The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1867.

Patriarch at Constantinople and of encroaching on
his prerogatives, among which is counted the right
of naming the heads of the Bulgarian Church."

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

The American Legation at Constantinople has
obtained from the Porte the satisfaction demanded
by the United States for the grievances complained
of by the American Consulate in the Island of Crete,
but which had excited scarcely any attention in

America.
Admiral Farragut, Captain Le Roy, Flag-Com-
mander Lieutenant Watson, and Mr. Kane, naval
aide-de-camp, accompanied the Board of Admiralty
in the annual visit to inspect the Chatham Dock-
yard. The Hercules, now about two-thirds com-
pleted, was the great object of interest. The
Monarch was also carefully viewed, and other ves-
sels on the slips. Captain Scott's model for train-
ing the 18-ton guns was minutely examined, as
well as the models of the turrets of the Monarch.
The American sailors investigated them with much
interest. After spending a long day, Admiral Far-
ragut and the American officers embarked in the
Wildfire steamer and proceeded by railway to
London.
The field of the celebrated battle of Antietam is
now the site of a National Cemetery. It was there
in September, 1862, that M'Clellan, pushing up
from Washington, cut through General Lee's army
in its advance on Pennsylvania. M'Clellan had
just sustained his tremendous defeats before Rich-
mond, and the Confederates flushed with victory,
and in great strength, had undertaken to carry the
war into the enemy's country. Exactly half a
decade bad passed when all eyes were again turned
to that historical spot, to witness a ceremony which
in itself was a record of the triumph of the North.
On the grass were gathered the President, Secretary
Seward, Secretary M'Culloch, Secretary Welles,
Postmaster-General Randall, the Attorney-General,
the British Secretary of Legation, the French
Minister and French Secretary of Legation, the
Russian Minister and Russian Secretary of Lega-
tion, the Spanish Minister, and Spanish Secretary
of Legation, the Italian Minister and Italian Secre-
tary of Legation, the Austrian Charg6 d'Affaires,
and several other members of the diplomatic body,
beside twelve State governors, many distinguished
military officers, a large number of prominent citi-
zens and officials, several hundred soldiers, and
many citizens—in all about 15,000 people. The
brilliancy of the ceremony was marred by the
weather, the rain falling heavily and uninter-
ruptedly. The proceedings opened with prayer,
followed by a hymn, when the corner-stone of the
soldiers' monument was laid according to the for-
mula of the Freemasons. Ex-Governor Bradford
delivered an address, when a poem was read, and
the proceedings concluded with a few remarks from
the President. After the ceremony ended, on a
call from the people, Governor Geary, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Governor Fenton, of New York, de-
livered speeches.
General Butler finds that his fellow-countrymen
are more honest than he had any idea of. He
thought to make political capital by joining the
Democratic " hue and cry" against the national debt.
He finds that he has excited only disgust, and
almost universal condemnation by the press of his
party, led by the New York Tribune. He has sent
to the Evening Post a letter explanatory of his con-
versation
with the Boston Advertiser reporter. He
urges the essential difference between his scheme
and that of Mr. PENDLETON. There is a vast dif-

ference in the ruin that would be wrought—the

Pendleton plan annihilating all debt in the United
States, and the Butler plan only depriving the bond-
holders of millions ; yet morally there is no differ-
ence, the country merely securing for itself the
same amount of dishonour, but not the same amount

of gain.
The Nation gives a sketch of Mr. Bickley's
career, the personage, as it says, who now styles
himself Attorney-General. It is said that he
first appeared in Washington as a portrait-painter,
then land agent, next writer for newspapers, fail-
ing that (the resort of the destitute), a clerkship
in a Government office. After a great many winds and
shifts, he cut into law, which he appears finally to
have discovered to be the correct thing, although
at first a failure, as he had only one case, which he
judiciously withdrew from court. Suddenly he
emerged, coming out in a blaze of light as legal
adviser of the Executive of the United States, being
selected by Mr. Johnson as Acting-Attorney-Gene-
ral, and on his shoulders fell, in Mr. Stanbery's
absence, the work at a most critical period. He has
lately left Washington on his recreation tour, Mr.
Stanbery having again got into harness, and it must
be a great consolation to the Acting-Attorney-Gene-
ral to find that his arduous duties have excited the
attention of thecountry, and that the hosts of friends
he has made are engaged in the agreeable occupa-
tion of looking up his past career. The Nation
says his rise resembles the rise of a grand vizier at
an Oriental Court rather than that of a Christian
lawyer, and it forms perhaps the most singular in-
cident of Mr. Johnson's singular Administration.
Perhaps Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister, may
have had his eyes on him when he congratulated the
country to which he was accredited, on the similarity
of its institutions, to that he represented. "We
doubt," adds the Nation, " if a parallel can be found
in the history of any civilised State." Bickley is a
jack-of-all-trades, who has been everything by
turns and nothing long, but the Nation should re-
member that if he be wanting in jurist lore, such
training must at least have given him a wide expe-
rience.

