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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1862

American Democrats have triumphed, and Eng-
lish Tories rejoice. They even, like the Persian
Kings of old, take off their own crown, seat the
Democrats on their own horse, and dub them Con-
servativVs. What has brought about this new
affection 7 MI are the Times and the Tories, all
at once, so fn lorre with the party which is most
rabid in America for the Ballot, Universal Suffrage,
State Rights,—ia short for referring everything,
even the elections of the Judges, to the decision of
the whole people by secret voting, if they care to
keep it secret. We are told that the Ballot and
Universal Suffrage are the mothers of all evils; that
eminent and eloquent politician Alderman ROSE,
now Lord Mayor of London and candidate for
Southampton, asstv•es us that " the Ballot is the
most flagrant iniquity and pest known to
society ;" the Times has generally found it toe
irritating a topic to write oa with calmness, and
yet we are now told that the pa:ty which owes its
rinciples to SEFFERSON himself, and
origin and p
ossible from the sobriety
whiet deviates as far as pamilton, is the American
of Washington and H
Conservative party !
Englishmen ought well to understand the real
character and objects of these Democrats, these
Conservative advocates of the most unbridled
popular Government, we might almost say
have
of
administration itself, by the people. What
Their
their antecedents been ? strength has been
in the North, for in the South, where a white
aristocracy of 300,000 alaveholders hold all
power in their hands, universal suffrage
is hardly known. In the North they
have long been in Irarions forms the dominant
party. By union with them, though they hated
their principles, the slaveholders have always
secured the upper hand in the Government till the
election of BITCHANAN. And hence it has been the
Democrats who, with the slaveholders, have been
responvible for all the public acts by which England
has been insulted, and all the anti-English demean-
our of the successive Administrations. In New York
City, and other plat es where Democracy is most
Powerful, the Irish patriots who cannot carry out
their treason to their satisfection in their native
I_4o, to a man vote with the Democratic party.
uurdinEti WISEMAN'S Hyde-park lambs—their
fellows in New York we mean—are the strength of
Democracy there. And this is the party which has
undoubtedly triumphed at the late elections.
The caines
of
its success against the Republican
party, which
co
and educated clashes
the whole to the middle
in England, are easier to trace
than it is to predict
the ultimate result. The failure
of LINCOLN'. 1". S Admi.ais
tration is doubtless a chief
cause. Had the war been
the Democratic part o:anaged prosperously
w°l/1414%ve been
less against the party whose
'E'ves;lent had suc-
ceeded. We all know how
a ---ss can turn
M
Minister in England out of office,
whileminie. great war
is yet raging. Is America a
Minister cannot be
remoißd by the people or by the cong
eara. they
can only do what they have now donee,
, the'
party opposed to him, and their
votes to the so warn
him that unless' he reverse his
policy, when the Pr
yeaa's of dictatorship are
sident,s four expired, he
must quit together. The Pre-
and the President st but not very capable,
silent is believed to be honc
his Ministers sharp fellows, bi,: t not sharp enough
The Democratic
to match DAVIS and his Cabinet.
success is, therefore, a vote that the
war Las been
ir-conducted, and that the people
demand some
di
better results.
'There must also be great dissatisfaction with the
• corrupt expenditure of the Government. In Eng-
land and Old World countries, the jobbing and cor-
ruption attendant on every war have been notorious
enough, but probably nothing ever ourpassed the
extr, tvagance and corruption practised almost by
the I Highest in office themselves. WALPOLE himself

WU but a novice in the art compared with the
American Secretaries for the Army and Navy De-
partments. This has been made to tell, of course,
at all the public meetings, and, in the prospect of
enormous taxation, must have told strongly against
the Administration.

