The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—In the Secon-
daries Court, before Mr. Secondary Potter, an action was
tried to assess damages in the case of Yardley v. Tyler.
It was a breach of promise case, and in the Court of
Common Pleas the defendant suffered judgment by default.
It appeared that the defendant had met Miss IThrdley on
the Boulogne boat in August 1865, and in October 186(; he
proposed for her hand. He was accepted, and the court-
ship continued until March 1867, when the defendant's
manner became constrained and altered towards plaintiff,
and in April he wrote saying that plaintiff's coldness has
altered his mind, and though the plaintiff's father urged
him to be honourab!e the match was broken off. There
was some talk on the plaintiff's side of the defendant's
possessing a " hunter" and a " dog cart," but this
possession was denied en the part of the defendant. The
jury returned a verdict for £759.

STABBING BY AN ITALIAN.-At the Mansion House Vin-
cenzo Visoni, an Italian, was charged with stabbing Police-
canstable Isaac Gilbert with intent to do him grievous
bodily harm. It appeared that on Sunday he was walking
up and down in front of the Italian Consulate. When
informed by the police-constable that the Consul would
not be at his office that day he became exasperated,
muttered something about Fenianism, and commenced
unbuttoning his waistcoat. He was immediately seiz
when he (prisoner), drawing a knife, stabbed Gilbert in the
hand. The wound, though painful, is not very serious.
The prisoner turned out to be an Italian exile, who had
been kept in St. George's Workhouse for three years and
a half. The prisoner was remanded.
THE CASE OF REVOLTING CRUELTY TO A CHILD AT
MARGATE.-At the Dover quarter sessions yesterday,
before Sir W. H. Bodkin, Recorder, and a full bench of
magistrates, Adelaide Lomax pleaded not guilty to a
charge of gross cruelty to her daughter Agnes, aged 7.
At the time the matter was first before the magistrates
we gave the particulars of the case, but another brief out-
line may now be necessary. It will, perhaps, be remem-
bered that the prisoner, with her husband, occupied a
respectable position in Margate. It was spoken to by
several persons, their servants, and others, that
gross cruelty had been systematically practised on the
child. Her hands had been for hours, and, indeed, whole
nights, tied behind her, and she had been held by the
prisoner under the pump, and water poured on her. She
had been seen to strike her with her fist, so that the child's
body was much bruised. She had also struck her with a
hairbrush, and her violence was so great that the brush
broke in two. One witness swore that she had been told
by the prisoner to rub chloride of lime over the bruises,
and had done so. The jury, after hearing the evidence,
thought that the case had been proved ; and the learned
Recorder sentenced the prisoner to twelve months with
hard labour.

AN EXTENSIVE ROBBERY FOILED.—A National
flank messenger was assaulted and robbed of $3,200,000
in exchange cheques, and $5OO in bills yesterday in Wall-
street, in broad daylight, and in the midst of the usual
throng of busy passers. The exchange cheques fortunately
are useless, and the bold robbers have secured only the
$,5.00 kpoty,—,ATM Dec, 14.

The future hearer being warned against the error
above-mentioned—one into which very many people
very naturally fall—there remains to speak of the
other disappointment to which we have alluded.
At first, at least, everybody, we suppose, will ex-
perience it, and every one will at once admit to
himself that it is childish. We feel it, neverthe-
less, perpetually demanding that each fresh hero,
in spite of the failure of his predecessors, shall ap-
pear to the bodily eye as he appears to the eye of
imagination. The man who has created Mr. Richard
Swiveller and three generations of Wellers and Mr.
Toots and Captain Cuttle and Mr. Wegg and Mr.
Peggotty and Mr. Micawber and young Bailey, and
so many other members of every well-regulated
household, must be prepared to find us feeling not
altogether rightly used when we see that as he
steps quickly across the stage he seems to the
casual eye—if any casual eye were there—an ordi-
nary elderly gentleman, with steel-grey hair, thin
on the top of the head and brought forward into
two tufts just above the ear, with a rosy or flushed
face, in evening dress, and, generally, with a dapper
air than with a look of—what shall we say ?—a
great genius who is a part of the happiness of man-
kind henceforth. From this disappointment one
soon recovers. One looks closely at the strong fea-
tures, sees the mingled kindness and sharpness of
the eyes, sees the whole face smiling—not the lips
only, but the eyes and cheeks—at some lucky,
humorous stroke, and it is easy to forget some small
things, and to admit that only the face before us

could be the face of the Dickens whom we know.

