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poses. The present Ministry is distinctly pledged
to settle the land question. Failing to do so, they
themselves will be settled, though not in the sense
which contemplates a fixity of tenure.' " Only that
it is a letter we are reading, and not the report of a
speech, we should here have inevitably found inter-
polated in brackets [loud and prolonged laughter.]
" I cannot conclude," writes Mr. OSBORNE—and here
it is that we come to the ungracious gibe and to the
nonsensical proposition with which he brings his com-
munication to an end—" I cannot conclude this long
letter without adding that I have long been of. opi-
nion that the presence of the Monarch should be
substituted for that of the Viceroy, and occasional
sittings of the United Parliament should be held in
Dublin." That, and nothing less ridiculous than
that, is Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE'S last bran new pro-
position for the pacification of Ireland !

AFTER all there is much probability that Spain
will give up possession of her great West Indian
island, and that Cuba will shortly become indepen-
dent, with the prospect of speedy union to the
American republic. The offer made by General
SICKLES on behalf of the United States has not, as
was at one time thought, met with a refusal. The
American Ambassador proposed that Spain should
withdraw her claims upon the "Queen of the
Antilles" for the sum of twenty million
dollars, to be raised on behalf of the Cubans
under the guarantee of the Washington Govern-
ment, and that the island should become
independent—it being of course pretty certain that
at no distant date the country would form one of the
United States. The Spanish Ministry hare neither
accepted nor rejected these terms. Pitur and his
colleagues hold that they cannot under present cir-
cumstances honourably give up Cuba; but the:i-
regard the offer of the United States with favour.
They ask, however, that negotiations may not be
pressed just now, and in due time they will, according
to the best authority, "concede the independence of
Cuba on terms satisfactory both to the island and the
United States."

Delay is always dangerous, and in this case espe-
cially so ; but on the whole this news must be deemed
favourable. A separation, with anarchy in prospect,
could hardly he deemed beneficial to Cuba ; but the
intervention of the United States is a guarantee that
the withdrawal of the Spanish troops will not be
followed by misrule. Under the inspiration from
Madrid the great island was far from well-governed.
In fact, no part of the Spanish possessions was well
governed, and in the case of Cuba the administration
has been particularly indifferent. The island was in no
sense a colony. Its position was exactly analagous
to that of a Roman province. A Spanish governor
was sent over, a host of young Spanish grandees
found profitable employment as Cuban officials; and
it was the business of these to extract as much
as possible from the island for the benefit of the old
country. Cuba has been ruled by a semi-foreign race
for the advantage of a distant land. Dissevered from
Spain, the fate of the island will be that of incor-
poration with the United States, and it will enjoy pre-
cisely equal privileges with New York and Pennsyl-
vania. The principle on which the Great Republic
has been founded, the principle on which its
prosperity has been built up, is that of
offering equal terms to all fresh acquisi-
tion. The States incorporate, but never annex.
Every addition of territory, so soon as it
attains a certain limit of population, becomes a
State, has its own Government, sends its representa-
tives to Congress, and is in all respects on an equal
footing with the oldest portion of the Union. It is
clear, then, that the change must be for the benefit
of the Cubans ; and it is not less clear that it will be
to the advantage of Spain. It is possible that the
SERRANo Ministry might regain the island ;
but the Creoles must be treated as a
conquered race. Should the American offer
be accepted, a costly and destructive war
will cease. A. terrible strain on the resources of
Spain will be removed. And the large sum of money
which will form the price of the island will be of
infinite advantage to a State whose finances are in
such ruinous confusion. There can be nothing dis-
honourable in thus parting with a dependency whose
possession is a loss. Utter ruin, the choice between
anarchy and military dictatorship, at present stares
the Spanish people in the face, All minor considera-
tions ought to be sacrificed in the effort to avert this
catastrophe.

