The New-York Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1866, Page 4

4 A STARTLING DISCOVERY. We dare say that only those of our readers who are of an nm‘qvm;’mn tnrn bave given more than a passing thonght detho startling discovery recently made by Sigaor Newuno of tbe University of Bologna, over which all the learued Societies of Europo are just vow chattering 88 Doisily 85 the crows iu our Autumnal woods., Porhaps, indeed, some of our readers may never bave so much as heard of the discovery. And leet this should be the case, we make haste to lay before the world a full account ef the matter, for we oannot bear the thought that such a picee of intolli- gence should reach the American public through any journal but our own. This discovery is nothing less than the finding among the papyri of Pompeii, which Prof. Nessuno has for many years been engaged in investigating, & complote agcount of a tour taken by Herod the Great immediately after the Massacre of the Innocents, and, along with the account of the journey itself, what we should eall a full report of & speech which he made at one of the small towns in Judea, where he bad occa- sion to stop on his way, justifying the massacre, and throwing the whole blame ou the babies themseives. What he took this journey for is wpot very clear. There is something about a monument, or, perhaps, the original word is more cor- reotly translated * trophy, ¥ which was to be erected to sowe deceased general; Dut, whatever this may have been, it scems to have played 1o important part in the programme of the tour, for there is no allusion to it after the narrative ouce gets the party fairly started. It has been hinted that this may have been a monument to that great and good man, Julius Cresar, but we think there is nothing probable in this suggestion. Herod does not appear to bave cared mueh for Crsar, altbough he owed his advaneement direetly to him, Cresar baving appoiuted him military governor over Galilce, where he gave proof of energy and talent by suppressing a rehellion in that region and reducing the guerrillas to submis sion. DBat, no sooner had Cawsar been assassinated than Horod immediately took sides with Brutus and Cassiug, althongh for a time he concealed bis real sen- timents so well that he was Jong counted ove of An- tony's party. It was on this occasion that he ut- tered his famous maxim, * Treason must be made odious,” and indeed be denounced traitors g0 violent- Iy that his excessive zeal was a little deprecated; it was feared he might show himself too bloodthirsty Bat, he afterward explained that, what he had said was meant in what we ghould call a Pickwickian sense, and that when be said ** traitors,” he Jdid not mean his enemies, but his friends. Herod does not appear to have been an emiable person, if we may judge by numerons anecdotes that bave come down to us. He could not brook the slight- est opposition, and if anybody €aid a word he didn't like, Lo would fly abont, as the Greek proverh says, “ like a parched pea.” He was of a cowardly dispo- sition, too, as cruel people are apt to be, and was constantly in dread of being assassinated, o that, if he saw one of his chief officers fingering his sword or toying with bis dagger, he would tremble ard grow pale; but, as soon as he found himse!f in a safe place, he would dance about in a rage, and call the offender oawes, and behave in such an unscemly way that his wise men, or those who stood for such, were continu~ ally ashamed for bim. Our readers do not need to be told in detail of the mad act of cruelty and cowardice which stained the close of Herod’s mean life. The massacre of the In- nocents was hardly over when be took the trip alluded to, accompanied by some of the chief men of his king- dom; the old minister before mentioned, the general who commanded his army, the eaptain of hisfleet, the keeper of bis treasure, and a crowd of insignificant hangers-on, parasites aud flatterers who pretended to think bim very wise aud great while they drank his wine, ate bis dinners and laughed at him in their sleeves. The massacre of the Innocents had roused the peo- ple of Judea to an unimagived fary. In their wild in- dignation they had charged Herod with personally assisting in the murders, aud when it was proved that he really was many miles away, they insisted that he had given orders to bis military commanderin Bethle- hem not to interfere with the soldiers. It bappened that the officer in question was not a Roman, but a Judean, and the people had great confidence in bim, and when Herod made a proclamation to the effect that this officer had justified the massacre, and bad #aid that the Tunocents were entirely to blame, a number of hot-headed, unreasonable fellows stirred up the people to give the tetrarch the lie dircct. Especially, there was one Tribune of the people that wade suca a stir day and night, in season and out of ecason, that at last the bloody Herod was fairly wor- | ried into telling the trath and owning up that 8. | Heridanus, which was the name of the officer, had | eaid exactly the contrary of what had begn ascribed to him. Our reader may imagine that all this only | made matters worse, and Herod bad not got far out of ‘Jerusalem on his tour when he began to hear the muttering of the storm. For a full account of his progress we refer our readers to Prof. Nessuno's translation of the original dooument when it shall appear; but we must content ourselves with a single passage. Herod, be- fore he started on his journey, beside laying in a plentifal stock of the best liquors, bad also provided himself with & epeech which he bad first written and then committed to memory; for, being an ignorant, uncultivated person, he never could trust himself to speak impromptu, his grammar being none of the best, his ideas ludicrously incoherent, and the slight- est sign of disrespect in bis audience, an ill-concealed grin, mock applause, seraping of feet, cat-calling, or NEW-YORK DAILY TRI'BUNE, HA"I'URDAY. NOVEMB]!R 3, 1866. turns and nothing long. T began life in a small, low way, but honors and dignities climbed onto my brow, and Ifilled first one office, and then another until I bad sat in the gubernatorial cheer, and at length bocame totrarch, which fills the cup of my ambition and leaves me setiated with glory. It makes me mad to hear & demoralized and subsidized mob a bollerin out wherever I go: “Xow about them babies ! that them Innocentsas you call ‘em was a poor, foeble, insignificant, contemptible band of fanatics who was engaged in a gigantic scheme to rend my tetrarchy in pieces and blot out the stars from the imperial banner. They was a utterly powerless band of infuriated mad- men, and the fact that they was only two yeare old and under, made their erimo more heinons and How about them babies!” Let mo tell you abominable. It was well known that I bad forbid playing in tho market place, and yet these innocents cawe into the market place with penny whistles and flags a flying, and with such defyin’ airs, that it could not be stood, and their mothers actcally had the brass to lavgh at 'em and cheer 'em on, Who my friends bas suffered more from these babes than Ihave? I have eounded ail the depths of honor, I have setin the gub— At this moment, continues the manuseript, a ecene of terrible confusion oceurred. The people refused to bear the tetrarch any more, and began to curse him up and down without ceremony, to jeer him and insult him in every way. The air was darkened witha shower of sficks and stoncs, eggs of every degree of stalencss added their perfume to the violet of his im- perial robes, while the dead hodies of the smaller ani- nals and vermin of the district were burled without cessation, and with the most unerring aim, at hisvene- rable head. Ove young Jew hurled a dead duck at him, another made a missile of a coney, a creature which, though it is cxprt-ul( stated in the Bible to be- long to a fecble folk, proved on this occasion unplea- santly strong. Itis not recorded that atetrach wasever 20 nbused before. Herod seems to have been utterly un- able to defond himself against the storm, and at last gave it up, retreating from the platform amid a whirl- wind of jeers, threats, derisive cries and voices that re- peated unceasingly * How about the babies!