The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TEE PUBLIC JOURITALS. The Times, in referring to the decision of the Conserva - ',rye Peers, says : We are on the eve of a crisis. Nothing since ;he throes which preceded the passingof the Reform Bill can he compared with the consequenceswhich must attend the threatened conduct of the Conservative Peers. Of the 'milt of the struggle there eau be no doubt. The policy A the Irish Church Bill, approved by the three kingdoms, jointly and severally, after mature deliberation and a. Erect reference of the question to the nation cannot be Jefeated. Ent there are other results of their action which touch us all. They put in jeopardy not only them selves and their privileges, but the peace of our great towns, and the maintenance of law and order in the country. Above all, they do their best to provoke an outburst of passionate violence in the unhappy country the vast majority of whose inhabitants they propose to autrage by a contemptuous disregard of their wishes. The cissidents on Saturday were a very small fraction pf the whole, and it must be observed that few of the Conservatives who disapprove the policy of blind and ungovernable res"stance will feel compelled to mark their disapprobation of it by voting for the bill. They will not vote at all. Ti eir absence will diminish the ranks of the Opposition, but will not add to the ranks of the Ministry. We must be prepared, then, for the rejection-of the bill. It is wi , e to Le ready to meet this i,sue. What must follow ? Nothing more serious than an August inLorulon. The business of the session must be immediately wound up, and Parliament prorogued, to meet again after a short interval of rest. We shall see the Lill introduced in the new session without a tittle of change, and brought up to the Lords precisely in the form it will be presented next week for its second reading. It will depend upon the Lords themselves what steps will by that time have heen•taken to ensure its success. But that the bill must pass then is certain. There is no other alternative. The nation has pronounced upon the question. The House of Commons reflects its opinions, and neither the nation nor the House of Commons will recede from the policy they • have deliberately approved and supported. Next week the Lords will be asked to allow that policy to prevail. - If they defer to the will of the people, it will be well. If they stubbornly and successfully resist, the successful majority will be overruled two months later. The Standard declares that the peril of such a resolution is too obvious to be ignored even by the least thoughtful and conscientious of our hereditary legislators ; it must have been constantly and urgently present to the minds of the tried and experienced statesmen who lead the Con servative party. The kind of popular excitement likely to be produced by a collision between the Peers and the. Commons was sufficiently impressed upon their recollec tion by the result of the rejection of the Paper Duty Repeal Bill in 1861. The reasons which should lead the Peers to think deeply and hesitate long before, under any - provocation or for any object, they engage in such a contest as is now impending— r Paso n familiar to our readers—were earnestly urged by men like Lord Salisbury, whose attachment to the Church is well known to be DS fervent, whose adherence to Conservative principles is at leait as con sistent and unquestionable as that of any of the advocates of a bolder policy. It must not be overlooked that a very strong pressure, much underrated by the Liberal press, has been put upon the House of Lords since it became apparent that the majority in the Lower House would listen to no argument and accept no compromise. Such demonstrations as have been made on behalf of the Church of Ireland are without parallel in recent history. The Anti-Corn Law League, the Reform League, never called •forth a tithe of the enthusiasm displayed in this cause. Nothing like it has been seen since 1832. The Star thinks that in the event of the rejection of the bill by the Peers the popular menace against the Irish Church will include other institutions. It will be pro claimed on the housetops.that the House—of Lords is not a more logical, desirable, or excusable institution:than the Irish Church ; and in the fever heat which will follow the rejection of the bill—a fever heat such as has not been seen-since Birmingham• threatened to march on London in the name of Reform—cries will be heard for the down- fall of obsolete Chamber, which - no longer disguises the anachronism of its existence by that decent deference to the popular will which the Duke of Wellington said ought never again to be withheld. When the issue cornea- their lordships will probably be wise in tithe. If not, they must take the consequences, and those consequences cannot possibly be pleasant or safe. Most probably the resolu tion of Saturday and the dubiety of to-day will . teach the English people a lesson they will never forget. It is absurd enough that in_ these days there should be any chamber of Legislature with a standing majority statedly . opposed to the general bent of the- nation's will on the mesa vital -questions of government ; but that such a majority shouldgive the smallest anxiety for a'single day nnder a popular Government carries the absurdity to an intolerable pitch. The Daily News says that the Lords who met at the Duke of. Marlborough's are supposed to have expressed a unanimous desire that within the course of the next few days the real sentiment of. the whole nation should be ascertained. This language loOks like an appeal from hotseehold to universal suffrage. Is there to be another leap in the. dark ? Is Mr. Murphy to perambulate the country, with a warrant from Lord Cairns to raise a No Popery riot in every town of the kingdom ? The doctrine that the sentiment of the station is not represented by the decision of the constituen cies in a general election, and by the votes of an over whelming majority in a House of Commons upon a ques tion on which each member had, practically, a special mandate from his constitrents, is more than revolutionary —it is anarchic. The fact that a number of noblemen rePresenting the strictest Conservatism of an institution usually thought to embody the .Conservative element of the Constitution should throw out ideas of this sort ought to shew them how false and untenable the position is which they have taken up. There is yet time for an honourable retreat from it, hut the time is short. • The Peers have consented, says the Herald, at the in :;tanee of the_Protektient party . in the countiy to take the lead in a perilous and determined conflict. It behoves these.who have urged them - to this venture to support them with all their energies against the storm which their resolve is certain to raise,. Nor is this less the duty of of' every -Censtitu ITW 1r the realm. It matters not whether the decisiOns of the Lords rile - pruddit pblific,:' We may regret or wfrmny approve it ; but thus much is certain, tat having been taken, it is of paramount importance that it be upheld by a force of public opinion sufficient to prevent the Lords from being crushed in the struggle. If they are overpowered by the reckless and headstrong violence of the Prime Minister, their power is gone . for ever, and the balance of the Constitution is overthrown; ana eVen' thOse wh6regret that so much has been staked upon so doubtful an issue must feel that, now the stake has been laid down, all that can be done is to secure that it shall -not& lest. The Post thinks that the proceedings at the meeting of Peers held on Saturday render it certain that the House of Lords is, after all, to be made the scene of an attempt to reject the Irish Church Bill; but they by no means make it necessary to believe that the attempt will succeed. It trusts that the Lords will consult their own honour and dignity by passing the bill, which has been distinctly affirmed in principle and undeniably accepted in detail by the country at large. No resolution was come to at the meeting on Saturday, and the circumstance' that the Peers who attended reserved their liberty of action would seem to indicate some proper apprehensio n of the impolicy of the course they were advised to take. We may feel assured that the Ministry, strong in their purpose and their support, will certainly carry their measure. It may be left to their wisdom to decide on the course to be chosen in the event of the Lords rejecting the bill. If that untoward accident should occur, it may delay, hut cannot prevent, the final triumph of the decision arrived at last November. • 'l:7er since the steadfast action of Mr. Cladstonc's majority transferred all incertitude about the L ish Church Bill to the Upper Chamber, we have :believed, says the Telegraph,. and have persistently maintained, that the Peers. would pass the second reading. Our opinion vas not affected by the rumours with which the air was filled , during the past week ; and it- is not shaken now by the proceedings of the meeting; at the Duke of Marlborough's house on Saturday. It is still our firm belief that the house of Lords as a body—whatever may be • done for the sake of party, of -pledges, or of bigotry by individual politicians— will suffer the measure to go into committee. That we b o ld firmly to thii vietv will explain why we have never joineel in the excited clamour raised by certain of our con temporaries about-the intentions of their lordships. Mr. Gladstone is today so strong as to be simply irresistible. By next week the tiers part/ around Lord Stanhope, Lord Carnarvon, and Lord Salisbury w have grown to a number sufficient, we may trust, to rescue the Tory forlorn hope from its own rashness. Canada has doubled her popuhttion once every eighteen years since 1800. A HORSEY CHURCHWARDEN.