The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

SMUT OP TIM PTIBLIO JOURNAL. The Times declares that the untiring spirit of our public ien is a matter of standing wonder to the rest of the world. Any one who would direct the course of political life and shape the destinies of his age must be above re laxation. He must never shew sign of satiety or of weakness. He must always be ready to confront new difficulties, to defy new dangers. Last night Mr. Die. raeli told the guests in Merchant Taylors' Hall that just twelve months since he had returned thanks there, when his health was drunk in connection with the House of Commons, and the reflection might have suggested the terrible sameness an& iteration of a politician's existence. But Mr. Disraeli seemed to feel nothing of the sort. No sooner had he referred to his position last year, and exulted over the nearly approach ing end of the Reform legislation upon which the House of Commons was then hotly engaged, than he proceeded to address to his audience a manifesto with the evident object that this time next year he may still return thanks for her Majesty's Ministers in the hall of the ?Merchant Taylors' Company. lie talked bravely of the great principles which have made this country so great, and discoursed, with a dexterity which no one but himself can hope to rival, upon the springs of society and the life of States ; but the central figure of the picture left upon the mind—the one thing constant amid a whirl of inconstancy—is Mr. Disraeli returning thanks year after year in Merchant Taylors' Hall to a crbwd of constitutional citizens. Mr. Disraeli's manifesto is worthy of his ingenuity. If it is flimsy, what could be expected from his materials ? If his principles be somewhat incon• sistent with each other, how is it possible that he should be able to reconcile his position with himself ? A genera) election is at hand, and Merchant Taylors' Hall is the accepted place for the vindication of the party newly called Constitutional, and Mr. Disraeli did his best to be worthy of the occasion. The nation is warned of the issues before it, and bidden to choose whether it will follow the right or the wrong. We have said that Mr. Disraeli takes great credit to himself and his colleagues for the work they - have - done, arnd it is, indeed, admirable to see how he contrives to place himself right at the outset in the eyes of his countrymen. The leaden of the Constitutional party hay e accomplished the most diffi• cult of tasks, they have carried a reform of the House of Commons. The next generation will approve labours which will have left the people of England more fully and more completely represented in Parliament, and will bless the controlling spirit which succeeded in recoil. cuing the traditions of the past with the require. ments of the present. Parliament has been recon- strutted, and the great reconstructor, the man who bore the heat and the burden of the day, was speaking at Merchant Taylors' Hall. It has ceased to be strange that the Constitutionalists who heard the speaker should vehemently applaud his boast that he had aecomplished, through their supple obedience, the transfer of power they had so long and stubbornly _ _ _ resisted. But though Mr. Disraeli was willing to claim all credit for the past, he was more anxious to raise war•cry for the future. "The Churth is in danger." " The sacred union of Church and State is threatened." " Men seek to divorce authority from the principle of religion." These are Mr. Disraeli's warnings, and he modestly adds that he traces " the hand of Providence" in the fact, or, as he calls it, " the awful dispense.- tion," that the rejuvenescence of the Constitution should be immediately followed by an attack upon its integrity. We may appeal from the Mr. Disraeli of yesterday to the Mr. Disraeli of a freer life, to enforce the prudence of being cautious in tracing " the hand of Providence." In one of his most brilliant novels he lavishes his sarcasm on Bishop Blomfield for seeing the hand of Providence" in some good news which arrived from West Connaught one year, and voting within a twelvemonth for the suppression of an indefinite number of Irish bishoprics. Nobody will be surprised if Mr. Disraeli proves hereafter capable of an inconsistency similar in kind, perhaps greater in degree, and hit prophecy last night was gratuitously imprudent. The Post criticises the action of Sir Robert Napier before Magdala. It feels grateful to Sir Robert Napier for his foresight and military sagacity in so truly estimat ing the necessities of the expedition', :arid - for his 'fihnness in resisting proposals for a reduction of his force; and all the more so as the balance of opinion was decidedly in favour of a much smaller army. It is, indeed, much to be hoped that we have learned, and for ever, the wisdom, nay, the absolute necessity, of leaving the commander of an army every possible latitude in arranging and conducting his enterprise according to his own views. As regards Sir Robert Napier insisting upon the surrender of Theodore himself, whatever may have been previously thought as to the necessity of his adopting that course, the fact stated in the despatch that Theodore's troops, recovering from their fright and confusion after Arogie, were re-assembling at Mazdala, completely vindicates his decision. And although at present we may not be able to see so clearly the propriety of burning Magdala, still no doubt Sir Robert Napier will be able to show good cause why, upon political grounds, he ordered the destruc tion of the town. The Herald reminds us that the official despatches tell us nothing that we did not know before ; but they enable the Govcrnment to ask the acknowledgments of Parlia ment for the good work which has been so well done. It is a work of which the country may justly be proud, and the more so as it has had the happiest effect upon our reputation on the Continent. We know that in France particularly officers- of the highest rank and experience have expressed themselves nothing less than astonished at the masterly organisation with which the expedition has been conducted, and the courage and devotion of our soldiers in facing known diffi culties to arrive at unknown dangers. That our physical superiority is estimated far more highly in Europe than it was before our success in Abyssinia we an well assured, and it is equally important, too, to have proved to our continental neighbours that England, although reluctant to interfere in fori!ign quarrels with which she has no concern, will go to war even for an idea when that idea is her own and is identified with the cause of honour and humanity. The Daily News comments on the annual meeting of toe English Church Union. It shews, our contemporary says, sports and the severer pleasures of the turf to be incapable of satisfying the redundant energies of out young nobility and gentry in this . moving age. Young Liberals and young Tories of high degree are disporting themselves in a new field of volunteer ecclesiastical war• tare. Nothing can be more innocent or more worthy of respect than this emulation of the clerical party in France. It is curious and diverting to note how the president of the meeting took the pleasing and kindly tone of the Ultramontane bishops and journalists over the water when he spoke of Bishop Colenso. It seems, indeed, that " the party of Catholic truth " is not quite at unity with itself. The Rev. Dr. Lee objected to a paragraph in the report which repudiated lay politics, and being interrupted in reading it to the meeting, he remarked that " if it were after dinner he could understand the gentleman's interrup• tion." The speech of Dr. Pusey seems to justify in some degree Dr. Lee's honest objection to the repudiation of all political motives by the Church Union, although it dealt with gte political question of the Irish Church in charac• teristic ecclesiastical fashion, as one merely of the dis posal of so much surplus revenue. There is nothing in all this that is not as innocuous as a game of clerical croquet. It hurts nobody ;it promotes universal flirtation. And we heartily acknowledge that it is far better that young laymen of distinction should amuse their leisure with this dilettante crusading than like the young French nobles of 1832, in