The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-27 00:00:00

OF THE PUBLIC JOITBNALS. The Times remarks that the poWer of the existing Government is becoming rapidly limited to the exercise of the Royal prerogative, alluding to a report that this sacred fund is to be largely drawn upon, in extremis, for the creation of a dozen consolation peerages. No doubt, there is at least that number of fitting objects for public charity in its most splendid form. Considering the continual augmentation that House must receive from law, from diplomacy, and from the army, its original character as a representation of land and property should be well sustained. Upon general grounds, and were these or& nary times, small objection could be made. But every thing that gives a character to the existing circumstances tells pointedly and emphatically against a creation of Con servative peers by the moribund Cabinet. Some Govern ments, after long service and after a long-continued popularity, have fallen at last upon some temporary occa sional issue—some neglect, some shortcoming, some mishap—just as an old servant might forfeit his place without prejudice to his claim to some snbstantial reward. In that-case two or three peerages have been taken in discharge of a just debt. But the merit of the expiring Government cannot be its length of service or the number and variety of its achievments. The House of Lords is Conservative enough to be troublesome to a Conservative as well as a Liberal Government. The Times forsees the effect a new creation would have on the question of the day, and thinks there would be nothtig for the head of the new Government but to create Pe4b enough to turn the balance their way. It would not be right to charge on the Conservatives alone an irreverent handling of the august assemblage under question, and a lavish diffusion of its privileges. Both sides have offended Tii this way. But there is this excuse for the Liberal side— that in the majority of instances a Peerage, whatever the politics of theoriginal hOlder and his political friends,becomes an accession to the Conservative force of the House. The institution itself is one of Conservative tendencies, and in natural antagonism to popular movements. Without a single new Conservative creation between this and the end of the century, the House would be then found disposed to resist all change where resistance is possible. What the House wants is, not Conservatism, but such an amount of popular confidence as shall widen the scope of its own action, put more work into its hands, render it a more serviceable ally of the Lower House, and insure more respect for its decisions when they deserve it. The Post asks what amount of power and what prestige will the Conservatives carry with them across the floor of the House of Com Mons. Upon the solution of that ques tion the character of the future policy and coming legisla tion of the country will be largely dependent. By the attitude which they assume as a party in the face of inevi, table defeat, and by the course they take on their forced resumption of the duties of an Opposition, the policy of; the Government to be formed by Mr. Gladstone must be not inconsiderably determined. The ConservsA tives have been thoroughly and decidedly defeated; but they have not been humiliated. Numerically they are weaker than when they acceded to office, but morally, if they comprehend their position, they are stronger. The army of Mr. Disraeli shews more instead of less confidence is the astute and versatile strategist who leads them, their organisation is admirable, and the general election, if it has diminished somewhat their numbers, has added to their ranks not a few adherents whose names and position will make them count as court cards in the game. The Post asks both leaders and their following " What will he do with it ?" There is another problem with regard to which speculation cannot much assist us, and which events aloney can satisfactorily solve. Is the majority a majority merely against Mr. Disraeli, as a challenger, or is it a majority determined not only to defeat the Conservative leader, but, in addition, completely organised to give power and place to Mr. Gladstone, and to maintain him, come who may against him, as leader of the nation? The Daily News thinks Mr. Gladstone's address to the electors of Greenwich, accepting the seat they so spon taneously gave him, is worthy of himself and of them. It is something for even the leader of a great party to be returned by a large and independent constituency without taking any part whatever in the election, and Mr. Glad stone may well feel that a seat thus given him is indeed a most honourable' one. Mr. Gladstone expresses his belief that such generous and unasked confidence is unparalleled. Parliamentary leaders have before now sought the suffrages of other constituencies after their defeat at home, but this is the first instance, probably, in which a large constituency has elected its representative without any sanction from him, and while he was still fighting his battle elsewhere. Mr. Gladstone may well set the " generous, unasked, and unparalleled kindness" which has given him this seat against the failure of his too chivalrous effort to pluck a seat frc m the very grasp of the Conservative Mentor. A seat in Parliament so offered and so accepted is honour able both to the constituency and to the representative. . Mr. Gladstone cannot be said to fall back on Greenwich. He has not gone there as a defeated candidate to ask for a seat. He was already the spontaneously elected member for that constituency before the nomination in South-West Lancashire, and was elected without any intimation from himself that he would accept the honour. The electors of Greenwich have well deserved the distinction whiCla Mr. Gladstone's acceptance of the seat will confer upon them. They have done the Liberal party a service. They have taken all trace of humiliation from Mr. Glad stone's defeat by conferring on him beforehand that rarest )f honours—an unsought seat. Mr. Gladstone might probably have preferred to sit for his native division of his native county ; but if that satisfaction has been denied him, he at least enjoys the honour of a seat for which he made no effort, and to which he was elected in his absence, and without a sign from himself ; and that is an honour which will be unique in Parliament. The Summary says : It is not for us to interfere in so delicate a matter, but we may be permitted to observe that the difficulties of the Liberal party are as great with Mr. Gladstone as a leader, as without him as a leader. If he is Prime Minister, he will have to elect between the two sections of his followers ; if he is not, there can be little doubt that he will become rapidly still more demo cratic in his action. In either case, Conservatives will probably be re-called very shortly to power. Mean while it is preposterous that while the Pall Mall Gazette distrusts him for not being a man of the world, an enthu siastic supporter in the Daily News actually calls on us to fall down and worship Mr. Gladstone as the only religious statesman of the day, who is the elect of the people on that very ground. Injudicious as Mr. Gladstone is, odd as he has she wn himself to be, as in other ways, so, by translating some book during the exciting hours of the polling in South-West Lancashire, he must himself wish that so injudicious though well-meaning a friend could be muzzled. The Telegraph trusts that the Queen will lend the lustre of her station and personal assistance to the ceremony of the opening of Parliament. Even as a stately pageant of our political life the opening of such a house at such an epoch deserves to be rendered complete. The empty throne must seem more unsatisfactory than ever when nothing but its occupancy is wanted to restore the half-forgotten splendours of that which is still the most august and ancient assemblage of lawgivers in the civilised world. Ceremony may be over valued ; but while a just and due solemnity is confirmed by traditional