The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1868.

7HE PRO7ESTAN7 DEMONSTRATION- AT
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

The great Protestant demonstration at the
Crystal Palace in support of Mr. Disraeli and
the Throne, of the Irish Establishment and the
Constitution, was in every respect a failure.
The only man, besides the chairman, whose
name was at all familiar to the general pub-
lic, was Mr. Newdegate. And in numbers the
demonstration did not make up for its want
of weight; for at no time were more than 1,500
persons attracted either by curiosity or inte-
rest round the platform. The meeting par-
took of the " No Popery" character, impressed
by Mr. Disraeli upon the question to be de-
cided in the coming elections. We will not
stop to comment upon these tactics of the hus-
tings, nor upon the criminal folly of attach-
ing the Throne and the Constitution-to the
pillars of an Establishment founded by violenec
and upheld by injustice. Such a policy is to
expose to danger, only to be averted by the
good sense and loyalty of the people of Eng-
land and Ireland, the best institutions of the
country. History will mark with an inefface-
able brand the man who, exempt from the
honest fanaticism of a Newdegate, commits,
for party purposes, the dignity of the Throne
to the support of such a causeas the Irish Esta-
blishment.

But leaving dishonest policy and sham reli-
gious zeal to the contempt which it deserves,
let us examine for a moment what honest but
blind bigotry had to say for itself at this Pro-
testant Demonstration. The first object to
be sought for by such Protestants as those
assembled at the Crystal Palace, was the pur-
gation of Protestantism by the summary eject-
ment from the State Church of the Ritualists,
and of all who were not filled with the pur
sang of Protestantism, and the next was to
uphold against the machinations of " Popery,"
the Royal Supremacy, as interpreted by Mr.
Disraeli. The most important resolution adopted
at the meeting was one, in the principle of
which we cordially concur, because it is in
perfect harmony with the teaching of the Papal
Encyclical and Syllabus. We only object to
its application. The resolution says :
" That this meeting is of opinion that the
principle of an affiance between Church and
State is not only in strict accord with the
wise practice of Governments in past ages, but
likewise fully sanctioned and enjoined by the
spirit of Christianity, whose holy mission it is
to consecrate things secular by an indissoluble
union with things sacred ; and this meeting
hereby invites all true Christians, of whatever
denomination, to uphold by their vote and in-
fluence, at the forthcoming election, the union
of the State with the Church of the Reforma-
tion."

We grant that it is the mission of Chris-
tianity to consecrate things secular by an in-
dissoluble union with things sacred, but we
deny that this consecration is carried out by
the union of the State with the "Church of the
Reformation" to-day. Waiving, for argument
sake, the primary objection that the Church
of the Reformation is no Church at all, but a
heresy, and consequently that the union of
the State with it is not a matter of cbligation,
but only to be upheld, if at all, as a matter of
expediency, we go further, and object that in
this Church of the Reformation, as established
by law in England and Irelai d, this union of
things sacred and secular, is perverted by
the exercise of the Royal Supremacy, which
subjects things sacred to the secular power.
This subjection violates the whole theory, for
such a connection between the two powers
isnot one enjoined by the spirit of Christianity,
but an adulterous connection, dictated by
worldliness on the part of the Church, and
lust of power on the part of the State ;
and what is the result of such a connec-
tion ? It is becoming every day more and
more conspicuous in the degradation of the
spiritual power, in the elimination of the Chris-
tian character of the State. To-day witnesses
the rapid development of Rationalism in the
Church and in the State to which it is united.
The introduction of secular education in the
universities and in the national schools will
not lag long behind civil marriage and divorce ;
and to-morrow the fresh legislation already
called for by the Bishop of London, the reforms
desiderated by Dean Stanley and the broad
Church party will soon succeed in emanci-
pating the Church of England from the thral-
dom of the creeds, from the sacramental sys-
tem, and from the remnant of those things
divine, which the established heresy has
hitherto preserved. Its union with the State,
therefore, when these things come, is no longer
to be upheld, for it is no longer expedient ;
it opens the gate to Rationalism by giving a
seeming religious consecration to its inroads.
Better far to drop the mask; if infidelity is
to direct the State, let it not be done even
under the cover of religion ; let tbe people
learn if a secular education is to be intro-
duced, that it is introduced, not by a State
in union with religion, but by a godless State.
Let Protestantism, if it possess the vital power,
upbraid the rationalizing State, and resist its
tin-Christian attacks ; let it withdraw from
the State rather than succumb ; let it
follow that course condemned by Mr. New-
degate in his blind unreasoning bigotry, which
the Pope has adopted towards the un-Christian
Government of Austria. " The Pope has de-
nounced, condemned, ostracized, the Govern-
ment of Austria," says Mr. Newdegate, " be-
cause it was not blindly obedient to his sway,"
' or, in truer words, because it introduced secular
education and civil marriage into a Christian
country. If it would not subject things sacred
to things secular, let the Established Church
of England act as the Church in Austria acts ;
let it assert, if it possesses the gift, its divine
mastery or withdraw from a union which is
no longer beneficial but criminal. But is it
not true, does its short history not show it,
that the spirit of Protestantism is the spirit of
compromise, of concession in things divine, to
the State ? Therefore, its connection with the
State in the long run ends in complete servi-
tude. Sooner or later all those in the Angli-
can Church who value religious independence
more than State Supremacy, who hold positive
dogmas higher than a delusive unity, will
shrink in horror from upholding the union of
the State with the "Church of the Reforma-
tion" as now proposed " to all true Christians
of whatever denomination " in the resolution
supported by Mr. Newdegate at the great Pro-
testant demonstration in the Crystal Palace.—
Westminster Gazette.

