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but above all puerile and made for a rod. Its best
known chiefs have just given a proof to some
thousands of reasonable persons from all the civi-
lized nations. Annoyed at having witnessed for
a fortnight together the passage of Catholic
Europe over its territory on the way to Rome, and
it having received from the travellers marks of
the little esteem in which they were held, the
statesmen of Florence, wished to extract some
satisfaction from them, and at the same time some
They invented, accordingly, a means doubly
ingenious, which was at one and the same time a
most offensive vexation and a flagrant extortion :
they feigned to believe that the cholera was at
Rome. In subjecting the pilgrims to fictitious
sanitary examinations, which they multiplied and
rendered interminable, they caused them to lose
the trains and compelled them to take up their
abode in the hotels where they were fleeced with-
out mercy. Christians to the lions ! There are
three sorts of lions in regenerated Italy the
custom-house officer, the fumigator, and the hotel-

SOUS.

foreigners, who mainly cultivate the estates, desire
either annexation or such a treaty, hut they pre-
ferred the treaty, as it gave them the benefits unen-
cumbered with the drawbacks. The President has
also transmitted to the Senate, for ratification, the
Treaty between the United States, Great Britain,
France, and Japan, which, in common with that
of the Sandwich Islands, will probably be ratified.
The committee to inquire into the treatment of
Northeners in Confederate prisons have issued a
circular calling on those to come forward who arc
able to give information on the subject. The de-
bate in the House on the appointment of this com-
mittee was very warm. The Ilouse was asked to
instruct the committee to investigate the alleged
ill-treatment of Southerners in Federal prisons, but
this was refused. The speeches turned on the re-
sponsibility of stopping the exchanges, for which
General Butler has been much blamed. He was a
Federal Commissioner when the exchanges ceased,
but he alleges the order of General Grant. General
Ould acted for the Confederates, and proposed to
exchange 20,000 sick and wounded Federals for an
equal number of Confederates. This statement
appeared in the National intelligence)) but General
Butler denied its truth in the llouse, producing
papers to show that no message relating to such an
exchange ever passed between himself and General
Ould. Mr. Eldridge, in defence of Ould, stated
that if that officer had been a rebel so had Wash-
ington, and Hancock, and Adams ; all were rebels
until success had made them patriots. Mr. Eldridge
was not, however, successful in his defence, for he
sat down under a storm of hisses, which lasted
many minutes after he had ceased to speak.
Mr. Cave, M.P., who proceeded to America In
the interest of the Atlantic and Great Western Rail-
way, was entertained at a dinner at Willard's

Hotel on the 18th inst. Though invitations were
sent to a large number of prominent men, not many
responded. Mr. Banks proposed " The House of
Commons, the first Representative Assembly in
Europe." In replying, Mr. Cave dwelt at length
on the mistakes entertained in America regarding

