The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OFTirg ÜBLIf groltßas, I VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO MR. WCOMRIE. The Saturday Review, in commenting on the Married Women's Property Bill, observes that the various conse quences of giving a married woman the rights and liabili ties of a femme sole have perhaps not been fully considered by Mr. Lefevre. In many cases creditors would object to a transfer of security from the husband to the wife ; and it is scarcely desirable that a perverse woman should be able to refuse her contribution to the expenses of the household. The undoubted liability of women to become victims of imposture is not perhaps in itself a sufficient reason for the maintenance of an exceptional law. The pecuniary ruin of a family is more often caused by the husband than by the wife, but the chances of a catastrophe will be multiplied when both parties are equally at liberty to speculate and to spend. Marriage is a partner ship of a very peculiar kind, and it has not yet been ascer tained that an indissoluble firm can prosper on principles of absolute equality. • When two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind ; nor would Mr. Mill himself reverse the relation of the sexes, although he is prepared to remodel it. The proposition that women are equal to men, if it were generally accepted, would, among other results, con vert marriage into an absurdity. Disparity is an indis pensable condition of the closest possible union ; and the rights of the weaker sex ought to be regulated in detail, in stead of being defined as identical with those of men. In the general controversy, Mr. t Lefevre and his supporters have the best of the argument, but no sufficient answer has yet been given to the special objections which were urged by the Attorney-General. As a general rule, married women ought to be allowed to leave their property by will ; but it matters comparatively little whether a right, frequently reserved by marriage settlement, is extended to all classes. Among the poorer class, the only women who are likely to accumulate con siderable sums of money are domestic servants who have from various causes lived apart from their husbands. If there arc children of the marriage, the mother ought to be allowed to provide for them to the extent of her means ; and the cases in which strangers would become the objects of a misapplied bounty would be too rare to require legis lative interference. If the select committee on Mr. Lefevre's bill proceeds with the inquiry during the present session, it will do well to obtain, if possible, suffi cient evidence of the feelings of the mass of the people in different parts of the kingdom. No Act will be operative or advantageous unless it represents with tolerable fidelity the opinions both of the husbands and of the wives whom it will chiefly affect. Mr. Jacob Bright, and some of the other speakers in the debate, may not improbably have been accurate in.their statements, but general assertions . ought to be tested by impartial investigation. In a great majority of cases, legislative changes which concern social and domestic relations are unpopular and unintel ligible. Whatever may be the decision of Parliament, the husband or the wife will in the great majority of instances keep the purse according to the former custom of the family and the neighbourhood. When the earnings of either or both are carried off to the public-house, the money is taken, not by legal right, but in virtue of irre sistible force ; and when the law is changed, a good and 'prudent woman will be slow to appeal to a magistrate for protection. In time, perhaps, practice may more or less adapt itself to an improved theory; and meanwhile gross cases of oppression and extortion may perhaps be reached by law. A desire to do justice to women is perfectly con sistent with a profound conviction that neither law nor declamation can make them the equals of men. The Spectator is very severe on Mr. Justice Blackburn • for his celebrated charge on Governor Eyre's case. He had given the authority of his colleagues to three legal doctrines which were not only not shared by his brethren in the Queen's Bench, but either emphatically repudiated or gravely distrusted by the most distinguished of them — (1) that martial law in the modern meaning of the term was ever exercised in this country with any pretence of legality against civilians not taken in arms ; (2) that the Jamaica statutes authorised martial law in any other sense than by compelling the inhabitants to military ser vice, and subjecting them while in it to military law ; (3) in justifying the removal of Mr. Gordon and the other five prisoners frOm a region not subjected to martial law to a proclaimed district, and there summarily trying or imprisoning them. Moreover, on the last point, Mr. Justice Blackburn not only misled the grand jury as to the legal views of his colleagues; but misdirected them in their practical conclusion. The Chief Justice and the majority of the court must have directed them. to find e true bill on the count charging Mr. Eyre with illegal and unjustifiable conduct towards these six men—for which conduct Mr. Eyre not only had, but claimed the sole responsibility, not even affecting to act under legal advice in what he (lid—and probably also the court would have indicated clearly enough _ the Chief Justice's opinion that a-true bill should also be found on the count charging Mr. Eyre with needlessly prolonging the duration of martial law after the insurrection was suppressed. On the whole, it is impossible to conceive a greater amount of misrepresentation, both in legal doctrine and in practical direction, than Mr. Justice Blackburn, owing,- no doubt, to the overpowering force of his prepossessions, was guilty of in this case. If the Chief Justice had not openly dis avowed his colleague and corrected the statements lie had made, he would have been not only unjust to his own reputation, hut infinitely more unjust to his country. As it is, his authority will, we hope, do much to counteract the mischiefs of Mr. Justice Blackburn's charge. The Times says that the great lawyers of the country are almost equally divided as to the legality of Mr. Eyre's proceedings. So far is this from being true, that of the great legal authorities who have been judicially concerned in this case, five have been clear for the necessity of a judicial investigation; and only one has charged in a con trary direction. We know that Sir Thomas Henry, Mr. Vaughan, and three of the judges of the Queen's Bench-- * the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Ilannen, and Mr. Justice Lush—all hold that there was strong primd facie evidence for trial. The majority of the grand juries,whounderstand, apparently, nothing of the law, and less of justice, are on the other side—the side of Mr. Justice Blackburn ; but what the great majority of our great lawyers think is no longer doubtful. The Imperial Review admits that, even after the evisce ration of its more important provisions, Conservative interests will gain by the Boundary Bill. Whether these would not gain even more by the postponement of the question to another year it is not quite so easy to decide. But as a boundary bill of some sort or other is considered a necessary supplement to any great measure of Parlia mentary Reform, it is scarcely possible for the Govern ment to withdraw it now without laying themselves open to a charge of procrastination as regards the coming dis solution. It is to be hoped. that the sense of the House may be again taken, either when the report of the committee comes to be considered, or even when the Lords' amendments have to be discussed, at least so far as cases like Birmingham, Nottingham, and Portsmouth are concerned. Ministers are indeed bound, in the anomalous state of things which has succeeded Mr. Glad stone's majorities on the Irish Church question, to apply themselves merely to concludinc- ' as quickly as may be th' public business of the session. But there can be no ream): why other members of the Constitutional party should