THE National Education League has begun work
ngwaltlißirmingham is but the open-
eh
with
Though a n
the earnestnessru e meeting
gives promise of success.
campaign, we
we are informed by the
have been enrolled, includ-
ing forty members of Parliament and several hun-
dred ministers of religion. It is proposed to give
effect to the programme by introducing a bill
next session. Twenty gentlemen have guaranteed
the sinews of war to the extent of £15,000, payable
over a series of years. The movement on behalf of
improved national education has thus reached the
stage of regular organisation, and as the object is most
worthy, so may the victory be speedily won. It is
very pleasant to find eminent men of all political
parties and of all religious creeds uniting
for an end so entirely disinterested. And it is
well, too, that the League has resolved to take up the
matter practically by at once bringing a measure be-
fore Parliament. No amount of general talk can test
the soundness of a scheme so thoroughly as the em-
bodiment of its leading features in the form of a law.
It is expected that the Government will submit a
bill of its own next year; but there can be no harm
in the League drawing up another. Competition is
as valuable in lawmaking as in trade. It is
exceedingly probable that a decisive manifesto from
an influential arty will induce the Government to
adopt many important provisions which might other-
wise have been passed over. Enforced attendance is
a case in point. It is only lately that what is
called compulsory education has found much
favour in the sight of the English public ; the notion
of such "paternal interference" was once generally
scouted ; but by this time the party which favours it
has assumed formidable proportions. It must be one
of the primary duties of the League to chew
how far the English people are prepared to
accept the principles of enforced attendance,
and by what practical means it can be carried
out. There is one item in the report which has a
mournful aspect—the announcement that £15,000
has been guaranteed, to be paid in ten yearly instal-
ments. It is devoutly to be hoped that the twenty
gentlemen who have generously promised this large
sum will not be called upon for many instalments.
There is certainly little reason to expect that the
question will remain unsettled ten years, or even
two. Never was any subject more ripe for legisla-
tion. Nothing can add to our knowledge of the
defects of the present system ; no delay can give rise
to any novelty in the way of reform. When all
parties agree that an evil exists, and differ only as to
the mode of remedy, it is quite time for the conside-
ration of amendment.

The programme of the National League proposes
to secure an abundant supply of teaching through-
out the country and to compel negligent parents to
avail themselves of it. At present there are un-
doubtedly many thousand British children who never
enter a school. Many of these absentees are to be
accounted for through the indifference or
covetousness of parents, and those must be reduced
to order by making it an offence to withhold a child
from the means of instruction. Before, however,
any stringent enactment of this hind can be adopted,
it is necessary to provide sufficient accommo-
dation. To fill up the lamentable void which
now exists is a primary necessity. The
League proposes nothing of a revolutionary character.
Where education is being carried on satisfactorily,
there ought not, it is agreed, to be any intervention,
except to apply the enactment for enforcing attendance,
which must be universal if it be adopted at all.
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is inadequate, it will be taken for granted that
the system of voluntary subscription aided
by State grants has failed, and another plan will be
brought into play. A school board of ratepayers or
their representatives will be appointed. This bay will
have power to provide a school wherever one
is wanted; and a rate will be levied for its
maintenance this rate to cover two-thirds
of the expenses, and the Government con-
tributing one-third. Being paid for out of the
pockets of every denomination, the Lague considers
it a matter of course that the education in these
schools must be non-sectarian. There is nothing of the
" firebrand " type in this programme. Voluntaryism may
flourish in undiminished vigour; every denomination
may have its own special schools. The League in
no wise desires to alter the quality of the education
given. It has merely for its object the ex-
tension of the present system by the filling up of
all vacant places, all districts where igno-
rance yet flourishes unchecked. And this pro-
gramme it is proposed to carry out in the wisest
manner. If the Government bill he satisfactory, the
League will withdraw its own, and cordially unite in
promoting the measure of the Ministers. There is
reason to think, then, that the twenty guarantors will
not be very heavily taxed.

COMIC PAPERS.
(From Punch.)

THE SEERS AT SEA.—Ask one of the weather (beaten)
prophets what he thinks now of his prediction for the sixth
of this month, and you will probably find him anxious to
waive the question.
KNOWN FAR AND WIDE.—To the author of the SUCCESS-
fuI drama, now being played at the Queen's Theatre, it
must be very gratifying to hear of the great reputation his
piece has obtained, for everywhere along the coast during
the past week people's thoughts were occupied with " The
Turn of the Tide."

THE IMPERIAL PROGRAMME.—French journalists keep
talking of the "Imperial Programme," as if his Majesty the
Emperor were the manager of a playhouse. Viewing
matters in this light, we may observe that his programme
seems to us to be compounded from those which are now
put forth by the Globe and the Strand theatres. Begin-
ning with " Among the Breakers," it is next proposed to
give an act or two of " Progress," and it is more than
likely the performance will conclude with the "extrava-
gant comic drama of ' A Breach of Promise."

(From Fun.)

