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A Moravian Child's Hymn.

On His goodness I rely;

He, my gentle Shepherd, leads me,

In His pastures green He feeds me,

For He knows me, loves me well,

And my little name can tell.

I go in and out and have

Pasture sweet around me lying.

Still my hungry soul supplying.

When I thirst, my feet he brings

Where the living water springs.

Should a lambkin, then, like me,

Ever sad and thankless be?

When these pleasant days are ended,

On my Shepherd’s bosom tended,

I shall go to perfect bliss—-

Amen!-—no joy can equal this.

A Christian Wife's Triumph.

Dr. Tyng gives the following incident that occurred in his pastoral experience. It illustrates the power of gentleness, of a wife's gentleness, to bring her husband near the Saviour's feet:

Many years since, a gay and fashion- able couple lived near me and attended my ministry. The wife was beautiful, social, and admired. The husband was rich and worldly, and delighted in the admiration which, in society, his wife received. They lived a reckless, gay, and worldly life. Except in the worship of an occasional Sunday morning, they knew nothing of religion, and cared for nothing they heard, even then.

But in the wonders of His grace, this gay and fashionable woman was conver- ted there, and in the most open and de- cided manner renounced her life of folly, and cast her lot among the followers of the Lord. Her sudden change of life and purpose intensely enraged her un- converted husband, who had no sympathy with her, and could not understand her. He tried in every possible manner to overthrow her plans, and drive her from her choice. He forbade her union with the church in any personal act. He watched at the gates of the church-yard to prevent her entrance by force. So far was this hostility carried that at last she found access to the church, for her appointed baptism, only through the window in the rear. Thus matters went on for weeks, every day bringing me some new tidings of his violence and her sufferings. How much of their domestic affairs were known to others, I never knew.

The people and the generation have passed away. Their young children are now mature, and several of them are parents themselves.

Some weeks of this new history had passed, when late one evening, after I had retired to my chamber for the night, my door-bell was violently pulled, and a messenger said Mrs. — desired to see me immediately. I dressed and went, anticipating some new scene of violence, and simply saying to my wife where I was going, in case I might be prevented from returning. The streets were soli- tary and still. As I ascended the steps the door was quietly opened to me, and I was directed to the parlor, where to my surprise, I found the two sitting to- gether on the sofa, with no other person present. The man looked up to me in an agony of tears, as in astonishment I sat by his side and asked an explanation.

"Oh, sir," he cried, "Can I be saved, can I be saved?"

"Yes, surely," I answered; "but you amaze me - what has led you to this?"

"This angel," he replied with eager- ness. "You know how I hated her re- ligion. But you do not know how I hated you. I thought you the blackest of human beings. You had broken up my happiness, you had destroyed my peace, you had separated my family, you had alienated my wife from me. I was intensely enraged with you. I have several times watched for you at night with the intention of killing you. But it is all over now. I am thankful to see you. But this angel wife—I have cur- sed her, I have pulled her down by the hair; and she has received it all in silence and meekness. She has never said one unkind word in reply; but she has pray- ed for me, and loved me. And I can stand it no longer. I am miserable, be- cause I am so guilty. I have rebelled so horribly. I have been loved and treat- ed so affectionately. Can I be saved?"

The wife sat silently and heard the whole—and then gently said,

"My dear husband seemed so distres- sed to night, that I took the liberty to send for you."

With what delight did I preach the Saviour's love to the lost one, thus arous- ed by that love to see his own voluntary and aggravated guilt.

We passed more than an hour thus to- gether, and closed our conversation with earnest prayer. Blessed indeed was the result. The strong man armed had found a stronger than he, who had taken from him all his armor wherein he was trusted, and spoiled his goods. He was subdued by love, converted by Divine power. He too came into the Saviour's flock, and on the side of Jesus.

How changed the mad one became, "sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind." He witnessed among us for years a good confession—he was honored and beloved in the church—a pattern of gentleness and fidelity at home and abroad.

After some years of earnest Christian life on earth, his course was finished and his rest obtained. I have since hardly passed the house in which they lived, without recalling to my mind this whole remarkable scene—that popular display of grace—that voluntary wanderer, and the wonderful love and mercy which in so much rebellion he received. He as- sumed all the responsibility of the guilty wandering upon himself. He learned to give all the glory of his recovery to that amazing grace, which had plucked him as a brand from the burning, and loved him when he was dead in sins.—PACIFIC.

The Telegraphic Girdle.

It is not surprising that the most pro- minent features in the thought of the pre- sent day should be its rationalistic or materialistic tendencies. That man should practically worship himself, and make himself the measure or judge of the infi- nite, in a period distinguished above all others by the study of physical science and the triumphs of scientific discovery, is not so unnatural as it is sad. Has not this generation for instance heard the assem- bled wisdom of England denounce the project of a locomotive railway as both impossible and blasphemous, and yet with- in a few years of that denunciation trains ran at sixty miles an hour? Still more striking is the fact that not twenty years ago Lord Russell laughed at a Scotch elec- trician who proposed to connect London with Edinburgh; and in 1850 English newspaper declared a project for laying a cable under the Straits of Dover to be "a gigantic swindle." Yet in twelve years from that date Calcutta receives messages from London a few hours old. And to aid to the triumphs of material science, the sixteen hundred miles which separate Ire- land from America have been annihilated by the Atlantic cable.

Most opportunely Mr. J. Stephen in the last number of the FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW sketches the various failures and successes of electric cables. In 1850 the Submarine Telegraph Company connected Dover with Calais by a cable which worked only a few hours, for a fisherman hooked it up and offered portions of it in the streets of Bou-

logue as a rare seaweed with a core of pure gold. In 1854 an American Company was established to connect St. John’s, New- foundland, with the telegraph system of Canada and the United States, thus reduc- ing the distance in time to Galway to five days. Just when the company failed a re- tired American capitalist, Mr. Cyrus Field, met in New York with Mr. N. Gisborne of London who wished to renew the project, and he suddenly proposed—-“Why not cross the Atlantic together?” The Atlan- tic Telegraph Company was formed. Mr. Gisborne’s right to land cables for fifty years on Newfoundland and Labrador was purchased, and in 1857 the sum of £350,000 was subscribed, while the English and American Governments each guaranteed a subsidy of £14,000 a year so long as the line should be in working order. After four efforts the cable was submerged on 7th August 1858, and American, feeling herself linked for the first time to the associations and civilization of the old world, waved her flags, fired her cannon and lighted bonfires from one end of the States to the other. But alas so imperfect was the in- sulation that only 271 messages passed along the cable, and these were almost un- intelligible. Her Majesty’s congratulatory despatch of ninety-eight words occupied sixteen hours in transmission, and Presi- dent Buchanan’s reply of a hundred and forty-nine words was sixteen hours on the way. Except when galvanised into life for a moment on 20th October the cable re- mained silent after 18th September. Then came the failure of the Red Sea line in 1859, and of others at later dates, so that in 1861 no less than 8,000 out of 11,364 miles of cable submerged in different seas, were worthless. This led to the appoint- ment of a Royal Commission, which was followed by the successful cable in the Per- sian Gulf, by an extension of the Mediter- ranean lines, and finally by the renewed attempt last year to lay the Atlantic cable.

