The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review says: No one can deny that, taken as a whole, the Cabinet is a strong one—strong in debating power and parliamentary position, and strong in adminis trative ability. To Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Bright no one can be opposed for an instant on the other side except Mr. Disraeli himself. In the Lords the Cabinet is, of course, weaker, but still it comprises some of the first men among the peers. There are people who are bound to be disappointed with everything, and this class of persons are disappointed at finding so many peers in the Cabinet. It is painful, they say, in these democratic days to think that out of fifteen members of the Cabinet there are six peers and the Marquis of Hartington. Lord Russell could not have been more exclusive, more Whig, and more aristocratic than Mr. Gladstone has shewn him self, or more contemptuous of the leaders of the people. The charge is in a way true, and if a Cabinet was to be composed exclusively of the fifteen ablest men of the party, the Cabinet would not have Leen rightly formed. hevoluti-ns cannot he made with rose-water but it is a very goed thing to sprinkle as much rose•wa er them as possible. It will make things much smoother, both in Ireland and England, that the destruction of the Irish Church should : not seem the work of a new, wild, violent party, but the natural consequence of Liberal principles, whether held by men of one rank or another; and it may be hoped that Lord Spencer, whose recommendations are chiefly social, way Contribute, as Lord-Lieutenant, to makelrelind as tranquil as possible. Besides, the peers, with the one exception of Lord De Grey, are thoroughly competent men. If Mr. Forster and Mr. Stansfeld had been peers, they would certainly have had a better chance of being in the Cabinet ; but, with these exceptions, it cannot be said that any commoners have been kept out of the Cabinet who had a fair right to be in it. The Spectator thinks the new Government would be a perfectly satisfactory one, were it not for a certain dimly perceptible want of tone. Though not a Ministry of all the Talents, and in one department decidedly weak, the Cabinet as a body comprises an extraordinary range and variety both of parliamentary and administrative ability. The Government certainly will not fail, as able Govern ments have once or twice failed, from- inability to defend its measures in either House, while in capacity to devise them it will be without a rival among the Cabinets of this generation. There is none of the Old-Whig sterility about Mr. Gladstone, or Mr. Lowe, or Mr. Childers, or Mr. Bruce, or Mr. Goschen, or the Duke of Argyll, and none, we trust, of that disbelief in popular support, of that absence of moral courage in taking an initiative, which has been so perceptible in recent Administrations. Nor can it be said that the new Government is a Govern ment wanting in Liberalism, as Liberalism has hitherto been understood, in this country of legal precedents and middle-class moderation. Nevertheless, all true Radicals, the constructive Radicals, who wish to see new ideas in power as well as new men, are conscious of a certain latent dissatisfaction with the new Government, a hesita tion in giving it their full confidence, which had much better be openly expressed. The aspect of the Cabinet would have satisfied everyone had it been gathered together by Earl Russell, but it does not fulfil the lofty ideal which it was hoped Mr. Gladstone would strive to realise. To the world at large the Government looks like a Whig Government which has admitted Radicals to certain minor posts. The traditional etiquette should have been broken, and it is intact. It was, perhaps, wise in Mr, Gladstone to divest his Cabinet of any " revolu tionary " air, to conciliate the great families in spite of their decaying power, to recognise that a passion so universal in England as flunkeyism is a political force ; but there are degrees in prudence, and his selection has been prudent indeed. The most Liberal among aristocrats have been chosen, but the Cabinet is almost as aristocratic as Mr. Disraeli's ; among Commoners the least "advanced" have been carefully selected ; and the man who most openly detests the popular power, who can scarcely believe that two plus two are four because workmen also believe it, fills the second place. In the event of a difference of opinion within the sacred chamber itself, the least advanced side can rely on a clear majority; while on all questions of a social kind, education, labour, or State work, there are not in the Cabinet more than four votes—Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Childers, and Mr. Goschen—whom the public can trust. The Radicals have been employed as we employ men who may be useful, but with the single excep tion of Mr. Bright, anyone. has been considered more indispensable than a Radical representative. The tone of the old-world Administrations, which " pacified " Radicals by appointments like that of - Mr. Milner Gibson, instead of accepting them frankly and cordially as equal allies, is perceptible throughout the arrangements, and will, unless Mr. Gladstone is careful to assert himself in his Cabinet, to make his own burning popular sympathy felt as well as known, ultimately produce, not, indeed, disloyalty—that is impossible while Ireland is unreconciled—but a want of cordiality in obedience which he will keenly feel. We do not doubt that he will succeed, but it is folly to pretend unmixed satisfaction with a Government appointed by Mr. Gladstone, of which Lord Palmerston, with a jolly wink at the benches opposite, would have heartily approved. The Imperial Review notices that the new Ministry has been formed in an unprecedentedly short time. But as it bad been, as far as its leading features were concerned, cut and dried ever since Mr. Disraeli committed the unpardonable sin of becoming Prime Minister before his rival, it is by no means surprising that Mr. Gladstone should have succeeded in shuffling the cards which were already in ' his band Without any long dealing or insurmountable difficulty. Mr. Gladstone would not only have offended the allies whose support was absolutely indispensable to a Revolutionary. Minister, but he would have violated all the traditions of the party which he leads, bad he composed his Cabinet as the Radical press apparently believed he would, of the Forsters and Stansfelds, and all the " general utility " politicians who have been returned to support him by the second-rate manufacturing towns. The parallel which naturally suggests itself between the daring Minister who bas taken in hand the demolition of the ancient fabric of Church and State, and the enterprising " promoter " of some grand financial scheme, should not be without instruction for those who have observed the modus operandi of recent speculators. The prospectus, with its alluring prognostications and business-like detail, has it not been advertised on every hustings in the kingdom ? There is no doubt as to the course of our new ruler. Mr. Bright has taken office, and if anybody thinks that six or sixty amiable noble men, of Liberal tendencies, will counterbalance Mr. Bright, they are quite welcome to a delusion which will not last very long. To do our new Minister justice, he has never deceived us. We know him, and we know his policy. We know his policy must be the policy of those who act with him ; and we also know that, however Mr. Gladstone may seek to disguise it by putting forward his noble col leagues and keeping back his real master, the nation will not be long in detecting Mr. Bright's policy, and a Liberal Cabinet will be his creature. The ,London Review remarks that it is a gOod Ministry, and there is no Whig Mentor in it. Only one member of the Cabinet, except Lord Chancellor Hatherley, is Mr. Gladstime's senior in years or official standing ; and Lord Clarendon is no mentor, but Foreign Minister with a new paraphe. He is too pliable a man to be inconvenient to any of his colleagues, and will probably find vent in the grumbling and free sarcasm to which he is said to be prone for any vexation he may feel at the new associations and new obligations amongst which he will ply his accus tomed diplomatic craft. Unlike Lord Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon has never bad views