The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

THE : SUN, LONDON, T UESDA EVENING, J UNE 9, 1868.

LIFTER THE THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA
COVENT-GARDEN—EVANS' TO SUP.
After Covent-garden ()poi% EVANS' to SUP
After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP
After Covent-garden Oriera EVANS' to SUP.
After Covent-garden Opera. EVANS' to SUP.
After Covent-garden ,Opera F VANS' to SUP.
•,
London Singing and SupPe,i Club, EVA N S', Covent garden
Vocal Entertainment at Eight.

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TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whitene.s, protects the
enamel fain dec.y, and imp Arts a pie:l.:nit Irm.rrance to
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Thsmes-street, London.

4*- AST WEST IND DOCK C(West Dock
Company HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the TRANSFER
BOOKS of the said Company will be SHUT on Monty. the lob
day of June, and OPEN again. on Wednesday, the Ist day of
July, 18GS.
By order of the Court.
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.
East and West India Dock House, Billiter-
square, sth June, 1868..

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet-
street, London, E C., June 3, 1868.—Notice is hereby given,
that in conformity with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement
a GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life
Assurance 'Society will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet-
street, London, on WEDNKSDAY, the 24th June inst., at Twelve
o'clock at Noon precisely, to Elect Six Directors and Two Audi-
tors, and for general purposes
The Directors and Auditors who go out of office by rotation
will be proposed for re-election.
By order of the Directors.
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

Established 1824.

All Plrsons,wlr) effect Policies- 1711 the Participating Settle be-
fore June 30th, 1.8(33, will be entitled at the NEXT 8)N13.3 to
one year's additional Share of Profits ocer later Entrants.
Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained
from any of the Society's Agents, or of
GEORGE CUTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary,
13, St. James's-square, London, S.W.

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANS-
ATLA.STIQUE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS,
CHINA, JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC,
AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
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Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Gnayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guaoleloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, Sze., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japan.
WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago de-Cuba, GlME.loupe; Martinique. - -
NEW YORK
Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New
York.
From TIAVRE.—June 4th and 18th, July 2d and 16th.
From BREST —June 6th and 20th, July 4th and 18th.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From HavnE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First Class
700 fr.f Cabin.
77
Second Class
Third Class 275 fr.
From Paris to Now York, via Havre or Brest, includ-
ing railway ticket, 8501 r. and 725 fr., according to cabin ;
second class, 440 fr.; third class, 285 fr.
Hand-books, with full details of all the routes of this
Company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

FURNISHED APARTMENTS.—A Drawing
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Applications through Messrs. G. W. Bayley and Wickham, New:
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TO BE LET', UNFURNISHED, a PARLOUR,
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Apply at 44, St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W.

ISSUE of FURTHER CAPITAL for the COMPLETION
of WORKS CONSTRUCTED under a CONTRACT,
wheieby the GOVERNMENT of INDIA have AGREED
to PAY for ALL WATER SUPPLIED for IRRIGA-
TION. forming a GUARANThE AGAINST LOSS by
NON-PAYMENT of WATER RATES, such WORKS
having also COMMENCED to YIELD RETURNS.
THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.
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Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament, with limited
SCHEME OF OPERATIONS.
"THE ORISSA. UNDERTAKING."
Second issuJ of capital of £1,001,000, to consist of ;Maros
of ..£lO each, and stock in sums varying from £lO each up-
wards.
1/...posit upon shares .£t per share, with liberty to pay up
the remaining £9 or a less amount in advance of calls.
Deposit upon stock £l.O per cent. upon application, and
the remainder within three months after allotment.
Interest at five per cent. will be paid half-yearly upon all
deposits from the day of payment.
In the allotment of shares a preference will be given to
those who shall have paid in full or to any extent in ad-
vance of calls.
For list of Directors see former advertisement.
Applications for Shares and Stock may now be made to
the Company's--; Offices, 8 and 9, Queen-street-placo,
Southwark-bridge, London, E.C. (where a full Pro-
spectus and Forms of Application and all informa-
tion may be ,-'had); but it is necessary that it
should be understoOd that no application will be con-
sidered unless a deposit of .£1 on each share, or of ten
pounds per cent. upon the amount of stock applied for,
has been made either to the Bankers of the Company,
Messrs. Ransom, Bonverie, and Co., No. 1, Pall Mall East,
or at the Offices of the Company. The Deposit will be
returned without deduction if the application is not ac-
ceded to.

