The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1868.

UItNISHED APARTMENTS.—A Drawing
r,
Room and Bed Room to be Let, situated in.a cheerful and
healthy part of Kensington, hi the house of a Privata Family.
:applications through Massrs. G. W. Bayley and Wickham, New
land-terrace, Kensington.

pLAPHANI.—APAR E TMNTS well Furnished
I_l- and. hi4hly Respectable in a Gentleman's Bizvate
Family, pleasantly situate, with larzte .Garden. Attend-
ance and every comfort. Very convenient for Rail or
ti.fnnibus to City and West-and. Apply at tho Residence,
34, Lark {fall Risn, Clapham, S.W.; or to Mr. STSTENS,
The Pavonhmt, Clapham Common.

1-10 BE r,ET, UNFURNI'IIED, a PARLOUR.
and TWO BED-ROOMS, with. Ga 4, &c., in the Moqt
oligihle part of St. Pail's-roal, Camlan-iquare. N.W.
Apply at 44, St. Nurs-road, Camden-square, N.W.

I)UNVILLEIi V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,
regularly strophe, to the Muse of Lori 3.
" V. 8." IRISII

nUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH
WHISKY, BELFAST.
London Offices and Stores,
4, BEA.I7FORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.O
. Established 1803. Qnotations on application.

ISSUE of 'FURTHER CAPITAL for the COMPLETION
of • WORKS CONSTRUO TED under a CONTRACT,
whereby the GOVERNMENT of INDIA have AGREED
to PAY for ALL WATER SUPPLIED for IRRIGA-
TION. forming a GUARANTEE AGAINST LOSS by
NON-PAYMENT of WATER RATES, such 'WORKS
having also COMMENCED to YIELD RETURNS.

THE EAST IN DIA • IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.

Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament, with limited
SCHEME OF OPERATIONS.
"THE ORISSA UNDERTAKING."
Second issue of capital of £1,000,0;)0, to consist of shares
of £lO each, and stock in sums varying from £lO each up-
wards.
Deposit upon shares £1 per share, with liberty to pay up
the remaining £9 or a loss amount in advance of calls.
Deposit upon stock £lO per cent. upon application, and
the remainder within three months after allotment.
Interest at five per cent. will be pail 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 for n' advertisement.
Applications for Shares and Stock may now be made to
the Company's Offices, 8 and 9, Queen-street-place,
Southwark-bridge, Loudon, 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, Bouverie, 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 have long regarded this great schoms (the
BEHAR UNDERTAKING) as one of all others in
India to which PRIVATE CAPITAL should bo IN-

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

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 pieliminary investigation having been made, and
plans prepared and approved for immediate construction.
First issue of Capital for the Mint Undertaking
£1,090,000, 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 £9 or a less amount in advance of

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
from the day of payment.
In the allotment of Shares and Stock, a preference will
ba given to those who shall have paid infull, or in advance
of Calls.

Directors and Officers the same as set forth in the Orissa
Undertaking Advertisement.
The scheme of works to be executed bas boen 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 bo no delay
in making preliminary surveys, plans, &c., all of which have
been effected, and everything ma-le 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 have been already allotted in India

The share capital will bOcall.Ll up slowly, aril so as,
with the stock, to maintain an expenditure at the rate of
about £130,000 per annum. ..£2 par share during each
year will be amid) for this.
Applications for shares may now ba sent to the Com-
pany's 011iees, 8 and g, Queen-street-place, S.mthwark-
bridge, London, E.C. (where a full Prospectus and
Forms of Application and all information may Iv
had) ' • but it is necessary that it should be under-
stood that no application will be considered, unless
a deposit of £1 ou each share, or of 10 per cent. upon
the amount of stock applielfor, has been made either to
the Bankers of the Company, Messrs. Ransom, Rouverie,
and Cc , No. 1, Pall-mall East, or at the Offiles, 8 and 9,
Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.G. The
deposit will be returned without deluction if the applica-
ton is not acceded to.

