The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-28 00:00:00

BAVARIA.

MuNicrr, January 20.
In my last letter I stated my opinion of
he wretched condition the Government and

the so-called Representatives of the people
have fallen into, and of the growirig aliena-
tion of the people from both. I am now in
a position to prove the correctness of this
view, and, indeed, even to a greater degree
than I had myself expected. During the last
few days the Government-partyha,s been placed,
as it were, though on a small scale, on its trial
before the people. The Government, it is true,
refused the demand for the convocation of a
new Parliament made in very energetically-
worded addresses by eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine Bavarian communes., But now a
member of the Chamber, a Government man,
being promoted to a higher office, it became
necessary, according to the Constitution, that
his constituents should declare whether they
chose him to continue their representative or
not. The affair turned out a regular tilting
match between Government and people. The
Government exerted itself to the uttermost to
retain their member ; the said member went
down himself to the town to present himself in
person to his constituents, making an oration
of an hour's length in defence or in excuse
of his Parliamentary shortcomings. He had
to thank the influence of the clergy alone for
his even obtaining a hearing ; but then fol-

lowed, and by an immense Majority, the con-
demnatory sentence of the outraged electors.
You can scarcely conceive with what jubilee
this result has been welcomed by the patriotic
party and their organs throughout Bavaria.
But it will be more interesting to hear a voice
from the enemy's camp in the report of the
correspondent of the Frankfort Journal. The
correspondent writes as follows :
"It was with an intense interest very
uncommon in such cases, that the results of
the votes for the re-election of the representa-
tive Hohenadel, was looked forward to here,
and in many quarters in Bavaria. Friend
and foe awaited the decision as a sign of the
state of the political thermometer. Hohenadel
had not only irritated the clerical party, but had
also made advances to the great Prussian party.
Nevertheless two circumstances gave him hope
of a successful issue : his own personal amia-
bility and the notorious repugnance felt, and
that in the very highest degree, towards his
substitute, especially by the clericals. To this
may be added the nature of these so-called re-
elections, in which the electors have not the
right of absolutely electing a new representa-
tive, but are only called upon to declare in
writing by a simple Aye or No* whether they
choose to retain the newly-promoted member
as their representative. Quite contrary, to
the ordinary custom, on this occasion, an im-
mense majority of Noes (38 Ayes and 83
Noes) was the answer given. It would be an
illusion to consider that this strengthening of
the reactionary tendency were confined alone
to the electoral district of Neumarkt (which
contains, nevertheless, 88,000 souls ; it must
rather be looked upon as a sign of the times,
brought about for the most part by the untir-
ing and restless activity of the great German
party. At the general election the clericals
were unable to prevent the electio neither of
Hohenadel or of his still more anticlerical Sub-
stitute. But to-day, when the people see under
their very eyes, as a consequence of this new-
fangled prosperity, a fearful stoppage of busi-
ness—when they are threatened with the too-
well-known new laws for the reorganization of
the army, and when further they see, in dim
perspective, an increase of .taxation—to-day,
indeed, they desire to check the rate of going
upon this downward path of Germany's new-
fangled felicity. It is thought that the lesson
just given will not be without its effect on
Hohenadel's substitute (Buchner, a notary in
Hihpollstein). He has already received a pre-
cautionary hint, that in case it should be
otherwise the good people of the town and
district will not employ him to prepare their
deeds, and come what may are determined
to make an oioanapLa of him. TM:a ipmper of
mind is ranch more strongly aroused and more
general than is by any means commonly sur-
mised, both in Bavaria and in Catholic Fran-
conia. Should a new Chamber be elected now,
one might reckon upon its presenting at least
a much more marked physiognomy than the
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The majority of the representatives is the
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away ministry.bythe
_ It allowed
party of pro-
gress, as Prince Hohenlohe himself was car-
ried away by it. They would fa
in,totheir and set narrower limits in
nowdrawprogramme
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than those hitherto set by
ministry ; they
would fain appear to sympathise with the
temper of the people • but this will avail them
little now they are n ; besides to this
hour they have not yet succeeded in establish-
ing unanimity among themselves.
Catholic circles here are again discussing
Dr. Dollinger, who, for some short time, has
done little to get himself talked
about. Our
venerable archbishop wished the theological
faculty here to elect Dr. Brentano, professor
of philosophy at Wiirzburg, a still young, but
already celebrated man of letters, to a chair
in their faculty. Dr. Brentano stands high
in the esteem of Dr. Dellinger; nevertheless the
latter frustrated the archbishop's plan. He
suggested as a reason for opposing this plan
that it was not advisable to place a philoso-
pher in the theological faculty ; experience
had taught that by this means conflicts with
Rome were almost inevitably brought about.
This anxiety of the Provost, Dr. Dollinger,
for peace with Rome impressed many of us
as something comical. This anxiety was, in
truth, carried rather far. A conflict with
Rome was brought about, because a professor
was allowed to teach un-Catholic doctrine, and
now a new conflict with Rome is to be feared
by appointing a professor just such as Rome
and all the bishops would desire. But without
doubt there lay in the background another
cause of anxiety besides the one expressed of
great weight, the fear, namely, that Dr. Bren-
tano's teaching should cast into the shade
and frustrate the labours of a certain professor
in the philosophical faculty, who may, it is
true, in his anti-Roman tendencies, go far
beyond Dr. Dollinger, but is, nevertheless,
zealously protected by him. The line taken
by Dr. Dollinger in this matter will certainly
not bring him into conflict with the Minister
of Instruction, although, as I hear, even in
that quarter the merits and the distinguished
ability of Dr. Franz Brentano have not been
questioned.
That minister's department, as we read in
the Volksbote, has just issued at Wilrzburg a
masterpiece of bureaucratic stupidity and in-
solence. It has ordered that the students of
the Gymnasium should no longer on the Sun-