RECOMMENDED by the GOVERNMENT of INDIA,
thus : —" We hitvo long regarded this great scheme (the
BEHAR UNDERTAKING) as 010 of all others in
India to which. PRIVATE CAPITAL should be IN-

VITED."
The same GOVERNMENT have now AGREED to PAY
for all WATER SUPPLIED by the CONIPA.NY, they
PARTICIPATING in some of the PROFITS REAL-
ISED after TWENTY PER CENT. shall have b3en

RECEIVED by the SHAREHOLDERS.
THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.
Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament, with limited
INTENDED SCHEME.
"THE BEHAR UNDERTAKING."
All preliminary investigation having been made, and
plans prepared and approved for immediate construction.
First issue of Capital for the Behar Undertaking'
£1,000,000, in Shares of £lO each, and Stock in sums
varying from £lO each upwards,
Deposit upon Shares £1 per Share, with liberty to
pay up the remaining £0 or a lez,s amount in advance of
Calls.
Deposit upon Stock £lO per cent. upon application, and
the remainder within three months of the allotment.
Interest at Five per Cent. will be paid upon all payments
front the day of payment.
In the allotment of Shares and Stock, a preference will
be given to those who shall have paid in full, or in advance
of Calls.

Directors and Officers tl-e same as set forth in the Orissa
Undertaking Advertisement.
The scheme of works to be executed has been tho-
roughly investigated and carefully re-planned on behalf
of the Company, and particulars submitted to and ap-
proved by the Government, so that there will be no delay
in making preliminary surveys, plans, &c., all of which have
been effected, and everything made ready for immediate
constructive operations, a great advantage not possessed
heretofore by any other undertaking of a like character,
because the realisation of profits has been thus brought so
much nearer.

Some shares hase been already allotted in India.
The share capital will be called up slowly, and so as,
with the stock, to maintain an expenditure at the rate of
about £130,000 per annum. £2 per share during each
year will be ample for this.
Applications for shares may now be sent to the Com-
pany's Offices, 8 and 9, Queen-street-place, Southwark-
bridge, London, E.C. (where a full Prospectus and
Forms of Application and all information may be
had); but it is necessary that it should be under-
stood that no application will be considered, unless
a deposit of £1 on each share, or of 10 per cont. upon
the amount of stock applied for, has boon made either to
the Bankers of the Company, Messrs. Ransom, Rouverie,
and Co., No. 1, Pall-mall East, or at the Offif!es, 8 and 9,
Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.G. The
deposit will be returned without de luction if the applica-
ton is not acceded to.

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throughout the world.

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FEMAIA PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
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President Rev. CANON DALE.

CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 18G3 are ear•
neatly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Eton-
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, F. C.; Francis Nicholls,
Ksq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, F.C.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
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Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was
established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted
free.

Bankers—/siessrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co. 60, Lombard-
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AFTER HER MAJESTY'S OPERA,
DRITRY-LANE--EVANS' TO SUP.
After Drury-lane Opera. EVANS' to SUP.
After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP.
After Drary-lane Opera EVANS to Sur.
After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to Sur.
London Singing and S•tpper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden
Vocal Entertainment at Eight.

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RAILIV,II' MISMANAGEMENT IN AME-
RICA AND 1N ENGLAND.

The Saturday Review last week said of the New
York Nation that it was equal in every respect to the
very best English papers, a remark in which, we need
scarcely say, we fully concur. In the number of May
21 one of its able articles on the "Railroad Fraternity"
shows in a convincing way bow the same causes
prodtri En 410.4 °NA
_tivited States exactly
the same results. It is a stock argument in both
countries, when either is pointed to as an example
of the benefit to be derived from a certain course,

