The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FUESIJAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1867

MODERN CHITALRY

In the midst of an enthusiastic outburst in fa 7
your of chivalry, Cervantes expressed a bitter re-
gret that, on account of the depravity and dege-
neracy of his age, those brave knights were no
longer seen who formerly took upon themselves
the defence of kingdoms, the chastisement of the
proud, and the recompence of the humble. But
we, thank lleaven, live in happier times. Though
we no longer hear of the " andantes caballeros,"
yet the days of chivalry are not gone by. Though
our age, too, may be in some respects selfish and
averse to self-sacrifice, yet we are glad to find that
there are still amongst us hearts as noble and
souls as grand as in the days of the Tancreds and
the:Godfreys. And so will it ever be as long as
the Catholic Church holds her sway over millions
of mankind. She it is that ennobles•men, and makes
them superior to nature. "In the Catholic
Church," says a brilliant living writer, " there is
a perennial source of great men and heroes. There
is no other." Yes ; on her bosom they are ever
being nurtured, ready to come ;forth into action
whenever the occasion may call for them. And
such an occasion we have lived to see. The
Father of Christendom is in danger. The im-
pious children of the Revolution have directed
their attack against him, and advanced to the
very walls of the Eternal City. A thrill of fear
is felt through the Church, and lo ! the old spirit
of chivalry is awakened. The past is being repro-
duced. We are reminded of what was seen cen-
turies ago, in the times of the old Crusaders. A
cry of woe and grief was then heard coming from
the Holy Sepulchre. It went through Europe with
a wondrous awakening power, and whole nations
were stirred to their depths. Then were heroes
seen coming to light from city and from hamlet,
through the length and breadth of Christendom.
They buckled on the shield and the broad-sword,
and set off on their march for Palestine. They
thought not of home or lands in those days of
faith. That cry of woe from the East acted on
them with a magic power. The tomb of the Saviour
must be redeemed. It must be wrested from the
defiled hands of the savage Saracens. God's
honour required it ; their own faith and devotion
demanded it. And so these Christian warriors
went in thousands on that noble expedition. Over
rough roads and smooth they went ; over the bar-
ren and dreary desert ; over rivers and rocky
passes ; under the burning sun ; through pestilence
and through famine. They had great hearts, those
old Crusaders, and they feared nothing in their
burning zeal. Gibbon is amazed, and confesses
that he does not understand how men should thus
leave their homes and their worldly possessions
and sacrifice their lives for a stone tomb 2,000
miles away. The infidel had no right to see it,
because he had lost the light of faith.
It is not now from Jerusalem that a wail of
distress is heard. We cannot say there is a cry of
suffering heard at all. But there is a thrill of fear
throughout the universal Church, and Catholic in-
stinct tells every member of it there is pain and
agony in the head and the heart which areboth
centred in Rome. Homeward, then, the whole
Catholic world is looking with painful anxiety ;
sleeping chivalry has felt a thrill of fear and has
sprung to its feet. It is leaving noble homes and
rich ancestral lands, and hastening to stand in armed
defence round the throne of Peter, and there will be
thousands in our day who will understand as little
the chivalry and self-sacrifice of these gallant men
who have gone to fight for Pius IX., as the earthly-
minded Gibbon did the noble self -devotedneskof
the old Crusaders. The infidel and self-worship-
ping world must be amazed and puzzled to see the
noblest of the Catholic aristocracy of almost
every country in Europe gathering round the
throne of the Pontiff-King. From chivalrous
France they have gone in numbers, and have al-
ready done deeds of gallantry and heroism which
Frenchmen will be proud of as long as:the world
lasts. We see that the heart of France is, as it
ever was, full of love and devotion to the Holy See.
In spite of revolution and infidelity France is, after
all, what she always was, the chivalrous, the brave,
the devoted, the Catholic. When her first Chris-
tian King Clovis, in ages far (back, heard of the
passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he cried
out in his generous ardour—" Had I been present
at the head of my valiant Franks I would have
revenged his injuries." Many a time since then
have the descendants of that brave King and his
`warriors had the honour of defending the suffering
Vicar of Christ. And the old traditional spirit
is among them still. We cannot read of the gal-
lant Charette leading on his French Zouaves at
the battle of Mentana amid the fiery storm of
whistling balls, with the soul-inspiring words,
" Vive la France ! Vive Pie IX. !" without feeling
our hearts swell with emotion, and remembering
that he and his brave Zouaves are the descendants
of Clovis and his valiant Franks." From Holland,

