The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-05 00:00:00

ZPijiT OF THE PUBLIC :onNiaa, Mr. Bright, says the Tima, bas broached his echoic , of redressing the anomx....iy of the Irish Church. It must be taken and weighed with many others which come to us from all quarters, but as a prelude to legislation it is net promising. Mr. Bright's plan for settling the land ques. ticn we are tempted to call whimsical. The ballot is apparently the instrument of cure upon which he would most rely. Grant the ballot and leases would follow : and if leases, prosperity, good farming, and con tentment. Next to the ballot, and auxiliary to it, Mr. Bright would place his plan of assisting tenants to buy the farms they hold from the great English landlords. We regret to think that these remedies smack of the quackery against which Lord Stanley protested. Everyone who knows Ireland knows that the estates of the great English landlords are those which are best managed, and the tenantry of which are the most contented. But, apart from this, we must lay it down as an indisputable result of experience that no class in Ireland can he trusted with the absolute control of its agricultural resources. There are many districts where leases have been granted and lessees hold undisturbed possession, and they all tell the same story of neglected cultivation, bad fanning, cynical contentment with poverty. The Encum bered Estates Court, followed by the Landed Estates Court, has subdivided many great estates ; they have come into the possession of sm#,ll purchasers, and we hear the tale of proprietors in Irish towns who had saved just enough money to buy a lot, and now extract from the cultivator of the soil the utmost penny, to the consequent debasement of the farmer and impoverishment of the land. If the existing state of Ireland be laid to the charge of the present race of landlords, there is no warrant for believing that the substitution for them of a number of petty pro. prietors, or the indiscriminate granting of leases, would produce any beneficial change. If legislation afford any cure, it must be legislation of a totally different character. There must be some authority capable of intervening between proprietor and cultivator, and of reconciling the ___ . claims of eaCh with the wants of the community. We do not say such intervention is necessary, but we protest that any suggestion for removing the ills of Ireland by a trans formation of the race of Irish proprietors must be branded as an instance of the 'quackery which Lord Stanley deprecates. In the opinion of the Daily News, secresy is the bane of the Foreign Office ; the remedy for its faults, errors, defects, and partialities is light. The public knows little or nothing with certainty of what the Foreign Office is doing. It is a public department without supervision or verification. It can involve the nation in grave obliga- tions and serious responsibilities without notice, and in the most complete ignorance. It makes political treaties on subjects of which we have never heard, and commercial treaties which surprise our merchants and traders. It involves us in wars with countries of which we know nothing, by a series of mismanagements which announce themselves only by their consequences. It employs a set of men as diplomatists whose names we scarcely know ; it transfers charges which ought to be voted annually for the consular services to the Consolidated Fund ; and it has gradually deprived the consular service of its higher rewards, without a word of explanation until the change was made. It has induced Parliament to assent to a foolish and mischievous rule not to insist on its correspon dence being made public until it is concluded—that is, until publ.•c discussion is useless for remedial purposes. And, when it wants to snatch a public judgment in its favour, it foists interlocutory despatches into the London Gazette. Clearly, then, says the .2Vezcs, the Foreign Office is just in that plight when a committee of the House of Commons on its composition and administration would be most valuable ; and if the investigation resulted in requiring . . from it an annual report to be laid before Parliament on what it was doing, and how it was doing it, a much more active sense of responsibility would be brought to bear on its members, to the breaking up of its habits of routine, its prejudices, and its spirit of exclusiveness, than now exists. The Standard understands that the decision of the Court of Common Pleas in the case of Grissell v. Bristow has been received with surprise and dismay on the Stock Exchange, and that the brokers now as a body feel them selves to be greatly ill-used men. It is said that an appeal to the House of Lords has been resolved on. But the issue seems to our contemporary a very plain one. It often happens that the motive of a man who sells shares, when they stand at a heavy discount, is to get rid of his liability, and this he can only do by transferring them to some one else. The broker knows this better than anybody, and by the course of business he virtually undertakes to secure the making of the transfer, at least so far as he has the power to promote it. If the transferee refuses to execute, the broker cannot help his refusal, or compel his compliance, and the vendor's remedy in such case is against the buying principal. But it is quite another thing when the broker, for his own convenience, arranges with his fellow broker rot to do something which he ought to do, and so fails to snake any endeavour to get the shares transferred at all The defendant relied upon the usage of the Stock Ex. change ; but this usage was very properly held insufficient to protect him. In the first place, the usage is unreason able ; and in the second, it was one of which the plaintiff did and could know nothing. Again, though the members of the Stock Exchange invariably deal with each other as principals, their rules expressly reserve the right of resorting to their employers whenever any necessity for so doing arises. In other words, though the defendant may have to pay Mr. Grissell the money which that gentleman has lost by his default, he has, or might have had, his remedy against the person for whom he bought. It certainly does seem strange to the Times that a sane and respectable man, who left his friend's house after aye o'clock with the alleged intention of returning before seven, and who, moreover, had a wedding to attend the next morning, should of his own free will absent himself altogether, and disappear from the world. Yet such an event is proved by experienced not only to be possible, but to be even more likely than a murder in a tavern or a brothel. People are always disappearing, sometimes under the influence of an uncontrollable impulse bear ing no affinity to reason, sometimes under the spel of a sudden temptation, sometimes out of shame at some excess into which they may have been be trayed. It may be remembered that at the time of the accident on the ice in the Regent's Park many persons were looked for by their friends in the dead-house who had never been near the park at all, but had merely dis appeared during the preceding twenty-four hours. T4ese represented, in fact, the evasions of a single London day. It ,is at least within the bounds of possibility that the missing man may have gone to some place where he was made intoxicated and kept until the dinner and the next day's wedding were over, and that afterwards he was ashamed to return. The posting of the placard, with the offer of a reward for his recovery, may have still further preventedhis reappearance by seeming to preclude the possi bility of the matter being hushed up. The throwing away of the hat may have been but a stratagem, and if it should turn out that the finder, who kept it several days, was mistaken as to the day he found it, this supposition would acquire further strength. There is also the possibility of a simple unreasoning flight. Men have before now gone out to their business like Mr. Speke, and the next thing that has been heard of them is that they were at New York or Bombay. It is not always the surest way in these