The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PI7BLIC JOURNALS. One side of Oxford University is now most respectably represented by Mr. Gathorne Hardy, and if Mr. Mow bray becomes his colleague, that one side, says the Times, will enjoy a double representation ; and the other side — that is, we fully believe, the Oxford of the future—will not be represented at all. Even upon the now recognised principle of representing a good minority, Oxford ought to find a representative who is not the mere double of Mr. Gathorne Hardy. But there is no need to fall back on such a plea in this instance. Sir Roundell Palmer would represent the whole constituency of Oxford better than any partisan, for he is not a partisan, but a man of singularly independent character and opinions. He has already in Parliament expressed opinions that would oppose a great, if not insuperable, bar to any official connection with the Liberal leader in the Commons. Nobody has sacrificed more to inde pendence and the sacred right of private judgment in political matters. If he is a wise man, he will defer any atatement of his views on the great question of the day, that he may be the more free to examine the rival propositions of the hostile chiefs. But thus far we are not aware that he would vote against any reasonable com promise, could it be hit on and duly effected. If com promise be possible, it were much to be desired, that so we might be spared the resentments and retaliations likely to ensue from a less moderate and con siderate course. In such a case the university would be wise to put itself as much as possible in the hands of independent men, not committed to any leader or any extreme. Sir Roundell Palmer's recommendations, as a lawyer, a scholar, and a critic, combining fine taste with varied attainments and extensive information, we need not dwell upon. Nobody doubts that Sir Roundell Palmer is a representative who would do honour to Oxford. Even his opponents will admit this, though, in the present state of affairs, they may dread an indepen dent man with opinions of his own. The Standard does not agree with Mr. Gladstone's view of the causes of Irish discontent. He does not prove from the condition of the Irish in Canada and elsewhere that the discontent in Ireland is due to injustice. We cheer fully allow that the Irish in Canada are happier and more contented as a rule than the Irish in the United States. But this fact proves nothing in favour of Mr. Gladstone's position, but is, on the contrary, strongly adverse to it and to the whole policy of the Liberals. What is the one incident of Irish life which Mr. Gladstone adduces in evidence of the superiority of Canadian institutions? It is the career of Mr. Darcy M`Gee, who was assassinated by a Fenian. Mr. Gladstone himself, we observe, has mis givings whether it was really a Fenian who committed this crime, but in this view he is opposed to the verdict of the jury who tried the murderer. Everybody, in the Dominion at least, has no possible doubt that Mr. M'Gee was shot by a Fenian, in obedience to the orders of the secret Fenian association. Surely, if this proves anything, it proves that in spite of the blessings enjoyed by the Irish in Canada—in spite of the boasted liberality of the Canadian land laws—in spite of the fact that in the Dominion the Church of the minority is not " installed and enthroned in exclusive privileges"—the spirit of Fenianism exists, in the same forms, with the same character, and the same aims as either in the United States or in Ireland. Thus, by the aid of Mr. Gladstone's own instance, we are enabled to refute his argument. The absence of a national Church has been no impediment to the growth of Fenianism in Canada—the laws regulating the possession of land, although they converted Mr. D'Arcy M'Gee into a loyalist, did not affect Whelan and the associates of Whelan. The Fenians were Fenians still, although everything had been done, on Mr. Gladstone's own she wing, to turn them from their disloyalty, and to make them good and contented subjects. The Daily News agrees that perhaps Mr. Gladstone makes too much of the solitary phenomenon, serious though it be, of Fenianism ; and, in connection with Fenianism in America, of the testimony of an observer, whose evidence cannot be impugned, but who visited the United States with his mind preoccupied with one idea, and his perceptions abnormally alive to a single set of impressions. The argument from Fenianism considered in itself does not apply very directly to the Irish Church Establishment ; the argument from the deep-seated social and moral distemper of which Fenianism is but the symptom, goes far beyond the Irish Church. The ecclesias• tical policy in Ireland, of which Mr. Gladstone is the advocate, rests for its vindication on its own intrinsic justice and reasonableness. The Herald declares Mr. Gladstone means to spoil the Irish landlord as well as the Irish Church. He denounces the laws of Ireland protecting the owners of land in the enjoyment of their property—the same laws which pre vail in England, it should be remembered—as unjust and tyrannical, and excuses the murders and other outrages by which Irish tenants attempt to make themselves practi cally the owners of the soil. Mr. Gladstone seems to think that the English people are not aware of the hatred entertained by the Irish abroad for the English Govern ment, and ho quotes the assertion which Mr. Maguire makes with so much complacency to spew the danger and to point out the remedy. We are to win these people by justice and reparation, and Mr. Gladstone explains what he means by telling us what they consider injustice. Eviction is injustice, therefore the power of eviction must be taken away, and the tenant made owner of the soil. The Daily News says that some legislation on trades unions, especially with the view of securing their funds, has become necessary. The unionists themselves seem to' , be divided in opinion as to what they wish Parliament to do for them, but they all agree that some alteration must be made in the laws which regulate combinations. The most moderate expressions of these demands is con tained in a bill which was prepared by the representatives of the London unions, and presented to the House during the last Session by Sir Powell Buxton. That bill proposes to declare trade societies legal, and to place them exactly in the same posi tion before the law as that which is occupied by all other associations which are not corporate bodies. It repeals the Combination Laws, which were specially enacted as restrictions on trades unionism, but re-enacts their chief provisions in a less offensive form. It removes the suspicion of illegality from combinations which are formed for purposes of trade, but makes any attempt to carry out those purposes by means of violence or threats distinctly criminal. The Act is, in fact, an assertion and legalisation of the principle of free combinations, but it retains an important modification of the principle, by making threats penal. It provides, however, that for this special offence a special mode of trial shall be adopted. Workmen accused of hindering others from work by violence, or threats of violence, are only to be tried before the superior judges, and by a jury, chosen by ballot from the register of electors, should the accused demand it. The object of this provision is said to be to ensure a thorough investigation of the case before an experienced judge, and a jury in which no class predominates, So far. therefore, as this Act is concerned, there will probably be no great objection to it on the Liberal side of the House. It merely rectifies the injustice which legislation has unintentionally done to the trades unions, removes the grievance under which they suffer, and provides on the one hand special security against the offences to which workmen are tempted, and on the other hand makes special provision for the trial of such offences. This is all that the unions can justly ask, and they will only imperil this if they ask for more. The Post makes out that the City of London, with its four members, is better off than boroughs with three. We took the case of a three-cornered constituency with 7,502 electors, of whom 3,000 entertained Conservative opinions, and showed how the 4,502 Liberals could never. theless return their three candidates. In a four-cornered constituency it would, however, only require 4,002 Liberals to come to the poll in order to prevent the 3,000 Conservatives returning a single candidate. Let us suppose that these are the proportions between the Conservatives and the Liberals in London, or that it is in this proportion that votes will be polled at the forth coming election. As the Conservatives would vote for the three gentlemen representing their opinions, the result of the poll on their side would be a return of 3,000 votes each for Alderman Gibbons, Mr. Bell, and M r . T we ll s . Notwithstanding, however, this