The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-15 00:00:00

BPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In discussing what public economy really consists of, the Times comes to the conclusion that our Governments, Whig as well as Tory, have usually managed to keep themselves perversely in arrear of the prevailing fashion, and have thus spent money without gaining real efficiency. In the navy, for instance, there was a time when the real fighting ship of the day was the old sailing man-of-war; that gave place to the screw two-decker, and that again to the early type of ironclad, which in its turn was supplanted by a more formidable model. All these fashions succeeded each other within a very few years, and the efficiency of the navy would have consisted in providing the country with a competent force of those vessels which were the best at the time. But this is exactly what was never done. We never left off the old fashion soon enough, or took soon enough to the new one, and were generally provided with a large stock of the models which were just going out. Mr. Glad stone hit the right nail on the head when he denounced the expenditure which had been incurred in ships and arms, "the last pattern being superseded by something superior before it was even served out," but he was not equally happy in explaining the policy which he thought should be pursued. The late Government, he said, deter mined, in consequence of such lessons, to proceed " with moderation—cautiously and not rashly ;" so that, as we presume him to mean, they declined to close immediately with the project of breechloaders, and left this work for their successors. But that is an example not of wisdom, but the contrary. The true rule is to proceed in such matters with the utmost dispatch, as soon as the case for proceeding has been established, and to reject at the same time the fashions which have been superseded by the new discovery. If Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues had actually equipped the army with Sniders, instead of leaving the work for the next Administration, they would have done well. By postponing the change they incurred the risk of that very result which he now deprecates, and might, perhaps, have found the Snider obsolete just when they began to serve it out. It is impossible for a Govern ment to be too earnest in keeping abreast of the age. Here, for instance, is this Moncrieff battery, which has been under official notice these ten years. Had the effect of the invention been but ascertained when it was first produced, it might have saved us millions. The Standard returns to the question of public ex penditure. Mr. Gladstone caps his other statements — falsehoods Mr. Gladstone would say—by the assertion that, high as was the expenditure of 1859, 1860, and 1861, it was only prevented from being much greater by his own desperate struggles to keep it down, against the Oppo. sition which was eager to increase it. Surely Mr. Glad stone suppose his countrymen to have completely forgotten the parliamentary history of the years of which he speaks, or he would not venture upon such a flagrant misrepresentation. So far from the Conservative party having laboured to increase the expenditure, the Conservative party struggled to reduce it, and succeeded at last in compelling its reduction. Mr. Disraeli renewed in 1862 the efforts he had made in the previous year to awaken the country to a sense of the extravagance of the Government, and made in two brilliant speeches so great an impression that the Radical party was at last aroused, and came forward to declare itself in favour of retrench ment. Mr. Stansfeld put upon the paper of the House of Commons a resolution affirming that the national expenditure was capable of reduction, which Lord Palmerston met with a queerly - worded amendment expressing a hope of a future diminution. To this amendment Mr. Walpole moved a further amend ment directly calling upon the Government to reduce the expenditure so as to equalise it with revenue, and obtain means of diminishing the burden of taxes confessedly of a temporary and exceptional character. In the face of a threat from Lord Palmerston that the Government would treat this amendment as a vote of want of confidence, Mr. Walpole did not press it, and the House adopted Lord Palmerston's resolution. But the object the Conservative party sought was attained. The Daily News, remarking that the Republicans are now sure of another lease of power, says that in the past summer the game seemed to be in the hands of the Demo cratic party. It had nothing to do but to accept cordially all that the war had accomplished, to sustain the laws actually in operation, and to nominate as its presidential candidate such a man as Chief Justice Chase ; and it might possibly have fought a winning battle in the present campaign. But reaction triumphed in its counsels. It clung to a policy which the success of the war had made to be an anachronism. It asked the nation to yield to the South in peace some of the fruits of the Northern victory. Meanwhile, its friends in the South did their best to shew the Northern people what would be the con sequence of leaving the negro to their tender mercies, and giving them back their old predominance. The mere anticipation of a Democratic victory inaugurated almost a reign of terror in many of the Southern States. The people, as usual, discounted the Northern concessions before the people had even consented to make them, and effectually warned them against conceding anything. Hence the present Republican reaction. The Standard says : The failure in Pennsylvania may, perhaps, be regarded as fatal to the prospects of Mr. Seymour and his party. We have prepared our readers to regard this result as probable, by pointing out from time to time tho intrinsic weakness of the Democratic ticket, and the immense effect produced by the revival of the old war cries. No argument can prevail against such prejudices as the Republicans con trived to conjure up after the Democratic Convention in New York. The Democratic speakers tried in vain to convince the people that their opponents were misleading their minds by all kinds of unscrupulous slanders. The mischief was done ; the people received the impression that if they elected Mr. Seymour the negroes would be thrust back into slavery, the South would be allowed to form a separate Government, and the public debt would be repudiated. The Post observes that the control which the Republi cans will obtain over the Executive in Pennsylvania by • the vote of Tuesday last will be exercised with no little effect at the coming Presidential election. A Democratic governor gives place to a Republican, and the same change takes place in the Senatorial representatives of that State in Congress. The great battle, it is true, has still to be fought, but the decision pronounced by the three States to which we have referred has deprived it of the slight in terest with which the more sanguine amongst the Demo •crats sought to invest it. The herald ridicules the Times for treating affairs on the Indian frontier so lightly. Amongst other serious symptoms is that according tc current accounts the Per sians, in violation of the treaty with England of 1857, are occupying two places in Affghanistan, Seisteen and Mero, and have acquired by that means peculiar facility for assisting Russian aggression. It is not to be conceived that conduct like this will pass unnoticed ; and although a British invasion of Affghanistan is not likely to be the mode adopted, the Government will doubtless take whatever steps may be considered neces sary in vindication of our position. It is greatly to be regretted, as we have again and again pointed out in these columns, that measures were not adopted long since to revive the alliance with Shere Ali, which was neces sarily abandoned by the recognition of his usurping brother Afzul, and of Afzul's son and successor Azim. Even now it might not be too late to effect the object, were overtures made in a friendly spirit, and the friendly intentions of this country placed beyond a