— Tlio county of Kent has its peculiarities of social character ; but we do not know whether ecclesiastical discipline is stricter or more lax there. There is one stray sheep of the *iocese of Rochester which sadly wants looking, after. The churchwarden of a rural parish in Kent was not at ”hurch on Sunday. It was known to the initiated — that is to say, to all who bad bought a particular penny sporting newspaper—that he was at Paris, where he rode the horse that ran third for the Grand rrix. This would .119t1ilmil_are'cjii4 A few sears ARCHBISHOP MANNING'S PASTORAL ON NATIONAL EDUCATION. Archbishop Manning has issued, on the occasion of the. Feast of the Sacred Heart, a pastoral which is practically a plea for denominational education in England, not. as absolutely the beat possible system—that being realisable only where the whole people being of one mind in religion are religiously brought up in schools which are at once schools of the Church and of the State—but as the beat of which the English people have the choice. The following passage fairly represents the import of the whole :—" Water cannot rise above its source. The State has no rights, therefore no duties, . higher than those of the parents. Sacerdotaliam claims no such rights against the natural rights of parents. The Church claims and possesses the right and the commission to direct, and by all moral power to constrainrits members to educate their children as Christians, and, further, to protect them in these rights and duties against all adversaries; and of all adversaries, from 'Julian to Voltaire, the State, when it exceeds its rights, is the worst. A Christian civil power educating by its public action an united people in sound Christian schools, is the most perfect example of the moral character of the State. A civil power holding the balance of justice even in a firm neutrality among the religious sections of a divided people, assisting them to educate their children, partly by private and partly by public means, in schools proper to their respective religious convictions, is the less perfect, but the inevitable, condition of a State which has forfeited its religious unity. A civil power rejecting all religion from its public action, and excluding it from its popular education, and nevertheless meddling with teachers, schools and books, becomes the worst of social tyrannies, the tyranny of bureaus and of pedants. In such a system the State has not only got rid of sacer dotalism ; but has usurped the parental rights of the people. Its usurpation upon the office of the Church - is an usurpation also upon the authority of every father and mother in the land. 'We cannot be too prompt in mea suring the full extent of the conflict into which we may be entering. It is ner less than a trial of strength between the traditions of Christian England. and the demands of those who, while they strip the State of all Christianity, claim for it a supreme control over the education of the people. They tell us that the time is come for enlarging our, conceptions of the State, by claiming for it a right to exercise those functions which the deity have hitherto regarded as their own. But those functions are essentially and exclusively reli gious; and the clergy claim a direction of education, because education in its essence is the religious forma tion of children by the law of Christian faith and morals. This claim then of the State is epiivalent to a State supremacy over the conscience. . What was once claimed for Kings is now claimed for Staies. But Kings claimed a supremacy to direct their people in.matters of religion ; the State is now to claim a supremacy to strip the education of the people of Christianity-, and to exclude their pastors and clergy, from directing the education of children. Now, this is nothing else than the deification of the civil power, which Christianity overthrew. It is the lex regia of Ancient Rome, in which Emperors were pontiffs, a true tyranny over body and soul- LAW AND POLICE. THE CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, a case was heard which had, been. stated by the justices of Halifax for the opinion of this court. The appellant, the engineer of Messrs. Holds worth and Son, manufacturers in Halifax, was convicted for using a furnace which did not consume its own Smoke. NO notice had been served- upon the owner or occupier of the mill, and the appeal was • grounded on the 'wording of the . Act, ivltich allows - a mina's notice. The court held that the month's notice required by the statute only applied where an information was laid charging any person named in the Act with con- tinuing the offence from day to day, and not to a person charged with one single offence.' THE RIGHT OF VOTING.—At the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, an appeal was decided on the ques tion whether the members of Cambridge UniverSity who had chambers in college were entitled to vote for the mem bers for the town. The case stated that each scholar occu pied rooms in his college as sole.tenant, and rented the same unfurnished at-210 a-year or upwards. The Lord Chief Justice said that the Legislature had left certain ambiguous terms to the judges to decide. He had come . to the conclusion that the appellants did not occupy as lodgers, and that their rooms were not lodgings within the meaning of the statute. THE CREOSOTE • NUISANCE.—Mr. John Schwartz, a sugar-iefiner, in Mile-end New-town, was charged with . having occasional a nuisance bss burning creosote in lieu of coal. It was shear. that • injury was done thereby to the health of the neighbourhood. • It was stated, after a consultation bad taken place, that the defendant bad agreed to reconstruct his fureaces in accordance with the provisions of the Smoke Nuisance Prevention Act, THE SUSPECTED rotsoNING IN Nonsosc.--On Satur day the Swafflinni magistrates -were occupied for some_ time with the investigation of a case of suspected poison ing of some interest. Two persons named William George Davy and Susannah Davy—husband and wife—were brought up charged with administering a quantity of arsenic to John Mayes Davy, a brother of the male prisoner, with intent to kill and murder him. John Mayes Davy is a single man, and a working miller :et Swaffham; William George Davy is a baker at Pakefield, near Lowe stoft, Suffolk. The mother of the Davys lately died ; she left a little property, which she bequeathed in equal portions to her sons: On the Bth ult. John Mayes Davy went to -London_ to . receise, his own and hi s b ro th er ' s share of the legacy. He returned from Isandonby way of Pakefield for the purpose of spending a few- days with his brother, to whom he paid £4O, his share of the. legacy, keeping £4O, his own share. , Before John Mayes Davy left his brother's house, Airs. Davy gave him six small currant cakes, which she said she had .made for him, as she knew he liked them. John Mayes Davy ate three, and felt no ill effects, but while eating a fourth. cake be remarked to his landlady, Mrs. Ilariey, that the cake -contained some white specks iu it. This was on Sunday evening, the 23rd ult. In the course of the evening John Mayes Davy went to some Dissenting chapel ; but he felt so unwell that he was obliged to leave the chapel before the service • was ended, and as soon as lie reached home he was seized with violent vomiting and purging, which continued nearly all the night. Mr. Marriott, surgeon, was sent for, and at once pronounced the man to be suffering from the effects of poison. The remains of the fourth cake, which had not been quite eaten, were handed to Mr. Marriott, who, on analysing the contents, found a great quantity of arsenic, so much, indeed, that it could be seen with the naked eye. The Davys had lived on good terms ; but the theory of the prosecution now instituted against William George Davy and his wife is that they wished to obtain possession of the second share of the legacy. John Mayes Davy was confined to his bed for some days, but he is now recovering. The further hearing of the case was adjourned. CABINET COUNCIL.—At the Cabinet Council held on Saturday, in Downing-street, the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan cellor; the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce;the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Ezchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right lion. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartingtun, and the Right Hon, C. Fortescue. Tun SUPPOSE]) NORFOLK MURDER.—As already briefly reported, the skeleton of a woman of middle age and small stature has been disinterred at Hilgay, near Downhatn, Norfolk. The skeleton was found by some men who were digging for sand near premises occupied by a Mr. Barton. Some years since a shed stood on the site, and it is conjectured that in this shed the woman must have been secretly buried. The shed was used as a small coal dep3t. A woman named Archer, who had been living with a man named Smith, disappeared nearly twenty years since from the village, and has never since been heard of. Smith is now a bedridden old. man. Superintendent Watson, of the Norfolk police, is carefully investigating the circumstance. The skeleton was not perfect, and perhaps it would be more correct to describe the remains found as a cluster of bones. SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN 210.NMOUTIISHIRE. 