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CRIMINAL COURT.—Yesterday.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

TIIE CHARGE AGAINST MADAME RACHEL.---CONCLU-

SION OF THE TRIAL.

Mr. Digby Seymour opened the case for the •
defence. He might at once say that he should not
call any evidence for the defence, because there was
but one, and the mouth of that one was now closed.
He felt satisfied that his client would be judged ac-
cording to the evidence, and not by the prejudice
that had been created against her—a prejudice
which had reached that court, because a conviction
in the case had been said by the learned counsel for
the prosecution would rid London of one of its
foulest stains. He felt that they would
not condemn in the summary manner that was
imagined. Her conduct immediately these
proceedings were commenced showed that she
was quite ready to meet the charge. She did not
avail herself of flight, as she might easily have
done, but she went openly before the magistrate,
and, iu effect, said —" Here I am, ready to meet
any charge that may be preferred against me." A
civil action had been instituted against his
client, but when her mouth was open
friendly negotiations took place, and the
matter was withdrawn. The same course was
pursued on another occasion when a summons had
been issued against her ; but after a long interval
had been allowed to elapse, a criminal prosecution
had been instituted against her, and then she was
called upon to disprove a number of grave charges,
the prosecution well knowing that immediately she
was plaoedin the dock her month was closed. Another
prejudice had been attemptedto be raised against his
client, because she dealt in various articles whose
virtues were stated to be beneficial to female ap-
pearance ; but if everybody was to be prosecuted
who advertised their nostrums in the public news-
papers there would be no end of prosecutions.
He felt certain the jury would not condemn the
defendant because she advertised her specifics, as
it was impossible they could take up any newspaper
without finding embrocations, emulsions, &c., for
every ill that flesh was heir to, staringly paraded in
the public prints. Then, again, it was urged to his
client's detriment that she was ignorant, but that
unfortunate circumstance to his mind showed most
unmistakeably that she could not dictate those curi-
ousepistles with which they had become so familiar.
Those letters, peculiar in themselves, were however
correct in their composition, and to suppose that
an ignorant and illiterate woman could talk about
" the overland route to the heart" and various other
similes, was a circumstance that completely surpassed
his comprehension, and he felt it would that of the
jury. It was quite true that his client might pander
to modern fashion in Vanity Fair, but that was nut
the case. It would neither be fair nor just to visit
on Madame-Rachel the sins of a generation. He
felt quite certain they would not find his client
guilty of the charge imputed to her ; that they
would not find her guilty of the possession
of valuable property, which it had not been
said she had received ; and then with re-
gard to the simplicity of Mrs. Borradaile,
why she appeared to him as sane a woman as ever
drew a cheque, and having got herself into a di-
lemma by her extravagance, she turned round and
said she had acted as the blind and trusting tool of
a deep, cunning, and designing woman. That they
would be the best judges of. Did the evidence bear
out such a theory ? He felt they were not of
that opinion. When she attempted to make them be-
lieve that she was anxious for the marriage as an
advancement of the position of her daughter, she,
to his mind, pleaded the interests of the daughter to
excuse the follies of the mother. Bat she
had overdone her case, and the evidence of
Lord Ranelagh proved that such was the
fact. He totally denied all knowledge
of the whole transaction, and he felt great pleasure
in saying of Lord Ranelagh—a nobleman who had
done good service to his country—that his honour
and character had come out unstained in that in-
vestigation. Mrs. Borradaile wished it to be
believed that she was particularly simple, but
did they believe that she was so extraordinarily
simple as to believe that Lord Ranelagh made
love through the mouth of his footman. He con-
tended that it was altogether irreconcilable with
the guilt of the prisoner that she should send a
letter to Mr. Cope, the relative of Mrs Borrodaile,
in Wales—a letter which set the whole prosecution
in motion. He concluded with a strong appeal to
the jury to discredit the whole of the evidence of
Mrs. Borradaile, and the result of that would be to
enable them to give a verdict in consonance with
British justice—namely, one of not guilty.
Sergeant Ballautine, in reply, said he should not
attempt to emulate the eloquence of his learned
friend; all he should do would be to recall to
mind the actual point at issue. The learned
counsel for the defence wished them to believe that
the prosecutrix had been carrying on a clandestine
intimacy with a. person of the name of William—
that she had forgotten her womanhood, and that
she had come into court to bolster up a pro-
secution by lies ; and the result of his
learn° I friend's appeal to the jury would be,
'suppo.sing they adopted his view of the case, that
she would leave the court a convicted strumpet.
But there was one part of the case that his learned
friend had passed over altogether as quite beneath
would doubtless agree
withhim
important for Madame
his notice,
that butit
w theas jury
most
Rachel to show how she came in possession of a
all fdroUnlbt that either Madame
"William" To him it
appearedwhal e heap
Rachel was in conspiracy with this "William," that
she was guilty of keeping letters intended for another
person, or else that the letters, having been delivered
beyondof lletters
t e
at their destination had come back to Madame