doubt. But it would be mere folly to suppose that such a purpose could be obtained without the assumption of a certain degree of responsibility. No country, as Lord Stanley said last session, can gain influence, or retain such influence as she has, while governed by no other principle than that of non-intervention whatever may happen. And no country can maintain even that policy beyond a certain extent. Sooner or later some definite declaration will be forced upon her, to be evaded only at a cost far beyond any consequencA which she bad sought to avoid. It is to such a position as this that we are fast arriving at Cabul, and we are much mistaken if our rulers have not provided for the crisis. The obvious course at present open to us is to regain, if possible, the friendship of Shere Ali, by guaranteeing the independence of Affgbanistan, with such stipulations as may seem advisable ; accepting the respon sibilities incurred as the best security for peace and a necessary safeguard to our empire in India. The Telegraph says the member for Nottingham knows Ireland well, and is a resident landlord ; and yet, returned by an English constituency, he can have no difficulty in speaking out his mind and dealing impartially between the rival sects. Thus he will stand almost alone as a thoroughly well-informed and fearless witness of the truth respecting Irish affairs and the local details that are so neces sary to fill up the picture. On Monday he usefully contrasted the comfortable Protestant church in his own neighbourhood, where " twenty excellent Protestants" pray, with a barn-like building in the neighbouring parish, where eight hundred Roman Catholics kneel in the mud. Such facts as these enable us to understand how Irishmen feel when they see established at their doors a stately church to which the law compels them to contribute, while their wretched means cannot afford a decent chapel for themselves. Take this instance alone : forget theories, principles, nationalities, and historical origin ; but simply let any man ask whether it is right that a tax on the land of that parish —a tax which enhances the rent paid by the occupier —should be levied to support the church where twenty rich Protestants worship God, while the occupiers, who virtually pay the tax, have to pay in addi tion, out of their small means, another and voluntary tax to their own miserable chapel and their own priest? No amount of sophistry can reconcile an honest man to such a wrong, when it is once brought singly, locally, and c9ll 11_4c499 awl heart, THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL, AT HULL. On Wednesday the Mayor of Hull (Alderman G. O. Roberts), unveiled a memorial statue of the late Prince Consort in the People's Park, Beverleproad. It had been expected that some member of the Royal Family would have attended to perform the cere mony, in which the Queen was known to take peculiar interest, but the hopes of the local autho rities were doomed to be disappointed, the Duke of Edinburgh having to join the Galatea for foreign service. The disappointment of the inhabitants was very great, they having but few opportunities of personally shewing their loyalty and attachment to the Throne, and it was enhanced by the fact that a general understanding had existed that on this occasion royalty would once more visit Hull. The ceremony was a very imposing one, from the vast numbers who were present to " assist " at it. At one o'clock the invited guests assembled at the Town Hall, where re freshments were provided by the mayor. Afterwards a procession was formed, comprising the mayor and council, the candidates for the representation of the borough, the cs;rporations of the Trinity House and Hull Dock Com pany, the consular body, Chamber of Commerce officials, and other representative gentlemen. The route of the procession (a very long one) was through the principal streets of the borough. At the gates of the park the procession was met by the park committee, who then led the way to the platform, which had been specially raised for the occasion. The proceedings commenced by the mayor formally presenting the statute, which Alderman Ellison, the chairman of the park committee, accepted, and requested the mayor to unveil it. During the process the band of the Hull police force played Martin Luther's Hymn, and the ceremony closed. In the evening there was a grand banquet at the Town Hall, and a display of fireworks at the park. THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION. The Congregational Union is still at work at Leeds. At one of the meetings Mr. Baines, M.P., made what he called an avowal and a disclaimer. The avowal was, that Congregationalists unanimously approved of the measure proposed by Mr. Gladstone, and carried by so large a majority in the House of Commens ; and that that measure was in accordance with their views of religious equality and the voluntary support of religion. And the disclaimer consisted in utterly denying that they were actuated by any want of loyalty to their Pro testant faith, by indifference to the interests of religion, by any wish to see the Episcopal Church in Ireland less efficient for religious teaching, or by self-interest in any form or degree, except only the interest which they had in the triumph of justice and the peace and pros perity of the empire. Their animating motive on this occasion had been a wish that justice should be done to the people of Ireland, and thus peace and union secured to the kingdom ; but their disinterested and sincere con viction wa,s,th at true religion and Protestantism itself would gain, and not lose, by the change. Therefore they did not apologise for the position they had taken up, but con sidered it altogether honourable and worthy of a great religious body. The ministers, members, and delegates assembled for the second time in session on Wednesday morning. The Rev. Dr. Raleigh presided. Before the chief business was proceeded with, the Rev. H. Allon, of London, said an invitation had been addressed to the members of the Union that they should hold their next annual assembly in Wolverhampton. He moved that the invitation be accepted, which was agreed to. A paper was read by the Rev. A. Hannay, of West Croydon, on " The Claims of the Temperance Movement on the Churches." The Rev. E. R. Conder, of Leeds, moved " That this assembly cheerfully recognises the claims which the temperance movement has on the Congre gational Churches of this country, being convinced that the prevailing habits of intemperance impede the evange lisation of the people, and frequently bring dishonour on the name and profession of Christianity. They would earnestly commend the subject to the prayerful considera tion of the pastors and officers of the churches, so that they may wisely employ such measures as are adapted, under the divine blessing, to reclaim the intemperate and pre serve the young and inexperienced from the ensnaring influence of intoxicating drinks." Mr. W. H. Conyers seconded the resolution, which was spoken to by Mr. Baines, M.P., and Mr. Samuel Morley. Mr. H. Wright reported from the reference committee that they had re ceived two memorials—one from the Central Association for Suppressing the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sun days, whose office was in Manchester, and the other from the committee of the British Temperance League at Bolton. He read the latter, and said the other would be sent to the Congregational ministers, as it appealed to them to preach on the subject next Sunday, or on the first con venient occasion. THE PRESENT POSITION OF TRADES SOCIETIES. At a meeting held in the metropolis, on Tuesday, of vides unionists, the present position of trades unions was taken into consideration. The meeting was called for the purpose of adopting such measures and taking such action as may secure the passing of a bill which will place trade societies on a footing of social equality with other associated bodies. Some action on this point had evidently (said the circular calling the meeting) become necessary " by reason of the insecure position in which the recent