The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Saturday Review, in an article on the Budget, expresses a fear that the income tax will never again be reduced to fourpence in the pound. The future Parlia ment will be returned by majorities exempt from direct 4axation, and, therefore, indifferent to the hardships which itN may involve. Mr. Bright, in a less statesmanlike mood than at present, formerly anticipated a happy era in which the poorest class should impose taxes to be paid by the owners of property. In the United States enor mous sums are levied for the purposes of townships, of cities, and of States, at the expense of the minority; and in the city of New York the Irish labourers chiefly elect a corporation which raises and spends five millions a year. The traditions of justice and sound economy. will *Maps, in England, to some extent survive the system which produced them, especially while the national finances are administered by Mr. Gladstone and his contemporaries, Qr even by his immediate disciples ; yet there ere already indications of mischievous changes, and ultimate power is vested in a class which has been educated in jealousy of wealth and in impatience of equal taxation. Mr. llughes, lately presiding at a meeting of so-called financial reformers, propounded to an admiring audience a scheme of an income tax at the samo time discriminated and graduated. If his plan were adopted, the tax-gatherer would distinguish his subject matter according both to quality and to quantity, and money would no longer represent equal values, according to its amount, as it would be variously taxed with relation both to its origin and its tenure. The artisans, as they are described by Mr. Frederick llarrison in a very able essay' f form a class capable of ideas, whereas the old con stituencies and their representatives were satisfied with the rules of arithmetic. No idea is older among the poor than that the rich ought to be made to pay, and the finan cial reformers will certainly agree with proposals which Mr. Hughes had not, perhaps, sufficiently considered. Mr. Harrison is also right in anticipating that the new constituencies will be vigorous as well as impulsive, and that the legislation which they inspire will be rapid and decisive. Ideas and property are generally antagonistic. -The Abyssinian twopence, which Mr. Gladstone holds to be an English rather than an African twopence, will serve as the commencement of the impending change ; but the Government is scarcely responsible for a risk which could in no case have been averted. It was a sufficient objec tion to a loan that it would have been opposed by Mr. Gladstone, whose authority on a financial question would have been, not unreasonably, regarded by the House of Commons as conclusive. The John. Bull observes that inasmuch as all taxation is unpleasant, it would be too much to expect the Bull family to give up their beloved growl, upon so opportune an occa sion as the present, when statistics shew a serious increase of expenditure, and a corresponding failure of commercial returns. It is, therefore, much to Mr. Hunt's credit that his first assumption of the wheel of this vessel of the State has elicited, if not entire satisfaction, at all events general approval. Indeed Mr. Gladstone's s3-m= pathy with the difficulties of the present Chancellor, who is called at a most inauspicious moment to direct our finances, speaks no less for his candour than it enhances the value of concurrence. Of course so long as men prefer plucking jewels with Aladdin to carrying about a heavy burden with Sinbad, there will always be fault-finders ; but it is an admitted fact that among many means of meeting our requirements, Mr. Hunt has hit upon the one least objectionable. It has been said that the increase of the income tax, whilst it is the most obvious measure, has the objection of placing immense power in the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as a mere political engine ; but what can be more preposterous than in one breath to admit this to be the most popular mode, and in the next to deprecate its adoption? Who wonders that the House loudly approved the expressed resolution not to disturb trade by changing taxation on articles of consumption ? When, moreover, the plan was subsidised by the very legitimate system of issuing fresh Exchequer Bonds, and of applying the successful method of levying the dog tax to other collection of the public revenue, it was felt that, though not possessed of any peculiar brilliancy, in this hour of financial gloom, the proposed Budget was, at all events, of a sound and practical cha racter. The Spectator confesses that there are many difficulties about Mr. Shaw Lefevre's proposal with regard to married women and their property. But what is now at stake is the principle of legal protection for married women. We must not let any questions of detail divert us from the main issue. If it be right to remodel the whole relation be- tween husband and wife, a bill to that effect must be intro duced before we are asked to abandon the one now in progress. At some future time it may be well to ascertain how far the husband ought to be liable for his wife's debts, and what is the proper doctrine of necessaries. The present bill does not go to these legal subtleties, nor does it, so far as we are aware, touch on a great many other points which give rise to confusion and trouble in the daily transaction 'of business. Any one who is accustomed to the forms of law is aware of the absurd complications which are needed before a married woman can have any legal redress against it stranger. In some cases husband and wire must sue and be sued jointly. In others the husband and wife together must sue for part, and the husband alone for the rest. It may be said that,there is no great hard ship in all this ; and we are far from setting up these remnants of an obsolete jargon as instances of the injustice of the English law of husband and wife. All that can be urged against them is that these cases are exceptional. It is not every husband that lives on his wife's earnings. It is not every husband that is reckless ; improvident, or vicious. Some men would allow their wives to draw their money out of the savings bank, or even to keep it there. Others are so scrupulous that they give themselves great trouble to procure their wives' signatures to bills which they might cash under their own endorse xnent. For such people the change in the law will bs needless, and all others may be disarmed by the payment of £l5O to an attorney. If nothing more than this, and the pompous platitudes about authority and subordination, savouring strongly of the henpecked husband, can be ad vanced against the protection of married women, Mr. Shaw Lefevre's bill ought to be sure of passing. The London Review answers the statement made by the telegraph companies against the Government taking their property. It is contended on the part of the telegraph companies that we cannot take the experience of Belgium 'and Switzerland, where the telegraph service is in the bands of the Government, as a guide. They contend, in a state ment in which the subject is fully discussed, that no fish comparison - can be drawn between the efficiency of the service here and in those countries from the proportion o telegrams to letters, because a system has grown up in this commercial country of distributing by means of the post millions upon millions of tradesmen's circulars. This is true, and if the test is fallacious for one purpose it it fallacious to all. It is admitted, however, that 6,127,00 C itelegraphic messages are already sent annually in the ,United Kingdom, and the question is whether the reduced .rate and the increased facilities which the Post Office \would provide would not before long bring the number ul 10 Mr. Scudamore's estimate. Nothing has been more .clearly proved by the experience of the Post Office than it: power to extend its operations indefinitely, in the two con ditions of cheapness and facility. The question whether man will write a letter or not depends often upon whether the receiving-house is half a mile off, or within few doors of him. Neither in point of cheapness nor facilit3 can the telegraph companies compete with the Government. It seems to us that the case of the Post Office ought rather to be argued upon this ground than by a comparison witl what has been done in Belgium and Switzerland. There are important particulars peculiar to one which are not to be found in the other, and which, therefore, destroy an} argument based upon