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WASHINGTON. The Maryland Democratic Con tention—The views of a late Member of Congress, who has left the Radical Camp—The Savannah Defalcation; [Special Correspondence of the Atlanta Daily Sun.] ■Washington-, ) July 21,1871. ] The brief proceedings the day be- ! fore yesterday of the Maryland State THE DAILY SUN Tuesday Mobnino Judy 25. JAMES ALLEN SMITH is our duly author ized Agent for East Tennessee. His receipts wil be respected by this Office. To Lawyers. We publish in full the decisions of the Supreme Court. These decisions are rendered every Tuesday, and will appear in our paper every Wednesday morning. We also publish daily the order of Democratic Convention are remarka- bnsiness and the daily proceeding of I (people at a distance may very the court. Every lawyer who wishes P ro P er Jy think) for jhe omission to to be fully posted about the Supreme ^ ie nominated upon any „ , i , , K , sort of a political platform. Having Court, can be accommodated by been on t£e spot at the time, Ia£ taking The Sun - . i enabled to say that the failure to re literate the true Jeffersonian doctrine The Savannah Morning News. I dl l d n( f originate in any apprehension of embarrassment from the extraordi- This sterling Democratic paper, I nary “Departures” proposed in other in its issue of the 82d insfc, famishes The nominations made are abundant evidence of its very wide X^forms ot Island circulation. We were highly gratified would have been on whateveitplatform at the unquestionable proofs adduced might have been adopted; indeed, of its great popularity. The News I there is not one democrat in a thousand well deserves the patronage it re- the low- , , * Ti. • • enng of the Conservative standard a ceives, and more, too. It is, m every s^gie j ncb< respect—in appearance, in mechanical Doubtless the silence of the Con- execution, as well as in matter—a 1 vention may be attributed in part at model paper in our State. I bsast, to an almost universal desire to One of the proprietors of The Be. S-talSSt commenced his business intercourse I odeum of a too plainly expressed an with the world as a salesboy of the tagonism to their heresies. It is ne- Savannah News. Many changes have vertheless regardedhere by thoughful taken placesince then. We are,how- me ? ^ a i l u ^ der; mor 1 e . . , , „ emboldened to say that the better pol- ever, rejoiced to see, amidst all of I icy would have been to have “spoken them, that this old organ of the De-1 out,” (even if “in meeting,”) than to inocracy is not only prosperous, but have remained mum at so critical a remains true as steel to the old Jef- P er ioJ> inasmuch as I happen to be fersonian creed. May its days be long and its shadow never be less. | se ntatives in Convention assembled, ——— I unhesitatingly condemn. In the . jnommees I have the fullest confi- wap IS a sign 0 f J® nce > personally and poEtimUy. But r 6 the public must be approached in the deal liberally with their negro popula tion. Atleast, intelligence and prop erty should lie fairly represented. It is to the unconstitutional mode by which negro suffrage is enforced by Federal authority and Federal bayo nets, that objection is chiefly made— not at all to the rights which should be accorded by the proper authority to the different classes of our popula tion.” I confess that the views of this former opponent of Democratic prin ciples are such as to entitle him to be received with outstretched arms by, the Democratic Conservative party. For the admission of such men the K tes to the inner temple should be pi wide open. I know a plenty of so-called Democrats to whom, were I the janitor, I should close them upon the first look, or the hearing of the first whining apology. : His view that the Supreme Court cannot take up the question of the validity of the amendments of the Constitution and pronounce judg ment upon them seems to me to be correct. They can only decide par oles, His eloquence, the flashing em phasis of His eye, the splendor of His life—were unsubordinated to the con sciousness that He was the Son of God. Of all men, He was the only one that ever made His own con sciousness the standard of His ideas of judgment in reverence and fear.— The peculiar feature of Jesus’ life was that, He insisted that His own consciousness of the Godhead ought to dictate faith to the world. There are three or four characteristics of this consciousness. 