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41)
`ideal—ehould not attraet a surticien.raniteoo
tract the war for another year wouldlza
juricus to the prospects of these gentl'eiali:eand?--
that a conscript should be allowed t Ai what S
voluntary exertions had filed to accomplish would
be equally unfavourable to their hopes; for the
certain effect of a conscription in a country which
is in no danger from a foreign foe is to incline
I men's thoughts to peace. The result of these feel-
ings throughout the North has been to give a greet
impetus to voluntary enlistment. Bounties have
gradually increased horn 150 dollars to double, and
in some localities to treble that amount, and those
among the rich who have not acquired fortunes by
war contracts, and who fear that an impartial con-
scription may force them from their homes to share
the unwelcome perils of the fled, have exhibited a
liberality that may be called either patriotic or selfish
at the option of the critic, and offered inducements
of huge pecuniary amount, with the hope of render-
ing a conscription unnecessary. Meetings are daily
held in every great town in the North with this
view, and the result already appears to be that the
first draught of 300,000 men will be obtained at a
cost of something like £5O a head, partly at the
expense of the Federal and State Government and
partly at that of cities, corporations, and individuals;
and that in some districts where labour is not in
great request, and where rich men, or perhaps men
who are both timid and rich, are numerous, the
quota of the second, or compulsory 300,000, will
also be filled by volunteers. The first draught will
thus cost £15,000,000 sterling, irrespective of pay
the immense
preventing
the infliction and scandal of a draught, will certainly
eaxnedrtaipopnosi
cost a much larger sum. Fifty pounds down, good
onftmthenetsrlohandartehesuscecCeosnsfdu,liein
pay while the war lasts, a merry life if a short
one,—these are the inducements, flavoured with a
spice of glory, and with much " buncombe" about
the " stars and stripes," and the future destinies of
our great and invincible Republic, pre-ordained to
rule the world and to reduce England to her natural
position of a third rate Power, which are held oat
to the youth and middle-age of America. The prin-
cipal recruiting officers for these new levies, in
addition to the almighty dollar, which is the main
agent, are Archbishop Hughes and Generals Sickles,
Meagher, and Corcoran. All of these, by a remark-
able coincidence, are as violently anti-British as
they are violently pro-Federal. Archbishop Hughes
shares the theological as well as political hatred
of the Irish Roman Catholics towards Great Britain,
and blows the war blaet with no uncertain note in
that direction. General Sickles is the 'person who
a few years ago, when attached to the United States'
Legation in London, refused to drink the health of
the Queen at Mr. Peabody's table. From this little
incident his animus against Great Britain may be
inferred. General Corcoran is the person who,
when the Prince of Wales was in this country, re-
fused to turn out with his company of militia to do
his royal highness the honour that everybody else
was anxious to bestow. From this episode in his
caree his animus may also be inferred with equal
certainty. General Meagher is " Meagher of the
Sword," who shared in the dangers of Mr. Smith
O'Brien's revolution, and is a gentleman who hates
England in proportion to the mercy extended to
him on that occasion. With the dollars of contrac-
tors and others to aid them on the one side, and the
fear of the conscription on the other, these four in-
fluential persons have wrought to good purpose
within the last 10 days; and members of the Go-
vernment at Washington have been known in the
unguarded moments of social and convivial inter-
course to congratulate themselves and the country-
on the good luck that not only sent Archbishop
Hughes from London and Colonel—now General—
Corcoran from long captivity at Richmond, to aid
them so opportunely, but that permitted Generala
Sickles and Meagher to be simultaneously available
for stirring up the Irish. Altogether the prospects
for another million of men to be cast into the de-
vouring maw of the War Demon are brighter than
they were a fortnight ago, and the inevitable end,
so far as American agencies are concerned, is ad-
ourned sine die.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4,1862 k

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LITE.RATU_RE.

dtington the Barrister." In " The Pretty Girl
Milking a Cow" we have a tragic talc of Irish rural
life ; and the pictures at the Great Exhibition form
the subject of a paper.

