The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1868.

THE ASIITON .11107'S.

The sequel to the Ashton riots is now ki cwn.
Mr. Murphy is triumphant. After a trial which
lasted nearly a week, the rioters—at least those
who were identified as taking part in the dis-
turbances in May last—have been sentenced
to various terms of imprisonment, which may
certainly be pronounced severe ; but the real
author and the abettors of those disturbances
remain at large, ready to reenact, on oppor-
tunity, the same scenes in other towns. We
cannot help thinking that if the disposition to
put down the cause of all this rioting existed
in high quarters, the law would be foUnd strong
enough to accomplish it; but while to subserve
party interests such men as Murphy are
allowed to sow broadcast the seeds of strife
there will always be plenty of work for judges
and juries at the assizes. We confess we are
far from satisfied at the results of these trials.
No discrimination was made between the party
who first broke the peace by sacking the
houses of inoffensive people and destroying
every portion of their church but the bare
walls, and those who in defending themselves
and their own engaged in a riot which was
eventually only put down by the combined ac-
tion of the military and police, and, not least,
by the good offices of the Catholic clergy. There
seems to us, however impartial the conductors
of the prosecutions and even the judge who
presided at the trials would have themselves
appear, that there was a one-sidedness not
quite in keeping with established notions of
impartiality and justice. A man is attacked
in his own house ; his furniture is destroyed,
and even his house is rendered uninhabitable ;
he not unnaturally engages in combat with
those who have committed the outrage, and
in doing so is himself taken prisoner by the
police, sent for trial, and convicted, and the
judge in passing sentence, excuses, as it were
the inconsistency of meting out the same
measure of punishment to the man so attacked,
by remarking that, though there were un-
questionably various degrees of guilt in the
different cases, only an omniscient judge could
properly distinguish between them ; that in
fact it was not in his power to do so, and
that he could only be guided by the results
of the acts of lawlessness that had been com-
mitted. The difficulty of estimating the exact
degree of guilt of each of the accused men
was certainly great, but those who were proved
to have acted in the first place as aggressors
were unquestionablythose on whom the severest
punishment should have been visited.
It is, however, to the charge of the judge
in the case of compensation claimed by the
Catholic priest at Ashton for the wreck of his
house and chapel that we feel specially bound
to enter a protest. In another column we give
at length the charge of the Lord Chief Baron
upon which the jury based their decision. The
extreme minuteness with which he laid down
the law and the fine distinction which he
drew between the acts and the presumable
intention of the ruffians who destroyed the
chapel, leaving little but the roof and bare
walls standing, are noteworthy. He said—
" There was no doubt the plaintiff was not
entitled to recover, unless he made out that
the chapel had been feloniously demolished,
pulled down, or destroyed wholly or in part,
by persons riotously and tumultuously assem-
bled together. It would not be a demolition
in whole or in part, unless there was an in-
tention on the part of those who were engaged
in that undoubtedly riotous and tumultuous
assemblage to destroy the chapel as a chapel.
The pulling out of a single brick of a house, if
it was intended by those who did it, if un-
interrupted, to pull down the whole edifice,
would amount to a demolition in part; but if
there was an absence of that intention, then
the mere doing of mischief to the chapel or
house would not be a demolition, pulling
down, or destruction in part, any more than a
mischievous boy throwing a stone through a
window would be a demolition or pulling down
in part." Now, it appears to us that the Lord
Chief Hawn has acted more the part of au
advocate for the Salford Hundred, against
whom the action was brought, than the judi-
cious and grave expounder of the law. What
can possibly better interpret the intention of
a man than his acts and his expressed deter-
mination ? The Ashton rioters' cry was, as
the judge himself admits : "To the chapel;
demolish the chapel ;" and they carried out
that determination by destroying everything
in and about the chapel upon which they
could lay their hands. The windows were
smashed, the crucifix was torn down and split
into fragments, every ornament of the interior '
and exterior was defaced or destroyed, and if
they did not succeed in razing to the ground
the building itself, it was simply because they
were interfered with and prevented. Anything
more like the intention of destroying a build-
ing wholly or in part than the Ashton rioters
exhibited we have never yet heard of. " The
crowd," admits the Lord Chief Baron, "seemed
to have uttered cries which, if they be taken
as exactly expressing their intention, would
indicate an intention, to destroy the place—' Lets'
pull down the chapel,' and so on." But the
Lord Chief Baron would have it that " lan-
guage in the mouths of low ruffians like these
rioters did not always express the idea which
was, prtmd facie, contained in the words. They
were the means of expressing merely a high-
wrought state of fury." We have always
been under the impression that the cry of a ,
.mob, expressed in terms so unequivocal, so
little open to doubt as these were, indicate
exactly the intention of the mob. But the
learned Lord Chief Baron says, not always, and
we suppose that he must be allowed to be the
interpreter of the Ashton rioters' intentions.
Yet it seems to us that this charge might
be challenged with a good chance of success.
It is certainly of a nature that no Catholic
can be satisfied with,—.-Westminster Gazette.