* If the Noes have it, the substitute who was elected
at the same time as the principal, takes the seat as of right,

days and festivals be taken, as hitherto, to
the afternoon service, the chief reason given
for the change being that there was not always
a sermon in the afternoon service, and that the
psalmody could not be considered equivalent
to a sermon. This order was signed by Bezold,
a Protestant " Ministerial-rath." Another
Bezold (I really do not know whether he is a
nestling of the same brood, but, when almost
a youngster, he was placed in the professorial
chair, the eggshell still clinging to the down
on his back) has now gained a certain celebrity
for his physiological lectures at Wiirzburg,
that is to say, on
.account of the naivete with
which he demonstrates to his hearers the iden-
tity of soul and body. To excite the curiosity
of the students, he announces, once or twice,
with an air of importance, that in the follow-
ing lecture he will treat of the interesting
theme, the nature of the soul. At length
the great hour arrives, and he breaks out upon
the important question as follows :—" What
is the soul ? It has been said that the soul
is an immortal being, which enters the body
at birth and quits it at death. Gentlemen,
this has been said long since, has been often
repeated ; but no one can prove how or where
the soul enters the body, that it departs, or
its being. For science, therefore, this view
has no sort of value. Others say that soul and
body are one, that there is no such thing as a
soul distinct from the body. And, gentle-
men, if we look into the subject closely, it
must be confessed that this view is the correct
one. But to make the subject clearer, I will
explain to you by a similitude in what light
you have to look upon the matter. Suppose
you are contemplating a picture. To the ques-
tion : What is that ? I will answer you : That
is wood, canvas, oil, colour-stuff. And yet, at
the same time, it is a picture, a landscape, a
man, a woman, a child, &c. See, gentlemen,
what I first pointed out to you is the semblance;
what last—the reality. Thus is the soul the
semblance of the body."
From this same university of Wiirzburg,
it is reported here that the present rector, (a
Catholic in name), in a solemn oration in
honour of the Prince Bishop Julius of Wiirz-
burg, has just denied, in plain terms, the exist-
ence of a Creator. This was done in face of
the assembled corporation, professors and stu-
dents, in the face of the theologians, even in
the presence of the very men who have just
been invited to Rome to assist in the prepa-
rations for the great coming council, the pro-
fessors Dr. Hettinger and Dr. Hergenrother.
We have not heard whether or not they gave
any sign of disapproving this blasphemy (ad-
dressed by a soi-disant Catholic to Catholic
clergy and Catholic students), or whether they
got up and left the hall. Perhaps they will
make a written protest ; I do not know. Dr.
Dollinger, it may be recollected, did not even
protest, when a declared Deist was appointed
to a professorial chair here. To this is it come
in our Catholic universities ; such are the
lights continually imported to us from North
Germany. The few who still survive in the
universal wreck of Christian principles in our
universities, and seek manfully to keep the last
remnants afloat, in hopes of better times, are
thrust into the background, and kept down
by all the means in the hands of the dominant
anti-Christian party ; thus the Catholic pro-
fessor of history in the university here, Dr.
Sepp, a man still in his prime, has just been
pehsioned off by the minister. "Dies mae, dies
ilia, solvet regnum' in favilla !"

