The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1868.

again the cheers burst forth. There was no mistake about MISLEADING INFLUENCES OF PARTY
the success of the test now. A change of attitude, a POLITICS.
glance—the slightest movement of the royal pair, seemed
By the great discussion and collision of prin-
to produce a fresh outburst, in which, indeed, all did not
always take part, though they were never tired of gazing. ciples which the proposed disestablishment of
" Isn't it grand, my boy? Isn't the Prince illigant ? And the Protestant Church in Ireland is provok-
was there ever such a princess out of a fairy tale ?" One ing, the people of England are being led to
bitter thing, for there are bitters now and then—good for consider the momentous consequences involved
the constitution, perhaps, overhere—surgit amarialiquid— in the connection between Church and State.
was said by one man to whom his neighbour was debating The risk they incur by such a discussion,
un the good results of the Prince's presence. " Yes, which, however, could not anyhow have been
indeed ! But wasn't it a pity it took well-nigh a rebellion long averted, is that they should be educated
to bring him over to us?" And there in the midst of all awry—that the nation should be brought to
the gaiety there ran in whispers, with looks of anger and sacrifice its religious character, as Mr. Bright
sorrowful indignation, the news that another victim had suggests, to the spirit of the times—to forego,
fallen, that another blot had been fixed by the murderous that is to say, the religious principle in politics,
'land on the scutcheon of Ireland in the face of civilised
to foreswear the most characteristic feature of
Europe. The bell rings to clear the course. Can it ever be
our constitution, to become a nation of secular-
done ? There are but a few mounted police, some score or
ists. In spite of the rapid growth of intellec-
two of constabulary on foot, to force back the mass which
tual scepticism and irreligious Liberalism in
blocks up the course and pin it within the ropes. These lawless
the country, the nation, we trust, is not yet
oeople yield at once, and, cheering and laughing good-
humouredly, give way. One peculiarity in this crowd ;it ripe for such an apostacy. It is one of the re-
is not noisy. It is not what one expects an Irish crowd to tributive consequences of injustice that repa-
be. The same of the road—much quieter than the people ration in many instances presses heavily on
on the road to Epsom or Ascot. The first race is at hand. the wrong-doer. Not only are his motives mis-
And what happened in it, as in all others, must be left to construed, but his acts are in danger of being
the chronicler of the races to tell. The Prince took the perverted. And so it is with the abolition of
iveliest interest in the sport. His Royal Highness, I the Irish Church Establishment. The desire
nis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his t for its abolition is interpreted, by those who
Serene Highness Prince Teck, and Prince Edward wish to uphold it in its injustice, as an avowal
of Saxe - Weimar came to the top of the Royal of hostility against the principle of State
Stand whenever any race was going on, and it is a Churches ; and its actual abolition will, doubt-
matter on which the Prince congratulates himself for the less, be made use of by the enemies of the re-
sake of his wife and of himself, that for once Punchestown li •
mons principle in politics as a lever to abolish
was distinguished by a series of hard races in which there
everywhere and under the most opposite cir-
were, it is said, no bones broken, no horse killed—nobody
cumstances the salutary union between Church
hurt, in fact, although there were divorces between tha
and State. The abolition of so long-standing
upper and lower parts of several centaurs. The Prince
an abuse ought to be carried out with extremest
was delighted with the view, with the scene, with the
sports. His Royal Highness has, lam told, expressed the caution, and in such manner as not in any
greatest possible gratification at his reception by the way to give countenance to the false idea—so
people, and the Princess of Wales shares the feelings of readily propagated under the misleading influ-
her illustrious consort to the fullest extent. ences of party politicians—that the disestab-
lishment of the Irish Church is a renunciation
of the principle of union between Church and
State. Mr. Bright, the extreme Liberal party,
and the Liberation Society, may endeavour to
make political capital out of an act of national
