The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-19 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ASSAULT.—A fashionably-dressed young man, described
as a merchant's clerk, has been convicted by the South-
wark magistrate of a brutal and unprovoked assault upon
ti barman at the Rockingham Arms, Newington. causeway.
ffe was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.

DAMAGE TO CLOTHING.—Two cases of consideral im-
portance to the public came before the City of London
Court, in which the plaintiffs sought to recover com-
pensation for injuries while passing along the pave-
ment. In the first case, Downing v. Dingwall,
Slrs. Downing said she was proceeding down Idol-lane,
Tower street, recently, when a bolt sticking out from de-
fendant's cellar door caught her dress, and tore it. In
the second case a gentleman was walking along the street,
ind a cart with the tailboard down turned the corner, the
milboard swung up over the pavement, and damaged
she plaintiff's trousers. In both cases his Honour gave
plaintiffs verdicts for the amounts claimed, with costs.
LOVE, JEALOUSY, AND REVENGE IN ST. GILES'S.—
Bridget Dwyer, a rather pretty, but untidy young woman,
f about eighteen years of age, was brought up at Bow-
street Police-court, on remand, charged with threatening
John Bloman, a labouring man, and attempting to throw
a phial of vitriol at him. The prisoner was extremely
violent in the dock, attempting to throw chairs at the
prosecutor and using obscene language. They had been
living together, and he had left her. She was bound over
to keep the peace for six months, but as she threatened
prosecutor the magistrate increased it to twelve months.
She expressed contrition during the day, and the term was
reduced to eight months. There was no probability of
the amount of bail (210) being provided.

THE VOLUNTEERS' CAPITATION GRANT.—Another
appeal is to be made to the Secretary for War to increase
the capitation grant to the volunteer force. About 140
volunteer commanding officers of corps which number
nearly 100,000 men have already signed a memorial to Sir
John Pakington, asking that the allowances may be made
on the following scale :---23 to light horse, mounted rifle,
and field artillery ; £2 10s. to garrison artillery and
engineers ; and £2 to riflemen. The name of the Duke of
Manchester, who is the commanding officer of the Ist
Huntingdon Light Horse, appears in the list of signatures.

CORPORAL PE &ICE AND THE WIMBLEDON PRIZE.
—Earl Spencer writes correcting a mis-statement of Cor-
poral Peake in his letter claiming the Queen's Plize:—
" Corporal Peake says the Master of Lovat ' not only
acted as accuser and witness against me, but was one of
those composing the court which condemned me.' It was
my duty to preside over the inquiry, and I can say that
this statement is incorrect. The Master of Lovat, being a
witness against Corporal Peake, did not act as a member
7f council, but withdrew before the council considered
the evidence brought before them, and was not one of
those who gave the decision."

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. —About half-past
ten o'clock on Saturdaymorning a messenger in the employ
of Messrs. Davenport, earthenware and glass manufacturers,
Longport, Staffordshire Potteries, was returning from the
National Provincial Bank, at Newcastle-under-Lyme,
with £lOO in silver, when he was overtaken in au unfre-
quented part of the road by two 3 aen in a cart. They
jumped from the cart, knocked the messenger down,
snatched the bag containing the silver from his hand, and
re-entering the cart drove off in r mother direction as
rapidly as possible. After a time one of the wheels of the
vehicle came off, and the robbers hatr to continue their
flight on foot. They got clear away, but the deserted
horse and cart fell into the hands of the -police, who are
actively following up a clue they have obta 'ned.

THE MURDER AT NOIZWICH.-011 Saturday-an
inquest was opened on the body of Mrs. Clare, whose
murder by her husband we have briefly reporte, I. It appeared
that Clare, who is a shoemaker, had been a teetotaller
for some years, but " broke out drinking- " last week,
and had been more or less intoxicated ever since.
About noon on Friday, when they We, .e alone
in the house, he murder, d the poor woman by cutting
her throat. Two or three hours after he caller, a neigh-
bour's boy into the house, and the horrible de ad wa 3 dis-
covered. No quarrel was known to have taken place,
and the prisoner and his wife had always appeared to be
on good terms. It was stated that Clare, .vho had Yeeen
in the 54th Fusiliers, and served in In( lia, had ffe-
quently complained of his head, and had JN ppeared occa-
sionally for brief periods to be deranged. Tb e inquest was
adjourned.

