The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-24 00:00:00

13PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 1 THE LATE SPEAKE.RON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. ThekTimes refers to the remarks of the American Ambas• sailor as to the different degrees of liberty, and proceeds to apply it to the Hyde•park demonstration. The proi. posed "demonstration" was so notoriously disgraceful ,that it was repudiated beforehand by all the organisations hitherto connected with such exhibitions. It was scouted by the Reform League. It was denounced in terms of unequivocal abomination by the "Representative Irish men:" All those who had been engaged in previous " demonstrations" discerned at a glance the injury which would occur to the system from such a cariea titre as this. A branch of the Reform League has actually held a meeting at which it was acknowledged that the proceedings on Sunday afternoon were calculated to destroy the right of public meeting altogether, and to bring "demonstrations" into utter disrepute. The Leaguers, in fact, recorded their " detestation " of the chief mover in the muter, and would, it is evident, have liked nothing better than to disperse the mob themselves. Yet, for all this, the prcceedings were permitted. A thousand " demonstrators " or so were allowed to take possession of Hyde Park, and there, in language of the foulest kind, to spout treason as long as anybody chose to listen to them. This is a caricature of English liberty. No good would be done by prosecuting it promoters. Nevertheless, there is a point beyond which it may prove unsafe to go, and it is as well to point out to these people that one result of a Reformed Parliament will be a Government hampered with fewer scruVes in preserving public order. A strong Government is in reality not so much a Government possessed of strength as a Government bold enough to exert it. Parliament now represents all classes ; the State in future will be the people organised, and there will be no occasion for the working men to hold political demonstra tions to influence the representatives of the people. The Post has a leader upon Cornish politics and Captain Vivian's speech. It is manifest that those who retain " professional bowlers " are responsible for their exploits, and that the degradation of a great party must be the consequence of its own misconduct, its own misapg. prehension of duty, or of its own infirmity of purpose. Mr. Disraeli " educated" the Conservatives because they, in a manner, paid for their schooling ; and if it is true that he led them to a "leap in the dark," it is true that they followed him like a flock of sheep. The exceptions prove the rule. Lords Salisbury and Carnarvon, and General Peel—all who shook the dust from their feet and saved their political honour—are Tories who may still "shed a tear on the grave of Bolingbroke," and, perchance, yet redeem a mortgaged and wasted inheritance. Tut the lesson of the victory of the Liberal party in Cornwall, and the moral of the defeat of their political opponents, are contained in the words of the old song quoted by Captain Vivian— " Do what is right, whatever people say, Honesty, in the end, will be sure to have the day." The Standard thinks autobiographies written in the lifetime of their subjects must necessarily be more or less in the nature of apologies. They are, if not precisely acts of suicide, at least excuses for living. For a public man to take the world into the secrets of his conscience is tantamount to an admission that, in the face of it, his career is not able to explain itself. A politician who haS lived nearly forty years in the full glare of publicity is 'the last of whom autobiographical chapters shQuld be expected. There should be nothing to explain—nothing at least that is not plainly explicable—in the acts of one who deliberately started in life with politics as a profession. The states man should be no more required to help us to the motive of his work than the painter or the musician. The very necessity of such aid is a proof and a confession of failure. Statesmanship should tell its own story; and if it is unable to do so, then it is but a clumsy and imperfect statesmanship. Public life would be intolerable if every one of the actors insisted on being his own chorus—in letting us behind the scenes of his conduct—in putting hie own gloss upon the transactions in which he was engaged. The pamphlet is nothing more than an election squib. It was a paper written simply to turn the votes upon the polling-day for South-West Lancashire. It could not have been intended as an appeal to truth and justice ; for if so, it would have been issued, not in this clandestine manner, but fairly and openly, while there was yet time for a full discussion of the subject-matter before the election. As it is, this publication is an attempt to , smuggle in some cx-parle evidence on behalf of the politician whose conduct is on trial, in such a manner as to give the other side no opportunity of cross-examination. The Daily News draws a comparison between the cases of Sir R. Peel and Mr. Gladstone. To some persons it may seem that Mr. Gladstone would have done well to follow Sir Robert's example of silent and Spartan forti tude. But there is a difference between the two cases. Sir Robert Peel's vindication could not have been pub lished in his lifetime. Official documents, the records of Cabinet meetings, private and confidential letters were essential to it. Mr. Gladstone's pilas justificatires lie in his published writings, in Parliamentary speeches, in letters made public by others than himself, in the voluntary testi monYof such m en as Sir noun dell Palmer and Mr. Coleridge. In the book whence have been drawn the chief attacks upon him, and in a speech delivered two years earlier, Mr. Gladstone had stated an alternative. The course of events closed one branch of it, and left him not only free, but under obligation to follow the other. This point established, the personal charges levelled against him cease to have any application. He has no more share in them than that which attaches to the great majority of his countrymen. The reasons which have led Mr. Gladstone to. think that the State establishment of Protestantism in Ireland is injurious to true religion and fraught with social evil are stated by him with admirable force, and the considerations by which he distinguishes the position of the Church in Ireland from that of the Church in England are not less cogent and discriminating. But the nation has expressed its sense of their validity, and there is no need to dwell upon them now ; nor on the biographic and literary interest which attaches to the writer's allusions to Lord Macaulay and Lord Derby, to Sidney Smith, to Newman, Pusey, and Keble, and to the Oxford of his youth. They give a charm to this " Chapter of Autobiography," but have no direct political bearing. The Morning Summary is disappointed with the pamphlet, and cannot think its publication will benefit the writer with his party. In all he says as to the great revival of Church life in England we cordially agree, but Mr. Gladstone overlooks in this appeal, evidently addressed to his High Church supporters, the circumstance that the manner in which he and his friends divided the High Church party into hostile political camps mainly con duced to bring about the unhappy results which he laments ; and he likewise abstains from commenting on the significant fact that be, of all statesmen, the Church. man—as this pamphlet shows —is now the idol of Non. conformists, Infidels, and Atheists; and that ultra-High- Churchmen and Roman Catholics are simply making a tool of him for their own purposes, and nothing is more evident than that the logical conclusion of his argu. meat tells equally against the English as the Irish Esta blishment. The Star remarks that Mr. Gladstone's book on Churc h and State contemplated a Church State rather than a State Church, and proposed a political enthronement of religion such as might amuse the leisure of Bunsen or Arnold, but could never enter into the arrangements of English statesmen, however devoted to the Church of England. It now appears that as soon as Macaulay's review appeared, Mr. Gladstone found it necessary to admit, and even assert, a wide exception to one of his principal theories, and the theory to which he clung—namely, that the propagation of religious truth, is one of the principal ends of Government, as Government—had to be surrendered as impracticable as soon as Mr. Gladstone deemed it the duty of Government, as Government, to give a grant to Maynooth College. Men of a narrow churchwarden type of mind, such as Mr. I Hardy, think it quite consistent to hold the light of the Reformation in one hand and the dark lantern of Popery in the other. But Mr. Gladstone was never a man of this' order. THE TEA TRADE.