The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC) JOURNALS. The Ministry, the Saturday Review says, in one respect stands especially well with the country, for no one wishes it to go out of office. Persons who look far ahead, and think of the ultimate effect which such a state of things may produce on the working of the Constitution, are filled with alarm at such an extraordinary phenomenon as a Conservative Government doing the work of the Liberals. But, as it goes on, the process, although it may be dangerous, is certainly not unpopular. The Conservative party likes being in office. The Liberal party at such a crisis gains greatly by being out of office ; and those who belong to neither party are satisfied with the mode in which Lord Stanley conducts our foreign affairs, and wish to avoid the waste of time which would be caused by a change of Ministry at a period of the session when it is known tolerably well what-\pieces of legislation must be got through before Parliament is prorogued. It is not fair to say that the Ministry is a Ministry on sufferance. It is a Ministry established with the general assent of all parties. And certainly no one gains so much from its existence as its opponents gain. If the present Ministry really wished to save or help the Irish Chuch, the best thing they could do would be to resign. The Liberals, if in office, would have the utmost difficulty in agreeing what to do with the Irish Church. Their majority might easily be split up, and would be exposed to the greatest danger in face of the united body of the Conservatives. The attack on the Irish Church is infinitely more effective than it could be if a Liberal Ministry were in office, and had to be responsible for all the mistakes that might be ma de. In order, therefore, to oblige everyone, the Government may, it is to be hoped, last until next year brings a new Parliament with it. It seems so natural that a Conservative Ministry should be found passing numberless bills under the dictation of the Liberals, that we have no idea of thinking worse of a man who has fallen in with the system, and keeps office under circum stances which theoretically are very anomalous. There was a time, it must be remembered, when, under the reign of Palmerston, Liberals stayed on in official life, and devoted themselves to carrying out a very Conservative policy. And in some measure the indifference or satisfac tion with which the country watches the continuance of the present Ministry in office is due to the conviction that it can do no harm. The Liberal victory seems so great, and the appeal it has made to the nation so successful, that a Conservative Government cannot, it is thought, interfere with this success, or make things go less quietly or less readily in the direction in which it is desired they should go by the Liberal portions of the English and Scotch constituencies. The Spectator gives its readers an article in answer to the question, " Shall Liberals take office yet ? But (it says) for the Premier's recent finesse, which has disgusted even politicians not usually over-scrupulous, one-half the Liberal party at least would prefer that the change of Government should be postponed -until Easter next. They want to see what the next Parliament will be like before they complete their final reorganisation. The Old Whigs want it keciuse, though staunch enough on the Irish church, they want to see how far they must go before they commit themselves unreservedly to Mr. Gladstone's lead, to ascertain, in fact, if the long regime of inaction has or has not at length come to an end. We deeply regret their feeling, but there is no wonder mixed with the regret. The old peer who objected to die because he doubted if he should be quite as well off in heaven may have been a cynic ; but a Grosvenor or a Russell may be pardoned for questioning if any earthly change can greatly improve his political position. On the other hand, the Radicals entertain a doubt, in which to a certain extent we share, whether it will be good for them that Mr. Disraeli should resign just now, whether the old influences are not still too strong, whether a little more light from below might not greatly assist Mr. Gladstone in the formation of a new Ministry. It is not enough to have reformed the House of Commons unless we can also reform the Executive, unless we can secure a Ministry as advanced as the Par liament it is to lead. If we have the old set back again, with their half-formed convictions and easy-going ways, and sympathy with the Peers and deference for the Court, and fear of every sheep which looks as if it were going to butt, their inability to construct, and their readiness to concede, their awe of vestries and their pusil lanimity towards opinion, three-fourths of the progress gained will have been thrown away. The old Parliament was weak, and the new one will be strong, and we do not want to see half its strength wasted in lugging along reluc tant leaders, men not only unable to see whither things ought to tend, but to perceive which way they will tend, whether they like or no. There is arduous work to be clone, work requiring new men, strong men, men who will fit means' to ends without regard for anything but effi ciency ; who will have no esoteric creed about England being an aristocratic republic, and no secret belief that birth is a qualification for making treaties or devising ironclads, who will honestly act on the maxim, "The tools to the workman." The new Parliament, if it is not to be superseded by something still stronger, must get rid of some of our worn-out organisations, and should be led in its work by men who really mean reform, and are not afrain of seeking ideals lest some ancient interest should he crushed by the way. The John Bull confides in the new constituencies of the Reform Act to reverse the decision of the present Parlia ment. The remarks of those writers who attempt to show that the Ministry are merely endeavouring to gain time, by refusing to resign till next year, seem, to our contem porary, founded on the false assumption that the new constituency cannot by any possibility return a Conservative majority. Believing as it does that this is a fallacy, and refusing to regard the attack on the Irish Church as anything more than the commencement of an attack on the Church in this country, and on all other institutions, such as the House of Lords and the Throne, which might stand in the way of so-called Liberal ascendancy, the John Bolt contends that it is the duty of the Government not to resign, even if Mr. Gladstone had the same majorities in committee, which will, however, certainly not be the case. The majority would not have been nearly as great had it not been arranged in the earlier part of the evening that the Government would not accept the vote as one of confidence ; and it is notorious that many Liberals voted against their consciences to please their present constituents. We do not think so badly of them as to believe that they will sanction a factious interference with necessary public business which can serve no possible end. The question is one with which the new House of Commons must deal ; and it certainly seems singular that the Liberal party should not patiently abide the issue, when they pretend that the verdict will be so undeniably in their favour. The Imperial Review complains that the Liberal journals are never weary of pointing to Lord Cranborne as the representative of the genuine feelings of the Constitutional party. But one swallow does not make a summer. And Lord Cranborne occupies a position conspicuous enough, it is true, but chiefly remarkable as that of an excep tion, such as is said to prove the rule. If the noble lord the member for Stamford is indeed what such nice Judges of honour and consistency as are to be found among our Liberal contemporaries affect to hold him, the exponent of the true Conservative policy, how is it that the bitterest diatribe which he can utter fails to bring a single recruit to his standard ? For, in spite of all that was said by the exulting gossips of the Reform Club during the week which culminated in the great division, the Government was never more loyally sup ported by its own party-following than on the memorable