PHLOX.
Class 18-18 Spikes, distinct varieties—Xi, Mr. C. Turner,
Royal Nurseries, Slough.
Class 19—Miscellaneous-10s 6d, Mr. J. Standish, Royal
Ascot and Bagshot Nurseries.
FRUIT.
Class A—Collection of eight dishes, distinct kinds—£6,
Mr. A. Henderson, Trentham, Staffordshire.
Cass B—Collection of six dishes, distinct kinds—.C4, Mr.
A. Henderson, Trentham, Staffordshire.
Class C—Pine Apple, Queen, single fruit—X2, Mr. W.
Chapman, Streatham-common.
Class D—Pine Apple, single fruit, any variety but Queen
—£2, Mr. A. Henderson, Trentham, Staffordshire.
Class E—Grapes, boxes of 121 b weight—£3, Mr. J. Mere-
dith, Vine-cottage, Garston, near Liverpool.
Class F—Grapes, Black Hambro', three bunches—£llos,
Mr. J. Meredith, Vine-cottage, Liverpool.
Class G—Grapes, any other Black kind, three bunches—
£l 10s, Mr. W. Hill, gardener to R. Sneyd, Esq., Keele-
hall, Staffordshire.
Class H—Grapes, White Muscat, three bunches---£llox,
Mr. T. Frost, Preston-hall, Aylesbury, Kent.
Class I—Grapes, any other White kind, three bunches—
£l 10s, Mr. J. Wills, Outton-park, Tarporley, Cheshire.
Class J—Grapes, the largest bunch of any kind—£l, Mr.
J. Pottle, gardener to B. D. Colvin, Esq., Woodbridge,
Class K—Peaches and Nectarines, four dishes—£3, Mr.
A. Henderson, Trentham.
Class L--Peaches,:one dish—£l, Mr. A. Henderson,
Trentham.
Class M—Nectarines, one dish—£l, Mr. J. Monro, Rab-
ley Gardens, Barnet.
Class N—Melons, green-fleshed, single fruit-42, Mr. R.
Webb, Cullam House, Reading.
Class o—Melons, scarlet-fleshed, single fruit—£2, Mr. T.
Westbrook, Abingdon, Berks.
Class P—Figs, two dishes, 12 fruits each, distinct—£l
10s, Mr. A. Eman, gardener to Miss Troster, Epsom.
Class Q—Cherries, two dishes, in fifties—£2, Mr, T. Daw-
son, gardener to Earl Cowper, Panshanger.
Class R—Plums, three dishes, distinct kinds, 10 fruits
each—X2, Mr. S. Snow, gardener to Countess Cowper, Sil-
soe, Beds.
Class S—Apples, dessert, six dishes, distinct varieties, 12
fruits each—£2, Mr. T. Frost, Preston Hall, Kent.
Class T—Apples, kitchen, six dishes, distinct varieties,
12 fruits each—£2, Mr. R. Heather, Ember Grove, near
Kingston.
Class U—Pears, six dishes, distinct varieties, 12 fruits
each—X3, Mr. C. F. Harrison, Oatlands Place, Weybridge.
Class V—Pears, three dishes, distinct varieties, 12 fruits
each—£l 10s, Mr. C. F. Harrison, Oatlands Palace, Wey-
bridge.
Class W—Pears, single dish for weight-15s, Mr. T.
Frost, Preston Hall, Kent.
Class X—Pears, single dish, for flavour-15s, Mr. C.
Harrison, Oatlands Palace, Weybridge.
Class Y—Vines, in pots, four plants—X4, Messrs. H.
Lane and Son, Great Berkampstead.
Class Z—Miscellaneous—£l 10s, Messrs. H. Lane and
Son, Great Berkampstead (vines in pots),

