The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-10 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

VALUE OP AN AUCTIONEER'S CATALOGUE. -At the
Ormskirk County Court, Mr. James Platt, auctioneer, of
Southport, sued Mr. Thomas Bentley, broker, Wigan, for
£l3 10s., at which a hogshead of claret had been knocked
down to defendant's wife at a sale at Southport. In
the catalogue of sale it was announced that " a hogshead
of wine containing 50 dozens " would be offered.
At the commencement of the sale the plaintiff,
who wa3 auctioneer, said that he would not
guarantee quantities, but it could not be shewn that
this was said in the presence of Mrs. Bentley, who was
declared to be the purchaser. Svrjeant Wheeler, in giving
judgment, said there was no doubt that the statement in
the printed catalogue was pri'ind facie the basis of the
contract between the partie'. That contract admitted of
variation, but the variation must be clear and distinct,
and so made as to be within the knowledge of the parties
at the time the lot was sold. It was quite clear an auc-
tioneer must be held responsible for his catalogue, and if
he sought to fix a purchaser upon different terms from
the catalogue, the evidence must be clear that the diffe-
rence was brought home to the mind of the purchaser
when he made his bid. As it was not proved that that had
been done in this case, the verdict must be for the defen-
dant, with costs.

PERSONATING A VOTER.-At the Bristol Assizes, Peter
Morris was indicted for having voted in the name of
Henry Hurley at the late Bristol election. It seemed
that on the occasion in question a man named Hurley
was on the register and entitled to a vote. The
prisoner went to the polling-booth and handed in a scrip
with Ilurley's name and number. Some questions were
put to him, and he took the identity oath and voted. The
vote being protested against by the agents, he ran away,
but was followed by a policeman and captured without
having left the deputy-sheriffs view. The jury found a
verdict of guilty, but the accused will not be sentenced till
ome other cases of a similar nature are tried.
SENTENCE ON THE ASHTON REOTERS.-At the South
Lancashire Assizes, at Salford, the whole of the prisoners
found guilty of taking part in the riots at Ashton•under-
Lyne, on the 10th and 11th May, with the exception of
Gilbert, Parton, and Binns, who had been recommended
to mercy, were brought up for judgment. Mr. Justice
(Lumen, in passing sentence, said that he had directed
all the prisoners to be brought up together to shew
that the law could not nicely discriminate between the
degrees of guilt of persons who were banded together in
such transactions. Some had been guilty of serious acts
of violence, and some had only been guilty of having been
present when those acts were committed. Some belonged
to the Irish and some to the English party, but the offence
of all was the same, namely, disturl.ing the public peace.
His lordship alluded to the fearful excesses committed by
each party, and remarked that it was a fortunate occur-
rence for the prisoners that no lives had been lost, as,
if any of the numerous pistol shots had taken effe,A, some
of the prisoners must have been tried for murder. After
adding that if this crime should be repea tat it
would be his du'y or that of any other judge who might
preside to pass a severe sentene, his lonlship ordered
each of the prisoners to be imprisoned with hard labour
for four months. Gilbert, Parton, and Binns were then
placed at the bar, and each sentenced to two months' im-
)risonment.

SENTENCE ON INIURPIIT'S SWORD-BEARER.-At the same
Assizes Mr. Justice Hannon sentenced the man Ainsworth,
the celebrated Murphy's sword-bearer, to four months'
imprisonment, with hard labour, for having, in May last,
wounded a man in the ear with a sword at Bury. The
learned judge told him that his cue was not a whit better
:ban that of the Ashton rioters, and that he must
remember he was not protecting Mr. Murphy's tent when
he was following and pursuing the prosecutor.

DISHONOURING CHEQUES ILLEGALLY.—At the Norwich
Assizes, the action of Smith and another v. Birkbeck and
Another, was heard. It wa an action by the plaintiffs, as
trustees under a composition deed of one Sayers, to re-
cover damages from the defendants, the well-known
bankers, of Norwich, f r dishon .ur'ng Sayers's cheqt4s on
the 30th of January last. The plaintiff's contention was
that at the time of the dishonouring the cheques there were
sufficient funds in the bank to meet them, but whether
or not that was tnie depended upoa the co st. uction f a
special arrangement entered into by Messrs. Tine tt,
solicitors, at Norwich, on behalf of Sayers in the autumn
of 1867. At the conclusion of the case the jury thought
that the cheques ought not to have been dishonoured, and
gave the plaintiff £l5O damages.

CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.-At the Ipswich Assize;
Isaac Clarke was indicted for feloniously wounding
Maria Simpson, at Lowestoft. The prisoner had been
adjudged the putative father of the prosecutor's child, but
had never paid anything towards its support. On the
night in question the parties met, and the prisoner, after
some words, knocked the girl down, and kicked her
severely. She was subsequently found by a policeman in
an almost dying state. A large stab had been inflicted,
but owing to the complainant being for some time
insensible she could not remember how it had been caused.
The accused was found gu::ty, and sentenced to twenty
years' penal servitude,

Parents neglecting their children are now liable
to• six months' imprisonment, and a husband not main•
taming his wife can now be sent to prison by two justices.
The demand for a poor-rate may be made on the premises
although the parties do not reside on the premises or in
the parish.
Several communications from Scotland and from
the North of England confirm the opinion that grouse will
not be found in any great abundance except on some few
favoured spots, and that on a very large extent of ground
there will be no shooting at all. Grouse have been dying
continuously throughout the last month, and their numbers
are gradually diminishing.
THE CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A SAILOR.—
The charge against Thomas Pritchard of causing the death
of a fellow-seaman named Richardson, on the West Coast
of Africa, was disposed of on Saturday by the Liverpool
stipendiary. The medical evidence was that death
resulted from congestion of the brain. The prisoner was
therefore discharged.
DEATH THROUGH SUNSTROKE.—On Saturday an
laquest was held by Dr. Lankester at Middlesex Hospital
On the body of George Cadge, aged 43, who, having
received a sunstroke in the neighbourhood of Fulham, was
taken very ill, and on being removed in a cab to the above
hospital, on his arriving there was found to be dead.
Verdict, accidental
death.

