The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV

Programme of Epsom Spring Meeting.

Stewards—Hon. Admiral bus, Duke of Beaufort, Duko
of Newcastle, and A. Heathcote, Esq. Clerk of the
Course—Mr. H. Doring.
TUESDAY, March 24.
The Trial Stakes of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5
sovs each ; three year olds 7st 11b, four Bst 71b, five Bst
131 b, six aad aged 9st; mares and geldings allowed 3113;
the winner to be sold for 500 sovs, if for 200 allowed 51b,
if not to be sold 91b extra. One mile.
The United Railway Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 100
added; two year olds Gst 51b, three Bst 51b, four 9st 61b,
five, six, and aged 9st 81b ; mares and geldings allowed
31b ; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs, if for 50 allowed
41b, if for 40 716. Half a mile.
The Beaufort Stakes of 100 soya, added to a Sweepstakes
of 5 sovs each, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b,
fillies Bst 71b ; the winner to be sold for 100 Boys. Half
a mile.
The City and Suburban Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft ;
the last mile and a quarter.

Age st lb
Lanerot ... 5 9 2
Knight of the Garter 4 9 1
Van Amburgh 4 8 7
Hippia ...4 8 3
Ceylon ... ... 5 8 2
Blinkhoolie ... 4 8 1
Abergeldie ... 5 7 12
The Corporal 4 7 12
Special 5 7 9
Leases ... 4 7 8
Actwa 5 7 7
Nemea 4 7 6
Ines ... 4 7 6
Feodor 4 7 6
Cheltenham 4 7 5
Honestish 4 7 4
Goojerat 5 7 4
Lord of the Dales 4 7 3
Thalia ...5 7 2
Fitz-Ivan ... 4 7 1
Lady Coventry 3 7 0
Germanique 5 7 0
Montagnard 4 7 0
All in the Dark ... 4 7 0
Miss Harriette ... 5 613
Fire-eater 5 6 13
Speculum ... 3 6 12
Belzoni 5 6 12
Cauthleen ... 4 6 10
Lictor 3 6 10
Conundrum ... 5 6 10
Attack colt ... 4 6 9
The Breach ... 4 6 9
Tremble 4 6 9
Ravioli ... 4 6 8
Clarice ... ... 4 6 8
Paul Jones ... 3 6 7
Caucasus ... ... 4 6 7
Chelsea ... ... 3 6 7
Gipsy King ... 4 6 7
Proserpino ... 5 6 6
Grey Stocking ... 5 6 6
Mayflower 4 6 6
Vendome ... 4 6 5
Contempt ... 3 6 5
Rabbit Trap ... 4 6 5
Catton 3 6 5
The Stamford Plate of 100 so
winners (matches excepted
51b extra. Half a mile.
Age st lb
Liddington 6 9 6
Huntsman ... 4 8 12
ikd 4 8 8
Salliet 6 8 8
Paris ". a 8 7
Claymore ... ... 48 7
Chapel Royal ... 5 8 6
Dick Turpin 4 8 5
Historian a 8 4
Tumbler 4 7 12
Sycee 4 7 12
Problem 4 7 12
Goodfellow ... 4 7 11
Monarch of Glen... 5 7 8
Fal-lai ... 4 7 8
M. of Worcester ... 4 7 6
Parma ... ... 4 7 6
Icicle 4 7 6
Miss Frances 4 7 6
Narino 4 7 5
Innerdale 3 7 4
Weather Isle 3 7 4
Warrior a 7 3
Belphegor 3 7 2
Cromwell 4 7 2
Lightning 6 7 1
Milton ... ... 3 7 0
Balsamo 3 6 13
Magician ... 5 6 12
Miss Hayes 4 6 12
Freemason 4 6 12
Tina ...