" that it might answer very well on the other side
of the water, but it was not adapted for us." When,
however, they act on the same plans they are pretty
certain to produce the same effect, and barring
some national differences of detail, the railroad mis-
management as prevailing, according to the Nation,
in America, might pass as written with reference to
English mismanagement. Three classes are sup-
posed to be interested : the proprietors, whether
holders of bonds or of shares; the public, with
their purses to deplete and their bodies to mangle ;
and that large class of individuals whom the Nation
styles " the Railroad-men," who form a fraternity,
a secret league, a united body, bound together by
a bond, not acknowledged nor even fairly under-
stool by themselves, but nevertheless real and sub-
stantial. This bond is none other than their ac-
knowledged hostility to the general public, and
to the great mass of railroad stock and bond-
holders. The class of railroad-men consists of
and comprises the great majority of the officers of
all railroads in the country, the presidents, the
vice-presidents, the acting directors, the engineers
and superintendents, all the great railroad builders
and contractors, the owners of rolling-mills who
furnish railroad iron, the builders of cars and loco-
motives,capital-
ists theadv
aland e agentsth and
and the speculators
-1-
who deal in the stocks. 0 these are added a
crowd of hungry hangers-on, lawyers, judges,
writers for the press, and petty politicians—the
whole forming a grand army, or rather a series of
e money, subsidies, the
grand armies, each under some tacitly acknow-
ledged leader, all operating under the well-under-
stood code of warfare known as railroad tactics ;
save
them;ra railroad laws, and knowing
thesekno knowing ionly
n too lawseva
acknowledging no morals
save railroad morals, something entirely apart from
all other morals ; all bound to live on the common
enemy—the public, and to live well, and to accom-
plish it by the forcible
.or treacherous control of
every highway and bye-way of communication
de
throughout the country. No generation of feudal
baro:is in the fourteenth century were ever bound

together by stronger ties of common interests than
those that bind together the railroad-men of the
United States in this nineteenth century of ours.
No generation of feudal barons lived more openly
or undisguisedly by rcirce or fraud than do the rail-
road men of our times. It is true the old barons.
ruled their countries sometimes well, more often ill,
and hence may be thought to have done some good
But the railroad barons are also thought to serve the
State by managing the railroad lines; and it is to the
general prevalence of this belief, aided by their
own audacity, that they owe their power." The
history of Sir Morton Peto and the London, Chat-
ham, and Dover Railway reads uncommonly like the
proceedings sketched by the Nation. The charter
to build a road is only obtained by log-rolling, and
generally by actual bribery. IVhen obtained it is
of money value, and the company has to tender a
large amount of the stock for this charter in addi-
tion to the repayment for the outlay on " legisla-
tive expenses." The company has then to elect
directors, and the services, or at least the names of
o prominent railroad-men," are necessary to give
credit and standing to the enterprise, but neither
services nor names are to be had without payment.
Shares are respectfully tendered and accepted, and
the use of the names are gained for the new con-
cern. One-half or one-third of the stock is often
thus disposed of without any "value received" before
the company is brought out. Then another stage
is reached ; the building of the road. The promi-
nent " railroad-men" introduce " well-known con-
tractors" to grade the line at so much per mile,
payment to be made in first mortgage bonds of the
company at 70 per cent., the company undertaking
to "make a market" for the bonds. The exami-
nation of the contracting firm of Peto, Betts, and
Co. has let the English public into some of the
secrets of the system,
as conducted in England.
Of course the price secures the contractor against
any probable loss by the bonds, but, as the " pro-
minent director " has also to be provided for,
a considerable margin
must be assured. No
bargain to this effect is made, the matter being
understood among " railroad-men," any contractor
failing to make things right with his friends on the
board would be denounced
cast out, never thereafter being able to get another
of engines,
nee: complete rails,ete 84t
and
contractorsby the
contract. The same course is pursued. in the deal-
ings to the community and
between the contractors and the manufacturers
istimehave there e e
ived enter-
prise
$l,OOO bond of the market value of $7OO in pay-
ment of labour and material worth perhaps $5OO,
the difference going into the pockets of the various
"eminentrse connected with the enter-
prise, having contracted a debt of
$l,OOO. for the value of $5OO received. Now comes
into play the operations of ale board of directors,
who are bound to " make a market" for the bonds,
i,the railroad-men"eeuepaey
and
servicesuseofeditors of
and reporters
" eminent financial
men."
prepares the public for the undertaking,
and one of
the first steps is to sell a certain amount of the
this
A regivaidre editions
theu s
bonds at 60 to 65 per cent. to the treasurer and
bond agent of the road, who is one of the ~ emi-
nent financial men," the company binding itself not
to sell bonds to others under 70 per cent. " At the
expense of the company the bonds are largely ad-
vertised, the advertisers generally paying a liberal
amount for editorial and reporters' puffing." A
large number of persons are now interested in the
stock, and their advocacy assured by the best of
all spurs, self-interest. The secret transpires that
the bonds are selling faster than is necessary
for money to construct the road, and this " de-
sirable security" is therefore advanced 5 per
cent., and after this operation is repeated two
or three times the bonds obtain a satisfactory
position on the market, and the transaction is.
highly beneficial to all the " railroad-men" con-
cerned. Notwithstanding the financing and the
contracting, if the road has really well been laid
out, the country well selected, and the management
thereafter proves commonly honest and judicious,
it may never belie the statements of those who
sold the bonds nor the anticipations of those who
bought them. But, says the Nation, the probability
is that the road will not be managed as honestly as
it should be; the temptations to be honest are now -
aelays fic• inadequate, while the temptations to be