conflicting decisions of judges have placed rade societies." A large number of trades were represented at the meeting. The chair was taken by Mr. Spelling, of the Vellum Binders' Society. Among those present were Professor Beesley, Mr. Lloyd Jones, Mr. Crompton (barrister), &c. The first resolution was as follows :—" That this meeting, composed of representa tives of various societies in the metropolis, having fully considered the bill which has been prepared for the purpose of obtaining legal protection for the funds of trade societies, and which was brought before Parliament by Sir Fowell Buxton, is of opinion that it is sufficient for every legitimate purpose, and should receive the support of every well-meaning member of the House of Commons." Mr. APPLEGARTH, carpenter, explained that the mu which formed the subject matter of the resolution, having repealed the Acts G George IV., c. 129, and 22 Vic., c. 34, provided in the third clause that if any person were guilty of personal violence for trade purposes, such as endeavouring to force any journeyman, manufacturer, workman, or apprentice to depart from his employment, he would be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour. The fifth clause simplified the conspiracy law, and provided that on the trial of any person for conspiring to commit an offence against the third section of the Act, it should not be lawful to give evidence against the accused of any act committed or dune by any other person, unless evidence be first given that the accused was accessory before the fact to such act, or that such act was contem plated by, and part of, such conspiracy. The other clauses made provision for the punishment of those who embezzled the funds of the society. Mr. Lloyd Jones and Professor Beesley took part in the long discussion which took place. Mr. Odger suggested that the meeting should be adjourned ; that the bill should be improved if possible, but not abandoned. The consideration of the question was then adjourned. THE DERWENTWA.TER ESTATES.—The Dement water romance is still engaging the attention of Northum berland. Popular feeling is evidently in favour of " Lady Amelia." Meetings have been held, at which the impor• tance of having a quick decision was insisted upon. Sub scription lists have been opened to defray the legal expenses. She is still very unwell. No change has taken place in the position of either party. THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—There has been 4 considerable improvement in the size and quality of the herrings landed at Great Yarmouth during the last few days. Prices have varied very considerably from day to day. The Lowestoft boats are now settling their accounts at the close of a successful North Sea voyage, previously to commencing the home fishery. Most of them have done extremely well. REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. —A short time ago two lizards, one 54 inches long and one other 34 inches, were discovered in an iron mine at Brixham, Devon. They were found in a fragile earthly substance, close to limestone, at depths of 80ft. and GOft. from the surface. The mine is about 800 yards from the sea. For several days the lizards were perserved in a small box, partly filled with soft mine d6bris, and afterwards placed in a globe of water. Both now appear to be well. The colour on the back is black with small white spots ; the belly is of rich gold colour with black stripes. PROPOSED VISIT OF MR. JOAN BRIGHT, ALP., EDINBURGH.--It is expected that Mr. John Bright, M.P., will be able to visit Edinburgh on an early day, to be presented with the freedom of the city, which the town council on Tuesday resolved to confer upon him, "in recognition of his distinguished position as an orator and a statesman, and especially of his brilliant and suc cessful services in the promotion of free trade. The cere mony of presenting the burgess ticket to Mr. Bright will take place in the Music Hall ; but we understand that Mr. Bright has consented to address a public meeting of the citizens in the evening, and that the Circus in the Lothian-road hal alr9d,y been engaged for the meeting,— Scotsman. THE SUN, LOND ON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1868, THE CHARGE OF MURDERING A JIUSBAND AT LEAMINGTON. On Wednesday, at theiLeamington Petty Sessions, Laura Court, a besotted-looking woman, was charged with having wilfully and of malice aforethought killed and murdered her husband, Isaac Edwin Court, at Learning 4on, The prisoner said, in reply to the charge, her husband 'ell downstairs himself. The post-mortem examination of the body, it was stated, had not been completed. The first witness calltd was Inspector Horswill, who said that about half-past ten o'clock on Monday night he went to the deceased's house ; he saw a light in the shop, and after Police-constable Hunt had kicked at the door for some time the prisoner appeared at the bedroom window. She was dressed, but professed she was in bed. She said she did not know where her husband was, and refused to admit them into the house. By and by the prisoner came downstairs, turned the gas off in the shop, and opened the street door. He and Hunt went into the house, and on looking down the cellar stairs, which open out of a passage between the shop and kitchen, they found the deceased lying dead on the floor at the bottom. He apprehended the prisoner on the charge of being concerned in the death of her husband, when she said, " I couldn't help it ; he came in drunk. I said, Don't fall on me,' and he went towards the cellar steps, put his hand out as if to reach something from the shelf, and fell down the steps." She was not drunk at this time, but seemed under the influence of liquor. He asked her when her husband came in drunk, and she said " To-day." When in custody at the police-station she made a similar statement as to her hus band's falling downstairs, but said it occurred three or four days ago, in the daytime—she believed the previous Friday. A. thimble was found near the body. The prisoner declined to ask any questions, but said she tried with all her might to pull her husband up when he fell down the cellar-stairs. Mrs. Ruth Payne, the wife of a car-driver, living next door to the deceased, deposed that on Thursday night last the prisoner and the deceased came home drunk. Shortly after twelve o'clock she heard a heavy fall in Court's house, apparently as of some one falling on the floor of the kitchen at the back of the shop. On Friday the prisoner told her her husband had gone away. On Sunday morning prisoner was crying, but witness did not know what about. Mrs. Julia Daly, who lived opposite to the shop of tne deceased, said the prisoner told her that her husband had gone to Birmingham for a spree. On Sunday she went to the prisoner's house, and saw her crying and washing her face. Witness wanted to go into the cellar to look for the deceased, when prisoner replied, " He's not there ; I was there this morning myself." On Monday prisoner said she Sad written two letters to Birmingham to her sister, .nquiring about her husband, and was going to write another. The same night she said, " He's gone and 'listed ror a soldier." Mrs. Charlotte Poulton, of the Black Dog Inn, Satch well-street, said the priscner and deceased were at her use on Thursday night. They were both drunk, but %eft about nine o'clock, apparently on very friendly terms. On Saturday night prisoner came and asked if her husband was in the taproom. She told her he was not, and she eplied, " Then he's at home asleep." On Sunday night prisoner came again, when witness accused her of having lone something to her husband, and threatened to send for k policeman to see where he was. Prisoner said he was tone for a soldier. 