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JAMES ACRISLL.

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what I have etatevi. not OM of whom has been with me
WS than two yeere.
Dartmoor-etrvot, Notting-hill, Sept. 8, 1808.
London, England, 1868-09-09

SANCTA BIMPLICITAS!

lw the current discussion about Dis.enting
Ministers and their diseourees (which is rather
diecurrive), there is a small plum which may
be worth picking out :—" A minister in tho
" Isle of Wight condemned, in solemn terms. the
" whole brood of fiction writers and readers.
" When he came to his peroration he said, What
" will you think of the time you have wasted in
" ' reading your finAKermeas when you arrive at
" ' that bourne from whence no traveller re-
" ' turns Y " It is pleasant, sometimes, to see
the engineer hoist with his own petard.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

IKE WTI RNATIONAL WORKING *KW* AWIGOIATION.
The Time, after referring to the charsoterial

of the report of the International Working If es's ANNO-
elation, observes that if they could carry out such a pro-
gramme se ix akotche.l in this report, they would simply
pl►ce themselves in the position of the classes and govern-
ment, they denounce ; they would be the embodiment of
the very selfishness, the very tyranny, they charge on
others. 77uy would simply have became the "ruling
clam," and rill their anathemas against ruling classes, No
far as there is soy truth in them, would apply to them-
selves.
London, England, 1868-09-09

TUN trova OP 1(143q.

The 1`..1 believes that one thing about the Leger of
17• US is quite wird and unprecodented, for on no former
occasion have the three leading favourites been quote.'
the day before they started at precisely the mine &lilt in
the betting: and this fact, dedicating the supposed open-
ness of the ruse• coupled with the scratching of The Earl,
adds an interest to it which perhaps the quality of the
homes engaged would not otherwise warrant.
r.ays the Trhyraph, the recent acratehing of The Fart
and the mysterious lenience, of King Alfred have deprived
the race for the Leger of the lustre derived from the corn-
petition of two fir, t-cla•s racehorse, in blooming coali-
tion, it eannut be dead, d that the event will long
me :notable as one of the noel open users sell:, ti Ile. lion-
ia-tsr Crum he. eri a witneireed.
London, England, 1868-09-09

OUR PARIS LETTER,

(viol Ora one oozszsroxprirr.)
PARE% Trrsoat Ernsrm.
_

Noce of the rumours which caused the panic at the
Boum• yesterday are confirmed, but yet the Bourse
has not recovered. " Unoertainty" is the per-
manent evil complained of. If the Emperor has
not yet made an alarming speech at Cha'ons,
people say he very likely may make one before he
heves on Thursday. It has been discovered that,
while the Prussian recruits have a respite of three
month, which was thought a pacific symptom.
the Saxony me:refits, under the t, demand
of the King of Prussia, are called out
three mouths and a half before the usual
time. Uneasiness is felt about the state
of Italy. The Censfifetionne/ is instrncted to say
there is no truth in the report circulated by a
foreign journal, that the Pope's Nuneio has pre-
sented a note to tho Marquis de Moustier, urging
the French government not to withdraw its troops
from the Papal States; but at the same time it
affirms most emphatically that France has not the
slightest intention of withdrau big them. This,
coupled with rumours that Italy, backed up by
Prussia, is pressing fir their withdrawal,
is one among many elements of want of
confidence. Letters from Germany continue
to express the utmost suspicion of the intentions
of Fiance, speak of war as inevitable. Even
the partial disarmament of Prussia is construed
by a feverish public as a baa symptom, for it is
said to be tho preliminary to a demand for ilis-
ainianient in France. which is curtain tee bee
nfured, ur.d tLiz a catastrophe mar b. pmoipi-
tatt 41.
London, England, 1868-09-09

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1868.

Ilal 1111 I y witririlyt-0•1. 1 8;4 nk ul lacit Irodar, 11-11
het I m eat •• • statisn, as the father of a family, and
the tea ter is tee .serioeil to allow pan to pen is toy wont.
moyibli g bust tie tracity.which I intend then maul v:-
)p~
Wo need not ntulliply quotations, whichsp•L
will not permit., to show our readers th'it the,
" I'olitiquo Itadiode," as explained • and (It:-
fendod by X. /Atha Simon, in not a policy of
anarchy or of dark and arbitrary power, but
really the policy of Nicht, and liberty, and pea-e,
and we recommend this little book as an able ex-
position of its intritti and its onus. Nothing that
concerns the liberal cause in any part of the
world should be alien to the liberal party in 'tug-
bud. " Solidarity of principles and of motives"
should be the motto of us all.
London, England, 1868-03-07

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The fietetrday Review, disclaiming the method of
dealing with Ireland, or,, the post mam of English had-
lords, both liberal and sonservades, bold that any change
in the land tenure of Ireland would be • source of grant
danger, serial and political; to Deland, sad therefore
time among them who desire se gratify the wishes of
the Irish at all esel only see one direction in which
practically this can be dens without doing any patent
and immediate berm to Zealand. They can demolish the
Irish church. This smiles el politicises is now roper
seated by Lord Rassell, and it certainly must be owned,
by the friends of Ike Netabilehment, that it aonstitntee •
eery peculiar some. of peril at present There ma be so
doubt that them is a kris and powerful section of
English 'elitists= who Me b to please the Melt, bat who
ma think el no ether way of pining them without defog
some son of bane to tbeenesives sad their friends, ex-
cept by made( • lime end immediate attack on the
obnroh.