or designs, or has never cared to press them. The acceptance of office by Mr. Bright is a subject for the heartiest public satisfaction. There would have been something exceedingly depressing in a refusal on his part to bear a buiden the character of which his public conduct is so certain to affect. It would have established a hiatus between the governing and the executive forces in public affairs. Mr. Milner Gibson's appointment was simply an empty compliment to the extreme party, for when in office be is not at all to be distinguished from Ministers of the orlinary official type, except by what Thackeray called a don't eare-a-danmativeness of manner. What is it that distinguishes Mr. Bright's accession to office? This : that his resignation would vitally endanger the Ministry; that he would unquestionably res i gn if ce rtain things were done which have been clone in our time by quasi Liberal Ministries ; and that there is little reason to fear the having to resign, because the Prime Minister has more sympathy with him than with any other member of the Cabinet, and values his support on principle more than that of any othects er c of olleagu. Th e Ministry starts with the best' prosp realising its high thoughts in high •deeds, and we regard the dangers of di vision.with which idle tong ues threaten it as chimerical in the last degree. It is not likely such a Ministry could have been biought together at all had there been any pro bable points of differende in sight. The Joltn Dull says that whatever may be the merits or demerits of the new Ministry,. no one can deny that it has been rapidly formed. Within a week of being summoned by th. queen. Mr. Gladstone was able to see the seals of office confided to his colleagues by the sovereign. The reason that the Government has so soon assumed a she pe is not far to seek. "So far a.; the Cabinet is concerne4l," the old gamelas been played pretty n.uch over 'flip Radicals lvti-e won the fortress ; and the Whi..;s coolly takc pi,session. At is not for us to comp'ain that six of the new Al inisters are lords ; and that Mr. Itright is 'almost the only repro.:entative of more ad vane,-,l I:attic:distil in the where, muzzled, as he will l-t ! , he: will l,u. far less dangerous to his Whig friends than in an. independent position below the gangway. Vie mintain, then, that in the Cabinet itself the Whigs still reign supreme, and, as we gather from the Times., the smiling earl has undertaken to'keep the Colonies in good humour, has already taken the Quaker Right Honourable under his special tutorship—so that for the present the %Vhigs have the best of it. Altogether we cannot con gratulate our Radical friends on their treatment by. Mr. Gladstone. But their time is to come. The team will not pull together. The Whigs will not long work with Mr. Glad. stone and Mr. bright, and then they may, if they cannot attain power themselves, once more relegate those who have duped them to the cool shade of Opposition. THE SOLICITOR -GENERAL'S ADDRESS. We have now the first address from a member of the new Government before us. Mr. John Mike Coleridge, in view of his early re-election—Friday next—has put forth the following to his constituents :—" I have taken office with great reluctance—not that I am insensible to the honour of serving the Crown ; still less that my allegiance to those Liberal principles which I have professed, and that great statesman whom I have followed, is in the slightest degree abated. But I should have much preferred to remain a member of Par liament and of the bar, distinguished only by being your representative. A man, however, has no right to indulge his private wishes if those whom he is bound to respect think he may be of use in the public service. Thus it is that I come before you, and once more ask at your hands the great honour of being allowed to represent you in Parliament. Ify conduct and my opinions are before you ; and the last election is so recent, and the contest which preceded it was so prolonged, that it cannot be necessary for me to gat , . my opinions to you again at length. I hope I have den , nothing to forfeit that kindness and good opinion which were shewn by your re turning me a short month slime at the head of the poll. If you return me again, I trust to be the same in office as I have been out of office, and to devote what strength of body or of mind may be vouchsafed to me to the service of my country and to the maintenance of the interests of that ancient city which through your favour I aspire to represent." " POPULAR" LITERATURE. The Daily News unearths a new specimen of the litera ture which is now provided for the "lower classes." Those, it says, who have an eye to detect the tricks of tricky art know full well that there are two trite methods of hero manufacture common to entrap litterateurs : one is, to elevate some inordinate social scoundrel into a moral nobleman, and the other, to invest some eccentric type of conventional nobility with a predilection for this or that vulgar villany. True, the aggrandisement of the low, and debasement of the high, are merely the rhetorical forms of all burlesque writing ; yet what is the great bulk of the romantic literature of modern times but human nature sentimentally burlesqued ? We should have believed "the force of prurience could no further go " than the boiling point it had already reached in popular literature, had we not, in our wanderings, lighted upon the first number of a new penny serial, entitled " The Crimes of the Aristocracy," a tale which, according to the allurements of the title page, is to consist of a series of " strange events, undiscovered murders, and other crimes, compiled from important documents stolen from among the private papers of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, upon the night of the 14th of December, 1861, by a footman in her Majesty's service !" "It must be true," the poor half-educated shop-boys and work-girls, for whom such vile trash is intended, will say, "I see it in a book ;" for, of course according to their notion, the scribe who, with such ostentatious honesty, confesses that the documents were stolen, would—like Jack Sheppard in the novel—" never stoop to tell a lie." But the title-page of this extravagant hotch potch of audacity, indecency, and stupidity, mingled with a very strong dash of bad grammar and bad spelling, is mild as Dutch cheese to the matter of the work itself — the kindly object of which is (as the horror.loving author explains in a high-flown digression) " to display, in all its revolting ghastliness, the inner life of the rich," and " with a fearless hand cast aside the glitter" (though we are afraid the theatrical gentleman will find this casting aside glitter rather harder labour than he has a mind for) " and tinsel which surrounds (sic) the modern gilded calf called scciety ;'" whilst, a few pages further on, we arc informed, with the same contemptuous disregard of the Queen's English—which is probably regarded as part of the aristocratic institutions of the country—" Vice and Sin, of the most revolting de- scription" (they like it revolting, says the writer to him self as he pens the phrase), " is practised openly among our aristocracy" to which, in our ardour, we cannot help exclaiming, "Is they !" The " introduction" to the tale assures us that in Windsor Castle tbere is a" suit (sic) of rooms," formerly occupied by the Prince Consort, " the existence of which is known to none but the un initiated." Now, in one corner of one of these rooms, according to the prologue to the story, " there is an Indian cabinet," and in " the bustle and confusion atteudcnt (sic) on the death of the Prince " this cabinet, we are informed, was broken open, and several " very valuable documents were abstracted "—documents, indeed, containing secrets and information affecting not only the honour, but the life, of some of Engla,nd'sproudest and most aristocratic nobles!" These " very valuable documents" ultimately came, of course, into the possession of the most learned and punctilious editor, through the instrumentality of one Joseph Laxmor, " Commission Agent," and formerly footman in her "Majesty's service," who is made to con fess, in articulo mortis, that he had stolen them. On read big over these private papers, however, the magnanimous author declares lie found " such a gigantic mass of turpitude laid bare before the gaze " that lie determined—on burning them forthwith, one would pro bably imagine. But no! the brave and patriotic, soul determined rather to " let the people become aware of the innermost lives of our rulers, and fearlessly expose them as they are ;" and accordingly the pure and highminded patriot proceeds to sell, weekly, the said " very valuable" and "revolting" documents, for the low charge of one penny. The Daily News, in considering bow this kind of thing may best be suppressed, thinks it better not to stop the sale. " There is but one antidote for all this poison, and that is the education of the taste of the people ; for until the mental palate be taught, like the moral one, to dis tinguish good from Lad, the inculcation of the ability to read merely must be the same as putting a razor in the hands of a madman—to give the poor wildbrain the means of cutting his own throat." BOROUGH OF MARYLERONE.