'Witness told her servant to go 'or a policeman, but the prisoner pushed her back, said ;he would not have a policeman about her place, left the louse, went home, and locked the door. She was more or ess under the influence of drink every time witness saw ler. She seemed more sober on Monday night. The Bench remanded the , prisoner for a week. It is stated that there are injuries on the body of the deceased which cannot be accounted for by a fall downstairs, although they are not the actual cause of death. MR. GLADS 7 ONE'S POLICY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Mn. GLADSTONE has opened the campaign with spirit. Even his bitterest opponents cannot accuse him of want of courage or indefiniteness of purpose. As soon as he has formed a resolution he announces it with distinctness, and pursues it with unfaltering energy. In his speech at Warrington on Monday night he declared battle against the Ministry on two points—their expenditure and their Irish policy. Having first pledged himself to remove at the earliest opportunity the ratepaying clause from the Reform Bill, and thus to establish household suffrage pure and simple, he went on to maintain and to prove that statement of his which has caused so much disquietude and controversy— that the Conservative party have added £3,000,000 to the public expenditure during the two years they have been in office. At the same time he answered the counter-charge which had been brought against him of excessive expenditure eight years ago. In 1860 Mr. GLADSTONE found that he had to provide for an excess of Conservative expendi ture over the estimates, and had also to defray the cost of a war in China which was the result of Lord DERBY'S foreign policy—the policy of sending Lord ELGIN to the Peiho to sign a treaty of peace, with a large fleet to guide his pen. Moreover, great as was the expenditure in 1860 and 1861—lamentably great, as Mr. GLADSTONE admits—it was only by " the utmost efforts and the most desperate struggles" that the expenditure was not still further increased through the constant and persevering efforts of the Opposition leaders (many of them now Cabinet Ministers) to augment the expenditure. Now it was post-office clerks, now naval captains, whom they wished to enrich at the expense of the nation ; now it was harbours of refuge, now packet contracts, into which they wished to force the Government at the cost of the taxpayers. The very fortifications which the Conservatives are now bringing up against Lord PALMERSTON, that " Radical, forsooth !" as a proof of Radical extravagance, were forced upon the Government of that day partly by the impatience of the people, partly by the perseverance of the Conservatives. The last would, indeed, have compelled the Government to provide the money for the works in such a way that it should not be subject to the control of Parliament. Since they have been in office they have been pur suing the same policy. This policy consists in yield ing to the suggestions of those "knots and groups j and classes who have a constant and unsleeping interest in feeding themselves on the produce of the public industry." What these public enemies are like we may see in the recent report of Mr. SEELY'S Admiralty Accounts Committee. They are met with in all departments, and they never sleep, though Governments do. Thus there is a constant tendency to increase the expenditure which it requires the hearty will of a powerful Ministry to repress. The present Ministry is at least not powerful. No Conservative Administration for twenty-five years has been powerful. Hence Con servative candidates are appealing to the electors of the Government dockyard towns with a promise that ships shall be built in those yards instead of in private yards ; although Mr. SEELY'S report has shewn that we have in seven years spent two millions more upon Government-yard-built ships than we ought to have spent. The present Govern ment cannot help itself. It is in a minority. It has to convert itself into a majority, and one of its means for doing this is imperial bribery. Passing to the Irish Church, Mr. GLADSTONE said a good deal that was true, but nothing that was very new. Ile completely exonerated himself from the charge of rashly raising this question, by shewing, as indeed we have done times without number, that it was raised by the Conservative party. They pro posed to endow all the chief religious bodies in Ireland. It was necessary to accept that proposal, or to make another—that none should be endowed. Mr. GLADSTONE thought the latter preferable, and we shall be much mistaken if the country does not agree with him. A good deal was said about waiting for the report of the commission. But as that report was to shew how the Irish Esta blishment was to be managed if it continued an establishment, and as he wished it should not con tinue an establishment, he did not see the good of troubling the commissioners at all. And now that they have produced a huge folio of figures, who regards it ? The PRIME MINISTER simply ignores it. It has fallen dead at its birth. As for Mr. GLADSTONE, let Churchmen mark this, especially the descendants of the Tractarian party of 1834. He says, " I do not want to extinguish a single Irish bishop." H e simply desires to free the Church from a burden which cripples her strength and renders her an object of aversion and hatred to the great bulk of the people for whom she was established. other is the message of Mr. Seymour when he was Governor of New York to the Legislature at Albany, strongly showing the folly and wicked ness of paying the creditors of the State in paper instead of in coin. The Hon. Edwin M. Stanton spoke at Steuben ville, Ohio, on the 25th Sept. The meeting was presided over by the Hon. Robert Sherard. Mr. Stanton considered that the people had never to make a choice more important to themselves, their country, and mankind, for it may decide peace or war, domestic tranquillity or civil discord. The last Presidential election was in the midst of a bloody war, which only needed Democratic success to have been turned against them. The re-election of Abra ham Lincoln ignominiously overthrew the hopes and expectations of that party at the polls, and in battle, by the armies under Grant. Then the re bels in despair named their's the " Lost Cause," suing for life, liberty, and property, and professing gratitude for the terms offered. The rebellion was occasioned by a thirty years' conspiracy of those whom Mr. Johnson boldly termed the slave holding oligarchy of the Southern States—an olig archy based upon land monopoly and slave labour. This slaveholding aristocracy thirsted to extend their territory and political power, and by extend ing their system into the Free States . to ob tain a monopoly of the fertile lands and of the rich minerals of those States, and ultimately to obtain the control of the Government. Experi ence has shown that the systems of free labour and slave labour are hostile, and cannot exist together, so that the foothold of slavery is an impassable bar rier to free emigration, and would give to the slave holders not only a monopoly of lands, products, and minerals, but would command all the great channels of commerce with the Pacific and the na tions of the East, and make them the richest people on the face of the globe. This ambitious aim was sternly resisted in the Northern States. Mindful of the fortune of war, and fearful of delay, the first election of Mr. Lincoln was deemed by the slave holders a fitting occasion for the outbreak of this rebellion. On the day after the Presidential elec tion the flag of the United States was hauled down, and the Palmetto flag run up in Charleston. Con ventions for secession were called in all the slave holding States, and very soon ten States organized a so-called Confederate Government hostile to the Government of the United States, at Montgomery, and transferred its capital to Richmond. Im mediately afterwards forts, arsenals, magazines, arms, ammunition, ship yards, ships of war, and the public money were seized and converted to the purposes of the rebels. The navigation tion of the Ohio and of the Potomac was closed. Northern men and Northern women were imprisoned or banished. The slaveholding States armies were levied. The forts and troops of the United States were besieged, bombarded, and cap tured, and the capital of the nation at Washington was beleaguered and threatened by a hostile force. In this condition of things the