A TALE or Two SMASHERS.—Smasher No. I.—At the
late sessions held at the Central Criminal Court, one
Edward Cane was indicted for having in his possession
sixty-four counterfeit half-crowns with intent to utter
them. Guilty. Sentence—five years' penal servitude.
Smasher No. 2.—Henry Finch was indicted for man-
slaughter. Driving a van at a rapid rate, when intoxicated,
he had knocked down an old gentleman who was crossing
the road opposite Garden-street, Stepney, so seriously
injuring him that he died a few days afterwards, at the
London Hospital. Sentence—Six months' hard labour. So
are life and property appraised in our courts of justice in
the year of grace one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.

(Tiom. Judy.)

Tim POULTRY AGAIN.—The agitation for widening the
Poultry still continues. Indeed, so many influential people
have fallen foul of it, that Judy is really afraid its goose is
cooked.

LATEST INTELL MENGE

(REU'-En's TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
(Per French Atlantic Cable.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 130 f ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 1301 ; the lowest, 130 g.
Sterling Exchange on London lo9g.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l2O.
66 " 1885 ll9f.
66 " 1867 ll7l.
10-40 64
Illinois
Erie 33.
Cotton—AEl. upland 26lc.
_Petroleum—Standard White 32ac
4 •
Flour, extra state, $5.70c. to $6.30c. Corn, old
nixed, sl.lc.

THE BRAZILS.

LIVERPOOL, Oct. 14.

The Liverpool Brazil and River Plate Company's
mail steamer La Place, Captain Halal., arrived
here this morning from the River Plate and Brazils
with her Majesty's mails, 41 passengers, £3,400 in
specie, and a general cargo. Iler dates are Buenos
.Ayres 9th September ; Monte Video 10 ; Rio de
Janeiro 16 ; and Bahia 22.

According to advices from Buenos Ayres Lopez
was at San Estanislans with 2,000 men and 20
pieces of artillery.
More business was doing in manufactures, and
more disposition to buy wool was shown. Ex-
change, 49.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 16.

Ccffee sales since 7th, 102,550 bags; prices
firm. Stock, 80,000 bags. Exchange firm, at 191
for Bank and 19i to 191 trade bills.
BAHIA, Sept. 22.

Sales of produce small ; cotton chiefly, in the
hands of speculators. The tobacco crop has been
benefited by the rain, and is likely to be up to
the full averrge. Exchange firm at 194.

BRINDISI, Oct. 14.

The Adriatic and Oriental Company's steamer
Carignano, 69 hours from Alexandria, has arrived
here with eight passengers.

ARRIVAL OF THE EMPRESS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 13, 2 p.m.

The imperial yacht Aigle, with the Empress Eu-
genie on board, preceded by the Sultan's yacht,
and attended by English, French, Italian, and
Russian despatch boats, carrying the Ambassadors,
and the Turkish iron-clad squadron, under the
command of Ibrahim Pasha, following in the rear,
is now rounding the Seraglio Point into the Bos-
phorus, proceeding to the Palace of Beglerbeg,
situate on the Asiatic shore, where the Empress
will stay. The Sultan is waiting there to receive
his Imperial guest.

Salutes are being fired from the forts and from
the men-of-war.

All ships in the harbour are gaily decorated, and
the weather is splendid.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
MESSINA, Oct. 14.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ceylon passed through the Straits of Messina at 7
this morning en route for Marseilles.

SAFETY OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.

BOMBAY, OCt. 6.

Dr. Kirk has received a letter from Dr. Living-
stone, dated Lake Banglew), July 8, 1868, saying:
"I have found out what I believe to be the sources
of the Nile, between 10 deg. and 12 deg. south."
Dr. Livingstone was in good health and spirits
when the letter was despatched.

BOMBAY, Oct. 11.

A letter of Dr. Kirk to the Bombay Government
has been published, stating that a caravan, which
has reached Zanzibar, reports Dr. Livingstone's
arrival at Ujiji, The road between the coast and
Ujiji was open and safe. Small parties of men and
another caravan were expected.

VZRY IXPORTANT, RARE, AND YALT:A33LB
arc tho properties of Lamplougu's Pyretic Salina, curing the
worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant,
ttlatAPP, inyigorating. sold by OegtOts.-Vbilat.