analogy. For example, both it Belgium and Switzerland the railways are in the hands cr the Government, while in both countries the telegraphs dt a large business in what is called" transit " telegrams— that is to say, telegrams sent through them in transit Iron one country to another. If, with a costly and compare lively inferior machinery, our wires already transmit up wards of 6,000,000 telegrams annually, does not all out experience warrant the belief that, with lower charges age greater facilities, we shall not be long in reaching Mr Scudamore's paying point of 11,000,C00 ? The Imperial Review argues that capital punishment is necessary for the prevention of murders. The debate raised by Mr. Gilpin's amendment was interesting, any served to bring out the opinions of Mr. ar. S. Mill. The only ground on which our contemporary can regret the results of Tuesday's debate is, that it served to advance through another stage the questionable innovation embodied in Mr. Hardy's bill. Although it cannot be denied that the measure has been received witl general approbation by the House of Commons, and that its principle has been previously affirmed by the House u Lords, it is not it - 111)0mi ble that before five years have pas:;ed it will be repealed to make way either for total abolition or for a return to the old system of public executions .„ Despite (if all the exaggerated langu47e which has beet used in depicting the scenes which are to be witnes,;e4l the foot of the gallows, we are yet at a li;s:4 to conceive ot what ground this modification in our method Of intlictin. the penalty of death eau be defended. No doubt tli crowds who assemble to- witness an execution behave ni very brutal manner. To expect that they would 114 , argues an ignorance of the materials of which such crowd must be composed. No doubt pockets are picked of such occasions. There never is a crowd in London in which pockets are not picked. It• is not for the especial effec produced upon the witnesses of an execution that %NT( ad rocate publicity. It is for the effect which the publicit2 produces on the mind of the criminal, and for the cer Way which it impresses upon the public that the penalt: has really been inflicted. By this measure these results o capital punishment are sa3rificed, and it is difficult toper celve wn3t compensating advantages are attained. THE COLLIERS' Sl' BIKE IN &KITH LANCASHIRE. : The town of Wigan was in a most . . excited s~site 'all Thursday night and Friday morning. The Most disquieting rumours were afloat, and when several hundreds of the turnouts marched with bold step through.the centre of the town about midnight, the greatest alarm was felt. The authorities, however, were fully prepared. A deputation of colliery proprietors had waited upon the Secretary of State in the forenoon, and in the afternoon the mayor of the borough received a telegram from Mr. Hardy, stating that a deputation of coalmasters had been at the Home Office, complaining that protection had been. withdrawn from the peaceably disposed men who were desirous of working, and who had been interfered with by armed bands moving about the district. It was asked from the mayor whether his force was sufficient for the maintenance of the peace of the borough. Ms worship called a meeting of magistrates promptly, and laid the telegram before them. A reply was sent to the effect that no protection had been withdrawn by the borough magistrates, and the complaint of the deputation must have had reference to what had been done outside the borough. It was, however, desirable that another company of soldiers should be sent into the borough, and that protection should be afforded to the men in the sur rounding districts. A telegram was also sent to the military autDorities in the county. The same evening 250 soldiers reached Wigan from Preston, and on Friday morning troops of infantry and cavalry were sent in, and were at once despatched to the several quarters which were threatened. Shortly after midnight on Thursday two large bodies of men proceeded through Wigan in the direc tion of Standish. They were followed by the borough police and a detachment of the military stationed in Wigan. The men proceeded to the Gidlow pits of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, where they pulled the fires from beneath the boilers, and tried to move the engines in order to damage the machinery. The special constables and county police, who had been summoned to the spot by rockets, attacked and drove away the mob. The police used their staves freely, and several of the riote”s received very severe wounds. One of the men hal to be conveyed into a neighbouring cottage. The mayoi has issued a further proclamation, giving notice that the magistrates are determined to suppress unlawful meetings and processions. LAW AND POLICE. TIIE "ST. STEPHEN'S " MAGAZINE.—In the Court of Ex chequer, before Mr. Baron Channell, the case of Bennett v. Lewis was resmned. The plaintiff, a printer, sued the defendant for £2OO. The defendant paid £l4O into thud, and alleged that that was a sufficient sum, as the magazine was badly printed, and there was so great a delay in getting it out that instead of appearing on the Saturday it was impossible to place it in the hands of the public before Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £5l beyond the amount paid into court. THE CASE OF SCALDING IN A CONVENT. —The charge against a pupil teacher at a convent in Pimlico, for scald ing a child under three years old, has been tried at the Middlesex Sessions. The defence of the accused, that she placed the child at the edge of the copper to frighten it, and had not the least idea or intention of its getting into the boiling water, was accepted by the jury, who re turned a verdict of not guilty. The judge, in discharging the prisoner, very properly reprimanded her for adopting such a dangerous mode of punishing infants of so tender an age. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF TEA. —At the Middlesex Ses sions William Tilly, 27, and Bernard Craven, 34, were charged with stealing 200113. weight of tea, value £4O, the property of David Cruttenden, from a barge called the Rosa, lying in the River Thames. On the Ist of April a quantity of tea was stolen from the barge in question. About seven o'clock on the morning of the 2nd Tilly and another hired a cart. in Shadwell from a man named Fearn, who sent one of his own men with it. By direction of the hirers this latter man Orove the cart to Millwall, where the tea was loaded *nto it, Tilly being one of those assisting to load the cart. A witness, named Collings, a fireman, saw four men on land and two in a boat un loading something from the boat and taking it to the cart, Craven being one of them, and at once give information to the police. Craven was taken into custody the same day, and made no answer to the charge. Tilly denied having been near Sha.dwell on the morning in question, or having hired a cart there. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. Several previous convictions were proved against Craven. Tilly was known as a companion of thieves. The Assistant-Judge sentenced Tilly to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and Craven to seven years' penal servitude. FRAUD EY A FRIENDLY SOCIETY'S OFFICERS.—At the Worship-street Police-court, Robett Welton, described as a stonemason, was charged with embezzling certain sums of money, the property of John Wilks and others. It seemed that the prisoner was elected se(rotary of a society called the Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasts, and for performing that office received a salary of . 30s. quar terly. Richard Harlott, general secretary of the society, stated that in April 1867 he was with the committee at Bradford and Bolton, and an account (produced) was sent to hint by the prisoner in April 1867. It bore no entry of any Money having been sent to him on the 9th of April, and he had not received any money from the Shore ditch branch of the society on the 9th of April. He did not receive R 5 on the 18th of June, as was stated. in the fortnightly account sent to him. In consequence of not having received such money he wrote to the prisoner respecting it, but he did not receive any reply. The accused was remanded. — William Hockie, the treasurer of the same society, was also charged with embezzlement. James Wilks deposed that prisoner was elected treasurer in May 1866, and his duty as such treasurer was to keep a cheque-book and a cash-book. The cheque-book should contain the entries of all moneys paid by the members. The prisoner, as treasurer, had a key of the cash-box, and Welton, the secretary, had another key. Witness had seen it pro duced at the meetings, and had seen prisoner put in and take out money, but on the 4th of Mard►, after the prisoner was discharged in consequence of some dis coveries made, the box was broken open, but no money was found in it. Re was also remanded. THE BANKRUPTCY OF SIR MORTON PETo.