The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ()lithe subject of the Irish Church the Saturday Review says: The difficulty of disendowment lies in the appro. priatiora of the funds that are to be taken from the Irish Church. Everything else is a matter of detail. The present holders of benefices, for example, are to have . I*.zeir life interests secured. There are many ways of' securing these life interests. Incumbents may be retained in their benefices, or may have an annttity from the State of equivalent value, or a sum down in cash equal to the value of the annuity. It will be a matter for future discussion which plan will be the best. In the sa me way the churches, schools, and glebe-houses now held by the Irish Church are, it is sup posed, to continue to belong to it. It will be quite worth discussing, in duo time who is to be understood to own these pieces of property, and who, if any one, shall have power to sell, repair, enlarge, or do away with them, cr any of them. It will be quite worth dis4mssing what shall be done with private advowsons ; whether the system of patronage shall continue, or whether the State shall buy up the rights of the owners at a fair valuation. The sul • ject of the proper application of the fund to be obtained by disendowment is treated at considerable length, the diaims of educational commissioners and poor-law gitar• dians being glanced at, but the solution of the question is left aver until Ministers have spoken on the subject. In an article on Mr. Disraeli's posthumous appointments the Spectator remarks that were the suggestion for Lord Mayo's recall from India to be acted on it would amazingly strengthen the position of the Government. It wad shew that the Cabinet felt its strength, that it relied on the country, and that it was prepared to prefer the welfare of the State to any other consideration, however good it might be in itself. Nobody doubts that with rumours of Mohammedan troubles in India, with the Government publicly acknowledging the existence of a conspiracy greater than Fenianism, with the " Eastern question" once more open—a question which, be it remembered, involves alike Russia and the Caliphate—the Cabinet would greatly prefer to see a man of proved first-class ability in the Indian Viceroy's chair. Defending Mr. Gladstone from the charge that he wants something good to give his own friends, the Conservatives are told they know perfectly well that Mr. Gladstone does not want a great appointment for one of his friends, that Sir John Lawrence in England will be no aid, that there is no clan Lawrence to be conciliated, that the Premier will have ventured to do a " strong thing " against his own interests solely because the interests of the empire required a strong thing to be done ; and the assurance that he will not shrink from his duty, that he dare dismiss anybody whose dismissal is expedient for the service of the country, And appoint anybody whom the country needs, will infuse fresh vigour and elasticity into the whole tone of opinion. The appointment of Colonel Wetherall to the Permanent Under -Secretaryship for Ireland is strongly condemned on the ground that Mr. Disraeli must have known that he would be a serious hindrance to the new Government, and it is remarked that anywhere else than in Britain the appointment would be at once cancelled. The rumour of Lord Mayo's intended recall is thus com mented on by the John Bull :—lt is really unfair in us to have to undertake the task of defending her Majesty's Government. With so many organs of their own, one might have imagined that some ready scribe would have repudiated with indignation the rumour that the Earl of Mayo was to be recalled from the Governor-Generalship of India. We do the Government the justice to believe that they never contemplated so monstrous an iniquity, but it does not speak well for the Liberal press or the Liberal public that one should so eagerly have advanced, and the other so eagerly have credited such a libel on Mr. Gladstone. As for the party at Hatfield House, which has given rise to so much gossip, we know that it wzys arranged weeks ago. The Marquis of Salisbury may have given umbrage to his party ; but his lordship no more deserves to be accused of deserting to the enemy because Liberals are his guests, than does Mr. Gladstone to be traduced on a mere wanton report, propagated by his own organs, of exhibiting so petty a spirit as would have been manifested had he recalled Lord Mayo. The London Review, in remarking on the subject of "Livings for Sale," has the following : This week a firm of auctioneers put up several lots of plump parishes belonging to the Duke of Norfolk. The papers tell us that the room was filled with " clergymen, speculators, and others." The salesman did his busine•s as well as possible, although not as successfully as he might had the previous course of political events been different. He called atten tion to the various points of the articles under his hammer with as much outspoken eloquence as if he had been appraising cattle. He even hinted that on one glebe there was probably a coal deposit, so that the fortunate clergyman entrusted with the cure of souls for the district might develope the mineral resources of his domain with advantage. Other parsonages were of the picturesque order, and bandy to railway stations. Facility of railway intercourse indeed appears to be a most desirable attraction to property of this kind. Your piggery is also requisite. There is a perfect one at the recto. y of llandsworth, although the place is nut yet vacant. The auctioneer cheerfully remarked that this advowson was subject " to the life of the incumbent, who was baptised on the 25th December, 1801." From this expression we may gather that the speaker had in his pocket or his portfolio a registered copy of the certificate of the baptism of the venerable incumbent, so as to satisfy any of the " clergy men, speculators, and others" who were inclined to lay out their money upon the exact value of the goods. It is further remarked on the subject of this disposal of advow sons : Another aspect of this matter is the real panic generated amongst the purchasers of advowsons by the extinction of the Establishment in Ireland. We should be sorry indeed to recognise in their feeling an instince similar to that which causes certain fowl to anticipate bad weather. The fact is, that the generality of clergymen are ignorant of politics, and have been scared to a great extent by the bogus articles in their peculiar newspapers. The notion of disestablishing, the EnglislsChurch has been promoted in a measure by the unmanly nervousness of its own ministers, and by their illogical persistence in endeavouring. to attach its fortunes to the condemned and sinking ship. On the subject of Greece and Turkey the Imperial Review remarks : The quarrel between these two coma• tries has made some progress during the past week, and on the whole, all things considered, we think we ma) congratulate ourselves on its aspect as it stands. Greece has refused the ultimatum from Constantinople, and Turkey is to withdraw her Ambassador from Athens. We scarcely see how things could have turned out other wise. We have never concealed the very moderate esti mate we have formed of Greek statesmanship ; the aver sion we feel from Greek policy—if you can dignify the acts of such a country by such a name—or our ideas as to the purity of Greek patriotism. Still, to do them justice, Bulgaris and his Cabinet could scarcely have acted diffe rently. The steps taken by the Turkish Government are commended on the ground that Turkey's action has forced the hand of Greece, when she held cards that would have enabled her to protract the game indefinitely, and, pos sibly, to win or draw it, had she only been suffered to play them her own way. No doubt cunning is the wisdom of the weak, and the anomalous state of things, when international laws were systematically shelved in favour of Greece, was all in favour of the little kingdom. Had she been wise, she would have conceded nominally every thing that Turkey chose to ask ; reserving it, of course, to herself to break her pledges as she has