Rachel. By no truthful or honest means could
possession, and the whole
herpresented the appearance of
thingsth y h a
tv o e comehi mind,into
trick and fraud. His learned friend had
upon the evidence of
Ad
iwr
se t
Borradaile,
ovrerrayd a i
utterly worthless, but
he seemed to be afraid. to put a single witness in
the box to contradict her. Where, he would ask,
was Miss Rachel, where was Edward, two very
important persons who could perhaps have given
more information than was convenient had they
been put forward for examination. The conduct
of Madame Rachel, when
visited by Mr. Cope,
was strong confirmation that she had never lent
Mrs. Borradaile a single penny. Had she been her
debtor, did they think that Madame Rachel would
have said she was not? Then his learned friend
had said something about the charges made by
the prisoner, but they as men of the world knew
well enough that there were silly foolish people
in the world who would readily part with 1,000
guineas for that which was infinitely absurd and
i
utterly impossible, f, unfortunately, they got into
the
Sergeant hands
h oe fn astrdoensigglyniea on the conduct of
Mr. woman. The learned
Mr. Haynes, the solicitor, and proceeded to
refer to the evidence given by Lord Rane-
lagh. It appeared beyond doubt that Lord
Ranelagh had bezel to Madame &Isabel's, and he
could only say that it was most unfortunate that he
should have ever been introduced to Mrs. Borra-
daile, and with respect to his giving his card to the
lady, he could not help thinking such a proceeding
on his part was not impossible. That Mrs. Borra-
daile was a poor weak, vain woman, he would not
deny, and her conduct in court showed that in all
her actions vanity was uppermost, for the first
question of his learned friend to her showed it. She
refused to tell her age—she wouldn't tell her age,
but boasted of her hair. (Laughter.) His learned
friend wanted to know " Who was William?"
Why Miss Rachel knew, Edward knew ; and
yet neither were called in court. Madame Rachel
knew. Where did William live ? He must have
lived somewhere--(laughter)—and if even it was in
a garret he must have been seen by the people who
lived in the parlour. (Laughter.) Then, again,
bis learned friend talked about the overland route
and Madame Rachel's ignorance of the existence of it,
but he seemed to forget that she was a dealer
in Eastern perfumes, much of which would have to
come by that direction, and her ignorance on the
subject was, he was certain, not deeply seated, as
had been stated. The evidence of the youth Lin-
ton did not seem to suit the case for the defence,
and it was attempted to make the boy most
unworthy of belief ; but as far as he was a judge
of human nature, the lad gave his evidence in an
open frank manner, and in such a manner as to
carry conviction on the minds of all right-thinking
persons. It was very unfortunate that the boy's
testimony should be set aside by the counsel for the
prisoner, because it showed most unmistakeably that
the manufacture of all the letters was by "Edward,"
and that they were all concocted in Madame
Rachel's back parlour. The learned Sergeant
having commented on the other parts of the
speech of the counsel for the defence, concluded
by expressing his firm conviction that justice would
be done, and that their verdict would be in all re-
spects in conformity with the evidence that had
been -placed before them. 1 he great question for
them to determine was whether the prosecutrix
was a perjurel strumpet or the woman at the bar a
fraudulent person.
The Recorder having summed up the evidence,
The jury retired at two minutes past 6 o'clock to
consider their verdict, and were absent until half-
past 8, when they returned for a letter and to ask
a question as to the disposition of the £1,400. At
9 o'clock they again entered the court, and in-,

formed the Recorder that there was no likelihood
of their agreeing upon a verdict.

