The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is a singular satisfaction to the Times to be able to agree with Mr. Bright in his ideas on the subject of edu cation. Mr. Bright's moderation deserves cordial recog nition, especially as his speech differed from the spirit of the addresses delivered by previous speakers to the meet ing. Mr. Bright spoke to Birmingham artisans, who, having visited Paris, were entertained at breakfast by the chairman of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. The previous speakers had, almost without exception, the same tale to tell. Foreign workmen, Continental and American, were running a race with English workmen for superiority. The artisan of the Continent riv4led us in the manufacture of articles of utility, and excelled us in the domain of taste. The American workman was onr superior in ingenuity. And the conclusion was that the Government must do something towards the education, primary and technical, of the people, or, as some would urge, must undertake the whole task. The museum of South Kensington, for one thing, must be dia tr:huted among, if not reproduced in each of the chief towns of the manufacturing districts. Mr. Dixon declared that it was the duty of the State to establish throughout the country the schools necessary for the development, as we understand him, both of common and of technical education. Mr. Bright followed these zealous speakers. He proclaimed his disbelief in the principle that everything should be done by the Government, and ridiculed the feverish anxiety about education which has been manifested since the last session. The Times con fesses, for its own part, some astonishment at the over strained energy which has been exhibited, especially by the most advanced Liberals. It wyuld seem as if those who did their best to pass the Reform Bill had taken literally Mr. Lowe's sarcasm that it now became us " to teach our masters their letters," as if they apprehended mischief from the new Parliament, and thought it might be averted by teaching children their alphabet and the rules of arithmetic. It is plain that such ideas are chime rical, and the question of education must be discussed on its own merits. What are the proper limits of the inter ference of Government? It is not easy to give a complete answer to the question, but we are clearly of opinion that compulsory education can be enforced only upon that class which is sunk so low as to be incapable of appre ciating the benefits of education ; and that with respect to them the constant aim of the Legislature must be to raise them out of their present degradation into the sphere of intelligent choice and self-responsibility. We are glad to find Mr. Bright expressing the same truth. He even ad duces practical reasons why the proposal to enforce com pulsory education thus strictly narrowed should be exa mined on all sides before any attempt be made to carry it into execution. He suggests that the imposition of a great system, supported by rates and supplemented by a police to look after truants, upon a people unable to weirh the burdens they feel against the advantages they do not un derstand, might be followed by a dangerous reaction ; and he recommends a gradual assault upon the ignorance of the uneducated classes, in which all existing educational machinery should be put to use. Having uttered these cau tions against feverish and precipitate action in common edu cation,Mr. Bright proceeded to discuss the fashionable cryfor technical education. This phrase he understands to mean instruction in the principles of trades and manufactures, and his doctrine appears to be that if boys are properly taught the means of learning in ordinary schools—if, that is to say, when they leave them, they are able to read, to write, and to perform the common operations of arith metic, they may safely be left to acquire for themselves the principles of the work which may occupy them in later life. We agree in the conclusion that the inter ference of the Government in technical education would be an act entirely beyond its proper province. No neces sity exists to justify it. A temporary excitement has been occasioned by statements of the rivalry of foreign work men with our own, but such rivalry has always been manifested and has been overcome by the natural action of manufacturers and workmen. Nor would the promo tion of technical education by the Government produce the results expected from it. A quack, according to the definition of the Pod, is a man who practises empirically—that is, without having acquired knowledge or mastered science ; and a quack- salver is one who cries salves or unguents. There is, it will be perceived, some little difference between the two. A quacksalver may he honest, a quack scarcely. Mr. Blight can hardly be called a quack, for he has never yet practised. Yet, oddly enough, he seems himself to think, with some soreness of feeling, that Lord Stanley must have had him in his eye when he delivered his Bristol speech. If, however, Mr. Bright is rightly considered, he is really rather a quacksalver than a quack. He cries cures with an iteration suggested probably by faith in Dr. Johnson's aphorism, that mankind require more to be re minded than informed. In this phase of his industry Mr. Bright may be perfectly honest. He is honest, no doubt, in tact, and very likely in intention, when he tells the Irish people that if they make themselves good farmers and are industrious, saving, and sober, they will probably be prosperous ; and he may be honest when he recommends the ballot. as the Holloway's ointment and pills which is to cure all their distempers, dispel all their grievances, and conduct them all smoothly to a good old age. But lion ?st Mr. Bright is not, cannot be, when he uses all the arts of an eloquent and practised orator to rouse the passions of the Irish people before submitting his plans for their re generation to the consideration of their reason. The Daily Hors to some extent only agrees with Mr. Bright in the general principles he enunciated. Our con temporary's sympathy with the great orator's specific pro posals is much less complete. On the 'land question, it goes on to say, we need not now repeat the reasons which lead us to question the expediency of the scheme which he restates and defends. It may be a mistake to fancy that there is, on other matters, a vague prezentiment of the future responsibilities of office in much of Mr. Bright's language. There is good reason to believe that with regard to tl.e adoption of the ballot in Ireland, his language re fi 'cts the policy which the advisers and members of the late Government on the other side of the Channel are urging upon their leaders and colleagues here. The land lords of Ireland ceased to grant leases when leases ceased to confer votes. There is nothing improbable in Mr. Bright's conjecture, that if the political independence of the tenant were secured by secret voting, the landlord's political objection to leases would die out. His suggestions with respect to the Protestant Establishment are to us exceedingly disappointing. The proposal which he makes does not differ in substance from those which have been lately put forward by Lord Russell and Lord Dufferin, and which have been indistinctly hinted at by Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Bright is in favour of secularising the major part of the ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland ; but he would retain about a third of them—that is to say, a principal sum of three or four millions—and divide it among the three great Churches. If we understand him, they are to receive it as endowment, just as they might the private bequest of an individual, and to be wholly independent of and irre sponsible to the State. But if a portion of the ecclesiasti cal revenues are to be thus assigned, why not the whole of them ? If endowments are desirable at all, the whole is not too large a sum for the needs of the three Churches If a gift is to be made, it should be worth having. The Standard condemns Mr. Bright's proposals. Till he has shewn that it would be wise, despite experience, to renew the old state of uncontrolled tenure and long leases without conditions, we need not debate the means