matters to look for what appears the most reason able. Men's minds often act in utter defiance of reason, and the most improbable solution proves to be the true C4le, The Post, apropos of the American papers on the re lease of Mr. Train, proceeds to consider the principle of naturalisation lately enunciated in the President's Mes sage. Certain individuals accused of Fenianism before British tribunals alleged that, although British subjects by birth, they had become naturalised citizens of a. American Republic, and in such capacity had been divested of the allegiance which they owed to the land of their birth. The plea was disallowed, and all the autho rities on the law of nations confirmed the justice of this adverse decision. In the United States, however, this adoption of a well-established principle was regarded as an attack upon the liberties of the Ame rican people, and at the opening of Congress the President, in his Message, suggested that a measure should be passed with the view of putting an end to this foreign jurisdiction. The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to which the matter was referred by the House of Representatives, has, it is believed, agreed upon the leading provisions of a bill calculated to give effect to the proposal of the chief magistrate. Our contemporary expressed at the time astonishment at a proposed act of legislation so obviously beyond the province of any particular State as that indi cated in Mr. Johnson's Message. Whether a British natural-born subject can be divested of the duties inciden tal to his allegiance, as such, by the process of naturalisa tion in another State, can alone be a subject for the consideration of the British Legislature. If it is the law of England that his obligations cannot be got rid of by any act of his own in a foreign country, it is clearly fur English legislators, and for them alone, to change this law. In his speech at Bradford, the other day, says the Tele graph, Mr. Forster made one or two critical remarks of special value on the Worksh o p s Act and the . it Factory Acts. The Workshops Act does not order the Government in upectors to visit the places in which is meant to be car ried out--it only permits them. But, as Mr. Forster said. permission is not sufficient. Already the inspectors have quite enough t) do, and we cannot expect t he m to visit every large workshop as well as every large mill. They will follow the example of some colliery inspectors, who do not go down half a dozen pits in the course of a year, and whose supervision is thus comparatively worthless. Such laxity will not do. Without rigid inspection the Workshops Act will in many cases remain a dead letter; employers will dodge it—there is no other fitting word — just as they often strive hard to be classed in the list to which the Factory Acts do not apply. Mr. Forster well said that, for the sake of the children, inspectors are as I)peadary in workshops as bishops are in the Church, MURDER AND SUICIDE. An inquest has bedn held at Leicester on the bodies of Zinnia Stone Crofts, aged 34, and Amy, her -daughter. The mother of the child for many years past had led a loose and immoral life. About seven years ago she Was at some open-air movement, when a young man named Charles Crofts, of respectable: position, a clerk in a solicitor's office in the town, fell in love with and married her. They lived together but a little time, as her husband, on _finding that she Was leading a profli gate life, abandoned her, went to America, and has not since beenn, heard of. About two-and-a-half years ago she was taken to by a man named Preston living at Grantham, with whom she seems to have stayed up to within the past six months, and by whom she had the deceased child, who had attained the age of 1 year and 7 months. Since her return to Leicester she had againindulged in dissolute habits, had frequently been seen in a state of intoxication, and had often been heard to say that she would destroy the child and herself too. On Wednesday her sister happened to go into the house of her parents in Sandia,cre-street, and was nursing the child in question, when deceased snatched it out of her arms, and said, " Give me my child, and I'll do for it and myself." She then took out of her pocket a. bottle containing a dark fluid and endeavoured to swallow its contents, but both it and the child were wrested from her. She, however, took another bottle from her pocket and was about to drink the contents, when it was also taken from her, and also a caster from her 'locket, which were all found to contain laudanum. On Saturday morning she re turned home about one o'clock, and seemed very strange. She had several glasses of ale during the day, and about six o'clock in the evening, while her mother was feeding the child, she snatched it out of her lap and ran out with it ; but as it was supposed she was going to a neighbour's no further notice was taken of the act. A few minutes afterwards she was seen by a man named Joseph Rudkin passing down the street towards the canal. Fearing that something was wrong, he watched and followed her for some &Stance. After looking about in various directions, she turned her back towards the Abbey and ran towards the canal side. Rudkin followed her, and shouted, " What are you going to do ?" but she rushed onward, and before he could get near to her hurled the child, which she had in her arms, into the water. She then threw her bonnet and child's hood aside, and rushed into the water herself. Rudkin then went to his own premises and procured a drag, and was using it, endeavouring to reach the deceased, when, with the excitement, he let it slip through his hands into the w,ter. Assistance having arrived, he went to his yard. loosened a boat, and pushed it towards the floating bodies. He soon succeeded in rescuinr the child, which was -still alive, and which was taken into his house and properly attended to, but expired soon- In a few minutes he secured his drag, and with it brought out the deceased woman, whose body had floated some distance down the stream, and mustlave been in the water from twenty to thirty minutes. Life was quite extinct. Rndkin also stated that about a week since he was the - means of preventing the deceased committing D. similar act, when she said, " If I had got into the water no one would have known anything about it." The jury returned a verdict that the deceased woman committed both acts while in an unsound state of mind, brought about by her intemperate and profligate habits, THE MURDER IN DUMFRIES. We yesterday reported a horrible murder from Dumfries shire. The circumstances of the case are of great atrocity, The little girl who was the victim of this fearful crime is named Thomasina Scott, the daughter of John Scott, shoemaker, at the village of Cummertrees, about three miles and a half north of Annan, and was one of a family of eleven children. She was a smart little girl, and her mother had been in the habit of sending her to Annan on Saturdays to make some household purchases ; and on Saturday forenoon, about twenty minutes past ten o'clock, she was despatched upon her weekly errand. Half-way between Cummertrees and Annan stands a lonely cottage —Longford Cottage—inhabited by a farm servant named Creighton, who is employed on a neighbouring farm. There the little girl called for shelter. A young man, named Robert Smith, or Colvin, was sitting in the kitchen talking to Mrs. Creighton, who was the only other person in the house. He had been engaged in harvest upon the , ining farm, and was therefore acquainted with the people of the district. When the little girl entered he asked whither she was going, and, hearing she was going to Annan, said he would accompany her on the road. The two left the cottage together between eleven and twelve o'clock. The girl was never again seen alive, ex cept by Smith. The prisoner next appears upon the scene between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, when he re-entered Longford Cottage, in which Mrs. Jane Creighton (whose maiden name was Patterson) was then engaged in washing and scrubbing the kitchen floor. He struck her