The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-06 00:00:00

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At a quarter to 8, MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter. Mr. Benja min Webster, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Romer, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, A CHARMING PAIR. After which rat 8 o'clock), Dion Boucieault's new drama, in four acts, entitled AFTER DARK. a Talc of London Life. Messrs. Vining. Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray. C. llarcourt, I G. Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds ant assistants. To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 0, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE. Messrs. Belford, Harcourt; Miss Longmore. After which, THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. 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Agent for the .1. , l •: C.nupany. Orders by octet atten,bo ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, LEFT TO HIMSELF. After which, in five acts, at a quarter to 8, THE RIGHTFUL HEIR To con elude with THE LYCEUM BALLET. Messrs. Baudmann, G. F. Neville, Lin Rayne, Harding, Basil Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Milly Palmer, &c. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Tilts EVENING, at 7, A CHARMING PAIR. After which, at 8, AFTER DARK, a Tale of London I.ife: Mr. Vining, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murrivy; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston : Miss Emma Barnet and Miss lioseLcclercq. Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL Tais EvEstsu, at 7, UP FOR THE CATTLE SHOW. At 7.45 MO \IE CRISTO: Messrs. Fechter, B. Webster, 0. Beirnore, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart. Ashley, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, I,Vs H. h borne. R. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leelereq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. 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Grand Ballet Divertissement. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tina EVENING, A CO- , PER TIVE MOVE ‘I ENT. Messrs. Kendal, Compton, &c. After which, LEAH: Messrs. Howe, Ro gers, Kendal, Braid, Clark, F. Buckstone, White, Weathersby, &c.; Mesdames Bateman, Franeis,Wright, Maccabe, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Coleman, &c. And A PRETTY PIEUE OF BUSINESS : Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, &c. Commence at 7. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Tnrs EVENING, at 7.10, MARRIED DAUGHTERS: Messrs. Day, Russell, and Dewar; Mesdames Thompson. Bromley, and M. Oliver. After which, THE RISE A.ND FALL OF NICHARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar, Vt.. Danvers; Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con• :Jude with THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton. THIS EVENING, ATCHI ! Messrs. Blakeley and Montague; Misses Addison and A. 'Wilton. After which, SOCIETY : Messrs. J. Clarke, Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White and Miss C. Addison. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Tnrs EVENING, BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. And at 7.4.5, LAND RATS AND WATER RATS: Mavis. Mr. Creswick; Jonas. Mr. Shepherd; Messrs. E. F. Edgar, Vollaire, W. Crosby, Ni at. Robson: Miss Paunce/ort. Miss Elizabeth Webster, Miss E. Leonard. With MILES'S BOY. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tins EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Avolo, the Marvel of the Nineteenth Century, Alfred Bradbury, Mdlle. Montero, M. Napoli, F. Clifton, and Samwell's Performing Dogs. Commence at 7.30. A,TRICULT URAL HA 1.15, ISLINGTON.—FAIRY PALACE CONCERTS, Every Evening, at 8. CFIRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at S Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round. ROYAL AL ET AMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex eept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 61 wirgtJ Suu LOiVDON, 711URSDAY, NOT'. 5, 1868. The incidents of the General Election are begin ning to number up before it actually commences. At Blackburn the first life has been lost, a man having been unhappily killed there in a conflict with the police. At Tamworth the canvassers for Sir HENRY BULWER have been disgracefully bludgeoned by the supporters of Mr. JOHN PEEL, the latter being 'apparently infuriated at the notion of any such audacious interference with a close borough hitherto delivered up to hereditary representation. At Sheffield Mr. ROEBUCK is malignantly opposed by the Trades' Unionists, and strenuously supported— almost to a man—by the Publicans. At Preston Lord EDWARD HOWARD has but just declared him- self r. convert to the Ballot, like so many other of the reforming candidates now appeal ing to the Liberal constituencies. At Green- with—an extra-suburban borough, which had been very judiciously prepared, almost from the first, as a sort of padded mattress upon which to break the dreaded fall of Mr. GLADSTONE in the midst of his extraordinary and unprecedented performance, a kind of double back summersault hitherto unit. .empted, or even undreamt of, upon the political trapeze of South West Lancashire—another Con servative candidate appears, side by side with Sir lIENny PARKER, in the person of Earl STANHOPE'S son and heir, Viscount MAlloN—with the wicked de sign, says the Star, of ousting, not only Mr. DAVID SALOMONS, but with him the Leader of the Opposition ! At Westminster, that in one sense most unphilosophical and illogical of all men now living, the great Philosopher and Logician, Mr. JOINT STUART MILL, runs imminent risk of losing his seat. And this solely by means of his own wanton, wilful, and most preposterous esca- pades. Such escapades, for example (to call them by a mild name) as his pragmatical interposition be- tween Mr. BOUVERIE and the electors of Kirmar flock with a view to the especially glorification of Mr CHADWICK of the Sewers. Such as his malignant persecution during so many months of ex-Governor EYRE, whose principal guilt was the saving the life and honour of every white woman in Jamaica at the time of the negro insurrection, by his prompt and vi gorous stamping out of which he alone preserved that splendid colony to the Crown of England. Or such another escapade, again, of ?Jr. MILL'S as his back ing up Mr. BRADLAUGH'S candidature down at Northampton, with a complimentary letter and a ten-pound note, in flagrant defiance of the noto rious fact that Mr. BEADLAUGH'S free-thinking views have been even more openly avowed than those of Professor BEESLY, who only the other day pre faced one of his arguments with—" Assuming the existence of a Supernatural Being !" At Lambeth there is noticeable the simultaneous disappearance