unanimity on the side of the Conservatives, the Liberal majority of 4,002 would, by skil ful management, be enabled to secure the four seats. Let, for example, 3,001 vote for Baron Rothschild, and as each of these voters would possess two votes besides, let him give them to two of the three remaining Liberal candidates. Let 1,000 of them, for example, vote for Mr. Crawford and Mr. Goschen, 1,000 more for Mr. Crawford and Alderman Lawrence, and the remaining 1,001 for Mr. Goschen and Alderman Lawrence. The result, therefore, of polling these 3,001 votes would be that Baron Rothschild would have received 3,001 votes, Mr. Goschen 2,001, Alderman Lawrence 2,001, and Mr. Crawford 2,000. There would, however, remain 1,001 voters still unpolled, each with three votes at his disposal, and if these were given to Mr. Goschen, Alderman Lawrence, and Mr. Crawford, each of these gentlemen, together with Baron Rothschild, would shew a greater number of votes than any of the Conservative candidates, and all the four seats would thus be secured by the Liberal party. The transport Clara, with artillery and infantry for China and Japan, has just sailed from the Thames for Portsmouth, where she will embark in Ceylon. draught of the 59th, to join the service companies At Gravesend she took on board " fresh beef " for the Channel ; but the meat was so far from fresh that the Government con tractor was ordered to replace it. The second supply being also bad, a third quantity was demanded ; but it was once more discovered to lie of such villanous quality, that the officers of Um staff rejected the beef altogether, and purchased a supply for the men from the butchers of the town. The Telegraph asks if so gross and dogged a case of dishonesty occurs " in the daylight," ivii or Jo: inspection of vigilant officers, and in open defiance Of conscience and bond, what cha ice is there of honesty on the part of those who furnish stores and victuals which a -0 not to be immediately tested ? Would this beef contractor, or another of the same kind, have hesitated to furnish limejuice adulterated with sulphuric ac id, or cocoa made of mutt on fat? Xarn that the circumstances have been referred to the Horse Guards and if this purveyor supplies any more beef or other food to the Queen's soldiers, the lack:,;; of t ulqgt. Ustiorxesltrauliuniit. , ""' THE CLAIM TO THE DERWENTWATER ESTATES. Although the position of the "Countess" at Dilston remains the same, the public interest manifested in her favour seems not to diminish in the least. Amongst her many visitors on Wednesday was Mr. Edwin Cadman, of Westbourne House, Yorkshire, who claims to be a descendant of Charles Radcliffe, and next of kin to the " Countess." This gentleman has had an interview with Mr. Grey on behalf of his relative, whose present position Mr. Cadman condefens as altogether useless and invalid. The "Countess" would not listen to his counsel, but asserted her determination to remain as she was until compelled to move by magisterial interferetre. Weeks may elapse before any change is made, as neither party appear willing to act in the matter. The persuasion of friends having been of no avail with the " Countess," it remains to be seen what action neighbouring justices of the peace are prepared to take in the matter. TILE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES AND ROMAN CATHOLIC PRISONERS. The meeting of the Middlesex magistrates this sessions was occupied in discussing the question of appointing a Roman Catholic chaplain to the Middlesex House of Cor rection and the Westminster Bridewell. The matter was brought up by Mr. Northall Laurie, who moved, "That in consideration of the large number of Roman Catholic prisoners usually confined in the Middlesex House of Correction and Westminster Bridewell, whose reli gious instruction according to their own persuasion is dependent at present on the gratuitous and voluntary services of Roman Catholic ministers, it be referred to the respective committees of visiting justices of those prisons to consider and report their opinions as to the amount and mode of appropriation of a reasonable remuneration, to be paid under the provisions of the Prison Ministers Act, 1863, to Roman Catholic ministers officiating in those prisons." The motion, how ever, was strenuously opposed. One of the magistrates gave his opinion against it on the ground that under Roman Catholic rule there was no toleration in any country in the world ; and the Church of Rome would never allow anyone to worship his Creator according to the dictates of his own conscience. After 'a great deal of discussion, the resolution vas put and lost by a majority of 44 to 30. 'FIE CONGREGATIONAL UNION, At the meeting of the Congregational Union, at Leeds, en Thursday, Mr. J. Carvell Williams read apa per on " The Duty of Protestant Nonconformists in regard to the approaching General Election." He said, with a general election immediately at hand, instead of devoting them selves, as the Nonconformists had been accustomed to do, to the redress of personal grievances, now they were reso lutely insisting upon the adoption of a great principle. He noticed the almost entire unanimity of the Liberal party as regarded the Irish Church, and attributed a good deal of it to the influence of Nonconformity. When the election was over let Nonconformists and others pre pare themselves for the duties that were to follow. It was said this election would be the most costly and corrupt ever known. He thought he heard it asked, "Are we likely to contaminate our hands by base bribes?" He hoped the event would justify the reply, " Impossible." But it was not enough for Christian men to say their hands were clean, because they had as far as possible to keep others as clean-handed as themselves. No one could doubt the influence of Nonconformists in the electoral committee-room, and they must stamp out this moral plague, as well as set themselves against that profligate expenditure which was the bane and promised to be the ruin of our electoral system.—A resolution was then moved, " That this assembly, in receiving the valuable paper now read, express a firm conviction that the suffrages of the mem bers of their churches would at this time be given only to candidates in favour of the great principle of religious freedom, for which this denomination has uniformly con tended ; and that all members of this union should dis courage to the utmost of their power all electoral practices objectionable in their character, and to act upon the high principles of patriotism and religion."—Some discussion, or rather some conversation, took place on the motion, which was eventually carried, and the third day's session was then brought to a close. MR. MILL AND MR. BOUVERIE. Mr. Mill is getting into hot water by his recommenda tions of Liberal candidates. In the cases of Messrs. Bradlaugh and Odger he recommended men to constitu encies already possessed of Liberal candidates. lie has also recommended Mr. Chadwick as an opponent to Mr. Bouverie at the Kilmarnock Burghs, whereat Mr. Bouverie is much irate. "I am aware, of course," he writes to Mr. Mill, " that there are differences of opinion on some matters between yourself and me, but I am at a loss to understand how the great objects of the Liberal party in which we concur can be achieved if dissen sions are to be promoted among them by those who are prominent in their ranks. Toleration for minor diffe rences, union for common public objects, such, at least, is the doctrine I entertain with regard to party action, and without a practical adhesion to it I believe the Liberals will be powerless for good. I have acted in accordance with this view in giving my hearty adhesion to your can didature as an elector in Westminster, and I regret that you have set the example of a practice which, in my judgment, has nothing but your authority to be said in its favour." To this Mr. Mill makes reply : "It is of so muct .mportance to the public good that the very best men each party possesses should be sent to represent it in the House of Commons, that it is much to be desired that every con- stituency should consider, not merely whether a man will do to represent it, but whether he is the best man to be had ; and that every candidate should consider first, not his own claims and wishes, but the public interest. For my own part, I can fairly disclaim acting ungene rously towards yourself, because I would very gladly put Mr. Chadwick in my own place if I saw any probability of success. I consider Mr. Chadwick to be an altogether exceptional man, to whom it would be an honour to any other man to give way, because, however superior he may consider himself or might actually be to Mr. Chadwick in some things, there are others (of extreme importance in Parliament) in which Mr. Chadwick has not his equal in England, nor, so far as I know, in Europe. In regard to the matter of sowing dissensions among the Liberal party, I could say a great