The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

Z:11 .S. NCIif:ECOTE ZOUTIIMOLTO2I7, Sir Stafford Nortlicote, addressing the electors of the ,Southmolton district on Saturday, enlarg ed upon several points scarcely touched upon at Barnstaple on Friday. It has been stated, and made the subject of a great deal of hostile comment by the Liberal newspapers of the county, that when Sir Stafford went down to North Devon in March 1807, for re-election on the occasion of his accepting the appointment of Secre tary of State for India,he distinctly declared that he would not vote for household suffrage, and that within a few -weeks he supported the household suffrage clause of the Reform Bill. Referring to this matter, Sir Stafford spoke on Saturday as follows :—" Since I was first honoured by being returned as your representative I have had occasion twice to seek re-election at your hands—once when the present Government was formed, and I accepted the office of President of the Board of Trade ; and in the second time, in the spring of last year, when certain changes took place in the Cabinet of Lord Derby, and I accepted the post of Minister for India, and came to you again for re-election. (A Voice : And promised not to go in for household suffrage.') I made no promise of the sort. At the time when I was re-elected I made a statement of the opinions I held on the question of Reform ; that statement was accepted by you, and I was returned to Parliament. I am told that my votes since have not been in accordance with that statement. I should like to know in what respect. These objections are made, curiously enough, not by the Conservative party, who did me the honour to request me to offer myself as a representative of this cons tituency, but they are made by my opponents, the Liberals ; and I can only say that if those gentlemen who so requested me to come forward, and who did me the honour to elect and re-elect me, are dissatisfied with my conduct, either on the Reform Bill or upon any other matter, I hope they will have the goodness to make that statement to me, and I will promise that if the majority, or any considerable portion of those upon whose requisition I came forward, will now tell me they are dissatisfied with my conduct, I will say, Gentlemen; -resign my-trust into your hands.' But, on the contrary, far from having any evidence of that sort, I find, not only that my Con servative friends are still desirous of supporting me, but that they are anxious to bring forward a colleague of the same opinion as myself—a gentleman who has pursued the same course of conduct in political matters as I have pursued." Sir S. Northcote then gave a history of the Reform Bills of 1866 and 1867, and then addressed himself to the subject of local burdens. He said : " Everybody must have noticed a tendency to throw burdens more and more upon the rates. Measures have been introduced for effecting social improvements ; they have been discussed in Parlia ment and found to be not altogether unacceptable to the c mstituencies, especially it has been found that the diffi culty has arisen as to the mode in which the expenses were to be met, and those measures have fallen back into the f am of an Act of Parliament, which I think you will do well to guard against---I mean an Act of Parliament which shall be optional.' They are measures to carry out improvements, the burden of which w ill fall upon the local rates, and they are said to be optional. Optional with whom? Optional with the ratepayers? No, because the ratepayers have not the control of the expenditure of the rates. No, they are optional with the magistrates of the county. I think you will find there is very peat danger in that description of legislation, because your representatives in Parliament who oppose those measures are silenced by those who advocate them saying, "rhis is ouly an optional or voluntary measure ; and they are only voluntary as far as the magistrates are concerned, who are not responsible to the ratepayers. The magistrates say, and say perhaps quite rightly, "These are measures which are very much needed,' and they claim the authority of an Act of Parliament for introducing them into their respective districts." Sir Stafford next declared himself in favour of county financial boards, and enlarged upon the great and alarming increase of local burdens. Upon the whole, he believed our present system of national educa tion was a sound system, but a great deal more was necessary to be clone to develope and extend that system. The bill introduced by the Duke of Marlborough laid the foundation of that which he believed ought to be done, but it Illight be pc , siible td introduce some improvements in that measure. He was not pre pared to advocate, and did not consider it necessary to advocate, anything in the nature of a system of compulsory education, although more ought to be done to encourage the spread of education among the people. He was also opposed to the principle of laying the education upon the rates of the country ; but they must recollect that upon such matters one could not lay down a strict principle and say nothing should be taken out of the rates, and every thing should come from the public purse or from voluntary contributions. These were matters that must be fairly considered and dealt with comprehensively, but he had seen a tendency to throw everything upon the rates which he thought required to be jealously watched. lIIONSIGNORE TALBOT'S REPLY TO THE ESaLisii PRESS. A In the Roman Catholic Chapel, Spanish-place, on Sun. day, Monsignore Talbot, while addressing the congre gation, took the liberty to say that he had been attacked by the public press because he had recently declared in another place that the predominant idea in Rome was religion. Though he had been attacked he had not been convinced by the arguments or the logic of his reprovers, and was prepared to reiterate all he had said in favour of the morality of Rome. Venice was remarkable for her wealth, Bologna for her university, Milan for the splendour of her palaces, but Rome was renowned throughout the world for her piety. The mariner, when sailing by that plain called the Ca.mpagna, sees only one speck rising up before him ; that speck is the dome of St. Peter's, beneath which are deposited the ashes of the fishermen of Galilee. Pilgrims—devout, Christian pilgrims—from every nation of the earth, when they behold from the mountains overlooking Rome the dome of St. Peter's, kneel down and venerate at a distance the temple rising over the tombs of so many saints and martyrs. That temple is built upon the site of the Circus of Nero. The Coliseum and Pantheon have been converted into Christian sanctuaries ; religious asylums and schools have been founded upon the, sites of ,Pagan temples, B.S. if the Popes were anxious to make reparation for the crimes committed in those places ; the Tarpeian Rock itself has been changed into an hospital. When Constantine pro claimed that all his subjects were free to follow their reli gious belief, he removed from Rome. Rome, he said, was the city of the successor of St. Peter, and out of respect for the Vicar of Christ he removed his seat of empire to Con stantinople. Marie approached the Eternal City with awe and reverence, and when he entered it he gave orders to his soldiers to respect the sacred places. But what had she done for Christianity? How many nations are indebted to her for their knowledge of the Christian faith? The Pope' sent St. Boniface to Christianise Germany ; he also sent St. Patrick to Christianise the pagan Irish ; and he sent Augustine and his twelve monks to carry the message of truth to the shores of England. Pilgrims from all parts of the world visit her to participate in her devotions, to pray at the shrine of Peter, to see those places consecrated by the blood and hallowed by the footsteps of saints and martyrs without number. Rome is hallowed ground. The very atmo. sphere is religious. The people give up whole days in order to celebrate the holy mysteries of their religion. Still he was censured by the press of this country because he said Rome was a moral city. He had lived there for eighteen years, had every opportunity of judging of the state of morality, and he had.no hesitation in saying that it was the most moral city on the face of the earth. An ex- President of the United States paid a visit to Rome. When he had been there a few months he (Monsignore Talbot) called upon him, and asked his opinion of the Eternal City. He replied, " I have now been here several months, and have never seen a single case of drunkenness or anything else to offend my eyes." THE DEAN OF ST. PAIIVS.