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TOWN TALK.
TOWN TALK. BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. •— Our tsedm win understand that we do not-hold ourselves rupw sibUfor our able Correspondent's opinions. CHARLES LAMB, in one of his inimitable essays, divides men into two classes those who borrow, and those who lend, and he assigns a decided superiority to the former. He invests them with a kind of royalty. They lay all men under tribute, they make a decree like Caesar that the whole world should be taxed, while they are humble enough to perform the invidious duties of the publican. The delightful essayist dwells upon their jaunty carriage, their rosy appearance, the lightness of their step, their more than royal appearance of freedom from oare, their princely way of speaking money. To refuse them anything they may ask of you is a thing not to be thought of; the tone of careless contempt in which they speak of the trifle they require, the absolute right which they evidently believe themselves to possess to whatever may happen to be in the pockets of other people, forbid so absurd an idea. Besides, there really is no time for reflection, the crown or half- sovereign is extracted as quickly as a tooth by a first- rate dentist; it is done by the single twist of a masterly hand. It is only, How are you, my dear fellow" (here there is a patronising squeeze of your fingers)? "Have you a crown about you? Ah, thank you J Good bye." And away goes our friend to collect his income some- where else. This is one of the ways of living on what Thackeray calls "nothing a year," of which not a few in London avail themselves. This is the dull season for such gentlemen. They have at present to content themselves with such com- paratively humble birds as your correspondent. In Fleet-street, the other evening, one of them asked me for a half-crown. Presently I saw him driving in a Hansom cab I walked home that evening myself, and, unless tired, should have thought it- sheer extravagance to take a cab. I have been done in this way about half-a- dozen times in as many days. A half- crown, or any amount that one can afford, for that matter, is never thrown away if given to those who need it; but it is only little short of a crime to encourage men who make it their trade to levy this kind of black mail- men who are moral ruins, their tower of self-respect prostrate, and their whole building hastening to inevitable decay. I HAVE given you a glimpse at these gentlemen very much because there is really very little "town talk at present. Jones, who used to be a cyclopaedia of news, is studying Murray's Guide." Brown is deep in a work by an experienced tourist, in which it is shown how you may starve yourself and go up and down the Rhine for £ 5. Robinson is similarly employed. Excursion trips here and there, Mr. Cook, eligible watering-places where good shooting may be had, are the only subjects much discussed now—by the few who are here to discuss them. At Button's—where lawyers and literary men do congregate-there are still the pale young sylphs in waiting, but the shrewd, wrinkled faces, the high foreheads, the bald and semi-bald heads, the eye-glasses and the whiskers, the Q.C/s, the magazine writers, the students of the Temple and Lincoln's-inn, are nowhere to be seen. For myself, I feel" as melancholy as a lodge in a warren." I feel baked. I am sick of this huge brick-kiln of a London, and the moment this letter is finished I shall wipe my pen and pack up. and be off for three days at least. But where ? That is a question I have not time to settle at present. WHEN a lover of fish cannot get whitebait he has to relapse on the less delicate eel or whiting. The quidnuncs, in default of more enticing matters, are discussing in a languid manner-quite W. keeping with the thermometer-the Fenians. Some persons affect to think there is little or no Fenianism in Ireland; but of its w.ide-spread existence amongst the lower class of young men in that country there cannot be much doubt. Fenianism is a very small mountain, which can only bring forth a very small mouse, which may successfully hide itself from Sir Robert Peel's cats under a good-sized cabbage-head or an umbrageous potato-stalk. Regarded from the point of view it would wish to be-namely, as for- midable to England—anything more absurd, more outrageously ridiculous, it would be impossible to conceive. Just think of the intelligence of young fools, who imagine that people will leave America, break up all their ties, and come over to liberate Ireland from the most powerful nation in the world-to which three-fourths of the Irish people are loyal! Let us hope that Fenianismis one of the last feeble outbursts of a spirit which has been, since this country has treated Ireland with an enlightened policy, the