deal which I am sure would meet with sympathy, in the advanced portion of it, at least, and would spew to all portions that I am not acting without very cogent reasons." Mr. Bouverie rejoins : "In Westminster, where Mr. Chadwick is, perhaps, better known than in Scotland, I have your high authority for the statement that the consti tuency would not be likely to accept him, even upon your recommendation. Upon what knowledge, may I ask, of the Kilmarnock Burghs do you presume that he would be more acceptable to them ? If you are a fit judge of West minster in this matter, may not I be permitted to form a judgment of Kilmarnock ? . . . You will pardon me, therefore, for declining your invitation to `give way' for the purpose of obtaining the return of Mr. Chadwick, as unconstitutional, unwise, and not likely to be attended with success ; and if you will permit me a word of advice In return, I would say that the best hope of our common political adversaries lies in the Liberal constituencies being exposed to a contest among Liberals, and that those who aspire to play leading parts among us would do well sot to exaggerate this evil." SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A serious accident has happened on the railway n ear Galashiels station. Two trucks containing fifteen cattle from Falkirk Tryst were left standing on the Selkirk siding of the Galashiels station. By some means they got loose, and ran down the incline to the main line. Tbey were not perceived, and the line was signalled clear for the fast goods train from Edinburgh to Carlisle, which passes Galashiels about two in the morning. The result was that the goods train ran into the trucks, smashed them, and killed the cattle which they contained. The stoker of the goods train was much hurt, and other persons were greatly shaken.—Scotsman. LORD NAPIER OF MAGDALA ON PRAYER.— At a meeting of the Evangelical Union, held at Exeter Hall on Thursday, General Burrows related the following anecdote of Lord Napier, which had come under his notice :—" Years ago," said Lord Napier, "in Edin burgh, I happeneJ to read one of your delightful authors —a writer who, I believe, is very popular among you—l speak of Hugh Miller. I well remember a description there given of a scene which happened one stormy night. The mother of Hugh Miller was sitting in the house of a minister, and being terrified by one of the fiercest gusts of the storm, she ran to the minister's door, and knocking at it said, Come and let us pray for those that are at sea,' and they knelt down and prayed. Her husband, who commanded a small coasting vessel, was out at sea that night, and during a tremendous gust of the storm, a mighty wave submerged the barque, which struggled as though she would never rise again, but at length she with difficulty emerged to the surface, and the father of Hugh Miller, who was at the wheel with his mate, said, as aeon is he could recover his breath, "There must have been a ;tide soul praying for us this night.'" "I felt," said Lc rd that those poor Abys3inian capt:vs, as th, , reathed the open Air after passing she gates of Mag , la'a, alight have said, 1r.z.r.7 good ;') 11 - 6 ' praying f2 l ' us thiallty.'l. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1868, ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. BRIDGEWATER.—Messrs. Vanderbyl and Binglake, as Liberal candidates have issued their addreoses. The 'ado clues himself as an independent liberal, and will not pledge himself to adopt any great party in the state. CANTEAStre.Y.—Mr. Lee Warner, of Wokingham ADDey, Norfolk, is a second Conservative candidate for the repre sentation of this city. Fakatz.—A meeting has been held at this place to tats farewell of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 'C.O.D., and M.P. for this borough. Mr. Hughes, M.P., moved a vote of thanks to the retiring member, and great enthusiasm prevailed. NORTH Snnoraffutz.—Lord Newport and Mr. Ormsny Gore, the sitting Conservative members, have issued their addresses. READING.—Sir Francis Goldsmid and Mr. George Shaw Lefevre, two Liberal members, have issued their addresses. It is reported that two Conservatives will shortly come for ward. WOLTERIUMPTCM—The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers and Mr. Weguelin, the Liberal members, have issued addresses, Mr. Villiers congratulating the electors upon the success of Liberal urinciples. THE QUEEN'S PRIZE AT WIMBLEDON. Corporal Peake, the volunteer who got the highest !umber of marks at the last Wimbledon meeting for the celebrated Queen's Prize, does not appear to have used a wad other than that prescribed by the regulations. A court of inquiry has been held, and has come to the follow ing conclusion :—" The court of inquiry, having duly considered the evidence brought before it, is of opinion that Corporal Peake did not use a wad other' than that prescribed by the Council of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon, but that the appearance of his having done so was created by his having separated the metallic disc from the cartridge in some instances. It is, therefore, of opinion that Corporal Peake's character for honourable dealing is in no way impugned by his conduct during the competition." Mr. Peake himself writes to the Times, and gives the fol lowing explanation of how the mistake occurred :—" To those who do not understand the construction of the Whitworth cartridge, I may explain that the bullet is a mechanical fit, and has a wad attached to the base composed of grease, placed between two copper discs which exactly fit the bore of the rifle. In some instances I separated the wad from the cartridge, and pushed it down separately upon the powder and the bullet afterwards, which I had a perfect right to do, though it is contrary to the usual custom of ramming down the wad and bullet together. This, no doubt, may havo led some, who perhaps wished to find fault ; to infer or suppose that I used a different wad, which I did not. Touching the evidence against me, the person who lodged the protest never came before the committee or appeared in support of the protest, and judgment was given without his testimony. The only two witnesses that I am aware of who gave testimony adverse to me were Mr. Cameron, who said he saw me fire one shot only in the competition with my two sighters at 1,000 yards, and the Master of Lovat, who said he watched me at the same range, saw me load one or two shots, and felt confident I used another wad. He not only acted as accuser and witness against me, but also was one of those composing the court which condemned me. In opposition to this, I shot in a squad composed of ten competitors, none of whom appeared against me, but three of them came forward, who were entire strangers to me, and who had watched my loading particularly, to bear testi mony in my favour. Five gentlemen were examined on my side who were ready to swear they saw no unfairness. I may also add that the officer in charge (an officer of the Line) came to me while shooting and told me that some objection would be made to my loading, and I then asked him to watch me, which he did for several shots, and said all was right." A further inquiry into this case will o.oubtless be made. PROBABLE END OF GREENBACK AGITATION. ( From the Anglo-American Times) It must amuse au American who does not care what the English think or know of his country to read the news furnished by the correspondents of some leading journals, and the editorial comments. The Times and its sleepy correspondent at Phila delphia, when the latter deigns to write, and the former to notice his letters, give a pretty sketch for the American traveller. The correspondent may often be seen making " a careful survey of the field." Sometimes his field is a pure mirage—some times it is a political—and again a financial field. From the traveller's stand-point the writer is the most curious animal in the picture of his creation, for he appears like the mastodon, an extinct animal, disporting himself in an antediluvian world. The mastodon's last field is the financial, of which he has just taken " a careful survey." It would be refreshing to rise from the perusal of his descrip tion with such a number of new ideas, were it not that the ideas only appear new from their very age. The more we think, the more satisfied we are that these resuscitated things are very old indeed, and if the writer had headed his letter " Old Ame rica," and described it as the researches of an anti quarian it would :have been appropriate. The question " the mastodon" has now reached, is that of the 5-20 Bonds, and whether the interest is to be taxed. It matters not that the subject has, for the present at least, been dropped in the United States. The antique animal supposes that Europe must by this time be familiar with the controversy, but the bondholders abroad cannot know what their pro spects arc unless he tells them. These stupid bond holders bold the highly