Age st lb
Chivalry ... 3 6 5
Clemence ... 3 6 5
Slanderer ... 3 6 4
The Parson 3 6 3
Bessie Dixon 3 6 3
The Dean ... 4 6 2
Kettleholder 3 6 2
Manoeuvre f ... 4 6 1
Redbourne... ... 4 6 1
Rhine Wine 3 6 1
Milton ... 3 6 1
Skipjack ... 4 6 0
Adam Bede ... 4 6 0
Lord Palmerston... 3 6 0
Weather Isle ... 3 6 0
Stradbroke 4 6 0
Lady Rosehill ... 4 6 0
Priority ... ... 4 513
Child of the islands 4 5 13
Clairon 3 5 12
Russian Bear 3 5 11
The Returned ... 3 510
Brother to Knight
. . _ _

of the Crescent... 3 5 10
Nyanza ... 3 5 10
Lady Diana ... 3 5 10
Anthony 3 5 10
Vortigern ... 3 5 10
Eastley 3 5 10
Sour Grapes ... 3 5 9
Demon ... ... 3 5 8
Citron 3 5 7
Corinne ... 3 5 7
Lucetta ... 3 5 7
Choral ... ... 3 5 7
Logarithm ... 3 5 7
Aquila ... ... 3 5 7
Papillon ... ... 3 5 7
Pic-nic ... 3 5 7
Lionel ... 3 5 7
Licymnia ... 3 5 7
Wild M00r... ... 4 pd
Vigorous ... ... 5 pd
Eleonora ... 3 pd
Numa Pompilius ... 4 pd
Franchise ... 3 pd
Capt. Kidd 4 dead
,vs (handicap) for all ages ;
) after March 19, at 10 a.m.,

Age st lb
Veni ... 4 6 7
B. of Promise ... 4 6 7
Elfrida 3 6 6
ltedivivus ... 3 6 5
Chantilly ... 3 6 5
Valeria ... ... 5 6 4
Heather Bell ... 3 6 3
Prince George ... 3 6 3
Patrician 6 2
Solitaire ... 3 6 1
Macduff, by Glen- _

mason ... 3 6 0
Spitfire ... 3 6 0
Festival ... 3 51'2
Curfew 8.11 ... 3 5 11
C by Lambton—

Norna ... 3 5 10
Warlike ... 3 5 10
Brown Jug ... 3 5 10
Epworth ... 3 5 10
Laird of Scotland 3 5 9
Clovis 3 5 7
Sultana ... 3 5
Lady Zetland, by
Voltigeur ... 3 5 7
Lady Gloncora ... 3 5 7
Na❑ny Thormanby 2 5 7
Sister, to Veda ... 2 5 7
Lure ... 2 5 7
Grand Turk ... 2 5 7
Alibi ... ... 2 5 7
C by Caterer—Vio-
lation, 2 yrs wr. nom

•.• 5 6 10
vision 5 6 10
Nerthern Star 3 6 8
The lleathcote Plate (handicap of 100 sovs. for all ages ;
winners (matches excepted) after March 19, at 10 a.m.,
51b extra. Now T.Y.C. (three-quarters of a mile).
Age st lb Age st lb
5 9 4 Ligurian 3 7 0
▪ 4 8 11 Prof. Anderson ... 5 7
▪ 4 8 8 Bolphegor ... 3 7 0
• a 8 7 Cromwell ... 4 612
... 5 8 6 Freemason .. 4 6 12
• 5 8 6 llop Leaf ... 5 610
▪ a 8 4 Defiance ... 4 6 9
• a 8 4 Lord Palmerston ... 3 6 8
luntsman 4 8 3 Catalino 4 6 7
,eases ... 4 8 1 Tina 5 6 7
Dick Turpin ... 47 13 Bird of Promise ... 4 6 6
Mistletoe (inc. 51b ex)s 7 13 Itedivivus 3 6 4
Tumbler ... 4 7 12 Traviata .. 3 6 4
Orion ... ... 37 12 Chantilly
... 3 6 4
Grand Duke ..1 7 12 Fawn 3 6 0
Mon. of Glen ... 5 710 Patrician 3 6 0
Fakir 4 7 8 Warlike 3 5 12
Milton ... ... 3 7 7 llerrenianus 3 512
Veda ... ... 3 7 7 Manton 3 5 10
Jeanie Deans 4 7 7 Lady Morgan 3 5 10
Lightning ... 6 7 4 L. of Scotland 3 5 10
Narino 4 7 4 Lady Glencora ... 3 5 7
Weather Isle ... 37 3 Sultana ... ••• 35 7
Conundrum ... b 7 2 Dunoon ••• 3 6 7
Di Vernon... ... 37 2 Adventuress 2 5 7
Warrior a 7 1 Clifton ... 2 5 7
The Two Year Old Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100
added; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; the second re-
rceives. 25 sovs out of the stakes. Half a mile. 58
subs.