The flowers and the jewellery and the diffuse
moustache and imperial seem also proper and not
to be dispensed with.
Our New York audiences are not, we think, so
far as we know them west of the Bowery, apt to
be extremely enthusiastic ; not apt to be so enthu-
siastic as Boston audiences, we should say, though
it is true that the individual New Yorker wants the
gravity of the individual Bostonian. He lives in a
whirl of all things earthly, which makes particular
things of no great importance to him, which re-
duces special sensations to comparative insigni-
ficance ; there are so many things to make him light
that even as " a house" he is not to be brought

down heavily. It will have to be admitted, too,
that be is not so susceptible to purely intellectual
impressions as the average Athenian of the Modern
Athens. So Mr. Dickens was not received with
anything like the warmth which greeted him in
Boston. A round of applause welcomed him as he
walked across the platform to his desk, another left
him waiting for half a minute, or some seconds less
than that time, as he made his bow, and then he
was allowed to begin, and continued throughout
the reading without interruptions of any length,
though not without frequent interruptions.
" Marley was dead," he began. " Marley was
dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatever
about that ;" and he went on, not following per-
fectly close!), the text of that edition of his reading
which Ticknor and Fields have just published, but
varying from it in two ways—by omissions which
included some of his finest bits of humour—as when
the intelligent British juryman, who knows himself
a painstaking bulwark of the Constitution, inquires
of Sergeant Buzfuz the precise d ite of the Chops
Tomato Sauce bilkt-doux; and not only by omissions,
but by interpolations—as when the sergeant tells the
jury that it is "an enlightened, a high-minded, a
right-feeling, a conscientious, a dispassionate, a
sympathising, a contemplative, and, it is not going
too far to say, a HIGHLY POETICAL jury of her
civilised countrymen"— the words in italics and
capitals being a very effective " reading" addition
to the words in our copy of the novel. Of these
omissions and interpolations there were very many,
some advantageous, some injurious.
To pronounce judgment on Mr. Dickens as a
reader we are not in all respects competent. But
we may say that as we listened to him it seemed
to us that in the level passages he was not extra-
ordinarily good ; that his voice is not a particularly
fine one ; that many of his inflections and the
spirit in which he reads many passages are not
at all what we should have expected or what we
liked, but that wherever his admirable histrionic
abilities could supplement or almost take the
place of his abilities as a reader merely then
all things were done at least well, many things
excellently well, and some things done so well that
we have not as yet conceived of their being clone
better. The old judge in the trial scene seemed to
us unsurpassable. The look of drowsy, stupid
dignity, the voice of the real Justice Stareleigh,
were perfectly rendered by Mr. Dickens's face and
voice. His presentation of the judge, as it seemed
to us, was the best thing in his reading. By far the
best, we were going to say, but Sergeant Buzfuz,
in his opening speech, was nearly as good.
The other lawyers were not so well brought before
us—neither the bullying tone of the cross-examina-
tions nor the details as given by Mr. Dickens
struck us as being very true to life. For example—
that the worth of our criticism may be judged—
we should say that a lawyer would ask a witness,
" Can you swear that you have not seen the defen-
dant fifty times? Can you swear that you have
not seen him seventy-five times? Do you think—
mind, now, you're on your oath—that you have
seen him more than three times ?"—and so on. Mr.
Dickens reads a perfectly similar passage without
italicising the numerical adjectives.