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

. .
Vancouver Island and British Columbia : where
they are ; what they are ; and what they may
become, By Alexander Rattray, M.D., Edith,
R.N. Smith Elder, and Co.
Among the most useful of the works that have
recently appeared on these colonies, we must class
the one before us, which, unpretending as regards
bulk, has been compiled with the view of dissi-
pating whatever erroneous ideas may exist with
regard to these colonies, as well as of pointing out
in what their respective advantages consist, and of
indicating for what fields of enterprise they offer an
advantageous opening. Of the two colonies that of
Vancouver Island is the one in which the author is
most at home; he has evidently spared no pains to
convey accurate information respecting its climate
and capabilities, and he is extremely sanguine as to
its future. Still, he admits that our present know-
ledge of the island is very imperfect. A large part
of it remains to be explored; and it is the same with
British Columbia. "Fur•trading settlements have
long existed in its interior, which has therefore been
partially explored ; and the gold diggings of more
recent date have opened up the country in the
neighbourhood of the Fraser River; but the north-
east, north, and western districts, including nine-
tenths of its surface, are still unsettled, and much of
it unvisited." Up to 1859 these colonies were in
the hands of the Hudson's Bay Company, who dis-
couraged emigration, but in that year their charter
of exclusive trade expired, and active colonisation
commenced. The area of British Columbia is about
200,000 square miles, nearly twice that of Great
Britain, and its population is from 5,000 to 6,000,
of which the miners form about one-third. Whilst
the area of Vancouver Island is about 14;000 square
miles, and the white population of the island is
about 4,000 or 5,000. "A narrow but navigable
channel separates this island from the adjacent
colony, too narrow and intricate at its north end to
be of much use, but broad and deep along the south
coast and the lower half of the east coast of the
island, so as to permit of easy and safe access by the
Strait of Fu3a to Victoria, the commercial harbour
of the colony—to Esquimalt, its naval har-
bour—and by the Gulf of Georgia to Nanaimo
and its coal mines—and to the Fraser River,
the largest and most important stream in British
Columbia, and the principal outlet for the commerce,
and the agricultural, mineral, and other products of
the country." The climate of Vancouver Island,
of which the author gives an elaborate account, ap-
pears to be, on the whole, favourable. Thus from
the Ist of April, 1860, to the Ist of April, 1861, 187
days were fine, the remainder being dull, showery,
rainy, &c. Rain fell on 118 days, and snow fell on
12 days only, and then neither heavily nor for any
length of time. The highest summer temperature
was 72 deg. ; June, July, and August being the
warmest months of the year ; and the lowest was
231 deg., the coldest months being December,
January, and February. Southerly winds prevail,
as a rule, and occur in the proportion of 67 per cent.
The climate of Vancouver Island is much superior
to that of Canada, and " is milder and steadier than
that of England ; the summer longer, drier, and
finer, and the winter shorter and less rigorous. The
mean annual temperate of the former is higher by
1.38 deg. than that of the latter. During the sum-
mer months the hot weather of Vancouver Island
is not so oppressive, and the maximum tempera.
ture is less by 14 deg. than that of London; while
in the winter the tempers ture never falls so low at
Vancouver Island as in London ; and the annual
range of the two places differs by 151 deg. in favour
of Esquimait." From a table to show the relative
prevalence of rain at Esquimalt and London we
find that rain falls in London once every two days,
and at Vancouver Island only once in three days ;
and the climate is said to be remarkably healthy.
Vancouver Island, the author admits, is not likely
to acquire the agricultural prominence of California
and British Columbia, as neither its geological
structure nor general topographical features fit it
for an agricultural or pastoral colony.
" By far the greater part of the island is hilly and moun-
tainous, and, in fact, forms the prolongation of the Olympian
range, which, branching off from the Rocky Mountains to
the south of California, runs up along the coast, traversing
its entire length so as to form its back bone. A compara-
tively level peninsula, containing about 150 to 200 square
miles, exists at the southern extremity of the island, in the
neighbourhood of Victoria, formed by the Saanich and Sooke
inlets, on which several fine farms and sheep stations are
actively and profitably worked ; but this cannot be taken as
a criterion of what prevails over the island generally. The
probability is that such another tract, equal in size and fer-
tility to the Victoria peninsula just alluded to, is not to be
found over the entire island. The prospect from Victoria,
which may be taken as a fair example of the general fea-
tures of the island throughout, though fine, is by no means
inviting in a utilitarian point of view. It presents only a
series of lofty, undulating, pine-clad hills, which rise irre-
gularly one behind another, and have small intervening
valleys where patches of arable land exist ; but the hills
themselves aro generally so scantily covered with soil as
barely to afford root to the scattered and stunted trees on
their sides and summits."
Such land, however, as is fitted for cultivation is of
good quality ; all kinds of English grain and vege-
tables grow readily, and it is anticipated that by
ding,
habreirgea
hgimnrueweaahtlg greatly
esoig,mmuapei
rroecofdovtm:hadfeno. lower parts of the islands will
dr t
willa
b lFarme find
labourers,home,
m ready
a dayndmi
employment,
s y seems,
ulti-
mately become independent farmers. The wages at
present are £4 a month with rations, and 6s. 3d.
a day without. British Columbia,the riter states,
promises every facility for becominge
extensiveagreat
.agtrri
ac
cu
s-
tural and pastoral colony. The characteristics of the
interior, or agricultural region,
of fine woodland and of open prairie highly fertile,
and well adapted for farming or pastoral purposes,
aßnidv
ewr
whichl w at e
:ed a
ray
e rnd
se
sits drained—first,
entire
length
from Frasernorth
to south ; and, second, by an innumerable number
of lakes, many of which are of considerable size, but
the majority small and unimportant, and most
numerous towards its northein part. In the in-
terior the climate is fine, mild, and dry, and superior
to that along the Lower Fraser, which still forms
the principal route to the agricultural country."
The soil being dry, irrigation is necessary, but, as
the country abounds with streams, this is compara-
tively an easy task. The mineral wealth of both
colonies is great, that of Vancouver Island consist-
ing of building material and coal fields, whilst the
gold and silver mines of British Columbia are pro-
bablybavpnraoaanns cpeceoehutn
Irehivstmeeyorrih
e.
frceliiHsnael
industry
ut innegsod t the w
gives
rvoyenwill
sy the author
Asa
considers
manufacturing
thagt
attainkaenlyy
useful a
to
be most
iiongs
thts r
eapmsi tutc
to the
e rao.f
tive, and intending emigrants will do well to con-
sult his pages before they start.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, AUG. 21.

