The Express. — London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

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NIGH WAT1:11 AT LONDON-BRIDGL Nis Dar MAnibs, IL ilis.....AThonmcs, IL 111. iO4IIOIIIOW Monis& 2%. lAah.....AtlersooL 2L Wm LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 10. Tar old axiom, that the price of Consols ought to be considered the barometer of the nation's prosperity, has for some time been losing its authority, and now appears in a fair way of break ing down. The rale, however, simply shares the fate of many others, which, valuable as they may be at certain times, are not therefore universally applicable. There are so many irregular influences operating upon human affairs, that it is impossible to make beforehand a positive judgment. In monetary matters this is especially the case. As the dealers in foreign exchanges know well, it never happens that their ordinary transactions are not influenced by apparently exceptional causes. Hence it is impossible to lay down an absolute rule in financial matters which, right in itself, is not being continually broken in practice. The impression generally prevails that as the rate of discount rises or falls the price of the funds experiences a propor tionate change. The arguments are simple and a priori irrefutable. If money is worth only 3 per cent., it apparently stands to reason that Con sols would be eagerly bought as long as they stood materially below par. If, on the other hand, the rate of discount roes to, say 6 per cent., public securities could only command a market price of about 50, since it would be more advantageous to employ money in discounts than in locking it up in a security giving only 3 per cent. at the most. This is the true mathematical deduction ; but it does not agree with fact, when no allowance is made for modifying circumstances. This is easily • - shown by a comparison of the prices of Consols with the rates of discount in the month of April for several years back : - - - • Bank Bate. Price of Console. 1851 1852 2l „ 1855 4l „ 1856 6 ~ .... 931 1857 1858 1859 1860 4l „ 1861 1862 34 29 1863 1864 ... 1855 4 9, The divergences in the above table can be easily noted, but it will be more simple to place them in a comparative form : Price of Comets. Doak rats. 25 pas mt..... 100 .... 1852 Ditto ditto .... 955 .... 1859 Ditto ditto .... 945 .... 1862 Ditto 3 per c0at..... 975 .... 1851 Ditto ditto .... 965 .... 1858 Ditto 4 per cent. .... 925 .... 1863 Ditto ditto ... 905 .... 1865 Ditto 41 re wet. .... 925 .... 1855 Ditto ditto 945 .... 1860 Ditto 6 per asst. .... 935 .... 1856 Ditto ditto .... 915 .... 1861 Ditto ditto .... 914 .... 1864 Ditto 65 per cent..... 935 .... 1857 It will thus be apparent that, although the rate of discount forms an important element in the appreciation of public securities, it is but one of many. To take the first period in the above list, there seems no adequate reason, on technical grounds, why the public fonds should be nearly 6 per cent. lower in 1862 than in 1852. The rate of discount being the same, and money equally plentiful, the demand for good investments ought to have precisely corresponded ; yet it is clear that they did not, otherwise Consols would have been as high in 1862 as ten years before. There can be no doubt that the time has now passed away when no form of security is more esteemed than the " sweet simplicity of the Three " per Cents." The increase of wealth, and con sequently augmented expense of living, have natu rally induced small proprietors to prefer invest ments yielding a better rate of interest than the government funds afford. This influence has • been frequently cited to account for the steady decline in the price of Consols, and is likely to operate with greater power in ensuing years. Not very long ago it was a received axiom that when ever they went below 90 the small public were sure to come in as buyers, and this has been par tially true in the present year. Yet Consols ex perienced a continued depression, and not until they touched 88} did the expected purchases actually take place. Even then there appears reason to believe that the recovery is not attri butable to small investments, but rather to the demand from bankers unable from the scarcity of good bills to use their large balances in the discount market. When the panics of 1847 and 1867 took place, it was the realizations by these capitalists that caused the fall in the funds, and the remedy was applied by the pur chases of small investors. The converse now pre- Vail& Small holders sell to get better interest for their money ; bankers buy because otherwise they can get no interest at aIL It must be within the thoollsotion of meet people that a general rthectemm was felt ID eider any securities as sib other than the tinkle or good mortgages. Whenever • foreign loan was brought out, apparently on tempting terms, the I , subscribers were almost always personally ao queinted with the country, either through them selves or their friends, or otherwise had ' peculiar reasons for venturing on an application. The public, as • body, stood aloof. This feeling is not altogether exploded at the present day, but, at all events, is strikingly on the wane. What do the small tradesmen of London, &sex, Suffolk, Hampshire, ho., know about Turkey t And yet it is precisely among this class that Turkish stocks are in • great degree placed. When the last English loan of 1862 was brought out, 3,000,0001. out of the 8,000,0001. was in bonds of 1001. each to snit small investors. This provision, which ap pears ample enough, is, however, so far inadequate that the small bonds command a premium over the others. We merely cite an example, as there is every reason to believe that the same rule prevails with other foreign stocks. Again, the