The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC 301T1ZIALS, The Times, commenting on the debate raised by Loid Elcho on our reserve forces, remarks that the case of a man with a large establishment from which he gets but little service is no unusual phenomenon in private life, and ordinary readers will be apt to think from parlia mentary debates that something of the kind is experienced by the nation in its military organisation. Yet things are not really so bad as they seem, and if we investigate closely the complaints made of the costliness and insuffi ciency of our land forces, we shall find that the remon strants desire not only to see our actual pretensions realised, but also to realise something to which we do not pretend. Lord Elcho, expressing opinions very commonly entertained, proposed on Tuesday evening that a royal commission should be appointed to inquire into the con dition and efficiency of our reserve forces, especially as regarded the expansibility of these forces for the purposes of home defence. In his argument he urged that, whereas we voted £15,000,000 annally for the maintenance of our military establishments, we had very little to show for the money. If we could put 40,000 regular troop iu line at home, that wculd.be the outside of our capacity ; while as to our reserve forces, they were in no condition to take the field at such notice as au enemy might give us. All this is perfectly true, and yet, as Lord Elcho acknowledged, we not °I - I'y vote large sums of money for the army, but obtain very large numbers of men in return. The £15,000,000 is a nominal charge, liable, as Sir John Pakington once more showed, to a deduction of one third ; but for our outlay, whatever it may be, we actually get upwards of half a million of men in the proportion of 200,000 regulars to 300,000 reserves. Now, considering our insular position and our maritime power, is not that force, if it were properly organised, sufficient for all pur poses, even when measured by a continental standard? Allowing that the demands of foreign and colonial service would leave us only 50,000 regular troops at home, would not 120,000 militia and 160,000 volunteers bring the whole force up to a satisfactory mark ? Are not 300,000 reserves sufficient for the support of 50,000 men in the first line? . . . In an article on the same subject, the Post observes that although Lord Elcho failed to obtain a royal com mission, he did good service by provoking the very in teresting discussion which ensued upon his motion, but which, like all similar discussions on army subjects, was of rather a discursive character. With regard to the general question of the desirableness of commissions and committees, there is some truth in the com plaint made by General Peel that there is rather an undue tendency to throw upon such bodies the responsibilities and functions properly apper taining to statesmen ; but at the same time it must be confessed that this course becomes in a great measure necessary from the system under which statesmen are ap pointed to the control of vast and complicated depart ments, with the working or details of which, or the nature and requirements of the services connected with them, they may be profoundly ignorant ; and also from the pecu liarity of the present age of transition, iu which it is hardly possible for the head of a department to transact his ordinary and routine business and also devote time to the investigation of proposed changes in and modifications of the existing arrangements. The Standard says that it is perfectly true that our mili tary organisation is unsatisfactory, and our army of reserve, as it is called, partakes very little of the character istics which are generally supposed to denote an army, as distinct from a mere armed assemblage of men. Lord Elcho has done good service in calling attention to this =Ater, and although he has been unsuccessful in his attempt to obtain a royal commission, he has elicited an expression of opinion on the subject from many men of note in Parliament. Indeed, we doubt if a royal com mission could do much good in such a question as this. It is so large as to be beyond the cognisance of any body of men short of her Majesty's Cabinet Ministers. Under a new Parliament, and when vexatious questions of bounda ries, and personal rating, and Irish Church abolition have been laid to rest, the Standard hopes to see the House of Commons take up seriously a question second in import ance to none that has ever been brought to its notice. The Herald notes that the curiouslvha busy themselves with diplomatic speculations have made much of the fact that the Wiirtemberg Minister is to accompany the King to Ems, deducing from this circumstance some deep-laid PAitical scheme. But the most that can happen is the rat:fi;ati,.n on the pat o! this little kingdom of the south of that closer alliance with Pruisia which has already been concluded by Hesse and Baden. It is so obviously to the advantage of Germany to remain at peace with those who have made up their minds that there must soon be another great war in Europe are driven to search across the Rhine for the needful assurance of such a deplorable catastrophe. France is increasing her army and adding to its efficiency in every way that earnestness and determination can suggest. But, after all, what does this amount to? The army of France will be a match for the army of North Germany. The conscription and the expenses of the new armament entail sacrifices on the people. But when they comp!a:n, their Government tells them in plain words, " You must either maintain your position as a leading nation in Europe - ', or you must be content to subside into al'ower of the second rank, neither respected nor feared, but tole rated, like Spain or Belgium." This is the interpretation put upon the Army Bill by the French Government, French statesmen, and the organs of the Government in the press. The Daily News declares it can have no objection what ever to the mutual felicitations of Mr. Eyre and his friends. The address presented to him in NValbrook was a simple expression of the continued confidence of those with and for whom he acted in the disastrous events which have made his name notorious. That they and he shared the panic which led to the massacres of that lamentable time we have n wer for a moment doubted, and it is quite natural that they should felicitate one another on his escape from the legal penalties of their mutual madness. But Mr. Eyre has up to the present moment been wiser than his friends. During the proceedings which have been taken against him, with what he admits to have been pure and patriotic motives on the part of some of his antagonists, Mr. Eyre has imposed upon himself a proper reticence. This address was prepared by his West Indian friends two years ago, and is only now presented because he feels that as his danger is past he is at liberty to speak. But we hype, for his own sake, that Mr. Eyre will decline the persistent attempt's of foolish friends to make him a hero. In a supreme crisis of his life he lost his presence of mind, And it best becomes him to let the veil of a kind oblivion fall over his failings and himself. • The Telegraph, in an article on the abandonment of Mr Bruce's Education Bill, laments that legislation on perhaps the greatest question of the day is thus postponed for another year ; but the time that has been devoted to the discussion of the subject during the present session has not been lost, and from the Reformed Parliament we shall get a much larger measure for the education of the people than we could have exacted from the present House. Thanks, in great part, to the exertions of Mr. Bruce and Mr. Forster, the country is now familiar with the principles on which an adequate scheme for the elemen tary instruction of the people must be based. First, we