no enter a vigorous protest against a course of proceeding which makes the bill little better than useless. The division list was not so low, nor the majority so over whelming, on Thursday, as to make all efforts to resusLi tate the lost clauses altogether hopeless. And though it would be too sanguine to expect that Mr. Bright will ever come to be ashamed of his course, the effect of public opinion (so long as discussion is kept up) cannot fail to influence many members of the Opposition, who must feel themselves rather out of their element in restricting the franchise and maintaining the existing order of things. The main share of the blame due to those who have upset the report of the commissioners is, however, by general consent, to be assigned to one person, and that one frors whom the Constitutional party had certainly a right to expect better treatment. To Mr. Walpole, beyond any room for doubt, we owe the vote substantiating the suggestions of the select committee. And it is to the senior member for the University of Cambridge that the 1 :laical party, with charming candour, are quite willing to ascribe their triumph. We have no wish, by any censure of our own, to embitter a position so painful. The London Recut° notes that defective as it is in several respects, it becomes every day more apparent that the new law on the French p ress , w h ic h is now just coming into operation, marks a great advance in • the progress Liberal ideas arnorg the official classes. The general f ee li n g of scepticism with ° which the English public several years ago received Lonie Napoleon's assurance that "cr o wn the edifice," that in the end Liberty seems now not to have been so well founded as most people at the time believed. It is true that much yet remains to be done, but the improvement is manifest and indisputable. Even be f o re the. Emperor's famous letter of January 19, 1867, a gradual softening of the early rigours of the Imperial Government bad been going on for some years, and the document in question indicated a further approximation on the part of the head of the State towards those principles of freedom which he has never denied in words, but which he has often set aside in practice. - Injudicious supporters, more Imperial than the Emperor himself, have delayed the car. Tying out of the designsshadowed forth in that manifesto; but the Emperor was evidently determined to have his way, and the firmness with which he has stood by his i ori ginal projects is a good earnest of the sincerit y of his n . tentions. The reforms suggested in the Imperial lette: have now become law, and there is reason to beli eve that they will be frankly and energetically carried out. What ever lie may be, Napoleon 111. is certainly not a fool, and - he must see that the present tendency of nations over the . whole of civiliseel Europe is towards a more active partici }ration of the people in the, management of public affairs. Ms own system is democratic, and so far it has esutici pated, and perhaps aided, the extension of democracy int , other countries of the Eastern hemisphere. But hitherto the Napoleonic ideas have been more in favour of equality than of freedom, and the day is evidently coming when the two principles must he united in all States desirous of maintaining their place among the progressive Powers oF the world. It is a mistake to suppose that either is sofa eient by itself. They are not rivals,_ but fellow-worker 4 towards one beneficent end. Each is the corn. element of the other ; and in the great correla tion of political !forces it may be s a id th a t equality saves us from aristocratic exclusiveness, and f re ed ( m from bureaucratic restrain t. It is lint just to the Emperor Napoleon to recollect t from tl-elifst he contemplated this union of these two principles his scheme of govern ment, though freedonilvziasssactrinned and, in the outset, 2 1 . 21 Y equality On Monday, Mr. M'Combie received by telegraph an intimation that her Majesty would visit him either on Wednesday or Thursday at Tillyfour. Although of a semi nivate nature, the visit was, we believe, intended as a nark of respect to Mr. VCombie, while at the same time ler Majesty wished to see what is, perhaps, the finest herd )f polled cattle extant. For the purpose of inspection, most of the black cattle were concentrated in grass parks acur the mansion house. The Queen, aocompanied by i.he Duchess of Athole and Miss Macgregor, arrived Tillyfour on Thursday, soon after five o'clock. Her Majesty drove in an open barouche, and alighted at the entrance to the mansimi house, where she was received by Mr. M`Combie and his sister, Mrs. Auld. In the drawing-room her Majesty inspected the cups and medals of gold and silver gained by Tillyfour. There were fourteen cups and upwards of a hundred medals, which were viewed with much interest, parties'. larly the Albert Cup, gained by Mr. Weambie Poissy, the last gift given by the late Prince Consort. The value of the prizes shown would not be less than 70f guineas. Her Majesty then visited the herd of pollee cattle, accompanied by Mr. M'Combie, and several times expressed her admiration of the well-known animals brought before her. The Stirling cow, Charlotte, and her daughters were especially brought into notice. Af tee visiting the cattle, the Queen inspected the steading where the stud 'Vas are kept. Returning to the mansion house, her Majesty was served with tea in the drawing-room . Before leaving she was shewn the head of Black Prince, the winner of the Smithfield Cup, which now graces Tilly four's dining-room. After staying nearly an hour the royal visitor left. Upwards of 300 black polled cattle were submitted to the Queen's inspection, and she evi dently enjoyed the visit. Her Majesty left at a few minutes past six, and drove by Tarland to Balmoral, changing horses at Aboyne and Indego. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A HOUSE. A diabolical attempt to blow up a house and murder three people is reported from the Isle of Man. On the night of Tuesday, about twelve o'clock, John Collister, who resides along with his brother and wife, near to Peel, in that island, was startled by hearing the noise of brcak!ng glass, followed by a loud crash. He got up and looked out of the window, and saw a man whom he is said to recognise as his brother-in law, named John Quine, strike a match. In an instant there was a terrible report, which shook the house to its foundations, tore up the floor, shattered the windows, and sent the slates and portions of the roof flying in all direc tions. As soon as the startled inmates had recovered from the alarm into which they had been thrown, they descended into the room or kitchen, when they found that the explosion bad been caused by a hag of powder being thrown into the room, the window being previously broken, and that thisbag had been ignited by means of a fuse some 50yards in length. Information was given to the police,who were speedily on the supposed offenders' traces, and on Wednesday he was arrested and brought before the high bailiff of Peel. It appears that for some time past considerable ill•feeling has been engendered between the parties on account of a law suit which has been going on. The prisoner denied his guilt, but lie was sworn to positively by Collister. Mr. Ker mode, ironmonger, of Peel, deposed that on the previous day the prisoner had purchased three pounds of powder and fifty yards of fuse at his shop. Prisoner did not deny this statement, but said that both powder and fuse were in his stable; but on being taken thither by the police, neither one nor the other could be found. After examination, the prisoner was committed for trial on the charge of having attempted to murder three persons, as also upon that of attempting to blow up a house. The room in which the poNider was thrown is exactly underneath the sleeping apartment of the Collisters, and had the powder been placed in a canister instead of a loose bag the consequences would, in all probability, have been fatal. LAW AND POLICE. THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT.—Before the Lord Justices of • Appeal the case of ex pat* Graves re Prince came on for hearing. The appellant was Mr. Graves, the well-known publisher, and the respondent a dealer in prints and photo- • graphs in Holborn, who had been convicted by the magistrate at Lambeth upon nineteen summonses for breaches of the Copyright Act, about the same time that Prince executed a deed of composi tion with his creditors, which contained a deed of release and was duly assented to. Having been arrested under the magistrate's order and imprisoned, an applica tion was made to the deputy-commissioner in bankruptcy for a release, on the ground that the penalties ought to be treated as debts. This view was taken by the commis sioner, and Prince discharged. ; From this decision the appellant appealed. Lord Justice Wood was of opinion that the penalties were for a criminal offence, and the judgment of the court below must be reversed. Lord Justice Selwyn concurred. THE APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL CONSTABLES. —In the Court of Queen's Bench the .case of the Queen v. the Justices of Middlesex was hear d . It was a question arising out of the appointment of special constables, consequent on the recent Fenian disturbances. The magistrates for the county of Middlesex acting for the division of Marylebone, which was co-extensive with the parish, had sworn in a number of special consta bles, and afterwards made an order upon the treasurer of the county for the payment of the expenses. A question was raised whether the order ought to hare been made by the magistrates of the division or at a sessions of the whole of the magistrates of the county. The court affirmed the order as valid, having been properly made. THE CITY SHALL DEBTS COURT.—Before the judges in the Queen's Bench the rule nisi obtained in the cause of t h e Q ueen v. the Chamberlain of the City of London came on for argument. The rule had been obtained by Mr. Kerr, judge of the City of London Small Debts Court, calling upon the corporation of London to shew cause why a mandamus should not issue, command• ing them - to pay Mr. Kerr nineteen - twentieths of the profits arising from the increase of business in that court, under the new County Courts Act, which came into operation on the Ist of January last. Mr. Kerr arranged with the corporation, when he was appointed to his office, to be paid a salary of £1,200 per annum for the duties he had to discharge. His contention was that he , was entitled to further remuneration for the extra business the recent Act bad transferred to the court. After hear ' ing the arguments, which were of great length, the court made the rule absolute. EXTENSIVE BANKRUPTCY FRAUD.—At the Guildhall, Mr. Benjamin, a boot and shoemaker, was charged with making away with a large quantity of goods within three months of his bankruptcy. At the last examination it was shown that the bankrupt ceased paying money to any of his creditors on the 4th of April, and between that day and the 4th of May he procured goods on credit to the amount of £19,000. The bills became due on that day and were dishonoured, and after that he got more goods to the extent of £6,000, the whole of which were pledged and made away with as soon as they came into his possession. Mr. Lewis, who prosecuted, said that he should be able to prove that the prisoner received goods to the amount of £7,182, not one shilling of which had been paid. Within the six weeks preceding his bankruptcy he pledged goods with the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank for over £3,000, and had obtained besides advances to the, amount of over £4,000 from other sources. The accused was again remanded, bail being refused. MIr.LINERS AND TIIEIR ASSISTANTS.—At Marlborough street Police-court, Bartholomew Studere, milliner and dressmaker, of No. 9, Bruton-street, Bond-street, appeared to answer two summonses, taken out by Dr. Aldis, the medical officer of health for St. George's, Hanover-square, the first for an infringement of the Workshops' Regula tion Act, iu employing certain young women after half past four o'clock on Saturday, and the other, under the Nuisances Removal, Act, for having his house so crowded as to be prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants. Dr. Aldis, who appeared on the part of the Vestry of St. George's, Hanover-square, said he had to complain of Mr. Studere employing his young women on Saturday beyond the legal hour, and with employing them on other days with only an interval of fifty minutes for meals, instead of an hour and a half. The defendant was convicted on the 27th ult., and there was a repetition of the offence on the 30th. For working after legal hours a fine of 405. was imposed. With regard to the eccond offence, James Grant, inspector of nuisances for St. George's, said that on the 20th of last month he visited the defendant's house, and on the basement ho found a small cellar, part of the aroa, without any fireplace. There was n-nall window about eighteen inches square working on a pivot which opened into another pare of the area, where there wag a most offensive dust-bin, and the only air coining in was from the dust-bole. There was a bed in the place. The room was 7 feet 6 inches long, S feet wide, ands feet high. He cautioned Madame Stiidere at the time respecting the place. Dr. Aldis said that the place was too small.—The defendant promised to remove the dust-bin, and was discharged on payment of costs. • THE IRISII WILL CASE.—The ninth day of this re markable trial was commencedl)y Judge Keating resuming his summingup, after which the jury retired, e and after being locked up for some two hours were unable to agree to a verdict, and were discharged with the consent of counsel on both sides. It is understood that there were nine for upholding the will, and three against it, and thus, for the present, at all events, ended one of the most .re inarkable vrotate rlals t kenpin in THE SHIFTINI It is not to be denied that the tendency of modern Europe, for good or for evil, is towards democracy. Power is passing out of the hands of Kings into those of the people. The era of the personal government of Kings seems drawing to its close. The King is no longer the head of his .people, in the sense that his royal word is a binding engagement, which the nation he nominally governs accepts and locally executes. Such pledges, however just, and however solemn, have no longer any bind ing force. The real power is in the will,. not of the people, but of a section of the people, which arrogates to itself the title of the govern ing class, speaks in the name of the nation, and pays little or no regard to the rights and interests or to .the religion of the people at large. Such is the modern State. In almost every country in Europe, it is the stronghold of irreligious Liberalism, and the avowed and deadly enemy of the Church. Kings, however often they may have abused their prerogatives, and refused to recognize that their authority in the State was subordinate to the Spiritual Power in all matters affecting directly or indi rectly the moral or religious interests of the nation, were on the whole less inimical than modern Parliaments. What is a so-called free and constitutional State now-a-days in Europe, but a State which is in the hands of the middle and professional classes, a Government of the bourgeoisie and of bureaucrats ? The Crown, the Church, the territorial interests, and the people, are set aside in favour of a class, the most selfish, the most irreligious, and • the most de g raded in the nation. This class is the seat and stronghold of that impious Libe ralism which now dominates in Europe, and is by its misdeeds, its arrogance, and its de fiance of law and justice, preparing the way for a terrible social, and perhaps religious, revolution. Let us take Austria, in its actual condition, as a signal illustration of the evils of a modern State. Austria but lately was a monarchy, strong in its ancient traditions, and in the loyalty of its people, but shorn of its civil and of its religious liberty by the absolutism of its Kings. When the day of