The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVtiktiNG, MAY 9, 1868.

711 E IRISH CHURCH.

On Wednesday afternoon a large and influen-
tial Protestant meeting was held in St. James's
Hall in support of the Irish Church Establish-
ment. The chair was taken by the Archbishop
of Canterbury. On the platform there was
a strong muster of peers and bishops of the
Irish and English branch of the Establishment.
The body of the hall was crowded with clergy-
men anxious to defend the outwork, as it is
called by them, of the Anglican Church. The
meeting was clerical in its character, and there
was a "No Popery " flavour in some of the
speeches. It was very comprehensive in its
composition, embracing in its religious brother-
hood every section of the Establishment, from
Dr. Wilberforce to Dean Stanley. The Bishop
of Oxford, on seconding the first resolution, was
interrupted, and for a time silenced by a storm
'of hisses. He grew defiant, and denounced
those " sibilant geese" who, for the sake of
miserable and paltry differences (do the
Ritualists think them paltry ?), would jeopar-
dize the great object of the meeting. At last
the Archbishop of Canterbury threatened to
leave the chair unless a full and patient hear-
ing was given to the Bishop of Oxford. But
the lesson of the " sibilant geese" was not lost
upon Dr. Wilberforce. He took the hint, and
spiced his speech not a little with "No-Popery"
ingredients. He expatiated with an unctious-
ness which he so well knows how to exhibit
on the " Supremacy of our Queen," on " Our
Reformed Church,' on the " Open Word of
God," and contrasted these glorious results
of the Royal supremacy with the " Mediator-
ship of the Virgin Mary," the " usurped supre-
macy of a foreign bishop," and a "Christianity
as is now. taught by Ultramontane Doctors."
The Bishop of Oxford argued that the funda-
mental error of holding the supremacy of a
foreign bishop in place of that of the national
crown made the Establishment of Catholicism
in' Ireland a moral impossibility. But the
denial of the Royal Supremacy in Scotland
did not prevent the establishment of Presby-
terianism. " We," says the Bishop of Oxford,
speaking of himself and his confreres,. " are
the national Church. How can it," he asked,
"be an insult to the people of Ireland that
England provides that which she believes to
be the truth and God's way of salvation ?"
We notice the Bishop of Oxford's speech as
being the first symptom outside of the excited
arena of a party fight in the House of Com-
mons, of raising again the religious issue in
England between Catholicism and Protestant-
ism. Ireland is to have the Establishment
thrust upon her as a national Church because,
in the opinion of the Bishop of Oxford, it is
" God's way of salvation," and because the
Papal supremacy is an offence to English Pro-
testantism. The vast majority of the people
of Ireland are to be oppressed and insulted by
the presence of an alien and hated Establish-
ment to satisfy the Protestantism of England,
and to protect the English Establishment from
, the attacks of its enemies. The answer of
the people of Ireland is simple. They don't
believe in the Bishop of Oxford's " way of
salvation" and don't care a fig for what be-
comes of the English Establishment, but
that, as a Catholic nation, they repudiate
now and for ever English Protestantism and
its Church, and that, if a "No Popery " issue
in the country and on the hustings is to be
raised, and it can only be raised successfully
by the Protestant bishops and clergy of the
English Establishment, then the people of
Ireland will, for every meeting, such as that
of Wednesday, in St. James's Hall, muster in
monster meetings like that lately held in
Limerick, in which the determination of the
masses was manifested in a manner not to be
mistaken, no longer to endure, for the sake
of English Protestantism, the oppressive and
insulting injustice of the Irish Establishment.
Indications, indeed, are not wanting, of which
the meeting in St. James's. Hall was one, that
the Protestant party in the Government, in
the Established Church, and in the country,
will try as a last resource, in order to save the
condemned Irish Establishment to raise a
"No Popery " cry. Such an attempt would
r not ult
mate be most ill-advised on the part of the English
Establishment,
discomfiture.
a Catholicsnd can onl
are
yes
respon-
sible for -such a mischievous
duty is clear in the coming conflict, however
prolonged
prolonged and however severe, and prolonged
and severe no doubt it will be. A' every cost
let justice be done. Let no minor or ephe-
meral interests stand in the way of a ()Teat act
of national justice. In • • through
inconveniences t ough
inconveniences or losses may occur to Catho-
lics, as in the passing of the
Emancipation
Act ; but what are such • inconveniences but
mere flea-bites when compared with the en-
during benefit both to Catholicism and the
Empire of the settlement, •
lit a fair and equit-
able manner, of this great question.—West-
, minder Gazette.