yet full of the courageous spirit of the Gorcum
martyrs—from Catholic Belgium, the laud of glori-
ous congresses, ardent and generous youths have
gone in hundreds. From Germany, too, we have
seen them going with the old " Biederkeit " and
Tapferkeit' of their fathers deep in their generous
hearts. Other countries, also—Spain, Switzerland,
Ireland, and Scotland, have sent their sons to shed
their blood for the great cause.
And what has our own England done—the land
whose history is one of glorious battles and deeds
of bravery, whose name has been heard of in every
clime as the synonyme of gallantry and heroism?
We had almost thought that chivalry had died out
in the heart of England. We had almost believed
that those noble men who left their homes for the
Holy Land in the centuries gone by, under the
leadership of the Richards and the Henrys of Ca-
tholic England, had left no sons behind them to
perpetuate their noble race. We were beginning
to feel shame and confusion that no English blood
seemed likely to be mingled with that of those gal-
lant troops fighting for a cause so sacred and dear
to us all. We were beginning to look into the
future, and to picture to ourselves the feelings of
Catholic youth, in years to come, when they read
of the persecutions and the dangers of Pope Pius
IX. The noble and warlike Crillon, when he heard
described in vivid language the scourging and the
cruel treatment of our Blessed Lord, sprung to his

feet, and, drawing his sword from its scabbard,
cried out, "Uu etais to brave Crillon." Such we
had begun to imagine the question, and such the
feelings of English Catholic youth in future times,
when it would hear of the sufferings of the Holy
Father, and not find itself represented among his
defenders. But, thank Heaven, such will not be
the case. Young Englishmen, and some, too, of
noble blood, have already gone to offer their ser-
vices and their lives for the Vicar of Christ, and
others are now going. The tide of English
chivalry is at length setting in Romewards ; so we
hope it will flow deep and strong round the throne
of the Holy Father. We look for great things from
our gallant countrymen. We have a hope and
confidence that the noble Catholic blood of our
brave young English hearts, shed with love and
devotion for the Vicar of Christ on the battle-
fields of Italy, will rise with a mighty power be-
fore the throne of God, and descend as a shower
of heavenly blessings on this unhappy land. And
the memory of those who have thus died shall ever
be cherished in the country of their birth. The
glorious things they did shall be repeated with
gratitude and with pride in thousands of English
homes through the centuries still to come. The
names of Alfred Collingridge and Julian Watts
Russell, and others of our countrymen who may
yet shed theiriblood for such a sacred cause, shall
be dear to English Catholic youth, and have a
musical sound in Catholic ears, as long as history
has a voice to tell of their noble deeds.
What has already been done by the brave Papal
troops is an encouragement for the future. Not
in vain has the Holy Sacrifice been offered up
daring these late years of bitterness, that God
would protect his Church ; not in vain, those up-
lifted hands of the children of the Faith ; not in

vain that. never-ceasing telling of beads to the
Mother of God by the simple and the poor. God
has heard his people. He has shown. Himself once
more as the " God of Battles," and has scattered
his enemies. By his help a victory ban been gained

that will hereafter be looked upon as one of the
landmarks of history. When the Crusaders of old
went forth against the Saracens, it was not merely
to liberate Jerusalem that in reality they went.
The time was a momentous one ; it was a great
crisis in history. " The question was not," says a
historian, "to know whether the Holy Sepulchre
should belong to the disciples of Christ or Ma-
hornet ; it was to decide which of the two peoples
should possess the dominion of the world." The
warlike ardour of the Crusaders was not probably
far-sighted ; it only saw an accidental enemy in
the Saracen host. It saw not at their back cruelty
and ignorance and savage barbarism. Those
Christian warriors, therefore, only " aspired to the
deliverance of a tomb, but they saved a world."
So was it in the late battles of the modern
Crusaders against the Italian Revolutionists. The
near-sighted eye could only see the discontented
rebels of "young Italy." But behind their back
was cruelty and irreligion, and blasphemy and
horrid sacrilege, and oppression. The guillotine
which they had with them, and which they ex-
pected to set up in Rome, was the symbol not only
of cruelty, but of much that is terrible and diaboli-
cal besides. Hence, we may say with truth, these
Christian warriors of our days, whilst they only
aspired to save a city, have in reality saved the
Catholic world.

