The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times remarks that the result of the elections hitherto is not wholly satisfactory. We should have been glad to see one or two of the working men's delegates in Parliament, since they would have been able to com municate and to receive new ideas, which might bring classes together with better knowledge and more friendly feeling.. The absence of any such men is, to our thinking, more to be..regretted . than that of .the working man's gentlemanly friends, the advanced Liberals, academic or literary. But, at all events, both classes have beenbrought to confusion at these elections, and it is difficult to imagine that they will Ever have a better opportunity. There is at present an ac cumulation of legislative work to be undertaken, and many things which are undoubtedly abuses to be recti Eed. The present electors have returned 'moderate candidates, and future elections are likely to be without any revolutionary result. Nothing remains but to congratulate the country on the perfect success of the Reform Dill, and on the answer the most decisive of tests has given to the calumny which was in the mouths of many popular orators two years ego—that England was legislated for by a class for a class, and that the real voice of the people was stifled by the selfish artifice of the few. klvents have proved thatitwa.s thc party opinion, and notthe cla s ss prejudices of a section of the House,which the nation desired to modify. Three months of discussion have revealed the order of men who are likely now, as hereto. fore, to please constituencies. The results also show bow considerable is the power of the Conservative minority in the country. The quality and temper of the new House have been largely determined by the influence of the un successful party, which we may accordingly console with the suggestion that it has not been beaten so completely as it may, perhaps, be itself disposed to believe. The Post remarks that the new electord have been wrought up into the substance of the pre-existing con stituencies to which theyhave been added, and the general character of the whole has been preserved in its various diversified elements. Indeed, giving a man a vote residers him more Conservative than he was before. He feels himself to be somebody. The new status he has acquired sets him thinking upon many things that had not previously occupied his attention. The working man as a rule, and taking the average, has no idea of electing and being represented in Parliament by one of his own class. There is always a degree of jealousy between men of the same class—an un conscious and unanalysed jealousy it may be; but still jealousy for all that, and this feeling stands in the way of men voluntarily elevating their equals above themselves. Whatever men's views of things in general may be, they like somebody of a higher social status than themselves to represent them and preside over them, whether in Parlia meut or at a public dinner. It was indeed upon this prin ciple of British human nature that Mr. Disraeli relied in passing his household suffrage bill. There are historical reasons and causes why he should rely upon this principle. Those who know the history of the period during which Mr. Disraeli has taken an active part in politics, and who have watched his career, will easily understand why he should have hoped to create a Tory democracy which would give him a triumphant majority in the new Parliament. Generally speaking, the lower you go down in the vertical section of the social scale the greater is the reverence and awe for wealth and station and rank and title. But Mr. Disraeli made the mistake of relying too much upon this principle. Wealth and rank and title and social status are not confined to the Conservative party ; and, other things equal, the tendencies of the working and middle classes are decidedly in favour of Liberal representatives. The Herald thinks this success of the Conservatives with the great constituencies and the success of the Radicals with the small ones has been the great feature of the elections. Whilst in every one of the great cities and towns the Conservatives have been returned at the head of the poll or have pressed their opponents so hard as to leave the result for a long time in doubt, the Radicals, employing their old weapons of lavish expenditure and intimidation, have carried many of the small boroughs, which they have chosen to treat as the Conservative strongholds, and to which they have been wont to deny any right to representation, Compare the Conservative gains with the Opposition list, over which our Radical contemporaries have crowed so lustily. The seats which we have won have been won in constituencies to which the Radicals have been accustomed to• contend that larger representation should be given. The Conservatives gain, for instance, in London, in West. minster, in Worcester, in Manchester, in Bolton, in Chester, in Coventry, in Nottingham, in Norwich, in Portsmouth, in Stockport, in Salford, in Ashton, iu Staleybridge, in Southampton. 'What seats have the Liberals won in large and wealthy boroughs? Only three. All they can boast of are Derby, Carlisle, Wigan, and Sunderland. The most remarkable result is the practical unanimity with which the great county of Lancaster has pronounced for the Conservatives. The Daily News notices that the borough elections prove bow vain was the hope with which Mr. Disraeli beguiled the Conservatives into accepting household suffrage ; and how unfounded were the alarms under the influence of which Mr. Lowe eloquently shrieked and raved against any reduction of the franchise. The elections have clis palled Mr. Lowe's fears. They have not the less demolished the baseless fabric of that vision in which Mr. Disraeli is said to have indulged, of a term of office as long as Lord Liverpool's. The Conservative leaders *ought that they had found in household suffrage a solu tion of the great Ministerial problem, stated by Lord Derby with classic simplicity, " how not to be ousted." By a just retribution, household suffrage pro. mises to be the instrument of their destruction. Mr. Disraeli's policy is comprised in two words—the Monarchy and the Mob. It is a theatrical adaptation of French Imperialism to English habits. Mr. Disraeli has contrived already, by a course of conduct thoroughly unconstitutional, to embarrass the relations of the Crown and the House of Commons. The speeches of Mr. Glad stone and Mr. Lowe chew that the attention of the Liberal leaders is fixed on this point. It will be tha first business of the House of Commons to assert its authority, and to vindicate constitutional usage. The Tory demagogues, having found household suffrage vain for their purpose, may be well enough disposed to try universal suffrage. But the Tory demos is not likely to be a willing party to a second political experiment. The Standard rejoices over the rejection of the (kart. naives. The spectacle of these stranded wrecks will, we trust, tend to mitigate somewhat of that boastful spirit with which the Radicals speak of the present elections. Whatever may happen hereafter, and whether the Conser vative minority grows more or less, we claim the rejection of Mr. John Stuart Mill, and of all the candidates supported and approved by himself and Mr. Goldwin Smith, as a signal demonstration of the people of England against the arrogance, the self-conceit, the extravagance, and the excesses of that pestilent sect of political fanatics who pro fess to be Radicals of the Radicals—the apostles of a revolution, social, political, and religious—the " cultured" persons who would begin by wiping out that precious gift of English liberty which is contained in our glorious Constitution. The Morning Summary says altogether the result of the polls on the first day of the borough contests is inspiriting, particularly after the gloomy anticipations indulged in by our Radical friends. It is clear that the heart of the country is sound, that the people are true to the Constitution in Church and State ; and when again the House of Lords rejects Mr. Gladstone's bill for abolishing the Irish Esta blishment, should such a bill again pass the House of Commons, the people will speak out yet more unmistakeably. For the more -the Irish Church question is . discussed, and