The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-23 00:00:00

EPIRIT OF TUB PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review, apropos of the vote on the im peachment trial of President Johnson, declares that all but the most extreme Republicans have long since dis covered that the impeachment was a mistake ; but -.seven prudent and temperate men may naturally anti pate disadvantageous consequences from an acquittal. It is almost certain that the rash and impulsive President ,would regard his escape as a decisive victory, and that he would be encouraged in his desire to thwart the / entire policy of Congress. It is difficult to anticipate the trouble which he might cause during the remaining nine trnonths of his administration, especially as his opponents would have been greatly weakened by their unsuccessful experi ment. The Republican Convention for the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency is about to meet imme diately, while the Democrats have, perhaps judiciously, postponed their own assemblage till July. The party which has so long been excluded from power would be stimu lated to fresh exertions by their triumph, and their antago nists would probably be distracted by internal quarrels be tween the advocates and opponents of impeachment. It is not easy to foresee the bearing of the process of reconstruc tion on the Presidential election. The House of Repre sentatives has already voted the admission of Arkansas under the new Constitution ; but the Democrats will use their utmost efforts to exclude the negro voters, or to admit the disfranchised whites. If, notwithstanding the vote on the eleventh article, the President should be con victed and removed from office, Mr. Wade will succeed to his functions by a doubtful title. The administration of the vacant office is entrusted by the Constitution to the President of the Senate, and it is not certain whether the Senate would not have the power, by dismissing its own President, to remove the temporary President of the United States. Mr. Evarts did not forget to point out the anomalous relations of the Senate to the Government, as an argument against an assumption of power which might perhaps lead to a popular agitation against the Senate itself. The final judgment, which will be delivered in a few days, will, under any circumstances, lead to i l lportant results. Of course, says the Spectator, it is possible that the plople of the United States are tired of the very word " mpeachment," that the reaction - has set in, that they see ,a)mething ludicrous in deposing a man who has only nine wonths to reign, and that the voice of the constitu encies, when it is heard, will be for dropping the proceed ings. Fut all this carries very little weight. The "weariness" of the sole topic of political discussion is a weariness which is only felt in the small circles of great cities, and is .no index of the feeling of the country, where any important topic of discussion must be fresh enough, since men n:eat so seldom and talk so little. As for " reaction," the , country has long since seen the unfortu nate character of the form of procedure—namely, a judicial trial for acts which technically amount to little more than the exernis'i by the President, in a sense keenly hostile to Congress, of powers conferred on his office only for the purpose of delaying the action of Congress, and this in a time when it had become generally understood that Congress, as the legislative power, should be deferred to as virtually supreme. Tile Americans—we confess we think with questionable judgment—have preferred the perversion of a special Constitutional form to the more natural method of providing by revolutionary steps for a difficulty for which no remedy was supplied, the difficulty itself having never before been practically encountered under the Constitution. Having chosen that method, we cannot think that they will shrink from making it effective. The London Review calls attention to the prevalence at Westminster of a pernicious practice, indulged in by counsel who are flooded with briefs, of appointing I, deputy to do their work. This is not merely indulged in by the lower branches of the learned profession of the law. The practice is essentially peculiar to what is termed the higher branch of the legal profession. No one ever hears of an eminent physician receiving the fees of those who wish to consult him and saving himself the trouble of looking at them by availing himself of the idleness of one of his brethren, whose knowledge may possibly equal that of the American doctor who sent all his patients without exception into convulsions because he. happened to be a "stunner at fits." Yet things of this sort are by no means' uncommon in practice at the bar. An attorney may have a case requiring the employment of a coun sel of peculiar capabilities. Knowing that every thing may depend upon a rough tongue and unsparing cross-examination, a rattling speech to the jury, or a piece of well-sustained chaff throughout the conduct of the case, he selects his man, and proceeds to retain him. A feeling of natural anxiety to make sure of the talent of which he hopes to availhimself, and theprice of which he is prepared to pay, prompts him, as a necessary preliminary, to ascer• tain that the counsel will be in his place when the case comes on. His mind is set at rest upon this point by the assurance of the barrister's clerk that his master has no other engagements to divert his attention from the case. Now it may be the misfortune of the attorney to be a gen tleman, and, judging of others by himself, he pays away his money upon the promises he receives, fixes an hour for consultation, and returns to his chamber with the con sciousness that lie has done his duty, and that his client's case is in the fittest hands to hold it. On the morning of the trial his first disappointment is the non-appearance of the distinguished advocate for whom such solemn promises had been made ; and painful doubt takes the form of yet more painful certainty when the clerk, who was so liberal of assurances the evening before, comes forward with an expression of sympathy upon his features that would be pleasing if it were not chronic, to inform him that Mr. So-and-so is unfortunately detained in the country, or in the House'of Lords, or at the Privy Council, and will not be able to reach the court until late in the day. The at torney then, upon searching for his brief, finds it in the hands of a young barrister, like him who made his griev ance known through the columni of the Times, or of an old barrister whose abilities had not been of a sufficiently marked character to gain him the confidence of attorneys, and who, having no briefs of his own, holds those of other people. The substitution, it is needless to say, is in most cases unfortunate. The clerk of the absent advocate, intent upon securing his own fees and those of his master, makes his selection with a liberal disregard of the fitness of things. A mild squabble, in which the witness gets the best of it, takes the place of the proposed cross-examination, and a spirited speech or adroit chaff is looked for in vain from the staid individual whose eloquence in its highest flights cannot soar above the statute of frauds. The case may be lost and injustice done, and the person who is injured is left with such poor consolation as the general abuse of lawyers will afford him. The law itself leaves him without remedy. For some inscrutable reason it will not permit a barrister to bring an action for his fees, and, by way of set-off, it invests him with the power of being as negligent and as reckless of the interests of his client as he pleaseswith impunity. The Imperial Review declaims energetically against the new move of the Jamaica Committee. The opinion of the prosecution seems to be that martial law in itself is in no case justifiable. It matters not what may be the emer gency, the long formalities of the law must in all cases be adopted. Such a theory, if carried out in all its logical significance, might submit the inhabitants of any British colony to riot and massacre ; but the object of the prose. cution, in this case, is not to prevent the salvation of a colony, but merely to punish its saviour. The main body of the Jamaica Committee are advocates for the abolition of capital punishment. Actual murderers are to be per mittcd to live on, but no quarter is to be given to thosA whom they conceive to have committed an error of judo. ment. It becomes a question, however, whether Govern• went should not assist a man, thus persistently attacked, to defend himself. When Mr. Eyre quelled the Jamaica rebellion he was a Government