But the great difference, we are sorry to say, be-
tween the Republicans and the Democrats has
been as to the mode of carrying on the war. It is
a great mistake to suppose that the Democrats are I
opposed to the war ; they only demand that it
shall be so carried on that slavery shall emerge un-
harmed. The Republican party, though opposed
originally to the Abolitionists, now includes them ;
the latter having come to the belief that the war
must be adverse to slavery, though not carried on
against it. Hence Mr. LINCOLN has felt con-
strained to do many things to propitiate the Aboli-
tionists ; every one of these things—such as the
i hanging of the captain of the slaver, the emancipa-
tion of the district of Columbia, the freeing of all
slaves who came within the Federal lines, the
diplomatic recognition of Hayti, the offer of pecu-
niary aid to the Border States towards the emanci-
i pation of their slaves, and the late proclamation, so
far as it was an emancipation decree—each of these
has had the approbation of England, and of Ame-
rican Abolitionists, though we and they felt that
they did not go far enough. But all these things
irritated th e Democrats, with their strong pro-slavery
feeling, to the uttermost. Their avowed policy is to
give every guarantee to slaveholders ; to make the
Fugitive Slave Law morestring,eut, to give full effect
to the DRED SCOTT decision, in a word, to restore
the Union by making slavery its law from North to
South.
Now this we take to be the worst aspect of the
late Democratic triumph. 7o save the Union is
equally the object of Republicans and Democrats.
The ambition of both is the same—to be the most
powerful empire on earth. The Republicans hold
that this ought to be effected by the circumscription
of Slavery—the Democrats by its protection and
encouragement. The Abolitionists have the same
aim, and sincerely believe that the abolition of
slavery would soon make America the
greatest amongst the nations. As the
Republicans have failed to restore the Union,
by their policy, the wearied many are, we fear,
beginning to regard the Democratic or pro-slavery
policy as that which may be more successful. They
see that Mr. LINCOLN'S Government cannot, even
with the vast means placed at their disposal,
conquer the South and restore the Union in that
way ; we fear too many are beginning to think it
better to sell the Union to slavery than to break it
up. This, we fear, is the chief cause of Democratic
success. Other causes co-operate. The reckless
imprisonment of political opponents, and
the interference with the press, have no
doubt disgusted all respectable men, and we
have always ourselves thought the suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act one of the most unwarrantable
of Mr. LINCOLN'S doings. Still if we interpret
things aright, the Democratic party has regained
its influence, because it was indeed conservative—
conservative of slavery.
Whether the result will be to stimulate the
PRESIDENT and his generals to greater and more
successful military exertions, and whether it will
induce him to enforce or recall his proclamation for
the let of January, we shall soon begin to see. Our
chief
,hope lies in the temper of the South. The
South will not be coaxed back into union. The
Southern press plainly tells its old Democratic
friends in the North that it is hopeless for them to
expect it. When discussing the Democratic speeches
before the late elections, it warns the Democrats
that the separation is final, that the South " thinks
no better of the proposition—of re-union—when
coming from them than when coming from the
Republicans." If the South persists in this view,
which we may be pretty sure it will, one of two
things must follow, either the North must make
such terms with the South as will ensure to the lat-
ter perpetual political supremacy, or the North will
determine to conquer all the Border States it cares
to have, and leave the others to their fate. In the
interests of humanity and freedom all Englishmen
ought to wish for the latter result. And it is the
one to which it is possible to hope the present elec-
tions will tend.

A DANIEL, yea! a DANIEL went to judgment on
Friday evening at Southampton. The Lord Mayor
of London—intent, apparently, upon making the

most of his time—has, within the first week of his
induction into the chair of the chief magistracy,
carried the civic barge through what sailors call

very dirty weather, into Southampton Waters. The
Liberal electors constituting the bulk of the con-

stituency, at that great out-port on the south coast
of England, had already their choice in the way of
obtaining a suitable representative in the Commons

House of Parliament. There was Capt. MANGLES to
begin with—about the fittest and most appropriate

person, in every respect, that could well be selected.

A man perfectly well known at Southampton.

A man whose political opinions are, upon most of
the important questions of the day, identical with
those entertained by the Southampton constituency.

A man peculiarly qualified to look after the distinc-
tive interests of a great arena of maritime and mer-

cantile enterprise like Southampton. Capt.MANGLEs,
Chairman of the Board Directors of the West India
Mail Packet Company—appeared, upon the first
instant, when his name was pointed out to the
Southamptonelecaptoprsearass
stillthe candidateteoartlhiiesstmoment,
whfsonr
their suffrages
all the other multifarious and motley candidates
have been announced and taken, one after another,
into consideration by the constituency—the most
likely, and suitable, and appropriate successor, that
could anywhere be found, to the late Mr. BRODIE
WILCOX, Chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Peninsular and Oriental Company.
So indeed have thought apparently upon calm
reflection the whole crowd of the other would-be
M.P.'s for the borough of Southampton. With two I
exceptions only they have (so think,ing) retired from
the contest. One among them, the Hon. Mr. ASH-
LEY, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of
England, having--from the simple fact of his
being Lord TALILERSTON'S Private Secretary—an
immense advantage over all other competitors down
di Southampton. Had Mr. ASHLEY decided upon
going to the hustings, and afterwards to the poll,
he would, we are satisfied, have been (probably to
the extent of a very large majority) aided by the
prestige reflected upon him by Lord PALMERSTON'S
unrivalled popularity—a popularity undeniably con-
siderable any where and everywhere in the United
tb
IC'inglioln, but especially great down in the
oh neighbourhood of the veteran Premier's Hampshire
Rona%) dowil
there among that Liberal cousti-
tnency
boroughr of Southampton. Neverthe-
less, with this
e le s
Private.lan t
Secretaryrefrains
prospect luring
the
Prime Minister's
hisinist claims upon the attention of the South-
amptonActingtutheumsot obviously in favour
candidate, the
to the suitable of tie?:
electorg 1
liberal of the earliestcandidates
ing the Chairman of the West India Mail
Packet
Company, Captain MANGLES.
Not thus judiciously and magnanimously have
decided the two exceptions among the crowd

