The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TITEBIbAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1868.

.10.LICE1YTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

ASSAULT ON A WIFE AND DAUOIITER.—Benjamin
Newman, a warehouseman, r. siding at No. 22,
Langham-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with assaulting his wife and daughter.
Mrs. INlAtilda Newman, who had a black eye,
said—The prisoner is my husband. Last night I
was returning home from the Alhambra, where I
had been with my husband's knowledge, with my
daughter and a young friend, and when near my
door my husband, who was standing there, walked
towards me, and after making use of fearful lan-
guage struck me a severe blow in the eye, and
would have further assaulted me, but was prevented
by a constable. I went a little way with my friend,
and afterwards on returning home I found my hus-
band on the lauding, an I directly I got in he struck
me again, and I first fell on the bed and then on
the floor, near the fire-place. Ito also struck my
daughter.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Can you get your living without
him?

Mrs. Newmann—I can.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—liad he ever done anything of the
sort before ?

Mrs. Newman—He has.

The Prisoner—l did not know where they were
going. I was kept at the street door till half-past
twelve, and had to go to work that morning at four
o'clock. I have been 16 years in one situation, and
never locked up before. I hope my wife won't press
the charge, and cause me to lose my character.
Mary Ann Newman--I had been with mother to
the Alhambra, and in Langham-street met my
father, who said he meant to stab my mother with
a knife he had in his pocket, but I did not see a
knife. He called my mother beastly names and
struck her, and hurt her head while in the street
and afterwards when at home, and he also struck
me in the face.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Has he ever assaulted you be-
fore ?

Witness—No ; but he has my mother.
The prisoner—l have been a good father, and
always tiko home my earningi.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Some people seem to think be-
cause a man works he is exempt from all punish-
ment, but that is quite a mistake. The prisoner
will be committee for two months with hard
labour.

BURGLARY IN REGENT-STREET.--`fir. 11. Gar-
wood, a young man, was charged before Mr. Tyr-
whitt with burglariously entering the Louse of Mr.
Baker, hatter, of No. 104, Regent-street, and steal-
ing a travelling bag.

From the evidence of Maud Hunt, an assistant to
Mr. Baker, it appeared that at a quarter-past one
in the morning the housekeeper came upstairs
to her bed-room, and told her that some person was
iu the house. She went down stairs and saw that
a travelling bag in the parlour was gone, and while
in the parlour saw the prisoner pass along the lobby
and then return towards the street door. She rushed
upon the prisoner and seized him, but he got a tvay.
She then called "Stop thief ! " when a young man,
who was on the opposite side of the street, ran after
the prisoner, and shortly afterwards she was in-
formed that he was taken into custody.
Thos. George Sicklen, a young man, living at No.
76, Mount-street, proved pursuing the prisoner,
and seeing him run down Golden-place, Golden-
square, and there losing him.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the witness said he
was positive the prisoner was the same person he
pursued, and knew him again by the peculiarity
of his legs, which were very much bowed.

The prisoner—You say I ran ; that's a lie, for I
hurt my foot a little bit ago.
The Witness—You ran fast enough to get away.
Mr. John Baker, hatter, of Regent-street, said
that his house had been entered three different
weeks, and each time a pair of his boots taken
away, and on the prisoner, when at the station,
were a pair of his boots. lie had no doubt the pri-
soner entered the house by means of keys.
Richard Dowell, of No. 4, Golden-place, proved
seeing the prisoner in Golden-place, and heard him
enter No. 34 through the walls of the houses being
thin. Heard him throw dywn his boots directly
the got into his room.

i Police-constable Norrish Pike, 51 C, proved tak-
ng the prisoner into custody at No. 3, Golden-
place.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner, as it is
believed other charges will be preferred against him.

THAMES.

At 12 o'clock George King, a carman, was
charged with stealing, and Thomas Carr Henry
Gaylor and Joseph Williams were charged with
feloniously receiving, knowing it to be stolen, a
chest of tea, the property of Traward Brothers,
carmen, of Chamber-street, Whitechapel.
On Saturday last Icing, who was in the employ
of Traward and Co., was directed to carry
eleven chests of tea to the Dublin wharf,
and two chests of tea to the Irongate wharf.
He delivered one only at the Irongate wharf,
and the other was subsequently traced to Mat-
thews, who is a beershop-keeper, with which
is intermingled the trade of a grocer and cheese-
monger. The prisoners Carr and Gaylor were con-
cerned in the transaction, and assisted in con-
veying the chest of
stolen tea to the pri-
soner Matthews'. Dunaway, a clever detective
officer, No 11 11,
who arrested all the prisoners,
said that King made a full confession of his guilt.
The officer said to him,4lMy information is the chest
of tea was shifted out of your van into another in
the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane." The prisoner
said " That's right ;" it was taken out of my van in
Cox's-square." Icing afterwards said that two
chaps persuaded him to steal the chest of tea.
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoners.

MR. J. W. ANSON'S ANNUAL BENEFIT.

Mr. Anson will entertain his friends at the
Adelphi Theatre, on the 19th inst., with a varied
performance, including the favourite drama "Flying
Scud," a farce, and " A Roland for an Oliver." In
the latter popular old drama:Mr. Anson will him-
self resume the " Sock and Buskin," and appear as
Sir Mark Chase. We feel constrained to assist in
making this announcement public, because in COM-
mon with every well-wisher and patron of the
drama, we feel indebted to Mr. Anson for the dis-
interested labour he imposes on himself in behalf of
the members of the dramatic community who are
in a position to require assistance from their
brethren. He labours with the ability, energy, we
may say with the devotion, of one who feels that he
has a mission to perform in behalf of afflicted and
distressed humanity. As a secretary to two bene-
volent institutions, his work is almost urceasing.
The patrons of the drama and the frequenters of
the various theatres owe a kind of debt to those
who in their working days have done much to
amuse them ; and they, therefore, cannot help ap-
preciating the efforts made by one who, like Mr.
Anson, has devoted so much time in alleviating the
suffering of those in whom all playgoers must feel
an interest. As treasurer of the Adelphi Theatre,
Mr. Anson has for years enjoyed the esteem and
consideration of all those for whom and with whom
he has had to act; in him the public also have found a
most efficient and courteous officer. We have no
doubt that the announcement to which we now help
to give publicity will be read with interest by the
patrons of the theatre, and that Mr. Anson's benefit
on Wednesday, the 19th, will be signalised by the
most complete success.—Theatrical Observer.

The Empress Eugenie is at this moment occupied
in the foundation of a new charitable institution for
the creation of orphan asylums in the agricultural
districts. ller Majesty has already had several in-
terviews on the subject with 111. Fr6.ny, Director of
the Credit Foncicr Company.

The Zouave Jacob, now liberated from military
service, has established himself at Passy, where
crowds of lame, sick, and paralytic persons con-
tinue to besiege his door. His niece sells photo-
graphs of him at lfr. each, which seems to be the
principal source of his livelihood. No cure has yet
been mentioned as having been effected.

