The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-28 00:00:00

EPIRIT OF THE ruBLIo JOURNALS. The Times insists that the Turks and Greeks have mane ' their own quarrel. The talk now (it continues) is all of the Conference. Should the matters in dispute be referred to such an assembly, no doubt that they would be dis cussed fairly and reasonably, and that each Power, what ever its sympathies, would deem it due to its own reputa tion to uphold the principles of justice. The Times, however, has no great enthusiasm for the Conference, simply because it is impossible to imag ine that it will throw any new light on the subject, or be able to effect anything that might not equally be effected by the ordinary diplomatic machinery. Everything that can be told concerning Crete or the Hellenic kingdom is known to the Foreign Secretaries of the various Powers, to their diplomatic agents, to the most instructed members of the Legislatures, and in a more general but still a practically sufficient way to the European public itself. What is to gained by bringing seven or eight diplomatists to a round table in Paris, where each will be bound by his instruc tions, and will merely represent an absent Cabinet, is more than the Times can discover ; and there is, on the other hand, the obvious inconvenience that any member of the Conference may digress into any collateral ques tion, as the Paris Congress of 1856, for ending a war in the East, wandered into the subject of the Belgian Press. But, if Sovereigns and Ministers will have it so, what are other mortals that they should dissent ? In the meantime we shall, no doubt, have something resembling war, for the Porte cannot be expected to sus pend its operations, though, perhaps, it may limit them to what is strictly necessary to prevent another invasion of Crete. It is obviously the policy of Turkey to settle matters once for all, and either to succumb to the Greek propaganda or to show that she is strong enough to repress it. Nothing can be more disastrous to the interests of the whole East than the state of things which has prevailed during the last two years. The determination of the quarrel will also be a most important advantage to Greece itself. Patriotism cannot be indulged for nothing, and it has been admitted in these columns by a friendly writer that during the last two years there has been a deficiency in the Hellene Budget of £1,500,000. But this is a trifle to what we are threatened with. The latest financial intelligence from Athens is that the Chamber has granted to the Government a credit of a hundred millions of drachmas. What this means will be best Understood if we state that the whole annual revenue of the country is somewhere about 25 millions, allowing for the usual deficit which mars the calculations of the Greek financiers. Thus, to fight Turkey this bankrupt and reckless little State proposes to spend four times its gross annual revenue, and, if it can find lenders, to increase its total debt by one third. The Chamber, however, adds a singular clause to its vote—that the Government should have "full power to seek other financial resources." What this may mean we cannot say, except it be that all the Greeks throughout the world are to be subjected to the importunity and extortion of the committees and their agents. The Times firmly be lieves that if this agitation be brought to a close, and the East tranquillised, the progress of the various countries will be rapid, under the influence of Western enterprise and civilisation. It is the perpetual intrigues and alarms, the work of Russian ambition and Greek vanity, whicl check confidence, and, consequently, progress. The Standard believes that all the Powers signitaries o the Treaty of Paris have agreed to the Conference as pro posed by Prussia, and the plenipotentiaries will begin their deliberations in the course of this week. The chances of war would not have been so great had England,France, and Austria assumed a more decided attitude. Unwilling to offend Prussia, the Government of this country has hesitated, and hence the time has been lost. The question is, what will the Powers do when they meet in Conference ? Will Turkey, which is principally concerned, and which knows that the Con ference is not summoned from any regard for its interest, agree to refer the question in dispute with Greece to their arbitration ? We doubt it very much. The Sultan cannot go back from the position he has taken without inflicting a most dangerous blow upon his prestige. For him to agree now to regard the conduct of the Greek Government as excusable, or to assent, as a satisfaction to Greece, to any proposals for the administration of Crete or other provinces which the Conference might suggest, would be to stamp himself before the whole East as a mere depen dent of Russia. The Post calls for the reform of our military system. Our contemporary thinks the present want of arrangement in our home army should be altered. Our militia should be converted into a feeder of the regulars. The volunteers should have more money. And, above all, an army of reserve should be formed. With regard to this latter proposal the Post says: Every year some fifteen or twenty thousand men, thoroughly drilled and disciplined, would he returned to the country for civil and miscellaneous employment. These men would be enrolled in the reserves, but, being called out only occasionally, and when urgently required, their occupations would not be interfered with. The whereabouts of every man would be known, and in times of apprehended danger the whole force would be available in whatever particular form might be thought most desirable. This would be a reliable reserve to fall back upon, and one which would be very inexpensive to the country. It is to be observed, moreover, that as we accumulated trained men of this description we might make reductions in the numerical strength of the regular corps, having the men in hand to fill up the cadres to a war standard when ever we should be driven to do so. The creation of this force must, however, be a work of time, and the economy to be derived from it cannot, unfortunately, be realised at present ; nevertheless, it is just one of those gradual and sound improvements, combining efficiency with economy, which Mr. Cardwell has led us to expect at his hands. The Herald is alarmed at the increasing cost of our paupers and our criminals. Crime is rampant, and pauperism abounds. We cannot let the matter rest any more than we could let an invading army have its own way. Yet if we are more generous, the poor rates threaten to overburden the ratepayer ; if we are harsher, we shall have an increase in the deaths from starvation. The population of London has increased one-sixth in ten years, but the pauperism has increased one-half. The Herald thinks the increase cannot be entirely due to the augmen tation of the idle, who like to live at the public expense. There is a vast amount of distress, notwithstanding that the philanthropists have increased as well as the paupers. A wholesale remedy must be tried with the unemployed. Unless trade and commerce so revive as to employ the hands that are now Idle, employment must be found for these in some other way. We object to set a colony of paupers to work to build a sea wall or reclaim waste lands in England. But there can be no objection to their cutting down the forests and tilling the ground in Western Canada. There are weighty political reasons why we should wish them to do it. The western frontier of the Dominion wants strengthening. The Russians are wiser than we are. They take the starving Finns and send them out to colonise the regions of the Amoor. The Finns are thankful for the chance, and both parties are likely to be the better for it. We have thousands of starving people in England. It is an ugly thing to say, and we may not like to own it, but it is true, nevertheless, and it would be well if we were to give these people a chance of living elsewhere, instead of theorising about their presumed perversity and indolence. England has a surplus population, which does harm at home, but which might do well if moved to a more open field. It is the law of Providence that old nations should found new ones, and the new ones in turn nourish the old. The weeks go by, and yet the Spanish question is no nearer solution, observes the Daily Telegraph, and the only change that can be seen is the prominence given to the candidature of the Duke of Montpensier. If the Duke be selected the only difference will be that the revolution has substituted for ruler of Spain an untried Bourbon for one of that house who has been tried and found wanting. The establishment of a Republic in Spain would be far more formidable to Imperial interests than the elevation of an Orleans Prince to the rank of King. In short, if the Spaniards think fit to select the Duke of Monttpensier for their ruler, nobody will interfere with their choice. Whether they will do so is a question which their tutors, rrim, Serrano, and Olozaga, could perhaps best answer. NOVEL APPLICATION OF GAS.