The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS, According to the Saturday Review, the prorogation brought, not merely the end of the Parliament that has just sat, but the close of an order of things that passes away and gives place to a new order. The system of government ushered in by the Reform Bill of '32 has come to an end. The Parliaments that used to be called the Reformed Parliaments will be no more. The reign of the ten-pound householder is over, and a chapter of English history is made up, and its roll sealed for good or evil. In endeavouring to anticipate the verdict of history on the present epoch, the Saturday Review thinks it will be corsidered remarkable for its astonishing Conservatism. The Reform Bill of '32 did not bring any alteration in the three distinguishing characteristics of this country, which were these—that she was a great Power, with all the virtues and vices, the responsibilities and the energies, of a great Power ; that monarchy, aristocracy, and demo cracy combined to make up the English political system ; and that the centre of public and social life was in Parliament, and especially in the House of Commons. How, then, does it happen that an order of things marked by so decisive a conservatism, and inspired by ideas so dear to this generation, and so great and noble in themselves, has come to an end ? The answer seems to be that the causes which have wrought a revolution so often elsewhere have wrought a revolution here also. The men are no longer suited to the times. They cannot any more keep themselves up to the level of thought and action which what has already been done imposes on them. We may not be going to have a better time ; in many respects we must expect to have a worse time. Many of the new ideas that will force themselves into notice will be silly and perverse, and must be combated in the interests of truth and equity and right reason. But it was impossible to adopt, sift, or reject them under a Parliamentary system from which the virtue had departed. A new order of things was wanted, and it has come ; and we may be satisfied that it was right it should come, without thinking that it is going to bring with it a golden age, or that all that rash men ask for under it should be given them. The Spectator says that on the whole Mr. Disraeli has shewn nothing like the cleverness and command of the House which he shewed last session, perhaps because he has lowered the whole tone of the House by his ostenta tious " management," and though on the great subject of the session he has displayed an unscrupulous solemnity of Protestant zeal which has rendered him even nauseous, yet with all this he has struck a series of patient, skilful, and, so far as they go, successful blows at political cor ruption, which impress us as earning for him almost his very first true honour in political life. Mr. Gladstone on the other hand, has been singularly sagacious as well as earnest -in his larger statesmanship ; he has restored sincerity to one of the hollow and traditional professions of his party, hitherto mere idle words ; he has taken a great step towards convincing the Irish nation that there are English statesmen who sincerely wish to look at the political wants of Ireland with Irish rather than English spectacles ; he has prose cuted this most delicate and difficult task with a gentle ness, a temper, a practical mastery of his subject, and an earnest simplicity of treatment, which have taken all the sting out of his policy to those who have had the wisdom and capacity to judge it fairly; he has been patient and playful in brushing away the political mosquitoes which have as usual attacked him in clouds ; in a word, on all matters of the first weight he has grown as rapidly as his rival has dwindled ; but, notwithstanding, on smaller matters he has not been free from error of a vexatious kind. The London Review, commenting on Mr. Leeman's clause proposed on the Regulation of Railways Bill, con siders that it cannot be said that we have too many gua rantees fur the caution and diligence of our railway com panies. A lung list of painful cases has shewn that we should rather desire more of them than less. To ask us to surrender the most efficient one we possess was a bold step on the part of the railway companies ; and we must do them the justice to say that they took that step with an openness and candour which left nothing to be desired. It would have been a public misfortune had Mr. Leeman's clause been accepted by the House. But the truth is that it was too essentially absurd to have any chance of success. A man's life is to be estimated by its value to himself and family, and there can hardly be a better criterion of that value than the income he has been receiving, the number of persons who are dependent upon it, and the loss they will sustain through his being incapacitated by death, or injury short of death, from earning it any longer. The attempt to limit the liability of the com panies by an arbitrary line was unjust ; but to limit it by a scale graduated according to the class in which the aggrieved passenger might happen to ride was ridiculous. The John Bull rebukes the apathy of some Conserva tives. Let us admit that electioneering at no time— least of all in hot weather—is the occupation we should choose. Public-houses, election agents, tiresome electors with scruples and crotchet; clamorous wives of others anxious to have their rent paid up and their little bills settled, these no doubt are not visions which enchant the imagination of those who know what an election is. But it is useless to repine at the necessary price which must be paid to obtain those mystic letters M.l'. which are the title the people can confer. Woe betide the country when her landed gentry cease to covet the proud distinction, and retire into selfish privacy, while self-made pushing mercan tile men sit in the seat of council. But our contention is that the people infinitely prefer the gentleman to the novus honzo, however full his purse ; and that the aristo cracy tand the country gentry may win in a canter. We thank Mr. Horsman for his bold address to the electors of Stroud. It may be that it is a mere device to bring back to himself the support of the extreme Radicals in the borough, but it is none the less significant. His plan - to reform the House of Lords is, we may rely on it, but the foreshadowing of many a similar and yet bolder flight. Shall Englishmen con tinue their slumbers so long that the piecemeal attack on our most cherished institutions shall succeed ? Our enemies are far too wise to propose the disestablish ment of the English Church, the abolition of the House of Peers, or the division of the land at once. But let therebe no mistake. These are the aims of the revolutionary party. Nonconformity and Liberalism have ever been allied. Shall the miserable dissensions among Churchmen and Conservatives, arising out of an idolatrous worship of the clever leader of the Liberals, whom the Dissenters are using for their own purposes, allow the altar and the throne to be laid low? We trove not. The Imperial Review sketches the movements of the session, and says that the accession to the Premiership of Mr. Disraeli, rather than of either Lord Stanley—whose name had at times been suggested —or of one of those members of the Cabinet who occupy the Treasury Bench of the House of Lords, seemed, at first, to give general satisfaction. Mr. Bouverie, after speaking of his own party as a rabble, with leaders who would not lead, and followers who would not follow, and severely condemning the proposed legislation on the land question in Ireland, which had found favour with many of the extreme members of his own party, regretted that the Premier had not attempted to form a coalition, as there could be no question of principle to prevent it. Sir George Bowyer's tone was markedly conciliatory. The ad vanced Liberals seemed to approve the elevation of a man who, without powerful or wealthy connections, had gained the highest place by genius. But it soon appeared that, misinterpreting the Conservative