its real bearings under stood, the more do people see its imminent danger. Meanwhile, let the counties be fought with increased earnestness and confidence. Let every seat be contested ; let South Essex anil North Nottinghamshire suffice for timorous surrenders to the enemy ;.and let the natural strongholds of Conservatism not prove less reliable than those large constituencies which have hitherto, owing to Conservative timidity and Liberal braggadocio, been snug Liberal preserves. A genzleman living at AE , hton, near Wigan, ana who has been working bard for the two Liberal candidates for Sou:h-west Lancashire, has received •an anonymous later telling him it will be " WOTEO" for him if he does not desist from his efforts. The epistle concludes with the fol!owing sentence :—" The pouting day his mar; think well if you live to see it, and tell your friend the same." The Queen, who, since the lamented death o& cne Prince Consort, has used plain note paper in her corre spondence, has adopted a monogram consisting of the regal It under an imperial crown, with the . legend Victoria across the letter. The design, which has received its last improvementS from her Majesty's own hand, is being excentel in black and silver. Mr. E. G. Squier, who is said to he an authority ti:e ethnolojy and nrel:reology of South and Central 2,n:erica, says there is nothing incrediEe in the story told by G. ,, leral Kiipalriub, United Sates :Minister to Peru, that juving the recent ear!.licinaLe at Arica mummies ,rown to tlie 3urfac He writ 's !rt, :I; in,l .8, ii;(1: , e:1, thollto surrounding tile icy; ILabit. al,le spats ()lithe Peruvian ccast—arc litcraPy stuffed with il , sicated bodies of the aborigines. Th.'y are but thinly covered with the light and nitrous sands, and are often ::1 , 03ed by the winds. 1 have seen th..zuns of them at Arica, lying on the surface, wrapped in coarse gray s ratting, or in their crumbling nets, for most who livid here seemed to have been fishermen. I have carefully • 4 hundreds of .the so-called mummies without slightest evidence that their preservation is c l ue te .:.she; to natural conditions of soil and e'itnate," exan - ME. GLADSTONE ON THE ELACTIONS Mr. brianstone referred significantly to the elections ni , ris speech at Preston on Wednesday afternoon. He said : This great controversy is now far advanced towards its 'me. In the multitude of words, it is somewhere said, :here is vexation of spirit. I have often myself, gentlemen, suffered vexation of spirit from the multitude of words, sod I am afraid, if the truth be told, I have oftener still Inflicted it. You need not be afraid as to this election. two days of the election have already passed. You already know that it was an idle hope on the part of our oppo nents to reduce our majority of GO, a number by which this year will be ever memorable. What progress have they made by way of diminishing that majority? It is true that they have had their local victories, but we do not look so much to this or that victory as to comparing the snm total. Assuming the rest of the elections to be 'ls they have hitherto been, that majority of GO, instead of being reduced, is increased to very nearly a majority of 100. The Liberal party has arrested the Conservatives, from time to time, in a career of policy that would have Leen the ruin of the country, and all that they now say, when challenged on that policy, is that the Conservatives of the pr csent day arc not the same as the old Conservatives of former times. Well, gentlemen, that is a very miserable excuse for them now to make, turning round from those who have preceded them in their path of politics, and endeavouring to persuade you that the Ethiopian has changed his skin and the leopard his spots in order to induce you to return them to Parliament. We acknowledge that our opponents have achieved some local victories, but they have achieved a good many of these local victories through Liberal disunion. These things are a scandal, and are exposing us to the great reproach of our enemies, but at the same time it is only fair to recollect that what they indicate fundamentally is this—the exuberance of Liberal strength; and some, I am afraid, of the victories of the Conservative party are gained by the use of means that have been rather too publicly indicated. I will not speak of Preston, because I have not the knowledge, but as to the shameful Blackburn circular—on which I, for one, have done and will do my best to stamp immortality of disgrace—l yet live in hopes that it may attract a notice from the new Parliament more effectual than convenient to those who have been its authors." Mr. Gladstone, passing to the Irish Church, spoke very strongly against ministers using their position in the pulpit for • party purposes. " I am told that ' yesterday,' that being the sth of November, ' an orange flag was flying from the spire of the parish church, and that Tory tunes were rung on the bells.' Those bells, gentlemen, which one of the greatest poets of modern times—Schiller, an ornament to German literature —has chanted in an immortal lay, known, I have no doubt, to many of you, wherein he describes the sweet function of the bell, that its music floated on the air to call together the people of God to the House of God, and there to forget their strifes and quarrels, and kneel together before the altar of peace ; those bells are profaned under the influence of Orange faction to be the organs of the passions of mankind, and to proclaim now in 1868 that the strife of 200 years ago should never be forgotten, that its embers and ashes should be stirred up from time to time, that discord between the various ranks of her Majesty's subjects may be made eternal : and then, forsooth, we are to be told that the effect of this Irish Church Establishment is to mitigate the asperities of religious controversy." MR. DISRAELI'S FIRST SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT. - Nearly thirty•one years ago, namely, on Thursday, December 7, 1837, Mr. Disraeli made his first speech in the House of Commons. The debate was on the " Spottis woode Subscription." This subscription bad just been denounced by Mr. O'Connell as " a struggle by which the English Protestant nation was called upon to put out the representatives of the Irish Roman Catholics." Mr. O'Connell having concluded amid " loud and long continued cheering," the report proceeds : " Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI rose and delivered himself of a maiden speech, in which the laughter of the House was continually excited by its extravagances of thought, phrase, and gesture. After rambling over every variety of topic, Mr. Disraeli remarked : 'Every member could, with perfect justice, use t'ie epithet employed in the original manifesto of Mr. Spottiswoode. (` Oh,' and laughter.) I shall not, (said the hon. gentleman), trouble the House at any length. (Hear, heat, and laughter.) Ido not affect to be insensible to the difficulty of my position. (Renewed laughter.) lam sure I shall receive the indulgence of honourable gentle men—(continued laughter, and cries of 'QuetAion ')—but I can assure them that if they do not wish to hear me, I without a murmur will sit down. (Cheers and laughter.) I must confess I wish to bring the subject of debate back to a proper point.' (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Disraeli next remarked on the characters of the subscribers to the Spottiswoode Fund, in a way which provoked continual laughter, and the remainder of his speech was such a per feet model of the ridiculous, that we venture on behalf of the curious reader, to sacrifice an undue portion of space to it. ' I have but one observation more to make. I am, I confess, anxious to make that observation, for it is the first time I have been able to make one in vindication of her Majesty's Government. (Hear, hear, and much confusion.) I wish I really could induce the House to give me five minutes more. (Roars of laughter.) I stand here to-night, sir —(here the noise in the House became so great that the hon. gentleman could not rrecced fox some time. When the confusion had subsided be said)— I stand hero to-night, sir, not formally but in some degree virtually, the representative of a considerable number of members of Parliament. (Bursts of laughter). Now why smile ? (continued