greatest impediment to its progress. Some make the mis- take of supposing that the Rom an Catholic clergy encourage Fenianism. The truth is that the great mass of the priesthood are against it. Since the French revolution, the Irish priesthood have never as a body fostered rebellion. The way their brethren in France were treated taught them a lesson they have never forgotten. In '48 the attempts at rebellion would not have been such a miserable collapse but for the priests. They are, indeed, partially responsible for Fenianism. They .have in their schools encouraged a mistaken nationality, a half-smothered hostility to England, which could not but result in Fenianism or some- thing likeit. Atpresent, the priests asd the Fenians are at daggers-drawn. Many will not give absolution to Fenians. When last in Ireland, I attended a meeting in which the names of Arch- bishop Cullen and some other bishops were hissed at, because they were opposed to the movement. They don't like the fruit. Why then not cut down the tree ? They have raised a spirit which it will require all their power to lay. Nor will that spirit have been raised in vain should it teach them to sow in the minds of the rising generation seeds that will grow up in loyalty and in content, in a pride anything but slavish in the union of the two countries, and in a noble ambi- tion to contribute to, and share, their mutual glory. THE shooting of Sergeant Sherlock by Foy has given new life to those questions which arose out of the murder of Major De Vere. A large number j of persons seem to think that the soldiers are treated too severely. They even say that the dis- l cipline is too rigid. If they are treated with tyranny they have no remedy. I even heard some utter the rather dangerous and wholly superficial remark, that such crimes did good, and that only for them there would be nothing but the most frightful oppression in the army. They failed to see that danger so uncertain would I never make a man watch his every word and every act. They were advised by a humorous friend of mine to write to Earl De Grey, and propose that I every ten or five years an unpopular officer should be shot by way of a counterbalance to the tendency there is to over-great severity. By this way, he said, they would obtain all the advantages of which they spoke, and with as small a sacrifice of officers as possible, besides taking away all temptation fj:om the soldiers to be- come murderers. Others say that it is ridiculous I to be looking for causes and casting about for I remedies for these things; that you will always I have in the army, as in other places, wild natures; and, as a natural consequence, such catastrophes, which, if they prove anything, prove the necessity of severe discipline. Others again say, Why, in times of peace, serve out powder and ball? failing I to see that anything like distrust or fear would be highly inexpedient. The advocates of strict dis- cipline would leave the put vshment of such men as Foy in the hands of the military authorities. But it is replied, that under the gravest charge that can be brought against a man, a soldier would then be without the privilege of bein g tried by his peers; and it is just possible that the military and civil tribunals might ultimately come to have different standards of punishment for the same great crime. The most intelligent persons with whom I have spoken seem to think that, without making any very sweeping changes, a system less severe might be tried. The experiment, they say, could do no harm; and it might result in the'conviction that an army would lose nothing in discipline or effi- ciency by being allowed a little more liberty, and being treated with a little more consideration. I HAD some conversation this morning with an acquaintance of Louis Jordan and his reputed wife Angelina. I learned that he was a little rat-eyed man, that he was rather severe on Angelina, that they lived well, that Angelina was either brought up or resided a long time in France, and that she was anything but happy with Monsieur Lotus. The reader is aware that I speak of the swindler, who, after representing himself as an agent, took in so many innocent foreigners from St. Peters- burg to Lisbon. PEOPLE are laughing at the way the Germans have been done in the affair of Schleswig Holstein. But when they forget Prof. Max Miiller and the Germans, they express themselves rather indig- nantly at the hypocrisy and treachery of both Austria and Prussia. These nations have acted like two scheming attorneys who should fight out a case for a plaintiff, and, having been successful, pocket everything for costs. Why does not Punch give us a cartoon of Austria and Prussia eating the oyster, and Germany, surrounded by metaphysical treatises, meekly receiving the shells from her generous friends ? Z.
SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS.…
SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. 0 ALTHOUGH politics are at a discount, and mat- ters connected with the State have no absorbing interest, there are many things to record which will be read by the English public with some degree of pleasure. First, our most Gracious Queen has paid a long-promised visit to the birth- place of her lamented husband, and has returned in health to British shores, welcomed by her people. Her Majesty had gone to Germany spe- cially to inaugurate the Albert statue in Cologne; and a great day it was in the history of that city when the Queen of England, surrounded by the immediate members of her own and her late hus- band's family, took part in that ceremony. Several, neighbouring monarchs wished to have been pre- sent, but her Majesty had expressed a desire that the celebration should be regarded as strictly a family affair. The people, however, assembled in crowds, and on this occasion there was no excep- tion to the rule that favourable weather generally attends the Queen's visits. As her Majesty's car- riage entered the market-place of Cologne the band played the National Anthem; then Queen Victoria, dressed in deep mourning, and escorted by the reigning Duke of Coburg (Prince Albert's brother) and her second son, Prince Alfred, who is heir-presumptive to the dukedom, mounted the platform. A lengthy address was then de- livered by the Bergermeister, and the statue was uncovered. It is of celossal size. In the left hand of the Prince is a baton, and the right hand rests upon a plan of the Great International Exhibition, which is fixed on a stone by the side of the figure. A number of young ladies, adorned with green and pink ribands, then camo forward and laid flowers on the monument, after which the Queen and her family deposited their garlands. About this the Times special correspondent happily says:—"That, I believe, was the essentially German part of the performance; it was the touch of nature that came home to every man's bosom. One could almost have cried out 'Music, awake him; strike!' and expect the transforma- tion in The Winter's Tale reproduced before us." Her Majesty went through the ceremony with her wonted command over her feelings. The Princess of Prussia and Princess Louis of Hesse were visibly affected. The inauguration scene was then over, and the Queen returned to Rosenau, where the Prince Consort was born; and here she has visited every spot that was associated in her mind with the good Prince Albert. Her people sincerely hope that, now all has been accomplished which a loving wife can perform in memory of a dearly loved husband, she will return to those duties of State which her Majesty, during a prosperous reign, had so -faithfully fulfilled prior to her painful bereavement. THE five days' festivities at Portsmouth in honour of the French fleet have passed over with I great eclat. The officers and men of the English fleet, and the crowds on shore, watched the de- j parture of our allies amid the booming of cannons 1 and the hearty cheers of the assembled thousands, evidently evincing the d-elight. of the people that j the two great nations of the earth can meet as I friends rather than as enemies. Now that all is over and done with, it is impossible to look upon j the events which have taken place at Portsmouth but with satisfaction. The old naval town has, on this occasion, worthily represented England, to say nothing of Scotland and Ireland, and has, on the whole, made us, perhaps, quits with the good folks of Cherbourg, who first entertained the English officers on French ground. But though such festivities would lose much of their effect if repeated too often, the kindly feeling that prompted them cannot be cultivated too much on both sides of the Channel. THE desire of improvement and the solid aspects of England ara matters for congratulation. The working men's exhibitions that are taking place throughout the kingdom serve to show the in- terest persons in higher ranks of life take in the artisans and the working population. Perhaps no better instance of this can be set forth than the "Working Men's Exhibition" at Birmingham, which was inaugurated a few days ago. The inaugural address was delivered by that philan- thropic nobleman, Lord Lyttelton, and he was supported by the mayors of the various towns in the midland counties, by aristocrats, dignitaries of the church, and large employers. The noble lord, in the course of his speech, after having com- mented upon the industrial works he saw before him, and turned to the features of the age which he believed had tended to raise the masses to their proper position, said—" I look at the literature of the day in its lighter and more popular character. The works of fiction, I am very well assured, in which now for many years past the upper classes have taken most pleasure, have been those which have purported to deal with the daily life