numberless joint-stock COOl• psalm that have been formed within the last ten years must interfere largely with the price of the funds. From the latter, it is true, an investor gets an absolute certainty of his unman), but it stands at the dead level of 3 per cent., while shares in • joint-stock bank may give a dividend sa high as 20 or 35. Of oourse there is • certain amount of risk, but, all things considered, it is comparatively trifling. For one case like the Royal British or the Leeds Bank there are twenty where these investments are both safe and exceedingly profitable. Here, again, it may be remarked that the proprietors in these institutions are in no small degree persons with limited means. Large capitalists as a rule shun a concern which by some fatality might render them liable for the whole of their property. Curates, maiden ladies, and small tradesmen have no such scruples, and readily risk their few hundreds for the sake of the high return they calculate on receiving. LATEST INTILLIGINCAL 3 -••••••• • THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL THE LATE FIGHTING IN NEW ZEALAND. A Melbourne paper (the Australian News) of the 23rd of February, which has come to band this morning, brings the following details of the recent affair in New Zealand : Vii Sydney. we have papers to the 3rd bust from Nadas to the 31st nit., from Wellington, Lytteltoo, and Taranaki, sad to the 16th from Wongseri. TARANAKI. Sims the arrival of the Defence Manta from Auckland the inseeivity that has so long paralysed the mares' of the Tesmaki seethes appear at lest to be replaced by a spirit • debadisation to do something on the pert of the govern ors' la the slap of locating the military settlers os awn homes. The town sons will at moo be allotted. sad, se soca so sizetunstanoss will allow, the Si sad farms will be handed over to their fame reftviciive occupants As • preliminary step, on Saturday last Colonel Wane end gaff, sooompsnied by Major Atkisson ' and Xr. Parris, rode to Taterainaks, when they remained ter the sight. The next morning (Sunday) the party pro ceeded southwards for some two or three miles to Tad takipaps, tie poeition of • Maoris pah, formed of cards work, meetly alter the model of the English redoubts, with flanking seem sad ditch complete. It is here that the ' mine' who sent in their names as desirous of melded peace in December reside. Tae naives on the preseet on oasion landed to meet the party manna, sad, alter • bug converestioa, Colonel Warm sad Major Adams, with the staff, proceeded by an inland road to Npsa, the site of the sew position as the Rangstehus or Mousy River. It is situate about ono mile and • hen from the sea. In ties msantime, Mr. Penis entered the pah for the purpose at an swering any questions that might be asked. On the colonel returning, which he did by the beach root the natives mod out singly and presented theme/me before him, each dm =kip( a speech expreesive of desire to live in pesos sad ' quietness. In the same order the pah was again enteeed, whoa the guns were brought out sod plead on the viand between the Colonel and Mr. Parris, amidst some more spellbinds. After this, with some ceremony, the spears with hatchet heads ware laid new the gum ; sod t►e whole of this part of the proceedings was brought to • ocioolusloo by • pessentation of sharks' teeth, grestatones, Eta Three men—lnearaps, Miura, and Hansa—who, from having been oonsmoted with the Wareks and other mur ders, are excluded from any Misfit of the prcolereatiors came forward with their guns, sod pre themselves cap as prisoner, returning with the Europeans to Tataraimak►, where they were handed over to the rear commanding the garrison. Is it a matter of regret that the price of the public funds should stand at a comparatively low point It This is a question that admits of two an swers. When the decline arises from national mis fortunes, such as the mutiny at the Nore, or from entire want of faith in the honesty of the Govera snout, as for example in Spain and Greece, it is no doubt a bad sign. Supposing, on the other hand, I that the low price proceeds from the competition for capital caused by extended enterprise and increasing commerce, there can be no question that indirectly it shows the growing prosperity of the people. It is for this reason that we see no grounds for disquietude. Consols may be 2 per cent. lower than they were ten years ago, when we were in the thick of the Russian war ; but it would be a manifest absurdity to account for the difference by a diminution in the national welfare. gbt court. WINDSOR CASTLE. APilli. & The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by the Prisons Louise, and attended by the equerry on bonsback, and walked in the grounds this mace leg, accompanied by Priam Allred. PrMorse Helena rode M the Home Park. Princess Louise, attended by the Hoe. Florence Seymour, west out walking. Prism Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out in the Home Park. APRIL 9. The Qnsen, aooompanied by the Prinoess Helena, drove in the Greet Park yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hoe. Flatware Seymour. Prinoses Louise, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, also drove out. . The Quests, Prince Alfred, Prince= Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, with the hales and gentlemen is waiting, attended divine service this morning is the private despot The Rev. P. C. Cook, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, paseeked the sermon. Viscount and Viseountess Palmereton arrived at the Castle yesterday, sad had the honour of dining with her Majesty sad the royal family. WANGANUI. This morning an alarm was gives in tows that the road party .t Kai lwi had been attacked, and that soma of the men were miming. Two noes of Mr. Mailman, who has . Moro