The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Before the two Houses adjourn for the Easter recess the subject of national education will, the Times remarks, have been fully brought before them. The Duke of Marl borough has given notice that on Monday next he will lay the Government bill before the Lords, and we have little doubt that he and his colleagues will have studied the shortcomings and failures of their predecessors sufficiently to prevent the introduction of any feeble and half-hearted measure. In the meantime a scheme, competitive with, though not hostile to, the forthcmiaing Government scheme has been submitted to the House of Commons by Mr. Bruce. By this bill it is proposed to enact that an order for bringing the Act into force in any district may be made by the Committee of Council. An application for such an order may be made by not less than one tenth of the persons who are or would be electors of the district, and then the Committee of Council, "if they have reason to believe that, by reason of the deficiency in any district or place of the means of obtain ing elementary education, such an order would be expe -lient, may appoint a commissioner in manner directed by this Act with respect to applications for an order of the vJommittee of Council." This commissioner shall examine and make a report on the subject, and the report shall be published. Should it prove that a school is really required, then the district shall be allowed three months to adopt the Act ; should the inhabitants not avail themselves of this term of grace, it shall be lawful for the Committee of Council to make an order that the Act shall be in force in the district in question, and at the expiration of one month from the date of such order, the Act shall have the force of law in the district just as if it had been voluntarily adopted. Such is the leading principle of this measure, and it is, we think, one which, though, perhaps, a necessary evil, the country must at last make up its mind to adopt. It need not neces sarily involve any overthrow or supersession of the exist ing system, which would be nothing less than a national misfortune. If worked prudently and moderately by the Privy Council, it might be made effective in carrying the benefits of education to the more neglected regions of the country ; and to some such provision we must come at last, *f ever there is to be a general system of public instruction in England. We trust the forthcoming Government bill will not fall short in this respect, for though we may be unwilling to adopt compulsory education in the sense .)f driving in the children to school from the highways and hedges, yet we may fairly demand that the school itself shall be provided, and, if necessary, by compulsion. There is, of course, a conscience clause, to the effect that no scholar shall be required when attending the school to learn any catechism or religious formulary to which the parent in writing objects, nor to be present at any lesson, instruction, or observance to which such objection has been made. This principle also the Times hopes to see main tained in the Government bill. With these two features )f the measure its approbation must cease. The bill of Mr. Bruce appears to us in other respects too elaborate, too meddling, too despotic—in a word, too official. It breathes the atmosphere of the Committee of Council, which it would make supreme over all schools present and to come. The object of legislation should be, while pro viding for the establishment of new schools to assist and encourage those already existing, whatever their machinery. But the conditions and regulations imposed by this measure would, we think, tend to throw voluntary schools more and more on the rates, and to bring them one by one into strict dependence, first on the local school committees, and then on the central board. Thus, though we fully accept the main principle of Mr. Bruce's bill, we shall hope to see in the Government measure a more simple machinery which shall allow a more free and spontaneous working. The Daily News discusses Mr. John Abel Smith's bill for preventing the sale of liquors on Sundays. The bill of Mr. John Abel Smith does not appear to our contem porary well adapted to fulfil its end. It permits the sale on the Sunday of liquors to be carried away by the pur chasers—which is precisely the kind of trade which might have been forbidden with least inconvenience—and it alto -ether forbids the publican to supply the pedestrian with a glass of ale during his evening walk, except in London, and then only on condition that he takes a bond fide meal with it. This is beginning at the wrong end. That which the customer consumes at home on the Sunday he might possibly buy on the Saturday ; but the refreshment he re quires as he goes on his way he can only get by drinking it on the premises where it is for sale, and this it is pro posed to forbid. While pointing out this and other defects, we hope that at least, on account of its objects, this bill will. receive the earnest consideration of the House of Commons, when it may not be difficult so to modify its provisions as to make it a measure of public utilit'. The Telegraph calls attention to the notice given by Mr VT. E. Forster that on Friday he will call attention to the - ffect of the law regulating the allegiance of the Queen's 'subjects who have emigrated to foreign countries, and especially to the United States, and will ask Lord Stanley whether the moment is not opportune for attempting to arrive at a mutual understaniing between the Cabinets of St. James's and Washington respecting the right of expatriation. The question is one of considerable interest. 'Prussia has already agreed to allow a summary process of denaiionalisation, by which German, subjects shall promptly become American citizens, w allegiance transferred to the Republic ; cousins would have England follow the e:cample set at Berlin. Negotiations, we believe, are actually in progress, and it is understood that no political difficulties of any kind stand in the way of a broad and equitable settlement, the difficulties being all of a purely legal and technical kind. And it is obvious that the questions which have to be considered do not bear solely upon the two countries specially contracting, .but they have a bearing also on the relations of the empire with all foreign nations. Hence the subject is one that peculiarly demands an ample allowance of time for its effective treatment. But Mr. Forster is rendering valuable service in securing for it a full share of that public attention which is the best guarantee for administrative efficiency. and our Should the telegraphic system of the kingdom pass into the hands of the Government, the Standard points out that the consequent unity of management would effect an enormous saving as compared with the present disjointed. duplicate, and half-employed agencies. There is also the important fact that the State possesses a machinery which may readily be adapted to the purposes of the new under taking. In all respects there would be an economy of resources. Telegraphy would be much cheaper and more general ; it would be ready when wanted, and where it was wanted. The habit of using it and relying upon it would be developed, and its revenue would be enhanced accordingly. It is already pretty evident to the Herald that the pro posed law on the right of publlc meeting, the discussion of which has just been commenced by the French Legis lature, will have much the same history and fate as its immediate predecessor, the new Press Bill, now finally voted, after all but endless debates, by the Corps L6gis latif. It is but natural that such should be its destiny. Like the Press Bill, it, too, had. its origin in the famous letter of the 10th January of last year; and, like it again, it is designed by the Emperor to extend those political liberties of which, according to the general view of the matter, he has for so many years been obliged, as a dis creet ruler, to be somewhat chary. There is, therefore, nothing wonderful in its meeting with a like mixed recep tion from those for avhose benefit it is intended. One party exclaims that it is far too liberal ; another party avers that it is dangerous because it is not liberal at all : whilst a third contends that, though it is a moderate, it is an amply sufficient concession to the exigencies and capa cities of the nation for whose use it is designed ; that if it, be in some respects a, slightly perilous measure, the fault lies in the sanguine generosity of the brain that conceive( it ; and if in others it be a slightly cautious and restricts( one, to the invincible prudence of the same patient min( must the defect, if defect it be, be equally assigned. I our contemporary is compelled to choose among then( three contending opinions, it will have no difficulty is declaring for the third. The present famine in Russia, the Post declares to be the immediate consequence of the emancipation of the. ser fs. This is rather an awkward admission, but it is nevertheless strictly and literally true. About twenty millions of agricultural labourers have been suddenly freed from compulsory toil, and by far the greater majority have refused to work at all. Many have emigrated from . the rural districts to cities where wages are high and tin ployments easy and numerous. 