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net Jet milted spa say plan d satiety it differs vary
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London, England, 1868-03-07

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

The special oom3spondent of the Times with the
Abyssinian expedition telegraphs, under date
Adabaga (1), February 22 :
" The head-quarters are here to-day with 1,000
men, about 50 miles from Antalo, and are likely to
remain for several days, awaiting the advance of
more troops, and supplies, which are delayed by the
deficiency of the Transport Corps.
"The British forces have occupied Antalo with
1,000 men.

" It is doubtful whether Kaaaai can leave Adowa
to meet Sir Robert Napier.
" The captives were in good health up to the
30th of January.
" King Theodore has not yet entered Magdala."

(The above despatch wee forwarded from Alex-
andria, March 4, 11 a.m., by the new route, rid
Norderney, Hanover.]

(izoin's min Am.)
NORTH SCHLESWIG.
HADERSLILBEN, ILutoi 7.

Herr Hjort Lorenzen, the editor of the /faders-
/co Avis, has been sentenced to two menthe im-
prisonment upon the charge of publishing articles
offensive to the crown. He has given notice of
appeal against the sentence.
London, England, 1868-03-07

THE FRENCH PRIESTHOOD AND THE

PAPAL ENCYCLICAL.

Ix the Tablet of to-day there is a full account of
• conference of French priests, presided over by
the Archbishop of Paws, at which was discussed
and determined how • confessor should deal with
anyone refusing to conform to the famous
Encyclical. The Encyclical and the Syllabus of
1864 were wholesale condemnations of what the
Pore styles modern heresies, and other men call
progress. For example, the liberty of the press
was designated • curse, and the intervention of
the State in religious concerns a crime. All good
catholic were called upon to renounce the
dangerous errors pointed out by the Poen
under the twofold penalty of excommunication
in this and damnation in the next world. Indeed,
the attempt was calculated, if not designed, to turn
back the current of modern thought, and to spread
over the Christian portion of Europe all the super-
istitious bigotry, intolerance, and ignorance which
characterised the middle ages, and to revive, with
all its attendant horrors, the supremacy of a
haughty priesthood. The question at issue was
how far good Catholics, and especially the en-
lightened Catholics of France, would lend them-
selves to so monstrous a project. This would
now appear to have been decided in
the affirmative. After • long discussion
the French clergy have decided that the Pore
must prevail, and that to those who oppose him
absolution must be denied. There were not want-
ing some clergymen who drew fine distinctions, in
order to escape the consequences of insisting upon
the acceptance by penitents of the extreme views
of the Head of the Church. But they were over-
ruled,and the Aecueisnor was able to congratulate
them on being able to go forth and strive iu concert,
in order to uphold the laws of the church. The
decisions are so important that we append them in
an unabridged form :
" lat. The Confessor has the right to require
" his penitent to submit to the decisions of the
" Church, even though they contradict his owu
" opinions.
" 2nd. Therefore, he has the right to require
" him to condemn the absolute and unlimited
" liberty of the press and of religion.
" 3rd. As to the general rule to follow in the
" repression of evil, it is certain that whenever he
" can repress it without grave inconvenience, he
" must repress it. The good of religion and the
" good of society make that his duty. The
" example to follow is that of Sr. Lowe against
" blasphemy, and the conduct of certain modern
" governments which forbid Sunday labour. If
" he cannot oppose evil without grave inconve-
" nience, let him tolerate it, but let him never
" favour it.

" 4th. As to the limits to be assigned in pnic-
" tics to this repression, and to this tolerance,
" that is a question which depends on a concourse
" of circumstances which do not belong to theo-
" logy ; and the confessor must loavo it to the
" choice of his penitent."
London, England, 1868-03-07

MR. DISRAELI'S LETTER.

Two of tho most distinguished chiefs of the
Liberal party have been repeatedly taunted by
their opponents for writing superfluous letters and
giving incomprehensible explanations. No one
has made more political capital out of these alleged
defects than the present PREMIER. He could do
this the more successfully, because he had care-
fully guarded himself against the retort of being
too ready to display candour and defend his
sincerity. Now, however, that he has risen to the
highest post in the State, he makes it evident that
after all he i s not exempt from what he had
denounced as contemptible weakness. The
letter which he has addressed to our morn-
ing contemporaries is, perhaps, the strangest
document ever penned by him. Professing
to give an accurate account of his words,
it leaves the readers in greater confusion
than before. What has Mr. Mansura really done
ou the subject of reform 1 He onys in his letter
that the Tory party " had been educated for seven
" yeses on the subject." This means that events
had influenced them, and that they had UllOOll-
- grown wiser. But, then, no credit is due
either to Mr. DISRAELI personally or to his
colleagues for this result. Indeed, if they had
any share in the process it was as strenuous
opposers to the change. Reform was always
denounced by them as alike dangerous and unne-
century. All attempts at reform on the part et
Liberals were vilified and defeated. The results

of the seven years' education buret out in an
hour. By one sentence in his letter Mr. Disarm
has laid himself open to the charge of
" finality," a charge against which another
statesman has had to struggle through many
years. He eays the first of his conditions was
" that the reassure should be complete." He
takes credit for the act of last session, on the
ground that it is a final settlement of the question.
Thus the contest lies between a party which accepts
that act as in some respects provisional, and a party
which will Island it as a complete measure. We
may add, as a curious fact unmentioned by Mr.
DISRAELI, that most of the changes necessitated,
according to him, by the education his party)
underwent, were dictated by their op-1
ponents. Mr. HONZISHAM COX, who has
just published a work entitled, " A History
of the Reform Bills of 1866 and 1867," supplies the
following in proof :—" Of the forty-three clauses of
London, England, 1868-12-19

A ROTHSCHILD'S WEALTH.

