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TO WIT TALK. j1 BY OUR SPECIAL OOBEESfONDENT. ] --+- Otir rmtdt/n will understand that we do not hold ourselves respon- sible/or our able Correspondent's opinions. --+- THE period for exhibiting the designs for the Courts of Law has been extended, and during this month the public will have, on the usual day, access to them. With respect to these and similar ¡ exhibitions of competitive designs, I would beg to make a suggestion to the Lords Commissioners, who have, in this case, charge of the drawings. It is, that as soon as the chief designs are collected, I the aid of the photographer should be called in, and two dozen impressions taken for the use of I the press. There are not more than twenty-four papers whose critical opinion is sought, and very small expense would supply each critic with a set of the designs in miniature, which would be of priceless value in forming a comparative judg- ment upon the whole. In the case of the Law Courts' designs, they are hung in eleven different compartments, and no two can be seen at one time, unless by a critic who can squint, and judge of architectural proportion at an oblique angle of ninety degrees right and left. To write a description of each design when before it, is impossible without inconvenieBce to others, and to otherwise remember enough to do justice to each architect is equally impossible. But a set of photographs spread upon the table before the critic, would enable him to speak sensibly and comparatively of each. Looking at the great expense competing architects are at to produce their splendid drawings, the small expense of photographs would be a trifle; and the sale of them in the hall of the exhibition would be a profit and a boon to the public, who would be glad to become possessed of copies of those designs which so enchanted them at the exhibition; and the popular voice would, like those of the gods at a theatre, be instructive to managers as well as authors-to commissioners as well as architects. The Building News, or any similar journal, not afraid of an original idea, might urge the suggestion. Sir Richard Mayne now placards the walls with photograpbs of dis- tinguished scoundrels with whom he wishes to make closer acquaintance. Surely, a costly deaign of genius is as well worthy a fourpenny photo- graph as any fugitive knave. In every part of the empire competitive designs are continually being exhibited, to which the suggestion I venture to make would be equally applicable. THE valuable property which may be designated I' the Banhill-fields estate, leased 300 years ago to £ the Corporation of the City of London, falls into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners this year, 1867. In 1665 the corporation set apart a portion of the Finsbury estate, then known as Banhill-fielde, and fenced it in as a burial-ground; and it became the holy ground of Noncon- formity-the four Dead Acres of martyrs and 1 dissenters. It was an open burying-place for nearly two centuries, and was only closed in 1852 bv order of the Secretary of State. During the 1190 jvirs ol 'its existence 120,000 corpses were interred in it. Tivines, authors, martyrs, artists, and other illustrious dead, refused interment in churchyards, whose names are written on the pages of history, and whose piety is now honoured, and their priactples cherished in every part of the world. It was feared this sacred- ground would be sold and built over. Tbis will not occur, The Corporation of London has pleaded for its preservation. Indeed, the Ecclesiaatical Commissioners on this point hardly needed a plea; they promptly and kindly resolved to preserve the spot. They have, however, a flllallcial question to settle with the corporation; hut upon this I do not enter. I am only concerned to report that from the correspondence just made public between the corpora^^u and the commis- sioners, the famous$unhih._ fields will be fenced in and preserved as the 6Vjred resting-place of Nonconformity—an historic for future gene- rations to visit. In answer Mr. Remington Mills, Mr. Mowbray said on 'rida) evening, in the House of Commons, that to correspondence above referred to >ould be polished in a few days. It was then published, at had been out two or three days. MB. PHILLIPS, the Spanish paii?r, or rather painter of Spanish scenes and euoj,^ has died at a comparatively early age, and t) papers re- present his death as unexpected. To is private And personal friends the surprise has t been so '-eat. Domestic sorrows of a very -t)re«sing al. jaelancholy nature ha.ve long weig,,i upon the water's spirits and prepared the wa the paral>.? which has proved fetal. He Wb. cow- herd 11. ear]y youth, and was one the many PD-ters who, unable to get at-he use of a'ush in a school of art, tOl to house paintir., Blr. Fox Maule, afterwards Panmure, sent .tn to London to study art proper school, a*< was no niggard patron; young Phillips' bu- and expenses were sent him, and he dischai^^ them. Phillips swift] fulfilled the promise t his youth, and becatt suddenly expert. WithiL. -years be was a Associate and Koyal Acadeik^^ an(j his brothers of the brush admitted hie g*\t proficiency. No patron ever had earlier and i^er reason to be proud of his discernment and s^fied with his generosity than Mr. Fox Maule. "siaough a hard Aberdeen boy, Phillips had taste fovxjCh colour, warm scenee, and Spanish character. SIR JOHN BOWRING; has been presiding at a meeting in London, at which eminent conn^jcial philosophers were present, to promote the adojxjon of the metric system of weights and measures. 