111 E I'U 5Z' OF 1 CJs.

The 14th report of the Postmaster-General on
the Post-office was issued yesterday morning, and
contains much valuable and interesting information.
It appears from the tabular statements respecting
receptacles for letters, that at the close of 1867 there
was one receptacle for every 296 houses in England
and Wales, one for every 252 houses in Scotland,
and one for every 437 houses in Ireland. During
the year 1866 free deliveries were for the first time
established at 351 places (exclusive of single houses)
in the United Kingdom ; and in the same period
additional free deliveries were given to 124 places,
while the boundaries of 206 other free deliveries
were enlarged. During the year 1867 the exten-
sion of free deliveries was carried on more actively
than in the year 1866. The total number of post
towns in England and Wales in 1865 was 542; iu
1866, 555 ; and in 1867, 559. Great improvements
and accelerations have been made during the past
year in the despatch of mails. The scale of postage,
progressive by half an oz. through all its grada-
tions, was extended to the correspondence between
the United Kingdom and numerous foreign coun-
tries. Thepattern post has been greatly extended, and
also the fees on registered letters, &c. The postage
has been reduced to many kingdoms on the Con-
tinent. Among the new contracts made last year
was one with the African Steamship Company, for
the conveyance of the mails monthly to and from
the West Coast of Africa, on terms by which a
saving of £lO,OOO a year was effected. The com-
pany are now despatching steamers to the African
ports twice a month, and an extra mail is carried
monthly to each port ; the company receiving a
portion of the sea postage on the letters carried as
their remuneration. In June, 1867, a new con-
vention was signed, under which the total postage
on a single letter passing between the United King-
dom and the United States was reduced from one
shilling to sixpence ; the transmission of book
packets and patterns at a low rate of postage was
sanctioned, and reduced rates of charge was estab-
lished for correspondence sent in transit through
either country. The altered arrangements neces-
sary to comply with the stipulations of the nev,
convention with the United States were found to
be so unfavourable that it will only be continued
in force for one year, when it is hoped another will
be concluded free from the objections attached to
that of June, 1867. Mr. Anthony Trollops has
recently been to Washington to negotiate such
a convention. Endeavours have been made to
conclude a new postal convention with Brazil,
but as there did not appear any prospect of success
the negotiation terminated. The improvements
made in the London district are numerous, and in-
clude extension of time for posting letters for night
mails to the country, the acceleration of correspon-
dence by new arrangements with the district offices,
additional collection of letters, and by the opening
of 19 new receiving offices, and the erection of 61
pillar letter boxes. The total number of receptacles
for letters in the metropolitan district at the close
of 1867 was made up as follows :—Receiving offices,
469, of which number 417 were money order offices
and 4''s were Post-office savings banks ; pillar
letter-boxes, 423 ; wall letter-boxes, 54 ; railway
station boxes, 9. The service in many provincial
towns has been placed upon a new and satisfactory
footing. The increase in the number of letters
conveyed by the Post-office during the year 1866,
and again during the year 1867, was, as in previous
years, much more than proportionate to the in-
crease of population in all parts of the United
Kingdom, and to the increase in the number of in-
habited houses. In the United Kingdom the pro •
portion of letters to population rose from 24 per
head per annum. in 1865 and 1866, to 26per head per
annum in 1867 ; the proportion of letters to inhabited
houses rose from 135 letters to one house in 1855,
to 141 letters to one house in 1866, and 144 letters
to one house in 1867. During the years 1866 and
1867 the total number of letters delivered in the
London district would have been much more than
sufficient to give a delivery of one letter on every
working day to each house throughout the district.
The gross total of the articles conveyed by the
Post-office rose in 1866 to 750,000,000 ; books,
free, and chargeable newspapers, samples, and pat-
terns, 101,884,185—in all, 851,784,185. And the
gross total of the articles contained in 1867 was,
letters, 774,831,000 ; books, free and chargeable
newspapers, samples and patterns, 102,273,301—in
all, 877,104,301. The progress of the book post
and the pattern post calls for no special comment.
The report states with respect to valentines that in
1866 the number was estimated at 997,900, whilst
in 1867 the number rose to 1,119,142. As in
previous years, it was found that the valen-
tines sent from London to the country were
twice as numerous as those sent from the
country to London ; and also that the number
of valentines posted in the western district was,
in both years, greatly in excess of the number
posted in any other district of London. The
estimated postage derived from the valentines pass-
ing through London was £9,354 in 1866, and
£11,242 in 1867. Valentines having postage
charged upon them to the amount of nearly £2OO
in each year were refused by the persons to whom
they were addressed. The number of registered
letters passing through the registered letter branch
of the General Post-office, either for despatch or
delivery, was in the year 1865, 1,800,982 ; in the
year 1866 this number had increased to 1,955,141,
or an increase of 8.5 per cent. ; in the year 1867
the number had increased to 1,964,980, or an in-
crease of 10.5 per cent. These figures are exclu-
sive of the letters containing coin, which are com-
pulsorily registered in this department, and which
numbered 37,823 in 1865, 33,364 in 1866, and
28,000 in 1867. There has also been a correspond-
ing increase in the number of registered letters
passing the post in the whole of the United King-
dom, which number amounted in 1866 to
2,540,160, and in 1867 to 2,619,570. In 1866 an
important improvement was introduced in the
system of treating registered letters in the Regis-
tered Letters Branch of the chief office, rendered
necessary by the growth and the extreme impor-
tance of the duty performed there. This change
consisted in an improved system, by means of
which the check was extended to each officer through
whose hands the registered letters passed, instead of
being confined to those only who received and de-
spatched the letters. The returned letters for 1867
were slightly in excess of the number for 1866, the
total being, in 1866, 3,602,995; 1867, 3,618,888.
At the end of the year 1865 the number of money
order offices was 3,418, and at the end of the year
1866 the number was 3,567, showing an increase of
149 ; at the end of 1867 the number amounted to
3,691, showing an increase on the previous year of
124, or a total increase on the two years of 271
offices. During the years 1866 and 1867 the money
order business was established between this coun-
try and Alexandria, Turk's Island, Dominica, Ber-
muda, Nevis, Bahia, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo,
Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, and Lagos. The
number of depositors in post-office savings-banks
and the amounts deposited continue to increase.
The number of savings-brink at the close 1864 were
3,507, the number of deposits received from the 31avril
December, 1865, to the 31st December, 1866, were
1,525,871, and total amount of deposits £4,400,657.
The number of savings banks at the close of last
year was 3,629 ; the number of deposits received
from the 31st of December, 1866, to the 31st of
December, 1867, £1,592,344, and the total amount
of deposits £4,643,906. The number and amount
of withdrawals during the past year exhibited an
increase over 1866. The total number of deposi-
tors in Post-office savings banks and old savings
banks combined, and throughout the kingdom, had
risen at the close of the year 1866 to 2,156,290,
and at the close of the year 1867 to 2,232,317. The
total number of depositors at the end of the year
1855 was 1,301,000 ; so that there has been in the
last 12 years an increase of nearly a million in the
number of savings bank depositors. In England
and Wales there was in 1866 and 1867 one deposi-
tor to every 11 persons ; in Scotland one depositor
to every 16 persons ; in Ireland, in 1866, one depo-
sitor to every 74 persons, and iu 1867 one to every
69 persons ; and in the whole of the United King-
dom there was, in both years, one depositor to
every 14 persons. The total amount of sums re-1

