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London, England, 1870-01-22 00:00:00

THE Mit, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1670,

wORTIION NOTTS.
THE (ECUMENICAL comm.
A Rome correspondent, writing on' the lith, says
that the petition in favour of the definition has been
signed by 350 bishops, at the head of the list being the
names of the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Cilicia. Neither
the Archbishops of Malines nor Westminster have signed the
requisition list, although they have given their adherence to
the dogma. The definition does not contain the word
Infallibility, but it is identical in every way with the
formula adopted by the provincial councils of Prague,
Westminster and the rest. Some of the French bishops
have wished to make it stronger, but it is held to be
sufficiently explicit. A counter petition is under signature
at Mgr. Dupanloup's, and about a hundred bishops have
signed it, some of them with the reserve that they will
submit to the decision of the Council, whatever it
be. The real struggle is now only beginning,
and the acceptance or rejection of the present
requisition is the Rubicon of the Council. It ,
seems probable on reviewing all the circumstances that
a decision on the groat question before the Council will be
given in the next three weeks, and the great interest
will, therefore, centre in the next week's sittings. There
are, however, a number of Fathers who are
timid about signing either requisition, and these will un-
doubtedly vote with the majority when the time comes
for putting it to the test. The Spanish bishops have
signed the requisition en masse, with their kindred episco-
pate in South America and the colonies. The Opposition
is strongest in Bohemia and Hungary.
THE FRENCH EMPEROR.
The Paris correspondent of the Turin Gazette has rather
strange notions of affairs in France. It is his opinion
that the recent changes which have taken place
are due to the machinations of the Emperor,
whose scheme has been skilfully designed and
ably executed. MM. Darn, Buffet, and Chevandier
de ValdrOme are all men who are most unpopular with the
Emperor, and may be ranked among his most determined
enemies. The sovereign, who is well aware of this, does
not mean to win with them, but wishes to render them
unpopular by making them fail in their efforts to carry on
the Government. He expects to profit hereafter by their
less to dishearten the adherents of the Due d'Aumale,
and to facilitate the resumption of arbitrary power. The
writer thinks that between Imperialism and Radicalism
the Ministry will never be able to hold their ground, and
that the course of events has furthered the project
of the Emperor Napoleon. The ultra-Democrats aro in
such a state of agitation that any sudden or unexpected
event may stir them up to rebellion. The result of such
a conflict cannot be doubted, the army is more devoted
than ever to the Emperor, and it will speedily quell any
disturbance. From this confused state of things and con-
flicts of opinion, Personal Government will, according to
this writer, emerge with increased strength.
A TREATY OF COMMERCE.
The North East Correspondence publishes a telegram
from Berlin, stating that a Treaty of Commerce has been
concluded between Prussia and China. Count Bismarck
has approved the explanation of the existing treaties,
given by Mr. Burlin,ghame, and has recognised China as
a member of the family of nations having international

rights.

thanked btod,- however. - int trom a report wnien
Convocation had published, it appeared that
the clergy of the Church of England were beginning
to take thought as to how they might join the
laity in stayiug the dreadful evil. In his
humble judgment they needed a more comprehen-
sive arrangement, in which there might be a good
organisation, that should include in it total abstainers,
who under certain circumstances favoured and helped
what he would call temperance. Tie could only say
that should God put it into their hearts to bring the
subject in a comprehensive way before the -City,
he should humbly ask to take part in so great a
movement.