laughter)— why envy me? (Here the laughter became long and general.) Why should not I have a tale to unfold to-night? (Roars of laughter.) Do you forget that band of 158 members—those ingenuous and inexperienced youths, to whose unsophisticated minds the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in those tones of win ning pathos—(Laughter, and cries of 'Question.') Now, a considerable misconception exists in the minds of many members on this side of the House as to the conduct of her Majesty's Government with respect to these elections, and I wish to remove it. I will not twit the noble lord oyposite with opinions which are not ascribable to him or to his more immediate supporters, but which were expressed by the mote popular section of his party some few months back. (' Question, question.') About that time, sir, when the bell of our cathedral announced the death of the monarch—( c Oh, ch,' and much laughter)— we all read then, sir (groans, and cries of `Oh')—we all then read-- (laughter and great interrup- tion)—l know nothing which to me is more delightful than to chew courtesy to a new member, par titularly if he happens to appeal to me from the party opposed to myself. (Hear, hear.) At that time, we read, it was the death-knell of Toryism, that the doom of that party was sealed, and their funeral obsequies were about to he consummated. (Laughter.) We are told that with a dissolution of that much-vilified Parliament which the right hon. baronet bad called together the hopes and I prospects of the Tories would be thrown for ever to the Iwinds—(laugh)er)—and that affairs were again brought to exactly what they were at the period when the hurried Mr. Hudson rushed into the Vatican. (Laughter.) I do not impute these sanguine views to the noble lord himself particularly, because I remem ber that shortly afterwards the noble lord, as if to check the new and sanguine expectations of his followers, came forward with a manifesto informing them that the I Tories could not expire in a moment, but the Ministry in a reformed Parliament might depend upon having a work- I ing majority of 100, which was to be extended on great occasions to 125 and 130. Nov.?, sir—(` Question, ques tion.') This is the question, and lam going to ask the, noble lord for our instruction. (' Oh, oh,' and great inter ruption.) We wish to know this simple fact, whether the great occasion on which the working majority was to increase from 100 to 125 or 130 is upon the question of an election ballot—(cheers and groans) ; and whether the Grenville Act has not been held up to the odium of the country ; and whether it has not been given forth to the. people that it is impossible an impartial tribunal can -be obtained in this House. (` Oh, oh ! " Question, question.') If lion. members think it fair thus to interrupt me, I will submit. (Great laughter.) I-would not act so towards any one ; that is all I can say. (Laughter, and cries of 'Go on.') But I beg simply to ask—(' Olt ! ' and loud laughter.) Nothing is so easy as to laugh. (Roars of laughter.) I really wish to place before the House what is our position. When we remember all this—when we remember that in spite of the support of the hon. and learned member for Dublin and his well-disciplined phalanx of patriots, and in spite of all this we remember the amatory eclo,,ue— ,roars of laughter) —the old loves and the new loves, that took place between the noble lord the Tityrus of the T o, r )l e l a a su ia ry lig l i l l e t n e V t t lo a d i c l ri t e l s ie i,i len , t ( tg t t ani;) l Lnewii ! c l:,i a s i lc ,p ea ca rcl .e — d as a fresh instance of the moor in redintegratio--(exces sive laughter) ; when w e room) er at th e same time that with mancipated Ireland and ensl ave d E ng l and ; on the or'.e hand A triumphant nation, on the other a groanint! people ; and, notwithstanding the noble lord, secure on tie pedestal of power, may hold in one hand the keys of :11. Peter, and ---here the hon. menthe'. was iuterrupt e d w i t h , iteirlond and incessant bursts of laughter that it was impossible to know whether he closed 1113 sentence or not.) The hon. member concluded in these wf;rds : Now, 1111•. Speaker, we see the phih , sopl.leal prejudices of Mar, (Laughter and chef , rs.) I rt.speet cheerv., even when they conic from the lips of political opponents. (Renewed Intwhter.j I thick. sir ---(hear, hear, and repeated cries of ' Question, questi,n 'l—l am not at all surprised, sir, at the reception which I have received. (Con tinued laughter.) I have begun -several tines several things—flaughterj—and I have - often succeeded at last. (Fresh cries of ' Question.') Ay, sir, and though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me. The honourable member lelivered the last sentence in a very loud tone, and resumed 3is seat amidst cheers from the Opposition and much laughter fr an the Ministerial benches. "Lord STANLEY (now Earl Derby) spoke next„:"—.17;;;;; - ; null Saturday Journal. of December loth. 1R37, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1868. THE NOVEMBER STAR SHOWERS. The Daily News comments on the recurrence again this year of the November star showers, speaking of it as the most remarkable fact yet recorded concerning those mys terious bodies, the meteors. "In the first place, the mere occurrence of the display is remarkable, without any reference to the part of the world in which it was seen. We believe that no instance is on record of the appearance of a shower in four successive years. In 1865 a well-marked display was seen in parts of Europe ; in 1E66, as we all remember, a splendid shower was seen in England ; in 1867 a fine shower was seen in America ; and, lastly, this year a shower has been seen in England. Now, when we come .to consider the real meaning of this succession of showers, we are at once struck with the marvellous extent of the meteoric zone. The part of the zone to which the shower of 1865 was due had moved off upwards of 500 millions of miles at the hour when we were watching the display of 1860, and at the same hour the part which was to cause the display of 1867 was more than 500 millions of miles from us (measuring along the zone itself). Here, then, at once we had an extension of the richly-strewn part of the meteor-zone over I,COO millions of miles. But now we find that we must assign to it a yet greater extension, since the part which caused the display of 1867 was more than five hundred millions of miles away from us when Professor Phillips was watching the shower on Saturday at Oxford. All this is very wonderful, bui it is not so much in this light that the occurrence of this year's display is to be wondered at as in another respect Conceive the meteor-z )ne as an enormous ova hoop in space, extending far out beyond the orbit of distant Uranus. That hoop is not fixed, but slowly sliding round (bodily—we are not referring to the swift motion of the individual meteors), so that each year the earth has to advance a little further in its path before reaching the meteor-zone. That fact had been esta blished by observation, and Professor Adams had shewn it to be a necessary result of the attractions to which the meteor band is subjected by the planets. But what has been shewn by the occurrence of a display on Saturday last is even more remarkable ; for we learn from that event that the hoop of meteors is subject to other and irregular changes—which may be compared to the vibrations that might affect areal hoop made of some elastic material—and these changes appear very extraordinary when their extent is considered. The same facts establish the existence of there marvellous vibrations, and the wide range which belongs to them. Last year the display should have attained its maximum at half-past seven, whereas it really did so at half-past nine. In those two hours the earth travelled 130,000 miles, and by that amount the hoop had been twisted out of its mean shape. But this year we have a yet more remarkable change. The display, calculated from that of 1866, should have attained its maximum at about half-past one in th.. afternoon of the 13t1), and, calculated from t hat of lab, year, two hours later. From the splendour of the shower seen by Professor Phillips at Oxford, and by observed at Valentia, it is clear that the display really attaine. its most brilliant