The Recorder said that he could take no other
than a unanimous verdict, and the jury were again
locked up.
After a considerable lapse of time they reap-
peared in the box, and the question was again asked
them if they had agreed upon their verdict.
The Foreman replied in the negative.
A juror wished to ask a question as to the £1,400
which the prosecutrix had given to Mr. Haynes to
pay to Madame Rachel for the diamonds.
The Recorder said that the evidence was that
she had agreed to take £lOO, and b keep the
diamonds.

The Juror asked if there was any receipt given.
The Recorder said that no receipt had been pro-
duced, but Mrs. Borradaile had said she paid £lOO
forfeiture, because the contract was not fulfilled.
The £1,400 was paid by Mr. Haynes to Madame
Rachel at different times.
The Juror—Was Ma,datne Rachel ever authorised
to pay £1,400 to Capt. Edwardes ?
The Recorder—lt was said that the money wal
for the Volunteers.

The Juror--Was there any receipt given to
Madame Rachel for that money ?
The Recorder replied in the negative.
The Juror— Was there a receipt given to Mr.
Haynes for the money?
The Recorder—No. The false pretence charged
in one of the counts of the indictment was that
Madame Rachel obtained the money and the deed
by representing to the prosecutrix that Lord Rane-
lagh was in love with her, and that he had requested
to have the money for the Volunteers. It was said
by Madame Rachel that Lord Ranelagh wanted to
borrow it.

Mr. Digby Seymour—There is no proof in any
of the letters that the money was wanted for the
Volunteers.

The Recorder—No; the letters say nothing about
that.

After some further conversation, principally with
reference to the remarks which his lordship had
made in allusion to one of the letters, the jury
again retired.

The court remained crowded during the whole of
the evening, and the greatest anxiety appeared to
be manifested to learn the decision of the jury. All
parties were doomed to disappointment till ten
minutes past eleven o'clock, when the jury once
more presented themselves, and
The Recorder, addressing them, asked if there
was any possibility of their coming to a verdict in
a short time.

The Foreman—There is no probability at all, my
lord.

The Recorder—Has this decision been thoroughly
considered by you all?
The Foreman—lt has, my lord.
The Recorder—l think I ought to discharge you,
though without any verdict being come to, especially
after the attention you have bestowed on this case.
I do not thick that I ought to force the consciences
of those who honestly differ from their fellows.
The jury were then discharged, and the witnesses
ordered to reappear this morning.
Mr. Digby Seymour trusted that the trial would
be postponed. Ile was, in fact, physically unable
to reappear, and he felt that justice to his client de-
manded that her case should be properly presented
to any other jury who might be summoned to
hear it.

The Recorder said that it was evident that, as
Mr. Digby Seymour had met with an accident, some
allowance should be made, and the trial should be
postponed.

Mr. Digby Seymour—Till the next sessions, my
Lord ?

The Recorder—Very well, till then.
Mr. Digby Seymour—l have another application
to make, and that is that Madame Rachel may be
released on bail, and that the bail previously de-
cided on may be so reduced as that she may be en-
abled to procure it.

The Recorder consented to reduce the amount
of bail to one-half of what it then stood, on proper
notice being given, and all parties then left the
court.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(Prom the Anglo-American Tinos.)

The Royal Mail steamship ,Scotia arrived at
Queenstown at 1 a.m. yesterday, making a passage
worthy this renowned vessel, and bringing news
from New York to August 12. We are happy to
see that the Governor of Alabama has vetoed the
bill empowering the Legislature to cast the electoral
vote of the State. A more insane measure could
scarcely have been passed, or one better calculated
to impress the world with the notion that these
Legislatures were unfit to make laws. Such an
act would have invited a Democratic attack in
case of Grant's success, and even if force were not
resorted to, supposing the Tammany nominees de-
feated by such means, there would be little peace
thereafter in the Union. People have no right to
do evil, even if good may come of it, and somewhere
about half the United States doubt the good, and
are strongly impressed with the evil. Far better
for the Republicans to be defeated than to gain the
election by such means. The only other items of
United States news forwarded from Queenstown
were that Mr. Thaddeus Stevens died at Washing-
ton on the night of the 11th inst. of general de-
bility, and that the intelligence from Vera Cruz was
correct that her Majesty's ship Chanticleer had
raised the blockade of Mazatlan on the 30th ult.