out thane, rode into tow • with the intallirmose, at half-past k on one horse, without a 'addle, end with nothing oa bat their ntghtahhia, and a little later in the mania{ Mr. Mona Rees arrived, and pre • more infante detail of the oirministancen. It appea-a that then were . . . about 30 of the reed party still there, men who had not finished their contract, and who were waiting till the ad ethos of the troops might enable them to resume work with safety, and that their tents were pitched along the road as both sides for some distance, those outermost being sear the Kai Iwi, and the other, sketching is this &meth& as far as to this side of the Pukstotera Omsk, which runs throes the road a short &Woos as this side of Kai Iwi steam. Mr. Rem' test steads on this tido of the Pthetotare, and he was aroused this morning at dawn by shots, which he found on rushing out prooesdad from a somber of natives who had was aloof the road from the Waitotant, and, as there had been so guild or look-out at any part of the onrunnwout. had MOW upon it without the 'RAW* warning. At first, Yr. Rees thooght they were firing for amusement, but was quickly undeceived, for, so soon as they saw him and Mr. Symooda, whom teat adjoined his, they trod upon them. Five bullets anima Kr. Ress'a trot wh'e he woe getting The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor, left Marlborough-bones shorty before 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, for Sandringham, attended by Countess De Grey, Major Grey, and Mr. liolzmann. The Bishop of Graham's Town, Mr. R. W. Beata, Colonel Bisset, and Mr. J. Lyons McLeod, bad severally an inter view with the Right lion. Edward Cardwell, at the Colo nial-ofßce, on Saturday. A deputation, consisting of the Hoe. Alexander Mel ville (Uncoil)), Mr. Rodwell (Bath), Mr. Pries (Gloucester), and Mr. Seaman (York), had an interview with the Bight Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official reel. denim in Downing-street, on Saturday, on the subject of teaks of issue. ... hi riddle, and, as he canted the saddle out on his heed to put it on his hone, another bullet struck it. He immediately mode off, and, oa getting to a ding ironed, could see about 250 natives, who hei, DOW pouresion of the toots, and were busy plundering. Most of them of 000114 appeared to be round the store kept by Palmeri, and no doubt the liquor in ft and Mr. Mailman's store quickly disappeared. Mr. Symonds twice bred at them from the low ground iu the gully, sad one man was seen to fall, while it wu believed a second was also shot. He and Moue. Mailman and Richard son then stationed then .elves babied some slabs, and kept op a fire for • few minutes, but they soon found the position too hot for them, sad retreated. After a little time they mus tered, and only 12 men sasembled. Many, of wares, might be is hiding, but Mr. Rees tbinks that the tent on which the natives mast have come, and which contained seven wen, must have been so surrounded that the men could not have eraseed. Some of them immediately made for the camp, about three miles distrait, and Mr. Rees galloped into town. Gaunt Cameron nrived with his staff at Camp Alexandra about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday lest. He was received with great enthusiasm, the men . . eland's lustily and throwing their cape in the sir . his arrival. Foremost were the old " die-hyds," and their aeon were heartily re-echoed from the warm hearts of the 18th Royal Irish and the devotedly-loyal Queen's Own. The skirmishing party proceeded in skirmishing order as far as the pall, a distance of about half a mile from the camp, when* volley was poured in upon them from the huts there. They returned the fire, which was replied to, not only by theee in the huts which lay to the lef tof theadvanoing party, but also from high *crab which lay to their right. This was about 6 o'clock in the evening. In the skirmish which ensued Deputy-Amistant-Adjutant-General Johnston fell, wounded in the abdomen by a bullet, which was afterwards extracted at hie back. The wound is supposed to be modal. Accounts very as to the number wounded. The first amount gives four, and the other 11 se the number, the others being private soldiers. Certain it is that this morning three dead bodies were brought into Camp Alexandra, together with Lieutenant Johnston, who is still alive. The reconnoitring party seems to have returned to the camp. the Mitories fol lowing; and it is said that a drooling fire was kept up in the camp until 3 o'clock this morning, when the troops fired a heavy volley in the direction from which the shuts prooesded, which silenced them. It is not known that any Maoris' have beau hit, as the soldiers could only fire into the snub without seeing the enemy. In an "extra" of the Chronicle, 26th January, the following additional particulars are corrected, in some respect., from the first amount given :—Tbe pab is at the corner of a bush, which stands to the rear and left of it. As the soldiers advanced from the camp about 900 yards distant, they had the pall directly in their front, end saw before the huts an ordinary Maori fence or Wenn. About half-peat 4 o'clock a signal shot was fired from the bosh on the left of the posh as the soldiers (80 men clf the 18th) scl canoed to it. When the soldiers got up to the fame &volley was fired on them from the huts within, on which they threw off their knapsack', scaled the Naos, and got in by an opening, charged the huts, and find on the Maori's, of whom they killed seven. The Maori's returned the fire, and it was here that Lieutenant Johnston fell. The firing continued, and in about an hour a reinforcement we. sent from the camp, connoting of a detachment of the 50th, under Major Book, who were sent for the purpose of surrounding the Mande', and took up a