1. Its earliness. It was not the pro duct of experience. Neither His mother, nor brethren, nor education gave it to Him. It was His own ; and it was strong in His boyhood, even in His eleventh year. A boy’s consciousness is of to-morrow’s play and of present joys. That of Christ ■ffas His immortal divinity. _ 2. It was constant. It had no va riation. Though put to the test, it was constant and uppermost in all conditions and moods of his mind. It was the same when sleeping on his mother’s heart; the same when wan- ticular cases under them, as they may. i dering amid the solitude of Galilee; arise. [the same when worldly friends tried As to matters here of interest to i to mislead him, the same when ac- yonr State I observe that an inves-; cepted or rejected, tigation has just been made by j 3. Its endurance. It was the same Treasury officials into the affairs of tin trials and tribulations as in peace the Collector of the Customs at Sa- > and rest, and the same amid the scoffs vannah, Georgia, by which it is re-! of the populace as the tranquillity of vealed that Mr. Robb, the Collector, i the solitudes. It was everlasting. is entirely innocent, while a defalca tion of about $8,000 is traceable to Wellman, the Deputy Collector, and several subordinates. Cato. HZOn, Greeley says civilization;” yet he persistently refuses | to “hang out his sign.’ JBtay* YVm.Manning is suing for aChicago divorce. Mrs. M. does not admire the proposed un-Manning of her. dessperate struggle ahead in plain English. We must lay aside all squeemishness, and even sensitive ness as to others if an impres sion upon the masses be really in tended^ A spade must be called a spade—a thief a thief—a tyrant a ty rant, and a trickster a “Bill Nve.” The other evening I was fairly put to the blush by one who had formerly been a Radical, and even a represen tative in Congress, from the State of Illinois: “Wiiy, oir,’? ooid to, “your new party attitude gives me no ‘chance’ at all. I am convinced by 5 years’ experience that a centralizing Republic is a thing that never did am never can exist. It is nondescript— a monster; centralism means despot ism.” I felt ashamed of myself for the tame manner in which I had em _ ... . „ . . .deavored, on different occasions, to The citizens of Bennington, Yer-1 express the same sentiment. “If” he mont, are Stark mad about celebrating I continued, “your party shall ignore the anniversary of the battle of Benning-1 this great issue, I cannot act with it. ton, which occurs on the 16th. The leaders of your party seem dis- M . . posed to pursue a line of policy The Courier-Journal complains mus t keep honest Republicans that the “Bourbons ” will get in its way. I 0 ut of your ranks, ex necessitate. Be No reference is had, however, to Bour-1 sure that the principle of distribm The Richmond Dispatch says “Greeley is nothing but Greely.” Yet, the impression is abroad that Greeley is a very great farmer. Dr. Bliss, of Washington; is fre quently asked if cundurango can cure cancer. His answer invariably is, “c durango can, sir! ” The Louisville Courier-Journal has an article headed “Let there be light.’ No journal is more in need of “light’ than the C-J. bon whisky. tive powers between the States and the General Government has now | four million of voters.” Upon the other issues which the World newspaper of New York, and The Courier-Journal takes occa sion to intimate.that it does not “agree precisely with the Radicals.” Then why don't it allow its editorials to illustrate I the Patrxot of this city, (both owned the fact ? bodily by the Tweed and Belmont 1 clique), desire to put in the very 83L>A writer in the Washington Capi- front, my intelligent interviewer put iol says Mrs. Fair closely resembles Lydia I himself upon the record as follows: Thompson. That man had better look “Look at the thing yourself with out, or, when Lydia returns from Europe I one eye half open, and you must see that old, old storey will be told again. that reform in the civil service is a ^ meaningless platitude—that the Aneurism of the abdominal aorta,” I “tariff” can no more be made a polit- says an exchange, “is decimating the M test in the Northwest than the A,,. ™ Christian religion. The Radicals in ’ .. . . , that quarter go far ahead of the Dem- Chicago people are ah applying for divor-1 Qcrat J in Pei fwIvania, or even those in the Mineral Districts of Maryland, tt • -v »■«. ,in favor of free trade! I dare not tell B^The Christian ZW inclines to the ^ that tMg ig ob . opinion that there is more than onedeviL | i nm-hr TUifa ces. jectfontothe dominant party. This It is a little hard to understand how one whole matter has been discussed by devil can carry on all the mischief that is master minds, including Calhoun, abroad in the world, and at the same time McDuffie, and Hayne on the one side, pay as much attention as he does to the and the immortal Webster on the Christian Union. I other, and not a voter was controled by it. The ‘judicious tariff, with in- It turns out to be a mistake that I cidental protection’ dodge of Gen. Nickell, of Butler county, Ohio, has quit Jackson, put in the shade the whole the Democratic party. He refused to | of such misterly arguments. follow the “New Departurists” into the Radical camp; hence the announcement | was made that he had quit the Democrats. Nickell is a Democrat of the old genuine metal, and “good as gold.” Tlie New Poet. Utterly astonished to hear from such a source, such sensible and liber al expressions of sentiment, I begged to be informed as to the modus ope- randi he thought ayailable, by which the conservative party, which utterly repudiates all resort to disorder, muen less military force, could avoid diffi- . culty in bringing back and limiting The real name of the new Califor-1 the Federal Government tp its legiti- niapoet, “Joaquin Miller,” is Cin- mate functions m view of what are cinnatus Hiner Miller, and his father’s I called the 14m and loth Amend- home is Empire City, Oregon. The ments. to the Constitution. I must poet has been successively a Califor- here give his ideas m his own words nia miner, proprietor of a “pony ex- ‘*1 regard these amendments as void press” over the mountains, editor of a P ir .