danger came, in the Revolation of 1848—the prelude of greater Revolutions yet to come—the monarch sought safety for his throne by restoring to the Church the liberty it had been deprived of for so long a period by the worst of his predeces sors. But the remedy came too late—evil had taken too deep a root. The Monarchy fell into disgrace; the Emperor in his weakness and timidity handed the Government over to the noisiest, the most selfish, and the most unprincipled section of his people—a class which represents neither the intere sts nor the rights of the vast majority of his people, which has no regard for the traditions of royalty ; no respect for religion or justice. The ques tion, then, at once suggests itself—why does the vast majority of a nation tolerate the government of a class inimical to the Crown, to the Church, to the great landed interest, and to the people? The same question is suggesting itself more or less in ever y coun try in Europe, and awaits a solution. On the right solution of the tremendous question — Why shoutdthe many suffer? —depends the fate of Europe. A false solution will but too surely b r e % i o p e i t r a a t e e y i t s h e impending becoming ev e ry social a y r m e v o o r l e u t and more conscious of its strength and of its organization, and more impatient of its treat ment at the hands of a selfish and dominant Liberalism. Taught, in place of the old sanc tions and restraints of religion, that sensual a u r t d to s o t f he life, m butenjoymentsbalkedi nthe arethe aimand thhe ew expectationsand finding that toil, priva tions, and hun g er e r ldo are the portion which chiefly falls to their lot, the people are forming new combinations and cherishing lopes of a short road to prosperity. This is the secret of that communistic move ment, which is now taking place in Germany, in Austria, in Italy, and in France, and which shows itself amongst ourselves in strikes and trade unions. There are three forces at the present moment encountering one another in Europe—Liberal ism, Communism and Christianity. The Church proscribed, plundered or persecuted wherever Liberalism is dominant, sees, humanly speak ing, but two outlets for the salvation of Europe. One is the displacement of Liberalism by a Conservative reaction, leading to a restoration of the Christian monarchy in union with the Spiritual Power, and the other is a clean sweeping away of the present seats of power by a triumphant democracy. The Church is not deluded by idle hopes, but in the presence of a great danger is prepared for the worst. She naturally sympathizes with the peoples be trayed by the false doctrines and visionary hopes of material enjoyment which Liberalism has everywhere inculcated, and labours to lighten the unbroken and too often ill-requited toil, and remove the almost intolerable priva tions which, in many parts of Europe, depress and demoralize the working classes. The Church, while entering into the views of the people, is forward in cecking the spread of Communistic principles, and in bringing men back, when they have gone astray, to the severe but salutary principles of Christian patience and resignation. Liberalism has taken offence at this action on the part of the Church, and has uttered a cry of alarm and fear. It sees its danger; for, no sooner are the Church and the people brought together again in close and Christian union, than the days of Liberalism will be numbered. It cries aloud, especially in Germany and in Austria, that out of hatred to Liberalism the Church is conspiring with Communism to bring about a shifting of politi cal power. But the Church, far from con spiring with evil, combats Liberalism on the one hand and Communism on the other. It is true that Christianity has a greater hold on the masses of the people than on that par ticular class which in so-called Constitutional States, such as Italy, Austria, Bavaria, Baden, Belgium and Portugal—is exclusively in pos session of political power, and openly at war with the rights and liberties of the Church. It has a hold, too, on the masses in France, as was attested in the popular movement which compelled the Emperor Napoleon to go to the aid 'of the Pope against the rampant Liberalism of Italy. But Communism, with its visionary dreams, its wild hopes, and its passionate hatred of the middle and moneyed class, is also rapidly spreading among the working classes, espe cially in France, Germany, and Italy. The great material progress, and the spread of knowledge, for whic our times are so con spicuous, have placed within its reach means of organization which its leaders do not fail to make use of. Between these two combatants the Church takes its stand. It demands from those in possession of political power and of the wealth of the land, justice to the suffering, to the too often half-starving classes—the right of the labourer to labour, the right of all to live in the land where God has placed them. Chris tianity denounces those false principles of poli tical economy which are in conflict with the higher principles of the Gospel, and which lead to the isolation and to the separation of the interests of those whom Christianity has made brothers. But, while recognizing a just and sufficient cause of grave complaint, and of re sistance on the part of large numbers of the working classes to the intolerable conditions of life imposed upon defenceless labour by capital, vested with innumerable rights and t C h o e m o m r d u i n n i a s u m e e i s n i f t s G t o u d r n i n a e s o a n s r g n s against . exclusive privile g es, Catholicism c on d emns o n It rebukes, moreover, the fierce impatience of toil and of sufferin,2;,, and the wild longing and he a r t s d o o m f i n m i o e n n Nay and c n zed on u ly pon res t u h l e t for material enjoyme n t s —f or wealth, power, which has seized in the destruction of • t some y. It desires the reconciliation of classes and of interests—not a social war, in which the last vestiges of law, order, and religion will disappear from modern society. But the danger is not likely to be easily averted. Liberalism, by its example, by its impious teachiengs, and by its (From the Anglo-American Times) By the Scotia we learn that General Schofield took up the post of Secretary of War on the Ist June, General Stoneman being appointed by the President his successor in the command of the First Military District. The latter officer, on assuming charge, issued an order continuing in force all or,lers at the time existing. Those best acqu,tinted with the really Creditable constitutions framed by the Southern Conventions will rejoice at the news yesterday received iu Lon don by the Cable, dated Washington, June 11 : " The Senate passed to-day Mr. Stevens's Bill, which was agreed to by the House of Representa tives on the 14th ult., and which provides for the admission of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama to representation in Congress, on the condition that the constitutions of those States shall never be so amended as to de prive of the suffrage those now entitled to vote." The further news by the Cunarder is to the effect that the counsel both for and against Mr. Davis recommend the further postponement of the trial till October. A vote has passed the Senate by 37 to 11 thanking Mr. Stanton for his public services, but 30 to 11 voted against tendering thanks to Chief Justice Chase for his conduct during the Impeachment Trial. That is, the IL Democrats voted in both instance.; in a body, and 7 of the Re publicans, who could not agree with the majority in the second instance, did not vote at all, among whom no doubt are several of the " recreants." A resolution has been introlucl d into the Senate ex cluding the Southern States from participation in the Presidential election unless such States have been admitted to the Union under the Reconstruc on Act before the Presidential electors were chosen. The President re-appointed Mr. Stanbery A torney-General, but the Senate, as we think in very bad taste, rejected the nomination. They can scarcely anticipate moderation on the part of Andrew Johnson when he is thus met at the com mencement of a new record. Specie continues to flow across from America to Europe in abundance. On Saturday the steamers carried from New York $925,000 ; on Wednesday $975,000. On Thursday the City of Baltimore is reported to have carried from New York on June 6 £430,000 in specie, but it is not improbable that dollars may be meant ; and on Thursday $550,000 were remitted. We regret to announce the death of ex-President Buchanan, but the data of whose decease has not been given by Mr. Reuter. The President has ordered that the Executive Department be closed and draped in mourning on the day of the funeral. James Buchanan was elected to the Presidency, in 1857, with John C. Breckenridge on the same ticket, and his term will ever be memorable as that which inaugurated the Civil War. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing from Paris, speaks of a trial that commenced there, which will be regarded, bath in France and England, with great interest, as it involves a question of much importance in connection with the American war. He says—" When the war broke out France declared its neutrality, but the Confe derates applied to a French company for ships, which were duly constructed. The Government prevented these vessels, which hal been paid for, from leaving port, and they were consequently sold to Prussia. The United States now comes for ward and claims the sum of 2,8?,0,099 francs, which was paid to Meisrs..Aunan all Ca., on the ground that the money is national property. M. Berryer is one of the lawyers retained by the Ame rican Government." Gin , ral Gillem has order° 1 the election on the ratification of the new State Constitution in INlis sissii pi to commence June 22, making the singular provision that it is to "continue till complete ]," which is likely to be a very indefinite t ime. The order is accompanied by the usual dire ctions guard ing against violerce, fraud, or the interference with raters at the polls.—General Canby on Tuesday, Miy 26, issued an order removing thirteen of the eighteen aldermen of Charleston, and. appointing persons to fill the vacancies. Under the new or ganization there will be seven negroes on the board. The resolution forbidding the diplomatic corps of the United States to wear Court costume as an in fringement of Republican simplicity is likely to be repealed. The agitation of some newspapers, among whom we are glad to be able to include ourselves, backed a diplomatic condemnation, which has at,. tracted the attention of Congress, and the Senate has now called for 'copies of the correspondence on the subject between Mr. Seward and the Ministers. We believe that this is the first step to rescinding the resolution. The Senate, on the 28th May, adopted a resolu tion offered by Mr. Morton, calling for copies of the correspondence on the subject of the Alabama Claims. It is not stated why this step has now been taken. It is curious to observe the revelations brought • to light by the Investigation Committee. Butler's object was to fasten the crime of accepting bribes on some of the Senators who voted for acquittal, but he may succeed in damaging ono or two Sena tors who voted for conviction. Nobody expected anything to transpire against Secretary McCulloch, but the telegrams seized have revealed the fact that the intentions of the Secretary to sell or to refrain from selling gold have been fully known to the speculators and the whisky ring at Washington, and formed the basis of the operations of their con federates in New York. The idea was that the Treasury would obtain the best price by availing itself of what the Secretary considered the most favourable opportunities to sell, and in giving the Secretary the power of acting at discretion, the Executive had the further power of exercising a control over the gold gamblers, and breaking down their formidable combinations against commerce. It is not pleasant then for the community to learn that what the Secretary intended to do was always known to the ring days before he acted, by which the profits went into their pockets to the damage of the finances and of the trading classes. Public at tention being directed to this, a fact has transpired which is not favourable to the character of the Secretary. Nearly all the sales of gold have been made by one house, whose leading member is a re lative of the Secretary, and the commissions on the last seven years' sales amounted to no less a sum than $231,000. Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, whose conscien tiousness has been so:strongly contrasted with the depravity of his colleague, Senator Ross, is the only man, as yet, whose name is brought into question by the investigations of Butler's Committee. If what has transpired be correct (and it should be borne in mind that the committee has been framed with the one object of bringing home, if polsible, guilt to the Republican Senators who voted for acquittal), the Republican Senator Pome roy, who voted for conviction, before making up his mind, attempted to discover what he could get for voting for acquittal, aul on his inquiries proving unsatisfactory 43.3aure convince.' of Me. Johnson's guilt. That and the machinations of the golf ring appear to be Butler's discoveries, but I another bit of scandal has also resulted. Miss Vinnie Ream, a sealpter, whose s`aulio is a room in the Capitol, was discussed as a conspirator in the Houfe.Mr. Bingham asserts that she induced Senator Ross to vote for acquittal, au] it transpired in the debate that Mr. Julian, of Indiana, had requested her to use her influence to get Mr. Ross to vote for conviction, and on her giving an indignant refusal she was threatened with ruin. It appears that by " 4 " the _r 9 9 111 4 have bees Iqttercd 13 C, &c., THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1868. "G OF POLITICAL POWER legislation, has done much to corrupt the hearts and weaken the faith of the people. So, if the Church be too powerless to arrest the evil, the doom of the dominant classes is sealed. The Liberalism which is now in power in Europe already quails before its ruthless foe. Libe ralism, which has violated justice, religion, the rights, social, political, and religious of the people, has respected as a rule the rights of property ; but the anti-social revolution, when it comes, will be specially directei against the rights of property and against the class now in power.—Westminster Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. and her letter is required for public purposes. Miss Re am declares that not only will such expulsion care her great pecuniary loss, but destroy the hopes she entertains from the production of a statue of Lincoln, of which the wet plaster model is set up in the studio. Au instance how rumours are concocted and widely circulated is given in the case of Mr. Hen derson, who is said to have been one of fourteen Senators who dined with the Chief Justice when the conspiracy was organized to defeat Impeachment and Ben Wade to split the Republican party, to place Mr. Chase at the head of the new one and run him for the Presidency, and to inaugurate another Go vernment. Henderson declares he was the only Seaatcr at the table of the Caief Justice on that day, that no communication passel between them on the subject of a new party, nor a word about Impeachment. Mr. Reverdy Johnson commented in the Senate on the fact that George Wilkes had written from Washington, and published in his paper, the Spirit the " false statement" that he (Johnson) was one of this party. But the Spirit replies that it had never introduced during the Impeachment trial in any way the name of Reverdy Johnson. Being compelled to do so by this personal attack, it endeavours to make up for lost time. Reverdy Johnson is, according to the Spirit, " the most con summate charlatan and humbug in the whole Con gress, whose statement is deliberately false ;" and after informing the public that the remaining por tions of the declarations were equally untrue, and that Mr. Johnson " had told n a deliberate falsehood, which was a very bad thing for a man of his age to