—The deliveries in London 'estimated for the week were 1 , 2 78,3961 b., which is a decrease of 163,6351 b., compared with the previous state ment. Colonel the Hon. F. A. Thesiger, of the 95th Regiment, late Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Abys. sinian expedition, is said to have been appointed Adjutant. General of the Indian army, in place of Colonel H. E. Longden, C. 8., who from failing health resigns that post from March next. PAROCHIAL INNOVATION IN THE RIGHT DIREC xIoN.—The guardians of St. Pancras have determined to give coals, as relief in kind, as well as bread and meat, to the cut-door poor. and to make arrangements for this pur pose with local coal-dealers, who are to be paid weekly, and the cost of the coal deducted from the amount of relief now given in money. This arrangement will be advantageous to the poor pcople, as it was stated they now paid £2 a ton for tl.eir coals, and the only objection raised to it was on the part of one of the guardians that it would isterfere with private charity. TIIE lIOUSE OF STANLEY AND THE REPRESENTA TIE327 OF Preston Chrollide says : " - the House of Stanley seems to be indissolubly associated m - >i the representation of the county of Lancaster. The present Earl of Derby, his father, grandfather, great grandfather, and great -great-grandfather have each repre- Rented the county in Parliament, and on Friday the Hon. F. A. Stanley, a member of the sixth generation in direct succession, was returned one of its members at the head of the poll. Members of the House of Stanley have sat for the county, with occasional intermissions, since the time of LiellrY IVA • - Mr. Denison, the late and probable future Speaker of the House of Commons, in his speech on the hustings, took P. wise course. Instead of entering into a wearisome "review of the past session," he gave out his idea of what should be done in future sessions. Referring to the eassing of the Reform Act, he said : " I am a loyal subject of the Queen, and I wish to maintain the existing form of our government and institutions. Now, what 's the best means of reconciling the old and the new state of things ? In my opinion, the best means 's to take into friendly counsel all those to whom the rranchise has been granted ; to ask people what are their wishes and desires, and to consult with them for their own and the general good. Now, with regard to the manufac turing districts, there arc the great questions of arranging the relations between capital and labour, and I trust that the good sense and the growing intelligence of the :ommunity are proposing to do this by amicable means and friendly counsels, instead of by the mere contests of brute force. There are the questions of local rates— what is to be the incidence of those rates, and who are to administer them. I shall be happy to try and arrange the best plan for the occupying tenant to take his share in that administration. On another question I have myself a very strong feeling indeed. I mean the great public injury to localities, and the almost national misfortune of an rxcessi% o increase and protection of game. I have not the smallest doubt that all resident gentlemen who take part in the public duties of the county and administer - their affairs in a friendly manner with their neighbours, will always have and command a just influence and power. But as power has now been given generally to the people they will very properly desire to have a free exercise of the franchise, and if that free exercise is not granted, some provision —it may be some which I should not myself at all approve—will have to be made to secure for them a fair and just exercise of those privileges. This is the way in which I should desire to see the old and the new state of things brought in harmony together ; and I have no doubt these are the sort of principles which you desire your representatives should possess." TAE MARQUIS OF TIARTINGTON ON HIS DEFEAT. Lord Hartington, the rejected of North Lancashire, took rather a curious step on the declaration of the poll. He came forward and addressed the electors. lle thanked the constituency for the confidence they had reposed in him for eleven years ; and declared that he now cheerfully gave way. "I am not here to make any complaints or imputations as to my opponents. I know that in many quarters very strong denials have been put forth that any pressure or undue influence has been used. I sincerely hope they are true, and I am not here, I say, to make any statements which I am not in a position to prove ; but in justice to my own friends I must say, that whether it has been the case or not, there did exist among them very strong impressions that they would not be permitted, for fear of the consequences, to record their votes in my favour ; and if that impression had not existed, I think I should have polled a larger proportion of the votes than I have dune. Of course, I cannot observe without regret that for the first time in our history Lancashire has to a certain extent separated herself from the policy of the party with which she has usually been associated. I will not attempt to explain the causes of the separation. I trust they have only been temporary. I believe they are in a measure due to the prevalence of a very strong religious and Protestant feeling in this county. Although I think that the religious and Protestant feeling has in this instance to a certain extent been misdirected, I cannot regret the existence of such feeling in a great country like this ; but I hope and believe that when Lan cashire sees, as I think she will shortly see, that the policy of the Liberal party is not conceived in any spirit of hostility either to the Protestant religion or to the English Establishment, she will then return to her old allegiance." SIR JAMES FERGUSSON. Sir James Fergusson is to have a presentation of plate, worth £1,550, made to him ere he leaves for Australia. A meeting was held at Ayr a day or two back, when it was stated that it was impossible to get the plate ready in time to present it formally to Sir James, but it would be insured and delivered to his Excellency in Adelaide, South Australia. The testimonial consisted of a very handsome centre-piece in the Italian style of art, two sunlight candelabras, and eight minor pieces, which would all be completed in the very first style. The chairman, in addressing Sir James, remarked that the articles of which the presentation consisted would stand on the Governor's table in South Australia, testify ing to the people there that his Excellency had gone from among friends in this country who esteemed him very highly for his business qualities, his great abilities, his attention to duty, and his personal amiability and kind ness. Sir James Fergusson, in acknowledging the kindness of his friends, said he knew that it had been given in full recognition of the fact that he had consistently be longed to the Conservative party, and that up to the moment of leaving this country be felt it to be his duty to join in supporting that party and those principles to which he was by conviction attached. It had afforded him great pleasure to see on the subscription list the names of poor men, cotters and labourers—men who would not have appeared there had he not been so happy as to secure their regard, which he valued as much as that of the duke who headed the list. He was not, as they all knew, a man of first rate abilities, education, or acquirements, and he had had his full share of honour for any success which he