—Mr. Janes Allison Hogg, gas engineer, Edinburgh, has discovered a method of producing intense light with coal gas by mixing it with atmospheric air. The mixture of gases is lighted after passing through a tissue of iridio-plating, wires at a determined pressure. In a few seconds the metal becomes heated up to a white heat—the flame disappears, and an Intense white light is the result. An enlarged picture has been taken by its aid on prepared photographic paper. The light will burn in a gale of wind without any protection round it, and a downpour of rain will not affect it. HERON STRANGLED BY AN EEL.—The Rev. Mr. Sydney, rector of Gooderstone, writing to Lcind and Water, says On Saturday last, just at the back of my residence, a heron was found lying in articulo mortis on the bank of the little trout stream which runs through this parish, with a fine eel twisted so tightly round its neck as to cause strangulation. The eel having been speared through the head by the upper mandible of the heron's bill (about three-fourths of the whole length of the bill passing through) had, in its efforts to get free, coiled and knotted itself round the neck and bill of its enemy in such a way as to bind the two together and cause strangling, by the neck of the heron being bent double. Neither heron nor eel being quite dead when found is sufficient proof in itself of their having actually destroyed each other as here related, and I was myself an eye-witness to their being found in the positien aboye described." LYNCH LAW AT NEW ALBANY, U.S. Louisville correspondents, writing on the 12th inst., givt the particulars of a tragedy which occurred at New Albany early in the morning of that day. A vigilance committee said to have come from Seymour, Indiana, arrived at Ned Albany on the previous evening. About three o'clock oz the morning of the 12th, Luther Whitten, one of Oat outside guards of the gaol, was met at the entrance by a party of men, who presented pistols at him, demanding his silence or death. Whitten shouted, but was seized, knocked down, and informed that if he shouted again he should die. By this time the gaol office was filled with men searching for the keys. Sheriff Fullenlove, understand. ing the situation, came down from his sleeping apart. went, and gained the door leading to the grounds on the west side of the gaol. Hero he met a force armed with pistols, which were directed at him. He exclaimed, "Gentlemen, don't shoot me ; lam the sheriff." But one of the band fired a shot, which took effect in the sheriff's right arm, inflicting a serious and painful wound. The keys were demanded, but he positively refused to surrendez them. About a dozen of the band then entered Fullenlove't room, where his wife lay in bed, and demanded the gaol keys of her, but she refused to surrender them. They succeeded in finding them, however, concealed in a drawer. Thomas Mathews, one of the inside guards, was then compelled to open the cells of the men whom the mob had determined to hang. Frank and William Reno were the first victims. They were dragged out and hung along side of each other on the same pillar. Simon Ileno was then brought out, but he fought the mob with great despe. ration, knocking one or two of them down before he was overpowered and left suspended between the ceiling and the floor. Charles Anderson, who was the last victim, was heard to beg for the privilege of praying ; but this request was refused, and he was hanged at the south-west corner 'of the gaol. After a further threat to kill the sheriff, the mob proceeded to the train,. carrying with them the gaol keys. Armed men stood guard to prevent any alarm from being given. At four o'clock the train, with the entire party, consisting of from 75 to 100 men, started off. They came well armed and equipped for the work. They intended to hang a man named Clark, the murderer of George Till, but they concluded not to do so, fearing to remain any longer. The band came in a car by themselves, which was attached to the regular train. Charles Anderson and Frank Reno were surrendered by the Canadian authorities upon Ithe solemn pledge of the United States Government that they should have a fair trial, and, if found innocent, be returned to Canada. All the telegraph wires on the line of the Jeffersonville Rail- road were found connected together, and communicating with the ground about half a mile north of Seymour. It is supposed to have been done by the Seymour Regulators before going to New Albany. SUPPOSED MURDER. On Saturday, at Clerkenwell Police-court, George Campbell, aged 23, described on the charge-sheet as an upholsterer, residing at 42, Alfred-street, Barnsbury, was charged before Mr. Barker with wilfully and feloniously murdering John Moir, aged 28, by shooting him through the head with a rifle, at 42, Alfred-street, Islington. Alexander Fergusson Weatherspoon, the first witness, said: The prisoner resides in the same house as I do, and lived with the deceased. We had aparty on Christmas night, and the prisoner was one of them, and so also was the de ceased. We were going on all right with songs and recita tions and such like, when the prisoner asked me if Iwould go upstairs and have a quiet drop'of rum in Moir's room ; that is, the room of the deceased. I said " No" at first, but he so pressed me that I went. The deceased followed close behind us. I asked the deceased what he was going up to his own room for, and he said, " For the Christy's Minstrels Song Book." The prisoner then began to talk to the deceased about wrestling, and offered to bet him four or five shillings that he would wrestle him and throw him. The deceased said . , "We do not come here to wrestle," and that passed off. We all three got into the deceased's room, no one else being present, and the deceased was in the act of pouring out a glass of whisky for me, and whilst I was drinking of it the prisoner put his fists in a fighting attitude and said something about fighting. The deceased offered to " take " him with one hand. That passed off, and the prisoner went and took the rifle that was hanging on a nail on the top of the cupboard. The bayonet was close beside it, and the bayonet fell down on the deceased trying to get the rifle from the prisoner. There was a sort of scuffle in trying to get the rifle away from the prisoner, and then it was that the bayonet fell. Whilst I and the deceased were looking for the case of the bayonet the prisoner walked round the table with his rifle. He went out of the door of the room, and was gone, perhaps, about a minute and a half, when be returned with the rifle, and just arrived as the deceased and I found the bayonet and the case. I gave the deceased the bayonet, and be was in the act of putting it in the case when the prisoner cocked the rifle. The deceased said to the prisoner, " What are you going to do ?" There was a lamp standing on the table, and the prisoner, in reply to the deceased, said, "I am only going to put out the light." The prisoner was all this time in the middle of the room, and before either the deceased or I could utter a word the prisoner fired the rifle. The prisoner held the rifle in the ordinary position. The rifle was fired by the prisoner, who held it to his shoulder. The lamp, the prisoner, the deceased, and I were in a direct line. I saw the flash, and the deceased fell motionless. I was struck in Vie eye, and I fell on an easy chair, my legs on he seat, and my head on the back. I had some tobacco-pipes in my hand, and as they were broken I cannot say whether I got the marks on my face from them or not. I commenced screaming " Murder" and " Police." As soon as I found I was not severely hurt I got up and ran to the door, and as I passed the prisoner I called him a fool, and said, " See what you have done." I called for my brother Archibald, and he came up on the instant, and he told me to go and get a doctor, and I rushed out without my hat and got one. When I came back, which was in about twenty minutes, as I bad to go to the residence of three surgeons before I could get one to come, the deceased was dead, but I believe that he died on the instant he received the shot. Before I called the