The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY_ EVENING, MAY 2, 1868.

ANALYSIS OF 111 E LAZE DIVISION.

The resolution that the Irish Church should cease to
exist, as an establishment, due regard being had to all per-
sonal interests and to all individual rights of property, was
ca rried by 330 to 265, the majority being one less and the
TD inority five less than the numbers voting in the great divi-
si on of the 4th of April. On the present occasion the
n iajority consisted of 322 Liberals and eight Conserva-
tives ; the minority was made up of 260 Conservatives and
L :five Liberals.

The eight Conservatives who voted with Mr. Gladstone
-were Lord Bingham, Mr. Butler-Johnstone, Mr. Earle,
Mr. Leader, Sir Joseph M`Kenna, Mr. M`Lagan, Mr.
George Morris, and Colonel Vandeleur. With the excep-
tion of Mr. Butler-Johnstone and Mr. Earle, they repre-
sent Irish constituencies. Lord Bingham, Mr. Butler-
Johnstone, Mr. Earle, Sir J. M'Kenna, and Mr. Morris
supported Mr. Gladstone in both divisions of April 4 ;
Mr. M`Lagan then voted with the Government in the
first— with the Opposition in the second ; while neither
Mr. Leader nor Colonel Vandeleur took part in either of
those divisions.
The five Liberals who now voted with Ministers were
Mr. Antrobus, Lord.Cremorne, Lord Eleho, Mr. Saunder-
son, and Mr. Wyld. With the exception of Lord Elcho,
who did not vote in the second division of April 4, but
supported the Government in the first, these five hon.
members took the same side then that they have now.
Three more Liberals who then voted with the Ministry—
Mr. Briscoe, Sir James Matheson, and Mr. Maxwell
took no part in the second division.
The secessions from each party have been exactly
reversed. A month ago, eight Liberals and five Conserva-
tives went over to the opposite sides ; now the numbers
are respectively eight Conservatives and five Liberals.

The following Liberals who paired in favour of Mr.
Gladstone's motion on April 4 now voted with their
party :—Sir H. W. Barron, Mr. W. B. Beaumont, Mr.
Duudas, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. G. C. Glyn, Sir G.
Grey, Mr. Jackson, Lord Milton, Mr. Norwood, Mr.
Tite, and Sir Hedworth Williamson.: Mr. Henry Seymour,

who then paired, was not present on this occasion. The
Liberals who neither voted nor paired on April 4, and now
went into the lobby with Mr. Gladstone, were the Hon.
W. P. Carington (since returned for Wycombe), Mr. Julian
Goldsmid (returned from his wedding tour), and Mr. Jar-
dine (then absent through domestic affliction).
On the other hand, the following Conservatives who
paired against Mr. Gladstone's motion on the last occa-
sion now supported their party in person :—Sir P. Burrell,
Mr. Barrow, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr.
Kennard, the Hon. H. P. Liddell, Mr. Long, Sir
John Pakington, Lord Henry Percy, Mr. Tollemache,
and Mr. C. W. Wynn. Lord Henry Scott
and Mr. Jones, who then paired, were now absent.
The Conservatives who then neither voted nor
paired, and now went with the Government, were Mr.
Lopes, Lord Mahon, Mr. Miles, Major Green Thompson,
and Mr. Tumor (since returned for Launceston, Leomin.
ster, Bristol, Cockermouth, and Grantham), and Mr. H.
B. Baring. As to the complexion of the last-named
n. member's politics, there is, we believe, some doubt ;
but as he describes himself as a Liberal-Conservative, was
a Lord of the Treasury in the Government of Sir Robert
Peel, and voted against Lord Russell's Reform Bill, there
can be very little mistake in classifying him as a member
of the Conservative party.
Sir Roundell Palmer, who neither voted nor paired in
the last division, was again an absentee. Lord Ernest
Bruce and Sir Robert Peel, who on April 4 voted with
Mr. Gladstone in one division only, did not now go with their
party. Mr. Miller, the member for Leith, who then led Mr.
Trail into the wrong lobby in the second division, now voted
with Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Traill was not present. Mr.
Sandford, who last time abstained from voting in the first
division and in the second supported Ministers, did not
now vote. Lord Eustace Cecil, Sir William Heathcote,
Mr. Beresford Hope, Sir Rainald Knightley, and General
Peel went into the lobby with the Government. So also
did Sir Thomas Hesketh and the Hon. Captain Stanley,
the members for Preston, who lately wrote to their consti-
tuents to point out the impossibility of maintaining the
Irish Church as it at present exists.
Besides Sir Roundell Palmer, the following Liberals
were absent from both the struggles on this question :
Mr. Brocklehurst, an octogenarian; Mr. Brown, one of the
members for Earl Fitzwilliam's pocket borough of Malton ;
Sir G. Colthurst, who sits for the little town of Kinsale, in
the county of Cork; Mr. Fort, ill; the Messrs. Mackinnon,
who represent respectively Rye and Lymin,gton ; Colonel
Packe, chairman of the Great Northern Railway, and
i member for South Lincoln ; Mr. Pim, M.P. for Dublin ;
' Colonel Pryse, the representative of the Cardigan
boroughs ; and. Sir Thomas Winnington, the member for
Bewdley.
The Liberals who voted with Mr. Gladstone on April
4 and did not appear on Thursday night, were Mr. R.
M. Biddulph, Sir R. Bulkeley, Sir M. J. Cholmeley,
Mr. Ellice, Mr. Fitzwilliam, Mr. W. B. Hughes, Mr.
Knatchbull-Hugesseu, Sir T. Lloyd, Mr. M'Evoy, Mr.
Marsh, Mr. P. W. Martin, Mr. Nicholson, The O'Conor
Don, and Mr. Parry. The forthcoming list of pairs will
no doubt account for many absentees. The non-attendance
of Mr. Hugessen, a former Liberal Whip, was doubtless
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The Conservatives who voted with the Government a
month ago and were not present now were the Right
Hon. Henry Baillie, Colonel Barttelot, the Earl of Bec-
tive, Mr. Bowen, Lord Curzon, Colonel Dickson, General
Dunne, Mr. Du Pre, Mr. G. J. King, Captain Lowther,
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Mr. Pugh, Sir M. W. Ridley, Lord H. Thynne, and Col.
Tottenham. Sir Brook Bridges, Sir John Walsh, Sir
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The Cave of Adullam of 1866 was, as in the previous
division, represented by three members only out of the
two score and more which then overthrew Mr. Gladstone.
These wereLordElcho,Mr. Saunderson, and Mr.Wyld. The
Tea-room of last year had not a single representative,
Mr. Briscoe, the solitary member of that party voting
in April, being now absent. Of the great families repre-
sented in the House of Commons, the houses of Caven-
dish, Grosvenor, and Russell voted in a body with the
Liberals, while the Fitzwilliam interest was, as usual,
represented by one out of three. On the other side,
four members of the house of Egerton, two of the house
of Stanley, two out of three of the house of Lowther, the
brother and the two sons of the Marquis of Abercorn, two
Lowry Coles, two Ormsby Gores, two members of the
Lopes family, two brothers of the Duke of Richmond, two
brothers of the Duke of Rutland, two kinsmen of Lord
Tredegar, two relatives of the Duke of Beaufort, two
Sturts, two of the Surtees family, two Verners, two
Wyndhams, and three Wynns, are found swelling the
ranks of the Government supporters.
The division was taken in a House of 601 members—
precisely the same number as on the 4th of April. As the
House was in committee at the time, Mr. Dodson, the
chairman, did not vote, nor did the Speaker. The seat at
Stamford was the only one practically vacant. In East
Kent the return had not been made, and Mr. Ramsay,
the newly-elected member for the Stirling Burghs, had
not taken his seat.

THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE" AND 7HE
CHURCH ES7AI3LISHMEN7.

The Pall Mall Gazette has very peculiar
notions as to what constitutes the essential
character of a Church ; at the same time it is
very candid and unconcerned in its avowal
of opinions, and, far from flinching from con-
clusions is desirous of pushing principles to
their extreme consequences ; for, as it justly
observes, until men have clear ideas on what
is meant by the word Church, they will not
know how rightly to proceed when they have
to do so, as now in Ireland, with the aboli-
tion of Church Establishments. The Pall Mall
Gazette looks upon the Church as a department
of the State, charged with the business of at-
tending to the moral wants of the nation, and
of affording to such as require it, spiritual satis-
faction. The law makes provision for the cele-
bration of the religious services specified in
the Book of Common Prayer, confers rank,
endowment, and authority on the episcopate
and clergy, and requires from them in return
certain spiritual services for the benefit of all
those who deserve to partake in them. The
law puts the clergy in possession of churches
in every parish, and compels them to per-
form certain services sanctioned by law. But
the Church of England, argues the Pall Mall
Gazette, is merely a name for the aggregate
of all those rights and duties ; but this aggre-
gate, it continues, is also part of the law of
England. Accordingly it concludes rightly
enough from its premises—" the Church of
England would be destroyed if the laws by
which it is constituted were repealed." " It is
no doubt true," it adds, " that the bishops and
clergy individually would retain, after such an
event, any personal powers which they may
now possess. If they can now give absolu-
tion from sin, they could still do so."
But the practical conclusion which the Pall

Mall Gazette arrives at is that the laws by '
virtue of which a Church is established are of
its essence ; repeal these laws, and the Church,
it argues, is not merely disestablished, but loses
its identity. Men, by looking intently at the
English Establishment, and regarding its his-
tory as the history of the purest type of the
Christian Church, cannot conceive even the
idea of a Church apart from its accidents. But
we, who have not learnt our idea of a Church
from the English Establishment, view the re-
lation between Church and State in quite
another light. The laws, which encompass
the Church, give dignity to its position and
legal force to its enactments, are, we know, of
human institution, and accidental in their cha-
racter. To-day the Church enjoys the recog-
nition and support of the civil power ; to-
morrow, not. The law, conferring dignity upon
it, is in force in one country, not in another.
These Ire accidents, but the essential character
of the Church is to be sought in its divine
institution by Christ, in its supernatural attri-
butes, and in its divine organization. This
divinely-instituted and organized body has
certain definite rights which are superior to
human laws. It was commissioned by its Divine
Founder to go into every nation and teach
sovereigns and subjects. Kings receiving bap-
tism at the hands of the Church pledged them-
selves to obey in every matter affecting the
spiritual and moral government of their sub-
jects the spiritual authority. The State, the
King at the head of his baptised subjects, re-
ceived the Church, a divinely instituted and
organized body, with its spiritual hierarchy,
into a friendly compact, offered it endowments,
conferred upon it honours, gave a legal force
to its enactments, placed, in a word, the civil
sword at the service of the Church. But these
gifts and sanctions and legal powers were
simply accidents added on to the body of the
Church ; they could not constitute the essence
of a body which existed without them, which
possessed an organic life before they were
offered, and is, consequently, capable of sur-
viving after their withdrawal.
Hence it follows that the disestablishment
of the Church in any country does not destroy
its essential character, but only its accidental
surroundings. Its identity is unimpared, its
divine organization remains, its spiritual
authority is not lessened, the power of the
keys given by Christ is not taken away by the
act of disestablishing. Excommunication,
whether the Church be established or not in a
land, cuts off the obstinate sinner from the
heritage of the Church ; the Papal Bull or
Brief confers jurisdiction or creates hierarchies,
equally valid alike in countries where the
Church is established or not established. The
Church, wrongfully disestablished and, de-
spoiled of its national rights, of property con-
secrated to its use, is not by such an act dis-
solved or deprived of its identity, since only
its accidental, and not its essential, character
is touched, but survives with all its claims
unimpaired. It is the rightful owner of per-
verted endowments, of confiscated estates, of
its ancient churches. The State has no right
to lay a finger on money consecrated to religi-
ous uses. It is God's property. Applying
these principles for a moment to the Irish
Establishment, it would follow that the
national endowments of which the Catholic
Church was despoiled, and the rights of a
national Church which are its due, must, on
the principle of justice, be restored fully and
completely. The Catholic Church, however,
declines to be established or endowed ; the
State, nevertheless, has no right to convert
ecclesiastical endowments to secular purposes.
The question then arises, what is to be done
with the money ? But this question has not
as yet been satisfactorily answered by Mr.
Gladstone. Its real difficulty, even, does not
occur to that large party, to return to our
subject, whose views are so boldly expressed
by the Pall Mall Gazette. For if the Church,
as it argues,
is but a moral function of the
State, it can have no rights apart from the
State ; but
if, on the other hand, accord-
ing to Catholic teaching, the Church is a
corporate body, independent of the State,
divine in its institution, and possessing a
moral entity, it can enjoy rights, and assert
claims, which can only be fairly dealt with
according to law and justice. The question
which the Pall Mall Gazette is raising is one
of vital importance, not only in regard to the
present controversy on the Irish Establish-
ment, but in that far more momentous ques-
tion which, like a dark cloud, is impending
over the horizon, whether the essential idea
of a Christian Church is to be preserved in
int° perish before the
tellectualism.—West-
pmPrrionsogterteesrtsansGoatfzeuEtnstneg.plirianL, or