had attained. Indeed, his feeling now was one of doubt whether be had not been overpaid. He had been honoured during the last fortnight by being raised to a rank which he valued higher than the peerage, and he had accepted a post of honour and emolument abroad in which, whatever were its duties (and he might easier undervalue than over value its responsibilities), at all events there would be much ease and comfort. In fact, it was such an appoint ment as might be a fit reward of much longer service than THE FATHER OF MR. GLADSTONE. Stories are "going the round of the press" about the father of Mr. Gladstone, and concerning the right hon. gentleman himself. One of these, taken from a new " Life of Gladstone," is to the effect that when the father was just of age he was sent to Liverpool to sell a cargo of grain which had arrived at that port. He so attracted the attention of a leading corn merchant there, that the latter earnestly entreated his father to let his son settle at that port. The result was the formation of the firm of Corrie, Gladstone, and Bradshaw, corn merchants. The firm' had hardly existed two years ere there came a general failure of the corn crops throughout Europe. Mr. Corrie despatched his junior partner, Mr. Gladstone, then about 24 years of age, to the United States to buy grain. On reaching America he found that the corn crops had failed there also, and that there was not a single bushel to be procured. By the next advices which he received from England he was informed that some 24 large vessels had been:chartered to bring home the grain. When the news became known at Liverpool it was consi dered impossible for the house to recover the shock arising from scimany:vessels:returnin g in ballast instead of bearing the cargoes which they had been chartered to convey. Currie and Co. were therefore regarded as a doomed house. But young Gladstone, though strongly impressed with the diffi culties of the position in which he found himself, sought every means by which to lighten, if not to avert, the blow. By ascertaining what procurable products would best suit the English market, he succeeded without waste of time in filling the holds of all the vessels, and when all was sold and realised the net loss on the large transaction of the house hardly exceeded £5OO. From that time John Glad stone became a marked man on the Liverpool Exchange and in the English commercial world. THE LORD RECTOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.— The Duke of Montrose, Chancellor of the University, has given his casting vote in favour of Lord Stanley, who is consequently Rector of the University for the next three years. The California laurel wood is growing in favour for cabinet and ornamental manufacture. Its colour ir peculiar, but very handsome, and it is said to take a most beautiful polish. It has a pleasing neutral tint, which softens the glare of bright colours, and increases the depth of subdued hues. A merchant in the City was accustomed to demand an excuse of his clerks whenever they arrived late. The excuse given, he invariably added : " Very well ; but ion% let it happen again." One morning a married clerk, being behind time, was promptly interrogated as to the ;ause. Slightly embarrassed, be replied : "The truth is,t I bad an addition to my family this morning, and it was not convenient to be here sooner." " Very well," said ',lle merchant, in his quick nervous manner, " very well; but don't let it happen again ! " CANVASSING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. —Hon. F. L. Pennington, an Alabama State senator, and Hon. George L. Harrington, Speaker of the House, both Republi ca n; lave published a card, stating that whil e canvassing ' !ccently in Choctaw and Sumter counties, several attempts were made to assassinate them. On one occasion, while lriving through a town in daylight, they were fired upon, ind in Choctaw they were threatened with immediate ranging. They say that in some localities there can be no !air election without the presence of United States troops •,o protect Union men from being killed by rebels. THE SUN, LONDON, '1 UESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1868. SCENE IN A CHURCH. During the morning service on Sunday, at St. Martin's, Ludgate, shortly after the minister, Dr. White (lately appointed to the living, and who that morning read him self in), had entered the desk to read the Articles, a young man, who had taken his seat in one of the pews, got up to make his way out. He turned towards the reading desk, but as the vestry door is beyond, and was opposite him, it may be that he mistook it for the entrance. The beadle prevented his going that way, and the man, after calling out loudly eome words about the Son of God, heaven and hell, and declaring that no man should take him, made an attempt to cut his own throat with a large Spanish knife. Whilst being taken out of the church he inflicted on himself another wound about two inches from the heart, driving the knife in right up to the handle. The wound is of such a serious nature that no hopes are enter tained of his recovery. No money was upon him, but a paper shewed that he held a situation as cook in a vessel. He states that he comes from Germany, and that his only relative is a mother, in South Carolina, his father having been killed in the wars. He refused to assign his motive for such a desperate act. • ,rHE CIVILITIES OF OFFICERS. -0- --- It is a favourite fallacy with a small proportion of the population that the presence of a regiment of soldiers in a town has a "civilising" influence. At least the officers are supposed to be gentlemen and to know how to conduct themselves towards others. But a tale which comes from Canada tends altogether to destroy that sup position. We there find a " coxy " captain behaving like an untutored rough ; and the other officers of the regiment taking his aide very vehemently. It is but right, how ever, to preface the tale by observing that we have only one side of it, the side of the aggrieved. It appears that at a ball given in Quebec, a gentle. man named Le Mesurier observed that an officer of the 53rd, Captain Elmhirst, continually jostled him during the evening. He was willing to believe this accidental until he heard the captain say "Now for a charge," and immediately afterwards found himself thrown, along with the lady with whom he was dancing, against the grate. He afterwards learnt that the captain "had boasted of his splendid victory, and said that he in tended to teach the young Canadian manners." He called on Captain Elmhirst for an explanation. The captain admitted that he had boasted of the incident in the ball-room as an intentional insult. After one or two efforts to induce the captain to apologise, M. Le Mesurier broke his cane over that officer's shoulders. He was at once called to account by half the mess for having insulted the regiment by caning one of its officers, and ordered to publish apologies, with the alternative of " a trip across the border." Mr. Le Mesurier refuses either to apologise or to fight, not having been taught manners up to either point. Meanwhile the officer is left to bring out the talents of other Canadians in that direction, FOREIGN NOTES. AMERICA. tvenerat Grants first order is characteristic: - He has directed the destruction of all letters from office-seekers. This task is so weighty that it appears a general is required to act as chief-executioner. One day's letters sufficed almost to bury this functionary-in waste paper. The Presi dent Elect evidently intends to send for subordinates when he wants them. Massachusetts has returned to its Legislature a strong majority in favour of a prohibitoxy liquor law. The Senate stands 24 to 16 on this question. General Grant made a speech at Galena which fills no less than eighteen lines of print, and must have occupied at least two minutes in delivery. A torchlight procession of thousands of citizens, bands of music, and a great display of fireworks brought from the taciturn statesman the announcement that he was obliged to the citizens of Galena for these marks of their kindness, and that he took the opportunity of bidding them good-bye. All attempts to elicit from the new President the slightest clue to his policy or intentions are unavailing. The New York Tribune wishes it to be understood that it :is not Mr. Revcrdy Johnson's admiration of England that has caused such dissatisfaction in America. Other Americans admire England as well as Mr. Johnson. It is because he has disgraced the country which he repre sents, by going out of his way to do honour to such men as Mr. Laird, Mr. Roebuck, and Lord Wharncliffe, that the feeling against him is so strong. 