prisoner a fool, and whilst I was in the chair calling "Murder," the prisoner said, "What is the matter?" That is all I remember his saying. At the time the rifle was fired, the paraffin lamp, myself, and the deceased were in a line almost, and the prisoner was also in a line with us. The deceased was shot in the left temple, and his head was higher than the level of the lamp. I was higher than the level of the lamp, and the deceased was taller than me. The rifle belongs to James Moir, the brother of the deceased. Ido not know whether it was loaded or not. I did not notice whether the deceased was shot in the head or not until after I re turned from the doctor's. I thought he might have fallen to frighten the prisoner. When the deceased put up his hand and said he would " take" him with one hand, he also immediately said, "We did not come here to quarrel." The deceased and the prisoner have lived and slept together for the past three months, and had been good friends up to Christmas night, as far as I know. Nothing passed but what I have stated. The prisoner was sober. Evidence corroborating this was given. and the prisoner was remanded. There are stories afloat that the whole matter arose out of "a love affair." It is said that Rossini's widow has been offered 7,000,000 f. for the posthumous IN orks of her husband. JAPANESE CONVERSION.— The AMeriCalbMcthodist states that on Sunday, November 22, Iwaski Nagai, - 4 student at Rutgers' College, New Brunswick, N.J., was baptised and received into Church membership in St. James's M.E. Church in that city. The young Japanese, it is said, is the second of his nation who has openly professed the Christian faith. He was baptised with the name of John Wesley Iwaski Nagai, after the founder of Methodism. A glance over some of our colonial contempo raries often supplies us with amusement. Here is a cut ting from the correspondence column of a Queensland journal :—" To the editor of the Sir, I wish you would speak to Captain —, when his steamer arrives with the mail in the morning, not to give our postmaster any breakfast, Every time the steamer arrives in the morning he goes on hoard, and stays there stuffing and gorging till his eyes nearly start out." Our own post masters .are sometimes sleepy ; but do they go out to breakfast? THE CORPORATION AT LAN.—The present week has been an unfortunate one for the Corporation of the City of London with respect to its law business. The claim made on behalf of the Emanuel Hospitalhas broken down ; Madame Rachel has been set free, owing to an informality which might have been avoided by the expenditure, at the proper time, of some five-and-twenty shillings on a new commission for the Central Criminal Court ; and an action brought against the Registrar of the City of London Court has been decided against that officer.—City Press, The Pennsylvania Historical Society has recently come into possession of a letter written by Mrs. Martha Washington to a friend during her husband's first presi dency. The V.rginian dame evidently knew little about spelling. The . ..nest correct passage in the letter runs thus :—" Mrs. Sims will give you a better account of the fashions than I can—l live a very dull life hear, and know nothing that passes in the town—l never goe to any public place—indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else, there is certain bounds set for me which I must not depart from-7and as I cannot doe KT like I fin c'a'.iaate and stay at home a great_cleal.", THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECENIkIi 1.65. A NEWSPAPER CLIQUE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) In America, Newspapers are far better known, for they are far more generally read than in Eng land, where a journal might actually be circulating in vast numbers through certain districts, yet never be heard of in others. Even such a paper as Lloyd's Weekly Pews may here be found in the kit chens of great London mansions, while many of the people in the drawing-room had not even seen it, though regularly taken in the same house. Possibly their eye may have rested momentarily on a co lumn of advertisement in the 7 imes, " Read Lloyd's Weekly News ! —Horrible Murder—Shocking Suicide —Exteusive Burglary—Execution of a Murderer Awful Scene at the Drop"--but they know nothing whatever of the paper, where it circulates, and what it contains; for although it supplies mental food for a greater portion of the_ metropolis than any other published, yes it is never quoted. In deed there is a cliqueism in the London papers mainly read in America which confines all quotas tions to itself. The clique consists of the Times, Standard, Daily News, Telegraph, Star, Post, and Advertiser, with the Express and the Pall- Mall Gazette, as evening papers. These quote each other, and admit into their exclusive circle a few weekly reviews, such as the Saturday, the Spectator, the London, the Economist, and a few military, sporting, and other class organs. An American would never learn from them that there are papers published in London whose circu lation on the day of issue equals the whole of these put together ; that there are provincial papers of greater weight and circulation than any one of them, except the Times. It is now pretty well known that the effect of penny papers has been to break down the exclusive influence of the metropolitan journals, and to elevate provincial papers in com mercial cities, such as Manchester and Glasgow, where daily journals are issued, got up in every way equal, if not superior, to the London penny papers, though beyond their own boundaries they are seldom heard of. Ignorance of journals which address a large section of the people left Americans under the erroneous impression that England—root and branch—was hostile to the United States during the civil war, which has been productive of so much harm. True, the Daily News and the Spec tator took the side of the North ; but in the intel lectual, not in the hearty, unreserved way in which some organs of the people threw themselves on the side of freedom. The tendency of political power bring towards the masses, their newspapers must rise with them. As these clique newspapers go in the old narrow road, like cattle treading corn in Asiatic countries, they keep up the impression abroad that they are the mouthpiece of England, the more so as in olden days they really were as far as the go verning class went. But this is now wholly changed, and although the extended franchise must give an increasing power to the whole press, as the only means of reaching the vast numbers now enrolled, yet the tendency will be to raise the provincial organs, and to reduce the price of established metropolitan papers. Even the Times is said to contemplate a reduction to twopence. The Daily News has come down to one penny; and finds it to answer well. Several weeklies have already been reduced, and a halfpenny evening paper, in strong hands, is despe rately stirring to establish a footing in the newspaper world. The first cause of the fall in pi ice was the re duction in duty on paper; but the chief reason is the rise of the masses in influence and education. While editors in England can never look for the fine times editors enjoy in the United States, with their power, will rise th -ir dignity as a profession, and the reason is simple • for, with universal suffrage, the pfess becomes the only means* of influencing hose who create the Government and direct its policy. An Editor then who opposes extended suffrage sac rifices the interests of his craft to his political prin ciples, and therefore his opinions should weigh the more, as they are in opposition to his interests, at least as a jourualist. It is for this reason that the Press ranks so high in America and in the English Colonies, and it may he laid down as an axiom that t lie STATUS of the Press and and its influence will be in direct i roportion to tee extension of the franchise. !lie Times has discussed the connection of the Post Office wi•li the Newspaper Press, and strongly advo cates the American system, at least in as far as its liberal aid towards spreading information could he followed, without loss to the revenue. h. sass very justly :—" An active Newspaper Press would he impossible without railways. The public per haps have lit le idea of the energy and the organin tiou which are required in order to place a copy of their morning journal on their bresklast table. The task of distributing the daily papers over Londoe and to the various railway stations constitutes, in fact, an immense business, requiring a high order of management." The English