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times)

wscasindaeddoptthede repsorolvuitdioinngotnhatthealn4athmiennsdt...
The Virginia Convention, which had agreed to
aAd
nj o
article re
ment to the Constitution shall be referred by one
Legislature to the succeeding one and then to the
people. A report was adopted re-districting the
State for Congressmen, and making one Congress-
man elective by the State at large, and, spite in of
General Schofield's advice, the Convention
re-
fused to modify the disfranchisement provi-
sions. The South Carolina election began on
the 14th of April, and continued for three days,
when it was believed that the Constitution had been
adopted. The Georgia elections were to take place
on the following week, and General Meade has
issued judicious instructions as to the manner in
which they are to be conducted. The Arkansas
Legislature ratified the new Constitution by a ma-
jority, officially reported, of 1,679. The returns
in South Carolina and Louisiana indicate Repub-
lican successes, while the latest news by the Russia
announces as probable the success of the Democrats
in Georgia. A Democratic mayor has been elected
at New Orleans ; but the new Constitution will
probably be adopted in Louisiana.
Information has been received at the Bureau of
Indian Affairs that the Peace Commission is at Lar-
amie. Two hundred lodges of hostile Sioux are
there encamped, as well as large numbers of Ogal-
lala and Brule Sioux. Sixteen lodges of Minnecon-
jours, Unkapappas, and other bands are on their way
and are expected at Laramie soon. General Sheri-
dan, returning to Omaha from the Black Hills, re-
ports that the Indians in the Powder River country
refuse to treat with the commissioners till every
white man leaves the disputed territory ; and a letter
from Fort Berthold reports that the Indians are
suffering from want of fool, which is one of the
reasons why they are so savage this spring. In
Idaho there have been some Indian raids, also
some fights among the miners, at Silver City, which
have called out a proclamation from Governor Bal-
lard, threatening the use of the military.
The Rev. Stephen H. Tyner, Junior, willagain be
arraigned, and the penalty on conviction will be
degradation in case he refuses to yield submissively
to the reprimand lately given, and keep the peace
hereafter. To the information, he replied that he
is not a party to any plan to defy the Church
authorities ; that he has no intention to disregard
the canons of the Church ; but he will continue to
preach in his pulpit until ejected from it by the
police. The Pall Mall quotes this case as showing
that "sectional prejudices are not unknown across
the Atlantic, while the disposition of a large section
of the Anglican body to cultivate terms of closer
intimacy with the Nonconformists has lately made
itself visible in a variety of ways."
As the time nears when the decisive vote on the
Impeachment charges, Guilty or Not Guilty, is to
be given, rumours thicken. Senator Fowler is said
to visit the President frequently after dark ; &ma-
tor Fessenden to have remarked, that he looked for
great unpopularity from the vote his conscience
compelled him to give upon Impeachment ; Senator
Grimes to have frequently announced his conviction
of the President's innocence. The opinions of the
less pronounced Republican Senators are freely dis-
cussed and their acts canvassed, words and deeds
being attributed to them which are pure inventions.
So disheartened is Thad, Stevens said to be by the

Democrats, that he announced to his colleagues,
"We have not any show in the Senate. I for one

am willing to withdraw the Articles of Impeach-
ment and report to the House ;" and it is added
that one of the Republican Representatives from

New York was about to move that the Articles of

Impeachment be withdrawn. At the same time
these very people publish statements that the Hon.
Ben. Wade has promised places on his becoming
President, trying both tacks to damage the Im-
peachers.
Mr. Elijah M. K. Glenn, having failed to establish
his outspoken accusation of bribery against a fel-
low member of the New York Legislature, has been
forced to resign his seat, although he maintains the
truth of his allegation, which is universally be-
lieved. Ile was elected by a rural district, where
the vice is comparatively unknown. On arriving at
the capital of the State, he found himself an object

of consideration, being feted, courted, and given an
unlimited amount of drinks, as he was being drawn
by those who had a design on his integrity into the
inner ring. The tool, as they thought him, proved
impracticable, and on his openly coming forward as

an accuser, he found how the honest fared at

Albany, which was in strong contrast with the

kindly treatment he had at first experienced. He
was badgered, hustled about, cut by some, and
abused by others, till his health, before weak,
forced him to seek the pure air of Wayne, where he