The details of that attempt have a curi- ous interest after the success of the third cable just announced. After eight months’ incessant labour in manufacturing the ca- ble the GREAT EASTERN left the shore end in Foilhumerum Bay, Valentia, on 23rd July, and steamed off on her journey of about 1600 miles to Trinity Bay, New- foundland. All went well, with occasional faults owing to the escape of the electric current to the sea through leaks in the gut- ta percha covering, till August 2nd when, at a distance of 1100 miles from Ireland, serious electric leakage was discovered, and on recovering the cable it snapped and went to the bottom. This catastrophe was quite unexpected. The engineers, however, managed to hook the cable after several at- tempts, but just when success seemed pos- sible the wire rope and hawser by which it was being lifted yielded to the great strain, and the ship returned on 10th August. Though this is termed the second it is real- ly the sixth failure to cross the Atlantic. The fact of nineteen thousand useless miles of cable lying at the bottom of the sea was sufficient to damp any but the most eager electricians and trustful capitalists. As the Atlantic Telegraph Company could not is- sue preference shares the Anglo-American Company was started and that has at last succeeded, if we may trust the first tele- grams, though it is suspicious that no others have followed. Mr. Stephen de- nounces all iron-covered cables because “at best their safe submersion is a lottery and their successful working, even when submerged, very problematical.” The ma- nagers of this new attempt, on the contra- ry have made the cable heavier than ever, so, that a writer in the TIMES says, the li- mit of its breaking strain has never been discovered. Its outer covering is compo- sed of iron bars as thick as ordinary pa- pers, and it weighs twenty tons to the mile. It is nearly double the size and strength of the largest submarine cable ever made. That accomplished SAVAN, Professor Thom- son, went out in the GREAT EASTERN while Mr. Cromwell Varley remained at Valentia, to superintend the electric communication and work the cable by their new appara- tus known as the curb key. It was remark- ed as an omen of success that not a single fault occurred during the manufacture of the cable.

Nor will this be the only string to our electric bow. So early as 1852 Mr. Wyld, M.P., projected a telegraph to America from Thurso by the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Labrador. Unfortunately a Colonel Shaffner of America had obtain- ed a right of way from the Danish Govern- ment for a hundred years, and only on his failure last autumn was it transferred to Mr. Wyld, or communication might have been realised long ago. A committee of the ablest electricians advised Mr. Wyld not to cover the cable with iron or any me- tal. The North Atlantic Company was last month in course of formation with a capi- tal of two millions in twenty pound shares, and we trust the success of the Valentia route will not arrest their project. The on- ly condition the King of Denmark has in- sisted on are the establishment of an inde- pendent line from that country to England, and from Copenhagen to Norway. This will give the Continent American news as soon as Great Britain, and all direct tele- grams to India will come by that way. The course of the cable will be from Thur- so to Thorshavn in the Faroes, a distance of 250 miles. Land wires will run from Thorshavn to Halderdvig, and cables from Halderdvig to Bernfjord, in Iceland—240 miles. Land wires will run again from Bernfjord to Reykjavik, and cables from Reykjavik to Julianeshaab, in Greenland— 748 miles. From Julianeshaab to Hamil- ton’s inlet, in Labrador, cables will run for 540 miles. It is probable, however, that Labrador will be avoided, and lines run to Belle Isle, north of Newfoundland. The whole length will thus be similar to that of the Valentia cable. This route has other advantages. The depth is less than in the Atlantic, the bottom is of fine mud, be- tween Scotland and Iceland the cables will be from 120 to 130 miles shorter than those which have been in use between England and Denmark for about seven years; whilst the longest section—between Iceland and Greenland-—will be about one-half the length of the Persian Gulf line, and about 800 miles shorter than the Malta and Alex- andria one. The speed of transmission will be three times greater. Arctic explorers like McClintock, Belcher and Sherard Os- born, who know every inch of the ground, are enthusiastic supporters of the scheme.

So man will be united with man. The exhausted Englishman in the plains of In- dia will be in direct communication with the icebound inhabitants of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland; while, on the other side, the day is not much further distant when he may hold telegraphic converse with the Russian exile in far Kamshkatka, or the English colonist in Vancouver.— THE FRIEND OF INDIA.

America as an Ally.

Whoever considers attentively the posi- tion which we hold in the great communi- ty of nations must be struck with the fact that we have so managed our affairs as to be almost entirely cut off from European politics. Almost every nation in western Europe is in arms, and no one can tell how far their dimensions may spread, or what may be the result of them in remodelling the map of Europe; but to us in this coun- try the whole quarrel is essentially matter of indifference. Prussia is a far less pow- erful country than England, but its influ- ence in European affairs is probably quite as great as our own, whilst that of France is out of all comparison greater, and will unquestionably continue to be so. On the other hand, our influence in other parts of the world is as much superior to that of France as it is inferior on the continent of Europe. We form the centre of four great nations which soon will be British, North America, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, which derive from their language, their laws, their literature, their religion, in a word all that is distinc- tive in their existence; and besides this, we rule over a vast empire in India which appears likely in the course of no very long time to present a state of things al- most unexampled in the modern history in the world. If any one considers the rela- tion of the United States to this system he will perceive at once that it is so much connected with it and resembles it so closely as almost to form a part of it. It is indeed distinguished from the British empire only by the fact that it has already that complete independence which our co- lonies will most assuredly possess when they are a little better able to stand on their own legs, and which it ought to be our highest hope to be able to confer with safety upon British India. In the mean- time, our relations with the United States are actually closer than our relations with any of our colonies. Our trade with them is greater; they take a large number of our emigrants, and they are the only civi- lized Power in the world which is separa- ted from our possessions by a mere geo- graphical boundary. Add to all this the fact that the principles on which they are governed are nothing but the principles of our own government applied on a larger scale and to a somewhat different state of society, and it becomes self-evident that they are capable of doing us more harm or more good than all the other nations of the earth put together. If we cultivate those relations with them which last for the madness of George III. will never have been disturbed at all, there is no reason why a century hence the English race, with local modifications, should not be the predominant race of the world be- yond all dispute or comparison. It would indeed in that event constitute a new com- munity of civilized States, much more ex- tensive than Europe, at least as fertile in all natural advantages, and possessed of many other advantages peculiar to itself. For instance, there are hardly any sub- stantial grounds on which any of the Eng- lands of the future, including, the United States as one of the number, would have occasion to quarrel. Human perversity could hardly go to such a length as to pro- duce war between Australia and South Africa, or between Canada and New Zea- land.

Of course the possibility of so happy a state of things is remote, but it is a possi- bility, and is one of the many reasons why we should consider the friendship of the United States as even more essential to our prosperity than that of France. Is there anything to say on the other side?

The more the matter is considered, the more clearly will the contrary appear. There are small irritating subjects which circumstances, be on doubt might so treated as to prejudice at a [?] , but they are of the most trifling kind. The ques- tion, for instance, about the fishery rights is certainly one of which people disposed to quarrel might make something, but it— like the other matters connected with the late reciprocity treaty—is just one of those questions which can be definitely settled by treaty. It has none of that incurable virulence which belongs to questions of independence or territory. Look, again, at the relations between the States and Canada. We do not the least mean to ex- aggerate what, after all, is a very natu- ral act on the part of the Americans, and one which they were likely enough to hav done simply for the comfort and decency of their own frontier, and without any particular regard for us ; but the relations between the two States are as a whole eminently satisfactory, and they are so mainly because the political institutions which prevail on each side of the line are very unlikely to dispose those who live un- der them to fall out with each other. Free trade is not after all the only conceivable bond between different nations. Identity of race, substantial identity of government for British North America is in all, but the name a republic—and a mutual interest in all that constitutes the real welfare of the other, are the ties which unite the United States with the British provinces; nor do we see why anything except indis- cretion at home should ever interrupt them. If what we have seen is intrinsi- cally a small matter, it will at least serve to contradict the notion that sympathy with violence, revolution, filibustering and the like, is characteristic of the Americans. We believe this to be an entire mistake. These and other bad things were the cha- racteristic vices of the slaveholding popu- lation ; but now that slavery and its atten- dant evils are at an end, we doubt if there is to be found in the world a nation more disposed to be orderly and in the good sense of the word, Conservative.—-THE FRIEND OF INDIA.