by which the renewal should he effected. But one thing it would venture to submit to Mr. Bright. Ireland is, save in one respect, no otherwise situated, in respect of legal and economical conditions, than England and Scot. ]and. The one exception is, that she has no alternative industry—her population is forced to live solely upon the land. Is it not at least prima facie problble that thi s one exceptional condition is the cause of all tfiat is exceptional in her fortunes? And does riot this prima facie proba bility become something like a moral certainty when we see that the one or two spots in Ireland—such as Belfast which has a thriving manufacture—also present striking exceptions to the general rule of Irish poverty? An esta lashed Church and a system of large estates leave Eng. land and Scotland rich, happy, and loyal. Can it be these that make Ireland poor and miserable ? England am' Scotland have trade and manufactures ; Ireland has none. Is it not the lack of manufactures that causes the wretchedness of Ireland? Belfast has manufactures, and Bolfsst is almost the only Irish town that rivals the cities of Great Britain ? Does it not strike even Mr. Bright's mind that to give Ireland manufactures would be the most likely means of bringing her to the condition of the sister island ? The caution which Mr. Bright throws out against bur- Tying too rapidly in the direction of compulsory education is, says the Star, well-timed. In adopting any new system it is not enough th at i t b e intended for th popular benefit. but it must carry with it the popular sympathy. We al know how difficult it is to urge a free population into any pa th different from that to which it has been accustomed, p.nd it must not be forgot that the ignorance of the people f;,,; , ht t' , be benefited is the foundation of the whole move- There must he great care taken in the method of laying on the school-rite. Probably it may be fours 1 necessary to place it upon th ose who, as owners of lands 00d houses and possessors of substantial incomes, know better port the th local institutionse value of education, and are better able to sup . The Telegraph accepts the large and generous accents of Mr. Bright's address as the true expression of the senti ments of the Liberal party. Mill, the precise plan recom mended by Mr. Bright may not be the one accepted by the country. At the same time itis worthy of considera ton. The I/fro/a reproduces, for the sake of giving circula tion to a suggestive fact, a letter which has just appeared. It expo.vs a state of things existent in Londo n , yet I'2llllll di n!:!, us of Indian thuggism under its worst aspect. that the form of the snare is changed. A gentleman, v.'n.ikiNg in the forenoon across 'Trafalgar-square, was an inTvldual representing himself as a r do3ired his immediate attendance at a witness on one of the Lad been seeking him, , tr,2et .t, ns H in - certaininf , the dirvcti,in which ovLrtaken him in a cab, sic i .;tie reedy for his conveyance to Bow-street. 'lle gentleman happened, for the time, to be engaged. lle promised, however, to attend before the magistrates within an hour. To this delay the stranger strongly demurred ; acquiescing in it, at last, with evident reluc tance.- When, in due time, the writer of the letter appeared at Bow-street, it was to learn that his presence had been " neither sought nor needed." The Herald asks if we are coming back to the days of the Mohawk and the pitch-plaster, and insists upon the necessity of rooting up the secrets of the society which swarms around 1.13. 1. , F , ! , i 1, 1 , . THE MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM. The mystery which for a fortnight has surrounded the leath of Miss Mary Milbourne, in Heneage-street, Bir mingham, seems at length to be in a fair way to be cleared np. As frequently happens where such a crime is com mitted by a number of persons acting in concert, one of ;he parties, either from remorse or hope of reward, has ?roved a traitor to his companions, and thus placed the t)olice in possession of information which has led to the apprehension of five people. The first arrest which was made vas that of Thomas Beasley, who is a costermonger, and ormerly lodged in Park-street, Birmingham. He was arrested in Bristol by Detective Mountford, of the Birmingham force. As soon as he was safely lodged in prison, information was sent to Birmingham, and Detectives Manton, Flavell, Clarke, Jenna, and Cooper, with Police-constable Roscce, went shortly before two ,'clock on Tuesday morning to 4 court, 11 house, Lawley street, where they apprehemle - 1 a brother of the other prisoner, named Joseph Beasley, who is 21 years of age, cripple, and by trade a shoemaker. After this arrest the party of officers separated, and a portion of them went to Allison-street, and in the house 79 they arrested a hawker named Charles Grayson, 33 years of age, and his wife, Elizabeth Grayson, 28 years of age. The other officers went to 17, Park-street, where they apprehended William Beasley, 27 years of age, costermonger, who is a brother of the other prisoners bearing that name. The prisoners who were apprehended in Birmingham were taken to the lock-up in Moor-street. At the time of their arrest they were all in bed. Joseph and William Beasley and the two Graysons were orought before Mr. T. C. S. Kynnersley, at the Public Office. Mr. Glossop said the prisoners were charged with being in company with others, and murdering Miss Milbourne, in her own house, in Heneage-street, on the 21st of January. He applied for a remand for a week. The prisoners were then remanded until next Tuesday. The cause of these arrests is the statement of an in former in the confidence of the prisoners. This statement has been tested, and collateral circumstances substantiate important parts of it, so that the arrests have not been made on frivolous grounds. The statement referred to is somewhat to the following effect. It will be remembered that a short time before her death deceased broke her leg. Whilst the deceased was thus partly incapacitated from helping herself, Mrs. Beasley, a cousin of the deceased' and stepmother of the three men in custody ; was xccustomed to go herself or send one of her children daily to do " odd jobs " for deceased. During these visits Mrs. Beasley heard the story from dec eased of her having several hundred pounds in the house at the time of her brother's death. The story was related by Mrs. Beasley at her own house, and thus came to the knowledge of her stepsons—the three prisoners. The cupidity of:the cripple, Joseph Beasley, was first excited, and it is said that he formed the plan—in which the other prisoners afterwards joined—of breaking into deceased's house during her absence, and possessing themselves of the large sum of money which they fondly believed to be still in the house. On the 21st of last month the project was put into execution. The thieves visited deceased's house when she was away from home, and had partly accom plished their work of searching the house when they were interrupted by deceased's return. She came into the house, and was about to raise an alarm, when Thomas Beasley—the man who was captured at Bristol—seized her by the throat to prevent her. The result we know. In the words of the informer, " she went off in a minute," which is accounted for in the evidence of Mr. Oliver Pemberton at the inquest, where he says that the ring shaped or cricoid cartilage of a person of the age of deceased would he very brittle. This cartilage broke under the first pressure applied, and suffocation then was a very easy matter. The informer states that there was no intention of murdering deceased ; the plan was simply to possess themselves of the money. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN CLERKENWELL. At the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Wednesday after noon, James Needell, aged 34, described as a solicitor's clerk, and residing at 13, New-street-square, was charged before Mr. Cooke, by Thomas Ambrose Potter, inspector of the C Division, with discharging a loaded revolver at Thomas Chatterton, with intent to kill him, at Compton street, Clerkenwell. The prisoner is a well-dressed, quiet looking man, and the man whom he shot is a philosophical instrument maker, working for Mr. James Joseph Hicks, of Hatton-garden. Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, of Frederick-street, Gray's-inn road, defended the prisoner. _ _ Inspector Potter said : The wounded man is unable to attend, but there is a surgeon in attendance from St. Bar tholomew's Hospital, who will state the nature of the injuries. Henry Barker said : I reside at 72, Lever-street, St. Luke's, and am a journeyman bookbinder. Ido not know the prisoner. At five minutes after nine o'clock this morning I was in Compton-street, and saw the prisoner fire a pistol and shoot a man who was just in front of him and near a confectioner's shop. I saw the young man place his hand to the right side of his neck and attempt to run away. The prisoner followed him and fired again, and when the young man ran up Northampton-street he was followed by the prisoner, who continued shooting at him. The injured man appeared to have been hit by the first shot, but not by the others. About four shots were fired at him. A young man then ran across the road and captured the prisoner, threw him down, and, with assist ance, a revolver was taken from him, and he was conveyed to the police-station. The man who was shot ran to the top of the street, and there a gentleman put him into a cab. Cross-examined by Mr. Ricketts : I cannot say whether he fired four or five times. At the time he fired he was not two yards from him—that was when he hit him ; he also fired the other shots towards the man, but without any particular aim. He appeared wild and excited at the time in his manner, but said nothing. Alfred Whitcomb, a milkman, living at 47, Ludgate bill, corroborated the evidence of the previous witness, as did also Robert Banks, a gas-meter prover, both of whom assisted in arresting the prisoner, and taking the revolver from him. James Raby, a boy 14 years of age, said the man was lighting his pipe when shot by the prisoner. Mr. James Horsfall said : I am a surgeon at St. Par tholomew's Hospital. The man was brought to the hos pital about a quarter-past nine this morning. I examined him, and he stated that he had been fired at while he was looking into a shop window. I found a wound on the neck on the right side ; it was a small wound, but the bullet has not yet been discovered, and it is supposed to be still in the neck. He had no other wounds. He is in a critical state. There appeared to be some slight hmmorrhage before he entered the hospital, but not after he was ad mitted. He said he had never seen the man who shot him before. _ . William Knight, 214 G, said he met the prisoner in Skinner-street, when he was being conveyed to the station by the witnesses. the took charge of him, and when he was searched at the station thirty-seven bullets were found upon him, and numerous other things, including a watch and gold chain, some money and letters, and two pocket books. (The letters were not read, neither were the pocket books looked into.) Mr. Cooke : Whnt is the prisoner? Mr. Ricketts: He is an attorney's clerks, and is known in the profession as " Mad Needles." Inspector Potter said : I went to the prisoner when he was in the cell at Clerkenwell Police-station. He recognised me, and said " Good morning, sir." I knew him at once, and said, " How are you ?" To which he replied, " I am much better now, sir; have you seen the revolver ?" On my saying, "Do you mean the one in the station ?" he said " Yes." Tie further said, in answer to me, that he bought the pistol in London-wall, at the first shop on the right side, about last December, and gave £2 for it. He said, " This is one of the men who has been hunting me so long." I said, "Very well ; perhaps you had better not say any more to me. I will make inquiries." I then went to 51, London-wall, and found his statement correct. I remember the prisoner calling upon me last summer at the Clerkenwell Police-station. I was in uniform at the time, and he said, "Mr. Inspector, do you know that there are eight men following me ?" I said, "Where do they f o llow yo u f r om ?" and he replied, "From the City." I then asked him what he was, and he told me that he was a solicitor's clerk, and that he did not think it was all right there for the men to follow him. On asking him where the men were, he replied, " At the corner of Ampton-place." I then told him I would go and see, and went out with him. I saw that there were no men and told him so, when he observed. " But there must be something wrong about this, or eight men would not follow me aho it so." I told him I thought nut, and they were not to he seen, upon which he said, " Oh, it is the sight of von that ha.s done it all and settled the question." I asked him for his address, and he gave it me. I also asked for a description of the men, and he said one was 61 feet high, and all the others were small men. I told him to go home, and if he saw any snore of them to come to me again. He came the next morning and thanked me, and said they had not thought proper to follow him after his coming to me. Cross-examined by Mr. Ricketts : When he said the eight men were following him I thought he had been drinking ; but when he came the next morning I did not think so, as his manner was then quite as unsettled as it was the night before. I also met him once in Farringdon road, when he told me that he was better. - When I read the charg e over to him he stied, " I did rot jere n d to kill him." His manlier was wild and excite d. I leave heard that he was known in the profession as " Mad Needles." Thomas Hawke, gunsin:th, of 51, London-wall, proved that the pistol was sold to the prisoner in November last for £3. There appeared nothing strange in his manner at that ti me , and he had seen him concerning the purchase of a revolver on two or three previous ()Crag:ens. 1 c i et ts prisoner'su rge cl h the state o f magistratenii mind a o o b r y d esroamnee intoxmaemdiincaal tionirßc' itie man, when he had no doubt that in five minutes he would be of the same opinion as he (Mr. Ricketts) was. Mr. Cooke : I shall remand the prisoner for a week to the House of Detention, and he had better be taken there at once, and not placed in a cell. The prisoner was then removed. In reply to later inquiries made at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, it was stated that the wounded man Chatterton was progressing most favourably, and that no doubts Were entertained as to his recovery. TIM SUPREME COURT QUORUM BILL. --. 4 —__ The full reports of the Acts introduced into Congress in antagonism to the PRESIDENT show that a grave crisis has arrived in the United States. Congress first met breathing hosti- lity to ANDREW JOHNSON. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House counted the days till the Legislature would assemble, and effec tually check the career of the occupant of the White House. So able and determined was the Message of the PRESIDENT, so complete the collapse of impeach ment, that men hoped the more violent Radical leaders had but indulged in empty threats. The meeting of Congress after the recess, when business really began, has effectually dispelled this delusion. The sudden rise in the price of gold, which appeared so unaccountable in Europe, is explained by the open and unrestrained attacks by the Legislature on the Chief of the Executive. On the 13th January the house passed a bill providing that six Judges must be present to form a quorum of the Supreme Court, and that the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the whole Court shall be necessary to decide a case against the validity of a ltw of Con gress. "The Supreme Court Quorum Bill" was passed by a strict vote of 116 to 39. Debate was cut off, the rules of the House suspended, and a resolution adopted that no motion to adjourn should be entertained. The reason of the haste in thus dealing with one of the gravest measures that ever came before Congress, was the fear of a decision by the Supreme Court against the constitutionality of the Reconstruction Acts on a case now pending. The Supreme Court at present consists of but eight Judges, as the vacancy caused by the death of Jus tice WAYNE has, by the decree of Congress, not been filled. or these, five were appointed by Pre sident LINCOLN, and three