position under cover to the left. On this the mete of the 18th charged to the edge of the bushels the left, and found the ground thickly rifle-pitted amoogsome long weeds, chiefly camomile, from which they kept up a fire till half-pest 11, when the enemy's firs owed and they retired. Two men were killed, end two have sine, died, namely, Lieutenant Johnston, D. A.A.G., and a private. Seven others WON wounded, most of the wounds being on the heed, owing to the position in which the men were lying. The Maori call through the night was, " Come on, oome on ; be brave, don't leave me !" and a female voice was hosed seve ral times encouraging the men forward. This was heard when the Maori's were retiring wader fire from the soldiers. The cry was than, " Gloria ! plena ;oh hay him r It may be mentioned that several bullock drivels got the wounded men's guns and took part is the fight, se well se assisted in carrying the wounded to the rear. THE PRINCE AND PRINCISS OP WALES.—The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the infant Prises, left London for Fiandringhain on Saturday. Their Royal Highoesses arrived at the Biahopegat• terminus of the Great Eastern Railway shortly after two o'clock, where they wen met by the chairman of the company (Mr. James Goodson) also by Mr. Lightly Simpson, the chairman of the Lyan and Husetanton Railway, on which line Sandringham is situated, and Oaptain Jarvis, M.P., Colossi Palmer, and other directors of the company, with Mr. J. B. Owen, the secretary, by whew they were conducted to the magnificent carriage especially built by the company for their use. Having taken their mate, the royal train *tasted punctually at 2.15, amidst the hearty plaudits of a select company of ladies and gentlemen wbo were assembled to witness their departure. Yesterday morning the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Earl de Grey and Ripon and Via. count Giderich, and attended by Closetess de Grey, Lien. tesant.General Racily% sod Major Grey, attended divine ansuise at Ssndringliain Church. The service wiz reed by the Rev. G. B. Moue, 8.A., the rector of the parish, and 1 the sermon was preached by the Bishop of Oxford._ Ourtrria's 171.1011 FRANCK PARIS. Aram 10. PALM SUNDAY AT ROME. RONA MILL 9. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princess Mary rimed their visit to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle on Saturday last, having stayed over the Crouton Park Russ. Their royal highnesses, atteudedby Lady Caroline Cast wad Colonel Purvis, passed through town on Saturday to Cambridge Cottage, Kew, where it is their intention to pass the Easter recess. The Earl Russell, accompanied by the Countess and Lady Georgians Rumen, has gone to his seat neer Stroud, Gloucestershire, where Viscount and Viscountess Amberley sad other members the family are staying. Sir Humphrey and Lady Annette de Trafford have felt the Clarendon Hotel for Trafford. perk. "One becomes bewildered," writes a Paris cor rospoadeat, "about puny things in this expensive and woo -1 deed city. A gentleman took me into a milliner's shop le the Rue de la Pax this week to s a ball dress whirls met 25,0001 r. (1,0001.) It appears the voluminous lam bed brought it up to that prim. A married lady's eveniag dime in our day generally costs from 80/. to 1001., and is so ore. Weed that it must of asesssity be torn what Wore In society. What are husbands made of ? Ow would lip- I pose it would take three devoted star& to pay for the I luxurious toilettes of 1865. Are we condog to some golden age when a blind Maus enables everyme to Hooka splendid apsztaieuts, crowded with wetly Louis Err. furniture. occupied by lovely women who spend, if moderate, 1,0001. per emus on dress ; horses and carriages awaiting below —the best horestesh England can produce—how is in this done? Is net all this as great a mystery as the b u d v i of the it, of Paris? And are not half the population of faskiosabls society, like the city of Paris, in debt, sad ova. template, or &deafly esetnot, loans r ROYAL Pm HOSPITAL, Qsax's•nrsr-aoan.—The Dauber of planks Tolima at this hospital darts' We week maim April 8 was 3,528, of which 1,131 wars ssw sum On the 24th February nothing fresh bad occurred in Melbourne. The Ministry were 'miming their new tariff biU by considerable majorities on each item, but it was generally believed that the Upper House would throw the bill out. Mr. Cowper and his colleagues had all been re- elected. TEE IVIED'S, MONDAY EVENING, APIIL 10, 1865. BHOOTAN. RNOAPTURE OF DEWANGIBL The following telegram has been received At the nini-office : " Sir Bartle Frere to Sir C. Wood. " Bombay, April 6. " Sir W. Mansfield reports General Tombs took Dewangiri on the 2nd. with slight loss. No allows killed. The enemy fought well, and lost 130 killed and 30 prisoners, including two chiefs." The journal L'Union de rOuest has been sus pended for two months for publishing false news, with the object of misleading publio opinion, and exciting hatred against the government. To-day being Palm Sunday, the Pope blessed the palms, and distributed them among the members of the diplomatic body. A large crowd of foreigners lined the route of the procession from the Basilica to the Vatican. r M. de Persigny disembarked at Civita Vecchia, and arrived at Rome at 11 o'clock this morning, alighting at the French embassy. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, Aram 10. The (heat Victoria, from Melbourne January 17, passed up the Channel yesterday, with 14,448 oce. of gold. She landed eight passengers last night at Dartmouth by a pilot beat. mosmal, youth of France ; and he looks with tarot a the ecmasqoasose within the next twenty yeses, *sins some stringent measures shall be taken to stay she plague. His speech was frequently latsernpted by the clerical party, which masters strong in the chamber, and Baron de Benoist boasted that he had two sons in the army who had been brought up by the Jesuits. After an ultramontanist speech from the Count do la Tour, the debate, in spite of loud cries for a division, was adjourned to Monday. !MATHER REPORT.