policy of last year, they anticipated from Mr. Disraeli the sacrifice of all the cherished views of the Conservative party. The Irish debates brought the matter to the test. The Opposition had demanded an Irish policy from Ministers, on the ground that the necessary measures of coercion required measures of conciliation. Mr. Disraeli, therefore, could not be charged with having been the first to challenge the opinions of Parliament on the affairs of that country. As none of the grievances of Ireland, be they what they may, were in any way new, it might have been felt that what had for years baffled the wisdom of Parliament was not to be cured satisfactorily in the short interval before the Reform Bill came into operation. Mr. Disraeli, however, when called upon to act, chewed a sufficiently liberal spirit towards the Irish Roman Catholics. But he was not prepared to attack the existing rights of the Pro testant Church, and the overthrow of that Church became the rallying-cry on which all sections of the Oppositio' were united against him. Samuel Ellis, a labourer, has been taken before the St. Asaph magistrates for cutting a donkey's throat. He had previously cut off one of its ears. It is rumoured that the poor brute disturbed him by braying when he went courting a woman living next door. He pleaded insanity. TREATMENT OF SUNSTROKE. — The patient should oe placed in a recumbent position in the coolest po3:ible place, with a free current of air. The clothes should be re moved, and cold water applied to the whole surface ; or, if the symptoms be urgent, the clothes should immediately be saturated with cold water without waiting to remove them. If the respiratory movements be fail:ng and Lehi , . the cold douche is a powerful excitor ; but if the breathing be rapid and laborious, it is better to envelope the body in a wet sheet, and to quicken evaporation and cooling by.' fan or a pair of bellows. If the patient can swallow, le him drink iced water freely. Whether he can swallow o: not, iced water may from time to time be injected. The marvellous effect of hot venous injections in cholera collapse, and the urgent need for cooling the blood in heat-apnoea, suggest the expediency, in extreme cases, of injecting into a vein the same saline solution as has r frequently been employed in cholera, only injecting at cold instead of hot.—Brio.l4 Medical Journal. DAMAGES FOR MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.—At the Cam bridge Assizes the case of Cockle v. Blow, which was an action for damages on account of a malicious prosecution, was heard. The plaintiff was engaged by the defendant, who is a farmer, to convey butter to a wholesale dealer. In January last this person stated that no butter had reached her for some time past, and in the end the plaintiff was charged with felony, but acquitted at the sessions. The jury awarded £2O damages. ARSON AND SHEEP-STEALING.—At the same assizes, Jonathan Breed pleaded guilty to setting fire to a stack of wheat at East Hatley, and a7so to feloniously killing a sheep, both of them the property of the tame owner, Mr. Edwards. It appeared that the prisoner, having had a quarrel with his master, out of revenge first set fire to the stack, destroying property worth £2OO, and then killed one of his master's sheep. He was sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude. THE Munrxv RIOTS AT A STITON.—At the Manchester Assizes, John Flynn, 28 ; Daniel Flanaghan, 39 ; Patrick Hanley, - 49 ; Edward Kenny, 22 ; Patrick Carny, 27 ; Robert Duff, 22 ; Wm. Cusick, 58 ; Thomas Harley, 19 ; Lawrence Delaney, 19 ; James M`Dermot, 18 ; Patrick Quinn, 16 ; and James Flannery, 65, were indicted for riot and assault at Ashton-under-Lyne on the 10th May. The oase was briefly stated by the counsel for the prosecution, and after the examination of one or two witnesses the case was adjourned to the succeeding day. THE MURDER OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.—At the Shrewsbury Assizes, George Harris, a chainmaker, was indicted for the wilful murder of Barnard Zusman, at Stuckley,7on the 15th of November 1867. There are seventy witnesses in the case. It was proved that the deceased left the Rose and Crown Inn with a blackoiled case, containing watches and chains. He stated that he should return to dinner, but never did so. On the day that the deceased was murdered the prisoner exhibited two new watches and a chain. When the person to whom the prisoner showed the things was summoned to the coroners's inquest the accused said he would give him a watch if he (witness) would tell the jury that on the morning of the murder he had seen the de- ceased at Dawley , in company with a strange man carrying an oil-cased parcel, with a strap round it." On the day of the last inquest witness was returning from the court with the prisoner, and in the course of the conversation about the murder, he' said, " I'll lose my heart before I split." After hearing some further evidence, the court adjourned till the subsequent day. The mortal remains of Lord Cranworth were on Friday deposited in the churchyard of Keston, a retired village a few miles beyond Bromley, in Kent, and close to his lordship's seat, Holwood Park. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat on Friday at the Privy Council Office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu. FORGERY OF BANK NOTES.—We have to caution the public against a rather well-executed forgery of the £lO note of the Bank of Ireland—the first, we believe, that has appeared of that bank for a number of years. The difference between the genuine notes and the forgery is, perhaps, more readily perceived by a comparison of the vignettes or figures and the word " Ten" at the sides. The forgery which has appeared also bears date 1866, whereas there is no genuine note of that denomination dated in that year.—Freeman's Journal STATE OF THE CROPS IN IRELAND. —Rain has fallen more or less all over the north of Ireland, and a decided improvement is reported in the green crops everywhere. Potatoes seem now safe to be a very fine crop abundant and good. Turnips have been improved by the rains ; but, as a whole, they will be deficient. Hay has been well secured— light but good. Oats have improved in some quarters, Lut the complaint of shortness in the straw is very general. Wheat bids fair to be as good a crop as it is possible to have it. Everyone speaks of it as strong, tall, and healthy. Flax-pulling is very general, but the return will decidedly be below the average. Steeping is going on, but under difficulties, as water . is very scarceer Northern Whig. .4-- TrOW ETIEBLE COMPANIES APE FLOATED.' At the Guildhall, on Friday, Edwin Yelland, a pro moter of public companies, having offices at 26, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, and living at 25, Aldridge-road Villas, Westbourne-park, was charged with obtaining money by false Iretences. Mr. Lewis said that he ap peared to prosecute the prisoner on several charges of obtain ing money by false pretences. The first charge he would prove was that of obtaining £lOO from Dr. Bartlett by fraud ; the second of obtaining £2OO from Mr. Winscom ; the third, obtaining £ICO from Mr. Donaldson, and a fourth, obtaining £5O from another person. The prisoner was a " getter up " of companies, and amongst them he brought out the British Alliance Assurance Corporation (Limited). At the outset he (Mr. Lewis) wished to state that that com pany had no connection with a very respectable company called " The Alliance British and Foreign Life Assurance Society," which was extremely respectable, and there wax no doubt the prisoner intended to trade upon their repu tation by having the name as similar as the law would allow him. An advertisement for two medical officers was inserted in the Lancet, to which Mr. Bartlett replied. He saw the prisoner Yelland, who stated that the company was registered, that it was in full swing and doing a large business, that they had agents all over the country, and that Messrs. Valiance and Vallance were the solicitors to the company. Their names gave a stand ing