phase at about three in the morning of the 14th, or twelve hours after its calculated time. In tv. a hours the earth travels nearly 800,000 miles, and such was the change of place exhibited by the meteor bawl over and above the calculated change due to the 510 w..., progressive shifting dealt with by Professor Adams. at is clear that a long time must elapse before astronometa and mathematicians will be able to master all the intri cacies and peculiarities which characterise the movements of this grand cosmical zone. FOREIGN NOTES. THE PRINCESS ROYAL OP PRUSSIA. It has been confidently asserted in many quarters that the exchange of visits between the Princess Royal of Pnissia and the Emperor Napoleon had a political object. A correspondent of the Statidard, writing from Munich, has some interesting remarks on what he terms this event ful meeting. He says that the aim of the Princess Royal was to tranquillise the Emperor with regard to the future policy of Prussia. The English lady possesses much influence over her husband, and is naturally desirous of peace. She has a sister in South Germany, and near rela tions in Denmark, all of whom might be losers by a con• flict. Her husband at present is no great power in the State, so thoroughly paramount is the great Prussian statesman. But the King is aged, and the probability of his outliving the French Emperor is very small. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance to the sovereign of France to be able to calculate with certainty on the direction which the heir presumptive to the Prussian throne will follow. "To enlighten his Majesty on this point was' the object of the Princess Royal's visit to Paris. In tl.e name of the Crown Prince the Emperor was assured that the jealousy or amour propre of France would on no account be wounded by an attempt to cross the Maine, and thus aggrandise Prussia in that direction. Prussia would conscientiously abide by the provisions of the Treaty of Prague. It would, moreover, fulfil the conditions named in paragraph 5, and be quite ready to annul the violations of paragraph 4, which France, very justly, cannot hut view with distrust." These are very definite statements, but they are not unreasonable. This much is certain : the alliance between the royal houses of England and Prussia must, so far as it goes, be an influence on the side of peace. MURDER AT BLACKBURN. The excitement consequent upon the result of borough election at Blackburn being in favour of the Conservative members, Messrs. Hornby and Feilden, has had a tragical culmination. On Tuesday night, betweel eight and nine o'clock, a weaver named Thomas Whittaker,. about 45 years of age, residing in Brookhouse-fields, was going by Francis-Ann-street, a portion of the town chiefly occupied by the Irish inhabitants, when he was attacked by a number of men, and received a blow which killed him on the spot. A woman named Livesey, who witnessed th fatal affray, stated at the police-station that the deceased was shouting " Hornby for ever ! " when about twenty infuriated Irishmen rushed at him shouting. " Let's kill the Tory - ; "and then they commenced to strike him, brutally kicking him while on the ground. A lite. after eleven o'clock an Irishman, named Thomas Falk. apparently about 22 years of age, was apprehended as. brought to the police-station on suspicion of having bee_ the principal in the murder, and he is now in custody an that charge. On Wednesday afternoon be Wa" brought before the presiding magistrates, when he Ws , - remanded until the case could be fully gone into. Abox six o'clock the same night a police-constable name( Kenyon was passing up Penny-street, another part 'A the town inhabited by the Irish, when he was struck the ground by what is supposed to have been half a brick, thrown by some person who as yet has not been disec vend. The missile came with such force as to complete , smash the constable's helmet and inflict a blow on MY! side of the head which rendered him senseless. He wan at once taken home in a cab by his brother officers, when he now lies in a most precarious condition. It is feared that compression of the brain has set in, and he is not ex p 'ed to recover. LAW AND POLICE. TEE ST. ALBAN'S CASE.—The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have been engaged again on the St. Alban's (Holborn) case, Martin v. Mackonochie, which will form a precedent on the points in dispute. Dr. Stephens continued his opening speech in support of the appellant, Mr. Martin. He contended that lighted candles, when introduced into the holy communion ser vice, became a ceremony, and lawful. The appellant alleged that kneeling or prostrating before the conse crated elements and the use of lighted candled were additions to or alterations of the form prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer. On the part of Mr Mackonochie,the respondent, several reasons were alleged in answer. The discussion on this important case muss necessarily occupy several days. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., is expected to follow Dr. Stephens, and Mr. W. M. James, Q.C., and Dr. Deane, Q.C., will address their lordships on the other side. PERSONATING A VOTER.—A porter, bearing the flaw. of Lawrence Kenny, has been brought up before M. Castellain, at the Liverpool Police-court, on a charge having attempted to personate a voter named Mullin, the Scotland-road polling•booth, where he tendered a vote in that name for Massey and Rathbone, the Liberal can• lidates, and was at once given into custody. In answer to the magistrate, the prisoner, who seems to be a very 4 soft" sort of fellow, said that he was going to his work in the morning, when his wife told him that Mullin was Mlt of town, and that he had better go and vote for him, xnd he did so. The prisoner, at the request of the prose cution, was remanded, and ordered to find bail in two sureties of £l.O. THE WORKING MAN'S CANDIDATE.—A singular elec. tiOneering transanction has come to light at the Guildhall Police court. Mr. Robeit Hartwell, the self•atyled working man's candidate, first for Larubet'a and then for Stoke-upon-Trent, applied for a warrant against two Staffordshire " sons of toil" for robbing him of £2BO. Mr. Hartwell stated that he received an offer o. that sum to pay his expenses if he would retire from th,.. contest, that being " the estimated amount of the expenses he had incurred in London and at Stoke." The money was to be handed to him by " a highly respectable gentle- man," whose name did not transpire; but Mr. Hartwell's two Staffordshire friends bad somehow or other got hold of the money, and were believed to be meditating a trip to New York. Alderman Begley declined to grant a warrant an the information before him. The Church Nezvs gives currency to a report that the Bishop of CatMe has refused to erduin an Oxford gra duate because ho belongcd to the English Church Union. The Arc' bishop of York Las written a letter in reply to a memorial in favour of promoting communion with the Church Of Swede.; and expressed his concurrence with the memorial. His Grace says, " I concur with the opinion .)f the memorialists, and should • hereafter wish to act upon it in any opportunity that may occur—that our Church ought to bo in fu'l communion with the Swedish Church.". Echoes of the Clubs says it will be remembered that Mr. Seely, in one of his attacks on the Adminity for its ex !ravagarce, mentioned the fact that a bargo for tho use of Princo Alfred hal cost more in repairing than, it might have been originally built for. A similar thing is about to occur with the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which wo under stand is about to be repaired at a cost of not. has than CBO,OGO, a small increase in which would Ito sufficient to build and fit out a new vessel. In consequence of a circumstance which has recently happened in Worcester ? Poor-law Union, and which has called forth remarks fro the Lancet and other medical papers, the board of guardians of the Worcester Poor-law Union have just debated the . propriety of continuing the employment of midwives instead of qualified surgeons, and have come to the resolution that 'henceforth surgeons shall be em ployed in all midwifery cases at a stipulated sum, and that the services of the union midwives shall be dispensed with. It was urged by