Another Anglo.Indian Gov-
ernor of Jamaica.

The appointment of Sir John Peter Grant as Governor of, Jamaica is one which will give pleasure to Anglo-In- dians. The ability of the wisest council- lor of Lord Dalhousie, though the blin- dest adviser of Lord Canning, we have always admitted, and his high sense of honour has never, except for a moment in the Nil Durpul dispute, been called in question. He did much to hasten the destruction of that evil Indigo system which was fast perishing from its own rottenness, though he did it in an un- statesmanlike way. But the experience of questions of capital and labour, and of class contending with class, which he then gained at so dear a price, modified by his subsequent obscurity and undig- nified connexion with a Hotel Company, will be of great advantage in an Island like Jamaica. Like Sir Charles Trevel- yan he has another chance. Will he use it to complete the work which that far greater Bengal civilian, Lord Metcalfe, began? If so his undoubted firmness and "pluck," which none have more ful- ly acknowledged than the many enemies he made in India, must be so directed by tact and compromise in little things, that he may prove not unworthy to walk in the footsteps of him of whom, after a very similar revolution, Lord Macaulay wrote in his epitaph—-Lord Metcalfe "calmed the evil passions which long suffering had engendered in one class and long domination in another."

Lord Metcalfe was Governor of Agra and acting Governor General. Sir J. P. Grant for five years ruled forty millions in Bengal, as subordinate to Lord Can- ning, and distinguished himself by a great policy of public works which his successor has failed to carry out. Com- pared with such responsibility Jamaica seems a trifling charge. Its 6,400 square miles and 142,000 of population, of whom not 14,000 are white, would be ab- sorbed in the one rich county of Hoogh- ly. The Governor will draw just one- half of his Bengal salary and in a climate certainly not superior to that of India. But such is the ignorance of England, such its want of political perspective, that in Jamaica Sir J. P. Grant will hold a higher position than when he ruled a country and a people as large as that of France. Under the new constitution Jamaica is to be administered exactly like Ceylon, by a despotism which strives to be in accord with public opinion. For such a duty Sir J. P. Grant's experience admirably fits him, and there is not an Anglo-Indian who will not hope that he will meet with more success as a Govern- or of a Colony than a recent Governor of a Colony met with during a five years' tenure of office in an Indian Presidency

Thoughts by the Way

CONVICTION is consciousness of GUILT.

Notice not the fact that you are not noticed.

The ALL of every human being centres in his self.

That which a man desires most may be the thing he needs least.

Heaven may be defined PERFECT OBEDI- ENCE to the divine LAW.

It is not the LAW of God, but the violation of it, that causes MISERY.

Lose not what you might do by dwel- ling upon what you HAVE done.

He who in blessing others forgets HIM- SELF will never be forgotten.

On the waves of self-indulgence, each individual steers his own barque.

Not a few who have LAUGHED them- selves into sin have WEPT themselves out.

On the journey of life, he who over- loads himself with BAGGAGE will sigh by the way.

Bangkok Recorder.

There appears so be an apparent want of information on the part of the Siamese Government in regard to their duties and responsibilities in connec- tion with the several treaties entered into with foreign powers. They are keen sighted enough to see every ad- vantage likely to arise from the trea- ties, and display much tact and talent in evading responsibilities and turn- ing matters to their own account. This mode of conducting affairs will sometimes work tolerably well for a time, but will in the end involve the government in difficulties from which it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible to extricate themselves.

A foreign merchant on entering the kingdom of Siam with the intention of establishing himself in business, naturally inquires whether he can do so with a reasonable prospect of pro- tection and security or not. Mere verbal assurances will not satisfy a prudent man; he must have some written, tangible, and legally authori- sed assurance before he will consent to take up his residence, and bring in the requisite capital to conduct his business. To satisfy himself on this point, he has but to refer to the seve- ral treaties which the Government of Siam has entered into with foreign powers. If he is an Englishman, he does not have to search long to ascer- tain the obligations of the Siamese government to resident British sub- jects. The 1st Article after giving as- surances of peace and friendship, sti- pulates in the strongest manner, that "all British subjects coming to Siam shall recrive from the Siamese Gov- ernment full protection and assistance to enable them to reside in Siam in all security, and trade with every fa- cility, free from oppression or inju- ry on the part of the Siamese."

The language used in the first Ar- ticle of the English treaty is certainly comprehensive, broad and strong enough to warrant the belief that the Siamese government are under the strongest obligations to give "com- plete protection and assistance" to British subjects residing in the coun- try. The only remaining question that would excite any further inquiry would! be, as to the ability of the Siamese government to carry out these obliga- tions. On this point there need be no apprehension. The Throne of Siam is well established. The legitimate right of the present reigning royal fa- mily to govern the kingdom admits of no doubt. The officers and peo- ple are content to live under it. The country is productive, and the inhabi- tants are sufficiently numerous and industrious to secure a good revenue. Although the revenue laws and cus- toms are not very good, they yield ample means to carry on a strong and efficient government. The army, forts and armaments, though not numerous can be easily increased. With all these facilities and means at their disposal, any want of ability or efficiency on the part of the Siamese government to carry out their treaty obligations, is their own fault.

Now what are the facts in regard to resident foreigners in Siam, and how has the government acted toward them? At the commencement of the trade under the treaties, foreign resi- dents under the circumstances which then existed were well protected. Both natives and foreigners thought more of the profits of a tolerable fair mode of trading with each other than any thing else. A variety of causes arose to diminish the profits of trade; sharper bargains were driven; over-reaching, peculation, and questionable modes of transacting business arose, in which foreigners sometimes got the advan- tage and at other times the natives. Violation of agreements, bargains, sel- ling goods under false pretences, theft and robbery followed, and, as a mat- ter of course, resulted in law suits and developed Siamese jurisprudence, courts, and judges, in no very envis- ible light. According to Siamese usages some complaints had to be transmitted to the Foreign Office, some to the Lord Mayor and others to the Chief of Police. This mode of distributing suits for adjudication did not meet the views of the Consuls, sa- tisfy treaty obligations, nor the de- mands of justice. To follow up com- plaints in the different courts, and see that the ends of justice were carried out was impossible; and to the praise of the Siamese government be it spo- ken, they appreciated the responsibi- lity of their treaty relations sufficient to establish a special court for the purpose under the title of the Roy- al Court of Equity. While this court has not met the expectations of the Treaty Powers, it is a step in the right direction, and if the Siamese government could be made to see their treaty obligations in a proper light, and appoint an able jurist as judge to assist their own—one acquainted with the language, laws, precedents and usages of European Courts, and pro- vide the necessary facilities for carry- ing out the demands of justice, their obligations in this respect would be met. Sooner or later it must come to this.