a heavy blow with a stick, or some such instru ment, and having thus stunned her he seems to have rushed upon her with a pocket-knife, with which he inflicted some severe wounds upon the unfortunate woman, cutting her throat across in front, and inflicting two other serious wounds upon the side and back of her neck. The blood flowed copiously, as the appearance of the floor amply shewed afterwards. He then dragged the wounded woman into a back room, she struggling ; but while he was intent upon completing the horrible murder he had commenced, two little boys who were passing on the road with a donkey cart, on their way to the farm where Creighton worked, called at Longford Cottage with a message for Creighton's wife. They knocked loudly at the door, but could obtain no answer. The noise, how ever, had the effect of alarming Smith, who seems to have desisted from his murderous work, for the woman soon came staggering to the door with her face covered with blood and with blood streaming down from her neck. The boys, alarmed at the horrible sight, called a shepherd from the neighbouring fields, 3nd in the meantime the prisoner rushed out of the house-door and was seen by the boys, who recognised him, he having been working on the same farm during the harvest. He ran across the rail way, and was there afterwards seen washing his hands by some railway labourers, among whom was a brother of the little girl who had been murdered. He then disap peared. Assistance was rendered to the half-murdered woman ; the police authorities at Annan were communi cattd with, and the county constabulary at once com menced a search for the prisoner on the charge of the murderous assault upon Jane Creighton. The fate of the little girl Scott had not then been ascertained ; but the news of the assault upon the woman having been spread, the parents of the little girl became alarmed for her safety. They heard that she had been on the road with the prisoner ; and, as the child did not return home when she was expected, a search was commenced by lantern-light. Inquiry at Annan shelved that she had not been there ; and the roadside and neighbouring plantations were then carefully examined. At a place about half a mile south of Longford Cottage traces were first dis covered. There, by the side of a plantation, marks were found of a violent struggle ; and, crossing the palings and entering the wood, the searchers found the little girl lying murdered. There was a mark around her neck, showing that she had been strangled by a thin ligature probably a leathern boot-lace and the condition of her clothes and person shewed but too plainly that a horrible violation of her person had been committed before she had been murdered. The police were now informed of this second outrage, and they continued their search with redoubled eagerness. Under the direction of Mr. Jones, the chief constable of the county constabu lary, the whole country round was scoured by police officers ; and intelligence was sent to Carlisle and other places with descriptions of the suspected murderer. After he had washed his hands in a"pool near the railway, he had been seen skulking beneath some hedges, and he was afterwards heard of upon the highway, but there traces were lost. On Sunday morning, however, the police again got upon the track of the murderer, and he was ap prehended about noon on Sunday, at 35, Queensberry. street, Dumfries, where .he had been lodging previously. His clothes were found stained with blood, and his under clothing was similarly marked ; and' a leathern shoe-lace tied in a noose was found in his pocket. The little girl had been robbed of about 10s., the purse being found rifled near her body ; and some money was found upon the pri soner. The prisoner, Robert Smith, alias Colvin, is be tween 19 and 20 years of age. He is a native of Eagles• field, near Kirtlebridge, in Dumfriesshire. Dr. Deane, Q.C., has been appointed Admiralty Advocate, in the place of Sir Travers Twiss, who resigned on his appointment as Queen's Advocate. DEBT AND DOWER.—III a case heard at the Assize Courts, Manchester, it was shewn that tho estate of a deceased gentleman who had died intestate was insolvent, and the question before. the court was as to the priority of claim of the widow and creditors respectively. The judge decided that the widow was entitled to dower out of the balance in priority over ordinary creditors. TUE RATING OF POLICEMEN AND POSTMEN. — Mr. Bowater, a letter carrier of the Birmingham Post Office, has receive:l the following reply from the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in answer to a question as to whether the supposed exemption of policemen from rating extends also to postmen :—" Downing-street, February 1,186 S.—Sir,.—Sir, in reply to your letter of the 30th of January, I am directed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inform you that policemen are only exempt from rates when they occupy a police station or building used for public purposes, in which they are required to reside in discharge of their official duties.—l am, sir s your obedient servant, MONTAGUE CORRY. Mr, Henry Bowater." THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1868. M'Gregor, is taking on board in Portsmouth har bour steam navigation coals and ballast preparatory The armour-plated iron turret-ship Monarch, 6to making renewed trials of her speed over the mea guns, 5,100 tons, 1,100-horse power, building at -aired mile in Stokes Bay, ordered to be made before Chatham dockyard, the only turret-ship under con- she sails on foreign service. The Danae is just now struction in either of the Royal shipbuilding yards, the representative vessel of the Amazon class, and was commenced shortly after the keel of the Her- as she so represents seven sister vessels now in com cules was laid down, in the latter part of 1866. A mission, and serving on foreign stations, two others variety of causes have, however, contributed to pre- just completed on the building slips, and three vent the turret-ship being pushed forward with that whose frames and timbers are cut out and ready to rapidity which has characterised the construction of be laid down on the slips, it will be as well, perhaps, the Hercules, and fully 12 months more are likely to to see what these vessels really are, and under what elapse before the Monarch will have a gun on board, conditions they are being equipped and sent to sea. or be ready to proceed on her experimental cruise. The twelve vessels possess a total measurement of Although nominally intended to represent a power- 15,208 tons, and a nominal engine power of 4,200 ful ship on the turret principle the " improvements" horse, the latter being capable of working up to and alterations made in her design—for which it is 25,000 horse as the combined and exerted power of only fair to remark the members of the late Ad- all the engines. All are unarmoured vessels, are miralty are chiefly responsible—have been so many ship rigged, carry as armament two 7-inch, 61 ton and frequent that the principal advantages of the muzzle-loading rifles, and four 64-pounder con turret principle have been entirely sacrificed to the verted (Palliser) rifles, and average a speed over the prejudices of naval officials connected with the Ad- measured mile with ordinary steam coal of 12.5 miralty, and for which the constructing department knots with full boiler power, and of 10.3 knots with of the Board e is in no way responsible. The chief half boiler power. The Danae class thus form quite distinguishing feature in the Monarch is the great a little fleet of unarmoured, wood-built ships of comparative height of her free-board, or, in other themselves on the Navy List of the Admiralty; but words, the height of her sides out of the wa te r , it may be said at once, and this is the understood which from her water-line to her upper deck are 14 special complaint of the Constructive Department feet, or more than double the height of American at Whitehall, they do not fulfill all the conditions turret ships, as well as those building for European upon which such unarmoured wooden vessels should Powers. In the turret-ship