The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-22 00:00:00

sin it cif m PUBLIC I01:012TAli The Times thinks that the Devonshire deputation to the Lord Mayor has conferred on all Englishmen an obligation which it would be ungrateful, and, indeed, scarcely cour teous, not in some way to acknowledge. It is always pleasant to be reminded of any legitimate claim to dis tinction which we have hitherto overlooked, even if the discovery be not much more striking than M. Jourdain's —that he had all his life been talking unquestionable prose ; and the Devonshire deputation has reminded Englishmen that they possess a merit which, though incomparably more important than M. Jourdain's, too many of them, like him, overlook. Everyone of us may legitimately boast of being, not merely an Englishman, but also, it may be, a Kentish, Yorkshire, or even a Devonshire man. Why should we not multiply these useful and amiable. springs of progress, and make a point of rallying round the men of our own particu'ar county, as the Devonshire men have rallied round the Lord Mayor? If we could be quite sure that the experi ment would always succeed as well as it happened to succeed in this case, it might perhaps be worth trying. But the risk of failure is great, and failure so unmistakably implies a most wearisome form of social victimisation that we should feel some alarni at hearing that the Devonshire de)utation was considered to have established a proper precedent. We are glad, therefore, to be informed on good authority that the men of Devonshire have a peculiar power, which it would be presumptuous in other counties to emulate, of sympathising with and taking pride in each other, and we may further, perhaps, reassure our selves by conjecturing that even the Devonshire feeling of brotherhood was quite as much the occasion as the cause of the compliment paid to the Lord Mayor— that his admirers, being sincerely eager to pay him a tribute manifestly well deserved, were ready to seize upon the first excuse. In the language of the memorialists themselves, their tribute was called forth not so much by their fellow-Devonshireman's "success in life, or the dignity conferred upon him," as by " the unimpeachable integrity and inflexible independence of character that have marked his private as well as his public career." And it is not often that such a tribute can be so well deserved, if we may form any estimate of the Lord Mayor's character from the straightforward and sensible tone of his reply. The Daily News asks what will ibe the precise use of the Suez Canal in the economy of trade? It is easy to con clude generally, on the most superficial aspect of matters , that the world will be a great gainer. The mere notion of a maritime canal, or rather an arm of the sea at the place chcsen, shortening by half, and in some ; aces by more than half, the distance by sea between the ports of Europe and the East, strikes the imagination. But such a problem after all ran only be properly studied in detail. We must consider what are the present circumstances and con ditions of trade, if we would understand the exact kind of service which the canal will be fitted to render. We must look indeed to railways mainly to increase the reaction between opposite modes of civilisa tion and the ferment of new ideas which results. As a contribution to the facilities of general commerce the Canal is most important, but it comes too late to assist much in the most important civilising effect of improved communications. On the direction of trade it may have a more conspicuous influence. The tendency of the trade between Asia and Europe is more and more to bring into importance the countries on the line of transit between the extreme centres to be connected. These are the north west of Europe on the one side, and India and China, and partly Australia, on the other. As more direct roads come to be used, the intermediate countries of Europe and the provinces of Turkey receive the stimulus of an immense transit trade. And as a direct road of this sort, helping to bring the largest part of the trade to tEe direct channels, the canal is most important. In time new centres cannot fail to grow up or to extend largely in the intermediate region, advantage being taken of the facilities of markets and conveyance which the neighbourhood of a great traffic route will per mit. The older centres, however, can only gain by such a development of their neighbours' wealth. The facilities of the present business will be increased with the growth of the local traffic, and there will be more new customers for both the East and the West. The Telegraph observes that if we could examine in detail the lists of those who, in their confidence, took and held original shares in many great but financially unsuc cessful undertakings, we should find, of course, some unscrupulous- speculators who had overreached themselves, hut the main hulk of the cash contributed by original and unfortunate shareholders came from inexperienced and confiding "men, women, and clergymen." But £2OO a year to a man with £lOO a year means an enormous change in almost every item of his daily life. The temptation of an increase is therefore very strong. To women with small capital it comes even more fiercely. They cannot use their money in a hundred ways open to a man : the only way in which they can speculate is by taking shares. To clergymen this also applies. All over England—in quiet streets of cities, in suburbs of large towns, in par sonages, in country villages, in wayside cottages—reside people of small but independent means, doing nothing on minute incomes, living barely on some little pittance derived from invested funds. Some day a prospectug opens to them a golden dream. They read at the top of the Prospectus the names of religious peers, pious baronets, respected county members. They are promised glorious profits and solid security. They invest as "original share holders," and for, perhaps, a year or two they are soothed by flattering annual reports. Soon comes a change : there are calls then there is a crash, and they learn that all is nearly lost, and that, if they sell, they will obtain, in return, as many shillings as they had invested pounds. Years after, if