FALL or A MOUNTAIN.—The hill of Antelao,
which hangs over several villages :of Cadore, and was
always an object of terror to the villagers, gave way
qn the evening of the 27th of July, when several of
the inhabitants had retire.' to rest. It is supposed that
the great heat of the weather mated the snow on the
mountain, and that the water
.washed aw:.y the small
support of the massts of overhanging rock. In a
brief space eleven rersons were buried under the ruins
of their houses, and more than sixty families are ren-
dered homeless.

THE FLORIDA AND CUBA. TELLORA.PHIC CABLE.
---A telegram received in London states that the
cable which Sir Charles Bright, M.P., was engaged in
laying between Florida and Cuba has been lost, and tie t
the attempt to recover the c We of list year, whi h had
broken, was also unsuccessful. It is stated that the ca: le
ransiont when some miles short of Cuba. The end w: is
buoyed, but in the course of the night it was carried away
by the current, and all attempts to find it have since failed.
There was, we are informed, no pilot on board,—./tc.qTay
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ROMAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.)

ROM E, Aug.
_1:

The preparations for another Garil)aldian
campaign continue unchecked—not only the
efforts at enlistments, but the lately-established
firearm practice in the neighbourhood of the
depots. Rumours have likewise been sedulously
spread this week that Garibaldi has left Caprera,
and is now at Florence, and announces to his
committee that he will go to Rome in the course
of this month. There is reason to believe this
is a mere party report, but its invention shows
the wishes and feelings of the sect. Those who
have the best opportunities of gaining informa-
tion are of opinion that Rome is not the pri-
mary object of attack, that the monarchy has
first to be stripped of its remaining supporters,
and the army, once under the orders of the De-
mocratic party, it would have the means of
making the long wished-for attack on the
headquarters of religion. Meantime, if Rome
were unarmed, and unprepared, she would, of
course, temptthem to come down upon her in
the more direct way. It is likewise said that
the noisy and ostentatious preparations at
Terni, Orvieto, etc., are only feints to draw
off attention from a more serious expedition
which is preparing in the kingdom of Naples
for an attack on the southern frontier. Go-
vernment is well informed of what is going
on, and vigilant in its preparations. Pieces of
artillery, of large calibre, have been mounted
on the fortifications of the city, the arsenals
provided with munitions of all sorts, and the
army is continually reinforced from day to day.
The Pope is reported to have said lately that
the present was a time favourable to the peace
and prosperity of the Church.
The French, at Civita Vecchia, are likewise
alive to all eventualities. The two men-of-war
stationed in the port have orders to exercise
themselves in various evolutions, and at the
same time keep an eye on the coast so as to
overhaul any suspicious craft which might be
attempting to land men or arms.
The English rifles, which ought to take their
place in this making ready, are still delayed.
I do not speak only of those to be provided by
the English Committee, but also of those
ordered by M. de Charette when in England.
The report we have of them now is that we are
to receive them by monthly instalments ex-
tending to the end of the year ! It is sincerely
to be hoped that these will be hastened, as
the state of preparation of the Pope's army is
a subject of close observation to the enemy,
and materially affects their tone.
The preparations for the Council are not
relaxed. A report has gained circulation but,
it may not have the best foundation, that the
Pope intends to invite the schismatic bishops
to the council, to afford an opportunity, when
they come to Rome, of exhorting their return
into the pale of the Church. There is also
another rumour of the same character afloat,
that he is about to issue a bull, allocution, or
act of some sort, condemning every system of
education which makes profession of religious
indifference such as that which pervades in the
college founded at Constantinople under the
protectorate of France, where, under pretext
of paying due deference to the belief of each,
no word of religion is spoken to any student of
any of the various creeds which frequent it.
Such a condemnation would indirectly touch
M. Duruy's scheme, and the French Govern-
ment through him, and that at a moment when
the Holy See appears to stand most in need of
the support of France. It is not this considera-
tion, however, which will withhold the Holy
Father, if he should think such a manifesto
otherwise desirable. _ _ _