ceived on account of Government annuity and in-
surance contracts from the commencement of busi-
ness on the 17th of April, 1865, to the 31st of
December, 1867, was £163,751 15s. 31. The tl
amount of payments in the same period was
£159,974 81. 7d., leaving a balance of £3,777 Gs.
Bd. The gross revenue from letters, books, pac-
kets, &c., in 1866 was £4,311,457 ; money-order
commissions, £166,430 ; au I prothice of the im-
pressed stamp on newspapers, £121,780, the total
postal revenue being £1,599,667. Au increase was
observable in 1867, the figures being —gross re-
venue from letters, &c.. £4,376,044, money-order
commissions, £172,085 ; and newspaper stamp pro-
duce, £120,085; the total revenue being £4,668,214.
The total cost of the Post-office service in 1866
was £3,201,681, as compared with £3,246,830 in
1867. The net revenue in 1866 was £1,397,986,
against £1,421,364 for 1867. The average net
revenue of the first five years since 1858 was
£587,507. The average net revenue of the second
five years, £1,298,507.

NAVAL AA].) MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Major-General Lord George Paget, C. 8., attended
by Major Brett, Brigade-Major of Cavalry, made
his annual inspection of the 15th (King's) Hussare,
under the command of Colonel Fitzwygram, on Fri-
day, the 31st ult., at York ; and on Thursday, the
6th instant, his lordship made his annual inspection
of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, under the com-
mand of Colonel Crawley, at Manchester, whence
he proceeded to Lichfield, where on the 7th he in-
spected the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Yeo-
manry, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Lord
Bagot. On Saturday he returned to London to re-
sume his military duties at the Horse Guards.

Yesterday Prince Arthur left Chatham garrison
on the termination of his course of instruction at
the Royal Engineer establishment, and proceeded
to Windsor. Before leaving his Royal High-
ness presented Mr. Superintendent J. Strength,
of the dockyard police force, with a massive gold
pencil-case, as an acknowledgment of the efficient
manner in which the police arrangements had been
made during the time the Prince has resided at the
dockyard. Captain W. Houston Stewart, C. 8.,
superintendent of the establishment, who placed his
official residence in the dockyard at the service of
Prince Arthur, has been presented by Her Majesty
with a handsome silver vase. The divisional orders
issued yesterday by Major-General F. Murray an-
nounce that the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief has granted leave of absence to Lieut. his
Royal Highness Prince Arthur, R.E., until the Ist
of November.

The mounted A troop of the Royal Engineer
Train, numbering 170 non-commissioned officers
and men, with 110 horses, and the whole of the
pontoon train and Royal Engineer equipment com-
plete, arrived at Chatham to-day from Aldershot,
to go through a course of pontooning practice at the
new pontooning ground recently constructed by
the sappers and miners at Wouldham, near
Rochester, where the officers and men will be en-
camped.

The Lords of the Admiralty continued their
official inspection at Portsmouth yesterday, landing
at the dockyard from , their yacht Enchan-
tress at 10.30 a.m. The members of the Board pre-
sent were Admirals Sir A. Milne, Sir G. C. Dacres,
Sir J. D. thy, and G. 11. Seymour, with private
secretaries. Their Lordships first paid a visit to
the Cracker, 2, twin screw, composite built gun-
boat, and afterwards inspected the officers and men
belonging to the Steam Reserve at Portsmouth.
The force was drawn up in the vicinity of the
office of the Admiral Superintendent of the
yard, and consisted of Capt. William C. Cham-
berlain, in command ; Chief Inspector of Machi-
nery Afloat George Murdock ; Commander John
C. Wells, Staff Commander William 11. Fawckner,
Staff-Commander John E. Petley (of the Ad-
miralty yacht Enchantress), officers of the Asia,
Steam Reserve guardship ; 26 chief engineers, 51
engineers, 21 first-class assist.-engineers, 7 second-
class assist.-engineers, 8 engine-roam artificers, 59
leading stokers, 122 stokers, 65 second-class stokers,
and 12 pensioners. Oa the whole, the force pre-
sented a very creditable and service-like appear-
ance. Before leaving the dockyard their Lordships'
attention was drawn to the coaling of her Majesty's
ships in Portsmouth harbour, one of the most im-
portant of all questions, financially considered,
connected with the port. In the official report re-
cently presented to the Admiralty by the committee
appointed by the board to inquire into and report
upon "Dockyard Craft," the committee strongly
condemn the present system of coaling her Ma-
jesty's ships at Portsmouth by means of coaling and
fixed (steam-craned) coal depot ships in the harbour,
proving by figures that coal of the same quality
and description was put on board her Majesty's
ships very much cheaper in total cost both at
Gibraltar and Malta than is done at Ports-
mouth from the floating steam depot ships.
A partial remedy will be supplied by
the coaling jetty to be built at the south end of the
new dockyard extension works ; but meanwhile the
evil is one of great magnitude in the case of a port
where more coal is issued than in any other of our
home ports. The immediate remedy laid before the
Admiralty yesterday consisted in a plan proposed
by Staff-Captain W. T. Mainprise, C. 8., the pre-
sent Master-Attendant of Portsmouth dockyard.
Capt. Mainprise proposes to construct on the edges
of the west and east mud-banks of Portsmouth
harbour, between the north and south ends of the
dockyard, new and old, jetties, fitted with the pro-
per appliances for receiving and issuing coal, in
short and inexpensive lengths, which could be ex-
tended hereafter as might be found requisite. The
plan has this great recommendation that its partial
execution would at once most materially lessen
the cost per ton of the coal issued at Portsmouth to
her Majesty's ships. Captain Mainprise's scheme
would also relieve the harbour of useless craft, and
leave it clear for the passage of her Majesty's ships
of war and transports between the harbour and
Spithead. After leaving the dockyard, at
about 11.30 a.m„ the Lords of the Admiralty crossed
the harbour in their State barge to Gosport, where
they made an inspection of the Royal Clarence Vic-
tualling-yard, over which they were conducted by
Captain-Superintendent C. F. A. Shadwell, R.N.,
C. 8., and Storekeeper Mr. Thomas G. Grant, of
the hospital and gunboat establishments at Haslar,
and of the Royal Marine Light Infantry at Tor-
ton.

Captain George A. C. Brooker, and the officers
and crew of the Wivern, 4, armoured iron double-
turret sloop, were yesterday at Portsmouth turned
over to the sister vessel, the Scorpion, the latter
having been improved greatly upon the former in
fittings, &c.

The War Department screw-steamer Earl de
Grey and Ripon, from Woolwich, arrived on Sun-
day morning at Plymouth, with stores for the gun-
wharf, and powder for Bull Point magazine.
The screw-steamship Bristol, 31, Captain F. W.
Wilson, is appointed to leave Plymouth to-day for
Portland.