—A paragraph has appeared stating that a fresh election was about to take place in Marylebone, that both Liberals and Conservative were preparing for a contest, and it was expected that Mr. Milner Gibson was to be brought forward. We have authority for stating that there is not one word of truth in this statement. It is the pure imagination of the author. Lord Stanley has addressed a letter to Mr. Rassam, wherein he speaks of that gentleman's services in Abyssinia in the highest terms, and concludes with the fol lowing still more satisfactory announcement : —" Th - e buffer ings which you all underwent have been deeply deplored by her Majesty's Government; and as some compensation, therefore, as well as a testimony of appreciation of good service, they have resolved to present a sum . of £5,000 to yourself and sums of £2,000 each to Dr. Blanc and Lieut. Prideaux." In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday an action was brought by Mr. Bardel, one of the Abyssinian cap tives, against Mr. Rotten, of Piccadilly, publisher, to recover damages for a libel contained in his book, " Abyssinia and its People ; or, Life in the Land of Prester John ;" the principal passage complained of being One which alleged that the plaintiff had forged a letter from King Theodore to the Emperor Napoleon. When the cause was called on, the counsel for the defendant apologised, and withdrew the charge Limited liability companies are bad enough, as many thousands know to their sorrow, but the case 'of unlimited corporations is considerably worse ; witness, fot instance, the case of the " Agricultural Cattle Insurance Company." Notice has been given in this case, which has been before the Courts of Chancery for the last twenty years, that the Master of the Rolls will make a further call of £250 on each £2O share, and £4 210 s. on each share of £lO. There is surely room for some reform in the winding-up business of the country, when scandals such as these are permitted to exist. —Railway News. THE NEW PALACE OF JUSTICE.—With regard to the new Palace of Justice which is one day to grace London there are told some queer tales. It has been a joke for some weeks past that one man. only has been clearing the chosen site. " One whose house commands a view of the ruins in the Strand" writes to the Daily News as follows :—"Sir,--It may be interesting to the public to know that the one man who for some weeks has been en dea.vouring to clear the site for the above has at last dis appeared, and a solitary disconsolate-looking policeman may now be seenwa n d er i ng over the ruins in the Strand." ANOTHER METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. The inhabitants of Oxford-street will short'y be asked to ptli43 judgment on a scheme for carrying an underground rail way from the Marble Arch, along Oxford-street and Holborn, to the General Post-office. According to Mr. Hawkshaw, there would be nine stations on the line, about s third of a mile apart. The railway would be worked by stationary engines , a n d thus, by dispensing with th e locomotive, the vibration would be reduced to a minimum. It is not proposed to interfere with the traffic of Oxford street during the period of the excavations. The screw steamship Teutonitt. Captain Meyer, from Ifamburg, left Havre on the 4th instant with mails, passengers, and cargo fer Has ana and New Orleans. The North German steamship lines are extend ing. One has just been established between Hamburg and Valparaiso, Chili. 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 exports tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London W.O —[Ad vertisement.) A DELICATE INVESTIGATION, The judge and jury who are engaged in , the Nisi Prius Court, at the Manchester Assize, had on Thursday a delicate case put before them to investigate, in the shape of an action brought by the Rev. Dr. Garrett, rector of Christ Church, Greenbeys, Manchester, against the Rev. Thomas Alfred Stowell, rector of Christ Church, Salford, and Mr. Robert Whitworth. All the par ties bad been connected with the Central Associa tion for suppressing the liquor traffic on a Sunday, but owing to a dispute the plaintiff had withdrawn from the association. Both the plaintiffs and the defendants pub lished statements of the grounds of dispute, and it was com plained that, in a letter published in the Alliance News, the plaintiff bad beon libelled by the defendant. The defendant simply pleaded not guilty. The plain tiff's case having teen stated, Mr. Justice Hayes pointed out the unsuitability of the Court to go into such a matter. A verdict was thereupon taken pro forma for the plaintiff for £5,000, subject to an arbitration. T.H. . SUN, LONDON; SATURDAY EV,ENING, DECEMBER 12, 1868. MI,SCELLANEOUS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The most important news by cable refers to the meeting of Congress at noon on the 7th instant, when there was a full attendance of members in both Houses. The Representatives, as we else where state, brought in a joint resolution asking the recall of Reverdy Johnson, and the Senate, upon receiving the Presidential Message, refused to hear it read, and adjourned. A collision was reported between the steamers United States and America on the Ohio River on Friday night, the 4th inst. The United States caught fire, and 80 [yes were lost. The latest news by cable is dated Washington, Dec. 11.—The Secretary of the Treasury has issued his usual monthly statement of Public debt of the United States and the cash in the Treasury on the Ist inst. The foriner amounted to $2,645,750,000 against $2,611,000,000 on Ist ult., being an in crease of $1,750,000. The cash in the Treasury amounted to $106,750,000 (viz., $88,500,000 in coin,and $18,250,000 currency)againstsll4,ooo,ooo last month, being .a decrease of $7,250,000. • The Russia arrived at Queenstown yesterday morning at 8.30, and brings intelligence from New York up to the 2d inst.:—General Grant, in his annual report, transmitting ilhe reports of the Dis trict Department Commanders, endorses General Sherman's recommendation that the management of Indian affairs should ba transferred to the War Department. General Grant considers a further reduction of the army inexpedient, in the view of the Indian difficulties, and troops being still needel in the Southern States. On Thursday the interior of Fort Lafayette, in New York harbour, was destroyed by fire. The Fenian Congress has eleetad General O'Neill as President of the Order.. No immediate hostilities are proposed by that body. Mr. Hall's majority as mayor of New York was 5,400, out of a total vote of 96,000. Advice's from Cuba state a band of in surgents had been routed at Villa del Cobra. Foreigners are joining the Spanish army. General Balmesada has taken the field against the insur- • gents. General lloward of the Freedmen's Bureau has had a fight with his pastor, the Congregationalist preacher, Dr. Boynton: A dispute had arisen at Washington in that sect, and an attempt was made to settle the difficulty, which led to the quar rel, and only making matters worse. After the conference the Doctor met the General in the street, who exclaimed, " I pronounce what you have said of me to be an unmitigated falsehood." Dr. Boyn ton asked if ho meant to call him a liar, to which the-General replied that he did, whereon the Doctor shouted, " If you had two arms I would thrash you for insulting me." " Never mind my arms," answered General