711 E INMAN ARMY. The Indian army grew with the Presidencies, and the Presidencies spread from small factories on the coast till they virtually swallowed up the whole Peninsula from the Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin. The factories being three—Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, the armies became three ; and as the factories were the property of a company, the ex traordinary spectacle was presented of a body of English merchants ruling the Empire of the Mo guls. The history of British India is one of those singular phases which could only occur to the An glo-Saxon race or the Dutch—an imperiwn in int perio, which created anomalies and contradictions impossible with any other people. The Hon. East India Company was annihilated by the Mutiny, and the army has ever since been in a transition state. in the time of " John Company" that mar vel and myth to the native mind, the three armies (for that of each Presidency was distinct), were modelled after the pattern of her Majesty's force. The Sepoys were turned into marching regiments, with red coats, white trowsers, and ammunition boots. They were formed into companies, and numbered off into regiments, with their colonel, major, captains, and subalterns, precisely as Eng lish regiments. The cavalry with regulation sad dles, but dressed in grey, became Lancers or Hus sars; and thus the British giving way to their inve terate habit of forming everything on their own model spoiled fine irregular troops, and turned hand some men into scarecrows. The Bengal army be came a vast machine after British conquest had rolled up to Peshawur, some 1,800 miles from the fort at Calcutta. It was recruited mainly in Oude, tnd in Rohilcund from the highest caste; to whom even the shadow of the colonel falling on their food was a degradation, and they would not have touched the plate from which a Christian ate. The spectacle was here presented of the ruling race coming into contact with the subjecu race on terms so strange. When an officer passed, sentinels pre sented arms, guards turned out, men sprang to at tention, and everywhere he was saluted ; yet these men held him to be a " defiled" being, a pig -eating, worse still! a cow-eating, wine-drinking, impure creature. When her Majesty's troops came to act in conjunction with the native regiments the English pride of race forcibly displayed itself. The Sepoy regiment was treated with the most supercilious contempt—a contempt deeply felt and bitterly re sented by the English Indian officer. Perhaps in this fact, as much as in any other, is to be found the cause of the mutiny. It became a habit with the Bengal officer to assert the superiority of his men, till even tually it became the creed of the Company's armies, although it was rudely shaken when the Sepoy was brought into contact with the old Khalsa troops of Itunjeet Singh, and recoiled in dismay from the trained infantry and well-served guns of perhaps the bravest army ever created from Asiatic material. Young officers imbibed something of this contempt on hearing the story of the demoralization after Ferozeshah, when a Governor-General had to mass the British regiments for the final attack, when the destinies of India were perhaps decided by the treachery to his people of a Seikh chieftain ; after Chillianwallah, when night Closed on an Anglo-Indian army in inextricable confusion, and some of its best brigades in flight. But this only made the old Bengal officer adhere the more tena ciously to his doctrine ; and it was so generally asserted that the Empire had been won by the Sepoy, despatches so teemed with his praises, that it need cause little surprise that he believed himself to be the master, and acted in accordance with the notion. Of course discipline suffered, and to such an extent that the Bengal Sepoy created the greatest alarm in the mind of the rulers, who found they possessed an instrument of which they could not get rid, and which might be most readily used against themselves. Whether the Sepoy army did or did not win India for the British, one thing is certain, that it finished off its own creator. in John Cora- , pany, and at the same time happily relieved society it tf was itse ai lf s ' d to provingthat it was in truth the poor thi n g be by her Majesty's regiments, and which was so indignantly denied by its own officers. The system of promotion was strictly by seniority, but the regiments being used as mere depots from which to supply the numberless officers required by the country independent of the Civil Service, the best were generally withdrawn, and their career ceased to be that of a soldier. Most of the regi mental officers were constructing roads, surveying districts, assessing and collecting taxes, meting out justice as cantonment magistrates, laying down the law at protected courts, controlling wild tribes on the frontiers, or, commanding as wild tribes gathered in their native array, and designated Irregulars in the Indian Army. These latter were the genuine Indian troops ; and admirable soldiers they have often proved themselves when led by a dashing young Englishman wh o th oroug hly under stood their character and language. It was in handling such levies that Sir Herbert Edwardes rose to renown ; with whom Nicholson and Hod son died ; and others, whose names are familiar as " household words" in India, are associated. Gene rally these troops are cavalry, but when they are infantry they assume too much the former type, al though the old dress disappeared, at least in Bengal with the Sepoy mutiny. The army of Bombay, with a few isolated outbreaks, remained faithful, watching events, in a shaky and dangerous state ; while the Madrassie, who had little sympathy with his northern brethren, continued staunch. These two armies, then, on the whole, arc intact ; but a great change has been wrought in the mode in which they are officered. Nearly all on the Army List in each Presidency have been formed into a Staff Corps, from which the Government appoint to every vacant office ; and the number to each regi ment is now not a fourth of that formerly borne on the list. The promotion is by length of service— rising from grade to grade after stated periods. Twenty-one years' service in India entitles to a re tirement on a fixed pension, which is increased on a lengthened term. Furlough to Europe is allowed for twenty months on liberal regulations ; and the pay of every grade is the highest know n t o armies. It is difficult to ascertain the strength in their transition state of any of the Indian Armies, but mere especially that of Bengal, which is mainly affected by the revolt. The regular line is now composed of 19 regiments of native cavalry, 45 of native infantry, 5 Goorkha regiments, and other local organizations. Indeed, the strength of some of these form in themselves a small army, such as the Punjaub Frontier force, consisting of artillery and engineers, 5 regiments of cavalry, 4 of Seikh infantry, 6 of Punjaub infantry, and a very fine regiment in itself composed of cavalry and infantry called a guide corps. On a much smaller scale is the Central India force, and these, in a more or less regular organization, are scattered over the country, the tendency being to create them, which the Go vernment has to resist. There are now 8 cavalry and 52 native infantry regiments in Madras, and 3 cavalry and 31 native infantry, in Bombay, in- dependent of irregular corps. These are the purely native troops, the European being now wholly comprised in the regular British army, of which we estimate in round numbers nearly half to be in India. A Commander-in-Chief sways in each Presidency, and although the officer at the head of the Bengal Army