-011 Sunday prayers were offered up for the Dean of St. Paul's, at the cathe dral. Dr. Milman was seized with an attack of paralysis some few days since, and great anxiety is felt as to bis condition by his family. vv DISCOVERY OF A LEAD MINE.—The other day, whilst some men were employed on a farm in Thornley, near Preston, recently,.pqrQbased by therEarl of -Derby, they came upon a vein of lead. The quality of the lead is superior, and the mine will be a good one. The name of Alboni, although she is in Pais at present, does not appear in the published list of per. formers for the Italian Opera. There are three new female singers, all young. Mdlle. Minnie Hauck is an American, Madame de Murska comes from the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, and has sung for two seasons with success at Ire' Majesty's, in London. Mdlle. llicci is an Italian, daughter and neice of the brothers of the same name, authors of " Crispino Cla Comare." Tamberlik, :vhc \yin alternate with Fraschini, has arrived in Paris, with his family from his country house at La Parrella, in the Appenines, near Pistoja. The Earl of Dunraven and Dr. Stokes, of Dublin, have visited Dingle in the course of their antiquari en ex. cursion through Kerry. They have with them a.lithograpNe: and a sketcher. In the course of his visit Lord Dunraver, was afforded a specimen of the.way the precious antiqui ties of the ccuntry are being swept away. He found to hi astonishment that Kilmurry Church, or rather oratory. had disappeared. A farmer on whose lands the ruins hal been situated explained to his lordship that about te! years ago a proprietor had thrown it clowiktu employ tb ni t4ials LA building 2W.11. THE MT71017 PIOTA Ten or fifteen thousand people are reported to naTe Assisted at Murphy's lecture at Manchester on Saturday, A. large number of police in plain clothes were present, but none in uniform. The speaking did not com mence until five o'clock, and for an hour previous the .rowd amused themselves by throwing all kinds of rubbish at each other. Here and there a stone was thrown, but the greatest good humour prevailed. On tvlurphy's arrival great excitement took place, and so great was the crowd that it was found impossible to drive the waggon, which was to be used as a platform, into the open space. It was, therefore, driven down a back street to the Dutskirt of the crowd, and was immediately surrounded by the friends of Murphy, who cheered lustily as he drove up, standing on the front of the waggon. There were about fifty Dr sixty Irish persons—men and women—in the crowd, and during the early part of the proceedings they manifested a great desire to interrupt the meeting, hooting and howling, and openly vowing vengeance on Murphy. Mr. George Cruse was called upon to take the chair, and im mediately upon his commencing to address the meeting. the Irish made a rush towards the platform. The remarks of the chairman were in consequence cut very short, and after a hand-to-hand fight in the crowd which lasted for some minutes was brought to a close. A row ensued, stones being freely thrown about. One Irishman, who was said to have a dangerous weapon with him, was very roughly dealt with. Great interruption ensued in consequence of a number of Irishwomen making a raid on Murphy and his sup porters. A general row afterwards ensued, and the Irish were finally driven off the field. The greatest excitement was caused in the neighbourhood, and most of the houses and shops closed their shutters. Several arrests are stated to have been made, and three or four persons injured. LAW AND POLICE. IMPORTANT EIWIEItY CASE.-A case of great importance to fishermen in tidal- parts -of navigable rivers has been before the county magistrates at Carlisle. David Linton, Eshelman, of Longburgh, was prosecuted for fishing with a " haafnet," or "half-net," in a tidal part of the River Eden. The action was brought by the lessees of Lord Lots dale's Eden fisheries, and the point at issue was whether the half-net was a fixed engine or not within the meaning of the Salmon Fisheries Acts. Conflicting evidence having been adduced at previous courts, the net itself was on Saturday brought into court, jn order to assist the magis trates in making their decision, but the justices were unable to agree, and they recommended the Fishery Com missioners to hold a special court for the purpose of deciding the matter. HEAVY FINES ON BETTING MEN.-At the Canterbury magistrates' sitting several persons were summoned for erecting betting stands on Barham Downs during the late Canterbury Races. The solicitor for the defendants pleaded guilty to the charge, to which he said he could make no answer in point of law. However, he wished to bring under the notice of the bench the fact of his clients' having hired the ground they occupied of the Race Com mittee ; and, under the circumstances, he observed that he thought they were entitled to a mitigation of the penalty. The magistrates held that the fact mentioned by defendants' solicitor was no defence, and said that they should be sorry to find " that the Race Committee encouraged so flagrant a breach of the law." They imposed a fine of X2s—one fourth of the full penAlty— which was immediately paid by those of the defendants present. THE ARBROATH MURDER.—At the Sheriff's Court, Dundee, Cargill, the seaman who is charged with the murder of a child at Arbroath, was again brought u 1). With regard to the motive leading to the perpetration of this horrible deed, there does not appear to be any what ever. To all appearances the act was simply a mad out burst of ungovernable passion, which wreaked itself upon the first object that came near. Whether or not Cargill is insane is a different matter. His conduct during the last fortnight has been peculiar. He was skipper and part owner of a herring-beat, but the other owners being afraid to go to sea with him, they agreed with the_prisoner to sell the boat, and it was sold accordingly. He is said not to have been right since then. It is stated that he had been drinking. Last Mon day evening Cargill got up and rang the church bell at Auchmitbie with the view of assembling the parishioners to church, and this act is supposed to indicate that the man was net in his senses. He has been at sea since then, and it is said that he cut away the drift of nets, and told his comrades to jump into the sea after them. The accused was again remanded. THE ALLEGED MULDER AT FOREST GATE.—At the Ilford Police-court, Daniel Stobie, a painter, was charged with causing the death of Henry Hurley, a young man twenty-four years of age. From the evidence there was no doubt that the deceased had come by his death through the brutal ill-treatment of some half-dozen men, who, on the night of the 24th August, set upon him on the high road near Forest-gate, and knocked Lim down without provocation, and kicked him unmercifully. Several wit nesses deposed that the prisoner was his principal assailant, but two witnesses gave evidence which went to prove that the case was one of mistaken identity. Before the con elusion of the evidence the proceedings were adjourned. The name of Mr. Henry Fawcett, M.P., is given as the President in tho department of Economy and Trade at the forthcoming Social Science Congress. The notorious Sir John Dean Paul, who was sen tenced to transportation for 14 years, with his two partners, Strahan and Bates, is dead. The University of Virginia at Charlottesville has been partially consumed by fire. It was established by Thomas Jefferson. PROBABLE VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO AFRICA.