COLLAPSE OF A CALUMNY.

The following report was published in the
Birmingham papers of the 18th instant :
We stated a few days ago that a Committee,
consisting of Messrs. Kynnersley, Goodman, and
p oncia, and Dr. Melson, had been constituted to
inquire into the charges brought by Mr. Gutteridge
of gross immorality in a nunnery.
tee has completed its inquiry, and the following re-
port has been drawn up for publication :
" We, the undersigned, having been requested by
Mr. Gutteridge, and by gentlemen representing the
as Mr.
related
yautteridge has pr
Roman Catholic community in this town, to investi-
gate the truth of the statement
nelliryated,dmaern.byGhairvtiln. having teridge in a lecture delivaed by him in the Town
Hall, on the 13th November last, with reference
to alleged immorality in
as
rageapetefiharsetretdwith other details 'et
ex-
amined such evidence
" That the whole statement is untrue, and with-
out in support of his statemoenntt,hdeo2fidadJul
l- o-
at "the'
foundation in fact in any one of its details.
to a membernot
mentioned
On the following day it was repeated to Mr.y Gat
teridge, by whom it was taken down in writ' tiff
omfeniutior.net,l, him,tibmy,ridg
eis
family
The narrator was a young girl of nineteen years
of age, who was employed in Mr. Gutteridge's
household as a seamstress, and has continued to b
so employed up to the present time. Darin thise
period she has again and again repeated her g
story,
with the addition from time to time of pretended
a
occurrences which gave the statement great ap-
pearance of reality ; and so recently as three weeks
ago, in the most solemn manner, Ireasserted the truth
of all she had said.
" The young he
appeared before us,and
declared that the whole narrative was
false at once
un-
founded, and entirely her own invention. and
She firmly
a severe cross-
examination.
to this declaration under
cross-
examination.
"The narrative included details, some of which
were capable of corroboration, if true ; others bore
on their face manifest improbability. We find
that no effort of
Made by Mr. Gutr
tog to test
the truth of any of these statements • use his own
words, he never crossed the threshold' to make in-
quiry. We have still felt it our duty,
as far as pos-
sible, to test
sated the alleged f
acts as w
ble of inquir, have failed to ere capa-
obtain confirma-
tion in any one instance.
" Under these circumstances, therefore, we can
arrive at no other conclusion than that Mr. Gut-
teridge's statement was utterly untrue, and that he
had no grounds whatever for making
46 T. C. SNEYD K the charge.
lESLE Y., J.P.
J. B. MELSON,
JOHN PONCIA, j.p• M.D.P.- " J
J. D. GoonmAl,L J.P.
" Birmingham, January 17, '
1868.,,
Hereupon the Daily Post remarks in a lead-
ing article :
" Mr. Gutt eridge's nunnery story, as will be seen
from a report in another column, ii.' -
down ; the result we anticipated from the moment
as utterly broken
attention was called to it. Four magistrates, three
of them Protestalits, and two of them chosen by
inquired into the
Mr. Gutteridge himself, have
story, and their report is 'that
the whole statement
is untrue, and without foundation in any of its
details.' To this, as regards Mr. Gutteridge's own
conduct, the committee
grounds whatever for add that ,he had no
he ' made no effort'making the charge,' and that
to have. ~to test the grounds he pre-
tendedfrom such unquestionable
this emphatic declaration,
nobody will on an onable authority, we suppose
slightest credence ' future occasion attach the
may choose to any gobs moucherie Mr. Gut-
teridgethat much creditto publish. We will but add
and to Mr. penei is due to Mr. J. D. Goodman
in bringing this miserable for the trouble they have taken
story to the test of in.
quiry and consequent exposure."
We have simplextracts the few yto append to the foregoing
facts needed to make their
import fully understood by our own readers.
We have refr •
refrained hitherto from noticing Mr.
Gutteridge's attack, although we observed that
some of our Catholic contemporaries were de-
voting considerahl
in cases like this e space to it. We prefer
s to leave the calumny to
Work itself out, as it is sure to do, especially
when, as in thepresent
when
instance, the matter is
taken up bylr.
candid and truth-loving Pro-
testants.
Goodman is a gentleman who
answers to this
description. Originally a
friend of Mr. Gutteridge, he represented
strongly to that ardent partizan the unen-
viable positi
self who, afton in which a man leaves him-
er casting an unprovoked grievous
imputation
on a large body of his fellow-
citizens, refuses, on frivolous pretexts, evrey
proposal to test its authenticity. This is what
Gutteridge
did.
Having asserted at a public
lecture tat he knew as a fact within his own
knowledge, that young women were being
debauched
wholesale by the priests in a certain
convent, he refused to •
give names and veri-
fications to any persons except Dr. Newman,
of the
Oratory, Edgbaston, and when that
proposal was
not
accepted on the Catholic side,
all th
• the redress Gutteridge allowed us was to

