Freeman's champion., 1858-07-15
Editorial Brevities.

Nhhht1 " A9bS AOUAtO III JAft
English House of Commons, upob
the question of electing members OK
Parliament by ballot, Lord John Rus
sell said, that without entering into
any discussion of the liberties enjoyed
in the United States, he would not
be willing to exchange the liberties.
Of the English people for them.
- Fourteen men were tried az
the Paris Tribunal Of Correctional Po-,
lice, on the 4th ult., for having
formed political society for the as
sassination Of the Emperor. The
charge was proved, and not denied
by some of them. Three OF the ac-
cused were acquitted, and the rest
were condemned to fines of from E5
to Gl5, anu the periods of imprison-
ment varying from one month to
eighteen months, besides FIVE years
interdiction of civil rights. The ac-
cuSed were all, with one exception,
workmen.
The Quebec (Canada) Chron-
icle says that dreadful fire caused
by clearing lands, has occurred in the
county of Chicoutimi. A greater
partof nine townships were destroyed,
rendering houseless hundreds of fam
lilies, and destroying 100000 worth
Of property.
- The official Gazette of Tehe-
ran, in announcing that the Shah of
Persia has subscribed to the fund for
the widows and orphans of English
soldiers masSacred in India, says that
the English have been SO thoroughly
thraShed, and are in such great want
Of money, that they are obliged to
ask for help in all quarters. For
this reason, adds the journal Of the
court OF Teheran, "the Sublime Mas
ter Of Persia has condescended to be-
stow his charity upon the English
Government"
- A school teacher named Cog
erty was killed in Middlesex coun-
ty, Va, on the l7th ult,, by a boy
named Bristow, aged lS years. Cog
erty chaStiSed pupil who was
brother Of Bristow, and the father of
the boy and Gogerty had an alterca-
tion in consequence, when the elder
son interlered, and, it is alleged, in
aicted mortal wound with q knife,
and then made his escape.
MIR. Henry Sawyer, has been
appointed United States Consul at
Paramaribo, Guiana, to fill a vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Mr..
Craigen. Mr.. Sawyer has resided at
Paramaribo about ten years.
- The corner stone Of the mon
ument to John @. Calhoun, at Charles
ton, S. G., was to be laid on the 28th
ult. Hon. Lawrence M. Keitt was
selected as the orator Of the occasion.
The practice of eating horse
flesh has Of late years increased con-
Siderbly in the North ofGermany and
Denmark. 1t is said that in the city
OF Hanover alone, in the course of
Whitsun week, about 1000 lbs. OF
horse-hesh were consumed. The
number Of horses slaughtered for eat
ing in the city is between 200 and
800 year.
- The eight new sloops-of-war
ordered to be built will be appropria-
ted as follows: One each to the navy
yards at Portsmouth, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Washington,
Norfolk, Pensacola and San Francis
co,-the latter, provided the necessa-
ry timber can be procured there.
The claims on the Peruvian
Government, originating in tlS'eio-
lent expulsion OF American sea Cap
tains from the Peruvian sloop-of-war
at the Chincha Islands have been re-
lerred to arbitration.
Ut is now positively stated that
Professor Agassiz, Of Cambridge, de-
clines to give up his present position