customs, and while the stateliness of monarchy is found useful to deepen the reverence of popular power, the grandest function of the sovereign ought surely to have all the majesty and effect which it can borrow from the visible presence of Royalty. The Queen's appearance, nttering such words a-s should alone be in her mouth, will seasonably reassure the country against sinister forebodings ; and the Telegraph is equally ready to affirm that it will imply a like abstinence from personal feeling as regards the statesmen who will be charged with the adminis trative and political duties of the day. On all accounts, then, the' presence of her Majesty is most desirable, since it would not only signalise the beginning of a new parliamentary era, but would place before the newly-constituted assembly, at the very beginning of its life, the august figure of the hereditary sovereign in that impartial and inviolate position which she holds between all rivalries of policies and parties. The Times warns statesmen not to rely too much on the weak elements of our parliamentary system. If anything be certain in English politics, it is that the redistribution of seats will be carried much further, and that members will within a few years be justly apportioned to population. For good or for evil, the number of small boroughs will be diminished, and the Marylebones and Lambeths will be divided and more • fully represented. Though nothing can be pleasanter than a quiet little constituency, which gives no trouble, and regards its member with almost superstitious veneration when he makes his rare appearance, yet such constituencies must for the most part pass away, while the few that remain will be fought for with desperate energy and lavish purse by the ambitious rich, by the local magnate, or his rival, the merchant from town. Statesmen and men of political genius generally must, therefore, make up their minds to woo and win large popular constituencies. The Poet says the Reform Leaguers have been made tools of by their selfish superiors in Liberal society. They were never intended by the higher Radicals to sit in Parliament. There is a Liberal scoff at their preten§ions; there are 'a thousand Liberal mockeries over their universal failure. And one, no doubt, has been cleverly played off against another. The evidently approaching dissolution of the Melt - Ali-terrace Reform League, through deficiency of funds and the withdrawal of popular sympathy, renders this perhaps the less regrettable, but it will entail the loss in public life of Mr. Edmond Reales - M.A. He does no t s i t f or the Tower Hamlet's ; he will not be much longer the head of an asso ciation whi c h professes to govern the world, even as far as Spain. But we have our c omfort. Such spirits do not rest. Wh en th ey have settled their charges of mutual peculation, w h en they have arbitrated between the atheism' of Mr. Bradlaugh and th e P Mr. Beaks, when they h ave discovered who,lal)nlic a oicilgittsmof selves, connived and confed era t e d aga i nst the rest- , when the probled Of the " mysterious funds" has and when it is explained why h ar dl y one woribr2 ,:!as4 candidate went to the poll, or paid th e returning "leers' charges, then we may learn that a new and even a I , i: , her destiny is reserved for the dispersing. patriots o f 'the AdelpLi-terrace. Until then, vale, and good rillanee THE NEW PARLIAMENT. -41. The following are the members returned up to the time of making up this list. The asterisk before a member's name means that he was not a member of the last Parliament ; a dagger before the name signi fies that the member represented a different con stituency in the last House of Commons. The two last columns shew the Liberal and Conservativegains respectively:— Constituency. Members. Mr Lindsay Mr Fortescue Mr N Rothschild Mr Smith Mr Mellor Mr Davies Hon G C Morgan Mr T Cave Captain Williams Mt Whitmore Mr Samuelson Mr Tite Mr Dalrymple Mr Whitbread Mr J Howard Lord Bury Mr J Stapleton Sir H. Edwards Captain Kennard Sir R Glass Mr John Laird Mr John Bright Mr Dixon Mr P H Muntz Mr W H Hornby Mr J Feilden Hon F L Gower Lieut-Colonel Gray Mr J Hick Mr Malcolm Mr T Coffins Mr W E Forster Mr Ripley Mr A. W Kinglake Mr Vanderbyl Mr James White Professor Fawcett Mr H Berkeley Mr S Morley Sir Harry Verney Mr R Shaw Mr Philips Mr Hardcastle Mr Greene Mr F C H Russell Colonel Gilpin Mr T A Mitchell Hon W 0 Stanley Mr Howel Gwyn Right Hon B Disraeli Mr Du Pre Mr Lambert Mr Benyon Colonel Loyd Lindsay Mr John Walter Hon C Howard Mr W N Hodgson Captain Lowther Hon P Wyndham Colonel Torrens Mr Fowler Lord George Manners Lord Royston Right Hon H Brand Mr Butler Johnstone Captain Brinckman Colonel Stuart Mr E Potter Sir Wilfrid Lawson Colonel Stepney Mr Sartoris Mr joina Jones Mr W B Hughes Captain Parry Mr G C Legh Hon W Egerton Mr Otway Mr H B Samuelson Earl Grosvenor Mr Raikes Lord H G Lennox Mr Goldney Hon A Bathurst ...... Mr R Assheton • Mr Eaton Mr Staveley Hill Lord E Fitzmaurice Right Hon S Walpole Mr Beresford Hope Sir Thomas Lloyd Mr Richards Mr C W Dilke Sir Henry Hoare Mr E Burke Mr J Fletcher Mr Rebow Dr Brewer Sir D Gooch Hon F Cadogan Sir John Trelawny Mr B Willyaros Mr St Aubyn Mr P Vivian Mr E C Egerton Mr W Legh Mr Tollemache Sir Philip Egerton Mr Williams Mr M Chambers * Mr Lewis * Mr Backhouse Mr M T Bass * Mr Plimsoll Sir T Bateson * Serjeant Simon Major Dickson * Mr Jessel, QC. Sir John Pakington Mr Henderson * Mr Davison Sir H Williamson * Mr Elliott Mr Pease ' Mr Beaumont Colonel Sturt Mr H B Sheridan Sir T Gresley Mr R Smith ' Hon H Strutt Hon Captain Egerton Mr T D Acland Sir Stafford Northcote Sir L Palk Lord Courtenay Hon Mr Portman Mr Floyer Mr Sturt Col Bourne Mr Coleridge Mr Bowring Mr W Baker Mr A Johnstone Lord Eustace Cecil Mr S Ibbetson * Mr Round * Colonel Brise Lord Barrington Mr M'C Torrens Alderman Lusk Mr T. Hughes Sir John Hanmer Mr Fowler Mr Eastwick Lord R Grosvenor Colonel Talbot Mr H Vivian Right Hon Sir W Hutt Mr Price Mr Monk hir C Wingfield Captain Towline Mr Alderman Salomon Rt Hon W E Gladstone Mr Onslow Captain Cholmeley Hon I' Tollemache Sir M Beach Mr Holford Colonel Kingscote Mr Marling RightlHon W Cowper Lord H Scott Hon H Cowper Mr A Smith Mr H Brand Mr C Reed Mr Holms Mr Stansfeld Colonel Akroyd Mr T Brassey Mr F North Mr Young Mr R Dimsdale Mr Clive Mr Wyllie Mr Biddulph Mr Bailey Sir II roft Mr James Clay Mr Norwood Baron N de Rothschild Mr W B Beach Mr Sclater-Booth Major Jervia Mr T Baring Mr Jackson Colonel Edwardes Mr Hurst double Major Aldridge f return Lord R Montagu Mr E Fellowes Mr E A Leathern Mr H E Adair Mr West. Q.O Sir J Simeon Mr Mills Mr Talbot Lord Holmesdale Mr Hart Dyke Mr L Pemberton Hon G Milles Lord Stanley Hon R Bourke Mr Lea Mr Illingworth Mr Whitwell Alderman J Lawrence Mr NV M'Arthur Mr Baines Alderman Carter Mr Wheelhouse Mr Taylor Mr Hzrris Lord J Manners Mr Frewen Lord Curzon Mr Pell Mr Cross Mr C Turner Hon A F Egerton Mr S Henry Mr Arkwright Colonel Clive Mr Goschen Mr Crawford Mr Lawrence ' Mr Bell Rt Hon Robert Lowe Lord G Lennox Mr Henry Lopes Mr C Seely Mr H Palmer Sir M J Cholmeley Mr R Winn Mr Amcoats Mr H Chaplin Mr Welby Mr Tumor Sir Arthur Buller Lord Pelham Colonel Dyott Mr Graves Lord Sandon Mr Rathbone Colonel Wilson-Patten Hon F Stanley Mr Holt Mr Starkie Mr C W Wynn Mr Bentall Mr Wetherhed Mr Mitford Mr 0 Brocklehurat Mr Chadwick Mr Lee Mr Whatman Mr Powell Mr Baxley. Mr Jacob Bright Mr Birley Mr H Lewis Mr T Chambers Mr' Richard Mr i'lthergill Sir J tlamsden lion C b itzwilliam Lord E Bruce Mr D Williams Mr Bolclow Hon C H Y. qty Sir G Grey Mr C Morgan Colonel Somerset Viscount Enfield Lord G Hamilton Mr E Howes Mr C S Read Mr G Hodgkinson Mr E DenisoFi Mr Headlara Mr Cowen Mr Allen Mr Buckley ' Mr Hutton Lord Henley Mr C Gilpin Sir W Russell Sir H Stracey Sir R Clifton Mr Wright Mr Martin Sir E Lacon Hon F Walpole Sir W Ragge Hon T De Grey Mr Ward Hunt ...... Mr S Stopford Major Cartwright fir Rainald Knightley Bight Hon J Denison * Ilts F C Smith ABINGDON ANDOVER AYLESBURY AsETTON-UNDER-LYNE ANOLF.SEA BRECONSHIRE BARNSTAPLE BRIDONORTII BANBURY BATH BEDFORD BERWICK BEVERLEY BEWDLEZ BIRKENHEAD BIRMINOHA.M BLACKBURN BODMIN BOLTON BOSTON BRADFORD BRIDOWATZIi BRIGHTON BRISTOL BUCKINGHAM BURNLEY BURY BURY BT. EDMUNDS BEDFORDSHIRE BRIDPORT BEAU MARIS BRECO N BUCRINGH&MBRIRE BEBEsmitz CUMBERLAND, EAST .. CUMBERLAND, WEST .. CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGESHIRE ... CANTERBURY CARDIFF . CARLISLE CARMARTHEN CARMARTHENSHIRE CARNARVON OA RNARVONSIII RE CHESHIRE, MID CHATHAM CHELTENHAM CHESTER CHICHESTER . CHIPPENHAM CIRENCESTER CLITHEROE . COVENTRY ... CALVE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERS CARDIGAN CARDIGANSHIRE CHELSEA CHRISTCHURCH COCKERMOUTH COLCHESTER CRICKLADE CORNWALL, EAST . CORNWALL; WEST ... CHESHIRE, EAST CHESHIRE, WEST DENBIGH . DEVON PORT DARLINGTON DERBY Dzynms.. DLwsBURY DovEß.