The news from Canada by the Scotia is dated
Ottawa, August 11. The Canadian Parliament
has been prorogued until the 19th of September.
It is stated that the Anti-Union Convention at
Halifax has passed a resolution strongly depreca-
ting rebellion against the Crown or annexation to
the United States, at the same time favouring the
use of every constitutional means to withdraw Nova
Scotia from the Confederation, which they allege
it was forced to enter against the will of the people.
Sir John Macdonald and party have left Halifax
for Canada. Their mission to reconcile Nova Scotia
to the Confederation is pronounced a failure by the
provincial press.
It appears that General Russell and Colonel
Merewether are to be created Knights Commander
of the Star of India, but as there is only one vacancy
a special statute is necessary before Colonel Mere-
wether could be gazetted. We were under the
impression that this Order was only bestowed for
services in India, and while some of the most gal-
lant deeds ever recorded, performed in India, remain
unrewarded, it is rather rich to see special statutes
passed to bestow the decoration on men who for-
warded to the front the two unfortunate non-com-
batant mules which fell in the campaign. From the
London Gazette, of Friday, Oct. 7, 1859, we take the
following extract from a paper received by the
Secretary of State for India, signed " Canning,
July 2, 1859," entitled " Minute of the Governor-
General of India regarding the Services of Civil
Officers and others during the Mutiny and Rebel-
lion. Par. 16 :"—" It is now my duty to recom-
mend to the favourable consideration of her Ma-
jesty's Government the following officers :—Mr.
John Cracroft Wilson, Judge of Moradabad. I
name this gentleman first, because he has the en-
viable distinctioa of having by his own obstinate
courage and perseverance saved more ,Christian
lives than any man in India. He did this at the
repeatedly imminent peril of his own life. He has
since lef t the service of the Indian Government, and
has retired to New Zealand, whither I rasp ctfully
hope the favour of the Crown may follow him."
It is an actual fact that this gentlein au was over-
looked by the authorities—not being on the spot to
urge his claims. They acknowledge that, first in
Lot d Canning's Despatch, he should have stood
first on the list for distinction, but through some
oversight his name was omitted. It seems impos-
sible to correct a mistake so injurious to Mr. John
Cracroft Wilson. Surely it is more incumbent in
passing such a statute to rectify a gross official
blunder tha a to gratify the mere sentimental glee
of the nation over its Abyssinian toy. But at any
rate if the one can be done the other can also, and
if the statute is to be passed for Colonel Merewether
it may be enlarged to include the name of John
Cracroft Wilson.

All the Cabinet have left Washington except

Secretaries M'Culloch and Browning. The Presi-
dent, who greatly needs rest, was about to leave,
and there is some talk of running him for Governor
of Tennessee. General Howard has gone South to
look after the freedmen. General Rousseau is re-
ceiving his final instructions ere assuming com-
mand in Louisiana. Admiral Semmes is as large
as life in Washington, and speaks like the man
who captured the Kerseage. The wife of Sena-
tor Trumbull is very ill, with slight chance of
recovery, and so was the Hon. Thai. Stevens,
whose death has been announced. by the Cable.
Ile was lying in a very weak and desponding state.
his statement that he would never again be able to
enter the house of Representatives did not receive
much attention, as he had repeatedly rallied after
severe attacks. lbwever, like the man whose life
ebbed with the tide, and went out at low water,
Thad. Stevens sank with Congress, ending his
career at its close.

The accounts from Texas do not, as anticipated,
bear out the story told by the wire. The Milliken
negro riots arose from a sheriff and a crowd of whites
firing upon a company of negroes who were not
engaged in riotous demonstrations, and following
this up by shooting a large number of these un-
fortunates wherever they could catch them. Col.
Gentry, who was sent to investigate the case, blames
the whites. He says that five to six negroes only
were killed, and the story was greatly exaggerated.
It is denied that there was any concentration of armed
negroes holding entrenchments, while it is asserted
that the affair was a mere massacre. The Ku
Klux Khan is again active, and through its agency
murders and outrages have increased over the
South. In Tennessee the leading men of both par-
ties are becoming alike weary and indignant at
the unlawful course of this organization, and
the noted Confederate Generals Cheatham, For-
rest. and Gordon have been in conference with
the military committee of the Legislature to devise
means for its suppression. An order by General
Meade declares that the power of the military has
ceased in civil matters, and the points are desig-
nate l in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama where the
troops are to be stationed. Governor `Yarmouth's
letter, asking military aid from the President, pre-
sented by Colonel Deane, of his staff, was published
ou the 6th instant. He applies for two regiments
of cavalry, one of infantry, and a battery, furnish-
ing ample proof of the lawlessness prevailing. The
application was to be considered in the Cabinet on
the 7th instant; but the Governor's statements are
borne out by private advises, and reveal a deplor-
able state of things. In Florida the Governor also
asks for military aid, and an act appointing a secret
police has just been passed. The Scotia's intelligence
is that the Secretary of War, in answer to the appeal
of Governor Warmouth, has sent instructions to
General Buchanan, Commander of the Forces in
Louisiana, to dispose of the troops under his com-
mand according to his discretion, and to promptly
telegraph for special orders from the President if
any emergency should arise rendering it necessary
to employ the national force for the preservation of
order. The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill
making it a penal offence to organize any military
force in the State without orders from the Governor.
Reports from Richmond state that a Conserva-
tive meeting held yesterday in that town was
attacked by negroes. A fight ensued, in which
pistols were used, and two negroes killed.