first troops were called out in defence of this nation and the first war loan negotiated; and for every life that has been lost, every drop of blood that has been expended, every dollar that has been laid out, every bond or note that has been issued, every tax that has been collected, the slaveholding aristocracy are respon sible. They and their sympathizers in the Northern and the Western States urged them to hold on, to carry on the war until they could obtain control of the Government at the next Presidential election. The measures of Mr. Lincoln to defend the Govern ment received the highest sanction. The Governors and Legislatures of loyal States vied with each other in urging enlistments. Congress at its first session voted an army of 500,000 men and $500,000,000 to support them. The people flocked from their homes by thousands and thousands to join the army. The soldiers in every camp from the Mis sissippi to the Rapidan, from every corps, brigade, regiment, and company, shouted to their brethren at home to stand by the Government and rally round the flag. These measures of defence were not with out opposition, for about the very time that Sher man and his army were forcing their way over the fortifications and entrenchments at Atalanta, the Convention at Chicago declared the war to be a failure, and demanded the cessation of hostilities. This made a plain and broad issue, and very soon became the great issue of the Presidential canvass. The result was decisive. Twenty-one States, 213 electoral votes, over 28,000,000 of people, supported the Government. (Applause.) The estimate of General Grant upon this result is expressed in the following telegram : " , CITY POINT, Nov. 10, 1864, 10.30 p.m.—The Hon. Ed win M. Stanton, Secretary of War.—Enough now seems to be known who is to hold the reins of Government for the next four years. Congratulate the President for this double victory. (Applause.) The election having passed off quietly with no bloodshed or riot throughout the land is a victory worth more to the country than a battle won. Rebeldom and Europe will consider it so. ' U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General.' The people, the army, and the great commander thus sustained the Emancipation Proclamation which had been issued on the first of January, 1863. Abraham Lincoln had struck a blow at the roots of the rebellion by liberating four millions of slaves, strengthening our army, and carrying dismay into the hearts of the rebels. (Cheers.) The full effect of this great measure was not appreciated until near the close of the war ; but now, when the restoration of slavery is a che rished hope of those most hostile to the election of General Grant, it cannot be too well considered. The wealth and power of the rebels was mainly in their slaves ; they were the producing and labour ing class, and without their labour the plantations were of little value. By the system of enforced, unpaid labour the rebel master was able to sow his land, gather his crops, feed and clothe his family, and furnish supplies to the army while the whole white population should engage in war. It was thus that slavery was soon found to be a mighty engine of war, more powerful than be longed to any other people ; but it was different in the Northern States. Every Union soldier that left his home to join the army went away from the farm, the workshop, or the manufactory, and dimi nished the productive industry of the State in his absence. The crops were ungathered and rotted on the ground. The hammer was silent. The manufac tory stood still. He had no slave to work to support his family and do his labour for nothing. But the emancipation of slaves changed the position of par ties. The slaves, cut loose from the plantations, flocked within our lines thousands upon thousands, joined our armies, and performed military work. The condition of the war was, therefore, in some degree equalized, and this great act of Mr. Lincoln carried dismay into the hearts of rebels and strengthened the hearts of loyal people, besides a large and powerful party who regarded slavery as a God-forbidden sin and crime, and had been labour ing for years to abolish or limit it, gathered new hope and renewed their strength to bring the war to a close. Three things mainly contributed to overthrow the Rebellion : first, the valour of our soldiers and the skill of their commanders ; second, the public faith and credit which enabled us to raise money to supply the army and to provide for its wants ; and, third, the emancipation of the slaves, which diminished their power and gave us strength. The credit and good faith of a State is essential to its existence, and they constitute the sinews of its power. But no Government can exist without credit sufficient to meet extraordinary emergencies, for no Government can in these times keep money in its treasury sufficient to carry on a foreign or domestic war, construct a great national work like the Pacific Railroad, or meet many of the exigen cies that happen in the life of a nation. France, Russia, Austria, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, and the Papal States, and all the great Powers of the world are compelled to rely upon their credit to meet great emergencies. This was eminently the case with the United States, for when the Rebellion broke out the Treasury was empty ; its arms and magazines had been plundered, and there was no means to carry on the war ; by the efforts of our enemies credit abroad was cut off, so that the Government must fall at the first stroke of rebellion, or rely upon the faith of its people and its domestic credit. The Govern ment belonged to the people, and they were equal to the emergency. By the purchase of bond's and current notes enough money was raised to meet the exigencies of the war, the Treasury was filled, and there was little necessity in the Treasury from the beginning to the end of the war, and then only for short periods, until a fresh appeal could be made, and thus it happened that the public faith and the public credit became a corner-stone of the State, and contributed largely to the salvation of the Government." Mr. Stanton then went on to show the nature of the duties which devolved on the Government when the war was over, but some must remain a dead letter till General Grant be elected, who stands the foremost military com mander in the world, with peace for his watch word. Rapidly sketching Grant's history, he con trasted it with that of Horatio Seymour, who pro fesses to be an unwilling candidate caught up by a whirlwind, and of Frank B. Blair, whose platform he thus described. The substance is :--" First, that the President shall declare all the Reconstruction laws of Congress null and void; second, that he shall compel the army to undo what has been done ; third, that the white population of the rebel States shall be suffered to organize their own Governments; fourth, that the talk about greenbacks and bonds, and gold and the public credit and the public debt, is idle talk ; fifth, that the rest must trample in the dust the recon struction laws passed by Congress, this platform admits, and designed to admit no doubt or equivo cation, and what is the true meaning and result? If the Reconstruction Acts of Congress may be de clared by the President null an .1 void, he then becomes a dictator with the law-making power in his hands alone. If he may compel the military power to undo what has been done under and by virtue of Acts of Congress he becomes a military dictator, and all form and semblance of Republican Go vernment is lost. If the white population of the rebel States are to reorganize their own Govern ments without reference to the Reconstruction Acts of Congress, then it is plain to be seen that the first act will be the restoration of slavery ; the restora tion of the rebel power, of the engine with which it carried on war, the perpetual power and domina tion of the aristocracy of the Slaveholding States, the slave oligarchy, forever in the South. But there is, also, a financial scheme of the New York Convention. Blair says that itis idle to talk about bonds, greenbacks, and gold, the public credit, or the public debt." At this point be was left speak ing, further news not having reached New York by telegraph when the steamer left." The Republican nominations for Congress in Pennsyl vania aro now complete, and are as follows: Rep. Rep. maj. maj. Dists. Nominees. Present Members. '66. '65. 