revenging themselves on a liberal age by invent ing the cancan. The Standard says that the delegates from Nova Scotia cannot be congratulated on their choice of a champion for their cause in the Imperial Parliament. Mr. Bright has a powerful tongue at the command of those who employ his services ; kit of ail advocates in behalf of such a cause as that of the separation of Nova Scotia from the North American Confederation, he is perhaps the worst that could be chosen. It is impossible not to regard Mr. Bright's action in any matter of thi s ki n d without refe rence to his own political opinions, and especially to his known leanings towards the Government of the United States. It is true that Mr. Bright has formally repudi• ated the character of an admirer of American institutions, and that he has done so with a warmth which seems to imply that be considers the allegation to be a kind o f insult. But we cannot forget that the whole course and tendency of Mr. Bright's teaching baS been to refer us to the United States as a model of good government—to approve of every step taken by that Government in the extension of its boundaries, and to justify the destiny which he believes to have marked out all North America for one Democratic Eepitblic. rae 2Vern-aph warns us that if we do not mind what we are about Nova -.,:cotia.D:ay become a portion of the United Stat,s. Tile sullen dis. l ,ll:e which Nova Scotia entertains to 11,:r enforced allianeg with Canada certainly - dis appear in course of time. lint, unfortunately, cur Arneric:ln colonists have an alternative. and do not hesi• tate to tell ni that they will have recon;..-,e to it, if we do not ennZiUlt eonvictiow. Th e y a4.. - -7ert tpenly that they prefcr to .i.da the - United States. It is pc ,- ,ible that there may be exaggeration in these threats, but no prudent stateAnan will deny that they challenge notice, and that it is most desirable to ascertain their exact value. A cAnniission of inquiry, therefore, ie - not by any raf , all3 50 " insane " an idea as Mr. Adderley seems to suppose. 'the inhabitants of Doncaster have decided to adopt the Freo Libraries Act. THE GTYPER2drEN:t TELZGIMP:7I2 ' 2ILL. A deputation of newspaper proprietors waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, to urge upon him the importance of passing the Telegraphs Bill during the present session. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Clay, M.P., and was accompanied by Mr. Norwood, M.P., Mr. Ramsay, M.P., Mr. Walter Morrison, M.P., and Sir John Gray, M.P. The Duke of Montrose, the Postmaster-General, was present, and also Mr. Scuda more, the assistant secretary to the Post Office. Another deputation of bankers, merchants, and traders in favour of the bill subsequently waited upon the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. THE ROYAL VISIT TO OXFORD. The Crown Prince of Denmark received the diploma of the D.C.L. degree from the bands of the Vice-Chancellor on Wednesday morning, amidst great enthusiasm. The Prince of Wales was present. The undergraduates expressed themselves freely upon public men and public questions, and were vociferous in their demonstrations in favour of Ex-Governor Eyre. The proceedings were of the usual kind. An intimation having been received that his Royal Highness the Crown Prince would, upon the conclusion of the proceedings in the Sheldonian Theatre, meet the mem bers of the corporation at the Corn Exchange, The Mayor read the address, which was one of cordial welcome to the Crown Prince of Denmark on his visit to Oxford. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince having received the address from the mayor, read in a clear and distinct voice the following reply, which was afterwards handed to his worship :—" Mr. Mayor, I look back with mixed feelings of pleasure and regret to the time which I spent at Oxford—of pleasure because I recall the memory of peaceful and happy days ; of regret, because those days were so few, and were so suddenly interrupted by a call to rougher and sterner duties. To-day I have received a high horoUr - from the University of Oxford ; it is no small addition to that honour that the mayor and bur- gesses of this ancient and loyal city deem me worthy of a special address. Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I thank you heartily for this mark of good opinion, and more especially for the kind and generous words in which you have ex pressed your feelings towards myself, towards my august parents, and, above all, towards my beloved sister." ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. ISLE or WIGHT.—Sir John Simeon contradicts the report that he intended to retire from the representation. MANCHESTER. It has been decided to take steps with- out delay to secure the election of Mr. Ernest Jones as third member for Manchester. SOUTH SHIELDS.—Mr. C. M. Palmer (L.), has declined to come forward for this borough, thus leaving Mr. J. C. Stevenson, a rather advanced Liberal, the only candidate in the field. CAMBRIDGE.—It is finally nettled that Mr. R. R. Torrens (L.) will be one of the candidates for the borough of Cambridge ; and it is probable that the Hon. G. C. Brodrick will be the other in the Liberal interest. TIIE SCOTTISH "UNIVETISITIr.S. Mr. A. Campbell Swinton, LL.D., is a candidate for the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews. THE BOP.DER.—Tbe }lon. George F. S. Elliot (L.) has issued an address " to the future electors of the border burghs." It is stated that a requisition to Mr. A. E. Clark, advocate, sheriff of Berwickshire, to come forward for the border burghs, is being signed. LINLITHOOW.—Mr. Peter 11I`Lagan (C.), the present :nember, will offer himself for re-election, and a move vent is on foot in the county to place Mr. John Pender %.) in the field against him. LEITRIM COLTW.—Captain Francis Nisbett, of the Royal Artillery, will come forward as a candidate for this 3ounty at the coming election. llADDrscrioN,—bord ,Elqho has issued an address-to the electors, in Which he contradicts the report that he ivill sot offer himself for re-election, and he promises that, as won as he is free to return, he will complete the entire sound of the constituency. MERIONETHSHIRE.—Vigorous efforts are being made in favour of Mr. David Williams, of Dendrath Castle, Port madoc, as a Liberal candidate. CARDlFF.—Lieutenant•Colonel Stuart has signified his Intention of again offering himself. BRECON.—An opposition is talked of in this borough to :Jr. Gwyn (C.), who was returned at the last election by a small majority. TIEREFORDSHIEE.--It is stated that the senior member, NIT. King King (C.), does not intend to seek re-election. EAST Sussex.—lt is believed that Mr. J. G. Dodson, Chairman of Committees in the house of Commons, and Lord E. Cavendish, the sitting members, will again come !orward in the Liberal interest. BCCRINGHAM%—The report that Mr. J. G. Hubbard, the Conservative member for this borough, would not again offer himself to the constituency is authoritatively contradicted. Wicx Bunatts.—The result of Mr. Loch's canvass of Wick and Pulteneytown is that he has received the pledge of six-sevenths of the voters in esse and in posse not absent at the western fishing. LEEM.--Mr. Baines, M.P., has been selected unani mously by the Liberal Registration Association as one of the candidates for this borough at the approaching election. DENIZIGHSHIBE. ---- It is mentioned that no opposition will be offered to Sir Watkin W. Wynn (C.) The other seat will be contested for by the Liberals, Mr. Watkin Williams having consented to stand. Mr. Samuel Mor ley's name is also mentioned. MoNuomEnysitntE.---The seats are likely to be millis .turbed, no announcement of any opposition to the present members—the Hon. Charles Hanbury Tracy (L.), the member for the Montgomeryshire boroughs, and Mr. C. v,- . ll7.lvy n n (C.), the county member-- being spoken of. A great fire has taken place at Sheffield, resulting in the destruction of a timber yard, and causing a loss to the owner of many thouFands. One of the local papers says from .