fitting in their shape, and when it was believed that head was to be Sir Henry Storks the satisfac tion was great. Sir Henry Storks had turned chaos into system in what fell under his charge during the Crimean war. He ha I succeeded in everything he had undertaken, and what he had undertaken was not easy an every-day affair. He was a man of business, as well as a man of war, and his presence in Pall-Mall with what were understood to be full powers to reform and adininist 3r was held to be a guarantee that the end had come of the greatest reproach to our military system—the unwieldy, cumbersome, ill-organised collection of departments known as the War-office. We regret to say that these fair hopes will not be fulfilled. Sir Henry Storks' plans have met with many small and some great obstruct ions ; and, as they are mutilated by the Treasury, they will show that the snake of circumlocution has yet abundance of life in it. The scheme, as now sanctioned by the Treasury, provides that the departments of stores, commissariat, purveyors, and barracks shall tie placed under the Comptroller, but that that officer shall have, nothing to do with finance. It assumes that the appointment of Sir Henry Storks will be only temporary, and provides that on his relinquishing his position the new Comptroller shall have the rank only of au Assistant Under Secretary of State, instead of that of au Under- Secretary, as at present ; that there shill be a financial officer, who shall be a civilian, of co-equal position with the Comptroller, enjoying the same salary—viz., £1,500, and it enjoins that this office shall be always filled by a gaitleman of well-proved financial qualifications. Tne Comptroller himself ally be a military man or a civilian, as the Secre tary of State for the time being may deem most desirable. Any step taken by the Comptroller in volving expenditure is to be submitted to his finan cial colleague, who is enjoined to comment freely thereupon, and alvise the Secretary of State gene rally regarding it. The Under-Secretaries of Sate (after Sir 11. Stork's retirement) will be, as up to the time of his appointment, two in number, the Parliamentary and the permanent Under-Secre tary ; the latter to be genera'ly, but not invari ably, a soldier, competent to advise the Secretary of State upo❑ all military matters. Now, at a first view the plan may seem in some respects fair enough as merely providing a proper safeguard against extravagance. But when looked at closely it will be seen that it strikes fatally at what is the very essential value of the Comptroller. It knocks over his authority as the executive officer of the Secretary of State, and leaves him simply a suggester whose views may be adopted, modified, or rejected by the new financial offic.T. We should premise that we think the separation of the financial from the cantrol duties is sound in every way. The Comptroller has quite enough to do without looking after accounts; his duties are of a different kind. Nor can it be for a moment objected that, when the Comptroller makes arrangements involving expense, those arrangements should be submitted to an in dependent financial authority, and be reported upon by him as regards their cost. Thus when the Comp troller proposes a certain est tblishment, at a certain cost, it would more properly fall to the finamial officer of the Secretary of State to say if the Comptroller's estitnat.; was sound and not likely to be exceeded, as far as his financial experience enabled him to ju lgc. So far all would be just, and, no doubt, wholesome. Bat, according to the Treasury view, incredible as it may seem, the financial officer is to advise not only upoa the financial effect of the Comp troller's projects, but upon these projects generally. The Comptroller may want a certain staff, or a certain quantity of suppl es, or a certain number of carts, at a particular station. The financial man has the r ight to interpose and say that a lesser number of officers, of stores, or of carts are suffi cient. Thus, the experience of the Comptroller is entirely lost to the public service, and a civilian not brought up to the business, and not supposed to have any knowledge of the business, is to control the Comptoller in his own particular department. This is certainly not the way to secure that unity of administration, that concentration of authority, conterminous with responsibility, so sorely required, which it was the object of Lord Strathnairn's com mittee to bring about, and which we all hoped the presence of Sir 11. Storks at the War-office had all but accomplished. The levelling down of the Comptroller to the position of the financial officer at once impairs his authority to an extent we should say fatal to his usefulness, and deprives the public service of one of its very