of the two outgoing representatives—each (though for very different reasons) being regarded as a failure by that great metropolitan constituency ! Mr. DOULTON being bowled out by an astounding revelation of Belgian rebating to the tune of a plum, quite as much as by his participation in the Tea-room Plot, or by his entrance into the Cave of Adullam ! Mr. HUGHES being, in his turn, cold-shouldered out by the Lambzth con stituency, partly because of his total incapa city to realise the expectations formed of him as a Parliamentary speaker (his total incapacity even to catch the ear of the House, or once even, after the precedent of Single Speech IlAmturoN, to cause his voice to be respected), partly because of his im practicable independence as a thoroughly Liberal representative, and not, as so many of the Lambeth electors would fain have had him, far rather by pre ference, viz., a delegate of the small shopkeepers. ThA former (Mr. DOULTON) COOL/ speak upon occasion to the entire satisfaction of the taste if not of the opi nions of the House—he having a very gentlemanly delivery, a good deal of dash, and a delightful amount of self-possession. His colleague (Mr. fluonEs), however, could not speak to our remem brance even upon one solitary occasion, without strongly impressing his hearers with a sense that the author of " TOM Brown's Schooldays" bad 103 t all vigour at once of thought and of expression, and had long since settled down to a deal level of intellectual feebleness. Yet for all that—Mr. HuonEs is (as we hope), Mr. DOULTON is not (as we cannot regret),likely to find elsewhere than at Lambeth a more believing awl a more confiding constituency. A tolerable speaker cm be spared in Mr. DOULTON, but the country can hardly afford to lose the services, once it has been able to appreciate them, of a thoroughly liberal-minded and thoroughly indepen dent representative such as Mr. THOMAS HUGHES—a consistent and enlightened reformer, who if only he will refrain in future from attempting to make speeches that must otherwise cause him to settle down permanently into the position of a recognised bore, we shall gladly see (yesterday M.P. for Lambeth) to-morrow M.P. Frome. Another disappearance from the House be sides Mr. DOULTON'S, not a man in it will be disposed, for one instant, to regret, meaning that of Mr. RALPH EARLE—sometime MT. DISRAELI'S confidential Private Secretary, but of late his flagrantly malig nant, but contemptuously disregarded assailant. Nothing more utterly revolted the good feeling of the House, and this let it be said, quite equally both sides of it, than the spectacle presented to view upon each occasion upon whirl Mr. RALPH EARLE violated all its sense of decorum, and outraged all its love for the common and decent proprietks of civilized life, by attacks upon his Chief, as feeble and futile in themselves, as they were evidences of a personal and deadly hatred. The recurrence of " scenes" like those, the House cannot but be heartily rejoiced to be well rid of. At Nottingham we cannot but hope that Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE may contrive to hold his own in defiance of all opposition, for, in one sense, we " could better spare a better man" among our Liberal politicians—the one wag of the House being, in a manner, indirpenEible. Not after the manner of Mr. JonN lIALDY, any more than of old after the manner of Colonel SIBTHORPE, who was at any rate the " cause of wit in others" by reason of his very fatuity—not after the fashion even of that famous Sir BOYLE ROCHE, who, according to tradi tional report, was, in his d iy, the unconscious jester of the Legislature—Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE has, in his fooling, as much method as ever HAMLET had in his madness. As a rule he jokes on the right side— right, according to our idea, of course, namely, on the side of Liberalism. Re raises a laugh, but always a good humoured laugh, against the enemies of popular advancement. Whatever is im practicablejrivolous, or contemptible, he " spots" upon the instant with a je3t : his quips and his quiddi ties rattling like well-aimed smell shot about the ears of hisantagonistsat every discharge fired off by him as the most skilled of our Parliathentarysharp-shooters. in the midst of the cannonading of the great guns of debate, the rattling fusillade of thatsame sharpshooter always comes to us exhiliratingly. And, therefore, if only as a frequent enlivener of the more serious discussions of the Legislature, Mr. OSBORNE'S familiar presence, it is to hoped, may be recognised among the new members elected, or rather among the old members re-elected, to serve, as long as it may contrive to run out the allotted seven years of its existence, upon the assembling of the Eighth Parlia ment of Queen VICTORIA, down at Westminster. THE Presidential election has not, as was at one time thought probable, terminated in a close contest. General GRANT has been made President by a triumphant majority, both of the Electoral Co g liege and the votes of the people. Owing to the system of -double election, it is quite possible for the President of the United States to be returned by a very small preponderance of votes. The people choose their representatives at the Electoral College, and these elect the President. There is no divided represen tation in the College ; the party which has the majority in any State sends all the deputies for that State. It is therefore easy for one side which has a small advantage over the other in one or two of the most important States, such as Ohio or Pennsylvania, to determine the contest against hostile forces of nearly equal number. But General GRANT is not in this way the representative of but half the nation. He has been chosen by a large majority of the Electoral College, and he has secured a vast preponderance of the popular suffrages. In some States the Repub lican victory was gained more triumphantly even than in 1864 ; and though in others their party has fallen off, the whole result chews that General GRANT is as much the President of the people as was Mr. LINCOLN. Nor are the issues now determined of less importance than those before the country in 1864. Then it was a question whether the great struggle should be abandoned on the eve of victory ; now the American nation has been called upon to decide whether the results which are beginning to manifest themselves shall be discarded for a policy which might lose all that had been gained. In 1864 the United States determined still to support the great principle of union and the abolition of slavery; in 1868 it has been resolved that the system of reconstruction—whatever may be its disadvantages—shall not be exchanged for a policy which is partially undefined, and, so far as it is defined, is in the highest degree dangerous. The