---(THIS DAY.) Mama. area 114, I La W. LILL OVERLAND MAILS. Aran. 10. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Ceylon reached Marseilles at 6 a.m. today. The mails leave for London at IL3O a.m. YALTA, Amu. 9. The Nyanza, with the heavy portion of the above mails, left here at 10 a.m. to day. She may be expected at Southampton about the 18th inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Ellors, from Marseilles 6th inst., reached Malta on the Btb, at 2 a.m., and left at 9 a.m., for Alexandria. BOSIBAY AND MAURITIUS (HEAVY) MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Aram 9. The Delta left here for Southampton on the 6th inst., at 5 am. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA YAMS. The Delhi, from Southampton 4th inst., reached Gibraltar at midnight yesterday, and left at 7 a.m. to day for Alexandria. All well. IMPRESS FROM PARIS (nox OM OWN Nein Abrdiese 1 PARIS, SOSDAT EVZIII3O. Only 17 members voted for gratuitous and ob ligatory iustruction—a project to which, allow me to say, parenthetically, I am by no means a convert. In France primary education is already practically gratuitous, wherever there are primary schools. The complaint of the radical educational reformers is that only the children of those parents who cannot afford to pay get their A B C for nothing, and that it is humiliating to be obliged to declare impecuniosity. This argument seems to me to carry the favourite French principle of " equality" to an extent which will not bear examination. Admitting that reading and writing is the "bread of the soul," I cannot see why access to schools should be gratuitous to all comers, any more than to bakers' shops. As "no man Hyatt) t.• himself," it is policy as well as charity for the richer classes of society to do everything reasonably possible to im prove the moral as well 11111 the physical condition of their poorer neighbours. It is good to distribute both bread and teaching, without cost, to those who could not otherwise get it. But the one and the other are alike alms ; and as all almsgiving by the state can only be supported by taxation, it follows that it is • gross injustice to force the thrifty, the delicate, and the self-denying to pay for those whose only principle is to take all they can get. There is no department of the State in France so well managed as that of public instruction under K Duruy ; and although lamentable ignorance pre vails in a large proportion of the population, the progress as regards mere primary instruction is enormous within the last few years. The enthu siasm of generous theorists ought to be controlled by the consideration that no law or decree could suddenly extend education in France beyond those practical limits imposed by financial neoesai ties. If the amendment proposed had been voted the reform would have existed only upon paper. The extension of schools can only be gradual, and gradual extension is now going on with remarkable rapidity. As to " obligatory " instruction, what ever may be said for the abstract principle, I do not think it yet up in the order of the day in France. It seems to me that it should at any rate be postponed till the desirable time when gratuitous instruction shall be brought home to every man's door. Then, indeed, a state of society is conceivable when a father who should refuse to allow his child to learn to read would be so manifestly doing him • wilful injury that, on the ground of eooen trioity or perverseness, the courts of law would be warranted in interfering. The justifica tion of the interference with the natural jurisdiction of the parent would be foutil in the rareness of the occasions for its exercise. But as things stand, obligatory instruction would in the first place be a dead letter even if it were twenty times enacted ; and in the next would be only another instance of tyrannical interference by the central power with private affairs ; because so long as primary instruction shall not be so rooted in the manners of the people that to neglect it is a mon strosity and a breach of public decency, the state can only enforce it by virtue of the principle that the government for the time being always knows what is best for the people ; and this principle would justify not only enforced education, but enforced Popery, Mahometanism, or Buddhism. These considerations seem to me sufficient to justify the rejection of M. Jules Simon's notion without depreciating the value of primary instruc tion per se, and adopting the courtier-like argu ment of M. de Parieu, the government commissary, th a t a labourer, " guided by an enlightened confidence in his sovereign," was very well able to exercise universal lamp, although he might not know bow to read. K Gueroult, of whom it has been hitherto said that be was a better writer than a speaker, made the best speech yesterday that he bas hitherto pronounced in the Chamber, the subject being the Encyclical, and the alarming extension of altramontans doctrines in France. He as serted, and the assertion was not contradicted, that the Jesuits, monks, and nuns, who acknowledge no other law than that dictated from Rome, have within the last fifteen years got into their hands the education of half the W.N.W. W. N.W. WIT. aresm4ll/. Vaisai Ospe Mir =ll Moms . 111.11 L ▪ ... W L'Ottsa '3O Si SI NA Reaislert 10.12 W 181 7=c 311.31) 11 1 Z. .'lllll 1 1 1.11. 11. Lorin 10.17 N. e.ll. Dover 702014111 ' 30.1048 N.W. 118arbeee" 24.11511 W. .edi 3114 48 W. 84118014.8.8 W.N.W. W.N.W. a7r. I. LW. ILLS w. NU ILL S. 8.1.. ILL LILL ILL N.ic.z. N.L rionase. TIMMS. 