7—The quiet locality of .Newchurch, situate about eight miles distant from the town of Chepstow, was on Saturday morning last the ficene of a horrid tragedy. A man, named John Lane, son of a farmer, appears to have cherished a feeling of animosity against his brother-in-law, Mr. Richards, to whose dwelling be went on Saturday morning with a loaded gun, ictent upon mischief. Finding that Richards and his wife had gone to Chepstow marker; he ordered the servant girl out of the house, then heWent out himself and locked the door, the girl making the best of her way home in terror. Lane then commenced scatter ing Richards's cattle, and at the time a labourer named William Nicholls, ..7 as just going to do some work - for Richards, Caine up. Upon his speaking, Lane fire& 'at him, the charge entered the head, and Nicholls dropped dead on the spot. This was no sooner done than another man, named Jamea:Davies, a butcher, came. up,• and whilst he was looking at the unfortunate victim on the ground, Lane reloaded his gun and shot him in the right arm and face. Davies managed to get away to the house of a farmer named Baglin, who immediately conveyed him to Chepstow ',lnfirmary. The bOdy of Nicholls was taken to the nearest Lin to await the coroner's inquiry. Lane, it is said, is insane. There appears to have been 149 pwocation on Q pl_kag t 142 ggisit4Ratt yisgput ,SUN; .LO-NDON, MONDAY.. EVENING, JUNE 7, 1869. THE - MISCELLANEOUS NETYS. - - THE POLITICAL CRISIS. The Daily News states that if the Irish Church Bill were rejected, Mr. Gladstone would advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament immediately, begin Another session as quickly as possible afterwards, pass the bill through all its stages in the Lower House without any speeches from the Liberal side of the. House,' and create 'a sufficiency of new peers to carry the bill through the Lords. The Post points out that it was the Conservatives who appealed to the country on the Irish Church question, and that they are bound to accept the verdict of the country. The Times calls upon the independent peers to oppose the fatal policy attributed to the Conservative leaders. The Advertiser fears that the threats of what will happen if the Peers reject the bill will have the effect of making them reject it. The Conservative organs this morning directly contradict each other. The Standard denies that the Peers had come to any decision, and is s• - ....andalised at the supposition that they would do so prior to the meeting at the Duke of - Marlborough's. The John Bull repudiates the Standard altogether, deAares that the famous trticle counselling the assent to the second reading was in no wise authorised lay the Conservative leaders, and that Lord Cairns would propose to the meeting of Peers that he should move the rejection of the bill. The John Bull goes on to siy that the division will probably take place on the 18th, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, a day, of all others, when Conservatives should not show the white • feather. Our contemporary may like to be reminded that it was on that day the Russell-Gladstone Administration was defeated, and the Constitution was saved : from the r u in which would have been wrought by the passing of a £7 suffrage bill. The sepit's tin teat event need not be told. It is fortunate theft hard worsts no bones. If the contrary had been,a, case. Tar. Glidstone would long since have 'had to . abcticate his functions as leader of' the Liberal party. c The Orangemen of Ireland grow more desperate as the Establialied Church of that country gets nearer its doom. The meeting of . these infatuated 'people at Dublin on Thursday evening furnishes another instance of the untenable ground taken up for the defence of the Church. Ono of the speakers asserted that "if there were but ten men in the country that adhered ' to the truth of Protestantism, the established Church should be maintained." Another stated that the endowment of Maynooth was a national sin, which had been attended with national judgment in the shape of civil war in 1798, and famine and pestilence at subsequent periods. All the speakers brought in an unlimited supply of adjectives in de nunciation of the bill, and Mr. Gladstone was styled au infidel, and spoken of as " that wretch." The Rev. Tresham Gregg, who "deeply deplored that they had met together to contemplate the lament-• able prospect of the decline and fall of the British Monarchy " (which dated from 1829), was especially wild in his remarks. He believed that "if the spirit of God came upon some member of the House of Commons, endowing him with courage and re solve to impeach Mr. Gladstone of high crimes and misdemeanours, • the country might yet be saved." lle suggested that Mr. Johnson, of 13allykilbeg, should be invited to undertake this agreeable duty, a pro position: which was received with Kentish fire. Dr. Gregg said that if .Disraeli had known hiS duty in "that crisis he would - have saved the Constitution, anti become the first statesman in the world. But he niisstdit. He 'Wrote to expressing a hope that , a man who had borne the glorious name of Israel would stand :by God' and' the country ; but Mr. Disraeli did not. Dr. Greg; appropriately pronounced the I3enediction at th e close. The enthusiasm in the north of Ireland seems to De falling off. The great Derry meeting was a complete • success. But the second one, which was to be much of the smile character, has been . a decided failure. While' 40,000, if not more, attended the one, only some :3,000 were assembled on Friday . night. The meeting was not held at Belfast, but at COokstown, on - the other side of Lough Neagh. The usual speeches, - the usual resolutions, and the - usual peti tions, were made - and adopted. ELECTION NEWS• The preliminary ballot at Stafford has resulted in the election of Mr. Whitworth and Mr. Evans. The' fixst fornierly represented Drogheda, the second was defeated in SouthToerbyshire at the general election, Mr. Odger and , Mr, Jenkins have asked their sup porters to give their votes to the above-named gen tlemen. The_ Conservative candidates are Mr. Talbot And Captain Salt. The polling takes place on Tuesday. The Fermanagh Reporter states that, in consequence of failing health, the Right Hon. Henry Corry is about to retire from the representation of the county of Tyrone, and that it is expected - his son will be M.P. in his stead.: Mr. Corry is, we believe, the oldest member of the HOLM. He has sat for Tyrone uninterruptedly Since 1826, when be was 23 years old. He is the second son of the Earl of Behnore. 1r.,111N11 a Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of the . Admiralty, and First Lord successively. Ile is one of.the most popular members of the House, - and will be much regretted. Nottingham politics arc always past understanding. As our readers are aware, a seat has become vacant by the death of Sir E. Clifton; and it is now stated that the other member, • Colonel 'Wright, is going to retire, and that thus this excitable borough will be plunged into all the turmoil of a fresh eke- Con. In that case it is likely that., the two.hostile Liberal sections will unite, and return Mr. B. Osborne and Mr. Seely, who was rejected last autumn. Should they not unite, the ConserVatives will pro bably retain one seat. • The probability of h Liberal reunion would, in an ordinary constituency; prevent a Conservative ?LP: from retiring. But then at Nottingham nothing is so certain +..;-;, happen as what is sure not to happen. Ryan, of aVrauritius, -- wifo has 're - furnen wiun ono health of 'Wins& and'hit family mtich'impairedThy fifteen years in the tropics ; and • Bishop McDougall, of Labuan, who lost six of his children, and was told that he could not remain in Borneo with safety to • his life. There are three others; one of them returned in broken health, but is now recovered; he and the two others have been very useful in supply ing the place of the disabled English bishops. Lord Nelson cannot see any scandal in these cases. " It can be no advantage to the Church that they should continue at their post when health has given way; and in their remaining years they may be able to do some work for the Church at home." . Doubtless Lord Nelson is in the main right. The real scandal is caused by the presence of so many colonial bishops in England, while still retaining their sees. • was _cgrrect: In_the first place, its proposal conveys the impression to the Canadians that they are to be handed over as a sop to appease JONATHAN'S irritation at the course pursued by Great Britain during the War; a sufficient reason for the strongest opposition in the new Dominion. In the next place, the proposition assumes to Eng land the appearance of a threat and a bribe, as such we wrote of it when first that now celebrated article reached us, and this would be cause suffi cient to lead to its disdainful rejection by England. Nor :were we wrong in supposing it would be thus interpreted on this side. In the third place, it is wholly unnecessary; as such a cession ;in no way disposes of the Alabama precedent, which is the question of questions to. England. That must be discussed on its own merits ; retracted, paid for, and 