night of the 3rd of April. Nobody, of course, can deny that the Opposition mustered on the same occasion in much greater force than they have been able to display since their exit from power. But it is not very easy to see what special significance is to be attached to such a demon- stration so far as anybody out of doors is concerned. For the first time since Lord Palmerston's death, his following was brought together to support a proposition he would be the first to resist. And though one grudges no credit to Mr. Glyn for the efficacious use of the whip which he has so recently assumed, one is at a loss to perceive what lesson is to be drawn from the demonstration of that numerical superiority of the Liberals with which everybody was perfectly well acquainted. Whatever may be the fate of Mr. Gladstone's resolutions in the present Parliament, and it is not diffi cult to foresee what the Liberal party may be expected to do after what they have done, the matter is really of very little consequence after all. With the country must rest the ultimate appeal. The London Review, in an article on bankruptcy, rem arks that although the bill of Lord Cairns goes a very short way to remedy existing evils, yet any change cannot fail to be welcomed. It is impossible to do more than speculate upon the effect of a great deal contained in the bill ; but if we are to be guided by past experience., m any of the provisions are not likely to be very productive of benefit to creditors. The provision with respect to after. required property is at best doubtful in principle, and it likely to be comparatively inoperative in practice. There are many persons who fail in consequence of no fault of their own, and who notwithstanding may not he able to get a release from their creditors; and to hang round the nee4 of sneli a person the dead weight of liabiiities of perhap. an enormous amount would deprive him f all incentive tt activity and would arter all produce nothing for the cre ditors. Even were this otherwise, we know that thoze clauses of the Insolvent Act as to after-acquired property in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred remained a dead letter. The Scotch system might possibly work well, although it is more than doubtful whether, when applied to our extensive system of commerce, it would not be found thoroughly inadequate. The provisions as to person, becoming bankrupts on their own petition, and which restrict composition deeds within due bounds, must be preferable to the existing law ; but if arrest fur imprison ment is abolished, the necessity for all this machinery ought in a great measure to go too. A man who is not in a position to pay his debts ought not to be at liberty to deal with what assets he may possess—they are not his, but belong to his creditors ; and if bankruptcy be neces sary to secure an equal division of them among the cre ditors, it is for them and not for him to call in the aid of the court. The law will protect his person from arrest, and if he desires to have, in addition to that, a release from his liabilities, he surely ought to make out a stronger case than mere indebtedness. There is one portion Lord Cairns's bill, however, upon which it is impossible to speak with approval. We mean those sections which, although they deprive the superior courts of the power of imprisonment for debt, retain the power of commitment which has been un wisely conferred upon county court judges, and is largely exercised by them. Few will deny that imprisonment 'or debt is a relic of barbarism, seldom resorted to among ommercial people, and mainly used by the worst descrip tion of money-lenders as a terror to their dupes ; but if we look at the actual working of the law, we shall find that, so far from there being any reason why the rich man should be favoured above the poor man, there are the strongest and most urgent reasons for doing away at once and for ever with imprisonment in county court actions. Lord Cairns points out that the number of county court commitments do not exceed a thousand every year, and this he seems to regard as a comparatively small number. Others think it enormous : and we have only to reflect upon the nature of the demands, and the positions of those who are committed, to see the vicious system which the Practice fosters. The Saturday Review has something to say in answer to the criticisms sent forth against it for its denunciation of the girl of the period. This, we are told in a tone of pathetic resignation, is a day of hard sayings for women. It is, we will venture to add, a day when women have to meet hard sayings with replies a little less superficial than the conventional stare of outraged womanhood or the rrivial retort on the follies of rc en. Grant that woman's censors are as cynical and hollow-hearted as you will, there can be no doubt that their criticisms are simply the expression of a general uneasiness, and that that uneasiness has some ground to go upon. It is possible that observers across the water may be cynical in denouncing the "magnificent indecency" of the heroines of New York. It is possible that the schoolmasters of Berlin may be cynical in calling public opinion to their aid against the degrading exhibitions of the Prussian capital. It is possible that the thunders of the Vatican are merely an instance of Papal cynicism. It is possible that the pro test of the Bishop of Orleans is as hollow-hearted as the protests of censors nearer home. But such a world-wide outbreak of cynicism without a cause is a somewhat im probable event, and the improbability is increased when we remark the silent acquiescence of the women of America and the Continent in the justice of these censures. Having thus justified himself, the reviewer goes on to deal with British mothers, whom he criticises with no light pen, as the following closing passage of the article will show :—By the sacrifice of womanliness, by the sacrifice of modesty, by flattering her wooer's base preferences before marriage, by encouraging his baser selfishness afterwards, by hunting her husband to the club and restricting her maternal energies to a couple of infants, woman has at last bought her freedom. She is no slave of her husband as her mother was, she is not buried be neath the cares of a family like her grandmother. She has changed all that, and the old world of home and do mestic tenderness and parental self-sacrifice lies in ruins at her feet. She has her liberty; what will she do with it ? As yet, freedom means simply more slang, more jewellery, more selfish extravagance, less modesty. As we meet her on the stairs, as we see the profuse display of her charms, as we listen to the flippant, vapid chatter, we turn a little sickened from woman stripped of all that is womanly, and cry to heaven, as Madame de Campan cried to the Emperor—" Give us good mothers." THE CRICKET SEASON. The forthcoming cricket season, for which preparations are being actively made, promises to he an unusually brilliant one. The Marylebone Club list includes matches with the counties of Surrey, Lancaster, Norfolk, Suffolk, Devon, &c., the great annual contest between Gentle men and Players, the two Universities, Eton and Harrow, North v. South of the Thames, M.C.C. and Ground v. England, M.C.C. v. the Colts of England, the usual Military and Public School matches, and a variety of engagements of minor importance. In connection with Lord's Ground one circumstance is much to be regretted, viz., the omission from the list of the great match between the All England and United Elevens, which for a series of years was played there on Whit-Monday for the benefit of the Cricketers' Fund. The Surrey County Club com mittee has announced " home andhome" matches with Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and no event connected with cricket could pos sibly have afforded more satisfaction to the lovers of the noble game in the metropolis than the revival of the Notts v. Surrey match at the Oval, after an interregnum of two years. In addition to the above-recited matches, there are at the Oval the usual great contests between the Gentlemen and Players of England ; Gentlemen v. Players of the South ; Surrey and Middlesex v. the rest of Eng- England (the match being for