The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC Jol7lllVas. The Times, in an article on the Irish Church, counsels the Liberal party not to attempt too much. If a man cannot trust himself, he may well be in.hot haste to accom plish his end while the fit is on him. If he has faith in himself and his cause he can bide his time. The leading journal does not conceal its opinion that there is. some danger lest a great national object should be imperilled by the unthinking zeal of mere ;partisans. On Monday Parliament reassembles after the truce of Buster. On Monday week Mr. Disraeli has declared he will be ready tconeet the Opposition on the question of the Irish Church. They three resolutions will become one after another the subjects of discussion. Upon the first or critical resolu tion there must in any case be a prolonged debate. It will probably be accepted by a majorityat least equal to that which approved the proposal to go into committee. The second and thi. - d resolutions follow. They deal with details. They chalinnge discussion on legal questions, upon which inge nious advocates may expend hours, and even nights, of talk. At the last, however, the second and the third rcsolutioni: must also be accepted. What follows ? Reso lutions of the House of Commons are in themselves vanities, save as furnishing a foundation for the introduc tion of a bill. A bill must accordingly be prepared in conformity with the resolutions already approved. Those who have fpthomed the intricacy of the subject know what the bill founded upon the previous resolu tions must be like, and can measure the length of the debates which must arise upon it. We are dis posed to ask ourselves already when they will he finished. Such a course would not be wise. The better course is clear. It is impossible that the resolution of the House of Commons to go into committee can perish before it is put into operation. Mr. Gladstone must persevere and de mand from the committee a resolution that the Irish Church must, as an endowed Establishment, cease to exist. Less than this cannot be satisfactory. To strive after more would be suicidal. When this has been done it will be well to cry " Halt." The determination of the House of Commons will have been made manifest, and no moral effect can he produced by attempting more. The Irish Church must, as an Establishment, cease. Let so much be declared. The Reform Act must be completed. Let so much be accomplished. If there be delay, the im mediate object will be manifest, and the motive will not be obscure. The present Ministry will be kept in office for six months longer before meeting the country, and this is a consummation no man who desires constitutional government can wish to further. The Herald is afraid that Mr. Forster and Mr. Edward Baines must be incladed in the list of those candid but in judicious friends of Mr. Gladstone whose volunteered revelations as to the aim and tendency of their leader's policy must cause him considerable embarrassment and vexation. It is not Mr. Gladstone's cue, at least for the present, to stand forward as the enemy of all endowed churches and of the union between Church and State. He is conscious that the avowal of such a policy would be fatal to the success of the conspiracy by which he hopes to scale the Treasury benches. It becomes a very serious matter when members of the Legislature like Messrs. Baines and Forster, associated as they are with ultra views, come forward, as they did at the inauguration banquet of the Leeds Cobden Club the other day, to swell the chorus of compromising eulogists. Mr. Baines is a prominent Liberationist, the declared foe of all Esta blishments, the consistent denouncer of the union between Church and State. He does not support Mr. Gladstone in his crusade against the Irish Church, on the ground of its inefficiency for the work with which it is charged. If the Irish Church were a model of successful working, if its congregations were large and flourishing, and if its revenues were administered with unimpeachable equity. his grudge against it would be intensified rather than dim . nislied. Mr. Forster, as a possible Minister in future Liberal Cabinets, is careful to separate himself from the less guarded doctrines of his colleague. He says he has not yet " ceased to advocate " a State Church in England, for the simple reason that it is the Church of the majority; but he allows us to understand that if that condition were r,versed to-morrow he would cheerfully acquiesce in the disruption of the English Establishment. The moment the Liberationists and the Papists can shew a majority on the other side, the English Church must share the fate of her Irish sister, and Mr. Forster will be among the first to cry Delenda est ! We repeat that, at a time when Mr. Gladstone is sedulously endeavouring to create the impres sion that in spite of his attitude towards the Irish Church he supports Establishments in the abstract, and is passionately loyal to that of England in particular, it is cruelly hard upon him that he should be saddled with such dangerous allies and such compromising interpreters. The Daily News notes that on several occasions Mr. Disraeli has shewn a disposition to refer to the support and favour of the sovereign, and to the royal choice which has placed him where he is, as if there were something more in his appointment than the regular action of the constitutional machine, and something more in the royal favour than the support due from the Crown to its First Minister for the time being. If Mr. Disraeli were merely a party leader, these expressions might be passed over very lightly. But Arr. Disraeli is the First Minister of the Crown, and its most responsible adviser. The non sense at which all the world is laughing would doubtless be as harmless if whispered in the Royal closet as when declaimed in the House of Commons. The good sense of the sovereign is certain to repudiate the insinuations, or rather accusations, it contained. But the suspicion that the Prime Minister may abuse his own position and the Royal ear by absurd, and, in their design, alarming sug gestions ; by calumnies on a political rival, the leader of a great party, and the chief of a majority in the House of Commons and in the country, whom his position and the popular voice designates as the future Premier, cannot be free from mischief. The wisdom of the sovereign will doubtless rebuke and check the wild sallies of her Prime Minister. But it is for the House of Commons to con sider whether, after the speech of Friday night, they have confidence in Mr. Disraeli as the chief counsellor of the Crown. The Post hopes that what is now taking place in the metropolis of Ireland will be the inauguration of a change in a policy which it does not need the wisdom of a states man to discover must be destructive of the only real bond of union between the governing and the governed of which both may have just reason to be proud. It is true that on the present occasion it is not the sove reign, but her eldest son, with his amiable consort, to whom the hospitality of the Irish people is extended ; but this circumstance, instead of robbing the pre• sent visit of its significance, rather tends to enhance it. The Prince of Wales is the heir to the throne, and even in this country has now for some years past discharged many of those social duties which ordinarily devolve upon the sovereign. Ostensibly visiting Dublin in order to be installed in its time-honoured cathedral as a Companion of the Order of the Knights of St. Patrick, he is, in truth, regarded by the Irish people as coming amongst them in a representative character to ask for pledges of their devotion and loyalty to the throne which in the course of nature he will one day be called upon to occupy. And they have responded by giving him a right royal reception, and by an exhibition of enthusiasm which will dissipate any ideas, if such existed, that the Irish people, as a mass, are disaffected towards the reigning dynasty. The Telegraph declares that by visiting Ireland the Prince of Wales supplies the link between the people and the Crown. In his address to the corporation yesterday, his Royal Highness assured them that he had never doubted their constant and undiminished attachment to the throne. But it is not enough that the loyal feeling should be latent—it must be active and diffusive, if it is to secure contentment and