—It is stated that the Prince of Wales contem plates a visit to the African continent, and that, should his Royal Highness carry out his intention, he will most likely visit Egypt and the cataracts of the Nile. Messrs. Cockson and Chetwynd, earthenware manufacturers, have been fined .0 at the Penton Police court for copying the design of a jug, which has been intro duced with great success in America by a 31r. Edwards. A public testimonial has been presented to• Mr. Vial, at Sydney, for his courageous conduct in arresting the hand of O'Farrell when attempting the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, at Clontarf. The individual who so successfully practised on the credulity of the public at Lowestoft and Yarmouth has got clear with his booty for the present. We understand, however, that Inspector Berry has obtained a clue to his whereabouts that may speedily lead to his apprehension. — Cambridge Independent. Two persons living near Selby have been poisoned by eating an apple dumpling, the crust of which had been made of old suet. A servant who also ate some of the pud ding was made violently ill, but she has recovered. The verdict at the inquest was, " that death was caused by ex haustion following the poisoning of the blood by the eating of some decayed animal matter acting on an enfeebled con stitution." ' A BOY'S HEAD BLOWN OFF. —A terrible casualty occurred at Instow, North Devon, on Friday evening. A little boy, son of a fisherman called Fisher leigh, was in the habit of taking the mail bags a?.ros9 the river, from Appledore, to meet the mail train at Instow. He came across in a boat with two gentlemen. One of them had a gun at the bottom of the boat. On getting out at Instow the gentleman took up the gun, which exploded. The boy was close by, and his head came cleanly off the body. CAPTURE OF AN ALBACORE AT DAWLISII.-011 Friday morning, while engaged in catching pilchards on - -- - _. the Dawlish beach, the fishermen discovered an immense fish, which they with some difficulty succeeded in killing with sticks. The fish was estimated to weigh 5001 b., and to measure about ten feet in length, the distance between the extremities of the forked tail being three feet. Two experienced nautical men present stated it to be the Albacore. The capture of this tropical fish on the west coast is quite unprecedented. The fishermen have notified the capture to Mr. Frank Buckland. EDUCATION OF POLISH YOUTIIS.—The Warsaw Journal of the sth inst. publishes an order issued by the rector of the High School of that city, enumerating the conditions to be fulfilled by the Polish youth - desirous to attend the lectures in that institution during the scholastic year 1868-69. .Among these stipulations one is specially remarkable. Every student wishing to be admitted must be furnished with a certificate from the competent police authorities, testifying that he had taken no part in the t insurrection of 1863 ; and the young men belonging to file former Polish provinces of the empire will have to p soduce a document from the governor of his district, stAting that no obstacles oppose his admission to the High ,School. Sums For. Doss.—We call attention to the anvisabil:ty of protecting the feet of sporting dogs against the injuries caused by short stiff stubble. We have had some experience in using dog sleighs in North America, and have frequently found it an absolute necessity to place l ea ther mocassins upon the sleigh dogs' feet when the "crust " upon the snow has been rough and sharp. If, through negligence, this precaution were omitted, the d Its would not travel two hours without becoming severely, ii not hopelesslrlarn ed. We ree no good reason why a similar system might not be adopted with reference to spurting cicr, now that}the corn is cut so close as to make the ' stubi :u .- -,,. -• ly &structive to the d..gs' feet. Perhars s , m e of cur corresponilents w'll g cc us their opinion; upon ‘`d -.:.3,5110Ve.."—L* id cn I IV cr. . • TUE SUN, ONDOS, MONDAY EVENING, 'StPTEMBER 14, 1.868:4 of the 2nd) ; Edward Cahill (6th of the Ist) ; and Patrick Conolly (6th of the 2nd). There sir was a very large number of competitors. From the Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.) Among the contributions for the army which ROME, Sept. 4. have been received this week are sixty mules The efforts of the Revolutionary party are sent by the department of the Vendee. divided between two courses of action. The I have already alluded to the disunion rife first to procure the withdrawal of the French among the enemies of the Holy See ; another troops from Italy, and the second to get instance has just been brought to my notice. ready for another attempt at surreptitious Part of their favourite tactics, as you pretty invasion. In regard to the first, it is now well know, is the spreading of false reports avowed that Menabrea left no argument un- respecting what is doing in Rome. I have tried to induce the Emperor to authorize him frequently had occasion to expose untruths in announcing to the Florence Parliament, be- thus spread abroad, and it is instructive occa fore the session broke up, that the army of ob- sionally to observe how, as was the case with servation would be recalled to France ; but, of some other false witnesses, their testimony course, without effect. The papers continue agreeth not. One of the latest fictions of this to agitate the question nevertheless, some nature has been the accounts given of numer trying to argue into a grievance a measure ous desertions in the Pontifical army. You necessitated solely by the bad faith of their may form your opinion of their truth after own Government, while others, adopting the perusing the following ironical remarks with policy of asserting the wish which is father which the Corriere Italiano disposes of the to the thought, content themselves with an- ' statements in a French paper of its colour : nouncina that the French are shortly to be . " The chronicler of our contemporary has removed. Meantime news from Civita Vecchia ' discovered the true solution of the Roman leads to the directly opposite conclusion. The question—a solution which will save all blood language of General Dumont at the banquet of shed. Every morning he makes a certain num thelsth of August, and the administration of ber of the Pope's soldiers desert, and if we affairs on the spot, point equally to a continued ' come to multiply his numbers by his morn occupation. New stables are being built, fresh ings, we shall find that he has disposed of a tenements for the occupation of the troops good many thousands up to the present date. hired, and a continuous supply of stores and i This is so much gained, indeed, but is as munitions continues to be received. The; nothing to the promise of future successes second affords scope for a variety of congenial I which may be argued from his singular ability. intrigues. The key to them all is given in We fully expect to find some fine morning i Mazzini's last published " letter," which may that he has made Cardinal Antonelli desert, be analyzed thus :-1. The acquisition of or perhaps even the Pope himself. Then he Rome is the goal of every present endeavour. would have settled the Roman question in 2. The mistakes of last year's campaign must deed, and that without having recourse to be avoided this time. 3. Consequently greater the new secret society of the Vendetta di care must be taken to conceal the mode of Mentana. procedure. That the attempt came from withou t " Nevertheless there are those who think was too apparent on that occasion ; this time they have good reason to persist in believing it must be managed so as to appear to be a that all the Papal soldiers Florence has seen rising of the people. are but the original four who pass and pass The French and Italian press well under- again through the columns of our contem stands this cue ; consequently we hear less porary like manikins in a puppet-show. In fanfaronnade about the volunteers rushing to this manner ' the army of Xerxes may be re deliver the capital of their country ; of their presented by half-a-dozen dummies.' " spirit of devotion and sacrifice ;of their readi- The Raforme has been publishing, the last ness for action ; of their boast of assu red sue- few d a y s, a series of articles, intended to pave cess. The line now adopted is to blind Europe the way for the violent measures to be proposed to what is going on round the borders of the in the "Parlamentino" of Naples. They are Roman State. When allusion is made to the from the pen of the Deputy Crispi, a name Garibaldian bands, it is to say they are not well known in the chronicles of Mentana. He of heart with their enterpise, that they see sets out by asseverating that the Parlamentino they have no chance at present., that Garibaldi is intended to be the most peaceful of meet himself is changed into the most peaceful of ings : in fact, " nothing but a friendly meeting old men, only aspiring to end his days in rest held in youblic." But then he goes on to his and retirement. The very meetings which are complaints, which bear anything but a friendly planned to supply from Genoa., Turin, &c., the tone. " Parliament has been prorogued," he entrain which was poured out from the Geneva exclaims, "after a long and laborious session, Congress last year, are said to be co-operative and has left unsolved all the problems of the conferences of workmen, animated only with national reconstruction. In. all its 202 sittings desires of peaceful usefulness ; and even the it has done nothing but vote taxes and pay- Parlamentino of Naples is to be but a friendly ments, and with all this has not advanced one meeting, to consider the electoral laws. Mean- step towards establishing the financial position time, stealthily and in the dark, the requisite of the country. . . . The whole machine agents are being poured by small instalments of Government is cumbersome and unfit for at a time into Rome, who, if they can contrive its work. . . . The organic laws are but to elude the vigilance of the police, or bribe, patches on the antiquated mantle of a little cajole, or intimidate them, have their instruc - State, quite inadequate to cover the august tions, at a given signal, to simulate and repre sent the Roman people in a rising, and carry members of redeemed Italy. Wh a t we must have is the Government of the people ; aye, the place from within by a coup de main, when cannot but work ill, the of the lowest of the people. T he Parliament interference of the troops from Civita h a ving consideration to Vecchia to dispossess them would, it is thought , the conditions upon whi ch it was constituted. be a very different matter in the eyes of Europe . . . All parties are agreed about this. than resisting an attack made from without. The Senate (Upper House is at present nothing One formidable obstacle to the success of but a convenient tool of the E xecutive Govern this well-laid plot is the want of cohere nce be- ment. . . . We must infuse into it the tween the different sections of the party. It energy of the popular element, by making would depend in great measure on temper and membership electoral. Fu rther, and as a re discretion in carrying it out, but fanaticism is form prelim inar y to all others, we must have boastful and garrulous, and already the most the legislative power entir el y distinct, not onl y secret intentions have been supposed to ooze in theory but i n p ractice, from the Executive. out. More than this, the spirit of subordi - Neither senator nor deputy may be a member nation is necessarily wanting. There are a of the Counci l of State, nor of the Corte dei dozen would-be heads, every one with a scheme Conti, nor of the Bench of Judges ; still less of his own, and unwilling to submit to that of may they be permitted to belong to any branch his neighbour, so that it is always most un- of the Administration, to the army or navy. certain whether any one scheme can obtain . . . Then, as to the constitution of the sufficient support to work it efficiently. This electoral body, I have always held, and the spirit subdivides every division .of the party : experience of years confirms me anonin thus, for example, actions and counter - ac tions ing, that we w ant a great extensi of the for charges of mal-administration of funds, franchise, and that every day's delay is of pre defamation of character , &c. , are wa g in g be- judice to our institutions. Every citizen who has attained the age of 21 should have the tween the heads of the party whic h directed the attack on Rome last year, Mistrali, Fab- right to vote, with no other condition than that brizzi, Ghirelli, and others. All the while a he should be able to read and write. Every state of unrest and insecurity is maintained, Italian who has attained the age of 25 should some unknown change is always at hand, and b e eli g ible as a deputy. All ri g hts of free men are kept from trusting the Gover nment, pos ta g e and privileges of all sorts should be which at the moment happens to have the abolished, alike for senators and deputies, but upper hand. The local newspapers in vari- they should have an allowance of 25 francs a ous towns find their account in keeping up the day for attending Parliament." ferment, which now and then breaks into open The Programme of the Association of the display of discontent, as at Monte Pulciano, Vendetta di Alentana has likewise been pub where the public notices concerning the new lished. I extract a few 'sentences from it to meal-tax have been for two months past torn show you how elaborately it is organised : down by the people as soon as affixed by order " The Association of the Vendetta di Men of the municipality, and are only now preserved Lana is the f r aternization of the various cities in their place by sending a number of the to produce, by a common action, the complete boldest peasants to prison, and stationing a unity and liberty of Italy. Every city to have guard on the spot ; and all this week at Flor - a comm i t t ee , to be called ' o f th e R oman en ce the police have had work enough with fasces,' who se dut y it shall b e t o corres p on d defacing the chalked-up denunciations of the with the other committees, to spread the move- King and Government. Of course such a ment, to 'affiliate all good youths, prepare , :i ts s e o f towns means iifi t o state of things sets many calculating on what arms, &c. the future will be, and optimists are not want - e The tig care committeesi to mat r e io in various ins who think they see clearly a not far-off communica te to each other the news of their advent ent of a better order of things in the return success , tai i of Italy to the regime of her mediseval re- cult, and even impossible, t o d eci ph er. publics. A love of rule, it is thought, has been "To each committee is to be attached a cer evoked in too many breasts to subside into tain number of tried and zealous youths, who submission to the ordinary framework of any will take the name of affiliators and popular one Government. Several centres of rule must heads (affiliatori and capi-popolo), who shall be created to afford place for so much ambi- direct the people in their respective quarters tion, and that these failing, as they must, to re- according to the orders of the local committee. store confidence and security, will ultimately " The affiiliators are never t o comm unicate to drive