TIIE wealth left by tho late Baron JAMES DE
ROTUStIIILD is something fabulous. It over-
powers the imagination. No Sultan, or Calif,
or Emperor, real or fabled, approached him in the
extent of his opulence. The " wealth
"of Ormus or of Ind " pales before it.
The late Baron made the following dis-
position of his fortune : He left to his
wife BErrY 8,000,0001., the Château Ferrii!re,
whose art galleries are estimated at above
800,000/., and his house in the Rue Laffitte,
at Paris. To his second son, GUSTAVUS. ho gave
8,000,0001.; to histhird sou, Bumuxu, 8,000,0001. ;
and to his grandson, the son of the late SOLOMON
ROTHIKNIILD, 2,000,0001. This is pretty well in
itself, but it does not exhaust the vast heaps
left by the modern Camay's. The largest plum
has fallen to the lot of his eldest son ALPHONSULL
who comes in for a trifle of 20,000,0001. This
colossal fortune—and perhaps these legacies
do not exhaust the amount—reaches the
sum total of 44,800,0001. It may give some
idea of what this means to mention that
it would nearly pay the interest on the
national debt for two years, and is considerably
more than half the income of Great Britain. Verily
the deceased Barou must, like }lmes, have pos-
sessed the faculty of turning everything he touched
into gold.

THE PETITIONS AGAINST TEE LIBERAL MEw-
sus roe LONDOW.—Thep*tlosen against the return of
the three liberal menibers See the city of London having
fouled to deposit the media isairity, the petitiowi have
been dropped. It none elm that they were Igor*
lodged as a sore in ease • petition olkoold
be rent in p Dawn against the election
of Mr. Bell. The snt was seat in on the
21st day after the ratan et the welt; ea it was
Bey wourtahwil that the three
soliorp sure
wen not to be emoted, it wee open to the lihoni y
to lo_dge • petition on►
the as it
would be needful either to IZtist =oat
or to drop the petition, a fism petition was est liro!
Saturday, ahnost a 'any of the Let caw irbialt wig
to drop. No petition-having bees swat la by So=
the sesead_petillosi hoe mew been alloweli=
at
momtheir seats egraighwil and Lawmen to
London, England, 1868-12-19

POLICE COURTS.--aND3 DAY.)

CLERKENWELL.
ATTEXPTIM NOBBRRY.
y, aged 16, of Brick-lane, St. Luke's, was
• attempting to steal a till from inside the
• Arms public-house, Pickering-street, Islington,,
'is. the property of Joseph Maidment, licensed
• r :ay afternoon the wife of the complainant left
• :or a second or so, and at that time there was no
bar. On her return she found the prisoner
• hn a form and leaomg over the counter, endea-
hy pull out the till. She asked her what she was
• -he said that she was hungry, and was about
• halfpenny to buy some bread. She was then
custody, and at the station she made the same

:.rieoner now said that even if she had got the till
- -hould only have taken one halfpenny. She was
and said it was her first offence.
'Ake said be did not believe the prisoner's story,
obonced her to six weeks' imprisoruneut, with hard
• 4 to the House of Correction.

MAItYLEBONE.
1-Atiiin a looms or mummer's POUTIANTELD.
, Ltaul who refund his name and address was charged
e+iding • portmanteau belonging to Mr. Samuelson,
cheltenham.
, pater in the employ of the Great Western Hotel
the portmanteau on the departure
• the Great Western Railway. On his return
. it, and the prisoner was afterwards seen with it
40,uidier. _ . .

pri.w,a;; was remanded for a week for inquiries to

WA-VDSWORTII.
loi.icco !riming° AND RAILWAY reseveonna.
thwa+ Mawr, of Oxford-street, appeared to an-
I Ilnanon4 which had been taken Cut by Inspector
*.• t of, behalf of the South Western Railway Com-
' •m',king in a carriage contrary to the terms of
sr et of parliament.
fetplaot pleaded guilty to smoking.
" for Hewitt said the carriages had been labelled
• •••nir time past. There had been a great many coin-
-41 pe.s..eugers smoking in other carriages.
•••, bayiusu said there was no excuse as smoking cora-
-1 Tio.rits were provided. The defendant knew the regu-
and chow, to annoy a fellow for his own
: t .11,-44611. He fined him 20s. Ps. costs.
' " gatgmy was paid.

I:,vuAY MAu.—lfeasztuis, Ditc. 19.—The
, • amtdar end Oriental Company's steamer Nita arrived
h•
e. We morning. Th. Las leave ter Load= by the
tain.
London, England, 1868-12-19

THE LAST LUNACY CASE.