™ until the wretched tetrareh was nearly mad with rage aod terror. Not long after his return to Jerusalem— and his friends hustled him back to the Capitol without ccremony — he was so weighed upon with remorse and mortification that he is actu- ally said to have held his tongue for & month, whereas be bad always been remarkable for the profuseness of bis specch, aud bad never been known to go more than 24 hours without talking about himself. But the sequel was, that the Innoconts were well avenged. This awful massacre, which was as much his crime as if he had personally assisted at it, pursued him like an avenging and l'l'f(‘ufl"n fury. He coald not excuse himself to himself, any more than he could to the cople, and kistory records thut to his dying day he card the scream of these iunocent martyrs to his selfish and infernal poliey, ringing in bis ears whether he waked or slept. When he would drink wine, he turned from it with Joathing, for it crawled in the cup like corrupted blood; when be would eat meat, the body of a stark and bloody infant lay in the dish, He could no more wash the guilt of that wholesale mur- der from bis soul than Charles the Ninth could the scepes of St. Bartholomew, or than, in his seeret chawber, Andrew Johuson can the massacre of New- Orleans,w I:;chlw first encouraged, and then applanded ELECTION INTELLIG i MINNESOTA. We give below an exhibit of the vote in the Con- gressional Districts in the State of Minuesota ince 1860 There have been no canses operating in either of the Districts since 1864 which would tend to change the relative force of the partics, while the questions of National politics have greatly etrengtloned the Re- publicans: FIEST DISTEICT. wion indom ran ng m ran s Chattickd. In 1 3. Tn 1860 Al against Culle It will be geen from U majority in the Ist Distri 6,000, while in the 11d District it is between 2,000 and nelly ran ngainst Gilman, above that the usual Union isin the neighborhood of $,060. Windom and Donnelly bave been renominated by the Republicans, and will undoubtedly Lo returned with undiminished majoritics. i i ARIZONA. Tho general election was beld bereon Sept. 5. Coles Bashtord, Charles . Poston, and Samuel Adams, all professing Union rentiments, were candidates for dels egate. The issue appears to have been upon the Ter- ritorial administration. According to the returns so far received, Bashford, a wann supporter of Gov. McCormick, is elected by a majority of several hund- d. The Miner of Sept, 12 bas the following: ampai b sentation, the personaliti wud Bashford's unpopulisit a Counity—this is u triumph of Whica we mog be pi which onr people wown nnd popular north of the ( been beaten three to one. Lis defeat, ¢ he will shake tho dust from hifs feet anc not only o well deserved rebule be nupecessarily made with th ce. With s, Poston would have which we pr Territory, is onal s Tnor, it is & vindic of of contidence in his admin lines were drawn in but one county (Yara- pai), where the Democratic ticket was successful by a small majority. Members of both branches of the Legislature were elected throughout the Territory. ———— ALABAMA. P. H. Brittan of Rossell, M. Paul of Talladega, and Wm. H. Ogden of Montgomery, are aunounced as candidates for Secretary of State in Alabama. The election takes place during the ensuing session of the Legislatare. Mr, Brittan was the Rebel Secretary at the time of the collapse of the Confederacy, and is warmly trged for the position. His competitors, like Limself, were active Rebels during the war. ———g— NEVADA. The Republican party in Nevada has_renominated Gov. H. G. Blasdel and Congressman D. R. Ashley —Doth deserved tributes to faithful officers, The De- mocracy and Jobnson office-holders bave nominated John D. Winters for Governor, and a Mr. Sumner is an independent candidate for Congrese. The popu- larity of the Republican candidates and the unpopu- any such little eccentricities on the part of the sudi- ence acting upon him like 8 red rag on abull, and making him rush about on the platform, dash bis crown off his head, and beat the nearest bystander with his scepter. Therefore Herod had his epeech prepared beforeband, and if Prof. Nessuno has trans- | lated it literally, it must have been really comic in its effect. He is reckoned to have stopped in all at some sixty or & hundred places before be got back to Jerusalem, and at every oneof these places, ho de- livered the same speech, the only exception being the one we are about to mention. It heppened that 1lerod came to a certain large town, whose name is yot as clear in the manuscript as it might be, and ulter dinner & large crowd came about the caravan. « »ray where he was stopping and called for a speech, 71 he Liad just begun to peg away at the old ent-and- «.‘ed affair that hdd served his turn so far, when ho a3 interrupted by an ill-mannered fellow who cried vut. *How about them babies?” Herod immediately grew red in the face, made a grab at bis crown, and was about to burl it at the saucy fellow, when his wary old adviser, Servius Var. dius, adroitly canght ir, and, to put itout of barm’s way, clapped it on his own bead. Herod was in such a state of rage that for & few v inutes he was quite incoberent, but at length he managcd to speak. Here we quote Prof, Nesguno's delightfully (rce aud naife rendering as lit- erally as we can iuto corresponding English ideas. It must be remembercd that Herod was not s Roman by birth, but was a barbarian, and hed po advantages of education or of society until his accidental slevation to the tetrarchy, which will account for a certain rowdy air is spoeches have: ** You'd . better ack about them babies! If yer knew more about babies in general, and thess yer babies in particular, you'd never ask such questions, I reckon. Who, I should like to know, 8as suffored more from babies than I hev? Who bas up with more from 'em than I hev? I didn't those yer babies; they killed theirselves; aud if 1 4id kil "om, I hiad to do it, else they uns would have Rilled wo uns. As for we I hev sounded all the depths of bonor, and my ambition is grati- fiod to repletion. [ have been evervthing by larity of their opposition insure an easy victory for the former. it il OREGON. THE U. 8. SENATOR ELECT. On Saturday, the 29th of Septeinber, both branches of the Oregon Legislature,in Joint Convention, elected Henry W. Corbett United States 3enator, The final Vote was as follows: Corbett, 38; Nesmith, 4; Smith, 14; Prim, D., 7; Kelly, 5; Whiteaker, 1. The Pres- ident of the Senate then announced the resnlt: whole number of votes, 69; necessary to a choice, 35; and that Henry W. Corbett, having received a majority of the whole number, was duly elected Senator from the State of Oregon for the full term, begivning the 4th of March, 1867, : H In a speech to a_public meeting in Portland, Ore- on, on the 1st of October, Mr. Corbett thus defined is position on the question of reconstruction: Long did we wait, anxiously did we look and wish for a plan that alould meet with oug spproval for the restoration of those States, with all their poltical rights, with safety to the Gov- ernment, justice to them, and that should promise future pros- perity to those fertile fields that bave boen laid waste by rainy, enarchy and the desolating Land of war. In the Constifutionsl Amendment submitted 10 the States by the presect Congress, I sce embodicd all thore guaranties and udjustments that will give security and perpetuity to the Union and equal justice to all. |Long-continued spplause.) To that amendment I have given my hearty and unqualified support. [Applause.] 