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ME SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1868.

THE CO.,IIING ELECTIONS.

Whether it be true, as the Times suggests,
or not, that Mr. Disraeli makes a raid on the
Constitution because it suits his political con-
venience, or that Mr. Gladstone " immolates
the Church Establishment because in no other
way can he get the wind of a daring and un-
scrupulous antagonist," our course is clear in
the coming elections. We have nothing to do
at present with the motives which impel Mr.
Gladstone to attack, or Mr. Disraeli to defend
the Irish Establishment. The motives which
actuate these rival politicians may go far to
entitle or to disentitle them to our confidence
as future leaders of the country ; but in the
present elections all Catholics have to look
to is, that no candidate receive any vote or
support from them who is not pledged to
the disestablishment of the Irish Church. The
issue is of the plainest and directest character.
The minds of the Catholics of the United
Kingdom, with the exception of a few mere
political partizans, whose opinion is not worth
a button, are made up that Protestant ascend-
ancy, symbolized and kept alive in the United
Kingdom by the Irish Establishment, must be
abolished root and branch. On this single
issue the elections depend. It is a great ques-
tion, like Catholic Emancipation and the re-
establishment of the Hierarchy in England, in
which every other question is involved, or by
which for the moment, as being of lesser im-
port, is superseded. Consequently, Catholics
will have nothing to do with the comparative
merits of Whig or Tory candidates ; for the
Tories are, unfortunately, committed to the
support of Mr. Disraeli and Protestant ascend-
ancy. No choice is left to us, therefore, but
to elect. those who are pledged to carry Mr.
Gladstone's resolutions in the new Parliament.
Still less can there now be any question of the
policy of " levelling up," as Lord Mayo called
it, for such a policy is under actual circum-
stances not only a compromise of the absolute
liberation, which before all things Ireland
stands in need of, from Protestant ascendancy,
but it is also a delusion. For the instalment
of the " levelling up " system, proposed by the
Government in regard to the Catholic Univer-
sity in Dublin, was of a character so objection-
able in the eyes of the bishops as to necessitate
an absolute rejection.
The struggle for the complete emancipation
of Ireland, and of Catholicism in the United
Kingdom, from the Protestant ascendancy of
bygone days, however prolonged, and how-
ever severe, cannot fail in the end to be suc-
cessful. Judging from the temper of the pre-
sent House of Commons and from the cha-
racter of the new constituencies, which, at all
events, will be freer from the Protestant
bigotry that still characterizes the less edu-
cated of the middle classes, we should say
that the Establishment both in England and
in Ireland, will have strenuous opponents in
the Parliament of household suffrage. But,
be that as it may, the duties of Catholics in
the coming elections, it cannot be too often
reiterated, are of a simple and practical
character. One question has to be put and
answered, and on that answer depends their
vote. The election of every supporter of Mr.
Gladstone and disestablishment is a Catholic
success ; the return of a supporter of Mr.
Disraeli and of the Irish Establishment is a
Catholic loss. Don't let us have any mysti-
fications to blur the simple issue, or any voices
speaking with uncertain sounds. Plain and
direct speaking is the life and soul of elec-
tions. It will be our duty to chronicle the
progress of these surpassingly important and
interesting elections ; to record as each con-
stituency pronounces its verdict a triumph or
a defeat ; to hail the victorious supporter of
Mr. Gladstone as a friend ; to regard the
triumphant Tory as an enemy.
We cannot use clearer words to express our
views on the coming elections and on the posi-
tion which Catholics ought to take up in this
great crisis. But, after speaking out clearly
on the great issues now at stake, we wish also
distinctly to state that behind this great ques-
tion of Protestant ascendancy and spiritual in-
justice inflicted upon Ireland and upon Catho-
licism there is another question of the gravest
importance, which will next claim a settlement
at the hands of the new Parliament, and in
the right settlement of which are involved the
highest spiritual interests of the nation. This
question is National Education. It is obvious
that our Liberal allies in the overthrow of
the Irish Establishment will be our most deter-
mined opponents in the question of education.
They are the advocates of the secular system,
we of the religious ; they are hand and glove
with the impious Liberalism which all over the
world seeks the overthrow of Christian edu-
cation, we hold, with the Catholic Church and
religious Protestants in England, that the
supporter of secular education is an enemy of
God and of the human race. With such antago-
nistic principles, it is clear, in spite of a tem-
porary alliance, there can be no lasting amity.
between Catholics and Liberalism.—Westmin-
ster Gazette.