Howard," try and thrash me if you can." Secretary M'Culloch has added another to his many enemies, butting this time against Collector Cake of Philadelphia, who,iustead of discharging the Republicans as directed, turned out the Democrats, and will, if not saved by Con gress and the Tenure of Office Act be removed himself. General Warren of the United States Engineers is preparing a report on the construction of the Union Pacific Railway so unfavourable that the President contemplates withholding the further issue of bonds. The General was deputed to inspect the road, a work he is believed to be well qualified to perform. The Court of Inquiry on Gen. Dyer has adjourned, in consequence of some of the offi cers having proceeded to Fortress Monroe to wit ness the Ordnance experiments. General Schenck arrived at Washington Nov. 27. Major Thomas, son of Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas of im peachment notoriety, was married in Washington on the 27th November. . • The news from Japan . is that the Mikado bad succeeded in ceutreing in himself all the powers of Government—the Tycoon having peaceably sur rendered. The former has attained his majority, and been crowned Emperor of Japan. The loss of her Majesty's ship Rattler occurred, it appears, in calm weather, on an unknown reef. The advance of Japan in its international relations is shown by the following intelligence from San Francisco, dated. Nov. 24 :—Thc Japanese Consul to the Hawaiian Government has arrived here by the steamer China, to look after the intereWs of the subjects of Japan, residing on the Sandwich Islands. He is believed to be the first native sent to a foreign country by Japan to assume consular functions. Another great target trial has just taken place at Fortress Monroe. The experiments were de signed to test , the resistance offered by fortresses built of granite by itself, as well as faced and pro tected by thick iron plating. In 1866 the Rodney guns smashed the walls into a heap of sand, although 8 feet thick and covered by 4 inches of iron. This time the result was similar against a granite wall 18 feet thick, which was seriously damaged at a range of 1,000 yards by a 13-inch smooth-bore gun firing steel projectiles of 3201b5. The wall was much shattered by the third shot, great fragments of stones being knocked about in every direction, flying in pieces, some weighing3oolbs.,to adistanceof 10 to 15 yards. Another target, with a shield com posed of two iron plates rivetled together, each 12 inches thick, was attacked, and th's immense weight of iron facing, in no degree saved the wall, for it was demolished by the second shot of 6001bs. from a 12-inch rifle gun at 500 yards. In the same way a tower strongly constructed of gneiss was de stroyed, and a target of iron without the backing was greatly injured., These experiments, lasting through three days, have proved that masonry is useless against the American heavy projectiles, and that iron plates, instead of being a shield, aid, if anything, in its demolition. The stone is crushed behind the iron, although the projectile does not penetrate. The British system of driving a smaller projectile with greatei speed answers better for penetration, and might be more effectual against armour-plated s hips, although this question has not been conclusively settled, but the experimenhi at Fortress Monroe show that there is nothing like American guns for knocking down stone walls. The Government of the United States intend to try the barbette system invented by Captain Moncrieff for heavy guns. The Fenians have been a little more active lately in America.- They have been kicking up a row against Dr. Duggan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago, because he refused to permit a solemn requiem service for the repose of the souls of the three Manchester Fenians on the first anniversary of their execution. A great indignation meeting was held by the Irish Catholics of the city, but as it is notorious, from the Pope downwards, that all the Roman Catholic priesthood have opposed Fenianism, and more especially Bishop Duggan, such meetings - can effect nothing. The Fenians have openly professed enmity to religion as well as to England, and announced their desire to free priest-ridden Ireland from the sacerdotal as well as the Sassenach thraldom. There was a Fenian mass meeting also on the 26th November (Thanksgiving Day), in Philadelphia. They gathered five divi sions in Broad-street, the Bth, 9th, and 24th Regi ments of the Irish Republic coming out strong in "blue pants and green coats," mustering 1,500 men, all armed with muskets. General O'Neill with his Staff rode in advance, among whom were two Smolenskies, a name which savours of Poland. If so, perhaps these gentlemen think that the wrongs of the Poles can also be redressed on Cana dian soil. A sweet thing accompanied the pro cession, within a bower of evergreens, representing the Goddess of Liberty, and on one banner was this inscription The blood of Allen. Larkin, O'Brien, and Barrett smokes in the earth and cries aloud for vengeance ; and that crimson stain shall we revisit upon the Saxon name." In the evening there was a meeting at the National Hall, when the chairman recounted the events of the day, which he described as a grand victory in the way of subduing the prejudice existing in Philadelphia, and ended with the hope that within a year they would be celebrating a national holiday on the soil of their native country. Mr. Hyues recognized the Fenians' right to strike England wherever they could, but he does not appear to see the right to strike back in return, as shown by the noise they have made over the " martyrs." We wonder what Orangemen in Ireland will say when they hear that THE BRITISH PRISONERS IN TURKEY. Colonel O'Reilly (Hassan Bey) and his fellow prisoners for the affair of the Mczrab Arabs, arrival on Monday from Bey rout, and were at once conducted to the Zaptieh. Their case bids fair to be a t2st one as to some points :of privilege ar's;ng out of the capitulations. The British prisoners have entrusted their defence to a member of the local English tar, who on Monday proceeded to the Zaptieh, accompanied by a consular dragoman, to see his clients and receive their instructions. The Minister of Police, however, refused the necessary permission, and on further application yesterday to the Grand Vizier, his High ness also declined to permit the interview. As "freedom of defence" is one of the most boasted modern reforms of Turkish jurisprudence, it is difficult to understand why, in this instance, the privilege should be refused. The effect, however, of the vizieiial inhibition can only be temporary, as a demand for the transfer of the whole of tho British prisoners to our own gaol has since been ad dressod to the authorities. This being a clear treaty right, it will no doubt be insisted on by the embassy, and, once in the custody of Mr. Judge Francis, the militant Bey and his fellow unfortunates will be gge of fair play. The further question of their trial may then arise. In this again, the strict letter of the treaty gives the jurisdiction to our own court ; and in the cases of the two Americans of the party, Porte rumour says that Mr. Morris has already claimed the right for his own consulate. The lax custom of recent years has suffered this particular privilege to fall into abeyance, and for obvious reasons the Porte may possibly resist its re vival. The case, however, promises to be a " leading" one in capitulation law, and we shall therefore note its incidents carefully —Levant Herald. THE OUTBREAK IN SPAIN. The difficulties which have beset the authorities in Spain have been of a universal character ; they have produced a revolt at;Cadiz, and Madrid itself has only narrowly escaped. The mob of unemployed and, to say the truth, half-starved labourers and artisans was for some time satisfied with getting wages and doing nothing for them ; but even that period of contentment has passed. The multitude are weary of idleness, and have sought excitement in fighting—notoriously the most attractive employment to a people in want of an occupa tion. The Spanish Revolution, says the Times correspon dent, has been for the last two months going through its Jack Cade period. The people had made good its title to bear arms. It bad lived in the free exercise of its "right to work " the right