—Before Vice- Chancellor Stuart, the case of Fielding v. Goschen and others came on for trial. In this case a motion was made, which was in terms to dismiss the bill in the suit for want of prosecution, but substantially for an order that the assignees of Sir Morton Pcto might be made parties to it. The suit related to certain foreign concessions in which Sir 'Morton Peto was interested. He was a defendant to the suit, and had put in an answer to the bill, after which he had been declared a bankrupt. The plaintiffs had since filed a replication in the cause, which it was now said must be taken off the file for irregularity; and, further it was contended that Sir Morton reto's interest in the suit having vested in his assignees, they, end not he, were the proper parties to it. The Vice-Chancellor mad:: an order directing the assignees to be added as parties to the suit by a supplemental bill within one month from this time, and that the costs of the motion should be costs in the cause. It is expected that the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Leeds, will be opened by the Prince of Wales on Tuesday, the 10th of the ensuing month. At a private meeting of the To wn Council, it was announced that his Royal highness would also receive an address from that body, to be presented in the infirmary building im mediately upon his arrival there. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN RussrA.—Details are published in the Russian journals concerning the murder of the G6marine family at Tamboff. The culprit, a tutor named Gorski, has confessed his guilt. He had gone, he says, to the residence of M. Wanarine on the Ist March last to give a • lesson to the son, but without Any intention of committing a crime on that day. While he was thus occupied the father went out. Gorski then determined to take advantage of the oppor tunity. He had carried a, revolver and life•pr.,gerver about with him for a whole week. He at once struck his pupil over the head, and the latter dropped insen ale to the ground. On seeing him fall Gorski was wired with remorse, and his first movement was to escape, hut, fearing to be discovered, be again beat the boy until life was extinct. There were three other persons in the mouse—the mistress, the cook, and a man-servant. He first called to the mother, saying that her son was bleeding at the nose, and when she entered the room he shot her dead .vith the pistol ; lie next sumtnond the man into the lining-room, and killed him in the same manner ; le fired twice at the cook, wounding her each time, and on ler attempti ng t o esca p e he depri‘ t d her of life with , )lows of the life preserver. He waited in the kitchen utii the lionseLeeper returned, and on her arrival shot at but as the pistOl did not go off he killed her by a single low with a log of wood. As the meolmnisni of the revolVet t(1 become disarran , 2ed he went out to get it repaired, unl on returning met the eouchmao and the nursemaid. llt .night have killed them both, he said, but his hand refuse(2 to obey his will. 11e then suffered so much from remorse that he went home with the intention of committing sui : Me. He put the barrel of the pistol to his mouth, but the instinct of life was too strong, and he could not carr3 out his intention. Gorski admits that his object was t( rob G6marine. He is only nineteen years of age, but 3 most energetic character. He belongs to a Catholk family, but delares that he himself has no religious belief IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN f lIOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. TILE SALE OF IRON BALLAST. The Duke of SOMERSET asked a question relative to the sale of iron ballast. The Earl of MALMESBURY replied that he could not answer the question himself, but would inquire of his friend at the head of the Admiralty. THE ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES. Earl RUSSELL said that he had great doubts about the propriety of referring this bill to a select committee, btu, after having considered the matter attentively, he had come to the conclusion that he should consent to such a committee. BANKRUPTCY REPEAL BILLS. The LORD OdANCELLOR said that since he introduced these bills he had received several communications which induced him to make some amendments to these bills; therefore he thought it would be best to go now through committee with these bills pro forma, and then to explain the amendments on the report being brought up. Ile proposed, therefore, to go into these details on Monday week next. Lord ROMILLY stigmatised some of the clauses of this bill, as containing the most arbitrary and unjwit enact ment, end such that perfectly innocent persons might suffer trom. After some argument on the part of Lord CRANWORTH and the Lona) CHANCELLOR, which was purely technical, the bills were committed ani passed. TIIE PROMISSORY OATHS BILL. This bill was committed and passed. OYSTER AND MUSSEL FISHERIES BILL. Tho Earl of MAL3IESBURY moved the second read ing of this bill, and it passed. THE PUBLIC PETITION BILL. Tho following select committee on this bill was ap pointed :--Marquis of Bath, Earl of Devon, &c. STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERS. The Earl of LICHFIELD asked whether a number of Staffordshire colliers had left employment in the coal pits of Lancashire in consequence of the magistrates and police having declined through inability to protect them from violence and personal inqury. The Earl of MALMESBURY said that he believed that that was the state of things, and ho was sorry for it. There had been a deputation to Mr. Gathorne Hardy of the coal owners in Lancashire that morn ing, and he had inquired of the chief constabl, and had been informed that his force was not sufficient to protect these men Mr. Hardy had also telegraphed to the Mayor and others, and found that they had not force enough. Ile then made application to the Horse Guards, and a troop of cavalry and 300 infantry had been sent to the spot. This, it was hoped, would be a sufficient force. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Mr. S. MILL gave notice that on the 6th May he should move far loave to bring in a bill to establish municipal corporations in the metropolis, ‘nd also for a bill for the creation of a corporation of London. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. In reply to Mr. GILAv Es, Mr. S. BOJTII said it was not the intention of the Go vernment to invite competition for the conveyance of mails to the West Indies. TIIE BANK OF BOMBAY. In reply to Lord WILLIAM HAY, Sir S. NORTHCOTE said it was not thought desirable to make special provisions with respect to the inquiry into the matters connected with the failure of the Bank. He had received a telegram from the Governor-General stat ing that he had given powers to the Commission to compel the attendance of witnesses, &c. ; and he had also asked him (Sir S. Northcote) to appoint a member of the Commis sion, and he accordingly nominated Sir C. Jackson. He had reason to believe: the whole matter would be thoroughly investigated. Mr. J. PEEL asked whether the Act of 1863, which it war said had led to the mismanagement and failure of the Bank of Bombay, was not submitted to and approved by the Secretary of State for India before it was passed by the Council of Bombay ? Sir S. NORTHCOTE replied that it was not. THE DISTURBANCES IN WIGAN. In reply to Major ANSON (in the absence of Lord Elcho), Sir J. FERGUSON said it was quite true that disturb ances existed in Wigan, but he could not state the extent the acts of violence had proceeded to. Telegraph commu nication had taken place between the Home-office and the magistrates as to whether they had sufficient force at their command to compel submission to the law, but receiving an unsatisfactory answer troops had been at once de spatched to Wigan. THE DISTURBANCES IN CRETE. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr. MONK called the attention of the house to the cor respondence respecting the disturbances in Crete, pre sented to parliament by command of her Majesty in November, 1867. Sir F. GOLDS AI ID condemned the conduct of Greece with respect to the insurrectionary movement i❑ Crete, as, instead of remaining neutral as she ought, kept up tire flame by surreptitiously supplying arms and . other pans for continuing the struggle against Turkey. Had this not been the case, tranquillity would long ago have been restored. It appeared to be the desire both in Crete and Servia to drive the Jews away, and make them vagrants, and then to punish them for being that which they had been made. After a short discussion the motion for papers was with drawn, and The house Wordy afterwards adjourned. TRAINING REPORTS. KINGSCLERE.—On Thursday Satyr, Xi, Wulsoy (with bandages on both tore-legs), The Palmer, Green Sleeve, Cotytto, Vabalathus, Vagabond, King Cophetna, Pero, Gomez, Nyl Gan, and Sister to Rosicrucian all cantered up tl:o hollow on the Cannon Heath Downs. In the Prince of Wales's Stakes Xi, The Palmer, and Cotytto aro ergagod, but in my opinion neither will run. Should, however, any be asked, it will be the last-named, but she would have a poor chance, as she has been eased of late in• her work. Spring Stakes—Blue Gown, should he run, could win, despite his penalty of 121 b. Ho is likely, however, to bo reserved. Two Thousand—ln Rosicrucian, Green Sleeve, and Blue Gown we have three superb animals, who are sure to render their names illustrious. Rosicrucian is cer tainly big, but my present opinion ir, that ho will after all represent Sir Joseph Hawley for this event, which is con firmed by his work of this morning. Should ho run, he will not only win, but easily too, as I am quite certain ho is one of the best horses the turf has seen for years. Blue Gown and Green Sleeve are both very fit, and if either is wanted at the last moment, will be found formidable sub stitutes for the favourite, and quite capable of taking his or her own part. Blue Gown will reverse the running with The Earl in the Newmarket Stakes, as the distance will serve h 4 tu better than when they last met, for it is my belief that Blue sown likes a mile more. than any other course. Green Sleeve and Adosiuda are in the One Thou sand, and should Green Sleeve be reserved for this event she will be returned the winner. NEWMARKET.—On Friday Le Sarrazin, lOuragan, and Capitaine went a steady gallop across the Flat. St. Ro nan cantered steadily, and Bluekskin only walked. Bis marck led Paco and Harvester, after two canters, a steady gallop of a mile. "Vale Royal cantered, and then galloped with The Peer a mile. Julius, led by Lanark, went a good gallop of two miles. Leonia and Lady Coventry only cantered. St. Angela and Marmite went well for a mile and a half. In the Two Thousand Hayhoe, juo., has Slanderer and Lymington, whose late performances will be the best guide to their form. Godding has Kettle holder, and he is a sound, useful horse, though rather small, and not good enough for this race. Ile will win a good handicap some day. Le Sarrazin is a small com pact colt, very sound and wiry, and has undergone a good preparation, and cannot be made more fit than he is at present. I am fully prepared to seo him run forward. Lord Stamford's Vale Royal I have had but little chance to form an opinion of, but it is said, when tried with Python, he won very easily. The running since of Python does not speak volumes for Vale Royal, and all I can say is, ho appears sound, and has, since ho came hero, done a fair amount of work. Pace is a great big horse, but has created a good deal of divided opinion. I believe him myself to be no roarer, as he is called by some, and up to the present day he has not been sick or sorry an hour. From my own personal observations, too, setting aside all "aristocratic" opinion, I venture to predict that Pace will be at the head of the poll on Tuesday next, with the French horse, Le Sarrazin, in close attendance. The Prince of Wales's Stakes the best of John Dawson's will win. Woolcot's team numbers fifteen horses, including Huntsman, Caithness, Scipio, Strad broke, Beanstalk, Janet Rawcliffe, Formosa, anal several two year olds, and there never was a lot of horses looking better, for they are all as clean and healthy as they pos sibly can be. saw Formosa stripped on Wt dnesday, and tho filly looked wonderfully well, in fact she is a perfect picture, her coat shining like satin. She is one of the most improved mares in the country, as she has grown both taller and longer. She has undergone a long, steady preparation, and she looks as hard as nails, and I feel con fident she will win. Woolcot has taken great pains with her, and it will certainly be no fault of his if she is beaten. Helms had her at work ever since Christmas, and she has not been sick or sorry all the winter. She is also engaged in the One Thousand. Janet Rim:liffe I do not like much, as she has grown tall and light, but she may win a race or two over a short cut. Caithness, Stradbroke, and Bean stalk are engaged in the Chester Cup. The first-named has very much improved, having thickened greatly, and is now a lengthy horse—just' the sort to suit the Chester course. WOODYEATES.—The Ltd arrived 12010 on Tuesday night in a van from Danebury, to try William Day's Two Thousand lot next day. On Wednesday morning the weather was so fearfully bad that I could not see the result, as I could scarcely see two hundred yards before me, but I have since learned that The Earl cleaned them out in a canter, Banditto being second ; so, of course, if that is their opinion, they have no chance for the Guineas. The general opinion here is that they are far from being good enough, in which I concur. RlCHMOND.—Friday.—Lord Ronald, Chelsea, and Virtue have left for Newmarket, all fit and well. Lord Ronald runs for the Prince of Wales's Stakes, in which he will take a deal of beating. Chelsea must be backed for the Two Thousand, as he has greatly improved, and goes like a lion. Mysotis loaves on Monday. The horses I hear aro detained on the road through an accident at Raskolfe. Beside those mentioned, we shall have nothing at head quarters. MIDDLEIIAM.—We have nothing engaged in the Two Thousand or Ono Thousand, and the only horses from this quarter I find entered at Newmarket aro Tabouret and Skysail. The first-named is iu the Spring Stakes, and ho is fit to run, but I should prefer him over a longer course. Skysail is moderate, and can have no chance. Our Chester Cup horses have been sent along the last two days, viz., Minster Bell, Plies', Mercury, Bracken, and Palisade. Weather Star and Fortunio, engaged in the Great Northern, aro also doing good two miles work, look ing and going well. Mercury, Donaldbain, Tabouret, and the colt out of Viscountess, our Derby representatives, are also in good work, and goin;.s, well. The first-named has grown into a very nice colt, and should he keep well he will be found about the best outsider in the race. La Mousse is going on well for the French Derby, moving first class. STOCKBRIDGE. —At Newmarket on Monday there is a match between Tho Earl and See-Saw, which I think tho former is sure to win, as he will be found a little better than ho was last week. On Wednesday he wont to Wm. Day's, and I believe galloped away from all the Wood yeates Two Thousand horses. He has returned, and did a very nice gallop this morning (Friday), with Logarithm and Athena, of a mile and a half. In the Two Thousand we have Herald and Cock of the Walk. Both have done plenty of work for this engagement, and are fit and well. Herald your readers saw run at Newmarket last week, which I fear was his true form, and I think he is a very bad horse, and has no chance at all. One Thousand.— Lady Elizabeth has been doing remarkably well of late, but of course cannot be got ready for this race. Athena has done plenty of work since she last appeared in public, and I am sure will run a much better animal, and will give somo trouble to whatever may win. lam quite certain in my own mind that Beauty had no business to beat her. Newmarket Stakes.—Tho Earl and Athena are engaged, and I think The Earl is sure to win. I hear they are going to try the cutting down game with Blue Gown ; if so, all I can say is, the latter will get beaten much easier than ho was in the Biennial. Lady Elizabeth galloped on Wednesday, led by Athena, over a mile and a half. Thursday—Lo garithm led her the same distance. Friday—lt began rain ing hard, so all the horses were sent in after having can tered once, with the Exception of The Earl, Athena, and Logarithm, who galloped. FINDON.—For the Two Thousand we have only a soli tary candidate, viz., Madrid, who is a good horse, but not yet pr ready.iaee of He : tl ho e w se ev s e t r a , k a e t e, epre: Monday,entdo w doing very have well. In the Sir David Gam at Gst 121 b. Ho is under orders, and will run Well. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, on Wednesday.— Owain Glyndwr is a certain runner, and his chance is se cond to none. MALTON.—Prince of Wales's Stakes, Taraban has un dergone a strong preparation, and never looked or went better in his life; and I think ho will win. On Thursday Flash Emma led Betrayal a three-parts speed gallop of a mile and a half. Consternation went a mile. Blacklock led Agrippa a mile. Mother Neasham led Agrippa a se cond gallop of half a mile at her best pace. Amendment, Vedette filly, Camillo, Buccaneer filly, and Di Spanker galloped a mile. The following, after a couple of gallops, were sent a rattling sweat of five miles:— Westwick, Taraban, The Spy, Viscount, and War, After the first mile they were joined by Kentish Fire, Toison d'Or, and The Clipper, all pulling up sound and well.. The only horses we shall have at Newmarket will be The Spy and Taraban. CIIILTON.- . —III looking over the programme for New market I find we have nothing engaged, but we shall most likely send the colt by Muscovite (a three year old), for something, as ho is doing rattling work of a mile by him self. He is a big strapping horse, with plenty of bone, having somo rare legs under him, and is pile fit. Tho Scout, Osprey, Vigilant, Alberta, St. Agnes, and Cara are in strong work. STANTON.—WadIOW has been very busy the last few days with his horses for Newmarket. In the Two Thou sand we have See Saw and the colt by Thormandy out of Amelia. The last named will not go, and if he did would stand no earthly chance. Ile is only up to plating form, and is, moreover, short of work. See Saw has dote plenty of work, and has undergone a gradual preparation ; but I should certainly have liked his chance much better had ho carried mole weight in his gallops. lam afraid when he gots about 2st more on his back he will not move so freely. We have nothing here fit to try him with, and he is sure to run untried. His noble owner was here on ) ap e e c ae t eme i e m. n p . aha A ei After eahrsypt sent on de S oeu e np e e fel: S I et ,hasuhwar. waslittle hal over rasp ing r i e ) by Wednesday, when the whole of his team were marched r his mile at ea f kt o steady ainnds : mile and a half gallop, and to the post I think he will be worth a place investment. He is also engaged on Monday in a match with The E•trl, at 101 b, which he will win. ILSLEY.—In the Two Thousand we have Ironmaster and Proctor engaged. Ironmaster is daily doing good work for this event. He looks as bright as a star in his coat, and goes better than ever I saw him. This (Thurs day) morning ho had two canters of half a mile each, and a good gallop of a little over a mile at a good pace from end to end. No horse in the world can be in better con dition, hut with all this I don't think he is class enough for a race like this, and I have no f anc y f or hi m even for a place. Proctor is a good looking colt, and a fine mover, but by the work he is doing I don't think he will see the post, as he is only taking trotting and cantering exercise by himself. Viridis, in the Prince of Wales's Stakes is well, but I don't think she will start for it. Cap-a-Pie is doing geed work for the Coffee-room Stakes, and will run well. Slowtnau, in the Newmarket Two Year Old Plate, is a rice little ,horse, and a capital goer, and will take his own part if he runs. Our Chester Cup nags—Dalby, Viridis, and Landscape—are doing well, as also Orion for the Derby- Lord Lyon has commenced steady work again, and is as fresh as a kitten. Achieve ment is taking long steady work by herself. She looks and goes as well as ever. ITEDNESFORD.—The recent rains have done our training graunds a world of good, and our horses aro enabled to do their work something like they ought to do. In accord ance with your instructions, I shall be brief in my report, as we have nothing with half a chance for the Two Thou sand or any other event at Newmarket next week. Uncas and Kidderminster are' going on as well as over, and think they will both show up at Chester, when the public will see what improved hor ses they are. FYFIELD.— On Thursday the Marquis of Ailesbury and Mr. Payne were here to see their horses gallop, and the following five were stripped and sent a rattling spin of about a mile, finishing in the order named :—Moslem, Skipjack, Citron, Picnic, and Franchise. This does not say much for the latter's chance for the One Thousand, but I think it was too bad to be true. Two Thousand— Boanerges has not done much since his return from New market, though I see a contemporary states he has. Moslem has been going on remarkably well, improving daily, and should he keep right he will be very bad to beat. He ie also engaged in the Spring Stakes and Prince of Wales's Stakes. Prince of Wales's Stakes—Moslem, Citron, Skip jack, and Safety aro all fit to run, but I like Citron the best at the weights. He has been doing some good work lately, going well, and, if wanted, will about win. Friday.—After cantering, our Two Thousand horse, Moslem, galloped a mile, going well. Franchise and Citron galloped the same distance, pulling up sound and well. Lamnounsz.—We have a few horses engaged at New market next week, but I don't know yet which will be sent. The Parson, Mayflower, Vortigern, Kingsland, Cawdor, and Student ar e iu the Free Handicap on Mon day, and they are all in good work exc e p t p oor Student. It would be useless for me to offer an opinion on this event, but I may say that Mayflow er is the pick of the lot mentioned. Glenderg, The Parson, P atrician, and Sun stroke are our Two Thousand nags. G lendora has been stopped in his work the last few day s, and will not run. Patrician is only moderato, and The P arson I cannot listen to on this occasion. Sunstroke I believe to be the best of our lot, but whether he will run or not I cannot say. lie is a big horse, and, in my opinion, is not by any moans so fit as he can be made ; still I think highly of his chance, and should he be sent it would not surprise me to see him run into a place. Ihave never, however, seen his name in the betting, and I therefore suppose we shall not trouble the winner of the Guineas this year. Ersose.—We have not many horses engaged at New market next wcok. In the Prince of Wales's Stakes (R.M.), Redivivus and Melbourne are engaged, but I do not fancy either. Two Thousand. —Melbourne is very moderate, and Redivivus is not a whit better. Balsamo has been doing very well, and has much improved since Brom ley,and although, if ho runs, he will meet different company to what he has hitherto done, he has got an outside chance. Ito is certainly a fine, strapping horse, and as good a goer as anybody could wish to see. Two Year Old Plato.—We have Jusnita, Baroness, and Gleu Stnat t, but their chance is next to hopeless. Prince of Wales's Stakes (Cesare witch Course).—Atlesbury is in, and it looks a good thing for him, as ho has only the shifty Taraban to beat. LEWES.—At Newmarket, on Monday, wo have the follow ing engaged :—Prince of Wales's Free Handicap—Leases, Choral, Ines, and Elmira. In my opinion Ines is the best, but as she has another engagement on the same day, 1 should prefer her for the Princess of Wales's Stakes. I think she will about win, if wanted, as she is very fit. For the Two Thousand Guineas, we have Peter and Sam son engaged, but neither will run. Samson has done but little work this week, although he is very much improved in his action, and I think will win a good race before the season is over. Ines is in a Sweepstakes of 300 sovs ; she has a very moderato lot to meet, and I think will win. Sweepstakes of 25 sous.