°\ P owe ^ Democratic paper in Eugene City, Judicial Department of the Govern- attomey-at-law in Canyon City, and ment so to declare them: but Constitu- county judge of Grant county. He tional provisions axe inoperative until married, about 1863, a young lady I Legislative authority, by specific laws, named Minnie Myrtle, who had ac-1 shall grre them vitality. Take, for quired reputation as a writer of ver- example, (said he) the act to enforce ses. In 1870 he separated from his pgr® suffrage. Even by the pro^s- wife, leaving her with two children ions of the Fffceenth Amendment the; provided for in Oregon, and set out I act in transferring tiie junsdiction for via New York, for London, where he offences _ against it to the Federal has since resided. He is represented Courts, instead of the State tribunals; to be as impulsive and reckless as would doubtless, upon the success of Byron, and predicted in some fare- j the Democratic party, be declared void well lines addressed to his wife, and I by the Federal Judiciary. The whole published in the Oregon State Jour- question, then, of suffrage must needs nal, that he would have “a name I be left to the State Legislatures. No among the princely few.” man can doubt that the States would [Reported Specially for the Atlanta Daily Sun.] MARIETTA FEMALE COL LEGE. I further propose to show that the Redeemer placed Himself in such a position that he might be judged aright. Feeling,.to be intense, must be circumscribed; and the reason that faith in the 19th century has weakened, is because the world is larger in thought and civilization, ana therefore the difficulty of believ ing anything intensely. The Savior foresaw this and determined— 1. To refuse all worldly entangle ments, the touching family ties and the sweet endearments of home. He rejected them all or put them in abeyance. How dared He do it ? Are they not divine ?—the tears of chil dren, the love of friends from whom I catch the glow of inspiration that nerves me in the hour of conflict ? Yet Jesus dispensed with them all,— abnegated their connections, divorced His heart from all these ties. Were He only a man, He would have had no right to take this course; but being a God, He was just, and did it. He did His duty alone; did it in his own consciousness—in His own transcen dent glory as the image of the hidden God. 2. To make no appeal to the imagi nation and as little as possible to the senses of His countrymen. Notice the difficulty in getting St. Peter to throw off the senses and accept the living faith. While He was a Christ to their senses He could not be a Christ to their faith. A man must die to be appreciated. Our dearest friend must depart before we know how dear he was. So of to day when the morrow has come; so of my childhood, as I see it in the far off wake of memory. We must retire to the quiet and sanctity of iso lated solitudes to realize the true power of the orator. Therefore our Savior said: “ It is expedient for you that I go away.” We of the 19th century can get a better idea of Him than those of His own day. I would rather have these four histories than to have seen Him walking the midnight sea. I would rather see my children filled with the love and worship of His holy name than to see them lying on His breast hushed to sleep with His divine cares ses. The great aim of the Savior was to separate Himself from the imagina tion and senses of men, because He knew He was a most fruitful theme of the fancies of men, and nothing is so fatal as the imagination where the affections are engaged. Then ob serve. Bom in a manger; reared in the stormy hills of Galilee, without any connection with the metropolitan splendor of Jerusalem; torn from all romance; “ despised and rejected of men;” a man of sorrow and ac quainted with grief.” Poor! not Lazarus as poor as poor as He. Be- 1 1 ' He did not say, Commencement Sermon i>y Dr. A. A. Lipscomb. Mabietta, Ga., ) July 23,1871. J Editors Sunt : The Commence ment Exercises of the Marietta Fe male College were inaugurated this morning with a masterly sermon by that truly wonderful man, Dr. A. A. Lipscomb, Chancellor of the State University. His reputation as an el oquent divine had preceded him, for the Presbyterian Church was filled to overflowing at an early hour. For the last three years we have been a rapt hearer of his many lectures on the “Life and character of Christ,” and many sermons beside, and must say that these, together with the sermon of to-day, compel us to pro nounce