1 feel tkat great and fearful responsibility rests Upon the man who s 10 #it In the councils of the nation for the next elx years, during which time we bope once more for & true and permanent Cnion, the stubility of the Goverument, sud, vnder r, rosperity at home and wholesome respect abroad. Ar B s Uiiecessary st 1his time 1o explain more ully my position, where I aim #0 well known os at my own bome, where I bave always contended for the Union, the whole Union, and nothing lees (loud and long applause), for in it, and wnder the graceful folds of our flag, we are safe Something is due to the foml and brave men that fought our battles during that unkoly Rebellion, and I should preve recre- ant 1o the trust im on me, and all my past life, did 1 not ask some security for the future, some aionement for the deso- lute hearthe made vacant by this unjust and unwarranted Re- bellion. Whatever I may do, my fellow-citizens, in this matter, rest assured there is an bonest FWM 0 sccomplish the best results and to secure us against any similar calamity. [Ap- plause.) We are now fast muun! the garb of pesce. Tg’o soldier Is now -smly watching with snzious eye each clot that rises in the distant Soutk, to know if it betokeus evil. Now and bereafter every tative will be to strict account for the manner io wi discharg soflnl trust committed tobis care. T claim there ng uwm-qru of the Government, uden to the being and good order of wcmy.' s ;lcll o from inder ch which | FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. PESCSET LONDON. TORY CONCESSION TO LANDLORDS—SIR FUGH CAIRNTES'S ACCKPTANCE OF THE LORD JUSTICESHIP—THE PROMISED REFORM BILL—VISIT OF MEMBERS OF THE LATE LIBERAL CABINET AT ROME—FATAL ACCIDENT ON MONT BLANC—TRADES' UNION OUT- RAGE—SABBATI OBSERVANCE—PROSECUTION OF GOV. EYRE—THE PAMINE IN INDIA. T Our Specisl C. rrespondent. b 9 Losnox, October %, 1866, The eyes of T. B. Potter, M. P., and other fiercer bators of the Tories among onr politicians must have gleamed— 1 should thivk Mr, Gladstone even in his present forgiving framo of mind must have folt & sensation of trivmph—at reading o short paragraph which has just been going the round of well-informed journals, to tho cfect that *“the Lords of the Treasury have authorized the Commissioners of Inland Revenuoe to allow to landlords the proportionate amounts paid by them for cattle-plague rates, and also to make similar allowances in respect of any abatement of ront gaanted in consideration of (he loss of the tenunt from the cattle-plague.” If this be true, it is playing the unjust steward with & vengeance, But the Tories aro bunglers compared to their great prototype in this mavenver; they are indeed making friends of the mammon of unrighteons- noss while they yet hold the mational purse strings, but that it will make their habitations everlasting, is, T should think, scarcely what they thomsclves look for. One can't help suspecting that they are beginning to despair of making a fight next sossion, for the clever men who lead them must bo well aware of the impression which the cattle-plague debates of the beginning of last sossion, and the heavy-hoofed way in which the squires carried their unjust megsure, made upon all moderato o order-loviug people. I scarcely think Lord Derby could Fave played o worse card thau this of identifying himself moro and more with the squirearchy, and so awskening these memories. Sir Hugh Cairnes’s acceptance of tho post of one of the Loid's Justiceships of the Court of Chancery, is looked upon a8 another sign that the Tory Government is a fall- ing house. It is splendid position for & man of 47, cer- tainly; and his hoalth hias been sadly delicate for some years past; but ho would scarcely bavo left such a posi- tion as the Attorney-Generalship, with the certainty of the woolsack in the next Conservative or parti-colored Government, had he felt that his colleagues wore reason- ably firmly scated in office. It is true that his acceptanco of tho Justiceship does not precludo bis sdvancemont to the Chancellorship hereafter; but be will come to tho bighest dignity of the profession with less prestige should be ever roach it; and there is always the risk of his suc- cessor turning out o first rato Attorney-General, aud 80 su- perseding his claims, The mystery about the Government's intention on Re- form continues, and Lord Malmesbury, 8 sort of dipiomatic _irs. Nickleby, has beon mincing and pratling at a groat agricultural meeting, in & way to provoke the laughter of his foes and the ma edictions of bis friends, as ho speaks with the authority of a cabivet minister. Ifho is asked whether they will bring in a bill, he shall svswer in the negative of course, feeling bimself in the position of & gentleman who is asked whether a young Iady is in love with him, &e., &c. We all know that they will try a bill, aud I confess to a malicious desirs to seo Lord Cran- bourne and the country party eating their leak next year on and behind the Trossury benches. Meantime, the Radicals are urging more explicitly that o &l sball be accepted at their bands, and it is said that this is done with the approval of the leaders of the late Liberal Cabi- et i These gentlemen are to have their caucus at Rome after all this Winter, to sce the Prench march out and the Span- jards (so the last news from the Peninsnla informs us) b in, and to witness the last shifts of poor old Pius Lord Russell, however, will go to Vetice for his re- if bie leavos England, os Rowe does not agree with ce bim. We have news of the thind futal aeci in Switzerland this year. Capt. Arksright, sid-de-cainp to the Lord Licutenant of Licland, bas boen lost, with two guides, in ho ou Moat Blase. The most distressing part y is that his sister was weiting for bim balf way rands Mulets. Those Alp-climbing propensitics xercise bas furnished the the energy of & largo cluss 11 not indulge in cur ficld sports as But it is a heavy price pay for hope of recovering the ¢ former adventu ho were silne came out 4t the foot of a glacicr bodies. Those of sou ilarly lost in 1804, ou yéar. The Liberal party, and indeed all truo men, have to rn over another bad Trades Union outrage at Notting- . A workman who lad ¢ into the town duriug & striko in the bulding trade and had acceptea work, was sot pon by three mie biackened faces in his own house, and “beaton pearly t Others, I fear, bave been badly injured. is, following so soen on the Bhef- field blowing-up case, has roused a deep feeling of indig- nation in the country. and distrust in the pr fussions of the leaders of the trades of their desire to stop all such doings. condemned in atrong terms the eowardly seoundrels who bave thus brought renewed diseredit ou their whole elaas, but the good effect of this demonstration iy neutralize by the letter of the Secretary of oue of the most jmport | aut Unions, refusing to suberibo to the fund for compen | wan, aud maintaiviog that non-union- eives 1o blame, and may consider it escape such ponnltics ot the hands of ades. These doctrines, openly avowed n w & qu , will weight heavily tho advocates of & xtenmion of the franchise in the next debat time that partnerships of Industry should muke w in our workshops and mines and m tories. Tho reports of your National Labor circulating in 7he Commonwealth, The Beehive, workingmen's papers