05 WOMMIIIWII WITOMIDAY. N.W. to W. and M.W., CO. W. to & aad 8.& 11 .. Moderato to hook saadsgato to strong. soma dowers. sidimory. N.W. 608. W. and back, WADI. W.L.I. W LB. W., moodiest., flog 'moderato to trash. &W. to LW. and to Gomm:. Notarty tooW. and Oboes osatorty. vs- N.W. moderato to %labia, light to fresh. trash, dna • floe. &W. to N.W. light to UMW. 8. &E. to &W. and moderate, One. NW., light to boob, One. Notittern=footland. Weetorimlngand. Wales, sad led* dontbernedloglish Channel and Bay d laniennoladward Ingland sad North Bea. Tel Ntgogge AND SACRAMSNTO V. TIC STONE WALL, AT LISBON. —Mr. J. L. 018allivan, lake Apiaries's minister to Portopl, but who joined the Caesurae muss at the beginning of the war, writes a long letter to the Times I. show that the Portuguese government were baud to make an apology to the United S*.itee minister for the shot. fired as the Niagara and Etscrammsto. The latter vessels bad no intention of coming cab—indeed, Kr. O'Sul livan says they were afraid to some out, and the Stonewall waited outside, in Camases Bey, for several hours beyond the legal period of 24, in the vain hope of being followed. abo was ovidestlY retarded,' says Mr. O'Sullivan, " as an ugly customer at Lisbon, as she had bees at Ferrol. It would have beak an interesting naval experiment be- twee the little raw ironclad with twin screws, but only three guns sad • ow a handful in number, and the two Federal wooden weals, with tremendous betroiss, overpowering crews, two knots superiority in speed, and • height out of the water which would have enabled them to pour down an avalanche it boarders if once alongside or foul. The heavy forward 300-pounder of the Stonewall is useless exempt in smooth water, being drenched from the bows in weather at all rough. It would certainly seem that two seek aassiLinte ought to be able to capture her, eves though it might be at the cost of oes of them. Personally (though now • political adversary) I wish my old school-fellow, Captain Craves, of the Niagara, well out of the still worse encounter which probably sow awaits him with the press ot the North for having sow twice deemed it his duty to decline the proffered challenge of the little ironclad whose steps he woe to be dogging at • vigilant but respectful distance. He had baker find her and fight her, and have done with it the one way or the other." The Times mentions that it has been rumoured that equal impartiality is not shown in the selection of the crews at the university boat contests ; and Minerva that "this suspicion is entirely confirmed by the fact of five out of the Cambridge eight belonging to one college—Trinity. de. John's watribake two, and the rest of the aniveaty are represented by one only. It is true that Trinity is almost en university in itself, and contains • large propor tion of public school men, from whom the beet oars are usually drawn. Still, this circumstance, couried with the continued predoesieswe of Oxford on the river, &MIFFS the weeideration of those who are jealous for the honour of Cambridge." THE QUZIN AND THE CHILDREN OF THE SERVANTS OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD. —Daring the past week her Majesty, who has always diplayed • most kindly interest in the families of the domestics of the royal Itruseh t sent for a number of the children of the royal pages footmen of the oak, in order to talk to them and make them some little pxwest. Of course the children were duly instructed by their parents to put on their beet behaviour, and say " Your Majesty," &a when welkin W the Queen. All went on very welt till just before the departure of some of the children, when ow little thing, en taking leave of the Queen, forgot the parental instructions, and, while quitting the royal presence, exclaimed, in its ch ild ish art lessness, " Ta-to," much to amusement of those present. ROYAL JUTS-SILK PARTY AT WINDSOR CANTLA— Ou Friday swim; her Majesty gave • juvenile party at Windsor Osigh in honour of the birthday of his Royal Highness Priam Leopold, when en entertainment for the amusement of the youthful company, among wham were Prince Leopold, the royal prim :wee and the children of General Grey and other offions of her Majesty's household, was given by Mews. Carpenter and Weedily in the Pre sence Chanabo of the Stele apartments, which bad been fitted up for the purpose. The entertainewt warted of • series of dissolving views and pheatasmageris, wimps, nied by pianoforte music, and was evidently greatly enjoyed by the juvenile visitor& The evening's entertainment con cluded with • series of comic sketches,"ncludin the " " Rat. estate" (a very among subject), A Mushroom, " A Greedy Pig," which bitter excited • great deal of mirth • finally terminating with artificial fireworks and ebterno: tame, very beautifully destned. THE ART TREASURES EXHIBITION AT WINDSOR. — On Saturday sewing the exhibition of fine arts. which since Tuesday has been held in the Town-hall, Windsor, sad to which her Majeaty the Queen. their Royal High news the Prior and Princess of Wake, the Dew of Windsor, the Provost of Eton, the Council of the Beak Kensingtoe Museum, and a hot of the nobility and Enka, were contributoes, was formally closed by Mr. W R. _ Harris, the mayor in the pressen" of • distinguished usemblsee of v i t as. The proosedisp ou fl4 a r , the last eyelike of the saltibitioa, were very y Heated by a comemorione, at which MOM. Busby, Adams, saran" gentlemen of the Chapel Royal of George, Mr. Durant, and Ma Neighbour, of the Royal Academy of Mao, waisted, • number of choice musical morceaur tang very admirably executed. During` the five days exbitition about 2,000 pewees have -Halted the Tom ball, and the committee have found themselves about 1001. in pontet, which will go towards the funds of the Windsor and Mos Literary Inseitutioa. THE Bremer. SERVICES AT 13T. PATT:S. —Yoder day wane the fifteeetk of the special seiviess was per towed ado the dews of fit. Paul's Cathedral. the large space appropriated to the services being satially filled. The sown was preached by the Rev. Andrew Bern Rater 3f-A, of Trinity °allege, Cambridge, ineumbeet of All Saints' Church, Spicer-Week Bpitalfielde. The services will close next Sunday even w& whoa the sermon will be by the Rev. Dr. William Selwyn, caws of Ely = li eda th , sad Lady Margaret Professor at Divinity is the Usivereity of Cambr id ge. CH A PEL ROYAI.,IIITINAIL.