The Wanderer of last Saturday evening says
:
"The Customs and Commercial Convention be-
tween Austria and Hungary treats the whole mo-
narchy as one common customs territory without
any division. Future commercial treaties with
foreign powers will require the sanction of the Cis-
Leithan and Trans-Leithan Ministries and Legisla-
tures. All Austrian ships will carry the same flag.
The representation of maritime interests, as well as
the consular system, will henceforth be considered
as 4 common affairs,' and placed under the juris-
diction of the Foreign-office. There will be one
coinage and one gold standard for both portions of
the empire." The duration of the treaty is to be
ten years.

The steamer Deutschland, of the Hamburgh and
New York line, was the scene of a distressing acci-
dent on Sunday, the 15th September. It is usual for
the vessels on their arrival from Europe to fire a
salute. As the ship rounded to her moorings, the
guns were discharged, when one burst. About 200
passengers were at the time gathered on the deck.
The heads of two were blown overboard, an-
other crushed to pieces, and two of the gunners
were seriously injured. The names of the victims
are Frederick W. Hammer, William Gege, and Fre-
derick Matheke.

Much discontent has been excited at Richmond
Virginia, by allowing the blacks to vote on the
question of subscribing $2,000,000 to the capital
stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The
proposed road will place the West in direct com-
munication with the seaport, to the great benefit of
Richmond. But those most interested do not con-
sider that city in a position to incur such liability.
General Scholefield, to whom application was made
by those who wished to carry the measure, ordered
the polls to be opened to all qualified by registra-
tion. The result was a majority of 2,000 ; the
negroes to a man voting in favour of the railway.
The legality of the vote is contested, on the ground
that the Reconstruction Acts allow negroes only to
vote for the election of an officer ; also, that regis-
tration is not complete till the list is revised.
The Ministry of New Dominion have been suc-
cessful in the elections, having secured 115 mem-
bers against 66 in Opposition, giving the Govern-
ment a working majority of 49. The Boston Com-
mercial Bulletin advocates the renewal of the Reci-
procity Treaty, a subject it considers of vital interest
to the New England States, which in common with
Canada have seriously suffered from the abrogation
of the treaty. It says:—
" The experience of the last two years has fully demon-
strated the cogency of the reasons urged by this and other
commercial papers against such political action (the treaty
abrogation) as a matter of policy and sound political eco-
nomy. If it was designed as a punishment to our neigh-
bours for their misplaced sympathies during our domestic I
struggle, it is one which has recoiled upon our own heads.
The injury has been to some extent mutual, but circuni-