the benefit of the renowned Julius Caesar) ; contests against the two Universities ; a Colts' match, and a variety of other matches of scarcely inferior calibre. The annual dinner takes place on the 13th of May, at the Bridge-house Hotel. The County of Mid dlesex has " home and home" engagements with Sussex, Kent, Surrey, and Yorkshire ; also a " Colts' match." The County of Kent plays Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, and Surrey, "home and home," and a " Colts' match." The County of Sussex opens with a "Colts' match," and contends for victory, " out and home," with Kent, Middlesex, and Surrey. The County of Nottingham, as usual, " sets the ball rolling" on Monday with a " Colts' match," the " trial team" being the celebrated County Eleven ; they also play " home and home" with the Surrey, Lancashire, and Yorkshire. The " County Palatine " Eleven is " pitted " against Surrey and Yorkshire, " home and home." and the Marylebone Club and ground at Lord's. The committee has also announced a " Colts' match." The great county of York, which last year won all ber engagements, plays with Surrey, Cambridgeshire, Nottinghamshire, and Lancashire. The County of Cambridge plays Kent, Yorkshire, and the University Elevens. The engagements of the great amateur clubs are by far too numerous to specify. The great " cricket carnival," or " Canterbury week," commences on the 3rd of August, and the Brighton week on the 10th. Some Australian colonists, headed by the late mayor of Sydney, whose arrival is daily expected, have been training a team of aboriginal blacks as cricketers, with a view to astonish the good folks in the " old country." This sable troupe, which consists of thirteen, is expected to arrive in the ship Parramatta, early in May, accompanied by Charles Lawrence, an old Surrey profes gional, and formerly a member of the All-England Eleven. They will play in the Oval in the Epsom week. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR A NCE. The Doncaster Gazette says : " Doncaster seems likely to J e threatened with a mystery something similar to the Rev. B. Speke's disappearance, which recently caused so much sensation, and begot so many wild and extravagant stories of trap-doors and assassins. We only hope that the present case may end with as satisfactory a sequel as did its predecessor. The facts are as follows :—On Tues day, the 31st of March, a Young man, 24 years of age, named William Ingram, a native Jf Doncaster, but at the time of his disappearance in the service of Mr. J. W. Childers, of Cantley Hall, as under gardener, came to Doncaster for the purpose of buying some meat. While he was here, he went to his father's house, where he stayed till between ten and eleven o'clock at night. From his father's residence he proceeded to the Reindeer Inn tap, where he remained till about five minutes to twelve o'clock, when he left, as was supposed, for Cantley, carrying with him the meat. When he left the public-house, he was in a state des. cribed as ' half seas over,' and was seen to turn round the corner in the direction of Hallgate. This is the last that has been heard of him, and his whereabouts at the present moment is shrouded in the deepest mystery ; and as no cause can be assigned which would lead to the belief that he has made off with himself, the most painful apprehen sions have been excited as to what may prove to be his actual fate, if it ever comes to light at all. If he had really intended to secretly leave the neighbourhood, we can scarcely suppose it probable, or at all likely, that he would come to Doncaster, make a purchase, and then leave a public-house at midnight in a state of semi-intoxi cation. Of course the wildest rumours arc afloat, and more than hints are suggested of foul play—in fact, there was even a report that a man was in custody on suspi cion. This, however, we may state, is entirely without foundation. There is also a report, and one from reliable sources, that b e had been suspected of giving information against poachers, although we understand this is not the case. Then again his state when he left the Reindeer tap is pointed to as affording some prospect of a solution of the singular mystery, and it is suggested that he may probably have fallen into a drain and been drowned, or precipitated into some of the deep pit-holes in a brick field, across which there is a short cut for Cantley. The police, both the borough and the West Riding, have, how ever, made the most diligent search. The Common Pond and the various drains have been dragged, and every likely nook and cranny fully explored, without, however, affording the slightest clue or prospect of bringing the agonising suspense of his friends and the anxiety of the public to an end." A RITUALISTIC OBSERVANCE OF PALM SUNDAY. Though the recent decision of Sir R. Philli more, respecting the legality of certain rubrical observances, would seem to have had a some what dispiriting effect upon the leading ritual ists of London, causing them to refrain from many of those practices that have brought them so prominently under public notice, their brethren in the provinces threaten not to be so easily deterred. In the Manchester Guardian, on Tuesday, a very long account is given of certain ceremonies observed in the Church of St. Alban's, Cheetwood, the incumbent of which is the Rev. T. E. Sedgwick. We TVestininster Gazette) transfer a portion of the report to our pages, as though much that was done was evidently incomprehensible to the writer, who has invested it with a ludicrous air, it will, nevertheless, have an interest for Catholic readers : " At the conclusion of the sermon Mr. Sedg wick disappeared for a few moments, and as the huge candles on each side of the gilt cross at the back of the altar were lighted all eyes were directed to them. These candles are several feet long, and they are placed in mas sive gilt candlesticks of about the same length. They appear to rest upon the raised ledge or super-altar behind the altar proper, or com munion table. The large ornamented gilt cross between the candles was on Sunday covered with black crape or gauze, through which the outlines of the cross and its orna mentations were distinctly visible. The method of covering this cross appeared to be the same as is adopted in concert halls and places of public recreation to preserve mirrors and pic tures from damage. During the reading of the offertory sentences Mr. Sedgwick reappeared upon the raised stage or chancel, carrying a long rod, at the top of which was fixed a light. Turning his face from the people to the altar he proceeded to light the candles before alluded to. Before the celebration of the Eucharist commenced, Mr. Sedgwick took the cup from the credence table and carried it, in a raised position, level with the crown of his head, to the centre of the altar. There was not the customary visible mixing of the cup ; but it appeared to the on-looker that there was a mixing, though it was probably done in a man ner not condemned by the Dean of Arches. After the cup had been placed on the altar, and before the consecration prayer, the curate, who was the chief celebrant, removed it from the altar, and midway between the altar and the credence table a small portion of liquid, which appeared to be water, was poured into the cup by Mr. Sedgwick. There was a smaller number of communicants than is usual at this church—probably a score—but this may have been caused by the frequent celebrations there are at this season. Mr. Sedgwick, in announc ing the services for Holy Week, stated that there will be two celebrations on each•pf the four early days of this week and three' cele brations on Easter Day. Several novel services were announced for this week. In additionito the two celebrations, there are short sermons for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday; and on Maunday Thursday services of a special character will occupy nearly the whole of the day and night. On Thursday evening there is to be a ' meditation ' and an instruction '— one at ten o'clock and the ether at midnight; and the church is to remain open throughout the night, when there will be what are called watchings.' At the consecration of the ele ments, and again at the Benediction, several