The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-05 00:00:00

01BIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The•Tinzes says the able and gallant soldier who is now raised teethe first place in the Union is one whose success no one will be disposed to regret. General Grant has fairly won his high rank by hard work, real devotion to .his country, and services which will live long in its remem brance. It is in his favour that his reputation is almost exclusively professional, and that he is not, and has never been, a party politician. He will take office with greater freedom of action than if he were the hero of a hundred platforms, and had in long canvas sing tours taken all the pledges and uttered all the shibboleths of his party. He is, in fact, a man whom his countrymen of all opinions may bring themselves to accept, simply because he has not identified himself so strictly with one faction as is common with the multitude of candidates. A President who is elected by the Repub licans, and yet was not long ago looked upon as a possible leader by the Democrats, cannot but have some advan tage in entering upon his administration. He comes in the prime of life, with a great reputation and an unfettered will, to the direction of the State, and he must be very unfortunate and ill-advised if he does not add to the credit which has procured his election. Since the war he has by general consent behaved with judgment and moderation. At first it was believed that he inclined to the views of the President, but as Mr. Johnson went more and more hopelessly into opposition to Congress and to the dominant public sentiment, General Grant ranged himself on the side of the majority, which Amsted him with the most extensive powers. Yet there is ' nothing in his past career which pre vents him from exercising a large • discretion, and appearing in the character of a mediator rather than of a conqueror. To the main policy of the Republican party he is bound in honour to be faithful, and, indeed, any other course of action would soon strip him of nearly all his power. The national decision on this point is un mistakable and irreversible, and will probably be accepted without further opposition both by the Democrats and the South. But there are wide limits in which a man of judgment and good feeling can shew his character in deal ing with the two ill-joined sections of the Union, and in this respect we heartily wish the new President a wiso discretion and better success than his predecessor Las attained. The Standard remarks that General Grant's election as President of the United States is now assured. This result has for some weeks past been, on very sufficient grounds, so generally and so confidently expected, that those who most regret it cannot pretend to be surprised or disappointed. The practical suppression of free dom of voting in several States, the enfranchise ment of hundreds of thousands of ignorant negroes and the disfranchisement of a large proportion of the people of the South the possession by the Radicals of the execu tive power and the control of the polling-booths in most of the States, and their notorious readiness to abuse that power, compelled the Democratic party to fight the battle of constitutional government and reunion at a terrible disadvantage. In the moderation, good sense, and principle of the new President, and in the formidable strength of his opponents—which he will not forget merely because it is unrepresented at Washington—lies the only hope for the restoration of the unhappy South and for the eventual safety of the Union. The more complete the victory of the Radicals the worse is likely to be their use of it ; the only check upon their excesses lies in the power which such a mode rator as General Grant must derive from the knowledge that on any question on which he may differ with Con gress he will probably have a majority of the people on his side. It was the absence of that silent but strong sup port that rendered nugatory the well-meant efforts of Mr. Johnson ; his successor is at once a stronger man and holds a stronger position. The Daily .14ers thinks the people of the United State.. are evidently determined to have a strong Government. The degradation of public authority and the loss of national force which the Republic has been compelled to suffer during the last two years, in consequence of having a Presi dent who either could not or would not work harmoniously with Congress, have made a deep impression on the citizens. Even Mr. Seward has been driven by the teaching of events to declare that he confides in the Repub lican party which saved the Union and abolished slavery, and not in the Democrats, who would delay the restora tion of harmony and peace. No doubt General Grant is also much indebted for his triumph to foolish Southern fire-eaters like Wade Hampton, who, instead of imitating the dignified examples of Longstreet and other generals— men who really did the South some service in the war, but have now heartily rallied to the Union—have gone mouthing about, proclaiming the most dire intentions, with no other effect than that of prolonging anarchy and idleness. General Grant will not enter upon the exercise of his high trust until March next, so that for nearly five months the evils of the present system may possibly be continued. Something, however, will have been gained in the mere cessation of electoral excitement ; while the knowledge that before long disorder will be repressed with a firm hand, will tend to check the lawless spirits which disturb the Southern States, and allow its peaceable and indus trious citizens to live in quiet and enjoy the reward of their industry. The Star thinks that on personal as well as public grounds General Grant is the best choice that could have been made. He is the foremcst man in the Republic. His services to his country have been so great that, on the assumption of his fitness in other respects, he had established an irresistible claim to be elevated to the chair of Washington and Lincoln. He has had his detractors, but they were writers and politicians who derived their inspiration from the headquarters of calumny at Tammany Hall. " Silence is golden," said the German poet ; and Grant's dignified silence while he was being assailed by every foul epithet which malice could invert, gained for him the sympathy of all generous and high minded men. As regards his foreign policy, it is well known that he is animated by a most friendly feeling to wards this country, and that if on his accession to power any questions remain unsettled between the two nations, it will be his anxious desire to preserve the peace, and to cement a real alliance between England and the United States. The Post rather discourages the working-man's candi dature, but remarks that it is nothing new, for this c'-ass has made its appearance at former elections. We have seen at former elections men who held the entire Chartist platform, not merely offering themselves for candidates, but occupying seats in the House. There was a time, and within the recollection of the present generation, when the extreme Radical party mustered stronger in Parlia ment than it is likely d next session. And one reason. at least, of this is not far to seek. In proportion. as the working classes have become satisfied b 3 the passing of measures calculated to promote their interests and views, such as the repeal of the corn laws, and the series of steps in the direction of free trade which followed in regular sequence the great reform advocated by Mr. Cobden and carried by Sir Robert Peel, the-more moderate are they likely to become. Using the term in its best and most enlarged sense, it may be safely affirmed that the working classes were never so Con servative as they are now. Those who remember the Chartist agitati n and riots of 1848 know how strong a feeling of dissatisfaction existed in the deeper strata of our social system, but they may not, perhaps, reflect that Chartism itself was but the fag-end and remnant of a state of discontent and positive disaffection extend ing back to the last century. The working classes are growing more moderate, and the upper claFses more Liberal. Lord Palmerston did more than any other man to blend the two parties. Mr. Disraeli on the one hand, and Mr. Bright on the other, might