Tnfi latest lunacy ease has been decided in
favour of the defendants, and few people will be
disposed to quarrel with the verdict of the jury.
The evidence went to prove that Mr. Oar
laboured under temporary aberration at the time
he was shut up, the medical certificates were duly
signed, and there was nothing to show that ho
was kept in durance longer than bis state required.
Two of the Commissioners in Lunacy examined

him while in the asylum, and both were of opinion
that he was then of unsound mind. All this
is indisputable, and it is only in the
nature of s greet portion of the evidence
adduced in favour of Mr. Gm's insanity that
the reader will find ground for protest or alarm.
We confess that the tenor of some of the state-
ments made in the witness-box by sons and
daughters of the plaintiff are calculated to make
ill-tempered and crotchetty people nervous. Miss
RosErrA (WIT deposed that her father was some-
times violent and sometime, silly, that he had
struck her, and that she thinks he found fault with
her without a cause. He used bad language
and practised the sword exercise to frighten his
neighbours. He told the servants not to mind
what his (blank) son said. In cross-examination
it was elicited that the young lady had been
charged by her father with stopping out late, and
that she and other of his relatives opposed a mar-
riage upon which he bad set his heart. There is
surely nothing here upon which to convict a man
of lunacy, and much of the evidence was of the
same character, and seemed to us to unnecessarily
overlay the case. The plaintiff, Mr. GANT,
appears to have been an ill-tempered man,
prone to bad language and hard drinking. He
had delirium tremens, and after illtreating his
wife he married his housekeeper in opposition to
his children's wish. That he was a disagreeable
relative, an unpleasant neighbour, and an unkind
father, seems certain. But these are not things
for which a man can be legally cast into an
asylum, and it seems an error in judgment to
allow any portion of the case to rest or to
seem to rest upon so weak a foundation. The
defendants are shown by the verdict of the jury to
have had sufficient grounds for the course they
pursued ; but it cannot be too widely known that
neither drunkenness, ill-temper, nor an irregular
life, nor all three, constitute insanity, however re-
pugnant end injurious to those around.
London, England, 1868-12-26

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LONDON. SATURDAY. DEC. 20.

BOXING DAY.

" GIVE, give" is onoe more the cry of the hour.
In vain do we button our pockets and endeavour
to look hard and stern. The spell of the season is
upon us, and we can no more refrain from giving
than those over whom harlequin's wand is waved
Cila avoid obeying its tremulous motion. The
disturbers of our rest, the wheezy bassoons and
harsh ophoeleides who have made night hideous ;
the forgotten labourers who have once upon a
time during the year rendered us a service ; the
happy expectant boys and girls whom we love
and whom we think love us; the friends and
relatives with whom we have not yet quarrelled,
or with whom we wish to make it up ; the people
who have been kind to us, and to whom we wish
to be kind—are all eligible recipients on a day like
this. " Parting" is a sweet sorrow, when it
means a genial sacrifice to the spirit of the hour,
and grumble as we may, there is at the hearts of
most of us &secret Wang for the custom we condemn.
The Paris fashion of observirgtheJour der n, when
even the café waiters proffer gifts, and when cigars
and oranges, doecrated with parti-coloured rib-
bons, like newly enlisted recruits, are forced as
presents upon every customer—be his disburse-
ments what they may—is but feebly imitated here,
We give extensively, but it is to inferiors and
children. Reciprocity is little known among the
gift-takers.
but Boxing-day Las a jollity of its own apart
from the eleemosynary fun which its name
evokes. The streets never look so brisk
as on this anniversary. The troops of
children, servants, and people from the
country, who struggle four or five abreast upon
London, England, 1868-12-26

ART VERSES MONEYMAKINO.

Tnz poet, the painter, the sculptor, live as much
in an ideal world as in the world by which they
are surrounded. They see visions, and dream
dreams. They have restless aspirations and noble
aims. Their art is dear to them as life—dear as
wife and child—dearer far than any mere worldly
emolument. Such men, if they would remain
faithful to the mistress they have chosen,
are oftentimes subject to • severe trial ;
and in this age the temptation to swerve
from their vow is, perhaps, greater than at
any former period. Artists, bite other mortals,
are bound to pay their bills and to provide for their
families, but in simpler times they were satisfied
with subsistence, while in the present age they
possess the power of winning wealth. This, then,
is the danger which threatens them—s danger so
pleasing that most of us would readily incur it.
Yet it is a real peril, and one which the great poet
or painter is bound to look in the face.

*ben ll.u.rou wrote hie " Parodies Lost " he
was urged to the work solely by the admonitions
of his genius ; when a modern poet writes, the
thought of publisher and payment inevitably
arises and no wonder, for a suooessful poem
not only produces fame, but hard cash to
boot, and if we may believe reports there are poets
living to whom the slightest blossom of song pro-
duces golden fruitage. The worth of artiste upon
canvas is equally auriferous. Once let them gain
popularity, and they will inevitably gain fortunes,
but it is of course possible that this popularity
and wealth may be achieved with the lois of their
artistic integrity. Their genius has said "Do
this," the voice of the public has said " Do that,"
and need we wonder if after some struggle they have
left the narrow road of poverty and fame for
the pleasant paths of wee and independence
In literature, oleo, the same danger °mars, for
literature bas grown of recent years into a highly
lucrative profession. A novel, fur instance, is a
wok of art. and the popular novelist ia one of the
beet paid of pmftesional men ; but, as the gold
Rows into his coffers, and publishers make muni-
ccs et proposals, Le is encouraged to produce,
London, England, 1868-12-26