The United States' screw steam-corvette Ticon-
deroga, 9 guns, Captain Wyman, from Cherbourg
for Brest, put into Plymouth Sound, on Saturday,
evening, to be fitted with Wier's atmospheric tele-
graph.

[ADYERTISHMENY. J—Dyspepsia(indigestion), Constipation, De-
bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver
complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated
•by chugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du
Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic°. Food, as proved by
thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such
as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver corn.
plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats
diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and
ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia,
irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, head-
ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness,
oven in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula,
tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and
between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health
restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—"R0me, July
12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially
since, abandoning all other remedies, ho has unlined himself
entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he
consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a sur-
prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot
praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazette du
Midi, " July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, timbei
merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs,
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of
Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia., nervousness.
mithma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness and
vomiting.—'MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the rnan3
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.
In tins, at ls. 1;d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s 61 ; 5 lbs., Its.;
12 lbe , 22s ; 241bs ,40s —Also Du BA imy's REVALENTA ARABICA
CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cups at
25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 43 cups at 63., for 288 cups at 305.,
for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. The 30s.
and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt
of Post Office Order.—BAßßY nu BARRY and CO., No. 77,
Regent-tatreet, Loudon and all Grocers and Chemists.

SPORTING INTELLIGENJE—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAT.

EBOR HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst The Spy (taken and offered)
to 1 agst Krvacques (offered, 7to 1 wanted)
G to 1 agst Tabouret (offered, 7to I wanted)
100 to 7 agst Taraban (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Mandrake (taken and offered)
200 to 11 agst Makeshift c (taken)
23 to 1 agst Mercury (offered)
25 to 1 apt Donaldbain (offered)
4to 1 agst J. Dawson's lot (wanted)

ST. LEGER.
6 to 1 agst The Earl (offered)
Evens Formosa, 1,2, 3 (taken).

TATTERSALL'S—Last Eciezikag.
EBOR HANDICAP.
to 2 agst The Spy (offered;
10 to 1 agst Taraban (taken)
ST. LEGER.
65 to 41 agst The Earl (taken)
50 to 1 agst Restitution (taken)

DERBY.
1000 to 70 agst Tenedos (taken)
25 to 1 agst Ports►uou:h (taken)
25 to 1 agst Duke of Boaufort (takon)
50 to 1 agst Brother. to Arspeile (taken)
PROGRAMME OF WOLVERIIASIPTON RACES.
WEDNESDAY.

Borough Members' Plate of 60 sovs, added to a Handi-
cap of 7 soya each, 4 ft; winners of any race after July
23 71b, of two or more 101 b extra; straight half mile ;
10 subs.

Age st lb Ago st lb
Ettrick ... 4 812 Northern. Star ... 3 710
Ironmaster ... 3 8 9 Lady Clinton ... 4 7 6
The Skippor ... 4 8 9 Bouquetiere ... 3 7 6
Venturer ... 5 8 9 Lady of tr)roome ... 2 7 0
Epworth 3 7 11 Susan ... 4 6 11
The Shakspere Stakes (Handicap) of 3 soya each, with 25

added, for all ages ; three-quarters of a mile.
The Wrottesloy Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; two
year olds 7st 81b, three 9st, four 9st 91b, five and upwards
9st 121 b ; straight half mile.
The CHILLINGTON STAKES of 10 sovs each, h ft, with
100 added, for two-year-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and
geldings, Bst 71b; winners once in the present year 31b,
twice slb extra; maidens having started three times al-
lowed 31b ; the second to save his stake ; T.Y.O.
(straight half mile) ; 26 subs.
Cupbearer, King of the Rovers, Van Tromp, Chaperon
c, Abyssinia, Honeydew c, Defender, Miss Agnes f,
Gloutilt, Perfume, Berserker, Luna, Lady Audrey f, Bane-
factor, Hymen Black Flag, Melody, ILA., Robespierre,
Antias, Orpheline, Tim Bobbin, Samna, Jove, and Iron
Duke.

The Holyoake Stakes (Handicap) of 5 soya each, with 50
added; winners of any handicap value 100 awls after
August 7, at 10 a.m., 71b., any two such handicaps or
one of 500 101 b extra ; the second to save his stake ;
once round (about a mile and a quarter) ; 10 subs.
Age st lb I Aga st lb
East Lancashire ... a 8 10 Lymington ... 37 1
Distaff ... ... 4 8 4 Abbottsford .. 3 7 0
Wild Briar ... 57 10 Deceit ... .
... 4 7 0
Mrs Allan... ... 5 7 10 The Returned ... 3 6 10
Barnabo ... ... 5 7 6 Ottoman ... ... 3 6 10
The Cleveland Cup of 100 soya; three year olds 7st 715,
four Bst 101 b, five Oat 31b, six and aged Oat 71b ; mares
allowed 41b, geldings allowed 71b ; winners extra. &c. ;
once round (about one mile and a quarter). 8 subs.
King's Cross 4 yrs, Runic 3, Prouess3 3, A.bbuttsford 3,
Milton 3, William 3, Princass colt 3, Lord Pahn3rstou 3.
The Stamford Biennial Stakes of 10 soya ea-h, h ft, with
100 added, for three year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and
geldings Bst 71b; the winner of this 'stake in 1867 51b
extra; maiden three year olds allowed 71b, untried 31b;
the second to save his stake; one mile and a half; 51
subs.

Bona Fide, Retirement (31b), 2Ellus (31b), Fug'Leman
(31b),lia colt (31b), William, Ylang Yla.ng (31o), Pur-
veyor, Tympanum (31b), Curse Royal colt (31b), Urandee•,
S►r Laurie°lot (It (31b), Chimney Pot (31b), Cherwell,
Canoe (31b), Mousey colt, Agnes de Mansfeldt, Boreas,
Lady glizaboth, The E.trl, Lincoln's Inn filly (31b), Lan-
ark, Vex, Brother to Bombastes, Phaeton, Uneas (31b),
Torch, Sweet Waters (31b), Pearl Mosque (31b), Cawdor,
John Bull, Lady llighthorn, Ninny, Osprey (31b), Specu-
lum, Boanerges, Cork Jacket (31b), Broughton, The Tra-
veller, Lady Zetland, The Seaman (31b), Demonstration
(31b), Queen of Beauty,Sedella,Warritigt_m (31b), Moseley,
Ottoman (31b), Lollypop, Redivivus, Calton, Bravado.

BROMLEY SUMMER MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.

The Biekley Stakes of 5 sovs each, 1 ft (to the fund),
with 30 added; winners after August 5, at 6 pan., 71b ;
the winner to bo sold for 50 sovs. About six furlongs.

15 subs.

Hop Leaf ...
Brigand ...
Volnynia
Tom Coke
Maesgwatha

Ago st lb
... 5 8 12
... 6 8 7
... 5 8 7
... 5 8 4
... 4 8 2

Age st lb
Charivaii ... 3 7 0
Inheritance 3 7 0
Lady Ward 3 6 10
Juanita ... 2 6 4
Joyful ... 2 6 4
Lady Skeynes ... 2 6 4
Barcelona 2 6 0

Ada - 4 7 12
Nightmare 4 7 7
Brown Tommy ... 4 7 7
Tho Bromley Summer Handicap of 5 says each, 2 ft (to
the fund), with 50 added; winners of a handicap after
Aug. 5, at 6 p.m., 71b extra. Nearly ono mile and a
half.