'They have become porters, night watchmen, droshky drivers, and eagerly embraced any occupation which freed them from their old hard work behind the plough. Some, a very few, have remained in the rural districts, and vegetated on their. acquired lands. The first necessaries of life have been always plentiful hitherto in Russia. The wants of the peasantry ar „ indeed very few and cheaply satisfied. They fast about a third of the year, and many of them never taste meat from the cradle to the grave. A little mushroom and cabbage broth, , a little maize porridge, forms their ordinary noni went. Thus, no sooner did the law permit them to idle than no inducement could tempt them into nctivit3 A conference is to be held on the subject of the improvement of the condition of the agricultural labourer, at Willis's Rooms, on Saturday, the 2Sth inst., at which the questions for consideration will be : 1. What are the causes of the unsatisfactory condition of the agricultural labourer? 2. What are the means best calculated to im prove that condition? 3. If by the formation of a society, then, upon what plan should such society be constituted, and what steps taken to form it? Among along list of noble. men and members Of ParliaMent who are to speak we find 2the name of ",.George Potter, Esq." DISMISSALS IN THE POLICE. An extraordinary story is told in a weekly journal called ..ne Police Service Advertiser. This paper appears to hold the same sort of position among the police as a class organ which is held by the Army and Nary Gazette among military and naval men, or the Civil Service Gazette among that portion of the servants of the Crown whom it especially represents. An inspector of the Surrey county force, named Miller, who was stationed at Reigate, was, it seems, in the habit of taking the paper, and, to save postage, he allowed five copies, which were taken by the men under his command, to be sent to him within the same cover. A month ago (so the inspector states) he was summoned to the office of his chief and accused of circu lating a seditious paper calculated to cause dissatisfaction among his men. Two constables were in readiness to sup port the charge by their evidence, but the inspector at once pleaded guilty, not having any idea, as he says, that he had done wrong. He was then told that his offence justified his immediate dismissal, but that he might escape that ignominy by resigning and sending in his clothes at once. This he did, but subsequently pleaded for a recon sideration of his case on the not unreasonable ground that he had served in the force for twelve years and eight months without any complaint whatever having been made against him. His case was reconsidered, and he was told that he might be readmitted to the force, but on conditions which no officer having any notion of self respect could accept. At the age of 50, and after nearly thirteen years' good service, he was to be reduced from the rank of inspector to that of second-class constable, never to have the chance of promotion, to be sent to a distant part of the county, and, however long he might serve, to have no claim for superannuation allowance. He declined the offer, and was then told that if he would withdraw his application for readmission to the police force he should have a certificate as to his previous conduct. He assented, and when the docu ment came to hand it turned out that the column in which his character should have been stated was left blank. Throughout the whole of the proceedings not a word was said implying that Inspector Miller had com mitted any other offence than taking the obnoxious paper; and he had never been told, unless he has been guilty of a suppressio veri, that it was wrong to take it. The facts may, of course, be incorrectly stated, or the Police Service Advertiser may be so bad a paper that any officer's com mon sense should have forbidden him to patronise it. Upon these points we have no opinion. What is of real importance to note is that, supposing the case to be exactly as the aggrieved inspector puts it, he has no redress, and that is a matter in which the public are inte rested as well as policemen. By the Acts under which the rural police force is constituted the chief constables of counties have the power to dismiss any officer, however long he may have been in the force, upon the merest pre tence, and neither the comity magistrates, the Home Secretary, nor any one else is competent to review the decision. The case is made the worse by the fact that every constable has a certain sum deducted from his weekly wages, which goes towards the superannuation fund of the force. He may regularly contribute to the fund for any number of years, and if he has the misfortune to offend his chief he is liable to be sent about his business at a minute's notice, and all his money is forfeited. A private soldier is entitled to trial by court-martial before being drummed out in disgrace, and it is hard upon the police ; constable that he should be in a worse position. A numerous meeting of West Yorkshire miners has been held on Hunslet-moor, Leeds, to consider the reduction of wages which the masters have proposed to make. A reso lution was passed to support the lodges now on " strike," but the question as to whether there should be a turn-out in the Drighlington district was referred to a delegate meeting. That meeting immediately proceeded to business. and it was understood that the result would be an offer on the part of the men to accept a reduction of 5 per cent. The general return of all matters connected with the Bankruptcy Court for the year ending October 11 has been issued as a parliamentary paper. Within the twelve months 8,994 adjudications of bankruptcy were made. The number of discharges granted was 6,902, and in only 100 instances was a discharge refused. The total amount of gross produce realised from the several bankrupts' estates was £583,520. In 5,876 cases there was no dividend, while in 40 the estates paid 20s. in the pound. A Belfast paper states that Mr. Getty, the senior mem ber for Belfast, who has long been in declining health, has resigned his seat, and that a writ for the election of his successor will be issued at once. Sir James Emerson Tennent is expected to offer himself, and so also (should he come out of prison in the meantime) will Mr. Johnston, who is now in Down Gaol. Archbishop Manning has followed the example of Earl Russell, Mr. Mill, and Lord Dufferin, and has published a pamphlet embodying his views on the Irish question. It is in the fo,rm of a letter to Earl Grey. In Dr. Manning's view, the " intimate and vital bond which links Ire land to America " gives the present state of things a " graver, deeper, mightier, and more perma nent character than the rising of 1798 or 1303." His purpose, however, is to write of subjects which are still within parliamentary control, although the power of controlling th em becomes less an d less as they are continually being postponed. These are religious equality and an equitable land law. First, how ever, he must notice, in order to stigmatise it, what he must call a " public crime "—the cynical, sarcastic disdain with which certain English public writers habitually treat the Irish people in their discussions. This creates more bad blood between the two peoples than even graver wrongs. As might have been