the people back to implore them of the the affiliated who the mem b ers o f th e l o cal Holy See, as the legitimate source of right, and committee m a y be, the pla ce w h ere th e y m eet, sovereignty, and peace. or other particulars. They may only speak The brunt of any immediate attack, it is to them of generalities, point out to them the clear, will have to be borne by the Pontifical d e pl or able condition of the country, and the army, and upon its firmnes, therefore, the advent of the propitious moment for avenging ultimate advance of revolution will mainly it, at the same time inculcating the duty of depend, and there is no sort of sna re which being ready for action at any moment, and may not be expected to be laid for them in to keep scrupulous seeresy. the approaching conflict. While every con- " Every caps popo/o to be charged to keep a fidence animates us that they will be as ready wa t c h on o ur adversaries, to make himself ac for their work, and that the care of Divine quainted w ith their place of abode, the people Providence will be extended over them as mani- and places they frequent ;to keep a note of the festly as during their former trials, all who care armourers' shops in their quarter, the quota for the cause of right and order, which is just o f arms they would yield; also of the names now as it were entrusted to their keeping, of all reactionaries, monks and priests. To must feel a personal interest in promoting observe the best mode of barricading their guar their efficiency ; and there is no one who may ter, in case of need, —in a word, to watch all, not have his part in this work. For the mo- make himself acquainted with all, and refer all ment they are chiefly subject to two attacks, to the Committee. one being the result of change of temperature, " All ;hall be required to subscribe some which has crowded the hospitals with sick, and monthly subsidy according to their means. already occasioned three or four melancholy Every committee to hold a meeting every ten losses, among them a young Englishman, very days, and any member absenting himself much liked in his company, and an Italian t without being able to show a satisfactory excuse artilleryman, Antonio Goldoni by name, whom to be considered highly reprehensible." his comrades regard almost as a saint ; the All this is in the usual claptrap style, calcu other the malicious reports of their opponents. lated with the additional spicing of mystery, It has been given them to silence for ever the and meting out numberless little posts of im accusation of inefficiency, and the epitaph of portance and authority, to attract youths whose mercenary applied to them so liberally when minds the disorganized state of the country has untried. The untruth about them in which , unsettled, while the exacted subscriptions fill Italian papers now indulge is, that they are ; the pockets of the promoters of the scheme, at divided by faction and rivalry , a nd the old ', the same time that they give their dupes a story of the jealousy of civilians is now and ' stake in its promotion and success. then revived. As such stories generally get And in the midst of all this ferment, Rome copied sooner or later into the English papers, . wears her serenest aspect. The preparation it may be as well to point out that the games of the acts of the Council is being pushed for of last Thursday gave a more effectual prac- . ward. So general is the presentiment that tical denial to the calumny than pages of arga- ' God will not suffer any machinations to hinder ment. Not only the various corps competed the gathering of this august assembly, that the with each other with the most friendly emu- Committee on Ceremonial is at present occu lation, but civilians entered the lists with them pied with arranging the order of precedence also ; and it would be impossible to say to be observed by the prelates and others whether the good-humoured applause which composing it. Among the minor matters to greeted each effort of strength or ingenuity I be treated I hear that of church music will was more hearty from comrades or townsmen, ; undergo a serious revision. The distin g uish e d so general was it. Marchese Cavaletti, Senator ! Hungarian conver t, Listz, who is at present of Rome, who is stayin g at Frascati, came over gone to Grottamare for sea -bathin g , is en g a g e d , to be among the spectators, and Prince Dor- 1 am told, in the consideration of several ques ahese carried off a prize in one of the races. tions connected with Chr istian art, which have 0 While on the subject, it will not be without been submitted to the . Council. Mgr. Tizzaui interest to your readers to add to my former (the blind Archbishop of Nisibis in. partibus) account that the four prize-takers in the foot- has just completed the first volume of his great race were all Irishmen, Charles McNally (Ist work on the General Councils of the Church. comp. of the 3rd battalion), who received a The present volume contains the Eastern. Gene watch as first prize ; James McLoughlan (Ist ' ral Councils ; the two others, comprising the 1:031AN AFFAIRS. Western Councils, will appear in November. As it is calculated to prove a book of refer ence of great general importance, it is being brought out, in the first instance, in French, but will Le published only in Rome, Pere Dousset, the Dominican, having undertaken the translation from Mgr. Tizzani's MS. It is not, however, a mere historical record, but displays a clear-sighted and philosophical ap preciation of the reciprocal action of the Church and the world, as well as of the cha racters of the great men who have governed their age. The work is dedicated to Car dinal Bonaparte. Mgr. Brancaleoni-Castellani sostitato in the Segreteria de' brevi pontifici, useful public servant and a very distin g uished Latinist, died last week at the age of fifty four. M. de Sartiges is to have his farewell audience of the Pope to-morrow. It is now. expected that M. de Bonneville will come out before November or December. M. Armand is to come' to-night to take his place in the in terim. A little intrigue has just been laid bare which may have the effect of averting mischief. A Pole has been dismissed from the Vatican who, after obtaining a post of camerlingo by urging the plea of his oppressed nationality, was found to be a spy in the Russian service. It is observable that his predecessor in the office, Kulcyski by name, obtained, abused, and lost his post in a precisely similar way. The great religious celebration just now is of course the Novena of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin • Mary, which is being duly honoured in a great many churches. The loyal address to the Pope I mentioned a few weeks ago from the Catholics of Gratz and circumjacent towns, has received 52,000 signatures, that against the Concordat only bore 2,000. The brigade stationed at Rocca di Papa had another field day yesterday, making a feint attack on Rocca Priora. It was a harder day's work than the siege on Altano, as the distance is greater, and the road all uphill. It went off very well. The King of Naples and his brother, the Count of Caserta, who is . an officer in General Kanzler's staff, assisted in the manoeuvres. The brigade is under orders to return to Rome to-morrow. The cases of fever are numerous, but it is well understood here, and there is no special cause for alarm. I have just seen a person who, travelling out by the ordinary Mount Cenis route, was put to terrible straits by the late accident. Very little regard seems to be had for the con venience of passengers, who have not only to walk a considerable part of the road in what ever weather, but to climb over heaps of de bris, and to cross mountain torrents, with the aid only of the most primitive appliances. It is many years since so considerable a landslip has taken place; the inundations of the lower country occurring at the sametime, Of