discussion of the terms of the treaty of peacre
with Austria, a question arose, among othe.ts,
as to the ancient Order of the Iron Clown.
The Italian Government maintained that it
ought to pass to Italy along with the Iron
Crown itself. The Austrian plenipotentiaries,
however, declared that it was one of the ,
inherent rights of the Austrian Empire, and
could not be alienated. Upon this it was pro-
posed, on the Italian side, that Austria should
retain the rights to which she clung so tena-
ciously, but only as regarded the past. That
the order should continue to be considered
an Austrian order, but that the Emperor should
undertake to confer no new decorations, so
that it might in effect die out. Austria, how-
ever, resisted this proposal also, and handed
over the Crown of Monza, without fettering
itself by any conditions whatever as to the
order ; further, as an irrefragable proof of the
non-alienation of his rights in this respect,
the Emperor nominated an Italian to be
knight of the order within a few days of the
ratification of the treaty. Menabrea did not
fail to perceive how Italy had been outwitted,
and, on his accession to power, avenged her in
the best way he could by instituting the new
Order of the Crown of Italy. One of its crosses
has been bestowed on Rossini, who has at the
same time been misled by the Minister of
Public Instruction to put himself at the head
of a great musical, association for all Italy, to
be called the " SocietA Rossiniana." It must
not be forgotten that the great composbr who
is thus called to preside over the harmony of
Italy is a Roman.

The unsettled state of the neighbouring
kingdom has many disadvantages, for, as
notably in the brigandage with which our bor-
ders are infested, it is a harassing influence
we cannot help deprecating, notwithstanding
that it certainly affords, to some extent, a
school of warfare for our young soldiers. True,
many of them feel it au ignoble exercise of
their powers, but it teaches them submission
to authority, alertness against surprises, hardi-
hood as well in sudden encounters as in the
privations of wearisome tracking and watch-
ing. The brave gendarmi are admirably cal-
culated for training them in all these exercises
of the military calling. Many a weary hour
is thus spent, and many an act of endurance
performed of which the world hears nothing ;
but now and then there is a brush redounding
'to the honour of our brave and patient de-
fenders. Thus one day last week our troops,
aided by a reinforcement of the armed pea-
sants called squadriglieri, succeeded in closing
round a small band of these desperadoes, whose
traces they had long been following up in the
woods round Monte Romano. The whole
party was either killed or captured, and proved
to be disbanded remnants of the late Garibal-
dian hordes.

Numbers of idle and violent men are, doubt-
less, continually being lured from the pursuits
of industry by the spasmodic efforts of the
Revolution against Rome, and once thus un-
settled they are almost driven to pursue, on
their own account, the system of lawless de-
predation to whichthey have been called. The
Italian Kingdom, which must be suffering
much more severely at their hands than we,
ought to learn a lesson of the insensate folly
of creating nurseries of such foes to its own
order and coherence. The renewed strength
of these depredators is; perhaps, accounted
for in our hearing less of late of Garibaldian
gatherings. -
We are threatened now by rumours of a
league between Prussia and Italy against
France, cemented during the attendance of the
Crown Prince at the wedding festivities. This,
as you may imagine, is far from disquiet-
ing us. Nothing, probably, could be a stronger
earnest of our security than creating a neces-
sity for France to defend the Roman border
on its own account. Arrangements are made,
it is said, at the Mediterranean stations by
which some five and twenty thousand men
could start for the Papal port at a few hours'
notice, and the formidable works so long in
progress at Civita Vecchia show that we are
by no means unprepared. In military circles
it is confidently expected that the autumn.
will not pass without a call to arms. .
The health of the Holy Father continues
excellent. On Monday he walked on the Pincio ;
on Wednesday, being the feast of St. Peter,
martyr, and the eve of that of St. Catherine
of Siena, both Dominican saints, he visited the
church of the Minerva, and presented it with
a handsome chalice. He knelt for some time
at St. Catherine's shrine, and addressed. her in
a Latin prayer aloud in her character of pro-
tectress of the people of Rome.
On Monday he had all the wounded from
Mentana remaining in Rome, or near enough
to come `np, presented to
.him. They were
thirty-fiire in number, and were brought to him
by General Sanzler himself, together with the
Sisters of Charity and surgeons who had at-
tended on them. They were drawn up in two
lines, arranged down the sides of the great
sales of the
l'Swiss Guard. The Holy Father
went round, finding something kind and ap-
propriate to say to each. Every one was
astonished at his memory. The moment a
man's name was mentioned to him, he recalled
at once all he had previously heard about him
in the hospital, the different engagements in
which he had served, and the manner in which
he had distinguished himself. He then ad-
dressed them together in something like these
terms—" Bear in mind, dear children, that the
Pope is ever grateful to you for all you have
done and suffered in his service. What more
can a son do for a father than to pour out his
blood and offer his life for him ? Well, this
May the Divine bless-
ingto pour out upon your
is whatw hi cyhou I haveam about done.
wounds overflow upon your families and upon
all dear to you ; and may it keep you always
in that straight path which you were follow-
ing so faithfully the day that you were wounded
in cause of the Vicar of Jesus Christ—in
other words, in the cause of truth and jus-
tice."

