The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT; vii..4_ll L1970' Mr. Disraerbeitillid, - witn Derne 7eason, sis Bard fate in that, before he had been a meek in office, the vast, long standing Irish question was thrust on him, and was made specially his, and he was Called on to settle it. What he meant, says the Saturday Review, was, that thl Irish ques. tion is, as he frankly expressed . it in a lat4rart of his speech, an artificial question 'altogether, 'kot up by Mr. Gladstone for his own advantage. That Mr. Gladstone is uncommonly glad Of the Irish, or any other Ceestion . , that affords him a reasonable p ros peet o f annoying, defeating, and possibly turning but his rival, may be sufficiently gathered from Mr. Gladstone's own speech. But it is part of the great mi s t a k e i n t o w hi c h M r. Disraeli has fallen, on his entrance into a new phase of public life, that he should believe that the Irish question is no question at all, and that Mr. Gladstone. or any other adroit, revengeful, and unscrupulous opponent, could have got it up. It is very annoying, and, in a certain sense, hard on Ministers, that all of a sudden the attention of England should be set on Ireland ; but as it happens to be so set, it is very poor policy to pretend to think lightly of an occasion that every one outside the Ministry thinks very grave. For four long nights the House of Commons has discussed Ireland and everything Irish, and the general result is that Parliament has decided that there is something wrong in the state of Ireland which it lies within the duty and power of the Imperial Legislature to remedy. A states man would have recognised the growth and the justice of the feeling, and would have tried to direct, to modify, and to utilise it. It is hard on Mr. Disraeli that, when other Prime Ministers have sometimes gone on for years without being found out, he should have been so unlucky as to have his statesmanship tested at the very outset of his tenure of office. Of the mode in which the Ministry have, in fact, dealt with the great question brought before them it is impossible to speak too strongly. Mr. Gladstone's deliberate declaration that " the Irish Church must cease to exist" was not only, the Imperial _Review points out, a grave expression of personal opinion ; it was something more even than a manifesto of a body of politicians. It undoubtedly marks a turning point in contemporary politics. It is certainly by a singular destiny that Mr. Gladstone should he the leader under whom the discordant sections of Ultramontanes and Nonconformists, Radicals and Infidels, should unite to attempt the destruction of the Irish Church. Mr. Gladstone has been too constant and consistent, how ever, in tergiversation to render it possible to express surprise, or natural to feel indignation, at his last proof of apostasy from the faith of a lifetime. He has now hazarded the fortunes of his party on a policy of revolution. It is scarcely possible to doubt what the result will be of the issue that he has raised. Whilst the debate on Ireland "practically resolved itself into declarations by the Liberal leaders of a policy of ecclesiastical spoliation, it is remarkable that no attempt was made to demonstrate the benefits that would result from the destruction of the Church. Vague asser tions were abundant ; arguments were totally wanting. Mr. Gladstone could only advance an opinion that the question of the Church was " at the root of all other questions, surrounding and pervading them, and con stituting, as it were, the very atmosphere within which all these other questions have to be touched and handled." But this eloquent and hazy rendering of the wild declama tion of the opponents of endowments has yet to be justified. It has yet to be shewn what practical evils the existence of the Church involves, and how far it is responsible for the prevailing discontent. It has yet, too, to be proved what practical benefits will be derived from its abolition. The political evils that will follow on the spoil. ation of the Church are apparent enough. The alienation of the Protestant people is the almost inevitable result. No slight ingenuity will be required to shew any advan tages that can be hoped for sufficient to outweigh even this peril. On the higher ground of moral right and justice, the supporters of the Church hold an unassailable position. On the lower ground of political expediency, the argu ments against confiscation of the Church revenues have not yet been met. Mr. Disraeli is, remarks the John Bull, blamed for not seeing that the time has arrived for a settlement of the Irish question. No one is more desirous than the Govern ment that some steps should be taken that would pacify Ireland, and they propose measures which, if modest, are at least practical for that intent. But the Government may well ask for answers to two questions. Why for so many years, when the Liberal party was in power, was no measure brought forward for the disestablishment of the Irish Church ? and what security have we that if the Irish Establishment is swept away to-morrow, the agitation which is unconnected across St. George's Channel with the Church will cease ? The Spectator seems to regard a change of Ministry con sequent on Mr. Gladstone's resolution as certain. It does not go quite so far, however, as to name the new Cabinet. It would be easy, though it would he premature, to name a Cabinet at least as anti-aristocratic as Mr. Disraeli's, with its four dukes in esse or in posse, and one which would leave the country nothing to regret in the change of Ministry, except, perhaps, the removal of Lord Stanley from the Foreign Office. That, no doubt, is to be re gretted ; first, because the country has a confidence in his judgment which, whether well or ill founded, is of itself a source of strength, enabling him, as it does, to act with decision even against the prejudices of his own followers; and because the Liberals happen to be without any man marked out by common consent for the Foreign Office ; but it must be remembered that for the day our important foreign business is with America, that the Cabinet must contain several men who understand our relations with the Union as well even as Lord Stanley, and that one office, even when well filled, does not make a Ministry. The work to be done is not foreign work, and in every other department, from the Chancellorship to the Ministry of Education, the country will gain by the vofe which, we trust, will at the same moment terminate an injustice which has endured for three centuries, and expel a Premier who in thirty years of parliamentary life has carried but one measure of importance. Mr. Disraeli has had his chance ; he has chosen to yield to men less keen-witted than himself, and for the sake of the empire as well as Ireland, the Liberals must resume the respon sibility of the Imperial policy, of which they have never abdicated the control. The London Review protests against the sensational portion of the leading columns of our newspapers. Are there any people, asks the reviewer, who enjoy their breakfast better by becoming at the same time sentimental over a murder ? If such there be, for them are murder. leaders written. The murder-leader has no other excuse for its appearance. The writer knows nothing more about the murder—oftentimes he knows less—than the man who has just read in another column the details of the crime. He has nothing to say in accusation or defence which is likely to throw any light on the affair ; and while the case is not concluded, he has not even the chance of trying to do that. Murder-leaders are the merest catchpenny efforts in newspaper literature ; and are written in order to make capital out of the temporary and morbid excite ment of the public. Now, as the writer of these cheerful essays can tell us nothing new about the crime which has been committed, he restricts himself to firinga volley of moral warnings over the criminal's untimely end. He never hints, for a moment, that society ought to be secretly glad of the excuse to get permanently rid of a ruffian ; for the sentiment of the day does not lie in that direction. He carefully avoids, as far as is practicable, hurting the feelings of the man about to be hanged. He points out to the public and to the cianvicted person that, after all, the latter was a ye/ . wicked man to do as he did, and that we really must stop this sort of thing, painful as it must be to him and ourselves. These articles our contemporary would really