The old mode of guarding property was found inadequate, and in order to give better protection and fulfil in some measure their treaty obligations in this respect, a police force was or- ganized and stationed in the city, but too far up to give any particular se- curity to foreigners. The protection and benefit growing out of the police force has been almost exclusively on the side of the Siamese. It is what the Siamese government should have had, even if no treaties had ever been made with foreign powers. The pre- sent police force is utterly inadequate to meet the demands of either the na- tives or foreigners. Up to the pres- ent time there is no government police to protect foreign dwellings, stores, warehouses and manufacturing esta- blishments. Nearly every foreigner, whether a temporary or permanent resident, laborer, mechanic, mariner, merchant, or Consul, has to provide to a great extent, if not wholly for his own security and protection. The cost to merchants and resident for- eigners for watchmen and other means of protection is very great. But lit- tle complaint has hitherto been made on account of the want of a police force to render better protection, and the Siamese government seems to have gone to sleep over the subject. They seem to have forgotten those maxims of prudence which lead wise men to prepare for storms in times of calms, and wars in times of peace. The Buddhist command ya lak sap, "do not steal," nor the awfully severe laws of the kingdom against theft and robbery, has very little power in pre- venting them. The amount of pro- perty lost by foreigners on account of pilfering, theft, and robbery is im- mense. As near as can be ascertain- ed not more than one fourth of them are complained of to the Siamese Au- thorities. The loss of time, vexation and difficulties attendant on obtaining justice in most cases is so great, that foreigners are deterred from making any attempt to secure redress.

The question arises what are the responsibilities of the Siamese Govern- ment in relation to theft and robbery? The treaties are explicit and emphatic on this subjects, declaring that all for- eigners "coming to Siam shall re- ceive from the Siamese Government full protection and assistance to en- able them to reside in Siamese in all security, and trade with every facility, free from oppresson on the part of the Siamese." This stipulation cannot be limited to mean only personal pro- tection; for what advantage would it be to any one to be treated kindly and protected from bodily harm when at the same time all their property can be taken from them. It must mean both person and property, and all legitimate interests growing out of them. A foreigner on arrying in Siam with the intention of becoming a resident, is bound to secure a suita- ble dwelling, store or ware-house, one that will give him ordinary security to his person and property. He must also exercise due care and watchful- ness, and when this has been done, and his person or property suffer in- jury or loss, he must look to the law for redress. Suppose the following should occur. A merchant es- tablishes himself in Bangkok, occu- pies a substantial building, has it filled with valaaable goods, fastens the doors and windows properly, has watchmen or some equivalent mode to guard his property, but with all his care the building is entered by thieves and robbers and his goods are stolen. Under the existing treaties what is to be done? Who is responsible? The first step is to enter complaint and send it to the proper Siamese Court. If the court catches the thieves or rob- bers, punishes them and returns the goods or an equivalent with costs, that ends the matter. If only a part are caught and a portion only of the pro- perty can be secured, the question na- turally comes up, who is responsible for the loss ? There are now only two parties on whom the loss can fall; the merchant and the government. The merchant will of course demand in- demnification. Now can the Siamese government get rid of it? If the Si- amese Authorities can show that the government has fulfilled the spirit and letter of the treaty touching this ques- tion, they can. But if the Siamese government has neglected to provide suitable police or other protection, or the court, judges, and officers have been unfaithful, they must make the loss good. This matter will be trea- ted in the same way as in the case of a man who allows or invites a person to reside in his house under an agree- ment of protection. If on the arrival of the person, his house is not secure, it is his business to make it so. Any loss arising on account of the owners neglect to provide against it, he can and must be made to make it good. A law of the house forbidding theft and robbery under severe penalties will not exonerate the owner. Most foreigners have been too easy and neg- ligent in this matter of Government responsibility, and a few cases carried out by way of example would settle the affair and do good.

Cremation Ceremonies.

The cremation ceremonies of the late PHYA MONTHRE SEREE-WONG were brought to a close this P. M. by ap- plying the torch to the funeral pyre The body had been lying in state at his late residence since his decease which took place 11th of June. On the morning of the 18th inst. it was conveyed in procession, from the late residence to the building which had been erected expressly for the occasion, and placed in position upon the funeral pyre.

This ceremony, which the Siamese call chack sop, was conducted by His Majesty the king in person, who came to the place, accompanied by part of the Royal family expressly for this purpose. This funeral pyre consisted of a square platform at the base about eight feet from the ground, and rising in the shape of a pyramid to the hight of about fifteen feet to the apex, upon which the body was placed in a in a beautifully gilded urn. This was inclosed by a white canopy rising to a dome over the pyramidal pyre, and having wide entrances to the centre, on the four sides, corresponding to the four points of the compass.

On the east and west sides of the Mane, were platforms erected for the theatricals. The one on the west side was a Siamese lakon. The scenery in the back-ground on this stage was quite romantic, representing huge, rough rocks piled up in wild grandeur, having various little crevices and miniature caverns, and covered in many places with wild, romantic fol- liage. The one on the east was a Chin- ese ngew, which seemed to consist chiefly in beating gongs, sticks and other nameless instrument of music making “night,”-—as well as day—- “hideous” with their jargon.

On the south side of the Mane were a dozen or more booths, erected principally for the accommodation of the family and friends of the deceased. In one of these was a nice dining hall, covered with a carpet, and supplied with chairs and tables, where, at all hours of the day, food and refresh- ments were neatly served to all visi- tors. Every thing about the Mane was tastefully arranged 'a la Siamese and there seemed to be but one thing that was an annoyance, and that was the great quantity of mud surrounding the premises. This, of course, was unavoidable, and was owing to the heavy rains that fell during the occa- sion. The immense crowd of natives constantly moving to and fro had so trodden the ground, softened with fre- quent rains, that it became like a lake of thin mortar, through which the natives waded as indifferently and contentedly as if it was their native element.

It was amusing to see the crowd scrambling after the lines containing money in this lake of mortar. It was delightful to watch them from a distance; but this part of the sport became very annoying to the Euro- peans visitors on returning to their boats the evening after the burning.

The excited crowd, all covered with black, filthy slime, very much after the fashion of the swine that were wallowing in the mire, came rushing along the dry walk that led to the landing, and, regardless of all manners or decency, dashed against every per- son who came in their way, bearing the finest silks and satins of the ladies as well as the the spotless linen and glittering ensignia of Consular dignity. This rudeness, while it was an annoyance to the sufferers, gave great pleasure and amusement to the rabble.

Precisely at 5½ o'clock this p. m. the torch was applied by His Majesty's own hands, who was followed, in this last ceremony of respect for the dead, by some of the royal offspring, some of the high priests of the city, the family and relatives of the deceased and others. In preparation for this ceremony, the urn containing the body is taken down from the summit of the pyramidal pyre, the upper part of the pyramid removed, bringing it down on a level with a platform, where the urn is placed upon several layers of wood. Over this is a canopy or ceiling made of thin layers of the plantain tree supported by four up- right posts. This covering, which is incombustible, is designed to counter- act the flame which rises up through the urn from the ignited wood con- suming the body. After the pile has been lighted every one according to his rank, ascends the steps and offers his token of respect for the dead, by casting into the flame his torch, or taper, or wax-candle. This constant adding fuel to the fire soon causes the flames to arise. Should the fire become too strong there are persons stationed near whose business it is to dampen it with water sufficient to keep the flames within bounds.

The body of the late PRAYA APAI SONGKRAM was also committed to the flames upon this same funeral pyre. He was a half brother of the late PRAYA MONTREE SUBER-WONG, and died only a few weeks after his brother. It is sad to see how the hand of death has been laid upon these two brothers in the prime of life. The family, the community, and the government deep- ly feel the loss.

The custom of burning, with the Siamese, is one that has been handed down from time immemorial. It makes a very fine show for visitors, and a grand display of taste in arrange- ment &c. but it must be a great bur- den of expense to be borne by the people and government. It would be a great relief to the people if they could be freed from such an oppres- sive custom.

There are many noble- man, now, who see the folly and dread the labor of such a ceremony, but dare not drop it because it is an old custom. When will there be one brave enough to face the storm of ridicule, and introduce a new and less burdensome custom?

Siamese Funeral Services.