ablest men. The Treasury expects that after a very little time a Comptroller on a reduced salary of £1,500 a year may be substituted for the present Comp troller, and my lords are guilty of the superb folly of turning out of the service after a few months the man to whom every one was looking as the War-office reformer, par excellence. Is is a small consolation that we are at the same time, ap parently, to get rid of Captain Galton, whose place, we are told, is to be filled by a man of proved financial ability. Captain Galton is a man of microscopic mind, who will write yards of minutes and scores of references about a matter of twopence halfpenny, while the way is stopped for transactions of importance. He apparently subsists upon minutes, and his most charming new sensation would be the erection of a department above the Treasury, to which further references and reports might be made as to whether Private Jones is entitled to a scuttleful of coals. Although a military man, Captain Galton is scarcely a military administrator, and since he left the barrack department for the Assistant under-Secretaryship of War, his time has been largely occupied with the Railway Commis sion. He appears to possess the unhappy faculty of not being able to get on with any of his official associates. We shall be glad to see his place filled by a civilian of proved financial ability. But we must express a hope that there is yet sense enough left in the House of Commons to stop this most un fortunate and mischievous Treasury Minute, which emasculates a useful reform and stops the official career of the very man who, of allothers, a retrench ing Minister could most profitably consult were he desirous of effecting a large reduction in the Esti mates with the least injury to the object for which the country pays the large sum which these esti mates represent. —Army and Navy 4:la:ette. The Portland and Rochester Railroad Company hal $51,000 receipts last year, and it is thought that had the road been in good order the Company would have divided $2(3,572 on a capital' of $560,000 ; as it was, the expenses about ate up the receipts. [ ADVERTISEMEN r.] Holloway's the Female's Friend. —The woLderful cures effected by these pills have alone enabled them to withstand the keenest opposition for years. They are valued at the humblest h-arths as well as in houses of comfort and wealth. Holloway's pills wurk a thorough purification of the whole system without disordering,, weakening, or otherwise interfering with the natural organs. They are admitted to be the best restorers of appetite, strength, and perfect health to the most deli cate constitution. They give colour and freshness to the face, and by their gentle alterative properties eradicate from the system the germs of complaints which, by the obstruction of humour, consign tens of thousands of fe males annually to an early grave who might by the use of these bo sF ared. THE IRISH CHI7IWII. The following letter has been forwarded to us for publication : " NAVAN, July 2. " Dear Sir,—ln your speech in the House of Commons on March 30, 1868, you mentioned the cases of Kilmoylan and Newton-lennan as benefices then recently appointed to, though with but four Anglicans to each, with a view to show the pro priety of preventing the growth of new vested interests.' When interrogated by a member of the House respecting your authority for your assertion you gave my name as that of your in formant. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Cairns), on the 29th of June stated that the whole story was an entire delusion.' The delusion, however, lies almost wholly with his lordship's own statement. He says that you affirmed that within the last month two benefices had been manufactured,' although you did not use the words month' and manu factured,' but gave the years 1867 and 1868. Moreover, you did not say that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners were the manufacturers of those benefices, although at a somewhat later period of the debate you again alluded to them and said, For aught I know the Commissioners may be this very day erecting new benefices of four Anglicans.' Even if you had intended to insinuate that the Commissioners had something to do with the erection of those very benefices, you would havg had ample grounds for such an insinuation in the case of one of them at least. To neither of those benefices is the Lord Chancellor's description applicable—namely, that two old benefices had been joined together by the Act of 1833, or some other act of that kind, by order of the Privy Council in Dublin.' Newton-lennan was part of an episcopal union, formed in 1801 and dissolved in 1867. Kilmoylan-with-Cummer was once part of an ancient episcopal union, and was erected into a second benefice in 1852 or