A very significant fact, which I have not
seen mentioned in any paper, has just been
brought to my knowledge, showing how little
confidence the Emperor of the French feels
in the stability of the kingdom he has set up
in Italy. It would seem that secret overtures,
more or less explicit, according to the nature of
each case, have been lately made to each of the
dispossessed sovereigns, by the French Go-
vernment, designed to ascertain whether, in
the event of the disintegration of Italy, they
would each undertake, as a primary condition,
to recognize the quotient of the Italian debt
appertaining to the State of each. I am not in
a position to give you the answers that were
returned, but it is clear that the difficulties of
the case are not inconsiderable. At the time
of the Piedmontese invasion, the finances not
only of the Two Sicilies, but of Tuscany, Mo-
dena, and Parma also, were in a most flourish-
ing condition. On the statement of the Bud-
get every year, surplus was declared, and
in Naples, at least, the funds were always
above par. We all know how different is the
condition in which the former princes would
now find the public revenues if they were
called to resume the reins of Government. The
contrast is palpable and striking, and with
almost poetical justice, a reign, which com-
menced with spoliation, bids fair to end in utter
financial ruin. The treasury of the Holy See,
during the same period, notwithstanding the
most adverse circumstances, has maintained
its balance, and Monsignor Ferrari, the Minis-
ter of Finance, was able to state the other day
—" If Italy repaid us all we have expended to
satisfy the interest due on the debt of the
provinces torn from us, we should from this
source alone have enough to meet all possible
contingencies for two years to come.' And
yet the Holy See has never swerved aside from
any of its obligations, nor neglected to pay off
any of its bonds as they fell due. Only one
day this week the Giornale announced that
a sum of a million and a quarter of francs
would be applied to paying off a certain num-
ber of bonds of the so-called Catholic Loan
—that is of the two united loans of 1860 and
1864. Six hundred and eighty-six bonds of
1,000 francs, 665 of 500 francs, and 1,389 of
100 francs will be drawn and paid off at par.
A public Consistory is shortly to be held,
in which the Pope will bestow the cardinal's
hat on two of the last created Cardinals,
Mgrs. Barili and .Ferrieri, who were absent
—the one as Nuncio at Madrid, and the other
at Lisbon—at the time the dignity was con-
ferred. There is some talk of a creation of
Cardinals at the same time, but I do not think
there is any ground for the report.

Had there been a little better house accom-
modation in the sequestered village of Rocca
di Papa, it would have become a favourite
resort while the camp is there. As it is, the
few houses available for letting, are objects
of lively contest. The King of Naples, with
his brothers the Counts of Caserta and Bari
are already installed there with a limited
suite. They live very quietly, and take great
interest in the exercises of the camp. The
scond brigade have been going down in de-
tachments this week. The Zouaves took up
their quarters there on Wednesday. They
were under orders to muster for starting about
half-past three, but I had to keep up a pro-
mised look-out for my friends among them as
they passed under my windows, till seven in
the evening. And then they came by, about
a thousand in number, in good spirits and ex-
cellent order, though it was a pretty severe
taste of campaigning for some. I recognized
one slim stripling in the van guard, whom I
had known as a delicate boy, in England,
where to have carried his own carpet bag
would have been considered an unnecessary
exertion for him, trying to look very strong
and easy under his weight of knapsack, mus-
ket, and other 'impedimenta, and it required
more exertion than he cared to show to look
up at my window and nod. And he had nine-
teen miles before him all uphill, in a strong
sirocco, and then to mount guard as soon as he
arrived. But pluck and a strong will carry a
man through a great deal, and I heard that
on arriving he showed less fatigue than many
others. •

In the Piazza di Venezia they met the Holy
Father returning from his drive. They filled
the width of the street, and he stopped to see
them and bless them as they passed.
The Artillery went down on Monday night.
They passed at about eleven o'clock, quietly,
and silently in the moonlight and a beauti-

_
ful little white dog—" somebody's darling "
—peacefully sleeping on the top of one of the
guns. We have had one or two falls of rain,
which have improved the air and rendered it
more favourable for the exertions the troops
have to go through. On Thursday evening,
we had an unusually violent thunder storm ,
which lasted from early in the evening till 3
a.m. As soon as it had cleared off a little, ti ie
dragoons trotted past on their way to the car
Yesterday and to-day it has been again_ fine,
bright, and cloudless, and much cooler. than
before the storm. _

The religious celebrations of the week, of
course, include S. Ignatius's day, kept gi mndly
at the Gesit, with a triduo before and a novena
after. The feast of S. Aloysius, the pattern
of those who would seek God in their youth,
was also kept with great devotion at one of
the churches (S. Giacomo, if I remember
right), in the Borgo. Communion was g iven
by Cardinal Borromeo, in presence of the
prelates of the household, to a number of
young girls of the poorest class, gathered
from the four parishes surrounding the Vati-
can. They had been specially prepared by
the Cardinal himself, assisted by some Josuit
Fathers. A large congregation assembleCi to
witness the edifying spectacle of a prince of
the Church devoting himself to the direction
and instruction of a class most lightly thought
of by the world. There was likewise a fester at
the Ospizio de Convertendi, whose care of poor
converts I have already had occasion to men-
tion more than once. It is destined to receive
poor persons, who, coming to Rome, desire to
be instructed in the faith. At the present
time, the number of persons applyin, for
year. There is
o aobtain admission.
innosturounictiinoantiaerue
raebqouuirtefidftyt
An aged priest, long accustomed to combat
error, who is also an excellent linguist, gives
all his care to the neophytes ; and an aged
matron, who has already devoted fifty years to
the work, attends to the necessities of female
applicants. A great number of the Swiss eac-
ciatori come here to abjure their errors. Of
these, however, perhaps still more owe the
ministrations attending their conversion to the
chaplains of S. Spirito Hospital. During the
last year twenty-two Protestants, who were
brought there dangerously ill, died as good
Catholics. Something they owe, too, to the
example of pious Catholics among their own
comrades there ; the number of communions
on Sundays averaged eighty out of four hun-
dred sick. On the last day of the month of
May nearly all the men received communion.
The Holy Father visited one day this week
the Convent of the Reparation nuns—the same
order as at Harley House in London—who
have a convent also in the Borgo, under the
direction of Madame de Villele. Of course,
his visit and benediction, and kind and cheerful
conversation, was a source of great delight to
the good nuns. Their work is the perpetual
adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and the
education of the young in various missions.
They have a house in India, where they have
opened a house of refuge for widows who have
emancipated themselves from the Suttee super.
stition.