criticise his policy, but they knew that all that is good in our institutions was safe in his bands equally with the real interests and well being of the working classes ; the one, therefore, supported him on most important questions, and the other saw it was impossible and indeed impolitic to endeavour to sup plant him. The new Parliament will be very much like the old one, and if any extreme Radicals get there they will find their level, as the House of Commons is wonder fully efficacious in taming wild men. The Herald notices that the majority of uncontested seats of which the Liberal organs have been boasting is dwindling rapidly away. It has sunk by twenty or so in the last two or three days, and we may hope that it will be got rid of altogether before the elections commence. If only the same rate of progress which we have been able to report for the last few mornings is kept up, this very desirable result will be attained, and, according to the old system of calculation adopted by our contemporaries, the two parties be balanced in the new Parliament. We have no appetite, however, for these childish triumphs of anticipation. We shall rejoice in the appearance of sixty or seventy more Conservative candidates, not because it makes our list look as well on paper as out opponents', but because it will give the Conservative feel. ing of the country the opportunity which it asks, and infallibly strengthen the Conservative party in the new Parliament by a very - large number of votes. The Con. servatives may not be able to win all the seats which are t till left to the Liberals in England and Wales, but they can certainly secure a good many of them, if the right men come forward, and the Conservatives of the constituencies do their duty. We must fight every seat that we have a chance of winning, if we will do our duty to our country in this crisis of its fortunes. We can win if we will, but we must work hard and with unflagging spirit. If the Con. servative electors in every constituency which is yet counted by the Liberals amongst those that are to give them uncontested seats will, 'when the chance of success .may . warrant it, get the b es t man t h ey can find to be theit candnipti., the Conservative party will have in the new the good working majority to which the boasts of the T. not long ago alarmed lest they should be as four lit ;:id evd to two, have 51111 k to tall erg d ays to a mucii lowcr deptb: •-' want' <THE BEY. AZGEBNOR The death, of this clergyman is announce& He was a man of some notoriety, for more than one reason. His living of Doddington and Marsh, in Cambridgeshire, is by far the richest in England, and is returned as being worth about £B,OOO a year. It is in the gift of Sir W. A. Peyton, Bart. The deceased clergyman has held the living since 1811, and during that period he has often been the subject of free comment by those who attacked the large incomes of some of the clergy. The late clergyman was one of the order of squire parsons, and in his younger days was a notable dandy. His costume was well known to everyone in Cambridgeshire, and a pair of white ducks always were a distinguishing feature of it. His only daughter married Lerd Francis John Russell, son of the sixth Duke of Bedford PROFESSOR BEESLY AND MOSES. Professor Beesly writes to the Pall Mall Gazztle contra dicting the reports which have appeared of his speech on the institution of the Sabbath. He complains that the writer in the Pall Mall Gazette asserted that he belonged to a party which " hated God and loved Louis Napoleon." " I know," writes the Professor, " of no such party ; it is absolutely false that I hate God or love Louis Napoleon, and I call upon him to point to anything I have said or written which proves either charge. If he cannot do so perhaps he will apologise, though from former experience I am not sanguine. In the meantime I would ask whether it has been usual in decent journalism to charge a writer or speaker whom you dislike with hating God.' I would further ask the writer whether he is in a position to say, even anonymously, that he loves God ; because if he is not, it would be more honest not to call others to account on that matter. The unfairness of some further criticisms is partly, but only partly, excused by an incorrect report of my speech. I didnot say that Moses assumed' there was a Supernatural Being, nor did any words of mine imply any thing so absurd as that Moses was not, like all other men of that epoch, a sincere and unquestioning theist. I argued at some length that the Catholic Church had treated the Sab bath more sensibly than Protestantism, and I mentioned that `in Southern Europe' it had caused the places of amusement to be closed on Fridays." A CLEVER SWINDLE. Fairfax Robson, who said he was a commission agent, was on Wednesday charged with fraud at the Liverpool Police-court. Robson, it appeared, was in the habit of loitering about the docks, and ascertaining from the goods landed the names of consignees. He then wrote to likely people, stating that certain goods had arrived, and that on his receipt of the bill of lading and a stated sum of money, they would be forwarded. In this way he swindled a Mrs. Gordon, of Liverpool, of £2 168., the alleged freight of a - package from St. Thomas. He was committed for trial. Another case, only partially gone into, was more daring. The prisoner wrote to the Rev. Bernard Moore, of Carns Lodge, near Lan caster, who was expecting a package of pictures from Beyrout, informing him that the pictures had arrived, and would be forwarded on receipt of the bill of lading and £4 12s. Bd. Mr. Moore sent the money, but did not get his pictures, which he subsequently found detained in the Queen's Warehouse for the duty. The real freight payable was only £2 7s. 51 TNFORMATION FOR LIBEL. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Dowdeswell applied on behalf of Mr. Travis, stipendiary magistrate of Hull, for a rule calling on Mr. Hunt, publisher of the Hull Advertiser, and Mr. Spurr, solicitor, of that town, to show oause why a criminal information should not be filed against them for libel. On the 12th September last Mr. Spurr appeared before Mr. Travis, and applied for a sum mons for perjury against Mr. Egginton, a magistrate of the borough, and a member of the firm of Messrs. Smith and Co., bankers. At the conclusion of the application, Mr. Travis thought he ought not to grant it, and suggested that Mr. Spurr should renew it on a future day, and put himself in the hands of an independent attorney, as the transaction arose out of some litigation between the bank and Mr. Spurr. On the 11th of September a report of the cx parte statement appeared in the Hull Advertiser, and on the following day a letter appeared in that paper signed "Justice," regretting the summons had not been granted, and speaking in favour of Mr. Travis's well-known impartiality, and Mr. Egginton's position and character. That letter was replied to by Mr. Spurr in a following number, and in it he stated that he was told by the officer at the police-court that Mr. Travis had been sent for to the bank, and 'was then there, and that as to Mr. Travis's well-known impartiality, he (Spurr) had so much doubt that he bad written to the Secretary of State, giving him facts upon which there seemed to him (Spurr) there ought to be an inquiry as to Mr. Travis's refusal to grant the summons, and that Mr. Travis's refusal would enable him to go to London and have the case fully investigated, free from personal influence. Mr. Travis publicly denied that he was sent for to go to the bank, and explained what caused him to go there ; and in his affidavit he stated that he went to the bank to get a cheque changed and a bill granted upon London, and immediately returned to the police-court. There was not, he stated, the least foundation for the insinuation contained in Mr. Spurr's letter, that he hadbeen influenced in his decision by going to the bank ; and, further, it had been ascertained that no letter had been received by the Secretary of State. There were other affidavits denying Mr. Spurr's statement. All Mr. Fp Irr was told v a • that Mr. Travis had gone to ti. b nk to change the cheque.—Rule granted. LAW AND POLICE. MR. PRIOLEAII AGAIN.