erroneous impression that the Republican party is the champion of good faith, while the Democrats advocate repudiation. The truth is, as seen by " the mastodon," that neither party can be trusted, that the platform of the one supports what they call an honest pay ment of the debt, while that of the other decrees greenback payment, where coin is not specified. To show that some leaders in both parties may agree as regards repudiation, and other leaders agree on coin payment, he quotes the declaration of the Democratic Convention of Massachusetts, and John Quincy Adams's letter of acceptance, while he shows that there areßepublican greenback payment supporters, by naming Butler and Logan, Morton and Yates ; and actually reaches a date in August last, when quoting an utterance of Senator Sher man. The correspondent says—" Such of the Five twenty Bonds as are held in America are owned almost exclusively in the Atlantic tier of States, and were the direct question put to the voters whether they should be. paid in paper or gold, it is probable that payment in paper would receive almost unanimous support in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, lowa, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska, the States of the Missisippi Valley. In all these States put together it is pro bable that the aggregate holding of Five-twenty Bonds does not amount to $50,000,000. On the other hand, the doctrine of gold payment would carry the majority in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and all the New England States, as these contain the bondholders. The Government cannot pay two thousand millions of Debt with four hundred millions (the total amount) of green backs, while the necessities of the Treasury point more to a loan than to a redemption of the Bonds. The " museum curiosity" considers it to be im possible for the advocates of greenback payment to redeem the Bonds in paper. Does he not know that his prophet Pendleton recommends the print ing of any amount of greenbacks, and it is as easy to order the increase of the currency as to pay the bondholder in it. The correspondent says " if a decision were made in favour of greenback pay ment the United States would be unable to carry it out." Why, if they decided to pay the debts of the world, all required would be a few cargoes of rags to make a sufficient quantity of greenbacks, and the United States might liquidate everybody's liabilities, and be very little the poorer ; but whether the greenbacks would then be worth the rags from which they were manufactured is another question. In view of the difficulty he imagines, as well as of the difference between the Representatives who will be for greenback redemption and the Senate who will not, the end, he considers, will be a compromise, in which the one will sacrifice paper payment enlacing gold on the bonds ; and the other will surrender their right to 6 per cent., receiving instead 4 or 5, there fore the foreign bondholders may look for a reduc tion in the interest as the final result. Here we so far agree with the correspondent as to think this probable, and if most people did not hold the same opinion the bonds would be quoted at a very different price from 74. The lowest pro bable rate of interest will be 4 per cent., the highest 5, but, once settled, we believe the security will be better than that of British Consols. Ame ricans feel sore about this debt, as would any other people under similar circumstances. Those who first took the bonds will have made an enormous profit out of the necessities of the State, and those who pay, while acknowledging that the investors have a right to a good profit, kick against a usurious -rate of interest. Every one would be content if the bondholders sacrificed something, and they would feel that in consequence of a fair compromise the question should never be raised again. If the bond holders resist, they say, we will then pay them ac cording to the strict letter of the agreement—in gold when shown on the face of the bond ; when not, in greenbacks. The holders of the 10-10's, hugging themselves on the law which secures them, are caught on another tack—the taxation of the interest. These two questions permanently fixed would make United States Securities the best in the world, for it is the most secure nation, the most wealthy in Government property, and rapidly growing the richest of all communi ties. No one doubts their ability to pay, but the number of States which have repudiated, and the agitation kept up against the bond holders, have made many doubt the national honesty, though a careful scrutiny of what the people really mean and are driving at would set fears at rest on this point. It must not be sup posed that even the greenback redemption men advocate the repudiation of their just debts. They regard the bondholders as grasping usurers, who, like Shylock, hare been sold, in as far as all antici pated that lawful money, when the bonds became due, would mean coin ; whereas, unfortunately for them as for the rest of the community, it only means paper. Why, they ask, should we make an exception in favour of these greedy people, who have already profited so largely at our cost ? The lenders of gold have been repaid by the borrowers in greenbacks; but the bondholders want to lend in greenbacks and be repaid in gold, unless there is a contract or law so to decide in their favour, which is, indeed, making fish of one and fowl of another. We endeavour thus simply to state the case, as it is the people's case, as seen by them, as against the bondholders. It really differs widely from repudiation, or any intentional dishonesty. It is easier to enlarge on such a text to a people staggering under their burdens than to show the more remote and intricate reasons why it is just and wise to pay, and foolish, even as a question of financial policy, to raise the point at all. With the latter we have at present nothing to do, our object being, in followwg " the correspondent," to show why such asettlernent, involving a lower rate of interest, would not be regarded by the people as repudiation, but merely as a quid pro quo wherein the bondholders got more than they gave. The importance of the point is immense to the foreign holders ; so important that we hope some of our cotemporaries will take up this subject in their in terest to make it widely known, whereby people may be guarded from sacrificing their property under an erroneous impression. Those who delight in misrepresenting the United States speak of the contemplated reduction of interest as a robbery, and this is a fair way of discussing the subject in the United States, or in a lesser degree in our own columns, which are chiefly read by Americans, who understand its true meaning. But the English, the Germans, the French, interpreting literally what is said, really suppose that there is a large and grow ing party in the United States who strive to re pudiate the national debt, whereby distrust is raised, which induces them in a fright to sell their securities. We know some who have lost thousands already from this cause. It is natural for foreigners to argue that if Congress now deliberately reduces the interest by a third, that next year they will knock off another third, when but a single third will remain to be expunged to cancel the national debt. They know nothing of how the debt was contracted ; they are not allowed to see the stand point from which a large section regard it ; hence they conclude that it is from a deliberate and in tentional purpose of simple repudiation that they are mulcted. To know that there is not the slightest chance of any further reduction, and very little chaace of further agitation, wholly changes the position, and it is in withholding this in formation that the correspondents do the United States a grievous wrong, and materially damage the value of the bondholders property. Americans chafe at their National Securities being classed below those of the Republics of South America, and put on a par with such empires as that. of Turkey. They regahi their securities as the best in the world, as they have not only the inclination to pay honestly which many other nations have, but the power of doing so, which scarcely any have. Knowing the honesty of their purpose they feel indignant that foreigners are not aware of it likewise, but they overlook the fact that the foreigners have a place among the " bloated" bondholders, but no place A SCENE IN THE OPERA HOUSE AT MADRID. On the night of the 11th instant there was a uni versal fete in Madrid. After bull-fights came the opera. There was a grand performance for the .benefit of the wounded of Alcolea. The theatre was full, and Marshal Serrano, General Prim, and Admiral Topote occupied a front box. The piece selected for the occasion was the "Muetta di Portici." The celebrated duet, "Sacred love of country," given with great' energy and passion by Tamberlik and Selva, raised thunders of