to work as little as it pleased, and to get as high wages as it listed. To begin with Madrid, Escalante supplied his Majesty the Mob with 50,000 muskets ; the Junta converted the city into a vast workshop, where the said Majesty was allowed 7i reals, or about ls. 70. a day, upon merely entering his name on the rolls of the municipality, and whether he carried a musket, or handled a spade, or simply did nothing. Ever since that happy day the bands of "armed people" and the gangs of " working people" have been our trouble, our terror, our puzzle. Whatever happened in Madrid became the rule upon which some thousand other commu nities in Spain modelled themselves. The Revolutionary Juntas lived long enough to see the inevitable conse quences of their bungling work ; both they and the more regular authorities who took their places have been ever since earnestly and incessantly striving to ludo that work, but it was evident from the beginning that the knot was tangled beyond all untying skill, and that the sword alone could afford the final solution. Endeavours were made to neutralise one evil by the other. The citizen was at first paid as a soldier. He was offered the same pay as a work man. It was hoped to empty the barracks by filling the workshops ; but the monster had " many heads." It had many hands, many whims, also, and changing moods, which all had to le humoured. It had " the mastery of the situation." The lion was loose, a:id care should be taken not to anger him till he had been safely coaxed back behind the bars of his cage. What this heroic Pro visional Government has bad to put up with, what despe rate shifts its civil and military' governors, its police agents, and its municipal authorities had to resort to to avoid collisions, it would hardly be possible to imagine. These causes have well-nigh brought about a conflict in Madrid. An outbreak at the Puerta del Sol had become so imminent that the members of the Government had warned their families on no account to venture out into the streets, and a large force had been prepared to meet the people. The encounter there was averted by mutual forbearance ; but in Andalusia, as we have seen, the rising has assumed alarming proportions. The same writer observes : " I cannot believe that either republi canism or reaction had anything to do with it. It was merely the people, the prole'ariat, standing up for what it conceived to be its own right. That right had been admitted and practically sanctioned by the authors of the revolution under the pressure of its first necessities ; but evidently the exercise, of that right is not compatible with the existence of any society such as men have hitherto been able to orga nise. Work is man's duty as well as his right. All he can claim is freedom to seek work wherever he may find it, and on the best terms the work itself may command. If the State undertakes to supply the work, and the workman is to name his own terms, the work itself will soon Le infinitesimal and the terms exorbitant. The Madrid popu lace have been as yet very far from feeling that they could have everything their own way. Yet they have been strong enough to obtain seven reals for work the worth of which would never be computed at two real.% Now, if reals sprung from inexhaustible sources, a corn- munistic Government might, by taking the money where ever it might be found, keep up the national workshop to the end of time. But the stubborn fact is that reals are the produce of so much work. Unless somebody do that work, the stock of reals will soon be exhausted, and the State will still be under necessity either of en forcing work or allowing society to perish." The whole history of the last two months may be summed up by referring it to the behaviour of a Government living in perpetual fear of the people. It was not because the people were formidable, or the Government weak, but because it was deemed unadvisable, however it might be necessr►ry, to " draw a line somewhere." A correspondent of• the Constitution net, however, states that there can be no doubt of the participation of the Republicans in the movement. Junco, a well-known Republican, and commander of a battalion of volunteers, is amongst the insurgents. On the other hand, it is well known that several very rich and important personages of Seville and Cadiz, devoted partisans of the fallen Govern. ment, have given the movement their aid, and have allied themselves with the Republicans, in order to overturn the Provisional Ministry. LAW AND POLICE. MURDER.—At the Lincoln Assizes, Priscilla Lira dike, aged 29, has been indict e d for th e w ilf u l murder of her husband, Richard Biggadike, on the Ist of October, 1868. The bill against Thomas Proctor, who was :com mitted as an accomplice, was, on the advice of the judge, ignored by the grand jury, the only evidence against him being the statements of the female prisoner. The death of her husband was caused by poisoning. She was found guilty and sentenced to death. COMPENSATION.—At the Manchester Assizes a jury has gieen 1,000 damages against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company ; the plaintiff, a linendraper at Roch dale, having received injuries which produced concussion of the spine in an accident which took place in October 1867, near Bacup. RIOTING. —Twen ty-se ven men have been charged before the Mansfield magistrates with rioting during the North Not tinghamshire elections. As if in anticipation of another row, a large body of police Wa3 in aVendance at the Court house during the hearing of the cases, armed with cutlasses, and the greatest excitement existed among an immense crowd of persons outside. The bench convicted all the offenders in fines of from £1 to £2. ~- As the next visit of Mr. Dickens to Liverpool will be the last occasion on which lie will appear there in a public capacity It is friends and admirers have been invited to at tend a meeting in the T. wt -ball tc-day in order to decide whether a banquet shall be given him. It is anticipated that the judges appointed to try election petitions—viz., Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Justice Willes, and Mr. Justice Blackburn —will before Christmas meet to arrange the order in which the several petitions will be taken. This arrangement being completed, the in quiries will commence at the earliest possible moment. three cheers were given for them, being described as about to assist in driving the pirates from the Emerald Isle, and share in the plunder these pi- rates are to leave behind. A likely story. as there is scarcely a race in creation which so hates another as the Irish Orangeman does the Irish Celt. The Fenian President O'Neill has sent his Mes sage to the Fenian Congress, assembled at Phila delphia. He alludes to the unsuccessful efforts to unite the estranged wings, and to the self -Eeeking and ambitious men who only see a convenient plat form in the cause. The brotherhood has now ac- quired the character of an established representative government, exercising an authority and receiving an unhesitating obedience to its laws. It grasps and can hurl at pleasure the thunderbolts of war against the only enemy the Irish recognize. It has compelled Britain to concede the entire case of Ire land, and confess iniquity and injustice in her dealings, and it will yet compel the foreigner to _ . abandon the soil which should for ever be the free inheritance of the Irish. The ascendancy of no party or section is aimed at ; the hope lessness of expecting benefit from the false Irish representatives in Parliament is alluded to, and a recommendation given for a commission, which could communicate with the representatives of the English Government, and firmly, and with dignity, demand, in the name of the Irish people, the recog nition and acknowledgment of the independence of Ireland. Ile toucheS on the sure loss and great danger to England in refusal, and hopes for that justice England has so often preached to other na tions. In failure the world will acknowledge the Fenians left nothing untried to avert war. The military department has never been in better con- dition. A letter, making proposals from the Savage branch, was read, and the O'Neill's Message was debated. Judge Fullerton has published a statement. He asserts that those implicated in the whisky frauds, led by District-Attorney Courtney, have indicted him for