Mgr. Lavigerie, Archbishop of Algeria, is
here, and he has had several audiences to ex-
plain to the Holy Father the situation of his
vast diocese, the ravages of famine and typhus
among his flock, and the means taken by
the clergy for alleviating their suffering accord-
ing to the best of their power. He has with
him a number of photographs, one series of
which shows the attenuation to which num-
bers were reduced by suffering and privation,
an exhibition by which the Holy Father was
greatly affected. I believe he had himself
planned this visit, in order to consult with the
Archbishop on the means of diffusing the light
of the faith over the peoples who inhabit the
oasis of Central Africa. The condition of these
once Catholic people, isolated by the effects of
Mussulman invasion, and in their isolation
losing much of the purity of theirfaith, has long
been a matter of serious preoccupation with
him. Though they have not been brought to
venerate the Koran, and are still monogamists,
and wear the cross tatooed in their foreheads,
they venerate Mahomet as a prophet. They
have the monopoly of the caravans of the
desert, and conduct the whole traffic between
Northern and Central Africa; for this reason
they are very jealous of the intervention of
extraneous persons, and forbid all Europeans
to set foot on their territory. The Pope has
now resolved to erect an apostolic vicariate in
Sahara, to be confided to a body of zealous
missionaries, under the direction of Mgr.Lavi-
genie ; and thus the Pope's missionaries will
penetrate where the French army has not been
able to set foot.
A subscription has been opened to purchase
and present to the Pope the picture of the
battle of Montana by Emile Lafont, which I
mentioned lately. Without claiming to be a
work of surpassing merit, it displays a lively
appreciation of the chivalry of the heroes of the
day; and though the success of the painter may
not be judged to be complete, he has yet left
pleasing traces that his dead soldiers have not
fallen merely in stern obedience to duty, but
in warm devotion to the holiest of causes. If
he has not conquered the almost insurmount-
able difficulty of massing his cohorts into one
self-dependent scene, some of his groups show
undeniable merit and good feeling. Among
these may be noticed a Zouave giving drink
to a wounded Garibaldian, and an army chap-
lain holding the crucifix to the lips of a dying
Zouave, while he tenderly supports his head
with his hand.

MISCELLANEOUS NETVS.

(From the Anglo-American 2 imes.)

Paris is comparatively empty, though occasion-
ally straggling tourists find their way to the mighty
city, where the heat and the flies remind one of the.
country and misfortunes of the children of Israel.
The Legislative assembly has broken up, leaving a
loan of 429 millions to be raised in Rentes from the
6th to the 13th inclusive. Great preparations are
making for the celebration of the Imperial Fete on
the 15th, and a circular has been addressed by the
Minister of the Interior, M. Pinard, to the various
Prefects of the Departments, me of the most pleas-
ing instructions contained therein being—" Forget
not the poor." Building and other improvements
continue upon the same extensive scale. The new
opera of the Vaudeville is nearly completed, and
gives an aiditional attraction to the Boulevards ; a
national library has arisen upon the Boulevard
Haussmann, whilst the Rue de la Paix is arising
again, like the phoanix, from its demolitions, in
increased extent and beauty. The Rue de la Paix,
commencing from the establishment of Messrs.
Roberts and Co., well-known chemists, and extend-
ing to the Boulevard Italiens, has been always con-
sidered one of the very best streets in Paris, but
now with the new opera in face, the square, foun-
tains, &c., which are in course of completion, it
would be difficult to find in any capital a more
beautiful locality. Talking of the Rue de la Paix
reminds me of the New Passage and Express De-
partment established by Bowles, Brothers, and Co.
in connection with their bank at No. 12, an
arrangement calculated to prove of no ordinary
advantage to the travelling public, not only in
affording a choice and bird's-eye view, as it were, of
the various lines and routes, with every practical
information applicable to each, but in supplying
through tickets, circular travelling credits, certifi-
cates of deposits, &c., available with the cor-
respondents of the house of Bowles, Brothers,
and Co. in any part of the world. A move-
ment of this kind, which unites the advantages
of a perusal of a Bradshaw with a practical oppor-
tunity of carrying them into effect without further
trouble, reflects the greatest credit upon the house
in question, and cannot fail to be appreciated by
the travelling public. The manager appointed for
the immediate conduct of this branch is M. Hewitt,
whose courtesy during his long connection with the
Post-office and other departments of the Bank, has
been:thoroughly appreciated by all who have had
occasion to require his willingly rendered services.
Several of our friends have looked in during the
week to acknowledge the satisfaction afforded them