must continue the present system of State grants. Secondly, wherever voluntary efforts fail to provide a sufficient number of good schools, the parishioners must have power to levy a rate for the purpose of supplying the deficiency. In other words, the bill of the future must perfect rather than supersede the existing system. One of the great questions for the new Parliament will be, whether the principle of the Factory Acts should be extended, and every employer be prohibited from having in his service any child who has not attended school for a certain time, or who cannot pass an examination in the rudiments of knowledge. Meanwhile, the education societies throughout the country will see the necessity of continuing their efforts to ascertain the facts of the case, and to stir up the country on behalf of the benighted poor. Lord Robert Montagu, no doubt, has sneered at their efforts ; but Lord Robert will not be the Education Minister of the future. A magnificent sturgeon was caught in South ampton Water on Wednesday. It weighed about 1 cwt. It was taken in a net, and was brought alive to a fish monger in the High-street. An inquest has been held. at. Guy's Hospital respecting the death of Joseph Eichard Daniels; aged 16 years. The deceased was the son of a barge builder, living at Rotherhithe. On Saturday he was in a small boat pro- ceeding down the river, and when off Horselydown was run into by a sailing barge, and the boat was capsized, and whilst the deceased was in the water another barge came into collision with the latter one, and deceased was caught between the two, lie was soon extricated, but expired before he could be got ashore, his head having been cruehee, The jury returned a verdict of acci:lental death. A Tcurz.—A t Manchester, on Tms.lay, Mahomed Benana, a Turk, was summoned for threatening the life of Mr. Israel Leon, in the Market-street. The plaintiff said he had recently visited the Continent fur the purpose of ascertaining some particulars relating to the commercial position of the defendant, and when he got back the de fendant sought every possible opportunity of abusing him in Arabic and Spanish, in return for the alleged injurious report he had made of his mission. In reply to the stipendiary magistrate the plaintiff now swore he went in fear of his life. Mr. Fowler, by the aid of an interpreter, explained to the defendant that Turkish gentlemen are not permitted in Manchester to terrify other gentlemen by swearing at them, and made an order for the defendant to b© bound over to keep the peace, T. 11.: REFORM LEAGUE AND ME CITY MEETING. At the ordinary weekly meeting of the general council of the Reform League, held on Wednesday evening, at the League's rooms, Adelphi-terrace, Strand, Mr. Guedalla in the chair, after the transaction of the ordinary business, Mr. G. Odger brought up a report from the committee who had been appointed to co-operate with the City Reformers in the late meeting upon the Irish Church. The report, after detailing the facts respecting the disturbance of the meeting by bodies of men expressly hired for the purpose, went on to say that after the conclusion of the meeting on Monday afternoon, the committee suc ceeded in obtaining from about 407 persons so hired their names and addresses, together with the names and ad dresses of the persons who had hired and paid them. The names of those persons had been given into the executive committee of the League, whose intention it was to take legal measures to see whether the persons could not be made amenable to the law for their conduct. In the course of the discussion it transpired that the executive council had alco under its consideration the propriety of calling a monster meeting of the people in Hyde Pack on an early day to protest against tile continuant) of the Irish Church Esta blishment, and to denounce the conduct of the so-called c.aistitu , :ional party at the Guildhall on Monday last. The chairman said the questiun would come on for considera tion next week, when the result of the debate in the Lords would be known. CONSECRATION OF 7HE BISHOP OF BEREFO RD. Dr. Atlay, late canon of Ripon, and vicar of Leeds, was consecrated as Bishop of Hereford inWestminsterAbbey on Wednesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Ely, Ripon, Gloucester, and Rochester officiating. the Dean of Westminster took part in the service. The sermon was preached by the Very Rev, the Dean of Chichester, Dr. Hook, the predecessor of Dr. Atlay in the vicarage of Leeds, who took for his text the 23rd verse of the 12 th . chapter of the firg boot of Samuel. The Dean dwelt 51 considerable length on the subject of apostolic succession and the a,dvantages of an Establishment. He severely condemned those who, having entered the Church and sworn to preach the truth, would unblushingly advance views exactly antagonistic to it. On the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Dr. Hook evinced the opinion that the result might be that Church privileges would be less thought of and Church principles would be more under stood. It might even superinduce a spirit of greater charity, and even if in a part of her Majesty's dominions the people could not meet together to worship as a nation they might be able to meet with greater frequency as individuals to pray for the nation. He urged his hearers to think less of the Establishment and more of the Church, by which means they would be brought nearer to Christ. The attendance at the consecration service was large. The Holy Sacrament was administered at its close. ACTION FOB LIBEL. In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, before the Lord Chief Baron and a special jury, an action for libel was heard. It was brought by Dr. Henry E. Eastlake against Dr. James Edmunds, a gentleman whose name is well known in connection with the Ladies' Medical College, and arose out of a matter which has led to considerable discus sion in the medical world. When the case was called on, Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., who appeared for the defendant, said ho had done his best to bring about an amicable arrangement, but without success, nod he was afraid the case must be tried. This was the last day of sittings of the court at IV,stminster, and however late his lordship sat the trial could nut bo finished in ono day, mid it would bo extremely disadvantageous to the defendant to have the case stated against him, and then to have the trial postponed over the Long Vacation. The Lord Chief Baron suggested that the best course would be to make the case a remand. Sir Georg() Honeyrnan, Q.C., on behalf of the plaintiff, said his_client was very anxious to have the case, which. %yas one of great interest, tried, in- order to vindicate his cha racter, but it would be utterly itnpracLicable to finish the trial to-day, as it would last two or three days at least. There was another action in the Common Pleas, brought by Miss Firth, a lady whose name would constantly arise in this case, but the Lord Chief Justice of that Court had ordered that it should not be tried until this case had been disposed of. Mr. Keane, Q C., the counsel f r Miss Firth, said it was very much against her will that her action was postponed. He himself saw no reason for postponing it, and he should apply to the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to allow it to be tried at the first convenient opportunity. The case in this Court was then made a remauet. PRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO EX:GOVERNOR EIRE. Ou WeJuesday, au address from a body of iufluontial gentlemen having property iu or connected with the coLor :ere° of the West India Islands was presented to ex-Governor Eyre, at Walbrook House, Walbrook-street, Oily. The address, which was drawn up in 1866, and offered to Mr. Eyre, but declined by him at that time, on the ground that