I have already had occasion to mention that
Cardinal d'Andrea has been absent from all the
great functions. His health has always been
given as the reason of this abstention ; but, of
course, it has been ascribed to a contumacious
spirit. I hear now, however, that he is now,
beyond doubt, seriously ill.
There Was a great funeral service at S.
Eustachio on Monday, at which a great num-
ber of bishops assisted, for Mgr. Pila, who died
rather suddenly of pleurisy.
A grand triduo was celebrated at S. John and
Paul, ending on Tuesday, being the first feast
of S. Paul of the Cross, canonized last year.
It was an occasion for a very brilliant cele-
bration, and was crowdedly attended. The
Mass was sung the first day by Cardinal Bar-
nabo, on the second by Cardinal Clarelli, and
on the third by Cardinal Bi lio, on the even-
ing of which day Cardinal Guido pronounced
a panegyric. The music throughout was very
fine ; the parati, or adaptive hangings magni-
ficent ; as were also the external illuminations.
The fine band of the gendarnti played outside
in the evening. S. Paul of the Cross died
on the 18th of October, but that day being
already St. Luke's, his order begged to have
a day in the spring fixed for his festival in-
stead.

A similar fête is, I hear, being held, to be
closed to-day, at the church of SS. Cosmo and
Damiano, in the Forum, in honour of S.
Leonard of Port Maurice, canonized at the
same time. This church was selected because
the neighbouring church of S. Bunoventura,
where it would naturally have been held, was
deemed too small for the occasion.

A very interesting retreat, intended for the
poor peasants of the Campagna, three miles
round Rome, has just been conducted by the
Frjres de la Miserecorde of the Piazza Pia. It
was wonderfully well attended by men of all
ages. Many neglected lads came to it and
made their first Communion at its close. One
of the meditations each day was led by a cardi-
nal. Cardinal Borromeo lent his assistance
one day, and Cardinal Milesi Ferretti, a near
relative of the Holy Father, another.

MISCELLANEOUS IVEIVS.

(From the Anglo-Ameri:!vz 2 i:ws.)