THE NEW BISHOP OF ST. ASAPII.
The Church Times announces the new Bishop of
St. Asaph. Mr. Gladstone has fixed upon the Rev.
William Basil Jones, Archdeacon and Prebendary of
York and Vicar of Bishopsthorpo. Mr. Jones is de-
scribed as a High Churchman. " Better known as
an antiquarian than its a theologian" (says the
Standard), "it is probably owing to his
papers and his works on Cymric antiquities
that he owes the offer of the see.' His
principal theological work has been the "Plain Com-
mentary," in the production of which he was asso-
ciated with Archdeacon Churton. The Archdeacon
is the author, among other works, of "Vestiges of
the Gael in Gwynedd," " Christ's College, Brecon; its
History, &c.," " The History and Antiquities of St.
David's," and several papers on Welsh antiquities.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

In Washington, it is poi-itively asserted that a
Message from the President will be laid before Congress
when it reassembles, explaining the Semana Bay lease
and recommending the absorption of the whole Dominican
country by the U. S. Government, and also the ratifica-
tion of the treaty with Denmark, which will give posses-

siun of the Island of St. Tho:nas. The report from San
Domingo was that $1,500,000 would buy the pubic build-

ings and cover all the expenses of the San Domingo,
transfer, the country coming in as a Territory not as a
State. With regard to St. Thomas the Senate Foreign
Affairs Committee have considered the propriety of ex-
tending the time for the ratification of the treaty, which
the President has power to do. The committee. are di-
vided, but probably will accept Mr. Sumner's view, that
Mr. Seward has in eome degree pledged the Government.
The Committee has, we now learn, concluded to recom-

mend the immediate payment in the terms of the Treaty
to Denmark ; but from the tone of some New York news-

papers it is'evident that the secret treaty with Baez will
be opposed. The loans raised in England, for which pro-

perty even on the peninsula of Samana has been pledged,
are brought forward and an expla,natiOn demanded. The

Tribune alludes to that negotiated by Messrs. Lawson and

Co. as tbo work of a Mr. Ilarimont, " whose Ger-
man name is said to be Hersberg," adding some-
thing more we do not choose to reproduce. Through

Havannah news was transmitted from San Domingo
to the following effect :—" General Lnperon and Gene-
ral Cabral have issued a proclamation protesting against
the sale of the town and Bay of Sernana to the United
States, and declaring the act illegal and contrary to ti;e
wishes of the nation and to the Constitution, which for-

bids alienation of the national territory." A report that
General Tate, the Haytian Minister, was negotiating the
sale of St. Nicholas as a naval station, is contradicted, no

part of Baytian territory being on sale or for lease. Tbo

United States are to receive commercial advantages in

return for guaranteeing the security of St. Nicholas, the
famous mole being established as a free commercial

entrepot.

Mr. David Chadwick, M.P.,- addressed the New
York Chamber of Commerce on the subject of silk on the
sth inst. The value of the raw material exceeds two bun-