by a Visit to Asnieres ; but one, a Boston boy, does
not imagine, the refreshment saloons sufficiently
A-aierican at present. He was greatly impressed
'with the courtesy of the direction ; he thought the
new fountain with its green water lilies, illuminated
on the surface of the water, and its showers of
rainbow tinted spray, one of the most beautiful
effects imaginable. But, he could not get a
gin sling. We are happy to inform him that
since the first week the direction have taken the
refreshment department into their own hands, and
that, carried out for the future upon the principle
obtaining at Cremorne, will assimilate more nearly
to American and English requirements.
An Exposition of Insects has been opened at the
Palais d'lndustris by the Agricultural Insect So-
ciety, to last until the 30th of the present month.
The insects are divided into two classes—useful and
injurious. A rather good thing was uttered on the
occasion by one of the gamins of Paris, who,
in company with a comrade, was loitering in the
neighbourhood of the Exposition. One of those
exquisites, known in Pa,yis by the designation of
Petit Creve, was passing the Exposition in a velo-
cipede. " Ah," said the urchin, " voila one (insect)
whom they have forgotten to exhibit."
I had an opportunity the other day of witnessing
the singular and beautiful process by which M.
George, of the Rue de Rivoli, deprives dental ex-
traction of its terrors and surrounds it with a pleasing
reminiscence not usually its accompaniment. The
person operated on was a lady of about 23 years of
age, who, after inhaling the gas for a brief period,
which was carefully administered by M. George and
a medical assistant, appeared to fall off into a most
pleasant slumber. The tooth, a molar of for-
midable proportions, was drawn without the ope-
ration appearing to cause the slightestinconvenience.
One hardly knows which to admire most, the beau-
tiful effect of the protoxyide or the skilful manage-
ment of the operator. However, the reader can at
any titne judge for himself.

Our correspondent, writing from New York,
July 24, says—Yesterday morning rain commenced
in Baltimore, and, after a short cessation, again
fell in torrents until 9 p.m., when the water rose at
the rate of two inches per minute for an hour,
flooding the streets in places to the depth of 18
inches. Lives are reported to have been lost, but
the number has not been ascertained, though ru-
mour ranges from seven to one ; but there is a re-
port that the granite mills at Elicot city were carried
away and sixty persons drowned. The flood
subsided almost as cinickly as it arose,

bough for the short time that it lasted,

it turned the streets into raging torrents,
overwhelming everything in its course. You
will be able to judge of the violence of the
flood, as a street car loaded with passengers was
swept from the track and carried away several hun-
dred feet. Telegraph communication was stopped
with Washington and the South. The loss is variously
estimated, but it is considered that it will not be short
of $3,000,000. The annual boat race of Harvard
versus Yale came off at Worcester, Massachusetts,
yesterday, and attracted much attention. After
several minor races the college boys made their
appearance, and were greeted with loud cheers.
They are becoming personally celebrated—the
youngest of the Harvard crew named Simmons,
eldest son of the late Rev. George F. Sim-
mons, is the largest of the rowers. The
boats are each six-oared shell-boats, the Harvard
51 feet by 20 inches, and the Yale two feet longer.
The distance was three miles. The Harvards started
with a clear rapid dip and a strong stroke, and led
at the end of the first quarter of a mile by a length,
which they kept steadily increasing until the end of
the race, coming home an eighth of a mile ahead
of the Yale boat. The Harvard time was 17 mi-
nutes 481 seconds ; Yale, 18 minutes 38} seconds.
The Harvard time on Wednesday, although beaten
by the Wards, was 17 minutes 53 seconds against
18 minutes 13 seconds last year ; and the Yale time
of 1866 was 18 min. 421 secs., which shews that Yale
has madelittle improvement, while the progress among
the Harvard boys has been considerable. Mr.
Bateman's French opera bouffe has met with great
success. Since the opening night, last Monday,
Niblo's house has been crowded, notwithstanding
the heat. With this exception the theatres have
been thinly attended during the summer, and some
of the minstrel halls have cl,sed altogether. John
Brougham, at Wallack's is, however, an exception,
as his new play, the " Lottery of Life," is a
great success. Regarding politics, both parties
have opened the campaign by mass meetings
in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, the Republi-
cans last week, and the Democrats this ; equally
large and enthusiastic. At the former the speakers
were General Woodford, the Lieutenant-Governor
of the State, and the Hon. 11. G recley. At the latter
the Hon. 11. C. Murphy, and S. S. Cox, of Ohio.
Disaffection prevails in the Democratic ranks,
caused by the Repudiation plank, and it is found
nearly impossible to raise funds to carry on the
campaign. Rumour says that Mr. Belmont, who
is the richest among the men of influence in
the party, reluctantly gives money in aid of Sey-
mour's election, prophesying financial difficulties
in the event of success. Mr. Belmont is a heavy
holder of Government Bonds, as are his correspon-
dents in Europe, and he is not likely to favour a
policy which would decrease the value of this pro-
perty. Neither candidate has as yet taken any
active part in the canvas. Mr. Seymour is at work
on his farm near Utica, and Gen. Grant, with Gens.
Sherman and Sheridan, is on his way to the Rocky
Mountains. The heated term is over, and we are
enjoying comparatively cool weather, which the
New Yorkers highly appreciate of ter their recent expe-
rience. Congress will adjourn next Monday(July 27),
All the Southern States, except Texas, Virginia,
and Mississippi, are now fully represented, and the
Fortieth Congress may so far be satisfied with its
work. The Union League of New York has re-
solved that Congress should remain in session to
protect the negroes. The Hon. Reverdy Johnson
has taken leave of the President and Mr. Seward,
and having obtained his final instructions, has just
left Washington to start on the Ist of August

from Baltimore Mr. Adams has been well
received in Boston by the best people of the
city and its vicinity. He declined in his reply
to discuss questions connected with his mission to
England, which, in spite of every effort, he skilfully
avoided.