equality with the most favoured pets of the
state. Without further preface, let me ask the
readers' attention to the following facts :-
1. The population of Ireland in 1861 was
5,793,967. Of this number the Established

Church had 693,357 ; the Roman Catholic
Church had 4,505,265 ; the Presbyterian
Church had 523,291; other Protestant Dis-
senting Churches had 72,054 ; total, 5,793,967.
Thus the Established Church contains 11.9
per cent. of the population; the Roman
Catholic Church contains 77.7 per cent. ; the
Presbyterian Church contains 9.0 per cent. ;
the others contain 1.4 per cent. ; or, to make
figures still plainer, only 12 out of every 100
Irishmen are Established Churchmen.

2. The number of Episcopalians in each
province, compared with Nonconformists
(Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, and others)
is as follows :—Church population : Ulster,
20.42 per cent. ; Leinster, 11.89 per cent. ;
Munster, 5.10 per cent. ; Connaught, 4.25 per
cent. Nonconformist population : Ulster, 79.58
per cent. ; Leinster, 88.11 per cent.; Munster,
94.90 per cent. ; Connaught, 95.75 per cent.
We thus see that the Episcopalian Church is
the church of a small minority, even in Ulster,
and of a minority in the other provinces.
3. The number of parishes in Ireland is
2,428, and the following table shows how the
Church is situated in those parishes :—Num-
ber of parishes containing members or adhe-
rents of the Established Church in 1861 :
No members, 199 parishes ; not over 20 mem-
bers, 575 parishes ; over 20 and not more than
50 members, 416 parishes ; over 50 and not
more than 100 members, 349 parishes ; over
100 and not more than 200 members, 270
parishes ; over 200 and not more than 500
members, 309 parishes ; over 500 and not
more than 1,000 members, 141 parishes ; over
1,000 and not more than 2,000 members, 106
parighes ; over 2,000 and not more than 5,000
members, 53 parishes ; over 5,000 and not
more than 10,000 members, 8 parishes ; over
10,000 and not more than 20,000 members,
none ; over 20,000 and not more than 30,000
members, 2 parishes ; over 30,000 members,
none. Total parishes, 2,128. Thus, in 199
parishes, there is not a single adherent of the
Established Church, and 1,539 parishes, or
nearly two-thirds of the whole, have not more
than 100 adherents in each.
4. The revenue of the Established Church
amounts in round numbers to £700,000. The
Regium Danum to the Presbyterians amounts
to £40,000, and the Maynooth grant to the
Roman Catholics is £30,000. It follows from
this, that 693,357 Episcopalians receive more
than twenty-threetimes as much as 4,505,265
Roman Catholics, and more than seventeen
times as much as 523,291 Presbyterians.
5. Each Episcopalian, man, woman, and
child, receives over £1 a-head, while each
Presbyterian has to be pleased with ls. 7.,
and the Roman Catholic is the delighted re-
cipient of three farthings ! From this we may
infer that in the eye of the State the soul of
each Episcopalian is thirteen times more valu-
able than the soul of eaeh Presbyterian, and
320 times more valuable than the soul of each
Roman C _ _