of the classes below them; and, taking the converse, I have often been very greatly struck with what I have observed in reference to the literary taste of the poorer classes in London. I walk about the streets of London, when I am there, as much as anybody, and in the humbler streets we see in these days of cheap publications the shop windows full of small and cheap works of fiction and periodicals, which circulate among the working classes of London. I would engage to say that, with hardly an exception-I doubt whether there be one in one hundred cases—the subjects of those works of fiction, and the little pictures by which they are illustrated, relate to the lives of the upper classes, and represent them as taking part in the social well-being of their fellow men. This is our desire, and these are the feelings we hope to cultivate." A SIMILAR exhibition has been opened at Wake- field, where Lord Houghton and the Archbishop of York took part in the proceedings, and at which meeting both noblemen complimented the work- ing classes upon the progress they were making, and in the advancement of the masses in a social position, contending that cheap literature had much to do with this progressive state of things. LORD PALMERSTON'S visit to Bristol to open the Industrial Exhibition there, is a great topic of con- versation. We feel proud that the noble Premier of England gives such encouragement to works of art, science, and industry; and well we know that his lordship, with that peculiar tact which he possesses, will amuse his audience, whilst his good advice will prompt them to further energies. His lordship will be the euest of Lord Fitzhardinge, and is expected to arrive at Berke- ley Castle on the 18th inst., and on the following day will inaugurate the opening of the Working- Men's Institution. After the inaugural ceremony a dinner will be provided for ladies as well as gentle- men. TURNING to matters which have recently been commented upon. The speculation as to the future of Algiers is a topic which politicians seem scarcely to understand. Let it be remembered that that country conquered by France, and taken from the Arabs, was intended for French colonisa- tion. The conquerors had done with it, as we have done with Australia. Their convicts were sent there, who, after serving the probationary time, were allowed to settle in the colony. Free emi- grants also went there under French protection. But the Arab tribes rebelled, and confusion was general throughout the country. The Emperor Napoleon paid a visit there a few months ago, to see the real state of affairs. And now comes his Imperial decision. The colony is to be divided into three zones, at various distances from the sea. The first-tliat embracing the sea shore-isl to be under a purely civil command; the second, farther into the interior, is to be entirely military, with the exception of Tiemeen, an agricultural district, which is to be guarded by the military power. The third zone, the remote interior, which includes the desert of Sahara, and other sandy plains, is to be abandoned to the Arabs, who will be under the protection of France, but allowed to govern themselves as they please. This is entirely on the principle of a conqueror, What is useful I retain; what is useless becomes yours." ALARMISTS have talked about the cholera visit- ing English shores. We are thankful t@ say that the advance of that terrible disease has been very slow, and we hope that the sanitary regulations which are being enforced throughout the kingdom will allow the disease to pass over us mildly, if it is the will of Providence that we should be again affected by this scourge. THE cattle disease has made its appearance in many parts of the country, and has been clearly proved by one notable case to be an epidemic. Miss Burdett Coutts' whole herd of Ayrshire cattle has been stricken with the disease, and almost the whole of them swept off, although no infection could have reached them. For first, as the Observer states, "the herd had been some time at Holly-lodge; therefore it was not tainted with any imported cattle. Secondly, the herd was in excellent condition, and several of the cows were yielding from sixteen to eighteen quarts of milk per day. Thirdly, the sheds in which the animals were milked are clean, airy, lime-washed, and every kind of ordure removed, besides being also well gravelled. The pasture on which they fed might be termed not only good, but rich, and the water which they drank was as pure as water well can be. In short, so far as food and treatment could go to keep a herd of cattle in first-class con- dition, they were everything that could be desired. Yet the animals sank rapidly, and some of them ex- hibited the worst characteristics of the disease. Roach, the herdsman, who was deeply affected by the loss of his herd, informed us that as mere stimu- lants given to the animals, after certain severe pur- i gations, there had been consumed by two cows alone I (one