In the " Christmas Carol" it was the humorous
passages that were chiefly applauded. Even the
passages in which Bob Cratchit tells his wife how
green Tiny Tim's grave is, although Mr. Dickens
makes a " point" of it more decidedly than of any

In the midst of a clear bright frost, hard as
horn, and clear as the diamond, Old Father Christ-
mas took up his head-quarters in Paris, on the
25th, inaugurating by his arrival the Foire des
Etrennes, to last without intermission from that
period to the 6th day of the New Year. The Fair
of New Year's Gifts which extends over every part
of the city, whilst establishing its head-quarters
along the line of the principal boulevards from the
Madeleine to the Chateau d'Eau is a singular insti-
tution, and forms a most thrilling illustration of the
manner in which fetes and fairs, allowed in other
countries to degenerate into grossness and vulgarity,
are, under the enlightened patronage of the Go-
vernment, made conducive not only to the legiti-
mate enjoyment of the people, but to the profit of
all classes. One is at first astonished at seeing the
little square wooden houses rising all along the
main street of Paris, and that too directly in face of
the most brilliant shops separated from them only
by the breadth of the Trottoir, for the main street
is of course left unencumbered, but the wonder
ceases when upon the Jour de Noel the disclosure
of their multifarious contents and merchandise, the
bulk of which generally consists of clever imitations
of more valuable goods, shows that there is room
for all, and that whilst the Fair of:New Year's Gifts
belongs more exclusively to the poorer classes and
to the children, the luxuriously appointed shops of
the Boulevards furnish nevertheless many a rich
New-year's gift for those whose generosity of dis-
position finds no drawback in a proportionate
lightness of purse. Do you feel inclined and able
to purchase a watch which for French or Swiss
workmanship shall be unrivalled ? Enter respec-
tively the dwelling of Brequet or Henry Capt, and
you have nothing left to wish for. Do you want an
imitation neatly executed, even down to the cost of
10d., chain and chatelaine included, you will find
one in any scale, at any price, in the Fair of the
New-year's Gifts. For the juvenile purchaser there
has yet a more extensive field to choose from, and lost
in a sea of fusils d'aiguille, fusils de chassepots, revol-
vers of Liege, there are drums, swords, and mirlitons
on every scale, and at every price. The disposal of
grandpapa's Christmas box takes the dimensions of
a commercial undertaking of the most complicated
kind. Considerable brilliancy has been added to
the fair of the present year by the removal of
the ancient wooden stalls, and by replacing
them with the eight hundred new and ele-
gantly decorated ones, recently built on the occa-
sion of the Emperor's fete, and exhibited in the
Trocadero in the vicinity of the Exposition Univer-
selle. Each of these buildings has cost the Ville de
Paris the sum of 500 francs, and are let to the oc-
cupier for fourteen days at the rate of a franc per
day. They are built of white ash, covered with a
waterproof canvass and elegantly painted upon a
striped pattern. They are perfectly floored, and
capable of being divided into two compartments, of
being safely closed at night, and to crown all may
be taken to pieces and put together in an incredibly
short space of time. As the perfection to which
these useful little buildings have been brought is
immediately attributable to the system at present in
use in the French army, it may not be uninterest-
ing to the general reader to receive some little in-
formation upon a point not generally known. The
contributions forwarded to the American section of
the Exposition by the Surgeon-General of the
United States, J. K. Baines, Washington, as well
as by Major-General Rucker, Washington, proved
to be a most interesting study, and excited uni-
versal attention. Yet they simply consisted of
ambulances, army waggons, hospital tents and
furniture, and presented new and most interesting
features to those who certainly expected little or
nothing from an every-day programme of ordinary
subjects ; and in like manner though the ordinary
newspaper reader learns from time to time that a
French army is encamped at Chalons, he does not
entertain even the faintest idea of the improved
and excellent plan upon which that encampment is
carried out at present. On the occasion of the
inauguration of the camp in the year 1857 all the
army was under canvass, but after various experi-
ments, since the period of 1863, the whole of the
second division is what is called baraqued, a word
which corresponds, although it does not possess en-
tirely the same signification to the English word
barracks. The camp, then, at present, is di-
vided into two entirely distinct parts the
baraques, or wooden buildings occupying the
centre; the tents, arranged so as to form
wings or extremities. The baraques are arranged
in almost similar form to that presented by a regi-
ment when drawn up in order of review ; that is to
say, in double rows, separated at intervals by those
appointed for the subaltern and other officers, those
in the centre being usually occupied by the officers
of higher rank. it is said that the first introduc-
tion of this species of building was in mak-
ing at Paris a portable baraque entirely of
iron, which was forwarded to Boulogne-sur-Mer for
the use of Napoleon the First, then First Consul,
and in which the future Emperor slept in the raids t
of his army. The first regularly established carap
of this kind is said to have been erected in -the
Dunes, Calais, 1794.