justice, and may hope, by the agitation caused
by such a conflict of opinion as is now going
on, to give an impetus to the movement
for completely secularising the State. At
any rate, Catholics can take no part in such
a movement. To uphold a Christian State is a
primary duty. The part which Catholics, with
few exceptions, are taking in the question of the
Irish disestablishment is one in strict confor-
mity to Catholic principles, as we have endea-
voured to show in our recent articles on this sub-
ject. We are glad to find that so uncompro-
mising and staunch an upholder of Catholic
principles as the Univers manifests its cordial
concurrence, in an article quoted in another
column, in the views on the Irish Establish-
ment advanced in the WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.
Nothing is more important than that, in a mat-
ter of Catholic ethics, there should be no dis-
agreement in principle among Catholic writers.
It is natural, perhaps, for Protestants to be at
sea in such a question, but it is lamentable to
see Catholics uncertain and shifty where they
ought to display clearness and fixedness of
principle. Of course, in some instances, such
shiftiness can only be ascribed to political bias
—to the necessity of opposing Mr. Gladstone
and of supporting Mr. Disraeli. No unbiassed
writer at all familiar with the state of public
opinion in Ireland in regard to the Established
Church, would deliberately and publicly state,
as the Tablet did last week, that the grievance
and the wrong which the people of Ireland
suffered under, was the undue depression and
non-recognition of the Catholic Church. The
undue depression and non-recognition of the
Catholic Church, as every one in Ireland,
bishop, priest, or layman knows, are not the
wrong and the grievance which the people take
to heart. The wrong is an alien Church founded
in violence, and forced for three centuries on
an unwilling people. The maintenance under
any form of this Church, originally established
by a guilty act, is the flagrant injustice com-
plained of, tile removal of -which IN ill Mono
satisfy the bishops, priests, and people of Ire-
land. Anything short of this act of national
justice on the part of England would be re-
garded as an insult, and rejected by Catholic
Ireland with one voice. Any attempt at traffick-
ing with a people's sense of justice is the worst
oepolicies. The Tablet, by shifting the ground
and assuming that Ireland'sgrievance was not
the existence of an alien Establishment, but
the undue depression of the Catholic Church,
was able to construct an argument in favour
of Mr. Disraeli's plan of partially endowing
and recognizing the Catholic Church so as to
preserve the Irish Establishment and keep up
Protestant ascendancy in Catholic Ireland. But,
since the Tablet's assumption is in direct con-
tradiction with the facts of the case, as vouched
for by the bishops of Ireland, 'and by a con-
currence of impartial testimony, its argument
in favour of the Disraeli compromise falls to
the ground.
Party politics are, indeed, great soporifics.
How otherwise can we account for our contem-
porary's view that the most strenuous oppo-
sition to Mr. Disraeli's measure of relief, and
the most earnest expression of opinion in favour
of a policy which aims at removing altogether
sa howt oef
a flagrant injustice, springs from a desire, not
of " reparation " but of " revenge"—that the
motive which actuates this opposition is not
a love
robs
thejustice,l
th but the satisfaction of
their
rshc
hPurrocthes:, tantNs.oltikteo itp put
thteono
seeingth
the
fine a point on our contemporary's vagaries,
we simply ascribe them to the misleading in-
fluences of party politics. When the effect of
the recent party defeat has somewhat subsided
we make no doubt but that these vagaries will
be recanted or written over with some newer
and less unwise reasons for rejecting Mr.
Gladstone's resolutions. In the meantime,
however, it is but right that our Protestant
fellow-countrymen, who are closely scrutinizing
our public conduct at the present crisis, should
be informed that a Catholic—be he bishop,
priest, or layman—in rejecting Mr. Disraeli's
plan for propping up the Establishment in
favour of Mr. Gladstone's for its abolition, does
not on that account, as implied by the Tablet,
necessarily " adopt the creed of English Dis-
senters, and become a Cromwellian, an Inde-
pendent, a Voluntaryist, and a Secularizer of
Church property;" nor, what is still worse, in
violation of the infallible authority of the
Church, " affirm a condemned proposition."
—Westminster Gazette.