Captain, building for be equipped and sent to sea. When Lord Clarence the Admiralty at the yard of Messrs. Laird, at Paget first drew the attention of the House of Corn- Birkenhead, under the sole superintendence of Capt. mons from his place as Secretary to the Admiralty Coles, the free board is carried to a height of 9 feet, to this class of vessel, as the then Amazon class, his the additional height being, it is understood, in- lordship, no doubt, anticipated a still higher rate of sisted upon by the Admiralty. Another important speed than even the 12.5 and 13.3 knots they have deviation from the accepted theory of a true turret- since averaged under full and half boiler power. N ship has been in the placing of a huge topgallant Now the complaint is that the Board of Admiralty, forecastle on the Monarch's upper deck—a strikingly or rather the Sea Lords' portion of the Boards, by novel feature, insisted upon by the Admiralty in their continued interference with the Constructive opposition to the remonstrances of the officia l s con- Department, so cripple the latter, that no one de nected with the department of the Controlle r of the sign for a ship submitted is ever built and equipped Navy, to whom the designs of the Monarch are for sea according to the ideas of her designers. credited—the effect of which will be that the turret Clearly, if this is so, the responsibility of a ship's guns will only be enabled to sweep a p ortion of the success or failure must lie on the shoulders of the deck, instead of having an all round fire. The Boards of Admiralty rather than upon the Control lermination into all the particulars connected with me chanics are busily engaged in the con struction of and Constructor of the Navy. A careful exa the design and equip the turrets, which are now being car ried u p to the ment of the first-named class upper deck. The turrets alone wil l absorb 177 tons of 10-inch and 8-inch armour-plating, the maximum of vessels, from the Amazon downwards, only thickness of 10-inch plating being fixed in that part furnishes one answer. It is entirely owing to of the turret close to the gun, and plates of Bin. in the interference of the members of Boards of thickness in the remaining parts. The 10-inch Admiralty with the duties of the Controller's de plates will be laid on a backing of teak timber Bin. partment of the navy in technical and vital matters in thickness, and the 8-inch plates on a similar back- connected with the design or equipment of a ship, ing of 10in. in thickness. Behind the timber back- and with regard to which a Lord of the Admiralty ing will come a skin of i-inch iron plating, fastened could know nothing, except by some fancied and to 7-inch girders, with au inner plating iin. in private theory of his own. When the Amazon class thickness, the total thickness of iron and wood in were first designed in the Controller's office the the turrets being 2ft. 2iin. Along the entire broad- intention was to produce exceptionally fast vessels side of the vessel protecting the turrets INill be laid under steam at full speed, and economically steam armour-plating of 7in. in thickness, laid in five tiers, ing vessels at slow speed, and carrying too heavy with a single tier of plates 6 i n. in thickness. All guns as armament. With th ese p r imary objects of the plates are of the best rolled iron, from the este- rapidity of motion and concentrated offensive blishment of Messrs. John Brown and Co., and power, all weights in the form of rig, boats, crew, Messrs. Cammell and Co., of Sheffield. The total and stores, were cut down as much as possible. A quantity of armour-plating protecting the Monarch's very light rig was designed that should only give sides will be 1,380 tons, of which about two-thirds e; stiffielent tailvai to enntrol the vessel, no bodualoat': have already been bolted to her sides. Frown the I was alloWecl e and 90‘haads named as the number:of central broadside aft the p lates range from. a thick- the crew, all t01d... l e Board Of idiniralty., ness of 7in. to 41in., wi th a minimum thickness of send the Danae class to sea with 001 ship rig for 3in. under the counter. Forward the plates taper times the weight of the one desi g ntd 'for';'of heav y: from 7in. to 4in., with the exce p tion of the third boom boat amidships ; an addition - 61- tier, in which none of the p lates are less than sin. pounder guns, and 180 as thenumber "of her crew in thickness. The a rmament of the Monarch, as all. told. To put = it, perhaps, 'the' at present decided upon by the Admiralty, will con- weights she carries in excess of what she' was de sist of a couple of 22-ton guns in each of the turrets, signed to carry are —twice the weight of masts, ai the foundations for the p latforms bein g already y ards, sails, rigging, and all boatswn's stores a laid in each turret. In addition to these, however, large boom-boat with its gear and fittings ; two 61- and as a compensation for the Monarch not being pounder rifled guns, with their carriages and slides, able to fire her turret guns directly ahead or astern, shot, shell, &e. ; and 90 officers and men, with all a 61 -ton gun will be placed in the bow and stern. their provisions, stores, and clothing. Under these both guns firing in a line with the vessel's keel, and I altered conditions, the country is having a dded to each protected by armour - plating. These g uns will 1 its navy two spoilt, unarmoured cruisers for the sum complete the Monarch's armament, while the height I which ought to give three perfect and very much of the turrets above the water will enable the guns swifter vessel s . to have a greater range of training than could Her Majesty's 2-gun steam storeship Fox,.Staff otherwise be obtained. The Monarch will be a full- Commander William S. Leeke, yesterday coin rigged ship, her running gear being worked from I menced shipping in Woolwich steam basin a cargo the upper deck as an ordinary vessel, the fore and of naval stores for Portsmouth, Ireland, and other aft bridge, or hurricane deck, usually seen in turret- places. Her spacious hold and storeage room ren ships not being required. The machinery is •in der her infinitely superior to any vessel of that de course of manufacture by Messrs. Humphrys, Ten- scription in her Majesty's service, and, although nant, and Co., of Deptford-pier, and will be of carrying double the amount of stores, the objec -1,100 horse power (nominal) but capable of working tionable deck cargoes, the subject of so much com up to about six times that power, the contract being p!aint, are totally avoided, the huge boilers and that the vessel shall steam at a mean speed of 14 ; other heavy gear being stowed, with the remainder knots per hour. of the cargo, below. Yesterday the shipwrights at Chatham dockyard The Magpie, 3, twin-screw gunvessel, 663 tons, commenced preparations for the launch of the iron- wood built, to be fitted with engines of a combined clad frigate Hercules, which takes place on Satur- nominal power of 160 horse power, will be launched day next, shortly after mid-day. from No. 2 slip in Portsmouth dockyard on the 12th The paddlewheel steamship Buzzard, 6, Staff instant. Commander J. G. H. Thai n , f rom Queenstown, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Monday, and is now in Barnpool waiting orders. A very large force is expected at Aldershot dur ing the ensuing season. Among other reei • ments ° to arrive at the Camp are n ame d th e Ist battalion sth Fusiliers, from Dover ; the 2d battalion Regiment, from Edinburgh, on the arrival of the 42d Highlanders from India ; the 2d battalion 7th Regiment, from Bury ; the 2d battalion Bth Regi ment, from Malta, to arrive about the 22d inst. • the 2d battalion 13th, from Portland ; the Ist bat talion 20th, from Devonport ; the 2d battalion 22d, from Newcastle ; the 34th, from Portsmouth ; the 57th, from Manchester; the 97th, from Portsmouth the 10th Hussars, from Newbridge, early in March ; the 3d Hussars, from Hounslow, • t o give over their horses prior to departure to India ; the 6th Innis killings, from York, to go into temporary stables in the North Camp ; and the sth Dragoon