result cannot but be gratifying to Europe. In the person of General GRANT the Americans will be governed by an untried politician, but by a man of the highest integrity, and of the greatest good-will to his fellow men. The future of the country is not yet unclouded, all danger has not been overcome ; but the large majority of the Republicans proves that this triumph is as much as possible the triumph of the American people; that one party and one policy must rule; and that any renewal of the disastrous appeal to force is all but impossible. Various causes have contributed to this renewed acquisition of power by the Republicans. Their can didates were excellent " tickets ;" those selected by the Den ecrats were at best indifferent. Mr. SET morn was not the best of the men from whom the Democratic choice had to be made ; and it turns out that General BLAIR was well-nigh the worst. lie is a good soldier, but a general who fought on the side of the North during the war is not a promising DemQ cratic candidate. Moreover, he has shewn himself the most imprudent of politicians. He has advocated ex treme reactionist doctrines, and has done much to alarm the people as to the consequences of a change of policy. General GRANT, on the other hand, is simply the most popular man in America. His candidature has again revived the memory of, the termination of the war, and has enabled the Republicans to rely upon the triumph of the past as well as the issues of the present. Then the Democrats were not prudent in their declarations of policy : with respect to the South their programme was in part one of dangerous reaction, and their advocacy of repudiation lost in the East as much as it gained in the West. The course taken by their opponents was generally prudent, even when it was not high-principled. These considerations, however, could not of themselves have brought about the over whelming defeat of the Democrats. The policy of their opponents has evidently by far the greater hold upon the people; and for the world at large it has one most important recom mendation—it is a continuous policy, and will be attended by none of the consequences which might arise from a doubtful future. It would have been impossible to predict the results of such a change as a Democratic victory would have produced. Mn. BRIGHT is a good hater. There is nothing that he has ever hated so heartily as the minority clause. We do not accuse him of hating it because it has involved him in the turmoil of a contested election, for his seat is as safe as Mr. DfsnAELfs, and the generosity, or rather let us say the justice, of his constituents will provide that it shall cost him nothing. We believe that he honestly dislikes the clause because he believes it to be thoroughly opposed to the spirit of the Con stitution, an innovation in the worst sense of the word. His very strongly manifested dislike shews that there is even in the great Radical leader a hidden stratum of Toryism which dislikes new ideas, and fights against them as personal enemies. We have never been able to sympathise with him in this crypto- Conservatism. We believe that the representation of min• oritiesis . a just and proper thing, and although the presentthree-cornered constituencies are but a clumsy andimperfect means of securingthat principle, exceed ingly clumsy and imperfect when compared with Mr. HARE's plan—it is the best that we have, and is better than nothing. However, we are too near the general election to discuss it at present. What can didates and electors want just now is, not abstract principles, but concrete facts—not political economy, but the state of the poll. It will, therefore, be interesting to inquire how far Mr. BRIGHT'S enemy will help or hurt him and his party in the approach ing fight. Taking the last general election as our basis, we find that there were seven counties which returned three members, viz., Berkshire, Bucks, Oxforcl,Hertfordshire, erefordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Dorsetshire. The three first-named constituencies sent nine Conservatives to the Lower House, whilst each of the four others was represented by one Liberal and two Conservatives. It will thus be seen that in the counties the Liberals have everything to gain and nothing to lose by the restrictive vote. In Berkshire, Bucks, and Oxford the Conservatives have been obliged to with draw one of their men, leaving a Liberal to be returned without opposition. This arrangement does not seem to have satisfied the Liberals of Berkshire, who are now fighting for two seats. In two other comities—Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire—the Liberals are able not only to hold their own, but are contesting for an extra seat. Thus, before the battle commences, the Liberal party will win from their opponents, without the expense of a contest, three votes—counting six on a division. Turning to the borough constituencies, a different scene is presented. Although the Ministerialists have to adopt the inevitable and drop one of their men in the counties, the Opposition are determined to con test every seat in the boroughs. In 1865 there was only one town which returned more than two mem bers,,the City of London. Now, however, five other towns have had an extra representative given to them, viz., Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and Glasgow. Three years ago seven Liberals and three Conservatives were elected by these places. Now there are thirty candidates for the nineteen seats, eighteen of whom swear allegiance to Mr. GLADSTONE and twelve to Mr. DISRAELI. London will pro bably be the first to go through the ordeal of an election with the minority clause. In this borough the Reform Bill has not effected a very great increase in the number of voters, and by adding 2,000 to the number on the register in 1865, we shall be pretty near the mark. This would make 20,000 electors, of whom probably two-thirds would vote. Supposing the Liberals to be as nume rically strong as they were at the last contest, and that the Conservatives were in an equally for tunate position, there is no reason why the four Liberals should not be returned, especially if the electors act up to the instructions issued by the Liberal committee. In 1865 the four Liberals polled an average number of 6,837 votes, while their opponents could not muster more than an average of 4,141. After substracting one-third from the larger number (in consequence of the operation of the minority clause), the Liberal party would still have a majority of 417. During the last three years they have gained largely on the register, and this year they have succeeded in placing on the list the major part of lodgers. Looking at these facts, and considering that the Conservatives of the City have never had the splendid organisation which has always existed