the prosecutions against him were still pending, was signed by 240 gentlemen largely interested in the West Indian trade, or holding property in our West Indian colonies. In replying to the address, Mr. Eyre reviewed the circumstances which had brought him so prominently before tho public during the last three years, and went on to say : I thankfully accept the gratifying testimony in my favour, believing it to be an indication that my fellow countrymen at largo concur in and indorse the decision which has been arrived at by three different tribunals; but especially do I value it as coming from a large and iefluential body of gentlemen, who from their knowledge of, and connection with, the West Indian colonies aro best able to appreciate the difficulties of the position I was placed in and the necessity which existed for the most prompt and decisive action to avert from a British colony the frightful scenes which were once enacted in tho closely adjoining island of St. Domingo. That . there are isolated individuals amongst my late assailants,- who, disappointed at tho authoritative termination of the proceedings which have so repeatedly but unsuccess fully been instituted against me, have since sought to weaken the effect of those judicial decisions, and have renewed their attem?ts to mislead and prejudice the public mind, by reiterating iu the newspapers unsupported asser tions and misrepresentations, only shows how groat have been the rancour and unscrupulousness which stimulated the prosecutions. I can well leave such persons to their own unenviable reflections and to the just appreciation of a British public. On my own behalf 1 would only say that I endeavoured to do my duty conscientiously in the single desire to preserve the lives and properties of those intrusted to My care, and to uphold the honour of my Queen and country. A statue of Mr. Gladstone, by Adams, is abotit to be placed in St. George's Hall at Liverpool. WANDERING DOGS.—Colonel Fraser, the City Police Commissioner, has promulgated an order similar to the one issued by Sir Richard Mayne, as to wandering dogs in the City of London. It will take effect firm Wednesday next, July 1, when all wanderers are to be " apprehended" by the police. WITHDRAWAL OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAYS AMALGAMATION BILL.—The promoters of the above bill being dissatisfied with the determination of the Lords' committee to strike out the terminal charges and the maxi mum uniform rates to be charged upon the whole of the amalgamated system, have come to the conclusion to with draw this portion of the measure altogether. They endea voured, but vainly, to get the committee to allow a two years' experiment of the working of the union. THE MURDER IN DORSETSHIRE.—On Wednesday at the Town Hall, Poole, George Ivamy, the young man who was remanded from Monday last, and who was on Tneaday committed for trial by a coroner's jury for the wilful murder of his sweetheart, Anne Hancock, aged 16, was again brought up for examination. Numerous 'witnesses were called, most of whose evidence had been taken by the coroner on the previous day, and the prisoner coani!ittel for trial'at the Dorchester Assize's onThe charge of wilful murder. MEMORIAL TO THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON.— A public meeting has been held at Spa-fields Chapel, to receive the report as to the above memorial. The memo rial bad been inaugurated by the itev. Robert Maguire, the incumbent, on Afidsununer.day, 1867, and consisted o f a granite obelisk, inscribed to Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, who was born August 24, 1707, and died at her Louse adjoining gpa-fiekle Chapel, June 10, 1791. The rz•port stated the amount expend,2(l upon its erection was 2300, and the balance-sheet shewed receipts to about 2430, and the remainder was promised during the evening. THE SllO EBITRYNESS EXPERIMENTS. —l%lllU clay's trials at Shoeburyness were resumed on an experi mental casement designed by Colonel Jervoise, the deputy director of works. At the close of the firing thirty-two misziles had been directed at the lower half of the target. The shot commenced with the seven-inch gun, and finished with some from a twelve-inch. The target, which was acknowledged by all to be made of the finest iron ever tested at Shoeburyness, answered remarkably well, and only succumbed to the heaviest ordnance. Even then the damage was.much slighter than in the case of .the Ply mouth Breakwater Fort, which received ten fewer shots. The experiments are to be resumed at a t hit= dOY• THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1868. :14.7SSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA. BERLIN, June 20. Subjoined is the official report of the capture of Samarcand " Our territory having been repeatedly invaded by Bukhara troops, General Von Kaufmann at last resolved to put a stop to these predatory inroads. Accordingly, on May 25, at 4 a.m., he marched from Tasch Kupruek, a stone bridge half way between Yana Kurgan and Samareaml, to attack the latter city. On nearing the r i verZarafsehan our troops found the gardens situate in the valley occupied by the enemy. They advanced all the same, exchanging a few shots. General Von Kaufmann, having been assured by some Samarcand Begs that neither the people nor the priests were in favour of war, sent Colonel Petruschefski with a hundred Cossacks to the front to stop the firing unless the enemy persisted in their attack ; but Colonel Petru schefski was received with shots. Having forced the enemy to retreat, he, to carry out his orders, commanded the cavalry to wheel about and make room for the infantry of the van. At this moment one Nasem-tid-din, who had acted as Bukhara envoy to Russia in 1859, presented him self with a flag of truce, having, he said, in his pocket the treaty of peace which had been sent to the Ameer some time ago for signature. His re quest was that the troops should be brought to a halt where they stood, and negotiations resumed on the spot. General Von Kauffinann did not think it advisable to accede to this proposition, the enemy just then coming up on all sides. There remained nothing but to give the flag of truce to understand that negotiations could not be entered upon till the troops had pitched their camp for the night. "On emerging from the gardens into the mea . down ciou to the river, we saw that the bank opposite was swarming with hostile masses. Placed on a high and step eminence, they seemed deter mined to prevent our crossing the river. The stream being deep and rapid, and the enemy numerous, General Von Kaufmann judged it might be diffi cult to force the passage, and at noon sent for Na sem-ud-din, to tell him that no camp could be pitched and no negotiations entered upon in pre sence of the enemy. If, he added, the Ameer were bent upon peace, he had better immediately with draw his troops, or else the heights would be stormed. Meanwhile, 400 Cossacks, with four guns and the rocket division, under command of Lieut.