bere, and we niny look for an ef hour's movement short tlie present cowp tions between capitalists In another branch of social movement there are of returning eanity. For years the Nati League aud the Lord's-Day-Society have been intcenecine war, the objects of both being to ol day of rest for the peojle, though their definitions of rest uré 80 autogonistic that they Luve spent three parts of their availatle power in abusing and thwarting each other. The subject of ‘the Sunday question was to have been dis- cussed at the late Church Congress at York, but it scems that the Archbishop and the Committee took the subj from the Rev. W. Dowding (s member of the Sunday League), placed itin the hands of the Bishop of Ripon (s vel Sabbatarian), and named s speakers ouly clergymen of the rigid Evangelical party, The Sunday League, while resenting this little game, has apparently come toits senses, and is ready to let by-gones be by- gones and to endeavor to _come a0 understanding with their adversaries. ' 8o at least I read the aunouncement that the Council of the League are trying to bring abont a conferenco ot Exeter Hall or elsewhero -ug Lord Shaftesbury, Mr. Baines, the Revs. Newman Hall and Spur geon, and other leading men of the other side, with a view to en armistice and united action. If they can unito there will be 1o great ditficulty in passing a Sunday trading bill, which is much wanted, the old Act of Charles I1. under which we are still mudaling on having become not ouly obsolete, but mischievous. Its provisions, indeed, ore ludicmunls inapplicable to our time, and aro conse- quently & dead lotter; and evory statute in this category Dbecomes of course o Linderauce to all improvement, sud & nuisance, Gov. Eyre will undoubtedly be tried. The appeal of the Jamaics Committee is being well answered, upward of £4,000 having been already subscrived. Mr. Cole- ridge, the Member for Exeter ) Slop v by the Committeo to lead the case and will do it admirably, sod Mr. Stephen his junior, the son of the late Sir James Ste- ben, is the best man who could have been found at our r for the purpese. The Eyie Defense Committee, mean- time, have raised about the same suin, but it is not known yet who is to conduct their case. Camirnes is now, of course, out of the ?uu!mn. The Jonger one Ifves the more strongly does the convic- tion force itself home o him that, after all, the radical difference betwoen men—that which goes to the very root of their possibility for usefuluess in a world which has drifted provokingly out of the course marked out for “fi“ many good folks believe, before the knowledge of evil had mastered our first parents—is their readiness accept to re- sponsibility in whatever form it may meet them. It is Lumiliating to find how few men can bear the test when it takes io any new -h-go. This last week we have bad news of the crisis which haa long been looked for in Indis. The famine in Oressa has taken fearful proportions, and our people are dying by thousands of starvation. Our Viceray is one of the ablest and strongest Englishmen now living. He bas spent his life in Indis, knows snd loves the people well, and has, for all practical purposes, the undisputed command of & revenue of some Jfly millions & year. In the deluge of the Indian rebellion as Governor of the Punjaub, he gave proofs of nerve and energy which carried him to the first place in our Eastern empire in spite of his want of aristocratic connections at homo. No one doubts that if thege Lad been a revolt in Oreses he would have had an army thero by this time which would have ewept the conutry; buta famine comes, and Sir John Lawrence can ouly 'telegraph bome for iustruetions to the Secretary for India in Council. The cry of the much-enduring ‘Hosea Bigelow in the dark days of your Rebeliion, comes home to us s we read the great pro-con- sul's 8 peal for advice: + Here's hell broke loose, and wi With the whole unives u:::.',' ¥ ‘While Senator this and Gov'ner that, Are squabblin’, for the garden jngia’." Lord Cranborne, much to bis eredit, has ered ‘*spend whatever is necessary to keep the shaken many me ir outraged co b I 1t is true that the Sheffield trades have met, and | (ALEEE: S e summary of news from your side at regular interva) Meantinie we can only hope that no nows is good pew T ———r— PARIS. THE SEPTEMBER FLOOBS—SPIRITUAL INTERPRETATION OF THE CALAMITY—MONSEIGNEUR DUPANLOUP'S PASTORIAL AND CHURCH INFLUESOR—OONTRIBU- TIONS FOR SUFPRRERS PROM THE FRESHET—SICK- NESS OF TITE PEMALE SINGFR, THERESA—A. THOU- VENEL'S DEATH—THR PRINCESS CHARLOTTE— HEALTH OF THE mllol—_TlOWWUl STATE OF TOINGS IN SPAIN. ¥row Our Special Correspondent. Pars, October 19, 1866, The sky is dull, the weather drizaly, the streets dirty. (o o, lot this letter be doleful. Sad themes aro ploaty. I am ofruid T was mistaken in saying of the Beptember floods this year that they were not so disastrous as those of 1856, Tho hasmn they have done has by this time beea well looked into and makes a very ugly sbow. Xhe mato- rial dsmage dono is approximately estimated at eighty millions franes. In some cases tho soil has been washed away, in other and moro cascs, fertilo acres bave been covered with & thick coat of sterile sand and gravel. In the valley towns and villages the distress of the inundated poor, washed out of house and shop, isverygreat. Worldly minded observers attributo thoe clearing away of the hill woodlands, as the chief ceuse of these terrible floods, Notoworthy facts and opinions in support of this view vou will find quoted 1n_that entertaining olio, Mixis ** ( P. Marsh's *“ Man and Nature.”” Tho attention of Govern- mont, provoked by the floods of 1856, has sinee been specially turned to the rewooding of the hill districts, snd o good deal of planting work has been dono in the last ton yonrs, But the gronad to be covered is immense; admin- istrative proccsses aro something slow, and Dame Nature, with the proper spirit of her sex, will not even by an Em- peror's vengence bo compelled to grow her trees faster than she likes. In tho record of old time, when the hill coun- {ries wore tho great rivers of k rance and their afuonts had their sources wore well wooded, b ny of these freshets were recorded. It is only in the late centuries that we hear of them, at first at jong intervals; but the intervals bemf briefor as the carcless cutting has gone on, and the inundations being moro and more harmful—notably, sinco the division of I mong the small eultivating proprietors after the Great Revolution of 1789, ef seq. Mention of which eventful date reminds me to notice thet certain spiritually minded observers in France habit- ua ly atiribute to that Revolution its direct murquunoe.