like to see abolished. Whoever wishes to vary his boiled eggs, chops, or red mullet with a good dose of murder can always turn to the orcFnary reports, which are surely copious enough. The emotions to be awakened by this pleasant occupation are sufficiently obvious without the aduitional infliction of a sentimental article, The ri.isthetic aspects of a brutal murder are a study which we should prefer to see trans ferred to the Police .News, where alone it can be treated sympathetically and fairly. It is degrading to newspaper men to force them to become the purveyors of essence of murder, even were the commodity more savoury than it is. Murd ers arc so common nowa d ays th a t one ' s impres sion of their novelty has entirely disappeared ; and it is •na , surely aggravating the unpleasant consaquences of this prevailing disposition to kill to insist upon our gloating over every possible view of the crime just after we get out of bed. The Soturdail presents its readers with one of the very class of leaders objected to the London Review. Our contemporary deals w ith the argument that murder cannot be eradicated by education There is, indeed, some troth in the assertion. As a rule, owever, we may hope that murderers even of the persons class will tend to become rarer, as sanguine moralists entertain a similar hope about that which some irilumdeclare to be an organised system of public murder. cannot be doubted gh we have not reached the period of universal peace, it b te n r ds more if that, on the whole, wars tend to become t l ) ferent diffi cult than heretofore. Everything which nations together makes war a snore costly and o ctin able amusement, and intellectual improvemej e equally to bring them to a quicker conclusion and to te p n r d o s vltle a greater variety of distractions fir reasonable-- Iy.2ings. This last circumstance must tell to some e . tent in the case of war- between individuals. It 1; very sehlom worth while fora man in a tolerably com f„rtol,l,2 position to dwell upon such uncomfortable feelings palonsy or revenge. A man suffering from the ennui of ignorance, without books or newspapers or any variety of antus.2ment, had time to nurse his revenge, and was prohahly in the constant presence of his enemy. In a more complex and exciting state of society he has infinite distractions, and finds it simpler to cut his adversary than to ki'l him. If he is jilted by, a yoang lady, he can easily lose sight of her, and find an hid finite mintier of conso la,Lioes in any pursuit fur which be has a fancy. A certain school of moralists is apt to complain of the growing want of energy and originality in modern days. The fact is, that the condition of things which stimulates eccentricity and is favourable to strong outbursts of passion is that in which men are comparatively isolated, and left to brood over their own feelings. If we are apt in the present day to be rubbed down in the social mill, and lose some pie. thresque figures in consequence, we have the advantage that, along with some loss in originality, we also lose the tendency to exaggerated vices and crimes of the more brutal stamp. And, after all, however much murder may Lc refined, it will always b e liable to shock peopl e o f cul tivated taste and the self-control which becomes a second ricture decent society. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. A short bill, presented by the Earl of Lichfield, having for its object the amendment of the laws relating to friendly societies, Government annuities, and life assurance, has been published. It is provided that no child under seven years shall be a member ; that any agent of a friendly society transferring a member thereof to another society without his consent in writing shall be liable on conviction to a penalty of not less than 405., and not exceeding £5 ; that when a member has been in the habit of paying his contribution to a collector, such member should not incur any penalty or forfeiture until after a written notice from the society or its secretary, requiring him to pay the amount within a reasonable time, shall have been received by him. In the case of friendly societies carry ing on business by means of agents or collectors, the Acts of 1858 and 1855 are to be assimilated so far as regards the reference of disputes to justices of the peace. Branches, lodges, or courts, may adopt alterations made by the parent society, and duly certified, and the same shall be binding upon the members of those branches wii.hout any further certificate from the registrar. In the case of a branch separating itself from the parent society, the amount of interest in its funds to which any member of that branch not consenting to such separation shall be entitled, shall, upon the appli cation of the member, be determined by the oounty c o urt judge of the district, who shall order the amount to which he is entitled to be paid by the treasurer of the society, It is also provided that the general statement of the funds and effects shall contain a detailed account of every expenditure separate and distinct from the money paid on account of the benefits contributed for. The judge of a county court may order the accounts of societies within his district to be audited by some com petent person at the expense of the society. Ihe bill also provides for the repeal of so much of the Act 27 and 28 Vic. as provides that no contract for payment to be made on death, as therein mentioned, shall be of a less amount than £2O, and of so much as provides that no sum in respect of instalments or premiums payable at one time shall be of less amount than two shillings. TUE POOR LAWS. The draft of the bill presented to the House of Lords by the Earl of Devon, the object of which is to make fur ther amendments in the laws relating to the relief of the poor, has been published. This bill proposes to confer upon the Poor-law Board the powers contained in the 32nd sec tion of the Poor-law Amendment Act, 1834, with respect to any union, without the concurrence of a majority of not less than two-thirds of the guardians, as is men tioned in that section. The Board may add any parish the population of which does not exceed 300 to some adjoining parish for the purpose of the election of guardians, and may appoint any officer of the union if the guardians fail to make such an appointment within twenty-one days after the receipt of a requisition from the Poor-law Board in that behalf. The Board may also appoint a competent person to act vs visitor, the salary to he paid by the guardians ; and may also order drainage works, furniture, surgical or other appliances that may be considered necessary for any workhouse. The provisions contained in the Poor-law Amendment Act, 1844, as amended and extended by subsequent Acts, which relate to the formation of school districts, shall be extended and made applicable to the combination of unions and parishes out of the metropolis into districts for the reception and relief of imbecile and insane persons, and the guardians may, with the consent of the Poor-law Board, pay the cost of idiots sent to asylums for patients of that kind. The consent of a majority of the guardians is to be sufficient for the formation of a school district, mid after the 29th of September next all charges which, according to the Act of of 1844, would have been made upon the common fund of any district formed under this Act, is to be borne by the several unions or parishes comprised in the district. Workhouse masters are to keep separate registers of the religious creeds of the inmates ; and in the case of children under 14 years of- age, entries are to he made of the religious creed of the parents, unless it be shewn that baptism has taken place according to the forms of some other religion. Every inmate for whom no reli gious service according to his own creed is provided in the workhouse will be enabled, if this bill pass into law, to go to his own place of worship on a Sunday or any other day required by his religion to be kept sacred. So much of the Poor-law Amendment Act, 18G4, as provides for the election of district auditors is to be repealed, and the Poor-law Board is to have the appointment of those officers in its own hands. Provision is made for the incorporation of certain extra parochial places ; and the bill also proposes that where appeals are brought at the same time against the poor rates of several parishes in the adjoining unions, and in which some common principle appears to be involved, the guar dians of those unions may combine to resist them and share the costs. The bill also contains clauses relating to the maintenanence of wives and children, and the collection of rates, and proposes to repeal the penalty imposed on churchwardens and overseers for supplying materials or provisions for the use of any workhouse. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. GRANTRAM. —A very energetic canvass is now being carried on by the supporters of Mr. Edmund Turner (son of Mr. Christopher Turner, lord of the manor of Stoke, Rochford), who has come forward as the Conservative candidate for Grantham. An address has been issued by Mr. Hugh H. Cholmeley, son of Sir Montagu John Cholmeley, of Easton Hall, Coltsworth, formerly a mem ber for the borough. The address is in the broadest Liberal principles, advocating vote by ballot, and the dis establishment of the Irish Church. It is probable that Mr.Cholmeley will have the support of the Earl of Dysart and Mr. Tollemache. STIRLING. - Mr. Campbell will meet the electors and non-electors on Monday evening. The prevailing feeling in Stirling among the electors seems to be against pledging themselves to any candidate until they have heard their views on public questions more fully. The addresses of Mr. Campbell and Mr. Ramsay have been circulated among the electors, and both seem to give generally great satisfaction. Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Campbell will be the only candidates in the field, Mr. W. D. Christie, late British Minister at Brazil, and formerly member for Wey mouth, having generously withdrawn in favour of Mr. Ramsay. ESSEX.-It appears that Mr. A. Douglas Hamilton has some intention of offering himself to the eleaors of South Essex as a Liberal-Conservative candidate. Mr. A. John ston, one of the selected Liberal candidates for the divi sion, has this week addressed a meeting at Stratford, and was pretty well received. Mr. Wingfield Baker, the other Liberal candidate, does not appear to give entire satisfaction to the Dissenting poation of the Liberal party. It seems that Mr. A. Trollope was also pro posed to the Liberal committee which met recently at the Green Dragon Inn, Bishopsgate-street Without, but that Mr. Johnston obtained the most votes, Mr. Baker being chosen unanimously. It is not improbable that Mr. C. Du Cane will offer himself for North-west Essex at the dissolution, in conjunction with either Lord E. Cecil or Mr. Selwin-Ibbetson. Other candidates who have been " mentioned " as candidates for one or other division of Essex are Captain Luard (Liberal), Mr. J. Clayden (Con servative), and Colonel Ruggles -Brine (Conservative). The last-named gentleman has been endeavouring to obtain a seat for the county for ten years past. PERTHSHIRE. —The elevation of Sir W. Stirling. Maxwell to the peerage will necessarily cause a vacancy in the representation of Perthshire. Speculations have been already set afloat as to his probable successor. We learn that in the eastern divisions of the county the name of Mr. Stirling, of Kippendavie, the chairman of the North British Railway Company, has been received with consi derable favour. He adheres to the Conservative traditions of his family, but he is known as a first-rate man of business, and is personally very popular.—North Mail. The value of the telegraphic wire and apparatus exported from the "United Kingdom last year was £209,688, as compared with £312,288 in 1866, and £143,679 in 1865. Worcester Cathedral has just been enriched by the completion last week of an exceptionally handsome reredos erected at a cost of £1,500 by the Dean of Worcester, as a memorial of his lamented wife. It is understood that Sir Brook Bridges will be called to the House of Lords under the title of Lord Fitzwalter, and Sir John 'Trollop° under that of Lord Kesteven. Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell will probably select the title of Lord Stirling of heir, and Sir J. B. Walsh that of Lord Ornathwaite. THE SNIDLr. RIFLE.—Vice-Chancellor Ciirard has had before him the case of Snider v. Roden. It was a bill filed by the son and executor of Jacob Snider, the inventor and one of the patentees of the Snider rifle, to have an account taken of all moneys come to the hands of the defendant, Cul. Roden, by way of profits arising from the working of a patent granted iu 1862 to Messrs. Schneider and Jacob Snider for an invention for improve ment in the construction of breech-loading firearms, and from granting licenses under the patent, or by way of com pensation from Government, in respect thereof. On the one hand, it was contended that Colonel Roden had received money enough from the Government to cover all transac tions between him and the inventor. The defendant denies this, and on the part of the plaintiff an account was asked for. The defendant did not oppose, and inquiry into several matters was ordered. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV Programme of Epsom Spring Meeting. Stewards—Hon. Admiral bus, Duke of Beaufort, Duko of Newcastle, and A. Heathcote, Esq. Clerk of the Course—Mr. H. Doring. TUESDAY, March 24. The Trial Stakes of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ; three year olds 7st 11b, four Bst 71b, five Bst 131 b, six aad aged 9st; mares and geldings allowed 3113; the winner to be sold for 500 sovs, if for 200 allowed 51b, if not to be sold 91b extra. One mile. The United Railway Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 100 added; two year olds Gst 51b, three Bst 51b, four 9st 61b, five, six, and aged 9st 81b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs, if for 50 allowed 41b, if for 40 716. Half a mile. The Beaufort Stakes of 100 soya, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; the winner to be sold for 100 Boys. Half a mile. The City and Suburban Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft ; the last mile and a quarter. Age st lb Lanerot ... 5 9 2 Knight of the Garter 4 9 1 Van Amburgh 4 8 7 Hippia ...4 8 3 Ceylon ... ... 5 8 2 Blinkhoolie ... 4 8 1 Abergeldie ... 5 7 12 The Corporal 4 7 12 Special 5 7 9 Leases ... 4 7 8 Actwa 5 7 7 Nemea 4 7 6 Ines ... 4 7 6 Feodor 4 7 6 Cheltenham 4 7 5 Honestish 4 7 4 Goojerat 5 7 4 Lord of the Dales 4 7 3 Thalia ...5 7 2 Fitz-Ivan ... 4 7 1 Lady Coventry 3 7 0 Germanique 5 7 0 Montagnard 4 7 0 All in the Dark ... 4 7 0 Miss Harriette ... 5 613 Fire-eater 5 6 13 Speculum ... 3 6 12 Belzoni 5 6 12 Cauthleen ... 4 6 10 Lictor 3 6 10 Conundrum ... 5 6 10 Attack colt ... 4 6 9 The Breach ... 4 6 9 Tremble 4 6 9 Ravioli ... 4 6 8 Clarice ... ... 4 6 8 Paul Jones ... 3 6 7 Caucasus ... ... 4 6 7 Chelsea ... ... 3 6 7 Gipsy King ... 4 6 7 Proserpino ... 5 6 6 Grey Stocking ... 5 6 6 Mayflower 4 6 6 Vendome ... 4 6 5 Contempt ... 3 6 5 Rabbit Trap ... 4 6 5 Catton 3 6 5 The Stamford Plate of 100 so winners (matches excepted 51b extra. Half a mile. Age st lb Liddington 6 9 6 Huntsman ... 4 8 12 ikd 4 8 8 Salliet 6 8 8 Paris ". a 8 7 Claymore ... ... 48 7 Chapel Royal ... 5 8 6 Dick Turpin 4 8 5 Historian a 8 4 Tumbler 4 7 12 Sycee 4 7 12 Problem 4 7 12 Goodfellow ... 4 7 11 Monarch of Glen... 5 7 8 Fal-lai ... 4 7 8 M. of Worcester ... 4 7 6 Parma ... ... 4 7 6 Icicle 4 7 6 Miss Frances 4 7 6 Narino 4 7 5 Innerdale 3 7 4 Weather Isle 3 7 4 Warrior a 7 3 Belphegor 3 7 2 Cromwell 4 7 2 Lightning 6 7 1 Milton ... ... 3 7 0 Balsamo 3 6 13 Magician ... 5 6 12 Miss Hayes 4 6 12 Freemason 4 6 12 Tina ... Age st lb Chivalry ... 3 6 5 Clemence ... 3 6 5 Slanderer ... 3 6 4 The Parson 3 6 3 Bessie Dixon 3 6 3 The Dean ... 4 6 2 Kettleholder 3 6 2 Manoeuvre f ... 4 6 1 Redbourne... ... 4 6 1 Rhine Wine 3 6 1 Milton ... 3 6 1 Skipjack ... 4 6 0 Adam Bede ... 4 6 0 Lord Palmerston... 3 6 0 Weather Isle ... 3 6 0 Stradbroke 4 6 0 Lady Rosehill ... 4 6 0 Priority ... ... 4 513 Child of the islands 4 5 13 Clairon 3 5 12 Russian Bear 3 5 11 The Returned ... 3 510 Brother to Knight . . _ _ of the Crescent... 3 5 10 Nyanza ... 3 5 10 Lady Diana ... 3 5 10 Anthony 3 5 10 Vortigern ... 3 5 10 Eastley 3 5 10 Sour Grapes ... 3 5 9 Demon ... ... 3 5 8 Citron 3 5 7 Corinne ... 3 5 7 Lucetta ... 3 5 7 Choral ... ... 3 5 7 Logarithm ... 3 5 7 Aquila ... ... 3 5 7 Papillon ... ... 3 5 7 Pic-nic ... 3 5 7 Lionel ... 3 5 7 Licymnia ... 3 5 7 Wild M00r... ... 4 pd Vigorous ... ... 5 pd Eleonora ... 3 pd Numa Pompilius ... 4 pd Franchise ... 3 pd Capt. Kidd 4 dead ,vs (handicap) for all ages ; ) after March 19, at 10 a.m., Age st lb Veni ... 4 6 7 B. of Promise ... 4 6 7 Elfrida 3 6 6 ltedivivus ... 3 6 5 Chantilly ... 