PROFESSION

Jealousy of dramatic amateurs exists in the pro-
fession from an erroneous idea that their represen-
tations are inimical to the interests of the regular
stage. We all know that Thespian clubs are nu-
merous, and, consequently, amateur performances
are almost of nightly occurrence in London and its
vicinity, as also general throughout the country ;
but we doubt much if any of the money thus col-
lected would otherwise find its way into regular
professional exchequers. We question if there be
4,patellamilias who so scrupulously weighs out the
items of his expenditure as to say to his daughters,
" My dears, you have spent so much in gloves and
gewgaws that there must be no more balls this sea-
son ; so, therefore, refuse Mrs. Columbia's soiree
dansante, on some plea or other," or to his family
generally—" What! go and see Wigan iu Still
Waters Run Deep, after having witnessed the able
impersonation of Mildmay by our young friend
Hector Sniggins! It is really the height of extrava-
gance, and not to b 3 thought of." We say we doubt if
there be such a character, but if there be we are cer-
tain that all previous balls have but stimulated the
desire of his daughter to assist at Mrs. Columbia's
party, and the acting of Hector Sniggins has but
made them more eager to see his great proto-
type, and more certain that they will over-
come the economical considerations of papa. Ad-
mitting, however, there be such personages—say that
they even exist, on an average, one per cent, of the
general audience, and all these of the inflexible,
obstinate order, we then affirm that the patronage
of the amateurs compensates for such loss ten times
over. How often will each of these witness some
noted actor in a part he contemplates filling on the
amateur boards? Besides, each one is a sort of
critic, a kind of theatrical oracle to some circle,
large or small, and is the refore compelled to be
familiar with the merits of the various artistes, and
conversant with every new piece brought upon the
stage. Then again, in another point of view, if

amateur dramatic perform an are injurious, why
should not the same affirmation be made against
concerts—nay, against every description of public
amusement ? Undoubtedly, they all draw
more or less from John
Bull's pocket, and
therefore trespass on the supply for the re-
gular actor. These notions are, however, un-
tenable, and their deduction, in consequence,
appears so worthless to us, that we wind it up in
the bold assertion, that no class contributes so
much to the advancement of the interest of the
regular stage as dramatic amateurs.
To establish this, let us go back some centuries,
and recal to our memory the fact that previous to
the Reformation this country was known as Alerry
England—that there was no race then fonder of
public amusements than our own. Let us recal this
and remember that ever since, we have been divided
into their patrons and their opponents—into those
who regard popular diversions, especially of the
stage, as salutary and moral, and those who look
on them as prejudicial and corrupt. We know that
between these antagonists there is a medium
class, holding partly with the one and partly
with the other ; some who will extend their patron-
age to oratorios and concerts,—some who will go so
far as to take their families to the Gallery of Illus-
tration, when they would shrink with horror fro w
m
a visit to Covent-garden or Drury-lane. k no
also that for some years, a contention has existed
amongst the congregations of Scotland as to whe-
ther the organ should or should not be allowed in
places of public worship. In fa 3t, we are all aware
that the gradations from one to the other are so
slight as to render ascent or descent all but imper-
ceptible. Yet, nevertheless, there exists an infl
muse-
uen-
tial and compact mass of opponents to public a
ments in any shape, that would divide man's time
on earth between money making and religious wor-
ship—a mass that would arrest
all future progress under the plea of securing salva-
tion—a mass that would confine intelligence to
Biblical study, and that under some narrow limit of
doctrinal guidance, which creates a horrid egotism
of self-sufficiency, and yearly consigns numerous
hopeless maniacs to our madhouses. The play-
writer and the play-actor may be justly said to
wage open hostility against this mass,
but they ap-
peal alone tcrthose who need no demons tration
nst
of
its injurious tendency. They are powerless agai
its leaders attired in white linen as token of their
own purity, and co nfortableblack suits, as emblems
of mourning for all who are notof their sects. They
make no way against these C tntwells of the pul
pit aa 1 Maw worms of o it streets, but the
dramatic amateurs do. AI lay of these, whilst
repudiating this restriction to our intelligence, may
not have entirely broken with the sect of their child-
hood, and when on the boards their sisters and
cousins are drawn to witness their performances,
and a genial w Irtnth is thus diffused through an
entire circle. Ce West que le premier pas qui route.
The ice is broken, the regular stage is afterwards
visited, and many learn that social enjoyment,
when not abused, is far from being a barrier to re-