Bismarck ...
Silenus
Reindeer ...
Chapel Royal
Mr Pitt ...
Historian
Paris ...

Mdlle. de Flygny, Buffoon, Little Lord, Night Stroller,
Lucina, Bay Rosalind colt, De Vera, Black Jimmy, Lam-
poon, Ambush colt, Glenmore, Goatfell, Kamschatka, Con-
stellation colt, Bonnie Katie, Ampleforth, Arlington,
Armada, Tested colt, St. Agnes colt, Resistance, Banco,
Trompette, Maid of Avenel, Martyr, Her Grace, Mrs.
O'Rourke filly, Sunflower filly, Masqkverade filly, Antias,
Electricity, Stockwith, Lena, Sea Breeze Chillianwallah,
Burton, Artist, Medoc, Noyro Tauren, Cardinal York,
Skyscraper, La Rose, Duchess colt, King Alfred's dam
colt, Waterwitch colt, Rigolboche filly, The Rajah, Va-
nichka, Albert, Indemnity filly, Badsworth, Workman,
INroful, Lord Falmouth, Vanbrugh, Scottish Rose, and
Kilmun.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The only telegrams are as follows from Wash-
ing, dated March 14 :—" Attorney-General Stan-
berry has resigned, in order to defend President
Johnson at the impeachment trial."—"The Senate
Court has ordered President Johnson to file au an-
swer to the Articles of Impeachment on or before
the 23d inst. The Court has adjourned till that
date."—“ Attorney-General Stanberry, Judges
Nelson and Black, and Generals Curtis and Ewart
have appeared as witnesses for President Johnson."
And from New York on the same date—" Accord-
ing to Messrs. Neill's report, the week's receipts
have been 67,000 bales, and since Ist September,
1,800,000 bales. Exports to Great Britain for the
week, 69,000 bales ; since Ist September, 842,000
bales. Exports to France for the week, 2,000
bales ; since Ist September, 168,000 bales. Exports
to other foreign ports for the week, 9,000 bales ;
since Ist September, 181,000 bales. Total exports
for the week, 80,000 bales ; since Ist September,
1,198,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 320,000 bales.
Southern markets excited.

Although not positively stated, it is generally
believed that the President has selected as his
counsel George Ticknor Curtis, David Dudley
Field, William M. Evarts, Charles O'Conor, Caleb
Cushing, Jeremiah Black, and Attorney-General
Stanberry. The Springfield Republican says that
the Senate is likely to hear some independent dis-
cussion of their own measures from the learned
counsel, who are not likely to be apologetic, and
not unlikely to impeach the Congress. Curtis will
glory in giving the Senators elementary lessons on
the Constitution. Field, as usual, will be lordly,
lofty, dogmatic. Evarts, the bosom friend of the
wily Seward, will benefit by the most intimate
thoughts of the subtle Secretary. Cunor combines
in himself all the best elements of Celtic eloquence.
Of the opposing counsel, Wilson, of lowa, is a very
able man ; Bingham, of Ohio, is, celebrated for his
rhetorical ability ; and Butler, of Massachusetts, for
unequalled legal audacity.
The Ohio Republican Convention nominated
Grant for President, and Wade for Vice-President
The Maine Convention, on the strength of its
greenback resolution, has declared for Pendleton.
The Maryland Republican Convention endorsed
General Grant for President. Of the 101 delegates
elected in Pennsylvania to the National Republican
Convention, 76 have declared for, or been instructed
to vote for, Governor Curtin for Vice-President, 1
for Mr. Grow, and eight for Governor Geary. Of
the remaining 33 delegates yet to be elected, Go-
vernor Curtin's friends confidently claim a majo-
rity. The Rhode Island Republicans have called a
State Convention, which was to meet at Providence
on the 11th instant. The Republicans triumphed
everywhere in the municipal elections in Maine,
though Portland failed to elect a Mayor. In the
New York municipal elections the Democrats car-
ried Rochester, Utica, Elmira, and Troy ; and the
Republicans Oswego and Auburn. General Sickles
was one of the most effective speakers on the Re-
publican side in the canvas in New Hampshire, and
the President has rewarded him by an order to join his
regiment in Michigan, but as this regimental employ
does not suit a General who has held high com-
mands he will resign. It was thought that the Re-
publicans would carry New Hampshire by a ma-
jority of 3,234 in the election on the 10th inst.