applause, and was twice encored, But this was nothing to what occurred in the second act. A poet of the neighbourhood had written throe stanzas, which were adapted to the grand air with which this act opens, and naturally related to Spain and liberty. Tamberlik, who appeared to feel great sympathy for the Spanish Revolution, sang these stanzas in the Spanish language, and was applauded to the skies. There was an enthusiastic ovation which seemed as though it would never end, and the signal for which was given by Gen. Prim, Marshal Serrano, and Admiral Topete. The scene recalled to mind some of the wonderful performances of Rachel in Paris after the 24th of February. BARBARITIES IN ROUMANIA. Strange doings, says a contemporary, are reported from Roumania, doings the authenticity of which cannot well bo doubted. The writer is a Prussian official of high standing and repute, and at presententrusted by the Govern ment with the construction of the neVf State railways. It would appear that some time last month the post was robbed on the way between Tecucia and Adjond. A. sum of 7,000 ducats and papers of considerable value were carried off and no trace of the thieves was to be found. This came all the more inopportunely as the Go vernment of Roumania was just about to undertake the international post. The strictest orders were given at once to spare no effort to discover the criminals. Unfortu nately, the investigation was not entrusted to the ordinary criminal authorities, but to the head of the post and telegraph office of Bucharest, who seems to have fulfilled his task with more zeal than humanity. No less than 12 people, men, women, and children, were subjected by him to the most dreadful tortures for days and nights together. The soles of the suspected persons were rubbed with tallow, which was then lighted ; or nails were driven into the quick of their fingers. The apathy in which the populace is sunk there suffered these things to continue for some days. At last the authorities wore informed of what was going on, and the people gave unmistakable signs of what the consequences would be if the " investigator " wore not at once removed from his scene of action. He was very nearly lynched in the street, and now awaits his punishment in prison. The worst part of the story is that this ruffian is one of the spokesmen of the so-oalled Liberal or " National " party ha Roumania. The Duke of Edinburgh has subscribed £lOO to the Bishop of Londou's fund. The two sons of the Viceroy of Egypt have arrived in Paris. The oldest is to remain there, the other comes on to England. The Earl of Mayo has appointed Major Burne, Military Secretary and Aide-camp to Gon. Lord Strathnairn, as his private secretary in India. Major Busne was in India during the mutiny. It has been calculated that if the voice of a man emitted the same amount of sound in proportion to the size of his body as that given forth by a locust, when singing at London he could be heard at Constantinople.— Musical Standard. At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday the president alluded in cnngratulatory terms to the approaching visit of Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the American Minister, to that town, and it was resolved to appoint a committee for the purpose of prej aring and presenting an address to Mr. Johnson, in behalf of the Chamber, if a convenient oppor tunity should present itself. THE ALLEGED MURDER AT LEAMINGTON. —ine jury in the case of the Leamington murder have returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased, Isaac Court, met with his death by falling down the cellar steps whilst in a state of intoxication, but there is no evidence before the jury to shew the cause of his falling; and that Mrs. Court's conduct in not giving information at once is highly culpable." The coroner said the jury had returned a very proper verdict, and added that there was a very strong case of suspicion against Mrs. Court. A CORONER'S JURY IN DANGER.—On Monday last the jurymen who were called upon to view the body of the poor man who was murdered on the Southdowns on Friday night proceeded to a cottage near where the murder was committed, in an omnibus which had been provided for that purpose, and immediately on their starting to return to Lewes the reins broke, and the horses bolted, several of the jurors receiving some very ugly falls in attempting to leap from the vehicle ; but fortunately none of them were seriously hurt, and they proceeded into Lewes on foot, somewhat alarmed at the singular adventure. THE HEROIC ENGINEER.—Mr. John Routiedge, the heroic Englishman, whose services to the wounded Spaniards in the only great battle fought between the Royalists and revolutionary soldiers have excited much comment, is not a Yorkshireman, but a Tynesideman. He was born at Hebburn, a pit village, immediately opposite to Willington Quay, where Robert Stephenson was born, and was some time employed about the pits, until the late Mr. John Buddle, the well-known mining engineer, took him in hand and got him a situation in the south, under Mr. James Hand. He was upon a railway near Rome before he received his present appointment on the Andalusian Railway. Mr. Routledge is a middle-aged man, 51 years of age. " STRANGE, IF TRlTE. " —Under this heading the Post publishes the following letter signed " F.B. " :—" I was, last Tuesday evening, at the Royalty Theatre, and was very much astonished by the entrance of a young nobleman, very well known among the ' upper ten,' accom panied by a woman dressed up in man's clothes. Her entrance caused a great deal of sensation in the theatre, as the disguise was palpable even to the most casual observer. I have heard since that the same young nobleman has been to the Holborn and several other theatres, with sometimes two or three women disguised as men. As this act renders the perpetrator liable to heavy penalties, and at the same time intensely disgusts the spectators, I trust, sir, by your kindly inserting this letter in your colmuns, we shall see no more of it for the future." FATAL RESULT OF PRACTICAL JOKING. A shocking occurrence, fatal in one case and likely to be so in another, took place at Bolton a day or two back. Mr. William Brierley, book-keeper at Messrs. Day and Baby's, builders, on leaving the yard of the establishment in Crown-street, took up one of the apprentices, named Nathaniel Morris, and, for a joke, held him over the wall of a bridge close by, under which flows the River Croal. In the struggle Mr. Brierley seems to have lost his balance, and both fell over, a distance of from forty to fifty feet. The banks and bed of the stream had reeently been paved, and falling headlong upon this stonework they sustained very serious injuries. Mr. Brierley was taken to the infirmary, but died in about two hours after the occurrence. The youth Morris lies in a very dangerous state, both his thighs being broken. A "GHOST " LAID. --A " ghost, " which has been alarming the inhabitants of Weston-super-Mare has been exorcised in a practical fashion. For some time strange noises had been heard in a certain house, the furniture was frequently found displaced, and the other tricks effected by modern disembodied spirits were constantly played. At length, a gentleman, more curious than super stitious, obtained leave to pass some time in the " haunted chamber ;" and although a large tin pot was hurled at him in a mysterious fashion as ho went upstairs, and hideous noises greeted his entrance into the apartment, he per severed in his enterprise, and just after a large stone had fallen through the skylight he rushed out and caught the " ghost "—a youth who, after a little hesitation, admitted that he had been employed to throw the missiles, and that the other " spiritual phenomena" were caused by beating an old mopstick against the under part of th 9 staircase. And IQ tllO &Mt Was I#l_4l3' laid. SCHOOLS INQUIRY COMMISSION. The twelfth volume, containing the reports of the - assist ant commissioners, has been issued. It comprises the South Midland division, which contains the extra-metropo litan part of Middlesex and seven other counties—Hertford shire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire. It has three towns above 20,000 population, 15 towns from 20,000 to 5,000, and 37 towns below s,ooo—in all 55 towns. The urban population is 331,250, the remaining rural populations is 959,895, making a total for town and country of 1,291,145. There are 24 towns having a total population of 103,572, with no endowments for secondary education. The number of places in the division having grammar-school endowments is 65, not including Eton and Harrow : namely, 30 towns, and 35 places not counted as towns. The gross income of these founda tions, some of which embrace other objects than the support of the schools, has been computed at £34,857 per annum. The net annual income of the grammar schools, after pay. ment of all charges on account of