discourage the emissaries of sedition. That issue will surely emerge from the late troubles and discords, if the intimacy now so well com menced between the Crown and the nation be increased and extended. Happy will it be for Ireland if the idea conveyed by the beautiful symbol of peace and amity which was yesterday handed to the Princess of Wales he carried out in practice ; if the white dove prove the messenger of good tidiryto, and, her mission accomplished, fold her wings in calm content over the hushed waters of strife The Star advocates the right of women to the suffrage. Apropos of the Manchester meeting, it lays down that the opponents of woman's suffrage, whether they be of the school of wiseacre or zany, can only sound one stop each. The argument consists in saying over and over again that • ,o vote is no p al t o f a woman ' s business the joke consists in repeating, " Wh a t a funny thin , " i t . is for women to want votes !" and grinning idiotically all the time. One is almost ashamed to refer to any of the old stock argu ments on this subject. But we have always been stru ck b by an astonishing inconsistency on the part of those who take what we suppose they understand to be the profoundly philosophical tone in opposing the concession of the suffrage to women. In one sentence they speak of the difference of sex as something which ought to exclude, and 'does necessarily exc l u d e, woman from any share in the political workings of the world, and the next moment we are told that this accident of sex affects woman's nature and c a reer so lightly, that if we allow her to vote at a polling booth she will become morally, mentally, and esthetically an unsexed creature ; an undomesticated, unmaternal, unloving, unloye a bl e, coarse, and masculine sort of being ; .a thing of wh ic h t h e utmost that can be said to define it is that it wears petti coats and is not a man. Neither of these positions is true. 'I ll2 difference of sex has not prevented women from being grt•at writers and artists and politicians, from making books and maki n g l aws , f r om organising victories and ruling kingdoms. The giving of a vote certainly cannot 410 what the wearing of a crown and the ruling of a State to do. The E.;tandarl expresses its gratification at finding that Cie almost insuperable difficulties which seemed to oppose themselves to this expedition have one by one melted away before us. We Owe our thanks for this to the indomitable energy and skill which have characterised the operations of each branch of the service represented in our brave little army: . - Above all, are we indebted. for this success to the foresight and activity of the distin guished general ►vho has so nobly carried the British flag across these unknown wilds to the very stronghold of the savage who has dared to threaten and insult it. The India Office made a good choice of a commander in Sir Robert Napier. Those who criticised his plan of cam paign, and found fault with his calculations, must per force admit that hie foresight has been Justified by the event. THE REPRESENTATION OF FALMOUTH. The representation of the united borough of Penryn and Falmouth is in a transition state. The Reform Act of last year, by adding the village of Flushing to the parlia mentary borough, and by restoring the old "scot-and-lot" franchise at Penryn, will largely add to the number of electors, which will henceforward be greater at Penryn than at the much larger and more wealthy town of Fal mouth, to which it is politically joined. The new electors belong chiefly to the class among whom Mr. R. N. Fowler, the defeated Conservative candidate at the last election, has much personal influence, and which, by liberal donations to charities, by political and "No Popery " speeches, and in other ways, he is actively culti vating. The borough now returns two Liberals; but at the first election under the new Act Mr. Fowler would have an excellent chance of being returned. Mr. Gurney, one of the present members, has been so harassed in con nection with the failure of the Overend-Gurney Company that he will not come forward again ; indeed, he has been for some time past quite willing to resign his seat as soon as his successor could be fixed upon. The Liberals are likely to invite Mr. K. 1). Hodgson, late Governor of the Bank of England, and a partner in the great firm of Baring, Brothers, and Co. He is at present the junior member for Bridport, which will lose one of its representatives under the new Act. If Mr. Hodgson consent to stand it is probable that he will later in the session vacate his seat for Bridport, Mr. Gurney simul taneously resigning. Under the present register there is little doubt but that Mr. Hodgson would then be elected, perhaps without opposition, and would thus gain a position of vantage in the real fight next spring, when, according to the present tone of political feeling in the borough, it is probable that the representation would be divided between the two political parties, Mr. J. A. Smith, the present junior member, going to the wall.—Western Morning News. LAW AND POLICE. WHIT IS PERSONAL LUGGAGE?-At the Derby County Court a cause was tried which the judge said raised a question of great importance both to railway companies and passengers. The present action was brought by Mr. Henry Hudston, a sharebroker, residing at Nottingham, against the Midland Railway Company, to recover £2 4s. 6d., which sum he had paid under protest at King's cross Station, London, for the carriage of a toy called a spring horse, weighing 781 b., which they wrongfully charged as merchandise, he being a first-class passenger, and entitled to 1121 b. luggage. He also claimed for de tention from 3.0 p.m. to 5.35 p.m. at King's-cross, expenses and business loss, by being prevented getting to Nottingham to answer his letters that day, £2 2s. The horse, he alleged, if not for his own personal use, was for that of his family.—His Honour said that the case was one of great importance, and the real question was what was personal luggage. He would give his decision at the next court. KILLING AN OLD MAN.-At Worship-street Police court, Mr. William Blythe, a provision merchant, was charged with having caused the death of an old man,whose name is at present unknown. A witness named Valen tine stated that he was passing through Dalston-lane, where the prisoner was driving a horse and cart at a furious rate. When the vehicle was about eighty yards from witness, an old man apparently 63 years of age was in the act of crossing the road, when he was caught by the shaft of the prisoner's cart, and knocked down and run over by the near wheel. The defendant pulled up as soon as possible and conveyed the deceased to the German Hospital, where be died shortly after his admission. The accused was remanded for s, week, in order that the surgeon might attend, but was liberated on entering into his own recognisance to appear. CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD.—At the Lambeth Police court, Alfred Charles Street, and George H. Smith were charged with conspiring to utter a forged bill, with intent to defraud Messrs. Martin, wholesale stationers, Cheap side. In January the prosecutor advertised a still and worm for sale, and Smith treated for the purchase of the same, and proposed giving a bill for £l5O on his brother-in-law, Street, who, he said, was a person of independent means. Street gave his endorsement at thirty days, and when due the house where he said he resided, in Lorimer-square, was found to be empty. A Mr. Alfred Charles Street said he was leaseholder of the house in the square mentioned, and he knew nothing of the prisoners. The accused were committed for trial. ASSAULTING A SERVANT.—At the Surrey Sessions, Mrs. Emma Stroud, a widow of independent means, was in dicted for unlawfully assaulting Mary Ann Price. The case occupied seven hours in hearing, and at the con clusion the jury returned a verdict of guilty. The accused was fined £lO. A well-informed Liverpool journal mentions a report that the Queen will visit the Earl of Derby at Knowsley on her way to Balmoral about the middle of May. In case Major Green Thompson declines to con test Cockermouth, it is understood that Mr. J. Henry Fawcett will be the Conservative candidate. Mr. Fawcett is a member of the Northern Circuit, and connected with the county. THE DRAMATIC COLLEGE.