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4 EUROPE. The Ecumenical Council and Coming Work of the Catholie Hierarchy. Premier Gladstone on the Appoint- ment to the See of Exeter. Material Progress and National Defence in Germany. Russian Interest in Suez Canal. the Our spectal correspondence and newspaper mali reports from Europe furnish the following details of our cable despatches to the 6th of November, addl- tional to the exhibit just published in the Hara. A society has been formed in Berlin for the pur- pose of promoting the production and sale of Ger- man WOO ana unproving its quality. It t# proposed to provide for the delivery of lectures on the pro- gress and present defects of this branch of industry. The Cologne Gazette reviews the late diplomatic appointments of the Prussian government and con- siders them very satisfactory. The following ex- tract may have some interest for our readers: The open character of Baron von Werther and his Gislike of all intrigue will insure him a good recep- Vion at Paris. is real intentions will be piainiy Seen, and this lt an invaluable aid to the preserva- tion of good reiations. His reports on the circum- stances of France, so involved at present, will be written clearly and without prejudice, Besides this he stands in very friendly persona! relations to Count Bismarck. The Schirdbische Merkur says:— The Italians seize every opportunity of showing their sympatay for Prussia, sumetiines merely to ex- press their dislike of the Emperor Napoleon. An Opposition to their ministry also plays a part in the matter, as it is thought to be neither able nor wiil- ing to shake off the dictatorship of France, ROME. Whac Will the Council Do?—The Causes and NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. 1s coming to the Connell with the Archbishop of Paris, bas just published two volumes on this sub- ject, a coming from the pen of & theologian as Well a8 & bishop, have given some umbrage at Rome, But the Civilta Cattolwa, which 1s usually ready Svagh to wage War in its polemical columns against ‘all who cali into question the Pope's personal iniallt- bility, baa not yet ventured to atta Monseigneur Maret, deeming, perhaps, that it would be equiva- lent to attacking the French government, at whose expense the work has been printed, ‘Thia book demonstrates that besides meeting with opposition from various governments the new dogma Would be offensive to numerous classes of Latin Catholics on account of the entire ehange it would introduce into the consutu- tion of the Church, at atime, too, when absolute rale in spiritual government would be as distasteful as intemporal. As the to Orientals, whose veneration for ecumenical councils 18 traditional and un- bounded, a dogma tantamount to abolishing such assemblies would produce among them the greatest distrust and alarm, With such prospects of hostility from a@ portion, at any rate, of the bishops expected at the Council, it is thought that the Court of Rome will either aban- don the plan of this new dogma altogether, or en- deavor to carry it by @ surprise, by organizing in the Council a nucleus of retiabie bishops, who will urge their colleagues to the required definition by accia- mation without the sormality of voting. The other leading questions to be submitted to the Catholio hierarchy assembled at St. Peter’s are the dog- matic definition of the belief tu the corporal assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, the making & belief in the necessity of the Pope's tem- poral power a dogma of faith, and the solemn con- tirmauon of the ous syllabus published by the reigning Ponti to the astonisaed world in 1864, Ivis not probable that the first of these propost- tions will encounter any opposition in the Council. The Pope has always nourished an especial senti- ment of devotion towards the Madonna, and he makes Do secret of his earnest wish that the new dogma of her assumption may be prociaimed. The majority of commissioners in the section of dogmatic theology have already opined favorably, so that the detinition of the doctrine is considered a3 ensured— Finis coronat opus, and Pius IX, by final homage, crowns the series of devotional honors which he has offered to the mother of our Lord. Father Passaglia was the principal writer on the Immaculate Conception, but the Pope has assigned to Father Vaccari, a Benedictine monk, the task of demonstrating in a learned disquisition the definibility of the assumpuon. The dogma of the necessity of the Pope’s tem- poral power has not so good a chance of success in the Council, for the most devoted champions of that power could not find the elements of a dogma in it, however important they may consider the belief in its opportunevess and even necessity. But if this Project 13 not sanctioned the bisnops will probably renew the protests they put forth in 1862 and 1867 on the spoitations endured by the Pope and the unwarrantable invasion of his small remaining territory. As to the syllabus, which must be regarded as the code which regulates the relations of the Court of Rome with civil society, we must recollect that although published with great solemnity in 1864, It was nol entirely composed then, but only compiled, as it were, from successive condemnations of modern principles previously issued by Pius LX. and his im- Work of Former Assemblages—Infallibility— French Episcopal Views—The Temporal Power and Sylabus—Pontifical Mechanism and the Aids of the Pope—Late Arrivals. Roms, Noy, 2, 1869. What will be done and what will be said at the approaching Vatican Council? These are the points upon which I shall endeavor in the present letter to offer your readers as Minch information as has been hitherto obtainable. Judging merely by the general xpressions made use of by the Pope in his bull f convocation, the Council, which is to be opened on the sth of December, has no distinctly specified object. In that document his Holiness announced as follows:—‘In this general council, then, there must be examined with the greatest care, and established, whatever above all especially regards, in these most dificult times, the greater glory of God, the integrity of the faith, the dignity of divine worship, the eternal salvation of souls, the discipline cf the secular and regular clergy, the salutary and solid instruction of the clergy, the observation of ecclesiastical laws, the correction of morals, the Christian education of youth, and universal peace and concord among ail classes. It must also be endeavored, with the most Relive zeal, that, with God's help, all evils may be Kept away from the Church and civil society, and that unlappy wanderers may he called back to the Tight path of truth, justice and salvation, and that vices and errors being once for all extirpated our sugust religion and its salutary doctrine may revive in the whole world, spreading and governing more and more, so that piety, honor, probity, justice, char- ity and all Christan virtues may acquire vigor, and Hourish to the greatest advantage of human society.’