The resolution of the Maine Democratic Conven-
tion, which met on the 3d March, to pay the 5-20's in
greenbacks, has taken many by surprise, showing,
as it does, the spread of the repudiation infection
even into the strongholds of the bondholders. On
the following day the Democratic Convention of
Pennsylvania resolved, that " the Five-Twenty
Bonds and the Legal-Tender notes are component
parts of the same financial system, and until the
Government is able to redeem the Legal-Tenders
in coin, the holders of these bonds should bo re-
quired to receive Legal-Tenders in payment," and
that " every species of property should bear its fair
proportion of taxation, and that the exemption of
Government bond, therefrom is unjust and ineplit-
able." Also, on the 4th, the Republican Conven-
tion in Ohio, resolved that " the Republican
party pledges itself to the faithful payment of
the public debt, according to the laws under
which the Five-Twenty Bonds were issued.
Said bonds should be paid in the currency of
the country, which may be a Legal-Tender when
the Government shall be prepared to redeem such
bonds." The Ohio Convention favours an expan-
sion of the paper currency. Five-Twenties have
risen in the London market, influenced by their
strength in New York. If these bonds can rise in
the face of the clear decision of the country to pay
them in greenbacks, we may argue that their holders
are fond of " shin-plaisters," and the rise will be
more decided when the expansion theory has itself
expanded from the West over the Union. We
would advise the holders of Five-Twenties to make
themselves acquainted with the subject—to learn
what expansion really means. The Nation calls it
insanity ; .we call it repudiation. Nationally speak-
ing, inflation is insanity ; morally, it is gross dis-
honesty; materially, it is wholesale spoliation, the
annihilation of all debts in the United States ;
that is, if carried to the length proposed which alone
would enable the United States even momentarily
to benefit by the measure.

Allan M'Donald, on a charge of smuggling, was
arrested by a Michigan sheriff when on British
territory and brought into the United States,
and this violation of the extradition treaty led to a
correspondence between the English Minister and
the Washington Secretary of State. Mr. Seward
has informed Mr. Thornton that the United States
o Government, disapproving of the sheriff's action,
has directed Allan M'Donald to be taken back to
Canada and set at liberty. The English Minister
states the high gratification her Majesty's Govern-
ment will receive from this offer, and declines, on
his own responsibility, to allow Allan M'Donald to
be set at liberty in Canada. lie assures the Secre-
tary of State that the English have no sympathy
with the individual in question, and that he was far
from inspired by any wish to withdraw a convicted
criminal from punishment, being desirous, with Mr.
Seward's assistance, to prevent any conflict between
the authorities of the two countries. The action of
the American Government and the response of Mr.
Thornton are in the highest degree satisfactory
signs of the good feeling springing up between the
two nations.

The Senate has rejected the nomination of Col.
Moses N. Wisewell, of New York, as Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue, in succession to Mr.
Rollins. No action has been taken on the nomi-
nation of General M'Clellan as Minister to Eng-
land. The Committee of Foreign relations will
report unfavourably, and the Senate will reject the
nomination. The President has not made any
new nominations of consequence.
Chief-Justice Chase declared the Senate, after the
members had taken the oath, to be a High Court
of Impeachment. As a Hall of Justice the Court
is a sort of loose box in which every animal is given
its head ; strict legal rules not applying to impeach.
ment cases. Fresh testimony can be brought in at
any time ; special pleading is allowable ; the offence
charged is malfaisance in office, not technical in
crime. The Springfield Republican asserts that the
penalties are two. According to Art. 2, section 3,
clause 7 of the Constitution, "Judgment in cases of
impeachment shall not extend further than to removal
from office, and disqualification to hold or enjoy any
office of honour, trust, or profit under the United
States." From this it areues that removal from office
does not necessarily disqualify the person from holding
office hereafter—the penalties being two, not one,
and it being necessary in delivering judgment to
inflict the second if the first be not considered a
sufficient punishment. The second penalty is held to
be by far the more severe, as it is irreversible ; there
being no power on earth to remove the disqualifica-
tion, while the former may be rectified by re-elec-
tione-
tion if the people consider the sentence unjust. The
Republican cites the only case of impeachment con-
viction in the national history of Judge John Pick-
ering, of the United States District Court of New
Hampshire, who was impeached in 1803, convicted
of conduct unbecoming a judge, and simply removed
from his seat—no disqualification attaching to the
judgment, Article 2, section 4, clause 1, provides