The Spectator is somewhat inclined to recommend the
policy of rectifying the Indian frontier. How far the dull
pressure of British rule, which has so often curbed the
most turbulent by its unswerving steadiness, may operate
on fanatics like those of Swat, it is difficult to tell. But
the prefects of the Punjab have tamed men as wild as the
remaining clans, and even the fanatics recognise in the
arbitration of the sword the decision of Providence.
Rectification has these arguments in its favour : it has
succeeded elsewhere, and it is not a policy of pure destruc-
tion. The alternative course of extermination, the delibe-
rate stamping out of man from a valley where he has
made a home, has in it a contempt of rights not to be
justified. even by the plea of self-defence.

(From the Anglo-American 2 Imes.)

It appears that the letter we last week gave as
being addressed by Mr. Pendleton to Mr. Somers
Kelly, Houston, Texas, was a forgery. Mr. Pen-
dleton states that he never heard of the man or the
letter, although it has furnished a text for the Re-
publican papers and a campaign document of value
to that party. The roving correspondent of the
Cincinnati Coinnzei cial, who goes about like a roar-
ing lion seeking great i-nen to devour, appears, fail-
ing prey, lately to have drawn on his imagination. It
was but the other day that he gave an exciting account
of a visit to Fort Pillow with General Forrest, of
all men. Forrest now says that the correspondent
never had been at Fort Pillow, and that he, For-
rest, had not been there since 1867, when he went
to make a map for his book. The Cincinnati com-
mercial is bound to trace out the truth of the story
or to stand for ever discredited. A more atrocious
system of campaign tactics could scarcely be con-
ceived, or one more calculated to injure newspaper
property in the discredit it creates.
Fenian Head Centre John Savage was to sail
from New York for Havre about the middle of Oc-
tober. Senator John Conness of California, of
decided Fenian proclivities, spoke at a big Re-
publican ratification meeting at Cooper Institute,
effort to drag or coax the
Radi-
cals ofrethaenmigahkting a
thgere3aOtth September. The
Irish-Americans into their line of battle, but they
might save themselves the trouble, for Celts are
seldom Liberals unless as despots when they can
use revolution in aid of despotism. 'they have
secured the Irish People, which is now patted on the
back and quoted approvingly by all the leading
Republican journals. These efforts, however, are
only time wasted, and strength exhausted in a wrong
direction, for till the Irish really imbibe an amount
of Republican air sufficient to affect their frame
they have no more comprehension of the great
aims and objects of the Republican party than a
Hindoo has. They must become more American
and less Irish before they are fit to take their place
in the party ; and time only can work out such a
result.

the court-martial to try General Dyer, Ordnance
Department, was postponed a week through the ill-
ness of General Hancock, who sits on the Court.
General George H. Thomas, the President, will pro-
ceed to Washington to preside when the. Court
assembles, and General Gordon Granger will start
immediately for Nashville to assume command in
Tennessee during the absence of General Thomas
on court-martial duty. Of course an intrigue is
attributed to the President in the arrangement, as
it is asserted that by making Thomas, President of
the Court, and installing Granger during his ab-
sence in the cowman 1, he will replace an uncertain
friend with an officer he can trust to carry out his
directions in the interest of the party he favours,
both in Tennessee and Kentucky, until the Presi-
dential election be decided.

Even the Indian war now raging is attributed to
the President's wish to get the bulk of the army
out of the way for a new Southern rebellion —as if
Mr. Johnson had not sins enough of his own to
answer for without such ridiculous inventions. The
war is attributed first to the delay of Congress in
rectifying the treaties made by the Peace Commis-
sioners with the unfriendly tribes, and afterwards
by the Executive red-tape, which wearied out the
Indians, who cannot comprehend how work is done
in the Circumlocution Offices. If hair in Washing-
ton bad been in danger of being " raised," proceed-
ings world have been considerably accelerated, but
it was only the settlers in the Far West who could
supply such a crop, ani they were accordingly left
to the shearing process. We are, however, happy
to learn that Colonel Forsyth and the remainder
of his command in the late fight were not among
the victims. Aitholgh on an island sepa-
rated only by bhallow water fro:n the main
land, and under cover of a little grass, with small
sand breastworks thrown up by the hands of the
soldiers, they succeeded in beating back every