Guards, from Colchester, to occupy the Fast Cavalry Bar racks. Several regiments lately • arrived, and to ar rive, home will also be moved to during Aldershot d • ng the year, among others the 2d battalion 3d Buffs, 27th, 35th, and 67th Regiments, and 2d battalion Rifle Brigade. A number of militia regiments, too, will be sent to the Camp for the usual 28 days' training, making altogether a force equalled only in the early days of the Camp. A regimental board of officers, composed of Col. C. W. Adair, Royal Marines Light lnfantry, pre sident ; Major J. C. Jervoise, 3d Depot Battalion ; and Major J. Thompson, 50th Queen's Own Regi ment, assembled at Chatham garrison yesterday, for the examination of the following officers of the Royal Engineers as to their qualifications for pro motion :—Lieut. S. C. Turner, Lieut. G. J. Jack son, Lieut. D. C. Courtney, Lieut. W. H. Purcell, Lieut. V. F. Garwood. and Lieut. H. S. F. Hayns. One hundred and eighty non - commissioned officers and gunners of the 2d Division, Depot Bri gade, Royal Artillery, arrived at Sheerness yester day from Warley, to augment the strength of the Ist Division, which has been lately considered re duced by large draughts having left for India to join their respective Brigades. Messrs. Kirk, building contractors to the 'War Department in the Royal eirsenal, Woolwich, on Saturday commenced laying the foundations of the seven magazines ordered to be erected on the river bank in the Arsenal marsh. They are to be bomb proof, and detached from each other by lofty mounds of earth, to guard against injury in case of acci dental explosion. They are intended for filling and preparing live shells and 40-pounder gun cart ridges. In addition to the metropolitan police on duty at the dockyard and naval establishments at Chatham having the charge of the ordnance establishment, the armoury, and the magazines and stores of am munition at Upnor Castle, another duty has been imposed on them, by direction of the Secretary of State for War, the charge of the Royal Engineer fieldworks, which cover a considerable extent of ground at Chatham. This duty it has been found necessary for them to discharge in consequence of the great injury occasioned to the fieldworks by unauthorised persons trespassing on the Crown lands, as well as the depredations and thefts which are constantly occurring. The charge of the Royal Engineer fieldworks by the police commenced on Saturday, a force of men being now on the ground both by day and night. It is needless to add that this arrangement is in no way connected with NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. 111-ISCELLANEOUS NEWS. From the Anglo-American Ti mes .) PARIS, Jan. 30. It must prove interesting to the general reader, accustomed to regard the Emperor Charlemagne the real founder of the monarchy of France, simply in the light of one of the steel-clad and iron-fisted Paladins of romance, to learn that he was the first of her monarchs to comprehend the necessity of public instruction ; that he not only established schools, but exhibited the greatest personal interest in visiting them, iu 0 rewardine. the h himself with the greatest attention to the masters, sc olars who and inviting to his C ourt the most distinguished distinguished and savants of every country. Canonized by the Church after his death, he has been selected as the patron of scholars and of the Lycees or colleges of France. His fete has been fixed for the 28th of January in each year, and on that day all the schools of France honour the memory of their august founder. By the Lycees of Paris this fete is celebrated by a banquet; but as Charlemagne in his day recom pensed only the deserving, tradition has been so far followed as to give only to those pupils who have been either first or second in their class the right of attending the festival in question. At this ban quet, usually held in one of the most ancient colleges, the connives represent all nations, all creeds, and all races, whilst amongst the guests of bygone days were reckoned Moliere, Voltaire, Crebillon, and others of the most distinguished literary names of France. The banquet on Tuesday last, received additional prestige from the presence of the Prince Imperial, who has already distinguished himself in his course of public i ns t ruct i on, w hil s t the Em peror, with his usual kindness of heart and fore thought, furnished a liberal supply of game, together with sundry b as k e t s o f champagne. In deed, itis more than probable that the two days' sport in which his M a j esty h as indulged at Com piegne, in which no less than 2,364 head of game of different kinds were brought to book, were under taken principally for this reason, for the heart of the father goes out t owar d s the son, even in the smallest matter, and the affectionate solicitude with which he guides his steps from day to day in the glorious path of peace and progress, is proverbial. Never did scion of royal race commence the ardu ous'education befitting royalty under more favour able auspices. President of one of the noblest and most brilliant Expositions the world ever saw, win ning his way by merit in the grand old colleges of the Empire open to all the world, what is there left to hope, not only to the children of France, but to the general philanthropist, but that the career corn menced so brilli an tly ma y have as brilliant a course and a long career. The period appointed for the "closing of the chase" is now rapidly approach ing, and the vast quantities of game with which Paris has been inundated will speedily disappear. I find that scarcely a twentieth part is furnished by France, the principal supply coming from Germany, Poland, and Russia by the railways ; the importers being chiefly Jews. Wild boars, roe bucks, deer, hares, and rabbits arrive in vast numbers from the Grand Duchy of Baden and from Wurtemburg, as do also pheasants and partridges. Heilbronn and Strasbourg supply heath fowl, Russia and England grouse and woodcocks. The latter are rare in France, but are very plentiful in Corsica, Sardinia, and in various parts of Italy, where they are taken in nets. Thrushes and small birds come from the Lago Maggiore and Lago da Gardo, where they Fenianism. The Danae, 6, screw sloop, Captain Sir Malcolm are captured in vast numbers by the Lombard peasants. Larks from the neighbourhood of the Lot, Lot et Garonne, Loiret, &c., whilst the various species of water fowl, swans, ducks, geese, snipe, &c., arrive from Holland, Bretagne, Somme, and the Bay of Arrachon. The financial estimates of France for the coming year have been made public. The sum required for the maintenance of the two services, public works, maintenance of public order, &c., 843., amounting to the sum of 440 millions of francs, about a million and three-quarters sterling. The Democratic party have availed themselves of this circumstance to make a final coup against the proposal for the reorganization and amelioration of the military service ; but the lovers of order will scarcely imagine the security of the country and the consequent re-establishment of public confi dence too dearly purchased at such an outlay, espe . cially when the enormous sums are considered at present lying idle in the coffers of the Bank of France, principally from the timidity of capitalists, _ _ which the feeling of increased security would pour forth in a thousand channels to supply the great arteries of commercial enterprize, and to react in the prosperity of the country. A grand banquet has taken place at Nice in honour of Admiral Farragut, and amongst the distinguished guests _ _ _ _ . present were—King Louis the First, the Dukes of Glucksburg and Parma, Prince Stirbey, and a host of aristocratic names, assembled to do honour to the American hero. A new piece has just been brought out at the Theatre Francais, entitled " Paul Forestier," which bids fair to create a furore in Paris. The drama is exceedingly well put on the stage, and the vivid colouring with which the author, M. Emile Angier has invested the passions developed in the course of the piece, does infinite credit to his imagination as a poet. In its outline the