_ .
was not, however, long suffered to remain in peace.
Called back to testify before the Committee, the
attacks of his persecutors were renewed, until, sink-
ing under them, he resigned his seat and retired to

Wayne, where it is to be hoped he will have time

and repose to reflect on the fate of reformers.
Sergeant Bates, of Wisconsin, has succeeded in
carrying the United States flag from Vicksburg to
Washington, where he was welcomed by the Presi-

dent. There he endeavoured to plant it on the
dome of the Capitol, but a policeman interfered,
and the triumphant Bates was foiled in the finish-
ing stroke at his journey's end. lie was arrayed
when he reached IV ashington in the guerilla uni-
form of Moseby, with a rebel drinking cup at his

belt, and accompanied by a Confederate officer,
Colonel Vaughan. On his road opposition was

carefully smoothed away, the object being to show
that through the heart of the lately Confederated

States the Flag of the Union can be safely carried.
Bates had served in the United States army, but he
had made no reputation, nor attained to any com-
missioned rank. His reception at Washington was
given by the Democrats, and the whole affair was
a mere party display.
A " rise" has been taken out of the New York
Herald by some practical jokers, who announced i❑
some of the morning papers that the tickets of the
Gettysburgh Asylum Lottery would be redeemed
on the loth April at the Herald's office for the full
amount. A hungry crowd of dupes rushed to the
doors, and Mr. Bennett had to face numerous ap-
plicants, who beset not only his office but his pri-
vate residence at Washington Heights. The point

of the joke was that the Herald had written up the
lottery and induced numbers to invest in the

rickets.

The same privilege is accorded to a member o,
Congress in the United States as to an M.P. in
the United Kingdom. Members are not liable to
arrest for debt, and whatever may be said of the
social standing of those returned from the wilder
and less civilized States, it seldom occurs that any one
avails himself of the privilege. There is, however,
some talk of a Senator now doing so. Mr. Sprague, of
Rhode Island, has been sued in a Washington Court
by his late gardener, and it is said that he will
take advantage of his rights as a Congressman. We
presume that the claim is grounded on an imposi-
tion, which the Senator can thus best defeat.
Mr. Seward, it is said, has determined not to
hold office under the Wade Administration which
he expects shortly to be inaugurated, and he has
prepared to leave Washington in May. Efforts are
being made to induce the old statesman to change
his mind, and the Vey, York Sun writes strongly on
the subject. It is a question of deep interest to the
office-holders under him. Secretary Stanton has
dispelled all doubts about his course by the follow-
ing letter :
" War Department, Washington, April 14, 1868.
" Hon. Simon Cameron—Dear Sir—Perceiving in this
morning's Chronicle that a communication has been signed
by the Governor of your State, the It ipublican members
of the Legislature, and other persons, asking your recom-
mendation for my transfer, upon a certain contingency, to
the head of the Treasury Department, I hasten to request
earnestly that no such recommendation be made. Enough
of my life has been devoted to public duties. No con-
sideration can induce me to assume those of the .Treasury
Department or continue in the War Department longor
than may be required for the appointment and confirma-
tion of my successor.—Yours truly,
" EDWIN M. STANTON."
This reply was drawn from Stanton by Governor
Geary, and other prominent Pennsylvanians, who
asked Senator Cameron to urge on Benjamin
Wade, when he became President, the claims of
Mr. Stanton for the post, from which it was taken
for granted Mr. M'Culloch would be at once
removed.
The Revolution, in commenting on some remarks
of the Anglo-American Times, states that the lady
editors intend to do more than take notes in Wash-
ington. " The next thing" that we will hear " will
be the speech of the honourable lady from New
York on the floor of Congress ; and it is more than
probable that Miss Anthony, the owner of the Re-
volution, will have a place in Benjamin F. Wade's
Cabinet." We have no objection, and only hope
the honourable lady from New York will acquit
herself well when there, and that Miss Anthony
will use the power placed in her hands as a Cabinet
Minister to purify and elevate the Executive. It
adds that the Revolution is destined to be the great
paper of the age, for it is the only one in the coun-
try that takes the ground of universal suffrage in
the Reconstruction.
Frank Leslie illustrates a very general feeling in
the United States, and one we attempted to express in
words in our last issue. In that picture paper of April
25, Uncle Sam is sketched in the agony of tooth-
ache, with his face on one side swollen as indicative
of his suffering. Beside him stand " Dr." Grant
and "Dr." Seward. Grant's advice is—" Out with
it at once—he will have no peace with it in ;" but
Seward placidly says, " I am in favour of letting it
stop till it drops out quietly." This is what Frank
Leslie calls " Uncle Sam's bad tooth—the Andy
Johnson grinder." Most Americans, outside strong
political party influence, differ exactly as Seward
and Grant are representing as differing. All agree
that the " Andy Johnson grinder" is a bad tooth,
and that Uncle Sam has suffered and is suffering
from it ; but the wisdom is questioned of dragging
it out by the roots, and if the dentists who have
undertaken to do this fail, they will but aggravate
the sufferings of Uncle Sam. We are happy also
to see that this widely circulated and popular jour-
nal takes substantially the same view as that ex-
pressed by us on the action of the people of Michi-
gan iu rejecting the Negro Suffrage amendment to
the State Constitution.