'h.e permissive system, so popular in temperance and other schemes, is disowned in this, and the Board of Trade are called upon to stamp and verify the new metric measures. A set of these instruments are to be shown at the Paris Exhibi- tion. Efforts are being made to popularise the new method of calculation among working men. A new language of figures is an difficult to intro- duce as phocetical spelling, and-it will tax all Sir John Bowring's genius and Influence to accom- plish his purpose. IMMENSE blue books by the Yarmouth, Beigate, 'and other Bribery Commissions, are being poured on members of Parliament. The Varmouth Com- missions have one passage in they ^ort on the part played by Sir Edmund Lacon, which sur- passes anything I have seen in all these voluminous publications, and deserves quo- tation for its cleverness. It is thus expressed:- "But the delusion under whicn Sir Edmund Lacon laboured, that corrupt practices were con- fined to his opponents, is only to be accounted for upon the hypothesis that be deliberately resolved to be ignorant and was fortified in that ignorance by the determined reticence of every friend in the town who might have enlightened him as to the real state of the constituency." The polish and grace with which the commissioners "give the lie" to the worthy baronet are inimitable. They proceed to suggest that Sir Edmund had thrice corrupted the constituency and bad been twice petitioned against for bribery. In 1859 he had repaid Y,1,000 unconsciously," which had been advanced for purposes of bribery, and expended in the cause of corruption. The whole passage is a fine example of the courtesy of imputation. GEORGE ELLIOT (Mrs. G. H. Lewes) is at Granada, where she may find many Moorish Titos such as she drew in Romola," and may yet tell us stories of the Alhambra, of a far different quality to those the graceful but never tragical genius of Washington Irving gave us. Z.
SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS.
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SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. ONE of the most interesting events of the season has been to see the Prince of Wales taking the lead in philanthropic meetings. A few days ago his Royal Highness presided at the annual meeting of the National Lifeboat Institution, and stated in the course of his address that during the past year the boats of the association had saved over a thousand lives, that there were a hundred and seventy-four of these boats afloat, and that thirty- three of them had been built during the year 1866 at a cost of £17,000, every penny of which had been subscribed voluntarily. A QUESTION which presents considerable diffi- culty in the way of a solution satisfactory to the people-viz., the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday, has been agitated for some time past by the friends of the working classes. The Earl of Derby the other day received a deputation of working men to plead with him in favour of the total closing of public-houses on Sunday. Mr. Bazley, M.P., explained to the noble lord that the object of the deputation was to prevent publicans from selling any drink upon the Sabbattx to be con- sumed upon the premises, but that on certain limited hours they may be permitted to open their houses for the sale of beer to be carried to private residences. Lord Derby expressed much satisfac- tion at having received such a deputation, but said it was a question for the House of Commons rather than one for him to express an opinion upon. He would tell them, however, that the Government could not undertake the anxiety of introducing such a measure, and advised that it should be proposed by some independent member. Several meetings have been held in London to support these views. Mr. Pease introduced the subject in the House of Commons on Monday, and asked what steps the Government were about to take in the matter. Mr. Walpole replied that the Government were not prepared to take any steps in the matter at present. A BULLION robbery of a most daring character was committed a. few days ago on the river Thames. Twelve boxes of bullion, belonging to Messrs. Eathschild, were placed on board a ship from a lighter. It was in charge of a clerk, who, having seen the boxes secured in the forehold of the vessel, obtained a receipt from the captain for the delivery of them. At dusk the hatches were