The Secretary of the 'Treasury's account of the
United States' debt to Ist May has been issued,
and proves satisfactory. The total amount was
$2,639,500,000 against $2,612,000,000 on :the Ist
April, being a dscrease of $2,500,000. The cash in
the Treasury on the Ist May was $139,000,000
against $122,500,000 on the Ist April, being au in-
crease of $16,500,000, making the gain to the
United States for the month $19,000,000, or, in
round numbers, not much less than three millions
sterling. This is a most satisfactory return, but we
are not told what portion of the cash in Treasury
is in gold. The coupons due on the 5.20's of 1862
had to be paid after the Ist instant, and the large
shipments of speeie lately for warde 1 to Europe
have been mainly for this purpose. The steamers
on Cie 2d May took $903,000, on the 4th
$1,000,000, on the 6th $625,030, and on the 7th
$1,100,000.
The Scotia brings news that a resolution had
been introduced into the House, asking the Presi-
dent to take measures to protect American fisher-
men in Canadian water, and a telegram from
Washington states that, on the 7th instant,
the House of Representatives passed the resolu-
tion, asking the President to send vessels of war
to the Gulf •of St. Lawrence to protect the rights of
American fishermen. This, Messrs. Neill's cotton
report of last Saturday, and Mr. M'Culloch's
Treasury statement, are the only other telegrams
received this week. According to Messrs. Neill's
report, the week's receipts of cotton have been
19,000 bales, and since the Ist of September,
2,062,000. Week's export to Great Britain, 28,000
bales ; since the Ist of September, 1,111,600.
Week's export to France, 3,000 ; since the Ist of
September, 200,000. No export this week to other
foreign ports; since the Ist of September, 218,000.
Total exports for the week, 31,000 bales ; since
the Ist of September, 1,529,000. Stock at all ports,
220,000 bales.
It is pleasant to record the kindly interchange of
good feeling between the great military services of
the United Kingdom and the United States. Per-
haps no sailor ever received such an ovation from
the British Navy as Admiral Farragut ; and we do
not doubt that General Grant felt the compliment
implied to the United States Army when he re-
ceived from the Head-quarters in Abyssinia a col-
lection of beautifully executed photographs of the
camp and positions of the Field Force in its Mag-
dala raid, sent to him by Sir Robert Napier. We
►nay here mention that the General expects the force
to reach the coast about the 25th inst. The head-
quarters were at Talanta on April 21, but the troops
we►e then leaving on their retorn, having burnt
Magdala and destroyed 30 guns and mortars, and
no political complications have arisen in Abyssinia.
The widow and son of Theodore were in the British
camp, under escort to Tigre. The troops were well
and the wounded progressing favourably.
It is -difficult always truthfully to report the
current of public opinion in the United States. SJ
loud and continued at one time was the cry fcr
greenback redemption that we were deluded into the
belief that it gave expression to a general and growing
feeling, and some leading politicians did calculate it
to be a good cry with which to go to the country.
The question was fairly argued, and its iniquity so
forcibly exposed, that the honesty of the nation was
aroused against it. Butler's rscord is of that pecu-
liar character that stains fade quickly ; but Pendle-
ton is fairly suppressed—and, we hope for life. The
Repudiator died the death of the dishonest, having
just lived long enough to stigmatize everything and
everybody connected with it, even St. Louis, where
the paper was started. It met with no support;
and how could it hope that anybody would keep faith
with a journal launched to advocate a great public
breach of confidence? Why, if anything could
justify people it was this in doing what we most
heartily disapprove—ordering advertisements and
subscriptions, and using this paper for their own
advantage, but repudiating payment. The fast is,
that trade and business are rapidly improving in
the United States, and the more marked the im-
provement, the less we will hear of any schemes for
defrauding creditors. The only great branch of
industry that remains stagnant is ship-building.
On -the 21st April manicipal officers were chosen
in Chicago, and the Democrats elected their candi-
dates for judge and clerk of the Recorder's Court
by a majority of 500, besides carrying their muni-
cipal ticket. The Council now stands 20 Republi-
cans to 12 Democrats. This is the first electio❑
in which the Republicans have been defeated in
Chicago for nine years ; at one time the R ►dical
majority reached 8,001 The Republicans of that
city will hold the National Convention in the Crosby
Opera House, though a wigwam, after the Phila-
delphia pattern, to accommodate 12,000 people has
been suggested. The middle of this month is the
time fixed for nominating candidates for President
and Vice-President and adopting the platform of
principles. The delegates of 23 States are in-
structed to vote for Grant as President, but the
nomination for Vice-President is the difficulty—
Wade, Colfax, Curtin, Fenton, Senator Wilson are
named. The Convention when complete will num-
ber 450 delegates, being twice the number of Sena-
tors and Representatives sent to Congress. The
Democratic National Convention does not meet till
the 4th July, when it is to assemble at New York.
The Chicago Convention requires a majority of
the whole number for a candidate to be declared,
while the New York Convention insists on a two-
third vote before the Presidential candidate can be
proclaimed to be the nominee of the party.
Several outrages indicate more Indian disturb-
ances. In Nevada Mr. W. 11. Pierson, wife, and
daughter were murdered at Red Rock ranche, in
the Valley of Nevada ; as well as John Sutherland,
another man, and a boy, the savages escaping. In
Arizona the mail carrier has been attacked, and two
of his escort killed. In Dacotah several outrages
are reported ; ranches burnt, and three or four sol-
diers and settlers murdered. A telegram from Fort
Macpherson says that a party of Indians, supposed
to be a part of " Spotted Tail's" band or Cheyennes,
made a dash upon a company of men, April 22,
killing four and wounding two, who were brought
in. The killed are James Brown, Gus. Hall, Geo.
Kline, and Joseph Vert. E. Hoffman was scalped
and badly wounded by an arrow. A boy named
Tanny, aged 11, was dangerously wounded.
'The Virginian Convention having adopted its
constitution, with the iron-clad test oath, retained
against the advice of General Schofield, has ad-
journed. The time for the election is not yet
named, being postponed by the General until Con-
gress makes an appropriation for the expenses, but
both parties are working vigorously. The Missis-
sippi Convention has excluded press reporters from
the House, and twelve members resigned their seats
in one day. In Georgia and North Carolina the
reports indicate that the constitutions have been
adopted, and in the case of North Carolina and
Louisiana the news by the Scotia informs us that
the constitutions are officially announced as carried,
the former in a total vote exceedingthaton the Con-
vention by at least 75,000. Both States choose
members of Congress, and the calculation is that
the Democratic gains will be five, and the Re-
publican eight, all whites. In South Carolina the
• majority for the Constitution was 43,000, and the
whole Republican ticket has been chosen, headed
by General R. K. Scott for Governor. In
Louisiana three Republicans and one Conservative
have been elected. On the 231 April a disturbance
was reported in Georgia, but generally the elections
passed off quietly. It is asserted that Senators and
Representatives from Arkansas, South Carolina,
and Louisiana, will soon be a knitted into Congress,
but it is considered doubtful i❑ each case except
that of Arkansas, but bills have been introduced
into the House not only to bring in these States,
but also North Carolina.
Frederick Law Olmsted has sent a letter to the
New York Nation, in which he relates a story to
show how charges of drunkenness are trumped up
against General Grant. In 1863, a few miles
above Vicksburg, he was in a steamboat with the
General and Mr. Frederick Knapp. Grant took
the opportunity of discussing some of his plans,
which he did, so as forcibly to impress his hearers
with the grasp his mind had of all details, diffi-
cult as they were at the time. While talking,