play bears a strong resemblance to the " Dame aux Ca melias" or " LaTraviata" of Dumas; and although in " Paul Forestier" everything is brought right in the end, and the curtain falls upon the triumph of con jugal happiness, there are certain points which I fear would bring the drama below the standard of morality required by an English or American audience. A very brief outline will serve to give the reader some idea, not, indeed, of the poetic and beautiful language in which the plot is clothed, but of the plot itself. Master Paul has formed a liaison with a young lady, married and separated from her husband, who, in respect to said husband, seems perfectly capable of repeating the line of Byron's heroine— " The proof how much I can lova is, I love not thee." The aforesaid liaison does not meet the approval of Forestier, senior, who by a little intrigue induces his son to believe that his mistress (Lea) is weary of and deceiving him, and presses him to marry a young and highly accomplished lady, who is quite prepared to leave her convent for that sacrifice. Paul appears to resemble Midshipman Easy in his younger days ; you may lead him with a thread to pick cherries, however much they may disagree with him afterwards ; he yields, and is married accordingly. All goes on merrily for three months, when a certain Adolphe de Beaubourg, friend of Paul, appears on the scene. De Beaubourg is a sort.alop, - .4lways , -seekiog ' hat the French term les bouncs fortunei; blit:neldom,laving the good fortune. to succeed ; :lie CO Ades";Tto:'Paul that- he eneouttered' is Idly • , eertaiii]danie to when) jaid;, siege ,foeitrme the remotest` prospect of ::nnecnas :jeer Cain night, as the; - eitiek:' 'atWdli. ":came to hlin of her own ae . COrd,, , nnd ttiB'fell.oiiing day hellad been turned out of doors and neVer" since allowed another interview ; how he has agaiiidiseovered his charmer in the shape of a widow living at Paris ; and lastly, his wish (not being over particular) to offer her, through the medium of Paul, his hand. Paul undertakes the office, and of course here an explanation comes about, and the hero of the piece finds out, first of all, the little game of his respected parent ; and, secondly, that in her conduct towards De Beaubourg, he has acted from feelings of jea lousy and revenge towards himself. Of course all the varied feelings of old love, jealousy, disgust at being deceived, &c., throw him once more at the feet of his ancient mistress, who, however, resolves for a change, to do the virtuous, and dismisses him, favouring M. De Beaubourg with her hand, in order to place an eternal barrier between them—a barrier which, at the commencement, did not seem to pos se:is any great weight in the way of opposition, whilst at the same time Camille, the wife of Paul to back her up, makes an attempt to kill herself, taking care at the same time that Forestier, junior and senior are in the way to prevent her. These circumstances combined overawe Paul, who appears a rather weak-minded character; he consents to live happily with his wife, and the curtain falls ac cording to the French press, with the final triumph of virtue. There can be no doubt with regard to this most attractive drama that the human passions are vividly portrayed, that the language is im bued with the spirit of poetry in no ordinary degree, that the interest is kept up frOm the commencement to the fall of the curtain ; but the Parisian critics m ay rest assured that if ever a translation or adap tation of " Paul Forestier" comes to England or America the author will first of all have to answer the pertinent question— " Wet knows you on his moral carakter ?" Our correspondent, writing from Naples Jan. 24, 1868, says :—The Duke and Duchess of Aosta arrived last week. They had been long expected, but the notice given of their actual arrival was so short that their reception was not as brilliant as it might have been. Besides, there is much distress amongst all classes, and the view of a live Prince is not enough to cheapen bread. It is to be hoped that the Carnival gaieties of which there are plenty i n store will cause a little money to circulate. Vesuvius continues to throw out lava, several new streams having appeared, thus affording ample scope for sight-seeing to the crowd of visitors. On the evening of thel3thJanuary certified state ments of the decision of the Senate pronouncing the President's charges against Mr. Stanton unsustained, and the removal from the Secretaryship conse quently unjustifiable, were served both on Mr. Stanton and General Grant. At nine o'clock on the following morning Mr. Stanton proceeded to the War-office to take possession, but General Grant had then gone to the Head-quarters of the Army, leaving the key with his adjutant, which was brought by an orderly to the Secretary. From that office the General addressed to the President the following note :- 1 "lead-quarters, Army United States, Jan. 14, 1868. "His Excellency, A. Johnson, President. " Sir,—l have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of official notice, received by me last evening, of the action of the Senate of the United States in the case of the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, according to the provisions of an Act reg u l a ti ng th e tenure of civil offices. M y func tions as Secretary of War ad 'interim ceased from the mo ment of the receipt of the within notice.—l have the honour to be, respectfully, your obedient servant , (Signed) "U. S. GRANT, General." It is stated that the President will decline to hold any communication with Mr. Stanton, issuing all military orders through General Grant, and, it was said, but it is now denied, that Mr. APCulloch has ordered his department to hold no official communication with the Secretary for War until he states his determination. Indeed all the depart ments recognise the present incumbent, and the Treasury honours his drafts. It is also announced that both Generals Grant and Sherman have urged Mr. Stanton to resign, but numerous members of the Senate had written urging him to retain his seat. After Mr. Stanton had become installed in his office, he had an interview with General Grant. lle had directed General Louis H. Pelowza to take charge of the office and resume his old place as Adjutant-General; and he had given instruc tions to his own clerks, who hal returned, while those of the General had left ; also he had drawn his pay, amounting to $3,000 for the period he bad been out of office. General Butler paid his visit to Richmond on the 13th January, and was received by about 15,003 Virginian freedmen, who escorted him through the city. In the evening he delivered an excellent ad dress, which was listened to with enthusiasm. He sketched the history of the Government from 1789 to the war which ended with emancipation. He described the effects of that measure on the status _of the blacks with force and clearness. The most important part of his speech related to confiscation— the force of negro prejudice, will never again ob the time for which had gone by, if it ever existed— tain the majority : the nation will become a des and it was now impracticable, and if practicable, potism." " With Universal Suffrage," he says, " I undesirable. He held that farms which cost nothing believe the true men of the nation can maintain were worth nothing, and were land grants made to their position ; but without it, whether that suffrage the negroes they would probably be of as little use to be impartial or in any way qualified I look upon them as those made to the white soldiers in the West. the Republic as likely to relapse into an oligarchy At the same time he warned the holders of great which will be ruled by coarse Copperheadism and estates that they must be broken up, and advised the proud Conservatism." sale of small tots either for money or labour to the The Republican Convention of Tennessee has coloured people, which would anticipate legislative coupled Grant for President, with "Parson" Brown action, for to that it must come. He disliked as low for Vice! The National Convention of the Grand much a landed Northern aristocrat as a