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London, England, 1868-05-13 00:00:00

the right of the writ of Ilabeas Corpus. It was
also shown that individuals would become liable to
arrest and indefinite imprisonment without an
investigation of the offence, or even without a
charge being preferred. But, in truth, the bill
•

goes much beyond this, for it permits the imprison-
ment of persons wholly guiltless of any crime, a
principle of legislation only worthy of an uncivi-
lized country, and one that would ill become even, a
despotic Government. While denouncing the arrest
of American naturalized citizens in Ireland on what

appears to Mr. BANKS an insufficient cause, he de-
sires to place among the statutes of his country a
bill sanctioning the arrest of foreigners in the United
States for no cause. Legislation such as this must

tend greatly to lower the character of the House
of Representatives in the eves of the world. Otie-

sided enactments are sure sooner or later to come

back unpleasantly against th 3 interests they wera
passed to protect. Nor was there any necessity for
this hurry in the House to truckle to the mob.
The question can no more be settled by
Congress
than it can be by the Parliament in London or that

in 13..T1in. indeed it would be wise not to press in
any undue manner the North German Confedera-
tion. Count BISMARCK is, in truth, master of the
situation, for it would be almost impossible to con-
ceive a country more wholly beyond any measures
of compulsion, and it might suit Prussia to stop the
German exodus, at least for a spell. Such a bill,
instead of strengthening, will weaken the hands of
the Executive when the subject of naturalization and
expatriation comes up for settlement. In the first
instance, it will compel the United States to base
the question both of the expatriation of their own
citizens as well as that of foreigners on the principles
they have laid down. To demand what they are
not prepared to concede is simply to meet with a
derisive refusal, and a foreign combination against
their unjustifiable arrogance. To concede it with-
out clearly defined restrictions is to lay down a
principle which will yet militate against the well-
being and peace of the United States. And
what is Mr. BANKS'S object ? Is it to give im-
punity to Fenian conspirators iu tbeir assassina-
tion of members of the Royal family, and in blow-
ing down streets of houses of the poor ? Can
England be accused of having done anything unjust
or harsh in her attempts to suppress this atrocious
conspiracy—this gang of secret assassins ? If she
has, why not openly bring forward and prove the
cases and demand satisfaction ? It is proposed in
the Dominion to make one year's residence sufficient
for naturalization—why not one month, and what
would be the effect? That a JEFFERSON DAVIS
might in a few days shake off his allegiance to the
United States, and claim as a foreigner to be exempt
from trial on a charge of treason, while, in truth,
he was plotting as a native against his own Govern-
ment. This is the position assumed by the Fenians,
and as sure as the sun shines this will be the posi-
tion assumed by some future enemies of the United
States, when General BANKS will discover that he
has been playing into the disloyal of their own more
than of foreign countries. It is not in Massa-
chusetts, perhaps the most enlightened spot on earth,
that General BANKS, as member from the State,
will receive countenance. He must look elsewhere,
and among a very different community, for those
who give their support to such legislation. pi°
United States is too great and too advanced for
such paltry and contemptible measures, and our
regret is that a House of Representatives could be
found, even when half empty, to pass an Act se
crude, so unjust, and even absurd. It has lately
often been predicted that the Representatives, like
the English House of Commons, after breaking
down the power of the PRESIDENT, after trenching
on the constitutional rights of the Supreme Court/
would endeavour to sponge out the Senate, thus
centreing all authority in itself. With such
sample of its handiwork before the nation thought-
e
ful men will feel little inclination to entrust th
well-being of the United States into such hand!'
We believe that there is no other legislative bonty
which more requires the careful supervision of 1_
acts by a superior assembly, and we are happY
think that recent events have tended to elevate the
Senate so greatly in public estimation, that in aeY
struggle between the two houses that great bodf
would receive the ardent support of the most ee"
Lghtened in the United States.

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The London correspondent of an American perto
dical, writing about the inordinate multiplication of cbelt9
magazines, says :—The Cornhill, which but lately 1,3'1,5
circulation of over 80,000, is now generally supposed 1,(1
be 35,000, but in "The Row" it is spoken of as not
over 18,000 copies ; Macmillan, supposed circulation 18:000:
while "The Row" says about 7,500; Belgravia, edited by
Miss llraddon, began with over 36,000, in The Row' "41.
put it down at 18,500 ; London Society is increasing °LI
sells over 20,000 ; Temple Bar, supposed circulation 20,00 '
we " Tho Row" say not over 13,000 ; Blackwood's )161:
zinc sells about 7,500 ; St. Paul's, edited by Anthony r°
lope, our latest, and most promising in contents, bey
3 a 1
with 50,000, but does not now sell more than half O
number; Tinsley's Magazine, edited by Edmund -late:
and containing a story by Dr. Russell, of the Tinizs, d°6-0
not sell ten thousand copies per month, and hie
on. Even of the famous Sylvanus Urbana, the venso"o
Gentleman's Magazine, which last year departed frac, tv
traditions of a century or more, to admit fiction t°
pages, he tells us that its announced reduction in Prilasl
from two shillings and sixpence to one shilling is " a --
Writ flickering before expiring." wit!
h D: h -itten to the