? It would be puzzling for any one unacquainted with the mtentions or aspirations of the court of Rome to cetect any precise object in these expres- sions, They are very general terms, and a Pontiff who felt sufficient reliance on his own authority to define so important a dogma as that of the Immacu- late Conception, without other concurrence on the Part of the Catholic Ep!scopacy than a simple circa- lar Jetter of consultation, would hardly require, one would think, to summons all the bishops of Chtisten- dom from the farthest paris of the earth to define questions which have not the importance of a dogma, @ scllism or @ heresy. In former ages of the Church the motives for convoking a general council were expiicitiy specified by the supreme Pontiff, Eighteen of these solemn assemblies have preceded the approaching one, or twenty, if we in- clude two whose ecumenical character is not ad- mitted by all ecclestastica! historians. Thug, the object of the Council of Nice was Arian- ism; that of Constantinople, the Macedonians; that of Ephesus, the Nestorians; that of Chalcedonia, the Eutychians; the second or Constantinople, the affair of the Three Chapters; the third of Constantinople, the Monothelites; the second of Nice, the Icono- clasts; the fourth of Constantinople, Photius; that of the Lateran, held in the Basilica of that name in Rome, the question of investitures; the second of the Lateran, the schism; the third of the Lateran, the peace of the Church; the fourch of the Lateran, discipline; that of Lyons, the dispute between the | Holy See and Frederick UL; the secona of Lyons, the reunion of the Greeks and Latins; that of Vienne, in | France, tie trial of the Tempiars; that of Constance, | schism and the heresy of John Huss; that of Flor- | ence, the reunion of the Greaks and Latins; that of ‘Trent, the Leresy of Luther. Shouid any such serious reasons as these have been adduced for the con- Vocation of the Vatican Council tue voice of Vis 1X. wo that effect would have caused no surprise. in our umes, ever, DO hew schisms or her call for the geueral coudemnatioa of the Chure! All Catholics’ now beng either to the Oriental schism and the Projestant heresy or to naturailsm, § the demiai a priori of all revealed religion, lndifterentism, which is @ systematc idiffer- ence towards the various positive religions. We | know that the Oriental schism and the Provestant heresy have already been superabundantiy anatne- | matized, and, on the otler band, it would be lilogical to condemn naturaliam, which proceeds by | @ pure and simple n ive form of argument, | aflirming nothing, or muifferentism, WHICH 18 Not & system, but a fuetuation between ali other systems, Willout the energy or the desire to em- | brace any. Such being the case a doubt arises whether a thou- sand bishops have Leen really ordered to undertake such long aud expensive Jourbeys merely to discnss in the presence of the head of the Church questions of discipline of very inierior interest aud impor. tance. Common sense forbids the supposition, aad obiges us to infer that the programme of the Coun- cil, a8 contained 1m the Pope's pull, 13 mcompiete, a.though @ very Wide interpretation may be given to such undefined expressions as “The greater glory of God; the integrity of the faith; the eternal salvation of souls; tle warcing off evils from the Church and civil society.” Who can assure us that in ordér to promote ‘tne greater giory of God’? the court of Rome may Dot propose to the assembied bishops to erect into a new dogma the belief im the personal infallibulity of the Pope, that 1# to | say, his supremacy even over ecumenical counciis. | Tis credence, Which is not yet a matier of faitn, but only bordering upon 1b, procima fldet, hardly y ynd the foundation of the order of lave been and are still its principal mplons; so much se that in the month of June, 7, Ob tue Cocasion Of St. Peter’s centenary, the tla Catiolee proposed the organization of @ leaser Church within tue pale of the Catholic Church, : suould engage by oath to defend, iding ef their blood, thetr belief in the Pope’s personai iofallbility. In like manner, Jong before the delinition of tue dogma of the lmma- euiate Conception, & whole school of the faith- ful, with the order of Frauciscans at their head, formerly projessed their beef in the doc. trine of ‘he Immacuiate Conception. It is Tot dificult to comprenead the overwhelming interest which the Court of Kome must take in effecting the proclamation of the Pope's. personal infallibility aud superiority to general councils of the Church. The tendency of Rome towards abso- lutism im the governinest of the Churen has long deen ovservabic; but sue is by no means ignorant that the dogwatic defaition thus aspired to would awaken the jealous suscepubiiities of several gov- ernments, and especially Wat of France, which does not yet consider 4% & dead letter t selebrated Declaration du clerge Gallioan mn 1682, on the in- feriority of the Pope to the Ecumenical Council, & declaration against whlcn (he Ciwilia Cattolt now publishing @ series of very a} le No government can be expected to iook on with indifference while the Pope is being invested with a spiritual authority beyoud limit and contol, and which, if made an imprudent use of, might, at some future and perhaps not distant period, produce rious disturbances among the populations, ‘ rench bishop in partious, Monsigneur Maret. who mediate predecessors, As the Court of Rome has no intention of abandoning this code it 18 prebable Liat the bishops will be invited to give it their sanc- tion as a whole, and to furnish explanatory com- ments On such paragraphs as bave hitherto been un- intelligible or unfavorably interpreted by the public. When the Counc! has disposed of these principal Questions it will only have to occupy itself, as far ag we can yet learn, with disclplinarian regulations, which will offer no peculiar interest except to the parties concerned in the changes that may be de- creed. The reform of missiong—another attempt at uniting sclismatics and heretics to the Church of Kome—modifications in the number and character of religious orders, improvement of the instruction given to the clerzgy—adaptation of the judicial power of bishops to the requirements of modern society—such Will be some of the topics presented for discussion. It has been reported that the liberal Catholic bishops intend to advise the Pope to come to some agreement with Italy on the question of the annexed Papal provinces, and to allow the highest dignities of the central government of the Church, nos excepting that of Supreme Pontiff, to be accessible in future to all Catholics without distinction of nationality, The introduction of such really Catholic principle into the government of the Church of Rome ia not at all probable, nor can the Suggestion of it come from the bishops, a8 the Council can take no initiative in the matters to be treated of, the limit assigned to tts action by Church traditions being tnat “tae Council has all power in those things Wuich are deferred vo it by his Holle ness." The preparatory mechanism of the Council works in the followisg Ianner:—Phe Pope communicates to the directing congregation of cardinals the theme of the questions Which he considera opportune to say before the assembly. This congregation, which is supposed to form with his Holiness a single per- sou, Inoraily speaking, is composed of seven card: pals, presided over by Cardinal Patrizi, several con- sullors and a& retary, They alone know the Pope’s opinion, Cardinal Patrizi ‘draws up the theme of @ question in due form, and sends it to the cardinal prefect of one of the six preparatory commissions Which are respectively dedicated to the consideration of ceremonies, polltico-ecclesiastical affairs, churches and missions in the East, religious communities, dogmatic theology aud ecclesiastical discipline. Kach commission has its cardinal pre- fect, its consultors and its secretary. The cardinal convokes at his residence the members of his com- Tolasion and imvites each ef them to deliver in wri- ting his vou, or opinion, on tne subject in ques- tion. These vota, which are, strictly speaking, mere opinions, are printed at the secret typography in the Quirinal palace and sent to the directing con- gregation, which discusses them with the Pope and forms the definitive canon. The collection of these proposed canons 18 already complete and will be distributed to the bishops on the 8th December. I have already said that the initlative of the ques- tioas to be treated or belongs solely and entirely to the Pope, a fact which renders any serious oppost- tion in the Council improbabie, if not impossible, as the hierarchy lias been mainly created by hia own nominations, and must, therefore, be prompted by leelings of gratitude, as well aa reverence, to vote in accordance with his suggestions, Rome is not yet very sensibly invaded by bishops, but the oMcial journal mentions the arrival of two or three every day. Yesterday’s lat comprised three Syrian