often clone before. As regards the prospects of Greece, it is remarked that Greece has always one card in reserve. Do what she will, she is persuaded the Great Powers will step in to prevent her annihilation, and to preserve the work of their own hands ; and there she is doubtless right, and that is the weak point in dealing with her. Public opinion in Europe would never consent to have this troublesome firebrand quenched by replacing Greece in the position of a Turkish province, and if it did, to do them justice, the Greeks would enter ceaseless protests in the shape of chronic insurrections. These considerations have induced the nation to sacrifice its interest to its vanity, and exchange its shuffling game for a decided language. In playing into Turkey's hands, the quarrel comes up for adjustment at a tame when there is hope of its being settled amicably, The Great Powers are, to all appearance, unusually harmonious on it ; they have just acted in unison and successfully in Roumania, and Russia, as we should have expected, finds it premature to act in her selfish interests. So far as we can yet see, no country wishes to avail itself of what would make an excellent opening for a general war, and therefore the Great Powers can scarcely help coming to some sort of equitable decision on the nature of the imbroglio. We think Turkey has had peat wrong done her, but all we ask for her is a fair hearing and fair play, and these she seems more likely to get now than at any other time. Turkey, we are told, has made a formal complaint, which we cannot refuse to listen to. Fortu nately, she seems to have made it at a time when we can all give our attention to the squabble, and keep any mis chief within moderate hounds. So, on the whole, we feel relieved that we are likely to have it settled at once, instead of feeling that it i.. 1 only postponed to an inevitable future. Miss - tn. Mr. ltlchard Cope, grocer and chandler, of Uttoxeter, disappeared about the time of the Abergele railway accident. He left home a few days before that occurrence on a journey in connection with his business of a chandler, proceeding first to Cheadle. He did not take his watch with him, and all his cash, amounting to about £4O, was found in his cash-box. His friends have made every search for him possible, but have not succeeded in obtaining any tidings of him, except at one place in Cheadle, where he received money, and they pertain no doubt of his having met witk a fatal tud, ISERIOUS OUTRAGE BY A POLICEMAN. At the Birmingham Police-court, a. policeman, named Samuel Mills, has been summoned for a dastardly assault on a night watchman named James Allen, in the employment of Messrs. Shorthouse, of the chemical works, Shadwell-street. On Tuesday last complainant was charged with loitering about with intent to commit a felony, but the case was dismissed. It appeared that a very serious assault had been committed on Allen by the policeman, by which the life of the latter has been endangered. His statement was that he was coming up Snow-bill on the morning of the Bth instant, when he met the officer and inquired his way home. He was the worse for liquor, but did nothing to provoke the treatment he received from Mills, who struck him with his staff and knocked him down, rendering him senseless. A woman residing in Shadwell-street deposed to seeing the officer brutally beating a man, who was lying on the ground. Allen was found by a man who took him to the General Hospital, where it was found that lie had sustained three severe scalp wounds and other injuries. Mills was committed for trial. The complainant is in precarious state, and the indictment may yet be one for manslaughter. Mills has been seven months in the force. Bail was refused,. LAW AND POLICE. THE TROUBLES OF A PATENTEE.—Mr. Bovill, a brother of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, invented some time back an improvement in the working of a mill, and he seeks to obtain the " fruit of his labours." But the millers in London and elsewhere declare that he invented what had long ago been found out. They allege that they have long used the same arrangement, and they refuse to pay him for what they regard as common property. A large combination was formed to defeat the project, and Mr. Bovill has been led from court to court for some years. He had to fight a large number of defendants at once, and Bovill v. has become a well-known entry both at Chancery and common law. In every case, however, he has succeeded in establishing to the satisfaction of the court or jury that the patent is his own, and that he had not been forestalled. But, no wise disheartened, his opponen's seem determined to fight him to the end. The last case of this kind, Bovill v. Goodier, having failed to assert the right of the millers to the patent, the de fendants have applied to the Master of the Rolls to have certain issues—which were tried at common law by a jury, by direction of Lord Romilly—retried. This application the learned judge refused. An appeal was on Friday heard before the Lord Chancellor, who confirmed the decision of the learned judge. ALLEGED ILLEGAL CONFINEMENT IN A LUNATIC ASTLUM.—An important case has just terminated in the Court of Common Pleas, one of a character which happily does not often come before our courts of law. It was an action brought by a gentleman named Gent, of Padbury, against one Mr. Glennie and others. The plaintiff alleged that he, being of perfectly sound mind, had been forcibly removed from his home and detained in a lunatic asylum. He called several witnesses, who said they had had rela tions with him of one kind and another, and had never thought him mad. But the defendants proved several acts of violence, the doctor declared he was suffering from hal lucinations, and the commissioners who visited the lunatic asylum gave it as their opinion that at the time of their visit they thought be was under a delusion. The jury ;herefore returned a verdict for the defendant. MR. GRAVES AND HIS ENGRAVINGS.—Mr. Graves, the well-known engraver, suffers very much from piracy. It in fact requires great watchfulness and a separate staff to tee that others do not copy his engravings and sell them for less price. This they are able to do, as the copyright costs the publisher a large sum. For the engraving the pirates pay nothing, and so they can sell for a nominal price. Mr. Graves, however, is con tinually prosecuting. On Friday, at the Mansion House, three men were charged by Mr. Graves, the well-known engraver of Pall Mall, with "conspiring to sell and publish pirated copies of certain engravings" the property of Mr. Graves. The engravings in question are "The Railway Station," "My First Sermon," "My Second Sermon," "Ordered on Foreign Service," and others. After considerable evidence was taken the prisoners were remanded. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—With the assizes come forth woeful tales of violence. There seems to be a large number of attempted murders. At Maidstone a man named Wright, aged 45, who had been ir. the army, and was once employed as a warder at the County Gaol, was charged with attempting to murder his wife, from whom he was separated. It appeared that he met her in the street, and inflicted several severe wounds on her throat with a razor, and would have doubtless succeeded in his fell purpose but for the aid of some passers-by. He was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. They had been married nineteen years, and had had four children. To OBTAIN WoRK.—A serious and somewhat rare charge has been investigated by the sitting magistrate at Bow street. A young woman was brought up on a charge of having endeavoured to obtain a situation by means of a false character. She had assumed the name of a respectable girl whom she accidentally met at a servants' registry. She was sentenced to pay a fine of £2O, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment. FRAUDULENT MINERS.