Ago st lb
Vampire ... 5 8 12
Peveusey ... 4 8 7
Mexico ...3 8 4
Breach of Promise 4 8 4
Ambitious... ...4 8 0
Douro ... ...5 8 0
Harlington ... 4 7 10
Isabella ... 4 7 10
Crosslanes o ... 4 7 lU

.Ago st lb
Lord Paramount... 4 7 7
Belfast ... ... 3 7 4
Triwa ... 3 7 0
Lionel ... ... 3 7 0
... 4 7 0
Nonpareil... ... G 7 0
Arkadi 3 6 13
Nightmare... ... 4 G 12
Lady Margaret ... 1 6 7

WINDSOR AUGUST MUTING.
FRIDAY, August 14.
The Windsor August Handicap of 200 sovs, added to a
Sweepstakes of 23 BOYS each, 10 ft, and 3 only (to the
fund) if declared ; winners of a handicv after July 31
at 10 p.m., 71b, if of 200 sovs 101 b, or a second horse in
such latter race 51b extra ; the second to save his stake ;
six to start or the added money will not be given.
About one mile and five furlongs. 38 subs, 22 of whom
declared.

Age st lb
Tynedalo 4 8 12
Honesty ... 4 8 0
King of Fairios 4 7 0
Dibtaff 4 7 0
3 6 8
Clairon 3 6 8
Seville . . 4 6
Armourer ... 4 6 4
Alicia 4 6 1

Age st lb
Vortigern 3 6 0
Safety ... 4 6 U
(I by Vedette—
Vixen ... 4 513
Choral ... 3 5 10
Citron ... ... 3 5 9
Peter ... 3 5 8
liettleholder 3 0 7

YORK AUGUST MEETING.
THURSDAY, Aug. 20.
The Great Ebor Handicap Stakes of 200 sovs., added to
a Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if de-
clared on Aug. 4, at noon ; the winner of any handicap
value 100 sovs. after July 29, at ten p.m., 71b; twice, or
of 200, 101 b; thrice, or 500, 141 b extra; the second to
receive 50 sovs. Two miles, over the Old Course. 45
subs.

Age st lb
Blinkhoolie ... 4 9 0
Strathconan ... 5 8 8
Mandrake ... 4 8 6
Maid of Masham c. 4 8 0
Three per Cent.... 5 7 13
Taraban ... ... 4 7 9
Honesty (by Young
Dutchman) ... 5 7 9
Fervacques ... 4 7 5
Bandmaster ... 4 7 2
Tabouret ... ... 3 7 0
Emigration j ... 5 6 11

Age st lb
Ilium ~. 3 6 10
Mercury 3 6 9
Fair Wind 4 6 6
Deceit ... 4 6 4
Lard Palmerston 3 6
The Spy ... 3 6 4
Wildßriar 5 6 3
Donaldbain 3 6 0
Gulnare G 0
Makeshift c 3 5 12
Miss Osborne 3 5 9
Buttercup 3 5 9

FRES FOR 1868.

Dovor
Scarborough 24
Canterbury
Great Yarmouth 25
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Ipswich 26

Lichfield

Tunbridge
, Margate al
EMBER.
Hendon
Monmouth
Manchester
Newmarket Ist October 22
Walsall 23

Edinburgh
West Drayton 29
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Western M
IBER.

Sudbury and Ealing ... 13
Newmarket Houghton 17
Harrow
Worcester Autumn 27
Lincoln Autumn n

i./BER.
Leamington l7

SPIRT' OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

ALLEGED MriTDEB AT LIMEHOUSE.

'Whether Lord Napier's defence was necessary or not— ' A charge of wife murder, alleged to have been corn-
and of this point he may, perhaps, himself be considered mitted under very aggravated circumstances, has arisen
the best judge—the Times is very glad that he has made against a man named Ezra Noane, residing at No. 27,
it, since it has led incidentally to his public and emphatic Gill-street, Limehouse. The wife of the accused, Jessie
avowal of the policy which dictated his final terms to Zeno, a woman 42 years of age, was found
Theodore. He "felt that the honour of England stood Mont midnight on - Saturday under the window
before all things." • There is nothing very novel of the second floor of 27, Gill-street, lying help-
in this sentiment itself. It has elicited cheers less and insensible on the pavement. A neighbour,
at many an after-dinner speech before that at living nearly opposite, states that she saw the man Ezra
Welshpool, and will, we trust, elicit many more. Neane fling the poor woman out of the window, or rather
But the practical application to which it had been put by force her out ; that when she clung with desperate
the man who uttered it is something more than novel ; ;
; tenacity to the window sill, and hung on by her hands,
in modern history it stands, to our thinking, alone, and a her assailant wrenched her hands loose, one by one, and
we cannot easily find language in which to say how much toppled her backwards on to the flags, some thirty feet
we honour and admire the moral courage which made the below. The woman was at once picked up and carried
application possible. Lord Napier himself is well to Dr. Nightingall's surgery, but when she was seen by
known to be one of the kindest-hearted and most con- that gentleman he pronounced her to be dead from the
siderate of human beings, and it must have cost effects of the fall. The husband was forthwith arrested by
him unspeakable suffering to think that it only wanted the police, and charged with causing the death of his wife.
one word of his to rescue many innocent fellow- The motives for the outrage have not been clearly !incr.
creatures women as well as men from the too faked. The accused is a saddle-maker and has been for
some time past.resident in Limehouse.

Probable risk of a horrible death, and yet that he could
not say that word ; and, over and above his feeling as a
man, as a general, honourably anxious to succeed in the
discharge of his duty, and to win a soldier's best and
most-coveted reward, he had to feel that all he valued was
at stake upon that single throw ; that if his calculations
as to Theodore's conduct failed, and the cap-
tives were butchered, all the glory to be reaped
from the campaign was in a moment gone. Not
the capture of Magdala, the defeat and death of
Theodore, nor any aeries, however brilliant, of military
exploits could have atoned for this one tragedy. There
are men among us who would rather drag the nation
through any amount of dirt and dishonour than delibe-
rately sacrifice a single life—men who saw with regret the
righteous retribution inflicted upon even such a monster
as Theodore. Let us, then, make the most of a general
who under the severest temptation to indulge this feeling
in himself and to conciliate it in others had, nevertheless,
the courage to act on the grand maxim that " the honour
of England stood before all things."
The Post holds that though possibly Theodore was the
great man his admirers represent him to have been, that
is no reason why, under the circumstances of his life and
his conduct towards us, he was to receive from us more
than his life with honourable treatment. And that offer
was made to him in plain terms, and ample time given to
him for decision. If ho did not chose to believe in its
sincerity, that was clearly his affair, for which
Lord Napier cannot be held responsible ; and if
Theodore chose to trifle with his fate, and in the
crisis of his career to exhibit the absence of every great
quality which we are assured be possessed, and to fling
away his last chance, it is too much to carp at the course
which such a mixture of indecision, disbelief, and despair
imposed upon his antagonists. Lord Napier may rest
assured that the public opinion, not only of England, but
of Europe and the whole national world, will sustain him
in the course of policy he laid down for himself and
never swerved from in his treatment of Theodore. It
was simple, consistent, and just. The King pitted
himself against us, and was fairly beaten. on his own
ground ; his troops had surrendered and been disarmed,
and if he would not trust to the generosity of
an antagonist who offered him the fairest terms he
could expect, but chose to die by his own hand, his blood
is upon his own head. It would have been most impolitic
to have left him alive and free in Blagdala., and as he
refused to come out of it there was only one way left to

settle the question, and that way was adopted. But even
then his life would have been spared if he had consented
to spare it himself. The fact is, as Lord Napier puts it,
Theodore's high courage failed him at that supremo
moment, and in a paroxysm of despair he destroyed him-
self.