official, and acted as the deputy of the sovereign. When, after the bloody massacre at Morant Bay, lie succeeded in nipping the rebellion in the bud, he received the thanks of the Colonial Office for his unwearied energy and courageous conduct. Soon, however, a clique sncceeded in asserting its power, and obtaining th e com mission of inquiry which, after a' long and patient investigation, reported to the English Parlia ment. The report was not, as many suppose, adverse to Governor Eyre, but bore testimony to the fact that he had saved the island, and to the widespread nature of the disaffection that had prevailed. It reported, however, that the puni s h men t s i n fli cte d h a d b een excess i ve , an d therefore Governor Eyre was recalled from his office, and deprived of the fruits of the exertion of a lifetime. Most people will think that this punishment was sufficient, if not excessive. Many will hold that no punishment at all was deserved, but we are certain that few indeed will endorse the persecuting policy adopted by Messrs. Mill and Taylor. It is impossible that any useful legal pre cedents can be drawn from these prosecutions; it is, we think, equally impossible that a conviction can be obtained; but perhaps the slender fortune of Mr. Eyre may be reduced to a minimum by law expenses • and this is, we ima,gine, the real object of the continued persecution to which he is subjected. One point, the appearance of Sir Robert Collier as prosecuting counsel, calls for strong comment. It is, no doubt, usual for a barrister to accept a brief on• either side, whatever may behis Opinion of the case ; but there is, happily, no precedent for an ex-law officer of the Crown taking, as a private barrister, position in a criminal case diametrically opposed to that which he hail advised when in office. If the Liberal Solicitor-General imagi ned, when in office,have Eyre was a criminal and a felon , it was his duty to pro. nosed his prosecution by the Crown. The John Ball while denouncing. the disloyal expres sions which have ' been drawn forth by the withdrawal of the Queen to Scotland, regrets that s he has been obliged by the state of her health to take the course she h e a, called her absence, however, the Prince of Wales should b -- to take her place. lint there can he no doubt that e of Wule,, in his laudable desire to fulfil the ad difficult ditti.s of an Heir Apparent—never •1 difficult 11.3 at the present moment —has not ...iowatice from the nation for the carrying unties which the nation expects him to undertake. The C.; overninctit deAre to do this simple act of justice to his IZoyal Hig!iness ' • but with a characteristic Consideration for their position intheniidst of unscrupulous foes, the Prince has desired them not to propose it. But the time has come when ft spontaneous offer should be made by "the nation to add to the income of the Prince of Wales, on whom so many duties devolve, and who has in a difficult and trying position so ably discharged them. Our con temporary tiusts that steps may lie taken, not only to provide his Royal Highness with a shooting-box in I , !-eland— one of the best remedial measures for Irish oiscontent—but to increase an allowance which shall enable him t o continue on a suitable scale those hospitali tiss and charities which have so endeared the occupiers of Marlborouah House t o th e p eo pl e o f th e U n ited Eiradoxn. ail Prin 10113 1.111 THE CASE OF EX-GOVERNOR EYRE. Sir Roderick Murchison sends the following to the Times : " Sir,—As in their unceasing prosecutions of Er Governor Eyre the Jamaica Committee have so far suc• ceeded as to send my distinguished friend to stand a new trial at the Court of Queen's Bench, the means already subscribed to defend his cause will soon, I fear, b. exhausted. " Under these circumstances I was delighted to receive ;his morning the following letter from Lord Overstone. " This spontaneous expression of the feelings of a noble. man so calm-minded and so just will, I trust, operate powerfully in eliciting fresh contributions, and thus enable &be Eyre Defence Fund to cope with such persevering assailants.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, " IG, Belgrave-square." " RODERICK MURCHISON. " Carlton-gardens, May 21, 1868. " My dear Sir Roderick,— I have hitherto abstained from taking any part, and indeed from expressing any opinion with regard to the legal proceedings which for so long a time have been directed against Governor Eyre. But these proceedings have now reached a point at which, it %ppears to me, he is entitled to look for the sympathy and support of the public. That appeal he has made in a few stirring words which he addressed to the magistrate before whom he was arraigned, and which appear to have ex cited a spontaneous outburst of approval from the by standers even in a court of justice. I shall be mistaken if they do not elicit a warm response from many a British heart. " Englishmen have always been ready and just in their recognition of services rendered in the faithful discharge A great duties, and at the same time considerate and generous when called upon to discharge the painful duty A criticising errors of judgment which may have occurred ,n circumstances of perilous emergency, full of difficulty and of danger. These virtues, I trust, are not yet oblite rated from our national character. " Funds, I understand, are really required for the effec tual defence of Governor Eyre, and that pecuniary ruin is one of the cruel and unjust consequences which may arise from the present proceedings. This can never be permitted. " I enclose my draught for £2OO in discharge of my share of a public duty, which I doubt not will be widely recognised, and if recognised, will be cheerfully fulfilled.— Yours very faithfully, " OVERSTOITE. " Sir Roderick Murchison." LAW AND FOLICE. IMPORTANT DECISION WITH REGARD TO THE RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN.—The case of Fleet (administrator) v. Perrens was decided in the court of Queen's Bench, and the judgment of Mr. Justice Blackburn shews what some of the rights of married women are. The case raised a question as to the capacity of a married woman to acquire and retain pecuniary interests when the husband does not intervene. The plaintiff sued to recover a sum received by defendant for his son's wife. He first sued as administrator of his son, the husband, who had sur vived his wife, and had afterwards died. He, however, being advised that he was wrong in claiming it in right )f the husband, discontinued that action, and now sued as administrator of the wife, and the question was whether he was entitled to recover in her right. At the trial oefore Mr. Justice Lush, letters to from defendant were put in which were such as, if addressed to a femme sol e, would beyond all doubt have shewn that the defendant promised her to hold some money for her which he had received from a third party. There was no evidence that the husband had in any way interferred either to allow his wife to have the control of the money, or to prevent her from dealing with it, nor, indeed, whether he knew of its existence or not. It was objected that the cause of action did not accrue to the wife, and that therefore the plaintiff as her representative was not entitled to recover, hut could only sue as representative of the husband. Mr. Justice Blackburn, in giving judgment, said there was no doubt that all personal property of a corporal nature, such as goods or cash, belonging to the wife before marriage vests in the husband by the marriage, and that all such property given to or acquired by the wife after marriage also vests in the husband. But rights of action belonging to the wife before marriage do not vest in the husband unless he does some act to reduce them into possession during the marriage. And even during marriage the hus band may permit the wife to make a contract in an action in which he may join with her during her life, though he may disaffirm the interest, and sue on the contract as made with himself alone. If he permits the wife to make Such a contract and does not reduce it into possession luring the coverture, it survives to the wife. Judgment was given for the plaintiff. ACTION AGAINST SIR M. PETO.