drc d millions of dollars annually. In 1859 the United States
purchased French silk manufactures up to twenty- seven
millions. from the disease in the silk worm and the
internecine war in China and Japan the price of silk Lad
doubled within a few years. The Silk Supply Associa-
ticn are introducing from Japan an inferior class of silk
resembling, but superior to, alpaca. Mr. Chadwick de-
monstrated the possibility of transporting silk in the
cocoon state anywhere without damage. Turning from
this subj,ct Mr. Chadwick discussed railway and other in-
vestments in America, of which he represented $30,000,000
He encountered great difficulties in endeavouring to col-
lect any portion of this capital. He described the dread
of American investments which has taken possession of
English investors, a want of confidence mainly arising
from the bad character of the New 1 ork judiciary, and
the decisions of the State Supreme Court, and recom-
mended the passage of a law referring- all railway matters
to the Federal, and not the State Courts.
Mr. Chadwick went to America we believeon behalf
of the Atlantic and Groat Western Railway. Whatever may
have been his influence this mueh is certain, that since his
arrival the Erie clique have been less fortunate in their
legal actions. The line has been recovered from the hands
I of the clique, and Judge Hitchcock appointed Receiver
throughout its entire length. The Erie is to pay the rental
under the lease, 30 per cent. of all the year's proceeds, and
litigation ceases. But it is easier to got promises to pay
than payment, and the Erie has recently failed to observe
its ohligaticui with the Boston, Hartf ot d, and Erie Railway
Company, whose January coupons, endorsed by the Erie,
have not been met. The Atlantic and Great Western
elected 21 directors at their annual meeting to serve dur-
ing the ensuing year. Among them are Tatlow Jackson
of Philadelphia, James M‘Henry, London, and S. L. M.
Barlow, Rush C. Hawkins, William li. Taylor, and Joseph
Larocque of New York. With the exception of two names
the old board is re-chosen, notwithstanding the efforts of
the Erie interest to elect a ticket of their own, In the
case of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, Mr. Ram-
say has had a judgment in his favour, and he has been
installed with the old board in the direction-- the receiver
appointed by the Governor pending the Judge's decision,
which is very severe on the Erie, having surrendered his
charge to these officers.
Among the cable despatches to the New York
press is one from Pat is, dated Jan. 7, announcing the arri-
val there from Lisbon of Captain S. B. Thompson and Mr.
S. F. Van Choate, engineer, the authothel agents of the
American Cable Company, having secur al the right to
land and operate an ocean cable on the Azores. The wires
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of this company aro to proceed direct from New York,
without intervening land lines, to the Azores; thence in
a direct line through the English Channel to a point near
Brie liton, England, and thence with two lateral branches,
one landing eta poi.at near Havre, France, nearly opposite
Brighton, and the other at a point on the coast of Holland,
near the Hague. The American Company anticipates being
able to transmit with more certainty and despatch, and as
tt e cable runs direct to New York, from peint to point
without land lines, it will be cheaper. The exclusive use
of important inventions will, it says, enable one wire to do
the work of two. The company is formed under anettet of
Congress, and under the laws of the New York State ou
the reciprocity principle too. Part of the stock has been
paid up-in cash, and the rest will be forthcoming as re-
quired during the constriction of the cable, which, it is
said, will be laid during the coming year. The establish-
ment of this company shows how vain the effort is to
amalgamate existing lines, for no sooner is one gobbled up
than another is projected.
The report of the Special Congressional Com-
mittee on the U. S. Navigation interests will be worthy
the attention of European shipowners, who ought to pro-
cure copies as soon as it is out. Besides the voluminous
evidence taken in the chief shipping ports of the Republic, it
will contain letters and reports from American shipowners
and builders, and interesting details forwarded by the
American Consuls from Great Britain, France, Germany,
Denmark, and Canada. Thus it will not only give the
rise and fall of the American Ocean Carrying trade with-
in the last twenty years, but the creation of the French
steam marine, and its rapid and unexpected growth.
Great Britain employs nearly 3,000 steamships, measuring
2,000,000 tons ; 134 lines convey mails and goods to every
quarter of the globe, and of the vessels 400 are subsidised
steamers available as required by English law for naval
purposes, being convertible into cruisers or troopships, or
both. The Hon. Freeman Morse, no doubt., has contri-
buted to this important Congressional Report, both as
being well informed by previous study of the subject, and
as the U. S. Consul-General in Great Britain.
By telegram it is reported that Ohio, Kansas,
Minnesota, and Rhode Island have ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment. There were grave doubts about Ohio when
the mail left. The reformers, mostly from Hamilton
County, were said to hold the balance of power in the
Legislature, and to favour the Democratic side. What
they would do about the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend-
ment appears to have
puzzled the public; but as it seems
to have hinged on them, we presume they voted for the
ratification. The Missouri Legislature ratified the Fif-
teenth Amendment on the 7th January, the vote standing
—Senate, 22 to 3 ; House, 88 to 34. The first act, how-
ever, of the New York State Legislature was to adopt a re-
solution in accordance with the Tammany programme
rescinding the Fifteenth Amendment. The chief objec-
tion expressed in the debate at Albany was its undue inter-
ference with State Rights, and the objectionable claim of
Congress to over-ride all other Legislatures. Surprise is
expressed at the Democrats going so far, the expectation I
being that they would have confined their action to mere
threats. The power, however, is disputed of a State Legis-
lature being able to rescind a ratification when once made.
Such cases before occurred, and a Bill has been introduced.
in Congress to settle the matter henceforth.
The New York Tribune says that Sir Curtis
Lampson ought to have known better than to write to the
London Times asserting Governor Hoffman's responsibility
for James Fisk, jun., as the latter comes much nearer to
being responsible for Governor Hoffman ; "and besides
that, Mr. Fisk is a man whose moral attainments and.
social excellences are alike the wonder and the envy of a
city that is not worthy of him. Since the days when
Englishmen expected to encounter buffaloes in Broadway,
and the painted Comanches on the peaceful Delaware, we
have seen nothing iu an English paper about America so
absurd as this imputation upon the character of Air. James
Fisk, jun."
Although we have not heard much lately on the
subject of the proposed Int3rnatioual Exhibition to be held
at Washington, we learn that the arrangements are pro-
gressing favourably. A great meeting was to have taken
place in that city on the Bth inst., at which the President
had promised to attend, and, if necessary, he was prepared
to double his subscription of 51,000.
A banquet end ball are to be given at Washing-
ton on the 27th inst. in honour of Prince Arthur. Mr.
Thornton, the British Minister, has engaged the Masonic
Hall for that purpose. His Royal Highness was to leave
Montreal last Thursday for New York, travcliiug in the
private car of the President of the New York Central
Railroad. The Daily News has an article en the subject.
It considers the one thing wanting in Eugland's rela-
tions with the Uvited States is that the people of
the two countries should lccoty more of each other.
"Ties of consanguinity stretch f !ent every humble street
in our great towns and cities to all parts of the Western
world, and keep up a link of active sympathy between the
two peoples. But the upper class's have no such ties.
America is strange to them, and they are strange to Ame-
rica. It is this lamentable ignorance of the ruling classes
on both sides which has caused the differences which have
from time to time arisen between us." It is thought that
the Prince after leaving Washington will visit Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and New' York.
The Erie shareholders held a general meeting
yesterday at the Cannon-street terminus, to take steps for
bringing their case before the Federal Courts of the
United States. Mr. Henry N. Raphael wag called to the