,NING, MARCH 21, 1868.

that " The President, Vice-President, and all civil
officers of the United States, shall be removed from
office on impeachment for, and conviction of, trea-
son, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemean-
ours." The Springfield Republican adds—" It fol-
lows from this that removal from office is essential
to a judgment in cases of impeachment, while dis-
qualification is not essential, but optional."
On the sth instant a fatal riot took place on
Ward's Island, in New York harbour, between
some lately-arrived Irish and German emigrants,
when 50 or GO persons were wounded, 17 severely,
and four, it is feared, fatally, 20 rioters being ar-
rested. This island, in Est River, has been se-
lected by the Commissioners of Emigration as a
depot for the purpose of housing the new-comers
till they can procure employment, and the buildings
of the Committee of Public Charities and Correc-
tions of the Corporation of New York are located
on it. The riot arose
_from a trivial occurrence,
when an Irishman was stabbed. The Germans ap-
pear first to have concerted an attack, which was
replied to by the Irish breaking into the tool-houses,
when with the implements there procured they
turned furiously upon their assailants. The police
were despatched in a strong body from the city, as
those stationed on the island were helpless between
the mobs. The rioters had drifted into the vaults
of the hospital, where they were too intently en-
gaged in maiming each other to take notice of the
police. Nor was it till the myrmidons of the law
had resorted to their revolvers that they succeeded
in separating the combatants.
The M'Ardle case has been argued for several
days till interrupted by the Impeachment trial, and
it is thought that it will go over till next December,
as the Supreme Court will have to adjourn unless
it can proceed without the Chief Justice. The im-
pression is abroad, and grows in strength, that the
Southern Reconstruction Laws will be pronounced
unconstitutional. If the present incumbent is then
in the Presidential chair, he will act at once on the
decision, leaving the Southern States to reconstruct
themselves without the aid of the military.
The Washington correspondents have lately been
distinguishing themselves. Impeachment inspired
the scribe of the New York Tribune, who soared
into the clouds and becanie lost in a haze of glory.
The dull plodders on earth, astonished at the bril-
liancy which centred around and emanated from
him, have given free expression to their surprise.
If he is to be believed, General Butler is the Apostle
John of salvation by Impeachment ; but if he of
the Tribune was inspired with grandiloquence, he
of the London Standard seems to be inspired with
hate—a more venomous, a more grossly unbecoming
piece of writing is not often penned for the Press,
or at any rate does not appear in print than came
out on Thursday in the Evening Standard

"Mr. Stevens is not far from death's door. He is wast-
ing away under hideous disease ; in very truth, the odour
of dissolution seems to hang about him and impregnate
the house in which he lives—a fact to which thousands of
people can bear witness. This man, who is compelled to
bear about with hint in life the scent of death, whose ways
are ways of darkness, whose house is a rendezvous for
plotters, whose heart is sodden with the gall of hate, is
yet the strong man :in the Republican party, and of the
Republican party a fair representative."
_ _