—. DROITWICH DURHAM... DURHAM, NORTH ... DURHAM. SOUTH .... DORCHESTER DUDLEY DERBYSHIRE, SOUTH DERI3YSMRE, EAST DEVON, NORTH DEVON', EAST ? DORSETSHIRE .... EVF SHAM EXLTER ESSEX, SOUTH ESSEX, WEST ESSEX, NORTII-EAST EYE FINSBURY FROME . . . . FLINT .... FALMOU TII FLINTSIIIRE GLAMORGANSIIIRE GATESHEAD GLOUCESTER GRAVESEND GREAT GRIMSBY G.REENWICH GUILDFORD GRANTHAM GLOUCESTER, EAST GLOUCESTER, WEST HANTS, SOUTII HERTFORDSHIRE ... HACKNEY HALIFAX HASTINGS HELSTON HERTFORD HEREFORD HEREFORDSHIRE .. HYTHE HANTS. NORTH HARWICH . HUNTINGDON . HARTLEPOOL . HAVERSORDW ST HORSHAM HUNTIMGDONSIIIRE HIIDDER:FIELD Ipswicx ISLE OF WIGIIT KENT, WEST .... KENT, MID KENT, EAST KING'S LYNN KIDDERMINSTER. KNARESBOB4OUGH KENDAL LA MBET H LEEDS LEICESTER LEICESTER, NORTH LEICESTER, SOUTH LANCASHIRE, S.W. LANCASHIRE, 5.E.... LEOMINSTER LUDLOW LONDON CITY LoNDON ITNIVERBITY • LvmrxoTON LAUNCESTON LINCOLN LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH LINCOLN, MID LINCOLN, SOUTH LIBKEARD LEWES LICHFIELD LIVERI COL LANCASHIRE, NORTH . LANCASHIRE, N.E. .. MONTGOMERYSHIRE MALDON MARLOW MIDHURST MACCLESFIELD MAIDSTONE MALMESBURY . MANCHESTER . MARYLEBONE MERTHYR TYDVIL MONMOUTH MALTON MARLBOROUGH M ONETHSBIRE • MIDDLESBOROUGH MONTGOMERY MOP.PETH MONMOUTHSHIRE MIDDLESEX .. NORFOLK, SOUTH NlwAnK NEVICA.STLE-UPON-TYNEI NEWCASTLE -TINDRZ YM. NORTHALLERTON . NORTHAMPTON ... Noßwlcir NOTTINGIIAM NEWPORT. I. OP WIGHT NORFOLK, NORTH :t NORFOLK, WEST NORTHAMXTON, NORTH NORTHAMPTON, BOUTS Icons, Ik'pant Hum. Tf g SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY LVENiI4d, NOVEMBER 27, 1868. Members. Constituency. NOTTS, SOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND, N. NORTHUMBERLAND, IS OXFORD UNIVERSITY. OXFORDSHIRE OLDHAM OXFORD PEMBROKE PEMBROKESHIRE PETERBOROUGH PETERffI2ELD PLYMOUTH • . PONTEFRACT Mr Barrow Mr Hildyard * Earl Percy * Mr Ridley Mr Beaumont Hon H Liddell Rt Hon G Hardy t Rt Hon J Mowfiray Mr Henley Colonel North * Mr Cartwright Mr Hibbert Mr Platt Mr Cardwell * Mr V Harcourt * Mr Meyrick t Mr Scourfield Mr Whalley * Mr Wells Mr Nicholson Sir R P Collier Mr Morrison . , Mr Childers PORTSMOUTH Major Waterhouse Mr Stone • Sir J Elphinstone P RESTON Sir T Hesketh 1. Mr Hermon POOLE READING RICHMOND RIPON ROCHDALE RYE RETEORD, EAST RADNOR ROCHESTER RADNORSHIRE RUTLAND SUFFOLK, WEST SALISBURY BUSBEX, WEST.. SOMERSET, WEST SOMERSET, EAST SOUTHAMPTON.. STROUD SURREY, EAST SA.LFORD SANDWICH SCARBOROUGH SHEFFIELD SIIREWBBURY SOUTH SHIELDS SOUTHWARK STAFFORD STOCKPORT STOCKTON SUNDERLAND SHAFT ESB URY SHOREHAII STALEYBRIDOE SURREY, MID Mr Arthur Guest SUSSEX, EAST Sir F Goldamid Mr Shaw Lefevre Sir Roundelt Palmer Lord John Hay Mr T B Potter * Mr Stewart Hardy Mr Foljambe - Lord Galway Mr Price Mr W Martin.. Mr Serjeant Kinglake Hon A Walah Hon g J Noel STAFFORDSHIRE, EAST Mr Finch Major W Parker Lord A Hervey Mr Hamilton * Dr Lush • • Colonel liarttelot STAFFORDSHIRE, WEST STAFFORDSHIRE,NORTH Hon H Wyndham Mr Gore Langton * Mr A A Hood * Major Allen * Mr Bright Mr Gurney * Mr Hoare Mr Winterbotham MrDickeiison Mr Locke King 1 Mr C Buxton * Mr Cawley * Mr Charley Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen * Mr H Brassey Sir J V Johnstone Mr J D Dent Mr Hadfield * Mr Mundella Mr Clement * Mr Pigging STAMFORD SHROPSHIRE, NORTH Mr Stevenson Mr Layard Mr Locke Captain Meller * 14 - r'Pochin Mr J B Smith * Mr Tipping * Mr J Dodds Mr Candlish * Mr Gourley MT C Glyn Right limiS Cave Sir Percy Burrell * Mr Sidebotham * Mr W Peek * Hon W Brodrick Mr Dodson " Mr Scott t Mr A Bass " Mr M'Clean * Mr Ingram * Mr Child Mr Adderley Sir E M Buller Sir J gay Mr Ormsby Owe Lord Newport Gen P Herbert * Col Corbett * Mr Magniac Mr Melly • Colonel Roden Mr Dillwyn Sir R Peel * Sir H Drawer Mr Barclay Serjeant Cox Tzwxzenunir l* Mr Price Towen HAMLETS Mr Ayrton SHROPSHIRE, SOUTH . ST. IVEEI STOKE-UPON-TRENT SWANSEA TAMWORTH TAUNTON TRURO Mr Simuda Mr Williams Hon, Captain Vivian TYNEMOUTJI TAVISTOCK TIVERTON Mr E T Smith Mr A Russell .. Hon G Denman Mims WAKEFIELD WESTMORELAND 1 * Mr Amory Sir W P Gallwey 1* Mr Beaumont Earl of Bcctive Hon G H Lowther, Mr S Vickers WALLINGFORD WARE HAM WARRING TON . WA EN_ CH Mr J Calcraft Mr Ryland& . Mr A W Peel 1* Mr Greaves WEDNESBURY WESTBURY ... 1* Mr Brogden * Mr Phipps Captain Grosvenor l* Mr W II Smith IVESTMIN STEIL WEYMOUTH Mr H Edwards Mr Hambro WHITBY WHITEHAVEN WIGAN Mr W H Gladstone .. Mr Bentinck Mr Wood., WINCHESTER * Mr Lancaster Mr Bonham Carter Mr Simonda Mr R Eykyn * Mr - Bamett Mr Sherriff • Mr Laslett W. NDSOR WOODSTOCK WORCESTER WORCESTER, EAST Hon G C Lyttelton ;* Mr Amphlett Mr Knight Mr Dowtleswell Hon. W H Carington Mr C,Forster WORCESTER, WEST WYCOMBE WALSALL WENLOCK General Forester • Mr Brown • Mr Antrobus Lord H Thynne WILTON WILTS, SOUTH WOLVERHAMPTON .... Mr T Grove Mr Villiers Mr Weguelin Mr N wdegate Mr B Davenport * Mr H C Wise WARWICYSHIRE,NORTH' WARWICKSHIRE, SOUTH WILTS, NORTH .... Mr John Hardy Lord C Bruce Sir G Jenkinaon Yon YORK, N.W. RIDING Mr Lowther * Mr Brown Westhead YORK, S.W. RIDING Sir F Crossley Lord F C Cavendish YORKSHIRE, N. RlDirral Viscount Milton Mr Beaumont Mr Milbank Colonel 0 Duncombe SCOTLAND. ABERDEENSHIRE, lASI' , Mr Fordyce ABERDEENSHIRE, WEST *Mr M'Combie , AYR BURGHS • I Mr Crawfurd AYnsiling, NORTH Mr Finuie ARGYLESHIRE I Marquis of Lorne AYRSHIRE, SOUTH ABERDEEN BORDER DISTRICT BUTESIIIRE Sir 15 Wedderburn Colonel Sykes Mr Trevelyan BANFF Mr Dalryinp:e . BERWICKSHIRE Mr R Duff CLACKMANNAN Mr D Robertson CAITHNESS DUMFRIESSHIRE DUMBARTONSHIRE DUNDEE MT Adam DUMFRIES EDINBURGH EDINBURGHSHIRE. • ELGIN BURGHS , ELGIN AND NAIRN FORFAR/MIRE FIFESHIRE FALKIRK BURGHS GLASGOW GREENOCK HADDINOTON BURGER HADDINGTONSHIRE INVERNESS INVERNESS-SHIRE KINCARDINESHIRE KIRKCUDBRIGHT KILMARNOCK BURGHS KIRKCALDY LANARKSHIRE, SOUTH LANARKSHIRE, NORTH LINLITHGOWSHIRE LEITH BURGHS PERTH PAISLEY PERTHSHIRE PEEBLES AND SELKIRK ROXBURGHSIIIRE Ross AND CROMARTY RENFREWSUIRE STIRLING BURGHS STIBLINGSHIRE SUTHERLANDSHIRE ST. ANDREWS BURGHS IVIONTROSBI WIGTOWN BURGHS WIGTOWNSHIRE Mr Traill Sir S Waterlow Mr Orr-Ewing Sir J Ogilvy Mr Armistead Mr Jardine Mr M'Laren Mr Miller Sir G Maitland Mr Grant Duif Mr Grant Hon C Carnegie.. Sir R Anstruther Mr Meru Mr Dalglish Mr W Graham Mr Anderson Mr Grieve Sir H Davie Lord Elcho Mr Mackintosh Mr Cameron Mr Nichol Mr W H Maxwell Mr E P Bouverie Mr. S. Aytoun Major Hamilton Sir E Colebrooke Mr M`Lagan Mr Maclie Mr Kinnaird Mr Crum-Ewing Mr Parker Sir G Montgomery Sir W Scott Mr Matheson Mr Spiers Mr Campbell Admiral Erskine Lord R S Gower Mr Ellice Mr Baxter Mr Young Lord Carnes ANTRIM COUNTY ARMAGH COUNTY ... ARMAGH ATHLONE BAN DON BELFAST CLARE COUNTY . CARRICKFERGUS CARREL CARLOW CORK. CLONMEL COLERAINE CAVAN COUNTY CARLOW COUNTY DONEGAL CO UNTY . DOWNSIIIRK DOWNPA.TRICY DUNGANNON DUBLIN DUBLIN 'UNIVERSITY DUBLIN COUNTY DUNDALK DUNGARVAN DROGHEDA ENNISKILLEN ENNis FERMANAGH COUNTY GALWAY COUNTY .... GALWAY KERRY COUNTY KILKENNY KILKENNY COUNTY KINSALE KILDARE KING'S COUNTY IRELAND. Rear-Adml. Seymour Mr O'Neill Sir J M Stronge Mr Verner Mr John Vance * Sir J Ennis * Mr Shaw * Mr Johnston * Mr M'Clure Sir Colman O'Loghlen Colonel Vandeleur * Mr Dalway Mr O'Beirne * Captain Fagan Mr Murphy Mr Maguire Mr Bagwell Sir H /I Bruce Colonel Annesley Mr E Sanderson Mr Bruen. f Mr Kavanagh Lord Hamilton Mr Conolly Lord H Trevor Lieut.