6. The Established Church is paid for, not
by the tithepaying landowners, as is falla-
ciously alleged, bnt by every consumer of Irish
produce—it being obvious that the landlord
charges his tenant farmer with a higher rent,
in order to cover the rent-charge to which the
land is subject, and the farmer charges his
customers higher for wheat, potatoes, &c., to
cover his increased rent. All are, therefore,
directly interested in the Irish Church ques-
tion, and it is evident that the Establishment
is a real as well as a sentimental grievance.
The Established Church is the church of the
great and wealthy who ought to pay for their
own spiritual teaching, while the Roman
Catholic Church is composed of the middle
and poorer classes, who ought not to be called
upon to pay for the religious ordinances of
their great and wealthy neighbours. The fol-
lowing table, compiled from the census of 1861,
proves the truth of this statement :—ln 1861,
4,044 Episcopalians, and 3,576 Roman Catho-
lics were landed proprietors ; 139 Episcopa-
lians, and 52 Roman Catholics were bankers ;
824 Episcopalians and 539 Roman Catholics
were physicians ; 24 Episcopalians, and 8
Roman Catholics were officers of State, from
Lord Lieutenant to Attorney-General; 114
Episcopalians, and 15 Roman Catholics were
nobility and gentry ; 3,254 Episcopalians and
1,298 Roman Catholics were ladies and gen-
tlemen; 45,838 Episcopalians, and 337,419
Roman Catholics were farmers ; 3,744 Epis-
copalians, and 43,544 Roman Catholics were
alians, and 378,064
labourers and ser-
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vants. _

Surely it is high time that the landed
physicians, officers of
'gentry, and ladies and
gentlemen,
make the farmers, plough-
men, farm labourers, and servants pay for the
main tenance of their clergy, especially as the
said landed proprietors, &c., are aware that
the farmers, &c., have also to provide for their
own priests.

DEATH OF DISTINGUISHED PRELAIES.

The official journal of Rome publishes quite
a long obituary list of eminent prelates who
died during the months of May and June last.
Mgr. Louis-Marie Cardelli, Arch-bishop of
Acrida (in partibus) died June 11, having re-
ceived all the usual sacraments of the Church.
Born in Rome, August 28, 1777, this prelate
entered the order of St. Francis, of strict
observance, and on the 18th March he was
named Bishop of Smyrna. Relieved from
the charge of that church, he was, on the 3d
September, 1832, transferred to the church of
Acrida. He was Canon of St. Peter's and Con-
sultor of the holy Congregation of the Holy
Office, of that of Dispensations and of the Pro-
paganda. The College of Bishops assisting the
throne, of which he was a member, participated
in the funeral services.

Mgr. John Topich, Minor Observant, died
on the 11th June, fortified by the Holy Sacra-
ments, in the seventy-seventh year of his age.
Chosen in 1832 Bishop of Alessio (Albania),
and in 1853 transferred to the See of Scutari,
he retired in 1859, owing to ill health, to spend
the remainder of his days among his religions
associates -in the convent of the island of St.
Bartholomew, from which period, up to the
time of his death, he bore the title of Bishop
of Philipopolis, in partibus.
Mgr. Rodolph de Thysebert, Bishop of
Tiberiade, in partibus, died on the 12th May
last. Born in Salzbourg, April 28, 1798, he
was preconized in 1842, and, at the same time,
was named Coadjutor of the Archbishop of
Olmutz. _ _

Mgr. Sebastien Piuto do Rego, Bishop of
Saint Paul, Brazil, died April 30 last. The
deceased prelate was born at Angra dos Reis,
diocese of Rio Janeiro, April 18, 1802, and
was preconized by the Holy Father, Sep.
tember 30, 1861.
Mgr. Gastan, of the Counts of Berraghia,
Bishop of Lodi, died on June 13, at the ad.
vanced age of nearly one hundred years, after
a protracted illness endured with resignation
and Christian fortitude. He was born at Ber-
gamus, October 21, 1768, and was preconized
October 2, 1837.

The bulb growers of Holland have, intimated
their intention of offering prizes, open to all growers, for
distinct kinds of hyacinths, at the first spring or hyacinth
show lof the Royal Horticultural Society in 1869. The
prizes intended to be offered amount to 415 3s.
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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(Front the Anglo-American Times.)

