'to find flint Mr. Sumner rests his “'lltlitlil’luhf Scottish zlntencan Journal, .llay -.. c .

«use all the supposed wrong done to the Fulton by this recognition tit southern bel- ligeivncy. because his argument in this particular is so untenable that even. the most fanatical Northerner must see till“ ,bolfowocssol it. \\‘bile the Americans are proposing to recognize the iiidependancc ; -of Co a, an army iiiled by a Spaiiisliflov-i cram and held by a Spanish ariiiy.in which an insurrection as broken out ,whieliis yet tin its iiifanchhey oavllat oitr Government for having admitted as lielligerents n Nor- thern President to be in a state of block- :idc. agahist about he. proceeded after the. method and with all the courtcsie: oi regii- 1 air war, it people which_iiiainlaincd its' Hepfll‘fllt‘. Government for the better part of four years. and brought. into the field an army of half a million ol )lN‘li. instead oi blaming us for the strictly legal and impar- ‘tial position assumed by our tiowrnment .in this ct'i is, the friends of the lTnion owu .Iis thanks feignot having reegni/ed, as we well llll'Vllf. have done. and as an influen- tial allytliivlted us to do. the iiulcpciidence of the Confederacy and the destiuctiun of the baton.“ The Edinburgh Scotsman says: “Slip- posiiig Mr. Charles Sumner s caks the «sentiments of the bulk of his countrymen respecting the Alabama claims. as we are. lISolll‘L‘ti he docs they will never be. paid by this country—bydciiinnding C’UU,000.- 000 as an indemnity bc determines c "

reasonable man to resist the entire claims, and to dcclinoto pay one farthiiig. ,. . . . . if Mr. Snmnergivts voice to the ruling opinion of America on this subject. which

a

is doubtful. seeing the Americans pos AnglicSaxon brains, and if this rii lIlIL' opinion is strong enough to bear hgis live action being taken upon it. \\i still more unlikely, string Aiiieiieans ..te endowed with Anglo-Saxon caution, we must make ll) our minds that tla y ire bungcring imi thirstiiig for a war wilh llritaiu; and ii is for them to know before- hand that there could be no war into which this country could enter with more unani- mity and benrtiiicss of feeling than a war with the United States with this as the ens": built. and that. in face of these de— mands tlic ultra-American linglisliiiicn would set down his foot. that the Star would be lotiiid patriotic, and perhaps .\lr. (iohlwin Smith be found on the side of his country and against America."

The Dundee Advertiser : ' : “Mr. Sunincr's speech to the Amer 1 Senate, on the Alabama claims, has been received in this country with pain, and perhaps something mere. as indicating demands that all but preclude the thought ()l nego- tiation, and suctii to take away almost the last chance of settling the differences of the two countries. ‘ ‘ li,as now seems likely, Mr. Motley is on his way to Eng- land with demands such as Mr. Siiinner’s speech indicates, can the llritish (lovcrn- merit meet them with anything but an on. licsitating rejection? ‘Mr. Sumner is not satisfied with pay for the dcprcdatioiis of the Confederate cruisers. liis demand is that we shall acknowledge our fault and liability, and share the cost of the war. lie will be reasonable enough to admit that we only protracted the struggle to twice the length it: would otherwise have been. Therefore if we pay one half the national cost. and compensate American merchants for their losses. not. merely by the deprcdations of the Alabama, &c.. but by the fact thot these dcpi'edations drove the cnrr 'ing trade of the Union from the seas, it. is quite possible that Mr. Sumner may advise the Senate to let by-goncs be

‘ by- tones—always granting. however, that We first freely admit our fault. These are stern terms to put before a great natiop,

_wilh its strength unbroken. They Will

. assuredly be rejected.

..____. BURIED Auvn IN A Coxvnxr. —Tlie

Civil Governor of Madrid lately received

an annonymous letter. informing him that

a human being was confined in a hole in a

Madrid convent little more than a yard

square. and on proceeding to the place he found a young woman, aged about twenty eight, who had been for several years shut

tip in this horrible den. She belongs to a

respectable family in South America.