Post-office the Times' remarks, " transmits newspapers, but at such rates and under such conditions that it would seem the object to perform the least possible amount of service at the greatest possible expense." Alluding to the purchase of the telegraphs by Government, when through its means newspapers must be fur nished with the latest news, it adds —" The Post office will soon be one of the chief agencies for the transmission of news ; could it not be rendered also one of the chief agencies for the transmission of newspapers ?" American j mrnala count their " ex changes" by the hundred, and their telegraph news by the column, comparing favourably with the Lon don clique system in intelligence and variety of matter. IVhoever daily reads the papers we have mentioned knows that putting aside the leading articles the one is little more than a fac-simile of the other, the same parapraphs going the rounds of all, with one picking something from a foreign journal, and the others taking up the paragraph. The Pall Mall Gazette writes au "occasional note" which is as devoid of truth as it is of manners, yet all transfer it into their columns as if the concentration, of wisdom. The least truthful is the Standard, which is not content with viewing questions from its own Tory stand-point, not confining itself merely to ob serving one side of the subject through a telescope, and the other through the glass inverted, but fre quently misrepresents,and very of ten makes America the subject of the distortion. For instance,last Tues day there was an article on the President's Message, in which the main facts gleaned were only those that told against the country :—"The debt in creases year by year ; the taxation weighs more and more ; and the receipts annually diminish. Those from Customs have steadily fallen off ; the total expenditure for the year is estimated at three hun dred millions of dollars. The naval and military forces cost one hundred and twenty millions of dol lars annually in time of profound peace ;" and after sneeringly drawing the attention of the Eng lish admirers of Republican institutions to all this, the Standard proceeds :—" What is an important fact in connection with this indebtedness, well wor • thy of the attention of those who have been pro phesying intrepidly how that the Americans would rapidly reduce their debt is, that in the thirteen months ending December of this year the amount due by these States to their creditors had increased by a sum of .46,500,000 dollarl." That the facts may lose nothing they are stated to come from "one who cannot but he a competent authority on the state of the American debt and the prospect of its payment." Our readers know what the competency of the President is ; where he got his figures the Standard knew, or ought to have known ; and we ask those who desire to learn the reliability of the Standard on American finance to compare this with Secretary AleCulloch's Report, the source of these figures. Who would have supposed that $24,152,000 is chargeable to the Pacific Railroad; that $7,200,000 was for the purchase of Russian America ; and that 04,406,000 went for bounties? Nor would it be imagined that the revenue of $300,000,000 is esti mated to give a surplus of $50,000,000 annually towards the reduction of the debt ; nor would the reader suppose that the military expenditure was really a war, not a peace, charge, for 4 is after, not dmuert, while in ga war, the tm that cet a most t ef ofer coming t e b e eltrtb li ties yearsf haveer he to be h t t h h i e r ds Army ef the e d the Navy expenditure is but alone e in England. This is only an example o f the ha bitual misrepresentation ; and can Americans while combinedr the Army it continues be surprised at English ignorance of their country ? It must not be supposed that the newspaper clique are a band of brothers, for they are perpetually snarling at each other, the most contemptuous, and we may add the most truthful beir ' s the Pall Mall. Lately the Satur day has been slashing right and left at the clique for outraging decency not in the " Girl of the Period" or the "Fashionable Woman" style, but for publishing some low filthy case that they had picked from among the disreputable trials. " Old Granny," as elderly females are apt to be sensitive of their reputation, was very angry, and ran a tilt at the review with her umbrella., but that wicked journal seemed rather to enjoy the old lady's rage, and to feel little alarmed for the consequences. MUSICAL ITEMS.—Offenbach is wi ieng a new operetta which will be called "Le Sant do Leucato.' Auber's "Le Premier Jour de bonheur" has been favour ably received at Cologne. Miss Laura Harris, who is singing at Naples, is described as "the idol of the public" there. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RACING FIXTI JAN JRES FOR 1869. JARY. Manchester FEBR Streatham 11, 12 Lincoln l6, 17 Harrow lB, 19 Mansfield 18 ...1, 2 UARY. Nottingham Spring 23, 24 Chelmsford 25, 26 Derby Spring 25, 26 MA Liverpool Spring 2,8, 4 Shrewsbury Spring 5, 6 Warwick. 9, 10, 11 Kingsbury l2, 13 Northampton l6, 17 AP. Bromley 1, '2 Aldershot l, 2 Catterick Bridge... l, 2 Thirsk ... 6, 7 Streatham 8, 9 Chester 4, 5,6, 7 Winchester ll, 12 York 11, 12 St. Albans 'l3 Salisbury l3, 14 Doncaster 13, 14 West Drayton lB, 19 West Somerset.. 18, 19 Margate 29 Durham 29, 30 Epsom 30, 31 ;IL. INewmarket Craven...l2, &c. Eastbourne l9 Lewes 20 21 ICroydon... 22, 23 Newmarket Ist Spring 26, &c. AY. Croydon 2,3, 4 Newton 2,3, 4 I Ascot ....8, 9, 10 , 11 Liverpool Summer ...15, 16 Windsor 15, 16 Hampton ...17, 18 Jl. , I Worcester l, 2 Newmarket July 6, &c. Kingsbury .. 9, 10 Pontefract 12, 13 Nottingham 13, 14 AUG Brighton 3, 4 Brighton Club 5 Lewes Eg..am lO, 11 Wolve rhatr pton lO, 11 Windsor 12, 13 St. Albans Stockton lB, 19, 20 SEPT: Warwick... 7, 8 Abingdon 9, 10 Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Richmond '2l, 22 Lichfield - West Drayton l7, 18 Rath 18, 19 Manchester l9, 20, 21 Croydon 20, 21 Harpenden 2l Epsom Summer .....25, etc. NE. ! Newcastle Oldham 22, 23, 24 22 iiibury Club 23 1 Stockbridge 24, 25, 26 Chelmsford Sutton Park .....29, 30 L.Y. Reading 15, 16 Huntingdon 2O, 21 Southampton '22 23 St.tmford .. 22 23 I Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30 UST. 1 Oxford Canterbury . ... 24, 25 York 24, 25, 26 I Plymouth 26 Windsor August l2, 13 Derby Summer ..,31, Sep. 1 I Weymouth 31, Sep. 1 OCTi Bedford 5, 6 Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester 7 8 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, itc. Chelmsford l9, 20 NOVI Worcester 2,3, 4 Liverpool 9, 10, 11. 12 MA: Cheltenham l9, 20 West Drayton 2l, 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth 23, 24 Newmarket Irton —.25, &c. MBER. Shrewsbury 15, &c Leamington Hunt 23, &c .SH. iCII. Baldayl© First Spring 18, 19 AY. Baldoyle Second Spring._ 11, 12 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES. JAN VARY. Hopgrove 1 Coverdale 6 Manchester l, 2 St. Albans l9 FEBRUARY. Birmingham r, 9 I Harrow lB, 19 Lincoln 16,17 I Derby •• 25 MARC EL Liverpool 3 Cambridgeshire M 18 Rugby (Grand Mil.) .8, 9 I West DI ayton lB, 19 Kingsbury 12, 13 ere wkerne lB, 19 APRIL. Aldershot 1, 2 I Croydon 2 9) 23 - Bromley I,:' __ I+l St. Albans ..... ...... li ICVest Drayton....— 17 JULY. Kingsbury AUGUST. St. Albans.. _ 17 OCTOBE.a. West Drayton THE DECLINE OP THE TUEP. " Senex." has addressed another letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph, on the present condi tion of the Turf. Ile quotes several figures from the Book Calendar of the races run in 1868, and finds cause for apprehension in the fact that there has been a great increase in the number of two-year olds which have started this year, and also in races run under one mile. " Senex compares the prin cipal racers of the day—Blue Gown and others—with the winning horses of an earlier date, and asks what chance the modern competitors would have had against the Flying Dutchman or Voltigeur. The overtaxing of the powers of young horses he considers to be the main cause of the decline which he finds in the character and stamina of our race horses. The decadence of the Turf he holds to be a matter of regret, and affirms that there never was a moment when betting was sosuniversal an evil in all classes. Vigorous measures are required to improve the position of affairs, and the attention of the Legis lature should be called to bear upon an admitted evil. " Senex " should have been a little more precise in his recommendations. Does he wish Parliament to prohibit or to regulate betting ? Betting is already prohibited by law, but it would be far less dangerous to attack the National Church than to put down the "ring" at Epsom. THE COST OF THE LOUD MAYOR'S SUDSY. When Londoners have a Lord Mayor's Show, somebody has to pay for it, and that at rather a high rate. There are, first, flags to be repaired, their bearers to be paid ; armour to be borrowed, arranged, its wearers to be settled with, and carriages " rigged up " for the procession. Then there are decorations for the dining-hall—pictures, • statuary, flowers, shrubs, &c.