anticipated, the Archbishop advo cates the removal of the Irish State Church, and then he passes to the land question. He speaks of it as " that in comparison with which all others are light." It is the question of the people and of the poor, of social peace or agrarian war, of life or death to millions. He lays it down as being essential that the case of Ireland shall be taken and treated as it is, in and for itself, and not be pre judiced by constant reference to English customs. "I have talked freely," he continues, "for many years with men of most countries in Europe. I have found everywhere a profound sympathy with Ireland, in no way flattering to England. Our insularity keeps these things from our ears, and we therefore soothe ourselves with the notion of our own superiority to other men. But such an abuse of the rights of property is without parallel, at least in this century, on the continent of Europe. Our self-respect should lead us to give up the illusion that our office in the civilised world is to teach the nations how to live.' We may learn of Prussia, France, Switzerland, and Tuscany, even of Canada and Prince Edward's Island, all of which are in advance of England in the solution of what is called the `land question' in Ireland." THE BISHOP or HEREFORD.—The Right Rev. Dr. Hampden is too ill to attend to his episcopal duties, and it is announced that the Bishop of Worcester will hold a course of confirmations for him during the next month. THE NOTTINGHAM LACE TRADE. —The lace trade at Nottingham is now in a condition of activity unexam pled within the last eight years. Every available machine is in motion, but hands are scarce. Young girls who have been only a few months at the business receive, it is said, in many cases as much as 20s. a week. THE QUEEN'S BooK.—Messrs. Smith and Elder, the publishers of " Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands," have issued a cheap edition of that popular work. The Queen's subjects who cannot afford the higher-priced volume will have the satisfaction of knowing that in the smaller edition they get all that her Majesty wrote, printed on excellent paper and in hand- some type. - - MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. —An accident of a most extraordinary kind lately occurred on the Midland Rail way, near Trent Station. In a compartment of the train from Nottingham to Leicester, at 8.45, was a Mrs. Selby, and heuson, two years of age. The little boy was leaning on the door, which had not been locked, and, while the train was going at a rap id rate, the door flew open, and the child fell out on to the line. The terrified mother could not make either engine-driver or guard hear, an d the train did not stop until it got to Trent Station. A special engine was then despatched to the scene of the occurrence, where the little boy was found sitting on a bank. He was conveyed to the Nottingham General Hos. pital, and, beyond the shock occasioned by the fall, no injury was discovered. FIERCE ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN. — Three men have been taken before the magistrates at Wolverhamp ton, charged with intending to murder'a policeman of that borough named Lomasney. The accused are named Richard Stephens, James Pitt, and John Nixon, all of whom lead a kind of nomadic life alternating between the making of besoms and poaching. Late on Saturday night they assailed the officer with cries of " You're a Fenian 1" Later in the evening they at tacked him with stones, one of which weighed upwards of two pounds and was tied in a handkerchief as a sling. The officer was found lying insensible, sur rounded with a large quantity of blood, which had flowed chiefly from a severe wound on the temple, and by his side the large stone and handkerchief described. The weapon seems to have been hurled against the poor man's head with so much force as to break the stone in two. There was blood upon the handkerchief and the stone. The surgeon to the police said that Lomaaney was lying in a very dangerous state, and that the symptoms were becoming more dangerous rapidly. In addition to the i 9, 9.1.1t4a11trkWM.140.5.111. INTERNATIONAL COINAGE. - 7 - 'GREAT MATCH. Under this title the Boston Daily Advertizer, of the 3d inst., gives the following : It has been whispered during the past month that a twelve-mile walking match would come off during Mr. Dickens's present visit to Boston, between an English friend of his and a well-known Bostonian. No one could tell precisely the day, and it was kept very quiet till last Saturday morning, when rumour got wind that some time during that day it would come off. The great novelist, it is well known, it a superb pedestrian, being good for thirty miles "on end" any day. He has frequently during his visit to America taken very long walks with his friend, Mr. J. T. Fields, and the two, we understand, accompanied several pedestrian feats together in England. There is no healthier exercise than walk ing, and it was resolved that a pedestrian twelve mile contest should be tried on the mill-dam road towards Newton, in which Mr. Dolby and Mr. Osgood should be the principals, and Mr. Dickens and Mr. Fields should be the umpires, the two latter gentlemen also to walk the whole twelve miles with their respective men. The articles, we understand, were drawn up by the great author and subscribed by all four of the gentlemen. Whoever had hap pened to be passing over the mill-dam on Saturday last about twelve o'clock would have met walking over the ground at a tremendous pace the four pedestrians, appropriately costumed for the exer cise and the blustering state of the weather. We have no particulars of the walk out and in, but we learn that the first six miles were ac complished in one hour and twenty-three minutes, and the return six miles were finished by Mr. Osgood in one hour and twenty-five minutes, he winning the match by exactly seven minutes. The distance walked over we should judge to exceed twelve miles, and it was pretty tall pedestrianism to accomplish the whole in two hours and forty-eight minutes. Both men, accompanied by the umpires, walked the whole distance. Mr. Dickens gave an elegant dinner at the Par ker House the same evening to signalise the occa sion, at which were present, we under stand, some of the leading literary men of our city and vicinity. Several ladies graced the festival. Walking is a manly and healthy exercise, and we hope this event will do good, and send more people over our beau tiful roads on their own legs. The competitors themselves write to the same journal the subjoined : A CARD.—To the Editor of the Transcript. —Within the past few days our names have been brought somewhat conspicuously before the public, in connection with what is termed a "great pedestrian contest." On the principle that whatever is worth chronicling at all is worth chroni cling correctly, and as all the printed accounts of the " event" in question either exceed or fall short of the truth, we take the liberty of stating the actual facts in tho case. The walking match between the two subscribers to this letter had its origin in a bit of pleasantry several weeks ago in the city of Philadelphia. From day to day since it has been the theme of much good-natured "bounce be tween us, and has been looked forward to with no little interest and amusement by us both. We have not, how ever, had the advantage of training for the walk, but have pursued our usual avocations with our accustomed regularity. The match itself occurred on Saturday last, Feb. 29, at noon. "The men" (to speak in sporting phrase) were started from a point on the Milldam road about half a mile this side the toll-house, the starters and umpires being Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr James T. Fields. The course was over the Milldam road to the village of New Centre, the dis tance beingsix and one-half miles out, and six and one-half half miles bask. The time in which the walk was actually accomplished was 2 hours 48 minutes, and the inward time 1 hour 25 minutes. The match was won by Mr. Osgood, who came in precisely 7 minutes ahead. May we be permitted to suggest to such of your readers as may have aspirations for becoming suddenly famous that they cannot find a surer or a harder road to glory than the road to Newton Centre, with the snow a foot deep, as was on Saturday.