—In the same court an action was brought against Sir Morton Peto by a Mr. Vigers, a contractor, who had agreed to carry away the materials extracted from the excavations for the Metropolitan Railway, for which he was to be paid Is. 4d. per cubic yard. The point was as to the meaning of the words " per cubic " yard—whether that meant the yard in situ (i.e., as the soil lay in the earth) or the yard as it was measured after excavation when the materials were loose. The difference would be enormous ; a matter of some thousands of pounds. The Lord Chief Justice, in giving judgment in favour of the defendant, said, taking the words as they stood, it might be that the plaintiff's view *ould be right ; but, taking them in the sense in which they were understood in the business, according to the finding of the jury (upon evidence the court deemed ad missible), the defendant's view was 'the right one—that "per cubic yard" meant the earth as it stood before exca vation. SERIOUS CASE.—The Mayor of Henley held an inquiry as to the cause of death of Emily Stevens, a young lady who died within his jurisdiction on Sunday. Several witnesses were examined, and the evidence shewed that the deceased had lived as wife with Mr. David H. Barling, a gentleman residing in London and a member of the United Service Club. They had travelled together some time, but latterly resided at Henley, and last week, the deceased being very indisposed, Mr. Brooks, a surgeon, attended, but before leaving told Mr. Barling that there was something that he could not make out, and the latter informed him that abortion had been procured. The lady died, and a post-mortem exami nation was held ; but it being thought necessary that Professor Taylor should view the body, the inquest was adjourned for that purpose. Mr. Barling was ordered by the coroner to find £5OO bail, and enter into his own recog nisance in the like sum to appear at the adjourned inquiry. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES FROM AN EMPLOYER.—At the Middlesex Sessions, William Rose was charged with steal ing nearly two hundred pairs of boots, the property of Mr. Henry Kelsey, his master, and John Purvis and Joseph Stoddon were charged with receiving the same knowing them to have been stolen. The evidence clearly shewed that Mr. Kelsey bad been the victim of an extensive system of robbery. Rose, who had been in his employ some time, was left to take care of the shop during the breakfast hour, and he managed that the other prisoners should be at a coffee-shop, and when he sent for his breakfast one of them should slip round and receive a bag from Rose. Rose was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, Purvis to two years' imprisonment, and Stoddon, who bad previously been convicted of fraud, to seven years' penal servitude. WHAT IS A TRESPASS ?—At Wandsworth Police-court, Mr. J. C. Richardson was summoned for trespassing on the West London Extension in Battersea-fields, and refusing to quit the line. It seemed that one of the com pany's platelayers cautioned the defendant not to cross the line, and the latter replied he should do so when he liked. The witness, in answer to the magistrate, said that the defendant was in the public road when he spoke to him. Mr. Dayman said that being the case the summons could not be sustained, as there was no refusal to quit the line. The magistrate was then referred to a case in which a milkman had been fined in that court for trespassing upon the line at the same place. Mr. Dayman said in that case a watch was kept for the milkman,whowas known to cross the line at a particular hour. In this case the defendant had passed over the line before he was cautioned. He thought that if the company's ser vants caught persons on the line who refused to return by the way they had come they would be justified in laying hold of them, for trespassers had no right to choose their way of leaving. The summons was dismissed. The Earl and Countess of Kinnoull are placed in mourning through the death of their second daughter, Lady Evangeline Hay. No regret to hear of the deaths of two of the medical officers of the British service in Abyssinia— namely, Staff-Assistant-Surgeon John Collins, M.D., and John E. Stewart, M.D. The former joined the expedi tion from this country, and the latter from Bombay.— Medical Times and (lazdte. SCENE IN NORDEN Cliunen.:--At the Rochdale Police.court, the Rev. Mr. Whitehead, the recently appointed vicar of Norden, has applied for a summons against Mr. James Rawstron, the parishioners' church warden, for disturbing - him while performing divine ser vice. Mr. Rawstron was lately elected with a view to checking the High Church practices at Norden, and on Sunday morning as the complainant stood in the chancel, he walked up to him and, as it is alleged, snatched the flowers from a vase which he (Mr. Whitehead) was hold ing. The application was granted. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took hid seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. THE DEER IN THE NEW FOREST. The Viscount EVEftSLEY moved for a select com mittee for taking away the right of the Crown in the deer of the New Forest, and also for compensating for the loss thereof, and for other matters. He begged at the same time to present a petition from the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, in which they stated their wish to be heard before the committee on the subject. He entered into a long discussion as to the vested interests in the forest, which was purely technical. At the conclusion of the noble lord's argument the com mittee was agreed to. THE WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS. The Earl of MALMESBURY gave notice that at the rising of the House he should move that on this night week it adjourn for a fortnight for the Whitsuntide Holi days. THE IRISH CHURCH. The BISHOP of ST. DAVID'S presented a petition against the disestablishment of the Irish Chnrch. GRANTS OF LAND IN NEWFOUNDLAND. Lord HOUGHTON presented a petition from New !ounciland relative to restrictions with regard to grants of land on the so-called French coast. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock. THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL. Sir J. PALK said on the motion for going into committee on this bill he should move an instruction to the committee that it was expedient not to diminish the representation of England and Wales. IRISH RAILWAYS. Mr. MONSELL askei the First Lord of the Treasury whether the report of the Commissioners upon Irish Railways had been considered by her Majesty's Government, and whether they proposed to submit to those Commissioners for report the proposals on the Irish railway system drawn up last year by a committee of Irish peers and members of Parliament ; and what steps it was proposed by the Government to take with regard to the Irish railways ? Mr. DISRAELI said it was proposed to submit the document referred to to the Commissioners. The Govern ment had the matter in their consideration with respect to preparing a measure, but he did not think it would be ready for introduction during the present session. MR. BEARDEN AND EIS QUESTION. Mr. REARDEN said he wished to give notice that on Monday next he should ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it be true that her Majesty the Queen has been compelled, through delicate health, to retire from Eng land during the remainder of this season ; and, if so, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern ment, out of consideration to her Majesty's health, comfort, and tranquillity, and in the interest of the Royal family and of her Majesty's subjects throughout the em pire, and especially of this metropolis, to advise her Ma jesty to abdicate in favour of his Royal--(loud cries of "Order, order," "Chair, chair," during which the hon. member sat down abruptly). The SPEAKER said the house had anticipated itself— (immense cheers) —by the expression—the indignant ex pression of feeling with respect to the question of the hon. member. (Great cheering.) No doubt any member had a perfect right to ask any question of the confidential ad visers of the Crown with respect to the mode of discharg ing their public duties, but then such questions must be put in respectful and parliamentary terms, and the ques tion of the hon. member did not appear to him to be worded in that language. (Immense cheering.) Mr. REARDEN said he was very anxious to apologise if he had transgressed the rule of the house. Such a step was farthest fro:n his thoughts, and he had no intention of doing anything that was not strict:y loyal. SIR R. NAPIER. Mr. DISRAELI said on Friday next he should move a vote of thanks to Sir R. Napier and the troops engaged in the Abyssinian Expedition. (Loud cheers.) An Horn. MEMBER said he wished to know, in the event of their being a combination of members of that house with persons out of it to prosecute Sir R. Napier for any thing he might have done at Magdala, the Government would be prepared to defend him, or whether the means for so doing were to be raised by voluntary subscriptiuus by a just and generous nation? (Loud cheers.) Mr. STANSFELD