—to be borrowed. Then there is the dinner itself. Altogether the affair costs £2,o3l—rather a high price for a day's entertain ment, we fancy. Of this the Lord Mayor has to pay £1,215 from his private purse; the sheriffs, £007; and the Lands Committee, £2OO. It is clearly no good for a moneyless man to hope to become a " City magnate." lie would be without attraction. IN FULL MILITARY DRESS. In this part of the world the full-dressed military officer is supposed to be a hero of the ballroom. All the young girls are willing to flirt with him ; the old girls smile on him ; and both pater and mater look encouragingly on him. • But in Ceylon officers appear to object to the unifonn when they are in public. To rebuke them, Lieutenant-General Hodgson has issued the following general order, which, the Army and Navy Gazette says, "certainly goes straight to the point ; it cannot be misunderstood " :—" The Lieutenant-General commanding the troops inCeylon and the Straits Settlements must again desire that no officer under his command will appear at balls or other parties except in uniform. if an officer of the army is ashamed or unwilling to wear the dress pre scribed by the sovereign, he had better relinquish the service." Lieutenant-generals don't waltz, or they would have some compassion upon young officers doomed to dance in a temperature which Mr. Mike describes as the most trying in " Greater Britain." CHURCH ITEMS. If, as it has been suggested, the Privy Council gave their decision in the Martin v. Mackonochie case just before Christmas Day, in order to check the ritual which has for some time past been usual on that day in the " advanced" churches, the pre caution was of no avail. At St. Alban's, where a larger congregation than usual assembled, if that were possible, the incumbent disregarded the judgment altogether. The candles were lighted at the usual time, and the celebrant knelt after the consecration of the bread, and again after that of the wine. At St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington, the chancel during the three early cele brations, at six, seven, and eight o'clock, was one blaze of light, among which the altar candles burnt somewhat feebly. The effect of the whole as seen from the nave during the darkness of a winter's morning was very impressive, the more so as the chancel in this church is probably the most raised in England, except that at Canterbury Cathedral. At the mid-day celebration only the altar candles were lighted. There was no prostration on the part of the celebrant, but in this case prostration had not been usual. It is supposed that the absence of any alteration in the ritual at St. Alban's was due to the fact that no official intimation of the judgment had been given to the defendant. It is to be presumed that it will be complied with when it has been received. The preacher at St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington, evidently contem plated the carrying out of the injunction as a proxi mate fact, remarking that, " ornaments or no ornaments," the same offering of the body and blood of Christ would be made daily. Westminster Abbey was crowded to overflowing on Christmas Day. The preacher was Dean Stanley, who did not forget to touch upon his favourite subjects—the uselesness of party and the nationality of religion. Ile took for his subject the taxing of the world by Augustus, and Christ in the manger, and spewed how, by a " strange predestination of events, Augustus was unconsciously aiding the work which was to be accomplished by the infant. From this he passed to the consideration of exterior circumstance, which ho declared to be something, though not everything. He deprecated very earnestly the party spirit which now prevailed. It was better, said he, to belong to the nation than to a part of it. It was better to belong to the Church than to a sect. In the impure air and the confined limits of the one the spirit was apt to become impure and to contract. But in the purer and more enlarged atmosphere the soul would also become purer and enlarged. Christmas Day, he continued, was a national as well as a religious festival. So also, whether his hearers conformed or rtrt. if they were national they belonged to the great •a_ -nal Church. The Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Claughton) was lately holding a confirmation at °layering, Essex. He found the chancel well jacked with " respect ability," anxious to get a good view. Whereupon he advanced to the front of the chancel, and caused the candidates to be brought to him separately, and each knelt on the chancel step, and received the laying on of hands there. After the confirmation, the Bishop went into the body of the church and addressed the candidates there, so that the chancel folk, who had come to see a spectacle, were, to use a Derbyism, " dished." The Bishop of Bangor has issued a pastoral letter inviting the clergy and the laity of his diocese to a Synod, to be held at Bangor on January 12. He suggests the following topics of discussion :—The erection and endowment of new churches in popu lous places ; the procuring inexpensive buildings in hamlets remote from the parish church, to be used as lecture and school rooms, and for Church work ; the supply of curates,. and the increase of services ; the providing of salaries for Scripture-readers, who shall act under the guidance of the clergyman of the parish ' • and the establishment of a Welsh news paper, to be conducted on Church of England prin ciples. Bishop Campbell is clearly alarmed at the condition of the Welsh Church, and fears that it will before long share the same fate as the Irish. The John Bull • has several Church items. The Bishop of St:Helena is to reach Capetown in the same vessel as Mr. Macrorie, and will assist the Bishops of Capetown and Grahamstown in his con secration. "Should Bishop Colenso's friends move an injunction from the Supreme Court to restrain the consecration in the cathedral, it has been arranged, with the full knowledge and concurrence of the late Primate, that • it shall take place at sea, beyond the limits of the British Crown.' We confess that we do not understand how a consecration at sea can confer jurisdiction over the see of Natal ; but that is Mr. Macrorie's concern. The John Bull has informa tion that the Bishop of Winchester has had another stroke of paralysis, and that the confirmation of the Bishop of London's election has been postponed. It appears to be pretty nearly certain that Arch bishop Manning will be made a cardinal next March. " TIIE SEASON." Christnias, the merriest season in the year, is in one respect, like Holy week, the saddest---it is not the time for marrying. The Times of Saturday con tained but one marriage, and that was four days old, and took place abroad. Marriage seems to be too serious an event for jocund Yule -tide. This particular Christmas would seem to be as little given to dying as to wedding. " Green " though it be, there are but twenty-one deaths recorded in the column of "hatches, matches, and despatches." -ME PILEMIEIt AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. The electors of the borough of Greenwich have twice elected the Premier to represent them in Par liament. In return, Mr. Gladstone has given them a letter and a " nomination " speech. He now writes another letter. It is very brief, is dated from Carlton-house-terrace, December 24, and runs as follows Gentlemen, I again tender to you my cordial and respectful thanlis for having confided to me the trust of representing you in Parliament. Both in the trust itself and in the manner in which it has been accorded, I hope to find an additional and powerful incentive to the discharge of my public duties." THE COMING PROGRAMME. Although Parliament does not meet for the despatch of business until February i G, speculation is already rife as to the attitude which will be talitn by the Ministry on some of the most important questions of the day. The London correspondent of the Scotsman believes that when Sir Henry Bulwer brings forward his motion for the Ballot, the Government will be prepared to meet him by a ready