3 6 5 Valeria ... ... 5 6 4 Heather Bell ... 3 6 3 Prince George ... 3 6 3 Patrician 6 2 Solitaire ... 3 6 1 Macduff, by Glen- _ mason ... 3 6 0 Spitfire ... 3 6 0 Festival ... 3 51'2 Curfew 8.11 ... 3 5 11 C by Lambton— Norna ... 3 5 10 Warlike ... 3 5 10 Brown Jug ... 3 5 10 Epworth ... 3 5 10 Laird of Scotland 3 5 9 Clovis 3 5 7 Sultana ... 3 5 Lady Zetland, by Voltigeur ... 3 5 7 Lady Gloncora ... 3 5 7 Na❑ny Thormanby 2 5 7 Sister, to Veda ... 2 5 7 Lure ... 2 5 7 Grand Turk ... 2 5 7 Alibi ... ... 2 5 7 C by Caterer—Vio lation, 2 yrs wr. nom •.• 5 6 10 vision 5 6 10 Nerthern Star 3 6 8 The lleathcote Plate (handicap of 100 sovs. for all ages ; winners (matches excepted) after March 19, at 10 a.m., 51b extra. Now T.Y.C. (three-quarters of a mile). Age st lb Age st lb 5 9 4 Ligurian 3 7 0 ▪ 4 8 11 Prof. Anderson ... 5 7 ▪ 4 8 8 Bolphegor ... 3 7 0 • a 8 7 Cromwell ... 4 612 ... 5 8 6 Freemason .. 4 6 12 • 5 8 6 llop Leaf ... 5 610 ▪ a 8 4 Defiance ... 4 6 9 • a 8 4 Lord Palmerston ... 3 6 8 luntsman 4 8 3 Catalino 4 6 7 ,eases ... 4 8 1 Tina 5 6 7 Dick Turpin ... 47 13 Bird o f Promise ... 4 6 6 Mistletoe (inc. 51b ex)s 7 13 Itedivivus 3 6 4 Tumbler ... 4 7 12 Traviata .. 3 6 4 Orion ... ... 37 12 Chantilly ... 3 6 4 Grand Duke ..1 7 12 Fawn 3 6 0 Mon. of Glen ... 5 710 Patrician 3 6 0 Fakir 4 7 8 Warlike 3 5 12 Milton ... ... 3 7 7 llerrenianus 3 512 Veda ... ... 3 7 7 Manton 3 5 10 Jeanie Deans 4 7 7 Lady Morgan 3 5 10 Lightning ... 6 7 4 L. of Scotland 3 5 10 Narino 4 7 4 Lady Glencora ... 3 5 7 Weather Isle ... 37 3 Sultana ... ••• 3 5 7 Conundrum ... b 7 2 Dunoon ••• 3 6 7 Di Vernon... ... 37 2 Adventuress 2 5 7 Warrior a 7 1 Clifton ... 2 5 7 The Two Year Old Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; the second re rceives. 25 sovs out of the stakes. Half a mile. 58 subs. Bismarck ... Silenus Reindeer ... Chapel Royal Mr Pitt ... Historian Paris ... Mdlle. de Flygny, Buffoon, Little Lord, Night Stroller, Lucina, Bay Rosalind colt, De Vera, Black Jimmy, Lam poon, Ambush colt, Glenmore, Goatfell, Kamschatka, Con stellation colt, Bonnie Katie, Ampleforth, Arlington, Armada, Tested colt, St. Agnes colt, Resistance, Banco, Trompette, Maid of Avenel, Martyr, Her Grace, Mrs. O'Rourke filly, Sunflower filly, Masqkverade filly, Antias, Electricity, Stockwith, Lena, Sea Breeze Chillianwallah, Burton, Artist, Medoc, Noyro Tauren, Cardinal York, Skyscraper, La Rose, Duchess colt, King Alfred's dam colt, Waterwitch colt, Rigolboche filly, The Rajah, Va nichka, Albert, Indemnity filly, Badsworth, Workman, INroful, Lord Falmouth, Vanbrugh, Scottish Rose, and Kilmun. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The only telegrams are as follows from Wash ing, dated March 14 :—" Attorney-General Stan berry has resigned, in order to defend President Johnson at the impeachment trial."—"The Senate Court has ordered President Johnson to file au an swer to the Articles of Impeachment on or before the 23d inst. The Court has adjourned till that date."—“ Attorney-General Stanberry, Judges Nelson and Black, and Generals Curtis and Ewart have appeared as witnesses for President Johnson." And from New York on the same date—" Accord ing to Messrs. Neill's report, the week's receipts have been 67,000 bales, and since Ist September, 1,800,000 bales. Exports to Great Britain for the week, 69,000 bales ; since Ist September, 842,000 bales. Exports to France for the week, 2,000 bales ; since Ist September, 168,000 bales. Exports to other foreign ports for the week, 9,000 bales ; since Ist September, 181,000 bales. Total exports for the week, 80,000 bales ; since Ist September, 1,198,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 320,000 bales. Southern markets excited. Although not positively stated, it is generally believed that the President has selected as his counsel George Ticknor Curtis, David Dudley Field, William M. Evarts, Charles O'Conor, Caleb Cushing, Jeremiah Black, and Attorney-General Stanberry. The Springfield Republican says that the Senate is likely to hear some independent dis cussion of their own measures from the learned counsel, who are not likely to be apologetic, and not unlikely to impeach the Congress. Curtis will glory in giving the Senators elementary lessons on the Constitution. Field, as usual, will be lordly, lofty, dogmatic. Evarts, the bosom friend of the wily Seward, will benefit by the most intimate thoughts of the subtle Secretary. Cunor combines in himself all the best elements of Celtic eloquence. Of the opposing counsel, Wilson, of lowa, is a very able man ; Bingham, of Ohio, is, celebrated for his rhetorical ability ; and Butler, of Massachusetts, for unequalled legal audacity. The Ohio Republican Convention nominated Grant for President, and Wade for Vice-President The Maine Convention, on the strength of its greenback resolution, has declared for Pendleton. The Maryland Republican Convention endorsed General Grant for President. Of the 101 delegates elected in Pennsylvania to the National Republican Convention, 76 have declared for, or been instructed to vote for, Governor Curtin for Vice-President, 1 for Mr. Grow, and eight for Governor Geary. Of the remaining 33 delegates yet to be elected, Go vernor Curtin's friends confidently claim a majo rity. The Rhode Island Republicans have called a State Convention, which was to meet at Providence on the 11th instant. The Republicans triumphed everywhere in the municipal elections in Maine, though Portland failed to elect a Mayor. In the New York municipal elections the Democrats car ried Rochester, Utica, Elmira, and Troy ; and the Republicans Oswego and Auburn. General Sickles was one of the most effective speakers on the Re publican side in the canvas in New Hampshire, and the President has rewarded him by an order to join his regiment in Michigan, but as this regimental employ does not suit a General who has held high com mands he will resign. I t was thought that the Re publicans would carry New Hampshire by a ma jority of 3,234 in the election on the 10th inst. The resolution of the Maine Democratic Conven tion, which met on the 3d March, to pay the 5-20's in greenbacks, has taken many by surprise, showing, as it does, the spread of the repudiation infection even into the strongholds of the bondholders. On the following day the Democratic Convention of Pennsylvania resolved, that " the Five-Twenty Bonds and the Legal-Tender notes are component parts of the same financial system, and until the Government is able to redeem the Legal-Tenders in coin, the holders of these bonds should bo re quired to receive Legal-Tenders in payment," and that " every species of property should bear its fair proportion of taxation, and that the exemption of Government bond, therefrom is unjust and ineplit able." Also, on the 4th, the Republican Conven tion in Ohio, resolved that " the Republican party pledges itself to the faithful payment of the public debt, according to the laws under which the Five-Twenty Bonds were issued. Said bonds should be paid in the currency of the country, which may be a Legal-Tender when the Government shall be prepared to redeem such bonds." The Ohio Convention favours an expan sion of the paper currency. Five-Twenties have risen in the London market, influenced by their strength in New York. If these bonds can rise in the face of the clear decision of the country to pay them in greenbacks, we may argue that their holders are fond of " shin-plaisters," and the rise will be more decided when the expansion theory has itself expanded from the West over the Union. We would advise the holders of Five-Twenties to make themselves acquainted with the subject—to learn what expansion really means. The Nation calls it insanity ; .we call it repudiation. Nationally speak ing, inflation is insanity ; morally, it is gross dis honesty; materially, it is wholesale spoliation, the annihilation of all debts in the United States ; that is, if carried to the length proposed which alone would enable the United States even momentarily to benefit by the measure. Allan M'Donald, on a charge of smuggling, was arrested by a Michigan sheriff when on British territory and brought into the United States, and this violation of the extradition treaty led to a correspondence between the English Minister and the Washington Secretary of State. Mr. Seward has informed Mr. Thornton that the United States o Government, disapproving of the sheriff's action, has directed Allan M'Donald to be taken back to Canada and set at liberty. The English Minister