_ ___
of candidates but very recently pressing for-
ward in a crowd to claim the admiring regard
of the electors of Southampton. One of these
resolute claimants of the suffrages of the wished-
',or constituency being an advanced Liberal,
—to wit, Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, the eloquent
lecturer, and sometime M.P. for the Tower Ham-
lets! The other, being a thorough-going Conser-
vative, and no less a personage—at any rate in the
eyes of a Frenchman (Le Lord Moire being second
L, only in a Frenchman's eye to La Reins herself !)
no less a personage than the Right Hon. WILLIAM
RosE, the new Lord Mayor of London. The latter
candidate it is who claims for himself, beyond a
doubt, the exclamation raised from all the dis-
cerning electors down at Southampton, of " A
DANIEL, yea a very DANIEL, come to judgment !"
Le Lord Maire ROSE has by this time, it may fairly
be said, completely unbosomed himself to the consti-
tuency he hopes may become his. After the scene
witnessed on Friday evening, we trust we may not
be regarded as in any way irreverent to the dignity
of this great City functionary if, in regard to his
chance of obtaining the vacant seat, we venture
in familiar terms (and with all the fervour the
words are so well inerstood to imply) an earnest
hope that he may get it ! It may be remembered
of old Mr. WELLER that upon a certain memorable
occasion when he went in search of the Reduced
Consols, or as he pronounced it Counsels, and dis-
covered them, as he imagined, in the agreeable
occupation of eating sandwiches—it may be remem-
bered of old Mr. WELLER that when struggling
out of the crowd in which he had had his hat knocked
I over his eyes by some ono behind hiss,seiss, afterwards
turned out (when the old gentleman's head was ex-
tricated from his hat) to be his son SAMUEL, that
old WELLER pathetically apostrophised his son
with the reproach " A-bonnetting your own
Father !" The LORD MAYOR of London having
boot virtually subjected, in the persons of his
friends, to precisely that very process down at the
Dolphin Hotel at Southampton, on Friday evening,
might have contented himself as forcibly and at the
same time as laconically with uttering a somewhat
similar reproach. Substituting for the parental title,
of course, that of " your own LORD MAYOR—your
own Conservative Candidate !" But he went further.
Irritated manifestly by the unlooked-for warmth
of his reception, he may be fairly said to have given
the Southampton constituency a bit of his mind !
Upon their own want of taste, or of any sense of
delicacy or refinement in the first instance,
and in particular ! And afterwards upon all
kinds of things, upon subjects as various as " SHAK-
SPERE and the musical glasses"—upon all the great
questions of the day (many of which we all know
don't answer in the least) not forgetting a gibe
even at the Ballot, and a sneer at American
Rowdyism ! The most absurdly inapposite references
those last mentioned by the way—seeing, on the
one hand, that if only there had been vote by bal-
let here in England there would have been no
chance of these disturbances his lordship was
complaining of ! And, upon the other hand, that
his complaints about American Rowdyism were
uttered on Friday evening not, let us say, at Bos-
ton, U.S., but in the English borotigh of Southamp-
ton ! Altogether, the Conservative display of last
week, more particularly of last Friday evening down
at Southampton, cannot, as we take it, but augur
admirably well for the only "likely" candidate now
before the Southampton constituency : the Liberal
candidate, not the eloquent Radical candidate, but the
Liberal candidate, Captain MANGLES. Mr. GEORGE
THOMPSON we should be glad enough to see in the
House of Commons, a little later on as the choice
of some other constituency. But as a candidate
for the Southampton constituency, we see no
reasonable hope whatever when represented by a
fit and proper person (for that borough) like Capt.
MANGLES. " The right man," Mr. -GEORGE
THOMPSON, is to our thinking upon many points—
but he is obviously just now not in the right
place as an extra Liberal candidate down at South-
ampton, with a Conservative candidate actually
there in the field. The latter, however, it must
be confessed, at the same time is no more
formidable than as the Hero of a Charivari!
So ridiculous has he rendered himself by
his bearing on Friday in presence of the
then recent disturbance, that one is tempted to
echo, in honour of this flower among the Lord
Mayors, the old Latin quatrain, applied to his
namesake of the garden ; but not inapplicable, just
now, to himself as Lord Mayor of London, and
Tory candidate at Southampton.
" Rosa honor decusque florum,
Rosa flea odorque Divum,
Hominum rose est voluptas,
Decus ills Gratiarum."
Divum referring, of course, to " the Gods " (of the
theatrical galleries), from whose ranks the roughs
of Friday, down at Southampton, were manifestly
recruited—in whose nostrils, strange to say, the
very name of the Lord Mayor is in such bad
odour! "A RosE," to them, by any other
name, would be sweeter than—by the title,
let us say, M.P. for Southampton ! As a
momentary ebullition of feeling, Friday's de-
monstration is little more to us (we cannot but
confess it) than simply laughter-moving. If
repeated, however, it could not but carry
discredit to that great liberal constituency. Let
them think seriously of the matter now, there-
fore, and act earnestly. They hale pointedly
enough signified their disrelish for the Con-
servative candidate. Let them henceforth
simply dedicate their energies to the return
of the Liberal candidate, the return of Captain
MANGLES, who, if they are but determined and
united in their efforts, is secure, in spite of every
opposition, of becoming very soon indeed Mr.
WlLcol's successor as M.P. for the borough of
Southampton.
____