The limes, in an article on Wednesday, con-
founds Lorenzo Thomas with George.H. Thomas. It
speaks of ad interim, the nick-name of the former,
as "a person of distinction—a lieutenant-general, in
high command." Lorenzo Thomas is not a lieu-
tenant-general, he has never been in high command,
nor has he attained to any distinction except in the
columns of the Times, the writer evidently mistaking
him for his great namesake the conqueror of Hood.
Lorenzo Thomas graduated at West Point in 1823,
and fifteen years afterwards attained the rank of
Brevet-Major, with the appointment of Assistant
Adjutant-General. In 1846 he was promoted by
brevet to Lieutenant-Colonel for service at the
battle of Monterey, and that was the grade he held
at the commencement of the great war, when he
was appointed Adjutant-General of the Army.
From this post he was removed two years ago
through Mr. Stanton, who was personally his enemy,
and it was but on the 14th February that by
order of the President he took back his post
from General Townsend, who then held it. We
are the more particular to point out this error,
as the Times lays great stress on the ridiculous
scene in the War Office, in which Lorenzo Thomas
was the chief actor, coupling it with remarks which
those who are not acquainted with the history of
the leading Northern generals would read to the

injury of the reputation of a soldier second only to
such officers as grant or Sherman. We may here
repeat that the expose made by General Lorenzo
Thomas has damaged the President's cause in the
opinion of the people, as this " Lieutenant-General
of distinction" cut so sorry a figure that the Presi-
dent has been blamed for selecting him as an agent.
There are many in England who suppose that
the Confederate Bonds may yet be paid, grounding
the impression on the idea that a judgment to this
effect may eventually be obtained from the United
States' Courts. If the people of the United
States ever decided on setting a judgment aside it
would be in such a case, but it is highly improbable
that they will ever be c ►iled upon to do anything so

disagreeable. A. decision has just been given by
Judge Arrington, of the City Court of Montgo-
mery, Alabama, on a case arising out of the follow-

ing facts :—ln 1862 the State of Alabama advanced

$359,000 in State bonds, for the purpose of enabling

a company to build an arsenal and manufacture
arms. Bat as the purpose of the State was to arm
Confederate soldiers, the cmitract was held to be
null and void. The suit was brought in the name
of the Governor.

Wilkes's Spirit gives the following items :—Mrs. Jean
Davenport Lander is in Syracuse. Mr. Kean Buchanan

and Virginia aro working north slowly. They are now iu
Bridgeport, Connecticut. Edwin Forrest is in Pittsburg.
So is Leo Hudson and Black Bess. Jake Offenbach's

"Duchesse" is in Chicago. Mr. Frank Lawler, the emi-
nent Shamus O'Brien and Joh❑ Mellish of dramatic fame,

has returned to New York from Now Orleans. Dan liar-

kips, the comedian, was on the Erie train which went over

the embankment, but fortunately escaped unhurt. Edwin
Booth is in his fourth week at Philadelphia. Owen
Marlowe is devoted to "Play" in the Quaker City.
Maggio Mitchell was in Chicago last week. Kate

Ponnoyer and the " Black Crook" in Troy. Caroline
Richings Bernard and Shir Campbell aro in Syracuse.

Alexander Isaacs Monken has been divorced from Ada
Isaacs Menken. The suit was instituted in 1860. Helen

Western and Blind Tom are in Baltimore, but in rival
establishments. "Under the Gaslight "is in Montreal, in
charge of Fanny Stocqueller. Snorkey is transformed
into a one-armed hero " just come home from the Crimee."

When the train dashes across the stage the Canucks rise
and cheer. De Pol's ballet beauties are in Cincinnati.
Miss Emma Madden] has made her debut at the Athena:nun
in Boston. "Under the Gaslight," under guidance of
stage manager Charles Pope,, is in Lafayette, Indiana.
Nast's Caricaturama is in Boston. The E. L. Davenport

Dramatic Club bas lately given an entertainment for the
benefit of the poor in Cincinnati. Kate Mazeppa, Ray-
mond is in Pittsburgh with her Black Bess. " The Ha-
vana Gorilla" is out of an engagement. " Arrah na
Pogue" is in Houston, Texas. "Under the Gaslights is
also in Lexington, Kentucky. The "Great Liugard" has
arrived in New York from England, and established
himself at the Theatre Comique. _ _