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7tesr.otoisnt,olirimrkedttTn,,ii,iloltisih):rbtgiceotltg.sale.rsttonas only,
croceiketak:rbit
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f
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counts, an operation so thoroughly well known in
England that there is little necessity to allude to it
here. • " A dividend must be declared whether
earned or not, and the money mast be pro-
vided, honestly, if possible, but most generally
not." The plan in America is similar to that
adopted in England. The road is allowed to de-
teriorate, the money that ought to be expended in
repairs being entered as excess of receipts over ex-
penditure going into the dividend account, whenc it
is thus distributed, and the report being taken as
honest by the public, the stock acquires a market
value, which enables the holders gradually to sell
out. When the deterioration has reached danger-
point, money is borrowed in America as in Eng-
land, being there termed " floating debt," which is
not readily understood by the majority of the out-
side stockholders. At the same time the " eminent
railroad-men" on the board 'have a pull over the un-
suspecting public in their prior knowledge that
more capital-is required, and a fresh issue or stock
necessary. The "smart" directors immediately
sell large amounts of stock through their brokers
for their private account, knowing that the price
will be depressed when the new stock is brought on
the market, and they can buy back for delivery at
a gain—an operation usually termed " bearing."
The end of, a thoroughly jobbed road in America
differs in some degree front that of a line in Eng-
land. After its credit has become so bad that it
can neither borrow, contract floating debts,
nor sell new stock, the line passes danger-point,
accidents become common, traffic declines, and
the income being insufficient to pay besides ex-
penses, _the interest on the mortgage, it is foreclosed,
the property is sold at auction, and the millions of
stock held by the unsuspecting public vanish into
thin air. If the events of the last two years had
not shown up the railway mismanagement of Eng-
land, such an exposé as that in the .Nation would
have furnished a theme for the " eminent railroad
men" and " financiers" of England, on which to
moralize. We would have heard a great deal about
the degrading tendency of Democratic institutions,
the corruption generated in all classes through
universal suffrage, the necessity for the check and
control of raen of high and well-established cha-
racter. But the revelations in London have
effectually silenced English comment, for it is a
proved fact that a system more shamefully dis-
honest has no where else prevailed. In both coun-
tries the question of Government control is mooted,
and is, the Nation says, " only one of a series of
questions that are forcing themselves at this time
upon the attention of all peoples of Anglo-Saxon
race, and will probably involve in their settlement
some serious changes in the whole spirit of our do-
mestic policy." With all the American belief in the
" no-Government" theory, amounting almost to a
national principle of law, " there is, nevertheless, a
growing disposition to return to the old-fashioned
belief that, after all, Government is not a bad thing
in itself ; that there ought, after all, to be responsi-
bility attached to the actions of all men ; and
that somewhere the power must resi le to enforce
that responsibility. We are being gradually,
not by theoretical aguments, but by the invincible
logic of bitter practical experience, educated to the
conviction that public opinion, while immensely
effective for doing evil, is, at tunes, utterly power-
less fur good ; and each day now brings us a fresh
exampl3 of the way in which great private enter-
. prises, such as railroads, can be perverted into en-
gines of the most tyrannical injustice, into means
of gross official and prix ite corruption, and into
reckless instruments of destroyilig human life by
wholesale."—Anglo-American Times.

STRANGE POPULAR 31.4 NIFESTATION 1N

FRANCE.