Mr. Longmore, one of the guar dians who brought the motion before the board, that not only were the claims of humanity strong—as shewn in the cane referred to—but that an actual saving in_ expense would be effected, cause, from the accession of Washington till the ad- vent of President Jackson. It was with the al- ministration of that officer that the present system was inaugurated, which Mr. Jenckes hopes to de stroy, and which, we believe, he will succeed in doing during the administration of President Grant. Jackson's motto was simple ; he regarded politics as a fight for power, the spoils belonging to the vic tor, and from that date, 40 years ago, the political aid given to the candidate for office has been held more binding than any qualifications. A. more fatal system could not be devised, but it did not act with the present force till after the war, when the Civil Service increased to such huge proportions. Of the 50,000 officers, exclusive of those requiring the Senate's confirmation, 30,000 are in the postal de partment, and the 20,000 in the various public offices are within the scope of Mr. Jenckes' Bill. Of these, 1 the Department of the Treasury numbers more than all the others combined. Sine collect the Customs, some assess and collect the internal revenue, look after the lighthouses and the coast survey; many are in the office of the Treasury of the United States—in that of the Register of the Treasury, the Amr.tors and Comptrollers, the Loan Ddpartm,mt, Comptroller of the Currency, the Bureaux of In ternal Revenues and Statistics, printing and issuing currency,revenue cutter service,inspection of steam boats and steam boilers, special agencies, police and detectives, special agents in the Bureau of the Com missioner of Customs. The Department of the Interior numbers, be sides the general staff, the officers in the Gene ral Land Office, who have charge of all busi- ness relating to the public lands those in the Patent Office, including many skilled in technology in the Indian Office and in the Pension Office. The War Department includes that of the Quartermaster, the Subsistence, and the Pay Departments ; the offices of the Surgeon- General, the Ordnance, the Adjutant-General, the Engineer, the Freedman's Bureau, and the bureaux in charge of the Washington Aqueduct and public buildings. The Navy Department comprises all its many clerks at Washington, as well as the bureaux and commissions of the navy yards throughout the country. Most of the offices of the Department of State require the confirmation of the Senate, com posed as they are, the,diplomatic service of the United States, but the clerks and others employed at Wash ington are insignificant in number. The Post-office Department includes the clerks at Washington, and in the principal post offices throughout the country. Mr. Jenckes' Bill proposes to establish a Board of Commissioners to ascertain and determine the standard of qualification required for each class ' and grade of these inferior offices, no appointment being permitted until the candidate shall have passed the required examination, and shall have served satisfactorily during the period of probation, when he will be entitled to a permanent place in the service. The Commissioners will receive, if this bill passes, ample powers to establish rules and regulations to govern examinations and probations for the admis sion of all candidates to the public service and to eject all deficient in these qualifications, or who may be inefficient or incompetent from any other cause. In reply to 37 questions submitted to a large number of civil officers the testimony was almost unanimous in favour of the change, making the ser vice permanent, appointing at first to the lowest grade after a rigid test examination, and requiring all officers to undergo such examination before promo tion. Many thought that the work could be better performed under the system now recommended by two-thirds of the officers at present employed, and men better educated, more talented, and of higher character would enter the service. Several speak very favourably of women as clerks, but their duties appear to be wholly confined to copying, in which work they compare favourably with the men for diligence and efficiency. This is almost unanimously the testimony--some even rating their intelligence higher; but Mr. Sargent, Commissioner of Customs, has the hardihood to declare that he has got rid of his female employees; although some were good clerks as a rule, they were less reliable and efficient than males, and more difficult to govern. Ile would be unwilling to trust the unravelling of confused and erroneous statements to such, pursuing the errors through a long series of returns, as he had never yet seen the wo:nan equal to the task. S. M. Clark, Chief of Printing Division, National Currency Bureau, gives a curious account of his examination in August, 1e , 56. Mr. Redman was then chief clerk, and Major Barker and Mr. M‘Keati, two prominent fourth -clays clerks, composed the Board. Major Barker commenced the examination by saving, " You are from New York, I believe, Mr. Clark?" and on learning that he was, the major gave a detailed narrative of his first visit, graphi cally describing the disturbance created in his mind by the noise and confusion of the great`eity ; to which Mr. Clark• listened attentively, that the reference therein to his examination might not be lost on him. The narrative took half an hour, and Clark was in despair, for if there was any reference, he had failed to detect it. He was, however, relieved on the close by, the narrator saying to his associate examiners, ." Well, gentle men, I suppose there is ❑o doubt Mr. Clark is qua lified," upon which they all signed the certificate, and the examination closed. The chief coiner of the United States Mint, A. Loudon Snowden, is almost as expert in coining grand sentences as money, for he writes as follows :—" To those who accomplish this great work will belong the honour of having inaueurated a new era in the history of our country. She will arise from the dust and cast off her old garments stained with the corruption of the times, and in a new and spotless robe march on to the accomplishment of her great destiny—on a second great proclamation of her emancipation. It is in view of these important and vital considera tions I witness with profound satisfaction the efforts of patriotic men at Washington to reorganize the Civil Service of the United States upon a sound and enduring bash ; and I do but speak the words of soberness and truth in declaring that he who most prominently identifies himself with this reform, who labours most earnestly, and strikes most fearlessly and effectively against the present defec tive and corrupt system, will secure a place in our history, and in the hearts of all true lovers of our country, that alone can be occupied by him who does a great and enduring work in behalf of the highest and noblest interests of our people and age." John W. Douglas, collector of Internal Revenue, Erie, removed one of his subordinates for the suffi cient reason that he was a consistent thief, and an inconsistent preacher. Mr. Shriner urges Govern ment to dismiss all spies and informers who harass the people and eat up their substance. Many offi cers advocate rigorous punishment in cases of le venue fraud. The testimony is sa vast, collected all over the Union, from hundreds of officers of all grades in the service, that it is impossible to do more than cursorily glance at their evidence here. The fuller opinions then come of former Presidents and other prominent citizens, followed by extracts from the most striking articles on the subject( in the Press, among which we must express our surprise at not being honoured with a place. Appendix F. is devoted to the Civil Service of China, which is of so interesting a character that we purpose to dis cuss itby itself in a future number. The Civil Service of Prussia is next described ; then the English Ser vice; after which the French Service, besides two full and complete reports on the Civil Service of France and the United Kingdom. The clauses of the pro posed bill are then given, together with two speeches delivered by the lion. Thomas A. Jenckes, the first in January, 1867, and the other last May. 