be was disturbed by a lady to whom he listened
attentively and differentially, though annoyed at
the interruption, and after hearing all she had to
say he fixed the following morning for an interview
between her and a person named to act for him,
when the lady withdrew, and the General, resam.
ing his cigar, said he thought her propo3i.ion a r2a-
sonable and humane one. A week after, Mr. Knapp
met the lady, and was surprised to hear her de-
plore the habits of General Grant. He endea-
voured to correct the erroneous impresiion, but the
lady asserted that she had certain knowledge of
what she advanced. Then describing her inter-
view, she said he Was engaged in a carouse with two
companions, when she came unexpecte fly, that he
rose with difficulty, could not stand without stag-
gering, and supported himself with a chair. Ilis
voice was thick, he spoke inccherently, and evi-
lently conscious that he was unfit for bu3ines3, bad
put her off till the next day. Mr. Knapp, who had
lined -.vide him, and had been fully three hours face
to face, declared he had drank nothing stronger than
the unqualified mud of the Mississippi, and that he
had never seen a man more thoroughly sober and
clear-headed than Grant when she entered. But he
failed to remove the impression, and Mr. Olmsted
supposes that she still asserts that all three were
drunk at the time.

A letter addressed to Mr. Johnson in 1865 by
the Hon. Lewis D. Campbell has been published;
advising the removal of that most unpopular Minis-
ter both in and out of the army, Mr. Stanton.
This is not a bad document figuring by the side of
that-addressed to Senator Cameron by the Penn-
sylvania Republicans, wherein they begged the
Senator to urge on Benjamin Wade, when he be-
comes President, the claims of Mr. Stanton for the
Treasury, from which they take it for grinted Mr.
M'Culloch will be removed. It is bad taste
in the President to have published this letter,
no matter what the provocation ; and it is this un-
justifiable use of documents that come into his hands
as a great State officer which has tended so much
to create the odium in which Andrew Johnson is
held.

Daniel Drew has succeeded in passing his bill
through the New York Legislature legalising the
acts of the directors with reference to the Erie
Railway, nullifying the judicial proceedings against
them, and protecting and supporting their interests
against the rival line. No director of the New
York Central, Hudson River, or Harlem Roads eau
be a director of the Erie Road, so that " Uncle
Daniel" has completely beaten the " Commodore."
The bill was carried by more than the two-thirds
necessary to protect it from the chance even of
the Governor's veto, and Drew has made arrange-
ments to procure the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture when the bill is safe, that the members may
not be in the way of temptation. It is calculated
that he has spentin the little job nearly $1,0.00,000.
Vanderbilt came too late into the field. The spe-
cial train, loaded with picked agents which he sent
to Albany, reached that city only in time to find
the work effectually settled; bat rumours announce
that the rival chiefs are in treaty henceforth to
work together, and if so the public mty look out.
Some papers assert that Vanderbilt fought
the question to the last, freely using his money,
and alleges that grave Senators " carried water
on both shoulders," which, we presume, means
that, they took bribes from each side, " net-
ting a moderate fortune by their skill." One
Republican Senator supposed to be safe beyond
suspicion, and who had drawn largely from the old
Commodore, passel straight over to the enemy,
and was instrumental in checkmating Vanderbilt.