£lO,OOO to £13,000. The Bishop of Peterborough (Dr. Jenne) has had a severe attack of illness. His lordship is progressing favourably, but is extremely weak, and will be compelled to take entire rest for some time to oome. It is understood that Mr. Serjeant Cox has been nominated to succeed to the recordership of Portsmouth, and that Mr. C. G. Prideaux will succeed him in the recordership of Helston. Mr. Justice O'llagan, when opening the City Commission in Dublin on Monday, congratulated the juries on the great immunity from crime lately enjoyed. There was (said his lordship) absolutely no indication of seditious excitement or social disorder. THE COBDEN MEMORIAL AT CAMDEN TOWN.— The committee for erecting the statue to the late Mr. Cobden have determined on its inauguration on Saturday, the 27th instant, the anniversary of the repeal of the Corn Laws. Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., has been invited to perform the ceremony of unveiling and delivering an address upon the occasion ; and a number of distinguished gentlemen have promised to take part in the pro ceedings. An action was brought at the recent Cornwall Assizes against the South Devon Railway Company on behalf of Miss Alford, who received severe injuries in an accident which occurred at Launceston. Miss Alford was awarded £9OO damages, there being, as usual in such cases, a contention that the injuries received were not so severe as represented. Death, however, has endorsed the decision of the jurors, as Miss Alford died on Satur- day, fifteen months after the accident.—Western Morning News. EPIDEMIC AMOtiG GEESE.—The poultry-higglers and geese-feeders on Walton, Cliebbarn, Woking, and Mitcham commons are sustaining great loss by the out brak of diseascambng_ geese during the week, and - reaty valuable lags of early-hatched goslings have been destroyed by a type of disease not hitherto known in the poultry. yards. The geese are attacked as if by cramp, and roll and plunge about in giddiness, and within an hour of being attacked by the disease die in apparent convulsion. The old brood geese escape the disease. F F .V;uTerr. FIT OF MADN ESS. —Mr. Sullivan, one of the sanir.ry in , Tectors of the parish of Paddington, has been attAcked by such a frightful fit of madness said to be in N ws=sfpu.nee of sunstroke—that he has been r-,tr , :rit. On Monday he frightened and eliii,iren by declaring that he would runnier thein, but they at once made their escape from the hou3e, which is in Trongate Whaif, by the back way. He then rushed into the street with nothing but his shirt on. lie was at last secured and taken indoors and partially dressed, hut the fit broke out a sec3nd time with greater violence, and, seizing upon a carving knife, he pounced upon the pet dog he had hitherto been very fond of and hacked its head off. A policeman was called in, and the madman was about to attack him with the knife, but upon the constable drawing his truncheon in self-defence, Sullivan allowed himself to be secured. He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, and from thence was removed to the infirmary of Ve k ilingtoii urklpt4i4 VIE PUBLIC HEALTH. The Rcg:strar-General in his usual retitn atata: In the week that ended on Saturday, June 13, 5,093 births and 2,709 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 22 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 20 per 1,000 in London, 26 in Edinburgh, and 20 in Dublin ; 19 in Bristol, 20 in Birmingham, 25 in Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 25 in Salford, 30 in Sheffield, 17 n Bradford, 22 in Leeds, 22 in Hull, 21 in Newcastle 2pon-Tyne, and 29 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 34 per 1,000 during the week ending the 6th inst., when the mean temperature was 12.8 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 19. In London the births of 1,175 boys and 1,088 girls, in all 2,273 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,038. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,195. It was the twenty-fourth week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,268. The deaths in the present return are less by 73 than the estimated number. The average rate of mortality was 21 per 1,000 in West London, 18 in North London, 19 in Central London, 22 in East London, and 20 in South London. THE LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,_JUNE 18, 1868. 2111N/At INTELLIGENCE. The Siicer Bend Reporter, May 9, Nevada, says : —" A year ago Manhattan District was visited by eager prospectors as the place above all others in this vicinity where rich lodes were to be found and speedy fortunes made. Daily for a period of several months were excited men to be seen g tthered to gether upon our streets in little groups examining rare specimens of rich silver ore, and listening to the tales of the exhibitors as they pictured the wealth and facilities of Manhattan District whence it came, and hundreds went thither who worked for a season until some other excitement carried them to more remote localities, and for a time only those directly interested gave to Manhattan a single thought. But though a suspension of work occurred from lack of capital the district was by no means abandoned. There were those interested who were competent to judge of the great wealth of the silver veins coursing through the hills, and who were de termined to develope them. A few men purchased the principal claims, and consequently were enabled to handle them, and they offered inducements to capitalists to engage in their development One of the very best and most promising veinsof the district upon which work has been done is the Ophir situated upon the crest of the hill at the head of Silver Spring canyon. This lode, together with others, became the property of Messrs. Bauer and White. The former named gentleman, Mr. J. C. Bauer, left here last fall, went to England and formed a company for the purpose of developing the Ophir, and the prospect at present is that a company of English capitalists will soon have an agent at Manhattan who will commence extensive operations there. Mr. Bauer arrived here during the week, and is now engaged in surveying timber-lands, water privileges, &c., i❑ the district for the benefit of the company. Mr. J. H. Boalt, a 'well-khoWn mining engineer, will shortly arrive and report upon the property. The district certainly presents many advantageous fea tures, and any company that commences operations herein and adopts a thorough system of develop ment—as our English cousins are always in the habit of doing—cannot fail of success. The dis trict is magnificently wooded, there is a fine mill site close at the mine, and the surface indications promise much for deep explorations. We are glad to learn that our section is attracting the at tention of which it is pre eminently worthy, and can promise those who invest ample returns for all expenditures they may make. In another portion of the paper will be found an account of the discovery and organisation of Sheridan Dis trict furnished us by a correspondent. Since that was writteo we have seen and conversed with one of the original locators, who has shown us some of the ore, and also imparted additional information. The discovery was made about the middle of April, and several claims laid by John Ely, Benj. Evans, Henry Raymond, and others of Pahranagat. The principal locations are respectivaly named Nevada Giant, 10 feet wide ; Potosi, 6 feet ; and the Evans ledge, the two first named running parallel and cropping boldly for a distance of five miles. Along the immense croppings at intervals, large ore chim neys occur of such magnitude that thousands of tons of rich ore are said to be revealed to sight. Many persons have rushed thither from different places until the immediate vicinity has been pretty generally overrun and a great many locations made. The ore assays from $lOO to $3OO per ton. The location of the new district is about 10 or 12 miles south-west of Penoyer's spring on the Pahranagat road, and perhaps nearly 45 miles south-east of Reveille District. -Water and timber is not plenti ful in the immediate vicinity of the mines, though there is a plentitude of both these commodities upon Timpiute mountain, which lies about 12 miles from the district in a south-easterly course. The fortunate locators of this new field for enterprise are sanguine that they have the big thing of East ern Nevada. " GOOD ASSAY.—Yesterday an assay was made by Cahill Brothers of a sample of the chloride ore taken by Leon and Co. from the surface of their El Dorado South, which gave the enormous yield of $19,365 67c. of silver per ton." NEW MINING DISTRICT.