A certain feeling of animosity, says the Times,
has been manifested in the Department of the
Charente against the clergy. Itow it has arisen,
p e d. Noagitation
or who has directly provoked it, is not clear ; but
it is since the discussion in the Senate on the peti-
tion against the Materialist doctrines attributed to
of
violencecb theseeerlea believe
e the Professorshave
local symptoms
been
papers,
have
a'n'e atphe
committed
the Schools heo o
; s ofb
utserious
iMedicinef
was acts that
w e
spread-
ingmay among the peasants. &Nue persons have, it
seems, succeeded in persuading the population
that, owing to the clergy, tithes and other
charges existing before the great Revolution for
the benefit of the monasteries and churches are
to be re-established forthwith. The credulous
peasantry caught up these rumours, and were
seized with panic lest their land should be taken
from them and confiscated in favour of priests and
monks. In some of the villages there were cries
of "Down with the priests," mingled, it is said,
with acclamations for the Emperor. A few days
ago the agitation grew menacing in the arrondisse-
ltmah
teeen
det oenfeotßdtahor
uabtbe zta! ebuyx.
painting
Among
evil-minded
representing otpeerrs o stories, rri
se
was s
0,
focnci roecr u-
tno,
blades of grass, and bunches of grapes, emblematic of
tithes, was concealed in the church. A crowd,
greatly excited, broke into the building, with
shouts of " A bas la dime !" and searched in every
corner, but found nothing. Then rushed to the
presbytery, or residence of the priest, smashed
the windows, threatened him with violence, and
might have done some more serious injury but
for the opportune arrival of a party of gen-
darmes, who dispersed the crowd and arrested
four or five of the ringleaders. The following
morning, however, another crowd assembled
and made an attempt to rescue the prisoners. The
gendarmes stood firm, and they and the P rocureur-
General, who was on the spot, succeeded in over-
awing them. Of the four arrested three were gen-
kneed by the police magistrate to fifteen months'
imprisonment and one to fifteen days. Tranq'iil-
lity, however, is not yet so complete as to dispense
with the aid of the military, and small detachments
continue to watch the parts where the agitation was
greatest. Meanwhile the Prefect of the depart-
ment has issued a proclamation to the following
effect :—" Inhabitants of the Charente,—A. portion
of our department, usually so calm and devoted to
the Emperor, is under the influence of an agitation
the cause of which is as devoid of common sense as
of truth. The enemies of the Government have, with
a view to detach you from it, spread about the report
that the time for tithes and fedual rights was com-
ing, and that the clergy were preparing to hang
up in their churches a painting which was to be
the signal for the restoration of the ancient regime.
The mysterious painting, the idea of which disturbs
your mind so much, has never existed, has never
been seen by any one, and never will be seen. It ,
is a malicious fiction imagined by persons who want
to lead you astray. The re-establishment of tithes
and feudal rights is at once an impossibility and a
falsehood, and, by accepting as serious inventions
so absurd, we expose ourselves to be made a laugh-
ingstock. We are in a country of. equality. All
Frenchmen possess the same rights, and the Go-
vernment would be the first to enforce respect for
them if neces3ary. Such is the will of the Emperor.
II ore every confidence in him, and in those who
represent him, Banish from your minds all such
chimerical fears, and do not pain me by seeing you
imitate those who have committed acts of disorder,
and whom justice has already severely punished."
k it is not ascertained who Bet such ruraoura afloat.

PRICY 4d.
STAMPED

They may, perhaps, be traced to some hasty obser-
vations on the part the Cardinals have taken in the
late debates in the Senate, to the ovations accorded
by the students to• M. Saint-Beuve after his
speeahes, or to the vi it ostentatiously paid him by
Prince Napoleon. Ate any rate, the Opinion. Na-
tionale, the antierical,Dentocratic, au 1 " Liberal"
organ, cornea forward haste to declare that the
whole affair is a mystery, but that one thing is clear
to " thit the Liberal Demerats, who
have been so often calumniated, have had nothing
whatever to do with these agitations." The Liberal
Democrats have not, that I • know of, been accused
by any one. From. the last acconnts it was feared
the agitation had reached parts of the Charente ln-
fkirieure and the Gironde, and in the former bands
of peasants were going about crying " Vive
pereur ! Down with the tithes !"

SPIRIT OP THE JOURNALS ON
. IMPEACHMENT.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The tone of the American press on Impeachment
has, on the whole, proved satisfactory. A great
number of country newspapers and the more ad-
vanced Radical organs adopted a style, we dare say,
they now regret, but the daily press of New York,
notwithstanding the violence of the excitement, as
a general rule wrote nothing they have any cause
to be ashamed of. The Round Table on this subject