repairs, rates, taxes, and insurance in connection with the property and school buildings, is estimated at £17,647, besides £1,104 ior exhi bitions. This amount is distributed among the several counties as follows :—Middlesex (extra -metropolitan), £1,653 ; Hertford, £5,313 ; Buckingham, £B5O ; Oxford, £1,288 ; Northampton, £2,347 ; Huntingdon, £460 ; Bed ford, £5,328; Cambridge, £1,422. Sir William Harpur's Charity, at Bedford, forms the subject of special recom mendations by the commissioners, and attention has also been called by them to the largely-increased revenues of Aldenham School, which now amount to about £4,600 per annum gross. Besides Bedford School, which has three departments for secondary instruction of boys, three other schools--Aylesbury, Henley, and Wellingborough—have two departments each. If we count these as separate schools, there are in this division 18 classical schools, with 1,263 scholars ; 19 semi-classical, with 831 scholars ; 19 non-classical, with 1,282 scholars ; and 12 elementary. The income of one is paid over to a national school, and three are in abeyance. The sum of £11,013 belongs to the 18 schools which profess to be classical ; but of these only 13 are in the first grade, and they have 1,043 scholars. The total number of scho'ars of all grades in all the schools, excluding the elementary, is 3,376. The net annual income of Eton and Harrow schools, which were reported on by the Nine Schools Com missioners, including exhibitions, is about £19,000 a year. In this estimate no account is taken of the value of the scholarships at King's College, Cambridge. For the secondary instruction of girls the value of endowments in the division appears to be about £936 per annum. Hence the aggregate net income of the endowments for secondary education in this division may be set down at nearly £39,000 per annum. Of the endowments connected with the primary instruction of the poor, the richest are in the counties of Oxford and Northamptonshire, namely, in Oxfordshire, 2B36 atoring Heath Charity (£1,068) ; Barnwell (2719) ; Ki ng ' s Cliffe i a r m e 's Hospital, O un dl e (2594). Th e in North) ; aa n m dp t io,na the st hh G ' schools at Bedford are supported from the revenues of Sir William Harpur's Charity. The aggregate gross income of these foundations amounts to about £16,709 per annum, and the net annual sum applicable to educational purposes may be computed at £11,757. The total net income of the trusts for educational purposes in this division may therefore be set down at upwards of £50,000 per annum. LAW AND POLICE. THE SMOKE NUISANCES ACT.—Manufacturers are every now and again summoned and fined for not con suming their own smoke in the metropolis. At the Thames Police-court, on Thursday, the proprietor of some white lead and chemical works at Millwall was fined £5 for having used a furnace which did not consume its own smoke. There had been three former convictions, but neither applied to the circumstances under which the pre sent prosecution was instituted. THE BERKSHIRE HIGHWATMAN.—WiIIiam Purdue, whose exploit "on the road" made so much stir a day or two back, has been committed for trial by the magistrates of Newbury (Berks). THE TRUCK" ACT. — Notwithstanding its obvious illegality, employers in certain districts still persist in paying wages in kind. A case decided at Wrexham recently will, it is to be hoped, put an end to some of these breaches of the law. A man named Thomas Griffiths, an ironworker, brought an action to recover £6 145., the amount of wages alleged to be due to him by the New British Iron Works Company, Ruabon, by whom he was employed. It appeared that the plaintiff had received the amount sued for in goods, but it was contended that this was no pay ment, although the plaintiff might not have demurred at the time to receive the goods as payment. After the case had been fully gone into, the jury returned a verdict for the full amount. POACHING NEAR BARNSLEY. —Some comment has been excited at Barnsley by the decisions of the magistrates in certain poaching ca se s. In one case, two men named Henry Kaye and Joseph Poulter;were charged with night poaching at Ardsley. A keeper named Beighton said that about nine o'clock on the 10th of September he was out watching, when he saw a man named Wilkinson in a lane. Wilkinson was accompanied by the two defendants. They went into a field occupied by Mr. Sellers. He saw them, whilst in the field, dragging a net from one end to the other. With his two assistants he went towards the men, who left the net and ran away on seeing them. He came up to Poulter, and struck him on the arm with a stick. He struck Poulter for no particular reason, except to prevent him from striking first. Mr. Whitfield commented in indignant, terms on the brutality:of the keeper in striking an elderly nian with a stick without the slightest provocation, and ridiculed the idea of a man like Poulter, who was nearly blind, going out poaching. He called Joseph Wilkinson, who said that on the night of the 10th of September he was walking out with Mr. Poulter, who left him to go into a field for a minute. Poulter had not been away from him more than three minutes when he saw him led out of the field by the keepers, his head bleeding at the time. Kaye was not with them, but witness saw him just after, putting up some bedsteads in his own house. The chairman said the magistrates con sidered the case proved, and sentenced the prisoners to one month's imprisonment, and to find sureties for their good conduct. From the Ist of January to the middle of Sep. tember 70,000,000 gallons of petroleum were exported from the United States. A humorous comment on artificial memery was made by a waiter at an hotel where Feinagle dined, after giving his lecture on artificial memory. A few minutes after the professor left the table the waiter entered, with uplifted hands and eyes, exclaiming, " Well ! I frotlit l saciagy p iitialiorgtatcß waDrob, vt among the oppressed taxpayers, and only see the question as represented by one side. This in the present phase of its development is injurious to the bondholders themselves, and it is time that Euro pean papers should explain what it is that makes men like Pendleton and Sherman view the subject in what appears to them a dishonest light. If the citizens of the United States were better informed about fim.nce they would not have raised the ques tion at all, but have quietly submitted to the bond holders' hard bargain. But as they have raised it, and as there is a flaw in the contract, the best thing now is for those who hold the securities fully to un derstand the subject, and not be scared out of their property by the " bears" who desire to profit at their loss. STORIES OF TilE CANDIDATES. A commotioa has been raised through the means of an old Confederate journal, wherein an announce ment was made that Frank P. Blair, jun., having been captured in one of the great battles, had at his own request taken the oath of allegiance to the Confederate Government. The National Republican of Washington appears to have got hold of this paper, for it publishes the telegram in question : " The Southern Confederacy, a newspaper we have seen printed at Atlanta, Georgia, during the re bellion, contains a telegram date 1 Richmond, Vir ginia, May 9, sent immediately after the battle of Chancellorsville and prior to the taking of Vicks burg, or the battle of Gettysburg, which is in these words :—" Passengers repurt Frank P. Blair, jun., among the captured. The oath of al4giance was administered at his request." This is alleged to be untrue, and naturally so, as Frank Blair, though often wounded, was never taken prisoner. The secret history of the late Democratic Convention at Tammany Hall is " as good as a play," and perhaps some day or other will give the material for a screamin g farce. Chase sold—the real Simon Pure, supposed to be his se conder, demurely seated in the chair to receive the coming and wholly unexpected nomination, which was no sooner made than he retired to weep, while an undercurrent was directed to place Frank Blair's name on the ticket for the Vice-Presidency, which, though little less erratic, in the presence of the greater events escaped comparatively unnoticed The moving spirit in the latter intrigue was Mr. Montgomery Blair. It was he who dictated the Broadhead letter, it was he who showed up General Hancock as the officer who had issued an order urging the pursuit of Booth on the negroes of Maryland, as the murderer of President Lincoln, their best friend, and while thus flooring Hancock, General Ewing was " snuffed out" by his order of 1863, wherein all disloyal persons were turned out of his lines. The strange part of all this by-play was that in securing the immediate object it de feated the ultimate object. Mr. Montgomery Blair admirably managed to obtain for his brother the nomination, but the very means he used have gone far towards' the defeat of the whole ticket, for what