London Society.

Among the most amusing articles in this number
is that called " A Half Holiday with the Actors,"
in which the late fete at the Crystal Palace in aid
of the Dramatic College is described. The second
part of " Cricketana" is interesting. The proceed-
ings at the late Wimbledon rifle meeting furnish
matter for an article. There is" A Letter from the
LordDundreary," showing how he intended to pro-
pose, but was unluckily prevented. In " Beautiful
Lady Pearson," mercenary young ladies may find
a moral. "Philip Morton" is continued, and there
is, as usual, a liberal supply of illustrations.

Whatever may be the case at public meetings and
recruiting offices, Wall-street does not ardently
believe in the present good fortune or the future
prospects of the Republic. Yesterday and to-day
the air has been thick with rumours of disaster to
the army of General Pope. Stocks have gone down,
and gold has gone up, under the influence of evil
reports ; and, as Mr. Secretary Stanton and the
Military Supervisor of the Telegraph have not per-
mitted the transmission of any news that might
tend to allay public anxiety, rumour has had
the town to herself and made the most of
the opportunity. One or two things, how- I
ever, have been made certain by the concurrent
testimony of letters from independent and uncon-
nected authorities received from the seat of war
during the last few days. The first series of facts
to be received as authentic is that General M'Clellan
has safely withdrawn his whole force—sick and
wounded, bag and baggage, stores and ammunition
—from Harrison's Landing to Williamsburg and
Yorktown ; that he was neither harassed nor pur-
sued in the difficult operation ; and that he has
already commenced the evacuation of the Peninsula
and the transport of his forces to Fredericksburg to
co-operate with the army of Virginia under General
Pope for the defence of Washington. The second
series is that the Confederates were thoroughly
apprised of his plans—that if they did not attack
him it was not because they could not, but because
they would not; that their object was to allow him
to get away southward from Richmond, while they,
by a sudden movement northward, bore down upon
Gen. Pope, with the hope of crushing him before he
could be reinforced either by Burnside or M'Clellan.
It is the fear that this operation, conducted by the
redoubtable " Stonewall" Jackson, has been success-
ful, which has filled New York with uneasy fore-
bodings. The friends of the South—who are very
numerous in New York, in spite of the Provost-
Marshal and Fort Lafayette, and who may be de-
tected without the utterance of a treasonable syllable
or wish, and simply by the unctuous gusto with
which they detail the news that seems to be un-
favourable to the Federal cause—believe that if
Jackson defeat Pope he will make an easy prey of
Burnside the next day, and of M'Clellan the day
after—on the principle of " one down, the other
come on ;" that this done, Washington will be at
his mercy, and that Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet
will have nothing better to do than to take refuge
in New York while there is yet time for them to
escape—or, to use the favourite American slang of
the day, to " skedaddle." The friends of the North,
though not without misgivings, believe that Halleck,
who directs the new movements, and ordered the
retreat of M'Clellan, may be safely trusted to defeat
the bold strategy of Jackson ; and that if the worst
come to the worst, there will be a drawn battle for
the defence of the national capital. They argue
that the result of such a battle must be much more
favourable to the North than the South, because it
will allow time for the new levies to be brought
into the field, after which the combined armies of
Virginia and the Potomac, increased to 500,000
men, may march upon Richmond through the old
road of Manassas, and take it at their leisure.
But far more calculated to excite alarm than
even the news from Virginia is that which comes
from Kentucky and Tennessee. Mr. Lincoln needs
all the men he will raise under the new draught
for the retention of the Border States, and he
must levy, not alone 600,000 mercenaries by ex-
travagant bribes of bounty money, but a million
of stanch patriots, if he would bring the very " big

Kingston's Magazine for Boys.

This part of the " Rambles of Tom Bainbridge"
details the expedition against the Comanches. Bri-
tish Columbia is described. " The Bushrangers"
is concluded, and" Marmaduke Merry" is continued.

One Hundred Lectures on Ancient and Modern
Dramatic Poets. By B. C. Jones. Simpkin,
Marshall, and Co.
The eleventh number is now before us, and the
theme is " Iphigenia in Aulis."

FLOWER SHOW AT THE CRYSTAL
PALACE. .