The election of the United States Senators in
Georgia resulted in a compromise, the Democrats,
who control the Lower House, offering, in return
for a Senator, to let the Republicans have the other,
and to ratify the 14th Amendment. Both are old
line Whigs, natives of South Carolina, Joshua Hill
being an old Congress mad and a consistent Unionist,
and Miller a strong Secessionist, but both are in a
high degree able and respectable. Joshua Hill
has declared for Grant and Colfax, while the other
supports Seymour and Blair. General Stoneman
has failed to procure the removal of the officers dis-
qualified for holding office in Virginia, and an at-
tempt has been made to induce General Grant to
move in the matter. The Louisiana Senate has con-
firmed the five judges in the Supreme Court nomi-
nated by the Governor on the let inst. John T. Lud-
ling, the Chief Justice, was a prominent Conservative
m !tuber, who refused to sign, and published a pro-
test against the Constitution. J. P. Taliferro, ap-
pointed an Associate Justice, latterly a Conserva-
tive Republican, was President of the Convention,
and candidate for Governor at the late election,
and two of the others were already on the bench.
Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, recommends
the Legislature to remove political disabilities by a
Constitutional amendment, and the Senate is wil-
ling, but the House declines. The Senate of the
Alabama Legislature has passed such a bill with
only one dissentient voice, and another empowering
the Legislature to cast the electoral vote of the
State.

It is said that Attorney-General Evarts' in,
fluence has been exerted over the President to
keep him on good behaviour, and this promises to
continue, in which case there will be no meeting of
Congress in September. Secretary M'Culloch had
received notice that Mr. Rollins' resignation had been
accepted, and Mr. Evarts had been consulting with
Mr. M'Culloch on the subject. Both Mr. Rollins and
the Secretary had concurred in the offer of the place to
Ex-Governor Cox of Ohio, but he refused it. Mr.
Binkley, late Assistant Attorney General, has been
appointed Solicitor of Internal Revenue. Numbers
of applications have been made for the new appoint-
ment of Supervisor, of which there are 25 to be
filled. The Tice-metev has been adopted by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the preven-
tion of frauds in liquor distilleries. J. H. Black-
fair is the new Superintendent of Foreign Mails, on
a salary of $3,000, an office created by the recent
postal law.

Although people are getting weary of the Im-
peachment investigation, there seems to be no ces-
sation to the flood of written and spoken words it
calls forth. Perry Fuller now says that Legate
called on him and offered on behalf of Pomeroy to
secure the four votes required to acquit the Presi-
dent for $50,000. Fuller desired to see Pomeroy,
who declined the interview, as he would only act
through Gaylord, the Senator's brother-in-law.
Liarly in, May, Gaylord called on Fuller and

offered the necessary votes for $40,000, upon
which Fuller said that he thought the sum
could be raised. Senators Fowler, of Ten-
nessee, and Ross, of Kansas, have published in
the Congresiional Globe their replies to the Im-

peachment Report. After showing Butler's total
failure to prove anything, they term him " vile
slanderer, national liar, and thief," awl re-string
that interminable necklace of blunders and out-
rages during the war, the General's enemies are so
fond of hanging round his neck. It is a pity that
these Senators should not have contented them-
selves with exposing the errors of the report, and
proving their own innocence without weakening
their case by abuse which ill becomes men in their
position.