—A case of some interest has just been heard at Pickering. Two men, iron miners, were charged with defrauding their employers. It appeared that the prisoners were engaged by contract at so much a ton, to get up the ironstone and put it into the railway waggons, and they had to attend to the necessary propping of the part of the mine where they were working. Shale overlaid the ironstone, and some of it had 'fallen, and the men were to be paid extra for getting it out. The men, it seems, had three waggon3, which, it appeared, they loaded with shale, and covered it with a layer of ironstone. This, after weighing, was in due course taken to the kilns and shot in without the imposition being detected. The three tons of shale would greatly deteriorate sixty tons of iron, which, raw, was worth 7s. Gd. per ton, and calcined 9s. Gd. Great mischief had been clone by the dishonest proceedings. The prisoners asserted that the shale and ironstone were so mixed that they could not separate them. This was denied, and it was shown that at the bottom the waggons were loaded with shale only, no shale appearing at the top. The bench were undecided whether to deal summarily with the prisoners or to commit them for trial, and adjourned the case for a month. The Queen is about to confer the honour of knight hood upon Mr. Digby Wyatt. SOMETHING LIKE A SHOP.—On the 30th Novem ber the latest addition to Stewart's retail dry goods store, Broadway, New York, was opened to the public. This establishment, which claims to be the largest in the world, now covers two acres. The building is six stories high, and has a basement and sub-cellar below ground ; the steam boilers to raise the elevators are under the side walk. The basement is used for the sale of oil-cloths. The first story is the saleroom for nearly every kind of dry and fancy goods, except carpets, cloaks, shawls, and millinery. From the centre of this story rises, to the height of 100 feet, the great dome, topped by a flat sky light. It leaves a space GO feet in length in the middle of the remaining floors. Each of the higher floors is devoted to its own class of goods, and every floor has its washing rooms and saloons for the use of customers. All the gas jets arc lighted simultaneously by an electric battery, producing a most brilliant effect. Those upon the pillars of the dome have just been placed. The entire interior is white, the monotony being amply relieved by the brilliant colours of the goods : the ceilings are all to be frescoed. The view of each entire floor will be ob. strutted only by the numerous columns. These are of iron, and are adorned upon each of the four faces with alto relievos of Cupids and with vases of flowers. Six hundred clerks, male and female, are employed in the various sale departments, and GOO women are occupied in the prepa ration of clothing. The house contains apopulation equal to that of a small town. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND MR. COBDEN.— A deputation of the committee entrusted with the erection of the metropolitan statue to Richard Cobden waited by appointment on the French Ambassador, the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, at his official residence, Albert-gate, for the purpose of presenting to the Emperor of the French, through his Excellency, an address thanking his Majesty for a munificent donation of 1,600 francs, and at the same time requesting his Majesty's acceptance of a photo graphic representation of the ceremony of unveiling the statue, taken at the instant when the veil was withdrawn. The deputation consisted of Mr. T. Ross, chairman of the committee ; Messrs. J. Salter and R. Furniss, churchwardens of St. Pancras, in which parish the statue stands ; Mr. J. E. Lawford, treasurer ; and Mr. Wills, the sculptor. The deputation was received with the most marked courtesy, and after hearing the address translated into French his Excellency said that his Majesty would be excce:iugly t atel.ed at receiving an address of this nature, couched in terms so expressive of kindly f ee li ng from a body of Englishmen. - Upon being assured that muni ficent as the sum was contributed by his Majesty the COM. mittee valued it not so much for its amount, but as the earnest of the goodwill and friendly disposition on the part of his Majesty towards this nation, his Excellency replied that no other significance but this should be attached to the Emperor's act in offering his contribution, and that this was the sole interpretation to be put upon it, although at the same time his Majesty desired to do honour to the memory of a great and good man departed. His Excel lency upon this cordially shook hands with the deputation, B~ic~ hen • • withdrew, [ l fl ' SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1868. FOREIGN NOTES' THE FRENCH MINISTRY The important changes in the personnel of the French Government, announced by the Moniteur, are by no means unexpected. Not only has this semi-Ministerial crisis been long anticipated, but the Ministers who have been replaced are those whom public opinion marked as the doomed men. The late Minister of the Interior, M. Pinard, and the Foreign Minister, M. de Moustier, have long been at variance with the rest of their colleagues, and it is doubtless with a view to secure an undivided Cabinet that the Emperor has taken this grave step. At the same time he may have reason to be dis satisfied with the diplomacy of M. de Moustier, and he has certainly ground for complaining of M. Pinard's muddling in the Interior. The recent Baudin prosecutions, suppos ing that the Emperor sanctioned them in bulk, have been wofully mismanaged in detail. The changes made are : The Marquis de Moustier, Foreign Minister, is replaced by the Marquis de Lavalette ; M. Pinard, Minister of the Interior, gives way to Senator Forcade la Roquette, now holding the portfolio of Public Works, and M. Gressier, of the Corps Legislatif, will succeed Senator Forcade. Of these the most important appointment is that of Foreign Minister. In his new capacity the Marquis de Lavalette is untried. He commenced his diplomatic career in 1837, and has since been Ambassador at Cassel, Constantinople, and Rome. For a few months in 1865 he held the portfolio of the Interior, but he has not held office for Foreign Affairs. His predecessor, M. de Moustier, replaced M. Drouyn de Lhuys in 1866, lust after the terrible moral defeat of France by Prussia. most serious consequences ; and yet the transition from military to civil power was so imperceptible as to have passed unnoticed but for the special means, by way of proclamation, orders, &c., em ployed to make it public." The appointment of Mr. John Savage as Consul to Leeds has created much surprise in America. Although president of a Fenian wing, he is said to be a worthy man, of character and ability, and re spected by all his acquaintances. What Americans cannot understand is what the President meant by appointing as Consul to a great English commercial centre a pronounced ,Fenian, who openly professes to be at war with England. It is scarcely probable that Mr. Savage would have the hardihood to ac cept such a post, as it would be found easier to sanction such an appointment than to prevent the mob knocking his brains out in a town where the prejudice against Irishmen who profess such prin ciples runs very strong. Suppose Mr. John Savage accepted the appointment, he would` not receive his exequatur even if the Right Honourable John Bright was the man to grant it. The President has some motive for the nomination, for he could scarcely otherwise offer so stupid and unprovoked an insult to England, which, as the Tribune says, would be much the same as if the English appointed Jeff. Davis, Consul at Philadelphia. It is supposed that the President's object is to test some question of naturalization, but we would strongly recommend Mr. Savage to desire him to choose some other per son on whom to have these experiments tried. The New York press gave circulation to a canard that Mr. James Fisk, junior, director of the Erie Railway Company, had absconded to Canada with $8,000,000 in gold belonging to the railway. This Mr. Fisk indignantly denied, and in his telegram, contradicting it, delivered himself of the following pun :—" Concerning your allusion to our old rails and locomotives, I have just passed over 22 miles of the Erie Road in 23 minutes. The old rails are mostly