fastened down, and some of the crew remained on board all night, the ship being in charge of three Custom-house officers. The next morning the hatches were removed, and it was found that the cargo had been disturbed, and two of the bullion boxes gone. Each box weighed upwards of 300 lb., and it appears certain that the crane on deck must have been employed to hoist the boxes out of the hold and lower them into a boat or barge alongside the vessel. The value of the bullion extracted is upwards of = £ 2,000, and the perpetra- tors of the robbery have not been discovered. AN alarming fire occurred recently to an express train from York to London. Soon after passing Newark station, it was discovered that a second- class carriage about the centre of the train was on fire. The attention of the driver was immediately summoned by aid of the rope communication, and the train as soon as possible was brought to a stand. Guards and passengers at once vied with each other in their endeavours to extinguish the flames, but the whole of the luggage on the roof, together with the straps and part of the carriage roof were destroyed. The fire is supposed to have originated from a spark in the engine > had it not been for the rope communication, the consequences must have been fearful. Let us hope [ that this will be a warning to railway companies to iadopt on all occasions some instrument by which nhe passengers can communicate with the guard. ri ..1- ..L1_- I CURIOUS scene is going on in opain at tne sent moment. A clever set of thieves have 'ped out the street sewers of Madrid, by "js of which they contrive to get into the houses pb them. To counter-check these land- X a contemporary suggests, the authorities dually established an underground patrol. FaH^ _n stationed in main sewers all night, adva an(j retiring, and taking orders, just 0,9 ?<en do in the streets of London. ° Ian we have one of the most dreadful stoii03 which we have ever had tore- late. baker, who had lived a dissipated ^fe> ftl1 /latterly given himself up to drink- ing, pl° while in a state of intoxication crawled heated oven, and fastened with a string the the door to his arm,-so that on entering closed it. His master having entered the ^ouse, perceived a nauseous odaur, an op1 oven door, discovered the wartedbodyof eymaa_ YET an° j er, ^choly catastrophe has to be added to tog ^a^w;je of domestic calamities j which ha^atterly bV reC0r(je(j3 imagination can hard^aceive an^iQg more paiaful thau the scei/hich occurr^ at Accrington School. The pooildren who were happily buzzing over sheir lessons on Friday morning, suddenly saw bhe room fill with smoke, and the flames rush up the staircase to devour them. There were no Less than nine little children burnt to death. It is a horrible story, upon the details of which we do not desire to dwell. We are told, how- ever, that the rooms underneath the school were occupied by a chairmaker, and filled with reeds. It is hoped when schools come under general Government inspection a number of children will not be permitted to assemble over a warehouse where combustible matters are kept. A SUM of money has been subscribed in Jamaica as a testimonial to Mr. Eyre. This has been re- mitted to England, and given to the Eyre Defence Fund; the surplus, if any, is to be handed over to the ex-governor of Jamaica after his trial. It was at first intended to purchase with the money a testimonial at once; but the representatives of the Colonial-office did rot feel themselves justified in recommending her Majesty to allow Mr. Eyre to accept it in this shape. "Abas les chignons!" is the common cry in Paris at present. It may be freely translated, Down with the tea-pots' Men of science have frightened husbands and brothers by talking about the "gregarine" that breeds and feeds on the chignon. But Science seldom vanquisbes Fashion, and the ladies stuck tn their dear chig- non; now, however, the Lancet comes out with something mora horrible still. It asserts that much of the false hair bears in it the seeds of ring- worm, and that another sort, lugubriously called churchyard hair," must be obtained in the way suggested. Surely the ladies will take warning in time. EVER since the Ides of March there has been con- siderable excitement in the political world, which came to a climax on Monday, when Lord Derby, in the Upper House, and Mr. Disraeli, in the Commons, announced that the split in the Cabinet had led to the resignation of three of the Ministers-the Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, and Viscount Cranborne. In explaining this, Lord Derby said that the Cabinet in dealing with Reform had two alternative plans. To one of these, two of the members of the Cabinet ob- jected altogether (meaning, of course, Lord Cran- borne and General Peel), they at length gave a reluctant consent to a second in the shape of resolutions laid before the House of Commons, which nobody approved of. Thereupon the Cabinet reconsidered its proposals, and though the adoption of the