raised enthusiasm in the Southern mind created dread and aversion in the Northern. What Montgomery Blair over looked was that though the Conservatives, and, perhaps, their most extreme section, nominated their candidate, it was the nation who were to elect him, and what answered the former purpose was what was likely to defeat the latter. Mr. Seymour attributes the check to the Democratic sentiment to the injudicious way in which the Blairs have acted, and we understand that he has plainly expressed this. By the way, an amusing story is told of him by the Standard's correspondent, from whom people should take what they can get, whlch is fun only ; for if there is little reliance to be placed on the corre spondent, his very exaggeration, contradiction, and untruthfulness make up an entertaining budget. He says : It is a wretched custom on the part of certain people in this country to spend their time during a Presidential canvass in travelling about on railways and steamboats to importune tourists to declare their political preferences. " llaow er yer gain' to vote, stran-ger ?" may be heard in an American railway car at the present time as fre quently as the "conductor's" cry of " tickets." When the • incurable button-holers, have canvassed an entire train or boat they communicate the result to some newspaper, • which prints the statement as "a straw." Of course these reports are utterly valueless ; first, because the can vassers aro partisans who can change the figures to suit themselves, with nobody the wiser ; secondly, if correct, they would only show the sentiment of a shifting class. On the New York Central Railroad the other day, Governor Seymour was approached by a very large and dirty Yankee, who said, " Stray, yew look like a uico ole feller ; you wear putty good clothes ; guess yew'll vote for howmanity ; but, ennyway, who're • ye for ?" " Well," replied the Governor, " I think that I shall sustain Mr. Seymour." "So ? I never was more dis'pinted. Yew look like a gentleman, but we can't allays tell." THE SO U 7 HEIM STATES. General Howard, having completed his tour o inspection as Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, returned to Washington September 19. He reports the bureau in goo I condition in all the counties throughout which he travelle 1 ; but what we desire to learn is the opinion he has formed on the state of society in the South. This, however, he says that he has observed a growing tendency on the part of the Democrats at the South to treat the new made voters with consideration. The Hon. A. II .Stephens has been requested to deliver an address on the present condition of the country, irrespective of the party—a request which has been signed by several members of the Georgia Legislature as well as by Governor Bullock. It is believed to be the intention of Mr. Stephens to write a history of the rebellion. General Buchanan's order, handing over the command of the Department to General Rousseau, has been published, as well as the order of the latter on assuming the command. Governor Warmouth at the instance of prominent Democrats has appointed George A. Fosdick, Vice- President of the New Orleans Chamber of Com merce, to be a member of the State Board of Regis tration, the other two members being Republicans, it being understood that the same rule is to be car ried out in the appointment of local boards. At a meeting of the State Board, on the 17th inst., a majority of the Board decided that they would not, under any circumstances whatever, permit a Demo crat to be placed on any Board of Supervisors. Mr. Fosdick presented a protest against this action, but the Chairman and one member constituting a ma jority, they declined to recede from their posi tion. Governor \Yarmouth says that he does not approve the action of the Board of Regis tration, but that he has no control over it. I was announced that Joseph W. Holden, son o Governor Holden, made an inflammatory address to the negroes assembled at Raleigh, North Caro lina, wherein he advised them to go fully armed to the poll. This he now denies, telegraphing from that city that the report of his speech was false, and that neither he nor any one else gave the ad vice attributed. The Raleigh Standard gives a ter rible account of the torture inflicted in a prison on two coloured Republicans. O'Neils, the gaoler, under the orders of Captain Lusk, fed Farmer and White, the two coloured prisoners, un a small piece of pickled pork, fried to a crisp, little else than solid salt, which produced agonizing thirst, while the supply of water was barely sufficient to main tain life. If the Raleigh gaol is conducted as the Standard describes, there is no tyrant whose power exceeds that of the gaoler. But it is necessary to accept all stories from the South with a good deal of caution. It is said that one delegation at the Republican mass meeting held on the 15th Sept., led by Mr. J. C. Chilson, comprising 400 men, walked 150 miles from the South Carolina border. Thirty thousand people assembled on the occasion, and the hills around Raleigh looked as when Sher man's army had encamped about it. The Georgia and Louisiana Legislatures remain in session, but no business of importance has been transacted, except the final passage of the Negro Equality Bill in Louisiana. Governor `Yarmouth, of Louisiana, has issued a proclamation calling for an election of Presidential electors and members of Congress, November 3. There was a political dis turbance in the streets at New Orleans, Sept. 22, in which several political clubs of the opposing parties engaged, but though shots were fired and many persons were wounded none were killed. In Fuller county, Arkansas, Captain Simpson Mason, Presi dent of the Board of Registration, has been assls i sinated, while one negro in Lewisbu r g and three n Columbia county have been killed lately by the Klan, while several churches have been burned. .At Tuscumbia, Alabama, lately, three negroes confined in gaol, charged with burning a fe male seminary there, were taken out by a large body of the Ku-Klux and hung to a bridge, in spite of all the efforts of the authorities. According to re port several thousand stand of arms have lately been imported into South Carolina, and as it is feared they are to arm political organizations there is con siderable alarm. A shooting affray occurred in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Friday, Sept. 18, between Robert W. Stedman, son of W. A. Sted man, and Dr. W. 11. Morrow, a United States deputy marshal, in which both were killed. A bill for the suppression of the Ku-Klux has passed both branches of the Tennessee Legislature, but Governor Brownlo w says he will not call out the militia to preserve order, if the President keeps his recent promise to send a sufficient military force into the State. Meanwhile everything is pretty quiet in Tennessee,though outrages by the Ku-Klux continue to be reported. The Democratic State Committee recognize in their late address the ne gro's right to vote, and a growing disposition is observable to court his vote, which is a good sign. A mass meeting of a thousand negroes was held at Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 21, at which resolutions were adopted declaring a want of confidence in the Republican State Committee, because it is not in favour of equal rights and justice to all; while the negro speakers were especially severe on carpet baggers. GENERAL BUTLER'S RE-ELECTION. A very strong effort is being made by Republican opponents of General Butler to prevent his re-elec tion for the Fifth District of Massachusetts. Butler , however, is not the man to be bowled out without a strenuous and sustained effort. Reuter, whose telegrams are one-sided, and that side wholly De mocratic, asserted that Butler had been defeated , but t his was subsequently contradicted. A mass meeting is to be held at Salem, when an opposition candidate will be selected. A call signed by mail Republicans is circulating throughout the district, thus explaining this intention True to the principles of the Republican party, and heartily supporting the candidates nominated at Chieag ° and Worcester, we cannot consistently su pport or vote for General Butler, opposition to bis electio n being fealty to the principles and the candidates of the Republican party. We take his record as h e has made it, and are not to be influenced by pro fessions given on the eve of an election. We d° not agree with him in his financial schemes, and so far from regarding them as unimportant, w° deem them fatal to the national credit and the national honour. his well-known opposition to General Grant upon personal grounds renders him unfit to be a hearty supporter of his administra tion, and we prefer to send to the next Congres s a warm, unquestioned friend of General Grant, rather than a bitter and persistent enemy. Th e gentlemen named, one of whom is likely to he selected, are Mr. Dana and General Schouler• The two papers