to the society it did not merit, and Mr. Bartlett gave his hundred pounds to it with perfect confidence, believing that the representations were true. But the real fact was that those eminent solicitors had never granted permission for their name to be used. The next charge was that of Mr. Winscom, who was appointed secretary to the company, at a salary of £5OO a year, and by the representations of Yelland was induced to part with £5O in cash, and three bills of £5O each, the first of which had been paid, and the other two had been passed into the hands of innocent holders to recover. Having secured a secretary, Yelland next advertised for a solicitor, who was to pay £lOO down, but that person being cautious, paid only £5O, and was to have paid the other £5O at a subsequent date. Yelland then advertised for a chief clerk, and got him to invest £5O in this company, under the pretence that it was registered, and doing a good business. He (Mr. Lewis) would be able to prove that there was at that time no company, that no company was regis tered, that the London and Westminster Bank which was represented to be their banker was not their banker, and never had been, and that in point of fact they had not one shilling to bank. There was an account opened there with £5O by Yelland in his own name, but that was soon drawn out. After these transactions had taken place the company was registered, and the articles of association contained a clause that within twenty-eight days after the allotment of the shares the prisoner, for parliamentary expenses, should be paid £3OO in cash and £6OO in fully paid-up £1 shares. The 103rd clause provided that " The company shall have a managing director, a secretary, a solicitor, and bankers. The first and pre sent managing director is Edwin Yelland, Esq., whose salary shall be £5OO per annum, commencing from the registration of the company, payable quarterly, with a commission of 2 per cent. per annum, payable at the same time and manner, on the gross income of the company." So that the prisoner was to receive as his share £l,OOO in cash, £6OO in paid-up shares, £5OO a year salary, and 2 per cent. on the gross income of the company for the part he had taken in g-ttirg ih company up. A summons had been issuel, but the accused sent a medical certificate, stating that he was unwell. Alderman Lusk did not believe this, and sent a warrant officer for him. Instead of beirg ill in bed as al egel, Yelland was sitting in an arm-chair, after an excellent repast. The learned counsel then prcceeded to call evidence in support of his statement, and after the testi mony of Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Henry Valiance Lad been taken, Mr. Lewis applied for a remand. Alderman Finnis remanded the prisoner, and agreed to take bail—two sureties in £560 each, and himself in £l,OOO. Bail not being forthcoming when the van left, he was removed to Newgate. LAW AND POLICE. k THE GREAT SPIRITUALIST CASE.—Vice•Chancellor Gif fard has had the case of Lyon v. Home before him. In the present instance the application was on behalf of the defendant to vary a certificate which had Leen prepared in chambers, finding sums nmDunting in the aggregate to £964 Gs. 9d. to be due from him on account of sums received by way of dividends and othcr.i. Mr. Home claimed to have 'this amount diminished by the sum of £173 ls. 10d., representing the sums which had been paid by Mrs. Lyon by way of brokerage, on the various occasions of the sales and transfers of stock which had been effected by her in pursuance of the bountiful intentions which she at one time entertained for the defendant ; and also the sums which had been paid by Mrs. Lyon to Mr. Wilkinson by way of costs for the pre paration of Mrs. Lyon's will in favour of Mr. Home. Mr. Druce, Q.C., for Mrs. Lyon, asked whether the defendant would Le willing to pay the balance, consisting of £791 4s. 11d. into court within six weeks, in which case the discussion of the questions involved might be deferred until Michaelmas term. This course having been assented to, the Vice• Chancellor made an order for the payment try the defendant of the balance within the time men tioned, and directed the rest of the summons to stand over. ME SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1868. THE CO.,IIING ELECTIONS. Whether it be true, as the Times suggests, or not, that Mr. Disraeli makes a raid on the Constitution because it suits his political con venience, or that Mr. Gladstone " immolates the Church Establishment because in no other way can he get the wind of a daring and un scrupulous antagonist," our course is clear in the coming elections. We have nothing to do at present with the motives which impel Mr. Gladstone to attack, or Mr. Disraeli to defend the Irish Establishment. The motives which actuate these rival politicians may go far to entitle or to disentitle them to our confidence as future leaders of the country ; but in the present elections all Catholics have to look to is, that no candidate receive any vote or support from them who is not pledged to the disestablishment of the Irish Church. The issue is of the plainest and directest character. The minds of the Catholics of the United Kingdom, with the exception of a few mere political partizans, whose opinion is not worth a button, are made up that Protestant ascend ancy, symbolized and kept alive in the United Kingdom by the Irish Establishment, must be abolished root and branch. On this single issue the elections depend. It is a great ques tion, like Catholic Emancipation and the re establishment of the Hierarchy in England, in which every other question is involved, or by which for the moment, as being of lesser im port, is superseded. Consequently, Catholics will have nothing to do with the comparative merits of Whig or Tory candidates ; for the Tories are, unfortunately, committed to the support of Mr. Disraeli and Protestant ascend ancy. No choice is left to us, therefore, but to elect. those who are pledged to carry Mr. Gladstone's resolutions in the new Parliament. Still less can there now be any question of the policy of " levelling up," as Lord Mayo called it, for such a policy is under actual circum stances not only a compromise of the absolute liberation, which before all things Ireland stands in need of, from Protestant ascendancy, but it is also a delusion. For the instalment of the " levelling up " system, proposed by the Government in regard to the Catholic Univer sity in Dublin, was of a character so objection able in the eyes of the bishops as to necessitate an absolute rejection. The struggle for the complete emancipation of Ireland, and of Catholicism in the United Kingdom, from the Protestant ascendancy of bygone days, however prolonged, and how ever severe, cannot fail in the end to be suc cessful. Judging from the temper of the pre sent House of Commons and from the cha racter of the new constituencies, which, at all events, will be freer from the Protestant bigotry that still characterizes the less edu cated of the middle classes, we should say that the Establishment both in England and in Ireland, will have strenuous opponents in the Parliament of household suffrage. But, be that as it may, the duties of Catholics in the coming elections, it cannot be too often reiterated, are of a simple and practical character. One question has to be put and answered, and on that answer depends their vote. The election of every supporter of Mr. Gladstone and disestablishment is a Catholic success ; the return of a supporter of Mr. Disraeli and of the Irish Establishment is a Catholic loss. Don't let us have any mysti fications to blur the simple issue, or any voices speaking with uncertain sounds. Plain and direct speaking is the life and soul of elec tions. It will be our duty to chronicle the progress of these surpassingly important and interesting elections ; to record as each con stituency pronounces its verdict a triumph or a defeat ; to hail the victorious supporter of Mr. Gladstone as a friend ; to regard the triumphant Tory as an enemy. We cannot use clearer words to express our