A meeting was held in the Town-hall, Oxford,
on Wednesday evening, to promote the closing of the
shops at 7 o'clock in the evenings of the winter and of the
long vacation. The Rev. Canon Payne Smith presided,
and advocated the object at length. The resolutions, after
being spoken to by several local gentlemen, and by
Mr. Walker, of the London Early Closing Association,
were adopted.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 24.—APPourrmirrn.—Navi-
gating Lieutenant James B. Haines, "in command," to
the Vindictive; Paymaster Henry Cooper, to the As-
gard ; Assistant Paymaster Alfred South, to the Re-
gard, as supem
The opening of new station at the Waterloo
junction will afford great facilities to railway travellers,
not only as between Mesing-cross and Cennon-street, bat
will also enable passengers on the South Western line from
Kew, Richmond, Kingston, and other stations to make
their way, without Ices of time, to the city. The station
will be opened for traffic on New Year's Day.—lisilway
New.
AN lINLIICIT FAMILY.—On Tuesday an inquest
was hold at Sheffield on the body of a child, three years of
age, the ma of Henry Blunt. At the oreamenosenent of the
present month, one of Blunt's children wee melded to
death, and on Saturday last another was so reverellI
burnt, that he died co the following day. Tbe deoesasd
and his brother Francis were left in charge of the house,
and as the fernier was lighting a stick, his clothing as
ridentally aught fire. The SKI* fellow ran out of the
Douse enveloped in flames, which the neighbours were
successful, after a while, in putting out, bat the unfor-
tunate creature was fatally injured. Verdict, "Accidental
death."
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THE REWARD OF LITERATURE.

STARTING from a recent announcement about
the price paid to M. Vwroa 111:00 by his pub-
lishers, a morning contemporary has been dis-
owning, or rather uilating upon, the rewards of
literature in the present day. The observations
of our contemporary are of the usual character,
and, as is customary in such writing, quite without
the necessary qualifications. MILTON only received
51. for " Paradise Lost," but see what a novelist
receives now : and so forth, closing with these
words :—" The author of the present day, it may
" be said to his disparagement, keeps a shop;
" but if he keeps his shop well, it will keep him.
"In the end, his best patrons, the public,
" will extend to him precisely so much patronage
" and support as the excellence of his merchandise
" and the rectitude of his conduct may warrant."
It is astonishing to note what a conjuror that
" end " is ; we are fur ever being told that " in the
" end " all sorts of things happen which it is
notorious do Net happen. Virtue and merit, for ex-
ample, always succeed " in the end." Taking large
tracts of time and human life, this is true ; but
applied to individual cases, it is false. If it wore
true, this life would not be, in any sense, a state
of trial. It may, and no doubt does, seem to
struggling virtue and struggling merit that a little
less uncertainty would be agreeable, and answer
all the purpose. But neither virtue nor merit can
find comfort in fibs about what always comas to
pass "in the end." To say that the modern pro-
ducer in literature always finds in " the end "
that " his best patrons, the public, will extend to
" him precisely so [as I much patronage and sup-
" port as the excellence of his merchandise and
" the rectitude of his conduct may warrant," is,
on the face of it, untrue. If we are permitted to
include the drama, it is false even to audacity.
Nor is it any secret that thoroughly worth-
less books have managed, and do manage, under
our very oyes, to float into large and remunera-
tive circulation. It would be a thankless tusk to
quote instances ; but assuredly a task only too
easy.

There are two conditions of a paying succesi in
literature, when the patron is, as should be and
actually is the case, the public; uitolioerity, or
else commanding talent or genius, producing what
has immediate, as well as perhaps universal and
permanent adaptations. but nobody can affirm
that when either of these conditions exists a pay-
ing gimbals is certain ; and all the clever criticism
that can be got up in rotation to the doubtful or
wholly smothered cases merely amounts to saying
that where there is failure there is some cause for
London, England, 1868-10-14

rArrox OF OXFORD

While admitting that Sir Roundel! Palmer might
efficiently represent one side of the mental and moral
of Orford, the Herald still insists that he
would altogether fail to be a truthful exponent of
views which he would be sent to Parliament expresily
to advocate. lie has gained the highest honours
which the University can bestow, but be espouses
opinions far different from those which are her time-
honoured heirloom. Ile has scholarship, academical
position, and accomplishments, but he has not that poli-
tical faith which is an indispensable desideratum. Con-
!wrestlee he may be in the matter of the Irish church, but
he is nevertheless a pledged liberal upon other points, and
therefore be is an inadequate representative of an essen-
tially conservative constituency.
The Star hopes that the stain thrown upon the reputa-
tion of the university by the result of the last general
election will be in part wiped out by the return of Sir
Bounden Palmer. If, however, the election of the future
Liberal Lord Chancellor for the great Tory university
were in any degree to be taken as a distinct pledge of his
adhesion to the party of reaction, the Star would be sorry
to see even Mr. Mowbray defeated. But our oontem-
ponu7 does not believe that Sir R. Palmer, if elected, will
be elected as a renegade from the liberal faith. The dif-
ference between Mr. Gladstone and the right bon. gentle-
man is, after all, only one of detail, not one of principle,
and one which may yet be adjusted. This difference
will not be widened by Sir It. Palmer's election for Ox-
ford, but will rather be bridged over by the brilliancy of
an almost unhoped conversion.
London, England, 1868-10-14

NMM"BIINSTE.R.