The lion. W. P. Howland has been appointed
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario, and the
Iron. L. S. Willmott Lieutenant-Governor of New Bruns-
wick.

The Utah contested election came up July 23,
and the House decided unanimously that Mr. M'Grorty,
the contestant, was not entitled to the seat, and on the
same day Mr. Clarke, of Kansas, from the committee on
military affairs, reported a bill granting the right of way
to a railroad company over the military reservation at
Fort Leavenworth. Passed.

The ordnance committee decline to interfere in
the court-martial of General Dyer. Thoy say the judge
advocate is the proper officer for that purpose.

A Western editor, in response to a subscriber who
grumbles that his morning paper was intolerably damp,
says "that it is because there is so much dew (due) on it."
Mr. Watts, the new Minister to Austria, is a
wealthy citizen of Philadelphia.
Moses Y. Beach, the veteran editor of the New
York Sun, died at Wallingford, Connecticut., Sunday
morning, July 19.

Among the guests at the great dinner to his Ex-
cellency Revordy Johnson, given at Baltimore, were
Governor Swann, of Maryland; Senators Hendricks and
Nye ; Collector Webster, of Baltimore ; Judges Crane,
Merrick, and Bond, and others, representatives of the
commercial, mercantile, and manufacturing interests
of Maryland. Mr. John W. Garrett, President of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, presided, having on his right
the distinguished guest of the evening, and on his left Mr.
Thornton Letters of regret were read from the President
of the United States, members of the Cabinet, Speaker of
the House of Representatives, and many of the Senators.
The Vermont Democrats have nominated a full
State ticket, with John L. Edwards for governor.—The
New Jersey Democrats have named General Theodore
F. Runyon for governor, and Peter D. Broom and Adolph
Schalck for electors at large.—At the Missouri Republican
State Convention, Colonel Joseph A. M'Clurg, now re-
presenting the third district in Congress, was named
for governor ; for lieutenant-governor, E. 0. Stannard ;
for secretary of State, John Rodman ; for treasurer,
Judan Moyer; for Auditor-General, Daniel Draper; At-
torney. General, Horace B. Johnson ; Supreme Judges,
David Wagner, FiliklAcia 131i56 and
.Lioury A. 019yer

electors at large, Gen. Carl Schurz and Col. A
largo and enthusiastic ratification meeting was held at St.
Louis, for the purpose of ratifying the State and national
nominations. In the Cincinnati Congressional District
Gen. Sam Cary. has accepted a renomination from the
trades unions of the district, and the Democrats of the
Seventh Indiana District have nominated Samuel W.
Voorhees for Congress against Gen. Washington. The
Democratic nominee for Congress in Speaker 0 ,9_,fax's dis-
trict is Judge W. K. Farrand.

The Springfield Republican says :—" Mr. Dawes
administered a very just reproof to Mr. James Brooks,
member of Congress from New York. When the delega-
tion from Alabama was sworn in on Wednesday, Mr.
Brooks took occasion to denominate them ' carpet-bag-
gers.' Mr. Dawes replied that such a sneer came with
bad grace from the gentleman, who was himself a car-
pet-bagger' from the State of Maine, who had been sent to
Congress from New York. The hit was most palpable,
for Mr-Brooks was a strong anti-slavery man in Maine,
but changed his opinion when he removed to New York.
He was, perhaps, the original 'carplt-bagger.' "
Admiral Farragut is said to be a millionaire. He
owns a number of pretty houses, some unoccupied lots,
and twenty acres now in wheat, within the city limits of
Vallejo, California. As that city is to hi the western ter-
minus of the Central Pacific Railroad, this property is de-
stined to become a mine of wealth, an I within a year has
been trebled in price.