views on the coming elections and on the posi tion which Catholics ought to take up in this great crisis. But, after speaking out clearly on the great issues now at stake, we wish also distinctly to state that behind this great ques tion of Protestant ascendancy and spiritual in justice inflicted upon Ireland and upon Catho licism there is another question of the gravest importance, which will next claim a settlement at the hands of the new Parliament, and in the right settlement of which are involved the highest spiritual interests of the nation. This question is National Education. It is obvious that our Liberal allies in the overthrow of the Irish Establishment will be our most deter mined opponents in the question of education. They are the advocates of the secular system, we of the religious ; they are hand and glove with the impious Liberalism which all over the world seeks the overthrow of Christian edu cation, we hold, with the Catholic Church and religious Protestants in England, that the supporter of secular education is an enemy of God and of the human race. With such antago nistic principles, it is clear, in spite of a tem porary alliance, there can be no lasting amity. between Catholics and Liberalism.—Westmin ster Gazette. they were in pledge to Sir John Rylcy, foi• the reparation of the structure. After the papers had been read, the meeting proceeded on an excursion to the churches of East Horndon and Little Warley, and Little Warley Hall. East Horndon church, a very small structure, is the burial place of the ancient family of the Tyrells of Heron Hall, who resided there from the time of Edward 111. until the early part of the last century. The church is remarkable for the possession of three small chantry chapels, founded by the Tyrells. Two of them, thrown out laterally on the north and south sides of the nave, in the manner of small transepts, are notable for having a very small chamber over each for the lodging of the chantry priest ; the ascent to which was obtained in each instance from a staircase from the chapel beneath. The chambers are exceedingly small, and that in the north still retains the remains of a fire place. Other examples of priests' lodgings in churches may be seen at Luindon in the same county, where the chantry priest had a room at the west end of the church, and a chamber over it ; and at Rettendon there is a commo- , dious priest's chamber in the north side of the chancel, with a window or squint pierced obliquely through the wall, so as to command a view of the High Altar. Here the priest gained access to the chapel at the end of the aisle by a newel stair in the wall. A third chantry, with groined ceiling, opens into the chancel on the north side. Until very recently it contained the altar tomb of Anne Lady Tyrell, daughter of Sir William Manley. She died in the reign of Edward IV., though the chapel is of later erection. Her arms, impaled with those of her husband, are sculptured over the entrance ; and her effigy in brass, removed when the altar tomb was destroyed, has been affixed to the wall of the chapel. The descrip tion of this church by the Rev. E. L. Cutts was read by the secretary, who further illus trated the history of the chantries by extracts from the wills of members of the Tyrell providing for the celebration of Mortuary Masses and Obits, and one of them for the erection of a chantry. The monuments of the Tyrells were described by Mr. King, one of which, an elaborate incised slab of foreign exe cution, with effigy of Alice, Lady Tyrell, who died in 1422, he believed to be the finest ex ample of its kind in England. There is also a slab of later date (now concealed) covering the remains of the renowned cavalier, Sir John Tyrell, with an inscription thus briefly and quaintly recording his sufferings in the cause of Charles I.— Super eum : Semel decimatus, Bis incarcerates, Ter sequestrates, Tacet quoties spoliatus, Hic jacet inhumatus, Johannes Tyrell Eques Auratus. The meeting next visited Little Warley church, containing a costly marble monument with effigies, considered to be of Italian exe cution, commemorating another gallant cava lier, Sir Denner Strutt, I3art, who suffered and fought bravely for Charles 1., and. was engaged in the desperate defence of the town of Col chester against Fairfax. The hall, the remains of a large domestic edifice of the early' part of the sixteenth century, anciently the seat of the Tyrells of Warley, and afterwards of Sir D. Strutt, was next inspected. Twenty-six rooms of this fine mansion have been demo lished in comparatively recent times. O ne stack of chimneys remaining is exceedingly fine, and attracted great attention. On the return to Brentwood, a large party diverged from the route, and under the courteous con duct of Canon Last, visited the superb mortu ary chapel erected by Lord Petre in the park of Thorndon Hall. The elegance of the archi tecture, and the extreme richness of the deco ration of the interior, appeared to excite gene ral commendation, and those arclmologists who were thus diverted from their homeward course evidently did not regret the oppor tunity that had been afforded them of witness ing one of the glorious results of the modern Gothic revival, and turning aside for a brief space from the contemplation of the remains of hoar antiquity, mediaeval art, and ancient piety, to view an edifice founded in the same spirit and with the same intent as those chapels which had been erected at Horndon Church, and adorned with more than mediwval splendour. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) Before the Senate adjourned on the 27th July the mission to Vienna was filled up, Mr. Henry W. Watts, of Philadelphia, being appointed Mr. Motley's successor. Mr. Evarts has .been con firmed as Attorney-General, notwithstanding the bitter opposition of certain Radical interests by 29 votes to 5, and had assumed the duties of his office. John S. Watts has been confirmed as Chief Justice H of the Supreme Court, New Mexico; Governo r ubbard, Collector for Huntington, Connec ticut ; and General Selden Connor, Assessor of Internal Revenue, Third Maine district. The President has sent to the Senate the names of Anthony F. Campbell, as Postmaster, at Brooklyn, Ntw California; York ; Sherman a Day, as Surveyor-General, a J. Bowers to be Chief New Justice of the Supreme Court, of Idaho ; also a dThomas William M. Stafford and Hiram Knowles to be Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Mon tana Territory, and Henry Warren, Chief Justice. Senators Poole and Abbott, from North Carolina, have been admitted to seats in the Senate the one is a native of Vermont, and a Republican, and the other, who is a Democrat, is a native of the State. Messrs. Kellogg and Harris, Senators from Louisi ana, have also been admitted —the former for the long term, the latter for the short. Kellogg is a native of Illinois, and the Collector for the port of New Orleans ; and Harris, though a planter of Louisiana, is a native of Wisconsin. The negro Lieut.