1. Benj. L. Berry *Sam. J. Randall 54,464 $2,022 2. Charles O'Neill Charles O'Neill 3,137 4,477 3. Leonard Myers Leonard Myers 1,004 1,475 4. William D. Kelley William D. Kelley 5. Caleb N. Taylor Caleb N. Taylor 6. J. Breitenbach *Benjamin M. Boyer ...$2,526 $3,186 7. Wash. Townsend John M. Broonrall ...... 3,480 3,677 8 Henry S. Eckert *J. Lawrence Gleiz 56,489 $6,105 9. 0. J Dickey (Stevens's, vacancy) 5,623 4,460 10. Henry L. Cake Henry L. Cake 215 $475 11. Daniel Kalbfus *D. M. Van Auken $6,786 $6,623 11. Theodore strong *George W. Woodward $545 $2,006 13. Ulysses Mercur Ulysses Mercur 1,287 1,001 14. John B. Packer George E. Miller 15. Samuel Smith *A. J. Gtlossbrenner $3,341 $2,806 16. John Cessna William H. Koontz 17. Daniel J. Morrell Daniel J. Morrell 18. W. H. Armstrong Stephen F. Wilson 19. G. W. Scofield G. W. Scofield 2,687 1,717 20. George W. GiMilan (Finney's, vacancy) 21. John Covode John Covode 22. James S. Negley James K. Moorhead ... 3,052 4,220 23. Darwin Phelps Thomas Williams 4,185 3,758 24. James B. Donley George V. Lawrence ... 1,538 1,615 * Democrats. t Democratic majorities. - - - - . _ The nomination of the Hon. Norman B. Judd in the Chicago District completes the Republican nominations in Illinois, which are as follows : Rep. Rep. maj. maj. Dists. Nominees. Present Members. '66. '64. Large--J. A. Logan John A. Logan ...55,987 31,442 .Norman B. Judd Norman B. Judd... 9,580 4,280 J. F. Farnsworth J. F. Farnsworth...l2,B39 12,661 .E. B. Washbourno E.B.WashLourne... 8,769 8,290 4. John B. Hawley AbnerC.Hardiug... 2,561 848 5. Eben C. Ingersoll Eben C. Ingersoll 8,775 6,870 6. Burton C. Cook Burton C. Cook 7,094 5,618 7. Jesse H. Moore 11. P. Bromwoll... 4,138 3,326 8. Shelby M. Cullom Shelby M. Cullom 4,103 1,785 9. Leonard F. Ross *Lewis W. Ross... f 775 .1-3,057 10. Jona. B. Turner *Albert G. Burr... -f2,373 .1.4,727 11. James S. Marti n *Sam.S Marshall... 1-2,290 .1-6,007 12. John B. Hay ....John Baker 1,076 76 13. Green B. Baum Green B. Baum ... 569 983 * Democrats. .1- Democratic majorities. Tho Republicans of Georgia have completed their Con gress nominations as follows : Rep. Maj. Dists. Nominees. Present Members. Last Spring. 1. J. W. Clifft J. W Clifft 3 939 , 2. Wiu. P. Pierce *Nelson Tift.. 3. John 11, Caldwell ...Wm. P. Edwards 1,215 4. James Fitzpatrick... Samuel F. Grove.-- 'l6l 5. Charles H. Prince ...Charles li. Prince 15,061 6. John A. Wimpy *John 11. Christy...—. j4Ol 7. James Atkins M. B. Young * Democrats. t Democratic majorities. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The news from the seat of war in Paraguay and the Brazils by the Danube tells us that the Para guayan fort Thnbo has been evacuated by its defenders after they had considerably damaged the Brazilian ironclads, who forced the passage on the 16th of August, and the garrison was able to join the main body of the forces under Marshal Lopez without molestation. Since the occupation by the Allies of Humaita, on the 25th of July, nothing of any importance has taken place, but preparations on a great scale are said to be on foot to attack Lopez on the Tebi cuari, who was even reported to have gone to Cerro Leon, a natural fortification about 25 mites to the south-east of Asuncion. If this turns out to be true, and his people remain as faithful to him as they have been, this war will not be ended till all the brave Paraguayans and their gallant chief have fallen. Cerro Leon is a position which is able to withstand a better organized army than Brazil is able to bring into the field. From Buenos Ayres it is stated that Mr. Gould, her Majesty's Secre tary of Legation, was again going to Para guay, and several other foreign diplomats, but the object of their mission was not known. We had wished some one else of the British Lega tion had been sent on this errand, as Mr. Gould's unfriendly feeling and bias against Paraguay and Lopez are well known. The Argentine troops in Paraguay are at Humaita, and have not joined their Allies to go into the interior of Paraguay, as their presence may be hourly needed by their Go vernment to put down the revolution in Corrientes, which becomes every day more formidable. Ge neral Urquiza may declare in favour of it. The Presidential election in the Confederation has been found to be in favour of Senor Sarmiento fo r President, and Senor Alma as Vice-President, which has given satisfaction to the upper provinces, but not in Enter Rios. The new capital will be Rosario, which again is very much against the wish o f Portenos, and serious troubles are anticipated. From Rio Janeiro the news is that the Government has been forced to make another issue of paper money to the amount of 40 millions of dollars, and to create a six per cent. home loan for 30 millions, to provide for the expenses of the war. These measures have, of course, very much startled the commercial community at Rio, who expected quite a different coarse from the new Ministry, who pro mised peace and no more paper money, and as the end of the war cannot yet be foreseen no one is able to calculate to what amount the public debt will swell ; but taking into account the increase for the last four years, amounting now to nearly 350 million dollars, a startling figure is reached to all who know the resources of the empire. The whole debt of Brazil represents now the very respectable figure of 530 millions of dollars. The City of Brussels arrived after the above was written with five days later news, but as it is wholly of Brazilian manufacture it must be received with caution till the French mail verifies or anni hilates it. From a private source we learn that Lopez was strongly fortified at San Fernando on the Tebicuari and Paraguay, the river being even more effectually closed than at Humaita. Colonel Mar tinez, who commands at Humaita with Captains Gill and Gabriel, taken prisoners after evacuating the fortress, are at Buenos Ayres. Colonel Mar tinez considers that the new position will be more easily defended than Humaita, and that there is an abundance of provisions and ammunition there. He believes Lopez able to hold out for two years longer. The news brought by the City of Brussels from Buenos Ayres, September 1, and Rio, the 13th, is as follows: " On the 26th of August the Brazilians defeated the Paraguayan vanguard, and on the 28th they attacked and captured their fortified position to the left of the Tebicuari. Lopez, with a small escort, had retreated to the neighbourhood of Assumption. Prisoners say that Berger and others had been shot, and that Lopez's two brothers had been arrested. The Allies consider the movement of Lopez as equivalent to flight. " The United States gunboat Wasp had gone up to the capital of Assumption, which was undefended. The Wasp was followed by the Brazilian ironclads." DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunvillo and Co. Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.O —[Ad y CAI 'mint.] LAW AND POLICE. WHAT IS WILFUL DAUIAGE ?—This was the question which the police magistrate at Lambeth had to answer on Wednesday. A woman, while standing at the bar of a public-house, threw a drinking-glass at a man who had )ffended her. The glass missed the person for whom it was ntended, and smashed to atoms a mirror value £lO. She was given into custody for wilful damage, but Mr. Elliott 'field that the charge could not be maintained. CHAINING UP A BOY.—At the Woolwich Police-court, Daniel Callow, hairdresser, Plumstead, has been com mitted for trial at the Maidstone Sessions on the charge of Ihaining up his son (a boy of 13) for three days. A vast :rowd assembled round the court for the purpose of hoot ng him, and, on his being liberated on bail in two sureties )f £BO, he was passed through a house adjoining the court nto another street. The crowd, hearing of it, gave pursuit, %rid Callow had to run back and take shelter in the police station till the crowd dispersed. PRIZE-FIGHTERS AT NOTTlNGHAM.