do," the Spirit makes the following quotation, the double -cutting power of which it is strange the Spit it did not see :—" Men 'who indulge in such slander should receive the reproof of all honourable men, and should never be suffered to pollute the Se nate Chamber by their presence." Os the 27th May Senator Ross defended his vote on the second, third, and eleventh Articles. He alluded to his service in the cause of Aholition, of his known repugnance to the President's policy, but of his doubts of the President's guilt, the bene fit of which he' determined to give his coun try ! There were certain Articles cn which, had they been reached, he would have voted Guilty. Referring to the infamous slanders, he de nounced those who joined the party, as a lucra tive profession, as well as the attempts to make a scapegoat of him for the blunders, weak nesses, and hates characterising Impeachment — itself a stupendous blunder from beginning to end ; and he conluded by moving for a committee to in vestigate the charges circulated by Butler and others—a resolution which was adopted, a Senate Committee. being appointed for the purpose. The Kansas Anthony, who at the head of ' a thousand men" shot a telegram at Mr. Ross, has replied to the reply, by calling the Senator from Kansas " a perjurer and a skuuk." It is said that Senator Fessenden was threatened with assassination, the missive being written on a sheet of the Senate's foolscap in the Senate Chamber. At a caucus of Republican Senators, held May 28, at Washington, six of the " recreants" took their seats, Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull being of the number. Mr. Wade, the immaculate Senator, who, as a judge, sternly cast his vote in the hope that it might be all-powerful to depose Andrew Johnson and instal himself in the President's chair, could not sit in such company. . Ware not these the men who, without any inducemen't whatever, acted the part of traitors to their party, and could he and Zechariah Chandler condescend to discuss mat ters with such imbeciles? No ! they indignantly rose, and, declaring that the recreants were not Re publicans, stalked from the room. The caucus, like the Chicago Convention, could not see the matter in the " Wade" light, so they admitted the six, and proceeded to business, notwithstanding the absence of the indignant Senators. It is surprising that " honest Ban" does not see how little becoming to him self his extreme partizanship in such a case is. He is like Sir William Mansfield on the Jervis court martial, who never perceived that he was not a fair judge iu his own case, where his feelings or his in terests were deeply concerned. had the Wade clique prevailed, they would have destroyed the Republican party. An unusual amount of energy has lately been infused into the attempts to c'aeck whisky and other internal revenue halide. The distiller Devlin had no sooner been convicted than another greater culprit still was brought to the bar of the same court. Theophilus C. Callicott, the Brooklyn col lector of internal revenue, was found guilty of frauds on the Treasury. The case is remarkable, inasmuch as Mr. Callicott is well known, and was highly esteemed in public and political life is New York, and his character till then was held to be above suspicion. Ile was once Speaker of the New York Asse:nbly. The Treasury employed him to execute several important commissions in the Southern States after the close of the war, and every duty he discharged with fidelity and credit. To the last moment his friends maintained that he was made the scapegoat for the sins of others. Senator Edmunds has propoeed that the thanks 'of the Senate be tendered to Stanton, and the votes of Trumbull, Fessenden, and Henderson are looked for with curiosity. The nomination of Schofield was debated in the Chamber for some time, and it was said that General Grant advised the confirma tion of the appointment. There is a legal difficulty in the President's ad interim appointment of Gen. Thomas in the way of a confirmation, and i n th e w ords of the President's Message, which are vice E. M. Stanton removed. To confirm a confirma tion so made would be to confess the President's legal right of removal while the Senate was in Session. Putting legal quibbles aside the Senate confirmed the appointment, but qualified it with the following resolution :—" Whereas, the order of the President removing Secretary Stanton from office was unconstitutional and illegal ; but on ac count of Mr. Stanton's having, on Tuesday, relin quished the said office, therefore—Resolved, that the Senate do advise and consent to the appoint ment of General Schofield." Before this was se cured a strong pressure had been brought to bear on Congress, the Republican party thinking the selection so good, that it could only have been extracted from Mr Johnson by the circumstances wherein he was placed. It is even conjectured that he repents, and would withdraw it were it not for the notion that the nomination was intended to affect the result of Impeachment. As Grant is pretty certain to be elected President, and as he favours Schofield's appointment, the difficulty which that officer raised regarding the sacrifice of his po sition in the army would be removed, as the Secre taryship of War will be altuestsure to be continued to him by the incoming President. Although the howl of indignation and vitupera tion which greeted the seven Senators who took the fatal plunge in Impeachment has somewhat sub sided, yet they are realizing what it ist thus to fly in the face of their party. Henderson has gone to Missouri, probably to resign, by which he would not lose much, as his term expires in 1869. Fee senden has declared his intention to leave public life. Senator Grimes has left for New York via Fortress Monroe, a sea trip being recommended by his physicians. After remaining in New York a short time he will go to New Hampshire for the hot weather, as it is supposed that the climate of lowa will not agree with him at present. Senator Ross of Kansas has boon marked as reponsible for the acquittal of the President. He had been counted . for conviction, and none were so surprised as the Managers at the last moment when he voted Not Guilty. Of course he is said to be able to tell what became of Woolley's $25,000. lie and Fowler are not prepared just now to go back to their States. Fowler's case is said to be the worst, as he started one of the most bitter of the President's enemies, asserting that there could be ne peace for the South so long as Andrew Johnson remained in office, and cenieraning the House for not impeaching him last December. Van Winkle is a native of New York, and if he hails from any place near Albany, we know the atmosphere in which he has lived is not conducive to the highest qualities of integrity. The National Manufacturers' Convention met at Cleveland, Ohio, oa the. 27th May, and appointed the third Wednesday of December for the next annual meeting to be held in New York. Resole , tip were adopted declaring the 49905ity of 1114i11- taining the association permanently ; commending the action of the present Congress in regard to re trenchment and economy, and urging further efforts in the same direction, by reduction of the number of officers and clerks in the army and navy to the minimum standard ; advising inquiry as to the feasibility of transferring the Indian bureau to the War Department; deprecating giving public posts to politicians and partizans; approving 11r. Jenckes's Civil Service Bill ; the action of Congress reducing the taxes on manufactures, and hoping for entire relief from taxation of the useful industries ; re ferring to the importance of iron, steel, cotton, &c., in 18G7, as increasing the national debt and de ferring of specie payments, and demanding ade quate protection for home industries ; indorsing the national bank system, an I declaring that it should be continued and extended ; reco:nmending an issue of long three and sixty-five one-hundredths gold bonds for funding the public debt, to be made the basis of banking under the national banking law. The Convention