they are still alive, they may read, perhaps in a workhouse, that " this great under taking now pays its way; and, although there is no pros pect of any dividend on the original shares, yet the deben ture interest has been punctually paid, and all the company's property has been kept in admirable repair." How is it that so many of our successes are founded on bruised and shattered lives? The fact is, that we achieve by fraud what our forefathers accomplished by force. A lying prospectus is our two-edged sword. We cheat and swindle where they knocked on the head and robbed. The Standard alludes to the extreme language used by Mr. Doyle at a tenant-right meeting at Enniscorthy. He said that he would read one of the messages which came across the Atlantic, and which was from John Mitchell, a man, who had perhaps greater influence with the Irish race than any living Irishman. Mr. Mitchell had written recently in his paper as follows :—" If the landlord evict you shoot him like a mad dog." He (the Rev. Mr. Doyle) did not approve that, but yet the landlord should deal with it as a fact, and a very important fact. Mr. Mitchell continued : "If the landlord hides in London, shoot the agent ; and if you cannot shoot the agent, shoot the bailiff, or all three together." He said he did not read this as a threat, but with such advice coming from the American press he saw that, unless a radical change be made, there will be terrible work in the country. The meeting loudly applauded during the reading of the extract." It is impos sible to exaggerate the gravity or the guilt of such a speech. It is a most "important fact" that such language should have been uttered by a priest of the popular Church, a man of education and position, a man holding influence among the people. It is a yet more significant fact that this invitation to murder was uttered in the presence of a Roman Catholic peer of high rank, who made no attempt to check cr rebuke it, and at a meeting of. considerable im portance,:attended by reporters who were sure to make public every word that was there spoken. If the Government take no steps to punish this instigation to murder, instigation ren dered all the more insolent and offensive by so transparent a pretence of disavowal, the impression produced upon the public mind must necessarily be this, that ➢linisters either are unable, or do not wish vigorously to repress the crimes which they allow to be thus advised and encouraged. And if the story, as we find it told, be true, it needs no comment of ours to prompt the spontaneous expression of horror and contempt which will rise to the lips of every honest man who reads it and notes under whose auspices Mr. Doyle read and MS audience applauded Mitchell's exhortations to the worst and most cowardly of crimes. The Post remarks that Mr. Leatham has delivered a speech of considerable smartness, and shewing signs of more careful preparation than is usually given to discourses in the nature of accounts rendered to constituents. It is worthy of remark that this extra care in dealing with elec tors is a distinctive feature of that advanced Liberal party to which Mr. Leatham belongs, probably for the reason that they attach a great, and, as many will think, an ex aggerated, importance to the representative side of their position. They look upon themselves less as fit and proper persons elected to do their best for the country in its C3UII• oils, than as delegates sent to Le the mouthpiece:3 of their constituents—an entirely vicious view, which, if carried out, might involve such consequences as the return of ticket-of-leave members to repraient the criminal classes, or of members unable to write their own names to repre sent the ignorant. In France the same principle has already led to the " Mandat imperatif," as it is called, the meaning of which is that the deputy is held bound to take at every moment and upon every vote, categorical instruc tions from his constituents. This we are not likely to come to, and so long as the purely representative idea of the functions proper to a member of Parliament does not carry us beyond that more complete and careful method of utterance which Mr. Leatham, Mr. Grant-Duff, and others think it necessary to adopt, even in obscure meetings of their constituents, it must be hpAd to he a gain for all maned. A DINNER FOR A PE!INY. Whik,complaints of the prevailing high prices resound on every side, and householders and housekeepers are loudly bewailing the increasing inaccessibility of the necessaries of life, it is not a little surprising to be told that it is possible to get a wholesome, palatable, and nourishing dinner for—a penny! Yet that such is the case is abundantly proved by those who have partaken of the Bouillon and Irish stew provided by Mr. Tallerman, of Norton Folgate, London. At present the privilege of dining for a penny appears to be restricted to the metropolis, and considering what is the depth and extent of London destitution, the provinces need not begrudge it the wel come opportunity. We can hardly doubt, however, that a system which is at once profitable to the originator and advantageous to the public requires only to be thoroughly known to be largely extended throughout the country. Mr. Tollerman's dinners, as may be supposed, are founded on Australian meat, but Australian meat is no longer what it was when its importation was first thought of, and being skilfully cooked, is admitted en all hands to be really excellent. The Dining Rooms at Norton Folgatc have only been opened a few months, and the bill of fare contains three items— Pea-soup, made from Australian beef stock, and bread ld; Irish stew, composed of Australian meat, with English vegetables, ld.; and sausage roll and saveloy, elegantly termed a " nugget," ld. In this manner some adventurous and hungry wights enjoy the luxury of a three-course dinner for 3d. Mr. Tallerman, like other great inventors, did not attain success at once. On the first day on which he opened his rooms there were four customers, one of whom ate three platefuls, and then wanted his money back. Many who came in asked if the meat were Austra lian, and on being answered in the affirmative, walked contemptuously out. Some idea of the prejudice