TRADE DISPUTES IN THE IRON

DISTRICTS.

The following letter from Mr. Samuelson, M.P., appears
n the Times:—

" Sir,--Your columns are again being filled with reports
of trade disputes in the iron districts, as usual, but now
also among the colliers. In the present depressed state
)f trade the men will probably be compelled to give
weir, just as the masters were obliged in the greater
number of cases, after a struggle, to submit to an ad-
vance of wages when coal and iron were in greater
demand. If these disputes were confined to the im-
mediate locality in which an advance of wages is de-
manded, or a reduction enforced, the ill-blood created, the
capital destroyed, the hunger endured by women and
children and subsidiary labourers would be sad enough.
But the evil does not end here. The men seek and obtain
sympathy from their fellows throughout Great Britain, and
the masters unite for defence, if not for aggression, until
every local contest becomes a war of capital against
labour, not only in Lancashire or in Staffordshire, but
over the length and breadth of the land. Thus
the country suffers equally whenever the demand for
labour increases and when it slackens. When
strikes or lock-outs have lasted for months it is
usual for some gentleman of great benevolence, but gene-
rally possessing little knowledge of the relative strength
of the contending parties, to offer his mediation,•which
is thankfully accepted by those who feel themselves
worsted, and contemptuously declined as an improper in-
terference by the winners. Such mediation is rarely of
more use than would have resulted if some philanthropist
had interfered during the cotton famine between the
merchants of Liverpool and the spinners of Preston to
arrange that cotton ought not to be sold for more
than 170., and had declared 18d. to be an extor-
tionate price, and that public sympathy would be with
the manufacturers unless the importers abated their
demands of the extra farthing. And yet fluctuations in
the price of merchandise occur from day to day. They are
settled by ' the Niggling of the market '—in other words,
by compromise and conciliation ; and what is done in the
market for commodities can be done in the market for
labour. I say it can be done, because I know that it is
being done. For the last nine years the hosiers of Notting-
ham have settled wages by the mutual consent of masters
and workmen. I believe the carpet-makers—all ex-
cept those of Kidderminster, who still prefer strikes and
lock-outs—have done so for nearly twenty years. The lace-
niakers of Nottingham refused to follow the example of
the hosiers till last autumn. When I visited Nottingham
in the summer, lace frames were standing idle in nearly
every factory, mainly because every change of fabric pro-
duced a dispute as to wages. At length a Board of Conci-
liation—a labour exchange, for it is nothing else— was esta-
blished. The result is, that, as your trade correspondent
tells yon, `the lace trade is brisk,' and, as lam informed
by one of the principal manufacturers of Nottingham,
not a machine is idle, and all is at peace for the first
time within the memory of man.' The masters and ♦work-
men of other trades will deserve their inevitable fate if
they refuse to lay aside their feuds and follow the example
of Nottingham."

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times)
Among the questions that have caused much
argument, arising out of the Impeachment Trial,
are the status of the Chief Justice and the position
of the Hon. Ben. Wade. Both are more intimately
associated than is apparent at first glance. As Pre-
sident of the Senate, that is as successor to a va-
cancy in the Presidential Chair, Mr. Wade is not
permitted by the Constitution to preside at the
trial. It would be manifestly unjust that the pre-
siding Judge of the Court should be the successor
to the impeached officer, and as this would have
been the case had the Vice-President been permit-

ted to preside, the Chief Justice was selected under
the Constitution to take the Chair when the
Senate becomes the Court of Trial. So also
in the Constitutions of New York and other
States the Lieutenant-Governor is not permitted to
sit or vote as a member of the Impeachment Court,
which tries the Governor. But though the Con-.
stitution provided for the President vacating the
Chair and the officer who was to fill it, it neither
stated whether the President of the Senate was to
vote nor whether the Chief Justice was to vote.
The Chief Justice is not a member of the Senate,
yet, as presiding officer of the High Court, he
claims to vote, and that claim has been allowed.
The question whether Mr. Wade should vote has
also been discussed and decided in the affirmative,
although clearly against all legal procedure. There
.is no precedent to help in the. case, and con-
sequently the United States goes back as
usual to English history. The Senate, al-
though in some degree resembling, yet is not
by any means a House of Lords. Mr. Chase has
carried bis point, and rules ou matters of evidence,