they were in pledge to Sir John Rylcy, foi• the
reparation of the structure.
After the papers had been read, the meeting
proceeded on an excursion to the churches
of East Horndon and Little Warley, and Little
Warley Hall. East Horndon church, a very
small structure, is the burial place of the
ancient family of the Tyrells of Heron Hall,
who resided there from the time of Edward
111. until the early part of the last century.
The church is remarkable for the possession of
three small chantry chapels, founded by the
Tyrells. Two of them, thrown out laterally on
the north and south sides of the nave, in the
manner of small transepts, are notable for
having a very small chamber over each for
the lodging of the chantry priest ; the ascent
to which was obtained in each instance from
a staircase from the chapel beneath. The
chambers are exceedingly small, and that in
the north still retains the remains of a fire-
place. Other examples of priests' lodgings in
churches may be seen at Luindon in the same
county, where the chantry priest had a room
at the west end of the church, and a chamber
over it ; and at Rettendon there is a commo- ,
dious priest's chamber in the north side of
the chancel, with a window or squint pierced
obliquely through the wall, so as to command a
view of the High Altar. Here the priest
gained access to the chapel at the end of the
aisle by a newel stair in the wall. A third
chantry, with groined ceiling, opens into the
chancel on the north side. Until very recently
it contained the altar tomb of Anne Lady
Tyrell, daughter of Sir William Manley. She
died in the reign of Edward IV., though the
chapel is of later erection. Her arms, impaled
with those of her husband, are sculptured over
the entrance ; and her effigy in brass, removed
when the altar tomb was destroyed, has been
affixed to the wall of the chapel. The descrip-
tion of this church by the Rev. E. L. Cutts
was read by the secretary, who further illus-
trated the history of the chantries by extracts
from the wills of members of the Tyrell
providing for the celebration of Mortuary
Masses and Obits, and one of them for the
erection of a chantry. The monuments of the
Tyrells were described by Mr. King, one of
which, an elaborate incised slab of foreign exe-
cution, with effigy of Alice, Lady Tyrell, who
died in 1422, he believed to be the finest ex-
ample of its kind in England. There is also
a slab of later date (now concealed) covering
the remains of the renowned cavalier, Sir
John Tyrell, with an inscription thus briefly
and quaintly recording his sufferings in the
cause of Charles I.—

Super eum :
Semel decimatus,
Bis incarcerates,
Ter sequestrates,
Tacet quoties spoliatus,
Hic jacet inhumatus,
Johannes Tyrell
Eques Auratus.
The meeting next visited Little Warley
church, containing a costly marble monument
with effigies, considered to be of Italian exe-
cution, commemorating another gallant cava-
lier, Sir Denner Strutt, I3art, who suffered and
fought bravely for Charles 1., and. was engaged
in the desperate defence of the town of Col-
chester against Fairfax. The hall, the remains
of a large domestic edifice of the early' part
of the sixteenth century, anciently the seat
of the Tyrells of Warley, and afterwards of Sir
D. Strutt, was next inspected. Twenty-six
rooms of this fine mansion have been demo-
lished in comparatively recent times. One
stack of chimneys remaining is exceedingly
fine, and attracted great attention. On the
return to Brentwood, a large party diverged
from the route, and under the courteous con-
duct of Canon Last, visited the superb mortu-
ary chapel erected by Lord Petre in the park
of Thorndon Hall. The elegance of the archi-
tecture, and the extreme richness of the deco-
ration of the interior, appeared to excite gene-
ral commendation, and those arclmologists
who were thus diverted from their homeward
course evidently did not regret the oppor-
tunity that had been afforded them of witness-
ing one of the glorious results of the modern
Gothic revival, and turning aside for a brief
space from the contemplation of the remains
of hoar antiquity, mediaeval art, and ancient
piety, to view an edifice founded in the same
spirit and with the same intent as those
chapels which had been erected at Horndon
Church, and adorned with more than mediwval
splendour.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American 2 imes.)