—YestobTIisi after woo the lath of the Listen sennees le the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, wee poached by the Rev. Dr. C. J. Yenstiae. vicar of Doseaster, forsearty bad maw of Harem School. The rev. gentlernos selected as his text the weeds of the previa haat, " A ma of sorrows," won which he exeslient semen dageriptive of the life of the CevrbourlN.l se The last et this series of serene' will be preached next Sunday ',Waage. by the Rev. J. R. imps, LA., wow of fit. James's, Plessally. WoRRIID BY DOG& —A few mornings since a shock* ash., which terminated almost fatally, owarred to • man gamed lifferingtom who keeps the post-offies at St. Catheries'a, • village situated • shore dames frees Cad fold. It appare that shortly after 7 clank ea the morn lag I. question Rehattagtos started te &diver leases at the yams houses in the village, and ea eater* • yard ad sr** widows of kirs. Pope he wee Wawa by a i mastiff, sided by a retriever, whisk kasha Widow leowated his bads, arm, and awn portions of his body in • MON maser. In Wass to ether Wanes the peer Mew received a eseipetred Wean et the right leg, whisk wee attended with very serious amebae. Sewn. reel of the Mille 1112V514 went to the weillanes at the ea. fostareas emil , jigsaw sad with great dalty seweshil is be the asp bat bad they been left to threnelves a few wawa Wow the animas weld west ortaiely have Ma Moir WOW. The services of Now. Dalin: sad fishellar, wpm, were obtained, het is sale et The alisetien es pier fellow is set Tee be a danger. The explwaihre gime is thee it was usual te snow these loge der le weeder abealhe maw &deg the Wad, sad WA the hey whew duty It we to heleg VIM tip Ind sot arrived whew the penman The ship were Notorious in the aeighboorhood, and were never allowed out of the meads without • keeper. THE IRISH HARVEST AND zarsis ErmanoN. ___._ This morning tables were issued it ties at pediment dem*/ the eiliented of the awe in Ireland for the year 18" doe from Irish ports from the let. Demanher, bet year Awarding to the revised rAwss of them he hem an Immo of 12,421 1864 oesperei with the minim year. W 121.782 saws—whiet barley, Ms, lowered to the extent of 17.215 eau, , is the memet of 138,987 mew area sada oats we set essAsed locality, bat extended to ovary eounty, there was an inereen el 16,310 menet want, and cabbage, taken by 18,632 sena. Tbe weep nadir to 301,093 sire, tang act 'scream of t. with 1863, the began attest sows to • when these Mann wan Ant collected. might be mated, wee prinsipally is animated to 70,796 sores ; in Omani& 6,110 acres; sad is Meaner end laineter, area, respestively. The eras waned dew was 1,560,638 earn in 1863, sad Wing an incase of 48,931 saes. In tb dare nap per saute sae, there heal. owt ha wines, et 0/ an. in oats, and , awl as Wanes of 06 ewt. in bore. The asnatie 114 1 11 radon walleyed by 07 ton ; turnips descend by 1110, Insapl wand by o*, and asbbsge by 07 tra, 1• than was an increase of 23 100001 meadow sag ; ft diminished by 0/ ton per statute are. With sus h the total produce time has been a talliag off in mad 1,062,704 quarters is 1864 compared 110111863, this dm. was nand not oaly by the diniehhisl sees tte6r elk tg she by the damn In the unable yield ease* be* tin of 1,102,339 qsarten is the predicts of *hemp alq Is wheat there was an Joann of 37,876 quanta; fan ley of 3,380 ; and is ben el 1,194 ; end a destere Mg quarters in rye. Is the produce al potatoes than sea hearers of 866,439 tees, attributable to • grain amp under this crop is 1864, sad also to 50 hanced Itii The prods°, of Wain, mange' wand, sod nide. in 'imbed by 798,968 teas. In Max there ciss a lags iaat asicatetieg to 21,860 teas, owing to the incresed ins mere abundant yield. The prudent of hay diaiailety 154,880 tons, in counquenoe al the decrease is the sank yield. The emigration from Irish pats duriag the ywi ia amounted to 114,903 pawns, of whom 61.125 were mks. 53,778 females, being a demurs at 2,917 eotormed previous year. This ambit includes 734 poses, NOW of other °nutria who embarked at Irish patio Not half the emigration is from the provisos al Yeasts, he rthielt the numbers was 48,397 ; from tlittar, II,R, from Lark", 19,790 ; from Connaugkt, 18,121; 8,008 emigrants come from provisoes not uealsiri )r *petting the ages of the emigrants, it appears that 111 wan under 15 rem of age ; 72,207, or 62.9 per out en Gam 15 to 35 ; 14,152 were 35 years of sip and monk; and the ages of the remaining 8,740 were sot rpm 4. It MIN= that sires the lit of Nay, 1861, so km Ito 1,546,028 allignats bars left Ireland. ALARMING PAY,LI ACCIDENT AT NEW BRIGETOI MPOOL. An accident, which was fortunately unatiodei by any fatal cerequeness, conned yesterday shorn t New Bright°. Ferry. It appears that durieg the ccorksotioa of tho me pis a temporary lasdiegotsge wes emoted a little to the sat of the old stage, for the purpose of landing sod trigs board porgies at low water. This temporary elege ve farmed of the old movable stage, and was soweld as five rows of strong wooden piles with mom whir were fastened together by eneweigiolk %eh holi The stage was about 10 feet is length and It er 12 he lo height, extrolieg