of form, or of law, subject, of course, to tb.t3 deci-
sion of the Senate ; but Senators have not rAow the
right to scream— et We object !" a cry b,y which,
before this rule was adopted, the proceedings were
so frequently interrupted.
Governor Burnside and his associates have been
re-elected by Rhode Island by an increased majo-
rity over last year, the returns for Burnside giving
9,769 votes against 5,458 for the Democratic can-
didate. Last year the votes stood 7,372 to 3,178.
Senator Sprague is certain to be re-elected as the
Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. The
subordinate State officers for the ensuing year are :
—Lieutenant-Governor, Pardon W. Stevens ; Sec-
retary of State, John R. Bartlett ; Attorney-Gene-
ral, Willard Sayles ; Treasurer, Samuel A. Parker
—all being re-elections except Treasurer Parker,
who succeeds George R. Tew, of Newport, the de-

faulter.
The only telegrams not alluded to elsewhere are
the following:—New York, April 15.—The steamers
leaving to-day for Europe take out $250,000 in
specie. New York, April 11.—According to
Messrs. Neill Brothers' report the week's receipts of
cotton at all United States' ports have been 48,000
bales, and since the Ist of September 1,990,000
bales.
andee
week's
exports to Great Britain are
49,000 since the Ist of September
1,010,000. The week's exports to France are 2,000
bales ; and since the Ist of September 188,000. The
week's exports to other foreign ports are 3,000
bales, and since the Ist of September 212,000.
Taken from the ports for American consumption
14,000 bales, and since the Ist of September
881,000 bales. Stock at all the ports 280,000 bales.
A large speculative demand set in to-day, forcing

the whites predominate, having a hundred thousand
out of the 174,631 votes, as lately reported by
General Meade. Of this total, 71,817 voted, being
15,500 less than the requisite half of the registry.
Of these but 6,702 were whites, the colour of 2,921

were not given, and 105 freedmen voted on the
Conservative side. The General considers the

proscription of the whites to be the cause of the

failure. He says :--

"I am of opinion that a revised Constitution, more
liberal in its terms and confined to the requirements of the
Reconstruction Law, would in Alabama, as I have reason
to expect it will i❑ Georgia and Florida, meet with the ap-
proval of a majority of the registered voters ; and I beg

leave to call your attention to the difficulty of carrying on
a Government in a State where so small a proportion of
those qualified to take part in the Government are in fa-
vour of the organic law, and to secure a larger proportion

of what must be the governing class a more acceptable
Constitution."

It is asserted that the object of the Republicans is
to keep out ail State till after the Presidential
election, and pending the Reconstruction of the
State the new Act provides that the Military Go-
vernment remains supreme.
The Virginia Convention has prescribed for office-
holders the iron-clad oath, and adopted the Article
whereby judges are to be chosen by the Legislature,
the Attorney-General by the people, and the other
State attorneys by the Governor. It has also adopted
the report of the Committee on representation,
which adds 47 members to the Legislature, and ap-

pointed a Committee to negotiate a loan of $90,000
for its expenses. A resolution was postponed in
Judge Underwood's absence to inquire into his con-
duct as President, as he is alleged to have said that
if the Convention favoured Chase for United States'