—The Prince of Wales has, it is said, expressed a wish to Mr. Sothern that one of the old comedies should be played for the benefit of the Dramatic College, the cast to include all the principal artists in London. Mr. Sothern is understood to be busily engaged in making the necessary preparation. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM ABDY.—On Wednesday evening Sir William Abdy died at his residence in Hill street, Berkeley-square, at the great age of 89 years. The venerable baronet was taken ill on Friday last, and subse quently, as might have been expected from his advanced years, never regained strength. We are informed, says the Bath Chronicle, that the vicar of Frome will not comply with the decision of the Dean of Arches in the St. Alban's and Teignmouth cases, and that he is resolved on continuing the Ritualistic prac tices prohibited—namely, the mixing of the chalice, the elevation, and the tensing, THE PORT OF WORKINGTON.—At the last meet ing of the trustees of the port and harbour of Workington, Cumberland, it was decided to transfer the harbour to Lord Lonsdale. The trade of the port has been decreasing, and expensive improvements being necessary to prevent the trade from further decaying, the inhabitants do not feel inclined to incur the liabilities. THE NEW PALACE OF WESTMINSTER.—In conse quence of the immense number of visitors on Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday, who viewed the Houses of Parliament, far exceeding in number those in the Exhibi tion year, it is understood that the Lord Great Chamber lain has decided that the "Houses" shall be open to the public on Whit-Monday and Tuesday. EMIGRATION FROM THE EAST OF LONDON.—On Wednesday 150 people, including men, women, and children, embarked on board the St. Lawrence, screw steam-ship, lying in the Victoria Docks, bound for Quebec. The men were chiefly blacksmiths, fitters, sawyers, and labourers, and all of them in the prime of life. They had lived in the East of London, principally in Poplar, and had all suffered more or less during the long-continued distress. None of them, however, had received parish relief. CHURCH PATRONAGE. —The Guardian considers that the following circular, addressed to parish clerks of Government benefices, and marked " private," deserves to be made public :—" 53, Clapham-park-road, S.W., April 9. Sir, in the event of any vacancy, by resignation or otherwise, in the living of —, I should be much obliged by your giving me the earliest possible information of such vacancy, and in case it were secured, as it probably would be, for a friend of mine if the present Government were in office, I would take care that you received a gra tuity of not less than £2O for your trouble. The expense of any telegram you might send when necessary to save time, as well as postage, would be cheerfully paid by myself.—l am, sir, yours faithfully.—WlLFßED P. You- TAME." MR. DISRAELI AND JUDAISM. —The Jewish Chro nicle, a very high authority among the people whose views it advocates, has the following remarks in reference to the new Premier and Judaism :—" There seems, indeed, to be a singular mistake as to the relation of Disraeli to Judaism. Some Jews censure him as an apostate, and urge his apostacy as an instance of tergiversation. Some Christians scoff at him as a Jew, with a singular disre gard of all they owe to the Hebrew race. Now the fact is, that in plain English, Disraeli is neither an apostate nor a Jew. Ile was born of Hebrew parents. His father, Isaac Disraeli, the author, and his mother, a scion of the Basc-ni, were members of Sephardim Jewish families. his grandfather and grandmother, indeed, rest in the Portuguese cemetery at Mile.end. Benjamin Disraeli was admitted into the communion of Israel, but his father, thinking fit to quarrel with his synagogue, failed to teach his child Judaism. Qne day Rogers, the celebrated banker-poet, happening to visit at Isaac Dis raeli's house at Hackney when Benjamin was about five or six years old, and regretting to find so intelligent a youth without religious instruction, took him to Hackney Church. From this event dates his absolute and complete severance from the Jewish communion. He became a Christian, 1, great genies was lost toyl!", (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Impeachment question was fairly stated in the Times last Wednesday. The argument will mainly hinge on the wording of the Tenure-of-Office Act passed ou the 2d of March, 1867. By yester day's telegram from Washington it appears that on Thursday Judge CURTIS, in opening the defence, denied that the Act was applicable to the offence of removing Mr. STANTON from the War De partment. The Tenure-of-Office Act provides that " every person holding any civil office to which he has been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate . . . . shall be entitled to bold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed. . . . Provided that the Secretary of War . . . shall hold [his] office for and during the term of the President by whom [he] may have been appointed, and for one month thereafter." All the Secretaries of State were similarly exempted, the design being not to give them a longer tenure of office, but that they should vacate their posts with the President who brought them in. The object was to deprive the PRESIDENT of the power of dismissing civil servants appointed with the consent of the Senate, without that consent being secured for the dismissal. If the PRESIDENT desired to remove an officer he would have to send the name of his successor to the Senate for ap proval ; and if the Senate opposed the PRESIDENT and favoured the subordinate, each name as it came up would be rejected, and that subordinate would retain his office in spite of the PRESIDENT. Among the exceptional cases, however, is the one upon which the main charge against Mr. JOHNSON is grounded. The point is the meaning of the " term of the PRESIDENT." The Times, while admitting the difficulty of arriving at a true interpretation, inclines to the opinion that it must be restricted to the time a person does serve, and not to that period for whichlhe PRESIDENT was elected, and it gives these two reasons :—" First, because the language appears to connect the Secretary personally with the PRESIDENT ; and, secondly, because on the other interpretation we should be landed in the ab surdity of acknowledging that a President might be removed from office after impeachment without affecting the position of his subordinate officers." The Tenure-of-Office Act was a piece of legislation directed against ANDREW JOHNSON. It is not in tended to last beyond his term, and can scarcely, therefore, be discussed as any ordinary measure. The intention of the Act was well enough under stood, and no lawyer can argue in the face of the men who passed the measure that they meant one thing when they well know that they meant the reverse ; but the interpretation it can bear is another question. It is stated in reply to Mr. JOHNSON'S argument " that he did not appoint Mr. STANTON" —that he sanctioned the appointment by his tacit acquiescence in the tenure of the office by Mr. STANTON, after the expiration of the month follow ing the assassination of Mr. LINCOLN, which was tantamount to a nomination. But the Times con siders that Mr. JOHNSON has a second and more substantial answer to the Tenure-of-Office Act in his denial of its constitutionality, and consequently of its validity. This is in truth the standard around which the war will rage. The PRESIDENT'S plea that he disregarded the Act as a step towards chal lenging its constitutionality before the Supreme Court appears to the Times to be a successful answer to those who allege that the PRESIDENT is bound to execute the Act so bon as it remains on the Statute Book uncondemned by the Supreme Court. It adds that if Congress were to pass an ex post facto law, any one aggrieved by it could re fuse obedience to it, and justify his refusal. It is not contended by unprejudiced men in the United States that the PRESIDENT has not the privileges accorded to other citizens, nor do they doubt his legal right to test the constitutionality of any mea sure ; but, like other paid servants who dispute their master's regulations, his right to do so is out side his office, and ANDREW JOHNSON will be afforded every opportunity of testing any act as a private citizen of Tennessee, but not as PRESIDENT of the United States. Sub ordinate officers are