Notwithstanding the threatening state of the
thermometer in the early part of the day, the
weather remained particularly favourable to the
autumnal exhibition of flowers and fruit, which took
place yesterday at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.
The directors claim the advantage of this establish-
ment being especially adapted to floricultural exhi-
bitions, from the fact that the most elegantly attired
ladies can gain access to the building without the
slightest danger to their costume. This advantage,
however, was scarcely appreciable on this occasion,
for the sun shone so genially upon the beautiful
grounds that it was almost to be regretted that the
greensward had not been chosen for the exhibition
rather than the floor of the transept. But in what-
ever light the building or the flower show may be
regarded, it can hardly be doubted that, amongst
the many agreeable purposes to which the Crystal
Palace may be devoted, there is none which more
fully displays its beauties and advantages than an
exhibition of flowers and fruit. All the arrange-
ments yesterday were carried out with that good
taste and judgment which generally characterise
the special attractions of this institution ; and the
result was that a very large assemblage of visitors
were enabled to enjoy one of the most agreeable
promenades which have been presented by the
directors during the present season. As regards
the "show" itself, it would seem invidious to make
experience certainly
justifies comparisons
t h e hat,n
; but
testing the relative
merits of the flowers and fruit, the latter might
remark
that,
fairly claim the ascendancy. The judges appeared
to be unanimous in their opinion that the present
was one of the most satisfactory displays of the
kind which has been seen in this building since it
first opened its resources to Bach attractive objects.
The collection of fruit was conspicuous both for
variety and quality, and whether the standard of
merit was taken to be " flavour" or " weight," it
appeared that the most stringent requirements en-
joined by the rules were amply fulfilled. There were
two pines—one weighing 71bs., the other 6illas.
—exhibited by Mr. Solomons, of Covent•garden—
which were sufficiently tantalising to call forth ex-
pressions of the most wishful admiration ; and there
were some tempting peaches, sent by Mr. Monro,
of Barnet, which, though not stupendous in size,
were of a complexion so delicately marked, that
those who regarded them allowed the appeal to the
eye to overcome any desire to gratify the sense of
taste. The grapes and plums also presented many
exaggerated specimens of those fruits, the dimen-
sions of the former being, in some instances, so
tremendous, that one might almost imagine they
sought to vie, in point of magnitude, with the larger
proportions of the latter. Amongst the exhibitors
many names might be honourably mentioned, but
it would be invidious to individualise where so
much excellence—or at least meritorious endeavour
to attain excellence—was perceptible in every direc-
tion. Of the flowers, the most conspicuous were
the large collection of the gladiolus, in which class
the prize was won by Mr. Youett, of Great Yar-
mouth, whose share in the exhibition of this flower
was such as almost to convey the impression that
that distinguished floriculturist had devoted all his
energies to the exclusive culture of this particular
plant. There was also a good assortment of the
same flower from Paris, but as these had evidently
suffered from the effects of a sea-voyage, and as they
were made to show their delicate heads from the
necks of beer-bottles, it cannot be said that they
were in a "fair way" to compete for the honours
of the day with the more healthy-looking products
of our own land. The asters, German and French
(quite as distinct from each other in form as the
German and French language are in sound), were
conspicuous for thetr manifold beauties and colour
and texture, while the dahlias: hollyhocks, and ver-
benas (to say little of the roses, which may now be
said to have "seen their best days"), presented such
a combination of beauties that it was impossible for
the most casual observer to wander from one stand
to another without regretting the necessity which
mo satisfactory,a
d existed for constantly changing the direction of
the eye. Considering that this was an autumnal
show, and that the weather has not been quite so
genialst throughout
nthtehosseeaswohno aasrehnoorw liticunlgtuerriisntgs
could desire, this exhibition was, in every respect,
in the :metropolis whilst their more favoured
brethren are basking at the sea side will be glad to
learn that the collection will continue on view for
the whole of this day.
The following is a list of the first prizes awarded
in each class

CARDINAL ANTONELLI ON ECCLES'-
. ASTICAL SPOLIATION.

Cardinal Antonelli has addressed the following
circular to the diplomatic body :

" Rome Aug. 6.