The Emperor is keeping Christmas with his
people, the Imperial Family having come back to
the Tuileries. It is reported that the recompences
and prizes due to the Agricultural and Horticul-
tural exhibitors at the Universal Exhibition. -will be
distributed by his Majesty in person at tht3 Palaia
de l'lndustrie, on the 30th of the present ni.onth,
The first grand ball has taken place at the opera,
the receipts amounting to no less a sum than
16,486 f. A rather ludicrous event occurring in
connection with it, seems to give one an idea of
how little time is lost by the escroes of Paris, on the
least opportunity being afforded them. A worthy.
tradesman and his wife, inhabiting the Rue Mon-
treuil, were desirous of witnessing the entrée of the
Various historical and other characters, and in pur-
suance of their harmless and inexpensive plan of
amusement, stationed themselves at the entrance,
where they spent a considerable portion of their
evening. They were sauntering peaceably back,
when at a little distance from their domicile,
Monsieur M. discovered that he no longer pos-
sessed that domestic talisman, his latchkey. This un-
expected discovery had at once the effect of making
the worthy couple take up " the double," the dame

The London Athenzunz says " the expense of
living has got so high in the United States for men of
large families, but with small incomes, that they cannot
afford to live there. Living has been found cheaper in
Germany, so they go there in crowds. That paper states
that in Stuttgart the Americans greatly outnumber the
English, and have driven them out, adding much to the
cost of li ;lug." The latter part of the statement as to the
great number of Americans at Stuttgart is quite an ex-
aggeration. There are only a few American families there :
Chancellor Toppan, Dr. E. G. Ludlow, W. A Pluto-
uius, Mr. Gustavus Schwab, and Mr. Mack, and perhaps
altogether adozon American families may bo residing there.

The Boston Post says :—Mr. Josiah Quincy's
general and sweeping charges of corruption against rail-
road companies, editors, lawyers, come with an ill
grace from a man whose railroad operations have impo-
verished so many stockholders, and left a cloud oversha-
dowing his transactions that, ought to teach modesty to
one whose financial reputation does not justify him in
thrawing the first stone.
L. G. Usher has been nominated for re-election
as mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts, by the citizens, and E.
A. Ingalls is the candidate of the P. L. L.'s.

George Walker's hotel at Lyndon, Vermont, was
lately destroyed by fire. Insured for $5,000.

Mr. Emerson, the United States assessor of
Western Massachusetts, has nominated Lorenzo H. Gain-
well, of Pittsfield, as special assistant assessor, to have
charge of the succession and legacy taxes of the entire dis-
trict, and he has been duly commissioned.

The United States Supreme Court has overruled
the exceptions to the verdict of guilty given against young
Tenney, the Greenfield bank embezzler, last March, and
he will accordingly receive sentence at the next term of
the superior court.