ligion. On the contrary, they find it tends more
generously to promote it, to waken them to a con-
sciousness of their defects, and teaches them to treat
the opinions of others with respect. Besides, money
is occasionallyrequired to complete some new church,
or school, or charitable institution, and when its
promoters would shrink from all aid obtained
through the regular stage, they accept, more or
less willingly, the proceeds of a benefit performance
by amateurs; and thus, again, the line of dernArca-
tion is broken.

We do not say there are not other causes at work,
for easy access to France, imparting as it does a
better knowledge of the manners of our neighbours,
is amongst these ; but the dramatic amateurs are
the real champions and host promoters of the inte-
rests of the stage, and to them is owing,in no small
degree, the increased number of our theatres, in
spite of the multiplication of music halls, and the
constant attraction of concerts.—Racing Times.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

From the Angelo-American Times.)

Sir Roderick Murchison has published a telegram
from Mr. Young, the commander of the boat- expedition
sent nut to ascertain whether Dr. Livingstone had been
killed near the head of Lako Nyassa, or had gone on into
the interior. Mr. Young has ascertained that the traveller
had gone on in safety, the Johanna men who reported
his death having deserted him ; and Sir Roderick add',
that there is no longer the shadow of a doubt that the
white man seen on the west side of the Lake Tanganyika
was Livingstone.

Some New York papers state that the American
Minister in London, Mr. Adams, writes the political
articles on America. This is doubtful, but he probably fur-
nishes facts for that popular journal on which the articles
are founded.

The following anecdote has recently made it ap-
pearance :—" Longfellow visited London when he was
young and comparatively obscure. He bore a letter of in-
troduction to Bulwer from Lewis Gaylord Clark. Calling
at Bulwer's residence, he met the novelist upon the steps,
just going out, and there presented his letter. Bulwer
barely glanced at the signature—said testily :—' Mr. Clark
has no such acquaintance with me as authorizes him to
introduce any one,' and then coolly walked away."

General Carl Schurz and family have gone to
Berlin to visit Mr. Bancroft, American Minister.

Consul Page of Zurich has just returned from a
visit to the United States, where he went on business con-
nected with a matrimonial engagement, which he fulfilled,
bringing home a wife with him.
Commodore James S. Thornton has been de-
tached from duty at Portsmouth (New Hampshire), and
ordered to the command of the Kearsage. Commodore
Thornton was executive officer of the Kearsage in her
fight with the Alabama, and acquitted himself with great
credit.

Colonel J. N. Patterson of Manchester (New
Hampshire) has been appointed Brigadier General of State
Militia, in place of General S. G. Griffin of Keene, re-
signed.

The Republican committee of Maine was or-
ganized at Augusta, Monday, Dec. 30, by the choice of J.
G. Blaine as chairman, and John E. Butler of the Bidde-
ford Journal, secretary. The Legislative caucus to elect
delegates to the Chicago Convention was to be held Jan.
22, and the committee intend to meet again in Portland,
April 30.

The Poet Laureate has asked the newspapers to
insert the following notice :—" Mr. Alfred Tennyson re-
grets that it is no longer possible for him to answer the
innumerable letters, or to acknowledge the MS. verses,
which he is in the habit of receiving from strangers."