We now learn that the Erie war has assumed
a wholly new and unexpected phase. For some
time previous to the departure of the mail it
is said that Drew had come to an understand-
ing with Vanderbilt, and had arranged as trea-
surer to deliver over to Mr. Osgood, the receiver
appointed by a New York Court, $8,000,000
of the new stock sold. It was also stated that the
real Simon Pure was the motive power of the Drew
side, then came to the front in the person of the
president, J. S. Eldridge, with- the directors lately
in exile at Jersey City, Fisk, Gould, Devlin,
and others. The scheme being discovered, Drew
was ousted from the treasurership, and Jay Gould,
an expert Erie diplomatist, was put in his place.
The capitalists have combined to control the Toledo
and Wabash Railroad, which will secure to the New
York Central the necessary western connections to
Chicago. 'iho lawyers assert that the fight may
last for years and be an heirloom to their families.

In consequence of the Erie Railway disaster the
superintendent limits first-class passenger trains to
a speed not in excess of 25 miles per hour, and not
more than 12 for second-class or freight terms. No
deviation from the time-table will excuse breaking
this rule, and no fast: running will be allowed to
make up for lost time. These rates are considered
to be the fastest that can be run with safety,
though they barely equal one-half the speed of
trains in England.

An American contemporary says :—" Fenianism
is spreading in New Zealand, where of late the
heavy gales have been very destructive of human
life and of property." The two are somewhat ridi-
culously coupled in this paragraph, but if we had
to choose we would take our chance of the storms,
which at any rate clear the atmosphere and are fol-
lowed by calms. Fenianism has as much chance
of a footing in New Zealand as it has in the
Queen's Palace. The most loyal portions of the
Empire and those most devoted to the English con-
nection are Australia and New Zealand. Perhaps
distance lends enchantment to the view of the
mother country, but at any rate those who desire to
hear old England spoken of with an enthusiastic
affection should go to New Zealand. The colony
has lately been the scene of something like a shower.
It rained incessantly for thirty days, and then the
wooden houses were floating about like arks. The
builders thought they were providing against earth-
quakes, but they found they had made a happy
selection of material for an inundation.

It is fortunate that General Butler will be heard
no more during the Impeachment Trial, and there
are very few who care more to see him than to hear
him, as he is not fascinating from either point. He
and his family have proceeded to Mount Vernon ;
William., Thad. Stevens, and Bingham are the
Managers yet to speak ; and Groesbeck and Evans,
of the President's counsel, and they will do so in the
following order. Williams will lead, on the part of
the prosecution, in a speech which, he says, will
not occupy more than two hours. Groesbeck will
reply. Thad. Stevens will then come up, and he
asserts that all he wants is one hour. Evarts will
follow, and Bingham will close.
The committee on the Pacific Railroad is about
to report a bill to Congress, authorizing a commis-
sion, composed of the Secretaries of War and of the
Interior, the Attorney-General, and two Presidents
of Railways, annually to regulate the rates of fares
and freights on the Pacific railroads when completed
through from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and when
the dividend exceeds 10 per cent. The Omaha line
is now constructed to a distance of 560 miles west-
ward, asd is working on the other slope of the
Rocky Mountains, having crossed the range at a
height of 8,242 feet above the sea level, the greatest
elevation at which a locomotive ever snorted. The
stock of the company is daily growing in favour as
a permanent investment for capital, an I is ltkely
soon to take one of the highest positions in the
world, as the stock in truth represents the greatest
of man's undertakings. An article in a magazine
compares it to the Bank. of England or the East
India Company, but it is not in reality similar to
either, the first being a mere monetary corporation,
representing no indistrial enterprise, and the last
a trading community that 1)0.3-3e3 ie.' its3lf of and
lost the Empire of the Moguls; while the Union
Pacific Railway Company is the corporation through
who.:e means the grandest work of modern times
has been constructed. We are surprised that Eng-
lish capitalists have not directed more attention to
tire stock, and the fact that an undertaking so costly
should still be confined to the United States, no
aid being asked for in Europe, is that which best
shows ita worth.