—Leases is in ; he is looking very well, and left Lewes this morning, but I did not hear if he was going to head quarters or not. We have several two year olds engaged, but none of them have been doing sufficient work to have any chance with the company they will have to meet. THE "NO POPERY' CRY. An abortive endeavour to revive that most ridiculous of all cries, the cry of " No Popery," would actually seem to be the only device 0 sug ffestino• itself to the Prime Minister of E ng l an d 0 • with a view to the postponement, if possible, for yet a little while longer, of the evil day when the Irish Church Estliblishment must be abolished. And it is not that the Pre mier has intimated thus much in a momentary ebullition of temper under the excitement or direct incentive of a heated imagination. His declaration he has endorsed in cold blood. His avowal at the close of an animated debate he has reiterated with the pen in his hand, and with the utmost deliberation. Related, as this is, of a cool-headed tactician like the present First Lord of the Treasury, the incident seems to be the result of little less than a hallucina tion. It appears; even now, almost inconceivable that Mr. Disraeli, amonc , all our livinc , states men, that he; with all his und ou bt e d sagacity, r ' should have failed so entirely to appreciate a fact rendered sufficiently manifest, we should have supposed, to the meanest capacity, by one occurrence after another, recorded in our national history, namely, that of all cries a No Popery cry is, beyond any comparison, the most ludicrous. For, in point of fact, what is its significance? As well say—No sun in the heavens at noonday ! No air that we breathe ! No earth under our feet ! As well cry aloud "No mob," when standing in the midst of a vast multitude ! It is for all the world like the sweep of Mr. Podsnap's hand when he swept everythinc , he objected to behind him and utterly out of existence. It is upon a par in its absurdity with those who are in the habit of speaking of us Catholics as a sect—we who constitute the bulk of the population of Christendom. A sect, forsooth, of upwards of 200,000,000 ! Why, the only appropriate leader or champion of this old fatuous cry of "No Popery" that has ever been heard of, was that poor crack brained Scotch lord who, in 1780, se t a ll London in a flame with hi s incoherent fanati - cism. Seventy years after wards, namely, in 1850, when Earl Russell, then Lord John Russell, penned his worse than simply preposterous letter to the Bishop of Durham—that document in which he hesitated not to number the holy symbol of redemption among " the mummeries of superstition"— I that notorious effusion may be said to have been - scrawled upon a leaf torn out of the book of Lord George Gordon. But even that malign effort to revive for party purposes the spirit of fanaticism, proved only partially, only very partially, indeed, successful. Instead of any worse consequences being elicited, we had the vials of Parliamentary wrath poured over our heads in the Lords and Commons; we had effigies akin to those of Guy Fawkes paraded in the streets and afterwards burnt, here and there in the suburbs, for the especial gratifi cation of the street urchins of the metropolis ; we had scurrilous words scrawled against us, or rather against all we hold sacred, upon the walls and the hoardings and the pavements— and, to crown all, we had that utterly futile and abortive Act of Parliament called : into existence which the Legislature is now, shame facedly, taking steps at length to obliterate, as a senile evidence of spleen, from the statute book of "this realm of England !" Any deliberate endeavour now to raise a similar cry to that articulated in 1850, so feebly and innocuously, by Lord John Russell, proves by necessity abortive. Years ago Mr. Disraeli spoke of the Whigs as—an obsolete oligarchy. As happily, and quite as accurately, he might, now, define any enterprise such as the one indicated by him, first of all viva voce in the House of Commons, and afterwards yet more clearly in his epistle to his reverend supporter down in Backing hamshire—a politico -religions anachronism. That he, of all men should have stumbled into this egregious blunder excites our pro found regret, while it quite as certainly passes our co mprehension. It passes our comprehen sion that the keen-eyed, large-hearted author of " Sybil, or the Two Nations"—the heroine of which romance Sybil to 'wit, is a Catholic, as generously imagined, and as admirably and gracefully depicted as the Haredales Pere et fille" of Charles Dickens's " Barnaby Rudge"—could ever have bungled thus into this incongruous position in our regard. He who stands in a manner almost entirely apart among the Protestant statesmen of England in ( as w e very naturally conceive it to be) his wise and statesmanlike appreciation of the r i g hts, the sacred and inalienable rights, of the Sovereign Pontiff. The attitude now assumed by him in this matter of the Irish Church-- in general terms it might be said, in reference to Catholicism—is so at variance with all his antecedents, that, again we say, it passes our comprehension, again we say, it simply appears to us in the light of a bewildering and eccen tric h a llucination.—Westininster Gazette. EDUCA7ION IN FRANCE. The last publication of the Bishop of Orleans on the education question, entitled, " L e s Alarmes de l'Episcopat justifiees par les faits," has reached a third edition in the course of a few days. The bishop shows how the ene mies of Christianity are concentrating and banding themselves together with th e more e special purpose of usurping the functions of education, and particularly of female education, so as to nip the religious feeling in its very bu d . He says that they openly boast of their intention of " laying the axe to the root of the t ree ," and eradicating all " religious preju dices" from the minds of the rising generation. And he brings forward a series of tableaux which are certainly very startling in proof of these atrocious designs being really contem plated. His demonstration consists of five parts, in which he unfolds the various means by which the above ends are being worked out. These are the school of female free-thinkers, the Freemasons' Education League, the re cently-established lectures for young females (which implicate the Government directly in the irreligious movement), the materialism openly taught in the Medical School of Paris, and lastly, the active propagandism of infidelity by all these instruments together, and by irre ligious publications of every description. The bishop accuses all these parties of a common understanding among themselves ; and if he does not include the Government, he includes at least the Minister of Public Instruction as their accomplice. Ho proves that regular schools had been erected in France for the for mation of female free-thinkers, and of female teachers professing the same principles (Ecoles de fines libres peaseurs). The bishop learnt the fact only from a newspaper, in which he happened to read an account of the funeral of one of the female founders of these schools, which at once opened his eyes to the magni tude of the evil, and led him to make the in quiries and discoveries he now publishes. The schools were known as the Professional Schools of Madame Lemonnier. The published pro spectus of her society merely stated that the " reception of all creeds at her classes," the (necessary) " exclusion of all religious instruc tion" (as being no part of professional instruc tion), and the " abandonment of all such reli gious instruction to the parents or ministers of the pupils." But, as the Bishop of Orleans shows, these professions were a mere blind for parents to entrap or ensnare their children into instruction in the most absolute infidelity. The language used at the funeral of Madame B. (the lady above referred to) can leave no doubt as to what her principles and practice must have been. Her husband, who was the spokes man at her funeral, openly professed himself " a free-thinker," as had been also " his dear wife, who had joined herself to the great work of Madame Lemonnier, the education of young women, and the teaching of morality without religion, because she also believed only in science and justice, and looked to no other beacon of safety either during life or in the hour of death." He went on to say that the blow which had struck his wife was "fatal and unjust ;" and the more " unjust," be cause " amongst this chosen troop of devoted women " she had been " one of the youngest and most beautiful." The bishop says that " one stands stupified over such language, spoken in the presence of 300 young girls, the pupils of these ladies and of their pro fessional schools, standing there with their teachers, and, as described, ' holding bouquets in their pious hands and throwing flowers over this tomb,' from which a priest and every sign of religion were strictly banished." A lady-professor afterwards delivered an oration in a similar strain. No wonder that the bishop as he tells us, " did not stop there," bat roused himself about these " schools of 300 young girls," placed under such teachers. He sets to work and obtains biographies of the founder of the society, prospectuses of its schools, minutes of the general meetings for the propa gation of its instruction ; and convinces him self that " the systematic object of the move ment was the formation of