The Daily News says that the revolt of what is respec-
table in Conservatism from the tactics of Mr. Disraeli is
only a question of time. The party which follows that ver•
satile statesman has been educated out of its natural
perceptions ; and at the bidding of the sorcerer is ready to
believe and vote that black is white, that odd is even,
that right is wrong. It has been whirled out of its wits
by the rapidity of the evolutions which it has been
forced to go through ; and scarcely knows whether it
stands on its head or its heels. But even Mr. Disraeli's
arts of mystification are not endless ; and a time
of awakening will arrive. The scales will fall from the
eyes of the voluntarily blind ; the glamour will lose its
power ; the illusion will cease. There aro in the Conserva-
tive party a few men of sense, sobriety, and honour, who
have viewed the strange practices of their titular teacher
with anger, and the credulous faith of his followers with
pity and shame. Of course they have shared the fate
which a small minority of sane men might expect in
a world of lunatics. They have been set down as
besides themselves, as devoured by envy and
personal pique, and as deserving only political
outlawry. The few who will not join the Conser-
vative party in its triumphal march over the brink
of a precipice are regarded with contemptuous aversion
by the heroes, who, with banners flying and trumpets
blowing, are rushing on to self-annihilation. The nobler
beasts of the field, obediently following the leadership of
the fox in an expedition against henroosts, would form as
close a parallel as can be suggested to the docile support
given by respectable peers and country gentlemen to Mr.
Disraeli's assault upon the places of the Whigs. The
above remarks refer more especially to Mr. Butler.
Johnstone„ whom the Daily News calls an enlightened and
moderate Conservative.

The Times censures the Duke of Buckingham for his
conduct in the matter of the Darling grant. After review-
ing the origin of the dead-lock in Victoria, the Times pro-
ceeds to say : Unfortunately, when Sir Charles Darling
retired from the service, the Duke of Buckingham, who
had by that time accepted the seals of the Colonial
Office, wrote to Sir Henry Manners Sutton acquaint.
ing him with the fact of Sir Charles Darling's
retirement, and leaving him free to do what
ho chose under the circumstances. Sir Henry
Manners Sutton sent a message to the Assembly; recom-
mending the grant to their attention, and the Assembly
at once agreed upon a vote of £20,000, which was there-
upon included in the estimates and in the Appropriation
Bill. Thus a second time did a Governor of Vic-
toria, though on this occasion by the authority of the
Colonial Secretary, apply the powers of his position
to the assistance of the Assembly. Instead of
leaving the Assembly and the Council to settle their
differences as they might have done, he precipitated a new
conflict. The Council rejected the Appropriation Bill
with the obnoxious vote once more. The Duke of Bucking.
ham, conscious of his first error, wrote a second despatch,
telling Sir Henry Manners Sutton not to recommend the
grant a second time, unless on the express understanding
that it should be introduced in separate bill. The Ministry,
which had the confidence of the Assembly, persisted in
resigning upon receipt of this despatch, and after a long
delay Sir Henry Manners Sutton formed a new INlinistry
and dissolved the Assembly. But the new Assembly has
proved of precisely the same temper as the old. The
Ministers and their supporters barely number a fourth of
the House, and the majority appear as resolute to push on
the Darling grant as ever.
The Standard thinks it is at all times a pleasing task to
render justice to those who make large sacrifices in order to
maintain their" sincere convictions, and it is especially so
in the case of an official Liberal who breaks away from his
party on a question which they have made a cardinal
feature of their policy. There have been too many
instances of late of " rising lawyers " who have proved
remarkably plastic under the manipulation of Mr.
Gladstone, and who have been as ready as their leader
to throw overboard their " convictions of a lifetime "
when there was an object to be gained by the
sacrifice. But there is very little doubt that Sir Roundell
Palmer has upheld his convictions 'at the cost of letting
slip, for a time at least, the highest prize in his profession. '
There is no lawyer in the ranks of the Liberal party who
has a higher title to the Lord Chancellorship on its next
avoidance, and there is no ono who would fill it more
worthily or with more dignity. It is understood that
ostracism from the next Liberal Cabinet is the penalty
which Sir Roundell Palmer will have to pay for daring to
remain a consistent Churchman when the exigencies of his
leader required a laxer sense of self-respect and a less rigid
conscientousness.

The Telegraph reminds the Liberal voters that if they
wish to secure a triumph at the next election, they must
ho guided by one paramount principle - that of unity
among themselves. If they wish to accomplish what must
be the great work of the session, the disestablishment of
the Irish Church, they must send such a Liberal majority
to Parliament as shall make resistance hopeless; and in
order to secure success they must learn from the example
of their opponents. Where do we ever find an instance of
division in the Tory camp, or of a superfluity of Tory
candidates for any county or borough ? The " Constitu-
tional " party, as it is pleased to designate itself, is im-
measurably superior to the Liberal in organisation, dis-
cipline, and strategy.

04 COLLIERY ON FIRE.

A PEY.SCRIPTION Fon POPPET:Y.—Some years ago
a barn near Worcester was struck by lightning. Many of
the citizens had gone to the fire, when a fop met the cele-
brated Dr. G—n, and accosted him in this wise, " Can
you—ah—tell me, doctah, how fah they have succeeded in
extinguishing the conflagration of the—ah—unfortunato
fellah's barn ?" The doctor eyed the individual attentively,
and then, slipping his thumb and finger into his waistcoat
pocket, took out of it a couple of pills, and handed them to
him, saying, " Take these, sir, and go to bed, and if yoR 40 A
not feel better i 4 tho morring viN,ll otti my Illretaw!