would like to know when the despatches of Sir R. Napier would be published? Sir S. NORTHCOTE said the despatches of Sir R. Napier were extremely short, and only the telegraphic mes sages announcing the arrival, the storming of Magdala, and the death of'Theodore. He believed some despatches had been written by Sir Robert which had not yet ar rived, but which might be expected in a few days. How ever, there was quite sufficient information in the posses sion of the Government to enable them to bring forward the vote of thanks on the day proposed, (Hear, hear.) Colonel KNOX wished to know whether any informa tion had been received stating that the troops were on the way home? Sir S. NORTHCOTE answered in the affirmative. EX-GOVERNOR EYRE. Captain JERVIS said he bad on a former occaeion, when the right hon. gentleman was Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked him, when it was at first threatened to take proceedings against Mr. Eyre, whether the Govern ment intended to afford him all the legal assistance it was in their power to give, and he had received a favourable answer. He wished to know whether it was still the intention of the Government to give that assistance to a gentleman in Mr. Eyre's position, which he had a right to expect— (hear, hear)—and that it was not intended to put him into a felon's dock without a strong defence being made for him, a defence ho had a right to expect. (Cheers.) No answer was given to the question. THE CUSTOM HOUSE CLERKS. Mr. H. B. SHER:DAN asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether items the intention of the Government to amalgamate the Customs extra clerks with the esta blishment, or place them in receipt of such a scale of pay as would place them on a footing with the establishment and enable them to provide for their families. Mr. BOOTH said - there was no intention of making any such amalgamation. ESTABLISHED CHURCH (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. GLADSTONE moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to suspend all exercise of patron age and appointment to the Established Church in Ireland until the month of Aug. 1869. The right hon. gentleman re ferred to the circumsturces that had led him to introduce the measure. It wa's said that the great object of hor Ma jesty's Government was to restore and maintain tranquil lity in Ireland, but if a determined opposition was given to a bill dealing out such a measure of justice as the one he had now the honour to submit to the house, the inten tions of the Government were but a mockery, and altoge ther of a character that the majority of the house would not sanction :_ (Cheers.) _ _ Mr. G. HARDY rose - to move that the bill bo read a second time that day six months. He opposed the bill, in the first place, because he looked upon it as a confiscation of Church property for secular purposes, and bad it not been brought forward and supported by such persons as the bon. member for Birmingham and the right hog. member for South Lancashire, be should have looked upon such a measure as absurd and un reasonable. It had been said that her Majesty had consented to place all her rights with respect to the Irish Church at the disposal of the Parliament, but that he altogether denied. (Cheers.) Her Majesty had stated that she was ready to waive her right, but not that she was quite ready to give up her rights, and he contended that her Majesty had no constitutional right to abdicate her patronage, and that being so, the principle of the bill was altogether wrong. (Hear, hear.) The bill was bad in principle, without precedent, and unjust in its action —(hear, hear)—but if that was not enough to induce the house to reject it, he .had to say that in the opinion of a person of legal eminence the bill, if sanctioned, would be in fact a repeal of the Union with Ireland, without a sav ing clause was introduced into it to prevent such a result. (Hear, bear, and cheers.) He should like to know in plain, unmistakable words to what purposes the right hon. gentleman proposed to devote tha revenues of the Establishment. (Hear, hear.) He denied altogether the bill was either expedient or just. The object of the bill was to paralyse the Irish Church, so that she could offer no resistance when the time for the real decision on her fate came. But it was the duty of English Protes tants not to forsake their Irish brethren in their emer gency. The question would be referred to the new con stituencies at the earliest moment, and Mr. Hardy con cluded his speech by expressing complete confidence that they would defeat a design which, quoting the words of the late Bishop of London, " begun in spoliation and sacrilege, must end in ruin and confusion." Mr. LAWSON, in supporting the bill, read the passage from Lord Mayo's speech to which Mr. Gladstone had re ferred, and argued from it either that the Irish Secre tary had declared a policy without the authority cf the Cabinet, or Mr. Hardy was endeavouring to slip out of the "levelling up" policy, that the Government might more easily raise their "No Popery " cry. He replied at length to Mr. Liardy's criticisms on the bill, which he maintained was a natural corollary of the Resolutions, and would pro duce no kind of practical inconvenience. Mr. LIDDELL asserted that Mn Gladstone had not cleared hiinself of the charge of wasting time on a bill which could come to no practical result, nor had he an- swored the all-important question—what will you do with the money ? 110 objected to the separation of the Irish Church from the State as unwise, unjust, and unneces sary, and preferred the solution by endowing the Roman Catholic clergy. That the Ministry would have greater powers of obstruction to this attack if they had been in opposition was his reason for regretting that they re mained in office, and in all probability had not the Con servatives been in power thequestion would not have been raised now. The debate, which was mainly a repetition of the Lon liar arguments for and against the Irish Church, was con tinned by Mr. Synan, Mr. Whalley, Mr. Sergeant Barry and Mr. Murphy, who supported the bill, and by Sir F. Heygate, Mr. Vet ner, Mr. Kerslake, and the Attorney- General for Ireland in opposition to it. Lord ELCHO opposed the bill as an unprecedented stretch of the powers of a majority, though he admitted that, having so strongly condemned a mere abstract reso lution, Mr. Gladstone was bound to bring in a bill of some sort. The principle of religious equality on which the Resolutions and the bill were founded was utterly incon sistent with our present constitution, and must lead either to the disestablishment of the English and Scotch Churches, or to the repeal of the Union. It could not be established unless the Act of Settlement were repealed, and not only the Woolsack but the Throne were thrown open to Ro man Catholics. And this was actually proposed by that "prolific legislator," Sir C.,O'Loghlen,.who had within the last few days given notice of a motion to relieve the Sove reign of taking the declaration against transubstantiation. That notice which, if there was to be a general election, Lord Elcho hoped would be placarded in six- foot letters in every borough of the kingdom, changed the aspect of the question, and it disposed finally of the assertion that the Roman Catholics had no ulterior designs. Mr. W. E. FORSTER, on the other hand, maintained that the policy of disestablishment was the best security for the Union. It would be taken by the Irish people as a proof that we were ready to treat them on the prin ciple of political equality, and to legislate in matters purely Irish in accordance with Irish feelings and interests. The English Establishment being supported by the ma jority of the English people—Dissenters as wall as Churchmen—was a great blessing, but no greater blow could be inflicted on it than to tie up its fate with that of the Irish Church. He comment-d on the discrepan cies between the utterances of Mr. Hardy and Lord Mayo on the subject of "religious equality," and asked Mr. Disraeli to reconcile them. Mr. DISRAELI commenced by arguing, in reply to Mr. Gladstone, that the Government, by not dividing against the second and third resolutions, were net precluded from opposing this bill. And to Mr. Gladstone's argument that, as they admitted the possibility of modifications in -the Irish temporalities, they ought to join in preventing the creation of new vested interests, he replied that if he would put in his bill a clause to reserve the income of the suspended benefices for the benefit of the Irish Church the Government might be more inclined to support it. Mr. Gladstone, new for the first time, had declared