chair, and presented the report of the Protectiort tient-

mittee. Among other things it stated that the shares were

practically held in England, tbo number being 500,000 out

of the 750,000, as the Americans are too wise to in-
vest money in so mismanaged an undertaking. An

agent should be sent out to prosecute vigorously,
backed by high legal authority in America. It was
asserted justice could not bo obtained there, but it had
not yet been demanded. The contribution of one shil-
ling a share would secure ample funds. Mr. Satter-
thwaite moved that the meeting adopt the report. In

reply to a gentleman, who desired to know something
about the agent, the chairman said he would have the

highest introduction to influential houses ; also from the

FOreign- office ; and the object was to preserve the pure
English character of the case so as to test the rights of
the foreign shareholders. Mr. Gowan, in seconding the
resolution, observed that he felt sure justice would he
obtained in the Federal Courts of America. It is not
yet decided who the agent is to be. We highly approve of

.he action of these shareholders, for it is more sensible to

,est the matter in a Federal Court than to keep up th,o

howl in London that a foreign investor in the State of

New York has no legal remedy.

There is a report that the late discount firm of
Overend and Gurney is to be resuscitated, as the City

cannot get on without its pet bill-broking "house at the
corner," as it was fondly termed. The name, too, is now
so redolent of joint-stock enterprise that it ought to be
preserved and set up as a monument in some conspicuous
place within the golden circle. The difficulty of the com-
piler, say for an almanac, who undertakes to tell what
great event happened on each day of the year, will readily
be seen when he arrives at Maylo. Before him lies the puz-

zling choice—" 0 uthreak of 'lndian Mutiny, 1857," •'Fail are
of Overend, Gurney, 1866, and " Commencement of the groat

fraud panic." Another pot London institution we learn
is not dead at all, but only sleeping—the Qaeen's Messenger.