-Governor of Louisiana made a very sensible speech on taking the Chair. He said—" As to myself and my people, we are not seeking social equalities. That is a thing no law can govern. We all have our preferences ; we all wish to select our associates, and no legislation can select them for us. We ask nothing of the kind. We simply ask to be allowed an equal chance in the race of life, an equal opportunity of supporting our families, of educating our children, and of becoming worthy citizens of this Government." The Republicans of Missiasippi,led by their " carpet baggers," as the term now is, are striving to get Congress to change the result of the election. Fif teen, many of whom were Northern and Western men, headed by Mr. Eggleston, the defeated candidate for Governor, appeared on the 15th of July before the Reconstruction Committee, to exclude, if pos sible, the votes of six counties, in the hope that the Radical State officers and Congressmen would then be elected, and the new Constitution carried. They allege that the rebels succeeded in these counties by terrifying the negroes, and that the voting was, therefore, unfair, and they ask that the State b. declared reconstructed, and entitled to readmission to Congress. _ _ . Secretary Seward has been successful in carrying his Alaska Treaty through Congress. After the Act making the appropriation has been signed by the President, it will be delivered, with the necessary warrant, to the representatives of Russia, when the money will be paid down in hard cash. Congress will then organize a territorial Government, officers will be appointed, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office will establish local land offices and survey the most desirable tracts. A strong tide of emigration will, it is thought, set in, as Mr. Seward has managed to circulate accounts of im mense gold discoveries, the prospectors picking up the precious metet.l in lamps! One thing is certain that the representatives of Russia have managed to pick out of Uncle Sam's pocket a very heavy " lump," and we dare say Mr. Seward will agree with us in preferring to have his hand there than in an Alaska gold mine. Congress has passed a bill providing that no Southern State not reconstructed in accordance with the terms of Congress shall be entitled to take part in the Presidential election, and the State Go vernments are to manage the elections in the recon structed States. In compliance with the resolution of the Senate, the President has sent a communica tion from Secretary Seward showing that official notice had been received of the ratification of the 14th Article of Amendment by the Legislatures of the following States, and as the language is pecu liar, we give it in the Secretary's words : " Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Kansas, Missouri, In diana, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Wis consin, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Michigan, Ne vada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Maine, and lowa. Besides these acts of ratifica tion, notices and certificates have also been re ceived by the Secretary of State that the same pro posed ainendalent has been ratified by the Legisla tures of the States respectivelyof Arkansas, Florida, and North Carolina, which notices and certificates last mentioned were received from the newly con structed and established authorities assuming to be and acting as the Legislatures and Governors of the said States of Arkansas, Florida, and North Carolina. These acts of ratification are for this reason stated in this report separately and distinctly, and, for the more accurate information of Congress, a copy of all the acts and resolutions of ratification of all said Legislatures is herewith subjoined, toge ther with a copy also of certain resolutions of the Legislatures of Ohio and New Jersey, which pur port to rescind the resolutions of ratification of said amendment, which had previously been adopted by the Legislatures of those two States re spectively, and to withdraw their consent to the same." An extradition case has lately been tried at Buffalo under the following circumstances. A man named Baker was accused by the authorities of the Dominion of passing counterfeit money, and on their requisition was arrested at Buffalo. The pri soner's counsel sued out a writ of Habeas Corpus, an I the question was argued before Judge Hall. The prin cipal witness against Baker was a person who had been convicted of a felony, and the chief point turned on the reception of such evidence. Regard ing this the judge stated that the statutes of New York allow of the Governor or Legislature of the State pardoning a convict, and thus restoring his competency, which they could not do in the case of a foreign conviction. He ruled that a foreign con viction under the States' statutes does not render a witness inc3mpetent, as the law on this subject re ferred only to convictions under the laws of the State, and the same result would be reached if the case were governed by the rules of evidenle pre vious to these statutes, as a foreign conviction in the year 1789 would not render such a person in competent to give evidence. The judge decided that Baker be handed over to the Canadian autho rities. A vigorous effort has been made to organize a third party, and to get up an independent nomina tion for Chase, coupling him either with Charles Francis Adams or General Hancock ; and it is thought that a call will be made for a National or r.e op 1 e's Convention to submit to them another platform and ticket. Indeed a third party movement has already been defeated of 0. 11. Ostrander and 48 Conservative Republicans of Danville, Pennsylvania, who chose Senator Doolittle ; and signed a requisi tion to have his name placed at the head of the ticket. They expressed their disappointment at the names offered by the Democrats ; they consider the selection will fail to inflict on the Radical Republi cans a merited defeat, which would have been in sured had Doolittle been nominated. The Senator, in reply, emphatically.condemns the organization of a third party, desiring to unite the various elements hostile to Radicalism and in support of Seymour, considering that a paramount duty, to which he gives his whole heart and energy. He enumerates the charges against the Radicals, and though he does not say that the Democratic nominations are the best, he thinks it best to leave well alone and fight the battle with the means open. In conclusion, he says—" Let us unite for victory ; let us have peace—a peace which comes not from a violated constitution and the despotism of the sword, but the peace which comes from a restored Union and the supremacy of constitutional law, by which alone liberty is secured." The State which appears now to be most rapidly progressing is California. San Francisco is almost the only place from which cone cheery reports of business. For the last half year the value of the merchandise exported was $9,750,000, and of coin and bullion over $20,000,000. Thirty-two thousand passengers arrived in the city, two-thirds of whom remained. The accounts from the Mining States are of so extraordinary a character that they will yet be realized in Europe by a total derangement of the standard of value. If the statements coming from Alaska have any truth, the gold fields on the Tagen river are the richest ever discovered, and they are so far believed in as to have led to a rush. Gold must be found in heaps to keep its relative value to silver, considering the deluge of the latter metal Nevada is about to pour over the world. An oppo sition rush South has been got up by new and rich diggings being found on the Raton mountains, whither crowds are flocking. Mr. Chase is disgusted, and is reported to have said that if he votes at all it will be for Grant and Colfax. Some malicious practical jokes were played on him, the door-knob being tied during the night with strings of black and white crape. He refuses to be a party to any further nomination, asserting that on the ticket selected both parties must stand. If Logan and Butler, who defy and war against the party platform, are to remain party leaders, surely the Chief Justice, who has only tried to make Republicans of the Democrats, may be admitted back, soiled though his old party assert him to be. Andrew Johnson is believed vigorously to support the Seymour-Blair ticket, though Seward, Evarts, Schofield, and M'Culloch are known to be for Grant and Colfax. Welles and Browning go for the Democratic candidates, and Randall would, if he did not oppose repu diation. It must not be supposed that the sun of America concentrated all its rays on Broadway, New York, though they fell there with an effect so fatal as to strew that great thoroughfare with corpses. The cases of sunstroke on the 15th and 16th July amounted to nearly 200, of which half terminated fatally, and the entire number of deaths in the city from Sunday to Thursday was 742, equalling periods of epidemic. In Cincinnati there were 13 cases on the 15th ult., iu Newark, New Jersey, the same ; Montreal gives 10 ; Toronto, 8 ; Philadel phia, 16 ; St. Louis, 9 ; Chicago, 12 ; Richmond, 10—all