bishops and the Calabrian bishop of Catanzaro, The great mass of them may be ex- pected towards the middie of next month, the 15th of November having been indicated to all those pre- lates of moderate means who are to enjoy the Sovereign Pontiff's hospitality as the period at which his Holiness would be ready to receive them. Cardinal Bonnecnase, Archbishop of Rouen, with six French bishops, arrived at Civita Vecc: yes- terday from Marseilles, two days bebindhaad, in consequence of stormy weather, which drove them to seek refuge in Porto Ercole, ENGLAND. Mr. Gladstone on the Bishopric of Exeter Appointment, By mail from London we have the following inter- esting correspondence on the above named import. ant and disturbing supject:— Oct. 26, 1869. Srm—At the request of the President and Council of the Church Association, [ have the honor to lay before you & memorial praying that you will not ad- vise her Majesty to exercise her royal power in the notaination of Dr. Temple to the post of a bishop in the Established Church, With every respect for the talents and personai character of that eminent clergy- man, We deeply feel that @ share in the composition and pubileation of such @ Work as that of “Essays and Keviews”’ is an absolute disqualification for the’ possession and responsibilities of so sacred an olfice, 1 have the honor to be, sir, your very obe- dieat servant, SHAPTESBURY, Tue Right Honorable W. E. GLapsToNns, M. P. MR. GLADSTONE'S REPLY. 10 DowNING StReET, Oct. 80, 1899. My Lorp—I have the honor to acknowledge @ memorta signed by Mr. Colquhoun, the chairman, and forwarded by your lordstip, on behalf of the Charch Association, against the nomination of the Kev, Dr. Temple to be elected by the Dean and Chap- ter of Exeter as Bishop of that See. With a sincere respect for the motives of those who are parties to tie memorial, and @ fall admission of my own responsibility for the advice rendered to the crown, l beg to assure your jerdship that that advice was hot given without a full consideration of the topica urged in the memorial, and @ firm conviction that the appointment of Dr. Temple to the episcopate would tend to promote the truest interests of religion. With great regard, I have the honor to remain, my lord, your loraship’s most obedient and faithful ser- vant, W. B. GLADSTONE, Tbe EARL OF SHAPTRSBURY, K. G., &C. Queen Victorias Visit to the City of Londou— The Opening of the New Blackfriars Bridge and Vinduct—Prince Alberts Statae. The above named vast public works of the city of London bave been already fully deseribed in the columns of the HeKALD, Queen Victoria formally opened them for use on the 6th of November. By mall from England of that day we have a complete copy of the programme of the very interesting pro- ceedings which took place on te occasion:— FROM THE PALACE, THE ROUTE, RECEPTION AND ORREMONIAL. Her bey ew A the u will leave the Great Western Railway statio ddington, in state, and proceed by way of the Parks, Constitution Hill, the Horse Guards, Westminster bridge and Stamford street, arriving at Blackfriars bridge (Surrey side) at tweive o’clock, Her approach will be announced by trum- i The Foot Guards will form a guard of honor. pon her Majesty's arrivai the band of the Guards will play the national anihem, Her Majesty will be received on the Surrey side of the bridge by the Lord Mayor, the Kight Hon. James Clarke Law- rence, M. P, (attended by the Sword Bearer and Mace Bearer), the Sheriits, Joseph Causton, Esq., Alderman, and James Valientin, ksq.; the Chairman of the Bridge House Estates Committee, John Pat terson, Esq., and a deputation of two aldermen and six Commoners on the committee, with Lhe engineer, Joseph Cubitt, ksq. The Lord Mayor will deliver to her Majesty the sword of state, according to usual custom. The aa- dress of the Corporation will be presented to her Majesty by the Lord Mayor. Mr. Jonn Watterson, chairman of the Bridgehouse Estates Committee, the mover of the address, aad Mr, Joseph Cubitt. the engineer, will be presented to her Majesty by tho Lord Mayor, and the chairman will offer for her Majesty’s gracious acceptance an itluminated book contatning a short account of Blackfriars bridge. The ceremony at this poimt wili conoiude by Ler Majesty being gracionsiy pleased to declare the bridge open for public traMec. The regiment of the Foruieth Middlesex (Post Oaice) Volunteers will be stationed on the city side of Blackfriars vridge. The band of the Coldstream Guards will be stationed on the bridge. A procession from Blackfriars briage will be formed in order, The procession will pasa over Blackfriars ridge, along Bridge street and Farringdon street, under the Viaduct bridge and up Farringdon road, tarnmg to the right, up Charterhouse sireet, past the new Metropolitan meat and poultry and along Giltspur street, and will enter upon the Holborn Via- duct at its eastern end. Her Majesty's approach to this eo will be announced by trumpeters. Tao Guards will form a guard of honor, and upon her Majesty’a arrival the band of the Guards oat ples \he national authem, At the Pavilion on the Viaduct her Majesty will be received by the Lord Mayor, tne Sherins, the Chairman of the Improvements Commit- tee (Thomas Henry bce deputy), and a deputation of two aldermen and six commoners on the commit- tee; officers of the Corporation, Aldermen, the City Marshal, the Right Hon. the Mayor; four car- riages and four, containing the Queen’s suit; her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen; royal escort. The Lord Mayor will then present to her Majesty Thomas Henry Fry, Esq., deputy, the chairman of the Improvement Committee and seconder of the address, and William wood, Esq., the engineer, and tthe chairman will offer for her Majeety’s gra- cious acceptance an illuminated book, containing a short account of the Holborn Valley rovements. The ceremony at this point will conciude by her Majesty being graciously pieased to declare the via- duct open for public traMc, ‘The procession will then pass over the viaduct to the western end, at which point 18 the site ior the equestrian statue of the late Prince Consort, now in course of execution. The several carriages in the procession will turn to the right, down Cuarterhouse street, leaving the roadway up Molborn.clear for the royal carriages, by which route her Majesty will leave the city. The City of London Kifle Volunteer Bi le will be stationed at the eastern end of the viaduct; the First City Engineers and the First London Arullery on the viaduct at the four angles or the bridge; the Second and Third London Rife Yol- unteers at the western end of the viaduct; the band of the Life Guards, Blue, at the eastern end of the pavilion on the viaduct. Breach of Promise of Marringe—A Curiously Interesting Case. In the Court of Exchequer, London, on Wednes- day, November 3, an action for breach of promise of marriage—Payne vs, Smith—was heard. The plainuif, Ann Payne, said she was fifty-five yoars of age, and refused to acknowledge fifty-nine. She had been for a good many years, according to counsel's opening, housekeeper to a Mr. Berry, & married man, living near Hemel-Hempstead; but in cross-examination she admittea that she did all the household labor, and was in @ manner “a servant of all work.” The defendant, James Smith, had been ® blacksmith in the same town, and had reached tne age of seventy-five. It seemed that he was still a bachelor and that, as regarded means, he was pretty well off, owning @ farm of about sixteen acres, and having £1,000 or £2,000 in the funds, When the plaintif! was introduced to the jury as the “‘afianced bride” there was much laughter, but the merriment increased on the appearance of the “bridegroom,” who hobbled into court with great diMcuity, with one hand enveloped in a large piece of flannel, and supported by a sling. The plaintiff said she was the daughter of a master shoe- maker, and her mother now Kept @ country post oifice. Nineteen years ago, when she was living next door to the defendant’s house, the defendant promised