‘ and cognates all large sized material calummities that befall their fellow men, [Thus,in a pastoral form, the pen of tho ominent and eloquent Bishop of Orlcans, M. Dupan- loup, written for the speeial purpose of stimulating the charity of the well to do of Lis flock in favor of the poor sufferrs by the lato freshots, the reader is assured that the freabot was p-nlfv owing to & semi-sciertific-literary- social-congress, hefd at Liege last year, to the m 'yuduv- mances of certain free-mason lodges, and *‘sich.” The scourge of grasshoppers in Algeria, the German war with its bloodletting, the cholera und continuous bad weather of the pest Sumuier, have all been accounted for in episcopal, pastorsl and religious newspaper columns, in & similar »dsnapistic way. Highly inteligent, cultivated, doubt- oss sincere men, grave leaders of & {orm\dnhi,v lu?n politico-social-religious party in Frauce, do coustantly preach, and, 8o fur as they cau practice upon this podsnup- ish hypotbesis, that they kuow tho desigus of God are let in advauce into what are, to the rest of mortals, the scerets of an *unsermpulous providence.” A wasting army of grasshoppers is sent to ume the scaut crops of thousands of miscrable Algerians; a great flood is sent to drench out of house and home thousands of poor pess- autsand artisaus in the Loire valley; the cholera is sent to dispense death and greater misery in the wretched lodgings of tho ill-fed, half-washed, b f-aired poor of the great citi ear, with its horrors, is sent 1o kill myriads of soldiers who were driven to the fight of which they don't understand the cause—for why 1 Intellizent, culti- vated, rational men assuro us that it'is to punish the world at large because & quite other set than this suffering com- mon mass, living for the most part in comfortable enfla . is world's goods, write nnughl‘y books, Lold fi 's lodges, and, above all, don'§ preservo tle Tope's temwporal throne, And these intelligent, otherwise rational and polite gentlomen, assert their interprotation of the mystery of the world's government with a tone of which the confidence is ouly equalcd by its gross, abusive violence, Mongeignenr Dupauloup's pastoral pamphlet, for the moment, 18 attracting here rather more attention than is usually paid by the general public to specimens of this sort of literature, partly becanse the writer, who is one of the most eminent of French bishops for intelleet and ¢to- (uence, 15 among the comparatively liberal ones—las wore ai onee shown Limself a man of this century and vot the middle ages—and partly because thers is no fresh engrossing topie of talk at haud. A8 a specimen, and on tt whole & favorable one of its kind, it is very well worth wore than the passing attention of such of your readers as are watchfully following o study of French “manuers and custom of the current of French history with f ng its drift, so a8 ot to bo taken Ly stupid sarpriso at ils next revolutionary “Lesh,” For, whatever an b ical, freo thiking, gn\ulm‘qu breeding yeader of THE TRILUNE may think of the philosophy, or the eharity, or tho logie of this pastoral letter, he stiould in style, but & the whole, an unusually well-written, mild s literature to whose volume the editors of three Paris daily and numerou nuls are constautly con ing. And your pursuant studont is to kecp io mind—what, for wnoment's retiection will make evident to him--that this | constautly rolling volu of such literature must have & recipient multitude of swallowers, else it must cease, pply can't continuously overrun demand. W Podsnappery, or the Heaven-daring assumption of wouan, ck ks | to confound what is © oi with & colored litho- yrv-,}.h of the Desicns of Providence, is, ulas! no spe of the French Catholic party. But the theory and p tice of it hero in France is tho specialty of » disciplived, policed, one-purposed, religio-politico” sociad o leaders furnish the provideniial *‘srticle,” v patented, stamped und_ticketed to o great rerch folks who, rejecting all imitations, coufidingly gavo en wllow it for t A witly scatence I8 attributed to Heury Hewe, the su of whicl is thut P dent for the Paris is the brain of France, and you f the “opinion” cf & m s of tho Fronehi public opinion of the promises, afficient elewent of truth to salt and keep 1 v legs puradox haw o ita it brif to cover the w Paris, that is talk or the most part laughs at Mol r Dupanloup’s pastoral. Four- }Illhn of the women of P’aria, 8o far as they look at such things atall, don't laugh st it. Nine-tenths of Freuch women, so far us they read Episcopal pastorsls, or go to heur sermous at all, don't laugh, And thoese that do laugh from the teeth outward, breathe inwardly. As s general rule, children, upto the age of their first communion, are brought up under wowanly and prestly ioflucnces. From 15 to 50 they cast thew ande. They are apt to recur to them in advancea ago. Nive oltarians’ out 0f 20, many & wife out of & conventual school or out of & ue, whose discipline is modeled on the convent have thoir children educated under pricatly influence, and at deathebed time ask for o priest to light them out of this world through the church 3 Very grave then in ull , and, among others, in the political way, is this chureh intluouce. It bolds aud ly rules the mass of Frenchmen at the ends of lives. It holds most strongly outside Paris und the great cities. 8o far us the Church party it has an advantage over oth similar to that which the Southern party had over others in the United States be- fore 1860, As to details and {mcauel, it i iable, flex- ible, pliable; but it holds with highest constaucy to one purpose. The leaders have in turn adhered to and ac- elammed in turn, Bourbon royalty, younger branch royalty, Republic, Empire. Yeomin's service they rendered, for assured recompense, to the remlnuonm:x‘f Prince Presi- dent in 1851-52, without which the coup d'efat had_been » fuilure, and the new Empire impossible. Up to 1850 the nllisnce, with great mutual bene u8 preserved. Since the Italian campaign there has been a more or less open rupture. In respect of no other of the many ** questions” for the solution of which Nn{xolvon'l great intelligence has been put to torture, has bis Majesty's brain power been o hardly strained as in respect to this: *‘ How keop step with the progress of this modorn time, and keep the Te! o Church party with meas an suxiliary, but nos w vided com: " That now is, underlying all others, the crucial question for his invalid Majesty. (And now, please oxcuse my jumping—the solution of that question lies mainly “in the solution of the seemingly quite different, really most intimately connected otber question: * How safely, to mo and my dynast wodify, in a liberal seuse, the existing law on the press The actual law on the presc, its curious workings, and the sctugd condition of the French newspaper press, political and ather, are, 80 to speak, the key subjects of study for any ope seriously interestod in an attempt to divine what the rnunt shows what the next future of French history will produce.] To get back to our freshets. Very sad work thoy have done, as 1 said; and very good work priests as "ul'“ others have dene in chantable counteracting work. “I'he Tours_is housing and feeding some hand- s drenched flock. Dupanloup’s pastoral appeal is already uin, fold and silver auswers from the un- wotted wonlthy of his fold. Noris it only the rich who ive from théir abundance, The national subscription, fi-dod two weoks ago by the Emperor and his miuisters with pretty pei u:fi‘u on the handsome salarics they draw from the national treasury, already sums up about ::o,oaobmn ’l"hn"lln-mr this mnling lu;:ec g ;}ll:; eet, four great folio pages, every column closel .mmmfl«nmflfiv naues and the amount of their contribution. And here note in becomi ml' nence 8 commendable French natioval trait—the mure pmuun&d 1 should u& with these under the iron heel o despot,” of ?nll‘l,, among us Tent error. ireotly a political party, moderstely proud and uncomumon ‘ happy, democratical'y free Columbians. ~The ric banker's ©ame with bis appended hundreds (the thoussnds which I would have written, ars too raro to be charsoteristic) bas no bettor place or bigger I{pflhu the charitable widow and her mite, Thero are, in the lonf lists consigned to immortality in the official thousands of humble names recordod fossional eatate and fractional gift attached, in equal fimfi bigh-titled officials sad this from bundceds of similag (astancos in the 25 ~TRIPLE SHEET. close-printed columns of to day's Monitenr: * Mme. Venre Bawdet, Marchande des quatre Saisons, 25¢.,” i. ¢, the Widow Batdet, vogetable costermonger, five cents. "The or Widow Laudet goes from early worning till night, rundliug about in_the streets where she is ljecued‘ o trade, a loavy hand-cart laden with the vegetables of tho season; srains, bosides, a voice long sgo spoiled for foney , with the howling advertisement to housc-keepers goods; undergoos @ fight with each purchager for the disputed price of the buuch of carrots or head of eab- baze, or what not, and at the end of the day levies on her ocket, not more thai four of five francs fullor for all the ard day's work, & churity-tax of five sous for the drowned- out folks in the provinces, This is well in the Widow Daudet; and woll, it seems to me, in the solemn officiul Monateur of the Empire to grant the decd and doer s ltle serap of historical docnment. 