Mr. Jerome Wells, of Chicopee, has returned to
Springfield, Massachusetts, from a three months' trip to
Europe, and Mr. James B. Rumrill, Springfield, sailed in
the French steamer St. Laurent, to join his wife and
daughter in Europe, and will return with them in the
spring.

Conductor 'foucey of the Naugatuck Railroad has
been appointed superintendent of filo Delaware, Lucka-
wana, and Western Road.

The Spirit says :—" Of course not. —Dickens came
on the platform with a carnation in his shirt-front, a rose
bud in his button-hole, a gold stud, considerable watch
chain, a diamond ring on his smallest finger—neatly,
modestly, quietly dressed—without the slightest trace of
that snobbish foppery of which he bad been accused on
his previous visit to America." And adds, "It is hinted,
that at his farewell banquet in England the ices were
served up in hot plates. Mr. Dickens was born at Ports--
mouth, in 1812."

General M‘Larmand has been nominated 0y Pre-
sident Johnson as Minister to Mexico.

Baron Magnus, lately the Prussian, Minister to
the Court of the Emperor Maximilian, and Prince Salm
Salm arrived at Brussels last Saturd'ay.
On Monday, the 2d Dee^.,mber, Charles A. Win-
chester (Republican) 'gas elected Mayor for Springfield,
Massachusetts, by a u‘ajority of 39 over William L. Smith,
the Democratic and 1.-LL. nominee. Mr. Foisom, the city
clerk, was re-electe' by 800 majority. On the same day,
says the Springfie 74 Republican, of the 7th December, Mich
sea,.electcd Mayor Rufus S. Frost, Republican; Cam-
bridge, Cbark,a S. Sanders, Republican ; New Bedford,
Andrew G. fierce, " citizen" and license ; Taunton, Mayor
Stephen Tom. Rhodes, Republican; Fall River, Mayor Goo.
0. Fair.. finks, Republican and Prohibitionist ; Lawrence,
Mayor Melvin, "citizen" and license. New Bedford, which
gave. 1.400 majority for prohibition in November, de-
cl,,.rogi for license by 300 majority— a revulsion that was
significant and notable. Other Massachusetts cities, in-
cbiding Boston and Worcester, will hold their municipal
*elections on Monday of next week. In Boston a strong
opposition has united upon Dr. Shurtleff, and the Repub-
licans will have to work hard to re-elect Mayor Norcross.
In Worcester also Mayor Blake has been renominated
by the Republicans, and will be opposed by Democrats,
working-men's leagues, and pseudo " economists ;" but
the mass of the citizens of Worcester are too intelligent
to allow Mayor Blake to be defeated. The Republican
nominee for Mayor of Newburyport is Warren Currier.
In Manchester, N. H., the Democrats have nominated
James A. Weston.

Moses W. Wilson, a lawyer of Westport, Con-
necti ut, has been excluded from the Bar for circulating
false reports.

Mr. Bowen, publisher of the New York _lndepen-
dent, went to Chicago to carry on a campaign in the inte-
rest of his journal against the new Congregational paper
of the West, the Advance. Mr. Bowen's tactics were suc-
cessful in securing seven of the most influential Congre-
gational ministers of Illinois, and the Advance now loudly
calls on the apostate brethren for an explanation.

An old mannamed Richard Bradley wasstrangled
by burglars in Hartford, Connecticut, who had broken
into his jewellery store. The murderers have been arrested
and await their trial.

The following items are from the TVatchnzan and
Reflector :

" Rev. Dr. Wm. M. Engles, for nearly 30 years
editor of The Presbyterian,diod i n Philadelphia in his 71st year
on Thanksgiving day. Ho was a power in the Presbyte-
rian Church, and widely known throughout the United
States. Nowhere will his loss be more keenly felt than
in the families where The Presbyerian, is road.