Before the Senate adjourned on the 27th July
the mission to Vienna was filled up, Mr. Henry
W. Watts, of Philadelphia, being appointed Mr.
Motley's successor. Mr. Evarts has
.been con-
firmed as Attorney-General, notwithstanding the
bitter opposition of certain Radical interests by 29
votes to 5, and had assumed the duties of his office.
John S. Watts has been confirmed as Chief Justice
H
of the Supreme Court, New Mexico; Governorubbard, Collector for Huntington, Connec-
ticut ; and General Selden Connor, Assessor of
Internal Revenue, Third Maine district. The
President has sent to the Senate the names of
Anthony F. Campbell, as Postmaster, at Brooklyn,
Ntw California; York
; Sherman
a
Day, as Surveyor-General,
a
J. Bowers to be Chief
New
Justice of the Supreme Court, of Idaho ; also
a dThomas
William M. Stafford and Hiram Knowles to be
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Mon-
tana Territory, and Henry Warren, Chief Justice.
Senators Poole and Abbott, from North Carolina,
have been admitted to seats in the Senate the one
is a native of Vermont, and a Republican, and the
other, who is a Democrat, is a native of the State.
Messrs. Kellogg and Harris, Senators from Louisi-
ana, have also been admitted—the former for the
long term, the latter for the short. Kellogg is a
native of Illinois, and the Collector for the port of
New Orleans ; and Harris, though a planter of
Louisiana, is a native of Wisconsin. The negro
Lieut.-Governor of Louisiana made a very sensible
speech on taking the Chair. He said—" As to
myself and my people, we are not seeking social
equalities. That is a thing no law can govern.
We all have our preferences ; we all wish to select
our associates, and no legislation can select them
for us. We ask nothing of the kind. We simply
ask to be allowed an equal chance in the race of
life, an equal opportunity of supporting our families,
of educating our children, and of becoming worthy
citizens of this Government."

The Republicans of Missiasippi,led by their " carpet-
baggers," as the term now is, are striving to get
Congress to change the result of the election. Fif-
teen, many of whom were Northern and Western men,
headed by Mr. Eggleston, the defeated candidate
for Governor, appeared on the 15th of July before
the Reconstruction Committee, to exclude, if pos-
sible, the votes of six counties, in the hope that the
Radical State officers and Congressmen would then
be elected, and the new Constitution carried. They
allege that the rebels succeeded in these counties by
terrifying the negroes, and that the voting was,
therefore, unfair, and they ask that the State b.
declared reconstructed, and entitled to readmission
to Congress. _ _ .

Secretary Seward has been successful in carrying
his Alaska Treaty through Congress. After the Act
making the appropriation has been signed by the
President, it will be delivered, with the necessary
warrant, to the representatives of Russia, when the
money will be paid down in hard cash. Congress
will then organize a territorial Government, officers
will be appointed, and the Commissioner of the
General Land Office will establish local land offices
and survey the most desirable tracts. A strong
tide of emigration will, it is thought, set in, as Mr.
Seward has managed to circulate accounts of im-
mense gold discoveries, the prospectors picking up
the precious metet.l in lamps! One thing is certain
that the representatives of Russia have managed to
pick out of Uncle Sam's pocket a very heavy
" lump," and we dare say Mr. Seward will agree
with us in preferring to have his hand there than in
an Alaska gold mine.

Congress has passed a bill providing that no
Southern State not reconstructed in accordance

with the terms of Congress shall be entitled to take
part in the Presidential election, and the State Go-
vernments are to manage the elections in the recon-
structed States. In compliance with the resolution
of the Senate, the President has sent a communica-
tion from Secretary Seward showing that official
notice had been received of the ratification of the
14th Article of Amendment by the Legislatures of
the following States, and as the language is pecu-
liar, we give it in the Secretary's words :
" Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon,
Vermont, West Virginia, Kansas, Missouri, In-
diana, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Wis-
consin, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Michigan, Ne-
vada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska,
Maine, and lowa. Besides these acts of ratifica-
tion, notices and certificates have also been re-
ceived by the Secretary of State that the same pro-
posed ainendalent has been ratified by the Legisla-
tures of the States respectivelyof Arkansas, Florida,
and North Carolina, which notices and certificates
last mentioned were received from the newly con-
structed and established authorities assuming to be
and acting as the Legislatures and Governors of
the said States of Arkansas, Florida, and North
Carolina. These acts of ratification are for this
reason stated in this report separately and distinctly,
and, for the more accurate information of Congress,
a copy of all the acts and resolutions of ratification
of all said Legislatures is herewith subjoined, toge-
ther with a copy also of certain resolutions of the
Legislatures of Ohio and New Jersey, which pur-
port to rescind the resolutions of ratification of
said amendment, which had previously been
adopted by the Legislatures of those two States re-
spectively, and to withdraw their consent to the
same."