But though, by God's help, so much has been
done, we cannot believe that all danger is passed.
Like the rebel host in the 6th book of Milton, the
vanquished enemies of the Holy See have disap-
peared for a time, but, after having taken counsel,
" the atheist crew " will come forth again. They
will not so easily forgive the humiliation they have
received. The contemptible sbirri of the Pope—
the " vile mercenaries " whose blood was not wor-
thy to " soil " the Garibaldian sabres—have utterly
routed and crushed into surrender the " diavolo
rosso " and his miserable brigands before the face
of the whole world. This the red-shirts will not
forget, nor, if it be possible, leave unrevenged.
No. We cannot think the danger altogether passed.
The Holy Fatherforetold that the Revolution would
reach to the very walls of Rome ; yet we cannot
but think that it will come thundering against
them once more, shouting its horrid blasphemies
and impious curses under the very battlements that
guard all that is dear and sacred in our holy re-
ligion. Yes ; there will be terrible fighting yet
and immortal glory for the soldiers of Christ. But
we may look with confidence to a glorious issue.
Be ready then, gallant heroes, for the battles that
still await you. The Catholic world will have its
eyes upon you. Whilst you are wielding the sword
in the battle-field, consecrated hands will be raised
in sacrifice for you in the sanctuaries of the Church,
your mothers and your sisters will be invoking the
help of God for you in the country of your birth,
and supplications will arise to Heaven for you
through the length and breadth of Christendom.
Courage, then, noble warriors, for whether you
die on the field of battle, or return home as con-
querors, the issue will be glorious for you. The
voice that caused the warlike spirits of the
Crusaders of old, comes sounding to you through

the centuries, with these words of encouragement,
" quam gloriosi revertuntu victores de prcelio,
quam beati moriuntur martyres in prcelio." (S.
Bern., ad milites templi.)— Westminster Gazette.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT WESTERN.

This company has just given notice of an in-
tended application to Parliament for an act to con-
firm and legalise the issue of stocks and shares in
payment of dividends, in accordance with a resolu-
tion of the company passed at a general meeting of
the company held on the 29th of March last, and
also in accordance with another resolution of
the company passed at the general meeting
held on the 30th of August last ; power to issue
stocks or shares in payment thereof to share-
holders who have not received or accepted their pro-
portion of the same, in payment of the dividends
payable to them ; also to authorize the company, at
any time after the passing of the intended Act,
to issue to shareholders in the company, in
payment or in part payment of any dividends or in-
terest due to them, and who are willing to accept
the same in payment of dividends, any shares or
stocks in the company which may be agreed upon
between the company and the shareholders.

sue the ruinous policy of extension now so much in
vogue, but close the capital account at once. They
might then have some hopes of a dividend.

The CHAIRMAN stated that after the payment of
£12,000 for the two vessels now building there
would be no