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The former claims a sum of £1,800,000 as indemnification for her share in the im moveable property of the fortresses belonging to the extinct Confederation. The Southern States urge that the Treaty of Prague gave Austria a right only to the moveable property of those fortresses, and that the com mission of April 1867 satisfied all claims on that point. The Cabinet of Vienna seems disposed, however, to per sist in its demands. ITALY. The Florence correspondent of the Sickle maintains, all contradictions notwithstanding, that the evacuation of Rome by the French troops is still the subject of active negotiation. It is certain, says this writer, that General Menabrea has taken the initiative in this matter, and has demanded, through the Chevalier Nigra, the departure of the French troops and the re-establishment of the status quo binder the convention of September. The Italian Ambassador at Paris received answer that there could be no doubt of the stability of the Italian Government, and the general support which it received in the country, but that a return to the September Convention would be attended by consequences equally disastrous for both countries. The only condition on which the French troops could be withdrawn was, the establishment of official relations between Italy and Rome. The Menabrea Cabinet persevered and presented several projects for a modus rirendi, but without success. It finds itself at present in a most awkward dilemma. It is anxious to settle the Roman question to strengthen its position, which is the reverse of stable at present; but it cannot make too much concession without offending the Italian nation. It is certain that an attack upon the Ministry is pro jected for the opening of the Chamber of Deputies. Should it be successful, it is thought that Rattazzi will be the most likely successor to Menabrea. SPAIN. The long period of uncertainty which has elapsed since the revolution is beginning to produce its results in open disturbance as well as secret intrigue. At Seville a deplo rable struggle has taken place between the authorities and the people. A band of some four or five hundred, who received arms in the early days of the revolution, have refused to give them up, and a severe struggle between the troops and the mob was necessary in order to secure the triumph of order. It is not surprising that these events should occur ; it is really surprising that quiet has been preserved so long without a permanent govern. ment. Speculation as to the result of the approach ing " appeal to the country " is still very vague. It is generally maintained that the monar chists still preserve the superiority. The period of activity which has been inaugurated by the publication of the (Mown manifesto is producing favourable results. But this manifesto really renders the future still more doubtful. As the Indtiendance Beige observes, a compro mise which proposed an electoral monarch, supported by national representation by household suffrage, is really granting the substance of republicanism and scarcely pre serving the shadow of monarchy. THE KII.G (1? SIAM. The late King of Siam deserves a parting word of respect. He was a good sovereign and a great friend to commerce. Under his rule his people made great advances in civilisation and prosperity. Friendly relations between England and Siam were opened in IEIS by the interven tion of Sir Jahn Bowring. The English representative, after a little diplomatic difficulty, was accorded a grand reception, and afterwards had a private interview with the King. The two became intimate friends. In 1857 an embassy from Siam was presented at Windsor. They, crawled up the floor of the audience•hall to the throne, and afterwards offered their magnificent presents. They were served with luncheon in the Waterloo Chamber, where they inno cently drew out and lighted their pipes. It was a strange and interesting scene. The question of a successor to this worthy monarch is of some importance. THE AMERICAN CIVIL SERVICE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The first step taken by Congress to establish Federal officers beyond those especially created by the Constitution was in July, 1789, when the Secretary of State and a chief clerk were appointed to manage n a affairs, these two officers sufficient for the purpose. Before h Civil Service of the United tbeeieon considered itie there dConstitution, foreign s ut hffi e States included only the officers appointed by the Congress of the Confederation, the entire adminis tration being under the individual States, who ap pointed and it was not till the ion, which itself created independent of the States sa p eci o vo i e n pr t ta e i lo d nF t e h od e f i e r rt aholewoll officers own officers; and superior to them for Federal purposes, that the power to create United States officers came into being. Following on the Act which created the Department of Foreign Affairs was one to regulate the collection of duties, another which established the War Department, and a series of Acta made provision for the coasting trade, registering and clearing vessels, light-houses, &c., by which several of the State Departments, were transferred to the United States. Then followed the Treasury De partment, and finally an Act was passed, Septem ber, 1789, authorizing the Heads of Departments to appoint such clerks therein respectively as neces sary, their salary being limited to $5OO per annum. From these small beginnings commenced a Civil Service, now perhaps one of the greatest in the world, and certainly the worst organized ; and no man could have devoted himself to • a more useful task than that undertaken by Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island. President Washington spoke of the employe's as a mere handful, and he was able, the number being so limited, to bestow great care on the selection of each. Acts being afterwards passed establishing duties on distilled spirits and their retail sale—on carriages, stamps, snuff ; on property sold at auction:, and regulating the collec tion of duties on imports and tonnage—the persons and offices were increased, but no authentic record of their roll was given until 1862, when President Jefferson transmitted one to Congress. From this statement the officers in the Customs then num bered 713, drawing an annual salary of $439,567 ; the whole of the force not equalling the number at present in the New York Custom-house alone. The Internal Revenue officers were 493, drawing $113,000 ; the postmasters, 994, drawing $69,900 ; land officers, 8, drawing $4,765 ; the remainder summing up4l4, at an annual total cost of $445,000. The service now numbers more than 53,000, at an annual expenditure of $30,000,000. It was not till 1816 that a register was required by Congress of all officers—civil, military, and naval, to be compiled every two years, which has since been continued, the first small octavo volume of 190 pages containing 5,608 names published in 1817, having swollen to the Blue Book of 1867, contain ing 8 7 8 large octavo pages, with over 60,030 names. The power of appointment is vestei in a President, or heads of departments, or courts of law; the patronage of the latter extending only to the officers of the courts. During the term of Jef ferson 39 officers were removed. Mr. Madison re moved five; Mr. Monroe, nine; Mr. John Quincy Adams, two ; and the careful inquiry of the com mittee could not bring to light a case of removal among the inferior officers, whose dismissal did not require the sanction of the Senate, except for good THE SOUTHERN STATES. LOUlSlANA.