The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times says all bad government, as Mr. Carlyle I remarks in his diagnosis of the French Revolution, ends in insolvency. The temptation of a weak Minister is corrup tion, and corruption means increased expenditure, and increased expenditure means repeated deficiencies. The weakness of an incompetent Minister is extravagance, and extravagance has the same ultimate result as corruption. The madness of a reckless Minister is profusion, and profusion is another form of the same disease. Whichever way we regard the position of a Minister who, placed in a minority, is resolved to maintain his position at all hazards, we are forced to the conclusion that the country must suffer for his ambition. It is almost a necessary consequence that, when we find the estimates con tinuously increasing and a surplus converted year after year into a deficiency, we should conclude that the management of affairs is for a time entrusted to a man who is careless of everything except maintaining his supremacy as a Minister. Is it, or is it not, the fact that since the accession of a Conservative Ministry to power the process of reducing the national expenditure has been not only arrested, but turned backwards ? There is only one answer to the question, and everyone is so conscious of the truth that those who would have it otherwise compare the present expenditure with the worst years of the " Extravagant Parliament" in order to find an excuse for it. It will he seen on examination that the Liberal Administration bequeathed to their suc cessors an expenditure in process of reduction, and that Mr. Disraeli has managed to change the order, and to con vert a yearly decrease into a yearly addition to the national charge. We had, under the Liberal Ministry, a reduc• tion of more than three millions in three years, and in four years a total of taxation reduced or abolished of £13,693,000. In three years the optional expenditure under the Conser vative rule has grown from £39,680,000 to £43,730,000, and taxation is increased instead of reduced. Extravagance has been winked at right and left. The Daily News criticises the proceedings of the British Association at Norwich in the section of Economic Science. Miss Becker pleaded ably and eloquently for the equality of the two sexes, but she practically asserted the supe riority of that "sex of man" to which she herself belongs. When Miss Becker concluded her paper, a member of the other " sex of man "—Mr. Joseph Payne— naturally thought that as his turn had come he might read his paper ; but the crowded audience had been so excited by the vindication of the feminine intellect that the sterner sex had not a chance. The Section would not have even hurried extracts from Mr. Payne's paper ; all that it would do was to discuss Miss Becker. Into this discussion both sexes of man seem to have entered warmly, but it ended in an entire rout of the advocates of feminine inferiority. The practical con clusion at which the Economic Section arrived is perhaps the best answer to the just complaints on which Miss Becker's rather extravagant claims were founded. The Council of the British Association are asked to appoint a committee to consider how the scientific education of women can be promoted. It is in a wider, more liberal education that the female sex will find the remedy for that expulsion from the great field of the world's work of which Miss Becker complains. Let the faculties of each sex be trained with equal thoroughness, and their inherent distinction will come out as clearly as their essential oneness. Perhaps if the emotional nature of men and the reason of women were more thoroughly cultivated in their education we might hear less of " supposed differences in the minds of the two sexes of man." The Standard considers that in the department of Economic Science and Statistics Miss Becker is clearly out of place with her " supposed difference" between man and woman. Nothing she was able to prove under these restricted conditions of inquiry could possibly be of any scientific use. The lecturer's argument, if we understand it rightly, is that there is no difference, moral or in tellectual, oetween man and woman—that the two sexes are in all but physical respects equal—and not only equal, but similar—that the variations which exist are the result of the arbitrary and partial behaviour of the men in respect to theiPnatural rivals. From the begin ning, it is certain that both men and women have acted under the ides. or theit, dissimilarity; and are we to believe now that this iaea, common to both sexes, was but an arbitrary assumption not warranted by nature? Even if we could suppose that the theory of the sexual differ ence originated in the superior strength or selfishness of the male sex alone—which is a monstrous assumption—we should be forced to admit this among the other proofs of a radical and inherent distinction. The Telegraph alludes to the plethora of Liberal candi. dates. Given six candidates as the product of two months' labour in Ilackney,how many more may be expected to appear during the three months that still intervene before the concentrated struggles of the polling day? No doubt it would be rash to anticipate that all the eager competitors for parliamentary honours will hold out till the final heat. The list will be considerably thinned, from various causes creditable to the prudence of the several competitors. But the ell rt involves an incessant rivalry, during which the competing candidate of similar opinions comes to be regarded almost as an enemy, and personal predilections —the most dangerous of all—are inevitably brought into play. With feelings thus embittered, even a withdrawal at the last moment may not conciliate support or induce the long-divided ranks to re-unite. Dissension is easier to denounce than to destroy, and jealousy is a fiend most difficult to exorcise from the body which it has con vulsed. The Times notes that a goods train was so timed as to leave Abergele only half an hour before the Irish mail was due at that station ; that it was bound to Llanddulas, a 1 station three-and-a-half miles further on ; and that at Llanddulas it was expected to be shunted and broken up. We must wait for the evidence at the inquest to establish the time actually kept in all these proceedings ; but what we know already is, that though a swift mail train was within half a dozen miles of the spot, a fragment of a goods train was left standing on the main line upon a steep slope without a guard. The Times thinks there is no remedy for these disasters but running the goods and passenger trains on separate lines. The block system would be inefficacious, because some of its waggons might get separated from a train. The Times draws attention to two points. The destruc tion was confined to that portion of the train which had been put on at Chester in front of the carriages from London ; in other words, four carriages, owing to their position next to the engine, were consumed, while the rest escaped. Now, if three or four empty trucks or luggage vans had been in this post of danger, might not much have been saved ? Again, it is really necessary that some impartial and independent inquiry should be made into the system of locking carriage - doors. It does seem to be probable that on the present occasion the doomed victims could not have availed themselves of any chance of escape, even if all the doors of the carriages had been open ; but, still, the reflection that passengers are exposed in locked vehicles to risks so dreadful is enough to alarm the public mind. Railway directors are always ready to assure us that the practice is for the traveller's advantage. It may be so, but we see only too clearly bow terribly it may tell in an opposite direction, and this point, among others, should be investigated in the public interest by the light of this deplorable disaster. The Herald remarks that the report of the preliminary proceedings at the inquest reads as if it had been taken at some meeting of excited village politicians, over which no