ESDAY, a sr eaeee ect oP clone austria ved, Pope deciared the concordat should have been regarded by in effect, and he warns all persons who oi a passed by the pre pan con- bee pe * Press, toleration,” civil marnage and education to beware of the spiritual pains and atiached to violations of the sacred rights of the 4 delivery wh this aparetion, anted a general par- te those who laneded the States of the with a few — exceptions, 24.—The hgrath had adjourned until ajdournment, Prime Mi- ermabers vo ~ threats of enforcing overnment the law in regard to the confessional. : (midnight) In the House of Commons . Trish Refurn was read a third time, vse ene! peo. cv eeres aed Gonvention with the United States is still pend~ House of Commons, the Government is endeav- to-night, the Question seed, hut no edion Wel tile. ng interest way manifested in the ques- cigar pare Her sy one in Abye: 80 m captivity Theodorus, had arrived in Bagaed and to-day public gee at King's oolee. Byes Bon was and warmly welcomy a large as- of the citizens of I ies : f - June 24, (even).—-Sunday next has been ap- a day of thankagi througout Great Britain for success of the yt Oi expedition. The United States Squadron under Farragut arrived off Cowes. It is reported in ne recently received from the Con- + op so oa ey Government Sgn a sitesi var ropresentatives of t power their tries, announcing that Italy will remain strictly neu- the event of war between France and Prussa, Loxvoy, June 29.—The British Steamship Urgent, with Major Napier and staff on board, arrived at Malta Peg on the way to England, ‘The health of Count on Bismarck, who is at present living privately on his estate in Pomemia, has much improved within ‘the past few days. Trince Napoleon arrived at Coustantinople yesterday from Bucharest. New Yours, June 29.—Advices from Japan via San are to June Sth, The Mikado at the head of & powerful army, had aarived near Yeddo, and compel- the scan to cede nearly half of his private territory, disband his army and navy, and himself torstire to Mito, _..., for which’ place “he left.on the 12th of May on foot, in ‘ ‘token of humility. A strong coalition of Damesus had : beea formed in favor of the ‘I'ycoon, and bloody war was preysiling,. oe = beers: po A ee an Se’ - ~ ad ~ ee é Ei “ : + 1% 7 | ee ..- »“ Nothing in the Papers.” — Le Canada has been informed that the Imperial Gov- erninent decided to'demolish the useless fortifications of ‘the City of Quebec, only retaining the present citadel, which ‘is to be covered by a number of land forts. he works in question are practically obsolete, not worth repairing,—s6 much so that they are falling to pieces, and could be battered down with a field gun, The impregnable site and the mag- nificent citadel, however, remain, and so long as Cape Dia- mond lifts ity majestic head over the surface of the St. Law- rence, the bristling coronet on its summit must ever be the Gibraltar of North America. An Havana despatch of the 3iet ult., says: News has’ been brought to the Island of St. Vincent a French vesee! that the passengers and crew of the sloop Superior, which was supposed to have foundered. off the Grenadine Isles cighteen months ago, are still alive ‘on the Spanish Main, but are in slavery. ‘Tne Uxkxnown.—It is supposed that the party who Was seen to jump from Molson’s Wharf into the river was Signor Barricelli, whose body was recovered a few days on Signor Barricelli had been handmaster of the « fles, and at the time of the suicide was in a very desponding state of mind.—Montreal Telegraph. « Henry Hesslein, Esq., proprietor of the Halifax Hotel, entertained the members of the Germania society of this _ elty at a dinner in the Hotel, on Monday last, on the oc- _¢asion of irre gpa the new German fing. The attend- “ance was large, and the proceedings of a very interest- ing character.—J/v. Journal. ». The Imperial Government has addressed an energe- _ tie remonstrance to the United States Government on _ the subject of the Fenian demonstrations which are lg pore to go on unchecked within the territory of American Republic. Aweekly newspaper, to advocate Annexation to the United States, is soon to be established in Charlottetown, P.E.1. We predict that the sheet will be short lived, as we do not believe the ‘ tight little Island’ is yet ripe for Annexation.— Hz, Journal. The Anglican Synod in Ontario refused to adopt a form of prayer for the Lieutenant Governor, on thé _ ground that while the Governor General (who was ‘prayed for) represented the Queen, ihe Lieutenant Gov- ernor did mot. The officers of Ti, 1. M. Onondago, previous to their departure for France, presented Dr. B. Cu ran’ ae a pestone gold -wateh, as an acknowledgement of his attention while fhoy remained gt this port—Hr. j ie Acoop Joxe.—When at the battle of Monterotondo, ote after having hid in a confessional, at last took to “his heels, the French soldiers, who are always ready for a pe joke, called him Le Ducde Mon-tre-ton-dos (the Due Show .. thy back), Monter ton do. -*. Mr. Beaman’s bill, re-establishing Ropipecciey ee re- etived the approval of the Detroit Board of Trade which has taken steps to secure the co-operation of similar bodies in Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleve- _Jand and other places. We understand that the prapriatoe of the Halifax Hotel contemplates enlarging the building, the in- a business of the establishment requiring great- * er facilities for the accbmmodation of the pablic.—He. ‘ | Express. Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa is reading in New York. Her husband was editor of the Irish gg a0 and is now under sentence of penal servitude for life for : tweaking the mane of the British Lion, ¢ Empress of the French has had a long interview Madame de Miramon, widow of General Miramon, : was shot with Maximilian, and has conferred upon her a pension of £240 per annum. | "Phe Journal de Quebec says that there arc in the Provinces of Quebec, over fourteen hundred lawyers, aod that their number is yearly increasing te on cee Small-pox must he exceeding! valent and of a fatal type Montreal moet. No leas than fe cigitecn: avictim toitlastweek. |, The Opinione states that the French troops will be with- i drawn, Rome before the convocation of the @cumenical + ¥ & Fx ite 4 #1 E iy i I i oH Po aed bee: * The Bishop of London has put the President of the United States into the peso hon along with the Charles . of Detroit, who proposes to shoo! pega eae Falle, in an ladin-ebber bent, bas gels to the } to fix the preliminaries. The troop ship Hfmalaya left yesterday afternoon, with the th Ret a portion of the 17th and a number of women oy eet iy Express, June %6. Z N { Herald says, that Reverdy Johnson has been tre to demand an hinmediate settlement of se Bank of Montreal has subscribed $1 to the that thie export of shingles, from Frederic- . this yéar, will reach one handred millions. yg is . ed and [reland are being actively canvassed by can- Parliamentary honors at the next election. 10 8 i * ; j Times' dent summarises the Agricul. The profits of the London Times for the last year : _ race igs rom £100,000. i it ‘ A City Hall is to be erected in St, John, N. B. r. Sullivan, of the Nation, has been released, The Chicago Tribune bad a 8 Napierville, IIL, giving an tof the a whole church congregat t on Sun The chroch was celebratin; been Ly ared in a cop init all day, til thediqui 0 i who partook of it wete poi . ‘all dl the most excruciating pain. Medical assiatange was at once suinmoned, but it was a long time before the entire namber (about one hundred and thirty) could be attend- edto. About twenty of the number were regarded as in a dangerous condition, but nove have yet died, and it is hoped that all will recover. Apvvicrs from peer. by the English mail, state thata combined attack had been made on the rear of Lopez’ po- sition at Humaita, and after a te battle, the Para- guayans repulsed them, ‘The seige of [Tumaita still continues. The fort is closely invested by land and water. Lopes, with an army of ten thousand men, is strongly fortified on the river Tebicuari, According to the New York Herald, the rumours that the govornment of the United States m- tends to interfere and demand that there shall be no ct. of government in Paraguay without the consent of t people themselves, are gaining credence and tend to sustain the courage of the Paragua, ans, : ' The Melbourne Argus, the leading Australian paper, says :—“ That the crime of O'Farrell has any political signifleance, that it was prompted by any local organiza- tion, or that it was anything more than the reckless act of man with a taint of a pw Ar his blood, subject to ungovernable passtons, and suffering from that disease of the brain which is the bequest of hard drinking, to wit, delirium tremens, we must continue to doubt, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary. Fenianism is dishelieved to have any existence on the continent of Australia or In the neighboring island of Tasmania.” It is said that a bundle of letters between Lord Byron and the Monks Si. Lazarus, with whom he once resided, has been discovered on the top of a bookcase in the monastery of Mekitaristra, The alleged discoverer is a monkey, who was playing pranks on the bookcase in question, Melton, the celebrated Canadian trotting horse, in a match for $1,000, in Detroit, with Palmer, an American horse, valued at $20,000, won easily in three. straight heats in 2:44, 2:37, and 2:37}. Betting was 100 to 30 in favor of Palmer. Ifon. Reverdy Johnson will be accompanied abroad by his wife and youngest son, who will fill the position of assistant Secretary of the United States Legation, recently made vacant by resignation. Some of the American papers assert that Chicf Justice Chase will consent to be put in nomination as the Demo- cratic or Conservative candulate for the Presidency, in opposition te General Grant. : The Montreal Gazetle calla loudly for the trial of Whelan by a special commission. Ma. Rethix,—Dear Sir.—Wonld you be pleased to in- form your readers, that the Volunteer Band did not re- fuse to play on Hillsborough Square; they wore forbidden by the Committee of that Square to play watil further notice ; and they applied in the proper quarter to be al- lowed to play on the top of the Colonial Building ona Thursday evening, bat would not be allowed, ONE OF THE BAND, July ist 1868. Mr. A. H. Str. Genmats, Proprietor of the Canadian Advertising Agency, Toronto. Ont., is our Sore Agent for procuring American Advertisements, and is authorized also to receive Canadian Advertisements Sor this paper. Bhe Herald. _ et emt er Wednesday, July 1, 1868. — ars nag ett “TIIR IRISH IN AMERICA,” Have our readers read John Francis Maguire's work —'The Irish in America”? Ef they havo, they will, no doubt, agree with us that it is a very attractive work. It is written in a lively, vigerous style, suited to the popular taste, and contains many instractive aneedotes, interspersed with suggestive facts, and much sound ad- vice to the intending Irish emigrant. As an historical, philosophic work, however, we are much disappointed in it; but in this, perhaps, we are unreasonable, Et would be utterly impossible for the most gifted man to give a history of “ the Irish in America,” within the time Mr. Maguire took to accomplish this task. Such a history and such a work would require years of patient, personal investigation, Mr. Maguire commenced his tour of inspection among his countrymen on this side of the Atlantic, in Nova Scotia. Thence he erossed over to this Island, and hence to New Brunswick, and finally the principal towns and States in the Union. This