An extradition case has lately been tried at
Buffalo under the following circumstances. A man
named Baker was accused by the authorities of the
Dominion of passing counterfeit money, and on
their requisition was arrested at Buffalo. The pri-
soner's counsel sued out a writ of Habeas Corpus, an I
the question was argued before Judge Hall. The prin-
cipal witness against Baker was a person who had
been convicted of a felony, and the chief point
turned on the reception of such evidence. Regard-
ing this the judge stated that the statutes of New
York allow of the Governor or Legislature of the
State pardoning a convict, and thus restoring his
competency, which they could not do in the case of
a foreign conviction. He ruled that a foreign con-
viction under the States' statutes does not render a
witness inc3mpetent, as the law on this subject re-
ferred only to convictions under the laws of the
State, and the same result would be reached if the
case were governed by the rules of evidenle pre-
vious to these statutes, as a foreign conviction in
the year 1789 would not render such a person in-
competent to give evidence. The judge decided
that Baker be handed over to the Canadian autho-
rities.

A vigorous effort has been made to organize a
third party, and to get up an independent nomina-
tion for Chase, coupling him either with Charles
Francis Adams or General Hancock ; and it is
thought that a call will be made for a National or
r.e op 1 e's Convention to submit to them another
platform and ticket. Indeed a third party movement
has already been defeated of 0. 11. Ostrander and 48
Conservative Republicans of Danville, Pennsylvania,
who chose Senator Doolittle ; and signed a requisi-
tion to have his name placed at the head of the
ticket. They expressed their disappointment at the
names offered by the Democrats ; they consider the
selection will fail to inflict on the Radical Republi-
cans a merited defeat, which would have been in-
sured had Doolittle been nominated. The Senator,
in reply, emphatically.condemns the organization of
a third party, desiring to unite the various elements
hostile to Radicalism and in support of Seymour,
considering that a paramount duty, to which he
gives his whole heart and energy. He enumerates
the charges against the Radicals, and though he
does not say that the Democratic nominations are
the best, he thinks it best to leave well alone and
fight the battle with the means open. In conclusion,
he says—" Let us unite for victory ; let us have
peace—a peace which comes not from a violated
constitution and the despotism of the sword, but
the peace which comes from a restored Union and
the supremacy of constitutional law, by which
alone liberty is secured."
The State which appears now to be most rapidly
progressing is California. San Francisco is almost
the only place from which cone cheery reports of
business. For the last half year the value of the
merchandise exported was $9,750,000, and of coin
and bullion over $20,000,000. Thirty-two thousand
passengers arrived in the city, two-thirds of whom
remained. The accounts from the Mining States are
of so extraordinary a character that they will yet
be realized in Europe by a total derangement of the
standard of value. If the statements coming from
Alaska have any truth, the gold fields on the Tagen
river are the richest ever discovered, and they are
so far believed in as to have led to a rush. Gold
must be found in heaps to keep its relative value to
silver, considering the deluge of the latter metal
Nevada is about to pour over the world. An oppo-
sition rush South has been got up by new and
rich diggings being found on the Raton mountains,
whither crowds are flocking.
Mr. Chase is disgusted, and is reported to have
said that if he votes at all it will be for Grant and
Colfax. Some malicious practical jokes were
played on him, the door-knob being tied during
the night with strings of black and white crape.
He refuses to be a party to any further nomination,
asserting that on the ticket selected both parties
must stand. If Logan and Butler, who defy and war
against the party platform, are to remain party
leaders, surely the Chief Justice, who has only
tried to make Republicans of the Democrats, may
be admitted back, soiled though his old party
assert him to be. Andrew Johnson is believed
vigorously to support the Seymour-Blair ticket,
though Seward, Evarts, Schofield, and M'Culloch
are known to be for Grant and Colfax. Welles
and Browning go for the Democratic candidates,
and Randall would, if he did not oppose repu-
diation.

It must not be supposed that the sun of America
concentrated all its rays on Broadway, New York,
though they fell there with an effect so fatal as to
strew that great thoroughfare with corpses. The
cases of sunstroke on the 15th and 16th July
amounted to nearly 200, of which half terminated
fatally, and the entire number of deaths in the
city from Sunday to Thursday was 742, equalling
periods of epidemic. In Cincinnati there were 13
cases on the 15th ult., iu Newark, New Jersey, the
same ; Montreal gives 10 ; Toronto, 8 ; Philadel-
phia, 16 ; St. Louis, 9 ; Chicago, 12 ; Richmond,
10—all fatal ; and these are but the few reported.
The range of the thermometer was in Washington,
98 deg. to 106 deg. ; New York, 95 deg. to 104
deg. ; Philadelphia, 94 deg. to 98 deg. ; Pongle-
kelpsie, New York, 105 deg. to 114 deg. ; Albany,
New 1 ork, 100 deg. to 104 deg. ; Cape May, New
Jersey, 68 deg. to 75 deg.; Toronto, 97 deg. to 100
deg.; Montreal, 98 deg. to 105 deg. ; Cincinnati,
98 deg. to 100 deg. ; Chicago, 94 deg. to 97 deg.
In 37 cities within a week there were 1,700 fatal
cases, and 7,000 more or less affected by strokes
of the sun. Bodies were laid out in the New York
morgue of unknown persons, and in the ante-
rooms were many coffins containing the remains of
the victims. On the 16th a refreshing change
occurred, the mercury falling from 98 at noon to
76 at 10 p.m., in New York City.
Mr. Seward having got the Alaska job off his
hands has immediately set another ball a-rolling.
IThe Dominican Government, " thanking God,"
like the Irish patriot, " that they have a country to
sell," sent an agent to Washington, and he and
Seward have drawn up a treaty by which, fur a
stipulated sum (some say between one and two
million dollars), the Bay of Samana is ceded to the
United States. If Theodore's son had arrived at
years of discretion he might hasten to Washington
to do a stroke of business with Abyssinia, and Uncle
Sam ought to advertise that the world may know
what to do with cast-off territory.
Generals Butler and Logan have been working
on the bill, introduced on the 10th July, for the
reduction of the army, so as to pay off the debt
they consider due as volunteers to the regular army
officers. The correspondent of the New York Times
says...." When Butler got to a stopping place he