him unsurpassed as a Chris tian Philosopher and Bible Commen tator ; and in eloquence, we find his compeer only in the mighty Paul of Tarsus. Theological questions too profound for the wisdom of connoisseurs he often toys with as if it were an im agery i 111 fields unknown and barren to the genius of Clarke, he wanders only to gather a thousand gems cf thought, and sometimes while pro claiming the gracious goodness of his Lord his heart and soul are kindled with an inspiration that makes his face radiant with the joy within, and sustains him in flights of eloquence where none but Spurgeon ever dared to soar. The following very imperfect syn opsis we hope may serve to convey an idea of his profound research in Scriptural lore, and his acquaintance 1 with Christ ‘ and his teachings, that almost approaches familiarity. Text: And because I tell you the truth ye believe me not.—John, viii, 45. No child ever asked why it should speak the truth. No man ever de bated in his consciousness wheth er the obligations of truth or the- in terests of falsehood were the same And this is not surprising—truth is instinctive. I speak not of animal instincts, but of intellectual instincts which are variable, and are amenable to age, circumstances and culture. The highest forms of intelleci;n: l truths are to be found in the exer- low human poverty, cise of self-denial. There is nothing ■ “ I am as poor as Lazarus, but “ The so heroic as manly, straightforward j foxes have holes, the birds of the air truthfulness when the feelings are in j have nests, but the Son of Man hath the ascendency. If you desire to not where to lay His head;”—thus test a human mind, you must tempt the love of a dog than the admira tion of an Archangel. I do not wish them to serve me as Christ the pro phet, the raiser of the dead, the bene factor. I intend to be the Christ of their hearts and faiths. Therefore I must go away. I will become the Christ of the sinner’s sorrow and the sinners guilt. So long as I was your physician and benefactor, ye believed me; but when I tell you I am the Son of God, because I tell you the truth ye believe me not. (All! saddest of all words!) I am the Christ of your wretchedness, sin and sorrow. You believed me before. Now when I tell you the final truth, yet will not be lieve me.” As four years ago I stood before St. Peters at Rome, I noted the vast corridors surrounding this stately pile, shutting it out from the world. Why this waste of outside gorgeons- ness ? I knew that there were the Alban hills in their terraced beauty, that yonder was the waving Cam- pagna, and here the rolling Tiber. Why were not these the outward orna ments of this pile of an excavated Alp ? But no! Angelo had de termined that we should see St. Pe ters and nothing else. “My work alone ! Pll bind you to St. Peters /” So did Jesus. Dropping this; re tiring from that; weaning Himself even from Mary’s tenderness, from home and friends; asking no more an audience in the temple; seeking no more the multitudes on the mountains, he commenced talking, conversing. He was too great to be an orator, too sublime to be eloquent. He must talk. Take His conversations and addresses, and the wonder is He could talk to them as if the universe had been present. The orator needs the multitude and their aromatic praise to inspire him. The single heart of the woman of Samaria was to Jesus a myriad of hearers. Oh! the infant Savior, the Re deemer, the Savior of sinners, the child of Mary, the Son of God! Can I not believe in Him, my Lord and my God.” And thus closed this grand ser mon. The great leading thought and doctrine advanced was, that in our religion there is nothing abso lutely but Christ. Dr. Lovick Pierce preaches to-night. The examination of the Sophomore class takes place to-morrow, and Sophomore reading in the evening. More Anon. its feelings. There are many men who would rather die than violate the truth, but who, in moments of excitement, of prejudices, of pas sions wild as romance, pay no regard to the highest type of truths—the truths of feeling. Our Lord recognized this. The great barrier in the way of his recog nition as the Son of God, was not the want of evidence—of token—of his divinity, but because the light was so bright they closed their eyes against it. Blinded, they dreaded Hin, and commenced to oppose Him, until op position became hostility, and these found their consummation in. the spears of Roman centurions and the agonizing nails of the Cross. I purpose to discuss the method adopted by our Redeemer to unfold shim": : •' . r: . • to His countrymen His Divine Son- Let us look at the condition under which the dootrines were announced to His countrymen. We shquld know the light under which it was pub lished; for the light in which a pic ture is viewed is often as important as the pieeure itself. First among these conditions is : The personal intensity of His own consciousness that He was the Son of God. I believe that His many mira- stripping himself of everything that we might behold the bare subnmity of His Godliness. The