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Colonel Forney has made good to the Governor
a defalcation of one of his clerks as Secretary to the Se-
nate of $lO,OOO. A committee was directed to inquire into
and report upon the condition of the funds of the Secretary
of the Senate, and into the conduct of Colonel Forney as
clerk of the Court of Impeachment In his comments in his
two daily journals of Philadelphia. Senators Cameron and
Buckalew are making great efforts to oust Forney, and if
they succeed in this it is thought that Dewitt C. Clarke,
Executive Clerk of the Senate, will be his successor.
Mr. Macdougall, in reply to a question in the
New Dominion House, said the Government would do all
in their power to prevent Sunday traffic on the Carillon,
Grenville, and other canals.
The Omaha Herald declares that a small fraction
of one corner of Train's magnificent tract of land in Omaha
would bring enough pounds sterling to pay at least two
such items as that for non-payment of which he rejoices
in his residence in a Dublin gaol.
Professor Joseph Perkins has resigned the chair
of obstetrics in the medical department of the University
of Vermont, at Burlington, and is succeeded by Dr. E. S.
Dunster, editor of the New Fork Medical Journal.
Mr. Colfax, it is stated, will not be a candidate
for a seat in the next Congress. Ho is supposed to be
living in expectation of being nominated for the Vice-
Presidency—Boston Traveller.
The Adel (Iowa) Gazette prints the following
singular advertisement :—" Wanted, an honest, indus-
trious, good-looking preacher, to settle in the new town
of Tracy. We have professional men and mechanics of
all sorts. We only lack the above to make our list com-
plete.--(Signed) W. A. WILSON, Mayor." The Gazette
backs the advertisement by announcing that the inhabi-
tants (under 5,000) are moral people, and the town is a
station at which the cars stop for refreshment.
Captain Bramble, while asleep in the cabin of his
vessel in Hooper's Straits, was locked in by the crew, six
negroes, who get the vessel under weigh. This awoke the
captain, who, alarmed at finding himself a prisoner in his
cabin, managed to make a hole through the door, where he
got a glimpse of the man at the wheel and shot him.
Making a great effort he burst the door open, and meeting
two Africans killed them both as well as two others who
rushed to their assistance, the sixth only saved himself by
rushing below and begging his life. Bramble ran the
vessel into Holland's island and gave himself and the sur-
viving negro up to the authorities.
On Tuesdty last a portrait and 600 guineas were
presented to Mr. W. Christopher Leng, editor of the Shef-
field Daily Telegraph, in recognition of his services in
bringing about the Trades' Union Outrage Commission of
Inquiry in that town. Among the subscribers to the tes-
timonial were 42 peers, 38 members of Parliament, and
150 justices of the peace. The inscription attached to the
portrait stated that the testimonial was given to Mr. Leng
"as a public acknowledgment of the ability, courage, and
steadfast patriotism displayed by him in exposing a system
of trade union outrages which had existed in Sheffield for
many years, injuring both the trade and character of the
town, and of his successf 1 advocacy of the appointment of
a Royal Commission of inquiry."
The Spanish journals announce that it is the
nephew of Marshal Narvaez whe succeeds to his title and
large fortune.
Charles N. Emerson, Esq., of Pittsfield, will be
a candidate for the Berkshire (Western Massachusetts)
appointment as delegate to the Chicago Republican Con-
vention.
Mr. Ballou, of North Adams, has made arrange-
ments for an excursion from that place to the Republican
National Convention at Chicago. His train is engaged to
go out and return in ton days, but he is further negotiating
with Western companies for an extension of time to four-
teen days for the trip.
Delegates to the Chicago Presidential Convention
were elected by the Republicans on 'Wednesday, April 15,
in the third, fourth, and seventh districts of Eastern
Massachusetts. From the third the delegates aro Edward
Kinsley and A. W. Beard, an l the alternates S. A. Stack-
pole and Roland Worthington, all of Boston ; from the
fourth Estes Howe, of Cambridge, and Thomas Russell,
of Boston, are the delegates, and Jonas Fitch and Jacob
Sleeper their alternates; from the seventh. George F.
Richardson, of Lowell, and Edwin F. Waters, of Newton,
are delegates, and Addison G. Fay, of Concord, and M. T.
Gardner, of Shirley, alternates. Tho seventh district
Convention adopted a resolution of praise to George S.
Boutwell and his course in Congress.
in the Republican Convention called in the Third
District, Maine, candidates for Presidential elector, and
for Representative to Congress, are to be presented. Mr.
Blaine, now serving his third term, will probably receive
a renomination.

The municipal election at Newport, Vermont,
took place on Tuesday, April 14, and was very close and
exciting. The citizens' candidate, James Atkinson, re-
ceived 549 votes, beating his opponent, R. J. Taylor, the
regular Republican nominee by 16 votes.
William C. Street, Republican, received a re-
election to the Senatorship of the 12th District, Connec-
ticut, instead of Charles Benedict, the Democratic candi-
date, and in the 16th district Seth Logan, Democrat, was
chosen Senator, and not George Landon, Republican, as
by first reports. The Senate thus retains the same pro-
portionate division, 12 Republicans to 9 Democrats.
The Hartford Post places the choice for Speaker
of the Connecticut House of Representatives betwoon
Roger Averill, of Danbury, William T. Minor, of Stam-
ford, and Charles Ives, of East Haven, either of whom
would make an excellent presiding officer. James U.
Taintor, clerk of the House last year, will probably be
made clerk' of the Senate, and Dwight Marcy, of Tolland,
his assistant, will be promoted to the clerkship of the
House, ii accordance with the usual custom. For as-
sistaut clerk, William A. Croffut, of Wethersfield, Henry
A. Taintor, of Hatford, and MajorJohnA.,Tibbetts, of New
London, are candidates.
Stephen J. Meany, the Fenian prisoner who was
released from prison on condition of leaving the United
Kingdom, has arrived at New York.
Besides the six women physicians in Philadelphia,
whose incomes are given in the Revolution as ranging from
$2,000 to $lO,OOO a year, the one in New York at $20,000
a year, and one in Orange, New Jersey, at $lO,OOO to
$15,000, four young wome❑ are qualifying to practise
medicine at Zurich, Switzerland, of whom three are Eng-
lish and one Swiss. A Russian girl last year obtained a
diploma as doctor, and is now affianced to a medical man
at Aargau. This double partnership in business and in
marriage, is highly appropriate, but if the patients are to
be charged for all consultations, a medical firm so consti-
tuted will bring iu heavy bills.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is about to give up
lecturing, is now delivering three in New York, entitled
" Eloquence," "The Man of the World," and "The Rela-
tion of Intellect and Morals."
The late Henry Shaw, of Lauesboro, once the
native American candidate for governor of Massachusetts,
and the paternal ancestor of Josh Billings, was solicited to
siTO something in aid of foreign missions. In the same

town lived two hard cases, named John Lowell and Dan
Barker. " Here," said Mr. Shaw, banding the applicant a
$lO bill, " use that on John, and if there be anything left
after he is converted, use the balance on Dan Barker."

Dr. W. C. Robinson, of Portland, professor in
the Maine medical school, has been stricken by paralysis.
Mrs. Livesey, wife of Rev. William Livesey, 5111:1-
plied the pulpit of the Methodist Church of Middletown,
Connecticut, in the absence of her husband, on a recent
Sunday.