A funeral service always affecting, is rendered much more so, when the deceased is a father of a large family who have always looked up to him for support and protection. And this is strikingly the case with Siamese no- blemen whose wives and children may be reckoned by tens and sometimes scores. Such a scene we witnessed to- day at the funeral of two Siamese no- blemen, sons of the late Somdeteli Ong- yai, the one titled Phya Montree Soo- riwonga, own brother to His Excellen- cy Chow Phya Kalahome Prime Minis- ter, the other Phya Apai Songkram a half brother. The weeks and months of preparation for the cremation while their bodies lay in state at their late respective homes, had past. The great white dome for a covering to the fu- neral pyre and the many accompany- ing buildings for the ceremonies, had been completed. The splendid urn for the one and rich coffin for the oth- er had been on the summit of the high pyramidal seat under the dome bril- liantly and tastefully adorned with fancy articles—-natural and artificial flowers and fruits with festoons, wreaths and garlands suspended from the dome’s high ceiling, had been on exhibition full three days. The exterior of the urn with all its rich adornings, together with the greater part of the upper sto- ries of the splendid pyramid had been removed, and a small pile of fire wood neatly arranged had taken the place thus vacated. The corpses thus dis- robed of their glory had just before our arrival been placed on the wood. And the multitudes who had attended the many exercises of preaching, pray- ing, incantations, feasting, and theat- ricals, were waiting in suspense for His Majesty to come and ignite the fu- neral pile which was now screened from the public gaze.

Within the enclosure on two sides of the dome were seated priests, princes, noblemen &c. On another side were the female mourners and friends, to- gether with nearly all the European la- dies residing in the city. On the fourth side where His Majesty was to approach the dome, were the European gentle- men comprising mariners, merchants, consuls, clergymen, etc. Without the enclosure on all sides were vast mul- titudes of both sexes and of all classes.

The hour of 5 o'clock P. M. had now arrived, which was the time appointed for the ignition of the funeral pile. Presently the royal heralds announced the approach of the king by their trum- pets and conch shells. All eyes were consequently turned to the quarter at which His Majesty was to enter, and a few strains of “God save the King” from the brass band introduced him very quietly into the presence of the dead, where he seated himself with a large number of his children before him or a dozen Buddhists priests ar- ranged in a line sitting on a carpet. These went through with certain re- hearsals and incantations for the dead, barely audible, but not to be under- stood, while His Majesty poured sa- cred water from a little teapot into a basin, it being a symbol of blessings craved for the departed spirits as well as for all the remaining friends.

The screen which had hidden the dismantling and humiliation of the bodies on the wood was now drawn aside. His Majesty then snapped an instrument, peculiar to the Siamese, which ignited a little powder, and then a taper, which, the King, having assembled the steps, applied to the fu- neral pile. Immediately the nearest mourners stepped up and placed each his wax candle and sandal sticks un- der the wood; and then the princes and lords in rapid succession did the same, until all order of rank was lost in the desire to manifest the same re- spect for the dead before the flames should become too hot to admit of approach. The fire increased with unusual rapidity.

There was no outburst of grief, but manifestly silent, solemn weeping a- mong some of the mourners. We could not but weep with them when we considered that they were weeping without one ray of the glorious hopes which the gospel affords to them who believe in Him who is "the resurrec- tion and the life".

His Majesty, having ignited the pile, immediately retired to a royal plappla or sala which had been made and set apart for his own exclusive occupation, and gave gifts of silver and gold to his princes officials and others. Before this was com- pleted we directed our steps home- ward as it was getting late, wish- ing to become disengaged from the immense crowd before it broke up and to breathe a pure air once more on the noble Menam. We have only inten- ded to give a birdseye view of what we saw, leaving a more full discrip- tion to an abler pen.

LOCAL.

In the last issue of our Siamese Recorder we published a strongly at- tested report of murder which occur- red at temple Sankachai in this city early in the month of last May. The matter had been so hushed up that the foreign community had heard nothing of it. The circumstances of the case as reported were briefly, that a pupil of Pranookrom a head priest at tem- ple Sanchahai was charged with steal- ing a salver and watch from priest Doonng. The latter caught pupil Daang and had a hard struggle with him for the purpose of binding him. And while engaged in the tussle in the darkness of night about 8 o'clock p. m. Daang drew a sailors knife and stab- bed the priest in the side who fell dead on the spot. The murderer was arrested and his case tried by judge Koon Klang. The culprit confessed his guilt in the matter and informed against another fellow pupil as being an accomplice with him in the act. Daang was kept in close confinement with fetters in the day time and was put in stocks at night. But Pran the accom-

pliœ was not put in confinement at all. Doonng was on the eve of being sent to the state's prison, when Pra- nookrom the chief priest of the tem- ple prevailed upon the judge by a bribe of 120 ticals to withhold the culprit from prison. Consequently the fetters were taken from the ankles, leaving the iron anklets on, just enough to make believe he was still in some sense a prisoner. He spent the most of his time with priest Pranookrom and a small portion of it with the judge. As to the accomplice P'an, he escaped entirely by paying the judge Koon Klang 40 ticals and his keeper 20 ticals, and this money is said to have been provided by priest Pranoo- krom. These bribes being paid, the judge said he would stay proceedings, and that Phya Booroot would inter- cede for the criminals and secure their discharge.

It appears from the report, that these two rascals with two associates had long before been in the habit of robbing orchards, and of stealing goods from the boats of the natives in the canal Bangkok-yai between the temples Hachasit and Moolecloke while moored at night time waiting for favoring tides—that they would pretend to be fishing for prawns—and wading in the water by the side of the boats, would steal any thing they could lay there hands on. For such conduct they were twice on the eve of being complained of to the authori- ties, but the proceedings were in both instances stayed by the influence of priest Pranookrom. It is said that at one time he did it by a bribe of 20 ticals and at another time by 28 ticals. Twice they were on the point of being reported to the king, but the influence of priest Pranookrom prevented it. Such it is said is a brief history of the two scoundrels before they mur- dered priest Dooang. And seeing that they were in all probability to be let loose upon the community as be- fore, a number of the neighbors deter- mined they would report them in the Siamope paper.

His Siamese Majesty's Gun-boat “Impregnable” returned yesterday from a cruising trip in the Gulf where she had been several weeks looking out for piratical vessels. We presume Capt. Walroad has had no engage- ment with pirates or any thing of par- ticular interest to report, or we should have heard something about it. The influence of the Impregnable cruising up and down the Gulf must be good in protecting country trading vessels and others, though she never find oc- casion to throw a shot at a pirate. And we are glad to learn that she is to be continued in the same useful service, and hope that we shall never have occasion to report that she ever dodges a piratical craft.

WEATHER.—-The nights for the most part since our last issue have been remarkably rainy and the days cloudy and drizzling. The great cre- mation ceremonies that have been held within that time in this city have consequently been robbed of much of their splendor. No one seems to have any doubt that a bountiful harvest of rice is to reaped at the end of this wet season.

The Second King of Siam.

The position of Second King in our view seems of little consequence. It has little executive power yet the very freedom from active service gives time and opportunity for discipline, study practice, making a reserve power for an exigency. The Second King just passed away has added much to the dignity, respect and power of the pre- sent reign. He commanded honor abroad and respect and fear at home. Every one felt that power was cen- tered in him adequate to an exigency and this belief gave stability to the reigning king. Such will always be the effect of the office of the Second King when well sustained. During the fif- teen years of the present reign there has not been one serious misunder- standing between the two kings. All has moved on with distinguished har- mony.

It should be the policy of the coun- try to give to the Second King every facility for discipline and progress as a reserve power. The last reign has stood very high in this respect, and if it had stood as high morally as politi-

cally it would have a high place in the annals of the world.