THE SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT WUTTTON.
THE IN

Dr. Diplock, the Coroner for the Western Division of
Middlesex, opened a.n inquiry on Wednesday at the Admiral
Nelson, Whitton, relative to the deaths of Thomas Ryden
Green, who shot himself on Monday morning, and of Louis
Kyezor, who died from the effect of wounds inflicted upon
him. The jury having been sworn, viewed the bodies of
the deceased.
The inquiry on Green was first made.

Mrs. Mary Ann Elilabeth Green, 13, Kyezor-place,
Whitton, deposed: The deceased, Thomas Green, was my
husband. He was superannuated from the Stamp Office
at Somerset House. On Monday morning he had his
breakfast in bed as usual, and ho then went down, and
went into the garden. He came in again and put his
boots on. I said, " What are you going to do next ?"
He said, " Going into the garden." I went to wash up the
things, and did not see any more of him then. Mrs. Carson
called out to me, "For God's sake go to the front doer."
The witness went on to say that going to the front door
she saw her husband coming downstairs with pistols in
his hand. He looked dreadful, as if in a frenzy. I said
" Gocd God, what are you gcing to do ?" He said " Get
out of that." I went out after him to the front
grrdcn, and as I did I saw Mr. liyezA. lying
on the ground. I screamed. I called upstairs
to my husband, butt got no answer. I went to the
bottom of the yard, and I saw my husband lying dead 1 y
the closet. I went back to the house cud fainted away. I
did not hear the report of either pistol.

Coroner: Do you know of any disagrcement existing
between your husband and Mr. Kyezor ?

Witness : Yes, in letters written to him by Mr. Kyezor.
One was giving notice to my husband to leave the house
on the 25th of January; at least, he wrote to say he would
not be kept for his rent after that day ; and another stating
that my husband had abused him and threatened him with
a stick. He also said if we stopped after the 25th of
January we should have to pay £2O a year rent.
The letters spoken of were put in. One was a
notice to quit, witnessed by a man named Turnbull,
on the 25th of January. Another letter stated
that £3 15s. would be due on the 25th October, and that he
(➢lr. Kyezor) expected Green would pay him, as he would
not be kept from having his rent as he had been last
quarter. Another letter, dated Otis October (Saturday
last), stated : "In consequence of your behaviour to
me this evening, I intend taking proceedings
against you—first, for stating I have been speak-
ing against my tenant, Mr. Johnson; secondly, for
calling t I ought to be hanged at Newgate ; and thirdly,
for having followed me for half an hour, and attempted to
strike me with your stick, as you have done on two occa-
sions. Unless you apologise immediately, I shall proceed
to serve you with a writ of action for defamation of
character, and shall take out a summons for assault."

Another letter, also of Saturday's date, written by Mr.
Kyezor, was read. The writer said in it to Mr. Green :
"As I find my character much injured by what you have
said, I shall apply for damages to a large amount, which
will teach you in future not to play with a respectable
gentleman's character." There was added to the letter :
" You shall hear shortly from my solicitor, Mr. Wood-
bridge."
Mrs. Green wished to say that her husband lately fell
down stairs, and had not been right in his head since,
and that he had also a sunstroke.

Mr. W. F. Agar said he knew Mr. Green sixteen years.
and he was an eccentric, but sensitive, upright, honest man.
He was a just man, but " spoke daggers " when he had had
a drop of drink. His name was not Green. His real name
was Edwards.

After some more evidence was given corroborating the
facts given above, the court was cleared, and after a deli-
beration of half an hour, found in the case of Green " that
he put an end to his life while in a state of temporary in-
sanity." In the case of Mr. Kyezor, the jury found, "That
Thomas Hyden Green did wilfully, feloniously, and with
malice aforethought, kill and slay the said Louis Kyezor."

SMALL-PDX AND THE ANTI-COMPULSORY

VACCINATION LEAGY UE.