thereabouts, when Moylough union was broken up. At that time Moylough one part of the union —became a separate benefice ; Kilmoylan vicarage and Cum trier were erected into another ; while Kilmoylan prebend was absorbed by the Ecclesiastical Com missioners, who should have suspended Kilmoylan vicarage, and would have done so, but that Bishop Plunkett, himself a Commissioner, chose to keep it for his private secretaries, his own newhews. Kilmoylan is without a church, and has four Anglicans and 2,769 Roman Catholics, and its nett income is £291. Newton-lennan has four Angli can, 1,443 Roman Catholics, and £331 nett, but no church. There have been four distinct appoint ments to Kilmoylan since the Temporalities Act of 1833. But Lord Cairns not only denounces the whole story as an entire delusion,' but actually as ser: s that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have no more power to create benefices in Ireland than any of the Peers in Parliament.' If his Lordship be right, then certain important clauses of the Tem poralities Acts must have been repealed, or are no thing but 'an entire delusion.' Section 106 of that Act says that Commissioners may divide parishes in certain cases ;' and section 97 enacts that all such churches, curacies, or chapels which shall at any time be augmented by the said Commission rs shall be, and are hereby decl ired and established to be, from the time of such augmentation, per petual cures and benefices.' If these clauses do not give the power of creating new benefices, then they are an entire delusion.' "'the wisdom of perpetuating such benefices as hare but four Anglicans, and have had no greater number of Anglicans since 1834, may be apparent to the parties concerned in maintaining them. But to many persons a Suspensory Bill to prevent the creation of such vested interests will commend itself as just and proper, and especially so if re distribution of Church funds should be contem plated. An instance occurs to me which almost demonstrates the necessity of suspending appoint ments if reform be really intended. There are two contiguous parishes in a neighbourhood well known to me. One has a church, a congregation, bat no glebe or glebe house, and but £9O yearly. The other has a glebe an 1 glebe house and about £3OO yearly, but neither church nor congregation. There used to be a parish clerk, but he, perhaps, leis been suspended. • For a score of years the bishop and the people have waited for an amalgamation of these livings, to remove the doable anomaly of an idle parson in a good living and a pauper one in the other. Both livings have been twice vacant during the last twenty years, so that four oppor tunities for amalgamation were lost. The rich one 'when vacant, was not given by the bishop to the incumbent of the poor one, as his clerical standing was small. When the poor living was vacant it was pressed upon the incumbent of the richer one to be held in addition to his own, but he refused to take it. This state of things may go on for another score of years until some happy accident shall cause both livings to be vacated at the same time. The bishop is of course obliged to present to either when a vacancy offers, else the Com missioners would absorb the revenues. But the church population may be gone before the remedy arrives. Within the last thirty years the Angli cans in those two benefices have diminished from nearly 400 to somewhat more than six score. " I am, Sir, your fathful servant, "W. MAZIERE BRADY, D.D. " To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, &e." THE PUNJAUB AS A BATTLE-FIELD. No. 11. (From the Anglo-American. Tim s.) The country grows wilder, the bare, bleak-looking hills are now skirted, now penetrated by the flying column, and the mountains that had before run like a wall to the right begin to sweep round to the front, and are even seen in distant peaks to the left. The streams which had hitherto been flowing in the direction opposite to the march are now flowing with the troops, showing that the water-line has been passed, and the fall of the country which had been towards the Jhelum is now toward the Indus. An old ruined castle, not unlike a feudal structure of Europe, is left behind, but such are rarely seen, for the land is devoid of houses, of trees, and of any general sign of habitation. The only trace of labour in road-making is a way paved with huge blocks through a defile. The Field Force is en camped at the entrance of a wide valley which stretches far towards the high ranges, but as usual without trees and with a barren aspect. Before the tents runs a rivulet, shaded by willows and fringed with long grass. Fish are sporting in the clear water, and darting when alarmed, under cover of the bank—a charming sight to Indian eyes, for that European picture is never reproduced. on