President, Senator Sprague would give $lOO,OOO for
the use of the party. Richmond sent a delegation

prices up tic.
Men in New York are asking, did Horace Greeley
see the article published in the largest type at the
head of the editorial columns of the T 7 ibune when
in manuscript ? stating that—
" General Grant finds it not inconsistent with his duty
as a soldier, to announce it as his opinion, that the only
hope for the peace of the country is the success of the
pending impeachment trial. lie feels that national secu-
rity demands the removal of the President. . . . When
the General of our armies entertains this conviction there
is no room for doubt as to the duty of the Senate. The
loyal nation demands the President's removal."
These were the words of the leading organ of the
Republican party on the 3d of April, and coming
from such a quarter they have not unnaturally
excited great attention. The idea of a sol-
dier commanding the army of the Repub-
lic expressing his opinion that it would be be-
neficial from a political point of view to remove
the Chief Magistrate of the nation then under trial
is too gross almost for belief. Privately he might
express such an opinion, although that would be bad
in taste and bad as an example, but that it should be
thus published to the world makes it an outrage on
Republican institutions, and on justice. If the
Tribune considers its party purposes can be, for-
warded by such means, let it have the decency to
cloak, not to blazon abroad, the infamy. It is
well for the country that General Grant is a man
of moderation and sense, or he might lose his head.
If Andrew Johnson is about to head a rebellion
surely the Managers of Impeachment can show it
without the aid of General Grant's opinions. The
Tribune will find that such spurring will not
quicken the pace.
Judge Black has published the promised letter of
explanation why in his straits he deserted the Pre-
sident. It appears the guano island difficulty
was not with the Dominican Government, but
with Secretary Seward. llad it not been for
" Earthquake Billy," it is considered probable
that Mr. Black's little game would have been
successful, and he and his client enthroned
on the guano island under the guns of an American
man-of-war. But, unfortunately for the counsel,
who desired to kill two birds with one stone and
lost both, Mr. Seward also had a client who wanted
the guano island, and though the Dominican Go-
vernment might safely be defied, " Earthquake
iinnßilly"thehig hsmadivguohat
savoury
yen
oopnt ;aheseeo
for
rlraecwk whichuw pa shhirises fhubesraeiredtf
ph
aa
si his
leading
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ds'aiennagdt
counsel. The President in his usual style retaliated,
by accusing him through the papers of attempting to
extort black mail, and the lawyer, stung by the
reproach and sensible of the awkward appearance
of the case, replied by this letter addressed to Gene-
ral Garfield, dated the 2d inst. It is against Secre-
tary Seward that the bolts of the writer are directed,
and that statesman is accused of criminality and
fraud. While pretending to favour the claims of
Black's client, Mr. Seward was all the time work-
ing for a transfer of the island to Spain and its
purchase by a New York Company of his own
friends. He declares Mr. Seward's proteges to be
thieves, and the Secretary himself to be mentally
and morally unfit for his place. The President
averred that a memorandum of facts made by Mr.
Seward was wholly untrue ; and finding himself,
continues Black, " unable to impose upon us a
fabricated decision, it became necessary that be
should give a new phase to his correspondence,"
and this he did by putting a military gloss upon the
vulgar and commonplace thieving of his proteges.
Judge Black's extraordinary letter concludes in the
following words :
" I have selected his strongest points, and stated them
as fairly as I could in a space so brief. Perhaps diplo-
macy is a business in which a man is not required to be
perfectly honest. It may be that some allowance ought
to be made for the tricks of the trade. But surely it is
discreditable to the United States that they should have a
Secretary whose principles are so loose that he volunteers
the influence of his office to defeat justice, and employs
kis time in making false defences for foreigners who have
wronged and dishonoured the nation.—Mosi, respectfully
yours, &c., J. S. BLACK..
"lion. J. A. Garfield, House of Representatives."
The Baltimore arrived off Cowes at 11.35 p.m.
on Tuesday, and went on to Bremen. She left
Baltimore on the Ist inst. with 38 passengers and a
large cargo. The City of Monuments is rejoicing
loudly in the establishment of this steam line, and
the citizens assert that Baltimore is the proper ter-
minus to the Western route, being nearer Buffalo
than New York by 36 miles, and in a more direct line
with San Francisco. A very large emigration is
expected this spring from Germany, and we believe
that the establishment of the new line will be at-
tended with all the benefits anticipated to Mary-
land. We may here mention that European travel
and freight are rapidly increasing between America
and China, and the Pacific Mail Steamship line
running from San Francisco to Hong Kong, has
proved a great success. It was anticipated that
at first there would be a loss on the voyages,
trade in some measure had as the
to be created, and the
distance between Japan and California The ,700
c
miles, to be steamed without stopping. The Colo-
rado, which made the first trip, leared £lO,OOO,
and the total profits on the five round voyages
made during last year was 25,000. At first th
trips were made quarterly,
e—
monthly. We are
and now they will be perform
not aware of the reason, but the stock of the Pacific
then every six weeks,
street, the last quotation being
Steamship Company has lately fallen in Wall-
-
The New Jersey House o 96
able reduction. a consider
the consent of that State f Representatives passed
's veto, withdrawing
Resolutions over the Governor
to the 14th Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States. These
were presented to the Federal House on the 30th
March, but that body, without permitting the reso-
lutions to be read, ordered them to be returned as
disrespectful and scandalous. The California As-
sembly has also rejected the 14th Amendment by a
vote of 46 to 24.
The bill to restore Alabama to the Union was
adopted by the Houseous© on the 28th March by 102
votes to 29 after much disputing and •many failures.
The bill reported by the Reconstruction Committee
was defeated, and the measure is a compromise.
The Constitution lately subtnitted to the people is
made the fundamental and organic law for the pro-
visional government, and the officers then chosen
are to assume office oa the let May. The new Go-
vernor is to convene the Legislature and to provide
for again submitting the Constitution to the people
of the State with amendments for ratification sepa-
rately. If adopted by a majority vote, the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States is to be sanctioned by the Legislature, when
the State Constitution may besent to Congress for
approval, and, if accepted, the Representatives from
Alabama will be admitted to seats. In Alabama