-Colonel Forde Mr Keowne Major Knox Mr Pim Sir A Guinness Mr Lefroy * Mr Ball Colonel Taylor Mr Hamilton * Mr Callan Mr Matthews Mr Whitworth Viscount Crichton Captain Stacpoole Lieut.-Colonel Cole Captain Archdall Mr Gregory Viscount Burke Sir R Blennerhassett * Lord St. Lawrence Lord Castlerosse Mr H A Herbert Sir John Gray Mr G L Bryan Mr Agar Ellis Sir G Colthurst Mr Cogan Lord 0 Fitzgerald LEITRIM COUNTY LONDONDERRY COUNTY Sir P O'Brien * Mr Sherlock Mr Gore Dr Brady LONDONDERRY LIMERICK CITY LIMERICK COUNTY ... LONGFORD COUNTY LOUTH COUNTY LTSBURN MAYO COUNTY MONAGHAN COUNTY MALLOW NEW Ross NEWRY PoRTARLINGTON QUEEN'S COUNTY ROSCOMMON COUNTY Mr Peel Dawson Sir F Heygate 1* Mr Dowse Major Gavin Mr. F W Russell Mr Monsen Mr Synan Mr O'Reilly Col. Greville-Nugent Mr C Fortescue Mr Dease Mr Verner * Mr Moore Lord Bingham Colonel Leslie * Mr Shirley Serjcant Sullivan * Mr M'Mabon * Mr Kirk * Captain Darner SLIoo TRALEE TIPPERARY COUNTY I Mr Fitzpatrici * Mr Digby Colonel French TYRONE COUNTY WEXFORD WATERFORD COUNTY WATERFORD CITY WESTMEATH WEXFORD COUNTY WICKLOW YOUGHA.L The O'Conor Don Major L. E Knox The O'Donozhue Captain White Mr Moore Mr Corry Lord Claude Hamilton Mr Devereux Mr Esmond° Mr De La Poer Mr Blake * Mr Delahunty Mr Pollard-Urquhart Mr Nugent Sir John Power " Mr D'Arcy Mr F Dick * Hon H Fitzwilliam Mr C Weguelin THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH MR. GLADSTONE. The Primate of Ireland has written a letter to Mr. Glad stone upon tha subject of the Irish Church. He states that ou his return from holding his triennial visitations his at tention was attracted to a reference made to him in the Wigan speech. For several reasons he did not answer it. Mr. Gladstone having again referred to him at Preston, be feels called upon to address him on the subject. Mr. Gladstone, ho says, has evidently mistaken the spirit and intention of his (the Archbishop's) speech. He maintains that the propoSitions brought forward in it are just and reasonable, and free from any tendency to excite religious animosity. He argues that the overthrow of the Establishment would cause an extensive emigration. His observations had reference not to the inhabitants of towns or thickly populated Protestant districts, but to those few and far between. lie quotes the United States and Canada to prove the inefficiency of the voluntary system. He sup poses that Mr. Gladstone, far removed from communi cation with the Irish Protestants, is unacquainted with their apprehensions and plans for the future, but the clergy who dwell among them are but too well aware of the loosening of their attachment to their father land, and of their desire to remain in it, which is going on in the scattered hamlets where Protestants are waiting to know what is to be their fate as regards the continuance among them of the kind and considerate friend whom they found in their pastor, and who, in the absence of a resident gen try, has been their sole adviser, protector, and comforter. These Protestants must of necessity yield to the attractions of the majority around them as they did 150 years ago. The Archbishop, therefore, thinks he was fully justified in saying that the measure of disestablishment proposed would Put before them the alternative of apostacy or emigration. The Archbishop again quotes a sentence of his speech— "it is very generally stated that if the Roman Catho lics are not satisfied with this measure, then Ireland must be conquered over again. Can it be that there is no remedy for poor Ireland but the sword and the gibbet ? Would it not be better to leave tile Bible still open and the sword undrawn ?" He now adds—" I trust that you will see that this is very different, indeed, from the sentiment you attributed to me. I cannot entertain• a hope that yours will be a final or a healing measure. I believe, on the contrary, that it will be received as a grievous and uncalled for wrong by one party, while it will neither satisfy nor conciliate the other, but will give rise to fresh demands end renewed agitation, to the results of which I cannot look forward without the liveliest appre hension." As for the tale of the Orange flag in the church of Kilderton, the Rev. Mr. Green refused to perform divine service because it was placed upon the church, and thus some old and infirm people from a distance were deprived of the sacrament. hi spite of the Archbishop's advice to the contrary be still persists in his course, and proceedings would have been taken against him had he not admitted his error. No flag ever covered the holy table or hung over it. INOTHER LETTER. - .41. ---- Mr. Fielden is candidate for ghat is called the South-East West Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Fielden is a Conservative, and is by no means impressed with admiration for Mr. Bright. More, he has been doing what ho can of late to show that the hon. member for Birmingham is "no better than he ought to be." Among other things, he has charged Mr. Bright with indifference to -the reform of our poor-law. He says that once he made it his business to ask Mr. Bright to help him to procure some reforms, but he would not listen to him, was uncourteous, and finally told him that Mr. Potter knew about that subject, and he knew nothing about it. Go then, and talk to Mr. Potter. The story has been brought under the notice of Mr. Bright. That Lon. gentleman replies—"l hope your el, eters will not bo mis led by the falsehoods of the Tory candidates or their party. If 1 have laboured to give the working men free access to the harvests of the world for their supply of food ; if I have laLoured to give them instruction by untaxed and cheap newspapers; if I have done as much as any roan living to extend to them the right of voting' for mem bers of Parliament, will any man believe that I am regardless of the interests and comforts of the poor Mr. Fielden knows, if he is honest enough to say so, that his application to me ha 1 reference to some minute point of poor-law regulation, which did not bear at sll on the treatment of the poor, but rather on the duties and position of the auditors of the Poor-law Unions, and that I directed him to Mr. Potter, because Mr. Potter had paid more attention to that point than I had, owing to the fact that the auditor of this district isone of his constituents, and had fully explained the matter to him. I gave all the as sistance to Mr. Potter that was in my Fewer, as both Mr. Potter and the auditor would willingly testify. Mr. Fielden, to my knowledge, did nothing for free-trade, nothing for a free press, and nothing for the extension of the fran chise. 1 have no faith in a man who does nothing for his follow-men till they are found in the ranks of pauperism. For myself, I would prevent their becoming paupers ; but, if that sad fate overtook • nun, I would deal with them in a spirit of justice and kinduess. lam not d• fend ing myself from the slanders of Mr. Fielden, hut I am giving you the explanat'on you ask for. I think Mr. Holden is ono of your candidates. There was no more hon,st and inde pendent Liberal iu Parliament than Mr. Holden." The death is announced of the Dowager Countess Somers, widow of the first Earl Somers. Great excitement prevailed in Liverpool on Tuesilay consequent on the South-west Lancashire el, ction. A fight took place in the Exchange news-rooms, but nothing serious is reported. Mr. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the S ou th ern Confederacy, wa s present at th e W arw i ck meeting, last week. By a curious coincidence he witnessed the success of a horse named after a former enemy of his—President Lincoln. Amongst the gentlemen called to the bar at the Inner Temple, we observe the name of Mr. Francis H. Jeune, Oxford First-Classman, and the eldest son of the late lamented Bishop of Peterborough. The Queen of Holland, who has been staying in London some weeks at Claridge's Hotel, and who has taken great interest in the charitable institutions of the metropolis, left town on Wednesday afternoon on her return to Holland, vid Calais. The Queen is expected to return to this country early in the ensuing year. SCENE IN HASLINGDEN CIIIIRCLI—Some cause of displeasure has arisen on the part of the congregation of Haslingden against their vicar, the Rev. L. H. Mordacque. The real reason of the disturbance has not transpired; but it appears that last Sunday morning and afternoon the principal part of the congregation, after the vicar had announced his text, rose from their seats and left the church. The Sunday school has been broken up, and it is in contemplation to form another, to be held in the town-hall. The Broad Arrow, which at least has arrogated to itself to be authoritative, says :—A novel kind of torpedo, of extraordinary power, has been invented by a Mr. White head, of Fiume, and the Austrian Government has already paid £20,000 to the lucky inventor of the secret. He offers the exclusive possession, with a reservation in favour of Austria, of this secret to our Government, for £100,000; or the disclosure of the secret only for £20,000, to be paid conditionally on the success of the torpedo, which will be determined by a board of inquiry, and this will most probably bo formed from the late floating obstruction com mittee. We believe our Government will accept the latter terms, for there is little probability of the secret being kept. THE BISHOP - DESIGNATE OF LONDON. Dr. Wordsworth will receive his new charge in a very diffe rent state from that in which it came into the hands . of his predecessor. Bishop Jackson's prudent and diligent supervision has been fruitful for good, and he may be trusted to shew the same qualities in the sphere to which he is about to be transferred. The points in which he has sometimes been thought deficient—breadth of sym pathy, conciliatory manners, and the unvarying courtesy which sets everyone at ease—are of especial importance in the great see of London. These are things, however, which a man fit to govern learns from intercourse with men, and to a prelate of Bishop Jackson's sincere and simple character they cannot have been difficult of attain ment.— Guardian. ELECTION SCENE TN MASSACHUSETTS.—A corre spondent of the Nation, writing from Boston on the sth inst., gives an account of the proceedings at Salem on the day before the election of General Butler. The chairman introduced Mr. Dana, who was greeted with derisive shouts, requested to take off his gloves, or put them on, I hardly remember which, and he began to speak amid loud cheers fur the opposing candidate. lie spoke for five minutes— or rather lie and the crowd spoke for five minutes —in the following manner :—Mr. Dana : Fellow-citizens— The crowd : We ain't yer feller-citizens. Mr. Dana: Fellow-citizens of Essex— The crowd : You ain't from Essex ; three cheers for Butler. Mr. Dana: I come from— The crowd: Cambridge, Cambridge. Mr. Dana: Well, now, what county is Cambridge in ? The crowd : Middle sex. Mr. Dana: And what county is Lowell in? The crowd: Middlesex. Mr. Dana: Very good ; I come from the same county from which your present representative comes. The crowd Three cheers for him. It was evidently of little use to attempt to make a financial speech, so Mr. Dana contented himself with saying a few words and read ing a " telling" letter written by Butler some time in 1867, in which he urged that Grant should not be nominated to the Presidency, because he had "no head and no heart,"and was impotent to govern." The letter, however, produced no effect other than more cheering for Butler. and 11Ir. Dana good-humouredly sat down. .MILITARY DIRTY LINEN Londoners generally send their dirtylinen to the country to be washed. Not so the military, who do exactly the reverse. i The public will be astonished to learn that the whole of the barrack and hospital bedding in the London district,which, besides other places, includes Chelsea, Ken sington, K n ghtsbridge, Regent's Park, Hounslo w,Windsor, and the Tower, is sent to a washhouse situated inthe interior of Wellington Barracks, close to Buckingham Gate. Sheets and bedding which may have been used by a small pox patient at Hounslow or a fever patient at Windsor, are brought thence into the very midst of London, and washed in the centre of the badly-ventilated block of buildings in which the Guards and their families are quartered. The laundry is itself inade quate to the work. It was erected for the personal convenience of the regiment on the spot, but has been converted to its present use on the principle of expediency, which seems to be one of the most prominent features of military administration. In a dismal corner building near the cookhouse the linen is submitted to a process of boiling and stamping in half-dirty water. The drying closet will not dry the sheets as fast as they are washed, and it is useless to expect any bleaching or purification from exposure to the smoky air of London, in the confined courtyards of a crowded barrack. It would be interesting to know whether the sanction of the medical department has ever been given to an arrangement obviously dangerous alike to the Guards and to the inhabitants around. We believe the astounding truth to be that the spot is beyond their jurisdiction, and that they have neither power to visit nor to condemn. Meanwhile, we find at Wool wich a totally different affair. At the Herbert Hospital there are usually some two or three hundred patients, and as the hospital was erected to accommodate a thousand, the laundry, being of corresponding size, is not a third employed. Erected regardless of expense, in a pure and bleaching atmosphere, and replete with every convenience, its staff is capable of washing for the patients in the hospital, and for the whole of the London district and the garrison at Woolwich besides, and this without an addition to the cost at which the establishment is now maintained beyond the extra soap. More than £5O per month is paid in wages, and no one exactly knows how much it costs in coals, improvements, and repairs. Official stupidity, departmental jealousy, and reckless careless. ness of the public interests and health can scarcely be more clearly demonstrated. Sir Henry Storks has indeed a task in hand to remedy such evils. We wish him strength to fulfil his difficult and important mission.—The Lancet. GRESHAM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The following appeared in our Latest Edition of yeeter4ay evening:— The annual general meeting of the Gresham Life Assurance Society was held this afternoon at the head offices of the society, 37, Old Jewry, City; William Tabor, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, presided. The routine business having been transacted, The CHAIRMAN said he would now call upon the actuary and secretary to read the report of the directors for the eleven months just closed. Mr. F. ALLEN Cunris then read the report as follows : " The directors have again the pleasure to report the satisfactory progress of the society. "In the annual report for the year ending on the 31st July, 1867, it was stated that the current and future financial years would terminate on the 30th June ; consequently, the Board have on the present occasion to make their report for 11 months During the period commencing on the Ist of August, 1867, and ending on the 30th of June, 1868, 4,162 proposals were submitted for the assur ance of £1,660,652 ; of these the directors accepted 3,693, and issued policies for the amount of £1,438,148. " The new premiums received during the eleven months amounted to £41,422 15s. 3d. " The sums received from new premiums and renewal premiums during the eleven months now reported on, were £253,228 13s. 61., and from inte rest on investments, £34,440 17s. The income of the society from these two sources alone, with the addition of the receipts for the month of July, thus completing the receipts for twelve months, was at the rate of more than £320,000 per annum. " During the same period the sum of £99,763 Bs. Bd. was paid for endowment and assurance claims, and £12,455 3s. 10d. for bonus ; after satis faction of which, and of all other