her marriage. He asked her whether she would have him, and she said ‘‘yes.”” He kissed her, Once she asked him why he did not keep hia pro- mise, and he sald he did Not like to offend his brother and his prother’s wife, and that he would not marry her until they died. She had beep with him in a cot- tage occupied by one of his tenants. He gave her money and presencs—fowl and eggs some times, but seldom. At diiferent timeg he bad given her sums amounting to twenty pounds. Mr. Berry, in whose service she lived, died fifteen or sixteen years ago, and she then went to live with her mother. Her wages were fourteen pounds a year. Within the last four or five years she had not seen tne defendant very often, Last summer she asked him why he did not marry her, and he said thai he was too old to marry; that he had got a housekeeper who suited him very well, and that he did not wish to make any change. Some years before he said he would never have any one else but the plaintiff, ana sue replied, “1 never will have any one else as long as you live.” Mrs, Dickinson, a widow, residing at Kensington Park road, said:—In June last she went to the de- fendant and asked him why he did not marry Ann Payne. He said he must break off the connection, as he did not want to marry. She replied that Ann Payne was not likely to get settted at her time of itfe, and that the least he could do was to have her as a housekeeper. She also told him that the plaintiff would not let the matter drop. In cross-examination the witness said that on the occasion Of the inierview she served the writ in this action upon the defendant; she went down to Hemel-Hempstead for that purpose. The clerk of the laintil’s solicitor had got offices temporarily in the Ouse. Mr. Sergeant Robinson submitted that there was No case'to go to the jury. Mr. Baron Martin said that the act of Parliament required the corroborative evidence, aud he thought that had been given by the sister. The defendant was then, with considerable dim- cutly, got into the box. He was very deaf, and the questions had to be repeated by the usher in a loud voice close to his ear. He repeatedly denied that he had ever offered the plaintiff marriage. The jury, alter deliberating for a short time in the box, returned @ Verdict for we piaintifx. Damages, fifty pounds. GERMANY. Material Progress in the North German Con- federation—The Navies. {From the North Geman ipeercaany of Berlin, ov. 1 The entire exportation of grain from the port of Dantzic from 1st January to 30th September of the present year amounted to 73 laste wheat, 9,115 lasts rye, 4,463 lasts barley, lasts peas, &c., 421 Ja8t# Oats, 2,060 lasts oil seeas and 467 lasts seeds of various kinds; or, together, 56,323 lasts. In the first nine months of the preceding year only 45,825 lasts of ail kinds of cereals were alipped from Dantzic, being 10,495 lasts less than in the current yea though if we take last September aione we shall find that only 2,073 lasts wheat, 1,902 lasta rye, 042 laste bariey, 85 lasts Oata, 379 lasts peas, &c., and 695 iasts oll seeds; or, altogether, 5,¥76 lasts were exported, against 10,893 lasts in Septemper, 1868, or little more than the half. ‘The imports into the Zollveretn in the first half of the current year compare favorably on the whole with the corresponding period of 1868. Of the moat important-articles the following quantities paid duty or were admitted duty free:—Raw cotton, 1,191,262 centners (compared with the preceding year, 2.9 per cent less); twist, 163,327 entnrs. (8 per cent jess); dyewooda, 784 chturs. (1.6 per cent more); indigo, 21,796 cutnrs. (3 per cent more); raisins, 1,434,429 catnrs. (42 per cent more); steel, 23,900 cntnrs, (18 per cent more); coarse hardware, 140,717 entnrs, (124 per cent more); iron ore, 2,237,867 cntnrs. (43 per cent more); flax and hemp, 619,379 cntnrs. (21 per cent less); gram, 15,217,077 scheffels (43 per cent Jess); green concave glass, 12,803 cntnrs. (169 per cent more}; raw hides, 314,682 cntnra, (30 per cent more); machines, princtpaily of cast iron, 84,000 cntnra. (38 per cent more); do., chiefly of malieabie tron, 17,023 cntnrs. (41 per cent more); raw linen thread, machine spun, 81,266 cntnra. (97 per cent more); g packing linen, 50,309 cntnrs, (11.7 per cent mor unovleached linen, 28,789 cntnrs. (31 per cent more); Wine, 308,294 cnsnrs. (49 per cent more); dried frait, 127,38 entors. (54 per cent more); 171,283 tons herrings (28 per cent more); coffee, 908,601 entnrs. (4.3 per cent more); salt, 420,104 cninrs (14 per cent les: Ww tobacco, 296,910 cninra. (45 per cent 1688); tea, 7,758 cntnrs., (12.4 per cent more); olve oil for machinery, 80,082 cntnra. (63 per cent more); linseed oil, 195,217 cntnrs, (69 per cent more); taliow, 95,020 cntnrs, (28 per cent more); raw silk, 15,967 cntnrs. (8.6 per cent I 0a), 15,906,208 cnwnrs, (7 per cent more); tui 365 chiara, (935 per cent more); petroleum, 710,520 cntnrs. (2 per cent more); horses, 21,748 (¥.9 per cent less); oxen, 46,307 (20 per Cent more); Cows, 28,007 (9.9 per cent more); pigs, 273,018 (29 per cent more); raw wool, 363,724 cninrs. (22 per cent less); raw woollen yarn, 127,002 cntnrs. (4.6 per cent lesa); woollen articles, 96,097 entors, (21 per cent more). According to the budget, the national debs of Prussia at the end of the year will amount to 442,609,372 thalers, 184,471,491 thalera of which are railway debts, The interest aud sinking fund for the payment of the principal will in 1870 require 20,045,600 Uthalers; 10,228,511 thalers of this sum. however, belong to the railways, and will be covere: by their profita. The expen: of the national devt have risen 4: thalers since 1669, Of the above sum 2’ 827 thalers belong to the oid provinces, :—211,225,025 thalers State debt , 184,061,000 thaierg railway debt , 2,565,002 thalers provincial debs bearing inverest, 12,885,000 thaiers Interest bearing notes aud 18,260,000 thaiers bank notes pearing no interest. The debts of the provinces united to the Kingdom in 1866 are as followa:—Hanover, 21,096, 291 thalers, 16,261,120 tualers of which aré railway debts; Hesse, 15,249,900 thalers, of which 15,107,600 thalers lor raliways; Nassau, 20,158,756 thalers, of which 16,472,514 thalers for railways; Hease-Hom- burg, 99,420 thalers; Frankfort, 7,764,171 thalers, of Which 3,509,267 thalers for raliways; Schieawig-Hol- stein, 354,943 thalers. ‘The North German merchant navy, according to the signal book mentioned in one of our Jate num- bers, consists of 6,110 ships, witha united tonnage of 1,209,084.17 tons, of which 146, with 102,149.40 tons, are steamers, Of these 3,272, with 642,806.79 tons (Including 60 steamers with 9,659,190 tons), be- long to Prussia; 440, with 89,685.04 tons (including 1 steamer of 210 tons),to Mecklenburg; 665, with 64, 264.42 tons, to Oldenburg; 45, with 11,642 tons (including 21 steamers With 65,386 tone), to Lubeck; 453, with 265,456.60 tons (including 40 steamers with 39,513 tons), to Hamburg, and 306, with 236,240.50 tons (Including 24 steauers with 47,223 tons), 10 Bre- men. ‘the German North Sea merchant feet is entered on this Het as consisting 82 Slips, With @ total ton- nage of 760,309.67 tons, including 75 steamers, with 87,871.62 tona, and the Baltic feet as containing 2,128 vessels, With 639,674 tons, imctuding 71 steamers, with 14,277.88 tons. These ships are clas- sifed as follow: Coasters, under 30 =, Bab sian. 2 belonging to Mecklenburg, 102 to Oldenburg wad 20 Hamourg, Wgother 627; from 40 to 100 Wona, 1,056 Prassian, 17 belonging to Mecklenburg. 