to Washington to work for the removal of General
Schofield, charging him with favouring the rebels,
but they will work in vain, for the General's charac-
ter stands too high to be thu3 affected, although the
movement has been strongly pushed lately.

As yet the State Constitution of Arkansas has
been defeated by a large majority, though the polls
are kept open in the hope of a change. The Con-
servatives believe they also can defeat the Consti-
tutions proposed for Louisiana, South Carolina,
and other States, and are actively at work for this
end. General Hancock has addressed a letter to
Governor E. M. Pease, of Texas, who declared war
and not peace existed in the " Lone Star" State,
making other assertions which appeared equally ob-
jectionable to the General. These be takes up to
controvert, alleging that the ill-feeling proceeds
from Radical intolerance, that at the worst the
crime of the Texans is " unwilling obedience." He
accuses Mr. Pease of temper excited by imaginary
causes, of overweaning confidence in himself, and
intolerance of others ; of a desire to punish those
who differ from him ; of magnifying the shortcom-
ings of officials as competent as himself, and of nn_
unsoundly concluding That peiSens wanting in affec-
tion and respect for'. Government, or in obedience,
from motives not approved by Mr. Pease, are pro-
per subjects for military penal jurisdiction. In
Georgia the Republican candidates are likely to be
elected, and if so, the Governor will be a Northern
man Mr. Bullock, the agent of Adams' Express
Company, and president of a lately formed railway
company. Mr. Irwin is announced as an indepen-
dent candidate, and he will gain the Conservative
vote, as Judge Reese has withdrawn. The railway
interest of the State will vote for Bullock.
The Supreme Court has at last set the fears of
Congress at rest by postponing the further consi-
deration of the M'Ardle case until the ensuing term,
which begins in November next. The only Justices
who opposed delay, voting for an immediate deci-
sion, were Judge Field and Judge Greer. An im-
portant decision was delivered on the 24th March,
whereby deposits in savings' banks were declare I
taxable, even when invested in United States secu-
rities, as taxes accrue on deposits whether invested
or not. On the 23d March the Court gave the
State of Georgia leave to serve on General Grant,
Secretary Stanton, and others, notice of motion for
a special injunction on their execution of the Re-
construction Acts, returnable on or before the fol-
lowing Friday.
Seven brigades of troops are ready in Canada, be-
sides volunteers and field batteries, to resist an
expected Fenian invasion. According to the New
York Herald, two days' rations have been served
out to the troops iu Montreal. In the
.United
States it is thought either that the Government of
the Dominion h ts been hoaxed, or that it is raising
the cry for a political object. A bill will soon be
passed enabling Americans to take out patents in
the Dominion on the same terms as Canadians do
in the United States. The new postal arrangement
has conic into operation ; the half-ounce letters
being carried throughout the Dominion for three
cents, and to the United States for six cents pre-.
paid, or at the old rate of ten cents unpaid. From
the Dominion to England, via New York, fifteen
cents :per half-ounce is the charge. From Cana-
dian ports 121 cents, and on manuscript to pub-
lishers one cent an ounce. The present system