summer pomp and summer foliage conceal the splen dor of the mighty oak. Its ribbed might, its “heart of centuries,” are seen only in the bare, bleak anatomy of winter. So with Jesus; the effer vescence was removed that we might see the naked sublimity of His di vinity. If a census of the crimes, the pov erty, the outcasts, lepers, widows, Marys and Marthas, had been taken at His birth, and another at His death, what a change it would have shown! Jesus the benefactor, the friend, the philanthropist, the reform er—as a preparation for Jesus the Redeemer. And the change did come. The Transfiguration on the cross was scarcely, greater than that on earth. There was not a mother that could not sing a diviner lullaby over her sleeping child; not a Mend that could not go to a grave with a sweeter joy;- not a household that had not caught His inspiration. But this was only the dim morning before the noon-day splendor of his everlasting mercy. . He said in substance: “I see my countrymen misunderstood me. They would make me a king because they admired me. I do not wish to be ad mired. Any man would rather have with Senators and °^ ess ’ who declared that his view oi t j .® ase wa3 what was -intended when thfc w was - passed. % . , The amount involved is said to b*. aoout five million dollars, and all railroad, bank ing Insurance and other large Corpora tions are interested in the result. One of the parties who came here from Savannah for the purpose of testifying against Collector Robb in the Custom - House case, soon after his arrival, boasted publicly that he could take “ten thousand dollars and hold his peace.” The presumption is that ho took less than five hundred dollars and held his peace. He is said to be a “Colonel,” the date of whose commission and the record of service cannot be found. Dispatches sent hence last night rela tive to the termination of theRobb-Well- man defalcation in the Savannah Custom House, were inspired if not dictated by Robb himself, and were based entirely upon the statements contained in WieU man’s last affidavit, which it is understood was made in consideration of Robb’s agreeing to pay the eight thousand dol- r lars due the government, and use his in fluence to prevent Wellman being prose cuted for the frand. On this affidavit Boutwell assumed to exonerate Robb from all complicity in the matter, and retain him in office for the present. Wellman’s first affidavit is said to be a different affair, altogether, and was accompanied by two other affidavits, which place the matter in a far different light from what is shown by the affidavits quoted in last night’s dis patches. It is asserted that these last ~ mentioned affidavits have not been shown to the Secretary, or if he has seen them, he has ignored them altogether, as well as other important testimony in the case. Secretary Boutwell this afternoon ex pressed himself as not altogether satis fied with the investigation conducted here on yesterday and the day before; and will undoubtedly order the case to be fully ventilated, which will result in a change of the collectorship at an early day. Governor Bollock’s letter in reply to a circular from the Eu Klux Committee has occasioned some comment in politi cal circles. It is regarded as evidence that he contemplates a departure from the Republican party, for the purpose of making himself the leader of the “New Departure’ faction in Georgia. [■5; Angus. TELEGRAPH NEWS [Special Correspondence of the Atlanta Daily Sun.] IMPORTANT THINGS IN WASHINGTON. Statistics of Immigration-Five Millions at Stake—Tlie Banks, Railroads and Large Corpora tions in a Dilemma—-Blunders and Injustice of High Govern ment Officials. MORE OF THE SAVANNAH CUSTOM HOUSE. Something that Looks Like Bribery— Robb Tampering with the Dispatches —Two Ways of Swearing, «Sfc—Jlul- loek’s hate Better. Washington, D. C., July 22, 1871. Official retnms received at the Bureau of Statistics, show that daring the quar ter ending Jane 30th, 1871, the total num ber of passengers arrived at the port of New York from foreign countries, was 107,114, of whom 64,213 were males, and 42,901 females. Of the total num ber arrived 101,015 were actual en grants—males 60,082 ; females 40,933. Under fifteen years of age 19,812—fif teen and under forty 71,056 ; forty and upwards 10,147. The deaths on the voy age were 92, of whom 54 were males and 38 females. The principal Nationalities of the im migrants were as follows : Sweeden, .. Norway, ..., Denmark,... Switzerland. 17,845 Ireland .26,149 4,613 Gr’tBritain (locality 399 unknown. . 6,672 30,814 Spain . 104 1,983 Italy 5,727 Holland . 409 1,286 Belgium... . 78 1,143 Russia . 295 849 Poland.... 1,305 Cuba Bermuda.. . 