by Presidents of the Democratic party. It is said to be well known that five of these Justices hold the Reconstruction Act to be unconstitutional. The case on which an early decision is looked for is that of Mr. MCARDLE, editor of the Vicksburgh Times. General ORD ar rested him on charges of publishing libels on officers of the Freedmen's Bureau, of inciting to a breach of the public peace, and of writing with the intention of intimidating loyal voters to the hindrance of Recon struction in Mississippi. He was brought for trial before a military commission, but on a writ of Habeas Corpus,!he was produced in the United States District Court; and, after hearing argument, Judge HlLLre manded him to the custody of the District Comman der's Deputy, Gen. GILLEM. It is on appeal from this decision that the Supreme Court will have to pro nounce, and on that judgment must hinge the con stitutionality of the Reconstruction laws upon which General ORD acted. The case was brought before the Supreme Court on the 17th ult., when Senator TRUMBULL, of Illinois, appeared as counsel fur the Government, Gen. STANBERRY declining, as he had already decided against the acts. The New York World contends, that the Supreme Court Quorum Bill, if passed, will act prejudicially against justice. In controversies between individuals about property, the validity of Acts of Congress must nearly always come before the Court; and the effect of the measure would be, that the votes of six Judges would be ne cessary to set a law aside, while three could maintain itsvalidity; therefore the party whose rights are created by the disputed law will have an advantage over him whose rights are infringed by it. Thus the scales of justice would not be equally balanced, and the suitors before the Supreme Court, the highest tribu nal in the United States, would stand on an unequal . footing. Under all the circumstances, the New York _Nation disapproves this measure. Although a powerful advocate of the Congressional plan of Re construction, it writes as follows : —" Another great objection is, that it is an attempt by a party vote— the party being one which has just been defeated in an appeal to the country—and at a time of great excitement, and for a temporary purpose, and with the view of affecting a particular decision, to change the constitution of the highest judicial tri bunal iu the country." At the same time, it con siders that had the measure been brought forward by competent men, in quiet times, and after mature deliberation, it might not have had a word to say against it. The danger of such trifling with the constitutional bulwark yiseeattr na that h a t t ay it annihilates the bulwark as a barrier. The conve niencea party in of the power. moment Th e necessitatesconvenience ofa ncelixatng necessitate another change for the party then in power; and if the great check, the final appeal of Americans, is to be doctored so as to suit the chang ing views of party, its functions are at once de stroyed, and, like the highest courts of England in her darkest days of despotism, it will become a mere instrument of tyranny. Some may urge the over-ruling necessity and the excellence of the objects for which Congress strives. But such are always the pleas of those who infringe constitu tutional rights, and would as readily be used by a party openly legislating to centre the whole power of the Union in its hands. The Nation contends (and in our opinion justly)—" That any inter ference of the Supreme Court with the process of reconstruction, as Congress is carrying it on, would be legislation, and legislati on o f th e hi g h es t or d er , no matterby what name it was called. Clothing it in the form of a judicial decision would not alter its character. It would be in reality the assumption by the Court —nay, by five members of the Court acting under no responsibility to the country—of power to decide on what terms and conditions peace should be made between the parties to one of the bloodiest and most extensive wars on record. Nothing could make an act of this sort anything but a political act. There would not be enough l a w in it to give it even the faintest odour of a judi cial decision. It would be absurd to suppose that anybody would be imposed upon by its being called a ' judgment,' and by the production of a plaintiff no t a h i n o d g defendant can b e to more certainsupport t h i a t o . that More overthe founders of the Government never dreamed of the Court playing any such part. They acknow ledged that for such a convulsion as we have just passed through, for an armed attempt on the part of a great combination of States to overthrow the Government, they could neither make provision nor offer counsel. We may be sure that, if they allowed themselves at all to foreshadow the course or con sequences of such a conflict, they never contem plated the possibility of the Supreme Court framing the treaty of peace ; for this is what the interference of the Court in this matter of reconstruction really would mean. It has already held the war with the rebels to be a regular territorial war, attended with all the incidents of a conflict with an alien enemy. If, after this, it were to step in and say what Con gress might not do, by way of restoring peace and order, it would be tantamount to the drafting of a treaty of peace—an act in all respects political, and in no way judicial." But this journals adds, that it hopes and believes that the Supreme Court'would not interfere, and if so the action of the House is uncalled for. We the more readily introduce the words of the Nation, as they contain an admission on a point at present much discussed in England though be side our subject. We allude to the letters of His toricus on the premature recognition of the South by England, as belligerents, and Mr. SEWARD'S assertion that the war was but a domestic trouble. The effect of the passage through the House of this act may be judged by the rise in the price of gold, which went up 8 per cent. in a week. It is the boldest step yet taken, and Congress has to learn how it will be received by the country. If the Se nate adopts the measure, the PRESIDENT'S veto will in all probability be over-ruled by the two-thirds majority, and ,IIr.JOIINSON'S course perhaps decided by the public feeling. The character of ANDREW JOHNSON is rising into an importance even greater than that of any man of our age. lie is placed in a position of fearful difficulty, for perhaps on him will hinge the question of another civil war in the United States. He has distinctly signified in his Message how he intended to act under certain cir cumstances. Those circumstances are now occur ring ; and there can be no doubt that Congress has deliberately accepted the challenge, and intends to crush all opposition to its policy of Reconstruc tion. It is clear from the tone of the Press that the determination characterizing the PnEsiDENT,toget her with the ability of his Messages, have raised him in the estimation of his countrymen, and it is generally thought that he is supported by the majority of the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1868. people in his opposition to the Legislature. Neither his obstinacy nor his courage can be disputed—he is deeply imbued with the soundness of his opinions, and he is penetrated with the absolute necessity of preserving the Constitution he has sworn to defend, and checking what he considers the unlawful usurpation of the Legislature. Congress is equally obstinate, and equally satisfied of the necessity of its measures. One or the other, must give way. The PRESIDENT will probably wait for the decision of the Supreme Court if the case can be brought up in time, and should the majority of the justices, as is anticipated, decide against the acts on which General ORD issued his orders, he will perhaps ac cept that decision as conclusive, and shape his course in accordance. But he must feel that he is backed by the greater portion of the nation, or the overwhelming responsibility that would otherwise fall upon one man would be almost too much for human nature. Congress is sheltered by the crowd, though it is clear that many of the " weak-kneed" members are whipped up in fear and trembling to their places. ANDREW JOHNSON must act alone ; and if he comes well out of this ordeal, he will take a place in history, and assume a position among his contemporaries which the United States never ac corded to any but to those who have displayed the highest qualities of courage and of endurance.