PROTECTION OF THEATRES FROM EIRE

Dion Boucicault, not content with fame, as an
accomplished actor, and success as an author of sen-
sational dramas, has recently appeared in public as
the projector of a sensational scheme for extinguish-
ing fire in our theatres. One, at least, easily to be
understood—familiar in its foundation to all house-
wives, cooks, and seullerymaids—which is a great
r.dvantage, after all, for there is nothing like sim-
plicity. It is that the roofs of such places of public
amusements should be fashioned like inverted cul-
lenders, i.e., perforated with innumerable holes or
tubes, communicating, we presume, by capacious
valves to vast reservoirs above. If we admit the
scheme to be feasible, there are many other pur-
poses to which these reservoirs might be applied.
They might be swimming-baths, on an elevated
scale, or spacious aquariums, in which the Liliput
and Brobdignag of our lakes might sport amidst a
luxuriant vegetation. Only fancy, the tadpole and
the salmon, with the leaves and the flowers of a
Victoria Regina, so far above the dirt and turmoil
of our streets, as to be in close proximity to our
reeking chimney-pots; and then what a supply for
real water-falls and cataracts, and, moreover,
for a new sensational scene upon the stage !
All playgoers are familiar with " The Streets of
London" during a conflagration, but the streets of
London in a thunder storm, umbrellas and actors
thoroughly drenched, would indeed be a startling
novelty. There is but one drawback to such plea-
surable conception, which is, that the wrong tap
might be turned, and the stalls, and the pens, and
the gallery would get it. There would be no re-
spect for persons in such a downfall—nay, not even
for a stray reporter. So, as the scheme for extin-
guishing fire by the means of artificial tropical
storms is one which is not to be damped by throw-
ing cold water upon it, we will dismiss it, and con-
sider what may be done with bricks.
When we have arrived at such a pitch of happi-
ness as to be under no apprehension as to the de-
struction of our own dwellings by fire, we may then
anticipate a like immunity for our theatres, but un-
til then we can but deem them as doomed (sooner
or later) to the usual mode of destruction. Why,
then, should we not endeavour to construct them
so as to secure, in the first place, safety to an audi-
ence, and, in the second, a lower limit to the loss of
property ? This appears to us the real question at
issue, and to lead to its solution we bring forward
the following suggestions, not with a feeling of pride
but with a sense of duty.

Let the stage and the auditory be separated from
the lobbies by walls of more than ordinary strength,
and these lobbies solidly vaulted over, floor above
floor, and the roof vaulted likewise. Neither
wooden flooring nor wood in their staircases
of communication should be allowed, and even
the doors to the auditory should be (if pos-
sible) of non-indamtuable materials ; the saloon,
offices above, as also the ways of egress similarly
constructed, and thus the audience would step from
the auditory into places of perfect security. Now
let the stage and the auditory be solidly domed
over, so whilst there would be no rafters to form
additional fuel, the conflagration would be con-
fined. Then, if iron were plentifully used
(wherever the comfort of the spectators would ad-
mit, and the permanent security of the walls
allow, as in the seats and in the elevation of boxes
and gallery), the amount of consumable material
would be reduced to a very small supply, in the
auditory at least. The stage, indeed, from its
requisite machinery, scenery, and decorations,
would be the great area of destruction. Hero the
fire for a time would be fierce, but, comparatively
speaking, of slight duration, and if its walls were
of a nature so solid as to resist its effect, if even a
conflagration ensued during a performance there
would be little risk of having to deplore a loss of
life, and ultimately there would be but a theatre to
restore, not one to rebuild.—Racing Times.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

On the occasion of a squabble between the Times
and Sir Charles Napier, it will be recollected that our
contemporary resorted to the rathor cruel expedient of
printing one of the gallant Admiral's letters literatim ;
seamen of Sir Charles Napier's date and school not being
renowned for accuracy in spelling. The anti-negro party
in America, in a similar spirit, have taken to reporting the
negro deli-gates verbatim, and the result is comic enough,
but not much more comic than would be the speeches of
some of our own legislators were they thus dealt with by
the malice of reporters. On the occasion of a debate in
the Virginia Convention, as to the necessity of employing
a shorthand writer to report their debates, Mr. Lindsay, a
negro delegate, is stated—by the enemy of course—to have
thus delivered himself :—" Mistar President, —I hope on
dis late hour ob de struggle that Old Virginny have been
imperilled that no free thinkin man can suppose for a
moment dat we desires to misripersint do idee dat we can't
qualify do ability of do stornorguphy for dis Convention.
I hopo ev'y good thinkin gentleman will observe de
necessity of havin a stenogappy, and dat dey will be
willing in de desire to gain de ability of do common welt
of Virginny to see dat do gentleman is justly disarve. I
hope, sir, dat ev'y gentleman will now see de necessity ob
having dis stenogerphy, so that we can den be able to
understand de principles of dar proposition."