that these funds were to be applied to secular purposes, and that Mr. Disraeli declared, amid loud cheers, he would oppose as strenuously as the policy originally ascribed to him of be stowing t hese fund son other religious bodies. Accepting Mr. F orster's challenge, he denied that it had ever been proposed to endow a Roman Catholic University (as the recent cor respondence showed), or to endow the Roman Catholic clergy. Lord Mayo had never proposed it, and he himself had distinctly argued against paying the Roman Catholic clergy. Neither did he believe that Lord Mayo had used the words "political equality," bat if he had it was a vague phrase to which people might attach very different meanings, and certainly a distinct policy like' that attri buted to Lord Mayo could not be extracted from it. As to increasing the Regium Donum, not a word had been said by Lord Mayo about that, and the Government, though admitting that it was a " misorable.pittance," had always stated that it would be hopeless to ask Parlia ment to increase it. In reply to ti;e argument that this was a great act of. justice to Ireland, Mr. Disraeli main tained that Parliament should deal with Ireland as' practical men with reference to its existing condition, and pointed out that by offending and, insulting a power ful minority the same discontent might be raised which it was desired to remove. He repeated that the bill was the first step towards the disestablishment of the Church ; that it would bring about a crisis in England, and if its policy was persevered in it would disturb the social system of the country to its centre. He denied that he had raised a "No-Popery" cry ; the only cry he had heard was a " No-Protestant" cry. That Mr. Gladstone had embarked on a dangerous policy there was a growing opinion through out the country among powerful classes who usually took little share in politics. The opinion of tho people on a question of this character could not be changed by. mixed majorities in the House of Commons, and that opinion would triumphantly assert itself. Mr. GLADS lONE wound up the debate, and, after replying to some of the minor speakers, entered on an elaborate analysis and comparison of the speeches of Mr. Disraeli and Lord Mayo, from which he insisted that the Government had originally contemplated the equalization and concurrent endowment of all religious bodies in Ire land ; and so far from the policy of disestablishment being hastily thrust upon the country, it was but the counter plan to the scheme of the Government. Dealing with the argument that the attack on the Irish Church would un dermine the English Establishment, he retorted that he had no more responsibility for the views of those who were opposed to all Establishments, because they happened to agree with him on this particular point, than Mr. Disraeli was responsible for the views of any Orange member behind him. The doctrine on which the Opposition wereacting was that the English Establishment -was a good institution and the Irish a bad one, and that by extinguishing the bad the good would bo strengthened. Rut the worst friends of the English Church were those who persisted in tying together an Establishment which in the main was the Church of the people, and one which ha I no pretensions to that character. Referring to an observation of Mr. Lid dell, he agreed with him that the policy tf disestablish ment had been materially forwarded by the tenacity with which the Government had clung to their seats. For the anomalous relations of the Government to the house the Opposition had no doubt some responsibility, and if they had not responded to Mr. Hardy's valiant challenge to move a vote of confidence it was from a conscientious be lief that their first duty was to push forward and secure the success of this question. The Earl of MAYO made a short explanation, denying that he had ever proposed an immediate and large en dowment in Ireland for religious purposes. In the speech so often alluded to he had simply advocated a continuance of the policy which had proved so beneficial to Ireland, and of which the Maynooth Grant, the Regium Donut; and the appointment of Roman Catholic chaplains in gaols and workhouses were the chief results. As to the Regium Donum, he had always told deputations that it would be impossible to induce Parliament to increase it. After Mr. NEWDEGATE had vainly endeavoured to get a hearing, the house divided, and the second reading of the bill was carried by a majority of 51-312 to 258. Mr. GLADSTONE fixed the sth of June for the committee. The other business was disposed of, and the house ad_ journed at half-past one o'clock. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The trial of Jefferson Davis has been postponed to the 3d of June, the counsel on both sides having agreed to the delay, and the Chief Justice having signified that he would be ready to preside at Rich mond ten days after the close of the Impeachment trial. The witnesses and jurymen have been noti fied to attend on that day, though there appears little chance that the Chief Justice will be at liberty, judging from the late adjournment of the Senate Court to the 26th May. The bail bond has been renewed, Horace Greeley, C. Vanderbilt, and Gerritt Smith having again put their names on the new bond for the sum of $25,000 each. The New England delegation to the Chicago Convention has been completed by the New Hamp shire elections. Butler and E. B. Washburne tele graphed that the result of the Impeachment trial was certain. " Wade and Prosperity," said Butler, " are sure to come with the apple blossom ;" and Washburne placed on record his conviction " that the recreant will be put out of the White House before the end of the week." The Convention supports Grant for President, endorses Impeach ment, and directs the State Senators to vote for the President's conviction. The California Democrats in their Convention adopted resolutions denounc ing the Reconstruction policy of Congress, Impeach ment, and negro suffrage, favouring an eight-hour law, and instructing the delegates to New York to first vote for Governor Haight fo r President, and afterwards for Pendleton. —The Illinois Re publicans have nominated Gene& J. M. Palmer for Governor, Colonel John Dougherty for Lieutenant- Governor, General John A. Logan for Congressman at large, and instructed the delegates for that State to the National Convention to vote fur General Grant. General S. M. Cullu m has been nominated for the Eighth Congressional District. The leaders of the New York Democratic Convention decline to name an earlier day than that appointed for the meeting in New York, July 4. No one outside that narrow clique knows the ticket , and it is pro bable that even the leaders wait the result of the Impeachment Trial. Conjecture has suggested General Hancock or Pendleton. A tornado passed over Illinois, affecting portions of Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and Missouri. The village of Shanghai was blown to pieces, four churches unroofed, and four persons killed, besides forty injured. A frame house was lifted up, and whirled to a distance of 300 yards. Much damage was done at St. Louis, a city which so lately has suffered severely by a great fire. The news from the South is not important. The State Conventions of both parties have been held in Virginia, and, notwithstanding the opposition of Hunnicutt, Mr. Wells was nominated for Governor, receiving 153 votes against 11 cast for Huunicutt. J. A., Clement was named for Lieut.