—A correspondent, who signs himself L. S. T., thus writes us from Iliko, under date of April 28th, concerning the discovery and organization of a new mining district at the South-East:—Within the past two weeks some of the finest lodes of silver-bearing quartz have been discovered and located that exists in any portion of this State, and will give rise to a new district that will not have its superior. The district has been christened " Sheridan," and is about 35 miles west of the town of lltko. Samples of ore are now on ex hibition, which excite the admiration of all old pro spectors. It isof slate formation, with well-defined appearances of true fissure veins, with . a width of sixteen to forty feet, and a northerly and southerly course. Wood and water of easy access. The principal locations made have been by Messrs. J. H. Ely, H. Raymond, Ben. Evans, and W. J. Haynes, and their immediate friends. The first named gentleman is one of the original locators of the Pahranagat District ; Mr. Raymond is inti mately connected with the development of this camp ; Mr. Ben. Evans is so intimately known that those knowing him will feel certsin that there is a " big thing" found when he assures every one that he has not seen its equal anywhere ; Mr. Haynes is a practical and experienced miner, and he asserts it is the " best thing" he has ever seen. Assays are being made from the samples, and as soon as I ascertain the results I will communicate to you a synopsis of the same, with such particulars as will appertain to the district." A NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MINES.—Tbe American Journal of Mining has the following upon this sub ject :—" Such an institution would increase the production of bullion in three ways ; first, by send ing forth educated engineers, able to meet and overcome the growing difficulties of gold and silver mining and reduction ; second, by affording infor matio❑ to thousands who are too old or too busy to receive thorough instruction, but who, being actively engaged in mining, most urgently require that counsel which will save them from unnecessary losses and disappointments ; and, finally, by making the capitalists of Europe, as well as America, acquainted with the mineral resources of our coun try, and drawing to our great mining regions that capital which (next to knowledge) is their prime necessity." The Reese River Reveille, April 20, remarks : " Reveille district, about 150 miles south-east from Austin, will in all probability become the scene of considerable activity in the course of the present year. Negotiations are on foot between some of the oldest loe dors in the district and a New York company, which may result in the transfer of a large amount of valuable ground. If the sale should take place, it is the intention of the company to erect an efficient mill in the district next fall. The district has produced large amounts of ore from the surface of a quality rarely equalled, and an efficient and well-managed mill would make it a valuable bullion-producing region. Heretofore nearly all of the ore produced in that district was hauled to the mills for reduction, and we have yet to hear of the first instance where the ore did not pay all the ex penses of mining, transportation, and milling, and leave a substantial remainder for the miner." There were shipped by Wells, Fargo , and Co., of Austin, Nevada, du r i n g April, 1 8 7 bars , weigh ing 13,411 p o u n d s , o f th e value of $ 189 , 959 24 . Since the burning of the Keystone Mill the Man hattan has been the only mill at work in this sec tion. The bullion product, under the circum stances, is better than could have been anticipated. John A. Paxton and Co., of Austin, consigned $52,089 22 of the above amount, and Paxton and Co., of Belmont, $22,352 55. Among the reports from Nevada is the following curious statement of footfalls upon the rock; In Carson Valley, Nevada, near the town of Day ton, there are many curious and interesting geolo gical vestiges of ancient fauna and flora. Petrified palm trees, coniferx, and many extinct tropical plants, are found in abundance, but the most notable object in that region is the " foot printed rock." At the mouth of El Dorado Canyon, on the north-east side of the Carson River, a waggon road passes over a plain of naked rock, which lies nearly horizontal, and is appa- SHOCKING CASE OF MATRICIDE. A shocking case of matricide has occurred at the little village of Ardingly, about three miles from Cuckfield, Sussex. It appears that about seven o'clock in the morning George Blackshall, a labourer, borrowed his brother's razor to cut a corn from his hand. He thea put it in his pocket, and walked a distance of about two miles, to his mother's house. He entered the dwelling, and, it is sup posed, at once threw his mother to the ground and proceeded to cut her throat, which he did so effectually that the head was nearly severed from the body. It is said 'War Onlylb, Out two inimates elapsed from the tithe of his entering the house to the time of his leaving it. Nobody actually witnessed the murder, but the woman's grandson, a little boy about 12 years of age, entered the house by the back door, and saw his grandmother and her son on the ground. The murderer walked quietly away, his hands covered with blood, and an alarm having been given, he was soon apprehended. The statement he made was, that "he meant to kill her, and they would know all about it by and by." He is in custody at the Cuckfield Police-station. The unforiunate woman, whose name was Sarah Blackshall, was 70 years of age, and the wife of a farm labourer. The prisoner's motive, if any, for committing the crime is unknown at present, and the act is rendered the more singular by the fact that he seems always to have been a good son, and the deceased had said of him a few days before the occurrence that hr was the best son she had. LAW AND POLICE. A PAWNI3ROKER FINED.—At Worship•street Police. court, Lewis Symons, a pawnbroker, was charged with neglecting to provide a duplicate for certain articles pledged with him, and subsequently with taking 4d. for a ticket. The magistrate, after hearing the evidence, which chewed that the pledger could neither read nor write, fined the defendant £5 in each case, and also ordered that he should pay the costs. ACTION AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY.—In the Court of Common Pleas, the case of Button v. the South Easters Railway Company came on for hearing. It was an action brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages for the non-delivery of certain barrels of beer which had been sold to them and which the company refused to deliver unless paid money owed by their father. The plaintiffs had kept a public-house at Belvedere, in Kent, and they said that although the beer was bought by their father it was ordered for them and paid for with their money. It was sent directed to Mr. Button, and as ha owed the company £1 6s. 3d. they claimed a right to detain it =Ail that sum was paid. Whether they were justified in sc, doing was not the question, because the plaintiffs had to make out that the beer was theirs in order to succeed in this action. After a protracted trial the jury gave their verdict for the defendants. ACTION FOR BREACH OF PROMISE TO MARRY.—Before Mr. Justice Keating, the case of Patrick v. Wood, which was an action for breach of promise, was tried. The de• fendant's first wife died in April 1863, and he soon sought out the plaintiff. He wrote to her frequently, visited her friends with her, took lodgings for her, and she passed as his wife. In March 1864, the plaintiff had a child by the defendant, and the connection continued for some time afterwards. The defendant married another woman in March 1865. The promise to marry was proved by the plaintiff's sister. The jury awarded the plaintiff £2O damages. ANOTHER ACTION FOR LILEL.