- Colonel Strandinan, had advanced and cleared the country on our right of the hostile host. "It was 2 p.m., and still the messenger despatched to the Bokhara forces by Nasem-ud din had not returned. General Kaufmann, therefore, putting himself again in commu nication with Nasein-ud-din informed him that the attack could be no longer delayed. In reply the Bokhara envoy said that if one more hour's respite were accorded he would himself go to his countrymen and cause the army to be removed. This being granted, he de parted, leaving the draft of the treaty in our hand'. We then diicovcred, to our surprise, that the treaty was not the one we had sent, but au in strument drawn up by the Ameer himself in the Persian language, and materially differing from the original. The Ameer proved the same cheat now he had shown himself during the six preceding months of negotiations. " The hour expired, and the enemy not only had not evacuated the height 3, but had begun to fire on our lilies with th_ir cannon. Oar troops, 211 companies strong, with 450 Cossacks, 16 guns, and a rocket division, were then placed in line of • battle—Tava companies of sharpshooters covered the advance ; behind them were six companies, three to each flank. The second line was formed of six companies on the right flank (among theta the Affghans), and three and a half companies (includ• ing half a company of Sappers) on the left. Four guns, two of them rifled, were attached to each flank, and 400 Cossack=, with four guns and the rocket division kept in resarve on the right. The remaining troops covered the baggage. Colonel Abramoff commanded the first division; Major- General Golova3cheff had the immediate superin tendence of the whole force. General von Kauf- tnann was on the left, where the attack hal to begin. " WiiiL the enemy were firing with b2ll and menacing both our flanks, our troops move 1 coura geously forward, plunged into the river, crossed its several arms with the water above their waists, and advanced to the foot of the hill. The right flank with a verst of muddy soil to get through under the cross fire of the enemy reached the steep ascent and charge 1. They had to wade through two versts of morass and clear the intervening gar den before they emit] storm the heights. The Bokharese did nut await our ownslaught, but ran away in hot haste. Exhausted by, marching and fighting as we were, we could not get up to them. Oar cavalry, too, extricatel itself with such diffi culty from the swamp as to be unavailable for pur suit. We passed the night on the heights from which we had chased the foe. While we were charg ing the rear repulsed an attack upon the baggage undertaken by a hostile detachment that had turned our flanks. The enemy left his artillery postel on the heights iu our hands; that in the valley he man aged to get off, with the exception of one gun; 21 cannon and the whole camp were our first trophies. Our own losses were comparatively in significant,. We had three officers and 28 rank and file wounded, one surgeon and six rank and file otherwise injured, and two rank and tile killed. "It was only after occupying the enemy's former position that we could form a correct estimate of its strength, and sufficiently appreciate the treachery of the Ameer. A couple of letters received by General' Von Kaufmann at Yana Kurgan, as well as two messengers sent to him on the march to ask for peace, without acceptance of the terms offered —all served to prove that the enemy had only intended to detain us on the Zarafschan. No doubt had we allowed ourselves to be stopped the delay would have boen represented to the people as a sign of fear, fresh hosts would have flocked to the camp, and the army opposed to us have been double what it was. But, by quietly doing our duty, we put to nought the trickery of the enemy. We complied with all the forms pre scribed by national law ; marched 50 miles in two days ; charged a strong position ; sent the enemy flying, and captured nearly his whole artillery. " Although we were incapacitated from pursuit, the inhabitants of Samareand closed their gates against the fugitives, and on the day following sent a deputation to announce the surrender of the city to the Czar of All the Russia. General Von Kaufmann detained some of the_ deputies, sending back the others to prepare for the 'reception of the troops. Then, placing himself at the head of a por tion of his corps, and taking the Afghans with him, General Kaufmann entered Samarcand. The iu- habitants having met him outside the gates with demonstrations of joy, the General commanded them to reopen their shops, attend to their business, and fetch back their families who had been con cealed in the neighbourhood. While the women and children were flocking back we took possession of the city. Confidence in our power and honour able intentions is universal ; and naturally so. Each of our men has done his duty, and, by gallant con duct in battle and generous treatment of the pacific population, showed himself a genuine Russ." 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The prediction of the Democrats that the Re publican party would be destroyed in the acquittal of the PRESIDENT has been followed—at least by the Copperhead section--with the prophecy that the nomination of Chief Justice CIIASE as the Conser vative Presidential Candidate would destroy their party. Generally the reverse of such predictions is nearest the truth. Instead of being weakened, the Republican party has been strengthened by a good riddance of Impeachment, by the suppression of the War-horses, by the return to moderate counsels, and by the nominations of good candidates. Since the publication of the Chicago platform the party is stronger, more compact and 'suited, than at any time for two years. We believe th tt the nomina tion of the Chief Justice at New York, on the 4th of July, would, in the same way, strengthen the Democratic party, as it would shake it clear of its War-horse section and objection.tble principles, enabling vast nuuibeis of moderate men who approve its general platform to range themselves on its side. That this is the growing opinion is shown by many signs. AUGUST BELMONT, the President of the Convention, favours him ; the lion. HoRATio SEe- MOUR, who would himself be the favourite caudi date, if health and inclination allowed him to run, does so likewise; also, WILLIAM BUTLER DUNCAN, S. L. M. Ban Low, WILSON G. HUNT ; and many Democratic leaders and men of weight. In New York,and generally in the east, the movement is most marked, and the New Yorl World, the Albany Argus, the Troy Press, the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, and other influential Democratic journals, either openly or covertly favour the nomination. The great pill which looms so large in the eyes of the Copperheads that they cannot see how it can be swallowed is Negro Suffrage. Mr. CHASE, although he may modify his opinions, still rigidly adheres to his broad principles, and to Negro Suffrage he is so committed that if he stood on a Democratic plat form without that plank under his feet the respec tability of the nation would turn its back on him, and as a candidate he would be worse than useless to the party, for he would bring nothing to it but a soile 1 reputation. If not absolutely pledged to Universal Suffrage—which we believe he is—he might scrape over the shoal by substituting Impar tial Suffrage. He is compelled to oppose any re striction of race or colour, and there are millions in the United States who desire impartiality, but ear nestly and honestly protest against universal suf frage. The word is elastic, and may mean a great deal or very little. If everybody who cannot read is deprived of the ballot, and the restriction be ap plicable alike to white and black, to rich and poor, it is impartial ; if the test be property, and the pay ment of certain taxes the condition, if all are ex-_ eluded who are unable to conform, that test is at least in practice impartial. But it is said the Chief Justice adheres to the three cardinal ideas—univer sal suffrage, universal amnesty, aud the maintenance of the public credit—regarding the first as neces sary to the black 3 for protection ; the second as a salve for the wounds of the late war, and to secure the necessary intelhgence and education for the government of the Southern States ; and the third he sums up in one word—a return to specie pay ment, which he declares would be the immediate result of his election to the Presidency. He supports Free Trade and a more equal system of taxation, and in one direction he is completely in unison with the most advanced Democrats ; he has always expressed a bitter dislike to the continuance