-Governor; 1V G, MAY 23, 1868. George W. Booker, of Henry county, for Attorney- General ; A. M. Crane, of Winchester, for Con gressman at large ; and George Yeaman, coloured, J. H. Platt, John Hawxhurst, and Charles Whitt lesey (one black and two whites), were appointed delegates at large to the Chicago Convention. A preamble and resolutions were adopted, the former of which pledges the State to pay her honest debts, asserts that the Government owes it to Virginia promptly to admit her when the Reconstruction Acts are complied with. One pledges the party to use its best efforts for the removal of political disabilities from those who participated in the rebellion ; another main tains the universal equality of mankind supports free schools, regardless of colour, demands reimburse ment for the losses of the loyal during the war, sup ports Impeachment, Grant for President, and &ma tor Wilson for Vice-President. The Democrats named R. E. Withers for Governor, and selected delegates to the New York Convention. General Buchanan has hastened the time for the meeting of the Texas Constitutional Couvention from the 15th to the Ist of June. General Canby has written to General Grant, directing Congressional attention to the test oath by civil officers of the military districts, Which he considers to be a serious impediment to the progress of Reconstruction. By an order the General has announced the result of the South Carolina election, directing the Legisla ture to meet on.the 12th instant. He provides for the labourers discharged for voting against the wishes of employers by a levy on the door-rates, maintaining them as objects of public 'charity. Louisiana returns show a majority of 18,000 in favour of the Constitution, and even more for War mouth as Governor, and a Republican majority in both branches of the Legislature. The advocates of an International Copyright have been successful in placing the association formed at New York on a permanent foundation. Besides its president, the poet Bryant, Longfellow, Horace Greeley, W. Gilmore Simms, have with others been elected vice-presidents. Among the committee-men are—S. Irenatus Prime, Hon. S. S. Cox, George P. Putnam, Charles Scribner, E. G. Squier, E. C. Stedman, and Richard Grant White ; and a delegation has been named to proceed to Washington to forward by all means the enactment of an international copyright law. New York is at present filled with delegates to conventions, an niversaries, bible societies, and missionary societies. The American Medical Convention is sitting, after having visited, through its leading members, the President and other high officers. Indeed, the habit in New York is somewhat similar to that which prevails in London at this season in the "May Meetings." Well might the Sandwich Islanders tremble when 4 .‘ earthquake Bill" fixed on them a covetous eye. Hawaii has suffered more during the month of April even than St. Thomas in undergoing its pro posed ordeal of annexation. On the 27th March the volcano of Mauna Loa broke out afresh, and for nearly three weeks a series of earthquakes followed. Fire, rocks, ashes, were hurled from the crater, and molten lava rushed down the hill at the rate of 10 miles an hour till arrested by the sea, where it formed an island, everything in the way, of course, being destroyed on its path. An island three miles from shore rose and emitted columns of smoke and steam, while from Manna Loa came a great red earth stream which flowed down the mountain side with fearful speed, spreading over the country. The earth opened and swallowed a village containing 35 people, while a tidal wave sixty feet high swept in from the sea and drowned a hundred more. These convulsions of nature have lately been most remarkable and appalling. The Canadian House of Commons has made the ridiculous appropriation of £1,080,000 for fortifica tions. Who does the Dominion propose to fortify itself against? Surely not the United States, nor can we suppose that the House would elevate the Fenians into the dignity of erecting fortifications to resist them. In the first case they would be use less; in the second case needless; and the money would be much better expended in opening out communication and bringing in population. According to - Messrs. Neill's report, May 16, the week's receipts of cotton have been 11,003 bales, and since the Ist of September 2,088,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 30,000 bales ; since the Ist of September, 1,170,000 bales. Week's exports to the Continent, 7,000 bales ; since the Ist of September, 423,000 bales. Total experts for the week, 37,000 bales; since the Ist of September, 1,598,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 180,003 bales. The steamers leaving New York on the 16th took for Europe $1,800,000 in specie ; on the 19th, $100,000; on the 20th, $1,100,000; on the 21st, poo,ooo. M. Emile de Girardin imagines that the President was acquitted by 35 votes to 19 on the eleventh Article of the Impeachment charges. A correspon dent of one of the dailies comments on this, stat ing that the editor could hardly believe it ; while the Times, if there is any meaning in words, made the same mistake in it s l ea di ng art i cle on precisely Monday. " The Senate began with the last, and having dismissed that Article by a majority of 35 to 19, adjourned till the 26th without voting upon any other." Thad. Stevens was so annoyed at being called to order for speaking of Judge Nelson's " greasy ca reer," that he withdrew the exp l anat i on h e was th e n g iving of his connectio n w ith t h e Alta Vela claim. Yet this touchy-tempered individual strives for the nomination to the Secretaryship of State. Speaker Colfax did protest against the speeches of Messrs. Donnelly and Washburne, but he has been , much blamed for confining his action to this, and not insisting on putting a stop to the disgraceful scene. He excuses himself by stating that it was the will of the House that it should proceed. Mr. Brooks, of New York, took the opportunity of the Alta Vela affair, to raise a new scandal against Gen. Butler. He asserted that in Richmond the lawyer general was attacked and soundly thrashed by a common bricklayer for insulting his wife. In Great Britain the last public execution took place at Dumfries, May 12, and those who read the account of the hanging of Samuel Mills will con gratulate this country that such spectacles should cease, at least al public shows. Sam. Mills mur dered in an inhuman manner an old man named G. Maxwell on December 8, 1866. He expiated his crime at Haverhill, New Hampshire, on the 6th inst., in the presence of a vast assemblage. On being told that he had only fifteen minutes to live, and cou'd say what he pleased, he addressed the crowd. "Samuel Mills," he said, "has acted like a man, and he will die like a man. Gentlemen, tell all of the folks that Samuel Mills says he is guilty of this crime, and that he died like a man. Good bye, and good luck to you." He once nearly effected his escape, after several desperate attempts. He heard without concern the sound of the workmen's tools on the scaffold, eating his Supper and smoking his pipe with his usual relish. He had covered the walls of his cells with various inscriptions, accounts of his efforts at escape, queer drawings, and, among other things, this characteristic message to the world from which he has thus violently been cast for ever : " Samma Mills murder, going to be 'ung to-day of May —good fellow, but no man dont no it." Surely a scene of this sort is not calculated to benefit the public. We perceive that, in the debate last Wed nesday, the Prussian Upper House rejected the Bill for the Abolition of Capital Punishment by 22 against 15 votes. The three clerical members of the House voted for 'the retention . of the death penalty, and the Crown Prince in favour of its abo lition. The clause doing away with corporal punish ment was unanimously agreed to. The Springfield Republican announces George Francis Train's nomination in Dublin for the next Presidency of the United States. At first it con- sidered Um intelligence a gigantic Irish " bull," magnified indefinitely by the humorous rollicking Irish people, but on second thought it saw that in Ireland they had as good a right not merely to nominate but to elect and inaugurate American Presidents, as in America for years past to make Presidents of the Irish Republic. Indeed, what the Republican says is too good and too true not to be given in its own words : " Once rise above the conventionalities of place and national boundaries, and. it. Woollies just as easy to ttko Ireland fur the United S tat. 3.3 as the United State's for Ire land. Then, as a further logical consequence of the now principles of international law which have been promul gated of late in this country, we shall have our army reorganized—in Ireland—our Senate superseded, as soon as the patriots can determine between Sweeney and Roberts, our treasury made over—in fancy—to the eminent financiers who have collected and disturbed the lucrative 'tax on domestic servants' for the last three years, and our laws given us by the cable, which, fortunately, has its eastern terminus in the green isle of the north. It is im possible to see how we are logically to escape such a con summation. Practically, the evil will ba less oppressive than would at first appear. The se m° difficulties will probably attend the mandates of the Irish presidents of tho American Republic as have embarrassed the authority of American presidents of the Irish Republic. The same substantial anarchy that has in sogreat part neutralized the laws given by the Senate in New York, may, in turn, limit the operation of the s atutes of the new ' Congress on Dublin Green.' But, in pure theory, the idea of each is equally good, equally deserving the patronage of states men, equally