1t is cheerful to think of as an essentiolly mationally characteristio trait, this. Does The National Intelligencer, or Congressional Globe, ot any other monumental sheet, cncounr the pensive tide- waiter or humble department clerk, as ho pays bis little tax to protect our President from the flood of votes that s rising agninst him, with the assurance of hope that his postority may look up their father’s vame in the Lonorable legion of friends of the unfortunate ? Meditation ou the which dolefolness brings rour corre- spondent back to the promised sad note of this lotter. Theross is sick. Theresa, the great sivging woman, alto in voice, broad . song, wsimo in illustrative estuge. Somo of the littie chroniclers bave entitled her the * Patti of the muititude,” and charitable French ej preeiation finds the title witty, It surely is not speciall apt, secing that this quaintly howliug creature has been for two Winters the applaudcd vocalist of high fashionable saloons, and Lag becn: honored with approbation and gift Jowelry fiom Napoleon 111, of Frauce. She mainly re- sowbles Patti in this, that she earns asmuch by toe setting off indecent songs with her singular vice and in- decen &unuu as Patti does by interpreting the first roles of the best Italian operas. But it is & sad topic of gen- eral town talk that this prima beldame of the Alcaza ninst keep silent for & month, and go southward for the healing of her brazen throat, M. Thouvenel dicd yesterday at the Luxemburg Pulace. Tlo was ono of the serviceable ministers of Napoleon, hay- ing fiiled the post of Minister to Constantinople, of Mimn- ister of Foreizn Affaus and lesser offices with distin- guished ability, Reports from Miramar, none of them hostile to the suf- foring lady there, agres, despite some variation in phrase, in representing tho case of Princess Charlotte a8 nearly hopeless, The excitement under which she labored at Roine, has given way, it is said, to deep still melaucholy. For knowing_this, hardly notice tho laughable side of & pote just published in the Constitutionnel bere, to the effect that Khx(mlllun has freshly declared his * firm deter- mination to hold on to the Mesican Empire and pay its debts,” by some pew process, details of which are not vouchisafed to the pensive public. Tako the next last forty current of the state of health of the Emperor at Biarritz, add them up, subtract the evident nonsense, calculste the value by ordinary common sense, and you come to this general result: His Majesty is not stark well, is better than he was three Wwecks ago, and offers every likelihood of liviug as long as Lo sees nuybody elso alive. “ lrnylhlnq is wanted by '.J of better to Tlhfy this semi-cheerful last ruu h, the vory lamentable state of tuings in Spain will furnish 1t Suppression and oppres- sion in that unbappy country are being pushed to an ex- treme by a retrog; Ministry that secms utterly blind to the possibilitics of & reaction. Government then scems engaged in dead unconscions earncst-in securing & new formidablo insurrection. The next European sensation may be looked for in the Iberian Peninsuis. et — DUBLIN. THE TI'PERARY ELECTION—8(ENES AT THE, OMINATION —EXCITING CONTEST—RETURN OF THE LIBERAL CAN- DIVATE—JOHN BRIGHT AND THE REPORM QUESTION— LASDLUED TOWEE IN IRELAND—ELECTIONS FOR WEX- FOLD, DILPAST AND GALWAY—A CURIOUS CANDIDATE FOR A BEAT IN PARLIAMENT—A MAN WITH HEAD AND TRUNK ONLY—GOOD FORTUNE OF THE TORY PARTY IN IRELAND—DEATH OF BISHOP PLUNKET— MEETING OF THE LIBERAL PARTY IN CORE—THE IRISI AMERICAN PRISONERS—ENVOY, OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN INELAND—BANQUET 10 CARDINAL CULLEN. From Our Special Correspondent. Dusiy, Oct. 20, 1866, The nomination of candidates for the placo in Parlia- ment vacated by the death of Mr. John B. Dillon took place in the Clonmel Court Houso on Wednesday—the very building in which Smith O'Brien reccived his sen- tence of death in 1848, and in which Mr. Dillon wounld probably have received the same if ho had been “made amenable” at the time. The ecene was a noisy one—how could it be otherwise when some hundreds of the stout peusantry of Tipperary were assembled to cheer and groan and * ehafl” the different candidates, a fuir share of them being well paid for the performance 7 Still the proceed- ings were conducted in good humor; it does not appear that & single appeal was made to the argumentative power of the shillalah, The populsr orator of the oecesion was Mr. Peter E, Gill, oditor of The Tipperary Advocate, who contested the county st two previous elections, and meens w contest it now again, under these very peculiar circums stancos, that whereas the contesting of Tipperary County usually costs each candidate some five or aix thousaud pounds, Mr. Gill has not the good fortune of being in & position to expend es many half-pence on the battle; aud that if he were clected to the British Parliament a sub- scription from bis constituents would be necessary for bis support. Mr. Gill claims the eufirages of the electors be- cuuse his opinions are the popular opinlons; but as elec- tions are managed in these ntries, something more than rectitude of opinion is necessary for the winniug of a sent in Parliament. There bave indeed been many in- slances which the popular party in Irish constituencies rteturned their member “free of ex. pense, but then the —elocted were persons ranking much above Mr. Gill in public estimation. ‘The ' Donoghue was so elected in Truee; Patrick Muc- Mabon was #o elected two or three times for Wexford; George Henry Moure was so cleeted for Mayo, and when Lis return was petitioned against, Lis seat wus defcnded at ereat cost by his constituents, To return, however, to the Vi pperary nomination, Mr, Gill was proposed and seconded hy two tonaut furmers of the district, and supported by the Hev. Jobn Kenyon of Templederry, who was well kiown for his patriotic speeches and writings in tho '48 period. o wes chaffed a good deal by the andience, and charged with Laving offered to retire from one of the previous con= tests if oue of the candidates would give bim asum of £1,500; several times a person present excited the laugh- ter of the meeting by extending to him an empty purse on the end of an umbrella, but the laugh was turned com- plotely agninst bis interrupter when Mr. Gill cried out, UAh, Haekett, T know you; and I know 'tis long till you'd offer your purse to any one if thero was apything init.” He denounced the other two candidates” cleverly, and evoked a perfect storm of groaving und howling agaiost one of them by dwelling on the fact that he is an officer in one of Her Majesty’s regiments. *‘Good heavens " he exclaimed, * has it come to this with gallant Tipperary, that ahe must put aside overy one of her own childreu and rm{ patriot in the country, and turn lier eyes to a beard- less boy serving the British Government in the ranks of the Coldstreaw Guards 7 Well, this British offieer, who is an Irishman novertheless, is likely to carry the present election, chicfly for this reason, that the principles enun- ciated in his address aro more to the popular taste than those of bis oppouent, Mr. Waldron. (apt. Whife de- clares for a good measure of tenant-right, for equal rights in the matter of cducation, nnd against tho Church Estab- lishment. e gives bis adhesion to the Liboral party, of whieh Mr. Gladstone is the head, while Mr. Waldron de- clares for the Tories and Lord Derby. Still this contes expéoted to be a close one. 