THE EAST. INDIA IRRIGATION and
CANA COll P ANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBYL GIVEN that all APPL ICA-
T lONS for SHARES or STOCK in the ORISSA and
BEHAR UNDERTAKINGS of the above company should
be DELIVERED at the Head Offices, 8 and 9, Queen-
Street Place, Southwark Bridge. in the city of London, on
or before TO-MORROW, the 17th instant, after which the
directors will proceed to an allotment.
For particulars see former advertisements and pro-
spectuses; which can be had at the company's offices.
By order,
JOHN WESTWOOD. Secretary.
8 and 9, Queen Street Place, Southwark Bridge,
London, June 6, 1868.

CONTRACT FOR RIINI.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, June 11, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
II the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of tha
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on WEDNESDAY,
the 21th inst., at Twelve- o'clock- at Noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may laa willing to
CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford,
50,000 Gallons of RUM,
to b 3 delivered Within three weeks from date of Con-
tract.

Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the Rum.
All the casks, except such as may be required for her
Majesty's service, are to be taken away from the said
stores by and at the expense of the party whose Tender
is accepted.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the
whole, or of such part thereof only as they may deem fit,
or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any; and
also an unlimited power of selection.
The Rum to be exempted from the Customs' duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is lying.
Payment for the Rum will be made for the Proof Gal-
lons to one-tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being as-
certained to the half gallon.
Sample of the Rum to be sent in pints for each import
mark, and the average strength of each mark Ex to
be stated, and not an average of different marks or
strengths of several imports, an any parcel of Rum that
is found not to be of the same quality, mark, or average
strength of the sample tendered and accepted, will be re-
jected by the officers.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
tr. Her of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset Ilouse, where
the Conditions of the Contract may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
hint and to his proposed sureties in writing, when, but not
before, the rejected samples are to be removed.
Every Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Rum," and must also be delivered at the De-
partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contraf and Public Securities.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
WINDSOR SUMMER RACES, Juna 16th and 17th.

Trains for WINDSOR will leave PADDINGTON on each day
of the Races at 6.5.5 a.m. (3d class), 7.2 C, 9.18 (Bishop's-road).
10.10 (Fast), 10.30, 11.30 a.m., 12.10 p.m. (Special), 12.30, 1.30, awl
2.0 p.m. (Fast), Returning from Windsor at 4.35 p.m., 5.40, 6.0
(Special), 6.40, 8.10, 9.0, and 10.50 p.m.
A Through Train, without change of carriage, will also leave
the Metropolitan Station, M OORGATE-STR EET, for Windsor,
at 8.55 a m., calling at all Stations on the Metropolitan Linc.
Passenger can also be booked to• Windsor from' Victoria
(Pimlico), Battersea, Chelsea, West Brompton, and Kensington
tations by the Trains leaving Victoria Station at 6.22 a.m:, 8.50,
9.55, and 12.0 Noon.

FUr Fares and full particulars sea Handbills issued by the
Company.

Tue Great Western Station at Windsor is close to the Race
Course.

J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
PaAtlin,gton, June.

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet-
street, London, E C., June 3, MS.—Notice is hereby given,
that in conform'ty with the provisions of the Deed of Settlennut
a GENERAL MEETING or the proprietors of the Law Life
Assurance Society will be held at the Society's Grace, Fleet-
street, London, on WEDN '.SD IY, the 24th June inst., at Twelve
o'clock at Noon precisely, to Elect Six Directors and Twa Audi-
tors, and for general purposes
The Directors awl Auditors who go out of office by rotation
will be proposed for re-election.
By order of the Directors.
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary.

ASSURANCE

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Branch Office-29, Pall Mall.

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THE REPOR7'
GA7 lON COMMITTEE.
BUTLER'S INVES7I-