While the king was a great lover of European arts he did not seem in- clined to centre his hopes of heaven in the God which the European recog- nizes as the one, only living and true. There seems a great gulf between an eastern king and christianity. As I told the king during his last days, of the support and comfort of the chris- tian hope, I felt more than ever how difficult for an eastern king to accept of its truths.

"How hardly shall a rich man," says the scriptures. But with an eastern king it is the upturning of all the cus- toms that gives him influence, and se- curity, and external importance. Let him accept Christianity, and all the im- portant officers in his house-hold have no longer ties to secure their fidel- ity. Polygamy must be given up, and the daughters of the nobles of the land can no longer be with him, hold- ing a relation that makes them hos- tages identifying the hopes and inte- rests of the nobles with the king.

What! shall a king accept Christiani- ty and acknowledge as a consequence, that not one, perhaps of his great fami- ly of children have an honorable name-—that not one of the great cir- cle that have been truest and best to him have a claim to virtue? His hon- or and the honor of his household are a great wall of partition between him and christianity. A new king with a new basis and new customs, might make the acceptance of that religion as ye which now severs the relations, which give seeming security in life, and rivet connections that will secure lasting memory when they are dead. But shall an old king cling to his customs and lose his sons? "What is a man profited if he gain the whole world and loose his own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

What king shall accept the God which the West worship and prove, as is really true, that while the arts of the West are unrivalled, their God is the only God, and their religion the one true and the only sure basis of a pros- perous government.

State Liberality in Siam.

Those who know any thing of this country—-and who in these days has not heard of it?—-are accustomed to regard it as one possessed of the most liberal views and institutions, among the native states of Asia—-we may add, proverbially so. And this trait, it is pleasing to find, is becoming almost daily more and more developed, under the enlightened system of its present government. Nor is it say- ing too much to pronounce it an exam- plar o' Asia: rule altogether; and speak- ing of it markedly, to say that there is but one Siam on the map of the world. The deduction from reflection is, the wish that we had more countries with a similar degree of civilized enlightenment and liberality. Considering our proximity to the model state, and the prospect of an increased connection with it, in early course of events, it must naturally com- mand an interest in British Burmah, which we hope no circumstance will arise to lessen-—a change of rule being the only thing to be apprehended. These remarks have been induced by reading of the erection, near Bangkok, under the King's auspices, of a convenient and comforta- ble retreat for "the European commun- ity who may from time to time require change of air to recruit their health."

Such spontaneous thoughtfulness on the monarch's part, for the European pro- moters of the trade of his country, carries its own comment, and will ensure a suit- able appreciation from every right-think- ing European, in any part of the world, who becomes aware of the kindly fact, and who can at all calculate the sterling value of such an arrangement in a trop- ical country.—-MAULMAIN ADVERTISER.

The Priests and Idols of Siam.

"Like priests, like people," is an old adage. The priests of Siam are a class that uniformly appear what they are not. They take the manner of sanctimony, while all mischief is still rank in their heart. Their conversion is confined to their clothes. These must be yellow when they enter the priesthood.

The priests get their living without rendering an equivalent for their food, or clothing, or dwellings; and they have the very best the country affords in all these respects, except idols. For the idols are selected the very best locations in the country. All the taste the country can command is combined in laying out, arranging and ornamenting grounds, and then in erecting substantial, stately buildings, and fitting them up after the most ap- proved standard of taste for the idols.

This latter habit may have some sense in it. For while images of wood and stone cannot appreciate beauty, they can no more deface it. So these beautiful temple grounds are inoffen- sive to the most fastidious, while all living habitations are besmeared and polluted with varieties of filth, and thus most obnoxious to all sensitive organs. In the pictures of Siamese temples and their accompanying build- ings, you will notice large brick ed- ifices, surrounded by other smaller buildings. These are devoted to the idols, great and small, arranged as fancy or custom may dictate.

The priests live in the suburbs of the-temples, if I may so speak. They live in these buildings in a sort of club, as convenience dictates. They live, I say; it is not boarding, as at our institutions at home, but boarding themselves and begging their rice day by day the whole year round.

A gong or bell calls them up early in the morning; not, as at home, to give the best hours of the day to study, but to go forth with a sanctimonious face and a dish, and in the highways receive from seekers after merit a portion of food, cooked and assorted, that shall serve them for the day. So the morning passes in begging their bread from house to house.

Breakfast over, they read a little, teach a little in a most slack, inefficient way, to little purpose and with little consecutiveness. Interruption is the order of the day in Siam. The holi- days are without number, and he that would pursue a given plan for a single month, must make up his mind for a struggle, if he carry it out in any department whatever.

The priests can have but little time after breakfast, at any rate; for dinner comes at eleven o'clock, and then the eating for the day is finished, if I ex- cept tea and any little drinking diet. Most of the long morning is spent in begging food and eating it; and when this is well over, in the heat of the day they can do little but sleep and idle away the time. The cool of the eve- ning is a fine time for recreation and visiting. Morning and evening they repeat Bali prayers, and the learning of these is almost the only hard dis- cipline for the intellect in the country.

The priests have duties abroad at funerals, weddings, and on holiday occasions. At these places they go in companies, and only confound with their jargon, doing no good to the soul, and draining the good things of those who entertain them, to no purpose. They feast upon the luxuries of their entertainers, but give in return husks for the soul. Even when the priests really preach, their preaching is but an idle tale, at best, cold morality. There is nothing in all the teaching of the country that stirs up the spirit for greater and better things.

We long for a radical reform in these heathen temples. We would have the idols demolished, and the holy Bible put into the hand of every priest and pupil. We would have study take the place of food-hunting, and leave this department to other hands. We would have good books, made and translated, and all the temples furnished with them, and the priests well paid for teaching, and looked af- ter by vigilant committees, to see that their work was well done; that the vigilant and effective were promoted, and the negligent and inefficient re- proved.

Something must be done, and done immediately for this people, or the riches that are pouring in upon them as the result of their treaties with the western nations, will be their ruin by giving them increased means for dis- sipation.

I am now on a visit to Petchaburi, a pet town of the king, where he for the past few years has often had a thousand men at work on a mountain, building a country palace, with the et ceteras to make a visit to this town delightful. He usually comes twice in the year.—Money here is being turned comparatively to good account. It is being made to afford rational pleasure at any rate. There is a fine road to the mountains, and carriages and horses for morning and evening rides, which cannot yet be said of even the capital of the country. The Vice Governor was of the em- bassy to England, and believes in inter- nal improvements. He is actually laying the foundation for a college at Petchaberi, where he says he designs to give the teachers salaries, and re-

ceive tuition of the pupils. And he proposes to prove to parents that it will be more efficient, and cheaper ev- en, than giving their children to serve the priests to be taught to read and write. I am afraid even the Vice Governor of Petchaburi will not change the customs immediately. I found him, at any rate, feeding the priests most zealously this morning There are a hundred "Wats" in Petchaburi, and priests in proportion. What a great work, if these one hundred wats could be made seminaries, to teach the true religion and sound learning.

[*That noble purpose of the Vice Gov- ernor's, long talked about with lively hopes of success, we are sorry to say appears to have come to naught. It could not have been for the want of a good offer from abroad to furnish a superintendent teach- er and on quite reasonable terms, for such an offer he had at the beginning of the present year. We suspect that the true reason will be found to have sprung up and become strong in the fear felt by Buddhists generally, and even published in our Siam- ese Recorder more than a year since from the pen of one of their Champions that such institutions under the teaching of men or women from Christian lands would soon be- come essentially Christian seminaries and would not long hence convert all the land to Christianity. Such a result the lead- ers of Buddhism in Siam cannot contem- plate with the least approbation.] Ed.