the plaids of Hindoostan. On the other side is a ruined Semi, and further down are some temples, surrounded by trees, which shade tanks where sport thousands of sacred fish. On the peak of a mountain behind the camp is a white tomb which attracts the eye as the only conspicuous object of the handiwork of man. Up that broad valley is the road to Cash mere, beyond which the force has now passed, and this is NVah, meaning beautiful, one of the halting places described in " Lalla Rookh." Again the troops are on the banks of a big river, encamped on a sandy fiat, and when they look up the bed they see masses of white sand with blue streaks for miles and miles till lost iu the rugged ranges. A little higher the Cabul enters, but a chain of hills on the opposite bank intercepts all view of the valley of Peshawur. On the left of the camp there is a low range of hills, which the Force had skirted on its last march, and on the end peak overhanging the river rises the fortress of Attock. The Indus, gathering its waters from the sandy expanse over which they had meandered in the open country, and joined by the Cabal, makes a rush through the defile which appears as if cleft out of the range. The huge river then acts like a playful rivulet, rushing into the dark defile, tu:n bling, and rolling, and foaming on its course over its rocky bed. The Sepoy now stands at the extreme limit of the country which he is forbidden to cross, ' and the other bank is regarded . by the Affghan as his own. The bridge of boats had been cut away by Dost Mahomet's men, but so great was their hurry and so rapid had been Sir NV. Gilbert's advance with the cavalry and horse artillery, that it was from the right bank instead of from. the left, and bad therefore THE FOURTH OF JULY. On this clay, ninety-two years ago, the Declara tion of Independence was adopted by Congr,ss, and the United States commenced its career as a nation. To-day bonfires will blaze, and orators will spout, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande ; but it is in the great commercial metropolis of New York that these demonstrations will be most centred. Inspired by the Anniversary of American Independence, the delegates of a great national party assembled at New York will to-day unfurl their banner for the Presidential campaign, and the names of the candi dates selected and the platform adopted will give a present interest, which the recollections of the mighty birth of which the day is the anniversary will tend to heighten. We earnestly hope that the Democrats will choose wisely and decide well ; that they will select men suitable to pit against the Re publican nominees, whom Americans can heartily and unreservedly support, and that they will lay down a programme worthy of the united effort of the great Democratic organization. The event on this day celebrated should, more than any other in the history of the human race, be a warning and a caution to rulers. By it the destinies of the greatest family of that race were changed, and if the Declaration of Independence truthfully records the circumstances, this result was produced by the obstinacy and wrong-headelness of one man. We do not here discuss whether GEORGE 111. was wholly responsible, or whether the severance then effected was not sooner or later inevitable ; but turning to the instrument itself, every word records a lesson to monarchs. The manifesto says----" The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation, all having a direct object, the establishment of a tyranny over these States." After an indictment of eighteen counts the rule of that monarch is repudiated in these emphatic words—" A Prince whose character is marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." It was not till the 30th November, 1782, that the provi sional articles were signed at Paris, acknowledging in the fullest terms the independence of the United States. In a few days afterwards Parliament met, and the King used these words in communicating the fact to both houses :—" In this admitting the separation of the North Atnerican csloaiea from the Crown of these kingdoms, I have sacrificed every consideration of my own to the wishes awl opinions of my people. I make it my humble and earnest prayer to ALIEiGIITY GOD that Great Britain may not feel the evils that might result from so great a dismem berment of the Empire ; and that America may be .free from the calamities that have formerly proved in the mother country how essential Monarchy is to the eujoymentl of Censtitutianal liberty. Reli gion, language, interest, affections, may, and I hope will, yet prove a bond of p3rmanent union between the two countries: to this end neither at tention nor disposition on my part shall be want ing." What it cost GEORGE 111. to make this statement may be