The report of the Committee appointed by the
House to investigate the charges made against cer-
tain Senators of having sold their votes to the
agents of Andrew Johnson was presented by the
Chairman, General Butler, on the 25th May. As
the members were strictly partisan, none but those
strongly favouring Impeachment being appointed,
the inquiry is wanting in the characteristics of a
judicial investigation. The Committee was clothed
with almost despotic authority, which it fully exer-
cised, but we are glad to say not without a protest.
The telegrams in the Washington offices were
seized, as well as letters from the mail bags and
from the desks of suspected persons, and the whole
was sifted so as to suit Mr. Butler and his col-
leagues. Under these circumstances it is not
surprising that the report affirms the existence of
a conspiracy to purchase a verdict of acquittal.
The main facts alleged by the report are that Mr.
Thurlow Weed was consulted a few days before the
first vote on Impeachment by Charles W. Woolley,
a Kentuckian lawyer, residing in Cincinnati, upon,
the subject of buying
votes. Mr. Weed consider-
ing the plan impracticable, and the person an ad-
venturer, and suspecting a design to entrap him,
declined to consider the proposal. A person named
Adams, who:some say had been in the Confederate
and some in the Union army, made the same pro-
position to Mr. Smythe, who replied that he would
consult Thurlow Weed, which consultation took
place, when the collector introduced Adams to Mr.
Weed. Although Mr. Weed advised Mr. Smythe ,
not to meddle with the business, he had an iater-
Webster, a revenue agent, and
inter-
view in his room at Astor House with Sheridan
Shook, a collector of internal revenue in New York,
made that $30,000
there Assoc Associated would be sufficient to purchase three votes. Some
Woolley olclae
rwellaalsnadtmill‘litiurr.weda's
of the party proceeded to Washington, hired
a room at Willard's Hotel
gh Hastings, said to be connected
Hotel, where the con-
spiracywith these per-
sons was Hu
with the Cvninzercial Advertiser, and Samuel Ward,
a speculator in gold. Mr. Adams, if the report be
correct, originated the plot, offering Woolley the
votes of Senators Pomeroy, Nye,
and Tipton.
Dinner parties were given, for it seems that in
Washington the vilest conspiracies are always
hatched at the genial board ; and among the guests
were Mr. Cooper, secretary to Andrew Johnson,
General Hancock, Mr. Evarts, Mr. Groesbeck,
Judge Dunlay, "Sun-set" Cox, and others. Tele-
grams were constantly passing between the con-
spirators in Washington and in New York. "'Andy
all right." " Johnson stock above par." " Senate`
will acquit." " Nineteen votes for acquittal on
Eleventh Article." Others were forwarded in
cypher, and some couched in language impossible
for the uninitiated to understand, but they clearly
referred to speculation in gold. One, for in-
stance, from Mr. Ward runs thus :—" Potter
will be quiet all the week, advocate my cause,
measure low enough," which, being interpreted,
means, " M'Culloch will not sell gold all this
week, buy me $50,000, gold is low enough." Mr.
Weed admits that Adams offered to buy the three
Senators, and although the report accuses Mr.
Weed of being the head of a disreputable plot, yet
through the columns of his paper (the New York-

Commercial Advertiser) he informs the public that:
his testimony is correctly given, adding, however ,
that the evidence did not refer to Impeachment.
These are his words :—" Senator Pomeroy eitb er
intended to dispose of three votes (including: 'his
own), or he was willing that his friends should use
his name to make money." 'Thurlow Weed 'ap-
pears to have some design against the good, of .we
of Senator Pomeroy, for he goes on to &Site
that not long;ince he sent a letter to the Pre: ident
offering to vote against Impeachment if a re ative
of his obtained certain favours—a letter he main-
tains to be on file in the Executive Depart ment.
We give a specimen of the examination ot Mr.
Weed by General Butler
Q__Did Hastings make any report when. he came
back to you? A.—Yes ; ho told me hp had been in Wash-
ington.

"Q.—Excuse me ; I did not ask what the report was ?
A.— If you ask me literally if he reported to me when he
came back, I say io.
" Q.—Did he see you after he came back? A.—Yes.
" Q.—Did be make any statement upon his visit to
Washington? A.—Yes.
" Q.—llow soon'did he return ? A.--1117 impression is
in about two days ; I am not quite sure."
This shows that it was not Mr. Butler's intention
to let the public know what was the evidence eli-
cited, for if so he would have given the substance
of the report instead of the questions that stopped
it. Mr. Woolley prevaricated, contradicted him-
self, and evaded giving his evidence by every means
open. He was arrested by order of the House, as
he positively declined to state what he did with
the funds he was known to have used in lobbying.
The Report concludes with a request that Woolley
. . . _ _ _

be brought to the bar of the House for contuma-
ciously refusing to tell what he did with the 25,000
dollars, and punished for contempt. When ar-
raigned on the next day he still declined to answer,
and was again consigned to the custody of the
Sergeant-at-Arms. All that could be extracted
from him was that the money belonged to his