stances connected with our currency and foreign commerce
have afforded them a greatcr compensation for the loss of
our trade than we have been able to obtain in other
quarters."
The tariff is likely to furnish a subject of dispute,
which may split sections of the Union and parties more
effectually than any other question. Speaking gene-
rally, the West will be opposed to New England and
Pennsylvania and the Republican party divided on
the subject. Senator Grimes, of lowa, has written
to the managing committee of his (the Republican)
party that four-fifths of the Republicans of the
State agree with him in opposing protection, as
well as the majority of the members of Congress
from the North-West. Ho says that an overwhelm-
ing majority in lowa will be against an increase of
the present tariff, the highest ever known in a civi-
lised country. The intelligent people of lowa are
unwilling to destroy their revenue by a prohibitory
tariff on imports, only to impose new and addi-
tional direct taxes upon their own domestic pro-
ducts to supply the deficiency.
The registration in the State of Mississippi out
of 29 counties gives 28,923 whites to 31,542 negroes,
being a black majority of 2,619 ; but the white
predominating in the other counties may give the
ultimate majority in their favour. In Florida, so
far, the return stands 3,734 whites to 9,998 coloured.
General Scholefield has called an election in Vir-
ginia for the 22d October, notwithstanding the
President's express wish to give a further period for
registration. In Louisiana the Republican parish
conventions have nominated negroes for the State
convention, and a negro judge presided at the Re-
corder's Court at New Orleans on Sept. 18.
The yellow fever continues to rage with great
violence in the Gulf cities, several officers having
fallen victims. At Houston, Texas, there has been
at least 1,000 cases, and 10 to 15 deaths daily. At
New Orleans on the 14th and 15th Sept. 103 per-
sons died. At Pensacola, Florida, there were 223
cases. The fever has not yet reached Mobile, but
a number of the officials in fear of its advent have
fled from the town. At Galveston nearly all busi-
ness was suspended. Urgent appeals had been
made to the North, and at Boston and New York
funds are being rapidly raised.
There is no news by cable from America, except
the arrival of the ocean steamers, the price of gold,
5-20 Bonds, &c. It was telegraphed from New
York, at 6 p.m., Oct. 1, that no European news
had there been received since Saturday at noon.
This gives an interval of three days and six hours,
a considerable period for the press of the United
States, usually so abundantly supplied through the
cable, to be without European intelligence. Gold
remains stationary, but there is a slight decline in
5-20 Bonds, consequent, we presume, on the drop
in the European markets. For that drop Messrs.
Butler, Pendleton, and Thaddeus Stevens, in some
measure, are answerable. It is far easier for people
to do Larm than good.
The committee of investigation appointed by the

proprietors of the Atlantic ancik Great Western Rail-
way have furnished a report so clear that there can
be no further misunderstanding regarding the affairs
of this road. As we have always affirmed, the road
is intrinsically valuable, requiring time and an
honest management to make it profitable. The
committee admit that the condition of the property
was even worse than they had anticipated. The
railway was not thoroughly completed ; earth works,
embankments, and cuttings too narrow ; some val-
leys crossed by trestles, ballast and workshops in-
sufficient, working equipment too heavy for super-
structure, the renewal, maintenance, and repairs being
deferred had rapidly deteriorated, and were in a bad
condition. The estimate to put the way in repair was
about $2,600,000. On the Ist April the line had
passed into the hands of a receiver, Major-General
B. Potter, and a new and more satisfactory admini-
stration commenced. The committee propose to
defer paying interest on the First Divisional Bonds
for two years, on the Second for three years, and on
the Consolidated Bonds for four years from the
31st March last. It is supposed that the road will
then be in a perfect condition without a floating lia-
bility of any kind. Mr. M'Henry expressed his
willingness to accept an arrangement proposed by
the committee. That the report was considered
favourable may be gathered from the rise in price
which has taken place in the Bond 3. It will no
doubt pay those well who can afford to wait.
The long-impending panic seems to have culmi-
nated on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday in a scene
of indescribable confusion. The streets of London
presented a strange spectacle on the 11th of May,
1866, but a panic-stricken English mob is a quiet
orderly gathering when compared with a panic-
stricken French mob. Cape', Court is closed to the
public, while the Bourse is an open market. Men
are described as " rushing wildly about in quest of
their brokers with shouts to sell at any price—the
brokers themselves closely hemmed in by the frantic
crowd round the corbeille, screaming themselves
hoarse—the vast multitude all around surging to
and fro, and yelling offers of Rente, of Italians, of
everything—made up a spectacle the like of which
has not been often seen. At about 2 o'clock there
was a moment's lull, caused by the appearance of
the commissary of police, who is supposed to pre-
serve order in the financial Pandemonium." It was
known that Court personages had been selling
largely, and men's minds became disquieted. The
embarrassed position of that great institution, the
Credit Mobilier, added to the uneasiness. All
tended in the direction of the panic, the storm
necessary to clear the atmosphere. Sympathy under
such circumstances is indescribably contagious,
affecting even the spectator, who has nothing to
lose or gain. When the mass are in this highly
electric state a baSeless report causes an explosion,
and there are hundreds whose interest it is to make
possible. " Bears,"
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harvest. They have sold everything, and it is their
object to buy for delivery at the lowest price. We
may then easily conjecture who were the circulators
of the wild rumours, and who the gainers were by
the panic which ensued. " The Emperor was
seriously ill. The Emperor was disquieted by the
aspect of the political horizon. The Emperor
found it necessary to cut short his sea-side vaca-
tion. He was making his way back to Paris with
the utmost speed. He bad summoned Moustier ;
he had dismissed Rouher ; he was closeted with
Lavalette ; he had sent for Drouyn de Lhuys. The
Peace-Minister was dismissed ; the War-Counsellor
was in favour ; the crisis portended a turn in the
Roman policy ; it boded an open quarrel with
Germany.' Moreover, the telegraph reported a
rising in Rome ; an attack on the Papal frontier ;
riots throughout Italy ; Rattazzi suing for a closer
alliance with France; Rattazzi plotting for a secret
understanding with Prussia ;' and, to crown all,
an altercation between General Fleury and Count
Bismark."