Even the Standard must have been ashamed, for
the letter was reproduced in yesterday morning's
edition without this extract. We are no unquali-
fied admirers of Thaddeus Stevens; regarding him
as a political bigot. We dislike excessive extremes,
and Mr. Stevens has managed to weigh so heavily,
because he hangs on at the very end. But in his
earnest singleness of purpose, and extraordinary
intrepidity we see qualities of a high order. The
correspondent commences his letter by recording a
private conversation, in which Mr. Stevens is made
to blaspheme, and on this blasphemy the comments
follow. We leave our readers to judge the style
of man employed by the London Standard to
enlighten its readers on American affairs.
The train which left Elmira for Canandiagna,
due at the latter town at 11 a.m., March 4, when
near Gorham station disabled one of the locomo-
tives. The 30 passengers were transferred to the
baggage car, and with one locomotive the train
proceeded on its way. The baggage car, when
near Hopewell station, ran off the track, and, over-
turning, all the passengers were thrown to one end,
while the stove breaking under the pressure rained
down on the living mass red-hot coals, burning
many in a shocking manner. These accidents can-
not fail to excite attention in the United States.
The Angola disaster, the most hideous ever known,
supplemented by this and others, must arouse
alarm, at least sufficient to enforce a reform in this
particular. Indeed, on some of the American lines
the English carriages, with their class compart-
ments, are being brought into use. The following
is a list of the sufferers :—Sarah Overshire, Helen
Lewis, the wife and child of Thomas Phillips,
Lyman S. Briggs, Andrew Horton, P. Conkling,
Joel Eggleston, Michael Welch, Dennis Gorman,
and Thomas Phillip& The persons named are all
seriously burned. Mrs. Overshire, Mrs. Lewis,
and the infant child of H. 0. Lewis are fatally
injured. Mr. H. 0. Lewis sustained a fracture of
the forearm. John Campbell has his shoulder
dislocated.

The Reese River Reveille advertises the fifth
annual Ball of the Pioneer, Hook, and Ladder
Company No. 1, of Austin, Nevada, for February
21. Austin must be a decidedly aristocratic city,
as in the committee of invitation, consisting of 16
members, there is not a single " Mr." Six are
Honourables ; three, Generals ; five, Majors ; one
Captain, and one Lieutenant. The aristocratic
taste of the community is further consulted by
the request that military officers, members of the
Lander guard, those of the Confidence Engine
Company No. 1, and Fenians will attend in uni-
form! We have no doubt that Bradford's Hall
was enlivened with a picturesque, brilliant, and
unusual variety of costume. The Fenian green
would have contrasted pleasingly with the British
scarlet, if a stray officer of her Majesty's army
could have been picked up for the occasion. The
Arrivals and Departures are announced with little
regard to that prying curiosity people so generally
attribute to Americans. Arrived from the East
yesterday; Departed West; Arrived from the
West ; Departed East. The Lander Union Club
has resolved that it be henceforth styled the Grant
Union Club.

It is now asserted that the Committees on Fi-
nance and Ways and Means are becoming converts
to the payment of the Five-Twenty Bonds in cur-
rency as they become due. Leading members of
these commitees assert that if the Democratic and
Republican Conventions all take this position, it
will be impossible to prevent the passage of a joint
resolution or bill establishing the doctrine. A Bill
has been referred to the Ways and Means Commit-
tee t) prohibit further issues of securities except
Five-Twenties, to absorb the Seven-Thirties, Three
per Cent. Securities, and Coupon Interest Notes.
Attempts were made to induee the Secretary to buy
Seven-Thirties privately for cash, instead of pub-
licly exchanging them for Bonds, which Mr. M'Cul-
loch rejected as unnecessary, and opposed to the
interests of the Treasury. Senator Morrill of Ver-
mont has answered Sherman's speech, and a discus-
sion followed on March 4, when Senator Henderson
of Missouri introduced a Funding Bill, providing
f a lower rate of interest' than five per cent. He
arg in favour of expansion.

Miss Clara Louise Kellog is engaged for the coming
season of her Majesty's Opera at Drury-lane Theatre.
The ..41bion states that Miss Bessie Moyne (Lady Eard-
ley) will shortly return to the stage.
On Monday, the 2d of March, Barnum's Museum,
in Now York, was destroyed by fire. We regret
that want of space precludes our transcribing in full
the animated description given in Wilkes'. Spirit:—

Mr. Couldock and his daughter are fulfilling au engage-
ment at the Opera-House in San Francisco.
_ _

Brougham's " Lottery of Life" has been played at the
Metropolitan Theatre, San Francisco.