chairman presided, and at which, therefore, everybody said, without let or hindrance, whatever happened to come uppermost. Lawyers and laymen by turns took up the parts which they had chosen for themselves, and the audience chorussed their assent or dissent at the beginning, the middle, and the end of every speech. One gentleman complained that the property found in the d4bris had been placed under the care of a private gentleman, and " drew down the gods" when he said " it ought to have been left to the police." The clerk to the magistrates explained that this was done from. considerations of safety; the police inspector described the place where the valuables had been put, and the discussion threatened to become interminable, when Sir H. Edwards very properly protested against " this stuff and nonsense about the custody of the property " being imported into an inquiry with which it had nothing in the world to do. This senti ment was " received with applause," and having been endorsed by Lord Farnham, there seemed a chance of beginning business, when some one objected that property could not be identified unless it were in some public place. The objector having been applauded in turn, Mr. Kane, a legal gentleman, won three successive rounds of " applause " by pressing for an immediat interment. The coroner, good, easy man, thought there was no particular hurry, and, "as the bodies would keep," he proposed to adjourn till Thursday, and postpone the burial till then. This was received with angry cries of " No, no," and something very like a free (wordy) light ensued, the upshot being that the relatives adjourned to hold a meeting on their own account, where they criticised the coroner to their hearts' content, and passed a resolution in favour of a funeral on the following morn ing. They came back to court, where there was a further discussion about giving certificates for burial, a good deal of wrangling, a very little actual business, and a series of coronatorial proposals to adjourn till next day, next week, next month, and all manner of intermediate dates, ending in au appointment for Wednesday, at which we are not surprised to learn the proceedings were commenced by Lord Farnham, with the avowal of his opinion that the coroner was totally unfit to continue the inquiry without assistance, and that he meant to apply to the Howe Becre , 047 PPS ACIAIDAti • - CRIMINAL STATISTICS. The number of persons committed for trial in England and Wales last year was 18,971, or 122 in excess of the number in 1866. The numbers in each of the five years 1862-6 were as follows :—ln 1862, 20,001; 1863, 20,818 ; 1864, 19,506 ; 1865, 19,614 ; 1866, 18,849. Thus, with the exception of 1866, the number of persons committed for trial in 1867 was less than the number for any year since 1861. Of the 13,971 criminal offenders committed for trial in 1867, 3,763 were females. It is noteworthy that this is the lowest number of female offenders recorded during a period of 15 years. The number of persons convicted last year was 14,207 ; the number of persons acquitted being 4,741, exclusive of 23 detained as insane. The proportion borne by the number acquitted and discharged to the total number for trial shewa little variation from year to year. The following are the pro portions per cent. for the last five years : In 1863, 23'5 ; 1864, 24'3 ; 1865, 24'6 ; 1866, 24 . 2 ; 1867, 25. The number of persons committed for trial in Scotland last year was 3,305—viz., 2,497 males and 808 females. In 1862 the number was 3,630 ; in 1863, 3,404 ;1864, 3,212 ; 1865, 2,567, 1866, 3,003. The numllers convicted in each of the last three years were 2,360 in 1865, 2,922 in 1866, and 2,510 in 1867. The numbers returned as acquitted, exclusive of persons found and detained as insane, were 207, 260, and 277 respectively, the proportion per cent. acquitted to total commitments being B'4. The criminal offenders committed for trial in Ireland last year numbered 4,561-3,665 males and 896 females, or 235 more than in 1866. The numbers for Ireland have gradually decreased from 15,144 in 1853, and 7,210 in 1857, to 6,078 in 1863, and 4,326 in 1866. Of the 4,561 criminal offenders committed for trial in 1867, 2,733 were convicted. Thus the pro portion borne by the number acquitted, exclusive of persons found and detained as insane to the total number committed for trial in Ireland, was 39'5 per cent. The returns for the United Kingdom shew that there were 26,837 criminal offenders committed for trial in 1867- 21,370 males and 5,467 females—against 26,178 in 1866, viz., 20,543 males and 5,635 females. The number convicted was 19,450, against 18,964 in 1866 ; and the number acquitted, exclusive of persons found and detained as insane, was 6,821 in 1867, against 6,714 in 1866. MR. DU CANE, M.P. There was a very large gathering of the Conservative party in the county of Essex on Tuesday night, at the Corn Exchange, Colchester, to bid farewell to Mr. Du Cane, who has represented the northern division of the county in Parliament for the last eleven years, previous to his departure for the colony of Tasmania, of which he has recently been appointed ,governor. Mr. S. 0. Onley occupied the chair, having on his right hand the guest of the evening, Mr. Du Cane ; Mr. James Round and Colonel Brise, the Conservative candidates for the eastern division at the coming election ; Major Jervis, M.P. for Harwich ; Mr. F. S. Corrance, M.P. for East Suffolk ; Count Maffei, Sir W. O'Malley, Hon. R. Strutt, Hon. C. Strutt, &c. A number of ladies, including the Hon Mrs. Du Cane, graced the balcony at the rear of the principal guests' table. In returning thanks for the toast of his health, Mr. Du Cane said, as he looked around that building, and saw gathered together in his honour that night not merely those who had fought his battles as members of a great and united party, but also many of those whom in private life he had for many years honoured and esteemed as his most intimate friends, he must confess that he could wish the curtain was rising instead of falling upon the events of the past eleven years. He knew full well that if he attempted to thank them as he could and as they deserved, he should fail utterly. The only way in which it occurred to him to do so was one which might appear somewhat ungrateful, as it was an endeavour on his part to cast upon them the responsibility of their separation. If they had not taken him by the hand in early life, he would never have become a. member of Parliament ; if they had not when he became a member of Parliament rallied round him on every occasion when an opponent chewed his face, he would never have remained there ; if he had not remained there he would never have had the honour to become a humble member of her Majesty's present Government ; and if he had not become a member of the Government, he thought it was probable that he would never have had offered him that honourable appointment which now for a time parted them asunder. He then went on to deny the rumours he had heard that the reason he accepted the post of Governor of Tas mania was that he shrank from the contest which the Conservative party had provoked in East Essex, and giving as his reason for accepting that office that he be- lieved it would give him a chance of serving his country in a highly honourable and creditable position, and one of which his constituents might be proud. Speaking of his political career, Mr. Du Cane said that all knew very well the part he had taken in general politics, and he did not suppose that anyone there that evening would impugn either a single vote he had given or a word he had uttered during the eleven years he had represented them in Parliament. He had humbly endeavoured to be a good friend to agriculture, and to walk in the path of that con stitutional liberty and rational progress which he believed to be the true essence of a true Conservative policy, and which, he said boldly and unhesitatingly, had not been departed from by the Conservative party in that recent great constitutional change which during their tenure of office they had effected. Ile expressed a hope that before long the malt-tax would be swept from the roll of political questions, and having uttered his sincere trust that his governorship might be a prosperous one, and one marked by impartiality, he concluded by bidding farewell to both his political friends and his political opponents, among which latter he said he believed he had at that time none but well-wishers. LAW AND POLICE. ACTION FOR SLANDER.