Frank Blair has come out in quite a new character,
which he was perhaps driven to assume on the
tide of opinion setting so strong against him.
Failing man, he turned to woman, and held forth
eloquently at Indianapolis on the wrongs of the
sex. It is a pity that he did not hit upon this
earlier, as it plight have proved a trump card. The
Republicans, he says, " though absolute in Con-
gress for eight years, have not countenanced the
slightest motion in favour of this grand religious
idea that rose with them above all party politics,
above all manhood assumption of selfishness."
General Butler has justified our anticipation,
and obtained his re-nomination for the sth Dis-
trict of Massachusetts. It is said that Mr. Dana
would be selected at the meeting on the sth inst.
to run against him, but it would require not only
a good man, but a hard canvass to defeat Butler in
Essex. Although strongly opposed by some lead-
ing Republican papers, he has a firm hold of the
extreme Radicals, great talent, and unbounded as-
surance. He delivered two speeches, in the first of
which he stated that to sell the Bonds Jay. Cooke
said they would be paid in gold, insinuating that
it was only the banker who did so, and the
more readily to insure the sale. In his other speech
before the Convention, after receiving the nomina-
tion, he asserted that he stood on this matter with
Senators Sherman and Morton. He had voted with
61 Republican members that the taxes on the income
of the bonds be honestly collected, and he asked
who would oppose his election as the advocate of
the rascals escaping taxation, and defrauding the
revenue. He called upon' Republicans to shoot
deserters, meaning those who did not support him-
self. Not a bad idea that ! One journal pooh-
poohed the movement against him as grounded
on a " mere question of money." We believe,
however, even that the editor would feel that to be
sore point if tried, and it certainly is the essence of
almost all contracts.

The Hon. David Wells wrote from Norwich,
Connecticut, to Treasurer Spinner for a true exhi-
bit of the receipts and expenditure for the current
fiscal year. He intends itmnediately to reply to
Mr. Delmar, whose statement he has carefully and
critically examined. Mr. Spinner shows that Mr.
Delmar is not only wrong in matters of fact, bat in
his estimates. For instance, the receipts from Cus-
toms for the half year ending Jan. 1, 1869, he esti-
mates at $70,000,000, when the receipts for the first
quarter, ending on Sept. 30, have been over
$49,000,000, and for the six months will be at least
$100,000,000, instead of $70,000,000, as he cal-
culated.

Much indignation has been excited in Wall-
street at the unscrupulous way in which Treasury
figures have been used in the interest of speculators,
and Mr. M'Culloch has been greatly blamed. It
is said that within the year his Department has
thrice been used as the gambler's tool, more espe-
cially in the sale and_ lock-up of gold. Now it is
asserted that the revenue will not nearly cover the
expenditure—then that gigantic frauds have been
discovered—and figures are freely given by officials
to support positions detrimental to the national
credit, merely to influence the elections, or, worse
still, the markets.

The newspapers of the United States still con-
tinue the attack on Lis Excellency Reverdy Johnson.
What some say is that he misrepresented American
feeling in attributing to his countrymen so kindly a
sentiment towards England. It is not easy to see
what can be gained by such a discussion ; for, if
writing for Americans, the true feeling is known,
and if to disabuse the English they wholly mistake
the real impression. The English exaggerate Ame-
rican hostility towards them. They believe that it
has lessened within the last two years, but they
still think it so great that instead of an ally they
would haVe to count on America as a foe in any
difficulty. What can be the use of intensifying the
feeling far beyond the truth. It can neither benefit
England nor America ,except inasmuch as it may force
both nations to act with the greatest moderation and
circumspection. No people, however great, can
be secure ; and it is scarcely wise for kindred na-
tions deliberately to add hostility to their inse-
curity. If Irelan3, in rebellion, is to find an ally
in the United States, the Southern States, in rebel-
lion, might find an ally in England. What must
we think of the policy of a country which first in-
jures its credit without gain, and while a large
portion of its population, fresh from a destructive
war, remlins in an attitude little less than hostile,
endeavours to neutralise the efforts of its Minister
in impressing a kindly feeling on a kindred
.people,
whose animus might be the main element on which
their enemies calculated.