assent to an inquiry into the subject. Whether the inquiry shall be by a select committee, or the House of Commons, or by a royal commission, remains for future decision. The question of the , resriatratiou clause of the Reform Act will Probably be bib - belt forviard by a private memoor ; ana Government, it is supposed, will, in the first instance, be content to support any motion calling for an amendment of the law, reserving for themselvess full freedom of action as to the specific legislation. Of course the Irish Church difficulty is being anxiously discussed by the Ministry. It is considered that the Premier per sonally is rather in favour of giving a voluntary orga nisation to the Irish Church, but a majority of the Liberal party is thought to be in favour of the reduction of the Irish Church to the position of a Colonial Church. It is idle, however, to speculate on the last-mentioned subject. Frequent Cabinet Councils will have to be held before such a momen tous question is settled to the satisfaction of Pro testant England, Presbyterian Scotland, and Roman Catholic Ireland. The John Bull says that the Premier and the Marquis of Salisbury have agreed to a plan for settling the Irish Church difficulty. The property of the Church is to be put in commission ; the Irish Church is to have freedom ; but the question of the disposal of any possible surplus is to be decided in the future. It is thought that this plan would please the High Church party, and at the same time mitigate the hostility of Dis senters. The John Bull, however, thinks that such a measure would have a very small chance of passing the House of Commons, and suggests that the gossips are probably discussing Mr. Shaw Lefevre's scheme, which proposes to give the Church a certain capital and let her be free. -21,22 WATERLOO MEETING-FE8.17. (Over Altcar.) Patron Right Hon. the Earl of Sefton. The Waterloo Cup, value Xi Of £25 each ; 64 subs; the the second £2OO 1. Mr C. F. Allison 33. Mr J. Ingleby 2. Mr J. F. Armistead 34. Mr R. Jardine 3. Mr J. Bake 35. Mr F. Johnston 4. Mr W. J. Barden 36. Mr J. Johnston 5. Mr F. Bartholomew 37. Mr H. B. Jones 6. Lord Binning 38. Mr W. J. Legh 7. Mr J. Blackstock 39. Mr S. C. Lister 8. Mr J. S. Bland 40. N 1 rJ. Lousdale 9. Mr G. Blausbard ' 41. Lord Lurgan - 10. Mr N. G. Burrow 42. Ur S. MAllat•ey 11. Mr T. Brooklebauk 43. Mr C. E. Marteet I'. Mr J. Brundrit 44. Mr \V. 11. Massey 33. Mr 11. B. Carruthers 45. Sir C. Molyneux 11. Mr C. J. Chesshyre 46. dm, C. C. Molyueux 15. Mr W. H. Clark 47. Mr T. Neville 16. Mr E. Croft 48. Mr B. Paterson 17. Mr 3'. Cuhniughatn 411. Mr T. L. 11,!ed 14. Mr W. D. Deighton 50. Dr Richardson 11. Mr James Dunlop 51. Mr J. Savage 20. Mr J. Evans 62. Mr N. Saxton - 21. Lord Gariies 53. Lord Sefton •22. Mr J. Gibson 31. Mr T. Smith 23. Mr W. M. Gilmour 55. Mr J. Spinks 24. Col. Goodlake 56. Lord Stair 25. Mr A. Graham 57. Mr E. W. Stocker 26. Mr T. Green 58. Mr S. Swinburno 27. Mr C. A. Hailey 59. Mr G. A. Thompson 28. Capt. Hathorn 60. Mr R.. Todd 29. Mr J. Haywood 61. Mr B. W. Trinder 30. Mr J. Hodson 62. Mr R. C. Vyner 31. Mr J. Hole 63. Mr R. H. Williams 32. Mr J. Hyslop €4. Capt. Wyndham in specie, taken from the dogs tha first round for T h c e o p W s a t t a e k r Waterloo o for Purse, th e value 32 beaten the Cup; the winner to receive £lOO. The Waterlos Plate, value £lOO in specie, taken from the Cup Stakes, for the 16 beaten dogs in the first ties for the Waterloo Cup. The Great Waterloo Cup, 64 subscribers, at £25 each - the money £1,600 -to be divided as under :- 1. Winner to receive 1. Second ditto ••• 2. Dogs to receive £5O each... 4. Ditto ditto 30 ditto... 8. Ditto ditto 20 ditto... 16. Ditto ditto 10 ditto.. ,600 in specie, by subscription winner to receive X5OO, and £5OO ~ 200 ~ 100 120 16'3 ~ 160 1,240 The Waterloo Purae and Waterloo Plate 360 £1,600 The Waterloo Purse, for the 32 dogs beaten in the firs course for the Waterloo Cup, amounting to £260, to be divided as under :- 1. Winner to receive ... 1. Second ditto ••• 2. Dogs to receive £l5 each... 4. Ditto ditto 10 ditto... 8. Ditto ditto 5 ditto.. ... £lOO 16 £260 The Waterloo Plate for the 16 dogs beaten in the second ties for the Cup, amounting to £lOO, to be divided as under: , 1. Winner o receive 1 cond ditto ••• 2. Dogs to receive £7 lOs each 4. Ditto ditto 5 ditto ▪ £4O ▪ 25 £lOO COURSING FIXTURES. JANUARY. )ng!olvn) 5, dm. (Lm Kenilworth (Warwickshire) r 5, 6. Neptune Open (Lytham) Lancashire 6, &c. Coole (Cork), Ireland Annan, Dumfriesshire B, 9. Wigtownshire Club 12, /cc. Third South Lancashire 13, &C. Altcar Club, Lancashire 13, &O. • Mere Down, Wilts Baldock Club, Herts 20, 21. Spelthorne Club (Ashdown Park) 21, &c. Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire . 25. Ridgway Club (Lytham), Lancashire 27, &c. Creagh Open, Ireland 27. Border Union FEBRUARY. Powderham Everleigh Club, Wilts 2, 3. Rufford Open, Lancashire Cardington, Beds Wenvoe Castle .... .... .... 3,4 Ludham, Norfolk 11, 12. Brampton, Cumberland ll, 12. Waterloo (Altcar), Lan cas hi re l7, &c. MARCH. . _ _ _........-- -- 2, ch. Ashdown Park, Herts Fourth S. Lancashir e (Ch amp i on ) County Louth (Ch am p ion ) , I re l an d 18, &C. 30, Zee. Scottish National Op en , L ai ark OCTOBER. Ancaster and Will oug hb y , Lincolnshire 5, 6. Ormesby 19, Ric. Huntingdon Club , 26, 27. NOVEMBER. Sundorne, Salop Cothan and Eston.„. , '2, 3. . 9, &c. DUNVILLE and Co Belfast, •are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunrille and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort buildings, Strand, _London W.O —[Ad vertisement.] THE MANUFACTURE OF WATCHES AND C LOC KS.— A most interesting and instructive little work, describing briefly but with great clearness, the rise and progress of watch and clock makin , has just been published by Mr J. W. Benson, of 25, Old Bond-street, 99, Westbourne-grove, and the City Steam Factory, 58 and 60, Ludgate-hill. The book, which is profusely illustrated, gives a full description of the various kinds of watches and clocks, with their prices, and no one should make a purchase without visiting the above establishments or consulting this truly valuable work. By its aid persons residing in any part of the United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for themselves the watch best adapted for their use, and have it sent to them with perfect safety. Mr. Benson, who holds the appoint ment to the Prince of Wales, sends this pamphlet to any address. on receipt of two postage stamps, and we cannot too strongly recommend it to the notice of the intencling Purchaser :CH. IMBER. Western (Ayr) 22, 23 Kingsbury... 2:3, 24 Monmouth... •, 23 7 24 Newmarket st 0et....28, &c. , BER. ADAM AND NAVY DEDUCTIONS. The United Service Gazette says that " the whole sale reduction of the Royal Marine forces is being ruthlessly carried out." Of the twenty-five companies forming the Woolwich division, seven are to be reduced, and this is believed to be merely a step to the extinction of the division. The Gazette says that Mr. Gladstone has insisted upon a great reduction of expenditure, and has left it to the heads of the different departments to carry out the reduction. The marines have been fixed upon because they are a poor seniority corps, without interest, while the ornamental forces, who have friends in Parliament, the Cabinet, and the Court, are left untouched. Immediately after this insinuation the same journal goes on to mention that the whole of the twenty-five second battalions of the line are to be abolished, involving a reduction of at least 20,000 men. Of course our professional contemporary considers that any reduc tion of our " already ridiculously small army would be a most dangerous experiment." KILMARNOCK ELECTION. Mr. Chadwick has written with reference to the election at Kilmarnock, in which he was the defeated candidate. Referring to a statement which appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, he considers it injurious to Mr. Mill and himself to have it said that he could not have had a worse voucher than his certificate from the ex-member for Westminster. He declares that he did not go to Kilmarnock with any certifi cate at all, and proceeds to say that he was well received throughout, besides having received applica tions from two other places in Scotland and one in Eng land, to stand for them. All the committees were sur prised at the reversal of the promises made, and the mistake arose in consequence of the elite of the work ing men having been taken for representatives of the entire body. Mr. Chadwick declares that the opinion of competent judges is that extension of the suffrage