oisciNKEE COMMANDER WILKES.—The secret
of the extraordinary antipathy exhibited towards England
by brave Commander Wilkes, of the Federal navy, is not
ihaacinnnonT.wett
eihlepe,
xevaEwpetphrrhYre;
generally known in this country. An intelligent gentle-
m. an, a native of Virginia, who is now in London assisting
given
itegaino oftinnorayhe r
saoauusrpgapuhtribitsslfeiaoccuatuott undertaking
thehe
sreotnaluuktnthi
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display
as
over,ipyml
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exhibited by the valiant Wilkes, this gentleman
isgnaido,ron" Aoen.d d,o,
Wyohuyn,,o, t
addedknow thhee, c,a,uhsaev?e"
youl pnreovteesrtehde-mardy
about Wilkes and Sir John Ross ?" " Never," I replied.
i " Well," continued my Transatlantic friend, " I'll tell
you, and tat it be a caution to you for the future." He then
told me that Wilkes was the commander of the United
States expedition, fitted out, in common with similar expe-
claims by England and Russia, some years ago, to discover
the North-West Passage. The American expedition went
first, and Sir John Ross followed a few months afterwards.
The United States party was met on its return by Sir John
Ross, when Captain Wilkes gave all the information he had
acquired (or, as my Yankee friend said, all he chose to give)
to the British expedition. He also gave them a chart of
his progress. This was carefully preserved by Sir John
Ross, but subsequent experience proved that it was altoge-
ther fallacious, as Sir John Ross's ships actually sailed over
places which were described as mountains in the chart of
Capt. Wilkes. The inference left on the mind of Sir John
Ross was, naturally enough, that the Yankee commander
had drawn upon his imagination for his facts. Be this as
it may, he was obliged to state in his official report to the
Government that Commander Wilkes was not quite as reli -
able an Arctic traveller as some of his predecessors, and
that ini act the Yankee report was in some respects a romance
Hence the bitter antagonism of the valorous Wilkes, and
hence his extraordinary anxiety to insult the British flag.—
Cort espondent of Belfast News Letter.
On Saturday summonses were issued from the
Foreign-office, appointing a Cabinet Council to meet this
day at Lord Palmerston's official residence in Downing-
street.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales is expected to arrive at Windsor
Castle about the 25th inst.

THE PRINCESS ALIGE.—His Royal Highness
Prince Louis of Hosse and the Princess Alice's stay in Eng-
land will be for about two months.

ASCENT OF VESUVIUS BY THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
—The Princess of Prussia made her late ascent of Vesu-
vius on foot, scrambling, slipping, and struggling, with her
companions. After remaining about half an hour, the
Royal party began to descend, ankle deep in fine ashes,
sliding, involuntarily running, the only difficulty being to
keep themselves from rolling to the bottom. One gentle-
man broke the scabbard of his sword, and the Princess found
herself almost shoeless or bootless, and, as the Neapolitans
would say, compelled to " rimediare con un fazzoletto."
The anneal full dress ball, in aid of the funds of
the Royal Dramatic College, is announced to take place at
the St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, on Wednesday, the 10th
December next.