Mr. Charles Hopkinson, banker of London, filed
a bill against the Marquis of Exeter, the trustees and com-
mittee of the Conservative Club, to reinstate him in his
rights and position as a member of the club, from which
he had been expelled for supporting Liberal candidates at
Parliamentary elections. Lord Roniilly considered clubs
peculiar institutions. They were societies of gentlemen
for social purposes, superadded to which were certain
other purposes, literary or political. The Conservative
Club was social whore it was necessary members should
be on a good footing with each other, where nothing was
likely to interfere with social enjoyments. Ile was of
opinion that the 29th rule of the club vested in two-thirds
of the general meeting of the members the right of expell-
ing a member, if in their judgment he has done any--
thing to endanger the welfare and good order of the club,
and the Court could not disturb it if it was a bona fide and
not capricious judgment. In this case the meeting acted
with perfect bona fides, and therefore the bill must be dis-
missed with costs.

Rumour at Washington gives three names as the
candidates for the mission to Austria ; lion. S. S. Cox, of
Ohio, C. C. Cox, of Maryland, and General Carl Schurz,
of Wisconsin.

Secretary Wells took his seat at the Cabinet on
the 29th Nov., when the President's Message was read.
Although still feeble ho is greatly improved in health.

Mr. E. G. Dunbar, known in connection with
the accusation of fraud he so repeatedly brought against
officers of the Treasury in the New York Globe, appeared
before the Senate for contempt, and was discharged.

General Capron was confirmed by the Senate in
his appointment of Commissioner of Agriculture on the
29th Nov., and A. C. Hunt as Governor of Colorado.
Horace L. Capron conducted a farm in Maryland for many
years, and is well known, not only as a practical farmer,
but as a writer on Agriculture. He commanded an Illinois
cavalry regiment during the war, and General Burbridge,
of Kentucky, under whom he served, urged his appoint-
ment, which has since been confirmed.

Senator IVilson received a letter from Horace
Greeley, in which he draws a dismal picture of the de-
faults, the miscarriages, the reverses in the South. Unless
there be more intelligence and concert of action on the
part of Republican leaders he presages discomfiture, per-
haps annihilation, for his party.

General Wisewell is likely to succeed Mr. Rollins
as Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

The Alabama Reconstruction Convention granted
eight divorces, Nov. 29, and dismissed ono suit fur
bigamy.

The New York herald states that on Tuesday, Dec.
3, at Washington, Mr. James Vernon, a delegate from the
Tailors' National Emigration Society of London, in com-
pany with several delegates from this city, was introduced
to the President. After explaining that the object of their
mission was to raise a fund for the relief of the journey-
men tailors in London, who have been on strike for the
last seven months, the President made them a short ad-
dress, alluding to early days, when lie, too, made a liveli-
hood by the needle ; but it was not, he said, the profession
which degraded the man, but rather the man the profes-
sion. In the course of his remarks ho explained the enig-
matical expression that nine tailors are essential to make a
man, by relating the manner of its origin, how a knight
of the shears became embarrassed and was relieved by the
aid of nine of his brethren ; finally ho grew rich, bought a
carriage, and put up as his mott9, "Nine tailors made me"
—hence the derivation. In leaving, the President pre-
sented the delegation with $5O. _ _

Mr, Horace Greeley was so pestered with appli-

cations for the Secretary of Legation to Vienna that he
was compelled to publish an announcement that he would
not accept the appointment of Minister.

The mass meeting at the Coopers' Institute, New
York, nomina►_ing Genoral Grant for the Presidency, was
held on the 4th inst. under the auspices of A. T. Stewart,
William B. Astor, Moses Taylor, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Hamilton Fish, Moses S. Grinnell, Robert L. Stuart, Wm.
T. Blodgett, Le Grand B. Cannon, B. W. Bonney, and
other influential gentlemen.
THE LATE EItREHOR MAXIMILIAN.—EXTRAOR-
BINARY STORY.—The New York correspondent of the

IV aterford Mail, under date of Dec. 3, writes :—" Admiral
Tegethoff, of the Austrian navy, is now en route for home,
with what he believes to be the body of the unfortunate
Maximilian. My connection with the Mexican agents in
this country forbids my entering into minutia:), but I cau
assert that the remains which will be honoured by Austria
are not those of the ill-fated scion of the house of Haps-
burg, but of Hamero, a noted bandit and guerilla, who in
life was not unlike poor Maximilian. The latter is pining
in an obscure dungeon in Queretaro, fed with felon's food,
and awaiting the welcome arrival of death. The night
beforohis supposed execution, Juarez, uncertain of his own
success in seeking the presidency, and perhaps unwilling
to imbrue his hands in royal blood, had the noble captive
convoyed by stealth to a sacret den, and substituted in his
stead the ruffian Hamero, hoping, had he not succeeded in
his political aspirations, to have made a fortune by deli-
vering him safely to Austria.

