The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY - 18, 1868.

I'llE CECU.MENICAL COUNCIL.

That the Papal Bull convoking the General
Council is much discussed by the Paris press
is not to be wondered at, for the meeting of
such a Council will be one of the most memor-
able events of the 19th, as the Council of
Trent was of the 16th century. In another
column will be found the comments of one of
the irreligious journals of Paris on the omis-
sion of the customary invitation to the Kings
of Christendom to take their place in the
Council. The writer, seeing in this act of Pope
Pius IX. the formal separation of the Church
and State, rejoices at the "severing of the
chain which so long held riveted together the
throne and the altar like two galley-slaves,"
and declares that " Pius IX. has entered on a
revolution the most radical that the world has
beheld for eighteen centuries." The revo-
lution, indeed, is most radical ; it is nothing
less than a tearing up by the roots of the
greatest work of Christian civilization, and a
casting of society loose upon the earth, but
this revolution is none of the Pope's doing.
His is not the hand which has severed the bond
of union between the Church and the State,
between the political and religious life of
nations, between the soul and the body of the
commonwealth ; it is the Civil Power, under
the dominion of an impious Liberalism, that
has broken loose from the Church and from
God. The Pope recognises the fact, and acts
accordingly. What business have Kings who
do not represent a Christian State, although
monarchs of a Christian people, in a Council of
the Church ? What share can they take in
the work of regenerating civil society ? The
Pope may answer the Kings of the Modern
State desiring to enter the Council as Saint
Louis in his captivity did the Saracene who
wanted to be knighted—Become a Chris-
tian.

It is not enough, as the Univers truly ob-
serves, for Kings to call themselves Kings by
the grace of God, and to wear the cross upon
their crowns. As long as the State lives
outside the Church, its representative and
head has no place in the Council. Such an
exclusion of the Kings of Christendom is a
significant testimony to the decadence of poli-
tical society since the Council of Trent. The
Modern State lies under a ban, and one of the
chief objects of the Council is to relieve poli-
tical society from the moral evils which it
suffers in consequence of the apostacy of the
State. Civil Power has to be reconciled to
the Church, but to do this effectually the first
and most needful step is for the Church as-
sembled in Council to show by its first public
act to the peoples of Christendom that their
rulers, as representatives of the Modern State,
are outside the Church. They are outside by
their own will—by acts done in violation of
their duty as Christian Princes. The Church
has not broken with the State, but the State
has revolted against the Church. The Pope
would be the first to desire a close and cordial
union between the two Powers ordained of
God to govern the world. But, in the mean-
time, the Church has to put its hand to the
work of saving the peoples of Christendom
from the effects of anti-Christian legislation
and illegal violence ; and what more effectual
means is there to this end than to assemble
in Council ? Even its enemies concede that
the Catholic Church knows its own mind, and
that it is never turned from its purpose. But
the purpose which the General Council pro-
poses to itself, as traced out by the Pope in the
Bull convoking it, is nothing less than, "by the
aid of God, to remove every evil from the
Church and from civil society, to lead back into
the straight way of truth, of justice, and of
salvation, those unhappy men who have gone
astray ; to repress vice and banish error, so
that our sacred religion and its salutary doc-
trines may gain new force throughout the
entire earth, and that it may recover its em-
pire over the world, so that piety, probity,
justice, charity, and every Christian virtue
may be strengthened and flourish to the great
good of humanity." Could there be a nobler
idea or a grander undertaking than this work
which the General Council of the Catholic
Church proposes to itself in this 19th century?
It is a moral end, to bo accomplished by moral
means alone. A new fire has to be kin Med
in the hearts of men, a new light in their
minds, so that faith may regain its empire
over the world. Cynical observers, living in
the depths of the sceptical society of our age,
ascribe this great idea of Pius IX. to a vision-
ary enthusiasm, and yet, conscious of the mar-
vellous power which Christianity exercised in
its origin over a state of society not very dis-
similar to our own, watch with intellectual
curiosity the renewal of the mortal combat
between faith and materialism. The heart of
Europe is less corrupt than its intellect. In
encountering Paganism, Christianity had to
deal with a state of moral degradation such as
has never since been witnessed, and in this
respect the work of restoration which the
General Council has to take in hand will not
be so difficult a task, compared at least with
the first introduction of Christian morals into
Pagan society.
But the intellectual apostacy, so far as it is
complete, will be infinitely more difficult to
subdue, for it has generated a habit of mind
more sceptical, more self-sufficient, and more
adverse to spiritual ideas, than that produced
by the philosophy of Paganism. The apostate
intellect of Europe is under a heavier ban than
rested on the Pagan mind, for during eighteen
centuries, it has known the Christian revela-
tion, which itnow in its pride rejects. Yet, if
Christianity—if the Catholic Church—is to re-
gain its empire over the world, it must attack
the enemy in its strongest citadel. The in-
tellect of Europe, as it was in the days of
Paganism, must be again made captive. The
means to storm this citadel, as the Pope points
out to the Council which he convokes, is the
" Christian education of youth." Scepticism
has gained head in Europe, certainly, not by
the strength of its arguments, nor by the
power of its intellect, but by systematically
undermining the faith in youth. It has adopted
a cowardly mode of warfare. It has poisoned
the wells. Governments out of opposition to
the Church have betrayed the Catholic edu-
cation to the enemies of the faith. And this
is the reason why, in the educated mind and
in the governing classes, materialism and infi-
delity are gaining the upper hand—corrupting,
the literature and un-Christianizing the legis-
lature of the peoples of Christendom. The
work of Christian education, then, will be the
' first battle-field between the Church assembled
in council and an impious Liberalism, which
has, throughout Europe, made godless educa-
tion the symbol of its party. The struggle
will be deadly, for on its issue the future of
Europe depends. The Church, by summoning
the Council, calls all Christendom together for
the defence of the faith and for the mainte-
nance, of the supernatural principle against
j infidelity and materialism, and the members
lof the .Council in answer to the summons of
I the Holy See, coming in numbers, never before
approached, from all the corners of the earth,
will find in the centre and unity of faith new
force to do battle for the restoration of faith
and unity in the minds and hearts of men, and
for the recovery of the lost empire of the
Church over the world.—Westminster Gazette.