. .
bad reduced the entire staff of the army one-half,
and had reduced the rank of the half that remained
one grade. He loaded the bill with absurd amend-
ments until it seemed as if he was determined to
kill it off, and thus deprive a Republican Congress
of the credit arising from a practical and safe re-
duction of the army. The House was for the time
being as plastic as clay in the hands of the potter.
the Democrats voting with him uniformly. The
motives of Butler's actions were aptly characterized
when a Republican member asked a Democrat why
they voted to sustain Butler so uniformly. Be-
cause he did his best to break up our party, and
now he is doing his best to break up yours, and we
want to help him,' was the reply."
A report " On Lawlessness and Crime" gives a
strange picture of Texas, to which State Sheridan
applied the profane remark, that " if he owned both
hell and Texas, he would rent Texas and live in
the other place." The monthly average number
of murders was believed formerly to be nine, but it
has lately increased to fifty-four, not counting as-
saults with intent to kill, and other attempts. If
this continues there soon will be a visible effect on
a population of 700,000. Morally it is something
appalling, and the more so that out of 900 murders
one only had been Finished by law. A freed-
man was the guilty person, and he of course
was hanged, while it was considered sufficient to
acquit a genuine citizen that he had lost his arm in
the Rebel service. At Millican, July 15, the negroes
were attacked by the whites in an attempt to lynch
a white man ; why, it is not stated, but may be
guessed from the above report. Before the mili-
tary could restore order 50 negroes and several
whites are reported to have been killed. It is
asserted that a missing negro was supposed to
have been murdered, and that the man turned up
after the mischief his absence caused had been
done.