—In the Court of Common Pleas there was an action to set aside the verdict of a Liverpool jury in the case of Von Lobbe v. Prioleau, tried before Mr. Justice Hannen. The plaintiff in this case had purchased of the defendant 150 bales of cotton to arrive by the ship Winthrop, from Charleston. 103 of the bales were delivered to the plaintiff, but the remaining forty-seven were burnt whilst in the warehouse to which they had been removed from the ship ; and the question in the cause was, who was to suffer for the loss inflicted by the fire. The jury settled this question in favour of the plaintiff, and awarded him the value of the 47 bales, £892 13s. Mr. Milward, Q.C., now moved for a rule to enter a verdict for the defendant, and submitted that inasmuch as the plaintiff had before the fire resold the cotton and had given an order for delivery to his buyers, he was estopped from saying that the 47 bales were not his property. The Court held that the direction of the learned judge and the finding of the jury were right, and therefore refused the rule. FANCY BREAD.-At the Westminster Police-court Mr, Arnold has at length given his decision on the question whether a cottage loaf comes under the definition of " fancy bread." He has decided that it does, as being manufactured of a superior description of flour. Under this ruling, should it be supported, a baker may charge a higher price for the cottage loaf, and will not be bound to weigh it on a customer's demand. VITRIOL TIIROWING.—An abominable case of " vitrio. throwing " has just taken place at Bermondsey. A man named Staples, 50 years of age, had lived with a woman named O'Neil as his wife, "on and off," for the past seven years. After having left him for two years she returned to him about four months ago. She left him again three weeks ago, but returned the same day, on his threatening to murder her. No new quarrel appears to have taken place, but the man meeting her in the street, about five o'clock on the 27th ult., seized her, and deliberately emptied a bottle of some corrosive fluid over her, burning her most severely and dangerously. The woman, indeed, states that he attempted to force some of the liquid down her throat. The miscreant was taken before the Greenwich maistrates and committed for trial. A JEWISH THEATRE.—A Jewish theatre has been erected near Warsaw. It is constructed to hold 800 persons. The internal arrangements are excellent, and the decoration tasteful. The pieces to be played will be selected from the principal episodes of the Old Testament. The actors, thirty in number, will be all Jews, and the parts of the females will be impersonated by young boys. The dialogue will be in German. RUMOURS ABOUT LONDON TIIEATRES.—There are some very queer rumours floating " about town " indirectly connected with our theatres. One runs to the effect that a young gentleman, of good birth, excellent position, and brilliant future prospects, has announced his intention of celebrating his arrival at years of discretion —no, of hie attaining his majority—by contracting a marriage with a demoiselle who originally emerged from the chrysalis state at one of our smaller theatres, and who now flutters the most gorgeous of butterflies in Rotten-row, the Ring, and --Brompton. LUNAR RAINBOW.—A beautiful specimen of the somewhat rare phenomenon a lunar rainbow was observei on Monday evening at Dunbar. The bow was first observed about half-past eight o'clock, and liras then very clearly defined against a bank of clouds in the west It extended from nearly north-east to south-west, anc remained visible for nearly a quarter of an hour. Thl colours could be distinctly traced on the south-westen portion of the arch, but the north-eastern part was some what obscured, 219 weather At tll9 tllllO tvaS =WOO boiAter4lll. VIE SUN, _LONDON, HIURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1 68. PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Seldom has a day so important dawned on Phila delphia as the 13th October, 1868. By general consent that city was considered the indicator, and it was thought that the voting in the Keystone State would be so close that if Philadelphia threw a strong majority either way, Pennsylvania would be carried, and " as Pennsylvania decides, so decides the Union." The polls were opened at 7 a.m., but long before that hour crowds of voterahad assembled. Every preparation had been made by the rival party authorities, the sheriff's deputies looking out for thellemocratic interest, and the police interested for theßepublicans being around the polls. The people rapidly threw their votes, though challenging was general on both sides, and it took each voter an hour to reach the boxes. Ordinary work was, of course, suspended. The fir.-t three hours up to 10 o'clock witnessed the heaviest vote ever cast in the same time, as business men generally desired to get their part hurried through. Among them was Governor Geary, who then hastened to his official desk, having given orders for the military of the State to be in readiness, and he received there full reports every hour. Although the Quaker city absolutely overflowed with ruffianism, principally , from New York, but also from the purlieus of Bal timore and other great cities, yet, on the whole, order was preserved. A Sheriff's deputy named Flanagan, the bar tender of a rat and terrier pit, having quarrelled with Denis Lukens, fired at but missed his antagonist, and mortally wounded Henry Perkins, a boy who was standing near ; Flanagan was arrested. Jack Tobin discharged a pistol at a police-officer, whose brethren seized and carried him before Judge Allison, who' held him to bail in $6,000. The four policemen were then arrested by the sheriff's men, and held to bail by Alderman White, and thus the two parties kept up their at tack on each other, but nothing very serious oc curred. The judges of election rejected naturali: zation papers recently granted by the court, when six of the Sheriff's deputies who interfered, were ar rested by the police, and committed to prison with out bail. Three New York " roughs " so far caused a riot, that, being arrested, au attempt was made to rescue them, some pistol shots were tired, and two of the prisoners escaped. In Baltimore a party of men pulled from the car of au express train for Philadelphia several Republicans. No one dis putes the fact that every effort has been made by both parties in colonizing, naturalizing, and " re peating" to carry the city. The Republicans assert chat their opponents cheated 10,000 votes in Phila delphia and its neighbourhood alone, and it was only the want of skill and material in the Repub licans which prevented them from being at least equal. The 13th was noticed in New York as the quietest day known there for years. No one was robbed nor assaulted, drunk and disorderly. The police had little to do, and the courts nothing. The State tickets ehcted were, for Pennsyl vania—John F. Hartrauft, auditor-general, and General Jacob M. Campbell, surveyor-general. The total poll of Pennsylvania was 700,000, and out of this enormous number the Republican majo rity did not reach 10,000. The Democrats gained three Representatives ; their number in the coming Congress being 9, when before it was but 6. O. J. Dickey was elected to the seat vacant by the death of Thad. Stevens by the largest majority cast in Pennsylvania, 6,800 ; and this gentleman is one of Mr. Stevens's executors. Two of the Demo cratic gain- in Representatives are by majorities 'so small, that they may be disputed ; John B. Reading being elected for the Fifth District by a majority only of forty-one ; but, on the other hand tho Democrats might dispute John Covode's re-election in the Twenty-First District, whose majority was but 29. The State Legislature is Re publican, and will therefore elect a Senator vice the present Democratic one, Charles R. Bucka,lew, whose term expires next March, and it is said that W. 11. Kemble, the State Treasurer, whose corre sdondence with Mr. August Belmont we bad once the pleasure of commenting upon, has already secured a pledged majority. Philadelphia polled 118,000 votes, and it is believed that the Democrats have carried the city by majorities varying from 800 to 2,800. If this be so, the present Republican police will be turned out, and Democrats substituted, but there will be a strong effort made by the Repub licans to frustrate such a result by bringing home charges of fraud. On