I Early on Saturday morning last the colliery of Messrs.
Mercer and Evans, in Park-lane, near Wigan, was dis-
covered to be on fire. Several seams of coal are got at the
colliery, and there are four shafts for the purposes of
winding and ventilation. It was in the seam known as
the Ince Four-foot, about 70 yards from the surface, and
in the No. 1 or furnace shaft, that the fire was
first noticed, about four o'clock on Saturday
morning, by a workman whose duty it was to feed the
furnace. He saw as he supplied the fuel that there was a
current of air so strong as to blow it away, and fearing
something was wrong he proceeded to the surface by
one of the winding shafts, and gave an alarth. By the
time some of the firemen had been summoned to the spot
flames and smoke were issuing from the mouth of the pit,
and on a party of explorers descending they found that the
west side of the workings was in flames, and so rapidly
was the fire spreading that it had already attacked the
woodwork in the shaft, and in a few minutes more it was
playing about the head-gear. A stream of water was sent
down the shaft by a small pumping-engine, but this was
of no avail, and it was soon found that the only chance of
saving the mine was to shut out the supply of air by closing
the whole of the four pits. This was accordingly done,
and all was believed to be progressing favourably
during Saturday. On Sunday morning, about six o'clock,
a man named Thomas Bromilow, a carpenter in the
employ of the firm, proceeded, from curiosity,
to the No. 4 shaft, where he noticed that the covering was
not quite air-tight, as some steam was escaping at the
side. He jumped upon the clay, and began stamping it
down in order to close the aperture, when, unfortunately,
one of the planks upon which the puddle rested gave way,
and the poor fellow slipped through. He held fast to the
board for a short time, but assistance not being
prompt, the intense heat, the clouds of steam that escaped
through the hole, and the fact that the covering where he
was hanging was some short distance down the shaft,-it
was almost difficult to render him any aid. An attempt
was made to reach him, but it was unsuccessful, as the
strength of the ill-fated man failed, and he fell down the
shaft, a distance of 240 yards. A short time afterwards
the shaft was again closed, and remains in this state at
present.

LAW AND POLICE.

-41.

A BETTING TRANSACTION.-At the Ipswich Assizes, the
case of Simpson v. Mullet was heard. The facts of the
case shortly stated were that the plaintiff made a bet
of £25 to £5O with one Goodwin that another person
would run from Ipswich to the Bull, in Aldgate, London,
and back in 36 hours. Upon this bet the plaintiff deposited
with the defendant as stakeholder his £25, Goodwin
depositing another £25 out of his £5O. The race did not
come off. The plaintiff then claimed the £5O in the
defendant's hands, and the defendant offered a cheque
for £23 15s. (his own commission of 2i per cent. having
been deducted.) This was refused by the plaintiff, who
brought his action for the whole £5O. By the direction of
the learned judge, a verdict was given for the plaintiff
for £25.

PERSONATING VOTERS.—At the Bristol Assizes a man
named Cogan was indicted for impersonating a voter
named John Newth at the late Bristol election. The
prisoner went to vote for Miles, but was objected to, and
then took the oath of identity and voted. The jury found
him guilty ; and Morris, the man convicted of a similar
offence on the preceding day, was brought up for sentence.
Mr. Justice Mellor ordered the prisoners to be kept in
nrisou for twelve months with bard labour.
C.lO-NywrioN OF A SOLICITOR FOR ASSAULT.--At the
Pontefract Police-court Mr. William Allatt, a solicitor
residing at Knottingley, was charged with a=saultim,-;
Sarah Beaumont. The complainant was on her doorstep
when the defendant, who was inebriated, struck her
with a stick, which she took away from him, and he fell.
She saw him again in half an hour in his shirt sleeves, and
he challenged her to fight. She was prematurely con-
fined on the evening of the following day. For the defence
Rhoda Hirst stated that when Mr. Allatt got opposite
Beaumont's house, he pointed his stick, and the com-
plainant got hold of it and pulled him into the house.
She pushed him out again by the shoulders, saying, " Get
out, or I'll give you some more." The defendant was
fined £2 and costs.
A DANGEROUS LUNATIC.—At the Monmouth Assizes
William Jenkins was indicted for maliciously shooting at
Sarah Green on the 26th of June last, at Risca ,with
intent to do her grievous bodily harm. On the morning
of the 26th of June Sarah Green was in the garden
belonging to the house of her mistress, a Mrs. Jacob. The
prisoner was the next neighbour of Mrs. Jacob, and he
appeared at his bedroom window, which looked into his own
and Mrs. Jacob's gardens, and shouted " Heigh !" to
Green, and at once fired off a revolver, pointing it towards
her. She saw the flash and heard the report, but nothing
struck her, nor did she hear anything strike any part about
her. The accused was a Baptist minister, and had borne
an excellent character till the death of his wife, some two
years ago. The jury found that the defendant was insane,
and he was ordered to be confined during her Majesty's
pleasure.
THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF STEALING A CHILD.
—At Marlborough-street Police-court Charles Miller and
Bertha Miller were charged on remand with stealing
Elizabeth Chard, aged five years. It will be remembered
that the prisoners stated that the child's mother had given
them the child. The mother now stated that on the day
the child was abducted she went into an inn and left her
daughter for a few minutes while she went out, but on
returning the child was gone. She denied having said
that the prisoners might have the child. Mr. Tyrwhitt
committed the case for trial.

Mr. Frederick Calvert, Q.C., has, with the close
4 the session, retired from the parliamentary bar, where
for many years he has held a prominent position.
LYON V. HOME.—In this case the order has
men drawn up for the defendant to deposit £794135. 2d.
in the Court of Chancery by a certain day, on disputed
items in the account ordered to be taken.

RELEASE OF MR. Praorr.--Mr. Richard Pigott,
proprietor of the Irishman newspaper, was released from
prison on Saturday, having served half the period for which
he was sentenced.

CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND. - The an-
uouncement that General Dunne, M.P., will probably be
selected to fill the Chief Secretaryship for Ireland, about
to be vacated by Lord Mayo, will no doubt give general
satisfaction to the Irish people, as a more thoroughly
qualified man cannot be found, nor one more fitted for the
post of Chief Secretary, than the hon. member.—Limerick
Southern Chronicle.

FATAL RESULT OF DRINKING BRANDY.—The
Liverpool coroner held an inquest on Monday on the
body of William Henry Whitehead, 7 years of age, whose
parents, occupying a respectable position, reside in
Heyworth-street, Everton. The father of the lad kept
in a cupboard in his bedroom a bottle of brandy for medi-
cinal purposes. The child managed to get possession of
this bottle, and drank so much of the brandy that he was
found insensible, and shortly afterwards expired.
The following appears in the Dublin Gazette:—
" Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct
Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of Ire-
land, granting to James, Marquis of Abercorn in the
Peerage of Great Britain, Earl of Abercorn in the Peerage
of Scotland, and Viscount Strabane in Pecrage of Ireland,
N.G., and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten,
Vie dignities of a Marquis and Duke of this part of her
Majesty's United Kingdom called Ireland, by the names,
styles, and titles of Marquis of Hamilton, of Strabane, in
the county of Tyrone, and Doke of Abercorn.

BRIGHTON AND THE BRITISII ASSOCIATION'.
On Monday a town meeting was held at Brighton for the
purpose of inviting the British Association to holds its
1869 meeting at that place. The invitation is a joint one
from the county of Sussex and borough of Brighton. The
county invitation was decided upon at a meeting held on
Saturday, convened and presided over by the Earl of
Chichester, lcrd-lieutenant of the county. The town
meeting of Monday was presided over by the Mayor, and
was influentially attended. Both members for the borough
were present, and spoke in favour of inviting the Associa•
Von. A. resolution to that effect was paalod, and A dopu.
tAtbnltitT And 000r0t1014 igilto4l

THE S

BARON VON BEUS7.