members of the cong-regation not only knelt, but made the sign of the cross on their breasts in the manner practised in Roman Catholic churches, and then prostrated themselves, bringing their foreheads to within an inch or two of the floor of the church. The custom of carrying a branch of a tree on Palm Sun day, which is observed by members of the Church of Rome, was adopted on Sunday by some members of the congregation at St. Alban's, with this difference, at the Roman Catholic Churches the congregation assembled without the branches, and received them after the benediction of the palms ; while the St. Alban's worshippers who carried branches took them with them to the church. This cus tom was referred to by the preacher at the evening service, the Rev. E. Allen, rector of Sacred Trinity, Salford, who informed the congregation that it was the practice of the ancient English Church to have a benediction of the palms immediately before the celebra tion of the Holy Communion. In every seat in the church printed instructions " How to observe Lent " were placed. It is addressed from " St. Alban's Clergy-house," and points out that " some people fast by taking nothing till twelve o'clock, or three o'clock, or six o'clock in the day, and then only one meal; some by taking their food at the usual hours, but leaving off before they have quite satisfied their hunger." The docßment proceeds 'to lay down that " you ought at this season to abstain from all public places of amusement, parties of pleasure, and from marriage." The wearing of mourning or half mourning during Lent is recommended as " a right and good thing ;" and members of the congregation are urged to " try to keep from your chief sin entirely during each of these forty days." THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1868 ARCHBISHOP MANNING ON IRELAND, If in a multitude of counsellors there be either wisdom or safety, we ought by this time to be in a position to deal with Irish questions in all confidence and security. We have not only had many nights' debate in the House of Commons, in the course of which Irishmen of every shade of opinion and the leaders of every party explained their views, but we have been aided by deliberate pamphlets, travelling over the whole subject, from one of the largest and probably quite the best landlord in Ireland, from the most eminent and able philosopher in Parliament, from the venerable statesman our late Prime Minister, who so long led the Liberal party, and now, lastly, from the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, who may be assumed to represent the ideas of the Papal authority on all matters which concern him in Great Britain. Of the other contributions we have spoken as they ap peared ; we have now to say a few words on Dr. Manning's letter to Earl Grey. It is written in a thoroughly dignified and tem perate tone, and if at moments a certain measure of indignation is discernible, it is an indignation which is neither unnatural nor un-Christian, and which it would have been an injustice to the ques tion in hand to suppress. The first half of the pamphlet is devoted to the Irish Church Establish ment and the system of mixed education, and we go along with the writer in nearly every word he says in reference to the first and in much he alleges as to the second. He demands the repeal of the obnoxious and inoperative Ecclesiastical Titles Acts, which, we may assume, will be virtu ally done away with soon ; and the disestablish ment of the Protestant Church, which probably may be considered as doomed, though the formal sentence of death may be unavoidably postponed to the meeting of a new Parliament elected by the new constituency. But he repudiates as almost an insult the proposal to transfer any portion of its revenues in any form to the Catholic hierarchy ; and he does this with evident deliberation and sin cerity, and with a careful choice of strong words, which, coupled with the official and solemn decla rations of the Catholic bishops on two previous occasions, must, we apprehend, be held to set that matter at rest; and we may therefore dismiss Vie project from our minds. The Catholic clergy will not accept any ecclesiastical endowment from the State ; and the English mid Scotch middle classes could never be persuaded to concede any. Dr. Manning has his own idea—though a somewhat vague one—as to the use to be made of the liberated funds. " They were taken (he says) from God, and ought to be restored to the poor, who are his representatives ;" not, however, to ielieve the poor rate or the education vote, " but in other ways for which there is no provision." Dr. Manning insists strongly on the rights of the Irish to haves Catholic uniyersity of their owu Till this is granted, he says, Ireland is worse treated than a colony, for we have establisled a Catholic university in Canada. So far, Dr. Manning argues instructively and weightily, for he is master of his subject and his facts. But when he leaves the education and Church questions, and proceeds to deal with the land ques tion, " in comparison with which (he says) all the others are light," his mode of treatment alters sadly for the worst. He has obviously never examined the subject for himself, but takes his ideas and beliefs from the universal statements of angry and ignorant sufferers whom he has met in England, or from intemperate and utterly untrustworthy party speeches and pamphlets, whose assertions he receives as gospel. He goes so far as to declare authoritatively that in cases of emergency, of which we conclude the hungry man must be the judge, robbery is quite permissible. " A starving man commits no theft if he saves his life by eating of his neighbour's bread so much as is necessary for the support of his existence." But what if he is starving merely because he has been obstinately idle or wilfully improvident? Is he still entitled to help himself to his more frugal or more industri ous neighbour's store ? "Every- people has a right to live on the fruits of the soil on which they are born ?" What, even if they have multiplied so recklessly and cultivated the soil so -villanously that there is not _enough for all ? They may have a right to live somewhere, but why in a particular country? Why not as well in a particular county or a par ticular parish ? Dr. Manning echoes the thought less complaints of those who cry out against emi gration as a great evil and a grievous wrong, when he might have known, if he had thought or in quired at all upon the matter, not only that this emigration has been the greatest conceivable bless ing to the emigrants, but was an absolutely indis pensable step towards improving the condition of those who remained at home. He repeats, without a scruple as to the wrong he may be doing by propagating untrue and exasperating state ments, the wild assertions of Mr. Butt and others, that upwards of " a million of human beings have been driven from their homes by force, without pity and without refuge." A little investigation might have informed him that a very considerable number of these "enforced" emigrants voluntarily surrendered their farms (their landlords forgiving them large arrears of rent) and went gladly to join their prospering relatives across the Atlantic ; that a far larger number, so far from being dispossessed " without pity and without refuge," were care fully removed at the expense of the proprietors, and provided with homes in America ; nay, in some instances accompanied thither by parties charged to see them comfortably housed and started n their new life ; and that this process, which he represents as so cruel and unjust, was in very truth the best way, the kindest way, and the only way, in which these poor creatures could have been per manently benefited and ; relieved. Dr. Manning thinks it hard that the 'lrishraan should have nO land, or not :land 'enough, Yet he dAPlOres and de nounces the natural proceeding a expansion over God's wide earth Which remove that Irishman from a country where, land costs £3O an acre and labour gets 7s. a : WeelC.to a country where land can be bought for ss. an acre and labour earns 7s. a day. In all that the Archbishop writes in favour of securing the tenant in the produce of his in dustry or his outlay, it is needless to say, we fully concur; the only controversy concerns the best and fairest means of doing it. We should earnestly recommend the issuing of a new edition of the pamphlet with the omission of the sixteen last pages.