Southern Army of the Republic in session at Philadelphia has one. If any war of races occurred he considered it also nominated Grant, as well as the Connecticut would not be begun by the blacks. Republican Convention, which has brought forward The New York Citizen is severe on the auction William A. Buckingham of that State for Vice. sales of sittings in Plymouth Church. The bid- Mr. Charles Dickens gave his first reading in dings took place on the 6th January, when a throng Philadelphia, in the Concert Hall, on the 13th of or fashionable Christians competed for pews in Mr. January. He was received in the Quaker city with Beecher's capacious church. " The stock has been enthusiasm. The Public Ledger describes it "as a unusually active during the present week among the state of popular excitement; that, taken in all its board of brokers," remarks the Citizen, as if re- phases, is without a parallel on our side of the porting on the markets ; and again, " among ocean." Many people stayed out all night to get the auction sales of the present week none seats in the Plymouth Church for the Brooklyn have been so well attended with wealthy buyers, as readings on the 16th and 17th January. Early this the sale of pews at Plymouth Church." In a month Mr. Dickens will give his four readings in leader the subject is animadverted on as follows : Washington, the price of each seat being fixed at Is it not more than a suspicion that the best five dollars. lie will make a tour of the West, and seats of the Plymouth play-house are purchased it is announced will return to England on the 22d with the same view that the front seats are sought April. for at the opera, viz., because they are most favour- The telegrams from New York, which giving other able for the display of costly toilets? Of such may than the market news, are dated January 25, and be the kingdom of Beecher, but of such is not the inform us that the steamers leaving for Europe on kingdom of Heaven. Exclusiveness (at which high that day took out $1,000,000 in specie. Also, that pew rents appear to aim) is well enough in society, according to Messrs. Neill Brothers' Circular, the but it will not answer in religion or politics." It is receipts of cotton at all United States ports during in this church that Mr. Dickens meets his audiences the week amount to 82,000 bales, and since the Ist in Brooklyn. How it pays may be gathered from of September to 1,162,000. The week's exports to the following figures :—The assessed rental of the Great Britain were 47,000, and since the Ist of pews this year is $12,800, while at the sale bonuses September 458,000. The week's exports to the were paid for choice places to the amount of $37,736 Continent 25,000, and since the Ist of September more, making the yearly income from the pews 227,000. The total exports for the week 72,000, $48,738. Eight hundred dollars premium was given ar.d since the Ist of September 685,000. Stock at for the right of first choice at this sale, and some all ports, 350,000. 40 persons gave sums ranging from that amount The Times correspondent says there are rumours down to $2OO dollars for subsequent choices. that Mr. Adams intends to resign the English mis- The last nomination of the President to the Am- sion, and that General M'Clellan will be nominated bassadorship at Vienna has been the Hon. Samue in his place. Even if true such a nomination has S. Cox, formerly Democratic Congressman from no chance of confirmation by the Senate. Ohio. Like its predecessors, it is almost certain to The news from Copenhagen on the 30th January be thrown out by the Senate, which will make the was that the treaty with the United States relative ninth attempt to fill the vacancy created by the to the sale of the Danish West Indies had just been key-hole observer, M'Cracken, who perhaps was not finally passed by the Landsthing. Both Chambers aware of the difficulties he would create by his of the Diet have, therefore, definitively given their foolish letter to the President. assent to the project. Despatches from St. Thomas' Congress, not content with laughing at and have announced to Mr. Seward the result of the tabling the President's Message publicly to recog 7 voting by the people of St. Joha and St. Thomas nize General Hancock's noble order at New Orleans, on the subject of annexation to the United States. has introduced a bill, recommended by the Military In the total poll of 1,266 only 22 ballots were cast Committee, reducing the number of majors-gene- against the proposition. ral in the army to four, and of brigadiers-general Mr. Arthur Dumas has written a letter announc to nine. The object is to remove Generals Hancock ing that he is preparing a statement, with the names of and Rousseau, and to effect this the Secretary of ships destroyed by the Alabama, involving loss to Glas gow, London, Paris, and Rotterdam underwriters. rho War is ordered to strike out the names of those last famoushutthe he cruiser, he says, not only caused a loss to Americ commissioned. This is, indeed, a public recogni - a, e r t d e e . n fell as well on English and other Euro tion of the men the President " delights to honour," pean packets. and, itis in keeping with the resolution, iu reply to the It is rumoured that the lion. S. Shellabarger, of Aiessagethamking General Sheridan for his conduc t Ohio, will resign his place in Congress from ill health. iVhile a t Di trkt,Cumtna,nder censuring the. Presi- Mr. Arnell has introduced a resolution, adopted clentfir havin 'reovd him d thanking General having 'removed an by the House, instructing the Committee on the Library Grant for his opposition to that step. The bill was to inquire into the subject of au International Copyright. rfeit*ed Ter a aieek, under a threat of the Oppo- The Republican candidate for Governor in Con ' saheb` ti dlibuster," if time for debate was not necticut is Mr. Harvey Jewell, brother of the Speaker of ' allowed. the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was born in Winchester, New Hampshire, in 1825. His father, ltte , :agitation throughout the United States for Pliny Jewell, of the firm of Jewell and Sons, tanners, of protecting the rights of naturalized citizens is on the Hartford, put him into his business. Becoming an increase, and assuming a national aspect. It will expert operator in telegraphing, he rose to be General give Tise . to important legislation, as all Americans Superintendent of the Telegraphic line between Nash are agreed on this subject ; and it is understood ville and New Orleans. In hn1.88,19 father he , s h returned to Hartford, edec that the President will send a Message to Congress and es e ta nt bli r s i h n i g ng ss i p t sarst into one of the leading houusisneessos su iu taking very hi g h ground. Tin the United States. lie has he opinions held in fi c ts kind paid three visits t o Europe, America are generous and becoming to a great na- extending his travels to Egypt, the Holy Land, and Tur tion, and will be cordially reciprocated throughout key. lie spent a large portion of his time last summer at Europe. "A. great country like ours," said Speaker the Paris Exposition. He is a lover of art, and has shown Colfax, at the mass meeting held at Washington on an excellent taste in his admirable selection of paintings the - loth Jannary, " must either cease to naturalize by thebost artists of the modern school. His election is considered more than probable. the millions who come to us from abroad, or protect Lord Hobart, who took the American view in them. in the rights of citizenship professed by our the late controversy' on the Alabama claims, proceeds to laws. As it is the greatest glory of any nation that Constantinople on a salary of £3,000 a year, as manager it protects the poorest and humblest of its citizens of the Imperial Ottoman Bank. as earnestly as the richest and most powerful, we Among the deaths recently announced in America should be as quick to throw the shield of our na- are Judge William B. Wright, of the New York Court of Appeals, and his sm-in-law, Commander Laßue P. Adams, giance in our courts as if they had been born on our tionality over all who have