180 to Olde , 11 to Hamburg, 20 to Bremen, 1,234; of 100 tons and upwards, 1,885 Prussian, 421 belonging to Meckienburg, 193 to Oldenburg, 45 to Labeck, 470 to Hamoutg, 286 to Bremen, together 8,290 Of the 180 great North German ie of more 1,000 tons 14 are Prussian, 37 belong Hamburg and 79 to Bremen. ITALY. Tho Coming Session of Parliament—The Throne Speech aud Policy of King Victor Emanuel. - A letter from Florence, dated on the 5th of Novem- ber, supplies the following prospective résume of the business of the approachiag session of Parlia- ment:— ‘The Parliament is convoked for November 18. On the occasion of the new session there will be a speech from the throne, and Victor Emanuel will not fail to remind the deputies that the time 1s come to aban- don vain disputes and occupy themselves with the affairs of the country. The voice of the 18 always listened to, and his words will pechaps Dot be Without influence. There 1s no er address in Italy, or rather it is a simple formality; but the Chamber will have to perjorm a political act in nom- inating its president, Ifthe candidate of the oppo sition, doubtless M. Rattazzi, obtains the majority, the Ministry will have nothing to do but to ask for the provisional twelfths, and make an appeal the elections, as the support of the amber . Wi manifestly be Maharey A If, on the contrary, M. Mari, the ministerial candidate, 18 elected, the game douptiess will not be definitively won, but the Parliament will show that it intends to enter ona thorough examination of all Clee god perhaps the majority will comprehend that ita interests command it to remain united. We find some diMcuity in guessing what the Chamber will do, Everything depends on the members of the right. They attack the Ministry in their journals, but will they mive their votes to M. Rattazzl, whom, as all know, they cannot endure? ‘The new Minister of tho Interior, M. Rudini, will have to make his parliamentary début, and the trial will be a severe one, Great confidence 1s placed in the, future career of the young statesman, and the moderate party esteem him highly, but these favora- ble prepossessions almost render hia position more dimcalt, He has chosen for his successor at Naples the Marquis d’Aimitto, who has already filled the post of epee in that capital, and enjoys much consid- eration, RUSSIA. The Sacz Canal—Its Interest to Imperialism and Commerce. A correspondent of the Pai Mall Gazette of London, writing from Cairo on the 2lst of October, says: La Turqute of Constantinople, of the 13th, under the head of ‘Nouvelles Maritimes,’ announces that the Russian Gazette de V Académie states that it is informed from @ good source that the Russian Steam Navigation and Commercial Company, of Which the head station 1 Odessa, will not remain im- different to the interests created for Russia vy the opening of the Suez Canal, and that it has for some time past been the intention of the company to organize, on the opening of the canal, @ direct line of steamships between the ports of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof and extreme East, with the object of facilitating the transport of colonial products into Russia and of allowing Russian merchants to despatch their merchandise to India by a shorter and cheaper route than that actually followed. Further, that the company, which has followed with care the progress of the works on the Isthmus, was the very first among foreign com- panies to send the packet boats of its Alexandria line to Port Said, where its vessels have regularly touched since 1866; and that at the beginning of the present year, when the advanced state of the works of the canal indicated the approaching connection of the Mediterranean and Red seas, company de- cided upon appointing one of its oi 8 tO collect detailed information on the character and quantity of goods ezabangeanie between Russia and the extreme East. The chief Russian port in the Black Sea Odessa, and in the Sea of Azof, which is also the outlet of the Don and its towns, Taganrog; and, according to the context of the preceding extract, ‘‘the extreme Hast’ would seem to be an expresston for India, or, at least, to denote that India, more than China, was in the author’s mind when writing.’ 1 have not heard up to the present time of direct Russian sea- borne commerce with India, though its poris, to- geiher with the route to them througn Egypt or round the Cape of Good Hope, has always been open to Russia as to other nauons, The completion of the Suez Canal would naturally awaken attention to the new interests created by it for nations having orts on the Mediterranean or in the Biack Sea. jut, perhaps, there 18 another circumstance to at- tract Russian attention in an increased degree, just now, to India, viz., the recent extension of the limits of Russian dominion towards our northwest frontier there. It 1s possible that a mercantile route may be found from the port of Kurrachee, by the Indus, to Attok, thence to Peshawur, and thence into Ragsian Turkestan, to be aided im due tline by raii- Way as faras Peshawur. The British government would become the agent in the development of such acommerce, for it could not object to assist in its transport without laying itself open to inconvenient retaliation from Russia. By thus opening communi- cation between our Indian frontier and Russian ter- ritory, Russia would at least become well acquainted with the road most practicable for maintaining such commerce and for transport in general; while, by the establishment of Russian commerctal agents 1a India she would command an inoffensive and etfll- cient means for obtaining information on the state of the interior provinces and of the opinions and temper of their inhabitants. This forecast of a way in which the opening of the Suez Canal, whenever it shail be rendered practicable for navigation, may afect British interests 18, perhaps, not entirely devoid of truth, KING KEVNEDY’S KONTEUPT, The Alleged Kidnapping Case—The Superin- tendent Arraigned Before the supreme Court. This interesting case, in which Superintendent Kennedy Is charged with having made away with the body of the prisoner tn order to avoid his pro- daction before the Supreme Court under a writ of habeas corpus, came up before Judge Cardozo yes- terday morning in pursuance of adjournment from Taesday. The examination was heid in the General Term room, which was occupied by a large and interested audience. Mr. Howe, in opening the case, said—If your Honor please, I see the Superintendent of Police has filed @ reply to the traverse which we interpose, and in that reply he controverts all the allegations set forth. It has been weil said by an eminent jurist that “the writ of habeas corpus 1s the water of life to revive from the death of imprisonment, and its rights and privileges can never be usurped or en- croached upon except in cases ot invasion or war, by suspension,” a8 your honor well knows, I grieve to say that in this, as in many other instances, this Superintendent of Police has evaded the processes of hia court, and 1 shall show your Honor that as he did in the Brinsmade case some time ago, and in the case of the English forgers whom he sent away in con- travention of the laws and in disregard for the writ of habeas corpus which had been sued out in this court, he telegraphed, in this present case, to Cap- tain Walsh, of the Fourteenth precinct, who had then the rolator in bis custody, and that that relator was taken before Kennedy, and Kennedy said to Walsh, “Give me that man; unless J send him out of the county in haif an hour he wl be habeased.” And then Kennedy, in a towering Pata dragged the man from Walsh and said, “My orders are that this man be taken immediately out of the city.” The poor prisoner, Who was Dot the man asked for In the warrant, then sald to the Superintendent, “Let me be taken before a@ judge and { will show my innocence. I am not the partys wanted.’’ Upon this several police oMciais, Caprain Jourdan and others, told the Snperintendent that he had the wrong man. Notwithstanding all this, Superintend- ent Kennedy said, “1 dont care; process or no pro- cess, I shall have bim sent away.” 1 propose to show that this man (Crawford) was in the bullding ut the time the Superintendent received that writ, and if I show that Kennedy knew ot the existence of this writ and changed the place of custody of the Peta) why, then, Kennedy is clearly’ Mabie for con- mpt. Mr. Howe then catled as the first witness Captain Edward Walsh, of the 14th Precinct, who'‘deposed as jJoilows;—Had the prisoner in my custody on the 11th inst. under the name of John Crawford, in the four. teenth precinct station house; on the morning of ti 12th f reported that f had him in custody to Superin- tendent Jonn A. Kennedy; at nine o'clock on the morning of the 12th | received a telegram from the Central Office to “Bring the prisoner, Crawford, to this oMce fortwith,” signed John A. Kennedy; [ brought the prisoner to the Superintendent’s office at half-past nine o'clock; I inquired of the Superin- tendent the reason why he sent the telegram to me; he said he wanted the prisoner with the warrant: I asked him what it was for and asked nim Where ‘the Sheriff of the county was—Mr, Andrews; he said he was in the adjoining roow; he then sent for him and he came tn, and he told me to hand the prisoner over to Shert® Andrews, of Chautauqua county; I asked Mr. Kennedy if he would give me aome expla- nation and he said 1 had refused to surrender the prisoner that murning; | said that was a falsehood; he asked me if I was at the station house; told Lim was as [ had giept there during the might; the Sherif then said he did not make Application to me for the prisoner but to oue of my sergeants, Sergeant Christie, at a quarter before nine in the Fates my orders to the ser- ant were not to deliver the prisoner to anybody; told the Superintendent I directed the Sheritt to call at pine in the morning and | would take him bejore a police magistrate, as the jaw directs; he said, “Give the prisoner up;” I told him the wal rant had not been passed upon by any magistrate; he said, “I do not care; take your prisoner—take him ont of the county, or he will be habeased or atulen from you;’? 1 told him that the warrant called for one Luke Kagan, and that the prisoner was not Luke Eagan, which J would prove clearly to him by detectives McCord, Elder and Farley, and also by aptain Jourdan, that it was f mistaken identity; he said he did not care, and tn- sisted on the oMvers taking the prisoner away; ho then went out Of the offige and called in Sergeant Kelso, with officer Tully and snother officer, whose name I disremember now, and said, “Take that man away;" he told the Sheriff, ‘Tis is your prisoner, and taxe bim—take him ont of the county, and do not take him through Jersey;’ prisoner was then taken from my ‘custody Into the detec. tives? office by orders of the Superintendent; I think he remained in that office while I remained in the hall of the building, which was some half Cy hour, when he was taken out and placed in @ coach and faken away. ‘The witness was cross-examine! by Mr. Vander- Poel, but his direct testimony was sot shaken in the slightest particular. r. John BE. ¥. Doyie was next ¢xamined by Mr. Howe, but knew nothing of th@ iacts that were Bought to be elicited. Inspector George W. Dilks testifiid that he aid not see the prisoner at all and did not ‘ell, Mr. Doyle that the prisoner was in the building when the writ was gerved; he knew nothing about it except by report; Mr. Kenn ‘Was not in the office til that day. A Mr. McGrew was the next witness to be exam- ined, but in consequence of his adsence the further hearing of the case was adjourned to Monday next at twelve o'clock. THE BYRON SCANDAL. “Postacript to the Article on the Byron Mys- tery,” Recently Published in the London Quarterly Review. On November 5 we published from advance sheets of the London Quarterly Review & long article on the “Byron Mystery.” We give below a “postscript” on the same subject, also furnished us from advance sheets of the same magazine:— We certainly thought that the character of this review and the common courtesies of literature would have protected us irom the illiberal iusinua- tions that have been based on the opportune appear- ance-in our pages Lady Byran’s letters to Mra, Leigh. They do fit in admirably, but did it never oc- cur tothe critics, who affect surprise at the circum- stance, that this sort of finess is one ofthe ordinary results of truth? ‘The existence of these letters was known, and they were a frequent subject of conver- sation in metropolitan circles some weeks betore the appearance of our article. The originals are in legitimate and honorable custody, and their authen- tucity 18 guaranteed by two noblemen whose names oor ulated already) can be given if required. e original of the first letter, the undated one, was in our possession when we wrote, along with several other autograph letters of Lady Byron. The following document which appeared in an American newspaper, the Hartford Courant, on the 7th instant, did mot reach this country till after the publication of this number of the Quarterly Review:— To THE KyrITOR OF THE CouRaNT :— Mrs. Stowe desires the friends of justice and fair dealing to ublish for her this announcement that she has kept silent eretofore in regard to the criticisms on her article on Lady Byron for two reasons. Firat, because she regarded the pub- lic mind an in too excited a state to consider the matter dis passionately, and secondly, because sho bas expected the de- Volopments of additional proofs in England, some of which, of great importance, have already come to hsnd. Stowe is preparing a review of the whole matter, with further facts and more documents, including several leiters of Lady Byron f her mind at the in ra. own letter to Lady time, which were returned to her by the executors soon after that lady's death. She will also givethe ublic @ full account of the circumstances and reasons which jed her to feel it to be her duty to make this disclosure as an obligation alike of justice, gratitude and personal frlend- Ps As Dr. Johnson remarked on being told that a dull gentieman required time to become entertaining, “We can wail.” where is only one suggestion that we must press. It will be worse than useless to ac- cumulate more letters or reported statements of Lady Byron. There are too many of them already. They contradict, weaken, neutralize and discredit one another. They resemble @ tangied skein of silk ora regiment that has got ‘‘clubped”’ by bad hand. ling. What we require is eenfirmatory proof, of which hitherto there has been literally not a frag- ment or @ shred, while the evidence on the other side (comprising every sort of evidence of which the case admits) is clear, continuous, consistent and self-supporting. Conjectures and surmixes will be equally superfluous, As we have been grossly mis- represented and have a new fact or two to add we will brietly recall the essential points. Far from admitting (as stated by the Saturday Re- view) that the specified crime ‘was the substance of the famous communication to Dr. Lushington to 1816,’ the mclination of our opinion was and 1s de- cidedly the other way, notwithstanding the forcibie inference from his confirmed silence. The language of the ‘Remarks, we repeat, 1s all but decisive on this point. Lady Byron stated im 1830 (1) that the conduct of which she complained in 1816 was of a nature to be palliated or excused by insanity; (2) that all the facts were known to her when she arrived at Kirkby Mallory, although a part of them were kept back. Now the crime in ques- tion, in which two persons were concerned, could not te excused or patliated (if it could be ex- cused or palliated at all) by the insanity of one. No new light was or could be thrown upon the reserved facts, so far as they affected Mrs. Leigh, and 1 is Lady Byron’s unchanged demeanor to her sister-In- jaw that must be accounted for, as weil as her changed demeanor to her lord. Alter stating that on being convinced that the notion of insanity was an illusion, she no longer hesitated to adopt such measures as were necessary, “in order to secure me from ever again being place in his power’’—very significant words. Lady Byron continues: Pet aad to this resolution my father wrote to him (Lord Byron) on tne 2d of Feb- ruary (1816) to propo.e an amicable separation.’’ Then came a letter trom Mrs. Leigh, aud then tae decisive and most important letter of February 3, In which Lady byron speaks of “reasons witich will not only justiuly this measure but compeis me to take tt,’ obviously written after her final interview with Dr. Lushington,* and leaving no doubt at all that her mind was definitively made up. Then comes the letter of February 14, with its “Farewell | God bless you from the bottom of my heart,” which Buficientiy explains the pause in the correspondence, The conversations with Lady Anne Barnard, in which reny Eyre speaks in the same tone of con- fidence of Mrs, Leigh, bridge over another three months. In the foilowing boo heat A (1816) Lady Byron went to stay with Colonel and Mrs, Leigh at their place near Newmarket. Down to and includ. lng the period of Lord Byron’s last illness we und his sister the recognized medium of communication between Lady Byron and himseit. After stating (ante, p, 220) that Mr, Wilmot Horton disclaimed every charge named by Lord Broughton, we said:—‘We are not aware whether this specific charge We are now to her, attusting the vigor and sounan: yeriod referred ‘also Mra, Si fe was named among the rest,’’ able vo state pouively that the specific charge was named by Lord Broughton, and distinctiy dis. claimed by Mr. Wilmot Horton on betialf of Lady Byron. At the burning of the autobiography, Mrs, Leigh was represented by one or both of Lad Byron’s confidential friends, Mr. Wilmot Horton an Colonel (Sir Francis) Doyle. The publication of Moore's Life im 1830 led to as warm a@ controversy touching the cause or causes of the separation as has been provoked by Mrs, Beecher Stowe. Lady Byron leaded her own cause in ber “remarks; Thomas Vampbell warmly seconded her in the New Monthly, and among the pieces justificatives, figured jetiers from Mrs. Leigh and Mrs. Ulermont. Strange to say, ot So Much a4 an allusion to the charge in question isto be traced. Although certamly produced and brought under the noble poet’s notice before he lett England, it had fallen stillborn from contempt, If Lady Byron was openly to adopt it at all, why did she not do so while Colonel and Mrs. Leigh, Lord Broughton and Mr. Wilmot Horton were still living? What earthly (or heaventy) object was subsequently attained by the circulation Of so repulsive a story?’ Was it femi- nine, dignified, or charitable to run about repeating it to person afier person, mostly below her own rank in lie? She would not look at her husband’s story When (in 1820) he offered her the perusal of his Memoirs, ‘‘considering the pubiication or circula- tion of such a composition at any time as prejudicial to Ada’sgfuture happiness.” She had no such scruples, When he was dead and the Memoirs were burned, in publishing or circulating her own story. The problem which haply Mrs. Beecher Stowe may reaily help to solve 18, at what period Lady Byron first specitied the charge, and by what supposed evidence or mental process sho arrived at ity That, assuming her to have specified it in 1816, she did s9 under the influence of monomania, ts a theory of which we never so much as heard til we saw it attributed (by the Savurday Review) to our- selves—ou the strength of our havipg said, in refer. ence to her muitiform statements during the last ten or fifteen years of her life, that the most (or only) charitable hypothesis was insanity. Even as regards that period we did not say it was our hypothesis, and we must beg leave to suspend our opinion on the point, Enough for us to have demonstrated that whenever, or under whatever state of mind, she brought the accusation 11 Was false. There tg one particular In which all the published versions, including Mrs, Beecher Stowe’s, agree— namely, that Lady Byron declared the gutity connec- tion to be the cause of the separation; that she vir- tually, therefore, deciared it to be the suostance of her inal communication to Dr, Lushington, Yet before, during and long after the separation she continued to all outward seeming on # footing of affectionate confidence with Mrs, Leigh. The pas- Slonate entreaty vo remain in Piccadilly must have been a trap. We sre forbidden (by the Saturday Review), on Dr. Forbes Winslow's authority, to at- tribute her conduct to monomania. We are simul- taneously told that, whether we intended it or not, We have “raised an accusation of deliberate wicked- ness against Lady Byron which no person of coim- mon sense—iaying the matter of good feeling aside— can for &® moment entertain.” Thi is @ pleasing dilemma, recalling that of the juste muiieu rea soner:— “A. Hi fant monrir. B. Il taut vivre. ©. Il faut temir un juste milien.’* Here (on the hypothesis that Laay Byron spoke the trath to Mrs. Beecher Stowe and others, and did make the charge to Dr. Lushington) are two sistera- in-law living togother on terms of aifectionate cont dence, one of whom must have been guilty of the grossest treachery. It fs an outrage on common Kense and good feeling to assume, on any amount of evidence, that the one brought a false charge; it 1s quite Cousistent With both common sense and good feeling to assume, on no credible evidence at ail, that the other committed # revolting crime. Nor 18 this all. If we assume the charge to bo false, we wt all events clear Mra. Leigh, But if the charge Waa well founded, or even if Lady Byron believed it to be well rounded, we do not clear hei ‘She still tans self-convicted of @ prolonged cours of dyssimujatton and bypocrisy, Which is more |1ke! to taake angela weep than hail her a spotiess moe ber of weir choirs "The real turning point isnot her final interview with Dr, Lusbington, but ig mode of looking at Pb already known to har, The Settlement in Open Insurrection—The People Refuse to Assume the Dominien Yoke—The Indians Side with the Whites— Governor McDougall Stopped at the Fron tier. (Pembina, D. T. (Sept. 27), Cor ndence of the Yankton Dakotian. It now appears. that there will soon be very bree times near this frontier, and tt appears ag thoug the great rebellion, after being “crushed” in Dixie, ‘Was waited by the Southern breeze to the far North, and eg taken root in the British Red River Settle men You have doubtiess learned through the public press that some tine since the Hudson bay Company and the British government entered into an agree- ment whereby it is stipulated that the Dominion of Canada shall acquire certain rights and interests of said company in the Northwest Territory, or “Rupert’s Land,” upon the payment of the Domin- ton govprriatet te said gcompany of the sum of ‘The Dominion has accepted the terms and I under- stand has paid over the mache At any rate the Dominion fas appointed Mr. McDougall, a promt- nent Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest ,Territory, whose arrival here la duly expected. Pee Dominion government has aiso sent a number of surveyors, Who now (When not prevented by tae eo pla andy dndiene ) are townshipping and subdivid- @ public lan iy ane act of the Dominion Parliament the Liea- tenant Governor is to be assisted by a Legislative Council; but, mark you, said council ia to be ap- pointed by the Governor, And it appears that a fone of half-famished pets of the government are to yeaa soo Canada to act as law givers for the river The Red tiver Settlement has s popmation of from 16,000 to 20,000 souls—Indians not counted. The people have never been consulted with reference to thig transfer of government, and this attempt of Canada to gobble them has aroused almost unusual indignation in the British Red river country, ang the people are united in opposition to the Dommion government, The people demand the following guarantees:— 1, The right to elect their own Legislature, 2 That the Legislature shall have power to pass an. Pry of A - Rate. by a two-thirds vote, over the veto of the Executive. 3. No law of @ local nature to be binding unt) sanctioned by the Legislature. 4. Afree homestead and pre-emption law, 5. An Indian policy catculated to isure good will and quiet%n the territory. 6, Ali the executive, legislative, civil and milit expe! for given number of years, to be out of the Dominion Treasury. 