more enlarged plan involved the sacrifice of three colleagues, that sacrifice was determined upon. Lord Carnarvon, in an ex- planatory speech, said he should not have objected to household suffrage in all boroughs with more than a certain population, but he could never agree to make the franchise alike in lar,e and email places. Mr. Disraeli, in the House of Com- mons, referred to the resignation of his former colleagues, and said their places would be filled by others, so that Lord Derby's Government would not be weakened. He hoped to introduce a bill based upon a very wide extension of the franchise on the 18th of March, and the following Monday, if possible, to carry the second reading ot it; and the Government had determined that tha House should sit from day to day upon this mea- sure until it had p issed through all the necessary forms. ——————-— J
MESSRS. CaSb^LL, Pti'lTtiR,…
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MESSRS. CaSb^LL, Pti'lTtiR, AND 1 galptwb SO-TRRA. The eminent publishers of La Belle Sanvage-^ard, Ludgate hill, invited the whole of their employes, from the youngest machine-boy to the highest official in their establishment, to meet them at a soirie given by the firm in the large room of the Whittington Club. This event took place on Saturday evening. The hall was crowded long before the tea was laid, and the numbers present must have exceeded six hundred. Mr. Petter, the senior partner of the firm, who pre- sided, was loudly cheered as he walked up the hall to the chair; aoalao was Mr. Galpin, who soon afterwards followed his coadjutor on to the platform. They were supported by the Rev. J. B. Owen, M.A. the Rev. J. H. Armstrong, M.A. Dr. William Brewer, Dr. E. C. Brewer; the Rev. B. Gunnery, M.A. G. Cruikshank, Esq.; H. C. Selons, Esq.; J. Shortt, Esq, barrister- at-law; the Rev. T. Teignmouth Shore, M. A; the Rev. H. M. Hart; the Rev. W. M. Statham, &o. &n. Several ladies also graoed the platform. The clatter of the crockery and the removal of empty urns had scarcely died away when Mr. Petter rose to apologise for going out of the ordinary routine of the programme to allow Mr. Cruikshank to say a few words, as in consequence of unavoidable military duties he was obliged to leave them to meet his corps of volunteers. The venerable artist created laughter by rising in military style, first saluting, then throwing down his arms for attention." After complimenting the firm upon the rapid progress they had made, be 3aid that was the best trades' anion he had ever seen, and he was glad that such unanimity existed between employers and employed as the spectacle he saw before him conveyed to his mind. The choir having given, in their best style, "Now Pray we for our Country," the chairman rose, amid great applause, and, in a few appropriate remarks, expressed the gratification he felt at meeting them again, after a somewhat lengthened absence, at so pleasant a re-union. He then introduced The Rev. J. B. 0 wen, who, in the course of an address on "The Harmonious Relations between Employers and Employed," related an anecdote exemplifying the effect; of harmony. The great Handel Festival choir of 4.000 performers were singing the famous .c Halle- lnjah Chorus." Passing along the road, within sound of it, were two ignorant men in a cart; the moment they heard the distant but mighty harmony, the one man, as if entranced, drew the rein and stopped the horse, the other took off his hat. There was a secret devotional element in it which enforced reveieDce. Now, in this magnificent chorus, each kept time, each took up his part or rested at the right moment; and he believed that there was this kind of harmony in the La Belle Sauvage establishment (cheers). Mr. Galpin, after thanking the kind friends who were not associated with their establishment for supporting them that evening, said his more imme- diate object was to congratulate his friends and fellow-workers on an occasion like the present, and to thank them for their support; but as only ten minutes were allowed him, he conld not do it so efficiently as he had hoped to have done. It afforded them the greatest pleasure to again witness a similar gathering to that which they had last year; it was, indeed, a goodly sight to find members of one estab- lishment meeting in the numbers they did on this occasion. He was pleased to say that the character of their works had a world- wide fame, and he felt iustly Droud of it. He had further to ask the assistance of his fellow. workers to carry on the business in future as they had hitherto done; theirs was a mighty engine either for evil or good; and it was the desire of him- self and his partner that their motto should be Excelsior!" that the contents and style of their works should raise the mind of every individual who reads them. Wherever their imprint should appear on any work, they determined they should never have cause to blush that it was there. He concluded by asking all j to be honest to themselves and honest to each