taken our oaths of sale giance department rit'redetrie of k Steele, the Columbia , lately in command of the military Philander P. Prindle ' for soil. To demand that they should fight, bleed, and three p years clerk of the Now York Assembly, and James die for the country of their adoption in war as Powers, a prominent and aged lawyer of Columbia county, American citizens, and then fail to protect them as New York. American citizens in peace, at home or abroad, The Right Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Pro would be a national shame. I have no doubt that testant Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, died at the Episco- Congress will speak on this subject with no uncer - pal residence at Rock Point on Thursday afternoon. h B p Hopkins was of English extraction, but was born lain voice." Meetings have been held throughout in Dublin, January 30, 1792, so that at the time of his the country, in which all parties have joined. At death he was 76 years old. His parents emigrated to this some of these, the Fenians obtained control, when country when he was only eight years of age, and he was an element of hostility to Great Britain was intro- mostly educated by his mother. He was intended for the duced. But the agitation is directed to the settle- law, but, after receiving a classical education, he passed a ment of the question on a fair, secure , a nd permanent year r e l assisted Wilson, the ornithologist, in the preparation basis, which should long ago have bee n determined. of the plates for his wor k. I n his 19th year he embarked The difficulty will be with Prussia. That kingdom in the manufacture of iron in Western Pennsylvania, but this business w a s m uc h p ro st ra ted by the peace of 1815, conceded to the United State s so far as to p ermit citizens who emigrate, even without permission, and two years afterwards ho failed, and betook himself to accompanied by their sons unde r the a g e of 17, and t3 s e t dw u study of the he o h f the pt t l t a e i b v u . After f ter bar, six wh mouths' ere he study practisedh e was untilad d who remain over ten years , to lose their nationality quittede r thelearo for Caspar the and become previously married a r g exempt from conscription. Otherwise 182 daughter Zr in O is tt t o ry la . un it e: ahrae the emigrant is liable to ar rest on his return to his tired merzhant of Baltimor e , b u t previously p of Hamburg, G native land, unless he has dischar g ed his service, or Germany. Immediat e l y upon hi s or di nat i on i n 1824, M r . paid his commutation. Mr. Emile Kahn, a Prus- Hopkins became recto r o f T r i n i ty Ch urc h , Pi t t s b urg h, sian, naturalized, and residing in Cincinnati, lately w hereheremained until 1831, wh en h e wen t to Trinity asked Mr. Seward if he, as an American citizen, Church, In 1827 an Boston,asa d ssi l st B a 2 n 9 t he minister on the Green foun would be protected aga inst arrest on returnin g to Action. n the General Conventions of the Church, w as clerical i 7 a n both he took i Prussia. In reply, Mr. Seward stated that his right prominent part in the debates. He wa s a can did a t e f or th e to exemption from military ser v ic e could be main- assistant bishopric of Pennsylvannia in 1827, b u t b e i ng a tained under certain circumstances, but he might be tie with his opponent, Dr. Onderdonk, he decided the con subjected to trouble, to which the United States test in favour of his competitor by casting his own vote in Government would adv ise him not to expose him- favour of the other. In the same year that Mr. Hopkins removed to Boston he became Professor of Divinity in the self. new Theological Seminary of Massachusetts, and the next The Five Constitutional Conventions BOW at year, 1832, he was elected first Bishop of Vermont, an work in the Southern States are getting through office he filled until his death. Ho accepted at the their business. On the 15th Jan. the Charleston same time the rectorship of St. Paul's, Burlington, Convention selected Collector Mackay of that city which he retained until the year 1856. One of his latest President, and an entire corps of coloured officers, works was a "Church History in Verse," year, but this t e n ff e rt did published last Bishop excepting its Secretary. The negroes have a ma - re n e o e t nt re a a t c t h he t n dir e i c tz te of an Synod poetry. jority of 10 , and they are using this to some purp ose at Lambeth ' in which he took a prominent part. While in the Palmetto State, where is now presented as abroad the degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him by tho strange a freak as fortune has ever witnessed in this University of Oxford. Ho had but recently returned to changing world. North Carolina has elected C. J. this country and his diocese, and, notwithstanding his age, Cowles, of Wilkes County, President ; and James his death will be a surprise to many. In the dissension H. Jones, the old body servant of Jeff. Davis, cap- dividing the Episcopal Church, Bishop Hopkins was a de tured with' him, for principal door-keeper. The cided champion of the High-Church party, and refused to sign the famous protest of the bishops last year against Convention has resolved to expel any reporter who High-Church practices.—New York Tribune. describes delegates by colour. In Louisiana a white man has been nominated for Governor, and a negro for Lieut.-Governor on the refusal of another coloured gentleman to accept the appointment, as he aspired to the higher post. Messrs. Sypher, Jones, and Newsham have been nominated for Congress; eighty-two articles have been finished, and the whole will soon be completed. There is no money to pay the delegates, as bonds have been in vain offered for sale, and a law enforcing a tax on pro perty has been fruitless. The Georgia Treasurer, removed by General Meade, has surrendered his keys, but the General has found the vaults empty, the funds having been transported to New York. The General has also removed the Controller, and appointed a military successor. The Treasury bcoks have not been given up. The Convention of that State has adopted a resolution praying Con gress to appropriate $200,000,00 0 for a national system of cheap railways. General Butler visited the Convention at Richmond, on the 13th Jan., and while it was in the act of debating whether he should be invited, with the unbounded assurance that characterises all his actions, he delivered a speech which lasted an hour. The Conservative members left their seats, while those who did not re quire to be converted remained to be enlightened by the General's political notions. The Convention has adopted an ordinance prohibiting imprisonment for debt, and has passed a resolution of thanks to Gen Meade. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—lt is difficult to determine which is the more trying to health—intense cold or excessive heat—though everybody knows that sudden transitions from the one to the other teem with disease, which may in most instances be staved off by an early resort to these purifying, regulating, and strengthen ing pills. This well known and highly-esteemed medicine affords a safe and easy remedy for almost every constitu tional wrong which climates, changes, or dietetic errors can engender, and effectually removes any weakness self indulgent habits may have induced. Iu all conditions of the system bordering on disease, indicated by apathy, list lessness, and restlessness, Holloway's pills will prove espe cially s3rviceable in begetting a vivacity appreciated by both sound and sick. Births. ST. PAUL—On tho 19th ult., Lady St. Paul, of a daugh- ter. THROCKMORTON—On the 30th ult., at 298, Albemarle• street, the wife of Captain Throckmorton, of a son. VIVIAN On the 3d inst., at 5, Buckingham-gate, the Lady Augusta Vivian, of a son. Marriages. ABDY—MERIIIMAN -Oa the 4th inst., at Tottenham, the Rev. Albert Charming Abdy, M.A., of Worcester Col lege, Oxford, to Dora, second daughter of S. B. Merri man, Esq., cf Tottenham and Austinfriars. KINDERSLEY —lluititAY—On the 4th inst., at Paddington , Edward N. M. 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