replaced by steel, and that is all the stealing with which I have had anything to do." But the New York press had some grounds for the report, as be managed to elude all the detectives of the city, and pay a visit to Binghampton, New York. After midnight, early on Monday morning, Mr. Fisk slipped out of the Erie office, ordering the driver to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, but by a circuitous route the carriage was taken to the Courtlandt street Ferry, where on the Jersey side a locomotive was waiting, and in a special car he was carried with the speed he states, to Binghamton, with se veral lawyers. They ran from Port Jervis to Tur ner's, 43 miles, in 47 minutes, and on to Pavonia, 51 miles, in 55 minutes. The Erie office remains as closely guarded as ever, and the Directors meet in secret session. Mr. Ashbury has received a reply, from Mr. Morton, secretary, New York Yacht Club, to his challenge of October 3d, offering to lay a certain sum against the Queen's Cup of 1865, won by the yacht America, and presented by the owners to the New York Yacht Club with the proviso that any organized foreign yacht club shall be entitled to claim the right for sailing a match for this cup under certain conditions, which Mr. Morton encloses with these remarks :—" The interesting programme of racing topics contained in your letter, embracing contests upon British and American waters, including a match for the celebrated Queen's Cup, won by the yacht America, will be submitted to the members of the club at their next general meeting, which will be held on the first Thursday of February next, and their action thereon forwarded to your address at Brighton." We hear that the challenge of the owner of the yacht Cimbria has been accepted by the owners of the yachts Phantom and Dauntless. The officers of the old Armies of Tennessee, Cum berland, Ohio, and Georgia were to meet in Chicago on the 15th and 16th inst. Grant was to attend, and leading parts were to be taken by Gens. Schofield, Sherman, and Thomas. Sherman was to proceed, after the reunion, to Washington, to meet the Indian Peace Commission, and Thomas was to ad journ the Court of Inquiry on General Dyer to at tend the Chicago gathering. Nor was the muster to be confined to the officers of those armies only, as many from the army of the Potomac were to be present as guests. A. romantic story is exciting attention in Ame rica, the case of Hester Vaughan, a pretty, inno cent English girl of 23, now under sentence of death in Philadelphia for infanticide. • It appears she accompanied a man she thought to be her hus band to America, where she found the villain had another wife. In her friendless, deserted state she fell a victim, it i* asserted, to the violence of an unknown ruffian, for the young woman has refused to divulge his name, though it might have saved her life. " Nothing will ever induce me," she said, " to send terror and disgrace into the heart of the innocent and trusting woman, his wife." When found by a neighbour her child had been born for m insensible in a wretched oedays room, o of any kind with the some dead child, whose skull had an indentation as if pressed by a finger. Ignorant of the law, and friendless with the public mind at the time excited against infanticide, she was almost undefended, and the jury pronouncing her guilty, the judge sentenced her to death. While awaiting her fate, affectionate relations in England, ignorant of the facts, are urging her return. The opinion is very strong that she is not guilty, and if properly de fended her innocence would have been made clear. In view of this general feeling, and the strong re presentation made by several ladies to the Governor of Pennsylvania, it is hoped she will receive a free pardon. Mr. Parker Pillsbury is doing for the New York press what the Saturday Review is doing for that of London. lle has come down on baby-farming, and such like advertisements, which are far worse in the New York papers than in those of London.. In a speech he lately delivered, Mr. Pillsbury as serted that " not a single newspaper in New York, religious or otherwise, would refuse the advertise ments of professional murderers who committed infanticide for pay." In London we have not yet reached this climax ; for, although such respectable papers as the Daily News and our old friend " Granny," do insert quack advertisements, yet baby-farming is almost confined to the 7elegraph among papers of a high class. We believe that Mr. Pillsbury was too sweeping in his assertion, but we are glad to see a gentleman with the courage to make a stand against thus encouraging an infamous practice. The interests of the United States army are not likely to suffer at the hands of General Grant. lie has backed strenuously Sherman's recommendation for the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department. "As it stands now," he says, " the army gets all the kicks and cuffs of the Indian troubles, and can have no voice in the Indian ma nagement." This is precisely what the British army complained of in New Zealand, but, as cus tomary with the English press, they either could not or would not understand the complaint until the withdrawal of the troops and allowed divided counsels to neutralise the national effort, the army remaining under the impression that they were the victims, while the colonists asserted that they were, and, the people at home, that the real victims were themselves. The internal disturbance of the globe, as evidenced by the severe shocks of earthquake, and by the eruption of many long quiescent volcanoes, receives perhaps further confirmation by the extraordinary subsidence of small portions of the surface in vari ous places. Hawaii is said to be sinking. Recently a portion of the tra c k o f the Bellefontaine and In dianapolis Railroad, about 250 feet long, sank over 16 feet, and the ground around sank with it. All the trains have been obliged to stup, and the track _ _ has been raised by " cribbing." Fish from 12 to 18 in long are discovered where:water has risen out of the crack. Near Youghal, Ireland, a high road sank for about ten yards in length to a depth of seven feet, and several holes appear, beyond this space, for a distance of a quarter of a mile, about one foot wide and six or seven feet deep. The walls on either side of the road are much shaken, and the adjacent fields show in parts evidence of disturbance. It is also stated that the sand of the river Blackwater, close to the road, was thrown up in heaps. Earth quakes are reported at Peshawur, Lahore, and Jubbulpore. Judge Barnard got the grand jury to indict Mr. I 3.aymond, editor of the New York Times, for libel li ng him. On hearing of the indictment Mr. Ray m and 'expressed his satisfaction, announcing his red diness to prove all he bad said against the judge, and a great deal more. This seems to have been enough for the judge, who forthwith dropped the case, 'and contented himself with the whine that these attacks impaired his usefulness, and so far front laving accumulated wealth from being bribed he was. dependent on the charity of his wife for his means of living in aid of his official salary. We would have supposed that a New York judge had sufficient to live on without going in for shares in the plunder of Eric directors, or asking his wife for charity. People now fear that the reason for his curious judicial proceedings will never be brought to light, and that all, on this point, will be left to their own imaginr.tion. Mr. Geor:;e Francis Train has issued his last Ex tra from the Marshalsea (N 0.15) for the day prior to that on which he embarked at Queenstown on board the Australasian for New York. He therein bids the public a dim, specifying certain persons and papers to whom he is more particularly indebted. He breathes war against England, and he enumerates the little bills he has in course of collection. First on the list arc the damages against the Ebbw Vale Company, which item stands for £20,000 ; next comes the action for £lO,OOO against Mr. James M'llenry ; the third action is for £lOO,OOO against the Irish Government for illegal imprisonment ; the fourth is a royalty of £5OO a mile