other, i and then they may fairly ask God's blessing upon | their labours (cheers)- This was followed by addresses from J. Shorty K."q., en "Popular Literature;" The Rev. Dawson Burns, on Self-Help the best Help Dr. William i Brewer on Means of Social Elevation aoceseible to j the Working Classes;" the Rev. R. Gztntiery on Tho Dianitv of Labour the Bsv. H. M. Hart on Happy Homes." A vote of thanks was then pro- posed by the Rev. T. T. Shore and seconded by Mr. Jeffery to Messrs. Petter and Galpin, and carried by acclamation. The speeches were intervened by a full choral com- pany selected from the employes. Miss Poynter ef- ficiently presided at the piano, and Mr. Fred. Walker and Mi" a Melville enlivened the entertainment with several solos. Great thanks are due to Mr. E. Rimmpl, the eminent London perfumer, for the fountains and vases of per- fume, which agreeably scented the room in every part.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.|
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. | • FRANCE. PARIS, March 1. The Etenda/rd of this evening asserts that the Em- peror signed yesterday a decree for the re-organisa- tion of the infantry, in conformity with the report of the Minister of War, published this morning by the Moniteur de I'Armee. Each regiment is to con- sist in future of 20 companies instead of 22 while on a peace footing, but of 27 when on a war footing. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, March 2. At a ministerial council held to day, the dissolution of the Diets of Moravia and Carinthia was determined upon. Both these bodies have opposed the assembly of the Austrian Parliament. It is expected that Count Taafe will shortly be appointed Austrian Minister of the Interior. The Emperor will proceed next week to Buda-Pesth, to receive the oaths of allegiance of the Hungarian ministry. His Majesty will be accom- panied by Baron Beust. VIENNA, Maroh 3. The Bodenoredit-Anstalt (Credit Fonder) will, on Thursday next, open subscriptions to a loan, to be issuea in 500,000 bonds of 300 franos each, on the se- curity of the municipal domains. The loan will bear interest at 15 per cent., and will be redeemable in 46 years. The issuing price is 230. LEMBERG, March 2. In to-day's sitting the Galiaian Diet resolved upon sending deputies to the Reiohsrath, by 99 to 34 votes. GENERAL GARTBALDI. TRIESTE, MARCH 3. I It is asserted that General Garibaldi baB received a Greek deputation, whom he assured that the whole Italian nation was favourable to the cause of Greece. He announced at the same time that his son had gone to Candia to support the insurrection, and that under favourable circumstances he would go there himself. TURKEY AND CANDTA. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 28. An official denial has been given to the news lately published by the continental journals, asserting that 8,000 of the Turkish troops were beaten in Candia on the 13th and 14th February, that the insurrection was victorious, and that fresh massacres had been perpe- trated by the Turks. This intelligence is declared to be false and oalumnious. JAPAN. • HONG KONG, Feb. 15. Intelligence received here from Yokohama an. nounces that Denmark has concluded a treaty of com- merce and navigation with Japan. Stotsbashie has been formally installed as Tycoon. AMRRTOA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Feb, 28. President Johnson has laid before the Cabinet a veto upon the bill passed by Congress for the military government of the South. A resolution has been introduced in the House of Representatives asking the President for information respecting the establishment of a Canadian kingdom, which it declares would be hostile to the safety and peace of the republic ef the United States. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. NEW YORK, Maroh 2, six p.m. The President has vetoed the bill for the military to Congress, Mr. Johnson says ^tMaf'liie has no oonsti- tional power to adopt or execute a bill for the military government of the South, when its object is not to maintain order, but to coerce the Southern people into principles they oppose, and in reference to which they have a light to use their own judgment. President Johnson reiterates his recommendation that all loya representatives should be admitted to Congress. NEW YORK, March 3. Congress has passed the bill for the military govern- ment of the South and the Tenure of Office Bill over the President's veto. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. Intelligence received here from Vera Cruz, dated the 24th inst., announces that the Liberals have out off communication with the capita', and that they hold all the important lines to that oity NEW YORK, March 3. Intelligence received here from Mexico announces that the Emperor Maximilian took the field on the 19th. He moved northward with 6,000 men, and routed Carvajal, killing or capturing the whole of the latter's forces. The screw steamer Manhattan arrived at New York early yesterday morning.