Siftings.

SEVEN PIRATES were executed in two batches on Wednesday morning and seemed fully conscious of the dis- agreeable fate which had overtaken them. On Tuesday Wogo Qui Fook the murderer of Miss. Mervyn and her child underwent the penalty of his atrocious crime protesting with his latest breath that he was only the ac- cessary and that a friend had actually done the deed. The cold blooded atro- city of which make one wish that English law permitted the infliction of some more painful death than hanging. CHIEK ATÁI the notorious pirate leader has at length been caught. He was identified in the most satis- factory manner by the Captain of the Cæsar and that his name will be ad- ded to the list of those cut off by the (now) stern arm of the law is more than probable.

THE GUNBOATS have not been idle lately; two are now cruising and ano- ther is ready to go out if required. The Naval Authorities seem to be really in earnest in their wish to give all the help to suppress piracy they can.

YELLOW FEVER—-A case is said to have occurred within the last week on the public roads, but no very seri- ous alarm exists about the matter. It was probably a case of aggravated Hongkong fever if not the true vomi- to prieto; there seems to be a remark- able similarity between them, if in- deed the former be not a mild type of the latter.

AT NEWCHWANG—-The U. S. Cor- vette Wachusetts has been doing good service. Her commander, setting at nought the quills and foolscap of di- plomatists, landed a body of men and seized some 25 notorious scoundrels of those parts, including their chief, who had been implicated in the late attack upon the American Consul. They have been delivered into Chin- ese custody and will we fancy be kept securely, the authorities having found out by this time the difference be- tween English talks and American dahlgrens, the latter having when cause exists a violent way of talking which renders household property in the line covered by their muzzles an undesirable investment. After all we have heard and read of Newchwang—- woodracks, authorities and populace put together, we could pardon the Wachusetts a “multitude of sins” for such energetic action.

FROM PEKING we learn that there has been a rising of the Poles in Sibe- ria and that the Russian Government has requested the Chinese to aid them in preventing insurgents from crossing the Mongolian Frontier. The Bear asking help from the Dragon! This is a new step in the way of admitting China into the comity of nations which will gratify our Peace Party most thoroughly.

LI FUTSI’s “ever defeated” train of troops have been getting another thrashing on the North bank of the Yangtze. Their opponents this time were a mob of peasantry who manag- ed to “wipe out” about one third and of them

THE AMERICANS have also some trouble to settle with the Chinese authorities of this province, and the “Wachussetts” is expected to return in about a fortnight to complete the arrangements for com- pensation demanded by the United States Government of the cowardly and sacreli- gious conduct of the Chinese at Tung- Chow-foo. The inhabitants assaulted the American missionaries who have been living there most peacefully for the last five years and actually broke and defaced the tombstones that had been erected to the memory of some deceased brethren.

It is to be hoped that they will receive a salutary lesson for such conduct, and the Commander of the “Wachussets” who exhibited such firmness in settling matters at Newchwang, will doubtless arrange things here in a similar manner. Every step taken by Western nations to vindicate the liberty of action of their subjects in this empire, is a step in advance for as- similating the people of China to our civilisation; and every foreigner in China will reap the benefit of a perfect under- standing being established that no Chinese mandarin, of whatever grade he may be, can insult the feelings of Europeans without meeting the penalty of such mis- conduct.

We subjoin the following statement of Missionary labours in China from the Missionary Directory of which we have just received a copy and for which we have to return our thanks to the compi- ler:—-

The number of Missionaries given re- presents, as near as possible, those on the field, June 15th 1866. The other statistics are to the close of 1864.

In addition to the 9 members received in 1865 by the London Missionary Society at Hongkong, the Rev. Dr. Legge also baptized 7 prisoners at the gaol. Of the 22 members received by the Evangelical Missionary Society of Basel, 9 were at Hongkong, 9 at Li-long, and 4 at Chong- lok. Of the 200 members in connection with that Mission, 49 are at Hongkong. 66 at Li-long, and 85 at Chong-lok.

The 347 members reported by the American Reformed Dutch Mission at Amoy do not include 14 at Chang-chau, who disappeared when the rebels held that place, and whose fate is not certainly known.-—EVENING MAIL, AUGUST 3.

New Ministry.

The Earl of Derby has succeeded in forming a new Ministry which is now composed as follows:—- Prime, Minister ……… Earl Derby. Minister for Foreign Affairs. Lord Stanley Lord High Chancellor…. Lord Chelmsford. Chancellor of Exchequer.. Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli. Secretary of State for India, Earl Cranbourne. Secretary for the Colonies. Earl Carnarvon. " for Ireland…. Lord John Manners " of State for the Home Dept…. Rt. Hon. S. Walpole. First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir J. Pakington. President of the Board of. Trade Sir Stafford Northcote. " Poor Law Board…. Mr. Gathorne Hardy.

The LEGITIMATE result of unrestricted sin is unmitigated self-condemnation— which is HELL.

To pardon a TRAITOR while glorying in his TREASON is TREASON in its highest degree and in its DARKEST FORM.

The Seven days' War.

So fast are the movements of modern war, and so quickly are its issues decided, that it may be said, almost literally, that the ancient rivals in Germany, who, a century ago, waged a wearisome bloody war with each other in Bohemia and Silesia for seven long years, have now fought as much, done as much, and de- cided as much in seven days. That Austria would have been so soon and so completely beaten was against all reason- able expectation. Now that the war, or at least the first act of the war, is over, it seems as if nothing could have been simpler. The First Prussian Army issued out of Saxony, and soon found itself op- posed to large forces of the enemy. Af- ter various turns of fortune, it finally established itself in its desired position by the storming of Gitschin. The Sec- ond Prussian Army issued out of Silesia, had a bloody battle at Nachod, still pres- sed on, and effected a junction with the First Army, having been aided by the arrival of the Prussian Guards, who came by an intermediate route, and gained a decisive victory over the Saxons and the Austrians under Clam-Gallas. The Prus- sians must have had in the field, after their two armies were united, a force of not much less than two hundred thousand men. An equal force of Austrians was resting on the fortresses of Königsgrätz and Josephstadt, and protected by the Elbe and one of its tributaries. At length, on Tuesday the 3rd of July, a day for ever memorable in the history of Europe, that great battle was begun that was to decide the fate of so many men, and the destiny of so many nations. At six o’clock in the morning the first shot was fired, and at seven in the evening the great Austrian army, under the re- nowned Benedek, was in utter rout, broken, disheartened, powerless.

The following calendar of events is published in the MEMORIAL DIPLOMA- TIQUE:—-

“June 14.—-Federal execution decreed by the Germanic Diet.

“16.—-Entry of the Prussians into Leipsic, Giessen, and Cassel. Occupa- tion of Föòsu.

“June 17.-—Entry of the Prussian General Vogel into the Hanoverian cap- ital.

“June 18.-—Occupation of Marienthal, Ostritz, and Lauban, in Bohemia, by two Prussian regiments, and occupation of Dresden by the Prussians.

“June 19.-—Evacuation of Port Wil- helm by the Hanoverian troops. Prince William of Hanau made prisoner. Caval- ry encounter between the Austrians and Prussians upon the Rumburg road.

“June 22.—-Nixdorf occupied by 7,000 Prussians.

“June 23.-—Occupation of Rumburg by the Prussians.

“June 24.—-Armistice between the Hanoverian and Prussian troops.

“June 25.—-Action near Jungbunzlau between the Austrians and the Prussians. The Prussian troops occupied Reichen- berg, Trautenau, and Aicha (Bohemia).