told that it is their business to obey first and complain after, and paid officers of the Government who refuse obedience even to an ex post facto law which aggrieves them, may very properly be dismissed, while acknowledging their con stitutional right of an appeal to the Supreme Court. No Government can allow its servants the power of dispiting the laws. It was unfortunate for ANDREW JOHNSON that the lenure-of-Office Act referred solely to himself, for, as the only man who could be aggrieved by it, he alone could dispute its con stitutionality. To do this he must infringe it, and infringing it he knew meant Impeachment. Now Impeachment, he was also aware, must precede, not follow, the decision in the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Act. It would be an absurdity to suppose that the Senate who passed the Act over the PRESIDENT'S veto by the two-thirds majority, with all ANDREW JOHNSON'S arguments on its unconstitutionality before them, would now acknowledge the Act to be unconstitutional. The position may be considered an unfair one for the PRE SIDENT, but so is a pugnacious boy's, when his anta gonist has his head in Chancery. People who will fight to the bitter end are sure to come in for some nasty, and perhaps unfair, blows. The Times considers that the Impeachment will turn upon the construction and constitutionality of the Tenure-of-Office Act. But, from the reasons we have advanced, we believe that the constitutionality of the Act will be put out of Court. The issue will hinge on the question, whether the Act was in fringed ; and if this be conclusively proved, we would give very little for ANDREW JOHNSON'S chance of remaining in the White House. " The appoint ment of General THOMAS," the Times says, " was confessedly provisional ; and if the removal of Mr. STANTON be successfully defended, the Acts depend ing upon it will be justified." Now it appears to us that if Mr. JOHNSON could remove a Cabinet Minister and substitute an officer to act provisionally, he would exactly reverse the position in which Con gress desired to place him when it passed the Tenure-of-Office Act. The game, in truth, would then be in his own hands, for he might turn out the very Minister the Senate might desire to retain to fill the post with a creature of his own, such as LORENZO rHOMAS, then send a nomination to the Senate which he knew the Chamber would not sanction, whereby his provisional officer—that is, his creature—would remain in office so long as he chose to carry on the game. By this means he would exactly turn the tables on the Senate, and, however badly worded the Tenure-of-Office Act may be, we can scarcely suppose it could be thus construed. On the 3d inst. the Managers produced several of ANDREW JOHNSON'S speeches, in which he denounced the action of Congress, in support of the last two Articles of Impeachment ; and on the following day further testimony of a similar nature was produced when the case for the pro secution was closed, and the Court adjourned till last Thursday, when, as we before stated, the defence opened. The victory of the Democrats in Connecticut will have an influence favourable to the PRESIDENT, but we have no means now of judging to what extent. The nation continues quietly to await the issue ; and few will care a straw how soon ANDREW JOHNSON retires to pri vate life. What really concerns the people is the reckless disregard of Congress to the Constitution. ANDREW JOHNSON, deprived of power, will avert the necessity for such measures, and his removal even on this score would be beneficial. It has been un fortunate that the very time the full strength of the Government was most needed, should be that when it was neutralized by the Executive and the Legis lative branches pulling in opposite directions. Even supposing that the PRESIDENT'S plan of Recon struction was better than that of Congress, it would be preferable to have the inferior scheme, well executed, to having both thwarted. It is on the grounds of expediency that ANDREW JOHNSON will hereafter be condemned. No man in a high posi tion has the right to oppose his will and opinions against all with whom he has to work, and to en force his decisions, however, in his belief, desir able. The world is full of wrongs to be re dressed; of gross and palpable wrongs, bearing the letters clearly written on their faces—yet states men are often compelled to accept these wrongs, and when they approach them to do so cautiously, however much they would like to take a sponge and obliterate the word. Such, for instance, was the Domestic Institution in the South—such, for instance, is the Irish Church Establishment. This Mr. JOHNSON was incapable of doing. He may have intended well, but as a statesman he had no conception of the word concession, and no man can be a statesman who does not know how and when to concede. We daresay that the argu ment will be in favour of Mr. JOHNSON, that he will be able to justify his course with sound and convincing reasoning ; yet history when it broadly discusses the events of the period, will, we feel con vinced, condemn the folly of a PRESIDENT who ou assuming power was backed by a strong majority in the Legislature, and who turned this majority into a bitter opposition by acting on principles the reverse of those on which he was elected, and who, while destroying his own political career, managed materially to damage, the interests of those, he in tended to befriend. fillE OVERLOOKED ISSUE. --- o - -- The London Press this week has been unusually busy in discussing American subjects. Its tendency is to regard the PRESIDENT as to victim of an honest endeavour to shield the Constitution against a bullying and usurping Congress. The question of Impeachment being discussed on its abstract merits, as a rule, the argument tells heavily in his favour. To understand the case it is necessary to possess some knowledge of American politics ; and we fear, without this, Englishmen may drift into as great errors as during the Civil War. A superficial knowledge is very likely to lead to a wholly erro neous impression, and Europeans, before forming and expressing strong opinions, should dive below the surface, and endeavour to gain an acquaintance with the facts. For instance, on Thursday, the Standard wrote an article, the gross unfairness of which is apparent only to the uninitiated. There are few of its readers who are aware that while de nouncing in Billingsgate the errors of the Spectator, it was itself wholly mis-stating the circumstances. Broadly reviewing the position the facts are simple. The most material event, indeed, that from which all the others took their rise, is, as a rule, overlooked in the quarrel between the PRE SIDENT and Congress. Instead of discussing who struck the first blow the English papers aredis cussing who struck the last—that is, the burglar who assaulted the respectable citizen for his watch has in the police court turned the tables by proving that eventually the citizen was the assailant, knocked him down, and otherwise ill-treated him. If we come in at the fag end of a fight the wrong side may appear to us the right, particularly if the for mer bullying foot-pad is then being well whipped. Now the last event of the great drama which com menced when the Southern members withdrew from Congress, and shot and shell from the United States arsenal were hurled against United States troops at Fort Sumter, is the Impeachment of ANDREW JOHN SON, President of the United States. If people think they can understand the merits of the quarrel without considering its origin in the Civil War they come in at the fag end of the fight, and profess a knowledge they cannot possess. Congress is ac cused of working outside the Constitution—so does the citizen when he knocks down the burglar act outside the law. Were the Southern States acting legally when from the national guns they dis charged Uncle SAM'S shot against Uncle SAM'S troops? The position is a difficult one, for these States having been thrown without the pale of the law, the question is how they are to be brought back ; and on this point the battle has been fought. ANDREW JOHNSON has his own policy to accomplish this, in which he is a strong and firm be liever, and that policy may be the correct one—a subject now immaterial to our discussion. Con gress has its policy, in which it as strongly and firmly believes as Mr. JOHNSON does in his. Being