also provides for deposits for savings' banks or
money-order offices, from $1 to $l,OOO, on which
four per cent interest is payable. Apropos of postal
treaties one came into operation between Italy and the
United States on the Ist of this month. The cost
of letters, weighing 15 grammes, to all parts of
America, is now reduced to 80 centesimi. Letters
not prepaid will be charged on delivery lfr. 40c.,
and those insufficiently prepaid lfr. 20c. Letters
containing patterns of merchandise have been
fixed at 60 centesimi for every 100 grammes.
Newspapers, books, &c., will have to pay 12 cen-
tesimi for 42 grammes. The American cent, it is
moreover stated, will be considered as equal to an
Italian soldi.
Since the Hon. Ben. Butler's great speech on
opening the case against the President, numerous
descriptions of his person, his manner, his voice,
have appeared. The Standard's correspondent says:
--" Butler is a man of decidedly unattractive per-
sonal appearance. Ile is of the middle stature, and
4 awkwardly thrown together;' a face that speaks
of physical excesses ; abdominal protruberance that
does not dissipate this impression ; a man of the
sanguine bilious type. As he talks, or reads, he
fidgets with one foot or the other, twiddles his
thumbs, or suddenly and unexpectedly carves the
air with his ungraceful hands, his strange eyes per-
petually misleading the observer. His voice is
harsh and inflexible, and when he attempts
pathos the listener feels very ill at -ease. Mr.
Butler is in his best when wielding the weapon
of sarcasm, a sardonic grin sits upon his face, and
his words are helped by certain not unsuggestive
gestures." The correspondent of the New York
Herald thus alludes to his voice :—lt is " the
strangest ever mortal speaker saluted the public ear
with. It resembles in its intonations the combined
and varied noises of a cracked barrel organ, and a
chorus of bull terriers in a street fight—now sharp
and snappish, and again wheezy and rasping." The
Tribune man says that " when he began that por-
tion bearing on the New Orleans riots, he ground
it out between his teeth like the screeching of a
hundred saws, commingled with rumbling of an
artillery carriage across a rugged pavement." His
Speech has caused some surprise from the way in
which he soared above the small, contracted, and
pettifogging law points anticipated. All expected
that in his peculiar style his pleading would be ex-
cellent, but that style was held to be better adapted
for the defence of a criminal trying to escape the
gallows than impeaching a President, and discuss-
ing and arguing great constitutional points that re-
quire a broad political survey. lie showed a com-
plete mastery over all the details, subordinating
every portion to the ruling charge that Andrew
Johnson had conspired against the peace of the
country and the legal authority of Congress.
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is said to be fruitful in resource, quick to detect hi 3
opponent's drift, skilful in exposing sophistry, kee:i
in retort, courageous in meeting exigencies, com-
manding sharp, incisive language in collecting and
grouping the points of a case, and vigorously driv-
ing them home.
The quarrel of the Rev. Stephen Tyng, jun., is
likely to lead to a split in the Episcopal Church.
The friends of his cause have resolved ou an appeal
to the General Assembly of the Church. Fifty of
the most popular ministers passed a resolution of
sympathy, and decided on calling a public meeting,