Commandant Zmybrabakis, one of the principal
chiefs of the insurrection at Nauplia, and who bas been for
some time in Paris, has just left for Athens. The depar-
ture of M. Marinovitch, President of the Servian Senate,
has also taken place. Ho goes first to Geneva, and thence
direct to Belgrade.
ST. MATTHEW'S, SPRING GARDENS.—Yesterday
morning the IZev. S. Flood Jones. M.A., the incumbent, at
the close of a very able sermon on " the Mercies of God to
Man," stated that in accordance with the suggestions con-
tained in the circular letter of the Bishop of London, he
would ask his congregation to contribute continuously,week
by week, to the fund in aid of the relief of the distress in
the North. Small as the congregation was, he thought he
might promise in its name that at least four now starving
families should be maintained during the forthcoming
winter. The rbv. gentleman intimated that the amounts
hitherto contributed by the congregation had been for-
warded by him to the Lord Mayor's Committee, and that
the church would be opened every Saturday and Monday,
between the hours of 11 and 12, when some one would
be in attendance to receive any articles of clothing, blankets,
&c., which the congregation or persons residing in the
npiglibuuTllood Welt 130 =posed to Rend, and ~Lich Le
would take care should be duly transmitted to the proper
quarter.
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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.--The second trien-
nial
election to the office of Rector of Edinburgh Univer-
sity took place on Saturday. The candidates were Mr.
Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has held the
office since the first election in 1859, and Mr. Stirling, M.P.
The choice is vested in the matriculated students of the
University, and out of a constituency of 1,331 the number
who voted was 1,112. The poll took place between 10 and
12 o'clock, and at the close the numbers stood as follows :
For Mr. Gladstone, 644 ; for Mr. Stirling, 468 ; majority
for Mr. Gladstone, 176. In 1859 Mr. Gladstone was elected
by 643 against 527 who voted for Lord Neaves—majority,
116.

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—DIVINITY CHAIR.—
We have authority for stating that the Court of the Uni-
versity of Glasgow proceeded on Friday to the election of a
new Professor of Divinity, in room of the Rev. Dr. Hill, re-
signed, when the Rev. Dr. Caird, Park Church, Glasgow,
was unanimously appointed to that office. We understand
that there were in all ten candidates.—Glasgow Herald.
It is stated that the Great Exhibition has been
sold for a railway terminus. We doubt if that will be per-
mitted to be the final fate of the building ; but we do know
that it will witness, before its glories are finally dimmed, a
scene that will rival anything yet beheld in the metropolis
—to wit, a magnificent ball on as elegant a scale of company
as high prices can produce; but, if the tickets are any thing
short of a five-pound note, the building will be sure to be
crowded. It will be a pleasant trip down the middle and
up again, to the sound of a monster orchestra of a thousand
performers, and the full swell of a grand organ to do the
piano passages. The building will be brilliantly illumi-
nated with gas in all directions, and festooned with all the
floral powers that the next-door neighbour—the Horticul-
tural—can bring into operation.7to aid in the great event.
January is named for the ball, but that is not a decided an-
nouncement.—Court Journal.

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Duke of Argyle.
has bean appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Argyleshire in the
room of the Marquis of Breadalbane. We believe that Mr.
Henry Austin Bruce, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil, will sue •
ceed Mr. George Clive as under-secretary of state. Mr.
Bruce was called to the bar in 1837. The Rev. A. P.
Clemenger has been appointed incumbent of the new dis-
trict of St. Thomas, Agar-town. The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Henry Astbury Leveson, Esq , to be
colonial secretary for her Majesty's settlement of Lagos;
and Charles Piers, Esq., to be superintendent of convicts
for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Accounts from Toulon state that the reports cur-
rent on the subject of a fleet of iron-coated frigates being
fitted oui for sea have completely ceased, and if the Go-
vernment ever intended anything of the sort it has been
indeflnitively oajoarned, for the (Moire is oboist to be letd
up in ordinary and the Invincible to be placed on the re-
served list. The expedition to Mexico having dipped
deeply into the budget of the Marine, it has been found
necessary to postpone various experiments which the Mi •
nister had proposed to make with iron-cased ships of war.
It is said that there is a question of reinforcing

the French squadron in the Chinese seas. The Minister
has received despatches announcing the appearance of a vast
number of pirates. Commodore de Marolles, of tfie Im-
perial navy, has been forced to enter into a very unequal
conflict with them in the waters of the Ningpo. He lost
from 15 to 20 men, and he himself was wounded. On the
18th of September, the date of the despatches, the cholera,
which had made great ravages among the fleet, had con-
siderably diminished.
NEW SOUTH VALES AND THE RELIEF FUND.—