on 2,000 miles of English street railways, amounting to £1,000,000 sterling. He has two little bills also to collect in America—the one against the Union Pacific Rail way (Eastern Division) of $50,000, and the other against the Grand Trunk Pacific of $1,000,000. These are tidy sums, and some people might think they had a shade of uncertainty about thorn, but not so Mr. Train, who feels as sure of his £lOO,OOO from the Lord-Lieutenant as he does that there are 1,000,000 Irish voters in America. There is nothing said about the settlement with the Ebbw Vale, and only a hint in the smallest of type that the serious illness of Mrs. Train has induced him to return at once. Not a word would lead to the supposition that Mr. Train had paid the claim for which he was incar cerated. Indeed, the Court of Exchequer was hearing a motion to set aside the proceedings against him, when his counsel was informed to his astonishment that Mr. Train had himself set it aside by paying the amount, £560. Mr. Train threatens to return next May, if before that he has not anni hilated Great Britain. The celebrated 90 days is the time he has given himself for the release of the Fenian prisoners from the British Bastilles, and the recall of Mr. Johnson. Although he goes back to carry on war against Great Britain, we are glad to see that George Francis Train's foot is likely soon again to be on his native soil, where we hope he will find more profitable and useful employment than tying crackers to the tail of the British lion. Just before he embarked he addressed an Irish mob, who loudly cheered his sentiment of war against England, and the fact that he could do this with impunity, and publish his Train Extra from the Marshalsea, are the best proofs that can be fur nished of the licence allowed to even the most ex travagant political opinions, equally in Ireland as in England. Washington is again beginning to fill. Many Senators and Representatives were already estab lished in their winter quarters, and others were ar riving by every train. The first point to be settled is the selection of a Speaker, although Mr. Colfax does not assume his new position in the Senate till march. A great diversity of opinion was said to exist on financial questions, but on one subject many seemed agreed, which is to repeal all the laws which have been passed during the last three years, limit ing the political influence of the President and ex tending the authority of Congress, such repeal to take effect on and after March 4, 1869. Sheridan's Report of the operations in the Indian territory is now before us, dated Beaver Creek, Nov. 29, Department of the North Canadian River. On the 23d November he ordered Gen. Custar, with eleven troops 7th Cavalry, towards the Antelope Hills, and three days after Custar struck the trail of Black Kettle's band. The snow, al ready a foot deep, was falling fast, but it did not prevent the troopers from riding all night. The war party were returning south from the scene of their depredations ; Custar followed in pursuit to the head waters of the Washita, and on the 27th sur prised Black Kettle's camp. A desperate fight en sued; as a band of Arapahoes and:Kiowas,who were encamped six miles further on,came to Black Kettle's assistance. This reinforcement, however, did not save the Cheyennes, who were killed to a man, Black Kettle himself being among the slai❑ ; 102 warriors fell, and 53 women with their children were captured, together with the following spoil : Eight hundred and seventy-five ponies; 1,123 buffalo robs and skins ; 535 pounds of powder; 1,050 pounds of lead ; 4,000 arrows ; 700 pounds of tobacco, be sides rifles, pistols, bows, lariats, and an im mense quantity of dried meats and other provisions. Eight or nine hundred head of the animals were shot, and Costar must have left the Indian village a Golgotha, as mixed with these animals were the bodies of the Indians. However to be deplored was such waste of life in a waste of nature where life is most required, yet Black Kettle's band led in the outrages on the Saline and Solomon Forks, which gave rise to the war. Even when this blow in retaliation was being struck the savages could not restrain the innate cruelty of their nature, for one white woman and a boy ten years old were brutally murdered by the Indian women when the fight began. Black Kettle's and Little Raven's families were among the captured. It is satisfactory that the first stunning blow should have been dealt to the very bands who commenced this war, and have made them selves notorious for five years along the Snapky Hill route. Major Elliott, Capt. Hamilton, and 19 enlisted men were killed, and Brevet Lieut.-Col. Barnetz, Brevet Col. J. W. Custer, Second Lieut. Z. Marsh, and 11 enlisted men wounded. Sheridan's supply depot is at Rabbit Ear Creek, south of Fort Dodge, where he can operate with success against the In dians, who resort to the southern climate for a mild winter residence. The unfavourable report of General Warren, of the United States Engineers, on the Union Pacific Railroad has aroused the projectors and builders. Mr. Durant, the Vice-President, arrived at Wash ington, Dec. 2, and immediately called on the Pre sident and the Secretary of the Interior, requesting a copy of the Report of the Government Commis sioners. The special commission appointed by the Prosident to examine the line, on the whole, speaks favourably ; declaring it to be well constructed, while the route has been admirably selected, crossing the mountain ranges by passes of such easy grade as to be unsurpassed by any other line on such elevated ground. Unqualified credit is given for energy and perseverance, as well as for the ingenuity with which difficulties apparently in surmountable have been overcome. Deficiencies exist incidental to all new roads, and these words close the Report :—" Under the circumstances it is much more a matter of surprise that so few mistakes have been made and that SD few defects exist, than it would be had serious deficiencies been of more frequent occurrence, and the country has reason to congratulate itself that this great work of national importance is so rapidly approaching completion under such favourable auspices." As the Eastern and \Vestern roads near, their struggle for country degenerates into bitterness. Trouble has arisen in regard to the subsidies which Congress voted, and the President has been requested to arbitrate in the dispute. PARIS, Dec. 16. To-morrow or next day their Majesties will leave Compiegne and take up their residence at the Tuileries for the winter season. This will be the signal for the commencement of the festivities which, as I mentioned in a former letter, are to be more than usually grand and extravagant. As an in stance of the fact that Americans are rapidly set tling down in the larger European cities, let me call your attention to the numerous grand Thanksgiving Dinners which took place in Dresden, in Frankfort, in Vienna, at Nice, here, and in other places, where the day appointed by the President of the United States, according to custom, was duly observed. Telegraphic despatches were exchanged between the places above-named, speeches were made—in short, the American colonists asserted themselves in the most unequivocal manner, and gave evidence of the fact that Brother Jonathan, not content with the New World, means to assume a position in the Old. In fact, in many of the more fashionable winter resorts, Americans, in the esti mation of the hotel keepers and trades-people, take precedence the Milor Anglais and the Pince Russo being quite dethroned. You see our peeple are naturally extravagant, and must keep in the front rank. Then it takes some time for them to become accustomed to the fact that francs or guldens will amount up. We spend dollars, and, spate of exchange and high price of gold, have a somewhat unmerited contempt for the lesser coin, until we find upon examining our banker's account that even these—the francs I mean —take to themselves wings and fly away. In Rome, Florence, Nice, Pau, and in the German towns, the receptions given by the American resi lents are among the most brilliant and fashionable. In short, Americans