free-thinking young women." Morality without religion is its motto. The founder of th e soc i e t y , M a d ame Lemonnier, from being Protestant, became a St. Simonian and free-thinker ; and the object of her successors, as stated by her husband in her biography, was " to rear young women in her principles, who, becoming in their turn mothers, might propagate throughout all France the sacred traditions of the profes sional schools." The bishop asserts that these are no mere " exceptional eccentricities," but " a great work of propagandism." "We are in the face," he says, "of a deeply laid and vast enterprise of impiety directed against the faith of the young girls of France." These schools exist in Paris, and he can name the streets and number of the houses. They exist by subscription ; and the bishop does name openly a long list of notorious names of male and female patrons and supporters. What is more, he says, M. Duruy knows these schools and these houses, where young girls receive such instruction for life and death, and " they seem to possess the full sympathy of the supreme head and official and all-powerful source of inspiration of national education in France." M. Duruy went to visit these schools, and more, in the Corps Legislatif, he pronounced a eulogy upon them, taking good care to say nothing of the spirit which ani mated them. The bishop forcibly points out the dangers to be apprehended to Christian society from " the League of the Freemasons." We have already more than once called atten tion to the untiring vigour with which the Bishop of O r l e ans has exposed the insidions attempts of M. Duruy against religion in the establishment of the female lecturers. On the question of Propagandism, the bishop says that M. Duruy boasts of having dis tributed 70,000 books amongst commune and other school libraries, in the course only of last year. In the list of those distributed at St. Etienne, are found such works as Renan.'s Vic de treBll4, Proudhon's Revolution &dale, Vol taire's Candide, &c., with the works of George Sand, Eugene Sue, Pelletan, &c. Summing up, he concludes that, under the pretext of professional schools for young females, the Freemasons' league, popular libraries, the new lectures, and the light of science, materialism is making extensive inroads upon State edu cation. The bishop's conclusions are sup ported by a formidable appendix of 150 pages of small type, co n tai n i ng near l y e i g h ty letters tohimself from diff eren t mem b ers o f t h e F rench episcopacy, with pastorals, circulars, &c., ad dressed to the clergy—all adhering, in terms more or les s f orc ibl e , t o hi s own v i ews, and joining in the cry of alarm raised apparently from one end of the country to the other on this important subject. JIISCELLANEOUS NE IVS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) They appear to be active in Jamaica in promot ing immigration from New Orleans. The Commer cial Association of Kingston is urging the Govern ment to sub,idise a stemn line between the island and the Mississippi, and a proposition for complet ing the connection by a telegraphic cable has also been brought before the Legislature. The Senate will pass the House Bill to continue the Freedmen's bureau for another year, but pro bably with an amendment by the Military Com mittee, empowering the Commissioner to sell, under suitable restrictions, the school and other buildings constructed for the refugees and freedmen, to the corporate bodies of trustees who now use them, for the purpose of education or the relief of want. The House of Representatives met on the Bth inst. only to receive a resolution requesting the President to appoint a Special Mission to the hostile States of South America, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia, for the purpose of settling their national difficulties and restoring peace, and a bill providing for a modification of the laws disfranchising de serters. Both were properly referred. According to Messrs. Neill's report, dated New York, the 18th instant, the week's receipts of cotton at all ports amount to 35,000 bales, and since the let of September to 2,025,000. The week's exports to Great Britain are 33,000 bales, and since the Ist of September 1 ,043,000. The week's exports to France are 6,000 b a l es, and since the I st o f Sep tember 191,000. The week's exports to other ports are 1,000 bales, and since the let of Septem ber 213,000. Total exports for the week, 40,000 bales ; since the Ist of September, 1,450,000. Stock at all ports, 270,000 bales. The steamers leaving New York for Europe on the 18th took $1,000,000 in specie ; on the 21st $250,000 in specie ; on the 22d a similar sum ; and on the 23d one million. These large sums are the drain to Europe to meet the interest due at the end of this month on the United States Bon's. On Monday, the 6th inst., besides the Connecti cut and Michigan elections, Cincinnati elected City Officers, and Wicsonsin Judges of the Supreme Court, choosing Dixon and Paine, the Republican candidates, by a majority of between 3,000 and 4,000. On the 4th inst. municipal elections were held at St. Louis, Missouri, and Louisville, Ken tucky, wherein the Democrats triumphed by a large majority. At other municipal elections of Western cities on Monday and Tuesday, the Republicans carried Schnectady, New York; Cleveland, Dayton, and Toledo, Ohio ; Indianapolis, Indiana ; Law rence, Kansas, and Madison, Wisconsin ; Peoria, Illinois ; and St. Paul, Minnesota. The Democrats carried Columbus and Sandusky, Ohio; Evans ville, Indiana ; Keokuk, lowa ; Atchison and Leavenworth; Kansas, Milwaukee and La Crosse, Wisconsin ; and Sedalia, Jefferson City, Ka nsas City, and Carondolet, Mobile. The Naturalization question is rapidly approach ing a solution. The diplomatic correspondence relating to the Extradition Treaty with Prussia, just ratified, has been laid before Congress. From Mr. Bancroft's remarks the settlement with Eng land is virtually decided by that with Prussia. Writing to Secretary Seward on the 20th January last, he says—" Count Bistnark informs me that the British Government has inquired of him as to what answer the Prussian Government would make to the American Government on the subject of na turalization. I❑ reply, he informed them of the in tention of his Government to come to an under standing with that of America, according to its re quiest. The remarks of Count Bismark implied that the 131 itish Government is inclined to follow the ex ample of Prussia, and the settlement of the question here will be virtually a settlement for Greatßritain." On the 13th February Mr. Seward replied as fol lows I have informally suggested to the British Minister here that a proceeding in the form of mutual and common legislation in the two coun tries would be simple, and probably easier than formal negotiations on thuilnaturalization laws ex isting between the United States and those of the two Governments respectively, inasmuch as there are so many other questions which urgently require settlement between the United States and Great Britain, besides that of the conflicting naturaliza tion laws." A telegram from Washington, dated last Monday, informs us that on that day the House of Representatives passed by 99 votes against .5 a bill introduced by Mr. Banks relative to the naturalization of immigrants to the United States. This bill enacts that any declara tion 9c decision of officers of the United States Go vernment which questions the right of expatriation is null and void ; that all naturalized citizens of the United States while in foreign countries shall be entitled to the same protection as is now accorded to native-born citizens ; and that when any citizen of the United States is arrested by any foreign Go vernment, and his release delayed or refused upon the allegation that naturalization does not dissolve his allegiance to his native Sovereign, the Pre sident shall be empowered to order the arrest of any subject of such foreign Government who may be found within the jurisdiction of the IThited States. The organization known as the linklux Klan is rising in the South into similar importance as that of the Fenians in Ireland. We will soon see how it will be met and suppressed in America. The ap pellation is puzzling American etymologists, a s the word Fenian did thos e o f E ng l an d. S ome as sert that it is derived fro m th e G ree k tapicos, a circle ; others believe Klan to b e a mere m i sspe lli n g of Clan, but the general i m p ress i on i s th a t th e s ound was suggested by the click o f th e rifle when