" The genius of rapacity which animates revolutionary
governments has at all times manifested itself, more or
less, by the war it declares against the Church, with a '
view to rob it of its temporal possessions. To drive monks
from their cloisters in order to appropriate those buildings;
to confiscate eceesiastical property, under the pretence of
its belonging to the state, to be arbitrarily disposed of—
such is the system pursued by governments framed on the
subversive principles of the revolution. With the misdeeds
of the governments which have preceded it, the conduct of
that government which, by an unjustifiable invasion and a
flagrant outrage against the immutable laws of justice, and
by trampling under foot the rights of their respective legi-
timate sovereigns, has subjected to itself several states of
Italy, thoroughly agrees.
" The arbitrary measures of that aggressive power, seiz-
ing on the property of religious establishments (treated by
it so hostilely and dispersed), furnished the subject of the
note which the undersigned Cardinal Secretary of State ad-
dressed in April, last year, to the hon. members of the dip-
lomatic body at the Holy See. That communication had
for its object the prevention of the inhabitants of the coun-
try as well as foreigners from purchasing any of the pro-
perty which the said government might offer for sale, by
warning them that all such purchases were null and void.
On that subject the undersigned pointed out how iniquitous,
as regards justice and honesty, the purchase of such pro-
perty would be. He afterwards mentioned the provisions
of canon law which, with a view to defend and render in-
violate the patrimony of the Church, visit with censure and
other severe punishments, both the usurpers of ecclesiasti-
cal property and all who in any manner assist or participate
in those sacrilegious spoliations. At the same time he ob-
served that every one had been warned against those pur-
chases by the solemn words of the Pope in the allocution
of the 17th December of the previous year, an allocution
in which his Holiness complained of and protested
against the projected sale of ecclesiastical property, and
loudly reproved and declared null and void all that
might be done by the usurping government, regardless of
the sacred rights and inviolable patrimony of
the Church, and to the detriment of the religious corpora-
tions and of their properties. From that declaration evi-
dently results the nullity and the absolute invalidity of the
purchase of property made by those who have usurped it
without any right.
" Since, however, in spite of the just protests of the
august Chief of the Church, the government which projected
that unjust spoliation persists in carrying it into execution,
and that in consequence it puts forward different plans for
effecting sales of ecclesiastical property, the undersigned
finds himself compelled to return by the present note to a
subject so much to be regretted, and once more to declare,
in the name of the Holy Father, that whoever shall con-
clude any contracts with the usurping government, touch-
ing ecclesiastical property, whether it be sold or let on lease,
or given as guarantee to the creditors of the said govern-
ment, or otherwise disposed of, will render himself an ac-
complice in attacks against the legitimate property of
another, and in a sacrilegious violation of the ecclesiastical
patrimony, and incur the canonical censures above alluded
to, and find himself liable to have all the contracts com-
pletely nullified conformably to the solemn warning above-
mentioned of the Holy Father, warning to which his Holi-
ness intends to give full confirmation. To that end the
Holy Father declares, in order that it may serve as a gene-
ral rule and close the door against any pretext, that the
religious corporations, ecclesiastical establishments, and in
general all institutions who are unjustly despoiled, that they
always retain their rights over the property taken from
them, and that the Church will never cease to claim the
restitution from their unlawful possessors.
"In addressing to your excellency, as well as to your
honourable colleagues, the present communication, the ob-.
' ject of which is above mentioned, the undersigned avails
I himself, &c.,

job" which he has undertaken to a successful close.
Kentucky has been invaded by the Confederates
at several points. General G. W. Morgan, of the
Fedel army,—not to be confounded with the
dashing guerilla leader, General John Morgan,—
is sorely pressed in front and rear. Buell's rail-
road communication at Huntsville, Alabama, are
cut off, and the whole of the conterminous States
north of the 35th parallel of latitude swarm with
guerilla bands, well trained and mounted, and sup-
ported by the ardent sympathy and ready encou-
ragement of the people. Ohio and Indiana are
alarmed, and both are sending rapid reinforcements
to the support of the Unionists across the Ohio,
so that bloody events may be daily expected in
those rich but unhappy countries. In Tennessee
a body of Confederates, 900 strong, under a
guerilla leader named Woodward, have taken
the important town of Clarksville, at the con-
fluence of the Red River with the Cumberland,
and but 50 miles from Nashville, where Governer
Johnson, formerly a tailor and afterwards a
senator, endeavours to rule with as inflexible a rod
as Butler at New Orleans. There is also a report
that Fort Donelson— of which the capture by the
Federals in February last was the commencement of
a run of luck that now seems to have turned in
favour of the Confederates—has been abandoned as
untenable. The names of guerilla chieftains new
to fame are continually appearing in the journals.
each at the head of hundreds, and in some instances
of thousands of men. They take towns and vil-

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY FROM A
LOAN OFFICE.