—In the Court of Ex. chequer the court was engaged in trying the cause of Hudson v. Scott and another, which was an action brought for the publication of an alleged libel in the Pe-porter newspaper. The libel was contained in an answer to a corr!spondent, and imputed to the plaintiff improper conduct in reference to his management of a public coin. pany of which he was the secretary, particularly in his advertising the company in the Tomahawk and in no other newspaper, which it was insinuated he had done because he was the owner of that paper. The plaintiff was put into the box, and denied the truth of every imputation upon his conduct. The counsel for the plaintiff offered to withdraw the case if a promise were given that the offence should not be repeated. The defendant re. fused to give such a pledge, and the case went to the jury, who assessed the damages at £3O. DAMAGES FOR Loss OF HUSBANDS.—In the same court the jury were called upon to give damages in the case of Larken.v. the Monmouth Railway Corn. ' , an y. The plaintiff brought the action as administrator of his brother to recover damages on behalf of the widow and children for the death of his late brother, who was killed under the following circumstances :—The deceased, who was a carpenter on board a Norwegian vessel then lying at Newport, in Monmouthshire, was on the night of the 26th of October, 1865, going from the tow's to his vessel, and in so doing had to cross a level crossing over which the defendants' railway ran. There were gates at the crossing ; but the gates, instead of being across the road, or across the line, were locked back to the fence, so as to leave both the road and the line open. In crossing the line the deceased was knocked down and killed by an engine. The defence was that the deceased was partly intoxicated, or else he would have seen the engine coming. This view of the case was not taken by the jury, who gave £6OO damages—£2oo to the widow, and £lOO each to the children.—Before Baron Pigott, Mrs. Moore, the widow of a bricklayer, brought an action against Mr. Denton and others to recover damages for the loss of her husband. It appeared that in February last the defendant Shipney, a publican at Finchley, employed a carpenter to design• a building, and employed the defen dant Denton, a builder, to carry out the design. In the course of the execution of the work a wall fell and killed the deceased, a working bricklayer. The defence was that neither of the defendants was liable, inasmuch as Shipney had only employed Denton, who had employed the deceased, and Denton was merely engaged in carrying out the design of an architect. The jury gave £650 damages. THREATENING TO MURDER.—At the Mansion House, Eli Ferni, a respectably-dressed man, aged 60, described as a publisher, was taken before the Lord Mayor, charged with writing and sending a number of letters threatening to kill and murder Mr. Basil Melas, a Greek merchant, in business in Old Broad-street. It seemed that the prisoner formerly published a shipping list, when another person started one in opposition, and the prisoner was so much enraged that he stabbed a Greek merchant who supported the competitor, and was sent to penal servitude for three years. Since his release he has frequently threatened to murder the complainant. He was remanded. REVERSE or FORTUNE.—There is at present in the Great Yarmouth workhouse a pauper whose father was twice mayor of that borough, and whose grandfather was-one of the principal landowners and proprietors of property in that locality. SUFFOSED SUICIDE.—An inquest has been held in Essex-street, Strand, on the body of Mr. Watson, aged 43, whose body was found floating in the river at the Temple Pier. Vpon searching the pockets 1'46 in notes and gold and a quantity of papers were found. The body appeared to have been from three to four days in the water. Deceased was a hat manufacturer, and was last seen alive on Friday evening. He had been threatened with being made a bankrupt., and he was very much depressed. There were no marks of violence on the body. The jury returned a verdict of Found Drowned. THE CROri; IN THE EAST.—The wheat crop upon the heavy lands about Newmarket is looking healthy and strong, and even upon the light lands there is a prospect of a good harvest. The barley and oats, except those grow ing upon stiff soils, are thin, and will fall short of an average. The weather has continued bright and scorch ing during the past week. The wheat fields are now mostly in ear and generally in bloom, and the critical period of the next fourteen days will greatly affect the productiveness of the crops. The reports received continue very qualiaed, rently composed of the silicified volcanic ashes. or, at any rate, the product of some sort of volcanic matter. 'l'l;3 stone is exto,,sively used in Nevada for building material, and is considered superior to the freestone of the Atlantic States. From the ap pearance and markings of the rock about which we are writing, it is apparent that it was at one time in a soft plastic condition, analogous to mud or wet mortar. The surface of the rock contains innumerable footprints, or tracks of quadrupeds, all as distinctly defined as if they were recently impressed. The most remarkable of these impressions is that which has been made by an enormous beast of the equine genus. Many of these ancient horse tracks measure 18 inches in diameter. The impressions are deeply cut in the rock, and have the precise form of the horse's hoof, except that the heel or heavy fetlock of the beast has also made an impres sion in the rear of the track. The same rock surface contains tracks of the young of the same species ; these last being about the size of a full-grown modern horse track. In addition to these the rock is dotted with the footprints of enormous bears, elks, deer, and other animals. Two or three years since the skeleton of a large fossil animal was exhumed in Nevada. The specimen when alive probably mea sured eighteen feet in length by about seven or eight in height. Although the specimen was in an advanced state of decomposition, those who examined it were satisfied that it belonged to the genus equus, and was probably the kind of creature which left the footprints above described.—Santa Clara (Gal.) Argus. THE CIVIL SERVICE BILL. Our readers are aware of the deep interest we take in this subject, which we regard as one of the greatest importance to the United States. It is simply impossible to attempt any reformation in the political corruption so strongly condemned by the Chicago Convention before the Civil Service of the country has been wholly remodelled. What folly it is to put the greatest temptations in the way of the needy, and then to bewail the prevalence of theft. Mr. Jenckes's Bill has been frequently alluded to by us, and we cannot do better than to reproduce the article which appeared in the New York Nation, May 28, on the subject.. Taking advantage of the comparative lull in the ordinary business of legislation, Mr. Jenekes, on Thursday week, May 14, introduced his bill to re gulate the Civil Service of the United States. He reported it from the Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment, and he supported it by a speech which was reported in the telegraphic summary as having occupied an hour, but not nne word of its contents or of the scheme of the bill was given. The plan is substantially that of Mr. Jenckes's ori ginal bill on this subject. It creates a department of the Civil Service, to be presided over by the Vice-President, with a board of four commissioners, to be appointed for five years. Their duties are, first, to prescribe the qualifications requisite for an appointment into each branch and grade of the Civil Service; next, to provide for the examinations, and periods, and conditions of probation of all persons eligible and presenting themselves for admission into the Civil Service ; third, to establish rules for appli cations, examinations, and appointments ; and, finally, to examine personally, or by persons by them specially designated, the applicants for ap pointment into the Civil Service of the United States. The Act then goes on to provide for the order and manner in which appointments to the Civil Service shall be made from those who have passed the prescribed examination and probation. The proposed law is clear and simple, short and to the purpose, free from preambles and provisos, and it is so plain that he who rues for office must hereafter read it and understand it. The army of office holders now in place, and of their prospective successors, must look upon it as