—We are, your obedient servants, JAMES R. OSGOOD, GEORGE DOLBY. Boston, March 3, 1868. (From the Anglo-Americxm Times.) We give the following summary of the interesting Report of Samuel B. Ruggles, delegate from the United States to the Paris Exhibition, dated Paris, November 7, 1867, which touches on the various details of the plan upon, which the unification of money is proposed to be carried out. The chief points are five in numb er. 1. A single standard, exclusively of gold. 2. Coins of equal weight and diameter. 3. Of equal quality (or titre), nine-tenths fine. 4. The weight of Ole present five-franc gold piece, 1,612.70 milligrams, to be the unit, with its multiples. (The weight .of the present gold dollars of the United States is :1,671.50 milligrams. The value of the excess over the five-franc gold piece, 58.60 milligrams, slightly exceeds three and a half cents. To encourage the reduction of the United States half-eagle and of the British sovereign to the value and weight of 25 Ecancs, the conference una nimously recommended the issue of a new coin cf that weight and value by France and the other gold coining nations. The ;reduction in value of the half-eagle would slightly exceed 17i cents. ; in the sovereign four cents.) 5. The coins of each nation to continue to bear the names and emblems; preferred by each, but to be legal tenders, public and private, in all. • The conference invited the different nations to answer by the 15th February. The aggregate po pulation interested, in Europe and America, a little exceeds 320,000,000 ; the population of the depen dencies of these nations is estimated at 190,000,000. There was no delegate from Australia, which was the more striking, as news reached the conference that measures were in progress at Peking for strik ing coins of the weight and value of 20 francs, five francs, and one franc, bearing the head of the Ce lestial Emperor, assimilating the money of China to that of Europe. The money of Japan somewhat resembles that of France, particularly in a double standard, under which the ratio of silver to gold is fixed at 131 to 1. In ignorance that our value was 15 or 16 to 1, the Japanese had fixed the ratio at 4 to 1, which great exaggeration of silver they were induced to continue by a treaty in 1858, under which they were rapidly despoiled by European traders ; but this was partially corrected in 1860, when they raised the ratio to 131 to 1. Under the 91st section of the Act of Parliament, 29th March, 1867, the " Dominion" of Canada possesses the sovereign, and " exclusive legislative authority" to regulate its own " currency and coinage," but from the interest manifested by Mr. Bouchette and other Canadian officials, it is believed that the interna tional system will be readily agreed to in Canada. It is worthy of note that in Persia the standard of gold is .900 fine, the same as that of the United States, while that of Turkey is .915 fine. The principal gold piece of Persia is worth 22.27 francs, that of Turkey 22.48 francs. Mr. Ruggles suggests the desirability of inviting the Spanish and Portuguese independent American nations to join in the proposed plan of simplifying the coinage of the world. M. Esquirou de Parieu, Vice-President of the Council of State of France, declares, in one of his essays, that " a monetary union of Western Europe and the Transatlantic nations would possess an incontestable importance. Above all, it would produce a good moral effect ;" and he adds, "The Americans can never regard their dollar as a merely national coin, after having borrowed it from their neighbouring Spanish colo nists." Spain itself borrowed the dollar from Aus tria during their union under the common empire of Charles V. " Joachim's thaler," first coined in the silver mines of the Bohemian valley of St. Joachim or James, is the great ancestor of the American dollar. The various doubloons of the Central and South American nations, if measured in weight and value to 100 francs, would become at once equivalent to the double eagle, or twenty dol lars of the United States, or to four British sove reigns, when reduced as now proposed, and be cur rent without recoinage, brokerage, or other impedi ment throughout the world. This enlarged doubloon, divided in halve 3 and quarters, would supply the people of Spanish America with one convenient coin, equivalent to fifty francs, or an eagle of the United States, or two British sovereigns ; and another coin equivalent to 25 francs, or an United States half -eagle, or one British sove reign. Mexico has already a gold coin of 20 pesos, finely executed, and Peru a gold piece of 20 soles each, nearly equivalent to the gold in England, from of 1793 to 1851, dForuanbleee,eaagnlde.thTehue n to it t e a d l c s o t i a n t a es 7 was $984,000,000, being $180,000,000 by the United States, $480,000,000 by Great Britain, and $424,000,000 by France. The total for 15 years, from 1851 to 1866 was $2,108,000,000 of which $665,000,000 were by the United States, $355,000,000 by Great Britain, and $987,000,000 by France. The amount of gold in circulation in France, Belgium, and Italy is estimated at $7,000,000,000 of franc s, or $1,400,000,000. The rest of Europe would probably carry the total to $1,800,000,000. To suppose these nations would recoin such an amount, merely to adopt the existing coinage of the United States with only $300,000,000 outstanding, would be absurd. The coinage of silver at the British Mint for the 10 years, from 1857 to 1866, both inclusive, was only £3,677,182, or $18,385,910. In France during the reign of the present Emperor, in the 15 years from 1851 to 1866, the silver coined was only 215,561,101 francs, or $43,112,180. The silver coinage of France, Great Britain, and the United States, from 1851 to 1866, was only $117,000,000, against a gold coinage 108,000,000. Fortunately in the same period of $ 2 , for France, the surplus gold of the United States was at hand to be recoined and steadily fill the vacuum caused by the export of silver from that country, which is said to have amounted during the last 15 years to $750,000,000 to the East Indies alone. The present heterogeneous con dition of the coinage of Europe was caused by the downfall of the Rontan Empire. Augustus Cresar suppressed the private coinage of the leading Roman families, and checked the rude coinage of the barbarous tribes of Britain, and all money remained subject to the central authority till the final wreck of the Roman Empire. On this event every petty State, especially in Germany, exercised the sovereign right of coining money. Before the extinction of the Heptarchy similar powers were vested in the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, while France was annoyed for centuries with the varying coinages, not only of petty feudal sove reigns, but of ecclesiastics of high and low degree. The thirteen colonies which first occupied that por tion of the North American Continent called the United States adopted the " pound" as their unit of money. The twenty silver shillings which they coined, being reduced in weight, were not equal to the pound sterling of the parent country. In some places the pound was not worth in silver more than 3 dollars and 33 cents, measured in the presen' money of the United States ; in others worth only two dollars and 50 cents ; but the a tachment of the people to old habits induced them to retain the subdivisions of shillings, pence, and farthings. Several of the colonies coined silver money, with small subdivisions in copper, till the restoration of Charles 11. to the throne of England. He issued an order, about 1660, strictly prohibiting any further coinage by the colonies, as an usurpa tion of sovereign power. These coinages conse quently ceased, or greatly diminished, till the out break of the American Revolution in 1775, after which various coins were issued by the several " States" claiming to be sovereign, until the final adoption of the dollar as the coin of the United States. The money pound of England is of French origin. Charlemagne, in the year 800, sought to unify the money of the Empire. With that view he ordai. that the French livre, or pound weight of silver, should constitute the monetary pound of money. This livre, carried into England by William the Conqueror, was imposed by him on the English people. The "Tower pound," actually containing a pound