the attitude of the British people during the war,
whose neutrality, he was bound to say, was a reality
and not a sham—on the identity of interests be-
tween the nations—on sympathy in England with
abolitionists—and on the furtherance of despotic
designs which would result from a war between
England and America, a war that would be wit-
nessed with joy by the despotic powers of Europe.
He closed his speech with a free-trade sentiment.
Mr. Speaker Colfax, S9nators Sherman, Wilson,
Chandler, and others followed, when very kindly
feelings were uttered, which show the strong drift
of opinion that is now making converts even of
those who not long since expressed great inter-
national animosity.
General Butler is a curious study. The audacity
of his nature characterises all his actions. No man
has brouglit on his shoulders a greater amount of
odium, or borne it with more unbending resolution.
There are many who believe in him—in his
sincerity, his ability, and strength of character ;
but all believe in his impudence. He got up a
special committee to examine into the administra-
tion of the Ordnance Bureaux. That committee
has adjourned to October 23, after passing this re-
solution :—" Resolved—That the Secretary of War
be requested to suspend the alteration of muzzle-
loading Springfield rifles into breechloaders of
reduced calibre, as is now being done, by which all
ammunition for infantry now on hand will be
rendered useless, until such alteration, its expense,
utility, and objects can be investigated by the com-
mittee." Now this is not a bad resolution for
General Butler, considering that he has an interest
in another mode of converting ordinary muskets
into breechloaders, which he is said to have urged
on the Government, but which they decline to
adopt.
The interview between Generals Sherman and
Hancock at Fort Harker is over, and the former
has returned to St. Louis, the latter to Fort
Leavenworth. Whatever may be the ultimate
result of the conference, the Indian troubles con-
tinue, and the last news reeor Is the capture of a
train near Fort Larned. Bishop Laing and ten
other Roman Catholic priests, together with six
sisters of charity, were taken by the s tvages. The
men were of course killed and scalped—the women
carried off. The expenses of the war are becoming
ntoh,se,
an
rgs
a week
veryOv vyerhoenaem'ilalinodn dollars e severelyek aon
Texrepaesnudreyi
difficulties of carrying on a civilised system of war-
farewith every prospect of a considerable increase. The
against such an enemy, without a point of at-
tack or a base of operations, is increased in propor-
tion to the magnitude of the campaign. Colonel
Leavenworth, the Indian Agent at Fort Harker,
has been directed not to distribute any more an-
nuity goods among the tribes until peace is restored.
The Commissioner of Indian affairs has reported to
the Senate that the difficulties have mainly
arisen from unfair treatment and the oppres-
sion to which the Indians have been sub-
jected by the Government, adding that if proper
means be used these difficulties may be easily set-
tled. Congress passed a bill appointing a com-
mission of Generals Sherman, Hancock, Augur,
and Barney, together with Kit Carson and other
civilians, to treat for peace, with power to select
lands for the settlement of the tribes. If they fail
in inducing the Indians to bury the hatchet, they
are directed to adopt vigorous means, calling out
volunteers from States or Territories, and enlisting
for the war the practised hunters and rovers of the
frontier. It has been always found that such per-
sons are better qualified for the guerilla style of
fighting than regulars ; and this war is noexcep-
tion. What befel the English in New Zealand is
occurring now with the United States troops in the
Far West. The balance of killing is against the
white men, and every red man's scalp is calculated
to have cost $70,000. It is in vain to cry out
against the generals, who cannot accomplish im-
possibilities, and it is equally vain to talk of a sharp
and decisive war, which cannot be carried out.
We shall discuss this subject more fully in our next
issue.

I
Surratt's defence proceeds slowly. Only one wit-
ness was examined on Wednesday, the 17th ult.,
but it was announced that the testimony for the
defence would be closed on Thursday, in which they
failed, as five of the expected witnesses had not ar-
rived. Mr. Bradley assured the court that they
would be in attendance on the 20th July. The de-
sign of Surratt's counsel is to proveanaliipobmi.Jrutdans'et
Fisher. has ruled against receiving some
testimony, such as the hotel register at Canandaigua,
New York, where it is alleged Sdrratt was ou April
15, proving that he could not have been in
Washington on the day of the assassination, or in
Burlington, Vermont, on Monday, 17th April,
where the prosecution attempted to show he had
dropped a handkerchief. Also that the compact
was signed by the Confederates Booth, Payne,
Harold Atzerodt, but not by Surratt. The docu-
ment was burned through fear, and from the same
cause nothing was said about it at the time of the
conspiracy trial. James Matthews, the actor, who
offers testimony on this subject, affirms that he had a
perfect recollection of the paper. Groat difference of
opinion appears to exist in America as to the rela-
tive weight of the evidence against and for Surratt.
We are inclined to think that this discussion and
free exercise of opinion by the public press of
America is unfair to the prisoner and to
the court. On the one hand it is openly affirmed
that the President pardoned Cameron, who was
deeply committed by the rebellion, for the express
purpose of swearing to Surratt's innocence. Another
party declare that the presiding Judge has shown a
decided leaning towards the pros-cution. The one
party state it to be impossible for the jury to acquit
the prisoner in the face of the overwhelming evi-
dence of guilt ; the other cannot see how any jury
can on such testimony convict a man of murder.
The question of guilt or innocence has degenerated
into a political squabble, which perhaps is fortunate
for Surratt, as the jury under such circum-
stances are not likely to agree. Every one who
bears witness in this remarkable case is covered with
dirt. No sooner has he made his statement than
he is proved to have committed all sorts of crimes,
and to be utterly unworthy of belief. It matters
not whether he is for the prosecution like Dr.
M‘Millan, or for the defence like Mr. Cameron. In
the meantime attention has been attracted over the