among their opponents, we believe that the return of four Liberals is a matter only of management. . . . The next constituency which will create the greatest amount of attention is the hardware capital. Not withstanding Mr. BRIGHT'S anathemas, there is no reason why he should not have two Liberal colleagues in the representation of Birmingham. The Conservatives are running two candidates, more in the hope that this will prevent the splitting of votes, than in the belief they will carry their two men. Here, again, the organisation of the Liberals is near to perfection ; and perhaps it was no idle boast of the chairman of the Liberal Association when he stated a few days ago that the lowest Liberal would be 4,000 ahead of the highest Conservative. In Man chester the Ministerialists will stand a chance of returning the minority representative, although their opponents are doing their utmost to return Mr. ERNEST JONES in conjunction with the sitting inembers - Mr. BAZLEY and Mr. JACOB BRIGHT. The Conservatives of Liverpool, having gained largely on the recent revision, are likely to return Mr. GRAVES and Lord SANDON, leaving the Liberals the choice between Mr. MASSEY and Mr. RATImONE. Remembering that at the last election Mr. BEECROFT, the Conserva tive candidate, was returned at the head of the poll for Leeds, we believe that the fight in that town will be a close one. The retirement of Mr. BEECROFT has doubtless injured the Conservative cause, but the candidature of Sir ANDREW FAIRBAIRN after Mr. BAINES and Mr. CARTER had been chosen by the Liberals to fight the battle will more than counter balance the division which was at one time imminent among the Ministerialists. The remaining constituency is Glasgow, where three Liberals and one Conservative have appeared. It is not believed, however, that the Conservatives will make a serious attempt to obtain the minority seat; the Liberals will, therefore, virtually walk over the course. It is not to be denied that among the many interesting contests at the forthcoming election none will excite greater interest than the unicorn constituencies. We learn from the C'harch News that in response to an anonymous letter, the Archbishop of York wrote to the curate of St. Martin's, Scarboro', forbidding him to omit the Litany from morning prayers, concluding his letter with —" This is the command of your Bishop." It is stated that for several years it has been the practice at York Cathedral during Advent to say the Litany as a separate afternoon service. The Archbishop of Olmutz having refused to deli ver to the civil authorities the registers of the ecclesiastical matrimonial tribunal, has been condemned to pay a fine of 10,000 florins (Xl,000), and threatened with a further fine of 20,000 florins if ho does not comply. The same archbishop was previously fined 7,000 florins. Although the ecclesias tical revenue of the see amounts to the large sum of 200,000 florins (or £20,000), it will hardly suffice to bear the burden of these progressive fines. The Osservatore Romano of the 27th ult. has an article entitled " The Conversion of the Anglicans," which rejoices by the journals of London aod Berlin at Apostolic letter to the Pro ltoto the t p h u o bli r ci o t p y o,s given Pro testants. The Osservatore says that the Morning Post and Times in so doing performed the office of Baalam in mani festing the will of God, without wishiug or knowing it. The Osservatore, in support of its prediction of a speedy unifica tion of the Anglican and Roman Churches, quotes trium phantly the lately expr essed o p i nions of Drs. Pusey , Leo, Littledale, Forbes, an d the Bishop o f l owa i n the United States. The Guardian says there are, of course, numerous rumours as to the expected successor to the sea of Canter bury ; but it is not likely anything can be settled before the return of her Majesty from Scotland. It is guessed that the Queen may desire either the Bishop of Lichfield or the Bishop of London ; the Premier, the Bishop o Oxford or Bishop of Rochester. Cambridge men, if the absence of Bishop Selwyn in Now Zealand stands in the way, would be gratified by the promotion of the Bisha of Ely, with Dean Goodwin for his successor. Mr. Gladstone was recently appealed to with re spect to the candidature of Mr. Samuelson, present member and one of the Liberal candidates for Banbury. He re plied as follows:—" I fear that 1 have no title to take any part as between gentlemen of the Liberal party who may bo competing for the same seat in Parliament; but, as your inquiry relates to matters of fact, 1 beg to state that Mr. Samuelson certainly voted for the motion made by me in relation to rating, on"which hung the issue of that portion of the provisions of the Reform Bill, and that I fully believe in Mr. Samuelson's loyal adherence to the principles of the Liberal party." RAPID VOYAGE. —The sailing ship Tantallon Castle, Captain Howson, of Messrs. Donald, Currie, and Co.'s Castle line of packets between England and Calcutta, has just arrived at London from Calcutta Sand Heads in 78 days. The passage out was made in 80 days, and the whole voyage has been completed in six months 18 days, including 42 days detention in the Hooghly ; the fastest voyage yet made. The Tantallon Castle is now 3} years old, and has just completed her fifthvoyage between Eng land and Calcutta. FATAL ACCIDENT BY FIRE TO AN OFFICER.— Yesterday an inquest was held at Penton-place, Wal worth, on the body of Mr. Hollows, aged 40 years, a lieutenant on half-pay. On Tuesday night week deceased was crossing the room when his night shirt was set on fire by a rushlight. He was removed to the hospital, where he died on Monday. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death by fire. TUNNELLING BENEATH THE MERSEY. Two schemes for tunnelling beneath the Mersey and forming a railway communication between Liverpool and Birken head, and thereby connecting the docks at those places with each other and with the general railway system of the country, are now under the consideration of the Mersey Dock Board. The first of these schemes is for constructing a tunnel from the west-end of Birkenhead to the north end of Liverpool, and the second for a tunnel between Rock Ferry, on the Cheshire side, and the south end of Liverpool. The latter scheme was laid before the board yesterday in a communication from Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., of London, who stated that a bill would be introduced next session, that the undertaking would cost £900,000, and would embrace a double lino of rails—one for passengers and another for goods. DEATH THP.OOGH Cmonoroam. —On Tuesday evening an inquest was held at Leicester on the body of Ann Oldacres, aged 33. The deceased, who was the wife of James Oldacres, a farmer, of Churchover, near Rugby, had died the same afternoon under the influence of chloro form, which had been administered to her by her own re quest by Dr. Marriott prior to the extraction of several of her teeth by a dentist named Mr. 11. T. Kirby. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from the as mi nistration of chloroform, but entirely exonerated Dr. Mar riott or Mr. Kirby from all blame, being satisfied that more than usual precautions had been taken. LATEST INTELL IGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE RUSSIA. (Via Queenstown.) NEW YOLK, Oct. 27 (Noon). A letter of President Johnson in reply to the inquiries of General Ewing has been published, in which it is stated that the national expenditure of the past three years was in the aggregate $1,259,000,000. Immediate retrenchment is neces sary to avert bankruptcy. A wise economy, how ever, could soon increase the revenue and diminish taxation. If the debt were permitted to increase it would be gathered into the hands of a few who could exercise a dangerous controlling influence thereby. The President has promulgated a treaty of amity and commerce with Madagascar. It is reported that James Hinds, a Congressman 'roil' Arkansas, has been assassinated at Monroe, in .hat State. A fight occurred at St. Bernard parish, near New Orleans, between the white and negro clubs. Three negroes and one white were killed. The whites of New Orleans armed themselves and proceeded to the scene of the disturbance, but were prevented by General Rousseau, who detailed cavalry to preserve order in the city and its vicinity. Fifty negroes entered Dardanelles, in Arkansas, on Sunday, and fired upon the houses of the whites, who armed and drove the negroes from the town. Mr. Seymour, in a speech at Indianopolis, urged his hearers to abate all party passion, and declared, as his earnest belief, that the welfare of the country demanded the removal of the Radicals from power. Several addititional slight shocks of earthquake were felt in California on Sunday. Advices from Cuba state that the insurgents who plundered the town of Manati were driven off by a gunboat. General Lersundi refused the request of a Cuban deputation to hold a public meeting. The crops in Jamaica are promising. It is reported that Salnave had captured Joretnie and St. Marie. NEW YORK, OCt. 28, Noon. Mr. Seymour was enthusiastically received at Columbus, in Ohio, and made a speech, repeating his previous arguments, and adding a declaration as to the present condition of the public debt. He said that the unequal distribution of the national currency and the large representation in the Senate enable the New England States to exercise an undue power in the national affairs, and large centres of capital thrive at the expense of the agri cultural districts. The negroes have hem discharged from the New Orleans police. General Rosseau has telegraphed to Washington announcing that Governor \Yarmouth had offered him the control of the civil government, and asking for instructions on the subject. The President, through the War Department, authorised General Rousseau to take whatever action might be neces- nary to preserve peace. The troops maintain perfect order in New Orleans. General Reynolds, commanding in Texas, his ordered Judge M'Farland to continue a civil case involving the question of heirship to certain pro perty. The counsel protested to President John son against this unwarrantable assumption of power by General Reynolds, and asking redress. Mr. Johnson replied chat the reconstruction laws pre vented his interference on behalf of tl peti- Loners. A large enthusiastic Democratic meeting was hell at New York last night. Mr. Blair Was among ,he speakers. The Republican members of the Lower H 01133 of the Oregon Legislature have resigned, leaving the house without a quorum. Mr. Dickenson, the Probate Judge in Sandnuky, Ohio, a member of Congress elect, hasbeen arrested for issuing fraudulent naturalisation papers. According to Messrs Wright's report the rec frosts will materially lessen the cotton crops. The party opposed to National convention de velopes less strength than was expected. Dr. M'Cosh, of Scotland, was inaugurated yes terday at Princeton College with imposing cere monies. A fight occurred near Pumas, in Cuba, on Mon day. The insurgents were routed. Accounts re presenting the insurrection as formidable have been published, but are grossly exaggerated. The disturbances were of a purely local character, and the number of the insurgents less than two hundre3. The Cunard Royal mail steamship Russia, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived at Queenstown at 2.20 a,m. to-day (Nov. 6) with 115 cabin pas sengers and $188,700 in specie. She landed 89 sacks of mails and nine passengers, and proceeded at 2.30 a.m., carrying on the Liverpool and Scotch The Russia made the passage in eight days six hours. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 6. The National Steamship Company's steamer England, from Liverpool, arrived here at 9 a.m. to-day, embarked passengers, and proceeded for New York. All well. SYDNEY, OCt. 10. Mr. Parkes, the Colonial Secretary, has retired. Advices from New Zealand state that the insur rection of the Maoris bad not been subdued. 'The British forces were considered to be wanting in proper organisation to repress the revolt. ADELAIDE, Oet. 13. The Ministers have resigned. 41R, BRIGHT AT EDINBURGH. Mr. Bright is working very hard. Two speeches in 0114 ly is not at all bad work. His speech on the morning of 'hursday, to the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, on he national expenditure, set forth his opinions on the financial policy of the future. " I once advised," he said, `the Financial Reform Association of Liverpool, who re against all indirect taxation, to hoist a flag with he motto, `A free breakfast table ;' that, as the tread was no longer taxed, some effort should ie made to untax the tea, the coffee, and the sugar. vow, I need not tell you that there are great inequalities n our taxation, particularly with reference to the probate Ind succession duties. If that succession duty were made :qual on all property—and it ought to be made equal— hat would bring in a considerable addition to the °venue ; and if at the same time we were to bring down he expenditure of the country by about ten millions— vhich is perfectly easy' to be done, then we could ;et rid of the duties upon tea and sugar, which )roduce an enormous sum—l suppose, perhaps, about ,welve millions a year—and also the duty upon coffee, a nucli smaller sum. If those duties were removed this tffect would be produced—the consumption of those arti :les would be greatly increased. You see they are articles which enter now into the consumption of every family in ;he kingdom. There is no woman who manages a house, iowever poor she may be, who does not spend something n