The Hamburg- American Steampacket Com-
pany's steamship Bavaria, Capt. Meyer, from Ham-
burg on the Ist inst., left Southampton for New
Orleans yesterday, the 4th. She took out a full
complement of first cabin and a considerable num-
ber of steerage passengers, and a large cargo, in-
cluding 26,230 francs value of jewellery, &c., from
Havre. This steamer is the pioneer of a regular
line to run between Hamburg and New Orleans, call-
ing at Southampton on the outward voyage, and off
Cowes to land mails, passengers, specie, &c., on the
homeward voyage. The s.s. Teutonta, Captain F.
Bardua, will follow, leaving Hamburg on the Ist
and Southampton on the 4th November. These
steamers are to leave New Orleans on the home-
ward voyage on the 15th November and December
respectively.
General Hancock arrived at Washington on
Wednesday, the 18th Sept. General Sheridan had
reached Cincinnati on his way there, and General
Sickles had been ordered to report to the War
Department immediately. It was said that this
gathering of prominent generals at Washington
had not been by order of the President, hut had
been a matter of some surprise to him.
The East India railways are revealing a trait of
native character. In no country in the world is
there a greater difficulty of obtaining pukkur, that
is, good work. The dread of punishment will not
prevent a native from stamping, and the frightful
exposure and demoralising influence of the cli-
mate interfere with due supervision. Thus the
necessary superintendence is wanting where it is

most required, and the bridges:viaducts, and earth.
works, are tumbling down. It is well for the pro-
prietors that they are secured by a Government
guarantee.

SPEECH OF THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS

AT .iIIALINES.

(Concluded.)

I have another point to remark, which is par-
ticularly necessary for all of us to remember—for
it applies pre-eminently to our age at this moment.
We have lost the true meaning of words in this
day of enlightenment and progress : " Vera verum
nomina jamdudum amissimus;" This is a momen-
tous truth, which true philosophy and Christianity
both agree as to its importance. The greatest and
the noblest wealth man possesses consists in things,
ideas, and words : things, whether natural or super-
natural ; ideas, whether natural or revealed, which
represent things ; and, lastly, words that express
ideas. Now, when we do not keep to the sense of
words, but apply them to ideas and things that
are not worthy of them, or adapt the language of
our adversaries, we really commit one of the
greatest faults which the friends of truth can be
guilty of. The last century showed us the abuse
of certain words, and our nineteenth century has
not been behiudhand in misapplying terms and
words most grievously. I will name three words
which have been strangely perverted and used
against us, and that by our fault. They called
themselves, we allowed them to be so called, and
thirdly, we call them so ourselves—Reformers,
Philosophers, and Liberals. Reformers Let us
see who they were. The apostate Luther, who
ran away with a nun, and Calvin, who allowed
himself two or three such companions as a
Colampadius, a Buer, a Zwingle, a Theodore of
Beza, a curious set of men to reform a Church,
whose lives were one common tale of luxury and
infamy, ending like a comedy in a marriage, and
full of scenes that would disgrace a novel. These
men understood one thing, just that of which we
are speaking, how to give false names and to de-
ceive the unwary ; thus they called themselves
reformers, and the Church Babylon. Their real
name is the one we give them ; they protest against
the doctrines of the Church, and are decidedly and
deservedly Protestants ; but to give the name of
reformers to the offsprings of Luther and Calvin is
what I will never do. But what is, at least, as
extraordinary is the abuse of the word " Liberal "
and " Lib6raux " (which in France answers to our
appellative of Revolutionary and Republican in
its worst form). Why, gentlemen, if Bossuet,
F6nelon, and Bourdalone, whose language was so
pure, so strong, so clear, could rise up and come
among us now, they would not understand their
own countrymen ; they would inquire of us what
has become of that beautiful French in which they
wrote, and which they left us as a heritage. Analyse
the word " Liberal"—what does it mean ? It means
a man of enlarged mind—a noble-hearted man—a
man who will not refuse to give his adversaries the
same justice, the same fairness he claims for him-
self ; and it is in this sense that all true Catholics
are true " Liberals." But is it possible that we
calmly stand by and see this glorious name usurped
by all those whose aim is to separate liberty from
justice, who go to work, per fas et nefas, by vio-
lence, perfidy, spoliation, and robbery—whose first
thought and deed is to commence their liberalisme
by oppression and spoliation of the Church's goods ?