Th© engineer's estimate as to the recently re-
suinA operations in opening the channel of the Kennebec
river, requiresloo,ooo cubic yards of excavation, ti make a
channel between Hallowell and Augusta, 100 feet wile
7 feet deep. Some 20,000 yards were taken out last sea-
son. Two excavators, removing 1,000 cubic yards
are now at work, and the enterprise will bo finished about
November 1.

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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American 1 imes.)

Many in the United States dread the coming
Presidential election, and the opinion gains ground
that these four-yearly appeals to the country are
injurious to its best interests and in the highest de-
gree dangerous to its peace. The appeal is preluded
by tampering with interests of enormous magnitude,
home affairs being sacrificed to secure votes, and
foreign affairs being jeopardized by pandering to
the animosity of ignorant immigrants. This we
know, for we see it ; but there is something less
visible behind more dangerous still, which may
indeed kindle a civil war more disastrous than the
last. As the country is circumstanced, either party
might declare the election when made the result of
fraud, and attempt to seat its own candidate in the
Presidential chair by force of arms. Let those who
doubt the truth of what we say read Gen. Blair's
manifesto, which we give elsewhere. This gentle-
man was nominated Vice-President because he was
known to be better prepared to act than to talk.
Yet all our readers will allow that his talk is " tall."
A resolution adopted by the House is before the
Senate confining the electoral votes of the Southern
States to those only who have complied with the
prescribed conditions, and making the presiding
officers of the Senate and of the House judges of
the elections, and of the characters of the State
Governments. Thus Colfax, a candidate for the
vice-presidency, might be called upon to decide avote
which made or marred the ambition of his life. Such
menas Frank Blair would in this case be in the highest
degree dangerous, and might actually, as Senator
Trumbull remarked, " again involve the country in
Civil War." The World has asserted that "if suc-
cessful in the election the Democrats would place
their candidate in office, if necessary, by force of
arms." The Tribune says the men who have put
down rebels can again suppress them. The safe-
guard is, that the country now knows what a Civil
War. means, and has been cured of the foolhardy
confidence that such a thing was impossible in
America.

The extraordinary dry, hot weather we have now
had for so long a period in England is creating some
alarm for the crops. If all the root crops have failed,
and the bay is short, there will be a difficulty in
feeding the cattle and sheep. In the United States
the reports are in the highest degree favourable,
the average increase in the land sown in wheat be-
ing over a fifth more than la,t year. There is an
increase also in oats and clover ; rye is about equal,
but barley has fallen off. From all accounts the
wheat crop is unusually large, and the reports on
the whole are of a highly satisfactory character—
the harvest was becoming general. Notwithstand-
ing the cry of the Nation about a decrease of cows,
large numbers of cattle now find their way to
Illinois from the boundless prairies of Texas, and
in spite of the cost of the journey, the trade is
daily growing in dimensions.
The New York limes discusses the treatment of
the 60,000 Chinese now on the Pacific coast by the
Californians. That great paper, always earnest in
advocating a righteous cause, directs itself to the
work of this reform. It
points out what the agricul-
ture, the mmufactures, and the mines of California
owe (the two latter indirectly) to the Chinese. It
shows what a hard-working, useful, law-abiding
section of the comrnuaity they are. There is hardly
a mine on the Pacific slop 3 in which they are per-
mitted to work ; the law forbids their locating
claims ; and in many districts they are even pre-
vented by the local miner's law, and while Mexicans
and Spanish vagabonds are free, the Chinese by
State law are taxed $1 even on placer diggings.
Though Mr. Barlingarne miy fail in removing
these inequalities, there is a legal and formal in-
justice which loudly demands attention :
" No testimony of a Mongolian with reference
to crimes committed on his race by whites can be
received by the Courts. Last whiter a vigorous
effort was made by the civilized portion of Cali-
fornian society, which is, of course, the Republican
party, to remove this disability. The bill, in the
shape of an amendment to their code of crimi-
nal practice, passed the Senate, but was difeated in
the House. Governor Haight, who, though a De-
mocrat, is an enlightened man, is believed to favour
this measure of justice. In the debates on the ques-
tion the most startling facts were stated as to the