—Particulars of the murder of Colo nel 11. Pope, who formerly commanded the 331 Illi nois Volunteers, are now given. He was Sheriff of the parish of St. Mary, which has gained so unen viable a notoriety in Louisiana, and he was seated on the gallery at the door of .; his room when he was approached stealthily by the murderers, who, with out warning, riddled his head with bullets, and he fell dead to the ground. At the moment Judge Valentine Chase, of the same parish, was in the room of his friend Colonel Pope, and tried to save his own life, but was shot through the head when he got to the rear of the hotel, his body being left in the street weltering in blood. A committee has just reported on these outrages which as a whole they were appointed by the General Assembly to investigate— " The conduct of the late elections, and the condition of peace and order in the State." They have examined personally 141 witnesses ; have received 81 letters from various responsible and respectable witness s, and have taken 350 copies of all lavits from the originals in the possession of the Senate and 110.. be committees on elections and returns. They have, in addition to this, compiled fro:n the published and un con tradicted. and well authenticated state ments which appeared in the public papers, much valuable information, with regard to which other and more direct testimony was not available without great expense and delay. . . "It is," they say, " also proper and necessary to state, as a suggestive commentary upon the present condition of the peace and order of the State, that the committee have met with great difficulty in procuring the testimony of per sons present in the city of New Orleans, who are cognizant of a great number of cases of outrage and murder in different parts of the State. The reluc tance of these persons to testify has arisen from the danger which they assert—and which the com mittee believes to exist—of violence to their persons and property, and even of the loss of their lives, rom the vengeance and anger of lawless and dis- loyal persons in their respective neighbourhoods. Your committee are of the belief that not one tithe of the murders and outrages actu ►lly committed during the time embraced in our examination ap pears in the present report, owing to the shortness of the time given, and the other reasons above set forth." They aid that " much of the la.whs-iness is also due to the neglect of the offic2r3 of the law." The report occupies 6:5 pages Bvo., and contains a detailed account of the murders, maiming, whipping, and outrages of every description that have been lately inflicted on both white and coloured men. These statements are in many instances supportel by at/Hal/its—in others they are confirmed by the officers in the Freedmen's 13.ireau—but in many instances the reign of terrorism is absolute, and the very persons injured, as well as the witnesses of the outrages, were convinced that were they to testify in that regard their lives would surely be taken. Appended is a recapitulation in tabular form of the cases alluded to, and the parishes in which the brutal scenes took place : d n:i c,) ▪ 0 "sw Parishes. ls! Orleans Jefferson 4 3 10 Carr01l Plaquemines St. Tammany 3 ... Bienville Teusas 9 ... 3 Jackson Madison Bossier 5 3 St. Helena Nachitoches St. Landry 23 416 A.voyelles Ouachita Claiborne 7 1 7 Caddo Franklin ...57 4 6 West Feliciana 4 2 Rapides l4 517 Total .52 7-7.! •=. 7:3 Parishes .-. 2 4 Terrebonne 16 1 2 Lafourcho Morehouse l4 3 5 Lafayette 4 2 6 Calcasieu De Soto Livingston •.• 2 I E. Baton Rouge... 1 ... 2 W. Baton Rouge Point Coupee ..... 3 ... 1 East Feliciana. 1 St. Mary 1 5 St. Martin Catahonia, Concordia .• St. Charles ... • 1 Assump tiou St. John Baptist 1 ... St. Jas. & Asc'ns'n 3 ... 3 204 51 143 Colonels Johnson, Young, and Badger, Union officers, have been turned out of the Custom-house of New York ; the last, being a native of the State, comes under the Southern designation of a " scala wag," the peculiar aversion of a Southerner, and all the worse, as General Butler gave him his commis sion as colonel of a loyal Louisiana regiment. The appointment of General Steedtnan (who has since resigned), as Chief of Police, by General Rousseau, has given great dissatisfaction to the Radicals in the North, as he is a strong Conservative, with opinions more "pronounced" than the chief dismisse I by the Commissioners for mustering out the negroes, of whom it was necessary to get rid, as not only was their colour an incentive to outrage, but when their services were most required they vanished. General Rousseau issued a proclamation prohibiting political processions and demonstrations of all kinds at present, urging the citizens to aid his force in maintaining peace, and he has announced that the laws will be enforced and the peace of Louisiana defended at all hazards. Some say that the military cannot be relied on, as one regiment sta tioned at New Orleans was largely composed of Confederates. The accounts differ as to who were moat to blame for the numerous murders constantly reported. The editor of the New Orleans Crescent wrote on behalf of the Democratic State Committee to Mr. Belmont giving a version very unfavourable to the negroes ; but they are the victims, and, although not free from blame, are driven to de fend themselves, and in instances to retaliation. On Saturday, the 24th Oct., a fight took place between some negro and Democratic clubs, which soon be came apparently a general attack on the negroes. During the night three whites and six blacks were killed, while many more were wounded ; and the m ob was finally dispersed by a squadron of cavalry. Sunday there was a similar riot in St. Bernard parish, adjoining and below the city, in which one white man and two negroes were killed—while at night the negroes attacked the house of a Spanish baker, killed him and his son and sister-in-law, and after wards burned his house, as well as two others, in one of which it is said there were four children. Troops were sent to the scene of the trouble, Mon day, and seem to have succeeded in quelling the disturbance. TENNESSEE.—The story of the destruction of the arms near Memphis is gradually coming to light, and revelations are promised which will astonish the Ku-Klux themselves. Captain Ford of the tug spent the afternoon in the Ilesper, watching the stowing of the arms and ammunition, and putting so many questions that he excited the suspicion of Captain Houston. At first Captain Houston and his brother were suspected of being in alliance with the Ku-Klux, but inquiry soon dissipated that error. No men on the river are more hated by the fire-eaters, who attribute to them the loss of the battle of Pea Ridge. At the time he was the owner of an Arkansas river boat, which was loaded with ammunition for the Confede rate Army, whose Government had a Confederate agent on board hurrying it up. At a point on the river the captain shipped two horses, telling his brother he intended to snag and sink the ship in deep water, when the horses would be useful in making their way to Curtis' command. Houston succeeded in sinking his boat with all the ammuni tion, though not in making his escape, for he was captured and chained in a dungeon for 18 months till released by the advance of the Union Army. At least, such is the gory told by a correspondent- of the New York lribune, who thus goes on :--Go vernor Clayton, well knowing the desperate char acter of the undertaking of shipping these arms up the Arkansas, after the Rebel howl that had been set up about them, and well knowing his man, chose •Captaia Houston for the job. No expectation was entertained of getting up the Arkansas without a fight with the organized bands of Ku-Klux, and preparation was accordingly made for a guard of 100 armed men to get on board at Helena. On the night before the little steamer sailed from Little Rock, two friends visite I the captain's house in the outskirts of the town, and warned hiea not to venture out, saying that a party would certain!) , waylay and kill him if he did. The next morning it was ascertained that during the night a number of the Ku-Klux boarded the boat and assassinated a younger brother of the captain while he was asleep in his berth. His skull was stove in by an axe. While lying here in Memphis receiving the arms on board the captain was conscious that his every move was watched, but he thought that once under way no trouble need be apprehendel until entering the Arkansas. With the appearance of the tug, however, flying her Ku-Klux ensigns, he was appre hensive that her intention was to run him down in the middle of the stream, so that the hated arms, Houstons, and all, might go to the bottom to gether. Not to be caught iu such a trap he at once ran in shore. The pirates once on board began an indiscriminate firing and demanded the arms and the Houstons. The captain and his brother, however, had no intention of thus being murdered, and scrambled up the bank for the woods, several shots being sent after them while climbing the hill, from one of which the brother received a severe wound in the heal. After the Houstons had escaped, the rebels' attention was turned to the arms, the tug mean time being lashed fast to the steamer, and the two moving slowly up stream. The first report of the crew of the tug was that, the boxes being broken open, the arms were passed up from the boll to those on deck, who, takinl them one by one, broke them over the wale of the boat, and threw them into the river. It was insisted, and I believe is pretty well stuck to yet by the otlic?rs an 1 crew of the tug, that all of the arms were thus destroyed. The story of the crew of the steamer, however, as well as facts since brought to light, disproves the story. Indeed, it is now tolerably certain that several hundred, perhaps a thousand, of these arms were put into the tug and landed on -the Missis sippi shore fifteen miles below here. It is said on credible authority that many of the arms were car ried in the tug, and we now have intelligence by " Grape-Vine Telegraph," or from coloured sources, that several waggon-loads of muskets were teamed from the river into the country. TEXAS.