an alleged conspiracy to defraud a revenue officer on evidence of which he is not aware, but which he pronounces to be NN holly false. lie asks his friends to be patient as he is, and he will pre- sently show that he has done nothing to lessen that measure of respect hitherto enjoyed by hitn. Ihe proceedings have been instigated in self-defence by tu•-_ , n implicated in the monstrous frauds he asser,s to have been committed on the revenue ; , their only hope of escape being in crushing him. hence the vile conspiracy ; but truth will prevail in the end, and the public learn who deserves condemnation. While Judge Fullerton has thus been entangled in hip, attempts to expose the New York frauds, the Louisiana internal revenue " ring" is being looked up by Mr. C. E. Creecy, just appointed supervisor of Louisiana and Arkansas. A revenue agent dis- patched to New Orleans to rake up the frauds has sent a deputy to 'Washington with a report impli cating nearly all the Government officials of Louisi ana. Commis,ioner Rollins is in possession of the voluminous evidence, which is said to show ille gal gains by the "ring " of eleven millions of dollars in eighteen months, on the two items of . cotton and whisky alone. The " ring" con sists of the Government officers, and it is alleged that Perry Fuller was deputed by it to visit Washington, to control, if possible, the supervisor ship for the State, but the appointment of Mr. Creecy has checkm tted the " ring," and it is pro bable that New Orleans is now in a considerable ferment. _ _ The new Postal Convention between the Post. office Department of the United States and Grew Britain was received Nov. 24 by Postmaster-Gene. ral Randall, who approved it, and then took it to the President for his signature. Thus signed, this Convention will supersede that in force, and take effect on the Ist of January next. It does not materially differ in its general provisions from the one existing. Great Britain, however, has abo lished the double newspaper rate, and then charging only a single rate, while the United States will re duce the rates on newspapers, small pamphlets, and periodicals. All postages are to be divided be • tween the two countries as at present. The notice in the papers that General Melva has orders from General Grant to destroy all appli cations for orrice without bringing them before him, hits had the desired effect, and the Staff of the Pre sident Elect c , ases to be supplied with the same quantity of fuel. Yet one species of annoyance has but given place to another, which we are sorry to say meets with the same indiscriminate treatment as the former. Grant's staff ought to make a selec tion from the " Curiosities of Literature " which now arrive, and publish it for the benefit of the people. The earnest solicitude shown as to his morals, his religion, and his policy ought to gratify him. Some are broad and general in their advice ; others narrow it to the focus of a point, but they are not the less verbose on that account, as they can dance round their dot, giving themselves any amount of latitude. The greatest number of letters are, however, on the subject of his Cabinet, and they embrace every shade of opinion and every grade of position, many coining from well-known men down to the anonymous. Democratic writers predominate, and display a sure conviction that not only is Grant of their party, but intends to sur round himself with leading Conservatives. One man actually suggests General Lee, whose appoint ment would show the spirit of Christian harmony that reigned in the White House; particularly as another advises lloratio Seymour, which would bring Grant in contact not only with his great mili tary foe, but with his great civil rival. They would form a charming trio. We hope that General Badeau will not commit all these precious docu ments to the flames; but if he will not give the public a selection, a leaf will be taken out of the Tribune's book, and some imaginative man will in vent the contents of Grant's letter-bag. Nor is the General the only mark set up for officer-seekers, as his wife has to sustain a full share of the bat tery. Her letter-bag consists of apllications for employment in the White House, and the touching stories she is told and the demands made upon her charity, if attended to, would dry any fountain of tears, and drain any purse. Mr. Peabody has just announced his intention of contributing another £lOO,OOO towards the fund which bears his name, making a total of £350,000 presented by him for this purpose alone. It is said to be the largest amount contributed by any private individual towards a single object. His letter an nouncing the arrangement has been published in the London dailies, and has called forth a corre spondence as to the benefit derived by the real poor of London from the gift, and the best mode of ad ministering it. Thousands are ready with their advice who can afford but do not choose to give money, and numbers say that the genuine poor have received no benefit at all. At the same time it cannot be denied that the tendency of these princely gifts is to be diverted from the most helpless class whom the donor intended to benefit, and it has been re marked that the trustees are men who could not give the time and careful study necessary to ad minister wisely so noble a charity as that of the Peabody Gift to the Poor of London. The Paraguayan difficulty continues to be dis cussed ; but one thing appears certain, which is, that the fleet under Admiral Davis will carry General M'Mahon to Asuncion to demand satisfaction. Mr. Seward has written to the Secretary of the Navy to announce that under his advice the President had decided on this. He informs Mr. Welles that the Admiral must be instructed, in the exercise of a sound discretion, to demand and obtain prompt re dress for any extreme insult or violence that may have been arbitrarily committed against the flag of the United States or their citizens. A letter has also appeared from Admiral Davis, dated Buenos Ayres, Oct. 20, who seems rather to side with Lopez, and it was on this that Secretary Seward wrote. Mr. Webb, the American Minister at Rio, had re quested Admiral Davis to proceed at once to Asun cion, but he could not inform the Secretary of State whether the Admiral would assume the responsi bility without special instructions from the Govern ment, and these special _instructions Mr. Seward directed to be at once communicated, which has been done. The Rear-Admiral's letter states that the commander of the French fleet on the station had information from one of his captains, lately returned from a visit to Lopez, showing that the extravagant stories charging Lopez with crimes against humanity, with the assas- sination of the French and Portuguese Consuls, so basely circulated, were untrue. The captain of the gunboat Linnet had also returned from the seat of war, and he had reported to the same effect to Ad- miral Ramsay, commanding the British fleet, who called on the American Admiral to communicate the information. The intercourse of Lieut. Bush, of the Linnet, with Lopez, was entirely satisfactory in all respects : —" In short, in several of the most important particulars, touching the character, cou- duet, and situation of President Lopez, the reports of a month ago, after undergoing modifications from time to time, are now wholly contradicted." .t is no wonder that the American public are un- able to form any conclusion, but it is satisfactory that an Admiral, impressed with the idea of an un fair attempt to vilify Lopez, controla the American fleet, as the public believe he will not allow himself .o be hurried into measures the nation may hercaf- tar regret; and if he acts we will feel the assurance that he has ample grounds. Though a joint resolution was introduced into the House of Representatives, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, asking the President to recall Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the tone of public opinion in the United States begins to change. A telegram from New York asserts that that portion of the Message referring to the negotiations was even of a more satisfactory character thlu the sum- mary which hadpreviously come to hand led us to sup pose. The President spoke confidently of the ultimate success of the negotiations, and expressed an opinion that before the session closed