Edwin Booth was successful in Cleveland.

C. L. Graves, for years the stage manager of this San
Francisco Opera House, has become the lessee and flann..
ger of the new and elegant Academy of music in Bacra-
mento. His first "star" will be Charles Wheatleigh, the
comedian.

The Round Table foresees that the syst'un of
collaboration to which it says we owo the Chlistmas
failure, "No Thoroughfare," will presently cross the ~.cean ;
indeed, the infection has already begun to tpread ; rind we
do not mind imparting to our readers in strict secrecy that
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and H. U. are engagsa on a

novel of domestic life to be called " Logwood ; or, Any
Port in a Storm." "Frenzy; or, The Last of the Tri-
bune," is said to be a political extravaganza, in preparation
by the same able pens. We distrust the rumour that Mr.
Johnson and the venerable Thad. Stevens are perfecting
a historical romance, entitled " Impeachment ; or, The
White House Conspiracy," iu which Mr. Johnson is to
furnish the plot and Mr. Stevens the dialogue— which is to
be chiefly monologue. The same authority says Mr. Wm.
Young's new paper, Every Afternoon, will appear, we aro
told, on March 17. Mr. Young's long experience and re-
fined taste afford guarantees that he will issue a journal in
every way suitable for thoughtful and cultivated readers,
and we trust that the success of Every Afternoon will in all
respects equal what we are assured will be its desert. The
new paper, unlike the other evening journals, will be pub-
lished in quarto form, and in general design is to be a
sort of American Pall Mall Gazette. The Round Table
had received the first number of the American Law
Times, which will be published at Washington on the
last Thursday of every month, and will include all
current legal and bankruptcy information up to the dale of
issue, the movements of the various departments of the
National Government, and notices of recent decisions at
home and abroad. !The main features of the plan are good,
and for such a journal, ably and energetically conducted,
there will, it seems to us, be no lack of room or encourage-
ment.

Jessie R. Grant has commenced a series of articles
in the New York Ledger sketching tho life of his distin-
guished son.

General R. E. Lee has just completed the manu-
script of his long meditated memoirs of his father, com
monly called " Light-horse Harry."
At a Secret Consistory at Rome, on the 13th
inst., several bishops wore appointed to various dioceses
in Spain, Hungary, New Grenada, Holland, and the United
States.

The Empress of Russia will pass the summer at
Moscow, for the benefit of her health.

The Birmingham Brothers, wealthy manufac-
turers at Hinsdale, Western Massachusetts, on arriving in
America from England, several years ago, were worth the
sum total of one penny; and that identical coin one of
them still has in his possession.

At the recent competition in the Ecole des Beaux
Arts, in the Department of Architecture, Mr. Alfred H.
Thorp, of New York, graduated into the first class. This
is the second time only that any American student of
architecture has succeeded in obtaining this highly valued
position. Mr. Thorp deserves much credit for his energy
and perseverance, and will return to the United States
with the best wishes of his many friends in Paris.

Married, on the 11th inst., at the British Em-
bassy, Paris, by the Rev. E. L. Salisbury, M.A., assisted
by the Rev. I. 0. Cox, M.A., Edward Salisbury, Esq.,
only son of the late Thomas Salisbury, Esq., of Lancaster,
to Maria Theresa, daughter of the late Roswell L. Colt,
Esq., of Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Admiral Tegethoff has been gazetted Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Austrian Naval forces.

The Prince of Wales has expressed his intention
of opening the National Exhibition of Works of Art at
Leeds in the week commencing the 18th of May next.
The New York Citizen says, " The great State of
Ohio can furnish a noble war record. She sent into the
field three hundred and fifty-six thousand three hundred
and twenty six men ; of whom twenty-four thousand five
hundred and ninety-one laid down their lives for the
Union. Ten of tho most prominent of our general officers
—Grant, Sherman', Rosecrans, M-Clellan, 31'llowell,
Buell, Gihnore, Mitchell, M‘Pherson, and Sheridan--were
from Ohio."

General Butler, who attended the representation
of " La Grande Duchesse" at Washington, is said to have
been highly incensed at the character of Gen Boum,
which he takes as a reflection on his own warlike exploits.