of which has survived) eight bottles of whisky, two) gallons of brandy, two dozen and a half of port wine, and other strong drinks, all of which were of no avail, except in the solitary in- stance named. The cattle, under' the several stages of the disease, exhibited the usual pheno- mena of pleuro pneumonia. They appeared, ordinarily speaking, either excited, with staring gaze, protruding eyeballs, and watery eyes, or depressed and relaxed, with a dull, dim look, and a flow of mucus from the eyes and the nose. In all the animals a cold shivering, and a coolness of the horn, the ear, and the extremities were ap- parent, with staring coat, trembling of the mus- cles, and increased respiration. Foam and saliva flowed from the mouth, and the lungs of the animals exhibited the same appearance, being much beyond their natural size in almost every instance." Still we -are thankful to say that the cases are less frequent than they were a few weeks ago, and we trust that the disease will very shortly be entirely eradicated. THE cattle trucks on the various lines of rail- way have recently been thoroughly cleansed and washed down with chloride of lime, and the poor animals are provided with a drink of water. If these things had been practised before, numbers of cattle might possibly have been saved. We trust that the good effect produced by cleansing the cattle trucks will be extended to passenger carriages, and that railway officials will see that the health of the people is not injured by the filthy state in which these are allowed to remain. v
Visit of the French Fleet…
Visit of the French Fleet to Portsmouth. The navy that is always the best wins the day. But this pre-eminence cannot be sustained without rivalryt whether that which naturally comes by war or tha. which may be artificially produced in a time of peace. This is one great object of these grand naval meetings France and England ha,ve a good deal to learn from one another. Every navy is only too apt to worship its own authorities and idolise its own models. Few lv people retain their inventive powers, or their liberality to inventors, after a certain age. Every school settles at last on its lees, unless it changes hands or is laid open to fresh influences. Even Parliament may thunder at the dockyards in vain unless fortune shall favour its appeals. The remedy is found in the modern panacea for all shortcomings-a competitive examina- tion. This is what we have to day at Spithead.- Which are ^he best ships-so many marks to be scored for every point under review ? Our people say our ships are the best; but we would rather they thought otherwise than that we should overrate our- selves.-Times. Within the last fortnight we have heard of speeches made by lieii^al aTld SDCeches made by Ueneral Grant, both of whom declared to la,rge American assemblies that the French must be driven out of Mexico. As to Canada, we lately beheld an American agent in that country coolly arguing, in a public conference, that the policy of the United States must be to prevent international trade, in order to force the Canadians to wish for annexation! It is against all pretensions and notions of this kind that the present naval fraternisation at Brest and Portsmouth is aimed. We do not libel the Americans in saying that they covet Mexico and Canada, for they themselves make no concealment of their desires and purposes. Were Prance and England at feud at the present moment, the only question with the American Cabinet would be whether Mexico or Canada should be invaded first. But as France and England are not at variance, the probability is that Mr. Johnson will, for the present, deem it prudent not to meddle with either. Aa to Mexico, England has taken no part in that quarrel. As to Canada, if the Canadians had shown half as much desire to secede from England as the Virginians did show, four years ago, to secede from the Northern Government, England would long ago have said, Erring sisters, part in peace." But if the Canadians cling to the English connection and ask our protection, we shall not easily be persuaded to desert them. Such is the position of affairs. Nothing is further from the intention of France and England than to go to war with America. But when we hear, not from insignificant persons, but from generals and ambassa- dors, that "Mexico and Canada must shortly be in. cluded in the Union," we feel it to be no menace, but a measure of wise precaution, to bring our fleets into line, in French or English waters, and to let all per- sons concerned know, without any threats, that Eng- land and France are at present excellent friends, and that, united, they could send a fleet to sea which would level any city-be it St. Petersburg, Boston, or New York-with the ground, in less time than will be occupied, to-day and to-morrow, in firing salutes, hoisting flags, and exchanging compliments between the two admiralties of England and France.—Morning Advertiser.
Canadian Mission to England.