A remittance of £7OO has been received from the Yass dis
trict, and £443 from Goulburn, in aid of the fund for the
relief of the distressed Lancashire operatives. £13,500 had
already been forwarded from the colony, and another re-
mittance of £3,600 was made by this mail.—. Australian and
11 ew Zealand Gazette.
DEATH OF A CAVALRY VETERAN.—Died, on the
9th inst., at the Cavalry Barracks, Cahir, " Crimean
Bob," the oldest troop horse in the British cavalry. This
veteran commenced his career in the 15th Hussars, and
on their embarkation for India was transferred to the 14th
Light Dragoons, and from that regiment to the 11th Hussars
in like manner, when the 14th were ordered on foreign ser-
vice. He first joined the army on the 2d October, 1833,
making a total of military service of nearly thirty years,
during which period he
i was all through the Crimean Cam-
paign, and was ridden n the memorable charge of Bala-
klava, and at the battles of Alma and Inkerman, by the
present farrier-major of the regiment, and during the whole
of the campaign was never once struck off duty through
sickness. On the return of the regiment to England he
was shown to his Royal Highness the General Command-
ing-in-Chief, who would not allow him to be cast; but
ordered him to be retained in the regiment until his death,
which occurred on Sunday morning, from old age and
general decay, to the sincere regret of all ranks of the regi-
ment, from the colonel down to the youngest recruit, with
whom the old horse was a universal favourite,—United
Service Gazette.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT TO THE UNDERGROUND
RAILWAY.--On Saturday morning, at 11 o'clock, a further
inspection of the state of the line, the new signals, and the
carriages, the construction of which, with reference to the
doors, &c., had been objected to on the part of Col. Yolland,
of the Board of Trade, was made in the presence of that
gentleman, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Parsons, and several of the
directors of the company. All appeared to be comparatively
satisfactory until the neighbourhood of Coppice-row was
reached, when it was found that upwards of 100 feet of
earth on the western side of the newly-farmed line bad
slipped, forcing down about 38 feet of the " retaining" wall,
and materially endangering the large water tank, signals,
and, indeed, the whole of the contiguous property abutting
upon that portion of the line. The whole of this part of the
eluting appears to be in a dangerous state, several piles of
the Sessions- house having been forced from their perpendi-
cular position by the strain of the masses of earth and clay
resting against them, and the pressure of the weight of the
adjacent buildings. On Friday afternooon, and during the
whole of Saturday, large numbers of additional workmen
were engaged in attempting to make good the damage.
THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE DISTRESS IN
LANCASHIRE.—In the course of a circular just issued by
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, he says:--" I beg
to call your attention to the efforts now being made by the
benevolent throughout the country for the relief of the Lan-
cashire operatives. No doubt many of your flock have
already contributed to the common fund through some of
the numerous channels opened for the flow of charity, but
our liberality must keep pace with the distress. You will
therefore be pleased to have in the church under your care
a general collection on Sunday, the 23d instant. I must
leave it to the impulse of your heart how you can best sti-
mulate the generosity of your people. You will be doing
a real act of kindness if you will open at your own house or
school a depot for the receiving of clothes, old or new, shoes,
hats or caps, coverlets or any other article that can be con-
verted into clothing or a coverlet for the night. It is my
intention to transmit the collection to the central committee
in Manchester, which discharges its duties in a busineFs-
like way, without bias or partiality. Without any exhor-
tation I have no doubt you will pray to God that this
scourge may cease, and implore of Him not to add pestilence
to famine."

THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.—This morning
a meeting of the parishioners of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
was held at the Vestry Hall for the purpose of taking into
consideration the best means of alleviating the distress
at present existing in Lancashire. Amongst the speakers
were Mr. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., the vicar, the Rev. Mr.
Humphreys, and several other gentlemen, all of whom spoke
in the highest admiration of the conduct of the unem •
ployed in that part of the;country. Resolutions for raising
a subscription in the parish were unanimously agreed to,
anda
all the commencement
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gave in their names Vestry Hall, when
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for very handsome sums,