antagonistic, the one or the other had to give way, or both to yield something. But neither chose to give nor to concede. Mr. JOHNSON, having the enor mous power left him by his predecessor, thought himself the cock of the walk, and truly believing that the nation was swinging round to the principles of the Democratic party, made his celebrated tour, on which he publicly announced his intention of kicking out the Rump Congress, which—but for that tour—he might have done. So gross and out rageous was his attack that he not only alarmed Congress, but he alarmed and disgusted the people. The result was the instantaneous arrest of the Con servative tendency in the nation, and a great strengthening of the party of the Congressional ma jority. The gauntlet then thrown down by ANDREW JOHNSON was taken up, and the effort of Congress has since been to trip up the PRESIDENT and turn him out of the - White House. Laws were enacted against him, intended to strip him of power. Pro minent among these was the Tenure-of-Office Act, so framed that he could only test its Constitu tionality by infringing it himself ; yet, by infring ing it he became li ble to Impeachment. Most people held such laws to be unconstitutional, more especially those that, on his account, Congress directed against the Supreme Court. Few unpre judiced men approve the course of Congress in these enactments ; but many of the most enlightened and the most unprejudiced in the United States entirely approve of the object of Congress while condemning its action. The Reconstruction policy of ANDREW JOHNSON would have brought back the Southern States precisely on the old footing, and the first step, when the men who had been the head and front of the rebellion again came into power in the South, would have been to re-enact slavery. They would not have done this by declaring the " Domestic institution" re-established, but by a series of Acts. tying negroes to localities, and making labour compulsory. Now the Northern party who had fought for a distinct object were de termined to reconstruct the States, so that they would come back wholly purged from slavery. The irrepressible nigger is now, as he has ever been, the cause of the trouble. Heaven knows, poor fellow, it is no fault of his; but we find Congress in a nasty-looking place choking off the PRESI DENT; and, at the first glanes, being inclined to condemn its violent and even illegal action, we de sire to understand the reason for its decided course. When the eyes of the indignant spectator are re moved from the present phase of the quarrel, and he looks back over the battle-field to the beginning of the fray, he sees on what noble and magnanimous ground it is that Congress stands. The question simply resolves itself into the old struggle for free dom. High-handed and usurping as Congress is, it is the champion of the rights of mankind, of the very first principle laid down in the Constitution of the United States, that all men are born equal and entitled to the pursuit of happiness ; and although Congress may be infringing that Constitution in detail, it does so to preserve the spirit. The sophi s t ry with which the ability of Southern leaders has covered all their acts imposes on the English. Who ever hears what the real issue is of the quarrel between Congress and the PRESIDENT ? It is sim ply the elevation or the degradation of the Negro— that is, according to the light of each party. We are not so arrogant as to announce positively that the Congressional plan is even the better adapted for the end it has in view, but the deep conviction of most honest men in both Chambers is that if ANDREW JOHNSON'S policy had been carried into effect, the " Domestic Institution" in a new guise would have been the result. Is England sincere in her professions of sympathy with the African race ? If she be, awl understands the true issue, how can she condemn the best friend the Negro ever had in this ardent and self-sacrificing struggle to main tain their right—and that friend is the successive Republican Congresses of the United States ? ANDREW JOHNSON may be all that the Standard asserts. He may be a pure, disinterested, single hearted patriot, defending at all personal risk and cost the rights of the weak against the lawless tyranny of the strong; the permanent guarantees of liberty against temporary domination of a despo tic assembly ;" nevertheless, those who take a broad view may see the subject exactly reversed, and any ordinary person who uses his judgment is competent to form as correct an opinion as the writer in the Standard. He considers the weak the Confe derates lately in iNbellion WO may consider THE SUN, LONDO THE S7A7'E TRIAL. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1868 the weak the negroes lately their slaves and now the freedmen. The whole question hinges on this —Whose rights are to be preferred ? those lately accorded to the black, or those, left after the bloodiest war on record, to the whites ? Naturally our sympathies are with our own people, that is with the white race down South, and it is against these natural sympathies that Congress has to work in dealing with the North. It has alike to with stand the strong prejudices of race and the igno rance which places the poor enslaved African in a ridiculous position when entrusted with power. And here we unhesitatingly affirm that nothing will come out more brightly in history, will more display virtue and self-sacrifice, than the noble stand made by Con gress for the natural rights of the freedman against that overwhelming prejudice felt by all classes, but most strongly among the lowest, against the power of men in the highest places headed by the PRESIDENT —against the Southern whites as a unit, against little short of a majority in the North, maintaining the abstract principles of right and justice with the indomitable tenacity and courage,which could alone prevail against such fearful odds. We are no un qualified upholders of Congress, but we earnestly desire that England may not again be led into the gross errors of the past. They may appear very appropriate on the Standard poor old BETSY flys, but they become mischievous in the highest degree when they go forth as the sentiment of Great Bri tain.—Anglo-American Times. IRISH BENEFICES. The net income of the clergy of the Established Church in the several dioceses of the province of Armagh in 1864 was as follows :-Diocese of Ar magh, with 71 benefices and 37 perpetual or dis trict cures, £32,094 ; net value of archbishopric, £8,328. The patronage of the 108 livings is thus distributed :-The Crown, 5 ; the Archbishop, 46 ; incumbents of benefices, 35 ; Trinity College, 6 ; lay patrons, 10 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay patronage, 6. The diocese of Clogher, with 44 benefices and 33 perpetual cures, £18,337 ; livings in patronage of the Crown, 1 ; the Bishop, 36 ; incumbents, 28 ; Trinity College, 4 ; lay pa trons, 8. The dioceses of Armagh and Clogher are united. Diocese of Meath, with 102 bene fices and 10 perpetual cures, £24,504 ; net value of bishopric, £3,664 ; Crown patronage, 37 ; Bishop's, 25 ; incumbents', 9 ; lay patrons, 25 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay patron age, 16. Diocese of Derry, with 52 benefices and 18 perpetual cures, £25,591; net value of bishopric, .