tea, something in sugar ; and even down to the very ?auger who receives her 2s. or 3s. a week from the `parish ), portion of it goes for tea and sugar. lf those duties were !emoved we should have those articles cheaper still further than by the amount of the duty, because the amount of the luty involves a large expenditure of capital, and altogethet tads more to the cost of article ;so that if those duties were removed we should have an enormous increase in the :onsumption, and, as a matter of course, a corresponding hcrease in our foreign trade, and at the same ;line we should give, in a special manner, relief to the treat body of the wages-receiving class, because they are the people who consume less than they would consume if these things were cheaper. People who are well off would not, probably, make their tea much stronger, and would not, probably, use more sugar in their cooking and so on; but for the working classes it would be all a gift to them, xnd the demand for their labour would of course be stimulated by the increased trade. The rate of their wages would not be diminished. The whole of the 12 millions, or whatever was the sum that was remitted, would be an absolute donation to the working classes of the country. Well, now, I propose that, not because I think the'working classes of the country should pay no proportion of the taxes, and that legislation is merely for the purpose of making them comfortable at the expense of others, and at the expense of justice, but because the amount, which they contribute in proportion to their means and to their incomes is very much larger than the amount which iu contributed by other and richer sections of society." Mr. Bright complained further, that Ministers of this country, _ . were too much occupied in keeping office to look after these things, Only Mr. Gladstone was powerful enough to act in this matter, and he did not think it would be a bad undertaking for the Chamber of Commerce to jog Mr. Gladstone's elbow on the subject. In his evening speech to the working classes be congrk ;ulated them on having obtained the franchise. "The fact is—and I will not say it with any expression of scorn. )r with any feeling of triumph—the aristocracy of the 2ountry who so lately governed the country have abdi• cated, and their most boastful leader, Lord Derby, as the chief, in their name, and for them, has capitulated to the people. One hundred and eighty years - - - ago there was a revolution in England. The revolution of 1868 had this effect, that it stripped the monarch of absolute power, and, pretending to confer it upon the nation, conferred it mainly upon the nobility. The bill of 1532, combined with the bill of last year, has given us another revolution. Power has not been taken from the Crown and given to the nobility, but it has been taken from the nobility and has been given henceforth and for ever to the people. The form remains yet of aristocratic power, and so long as it lasts in the country with the possessors of great wealth it will have power. lam not now complain ing of it ;I am merely stating the fact. We stand at this moment on the threshold of a new career. Standing there, we need no longer have recourse to language such as we have often heard from platforms, and such as I sometimes have been the first to use. We have no longer a contest with the House of Lords; we have no longer charges to bring against a selfish oligarchy ; we no longer dread the power of territorial magnates ; we no longer feel ourselves domineered over by a class ; we feel that denunciation and invective now would be out of place. We appeal to you—not that you should rise and overthrow the power which hitherto has ruled you, but we appeal to you now with arguments, with facts—if it be possible, if we are capable of doing it, with words of wisdom, that we may give you counsel that all of you now in the goVcrn ment of the country of which you are part may be known hereafter solely by your acts of wisdom. We feel—l feel - that the fate of this great nation is in the nation's hands, and that, come weal, come woe, the responsibility of the future must rest with the great majority of the people, admitted as they now are, at least within the burghs, to a large share of representation and political power." With this introduction, Mr. Bright passed to those questions which the nation had still to settle. The first was the ballot. Mr. Bright contended that it was needed, and gave Mr. Mill a stroke for his opposition to it. "No man is more fair in argument than Mr. Mill, no man is more willing to admit the force of anything that an opponent offers for his consideration ; but it is not necessary that we should believe that Mr. Mill can know every question better than everybody else." He laughed at Mr. Mill's argument as to the public duty of the voter. " Mr. Mill thinks—l do not quote his words—that public duties should be per. formed publicly ; that by and by there will be morality and power enough to put ane nd not only to corruption, but compulsion ; and he compares the free and open exercise of the ballot to the presiding of a judge in a court of justice open to the public eye. It appears to me that the comparison is not a good one. The judge in open court has no compulsion brought upon him ; he is independent ; the Crown, which appointed him to his office, cannot remove him. If Mr. Mill had gone into the jury-room, he would have found that the jury, just as important in a trial as the judge, does 'sit apart from the public eye, and more than that, that it is considered a gross violation of confidence if any juryman should convey to the public a know ledge of what has occurred in the jury -room. I am not able to accept these glowing pictures of the imme diately improved morality of the people. If it be wise not to bring in the ballot because men without it will become strong enough not to need it, I need not say why we might dispense with the judge and jury au) the police ; for (who knows?) at some time—it may be remote—men may become strong enough in virtue, honest enough in their hearts, to try not to violate the written or moral law, and judges and juries and courts of justice may no longer be required." Till this state of things was so the ballot was absolutely required. The Irish Church was next spoken about, and the hardship they would feel in Scotland had they " an alien church" there commented upon. Then, as to the Irish land question, Mr. Bright demanded that some plan might be put forward. " I believe that in Ireland it will be necessary to adopt some plan—and I believe there is a plan which can be adopted without injustice or wrong to any man—by which gradually the land of Ireland may be, to a eotisiderable extent, transferred from foreign, or alien, or ft' , entee Protestant proprietors—transferred into the hantls of the