011 iterated. Our position as regards the:absorption. of Canada into the Union is grounded on the belief" that our race is of more importance than the boun daries of the land it occupies. Wherever English speal:ing people adjoin—that is, are not separated by the sea—they ou g ht to amalgamate under one ' Government. If Canada could absorb the United States (!) let that be the course; only , get rid of the ridiculdus boundary, an imaginary line, On the one side of which the inhabitants of the, same race are called Canadians, on the other Americans, which artificial barrier tends to generate as little love as c.us be between them, and in GRANT'S' words, "Let us have peace." Whether the Re publiC is or is not destined eventually to break in pieces under its own weight, we feel convinced of the advisability, in the first instance, of the Continent being united under one. Government strong to open the waste territories—powerful to attract the immigration of mankind, to level all barriers before the march :of civilization, and to protect the work from every hostile influence. When the empty places are full, and the wild tracts are subdued and cultivated, the prediction that the empire will be too mighty for a single rule may be realized ; but our reasons 'are already in print, and will appear next-week, why - we - do not think so. At first, how ever, it is of great importance, for the rapid and successful settlement of the Continent, that it should ' be directed and controlled by one Government, and as this is clearly in the interest of the Anglo-Saxon race, whatever tends to it has our support. The long and short of it is, that . our views are broader than those usually held in England, and our aim higher. We think that mankind will be benefited by the supremacy of the English-speaking people, whom we desire to see reunited ; and not only for their own happiness, but that they might be the better enabled to spread political and religious free dom throughout the world. TIIE SUNDAY QUESTION. The press, -- as a rule, shuns the discussion of the Sunday question, raised - by 11.11. Gregory on Friday night, preferring , rather to 'demand that a public opinion should be formed upon it than to lead that opinion in . any way. They declare that while a large el:ais are religiously and enthusiastically Opcied to theopening of muse ums on th e Sunday,-those who dcs!re them to be accessible on that .day - are very apathetic about the matter. Something of the same feeling evidently . moved M.P.'s on Friday night; They knew that ; they would, by counselling the pro posed chang e , o ff en d a large portion of their con-- stitnents ; and by the other portion a vote in favour of Mr. Gregory would hardly be counted unto them for righteousness, and so they cheered when Mr.- Hadfield divided; and prevented Mr. Gregory from pressing his motion. By the news papers, however, two general principles seem to be generally accepted. First, that the religious question must be kept out of sight, and the pro posal discussed as one of moral expediency; secondly, that if the change is to take place, it may and must be limited. As heretofore, no exhibition should be allowed to be opened for which money is taken. The parks not the Crystal Palace; the museums, not the Polytechnic ;. the National Galleries, which are free, not private collections of paintings, which require a money fee for admission ; the Concerts of the Recreative • Religionists, not the theatres, are those to whom the privilege of opening on Sunday should be allowed. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. { `A Peer," writing to the Post, wants to have certain points settled with regard to the Life Peerages - Bill. He wants to know what title the wife will take, what rank ' the sons, the daughters, the widow of a life. - peer will claim—questions, he says, which are deeply agitated among the young ladies. The Pall Mall Gazette raises a much more important question in connection with the bill. It points out that a barrister who disgraces himself can be disbarred, an attorney is kept in order by the Law Society, medical men have their own tribunal, and the clergy Of every denomination are kept in order by ecclesiastical superiors. The House of Commons possesses the power of expulsion, and the bankruptcy of a mem7 ber vacates, or at least suspends, his seat. The House of Lords alone has no power to e lrk its sense of conduct which may put an inerti Je stain on the ch:iracter of the most ancient hotisei represented in it. - This the Pall Mall Gazette declares to be a significant fact, and one specialVsignificant at the present day, when so many dircninwtances are warning the Lords to put their House in order. Could nothing be done in this direction ? ,Thr TI J BISHOPS. . Another - colonial bishop has lett his sheep in the wilderness, - while 'taking his pastime in - England-: the Bishop of Nassau, in the Bahamas. Dr. YenableS was - consecrated in 1803, and is only 41 years old, so that he cn hardly yet be invalided. The Bishop .of Honolulu has been heard . of in South America. The Bishop of Mauritius leaves'England on the 10th. . Earl Nelson sends some statistics to the Times With regard to• the colonial bishops now pernianently resident in England. - Excluding Bishop Selwyn, whom Mr. Gladstone. specially excepted from his remarks, - there are twelve retired colonial bishops now in the country. Of these, two are receiving part of their stipend, one of them having served as a missionary and a bishop thirty-seven years ; and the other was bishop in an unhealthy island of the West Indies twenty-six years. • There are two Indian biShops who have served the full limo, entitling them to a - pension, and have retired, as men in the civil service do. Dr. Smith, of Hongkong, has retired alSo on a pension, after eighteen years' service. There are three bishops who hold preferment in this country, but no pension—Bishop Mien, who served twenty two ears in Tasmania and and is in a state of • li.sb2P BISHOPS, DEANS, AND CANONS. Under this head " Ancona " writes to the Times complaining that the two English Archbishops who enjoy respectively £15,000 and £lO,OOO a year,. should have led the assault against the capitular bodies: Ile argues that since a canonry is rarely more than £5OO and never more than £1,000; a year, and since it is bestowed as the : reward of • learning or_ Lard work, this attack is extremely. indecorous. " Anemia" adds, " It is, no doubt, natural that more bishops, and such bishops as the present, should appear to the episcopal mind the onethingneed ful. But the educated laity will rather incline to think that to diminish the few modest rewards which fall to the lot of scholars, in order to multiply prelates in purple and fine linen, is anything but wisdom at, a time when the numbers and the quality of candi dates for orders are notoriously deteriorating." Ile points to the spectacle of four prelates' wives at the late Drawing-room, suggests that they, did hot, perhaps; altogether eschew " broidered hair t gold pearls and costly array," and argues that it is not well to make the contrast too great between Dives in the palace and Lazarus in the parsonage, but that there should be some sort of social bridge between.. the two extremes in the shape of minor dignitaries. * CHURCH CONGRESSES. Archdeacon •Denison complains in the John Bull that Church Congresses aro becoming a shp,m; because , they always exclude from discpssion the matters' most needing it. Thus, the - programme of the intended Liverpool meeting contains not a word• about Establishments; episcopal destitution, diocesan synods, or the discipline of the clergy. Supposing these subjects .were included, and that there were many Archdeacon Denisons,we wonder how long the Congresses would last. CLERGY3IEN'S BIGHTS. A clergyman has been made a ' 6 C. 8." The most honourable Order of the Bath is' invaded by the spiritual element of society. The Rev. Robert Mills Inskip, Chief Naval Instructor of her Majesty's training ship Britannia, for naval cadets, allowed himself to be beguiled by worldly vanity, and is now an ordinary member of the civil division of the third class of the Order of the Bath. The much coveted decoration is for the first time worn over a surplice. The rights of the diplomatic officers, of soldiers, rnd statesmen are thus clearly invaded, and that to a very serious extent. For if a clergyman may have the honour, why not a bishop ? And where will the claims of the prelates end ? The Colonial. Orders, the great Knights of the Garter themselves, are threatened. They should look to it that they repudiate the tyranny of the Church. MILITARY ITEMS. The Army and .Navy Gazette would not be sur prised to find further considerable reductions in our colomalgarrisons carried Out next year.—lt isbelioved that Lord Frederick Kerr will be the successor as Director of Naval Ordnance to Rear-Adthiral Key, who has bee n a pp o i n t e d to Portsmouth Dockyard. — The victualling department of the Navy is to be removed f rom S omerse t House to Whitehall.— Colonel4rdlaw is likely to succeed Sir A. Little in the command of the cavalry brigade in Ireland, and - Rear-Admiral - Chads to succeedßear - Admiral Ryder as second in command in the Channel Squad ron.