commanding the respect of loyal citizens." Mr. Train, after his lecture in Manchester, returned to the more genial atmosphere of Barney, but we fear the Blarney Convention for nominating a Pre sidential candidate will not be recognizA in the United States. Some time ago we gave an account of a bill in traduced into the British Parliament to correct the criminal neglect whereby an enterprising Americ gentleman had lost the privilege of registering a patent which cost Lim a large sum, and was likely to prove as beneficial to himself as to the public. We are happy to say an act has been passed to continue and confirm this patent of A.D. 1863 (No. 3,007), granted to Perry Green Gardiner, of New York, United States, for improvements in railway bar springs, and also to enable the said Perry Green Gardiner to p ty the stamp duty of £5O on the said letters patent, and upon such payment to enable the Commissioners of Patents or their clerk to stamp the said letters patent or a duplicate thereof. We congratulate the enterprising owner, who has through such discouragement and unexpected difficulties carried this matter to so successful a result. The spring promises to remove for ever joltings and jerks in railway travel. It consists of a spiral helix of steel, packed with wool in cylinder, and compressed by a piston. Wool is now known to be the most elastic of materials, and the strength • of the spring is multiplied by this means five-fold. It is said that with this spring carriages at the greatest speed will move on ordi nary railroads, with perfect steadiness, and it is equally available for buffers. An American newspaper, which is far from being a bitter opponent of Anlrew Johnson, says " The President means to have a few friends when he leaves Washington, and continues to pardon the worst kind of criminals, especially counterfeiters and revenue defrauders. Oae counterfeiter, who had served only one of a ten years' sentence, has been pardoned this week, also one illicit distiller of whisky." It is singular to note the number of cri minals lately pardoned by the President. Passengers from Vera Cruz to Havannah report a revolution in the city of Mexico, and that Juarez having seized all the money in the Treasury— amounting to $7,000,000 —had fled for*Texas. This may be mere rumour, but it is known that the country is in a fearful state of anarchy ; rebellions are breaking out in all directions. General Corona's first act at Mazatlan was to squeeze from the mer chants $lOO,OOO. At Monterey six American mer chants were imprisoned and beaten, and a complaint through the Consul has been made to Mr. Seward. The Mexican Congress has condemned the conces sion to the English company, for building the Vera Cruz and Mexico City Railway, although the ablest men of the Republic are ardently in favour of the improvement. If the Mexican Government would but give back to the English shareholders the money these deluded individuals have risked in this affair there would be rejoicings in many English homes. At periods the United States are remarkable for strong religious movements and revivals—a subject with which the press deals as if it were Impeach ment, Protection, or Naturalization. The gather ings are announced, as though prize-fights or race meetings. The numbers converted are given, as for instance, " the Methodists at Saratoga Springs report 300 conversions ; 30 students in Lawrence ville, New Jersey, have expressed a hope in Christ ;" "at the last communion season in the Presbyterian Church, Kensington, Pennsylvania, 101 were admitted." Congregational, Baptist, and every sect seem simultaneously inspired. One paper says, " Even a Roman Catholic revival, or mission, as they call it, has occurred in Norwich, Connecticut. The church was thronged for three weeks, the confes sional was crowded day and evening, and the re sults were ' 3,500 communions, hundreds of strayed sheep brought back to the fold, the establishment of the confraternities of the holy rosary and of the angelic warfare, and many other heavenly graces." Another states, " All the churches in every part of Christendom are moving towards a simpler plan of faith, a plainer path to heaven." We are sorry to report Indian outrages. A train was attacked near Tularos so , N ew M ex i co , on the 18th of April. The wagons and contents were burned, and all the mules captured. Of thirty seven men who went from Tularosso for the re lief of this train s even are reporte d kill e d. A short time before thirteen persons were killed by the Indians near this place. From Omaha accounts come of Indian troubles along the line of the Pacific Railroad. General Sherman passed Plum Creek on the 30th April, and saw from the train the bodies of four men just killed. Notwith standing, the intelligence is encouraging from Fort Laramie, where three great chiefs of the Cheyennes have arrived to treat with the Peace Commis sioners, and a full delegation of the Mountain Crows and Arapho es are d a ily ex p ec t e d. As it has been erroneously stated in one or two leading London papers that Colonel Forney, Secre tary of the Senate, had misappropriated funds placed in his care, we desire to publish that the committee appointed to investigate the accounts distinctly confirm what we lately announced, that Colonel Forney was the victim of his financial clerk, Samuel Wagner, who now confesses to the theft of $20,000, while $12,000 he refuses to ac count for. Colonel Forney may have been careless in not exercising a stricter supervision, but he has done what any gentleman ought to do under the circumstances ; that is, he has paid up the money himself, losing everything except the small sum which may be recovered from Wagner's estate. One of those deluded individuals who, having invested in Confederate Bonds, adheres to the belief that somebody will at some time refund the money, writes from the Junior Carlton Club to state that he is encouraged in this belief, as the opinion of the present Lord Chancellor was taken before the loan was subscribed, and he considered that it was quite in accordance with international law. Also, that Lord Stanley gave an assurance that if the Alabama claims were submitted to arbitration, the same Court would be open to the bondholders. It is extraordinary to see the pertinacity with which people cling to a pleasant delusion. While a con siderable number in the North are agitating to repudiate their own debt—how can Mr. Philips suppose that they are likely to refund a loan used against themselves for an illegal object? Neither by law nor equity are they bound, and the mass of the people of the United States would consider that honour forbad them under any circumstances to recognize this debt. It was contracted by a pseudo Confederacy in rebel lion against the lawful Government. All the States which formed that Confederacy have solemnly re nounced the War Debt, and the Bonds bear on their face that payment is due after a ratification of a treaty of peace—that is, that the lender risked his money with a clear understanding that repayment hinged on the success of the rebellion—for sovereign powers do not make treaties with their citizens, and the very word signified the gain of the object striven for—separation. Lord Stanley will make a serious diplomatic blunder if he attempts to introduce such claims into the Alabama question, and if he does Mr. Seward will throw a pile of Fenian bonds at his head. The St. George's Society of Baltimore celebrated their second anniversary by a dinner at Guy's Monument House, May 1. They appear to ha , .re had a very gay gathering, and the room was taste fully decorated with the flags of England, America, and France. This society was organized by Eng , lishmen resident in Baltimore, in December, 1866, for charitable and benevolent purposes, and has al ready accomplished much good. It is under the control of the following board of officers :—Presi dent, Stewart Darrell; Vice-President, W. H. Perot ; Treasurer, George Hawkins Williams ; Secretary, James Belden ; Relief Committee—Rich. Coupland, John Holstead, William Holmes, Joseph Smith, Edwin Hampson ; Committee of Accounts —James Francis, Henry C. Brown ; Chaplains— Revs. Dr. M. Mahan and Horatio H. Hewitt ; Physicians—Dr. Claude Baxley and Dr. R. Murdoch. We mentioned in our last issue that ten or twelve gentlemen owned a lstge portion of the real estate in the city of New York. The taxable value of New York property in 1867 was $555,442,012. The real estate on Manhattan island is officially returned at $475,000,000. Mr. Astor, it is estimated, owns more than $32,000,000 of this ; his municipal taxes alone for 1867 were $358,140. The other nine gentlemen who hold so large a stake