A powerful fellow, of very forbidding appearatlee, who
gave the name of Joel o.sforil, was charged under the fol-
lowing unusual circumstances:
rolice-ecestable Ross 201 i V. n detective offieer, tend he
was in Thurloe-square, Drompton, and saw the defendant.
He was following and begging of them with pens
in his hand. Witness heard the ladies complain. and
going up to him told him be should take him into custody.
Defendant used the most filthy language, and declared
that if he touched him he would gouge his eyes out with
the steel pens he had in his hand. Witness Allowed him
his authority, and told him it was no good talking noel-
mouse, he must go with him. Defendant then flew upon
him, and jobbed the steel pens in his face and wounded
him above the eye. Witness felt the blood runninic down
his face, and called upon a labourer who was pasaing to
amid him, which he immediately did.
Inspector M'Hugo—l have the pens here, wane of which
are broken, and marked with blood.
Defendant—l never begged at all. How was Ito know
he was an officer

Complainsnt-- I showed you my staff.
Defendant—l was knocked about very much in the
station.

Inspector M'Hugo—lt in not true, your sr orihip ; I
was present.
Mr. Arnold—Defendant, you have committed a melt
violent and dangerous assault. You are committed for
three months.
London, England, 1868-10-14

INTELLIGENCE.

- OXFORD, or r. 13.
Nrir CottikL.—The election to the opon 'ato-
ll:ships at New;College, which commenced on Tuesday,
the CM inst., terminated to-dup in favour of Wilford
Becker, from Manchester School ; George Blundell Lang-
staff, from Rugby ; and Arthur Knatchbull Connell, from
Marlborough. There were '2O candidates.
The stholarships arc of the annual value of Um'. and
are tenable for five years. The scholars elected are
eligible to the " Winchester " as well as to the "Open"
fellowships of New College.
London, England, 1868-10-14

FOREIGN RAILWAY OBLIGATIONS.

Orel Vitebsk, gas. by Reagan Oeyerguneat, 6 per oat.,
MI, 4, 4. ;

BRITISH MINES.

Chiverton,
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN MINES.
Clienteles Gold and Silver lining (Limited), 21, I, 9-16.
Don Pedro, North del Rey, 2 11-16.
U Pestarena nited Gold (Limited), I.
Tudanamutana of S. Australia aim.), 2 3-16. I.

DOCKS,

London and St. Katharine, 64%.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Agra (Limited), A, 121.
80, 13, 50. •
Alliance (Limited), 13.
ChartcrW of India, Australia, and China, 21i.
Imperial Ottoman, llf.
London and County, 494.
Oriental Bank Corporation, 44*, }.
Union of Australia, 4S, 7%.

Anglo-American Telegraph (limited), 211.
Berlin Waterworks (limited), 141.
Egyptian 9 per cent. Viceroy, gua. by Egyptian govern.
seat, 911.
Electric and International Telegraph, 228.
General Credit and Discount (Limited), 61.
•
Hudson's Bay, 15, 14k.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 621.
Do., New, 1867, 91'.
Royal Mail Steam, 64, 3, 61.
United Steam Ship (Limited), 24.
United Kingdom Telegraph Company (Lim.), 51.
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 711.

HALFPENNY NEWSPAPER.4.—Tbe attempt to
produce a respectable evening newspaper at the price of
a halfpenny has been painfully brief. A little sheet which
has, during the last few days, sought to live on these
terms has come abruptly to grief, and yesterday evening
it announced the end of its career. Not even an original
story could save it. However, from a high feeling of
honour, " Who shot the Squire t" is to be continued in a
weekly periodical.
The Rev. F. 0. Lee, vicar of All Saint's, Latn-
beth, says that at the recent Harvest Thanksgiving in his
church, no crucifix, "but only a cross," was carried in
procession; and, that Mecum was not used during the
Communion Serviee, but "only before the commencement
and after the conclusion of the same—a practice which is
in no way foibilldon by the recent lucid and impartial
judgment of the Arches' Cant."
The unfortunate disturbance{ in Blackburn
appear likely to continuo. There w.is a series of fights,
arising from political feeling, on Monday night, and in one
case, at least, serious, if not Lital, injuries wore inflicted. A
woman, attempting to get her husband out of trouble, was
severely kicked by a man with whom he was fighting, and
lies in a precarious state. Some damage was afterwards
, done to a Reform Club building, and to a convent. Several
persons are in custody.
THE FATAL. AMI DENT ON TIIB BlitOnTON RAlL-
WAY.—Yesterday afternoon no inquest was held before
Mr. J. W. Payne, sit Buy's Heap ital on the body of Win.
Jones, alt.prl demeribed as a conlwainev, of °Rexford-
streek Marylebone, who on Saturday evening last was
funn frightfully mutilated and dead near the Spa-road
station, through being struck by ens of the London,
Brighton, and Booth Coast Railway trains, under the
circomataaore already reported. The Coroner having
summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death." The deceased appears to have been a lunatic.
London, England, 1868-10-14

rgf,.,i

DLL.