Like the Owl, it merely awakes for the festivities of the
metropolis, for the gay season, or rather, as its proprietor
asserts, for, the Parliamentary session. No doubt the
Lords will be glad to learn that the Meisenger is again
going about, and as they have too quiet a time of it, no
injury will be done in rousing them up. It is all very well
to abuse a scurrilous paper, but those who ought to be
abused, are its readers. if libellous or obscene literature
prevails, it is due to the immorality of the public, and it is
mere hypocrisy for a regular reader to denounce the pub-
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lication. The publication is so much wrapping paper, if
not read, an I no one can continue to print who does not
fii.d others to read, for the work is laborious and costly in
the extreme.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Mr. Thornton, the Bri-
tish Minister, has written to Portland, Maine, that he
been directed to visit that city as the representative of the
Queen on the arrival of the remains of George Pea-

body ; also that the Admiralty thought the Monarch
and the Plymouth will be twenty-eight days on the
passage. if 6J, the vessels will not arrive until Janu-
ary 18th.—The family of the late Mr. Stanton have gone
to Steubenville, Ohio. Ex-Secretary Stanton's full name
was Edwin Macy Stantou.—The Hon. D. W. Voorhees,
M.C., is confined to his bed by an attack of rheumatism.—
Jnige Haynes, of the Superior Court of Ohio, has ,re-
signed, for the purpose of entering into a law partnership
with C. L. Vallaudighain.—Professor Agassiz has re-
covered from his illness and is ready to lecture again.—

Little, the individual who three months ago attempted to
force his way into the President's mansion, for the avowed
purpose of taking President Grant's life, has since at-
tempted to murder his mother in Newark, New Jersey.—
An Ohio glass-blower having inherited $1,700,000 in
England, borrowed money and has gone after it.—The
Hon. Thcop!lilus Parsons has resigned the Professorship
of Law in Harvard University, which he has held for Vie
last twenty-two years.—The yacht Sannysid3 belonging to
Walter Hatch, of Portland, was recently wrecked at Beau-