On the Ist inst. Sir A. Macdonald, together with
a deputation sent by the Government of the Domi-
nion to Halifax, were entertained at dinner by
General Doyle, but the members of the local Go-
vernment had the bad taste to remain away. Many.
articles had appeared in the anti-Union papers
suggesting a most unworthy manner of receiving
the visitors from Canada, and the Hon. Joseph
Howe had come down with a heavy lash both on
the members of the local Government and the
anti-Union papers who seemed inclined in their
partisanship, to overlook the common laws of hos-
pitality. After contrasting the way in which the
Nova Scotian members, though hostile to the Go-
vernment, had been received in Cana la, he says
that, if they have lost their Constitution, they
should at least preserve their manners. England
had thrown the responsibility of the controversy
on the Canadian Government, and the Nova Sco-
tians were bound to give a fair hearing to the re-
medial measures proposed ; nor are the " antis" so
strong that they can afford to outrage all sentiment
by disregarding the usages of civilized diplomacy.
It is said, however, that the Canadian Government
had offered a seat in the Cabinet to Mr. Howe,
which he thus prepared the way to accept. The
Halifax Chronicle talks of the sympathizing nation
of 30,000,000 of the bravest people on earth in
their immediate vicinity, and suggests the solution

of a momentous problem for Mr. Disraeli and his
fellow political blunderers out of which to grope
their way without shame and disgrace, and it in-
clines to the opinion that they would be com-
pelled, as a matter of right, to grant what they had
refused as an act of grace.

The departure of his Excellency Reverdy Johnson
from Baltimore was noted for a demonstration such
as has been seldom awarded to Americans on their
way to take up foreign missions. He certainly
sailed from his own city, and that city is not in
magnitude a New York ; stid the leave-taking
marked the departure of a man respected alike by
all classes and parties of his countrymen. A dozen
steamers escorted the Baltimore, Capt. Voekler, gaily
decorated, and Fort M'llerry thundered a salute as
they passed. A dinner was given on board the
Baltimore, at which the Prussian Minister, Gover-
nor Bradford, General Van Vliet, and many per-
sonal friends of the Minister were present. Mrs.
Lincoln had proceeded to the Alleghany Mountains,
and was not therefore a passenger as anticipated.
She left Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore, on that day,
via llarrisburgh for Bedford Springs, delaying
her passage a month on account of the warm
weather. The crowd who had gathered to
witness her departure were disappointed. His
Excellency arrived last Saturday at Southamp-
ton, where he remained till Monday morning, when
he left for London by the 11.40 train for Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-street, wherein rooms had been
taken. A saloon carriage was provided by the
South-Western Company for the use of has Excel-
lency and suite.

It is interesting to observe, now that so many
negroes sit in the Southern State Legislatures, that
a negro won the first prize this year for declama-
tion at Harvard University. With education, and
such a field as is now open to them in the South,
many negro orators will arise, for it is said that the
African has a fervid imagination, and whether able
to argue logically or not will at least be able to
declaim. Our new Minister has given a proof that
the negro excels in another and more useful field.
He has carried Wormley, a coloured cook, to Eng-
land, from Washington, where he earned a great
reputation. We should not be surpfsed if he is
waited on by the leading chefs of London, and de-
putations from Paris, to discuss the culinary art.
He may give a dash of Southern fire to some insipid
Northern pot which may make his name immortal.
Some tourists write angrily of the growing extor-

tion of the people on the Rhine. Wherever they
go to see anything worth seeing they are surrounded
by harpies who press their services so pertinaciously
that one is employed, however useless in other
respects, as a sort of black mail to keep off the rest.
Whether it be a ruin or a church, whether the
time be day or night, there is no escape, and the
extortion so grows that it will end by driviog
tourists in another direction. Two steamers 011

the. American model are now plying on the river,
which is a great improvement. They run between
Bingen and Coblentz and Cologne, the one ascend'
ing the other descending, each day.

Indian affairs are on the whole not satisfactory.
From Fort Lamed the news is that the tribes lately
assembled in council with General Sully were dis.
contented, as they had not received the usnal
plies of arms and ammunition ; others were sullen
because of the scarcity of provisions, but they were
suppressed for the present by the display of a strong