—Prizefighting seems ikely to depart from England, like cockfighting and ratting. Two men who had endeavoured to fight near N'ottingham,but were prevented from "having it out" by the police, have been committed for trial by the Notting ham magistrates. THE RATCLIFF-HIGHWAY STABBING CASE.—Mr. Paget has attended at the London Hospital, and taken the depositions of James Buckley, a cooper, who was stabbed by Felix Victor, a man of colour, in Ratcliff-highway. Victor was present, in custody. The injured man made the following statement :—" My name is John Buckley. am a cooper, and have been lately residing at No. 8, Perseverance-place, Ratcliff-highway. On Satur day morning, the 10th of the present month, I was in the Hoop and Grapes public-house. The prisoner was in the music-room. I saw him come in and go out again. I was in the street, and the prisoner pulled off his coat and said to me, ` Feel my muscles.' He also said, Can you tight?—put up your hands.' He said, If I hit you it will be sudden death.' I burst out laughing, and he sparred over, right at me. He had his knife in his hand, but I did not see it then, and he struck me on the left ride below the ribs, and I felt I was stabbed. I followed him a little way, and then I fell. Then he ran away in the direction of Shadwell Church. I knew the prisoner before. He is the man." The prisoner, who conducted himself with the utmost levity, denied the charge, and was removed to the police-station. THE OYSTER FISHERIES.—It seems that even the Oyster Fisheries Companies cannot prevent men from " poaching" on their pools. Ten persons have been charged with the offence at Faversham. They were released, however, on payment of costs, this being the first prosecu ion. The Church News states that the Archbishop of York is about to institute prcceedings against the Rey. Charles Voysey. He is instigated thereto by the Bishop and Dean of Ripon. ESCAPE OF A FENIAN. —A Fenian named Reidy, vile had been committed for trial on a charge of having stolen firearms from a house in Cork, has made his escape from the Mallow Prison. He had previously made two unsuccessful efforts to elude the vigilance of the -golers. The retirement of a Scotch Judge is reportca. Lord Curriehill has resigned his seat on the bench. It is said that the vacancy is to be filled up by the ap pointment of Mr. George Dundas, Sheriff of Selkirk shire. This appointment is one which we believe will give general satisfaction, as Mr. Dundas is well known to the public for his great legal acquirement, and is held in high estimation by his brethren at the bar. The unfortunate disturbances in Blackburn appear likely to continue. There was a series of fights arising from political feeling, on Monday night, and in one case, at least, serious, if not fatal, injuries were inflicted. A woman, attempting to get her husband out of trouble, was severely kicked by a man with whom he was fighting, and lies in a precarious state. Some damage was afterwards done to a Reform Club building, and to a convent. Several persons are in custody. DEFRAUDING THE REVENUE.—At the Bandon (Ireland) Petty Sessions, on Monday, a prosecution was instituted by the Commissioners of Excise against Mr. Stanley, a local trader, for using starch in the manu facture of tobacco. Mr. Stanley pleaded guilty to the charge, alleging that the article was not used with a frau dulent intention, but simply to improve the appearance of the tobacco. The magistrates quite acquitted Mr. Stanley of the fraudulent intent, but imposed the mitigated penalty of £75. They agreed, however, to join in a memorial to the commissioners to obtain an abatement of the fine. A contemporary says—lt seems (or at least it is currently reported) that the ox-King of Hanover is likely to take hi 9 seat, as Duko of Cumber land, in the House of Lords. If he should do so, a curious question may bo rased. By the Royal Marriage Act (12 George III.) it is provided that no descendant of tho body of King George 11. (with certain exceptions) shall be capable of contracting matri mony without the consent of the Crown, signified under the Great Seal, and declared in Council; unless such descendant "persist in his resolution" to contract such marriage; in which case be must give duo notice Le forehand to the Privy Council, and so forth. The ex-King of Hanover married Aloxandrina of Saxe- Altenburg in 1843. Eight Sovereigns were present at the ceremony. At tLat time his father vat, King of Hanover; and it is not supposed that ho, the son of an independent Sovereign, obtained the Consent of tho Queen of England in form to the marriage, Sul Nee anything happened to the ex-King, eould his sou, Eruot_ Augustus, ox. Trine® 11@rtqltitry, gnoot34 MIR tte Renal it 09041 h lama Isuil in linens'? PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) In Indianapolis, Sept. 24, General Frank P. Blair and lion. G. P. Pendleton made speeches to an im mense mass meeting of the Democracy. A letter from the latter gentleman, addressed to Somers Kinney, Texas, has been published in the Galve ston Bulletin. It was dated Aug. 21, 1868, and ran as follows In reply, I have only time to say that you cannot urge too strongly our brethren of Texas to stand by the National Democracy and resist all Radical attempts to abase you. My heartfelt wish is that you may succeed in your new undertaking. We are making a last fight for constitutional liberty, and the signs of the times indicate a Democratic triumph hitherto unknown. Yield not a scintilla of your honour. There is no room for compromise. About your being allowed to vote, be not alarmed ; we shall see that Texas is represented. Vote by all means." As Texas is excluded from the Elec toral College by the Act of Congress, this advice of one of the leading Democrats to break a law not constitutionally set aside does not tend at the pre sent moment to lessen Northern distrust. The exact returns from Mine are thus officially given : —Chamberlain, 75,835 ; Pillsbury, 55,431. Cham berlain's majority, 20,404. Prominent Democrats assert that Indiana will give their party a majority of 5,000, and they affirm that both that State and Ohio being abandoned to the Conservatives the great political excitement centres in Pennsylvania, which the Radicals believe they can carry. The Nation of Sept. 24 thinks Pennsylvania safer than she was a week ago, and will probably show next Tuesday a Republican vote of from 5,000 to 10,000 majority. "Ohio is perfectly sure, and Indiana, Senator Morton says, will give the Republicans a majority of 10,000." The closeness of the contest may be gathered from these figures, neither party claiming such a State as Pennsylvania, with its six hundred thousand voters, by more than five or ten thousand - majority. Governor Baker spoke at Portland, Indiana, the other day, and propounded something new about the payment of 5-20's in greenbacks. To listen to Governor Baker one would suppose it was the easiest thing possible to turn the six per cent. paid on the national debt into four per cent. without loss to any one, and through the action of the holders, the only result being that the United States would save from forty to fifty millions of dollars per annum in interest. We know not what value is to be attached to the predictions of General Grant's father ; but they say that in 1860 he was right in every instance but in that of California. This year he thinks that Seymour will receive the vote of Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, half the rebel States, and Oregon. lie leaves Connecticut and New Jersey doubtful, and says Ohio will give 40,000, New York 15,000, and Pennsylvania 25,000 majority for Grant and Colfax. lle expects all the other States to stand by the Union and Ulysses, and he certainly gives plumpers. There was to be a grand gathering of soldiers and sailors at Phila delphia, October 1 and 2, in the interest of the Republican ticket, when perhaps we may hear some thing of the " Singing Soldiers." Two papers have been extensively utilized by the Republican party in the campaign : the one is a letter from General Dix, upon which we elsewhere comment, and the MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. AUSTRIA. If Austria has not granted to the Poles of Gallicia all that they require, and all which they ought justly to Wet there can be no question that the state of affairs in GaWei* contrasts strongly with the condition of the Russian Pr° winces of Poland. The Polish tongue has been introduced as the official language, and is used in public instruction. The Poles, though they do not occupy the whole of Gallicia, manage matters as they please at the Lemberg Diet. Many of the chief offices are filled by natives of 0 1 ° province, and the theatre;, schools, and local courts of justice are in their hanis. Moreover, the local financ e6 ' which the Poles are so anxious to have under their control, are usually subject to a deficit of from £300,000 t 4 £400,000, which has to be made up out of the In3Per la ' exchequer. 