their shibboleth, and learn from it how to live and die in office. Of the greatness of the task which he has undertaken Mr. Jenckes shows a thorough comprehension. He proposes utterly to destroy the great American curse of party patronage. He says, on the eve of a Presidential election, that it is for the interest of the country to pass a law which will forbid the re moval of fifty thousand officials as the result of a change in the political complexion of the Govern ment. Not content with a theoretical discussion of the merits of a permanent civil service, Mr. Jenckes tells us that he has taken the testimony of the greater number of the chief officers in the ex isting civil service, and he gives us the result. The Committee on Retrenchment have received reports from 446 officers confirmed by the Senate, in all branches of the civil service, whose subordinates within the operation of this Act number 12,819, and of these officers 362, having 11,561 subordi nates, express themselves decidedly in favour of the proposed reform. Of the residue 12 officers, having 143 subordinates, express a decided opposition to it, and the remainder either do not answer the vital questions at all, or answer them evasively. With such facts, plainly and tersely put, as they are in this speech of Mr. Jenckes, it is easier to find forcible arguments in support of the measure than to educe them from our general and theoreti cal belief in its efficiency. What are the substan tial rewards which Mr. Jenckes promises for the fruits of his bill if it be made law? Double the amount of the present service at two-thirds of the present cost ; a saving in the expense of the collec tion of the revenues of one-half the fifteen millions which it now takes ; and, finally, an addition of revenue from the subjects of taxation proposed to be retained by the Committee of Ways and Means of fifty millions in the internal revenue and twenty five millions in the customs. In short, the country will be richer by a hundred millions every year if it adopt a law which will do more to elevate the politics of the country from the great Serbonian bog in which it is now bedraggled and bemired, more to make statesmen of our politicians, financiers and economists of our revenue officials, more to save the people from corruption, more to preserve the Government from mischief, more to renew, and re• store, and sustain the virtues of the Republic than all the legislation of the last decade. With a Constitution purified from slavery, with a Government under it that has undergone the throes of civil war, of dissensions between its co ordinate branches, and with a people honestly and heartily in earnest to maintain both the Government and the Constitution, there is still a vice in the administration of the laws which almost palsies them. This mischief lies in the shifting, changing, uncertain, and gradually decaying condition of our civil service. Up to the breaking out of the re bellion it mattered little how the officers of the United States exercised their functions, for the Government was seen rather than felt, it was an idea rather than a fact. All this changed with the rebellion, with the enormous efforts of the Govern ment to maintain itself, with the burdens put on the people by the success of these efforts, and with the taxes and the vast Addition of revenue and out lay that were then voluntarily assumed. The task of adjusting these burdens to our capacity, to make sources of national income without destroying national wealth, has tested the fitness of our political system to do this work. In any other country than our own, with its youth, its wealth, its vigour, its unlimited expanse of territory, its growing tide of emigration, the Government would have broken down. That it will not do so now may call forth all our gratitude. That it may be strengthened and fittt.d for the work that it has yet to do, in developing the power and capacity of the country in industrial and in other directions, there must be a rslortn in that one thing which has hitherto been the pitfall of every political party, and the blighting curse of till young men who be longed to one or other of the great armies of our Government by parties. This reform is, as we be lieve, effected by Mr. Jcnckes's bill—at least it is aimed at; and as tentative legislation has been the best thing that we could get i❑ other matters, so it may be the best, or in the end it may secure us that which is best, in our civil service. As we have remarked elsewhere, every party and every politician is ready enough to denounce cor ruption in the abstract. Nobody will ever have the hardihood to get up and defend the appointment of dishonest men to public offices, or the practice of cheating the Government. There will never be party avowedly and notoriously held tOg:::.ther — bj " the cohesive power of public plunder," and which it will be sufficient to turn out of office in order to secure purity and efficiency. Therefore, when a party passes resolutions against cor ruption in general, as the Republican party has just been doing, it merely fires blank cartridge. It makes a fine, exhilarating noise, but it does not hurt or frighten the knaves. Under the present system no party can be honest, because no party can change human nature. Therefore, the public ought not to be, and we trust will not be, content any longer with vague denunciations of fraud. It ought to demand practical measures of reform, set down in black and white. It ought not any longer to put up with windy abuse of Andrew Johnson or of the Copperheads. In this kind of work no knave ever is, or ever will be, found wanting. This bill of Mr. Jenckes's we hold to be the first and greatest of the measures of reform now before the country—the one on which most is dependent not simply of money, but of public and private morality. Ile has worked long and hard at it, and it is a kind of work with which the regular party managers have, as a rule, little sympathy. He is not likely, we fear, to succeed without active and outspoken support from the public, and we trust he will receive it without stint, in season and out of season, especially from that large class of young men who are now interesting themselves in politics, under the influence of the wider knowledge and higher aspirations which the war has bred, ‘Ve trust, too, that he will be of good cheer. if political progress consist, as we believe it does, in the greater and greater subjection of human affairs to the control of enlightened reason, the future be longs to him, and to such as he, and not to the windy declainArmthp,..while kolding th 2 great. horn of humanity with one hand and blowing it lustily, generally hold with the other a leash of hungry peculators, to be let loose at every conve nient opportunity on the unfortunate tax-payer.— Anglo-American Times. THE SWORD OF THE LATE LORD NELSON. . - On Monday Mr. Cooper, barrister, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Evans, of 27, Queen-street, Brompton, attended before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, Mr. Evans's object being to make an affidavit in reference to a relic of Lord Nelson. In that document Mr. Evans deposed in effect, that, declining in years, he was most anxious to set himself right with the public with respect to the dress sword of Lord Nelson, which he had ever implicity believed to be a most in teresting relic of the great hero, and which, in or about 1816, was presented by Lord Saye and Selo to the Governors of Greenwich Hospital, with a view to its being placed with the celebrated coat and waistcoat there deposited. This the Governors had declined to do, under an impression which the deponent trusted to be able to show was entirely erroneous. Ile also desired to remove the prejudice that the identity of the sword was doubtful, to enlighten the public mind with respect to it, and to show how he became possessed of it. Ile solemnly and sincerely declared that he obtained the sword from the same lady from whom Sir Harry Nicholas procured the coat and waistcoat, in the purchase of which the deponent was forestalled. That lady was Mrs. Smith, who was the wife of Mr. Joshua Jonathan Smith, Lord Mayor of London in 1810, who declared to witness that her husband obtained possession of the vest ments referrel_to __with. the