" Rev. T. T. Filmer has entered upon the pasto-
rate of the church in South Framingham. Mr. F. is a
grab* 01 Rochester Theological Seminary, is well

A Cannes journal the other day mentioned, as
"an interesting detail," the somewhat startling intelli-
gence that Lord Brougham's annual income amounts to
£G54,000 sterling. This statement drew from his lordship
a letter, in which he says :—" I have to request you to
inform me from whom you learned so great an absurdity,
and, without doubt, you will insert in your next number
an explanation of a mistake which has provoked general
laughter, and which procured for me, on my return here,
a reception which I did not merit."
Colonel Kelly is reported to have arrived in New
York, by the Minnesota, which reached that city on ;sun-
day, the Bth inst., and is said to be living in the house of
the Fenian President, Mr. Roberts.
The captain of the American whale ship Java
reports from Honolulu that he was driven from his whal-
ing ground by a Russian man-of-war, who threatened to
sink his vessel.
'We learn by the steamer Nouveau Monde, from
Panama, Dec. 1, that General Mosquera had been sen-
tenced to four years' exile, and in Columbia public tran-
quillity continued.
Col. I. B. Morrill, for many years landlord of
the Manufacturers' Hotel at Amesbury, died suddenly on
Thursday, sth Dec.

William Powell Mason, a son of United States
Senator Jonathan Mason, and formerly reporter of the
United States Supreme Court decisions, died Wednesday,
Dec. 4, aged 70. He was a graduate of Harvard in 1811.
The Webb sisters were to appear in San Fran-
cisco about Christmas.
The tragedian, Edwin Booth, and Miss M'Vickar,
are playing in Mobile.

Dan Bryant bas drawn better houses, and kept

them full for a longer period than any other actor in San
Francisco. He has lately been acting the character of old
Eccles in Caste.

Edwin Forrest is about to start on a Southern
tour, and James Owens is in Cincinnati; Hackett is in
Washington, Edwin Adams in Brooklyn, where Mrs.
Yelverton is abrAt to give a reading; Madame Methua-
Scheller is pl.4ying at the Omaha Academy of Music ; Miss
Kelsey is, gone to Chicago ; Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams
are there playing at M‘Vickar's Theatre; Fanny Rice is play-
" Nobody's Daughter" in Memphis ; Ristori has postponed
her departure for Havannah till February. Mrs. F. M.
Bates, supported by Mr. Bates, is playing in "Leah" in San
Francisco. Miss Hinckley has been severely criticised by
the San Francisco press for the immodesty of her dress.
We would recommend Miss Sallie to the Chatelet,
in Paris, where she might take a character in "
liver's Travels," as now represented on that stage, where
a tight-fitting corset and tail aro considered sufficient.
Black Sheep has boon played in Salt Lake City, and the
Spirit from which we extract these items ends by inform-
ing its readers that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has fled
to Canada to escape the wrath to come. Indeed some of
the wrath had come, for the orthodox clergy had poured
in a flood of remonstrance forhis participation in allowing
" Norwood" to be represented on the stage.

The Pall-Mall Gazette says :—" Among other
items of theatrical gossip we hear that Mr. and Mrs. Wigan
retire for a while from the Queen's Theatre. If their
health will permit, they will on their return from the Con-
tinent resume their managerial duties. Mr. J. L. Tonle
was to have appeared at the Queen's in the now drama
written for him by Mr. 11. J. Byron, but this arrangement
will not be carried out, at all events not during the
Christmas season. The piece probably requires alte-
ration at the author's hands before being submitted to
a London audience. The management of the Strand
Theatre contemplates devoting that place of amuse-
ment to the performance of opera bouffe. The notion was
probably suggested by the failure of La Grande
Duchesse' at the large house. M. Offenbach's works, pre-
sented here as in Paris, will never, unless we entirely mis-
take the English public, succeed in this country.' Messrs.
Boucicault and Charles Reade will dramatise their novel
of Foul Play,' which appears in Once a Week under the
new editorship of Mr. E. S. Dallas. This seems a good
combination, Mr. Reade as the novelist for a plot, and Mr.
Boucicault for treating the plot dramatically. Mr. Fre-
deric Clay, well known among amateurs musical and
theatrically, is writing the now operetta for St. George's
Hall. The libretto is by a Mr. Reece, the author of a
slight comic opera brought out during Mr. E. Galer's
management at the New Royalty Theatre."