brutal crimes committed on unoffending Chinese by
white ruffians who felt themselves protected by the
old oppressive law. One member sail that many
vagabonds made it a business to plunder and mur-
der Chinese miners. A miserable white or brown
ruffian, perhaps a runaway Mexicali murderer, a
Botany Bay burglar, a New York "rough," with
hands stained with every crime known to humanity,
could enter the cabin of honest Chinese miners, rob
them of all their hard-earned property, then pistol
or stab them, and no testimony of the survivors
could convict him, and he would escape provided no
white man saw, or would testify to the deed. If
the code of slavery or the customs of the Inqui.i-
tion contain anything more iniquitous than this we
shout] be glad to know it ; yet against such facts,
glaring
gted injustice of the law, the California
to continue the oppressive Laned gitshlaetgulraer
v
legis-
lation."
Arkansas is now fully reconstructe], the military

commanders having turned over the Government
to the civil authorities, and withdrawn the troops
from all points not absolutely necessary to be held.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing
from Little Rock, gives a full account of the pre-
sent condition of the country. He says the negro is

gradually settling into better habits of industry
than when freedom was sad lenly thrust on him,

having learnt that it means the reverse of license or
laziness. All his habits are improving; he is doing
better and more work this year than last ; he is
growiag more self-reliant, ani leans less on the
Freedman's Bureau. In numbers he has held his
own since the war, constituting about a third of
the population. The laws are good in themselves,
and will be found to work well. The old legisla-
tion was ruinous to every interest of the State,

especially the educational, the school funds and
lands being wasted and squandered. The principal
dissatisfaction is from the old office-holders ; but
the writer considers that if the question of return-
ing the coloured people to slavery were submitted
to a vote it would fail by an overwhelm-
ing majority, and this doubtless is generally
the case throughout the South. The negroes,
he thinks, understand how to vote in their own
interest, few being led off or deceived, and the
Democratic party who expected to control the
coloured vote signally failed.
Mr. Cobb, of Wisconsin, succeeded in securing
the passage of the following resolution in the House
of Representatives :—.4g I hat the Ways and Means
Committee be instructed to report a bill levying a
tax of at least 10 per cent. on interest of United
States Bonds, to be collected annually by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, and sich subordinate officers
as are charged with the duty of paying interest on
bonds." He immediately moved "the previous ques-
tion" to prevent debate, but failing, General Butler
put in his oar, and with the assistance of the De-
mocrats succeeded in passing the resolution. In
compliance, the committee reported the bill else-
where given, although against their convictions, as
they unanimously
disapproved of it, believing it
would injure the national credit and character. Mr.
George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, has given
notice of a substitute to authorize an issue of
$800,000,000 in New
Bonds, bearing interest in
gold at 51 per cent., to be exchanged for the Five-
Twenty Bondi, and to be valid only when in the
hands of citizens in t'ie United States, and also the
issue of $1,000,090 in Bonds bearing coin interest
of 4 per cent., payable either in the United States,
London, or Frankfort, without taxation or exemp-
tion of any kind, and to be exchangeable for Five-
twenty Bonds before July 1, 133. The bill will
also provide for the use of $25,000,00J of the coin
in the Treasury for the purchase of the Five-
twenties at the market price, to be used as a sink-
ing fund, t'ie interest on theM to be applied to re-
deeming other bon ls.
The incessant tinkering with the National Debt,
and the hankering so en 111)a have to wet dis-
honestly, is doing incalculable injury to the ceedit
of the United States. The Funding Question has
been discussed both in the Senate and in the
House. Mr. Sherm In tried to get his measure
tacked as a rider to the Civil Appropriation Bill,
but failed, and Mr. Blaine, of Maine, ineffectually
offered in the House a resolution directing the Com-
mittee of Ways and Means to prepare a Bill for

Funding all the National Debt into Five per Cent,,
Ten-Year Bonds; 41 per Cent. Thirty-Year Bonds;
and per Cent. Interminable Securities; of which
the present bondholders were to have their choice.
James K. Moorhead, of Pennvlvania, reported
the Tariff Bill to the House, slig'Atly increasing the
duties on copper, nickle, zinc, German silver, iron,
salt, and other articles, and he considers that it
might be acted on this session. The Protectionists
are very unwise in constantly screaming for more,
a course which cannot fail to defeat their ends. It
is impossible in such legishtion to be moderate.
Men begin by being thankful for a little, and end
in being thankless for much. It is just as in social
life, the higher a class is permitted to rise above the
mass, the more they despise and ill-treat that mass ;
but this, carried to an excess, produces the re-ac-
tion that causes its overthrow. The Protectionists
of America should never, unless compelled, bring
up the question of tariffs ; but the greedy boys
cannot refrain from glamouring, and the others,
feeling that they, some how or another, do not get
their fair share, will ask why they should be mulcted
at all for the benefit of such an insatiable coin-