border by a fierce dispute between the La Minerve
of Montreal and the Montreal TVitness. The latter
having denounced the Roman Catholic priests who
had concealed Surratt, the former journal makes
this remarkable statement :—" We could have pub-
lished long ago the name of a Protestant clergyman,
whose letter is before us, who himself originated the
idea of assassinating President Lincoln. The Con-
federate agents in Canada, whose answer we also
hold, declined the proposal, and the clergyman then
resorted to a private attempt. If need be, we could
give his name and the place where he is at present
residing in. one of the Northern States, in a city
well known, where he occupies an important post
and is respected."
Amongst the subjects which have occupied the
attention of Congress is the decline in American
ship-building. What that decline has been may be
judged by the fact that the firm of the Westervelts,
who in 1850 built 13,000 tons, have launched within
the last 18 months a single vessel of 340 tons. The
Arago was the last of the great ocean steamers, if
we except the three vessels for the Pacific mail ser-
vice. In 1850 70,000 tons of merchant ships were
built in the yards of New York. Now these yards
are silent, or constructing only small vessels for the
coasting trade. The difficulty is to apply a remedy
that will be effectual in restoring the country to
the proud position it occupied six years ago, when
the Stars and Stripes flew over the greatest number
of sea-going ships, and Great Britain stood but
second in the lists of its mercantile marine. Nor
does this represent fully the real position America
then occupied, for a large number of the swiftest
ships which sailed from English ports, under the
English flag, had been constructed in the States. An
eminent ship builder of New York, writing to the
Times of that city, recommends the removal of all
taxes on ship-building materials, adding that " with
all the necessary materials free of duty it would be
many a long and weary year before we can stand so
near the head of the line as in the proud times of
half a dozen years ago."
A movement is reported from Washington among
Congressmen to put General Sheridan forward for
the Presidency, and it is said to be gaining ground,
though opposed by the friends of Speaker Colfax,
Chief Justice Chase, and Senator Wade. The
nomination of Henry J. Raymond, as Minister to
Austria, has been rejected. Mr. Raymond is too
independent for the present Congress. He would
not, in all probability, have accepted the post had
it been tendered to him, and he certainly did not
apply for it. The nomination of George Bancroft,
as Minister to Prussia, has been confirmed. The
Nation says he is pursued to Europe by the inexor-
able Greene, the " grandson" whom the historian
flattered himself he had squelched. Ex-Go-
vernor Andrew will, in all probability, be
nominated as Minister to Mexico, a post at
present of the very highest importance to the
United States, and for which Mr. Otterburgh
may or may not be qualified, for few know anything
about him. It is not likely, however, that Governor
Andrew will accept the post, though patriotism may
induce him. Samuel Blatchford has been confirmed
as Judge of the United States District Court in the
southern district of New York. Captain H. A.
Wise, son-in-law of Edward Everett, has also been
confirmed as chief of the Naval Ordnance Bureau ;
and Eugene Schuyler, of New York, to be Consul
at Mexico. The Democrats have been endeavour-
ing to secure General Grant for their candidate as
President, and Sunset Cox and other New York
members of the party proceeded to Washington to
consult the General. But Grant is too sure of his
ticket to be easily led off the course. It is as cer-
tain as sublunary affairs can be, that General Grant
will be elected next President by the Republican
party, and that the only
struggle will be who is to
step in behind him as Vice-President, always pre-
suming that Grant will stand ; but this is believed
to be more than doubtful.
We have heard it
positively affirmed that the General ha
his mind to decline the Presideny, preferring to
remain the darling of the people and to hold his
s made up
present post than to swallow all the dirt that now
falls to a President's lot.
Registration proceeds in the Southern States.
At Richmond the Registration List closed on Satur-
day, the 13th July, with a coloured majority of 1,119.
At Mobile, Alabama, the number of voters registered
is 5,814. At New Orleans the negroes are in a mino-
rity, the white voters exceeding them by 20 or 30.
At Nashville the list was re-opene I on the 13th
July, and nearly 400 voters registered, only 13 of
whom were whites. In Florida registration com-
menced with July ; but the progress is not yet
known. General Gillen, Bureau Commissioner in
Mississippi, reports that registration is proceeding
quiet'y in that State. Aaron Sweet, a free-born
coloured man in Cheraw district, South Carolina, is
actively canvassing for an election to Congress.
Ex-Governor Johnson of Georgia advises the people
of that State not to accept the Military Reconstruc-
tion Acts, but to defeat by their votes what he
terms " A scheme for our degradation in the over-
throw of the Republican Government." Gen. Sheridan
has removed the Governor of Texas and named the
31st July as that for closing the registration in his
district.
By advices from Vera Cruz of the 14th July it
appears that Madame Juarez had arrived, and had
been enthusiastically received. Juarez was in the
capital, and was said to have declined a re election
for the Presidency. Nidamri had been shot at
but later advices inform us he had
Qierearo, and others condemned. The execution
saaping. The Austrian frigate Elizabeth
of Santa Anna is confirme I. Marquez was secreted
Cruz, and several Austrian sabjects
favour of forming
republic, and
tiaonndofmtahre.
iswnuactscheeae
cit capital,evd einrae
ep
joinedendeltl.
ssahthnraevengdthened by restless and unruly
had sought shelter on board. nTNhoerwthheorine
country
armed factions, some of whom will
Lozada is in
cicipeour
bristlingtoet
probably
ati country yl
syaii tewod t
o spirits from the United States' frontier. The Wash-
ington Government will suppress any general action
of filibusters, but they cannot prevent the move-
ment of individual citizens. It is clear from Mr.
Seward's despatch that Mr. Johnson's Government
wishes to strengthen the rule of Juarez, and that he
will receive the good offices of the United States in
his attempt to rule in Mexico. The Scotia's
advises inform us that Mr. Seward has de-
cided not to send a Minister to Mexico, and Mr.
Otterburgh will therefore continue to perform
the functions. Advices from Matamores to the
15th July state that Juarez is a candidate
for re-election, which is more likely to be true
than the former report,
as no one ever heard
of any one in Mexico surrendering anything
stolen, or honestly obtained, which could by fraud,
s confirmed. t 1
violence, or any other means be retained. The
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nd a t
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cap-
ture
of
o f all f
the eiei
ga representatives' refusing to
recognise the Republican Goverment. The com-
mand army has been given to Escobedo,
who is said to have a hankering after Maximilian's
purple—but the
be his is the robe purple with his life blood, as was
that in whichTilpurple robe which is most likely to
Maximilian ended his reign. e
death of Santa
Anna is again denied.
The new island that had risen so mysteriously
midway in the track of vessels bound from San
Francisco to China has disappeared, and no trace
of it can be found. Another expedition has returned
to San Francisco after an unsuccessful search. It
was stated to be in a part of the ocean peculiarly
liable to fogs, but it would be strange if a place
about which we had obtained so circumstantial an
account should turn out to be a mere myth.
The London College of Physicians has moved iu
the direction of making the nomenclature of diseases
Universal, mainly with the view of obtaining statis-
tical data, to be applied to the elucidation of the
best means to prevent disease and death. The first
step is that the nomenclature should have a common
signification, and be everywhere used in a similar
sense. A scheme has at length been devised which
defines the precise usage of terms, and gives to each
disease its proper position. The idea originated in
a correspondence between 1)r. Dambreck, an army
medical officer, and Dr. Gibson, and at first had
reference to a special system for the army medical
service. The difficulties and magnitude of the de-
sign, as it grew in may be imagined
proportions,