7. An appropriation to be extended in the inter- nal improvements In the territory. After placing these guarantees beyond peradven- ture, then the proposition of annexation to the Do- minion to be submitted to a vote of the people. The people are fully organized, and a cece e GOV- eople are always armed and equipped, ornare will, on nis arrival, be forbid, and, if need prevented, the discharge of any of the functions his office, save that ot drawing lis pay from the Dominion Treasury. Before you ridicule the idea of 15,000 people defy- ing the great Canadian Dominion please take int consideration their geographical position and the fact of their being backed up by very powerful bands of Indian warriors. Suppose that the Dominion should attempt coer- cion, how 1s she tO get ap army into the Red river country ? Not nrough United States territory of course. Via Lake Superior, Lake of the Woods and through the marshes to Ked river would pot be thought of, much Jess attempted. The only route open wo them would be by ship to York Factory, on Hudson Bay, and thence 500 miles by way of canoes and numerous portages. By this route 1t will require over a year to trans- port one company and suppites, if indeed the entire command be not cut olf by the Indians before reach. ing Lake inne peg. ine people of the British Red river broke can with impunity defy any Power save that of the United Staves, their isolated and almost inaccessibie posisions rendering them quite independent of Canada at least. A delegation from the chiefs and head men of the British Chippewa indians have left the following let ter, to be handed to Governor McDougall on his arrival at Pembina:— ENGLISH TERRITORY, : Near Pemuina, D. T., Sept. 2, 1860, His Excellency, Governor MCDOUGALL:— Sin—the undersigned represent the Chippewa Indians, who own and occupy a large portion of the country known as the Hudson Bay Company Territory or Rupert's Land, We take the liberty to inform your Excellency, on your arrival on the international boundary line, and in the name of our people to request your Kx- cellency to remain a lew days at or near the Fort of the Hudson Bay Company ee Pembina), in order to afford our chiefs and old men an opportunity to meet your Excellency in General Council, that we may learn from you the intention of the government you represent respecting our people and our land, ‘We have heard that the sat Clases has pur- chased certain “interests” of the Hudson Bay Com- pany, but we have not been informed what those “interesta” are. Satd “interesta’’? could not have been lands, for the simple reason that said company (according to the statement of our old men) ob- tained from our peopie only the right to occupy for a time a certain district of Country on and near the Red river. : White men have been sent by’the government your Excellency represents, and have been dividing our territory into small lots, for the purpose, as we are told, of selling them to white men. And all this 43 being done without consulting us, without treaty stipulations, and as though these lands already be= Jong to your government. Hence we insist upon a general council and a full and satisfactory understanding before your Excel- jency, in the name of your government, assumes possession of this territory. Our people greatly prefer to malntain friendly rela- tions to your Excellency and the government you represent, and we well know that this can only be done by a thorough and amicable adjustinent of our respective rights by a written treaty. our pare Know that we have the rights, and we are united as one man in the determimauion to de- fend them at all hazards; and for tne sake of our people, a8 well as for the best interests of your Ex- cellency and the government you represent, we trust that our rights will be fully respected, and that we pe LS able %o extend to you the right hand of fel- jowship. On our own behalf, as well as the people we rep- proses we beg your Bxoellency will accept our indest regards, PIE-WASCH, CHA-WA-WE-ASH. From A id above you will perceive that “Lo the poor Intian” ls making demands that poor McDougall ts utterly unable to comply with, on account of his limited authority. And nothing short of avery liberal .government independence or ane = to the United States will satisfy the white people. {Pembina (Nov. 1) correspondence of the St. Paul Presa.) Military companies have been organized, and are at tus tine guarding all the roads and passes lead- ing to Fort Garry. The military commander, by letter, Warned Governor Mclougall, on his arrival at Pembina, not to pass the international boundary Ime. The Governor arrived here on the 30th ult, and entered his territory, but stopped, and still remains, at the Hudson Bay Company's fort, near the boundary, and sent lorward one of his party to feed of theenemy. Butl presume that he has been gob- bled, as he has not returned, ‘The Fort Garry mati has not got in this evening, and it 14 reported that before to-morrow morning an armed force will arrive at the Governor’s quar- ters ana compel him to recross the line into the United States, Governor McDougall has not yet been sworn into office, and, therefore, cannot issue an oficial pro- clamation calling upon those who have not yet taken sides to assist in putting down the rebellion, Governor McTavish and some of the heads of the Hudson Company have endeavored to maintain order, but failing in this, they attempted to organ- ize @ force in opposition to the people, and also fatled in that. You may expect startling news by tho next mall. The people seem really determined to secure their rights or fight to the bitter end. A St. Paul despatch of the 16th states that addi- tional letters irom Pembina, under date of November 3 and 4, confirm the report of the seriousness of the rebellion. It seems Governor McDougall remained over night of tae 2d at the Hudson Bay Na gee about two miles from the United States border, in the morning was notified by 500 rebels to le the British territory by nine o'clock, He deciiped to do 80, and at nine o’clock the rebels marched into the stockade and the Governor and party marched out in haste and betook themselves to United States territory, Where they remained, awaiting further developments. Jt if said Governor cDougall hag sent @ messenger overiand to the Dominion gov- ernment at Ovvawa for troops and munitions of war to enable him to obtain possession of his country. ‘The rebels are determined and unanimous, Const- dering the inaccessibiiity of the country, the near approach of winter and other obvious obstacles to Successiul military operations, the temporary suc. cess of the rebellion 18 not doubtful. Tne object of the uprising is opposition to being hitched to the Canadian confederation of the New Dominion and s determination on the part of the ple of the Hritish Ked River Settlement that they shall be allowed to remain an independent British colony, subject only to the home government of England. ‘The affair will probably result In war and bloodshed belore it 14 ended. The ladies and children of McDougall’s party are en route for St. Paul. Tre Weattny MEN OF PHILADELPHIA.—Tho fol- lowing 18 the lst of citizens of Philadelphia who returned for the past year taxable incomes of $50,000 and over:—H. 0, Gibson, $279,511; A. M. Moore, 109,963 Foil, $196,820; Gi. W. Childs, $168,195 pow , $149,506; Stepiien Morris,’ $116,058; ‘Tasker, Jf, $115,400; J. A. Brown, $112,826; Ke M. Paxsou ‘essate of Dr. Jayne), $53,656; Moore Phillips, $76,418; Richard Fickel, $66,422; Joseph Harrison, Jt., $65,015; F. L. Williams, $62,640; W. T, Carter, $62,598; GL. Rosengarien, $62,344; Willan Bucknell, $61,431; J. &. Wright, $61,250; B. W. Clark, $58,485; H. J. Morrts, $107,2 GO, GO. Harrison, $100,674; N. B, Farren, $101,784; William Massey, 84; 1B, HH. Bartel, $01,700; M. Weightman, 3,303; Jonn B, Varker, $86,912; 200; Bamuel Huston, $58,319; Clayton 67,895; J. KB. Thompson, $57,365 67,882; Honry U. Fox, $66,400; W. F. Leech, . Adamson, $66.900; Charles Spencer, 5 Jobo Hea Barton, $65,515; a. C. Marrlagn,'$64,000 J. B. Lipptnet rench, Samuel Welsh, 3665