Mr. Hepwort_ ixon nas written
Table to show that Dr. Marsh drew largely from bis,,,b°,„° 0
" The Holy Land," for his pictures in " Walks and 1.0":0
of Jesus." The Round Table had observed that if ere
been plagiarism at all, Mr. Dixon must have berf°,;;liee
from Dr. Marsh, whose book was in print before eto
til
Holy Laud" appeared. Mr. Dixon gives copious olcl
from each work, as.-erting that Dr. Marsh had berflr,
the descriptions, as he had not been in Palestine, that do
Dixon had never heard of Dr. Marsh's book till after "
notice in the Athenaeum, and he maintains that Dr. 151.°
had lifted much from "The Holy Land." dorl
Macnzillan's Magazine for May repeats the 7- the
told in the American papers of Theodore Tilton 0'
to
Independent that the proprietors of the paper offore-°
raise his salary to $12,000 per annum if he would the
lecturing, and confine his attention exclusively t 0 bit
Independent. Mr. Tilton declined the offer ; from Wht
appears that he finds lecturing a very profitable bust Ong
The Pacific Mills, of Lawrence, began operl'oo,
in 1853. They now contain 100,000 spindles for cott 00
with carding, picking, and cleaning machines;
spindles for worsted goods, and 18 printing n'aciie
tsiro
The machinery is driven by eight turbine whoels'
of which are 84 inches in diameter. The YiNklYA`tbo
duction of cotton goods is about 700,000 yards, °3l- evt
sales about 7,500,000 per year. The company are 13
employing about 3,600 hands. been
The Round Table alludes to a report it has
acto •
unable to trace to au authentic source, that M. do I,°,toife
ville left among his papers the MSS. of an entire`-',,
edition of his "Democracy in America," in which
bar of chapters are wholly replaced, and the au
Modified Modified in many essential points.
Silas C. Herring, of " Safe" fame, has fire-i the
transferred from his farm in Brimfield to Nov
largest horse in America. The animal is si% yea len
over 19 hands high, weighs 2,0001 b., and will real° a
It svgs
did addition to Mr. Herring's stud of truck horses• sire
foaled in Westchester county, N.Y., the mare 11
being both Canadian.

Births. , IS°'
GARFORD —On the 12th inst., at 31, R ussell-sc1113"e1
Ar''''
Garford, of a son. i.,t, P;„ ,
KENDERDINE —On the 12th inst., at 12, Ila,ge"„,;se-d'-e
terrace, Gloucester-gate, the wife of Isaac J. oe--
of a son. ~ W rcaSteri
ScRoFE7On the 9th inst., at Spetcbley Par', °

Mrs. Simon Sctope, of a son. - It
Marriages. 0N,131.:4
Ross—Rusx—On the 11th inst , at St. Georg°'6l, ,-413
lianover-square, James Ross,.Esq., Luton 11,3rj;. PIS
to Sarah Ann, second daughter of the late ..-.•
Lindsey, Suffolk.
VIVIAN —BOEBU CK—On the Gth inst ,at S ,•01:1,
01,' r
Southsea, the lion. John Brabazon Vivian,
C°°'
Royal Navy, to Alice Mary Disney RoA)talg•
Deaths. 0,010-
wand°
BELL—On the oth • inst., at Bath-terrace, O.
road, William Bell, Esq a d'l
~ ge b . O Of
BECK—On the 10th inst at W li" t t.isse:c, —„,cl,
as mg on, i• A.
Beck, Esq., solicitor, "
son of th© lat© gajor ./. 1
11.M.'s 17th Regimet, aged 47. Croft, 49t V
CitoFr On the 11th inst., Mr. 'Thomas
OA°
Whitechapel-roal, aged 67
CRAWFUED —On the 10th inst.. ,_ at 4. ~...,Iv3-4,-,.t°s°• f
t.jado's 0000.
Queen's-gate, John Crawford, Esq., -F.ll-"7/fticost„ 'lrl
FO,,TER—On the 10th iust at Rome Willi '''' J'
0'66
Merton College, Oxford, eld'est son of' the WY'
t.
rector of Po.xettrth, Essex, aged 23. le l'C'Y
rar''
IiEC LIFER O n the 10th lust., at Budding
shire, Lady Radcliffe, aged 71. so
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