Two little facts, sufficiently curious to be noted
here, come from America by this mail, showing as
straws the drift of the tide. The English children's
tragedy and screaming fare 3, " Punch and Judy,'
has erected its platform in Brooklyn, to the intense
delight of the little cousins in America. It is a
marvel that no enterprising theatrical caterer has
ever before carried the Punch and Judy parapher-
nalia across the Atlantic. In London it has given
place to " Ethiopian serenaders" from America, who
are constantly met in their fantastic attire, blocking
up the streets. The other incident is the defeat of the
Cricket Club of British officers in Canada by the
Eleven selected from the best players in New York
and Philadelphia. When the champion Eleven of
England return to the United States, they may find
it a more difficult task to beat twenty-two Ameri-
can cricketers. The match closed on the 16th July,
the scores standing 164 to 184, with 20 wickets to
spare. Another American Eleven will soon leave
Philadelphia for Canada.
Anthony Trollope has returned to England, as a
reference to our " Arrival List" will show, having
narrowly escaped a public dinner at Dehnonico's,
which, considering the weather, would have made
it doubtful whether another novel would ever have
emanated from that fertile brain. He succeeded in
arranging a postaltreaty with Mr. Randall, but what
the benefits are the public will derive have not tran-
spired. Mr. Randall failed in getting the postage
reduced to 10 cents the half ounce, and Mr. 'frol-
lope failed in selecting the steam lines to which
the exclusive carriage of the mails was to be given.
Each Government retains its independent action
for the dispatch of mails ; but an arrangement has
been agreed to by which letters may be sorted on
board the ship. The mails are to be sent on fixed
days by well-appointed steamers, and the payment
for the transport is to be agreed on between the re-
spective Governments and the carriers.
What people get from " strikes" has lately been
well illustrated in Philadelphia and New York.
The men employed by the gas companies left the
Quaker City in darkness, which it finds anything
but preferable to the light. Dips went up for the
two nights, and the tallow chandlers had a good
time. The newspaper offices, the hotels, and large
buildings were dimly illuminated with " mutton
fats ;" and lamps of every description were brought
into requisition. The office alone of one journal,
which possessed a patent gas-machine, was able to
throw a brilliant light on the subject. But this, bad
though it be, was trifling compared with what the
ice-men did for New York. They knew that they
would never have such an opportunity of making
people wretched, and they all seemed to be struck
simultaneously with the same idea ; so they knocked
off work, and very little ice was to be procured in
the city. We hope in the hour of their need the
public will remember them. The coal-miners have
got up a formidable strike in Pennsylvania, and in
the Pottsville district they are acting coercively
and unlawfully, stopping all trade, closing
shops and factories, and parading with arms
and banners about the country. The object is eight
hours labour as a day's work and increased pay-
ment ; but the colliery owners are likely to have the
best of it, if the question depends on mere endur-
ance, as at present, and for a few months they can
afford to stop work.
The affair of Captain Bridge, of the Chanticleer,
has so far been settled that the Admiral ordered the
blockade to be raised, and the commander to report
in person at Panama. Juarez has directed the con-
duct of the Custom-house officers to be inquired
into, who are to be punished if found guilty.
Should the investigation show the captain was in
fault, he must submit to the insult put upon him,
and any vi'ient acts against Mexicans will be reta-;
]fated upon British subjects in Mexico. The money
taken from the officers of the Chanticleer is for the
present to be retained, and Mexican honour
upheld at all hazards. Meanwhile all Mexico
is in a blaze of revolution, which in placAs
is taking an Imperialist turn. Masses had been
said in the principal towns on the 19th of June
for Maximilian, Miramon, and Mejia, and the
churches were filled with people in mourning. An
Imperialist movement at Niueva Leon had created
some alarm. The state of the country, of course,
precludes any possibility of commercial or indus-
trial activity, and trade was, in truth, stagnant.
Mr. A. M. Coningsby is about to start from
Washington on his tour to examine into the habits
and condition of American working men. He is
the agent of the London Society of Arts, and his
report is to be communicated to the British
working classes. He has been in communication
with the Commissioners of the Land Office and of
the Bureau of Statistics, as well as Messrs. Seward,
Welles, and other members of the Cabinet.
As the steamer was leaving the River Plate a
rumour was circulated that the Brazilians had been
defeated by Lopez, but, though quickly contra-
dieted, it has proved true. A telegram received
on Thursday in London, by way of Lisbon, from
Buenos Ayres, states that the Brazilian forces, six
thousand strong, sent to make a reconnaisance of
the Tehicuari, had been surprised by the Para-
guayans near the river Tabare and fearfully beaten.
A great many prisoners, horses, and arms fell into
the hands of the Paraguayans. General Caceres,
of Corrientes, has prohibited the sale of horses and
cattle to the Brazilians. llumaita is as strong as
ever. Tehicuari is well fortified. The river is
closed with chains. We hope that the war now
draws rapidly to its close in the establishment of the
complete independence of the brave little Republic
of Paraguay, and the discomfiture of that great
awkward bully, Brazil.
Judgment was given on Wednesday in the case
of the United States Government versus M. Armand.
The judgment states that the contracts of 1863
contained uo stipulation leading to the supposition
that the order for the vessels had been given by the
Southern States ; that, consequently, it was useless
to examine if the vessels were destined for ser-
vice in the China seas, or if the vessels had been
constructed in violation of the French declaration
of neutrality of 1861. The Court considered that
the United States had not established the fact of
the sums paid to M. Armand being their
property, nor that such sums came out of
the Treasury of the Southern States. The Court,
therefore, condemns President Johnson to pay the
expenses of the suit, and declared that documents
abstracted by a dishonest servant could not serve as
the basis of an action, and ordered their sup-
pression, and also the suppression of various pas-
sages in the bill of plaint. The Court especially