course complicate the difficulty and increase the delay of bringing the line into working order again. This will certainly require two or three weeks, or more. Meantime the beautiful road over the Brenner has, as far as I can learn, received no injury. This line, which was completed in the spring, affords a continuous railway route all the way, travelling from Paris through Strasburg, Munich, Augsburg, Innsbruck, Verona, Bologna., and Florence, and may be done in five days. In anticipation of delay I despatch my parcel two days earlier than usual. Should anything of interest occur to me later, I will take the chance, as last week, of the post scripts reaching you by via di mare, before you go to press. UNITED 37 ATES CURRENCY. (From the Anglo-American Tinzes) Events are giving the Currency Question the place the United States to which it is entitled before the National Debt or any other financial question whatever. A curious piece of by-play has occurred between Mr. SPINNER, United States Treasurer, and a gentleman who forwarded from Boston a $lO bill with a formal demand for its redemption in gold according to the terms of the note. This the Trea- surer returns with a long, elaborately argued letter, wherein he ►►lludes to the essays on finance by his correspondent in very complimentary terms. Mr. SPINNER shows the practicability of funding the debt, with lower interest and a more lengthened He opposes every form of repudiation, even UM. to taxing the interest. With some inconsistency, he proposes to make the national banks exchange the Six per Cent. Bonds for Four per Cents., asserting that they have been created by the privileges and franchises of the Government, at whose sufferance they live, and therefore they should be thus made to assist the Government. If the banks have been granted such privileges without the public receivieg an equivalent the _ . 3overnment has been false to its trust, and the officer who publicly announces it condemns the achnim6tratioa iu general and his department in particular. If the banks gave the equivalent for these valuable conce , sioni of which the treasurer would now deprive them, at least in part, then he acts the repudiator's part towards a portiou of the bondholders, on the very plea the general body of repudiators use against the national creditor as a wh-le. The plea is, that they bought the privilege of receiving six per cent.—untaxed—coin interest, at a rate that did not represent its value, taking advantage of the country's necessities, and that now, like SHYLOCK, they dem Lndtheir whole bond, and no thing less, notwithstanding the flaw in their contract. The basis of the agreement was, we presume, that the National Banks should keep as a security a pro- portion of United States Bonds against their notes, and the condition was that Six per Cent. gold_ inte rest should be paid on the deposit. Now, the Trea surer says, pia are mere creatures of the Govern- went, living on this valuable concession; you mus take Four per Cent. instead of Six, or we will wipe you out of existence. This is curious language from a Treasury officer, who commences with repu diating every species of Repudiation. But the truth is that when we desire to shuffle off our debts and difficulties we are in a vicious circle, and can scarcely refrain from kicking at the pricks of honesty which surround us while looking for an opening and find ing none not more or less barred. One of Mr. PENDLETON'S most telling points in a recent speech was his story of a neighbour who, before the war, purchased a house, for which he bound himself to pay $20,000. Like a wise man to whom the future was an open book, he gathered up his gold and hid it —(at least it appears from his act, though Mr. PENDLETON did not say so) —and waited, knowing the future, till gold rose to 250, when with his hoard he bought $50,000 in legal tender, paying the man from whom he had purchased the house $20,000 in greenbacks, and investing the other $30,000 in Government Bonds, from which he has drawn a gold interest of $l,BOO a year ever since, and he clamorously supports the doctrine that the bands should be paid in gold. The only hitch is the opportune production of the gold ; and few iu Maine, where the story was told, will dispute that a trader so sharp was entitled to a gain. But if what the Nation anticipates. coxne3 to pass, Mr. PENDLETON'S friend will be lucky in being able to retain his plunder. There can be no doubt that is equi'l the $30,000 which vested in Government Securities belonged to the perso❑ from whom he bought the house. The de cision of the Supreme Cour on the legality of the Legal-Tender Act will be on cases similar to that given by Mr. PENDELTON, as it can only decide questions of right between individuals. PENDLE TON'S neighbour might be sued by the vendor on the point whether the purchaser completed his con tract by the payment of the $20,000 in greenbacks. The vendor assorts that there was no money known to the law of the United States except coin when he sold the house, and therefore ❑o other money could have been meant—that in greenback payment the sum specified had been reduced by two-thirds, when instead of receiving $20,000 coin dollars, as in the terms of the sale, he received but $B,OOO, and that therefore he claimed the twelve thousand still due. The appeal of the purchaser, of course, would be to the Legal Tender Act, which makes greenbacks a lawful tender alike for public and private debts, in conformity with which he paid been repulsed, by their enemy evacuating thefortreo, the full sum of twenty thousand dollars. If the while in its ditches liy the bodies of thousands Court decides against the Legal-Tender Act the of the Allies who had just met their final signal ground of the purchaser is cut from under him, as defeat. Lord NAPIER, on the other hand, made the judgment will assert that the Act is not in ac- one of the most notable marches on record, skil cordance with the Constitution, and therefore is no fully overcoming the extraordinary difficulties in -1 tw. The Nation says :—" The cases likely to come terposed by nature; In a few hours when on the before the Supreme Court under the Legal-Tender scene he captured the Abyssinian fortress, and he Act may be * placed in four different groups : Ist. slew the Abyssinian' King—his loss two non-cotn- Cl dins for payment in coin of engagements entered batant mules. Every object contended for in in'o prior to the passage of the Legal-Tender Act, Abyssinia was at once achieved i)y the English Gene in cases where the original contract simply calls for cal, while not one striven for in Paraguay has been the payment of dollars. 21 Mi en s for payment in attained by Brazil, except the fall of Humaita. coin of engagements entered into subsequent to the I'his is the cam p aign Cie Standard s •leczs fur a passage of the Act, where the contract speciti- comparison with that of the Allies against Para cally states or clearly implies that p a yment is guay. After these Nappy and truthful statements to be made in coin. 31. Claims for pay- it proceeds to glorify Brazil, and to sing a imin ment in coin of engagements entered into over her great trium?h, and for this purpose it as either prior or subsequent to the passage of the sociates the wretched Slave E aspire and the failure Act, in cases between foreigners and American o f her dastarlly attack, with the great military citizens, where the contract was made abroad, and nations whose exploits " have required the highest does not specify the nature of the currency ; 4th, qualities of the mind and the highest development claims for payment in coin of engagements entered of the social and political attributes of the people. into subsequent to the passage of the Act, in cases Brazil has won her spurs. She may now take her where the contract does not specify the nature of place in the knighthoo lof nations." If Brazil, con the currency. It will