Married, on the Bth April, at Portland, Maine,
Everett S. Throop, of Cincinnati, to Mary J. C., daughter
of G. Abbott, United States Consul at Sheffield, England.
Arrangements are being made on a grand scale
to give Chinese Minister Burlingame and his retinue a
dinner at San Francisco, at which Governor Haight will
preside, and in which Eugene Casserly, Senator elect, and
other prominent citizens will participate.
Mr. Train's case was again before the Irish Court
of Bankruptcy and Insolvency on Thursday. The matter
has been further adjourned to enable the attendance of 3lr•
M'llenry to be procured, the insolvent's discharge being
opposed by the Ebbw Vale Iron Company. Mr. Train
declared that the " matter was entirely political." After
the hearing be was driven back to the Marshalsea in r.a
open carriage, drawn by white horses, and cheered by a
considerable crowd.

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The Telegraph is authorized to give the most
positive contradiction to the statement which has been
made in some London papers, that Mr. Peabody gave the
Pope £200,000 ou quitting Borne. The foundation of the
story is that Mr. Peabody did give to Cardinal Antonelli
1,000 francs for the Hospital for Children, open to all
classes of religionists. He gave nothing more.
Kossuth has resigned the seat in the Hungarian
Diet to which he had been elected. His friends wished to
have his letter of resignation road to the House, but this
proceeding was opposed by the Ministerial party, and re-
jected by a large majority.
0. I. Devlin and F. B. M'Namill, prominent
citizens of Montreal, who were supposed to be connected
with Fenian sympathisers, have been arrested.
Mr. Hines, from Little Rock, Arkansas, is at
Washington to take his place in Congress. Ile must wait
till the Constitution is approved and till his credentials
have passed the committee on elections.

John Gray, the last revolutionary soldier, has
died in Ohio.

It is not an easy matter for Dickens to escape
giving offence, and it is asserted that Mr. Bryant, annoyed
by his card being returned to him, when he called on the
author at his hotel, with the reply that Mr. Dickens say(
no one he did not know, was so affronted that he declined
to preside at the Press Dinner.
Commodore James 'Jammu has been promoted
Rear-Admiral in the active list of the United States Navy,
and Alexander Spalding has been appointed collector Of
internal revenue in the eighth district of Now York.
Dr. John P. Batchelder, who died in New York
on the Bth April, in the 83d year of his age, was professor
of anatomy, surgery, and physiology in the Berkshire
medical college at Pittsfield, in 1823-4, and was for several