The Rev. Newman Hall returned to England by
he Cuba, which arrived at Liverpool oil Saturday last,
from America.

Doubts are expressed whether Surratt will be
tried again, in view of the difficulty of obtaining an im-
partial jury. An opinion has been expressed that Con-
gress should order a jury to be empanelled in some State
outside the district.

The Hon. Edward Cooper will, it is thought,
be appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The
Senate Finance Committee considered the nomination on
the sth inst., but it was laid over for the present.

It is announced that a marriage has been ar-
ranged between the Prince of Orange and the Princess
Frederica, eldest daughter of the King of llanover.

A colossal bronze statue, on a granite pedestal, of
Major-General John F. Reynolds, will next summer be
erected in the Gettysburgh Cemetery by the soldiers of
the Ist Army Corps.

Weston, the great walker, after resting a week
at Chicago, is on his way home, lecturing as he goes. lie
states that his share of the wager did not pay the expenses
of his trip.

Madame Francis Lord Bond has applied to the
State Department for the post of Minister to England, vice
Mr. Adams (!) whom she desires may be recalled.
Detective Baker has bolted, and Mrs. Cobb is
in pursuit, with her warrant for libel.

Senator Morgan, of New York, presided at the
first Congressional Caucus of the session held on the 4th

instant.

William J. Nelson was chosen President of the
Kentucky Senate, and J. D. Branch, Speaker, by the House
when the Legislature met on Monday, the 2d inst. Go-
vernor Stevenson sent in his message on the 3d. The
Legislature is strongly Democratic.
The official Democratic majority in New York

for Nelson, Secretary of State, is 47,930; the Republican

majority in Minnesota for Governor Marshall was 5,327,
in a total vote of 61,413 ; and in Wisconsin for Governor
Fairchild, 4,752 in a total of 142,478.

The American ship T. J. Southard, Capt. Bishop,
from New York Bth Nov., for Liverpool, went ashore near
the Menai Lighthouse. The Liverpool steamtug Reliance,
Capt. John Bibby, was near at the time, and the captain,
at all hazards, resolved to render assistance. Finding it
impossible to approach near enough a boat was lowered,
and the crew succeeded in landing on the lee side of
Puffin Island. On making their way to the beach oppo-
site the wreck, they found the line repeatedly thrown from
the ship reached only to a rock half-way, over which the
sea was breaking heavily. Here it was that one of the
crew, James Ll‘Cartney, with a rope round his waist,
swam through the raging surf, and, gaining the ridge,
brought back the line from the ship to the beach, by which
the crew of the American vessel wore saved. We hope
that both Captain Bibby and James 3PCartney will receive
a substantial recognition of this service.
The manufacturers of northern Berkshire, Mas-
sachusetts, have chosen Harvey Arnold, of North Adams ;
Sanford Blackinton, of Blackinton ; W. C. Plunkett, of
South Adams ; Stephan \Valley, of Williamstown ; and
Elisha Jenks, of Cheshire, to represent them at the con-
vention of manufacturers which was to assemble at Cleve-
land, Ohio, on the 18th, to take steps towards the repeal
of the tax upon all taxable goods and the increase of taxa-
tion upon luxuries.

Lord and Lady Amberley were presented to the

President on the 6th inst. On the 4th inst. it was an-
nounced that they would be in the galleries of the house,

and that Lady Amberley would be attired, we suppose, in
the robes of a peeress, as the attraction drew a number of
visitors who were disappointed.

Mr. Charles Dickens was perhaps not aware of
what his visit to Boston was worth to the kid glove

dealers. When he fills Tremont Temple, he knows what
his own receipts are likely to be, but a glover calculates
the returns of the house to the trade, which is estimated at
$4,000, giving for the four evenings $16,000 to the trade.