Canadian Mission to England. There is a very cold-blooded colonial administration in Downing-street, which is inclined to do little good, and capable of little harm, and which will delay, so long as is possible, any definite judgment upon any matter included within its jurisdiction. What comfort is extracted from the correspondence, the delegates ex- plain in language too concise to be paraphrased. They evidently Understand that neither the British Foreign- office nor the British Home-office is very deeply inte- rested with their affairs :— On the subject of the American Reciprocity Treaty we entered into full explanation with the imperial Ministers. We explained how advantageously the treaty had worked for Canada, and the desire of our people for its renewal; but we showed at the same time how much more advantageously it had operated for American interests-and we expressed our inability to believe that the United States Govern- ment seriously contemplated the abolition of an arrangement by which they had so greatly increased their foreign commerce, secured a vast and lucrative carrying trade, and obtained free access to the St. Lawrence and to the invaluable fishing grounds of British America, and that on the sole ground that the provinces had also profited by the treaty. We ex- plained the immediate injury that would result to the Canadian interests from the abrogation of the treaty but we pointed out at the same time the new and ul- timately more profitable channels into which our foreign trade must in that event be turned, and the necessity of preparing for the change, if indeed it was to [come. We asked that the British Minister at Washington might be instracted to state frankly to the American Government the desire of the Canadian people for a renewal of the treaty, and our readiness to discuss and favourably entertain any just proposi- tions that might be made for,an extension or modifica- tion of its conditions; we requested that the views of the American Government should be obtained at the earliest convenient date, and that his Excellency Sir Frederick Bruce should act in concert with the Cana- dian Government in the matter. The Imperial Go. vernment cordially assented to our suggestions." The British Government "cordially assented;" but the question comes from Canada, what, after all this cordiality," has really been done ? Nothing by the Administration at home; everything, if it be sincerely intended that the Canadians shall be left, permanently to erect their own'citadels, proclaim their own house- hold gods, and be:an independent Power in the Ameri- can world.— Standard. To us Canada is a source of weakness; while her re- lations with the mother country constitute her own chief strength, and therefore she cannot be absolved from the obligation to take prompt and independent measures of military defence. The Canadian delegates are not altogether insensible of this, but they propose to carry out their constitu- tional reforms in the first instance, and to proceed with their defensive preparations afterwards. This, however, would be little less than to render the whole scheme abortive. For while they expressly disavow j any intention of forcing confederation on the provinces j of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, those provinces have, to al appearance, decisively rejected the proposed i; amalgamation. At this rate, it will be fortunate if the Americans do not carry out any ideas of invading anaaa while Canadians and New Brunswickers are disputing the conditions of their own internal govern- ment. In the Imperial country we have more than once postponed the discussion of important matters on the ground that it was incompatible with the more urgent demands of military defence. But the Cana- nian delegates put the cart before the horse-they look to the forms of independence first and to the fact of independence afterwards. Perhaps this is the only consideration which renders ot less moment the extraordinary financial obligations which the delegates represent the British Government r°via7eT5U-? -ei'ta} £ en- 11Acco^ing to their statement, trreat Britain virtually accepts the whole pecuniary responsibility; inasmuch as she pays directly one-half w!»^!fUfVa-n ig'Jarantees a loan for the remainder, We accept this statement with some reserve; it is so fr^ality°f Gladstone. Moreover, a aommon belief that the days of guaranteed loans have passed away. If a prosperous dependency of three millions is wanting either in the credit necessary for contracting loans, or in the dis- position to make some pecuniary sacrifice on its own i T defending it must be regarded as ^ition to this, a guarantee is further demanded of a loan for the proposed inter- colonial railway, on the pretext that it is ancillary to the scheme of confederation which the British Govern- ment, desires to establish. These guarantees may be ^T^essary; but they will hardly be con- ceded without being submitted to a rigorous analysis by Parliament.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Autumnal Proceedings.
Autumnal Proceedings. The autumn concourses have began. The Queen has inaugurated a new statue of the Prince Consort at Coburg with a considerable English attendance in the town. The fete to the French fleet at Portsmouth has attracted great crowds. And our studies are beginning to be even more sociable than our amusements. The EfSt Association has been spreading itself about m the neighbourhood of Durham, visiting old Is^ursea on tho?6 Dolychene ^piter and hearing International S? anceaAtry of Nevilles. The international Social Science Association, with many English members, has just assembled at Berne. Next week the British Association is to have the most SSi. distinguished meeting it ever held, at ABroriSfe'a tan^ m 0ct,ober the Soeial Science Association is to have one almost as brilliant and dis- !Uw'U1^- Sheffield. Besides this there has been a working men s exhibition opened in Birmingham by Lord Lyttelton, and m Wakefield by Lord Houghton. We are becoming a sociable people. There are- onunrwSLT1 5° f(musements more popular than —concourse of fortuitous atoms.'