—Pall Mall Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Instances of great events springing from small causes are constantly occurring. The Foreign- Office put the letter of a despotic African savage into a pigeon -hole, and forgot all about it—hence one of the most expensive expeditions in which England has been engaged, with what result—no one knows. The Johanna men, who abandoned Livingstone, thought it a small matter to fabricate a lie in excuse. The tale they told of his death spread indignation and sorrow through Christendom, and led to an expensive expe dition to trace out his fate. People express sur prise that they should have had the impudence to send to Zanzibar for their wages. If such impudent people did not send for their wages surprise might really have been felt. Sir Samuel Baker must " shut np" as an African prophet, and Sir Roderick Murchison be pushed up a niche or two in the Temple of Fame. But Livingstone himself when he returns will be the great African lion ; and if he arrives about the same time as the Abyssinian expe dition gets back, the kingdom will be overrun with these roaring beasts. We hope that, as in Bom bastes Furioso, " the first lion" will not " think the last a bore." _ _ _ On the 25th March the President sent to the Senate the Veto of the Bill to amend the Judiciary Act. Message is temperate, but it ha c. dtnoMerfiejcoth Johnson's Message the House or in the Senate. The Senate passed the Bill over the Veto by 32 to 9, and the House by 112 to 32. Mr. Johnson thus alludes in the Message to the Supreme Court : The Supreme Court of the United States has been viewed by the people as the true expounder of the Constitution, and in the most violent party conflicts its judgments and decrees have always been sought and deferred to with confidence and respect in public estimation. It combines judicial w isdom and impartiality in a greater degree than any other authority known to the Constitution ; and any act which may be construed into or mis taken fsno a and prevent or evade its deci t o h affects the liberty of the n the country canna fail to be se iitnz seo ra n u agitates g question it t ti e ao attempt s w t attended with unpropitious consequences." Mr. Jeremiah Black has withdrawn from the defence of the President. If report be true, he endeavoured to improve the occasion by using the President as a tool for carrying oat another object. He had been employed by an American gentleman named Jerry, who claims the guano island, Alta Vela, in the Gulf of Mexico, although the claim is not allowed by the Dominican Government. On as suming possession he was expelled by that Govern ment, and another American took his place, while he sought Mr. Black's aid to recover the pro perty. When Mr. Black was requested by the President to act as one of his counsel he proposed that a vessel should bo despatched to reinstate his client in Alta Vela. This the President refused to do, and Mr. Black withdrew in dudgeon. Apropos of this style of bullying, we may state that the Hon. Ben Wade is beginning already to taste the sweets of power. The mercenary ganghave fastened on him, and his life is being made a burden to him. Mr. Frederick Hall has published his book. He was one of the counsel for Maximilian at Queretaro, and he throws a good deal of light on the circum stances that occurred. The Me xi can Judiciary Courts have now decided that the law was uncon stitutional under which the Prince was executed. General Lopez, who betrayed him, is in prison in Mexico. The Cincinnati Inquirer has made a grand dis covery! the last good thing of an afterthought. It holds that if President Johnson should be deposed from the Presidency, he, would revert to the office to which he was elected, the Vice-Presidency, and the Presidency being vacant, ho would again suc ceed to the superior office. 01 caurse Congress would collar and impeach him wiun he again emerged as President, and so the ball might be kept rolling in this profitable little game. The cash in the 'Treasury on the Ist inst., ac cording to the telegram dated Washington, April 6, was $122,500,000 against $128,000,000 on the Ist A1ar,1,41, being a decrease of $5,500,0)). This was balanced by a decrease of $6,003,000 in the total amount of indebtedness, which was on the Ist April $2,642,000 against $2,618,000 on the Ist March last, leaving the gain to the United States of half a million during the month. The only telegram not elsewhere noticed is the following from New York on the 4th instant : " According to Messrs. Neill's report, the week's receipts of cotton at all ports are 37,000 bales ; since Ist September, 1,912,000. Week's exports to Groat Britain, 37,000 bales ; since Ist September, 961,000. Week's exports to France, 5,000 bales ; since Ist September, 186,000. Exports to other Continental ports, 8,000 bales; since Ist Septem ber, 209,000_ Total foreign exports for the week, 50,000 bales ; since Ist September, 1,256,000. Taken for borne consumption for the week, 17,000 bales ; since "Ist September, 367,000. Stock at all ports, 300,000 bales. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe to ke out $500,000 in specie. Joseph Ha we, M.P., William Annand, President of the Executive Council, J. C. Troop, and H. W. Smith—the last two being members of the Parliament of Nova Scotia, have issued a cir cular, stating the effect of incorporating Nova Scotia in the New Dominion, for the information of the Governrmat, Parliament, and people of Eng land. These gentlemen are delegated from Nova Scotia, charged with an address to the Crown and a petition to Parliament, from the Legislative As sembly of that Province. They assert th t the six delegates who came to England last year from Nova Scotia misrepresentel the public sentiment, and grossly deceive I the Imperial Parliament. Only three ventured to appal to the people at the late election ; one was be iteu by au overwhelming majority, another polled 400 votes out of 1,500, and the third—th' late leader of the Governor .nt of Nova Scotia—was returned with a smell majority at a ruinous cost ; under protest for bribery and corruption, and was compelled to go to Ottawa without a single follower elected in favour of con federation. The result of the elections was the return of 18 members for the general Parliament opposed to confederation, and but one in its favour; and for the local I,3gislature 36 against confedera tion and but two in its favour. The actual legisla tion at Ottawa was even more hostile to their interest than they anticipated. The duties were increased from 10 to 15 per cent., the Canadian breadstuffs were protected against those of the United States largely consumed in the maritime provinces ; stamp and newspaper taxes were imposed, though before un known in the province, as well as the Bank circu lation, which raised the rate of discount from 6 to 7 per cent. From the tone of the petition to Par- I liament the Bluenoses are very angry indeed at I being handed over to the tender mercies of the new Dominion, which they name with an evident sneer, ! and if our information be right, they are agitating for absorption into the United States ; indeed, a paper has been started called the Bluenose to advo cate annexation. If they must lose the full free dom they before enjoyed, it is evident that they I prefer the United States to Canada. - The result of the elections in Connecticut will be a considerable damper to the rejoicing of the Republican party over their New Hampshire triumph. The Democrats carried the State by an increased majority. Last year they polled 47,575 votes against 46,588 Republicans, winning the State by a majority of 987 in a total poll of 91,163. The Republicans, elated by the New Hampshire triumph, and convinced that nothing is so successful as suc cess, fully expected this year to turn the tables. Immense hnportance, too, is attached to these elec tio'ns as indicative of how the nation will speak next November. The Judges of the Supreme Court have decided not to pronounce a judgment