For some time there has been a league established for
the special purpose of agitating against vaccination. The
Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League is not to be blamed
for fairly advocating its own views, but it incurs a
serious responsibility when it appeals to ignorant
prejudice. A handbill, which is dated Shef-
field, February 5, 1869, and is signed by the
hon. secretary of the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination
Committee, begins with this side heading: " The Mark of
the Beast!" " And I beheld another beast coming out of
the earth ; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake
as a dragon. . . . And ho decciveth them that dwell
on the earth. . . . And he caused all, both small end
great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on
their right hand (arm?) or on their foreheads. . . . And
the first angel went and poured out his vial upon the
earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon tie
men which had the mark of the beast." " Vaccina-
tion is a sin, a delusion, and a snare ; spreads broadcast
through the land scrofula, syphilis, consumption, and all
other hereditary diseases; does not, as proved by exye-
Hence, prevent smallpox ; costs the country over £250,000
per year, and is the chief cause of that fearful infant
mortality which carries to the grave half the children
born in Sheffield before the age of five years." Is it
not rank blasphemy for poor, erring human nature to
assert that when God created man in his own
image, He left the work of His hands—which
He pronounced good—imperfect until Jenner's so-called
discovery, as asserted by the vaccinators ? Is it not the
height of impiousness to tamper with the Creator's
chiefest work, by wickedly inserting into the pure bleed
of the healthy babe poisonous corruption cast out from
the body of the diseased brute ?" It would be
scarcely worth while to notice such stuff as this were it
not necessary to expose the ingenious manner in which
the society endeavour to charge the large number of deaths
in Sheffield in 1863, and again in 1867-8, upon vaccination ;
whilst the health returns prove that the plague actually
arose through the refusal of mothers to take their children
to the vaccinators. In the year 1867-3 especially a very
severe epidemic of this formidable disease broke out in
Sheffield and other places, and, as a matter of course, found
out those who were unprotected. The consequence was
that 468 young persons died from smallpox. The officers
of the Privy Council thereupon insisted on the enforcement
of the Act ; hence the reason of the number of persons
summoned to appear in the police-courts of late for neglect-
ing to secure their children from the epidemic by the
act of vaccination. That the vaccine matter has the power
of transmitting syphilis is a simple untruth. The experi-
ment has been tried over and over again by medical men
of all nations, and the absolute impossibility of transmitting
any infection with the vaccine lymph established. If
the public were aware of the amount of scrofula and
skin disease prevalent among the poor, they would
know how to value the evidence upon which mothers
are now and then led to resist the obligations of
the law. That the act of vaccination, and the disturb-
ance it sets up in the constitution, may lead to the
production of slight forms of skin disease is acknowledged
to be an open questicn. And it is just possible that the
irruption on the child that was presented to Mr. Vaughan
at Bow-street the other day arose from this cause, but that
it had nothing to do with the impurity of the vaccine
matter was proved by the fact that the child from whom
the vaccine lymph was produced was perfectly healthy.
Nevertheless, the fact that the assistant of the public vac-
cinator was weak enough to perform the act upon a child
notoriously unfit from ill-health to submit to it, points out
a weak place in the machinery of the Act the Govern-
ment inspector is only too glad to have exposed. It
is expressly stipulated in the Act that the vaccinator
must refuse to subject a child to vaccination when out of
health. The error here was on the part of the medical
~,;i.qtant, and of course he has done so at his own peril.
Whilst i,- the option of parents whether they would have
ta
their children sated or not, the discovery of Jenner
was practically worthleia t;2regards the poorer classes of
the community; their childrri left as a rule unpro-
tected, and a prey to the first outbreak the epidemic,
when they formed centres of infection whiai- i;:tensified
the disease. In violent epidemics even 'EZ-421:,-
tain percentage of the vaccinated are liable to a
recurrence of the disease. Thus the provident are
placed at the mercy of the ignorant and careless. In
order that the public may be acquainted with the true
value of vaccination, when thoroughly carried out, we may
refer to the statistics of the army on this head. Every
soldier and sailor is now protected against smallpox, and
the effect is an exemption from the disease which con-
trasts most favourably with that of the civil population.
If we take the army returns of deaths from smallpox
since their first publication in 1859 to 1864,
swtio.ensfitnhd
only
yielded leuip
ratio
u thepe sixrten usantodgetielerf
years
tho
yielded 0.81 deaths—or less than one per cent., whilst
among the sailors of the royal navy it was loss during the
same
period than two per 10,000. Wo are told, indeed,
that it is in the nature of epidemics to " wear themselves
out," and in this manner the wonderful immunity of those
protected by vaccination is accounted for by the Anti.
Vaccination League. lint the answer to this is the viii .
ienoe with which the diseast,with unerring almieelets and
slaughters the young unprotected ehildre, when mailers
have oxen up the cry urged eitatuet Yeteluatieu by thin
very society,

Tho course of exchange at New York on London for bills at gu
days sight was 107 i per cent. on the 20th inst. At this rate there
would be ei loss on the transmission of g::14 frora the United
tOk atcr.