is termed the Commander-in-Chief in India, he has, in truth, little or no power beyond the limits of Bengal. In the days of the Company, her Majesty's regiments regarded themselves as a separate caste, as sojourn ers in an uncouth land, and they tried to make up by contempt of their brethren in the Indian army—the mere servants of a mercantile company —for their exclusion from the good things which fell so lavishly to the share of what they called the " Black" officers. The mutiny, however, turned these " black officers" into Queen's soldiers ; but while demolishing that distinction it opened Indian appointments to the officer of the British regiment. All the white troops, of whom the Company had nine regiments, together with a strong force of horse and foot artillery, were transferred bodily to the Queen's army--the engineers and artillery being amalgamated into the corresponding corps in England. Although the artillery of the Indian army may not have assumed so fine an appearance as in the British army, in war and for actual ser vice, if anywhere equaled it was certainly not ex celled. Indeed the departments in India which qualify an army for field service werekept in a working order, which enabled the Government at any moment to put its hand on an effective force. The old term for all the cantonments was " Camp ;" and the force was so constituted that at a day's notice its dwellings of barracks and bazaars changed to can vass, and five miles of road would be lumbered up with long strings of camels and other baggage animals. A portion of every officer's pay was termed " tentage ;" and it was the business of an Inspecting-General to ascertain not only that the regiment was complete in its appointments for the field, but that every officer was also thus equipped. But it is the fashion to give undue credit to Indian officials for this. The very nature of the tenure on which the country is held is this readiness for the field, and when the force is in movement its power is immense, for while it passes through a land ruled by its Government, all the resources of the soil are at the disposal of the commanders, who are un shackled by considerations which must hamper the movement of troops in Europe and America ; but, taking this into consideration, enough remains to justify the assertion that no army in the world is equally prepared for immediate action as that of of India, nor need we add. better prepared.- A nglo- American Times. NATURALIZATION ..FRAUDS. There was once, and still may be, an institution known in London as the "Judge and Jury," a coal-hole where immorality was redeemed, as far as immorality can be—by wit. Those who had seen the Judge with his cigar in his mouth and a glass of brandy and water beside him might be reminded of the scene during the issue of certificates of natu ralization in New York to fraudulent applicants. It is stated that such frauds were perpetrated on a grand scale in Philadelphia, but that they passed all bounds in New York. The Nation, on these frauds, writes, that not one of some 15,000 voters who claimed to be naturalized citizens, thcugh they had not completed their five years' residence, had ever been near the court-room ; and that 5,000 to 7,000 were non-existent. Describing a judge who passed these, that paper says—" He invited a friend who happened to be in his court-room to sit by him while he played a little joke. Then he left of call ing the names from the list before him, and pro ceeded to call off a long string of purely imaginary names invented by himself on the spur of the mo ment : John Smith, James Snooks, John Jones, Thomas Noakes, and the like. For every name a man instantly answered, and took a certificate ! Finally, seeing a person on the other side of the room scratching his head, the judge called out George Scratchem !" Here !' responded a voice. Take that man outside to scratch,' said his honour to the usher ; end resumed the more regular manufacture of voters. Yet there is not a single Democratic lawyer of any weight in this city who dares to come out and run for a certain one of our judgeships against this audacious ruffian, who might as well as not be defeated had any of his nominal party asiociates the nerve to face him and his backers. It is notorious that even among the nominating leaders, whom he purchases with ser vices such as we have been speaking of and with money, he has not one friend and many enemies. At least 10,000 certificates of naturalization have been issued for the use of repeaters,' and scattered through the State. The total number of certifi cates fraudulently obtained, in this and other cities, is at least 25,000 to 30,000." The Tribune the day after the election wrote—" With an honest vote, New York would give not less than forty thousand majority for Grant and Griswold. In this city their supporters largely exceed a third of the legal vote, while they are a decided majority of the native-born electors. We are overwhelmed here through the issue and use of reams of fraudulent Naturalization Certificates and the nefarious syste matic operations of 'repeaters,' organized and paid to register in many districts and vote from poll to poll. If it shall prove that our State officers are thus cheated out of the returns, we demand a contest, and a determined effort to unmask and punish the villainies whereby this result has been effected. We urge that a meeting be held, a committee ap pointed, and the collection of evidence commenced forthwith." We congratulate New Yorkers upon what their Irish friends have done for them. In deed it must be gratifying in the highest degree to long-descended American families that the Pats, with some of the Bog of Allan still sticking to them, can out-vote them, legislating for their property and good behaviour. They may learn once and for all that the more Irish New York becomes, the less they will like it ; and they had better now make their stand against a tide of corruption of which they are the victims, and which they cannot check by truckling. The first thing to teach the Irish is that if they desire American citizenship, and to exercise its rights, they must become American citizens, and not foreign conspirators. They must regard the United States as their country, not as a field on which to plot—first, against the natives for plunder, and next, against the British for revenge. Not only, however, did the judges know how to add to the list of voters, but they also knew how to subtract from it, as the following instance will show : " Mr. William Newman, one of the Tri bune's employes, who had registered in the Ninth District of the Sixth Ward, went to the polls, and was told that he could not vote under any cir cumstances, as somebody had already voted is his name. He desired to be sworn, but the officers de clined to accept his vote under oath." So tremendous have been the alleged frauds, so openly have they been displayed, that the much suffering community of New York city have at length been moved to action. _The courts have taken cognizance of the matter, and the District Attorney, Mr. Courtney, has preferred bills of indictment, which the grand jury have found, so all the cases will go up for trial ; among them that of a judge. Unfortu nately, prosecutions in this form assume the guise of political persecution. The cases are, in truth, conspiracies against the sovereignty of the people, and as such, in America, should be regarded as highly treasonable. But instead of this, whatever party prosecutes is said to be in conspiracy against the people. The returns s!low how successful the Democrats have been in the city of New York in swelling up a majority which has swamped the genuine American opinion of the State, as there was no overcoming the 60,000 for Seymour and the 70,000 for Hoffman, who himself, aided by his proclamations, &c., in his own election using his office as Mayor to forward his candidature for the Governorship. A trustworthy paper writes : " False names in thousands were put on the registration lists, and on the strength of them repeaters went from precinct to precinct, voting early and often. In Brooklyn, in defiance of law, the officials whose duty it was to count the vote deliberately