states the high gratification her Majesty's Govern ment will receive from this offer, and declines, on his own responsibility, to allow Allan M'Donald to be set at liberty in Canada. lie assures the Secre tary of State that the English have no sympathy with the individual in question, and that he was far from inspired by any wish to withdraw a convicted criminal from punishment, being desirous, with Mr. Seward's assistance, to prevent any conflict between the authorities of the two countries. The action of the American Government and the response of Mr. Thornton are in the highest degree satisfactory signs of the good feeling springing up between the two nations. The Senate has rejected the nomination of Col. Moses N. Wisewell, of New York, as Commis sioner of Internal Revenue, in succession to Mr. Rollins. No action has been taken on the nomi nation of General M'Clellan as Minister to Eng land. The Committee of Foreign relations will report unfavourably, and the Senate will reject the nomination. The President has not made any new nominations of consequence. Chief-Justice Chase declared the Senate, after the members had taken the oath, to be a High Court of Impeachment. As a Hall of Justice the Court is a sort of loose box in which every animal is given its head ; strict l ega l ru l es not applying to impeach. ment cases. Fresh t es ti m ony can be brought in at any time ; special pleading is allowable ; the offence charged is malfaisance in office, not technical in crime. The Springfield Republican asserts that the penalties are two. According to Art. 2, section 3, clause 7 of the Constitution, "Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold or enjoy any office of honour, trust, or profit under the United States." From this it areues that removal from office does not necessarily disqualify the person from holding office hereafter—the penalties being two, not one, and it being necessary in delivering judgment to inflict the second if the first be not considered a sufficient punishment. The second penalty is held to be by far the more severe, as it is irreversible ; there being no power on earth to remove the disqualifica tion, while the form er may b e rectified by re-elec tione- tion if the people consider the sentence unjust. The Republican cites the only case of impeachment con viction in the national history of Judge John Pick ering, of the United States District Court of New Hampshire, who was impeached in 1803, convicted of conduct unbecoming a judge, and simply removed from his seat—no disqualification attaching to the judgment, Article 2, section 4, clause 1, provides ,NING, MARCH 21, 1868. that " The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, trea son, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemean ours." The Springfield Republican adds—" It fol lows from this that removal from office is essential to a judgment in cases of impeachment, while dis qualification is not essential, but optional." On the sth instant a fatal riot took place on Ward's Island, in New York harbour, between some lately-arrived Irish and German emigrants, when 50 or GO persons were wounded, 17 severely, and four, it is feared, fatally, 20 rioters being ar rested. This island, in Est River, has been se lected by the Commissioners of Emigration as a depot for the purpose of housing the new-comers till they can procure employment, and the buildings of the Committee of Public Charities and Correc tions of the Corporation of New York are located on it. The riot arose _from a trivial occurrence, when an Irishman was stabbed. The Germans ap pear first to have concerted an attack, which was replied to by the Irish breaking into the tool-houses, when with the implements there procured they turned furiously upon their assailants. The police were despatched in a strong body from the city, as those stationed on the island were helpless between the mobs. The rioters had drifted into the vaults of the hospital, where they were too intently en gaged in maiming each other to take notice of the police. Nor was it till the myrmidons of the law had resorted to their revolvers that they succeeded in separating the combatants. The M'Ardle case has been argued for several days till interrupted by the Impeachment trial, and it is thought that it will go over till next December, as the Supreme Court will have to adjourn unless it can proceed without the Chief Justice. The im pression is abroad, and grows in strength, that the Southern Reconstruction Laws will be pronounced unconstitutional. If the present incumbent is then in the Presidential chair, he will act at once on the decision, leaving the Southern States to reconstruct themselves without the aid of the military. The Washington correspondents have lately been distinguishing themselves. Impeachment inspired the scribe of the New York Tribune, who soared into the clouds and becanie lost in a haze of glory. The dull plodders on earth, astonished at the bril liancy which centred around and emanated from him, have given free expression to their surprise. If he is to be believed, General Butler is the Apostle John of salvation by Impeachment ; but if he of the Tribune was inspired with grandiloquence, he of the London Standard seems to be inspired with hate—a more venomous, a more grossly unbecoming piece of writing is not often penned for the Press, or at any rate does not appear in print than came out on Thursday in the Evening Standard "Mr. Stevens is not far from death's door. He is wast ing away under hideous disease ; in very truth, the odour of dissolution seems to hang about him and impregnate the house in which he lives—a fact to which thousands of people can bear witness. This man, who is compelled to bear about with hint in life the scent of death, whose ways are ways of darkness, whose house is a rendezvous for plotters, whose heart is sodden with the gall of hate, is yet the strong man :in the Republican party, and of the Republican party a fair representative." _ _ Even the Standard must have been ashamed, for the letter was reproduced in yesterday morning's edition without this extract. We are no unquali fied admirers of Thaddeus Stevens; regarding him as a political bigot. We dislike excessive extremes, and Mr. Stevens has managed to weigh so heavily, because he hangs on at the very end. But in his earnest singleness of purpose, and extraordinary intrepidity we see qualities of a high order. The correspondent commences his letter by recording a private conversation, in which Mr. Stevens is made to blaspheme, and on this blasphemy the comments follow. We leave our readers to judge the style of man employed by the London Standard to enlighten its readers on American affairs. The train which left Elmira for Canandiagna, due at the latter town at 11 a.m., March 4, when near Gorham station disabled one of the locomo tives. The 30 passengers were transferred to the baggage car, and with one locomotive the train proceeded on its way. The baggage car, when near Hopewell station, ran off the track, and, over turning, all the passengers were thrown to one end, while the stove breaking under the pressure rained down on the living mass red-hot coals, burning many in a shocking manner. These accidents can not fail to excite attention in the United States. The Angola disaster, the most hideous ever known, supplemented by this and others, must arouse alarm, at least sufficient to enforce a reform in this particular. Indeed, on some of the American lines the English carriages, with their class compart ments, are being brought into use. The following is a list of the sufferers :—Sarah Overshire, Helen Lewis, the wife and child of Thomas Phillips, Lyman S. Briggs, Andrew Horton, P. Conkling, Joel Eggleston, Michael Welch, Dennis Gorman, and Thomas Phillip& The persons named are all seriously burned. Mrs. Overshire, Mrs. Lewis, and the infant child of H. 0. Lewis are fatally injured. Mr. H. 0. Lewis sustained a fracture of the forearm. John Campbell has his shoulder dislocated. The Reese River Reveille advertises the fifth annual Ball of the Pioneer, Hook, and Ladder Company No. 1, of Austin, Nevada, for February 21. Austin must be a decidedly aristocratic city, as in the committee of invitation, consisting of 16 members, there is not a single " Mr." Six are Honourables ; three, Generals ; five, Majors ; one Captain, and one Lieutenant. The aristocratic taste of the community is further consulted by the request that military officers, members of the Lander guard, those of the Confidence