be seen that almost every tent with having reduce I Hain aita by starva case likely to arise can be placed in one or other of tion, ceases to prosecute the war, she must con these groups, and that at least four decisions on fess to defeat. There is no evading the Secret four different cases will be necessary to enable the Treaty, but one condition of which has yet been general public to understand how its interests are to accomplished. The moderation claimed for the be affected by the opinion of the Supreme Court on Allies is the moderation of a bully in the presence the constitutionality of the Legal-Tender Act." It of one he has good cause to fear. The Secret considers that the Court will de c ide in all the cases Treaty proves what the slave empire's moderation belonging to the three first groups, that payment is was when she thought the little Republic of Para due, and must be made in United States gold coin ; guay was at her mercy—when three months were but that the decision in the fourth case will be to take General MITRE to Ascunciou, and the resist against the claimants, on the ground that at the aim of LOPEZ was with the Allies the subject of time of the contract greenbacks were notoriously banter. Now Brazil,on the eve of a revolution, thee' undisputed- universal and accepted- eurrency-, •in debt, disgraced by defeat, may hold.very different which signified money unless gold was specified. language and call it moderation. . The Standar d The majority of wrongs perpetrated under t h e may be assured that such articles will do the cause of Brazil no good. They only lead to. an exposure, Nation's Act cannot be repaired, nor, in thesteeped Nation's opinion, can th e y b e r epeated, for the and teach its own readers how unreliable are its history of the world has shown that while wholesale statements. We gee by the American papers that injustice to creditors is possible, against d e b tors it General M‘MitloN, the newly-appointed Minister is impossible, and when attenip:ed, results in revolu- to Paraguay, has been ordered to delay his de tion and social anarchy. Its opinion, then is, that parturein view of the recent news.—Anglo- American the anticipated judgment will not practically in- Tinies, volve the compulsory payment in coin of all Legal- Tender engagements now outstanding. Further, that as the Legal-Tender Act did not suspend sr ecie payment, which was accomplished before it was dreamed of, but only rendered resumption more difficult, its abolition cannot restore specie payments, merely rendering resumption no longer impossible. It is very evident that no decision of the Supreme Court can replace the coin which has been exported from the United States owing to the false policy of its financiers, who by cheapening gold hastened its export. But the decision will reverse this policy, and by bringing gold again into circulation add to its value and in checking its . export check at the same time the undue import of luxuries into the United States. It will then be the first step in the right direction, and although it will requite years to r. pair the waste of war and the effects of ignorant financial legislation, so elastic are the re sources of the United States that only time and common sense in the Government are necessary for the nation to pull up every foot of leeway. GENERAL GRANT AT 110 ME.—The President of the Galena Bank writes as follows, in a private letter, of the appearance of the General of the Army and the go publican candidate for President among his old friends ad d neighbours :—General Grant is here, quietly vending a' fortnight in his home. I sent you a paper containing ai l account of his reception. The reception was spuutaueoo and informal, bui genuine and hearty. At the serenade at his house it was nut ex. i .ected that there would be an / speaking; but the crowd called some of us out. I W3S taken entirely by surprise, but could nut back OA a t was staniiiug on the porch near the General , and had to say a few words. lie is in line health and spirits' tin walks about town every day iu plain citizen's dress' the must unpretending man in the place. Ile spouds 1 11 1 lit the foiCllOUil sitting wilt us in the bank. lie is 00 , "' our stockuulders. lu vrivato he is very social, dil e° joke, and enjoys company. lie reads the papers oiligento Keeps himself posted, and has a pretty good idea of til d e situation. On 6uuday he and his family Wa ll° f to tue Methodist Church, about halt a mile, instead riding in a carriage, as the must of great men wc' tli A have dune; and this, too, when his friends have p larx" nurses and carriages at his disposal whenever ble chooses to call tor them. But he is a Radical Democrat 111 the true sense. If the good people who aro distressed bid the stories told by his enemies in regard to his habits col'i only look MO that clear, calm, serene, and candid fact) fvrt a few moments, they would say that its wearer could be a luau of bad passionS or vicious habits. It is as tonish- iugly how such slanders of public men, if pers isteutil l repeated, will conic to be believed by their 1 3 ; opponents, -and by—and -by evini -perplex and dis tre . 4 their friends. Th.) only really bad thing that his 000 •' 6 6 4 say of Gen. Grant is—that he drinks. Thi s would be b or enough, indeed, if true, but nothing could be more fal gd aiie malicious. During all the time he lived in Galena, I h a ve never hearalif his drinking ardent spirits, an d I frla,4o never been able to find any man, friend or foe, living 110., and who knew his habits, who could say that be Ni r o temperate. In fact, there was no more temperate tilaa_l, the city. That his habits in this respect are the saute ar none who know him and meet him can for a mome nt dou s e But I have dwelt too long on this, for I know YOl mad uu doubts on this point. We are going to have it bigf o o meeting here ou Friday next, and expect a crowd t .. the general. lie will take no part in ally political 1 1 -te. e i d ins, but will be at house to see his friends. ri fi g Republican. Work has commenced on the fishery at lioli °le under the direction of A. li. Field of Greenfield, o ne ei 43 BRAZILI,V 110DEIZ1710N. Those who have read the Secret Treaty of A' Hance, concluded on the Ist May, 1865, by the Plenipotentiaries of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, and Uruguay are aware that the fall of Ilumaita, if it be-not the fall of Paraguay, does not-terminate. the war, in as far as all the objects set forth except that one are as yet unattained. The best historical parallel to this treaty is the shameful conspiracy by which Poland was partitioned. It professes to preserve intact the Republic of Paraguay ; its territorial integrity being guaranteed collectively by the contracting parties for the term of five years. The value of this Article may be gathered from the others, together with what history teaches of the fate of countries which fall beneath the arms of a conqueror. These parties, after an nouncing their object to be the destruction of the Go vernment, begin by a compact that the exemptions, privileges, or concessions obtained from Paraguay shall be common to all of them—the free naviga tion of the rivers Parana and Paraguay, so far as Paraguay is concerned, being 'opened to the wrlr and merchant vessels of the Allies—the rig!rt of concertiug the most suitable measures to guarantee peace with Paraguay, the Allies reserve till after its overthrow. The war expenses, indemnification for the injuries done to public and private property, to the commissioners. The first bale of new cotton received in Bost l 3l the product of free labour, was sold on Saturday, AeS* * to the Llallowell Mailufactuciug Company fur .1:3 can t 3 pound. has been given to B. N. A contract Toro' , 0 ! the Iluosac Tunnel, to build the foundajou w 311411 feet lung and 2U wet high, of the new cutlery viQt-li; Tu aei's Falls, and also to dig a canal 1,0 00 toot 