—Sir Henry Keppel is going to send the Rodney back to England, and to hoist his flag on board the Ocean.. England , TILE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE. Attention was recently called to a 'monopoly granted by the French Emperor to an Atlantic Cable Company for their line from France to the United . States.' It was pointed out that such a grant was hardly justifiable, and not within the competence of Napoleon, inaamuch as it would prevent United States :citizens. from laying an'. opposition cable, and place an indefinite amount of power in the hands of the French Government. The Attorney-General of the United States having had his attention called to the subject, is said to - have given as . his opinion that the cable of the French 'Telegraphic-Company cannot be :connected with the : territory of the United States without the parinisSion of Congress. It is to be hoped that no " difficulty will arise about the matter between the two nations. TIIE GOVF.RNMENT AND EMIGRATION. • The Government seems td have given up helping emigrants to leave this country. The Crobodile was placed some time since at the disposal of the dock yard emigrants, but has noW been withdraWn ; why, it is not very easy to say. The - committees in London and elsewhere had no money to send out the several f.l mil ies,, but many were preparing to leave by paying their oAn expenses. And lust now after preparation had been made they are told they cannot go. This certainly wants explanation. THE - APpOINTMENT OF CORONERS. , 7 ---- - - - Mr.Goldney's bill for vesting the appointment of coroners in the Lord Chancellor has failed. The alterations made to it in committee turned the bill entirely from its original object. 13nt some reform is yet made in the law. The bill. as amended pro-. vides that where the election is by law in-the free holders of the county, it shall be by such freeholders only as are on the parliamentary register and reside within the county. A. new clause is added; providing that a coroner dissatisfied with the schedule of fees settled by the justices may apply to the Home Secretary, who is authorised and empowered to revise it in such a manner as he shall deein fit. ' MORE 'MISERABLE BONDIIOLDEIIS. ; • • • .As preciously announced, the Government of the EtnObr, Republic has finally resolved to give up the Virtue of honesty as obsolete and inconvenient in State transactions.. That remote State has long been unable or unwilling to meet its obligations. The full interest of the Republican - debt has not been paid for . many years past, but the Government of Ecuador a long time ago hypothecated certain Customs' duties in part payment. This small attempt to keep up appea6nces has now been abandoned, .with the remarkably neat comment that " inability to comply with the conditions of a contract cancels the obliga tion to fulfil it." The holders of the Ecuador Bonds have met, and • declared th a t thi s proc e e di ng "is at variance with the principles which regulate the trans actions .of civilised nations, is dishonourable and disastrous to . any State, and cannot fairto meet with universal reprobation." Unfortunately this prospect. of " universal reprobation " is not likely to bring. about repentance. ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the Anthropological SOciety eras held: a few evenings since, when the subject of discussion ' was " The Mental Distinctions between,. Men and Women." Papers were read by Mr. flarris, • and - Mr. XI ‘Griger Allan, F.A.S.L whoa() views v. ere somewhat different. ' • - Mr. Barris. was more inclined to favour f em i n i n e clairni; and though' he considered that great natural differences existed between men and women, he ,thoUght it did not follow that the question was one of actual mental or moral superiority on either side. Mr. -Allan was only willing tO . • allow ' woinen pre eminence in the dramatic profession, 'since all women, he thought, were by 'nature actresses. - Thousands of years had simply demonstrated the mental supremacy of man, and we must not ignore the lessons of -ex aperience. CANADA AND 711 E UNITED ST4 TES. • • (Fivin the Anglo : American We find in the Diplomatic Review . an extract from the Nova Scotian, which shows that paper to have r&sunderstood us on an impOttant subject, the absorption of Canada into the Union The Anglo-American Times, stepping in a footpath, prepared by many writers, before him, and encouraged by not.a few statesmen and legislator', andamong them an in fluential ;nember of the pressnt British Cabinet, has - lately (March 13) endorsed an opinion with regard tq the ad justment of ' an unsettled question,' which the Now York Tribune bad offered for English, American, and Canadian consideration. The substance of that opinion is;that the ' voluntary cession of the British rule in North 'America (with the consent of the colonits) where it has ceased to be adVantageous to England, or beneficial to its tnaturel colonies, would be an imperial gift, which England might with dignity tender, and America gracefully accept, in full satisfaztion of the English indebtedness."— Nom Scotian, April 96, 1569." _ _ Oar Arnericancantemporary would not haVe fallen into the error of supposing that we had endorsed the opinion of the New fork Tribung had it derived its information direct from the Anglo-American Times. Qn the contrary, we separated the settlement of all d:sputes between the Republic and the Monarchy from the action of the latter on the Canadian matter, as in no way connected. Nor that only ; for we condemned the Tribune's manner of in termingling them as a blunder calculated to defeat a desirable object ; and the Tribune has by this time received ample evidence that our view GENERAL DYER. The Court of - Inquiry, which for so long a pericd has been sitting at Washington, to investigate the charges brought against General A. 13. DYER, Chief of Ordnance, has closed its proceedings in the full and honourable acquittal of that officer. These sesi ons charges were .grounded on the Report of the Joint Select Committee on Ordnance, of the Se nate and House, submitted to the Senate, on July 17; 1868. They mainly had reference tothe official misbehaviour of General DYER, as Chief of Ord nance ; . in the purchase of projectiles, and the Court composed of Generals GEORGE U. THOMAS, WIN TERRY,7and JOSEPH BOLT,Hap, S. IiANCOCK, Judge Advocate, finds theie charges either grossly exaggerated or utterly unfounde-i. The last Re port of this Committee " 4 On Ordnance" has lately excited no . little attention in England. Some days W ;IS' *paper in the Pall Mall Gazette, which _alluded to - the articles on the subj et published in the Ailylo--A merican. -Times, and, following this, the report-in full, with the E•iitor's comments thereon, appeared in the Globe. Considering that months have 'elapsed • since the American, rapers gave that. document to the world, discussed it and dismissed it ; considering that we reflected what they said and the 'United Seecke Gazate reflected vs ;' coneld, r ing, too; the importance of the matter discussed, to all nations, yet remembering what a heavy. bedl the London press is, we may congratulate it on reaching the subject in the unusually short space of tAro nzwths. These articles, as well as the teteeina lion of t! ‘ e DvEn proceedings, have recalled an almost forgotten topic, for, although the inquiry did not arise out of that report, it was connected with the investigations made by and the evidence taken before the Joint Committee. We may then be . excused fur reverting to both as connected. General Dun is exonerated from all accuiations concerning projectiles and arms. There. were other charges connected with the dismissal of Mr. TAYLOR for not allowing the Government the free use of an invention made while he was in Government employ The displacement of General RAMSAY as Chief of Ordnance, followed by DYER'S succession, was brought against him as an intrigue, but proved to be wholly without foundation. Other charges were preferred for falsely claiming inventions, such for instance as the plan. for casting soft metal ia/i(lts on the iron bodies of projectiles, and an expression . that he was entitled to.a royalty on. the DicKEssoN and ZANE shell, but it appeared that' if not the first inventor of both, he was among the inventors: We cannot estimate the exact 'value to -be attached -to the extraordinary Congressional Report, not only condemning the ordnance ,of the United States, but the Scientific Corps also, which followed that out.of.which these proceedings arose. But one fact is beyond question--the record given of. the guns bears out the remarks harsh as they are, even au nit tieg that many of the witnesses were inepired by jea loe;sy and emnity,-feelings;Wlich more particularly characterise - rival inventors. Perhaps no task could be more embarrassing than to sit in judgment in an American capital on American inventions to award impartial justice ; and it need not surprise that this inquiry should 'mire been the result of General DYER'S holding a post rendered more than ever difficult by the rapid change progressing in ordnance, towards which-the attention o f.inv e ntors -was directed to the exclusion of other subjects,. in consequence of the confliathen raging. It is clear that the • • their evidence with that these enetirs wGeerneeraabllemtaodeimbpirtteesrs enemies, italeport was Missed by their t es timony. The pro. ,force and effect on the joint committee, and that denCe could- noVhave.. been. w.h,olly reliable, • ceedin,p then of :thin .inqu ir e r .show that:,h or at efyi though the report on - which these charges were elon ordnance was not sub itatted to Senate on the 17th while _ if i n h g e lo o_ A ne nie w ri e . fti -°l3' l; d lZ .l 6B * , imagine but supplements t mitred till 'the 15th February can, Times. • last,il le ar o Y ther. • I)UNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application. to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfact; or 4, Beaufort -buildings, Strand, _Loudon, W,c.....