mi itary force. General Sherman is at once to
convene an Indian Peace Commission, and to visit
various tribes on the plains to ascertain the real causes
of discontent. In Arizona the depredations had been
carried on with impunity, but in Idaho a band of 70
to 80 savages had been captured by a scouting
party. In Montana treaties had been made with
nearly all the tribes, most of whom, before the win'
ter, will be settled on their reservations.
The battle of labour versus capital continues to
rage. The Boston Working Men's Institute re-
cently met and passed five resolutions concerning
the Eight-Hour Bill, which it regards as important,
as it tends to a more equal distribution of wealth.
Senator Wilson is thanked for support, and senator
Sumner denounced for his opposition to the " carp'
ing system." The fallacy is exposed, that, is
justice to employers, the ratio of wages must be °a
eight hours is to ten hours,.and it is insisted on, that
ten bouts' pay must be given for the eight hours'
work ; and thus the question is discussed. In Nevi
York the bricklayers remain cn strike to enforce
such resolutions as were embodied by the Boston
Working Men's Institute, and they are supported
liberally by the Trades' Un;ons, which enables
the Committee to give $l2 a week to each ina.r:
tied man, and $7 to each single man. The contest
is watched with interest by ether trades ; building
in the meantime is suspended, and rates advance;
The Government workmen have been " sold" by tl3l
superintendents' interpretation of the late law.
says nothing about pay, so wages are reduced in
proportion to the hours struck out, and the nleici
not lik'ng this have demanded a return to the a't
system. Here they are met by the objects f°l
which the reduction was made—" Time for word
O
and intellectual Improvement,” "recreation for the
benefit of health," &c. The superintendents d; oe
cline to comply, and seem more inclined to "chaff'
The extraordinary drought prevailing &Oil)
the English midsummer has led to a dearth of fe°
for cattle, and caused much anxiety for their sup'
port during the winter. These circumstances 15,,,
nished another instance of the value of the Atlano
Cable. Messages to New York directed IPO
~
shipment of hay, oilcake, and other " feed," whicv:
is now arriving in large quantities. The crops 13500,
been unusually abundant throughout the State;
and even the cotton crop is likely to be goods coo
cept in Alabama and parts of Georgia, where op
army worm and heavy falls of rain have had

injurious influence.
Mr. Peabody has been visiting Sir J. Einerool,l
Tennent, Bart., and Lady Tennant, at Tempo 31511° P
Enniskillen. 05.1
The Revolution says that Mrs. Stanton and J-T-ha
Anthony are now visiting their numerous friends in
central portion of New York, that their coming is 01;
where greeted with joy, and their word and work heart/
approved.
The New American Minister to China, J. .641
Browne,late Commissioner of Mining Statistics, had reach
San Francisco from New York. He proceeded to CP"
on August 3, in the new steamer Japan just arrived t°
her place on that line. Having made California his eSPe",,
study during the last three years, ho is all the bettor (I%
lifted to represent the American Government in C2,11:60
whose inhabitants have more intercourse with the
Pa ta'
Coast than with any other portion of the American Con

nent.
6013'
Heinrich Sch'der has been arrested at Pate 00'
h
New York, charged with the murder of his masterhor
tress, and two children in the grand duchy of Hesse v.,0,
stadt, and will be transferred to the German autherio
Theodore's son is at present staying in tbet tiP
of Wight with Captain Speedy. He is to be brourif
as the son of an English gentleman, with the lie
entering the Indian civil service.
AV, 0
James Whiting, of Roxbury, MassachuSv- f

04
mentioned as a candidate for Congress from one .r 9
Boston districts. Ho made a good speech at Roxbu
the sth instant.

Births. h
pile
BYLES —On the 17th inst., at Harefield, Uxbridge,-fs4fr
of Walter Barnard Byles, Esq., barrister-at-lava, °f
SOBS. di/
OuTBILL—On the 20th inst., at Lawrie House, BIaC
the wifo of Alfred Cutbill, Esq., of a daughter. lois*
Ross—On the 21st inst., at 10, Norfolk-street, 12.311"-
Mrs. Gustaf Ross, of a son.

CRAPER—SMITH—On Mar r
the 20thiages
inst rti
at Christ LiThgf fob'
Croydon, Alfred, second son of the late Edwin ,
Esq., of Clapham, to Mary Harriet, only surviv"
of the late Henry Smith, Esq., of Forest-hill. Bride'
SANDFORD— WILLIAMSON—On the 20th inst., at St•l3cheAr
Fleet-street, Mr. Henry Sandford, of [ling-streef,,.osol
sides, to Ann, eldest daughter of the late T. Willi'
of Fleet-street.

Deaths.
DEVER—On the 20th inst., at 11, 13elsize-Park's
llaverstock-hill, Robert Dover, aged 35.
LYLE—On the 18th inst., at Oaks Lodge, countY 14°
dorry, Samuel Lyle, Esq., aged 68. Fred.
Smrrn -On the 18th inst., at Aylsham Norfolk, 1.7
Smith, Esq., M.R.C.S., aged 69. if of Y.
SLADEX— Qn the 19th inst., at Brighton, Mail,
B. Sladen, of PhillhuoreLoOge, Kensington. apOe'
TWIST—On the 18th inst., at Woolton, near LsiV"
Mr. Charles Twist, .R.C.V.S.L., aged 44. 010f°'
WRITE—On the 18th i M
nst., John White, Esq., °f
ditch and the Vicarage, Leyton, aged 68.

1570,
London : Printed and Published by WILLIA% Allft 111:1
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Odic",
gtp
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the °2
Dlkidleses.—Saturday, August 22, Id6B.