We published last week Baron von BMA's
I despatch in answer to the Papal Allocution on
the violation by Austria of the Concordat, and
' on the introduction of laws in direct contra-
vention to the inherent rights of the Church.
This despatch bears every characteristic which
distinguishes the worst class of modern states-
' men. It ventures to reprimand the Pope for
protesting against laws on which the new insti-
-1 tutions of the Empire repose, and to regret
that the Court of Rome did not take into
account the warnings which it had received
from the Austrian Government. It is evident
that Baron von Beust thinks that Rome ought
only to be too grateful that the new laws
guarantee to the Church the possession of her
property in Austria ; and only interfere with
such insignificant matters as the spiritual rights
of the Church and her guardianship of the souls
entrusted to her charge by Christ. The Aus-
' trian Chancellor, after the fashion of his kind,
thinks it a matter of no concern that anti-
Christian laws are imposed upon a Catholic
people, that civil marriage is introduced, that
Catholic education is jeopardized. But be-
cause the Pope has a different idea of his duties,
and of the rights of the Church, Baron von
' Beust is indignant. He tells the Pope that if
1 he had maintained silence on the new laws, or
' only made a formal protest, the hostility of the
Austrian Liberals would have been restrained
within its narrowest limits, and have been
easily appeased ; but now, on the contrary,
1 the attacks directed against the Church, the
clergy, and the Pope are redoubled in their
rage. The Minister of Catholic Austria says
that the Government might have done worse,
might have been as bad as those other Govern-
ments of whose conduct the Papal Govern-
ment has had to complain. Have we, asks
i the Prime Minister of Austria, laid hands upon
the territory or possessions of the Church ?
Have we oppressed the Catholic religion and
I its ministers ? He does not say, indeed, that
he has introduced principles such as cut to the
root the Christian character of the country, and
completely alter its relations to the Church.
Baron vonßeust sets little store bythese things.
So long as the property of the Church is not
laid hold of, he thinks there is no real ground
for anything beyond a mere make-show of
reprobation. He is consequently startled out
of his self-satisfaction when he finds that the
Pope is in earnest about things spiritual, and
visits the Austrian Government with severe
censures, such as the Austrian Chancellor
deems meet only for spoliators of Church pro-
perty.
I Austrian Liberalism has been singularly
fortunate in securing the services of Baron
I von Beast. He is just suited for the purpose
to which they put him. He has none of the
violent hatred of the Church characteristic of
bond, fide Austrian Liberals. He would like to
preserve it as an instrument of Government in
his own hands. To make it subservient to his
views he would like to eliminate from it its
spiritual notions and its subordination to the
Holy See. Of course, its property would not
be touched, but only such, to Baron Beast,
insignificant things as its spiritual rights. The
' Austrian Liberals are confident also that the
Prime Minister is just the man to humour
the Emperor, and to make him believe that a
reconciliation is possible between Catholicism
modified by the diplomacy of Baron von Beast
and the Liberalism which is now in possession
of supreme power. But this dream, this hope,
partly affected and partly due to the natural
self-sufficiency of Baron von Beast, has been
rudely disturbed by the Papal Allocution which,
in spite. of every effort of diplomacy, has publicly
condemned the Austrian Government in terms
which cannot be explained away. Hence the
ill-concealed vexation of the Austrian Minister
and the threat in which he indulges if a "storm
break out in Hungary against the legitimate
influence of the Court of Rome, which will
be as strong," he hints, "as that which has
broken out on this side of the Leitha."

Regardless of threats, looking only to the
great Christian truths which it is his duty to
uphold, the Vicar of Christ breaks through
the meshes of diplomacy, sets Liberalism,
even though under the shelter of a minister
such as Baron von Beast, at defiance, and calls
upon the Catholics of Austria and Hungary
to be true to the great principles of religion, and
to obey the laws of God rather than those of
men.— TVestminster Gazette.

S. THOMAS A BECKET.

(From the Westminster Gazette.)

At the present moment, when the merits of
the great saint whose life is here faithfully
recorded, are being variously canvassed by the
Protestant and infidel press, such a volume as
that which Mrs. Hope has given us, is exceed-
ingly welcome. It is compiled, as the author
tells us, from the "Life and Letters of S.
Thomas," by the Rev. Dr. Giles; the "Remains
of the Rev. R. H. Fronde ;" and the " Life
and Martyrdom of S. Thomas," by the Rev.
John Morris. The work is admirably got up,
and the interest of the narrative never flags
from beginning to end. But it is to the well
chosen remarks of the Rev. Father Dalgairns
in the preface to which we would now specially
direct attention. "It ought not to be hard,"
he says, "to read the character of S. Thomas
of Canterbury, nor to understand for what
cause he shed his blood. Ranke, with simply
honest endeavour, has comprehended both.
Speaking of Henry, he says : He did not
choose to allow the Church freedom of election
to high ecclesiastical dignities; he would not
permit her excommunications to proceed with-
out the supervision of the State. Not only
did he insist on the right of the civil tribunals
to judge ecclesiastics for great crimes, which
often would otherwise have been left unpun-
ished, but in the sphere of spiritual jurisdiction
he claimed for the State the right of being the
highest court of appeal, instead of the Pope.'
" Of S. Thomas himself; the same historian
says : ' Becket was not actuated by the same
unbending obstinacy which characterizes most
of the champions of the hierarchy.' All this
is quite clear and simple, and ought to be seen
by any one who takes the trouble to study
the question. S. Thomas died for the liberty,
of the Church. It was only after great strug-
gles with himself, with early prejudices and
affections, that the Saint saw that nothing was
left for him but to lay down his life for the
cause of Christ and His Church. History alone
ought to enable even a Protestant to under-
stand at least the momentousness of the issue.
Henry wished practically to sever England
from the Holy See, and to cripple the spiritual
power of the Church—the only power on
earth, besides material force, which the King
and his wicked barons respected. Now,
wherever the Church of a country is enslaved
by the State, and separated from Rome, one of
two things follows. In a country like ours at
this day, which believes in no Church, the
State allows the widest and most ridiculous
licence of opinion. In a believing nation, on
the contrary, as England was then, the State
wields the authority of the Church for her
own purposes, and enslaves the intellect and
the soul of its subjects, as Russia does now.
It was to avert the latter degradation from
England that S. Thomas died.
" Now, really it is not too much to ask of
MOD who write on the subject to see that this
was something worth dying for, even though
they may prefer the present supremacy of the
Queen, and its consequences. Above all, men
who profess to write history ought at least to
state that for which lie did die, and not some-
thing totally different, or ludicrously short of
it. What he shed his blood for was to pre-
vent England, Ireland, and half France from
becoming in the twelfth century what Mos-
cow is now : this was a cause worth dying
for. Most writers, on the contrary, and even
some Catholics, represent as contending
only for clerical immunity from secular tribu-
nals ; which was only the occasion, and a very
small, though not unimportant, part of the
contest. The worst offender, however—who
is most offensive, precisely because, from his