A New York paper says —" Mary E. Braddon
thinks of coming to America to lecture."

Ex-Governor Isaac Davis bas been nominated
Mayor, for Worcester City, Massachusetts.

Rev. Edward Dunbar, the Minnesota polygamist,
has been sentenced to three years and eight months in the
Penitentiary.

Mr. Robinson will have cause for congratulation
when he hears of the Clerkenwell tragedy in his resolu-
tion for the impeachment of W. B. West, United States
Consul at Dublin, for not moving more strongly in behalf
of the Fenian prisoners. Perhaps Mr. Robinson will ac-
knowledge that Mr. West, who is on the spot, might have
a true appreciation of the course to be taken in the interest
and dignity of the nation he represents.
Madlle. Clara Louise Kellogg, with her father and
mother, has left Edwards' Royal Cambridge Hotel for
Paris.

The following obituary notice of old Mr. Wood
appeared is the New York Citizen, Dec. 7 :—" Probably
no event has ever given more universal satisfaction in this
city than the burial of this old man. An enumeration of
the causes that have made him so obnoxious to all honest
and well-informed men, whatever may have been their
personal or party predilections in other respects,
would be both very tedious and unnecessary. Suf-
fice it to say that the individual, whose only
power was shameless pretence and imposture; who
lived and fattened solely upon dishonest and disgraceful
gains; who made an open boast of crime, and mocked at
truth and fair dealing, has passed away forever. No more,
either as a living embodiment of power, or as a "grey
headed spectre," can he plant himself upon the heads of
deluded men, or inflame the passions or prejudices of de-
pravity or ignorance, or annoy a people who distrust and
despise him. If there be those who think that we should
remember the old maxim, which bid us to "speak well of
the dead," let them bear in mind, if Caesar's memory will
permit the quotation, that
We come to bury Omar, not to praise him."

It is believed at Washington by persons well in-
formed that Garibaldi and his two sons will proceed im-
mediately to America, and that a movement will be made
to induce American intervention in Italian affairs.

Mr. Martin and the other persons summoned for
taking part in the Dublin funeral processions are to be
tried, and are at present out on personal bail of £5OO
each.

Hon. Walter Preston, a man of brilliant talents,
and one of the finest orators in Virginia, died at Abingdon
on the 25th November.

James E. Halliday died on the 6th inst. in the
60th year of his age. Ile was a practical printer, and for
many years foreman of the Congressional Globe office. He
was twice elected tax-collector of Washington, and once
was the Democratic candidate for mayor.

Robert Denniston, late State Controller of New
York, died at his residence at Salisbury, on Monday, 2d
December.

Silas Bronson, who died at the St. Nicholas Hotel
at New York, on Monday, December 2, was a native of
Middlebury county, Connecticut, and leaves an estate esti-
mated at over $1,000,000. He gives by his will over
$200,000 to the city of Waterbury, Connecticut, for a
public library, to each of twenty-five nephews and nieces
$15,000, and the rest to his heirs at law, his brothers and
sisters or their representatives. Ho hat six brothers and
sisters, three of whom survive him.
The venerable ex-Chancellor Reuben Hyde Wal-

worth died at Saratoga on Monday, December 5, at the
ago of 79. He was born at Bozrab, Connecticut, but has
resided in New York since early childhood. Ho served
one term in Congress, 20 years as Chancellor of Now York,
and for the last 20 years has been consulting attorney. He
has been long prominent in Christian and ref.rru move-
ments, and leaves a name not only distinguished but
honourable.
The intention of the herald to form an Asso-
ciated Press, in connection with Cyrus W. Field, Charles
A. Dana, Samuel Bowles, and others, seems to have been
entirely abandoned.
Messrs. Charles Scribner and Co. will publish,
on December Gth, " The Queens of American Society,"
by Mrs. E. F. Ellet. Mr. James Greenwood, author of
" The Lambeth Casual," is to contribute a series of origi-
nal sketches to " Hours at Home," during the coming
year. " The Chaplet of Pearls," a serial by Miss Yonge,
author of the "Heir of Redclyffe," was commenced in the
December number of "Hours at Home." "Fred, and
Maria, and Mo," a story by the author of "The Flower of
the Family," is to be published soon in the book form by
Messrs. Charles Scribner and Co. Messrs. Charles Scrib-
ner and Co. have in the press "Eighty Years of Republican
Government in the United States," by Louis J. Jennings,

for some time the special correspoudent of the London

Times.