'The priests are exerting their intluence in favor of the Liberal candidate, though fi. isa Protestant; the landlords are exercising their tremendous powers of cosrcion in favor of the Tulz‘. though ho iss Catholie, This sort of thing takes place because the voters are ¢0 few in number in proportion to the pn‘}mhlian; if tho suffrage were universal, the electors could act freel and indepondently, and the shameful scenes of bribery all sorts of intimidation that are now common at Parlia- wentary elections, would be rendered all but impossible. Johu Bright in his late speech at Glasgow gave it as his opinion that an honester, more independent, and better Parliament than is produced by the existing electoral ma- chinery would be assembled if the Clerk of the House of Commons were empowered to summon to Parliament 658 persons from the ordinary pussers-by in one of the streets of London, making no sclection among them excapt to see that they were porsons of respectable lgpunncc. well- dressod and apparently clean wasked. Their superiority as 8 governing body would be owing to the fact that they would be lees under the influence of landed proprietors and what are called noble familics, Now the influence wielded by the aristocracy and the laidlords in Epgland is but a trifle compared with that wic!ded by the same classes in Ireland. There they deal geotly, comparatively speaking, with those over whom they Lave power; here they are ficrce and tyrannical. There tho antagomism in feoling and interests between them and rer classes is much loss than it is here. There the gr“n:lk and the small ?l'.‘:l.' good deal together; hero they are forever at war, Irish landlords—the wass of them—differ from their tenants in race, in creed, in principles, in feelings, and have scarcely anything in common with them, Law, oustom and rnbhu opinion govern the dealings of English Iandlords with their tevantry in 8 manner which is un- known in Ireland. 5o that the evil Mr, Bright complains of as existing in England we here in an aggravated form. One of tho conseques ulting from this state of things is that Parliamentary electious are absolutely s scourge to the Irish people. 0 landlords wish to do thing on those occasions and the tenants wish to do other. Religion, patriotism, th enthusiasm and bis own natural {nstincts pull the tenaut one way; builiff, threatening eviction a8 the ty of disobedien pulls him another. He dares overything for the popuiar caudidate, and a few months subsequently be is turned out of his holding, free to take his wa) or to the woi k- house or to America, according as it may suit the state of his finances. 1t has often been said {n Ireland that o twelve months' civil war would not quench as map hearths as have been quenched by half's dozen geners clections ; and there arv grounds for the opinion. ~ Many Trish patrlots in view of theso circumstances, and takivg into constderation the fact that the Irish representation in Parliament does vot in_any important d:rm affect the course of English legislation, advise the Irish tenantry to abstain altogether from taking part iu those elections, and tell them that if they must vote it should be ro s not to bring destruction on themeolvgp and their fuwilies. An 7, fa i reallze be able. to ‘Weare to have eléctiond, also, very shortly for (alwa; Wexford Counties, the Borongh of Belfast, and the 1in University. The vacancies in these eases aro result of the promotion of the former occapants of 1 m\ltolspg oftices under the prescnt ninistration, r. Walih, one of the mombers for the University hag, Staster of the Roliss Nir. Morris' of isiwis made i Mr. of Wega! been made has been oxe b and Sir Tiugh Curonof Belfat Rots' the Long 'ghfi,luumlp ofAyrl ‘l: Eogland, rzll s ~ & year. 13 are Iras af ok They hall 100g t walt. et b e came, and they were '-",l, fawished; the Liberal ' held of office a long term of their fricnds of course got all the good tuings “that The defeat of the late Govermnent on the ned the door for the Tories, and they rushed fa! y however, they would not, have ts reel hoping for all the splendid since fallen to their lot, Death, by the seythe emong the office-holders, as world of good, One would think the old fellow must by Tmunull, or that he has hired out his services to D . One of the organs of Toryism in this mg resuit, ol & 2] 34 Daily Express, comes out to-day with a strong over the nmurhmw fortuné of * the party.” of the * weaker brethren” had fullen away from it the long time that it was compelled to remain out cold, but now that it enjoys the sunshine of office, friends are nlgng rewards many and rich beyond all cctation. * Wo may cougratulate the party,” ssys This zpress , on its opportunities of re ‘consie. tency and merit, We have mentioned Sir Hi cfl pef the iu now & Solicitor. - in the its fast ox. and Chief-Justice Wintside, The Mastershi| will be comferred upon Mr. Walsh; Mr. George Justice of the Queen s Bench; Mr. Chatterton General; and t] stream of prowsetion has beon #o fast that multitudes of ren ‘must feol qum‘::' respect for the saying that hovesty is the best policy, : " Fortunate Tories to have ‘rich tties” such a shower on them; for mmu umw will not be a long owe. Halloa! here is yet another o nit, !IMPIIM: Protestant Binhopz:!"lnm dis yow.-vyday. His name bus long been prominent!; before the publie in m‘ with proselsting movements in the west of Ireland. The London 1''mes once designated his ings & & “hideous scandal.” He ej of his tensnts in which he Christiaa ' o:ft g. 8 handsome t neighber. hood had built for them, and he seized th builipe v made his 0wn of it—an unjust act, but o & ldgal e cnenpoti et esbing i ht iy g velle, an enes i in that locality, old gentleman an ifinh of m:-’ble; induced t‘n’. 'nn o brave his displeasure by taking their children from z roselyting schools, and when they were deprived of thele and by his unu-lp? got up & public subscription fop them, u large sbare of which was sout fium America, re. lieved their necessities, distributed food among them te h(? them from starving, and ultimately enabled them to - rent little farms on the ndjoining propertics. For the ) couple of yours we had not_heard much of Lord Plus He was a very old man, and Lis health began to fail. bas dropped in good time to give Lord Derby anothes ieco J patronage. Pious Tories see the hand of Provl. nce in all this. Mr. Faweett, the member for Brighton, will not be able tin Dublin, He hat | to attend the banquet to John B: written a letter to that effect to the eommme:h in the most grateful and friendly terms, and full of warm ¢ sympathy for Ireland. . ‘The Momber for Brighton is a blind man, the first porson. Iaboring under such an afffiction that ever was clected to * the House of Commons. But if one of the candidates now up for Wexford County should be elected a greater noveb ty woald be introduced into the House., Arthur Ksve. . nlgh. 08q., whose address to the clectors has been M listied, is but the head and trunk of & wan, and was at condition. Ho has but twolittie stumps wherethe arms should be, and the same us regards the lower limbs. - If elected, ho should be borne into the House in men's arms, or in & machine of some sort, and taken to and fro st each division! Heis a bighly cducated man sad the possessor of & large property, and is moreover a famous sportsman. Strapped