-
With the exception of Chiverton, which have
advanced to 24 to 1, mining shares are =Shovel.
Attention is directed to the settlement. West'
Chiverton shares are at 81 to 62 ; Great Vor, 114
to 4; Prince of Walee, 37e. to 395. ; East Cam-
den, 4 to 41; Chiverton Moor, 61 to 1; Wheal
Melon, 471 to 50; Draiewalls, lls. to 13s. ' • West
Drakewalls, Bs. to 10s. ; West Caradon, 21to 31;
West &ton, 155 to 160; Wheel Grenville, 275. 6d.
to 30s. ; and West Frances, 28s. to 30s.
Subjoined aro the quotations of foreign and
colonial mining shams :—St. John Del Roy, 18
to 1 ; Don Pedro, 21 to prom. • Anglo-Bra-
zilian, 3-18 to 1-16 din. ; Chontalea, 21 to 1;
Boma Grande 5-16 to 7-16 prem. ; ditto,
paid-up, 1 1-18 to 3-16; Angio-Italian, par to
pretn. • United Mexican, 11 to 21;a0Frontino and
Bolivia, Ito f ; Port Phillip, 1 to I . Central
American, &B. to prem. ; par
to 1 prem. • General Brazilian, par to 1 prem. ;
Yu&memuana, 2 to 1 ; and Werbudda Coed and
Iron, 21 to 2 dim.
London, England, 1868-10-14

MR. BERNAL OSBORNE.

MR. BERNAL OSBORNE was happy the other day
at Nottingham in a few of his criticisms. His
wit is uncertain, and sometimes excites im-
patience, but when it is bright again the blurs are
forgotten. After the Hyde-park agitation, he
said, Lord DEBBY opened his eyes, and
"he and they who had talked about lateral
" extension and the degradation of the suffrage
" turned tail, and, acting like the Spanish soldiers,
" fired off their muskets into their own ranks and
" fraternised with the people." Speaking of edu-
eation Mr. OSBORNE pointed to Scotland and
Prussia as instances of its power. " They were
" canny fellows in Scotland. They recently did a
" good stroke of business ; they got seven moot-
" hers from England. Would they have done that
"if they bad not been educated ?" As for the
Liberal policy of the government towards Ireland,
he bud watched earnestly for it, and heard Lord
MAYO-" a most excellent man—rather dull," but
at the end of his five hours' speech all they could
make out was something about " levelling up "
and the endowment of a Catholic University. It
was almost the policy of Pfrr in IWO, which ho
called " concurrent endowment ; " but " Lord
" MAYO'S policy was like the announcements in the
" playbills of the theatre—it existed only for one
" night and by particular desire." The Bishop of
London, England, 1868-10-14

4. RUN TO E.:IRM"

MRS BRADDOX is supposed to stand at the head
of sensational novel writers, and there are few
probably who would care to contest the pre-
eminence with her. There is no doubt that this
lady's novels interest a large number of readers ;
but, unfortunately, the interest is of the kind
awakened by a perusal of the police reports. She
is a skilful manufacturer of horrors, a coarse but
brilliant colourist, who can paint roughly
and effectively upon a sign-board, but has
none of the delicacy and just sense of proportion
which mark the touch of the true artist. The
strongest feeling ever excited by this kind of
narrative is vulgar curiosity, a wish to know what
will come next, and how it will all end. No reader
surely ever cared a jot for any one of Miss BRAD-
LON'S characters; no reader we suppose over
looked into any one of her tales a second time. The
power of accumulating end arranging incidents
so as to excite interest and to retain attention is
no doubt a considerable gift. With other and
higher qualifications it might contribute to the
making of a first-rate novelist. " Run to Barth."
Miss Bemoans 's latest fiction, is not without
considerable merit, if the province of the novelist
be to invent horrors and to weave together a
number of the wildest improbabilities ; but if we
demand from the writer of fiction some skill in
the delineation of character, some signs of that
humanity which is the soul of poetry, and a little
at least of that verisimilitude which brings art
into ; harmony with Nature, then must this
tale be regarded as a blunder. The construction of
the novel is of the coarsest texture ; if anything can
surprise the reader of such a tale it will be the
hasty and clumsy denouement of the third volume.
Of course there is plenty of strong food for strong

stomachs—murders, secret poisonings, accusations
of murder, accusations of adultery, children stolen
from their parents, diabolical fiends in human
shape who have no fear and no pity, mysterious
intrigues, strange deaths, and sundry tricks of
legerdemain on the part of the novelist or of her
characters which will sorely tax the credulity of
the reader. But, after all, the world is wide, and
tastes differ, and we are reminded that a certain
learned Professor, who has much Latin and more
Greek, has pronounced the author of " Lady
" Audley's Secret " the first of female novelists.
It is reasonable to suppose, therefore, that " Run
"to Earth," like Miss BRADDON'S former tales,
will ensure a public of its own, and enjoy a brisk
circulation. If a tale that is made to sell fulfils
its destiny, what more need the manufacturer
desire ?
London, England, 1868-10-14

TONIC PUNISIIMBNT.