an nounced their intention of performing their func tions in secret with closed doors. This was in order to make the majority as large as might tbe needed. Such a proceeding, of course, makes the perpetrators of it liable to punish ment on conviction, but unfortunately it does not vitiate the poll—and conviction these gentry do not greatly fear. In order that it might be learned just how large a majority it was that would probably be needed, the notorious Supervisor Tweed and his associates sent out a day or two before the election to every county in the State a circular to this effect : The recipient was to make arrangements with a shrewd and reliable Democrat in each city and in most of the towns, whose business it should be to transmit in the early part of the evening an ap proximate estimate of the relative vote of the two parties. " There was, of course, an object to be gained." The object was, of course, that the Hoffman ring might in turn tell their henchmen in this county and Kings how many ballots to a ld to the number really cast, fraudulently or honeitly. The desperate lengths to which 'Tammany went ar3 perhaps more strikingly show❑ by the harmonious proclamations of Mayor Kalbffeisch and Motyor Hoffuan—whom we are asked to believe only un fortunate in his associates, though the plain truth is that the most of them arc as unfortunate in him as he is in them--both of which incite to lawless ness and murder. Luckily some of these ribsoals, and some big fish as well as some little ones, are under arrest; and unless honest citizens, with pro verbial American good nature, let them go, they will stock the penitentiary, it is to be hoped." There are, however, some indications that nei ther in Philadelphia nor in New York will the result be patiently submitted to. In the latter city the Union League have appointed a committee to investigate the alleged frauds, and steps will be taken to contest Mr. Hoffman's election. Among the persons arrested for naturalization frauds is Probate Judge Mizner, Ottawa county, Ohio. TEXAS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is but fair to Texas, which we have not hesi tated to denounce for the political assassinations we call murders, to show that the country is all that its advocates claim it to be as a field for emigration. Indeed, its advantages are sufficiently great, if slowly, at least surely, to weigh down the prejudice caused by the lawlessness on which we have commented. The Houston limes, in writing of its resources, observes that, " Cotton is and al ways will be produced successfully in Texas, and it will always bear a moderately good price. Corn is raised abundantly, and when distilling becomes general, as it will, it will be very profitable. The hide trade is now beginning to rival the cotton crop, and we believe that from this time forth it will be worth as much to Texas as the cotton trade. The bide trade in Texas is destined to become a source of great wealth.. The wool trade, we appre hend, is about half the value of the cotton trade, and will almost equal it after a while: The tallow trade, too, is also growing into importance, and will soon become a source of immense revenue. The wine trade of Texas is increasing every year, and will ultimately become one of the largest and most prosperous industries in the State. When the railroads are extended a little further into the in terior the flour trade will soon become one of the largest and most profitable in the State. The beef and cattle trade is already very large and prosper ous, and as soon as packing establishments are erected at all needful points the trade will become a leading one in the State. The castor bean and and the California clover are both attracting at tention, and will be sources of much profit. In a few years the present small but general and pro fitable business of raising sorghum and making molasses and sugar from it will become a pro fitable industry for Texas. Hay-making, from clover, from millet, from Hungarian grass, from crab grass, from pea vines, and from many other materials, will become general and profitable in this State. Manufactories of cotton, wool, leather, horns and bones, and many other things, into articles of use and commerce, have already commenced in the State, and will continue to spread and prosper. Potatoes, ground peas, cabbages, onions, garlic, and similar things, which enter so largely into the industry and prosperity of other countries, are now being largely produced in Texas, and will soon be generally and abundantly pro duced for home consumption and commerce. The raising of horses and mules was injured as a busi ness by the war, but is now recovering, and with the improvement in stock now going on Texas win EOOll become the equal of Kentucky in this noble industry. The way to bring ten millions of people here to produce all the wealth with which the soil of Texas teems is to extend each one of the rail roads one hundred miles a year. The Pacific Ledger tells the following story :—" Twenty-three years ago a colony of German emigrants settled at New Braunfels, at the junction of the Guadaloupe and Comal Rivers, in Texas. At this point, where the great road from Austin and San Antonio passes through the centre of Comal county, have the in dustrious settlers pursued their unpretending la bours, until they can now boast of a flourishing city and county seat containing 4,000 inhabitants. Co mal county lies upon the south side of a range of mountains running from the north-east to the south west, and embraces 900 square miles of fertile land in a high state of cultivation. The principal staples are cotton and corn, the latter averaging 30 bushels to the acre. The climate is healthy, and cattle, horses, sheep, and goats in large numbers fatten upon the prairies. The town of New Braunfels is ra pidly improving, and new houses are constantly springing up on everyside. It possesses 30 drygoods stores, three flouring mills, three saw-mills, two manufactories, the one for cotton the other for woollen cloth, a sash factory, and workshops for every trade. The south-west is supplied with every description of wheel carriages and waggons from this place. From 4,000 to 5,000 saddle-trees are made here annually, and the country around is sup plied with barrels for beef packing, molasses, &c. It is also an extraordinary cotton mart for the sur rounding region, exporting to Mexico annually several thousand bales. New Braunfels has pecu liar advantages over all other Southern cities in her immense water power. The Comal, which is only three miles long, has on one-half this distance a fall or momentum of 2,000 horse power, and never overflows its banks. In New Braunfels there are very few coloured people, out of 800 registered voters only about eighty being coloured. Good mechanics work for $2 50c. per day, and common labourers for $1 50c. The city and county are well supplied with schools. The New Braunfels Aca demy is a building of hard stone, 160 feet in length, and embraces five departments, under five compe tent teachers—two German, two English, and a translater. This school averages about 300 pupils, all studying the English as well as the German language, so that the children of German emigrants have abundant opportunities of here becoming ac quainted with the English language. About a dozen American families have permanently settled here. There are four churches--one Catholic, two Lutheran, and one Methodist. The service in all is held in German. The building material, such as hard and soft stone, brick (burnt and unburnt), and cedar and cypress, are abundant, but pine lum ber is hauled from 50 to 60 miles, and costs from five to six cents per foot ; burnt brick, ten dollars per thousand. THE FEMALE SCHOOL OF _ART. The Female School of Art appears to be prospering. Th., presentation of prizes to successful students was made a day or two back at London University College, when it was stated there were 103 students on the books. At the close of the summer session there were 135, being an increase of five upon last year. At the annual Local Second Grade Examination in March, 1868, 48 students presented themselves for examination ; 44 passed in one or more subjects, 25 