THE AMERICAN SCREW STEAMER ONTARIO.—
Our American friends will bo pleased to see the success
which has hitherto attended the American-built screw
steamer Ontario, belonging to the American Steamship
Company. On her last outward voyage she made the run
from Liverpool to Boston via Queenstown in ten days four
hours, beating by one, two, and three days all the other
steamers that left at the same time. She has just returned,
making the run from Boston to Liverpool in nine days
seventeen hours, during which time she was only working
about three-fourths of her full power, the directors having
given strict instructions that she should not be worked at
full speed for the sake of making quick passages, their
object being to do the work well and cautiously, and in as
good time as is made by any of the other lines, and thus
socuro safety and comfort to their passengers. All who
have travelled by this steamer speak in the highest terms
of her splendid sea-going qualities, as well as for the ex-
cellent and complete accommodations, and state that the
captain and officers are most attentive to their duties and
the comfort of their• passengers. She leaves Liverpool
again on the 27th inst.

The New York Citizen says—" James Gordon
Bennett's first daily paper in this city, the Globe, issued in
October, 1832, lived exactly ono month. The jJurnalists
of that time all declared that Bennett had no notability as
a newspaper manager.

" The Journal of Commerce is probably the only
secular journal in this country that keeps the Sabbath
exactly, the compositors and editors beginning their work
for Monday's issue precisely at midnight."
The Round Table states:—Mr. Frank H. Alfriend,
formerly editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, and
connected during and since the war with the Richmond
press, is soon to publish, through a Cincinnati house,.
" The Life of Jefferson Davis." The specimen pages
which we have examined give promise of a hand-
some volume, but are otherwise most discouraging.
The author has, wo presume, as we are told, had unusual
opportunities for gaining an insight into what be
writes of, "has had the co-operation and assistance of
prominent officials of very high position in the into
Confederacy, and has enjoyed facilities unsurpassed
by any writer upon the subject of the war for obtaining
information from original sources," and will explain
much we have been ignorant of or have misunderstood.
Yet we are confident that no degree of certainty of sub-
stantial information could sustain us through the pro-
mised five or six hundred pages of such turgidity and in-
flation and magniloquence as fill the half-dozen which
constitute all of the books we care to see—except in the
event of its translation. Here, for instance, are the words
used to express the importance of the " Titanic conflict"
—meaning the war:—" As a point of departure from the
hitherto unbroken monotony of American history, the be-
ginning of a now order of things, the extinction of impor-
tant elements of previous national existence, embracing
much that was consecrated in the popular affections ; iu
short, as a complete political and social transformation, an
abrupt but thorough perversion of the Government from
its original purposes and previous policy, this period must
take its place, with important suggestions of theory
and illustration, among the most impressive lessons of
history. The profound interest which shall centre
upon the period that we have under consideration
must necessarily subject to a rigid investigation
the lives, characters, and conduct of those to whom were
allotted conspicuous parts in the great drama. It is both a
natural and reasonable test that the world applies in seeking

to solve, through the qualities and capacities of those who
direct great measures of governmental policy, the merits
of the movements themselves."

The Round Table Association will issue on and
after Ist January a now weekly journal, to bo called The
Week, upon a principle successful in England, but not yet
attempted in America, being a reflex of home and foreign
opinion, consisting entirely of extracts from the ablest and
most influential journals all over the world. The most
brilliant and interesting slections, excluding fiction, is
promised, on capital paper, iu beautiful type. The choice
of contents will be free from political bias, the object being
to give all that is brightest and best from every quarter,
the articles in foreign journals being translated. Thus the
association will embrace the two reviews, The Round Table
being entirely original, and The Week entirely selected.
In the hands of so able and literary an organisation as that
to which The Round Table owes existence, The Week can
scarcely fail to realise the objects proposed.