he would be able to submit to the Congress for approval such a treaty as would be satisfactory to both England and the United States, and calculated to remove all existing causes of controversy between the two nations. The New York Herald asserts that the America❑ people approve the terms of the Convention just published, one of the stipulations of which is that the decision upon all the claims is to be given within twelve months of the commissioners assembling, and that there is to be no appeal fr)m such decision. The 7ribune on the 28th Nov. says —" The drag net of the other Johnson's mixed commission, to sit in Washington in judgment on the Alabama claims, is to draw into its omnium gatherum of old and new bills for damages the once-adjudicated Spring bok claim." Its Washington correspondent, how ever, asserts that "Secretary Seward does not con ceal his dissatisfaction with the terms of the pro tocol for the settlement of the Alabama claims, and Republicans here say that Minister Johnson's ac tion in respect of these claims has been purely in the interest of the Rebel wing of the Democratic party." The working men have not placed themselves in an' enviable position in first inviting the American Minister to a banquet, then breaking down on the score of expense, then reviving the subject, and again breaking down " in consequence of the con flicting opinions existing in this country and Ame rica on the questions in course of arrangement." Nor do we think the interference of the Reform League has tended to mend matters. In- deed, we think that there is a want of courtesy in the public discussion of this subject, as well as a want of hospitality in the way it was debated, and, finally, a want of respect to the representative of the great Republic. The American people may censure their representative, and disapprove his action, but it is something even worse than absurd for the Reform League to take this duty upon them- selves ; and we believe that throughout the work, ing men of London had little to do with the affair. The Hon. Freeman H. Morse, United States Consul in London, has sent to the State Depart ment an able paper upon the foreign maritime com merce of the United States. He dwells especially upon steam navigation, which has remained almost stationary in the United States during the past ten years, but has progressed in Great Britain and her colonies until the British flag floats over about 3,200 steamers, of about 1,400,000 tons in all. We will perhaps notice this paper more fully next week. It confirms a great deal of what we advanced last week, although we are not aware, as the full report is not before us, that the change from sails to steam and wood to iron was applied by Mr. Morse, as by us, to account for the stagnation. The subject is, in truth, worth the earnest atten tention of Americans, and more particularly of men from Maine, such as Mr. Morse. A letter from an agent engaged in constructing the Union Pacific Railroad tells a curious tale re garding the work of beavers. Dr. A. Burnham had to float ties down the Laramie River from the mountains where they were cut to the track at Wyoming, and he had contracted to supply them at a certain time while the river remained so low that he could only get the work executed by building dams at different points so as to collect sufficient water to float the ties and carry them down with the flood. The parties working on these darns were astonished to find much progress made during the night on resuming operations in the morning. Then they ascertained that when tl ey left off the beavers commenced and worked through the night, duing a considerable amount in a satisfactory man ner. Instances are told where breaks occurred which they repaired with wonderful skill, and so helped the contractor that he saved hundreds of dol lars in effecting his object. When Dr. Burnham opened the flood gates and let the water escape, the poor beavers must have thought they had been " sold," for even Hiawatha would scarcely tell us that their object was to forward the construction of the Union Pacific Railway. The Banquet at the Astor House given to the Hon. W. N. Evarts, on the 17th November, was a marked success. There were present upwards of 250 judges and lawyers, besides Gen. Grant, Ad miral Farragut, Mayor Hoffman, Cyrus W. Field, R. H. Dana, Dr. Adams, Dr. Vinton, Mr. Ray mond, William Young, and others. 'On the toast being given of the President-Elect, a miniature fort opposite Gen. Grant fired off salvoes of artil lery, and the company responded with applause. The speeches continued to a late hour, when one of the most brilliant entertainments closed ever cele brated by the legal profession of New York. The New York Tribune has been anticipating the Executive in the Annual Reports, which " Grand father" Welles thinks very irregular and demoraliz ing. He angrily brought the subject up at a Cabinet meeting on the 24th November, but the President defended the Tribune, which as he stated he found to be an excellent source of information concerning Government matters. Indeed the President is now having " quite a nice time" of it, as he has been removed from the vortex of public odium wherein he had struggled so long. The Tribune now pats his Excellency on the back, and recommends him to read it attentively, as he will therein find matter "Ifor doctrine, for reproof, and for admonition." Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, left Washington for New York on the 24th of November, and Senator Cameron arrived on business connected with a new railway planned between Baltimore and Washing ton. He called next day on General Grant, as did also Senator Drake. Senators Morton and Yates have been ill, but are recovering, as is also Senator Sherman. It is rumoured that Senator Conness is to be married. Carl Schurz hopes to succeed Senator Henderson for Missouri. Senators Sher man of Ohio and Howe of Wisconsin arrived on the 25th November. Senator Sumner arrived on the 27th, and General Williams, of Oregon, was expected in a few days. Speaker Colfax was to return from his marriage trip on the 28th. Senator Patterson, with Mrs. Stoner, the President's daugh ter, and her children, returned from Tennessee on the 27th. Inconsistent as it may appear, experience proves that those to whom most liberty is given fre quently confer the least on their fellow-men out side their own race. The Anglo-Saxon, the greatest stickler for his own liberty, has furnished some curious legislation when dealing with the liberty of others. Such has been England's conduct in Ire land, in India, in Australia, in the West Indies ; and although she has become very good, and now goes into another extreme, the old nature is strong in the Englishman, who, on small provocation, would relapse into the old barbarism, as was seen in the recent outbreak in Jamaica. Two of the youngest communities where labour is in the greatest demand have furnished some remarkable legislation as affecting immigrants. Victoria (Aus- tralia) set the example, passing a law prohibitive cf Chinese immigration, so heavy was the poll-tar levied, which, of course, was evaded by the Chinese landing elsewhere and crossing the boundaries. Now Oregon proposes to follow suit; a bill being introduced into the State Legislature levying a licence fee on each Chinaman employed of $l5 a month, employers to be responsible, and $lO for every Chinaman conveyed into the State in ves sels, the ship being responsible. The bill prohibits the employmeut of Chinese upon public works, and for ever disqualifies for holding office any officer who shall administer the oath of naturalization to a Chinaman. Oregon thus furnishes an example for those who advocate the transfer of the power of framing naturalization laws from States to the Federal Government,—one of the great battles of the future. We fear that next week we shall have to get on without the usual New York mail leaving on Satur days, by which we receive the mass of our commu nications, as the City of Boston, on the sth inst., got ashore in a heavy snowstorm on the south-west spit outside the harbour of New York while ill charge of a pilot. The injury she sustained was confined to the loss of her rudder and outer stern post. She went ashore at 4 p.m., and floated off without assistance at 7.30 p.m., and it is probable that she will leave New York with the mails to day. Her passengers, cargo, and mail-bags were transferred to the City of New York, which was to leave as soon as possible, but we fear she must have been delayed a few days. THE PROGRESS OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.