[A d _ v,ttifitment.] p ß opocv,t) MATCH BETWEEN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN proposal is on foot to match an American hors© named Bayonet against our Knight of the Garter. Our . transatlantic cousins appear' to desire that " the . Knight" should be rent over there, and that the match should be run within a few miles of New York, The owner of also proposes to run another animal of his, Cottrill, against any English three year old a mile and a half. • • LADVERTISEIfEitr.)—Avoid Medicines: they alwayi aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Ambles Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong . nerVes, sound lungs, healthy 'liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional. regularity, one energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few oat of- 63,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 65,413.—"R0me; July 21, 1866 —The health of the Holy rather is excellent, especial!y Since abandoning all other remedies,. he hits confined himself entire,l3, to Du Barry's Revalenta Aralnea Fool, of which he consume' a plateful at every meal. I'. has produced a surprisingly bane flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lentlood too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 53,216, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessm , "s and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Leril Stuart do DeCIOO, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable &gory from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—,Cure' No 46,270: Mr. James 'Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution. —Beware of the many utvavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without , litharity..Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In.tins,.at 11c1; Ilb 2,3 9d; 2ibs 4s 6 1 5 lbs Ils 12 lbs 2•28 ; 24 the 40s. -.- Also DUPARRY'S REVALENTA ARABIeA CHOCOLATE, POWDER is packed in tiu canisters: for 12 cups at 20, for 2: cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s --being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Order,— BA nay D 1 BialtlC and CO., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and akl Grocers and Cheraißts. MONEY AND BUSINESS. -411. (From the Springfield Republican,- May 2 2-.) The call for money during the week has been only mo derate, and, as a consequence, the supply has ;been abun dant and the rates easy. Six per cent. with Government security, and 7 on good paper, have procurceloans with out difficulty, and the situation generally has; been quiet and uneventful. The fluctuations in gold, and the irre gularity and uncertainty in stocks, havo checked the tend ency to speculation, and the demand from that source has been smaller than usual. Permanent investor's also hold off until affairs appear more settled, or a legitimate em ployment for their capital is offered. The tiow of cur- • rency is still from th e r ur al districts to New York, and the weekly statement'of the banks shows an iucroase of over five and a half millions in deposits during the Aveek. The loans have increased only one million, so that their posi tion is stronger and their ability to supply their customers with funds greater than a week ago. Tho in:heathens fa vour continued ease in the market during the sunnier, unless some artificial combination is effected to force a stringency. At present, however, the speculators have all they can attend to in the fluctuations of gold and stocks, and the Summer vacations and holidays will soon draw the buds and bears of Wall street to their cone try 18.3- tnres and watering-places. The supply of money iu the Western netreet is more than is needed, a tel the Chicago banks are complaining of dull times. There is no activity in the breadstuffs market, and the ap proach of harvest tends to check speculation in the sleek now on hand. The country makes no deniand on the grain centres for money, and there are conse quently few borrowers. Gold keeps steadily advancing, amid rejoicings on one side, wailings on the other, anthill sorts of expressions from the speculators. On Wedues- ' day the price reached 144, the highest 'since September, 1868, and an advance of over 9 per cent. since the first of May. Nobody doubts that the rise is engineered by specu lators, and even the few' who regret the fact unite in the general satisfaction *when ono of them comes to grief, as has the heavy German house of Schepeler and Co. This extensive concern, one of the heaviest foreign bankers in New York, failed on Monday, for a large amount, vari ou ly stated at from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, and during the rest of the day the gold market was excited and un settled in consequence. Other failures were 'feered, and expected, but, except two small houses, none occurred, and the creditors of Schepeler and Co. are all sound, and able to sustain their losses. The Schepeler house stood well at New York and in the European markets, and de spite one or two cases of rather sharp practice, just before their suspension, will be aided by their associates and go on in business. The public, however, have no reason to be discouraged or dissatisfied with the increase in the pre mium on gold. It simply means that the financial condi tion of the country is coming to be better understood, and that gold is no longer to be in a great degree ex empted from the operations of an inflated currency, and enjoy immunity as the cheapest commodity iu the mare ket. If the price of gold were controlled Ike the average price of other articles, it would be nearly or quite 200 per cent. The real lesson of the situation is thus clearly and concisely stated by the New York Eeening Post :.L-"Were the price of gold raised to, the gene ral leVel of prices, without serious disturlance to trade in general, the expo.t of bonds and the increase of our debt s abroad would be checked, foreign markets for surplus crops and manufactures would be opened, and greater stability would soon be given to the financial condition of the coun try. Wo could then ificasiffe'Our'mcauS and face our 'difli,- culties, without the., thin disgrace which now blinds so macy to them both ;' and.the, country would see the 'essen tial trutb, that the really weak point in the situation is our inflated currency, and that until that is disposed of neither the credit of the nation nor the industry of the people can be established iir a satisfaCtory condition." - An incidental advantage resulting from the rise in gold is secured by the Government, which is now selling gold at a million a week, and purchasing bonds with the proceeds. The higher the premium' of course the more bonds it - will buy, and of . course the difference is profit to the Government. Imports continue - heavy in New York, and the receipts bf the Tres ' suey for customs are large. The exports of specie have -been limited during the week, and the coin halaece in the Assistant Treasurer's hands keeps constantly up to high water mark'. Government Bonds have lost their old characteristic . of declining with every advance of gold, and now do exactly the opposite. Secretary Boutwoll got 116; to 1161 for his million on Wednesday, and the demand has been 'uniformly strong and ectivee London prices have also appreciated, and the reported threat of the. great Bank of England to raise its rate of discount to - 10 per cent., if necessary, to stop the speculation in foreign securities, hes had no depressing effect on the price of our Five-Twenties abroad. - That plethbric in stitution may drive Spain and the begging German pro vince (rem out of its markets, but it can hardly . extinguish or ( xpel the faith in a good bond of the United. States baring six per cent. interest in gold. Secretary Bona-. well has removed all doubts of his iute ntion in paying Governments by an explicit deelerition that he is going to enforce the long-neglected Sinking Fund Act, and that be which are applied to that purpose. will be legibly stamped, .for the purpose o`. distinguishing them from all other bonds, and preventing their stile iu the Public mar ket. It seems that the S ecret try lies hid no doubt or he sitancy in adopting this policy, and that all reports to the effect that he was confused and, perplexed into his sense of duty were altogether unfounded. The course of the Secretary meets witli all sorts of criticisms from the emi nent financial doctors, who speak through the press, each one of whom is the sole discoverer and possessor of the only absolutely perfect and adequate policy, Whatever the discussion of their sapient theories may amount to, a few facts, which are quite apparent, afford considerable aid in judgment of the Secretary's action. All the Demo crats, papers, and politicians, with scarcely an exception, oppose it. The G.overnrnent is not speculating is its own bones; those which are now purchased wi:l not again be for sale the re-issue of bonds being expressly fer bidden by the l aw o f 1847 , an d pun i s h a bl e by fi ne an d imprisonment. Mr. Boutwell is only , -executing a law, enacted by Congress in 186!, and neglected ever after by Secretary M'Culloch ; if the law is unwise or undesirable, Gen. Grant's view of the case is correct, that its faithful enforcement is the best and speediest wayeto secure its re peal. With these facts to sustain its present course the Trea sury Administration can well afford to wait the results, and by them stand or fall. A reduction of the debt . 