No doubt it would be possible to put on paper
a scheme of tonic imprisonment for adult offenders,
but the thing would be terribly hard to put in
practice. A middle-aged housemaid, named Maur
ANN MAnowarrra, has lately boon sentenced to a
year's imprisonment, with " such labour as the
" gaol authorities should think her fit to per-
'• form," fur the crime of attempting to sot her
master's house on fire. She did it out of revenge,
having received notice to quit, and in the evening
she came in a cab "to sec what damage
" she had done, and to say good bye!"
She bad then already taken laudanum, and
in the station-house cell she made a desperate
attempt to strangle herself. A former mistress
gave evidence that the woman was, when not in-
censed. a " moot devoted and faithful person,"
and a police-inspector added that she was an
opium-eater, had made previous attempts on her
own life, and had once before attempted to set fire
to a Louse. She was undefended. The jury
strongly recommended her to mercy, and Mr.
Justice KEATINO is reported to have said " the
• • greatest mercy he could show her was to have
'• her confined so long as to have her mind brought
" buck to its proper tone." This is probably an
imperfect report of what his lordship actually did
say ; but one thing is clear, that, although M CRY
ANN MAROMMITB will be compelled to abstain
from opium and strong drink for a twelvemonth,
a prison is not the place in which such a mind will
recover its " tone." It is proved by abundant
evidence that one of the greatest difficulties of
gaol governors is in the pitiable wunt of " tone"
displayed by the majority of female criminals.
The sentence on this woman was not a severe one,
and we have nothing to say about it, except that
as a device for restoring " tone " to the mind of
such a half-mad creature it could have no value.
It is far more likely that she will at last succeed
in putting an end to her life, or, if not, that she
will come out of prison utterly broken up in mind
and body, than that she will be improved by the
scenery, the confinement, and the company of a
gaol.
London, England, 1868-10-14

been defeated by Oenersl Beheads
re-nominated the republisim
The republicans have re-elected Judge
ham, who was one of the house managers
the impeachment trial, ea maniber
f !Lin t 1 e ltith inst.. of Ohio.
Of 11 men,}H•ra of Congreig t,,r
dia tli, the republicans have elected M.
London, England, 1868-09-07

THANCT..

It is reported, according to the iStsmeisa, that the Em-
peror is by no means pleased with the behaviour of his
subordinates—that he is vexed at their relentless persecu-
tions of the newspaper prom, and at the arbitrary exercise
of power of some of the prefects of the provinces. It is
thought that he is prepnring, by new and large conces-
sions to popular feeling, to convert into a reality those
liberal reform' of the laws regulating the freedom of the
press and the right of public meeting which were heralded
last year with such a flourish of trumpets, but ended
so feebly in enactments almost as severe as those
which preceded them. The &masa thinks that in doing
this Napoleon 111. will act wisely.
The nmes, referring to the reoest political duels in
France, is of opinion that the Emperor cannot allow the
French nation uncontrolled freedom of opinion.

For fifteen years (says the &dr) the government had as
cultivated the affection of the French workmen,
ha▪ d
flattered them, had endeavoured to bribe them with
'abiding and indnlgencies, and for a time Napoleon M.
was succesduL But, as the true character of the empire
was revealed, the workmen grew oddly hostile. In
1882 and 1884 they carried the elections in Paris in favour
of the opposition ; and, unless the Star is mistaken, the
coming elections will show that the imperial policy is
justly appreciated by the French working men.
London, England, 1868-09-07

THREE YOUNG MEN DROWNED.

A fatal accident occurred on Friday morning
about 10 o'clock, on the Clverston sands, by which three
young men lost their lives. It appeared from the evidence
given before the coroner, that John Fletcher, a collier,
aged 27, in company with his brothers, William, aged 17
years, Joshua, aged II years, and Jacob, aged 9 year.,
were attempting to more the Diversion sands, on their way
from Whitebavun to Wigan, when they were caught with
the tide. John, the only one saved, in his evidence
said:—" We were on our way to Wigan. On Thursday
night we slept wider a hedge, near Llverston, and in the
morning about half-peat flee or six we crossed a common
(Dirkrigg) and came to a church near the shorn, with
• hall on the right band side of the road
(Aldingham Church and hall). When we got to the
sand we made for a point of land scrum the bay (Winder
Point). We crossed a channel about 30 yards wide,
but only a few inches deep. About a mile from that we
came to another, my youngest brother ran in, but I got
hold of him, and we went more up the sand. After going
about a irarter of • mile, we came to more water, and we
saw the tide come running up fast. We then made for
some trees which we saw (Chapel Island), but could not
reach them, the currant was running so etrong. We then
all took our clothes off, and, as my brother William and I
could swim, he took hold of Joshua, and I took charge of
Jacob. The tide was then running very fast, so that we
could not keep our feet. Wo each kept our clothes.
After a while, I felt my strength going, so net the bundle
go, and I told Jacob if he would stick to the bundle the
tide would carry him to the shore. I placed him on it,
and then tried to save myselL I saw my brother William
at the same time, but Joshua was not with him. I
called to him to keep up his heart, as I could see some
rocks. I got to one rock and William got to another, but
there was a current between. I told him to take hold of
a post I could see, but lie said he could not reach it. I
then told him to try for the shore. His last words were,
the Lord have mercy on me.' He then started off with
the tido, and I saw him no more. Soon after a boat came
and took me off. I wire taken to David Smith's, at the
Sand Side, and was given clothing and refreshments."
One of the bodies was found the same evening, and the
other two on Saturday morning. A verdict of "Accidental
Death " was returned.—Jfalichesret