the other hand the Democrats are working as hard. As a number of those who held naturalization papers issued by the Supreme Court were refused permission to deposit a vote, a case is to be presented to the proper Court in order to test the question of the legality of this course. The decision will be sought in time to be made avail able at the November election. From Ohio the Democrats have returned six Representatives in stead of three. That party secured the following majorities for their old Representatives—Wm. Mun gen, fifth d:strict, of 4,000 ; P. Van Trump, for the twelfth district, 4,800; and George W. Morgan, thirteenth district, 1,750 ; they likewise carried the first, ninth, and tenth districts. The following are the state officers elected :—Secretary of State, Isaac R. Sherwood .; Supreme Judge, William White ; School Commissioner, John A. Norris ; Board of Public Works, James Moore ; and Clerk Supreme Court, Rodney Foos. The latest news by mail leaves Indiana still doubtful. The last full report made the Republican majority 1,429, but from Indianapolis, October the 16th, the ac count reduced this number to 1,000, and the Democrats still assert that Senator Hendricks had carried the State. The present Democratic re f resentatives, Niblack, Kerr, and Holman, have all ben re-elected, together with Daniel W. Voorhees. The Republican Representatives Julian, Coburn, Orth, Shanks, Williams, have all been re-elected ; but H. D. Washburn, Hunter, and Speaker Colfax have no place in the next house. The other new men, Packard and Daniel D. Pratt, are Republicans. That some districts of Indiana were almost wholly Democratic may be seen from Kerr's majority of 5,400 in the second district. Shanks has been elected to the seat of Schuyler Colfax. The vote in 1866 was considered to be very large, giving a total of 325,000, but the present exceeds it by nearly 75,000 ; the entire vote approaching 400,000. if Hendricks is defeated, which may be considered certain, for we would have known by Cable had the Republicans erred in asserting they had carried the State, he will not only lose the place he aspired to of Governor, but also his seat in the Senate, his term ending next March, when he retires into private life, as would Colfax, were he defeated for the Vice-Presidency. The following are the State officers elected :—Governor, Conrad Baker; Lieutenant-Governor, Will. Cumback ; Secretary of State, M. F. A. Hoffman ; Auditor of State, J. D. Evans; Treasurer of State, Nathan Kimball; Reporter Supreme Court, James B. Black ; Clerk Supreme Court, T. W. M'Coy ; Attorney-General, D. E. Williamson ; School Superintendent, Bar nabus C. Ilobbs. The Republicans of Nebraska have elected twelve State Senators and thirty-five Representatives against 1 State Senator and 4 Re presentatives of the Democrats ; and the former party claim a larger majority than 2,000, showing the State to be thoroughly Republican. Their pre sent Representative, John 'Yaffe, has been re elected. The State officers elected are as follows: —Governor, David Butler ; Secretary of State, T. P. Kennard; Treasurer, J. Sweet; Auditor, J. Gillespie ; Attorney-Ist, C. B. Hewett ; Attor ney-2d, J. C. Corwen ; Attorney-3d, E. F. Gray. A Cheyenne despatch says that the returns from Laramie city and other stations west, in the new territory of Wyoming, secure the election of Spink, as delegate to Congress, over Bur leigh, Tod, and Toohey, by several hundred votes, but one hundred was the true majority. The complete district returns show that the Repub, licans have lost eight Congressmen and gained one and are as follows : 8. J. Lawrence Get , 6500 9. O. J. Dickey Vac. 0. J. Dickey 10. *Henry L. Cake 244 11. Daniel M. Van Aukcn 12. *George 11 7 . Woodward 13. Ulysses Mercur 14. John B. Packer 15. Robert J. Haldeman . 3672 16. *John Cessna 144 17. Daniel J. Morrell .48. Wm. Fl. Armstrong 19. Glenui W. Scofield 20. Geo. W. Gilfillan Vac. S. Newton Pettis 21. John Covode 22. James S. Negley 23. Darwin Phelps 24. James B. Donley MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. -~- THE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAMME. The Post puts forth what purports to b e the arrange ments for the meeting of the new Parliament. It is very precise in its dates. " The old Parliament," it says,"will be dissolved on Wednesday, the 11th inst. The writs•will be immediately issued ; the nomina tions and unopposed elections for English boroughs will take place on Monday, the 16th. The contested borough elections may take place the day following ; county elections will take place a few days later. The new Parliament will assemble on Wednesday, the 9th of December, when the form of swearing-in members , will be proceeded with. Public business will commence on Monday, the 14th of December." Mr. Denison's election for the office of Speaker is not to be contested. The " great debate " will take place " on the address." It will probably, the Post says, last till Friday, the 18th, when the Government will be defeated. • "In this event, Mr. Disraeli, having in the meantime sot ght an interview with her Majesty, will, on Monday, the 21st of •December, announce that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of her Ministers, and it will become Mr. Gladstone's duty as leader to move the adjournment of the House for thQ Christmas recess, during which period ample time will be afforded for the formation of a -Liberal'Administration." Here we believe our con temporary to be in error. It does not become Mr. Gladstone's duty as leader to move the adjournment. We believe it is not etiquette for the one "sent for" to come into the House at all on that night. When Mr. Gladstone announced the resigna tion of the Ministry in 1866, he himself moved the adjournment, and Mr. Disraeli will probably do the same. PENNSYLVANIA. District. Majority 1. •Samuel J.. Randall 6337 2. *Charles O'Neill 2629 3. *fJohn Mojett 127 4. *Wm. D. Kelley 1859 5. LfJohn B. Reading 6. John D. Stiles: 2500 7. Watshingtcin Town§eLa OHIO. 1. j Philip TV. Strode). 153 2. Job E. Stevenson 530 3. Robert 0. Schenck 525 4. William Lawrence 9OO 5. William Moven 4OOO 6. John A. Smith 7. James J. Winans 8. John Beatty 9. fE. Fenn DickinAon l2OO 10. frruntan 11. Iloag 11. John T. Wilson 2600 12. Phila. Van Trump ___.. 13. fGeorge IV. Morgan 14. Mania Walker 35. Edward 11. Mooro 16. John A. Bingham 17. Jac _Oa A. Ambler 18. 11. Upson 19. James A. Garfield INDIANA. 1. William E. Niblack 2. Michael C. her r 3. 'William S. Holnuzn 910 5400 492 4. *George W. Julian . 129 5. John Coburn 6. fi Dan IV. he Voores 100 7. Uodlovo S. Oi th 985 8. Dauiel D. Pratt 9. John P. C. Shanks. 10. William Williams 11. Jasper Packard NEBRASKA. 1. John Taffe WYOMING TERRITORY. 1. S. L. Spink lOO * Official majorities. f Dem. gain. t Rap gain. The defeat was staggering to the Democrats, and the World, the leading organ of the party, recom mended a change of ticket, substituting Chief Jus tice Chase for Governor Seymour, and M'Clellan for Blair. The latter it reviled as the real cause of the disaster, stigmatizing the Brodhead letter as the handle given to the Republicans, which was used so fatally by them. The proposal caused great excitement in Washington, and was favoured by President Johnson, and advocated by his organ the Intelligencer. Mr. Chase spoke disparagingly of the change, and alluding to it again stated that he had never desired to take any part in politics, nor had he actively sought the Presidency, nor will he seek it. Had he been nominated unanimously in the New York Convention with the platform he sanctioned he would have ac cepted the trust. A ridiculous intrigue was attributed to him, in which the Secretary of War and some foreign Ministers, among them the British, were said to have taken part. The Repu blican papers are unanimous in believing their ticket so certain of election as to have lost the inte rest of uncertainty, and the election in West Vir ginia on the 22d inst., giving that party a majority of 4,000, removes even the possibility of another result. indeed this may be seen from the following table taken from the Mobile Register, which the World considered worthy of a place before the elections of the 13th inst. Seymour— Connecticut, 6 ; New York, 33 ; Pennsylvania, 26 ; New Jersey, 7 ; Delaware, 3 ; Maryland, 7 ; Kentucky, 11 ; Alabama, 9 ; Georgia, 8 ; Ohio, 21 ; Indiana, 5 ; California, 5 ; Oregon, 3 ; Nebraska, 3 ; Nevada, 3.