(From the Liverpool difervury.)
William Lewis, the young nian remanded on the
charge of being concerned. in the robbery of £219
in gold from the office of the Liverpool Loan and
Investment Company, Duke-street, and Ann Jones,
his aunt, also remanded on the charge of receiving
part of the money knowing it to have stolen, were
again brought up. Mr. Superintendent Kehoe,
stating that the young fellow Thomas had not been
apprehended, asked that the prisoners might be
further remanded. He also informed the magistrate
that an officer of the London police had been dis-
missed in consequence of not having apprehended
Thomas when he had an opportunity of doing so.
As this statement requires some little explanation,
it may be mentioned that a few days after the rob-
bery took place Mr. Rehoe received information
from the metropolis that a person answering the
description of the young man forwarded from Liver-
pool was then staying at the Tavistock Hotel,
Covent-garden, and was passing under the name of
Trevor. Mr. Kehoe immediately telegraphed to
London requesting that an active intelligent officer
might be sent to the Tavistock to apprehend M.
Trevor, at the same time forwarding for his gui_
the
day or two after the robbery the detective police of
dance a
gentleman correct,
te andd. most
Liverpool intercepted a telegr.ani from Thomas, sent
to his mother—the female
wan
Prisoner—informing her
that he was staying at the Tavistock Hotel, and
had assumed the nano of Trevor, and directing
her to give "Bill "—meaning the prisoner
Lewis sufficient money to take him to Lon-
don ; so that there was not the slightest
doubt that Mr. Trevor at the Tavistock,
and Thomas Thomas the Liverpool tb!,ef, were one
and the same Person. According 'to Mr. Kehoe's
supposed intelligent request, a officer was sent to
for
the hotel the purpose of apprehending the
There
f
scoundrel. he -o'!:nd the so-called Mr. Trevor
in
company with a young man from Manchester.
The manner in which the functionary went about
bi,3 business certainly does not
exhibit much acute-
toss on his part. He saw at once that Thomas was
the fellow he Wanted, went up to him, and inquired
if his name was
the officer as
Trevor. The thief said it was, and
£219 thentold him that he wanted him for a
robbery ofat Liverpool. With the greatest
effrontery Thomas replied, " Oh, you are
mistaken,
officer ; I am Captain Charles Trevor, residing near
Llandudno?' The detective told him if he was
Captain Trevor he had a message to apprehend him.
" MY good fellow," said Thomas, "I assure 3 on you
are mistaken; but I don't blame you for trying to
do your' duty. What will you have to drink ?"
Mr. Detective took some porter, remained drinking
for some time with Thomas and his friend, and at
length departed from the hotel, leaving the young
men there puffing their '
cigars. When he was gone
Thomas told the young man that he had purposed
going to the Exhibition, but he thought he should
not go then, and wished him good night, also tell-
ing him he might him in
see the morning, or he
might not see him again for ten years. Thomas
then proceeded to a barber's shop, and was there
divested of his moustache and a slight hirsute ap-
pendage to his chin, and nothing has since been
heard of him. Under these circumstances the police
officer—a sergeant of detectives—was very properly
dismissed. The prisoners were remanded.

lages not marked upon the maps, but which are re-
presented as thriving and populous, and valuable in
a strategic point of view, from tbeir command of
important lines of railway communication. It is
palpable that hard work has to be done in this
region, and that all the efforts of Mr. Lincoln's Go-
vernment and Generals, and all the men he is in a
position to levy, will be needed to keep those States
in the Union, and that the boast of the Southern
President that he could protract the war for 2°
years after the fall of Richmond was not uttered
idly, nor without a full knowledge of his meals,,and
is
opportunities and the temper of the people, i`
quite
no wonder that Wall-street is alarmed, tiloOghteforeign eyes it is a wonder that Americans
gene-
rally do not fully understand and appreciate the
the fortiter
tLey are
magnitude of the contest in which
as seem
in re,
en-
gaged, and from which their own boa
incompetent to extricate them.
General Butler, having tried
i, to be recalled from
without any suaviter in ?node,
d b
rode y General Dix.
New Orleans, and to be supe
however, that General
It is not to be assumed,
the
the Government has
Butler is in disgrace, altbn;,
eof t gold at the office of
disapproved his seizure
ordered it to be restored.
the Dutch Consul, erzhas done
all the good he can
The assumption is be and that he -
"'
needed else-
do in the Gulf eiti. is
his peculiar genius in the
where to display
ie It 'is even hinted that heeoer--
-eOl,. may
cion of the k: governor of New York, in which
be made military Lafayette will not be large
case Fort .. enough for the
Le will send to it ; and Fort
inmates uTompkins,
completed, and looking
nearly . at its sister Bastille
the opposite shore on Staten
fromlsland, will have
to be prepared with all haste for the accommoda-
tio of the countless rebels whom he can pick up in
Broadway, if he has a mind to be severe. New
York has as yet felt none of the miseries of the war,
but if General Butler be appointed to supersede its
legal authorities
it may fare hard with the men of
the Empire city, to say nothing of the ladies; and
both may learn to their sorrow, that a dress parade,
flaunting banners, and martial music in Broadway
are but one side of the war medal, and convey no
idea of the gloom and horror of the other.
All the contactors--saddlers, harness-makers,
sutlers, shipbuilders, gun manufacturers, powder
millers, ironfounders, army clothiers, and shoe-
makers, provision and cattle dealers,--in fact, all
the nouveaux riches who have profited by the war
and Mr. Chase's illimitable paper issues—from five

"G. ArrrorrELLi."