.4z§ ,the Nitik2f the New York dailies :--
" The Evening Post, grave, sincere, and possessing an
in fluen ce due to i ts years and character, while treating
the Impeachment as a regular and authorized proce-
dure, has never affected to think it wise or necessary
either for a party or national purpose. The Com-
mercial Advertiser, directed by unusual experience
and sagacity that has become proverbial, has
steadily discountenanced it. The Times, with a
temperate and discriminating spirit, which is its
chief characteristic, has from the outset depre-
cated the rancorous zeal that inspired and has
embittered the whole movement, and has not
disguised its lack of sympathy with its inceptors
and Managers. The jVorld, with the odd mixture
of scholarship and ad captandum badinage which
it finds suitable to its audience, has reasoned with,
ridiculed, and reviled the measure and its pro-
moters with an assiduity that its increasing circula-
tion has made proportionably effective. The Herald
has vigorously ranged itself on the same side, and
from its own stand-point and in its own fashion
has bombarded ancient enemies unceasingly in
their new and vulnerable citadel. The Ex-
press has stood staunchly by its political co-
lours, and evinced throughout its abiding
faith in the principles and classes it represents.
Even The Sun, in spite of editorial antecedents that
might have been supposed to augur a different
policy, has shown in various ways its doubts of the
judiciousness of a scheme which, whether success-
ful or not, threatened to aggravate political reac-
tion against a party with which it nominally
acts, while in the former case it would 'strengthen
individual hands likely to be mischievous. Thus
the Tribune alone, of all the metropolitan
dailies which may be credited with political
influence, has heartily and thoroughly advocated
Impeachment and conviction, and with consistent
pertinacity has fought the battle through to its
close. The summary may be taken in a general
way as representative of the press of the whole
country. All the newspapers that may be termed
moderate Republican, Democratic, Conservative,
or neutral, have virtually opposed Impeach-
ment, or rather conviction. The extreme Ra-
dical party alone, led by their Magus Apollo,
the Tribune, have been of an opposite mind.
The course of the Tribune has provoked much com-
ment. The Nat;fi says that this re:milk:1111e paper
is the apostle and guide of nearly half a million of
people, and although humiliating to have to com-
ment on its course, it is this fact which makes it
worth while to do so. Up to Monday, May 18,
that is to the first working day after the vote on the
eleventh Article of Impeachment had b 'en taken, it
tried to disgrace the press and disgrace the
country, not only by attempting to convert a
judicial proceeding into a riot of perjury and
partizanship, but by holding some of the purest
and most distinguished men in the country up to
the execration of the world as scoundrels. It de-
clares them " infamous ;" insinuated that Mr.
Trumbull had been bribed by the " whisky ring ;"
and allowed its correspondents at Washington to
sit in the gallery of the Senate and sketch even the
personal appearance of Mr. Trumbull and Mr. Grimes
in the language of mingled hate and rutlianisin. The
Brooklyn Union well says of a part of itsperformanees
" The absurdity of the Tribune's article of this
morning is only equalled by its atrocity, and that
is unparalleled in Northern political journalism, or
in civilized journalism anywhere." And Harper's
Weekly also truly points out how fitting a termina-
tion this is to the Tribune's course during the rebel-
lion. " A soldier in peace and a citizen in war," it
was timorous and vacillating while the cannon were
sounding, and pluck and persistence were before all
things needful. When peace was restored, and there
was occasion for prudence, for caution, for reflection,.
and for intelligent doubt, it began charging like
a fury, and with an apparent determination not to
be taken alive. It has supported every bill and re-
solution, good, bad, and indifferent., that any Radi-
cal chose to introduce into Congress during the last
two years, and has declared the passage of eaeli one
essential to the salvation of this afflicted country.
It was opposed to Impeachment while Impeachment
was spoken of as a judicial proceeding ; but when it
took it up, it apparently determined to " put it
through" as a great 66 Wade movement," and pro-
nounced anybody who refused to vote the eleventh
Article a liar and scoundrel, and proposed to drive
out of the Republican party its most respected
members." Finding, however, from the unmistak-
able marks of reprobation coming in from every
quarter, and that peculiarly effective one "Stops"
it retracted in the eases of Messrs. Trumbull
and Fessenden, and declared Impeach went a
mistake." The Round Table asserts that " more
than to the moderate press do the Managers owe
their failure to the Tribune. More than to the
moderate press to the Tribune does Mr. Johnson
owe his acquittal. Mr Batter did much, no doubt,
but, ' with all his will and much more power to
damn,' Mr. Greeley with exquisite infelicity did
more. We have never been his admirer, but we
certainly think it must be owned that, in however
Milesian a fashion, the editor of the Tribune has in
this instance deserved well of his country."

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