—In the Lord Mayor's Court, the case of Taylor and Wife v. Brighten and Wife, which was an action for slander, was heard. It appeared that the parties were neighbours, and upon a certain day mutual recriminations ensued between the women. It was alleged on the part of the plaintiff that Mrs. Brighten had accused Mrs. Taylor of keeping a house of accommodation, and letting young men into the premises at all hours of the night. Upon cross-examination Mrs. Taylor admitted that she had told defendant's wife that she (Mrs. Brighten) kept a common lodging-house, and it further came out that Mrs. Taylor had used strong language, though she stated that she only did so under great provocation, and she persisted that the commence ment of the quarrel arose out of a charge against Mrs. Taylor's daughter of sweeping dirt upon defendant's door step. It transpired that a cross action is entered for hearing in the Court of Common Plas, and it was agreed that both causes should be abandoned, each party to pay their own costs. ACTION FOR MALICIOUS IHPRISONUENT. —At the Liverpool Assizes, Mr. William McFadden, who had been in the employ of the Liverpool corporation for thirty-seven years, brought an action against his late employers for a malicious prosecution. His case was that he had been given into the custody of a policeman and caused to be imprisoned ; that the defendants caused him to be indicted at the borough sessions, without reasonable ground, on the charge of felony ; and that he was impro perly dismissed by them without receiving proper notice. He also claimed to recover for work and labour done. Plaintiff was discharged at the direction of the Recorder of Liverpool upon each of the indictments preferred against him. The defendants pleaded justification, and ultimately it was agreed to withdraw a juror. DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY. —At the Shire Hall, Nottingham, William Maclean, William Beattie, and Dennis Knight were charged with assaulting and robbing John Gregory, at Hucknall Folkard, near Nottingham. About ten o'clock the prosecutor and two friends were pro ceeding from the village of Bulmall to Hucknall, a distant e of three miles, but owing to the darkness of the night the prosecutor lost his friends and his way at the same time. Soon afterwards he met the prisoners, who were going the same way as himself, when Maclean stepped up to him and said, "Stand and deliver;" but Gregory refused, and a struggle ensued, in which Maclean drew a knife, and told the other prisoners to cut the prosecutor's throat. Knight then opened Gregory's mouth, and " jobbed" him with the knife, inflicting 'severe injuries. The prosecutor managed to give an alarm, and his assailants made off, but were subsequently apprehended. The prisoners were committed for trial. DEATH OF LORD NORMANTON.—We have to announce the death of the Earl of Normanton, which occurred at his residence in London on Wednesday. His lordship was born November 12, 1778, and succeeded his father, Charles, Earl of Normanton and Archbishop of Dublin, July 14, 1809. He married May 17, 1816, Diana, daughter of George Augustus, Earl of Pembroke ; she died December 2, 1841, leaving three sons and one daughter (the Countess Nelson). His lordship is succeeded by his son James, Viscount Somerton, who married April 9, 1856, Caroline, daughter of William, Viscount Barrington, and has two sons and three daughters. An order has been received by the heads of depart ments at Woolwich Arsenal, from the War Office, decreasing the number of cartridges to be manufactured. Of the number ordered at the commencement of the financial year, 52,000,000, there had been manufactured 24,000,000, leaving 28,000,000 to be completed; but this number has been re duced by 14,000,000, and for next year an intimation has been given that not more than 10,000,000 of cartridges will be required, notwithstanding a heavy outlay has recently been made in erecting additional buildings and supplying mghinery for their n?anufActure, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1868. IHE ANGLO-COIVTINENTAL SOCIEIY. The following letter has been addressed to the Guardian : Sin,—l recommend Mr. Meyrick and his henchman, Mr. Clay, to consult their friend Prota before they publish any more letters in his behalf ; for the account which they have given of his expulsion from the Convent of S. Domenico Maggiore does not agree with his own account of the matter ; in fact, the two accounts, like the pots in the fable which went sailing together down the stream, crack each other, and are mutually destructive. Prota's account is, or was at the time, that he was not expelled at all, but resigned. It is something to have an admission from his patrons at last that he really was expelled ; but I beg them to observe that their admission places me in a very unpleasant dilemma. If I believe Messrs. Meyrick and Clay, I am bound to conclude that Signor Prota is a liar ; and vice versd. The Signor's account—namely, that he was not expelled, but resigned—is a deliberate untruth ; and I should like to know what Mr. Clay, who is perfectly cognizant of the fact, has to say to it, and how he recon ciles it with his letter to the Guardian. I say, moreover, that the account which Messrs. Meyrick and Clay have given of the matter is just as unfounded as Signor Prota's. Let me quote their 7:psissinia , verba, for they are important. "In the autumn of 1866," says Mr. Clay, "an arrangement was made between the Courts of Italy and Rome, and the fugitive Bishops were to return to their sees. A new Prefect was appointed to Naples, to prepare the way for the return of the Archbishop." Here Mr. Clay deliberately states that the new Prefect, the Marchese Gualterio, was appointed subsequently to, and in consequence of; Ricasoli's circular, permitting the return of the exiled Bishops. Now Ricasoli's cir cular is dated November 26, 1866, and Gual- terio was appointed Prefect of Naples in March, 1866, and took formal possession of his office about the middle of April. I have no wish to retort on Mr. Clay his charges of " Pharisaical words," and " suppression of important circumstances;" but I will ask him to explain the inscrutable process of esoteric reasoning by which he seeks to persuade your readers that an event which happened in March was the result of an event which hap pened at the end of the following November. He is good enough to say that my " mind is in a state of hopeless confusion ;" but I venture to suggest that a gentleman who is given to turn logical somersaults is not a very good judge of what constitutes " confusion of mind." Mr. Clay says that Signor Prota received notice to quit " soon after the appointment of the Marchese." " Soon after" means five months, and Gual terio's appointment had no more to do with it than it had to do with the eruption of Vesuvius. I have before me a number of the Emancipatore Cattolica, in which Prota welcomes Gualterio in the following language :—" Il nuovo Pre fetto della nostra Citta e Provincia, Sig. Gual terio, prendendo possesso della sua carica di resse ai nostri concittadini ii Seguente pro ciama, the not ammiriamo per it nobile patrio tismo da cui e ispirato, e per le precise nome in esso tracciate della, sua amministrazione." This seems to me very odd language from a victim to his persecutor. But perhaps Mr. Clay will tell me that this is but one instance of the cordiality between Prota and Gualterio. Well, I take up a later number of the E »tanci patore, and I find a paragraph entitled "Arresti di Borbonici." On looking over the paragraph, I see that it gives an account of the arrest of several Bourbonists, among them " a monk " and a " Spanish priest." The paragraph also states "that it has been already decided to send out of the kingdom ten Bishops and Monsignori." "We applaud these measures , " says the per secuted Prota, "by means of which the Govern ment seeks to banish the conspirators against the actual order of things, and the declared enemies of the Kingdom of Italy." And then he complains of " the doings of some of the parochial clergy," and by way of example says that he " read the day before a placard on the door" of a church, which " invited the faithful to the preachings " of a certain Padre Borghi "in this month of May." The last word of the question is italicised in the origi nal, and the meek, loving Prota asks, "Is this or is it not that Padre Borghi who has fre quently been banished from Naples ? Let the police keep their eyes open." And it is this truculent fellow, who rejoices at the expulsion of ten Bishops, and hounds on the police against a brother priest for simply " inviting the faithful to his preach ing," whom Messrs. Clay and Meyrick parade as a gentle suffering martyr ! Mr. Clay speaks of Gualterio's " aptness to do the work of persecutor." The above extract shows that he was, at least, a persecutor after Prota's own heart, and not against Prota. Mr. Meyrick's account of Prota's expulsion is as follows : "If Mr. Mac Coll were not utterly ignorant of the subject with which he is dealing, he would know that the time when Prota lost his appointment, and was required to leave S. Domenico Maggiore, was when Ricasoli's policy was suddenly changed from opposition to the Papacy to a reconciliation party," resulting in " the sacrifice of the reforming priests, and the untying of the hands of their enemy, the Marchese Gualterio, Prefect of Naples, who co-operated with Cardinal Sforza in crushing them. The brunt of the persecution naturally fell upon Signor Prota and the staff of the Emancipatore," &c. I wish I could honestly believe that Mr. Meyrick "is utterly ignorant of the subject with which he is dealing." Let the facts speak for themselves. Prota and his staff were ex pelled from S. Domenico Maggiore about the end of August, 1866 ; " Ricasoli's policy was suddenly changed" in the end of November of the same year; and Cardinal .Sforza made his first appearance in Naples on the Bth of the follo wing December. And yet Mr. Meyrick would have your readers believe that the ex pulsion of Prota and his staff was the result of Ricasoli's policy and Cardinal Sforza's resto ration ! Nor is this all. In the Anglo-Continental Society's report for 1866, p. 39, Mr. Meyrick speaks of Ricasoli as follows : " Baron Ricasoli having become Premier, gives good hopes of the latter (opposition to the Papacy) and better policy being adopted. There is no statesman in Italy whose eyes . are soopen to the need which his country has of an independent national Church as Baron Ricasoli. His return to power we regard as of the happiest omen for the Church of Italy." Now, this was published after the expul sion of Prota, which expulsion, Mr. Meyrick now tells us, was caused by the retrograde policy of Raron Ricasoli. Which am I to believe—the Mr. Meyrick of the Anglo-Conti nental Report, or the Mr. Meyrick of the Guardian, ! Has Mr. Meyrick, too, possessed himself of an " historical conscience" to re concile his inconsistencies ? Mr. Clay accuses me of having " either pre sumptuously written without a knowledge of my subject, or else wilfully suppressed all men tion" of certain " documents' in which Prota is highly praised by the very persons who sub sequently cut off all connection with him. My conclusion would be that the gentlemen in question must have had some exceedingly good reason for standing aloof from a man of whom they once thought so highly. But Mr. Clay has the happy faculty of being able to deduce any conclusion that suits him from contradic tory premises. " The Anglo-Continental Society," Mr. Clay says, "is not connected with this (Emanci patrice) -society, nor with any of its members." Then, pray, what means the following notice in the Anglo-Continental Society's report for 1865 ? " The (Anglo-Continental) Society is desir ous of funds for the payment of a resident agent in Naples, whose services might be of the utmost use in relation to the Societa Eman cipatrice, as well as otherwise." Moreover, the President of the Societa Emancipatrice is in the pay of the Anglo-Continental Society. But it is hopeless to get Mr. Clay to see the necessary connection between a conclusion and its premises. Mr. Clay attempts to be funny at the ex pense of a member of the Naples municipality, who, he says, had stated that " Prota had been turned out of the building for immo rality," but had " declined to put his accusa tion on paper." Mr. Clay received this information in confi dence, and he has taken unwarrantable liberty in publishing it. But having taken that liberty, he ought not to have stated what is literally untrue—namely, that the gentleman in ques tion declined to guarantee his information (not " accusation") in writing. There is only one more point which it is worth while to notice. If Mr. Meyrick thinks that a frock-coat and the absence of a cassock necessarily constitute " the garb of a layman," I don't. But if Mr. - Meyrick had himself addressed as "F. Mey rick, Esq.," and habitually wore a shooting jacket, a coloured tie, and coloured trousers, I, for one, should not hesitate to say that he had, as far as his own act could do it, " abjured his clerical character." And this is precisely what some of the " reforming" priests of Italy have done. M. MACCoLL. THE HUSH LAND LAIVS. Arbitrary power in the hands of an ill-con ditioned man like Mr. William Scully, has resulted in the death of two innocent men in the discharge of an office imposed upon them by the temper of Mr. Scully and the permis sion of the law. Not only the tenants who resisted the service of a notice of ejectment, but the landlord, who, by his harshness and by the flagrantly unjust terms of his leases pro voked the murderous assault, must be ac counted guilty of the deaths of thetwo hapless policemen. It is time that legislation should take from the hands of Irish landlords the arbitrary power they now possess, and which such land lords as Mr. W. Scully are not slow to exer cise, of reducing the tenants to a state of semi-serfdom. Such power is degrading, n o t only to the tenant who suffers from its exercise, but to the landlord who is tempted, by its pos session, to treat his tenants like mere chattel, and to eject them at will as if they had no inte rest and no rights in the soil they cultivate. The relations subsisting between Mr. Scully and his tenants are, as we learn on all sides, quite exceptional. They need be so ; for if there were many men who behaved towards their tenants with a like harshness and wanton disregard of what is due to their rights and interests and feelings, as Mr. Scully so ob stinately and offensively exhibited, there would be an end to the hope of restoring order and goodwill between the owners and the cultivators of the soil in Ireland. As it is, in this exceptional case, a harsh and unjust landlord and a violent and irritated ten antry are guilty, between them, of shedding in nocent blood. That such a lamentable and guilty occurrence will direct attention anew to the land laws cannot be doubted ; it is well, therefore, that the tyranny possible to be exercised under the existing laws should be illustrated by the production before the new Parliament of the leases actually attempted to be enforced by Mr. Scully : The stringent character of these leases will be sufficiently exemplified by the following abstract of their chief clauses :- 1. Binding the tenant to pay the rent, free of, all deductions on account of rates and taxes, excepting quit rent and rent charge, but not excepting poor rate, notwithstanding any Act of Parliament to the contrary. 2. De priving the tenant of any claim for imple ments or any growing crops. 