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THE PANAMA AND WJhST 1JSDTA MAILS. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasmanian, with the above mails, arrived on Friday, with 81 pas- sengers, 3,364,275 dollars in specie, 2,905 packages of 3argo, consisting chiefly of cigars, tobacco, cocoa, and 3ochineal. She left Sc. Thomas's on the 15th ult., and experienced head-winds and heavy sea for the first seven days; since favourable weather. The pas- 3engers and crew are all healthy, and the ship has been admitted to pratique. THE WEST INDIES. The weather at Jamaica was favourable for sugar making, and most of the estates had commenced operations. In some districts the prospects were good and the weather dry. The weather at Demerara was fine and dry. The sugar crop waa an average one. Freights were i proving, being quoted 21d. to 24d. At Blirbadoes sugar making was progressing, with prospects of a good return. The weather was fine and dry, and the island healthy. The weather at Antigua was still unfavourable, and the sugar crop has fallen far short of last year's. At Grenada the weather was improving, and the prospects of the crops wore moderately good. The island was healthy. The cholera has disappeared at St. Thomas. The quaran- tine regulations were enforced at all the islands on veaeels arriving from St. Thomas. CHILE. At Chile the secret policy of the Government was still maintained; but it was generally believed that the conclusion of peace had been resolved upon. Business was good. Large shipments of copper and wheat had affected freights, which had advanced. For copper produce to Liverpool and Swansea they were quoted 57s. to 60s. Exchange on London, 45 to 46; on Paris, 7.40. The news from Bolivia was un- eatisfaotory, many respectable citizens having been imprisoned for political offences. PERU. In Peru the Government were affording every facility for the encouragement of immigration. A decree had been issued for establishing an agency in Liverpool, the chief objeot of which is the chartering of vessels with guano on Government account. The Govern- ment expedition for exploring the Amazon found it navigable for 1,300 miies. The Bank of L9. Provi- dencia was expeoted to resume operations. The con- tract for a railroad from lea to Jisia, had been annulled, the contractor forfeiting 40,000 dollars. The Chinchas Islands were healthy. 80 vessels of large tonnage were loading. CENTRAL AMERICA. At Salvadore the cotton crop has been destroyed by worms and rains. Coffee, sugar, and rice, were being largely cultivated in several parte of the State, and the republic was represented in a promising condition. Peace prevailed, and agriculture was increasing. The revenue was improving, with a fair prospect of the public debt bei, g soon paid off. At Nicaragua the revolution was suppressed, and the epidemic was dis- appearing. The Costa Rica Government had concluded a contract for a railway from Simon Bay, on the Atlantic, to Caldera, on the Pacific. Great uneasiness .,u waa felt on account of the cholera at Nicaragua. The joffee crop was large, and estimated at 150,000 quintals, half of which was already picked. NEW ZEALAND. The Panama Star and Herald gives the following news from New Zealand, under date of WelliDgton, January 8:—Since despatch of the last mail, per Raahine, nothing of very much importance has tran- spired, and the colony has been very quiet politically, and in the business world. His Excellency the Governor for some time past has been on a visit to the east coast, and the interior of the North Island; spent Christmas with the natives at Tampo, where, it is said, one im- perial regiment is to be quartered, and travelled overland to Wanganui, from whence he arrived at Government House this morning, in order to for- ward despatches to England by the Mataura. Beyond telling the Seoretary for the Colonies that his abori- ginal hosts gave him good Christmas obeer, and that he was not called upon to practice autography, the vice-regal despatches would have been very uninterest* ing, were it not for a report brought down from Auckland yesterday, of the death of Wirimu Tamihaua, Anglice, William Thompson, the great chief of the Waikatos, who has been the Warwick of the Anti- podes, having deposed and reinstated a legion of Maori Kings. Thia great man has been long ailing, and ex- pired on the 28th December, when being carried from Cambridge to Matamata, where it was expected he would recover under careful medical treatment. The gold fields of the west coast still flourish; several newrushes have taken place, and there are several thou- sand persons in the district, most of whom are doing well. From the Sydney papers you will learn that the diffi- culties which have beset the commencement of the Panama service have been satisfactorily adjusted Mr. Crosbie Ward has induced the New South Wales Government to vote for two years their share of the subsidy— J255,000, and by his exertions the dispute relating to the postage rates from Viotoria and Western Australia has been amicably settled. Wellington, however, is not to be the terminus, and for that we must in a great measure thank ourselves, for the erection of the patent slip has not )et been com- menced, and the material now lies forlorn in Evan's Bay, a sight for the curious.