in Europe must be " counted in," to make use of a Yankeeism. All this being t ken into consideration, and now that the redoubtable George Francis Train is once more on his way to the United States, pray settle that Alabama que:- tion before it becomes more envenomed. You may rest assured that at present, in American circles here, the matter is creating a marked sensation and giving rise to unnecessary In short, the pleasant speeches of ;our Minister, Mr. Reverdy Johnson, are unpalatable to the generality of Americans in Europe, who write sharp letters to the journals at home, and thus increase the irrita tion attendant upon the subject. To us the matter seems clear—there was an injury sustained. Will England pay the damage, or will she not ? Why palaver about the kindly feelings which do or should exist between the two nations ? Why not first remove the bone of contention ? Why not settle the affair one way or the other ? Either England should pay, or she need not. " Yes, or no." That is the question ! You will excuse the introduction of this subject in a "Paris Corres pondence," but as itis the uppermost topic here among Americans, it is surely opportune to say as much. On Monday last, at the Madeleine, a New Yor belle, Miss Forbes, was married to Monsieur Barot, of this city. The ceremonies were on the usual grand scale ; the elite of Paris assisting at the nuptial benediction. This event but proves how determined are the young gentlemen here in their admiration of les Americaines, who, by the way, assume all the grace and style of the Parisiennes, with the utmost rapidity and facility. The inde pendence and easy manner which characterise Ame rican ladies seem to captivate the French, who pro nounce them char mantes. Wonder is expressed at the courage with which they walk about the streets, unaccompanied by gentlemen, and it is to be remarked, more especially of late, that they are not annoyed by too openly expressed admiration as was frequently the case of yore. The great Exposition having taken place here, and which attracted such crowds of foreigners, seems to have taught several lessons to the Parisians, and among the number that of respect for ladies, who may be alone in the streets, without wishing to at- tract undue attention, a fact which at one time the men seemed incapable of appreciating. The determined manner in which American ladies appeal to the first policeman or gentleman passing by against any impertinent notice has added to their security, and now you see them trotting about here with all the unconcern they display in New York or Boston. Especially at the Italiens do the Ameri can ladies brillet . They have become Monsieur Bagier's most assiduous patrons, and very much, doubtless, because of the fact, that Patti, the Diva, is claimed by us as an Americaine. She was, I be lieve, born in Madrid, but was educated in New York, and doubtless claims that as her home. Be this as it may, the New Yorkers claim her, and would on no account miss any of her performances. As she is now giving her last, prior to a cold plunge into the regions of the Czar, they are overcrowded, and the artiste receives the most convincing, and of course the most pleasant, proofs of her popularity. She is called again and again before the curtain, and overwhelmed with bouquets. Once Patti shall have disappeared the American colony here will take up Miss Minnie Hauck, with characteristic deter mination, and if she but prove worthy, she will be patronized most cordially. I may, by the way, notice that she has just sung at Lille with great success. At the Grand Opera we are to have " Don Giovanni," with Mdlle. Nilsson, Mdlle. Sass, and Mule. Carvalho, in the cast, a combination such as it would be impossible to excel. At the Opera Comique they gave last Saturday the one hundreth performance of Auber's " Premier Jour de am heur," and the theatre was crowded from parquet to dome. At the conclusion of the opera the musicians went to the residence of the maestro, for the purpose of serenadirg him. It was past midnight, but the gay spark (88) had not yet come home. He did shortly after, and was evidently much pleased by the compliment. He is hard at work upon a new opera, to be brought out in March or April, and assures his friends that it will be his last. They, however, place no reliance upon this—in fact, deem it one of the young fel low's jokes. I see it reported in the French jour nals that Mlle. Schneider, the Grand Duchesse, is to take charge of a theatre in Alexandria for the Viceroy of Egypt. As she is under engagement here, at the Bouffes, from the Ist of January to the Ist of June, and as she is then under engagement to appear in London, of course the Egyptian report must be a canard. Some days since a very success ful and admirable comedy, produced here at the Theatre Cluny, entitled Les Inutilcs," was played at Compiegne before the guest s o f th e i r M a j es ti es . It is said that it was received with no marked fa vour. No wonder. It is at times rather hard upon the " good-for-nothings"—the drones; and, let it be said most respectfully, there are but few members of the Court who " toil or spin ;" to them the moral of the play must have seemed rather cutting. Mr. Waylis, of New Orleans, has invented a locomotive car, which has performed so well that ho has taken a patent out for it. The car is provided with a small engine, worked by compressed air, drawn from two reservoirs at the top of the car. The air is compressed in the first instance by steam-engines erected in the principal stations. it has been found that the compressed air in the reservoirs of the car is sufficient to propel the car about ten miles. The damages by the earthquake in San Francisco are appraised at 5271,000. —The Cincinnati journals esti tnato the population of that city at about 190,000.—The florists of Boston, it is announced, have formed a "Mutual Protective Association."—Some enterprising gentlemen in Mobile are about to make an effort to open a direct trade between that port and Cuba by putting on an experimental steamer. It is said that business on the Manchester Stock Exchange, Dec. 10, was at a standstill in consequence of the panic occasioned by the reception of a number of forged messages from London for the purchase of Ameri can bonds. As the time for the delivery of such messages and the execution of the order embraces only a few minutes, it is probable that a great amount of stock changed hands, though, of course, the validity of the transactions will be a matter for investigation by the committees of the Stock Exchange. A number of forged orders were also sent by telegraph to Liverpool the same day. PENSION LAW IN THE UNITED STATES.—The fol lowing decision was recently made under the new pension law of July 28, 1868. The parents of a deceased soldier applied for additional bounty under the following circum stances : —The soldier was killed on December 14, 1863, leaving a widow and parents, but no child. The widow married January 5, 1865, and thu s forfeited her rights. Tho second comptroller of the Treasur y decided that as there was no widow of the soldier at the dab of the Act of 1868, the next living heirs named in the laws d the claims of the parents were admitted. THE MANUFACTURE OF WATCHES AND CLOCKS,— A. most interesting and instructive little work, describing briefly but with great clearness, the rise and progress of watch and clock makin , has just been published by Mr J. W. Benson, of 25, Old Bond-street, 99, Westbourne-grove, and the City Steam Factory, 5S and CO, Ludgate-hill. The book, which is profusely illustrated, gives a full description of the various kinds of watches and clocks, with their prices, and no one should make a purchase without visiting the above establishments or consulting this truly valuable work. By its aid persons residing in any part of the United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for themselves the watch best adapted for their use, and have it sent to them with perfect safety. Mr. Benson, who holds the appoint ment to the Prince of Wales, sends this pamphlet to any address on receipt of two postage stamps, and we cannot too strongly recommend it