clients, and was not used to bribe Senators. After
being confined for two days in the committee room
of Foreign Affairs he was removed, and is likely to
remain in custody during the session if he continues
in the same obstinate state of mind. Several ques-
tions have arisen out of Mr. Butler's action.
Woolley maintains that he cannot legally be com-
pelled, as an attorney, to violate the confidence of
clients; while the Managers assert the right of the
House to arrest citizens and enforce answers. On
the 28th May the day was wasted in Woolley's
affair, which gave rise to one of those scenes so
detrimental to the dignity of the House. Mr.
Brooks, of New York, attempted to read a declara-
tion of Woolley's describing Butler's treatment of
him as rule, abusive, and insulting, and a bitter
controversy passed between him and Mr. Butler,
in which other members joined. Several of those
whose telegrams have been seized have commenced
actions against the Western Union Telegraph
Company for giving up their privateemessages to
try the right of a Congressional Committee thus to
deal with the prosperity of the citizens. It is said
to be a monstrous offence as well against the Con-
stitution as against the most sacred rights of the
people. The telegraph is but a speedier Post-
office, and the message can be regarded by the law
in no other light than a letter. " The fourth amend-
ment to the Constitution declares that the right of
the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects against unreasonable searches
and seizures, shall not be violated ; and .no war-
rants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by oath or affirmation, and particu-
larly describing the place to be searched, and
the persons or things to be seized." But this

demand Of the committee is not on oath, it
decrees an unreasonable search, and specifies no
particular offence or crime, and no particular thing
to be seized. If the telegraph company abuse con-
fi knee by disclosing the private correspon•3ence of
citizens, it is liable for each breach of trust, and it
cannot plead the unconstitutional proceedings of the
Congressional Committee. We rejoice that the
case will be brought before a judicial tribunal, and
we hope that the usurpation of Congress will meet
with the punishment it deserves. Mr. Ward, who
was sharply dealt with in the report, writes as
sharply in reply a letter published in the IVorld of

May 26. He states that he gave Butlei the
key to his telegraphic cyphers under protest, and
be was " absolved by these conspirators from any
complicity with the phantoms they are pursuing."
Senator Butler produced one of his telegrams,
which by itself looks suspicious, but that he did not

produce the one following which explains it. Ile
denies having received any information from Mr.
11I'Culloch as to the sale of gold by the Govern-
ment, that he sold short "at the coruscations of

the Butler-Wade conspiracy," but " took it in"
when he heard Senator Grimes was worse, and
made hardly enough on it ta pay for the box of
cigars, of which he gave Butler one. Touching
those cigars, he complAins that Butler smoked his
baczy in token of peace, and with every appearance
of goodwill to the donor, professing frieudihip for
him during the examination, and afterwards belied
these professions. So indignant was Mr. Ward
_ _

Mr. Butler's statement to the House, that he sent
the fo:lowing card to the National Intelligence).:—
" Rejoicing for your sake that my previous commu-
nication of this date should be crowded out by

advertisements,' I would say that whenever
Manager Butler shall restore to the I' rauklin

Company their stolen telegrams, I v will pro-
duce one dated almost immediately after the
despatch I am told he has cited as referring
to Secretary McCulloch, in which I say to the cor-
respondent to whom it was addressed, My last de-
spatch meant that Senator Grimes is again
posed, and may be unable to vote on Tuesday.' I
am aware that it is a waste of time and effort to

nail lies to Manager Butler's counter ; but I owe it
to Secretary McCulloch to say that I have never
had the faintest intimations of his financial inten-
tions. Nor can I claim the honour of being a gold

gambler,' although Dr. Ben. Butler's appliCatiosn of
the epithet to me might entitle me to the glory of
having done ' something or other' to thwart his de-
moniacal plot to treat our magnificent Government

as he failed in treating Fort Fisher.

" SAu'L WARD."