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Aug. 11.
This city will be shortly enriched with an im-
provement worthy a place of resort and entertain-
ment. The Duke of Nassau has removed to this city,
and intends permanently to reside in one of the most
fashionable parts of the West-end, and has yielded to
the urgent demand of a number of influential citizens
of Frankfort, who desire to make the city attractive
to strangers, to sell to them those renowned " win-
ter-gardens," so called ; that is to say, the green
and hot-houses attached to the Castle of Brebrich,
and enjoying a world-wide reputation from the rich
variety of very rare domestic and exotic plants
they contain. Count de Castell, the private secre-
trary of the Duke, and intendant of the ducal
estate, at first demanded 180,000 florins for the
whole garden establishment, an amount at which it
had been actually taxed by experts. The Duke,
however, in acknowledgment of the friendly re-
ception he has met on the part of the citizens, re-
duced the price at once to only 60,000 florins, an
amount the purchasers are able and willing to pay.
So now the glass-houses will be taken down at Bre-
brich, and removed to Frankfort, to be Erected in
one of the most fashionable parts of the city. The
cost of putting up and renovating the establishment
will be more than double the purchase money. To
cover that expense, a joint-stock company has been
formed, consisting of about 500 persons, the shares
250 florins each. Amongst the shareholders are
the Prussian Princes, or Landgraves, residing at the
neighbouring Castle of Rainpenheim, with 45 shares,
or about 6,0001, and other distinguished persons.
The leading committee of the shareholders is com-
posed of Baron d'Erlanger, known also by his
branch firm in Paris ; L. Sonnemann, editor of the
Frankfort Gazette; Theodor Kucher, the English
consul; Dr. Jur. Siebert, Ferdinand Heiner, Fritz
Krayer, Joh. Dielmanu (the artist), Ferd. Reiss,
Dr. Med. W. de Neufville, J. B. Pfaff, Siessmeier
Brothers, Carl Schlesonger-Frier, and Emil Koe-
nigswarter (the banker). Many distinguished
Americans are at present sojourning at Frankfort,
and at the neighbouring watering-place of Horn-
bourg-es-rnonts. His Excellency George Ban-
croft, United States Minister at Berlin, stopped
here a few days with his wife on his return
to Berlin, after completing his negotiations on
those much-discussed protection t reaties between
the South German Courts of Munich, Stuttgardt,
Carlsruhe, and Darmstadt, and the United States
Government. Commodore Inman, of the United
States Navy, spent a few days here, and now has
left for Lucerne. Commodore Livingston, of the
United States Navy, is also here. The Hon. T. P.
Kennedy, formerly Secretary of the United States
Navy, is at Homburg. That charming village is
overcrowded with visitors, especially by hundreds
of Americans. The King of Prussia will arrive
there on Thursday next, and take his residence at
the castle of the late Landgrave of Homburg.

All Americans will hear with sorrow of an in-
crease of crime and rowdyism in the South. So
marked is it in Louisiana that the Legislature passed
a joint resolution requesting the General of the
armies to furnish troops to the civil authorities.
Although this was very properly vetoed by the Go-
vernment, as the channel selected showed the igno-
rance of the Legislature, the new bill was passed
directing the application to the President, where-
upon Governor Warmouth applied to Washington
for an additional military force to suppress the in-
creasing lawlessness of the State, sending an
officer of his staff to Washington. At Elk-Lick,
Missouri, July 25, a collision occurred between the
Radicals and those they style " rebels," in which
pistols and rifles were freely used. Three men were
killed, seven seriously wounded, and forty more in-
jured. In S..nith Carolina a fight was with diffi-
culty prevented. In Augusta, Georgia, an affray
took place on the evening of the 27th July, when
one man was killed, another dangerously wounded,
and several more seriously hurt. in Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas the accounts show
an increase of lawlessness, giving unmistakeable
signs of the heat of the approaching pnlitie2.l eon-
! test, which we in common with many Americans
will rejoice to see well ended.
The Reno gang has been further depleted by
the lynching of three more of the members,
Frank Spear, John Moore, and Henry Jewel, who
were hanged on the same tree as their associates,
being taken from the train while on their way to
gaol. However dreadful it may appear to English-
men to hear of a mob tearing prisoners from the
grasp of the law and executing on them its extreme
penalty, they would modify their opinions if they f ully
appreciated the circumstances. At times continued
crime becomes unbearable, while the vicious and
unscrupulous gang flourish on the impunity with
which they can act. Side by side with civiliza-
tion is almost everywhere in the United States the
primeval forest— the prairie that has known no
plough. These aid criminals, for while in England
there is but the cover of the crowd for the fugitive,
in America there is this cover, and that still better
one, the waste. 1% ith half the means of detection,
and four times the means of escape, a gang is often
enabled to tyrannize to such an extent of lawless-
ness as to drive a community to desperation. Then
they band together, form a vigilance committee, and
setto work with genuine American energy to root out
the pest, hanging the captured culprits without
mercy. However bad this may be in theory, on
the whole in some districts it answers well in prac-
tice ; in fact, it is a necessity of the situation. The
railway robbers, lately executed at Seymour, In-
diana, confess to their crimes, and the coroner's
jury who sat on the inquest gave the verdict that
the bandits had met their deaths by being strangled
by parties unknown. William and Simon Reno,
the leaders of the gang, have been arrested, and
may have been lynched for aught we know ; indeed
the chances are that the mob and not Jack Ketch
hangs them, so we cannot call them fortunate to
escape the more summary end. On the 31st July
the mob lynched two horse thieves near Memphis,
Tennessee, placarding them " Horse thieves hung
by an outraged community ;" and in Jacinto, Mis-
sissippi, a criminal was dragged from gaol and
executed.