Captain Semmes, of Alabanzl fame, spoke at a I
great Democratic meeting in llobile, and was the most
applauded at the gathering. The notice of the meeting
had caught his eye, and led him there to rejoice in the
action of the great and glorious Democratic party. He
had been a Democrat all his life—before the war, during
the war, and since the war—and fought the war on the
principles of Democracy, believing that the grand old
Constitution which embodied these principles was
about to be destroyed. Continuing, he said :—" There is
really but one grand issue in this contest, and that is the
restoration of these states to their proper places in the
Union with all their rights and privileges unimpaired.
This issue will have the effect to drive from our midst
the hordes of adventurers who have swarmed upon us
like vultures to eat up the substance of the people. This
issue will again reduce the negro to a subordinate position
as the inferior race, and restore the white man to the go-
vernment which belongs to him. When you have settled this
issue it will be time enough to talk about policy. It will be
time enough to rid ourselves of the leprous army which
has been fattening upon the wealth of the South. It will
be time enough to settle questions of currency. It will bo
time enough to destroy the tariff and taxation under which
the nation has been groaning. And now, fellow-citizens,
I have come here to declare that I have given in my alle-
giance, heart and soul, to the old flag, provided we can re-
store the old flag again to be the representative of the prin-
ciples of the Constitution, which we will be able to effect
by the election of Seymour and Blair."
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
whose letters are to he found iu every hole and corner,
writing in a delightfully senational style, gives an account
of Horatio Seymour as ho appeared at Utica after his no-
mination. The correspondent was greatly disappointed
in seeing "a slender man with a black cloth coat buttoned
up to a dwindled and dusty standing collar, shaved
face, with plausible lines, but not a suggestion of
positiveness in it, and a boldish head, with a rim of grey
hair running round the base of the neck. He wore also
grizzled hair under the throat. His eye was good ; hi 73
nose knobby and sensual, like his mouth ; his address was
nervous, but elegant." How much the candidates will
learn about themselves if they only treasure up all that
is printed of them in the United States.
GENERAL GRANT AT LEAVENIVORTIL—On his
way to Denver General Grant passed through Leaven-
worth, but declined a public reception there. The follow-
ing is his letter to Mayor Morehead on the subject, dated
at St. Louis on the 14th :—" Dear Sir,—Your favour of
the 11th instant, inclosing resolutions of the Council
of Leavenworth city, extending to me a public re-
ception, and asking when I shall be in your city, is re-
ceived. I expect to leave this city for Leavenworth in
the train which starts in the afternoon to-morrow. I will
probably be in Leavenworth one day, at the quarters of
General Sheridan, when I will be happy to meet all
the citizens of Leavenworth who do me the honour to
call. But allow me to decline a public reception. I
fully appreciate the compliment convoyed in the re-
solution which you forward, and thank the City Coun-
cil and citizens for it; but while travelling for re-
creation, and to inspect personally a country with
which I have so much to do and have never seen,
I would much prefer avoiding public demonstrations.
Believing that you and the citizens of Leavenworth, to
whom I reiterate my thanks, will fully appreciate this
feeling, and the motive which induces mo to decline this
proffered kindness--I subscribe myself, very respectfully,
your obedient servant, U.S. GRANT."

Two men, whose names are not yet known, were
carried over the Falls of Niagara on the 19th July.
General Ripley and General Maynadier, of the
Ordnance Department of the Army, have both recently
bee❑ in Springfield, the former on the way to make his
annual inspection of the fortifications and their arma-
ments on the New England coast, in which ho is accom-
panied this year by OLtrtain Smoot of the armoury ; and
the latter to make the customary inspection of the Govern-
ment establishment in Springfield.

Samuel tells, formerly Governor of Maine, and
Judge of the Supreme Court, died at his residence in
Boston on Wednesday, July 22. II:3 was brother to the
ex-Senator John S. Wells, of New Hampshire, and also
of ex-Governor Wells, of Illinois.

Thomas A. Goddard, of the firm of lasigi, God-
dard, and Co., ono of the oldest in Boston, died at his
residence in Newton: on Thmsday, July 23, after a brief
illness, and has left property to the amount of upwards of
$300,000. _ _

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cole, Professor Phillips,
and Mrs. I. N. Lincoln, widow of the late Professor Lin-
coln, all of Williamstown, Western Massachusetts, and a
Miss Betts, of Troy, are to start immediately on a Euro-
pean tour, to bo absent about a year. Mr. Colo goes fur
the benefit of his health, which has been delicate for a
long time.
.

Hon. Luther R. Smith, formerly of Coleraine,
and of the class of 1859 at Amherst College, has resigned
his position in the Alabama Legislature as Representative
from Choctaw, in order to assume the judgeship to which
ho was elected at the same place.
Paul Murphy, the celebrated chess-player, is at
Homburg les Bains. It is uncertain whether he will
attempt to beat the Kursaal Baud at their game of roulette
or rouge et noir.

At Alton, in Staffordshire, the overseers have
put the names of the female ratepayers as claimants of
votes on the church door.

ahe overseers of Salford have placed 1,208
women on the register of electors for that borough. Above
5,000 women householders have sent in claims to vote for
the city of Manchester.

The Revolution tells us that a MinneSota woman,
Mrs. Myrick, milliner, of Ouatonne, lately sold her six-
teen years old and beautiful daughter to a Chicago fancy-
goods dealer for $2,000, in payment for an old debt. The
girl heard of the transaction, and with her lover, a likely
young fellow named Odell, eloped, were pursued, arrested
and brought back, but the infamous sale which the mother
contemplated was stopped.
Maggie Mitchell will enter the contest for prizes
at the Savannah boat race.

Miles O'Reilly is riled at a Western paper who, in
describing his personal appearance, announced the boy to
be 47 years of ago. Although our clever friend of the
Citizen has been abused to his heart's content, having a
knack of writing verses that jingle unpleasqntly in some
people's ears, yet this addition to his years was the only
dart he really felt. Miles is but 38, and if not full of years
is at least full of vanity.

The Spirit of the Times gives the following :-
" Another of Like Character.—We extract the following
paragraph from the World of Tuesday morning last :
We have received a note from a person who offers to bet
from $5OO to $5,000 that Governor Seymour will carry
this State by 70,000 majority, and the same sum that Go-
vernor Seymour will be the next President of tho United
States. It the enthusiastic bettor desires us to hold the
stakes, he has addressed the wrong journal, His note
should be addressed to Mr. Theodore Tilton, edit();
of the Independent, who waa mentioned in the
Washington telegrams as a prominent bottle and
stakeholder during the impeachment farce.' The
above offers can be mot and covered, at this office,
for the highest sums named—to wit, for $5,000 each --and
we will then bet $5,000 to $3,000 we will win the first bet,
and $lO,OOO to $5,000 that we will win the second— that
is to say, that Grant will be the next President, instead of
Seymour. We have no objection that either the editor
of the World or Mr. Tilton shall be holder of the stakes.
Will the World please name its man ?" Well done.!—go
it George !
Mr. Burlingame gave a dinner in Washington
to the newspaper correspondents, and Congressmen were
to have some "chow-chow" after they had ratified the
Treaty with China. It is rather rich putting correspon-
dents before Congressmen, but America is the Paradise
of countries for Press-men, alid wo only regret that our
abours should be conducted in such a dull, unappreciative
climate as this. _ _ _