106' will put 150 man to work on the canal at once. Sixteen kinds of fossil horses have been di e re re in North America, and yet there wore n o horses when the white men came. .A. list of benefactions, exclusive of State per°,,,-, rece ntly °;;,i priations to American literary institutions , piled, shows that during the last tivo years they aul ll o oo to $15,212,000, distributed as toil() ws : CO'llege s 00; theolo,sical s. minaries, 61,3.. , 9,500 ; academies, s l, u h ' 4) o oP, societies, $510,000 ; education, $2,22000 ; , sc , 4 ; the $385,000. manypeopl e rr t r h l ho e iesa high la rgaep donations,p su ra appreciation they t hs h e t dh y uee i as a lue: itf 11:17:ci 11;ft i r t° i lia.6. It is proposed to bras', horses by Inachiab:r of The saving in time and labour when there are a ow l ' 0 horses to bo brushed would bo very great, as teu cil* per cent. ;II OCC I/- It is said that an eclipse of the -sun in the forenoon of May 23, 1900. It W ill be totalityl giuia and North Carolina, but the duration of f the hardly exceed a minut. , , as the apparent diantooLif co lt se couT s o, it moon will be greater than the sun's by a few is Indeed, at the return of this eclipse of April 26 ' de was total only where the moon had a grea t altita was low. (Bas the Island of Cuba), but annular where it eclipse, although not total in the Atlantic citiesteL very more, Philadelphia, Now York, BOStOD, &C.), Willoc esrly Uret large, and eleven-twelfths of the sun w ill be ° 8 At Norfolk, Virginia, the eclipse will be P t „,. total. p ap A WOMAN MOVEMENT.—An At:aerie-1i trogea states : —The pedestrian and boating mania d s al' out among the women at Mount Desert, gabl e, 6 : 6 4 races and walking matches are common. ~,,clll5- ate It 11 : from New York took the first prize at a lat e gate., and another did her 23 miles in time thal'A-tb that -0 Weston to the blush. In England, it is repor te ' 11.4 °- ladies' school at Frome, in Somorsetshire, pupils allowed to play at cricket. They have a sPecisliniest the purpose, and the best crickets are said to be so tO variably the best scholars. l 11i1 The Spiritualists were to holds hr atnill a ,. l a p t e mber 4-e t convention at Danby, Vermont, on eei 14 13/ sive. The railroads return them free. monol ith hasAbemenoehruecniteedntin(Caognriaaecntiitceut to the Fitz-Greene Halleck. It will be next month. n orti° ll New Bedford, Massachusetts, prO, co of 7 c o i o ty in OO L 'f °6ll population, claims to be the wealthiest try. One of its churches represents $.7- property. ra108r)'7100f t,.t11;e1:::01 appropriately tie le persons of citizens previous to the Declaration of War, as well as after, in the violation of the laws of civilised war, are to be paid by Paraguay. That there might not be au after fight between the Allies over the conquered territory, a special treaty is then made cleaning the boundaries. Now, these boun daries, except towards Brazil, are such as no Go vernment can wipe out or ignore, consisting of the two stupendous rivers Paragu ty and Parana ; there fore Brazil only was able to encroach upon the Re public, which we believe she does with no niggard hand. After guaranteeing to each other the fulfil ment of the agreements, and rendering their future combination imperative, should Paraguay eventually attempt to avoid the terms on which peace only would be made, a proctocol is adde 1, c insisting of three clauses; the first being the demolition of the forires's "of Fluinaita and the prohibition of any future erection of such forts ; the second provides that neither arms nor munitions of war be left in Paraguay ; and the third declares an equal distri- bution of the plunder taken. Notwithstanding the proposed annihilation of the Republic, an article is introduced providing for the admission of a Paraguayan legion into the Allied army, as the [Ugh Commissioners consider that the straits to which the people will be driven by the invasion will oblige same to turn traitors. We are led to give an outline of this Treaty, as the Standard last Wednesday asserted, in one of the most unfair articles even that paper has ever published, that " it was partly to maintain the right, guaranteed by treaty, of free passage up and down the great streams of the Paraguay and the Parana, partly to avenge for the past, and repress for the future, the piratical incursions of the troops of LOPEZ into the Brazilian privince of Matto Grosso and the Argentine States of Entrerios and Corrientes, that Brazil and the Argentine Republic entered into a league nearly three years ago with the common purpose of bringiag.Paraguay to reason." The only excuse we can make for the writer is that he was grossly ignorant of his sub ject. Both the Paraguay an l the Parana have their origin in Brazil, and both these rivers are among those closed in that empire against the com merce of the world. A nation that only a year and a half after this secret treaty had been 'concluded, and eight mouths of ter, to its great disgust, it had become public, opened the main stream of the Amazon and the mouths of the two rivers, Tocanting and San Francisco—could scarcely be said to be fighting for the freedom of La Plata and its branches, every one of which that flowed through Brazil was a barred water. The Standard then proceeds to liken the Brazilian campaign ou the Plate to the British operations in Abyssinia ! What surprises us is that we find ourselves answering such rubbish, and it is a striking instance of the stuff which even a widely circulated paper like the St i nticzed can publish. In every point the two expedidons form an antithesis, not a parallA. Brazil borders on the country that is invaded, which is further open to attack by the third great water she I of the world, one branch of which actually flo,vs past the capital—therefore the Brazilians could either march their army ag tiust Paraguay without sending a man to sea, or conduct the operations through the nav3. Great Britain, on the contrary, was not only operating in a country iu a distant part of the world, but far in the interior, not to be approached by any river, and liemined in by chains of mouc tains and deserts. The Brazilians and their Allies landed at the confluence of the Parana and the Paraguay, and never advanced beyond the sound of the guns of their fleet. To maintain their posi tion they fought a series of desperate battles. Every advance they attempted was checked by disastrous defeats, and after three years of fighting for the pos , session of Ilumaita they got it when every attack had Jorr—On the 11th inst.,Bairt 3111,13C:anowgate, Abe- ~ tb ° c i f o p, wife of Wm. Jopp, Esq., wine merchant, ° I ii 0 : 1 ' 3 0,. S T; O s m c dß l i i aTr z uoit E gn ilL ht o e N r. Y— . On the i Oth inst., at St• An al l3ar t " O the wife of Sir Charles M. Ochterlooft A IV ° ;Za n, ' the the wlilitohcfinitst..,l3.ast with, teriulli.,ayorlAV'terf stillborn. ff rre t te e Marriages. -t , $ t J , ,: 5 4, 1 ;;t, CitossTilwarrE—BAlDwiN—On the lOth ir ( s r oss' 0 10 je ham Church, Maidstone, Robert JosePa„,aucesi ry, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, to Charlotto x,,, ,ci ., o tV daughter of the late Wm. W. T• ldw►°' '''' J.o b o .oe DA II v i I I LS g o K e N e l — i n s t t i: Ef s I t 9 D — u O is v i n . e t i h i , e Jlltnh 3L)ativslsoll ~toot iv ;e -: t a t 6t.' l B,f‘ li f fi t h e l i, road, Peckham, to liarriette J a nd tie l '' of Peckham-rye. t lO Dorrien, Deaths. te,• B:DGeonw.a. OOMFIELD 0 Eutl io-51,.1e° nonifitheald2,tohitisi3t..,, a a g t e 4 d o 9 , ,t 2. toe olet:avorto, f o r nimo Lady Bloomfield, widow 0, . • P lj° DORRIEs—On the 10th iust., at 13rightoet 10,0 J, bourne - grove , aged etdhBeol.lranch 13aul of Elig wei V mouth, aged 66. of , PococK -On the 6th ingt., gr, Jag. POCOOm Or 1- 10 3 1 WARREN—OnMiddlesex, W A LKER —On the 13th July last, at 31.elboareA Ator'4 Cz,pt. Joseph Walker, 11.1.0. 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