— Anglo-American Times. CONFERENCES ON EDUCATION. As the time for the meeting of Parliament approaches, the questions which are ripest for discussion, or most earnestly demand a settle ment, are certain to be ventilated by confer ences, by speeches, by letters, and leading articles—the precursors of Parliamentary action— Coming events cast their shadows before. We have had, accordingly, during the past week, an Educational Conference at Manches ter, followed by one at Liverpool, in which Mr. Lowe, the most determined, as well as the most able adversary of denominational schools, cautiously sketched out his plan for the edu cation of the future. The Conference at Man chester had agreed upon the following three points :—" First, that the Bill which Mr. Bruce, Mr. Egerton, and Mr. Forster had charge of ought to be compulsory ; secondly, that assist ance from the Privy Council ought not to be denied to schools on account of their being purely secular ; thirdly, that all schools re ceiving public money ought to have a con science clause." Mr. Lowe, at the Liverpool Conference, gave his hearty assent to the con clusion arrived at in Manchester. The principles which' he advocated may be summed up as follows :—First, that every school in the country, whether called into exist ence by voluntary contributions or a compul sory vote, should be treated by the Privy Council in the same manner, should each be inspected and each receive grants ; secondly, that the system of inspection should be de denominationalized ; thirdly, that every fresh denominational school should be under a con science clause. To give practical effect to these views, Mr. Lowe proposes to divide the country into educational districts ; to have an inspector sent down to each district to report upon its condition as to education, the number of schools in operation, and how many are required ; and, furnished with such informa tion, the next step in Mr. Lowe's plan is the compulsory levying of a school-rate upon each educational district in which•schools are defec tive or altogether wanting ; the Government, moreover, is to prescribe the kind of school that should alone be supported by rates ;—for, argues Mr. Lowe, it ought not to be guilty of the injustice of calling upon the ratepayers to support de nom i na ti ona l sc hools. But does Mr. Lowe no t see th e i n j us tice, also, of calling upon ratepayers, who are in favour of religious education, to support secular schools ? The school-rate would justly cause in every district subject to its operation an opposition more determined and more fierce than the church. rates were wont to excite. Mr. Lowe goes beyond the conclusions of the Man c h es t er Conference. His education scheme is nothing short of a complete revo lution of the whole existing system. Educa tion in England has hitherto been based upon the religious principle a nd upon the voluntary system aided by Government gran t s . M r . Lowe's plan proposes the establishment of secular or irreligious education enforced by a school-rate. of a e t x ' a i r s ; in a i g d . religious hu t he p s r c o h p o o o s l e s s , He does not suggest th e imme diate abolition supported by voin ! was than placed A,ir.L wherever schools are wanting to supply the want by Government schools. inflicted Even he, how ever, is forced to acknowledge that wherever a ey the w l h a o tte a r re wo l u e l s d s compulsory system yu r s . system, t i e nT m ffih , b w s y i Lowe, the h a rebey intro duction side with sustain l i ni t n h ede ed t d h tb e s hy o a m v tp o e r l te u l ue n t d j a i u i l e. of the ratepayer into the manage ment of schools supp orted b y rates would not only be fatal to t he reli gious principles on in England are now happ il y t to the volunta ry system i tse lf . would be covered w l conducted, i ncoh long with secular schools , p re sided England over by Govern schoolsh but m e Govern ment officials, in which everything would be taught but religion. In our last number we quoted from an able article in the Dublin Re view, and from the statistics which the writer had collected from official sources, sufficient at least to g i ve a glimpse of the terrible state of ignorance and moral and religious degradation into which vast masses of our countrymen are sunk. And the remedy proposed by Mr. Lowe and by the Manchester Conference, as well as by the Bill on education in the charge of Mr. Bruce and Mr. Forster, to this gigantic evil, is a vast system of national education, in which religion is left out. But Mr, Lowe is not con tent with the establishment of secular schools and a compulsory rate, but proposes materi ally to alter the character of existing religious schools by the de- denorainationalization of school inspectors, and by the introduction of the conscience clause. This scheme is the most insidious of all, since the practical operation of the conscience clause will be to reduce the religious teaching of the school in which it is in force to a minimum. The fact of children being allowed to withdraw from the school when any religious act or teaching takes place which may be objectionable to the creed or no creed of their parents or di g nar ans, will most infal libly tend to confine religious or dogmatic ' teaching to set subjects, or chance, or spare half-hours, instead o f its b • eing interwoven — as it ought to be, it if is to have any real effect —into every fibre of the education imparted through the whole school course. The religi ous principle is still too strong in England to permit of the complete abolition of religious schools teaching in ; but the conscience clause offers a compromise which, by retaining the shadow of religion, an d sa crificing its sub stance, is but too likely h to obtain the support of politicians. E • nalis statesmen are partial to a compromise ; and if, by the introduction of a conscience- clause, the Government can satisfy for a tim e men of extreme secularist views on edUcati on , and disarm the .opposition of a la rge section of the supporters of deno minational schools, it is too much to be feared that some kind of compromise will be advo cated, and that the "scheme described by Lord Stanley at Bristol as being a wise, and large, and well considered measure," will turn out to be nothing b e tter than such a miserable compromise as is involved in the introduction of the conscience clause. — Westminster Gazette. [ADVERT ISEMENT.]-1 - Tolloway's Ointment and Pills.— Fear Not.—Though surrounded by circumstances disad vantageous to health, these remedies, if properly applied, will cut short fevers, influenza, i n fl a mmation, diphtheria, and a host of other complaints always lurking about to seize on the weak, forlorn, and unwary. The superiority of Holloway's medicines has been so fully and widely proved for subduing disease that it is only necess a ry to ask the afflicted to give them a trial, and if the instructions folded around thorn be followed no disappointment will ever ensue, or dan gerous consequences result. Ia hoarse ness and ulcerat e d sore throat t h e o intment should fre quently be rubbed on th o nec k an d t o p of the chest, it will arrest the incre as i ng i n fl ammat i on, gradually cum. allay disquietude, and 2HE SCIENCE OF FOX-H UN7 MG. (From Baily's Magazine for February.) " A Book about Fox-hunting," with the above title, written by " Scrutator," and dedicated to the Duke of Rutland, is a work little suited to the age we live in, and the writer might as well expect the rising generation to study Beckford. Men, horses, hounds, countries, manners, and customs have all changed., and the clock cannot be put back. In no thing is there a greater change than in the hour of meeting. Lord Blophous's hounds are advertised to meet at eleven, at which hour his hounds are leav ing their kennel, on a December or January day, to go to a meet 10 miles distant. His father's hounds moved away from the meet at half-past 10 to the minute, whilst his grandfather's hounds met at day break. But