fatal ; and these are but the few reported. The range of the thermometer was in Washington, 98 deg. to 106 deg. ; New York, 95 deg. to 104 deg. ; Philadelphia, 94 deg. to 98 deg. ; Pongle kelpsie, New York, 105 deg. to 114 deg. ; Albany, New 1 ork, 100 deg. to 104 deg. ; Cape May, New Jersey, 68 deg. to 75 deg.; Toronto, 97 deg. to 100 deg.; Montreal, 98 deg. to 105 deg. ; Cincinnati, 98 deg. to 100 deg. ; Chicago, 94 deg. to 97 deg. In 37 cities within a week there were 1,700 fatal cases, and 7,000 more or less affected by strokes of the sun. Bodies were laid out in the New York morgue of unknown persons, and in the ante rooms were many coffins containing the remains of the victims. On the 16th a refreshing change occurred, the mercury falling from 98 at noon to 76 at 10 p.m., in New York City. Mr. Seward having got the Alaska job off his hands has immediately set another ball a-rolling. IThe Dominican Government, " thanking God," like the Irish patriot, " that they have a country to sell," sent an agent to Washington, and he and Seward have drawn up a treaty by which, fur a stipulated sum (some say between one and two million dollars), the Bay of Samana is ceded to the United States. If Theodore's son had arrived at years of discretion he might hasten to Washington to do a stroke of business with Abyssinia, and Uncle Sam ought to advertise that the world may know what to do with cast-off territory. Generals Butler and Logan have been working on the bill, introduced on the 10th July, for the reduction of the army, so as to pay off the debt they consider due as volunteers to the regular army officers. The correspondent of the New York Times says...." When Butler got to a stopping place he . . bad reduced the entire staff of the army one-half, and had reduced the rank of the half that remained one grade. He loaded the bill with absurd amend ments until it seemed as if he was determined to kill it off, and thus deprive a Republican Congress of the credit arising from a practical and safe re duction of the army. The House was for the time being as plastic as clay in the hands of the potter. the Democrats voting with him uniformly. The motives of Butler's actions were aptly characterized when a Republican member asked a Democrat why they voted to sustain Butler so uniformly. Be cause he did his best to break up our party, and now he is doing his best to break up yours, and we want to help him,' was the reply." A report " On Lawlessness and Crime" gives a strange picture of Texas, to which State Sheridan applied the profane remark, that " if he owned both hell and Texas, he would rent Texas and live in the other place." The monthly average number of murders was believed formerly to be nine, but it has lately increased to fifty-four, not counting as saults with intent to kill, and other attempts. If this continues there soon will be a visible effect on a population of 700,000. Morally it is something appalling, and the more so that out of 900 murders one only had been Finished by law. A freed man was the guilty person, and he of course was hanged, while it was considered sufficient to acquit a genuine citizen that he had lost his arm in the Rebel service. At Millican, July 15, the negroes were attacked by the whites in an attempt to lynch a white man ; why, it is not stated, but may be guessed from the above report. Before the mili tary could restore order 50 negroes and several whites are reported to have been killed. It is asserted that a missing negro was supposed to have been murdered, and that the man turned up after the mischief his absence caused had been done. Two little facts, sufficiently curious to be noted here, come from America by this mail, showing as straws the drift of the tide. The English children's tragedy and screaming fare 3, " Punch and Judy,' has erected its platform in Brooklyn, to the intense delight of the little cousins in America. It is a marvel that no enterprising theatrical caterer has ever before carried the Punch and Judy parapher nalia across the Atlantic. In London it has given place to " Ethiopian serenaders" from America, who are constantly met in their fantastic attire, blocking up the streets. The other incident is the defeat of the Cricket Club of British officers in Canada by the Eleven selected from the best players in New York and Philadelphia. When the champion Eleven of England return to the United States, they may find it a more difficult task to beat twenty-two Ameri can cricketers. The match closed on the 16th July, the scores standing 164 to 184, with 20 wickets to spare. Another American Eleven will soon leave Philadelphia for Canada. Anthony Trollope has returned to England, as a reference to our " Arrival List" will show, having narrowly escaped a public dinner at Dehnonico's, which, considering the weather, would have made it doubtful whether another novel would ever have emanated from that fertile brain. He succeeded in arranging a postaltreaty with Mr. Randall, but what the benefits are the public will derive have not tran spired. Mr. Randall failed in getting the postage reduced to 10 cents the half ounce, and Mr. 'frol lope failed in selecting the steam lines to which the exclusive carriage of the mails was to be given. Each Government retains its independent action for the dispatch of mails ; but an arrangement has been agreed to by which letters may be sorted on board the ship. The mails are to be sent on fixed days by well-appointed steamers, and the payment for the transport is to be agreed on between the re spective Governments and the carriers. What people get from " strikes" has lately been well illustrated in Philadelphia and New York. The men employed by the gas companies left the Quaker City in darkness, which it finds anything but preferable to the light. Dips went up for the two nights, and the tallow chandlers had a good time. The newspaper offices, the hotels, and large buildings were dimly illuminated with " mutton fats ;" and lamps of every description were brought into requisition. The office alone of one journal, which possessed a patent gas-machine, was able to throw a brilliant light on the subject. But this, bad though it be, was trifling compared with what the ice-men did for New York. They knew that they would never have such an opportunity of making people wretched, and they all seemed to be struck simultaneously with the same idea ; so they knocked off work, and very little ice was to be procured in the city. We hope in the hour of their need the public will remember them. The coal-miners have got up a formidable strike in Pennsylvania, and in the Pottsville district they are acting coercively and unlawfully, stopping all trade, closing shops and factories, and parading with arms and banners about the country. The object is eight hours labour as a day's work and increased pay ment ; but the colliery owners are likely to have the best of it, if the question depends on mere endur ance, as at present, and for a few months they can afford to stop work. The affair of Captain Bridge, of the Chanticleer, has so far been settled that the Admiral ordered the blockade to be raised, and the commander to report in person at Panama. Juarez has directed the con duct of the Custom-house officers to be inquired into, who are to be punished if found guilty. Should the investigation show the captain was in fault, he must submit to the insult put upon him, and any vi'ient acts against Mexicans will be reta-; ]fated upon British subjects in Mexico. The money taken from the officers of the Chanticleer is for the present to be retained, and Mexican honour upheld at all hazards. Meanwhile all Mexico is in a blaze of revolution, which in placAs is taking an Imperialist turn. Masses had been said in the principal towns on the 19th of June for Maximilian, Miramon, and Mejia, and the churches were filled with people in mourning. An Imperialist movement at Niueva Leon had created some alarm. The state of the country, of course, precludes any possibility of commercial or indus trial activity, and trade was, in truth, stagnant. Mr. A. M. Coningsby is about to start