When she came to Madrid she was young

and beautiful. but lierhusband. suspecting her of untaithfulncss, sought. the almoncr of the convent, and it was agreed between them that the wife should be shut. up in one of tliocclls. For five years he has acted in this capacity to the satisfaction of the husband. More will be heard of this Case, which is now it) the hands of justice.

POLYUAMY ANDTHE i’mxcvss or W "I The institution ofpofygniny srathcrs al ' —nt all events in the Turkish doiiiinions. Turkey is not; go ting much richer. whilst lho times are getting very much worse. Many wives, in short, are being found too expensive. and one partner is rapidly be- coming tlic fashion. More than this. it has been reserved for the Princess of Wales to deal a ruthless blow at the social iii- cq iality of the two sc xcs in Turkey. hia- ho nincilan rites and manners forbid the in ting of women at the table with their ,iurds; but when the Princess 'nme there was no help for it. licl‘ lliglmcss could not be relegated to tho seraglio whilst the Prince of Wales and the Sultan crossed their legs and smoked their pipes in solitary state; A place not. only for tho l’rinccn. but for three other indies, was made at the table of the Sultan. This at least is a be- ginning. More intercourse of this kind can hardly fail to give the women of Tut'- key a better status and thus raise the tone of social lilo among these people.

The visit of l’iinco Arthur to ireland has. we regret to say. been made the oc- casion for considerable ill turbance. the object being to iiianil'cst the displeasure of certain parties in the North, :it the aboli- tion of the Established (Tliiiieh. The cler- gyman nt liillariicy preached in this Prince‘s presence against the (lunch llill; and in Derry. when the. procession march- ed in front of him as he stood in the l)f|i- may of the Corporation flail, groans were given for Downt- and Gladstone. and cheers for the Queen, Prince Arthur, and the Duke of Abci'corn. in the evening. a serious collision between the l’rotestant‘ party and the Catholics took place. in which three lives were lost. and a great many injured.——!{ovolvcrs Were lrcnly used. and a number of houses wrecked by Fiona throwing.

-——r lly Cable we learn that the lion. lllIV- :Iit .iiinxsox took formal leave of the Queen by letter last week. lie had an interview willi Lord ('l.\l: xnox. the l"or< eign Secretary. on 'l'liursday, when he oil'i ally announced his retirement. and presented Mr. Monxx as ('liarge d‘Ail'aires until the ariivid of his successor. llc has written it note to the authorities of South- ampton.dt-t-lining'the proposed banquet‘ in his behalf. He. took lliat' ’oc iasion to express his gratification at the extinction.

.of the. late :ipprclicncions of unfriendly rc-

latinns between Great llritniii and the United States. I ilo was assured that the people of both countries regard a war as the dircst calamity.

In the liouse of Commons. it has been announced by Mr. ()tway, under Foreign Secretary. that Spain has declined to ac- cord a new bearing in the Tornado case. The detailed reasons gned by Spain :irc now under consid ition of the law oil'icc of the Crown. Mr. Unrdwall, St-cic-' tary of War. in reply to some intiiiialioiis which had been thrown out. said the (luv- crnmciit had no intention of countcrn‘iaii- ding the orders for the reduction of the troops in Canada under existing circum- stances. The irisli Church bill has been reported from the Committee, and recom- niittcd with the understanding that the vote on its third reading shall'he taken on the. 25st of May.

The remains of Daniel O'Connell were on May f-tfli rc-interred in the cemetery at (iiasnevin. near llublin, where a spicu- did i ileum lind been constituted for The ceremonies were using. and were conducted ‘by Archbishop Cullen. ' ‘

in Spain the discussion on the new Con.- stitiitioii continues. The Cortes rejected the amendment to the Constitution iii favor of making Spaina Federal licpublie. The vote stood 1825 against 0-1 for the amendment. The Cortes have also re- jected the proposition for the establish- ment. of a Triennial Directory. lt is now believed that a regency will be created. with Marshal .‘51' am) at its head. and it is said that this scheme is approved by (ien. Him. The Coi :s have agreed to Article :52 of tho Toiistitation. declaring that “ the sovereignty is essentially in the nation. front which all pow r emanates.” Amend- ments requiring that. the King he a native of Spain, and tlintl c be clot-ted by a pie- bcsci'fum, were l'l ' ted. Sir John Cramp- ton, if 'tisli Minister to Spain, has asked to be recalled.