gathered from his own words to Lard NORTH. "I Can ne ser," he sail, " suppose this country so lost to all ideas of self-imprtance as to be willing to grant American Independence. If that word be ever universally adopted, L shall despair of this country b sing preserved from a state of inferiority. I hope never to sea that day ; for however I am treated, I must love this country." The bitterness engendered by the years of warfare which prsceded the acknowledge - seat of ladepea dence is now dying out by the lapse of time. A War greater beyond all comparisen in its proper tions has since desolated the fair face of these States, and the Northern people can reaUss in their 0 , .:11 sensations, when struggling for the preservation of 0,3 Union, the feeling; of the Bri tish King. We may cherish his last, forgetting his first, words, and forgive the obstinaey with which he persisted in that fatal straggle, knowing that he thought the severance would be the death-blow to the supremacy of his kingdom. What might have been the case had the nations remained united it is useless to conjectar e ; but each may turn with sstne pride and point to what the result has b3en. England compensate I herself in the East for her loss in the West, and her Viceroy in India rules over a hug !red millions, who acknow ledge her sway fram the Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin. Great colo nies have arisen in the Aus tralias ; a Province which still a c k now l e d ges t h e English Crown borders the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; and at this day England rules an Empire on which it is proudly said the sun never sets. Though GEORGE 111. dreaded to see the days following on the great severance of his dominions, his descendant VICTORIA sits on a throne, the security and grandeur of which his happiest dreams could scarcely h av e pictured. • But c ons id era bl e as i s the growth of the British Empire,its progress has been far outstripped by the Republic, whose birth is this day celebrated. Wit h a countr y in extent, in fer tility, and in climate e q uallin g E urope, the Ameri cans have gras p e d and worked out with suc h energ y their material advantag es, that nothing, save their own degeneracy, can prevent them f rom b ecom i ng beyond comparison the mightest nation on earth. Whatever might have been their position under mo narchial institutions not even the most rabid Tory can deny that, as Republicans, they have distanced in the speed of their advance any society hitherto erected into a nation. It is vain to allege that this is due to the country and to advantages never before con ferred on a people, for you have but to step either across the Northern or the Southern border to have such an assertion instantly refuted by hard, un deniable facts. Mexico, as rich, perhaps richer than any part of the Union, is a disgrace to civilization and to Christianity. The St. Lawrence marks the line of a considerable portion of the Northern boun dary, and who that knows that river has not been struck by the marked contrast between the acti vity on the Republican bank and the stagnation on the other. After the lapse of close upon a cen tury the States have not found monarchy to be es sential to the enjoyment of constitutional liberty. Viewed in the abstract, Republicanism is the only sound form of government. In practice it may not be so, because " the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," but one fact is true beyond question, that the benefits and per manence of a Republican government rest on the virtue of the people. A Republic requires pat riotism, enlightenment, and honesty, not merely among the few, but among the many ; and if they be wanting the country degenerates first into a Mexico, and then into the rule of one man. That America has been so successful as a Republic is due to the virtue of the mass of the people. Whisky rings may be formed and corrupt officials and bribe Legislatures, but they no more re present the masses than swell-mobsmen represent society. They are, and always will be, found in a community, and in seasons of sudden transition, when rare opportunities offer, they will be active and conspicuous till society can guard itself against their machinations. But these are mere parasites which hang on to the body politic, and die off when their noutishtnent is withdrawn, to spring up in other forms at other epochs. They are no more the produce of Republican institutions than of monarchical, and are rooted i t human depravity. Against them in all states and forms of government the people must ever guard and fight. It is not by exceptional cases that the success of Republican in stitutions in Auseric t can be judged, but by the nation as a whole. Broadly viewing the Republic, even its bitterest euesay must allow that