obtained prizes, their papers been marked excellent," and nine obtained their certifi. cates. These were all elementary. Eighty students sent up works for inspection to the annual examination of the drawings at South Kensington ; fourteen obtained third grade prizes of books, the works of eight students. Of these students two obtained National Queen's prizes, and one a National bronze medal. By recent arrange. ments made by the Science and Art Department, increased facilities would be afforded for borrowing good examples for the purpose of study for the students. It was also reported that the school was out of debt. After the ceremony of presentation, the chairman, Mr. Layard, M.P., proceeded to address the meeting. He first congra tulated the ladies on the success of this institution, which, he said, had passed the severest test which could be passed—the payment by results. Having described himself as not yet converted to the principles of Miss Becker in all that lady demanded for her sex, he went on to say that he thought the general position of women would be im proved by openings being made for them to earn their own livelihood, and he hailed the openings which this art educe. tion might give to the sex. He then proceeded to give advice as to perseverance and care in the execution of designs and works of art. THE SOCIETY OF ARTS. Lord Henry Lennox delivered this year the inaugural address of the Society of Arts. In consequence of the elections having taken up a large portion of his time the speech was not so elaborate as those which are usually given. Eis lordship noticed the loss the society, and all society, had sustained in the death of Dean Milina,n, and the name of Harry Chester was also recalled with warm eulogium. A graceful testimonial to the merits of the late Rossini followed. The Art Copyright Bill was to be passed next session of Parliament, and every pains was to be taken to make the Arts Workmen's Exhibition, which was to tile place in that hall, a success. His lordship stated at some length his views on the subject of technical education, advocating the inculcation of first principles, and depre cating the excessive subdivision of labour which now was the fashion in our great factories. On the subject of iron shipbuilding he announced that the problem of pre serving the hulls of iron ships from " coating" was likely to be solved by a chemical preparaticn, the inven tion of Dr. Sims. The food question had largely engaged the attention of the society, and the conclusion which had been come to was, that ice would afford the best means of bringing us meat from Australia. In consequence of this, the production of ice would become a question of the first importance, and therefore he had heard with much pleasure that they were soon to hear a paper read on the cheap production of artificial ice. Turning to the improvements of the metropolis, his lordship congratulated the m.:Tting on the proximate completion of the Thames Embankment. Having recommended the members of the society to devote their attention to the further development of the powers of electricity, to the improvement or our water supply, and to the questions which had recently been raised in connection with our postal arrangements, his lordship concluded with a passing allusion to the Mont Cenis tunnel, the steam trains on the Lake of Lucerne, the American project for piercing the Isthmus of Darien, and other modern improvements either now in progress or projected. LAW AND POLICE. REsIDENcE.--In the Bail Court, at Westminster, Mr. Charles appeared to shew cause, in the case of the Queen v. the Mayor of Exeter, against a rule which had been obtained for a mandamus commanding the mayor to admit Mr. Wescomb as a burgess. Mr. Wescomb was the proprietor of the Exeter Gazette, and he was also proprietor of the Globe, London evening newspaper. His affidavit stated that he had formerly occupied a house called the Vineyards, in Exeter, but which he gave up at Michaelmas 1867. He had, however, a house in Gandy. street, which he occupied for business, and part of which was fitted up as a bedroom. He had visited Exeter twenty times for business purposes during - the last year, remaining there each time from four to ten days. The question was whether this was a sufficient occupation to constitute Mr. Wescomb a burgess of the city of Exeter. The court made the rule absolute. FRAUDULENT BANKRUPT. --At the Central Criminal Court, a young man named William James Frederick Ball has been convicted of conspiracy with a Henry Spackman to cheat his creditors. He was sentenced to four months' hard labour. The jury in their verdict recommended him to mercy, believing him to be the tcol of a designing man. The Recorder said that if Spack man had surrendered to his recognisances and been con. victed, he would possibly have had a sentence of penal servitude. £1,500 has alreadybeen received for the Roebuck Testimonial in Sheffield. Between 700 and 800 cases of fever have already occurred during the present outbreak in North Shields. Mr. John Timbs has at last been honoured with a public recognition of the value and important character of his works. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint him as one of the sharers in the benefits of the Huggens College Fund.-- City Press. LUTHER'S WEDDING RING.—The marriage ring of Martin Luther is at present being zepaired by at jeweller at Waldenburg, Saxony. It is of silver, gilt, and bears the following inscription on the inner surface:— "D. Martine Luthero Catherina v. Bora, 13 Junii, 1525." A CUTE MisEm.—A gentleman called on-a rich miser and found him at the table endeavouring to catch a fly. Presently he succeeded in entrapping one, which he immediately put in the sugar•bowl, and shut down the cover. The gentleman asked for an explanation of this singular sport. " I'll tell you," replied the miser, a triumphant grin overspreading his countenance as he spoke, " I want to ascertain if the servants steal sugar," HOMES FOR EMIGRANTS. While on this subject we may draw attention to another field in Minnesota, whore an association have secured two million acres of land along the line from St. Paul, at the head of the Steamboat navigable on the Mis sissippi to Duluth, a good harbour of Lake Superior. The Mississippi and Lake Superior Railroad Company extend ing 150 miles, of which 30 are built, will connect the northern navigation of the great lakes, the St. Lawrence, and the canals, with the southern navigation of the Mis sisippi, the finest internal water communications in the world. Mr. IL Davis has forwarded a circular, in reply to numerous inquiries for information about these lands, and the gentlemen who he assorts to be interested are, as he says, men of large means, and of high standing for honour and integrity--J. Edgar Thompson, Jay Cook, William G. Moorhead, Samuel M. Felton, Isaac Hinkley, Jacob R. Stewart, Robert 11. Lamborn (of Philadelphia), William L. Banning, James Smith, jun., Esq. The same can be said of Gilead A. Smith, Esq., to whom he refers in Lon don for the truth of the statements, as well as the Hon. F. 31. Morse, the United States Consul, and although we can not personally youth for thg lands we can for these names. The following is the letter Mr. Davis has addressed to us: -- TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES. Sin,—As I am aware you are always ready to assist either individuals or the public generally, and also to aid in carrying out any project which may tend to that end, I think, upon perusal of the enclosed circular, you will be kind enough to grant us a small space. The reference given therein will prove the 'genuine character of our scheme, which, I may add, will be available for a class whose wants have hitherto been entirely overlooked. Your valuable journal has such an extensive circulation that I feel certain, should you grant us "your support, numbers would gladly avail themselves of the advantages we offer, and, doubtless, they would eventually bo greatly benefited thereby.