in grandpapa's days the country was more open, and there were no gorses, enclosed as fox covers, for a speedy find. Those ancient sportsmen depended, therefore, upon hunting the drag of a fog who had been out upon the prowl for his food, and they always main tained that there was no such beautiful hunt ing as this, and nothing that could test more surely the nose of the hound. It is certain that in those primitive times sportmen would ride very long distances through the night to reach a meet at daybreak, and enjoy this treat. Nimrod tells us that a Mr. Stubbs used to give an account of a run with Sir Edward Littleton's hounds with this preface —" I breakfasted with Lockley at twelve o'clock at night." At such an hour the hunting man of the present day is just emerging from the dining-room on his way to the billiard room, and has not yet lit his first cigar. At mid-day Lord Blophous's drag comes round to the door, but the impatient sportsman must curb his ardour, for at the last moment his lordship has to write let ters to his trainer and his lawyer. It is a maxim as old as Beckford, that " The morning is the time of the day which generally affords the best scent," and, however much men's habits and ways have changed, the laws of nature have not. Here, then, the best part of the day has been cut to waste, and it gets rather dark at four o'clock about the 25th of December, but under Lord Blophous's system of hunting the horses will have had quite enough of it before that hour arrives. It is the pace that kills. "By George they have found ! Tally ho ! there he goes !" but the hounds are upon another fox. What does that signify ? Lord Blophous and his huntsman mean to be after the one that has faced the good country. An old worn-out whipper-in, who can hardly read, and cannot write his name, growls to himself, "Now, then, you idiot; where are you going to ?" as Lord Cairns gathers his horse together for a start. But his lordship is not such an idiot as to lose his place, and sends his horse along as hard as his legs can carry him after the huntsman, who is blowing his heart out. Two hundred brother sportsmen are all at the same game. The old whip mutters something about nobody knowing anything now-a-days, and dives into the wood. For two fields the huntsman keeps the fox in view, after which his skill is put to the test. The modern system has been clearly demon strated by Charles Payne with the Pytchley, and by Jem Hills with the Heythiop, to be the only orthodox one, and as such is carried out in all the fast countries. We want a quick step, and we dont't want a psalm tune. People have no fancy for rehearsing their funerals. With the decision of a Napoleon the huntsman's mind is made up as to the fox's point; he is confirmed by a friendly halloo on the opposite hill, and away he goes. A brilliant lark is the result. Every one gets plenty of jump ing, and not a few get down. The cleverest hunts man will, however, occasionally be deceived by a false halloo—some rascally boy bird-keeping, per haps—and he will have gone two miles in one direc tion whilst the fox has gone two miles in the other. In such a case he must clap on as quick as thought to the nearest cover, and throw in what hounds he has with him. He may have the luck to chop a fox, and if so: it makes a good finish. At any rate he will soon find another, and he will have further opportunity of showing his talent for beating his own horse as well as the horses of other people. We are tempted to borrow from the pages of " The Post and the Paddock" a descrip tion of a run, written by the late Sir Charles Knightley, in which that great artist, Dick Knight, then Lord Spencer's huntsman, had full scope for his genius. He found a fox at Sywell Wood, and recognised him as an old friend from a peculiar mode of twisting his brush over his back. He had beat him several times, and he was determined, if possible, to have him by fair means or foul. Know ing the line he had before taken he did not lay the hounds on the scent, but lifted them beyond Orling bury, where he viewed them, and where he laid them ou close at him. At the first check he lifted them again beyond Finedon, where he viewed them again ; and at the next check beyond Burton Wold, where he again viewed him ; and thus either chased him or lifted them to Grafton Park, where they ran into him. The distance was at least 10 miles from point to point, and it was supposed the hounds were not four miles on the scent the whole way. Now would the great John Warde ever have caught such a fox? If any one o bj ects to see i ng a fox split up in this masterly style, he must be some old Tory fogey, a retrograde quite behidd the times, and only fit to go hunting with Jack Thomson. But the old fogey sometimes asks this some what awkward question—Of what use are the hounds ? Well, they afford Lord Blophous an opportunity, during the summer months, of talking about legs and feet, shoulders and loins, and of showing for prizes at York, or some other dog show. Old fogey says that, in his day, dog shows were confined to Jena Burn's parlour, where bull-dogs and fancy spaniels were shown for their " proper ties," but which masters of foxhounds call '• points." Really there is no use in arguing with such an ob-; stinate, prejudiced old man. To return to the work before us ; its pages treat of kennel management, of breeding and entering young hounds, of style of hunting and peculiarities of hounds, and of other matters about which Young England cares not a straw. To enjoy any game or sport it is necessary that a person should at least know the rudiments, and to appre ciate it thoroughly he must understand the niceties. But if hounds are never allowed to hunt where is a beginner to learn anything about the work of hounds? and the opportunities for learning diminish every year. Verily jealous riding has much to answer for. It is at the root of all the evil, of which the wild lifting system is only one of the consequences. The railways, too, have done their share to destroy hunting, by cutting up rural districts, and by bringing to every meet a host of evil-doers from manu facturing towns, garrisons, and fashionable watering places, to override and perhaps maim the hounds, ruin the sport, and try the patience of the most even-tempered masters. We shall never for get the speech of Osbaldeston, delivered in his shrillest note, to a Leamington swell, who had ridden in front. of his hounds, describing the habits of the offender at home, and his intentions with respect to the fox but it would not be suited to the pages of Bally. The reason lately assigned by a well-known sportsman for declining a handsome subscription to hunt a country in the vicinity of London was that he should swear more in one day than the mat of the week spent m repentance could wipe out. ROYAL ACADEMY OF M USlC.—This institution having struggled for nearly half a century to support itself on the voluntary principle, by subscriptions, balls, concerts, &c., has been obliged to decide on closing its action. Tim surrender of its charter has been offered to the Government. It is stated that the directors will cerise to act in March next. THE CAB STRIKE AT LIVERPOOL.