charges, a sur plus of upwards of £95,000 was added to the invested funds. " The directors retiring on this occasion are William Tabor, George Lowe, F.R.S., and Joseph Williams, Esquires, who being eligible, are recom mended by the Board for re-election. " The auditors, G. IL Ladbury, Wm. Webb Venn, and William Whitelock, Esqrs., retire, and again offer themselves for election. " The directors trust that the arrangements they have made for the continued development of the resources of the society, will justify their expecta tions of increasing prosperity." The CHAIRMAN, in rising to move the report just read be received and adopted, said it was with the greatest pleasure that he had to announce to the meeting that the period embraced by the repert had been the most successful and prosperous the society had ever experienced. (Hear, hear.) The amount received from new premiums during the eleven months just passed had been £41,422, and had the period been for 12 months he had no doubt the sum he should have had to announce would have been £45,000. There was another source of congratulation, and ,that was, that after all the claims and other expenses had been provided for, the directors were enabled to add a sum of no less than £95,000 to their invested funds. (Cheers.) Such a state of affairs was no doubt highly satisfac tory to the meeting, but he should have had to announce a still greater addition had it not been that last year was one of a pleasurable nature to the assurers—namely, a bonus y, ar. (Hear, hear.) Had it not been for that circumstance, he felt certain he should have had to announce to them that the addition made would have amounted t0..£120,000 instead of £95,000. (Cheers.) The claims for the period embraced by the report, it was satisfactory to find, had not been greater than was to be expected, and taking all matters into consideration, it was particularly gratifying to him to have to make such a favourable announce ment to the meeting. The sums now received from new and renewed premiums for eleven months added to the interest on investments, made the in come of the society from these two sources alone amount to £320,000 per annum. (Cheers.) With out detaining them further, he would formally move the resolution for the adoption of the report. - Mr. SMEE said it was with much pleasure that he seconded the proposition of their chairman. Life assurance was a subject of the highest importance to all classes, aid he knew not of a better instance to show its importance than that which hal lately taken place. A gentleman named Lund, one of the sufferers by the lamentable accident at Abergelo was an assurer in this office, he had in consequence of his good health suffered his policy to lapse, but fortunately for his survivois just prior to taking the journey which ended in his death, lie had renewed his policy, and thus those nearest and dearest to him ha 1 the satisfaction of receiving a sum of no less than £4,000. He could not too.urgently impress upon those present, and through them the public at large, the great im portance of life assurance. None knew how soon a contingency might occur, because it was uot al ways the moat robust and healthy that lived longest. Accidents like that calamity to which he had alluded came with terrible suddenness, and then it was that the prudence and forethought of the life assurer was most comforting and beneficial to those left behind. Their office was one that fully met all requirements; their position was one of per fect safety and solidity and in every case their great desire was to meet their claims in the most speedy and liberal manner. (Cheers.) The report they had just heard read, was, he felt sure, highly satisfactory to all present, and therefore he deemed it a privilege to second the resolution for its adoption. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution to the meeting, and declared it carried unanimously. Mr. TREGOE then moved the re-election of the retiring directors. They had during their term of office efficiently done their duty, ani he felt they could not be better served by any set of gentle men than those who now composed the board of directors. ,fir. TYLER, in a few complimentary remarks, seconded the motion, which, on being put to the meeting by the chairman was carried unanimously. Mr. WILLIAMS moved, and Mr. FOOKS seconded, the re-election of the retiring auditors. This reso lution was also carried unanimously. Votes of thanks having been awarded to the directors, the medical officers, the agents, the secretary and staff, and the chairman, the proceed ings terminated. AMERICAN LITERATURE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Fire Years Within the Golden Gate. Although-confined to one volume, we are bound to say that it conveys to our mind the idea of what is called book-making. With insufficient material the writer has eked out the volume, cribbing and patching. Bat having said this, we have said all we have to say against the work. The authoress fully describes San Francisco, both the city itself and the citizens. Street by street, building by building, its wharves and shipping, its bills and drainage, and its general appearance are truthfully and graphically told. The writer is a genuine Union woman, and she does not attempt to conceal how strong were her feelings in favour of the North. Her five years' residence and intercourse with Americans have given her an American tone, although she professes to be, and really is, thoroughly English. Having a kindly heart, she was the better able to understand and sympathize with the kindliness of the people, and, in conse quence, to describe the society. She gives accounts of two excursions, the one to the Mammoth Pine Grove, the other into Nevada to the Geysers. We regret that when at the Grove she did not proceed to the wonderful Valley of the Yo Semite, which is not far distant. The Chinamen, as servants, 'she considers clean and honest, although the description of the quarter they occupy in the city is far from inviting. Immigration she describes as dangerous to the labourer from want of employment, and to the capitalist from want of experience. The in dustrious, economical Chinese, living on rats and garbage, are formidable rivals in the labour market. She speaks well of the public institutions, and of the charitable, generous spirit of the inhabitants ; and although an ardent admirer of the American school system in the general diffusion of education, she condemns most heartily the mixture of boys and girls in the same seminary. She lived opposite to one during a portion of her residence in San Francisco, , •••••••••• when she saw enough to make her declare that she would sooner condemn a daughter of her's to ignorance than permit the contamination which resulted from the mixed intercourse. There are some touching pictures of sweet creatures, with large fawn-like eyes, and luxuriant hair falling in clustering curls, who became the victims of the brute —man, who married and deserting, left them to gain a living by performing as musicians in lager bier saloons. In all these cases, " husband in fault as usual," but Isabel Saxon pays a high tribute to the gentlenaanly-beating of American men. The difference between them and the. English in this respect is, according to her, most marked ; and, we can very safely add, that she would find that difference at least as marked in Germany, France, or in most other continental nations. At the same time she administers a well-deserved rebuke to her American sisters for the manner in which much of the civility tendered by the other sex is received, and which is nowhere more visible than in public conveyances. In San Francisco a group of men on the side path, where they are frequently to be found, instantly give way, clearing the road for any woman, and this is so in all American cities. But not only was she jostled in London, or turned into the gutter when a hulking lot of men had blocked the pavement, but while procuring het ticket at a station two persons fashionably dressed rudely elbowed their way in before