Ah, these " Lib6raux " I would condemn and
wither with their true name ; as St. Peter said
of such, " They have nothing but the name, they
wear it as a mask," habentes velamen malitice liberta-
tem. I saw the other day the name of "Liberal "
given to Juarez—a man who is the opprobrium of
every society, of whom even the savage nations
speak with horror ; but really it is enough to make
one lose one's senses. Garibaldi—he, too, they must
needs call a "Liberal." Listen to a discourse he
made to the students of Pavia :—" Friends "—my
children, even he said—for you must know he at
times becomes very paternal, and I have heard he
administers baptism in the name of La Patric.
Well, his first phrase on this occasion was—" We
must eradicate the priestly vampire ; we must dash
out the brains of the priests against the stones."
This is to be "Liberal," is it not? The Freemasons
who throw stones in Portugal at the noble Sisters
of Charity, and those of this country who make a
boast of insulting them are all " Liberaux !" No !
I say it is intolerable. To use words in this per -
verted sense is to falsify the tongue, to dishonour
truth, and to ruin the heart; and on no considera-
tion whatever ought we to give such names to
such men. (Loud cheers, long and enthusiastic.)
And if I wrote in the Belgian press never could
I lend my pen to such an aberration. The same

folly pervaded the eighteenth century. ; they gave
the noble name of philosophers to the worst of men
—the Helvetins, the nolbachs, the La Mettrus,
and a crowd of their fellows, among whom there
was neither sense nor one spark of the fire of true
philosophy. And Christianity, gentlemen, how did
they call it ? You have the villainous reproach of
a villain—Voltaire—who said—" Friends, let us
crush this villany," and who at this moment is
ignorant of the ignominious epithets by which the
priesthood is designated—the fools, the I knaves,
the imbeciles. Worse and worse. It is in honour
of this coryphce of impiety and immorality that in
this nineteenth century it is contemplated to erect
a monument ! A statue ! A statue to Voltaire If

it is executed—and it will be, for every thing is
possible—l would say they have raised a statue to
" villany personified." Yes, the Bishop of Orleans
and of Joan of Arc can say nothing else. And
should the descendants of this unworthy man de-
sire me to do it, I will give them proofs of my
assertion, should it even cost me a lawsuit. Yes,
there is here an intolerable violation of good sense,
justice, and, I will add, of the honour of every
Frenchman. But I must turn from this odious
abuse of words and language ; and, I will repeat,
we must have a struggle. Let us undertake it
courageously, with devotedness for the cause, with
intelligence, laboriously, prudently, but also with
moderation, and, above all, oh, above all, with
charity, with love. What did our Lord say to
the Apostles—" I send you as lambs in the midst
of wolves." You will, very likely, tell me I hardly
practise the Christian principle in using the vitupe-
rative language I have done ; but I answer, I am angry
when I think of these crying and growing indignities,
and I recall these words of Scripture : " Trasci-
mini et nolite peccare." We may go as far as
indignation when it is needful, but not so as to
sin. No ; we must not forget St. Ambrose's
words : "Be athletes of the Church, but only for
her defence, and never let it be said of us that we
attack save to defend "—" Propugnatores, non
Impugnatores." But I conclude, gentlemen, and
my last words will express the last impression that
this vast assembly makes upon me. After the most
perfect work of the hand of God, the angels, shall
I tell you what it is that fills my heart most
vividly ? It is that glorious feeling of love which
Almighty God has placed as a focus of living fire
in each man's breast. Well, gentlemen, you your-
selves, this immense concourse, these looks that
beam from all sides, the acclamations which come
from the innermost soul, these hands ready to catch
the first dawn of every true and generous sentiment
almost before it conies to light—do you know what
it is that makes this so beautiful in my sight? It
is purely because that is love. You love, and love
a noble truth. It is even a sublime object you
love. You love your Church, your mother.
(Cheers, and yes, yes, from all sides.) And you
do well to give all your love, to love the greatest,
the purest, and most generous love itself, for the
Church ; and this is the reason why we must all
love her, she is the society of souls. Yes, by the
Grace of God, there is in the Church and by the
Church a society of souls. She is in the world, but
not of the world. She lives by faith, hope, and
charity, or love, but much more by charity. The
greatest of these, says the Apostle, is charity, and
you do well to love it. Heaven is the Church's
home, and country, and native land. She has the
King of Heaven for her Father, Jesus Christ is her
Spouse, the Holy Spirit is her life's blood. She
has priests, temples, and altars. In her we find a
Divine Constitution, placed on an immovable rock,
governed by supreme authority, delegated by
devoted Pontiffs, obeyed by a docile family, faith-