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declares to be unfounded that passage in which M.
Armand is accused of having made use of his posi-
tion of Deputy to deceive the Minister of Marine.
In the cross action brought by M. Armand the
Court has granted him damages and interest.
Mr. Butler could not look for immunity in pub'
lishing his report on the Impeachment investigation. A
revenue officer, Mr. James Craig, was accused of endea-
vouring to purchase the votes of Senat rs, and retorts in
such appropriate language as this :—" Mr. Butler is a trai-
tor, first to the Democrats, next to the Republicans. Ile
defended secession till he saw his way to opposing seces
sion ; he was a pilferer of jewelry, pianos, and plate ; be i 8
a great liar and a dirty dog, and a in:serablo parody ou b-i 5
species."
Hon. William Pinckney Whyte, the new Sena-
tor from Maryland, called at the Executive Mansion on
the 15th of July and paid his respects to the President.
The lion. Rev,rdy Johnson was entertained at a
banquet at Baltimore on July 15 by about 300 of the most
prominent citizens, many differing in politics to the !Si-
nister. In response to his health he said :—" On the eve
of my departure upon a mission to England, entrusted to
me by our Government, where I may find questions
of much delicacy and importance, affecting more or
less the friendly relations between the two great nations,
nothing could contribute more to encourage me than
such a manifestation of your regard. Relative to these
questions I have but this to say, that I entertain a con-
fident hope that they will be so disposed of as to remove
whatever embarrassments they may have occasioned, and
secure to both Governments an enduring and honourable
peace. Both nations, great in power and alike influenced
by a Christian civilization, neither should look on the
other with a jealous, hostile rivalry, or fail to see that the
interests of both greatly depend upon the prosperity of
each. Speaking the same language, inheritors of the
same common renown, possessing to a great degree the
same political principles—derived from a common ances-
try, essential to the security of property, liberty, and life
—sharing equally in the admiration of their poets, their
orators, their statesmen, and their philosophers, endowed
with the same love of rational enterprise, they must see
that Providence designs them to be friends, not enemies,
and to this end that it is the duty of each not to do, or
to suffer to be done, without full redress, wrongs to the
other." Mr. Thornton was present, and spoke in a very
complimentary manner of the minister selected to the
court from which he is accredited.