—A letter dated Nov. 17, end of the track, Pacific Railroad, st the 920th mile post west •f Omaha, says :—" We have now come into the region west of Fort Bridger which furnishes ties, and for the next forty or fifty miles they are distri buted on the grade. Up to this point they have had to be transported about 300 miles. The weather is superb; should it continue the road will extend at the rate of from three to four miles per day. The commissioners have examined 400 miles during this year, and Dr. Durant, who is here, has all his plans and labour matured so as to reach Ogden, 32 miles north of Salt Lake city, by the Ist day of January next. Is it not marvellous ! The road is as well constructed at the west end as the parts we passed over together last summer. At Laramie had the pleasuro of meeting my friend, Gen. Barnes, of your city, one of the commission of engineers who was sent to examine and re port on the whole road. lie was open in his expressions of admiration of the wonderful work. If Mr. George Wilkes lost his money on Im peachment he won it on the Presidential ticket, and so confident was he about the result that we dare say all his friends he could influence won largely as well. When this is published he will probably have reached Paris to recruit, after the exhaustion of the hard work ho did in the late campaign. He worked for General Grant cos amore, in the firm belief that when he assumed the reins of Government the country would settle down into peac e and prosperity ; and believing this, it is no wonder that he gave himself little rest until that result was attained* We are !glad to welcome to Europe the editor and Pre' prietor of the Spirit, and we trust that during his three months holiday :he will be restored to health. Front Paris he proposes to pay Madrid a short visit, in which case only will he write for the Spirit. Indeed, not long ago; Mr. Wilkes published in his paper a journal of his travels in Europe, so far as England and Franca are core cerned he would only be going over the same ground' We may also mention here that the Hon. S. S. Cox, vo n ; gressioual Representative Elect for the Sixth District ca New York, has also arrived in Europe. Another splendid screw steamer called the Cilg of Brooklyn, has been launched for the Inman Line frcea the yard of I'od and M‘Gregor. Her length over all is 370 feet ; breadth, 42 feet ; depth, 28 feet 6 inches ; and her tonnage 3,000 tons, B.M. Her passenger acconamoda" tion will be most ample ; indeed, in this respect, and in the general finish and fitting-up of the vessel, she will W u " if not surpass, the other first-claSs ships of the same co° . pauy's fleet, of which she will be the largest. The City of Brooklyn will be propelled by horizontal direct-actleg int,rface-cundensing engines of 450-horse power noinia ni and they can easily be wrought up to about 2,00 0 il•r* Among the gentlemen present when she was launched' Dec. 2, were Win. Inman, Esq., of Liverpool ; J antes get d, Esq.; Rev. Mr. M'Coll, Partici: ; the ceremony of naraias her being gracefully performed by Miss Finley, Windsor torrace. The vessel moved off the ways in beautiful styl and was brought to in mid-channel without the slightes t hitch. Of course there was feasting on the occasio n ; 91a we hope this magnificent vessel is destined for a lo n g and serviceable career. The trial of Mr. Jefferson Davies, a cable tel e " grain informs us, has been further adjourned until 3 1 aY' his bail being renewed. A special telegram states that motion was ma le in the Circuit Court, held at Riebulo o4l before Chief Justice Chase and the District Judge (Under; woid), to have the indictment against Mr. Davis quashe d on technical grounds; that the Chief Justice was in favo ur of the unction, but, as Judge Underwood was oppos edto it, the arguments for and against it will have to he r e putted before the Supreme Court, at Washiugton. in Professor F. V. Hayden is actively engaged the geological survey of Colorado and Wyoming rr rri ; tories. Collections have been made of minerals, such a a coal, iron, and building materials. The Professo r has ha s the opportunity of making a tour on the Unio n Pac l.4 Railroad towards Fort Bridger, a portion of the cottain'l_ full of interest to geologists and mineralogists. reta . r , 0 iug his party will go to Denver, Colorado, crossing Le, Black Hills. The Professor intends to make a thoron.g: examination of the mining region, giving special atteati o to coal and iron. By the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steagobil; Tanjore, which reached Southampton last Sunday , l he learn that the United States corvette Swataru, slittna- French barque Justine, had collided off Tarifa. The ' l- 1 ; Tara put into Malaga to repair damages; the Justine " abandoned, waterlogged. The Siamese Twins were to leave New York l owa, en for at Saturday in the steamer / route GlaSte' 0 050 5 ° Owing to pecuniary losses by the late war they Pll:dif exhibiting in Great Britain a few weeks before surg o ",iog separated. if the operation proves successful, Mr • u- tes. w,ll revisit Siam, Mr. Eng returning to the United Sta • t [A DVERTIS EMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Enjoy """ aw" Lite.—When the blood is pure, its circulation perfect, or the nerves in good order, we are well. These Pills to of sass a marvellous power in securing these great secloids health, by purifying, regulating, and strengthening coos and solids. Holloway's pills can be confidently r e h o" mended to all persons suffering - from disordered d i g e lvi or worried by nervous fancies or nenralgic pains. 00 correct acidity or heartburn, dispel sick headache, (111`ootlit the action of the liver, and act as alterative 1 0 '940 0 aperients. The weak and delicate may take them '' io ye fear. Holloway's pills are eminently serv i cea ble to. of lids of irritable constitutions, as they raise the actifor every organ to its natural standard, and universa ll y '" cise A a calming and sedative influence. As, t o DvsnTISEMENT Consumption, and all nerauns , ,lati t , stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are onlYagb" r feetY and accelerated by drugs of every description, but Pe F o od; curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta, Arabies,'Aorea as proved by thousands of cases which had been cons'",oo hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, astlicate gumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric clo' - 0 00s , voila lir meuts, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nor ids, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrh s, 0° optv fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, g oll , t ' o o o°° ' rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeluedropsii acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, nan debilitY , or ft cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregcJ os" sea, slaking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of th e pains a, the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulaltal We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by D° ° Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—Th 0 btg °, ll . the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, aband°l3ol.l other comedies, he has confined himself entirely to Do „wef',,i Revalenta. Arabica Food, of welch he consumes r,,, e 00`,, at every meal. It has pro lucod surprisingly b e :, 01'0 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot Pr° l '3ll (l ', excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette da r aor July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, tinlb e r i t tag . ° ,; chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' disease",,ess.d spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial &a l ot Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lie 0" 0 0, Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 43,532;,..0012.,„° years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ne` o ss '74 asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, siclEa,„oo , t vomiting.—MariaJoly." 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