The Spirit tells us :—" Madame Agatha States, the
prima donna, is at Long Branch. Bonfanti's mother was
taken ill in Chicago, and ordered home to Italy. The
Worrell Sisters are at the sea-side on Long Island. Wm.
Wheitley takes his farewell of the stage on the 31st of
August. Parepa-Rosa had the measles in San Francisco.
An itinerant prestidigitatour awed the children and women
at Stetson's Long Branch Hotel with feats of legerdemain
and jugglery. Price Magrath, the Wizard of the West, is
at Long Branch. Frank Lawlor has secured a London en-
gagement already, which oho ws that talent is quick of recog-
nition. He appears in "Under the Gaslight" at the Lyceum,
under the management of E. T. Smith, the well-known
and enterprising manager. The G. F. Rowe, " famous
American comedian," now engaged in carrying Edinburgh
audiences by storm, once played in this country as the
" famous Australian actor," George Fawcett Rowe. The
Dramatic Chronicle, of San Francisco, has secured the
services of Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie as dramatic cor-
respondent from London. Stephen Massett is coming
home by the next steamer. E. L. Davenport comes back
shortly. Mr. Bateman must b 3 puzzled at times to know
what and who he is. He is variously designated Manager
Bateman, Lord Bateman, Ma3stro Bateman, Colonel Bate-
man, and one attache of the provincial press, who wasn't
pleased with his seats, called him Old Bateman.'"
Policeman John Smedick was shot near Thirty-
second-street, New York city, by a boatman named John
Real, on the night of July 23d. The assassin was gallantly
captured by another policeman, named Janes Mill, who
pursued him under a running fire. The murdered man
was a young fellow from Wexford, Ireland, noted as a
good police officer, and his only crime was having, on a
former occasion, taken the brutal ruffian to gaol when
drunk.

Admiral Farragut arrived at Constantinople last
Saturday on board the steamer Frolic. The flag ship
Franklin was left at Syra. The squadron is expected to
arrive at Naples in September.
Congress appointed a committee to look into the
aff Lirs of the Printing Bureau, now that Clarke whose
resignation has boon accepted is out. This ought to
have been done long ago.
Isaac Russell, who shot Hopkins at Savannah, is
indicted for murder. The heaviest thunder-storm. ever
known in that city had just occurred, when nine houses
were struck by the lightning, and one child killed.
The Ashburn murderers have been released by
the State authorities on bail of $2,000 each.

The Springfield Republican earnestly advocates
the return of Charles Francis Adams to Congress as a
ReprottoutatiVe tor du) i'Qurtlz Diktrict a Aumchusiette.

It:considers that he would there be enabled to second
Mr. Sumner, and with two such men from Massachusetts,
the one in the Senate, the other in the House, great good
might be achieved. It says with groat truth and force :
" There is no likelihood of his going to the Senate at pre-
sent, and, even if he could, the House is the place for him.
It was in the House that his father won his greatest fame,
and performed his best service. It is the House that most
needs men like Mr Adams, and never more than now."

There is some talk among the Democrats of Chi•
cago of naming Robert Lincoln for Congress, but the ques•
tion is whether he will stand.

The Hon. G. Bancroft, who has now made treaties
between all the German States and the United States,
visited Frankfort-on- the-Maine, where he was shown all
the sights by the United States Consul there. Mr. Ban-
croft had not visited Frankfort since the time ho gra-
duated at the University of Gottingon, forty-eight years
ago.