of military rule in the Southern States, and earnestly desires to extend a general amnesty, and bring back the people within the pale of the law and the Constitution. So far he is a good Re publican, for there is no principle enunciated which would not qualify him to run as the Radical can didate. If elected few need care outside those whose chances of office are affected, or despair of the Re public, for if CHASE succeeds instead of GRANT, of the two the man most committed to Republican sentiments will be in the chair, and there will be something exquisitely absurd if the Democrats fight for the stronger Republican as their candidate, leaving the Republicans to fight for the less pro nounced one as their's. We regard the CHASE move ment as a happy sign for the United States. To as it indicates the lessening influence of party, and the increasing influence of personal character and fame. GRANT is pledged to nothing--and CHASE to very little iu party interest; and GeNNT is not the best Republican, nor an intriguer, nor even de sirous of being elevatel to the post. He is chosen as a necessity to the party, he giving them the pro spect of success, no:, they him. CHASE, if he be nominated, will be selected for the same reasons, at least with one important exception. No one can contend that he is the best Democrat, considering that no amount of soap and water can obliterate his Republican stripe. Ho will be no minated, not because the party is so strong that they can select and carry any decent candidate, but because they must get a candidate that can carry them, which requires a man of no lesser note than the Chief Justice. It will then be GRANT versus CHASE, the famous General versus the famous lawyer, the successful warrior against the successful orator,-financier, and statesman. GRANT has the greater national services, but CHASE is the better qualified for the post. The war furore has not suffie:ently died out to give fitness the preference over sentiment, and therefore no candidate can [ have much chance against GRANT; but the Demo crats may be right in thinking that if there be one, it is Chief Justice CHASE. We said that in all but one point the positions of GRANT aud CHASE were similar, which is that the former has only had his Presidential appetite aroused by well-administered stimulants. Naturally he does not care for the place, and would not dream of seeking it if left alone. But the craving of CHASE for the Presidency is insati able, and has surprised his friends and admirers, who cannot see why he should long to sacrifice the most elevated permanent office, and work earnestly to secure a post certainly of vast dignity and power, but more transient, more laborious, and beyond all others exposed to slander and vituperation. Yet it must not be supposed that CHASE'S nomination is assured or unopposed, for now it merely looms from out the mystery in which the Democratic candidate is shrouded. It is said that the friends of General NPCLELLAN have withdrawn his name at his re quest, and we learn from a correspondent in Switzer land, that instead of being on his way back to the United States as reported, he is expected at St. Moritz, in the Engadine, which, though one of the most elevated stations in the Alps, does not indicate running for the Presidential p)st. PENDLETON, however, is working hard, having opened recruiting offices in Chicago and at New York, where his sup porters, who are supplied with uniform, have established their quarters at the Masonic Hall. General HANCOCK'S committee sit in rooms at the Astor House, and his friends are confident of suc cess. Of course there are rumours at Washington. HANCOCK, it is said, has the approbation of the PRESIDENT, and the CHASE movement was in augurated. by SEWARD. The PENDLETON vote, some say, will be distributed between HAN COCK and CHASE, when the JOHNSON men, holding the balance of power, may either select him or either of the other candidates. It is only wasting time to predict what will happen, but our readers can form their own conjectures from the material we endeavour to collect for them. Most of the rumours turn out to be untrue, thoagh often advanced with great confidence and authority. One assertion, however, we can here make, that Chief Justice CHASE, whe❑ the m til left, was the man to whom public opinion most pointed as the candidate for the Democratic Nominati At at the Convention to be held at New York on -the 4th of next July.—Anglo-American Times. ADVERTISEMENT.j—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— For all skin diseases, however inveterate, these medicines are a sovereign remedy. \Vhile the ointment passes through the pores of the skin as water saturates the soil, ar ai salt penetrates meat, the pills act upon the blood, which they correct and purify. The whole physical ma chinery is thus. rendered healthy, regular, and vigorous. The cure thus effected is not partial and temporary, the disease is entirely eradicated from the system, and the patient need not be apprehensive of its return. As these medicines have no violent action they do not necessitate any interruption of ordinary avocations. They are com posed of rare balsams, and may safely be given to young children and delicate females. MR. SCHENCK'S SPEECH . ON INTRODUC ING THE NEW INLAND TAX BILL. The Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Schenck (as we last week stated) re ported the New Inland Tax Bill to the house, June 1, explaining both it in a speech of great clear ness, and his own views,which are eminently sound and sensible. We need not here add to the lengthy epitome in ourlast issue of this the most voluminous bill ever brought forward, but we cannot allow the speech to pass without notice. Mr. Schenck acknowledges his error in supposing 11. whisky tax of $2 h gallon could be collected, the effect being that the revenue dwindled to little mare than a tenth of the estimate, $13,000,000 being raised this year instead of $120,000,000. As the differ-. rence represents upwards of `one hundred millions of plunder, the effect may be imagined. Rogues grew in such rank luxuriance that it is now almost impossible to penetrate through the tropical jungle, and the strength of the whisky ring is such as to govern the country, so far as they choose to rule. Into every branch of the public service the gang has carried fraud and corruption. Men who had hitherto been honest have been seduced in hundreds into per jury:and peculation, while the manufacture and con sumption of whisky have been stimulated to an enor mous extent. Mr. Schenck, in common with many members of Congress, has learnt a lesson by expe rience for which there was no necessity, as the teaching of the human race from all time ought to have taught them, and saved the country from a legislation productive of such vile results. However, it is better to learn late than never, and the Chair man now proposes to reduce the tax to 75 cents. If his estimate be correct, the distillers would sooner pay this sum than defraud. Mr. Kelly thinks 50 cents. the better figure, but Mr. Schenck is correct in fixing it at the highest that can be honestly and fairly collected, always supposing it can be. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Mites, observing that Mr. Schenck calculates next year on obtaining from the tax as fixed by him $70,000,000, adds, "even if the tax be reduced." This shows how little he understood what the Chairman of the Commit tee said. Iny, it is because the tax is reduced that he expects this result, for his whole speech went to demonstrate that the temptation of a high rate generates a fertility in rascality which utterly defeats all legislation. He estimated that the total anticipated revenue for the next fiscal year will be as follows :—From Customs, $165,000,000; inland Revenue, $210,560,000 ; Public Lands, $1,000,000 ; and Miscellaneous, $30,000,000. Grand total, $406,560,000. The ex penditures for the next fiscal year he calculates at £352,320,629, which would leave a balance of surplus. revenue of over $54,000,000. Most of this surplus is expected on realizing the results anticipated from whisky and tobacco. Speaking of the national obligations, Mr. Schenck sail :—" There is but one way after all in which the debt of the country can be raid, and that is by working it out. Industry, commerce, the productions of labour and of the soil are eventually to pay the debt." After propound ing such sound reasons, it is strange to see Mr. Schenck falling again into the error out of which he is now struggling. Why not utilize the experience of other nations in legislating, and why persist in assuming that there is something different in American nature from European na ture, which impels the American into the repetition and consequences of European blunders. Mr. Schenck proposes to tax foreign brokers $5,000, and to send them to the penitentiary if they do not pay, who transact business in their rooms and hotels, thus evading the tax on brokers of $22. The result will be in a small way to reproduce the effect of the whisky tax, introducing a set of unmitigated scamps in place of whatever is decent in the class he legislates against, and erecting illicit brokerage into an art which will mere than ever thrive. The best feature of the bill is the absolute control be stowed on the Commissioners of the Revenue over the employes in the service for whose behaviour they will then become responsible. But it is necessary to supplement this by making the mods of appoint ment such as is advocated by Mr. Jencks—that is, by training and examination ; promotion being by zeal, ability, seniority, and good behaviour. The dodges by which excessive taxation is evaded are well illustrated by the following case. In im- posing a duty o❑ pig-lead,Cmgress exempted leaden busts as being works of art. Forthwith moulds in the likeness of Washington, Clay, 'Webster, Jack son, the Apostles, and others, were forwarded to Spain, into which the lead was run and the tax evaded. A dispute is now being carried on between the revenue officers end the importers of foreign tobacco, on which a duty of 30 cents a pound is levied when twisted or reduced from leaf into a condition to be consumed without further pro- The importers pack dried tobacco leaves in square boxes, so as not to come within the conditions, but the Inland Revenue consider these leaves to be manufactured to bacco, and therefore liable to duty. Against this the New York Journal of Commerce con tends that, "if packing a raw article in square boxes is such a processs as the law contemplated when the tax was imposed, the hay sent to market in square trusses is most certainly a manufactured article." The fact is certain that so long as a high premium is offered to ingenuity and rascality in evading the laws, ingenuity and rascality will b e forthcoming, and unless compelled by the circum stances no statesman should offer the inducements. CESS. THE BLADENSBURG DUELLING GROUND. Two recent cases have attracted attention to this famous duelling ground, which is situated in Mary land, some six or eight miles from Washington. It is a beautiful little grass plot,' surrounded by trees, and there a number of most noted duellists resorted to perform their deadly work. The TVatchman and Reflector tells us that in 1814 Edward Hopkins was killed in a duel. This seems to have been the first of these fashionable murders on this duelling ground. In 1819 A. T. Mason, a United States Senator, fought with his sister's husband, John M'Carty. M'Carty was averse to fighting, and thought there was no necessity for it ; but Mason would fight. M'Carty named muskets loaded with grapeshot, and so near together that they would hit heads if they fell on their faces. This was changed by the seconds to loading with bullets, and taking 12 feet as the dis tance. Mason was killed instantly, and M'Carty, who had his collar bone broken, still lives with Mason's sister in Georgetown. His hair turned white so soon after the duel as to cause much com ment. He has since been solicited to act as second in a duel, but refused, in accordance with a pledge he made to his wife soon after killing her brother. In 1820 Com. Decatur was killed in a duel here by Corn. Barron. At the first fire both fell forward, with their heads within ten feet of each other; and as each supposed himself mortally wounded, each fully and freely forgave the other, still lying on the ground. Decatur expired immediately, but Barron eventually recovered. In 1821 two strangers, named Lega and Sega, fought here, and Sega was instantly killed. The neighbours only learned this much of their names from the marks on their gloves left on the ground. Lega was not hurt. In 1822 midshipman Lock was killed here by a clerk of the Treasury Department named Gibson. The latter was not hurt. In 1826 Henry Clay fought (his second duel) with John Randolph, just across the Potomac, as Randolph preferred to die, if at all, on Virginia soil. He recei7ed. Clay's shot, and then fired in the air. This . was in accordance with a declara tion made to Mr. Benton, who spoke to Ran dolph of a call, the evening before, on Mrs. Clay, and alluded to the quiet sleep of her child and the repose of the mother. Randolph quickly replied, " I shall do nothing to disturb the sleep of the child or the repose of the mother." When Randolph fired he remarked, " I do not shoot at you, Mr. Clay," and extending his hand, advanced towards Mr. Clay, who rushed to meet him. Randolph showed Mr. Clay where his ball had struck his coat, and said, facetiously, " Mr. Clay, you owe me a coat." Clay replied, " Thank God the debt is no greater." They were friends ever after. In 1832 Martin was killed by Carr. Their first names are not remembered. They were from the South. In 1822 Mr. Key, son of Frank Key, and brother of Barton Key, of Sickles' notoriety, met Mr. Sherborn and exchanged shots, when Mr. Sherborn said—" Mr. Key, I have no desire to kill you." "No matter," said Key, " I came to kill you." " Very well, then," said Sherborn, " I will now kill you." And he did. In 1838 W. J. Graves, of Kentucky, assuming the quarrel of James Watson Webb with Jonathan Cilley, of Maine, selected this place for Cilley's murder ; but the parties learning that Webb with two friends, Jack son and Merrell, were armed and in pursuit, for the purpose of assassinating Cilley, moved towards the river and nearer the city. Their pursuers moved towards the river, but missed the parties, and then returned to the city, to which they were soon followed by Graves and the corpse of Cilley. The latest was between Colonel P. 11. Green, of Missouri, and Daniel G. Wright, of Baltimore, in which both were wounded ; and Mr. A. G. Law rence, United States Minister to Costa Ricl, who fought his duel there with Baron von Kosserow, of the Prussian Legation in Washington, accompanied by Count Lothum. Although neither of the combatants was hit, the President removed Mr. Lawrence and nominated Mr. Mot in his place, and Mr. Seward has directed the attention of the Prussian Minister to the matter, in order that these members of the Legation might be made sensible of the displeasure of their Government by their removal. ABANDONMENT OF THE IJOOSAC TUNNEL. This is one of the world-renowned undertakings, to which Massachusetts fondly hoped one day to point as the best evidence of her skill, enterprise, and judgment. But vain are the hopes of men ! Still should Massachusetts lay the Hoosac Tunnel lesson to heart ; it may not be without its value.