CABMEN ON CAB-LAW.

(From Punch.)

The Cabmen of the metropolis, desirous only of obtain.
ing their just rights, and of obtaining them by legitimate
means, have abandoned the idea of a strike (on Mr.
Punch's hint about licences), and new wish to act reason-
ably. They have therefore drawn up the following heads
of the Law, as they wish it to stand, and if public opinion
is with them, they hope to get the Cab-Act amended next
Session in conformity with the following memoranda :-
1. Free trade in cabs. Every driver to charge what he
likes.

2. Tradesmen in other departments stick one price on the
goods in the window and take another, and the Cabman
ought to be allowed to do the same.
3. No person to ask for a ticket.
4. No number or badge of humiliation to be worn.
5. No number to be affixed to the cab.

OUR DUCAL HOUSES.—With the exception of
those two ducal titles which have been won by a Churchill
and a Wellesley respectively, and to some extent at least, t
few others which owe their existence to King Chailes 11.,
the rest of the titles which stand in the highest rank of our
nobility are mostly the Jesuit of the fusion of two, throe, or
more fortunes together by the marriage of heiresses. Thus
the proud Dukedom of Norfolk has absorbed into itself the
castle and broad acres of the Fitzalans, Earls of
Arundel, and the Duke of Richmond has added a large
Scottish rent-roll to his English estates, through his
grandmother, the heiress of the Dukes of Gordon ;
thus, the noble house of Buckingham (we speak of half
a century ago), had grown great in the same way, by
the addition of the Temple to the Grenville property,
and, subsequently, by absorbing the inheritance of the
princely Chandos, and that of the old Earls Nugent; the
Duke of Buccleuch has united in himself, by a similar pro-
northern
oess, the wealth of the Queensberries, the Douglasseli, and
the Montagues; and thus, too, the Duke of Sutherland, of
more recent times, has incorporated together with the,
process in the latter case, that,
ancient inheritance of the Levesons of Staffordshire. ar
the Gowen of Yorkshire, the entire estates belonging to
unable to digest a further
two Scottish heiresses, who brought as their marriage
portions the lordship of nearly the whol© of two
counties, those of Sutherland and C romartY. indeed, so
thrown off two,
vast has been the absorbing
as if sated with its wealth, end
supply, thelast-named
most a 1
younger cadet branches, each 1T113,3, endowed, in the-
ducal house has
persons of the Earl of Ellesmere and. Earl Granville.—
(Ace a freek...... !--_.:-._,.:

6. No Magistrate to hear a case against a Cabman unless
the complainant has at least four witnesses, and gives
security for costs.

7. No Cabman to be obliged to go in a direction contrary
to his wish.

8. No stranger to interfere in any dispute between a
Cabman and his fare.
0. No gentleman, or male person, to interfere, wile° 5
cabman has brought home ladies, and there is a difference
as to
10 , t
b;"'he fare. _.,;ity of
Any person under-paying a cabman to be
felony. man to be
11. Any person using harsh language to cab
guilty of misdemeanour. tablished, to sit
12. A court of retired cab drivers to be es
and hear any complaints by drivers,
court to be final. and the decision of such
wet or hot day, or
13. Treble fares to be allowed ea
id court shall ordain.on
fl
id
holiday, or at any other time the

is no
A glass of good wine
advantage
with
CHEAP AND GOOD WOl.-'
,tv ; the rich, f
longer the exclusives roPe-
will be enabled to tak°er
very moderate incom by the Vintage Wine vantage of
Company,
00t
excellent sherry at
the inducements held
the
company includes other sherries, of high
who are now supplying' an 18s. per dozen .
The trade of
character, and also a good sound Spanish
wines are really excellent.—Cit
Port at 00s. per
dozen. These
referred to can be had onl y Press.
[The
wines here y at the company's
officeo, 14, DloomsburY-ntreet.]

cents upwards—are exceedingly anxious that hosti-
lities should continue, and consequently that volun •
teering, rather than the draught, should fill up the
ranks of the old Army of the Potomac and form
two or three new armies of double the number.
That enormous bounties—Federal, local, and indi-