it has been an eminent success, and that it gives promise of the brightest future that has yet dawned ou the world. But if the King was wrong in asserting Monarchy to be essential to the enjoyment of con stitutional liberty, he will, we firmly believe, be right in pre listing that R!ligion, Language, Inte i rest, and Affection would prove a bond of permanent swung round to the British side. As there could be no fording, and boats are not plentiful on that part, had it been otherwise, a considerable check would have been met at Attock. The column is now emerging from the Jackall Pass, and the Valley of Peshawur spreads out before them. It is a basin on every side surrounded by hills, a broad river running through it. Everywhere the eye alights on snowy peaks with lower :ranges forming the rim of the valley. In the immediate neighbourhood the ground is barren, a mass of shingle, as if it all had been the bed of mountain torrents which had swept it of its soil, leaving only stones. Beyond this the country comes out rich and green, and rich and green it is, being one of the most fertile tracts on earth. Among the hills to the right is the Swat Valley, one of the only spots where, if tradition be true, Alexander the Great met with a severe repulse. Some few years ago it was the scene of a desperate contest in which many Englishmen fell. Among the moun tains to the left Sir Charles Napier was destined shortly to commence a campaign, and some thirty miles or more in front, although the mountains in the distance look like a wall, is the Khyber Pass, the road to Cabool where once a British army entered, but never returned. It is late in April, but though it is hot during the day it is still bitterly cold at night. In the valley, water abounds, and the rich soil and vegetation gives a slimy luxuriance to the ground from which the sun's heat extracts disagree able odours. Kaffilahs of Affghans have frequently been 'passed, generally conveying horses to India. The men are strong, sturdy fellows, with a mass of hair and turbans, with sheep-skin coats, the woolly side in, broad trousers drawn in at the ankle, with match-lock and scimitar, dirt rendering indis tinguishable the colour of their skin. As the troops approach the city they begin to realize disagreeably the nature of the inhabitants. In one night twelve camp followers are brought in, some of them actu ally cut in two. Sentries are found hacked to pieces at their posts ; horses are stolen from the midst of the camp, and woe betide the " infidel," whether 'Endo° or Christian, at whom the " true believer" can with safety to himself get a stroke of his scimitar. Every night brings its own tale of murder, and the audacity and the ingenuity with which the inhabitants s:eal, form an end less topic of conversation and of wonder. The city is passed, and the whole force is drawn up opposite the Khyber Pass, which is approached over a wide-spread bed of shingle, with a fort standing before the entrance. The weather has at • times been growing hot, and the rays of the sun at mid-day are very powerful, for it is May. But the hot weather seemed suddenly to follow on a violent thunderstorm, accompanied by a shower of hailstone; some sufficiently large to kill baggage ponies. It is a Sunday in July, and one of the strongest of the European regiments is drawn up for church parade. The place is a garden surrounded on all rides by a huge mud wall and numerous buildings, one of which occupies a large space, and is taste hilly painted and decorated. The ground is covered with fruit trees, oranges, mulberries, pomegranates, and intersected with water courses. Not a fourth of the men who were in the ranks of the regiment when with the flying columc, are now on parade ; and though the service lasts bat twenty minutes they are falling out from every side of the square, sine fainting, and others to) faint to stand. The atmosphere has that dancing, wavy appearance which, in colder climates, can only be seen over a furnace. Bitterly cold as Peshawur is for some seven months of the year, during five there is said to be but a piece of brown paper between it and the infernal regions. The officers get into holes under ground, where they have a chance of being in some degree screened from the glare, the roaring beat parching the whole earth above. Yet as the sun sets in its blaze of fiery heat, its rays still sparkle on glistening fields of snow, and the eyes of men, wast ing under the influence of the scorching ordeal, are fastened on the summits of the Hindoo Coocht which to them forcibly recalls Moore's line— " Beholding heaven and feeling hell." This is the Wuzeer-bagh, or the Gardens of the Wuzeer, pretty to look at but death to dwell in. Mohamet Khan left it iu ruins and the abode of all mariner of reptiles. At night to put a