sword, whiclt.Tas. then. covered with crape, which time and moths had partly destroyed. The relic, she said, had been given to her husband by the celebrated Lady IlAmilton, who had been informed the sword was taken off Lord Nelson's coffin. In the affidavit sworn yesterday be fore the Lord Mayor a copy of a letter written by Wm. Ashby, apensioner at Greenwich Hospital, was embodied. That letter was dated Nov. 13, 1846, and in it Mr. Ashby certified that the sword which Mr. Evans purchased was the one which, with vari ous other honours, was placed on the coffin contain ing the body of Lord Nelson, when the remains by in state in the Painted Flail of Greenwich Hospital for three days, and that he was informed Nel son wore the same sword on the day he received his mortal wound. To the identity of the sword Ashby spoke positively, having had it with the other insignia under his immediate charge for three successive days, he being then in his capacity of boatswain of the Palliser Ward of the hospital, chief of a special guard appointed with ex press orders to prevent the removal, or the public touch, of any of the relics. This letter was ad dressed to Mr. Evans, the deponent, at his then residence, No. 17, Maddox-street. Mr. Evans also solemnly deposed that from the time the sword came into his possession up to his disposal of it, nothing whatever had been done to it beyond being simply cleaned, in which operation the workman so en gaged transposed the hilt, which at any time could be easily rectified. The affidavit, of which this is the purport, was made before the Lord Mayor, who thereupon appended his name to it. 2111SCELLAAVEOUS i'VE I VS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Round Tuble; in reviewing the life of Jeffer son Davis, by Frank H. Alfriend, late editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, thus compares—the great Northam General with his great Southern adversary :—" The lengthy comparison instituted between General Grant and General Lee by the author is not just to the former, and perhaps could scarcely be expected to be so. Grant has certainly not Lee's versatility, his resource, his dash, and very few of his imaginative qualities, but he was pro-eminently the man for the situation. He is a limited-minded, stony-willed, in flexible soldier of the grinding school, with very little idea of chivalry, but a very definite idea of accom plishing what he undertakes. Of course, he had more men than Lee in the final campaign; it would have been rather absurd to undertake the business with less. The movement was an offensive, an invasive one, contemplat ing no lass than the encircling and capture of the whole opposing force ; a climax which the evacuation of Rich mond only evaded in one way to bring about in another. Mr. Alfriend has a great many passages like this :—" The world was invited by the sensational press of the North to admire the 'strategy' which had carried the Federal army from the Rapidan to the James, a position which it might have reached by transports without the loss of a man." Possibly, but with what damage to General Lee's army ? The critic's implication would be sound enough if Rich mond and not Lee's army had been the true " objective point" at which to strike. Grant's losses, doubtless, were great, but his policy, once in Lee's presence, was clearly never to quit him. The Federal resources bore such a relation to those of the Confederates that the "hammer ing" process was the best that could be adopted. The battles of the Wilderness may not have been victories for Grant, but they were not less practically the knoll of the Confederate cause. There was no getting away afterward to attempt brilliant strokes whereby disparity in numbers might be counterbalanced. The rest was all wary watch ing and hard pounding. The difference between Grant and other Federal commanders —judging, of course, by their respective achievements —was that he went clear through his task to the end. Another general would have retreated, another have attempted something dazzling and failed, another have permitted himself to be surprised. Grant did none of these things. lie is, so far as humanity can be so, as impassive as destiny ; the consummate em bodiment, in a military sense, of hard, pitiless, unimagina tive resolution; a man of iron, but iron without magne tism. Lee, we may admit.- is a. more knightly, and.gra cious figure than Grant, a man more cap able of evoking enthusiasm, a man mere like the heroic models of his tory ; but, after all, the simple fact is that Grant never failed, but quietly and thoroughly did whatever he at tempted. It is no disparagement to General Leo to say that, placed in the SVIIO situation, he could not have done more and might have done less." The Spectator condescended to defend itself, and lamely we admit against the flaunting of the Standard on the prediction it so confidently hazarded that the Pre sident would be convicted and deposed. The Spectator's reply anouuted to little more than that the .9anlitrds artitle was a " belated" one. A result which deceived alike Andrew Johnson, the prosecuted, as well as Butler and Stevens, the prosecutors; which was regarded as a cer tainty by Wade, the " heir apparent," and a host of thoie keen-scented individuals, the professional office -seekers t f Washiugi.on—might well deceive the best informed writers in Europe. In fact people wore deceived in pro portion to their information up to within two or three days of the event, and no one appeared more confideLt that " the national crime," as he termed it would be com mitted of deposing Andrew Johnson, than the Washing ton correspondent of the Standard itself. That the Spectator :Fedi tod conviction more a proof of its _ - •Imowledge than of its ig no r a n ce o f A mer i can politico But it is not the Standard only that twits the Spectator 0 the result. This is what the Round Table says : lisb comments upon A mer i can po li t i cs are alwa ys ree with interest in this country, particularly when they C 0146 from journalists who have made a special study of ear affairs. They are not, perhaps, read so much with a vie ° to instruction—although that is often to be obtained from them—as from curiosity to see what intelligent and culti• rated observers of our own race, lookingat us from without, may be moved to say Mistakes are frequently made bl these observers, and that, of course, gratifies us in proper' tion to the average culture and sincerity of the blundere r ' The Spectator of May 9 announces the conviction of Presi dont Johnson as "certain, of course,"—an example ift point. The Saturday Review repeatedly insists upon the certainty of the ele c ti on t o th e P res id ency o f Genera , : Grant ; we may pos s ibly, in November, be able to mak e ,: the same reply whi c h we now f or b ear i n t h e case of t" Spectator." The Rowmd Table forgets that the psP er° ,. published in England ma i n l y d er i ve th e i r i n f orma ti o n ab 4 e . America from the papers published in America, and t he opinions of the Round Table may have influenced those Ire/ journals in forming the notions on which it commen t '" Suppose now that the S a t ur d a y R ev i ew h a d roa d the flr s. .; article in the number of M a y 30, f rom w hi c h we o btaias u this extract, headed " The Chicago Convention," and, l in° pressed with the following words, had allowed that to create an idea to which it afterwards gave utterance, sfne l ' the American paper be justified in commenting on the blu es der of the English one ? " To the impartial observer there appears, therefore, at this moment no doubt whatever that if the present ostensible accord of the different branches of tbs Republican party can be maintained for five months, and i f they can be brought compactly to bear in November, the election of their candidates (Grant and Colfax) is a cot' tainty. The collective strength of those branches is 110 ' deniable; their cordial unanimity is, for the time, equallf so ; and their triumph can only be prevented by possible divisions which their leaders may or may not have the sagacity to avert." Judy does not approve of the Tomahawk's pie' tures, and expresses holi deeply she was shocked by til e , representation of Satan driving a nobleman to the Walls , .regions; and a sign post with "'j'o