munity.
A great deal of abuse continues to be heaped
on General Grant by the Democratic press. Of
course his military genius is disputed, and one
journal, in answer to the accusation of ruthlessly
sacrificing his men, affirmed that under him the
casualties of the Army of the Potomac amounted
to but 106,501, while under the previous com-
manders the loss was 140,968. To this it was re-
plied that Grant only assumed command on the
19th March, 1864, and Lee surrendered 19th April,
1865, by which it appears that his losses occurred in
thirteen months, while the period from the battle
of Bull Run to Grant's assumption of the command
was nearly
.three years, making the annual loss of
other commanders 34,469. The comparison, how-
ever, cannot be complete without contrasting what
were the results attained. The World is very
spiteful, and invariably calls him " H. U." Grant.
We suppose this is meant to suggest to the reader's
mind, " llew," and spare not !
The American papers anticipate with pleasure
the musical treat provided by Mr. Mapleson for
them. No city in the world more appreciates music
or is a better judge, than New York, nor is there
one where talent is more liberally remunerated.
Madlle. Kellogg's engf...gement has closed, and Mr.
and Mrs. Kellogg will return next month to Ame-
rica with their gifted daughter. She has accepted
an engagement with Mr. Mapleson for the early
winter season of Italian Opera in New York.
Madlles. Titiens and Nilsson will proceed with Mr.
Mapleson and the elite of his company ; he has
rented the Academy of INlnsic at New York for the
performances. We may hope that the new Opera
House in the Haymarket will be ready by the time
Miss Kellogg again visits Europe.

General M'Mahoa has been confirmed as Minis-
ter to Paraguay by the Senate ; and Rear-Admiral
John A. Dahlgren has succeeded Captain Vise as
chief of the Ordnance Department. The Finance
Committee of the Senate has purposely delayed
taking... action as regards the nomination of Mr.
Evarts as Attornay-GJneral, an 1 Mr. Smythe as
Minister to AAstria, awaiting the publication of
Butler's report, now finished, and in proof slip.
Ile has openly announced that he can implicate
noth gentlemen in extraordinary transactions con-
nected with the President's acquittal, but people
are so accustomed to Butler's sensational promises
and tame performances that little weight is at-
tached to them. Perry Fuller's nomination has not
yet been rejected, though that result is certain ; and
it is supposed that Mr. Risley Long, an 'officer of
the department, will then be named. The rejec-
tions include the nominations of James E. Hubbell
of Ohio, as Minister to Ecuador ; George Hub-
bard, as Collector of Custotins at Stonington,
Connecticut ; Andrew J. Moulder, to be Surveyor.
General of California ; and General Mulford, to be
Collector of Internal R2venue for the Richmond,
Virginia, district. . _

The best notion of the change between the period
of infl ttion and that of depression may be obtained
by comparing a reprt of the Credit Foncier of Eng-
land in 1365 with one of the same Company in 1868.
We have a vivid recollection of these charming
books, got up on such good paper, in such pod
type, all so replete with goo I things that the in-
vestor felt like a subject in the hands of Ma lame
ii tehel, only instead of " beautiful" he wAs in the
way of "'being in tle rich for ever." In those
days the directors undertook to enlighten the world
on fitranee. Tliera was such a sho vof knowledge,
there was:mei' a clear perception of what was going
to happen, there was such a substantial resalt in
the dividen 1 of what ha 1 happened th it no
shareholder coal I have the hardihoo I to ask for

more information, or expert men so profound to
draw up the curtain and give them a glimpse of
the mysterious land of gold wherein they worked.
This company thus did more to demoralize the in-
vesting public of England than any other. They
admirably combinel mystery with so apparently
frank a statement of all they desired the share-
holders to know, and with such a learned disquisitiin
on Finance, that many suspicious of 30 and -19
per cent. allows I themselves to be persuaded
that it was but the natural result of the unkno ova
system of management then inaugurated. Those
who turn to the money articles in the daily papers
of yesterday may compare the midsummer. report
of 1868 with these. The congratulations ,of the
directors are now that the company is not " up
.a
very tall tree;" dividend, of course, no one could
expect ; the pleasing mystery has given place to a
full statement of the assets, and the shareholders
have at least the satisfaction of knowing where their
money is. It may weigh heavily in the burgo-
master's pockets of Brussels, of Milan, of Paris,
and Marseilles ; but whether it will ever come out
of those deep recesses is a question those interested
can answer for themselves. Still the shareholders

have an advantage over hundreds of others in this
knowle3ge, for the marvel of marvels has been
where the scores of millions that were paid by the
public into the coffers of such concerns.
The accounts of the difficulty between Comman-

der Bridge and the Mexican authorities at Al Izat-
lan, if truly reported, ara not to the credit of the
British officer. The quarrel appears to have ori-