from Washington on his tour to examine into the habits and condition of American working men. He is the agent of the London Society of Arts, and his report is to be communicated to the British working classes. He has been in communication with the Commissioners of the Land Office and of the Bureau of Statistics, as well as Messrs. Seward, Welles, and other members of the Cabinet. As the steamer was leaving the River Plate a rumour was circulated that the Brazilians had been defeated by Lopez, but, though quickly contra dieted, it has proved true. A telegram received on Thursday in London, by way of Lisbon, from Buenos Ayres, states that the Brazilian forces, six thousand strong, sent to make a reconnaisance of the Tehicuari, had been surprised by the Para guayans near the river Tabare and fearfully beaten. A great many prisoners, horses, and arms fell into the hands of the Paraguayans. General Caceres, of Corrientes, has prohibited the sale of horses and cattle to the Brazilians. llumaita is as strong as ever. Tehicuari is well fortified. The river is closed with chains. We hope that the war now draws rapidly to its close in the establishment of the complete independence of the brave little Republic of Paraguay, and the discomfiture of that great awkward bully, Brazil. Judgment was given on Wednesday in the case of the United States Government versus M. Armand. The judgment states that the contracts of 1863 contained uo stipulation leading to the supposition that the order for the vessels had been given by the Southern States ; that, consequently, it was useless to examine if the vessels were destined for ser vice in the China seas, or if the vessels had been constructed in violation of the French declaration of neutrality of 1861. The Court considered that the United States had not established the fact of the sums paid to M. Armand being their property, nor that such sums came out of the Treasury of the Southern States. The Court, therefore, condemns President Johnson to pay the expenses of the suit, and declared that documents abstracted by a dishonest servant could not serve as the basis of an action, and ordered their sup pression, and also the suppression of various pas sages in the bill of plaint. The Court especially r"" . declares to be unfounded that passage in which M. Armand is accused of having made use of his posi tion of Deputy to deceive the Minister of Marine. In the cross action brought by M. Armand the Court has granted him damages and interest. Mr. Butler could not look for immunity in pub' lishing his report on the Impeachment investigation. A revenue officer, Mr. James Craig, was accused of endea vouring to purchase the votes of Senat rs, and retorts in such appropriate language as this :—" Mr. Butler is a trai tor, first to the Democrats, next to the Republicans. Ile defended secession till he saw his way to opposing sece s sion ; he was a pilferer of jewelry, pianos, and plate ; be i 8 a great liar and a dirty dog, and a in:serablo parody ou b-i 5 species." Hon. William Pinckney Whyte, the new Sena tor from Maryland, called at the Executive Mansion on the 15th of July and paid his respects to the President. The lion. Rev,rdy Johnson was entertained at a banquet at Baltimore on July 15 by about 300 of the most prominent citizens, many differing in politics to the !Si nister. In response to his health he said :—" On the eve of my departure upon a mission to England, entrusted to me by our Government, where I may find questions of much delicacy and importance, affecting more or less the friendly relations between the two great nations, nothing could contribute more to encourage me than such a manifestation of your regard. Relative to these questions I have but this to say, that I entertain a con fident hope that they will be so disposed of as to remove whatever embarrassments they may have occasioned, an d secure to both Governments an enduring and honourable peace. Both nations, great in power and alike influenced by a Christian civilization, neither should look on the other with a jealous, hostile rivalry, or fail to see that the interests of both greatly depend upon the prosperity of each. Speaking the same language, inheritors of the same common renown, possessing to a great degree the same political principles—derived from a common ances try, essential to the security of property, liberty, and life —sharing equally in the admiration of their poets, their orators, their statesmen, and their philosophers, endowe d with the same love of rational enterprise, they must see that Providence designs them to be friends, not enemies, and to this end that it is the duty of each not to do, or to suffer to be done, without full redress, wrongs to the other." Mr. Thornton was present, and spoke in a very complimentary manner of the minister selected to the court from which he is accredited. The Albion reproduces the poem that appeared in the Times, signed " C. K.," welcoming Longfellow to Eng land, as by Charles Kingsley. This is a more guess, for the " U. K." is not Charles Kingsley, but a literary man and a barrister, who took some trouble to make the peet' 4 welcome as warm as possible. Center College, Danville, Kentucky, of which Rev. Dr. Breckinridge is president, recently conferred the degree of D.D. upon Rev. Henry Neill of Pittsfield, and A mherst has now given him the same honour. Dr. Neil l was a graduate of Amherst, whore a son of his graduated in 1866, and another son completed his course at Danville last year. J. P. Williston, of Northampton, Western Massa' chusett, has given to the high school in that place $lOO to buy maps and books of reference. A good example to follow. An alumni association of Harvard Law School was formed at Cambridge, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Thursday evening, July 16, and elected as president Ii R. Curtis; as vice-presidents Charles Bradley of Rhod a Island ; William M. Evarts, of Nevr York ; ex-Governor M'Grath, of South Carolina ; George Hoadly, of Ohio; and Ogden Hoffman, of California ; secretaries, John Lath rop, of Boston, and C. C. Reed, of Cambridge; treasu rer ' J. Bowditch. William Ricker, of Kendall's Mills, who serv ed three years in the artillery during the war, while firing salute on the Fourth was severely injured by the Pre elfv. tare discharge of a cannon. A purse of $lOO was raise d ' towards which Governor Chamberlain sent his cheque for $5O. Jeremiah Kingman, of Barrington, New Italic' shire, has recently given $9,000 to Dartmouth College' which, in addition to $l,OOO previously given, is to en dow a scholarship for every county in the Stale, and / r„, proposes to give $l,OOO more for a scholarship for t ee town of Strafford. The rest of his persona l estate, s ons $lO,OOO, he has willed to the indigent fund of Phillips academy at Exeter. The Springfield Republican excites our curiositl by the following :—" Professor John B. Perry, formerlY , Swanton, Vermont, has made a geological diSCOVOII Georgia, which will place him in the front rank of sulell tific men. Particulars presently." Chief Justice Chase left Washington, JOY' 16, for New York, whence in a day or two he goes to Ohio, there to spend most of the summer. General Shanks goes South after Congress ad" ourns to prosecute his investigation as chairman of tbe Committee on cruelty to Union prisoners during the sys r ; Senor Romero returned to Mexico from the United States on the 16th July. It is not stated what success he met iu raising money for the bankrupt Treasury of Mexico' but ho was reported as about to marry a lady of Phila delphia, which he has not done. Speaker Colfax and family were to leave Chici cago next Monday for the Rocky Mountains, accompanle by Lieutenant Governor Bross, of the Chicag Tribune, and a few others, not exceeding ten. Public receptions are strictly forbidden. A Connecticut Democratic paper stated that General F. P. Blair is a graduate of Yale College, and the New haven Journal explains: General Blair graduat e " Yale quite prematurely. It took him less than a year :* k° " go through " college. tea Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, has