--The cab owners and drivers aro still on strike at Liverpool, to the serious inconvenience of the public, and more particularly of strangers arriving in the town by sea. Cars only ply from the railway stations, and so far there aro no signs of any agreement being come to between the town council and the "cabbies." Yesterday Mr. Jones, a cab-owner, was bound over in his own recognisances of £2O to keep the peace towards Mr. Harding, a car-owner, who had re fused to join the strike, and who was - fn consequence hooted at by a mob headed by Jones on Saturday night. Judge Wood's Court at Selma, Alabama, has been suppressed by military authority, on account of the refusal of the judge to recognize negro jurors. • UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, KANSAS. The Kansas Pacific Railroad is attracting to it self a great measure of public attention. It was originally intended to join the Omaha line before that road penetrated into the Rocky Mountains, but the ideas of its projectors have enlarged as the operations progressed, and now a whole network is contemplated, by which New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California will be opened up. Indeed the time is foreseen when a branch of this railroad will penetrate to the city of Mexico through a rich and healthful country, which will bring that capital into communication with the world without passing through the malarious jungles of the Eastern sea bioard. The desire of the people south of the Mis souri is that this railroad shall be diverted by way of New Mexico, whether a branch leads to Denver or not. It is contended that the development of the great interior will be better effected by thus direct ing the line ;—although the road to San Francisco will be lengthened by some hundreds of miles, the high mountain grades and great snow deposits of the northern route will be avoided, which will more than compensate—that the road will touch the tide water of the Pacific at these two important points on the way, the head of the Gulf of California and San Diego, a good port, 400 miles south of San Francisco. New Mexico is represented as fertile and beautiful, and although broken up by moun tains with many fine valleys, and rich in mine rals, especially gold and silver. It ha.s been found, as Mr. COPLEY has shown in his able letters to the Pittsburg Gazette, that, as the railway is pushed on, the Kansas settlers in thousands follow and even precede it, so that already numerous towns have grown up in the country described by Mr. HEP WORTH DIXON in his New America as a lonely waste, over which Indians and buffaloes alone roamed. It has been completed nearly, if not quite, to Pond Creek Station, far into the valley of the Smoky Hill, and 400 miles west of the Missouri River at Kansas City. From this point the road is to branch north-west to Denver, a distance of 187 miles, and south-west to Santa Fe, 402 miles. Up to Pond Creek the Government subsidy of bonds, granted by Act of Congress, is given ; but now that the line has reached the limit, the people of the district are moving for an extension. On January 8 resolutions were introduced into the Missouri Legis lature, requesting the State Senators and Represen tives in Congress to use all their influence for secur ing the passage of an Act granting the Union Pacific Railroad Kansas Branch equal subsidies as the Omaha Road, that it may be extended through New Mexico and Arizona, at the same time as it forms a junction with the Union Pacific Railroad in Colorado. The territory it is proposed to open is almost unknown, except on the line to Santa Fe. From the latter town to Junction City it takes three months to make the return trips, each waggon being drawn by four yoke of oxen, attended by two men, the expense being not less than $l5O per ton. The south-western line, on leaving Pond Creek, will pass over a rolling buffalo grass prairie, similar to the Kansas country, to Fort Lyon on the Arkansas, a distance of 65 miles. The line will then follow the valley of the Purgatoire River, some 120 miles, over buffalo grass land, to the eastern base of Raton Mountain, leaving the river on its western side. The slopes are covered with a heavy growth of valuable timber, and excellent coal abounds in veins from 11 to 13 feet in thickness, some taken from those cropping out of the mountain had been brought to St. Louis, and proved excellent bituminous coal. So salubrious is this part of Colorado, that a gentleman who had explored the country, writing to Mr. COPLEY, says : " 1 honestly believe that, when made accessible by the railroad, it will be the great sanatarium of the United States." The country is as remarkable for its beauty as for the excellence of its climate, and as it contains vast pine forests, it will furnish a supply much needed to Eastern Kansas, when the line is built, as well in timber as in fuel. For more than a hundred miles the road will skirt the moun tain, with the vast and fertile plains of North- Western Texas on the other side, and passing Fort Union it will turn westward and strike the Rio Grande at the town of Albuquerque, 75 miles S. \V. of Santa Fe, which it is to pass some distance to the right. The course is then west over the Sierra Madre about 120 miles, when it will enter Arizona, on the 35th parallel of latitude, and pursue a course through the midst of that territory, passing Pres cott the capital, and following the valley of Williams' River till it reaches the Colorado, where good steam boat navigation is open at all seasons of the year to the head of the Gulf of California. On crossing that great river, probably at Aubrey City, the road will enter California, when it is to continue its west erly course until it turns the southern extremity of the Sierra Nevada, whence it will proceed N.W. up the great valley to San Francisco, a distance of between 300 and 400 miles. General W. J. PALMER, now in charge of the survey on the 25th and 32d parallels through New Mexico, Arizona, and California, wrote a letter from Fort Mohave, dated Dec. 28, informing a friend at St. Louis that he has a good line to the Colorado River, which the road will cross at a point navigable to the Gulf, and affording excel lent opportunities for bridging. This point is south of Fort Mohave, which is north of Aubrey City on the Colorado, about 1,370 miles from Kansas City, and 500 from San Francisco. From Kansas City to New York via Cameron, Quincey, Chicago, Pittsburg, and Allentown, the distance is 1,389 miles. If Chicago be avoided, and the route through Springfield (Illinois) and Fort Wayne be taken in stead, the distance is 31 miles less, which would g ive, if General PALMER'S estimate be correct, three thousand two hundred miles by this route, from New York to San Francisco. General PALMER is an officer of intelligence and keen observation, and he has spent many years of his life in the sort of work in which he is now engaged. It is not there fore probable that he is inaccurate, and fuller re ports will be awaited with interest of this strange new country, where it is said the race came from whom the Spaniards found established in such civilization in Mexico. In American archaeology, remains are described which must have been the work of these tribes, who passed to occupy as conquerors, a civilisation far superior to that they left. The Union Pacific Railway, as yet opened in Kansas, has given its proprietors a most gratifying return. During the month of May, 1867, it was in operation from Kansas to Salina, a distance of 187 miles, and the gross earnings for that month were $172,106, which gives $ll,OOO per mile per annum. Of this the nett profits were $72,000, or at the rate of $1,567 per mile per annum. In July the total earnings were $189,570, and the working expenses $104,430, leaving the nett proceeds $85,139. For the month of August the gross earnings were $236,000. General Palmer has been on his tour of observation in New Mexico and Arizona for many months, and he has made himself by personal in spection well acquainted with the route proposed for the line. The heavy growth of timber and the rich coal depositsof Raton Mountain are well ascer tained facts. The country in the vicinity is con sidered to be the finest grazing district of the United States, and the mineral wealth of New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California are proved facts, to which J. 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New York.—The Annie, from Baltimore to Cork, has come ashore at Stony Point, Chesapeake River; an Ameri can ship, believed to be the Ellen Southard, Liver pool, to liavannah, is in Belfast Lough, dismasted. Deal, Jan. 27.—Sailed, the Kong Carl, for Philadelphia. Liverpool, Jan.26.—The Cossipore, from Callao to Queens town, was abandoned, Jan. 21; crew saved. The Alice, steamer, New Orleans to this port, Jan. 21 ; crew saved. The Alice, steamer, Now Orleans to this port, was spoken in lat. 20 N, with shaft broken ; she was under canvas, and would make for Queenstown. Jan. 27.—Arrived, the Alicia, from New Orleans ; the Manhattan, screw steamer, from New York; the Marian Ridley, from Newfoundland ; the Tripoli, screw steamer, and Robt. Kerr, from New York ; the Joshua E. Loring, from Mobilo ; the J. H. Stetson, from New Orleans. Barmouth, Jan. 25. The Wassella, barque, of Bath, from New Orleans to Liverpool, was stranded last night ; four lives were saved. Falmouth, Jan. 27.