Healey, a clever and well-known American por-.
trait painter, who has for several years been practising- his
art in Chicago with great credit and success, is at the
Bagne de Lucca, whore ho has joined his family, who
preceded him, to Europe. Ho goes to Roma for the win-
ter. Healey, in 1636-7 painted Louis Philippe, Guizot,
Marshal Soult, and other celebrities, in Paris. Tilton and
Freeman are also at the Bagne do Lucca for the hot season,
and return to Rome iu October.

The Rev. W. Rogers, rector of Bishopsgate, we
understand, has left England for two or throe months, to
make a tour through the United States, leaving his two
curates in charge of the parish. Having succeeded in esta-
blishing the great middle school in Bath-street, City-road,
where there are above 800 boys, paying only £4 a year,
he wishes to examine the various educational establish-
ments in America, to see what improvements may be in-
troduced here. Mr. Rogers is chairman of the Dulwich
College School.

When Brigham Young pronounced the praise of
Mormons over the grave of Heber Kimball, he gave him
a character for honesty and rectitude. A correspondent
of tho Troy Times tells a story that puts a new face on
Heber Kimball's character. Kimball began life in Fonda,
Now York, kept a country store, got into dobt, and per-
suaded his father to mortgage his farm to save the son
financial disgrace, promising to pay the interest. Heber
joined the Mormons, left the interest unpaid, the mort-
gage was foreclosed, and Heber's parents died in want.

The' Hon. John A. Griswold reached Troy from
Washington July 24, and was received at his home with
great enthusiasm. There are some who think his chances
as the Republican candidato for Govornor of Now York to
be by no means bad.

Benjamin Gerrish, jun., of Dover, New Hamp-
shire, who has just been confirmed as Consul to Nantes,
is at present Secretary of the Republican State Committee,
and confidential clerk of Onslow Stearns, the next Gover-
nor, and has held many offices in the State Government.

Reinhart, the American artist, now on a profes-
sional visit to Lexington, Kentucky, is to take the portrait
of General John Morgan and others during his stay. Be-
fore the war he came to Lexington, and painted a portrait
of Gen. John 0. Breckinridge for the Boston Club of New
Orleans, which has been much admired for its accuracy and
finish.

. The diocese of Rhode Island is entering on ft
second Tyng case, the offender being the Rev. Mr. Hub-
bard. The case has already attracted considerable atten-
tion, and is likely to widen the breach already existing in
the Church. The Protestant Churchman, organ of the Low-
Church party, assures Mr. Hubbard that " the sympathies
of all Protestants are with him."

Albert Blaisdell, of Greenland, New Hampshire;
an extensive contractor and builder, is said to be the com-
ing man for the iloosac tunnel completion contract.

Henry Turner Eddy, of North Bridgewater, a re•
cent graduate of Yale College, has been appointed profes-
sor of natural history and chemistry in the University o:
East Tennessee, Knoxville.

Of the 122 candidates who applied at the recent
examination for admission to Harvard College, 37 were ad-
mitted clear of conditions, 66 were lightly conditioned, and
the others heavily.

A Boston lady, passing the summer at Somerset,
drove her own mowing machine to cut 10 acres of grass,
because she couldn't hire a man to do it. The work was
well and skilfully done.

Mr. Robert Coningsby makes his tour in the
United States, with an introduction from Mr. Seward ask-
ing the good offices of all who can aid him, and we may
shortly expect his report on the condition of the American
working man, embracing all details of their proficiency in
mechanical art, of their mode of living, and its cost, labour,
morals, education, &c., which, we presume, will be pub-
lished by the British Society for tho Encouragement of
Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, whose agent Mr.
Coningsby is. .

The work of carefully surveying Narragansett
bay, which was begun 20 years age, abandoned and again
begun in 1860, has been resumed, and will be completed
in the most careful and thorough manner.
Abraham Bells, Son, and Co., an old New York
banking firm, have, we regret to learn, failed.

A movement is being made in Massachusetts to
seat Charles Francis Adams in the Federal Senate, but
Massachusetts will have no place vacant till Mr. Sumner's
term expires in 1869, and such a movement is therefore
altogether premature. However much Americans may
desire to see the late Minister to England in the United
States Senate it would scarcely be at the expense of
Charles Sumner, a man who wculd dignify any assembly,
and whose place, once vacant, it would be almost impos-
&.ble to fill.