Walt. Whitman has replied in the Galaxy
Magazine to Cadyle's "Shooting Niagara." Those who
have read Mr. Partridge's work " Oa Democracy" will
see from the following extract, how closely allied are the
ideas of both, though Partridge takes the broader view
of the oneness which, instead of being confided to a na-
tion, is destined to embrace the human family: —" There
is (turning home again) a thought, or fact, I must not
forgot—subtle and vast, dear to America, twin-sister of
its Democracy—so ligatured indeed to it, that either's
death, if not the other's also, would make that other live
out life, dragging a corpse, a loathsome, horrid tag and
burden for ever at its feet. What the idea of the
Messiah was to the ancient raco of Israel, through
storm and calm, through public glory and their name's
humiliation, tenacious, refusing to be argued with, shed-
ding all shafts of ridicule and disbelief, undestroyed by
captivities, battles, deaths—for neither the scalding blood
of war, nor the rotted ichor of peace could ever wash it
out, nor has yet—a great idea, bedded in Judah's heart—
source of the loftiest poetry the world yet knows -•
continuing on the same, though all also varies—tho final
thread of the incredible romance of that people's career
along fivo thousand years-130 runs this thought, this

GERMAN IMMIGRANTS FOR THE SOUTH. —The
Baltimore Commercialof the 7th Dec. says : —" The first shiP
load of Germans arrived at Charleston a few days ago, and
the New York Times thus comments upon the event:—
The greater part of them will unquestionably go to the
middle and upper parts of the State, whore large tracts
of land are held by individual proprietors, and where here-
tofore it has been hard to purchase. These land owners
must do their share in changing this state of things by
dividing up their estates and offering freeholds to actual
settlers. The industrious Germans will rapidly in-
crease the value of property wherever they go, and
those proprietors who encourage them by offering
land on easy terms will soon find that half their estate
is of a higher value than the whole of it was before. 1I
South Carolina can got twenty thousand immigrants a
year for three or four years, there will soon be no danger
of negro domination.' " The remarks of the Times are
eminently judicious and proper, and will apply with quite
as much force to Maryland as to South Carolina. If
our great landed proprietors would but consent to cut uP
their large estates into small farms, and thug place them
within tho reach of farmers of moderate eAeans, they would
not only increase their own wealth te:~fold,
but would add
materially to the State's power ar:, prosperity.
The Z imes remarks :—:_ehe year 1867 was the
centennial anniversary the introduction of the Methn'
dist Church into tl,
Gnited States, and the " centenary
year, as it has ',eon called, was set apart in that Church
as a year for especial donations for religious purposes.
Tllo4.otal collections of this kind during the year have been
Tr5G,931,256, and the largest individual gift was made by
Daniel Drew, of New York, who is a member of that Church
—5550,000, to found the Drew Theological Seminary in Nev(
York State. The total gifts in New York were $1,602,216 ;
Baltimore gave $300,000; Philadelphia, $158,000; Ohio,
$373,259 ; Illinois, $341,578 ; Pittsburg, $348,696 ; In-
diana, 8108,466 ; Missouri and Kansas, $157,242. These
contributions are for various objects, such as mission
houses, educational funds, the endowment of universities
and schools, the increase of Church property, payment °f
Church debts, and similar purposes. The Methodist EPie-
copal Church in the United States is governed by uilie
bishops, but as two are disabled by illness and age, and
the Church is rapidly extending, it is proposed to elect
three additional bishops at the next General Methodist
Conference.
Telegraphic news from Hong Kong to the Ist
inst. has been received. The town had been visited by n
serious fire, when 7,000 bales of Indian cotton were de"
stroyed, and a total loss inflicted of 400,000 dollars.
Further investigation has shown that the CO ;
tnercial Bank of Montreal was in a much better posittol
than people were led to expect, and it is now said that
will be resuscitated, and put into working order. itt.
%v
The Brooklyn Church Union is disgusted a
the recent Pan-Anglican Council. " It neither condemner
ritualism, nor infidelity, nor anything else. It neither
held a prayer-meeting itself nor invited God's people 1o
.
unite in Church unity. It did nothing for bumanityero
freedom, but eat, drank, marched, and mutually admire
An organisation of Southern ladies in recitlen`-
circumstances has been formed at Houston, to do sewins'
and has undertaken several large contracts.