From Rio Janeiro, Sept. 24, the news was that
Lopez had retired from Villa Rica, but that there
was no further news of importance, had been brought
by the steamer Estremadure which arrived at Lisbon
last Thursday. A telegram from Paris, however
(through Messrs. Pope, Kee, and SiLean's office),
says that the Brazilians have taken Tebicuari.
General Lopez is in full retreat in the direction of
Villa Rica. Two foreign vessels of war were ascend-
ing the river ; it is supposed General Lopez made
his escape on board one of them.
Frank Leslie r ever loses an opportunity of de-
picting horrors. His last effort in this direction is
the ghastly spectacle of the upheaval of the buried
dead from their tombs on the sea shore in Arica,
Peru, during the recent earthquake. The peculiar
way of burying the dead in a sitting posture makes
the picture more graphic, and it forms a pod vis-
a-vis to th 3 scene in Kit Burns' Dog Pit, where the
religious community are in possession one hour, and
the rats, the weasel, and the rowdies the next hour.

General 111‘Clellan told the Brooklyn committee
who tendered him a reception, Oct. 2, that although ho
had agreed to accept receptions in New York and Phila-
delphia, he did not propose to engage actively in the
canvass. The General was entertained by August
Belmont, Wednesday evening, Sept. 30.

The Democrats met at Goodrich-hall, Springfield,
Saturday evening, Sept. 26, and organize.' a campaign
club with these officers :—President, Roswell Lee; vice-
presidents, ward 1, P. W. Brewster ; 2, E. B. Downing;
3, Dr. J. Hooker ; 4, A. W. Lamb ; 5, D. Powers ; 6, L.
Sibley ; 7, J. Meggett ; 8, C. Pease ; secretary and trea-
surer, F. E. Gray.

Lieut. Frederick Beecher, who was killed in Col.
Forsyth's fight with the Indians, on the Upper Republican
River, in Kansas, was 23 years of age. He was a son of
Rev. Charles Beecher of Georgetown, Massachusetts; and
nephew of Henry Ward Beecher. He graduated at Bow-
doin College, Maine, in 1861, and immediately entered
the service of his country as sergeant in company B, 16th
Maine Volunteers. Subsequently he was promoted to be
second lieutenant and first lieutenant respectively. He
was twice severely wounded —at Fredericksburg,
the 13th of December, 1862, and at Gettysburg, the
Ist of July, 1863. The last time wounded he was even
then suffering fiom the old wound, but could not be
persuaded to remain away from his command. The severe
nature of his wounds necessitated his transfer to the
veteran reserve corps, in which he served as lieutenant
until commissioned in the regular army by President
Lincoln in 1865. He served with distinction after his ap-
pointment in the 9th cavalry. He had just been ordered
to duty in the signal office, but was killed ere he could
obey the order.
The New York Citizen says :—" It is announced
that Ben. Butler has requested Anna Dickenson to stump
his district. She had better leave her jewellery and spoons
at home if she contemplates a personal interview with
Butler."
Ex-President Pierce is very feeble, and is
troubled by a severe cough.
Among the deaths on Monday, Sept. 28, were
those of Thomas A. D. Fessenden, of Lewiston, Maine,
and Abner Greenleaf of Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
who were both of political prominence, though the latter
had long withdrawn from active life on account of age.
He was a contemporary and friend of Isaac Hill, and was
one of the men on whom Hill, and afterwards Franklin
Pierce, relied to keep New Hampshire loyal to their sway.
Like Hill, he was an editor, having been long connected
with the New Hampshire Gazette, the oldest newspaper in
New England. His age was 83. Mr. Fessenden was 42
years old, being twenty years younger than his half-
brother, the Senator. He served in Congress for a single
term.
Captain W. Prescott, of Concord, has been ap-
pointed a special detective of the United States Treasury
Department.
Ten students, one of whom is a Choctaw Indian,
were in attendance at the opening of the College of Agri-
culture and the Mechanic Arts, the new department of
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Edward J., son of Joseph E. Davis, of Barnard,
Vermont, was killed in the recent Indian war.
William Lloyd Garrison is the guest of Mrs.
Stowe at Hartford, Connecticut.
Captain Howard Stockton of the ordnance corps
has been relieved from duty at the armoury, Springfield,
Massachusetts, to enable him to accept an appointment as
aid-de-camp on General M'Dowell's staff, who is now in
command of the department of the East, with head-quar-
ters at New York City. This appointment does not imply
Captain Stockton's permanent disconnection with his
corps, as he is merely detached on this special service.
He served two years on General M'Dowell s staff during
the war, when that officer had a command on the Poto-
mac, and there won the high esteem of his chief, who now
asks for him as aide immediately on assuming this com-
mand, to which he has just been appointed.
Robert Morris, a coloured citizen of Chelsea,
Massachusetts, for many years a member of the' Suffolk
bar, and the Democratic candidate for mayor a few years
since, has just returned to Americ% with his wife, from a
tour in Europe' whither they went to attend the classes at
the "Imperial College" of France. Their son, who has
for the past eight or nine years been pursuing a course of
studies at this college, graduated with honour, having
been awarded the two highest prizes—costly gold medals.
Young Morris was born in Chelsea in 1848. He has been
thoroughly educated, and bids fair to attain positions of
honour and emolument in New England. His case is evi-
dence of the capacity of coloured persons, when a fair and
equal chance is open, to attain the highest point of intel-
lectual culture.
Senator Sumner is under treatment for a disease
of the throat, and his physician forbids him to speak in
public.
Rev. George B. Nutting, for twelve years a mis-
sionary in Mesopotamia, has returned to America.
Miss Joanna Quiner, a self-taught sculptor,
died in Lynn, Massachusetts, September 20, at the age
of 72.
A base-ball match between the English cricketers
and nine from the Trimountain, Harvard, and Lowell
Clubs, was played at Boston, Thursday, Oct. 1. The
selected nine defeated the English nine by a score of
21 to 4.
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From Maine there went into the Union army
1,171 Smiths, 777 Browns, and 365 Joneses.
Senator Yates, it is announced, has again signed
the temperance pledge.
General Hancock is at Longwood, Missouri, suf-
fering from the reopening of a wound he received at Get-
ty sburg.