The Emperor Francis Joseph, in closing the sessions of the Ileiebsrath on May 14, madt. a long and pleasant speech which was often interrupted liy loud and long continued cheers. llo recalled the sittin- tion of Austria 1866, compared that with the present condition of things, and traced the course of the legislation of tho iieiclis- with since that time. lie was rejoiced at ltllt.‘ friendly arrangementsmade with litm- ‘gnry. and the condition of the finances and army. He felt that peace was indispen- sable to the national prosperity, and the present relations of Austria with the other Powers of the world assured hint of its continuance. lie. reviewed the late re- forms enacted by tho Rt‘icilsf‘flilf, and hoped that they would become the basis of liarui0iiiousaiid pacific relations between Church amt State. In conclusion, be thanked all the members for their past; ox- ertions, and expressed the hope flint all would support the constitution, as Austria offered full liberty to the people of every nation, and guaranteed their right of" self- govcrmnent.

N'i

lac Ilat'araiian Government has issued a circuer iioto to the Governments of France, Austria, Prussia, linden and War- tcmbcrg. inviting those Powers to a con~ fct'cncc to be hold at. Munich. for the. pur- pose oi preserving the rights of the State against the church.

THE PACIFIC RAILROAD l‘fliISHBD.

Monday, which might well have been ushered in with the booming of guns and the display of tings. witnessed the com- pletion of our great highway across the continent. The Union Pacific itailroad, which set out westward from Omaha about. three years ago, having pursued its way overtlio broad prarics, and the broader desertdiaviiig scaled the Rocky Mountains, bridging frightful canons mid tunnelling inaci ssible cliffs. met then the Central l’iieilit coming up from California. across the Sieira Nevada. and the two by (lov- crnincnt authority, hccanic “ one continu- ous road." The last tic—if. is of polished California laurel. mounted with silvcrends —~|ias been laid down, and the last spike of solid gold has been driven home. Tile sound of these filial operations w: Ii .iid but a little way off. but they will really signalizc not only the establishment of a new bond to the Union of States but a new era in the commerce and cit ilizaticn of the World.

l.

The Mugtiitiilc. of tho eiitcrprizc iii an

other ago would have occasioned boum

less astonishment. There was the old Appiaii Way ol imperial iionic. which has come down to as as the noblest thorough fare of all ancient. times. What was it but a mere garden walk compared with the Pacific ltnilroadi’ ft extended to lirnndu» sinin, the port of dcpartmc lorfircece aiid \ a Minor, t-oiiipi'ising a total length of :0 miles. The Pacific llziilroad proiier is over 18.00 miles long. it has been rim through a desert substantially. at on aver- age distance of two thousand miles from its base of supplies. Nearly all the mater- ials, excepttiinbemvilh salisteuaiice stores for an army of from five to twenty thous- woikiiien, and forage for six to eight thousand teams of males and horses, had to be transported from the older Sta The S . tistics of construction. as s after section has added itself to llio colos- sal cuterprim. are, continry to the stock

phrase of tfic novelist, less by imagined

than described. A hundrei and ten tons of iron rails. a million fish plates, two mill- ion of bolts. filtncii million of spikca,thrcel and a half million of cross-ties, and timber' of unnumbered millions of feet. are among the most obvious items. Si tllciiiunt:I mid

oven cities liavei-pruiig up along its course ill! if it carried with it across the continent a broad and cvcr widening wave of civil-

Two sons of the late. and brothers of the present Duke of‘ New .istlc, have passed Iho bankruptcy Court.

Spain has lately borrowed “0.600.000; at :5 per cent; ltusuia, 1."! Id [0,000 m. l per, cent..; and liouanmin, £f,i'io0.000. ;

A diamond latelv found in the colony oft tho Cape of (food liopn weight: so; (-mng. ‘. and the estimated Value is 112.),000 to £30,- . 000.