ginated in the habitual infraction of Mexican law,
in which, strange to say, her Majesty's servants are
openly engaged. A duty on the export of the pre-
cious metals is levied in Mexico, that is, theoreti-
cally, but practically it resolves itself into a five
per cent. commission, divided between the admiral
of the station, the captain of the man-of-war, the
consul, and the agent employed. This, we under-
stand, has become so established a custom, that the
Mexican export law is altogether overlooked, and
the commander of the Chanticleer thought himsAf
injured and insulted when the paymaster of the
ship was searched on information given to the col-
lector. Captain Bridge, on this report, went ashore,
and conducted himself in a manner so overbearing
that the collector was provoked into ordering his
arrest and the search of his person, on the same
charge of smuggling. His indignation may -be
imagined, and it appears that Mr. Session, the
United States Consul, only saved the town
from bombardment by acting as mediator. The
captain's proclamation, which had caused great
excitement, was so far malifie 1 that the
port of Max Alan was placed under blockade, no
Mexican vessels being allowed to enter or depart,
pending orders from the British Admiral. The
United States war steamer Sitwaliee had left
Acapulco for Mazatlan, there to look after
American interests. The advices from Mexico
state that the first demand of Commander Bridge
was that the ()fiber who searched the paymaster's
person anti seize I the maney should be sent to the
ship to be dealt with by him, but General Carona
declared he would prefn- the bambarlncnt of the
city to submission to such an outrage, and directed
Captain Bridge to make his dens Ind i❑ the manner
customary with civilized nations, and through the
proper channels. It should be borne in mind that
as yet the Mexican aceolut only has been received,
and that the ch tractor of Mexicans is such as to j n -
tify a ready belief in any folly and outrage attri-
buted to them.

There has been smiething little short of a panic
in Tenness2e Stocks. A month ago there was sent
from Nashville t 3 New York the sum necessary to

meet the July _interest on the State Bonds. The
moment the chance was given to some New York
creditors of the State this money was pounced upon,
an injunction restraining payment being taken.
The Fourth National Bank then gave notice that
the interest due on the Ist July on the Tennessee
State Sixes would not be paid. The Tennessee
banks declined to purchase the coupons of the State
bonds, and, in the general rush to sell, not only the
Securities of that State, but of all the border States,
rapidly declined. There is, however, as regards
Virginia, a hope that the July interest will soon be
paid ; the military governor, General Stoneman, is
hard at work to effect this object. He says there
are now in the Treasury $200,000, an 1 he feels con-
fident that the full sum due, $750,000, . can be
raised, as the money is in the State, to preserve its
financial credit ; and he has directed the railway
and othersorporations to appropriate for this pur-
pose a share of their earnings.
A correspondent of the Standard suggests that
the Red, White, and Blue be purchased by a shilling
subscription, and placed on the ornamental water
in St. James's Park. The idea is good, as it would
save a beautiful little craft, alike ornamental and
interesting either on the Serpentine, or the place
named by J. C. C. At present she is rotting on the
mud bank at Greenhithe, and her poor owner and
navigator, Capt. Hudson, seems to be in almost as
deplorable a plight. A few thousand shilling sub-
scriptions would renovate both, and as the vessel is
a real curiosity from her marvellous performance,
she would certainly not be out of place either on the
Serpentine or the ornamental water in St. James's
Park.

It appears that the Roman Catholic Archbishops
of New York, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and St. Louis
find that the proposed raising of an American regi-
ment for theragarService will not do in the United
States. They protest against the enterprise, which
could not, they believe, be successfully carried out ;
and if it could, would be detrimental to the Papal
cause. They desire to maintain the temporal power,
but only by justifiable means, and they continue
to urge their generous and faithful children to con-
tribute abundantly for that object, pecuniary aid
being at present more wanted than military aid.
They assert that the person now named as the re-
cruiting officer does not, and is not, entitled to en-
joy their confidence. _

It is noticed by a contemporary that the Ameri-
can device of fillibustering has been introduced into
the British House of Commons. Five motions were
on 'Thursday night brought forward in succession
to adjourn, and the majority kept walking round
the lobbies without sign of flinching, and the filli-
busters only yielded out of consideration for the
Speaker, who hinted at what they owed to their
own dignity. Our contemporary adds—" If all
the personalities, exhibitions of bad temper, and
distressing scenes of one kind and anot'ier
which have marked the present session, were
brought together, the public would arrive at
the conclusion that we have not much reason
to draw comparisons in our own favour between
the British and the American Legislatures." The
truth is that the battle is becoming earnest, and
therefore more hot and furious. It is all very well
for the Lords, who do not care a " rap," to main-
tain a calm and dignified demeanour, but stamp on
the gouty toe of a Peer—and see what you will get.
Specie continues to flow across from New York.
On the 11th the steamers carried to Europe
$1,750,000 ; the 14th, $275,000 ; on the 15th,
$850,000 ; 16th, $125,000. Gold closed on Thurs-
day at 142, a steady rise ; 5-20 Bonds of 1882
were 114, which shows that no fall took place on
the legislatioii in' the 'Senate with regard to the
United States Securities becoming known in Wall-
street, a good sign of the opinion of those best able
to judge.

We learn by a telegram from Paris that in the
action for damages brought by the United States
against M. Annan, the French ship-builder em-
ployed by the Confederate authorities to build cer-
tain blockade-runners, the Imperial advocate
summed up his speech by calling upon the Court
to reject the claim made by the United State 3.
The Court decided upon postponing judgment for
a fortnight.