6°
[ADVERTlSEMENT.]—Dyspepsia(lndigestion), Constipat.aiices
bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and ted
complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelera m;
by thugs of every description, but perfectly curable bed by
Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as PrOVe tieD
thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless,
as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver ecTs.
plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore tb,,rlncl
diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head
ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria„
int ttability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, ,f‘eoso,
ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and scrofula,
even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scro
tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach a
between the shoulders, &e. We quote a few :—Tho Pope',,bejuly
restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" aurae' •111
12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, espealsea
since, abandoning all other remedies, he has walned Dill De
entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of wbie ..not
a plateful at every meat. It has produced a not
prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness es
praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gule t
,e
bet
Midi, July '25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, t,a'
, ,„;,g ,
merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of. thirty years' diseasetel
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partiai d
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lie!'!Fif,i
Waterford, of many ears' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832.
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervouno
..sthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness
vomiting.—Maria Joly.' Important Caution.--Beware of theqou'.
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, IT,d,—.
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously a.ttacn;"is.;
5 1b5.;,,,0-L. 77,
In tins at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 3d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6cl. •
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Births.
Cox— On the 29th inst., at Weymoutb, Mrs. Alfred C°'
of Compton Castle, Castle ary, of a son. rtyclet
O'BRIEN—On the 28th inst.o at Quarrywood, nor
Isle of Wight, the Hon. Mrs.i O'Brien, of a son. of
SYKES—On the 29th inst., at Battersea-rise, the Wilt'
Msjor Cam Sykes, of a son.
Marriages.
ry Al -
BROOK—STOTHARD— On the 28th inst., at St.
boa's. Kensington, Charles Brook, stot
ley, Essex, to Mary, sixth daughter of' A.
P.R.S. • gagda-
Es(l. ofdreat
hard,

EALAND—WINN—On the 28th inst., at St. IdarY "-•-.6 (IA
lene, Lincoln, John Frederick Ealing, of rfsrl
eldest son of John It. Ealand, of Alsthorpo,
Louisa Winn, youngest and only' surviving &lig"—
the late Thomas Winn, Esq., of Lincoln.

Deaths.
Boonf -On the 30th inst. ,at 30, Queen-square, 13Pcn":1°°T.A-
bury, Miss Booth, formerly a leading memb.lr of
lane and Covent-garden theatres, aged 76. , !ids F•"
HAMILTON—On the 28th inst at Boulogne, Y 1.3- 1i -
Hamilton, Con.mauderßoyalNavy, on of the late MtVr
General Hamilton, C.B. Janes A.
LEIGGs—On the 28th inst.; at 'Winchester, Mr.
Higgs, aged 51. Jo
JoBLING—On the 28th inst., at Newcastle-on-TPA
Jobling, Esq., aged 6G. .ii-ackte,
MACKIE—On the 28th iust , at Ernespie, Tanleg ',
of Bargaly, M.P. for the StewartrY of liirkeudbtig`'o4
NORMAN—On the 2Sth inst., at Oakley, Bromley, 1"e
Henry Norman, Esq., aged G.G. —at,
SKINNER—On the 27th inst., at 5, Mountford-enebm,„
Barnsbury-park, John skinner, Esq., formerly of re'
ham, abed 83. •
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