£5,500 ; Crown patronage, 3 ; the Bishop's, 38 ; incumbents', 11 ; Trinity College, 3 ; lay patrons, 14 ; alternate ecclesiastical and lay patronage, 1. Diocese of Raphoe, with 29 benefices and 12 per petual cures, £11,282 ; Crown patronage, 5; the Bishop's, 14 ; incumbents', 8 ; Trinity College, 7 ; lay patrons, 7. The dioceses of Derry and Raphoe are united. Diocese of Down, with 38 benefices and 10 perpetual cures, £10,688; net value of bishopric for united dioceses of Down, Connor, and Dromore, £3,524 ; Crown patronage, 6 ; the Bishop's, 17 ; incumbents', 2 ; Trinity College, 1 ; lay patrons, 20; alternate Crown and ecclesias tical patronage, 2. Diocese of Connor, with 53 benefices and 23 perpetual cures, £13,682 ; Crown patronage, 6 ; the Bishop's, 31; incumbents', 16 ; lay patrons, 23. Diocese of Dromore, with 24 benefices and 4 perpetual cures, £8,292 ; livings in patronage of the Bishop, 16 ; Lord Primate, 1; incumbents', 4; Trinity College, 1 ; lay patrons, 1 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay patronage, 6. Exempt jurisdiction of Newry and Mourne, £1,320. Diocese of Kilmore, with 36 benefices and 19 perpetual cures, £14,589 ; net value of bishopric for united dioceses of Kilmore, Elphin, and Ardagh, £5,246 ; Crown patronage for Kilmore, 1 ; the Bishop, 26 ; incumbents', 16 ; Trinity College, 1 ; lay patrons, 6 ; alternate Crown and ecclesiastical patronage, 5. Diocese of Elphin, with 36 benefices and 5 perpetual cures, £6,719 ; Crown patronage, 1; the Bishop's, 31; incumbents', 4 ; lay patrons, 3 , alternate Crown and ecclesiastical patronage, 2. Diocese of Ardagh, with 30 benefices and 1 perpetual cure, £8,785; Crown patronage, 1 ; the Bishop's, 23; incumbents', 1; Bishop and lay patron, 1; lay patrons, 5. Diocese of Tuam, with 37 benefices and 12 per petual cures, £10,689 ; net value of bishopric for united dioceses of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry, £4,038 ; Crown patronage, 1 ; the Bishop's, 35 ; alternate, 1; incumbents', 8 ; lay patrons, 3. Dio cese of Killala, with 13 benefices and 2 perpetual cures, £3,688 ; Crown patronage, 1 ; the Bishop's, 11 ; incumbents', 2 ; Trinity College, 1. Diocese of Achonry, with 10 benefices and 2 perpetual cures, £3,032 ; Crown patronage, 1 ; the Bishop's, 9 ; in cumbents', 1; lay patron, 1. The net income of the clergy in the several dioceses of the province Dublin was as follows :-Diocese of Dublin and Glandelagh, with 98 benefices and 37 perpetual or district cures, £26,545 ; net value of Archbishopric, £6,569 ; livings in patronage of the Crown, 11 ; the Archbishop, 46 ; incumbents, 35 ; lay patrons, 36 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay pa tronage, 7. Diocese of Kildare, with 43 benefices and 3 perpetual cures, £8,236; Crown patronage, 11 ; the Bishop's, 17 ; incumbents', 3 ; lay patrons, ' 9 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay patron age, 6. Dublin and Glendelagh and Kildare and are united dioceses. Diocese of Ossory, with 61 benefices and 4 perpetual cures, £16,009 ; net value of bishoprics for united dioceses of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin, £3,867 ; Crown patronage, 12 ; the Bishop's, 33 ; incumbents', 9 ; Trinity College, 1 ; lay patrons, 8 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay patronage, 2. Diocese of Ferns, with 53 bene fices and 10 perpetual cures, £14,812 ; Crown pa tronage, 1; the Bishop's, 39 ; incumbents', 12 ; lay patrons, 7 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay patronage, 4. Diocese of Leighlin, with 55 bene fices and 4 perpetual or district cures, £13,030 ; Crown patronage, 4; the Bishop's, 28 ; incumbents', 4 ; lay patrons, 15 ; alternate Crown, ecclesias tical, and lay patronage, 8. Diocese of Cashel, with 42 benefices, £13,499 ; net value of bishopric, for united dioceses of Cashel, Emly, Waterford, and Lismore, £4,402 ; Crown patronage, 3 ; the Bishop's, 37 ; lay patron, 1 ; alternate Crown and ecclesiastical patronage, 1. Diocese of Emly, with 28 benefices and 1 perpetual cure, £5,595 ; Crown patronage, 5 ; the Bishop's, 24. Diocese of Water ford, with 12 benefices, £2,635 ; Crown patronage, 4; the Bishop's, 7 ; Trinity College, 1. Diocese of Lismore, with 49 benefices and 3 perpetual cures, £9,542 ; Crown patronage, 7 ; the Bishop's, 22 ; incumbents', 3 ; lay patrons, 20. Diocess of Cork, with 63 benefices and 13 perpetual cures, £18,655 ; net value of bishopric for united dioceses of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, £2,304 ; Crown patronage, 4 ; the Bishop's, 42 ; incumbents', 12 ; Trinity College, 1 ; lay patrons, 14 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay patronage, 3. Diocese of Cloyne, with 89 benefices and 2 perpetual cures, £24,385 ; Crown patronage, 12 ; the Bishop's, 69 ; incumbents, 3 ; lay patrons, 5 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical, and lay patronage, 2. Diocese of Ross, with 28 benefices and 1 perpetual cure, £5,759 ; Crown patronage, 1; the Bishop's, 22 ; incumbent, 1; lay patrons, 4 ; alternate Crown and ecclesiastical patronage, 1. Diocese of Killaloe, with 65 benefices and 2 perpetual cures, £14,055. Net value of bishopric for united diocese of Killa loe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, and Kilmacduagh, £2,361; Crown patronage, 1; the Bishop's, 52; incumbents', 5 ; lay patrons, 8; alternate Crown and ecclesias tical, 1. Diocese of Kilfenora, with 6 benefices and 1 perpetual cure, £1,416 ; Crown patronage, 1 ; the Bishop's, 5 ; lay patron, 1. Diocese of Clon fert, with 13 benefices, £3,080; Bishop's patronage, 5 ; Trinity College, 1 ; lay patrons, 4 ; alternate Crown, ecclesiastical and lay patronage, 3. Diocese of Kilmacduagh, with 4 benefices, £1 603 ; Crown patronage, 1 ; the Bishop, 1 ; lay patron, 1 ; alter nate ecclesiastical and lay patronage, 1. Diocese of Limerick,with 56 benefices and 5 perpetual cures, £12,228 ; net value of bishopric, 3,961 ; for united dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe Crown patronage, 7 ; the Bishop's, 21 ; incumbents', 13 ; lay patrons, 17. Diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, with 48 benefices and 1 perpetual cure, £9,488 ; Crown patronage, 10 ; the Bishop's, 20 ; lay patrons, 19. Thus, for the whole of Ireland, with 1,391 benefices and 276 perpetual cures-total, 1,667-- the net income of the clergy in 1864 NN as £393,864 ; the net value of the two archbishoprics and ten bishoprics was £53,764-total, £47,628. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The attack so long expected and so carefully prepared by the Allied fleet and army on the Para guayan position held by LOPEZ at Humaita has at last come off. On the 13th of February three iron clads passed the batteries of Curupaity to join the fleet between the fortresses. These vessels, built in Rio, proved insufficient in power to work se curely in the swift running current of the river. On the second attempt, however, they succeeded, on a dark and showery night, in creeping past the batteries, and joined the ironclad division above. On the 19th that division, having everything pre pared, assayed the dreaded passage of Humaita. The Bahia, carrying the Commodore's flag, the Barrosa Tantaitare, the Para, the Alagoas, and the Rio Grande, got under weigh before daylight, and, owing to the rise of the river, passed over the chains, which, bagging by the destruction of the three supporting flats, had sunk in the middle so as to be twelve feet below the surface. The ships had to double the projecting head-lands when they came within range of a raking fire of the great battery Landon, in front of which the chains had been placed in a slanting direction. They had to continue along the channel hugging the opposite bank, where the river narrow ing rushes rapidly along, exposed to the fire of 80 68-pounders at short range and a few 150-pounders, accomplishing the passage so successfully that no vessel was lost and but ten men wounded. The Barrosa led, towing the Rio Grande, and was struck twenty-four times; the Tantandare and Pura ollowed, and were so badly mauled that they were run ashore at Tayi to prevent their sinking; the Alagoas, owing to exceptional circumstances, was so battered that several of her plates were beaten off. On the same day the Marquis de Camas attacked a detached fort off Humaita, where fifteen pieces of light artillery and 1,500 men were posted, and carried the position with his force of 6,000 Brizilians, with a loss of 148 killed, 339 wounded, and 42 bruised—in all 529. The Paraguayans lost their guns, besides arms, munitions, and cattle, together with 120 killed and a few prisoners. The action lasted three hours ; the Marshal burnt the camp, destroying the brick yards and other establishments used by the enemy, when he appears to have retired. Now this, in a few words, is the story as told by the Brazilian commanders, and interpreting it by the light of former despatches, we would say that it simply amounts to this—the ironclad fleet suc ceeded in running the gauntlet of Humaita, much in the same way as Admiral FARRAGUT ran the gauntlet of the forts protecting the passage of the Mississippi below New Orleans. It was a brilliant achievement, and, as a consequence, Assumption fell into the hands of the Brazilian commander, as New Orleans became the prize of the American admiral. Simultaneously with the passage by the fleet, the fort was subjected to an assault by a division of the army, which reads like a defeat to the Allies, as the Paraguayans appear, even