3. Forbidding the cutting of timber, and requiring the tenant to keep the lands and premises in good tenant able order, and to deliver it up on the Ist of December, Ist of March, Ist of June, and Ist of September next following the receipt of a 21 days' notice demanding possession. 4. Stipulating that the posting of such notice on tide door of the dwelling-house shall be deemed good service. 5. Containing a covenan t aga i ns t alienating or in any way disposing of the lands without the landlords consent i n wr iti ng . 6. Forbidding the erection of " any house, build ing, hedge, ditch, fence, dyke, or drain what soever," unless authorised in writing. 7. or breaking up of qinug of more than a iring that all game Prohibiting pthrees csroi prescribed dorp the rtitlieo n b u: ur ae na n dd i o n rw g e tenant a corresponding right , shall be protected. There is a further cove nant giving the to give a 21 days notice of surrender. Can we be surprised that tenants who had been on the generations before Mr. Scullyhadblnoaugd for ti r t refused to accept such unjust and barbarous stipulations ? And yet it was for this reasonable refusal that whole sale ejectments were attempted by Mr. Scully. This system of causeless e j ec t men t i s th e p o i n t to which the attention of st a t esmen oug ht to b put an end to deeds ofe directed, t o ed, which are too surely to be o peecdei nenddorder of lo od such u h inte m p era t e an d high handedabuse of the rights of ownership to the soil. But it is not only exceptional violence, as in this unfortunate instance, that has to be attended to, so much as th e w idespread and deepseated discontent which unjust and oppressive land laws have done more than anything else to create and foster. In the leases which Mr. Scully attempted to enforce, and the resistance t 9 which he punished by summary ejectment, it is agreed that 21 days' notice shall suffice to terminate a, tenant's holding, which, at the mere will of the land lord, he has to quit without any compensation whatever. What land can thrive when such a system is permitted by law ? What en couragement, what security does a tenant derive from such leases ? _He is almost reduced to the position of a serf. Where is the com munity of interests that is the real bond be tween landlord and tenant ? Mutual forbear ance that can alone beget goodwill is not encouraged by laws which hand the tenant over, bound hand and foot, to the land lord. The existing conditions of the law are such as to render the i elations between land lord and tenant very precarious, and this rela tion is still farther jeopardized by difference in religion. If it is true that the laws regarding the tenure of land in Ireland act with a mis chievous effect on the natural relations between landlord and tenant, it is also true that this effect is heightened by the fact that the owners of the soil, for the most part, belong to an alien and oppressive Church. This twofold evil, therefore, ought to increase the anxiety to remedy or remove the oppressive and unequal laws relating to the occupancy of land. We trust that, simultaneously with the aboli tion of the Irish Church Establishment, a fair and equitable adjustment of the land laws will be enacted by the new Parliament. If this reform is carried out in a large and liberal spirit, and with a generous consideration for the rights of those who cultivate the soil, the new and more popular House of Commons will have commenced at least a work of real union between the sister countries.—Westmin ster Gazette. The retail sales of intoxicating drinks in the United States it is estimated, amount every year to the total value of all the railroads in the Union—about 1,500 million dollars ',ADVERTISEMENT. —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.- Hopes and Fears.—Whatever be the ailment let no one despair of meeting with a cure till these searching and purifying remedies have been fairly tried. A vast variety of chronic complaints which had baffled the most learned prescriptions have readily been relieved by the conjoint action of Holloway's curative agents. They act primarily in discharging all deleterious dregs from the blood, and secondarily in rectifying cbsordered.condltions of the secre tions caused by unknown or unavoidable impurities exist ing in the air or in the food; or resulting from late hours or dissipated habits. Cutaneous diseases, so frequently afflicting the scrofulous, consumptive, and feeble, yield with surprising rapidity to thd steady tstiof Holloway's 1119tOgnilt2. THE POLIIICAL BE7 TING MARKET. (From the Spirit of the Times.) On the 25th July we reprinted the following article from the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury of July 19 : " ' PUT UP OR SHUT UP !'—A blatant Radical, a few days since, happening to be in company with some gentlemen in this city, offered to bet $lOO that Governor Seymour would not carry his own State (New York.) One of the company, a responsible and well-known citizen, agreed to take it, and offered the following open to all Radicals :—He will name 12 States, and he willbetslo,ooo on each State that Seymour will carry them; $20,000 that Seymour, if he lives, will be the next President ; and $5,000 that no Radical will dare to accept the proposition, and put up the money. This is a fine chance for NVilkes, of New York." To this we appended the following response :—" This is a fine chile M- I deed, but it significantly measures the true fears of Seymour and his friends.' The first proposition is simply a bet that Seymour will carry six States ; because, every State got by Seymour beyond that number would be $lO,OOO in the pocket of the Mercury's man. Taking this to be a concession of Seymour's defeat, the supplementary bet of $20,000 that he will be the next President, if he lives, only increases the six States to eight, while the $5,000 extra merely adds a fraction, and makes the whole a bet that Seymour will carry eight and a half States in the November election. Now, though our polite friend of the Mercury thinks this to be so very liberal that it ought to make us shut up,' we will do a little better : we will bet the Mercury, or its man, that we will name thirty States (which are twice as many and half as many more as he agrees to name), and will bet $lO,OOO on each State we name that Grant will carry it. We will then bet $20,000 to $lO,OOO that Grant will be the next President, and give $5,000 to the Mercury if it will get any one to accept these propositions, and put up the money. This is a much finer chance for the Mercury and its man than the Mercury's offer is for Wilkes ; for, in place of the twelve States it will name for Seymour, we will name thirty for Grant, and give two to one in the remainingbet in stead of betting even. We await the Mercury's reply." To this the Mercury has made no answer, having concluded to " shut up" itself. We also reprinted, in connection with the above, the following para graph from the New York World of July 21 : We have received a note from a person who offers to bet from $5OO to $5,000 that Governor Seymour will carry this State by 70,000 majority; and the same sum that Governor Seymour will be the next President of the United States. If the enthusiastic bettor desires us to hold the stakes, he has addressed the wrong journal. His note should be addressed to Mr. Theodore Tilton, editor of the Independent, who was mentioned in the Washington telegrams as a prominent bottle and stakeholder during the impeachment farce." To this paragraph we made the following response :—" The above offers can be met and covered, at this office, for the highest sums named,—to wit, for £5,000 each,—and we will then ; bet $5,000 to $3,000 we will win the first bet, and $lO,OOO to $5,000 that we will win the second— , that is to say, that Grant will be next President in , stead of Seymour. We have no objection that either the editor of the Worldor Mr.Tilton shall be the holder of thestakes. Will the World please name its man ?" The World, however, has not named its man, and we do not expect that it will. The offers it heralded may therefore be regarded as withdrawn. As to the State of New York the betting may be quoted even. The last transactions