when we state that the subject first came up on the
19th July, 1857, when the College of Physicians

appointed a committee to prepare a nomenclature
of diseases, with full power to co-operate with other
bodies. A large number of representative men in
the public services were invited to aid the committee

n their objects. The army and navy medical de-

partments, the East India Company, the Registrar-
General, the medical officer of health of the Privy
Council, the president of the College of Surgeons,
and the Apothecaries' Company took part from time to
time in the deliberations in the early sittings of the
coin nittte ; and in 18G3 the represent-dives of the Re-
gistrars General of Scotland and Ireland, and several
other gentlemen were ad led to the committee. But the
final preparttioo of the design embrace every sic -
tion of the profession, and thus its trustworthiness,
extending over so wide a rang, has been greatly
enhanced in value. Diseases have been arranged
in prallel columns in English, and the Latin,

French, German, and Italian equivalents. The
EAglish names have as far as possible been used in
the manner in which they are employed by the
Registrar-General of England, so as to avoid any

serious alteration in the, present form of recording
diseases, which would cause a damaging break in
statistical evidence and destroy the possibility of an
accurate comparison of past, present, and future

data, the diseases being classified according to ana-
tomical considerations. It is thought that the

scheme may ultimately solve many difficult problems
with regard to epidemics, and that the uniformly

grouped and compared phenomena will give the in-
formation from which general principles can be ex-
tracted. Dr. Farr considers that an accurate regis-
tration and classification will be of unspeakable
benefit in solving problems regarding epidemics
which " distinguish one country from another, oue