General Van \ryck and Mr. Jencks, a sub-com-
mittee on retrenchment, met at the Astor House at 2
o'clock, Oct. 1, to examine into alleged frauds on the re-
venue. They, without doing anything, adjourned till
next day.

Dr. Gurley, of Washington, who was Mr. Lin-
coln's pastor, was very ill in Canadaigua, New York, and
not expected to live ; since reported dead.

Mrs. Kemble is in Rochester; Mrs Yelverton in
Chattanooga; President Roberts, of Liberia, in Boston ;
Mrs. Bowers in Salt Lake City; Harriet HoEmer in
Chicago.
The Spanish Minister at Florence, the Duke de
Rivas, the Florentine iournals say, left that, city on the
4th for Paris. Senor Large Del Valle has charge of the
Embassy during his absence.
The Queen of Portugal, Maria Pia, daughter of

Senator Ross has received a severe rebuke from
the Republican Convention of Kansas for voting for the
President's acquittal.
Jacob Flynn, for a long time Judge of the
Criminal Court of Cincinnati, died Sept. 30, and Thee"-6
Jones, the artist, died the same day.
left
Thei flagship Franklin, Admiral Farragatt
,f
Trieste, 28th September, for Gibralter, to meet the rest
, fbe
the squadron. From thence she will return home ieloL,„ft
Admiral. Co,muodore Pennock, of the Franklin, is ~ter
in charge of the squadron, and transferred with the 0""
officers of the Franklin, to the Ticonderoga; while Caps
tarn Wyman, of the latter ship, and his officers, are to tab
charge of the Franklin, bound home. The steam sietP,
Swatara, Commander Jeffers, arrived at Gibraltar on t 6
Ist from Cadiz, and the Ticonderoga, Captain R. U. Wrr
man, from Lisbon, on the 2d.
The lion. John M. Brodhead, Second Controller
of the Treasury, who has been absent in Europe leZ
ral months, is expected immediately to resume his 0w-
duties at the Treasury Department. hag
Surgeon W. E. Taylor, United States Nay'',
been ordered to Mare Island, California, to relieve au
''
geon Brown.
Samuel Babcock was appointed, on the 2d
October, Collector of Internal Revenue for the See°ll
District of Connecticut, vice Woodruff, deceaeed. the
Mr. George D. Prentice has retired from
Louisville Journal, a famous provincial paper. He V 735
very popular political journal.
The President has just appointed Simon E. John'
son, whom the Senate refused to confine last year a 3
rout'
mission to the Treasury, a member of the ee—;
mission to codify the laws, in place of Caleb Cushing'r--
signed.
General Grant arrived at St. Louis, Missouri, in
the afternoon of 2d October. He was at Chicago en,..tgb
25th September, on a visit to his brother at
Avenue, but he was not found out till Sunday, Sept.
i,
,
when, accompanied by his brother and a member of b
Staff, he walked to the Church of the Messiah. la tte
church, however, he was recognisel, and the people sing
astonished to find that that plainly-dressed, impreten
gentleman was the foremost citizen of the Republic.
The new skating rink, at Boston, is on the cornet,
of Lenox and Tremont-streets, and is 117 ft. wide, 215 tee.,
long, and is furnished with refreshment saloons evile,l
you can see the skaters and enjoy hot oysterst
the same time, with ample sitting-room for lawn f
and gentlemen, and galleries for spectators. The fr,t
over this immense structure is supported by archea;ace
span the entire dis'ance between the walls. The eulete
is to be lighted by 210 gas bureers, besides a central chili°
delier of 180 burners, and will contain 15,000 people
.e.bo
archite es were Messrs. Hervey, Johnson, and Co., "
have erected 13 similar structures within a year.
It appears that a portion of the new skating r,he