we have heard of were that Seymour would carry the State by 20,000, and au contraire. This, however, was ten days ago, since which time we have heard of no more bets upon the State. On Grant, however, bets of two to one are constantly offered, with no takers. This accurately gauges the pretended confidence of Seymour and his friends. WHERE SHALL HONEST MEN GO ? (From the Nation.) We have no disposition to underrate or excuse the faults of the Republican party or of its leaders ; indeed some of our readers think we err in the op posite direction. Certainly no one can accuse us of blind partisan zeal. We can fully appreciate the doubts and difficulties which trouble many of the , best men who ordinarily vote the Republican ticket, and sometimes cause them to hesitate in re gard to their political course. And before answer ing their objections, it is only fair to mention some of the principal ones. It is alleged that the Re publican party, as an organization, has become as corrupt as the Democratic ; that its managers are lobbyists and its chosen legislators venal ; that Republican revenue officers defraud the Treasury of millions and a Republican Senate keeps them .in office, while a Republican House of Representa tives kills every proposition for reform in the civil service, and Republican newspapers strive to abolish the only court which is a terror to the whisky ring. It is further alleged that even the honest portion of the party is so ignorant of political eco nomy, and so blind to the corrupting influence of government expenditure, that any scheme which pretends to foster the interests of the country finds favour with it, while it is always ready to applaud such follies as the Gold Bill of 1861 in the hope of violently checking the operation of the laws of • trade. And, in substance, the Republican party must plead guilty to these charges. It has an army of corruptionists in its midst, and it has inherited from the old Whig party a disposition to tinker at the business of the country and to spend the public funds liberally, which makes it easy to be deceived by men whose schemes contemplate a return of $1 to the nation, and a hundred dollars for themselves. Having admitted this much, let us consider what is the prospect for reform offered by the character of the Democratic party, and what an honest citizen may reasonably hope to accomplish for the public good through that means. Ignoring for the present the overshadowing question of reconstruction, we ask any one to tell us what measure of political re form can be hoped from the restoration of the De mocrats to power. The Republican party, for a temporary purpose, debased the currency and un settled the business of the country. The Demo cratic party is enthusiastic in favour of perpetuating this debasement, and thus annihilating all legitimate business. The Republican party of New York and Pennsylvania evaded the just obligations of those States to foreign creditors by paying their interest in a depreciated currency. The Democratic party proposes to repeat the operation on a scale a thou sand times larger, and with a currency that will thus be made absolutely worthless. Republican officials in this State plunder it through the Canal Department and otherwise, it is estimated, of pos-. sibly a million dollars a year. We never heard of a higher estimate. The Democratic officials who control New York City extract at least three times that amount annually from the funds of that city alone, probably very much more. There are many dishonest Republican officials, but there are also many honest ones. An honest Democratic official (we speak now of executive officers in minor de partments) is a thing scarcely known within our sphere of observation. The Democratic party is steadily growing worse. For years past its increase has been derived mainly from the lowest class of the immigrant population ; and this class, pro foundly ignorant, selfish, blind to considerations of public good, and destitute of that foresight which enables men to see their own ultimate advantage in the olservance of moral law, are constantly gain ing more control of the party. No amount of cor ruption in their leaders shakes their confidence in them. No argument ever reaches them. There was a time when there were Democratic Congress men of inflexible integrity, who were the unsparing foes of every device for public plunder. There are absolutely none such now. There is scarcely a single Democrat in either branch of Congress who even votes against such schemes, and there is not one who is known as their active and zealous oppo nent. So at Albany and • Trenton it is found that bad as Republican Legislatures are, they are made respectable by their - Democratic successors., A. critical examination of the personnel of the party will have a still more discouraging elect upon those -. who think of accomplishing any reform by its means, Let any ono count up all the Democrats in his own neighbourhood, and unless his experience is widely dissimilar from ours, he will find that those who are externally the most respectable are precisely the ones from whom the least co-operation in reform may be expected. The Democratic party of former days had some definite principles, and afforded a legitimate channel for the activity of all men who believed in those principles. But it has now abandoned all its old doctrines, and takes no interest in any questions other than the reduction of the negro to political servitude, and the repudia tion of the public debt. Its members are more ignorant of, and more indifferent to, the teachings of political economy than the most narrow-minded Republican can be. Their whole attention is de voted to the perpetration of a huge national swindle. Robbery, and that (as we sail in our first com ments on their platform) a robbery out of which few of them can make five dollars each, is the ab sorbing vision of their dreams, the goal of their ambition. You might as well talk political economy or social reform to a party of cracksmen on their way to a burglary as to the Democratic party of to-day. The descent of the Democratic organ in this city offers a striking illustration of the irresis tible tendency of the party. The World, in 1862, was in many respects the best newspaper in New York. it haul some of the best writing that has been seen in our political press. It has still upon its staff some of the best writers in their line, but the paper has been dragged through the mire until there is nothing too mean and vulgar for it, and it has on the same day published—in fact, we may say it now habitually publishes--a column of able and dignified argument, with another column of mingled scurrility and obscenity. Why is this, but because the readers whom it must now please will have it so. We do not pretend that it is easy to reform and purify the Republican party. It takes hard work to keep any organization decent. Ask a candid minister whether it is easy to keep up the moral tone of his church. Ask a teacher whether it is easy to excite his school to diligence in study. No good work can be effected, even under the most favour able circumstances, without zeal and industry. But we do affirm, and we think what we say will be assented to by every man of practical experience in the details of politics, that hard work for reform within the lines of the Republican party always produces encouraging results, and rarely fails of entire success. Nothing but fraud and violence ever defeat it; and these would not, if they did not prematurely discourage those who engage in the good work. The development of correct ideas on finance, revenue, and general political economy among Republicans, is, we admit, a more tedious process. They are much more ready to respond to moral considerations than to intellectual or pru dential arguments. But they are not so obtuse as they are often supposed to be. Very little has been done in this direction ; but the fruit of what has been done has been much greater among Republi cans than among Democrats. No reasonable man can feel greatly discouraged in view of the facts. In