'There is another side to the question ; but it is evident that the Austrian differs very much from the Russian style of management. The Liberte is confident in the future of Austria. The troubles of the present ar e caused by the reactionary party to impede the work of reform at the critical moment, but la interruption which may be caused can be but temporal: Recent changes have been on the side of justice and prosperity. They represent principles which must ulti• uiately triumph. THREATENED ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. If, as is apprehended, another eruption of Vesnvi ue take place, the Daily Ecics says the circumstance will 1 dicate a condition of the volcano differing wholly from anything that has been observed for the past eighteen on' turies. Three eruptions in the course of a year are alto' gether unprecedented. The history of the mountain since the destruction of Pompeii shews a gradual increase in the rapidity with which one period of activity h ° followed another. At the commencement of the Chr istian era, Vesuvius had been so long inactive that it had O a° to be regarded as an extinct crater. Several ernr tions took place between the date of the h rßt great catastrophe ; but from 1306 to 1631 t h. volcano was at rest, the interior of the cra ter was overgrown with brushwood, and at the 1) 0 °1 1 there was an extensive plain on which cattle grazed. December 1631 all these roads and pastures were blow n away by a terrible explosion. A rest of thirty-five ye ° . then ensued, but since 1666 Vesuvius has never been V ie ' ten years together. This increase in the number of eq . tions has not been accompanied by any decrease in their intensity. The outbreak of last winter was rernarkabli violent and persistent. Since then the mountain c aa hardly be said to have rested. The Daily News W l . ° there can be no doubt that there is a conn ectoa between the earthquakes of Southern Europe and connect activity of the volcano. The one ceases when t`: others begin to be felt. Now that Vesuvius is again motion, we may look for a cessation of earthquakes in th district of the Mediterranean. AMERICA ..• nn. The Presidential contest is virtually over. Th e teot elections of Ohio and Pennsylvania, besides the State s lowa and Indiana, have resulted in large RePub l t majorities. At the last elections the Democratic I, e i d carried Pennsylvania by a small majority, and suc ceed in reducing the advantage of their opponents in the th e other States. The Republicans have now, hosreve," regained all they previously lost. To afford Mr. SeY in , e :s the slightest chance of success, it was necessary the Democrats should not merely hold their c on , 1- these States, but that they should ensure further g As they have receded instead of advancing, Ge ne Grant's election is now regardtd as a mere forraality. SPAIN AND AMERICA. The Spaniards are not yet sure of Cuba. It wan - e t announced that the great West Indian Island had deli° d its independence, next that it had recognised the ne" Spanish Government, and now we receive a po d° statement. The Governor has announced his intentios " hold Cuba irrespective of political movements at hi and devote himself to the preservation of order n li o peace." This is not a very explicit declaration. It lenve ,l us doubtful whether General Lersundi will await the 6i/ establishment of a monarchy or other form of governynellia at home, or whether he has concluded that Cuba 1 0313 ( be a nice prize for himself. If, for instance, the l ie Ministry recalled him, would be obey the summons? Ae The American Government has shewn its activity in Li interests of freedom by recognising the change in SP 4I , immediately upon its accomplishment. The actio n of tv American representative at Madrid has been confi rmed es the Cabinet at Washington. The full text of the sPe e r„ e r made by General Serrano and the United States Mi° 18. 1 ,,, at their interview have been published, but, as inig ht t s, expected, they contain nothing beyond general stateo The language of the two Ministers was, in fact, at friendly and judicious. The owners of the Sonora, destroyed by X i ; Alabama, have brought a suit in the United States,Ad trict Court against Mr. Laird to recover the loss. '-`,"O, allege that the Alabama was fitted out in violation of 0 , 0 and Mr. Laird has funds in the United States w hich h''. fo r been attached pending the decision, the claim being $119,000. Captain Fannies and Colonel Gorloff, the it tis it i sian Commissioners who have been superintending,oir Hartford, Connecticut, the manufacture of arms for Government, recently presented to Mr. A. B. Weave old Colt's factory, a solid silver tobacco box, lined with gt' to as a token of their esteem. Captain Hannies teturuso, Russia, but his companion has bought a residence 1.1 ford and sent for his family to join him. Le Grand Lockwood, of New York, is bul one of the finest residences in this country at Norfot• i Connecticut. It will cost $1,000,000, and one of n o t , tractions will be a picture gallery adorned by such P o t, c p ings as Bierstadt's " Domes of the Yosemite" and ' r re' ford's " Crushed by Icebergs." Larkin G. Mead, th e k ill nowned Vermont sculptor, designed the statuary that 0 0 ornament the grounds. The house warming will be 0° time in the coining year. v p 4 Chief Justice Jay's opinions on the Constit ut vi of the United States are about to be ventilated in e l , l io s suit of a curious character now in course of determie a o ' in New York city. The plaintiff, the publisher of e, t he gazine, gave, in 1864, some historical reminiscences of of life and career of Chief Justice Jay, one of the frateel". • the Federal Constitution, in which he stated sub s of tially that the Chief Justice was never a h e , - tO supporter of the conditions of that instrureet,oril propounded. The defendant, John Jay, is a "- d o descendant of Chief Justice Jay, and in reply publish° 0 , letter or card controverting some of the allegations t he cerning his illustrious relative, and asserting that en t plaintiff was not a supporter of the Federal Govern: n ot) hirnse'l, but was in sympathy with the rebellion. 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TAO CECIL—On the 11th inst., at 32, Eccleston-square , Eustaco Cecil, prematurely, of a daughter, stillboro'ivir OLIVER —On the 13th inst., at 7, Essex Villas, SED S ton, the wife of Thomas Oliver, Esq., of a son. Marriages. , Si , ASHWORTH—BLACKWOOD —On the 14th i ns tant, a t to George's, Hanover-square, F. C. Ashworth, % 4 14 "er Charlotte, third daughter of the l a t e Sir Henry '' wood, Bart. A f a riej GARDNER —CURTIS —On the 13th inst, at St. , — h it Plaistow, James Martin Gardner, to Elizabeth , ' daughter of the late H. L. Curtis, Esq., of Plaistosy' Deaths. , n fJ I BOYDELL —On the 13th inst., at Kent Lodge, Bri xto n - Charls Buda'', Esq , aged 32. nge eOr EMMETT e —On the 13th inst., at Hornsey-road, N* l Emmett, Esq., aged 72. 00 1 ' MA IR —On the 13th inst., at Bognor, Sussex, Lia t '' C. 0. P. 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