. ful ministers, and, above all, what we do not find
anywhere else under the sun, she has her rights
respected and duties accomplished. (Loud cheers.)
Travelling on here, she sings as she goes on songs
that both strengthen and comfort her; but, descend-
ing from Calvary, no song is to her so acceptable
as the hymn of the Cross, for she says exultingly,
" God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross
of the Lord Jesus." She meets with strange looks
and cold words, sometimes with enemies and perse-
cutors—aye, even bloody executioners—and these
she meets ever and anon. And even should she
find peace and consolation on her path, there is
always a chosen spot upon the earth, where she
can suffer—where the mysterious providence of
God which watches over her reserves a cross
especially for her to bear, in order that the palm
of victorious confessor, and the crown of noble
martyrs shall never be wanting to her glory. Such
is the Church ! And is it not that we have so
lately witnessed with our eyes at Rome ? It was
there and then in spite of all the demons let loose
upon her, she sat calm and dignified, secure and
peaceful, drawing out of her very trials the strength
and courage to brave future dangers. It was grand
to see five hundred of bishops—some who had come
from far distant climes at a generous sacrifice and
at much cost, and thousands of priests—all these
souls, and that of the immortal Pontiff, our com-
mon father, in one vivid, tender, indissoluble unity;
and if you will consider that you and all the faith-
ful are each and every one represented by your
bishops and pastors, you Catholics of all the earth
were united in that great assembly. Show me, I
ask, where you can find unity like this ? This is
the invincible, yet peaceful strength of the Church.
When I saw there our revered bishops of America,
and there were, I think, thirty-five, I remembered
that at the commencement of this century there
was not one Catholic bishop in the whole of that
vast continent ; and now, since the last council at
Baltimore, they have petitioned of the Holy Father
the erection of twenty-two more bishoprics, which
are, of course, in the way of being granted.
(Bravo, bravo, on all sides.) You see the fecun-
dity of this Church of Jesus Christ after eighteen
centuries of struggles and victories. See what a
cause you have engaged in ; see of who you are the
children. Yes, it is always so in the midst of the
most imminent peril ; all on a sudden you see the
Church unaccoutered, without arms or ammuni-
tion—by a word, a look, a gesture, some magna-
nimous act, reveals at once her divine strength.
For instance, that grand resolve of the Sovereign
Pontiff, that solemn announcement of the (Ecume-
nical Council to be held, I confess I never was more
struck by the conviction of the ever-presiding
presence of the Spirit of God over His Church,
than when I saw with what power from on high,
the august shepherd of the flock of Christ, not-
withstanding all the shackles with which he has
been threatened, go straight to the work of God.
The earth is tottering under his feet; nations are
trembling at his position ; on all sides—" Contur-
batoe sungentes inclinata suet regna ;" and, con-
fident in the immortat destiny of the Church, he
convokes his grand work, announces a Council,
proclaims to the whole Episcopate not only the
utility, but the necessity of a Council—" Perutite
uno necessarium." They will meet then again
around the Chair of St. Peter, and more numerous
than before. The great voice of the Catholic
Church assembled will speak by the mouth of the
supreme chief. He will send forth words which
[shall give life to us, and also to our separated
brethren; less distant from us than they think,
though still too far. The voice of the Holy Spirit
shall turn many hearts to the truth and soften
many asperities ; and we shall see many among
those who, out of ignorance, repulse the Church,
re-enter her bosom ; and we shall witness another
great stride towards the accomplishment of those
Divine words, " There shall be one fold, one Shep-
herd, and one flock "—" Unum ovile et unus
Pastor."