to the notice of the intending purchaser THE POSTAL CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. The Postal Convention between Britain and the United States, signed in London on the 7th November and at Washington on the 24th, has been published. The first Article refers to the exchange of correspondence, embracing letters, newspapers, book packets, and patterns or samples of mer chandise. The second allows each to arrange for their despatch on stated days, by well-appointed ships, the remuneration being arranged indepen dently by each. The important point of the arrangement to individuals is contained in the fol lowing Articles : " Art. 3. Tll3 postage on a single international letter shall be 12 cents in the United States, and shall be Gd. in the United Kingdom ; and the authorized weight of a single letter shall be 15 grammes (by the metrical scale) in the United States, or half an ounce in the United Kingdom. "For other than singlo letters the same charge shall be made for every additional 13 grammes, or half an ounco, or fraction thereof. " The question of the further reduction of the letter rates of postage shall be considered at the expiration of 12 months from the commencement of this Convention. " Art. 4. Every international letter insufficiently paid, or wholly unpaid, received in the United States from the United Kingdom shall, in addition to the deficient postage, be subject to a fine of five cents, such flue to be retained by the United States' office ; and every international let ter insufficiently paid, or wholly unpaid, received in the United Kingdom from the United States shall, in addition to the deficient postage, be subject to a fine of 2d., to be retained by the British Post-office. Art. s.—lnternational newspapers, book packets (in cluding printed papers of all kinds, maps, plans, prints, engravings, drawings, photographs, lithographs, sheets of music, &c.), and patterns and samples of merchandise (in cluding seeds and grain), shall be transmissible by either office, under such regulations as the despatching office may from time to time lay down, and at the following charges:— "For every newspaper not exceeding four ounces in weight, Id. in the United Kingdom and two cents in tho United States. "For book packets and patterns, when not exceeding an ounce in weight, id. in the United Kingdom and two cents in the United States. "When exceeding one ounce and not exceeding two ounces in weight, 2d. in the United Kingdom and four cents in the United States. " For packets exceeding four ounces in weight an addi tional rate of 3d , or six cents, for every four ounces, or fraction of four ounces. The regulations bearing on these articles are that postage must be pre-paid ; book packets must not be closed against inspection, nor contain anything in the nature of a letter, nor exceed two feet in length and one foot in depth, nor con tain anything the law prohibits. No charge to be levied on delivery, except in the United States any customs duty to which the articles are liable, and with this exception the whole postage collected in the two countries, exclusive of fines , shall be equally divided according to Article 6, and in what manner is fully explained. Registered letters are to be paid in advance and delivered by either country, both countries forwarding such letters wherever they are now empowered to deliver them. Art. 10 allows the closed mails by either country to be passed through the other onward to their destination, and the rates for this are settled in Art. 11. Articles 20, 21, and 22, provide for the cessation of the convention concluded June 1 8, 1867, on the let June, 1869, when the new regula tions will come into operation, and will then be terminable at any time on a notice by either office of one year. Then follow the detailed regulations for carrying the Convention into effect. General Grant dined at the residence of David Sears, one of the Electors at large, at Boston, Dec. 2, and et seveml of the leading business men of the city, in' uding the Presidential Electors. On the 3d he was to Fa Lawrence to inspect the mills, and on the 16th inst. ho was to be at Chicago, accompanied by Gens. Thomas, Scho - field, and others. On his way to Boston he passed unnoticed for a time among the passengers till he was far on WI road to New Haven, but this was too good to last, and be was detected and bored before reaching New Haven' His house in J.-street, Washington, one of the three known as the Douglas-row, built by Senators Douglas, an d Breckenridge was sold to Mayor Bowen for $40,000. -EL report was circulated that the General had written to con gratulate Slocum on being elected for the Brooklyn dis trict, intimating there would be nothing in the now admi nistration that a moderato Democrat could not support, but this is contradicted on good authority. A letter is published from General Grant, written in September last, in explanation of his order in 1864 expelling all Jews from the department of the South - West. The order was penned without reflection, and would never have been issued had it not been instantly telegraphed. The general also has expressed his opi nion that there can be no permanent peace With the Indians till the entire system is changed, and the management transferred to the War Department. 1 ,1 " dian supplies ought to be furnished as are those for the army, which the War Department would transact in go d faith, at one-quarter to one-half the present cost. Th e Bureau permits the Indians to be swindled in both the quality and quantity of goods issued, and are supplie d with articles of no kind of use to them. Commodore Lawrence Kearney, of the TJ—S, Navy, has just died. He entered the service iu 1807, and in 1813 distinguished himself by the capture of a tender under the guns of thb British frigate Hebrus. Ile helped to suppress piracy, which then raged in the West Indies. In 1823 he was sent to the Mediterranean to protect Ame rican commerce against Greek pirates, and in the follosf ing year ho bombarded the town of Miconi, and comp elled the restoration of property stolen from Americans. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and pills." Sore Throats, Diphtheria, and Bronchitis.—These medi caments boldly face the evils they profess to remedy; Local relief and general purification progress togeth er ,' disease is cured, while the whole system is clea nse( ' Holloway's ointment rubbed on the throat and chest exer cises the most beneficial influence over sore throats, diP h ' thoria, and cough, whether resulting from catarrh, asthma, or bronchitis. This unguent acts miraculously in arrest ing the extension of sores, healing ulcerations, curino' sk in diseases, and completely stopping all destructive itqleel" mation, irrespective of its exciting cause, character, situa tion, duration, or severity. 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Afte• CON GRETE—On the 16th inst„ at Clonbrock, the Hon. Congreve, of a daughter. f Alfre d H E NRY—On the 17th inst., at Bognor, the wife 0. - L. Henry, Esq., of a son. Marriages. LE SAGE -SCOTT—On the 16th inst., at St. Mntt- e to Oakley-square, N.W., J o h n M err y Le Sage, r' scl "ott, Clara Ellen, the daughter of Charles Henderson 6c Esq. gb RIPLEY — BENTLEY—On the 17th inst , a t Knaresboren t Lieut.