conclusion, we exhort every one who desires the growth of a sound public sentiment in respect to the management of public affairs to do as we intend to do—work with and in the Republican party, submitting to its mistakes of judgment, voting against its candidates when they are personally un worthy of confidence, and voting for them when worthy, denouncing corruption in our own party more unsparingly than anywhere else, exposing its misthkes and regretting them more deeply than the mistakes of an adverse party, and in every way striving to make it a wise and a pure organization. Drawbacks and discouragements we expect ; entire success we do not expect ; but we feel entirely cer tain that no other path lies open to any man who loves liberty, wha hates corruption, and who seeks to establish the honour of his country by means which shall leave his own honour unsullied. The Government has signified to the Bishops of Linz and Brunn that should they not give up in a fortnight to the civil authorities the registers of marriages, which they refuse to deliver, the new constitutional laws will be executed by force. The Deputy Genero, accused of complicity in counterfeiting money, has become insane. C. Deverigaz, the Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has arrived in San Francisco on his way to Europe, where he goes with full powers to procure a revision of treaties with the Sandwich Islands. The " Regents of the University of the State of New York"-19 in numbor - are a body created by the Legislature in 1787. They are charged with the establish ment of all the higher educational institutions of the State ; and also with the distribution of 540,000 annually. Tho Hon. J. V. L. Prnyn is the Chancellor of the University, and the Hon. Gulian C. Verplanck the Vice- Chancellor. Colonel Annenkow, aide-de-camp of the Em peror and chief of the chancery of the military transports by rail, has organised through Russia the local military staff, whose mission is to ensure in the Empire the rapid transport of the troops. The service for appropriating the railways to war exigencies is now in operation. A thou sand engineers of the army are to be employed on the several lines as engineers, conductors, &c. The Church Congress will be held this year in Dublin, and commence proceedings on Tuesday, Sept. 29. On Thursday, October 1, among other subjects, the Ame rican and Canadian Churches, their organisation and prac tical working, will b 3 discussed. The Nashville Gazette of July 25 tells of the discovery of a robber's cave not far from Carthago. A party of boys on the river bank opposite the cave were attracted by baskets being lowered by ropes from above They watched till near night, when a suspicious -looking man was drawn to the top, then they gavo information, and the place next morning was surrounded by armed men. Concealed by a pile of old logs an immense cave was discovered. Many articles were found, and a man in a most emaciated condition stretched on a heap of straw and securely tied with ropes. He was at once carried to the hospital, but as yet no information had been obtained from him. The New Postal Law adopted by both houses of Congress is an important measure, containing twenty sections. It provides for the return of all letters on which the name of the sender is endorsed, if not called for in thirty days; reduces fees on money orders ; doubles the compensation of postmasters for payment of money orders ; allows weekly newspspers, sent to regular subscribers in the county where published, to be delivered free of postage from the post-office nearest the place of publication ; autho rizes the issue of duplicate money orders for such as have been lost ; makes it felony to counterfeit money orders ; autho rises the postmaster- general to appoint a route agent, whh a salary of £2,000, on the line from San Francisco to Japan, and another, with the same salary, on the line from San Francisco to Honolulu ; directs him to establish, at reasonable compensation, a general postal agency at Shanghai, China, with branch agencies at other posts in said country ; gives him power to create, in his own department, a foreign mail service bureau, at a yearly expense of $B,OOO ; gives him another chief division, at a salary of $2,500 ; makes it felony of a high cha racter to use postage stamps a second time knowingly ; declares it shall be unlawful to deposit in the Post office any letters or circulars concerning lotteries or gift enterprises of any kind on any pretext whatever; establishes a blank agency in the Post-office Department, at an expense of $9,500 annually, and abolishes all other blank agencies ; empowers the Postmaster-General to negotiate and conclude an international money order arrangement; provides that sureties on bonds of default , ing postmasters shall not be liable unless the Government institutes a suit within three years after the final settle ment of account; allows certified copies of postmasters' returns to be used as evidence in courts in criminal pro secutions ; authorises the Postmaster-General to prescribe a uniform for letter carriers, and makes it a misdemeanour for any ono else to wear the same. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Du Barry's Delicious Health Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains three times the nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedie3, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhoea, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, erup tions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, pal pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spr.sms, nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few out of 68,000 cures :—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food.—Cure No. 68,413. " Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, aban doning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which ho consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly benefi cial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 49,832.—" Of fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting." Maria Joly, Wortham, Ling, near Disc, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority. Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. - In tins, at ls. 1,d.; 1 lb , 2s. 9d ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d. ; 5 lbs., i ls. ; 12 lbs , 22s ; 241bs ,40e —Also Du BARRY'S BEVALESTA ARABICA CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 19 cups at 2s:, for 24 cups at 3s. 61, for 48 cups at 65., for 283 cups at 305., for 576 cups at-Ole. Being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on, receipt of Post Office ' Ofder.:— . llA.aav DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Relent-street, Lyncl9n; .and all farQcor4. mid Qlnzaisto. •sumimmum 1111111 MIN AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. Mr. W. De Hass bas been writing some interest ing accounts to the St. Louis papers on American arcbteology. The mounds he describes are at Ame rican Bottom, Illinois, and, with those on the adja cent bluffs, number about two hundred. They are in two groups, constituting one grand system, and are in shape conical, truncated, ellipsoidal, and square, and in height they vary from an eleva tion scarcely distinguishable to that of ninety feet. They are composed of earth and vegetable mould taken from the adjacent bluffs, and after long investigation Mr De Mass has not the slightest doubt but that they were built by human la bour. Originally they were intended for tombs, but were also used as temples and dwelling places. Only important personages were buried in them, however, as the surrounding region is filled with human re mains, probably those of the common people. A mound was commenced by digging a hole in the ground and lining it with wood or stone, and then depositing in it the body wrapped in skins or coarse fabrics. The corpse was placed in a sitting or re cumbent posture, and with it were deposhed viands for the support of the deceased on his way to the spirit-land, and his weapons and trinkets. The earth was then piled