M. Eugene Forcade points out in the following
words the dignified position held by the journalists of
England and America : —"Nothing could be more admirable
than the simple frankness and close reasoning, stripped of
all charlatanism, exhibited in the speech cf Lord Stanley
on the Alabama claims. Well, her Majesty's Secretary of
State, at the most delicate point of the discussion, attri-
buted as much importance to quotations borrowed from
the World and Times of New York as to a despatch
from Mr. Seward. The other day, too, Mr. Disraeli,
on being attacked by Earl Russell, sent a letter to the
Times, in which he refuted ' les aigres recriminations du
morose Whig envieilli.' This is the place which the first,
statesmen in Europe concede to a free and powerful
press."

In the cases in New York city arising from the
quarrels of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew about
the Erie Railway, neither party has as yet gained very
much. Mr. Drew has been prohibited from actively exer-
cising the duties of treasurer of the road, and also from
dealing in its shares. The Erie Board, on the other hand,
have been restrained from engaging in any financial
operations beyond the running of the road, which is rather
a restriction upon Vanderbilt's operations.

Governor Bullock has appointed the 2d of April a
Fast Day in this State.

An editress in Boston is to be ordained pastoress
of a church in Hingham, Massac:iusetts.
Those who heard Artemus Ward in the Egyptian
Hall may iemetnber a remarkably handsome, intelligent
boy, for whom Mr. Browne had a great affection, and for
whom he had made provision in his will. We are sorry
to see that young Stephenson has been arrested in Toronto
for debt.

The Maryland Legislature has elected George
T. Vickers (Thunocrat), of Kent County, Senator, in place
of Mr. Thomas, rejected by the Chamber. It was no; till
after fifteenfailures that this result was arrived at, and we
suppose that it was secured only by the necessity of
strengthening the Conservative party in the Senate, if
possible, to defeat impeachment. The candidates pro.
posed were Hon. Philip F. Thomas, Hon. James T. Earle,
Hon. George Vickers, Hon. Samuel Hambleton, Hon.
Daniel M. Henry, James A. Stewart, T. W. Crisfield, Hon.
Hiram M'Culloch, Hon. W. A. Stewart.

The Hon. W. P. Howland, Minister of Excise of
Canada, has so far recovered from his recent illness that
he has resumed his (Alicia duties at Ottawa.

An aeronaut went up from the city of Mexico,
on Christmas morning, in a hot-air balloon. He struck a
cold current, which chilled his apparatus, sent him down
rapidly, and broke his bones.

New York city contains seventy thousand Jews,
according to the Hebrew Messenger, or more than one in
fifteen of the whole population.

Thomas Rowean, of Boston, procured on Wed-
nesday, the 4th inst., the naturalization of Ar Chang, thus
giving Boston a Chinese citizen, and setting an example to
California, that the golden state will not quickly follow.

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Colonel Henry C. Deming, of Hartford, recently
a member of Congress, and who is now engaged on a life
of General Grant, is a descendant of the first settler of the
town of Pittsfield.

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has left Hartford,
Connecticut, for her orange plantation at Mandarin,
Florida.

Henry G. Lewis and A. W. Phelps are the De-
mocratic candidates for Representatives from New Haven,
Connecticut.

The Courrier des Etats- Unis, the French news-
paper published in New York, which claims to be the
" organe des populations Franco-Americaines," refuses to
add its voice to the chorus of Dickens laudation. It
thinks that Mr. Dickens's visit, "touts question d'argent
a part, a 6t6 malheureuse." It is an entire mistake to think
that the novelist is a good reader. "M. Dickens quoi qu'on
en ait dit, n'a aucun talent declamation. Sa voix est si
rebelle et si fausse (une vraie yoke d'Anglais) qu'elle a des
tons gais la oit it faudrait pleurer, et detonne en eclats
larmoyants faudrait toucher les auditeurs." The
French American critic also tells the world that Mr.
Dickens jumps about " comme un Polichinello Napoli-
tain," and that he does not disdain the use of somersaults,
grimaces, and the " grossiers effets" which amuse the
vulgar. ,