weight of siver, bears date of the Conquest, 1066. The money pound, however, has steadily dwindled in weight, till now the 20s. into which it is divided actually contains less than one-quar ter of a pound of pure silver, On the recognition THE SUN, LONDW. WEDNESDAY EVEN:ENG, MARCH 18, 1868. by El ngland in 1783 of the political independence of the L united States their then existing political or ganize ttion " The Continental Congress of the Confe-leration" thought proper to cast off the mone tary yoke of pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings. On the 6th of Juiy, 1785, this Continental Con gress passed the memorable monetary ordinance, reported by the " grand committee of thirteen, of which Rufus Ring was a member." Not only did it omit in any way to recognise the pound, but it distinctly brought in and established the dollar as the pertr.mnent unit of the United States. lts pre- else weight was fired by a subsequent ordinance passed Avgust 8, 1786, which further provided the issue of a gold coin of 10 dollars to bear the im- press of the eagle, which imperial emblem was se- [ected in 1782 in view of the national sovereignty then clearly discerned in the future. The ordinance also expressly provided that the dollar should be decimally divided. This monetary reform preceded by at least six years the establishment of the " metric system" of France, with the consequent decimalization of its coin in 1792, under which the ancient " livre" of Charlemagne, dwarfed and shrunk in its career through the vicissitudes of ten centuries, disappeared from the world. The Go vernment of the United States has constantly re commended the adoption of the metric system. By an Act of Congress passed on the report of Mr. Masson in the Representatives, and supported by Mr. Sumner in the Senate, its use has been actually Legalized through the American Union. But it will re . _ main on record that the first step for decimalizing the money of the world was taken by the Republic when just emerging from its cradle. A further and more comprehensive measure was adopted in 1789, in substituting for a loose political confederation, a nation, with a Government having common sove- reignty over the States and the peoples then united, with the exclusive power to establish a uniform coinage for the whole. The monetary clause in the Na tional Constitution is condensed in these words— "No State shall coin money"—thus firmly estab lishing the monetary sovereignty of the Continental Republic from ocean to ocean. Napoleon declared that what Europe most needed was " a common law, a common measure, and a common money ;" and this is true for all nations. John Quincy Adams in 1821 submitted to the Congress of the United States his celebrated report pointing out the advan- tages of a common measure and a common money "to overspread the globe from the equator to the poles." He said that this could only be accom plished "by a general convention of nations, to which the world shall be parties, and in which the energies of opinion must precede those of legisla tion." At an International Statistical Congress, held at Berlin, September, 1863, composed of re presentatives from Governments, a report was pre sented by a committee of delegates from 14 nations mainly prepared by Mr. Samuel Brown and Profes sor Leone Levi, of. London, which recommended the decimalization of the pound sterling, but proposed to retain the pound itself a 9 the monetary unit ; and further that "in respect to silver coins, the dollar reduced in value to 5 francs, the florin made equal in value to two and one-half francs, and the franc itself should also be retained as unites ; and that all of them should be decimally divided. Many Eng lish merchants and bankers, especially the late Sir William Brown, of Liverpool, have for several years advocated the decimalization of the pound sterling. When this report was presented at Berlin Mr. Ruggles objected to the adoption of the four units, chiefly on the ground that it would tend to preserve the double standard of gold and silver, and prolong the vain attempt to fix by legislative enact ment the values of two metals, in their nature mut able, and governed only by the law of demand and supply. In the course of the discussion Dr. Farr, Registrar-General of the United Kingdom, sug gested that the gold dollar of the United States should be made equal to one-fifth the British sove reign ; to which it was answered, on behalf of the United States, that both the British sovereign and the United States half-eagle of five dollars should be reduced to the value of 25 francs, and thus unify at once the gold coinage of the three nations. The Congress adjourned without deciding the question, on account of the difference of opinion on this point between the delegates of Great Britain and those of the United States of other nations. Chief Justice Chase, when Secretary of the Treasury, proposed, in his annual report to Congress, 1862, to unify the coinage of the English races by reduc ing the value of the half-eagle of the United States to that of the Britsh sovereign, which would have required a reduction of 13i cents in the half eagle. On the 23d of December, 1865, the Govern ments of France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy made the quadripartite monetary treaty ; and after earnest discussion, a denomination or unit equivalent to and equiponderant with the ex isting gold 5-franc coin of France was adopted by 13 yeas voting in its favour, and 2 (Great Britain and Sweden) in favour of a unit of 10 francs. The publication at Paris of the letter of the Hon. John Sherman, Senator from Ohio, materially advanced the interests of monetary unification. In it he said :—" As the gold five-franc piece is now in use by over sixty millions of people of several different nationalities, and is of convenient form and size, it may well be adopted by other nations as the com mon standard of value, leaving to each nation to ,egulate the divisions of this unit in silver coin or tokens. If this is done, France will surely abandon the impossible effort of making two standards of value. Gold coins will answer all the purposes of European commerce. A common gold standard will regulate silver coinage. In England many persons of influence and different Chambers are earnestly in favour of the proposed change in the coinage. The change is so slight with them that an enlightened self-interest will soon in duce them to make it ; especially if we make the greater change in our coinage. We can easily adjust the reduction with the public creditors in the payment or conversion of their securities, while private creditors might be autho rised to recover upon the old standard." No prac tical inconvenience was experienced from the Act of Congress of 1834, which reduced the weight of the gold dollar more than five per cent. The Con ference do not propose to abandon the use iu any way of the word " dollar," or " sovereign," or " thaler," or "florin," or " rouble," or in any way to substitute " franc" for them, but every nation will continue to use the names with the local emblems it may prefer. The proposed gold coin, with its reverse inscribed " Or Essai Monetaire," encircling "25 francs, 10 florins, 1867," has been already struck by order of the Government of France. A similar gold piece has been struck, in scribed on its reverse, "5 dollars, 25 francs, 1867," and a specimen was forwarded to the President, to thd Secretary of State, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and a fourth to Mr. Ruggles himself. The diameter of this international coin is c 4 millimetres, and a little more than the present half eagle of the United States and of the sovereign of Great Britain, while the medallion of the Em peror, in bold relief ou the face of the coin issued by France, distinguishes it at once from the ordinary " Napoleon" of 20 francs, which is only 24 milli metres in diameter. The counterpart, when issued by the United States, will doubtless bear the national monetary motto—" In God we trust." Mr. Ruggles concludes his report with these words :—" Should the present effort of the nations of the earth to unify their coin be crowned with success, this specimen medal, the first-born off spring of the International Monetary Conference, bearing its conjoint inscription of dollars and francs,' with its millesime' or