her in de fiance of all good breeding, although they could gain nothing from such hurry. We have a right to receive a lady's evidence oa such points in pre ference to a man's. She is keener, more sensi tive, and more open to such influences, and Isabel Saxon gives her opinion in no minced way, but, as strongly as she can utter it, declaring that beyond comparison that Americans are more gentlemanlike than her own countrymen. A man the other day wrote to the Daily News that in Texas he dare not have hinted that he was ax Englishman, or his life would not have been worth an hour's purchase, and thousands would believe that, who would not read such works as "Five Years Within the Golden Gate,'' which dispel these gross misrepesentations. A coun try which welcomes all Europeans working on the theory that its wealth is increased in direct propor tion to its immigration could not tolerate such an outrage to its system as that described by the man who wrote to the Daily !Yews, and Texas as much es California has been formed by immigrants, containing only, people from everywhere. Englishmen cannot read such books as this without feeling that they can enter into American politics, and the domestic concerns of the States where they happen to be located, with almost as much zest as Americans/ and this English lady is as good an Union woman as could anywhere be found. She deplores the ignorance that prevailel in England of Norther° objects at the commencement of the contest, when the North was in a peculiar mood to be at tached to their cousins over the water by a hearty expression of sympathy, even though it came b ut from one section of the people. They can nev er know how eagerly it was yearned for, and how bit terly it was felt that, instead of the sympathy, they received only taunts and sneers. Sympathy came; but, alas! for England first, and America 11 04 after the War. T mice England has conspicuously i failed to grasp a n o pp or t un it y — once w h en I re land Wight have been Protestantized as well as Scotlan d ' and settled on a broad, liberal basis of gavernmen", but instead of thi s it was " t o h e ll or C onnau ght'' Again, in the great American Civil War, when 0,11 opportunity offered of binding the Northern people in the warmest ti es o f f ratern i ty, and they sco ffed and jeered at the chance, because like fools led by that bell-wether the Times they could not see it ' and only knew it after the opportunity was gone , and whatever good the Times has otherwise done has been cancelled by that one course. Isabel Sal . ° ll , does not say, thou g h s h e f u ll y i mp li es this, and through her book runs that tone which shows b 0 e , ,enuine American is the s pi r it s h e h as imbibed I° California. At one time during the war the seee S ' sion element was sufficiently strong to raise th e question of separation, and the foundation )f n Pacific empire, but it was scou t e d b y th e ma ss 6 ' f the people. She b ears t est i mony to t h e sa f et y of t the streets of San Francisco as well as throughon the State of California, contrasting favourably i n this respect, not only with the Southern, but als ° ~ with some Northern towns, and notably with t . 1 7. Empire City itself. This is a tt r ib u t a ble to the excellent working of the v i g il ance committee, which more than anything else has s h own the wonderf ul power of self-rule in the A m e r i can . C a lifornia W ag peopled by a rush of the mo s t d ar i ng , rec kless nuit, casts to a barren shore without any of the maehi ner ' of of Government, and with little of the necessaries , life. It was a wonde r ful ac hi evemen t t o grasp a n : t subdue that herd—so to subdue it by a s t er n and i n , administration of a criminal cod e , th a t mu rder, 0 State so and theft were almost expelled from a xi , so peopled and placed. The m eans , t o m any Ini n , a were as unlawful as the c r i m es. The idea 01 4 self-constituted secret society decreeing death 5° the hanging without mercy, is wh o lly opposed t O Anglo-Saxon notion of order and justice ; but th er° no was a hard necessity there, which admitted o ' g hair-splitting or fine-drawn theories. The clues tioo was simply, Were the bl a ck guar d s or the h° llat ,30 ., men to rule ? Was the State t o b ec ome a Pan moniunr, or the wealthiest in the Union ? o vice, in its most open and gl a ring deformity, t. l ion° shock mankind, or was one of the fairest r- „ f of earth's surface to be redeemed for the use o human race ? We desire the more to give °. author's testimony to the result, because we hold ° high esteem the bold and daring community 0 ; knew when and how to act—readily performing task of personal inconvenience as well as of deal er ' and all must now allow, with the most he result. ~6 0 1 It was intended by the Orangemen of Liver?: to celebrate the return of Messrs. Cross and Turner bYilp torchlight procession on Wednesday night, but 110 P io p the authorities interefered, and the projected proeess4/ - - was not carrieout. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—IIenceorth no one will doubt the v't la§ icf properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta bi . o '4ol Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of t, D e it has already received from Invalids whose position b e tref deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness th . whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty Y e eP tt e - d: unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the `` Oa golf Midi " July 25th:—" Rome, July 21,1866. -The health of thee' Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all otli er i ,ke dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's trig Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful ate'resl l ,l o a It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his healt h ' his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly /16, extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures :—Cure NO. 'plel l/ 0 the Marchioness de Brehm', of seven years' liver eori t otif tr wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous Plot all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplesSness, and the , or t 1• 11 , tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord S',‘,see, Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dMpslP' No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from d3Msei.:', nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatulene%U: sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46; 4 ; 1006 - James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseas ee spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial deafiles.o portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and el`f rAe DiS sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron name is most audaciously attached. 1 1° 'i In tins, at ls. 1 id.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.• 5 APO.,dole 0 1 12 lbs , 225.; 241bs ,40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALE'NTA4 A c P e CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 1, at I~Br 25., for 21 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at Gs., for 288 cuP9 OO for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per eel ) . n r ee7l, and bss. tins are sent free of carriage in England °- So. of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and CO., Regent-street, London and all G rocers an d Chemists' _floe% Births. Lt ACTON—On the 25th inst ,at Dublin, the wife of — o f 0 Colonel Hampden Acion, Madras Staff Co i P s ' daughter. y e ah KING —On the 26th i ns t. , at Richmond, Surrey , the I( John 11. King, Esq., of a son. t no dal' SWINBURNE --On the 24th inst , at Westbr ook, ming, Lady Swinburne, of a son. Marriages. ld rr. KrNG —HEWETT —On the 18th inst., a t Swalloer -e mari King, of Wiomere, Great Marlow, Bucks, t° oo. Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Hewett, of SwalloW lop Wurcarr—Butpc—On the 25th inst., a t Pimpernel Door, ford, Philip, son of Francis Wright, of Osnaasten o f the Derbyshire, to Alice Elizabeth, youngest daugh ter Rev. W. Bury. rector of Pimperne. Deaths. VA . BISOHAM—On the 24th inst.. Henry C. Binghnl°, of Wartuaby Hall, Leicestershire, aged 58. frone et CiIAWNER —On the 24th inst., at New ton Man°r 0 f t he Hants, Captain Edward Hare Chawner , formerly 4th Dragoon Guards. ijor dia , HARDING —On the 231 inst., Sir John Dorllo9 D.C.L., aged 59. Jol 3o HOOPER—On the 25th inst., at Woodford, sf3es.' Hooper, Esq., aged 46. 13Ie cra Sy b SnOnTREDE— On the 26th inst. at at The Bo- - 73 Boni heath, Major-General Robert . Shortrcde, late J., Army, aged 68. -------------- ----v.-v-4$ ---- -- . ‘ ,011F; ~ London : Printed and Published by WILLIA-V: ''''' - r ,,i 1 1 " of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tali SUN 0 0°3 ' 0 - °ti ° Sinai, in fns Precinct of the Savor. ill tile - 112 Middlesex.—Friday, November 27, 1808. WE ELECTION RIOTS. Several election riots, more or less serious, took place in several places during the two or three days just past. Of these we have already recorded the most important. Riotous proceedings, however, are reported from Leicester. After the declaration of the poll, Lord Curzon and Mr. Pell, the Tory members returned, accompanied by a large number of their supporters, sought to return to their hotel. As they emerged from the Castle yard, guarded by a posse of polico, they were followed by a large crowd of persons hooting and groaning, which gradually increased in numbers, as did also the violence of the expressions of disapprobation. As the members passed along, the crowd made a rush at theni; threatening them with personal violence. The police, however, charged and successfully repelled them. Stones and brickbats began to fly in all directions, many of the police officers being struck by these missiles. In the midst of this confusion Mr. Pell made his escape, and sought refuge in the neighbourhood. Lord Curzon was then with difficulty escorted by the police to the Assembly Rooms, amidst a perfect shower of missiles of all kinds. On reach ing the Assembly Rooms, another attempt was made by the mob to attack his lordship, but they were again pre vented by the police, who drove them in all directions. The mob waited outside, but Lord Curzon, by means of a skilful ruse, made his escape in a cab to the railway station. Most of the shopkeepers closed their shops. At Durham city, too, the rioting was something more than ordinary. Between one and two o'clock in the after noon a party of " Reds " and a party of "Blues " met in the Market-place, and open warfare was the immediate result, the missiles consisting of loose paving -stones that were spread about the market square. One Sewell, who was not a participator in the conflict, was severely injured. As he was crossing the street, a man ran up behind him and hit him on the back of the head with a stone. The unfortunate man dropped senseless. He was removed to the hospital, where he gradually sank and died. The rioters have been remanded. LAW AND POLICE. ..-4,.. ------ AN UNFORTUNATE CASE.—At the Central Criminal Court, before Baron Pigott, Charles William Templeman, 22, has been charged with the manslaughter of Stephen Blake, his father-in-law. The prisoner had married the daughter of the deceased, she being at the time only six teen years of age. The parents were aware of the marriage, but they were not consenting parties to it, and the marriage did not turn out very happily. The deceased was a valet to a gentleman in Eaton place, and on the 11th of October the wife of the prisoner had gone to visit her mother and 'ather there, and they were in the kitchen when the pri soner came to the house and entered the room where they were. He was at the time the worse for liquor, and by the direction of Mr. Charley, the master of the deceased, he was requested to leave the place. Some altercation took place, when the prisoner struck the deceased a violent blow in the eye, and he bled profusely. The prisoner then seized him by the neckcloth ; swung him round, threw him down, and fell violently upon him. Immediately after the occurrence the prisoner seemed to have exhibited the utmost sorrow and remorse for what had happened, and he wrote several letters to his wife and his mother-in-law entreating their forgiveness for what he had done. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recom mended him ,to mercy on the grounds that the act had been done in the heat of passion and without premedita tion. He was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. BREACH OF PROMISE.---A breach of promise trial in ;he Court of Queen's Bench has excited much interest. The plaintiff was a young lady of great personal attrac tions, and the defendant a gentleman in the Indian ser vice. The courtship had gone on during the furlough of the defendant, and the marriage was to have taken place after his return. No quarrel had interposed ; but defendant declined to carry out his engagement on account of his health. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., admitted the engagement, but contended that, as it would have been suicidal for the defendant to have married, he was released de facto from his promise. The case occupied most of the day, and eventually the jury, who could not agree, were discharged without giving a verdict. THE LAST CHURCH-RATE MARTYRS.—At the 'Wands worth Police-conk Mr. Hanbury, a Quaker, and Mr. Ridley have been summoned for non-payment of their proportions of a church-rate of lid. in the pound, made in the parish of St. Mary, Balham, in May last. Mr. Dayman, the presiding magistrate, made an order in each case. In the course of the hearing it transpired that this would be the last of the church-rate cases. CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—At the Clerkenwell Police. * court, on Thursday, William Matthews was charged with assaulting Francis William Knill, compositor, by striking him with his fist and with his walking-stick. Complainant said he was willing to accept an apology, I n 1 had offered to withdraw the charge on those conditions. The magis trate admonished the defendant, ordered him to publicly apologise, and pay the costs. Talking of the education question, a traveller observed that as he was walking on one occasion under the arcade of the Horticultural Garden, looking at the works of art displayed there, he came upon two well dressed ladies examining a statuette of Andromeda, labelled, " Executed in Terra Cotta." " Executed in Terra Cotta," says one ; " where is that ?" " I am sure I don't know," returned the other ; " but I pity the poor girl, wherever it was." A young medical student, Mr. Edmund Miles, has met with his death rather mysteriously in Dublin. lie was brought to one of the city hospitals at two o'clock in the morning, by two policemen, who found him in the street quite unccnscious, having a wound on the left eye, with ex tensive effusion of blood, and also a wound on the back of the head. Ile died in a few hours. It is stated that three men wantonly attacked him near Moore's monument, in the neirlabourhoad of Trinity College. His body awaits an in quest. A QUOTATION WANTED.—The stanza quoted by Reverdy Johnson in his recent speech at Brighton, expressive of the identity of race and institutions of the United States and Great Britain, was taken from a short poem, written thirty years ago by Mr. W. F. Rock, the well-known stationer of Walbrook, whi:e on a visit to America, but printed for the first time last year in a little volume entitled " Winter Gatherings : Poems written chiefly in Youth," which Mr. Rock privately circulated among his friends in an edition de luxe. NEW SPIRITUAL PEER.--The Right Rev. Dr. W. C. Magee, recently consecrated to the bishopric of Peter borough, will become entitled to a scat in the House of Lords shortly after the meeting of Parliament, and will act as chaplain. Dr. C. Wordsworth, on his consecration to the bishopric of Lincoln, will remain without a seat until a vacancy occurs in a diocese other than Canterbury, York, London, Durham, and Winchester. 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