The Albion reproduces the poem that appeared in
the Times, signed " C. K.," welcoming Longfellow to Eng-
land, as by Charles Kingsley. This is a more guess, for
the " U. K." is not Charles Kingsley, but a literary man
and a barrister, who took some trouble to make the peet'4
welcome as warm as possible.
Center College, Danville, Kentucky, of which
Rev. Dr. Breckinridge is president, recently conferred the
degree of D.D. upon Rev. Henry Neill of Pittsfield, and
A mherst has now given him the same honour. Dr. Neill
was a graduate of Amherst, whore a son of his graduated
in 1866, and another son completed his course at Danville
last year.
J. P. Williston, of Northampton, Western Massa'
chusett, has given to the high school in that place $lOO to
buy maps and books of reference. A good example to
follow.
An alumni association of Harvard Law School
was formed at Cambridge, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
Thursday evening, July 16, and elected as president Ii
R. Curtis; as vice-presidents Charles Bradley of Rhoda
Island ; William M. Evarts, of Nevr York ; ex-Governor
M'Grath, of South Carolina ; George Hoadly, of Ohio;
and Ogden Hoffman, of California ; secretaries, John Lath-
rop, of Boston, and C. C. Reed, of Cambridge; treasurer'
J. Bowditch.
William Ricker, of Kendall's Mills, who served
three years in the artillery during the war, while firing
salute on the Fourth was severely injured by the Preelfv.
tare discharge of a cannon. A purse of $lOO was raised'
towards which Governor Chamberlain sent his cheque for
$5O.
Jeremiah Kingman, of Barrington, New Italic'
shire, has recently given $9,000 to Dartmouth College'
which, in addition to $l,OOO previously given, is to en-
dow a scholarship for every county in the Stale, and /r„,
proposes to give $l,OOO more for a scholarship for tee
town of Strafford. The rest of his personal estate, sons
$lO,OOO, he has willed to the indigent fund of Phillips
academy at Exeter.
The Springfield Republican excites our curiositl
by the following :—" Professor John B. Perry, formerlY ,
Swanton, Vermont, has made a geological diSCOVOII
Georgia, which will place him in the front rank of sulell-
tific men. Particulars presently."
Chief Justice Chase left Washington, JOY' 16,
for New York, whence in a day or two he goes to Ohio,
there to spend most of the summer.
General Shanks goes South after Congress ad"
ourns to prosecute his investigation as chairman of tbe
Committee on cruelty to Union prisoners during the sysr;
Senor Romero returned to Mexico from the United
States on the 16th July. It is not stated what success he
met iu raising money for the bankrupt Treasury of Mexico'
but ho was reported as about to marry a lady of Phila-
delphia, which he has not done.
Speaker Colfax and family were to leave Chici
cago next Monday for the Rocky Mountains, accompanle
by Lieutenant Governor Bross, of the Chicag Tribune,
and a few others, not exceeding ten. Public receptions
are strictly forbidden.
A Connecticut Democratic paper stated that
General F. P. Blair is a graduate of Yale College, and the
New haven Journal explains: General Blair graduate"
Yale quite prematurely. It took him less than a year :*
k°
" go through " college. tea
Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, has apPe'n"
Hamilton B. Staples of Milford District Attorney for the
middle district, in place of Hartley Williams of Worcester'
resigned; Darwin E. Ware of Marblehead, member of tilde
Board of Boston Harbour Commissioners, and reaprolute
John Williams of Chelsea and Elias E. Davison of poste
Pilot Commissioners.
Mr. Julian, of Indiana, has written to the P„re°l!
to defend the claims of the settlers in the Yo Semite v °el
ley. Ile considers that under the pre-emption laws thge
have a valid title, and cannot even be bought out.
praises then- tastes, culture, and character, but the anti
..
very properly replies that they may have heirs and r
signs without these virtues, and it would be no grelie
hardship for a pioneer to be bought out for the pub
benefit than for men in thickly settled portions of
country. • ties
The Democrats of Connecticut talk of nomina
Congressman W. H. Barnum for Governor, to succee
-English, and James Gallagher of New Haven for Lietitr
nant-Governor. •
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, ifeaci
dilated ten seniors on Tbursday, July 16, and coliet.ht
the degree of D.D. on five Episcopal clergymen ; Ral-
Rev. Bishop A. C. Coxe, and Revs. E. Y. Buchanan,
color Douglas, Charles Gillette, and S. T. Horton. .
An American paper says that several Ainerle_a
ladies, at Copenhagen, recently desired to be introd?7o
to the Qeeen of Denmark. The Queen at once sent °lva
word to call upon her at Castle Christiansburg, when bar
it suited thorn. The ladies, upon being admitted to ore
Majesty, were not a little astonished to see that she jail
a cheap dress, and that, on rising to receive them, shoot
on her working table a cotton stocking which she
been knitting. or"
Mr. Goldwin Smith has accepted the Prof
ship of English and Constitutional Historyin Cornell the
versity, and Mr. James Law, of Belfast, has accePtoumicl
Professorship of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery' Tye
both will reside in Ithaca, the seatof the university.,.eet.
New York Times writes a little " chaff " on the 811'1 ore
"Even now," it says, "Mr. Smith knows so ouch ""vie
about American affairs than any American does that
dare not look forward to the astounding discoveries, °with
ourselves and our history that we shall be favoured 6,00
when he adds personal observation to his present napes'
of information." Mr. Cornell, who founded the un'reli
sity, employs the large fortune he made by tell
companies in the education of his countrymen. lie la and
establishing a school for classics, the exact science'
various branches of agriculture.
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Births.
;fa of°.
KIMBER—On the 30th July, at Folkestone, the Vr•--
Kimber, Esq., of a daughter. f •$.
POTTER—On the 30th July, at Rydo, the wife '2
Potter, Esq., of Cheltenham, of a son. Dull, the
WlLsoN—On the 30th July, at Kirk Ella, near "--
wife of Arthur Wilson, Esq., of a son.

Marriages. rot
PY li —WOOD —On the 30th July, at Taunton, Samuel ff. IP
Esq., Royal Artillery, the youngest son of the late or of
Pym, EtFq., to Caroline Augusta, youngest
Gen, ral bir Wm. Wood, K.G.B.- and 1i.11., a 31°
wood, Taunton. I_lA efora:
TitoMAS—LEWIS—On the 30th July, at Cusop, .---c -rof 1,1
fordshire, John Edwin Thomas, Esq , F•G'°,,:iv-cbilc,l.
Park-street, Westminster, to Elizabeth . Aunt, e"fa' (OK'
of the late Thomas Lewis, f Nan'Y'g-- 5
sq., o
House, near Hay. daughttots,

BELL— On the 29th July,
at Elm Villa,
Deaths. „Don-
gingstou—
Thames, Captain Wm. Bell, aged 75.
Ph
EL jr, at an il
LIOTSON—On the 29th Jul advanced age,
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JONES—OnElliotsou, tho 2D9th July, Spencer Evan, only son Cif '.-"ntl
MACGIIAM—On the29th July, at 11, Leo-park,DlaC
S•u' Jones, Esq., aged 40. ~,o,tbf
Thomas 1
J. augham, Esq., aged 81. ,-----
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of No. 12, Stand, Priter, at Tart Sus 0109, " dti of
Strand, 1
in the Precinct of the SO voy, in 1111 011"
Iliddlesex.—Saturday, August 1, 1868.