on the M'Ardle case by a vote 'of six to two, until the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in cases arising from the Recon struction Acts has been settled, which is now the case by the bill being passed over the President's veto. The opinions of the Judges differed as to whether the bill abolished the jurisdiction of the Court in the M'Ardle case then before it. But the vote shows that the majority of the Court con siders that it does, and it manifests the wish of the Judges to avoid a collision with Congress. The obstreperous character of the present Con gress is shown in their refusal of the appropriation for the payment fcr Russian America to which we alluded last week. Mr. Seward has in vain exerted all his influence to induce the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to reconsider its action, and a de legation in the interest of the Russian Minister has also unsuccessfully urged a reconstruction on the committee. That body but reflects the opi nion of the House, which desires to control the treaty-making power in common with everything else. Whether the United States will retire from. the Icebergs, and Alaska ag:tin revert into cold bleak Russian America or not, Ministers of State, Presidents, and Senates, will have received a lesson which will make them cautious how they enter into treaties involving money, without first securing the sanction of the Ilouse. But we trust for the honour of the United States that the bargain will be concluded by the payment of the money in May. The New York Tribune has published the follow ing telegram from Washington, which, if true, and Mrs. Bond be appointed, will tend to complicate the Senate's Court-dress regulations. We would recommend them to discuss the subject with modistes before they presume to legislate in the matter : Mrs. Frances Lord Bond is the name of a woman who aspires to represent the United States Govern ment at the Court of St. James's. She has been trying to persuade the President to appoint her for months past, and notwithstanding she is recom mended for the place by numerous members of Con gress, without distinction of party, she has failed to get the appointment. She has recently obtained from Vice-President Wade a letter strongly urging her claims for the coveted position. She is now working assiduously for the rejection of General M'Clellan, and should she succeed she supposes that the President will appoint her for the reason that she is the only person that the Senate will confirm." The arrival of the Bremen steamship Baltimore, which was telegraphed off North Point on the 23d March, has furnished the citizens of the capitol of Maryland with a delightful sensation. Every one hurried on board, and Captain William Voeckler and his officers became the fashion. The 26th was a grand day at Baltimore, business was suspended, and flags everywhere unfurled, and beneath the fluttering bunting a procession more than three miles long moved through the city to do honour to the occasion. At its head was the Governor of Maryland, and 7,000 Maryland troops were there. But those most eagerly welcomed were the officers and crew of the new steamer, who walked in the line amidst enthusiastic greeting. Never was the utility of a steam line more publicly recognized, and if but a portion of the success anticipated be realized, the North German Lloyd's Company will have no reason to regret having thus met the wishes of Maryland and Virginia. The Baltimore will be the next steamer, touching at Southampton, May 4, on her way from Bremen to Baltimore. The sayings of the Hon. Ben Wade are now con sidered so important that correspondents dog his footsteps to pick up the pearls that drop from his lips. This is the last jewel from that scurce :-- " Now they talk of taxing these bonds (the Five twenties). W hen a man talks that way, look him in the face, and you look in the face of a peniten tiary bird. I would not trust such a man as that in my sheep-pasture after dark. None but a Demo cratic demagogue would have the face to propose such a thing." There is a rush from the Eastern States for Cali fornia. In Springfield, Massachusetts, Mr. Ryan, agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, sold 81 tickets last month ; and Mr. Smith, agent of the rival line, sold 75. The strcng tide of emigration is not among the ignorant and those who know • nothing of the land to whic:l they are flying, for two-fifths of that number hail been in California. Simultaneously with this movement West there is a rush from California to the new mines in llacotah. The Californians seem again to In smitten with the mining fever, awl the uewsptpers rais a warning voice, as some of the, citizens appezr iucline.l to hurry out into the ctld before winter even has broken to be early at the mines. The increase in the ti:h of Gcrinan emigration to A►nerica is visible to thc 11133 t casual observer. Several thousanls last week passed through Berlin to embark at Bremen. The number this year is much greater than during the last, and continues steadily to rise. The fine lines of steamers now running direct has given an impetus to the exodus, and the new line just opened to Baltimore will throw into Maryland a number of able and willing hands, where they will be warmly welcomed. While the Irish emigration is decreasing, that of Germany is growing so large as to threaten to Germanize North America, where there are already six millions of the Teutonic race ; and if the treaty just con cluded be loyally carried out on the part of the Prussian Government it will have a good effect both in relieving the North German Confederation of some of her surplus labour, and of filling up a few of the fertile uncultivated tracts of the United States. A strong tide of this emigration is setting south, and already crowds are passing through Washington. The New York Union League Club has just held the last meeting in the old Club Ilouse in Union square, previous to its removal to its grand new quarters on Maddison Avenue, corner of Twenty sixth-street. The apartments were crowded, and the llon. John Jay, President of the club, addressed the meeting. He reviewed with pride the record of the institution, which has associated itself so in titnately with the great Northern triumph ; and he concluded one of the finest addresses ever delivered by the eloquent speaker amid tumultuous applause in these words :—" Let us rather trust and believe that the memories we rnty leave behind us may serve to animate to new dnrotion, and more perfect con fidence in our institutions, those who shall succeed us, and our confidence in the Republic can hardly be deemed presumptuous when a statesman like Mr. Gladstone writes to our associate, Mr. Cyrus Field: —‘ Looking to your past, there is nothing which we may not hope of your future.'" Somebody abstracted Colonel Frank Howe's care fully -prepared speech, and in this helpless state he was loudly called for. In the emergency he bethought him of presenting the Anderson Glee Club, and escaped under this cover to reappear later in the evening with " the carefully-prepared speech," which occupied a minute and a half in delivery. Horace Greeley, with whom a coolness had for some time existed, came forward on this occasion to pay a high and well-deserved compli ment to the Union League, which he asserted to be one of the two truly- patriotic clubs. It is not only " one," but the leading one, and we believe it is destined to be more than the leading club of America ; that is, of the world. In alluding to the Report of the Secretary of the Navy to the [louse of Representatives on the cost of the cruise of the llfiantonontah, the Springfield Republican tells this story :—" Two years ago Mr. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pre sented his budget to the House of Commons, in which was an item of forty pounds odd, to reim burse the captain of one of her Majesty's ships of war for conveying the younger son of Earl Russell, Premier of the kingdom, to the Pird3us. This bill was actually sent in by the captain, approved by the department, and included in the estimate for the fiscal year. The singularity of the pro ceeding is heightened by the fact that the Russells are immensely wealthy, and on that very year whole streets and sections of land in the heart of London, which had been leased for 99 years, were falling back into the hands of the family with the shops and houses erected on them." The pa per goes on to state that the appropriation was made Parliament, for the English have too good taste to cavil, but not without significant notice. Now know ing nothing of the circumstances, we feel confident that Lord Russell's son must have been ordered as an officer of the Government to proceed to the post, otherwise no such charge would have been allowed or could have been made by Earl Russell. The captain gets a certain allowance for entertain ing at his own table any Government officer, whom the exigencies of the service require to be conveyed in a man-of-war, and whose rank is so high as to warrant his messing at the captain's table. If the captain took him as a guest no charge could be made, even if the commander was dishonest enough to attempt it. If the passenger went as a friend of the captain there are no means by which he could have saddled his expenses on the public revenue. He could only go as a Government officer ordered to the post, and why his expenses should not then be paid by the country, whether he be the son of Earl Russell, of the Queen, or of a dairymaid, we fail to perceive. It is a mere matter of routine, not of sentiment or of wealth. There is no man in Eng land, in an official position, who would attempt to sadlic his private expenses on the country. The land belonging to the family might make a very wealthy man of the Duke of Bedford, the head of the house, yet leave Lord Russell a younger son and his family very poor. We know nothing about his lordship's means, but the heart of London, Rus sell-square, Bedford-square, and all that great sec tion around the British Museum, might swell the rent-roll of the Duke, while one of his younger brothers might be living in a garret. The Republican advocates a moderate appropriation to pay the expenses which fell upon the officers of the Miantonomah, who were compelled to dispense a generous hospitality in their ship, and to bear the whole burden during their European cruise. Allud ing to the above instance, it prefers the American method of the two. Now, the English system is to saddle upon the officers the entire expense of such entertainment. All commanding officers receive from the country an allowance to meet such charges, but wherever it is the misfortune of regiments or of ships to be compelled for the honour of their, coun try to entertain liberally, the expenses fall on the body of the officers, who have to bear the outlay generally without reference to their rank. Of the two the public purse in America is more likely to be saddled with the expense than that of England. A correspondent from New York alleges that we confounded the New York Citizen with the Irish Citizen, started by Mr. John Mitchell some six months ago, on his return from France. It was not our mistake, but that of the English papers, in commenting on the letters written by Mr. Mit chell to Mr. Martin, which appeared in the New York Irish Citizen. It was there asserted that the letters had been published in the New York Citizen, and we naturally turned to files of that paper, sur prised that such letters had escaped our notice. At the moment we had forgotten a fact, announced some months before by the Citizen, that Mr. Mit chell had just started the new paper. We have to thank our correspondent for forwarding to us the letters in question. Mr. Mitchell predicted that they would make for him many enemies, especially among the paid organizers, a prophecy which we venture to say has been fulfilled ; yet he will find that truth prevails, and that the honesty of his inten tions when better understood will counterbalance any injury to him that may accrue. Mr. George Bemis, of Boston, has taken up the challenge of " Ilistoricus," to whom he replies in the columns of the New York Times. He states that on examining the Blue-book containing the correspondence relating to the blockade, he finds that Lord Lyons' despatch, enclosing printed copies of the President's Proclamation, is dated April 27, and is marked officially, Received May 14. 64 Hi s _ toricus" asserted that a copy of the President's Pro clamation was received in London on May 3d ; while the Proclamation of Neutrality was only issued on the 13th May. Mr. Bemis declares the copy did not arrive in London on the 3d May, but that a mere compilation framed on rumour, and in many impor tant particulars grossly inaccurate, was published in the Times on that date. ' 6 Historicus," we presume, has been so busy settling the allowance upon the Countess d'Alteyrac—having been ap pointed arbitrator in the case by the Lord Chief Justice—that he has no time to attend to any reply to his own attacks. He has laid down the law, and being, like the Pope, infallible, that is enough for the cii polloi he has addressed. Some have insolently asserted that the whole theory of his international law is erroneous and his conclusions worthless. Some have pointed out that if he directly contra dicted himself in fewer instances than Mr. Seward, it Tas only because he wrote less, the proportion being about equal considering quantity. Perhaps he !nay deign to come down from his high horse and notice the crawling little things around him. It appears that it was Senator Sumner himself who led in the crusade which resulted in the pro hibition of American Representatives appearing in court dress before sovereigns. It would be a fitting punishment if nominated to St. James's, where he will have to face the position he has him self created. An evening party at the White House, where the President has to go through the " pumpephandle" process, differs widely in cere monial from Buckingham Palace, and Mr. Sumne r will realize the wisdom of the advice when there to do in Rome as the Romans do. We recollect that during the debate a witty Senator suggested that the proper attire should be referred to the President , from whom the best opinion could be extracted considering the nature of his early training. The libel suits against Moses S. Beach o f the New York Sun and Edwin L. Godkin of the Nation wen t in favour of the defendants. The . very costly and unsatis• factory decision to the plaintiffs was given on the 1 8th March. The case against Mr. Godkin arose from solve sharp criticisms on the act of a conductor upon a Ne s ! Jersey railroad, who hurried Professor Dwight, an eminen t citizen, from the cars while in motion, whereby he Nvi g killed ; yet the con d uc t or did not stop :the train, nor le', the daughter of the Professor 'get out. The aggrieve d conductor commenced a suit against the Nation, and th e learned judge actually charged the jury that the otilf questions for them were "as to the identity of the defer dant" and " the amount of damages." The jury threw Iha wise judge overboard, who, like Shakespeare's magiStrat e might well w r it e hi mse lf d own an ass, and at once fou nd for the defendalt. About Mr. Godkin's identity there 1' never been a question ; ho was the editor, and he was r e ; sponsible ; but th ere was i n truth as little question abut the real point ; the justice of his remarks, which. ve il simply a duty he owed the public. Aews from Hongkong of the 2Gth February, p er Cltina Hail, states :—" The United States Consul at F o°- chow is said to have received a communication from rek i ", that the export duty on tea cost i ng Ti s. 15 per plait aid under has been reduced by one-half, b u t th e B r i t i s h COn sll and the Customs authorities are without advices on the subject." The Boston Journal thus goes around the Con' gressional districts of the State :—" In the first district+ Thomas D. Eliot can undoubtedly receive the nomination if he so elects, but should he withdraw, Mr. Davis, of VI; mouth, will be pressed. In th 3 second district, Osfr Ames proposes to accept a renomination, which will b e heartily tendered. In the third district, it is understo od that Ginery Twichell will decline, and William Whit ing and Edward Atkinson are suggested as gentlemen qualifi e i to represent the district. In the fourth district, Sams Hooper will no doubt b e renom i na t e d . I n t h