—Total, 158. Grant —Maine, 7 ; New Hampshire, 5 ; Vermont, 5 ; Massachusetts, 12; Rhode Island, 4; Illinois, 16 ; Wisconsin, 8 ; Michigan, 8 ; lowa, 8 ; Min nesota, 4; Kansas, 3; Tennessee, 10; Missouri, 11 ; Arkansas, 3 ; Louisiana, 7 ; South Carolina, 6 ; North Carolina, 9 ; Florida, 3 ; West Virginia, 5. Total, 136. This calculates for Seymour the four States which went Republican. Edward Pierrepont, among the ablest of the Conservative Democrats of New York, has signalized his return to the Republican ranks by forwarding to A. T. Stewart, the chairman of the Grant committee, a X 20,000 cheque for campaign purposes ; whereon the World thus commented :—" $20,000 for what? Can it be possible that Judge Pierrepont has over looked, or that Mr. Stewart will be likely to overlook, the very stringent statute laws of our State respecting misconduct at elections? Are they aware that it is a misdemeanour, punishable, bifine or imprisomnent, for any person, by any 'corrupt means or device whatsoever, either directly or indi"- rectly, to attempt to influence any elector in this State in giving his vote,' or with intent to promote the election of any candidate, to provide or fur nish entertainment' for the purpose of promoting a candidate's election, or to pay for, procure, or en gage to pay for any such entertainment,' or to contribute money for any other purp os e i n t en d e d t o promote an election of any particular person or ticket, except for defraying the expenses of print ing and the circulation of votes, handbills, and other papers previous to such election, or for conveying sick, poor, or infirm electors to the polls.' Then Mr. llelmbold, of buchu notoriety, forwarded double the amount to the Democratic Committee, and on this the World exclaimed :—" Helmbold Ahead of Pierrepont !—The following correspon dence is important, as it practically illustrates the views of thinking and enterprizing merchants, and those who have not altogether lost their love of country or constitution as handed down by our fore fathers, or who have a respect fur maintaining its honour and character." There is nothing like con sistency. On the 14th inst. Speaker Colfax arrived at Cleveland, and was received with salutes of guns by a deputation of citizens to whom he deli. vered an address, during which he was interrupted by a man who cried " What did you do in 1854 ? You organised a Know-Nothing Lodge ;" whereupon Colfax turned and said, "It's a lie," but the man per sisted till he was carried away by the mob. Col fax was to have a grand reception at Detroit, at which Ben Wade, Gen. Garfield, and Sam Gal loway of Ohio, Governor Oglesby of Illinois, and Crapo of Michigan, were expected. On the day of the elections Gen. Grant was in Galena, and was serenaded by his friends at the Hon. E. H. Wash burn's residence, on receipt of the election news. We are happy to say that the Hon. Thomas A. Jenckes has been nominated by the Republicans in the First District of Rhode Island, though by the dropping of a " not" we were made last week to say the reverse. We consider Mr. Jenckes' pre sence in the House of Representatives as necessary for the safe conduct of the Civil Service Bill he has worked so hard to frame, and which we hold to be so desirable for the prosperity of the United States. In the Republican Convention for the Western Dis trict, in Woonsocket, which assembled on the 13th inst., the Hon. Mr. Mason presiding, the Hon. Nathan F. Dixon, of Westerly, was recommended for Representative in Congress by 31 votes. Four teen votes were cast for Rowland G. Hazard, and one scattering. Presidential electors were nomi nated as follows George 11. Norman, of New port ; James T. Edwards, of East Greenwich ; Jas. W. Pendleton, of Westerly ; and Seth Padelford, of Providence. The Democrats have nominated Judge Lord, it is said in Butler's interest ; it is asserted that thereby they have secured his return. A great meeting was held at Boston, Oct. 14, at which 10,000 were present inside and out the Faneuill Hall, and Butler was received with great enthusiasm. At a Convention of the Massachu setts Churches in Boston, Oct. 14, an anthem of praise was sung for the result of the State elections of the preceding day. A cage of Spanish merino lambs was shipped from San Francisco to a broader in Vormont, in Septem ber, and will bo followed by others, as it was preceded by numerous shipments to Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and ports on the Pacific coast. There are now from ono thousand five hundred to two thousand full-blooded Spa nish merinos in California. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. Satisfactory Results.—When the blood is foul, the stomach disordered, or the bowels irregular, these rills prove infallible curatives. A gentleman who had been a sufferer for years, though he had sought the best professional aid, writes—" I cannot describe the effect your medicine had upon me; it carried off more bile, and made me feel lighter and more cheerful than all the medicine I had previously taken." Holloway's Pills strengthen the stomach, prevent biliousness, purify the blood, raise the spirits, and give energy to both body and mind. Another patient writes—" Since I took your pills and rubbed your ointment on my chest, the cough,.which never quitted me throughout, the n i gh t + onl y " ea ' pieugly pining= elightiy,", AUTHORISED ANNOUNCEMENTS. If we do not always furnish our readers with the results of Cabinet meetings on the same day that they appear in certain other journals, the fault is not our own. The course adopted by the Government is a very paltry one. On Monday the Standard announced the day upon which the writs would be issued for the elections. The Times remained in ignorance till it appeared in the Conservative journal. The same partiality was shewn in the case of the country papers. Thus, the public who happen to prefer reading a Liberal paper suffer for it in this way, and are left to console themselves with the reflection that when the other party comes into power it will be their turn to have the news first. We suppose that if a Minister of State required a butler he would never think of such an unconstitutional proceeding as advertising in a Liberal paper, on the same principle that he repudiates with indignation in the House of Commons the charge of reading the Times. The exclusive rule of which we complain has been broken through by the India Office, and the example might with advantage be followed by the whole Cabinet. RUMOURS. The editorial room of the Church News must be worse than the apartment of the spiritualist. Rumours, mysterious and unnatural, are for ever floating in the air. The spirits are always giving the editor the benefit of some exclusive piece 'of information. The worst of it is, the spirits tell such tremendous fibs, and play such shabby tricks with the readers of the News. Not long since a tale of myth and moonshine came from Rome. It had a brief existence ; caused some little stir ; and then left nothing but " the baseless fabric of vision." The last tale is that, "in consideration of the precarious chance which Mr. Gladstone notoriously has of being elected for South Lancashire, some of the more extreme Liberals at Oxford contemplate formally proposing him for the university in con junction with Sir R. Palmer. That proposal has been strongly discountenanced, but is not unlikely to 1 e carried out as a surprise. At least, so writes a well informed correspondent of position and dignity" If these extreme Liberals, by any stretch of imagina tion, can suppose that Mr. Gladstone would stand again for Oxford University they must be as credu lous as the " well-informed correspondent of position of dignity," or, let us say, that spiritualist, the editor of the Church Ne2cB himself. THE LIBERAL CANDIDATES AND THE ELECTIONS. The superfluous Liberal candidates are being gradually weeded out. During the last few days Mr. Quain has retired from London University, leaving the field entirely in the hands of Mr. Lowe. Mr. Odger has left Chelsea to Sir Henry Hoare and Mr. Dilke ; Mr. Marsh, one of the most prominent • Adullamites of 1866, seeing that his past conduct has not been forgotten, has suddenly thrown up the contest at Salisbury, thus