Finance-mongering in New Zealand loans has
lately been active. A considerable sum has been
obtained on the Londoh market by the agents for
the colony, and the hollers of the provincial debts
have been invited to convert them into the Conso-

lidated Debt of the. General Government. The
innocent English people consider the security of a
colony to b 2 better than that of a province, but
the truth is that the debt of such a province as
Canterbury, with the tangible security of the rail-
ways now in progrefs, more especially that jtk.t
opened between I,ytt,lton and Christ-church is
superior to the colonial guarantee. A great danger
lies before New Zealand. The colony consists of
two islands, the debtand the Maories being the cha-
racteristics of the Northern ; and population, flocks,
and the gold &Hs, the features of the Southern.
The colonists of the South have always objected to
being taxed to keep up such a town as Auckland,
and to support soldiers they never see nor require.
They have agitated strongly for a separation which
might hereafter take place, when it would be uo
easy matter to apportion the debt, and the bonds
that fell to the North to pay might prove little
better than a Spanish debt to the holders. Great
provinces like Canterbury and Otago are put on the
same level as Hawke's Bay ; we wonder they did
not add Southland, which ridiculous province had
the audacity to raise a loan o❑ its own account, and
a bailiff actually turned his honour the superinten-
dent out of his chair as the only tangible security.
People who meddle in the Ncw Zealand loans should
strive to make themselves acquainted with the
country.

It is becoming the fashion on the other side the
water to accuse the most prominent public men of
drunkenness. Columbia, however, thinking it un-
fair that she should enjoy a monopoly of topers,
has traversed the Atlantic for instances among her
English cousins. The correspondent of the New
York Tribune had not to go far to put his hand on
the man he wanted. The Right llon. Ben. Disraeli
is the Premier, and, in virtue of his office, the first
whose conduct would be investigated by the corre-
spondent. Nor was he long in coming to a conclu-
sion about the habits of that distinguished member
of the Press. He thought he looked rather sus-
picious on the closing night of the Maguire debate ;
but his speech on the 3d of April, at the end of the
first debate on the Irish Church, settled the matter.
" Dizzy," according to this gentleman, was, iu
truth, dizzy, not under the influence of excitement,
but of drink ! The fact is, that the work of such
debates is too exhausting for men to get through
without some restorative, and when a man has been
speaking for two hours after midnight, he had better
confine himself to tea or coffee, as even a slight
stimulant might have an effect he did not anticipate.
Lord Hobart has arrived at Constantinople and
assumed the governorship of tha Imperial Bank. He has
always baen among tho most outspoken friends of
America.

The Rev. Dr. 111‘Cosh, a professor of Queen's
College, has, without any application on his part, been
unanimously elected President of Princeton University,
United States, and has received a telegram announcing
the fact.

Rtrson Brownlow has come forward to decline 3
nomination, which no one as yet has asked him to accept,
for the Vice-Presidency, as if the American people were
likely to go to Tennessee and pick out a Brownlew after
their recent experience.
A contemporary describes the social change in
Washington since the rebellion, and illustrates it by 3 de-
scription of Senator Sumner's house Not that it is at
all palatial, or over-expensive in material or work-.
manship, but that it is the very perfection of
convenience and tasteful arrangement. No such art
gallery is in all Washington as comprise the Senator's
rooms. His busts, his engraving's, his bronzes, his books,
his few paintings, are all of the choicest character, and
they are hung and placed with rare appositeness of
companionship, and of course with the highest artistic
effect. So of his book-cases, his writing-desks, his draw-
ing and dining-room furniture—all bespeak the work of
thorough artisans and an appr ciative owner's suggestions.
And if the genial occupant be, as we found him, in posses-
sion of an hour's leisure, late in the evening, his visitor
may be accounted enviable in the delightful season of
personal intercourse that is sure to follow. Mr. Sumner
maintains his establishment with proverbial Boston hes'
pitality—a dinner always ready after the senatorial labours
of the day for a chance friend or two, and the varied de-
tails of a well-ordered household moving like clockwork
without care or annoyance to himself."
Mr. Cunard has denied the statement that one of
his vessels (the Cuba) is engaged in an ocean race with the
Inman steamer City of Paris.