fort, South Carolina, on her way to Florida; she will be
a total loss.—The Popo was once a missionary in Peru.—
Among the appointments dated last Saturday, Jan. 15,
made by the Queen to the most distinguished Order of
St. Minhael and St. George, was John Rose, Esq., late
Finance Minister of Canada, to be Ordinary Member of
the Second Class or Knight Commander of the said Order.
—Judge Sanderson of the Supreme Court of California
has resigned.—E. Lopez, a eon of the Paraguayan Presi-
dent., arrived in Washington, Jan. s.—Generals Banks and
Burnside arrived at New York in the steamer Java, Jan.
6.- Senator Wilson is going to write a magazine article
about the late Edwin M. Stanton.—Governor Geary, of
PeneSylvanitt, has appointed Brigadier- General Alexander
L. Russel to be Adjutant-General, in place of General D.
B. M'Creary, resigned.—Fernando Wood, who was re-
cently dangerously ill, has entirely recovered.—Madatne
Ristori is said to have made 570,000 in Buenos Ayres.—
The President was to hold his first public reception on
Thursday, the 13th inst., between the hours of eight and
ten p.m. Duo notice of his subsequent receptions will
be given through the press. Mrs. Grant's receptions
were to commence on the 11th itist„ and be held every
Thursday throughout the season, between the hours of
two and three o'clock p.m.- -R. B. Caldwell was discharged
at Montreal, en a writ of habeas corpus, as Judge Coursol
had no right to order his arrest in the Province of Ontario,
but he was re-arrested, and will be prosecuted vigorously
by the -U.S. authorities.—Rev. Dr. Carlton Chas.., Episco-
pal bishop of New Hampshire, is seriously M.—William
Orton is at the Buckingham Palace lintel, London, but
haves England on Tuesday next for New York. Mr.
Cyrus Field is also at Buckingham Palace Hotel, and it is
probahlo that he also may leave in the same steamer- Mr.
Charles Bowles of Paris was iu London during the week,
but returned last Tuesday evening. Mr. Perry, president
of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, has arrived in Londoa
from the continent, and will shortly return to America.—
The Hon. A. P. Howard, Republican, has been elected to
fill the vacancy" made by the death of the Hon. John Rus-
sell, in the Xlth Senatorial District of Ohio.—Treupmann,
the Pantin murderer, was executed in Paris at daybreak
on Wednesday morning, in the presence of an immense
crowd.—Sir Samuel Baker reports that he arrived at Ber-
ber, on the Nile, on the Ist January ; all well. He per-
formed the journey from Suez in 26 days.
The Mexican Congress and people are discussing
plans for attracting immigration from Europe and the
United States. Tho idea that any man in his senses
could go to such a country is one of those extraordinary
delusions which sometimes seize upon a people. A more
degenerate, cowardly, thieving, lawless crew, a more
ignorant and cruel, does not exist, except among the
Apaches of Arizona, and a few other savages which dis-
grace human nature. A writer in the New York Tribune
tells of the siege of Queretaro, from the Mexican point of
view, and the Mexicans have an undoubted right to make
their side heard. As long as the Argentine Republics,
and the pampas of South America remain open, the pro-
posal to go to Mexico is simply preposterous. No civilized
nation will voluntarily enter into relations with such apeoplo
as the Mexicans, except the United States, which cannot
help it. The Mexicans know what the result will be, yet
they are so benighted that they cannot see that their Only
chance of being elevated into civilized beings is to enter
the Union. But as it would be impossible to govern them
except through a military despotiim, it would be a sad day
for the Republic which brought such a set into the Fede-
ration as citizens.
Apprehensions were at one time felt that the
Winnipeg trouble would cause an Indian war. In the
Minnesota Legislature this danger was alluded to in the
Governor's message, and the Legislature was recom-
mended to ask the general Government to station and
maintain a military force in the vicinity of Pembina to
protect the settlement. The advices from Pembina to
Jan. 3, received via Chicago, were that a large band of
Sioux had approached Fort Garry, and an attack on the
insurgents was apprehended, or at any rate depredations
on the outlying settlements; but this was coupled with the
news that the insurgents had so zed £200,000 belonging to
the Hudson Bay Company. Both statements emanated from
the lively brain of the American reporter, for all danger ap-
pears to have vanished as far as the Indians are concerned,
and the messengers despatched by the Canadian Govern-
ment have induced the settlers in arms to send a deputation
to Ottawa to discuss and adjust any grievances. The per-
sons most surprised by the story of the £200,000 were the
members of the Hudson Bay Company in London, who had
a vision of £500,000 to be paid by the Canadian Govern-
ment, but were not aware they had the other mine of gold
lying uselessly at Fort Garry. Mr.,MWougall attributes
all the difficulties to the officials of the company at the set-
tlement, who were not consulted on the transfer, and their
interestsleft unprotected. Some absurd statementsext racted
from Now York papers have been circulating in England
about an Annexation Aid Society, which is said to be
organizing an expedition of 1,500 men to assist the insur-
gents, and pushing companies forward. The Washington
Executive have gone to the trouble of contradicting a re-
port that a Proclamation of Neutrality was about to be
issued, whereas no notice of the outbreak would be taken,
unless the territory of the United Slates was violated, or
hostilities spread over the border. The Canadian
Go-
vernment Las decided on a policy of mediation, and on
doing all it can to rectify any just cause of irritation,
while firmly maintaining its right, if necessary, in the
spring, by force of arms.
JOURNALISM IN AMERICA. The "Washington
Chronicle speaks enthusiastically of the effect which would
be produced should England send John Bright to America
to discuss and arrange the vexed questions at issue be-
tween the two couutries.—Mr. M. R.I. Noah, late of the
San Francisco Alta California, has assumed the edibrial
charge of the National Intelligences.—Some venturesnina
New Yorker mec:itates publishing an Amoic.,2 Punch.
He ev:dently does not heed the wrecks in that. hue before
him.—The Evening 7itilame has just made its appearance on
the San Francisco stage, supported by a brilliant troupe
of gaily clad newsboys.

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