Engine Company No. 1, and Fenians will attend in uni form! We have no doubt that Bradford's Hall was enlivened with a picturesque, brilliant, and unusual variety of costume. The Fenian green would have contrasted pleasingly with the British scarlet, if a stray officer of her Majesty's army could have been picked up for the occasion. The Arrivals and Departures are announced with little regard to that prying curiosity people so generally attribute to Americans. Arrived from the East yesterday; Departed West; Arrived from the West ; Departed East. The Lander Union Club has resolved that it be henceforth styled the Grant Union Club. It is now asserted that the Committees on Fi nance and Ways and Means are becoming converts to the payment of the Five-Twenty Bonds in cur rency as they become due. Leading members of these commitees assert that if the Democratic and Republican Conventions all take this position, it will be impossible to prevent the passage of a joint resolution or bill establishing the doctrine. A Bill has been referred to the Ways and Means Commit tee t) prohibit further issues of securities except Five-Twenties, to absorb the Seven-Thirties, Three per Cent. Securities, and Coupon Interest Notes. Attempts were made to induee the Secretary to buy Seven-Thirties privately for cash, instead of pub licly exchanging them for Bonds, which Mr. M'Cul loch rejected as unnecessary, and opposed to the interests of the Treasury. Senator Morrill of Ver mont has answered Sherman's speech, and a discus sion followed on March 4, when Senator Henderson of Missouri introduced a Funding Bill, providing f a lower rate of interest' than five per cent. He arg in favour of expansion. Miss Clara Louise Kellog is engaged for the coming season of her Majesty's Opera at Drury-lane Theatre. The ..41bion states that Miss Bessie Moyne (Lady Eard ley) will shortly return to the stage. On Monday, the 2d of March, Barnum's Museum, in Now York, was destroyed by fire. We regret that want of space precludes our transcribing in full the animated description given in Wilkes'. Spirit:— Mr. Couldock and his daughter are fulfilling au engage ment at the Opera-House in San Francisco. _ _ Brougham's " Lottery of Life" has been played at the Metropolitan Theatre, San Francisco. Edwin Booth was successful in Cleveland. C. L. Graves, for years the stage manager of this San Francisco Opera House, has become the lessee and flann.. ger of the new and elegant Academy of music in Bacra mento. His first "star" will be Charles Wheatleigh, the comedian. The Round Table foresees that the syst'un of collaboration to which it says we owo the Chlistmas failure, "No Thoroughfare," will presently cross the ~ .cean ; indeed, the infection has already begun to tpread ; rind we do not mind imparting to our readers in strict secrecy that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and H. U. are engagsa on a novel of domestic life to be called " Logwood ; or, Any Port in a Storm." "Frenzy; or, The Last of the Tri bune," is said to be a political extravaganza, in preparation by the same able pens. We distrust the rumour that Mr. Johnson and the venerable Thad. Stevens are perfecting a historical romance, entitled " Impeachment ; or, The White House Conspiracy," iu which Mr. Johnson is to furnish the plot and Mr. Stevens the dialogue— which is to be chiefly monologue. The same authority says Mr. Wm. Young's new paper, Every Afternoon, will appear, we aro told, on March 17. Mr. Young's long experience and re fined taste afford guarantees that he will issue a journal in every way suitable for thoughtful and cultivated readers, and we trust that the success of Every Afternoon will in all respects equal what we are assured will be its desert. The new paper, unlike the other evening journals, will be pub lished in quarto form, and in general design is to be a sort of American Pall Mall Gazette. The Round Table had received the first number of the American Law Times, which will be published at Washington on the last Thursday of every month, and will include all current legal and bankruptcy information up to the dale of issue, the movements of the various departments of the National Government, and notices of recent decisions at home and abroad. !The main features of the plan are good, and for such a journal, ably and energetically conducted, there will, it seems to us, be no lack of room or encourage ment. Jessie R. Grant has commenced a series of articles in the New York Ledger sketching tho life of his distin guished son. General R. E. Lee has just completed the manu script of his long meditated memoirs of his father, com monly called " Light-horse Harry." At a Secret Consistory at Rome, on the 13th inst., several bishops wore appointed to various dioceses in Spain, Hungary, New Grenada, Holland, and the United States. The Empress of Russia will pass the summer at Moscow, for the benefit of her health. The Birmingham Brothers, wealthy manufac turers at Hinsdale, Western Massachusetts, on arriving in America from England, several years ago, were worth the sum total of one penny; and that identical coin one of them still has in his possession. At the recent competition in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, in the Department of Architecture, Mr. Alfred H. Thorp, of New York, graduated into the first class. This is the second time only that any American student of architecture has succeeded in obtaining this highly valued position. Mr. Thorp deserves much credit for his energy and perseverance, and will return to the United States with the best wishes of his many friends in Paris. Married, on the 11th inst., at the British Em bassy, Paris, by the Rev. E. L. Salisbury, M.A., assisted by the Rev. I. 0. Cox, M.A., Edward Salisbury, Esq., only son of the late Thomas Salisbury, Esq., of Lancaster, to Maria Theresa, daughter of the late Roswell L. Colt, Esq., of Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.A. Admiral Tegethoff has been gazetted Com mander-in-Chief of the Austrian Naval forces. The Prince of Wales has expressed his intention of opening the National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds in the week commencing the 18th of May next. The New York Citizen says, " The great State of Ohio can furnish a noble war record. She sent into the field three hundred and fifty-six thousand three hundred and twenty six men ; of whom twenty-four thousand five hundred and ninety-one laid down their lives for the Union. Ten of tho most prominent of our general officers —Grant, Sherman', Rosecrans, M-Clellan, 31'llowell, Buell, Gihnore, Mitchell, M‘Pherson, and Sheridan--were from Ohio." General Butler, who attended the representation of " La Grande Duchesse" at Washington, is said to have been highly incensed at the character of Gen Boum, which he takes as a reflection on his own warlike exploits. M. Eugene Forcade points out in the following words the dignified position held by the journalists of England and America : —"Nothing could be more admirable than the simple frankness and close reasoning, stripped of all charlatanism, exhibited in the speech cf Lord Stanley on the Alabama claims. Well, her Majesty's Secretary of State, at the most delicate point of the discussion, attri buted as much importance to quotations borrowed from the World and Times of New York as to a despatch from Mr. Seward. The other day, too, Mr. Disraeli, on being attacked by Earl Russell, sent a letter to the Times, in which he refuted ' les aigres recriminations du morose Whig envieilli.' This is the place which the first, statesmen in Europe concede to a free and powerful press." In the cases in New York city arising from the quarrels of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew about the Erie Railway, neither party has as yet gained very much. Mr. Drew has been prohibited from actively exer cising the duties of treasurer of the road, and also from dealing in its shares. The Erie Board, on the other hand, have been restrained from engaging in any financial operations beyond the running of the road, which is rather a restriction upon Vanderbilt's operations. Governor Bullock has appointed the 2d of April a Fast Day in this State. An editress in Boston is to be ordained pastoress of a church in Hingham, Massac:iusetts. Those who heard Artemus Ward in the Egyptian Hall may iemetnber a remarkably handsome, intelligent boy, for whom Mr. Browne had a great affection, and for whom he had made provision in his will. We are sorry to see that young Stephenson