date of iSEUC, will possess an enduring historic value, in recording the commencement of the new monetary era with the precious and indissoluble union of the coinage of the Eastern and the Western Continents." ed The clothes of Mrs. Kofti, an American lady, of the wealthy family of Thorndelle, of Boston, took fire from ether, which she was taking for asthma. This was on the 22d of February last. Her husband came into the room while her dress was burning, and put out the fire before she had suffered much injury ; but Mrs. Kofti became so frightened that an attack of apoplexy came on, and she died almost instantly. Mrs. Kofti married a German profes sor at Hamburgh les Bains fur her second husband. Sho was a very estimable woman, and her loss is greatly re gretted at Dresden among the American circle there. She is a sister of Madame Sartigues, wife of M. Sartigues, formerly Spanish Minister to WashiVon, AQUA7ICS. THE AMERICAN BOATING CHALLENGE. The committee of tho Oxford University Boat Club have received a letter from the committee of the Harvard Boat Club definitively abandoning the champion match, which was originally proposed by the rowing men of the Ameri can University. The American oarsmen say :—" We understand perfectly well your objections to engaging in a contest in which the systems are so different ; but we still think that you do not entirely understand on what grounds we aro unwilling to change our method of steering, and why we think that it would not place the competitors on an unfair footing. We have learned the art of steering by means of wires connecting the rudder with the bow oars man's feet. A coxswain would, therefore, be only a dead weight for us; and we see no justice in a crew being obliged to carry a dead weight in the form of a coxswain, more than it should be required to carry ballast to equa lise the difference in the weight of boats, which is often very considerable, or that coxswains should be of the same weight. A crew selects a coxswain of as light a weight as possible ; and it frequently happens that the difference in the weight of the coxswains of two con testing crews amounts to twenty pounds ; and crews rowing under such conditions are considered fairly matched. American crows merely follow out this prin ciple of selecting as light a coxswain as possible, and find it possible to dispense with one altogether. You have objected to having the race on a broad and per fectly straight course. We make this stipulation because, according to the best information we could procure, there are straight courses of three miles' length in'several parts of England, sufficiently sheltered for the lightest shell boats, and because we think a straight course furnishes an opportunity for a more fair and satisfactory race than a winding course, on which one crew necessarily has an ad vantage in regard to position and knowledge of the water. Not that it is at all impossible for a crew to be steered without a coxswain on such a course as the Putney course on the Thames, or the course on the Ouse, which you speak of in your last letter; for we row daily on the Charles River, which is narrow and winding, has a strong tide, and is obstructed wich bridges." DIPLOMATIC PENSIONERS.—The following is a list of diplomatic pensioners at this moment. The pen sions of those marked with an asterisk are in abeyance, the holders being in active service. The total amount is £28,000, of which £3,900 is in abeyance. In 1861. Mr. Hammond stated the total amount to be £23,500, of which £2,600 was dormant; so that there has been an increase of £5,500 for pensions in the last seven years:—£l,7oo : Sir H. L. Bulwer, Earl Cowiey, *Lord Napier, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, £1,300: Lord Dunferm line, *Lord Howard de Walden, Sir James Hudson, Sir J. IL Milbanke Huskisson, Sir Richard Pakenham, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Mr. Justice Sheil. £900: Right Hon. 11. U. Addington (with additional £6OO a year as ex-under secretary), Hon. Sir John Bligh, W. D. Christie, Hon. F. R. Forbes, Sir A. Malet, Hon. P. Campbell Scarlett, *Sir Charles Wyke, £7OO ; C. Bank head, P. Browne, A. S. Douglas, Percy Doyle, Hon. George Edgcumbe, Torrick Hamilton, Sir Thos. Waller, £3OO ; Hon. H. G. Howard. The pensions aro divided into four classes, according to the Act 2 and 3 William IV., c. 116—X1,700 for ambassadors, £1,300 for envoys extra ordinary and ministers plenipotentiary (confined by Fo reign-office practice to certain missions), £9OO for minis ters plenipotentiary (by Foreign-office practice for en voys extraordinary, &c., of certain other missions), £7OO for charges d'affaires and secretaries of embassy and le gation ; there is one solitary pension of smaller amount. The act under which diplomatic pensions are given is en titled, "An Act to provide for the salaries of certain high and judicial officers, and of payments heretofore made out of the Civil List revenues." The diplomatic pensions come under the last head, described in the body of the act as " the charge of the salaries and allowances of his Ma jesty's diplomatic servants employed at foreign Courts, and of the pensions which have been granted, or may hereafter bo granted, to persons having served his Majesty at foreign Courts." Two of the pensions in the foregoing list, those of Sir Charles Wyke and Mr. Christie, have been assigned for a period of 15 years' service, partly consular ; according to the Foreign office List, Sir C. Wyke's 15 years are helped out with ser vice from February 5, 1852, to October 21, 1854, as consul general, and Mr. Christie's as agent and consul general from May 25, 1818, to February 20,1851. Mr A ddington, who has a pension of £9OO a year for diplomatic service, has received an additional £6OO a year for 12 years' subsequent service as Under-Secretary of State in iho Foreip.;n.office. But there is an express provision in the Act 2 and 3 William IV., cap. 116, that every diplomatic pension shall be subject to "suspen sion or abatement in any case in which the person holding the same may be appointed to any office of profit ender the Crown." That is, if Mr. Addington, having a diplomatic pension of £9OO a year, were appointed• to an office of £6OO a year, so much of his pension would bo abated. It does not seem consistent or according to the spirit of the act that a second pension can be added to the diplomatic pen sion. Mr. Hammond stated before the Committee of 1861 that "it would have been very hard upon a man who had served in an office whore the labour and responsibility were much more severe than in the employment for which he received a pension that Ito should have retired without any addition bei , .g made to his pension." That is a natural sentiment foe an Under-Secretary. of State; but is the office of Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign-office more laborious and responsible than that of the chief of a distant mission like China, or Greece or Persia ?—Pall-Mall Gazette, was LAW AND POLICE. " ItEntEstanns " TO COUNSEL.—In the Admiralty Court, on Tuesday, an application was made to allow cer tain " refreshers " to the Solicitor-General which had been disallowed by the Registrar. As much as 80 guineas had been paid to counsel in two cases heard together, and the reason urged was that it was a mere " accident " that the same counsel appeared in both cases. The court rejected the application with costs. THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE AND TIIE HIGH SHERIFF.