Governor Humphrey refuses to accept the resig-
nation of Judges Harris and Ellett, of the Supreme Court
of Mississippi, on account of the difficulty of finding law-
yers in the State who can take the test oath.

A Washington despatch to the New York Post
says :—" Although every attempt to remove Mr. Rollins,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has proved a failure,
the seekers for his place seem to be more anxious and
determined to secure it. A number of candidates, how-
ever, who do not possess the very best credentials, have
withdrawn from the contest, leaving the field to a very
few. Another applicant for this position, Colonel C. W.
Moulton, of Cincinnati, has appeared here within a few
days, and will probably prove to be one of the strongest
candidates. lie is brother-in-law to Senator Sherman, of
Ohio.

Mr. J. B. Rangdale, of Manchester, in the Brazi
hart trade, has failed with liabilities for £ll,OOO.

Parties in Washington who have been trying to
ascertain the authorship of the Dent-Grant letter, assert
that investigation shows its author to be the writer of an
article in the Galaxy, to which allusion is made in the let-
ter, that this writer is also an attache of the New York
World, and penned the articles in that paper commenting
on the positions of the Dent letter; and, finally, that the
writer in the Galaxy is the New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, in whoso communication to that jour-
nal the letter first appeared.

Mr. Bradley, the Boston negro lawyer, who
lately distinguished himself as an agitator in Savannah,
has been fined $lOO for riotous and disorderly conduct.
Jefferson Davis arrived in New Orleans on the
evening of the 31st December, when he was met by seve-
ral hundred people, who greeted him with cheers. The
Hon. A. H. Stephens, formerly Vice-President of the rebel
Government, is preparing a history of the secession move-
ment, and he is now in Philadelphia.
C. W. Brooks has been appointed by the Ja-
panese Government its Consul-General in San Francisco.
The letter of instructions from Japan alludes to the fact
that the United States was the first power to conclude a
treaty with that country, and as a direct communication
has been es'ablished, trade will increase, and, it is hoped,
friendship also.
Colonel Nelson, of Jamaica rebellion notoriety,
is now Assistant-Adjutant-General at Cork. The last act
of the Jamaica Legislature was to pass a unanimous re-
solution to expend two hundred guineas on a testimonial
to that officer. The form in which the testimonial is offered
is that of a handsome Epergne and candelabrum, designed
and manufactured by Messrs. E. and E. Emanuel, of Bur-
lington-gardens. The symbolical attributes of the island
aro modelled in frosted silver, two Carib figures, which aro
the supporters of the Jamaica coat of arms, being the pro-
minent adornments of the shaft. The alligator is also
introduced at several points of the design, and the grace-
fully flowering sugar-cane is also a conspicuous adjunct.
On the several pan els of the tripod which forms the base
are the arms of the colony, the crest of Brigadier-General
Nelson, and an extract from the vote of the House of
Assembly. A negro hanging from a tree, and a coloured
gentleman having his back scored by piano-wire, would
have been very suggestive illustrations, and much more
appropriate than the two Carib figures and the alligator.
Judge Poland is the prominent candidate for Vice-
President in Vermont.
Sherman Hartwell, of Washington, has made
some valuable additions to his flock of Cotswold sheep in
purchasing four ewes bred by William Hewer, of England,
at 409 guineas, or $2OO in gold each.
Isaiah Wentworth, well known in Maine, has
resigned his office as business manager of the New Glou-
cester family of Shakers, and accepted a similar position
in a Now York family.
General Butler has abandoned Thaddeus Stevens's
doctrine of confiscation. In his late speech to the negroos
on Now Year's-day he said :—" I doubt whether confisca-
tion would be desirable. It does not seem to be a good
thing to give away land. A thing that does not cost any-
thing is generally valueless. If tho United States were
to-day to commence confiscation it would undoubtedly
lead to mischief, and to the detriment of the gre .t West."