Austria and Prussia and the…
Austria and Prussia and the Federal Diet No wonder that Austria cannot keep quiet, Nor Prussia at rest-'Tis theii'horrible Diet, Which gives them both frequently symptoms of riot, And makes them uneasy whenever they try it! The Germans all think it a great Institution, But it seldom agrees with a weak Constitution; a rr> a ^ad far better scout it, And (Kussell-hke) "rest and be thankful" without it I -V. in the Press.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. -.....--
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA mT NEW YORK, AUGUST 24. The court-martial for the trial of Captain Wirtz f ;ftcf]ay- Tlie Judge-Advocate an- nounced that the former commission had been dis- solved and a new one convened, composed of the same members. The specifications of charges were similar nf TP! *rirs OI10]' xr11^330 eseePtion of the names of Lee, Seddon, and Northrop being omitted from the charge of conspiracy. Wirtz's counsel objected to fresh proceedings, and asked for time to prepare the defence. Eventually, however, he abandoned the The president of the court then appointed the Judge-Advocate to defend Wirtz. The Mississippi Convention have annulled the Secession ordinance, and repealed all the laws passed by the Secession Convention, with the -i th0 YOKE, August 25 Present Johnson telegraphed to the Governor of t1 8rat^atiH^hiD1 on the progress made by that State towards re-admission to the Union. He also said that the Habeas Corpus Act would be restored and the troops withdrawn so soon as the State had progressed sufficiently to have returned to her allesi- ance. The Pennsylvania Democratic Convention have given Mr. Johnson their qualified support. They demand that measures shall be passed to give the South immediate congressional representation, and to save them from negro suffrage; also to stop the murder and punishment of individuals by couit-martial. fnJp f1ea^er Brotlier Jonathan, from San Francisco tor Portland was wrecked near Cape Lincoln. She w lr-T^J° to 300 passengers on board, who were all lost with the exception of fifteen. TVT- • n NEW YORK, AUGUST 26. The Mississippi Convention. have memorialised President Johnson to pardon Mr. Davis. M. Delfosse, the Belgian minister, has been pre- sented to Mr. Johnson, when mutual friendly speeches- were exchanged. cZhVlfaZT vtatGS !hat M- G-allado asked permis- sion of Mr. Johnson to present an informal note of condolence and congratulation from the Empe- ror Maximilian, which, however, wa& declined, on the ground that the President did not recognise the exist- ence of the Empire of Mexico. The rumours that a new Government loan will shortly be issued have now been officially confirmed. The paroled prisoners against whom no charges are pending will be furnished with passports condition- ally that they do not return to the States without the ?reA1fe^,a *?aTe- Others who have been implicated passports m make sPecial application for E. B. Ketchum has been arrested. President Johnson has ordered forty-seven majors and brigadier-generals to be mustered out. The ship Francis Cutting has cleared from Mobile for Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton valued at nearly half a million dollars.
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.An engine-driver, named Thomas Lloyd, lost his at3e ,Thames Embankment Works on Wednes- fifn; rJStf TT fi- T1 en £ ine a distance of fifty Slxty feet, and died instantaneously. ° the Town of Derby.—The £ .Smon01^al tWe+t Summoned last week to set their common seal to the conveyance of six acres of the Holmes for a public recreation ground. The generous doner at last turns out to be M. T. Bass, Esq. M.P, In addition to the aost of the land, £ 3,000, we'under- stand he is about to set it out and plant it, at a further expense of £ 1,000, making the noble gift to the working classes of this town of < £ 4,000. We regret to hear Mr. Bass is suffering from a blow or crush re- ceived in the crowd during the election of last week. Funeral of the Hon. Justice Halt burton.—On Saturday the remains of tholate Mr. Justice Haliburton, the well-known author of Sam Slick," were conveyed from Gordon-house, the residence of the deceased, to Isleworth Churchyard, for interment. The funeral which was conducted in a private and unostentatious manner, took place a-t noon, the corpse being followed to the grave by the friends of the late Mr. Haliburton. The Rev. S. R. Anderson, B.A., read the service for the dead. Most of the houses in Isleworth were wholly or partially closed, as were several in Honns- low in both of which places Mr. Haliburton was greatly respected and esteemed.
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