by the Brazilian accounts, to have inflicted a very heavy loss on the enemy, and to have suffered compara tively-little themselves. After the passage a detach ment of ironclads proceeded up the river 140 miles, to As,sumpcion, where the Paraguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs, came on board, asking the Bra zilians to spare the city, in which he was the only man left. The despatch by the Brazilian naval commander gives no particulars except the exploit of Lieut. MAURITY, who commanded the Alagoas, one of the small monitors built at Rio, which was in towed of the Bahia. A shot severed the hawser, and the Alagoas was carried down stream, when the Admiral, fearing that the monitor might be taken, signalised to the Lieutenant to anchor. MAURITY, however, imitating NELSON, " did not See PARKER'S signal," and, steaming up stream passed single-handed the whole batteries of the fortress. Hardly was he clear of the batteries when 40 boats crammed with Paraguayans assaulted him. MAURITY sank a few, and with grape and canister carried havoc among the rest, getting safely off and joining the Admiral above the for tress. V e have no wish to detract from the gallant act of the brave Brazilian sailor, but we cannot en dorse the wild ecstatic praise, the gushiug admira tion of Baron D. LNIIAUMA ; and we consider the attack of a monitor by the Paraguayans in open boats to be a far more hazardous experiment. If this was the great exploit which throws into the shade all the naval successes of the United States, we confess our imagination is not sufficiently vivid to see it. The vic tory is by far the most important of the cam paign ; indeed, it may lead to results of greater moment to South America than any event since the Spaniards landed on that continent. It is claimed that the success opens the River Plate to the world—that the fortress it has taken three years to humble took ten times that period to erect, and now ceases to be a bulwark against commerce. All this may be premature, for although the fleet is above, instead of below, Ilumaita, and the command of the river, therefore, from that point upwards in their hands, it by no means fol lows that Paraguay is conquered. The vigour, the courage, and the endurance of LOPEZ and his gallant people in maintaining for years their war of independence against the overwhelming combination which naw loudly announces their subjugation will make one of the finest chapters of history. The dark night—the rise in the river sub merging the impediments and offering the fleet a clear passage over them, at the same time that it swept away the torpedoes--all told against LOPEZ, and enabled the squadron to make good the passage. But Humaita and Curu paity still remain unsubdued, and it is im • possible to predict what the turn of affairs may be in this crisis of Paraguay's fate. It is quite clear that Uruguay and the Argentine Republic are beginning to dread the success of the powerful ally they have brought into the field. It is the policy of Brazil to carry the Empire to the River Plate, to command both the Parana and the Paraguay, and with the liberty of Paraguay will go that of the sister Republics. With the news of these successes come ominous tidings from Monte Video. FLORES, in the interest of Brazil, brought about the war. Acting as the tool of the EMPEROR, he seized on the government of Uruguay, and forced LOPEZ, who was conscious that the combination was directed against the independence of his State, to take the initiative. It now appears that FLORES was over powered by a conspiracy and assassinated. On the very day when the thunders of Humaita► shook (as the Buenos Ayres Standard says), the earth for a distance of eight miles from the fortress and dashed in billows the Parana on its banks, FLORES was intercepted by four men while on his way to the Government House, whither he had been induced to go by a forged letter, and killed with eleven stabs. On the news being spread Don BERNARDO BERRO, with forty-five Blancos, seized the Government House after killing the commander and several others, proclaimed a revolution, and calling en the people to join him, raised the cry of "Paraguay!" and "Down with the Colorados, the Brazilians, and the Alliance !" The revolt ap pears to have been premature, or not backed by the people, and BERRO and those who acted with him became its victims. He and one of his sons were torn from the authorities and killed by the mob. Military and Lynch law executions continued all over the city, and at Pantanoz General CARABADO massacred a hundred men found in arms. That the Blancos created very considerable alarm is seen by the measures to which the friends of Brazil were compelled to resort. Four thousand National Guards and some of the inhabitants remained under arms, while the foreign shipping landed marines to guard the consulates, the banks, and other foreign property. The Republic was divided into three military departments, and other measures taken to suppress the Blancos, who bad cut the telegraph wire, preparatory, it was said, to a general insurrection. 1)on MANUEL FLORES, who had risen in rebellion against his father but a few days before, and by his order had been thrown into prison, died sud denly on the 22d February, and not fewer than 16 of the relations and friends of the General were, if report be true, poisoned by the BLANCO party. The deaths occurred among those who were present at the embalming of the General's body, or assembled round a cistern at the spot, of whom 30 were at tacked with sickness, some think either by the exhalations of the cistern or of the chemicals used in embalming. A jealousy so strong is not likely to be lessened by the Brazilian success. It was to save Uruguay from the dominating influence of Brazil that LOPEZ crossed the frontier after issuing a protest against the invasion of the Re public on the 30th August, 1864. His protest be came the subject of banter with the Allies, General MITRE asserting that a war with Paraguay would be merely a pasco nzilitar, which would take him in three months to Assumpcion. After three years, during which the Allies have sustained some crush ing defeats, the mere passage by their fleet of Humaita is heralded forth to the world as a victory only second to thatof Trafalgar, and on the very day of the exploit, PLO RES, the principal instrument of the war, fell beneath the assassins' daggers, with the shouts of " Paraguay," and "Down with Brazil," ringing in his ears. MERCANTILE SHIP NEWS. DEAL, April 4.—Sailed, the Sarah Paysan, for Boston; and the Sir Robert Peel, for New York. LIVERPOOL, April 4.--Arrived, the Lancascria, from Mobile; the C.— ractacus, from New York. Sailed, the Marlborough, for Boston ; the Quebec, for New York; the Worcester, for Baltimore ; the Yumuri, for San Francisco ; the Russia, screw steamer, for New York. NEWPORT, April 3.—Ar rived, the Balder, from London, for New York. CARDIFF, April 3.—Sailed, the Huntress, for New York. QuEENS TOWN, April 3.—Atzived, the Lancast- ia, from Mobile ; the Maria Heydom, Hamburgh barque, from New York to Tralco, with foremast, jibboom, &c., gone. She was spo ken on March 2, by the Mary Black, off this port. VD:" SEL SPOKEN WITH..-The Daniel Webster, Liverpool, to New York, February 24, lat. 47, lon. 30 W. LIVERPOOL, April s. —Arrived, the Caractacus, from New York; the Louisiana, steamer, from New York. Sailed, the Mozart, for Baltimore; the Research, for St. John's, N.B. ; the Germania, for San Francisco; the Russia, steamer, ;or New York. April 6.—Arrived, the Andrew Jackson, from San Francisco. Sailed, the Sales, for Havannah ; the Ironsides, for New York ; the Thomas Haward, for Philadelphia. Cowas, April 4.—Arrived, the Germanic , steamer, from New York ; left on the 24th of March ; on freight, $lBO,OOO for England, and $130,000 for France. April 6.—Arrived, the New York, steamer, from Now York; leL on the 26th of March; brings 13,000 dollars for France ; left for Bremen. OFF OROOKHAVEN, April 4. Arrived, the Armstrong, from New Orleans. NEW YOEICi March 23.—Montreal advices of March 20 report that the ice opposite that town had commenced to give way, al cl that there was open channel to St. Lambert. A severe N.E. gale was experienced at Fortress Monroe on the 21st , and a large fleet of vessels for the harbour were in the roads. On account of the severe snow storm there hav e been few arrivals here this day from sea, and most of the steamers have delayed sailing. March 26.