apPe' n " Hamilton B. Staples of Milford District Attorney for the middle district, in place of Hartley Williams of Worcester' resigned; Darwin E. Ware of Marblehead, member of tilde Board of Boston Harbour Commissioners, and reaprolu te John Williams of Chelsea and Elias E. Davison of poste Pilot Commissioners. Mr. Julian, of Indiana, has written to the P„r e° l ! to defend the claims of the settlers in the Yo Semite v ° el ley. Ile considers that under the pre-emption laws thge have a valid title, and cannot even be bought out. praises then- tastes, culture, and character, but the an ti .. very properly replies that they may have heirs an d r signs without these virtues, and it would be no g re l ie hardship for a pioneer to be bought out for th e p ub benefit than for men in thickly settled portions of country. • ties The Democrats of Connecticut talk of nomi na Congressman W. H. Barnum for Governor, to succee -English, and James Gallagher of New Haven for Lietitr nant-Governor. • Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, ifeaci dilated ten seniors on Tbursday, July 16, and col ie t . ht the degree of D.D. on five Episcopal clergymen ; R al- Rev. Bishop A. C. Coxe, and Revs. E. Y. Buchanan , color Douglas, Charles Gillette, and S. T. Horton. . An American paper says that several Ainerle_a ladies, at Copenhagen, recently desired to be in trod ?7 o to the Qeeen of Denmark. The Queen at once sent °lva word to call upon her at Castle Christiansburg, when bar it suited thorn. The ladies, upon being admitted t o o re Majesty, were not a little astonished to see that she j a il a cheap dress, and that, on rising to receive them, shoot on her working table a cotton stocking which she been knitting. or" Mr. Goldwin Smith has accepted the Prof ship of English and Constitutional Historyin Cornell the versity, and Mr. James Law, of Belfast, has accePtoumicl Professorship of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery' T ye both will reside in Ithaca, the seatof the university.,.eet. New York Times writes a little " chaff " on the 8 11 '1 o re "Even now," it says, "Mr. Smith knows so ouch ""vie about American affairs than any A mer i can does th at dare not look forward to the astounding discoveries, ° w ith ourselves and our history that we shall be favoured 6,00 when he adds personal observation to his present na p es' of information." Mr. Cornell, who founded the un'reli sity, employs the large fortune he made by tel l companies in the education of his countrymen. lie l a a nd establishing a school for classics, the exact scie nce ' various branches of agriculture. [ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Pills are decd- scto S, best remedy for all disorders of the stomach an d b° „ifecti the liver and kidneys. They act with so decided it° t 1 and yet so gently, that people of the roost delicate c Th ey tutions may take them with the utmost confidence . being comopsed exclusively of rare balsams do not cu to ce. a single grain of mercury or other noxious su b % A s They are, therefore, equally safe and efficacious ; d cite family medicine, nothing yet discovered or invente„is st be compared with them. With these inestimable P"oell hand, together with the printed directions affixed n eede d t i feede ci box, no other medical advice or assistance call w" in any ordinary case of sickness. Births. ;f a of° . KIMBER—On the 30th July, at Folkestone, the Vr•-- Kimber, Esq., of a daughter. f •$. POTTER—On the 30th July, at Rydo, the wife '2 Potter, Esq., of Cheltenham, of a son. Dull, the WlLsoN—On the 30th July, at Kirk Ella, near "-- wife of Arthur Wilson, Esq., of a son. Marriages. rot PY li —WOOD —On the 30th July, at Taunton , Samuel ff. IP Esq., Royal Artillery, the youngest son of the lat e or of Pym, EtFq., to Caroline Augusta, youngest Gen, ral bir Wm. Wood, K.G.B. - and 1i.11., a 3 1° wood, Taunton. I_lA efo ra : TitoMAS—LEWIS—On the 30th July, at Cusop , .-- - c - r o f 1 , 1 fordshire, John Edwin Thomas, Esq , F•G' ° ,,:i v - cbi lc , l . Park-street, Westminster, to Elizabeth . Aunt, e"f a ' ( OK' of the late Thomas Lewis, f Nan'Y'g -- 5 sq., o House, near Hay. daughttots, BELL— On the 29th July, at Elm Villa, Deaths. „Don gingstou— Thames, Captain Wm. Bell, aged 75. Ph EL jr, at an il LIOTSON—On the 29th Jul advan ced ag e, AL F R ~ . .S. JONES—On Elliotsou, tho 2 D 9th July, S pence r Evan, only son C if ' .-"ntl MACGIIAM—On the29th July, at 11 , Leo-park, DlaC S• u ' Jones, Esq., aged 40. ~,o,tbf Thomas 1 J. augham, Esq., aged 81. ,----- London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A 14 9,, 1.1% of No. 12, Stand, Priter, at Tart Sus 01 09, " dti of Strand, 1 in the Precinct of the SO voy, in 1111 0 11 " Iliddlesex.—Saturday, August 1, 1868. ESSEX ARCILEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society, founded sixteen years ago, was held on Tuesday last at Brentwood, under the presidency of Sir Thos. B. Western, Bart., M.P. There was a large gathering of members and their friends, includ ing ladies. Among those present were Andrew Johnson, R. Baker-Wingfield, W. M'Andrew, G. E. Adams (Herald's College), C. F. Hay ward, F. Wallen, F. Chancellor, G. E. Prit chett, P. Milbourn, W. W. King, H. W. King (Hon. Sec.), J. Piggot, jun., A. H. Brown, Esqrs., &c., &c. The Very Rev. Canon Last (IngatestoneHall), Very Rev. Canon Kyne (Brentwood) ' Revds. J. Bra m st on , B. L o d ge , J. H. Pollexfen, W. Gibbens, W. Tiddeman, P. Cornthwaite, &c., &c. A very interesting historical paper was read by Colonel Chester, on " Essex Families and Nomenclature in New England," showing the g reat and paramount influence which the county of Essex had exercised in the founda tion and early settlement of that colony ; that the Essex settlers had more to do with mould ing both the social and political character of the colony than any other, and that so pre dominant were the Essex men in the early days of the colony, that the names of Essex towns and villages were given to the - very earliest settlements established, are retained to the present day, and have been reduplicated to an extraordinarily large number in that part of the United States. This very able paper, evincing great research, was listened to with deep attention, and received with manifest tokens of approbation, was followed by one on the "Inventories of Church Goods at South weahl and Brentwood to Edward V 1.," by Mr. H. W. King. The inventories, taken by virtue of a Royal Commission in that year, are authentic records of the plate, vestments, and ornaments of the churches existing at the death of Henry VIII., and remaining till the latter part of the year 1552, when the great bulk that was left was seized by the State. During the five years preceding the date of the Commission, vast quantities of church goods had been sold by the parishioners, or secretly embezzled, and it was by no means uncommon for churches to be forcibly broken into and the plate carried off. Sir William Stafford had seized the bells of not less than four churches in parishes where he possessed estates. But under this Commission the Crown completed the work of plunder, and the churches were despoiled of their goods from one end of the kingdom to the other. The inventories, read by Mr. King, attest the great splendour of the vestments and other appli ances of sacred use with which even churches in the rural districts were furnished. In South weald Church there were about twenty-four chasubles, copes, and tunicles—some of them sumptuously embroidered with gold,—as man,- altar cloths ; three chalices, and numerous articles in plate and copper. The chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, in Brentwood, possessed then but three chasubles and one cope, and tOlnu , ';'(`Aly (J 1 1; orj . . ~' Ball o , St anl , alb 01 ii Prize the ASol Ob riateE 11 ADN , hold able Porn /Adll Ei Tr ai Am tras , th© i first Mi; and the sonq Mr. ] and Prot Ilitc EDI' ten 3 11 in u ,,, a Th fry tl solo Oita' Or Li t h ood °lna EL.)I: P] all d, for 0 Hu ll tion s tra m in; 1 R W !Nee us. 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