above the tomb to the desired height, sometimes a passage being left into the chamber from the outside, but more generally it was entirely closed up. The wives and servants of a chief were sometimes sacrificed at his death and buried with him. Sometimes, too, the body was burned and a mound built over the urn that enclosed its ashes, or over the very spot of the burning. One of the chambers, containing four well-preserved human frames and many implements, was lined with slabs of encrinal limestone, which must have been transported some distance. The form of the skulls discovered indicate that at least two races dwelt there. Whether one drove out the other, or subdued and be came amalgamated with it, is not yet deter mined. The types of heads found are the pyra midal or pyramid-shaped and the semi-progna thous, or those with projecting jaws. The pottery is of two kinds ; one is fine, compact, kiln-burned, and tastefully ornamented with paint, while the other is coarse, sun-dried, and taste ful ornamented. These ancient potters did not uie the wheel, but moulded by the hand vases, urns, and dishes of various patterns. One mound contained fifteen beautifully wrought vessels with capacities varying from a pint to half a gal lon. The implements and ornaments are also of two kinds, some being of polished stone exqui sitely wrought, and others of undressed stone. The agricultural implements are different froth those found in the Ohio Valley, and are of stone. These strange people were not wanting in reverence, too, for the household gods are still found guarding the remains of those who worshipped them thou' sands of years ago. Among the persons decorated with the Order of the Legion of Honour on the occasion of the fete Napoleon is Monsieur Bourdillon, the Vice-Consul of France at New York, who is appointed Knight of the Order. M. Hippeau has been charged by the Minister of Public, Instruction with the mission of, investigating the system and organization of the public schools in Ameriett• At the Democratic meeting in Westfield, on Thursday evening, July 30, the Hon. Henry Fuller pre sided, and introduced the speaker as "General Grant!" and after the audience had given cheers for the Republican nominee and roars of laughter at the blunder, the presi" dent corrected himself —" General Stiles, I mean." The first shipment of valuable stock of any i ni" portanco since the outbreak of the cattle plague three years ago left Liverpool this week by the Germany for East Canada. Mr. Cochrane, of Montreal, has recently been making large purchases in England of pure-bred shorthorn cattle, Suffolk horses, and Cotswold sheer' The shorthorns consist of eight young cows and heife rs and a bull calf ; three are of Bates blood—viz., Dachas/ 97th, and W harfdale Rose, from Captain Gunter, Wetherby-grange, Yorkshire ; and Wild Eyes 26th, fro n i l Mr. C. W. Harvey; Duchess 97th, a handsome t he heifer, 17 months old, cost 1,000 guineas , Th is is the highest price that has ever yet been paid in England for a cow or heifer of the shorthorn breed, and is the first of the family exported since the great American purchases ta 1853. The other six are of Booth blood. Three heife r l and a fine young bull calf, Robert Napier, were purchase' from Mr. Torr's herd at Aylesby, Lincolnshire ; and We three-year-olds are from Mr. Br uere, of Braithwaite. l i° 50 Cotswold sheep were selected from the flocks of King Tombs and Mr. Garne, several of them being Pr iie winners at the late meetings of the Royal and Yorkshire Agricultural Societies. A thunder-storm occurred at San Francisco oa the 6th July, so violent that for the first time since th e telegraph has been in operation there all business was suspended for two hours by the flashes of light" ning which played along the wires at midday Electrical flames danced round the instruments'and it is said there were frequent reports like a p istol ' The instruments were disconnected to prevent them front melting. The brass in other localities has b een m elted j ot ; globes nearly the size of a bullet, and thick copper wire h i l t melted away like lead. Between the warm springs Alite ie d County, and San Jose, four telegraph poles were s hatter a t by the lightning. One of the instruments in the offlee San Jose was so injured by the lightning as to render it unserviceable until repaired. ; lati The Ku Klux Klan, according to the C lllOll the Gazette, was started near Crab Orchard, Kentucky, le r 'd e suppression of laziness and drunkenness. It w as 121 : 0 .9 up of men of all parties to regulate the labour and Lao t a of the country. "If a fellow was often found lo afing ld cross-road grocery, he was notified to stop it, or he woo be flogged within an inch of his life; if a fellow was ta ing too much, he received notice to clew up or ' per threshing ; if a man neglected his family, or run Aim other women, a threat of a rope or a rawhide g enel. e a, brought him to a realizing sense of his duty. Th ese in the administration of their justice, were perfectly 10.-0 partial, threshing rebels and Union men alike , the ir failing utterly to discriminate on account of a colour." The military authorities at Lexingto n refuseesq to interfere, and the Corn nander said if he the chief he would invite him to Lexington. The ° i' t bo nal intention has been changed, for the proceedings oes, Klan are now directed against Union men and negro, though it has not surrendered all design of inflicting.:oo mary justice on culprits. On the sth inst. J. and C. F. Bender were arrested in Tennessee for h e coo .. stealing, and committed to gaol in default of bail• pre stable Day, with three men as guards, left Raleigh s n ot" p.m., and after getting seven miles towards Parson Place, the party was surrounded by men in Ku glad wa s form, who seized the prisoners, and the last ne ll _ s ,,„ to that two men had been found hanging by their tie' trees. fol' The opening of Japan to foreign trade viasoe lowed by the importation, chiefly from Europe s ea 0 4,01 1 rica, of the various means and appliances which W e .; the to these countries their great eminence, es peciallY. d f o r u , e of steam, and recently orders hare been reeel ve ir it of machinery of a mixed character, showing that the ° its elf• enterprise thus created is gradually develoPih_g d to olg, Amongst the class of goods thus ordered , we fill no Or including screw and drilling machines, and al s "... dose gines, and there is every prospect that the trade 4 : Java goods •will become more and more important. tbroWe nese are an energetic, intelligent people, an d havilig ,voisa" down the barrier which cut them off from ontere'wbiett tion, they are availing themselves of the advantage s foreign commerce gives them. Births. n ) S tir' Borm--r.On the 24th inst., at Eaton Farm , Cobl,ll- ' ray, the wife of Wm. J. Bovill, Esq., of a sou . Fo ol° , FRANCIS—On the 25th inst., the wife of Dr. Wri3' Surrey of Rod Lion-court, Fleet -street, and Ric hmond, of a daughter. ~, the NICHOLAS—On the 24th inst., at 8, Delamere-terrv'e wife of R. M. Nicholas, Esq., of a son. . _ BAZELEY—HUTCHINSON—On 25th inst, at d Marria t g h e e s. s o rt o b s l' i l : Church, Henry M. Bazelev, E ,to Frances Tlcire°.lleS" second daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Hutchinson, of 11 ' T bourne, near Bideford. WO 03ILIN—TAYLOR -On the 25th inst tit Froli .1 1.- ier Church, Paddington, John Tomlin," Esq , of,gilyierl place, to Elizabeth Jane, second datghte; of J• "- Esq., 22, Gloucester-gardens, Hyde-park. Deaths. Geo' coc KBURN— On the 24th inst., at Ea st Cliff, Pover,,rooto SirFrancis gB Cockburn, Colonel of the 95th Beg. I,iV er' HEW ITT—On the 25th inst., at 34, C anning-street, pool, Capt. John Hewitt, aged 53. B MAYHEW—On the 24th inst., at Plymouth, . Italbe.6 Esq , aged 50. 1 . 1 la' in' Roust—On the 24th inst., at Burley House, --,,‘ 31 m). Wharfedale, Yorkshire, Wm. Rouse, Esq., age' f the SMITH—On the 24th inst., Eleanor Elizabeth, relict 7:1005, lato Lt,-Gen. James W. Smith, C.B of Wes t lls '7 Sussex, aged 83. utb, L. 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