has been arrested in Toronto for debt. The Maryland Legislature has elected George T. Vickers (Thunocrat), of Kent County, Senator, in place of Mr. Thomas, rejected by the Chamber. It was no; till after fifteenfailures that this result was arrived at, and we suppose that it was secured only by the necessity of strengthening the Conservative party in the Senate, if possible, to defeat impeachment. The candidates pro. posed were Hon. Philip F. Thomas, Hon. James T. Earle, Hon. George Vickers, Hon. Samuel Hambleton, Hon. Daniel M. Henry, James A. Stewart, T. W. Crisfield, Hon. Hiram M'Culloch, Hon. W. A. Stewart. The Hon. W. P. Howland, Minister of Excise of Canada, has so far recovered from his recent illness that he has resumed his (Alicia duties at Ottawa. An aeronaut went up from the city of Mexico, on Christmas morning, in a hot-air balloon. He struck a cold current, which chilled his apparatus, sent him down rapidly, and broke his bones. New York city contains seventy thousand Jews, according to the Hebrew Messenger, or more than one in fifteen of the whole population. Thomas Rowean, of Boston, procured on Wed nesday, the 4th inst., the naturalization of Ar Chang, thus giving Boston a Chinese citizen, and setting an example to California, that the golden state will not quickly follow. - - Colonel Henry C. Deming, of Hartford, recently a member of Congress, and who is now engaged on a life of General Grant, is a descendant of the first settler of the town of Pittsfield. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has left Hartford, Connecticut, for her orange plantation at Mandarin, Florida. Henry G. Lewis and A. W. Phelps are the De mocratic candidates for Representatives from New Haven, Connecticut. The Courrier des Etats- Unis, the French news paper published in New York, which claims to be the " organe des populations Franco-Americaines," refuses to add its voice to the chorus of Dickens laudation. It thinks that Mr. Dickens's visit, "touts question d'argent a part, a 6t6 malheureuse." It is an entire mistake to think that the novelist is a good reader. "M. Dickens quoi qu'on en ait dit, n'a aucun talent declamation. Sa voix est si rebelle et si fausse (une vraie yoke d'Anglais) qu'elle a des tons gais la oit it faudrait pleurer, et detonne en eclats larmoyants faudrait toucher les auditeurs." The French American critic also tells the world that Mr. Dickens jumps about " comme un Polichinello Napoli tain," and that he does not disdain the use of somersaults, grimaces, and the " grossiers effets" which amuse the vulgar. , WEDNESDAY. The Durdans Stakes of 5 sous each, with 100 added; two year olds Gst 51b, three Bst 51b, four 9st 61b, five, six, and aged 9st 81b, mares and geldings allowed 31b ; the win ner to be sold for 150 goys, if for 100 allowed 41b, if for 50 71b. Half a mile. The Groat Metropolitan Stakes (handicap) of 25 sovs each, 15 ft. Two miles and a quarter. Age st lb Ceylon ... 5 8 12 Patrician ... ... 4 8 11 Ilippia ••• 4 811 Tylledale ... 4 8 10 Miss Havelock ... 5 8 8 Special 5 8 6 Romping Girl ... 4 8 5 Planet ... a 8 0 Feodor ... 4 7 13 Fitz-Ivan ... 4 7 13 Thalia ... 5 7 13 Lord of the Dales 4 711 Germaniquo ... 5 7 7 'Stephen Langton... 4 7 7 Montagnard ... 4 7 7 Midwife ... 4 7 6 Jezabel ... 5 7 6 Gipsy King ... 4 7 6 Proserpine... ... 5 7 5 Nine Elms... ... 4 7 5 Clarice ... 4 7 4 Safety ... ... 4 7 2 Caucasus ... ... 4 7 2 Stokeley ... 4 7 2 Lictor 3 7 1 Po wderh am ... 6 7 0 Clemence 3 7 0 Attack colt 4 6 13 Franchise ... 3 6 13 Chelsea ... ... 3 613 Guy of Warwick gelding ... ••• 46 13 The Epsom Spring Cup (handicap) of 200 sous, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, 5 ft, 3 only (to the fund) if declared ; the second to receive 50 soya out of the stakes; winners of a handicap with public money added after February 27, at 10 a.m., 5 lb, of two such or of the City and Suburban or Great Ilietropolitin 101 b extra, One mile. 33 subs, 12 of whom declared. Age st lb Rhine Wine ... 3 6 11 Manoeuvre filly 4 6 11 Maid of Kent g ... 4 6 11 Child of the Islands 4 6 11 Fortunio ... 4 6 11 Adam Bode 4 6 10 Angus 3 6 10 Mariner ... 3 6 9 Black Diamond 3 6 9 Milton „.. 3 6 9 Clairon 3 6 6 Weather Isle 3 6 6 St. Albans ... 4 6 6 Demonstration 3 6 5 I The Returned 3 6 5 Nyanza 3 6 4 C T a h nl or a n g d e yke — ...... 4 6 4 Bessie Dix o n 3 6 3 3 6 3 Aquila 3 6 3 Papillon ... 3 6 3 Logarithm ... 3 6 2 Blueskin ... 3 6 0 Wallow 3 6 0 Picnic 3 6 0 Adamant, 3 6 0 Demon 3 6 0 Rune ... 3 6 0 Aggravator ... 4 paid Captain Kidd ... 4 dead Numa Pompilius ... 4 paid Age st lb Master Willie ... 4 8 12 N6m6a ... 4 8 11 Mount Palatine ... 5 8 8 Foresight 4 8 7 Speculum 3 8 6 Orion ••• 3 8 6 Montagnard 4 8 4 Rabbit Trap 4 7 13 Lady Rosehill ... 4 7 11 La Muta ... 5 7 10 Secrecy ... 4 7 10 The Prince of Wales's Stakes each, h ft, in case of accept ners of any race after Mai handicap race 71b extra; on Ago st lb Xi ... ... 5 8 13 Van Amburgh ... 4 8 10 Out and Outer 6 8 7 Abergelolio ... 5 8 6 Mount Palatine ... 5 8 0 Cheltenham ... 4 8 0 liontgotibert ... 4 7 13 Act Lea fi 7 11 F'eodor 4 7 3 Montagnard 4 7 3 ... 4 7 3 Conundrum 5 7 2 Attack colt ... 4 7 2 Age st lb Yard-arm ... 3 7 10 Sea-mew 4 7 10 Powderham ... 6 7 9 Defiance ... 4 7 4 Clairon ... 3 7 4 Demon ... 3 6 11 Carlos ... ... 3 6 4 Acorn ... ... 3 6 4 Chantilly 3 paid Ladylovo 3 paid s, a Free Handicap of 10 sovs tanco, with 200 added ; win ,reh 12 (at tca a.m.) 31b, of a ae mile. Ago st lb Cecil :3 6 6 Olomouc° ... 3 6 2 Angus ... ... 3 6 1 Clairon ... 3 6 0 Choral ... ... 3 5 8 Piper ... ... 3 5 7 Warlike ... 3 5 Lady Morgan ... 3 5 7 Sister to Maid Ma rian 3 5 7 Aurifera ......3 5 7 Laird of Scotland 3 5 7 A new Chinese theatre has been inaugurated in San Francisco by a grand dinner of innumerable courses. The building cost forty thousand dollars, and will seat eleven hundred people. NATIONAL EDUCATION. The Duke of Marlborough gave notice, in the House of Lords on Monday evening, that on Tuesday next he would bring under the notice of their lordships the question of the state of elementary education in England and Wales, and at the same time lay upon the table a bill upon the subject. No more important question as regards the whole of the people of this country can engage the attention of Par liament. Nor can it be objected that the materials for forming a correct opinion as to the wide-spread prevalence of the g rosses t ignorance among the working classes in this country are not within the reach of every member of the two Houses of Parliament. Commission after commission has reported upon the ignorance of the poor in our large towns, in our rural districts — in workshops, in factories, in mines, and in agricultural gangs. That ignorance far exceeds in dark and soul-destroying density any that could exist in any Catholic country. There never was, and there never could be, anything at all resembling it in Catholic Ireland. There, in times past, hundreds of the thousands of the poor were ignorant of the enlightening myste ries of the alphabet. They could neither write, read, nor spell, and of the.circle of the arts and sciences their conceptions were crude enough in all conscience. But the least in structed among them were never without re ligious education. Catholic parents, however poor, and however unskilled in the use of books, cannot themselves comply With the ligations of religion, or live in Catholic society, without habituating their children from their earliest infancy to practise such of the duties, and commit to memory such of the precepts of their religion, as to give them claims to be regarded as having a tolerably exact know ledge of their duty to God, and of their respon sibilities as members of His holy Church. In this respect there is an immense difference between the ignorance of Catholics who can neither read nor write, and the. ignorance Of such of the Protestant rural peasantry of this country "as are shut out from any religious in struction but such as is obtainable from a Book which they cannot read, and are incapable of comprehending. While the want of school learning excludes Protestant peasants from access to their only source of religious instruc tion—the Bible ; the most unlettered Catholics have as ready access as the most learned to that everlasting, ever overflowing fountain of di vinely wise and most salutary instruction, the confessional--rendering it virtually impossible for them to be ignorant of any of the great truths of the Gospel. That the position of Catholics is exceptional/ as regards the