A LEOPARD ON THE RAMPAGE.—Yesterday during
the removal of the cages containing the animals still re-
maining in Ames' Museum, on St. Charles-street, the one
containing the leopard was overturned and the bottom
broken out. Quick as lightning the terrible beast leaped
through the opening and dashed' down the street. Pe-
destrians and vehicles gave him a wid s berth. o.le would
have thought, from the facility with which room was made
for him to pass, that he was the pestilence in propria per-
.
sonz. Scared, and utterly surprised at the strange situation
in which he found himself, his object apparel more to
escape the crowd than to attack it. 113 crossed Canal-
street; and, continuing his career, finally brought up in a
china store on Charles-street. On his entrance the place
was immediately vacated, and he was left undisputed
monarch of the premises. The keeper here overtook him,
and the animal promptly submitted himself again to cap-
tivity. The damage done to the store was liquidated, and
Mr. Leopard returned to his old quarters.—New Orleans
Picayune, May 17.
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THE CHICAGO CONVENTION ON REPU-

DIATION.

(Fron the Arlolo-American Times)
The Saturday Review and other journals, both
Englishthem
ea
nainndg Aomf et rhiec
cpea
grov e rpt i l
a tofsotrema d. ofT hexplain
most
directly important principle laid down to Europeans
was that regarding the payment of the national debt.
It is a subject of moment both in England and in Ger-
many that the true interpret•ttion should be known.
We thought it sufficiently clear ; but it appears that
it is snsceptible of misconstruction. It had been
announced, as we last week observed, that the
repudiation doctrines were popular in the Western
States. A member of the Convention gives some
information how this principle was treated by the
Representatives of the. different States. The
member from Illinois, he says, not only denounced
Butler's doctrines, as well as Sherman's insidious
threats, in the most uncompromising language, but
affirms that it was under his lead the members from
Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Tennessee,
West Virginia, and South Carolina united in a solid
phalanx in order to carry the most outspoken and
unmistakable denunciation of al repadiation
schemes whatsoever, while Pennsylvania opposed
such plain talk ; while New York, with all the New
England States, except Rhode Island, were silent;
and while ,Ohio was represented by General Lee,
who at the Ohio State Convention had made a wild
harangue in favour of the greenback plan. Aware
that Mr. Butler interpreted the letter to be diame-
trically opposed to the spirit of the law, the member
from Illinois insisted upon strengthening the reso-
lution of the State Convention by altering the
words "according to the letter and the spirit of the
law," to " not merely the letter, but the spirit of
the law." Nor were the Western members content
with this, but carried another change, so as to
secure their meaning beyond all chance of misin-
terpretation, and to make their platform so reliable
that no ingenuity, as they thought, could wrench or
change its planks. If our readers will look at
the fifth declaration, they will perceive that the
word " honestly" is used.- As it stood in the Peoria
resolution the word was " lawfully ;" but the
members of the National Convention, guided by the
light of recent events of how laws may be enacted,
determined to substitute the word honestly. The
member of the Convention thus continues A
resolution, stating that the true way to reduce the
burden of the debt was in improving the public
credit by honesty, economy, and steadiness of the
financial system, having been voted down in the
sub-committee, a similar one was introduced in the
full committee by the member from Rhode Island,
and was supported by the 'Western members, and
finally adopted. It is believed that as yet no plat-
form of any party in any section of the country has
taken such decided ground in regard to the pre-
servation of the public faith, nor has any as com-
pletely stopped all loop-holes through which even
the " mildest" form of repudiation might creep in,
as this Chicago platform, mainly drawn, urged,
and passed by the representatives of the western-
most States. That being so, should not the insinua-
tions against the position held by the West on the
finance question be dropped out of sight ? Con-
sidering the great weight of the West in the
councils of the United States, the importance of
these proceedings to the bondholders cannot be
exaggerated. To cur mind they are decisive of the
question, and prove that Messrs. Butler, Stevens,
and Pendleton, made a gross blunder, one they are
perhaps now beginning to perceive. The injury
done to the credit of the United States may be
estimated by millions upon millions of dollars, bu
in our opinion the national loss is almost counter.

balanced by the national gain, in the evidence
afforded that those who most loudly proclaimed
American dishonesty, who made so strong a point
of stigmatising the unreliability of Democratic in-
stitutions, th 3 small sense of honour entertained by
the masses, and the certainty that any amount of
future benefit would be sacrificed by the people for
an immediate relief, have been shown to be false
prophets, and that the chizens may be relied upon
to meet and argue out such questions on their
merits. It was natural for the people at the first
glance to be fascinated bi the doctrine that what is
good enough money for the payment of labour is
good enough money for the payment of bond-
holders. And so it is ; provided that the nation
had not stipulated to pay in coin. Tho whole
question is simply resolved into this agreement ;
any evasion of which reflects on the national
honour as it would on the honour of any indi-
vidual, and would be attended with much the
same results. It is now clear that the subterfuge
is seen through by the masses, and the bondholders
may make themselves easy about the result.