-1 am, Sir, yours most obediently, H. DAVIS. Minnesota Land Company, Bartholomew House, Bartholomew-lane, London, B.C. PARAGUAY. The Buenos Ayres Standard, of October 11, gives some particulars of the bridge fight at the Picig fires. The Allied commander, de , iiring t) ascer tain the exact position of the enemy, ordered the advance guards to reconnoitre the lines. The Brazilians at once pushed out west, and came on an immense lagoon surrounded by woods, in which the enemy were concealed. To the right of the lake the Allies attacked and took by storm a Para guayan picket, but the Paraguayans had help at hand, for suddenly a large body came up, and the fight became general. Some accounts state that the Brazilians had 300 men placed " hors de com bat," but there was a subsequent report that there had been twe fights, and the loss was not so heavy, the second affair being a mere skirmish. The truth appears to be that when the Allies move in west or north they fall in with the enemy, and the country is so densely wooded and surrounded with quagmires, that it is believed that the advance by land will be abandoned ; but that all available gunboats, steamers, and sailing vessels will follow the ironclads, and 25,000 men at once be thrown into Ascuncion to outflank Lopez. It is said that the Marques Caxias is but waiting for the arrival of some cargoes of jerked beef from Montevideo. The position of Viletta is declared to be stronger than anticipated. The Paraguayans are posted on high hills, upon which they have mounted their artillery. All the passes through the lagoons, all the paths through the woods, are within range of Paraguayan guns, I so that as long as the supplies hold out, and his soldiers stand by him, Lopez may defy his ene mies. The pass at Viletta is defended, but the ironclads can go through without much trouble. Steamers and sailing vessels, however, cannot at tempt to go up till the batteries are silenced. BY the latest accounts it appears there had been two engagements after the fight at the bridge. The position of the Allies was critical, and the Marques Caxias had sent for Gelley and Obes to come up with Argentine forces. The army con tractors were finding great difficulty in supplying beef, and an effort was to be made to tow it fruni the Paso de la Patria, as great loss occurred in driving the animals up through Paraguay. - The Brazilian outposts had captured some Paraguayan cattle, and although the animals were poor, they bad supplied the men with meat several days. The squadron rode at anchor at Palmas, abreast the en campment of the Allies, which faces Villeta. Mar- ques Caxias had obtained information from a Para guayan deserter that Lopez was fortifying Villeta, the key to the position. The river Palma is net wide, and the anchorage of the fleet is in about 6 to 7 fathoms ; the river still keeps high ; the rains a re incessant, and the heat is unbearable. Mercedes is nog the base of operations. The last fight at the bridge of Picignires was sanguinary. The bridge is over a deep, narrow stream, and is a drawbridge to ad mit small craft from the Paraguayan river. When Commander Neves came up, he found the bridge all right, and took across 700 men. Facing was small body of Paraguayan infantry, which the ad vancing columns charged and drove back; but in the rear and concealed by the woods was a strong divi sion of Paraguayan cavalry. As soon as the Bra zilians were across, and were chasing the Para• guayans, the cavalry deployed from the woods and commenced the real fight. The Brazilians wheeled round and cut their way to the bridge, but with serious loss. The expenses for supplying the army are now so heavy that the contractors would give it up ; but every effort has to be made till the force reaches Asuncion, which will take SUILIU Buie tv ay. The following ne,ro 10 firvm York :--" The report that American vessels of war had been sent up the Paraguay river to Asuncion is confirmed. They have orders to demand the immediate surrender of members of the United States Legation held prisoners by the Para guayans." There was a meeting of the Copyright Associa tion, at the Astor House, New York, on Saturday' the 31st October; Dr. Lieber in the chair. There does not appear to have been any business of ilia" portance transacted beyond the election of officers, which were as follows :—William Cullen Bryant , Esq., was elected President for the ensuing term- The Vice-Presidents are Professor Longfellow , Horace Greeley, G. 11. Baker, of Pennsylvania ; W. G. Simms, of South Carolina; G. W. Curtis, and A. P. Barnard, of New York. Mayor Hoffman is the object of much affection' ate attention at the hands of expectauts of office, no vr that his election to the Governorship is beyond doubt. 011 the sth inst. he was literally mobbed by visitors, at the city Hall. It is said to b 3 his intention to resign the mayor alty in season to allow of the election of a successor nest month, thus obviating the necessity of the President of the Board of Aldermen (Mr. Co wen) assuming the posi tion of acting mayor. _ General R)secrans will sail for Mexico on the 10th instant. James Anderson, an American, was brought before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and several judges in tho Court for the consideration of Crown Cases Reserved, No"' 16, indicted for murder on board a vessel belonging 1° Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, registered in London, and sailing under the British flag. She was in the river Garonne/ bound to Bordeaux, and had proceeded half of 90 miles from the sea to the city when the murder took place. It NO within the influence of the rise and fall of the tide, but 1 ‘ was objected to on the part of the prisoner, that as di () offence had been committed in France, while tb ° vessel was colonial, and the prisoner an American, the Court had no jurisdiction. Tha Lord Chief Justice' with the concurrence of the other judges, said that as t b° prisoner formed part of the crew of a merchant sh i P: though in foreign waters, ho was un d er th e pro t ec tion 0 ` British law and amenable to its provisions. Though sub ; ject to American jurisdiction and F renc h j ur i s di ct i o n, P ) ; for some purposes ho was within Bri t ish j ur i s di c tion, an t that couniry had power to legislate for all who brong b themselves within its allegiance. The offence was coin' witted on board a British vessel by ono of h er crow, and A. it made no difference that he was a forei gne r. If on 0 '; high seas it would be within the jurisdiction of the Ad' miralty, but it was on a navigable river, below any bridg e ' in a place where the tide ebbed and flowed, and " where great ships did go." What difference was there betvo3°,.; that place and the high seas?—and it was such a place was within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty. If so, it vti', as if it had been committ e d on th e hi g h seas. H e s heaf'' therefore, say the prisoner was amenable to British lavi• Births. „ A go HOARE-0 n the 22d in s t., at 1, Upper Hyde-park-s"" the wife of Sam ue l Hoare, Esq., of a daughter. PEEL —On the 21st inst., at Whitehall-gardens, ' Emily Peel, of a daughter. Marriages. COGHLAN—bIoLLoY—On the 21st inst., at Ramsgate, '9. M. P. Coghlan, 8.C.5., to Mary Josephine, only dita ti , ter of the late Kelt) Molloy, Esq., of the King's Co u ' i Ireland. SPILLER —PLOWER —On the 21st inst., a t H a mpstert- A d ot Church, William Hutchinson Spiller, E sq ., Grossredot House, Ifighbury New P a rk, t o S ara h Annie, the o %, s e, daughter of Thomas Flower, of 801 l Moor 111 ' Hampstead. Deaths. ADAMSON—On the 21st inst., at Thaydon Garnoni James Adamson, Esq., late of the Inland Revenue, 3 '" e 72. don, BOYLE—On the 20th inst., at the Military Prison, A ve„ ' b• Cavendish Spencer Boyle, late Captain in the 72d hinders. BURROWS —On the 22d inst., at Saffron Walden, "' Mr. Wm. Burrows, aged 74. s iboO• BROWN—On the 21st inst., at 11, Tavistock-squa re, Brown, Esq., aged 74. cfre eri - GREENHILL —On the 21st inst., at Ramsgate, Fred . '" hill, Esq., of Finehley-common. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A- 10 ,r 11' 1, , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tao SUN Olic?' 'f n / 0 ' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 'o2""' Middlesex.—Tuesday, November 24, 1868. Ge o Brea ton,l3rt, 13uN and P. 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