at Boston has already given way, and a portion °lO 'OO
wall has fallen. The rear end wall is 110 feet long, r°, tee
than 40 feet hig h in the centre 12 inches thick a; iiy
bottom, and Bat the top. Wehope it will be care
surveyed, before it is crowded in the winter.
A meeting of the Bank presidents of Boston r 5,0
held on Tuesday, S. pt. 29, for consultation in regar;.,,el:.
the State law requiring assessment of taxes on the S'
of non-resident stockholders. As the law was nete°,ll
proved till June 11, 1868, the clause providing that it se is
be considered as having been in force on the Ist of 31Vrera
regarded as ex post facto in its nature, and the banter
propose to test its constitutionality.
General Carl Schurz, who is of a sanguine be
publican temperament, made a speech in Detroit en ;tr.
leth September, in which he said that from his ow,'
t.
servation he was prepared to promise that if the 100 se
cans of New York worked throughout the campaign
they wore working now they would carry the rini„l is
State by a glorious majority, such as she gave Linee, Vie.
1860, and there were even strong hopes felt by the
.0
publicans of New Jersey of redeeming that State. fr°r3t.
Greeley spoke at Roxborough, New York, on the 15th Sopy_
The Hon. Butler G. Noble is on the "stump,"
~,bbet
ins chalked out a round from Crown Point, SePtem".
23, to Madrid, October 5.
001
On the 19th September a party of students 'I. her
lain eUniversity of Vermont were sailing on Lake Chalter
r
lain in the yacht Hobe, when a sudden squall strueicf the
sail, knocking' overboard Edward Marsh, a member bet,
freshman class. He swam for three or four minutest 50
being encumbered with clothing, sank before anYoea
could reach him. A rope, a plank, and an oar were thr tio
to him, but all fell short. Deceased was 19 years old, 00
son of Charles P. Marsh, of Woodstock, and a young
o fgreat promise.
ia
The American mission among the Chinesevo
California has been revived, after a suspension efdef
years. The Mission Church at San Francisco, "Wolf
charge of Rev. A. W. Loomis, has sixteen mernbor, left
of whom were converted to Christianity before theY, flag
China. The Chinese are not easily reached by Chrlsocl
influences, and missionary work among them is elev:eieea
disheartening. The Presbyterian mission on the 'eetele
of Formosa, in the China sea, has encountered oplens.,'ive
A Chinese convert has been stoned to death, a n'
catechist is in prison, and a mission chapel has been oee
stroyed. The Roman Catholics claim over 100,000 et,
verts in Tonquin. The influence of France proven is
general persecution. The apostolic vicer confirmed 0„eo
4,000 last year in a tour of five months among the "
southern provinces. bes't
A letter from the White Mountains explains, the
a masked ball was improvised by the guests at one e:feal
hotels :—" The problem—to borrow the style of the
Play'—is to have a masquerade ball in a hotel ine,l:4
midst of the White Mountains, where there are no 1315? be
or costumes within a thousand leagues, mere or leas; dio
solution is at once simple and satisfactory. The eeetg;
doff their crinolines and array themselves in white s"-of
with white masks made of linen, and head-dressosby
pocket handkerchiefs. The gentlemen &come gohfiersof
putting on masks of black cambric and ladies' vratlP-tbig
cloaks, with the hoods drawn well over the head -',nbest
garb the ball was opened, and the effect was in the Illgoe
degree novel and striking. The disguise was cone!' of
and not only was it next to impossible to discover Ys so