adjourned till Dec3niber. Senator Henderson state I to the Missouri Com mittee of the House that Reverdy Johnson ha I told him if the President were acquitted a Cabinet satisfactory to moderate Republicans would be formed, and that he had made similar statements to several Senators. It is now asserted that if any changes are made they will be wholly in the inte rests of the Democrats. The most definite rumour refers to the resignation of Postmaster-General Randall, who intends to proceed to Florida, where he hopes to be elected to the United States Senate. Mr. Seward desires to leave the State Department as so often reported, when the treaties now under consideration and questions of interest with Eng land have been settled. A ridiculous statement has obtained some currency that a move was being made for the nomination of ex-Secretary Stanton for the mission to London. Though old " ad interim" has learned wisdom by experience, his younger chief, Andy Johnson, if report be true, has not. It is now intimated that he is preparing a Veto of the Bill amending the Charter of the City of Washington, which takes from the Mayor the appointing power, and allows coloured men to hold office. It is rumoured, too, that, in celebration of his escape, Mr. Johnson is about to prJclaitn a universal amnesty to rebels. But such a move will be heartily welcomed as well by the Republican party as by the Democrats, as it is the National wish. Lorenzo Thomas says that " Mr. Stanton has not resigned in form, that he had no right to leave the keys with General Townsend ; that the chief clerk ought to take charge, and that '.the whole thing is one of Stanton's tricks, and he'll be d—d if puts his foot in the trap.' " The Senate has almost determined to punish Colonel Forney for his strictures on certain mem bers of the Court, in " my two papers, both daily," by accepting his resignation of the Secretaryship. Senator Reverdy Johnson, after the acquittal of the 'President, took the opportunity savagely to " pitch into" the Colonel. Mr. Sumner submitted an order accepting the resignation, and authorizing Mr. Macdonald, the Chief Clerk, to act, ad interim, but it was passed over. Ex-Governor Cresswell, of Maryland, recently a Senator, is a favourite candi date for the place. We have heard nothing lately of the steam man; indeed, an invention of that sort forms but a nine days' wonder in the multiplicity always calling for attention in the United States. A late one is a niachine for setting up and distributing type by electricity, the reporter doing the business for him self from the Capitol to the most distant city in the, Union. If the Iron Age be correct, we have as yet but a faint idea of the use to be made of electricity. That paper says that a novel engine, driven by electricity, was exhibited before a large and intel ligent audience at the College of the city of New York on Tuesday afternoon, May 19th. If the electro-magnetic engine can be brought to do all its inventor claims for it,, the days of steam, as a mo tive power, are numbered. The Times tells a story about General Ducroi commanding the Strasbourg Division, who rode up to the old bridge of boats at Kehl, which crosses the Rhine, a German sentry being posted at one side, and a French on the other, and after sneeringly commenting upon the defences, to the annoyance of the German by-slanders, the party embarked in boats and floated down the river past lluningen, sur veying the right bank with telescopes as if bent on spying the nakedness of the land and mapping every town and reach. Nothing excites in both German and French more jealousy than any attempt to inspect their fortifications. The Times says, " the presence of ' sketching officers lurking about in plain clothes in suspicious places, and evidently after no good,' has already, in repeated instances, been angrily remarked upon by the Press of both coun tries, as it turned out, with but little foundation on either side. But now here is an attempt perpetrated in full daylight by a well-known military functionary high in command—an unfriendly reconnaissance, which, if it actually did no injury, could at least be construed into au insult." It thea proceeds to show how erroneous the notion is that these fortresses are of any real value, considering the hundreds of thou sands of combatants, armed with a murderous variety of new-fangled weapons, and it instances the case of Koniggratz and losephstadt, which were of no avail to Austria after her great reverse at Sadowa. Notwithstanding the warlike rumours which have lately prevailed, our contemporary re mains unshaken in its belief that Napoleon means peace, and that it is from his lips that the words of command must really come before France and Ger many can be plunged into war. A grand banquet will be given to Cyrus W. Field at Willis's Rooms on Wednesday, the Ist July. A large number of the most distinguished in science, as authors, orators, and statesmen will then meet to do honour to an American to whom the Old and New World mainly owe their connection by tele graph. The Duke of Argyle will preside. Mr. John Bright, Mr. Charles Dickens, and—unless prevented by unforeseen circumstances—Mr. Glad stone, will take part in the proceedings. The list comprises too many names of note for us to parti cularise, but, as the feeling is general that England owes a debt of gratitude to the untiring exertions of Mr. Field through years of " protracted difficulty and doubt," there is an earnest desire on the part of the community to recognize this in some public way. The postal treaty • between the North German Confederation, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Baden on the one hand and Switzerland on the other, was finally discussed and agreed to at Berlin, June 5. Last Monday the Paris correspondent's letter of the Standard, dated Juno 5, contained the following para graph :—" His Excellency Lord Lyons, who is retrieving the old reputation of England for hospitality in Paris by a series of dinners, entertained on Wednesday, June 3, a large party, at which Anglo-American society was largely represented. Among the g uests were Miss Cushman, Count and Countess Puliga, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Motley, Major General Doyle, Mr. Sansou, Captain and Mrs. Hore, the British Consul and Mrs. Falconer AUER), and the other attaches. The chief officer and seven seamen who made good their escape from the burning wreck of the American ship Golden Age have arrived in Bombay. The captain and others of the crew arq yet missing. The engagement of Mdlle. Clara Louise Kellogg with Mr. Mapleson terminated last Wednesday, when she made her last appearance as Zerlina in "Don Giovanni." General Meade has delighted the citizens at Atlanta with a magnificent party. The cards were issued to both "rebel" and "Yankee." The place of Senator Fowler upon the National Republican Committee has been declared vacant, and filled by lion. Thomas G. Alvord, of New York. • Horace Greeley once tried to get a situation as New York correspondent for country newspapers, but failed. Madame Parepa and Carl Rosa started, on the Ist of June for a three months' tour in California. The President has appointed a son of John C. Fieemam to be midAhipautu in the Navy. The aivices by the Scotia bay the New York papers publish intelligence from St. Domingo, stating that it is rumoured General Salnave has been assassinated by his own troops. General Superon, in the interest of Cabral, with 3,003 men, had headed a revult at St. Domingo against General Baez. A. 1). Riehardson says of Grant, in his life, soon to be published, " He is the most undramatic of men. Scott was nicknamed by his enemies 'Fuss and Feathers.' Grant his less fuss and few& feathers than any man of his day." genator WCreery, of lioutucky, uAlc hip fire i......! set speech on tho Arkansas Bill. It was in the highly adorned style of the West, which was all the more con spicuous from the tone in which it was delivered, never varying, being rapidly uttered in a monotonous key by an orator whose action may be guessed, his hands being the whole time in his pockets. Speaker Colfax is only sixteen years younger than his mother. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Madison Cutts, who was dismissed the service during the war for peeping into a lady's room at the Burnett House, Cincinnati, while she was undressing, but who was subsequently restored through the influence of his friends, has just been tried by court-martial a second time, and dismissed the service for drunkenness on duty and general disgraceful conduct at his camp in Louisiana. Among the distinguished Americans who have arrived, or who are about to visit our shores, is Mr. Leonard W;Jerome, to whom New Yorkers owe the estab lishment of Jerome Pqrk, and who takes so conspicuous a place,in American sports, both on the water and in the racing field. The poet Longfellow has also arrived— whose poems aro familiar in England as "Household Words." Wilkes's Spirit says ;—" Now, as the several States have appointed a Fisheries Commission, in ordu to assist hi an interchange of views, I have the pleasure of giving their names, residences, and fields of operation : —Commissioners for Maine—Charles G. Atkins, Augusta; N. W. Foster, East Machias. Commissioners for Now Hanipshice—Hon. W. A. Bellows, Concord; W., A. San born, Weirs. Commissioners for Vermont— Professor A. D. Hagar, Proctorsville ; Hon. Charles Barrett, Grafton. Commissioners for Massachusetts—A. R.Field, Greenfield; Theo. Lyman, Brookline. Commissioners for Connecticut —H. Woodward, Middletown ;J. Rankin, Old Saybrook. • Commissioners for New York—Seth Green, Mutnford, Monroe County ; R. B. Roosevelt, New York ; Ex-Gover nor H. R. Seymour, Albany. It is the especial duty of members of the Fisheries Commission of each State to pro tect the fisheries and increase their productiveness -Ist, By visiting the waters of their respective States to ascer tain what may be done to enhance their fish value ; 2d, To teach fish culture ; 3d, To bring suits for infractions of the game laws; 4th, To report their experiences to the Legislature, and suggest improvements, with their ap proximate cost." It is rumoured in America that. in July Lord Mayo will succeed Lord Monck as Governor-General of the Dominion. The three bills reserved by Lord Monck, when the Parliament was prorogued, for her Majesty's signature, ware the Extradition Treaty between Canada and the United States, the Divorce Bill, and that fixing the Governor-General's salary. The Massachusetts Senate has not only passed the bill appropriating $75,090 to Professor Agassiz's Museum, but, moved motion a strong spirit of scientific in quiry, voted, on the of Mr. Bowerman, a similar, though unsolicited, contribution to Williams College. The United States Senate, on Thursday, May 28, confirmed the following nominations :—A. Hunan, Attorney for Idaho; Homer G. Plants, Attorney for the Southern District of Florida ; W. W. Thatcher, Assessor of Internal Revenue for Eighth District of Tennessee ; A. IC. Osborne, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of Wisconsin ; Franklin Haven, jun., Assistant Treasusr at Boston, in place of T. Chandler, whose tom mission has expired. The Senate rejected the following nominations : —Joel B. M'Comant, Assessor of Internal Revenue for, the Tenth District of Pennsylvania ; JaM3S B. Hubbell, Collector of Internal Revenue for Montana; Solomon P. M'Curdy, Associate Justice of the Suprems I Court of Utah, and Lieut. Frank Burr as Captain in the Reveue Service. Lord Elcho has had the misfortune to be at tacked by the Spectator, and the still greater misfortune to have been defended by the Standard. Whenever "Betsy" wants to point a moral or adorn a tale, she casts her eyes on America. T heSpsctator is acting towards Lord Elcho asT had. Stevens and Horace Greeley towards the few Republican Senators who could not agree with them, "that the sanc tity of an oath is absurd cant—that is, rattening them, and turning them out of the party"—so says "Betsy," who is only worth quoting from the peculiar light in which she sees through her spectacles. We wonder whether the object she describes is the object we see, or some thing else. "That house," says "Betsy," is built in' a bog ; what folly to erect the building on such a foundation." "Why, Betsy," we reply, "that house 13 on the upland of a well-drained park, what better spot could be found for the structure ?" "It is not," screams Betsy. "I see the quagmire all round. This is the spot for a house." " But, Betsy, that is a bog, and to get a foundation you must travel through a heap of dirt." The astonishment is that the old thing should be the spokes woman of so large an English crowd, and it • only shows what a heap of old women there are in the island of all ages and sexes. Betsy's little fling at the United States Senate might well be passed in contempt if it we re not that she speaks the sentiments of this numerous body. The Iron Age says :—" The R utile fibre is be ginning to become an article of commerce in New Orleans ; and one merchant of that city has received orders for it from New York, and offers double the market rate of cotton for all he can obtain. A demand for the fibre is also springing up in the West, but no definite orders for it from that section have yet been received at New Orleans. Regarding the merits of Ramie, it is eakithat it is as good as linen, cambric, or silk, and when it comes into use the wearer will find that the 'chief, difficulty will be that it will not wear out when the fashion changes, and he will hate to throw it away, when, after a couple of years' wear, it is still as good as new." Of the working force in the Colt armoury at Hartford, Connecticut, 400 hands are constantly at work on the 30,000 Berdan rifles ordered by the Russian Govern ment. The Pall-Mall Gazette recently stated that an emigrant who tried Canada would never dream of crossing the border into the United States. Confounding in a heap the Eastern and Western States, it asserted that the bad spirit in which the new-comers were met by the working classes in the Republic was in striking contrast to the wel come extended to them in the Dominion. Can the Pall-- Mall explain how it came to pass that three hundred and fifty young Canadians passed through Montreal on Thurs day, 7th- May, on their way to the States to find employ ment and homes? IMPEACHIIENT OF THE PRESS.—The following Republican journals sustain the Republican Senators who, voted against impeachment :—" New York E v e nin g Post,' "Chicago Tribune," "Cincinnati Commercial," " deuce Journal," "Springfield Republican," "Bridgepor t Standard," "Buffalo Advertiser," "Buffalo Express, "Hartford Courant," "Baltimore American," " Pittsbur Commercial," " Nashville Press," "New Haven Palladium? " Toledo Commercial," "Milwaukie Sentinel," "Madison Journal," " Troy Whig," " Cincinnati Times," "Boston Ad" vertiser," " Cleveland Times" "Bagmen's Journal," "P itts ; burg Chronicle," " Boston Journal ," " New Haven Journ al, "New Bedford Mercury," "Warren Mail," "Lyons Mirror," "New York Nation." 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SPIIIILES—MANN—On the 11th inst., at St. Stephen% Westbourne-park, Walter Spritles of H.M.'s War P; partment, Woolwich, to Sarah. 'Elizabeth, young e 8" daughter of W. F. Mann, Esq., of Bayswater. STEPHENS—LoY— On the 11th inst., at St. Peter's Churclij Croydon, Wm. R. Stephens, of Throg morton-street, Lee-road, Blackheath, to Mary Loy , of Din g wall-rOv Croydon. Deaths. OnooK—On the 11th inst., John Crook, of Upper Clooll' aged 87. litnELL On the 9th inst., Major Henry J. Darell, of CiL lO- hill, late of the 60th Rifles, aged 48. tr. LESLIE—On the 7th inst., at St. Leonard's-on- Sea, COI. Leslie, C. 8., late of the H.E.I.C.S. r , o f. READ —On tbe 6th inst., at 78, Now Kent-road, S.E., v3s William V. Read, R.A.., aged 71. R OBIN SON—On the 10th inst., at 9, Chesham-street, m` grave-square, Henry Robinson, Esq., aged 75. p lanet S TEP HENS -On the 11 th i nst., at 10, Montague- for Russell-square, the Rev. Wm. W. Stephens, ALA . ) merly of Southfield, Tunbridge Wells, aged 77. 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