The Selma Messenger (Alabama) says that the

supporters of Chief-Justice Chase hope to draw off enough
votes from General Grant, to throw tho election into the

House, where they feel confident of success. The Spring-
field Republican terms the scheme preposterous. If General
Grant be a candidate, he will be elected by the people ; and
if it were possible to defeat such an election, Congress
would not dare to disregard the popular will, setting aside
the candidate voted for by the North to fill the Presidency
for one nominated by the negroes, which would be negro
supremacy with a vengeance. " The real Republican
platform for 1868 will bo Ulysses S. Grant, as embodying
honesty, executive ability, justice and generosity to the
South, and an earnest purpose to restore the Union. Give
us success with him, and we may well drop the worn-out
controversies of the past, and leave the battles of the
future to bo fought when they arise. For the present we
shall do well if we hold on and keep what we have already
gained."
General Bulow is appointed Danish Minister at
London.
Telegrams from Berlin state that Mr. Bancroft,
Minister of the United States, is said to have opened with
Count Bismarck negociations bearing upon the extension
to be given to the Prussian war navy. The relations be-
tween Washington and Berlin are most cordial.
On Sunday morning, the 29th December, the
Rev. Dr. Harb tugh, Professor in the Theological Semi-
nary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, died at his residence
in that town, after a somewhat protracted and painful ill-
ness. At intervals during the last three or four years the
Doctor had been serving the German Reformed congrega-
tion at Hagerstown, in the absence of a resident pastor,
where he was much esteemed by a large circle of friends
and acquaintances, who deeply regret the death of so able
a divine and genial a gentleman.
Elias Howe, father of the late Elias Howe, jun., the
sowing machine inventor, and brother of the late William
Howe, inventor of the Howe truss bridge, died at his re-
sidence iu Cambridgeport, Saturday, Dec. 28, aged 76, cf
a complication of rheumatism and disease of the kidneys.
Capt. Loring Gardner of Farmingdale, Maine,

is supposed to have fallen a victim to the St. Thomas
Tornado.

Thomas A. Greene, a Quaker, of a very old and
distinguished family, at New Bedford, U.S.A., died on the
17th Dec. last. Susan Howland, ministered, and after an
interval Rachel Howland spoke in her usual acceptable
manner, and closed by asking ministers of any other deno-
mination to speak accordingly. Mr. Rickerson and Rev.
W. J. Potter delivered funeral discourses.

The Richmond Examiner, by way of a New-
Year's greeting, thus gloomily speaks of the sad condition
of the South at the present moment :—" The accounts
which are coming up from nearly all quarters are enough
to curdle the blood of every human man. The fairest land
under the sun lies in wretchedness and ruin. A domain
which has teemed with abundance is now a region of univer-
sal pauperism. Frightful destitution everywhere prevails,
and gaunt, grim starvation already shows its horrid front,
though the winter is but b_,gun. Tho labour of the mul-
titude of the blacks consists in forages on the barns and
barnyards of the whites ; the corn and the live stock aro
disappearing under the operations of the black thieves and
robbers, who are organising in bands too num 'rotas to be
resisted by their victims, and already formidable even to
the military. A war of white and black is imminent, and
it will be investe I with a complicati,m of horrors. It
will be a war of colours, a war of castes, a war with rob-
bers, a war over bread. It will appeal to every conside-
ration which can command the convictions and fire the

passions."

The streets of London are not the safest places
to travel in, as tho Registrar-cloneral'6 report clearly
shows. Two days rarely pass without somebody being
run over and killod in the street. One hundred and
sixty-four deaths from injuries caused by horses or
vehicles have been recorded during the Fast year.
How many escape with broken limbs is not known, but
the number cannot be small. The most curious fact of all
seems to be that nearly one-half the accidents have been
traced to waggons and carts. But on reflecting on the
drinking habits of waggoners and carters this fact be-
comes less surprising.

We extract the following from the Springfield
Republican :—" There were but few New England manufac-
turers at the late National Convention at Cleveland, which
resolved against all internal taxes except on luxuries.
But, under the lead of the Berkshire county manufacturers,
they propose a mass meeting at Worcester on the 22,1 to
back the Cleveland Convention. Calls liberally signed
aro in circulation in this part of New England, and we
presume there will result a large, intelligent, and influen-
tial gathering."

A proposition is before the House Committee
on Military Affairs to reduce the regular army of the
United States, the first heavy reduction to take place when
the first Southern State is returned to representation, and
the reduction to continue as the military districts are done
away with.

R. A Filkins, of North Adams, Massachusetts,
has refused $16,000 for a steam valve and indicator which
he has patented, and will at once begin its manufacture at
that place.