- If Mr, Walker's elaborate report and opinion be adopted and the work abandoned, it will remain as a stu pendous instance of Massachusetts folly. Not long since we gave a full account of the progress of this mighty work, which has already cost $4,708,110 in gold, and the lowest computation sets down the total cost at $13,735,199. The question is, and ought to have been before the commencement, What is to be obtained for this stupendous outlay? Boston thought that by shortening the road to the West it might make its port the Atlantic terminus of the trade supplanting New York. Mr. Walker says, " I regard the construction of this line of railway, at this late day, as a mistake, and in this opinion I am supported by all the best authorities on the subject of western transportation. It strikes the borders of New York at too low a point ; it crosses the waters of that inexorable river which always will flow downwards to the sea ;' it seeks to enter into a fruitless and unavailing competition with navigable waters, and the attractions of a greater market." It is unpleasant for Boston to have its hopes thus dashed, but it would be wise in Boston, in common with the whole State, if hat Mr. Walker says be true, not only to re cognize, but to act on the truth which that gen tleman thus represents :—" If these conclusions are just, the sentiment which would persist in an enter prize, the friends of which concede that its comple tion must cost nine millions additional of the people's money, merely because the State has entered upon it, is a false and foolish pride, to be anything but proud of. The face of the civilized world is scarred all over with abandoned enterprizes; so is the life of man. Shall the State be wiser than the aggre gate wisdom of its people, and what prudent man is there who would continue a buSiness adventure after he had found every day's continuance in it to be a loss?" And he thus concludes-his speech—" Can we in crease this burden —on the contrary, must we not lighten it ? I believe we must, and I see no mode so feasible as by stopping this unpromising enter prise of the tunnel. I would complete the railroad, and then I would put all the tunnel work and ma chinery under hatches till I could take the sense of the people on a continuance of the expenditure, and until I could investigate the alternative pro positions to which I have called the attention of the House." 711 E POET LONGFELLOW IN ENGLAND, The Times last Monday remarked :—" Mr. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the American poet, who arrived in Liverpool on Saturday week, in the steamer Russia, paid a visit to the English lakes on Tuesday and Wednesday, and on Thursday night proceeded to Carlisle on a visit to Mr. Robert Fer guson, of Morton, near that city. On Friday the distinguished visitor, who is accompanied by three daughters, Miss Longfellow, Miss Edith Longfel low, and Miss Annie Longfellow, and also by his brother-in-law, Mr. Appleton, paid a visit to Corby and Wetheral, with their host and some other friends, lunched with Mr. P. 11. Howard, of Corby Castle, and made a tour through the picturesque grounds of Corby. On Saturday morning the committee of the Carlisle Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institute had the privilege of present ing an address of welcome to the poet at Morton. The committee was introduced by Mr. Ferguson, who is president of the institute. Mr. Davidson, banker, vice-president of the institute, said that on behalf of the Carlisle Literary, Scientific, and Me chanics' Institute, he and his colleagues of the com mittee of management had the honour of appearing to present an address, in which they wished to offer Mr. Longfellow a hearty welcome to the ancient city of Carlisle, and . to expfess their high admira tion of his great snd distinguished talents and labours in the field of literature, and to assure him that the heart of the old country beats with genuine affection towards the people of the great American Republic. Mr. Charles P. Hardy, a member of the committee, added a few words, expressing the hope that the pearls of litera ture which had been profusely cast over this country by Mr. Longfellow might be found bril liantly set in the hearts and judgment of those who had the pleasure of reading them. MI . John Sewell then read an address of welcome, which was beauti fully illuminated upon vellum. Mr. Longfellow, upon receiving the address, said :—" Mr. President and gentlemen, being more accustomed to speak with the pen than with the tongue, it is somewhat difficult for me to find appropriate words now to thank you for the honour you have done me and the very kind expreSsions you have used. Coming here as a stranger, this welcome makes me feel that I am not a stranger ; for how can a man be a stranger in a country where he finds all doors and all hearts open to him? Besides, I myself am a Cumberland man. I was born in the county of Cumberland, in the State of Maine, 3,000 miles from here, and you all know that the familiar name of a town or country has a home-like sound to all ears. And yet there is much strangeness in this now, when I come to the land of my fathers and find in it no trace of my family or name. If I am to find them at all, it will not be in the streets or towns or on the outside of the houses of the living, but in the grave-yard and on the doors of the dead. You can think, then, how very grateful it is to me, how very pleasant, to find my name has a place i❑ your memories and your affections. For -this kind ness I most heartily thank you, and I reciprocate all the good wishes which you have expressed for the perpetuation of the tics of amity between our two nations." The members of the committee were then introduced individually to Mr. Longfellow, who shook hands with them all. The proceedings then terminated. O❑ Saturday afternoon Mr. `Longfellow visited Sir George Musgrave, at Edenhall, the scene of the legend of " The Luck of Edenhall." At Cambridge, last Tuesday, Mr. Longfellow was admitted to the honorary degree of LL.D. in the presence of a large and distinguished audience. The Public Orator, - the Rev. W. G. Clark, de livered an appropriate Latin speech, in the course of which he mentioned the visit of the American bishops, the cordiality with which they were're ceived, and the fact that all Englishmen feel it a duty to show especial honour to Americans, who on their part regard England as their fatherland, our great men as their great men, and the places trod den by the footsteps of the great men of old or hal lowed by their tombs, as holy places to which they (the Americans) make pilgrimages. Mr. Long fellow (he observed) was entitled to especial honour ; as a poet he was as much valued here as in his own country. Mr. Longfellow was an am bassador sent from the American people to help in carrying out the work begun by Mr. Adams, and to be finished (it was to be hoped) by the new Minister, Mr. Reverdy Johnson ; that was to say, doing away with all grounds of quarrel between the two countries, and strengthening the bonds of good will which should bind together two nations of the same blood, the same language, and the same litera ture. The Public Orator thanked the Americans for their cordial reception of our Ambassador, Charles Dickens, and ended. with the remark— " Those nations which God and nature have joined together let no man put asunder." 