The Becket lumbermen's and tanners' colony
planted by Wheeler and Claffin in the wilderness at
Caroga, New York, prospers. Three lumber mills aro
running, and the large tannery has been put into success-
ful operation. To the 14,000 acres contained in the first
purchases of land, 1,000 more have been recently added.
The old army road, cut through the region in 1812, has
long since fallen into disuse, and is grown up with trees.
It was some time ago rebuilt four miles, and is now being
made through to the Sacanadaga River, the whole dis-
tance nine miles, being across the territory owned by
Wheeler and Olaflin. The erection of another large tan-
nery will be bigun early in the fall. The settlers were
obliged to send a distance of eight miles for letters, but
have recently established a post-office at their principal
settlement, named Pine Lake.

Worthington, Western Massachusetts, counts on
a grand centennial, August 20. At the meeting on Monday
evening, July 20, held to elect officers, the following
choice was made : —President, Elisha H. Brewester ; secre-
taries, Daniel Ward and C. M. Parsons ; treasurer, E.
S Burr; Marshal, Captain William Streakweather.
Among the natives of the town who are to be pre-
sent from abroad are William Rice, of Albany; Judge
Samuel A. Kingman, of Atchison, Kansas; ar.d lion. A.
D. Kingman of Hickman, Kentucky. William Cullen
Bryant, whose birth honours the neighbouring town of
Cummington, has promised to be present. A mammoth
booth, 150 feet in length, will bo built on tho common
south of the church, and therein tables will be spread with
a royal repast prepared by the ladies of the town. The
best musical talent of the town has been engaged, and a
band will be furnished for the occasion. The town has it
good war record, and appropriate will bo the presence di
a field piece to fire a salute of 100 guns; and equally be-
fitting the presence, as escort, of Captain Anson F. Stevens's
company of the first battalion of infantry.
The trotting horse Ben Franklin has been sold
for $8,500 to H. A. Hall, of Boston.

The hydrographic survey of Maine, at the State
expense, is nearly completed, and a now and accurate
map is being prepared from its data. The average level
of the State above tidewater is 1,000 feet above that of
Moosehead Lake, which is 1,071 feet above.
Each of the Norwich papers, in order to serve
its New London (Connecticut) subscribers promptly, runs
at considerable expense a " horse express,', which carries
its papers to that place in advance of the cars, thus sav-
ing two hours' time, and giving New London the news
at the breakfast table. The distance is 14 miles, and the
drivers of the rival teams, have a nice race almost every
morning.

The Whipple file manufacturing company at
Ballardvale are about to commence the manufacture of
cast steel anvils.

LETTER FROM GEO. bRANCIS TRAM.

(From the Anglo American 2 fines.)
Dublin, Four Courts, Marsholsea,
August 10.

Dear Anglo-American Times,—You are right. lam
wrong. When preaching in a Christian pulpit—a pulpit
of peace—l have no right to advert to war; but lam na-
turally antagonistic. Born half-way between Concord,
Lexington, and Bunker Hill, I drank in independence from
the old oaken bucket that hung in Liberty's well.
What crime did I commit in introducing a cheap car-
riage for the English people ? What wrong was it for me
to entertain at my own expense all your loading editors,
authors, and statesmen at my banquets ? Was it an un-
pardonable offence fur me to sacrifice my pocket for my
country ? Will England never forgive mo for fighting
the battle of the Union? If my street-railways were a
nuisance in 1861, aro they not a nuisance now ? Take
notice that as patentee, introducer, and promoter of
tramways, I shall claim my £3OO per mile royalty.
England has treated me badly; in the tramways; in the
Shelley affair ; on the Union question—and my record
since I was taken from on board the Scotia for " words
spoken in America," and belonging to the race, breed, and
believing in tha blood of my ancestors, I am proving myself
game—but in future will not shock the sense of your
peace-loving readers by declarations of war.