The total loss of property by fire during 1867 in
the United States in conflagrations each destroying over
$20,000 was $36,935,000. February, Juno, and December
were the months in which the heaviest losses occurred,
each of thorn exceeding $4,000,000. The total losses by
lire during the year, however, were much less than during
1866, when $66,410,000 were destroyed.

Marine disasters by fire, wreck, collision, or other
accidents at sea, during 1867, happened to 536 American
vessels, all of which have been totally lost, and, excluding
their cargoes, were valued at $21,742,200. This is a large
falling off from 1866, when 571 vessels, valued at 33,791,300
duls., were lost at sea.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Amainlia and New Zealand, via 84uthamptort.....Feb. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles l3.

Ditto, via Panama Jan. 28.
Brazil, Buenas Ayres, and Ifonte Video vet). 3.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape Verde. Jy Braztl packet ......
l:ape of Good Rape. Ascension, and St. Helena .Feb •!7
China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Feb. 2
Ditto, via Marseilles
Falkland Islands
li:braltar, via Southampton.. Feb. 2
India. via Southampton
Ditto, via MarseiLes
Malta, !,.:gy Feb 2
Ditto, Marseilles... Feb. 7.
Mauritius, (.3,,pe of Good Elope, and Natal, via
Southampton Feb. 19.
Marseilles Feb. 13
Newfoundland ...... ....... ....... ....... 12
Portugal Feb. 3
. .

Ditto, by pi', \ to ship to Oporto ...
Ditto -tto to Lisbon
United States.. anada, California, Ste., by British

r acket
Ditto, by L i ited States packet
Ditto ditto (New York,
Ditto ditto /saw York)
Ditto ditci (Baltimore)
Ditto, by Canadian packet ..
West Coast of Aims. Makin, and Teneriffe Feb. 3.
Wert Indies and ?r4.itic (except Mexico and Baha-

mas,
Cub and Mexico —.Lir 2'.
Bthamas, via New Y Feb. 3.
Bermuda, via 11.i...x .

TESTIMONIAL TO THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS
OF THE "ENOLAND."—T he following is a copy of an address
presented to Captain Thompson, of the National Steam
Navigation Company's screw-steamer England, on her
arrival with troops at Annesley Bay :—" Although full ex-
pression has already been given verbally by Gen. Wilby to
our feelings on parting with you and the good ship England,
still we would wish to leave some more lasting token behind
us, to remind you and the officers of the ship of the plea-
sant voyage we have had together. We have most of us s
been many voyages with troops; but one and all agree,
that never have we before experienced such kindness, hos-
pitality and liberality, or has such care been taken of the
health and comfort of the troops, who leave after up-
wards of a fortnight on board this ship much healthier
than when they came, and without a case of sick-
ness contracted on board. Not a single thing
has occurred to disturb the perfect harmony amongst
us ; every wish has been met, unnecessary restric-
tions dispensed with, and perfect order and discipline
maintained. Disapproving of these testimonials as a very
inconvenient rule, we should be doing violence to our
feelings if we omitted in this instance to put on record orr
unqualified satisfaction with everybody and everything
belonging to the good ship England. To Captain W.
G. Aldrich, Royal Navy, the Transport Officer, your able
coadjutor, who has been associated with you throughout
in your endeavours for our comfort, our best thanks are
also duo. We wish you both God-speed, and that it may
be our good fortune, after the Abyssinian Expedition is
over, to return home in the good ship England. [Here
follow the signature of Brigadier-General Wilby, and all
the officers.]
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Births.
BARRON n the 22d inst., at 4, Charles-street, Hyde-
park, the wife of Herbert Barron, Esq., 72d Highlanders
of a son.
BIGLEY—On the 2Gth inst., at 2, The Close, Southsea, the
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HEADLAM —On the 26th inst., at 24, Norfolk-square, tlyde-
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Marriages.

MARSHALL—DUKE n the 14th ult., at TrichinoplY,
Captain Joseph G. Marshall, 11. A., to Lousia Sybelia,
youngest daughter of Major-General T. A. Duke, com-
manding Southern Division, Madras Army.
NICOLSON —GREENFIELD On the 25th inst., at Tor Church;
Torquay, A. F. Nicolson, Esq., of Ipswich, to Mary
Ann, second daughter of the late Thos. Greenfield, Esq.,
of Winchester, solicitor.