Sergeant Bates met with a warm reception ill
Baltimore.

Mr. Bancroft is about to proceed to Munich to
present his credentials as Ai-aerie:ln Minister.

Anna Dickenson was lately applied to by a corn:
niittee fora po7itical lecture, and offered "Breakers Ahead,
to which Lhay replied, " That will do—give us Break his
head. "

An American in London lately said to an Eng'
lisp friend, "Just now I passed Lord A— (probably
meaning Lord ..A.mberley) in the street. You remember
how civil and atteniive I was to him last year in N°l'
York. He told mo before he left America that whenever
I came to England I was to be sure and call upon bin,.
Well, he met me down at the corner there, by Berkeley'
street, looked mo full in the face, and walked on—cut tn°
dead. Would you believe it ?" "Believe it :" replied 10
friend, "of course I would. If you could be of any use t°
Lord A— here, he would not cut you. But the tables
aro turned. He would be very glad to meet you in Broad"
way, but Piccadilly is a very different thing."
Secretary M'Culloch thus replied to this question
of a Congressman :—" Do you think the President will
make any resistance when convicted ?" "How can be'?
who will obey any orders from him ?"

We learn that Mr.' Reuben Lowell, one of the
proprietors of the Now York Theatre, and the former pro-
prietor of the Westchester House, died at New Orleans 012
the 22d inst., on his way home from Havana.
Ex-Governor Pierpont charged Gen. Schofield
on the 22d April, before General Grant, with setting toil
the laws of Virginia and Congress for the purpose °
enabling ox-Confederates who could not take the oath to
occupy valuable offices in the State ; and further, th't
Schofield's appointments have tended to discourage the
Union cause in Virginia.

In the Cole-discock trial at Albany the proseew
tion closed their case by examining the policeman wild°
made the arrest of Cole, and a few other witnesses, and
the defence, it is stated, was to be opened by
James T. Brain of New York. The chief defence 30•4
on the ground of the temporary insanity of the prisoner'
caused by the knowledge cf his wife's guilt with gig-
cock. General Cole had three of his brothers present"
Unitod States Senator Cole, of California, Gilbert, for-
merly counsel at Acapulco, and David, a Tomkins county
farmer, and among the spectators was Mrs. Dr. giirj
Walker.

••
George IL Pendleton rAurned $9,816 income
1867. His chance of the Presidency is on so slender ti
scale that there is not much chance of his increasing it
that direction.
Fifteen more persons are reported to have been
by the accident at Carr's Rock on the Erie railrol
Sir John A. MacDonald announced, on the 2150
April in the House of Commons at Ottawa, that the etlee•
bad signified her intention to create Hon. Georg°
Cartier a Baronet of the United Kingdom, and ll°o.
Hector L. Langevier a Companion of the Bath.
The late Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee had one of til:
heaviest brains on record, heavier by several ounces 11'3
that of Dupuytren or of Daniel Webster.
di/0
Baron Stoeckl, Minister for Russia, has aske,- rt•
Government to extend the time of payment for A-'6'6iirn
Ward H. Lamon has been sent as agent to St. Peters bye..
to negotiate the matter, as Congress has made no
_„"ic),o,
meut with reference to an appropriation for the Purr_j-

Births.
tlO
CUMBERLEGE- -012 the 6th inst., at Astwood, BU
wife of R. Cumberlege, Esq., 11th Regiment, of a B°l.o,
HARVEY—On the 7th inst., at 1, South Bank: goon
park, the wife of Augustus J. Harvey, Esq., Of 3 6.-1;111:1,
KENNEDY - On the Gth inst., at 8, Henrietta-street, Dg
the wife of Tristram Kennedy, Esq., M.P., of a 00'

Marriages.
ACKLOM—GANNON— On the 7th inst , ti"
Christ -ti
bo
Cheltenham, Capt. George E. Acklo.m,l6th Reginl%oe,
Louisa Octavia, widow of the late Capt. Edward nlet.
Madras Army, and youngest daughter of the lato
John Rocke, of Clungunford, Shropshire. 1. ilrent
BOYES—NEWTON —On the 7th inst ,at East Retford OviA- veg,
John Frederick, eldest son of the' late George
E,q., of East Sheen, and Abchurch-lane, to -..°l;et-
youngest daughter of Wtu. Newton, Esq., of .06"
ford.

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