An lriniiman is in custody at Wolvcr- t hainpton forncalping it woman. “H oper- I uted with a razor. and the operation. it is mid. could not fun it been more skilliillyi iorformod though ho had been an indbm. The Woman is not expected to live. l

The monument erected in iiiciiiory offhr- fnw "l'ltl to (,Ililmtfl, (If. the, hull of iligil‘

film-cf, leiinu, i.- rapidly iqiproacliing , completion.

l

'i'acific finilrond tsconnfrue

ization. \Vu have spoken of the road as eighteen hundred miles long; this. how- ever, is only the last completed section. between the Missouri river and the uplands of California. ’l‘o-day tho tr "lft'f‘ can take his seat in tlic Cfll'fl ill Ilie eastern part of Maine and give the iron horse, no rest till he Haiti's tho brct-zcs of the Pacific ocean and conic.‘l to it pause in the city ol San Franci 0. Such is the Pacific .tii‘

' our grand system of interciinimniiiealiou.

The old Applan Way has been built for ages. and 1“ the tourist. of the present day surveys the. massive M0110)! fitltni no accur- ntcly into each other that. tho \iholo formal one continuous road-bed of solid rock, ncl it. were, he has 1.: integrity and thoroughness. led with siiiiiIi-r‘

(Jill! and houisiy an: cannot my

SUMMEIiSIim

rent respect for “01nd”; Wln-flmr the.

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get; of its enemies and the responsesI of its friends must be submitted to the test. of experience. The “mill interests of the public to day is in the fact that. the dream of the enthusiasts of twenty years ago, the object of many public spirited statesincn, the darling hopes of thousands of dwellers, in the far-off teriitories. the pride of the Union, and one of the wonders of the civil-g fled world, is at length completed. 'l'hel, coiniiiiircial problems, concerning r rc~l iations with China and .ia ill), and the bearing of the event upon I ic grand (air- rcuts of ll'lllie‘plllitV be left to find their own solution. Other Pacific roads will soon follow. bringing the two oceans much

phin were in the Revolutionary days. and, makingr us more than ever before one na- tion. and the nation ’of the \voi‘idg—Jiosfun Jolll'lull.

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iliii.ir.\iiv l'i:i:i~.\n.vriiixs ix iiori:.—.\ iizilita” rrespuiidcntof the London Tina: gives a picture of the present actual stage of military preparations ill lintopc, which shows that. it is “ without parallel in the world." ii‘irc continental nations liar - five and a lialf millions of‘ men, either rent ’to "NH h to- morrow or to follow at short intervals. ’l‘. cse are the forces of the first class continental Powers, and do not. include Great Britain, Spain, l'ortugal, Turkey, Greece, Belgium, llollaiid, or the Scandinavian nations. This immense number, moreover, only embraces the more active elements; and not the out- siders. who, it is considered, would be pretty

or three years, a contingency which would swell the sum, necoidiug to the entimateol the Times to ten millions armed men. Five millions and ii half of men nlrcndy withdrawn from the work of" productive. industry, with the possibility. in the evctit of war. of the horde of consumers being swollen to ten millions. The imagination is sta'ggcr‘ed at' this itnpemlons enumeration; but the num- livrs vast as the ' are, are practically multi- plied at least five-fold in their capacity fol“ destruction llv' the wonderful inventions and improvements which have been made inmos- ketry. artillery. and all kinds of arms, in ammunition and carriages. in facilities of" u'aiisportation and other points formerly iiii~

nearer together than liost‘on and llldfadei-L w

certain to be called on if‘ war should last two '

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o uni: Eiiirol or THE JOURNAL,