7'HE NEW CATHOLIC' COLLEGE IN BROOKLYN. A . Lirge number of Catholic institutions have 13..eu erected during the past two years in the city of Brooklyn, which for size and Leauty will pro bably rival any in the United States. There are at the present time a number in course of construction, which will be completed within a year, and will be quite - superior, in an architectural point of view, to any yet constructed. On May 28th the ceremony of breaking ground for the new Catholic college, to be known as "Mary, Queen of the Isles," took place in the presence of between two and three thousand persons. The structure will cover an area of 200 by 750 feet, while the grounds embrace five acres, or an entire block, bounded by Willoughby-avenue, Hart-street, Stuyveysant, and Lewis-avenues. The cost of the structure is estimated at $1,0)0,000. The entire ground had been enclosed by a high board fence, and an admittance fee was charged for an entrance to the enclosure. There were three or -four tents within the enclosure, besides the speak - ers' stand, and at some of these refreshments of all kinds might be obtained. A large number of flags of different nationalities were flying from the tents, and from long lines stretched from one part of the grounds to the other. The spade used for breaking the ground rested upon a sm all table in front of the speakers' stand and was an object of considerable curiosity. It was hand somely painted, and had a silver plate on the handle, bearing the following inscription "Mary, Queen of the Isles. On the 28th of May, 1868, this spade was used in the ceremony of break ing the ground for the Institute. Pius IX., Pope ; Andrew Johnson, President United States ; Right Rev. John Loughlin, D.D., Bishop of Brooklyn ; Hon. M. Klabfleish, Mayor." At half-past three o'clock Father M'Namara called the attention of the assemblage to the fact that the hour for the commencement of the cere monies had arrived. Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn ; Bishop M'Farland, of Providence ; Bishop Elder, of Natchez, and Fathers Haden, Mooney, and Ryan, then ascended the speakers' stand. Father Ryan then made a speech upon the object of the enterprize. They had come out for the purpose of inaugurating the work of breaking the ground for the new Catho-. Pc college for the city of Brooklyn, and hi thought if they had spades enough of the kind they were about to use they might dig the foundation this evening, for even the ladies would be inclined to go to work. (Laughter.) They had met for the so lemn inauguration of a work important to society and religion—a work of deep interest to the com munity, and which they knew bow to appreciate. Now that they had been called upon to contribute towards the erection of a Catholic college, it was no wonder that Brooklyn was festive on the occasion. After Father Ryan had concluded his address the ceremony of breaking the ground was performed by Bishop Loughlin and others. Remarks were then made by several of the local clergy, after which the spade used for breaking the ground was sold at auction. An oration was then delivered by Governor Lowe of Maryland, and after some music by the bands, the assemblage dis persed. THEATRICAL, MUSICAL, 6•c. New York has lost Ole Bull, Ristor', and Parepa. Tb' latter will returu from tJalifornia in November, and give series of concerts, assisted by a troupe which will include Levy, the wonderful cornet player, who appeared with Parepa on her first tuur in America. Miss Jenny Lands" man, tho contralto singer, who accompanied Ole Bull on his tour a few weeks since, will soon go to Europe, to per" sue her musical studios. Wilkes 's Spirit says :—" Edwin Adams is playing at the Metropolitan Theatre in Buffalo, now under the manag 3- ment of Henry Meech. " it is rumoured that Miss Sophie Worrell has had a for tune loft her by a deceased friend. '• The White Cocade' died the death of all bad plaYg/ after having been kept alive for two weeks by the unre mitting attentions and ceaseless nursing of Mr. Wallaclz on the inside and Theodore Moss on the outside of the theatre. " On Monday night ' The Stranger' inaugurated a week of really meritorious drama, Rose Eytinge as Mrs. Haller. On Tuesday night the ever-delightful comedy of 'Masks and Faces,' with Miss Eytinge again as Peg Woffington. "At the Bowery we have a revival of the weird and mystical Der Freischutz.' " On Monday night, June 8, was to be produced in Nor York, with a wealth of magnificent accessories, and after an unlimited outlay of money, a new and original play bi Daly, entitled A Flash of Lightning.' The sensation .-- for of course there is a sensation—will be ate sinking of ft steamboat in real water, with real steam up, and real pas sengers, to be really drowned. The Chauncey Vibbard has been secured by the courtesy of John Davidson, ala fifteen minutes after leaving the dock a real gong will b 3 sounded for a real supper. Tho admission to all this reality ought to be one real to be perfectly harmonious• If the new piece attains the success of Under the Ga light,' Mr. Daly may congratulate himself upon producing the two most popular pieces of the day. " The contemplated changes in the Fifth Avenue Theatre are now in progress, and the fall season will bring into line a new and elegant establishment for the presentation of popular and attractive drama. The names which we have heard associated with the managemen t are of high standing in the theatrical profession, and of themselves almost a certain guaranty of success. " THE DRAMATIC FUND ASSOCIATION.—At the late annual meeting of the Dramatic Fund Association th e following officers were elected for the ensuing year President—S. L. M. Barlow; Trustees—D. Kingslo.ad, L. W. Jerome, James Brice, J. W. M'Can, John Brougham' Treasurer—J. H. Oslo ; Secretary—C. S. Bernard. These gentlemen might as well have been elected pall-b3arers to the body of his late Majesty King Theodora for all the knowledge or disposition they have to serve the Dramatic Fund. The Fund should b 3 actively controlled by work ing a.:tors and managers of popularity and high stand' ing. They know the wants of their brethren, and are ac customed to make calls on the public purse on muc h slighter pretexts. ‘‘ Th e Boston Musical Festival took in nearly $23,0 00 —expenses, $20,000, leaving a profit of over $3,000." EDUCATION.—Four million acres of the best land o in Texas have been set apart for educational purpose: worth at least 81 25c. per acre, or five million of dollars add to this the school fund, about three millions, and NO have eight millions in reserve for this all-important Pa: pose. One of the first duties of the State Constitution s ' Convention, to meet on the Ist of June, will be to adopt 0 well-defined system of common schools for all the children of Texas.—Galceston Republican. Births. LEALL—On tho 221 inst., at Ely, Cambridgeshire, the Wife of Geo. S. Hall, Esq., SolicitOr, of a son. — LITTLE —On the 22d inst., at Itichview House, near Da.: lin, the wife of Brigadier-Gen. Little, C. 8., of a daught eh. WrimEnLEY—On the 24th inst., at 48, Albion-road, Fiuel l ; L-y-road, the wife of Frederick Wibberley, Esq., o f daughter. Marriages. BAKER—BATTEN—On the 23d inst., at St. Philip's, I Cet c, ington, John Baker, Esq., of Gatley-hill, Stockport , Fanny, youngest daughter of the late John Batten, E 4.1 of Rochester. PERKINS—SCROLL—On the 24th inst., at the British lnssy, Paris, Irene, only daughter of George Porkin .4, ', o tThipsteacl Eeq., to Monsieur A. Scholl, of Rochelle. Deaths. CLARKE—On filo 21st inst., at Willesden, Captain GO rge (.i/arke, axed 5). DEASE—On the 19th inst., at Glendarogh, Teignino utb e f Devon, IdisA Charlotte Deas..., younwest daughter of late John Dease, Esq., of Turbot:ton, and tha L" Teresa Dease, aged 75. LITTLE—On the 23d inst., at Ilieliview House, near Mir lie, Jane, wife of Brigadier Gen. Little, C. 8., aged 3 9 ' 13. PAttunr—On the 4th ult., at N,llOO Tat, Captain B. S• Parlby, Major of Brigade at Bareilly. sg . WILLAN—On the .19th inst., at Chepstow° Villas , water, James Will.Ln, Esq., aged 69. Loudon : Printed and Published by VirtLLIXAI. ANDI - 0 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN ORc i, tO ' o f Strand, in the Precinct of the 5a voy, in the Cell t 1 Iliattlosex.—Thumlay, Juno 25, 1868. lOTA 112 .11 i 8 eel( Meda, It is Pure ,solaln I 'le Agents 8, G obser ve t L 4 11's LL UTI 14, mi s nrrcF Ible weekl, *Oll4B free RPYA Lo Mi ss' glttTfri J• G• F O , are and his 1 GYnThast, 4 ". R. 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