513,000,000 per month is an assurance of integrity and 'ability which appeals more 'strongly to the popular appre ciation than any finely-spun theories on abstVact prin ciples of finance. The New York Stock Market has been uncomfortably disturbed by the failure of a young and growing firm of brokers, in consequence of the flight of its junior member with nearly all its funds, and the situation of gold and Governments has made the speculators rather timorous. BUsiness is fair without special excitement, and. prices of standard roads- have been well 'sustained. The Vanderbilt roads have steadily appreciated under: rumours from Albany that Governor Hoffman would soon sign one or the other of the scrip and consolidation bills, that he would sign both, that ho would do it forthwith, that he had already gone and done it, &c.,—the whole course of affairs showing, if not actual collusion of the governor with his confreres of Watt-street, at least a very close mutual understanding. New York Central sustains every rolvince in prices, and is steadily above the "80's.' Harlem, Hudson River,, and Lake Shore, of course, go along in the ascent. Rumours aro afloat of another grand outpouring . of water in the Vanderbilt roads, Lake Shore, Toledo and Wabash, and others, which will enormously swell the aggregate of their capital. In which connection it is interesting to know that since July 1, 1867, twenty- e i g ht o f th e l ea di ng ra il roa d s o f t h e country have. increased the total of their united capital from $287,036,000 to $400,681,000 or over $1.13,000,000. If there is no limit to this process, and every expansion will be legalized by corrupt legislation, there is no reason to expect that the railroad companies will change their policy. The reports of nperpetual lease of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway to the Pennsylvania Central aro confirmed on good authority, and there is no doubt that a largo Increase of capital is contemplated. The terms of rental will probably be 12 per cent. annually on • the present capital, or 7- per cent. on the new' capital— s2o,3l2,soo - free of Government taxes and all contingen cies. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has declared a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent., payable June 1, and its stock is among the foremost in the market. Trade in dry goods is light, and , wholesales and jobbers ;are com plaining of a dull spring, and one heavy Broadway house went under last week in consequence of losses in outside speculation to make up for the depression of business. The tendency of_ prices is also downward, and the pros pects for the future are not particularly bright. Cotton in the Southern markets has improved a little, but the de mand fcir staple manufactured goods is small and easily supplied. Wool in the seaport market is dull, bnt reports of business in the interior manufacturing cities are more favourable. The flour and breadstuffs market has been more active, in consequence of favourable advices from Europe; and the reports of a large harvest in prospept, stimulating the desire to work off the present stock. New York .has begun to receive shipments by the canal, and, the supply on hand will doubtless coma forward rapidly, (Front the ►Fall-street Journal.) • Friday Evening, May 21, 1869. Money on call shows rather more activity, but dealers find no difficulty in supplying themselves at 7 per cent. on stocks and bou,lB. Discounts are active, at 7to 9 percent. for first-class paper. Gold is decidedly lower on the re cent advance, having opened this mot ning at 1431, and subsequently declined to 1114, closing at 1411. : This fall has been in some measure aided by the Secretary of the Treasury, wh) has issued proposals for the s a l e o f $1,000,000 gold on each Monday, until further notice, ad ditional to the usual Thursday sales, making a total sale of $2,000,000 per week. At the fourth Treasury sale of gold yesterday bids were filed for $2,100,000 ; the highest bid was 143.91, and the lowest 143.52. The awards were inc ia o as fellows :—sloo,ooo at 143.91, $250,000 it 143.85, $250,000 at 143.81, $50,000 at 143.81, $50,000 at 143.80, $ 250 , 00 9 at 10.79 i $50,000 at 143.77, Govennuout bouds . are weak, and show a general decline from i to i por e enc ' on last evening's official prices. Sixes, 1861, registered l22} to 1221 Sixes, 1881, coupon 122- to 123 Sixes, 1868, coupon .. U.S. 6s. Pacific-Railroad lO7l to 1071 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864; coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon' - to 11 9 1 Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon - to 12 0 t U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 , 120 to 120} Ten-forties, coupon lO9O to 11 0 Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties,' 3d series - to —* Oregon War Loan, Sixes. 1881 QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Amer. silver... 95 to 931 I Eng. sous 486 to 48g Mex. d011ar5...103 „ 104 j2O francs 383 o 3 , 8 . 0 1, Eng. silver 475 , 480 I Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 96 I The reported pending negotiationsl;etween the Penul t' vania Eailroad Company and the Pittsburgh, Fort WaY ee : and Chicago Company, for the perpetual lease of the 1 t ti ter, we have reason to suppose have taken the form °I distinct proposition from the Pennsylvania Compaq t ` i pay 12 per cent. per annum in qua, terly dividends. fre e ° t Government -tax, . upon the present capital of the V° Wayne--$11,500,060 - and the interest upon its whyl° funded debt, including the yearly contribution to sinkie s the principal of the . debt ; leaving to the Fort•Wayno piny to, determine the n.-w hasis of capital upon wbich tli J o lea:- . e isle be paid ; that is, if 50 per cent. should be a li t to the present capital, calling the whole 517,250, 000 ; quarterly dividends to be at the rate of 8 per coat. P e , annum ; or if 711 per cent. should be added, calling ~ whole capital $20,312,500, the quarterly dividends to he' the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. The last propositie°l, we belieVo, is received with most favour It makes 3 per cent. investment, free of Government tai and all coo; tingencies. Railroad Bonds are active; and 'on the bet te t. known securities there is a good demand for investi nee Among the railroad bonds now offered on this market sre note those of the St. Louis, Vandalic, and - Terre 1 131° Railroad Company Seven per Cent. First Mortgage. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 91 Chi. &N. W. Ist M...••• N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... 93 Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex- 1. N. Y. Central Gs, R Est.. 851 Gt. Western 2d 31 '93... N. Y.-Central 6s, Sub'n.. 851 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist 31-. Y. Central 7s, 1876... -- Gal. & Chic. Ext .......... N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76.... Gal. & Chic. 2d M........• ,9 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 -- Chi. &R. I. Ist M......••• ,S Erie Ist Mort, Ex Chi. R. I. & Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 921 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... „• Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B7l N. J. Central Ist M...••• O g Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 794 N. J. Central 2d M...••• ./ Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 771 Pitts. Ft.W &Ch. . 1 99 Long Dock Bonds Rue. N.Y.& E. Ist M, '77 B9 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d 95 Bud. 11.75, Ist 31, '69 1011 Cleve. & Pitts. 3d Ai Hud. R. 75,. 3(1 Al, '75 - Chic. & Alton, S. F. 1nc . 4 00 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 99i Chic. & Alton, F. 15tA1 . ..-„; Mich, C. Ist 31, 69'72 120 Mil. & St. Paul Ist 31... 4'83 Mich. new Ist Xi Bs, '52 121 Mil. & St. Paul 2d M... 8 7 Mich. So., 7p.c.2d M 93 Marietta & Gin". Ist M... N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex Ist 31... „i Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 991 Morris & Essex 2d 31... 111. Cen. 7p. e, '7O 120 Joliet & Chic. Ist 31... 0 Alton &T. 11. lit M Alton & T. H. 2d pfd 84 Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 76 Ilan.& St.J. LaudGrantslo6 N. Y. & N. H. 6s ..... Dubuque &S.City,lst )1. e l Peninsula Ist DS.. .....•• Han. & St. J. Con 117 Ohio & Miss. Ist ;1i....•• Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 11 9 & N. West, S. F '971 Chi. & N. W. Con Cot:m 100 1 Chi. & N: W. Ex'n B 95 Ohio & Miss. Con. ........ gi Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D.;. Atlantic & G. W. 2a 31. Express Stocks sell steadily, and we quote . : — Adam f American Alerckants' Union Merchants' Union, old Stock United •States- - • Wells, Fargo, and C.o Foreign Exchange is strong, and much d346lllo;rituitttoo°oill364l33l is shown on commercial bills, owing to the failures notked. VP' Sixty Days. L Three le ) liondcn Bankers - Lw2.. n, Prime Commercial lOBl-109k .... ,", I%} Paris, Bankers , ' 5 224 5.15 '5.15 ----"' Bremen, Bankers - • ...... Hamburgh, Bankers - 34-36 ..... Frankfort, O.M . 401-401 ..... Berlin and Cologne- 74-71.1 ..•..' Antwerp 5.224-5.15 , , •••••• Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss • - _. . . 