—Arrived, the Syrie, from Leith fur New York, leaky, and with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, and decks swept. Belfast, Jan. 25.—The Charlotte, of New York, from Liverpool to Savannah, has been towed up here wfth all her masts cut away, to prevent her going ashore at Whitehead. The Thetis, brig, of and from Maryport to Dublin, drove ashore ; she is not mak ing much water, but cannot come off without being lightened. New York, Jan. 16.—The cargo of the H. D. Brookman, Savannah to Liverpool, which put into St. Thomas, Doc. 25, with loss of mainmast, &c., was so much damaged as to be unsaleable. Jan. 27,—The N. Mosher, Liverpool to Boston, was abandoned on the 22d ; crew saved. St. Thomas, Jan. 13.—The Darien, steamer, sent from Liverpool to save the Columbian steamer, and her cargo, which sunk here during the hurricane, returns via Savannah, having abandoned the case. The vessel is bilged, and stated to be useless, and the cargo that is dived up is worth very little. Liverpool, Jan. 27.—The Wapella, New Orleans to this port, stranded at Barmouth, Jan. 21, lies with her broad side to the sea. She has lost her rudder, but the hull is whole. Seine cotton is on the beach. Some casks with red ends, apparently petroleum casks, were passed, off Tuskar, by the Tripoli, screw steamer, arrived here from Now York. The Manhattan, screw steamer, arrived here, reports having passed what appeared to be a sunken wreck, with mast about 12 feet above water, Jan. 19, in lat. 45 N., long. 51 W. Jan. 28.—Arrived, the Wolfville, from Mobile; the Prima Donna; the Teresa Catharina, from Pernambuco ; the Nautilus, from Savannah ; the City of Cork, screw steamer, from Halifax. Queenstown, Jan. 27. —Arrived, the Return, from Philadelphia. Custom House, Jan. 28.—Entered inwards, the Hudson, from New York. Liverpool, Jan. 28.—Arrived, the Wolf ville, from Mobile ; the Nautilus, frem Savannah ; the City of Cork, screw steamer, from New York. Forty bales of cotton were , landed last tide, ex Wappella, stranded at Barmouth—the tide ebbs and flows in the vessel. Jan. 29. Arrived, the Prima Donna, from Bahia ; the St. Thomas, steamer, from New Orleans; the F. A. Palmer, from Mobile; the Wil liam, from Baltimore ; the Rochester, from Savannah ; the Susannah Knapp, from Messina ; the Nelly May, from Savannah; the City of Baltimore, steamer, from New York. Sailed, City of Paris and Denmark, steamers, for New York. Penzance, Jan. 29.—Arrived, the Flower, of L Arun, from Baltimore for Loudon with loss of sails, boats, stan chions, and bulwarks, and part of cargo (oilcake) thrown overboard. New York, Jan. 10.—The master, Lewis, of the Pennsylvania, steamer, which arrived ~here yesterday from Liverpool, was drowned on the passage. Off Dover, Jan. 26.—Arrived, the Paris, from Valparaiso and Queens town on the 21st and 22d January, when to the E.NE. of Scilly, experienced a violent gale, and was struck by a heavy sea, which drove in a portion of the deck-house, filled the forecastle, chests, and berths of the crew, washed overboard water casks, split sails, and had life boat stove. Liverpool, January 29. Sailect, the Denmark, screw steamer, for New York. January 30.—Arrived, the California, from San Fran cisco the Suliote, from Mobile; the Baticola, from Savannah ; the Chieftain, from Savannah. Sailed, the Nova Scotia, screw steamer, for Portland. Falmouth, Jan. 29.—Sailed, the Brage, for Mobile. Clyde, Jan. 29. Arrived, the J. P. Wheeler, from New York. Queens town, Jan. 29.—Arrived, the Tay, from New York. Warrenpoint, Jan. 29.—The Ann Augusta, from St. John's, New Brunswick, to this port, grounded on Cranfield Point, while in tow of the Mystery; both apparently damaged. New York, Jan. 27.—The Loretto, from Liverpool, aground near Swan Point, has been got off and towed into Annapolis roads ; she has not received any material damage. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. .uBtralla and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 19 via Marseilles ...............Feb. 13. Ditto, via Panama Feb. ,irazil, LiueuJs Ayres, sad Monte Video Mar OltLo, Uy Freucb packet Cape Verde. by Brazil packet ...... .;ape of Good Hope. Asoension, and it. tielena Feb 7 Jaina, Penang, and ding-wore, via Southampton Feb. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands ,itbraitar, via Southampton Feb I; lndia.via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil e5....................Feb. 7. Halts, Egypt, Sca. Feb. 13 Ditto, Marseilles... Feb. 7. Hauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Marseides Feb 13 N ewfoundla Le ...... 12 Portugal March 5 Ditto, by pri v, to ship to Oporto ... Ditto t tto to Lisbon United States, l anada, California, dtc., by British packet Ditto, by L nited States packet Ditto ditto 'New York) Ditto ditto Ntw York) Ditto ditt, (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Feb. 14. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe k'eb. 16 West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baba _ _ _ mas) Cuba and Mexico Feb. 23. B%ha.nas, via New Yur 4 . March 2. Bermuda, via Halifax DONCASTER FEBRUARY FAIR.--This fair was held on Monday, and was well attended by buyers. The show of horses was the best we have had for many years, par ticularly those for agricultural purposes, which sold readily at from £3O to £45 each, some really extra strong ones fetching as high as £5O each. The show of harness horses was pretty good, but there was little inquiry for them. Some sales, however, were effected at from £3Q to £7O each ; a few hacks realised small prices, and anything n ferior was bad to sell at any price. The cattle trade was a brisk one, and there was a good supply of drapes, steers, and heifers. Bullocks realised from £7 10s. to £lO ; steers and heifers, £8 10s. to £l2 and £l4 ; sheep a poor shuw, and little business done. THE GLAMORGANSHIRE COLLIERS.—A meeting of the delegates appointed by the colliers of Glamorgan shire, to consider the subject of the proposed reduction in wages, has been lately held at the Bute Arms, Aberdare, and after considerable discussion, it was resolved that the men should be advised to accept the terms proposed by the masters. The men in some parts of the district remained out for three days ; but have now returned to work, having incurred, through their own shortsightedness, a loss greater than if they had gone in at first on the reduction. The amicable arrangement come to will be hailed with pleasure and gratification throughout the district, as a strike would entail not only a serious loss to the parties engaged in it, but to the tradespeople generally. Births. BOOTH—On the 4th inst., at 7, Buckingham-gato, Mrs. Gore Booth, of a daughter. GRAY—On the 4th inst., at 9, Princes-square, the wife of John Wilson Gray, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daugh- ter. MURRAY —0 n the 3d inst., the wife of John Murray, Esq l of Iturraytftwaite, Commander R.N., of a son. Marriages. GERRETT —HALE —On the 4th inst., at St. Bartholomew's Sydenham, Charles Gerrett, of Old Cavendish-street , to Louisa, youngest daughter of S. Hale, of Kent House Villas, Sydeuham. WHITE--SMITH—On the 4th inst., at St. Stephen's, Bays water, Henry Osborne, third son of James White, Esq., M.P., of Chichester-terrace, Brighton, to Emily Euphe mia, youngest daughter of the late Sir Benjamin Smith, Gentleman-at-Arms, &c. Deaths. BANKS—On the 4th inst., at 22, Holland-place, Clapham" road, Worge Banks, aged 75. DAWSON—Ou the 3d inst., Mr. Benjamin Dawson, of Tho Mount, Hampstead, age'd 76. ELLERTON—On the 3d inst., at Garforth, near Leeds, Ed' ward Ellerton, Esq., aged 89. lIORE—On the 3d inst., at Trafalgar Cottage, Whitewell, Herts, Captain Bohjarnin Hore, aged 76. KNATCHBUIL—Onthe 2d inst., at 3, Chesham-place, Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, Bart., 'aged 60. PLUMBE—On the 3d inst., at Wantage, John Plumb° , Esq., aged 72. STENNLNG—On the 4th inst., John Stenning, Esq., New lands, East Grinstead, aged 93. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW..,' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan Simi Office, No Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COuntY ° Folmary 6, 1861