ensuring the success of Mr. Hamilton and Dr. Lush ; Mr. Bristowe, who came forward for Kidderminster, has retired in favour of Mr. Lea ; and Dr. Prosser James, rather than divide the Liberal party in the Edinburgh and St. Andrews Universities, will do his utmost to return. Professor Playfair. TILE NEW MOUSE OF COMMONS AND NM KPAPERS. The proprietors and editors of newspapers are playing a prominent part in the elections. There is Mr. Walter, proprietor of the Times, standing for Berkshire; Mr. Russell, the Crimean historian of the same journal, a candidate for Chelsea; Mr. Baines, the proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, for Leeds; Mr. Cowen, proprietor of the Newcastle Chronicle, for Newcastle ; Dr. Sebastian Evans, editor of the Bir mingham Gazette, for Birmingham; and Sir John Gray, proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, for Kil kenny. No newspaper, however, produces such a large number of candidates as the Daily News, no less than four different . places being wooed by the same number of proprietors of this journal. These are Chelsea, Hackney, Middlesex, and Bristol, where Sir Henry Hoare, Mr. Charles Reed, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Samuel Morley are standing in the Liberal interest. Besides these gentlemen, one of the prin cipal leader-writers, Mr. Clayden, is seeking the suffrages of the Nottingham electors. It may also be mentioned that the working men's candidate who has received such .a castigation from the Daily News is Mr. Hartwell, who first tried. Lambeth, and, failing there, went down to Stoke upon-Trent.in opposition to the two Liberals already in the field. Mr. Hartwell was formerly the printer of that paper, but is now what is commonly called a " penny-a-liner." MR. BUXTON. The interminable discussion of the Eyre trOSecu tions has cropped up again as the elections approach. Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe write to the London daily papers to defend Mr. Buxton from some charges which have been made against him for the purpose of perilling his re-election as member for East Surrey. They remind the public that Mr. Buxton retired from the post of chairman of the Jamaica Committee because he declined to be a party to the pro secution of Mr. Eyre for murder ; that the committee have nothing to do - with the only pending action against Mr. Eyre, brought forward by Mr. Phillipo, and that Mr. Buxton has tried to procure the abandonment of that action by offering to make good the plaintiffs losses out of his own pocket. The Jamaica Committee happened to -run counter to the general opinion of the community in the prosecution of Mr. Eyre, but, now that the matter is done with on their part, the members which composed it should not be considered any the less fit to be popular repre sentatives because they were so vigilant and so jealous of what they, rightly or wrongly, conceived to be the outraged liberties of an obscure and distant portion of her Majesty's subjects. THE SUNDAY LEAGUE. Not all the blandishments of the Sunday League could induce the candidates for Marylebone to attend their late meeting. Mr. Chambers had other engage ments, but would have declined in any case ; Dr. Sandwith had a cold, though he was in favour of the League ; Mr. Harvey Lewis was in favour of opening museums, &c., on the Sunday, but he could not 'attend the meeting. The wary candidates, doubtless, knew. how the friends and the opponents of the League were likely to comport themselves. The meeting was a very noisy and disorderly one, and it was not satisfactorily settled whether an original motion in favour of opening educational institutions on a Sunday, or an amendment, was carried. The inevitable name of John SWart Mill was introduced, and the usual charge or atheism made agai ns t him ' • the secretary was accused of having spat i n th e face of Lord Shaftesbury ; and these pleasantries nearly degenerated into a fight. The question is likely to remain a vexed one for some time, and it will not be the fault of the publicans if its discussion is allowed to grow tame. The licensed victualler always " remembers the Sabbath day," and keeps so exactly its hours of divine service, that the opening of the public-house door is as true an indication of the progress of time as a sun-dial. A REBtili-E. The Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the well-known iN on conformist ministerovaS lately lecturing at Liverpool. He mentioned Mr. Bright as a great orator, and this was followed by hissing, and a counter-demonstration of applause was evoked. Ile then tried the name of Disraeli, but that did not please all ; and then Mr. Whalley. The lesson was obvious. In a large audience of various politics it is impossible to name a statesman who would be a universal favourite ; but Mr. Brown had simply named Mr. Bright as an orator, and his hearers might surely have refrained from such extreme partisanship as to quarrel about that. Mr. Brown then continued : " I would say to the gentleman—for there was only one—who hissed at the name of John Bright, that if he has not the common sense and common decency to recognise intellectual ability in a political opponent—l say, if that gentleman, or that person—has not the common sense and common decency to recognise intellectual ability in a political opponent, I am thankfulto say that I have." The lesson is of extensive application. THE DOWAGER DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND. Thalumumlur the DOS= Dimhoo sof Sutherland has taken place at Venthard, and o'lie or tne mon notable members of the female aristocracy has passed out of sight. There was a great following of noble mourners, including three dukes, two duchesses, three marquises, besides many members of the lower ranks of the peerage, most of them belonging to well-known and. historical families of the leading Whigs. Perhaps no lady was ever more familiar with the Court and the surroundings of a Court than the deceased duchess. She must have been the confidante of many a statesman, and have watched with keen interest many a political crisis. She will perhaps be best remembered as the intimate friend and companion of her Majesty. The Queen is fast losing the advisers and companions of her youth, and the loss of the dowager duchess must be a bitter one. Lord Bagot represented her Majesty at the funeral, and placed upon the coffin two wreaths of immortelles. The Prince of Wales was also there, and laid a wreath of camellias and lilies upon the grave of the beautiful and accom plished woman who had adorned the Court of the Queen of England, and been the chosen companion of his mother. THE SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIR There is a queer story "in the wind." Whe,ther there be the least particle of truth in it we cannot say. It is said that " Lord Derby's eldest son, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, now in his 42nd year, contemplates the somewhat serious step of a matrimonial alliauce in addition to his other Ministerial cares and responsibilities. The future Countess of Derby is the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, a very lovely woman, just closing her 44th year, the stepmother of Lord Cranborne when in the House of Commons, and herself the mother of four children," and, we may add, a widow of the present year. The story is told by the London correspon dent of the Irish Times—no very great authority. A JURYMAN IN TROUBLE. A man named William King, charged with steal ing a bag of money, was called upon at the Surrey Sessions to surrender to his bail. After some bawl ing on the part of the officers of the court, a respectably-dressed man came forward, and introduced himself with the formula "Here I am." He was immediately ordered into the dock, and the indictment was read. The man began to tremble at the onerous words " did feloniously and wilfully steal," and said, sotto voce, to Mr. Cook, the gaoler, " Please, sir, it's all a mistake." The Gaoler : " Oh, there's no mistake; you listen to the indictment." The clerk of the peace having read the indictment, asked, in the usual form, "Prisoner, Pow say you—are you guilty or not guilty ?" risoner : "If you please, :my lord, there is some mistake." The Clerk of the Peace : "We shall see that presently. Are you guilty or not guilty ?