“June 26.—-Engagement near Turnau.

“June 27.—-The army of the Crown Prince of Prussia fought the battle of Nachod. Engagement at Oswiecin. Fight between the Prussians and Hanoverians near Langensalza. General Steinmetz throws back the Austrian CORPS D’ARMÉE (Ramming) upon Josephstadt. Engage- ment of the same corps with the 6th and 8th Austrian corps under the Arch- duke Leopold.

“June 28.—-Action near Trautenau. The troops of Prince Frederick Charles engaged near Münchentgrätz.

“June 29.—-The Hanoverian army surrendered at discretion. Capture of Gitschin by the Prussian army.

“June 30.—-Actions at Kort, near Turnau, and at Chwalkowitz, between Kalitz and Königshof. An Austrian army corps under General Clam-Gallas compelled to retire upon Königgrätz.

“July 1.—-Action at Gitschin.

“July 2.—-Arrival of King William at Gitschin. Junction of the Crown Prince’s army with that of Prince Frederick Charles’.

“July 3.—-The battle of Sadowa.”

THE FLOATING DOCK AT Saigon is now ready for use and the largest ships can be repaired in it—-a fact that gives the official Courier’s matter for five large columns of rejoicing. But things have lately not been quite so satisfactory in the French colony as is represented.

One of the aspirants to the throne of Cambodia, residing under the protection of the French, suddenly collected a num- ber of men and on 7th June appeared before the fort of Tay-ninh and killed the two French officers with several of the soldiers. Reinforcements were sent from Saigon and came up with the enemy, who far outnumbered them, at 3 P. M. of the 14th. After a desperate hand to hand fight in a marsh, the French, who could not remain in such a place and had no provisions, returned to the fort of Tay-ninh which they reached at 3 A. M., leaving the enemy enfeebled and “immobilized.” Lieutenant Colonel Mar- chaire, the commander of the expedition, fell mortally wounded in the fight; 10 of his men were killed with him.

As LORD STANLEY was favourable to the Bill introduced into Parliament by the Russell-Gladstone Ministry for mak-

ing the Straits Settlement a Crown Col- ony, there is little doubt that it will pass this Session. At first the Act will con- tinue all existing laws, administrative establishments and officials' rights as they are.

THE SUPREME COURT of Natal is, an compelled by the English decision, up- holding the proceedings of Bishop Colen- so. The Dean has been commanded to receive an order from Dr. Colenso as a Bishop of the Church and refuses to do so. One of the churchwardens, although not elected in due form, has forcibly en- tered the cathedral by an order from the Court and it is rumoured that the next move will be the seizure of the com- munion plate. It is a pity that such a scene should be inevitable and the fall of the ministry is likely to postpone the passing of Mr. Cardwell's Bill which would prevent more scandal.—-FRIEND OF INDIA.

THERE is a rather unpleasant state of affairs at Bangkok. The King has built a palace in the midst of the soldiers' bar- racks for the heir apparent and has taken other measures, that look as if he wanted to depart from the custom of an elective monarchy and secure the succession for his son. A rumour has got about that a French Company has applied for the concession of a belt of land, 25 miles broad, across the Kraa isthmus in the Malayan Peninsula, for the purpose of making a ship-canal. We hope they will succeed in carrying out a scheme often urged upon the Indian Government by engineer officers, but which would be of very little advantage to navigation even if practicable, which we doubt. The long disputed question as to whether the province of Chiangmai is subject to Bur- mah or Siam has been decided in favour of the latter.—-STRAITS TIMES.

[When was it ever questioned by any one in Bangkok whether the Province of Cheang- mai properly belonged to Siam or to Burmah? During all the 31 years of our residence in the city we have never before heard the question mooted. The correspondent of the "Straits Times" must have had a vivid dream of it, and written with a strong impression that such a question had long been agitated; or he must have written with as little regard to truth as did the author of Neale's residence in Siam.] Ed.

Japan.

"Our readers will probably remember the name of Kubota Sentaro, lately in command of the Japanese Garrison here. He was, on the occasion of the review and sham fight on March 21st, the guest of Colonel Brown of H. M. XX. Regt. and directed the movements of the Jap- anese troops on that day. He was well known and much liked by many officers of the regiment which has just left us. It is with much regret that we have to tell, as we are sure it is with sorrow that his friends in the XX. at Hongkong will hear, the sad end to this able and prom- ising officer's career."

"It appears that about eighteen months ago a private convention was entered in- to between the Yedo authorities and the French Minister here, by virtue of which military instructors were to be sent out to train the armies of the Shogoon. Meanwhile, the native troops had com- menced drill on the Dutch and French model. Kubota, some months ago, how- ever, asked from Col. Browne the ser- vices of an officer of the XX. Regiment to drill a body of about 1000 or 1200 troops, which request being granted, these men were soon brought into a high state of discipline. Kubota had mean- while translated the English drill-book, and every thing was going on very satis- factorily until about three or four weeks ago, when he was suddenly sent for to Yedo, and summarily degraded, his English drilled officers dispersed amongst other regiments, and his men relegated to the French drill. His house here was given up to loot, his property confiscated, his pay reduced to 100 kokus of rice and himself condemned to confinement in his own house. At Yedo, it seems, that his drilling troops in the English manner and translating the English drill-book had been complained of as a breach of the contract with the French. His trans- lating the book without orders was made the pretext for his punishment. His fail having been thus contrived, this high- spirited officer, unable to bear his dis- grace, attempted to commit the Hara-kiri. His friends prevented him from carrying out his intention, which, however, was re- ported to the Government, who ordered him to be beheaded, for the offence of at- tempting the Hara-kiri without permis- sion. By this time, however, the unfor- tunate man's reason was upset, according to the reports of his friends, and power- ful intercession being used, his life was spared; but he remains now, it is said, a hopeless lunatic. This latter point may be an exaggeration or an invention by his friends to save his life, but the main facts of the case are indubitable. Such is the end to the career of one of the most intelligent and able Japanese officers whom we have ever had the fortune to meet—-a courteous, highspirited gentle- man and with the making of a good soldier in him. Who cannot but sympathise with him in this unhappy fate and with those Japanese who complain bitterly to us that the yoke of their gallant "allies" is becoming more than they can bear!"—-O. C. Mail.

Slavery Dead.

Mr. Beecher includes not only the col- ored race, but women in the policy of uni- versal suffrage which he advocated in this sermon,-—a sentiment which was received with "moderate applause," according to the reporter. The following telling com- parison was introduced towards the close:—

"I have an etching at home of which I am now reminded. It is a picture of a dead boar, near whom are two great dogs, in at the death. The boar lies in stiffness of unmistakable death. He is dead in the eye, dead in the snout, dead in his limbs, dead all over. One of the mastiffs stands at a little distance distrustful and appre- hensive—-his eye never leaves the carcasS of his ancient enemy, and he trembles at every disturbance of his hair by the play- ful wind; the other dog is stretched upon the grass, his nose resting upon his paws, and his eyes closed as if in sleep, but a careful observation shows that he keeps one eye just enough open to enable him to watch the dead body before him, in whose death he is but a doubtful believer. Just so there are people who don't believe in the death of slavery. Dead! Why, it's dead in eye, in snout, in body and limb, in every hair and fibre of frame, and yet they watch, and fear, and grumble. [Tremen- dous applause.]

Watch, mastiffs, watch, but there is no resurrection for slavery."—-PACIFIC.

CORRECTION.

In the Tide Table of the Bangkok Calendar for 1866 for May, June, Au- gust, and October, for High read Low, and for Low read HIGH.