The lion. Reverdy Johnson was to resign his
seat in the Senate on the 10th inst. During the present
session ho has only been absent ono day on account of
sickness. Ife is the senior in years and iu service in the
Chamber. Governor Swann, of Maryland, offered S.
Teaekle Wallace, of Baltimore, the seat, but as the term
expires on the 4th March, and W. F. Hamilton has already
been elected. Mr. Wall declined to serve for the eight
months, the more so as he is a lawyer in extensive and
lucrative practice. It is thought that W. Piukney Whyte,
of Baltimore, will be appointed, of course a strong Demo-
crat, for the Governor's stripe is pretty well known.
A call had been issued by Generals George F.
Shepley, John C. Caldwell, S. E. Conner, Frank Fessen-
den, George L. Beal, and 75 others, upon the Union sol-
diers of Maine to assemble in mass meeting in Portland,
July 6, to ratify the nominations of Grant and Colfax.
The Secretary of War has granted leave of ab-
sence for three months, with permission to visit Europe, to
Second Lieutentant Loyal Farragut, who intends to join
the squadron under the command of his father, Admiral
Farragut. He has received permission to delay reporting
for duty On the expiration of his leave until the Ist of
January, 1869.
David Makepeace, of Norton, Eastern Massa-
chusetts, who was 100 years old on September 9, is healthy
and happy yet. He remembers well the .day of Bunker
Hill and other stirring events of that period, and delights
in repeating that his vote has been cast at every Presi-
dential election in our land, for Washington and Lincoln
twice each, and that if he lives until November he will
vote for Grant .and Colfax.
Professor C. E. Stowe, of Andover, with his son,
Captain Frederic W. Stowe, sailed from New York, the
last week in June, for Cadiz in Old Spain, mainly for the
health of the young man, who has never recovered from
the severe wound ho received at the battle of Gettysburg.
Professor Chadbourne, formerly of Williams Col-
lege, finds his health greatly improved since his resi-
dence in Wisconsin; indeed completely restored. lie is
president of the State University at'lliadison, and is re-
organising and revivifying it with his natural enthusiasm.
The bequests of the late Gen. Abijith Thompson,
of Woburn, were $1,003 to the American Bible Society;
$l,OOO to the Home Missionary Society; $l,OOO to the
First Congregational Church of Woburn; $2,000 to
Woburn for a Cemetery, and $lO,OOO to Warren
Academy.
Brevet Major General Nelson A. Miles, of the
regular army, was married at Cleveland, Ohio, on the BOth
ultimo, to Mary Hoyt, oldest daughter of Judge Charles
T. Sherman, of the Northern Judicial District of Ohio, at
Trinity Church, the Rev. Dr. Starkey officiating. There
were six bridesmaids. Lieutenant-General Sherman and
Major-General Sheridan wore of the bridal party. Among
other military gentlemen present were Major-General
Swayno, Brigadier-General Forsyth, Brigadier-General
Kiddoo, commanding at Detroit, and Major Geddes, the
latter of General Miles's staff. The bridegroom is Assis-
tant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in North
Carolina, with headquarters at Raleigh. He is Major-
General by brevet, his full rank being Colonel of the 40th
regulars. After the ceremony the guests wore entertained
at Judge Sherman's residence.
We rejoice to see that the United States are
taking action with regard to Paraguay, the Senate having
unanimously confirmed the nomination of General
M'Mahon as Minister. An officer of high rank and good
service has boon selected, as the present circumstances of
that country are considered so important as to justify the
appointment. •
Mr. Cyrus W. Field left London last Saturday
for Switzerland ; the ladies of his family having pre-
ceded him.
. Mr.. Mozier, the American artist, so long resident
in Rome, after a short visit to Loudon has proceeded to
Germany to try the waters lei the benefit of his health.
The Hapsburg family have sent services of plate
to the value of 50,000 florins to the two advocates who
defended the Emperor Maximilian and refused all recom-
pense in money. At the same time his late Majesty's
confessor was presented with a cross of great price.
Mr. R. M. Hoe, inventor of the famous printing
press, has memorialized Congress for an extension of his
patent, which expires on the 21th of this month. It was
originally granted in 1816, and subsequently extended in
1801, since which last date Mr. Hoe says that becaese of
the war he has sold but few presses.
Mr. Cooper, the explorer, has reached the con-
fines of Western China, and, according to the last advices
was 15 days journey from Thihet.
Capt. Henry M. Jones, a gallant and well-known
°filo, r of the English army, who iu the Crimea was deco-
rated with the V.C., has been appointed her Majesty's
Consul-General at Tabreez. For some years this gentle-
man acted as her Majesty's Consul at the Feejee and
Tonga Islands, and on his road home crossed the South
American Continent. When a young subaltern of the
60th Rifles lie made his way through Persia and by the
Caspian into Russia, and spent some time at the city to
which he is now accredited Consul-General. The ap-
pointment is of the greatest importance in view of the

Russian advance towards the Indian frontier, and it may
become imperatively necessary for England to be repre-
sented in these regions by men of judgment and intre•

pidity.
The United States Minister, Mr. Bancroft, arrived
at Carlsruhe last Tuesday on a similar mission to that
which he has just successfully concluded at Muuich and
Stuttgardt, which is the conclusion of a treaty with Baden
respecting the naturalization and protection of emigrants.
Mr. Anthony Trollope having completed his di-
plomatic mission in the United States with regard to the
Post office was to sail from New York last Wednesday.