* Prisoner: "If you please, my lord, lam a juryman." This man will doubtless make an excellent juryman in future, having realised in some measure the un pleasant position of a prisoner with his life or liberty at peril. If other jurymen could go through a similar course of training, perhaps they would be a little more careful in the preparation of their ( From the Anglo-American Times) We have long suspected it, but now we know that the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times is a prophet. It is true that he has not been fortunate when he based his calculation of coming events on careful sur veys, therefore he has dropped that, and adopted the style of the inspired men of old, who spoke of things still in the future as past. This may deceive the readers of the Times unless explained, and therefore Wo desire to observe, that the election in lowa does not occur till the 3d November, though the corrospandent, on the 16th October, said "that the election in lowa had, as usual, gone Republican, and that the party had lost none of its candidates there." It is a pity, when in this prophetic trance, that he did not write more fully, as many of the candidates would, above all things, have desired to kaow the particulars. In prophesying in the Times, where naturally we would look for a prophet., he ought to handle subjects of inte rest to its readers. Had he told them the result of the elections now about to take place in Scotland, Ireland, Yorkshire, or London, he would have removed from the minds of many a load of anxiety, but few have cared what was going to occur in Iowa; while published in America, it would have been of the greatest interest, and thus this prophet wastes his gifts. It may be, however, that he well knows a prophet has no honour in his own country, and he prefers seeking it hero, where he might have a chance, if it were not for the cable. The officers of the Easthampton (Massachusetts) Farmers' Club for the ensuing year are—President, Ansel B. Lyman ; Secretary and Treasurer, Watson IL Wright. Harding G. Woodard, of Greenfield, who killed Walter G. Coombs by a blow from a whip stock, has been held to bail in the sum of 810,000, which was readily obtained, seveTal citizens volunteering to act in that capacity. The death is recorded of Francis De Witt, who was a native of South Hadley, and lived for more than 20 years iu Ware. He was a member of the State Senate from Hampshire county for two years, and was Secretary of State in 1836-58, preceding Mr. Oliver Warner, the pre sent Secretary, in that office. The veteran conductor, James Parker, who for 29 years has had charge of the morning and evening ac commodation train between Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts, has finished his course, and will scon enter on the less active duties of a new office, the super intendency of sleeping cars, established on account of the increasing business of the Boston and Albany Railroad. It is calculated that since Oct. 4, 1839, he has travelled 1,500,000 miles. Marshall Field, head of the great Chicago dry goods house of Field, Leiter, and Co., whose sales for 1668 will reach $10,000,000, was botn in Conway in 1835, and began business in Chicago in 1856. The bodies of the five men who were burned in the central shaft of the Hoosac tunnel, last October, were recovered, Thursday, Oct. 15, placed in coffins, and taken to North Adams. Joshua P. Blanchard, a well known contributor to the religious press, and for many years an active officer of the American Peace Society, recently died is Boston at the age of eighty-six years. Thirty years ago he was a book-keeper inthe Eagle Bank. Brigham Young's newspaper divides its editorials between efforts to establish the purity of Mormonism and to hurry up the grading of the Pacific Railroad. Brig ham Young has thirty-five marriageable daughters to dis pose of, the sooner mankind are hurried up the better for the girls. By the wreck of the schooner Dashing Wave, near Portsmouth, Now Hampshire, on Monday morning, Oct. 12, Captain Ezra Hall of Camden, E. B. Crockett of Searsport, and a man named Ellis of Camden lost their lives. _ _ Mr. Du Pont, elected in 1859 Chief Justice of Florida, and reappointed by the Governor in 1865, and ought to be Chief Justice till 1872, has informed the people of Florida that he considers himself not dead, but sleep jug. He says:—" Circumstanced, however, as I am, de prived of the aid of the Executive to sustain the Judi cial Department in the exercise of its legitimate func tions, and opposed to the entire legislative and mili tary authority of the United States, 1 have no other alternative than to announce to you a suspension of the exercise of the functions of my office as Chief Jus tice until such time as the same may be resumed without endangering the peace and good order of so ciety." After giving much good advice to the citi zens as to their behaviour towards settlers from the East, Nortb, or West, he tells them to sot their faces as a flint against the unwelcome intruders, who are the instruments of an infamous and heartless tyranny, while they extend the right hand of fellowship either to those who come for recreation or to establish themselves in Florida as citizens. Herr Von Grabow, of New York, has been ap pointed to the post of Consul-General of the North Ger man Confederation at Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Senator Conness, of California, arrived in Spring field, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, tho 13th Oct., and left on the 15th. He was a guest at the Massasoit, at G. H. Harrison's and at Rufus Elmer's. At the residence of the latter he was serenaded in the evening by the armoury band attended a crow of armourers and other citizens, to whom he made a speech on the eight-hour law, assuring them that if the administrators of the law refused to allow for eight hours' work a full day's pay, Congress would cor rect the mistake. When called on afterward by the ward seven. Grant Club, with their glee club, ho spoke cheering words on the present aspect of the campaign, and said the recent elections insured Grant's success. The Lighthouse Board has given notice that the Granite Bay Beacon heretofore marking the shoals ex tending from Canonicus Point in Providence River, Rhode Island, has been prepared for illuminating . apparatus, from which a fixed white light will bo exhibited for the first time on November 5. The light will be visible in clear weather at a distance of about 1.1 nautical miles. A fog bell is attached to this station which will be rung during thick weather. The light at Nasal Point, immediately opposite, will be discontinued from the sth of November. The anniversary of the &Bowery of America was celebrated on Monday, October, 12, in Boston, by the Ita lian Mutual Relief Society, that people holding proudly to the fact that Columbus was born in Genoa. A procession of about 150 Italians paraded the streets, and in the even ing addresses by distinguished Italians were made in Mer cantile Hall, the State and city Governments being in at tendance by invitation. There are 2,000 Italian residents in Boston, and the president of the above-named patriotic society is Signor G. M. Finotte. This account does not bear out the statement in a letter to the Times that the number of Italians in America, could be counted on the fingers. The Public Ledger says :—Mr. Burlingame, ac cording to despatches received by the Atlantic Cable, will succeed in carrying out the objects of his mission. His personal intercourse with the prominent men in London appears to have effected a favourable impression, and the attack§ in the gogligh newspaper§ upou the treaty nes tiated with Mr. Seward, and upon the objects of the mis sion, have ceased to appear. Despatches received in Lon don from all parts of Europe show that the Continental nations are favourably disposed towards Mr. Burlingame, and that he and his associates will be cordially welcomed at the different Courts. The Westfield (Massachusett) Athenaeum Asso ciation has raised $7,000 of the proposed library fund of $lO,OOO. Stimpson and Co., the well known manufac turers of piano legs in that place, have presented the asso ciation with a piano valued at $BOO. Grace Church (Episcopal), at New Bedford, lately abolished the pew rent .system, and the amount subscribed for expenses already exceeds what has ever been raised from pew rents. It would be well that such an example could he followed. Four more German prelates and professors have been summoned by the Popo to assist in th 3 preliminary preparations for the (Ecumenical Council, viz.