finger on a mud wall is to take the chance of a contact with a black scorpion. Twenty and thirty might be seen at once, and one fetus to touch any object without a careful examination. The air is alive with wasps and musical with mos quitoes, and as he who rode but a short distance into the country does so at the imminent risk of his life, the first residence of the troops at Peshawur is far from being a delightful episode to any of them. A great cantonment now lies between the city and the Pass massed in a square, with guards around and every foot the beat of a sentry or the path of a patrol, for the Affgban knife is still the silent messenger of death, and hill robbers even to this hour, in spite of guards, patrols, and sentries, steal horses from the, stable and gallop under a fusillade from the station. The country, so pain" fully traversed by the flying column, is now the line of a splendid military road planned and formed by Sir Robert Napier, the engineer General who 130 just made himself famous in Abyssinia, and even the track for a railroad has been surveyed. B ll° the ground is to the last degree difficult for the operation of armies, the plains of India only com mencing from the Jhelum. Six great rivers hate to be crossed ere the left bank of the Sutlej is gained, and although the climate for six months i° splendid, for the other six perhaps nowhere else i° the heat more intense. Alexander the Great, when, he penetrated to the Chu na b, ma d e th e m i s t a ke 0 1 attempting to retrace his steps through Beloochis" tan, and lost his army in the arid deserts. 'libel is no other path to India but by the Khyber an': the Bholan, and all conquerors h ave p as sed a" Attock. Those who imagine that when the Rus sian army debouch from the hills at the Peshavitif end of the Khyber Pass they enter upon the plaia° of India are greatly mistaken. They come from n more difficult to a less difficult country. The/ penetrate through tremendous ranges and narrof gorges into minor ranges and lesser gorges, until they get into the Doab between the Jhelum and the Chenab, where the Seikhs fought the last campaign against the British. There is but one road to guarnt, one line of country to occupy. The attention 0 ; the General cannot be diverted from the spot of vital importance by any manoeuvre, nor can It flank be turned. No troops can get on this line communication except as mere bands of robbert for the country cannot be penetrated to the righ; or to the left by any regular force. It may ha l, ' been a mistake to have occupied Peshawur, air doubtless the Valley would have been restored to the Affghans from whom the Seikhs had wrenched it bad it not been that Dost Mahomet aided the o in their last campaign against British India' Beyond the Jhelum the country is worthless, ali t at any rate the Indus ought to be the utrnes boundary. Now the great battle must, we pre; snare, if it has to be fought, be fought in Peshawur but the post is already too far advanced witho ut ' multiplying the difficulties indefinitely by the °cal' pation of Cabool, Candahar, and Herat. The llungarian Diet is about to have laid befor e it a marriage bill similar to that just passed in Aus" trig. The Liberal and irreligious party at Pest li entertain little doubt that the measure will pass, but the clergy are organising an active opposition to 1 ; which there is good reason to believe will succee d in defeating it. Births. DENNIS—On the 3d inst., at Foulksmill, county Wexford' Ireland, the lady of Major-General J. B. Dennis, B-P 1 of a daughter. PARTRIDGE—On the Gth inst., at The Limes, South Fag park, Anerley, the wife of W. H. Partridge, Esq., °' SOD. ROWLAND—On the 7th inst., at Arrandale, Laurie-Par/4 Sydenham, the wife of Henry E. Rowland, of a son. Marriages. tef ADAMS —MADELEY—Oa the Gth inst., at Broaus ,i .-- g , Church, Sussex, Edward Samuel, son of G eorg e Ada n ) 4s Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Servic e , t o H anna h, eid e ; daughter of the late George E. Dlad e l e y, Esq., of KO"' iugtou. br PLATT—HUNT—On the 7th inst., at St. Saviour's uu.-. 44 Maida-hill, /-tuuro Platt, Esq., of Manor 13 1 . , South Wales, to Rosa, youngest daughter of the late 11. Hunt, Esq., of Norwood. Deaths. • ,41' ALLAN —On the fith l us t at 7 Chichester-terrace, Br i ll ton, Wm. Allan, Esq., - of Hillside, Edinburgh, aged 33 * lluttuiDGE—On the 20th May, at Mai Wahaiz, Abyssioir, Capt. Thomas Bunidge, 4th (King's Own) Royal nog uncut. ELLNKHORN— On the 30th ult., at the Cavalry Depot, P t o li ; terbury, Major 11. Illinkliorn, Superintendent 01 " Riding Department of the Army. EEDGRAVE—On the sth inst., .o at Upper Close, orl,"- Joseph Redgrave, EA., aged 91. SHILLITO—On the 4th inst., at Wakefield, Henry Sh" aged 71. 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