Mr. Delmar, superintendent of statistics, 1133
been legislated out of office by the Senate.
Thomas W. Osborne has been admitted as Sena-

tor from Florida, and Mr. Hamilton, for tho same State,
has taken his seat in the House.

A letter from Washington thus describes the
newly-appointed American Minister to St. James's
Reverdy Johnson has always had, to me, the look of
one of the more voluptuous Roman emperors. Perhap' I
got the idea from a remembrance of Gerome's picture of
the Col )sseutn, where a self-indulgent, over- fattened Galba,
or Otho, or somebody, is leering down at the bloody gla-
diators as they cry 'Ave Clesar ." His head and face ara
strong and intellectual down to the lip ; the under lip an
chin aro retreating and deciiedly irresolute and self-
enjoying to me. I know that it is often a mistake to
judge public mon by these facial marks. Mr. Johnson
has besides lost one eye, and while this does not
make him at all unsightly, it gives a humorous suggestion
of the arena to his face. His ears are large, like those of
nearly all Senators. Politicians have habitually big 005'
His head is solid and large, and the milk-white hairs hold
fast to it, except around the temples. His eyesight is now
very dim indeed. His life has been moderately successful
in temporal things. He has a good farm, stock, a city
residence, but scarcely ranks among rich men. There is
no affectation about him. Perfectly at home over a dinner
of roast beef and old port, old enough to fulfil a British
idea of a statesman's age, and widely acquainted with the
personnel of American and foreign public people for half $
century, we send this most agreeable of our public men to
England with the indorsement that he is more unlike Boston
common, and also more unlike. a first family of Virginist
than any type of man we possess."
The following is going the rounds of the Ameri-
can papers :—" The Empress of the French has erased
from her visiting list the American families B-- and
-
A—, who had been introduced during the absence of the
Duke de Dusan°. Her Majesty, it is said, thought the
young ladies too eccentric."
The prizes of the Union League Club of New
York for the best essays on the organization of the people
at primary elections have been awarded in the following
order : —ssoo to M. E. Banker, of West Chester, Pa.; $3OO
to Charles G. Came, of the Boston Journal; $2OO to
Russell Errett, of 'Pittsburg. The essays are said all to
agree in the essential features of the plans of reform whicil
they suggest.
Andrew Johnson (junior) and the ladies of the
President's family have left Washington fur Tennessee t°
spend the rest of the season at their old home.
Colonel N. 0-. Taylor, Cominis3ioner of Indian
affairs, highly indignant at the charges made against Witt
regarding the sale of the Osage lands to a railway com-
pany, has demanded an investigation into his conduct. ,
H. P. Baldwin, of Detroit, has been nominate
a
for Governor by the Republicans of Michigan, 31,4'01
Bates for Lieut.-Governor, Dwight Day for Attorney"
General, and Charles W. Craswell, wi.h John Butt, f°l
electors at large.
Mr. M'Cormick, the Republican candidate, hne
been elected delegate to Congress for the territory °f

Arizona.
Senator Fessenden has declined the public dinner
at Boston. Governor Fenton also declined a public dint':
offered by some gentlemen of New York, and the polite
attention of Stanton's friends was foiled by that gentle-
man, who refused to be consoled by a public dinner when
he retired from office.
Ristori, Tostee, Ls Grange, and Henry J. 'lel;
mond all sailed front New York for Havre in the stegoe"
Ville de Paris. Mr. Raymond will be absent two months,
and La Grange and Tostee are both under engagements
to return to America and continue their operatic singing
;
General J. W. Phelps and J. K. Converse hO,
issued addresses to the people of Vernipnt on behalf
some 2,500 freedmen who have applied for passage t o La
beria, and proposed that contributions for their aid sbcni
be made in the churches after July 4.
tei
A month ago the Postmaster-General appo-la
Henry M. Gillette, postmasterat Sharon, Connecticut, aliej
now he has removed Mr. Gillette and appointed Samil
L. Gager.
General John A. Rollins, chief of the staff, Cori'
ducts the business of the army during the absence °

General Grant in Colorado.
Rev. George Beebe, the representative of G°s'
port, Isle of Shoals, in the Legislature, is the first seleci,
man, minister, physician, justice of the peace, and solllty
master of that little town. He graduated at the Univerhs-,,i
of New York, is denominationally a illetholist, and
been on the island about 13 years, under the meagre P;
trooaga of a missionary society. He was in the 3105ic,te
war under General Scott, and was engaged in six of "00
severest engagements before the capture of the citY• „for
held a sergeant's warrant, and was awarded the si'l a
medal La. meritorious conduct, and in the rebellion aele