Lieutenant Prideaux is so sanguine in his expecta-
tions of ultimate release that he requests clothing to
be despatched to Massowah to await his arrival.

DR. JAS. TV. WOOD'S CHARITABLE MIS-
SION FROM- THE SOUTHERN STATES
TO EUROPE.

Those who have passed over Sherman's track
allege that his march of destruction was one of the
most complete ever made by an invading army.
He left Atlanta a charred and blackened site on
which a city had once stood, and the country for a
hundred square miles around was swept of all that
could afford shelter or sustenance to its inhabitants.
What the suffering has been is easier to imagine
than to describe, but although exciting the deepest
commiseration in Europe, it is a singular fact that
no effort at alleviation has been made. Atlanta
was the point for which the contending armies
strove, as its position made it a key which opened
up a large space of the Southern States. For
this reason it has been selected as the spot for
the foundation of a charity, which Dr. J. W. Wood
has undertaken to urge on the attention of the rich
and generous English as well as Americans. He
left Atlanta but a few months ago, commissioned by
the authorities of that city to make this appeal with
the object of founding a free hospital for all classes
of the destitute, black as well as white, who have
become so numerous since the war. James L.
Dunning, special agent of the Freedmen's Bureau,
Atlanta, asserts that, after careful inquiry, he found
that 1,000 families in the county of Fulton
alone would need the benefits contemplated
by this hospital. The late famine has passed,
followed as usual by a pestilence, which is now sweep-
ing over the Southern cities with a frightful viru-
lence. Whatever may have been the sins and
shortcomings of the South it is impossible to con-
template the desolation without feelings of the
deepest sympathy. The horrors of famine have
succeeded the horrors of war, and now on that de-
voted country rages a plague. Surely such suffer-
ings are sufficient to attract the attention of the
world, and to call for some efforts of the charitable.
One of the most necessary institutions is an hospi-
tal, which will at least save thousands from dying
like dogs in the ditches of Georgia. Dr. Wood has
been engaged in New York in obtaining relief for
the starving thousands of the South. Every effort was
required to obtain food. Hospitals, schools,
churches, even covering, were mere mockery when
offered to people dying of hunger. This first ne-
cessity provided, the next great step is to secure
medical treatment, and at least the indispensables
required by the sick. This is the object to which
Dr. Wood calls attention. The American Ambas-
sador, Mr. Adams, shows his belief in the genuine-
ness of the credentials given to Dr. Wood,
not only by the State authorities, but by many of
the most prominent citizens of America. His Grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury has given £10; Samuel
Morley, with a generosity which has marked his whole
career, has presented £lOO ; Joshua Wilson, £5 ;
W. R. Morris, £2 ; H. S. G., £1; G. 8., £1; Rev.
S. Hoddle Parkes, £1 ; Rev. James Griffin, £1 ;
W. H. D. Lucas, Shadwick, J.P., £l. We desire
thus to introduce the object of Dr. Wood's mission
to Europe, more especially to Americans residing in
England, many of whom are desirous of aiding in
so humane a cause. Contributions may be sent to
Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co., bankers, Lon-
don and Liverpool ; or London and County Bank,
to be forwarded to Mr. John Rice, President of the
National Bank of Atlanta.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER—Ocr. 5.

This market was moderately supplied with wheat to-
day, and the trade was brisk, at 4s to 5s per qr over last
week's prices. Barley was in steady demand, and pica
advanced is per qr upon the quotations of last weol;•
Beans and peas also were is dearer.
Wheat, white ...... 7Gs 778 Beans, Mazagan......3Bs 404
red 66s 72s M►ddle and 5ma11..148 400
Barley ........ 4OB 448 Peas, white 388 420
Oats ...—s a grey —us 420