into o ‘sort of bowl on bis horse's back, he rides like s very fiend after th lgends, Hy also a great wmu. and a couple of years ago ho pul lished & han volume giving an account of his vqx to Albanis in his vessel, the Eva, so called after the of the Anglo-Norman chief Strongbow, the daughter of Dermod MacMurrough, King of Leister, from whom this . Mr. Kavanagh is lineally descended. This King bas an evil notoriety in Irish history, asit was he who first invited and brought over the Engliah to this country. He sought their aid to_enable him to resist the forces bro against him by Rederick O’Connor, King of Ircland, aod ' 1he Prince of Brefuy, whose wife had either eloped with Dermod or fled to his rmtccflol frem her husband. It was on this incident that Moore founded his song of * The valley lay smiling before me,” in whick occurs the well- known Lines— . “On our side 18 virtue and Exin, On theirs is the Saxon and guilt.” Mr. Kavanagh has in his on & valusble portion of the estates of his ancestors, in Carlow and Wexford. He is not a bad man, but he has no popularity to speak of, and I doubt very mnch that be will obtain the seat in Par- liement which be coveta. ‘ A public meeting of the Liberal Frauchise Association of Cork was beld in that city on Monday, for the purpose of making a declaration in favor of the liberal druny ropre sented by Bright, Gladstone, and others, and urging on the country the necessity of m::: that the lllrmT‘ml ity of electors should ot be lost through apathy. speakers Juid much stress on the fact that in the conrse of last year Mr. Gladstone declared it to be bis opinion subjet to el imperial questions, the Irish people s! bo “legisiated for with regaid to their own feelings and wishes, Now, the principle thus enu od way scem to foreigners & very simple ove, the A B C of politics, but its enunciation in reference to the government of Ireland has croated a sensation, It looks quite revolutionary, For hitherto the motion of all Englishmen was thaf in the | r-vemmcm of Ireland the wishces and feelings of the rish people should mot be thought of for a moment. Legislation for them was to be based on the wishes and feelings of Englishmen, and then the Irish were to be made to couform to that standard. Just as if a shoomaker * instead of fitting tho foct of his customers with boots, took his own foot for a model, made all his work to suit it, and then iusisted on clipping, and cutting, and squeezil their feet into the same shape, Mr. Gladstone’s avow, that the clipping and squeezing process as regards Ireland ought to be abandoned has occasioned # sense of relief in this country, and been hailed with delight. Hear how ore of the members for Cork, Mr. N. D. Murphy, spoke of it at the moeting to which I am referring: “They were all delighted, and none more than_he was him- self, when Le went toLondon last year to see the fecling which had come over the entire Liberal party of Irish reproseutatives, when the famous declaration wes enunciated by Mr. Gladsiose —that man who was destined to take a most prowinent posities | in the state that, subject to all impegial questions, the woats, | the wishes, the rights aud the wrofgs of Ircland should be taken from the Irish themselves, and should not be legislated fo upon the dry, hard politico-economical views of doctrinaire. 1313 A Figish and Scotch members; and that i jonal x:,-hb tion were necessary, aecording to the circuwstances of the country, the duty of the Minister of the Crown would be #0 ¢ propose it to Parliament. That dechrations coming from 8 | man of Mr. Gladstone's known influence and opinicu, was M. | most important_that, in his memory, had ever einanated from any Government in_Ireland.” H See what a small mercy we Irish can be grateful for! Well, Mr. Gladstone so sar has said a good thing, but the people have & heavy charge against him. He has lald taxation heavily on this eountry, and done so ut s time when he sbould have been lightening the burden instesd of increasing it. Let me state, briefly, a few of the facts of the case, During the last twenty years the pop lation of Ireland declined by millions; during the same time o number of new taxes were placed ou the which compel the reduced populstioh to pay far more to the Impenial Exchequer than the lasge population did. During the same period England was increasing in the numbers and the wealth of her people, and her fxuan } was being reduced! The declining country had new bur- dens laid on; the prospering country bad ofd bul\lfl‘ rest taken off, A Parliamentary return published a couple {e-n_-gu shows that the amount contributed by Gi Britain to the Imperial revenue is at the rate of 4/07i8 the pound llflh:s ?ml the assessed incowe of that por tion of the Unit: ingdom; while the smount contrid- uted by Ireland is at the rate of 6/3] in the pound ster hnfi upon the Irish asseased income, r. McKenna, M. P. for Youghal, made a speech to hit constituents & few duys ago, iv which be put this taxstios © question before them very tully and clearly. 1 shall quote onlyono of his sentences. "He said '+ For svery mas, woman, and child, for every unit of the pO{vnl.mon dimia- ished between 1841 and 1861, the Whigs levied an tional pound annual taxation between 1851 and 1861 o8 the residue of the population.” ‘lhis has been done the Government of which Mr. Gladstone was chief fras- erty; bat it conferred upon them no civil iwmunity, nm- privilege which might not be in consonance with the suthority Eronted by the President or the luw-making power of the Got- erument. It seems to me, therefore, that this point, whi been dwelf spon so earnestly by Mr. Hofiman. falls grouud, lhud? need refer 1o the allegation Le ence 1o our bad faith to the South in the lght o Proclamation of Mr. Johnson, for that did nélemltdfi, n(::-“ u-u.rln el o the mnh:lmtnrl theren, from walty of loss of lfe, liberty and s et oo doet s wvr al ol anapd to interfere with l!ll prevogative of the Pres ent. Cougress simply proposes in tbe third section of the pm;i::d Constitutional amendment. to say 10 those mes who have been guilty of treason, * You caunot now beld office: and tho President cannot deprive Congress of the excrcise of this power. Aund if the should adopt the amepdment, ¥ will be simply in socord with their sense of iudividual and 8- tional protéction and security. 1n the exercise of (his preroge tive persous who are released from prison, in which they bave been placed because of the commission of crimes, are Lot snrily restored to the full enjoyment of civil sights. As Goveraor of this State, I may, as I do {n some instances, restore (o per, “ous pardoned the ight of citizenship; but the pardon in il does not nece fu ly restoration. Aud who doubie that the Leglslature of 1 ate, or the pm&\h through a8 amendment of the Constitution, might not withhol Exccutive of 11 e State, even the privilege of restoriug 10 persors thelr il i + The President Los had no cor terred bim by Congress fo thus reiustate ;m—l' thedr full eivil rights and privileges; but §f ey bad con '":vfl leges: o prerogative upon_ him, the ;- [ g H g could withhold or change it. the part of our opponcuts which requiice & momen h' wlln'la:d‘lad |I|’n I:-Ml.u {dml lmf;lhm]mn I'l‘ ul:l“ of 1l cy of weuted Lincoln 1t requires 10 ahow that this is & guity assuwption. 1 haiily need refer ¥ Thelr nots of adnainistrution and to their public deelaratioss. for they are a part of the history of the times, und are fawmiliar toall 5: % wlwost enoug's to say that the fiiends wnd supporters of M. Li generally U who were (he ats of e e Shark with what care Ui lute Thcalont cononied the wuthority over bhs Guestion of represcutation in Congress bl Congress, instead of clalming any right or authority 10