as surgeon. Lie
There are four Cubans, one Gorman, and „
African among the students at Wilbraham .11c3'A
°-
Western Massachusetts.
The Rev. E-trl Guilford of Conway, svh° kil3:
gradually grown insane, was on Friday, June 26, va":.
to the insane asylum at Northampton, Western 3-11'5-3
chusetts.
W. K. Lewis and Son, of West Brookfield, c° 0
doused milk manufacturers, have received an order fr.°4
China for 1,728,00.0 cans thereof. This is not surprisl
if the Chinese have learnt the uses of milk, which are
known in China. 1.71
Thurlow Weed was to have sailed for Eurolleado
ono of the late steamers, but was prevented by a °ll
and severe attack of apoplexy. Ho was getting bettertio
cording to last advices, and will carry out his int°
when sufficiently recovered to pay Europe a visit. at
Zachariah Eastman, Esq., United States Con a
at Bristol, left Liverpool for America last Wednestl3Nr,
the City of Paris, on two months' leave of absence' hope
Eastman has important business to transact, and W° 404
soon to hear that a large measure of success has revo"

so ingenious and indefatigable an inventor. Pie'
Mr. James Gallatin, for nearly thirty yeah re
sident of the Gallatin National Bank, New York, 11$41tioll
signed the preSidency of that institution. The reeigll,o'
of Mr. Gallatin having been accepted, Frederick V'Airee'
pen, cashier of the bank, was unanimously elected 1' ;
tor, and subsequently president, in the place
Gallatin, and Alex. H. Stevens appointed cashier.
ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER n 74 Leer
ERlE.—Among those lost by the sinking of the stea
Morning Star, in the recent collision on Lake Vrie'f tli
Allan Iddings, son of Mrs. Mary Iddings, widen' °evil
late Hiram Iddings, of Cleveland. He was about ti:000
years of age, a young man of excellent character slll.4"„rid°
promise, greatly beloved by all his acquaintances, the Flot
of the family, and the joy of his mother's lit:Art*l,o4d
before the steamer sailed on her ill-fated voyage otito
Iddings was introduced to the Misses Patchen, tvre;'
ladies of Troy, by Mr. William Edwards, in -win/se,:ot,
they had been visiting, as they had no gentlemanr cota:
tor on board. He was last seen after the collision, irjositiP
piny with those young ladies, aiding and eueoll tbera
them, and it is thought that his unselfish devotion
may have contributed to his own death. His inotherojea
a native of Westfield, daughter of Enoch Clark, f°lfitttr
of that place, and sister of the Rev. P. K. Clark of
neague. IV 0
The Naples and Florence Observer reol3 0,011,
" English words are gradually creeping into 1100
Continent—not only iu Franco but in many parts ?ng fita' ,
The Neapolitans have a great liking for everlth,ll-paero
fish—from partners for life down to hats orie‘i
loons. One never sees a French hat in Nal''''''jray,4l,
least one with a French maker's name in it : „7„, V' 10
that very few sold for English have ever o`:` 00,40
dJn, but we would wager a trifle that 11°' ~pitb ill
ever turned out of a manufactory in Naplesooeftd
Christy's or Chapman's name iu it. Pale ale k'ale
spelt Pelel) is beginning to be liked, although sq, 101;eclo
wry faces have been made iu acquiring the t`3,,reCis: to
Amongst the lower orders too we seem to be t'P,,rothe,'
for it is not an uncommon compliment for one
pay to another admiring her child—'
Inglese"
Quanta belle'

Births.
il 11°91Iiret
BIXNING—On the 13th inst., at Arderne ID."' ° ,
10
the Lady Binning, of a datlghter. f the
ELL IS—On the IGth inst , at 4, Eecleston-stree., e
laij 1
Mrs. Arthur Ellis, of a. daughter. t r$
SCOTT—Onrig-
the IZ.th inst., at 3, Tilney-stree./

the Lady Henry Scott, 'of a daughter.
Marriages. Vr"is,
LEMNION- TOMLINSON-On the 16th in t , t -171-1:4 °,.
Embassy, Brussels Edward Birt °
te
Suffolk-plaeo, to Matilda, third (-131-:. "
T. R. Toinlius3n, Esq., of Smith's Falls, C'it''i,l:JAl:l,irlge'
STEPHENSON-ROGER-Oa the 15th inst.,
Newmarket, ltob..yrt Stephenson, of Burwell, r i'"
shire, only son of Mr. 11. M. S.- 'pi • son to '""v-,tr
eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel' ,•-enrn,,, of

cet
Deaths. tefi•A
ALEXANDER—On the 161,11 inst., at 30, Cainhfiti-e
ootio
Notting-hull, Jane Alexander, aged 83. A 01
DATES-On the Nth inst ,at 11, Belgrave-r°,74/. .., 0.
Mary, the wifo of Maje'r-General Ba,tes, age",`.:eq,
DEwituitsT—On the 14th inst., at Konytta ~',,-1-t '3
Manchester, Richard Watson Marshall -.190W"-r° ' (0
li''
aged 09. twit
D''
• IM-ARDS -Onth s 14th inst ,at SccVonottlo, "" ,
Jane Edwards, aged 77.
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of No. 112, Itrand, Printer, at Tait SON 031c000:iti
Strand, in ths Precinct of the Savoy, in tile
Middlesex.—Saturday, July 18, IW.