77 Several representatives of large bank ing houses, in New York, have been here within the past few days, and it is un derstood that their business was to se cure a stay of proceedings in the collec tion of the 2} per cent tax on incomes accrued during the last five months of 1S70. -It will be remembered that General Pleasonton some time since issued in strnctions to Internal Revenue officers, declaring that, under the act of July 1870, incomes for the time mentioned, were not taxable. Thereupon the banks paid their customers, their interest cou pons without deducting this tax. Sec retary Boutwell, not desiring to relin quish this tax, referred the Commission ers’s decision to Attorney General Aker- man, who gave an opinion overruling the Commissioner’s instructions. The Com missioner then issued instructions in ac cordance with the Attorney. General’s views, directing, the assessment and col lection of the tax. The banks now say that they acted in good faith upon the Commissioner’s decision, and paid their interest Without deducting the tax, and if assessed now, as directed by the Sec retary, the amount will have to be paid out of their own pockets, as it is im possible to hunt up the holders of the coupons thus paid. They (the bankers) claim that the act of the Com missioner is binding upon the Govern ment: It is probable that the Secretary will take this view of the case and that con sequently the Commissioner’s original in structions wiil be carried out General Pleasanton states that his de cision, declaring that the tax "was not col lectable, was made after consultations By the New York Associated Press. Col. JToIm B. Christy before the Km Klux Com mittee. "Washington, July 24.—J. H. Christy, of Athens Georgia, was examined to-day by the Ku Klux Committee. He testi fied, in 'substance, that ho knew of no Ku Klux organization in his district, or in any part of the State. In answer to the question as to what facilities he had for knowing anything about it, he stated he had been twice elected to Con gress from that District and lie usually attended the Courts of the Western Cir cuit as well as those of the Northern Cir cuit. In response to a question he said he believed he was personally acquainted with the people generally. No more crime is committed now than before the war in his section of the State. He had admitted that there had been some vio lations of law by disguised parties for the perpose of punishing persons for living together in adultery and fornication, al so for theft, &c. He stated that it was the general opinion in the community that people took the law in their own hands because so many criminals had been pardoned. Another circumstance which gives rise to many exagerations, in reference to the so-called Ku-Klnx, was the fact that mis chievous young men, for the purpose of amusement, sometimes wrapped them- elves in sheets, and scared the supersti tious negroes, some of whom affected to believe that they were the ghosts of de ceased Confederate soldiers. These negroes had disguised them selves and whipped a white man in Clarke county and there had been but little said abont it. Another party of disguised negroes who had tried to mnrder a man in Hancock, had been tried and sen tenced, bnt were subsequently pardoned by the Governor. The witness expressed the opinion that Alf. Richardson had not been attacked on political grounds, and that no negroes had been intimidated from voting the Republican ticket, bnt some had proba bly been prevented by threats from vot ing the Democratic ticket. The whole tenor of his testimony was to the effect that he believed there was no regular Ku-Klux organization in Georgia, for the purpose of violating the laws. The examination was long and tedious, but the above are the leading facts elici ted. U'eather Probabilities. The easterly winds will probable con tinue at the Atlantic Coast till Tuesday morning, and the area of Southerly winds, with threatening weather, extends to New York by Tuesday night. Brisk winds.from the South are probable for to-night on lakes Michigan and Superior. Local rains are probable from Northern Illinois to Mississippi. ENGLAND. Matters In Bag-land and Ireland. In the House of Commons to-day Geo. Dixon, a member from Bermingham, wished to know if the reduction of the civil list was possible. Gladstone replied he believed the question arose from mis apprehension of the character of the list which he said was a solemn compact made between the sovereign and the peo ple, at the beginning of each reign. Any economical advantages which resulted were to be credited to the Crown and not to the country. It would be well for Parliament to maintain this view of civil list, as it would contribute to encourage the Queen’s ser vants to fulfill their duties. The Prince of Wales goes, on Monday next, to Dnblin, with Prince Arthur, the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Louise, and the Marquis of Lome. Brilliant fetes and balls, closing with a grand re view, are projected during the stay of the Royal visitors in Ireland. Russia has given in her adhesion to the International Telegrapn Convention of Vienna, this being Russian lines to Am-* yor and Dead Sea under operation terms of that Convention. The best fruit on the tree is that which the birds nave been pecking at. So, in human life, it is the best people who arq most injured by slanderers, yinLv o o