Two millions of German Americans sold out by the
great American historian, is not a blunder more than a
clime ? This tampering with the naturalization law of
1802 is destroying our nationalitc•.
"Art. 1. Subjects of the kingdom of Bavaria who have
become naturalized citizens of the United States of North
America, and have uninteiruptedly lived during five years
in the United States, are to be considered as American
citizens and accordingly treated by Bavaria."
The idea, of lieuding o, bookworm 10113 America to cope

with German statesmen. Read that clause in Bancroft'a
Treaty, and see how we have insulted tho great Gorman
nation that has been raised up in America. This clause is
also in the North German Treaty : •
"Naturalized citizen of one State may be indicted and
punished after returning into the territory of the other
State if he has committed any act threatened with punish-
ment before his emigration, providing the crime has not
become obsolete according to the laws of his original
country."

How does it happen that the German writers and Ger-
man editors—many of them the cleverest men of our na-
tion—have not pointed out this insult to their nationality?
The New York World has at last got its eyes open to what
I wrote them at the time the first treaty was being signed.
" Observe the practical effect of this. A native of
Munich comes to New York. Ho is naturalized here, mar-
ried here, goes into business here, prospers, and becomes
in all respects one of ourselves. In the course of h's
business, two or three years after his naturalization, he
is called to make a journey to Canada, or Mexico, or
Cuba. Six years afterwards, moved by a natural heirnwch,
or a longing to sec the old friends of his youth, or
in the mere pursuit of health or pleasure, ho crosses tho
Atlantic, and once more sots foot in the artistic capital of
King Louis. Under Mr. Bancroft's benign treaty this
citizen, as worthy of protection by the American flag, and
very possibly quite as useful a member of the American
family as Mr. Bancroft hitnself, may be seized and forced
into military service as a Bavarian subject, he not having
"uninterruptedly lived during five years in the United
States."—The World of July.
HAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN HUMAN AFFECTION THAT
ENGLISHMEN ARE BOUND TO RESPECT ?
SUE BELLE AT HOME.
"In this open two seated phaeton go the children of
George Francis Train ; they drive a pretty pony, and the
young Miss who officiates is herself a pretty lass. Fur
comfort and pleasure combined, nothing has come along
since I took my seat on the kerbstone that has pleased me
more than this group of merry children.—Newport News.
"Cettage-on-the-Sea, Newport, R.I.
Sunday, July 19, 1868.
"My darling Papa—l received your sweet little letter
last week ; I was very glad to hear from you. Elsey and
I are sitting in my room, and I have just taken off my
dress so as to be as comfortable as possible. Elsey is in,
his shirt sleeves too. Aunt Emma and Georgie have gone
to walk on the cliffs. Elsoy is as cross as possible, so I
am not in the best of humours. Dear Papa, I expect
when your last letter was written you had not received
my last epistle, which, as a matter of course, was exceed-
ingly interesting. lam so sorry you are in gaol again,
but it is nobody's fault but your own. I cannot under-
stand why you do not come home. We all miss you
dreadfully, papa, dear. Thinking you might like to know
who all were here this summer, I enclose you a list which
I cut out of the paper.* Elsey has gone off in disgust, so I
am left all alone, which of course I do not relish greatly. Do
come home, dearest papa. You do not know how much we
want you to, or you would scarcely hesitate. I must close
though now, darling papa, but with lots of love and
bushels of kisses.—l remain your loving little daughter,
" SUE BELLE.

(This boy Elsey was named from John G. Elsey, the
head of the Discount Department of the Bank of England.)

* " Among the New Yorkers here I notice the names of
H. T. Tuckerman, the poet E. B. Willet, W. Mackey, Stuy-
vesant Le Hoy, Newbold Edgar, G. P. Wetmore, Paran
Stevens, R. L. Maitland, R. M. Hunt, Daniel Fearing, and
others ; also Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. George
Francis Train, with their families. Mr. Belmont himself
is expected, but as George Francis' movements are rather,
uncertain, his coming is not much depended on. All of these
gentlemen own places here, come early, stay late, iden-
tify themselves with the interests of the city, and, with
many others, are looked upon by the citizens almost as
Newportors. Among the foreigners are Count Rasen, of
Stockholm, Commander Swedish Royal Navy ; Baron
Osten Sachen, Consul-General of Russia, and Baron Wes-
cisstide."

A FATHER MATHEW MAN REFUSES TO BRIBE TILE VOTERS

WITH DRINK.

When Nebraska was about changing its relations from
Territory to State, I espoused the State question, and suc-
ceeded in carrying the vote of the people against the politi-
cal leaders who were against me. I was not ambitious to
be a delegate, but wished to make my adopted homo a
State, and did.