are William C. Rhinelander, whose property is valued at $7,745,000; Alexander T. Stewart, $6,091,500; Peter Goelet, $1,417,000; James Lenox, $4,260,000; Peter Lorillart (since dead), $4,245,000; John D. Wolfe, $3,997,000; M. M. Hendricks, $1,690,000; Rufus L. Lord, $1,500,000, and C. V. C. Rossevelt, $1,346,000. Together these ten paid municipal taxes during 1867 to the amount of $1,182,326. The sales and transfers ofyeal estate during the month of April were $24,000,000. Gen. Lawrence, American Minister to Costa Rica and Baron Kusserow, Secretary of the Prussian Legation to Washington, fought a duel near Bladensburg, on the 4th May. The General challenged the Baron for an insult to his wife, and the fire was in the first instance to be der - yore(' at fifteen paces, then at ten, and finally at five. But the fifteen seemed to satisfy the combatants, who ex changed shots harmlessly, and came to an amicable ad justment. The body of Anthony Freynogle, a well-known merchant, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, wbo mysteriously disappeared last January, was found, Saturday, May 2, in the Ohio river, with a bullet hole in the temple, which leaves little doubt that he was murdered. The new woman's club had a meeting and lunch at Delmonico's, May 4, Monday—washing day. President Alice Cary made a speech, and the World, which of all the New York papers seems to enjoy somebody's special coc fidenco in the ladies' affairs, says that "many of the ladies present were young and distingui, and some of the toilets were superb." Senator Henderson of Missouri is soon to marry Miss Mary Foot, one of the most admired Washington belles, and whose home was formerly at Saratoga, New York. The Senator is forty-two, and his affianced eighteen years younger. 'the committee to investigate the charge of Mr. Washburne were appointed Wednesday, May 6, as fol lows : —Messrs. Banks, of Massachusetts ; Thomas, of Maryland ; Poland, of Vermont ; Griswold, of Now York ; Blair, of Michigan ; Woodward, of Pennsylvania ; and Beck, of Kentucky; and on the motion of Mr. Dawes the duty was also imposed upon the committee of investi gating the charges made in debate by Brooks against Butler, that the latter stole spoons, seized gold, and paid in paper. The delegates from the New England to the General Conference of the Methodist Church, now holding its quadrennial session of four weeks at Chicago, are :-- Revs. James Porter, E. R. Thayer, Jefferson HascaP, David Sherman, W. R. Clark, Gilbert Haven, Daniel Dor chester, and Joseph Cummings. Captain Edward Field, 4th United States Artil ' le - .y, stationed at Fort M'Henry, Baltimore, has just mar ried Alias Minnie Young, daughter of Dr. Noble Young, of Baltimore. The following acted as bridesmaids : Misses Fannie Lawrence, Addie Lawrence, Kate Field (sister to the bridegroom), Nellie Young (sister to the bride), and Miss Kate Addison and sister, there being no groomsmen. There were also present General N. P. Chipman, Colonel A. A. Hosmer, and a numtar of military Officers. American papers state that Queen Victoria tele graphed her sympathies by the Atlantic cable to Mrr- D'Arey Gee, of Canada. Mr. Chadeayne, of Titusville, Pennsylvania, whose wife and daughter were very seriously injured by the accident at Angola, has effected a settlement by which he has received $lO,OOO. An ambitious fellow in Connecticut appeals, over his own signature: "Too thee michannicks and la b uring men of my native town. I will reprizent you is the Staitassetublee irrispectif of pollytics, relijion or eddi ca.shun." A Carlisle paper says that the poet Longfellow will spend a.m , :nth this summer at the English lakes. Mr. Train's stay in England was short. He bag returned to Ireland, and is now reported as staying at SL Anne's-hill, Blarney, a water-cure establishment where he formerly recruited after a tour of " lecturing." _ _ Mr. Rose (Finance Minister of Canada) and Mr. Macdougall are expected to arrive in England in Juno on business connected with the Intercolonial Railway, and it is understood that they will endeavour to settle with the Colonial-office the terms upon which the Hudson's Bay Company's territory shall be incorporated wi.h the Don:a nion. The Aboriginal black Eleven lately arrived in England will be ready to play their first match on Monday' and Tuesday in the Epsom week at the Oval. Three of them—MuHugh, Cuzens, and Bullocky—will bear favour able comparison, a good judge declares, with the best bats men in England. The match will excite great interest. An individual has been swindling the citinns of Provence, Rhode Island, by representing himself as 0, general agent for the principal newspapers in that and other cities. He induced Colonels Sprague and Smith to be vary polite to him as th 9 special reporter of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, and so worked upon the feelings of those gentlemen as to obtain an ad vance of two hundred and fifty dollars upon his (the re porter's) note, drawn curiously enough on a St. Louis bank. The non-payment of the note led to the detection of the swindler, and, much to his disgust, he was arrested , ani is now in a station-house at Providence, with every prospect of speedily terminating his quasi-reportorial career, and assuming the new dieguise of the penitential p This interesting person's name is H. E. Clark. The Baltimore Commercial states that on May 5, a party of the Ku-Klux-Klan visited the houses of Levi Thomson and W. Fleming, at Williamson, Tennessee, and attacked them. They endeavoured to burn the house o down, but were resisted and repulsed by the occupants , The facts of the attempted outrage have been repo:ted to General Carlen, and an investigation will no doubt b 0 ordered. It is becoming very fashionable for young ladies of the New York ton to take an early horse-back ride around Central Park, accompanied by a groom in valve teen tights and high top boots. The ride is also fashion able in London, but certainly not the velveteen tights. After Frederick Douglass's lecture at Ann Har bour, a short time ago, the son of a United States Senator attending college there stepped upon the platform, advance d to Mr. Douglass, extended his hand and remarked, " liy name is ---, I am the son of a United States Senator. "Are you ?" said Mr. Douglass, "I have reason to believe that I am, too." The Tyngs, Rev. John Cotton Smith, Rev. Ale: 4 : - ander Vinton, Rev. Dr. Dyer, and other eminent clergy' men of that school, aro preparing to " fraternize with th e sects" during anniversary week, to an extent, it is 0,901, never before witnessed. If the High Churchmen are b en on on drawing nearer and nearer to Rome, they say, it 16 their duty more and more to draw near to Geneva. Be lt ' Dr. Dix, has commenced a series of discourses in favour of the multiplication of Sisterhoods in the Episcopal Church. There is ono such Sisterhood —the Sisterhoo d of Saint Mary—already in existence, but the necess itieS of the Church and of the times we live iu, he says, de' mand more. Births. BLAIR—On the 21st inst., at 7, Athole-crescent, Fa lb ' N. 8., the wife of Robert C. L. Blair, Esq., of a son. IfAssALL—Ou the 21st inst., at `Palmer, the wife of Ve it ' C. C. Hassan, Royal Navy, of a son. MOULD —On the 21st inst., at 10, Scarsdale Villas, K 01 : 8 ; ington, the wife of George Stirling Mould, Esq•, daughter. Marriages. ELLis—wETTON— On the 21st inst., at St. Wilf red 'O Church, Haywar,l's-heath, John Ellis, Esq., of 31orcit . hill, Blackheath, and The Lawn, Eastbourne, to JOT. eldest daughter of H. Davan Wotton, Esq., of 1 10° groves, Hayward's-heath, Sussex. ITALsEY—SCOTT—On the 19th inst., at St. Jan's, o f dington, Richard, eldest son of Samuel Halsey, Esq''est Counaught-terrace, Hyde-park, to Elizabeth, young daughter of the late Abraham Scott, Esq. Deaths. DODWELL -On the 21st inst., Philip Dodwell, E , c1.1 01 't Stockwell Villas, Stockwell, aged 46. FORY —On the 18th inst., at Lower Heywood, Oxfordshirol the Rev. Charles Fury, rector, aged 41. litiorms—On the 20th inst., at Chelsea, Mr. C. R. IN° for 58 years with Messrs. Anderson, of St. Jitt ue street, aged 72. IRELAND- 7 0U the 19th inst., at 4G, Manor-plac, 11T31- worth, Mr. John Ireland, aged 61: SALTOUN On the 20th inst., at Fron Fraith, nontgoolerl shire, Maurice J. Saltoun, Esq., M.L., aged 46. let WILLS—On the 18th and 19th ult., at Kurraehee, ga rr of Mary and Ann Pauline, the infant twin daughterS Lt.-Colonel Wills, Ist Battalion Royal Roginie. ws London : Printed and Published by WiLLIA.)I ANDJI F 0 2, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THR SUN 00100, of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, i n the Genii, Middlesex.—Saturday, May 23, 1868.