—Violent shocks of earthquake were again experienced at Pelt° Rico on March 10 and 17 ; many buildings were badly damaged, and the vessels in harbour carried ashore by the waves. The Times, British brig, has been sold with he r sails at Charlestown for $1,400. March 26.—Tae Bra zilian,' barque, from Cardiff, was lost at Marie], Cuba , whilst performing quarantine. YOKOHAMA, Mo:ch G. -- The British steamer Osaka beached in port, badly ( 13 ' maged in collis'on with the American steamer Herman'' LivEßPon, April 6.—Arrived, the Andrew Johnson, frota San Francisco; the Juno, from Mobile; the Delhi, fro Savannah; the Magdala, from Charleston. April 7 -- /Crrived, the Beaver, from New York ; the Antarctic, from New Orleans; the Vesta, from New York; the Ocean Pearl, from New Orleans; the Fire Queen, steamer, from New Orlean s; th e S o l omon, f rom S an Franc i sco. S a iled, the Mary Darkee, for Boston ; the Aleppo, screw steamer, for New York ; tho Minnesota, steamer for New Yor lg ; QUEENSToWN, Ap r il 6.—Arrived, the City of Cork, screw steamer, from Halif ax , N.S. left 27th March for Liver pool ; and the Maria Heydorn, from New York, for Tralee , with fore and mainmast heads, jibboom, &c., carried awe''' . VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The .Limari Clyde to San Fr.u r. cisco, Feb. 7, lat. 1 N., l ong. 22 W. ; a ship, second distill: guishing pendant No. 0714, San Francisco to Liverpoo l ' Jan. 27, hat. 54 S., long. 60 W. ; the Alfred Loudon t° , Philadelphia, March 15, 50 m il es N.E. of Cape Hatter as ' the Black Bull, San Fr anc i sco to Li verpool, Jan. 23, latem : 56 S., long. 73 W. LtvE xPooL, Apr i l 7.—Arr i ve d, , t d Antarctic and Ocean Pearl, f rom N ew Orleans. S a lle the Minnesota, for New Y or k ; the Propont i s, s crew a steamer, for Boston. April B.—A rr i ved, the Pun j au b and the Santanella, from New Orleans ; the Maryborouu; from Mobile ; the City of Cork an d the Neptune, from bi r e .. ; l York ; and the Stadaconda and T ees d a l e, f ro m 1 0 , Orleans ; the Lola, from Charleston ; the Merrimac, fro Mobile; the Sharpsburg, from Savannah; the NePtY ro l3e ,; from San Francisco ; the City of Baltimore, a,' steamer, from New York. Sailed, th e City f . 1 - 4° for don, screw steamer, and Virginia, screw steamers, New York ; the Mozart, for New York. Sot:Tualuic. 1, TON, April 7.—Sailed, the Weser, for New Y° l ,. HOLYHEAD, April 7.—The Lydia Williams, from L o ivl e pool to San Francisco, has floated and been towed t th r old harbour. NEWPORT, April 6_—Sailed, the Fredanlila,lu Now York. QUEENSTOWN, April 7.—Arrived , the At' the Neptune, and th e H om b ersun d, f rom N e w York' and the City of Baltimore, steamer, from New York, 1 ,, OFF cROoKHAVEN, April 8 —Ar rive d, th e Tar' I , screw steamer, from New York. NEW YORK, 3 15 , r e c r , 26.—The Cornelius Grinnell, whi c h arr i ve d h ere ye", b .. day from Londcn, had been ho ve t o d ur i ng a ner',, c l west gale, Feb. 26, in lat. 48 N., l ong . 23 W., an d shiPt i ., a heavy sea, which stove bulwarks an d u pp e r part of T„, ward house, washed booby hatch overboard, and filled upper 'tween decks with water. BERMUDA, March if to The heavy weather has caused the Admiral, S a vanna 4 o Liverpool, to break up, being driven ashore. VES,, i , p SPOKEN WITH.—The George A. Holt, American _ b Liverpool to Bombay, March 19, lat. 21 S., long. 2 9 "e the Marian, San Francisco to Liverpool, Jan. 24, lat . S., long. 74 W. ; the Alice Scott, Galveston to Livere ° March 24, lat. 47 N., long. 24 W. o R GRAVESEND, April 9.—Arrived, the Bellona, Iron' , 00 . York. LIVERPOOL, Ap r il B.—A rrive d, th e City of York, from New York. Sailed, the City of London, se' fo r steamer, the Virginia, screw steamer, and the Mozar t r ot New ork. April 9.—Arrived, the Hibernian, a rrc o sttamer, from Portland; the Star of the West, Savannah; the Tarifa, screw steamer, from New 1 :;0. HOLYHEAD, April B.—Arrived, the Sadowa, from SaVall:/ 00 , QUEENSTOWN, April B.—Arrived, the Attila, from oo r, York. MATAMORAS, April 7.—T he Brazos, British sch°,,,w which arrived here from New Orleans Jan. 14, was ": g 0 polled, in consequen ce o f th e l oss o f t wo anc hors, back to New Orleans, with part of cargo on board. YORK, March 27.—The M.P., British schooner, frotn_to John's, N. 8., forßoston,was wrecked March 21, at the tn e b. of Penobscot Bay. Accounts from Hong Kong, dated tvia 1, report that the Lancaster, British, was in port there , ,,,r , had been condemned. April 28—The c re w of the 'o s sock, of and from Greenock, for Matanz a s, which ot wrecked at Mirant Key, were saved. V ESSE LS Sq o o- WITH.—The William Ciowes, from New York tu nj ech don, lat. 49 N, long. 16 W., same d a y ; the J: 4 0 Train, London to New York, Feb. 29, l a t. 50 N, lou§of W ; the Liverpool to Boston, Feb. 27 ; the Joanne, . t he York to London, March 23, lat. 43 N, long. 44 W. boa William, Baltimore to Liverpool, March 15, oil 0 0 Henry ; tir Fnce, steamer bound west, April e i n, o ol, N, long. 22 e W ra ; the Pleiades, , New Orleans to LiV March 22. All along the shores of the Portland 1 33 N5 Wednesday, March 11, immense numbers of frozen or were cast ashore, chilled and dead by the almost tl e ot cedented cold weather of the past winter. Such a n e has not been known for many years. The new Government steamer Contoocock, W a rp ' has just been completed at the Portsmouth (New lit - ol shire) navy yard, is now preparing for sea, and w" . „ s be in a few weeks for the North Pacific Squadron, when will be the flagship under the command of A' — „ton Henry K. Hoff, now on the Wampanoak at game Roads. Po The Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company the prohibited all dentists making sets of teeth fr° lll ,,, f ice material for whi c h th e y hold the patent, for a leg ( r than 20. California intends to change the year of oh°' the its members of Congress , as under the present 13" first State must necessarily be unrepresented during t he session of each Congress. Members will therefor° chosen next fall. e lee' General Meade has just issued an order for pot tions in Florida, to ratify the New Constitution an cl tl o b officers of State and Representatives in Congress, „ e first Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, in May ne a fOCe' New York City is to have a new post-oscres The building will be of white marble, will cover 2 t pot of ground, will be triangular in shape, and will COs less than $3,500,000. en r°' The wool exposition in Chicago in Augu, s re mises to be an event of much interest. It has v w oo" solved to offer diplomas on the best samples 4 ° l3°' ,o ll Committees to carry out the intentions of the e/c have been appointed. Births. 40 0' GAMBLE—On the 14th inst., at 3, Gordon-street, u,ter• square, W.C., the wife of R. C. Gamble, of a claitg",que LAWSON—On the 14th inst., at Brayton, Carlisle, the of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., of a son. vi llof MACKENZIE—On the 14th fast., at 7, C1are 13 ,,,, a. Windsor, the wife of Gordon Mackenzie, zg' 4s " daughter. WARREN—On - Warren, Esq., of a son. Marriages. te A l.l BRAND —CAVENDISH —On the 14th inst. , at St• 554 4d Church, Eatou-square, Henry R. Brand, Esq., r nr ci Henrietta Cavondish, youngest daughter of Lady George Cavendish. (lore 4 ' hI3 BROWN—OGILVIE—On tho 14th inst., at St• f Kensington, Wm. H. M. Brown, yougest son °,,10 / ~,. Brown, Esq., of Combo St. Nicholas, Somer set, agi lv` if garet Frances, eldest daughter of Alexander„ llou Esq., of Moond House, Bayswater, and Slze`ve il S utielk. Deaths. ,;„„, t 0 ci r i i c i A EIDAOH —On the 13th inst., at Susan-place, -13.'^-5130 Ireland, Richard M. Ardagh, Esq., Secretary t 0 the of Control, Dublin Castle. ,, g . Or al' BENTLEY—On the 13th inst., at Leamington 1 7-o ' ° I don, Samuel Bentley, Esq., aged 83. i 76, l iisl IlAwritor —On the 15th inst., Robert Bartron ° f ' Holborn, aged 46. inst . , at anis (Bo 1 j a3c 1.5°111 EMERSON— On the 12th G ' b • ugh - • v , Esq., aged 80. •Bligliteri HEDGINS —On the 13th inst., at Cannon-place, - John Hedgius, Eq., aged 65. Y „.45 .NID London : Printed and Published by WILLISN: —` - of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TRII SUN o ,3l°° ' oo oti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the bliddlelez.--Thunday, April 16, 1868. 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