-Colonel Frederick William * Ripley, Benga l , R"es to Jane, daughter of William Bentley, Esq., of arcs' borough. Deaths. ALLAN—On the 18th inst., at Newington Hall, J. B• pt l u lg of Eddlewood, Lanarkshire, and late of St. Churchyar, aged 68. BAGENAL On the 25th ult., at Bangalore, Capt. Bab -- of the IGth Lancers. r 0 1 0 KING—On the 14th inst., William J. King, Esq.) Albany, Piccadilly, aged GO. PARSEY —On the 17th inst., at 1, Claverton-street, •••• John L. Parsey, Es 4., aged 76. cl,org e TEMPLE On the 15th inst., at 13ishopstow, Temple, aged 34. graMil London : Printed and Piblished by WILLIAM AND , 11.6 10 ( of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SON Odle?, 0° ts , 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the OV3 Iliddlesex,—Saturday, December 19, 1865. GERMANY. The Berlin Corresponlence publishes the substance of a very remarkable speech made by Count Bismarck at a private meeting of the commission appointed to examine the law relative to the sequestration of the property owned in Hesse by the ex-Elector. The Berlin journal says that the Prussian statesman distinctly alluded to the probability of a war between France and Prussia during the summer of the present year. He did not refer to the Luxembourg difficulty of 1867. The ex-Elector had endeavoured to foster dissension within the Prussian dominions, in the expectation of this war. The unexpected circumstance which averted the catastrophe was the Spanish Revolution. Some of the lead ing statesmen of Europe—Counts Bismarck and Beust and Lord Stanley—seem to have been seized lately with a spasmodic fit of candour. Each of them has made a speech containing unexpected revelations, and each speech has been followed by consequences more or less unsatisfac tory. It is very interesting to the public to learn these details ; it is another question whether a Minister can prudently disclose them. Herr Baerensprung, chief of the police of Posen, is dead. This deceased functionary is not likely to occupy a very prominent place on the scroll of fame, but he may be remembered in connection with the last revolt in Poland. One of the Prussian deputies charged him with having fabricated appeals purporting to come from the Revolutionary Committee of London, and with having distributed these alarmist programmes in the province of Posen. The proof of the forgery was clear enough, but the Prussian Government would not permit its officer to be nrosecuted. ROME. Various indications go to prove that the French Govern ment harbours no intention of speedily withdrawing its troops from Rome. Arms and ammunition are continually arriving at Civita Vecchia. Contracts have been concluded for the supply of provisions to the troops during the whole of the coming year. It is likely that the French army will occupy Rome during the sitting of the General Council a year hence. SPAIN. The Independence Beige thinks the appearance of the Duke of Montpensier at Cordova again brings him promi nently forward as a candidate for the throne of Spain. It is remembered that he has very many partisans in Anda lusia, and that several of the journals of Madrid have pro nounced in his favour. "B is chances seem all the greater since it has become evident that the rumours of Italian candi dates are unfounded. Prince de Carignan, put forward by the Liberty, has categorically denied that he has any aspira tion to the Spanish throne. General Cialdini goes to Madrid on private business only. He is not charged with any mission relative to the throne." In support of the theory put forward by the Belgian paper, it may be added that the Correspondencia of Madrid, the most widely circu lated of the prints which in Spain are dignified with the title of newspapers, recently published a long article in support of the claims of the Duke of 11.Iontpensier. The cavalier manner in which the Provisional Government sent the Orleanist prince back to Lisbon upon his offer of assistance in repressing the Cadiz insurrection looks un favourable to his prospect of becoming King. But even this is explained by some papers on the ground that it is a dust-throwing manoeuvre. The principal personage whom the dust would be intended to blind—the Emperor Napoleon—is not, however, likely to be deceived by this device. The Provisional Government is at present greatly occu pied by a question even more immediately important than the disposal of the throne. Though it has restored peace in the south, its existence is menaced in other parts of the kingdom. A Carlist band has made its appearance near Burgos, and a well-organised Carlist conspiracy has been unearthed at Pampeluna. These two towns are both in the north, and as far remote as possible from the scene of the late revolt. The Provisional Government is said to be much alarmed at the prospect of a union between the Carlists and the Republicans. All this is in favour of at least one result—the dictatorship of Prim, who even now has everything in his power by his command of the army. THIS WAR IN HAITI. A very gloomy letter from the capital of Hayti finds its way into the Phare de he Loire, the leading French pro vincial paper. It states that revolution and massacre pre vail at all points of the horizon. " Thousands of persons have been slaughtered, and the struggle, generated by the cupidity of a few ambitious individuals, has not advanced a step." Salnave, it seems, is greatly impressed with a conviction of the virtue of bombardment. His vessels have repeatedly assailed the towns on all parts of the coast. An incident which occurred during one of these cannonades is likely to give rise to a difficulty with France. An old war ship, whilst bombarding Jeremie, ba tered down the French Consulate, although the tricoloured flag, hoisted at the top of a tall pole, was visible from points of the offing. " Our national colours did not proteti the house of our Consul, a building situated at no great distance from the shore, and very easy to recognise, and, more frightful to relate, under the ruins accumulated by the ravage of the balls six persons met their deaths, three women and three children, two of the latter sons of the Consul. Seven other persons also were seriously wounded." Salnave himself was on board his war-ship. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Both Houses of Congress passed a bill last Wed nesday permitting the reorganization of the militia in those Southern States which have been admitted to representation. This quick move shows the effect on the Legislature of the outrages perpetrated prior to the election. It is to be hoped that the South may learn by the result how vain such proceedings are to promote the object they desire, and how surely they will recoil disastrously on those who resort to such expedients. Mr. Robert Coningsby, who was the reporter for the Society of Arts on the condition of American workmen, has addressed a letter to the 7 imes, giv ing the history of that untoward affair, the work ing men of London's invitation to the American Minister. Ills letter shows him to be a man of sense, but it shows also the extraordinary influences brought to bear on the labouring classes. Mr. Con ingsby, who wished to acknowledge his sense of the hospitality tendered him in America, proposed the dinner, and everything went smoothly till by some outside pressure they were pushed into the Re form League Rooms, when everything was quickly deranged under the superintendence of Mr. Beales. It was in vain that the sensible men with whom Mr. Coningsby worked strove to avert the gaucherie, for they had got into the debating club " where the policy of Great Britain is decided weekly," and were as helpless as in the rapids above Niagara to escape the Fall. They then desired to inform Mr. John son that they might at least save him from other in sults that might be offered ; hence the letter, and Mr. Johnson's reply. But we cannot understand wby people should insist on publishing, and thus drawing attention to acts which so strongly con demn the transaction in which they had engaged. General Meade, in his interesting Annual Report, vindicates the military rule in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and both the Carolinas, under him and his predecessor General Canby, During the entire eight months of Meade's administration 32 persons only were tried by military commission, of whom 17 were discharged, the sentences of 4 disapproved, of 8 remitted, of 2 referred to the President, 1 only being carried it,to effect. No answer could be more complete to articles which often appear in the Lon don papers, drawing touching pictures of the down trodden South, which are far more untruo than when Americans liken the administration of Ire land to that of Poland. The General says, "No army in previous history was ever called on to dis charge such delicate and responsible duties, involv ing powers tjaat if abused might have led to the I(.II This ( Prize Me It p i Hold II the Ad Obser y h ates LL MU 14:R1 A-DVAN hold or able wee Forms fl A T A A. 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