5.221-5.15 Bank Stocks are in good demand, and prices slft'op, Miscellazeous. - Stocks. show a good business ill Ca Mariposa,. and Pacific Mail. 1 51 1 N. Y. Central ......... 93 Erie Hudson :.. l6ll Atlantic Mail .. .......... 1 9, Reading Mich: South. &N. I lO6l W. 11. Telegraph ...... 4 9 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 93i Ohio and MississiPP L " 1 1 North-West North-West Preferred 101?, Cumberland ............ . 1 0 Canton 63 Bankers and Brokers... 1 0 Rock Island - I M & St. Paul ............ Jleveland and Toledo 106} M & St. Paul Preferred Railroad stocks are strong cud buoyant, especi a o the Vanderbilt stocks. Governor Hoffman Ye ser ,„'"r ,signed four bills connected with the extension and -rfti? solidation of the leading railroad lines of this. State• „ r ip first is entitled "The New York Central Railroad of Bill," which authorizes the enlargement of the cl'l'tod the company by en addition of 80 per cent. ;" the 5 10' " The Consolidatioa Bill," which sanctions the cons c 'y fi‘ tion and continuation of the Hudson River an d New --°'; Central Company, so as to form a continuous line b et .‘ l , ' New Yolk_aud Buff,tlo, the third " Th e E r ie Witt' Directory Dill," which provides that the directors o'oo Erie Road shall remain in power three or four n i e - p el longer : and the fourth " The Harlem Railroa d ' Ol - or ° Bill," directing theconstruction by the compaty o f a.„ fitting depot for passengers and baggage at the st ca ''' terminus in NOW York. Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report ° a lows :—Pennsylvania Railroad were 58 58; ; Si °6 Mortgage, 100 ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage, 95. , 101 Messrs. Henry Clews and Co., in their circular oi l r e 15, state : United States Bonds continuo to el hibi r ece markable firmness, prices being now far above :1 111) , dent. Per some months past the foreign market 1135 f o ur the main support of the domestic; within the I " ° T . ,or weeks, however, the extraordinary buoyancY of tb° T he don market has been checked by political events' , of rejection of the Alabama protocol by the Senate, tc'o e ve with the speeches of Senators Sumner and Ciwndl er ' d per wounded the susceptibility of English investors, na . t i t ti Laps excit.q temporary prejudice against our se ari a while the supposed possibility that we might becol0"104 broiled with European powers on the Cuban ine' ti° l , ll o o o also induced a decided caution abroad relative to 00r ,,' o ar. The Bank "of England apparently is disposed 'to 1 : 11 '" age the speculative importation of foreign secu ritiel of especially American, the recent advance in its ritcedet discount being mainly attributable to that n.otive• o po these circumstances, the shipments of Bonds to 0 1 t he have. declined to a nominal amount, and quotatio ns °ll l l , foreign market rule lower. At home, however, Pricas The improved in the face of a declining tendency abroad' io purchases of bonds by the Secretary of tho Tretl r l t s° furtherande of the provisions of the Sinking 1 ' a nd ' hoa l° had a marked effect upon quotations; but rather a' . 00 0 than abroad, where the significance of the °Pot ati on ) " perhaps not yet fully comprehended. 0 wing to th a i itle parative lightness of the supply on the market, the hoop drawal of $1,C00,000 bonds per week has a very dir ec i pli dency to strengthen prices; and as these purchases A re ' o lli to be continued through a period when money is it :4ot ; abundant and financial institutions and private j a : l , - ; or are free buyers, this result is likely to be still fart'', ill ) parent. The effect of the Secretary's purchases te" Itel t public credit is very directly favouraHo, inasmuch it i s Aa t l) l '" not only reduce the principal and interest of the d e `', o co t also indicate the financial condition of the Gove rli ,,,,cle t and•its good faith in fulfilling all the conditions h "ibit° which its bonds were issued. The stock market ea t " s ioe° a high degree of speculative activity. At no period the Wall -street inflation of 1864, has speculation 6"cppre such a reckless disregard of the proper correspo° ;pin between values and prices. The stock " waterive end has led operators into extensive purchases of stocl' s ' o go the consequent advance in prices appears to hay° 131 1 c ler' a large supply oat of the hands of more permanent no; Schemes of consolidation or of "watering"' are, of 0; worked out upon several of the leadin; roads, a nd 011 cient is communicated respecting these projectstffer , the appetite of speculators. A strong feeling, lo 3 ",: g os t o distrust of the high prices induced by these 19 ,: e ll beginning to appear in some quarters, which is ", e OP . develope into a severe reaction when the-schetnes 6111111118ted. 15 LADVERTISENIENT.I--Holloway'sPills.—COun's9atefi Comfort.—A disordered stomach throws the wh°`, 4 " fl aP" : ;s out Of gear, and renders us unfitted for work 01'000'5 ment. A few doses of these purifying and strong etiolt; pills, taken according to their accompanyin,g will, however, speedily restore order, and re - e fi n h - 0 50 stomach to digest its food without di'fficultyls g e a - eollent pills aro suitable alike to the peer and 0 0 _5 0 Pi o the soldier and the sailor, and particularly for Iwseftil foreign colonists. Holloway's pills are very A ll checking feverish attacks bilious comp Vi ." laints, droPi j e =Hon. They have also made most signal cures 0 t and - diseases of the kidneys, heart, and lungs sufferer seemed past the reach of medicine. , EIRTITB. :1 ., f a(`) BrYwir—On the 4th inst., at Wh e t s t on e, the sr'* -- ° Bury, Esq., of a daughter. tPr STom;:k l T—Ou the 4th i ns t., at 28, Charles-atr ne, fair; the Viscountes s Stormont, of a son. MARRIAGES. r,ter.; BAZALGETTE—CEELY —On the 4th inst ., at St * CitE t , i p, Caversham . Tames Arnold Bazalgette, Esq , s i r E"'", i e 42d Royal Iliglilanders (Black Watch), to Sor" 0- relict of the late A. J. Ceely, Esq., Lieut. of • regiment. •• Pa` s• , o r. Nienom.s -Cc 3111F.P, —On the ad inst., at All Sal 0 0 0 01 . dington, Samuel Nieholia, of Hurst, Berica,, t 7 oti os t youngest daughter of John Cumber, Esq., 0 1 " road, Regent's-park. DEATES. 5P" ' llAiimosn—On the 3d inst., at Leamington, Peter 1 mend, aged 78. 0 ,0 0- Kum .. —On the 3d inst., at the Albany, Pie caclills' ' '- John 319Nlahon Kidd, late 87th Rest. $ • , Jolt SiiIITTLEWORTII—On the 4th inst., at Hollows,' Shuttle*orth, Esq., aged 82. ........"'"? 00 0 ° London: Printed and Published b • WILLIAg ''',,, W''' 4l of Yo. 112, 'Strand, Printer at TED:SUN Office, 1 4.0 .„;,1 04. - ' in the Precinct of the SAT ' o , in the county Or ,11 ` 4-le Li lanClan Juno 7,1 S t' Y IiII:CAIIAN'S This celebrated () Drize Me Reid in P , ottles, 8R he Agents in the prig 8, GREAT W Observe the Red Sc ban's LL Whisks. IC EATIN( relieves the KE A.TINC Important re Il s each.Sodin Box EATING, ( London, E. 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HALL r , • next the Consignee for NIC . celebrated PALE at 13 ,....9rdea0x Wines atm W hisk'eq, from se' also be seen at the uanaber of Hotels, I of others wanted in t S OIENTIFIO ORNAMENT and Dining aortment of VASI RAIL% Inkstands, b &e., in Italian, Al, ° hire pa, Ste. TENNANT, Min N.C. London. lldr. Tennant arr M INERALS, and of Lyell'e Element tate the GE OLOGY, and interestl Dinette each. PRACTICAL MINERALOGY 149, strand. TRE LIVE GLOI Offices-1, Dal The Invested I Piro Revenue to £ The moderate rate 13 rums.for the .Lil value as SPECI, render them part leave is granted or . t ' l ltrtY days after a 4 NA'CIONAL Ricmond, Pricie r the patronage wh ereby a ho me b, Glrie of all ages, cle the kingdom: The obje lt the itsh e ducation, of and ( fold laundry, to tit t: whle Provided for saltable situations f( Ile Committee e" entirely sustained b ° Zee, 121, Pall-m 6EAMEN'S off Greenwici Xat ins, who are I The receipts fro £879 lees than th( B III 3 SORIPTIC William Deacon the Secretary, at street, London, E. Qualification fi Oovernor £lolos 111RITISH 41 - 0 Maekenzie-r Patron—Her For the gratui nestituto orphans a nd of a ll denoi D'ogperous circus One h un d re d al stitution ; ample r Increased sum e "owed and is assistance. Subscribe rs ani I nstituti on and j 48 peculiar claim Secret last Repor ry. Offiees, 73, Chc M est ; and liqssr: R EALTri RESTOI BARRY and Infant T HE Saves fifty times Perfect digestion re freshing sleep, tno3 t disordered e ffectually indigo 8 1t option, habitu reegoments, bre tervousimee, bill C atarrhs, colds, r heumatism, go irritabil h eartburn, head I rtnsea and sickr, fits, bronchitis, F th e a pit of the st e Most digestit ter invalids and IMPoitTANT CA 4 . 11 4 more than F NY, Baron Liob Renceforth nc liarry's he& !rid Infants' Fo( piks already rec been doemed ho by the Pope, Q,„,,Y it after thirt. We quote from I,„ h !,413):—(i Bon ' 1 .° 1 7 Father is oter remedies, , 4t rY i & Revalen ..ateful at ever, Beeficial effect praise this exce Cure No. 58,2 Years' liver col 11( . 58 5, cbgestion, collet &art -ells agitatic Cure N 0.78, Stuart Decie f°f w lsl : ) (l. 4 01te: Waterford._ .3 b ; :: 1 1 1 :T e , Cure No. 41 'jam dyspepsi& flatulency spas of Lynn, isTorfe Curs No. 47, ner vousness, it Vous fancies. Cure No. 56, Years diarrhea& The Food is Ih., 4s, ; !ttlistsrs, earri, Icirry s Itevale canister sc ape at 66., for e.tout cna pent free of c a rriage bztatllY, DU B 81 60 at Tortn taeechutA-e LeiNcrth-r4.