DRAIIIMIC CRITICS OF NEW YORK.

Wa are often asked who arc the dramatic critics of the

leading journals of New York. There are not many
worthy of t' o namo who devote themselves exclusively
to theatricals. First and foremost is Willfum Winter, of
the Tribune, generally called "Willie" by his intimates.
Mt. Winter possesses a kindliness of nature which makes
it extremely difficult for him to censure actor or manager.
But ho also possesses a conscientiousness which holds his

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gentle disposition in tolerable check, and his severity- is
the more dreaded when the axe does fall. He also con-
ducts the Musical _Review, and, like Triplet, is in the literary
market for anything from an ode to an epic, and does all
things well.

Mr. Schuyler, we believe, does the World's dramatic
column, assisted occasionally by Mr. Fulton. Mr. Schuyler
possesses a fair sense of humour, is nothing if not satirical,
and is well real up in his vocation. He is the concocter of
the World's "Personals," which have attracted much at-
tention and interest.

Mr. Charles Seymour is the critic of the Times, but is
better known as a musical than a dramatic critic. He
writes in an analytical, scholarly strain, which is coin-
mendable, but not very readable. Mr. Augustin Daly had
some connexion with the Times, but resigned his position,
we suppose, from the multiplicity of labours which accu-
mulate on his busy hands during the haymaking season.
Mr. Seymour is a writer of considerable eminence outside
of the histrionic field, is an excellent foreign corres-
pondent, and a good editorial writer.

The name of the Herald's dramatic emissary is "Legion."
The Mogul of that powerful organ of the people believes
in the centralisation of power, but believes that the point
of centralisation should be himself. That is a good enough
principle, but in this particular instance results in the
emasculation of the herald's theatrical paragraphs. They
are simply elaborate advertisements, the utterances of
which are of no earthly consequenc 3 to any ono but those
lazy strangers at the hotels who look at them for guidance
rather than turn the paper inside out to find the paid pro-
gramme of the managers.
The gentleman who bad charge Of the Leader's (weekly)
dramatic interests was Mr. Clapp (Figaro), but he is, ro-
tired on half pay. Figaro is blasphemous, witty, personal
and brilliant—the Charles Sidney of the craft.
Mr. Chandos Fulton does the Sunday Mercury.

He has

the industry of the beaver and a thorough knowledge of
"the profebsion." Mr. Fultoa is the author of several
successful pieces, and if he were not a peace Democrat
would be•nearly up to the requirements of a first-rate dra-
matic critic.

We will give the rest next week if they wish mention
in this roll of fame (if they will send their names), but we
do not personally .know anything about them, although
we are perfectly familiar with their writing. As a class
the critical craft of New York are a shrewd, educated
set of follows, and far above the standard of the guild
abroad. If they were united, instead of warring around
on their own hook like predatory bands of Bedouins, they
would be a power in the dramatic land. They need not
fear the managing editors or proprietors lof their jotir-
nals. Count out twenty men, and you have all the
available critical talent in New York. There is a mob of

gentlemen who write with ease, can scratch off political
platitudes, and are otherwise up to the requisite stupidity
of editorial columns ; but dramatic criticism requires a
combination of that rare knack of clever writing to catch
attention and analytical study to hold it, which is usually
denied to the mediocre scribbler on "leading" or "minor
topics."

There ! we have boon wanting to say that for some

time, and we now say it, and we stick to it, if it gains us a
vendetta front every dullard on the political press.
Wilkes's Spirit of the Times.

The newspapers are teeming with references to econo-
my in tea by co-operation. Horninan and Co. have for 30
years co• operated through Agents to supply tea on mare
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their tea
reaches the consumer in the sante pure state as it leaves the
grower, as it is secured in packets.