Canadian labourers refuse to take their wages in
American silver, unless at a discount of 10 per cent.
From Russia we are informed that the American
company which had undertaken the construction of a tele-
4raphic line between America and Nicolaevsk, on the
Amoor river, has discontinued its labours, and officially
renounced the concession it had obtained. Tho resigna-
tion has been accepted by the Council of Ministers, and a

lecreo, sanctioned by ON Emperor, has been passed to
that effect.

THE TEA DUTY IS REDUCED—Horninzan's Pure Tea is

sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting fact will, when
fully known, even further increase the demand for these
choice, long-approved Teas. They aro not sold loose, but,
only in Packets, signed " liorniman," London.

LETTER FROM GEO. IRAN CIS TRAIN.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
•

Four Courts, Marshalses, Dublin,
Aug. 2, 1868.
Dear Anglo-American Times, —First to come to my assist-
ance, it is due that you have some of the official docu-
ments showing that I paid this claim years ago ; and yet
lam in prison for life. Can any ono doubt now that you
were right in saying the arrest was political. Let me sup-
port you in that opinion in two or three extracts from the
national press. And as all the Irish papers are
.'on.tur
side, you can judge of my chance in the Irish vote nest
November. John Savage, President of the P. 8., holds A
great convention on the24th instant, in Now York. TO
convention may change the destinies of rations. (21
mass of extracts from the Irish papers have been sub-
mitted, and if they fairly represent the case Mr. Train 10
received but scant justice. On every baud it is declared
that after great trouble ho procured the affidavit of the
lawyer who paid the debt, which, though sworn before the
British Consul in Venice, was refused by the chief clerk
on the ground that it was not written on the regulation
paper of the Dublin Bankruptcy Court.) The Boston Pil4
says of Train :—" The owls and the bats that dwell among
the cobwebs and crumbling ruins of Europe mast be sur-
prised at the bugle notes of liberty proclaimed, wider the
eyes of effete royalty, by this apostle of liberty, ha'n33
right,, and true progress. His speeches are fall of goo
of thought, which, like seed sown upon genial ground',
must, in time, produce a fruitful crop in the garden 01
lib •rty."
The Feni rn Vo!unteer, Buffalo; The fresh People and 06
Irish Citizen, .New York ; Th 3 Philalelplact Universe ; 101
The San Francisco Monitor, all talk iu the same style.•
My private advices all confirm the opinion that the Irish
vote will be thrown for that party that will do the most
for Ireland, and our citizens in gaol. Mr. Reardeu's n 10"
Lion in Parliament settles the question as to the arrest
being political, and the American Irish will act accord-
ingly.
This document will show you the infamous outrage °I;
my person in this incarceration. No black Hottentot, re
u
Hindoo, or yellow Chinaman, no serf iu Russia, slave la.
Brazil, but what would receive the protection of a national
flag in such a case as mine ! _

In the Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency before
Judge Miller on Wednesday, Mr. J. F. Rynd applied to
the court, in re (+Jorge Francis Train, that the insolvent
be reheard on his petition and schedule, now pending to
the court, pursuant to the terms of as order made by his
lordship on a previous day—nani.ly, that the insolvent be
at liberty to apply to be again brought up for hearing+
upon giving notice of such application to the opposing
creditors, and upon lodging iu court the originals er
copies of the instruments referring to his property, men'
tioned in the amended schedule, alleged to have been
conveyed to the insolvent in trust for his wife and
children, and on producing the accounts or documents
in his possession or procurement, relative to the street
railways or other companies with which he was titian
chilly connected. The application was grounded upon the
affidavit of Mr. Train's attorney in America—Mr. Clark°
Bell, of New York—and the contents of which were
merely a repetition of the facts previously deposed to 111
the insolvent relative to his wife's property and his Woe"
tary transactions with Mr. M'Henry, to whom the Clef°
was paid.
Judge Miller, having read the affidavit, said he could
not receive it, inasmuch as it was not in the proper forte'
and did not comply with the terms of the order.
Mr. Rynd then applied for an adjournment, to give fir'
Train an opportunity of filing a further affidavit.
Mr. Martin (instructed by Messrs.D.and T. Fitzgerald'
who appeared for the Ebbw Vale Iron Company, did net
oppose the application.
Judge Miller consented to allow tho case to stand until
Friday.—Evening Mail.
• On Friday I applied again with the affidavit of WY
t
father-in-law and Thomas C. Durant, the vice-preside°
of the Union Pacific Railway, who paid Mr. 11I'lleury th,e
Ebbw Vale claim four years ago, and the Judge gal:
refused the documents, or to allow me to appear and slats
my case. As it stands there is no redress. The Courts
being shut I must appeal to the Press, and herewith Wei„;
my acknowledgments to the Anglo-American Times f°
being first to lead off in giving me fair play.
GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN.'
As my turn will come by and by I have just penned th'o
notice on the several parties. Look out for breakers :-""