—In the course of a trial at the assizes at Lewes, the court adjourned, as usual, for refreshment ; but when the Lord Chief Justice returned to his seat on the bench he found neither the sheriff nor his officers in court, and only three jurymen in the box—the rest were still eating. His lord ship complained of the disrespect shown him, and sent for the missing members of the court. By and bye seven more jurymen crept in. In time the eleventh man male his appearance, and was at once fined forty shillings for unwarrantable delay, and his lordship ordered the absent under•sheriff, who was still enj.ying the unalloyed bliss of dining, to pay £2O. He had hardly done this before the twelfth juryman came in, to be fined £2 103. His lordship then sent to command the immediate attend ance, of the high sheriff, and by the time that worthy arrived th(>fincs had gone up considerably, and he was ordered to pay £5O. The high sheriff appeared much ast nished, and said he was very sorry, but he had been entertaining the grand jury. " I have nothing to do with the grand jury," said his lordship ; and the trial went on. DAMAGES FOR A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-At the Bodmin Assizes, on Monday, an action for damages was heard against the South Devon Railway Company. The plaintiff was Dorothy Alford, the daughter of a respect able farmer, and resided at Lifton. She was 26 years of age, was a fine and handsome woman, and was, at the time of the accident, engaged to be married to the station master at Plympton. On the morning of the 3rd of February, 1567, she was about to proceed from Lifton to Launceston, and she took a third-class ticket to go by the first train. Mr. Stephens, to whom she was engaged, was also in the train, but being connected with the com pany he had been requested to go into a carriage where was a break, to assist the guard in the management of the train. When the train was approaching within about a mile of the station it was driven as fast as possible ; they then disconnected the engine from the carriages ; still higher speed was pressed upon the engine until it came up to some points and went off on a parallel line ; then the points were turned back, an 1 the train by its own velocity ran into the station. After the engine was disconnected and had run off on the parallel line, the carriages dashed into the station against the buffers, and rebounded some thirteen or fourteen feet. The result was, that the plaintiff was thrown forwards and backwards, and was severely injured. Some persons, amongst whom was Mr. Stephens, went to the carriage in which she was, and they found her on the floor bleeding and cut about the face ; two of her teeth were knocked out, and she was suffering great pain. She was taken immediately to the surgery of Dr. West, who lived in Launceston, and he examined her and found her in a most fearful state. The surgeon ordered her to be taken to the hotel, and there she remained in bed three weeks, being unable to move the whole of that time. She stayed sixteen weeks in bed at the hotel, when, the Agricultural Society being about to hold a meeting there, it was thought that the excitement and noise might be prejudicial to her and she was removed into kdgings, .where she had re: mained in bed up to the present time. Her state had been most sad. It was discovered she had had a very serious shock to the system, and had injured the spine. That had produced paralysis of the bowels ; it had a ter rible effect on the bladder, and she now lay a perfect wreck. There was but the slightest hope of her perma nent recovery. A verdict was found for the plaintiff, with £9OO damages. CONVICTION FOR CRUELTY TO AN APPRENTICE.—A , _ West Bromwich, on Monday, Alfred Boden, grocer, of Pensnett, near Wolverhampton, was summoned at the instance of the West Bromwich Board of Guardians for cruelly beating his apprenti:.e, a boy about 14 years of age, named Benjamin Homer. In October last the boy was apprenticed by the guardians to the defendant to learn the grocery business. During the time he was in his employ his master beat him very frequently for scarcely any cause, and on the 10th ult. he thrashed him so severely with a horse's trace that the boy left him and re turned to the workhouse. He was there examined by the medical officer, and found to be severely bruised on the left shoulder-blade and on his left thigh. The evidence went to shew that the beating the boy had received was excessive. The magistrates fined the defendant £5, as compensation to the boy, and costs, making a total of £7. BUXTON V. THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. — An action has just been concluded at. the Stafford Assizes to recover damages for injuries suffered by the plaintiff in consequence of the alleged negligence of the defendants. The plaintiff was a bleacher at Fazely, and was 62 years old at the time of the accident complained of. On the 23rd of August he was coming from York Races to Wilnecote in the defendants' train. The accident which occurred was on the Midland Railway, between Mas borongh and Eckington, where, a bullock having strayed from a field on to the line through an alleged insufficiency of the fences, the train came into collision with it, and was thrown off the permanent way, and the plaintiff and many others were injured. The jury found for the plaintiff ; damages, £BOO. THE MURDER OF SERGEANT BRETT. Mr. Justice Lush has been occupied two days at the Manchester Assizes in trying William Pherson Thompson, 28, and Patrick Mullady, 24, for having, at Manchester, on the 18th of September last, feloniously, ,wilfully, and of malice aforethought, killed and murdered one Charles Brett. The facts of the attack on the police van, and the shooting of the policeman Brett, will be remembered. The prisoners were charged with complicity Vie affair. The Attorney-General for the County Palatine (Mr. Temple, Q.C.), Mr. Pickering, Q.C., Mr. Monk, Q.C., and Mr. Gully were for the prosecution ; Mr. Torr defended Thompson. Mullady asked for counsel to be assigned him, naming Mr. Ernest Jones, and at the request of the court that gentleman took the prisoner's brief. A large number of witnesses were examined, and several identified Thompson as the person who purchased re volvers. At the close of the case for the prosecution, The Judge asked if there was a warrant issued for the apprehension of Mullady, and Inspector Kirkland was recalled, and stated that a warrant was issued on the Bth February. William Graham, he believed, gave the information before that warrant was issued. Witness received charge of Mullady in London and brought him down. Yesterday was occupied by the counsel for the defence, who intimated that they would call witnesses to prove an alibi. The prisoners were, however, found guilty and sentenced to death. The Oxford Commemoration Will this year he held on the 17th of June. The Honourable R. Bourke has been definitively selected as the second Conservative candidate for Lynn at the general election. Mr. Samuel Carter, late solicitor to the London and North-Western Railway Company, is a candidate in the Liberal interest for the seat at Coventry declared v.i.l through bribery by Mr. Jackson's agents at the last election. THE FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART.—Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has been pleased to pro mise her patronage to the proposed fete about to be held in aid of the building fund of the above school. ACCIDENT TO MR. WHATMAN, M.P.—Mr. What man, M.P., met with an accident about ten days ago, by which one of his ribs was broken. The hon. gentleman i: now almost well again, and has been out. It has been intimated to Sir John Musgrove, president of St. Thomas's Hospital, that her Maje.:ity has been pleased to signify her intention to lay the first stone of the new building to be erected at Westminster Bridge. The ceremony is announced to take place in May next. Two royal commissions are now sitting in Dub in—that on the Irish Church and that on national educa tion. The former holds meetings also in London. Th.. primary education inquiry commences with the examina tion of a former officer of the national education system, who has of late years been an advocate of " denomina tionalism," and the investigation is likely to be protracted. Mr. George Francis Train, who seems to be suffering his incarceration with the patience of a martyr. has made known to his fellow-prisoners that he intends to deliver an address in his room for their especial benefit, and as anything that will relieve the tedium of their con• finement cannot but prove acceptable to them, he is certain to have as large an audience as the Marshalsea can afford: The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers are expected to arrive at their residence in Grosvenor•crescent in a day or two from a tour in Italy. The rumour that the noble earl has been suffering from illness is devoid of foundation. From Rome the earl accompanied his daughter to Naples, and, after witnessing the volcanic ebullition of Vesuvius, returned to Rome. After passing a few days at Florence, the noble earl and family proceeded to Nice to participate in the amenities of Engin society