which have hit hardest a gainst Butler's nomination are the New York Nation and the Boston Advertiser, and Butler thus handle.s them without gloves :—" So far as the Nation 15 concerned, its enmity is natural enough, considering the common infirmities of human nature. The truth is that I was an original opponent of the existence of the Nation, which originated in the following manner: An ass.iciation of charitable gentlemen In Boston had subscribed a large sum of money for the relief of destitute negroes, and to aid iu recruiting negro regiments at the South. I was one of the subscribers to that praiseworthy object, and the association accomplished a great amount of goo d. After the cessation of the war the affairs of the association were wound up, and it was found tha t there was a surplus of the fund, which I bold from the nature of the charity ought to have bze° sacredly devoted to the relief and care of th e freedmen cf the South. But a portion of the trus tees met together, and, without consulting with the subscribers, resolved that they could better aid the freedmen by establishing a paper in New York in their interest than by expending the surplus in any other way, and in accordance with this resolu tion the amount of fifteen thousand dollars or more was appropriated for the purpose of start" ing the journal called the Nation. I did not see the matter in this light, and made a s trong opposition to any such disposition of the Nod e ' which had been subscribed solely for the direct use and benefit of the coloured people of the South. P c was this opposition that gained me the enmity 1 the persons who profited by the establishment the /v ,° ation with the funds of the association. 11 , 1 to a short time ago the Advertiser was not IMO, vourable to me, and was, in fact, one of the fi rs " papers to publish to the world my views on finaw cial questions, about which so much has since be en written in the Republican press. But subsequen tl y to this I was employed professionally to commen ce a libel suit against the publishers of the Advertised for an obscene slander which they had uttere d against a talented and estimable young lady, am in pursuance of my duty I compelled them, no ue , a threat of prose c ution, to make a full and ampl e , apology. This was on my part simply a prol es , sional act ; but ever since then the Boston .Adver tiser establishment has been unable to discover ail, good qualities in me. Brick Pomeroy is re ', enemy, but, unlike the cases I have befo r w alluded to, I know no good reason why . should be so. I suppose he abuses me as the Spring t field Republican does, because he supposes th e a it sells his paper and puts money in his pocket*,, Vid e insert Butler's remarks with the more pleas ur , l ; as it gives us the opportunity of showing how tt Nation disposed of them :—" General Butler been visited in this city by a Herald reporter, O h : the purpose of getting his 'views' on various sn jects. The reporter extracted from him, among!, other things, an explanation of the extraordin sr) , course of the Nation and Boston Advertiser, in °P posing his re-election to Congress. The so fet cause of the hostility of the Nation to him is, it at' , pears, his having opposed the contribution of cc l f tarn surplus funds of the Recruiting Committee ° ., 1 Boston towards the establishment of the paPert, c i 1865, which has, as might have been expeely earned for him the undying hostility of its o° l3 , ductors. Considering that they were, until tb w morning of the 21st of September, 1868, entirely ignorant of the opposition aforesaid, we leave bl ..,'' to imagine with what malignity they would h'' u followed him up had they known of it. The reas% of the Boston Advertiser's enmity to him is, v( 4 , regret to say, much less creditable than that ut the Nation.' It was, he s tys, one of the fir 6, papers to publish to the world his views on fin s , 13 ,1 cial questions ; but subsequently he was emP I °Y, T ," O professionally to commence a libel suit against r publishers of the Advertiser, for an obscene slan c 'e c i which they had uttered against a talented a% estimable young lady, and compelled them, unde r lo threat of prosecution, to make a full and are P ea apology.' the despicable sheet tu rne r against the great statesman, and, to use his °o words, has never since been able to discover ai N good qualities in him.' So it is with all the gencra to enemies. We have no doubt if he had time t give us a full account of them,we should find t i l ift ec i although they may be numbered by the hun ° r ot i thousand, there is not one whose hostility s ° OO due to the general's having frustrated some V e to of villany or performed some noble or virtu e a action." We believe that Butler will overcom e t % • his enemies, and be returned in spite of t be pif though Mr. Edward Atkinson has thrown hile s- 4 , into their ranks. The great advocate of coin 04e ment of the national Debt naturally opposes " o f green-back champion, and advises the v oters Essex county not to marry the " widder" Butler. It Lopez, who betrayed Maximilian, is in San cisco. The Rev. Morley Punshon was to lecture ci?, Macaulay in the St. Patrick's Hall, Montreal, on the 30tP Sept. LADvERnsEmENT. J—Dyspepsia(lncligestion), ConstipatM i liof bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, an to complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerapo by chugs of every description, but perfectly curable bY A Barry's health-restoring Revalenta, Arabica Food, as preve'oll thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless , °, O l. as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throo7o diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neull;cl , irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, . ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sic even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scr°'o34 tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach iiD between the shoulders, &e. We quote a few :—The Pope's Pc j o restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—"R0nie , • i llt 12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, esl , ..„,`sel' sites, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined In'' De entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of Wlli c ' s ar; consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced 9 ' 0 0 prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazet.",,,pet Midi, " July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, t,ifigs, merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disease spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial de_Toof Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lier:"Eift/ Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. ~,e 0 0: years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervolls'o4 asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sicknetliod vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the . 00 14 unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, WL,a, authority. Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attanig. , In tins, at is. 10.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d. ; 5 lbs•%siCA, 12 lbs , 225. ; 24Ibs ,403.—A150 Do BARRY'S REVALENTA A- 17 "'",0 s' CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 0 1 3 00. , 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at Cs., for 288 cups t"„ 30! for 576 cups at 555. Being about ono penny per cup. 1 :' - e oir and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on re /1, of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and CO., PP' Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. < BATHURST—On the 13th inst., a t 141, Ifolland-road,l or sington, the wife of Al gernon B a th urs t, Esq., ° daughter. -ro. `3 1 PONSONBY -On the 14th i ns t., a t Ay o tt B ur y, 1, I° , l o .- the wife of Charles Talb o t-P onson by, EFq. , of a son - heir. Marriages. ;6 , r' o, HATCLIFFE—B UTLER —On the 13th inst at St. S2:v• - c u tl)e, Paddington, Mr. Frederick llatcliffe, eldest son of late Mr. Thomas Hatcliffo, to Frances, only daugl" — the late Mr. Francis Butler. h tet MANSBRIDGE —FLOWER—On the 15th inst ., at Notle,or Switzerland, Mr. Willian Henry Mansbridge, of ‘-',, 0 0 den-square, to Emily Agnes, fifth daughter of Flower, Esq., of Cantelowes-road, N.W. Deaths. • COFFIN—On the 13th inst.. at Park-crescent, Worth' Robert Coffin, Esq., aged 77. de r DOVE—On the 12th inst., at 1, Anerley-park, A10X 313 James Dove, jun., aged 27. „ 1 ,0 4' RIETIIMULLER —On the 14th inst., at Lower ClapLo , tilda, widow of the late C. U. Riethmuller, E 91.1 91. a e o, POORE - On the 13th inst., at The Close, Salisbury, ff o glr widow of the late Sir Edward Poore, Bart., and ter of the late Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., aged " ;0' PASCALL- On the 14th inst., at Wood-lane, Shel )111- Bush, Edward Pascal!, aged 47. 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