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GARIBALDI'S PROCLAMATION TO ITALY. Garibaldi has issued the following proclamation to the Italian peopleCITIZENS, TO THE POLL! In Italy, the liberty which is threatened and endangered by the clerical party and its accomplices must be assured. The efforts of every free man should be direoted towards that supreme end. In your choice of members for the new Chamber you should not vote for partisans of projects suicidal to liberty, nor for satellites of fallen dynasties, supporting the empire and the papacy. The general elections may ruin or save the nation, may make of our country an arena of reaction, or a centre of progress. The clerical party are the subjects and soldiers of a foreign Power, of mixed and universal authority, spiritual and political, who command but do not discuss, who sow discord and corrupt. To the obsti- nate enemies of our country and of civilisation the means of injury must be removed. The ecolesiastioal patriotism should be consecrated to the intellectual, moral, and mateiial progress of the people, and sup- port the public fortune. As our struggle with the olerical party holds in suspense the whole oivilised world, our viotory over it will be the reaseertion of the liberty of conscience and the triumph of right over the prejudged. To the poll, then, citizens! To the poll, all! Your votes will show to the world of what government we are worthy, and if we deserve to be a great and free nation. G. GARIBALDI. Florenoe, Feb. 22,1867."
THE PUPE'S ALLOCUTION.
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THE PUPE'S ALLOCUTION. The following is the allocution which the Pope has addressed to the consistory "Venerable Brethren,-The love of Christ urging upon us the duty of inquiring why so many diooesea had been left vaoant in Italy, we sent all autograph letter in the month of March, 1865, to the Most Serene King of Italy, asking him to send to us some person with whom we could treat on such a serious subject. When he acceded to our wishes negotiations were renewed, but, through no fault of ours certainly, clesire^ althouglf, moved by an ardent solicitude for the salvation of souls, to which the Holy See has always given priority in all things, we con- descended to invite these negotiations. The matter was recently taken up at the desirei of those who are masters of affairs in Italy. But it is impossible for us, venerable brethren, to treat of this Mahj-ot with. out expressing profound sorrow and bitter grief. The holy prelates whom we are about to send to the vacant sees will not only find the ecclesiastical tteasuriea ruined, but they will absolutely find themselves in want of their ordinary means of support; and what is still worse, they will find the stones of the tanctuary scattered, the asylums of religious perfection deserted, the inmates of the cloisters reduced to utter destitu- tion, and the holy virgins expelled frorn the religious edifices where with the help of God they had retired to live and die in the arms of the heavenly Spouse. It is sad and painful to send bishops to such sees, especially in a crisis of public affairs like the present. But what is to be done ? Give up the pn juct for these reasons ? No. These labourers will ret rn to the vine planted by God and watered with the blo(,d of his Son relying on the Almighty's aid; they will proceed to their work confident in the protection of the mother of God, who can powerfully assist them. It is the, indeed, the true seat of wisdom, who with her inspiration aiding the efforts of the pastors, will bring to them, in her quality of refuge of sinners, great numbers ef wan- dering souls. Comforter of the afflicted she ill assuage through them the sufferings of the wrt-tobed; pi ora- tress of Christians she will bring back to the pastors the respect and filial affection of the people, aLd thus in the docility and love of the flock they will find relief from the weight of their onerous functions as well as consolation in the contest they will have to sustain against the enemies of God and the powers of darkness, who are endeavouring to seize the whole field of the Gospel in order to make it a desolate abode. Therefore amongst the new bitbopa we shall provisionally name some who belong to Italy having confidence that in future consistories we will have an opportunity of preconising others and others still, if the judgments of men, who live according to the exigencies of the time, will harmo- nise with ours especially in what concerns the elec- tion of individuals. It would not be opportune to say more in the present state of things; but the future, unless the justice of the Almighty brings about a change, is but too clearly indicated by the past series of most distressing events. Still we must htiove. con- fidence in God, who, in concert with the immaculate Virgin and the holy Apostles, has, in so striking a manner, protected us beneath the shadow of His wings, and who, in the end (such at least is our hope), will change our sorrow into joy. Let us endeavour, venerable brethren, to hasten and to ripen this result, so desired in our prayers, by the concord of our souls and the exercise of every Christian virtue." 0 — Shipwreck and Loss of Life in the Medi- terranean.-A private telegram was received in Liverpool, on Monday, which shows that the fearful N.E. gale which was so disastrous at Toulon had reached as far as the coast of Spain, and inflicted great damage on the shipping. The most serious disaster as yet reported is that to the ship Sul'ana, American built, and said to be from Liverpool which was wrecked at the entrance of the port of Valencia, and 16 hands drowned. The Sultana had made the voyage in safety from the Chincha Islands, but was wrecked within sight of the port of arrival. 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