H—Il" inscribed tille ° it, relieving the mind of all doubts as to the' true meanies of the drawing. "The following week, in the same pap er ' says Judy, appeared a representation of Satan in his peeuliar regions, with flames and all, according to the received ideasni his Majesty and his surroundings. In an embryo paper of the same class, which is just old enough to catch the lisp of licentiousness, the eye is refreshed by the sight of poem entitled A Gallows Shame !!' In both of these papers, Royalty, the Church, and the State are ridiculed and libelled on every possible occasion. A third publicatio n has selected the army for its attacks, and a criminal WO; Illation against it has been applied for by the colonel On officers of a regiment of dragoons. Whether or ne t such publications are subsidized by the Radical party, remains a mystery, but if they obtain a large and genuin e support from the public generally, the matter is still mor e serious. Judy fears that there is really quite a taste at the present time for scurrility, and she is confirmed il l this conclusion by a little incident which occurred to her_ self, and which she will relate. Conversing with a young, friend, whose mind is much misguided by the Radic a l influences of the time, Judy, of course, quietly floored her young adversary on every point of argument. r e° subject of newspaper influence was reached, and the die cussion waxed strong. Judy continued to put the young gentleman (metaphorically) on his back ; but, at last, sh e owns, she was put completely hors de combat herself* Speaking of a certain journal, Judy remarked, ' I is a eel° • rilous paper, and you can't deny it.' I like a scurrilous paper' (!!), thundered Juvenis ; and Judy said not another word, but went home a sadder and a wiser woman." A curious account is given in the Providence Journal of a Bible printed in the language of the Massachtl . setts Indians, and all accomplished by one man known the Apostle John Eliot, who laboured as a ruissionirl among the Indians for a long period. He was many years engaged in the labour of translation. It is at all times task of groat difficulty to render the Bible into a foreign language, even if the language is a written one ; but le such a language as that of the Indians, which was nege C before written, the labour was gigantic. None but a reli gious enthusiast, such as Eliot, would over have attempte d it. This Bible has also a value as a typographical curio' sity. In the year 1663 New England was still a wilder ness teeming with a groat Indian population, and th e struggle for existence was by no means an easy one. print a pamphlet was an event of importance, yet in the infancy of the commonwealth the whole Bible was printed 0 Cambridge in this strange language,a monumentof aborigine' philology which has never been equalled, notwithstanding all the efforts of our missionary societies to OttristianiZ e and civilize the Indians for the last 200 years The printing of this Bible was begun in 1660, and finished in Septenl' ber, 1663, thus occupying three years. The edition 103 1,000 copies, of which not snore than 15 are known to be pre served in the United States. Twenty copies were sent to England, in which there was a dedication to Charles the Second. But this is not all that is remarkable about this Bible. A second edition was called for, and the whole work was reprinted at Cambridge by Samuel Greene, the printer of the Erst edition, in 1685. The art of printing was still in its infancy. The proposition for printing this edition was submitted to the commissioners of tne u nited colonies of New England for their consideration in 1678- 79 by Mr. Eliot, who, among his several appeals, said that King Philip had sent to him for books to read. The work, which was commenced the following year, proceeded bat slowly, as there was but one man, the Indian printer, vrh ° was able to compose the sheets and correct the proof. In 1684, Mr. Eliot. writing to the Hon. Robert Boyle, says " Wu have but few hands, one Englishman and a Wit and one Indian." It was completed the following years and 2,000 copies printed. The Indian title reads as fol' fows:—" Hamusse wunnetupanatamwe up-Biblum Goa naneeswe Nukkone Testament kuk wonk wasku TO" tament," &c. The following is the full English title :—" The Holy Bible : containing the old Testa ment and the New. Translated into the Indian la" gunge, and ordered to be printed by the Commie' sioners of the United Colonies in New England. At the charge and with the consent of the Corporation in Eng laud for tho Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians in New England. Cambridge : Printed by Samuel Greene and Marmaduke Johnson, MDCLXIII. (1663), 4to. 42 4 leaves." Tho New Testament contains 129 leaves. It is well known that there. is no Indian living who can read this Bible or even speak the language in which it is writ ten. The Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford, late Secretary of the State of Connecticut, is, we believe, th e only person; living who understands the language and is able to read this Bible. He has made it a study for maul, years, and has composed a dictionary of several thousand words from it. We are glad to learn that fine and perfect copies of both editions of Eliot'sßible and New Testamee are in a private library in Providence, in which also little volume in the same Indian language, called " Th e Practice of Piety," and a " Grammar of the Indian Lae; guage," printed at Cambridge in 1666, both the work the indefatigable Eliot. The grammar is far more rare than the Bible. as not more than three copies are knovil l in the United States. [ADVERTISENIENT.] Consumption, and all nervous, stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravat e and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfec tll . curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta ArabicaFoal as proved by thousands of cases which had been considere t ; hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, cot sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derang e ' ments, hasmorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousue s " biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, in 1 1 3.: rities, eruptions, hysteria, neural g i a , i rr it a bility, sleeplessiaa7? acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, drops , : cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or to sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders. We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Barr,' Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health 0 , the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning e,' l other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du BarrY „ Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a platef ul at every meal. It has pro laced a surprisingly benefleit effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise . tit t ,'; excellent food too highly." From the " Gazette du Midtt July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber W er. chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lung!: spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness., Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant. Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " Fli t ! years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness an: vomiting.—Maria Toly." 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Cannon, Es4 l of Crowland-terrace, Islington. WINGFIELD FITZ PATRICK—On the 16th inst., at S t i George's, Hanover-square, the Hon. Lewis S. Wingtie l to Cecilia Emily Emma, daughter of the Right HO. j. W. Fitz Patrick, Deaths. FORTII—On the 30th April, at Lima, in South Americ a ' , Viscountess Fot th, widow of the late Viscount Fort 1 :1 and wife of E. C. Deriug, Esq., eldest son of Sir Edwa D: ring, HARDIN° —Oil the 15th inst., t.t, Bole Hall, Tamworth, C' • Ilard:tig, Esq., aged 85. the 15th inst., at 4, Vigo-street, Regeut' street, Mr. Wm. A. IlawkinS, aged 66: Hottxott—On the 16th inst., Edward Horner, Esq., of The Hew,, Halstead, Essex, aged 57. MTwnntx—On the 15th inst., at Wandsworth, S.W., 13 ➢iewburn, Esq., aged 35. WARMINGTON —On the 16th inst., at Lee-terrace, Le . ' Kue . , Joseph Wartuington, Esq., aged 78. 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