year from another—have formed epochs in chrono-
logy, have decimated armies, disabled fleets, have
influenced the fate of cities, nay, of empires."
The Echoes from the Clubs is so proud of its suc-
cessful hoax, anent Prince Gartschakoff's despatch
relating to Russian intervention in Ireland, that we
beg to add to the list our contemporary has published,
the following additional notice from the press, which
we have only to say is from the New York Nation to
secure attention :—" The Cable newsman on the
other side of the Atlantic, as might have been ex-
pected, fell easily, last week, into the trap set by
some wag in London, by the publication of a de-
spatch purporting to come from Prince Gortschakoff,
and proposing a joint European investigation into
the condition of Ireland. The hoax was rather
clumsily executed, and probably few people except
the Cable newsman were taken in by it."
It is rumoured that Mr. Schenck challenged Mr.
Bingham, both of Ohio, on account of a remark of the latter
in the House that Mr. Schenck was intoxicated. Mr.
Stevens observed—"l hope the reporters won't state that
any ono in this House was drunk."
Mr. Harris presented his credentials to the Presi-
dent on the IGth of July, as Minister of the King of the
Sandwich Islands, and on the occasion made a little
speech.
Dr. Sears, President of the Peabody Fund, del
_ _

vered an address, on the 16th July, at Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, where an educational convention was assembled. A
resolution was adopted in support of the general instruc-
tion of the people.
Gen. M'Mahon, of New York, Sylvester Mowry,
of Arizona, John Nugent, of California, and Gen. Gordon
Granger are the candidates for the post of Minister to
Mexico.
It is said that General Meagher's death was due
to delirium. He had been very much excited by a quarrel
he had on a steamer with an Irishman, and about 10 o'clock
in the evening got out of bed and walked on the deck
from which ho fell.
The wife of General Meagher telegraphs that,
although the greatest exertions have been made, the
General's body has not yet been recovered.
Iletty 11. Robinson, the New Bedford millionaire,
was married at New York on Thursday, July 18, to Ed-
ward 11. Green.
The Senate has rejected the appointment of Mr.
Greeley as Minister to Vienna, and Gineral M'Clerland to
Mexico.

The trustees of the State Agricultural College will
hold a meeting at Amherst on the first Wednesday in Au-
gust, to choose a successor to President Chadbourne. The
Hampshire Agricultural Society has voted to establish a
scholarship in the college, and the president of the society,
Austin Eastman of Amherst, has offered to found another.
The directors of the Hampden Agricultural So-
ciety, at their meeting on Monday, July 15, decided upon
a plan for the seats on the park, and have ordered the
lumber and issued proposals for their erection. The seats
will be 36 by 308 feet, will seat 3,000 persons, and will
have a flat roof over all. The entrance will be from
the back, which is to rest upon the dyke, and underneath
the committee and refreshment rooms will be partitioned
off.

A South Danvers schoolboy has written the fol-
lowing composition on his native town :--" South Danvers
is in the United States. It is bounded by Salem, and
reaches to Middleton. Its principal river is Goldthwaite's
brook, which empties into Salem harbour. Its principal
lake is the mill-pond, which is dry in the summer. Its
principal productions are leather, onions, the South
Church, and George Peabody. South Danvers has many
religious sects, among which aro the Orthodox, who wor-
ship their minister, the Spiritualists, who worship every-
thing, and the Unitarians, who worship nothing."
The number of immigrants that arrived at New
York during the first six months of 1867 was 136,826, of
whom 28,308 came by sailing vessels, and 108,518 by

steamers.
The New York home Journal announces an en-
terprise of startling magnitude as about to be undertaken,
viz., the construction of a tunnel under the Atlantic, con-
necting the New with the Old World. Our contemporary
says that the most eminent engineers in America and in
England have been consulted, that they consider the work
as perfectly feasible, though requiring, of course, a good
deal of time and money, and that the necessary capital will
be " forthcoming." By their calculations, £500,000,000 will
complete the job.
The base-ball match at Worcester, Thursday
morning, July 18, between the Yale and Halyard freshmen,
was won by the former, 38 to 17, after a game of three
hours.

The steamer North American, that went ashore
at Anticosti, has been got off and towed by the steamer
Austrian into Gaspe, whence sho will be taken to Quebec.

PETROLEUM AS FUEL FOR
LOCOMOTIVES.