years thereafter a resident physician of that town.
James W. Lauder, who died at Greenfield earl,'
last month, at the age of 78, was in the United States navy
during the last war with England, and was on the Chess'
peaks when she fought the Shannon. He was twice e
prisoner in British hands.
On Sunday morning the 12th April, the Unit:
States steam frigate Franklin, of 39 guns, bearing the fl3g
of Admiral Farragut, and commanded by Captain A. DI;
Pennock, together with the steam sloop Ticonderoga, c'h
9 guns, commanded by Capt. R. H. Wyman, entered
Valetta from Syracuse. Immediately on arrival Lore
Clarence Paget and his staff proceeded on board th
Franklin to pay his respects to the distinguished visitor,
and the same morning Rear-Admiral Kellett and the prin'
civil officers of the fleet went on board for a like purpose'
Next day, at 11 o'clock a.m., after the customary salute °1
Admiral Farragut lauded to pay a visit of ceremony to the
Governor, Sir Patrick Grant, being received at the Custom'
house by a guard of honour furnished by the 24th neg,i,;*
ment, and he afterwards proceeded to Admiralty-house t 0
return Lord Clarence Paget's visit. In the afternoon
Excellency Sir Patrick Grant and staff went on board t„,1`,,,"
Franklin to return the visit of Admiral Farragut. in
evening his Excellency the Governor placed his opera-he -,
at his disposal, and Mrs. Farragut, who accompanies he_
husband, accepted the offer. Several American officers
were also present. On Tuesday morning the Americas
Admiral visited the dockyard, where he was visited
Rear-Admiral Kellett, who, with the officers of the yar
showed him over the naval establishments. In the nite`-
noon his Excellency the Governor escorted him round ta:
fortifications of Valetta. In the evening Admiral and gr..„,
Farragut wore entertained at dinner at the palace, and We't".
present afterwards at an "At Home," given by Lady Grt!'n
Throughout all these visits and entertainments Adtn!rat
Farragut was accompanied by Mr. Winthrop, the Unitet,
States' Consul, and nothing can exceed the good feel,'.ll
which has prevailed in the intercourse between the Englils
and American officers. This morning(Wedeesda,y) there ,0
to be a display of the small-arm men and field-pieces of the
squadron on the Florian°. parade-ground, and in the afters
noon, on the same ground, there will be a review of
troops in garrison. In the evening the Admiral and lui't
Farragut will dine with Lord and Lady Clarence rag!„,
at Admiralty-house, when Lady Clarence will also holu.7t
reception. It is expected that Admiral FalTlmut Will Ile,
proceed for Lisbon, calling at Malag
a an
Times.
The Halifax Express says that a large steamer
is vow being built at St. Catherine's, Ontario, to trade
between that port and Halifax.
The United States war ships Franklin, SWataliattl
and Frolic arrived at Lisbon on Wednesday evening,
Admiral Farragut. as
The ship Herald, from Manilla, given. uP
to the
missing, has arrived at Boston, and saved $300,000
underwriters. faro
Women's rights triumph in New Bedford, Eas---.a,
Massachusetts. In the First Congregational Paris
women vote and act on standing church committees.
ed
A new invention for raising water was exhibuiea
in Boston on Thursday afternoon, April 16. It is tiers
the " Caloric water elevator," and consists of two cylitor
of 1,000 gallons capacity, the upper used as an air c",„;0-
ber and the lower for water and where steam is at'",,r
able will be without competition in the world for its 1)
pose, discharging its contents in one minute's time. vir
The Monthly Report of the Director of theist
reau of Statistics for the month of February last has ta
been issued. Tho following are the aggregate statereei,n
of the tables included in the report :—The total of Or tSei
commodities imported into the United States during her,
months of September, October, November, and Deee'"i-
-1867, are $109,185,866. Of this amount the total P',7o
ing duties was $99,906,254, and total free of duty icaS
$9,279,612. The amount entered for consumPti° us°
$66,413,716, and the amount entered for Wareliell
was $12,772,150. The total of commodities itca
were the growth, produce, and manufacture of the u,i'ber,
States, exported during the months of September ()ell 0,
November, and December, 1867, corrected to Fo'brus
1868, in declared quantities and values, $133,800,69°0.* nitea
value for foreign commodities re-exported from the yet'
States during the before-named months, corrected to
log
6, 1868, was $6,857,594. Of this the amount dutible 471.
$4,149,122, and the amount free of duty was $2,79; ei
The amount from warehouse was $3,929,911 ; the vaise6ll
commodities remaining in warehouse, November 3e,
was $39,104,541. Reported since publication of ilt l of
port, $82,154. Warehoused during December, I°' other
direct importations, $8,186,695 ; transferred from there
districts, $1,175,009. Total, $49,123,079. Of this
was withdrawn for consumption, $8,285,131; witbotioth
for transportation, $191,292 ; withdrawn for expel"
$980,614. Remaining in warehouse Dec. 31, s3B,9lntS°f
The director gives the following preliminary statem% the
the census of the United States in 1866, as returned 'tog
Bureau of Statistics :—Six New England States, 34011°
a gain of $305,598 on the census of 1860 ; in five fate,
States, 9,221,223, a gain of 963,055 ; 13 Southern ,`
Pacific „617,
9,568,709, a loss of 690,308 • 13 Western and Pact.e„ 627, '
14869,440, a gain of 2,336,387 ; nine territories, 4e'' totes'
gain of 146,050. The total population of the United 1100.
34,505,882, shows an aggregate gain over the census e„tiaber
In regard to the cotton crop, the report gives the "%eri'
of States growing cotton as thirteen, and one tern'
The number of internal revenue divisions reported, °id
number of acres sown in cotton, 5,489,525 esYT,ftalet
yield in bales of 400 pounds each, 1,917,380 f
The following is a statement of the foreign trade Is eu
United States in 1867 : —Number of American vesVos,ool
tored, 8,808 ; tonnage, new measurement. 3+4 ben
Number cleared, 8,041; tonnage, 9,419,502. Ni"-"eveo"
foreign vessels entered, 17,410 ; tonnage, old mensuro,
4,381,673. Number cleared, 17,592 ; tonnage, 4,465,4 d taesci
tal number of vessels entered, 26,218 ; tonnage mix eie
surement, 7,773,725. Total number cleared, 25,9 wo th
tonnage, 7,884,992. A table is also given which sb1•019(5
value of the commerce of the United States in the Po 18'
tions carried by foreign and American vessels fro Dee g;
to 1867. Total imports in gold values at foreign7PB.2,ouo
exportation, carried in American vessels, $3,011,' esPer
carried in foreign vessels, $2,311,102,317. Tottv veiter,
of domestic produce, mostly currency value in tiro ; Ott,
States, carried in American vessels, $3,004,850,' eraoi,
ried in foreign vessels, $2,268,698,385 ; foreign ra,esse
dise, mixed values, carried in American g 74.
$219,635,413 ; carried in foreign vessels, $175,110

Births. 11, Pr'
Onoz—On the Ist inst., at Berrylands, Surbiton—'lso.
rey, the wife of Septimus J. Du Croz, Esq., °f 3.besli`
GRANT—On the 30th ult., at Balavil, Ross-shire, the Er
of Major James Augustus Grant, C. 8., Stag 0f f OP.
cellency the Commander-in-Chief, Abyssinia, °,,oha.ll'
STIRLING—On the 30th ult., at The Lodge, Aua
Haunts, the wife of Charles Stirling, Comnallua"-

of a daughter.
Marriages.
, , StiriPlC;
LEMPRIERE—VizARD—On the 30th ult., at '"i.riti.illeVAg'ietlit
Percy Reid Lempriere. late Captain Royal
Ella, sixth daughter of' William Vizard, Esq.> °I the
and Lincoln's-iun-fields. 101111,0
WATSON—HuGGINs—On the 30th lilt. at at _S,t. f t:
Baptist's, Kentish-town, Alfred Waison DA"' Oft"-el;
b-ty 0, rci°
Park, Sydenham, and Cannon-street, ' ' i Cfo
eldest daughter of Henry Huggins, Esq°l °

House, Highgate-rise. -
Deaths. ..10. ,11 /'°.
COLE —On the 27th ult., at Berkley Villa, F°res- A ir
Cole, late of Timberham, Sussex, aged 61' o `-''
JOIINSON—On the 28th ult., at 102, Cloudesl6fr.ol'iiLic°-f
lington, Jas. Johnson, Et.q., late of Kingston, "`'s uttou
REEVES—On the 30th ult., Captain Peter J. ileele Batts
the Adelaide-road, St. John's-wood.
liTiel:
SMITH— On the 30th ult., Mr. William Snlit', ' °- OP
Market, Suffolk, aged 75. 111 Tiletll)3
THEOBALD —On the 30th ult., the Rev. J0t."13"
of Denley Hall, Ipswich, aged 56.

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