e f i fth clistric". Gen. Butler will be on the track, and in the sixth distr i f: Gen. Banks will recei ve a h earty support. In the woo': district there will be no opposition from his own party t ; George S. Boutwell. In the eighth district it is said the F. W. Bird will be nominated, John D. Baldwin retiring after honourable service. In the ninth district William Washburn is very popular. In th e t en th di s t r i c t it is 01 , Henry 1,. Dawes will decline a renomination, and • Gillett is suggested. The friends of George Curtis would be happy to have him claim his country t °- sideuce as his permanent home and enter the lists frog that district as a candidate for Congress." Representatives Donnelly, Blair, Washburn ° l e Indiana, Garfield, Coburn, and Williams, will le s ' l ,, Washington shortly t o wor k i n t h e C onnect i cut camrsig.; President Johnson has sent for T. P. Sweat, 013 0 of the Lincoln electors of Illinois, to come to Washieq and defend him in th e i mpeac h ment trial. William Evarts, another of his counsel, is a Republican. Rev. Olympia Bro wn , o f W eymou th , -has bee: offered $lOOO, over and ab ove a ll expenses, to d ev ote t; next year to lecturing upon woman's enfranchiser aen i She is very successful ss a minister, and Senator POO of Kansas says she is a capital stump speaker. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News Ca be attention to the melancholy fact that the young lady received the Monthyon medal for virtue at the last adj u .d cation of that prize has since been convicted of swiudf t d and sentenced to a year's imprisonme n t. She had PO' o f by her notorious character for virtue to gain a position trust which she abused. Colonel Franklin Haven, of Massachusetts , b been appointed United States' Assistant Sub-Treasur er, place of Mr. Chandler. General Francis A. Walker, late assistant dad tt: cal teacher at Williston seminary, Easthampton, i nle e at moved to Springfield, M assac h usetts, to cont i nue a re"o4 engagement upon the editorial staff of The Republicclo• is tho son of Hon. Atnasa Walker, of N or th Brook`'' 4 and served in distinguished p os iti ons i n the army d u. by the war. He is succeeded as teacher at EastharaPt c l Mr. Charles H. Parkhurst, of th e A m h erst Hi g h Sch°°-;1; It is reported that Barnum retire s t o se ttle d ° "b in Fairfield, Connecticut. Ha says h o h as money eu°'''' left to support his children. 110 Isaac T. Rogers, of Milford, Connecticut, "j, ,4 been disqualified for a seat in the St a t e S ena t e , if 8 16°° ,1' by his appointment as commissioner of tho Pacific ' l ot road, and the Democrats will have to put up a neW fa l '- in the fifth district. ; fo f Mr. Browning, Secretary of the Interior, A 5 ...1 the present to discharge the duties of Attorney-Gen John Quincy Adams has introduced resola tw into the State Legislature of Massachusetts, express ive ;y.upathy with Crete in her struggle with Turkey. Ai. Republican Senatorial nomination s i n Conn e ' do l cut are reported as follows : —l n th e fi rst di s t r i c t Saf e- o f Rockwell ; in the third district, William S. Pcars ee ' il ti Windsor; fifth district, Sylv e ster S m ith, of Selo sixth, Garry 0. Mix, of Wallingford ; in the eighth , 6 ; W. Scott, of Sprague; in the ninth, James M. peci'l3l4,,r, of Lebanon ; in the twelfth, William C. Street, of Ile ; walk ; and in the thirteenth, C. E. Griggs, of Clot i r ie s fourteenth, E. 11. Bugbee, of Killingly ; fifteenth, C',:; c icl B. Andrews, of Litchfield; seventeenth, Theodore S• ". 0 5; of Cornwall. Republican Conventions at Stafford Sli fi d, have nominated Charles Underwood, of trollatei, for Senator from the twentieth district, and F. L. Rat der for Judge of Probate for the district of Staffe r ",bli' Union. David W. Huntingdon, of Coventry, is it e P L TIO can candidate for Senator in the twenty-first district* it. Democrats of the eleventh district have put uP D ipec i Blydeuburgh, of Sherman. E. A. Quintard has de i ; o ce the Democratic nomination in the twelfth district. -v e s pp cratic nominations are, in the fourteenth districti, a P tP D. Bates, of Killingly ; thirteenth, Elisha Potter; sWv" Seth Logan ; fifth, Isaac T. Rogers, of Milford. pir The managers of the National Asylum O r .d abled Solders have re-elected General Butler )'t es ty , Mr. Martindale and Jay Cooke vice-presid es b 0 Henry Moorhouse, the London boy-preach er ige been spending some weeks in Chicago, and drawing and interested audiences to his pulpit services. 0 0 0 Dr. Bernies, of Kentucky, has published ° to of interesting and important statistics upon the re sn ' 10 marriage between blood relations. He states thatof has found that 10 per cent. of the deaf and dumb , . t teJ cent, of the blind, and 15 per cent. of the idiots ad ri ej o ' itii into the various charitable institutions of the . 0 %0 5 , States, are the issue of marriages of first cousins." ir e of this kind aro now prohibited in Kentucky and ie 6e other States of the Union. tei °s# W. W. Eaton declined the Democratic 13°.tid tion for the first Senatorial District, Connecticut , B. Stevens, of Hartford, has accepted it. ; to General Hancock is at New Haven on a V -9 0 1,5ir a sick son at school in that city, but will return t 0 o f ington iu time to give his testimony in the Impa lle trial, e tl~ The last of the seventeen unrecognized vl beep of the Angola disaster is proved beyond doubt to hta b e ro ttle f Isaac Nelson of Cincinnati, formerly of Upton. Sts in Upton went there lately and identified the enl9 claimed piece of baggage as his valise. ll° • 0 1 ltri Mayor Sperry, Gen. Burnside, Senator A , oics , of Oregon, and others, made speeches at a great BeV i mass meeting in Now Haven, on the 25th March. tir e Ex-Senator Foster of Connecticut has been f the by his friends to accept an appointment as one 0°135e judges of the court of claims, to supply the vacaenibe b by the death of Judge Wilmot, and they say that consented to do so. 3 Judge Black will soon publish a letter gl 011 correct account of his difficulty with the Presi de" why he deserted him on the Impeachment trial. goio% Dr. Thomas T. Minor of New Haven, i „ s o se to Alaska as surgeon to the United States scientiileitote• dition, under the direction of the Smithsonian 1n5t_.....// Births. Ole; MARGESSON—On the sth inst., at Wooldringfold, et the wife of Major Margesson, 80th Begir nej" daughter. vt 1/ s Prm— On the 9th inst., at 11, Belsize - squar e, N.W., the wife of Commander B. Pirn, of a c l3 7o t ly W I LLIAMS—On the Bth inst., at Freshwater,l le Q ; s l. the wife of Lieut.-Colonel W. J. Williams, BOY of a son. Marriages. bo r o f ,,dc„,o GLANVILLE SLADER—On the 7th inst., at ..-isTopcvlif.' Pembrokeshire, Wilfred Glanville, Esq., of ••• la te Narberth, to Eliza Yorke, third daughter of the Di isr‘ Slader, of Lewisham, Kent. Cbf,4 WHALLEY BRYDEN— On the 17th ult.„_tq vv f e ', lief, Joseph Lawson, eldest son of the late IL ° of Lancaster, to Julia Theresa, youngest d eug C. Bryden, Esq., of London. Deaths. JO Oe'''' 113 JONES—On the Gth inst., at Dresden, J. G. Bingl:l3 lit 1i;..q., aged 10. Oyu itY h ' I',IAxwELL —On the 4th inst., at Physgill, Al 3 r 5 ; 1 11 0 11 of Sir William !Maxwell, fourth baronet 0 ' ilo 0 ,11, aged 80. Sor ic MUSICETT—On the sth inst., at Hingham 0 , 0 00 Alfred Muskott, Esq., aged 68. MIDDLETON—On the sth inst., at 6, Gloucester-ro‘. I pi to cl John Middleton, Esq., aged 97 . a 0 MILNE —On the Bth inst., at 70, Pentonville-rO eci 'll, d ie , of Mincing-lane, James John Milne, Esq ., 8 g„, 0 0 14v NEELE —On the 3d inst., at Edmonton, Mr. formerly of the Strand, Westminster, aged 7,„ " ../ London : Printed and Published by WILLIXA, tt° of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tne SLTti O Cite-' 00 (11' Strand, in the Precinct of the Sa voy, in the Aliddleeex.—Saturday, April 11, 1868. This Prize It i 3 Sold the A.A., 011Qe half, C c( R,' LE Mr • A Miss CELT. Pul Rail ii P• Co: .74A NE Right nifice n LIVII Op e 10 p.n. Adn of Hot -----___ AR This by for tho Solo Cc Thi s p, 1 Ours, for 60 °llenTh JA curls L B ° l 'l at 'ad 14 Q T RI colo ur hotly c d . etinZ [ I A shove s wi thout "4 ' ; SP PIN 4all3 Wr it 012, RA se ven 0 I. ° l llai n , "d Rif 3 1Pst tiG] f rig th 1 )Or e , Ir RALT Ijn °the,