there, CONVOCATION RESUSCITATED. We doubt whether the restoration of Con vocation to life is a gain or a loss to the Church of England. Politically, no doubt, it is a great triumph ; because only thirty years ago any man who knew England would have pro nounced it as impossible as any one political event that could have been named ; for, what ever John Bull could or could not put up with, anything like independent action on the part of the Established Church seemed what he would least endure, and words are after all action when they are publicly delivered and reported. It then is a political triumph that the Established. Church has recovered its voice, but whether it is or is not a gain must depend on the use it makes of it. This consideration has been forced upon us in reading the terribly long report in the late number of the Guardian. There are some men and more women who have every reason to wish that they could have been as effectually silenced as the Established Church under the Georges. The first occasion on which Convocation spoke at all was when Parliament met after the election which im mediately succeeded the judgment in the Gor ham case. Many worthy men had mentioned that that judgment was merely the act of the State, by which the Church of England was in no degree committed. Some of them had even declared that if Convocation had been able to meet and had not protested, that would in their opinion have involved the Church of England. Unexpectedly it did obtain liberty to speak, and what it said was, that •it felt bound to refer especially to the most important events which had happened since its last (for mal) meeting, and that that was the setting at , nought of the Queen's ecclesiastical supremacy by the constitution of the Catholic hierarchy in England. Convocation, therefore, took occa sion by that event to make a strong declaration in favour of the Royal Supremacy. Now, it is to be remembered that it was by virtue of the Royal Supremacy that the Committee of Privy Council had decided, since the last meeting of Convocation, that the grace of baptism was an open question. To take that opportunity, therefore, to declare in favour of the Supre macy, without qualifying it by so much as an expression of regret at the manner in which it had been exerted, was to go as nearly as possible to a formal declaration that Convo cation approved what had been done in the Gorham judgment. What makes this the stronger is, that the declaration in question was not part of the formal address to the Crown, which used to be moved by the Archbishop, and adopted by Convocation, at the opening of every new Par liament, even du"ing the period of its suspen sion. It was an amendment to that address, moved by no less a person than the Bishop of Oxford. No one could doubt that he person ally would have w ;shed to obtain a protest against the Gorham judgment if he could. Ile did not attempt it, only because he felt it would be imprudent. This makes the silence of Con vocation still more expressive. We have often felt that those members of the Established Church who call themselves " Catholics" must have bitterly regretted that Convocation had not recovered its voice at least a Parliament later, considering this was the first use it made of it. This circumstance has been recalled to our mind, and we think to theirs also, by the re ports in the three last numbers of the Guar dian. The chief subjects discussed have been ritualism and the Natal Bishopric, and the best friends of the Established Church must greatly have wished that nothing had been said about them, so that they could only plead that the silence was involuntary.--Westminster Gazette. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &ustralla and New Zealand. via Southampton..... March 2 6 Ditto, via Marseilles ~...........March .2'. Ditto, via Panama ...... ........... ........ ...March .2). Brasil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video April 6. Ditto, by I'renoh packet llarell 22 Cape Verde. by Brazil packet ...... ......April O. Cape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. Helena.... March 2). China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. March 21. Ditto, via Marseilles ..... a • Faikland Islands . Gibraltar, via Southampton March 2'. India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles.... March 22, Malta, Egypt, &c. March 23 Ditto, Marseilles March -- Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton II arch 21. 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We (1,.11."Da few out of 68,000 cures :—The Pope's health restore d Y T ye Barry's Food.—Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 186 0 . D O health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, I, 1 0 cloning all other remedies, he has confined himself entire J o 0 Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he cons ,l 4 o o, plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprising l y cial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pra is‘? excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du idid fr otO 25. Cure No. 49,832.—" Of fifty years' indescribable agon dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flat un i ,lY , spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting." Maria:,,fo Wortham, Ling, near ass, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,12 1 . ,' - e rss. Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, P.i.jio of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings , lo w 0 ;A and nervous fancies. Important Caution. — Beware of the, tvo, unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whic h, authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attach In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s Od.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d,; 5 11 140, , ,". 121b5., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY DU BARRY and Co., Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Pie cP,I" and at 61, Graceeburch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, a 0 )rd-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and chcmists._..4 Oxfoi nintbt or unf hoods nay.— squat, PR all de for ou hum' Lions I transt Inr fl _ _ EPeedi ss. stamp all CI This hours, for 6( Chem curls l Sold n and t CA' u colour fectly 61,~s Moves Witho ; 6 pi: VJJGF sallow stamp, all Ch IT Raven remai t at aj li and al 13 -( bo fi , REAL 1Y at,] in thy. F Cur; from Amide WLyi Lori l'ous Our. gears c , The e anist f BA . R R also at srocor, SP Births. rA HENEAGE—On the 17th inst., at 18, Grosvenor - PP Lady Eleanox Heneage, of a son. O ld ARE—On the 17th inst., at 3 , Hyde - park - gat e, the of P. M. Hoare, Esq., of a daughter. IC° WHEAT—On the 16th inst., at 105, Camden-road, the of Godfrey C. Wheat, of a son. Marriages. 0 00 RAIXES —BATEMAN—On the 4th ult., in the Ronlati.J, ' Ho Chapel, afterwards in the Protestant Cburikrol Tellicherry, Charles Raikes, Major in the Roy'll',„," levy, to M try Frances, daughter of the late W. IP'. Esq., of Chetwynd House, county Cork. REILLY—MEE— n the 16th inst., at St. George g. • over-square, George Stiles, second son of E. Reillittle, of Penleigh, Westbury, Wilts, to Mary Faudel7 'Ger daughter of Charles Mee, Esq., of 8, Brook - str ee, venor-square, W. Deaths. ARCIIDOULD - Go the 15th inst., at Islip, near Tb . , 0, A Northamptonshire, Ralph Archbould, Esq., age' erre' EDDISON —On the 16th inst., at 65 , Inve rness -t Ilyde-parli, Wm. E. Eddison, Esq., aged 69. o f FOSTER—On the 15th inst., Wm. W. Foster, B " Douglas-road, Canonbury, aged 47 . ' 0 GRIFFIN—On the 16th inst., at Great Ilford, V• Esq., solicitor, aged 72. HONEY—On the 16th inst., at the Masonic Institute,, don, William Honey, aged 74. Woounow—On the 16th inst., at Portland port, Henry Woodrow. _ 1 .. London : Printed and Published by WILLIA Id „: 01 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan SUN Oade e ' rw o/v Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the middiesex...Weciaesday, ALarct 18, 1868, Louc] LIII , CENT On p.m. K T Prize the 01):1 Gi new went UICK Trans SIDS] Dane Bisl Miss Ful the G Mi; Thi in the at Ani and a the 13 S pe and Mond H~ C' ENG' BLO the a O'cloi JAG inclu Talk Fred Crys with Villa Stt Sp, on hi M Rec Right Ope Adi A' Thii havin, by 31, for th Solo ST vente HYGI ages. gestic comm healtl brace; street F' IIou: TT.;/- 11