ex- tensive tour he performed in some eight or nine months, Considering, therefore, the ground over which he travelled, and the time devoted to it, Mr. Maguire has accomplished a great deal in the book before us. He places His countrymen before the world as he saw them and heard them described by reliable informants. Altogether, ‘the Irtsh in America” have no reason to feel ashamed of the picture which their talented coun- . tryman has drawn of them. It is only the sky and not their natare which has changed by crossing the sea to the New World, The Irish in America are possessed of the saine abiding faith and simplicity of tastes which distinguished them athome, Indeed, under the influences of free Institutions,combined with a fitting return for their labor, the vast majority of them have made respectable and steady advances in the aecumulation of wealth, in Edueation and in social position. ‘The stigma, that the Trish,as a race,are lazy and improvident, is palpably false in America, nor does any one but the most ignorant and prejudiced among their enemies venture upon such an expression of opinion now-a-days. Of the various elements and nationalities whith have peopled America, the Irish, above all others, is most deserving of the serutinizing attention of the philosophic historian. ‘The English and the Scotch have had immense odds in their favor on the old soil, both as regards civil rights and educational advantages. Nor is it surprising that under such circumstances, the Irish have occupied an inferior position to thei more favored fellow-subjects.—Specu- lative politicians and theorizing zealots have not been slow to assign reasons, often ridiculously false, to ac- count for the ‘apparent jucrtness of the Irish people. But tt is only in America, where our countrymen start in the race of lif, With anything like a fair equality, that the fullacy of politicians and sectaries, with respect to the inferiority of the Irish people, receives a satisfactory refutation. Mr. Maguire, has, to a certain extent, sne- cessfully applied himself to the task of exploding a national delusion, which has received force and direc. tion from centuries of misrepresentation, contamely and wrong. But he has not, of necessity, gone to that extent in sifting this question, which the nature of the subject required, or which the title of his work would lead us to expect. After the completion of his work, he appears to have realized this fact, for, in his preface, he informs us that “ more than one motive Inflaenced him in the desire to visit America, and record the results of his Impressions in a published form.” “TI desired,” he says, “to ascertain by personal observation what the Irish—thousands of whom were constantly emigrating, as it were, from my very door—were doing in America; and that desite, to eco with my own eyes, and judge with my own mind, was stimulated by the conflicting and contradictory accounts which reached home through varios channels and sources of information, some friendly, more fostile. I was desirous of understand- Ing practically the value of man’s labor and industry, as applied to the cultivation of the soil and the develop- |plea thatin | thing could he hoped from them in their own conn a sna ngage le country was their o ‘been so much the fashion of Or excuse even the oe ng to-thapdor and defenceless, on.thé enee ir ‘want of capital’ no- resource ; or to alr of duy material Improvement in the condition anteireumstances of Ireland until ‘capital’ —meaning bullion or bank-paper—was by some means or other introduced, and applied to her soil, that I de- termined to test this problem, or fullacy, by visiting settlements actually in their infancy, thus going to the very commencement, and seeing how the first lties were overcome, and how progress was gradually effect- ed. I have, in more than one instance, given the result of my own observation in this respect; and where I had not the opportunity of judging for myself, I have relied on the accounts given to me by persons both intelligent and trustworthy. In whatever prominence I have given to this subject, I had another and distinct purpose in view——to combat, by argument and illustration, a sad error, into which, from many causes and motives, the Trish are unhappily betrayed; that of not selecting the right place for thelr special industry—of the Lrish asant lingering in the city until he becomes merged n its population, and his legitimate prospects of a future of honor and independance are lost to him forever. And to this portion of the volume I earnestly implore the at- tention of those by whom advice may be usefully given or influence successfully exerted, so that its lesson may be urged upon such as have still the cholee ofa future before them. I desired to learn if, as had been confl- dently and repeatedly asserted, Irish Catholics lost their faith, or became indiferent to religion, the moment they landed in America; or whether, as it had been asserted In their defence, they were at once the pioncers and the pillars of their faith. In this enquiry I was mainly influenced by the cogviction that loss of faith or indifference to religion would be the most terrible of all calamities to [rish Catholics; that the necessary result of that loss of faith or that indifference to religion would be fatal to their material progress, would disastrously interfere with the proper performance of their duties as citizens, and would be certain to turn the public opin- ion of America against them. [have devoted a con- siderable portion of the following pages to this vital subject, and given rather an elaborate sketch of the A ’ a. ov Imi .—Mr. Alex. Beaton, of East Pola sommmuiclips te following facts :-—‘ Along the [north side of thé won| extending many miles from East Polat, is 9 geiadro ¥ of ants, or pismires, in some P insects.