in small boroughs, without the Ballot, will only increase corruption and the influence of mere money power. The adoption of the Ballot would, he considers, effect a complete change in the electoral action, and reflect the real opinion of the con stituencies. THE RE-ELECTIONS. There will be a regular batch of re-elections to take place directly after the meeting of Parliament on the 29th. Among others the following writs are to be moved for :—Clare county, on Sir Colman O'Loghlen's acceptance of 'Office as Judge-Advocate- General; the Wigton district of burghs, on Mr. Young's appointment as Solicitor-General for Scot land ; the county of Kerry, on the acceptance by Lord Castlerosse of the post of Vice-Cham berlain of the Royal Household; the county of Kildare, on Lord Otho Fitzgerald becoming Comptroller of the Household ; the county of Louth, on the appointment of Mr. ' C. Fortescue as Chief Secretary for Ireland ; the borough of Mallow, on Mr. Sullivan's promotion to the office of Attorney- General for Ireland ; the counties of Clackmannan and Kinross, on Mr. W. P. Adam's acceptance of a lordship of the Treasury ; the county of Westmeath. on tne nomination or Uaptam Ureville-Nugent av Groom-in-Waiting to the Queen ; and for the Border 'District of burghs, on Mr. G. 0. Trevelyan taking V* iuties of Civil Lord of the Admiralty. TECHNICAL EDUCATISN. It is proposed next year to hold in London a \Vol-km en's International Exhibition. The, con Li- Aental nations have shewn great interest in the scheme, and all that is wanted is hearty co-operation on the part of the working men in the large towns of England. A requisition seventeen yards long, and signed by sonic thousands of working men, has been presented tc Mr. Gladstone, asking for his name and support fox the council, which were cheerfully promised. Mr. Buckmaster, 'in speaking lately of the advantages which these exhibitions offer to working men, told an interesting story of his own labour to make a workbox for his grandmother in the days of his apprenticeship, and the difficulties he met with during the three years' toil thai he bestowed upon it. The modern disre gard of the apprentice system he thought a mistake ; it was a valuable and a stern discipline, but it trained good workmen. The extreme sub-division of labour is not favourable to the development of an intellectual race of workmen. A reckless system of competition and speculation has done much to destroy the ambition to produce good work. " Look at the houses built now and those built two or three hundred years ago. Look at the tool chests of the carpenters and joiners of the age we call barbarous ; have you anything like them now The object of the proposed exhibition is to revive the best associations of the past and bring together not only the work, but the workmen, to cultivate friendly feelings. All information respecting it is obtainable at the offices, 150, Strand, London, and there is every likelihood of its proving a great success. HAMPSTEAD HEATH. A. suggestion has been made with regard to the preservation of Hampstead Heath from further encroaches—a matter of great importance to Lon doners. It is proposed that the Metropolitan Board of Works should buy up the common righte to suburban open spaces, and that the Board should endeavour to put itself in an analogous position to that of the Crown with regard to Epping Forest. The Crown rights at Epping were valued at £4 10s. per acre, whereas the lord of the manor of Hampstead demands £lO,OOO per acre. It is there fore suggested that Sir John Thwaites should nego tiate with the copyholders, and obtain the transfer of sufficient of their rights to afford the Board a locus standi in fighting the public battles. MR. RUSKIN'S POLITICAL ECONOMY. Mr. Ruskin has written a letter to the Daily Telegraph, on the employment of the poor and criminal classes. He remarks that no almsgiving of money can avail in comparison with the exercise of care and thought. The advantages of occupation to all are manifest, and he suggests that different classes of work may be arranged for numerous bodies of men. He puts forward some of the most noticeable among them, such as road-making, and bring ing waste lands into cultivation. He also advises the construction of harbours and the repairs of buildings. He advises that " substantia. dress " should be made • for the poor, so that they may not be compelled to keep to insufficient cloth ing, or to wear cast-off clothing. Schools should also be established on the principles of manufacture of useful materials, and it should be imperative that everything should be produced by hand work, in order to develope the power and skill of the workman. Mr. Ruskin took to the study of political economy for a short period, but he does not appear to have profited by it. His scheme is simply that which the Republican operatives of France ane. Spain insisted upon after their respective revolutions The Government is to provide work for working men. FOREIGN NOTES. GERMANY. A. very important proposition has been presented to the Federal Council of North Germany. It is to the effect that all the subjects of the Confederation residing in the Grand Duchy of Baden shall be enrolled and finish their term of military service under the Baden authorities, and that all Baden subjects residing in North Germany shall serve under the Federal authorities. The tendency of this pro posal as a step to the recognition of Baden as a North German State is evident. It is a matter of detail, cer tainly, and can affect only a limited number, but that it is Intended to form one arch of the bridge by which the Con federation will cross the Mein, there can be no doubt. It is brought before the Council by Prussia. An address to the Spanish people published by the Democrats of Leipsic contained some offensive allusion to the Emperor of the French. The French Consul lodged a complaint against the authors of the document, an d a prosecution was commenced. It was, however, stopped on an order from Paris. The Imperial Government has had enough of official zeal for the present. Count Chorinsky, who was condemned, after a remark. able trial to twenty years' imprisonment for the murder of his wife, has escaped. On the ground of insanity he was recently removed from prison to a lunatic asylum, but it is now believed that his madness was feigned in order to facilitate his plans. Not the slightest trace of his move ments has bees discovered, . SPAIN. ate.:. The manifesto of the Duke of Montpensier brings him formally before the Spanish nation as a candidate for the throne. In Spain it is accepted as such, and, besides, it is not likely that a document of such length and importance would be published merely to explain the Duke's conduct with respect to the Cadiz affair. The offer to fight against the insurgents will not be better cleared up by declarations in favour of universal suffrage and reli gious liberty, satisfactory though these must be to the bulk of the nation addressed. The Indtpcnclance Beige says the only candidates now before the country are the Duke of Montpensier and Espartero. Don Carlos has no chance except by a civil war, and not much even in that case. General Cialdini has not visited Madrid upon any political mission. The Madrid journals all agree that the harvest has been very deficient this year, and that themisery in many parts is extreme. THE WAR OP 18G6. Diplomacy, like war, has entered upon a new phase; what it is gaining in rapidity it loses in secrecy. We are content to learn some of the combinations of the First Napoleon from the publication of his correspondence half a century after it was written ; but the secret doings of living diplomatists ooze out immediately. The Hungarians, in whom Prussia has certainly found ne friend, are very angry with the patronising tone of the North-German papers, and are retorting by some disagree• able revelations of the war of 1866. The attempt to stir up a revolt in Hungary was far more serious than would appear from the miserable escapade of General Klapka. There was an understanding between Count Bismarck and the Hungarian leaders that Austria was to be destroyed. Everything was ready for a revolutionary invasion when the peace of Nikolsburg was made. Bismarck had promised in return for Hungary's assistance that the old kingdom should be rebuilt upon Austria's ruins, but he forgot his promise in face of the menacing attitude of the alarmed French Emperor. Some days before the conclusion of the peace preliminaries, Kossuth telegraphed to the Prus' elan Premier that German unity was possible only on condition that the House of Hapsburg was