Catholic resident population of the country. I -Jo not anticipate myself that until something of that kin,l is put in process and in operation we shall find train i , :i lity and content in Ireland such as we would wish to see it." The land system in the United Kin. iom also came in for condemnation. " Perhaps ma:. yof you are not aware that from year to year, fron ten years to ten years, the owners of land in the U. A Kingdom are becoming a smaller and smaller nun:' of persons, that the laws which we have in this co , y, having been based and supported by the territor:: , ewers, are laws whose express object is to maintain t estates in the hands of great families, and to make , land not of Ire land only, but of Great Britain, amo .ly in the poses sion of a few. Nature has provided . lin forces which tend to the accumlation of estates an; Ids, and certain other forces which tend to its dispersio and I maintain that the true policy of the Governmel id of the law— the just policy of the law—is to leas all the forces of nature, whether inducing accumulati, or inducing dis persion, to their fair operation. An .lien they will make laws by which men who wish to ly property will be able to buy it, some in large and so?: in small quanti ties, the monopoly which exists in t , country will be brought to an end. lam not proposing: t there should be any law by which estates should forcibly ; e ea up and divided among families. I want to leave the owner, the man In possession of the estate, perfect freedom to decide whether he will leave the property to one, or divide it among the many of his children. The law of division obtained in France and in many countries of Europe is therebelieved by most people tobe a good law ; but it appears to me to be contrary to principles of political economy, and I prefer the operation of the law as it exists in the United States of America, which rejects the law of France and rejects also our law. I conceive, therefore, that before long it will be the duty of the people of England, of the electors of England, and of Parliament to remove from the statute-book what is called the laws of primo geniture, to allow land where it is left by a person who makes no will to be justly and honestly divided by the law as other property other than land is 119 W diyiskil, suss WA go Rtemut Ptiv; , 6c9 9/ "settlements should be limited to persons who are living when the deeds are made ; and when we come to that I believe that it will be found that it is awise thing not to sacri fice the public interests to family pride or to the notion that you must build up great families to have great power, that theymayexercise a paramount authority in a great country." The national expenditure was commented upon at great length. He attributed the terrific sum which was now spent to the army and navy, and declared that our former waread been the result of the lunacyof the - people on the question of the balance of power. "If you read the papers, you will find they tell us something about the West Indian and North American fleet ; some thing about the Pacific squadron ; and something about the naval force of her Majesty in the China seas ; something about what has happened to a great ship of war on the coast of India, or the Cape. Then you hear 'of Lord Clarence Paget in some part of the Mediterranean, with a tremendous fleet. You hear, further, that there is always a great Channel fleet necessary for our home protection. There i 9 no necessity whatever for these fleets on your coasts, or traversing every ocean as they do now. There is no other country that finds it necessary to have these great fleets and squadrons everywhere. I don't know whether it is a dream, or a vision, or a foresight, or a reality that sometimes passes across my mind, but 1 like to dwell upon it, that the time may come when the maritime nations of Europe—this renowned country, of which we are citizens, France, Prussia, Russia, resuscitated Spain, Italy, and the United States of America—may see that those vast fleets are of no use ; that they are merely menaces offered from one country to another ; that they are grand inventions by which, as Milton says, ' the blood is withdrawn from the veins of the people to feed their ulcers ;' and that they may come to this grand and wise - conclusion—they will combine at their joint expense, and under some joint management, to supply the sea with a vast sailing and armed police, which may be necessary to keep the peace on all parts of the watery taw face of the globe, and those great instruments of war and oppression shall no longer be upheld. This, of course, 11 many will be thought to he a dream and a vision, not the foresight of what they call a statesman. Still, I have faith that it will not be for ever that we shall read of what Wilberforce called the ' noxious race of heroes and conquerors." On education Mr. Bright spoke of the neces sity for it, declaring that the Suffrage Bill had given the power in to the hands of those who would demand to be taught. In his " peroration " Mr. Brightprotested against the nc n -progress of the labourers when the raasters had gone so far ahead. " This great and solemn question of the condition of a considerable portion of the labouring classes of this country cannot be covered up. It must be met' It is a great work upon which the new electoral body and the new Parliament will have to enter. It is a long val from BelgTave-square to Bethnal-green—we cannot mew sure the distance from the palatial mansions of the rich to the dismal hovels of the poor, from the profuse and costly luxuries of the wealthy to the squalid and hopeless miser/ of some millions who are below them ; but I ask you, as I ask myself a thousand times, is it not possible that this mass of poverty and suffering should be touched and should be reached? What is there that man cannot do if he tries ? The other day he descended to the mysterious depths of the ocean, and with an iron hand he sought, and he found, and he grasped, and he brought up to the surface the lost cable, and with it he` made two worlds into one. I ask, are his conques# confined to the realms of science? Is it not possible that another hand, not of iron, but of Christian justice and kind. ness, may be let down to moral depths even deeper than the cable fathoms to bring up from hence misery's sons and daughters and the multitude who are ready to perish? This is the great problem which is now before us. It is not one for statesmen only; it is not for preachers o f the Gospel only—it is one for every man in the nation to attempt to solve. The nation is now in power, and if wisdom abide with power, the generation to folios/ may behold the glorious day of what we, in our time, with our best endeavours, can only hope to see the earliest dawn." FRAN CE. PARIS, Nov. 6. The Droit of this morning states that a judicial inquiry has been ordered into the popular demon stration on the graves of the revolutionists of 1848 and 1851, which took place on the 2d inst. at the cemetry of Montmartre, and likewise into the sub scription opened by the Overier, National, and the Reveil in connection with the said demonstration. SERVIA. BELGRADE, Nov. 4. The proceedings against the rest of the accom plices in the murder of Prince Michael closed yes terday. The Public Prosecutor urged that various degrees of punishment should he inflicted upon the accused persons, and pressed for sentence of death to be passed on W aistrovich. _ _ MELBOURNE, Oct. 13. The Victorian Parliament has been prorogued after having passed the bill for a loan of £2,100,000 for railway purposes. The shipments of gold to England since the departure of the last mail amount to 140,250 ounces. ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, Nov. 4. Both Chambers are convoked for the 27th instant. The National Guard at Baken, which was dis banded for taking part in the persecutions of the Jews last summer, has been re-established. THE BRITISH LYING-IN HOSPITAL. The half-yearly general court of governors of the British Lying-in Hospital was held at the hospital, Endell-street, London, yesterday; Mr. E. J. Leigh' ton, chairman of the board, in the chair. The most iny portant item of business was the consideration of code of revised laws for the government o f the institution, which has now been in existence for 120 years. The secretary having read the minutes of the lot meeting, the chairman proceeded to comment on All anonymous paper which had been circulated amongst governors in reference to the proposed new laws. T 1 document he characterised as a tissue of misrepresen ts. tions. He proposed that the new rules, which were in the hands Of the subscribers, should be adopted, with su ch alterations as might be suggested by the meeting' This was seconded, when Dr. Lee proposed and Lieut.' Colonel. Hamilton seconded an amendment to the effe ct , that the old rules of the institution, as well as the propo se ' new ones, should be printed and circulated amongst the governors, and considered at the next half-yearly meeting' This produced a lengthy and animated discussion, and the amendment on being put was lost. THE CHARGE OF HERESY AGAINST TO BEV. IV. J. E. BENNETT. On Thursday Sir T. Twiss, the chancellor of thedi°c e f d of London, and the other commissioners appointed "J the Bishop of London, assembled at London gouge, St. James's-square, to inquire into the doctrines PI forth by the Rev. Mr. Bennett, the incumbent °' Frome, touching the real presence of Our Lord in t ,, A 116 Eucharist. Mr. A. J. Stephen, Q.C., and Mr. A rco' bald appeared for the promoter ; Mr. Sheppard, strutted by Mr. Murray Dale, solicitor, for the Church . 4 %" 1. sociation. Dr. Swabey, instructed by Mr. Brook, solicitor, for the English Church Union, watched the proceeding! on the part of the defendant. The object of the prese n ; inquiry was to ascertain whether there was sufficient gra n ' for the Bishop of London to send the case to the A- 1 , cl/ 1, Court. Mr. Stephen, Q.C., on the commissioners ta irO Z their seats, said he wished it to be understood that altboug,'; they had met at the residence of the Bishop of London 10 was to be considered as an " open court," at which ti/ii public had a right to be present. He so read the C hnrc Discipline Act, under which the present proceedi ng' : were adopted. The commission was also read. The f3lg.„ doctrines were alleged to be published and maintained 1,; the works of Mr. Bennett, in " The Plea for U.'olerat io° 4 and in " The Church in the World." Sir T rade Twiss said he could now answer the question put. It Na1..,1*- to be considered an " open court," and the public to be mitted. Dr. Swabey thought the defendant had a rigo" to reserve any matter, but he had no wish to have anYt' lli :l in privacy. Mr. Stephens proceeded to open the case. re several extracts of the works mentioned, and con tended A that he had proved the charge of false doctrines contained in the pamphlets. of Several witnesses were called as to the publication the works. th e Dr. Swabey submitted that there was not a tittle of Pr-,, as to the publication. He left the case in the hands of t"- commissioners. to The commissioners retired, and on their return Ilie:11 court, qir Prayers Twiss said they had carefully consider a the matter, and were of opinion, which they decl3rent openly and publicly, that there was prima facie grou nd ' further proceedings. Just as the court was about to be dissolved, Mr. SOO: asked that the shorthand-writer (Mr. Walsh) should Pr° his notes. He was anxious to guard against all ! O tt "miserable objections." This was done, and the c 13.., broke up. The case will now appear in the Arches 00 LAW AND POLICE. APPEALS.—In the Court of Common Pleas an al/P li f t : tion has been made in six appeals from the decision a ht revising barrister for Merionethshire that the cases ey be entered, though the proper notice had not been glu e d The learned counsel making the application scin i .44 that it had been held that the enactment as to the o°-l0 was imperative upon the court, but he added that re d, respondents, for whose protection the notice was reclu i "cl were content to forego it. The court held that the '-0 no power to hear an appeal unless the notice had 1).. given, and they therefore refused the ap pli c ation. ot EMBEZZLEMENT.—A case of systematic embezzletecis has been investigated at Bow-street Police•cour t fr - pt exemplified the extent to which tradesmen in 1 3311 "` e ,,besi businesses are at the mercy of their servants. 11°- „, o t. Arundel was employed by Mr. Rees, a draper, in C° l „cl garden, to collect weekly instalments from custoraerst ""bit it was proved that for four years he had been in the 1 0 of keeping back small sums received in this Way, 011 fewer than seventy cases had been already traced out. of had escaped detection so long by falsifying the boo b was committed for trial. 13 0°°8 D RAWI NG THE BADGER.—The keeper of a pu blic' te a at Birkenhead and sixteen young gentlemen 130°,,er. fined for amusing themselves by " drawing the bacb o a The publican was fined 25 and costs, the others ltog of costs. Tickets had been issued for a ritt" match, but before this sport c ame on clieoe Wit the " young gentlemen " arrived with .gt dog, which was set at the badger , and dre ,1 times. hen the fun was at it height, an o fficer s t :; c e, W Asg is ba out of the room, and having returne d with took down the names and addresses of all present. ido t ! defence was that the dog atta.e.:,!‘l the badger b 37 5C j tll9 and not by design ; and that tll,t on ly intenion v' iii*SPil 4,0 E9_o) Nao-01, ing of i refit pric on t Rus, for and rili: StE Inc 811'1 ag aft be or