—William G. Kirkman, an agent of the Freedmen's bureau in North-eastern Texas, was murdered at Boston, in that State, October 7, and in consequence of the recent and rapidly multiply ing outrages on Union men, General Reynolds, military commander for that State, issued an order authorizing all civil officers and all military commissioned officers of every grade to arrest on the spot any person wearing a mask or other dis guise, and hold him for trial. GEORGIA.—In Georgia the Democrats were con fident of carrying the State, and anticipated a ma jority of 20,000. They held a great meeting at Augusta, while the negro Republicans met at Sa vannah, where they indulged in some loose and foolish talk. SOUTH CAROLINA.—There have been half a dozen incendiary fires in the vicinity of Charleston, S.C., lately, which are laid to negroes, in retalia tion for the outrages committed on their race. Wade Hampton and others of the Democratic com mittee for the State have issued an address against assassination, which would have been better received before some hundreds of loyal men had been murdered, though still welcome. ARKANSAS.—James Hinds, a member of Con gress from the Second Arkansas district, was assas sinated Friday, Oct. 23, while travelling through MonrGe county, and Joseph R. Brooks, who was with him, was dangerously wounded. The murder was done by George A. Clark, secretary of the Democratic committee of the county, who was drunk at the time, and who has been arrested. Jas. Coolsey, a leading Republican of the same county, was murdered a few days ago ; and at Dacdanelle, Ark., on the 20th, there was a fight between citizens and 50 negroes, in which the latter were defeated. There are now at St. Louis ten thousand stand of small arms purchased for the Government of Ar kansas, but no steamer can be got to take them on, and it is to be hoped none will be found till the State is more quiet, or they will probably meet the fate that overtook the former consignment. Other items of Southern news are—Forrest has published a challenge to General Kilpatrick on account of remarks made about him in his recent speeches. On the 23th ult. Mr. Rocheroch killed the son of a prominent Democrat in Wayne county. Mayor Thomas issued a proclamation on the 29th October with a view to prevent riotous proceediugg• Besides closing all drinking saloons he orders that no minors will be allowed to be on the _streets on Tuesday, the day of the elections, and that all public and private schools should be closed. The latest despatch from Little Rock :is as follows : —On the 24th inst., while Capt. Willis, Bureau agent, Capt. Porter Andrews, Capt. Prosser, and Sheriff Stuudle were en route to Rocky Comfort, in Little River County, they were fired upon by the Ku-Klux-Klan, who were concealed in the brush. Capts. Andrews and Wilts were killed, and the Sheriff was badly wounded. Before the band had finished their murderous work, a negro came along, who was killed. Not far from this place they wet another negro and killed him. Capt. Scott, Senator from that county, is in cl inger, and the loyal citi zens have turned out to protect him. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... Tho. 5 Ditto, via Yr Arsenics .......... ....... ..... ....Nov 30 Ditto, via Pt.i_ama Nov 23. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Dec. 4. Ditto, by French paokot .. Nov. 22. Cape Yerds, by Brazil paoket ... . Dec. 4 Gape of Good Llope, Ascension. and St. Helena.— D o. 13. Mina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. Nov. 2 1 . Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov 21 ludia,via Southampton ..... . ••• •••• unto, via Uaraeilies Malta, Egypt, & J. Dec. 4 Ditto, Marseilles Nov, 22 Ilaurittus, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton DUO, Marseiiles NT ov. 13 Sewfoundla nct ...... • ..... ..... • • .... .....:... —Nov 13 Portugal ..... United States, , anada, California, &c., by British packet Ditto, by Canadian paoket ..• .•• • .......Nov 27 Ditto, by L. Lited states packet Ditto clittt (Baltimore) West Indies and Paoilio (except Mexico and Baha mas) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Dec. 4 Falkland Islands .. Deo 4• Cuba and Mexico Baha.nas, via New York Bermuda, via Halifax .... ...... . Chief Justice Chase is to leave Washington fo r Savannah, Georgia, where he is to hold a session of tii° United States Court. General Cassius C. Fairchild died on Saturday morning, Oct. 21, at Milwaukee, from the effects of ti wound received at Shiloh. William C. Kirkham, Freedmen's Bureau Agen t ' was murdered at Boston, Texas, on the 7th October. THE AMERICAN HAY QUESTION. —At the 'fleeting of the council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce , 0 1 Thursday, it was decided to memorialise the Chancellor 0 the Exchequer to remove the restrictions uponhe impor tatiou of American hay. [ADVERTISEMENT.J - Holloway's Pills.—The Beaty,. Remedy.---When winter sets in the human constitutiol undergoes many trials, from some of which diseas e spring unless the blood, repelled from the surface of 0 0 body, finds organs capable of receiving it, and secreti ol3 a , adapted to consume it. This preservative po wer is ~;15, m irably displayed by proper doses of Holloway's r" which relieve the liver, kidneys, and bowels from uncl'l congestion by immediately augmenting their secretiol3: and so diverting any surplus quantity of blood from ; situation where its coutinued presence must be m ischiev o ,, With these Pills, and an attentive perusal of their a cco s panying " directions," neither great judgment norm h experience is required to conduct even the delicate throa the trying time of winter. Births. tio BROWNE— n the 17th inst., at 9, Dorchester-square, I 0 wife of T. Ll. Murray Browne, barristor-at-la tv t SOn. 0 1 '1 BURGESS—On the 16th inst., at 35, L ower Baget-S a. Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Burgess, of a daughter. Leo' SMITH— On the 17th inst., at Warrior House, P" I' °e' nard's, the Lady Susan Smith, of a son. Marriages. 10 0 ' PEPYS —COOTE —On the 17th inst., At St. G tD S over-square, the Hon. Henry Leslie Pepys, to younger daughter of the late Charles Jas. Coo Liout Liout -Col. 18th Royal Irish. THiturp—BnowELL—On the 17th inst., at Volthttilaci,ol F. Thrupp, Esq., of the Royal Canadian Rifles, t° Frances, second daughter of E. M. Browell, Es+ oar yerf Deaths. BABKER —On the 16th inst., at Brighton, Georg e Esq., of Stanlake Park, Belo, aged 72. f JOD II BOURKE —On the 17th inst., at 13, A rlington -: ; tr°e " Bourke, Esq., aged 65. Ad el- B R ACHER—On the 16th inst. at his residence it?. tl, —e phi, John Bracher, aged 4"1. f g 3 1j89 LE BLANc —On the 16th inst., at Northavr, /101.-"' Harriet Le Blanc, aged 85. ifottf e ! WYSDHAM—On the 16th inst. at at Corhamptoll 0 . 0 ,1 4 ,„" Hants, Joinhm*Yeatill'belltr .............. _n, Esel- • i2f.' —_ _--___.-----os, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A 141 ) .? 1,0% of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TRES SUN 011:3, 0 4 C ' pt i 0' Strand, in the Precinct of the SvroY. In thl C2'' I Ilicidleso t —Thurstlay, Noyeullnr 19, 108. C Geo MO too, hr t o o r t! 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