Sin:—

, The cililors of‘ the I‘rrslii/(eri'mi ctiiplialical- Iy. if the truthfulness of .u imminent made byine iiinyletteriuihe Si‘usiuitsiondobuxn. of April 2:, to the effect that they refused to publisltiiiy letter in [reply to “Layman” and others on the conduct of a certain bookseller. {inf-ll.» I am very sorry to be compelled to llUlIiif'llIliCLfllU. emphatic denial of.‘ the llcv gclttldlul‘n. _Aiihe iifier cw-‘llgadwiihthpil, i left then: with the iinpr on that they ils~ tinctfyrefuscd to publish the. wlinte‘of'umy letter. Tothc beat of my rcwiliectio-i, my ‘. words ,to .tliem [ya ,that. subject were.» " l‘uliiisli the \i'lltliU-U lily leftt-ri'o'r bone at an.” 1 ant llie'tifoi'c firmly csmtttfsheflnmy conviction when} consider how unlikely it. is that i would fiinl fault with lilt‘,étlll0rtl objhc 1'1 tslipnrimi for doing precisely what lwant- cd them to do. 1 sent them a letter; 1 con- sidered that the] word ln justice bound to publish it. 1 was not so simple as to suppose that those gciitlvtben would refrain from emp- inentiifin K 9 its court-liter, indeed, I f'ufy , exiicetti'lf iiizit tlioy‘wiiuhf ‘ c'titit‘fzc ‘ if: pvt-n; freely; but I did not care for that, provided tiiat the some public who saw the attack on file would lnivc the opportunity of' reading my 'ilefcnsc. if they agreed to publish my letter in full, what ground was there f'ornny dispute or ilisagreianeut between us; the public will sée tli it tlicre ’was ‘uonc. ' l‘ n‘fii'prtqinred, ,wheu called upon so to do, to bring good proof that. my statements are correct, from it reli- '.

1 consider that the editors tnkc ii very unfair advantage of an admission made by me, “that as 1 am unable to rend all the biclds I sell, it would not be surprising thntsonychook should pass thyuugltmy hands that. was .ijcctio‘i u. l e.""'l iinv‘r suite fliatiievery‘to tii‘y‘kiiov:1 ledge, did i sell a book of a lireiitious charlie.- ter, and more than that, i would feel deeply- obligcd to any genucmyiiyvlicm'ouhl have tli » kindness to inform trio of the questionable tendency of' any work tli t i happen to have in rtiH'k. laslgfi‘ip-Ltli‘ " clllht‘ftm' the part of t'icse gentlemen to) re my cluiractcrau [-Ilaillcfl') with.) aw evidence 'zit-lflr'si kt tenant-1 limiting anaemia guano til. it. is not. i plllpi. it‘llllvt"ilfg‘plll!.t"lllttt the

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known. it has been a f'avoritcdclnsion of the idelators of' material progress, that civil- ization is steam, t. s, railroads, electricity; but, side by side with the triumphs of petite-

iful invention, or rather far ahead of'rtbuin. is

l ’l‘imzs truly says “ has for many years been allowed to take precedence over all other

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\ 1 137 Latest 19 egrams. ' ‘ ' ' 'Loxoox‘,‘ May 17 "i The critical state of affairs in l’ari. ously commented on by .tlio press here sccins to lie the general iiiiprchiou, however. that the French Government has lamented this discontent, and adopted rcprcqsivc mea- sures to stay the disorders .arlsing, with a view to some ulterior design. lt is reportcl on what is cons” lercd good authority, that the French (lo inicnt will soon publish a peaceful manifesto and simul- taiicously reduce the army. London. May 18.

The Standard, in an article on_tlie Alabama- Cliiims Treaty, says. the idea of waiting t'ur- tlier expression from l’arliaiiienl and Congress commits the business to an inilifintte postpone- ment. England's sentiments havc been clearly pronounced. She is still prcparcd to submit to a proper tribunal, the question (if wrongs and daiiinges; but any nttcutpt'to reopen the controversy on the preposterous grdunil '01 Whatever the American sentiment. might. be, is absurd. From this position England gun. not rcccde. '

. London, Mny‘iil.

The Archbishop of Cashel has writtciyn pas- toral letter. deprecating the recent outrages in Tipperary, and counselling the irish’ coplo to trust to the British Government for n ml- justinent of' their wrongs. The outrages. he says, were the result of" the unhappy relations existing between landlords and tenants, and ii settlement of the land question in _lreliiiul would be sure to diminish the niiiiibcrai‘f such unfortunate occurrences. ‘ ‘