—Monfar g, from Mayence ; Dieringer, from Bonn ; Giese, of Monster; and Hefele, of Tubingen. No wonder that the prevalence of German dignitaries and their influence are already be ginning to form the subject of complaints in certain politi cal and ecclesiastical quarters. Considerable excitement has been caused in Eng land by the rumour that there will bo no race for the Derby in 1869 or 1870. A portion of the course at Epsom has, it is stated, passed into the hands of a gentleman who refuses to let it to the committee of management. Should no arrangement be come to, entries for the Derby in tiro next and following year will have to be cancelled, according to the conditions of entry, the race cannot be run elsewhere. A. D. Briggs and Co., the bridge builders, of Springfield, Massachusetts, have just made two important contracts. One is to construct the bridge for the Shore Line Railroad over the Connecticut river near its mouth, which is to be 1,200 feet long ; to consist of six spans of the Howe truss bridge, 165 feet each, and an iron draw of two 275 feet long; with piers after a new invention, made up of piles encased with drums of iron, and filled with concrete ; to be finished next June, and to cost about $200,000. The Hartford people are fighting the enterprise in the courts, and the case is to be heard first on their claim for an injunction in the United States Court in November; but not much delay is expected in building the bridge from this movement. The other contract is for an iron bridge 50 feet long and 50 feet wide over the Harlem and New Haven Railroad track near West Farms in Westchester county, New York, and forming part of a grand southern boulevard that is to sweep around on the high land of the Sound shore from the Harlem River to Jerome Park, and be occupied by fine suburban residences. The six prizes offered last term to the members of the junior class in Yale college have been awarded to Edward P. Clark of West Springfield ; Dwight W.Larned of Plymouth, Ct.; Charles E. Shepard of Dansville, N. Y. Edwin R. Stearns of Wyoming, a; Charles If. Strong of New Orleans, La. ; and Thomas J. Tilney of Brooklyn, N. Y. Yale college has 118 seniors, 114 juniors, 113 sopho mores, and 170 freshmen, with a prospect of 10 more when all the conditional men are admitted. The theolo gical department of the seminary numbers 25 students, the law 15, the medical 20, and the scientific 130; total, 676 students, with 54 instructors. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The Housatonic Railroad Company now runs a milk train from Pittsfield to New York daily. The meeting of the stockholders of the Boston and Albany Railroad, at Boston, called for the 14th inst., is to see if they will vote to subscribe half or three-quarters of a million of dollars to the stock of the Atlantic steamship company, which owns the new steamers Ontario and Erie; or if the railroad will indorse the bonds of the steamship company to that amount. Boston and the steamship company are anxious to have this done. An act was put through the last Legislature for the purpose of authorizing it. The Wall-street Journal gives the following asa comparative statement of the business of the Illi nois Central Railroad Company for the month of September, 1868 : SALES OF THE LAND DEPARTMENT. Sold for Acres construction lands 24,909.46 $249,306 8 3 Acres interest fund lands Acres free lands Total sales during the month of September, 1868 To which add town lot sales 175 00 Total of all 27,867.93 $290,803 7 5 Cash collected in September, 1868 5400,754 58 TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT. From freight Passengers Mails Rent of road., From other sources.. $481,178 00 158,89 6 7 8 6358 33 4,000 00 95:060 00 --- Total receipts in month of Sept., 1868 ... $740,4 33 1 1 Total receipts in month of Sept., 1867 ... $704,893 96 Estimated earnings in the month of Sept., on the D. and S, C. R. R., not included above sl33, 066 49 Thomas C. Durant, vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad, telegraphed to the President from Salt Lake City that he had heard a special sioner had been appointed to re-examine the road. He strongly objects to this, unless all the roads re ceiving Government aid are to be re-examined also+ inn which case he acquiesces cheerfully, and professe° the belief that the Union Pacific will compare favourably with any of the others. The corporation formerly known as the Cleveland , Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad, have changed their name to the Lake Shore Railroad Company. RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY IN THE PA. CIFIC STATES.—The San Jose Road extension to Gilroy, 20 miles in length, will be completed, it is promised, by December next. Tbis road is pros perous, and the country and towns through -which It passes are iu a highly flourishing condition. Sub' scriptions are being received for the building of a railroad from Anaheim to Buenaventuras, in Los Angeles county, a distance of nearly 50 miles. The railroad from Vallejo to Sacramento is now corn' pleted for 46 miles, to Davisville, which is withal 14 miles of Sacramento. The portion yet to b e built will be on piles, because the country is subject to overflow in winter to depths of three to fifteml feet. Several railroads are under active headway in Napa, Solano and Marin counties. The com mencement of work on the junction road from liar' risburg to Suscol, to connect the Napa valid with the California Pacific Road, is announced and a contract has been made for the construc tion of a road from Dansville to Woodland th is year. A contract has been made for grading tel l miles of the San Francisco and Humboldt pal Railroad, eastward from Petaluma, before the 1 0 of December, but the Superintendent expresses the belief that the entire distance to Santa Rosa, 16 miles, can be completed before that time. Arrange" meats are being made to purchase forty miles ef iron. The Stockton Gazette says that a paper 1° being circulated among the citizens for subscrip tions to a railroad from Stockton to Paradise Valley; It will be the first step toward opening up I ' 4 Tulare region, and will pay from the start. Ti le Colorado, Reese River, and Virginia City mines are to be connected with the main continental road by short branches. Fifteen miles of the road-bed °f the Denver branch of the Pacific Railroad are OW pleted, and the work progresses rapidly towards t he Platte. The commencement of actual work on th e Virginia City and Truckee Railroad has been de : ferred, and is not likely to begin during the pre' sent season. Births. AULD —On the 3d inst., at Sittingbourne, the wife of W. 113 Aird, Esq., of a daughter. DALDY —On the 4th inst., at Belvedere, Mrs. F.' Tha l ' of a daughter. I S A ' WEBB —On the 29th tilt., Tenby, the wife of `A' Webb, Esq., R.N , o f a son. Marriages. oar DAVENPORT—CURTIS —On the 27th alt., at Carli/ 3 M 11 —rt Ludlow, Salop, H a rry T, D a v en p or t, Esq., of Loug l 'of Hall, Staffordshire, to Georgina Henrietta, ' daughte r Sir Wm. Curtis, Bart., of Caynham Court, Ludlo , '• WEEKES —MOSTYN —On the 3d inst., at St. James's, Files dilly, Nathaniel Weekes, Esq., of Guillard's Oak , T , o rd sex, to Elizabeth Mostyn, the second daughter of Mostyn. Deaths. HAY— On the 2d inst., at Belmont Hill, Lee, Charles 0311 Esq., aged 79. T uc asi LUCAS— the 3d inst., at Chelsea Hospital, Wm• 63. Esq., Deputy-Inspector-Ueneral of Hospitals, age' e.. MAcooNALD—On the 4th inst., at 8, Park-street, 9: c of nor-square, Lady Margaret tiophia Macdonald , Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., aged 36. •de" WiLsox - On the 2d inst., at 3, Cambridge-squa re, park, Wm. Wilson, Esq., aged 67. London : Printod and Published by WfLLIA.% ,zns o 2, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Ta SUN 0 1 1 11 Strznd, in the Preoln.:3 of the Savoy, in the 07'3 KiCillenZt7WburfitlaYi li9Teuzbor..s, 1868, ] 5 , T Adv. the full at al orde trai( riou Co., T are PUI nice, fklui Ltd Car( A ten , Si Trei N und( wh©t Girls th e 1, ... lio, Th rth,l i wise suite Th emir IT RA r , Cu ritu a: f ord I' ool. war,