moral density and irreligious description of popular ignorance in E n gland and Wales, is proved by the reports of the Children's Employment Commission presented to both Houses of Parliament, in which abun dant proofs are supplied of the actual mental and religious condition of the labouring popu lation and their children. Mr. Kay, travel ling Bachelor of the University of Cambridge/ reports thus :—" The great majority of the people in the great towns of this kingdom have no religion. . . . About one-half of our poor can neither read nor write, have never been at any school, and know little, or psi' tively nothing, of the doctrines of the Chris' tian religion, of moral duties, or of any higher pleasures than beer or spirit drinking and the grossest sensual indulgences. . . . TheY live precisely like brutes, to gratify, as far as their means allow, the appetites of their uncul tivated bodies, and then die, to go, they have never cared, thought, or wondered whither. How religiously, or even morally, to educate a creedless people is so difficult a matter that we are not in the least surprised at the grea t disinclination of former Governments to at tempt it. And this difficulty will be found to constitute an impossibility if it be now at tempted to frame a system of education under which parents of every and of no religious de nomination are required to send their children to be instructed in the same common schools. Upon this question the Rev. Herbert Vaughan' D.D., Superior of St. Joseph's Missionary° Col lege, has just published an excellent and well' timed pamphlet, which we strongly recommen d i to the immediate attention of the Duke ° f Marlborough and the other members of lief Majesty's Government. It is entitled " lar Education in England : the Conscience Clause, the Rating Clause, and the Secula r Current," and treats the whole question in . 5 comprehensive, enlightened, and patriotic spirit. Dr. Vaughan is strongly and wisely opposed to the substitution of any school se's' Lem for the denominational system at presen t in operation in England. After a careful e o ' . mination of the whole school question in all its bearings, and after fully considering what would be the effect, not as regards Catholi cs alone, but as regards civil society, and the great great mass of the English people, of the seve systems recommended by Dissenters and see n lariats, Dr. Vaughan asks that the existing cir nominational system, under the Privy Counc il ' . be retained and energetically developed throug e out the country. He asks Parliament, so real to vote millions annually to repress and punl' crime, and hitherto so niggardly in voting . hun dreds of thousands for the prevention of crime" nality, largely to increase the national expel', diture for education ; providing for the rent °' school-rooms as well as for the cost of th e .. erection of school buildings, and payment 0 results in education, whether the teachers 1-w, or be not certified. The re are th o usands ei excellent and compet en t p ersons i n Englan d who would gladly de vo t e th e i r tim e to th e education of the children of the poor, 'cavil* the efficacy of their teaching to be tested 13 1 ci results, but who under no circumstances woo l submit to a public examination as to the.fei right to possess a Government certificate. he had a choice, Dr. Vaughan would pre' f . . er ' t trained masters and mistresses of schools ; 111. a with a million of untaught children, 0 neither schools to recei v e, nor teachers instruct them, he would willingly pay ! De rent of rooms, and pay for the results in case of all undertakings to communicate to thei the rudiments of a combined scholastic se religious education. We have read this parti c i phlet very carefully and agree with every 'O r al of it, and heartily commend it to the pere s of all who bake an interest in the educatl ° o l question. As regards the Education Bill e , the Duke of Marlborough, we are not app hensive that it will propose to interfere y' Llie the present denominational system. of system of common, or purely secular schoovlOci which finds favour with many worthy ere excellent men among Dissenters, all we l or to say is, that no plan could be adopted the ultimate destruction of Christianit9, 4 England, more likely to prove efficacious, tir, to establish by the authority of Parliataen u o national system of education, 'excluding . fr ° or the teaching in all schools every doctrine , tenet the teaching of which would be object o i i, able to one or other of the religious den° oo nations constituting in the gr e a t aggr egate people of England.—Westminster Gazette. Boston spends $200,000 a year for flowersf . ! New York twice as much ; but a large share of the -'f/ York money is paid to Boston florists. 1 , 1 11 0 [ADVERTISRMENT.]—Henceforth no one will doubt thepig properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of We; Dee it has already received from Invalids whose position had co pe , deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness th e `,,a o whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirtY 5 0 00 of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " ( - 4 10 0 , ,1 du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—" The he Pfr the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandonLr 4 i. r yil other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Da Sol Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a 80; at every meal. •It has produced a surprisingly be e effect on his healtk, and his Holiness cannot pra",c excellent food too highly." We extract a few 0:000. more than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marel3l.o9,A de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over' of; digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intoleralaei,or" vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decie s ,i 9, 6s, l; Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. 10 ' o se'it Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervoss, o g, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, oickl i , o per t A vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James , of Fernley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting ° l° `,iotil Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy t s liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Cat• t ioo lo dr a to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is 10°8 ciously attached 0 . In tins at ls. 111; 1 lb., 2s 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. Gd,; 51b So. 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, an d 1 nd at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150,,„ chemis ts 'Oxford-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and chemists' _de, Births. A o rds HILL—On the 19th inst., at St. Columb's, Lond oo- the wife of Sir John Hill, Bart., of a daughter. v ar . LAY—On the 19th inst., at 89, Gloucester-torrace , park, the wife of R. N. Lay, C. 8., of a daughter. PEEL—On the 19th inst., at Pinner, near Watford ► wife of Laurence Peel, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. LOOMES—PALMER—On the 19th inst., at St. 111819 of lington, David, eldest son of John Loomes, Benp",,lis e ' t lington, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of J• ' Esq., of St. James, W.O. , r oom PILKINGTON—SINCLAIR —Oa the 19th inst. , at 6 t t adl R.chard, second son of R. Pilkington, Esq. of 'A Hall, St. Helen's, to Louise, eldest daughte r ' of Sinclair, Esq., of Dale House, Garston. Deaths. port°, AYTOUN—On the 18th inst., at 4, Melville-plaee,, too belle, Mary, widow of the late James Edo3oo° Aytoun, J.P. for the county of Fife, aged 8 0 . BunNETT —On the 13th inst., at Hornsbury Somerset, Mrs. Burnett, ag ed 76. O COLLINS —On the 19th inst., at Southborough , 13e 2 iir t t. bridge Wells, Harriet, widow oh Win. Collins, 1 ' bo r HALL—On the 16th inst., at 5, Waterloo-place, Rgutilieeth ton, Lieut.-General Lewis Alex. Hall, Royal v aged r MACNAMIITAN —On the 17th inst., at Glen Par k, Gre v o 11) Agnes, widov4 of the late Malcolm Macuaug h ` 3 merly of London, aged 88. WnisLow—On the 19th inst., at Thame, Oxfordsliire, Winslow, Esq., aged London : Printed and Published by WILLI/ 01 " / 40 et of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan SUN oalee , co oti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e Aliddleen....W4tUrthlf, March 21, 1868. AF I Alto: Afte: Afte: Afte Afte: Afte: Afte: Afte: London LIINO High &c. 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