A series of experiments to determine the value of
petroleum as fuel for locomotives, took place at the
shops of the Warren and Franklin Railroad at
Irvineton, in Pennsylvania, not long since.
The apparatus used was Spence's burners. It is
described as consisting of a pan covering the
bottom of the fire-box in the locomotive, and taking
the place of grates. On the pan are placed heaters
or gas-generators, six in number, consisting of in-
clined plates of cast iron, supported at an angle of
45 deg. ; opposite to each heater is an injector con-
veying the oil to the heater, where it is instantly
converted into gases, oxygen being also furnished to
the gum in their nascent state for combustion. The
oil is contained in a tank on the tender, from which
it is conveyed by feed-pipes to the injectors, each
pair of injectors being controlled by a throttle, by
means of which the fire is regulated as readily as
the light of a lamp.
The locomotive used weighed 31 tons, and was
of one 150 horse• power. No cars were attached.
Under 851bs of steam the locomotive passed over
four miles of track in less than eleven minutes. All
iu the patty agree that oil may supersede wood and
coal in railroad use.—The Albion.

JOIT RNAL S.

much against it. Then all Papists are born trai-
tors just as negroes are born black and Malays
yellow. This is another point of faith sinful to
doubt. A list of such propositions as these are the
real thirty-nine articles that limit the creed of the
genuine Protestant. In a few generations this
state of things will scarcely be believed except by
the curious explorers of old libraries and the
readers of old pamphlets, but we need no convine-
mg. As yet the good old race is not quite extinct,
and we may still hear the last survivors of the old
stock making their daily profession of faith, not
only in such chance assemblies as that of St.
James's Hall, but in Exeter Hall, Crown Court, or
the House of Commons. The Apocalyptic seer of
this generation has gravely announced in his last
publication the charitable belief that there is just
a chance for the salvation of Papists, though he
feels sure that if heaven is ever open to them at
all, they will feel utterly at a loss what to do when
they get there. Again, a learned Archdeacon has
lately taken advantage of a visitation to prove
elaborately that Popish theology authorizes the
unblushing violation of every precept of the Po:
calogue ; and the most perfect living specimen 01
the family announced a few weeks ago to an un-
sympathizing House of Commons that Popery was.,
beyond a doubt the most fearful curse that had
ever fallen on any land. Yet in spite of the vigealr
displayed by these scions of the good old stock, it
is clear that the good old stock itself is fast dying
out. A proof of this is to be found in the fact that
such assertions as the above require now no ref a-
tation. The charge of Archdeacon Sinclair is as
harmless, and we may add, as amusing, as poi
Quixote's charge at the windmill. Dr. Cumming
we may leave to the castigation of the Saturday
Review, and Mr. Whalley we may safely leave to
himself. As for the Associates of the " National
Protestant Institute," they may hold as ninny
meetings as they please, and print as many placards
as they please, but they will never persuade Eng-
lishmen that they are the victims of a Jesuitical
conspiracy, or induce them to go back to the
thoughts and feelings of the " glorious days .of
King *William." They might as well try to revive
the old style of controversy, when adversaries were
uniformly accused of " wallowing in the slime of
misrepresentation and calumny," or readers warned
" not to kiss the Pope's toe until his nails
pared, so as he will not scratch and make the
blood run about the mouth of Christendom." This
is the mother tongue of Protestantism, and it is one
o f the signs of the times that like the old Welsh it
is growing obsolete. The late meeting in St.
James's Hall was a kind of Eisteddfod to keep abs°
the old spirit and the old language. These attempts
at a " Revival" must be expected from time to
time. On the next occasion, however, if we may
venture to make a suggestion, several alterations
should be made in the programme. In the first
place, the Association ought to have too much
respect for its traditions to meet anywhere exeoPt,
in Crown Court or Exeter Hall. Then with all
due respect to Sir W. Verner, M.P., we must really,
protest against his occupying the chair in face °I
the superior claims of the honourable member for
Peterborough. Prominent places too, on the plat;
form ought to be assigned to Dr. Cumming all;
Mr. Newdegate. Dr. M'Neile should be induccd.
to attend from Liverpool, as the representative 01
great and good men in general, and Archdeacon
Sinclair would have great pleasure we are sure I°
reading his " Charge " for about the fifteenth time.
Really none of these little points should bo
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neglected tokeep the " sick man" alive. It is▪ t
Mr. Whalley, as first physician, that we look for
able treatment at this crisis, unless indeed he really
harbours the secret ambition of living to a greel
old age, and being able to say if he will condeseen'
to speak in a Popish language "Le Protestantism• (
c'est mai !"