nearest friend, but the similarity of the ghosts Wa
great that, if you engaged a partner for a dance ahead bet
then lost sight of her, it was no easy matter to fin stlel
again. The dress of the gentlemen was weird and gliefbis
enough to match the costume of the ladies. Whee°4l,
sprightly company of sprites marched about the eener
could think of nothing but the incantation scene in„eecl
bert le Diable,' although the effect was ludicrous. i-ver°
not speak of the pleasure of the dance, but there ear
some witches there from whom not even Tarn OSeere
ter would have fled. Of course these disguises es'
taken off after a time, and then some very curious
trot
takes were discovered, and many persons found thatftell
were not so acute as they had supposed. Unear the
music was furnished by the Gorham Band,' to us9,tfq
language of a bulletin posted beforehand in the Lee-
of the house, and, to copy further from the same 'et be
ment, the ghosts vanished at cock-crow. It ean'elief,
said, however, that the cock crew at a somewhat
hour than those noisy fowls used to do in the ti":„"ble
Hamlet the Dane, for the air of Gorham is not favoileas
to dissipation, and the inexorable breakfast-bell rnlieg
here at an hour which would horrify editors of rn°ri39,ll
newspapers. To conclude, in a word, the Phantom isa,
was pronounced an unqualified success, and a very' P
sant novelty."
Southern letters say there is a great want of Bibllts
among the coloured peopleof the South, and that the adrtat
who have learned to read are anxious to obtain largel
Bibles and Testaments.
It is stated that the total capital invested 1,11,,ite0
tional banks is $422,804,666 ; taxes paid to the u7,-i
States, $2,525,607 ; average rate of tax on capital Pe'esel
the United States, 2} per cent.; taxes paid to and asset. of
by State authorities, $8,813,127 ; average rate per eltete
State taxation, 21; total tax paid United States alicle';ete°
authorities, $18,338,734 ; rate per cent, of United ifiebeeee
and State tax on capital, 41-, and on deposits, 31-. Ave
are deposited in the Treasury by national banks e,
°f d°+
per cent. bonds, $89,657,950 ; six per cent. 1-1:ro"
$247,763,500; six per cent. currency bonds, of loan In •
cific Railroad, $3,577,000. 130°'
The new Berkeley-street Central church feet
ton has the loftiest spire in New England, being 2" est
higher than the top of Bunker-hill monument. Theoriee
of the edifice and site will reach $300,000, and from 9'4.0
dow in the spire Wachusett and Monadnock moino—
can be seen.
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Births.
t°
CHAPMAN—On the 14th inst., at Newbridge, Irelan-V
wife of Major Chapman, 14th King's Hussarson.
of /4
LOVELL—On the 16th inst., the Lady Rose Lovell,
daughter.

Marriages. gee
LANE —PARKINS —On the 15th inst, at All Saints', Farr
rick Quiucey, son of John Lane, Esq, of Great 'Wel.
hampstead, Herta, to Eliza, yonngsst daughter ot
Parkins, Esq., of Oxford-street and St. John's-W°° telt
MANSBRIDGE —FLOWER—On the 15th inst., at Neuerititr
Switzerland, Mr. Willian Henry Mansbridge, %calls°
den-square, to Emily Agnes, fifth daughter of
Flower, Esq., of Cautelowes-road, N. W.

Deaths. all,
CORNEWALL—On the 14th inst., Sir Velters Corp'„ s'
Bart., of Moccas Coure, Hereford, aged 44. °no re
. EMMETT—On the 13th just , at Hornsey-road, N., s'. -
Emmett, Esq., aged 72. r lice'
HEATH —On the 16th inst, Thomas 'Heath, of F'i °-e ,
road, New-cross, aged 73. ,A. 9. '
HUNT-GRIMM—On the IGth inst.. at Eastwell, Will"
Huut-Grubbs, Esq.
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