cocked. The organization has its s t rong h o ld i n T enn essee, and is now rapidly extending through the Southern States. Its arrival in Georgia was heralded to the world by the Columbus Sun, which wrote in vague and threatening terms, with big headings and pro fuse italics :-- " Woe to the degenerate." " Some thing terrible floats on the breeze, and in the dim silences are heard solemn whispers, dire impreca tions against the false ones who have proved re creant to their faith and country." Nor had the ' degenerate long to wait; for on the 30th March Colonel G. W. Ashburn was murdered at Columbus by a band of thirty, disguised with masks and various spectral devices. The h ouse i n which the victim lodged was surrounded; the rear and front doors broken open, and although Colonel Ashburn had a pistol in his hand, so sudden was the assault that he was killed before he coald use it. One bullet struck him between the eyes, another below the hip, and a third in the mouth, ten or twelve shots being rapidly discharged. The gang left without interruption. Most contradictory accounts are given of Colonel Ashburn's character, but he is known to have been an unflinching loyalist, and one of the few who were originally so. 11 1 served in the Federal army during the War, and left it with the rank of Colonel when he W' 3s elected member of the late Constitutional Con vention held at Atalanta, and was an uncompro mising supporter of Congressional measures. They have been playing some practical jokes with politi cal leaders in Washington. Ben Wade received paper warning him of assassination, which he threw on the fire. Butler tore his up, but Col. Forney is al!eged to have been greatly alarmed. Genera l Grant has given stringent orders to the militarY, commanders for the suppression of this gang 01 assassins. Mr: Wade's Cabinet continues to excite the greatest interest throughout the country. It is con sidered settled that Mr. Sumner will become Seer& tarp of State, that the " cold and classical Demos thenes" will succeed to the Senate, and that Mr. Claflin will obtain Mr. Boutwell's post. It is thong" that Mr. M'Culloch will remain Secretary of the Treasury, though it is doubtful whether he can be, induced to stay. It is also hinted that Secretary Stanton will relieve Mr. Adams as Ambassador to St. James's, and the Hon. B. F. Butler will take Mr. Stanton's portfolio. Of course these little arrangements hinge first and mainly on President Johnson being deposed. Wilkes' Spit it claims as one of its political vide' des the proposed amendment to the Constitutio n, presented by S3nator Sumner : —" Resolved, Tha t the following article be proposed to the Legislature° of the several States as an amendment to the Con stitution of the United States, which, when ratifie d by three-fourths of th e Legislatures, shall be val id as part of the Constitution, viz. :---‘ No pers °ll elected President or Vice-President, who has once served as President, shall afterwards be eligible to either office.' " Mr. Wilkes, the editor l a chief, has been in Washington from 0 1 commencement of the Impeachment Trial, and he Las made a special hobby of the 00°- term principle, never ceasing to urge it as 5 boon to the Constitution, that will repay t he country for the treasons and mischiefs of Andreae Johnson. Th e Spi r it i s i n hi g h g l ee a t the result 01 its persistent efforts, and at this proof of the atten tion and respect it receives in the highest quarter's: The above sporting paper is authorized to offer grand bet, if there is any Tea House in Lend ° connected with China, or any shipping house, cr betting man who would like to go in for a big thing' The schooner yacht Challenge, just built for M r ' Pierre Lorillard, now on her way to the An -10:41 river, Brazil, can be backed against the English tea fleet of clipper ships from Shanghae in China to the Isle of Wight in the Channel. Here is an openi n g for any party who will lay £lO,OOO s t er ling agail/ss £2,000 on the result. We must confess that t he information given by the Spirit of the performan ce of the Challenge is not such as t o le a d any ene t t risk his money. It is stated that the schooner ya c h t ' sailing two points nearer the wind than a W AI T rigged ship can lie, recently went 17i knots an bo la She is faster than the Vesta, and the Vesta WO ° lc have won the celebrated yacht race from New Irc r to Cowes if her navigator had not made a bad l and ; fall. The Spirit, however, considers the above P e a l formance to be an exaggeration, not in the a ct % speed attained, but in the statement that she kept hard on the wind, which it denies. int° [ADVERTlsmts:s7.]—Henceforth no one will doubt the v a h ob properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Aractios Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bl ea l o oll it has already received from Invalids whose position had o oe. deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the „,r4 whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty Y; ot to of unsuccessful medical treatmen,;. We quote from the "G a it h of du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, J u ly 21, 1866.—" he?' oil the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abaudoel a l l l . s other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Da °tofu! Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a P - fiir at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bon e 00.4 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise,. of excellent food too highly." We extract a few ot'" 0 0s0 more than 63,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioo de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting abed debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over , ~or digestion, constant sleeplessness, and tee most intolerabelipisi vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart do Deeies2 9, 6s:l: Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. Ne''eso , " Fifty years' Indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervous and asthma, cough,. constipation, flatulency, spasms, sicknen io rto , vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James 11 ,„ l ood , of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Cea-iiooo Beware of the many unsatteury and more than sloppy Lira t%,.w to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is meat ciously attached 11e. In tins at Is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 41, • 5 lbt io. 7/, 121b5., 225.; 21 lbs., 408.— BARRY Dii BARRY and Co., Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, P lO4 -71 and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Choapside ; 63, 150, a n Oxford-street 330. Strand ; and Nrocere and ehenalste . filC i BERESFORD —On the 23(1 inst ßirths ~, the wife of Denis il • - Beresford, Esq., M.P., of a son. ,_ goo . HowAun —On the 23d inst., at 40, Dover-street, 4 ' '- Mrs. George Howard, of a daughter. vir the SCOVELL On the 23d inst., at 37, Ebury-street, S. " " n o. wife of Captain E. J. Scovell, 06th Regiment, of a 15" Marriages. r elit BARNES —BARTLET n the 23d inst., at fit. Peter's l o rse Ipswich, Christopher H. Barnes, Captain Boys"! Artillery, to Lucy Caroline, second daughter of Bartlet, Esq., M.D., Ipswich. ,_„ r cho PATMortE —WEBS—On the 23d inst., at the paris h C.,% 5 51 4 Warminster, Richard W. Patmore. Fylield Vveb l3l to Kate, second surviving daughter of Wm. ' Warminster, Wilts. . c ia COPLEY—On the 23d in D st., eaths Miss Copley, last sur;:dott sister of the Right lion. the - late Lord Ly n"- aged 95. -gott °l HAY -On the 23d inst., at South-hall, Southwell, - Sarah Laura, wife of Sir Edward li. D. Hay. cool' POLLARD—On the 23d inst., at Greenwich Hospital, mander John Pollard, Royal Navy, aged 81. no beit SHAW—On the 23d inst., at 6, Stockwell-place, l‘fri,•;' Shaw, formerly of the Westminster-road, age d roa m TIBBS—On the 23d inst., at Tor Villa, St. 10 1 0 1 ,,,,% - a 60. Brixton, Somerset Tibbs, late of Cheltenham, a ge goo - WAKEMAN -- On the 23d inst., at the Craig lloa se ' mouthshire, Thomas Wakeman, Esq. , aged 7t NDI IS I London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM No 1 3 ) of No. 112, Strand, Printor, at Tae SUN 0 131 "',,,, a iti a Strand, in the Precinct of the So voy, in the vv Middlesex. --Saturday, April 25, 180. • &Pp, Pris IS Rig Ulf', Lit ilavi by for Bolt all ( fo r liu flop !rAt 8 se( s, • 11 11 hp„ for t()1c 143 (1 64 (j F4 , 3 - \;; 11 0/0 Ilt, t , ar i l .--, I. k. ii, b,,,, Sgt, Wit Ivi i 44(1 cl e w , It e , thy THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1868.