to an old steamer moored is Os nowt. Shortly before 4 o'clock shoat arrived from Liverpool el about 2U pareogers. who immediately messed is hit The calleotor was stationed in a small boa midway ham the old steamer sod the shore, sad here the proem me themes% crowded in order to pay their faro. la sa Mir without any previous suspicion of daager the rid thee* who had charge of the ferry, the bolt' whir need that pert of the stags where the ecilleeke wr Maned gore way, the tempcmory lending Nora fell, ad the ■ Plesengers won precipitated upon the sum% Per a eYt time the ;rosier mosterestios prevailed list sone d esforturte pruners had streamed fatal Ojeda to tnaately, bower. this WAS out the err, althereb mod of them were severely shakes and bruised. The orris solidest marred to P o li c e-eoseteble Bows, who bed bile hectored. Jim Hoiden, al lionhpellieraerreas, re milli Juza *boob the leg, and bad to he taken horse is soh. Ugh arsidersble marmot, a member of spectator' holed to the emisisece of the persogers, who were is rho pitiable plight, lying as they wire upon the reds, rill. covered with mad. The larp open boats is me sine ferry having been brought up, a somber of the pomp rerminhog oe the Orme? were Laded, but others. oldelb the iDOODT•DiSDOS, declined to go OD shore, sod OA afterwards returned to Liverpool. Atter short time% or traffic wee resumed, although s ome eschews% oecadoemi by the occurrence. continued during the WOO —Liverpool Mercury. Mr, Brett, Q.C., the ooneervative candidate Rochdale, &deemed a crowded meeting of elsoton.l lll publio-hall, cm Saturday eight, sad at the doss dile speech a resolution, alarm* him to be a "6t sad pale peon to repressat the tows in pm:henget was pima. 111 same night shout two ilbermaed soaalsolors mesoldmi is Maser• Renal and Kerap's warehouse, when se aimed ocadolsece to Hrs. Ondea was adopted. " Racing news," writes " Argus " of the Pate "i. Tarr asset, sad, in feet, the topics of the day Tayie mid to be scathed to the roan maall at Paris of as De fish gartlemes, wall known cm the turf, Wing Una r of the Cirque Imogene for cheating at cards by mot* Whiny. Suspected for aim little time, he was esteheill two of the committee, and, when detected, sad .deems chain of resignation or a court of *airy, be dam do former alternative without a moment's henbane. Si andlems to add that him ended has boos t him countrymen ma much ma it dwarves, the phi softening of the bran mu hardly be sustained is his en because, if it were well substantiated, his obi* 61 a t never to have bees permitted." There are now five large barques bound ft Quebec in the timber tri.as lying at Poole waling Bran' 31.15 e. a month have bees offered for Nenlie, "Ida or the highest wages that have been given fora Ing tilla The games demand 41. a mouth. Ms HADTICZLD AND THE LATZ Ms. COME: . The following letter from one of the Molina boreett members has appeared in a Manchester paper ft* Various methods of showing reaped to the mown nib late Richard Cobdenhave been suggested, sad I log offer • hint to those who respected the macs, rod rb il by his labours. He has left his country in charge d • estimable widow and fin daughters, to whom werg exhibit our reopen by a asthma gift of 100, 0031 .%! make the widow's heart nag for joy.' Let as sot ow: n deb this work to Frani or Amnion neared's, but Ia ourselves. My 5001. will be reedy at the ..bee's ihr it.-1 am, Sir, your obedient serven, Qua IlArenia Victoria-park 6th 1965." BROTHER lONATIVR —Brother Ignatius and lhe brethren of the Eaglish Order of BR Benedict hoe boo observing Lest with extracedinary rigour, sad have hall themselves into such a debilitated state that a dal 0 1 sine Brother Iguanas had to be carried out of the Ai Hrs. Lyn, his mother, is now I. Norma, sad i= i a is usderneed, of her moo partaking of song refreshreest which she caused to be prepared fer i 3 Special preparation are being made for the adenake Good Friday. Collection coatnue for t he n 1 which the broths. propose to erect is Notirisi. Mal the order excites hues atteatice in the dined Yoe it • sue time mend, the heeds required are esciseelesi eon, is bat slowly. KILLED tic • RAGGED SCHOOL. --- On in* evens; boy about 11 years of age, sawed Duni alma last his life in the ragged echni, Paisley, Rader the lellso tag eireameteaces :—.llt the time whim the ha' , at shoemaking left their work. three boys. Nunn Hear. George lriDaley, awl David Misliala. 1611 lb nen of see, were saes by a girl to take bon of sal dreg him tete a bask room. They then leM Sin the Goer, whoa Kan pat his hand au his nom sad sad held him dons while the others bed a t about the body with their saps. °Tries vieleelly and *Mend some faint salami while this =Lel • seend gin. who was steadies by, ealein to din* Mt lasted el aneadng to WI they shut the door sad natieued to maltreat aisle Thr . Le A kished at the ad aseessial is rOli 6, 1 1 ::: W hie head es O'ilrima's absisth. theWa r they at het nee gad in *OM" gide my lima Oltries, whoa his torsions , left lin ••7 up ia the middle of the TOON sad called oat "Siol._',E llB ' non times. Owe of them approached hitai ,selnra Ili slte . l a ard wea lth. gently the bei Stw es" . Ifs much afterwards gave en or two gasps sad expired. said to have bees a very instead,' boy. ed for the jai Wed seen. 1864 sad the Jamey to tike the weep m Mk . sem ender ONO Otreale &au* sae, sod rye, U. nod sets The &mem it to say =My. 1* no Sim callentively, flax in 1634 87,504 sera En say yew einto Ile :ted. Meier ineter, , Am p ought the Immo IN 'ADAM; 566 eel 5,11 RPM by maim .4 sod la 1861,1, o the setlntatel ph i webeeo aieseese elu nod el 21 win it IR \ The IDela 41 dillidi ial TZT nr. A Ng B Trois ilm cd";il Tim be oe NM. skesi Oar war, ..a1 wile irlid 0 less were aim aid! auk id! ►• gi wl* W nob 17* bm Os Ism kr ill