overturned. No answer ' was received to this message. " Possibly the telegram was lost on the wart like Count Usedom's despatch," ironically suggest the Hungarian papers. The Magyars think they were betrayed, and will have no more dealings with Prussia* Austria is now the associate and ally of Hungary. AMERICA. The proclamation of President Johnson, granting an unconditional pardon to all engaged in the 15 0 rebellion in the South, includes Mr. Jefferson Davis, JO Mason, Mr. Slidell, and General Lee. It does not follow that Congress will recognise this act, but A relieves all the leaders from legal penalties, and the farce of trying the ex-President of the South may noW be considered at an end. CUBA. According to a Cuban journal which professes " in de. pendence," the insurrection in the great West Naito island is progressing altogether in favour of the insurgents. A Provisional Government has been established, and ha l gained some authority in the district overrun by the Creoles. All the railways leading to Port-au-Prince are in the hands of the insurgents, whose army musters 9,7° ° men. Fever has made its appearance in the Spa nish army. THE MISSIONARIES IN CHINA. In a lengthy letter to the Times, Mr. Wentworth Dilk e deplores the circumstances which have given rise to the recent missionary difficulty in China. He urges that th e missionaries, by their residence at Yangchow, we re breaking our treaties with the Government of th e Celestial Empire. British subjects have no right of inland residence ; they can legally dwell 011 at the ports named in the treaty of 1842. Nothiq in subsequent treaties has invalidated this condition; missionaries have ever resided in the interi,,r it has l' e , e° by a tacit understanding with the local government. 1 ' e cannot be called upon to back them up by force of all° Further, recent agreements, and the residence Of Minister at Pekin, bind us to refrain from the, practice el a sending war-ships to discuss treaties ; our squadron shoo' prevent and protect, not punish. The Times supP° l44 Mr. Dilke. The California Commissioner of Emigration II" ued the Pacific Mail Company for a violation of 010 rao senger Act, placing the penalties at $5,000,000. The town of Northampton, Mass. , refused Dee' 9, by a vote of 421 to 532, to lend its credit for $300,000 io aid of the proposed railroad to North Adams. The contract between the North German Lloyd' o and the British Post-office for the conveyance of mails to New York was executed at Bremen, Dec. 17, which come into force on the Ist of January, 1869. _ _ VV On ThAnksgiving Day the prisoners at the Mary land Stata Penitentiary, about six hundred in number' were treated to an exhibition of the English Punch an d Judy—their first audience in America. The, clock on the Sileffield School of Science i 3 New "raven communicates with a clock in a jewellery sh op nearly half a mile distant, by means of an electric apP" ratus, and they strike the hours of the day in unison. A little girl was recently seized by an alligato; near Bayou Sara, Louisiana, and a black boy who attem on Pie r to rescue her, and for that purpose pursued them s into the water, was himself seized by another alligat° and devoured. As a sign of peace we may mention that at the Danforth Locomotive Works, Paterson, there was receatlf delivered a large quantity of 24 and 4 2 -lb. cannon ball°, sold by the Government and now to be put into the fur: nacos and made ovdr into locomotives, cotton Inacilv nery, &c. Arrangements have been completed by the Ban g e- Association of the Eastern District, Now York , to cel id brate the birth-day of the poet of Scotland with a splena t banquet on the evening of the 25th of January a Raynoi's Hall. tsta VIRGINIA FINANCES.—The report of the Pa — Treasurer of Virginia for the year ending first of Oet4be` shows that he has a balance on hand of 175,600 dollars' that the State expenditures for the year were 2,60 0 , 00 ? dollars ; that the registered debt of the State i s aboo 20,800,000 dollars ; and that the State has guaranteed °vet 1,700,000 internal improvement bonds. • lea Fifteen thousand tourists and invalids Yl5l Florida last season. First-class New York residences now contain billiard-room, a chapel, and a theatre or concert sal000• [ADVERTISEMENT.I —Holloway's Pills.—Easy Di,est,lici —Any . one distracted by that demon of discoinfocrt, hid digestion, should send for a box of these pills, round s yl . l _ l o are wrapped brief, sagacious, and practicable instructs for removing dyspepsia. These admirable pills cannot too highly appreciated for the wholesome power they 11%d over all disorders of the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels. They instantaneously relieve and steadily 0 ,, les , out a thorougfrcure, and in their course dispel headtteut .0 I biliousness, flatulence, and depression of spirits. wonderful to watch the daily improvement of the c,"07.0 plexion. as Holloway's pills purify the blood and re s,`o, plumpness to the face which had lost both flesh an d coo s , These pills combine every excellence desirable in a down tic remedy. [AD YERTISEMENT.]-11enceorth no one will doubt the Yaltla properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Ar 3 ,,ao Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bless' ,!;',l it has already received from Invalids whose position had _b e „ B , deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the ear' r o f whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty y cut unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Ga ze loll Midi," July 25th Rome, J uly 21, 1866. The health of the Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other recut',' dies, lie has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Bev meal. Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health , his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highlY: ‘ , l 6 or extract a few out ofmore than 68.000 cures :—Cure No. 55,- ",fot the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver conilNijo, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palPiT, ie all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the mos t (16 tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1. 771 : Lord Steer sly. Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dYsF e ,,,P4s, No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dysP e ri t is, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, slA s w• sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No. 46,27 0 : James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey , o f 30 years' diseased 101,0- spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. portant Caution—Beware of the m an y unsavoury and more 4,1 sloppy imitations to which , w ithout authority, Baron Vie' name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is. nd.• 11b. 2s. 91 ; 2 lbs. 4a. 6d. ; 5 lbs, Us.' 12 CD' 225. ; 24 lbs., 405.—A150 DO BARRY'S REYALENIA ARADICAk'; LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 25., ic'-upg c ups at Is. Ga., for 48 c u p s at ts. , for 2 88 cups at 3 0 5., fo r 576 cups at 55s. —being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 55 1.00 are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of pos t yowl' Order. —BARRY DU BARRY and Co., N o. 77, Re en t-strect, '— don; and all Grocers and Chemists. g Births. + l, B Wif e BAKER—On Christmas-d ay , a t 13, n esse ll- s quare t -- of John Baker, Esq., of a son. iltrE" HOARE—On the 18th inst., at 75, Harley-street, Hoare, of a son. •SA la ROGERS—On the 26th inst., at 30, Onslow-gardens , the wife of Walter Lacy Rogers, Esq., of a son. Marriages. NEALE —Pntuars—On tho 26th inst.. at St. ue ° ''',4l- Hanover-square, Frederick Neale to Jane, eldest dOr' ter of Wm. A. Phillips, 73, New Bond-street. OW THOMAS—WALLACE—On the 17th inst ., at BOUtOg.--,; to Mer, Edgar Hastings Thomas, Captain Madras S•vt76(l., Christian Jean, eldest daughter of Alex. Wallace, late of Calcutta. Deaths. 1 1 t , ' HURST —On the 24th inst., at 38, flighbury_piou..., Hurst, Esq., of 6, Leadenhall-street, city, aged 69 ' f ai, LOWE -On the 25th inst., at 9. St. John's - w " George Lowe, H.q., C.E., F.H.8., aged 80. bt MURRAY—On Christmas-day, at Reading, Mary An 13 ,,.' daughter of the !ate Lord and Lady William 3dur r o 4:l' / WRIGHT—On the 25th inst., George Wright, of W lane, Highgate, aged 74. London : Printed and P.:Malted by WILLIAM AND I3° of No. 112, Strand, Printer, .it Tait SUN Odic', go ti ol Strand, in the Precinct of the So voy, in the 003 " Aliddlemex t —Monday, Decomber 28, 1868. Du an( has bee nes yea nog, dig( tien Stu, ford Iron flats. of I. ar•rN oli Year