formed by the working classes against this meat may be gathered from the following story. A working man bought a piece of meat from Mr. Tallerman, and when he took it home and told his wife what it was, she threw it in the dust bin. The next week he brought another piece, and told her it came from Spitalfields market. She thought it excellent, and for several weeks the husband bought the meat at Norton- Folgate, and the wife praised it. But no sooner did he let the secret out than her prejudice revived as strongly as ever, and she refused to have more of it. The majority are, however, less obstinate, and though new comers to the dining-rooms make a great pretence of "just trying what it is like," the result of the experiment is always satisfac tory, if we may judge from figures. The four maletmtents of the first day have risen into 1,100 diners, a great many taking their dinners on the premises. The crowd at mid day is overwhelming. On one day 40s. were taken in pennies between half-past twelve and half-past one. It is I no great wonder under these circumstances that Mr. Tal lerman thinks of enlarging his field of action, and is in . treaty for the City of London theatre, which he proposes to convert into a monster eating-house, accommodating 1,600 persons. A branch establishment has been opened in Islington, where 100 diners assembled before four days were over. The working classes predominate among the feasters, and we are happy to find that the lady who threw the moat in the dust-bin, and who, when " convinced against her will," remained "of the same opinion still," by no means represents her class. Working men's wives have discovered that a meat dinner at the rate cf one penny per head is by no means to be despised, and those who dine on the spot aro generally luxurious enough to lake a second course. But among the customers are men of other ranks, and City clerks find their way to Norten Folgate. More than half a ton of Australian meat is daily consumed, together with 2i cwt. of vegetables, and three sacks of potatoes. Three hundred sausage rolls and five gross of ".nuggets"—so called to get rid of the popular suspicions attaching to the manufacture of saveloys—form about the average con sumption. The meat is cooked in four large steam boilers each holding sixty gallons, and M. Tallerman has so far succeeded in conquering prejudice that 1.5 cwt. of pre served meat has been sold retail in one day across his counter. Several public institutions, including the Boys' Home at Bristol, and the Cripples' House, London, are regular customers. The meat is only 41c1. per lb. and will, it is said, be further reduced in price. With "famine fever" threatening our masses, and poverty and privation threatening classes which have hitherto lived in compara tive comfort, the extension of these dining rooms to most of our large towns would be an immense boon. As an assis tant in the crusade against intemperance a liberal supply of good, well-cooked food will also be extremely valuable. A suggestion has recently been made by Mr. Robinson, of Onslow-square, London, who has paid a visit to the Norton-Folgate establishment, and been greatly impressed with the quality and quantity of the penny dinners. He proposes in face of the winter before us and the certain consequent distress, that kitchens and eating re( xr s or the sale of such meals should be established in several plaits of London, and he has made arrangements with Mr. Tallcl man for an unlimited supply. He asks the public to assist him in hiring suitable rooms for the next four or five months, and in providing the necessary fittings. A kitchen and eating-room in Lambeth have been placed at his disposal free of charge. The dinners aro not to be eleemosynary, but paid for on the Norton-Folgate scale of a penny a plate, and certainly this appears to be a very practical and sensible scheme for helping our impoverished working classes to got through the dreaded but inevitable winter, LAW AND POLICE. irrNIIS AND SPIRITS FOB A LUNATIC—In the Court of Chancery a felition has been made by Mr. Coningham, wine merchant, of Regeiistreet, for an inquiry into the conduct of Mrs. Ambit), as one of •the committees of the person of Sir Henry Meux, found lunatic same years since, in respect to a debt of more than £l,OOO, for wines and spirits supplied for the use of the lunatic by order of Mrs. Arabin on the credit of the allowance made to Mrs. Arabin out of the lunatic's pro perty. The petition alleged that the debt was unpaid, and asked for payment out of the allowance made for the lunatic. Lord Justice Giffard was of opinion that there was no jurisdiction to direct such an inquiry on the peti tion, and dismissed the petition with costs. T.v.ivrNa WORK WITHOUT NOTICE.—An appeal has been heard in the Court of Queen's Bench from a conviction of the Huddersfield Justices, under the Masters and Servants' Act. The appellant was summoned for leaving his work without notice, avid ordered to pay the sum of 103 or to be committed for seven days. A fortnight's notice was required by the firm, and a notice to that effect hung up in the room. The magistrates were of opinion that this notice was sufficient contract, but as it appeared the man did not work by time but by piece, the Lord Chief Justice said the Huddersfield justices were clearly wrong, and the conviction was quashed. THE NAVAL KNIGHTS OF WINDSOI2.—AII appeal from the borough of Windsor in respect of the vote of one of the naval knights of Windsor, has been heard in the Court of Common Pleas. The knight claimed to vote for the borough in respect of his occupation of a house in the College of the Naval Knights. He paid rates for the house, which he held for life, subject to power of the visitors to expel any knight who should mis conduct himself. The revising barrister held that the respondent was "inhabitant occupier," and retained his name on the list of voters. The Lord Chief Justice said the ownership and corporation were in the cor porate body, and no individual member occupied as member or tenant. The decision of the revising bar rister must be reversed, and the appeal allowed. AN APPEAL BY A WESLEYAN MINISTER.—AII appeal has been heard in the Court of Common Pleas from the southern division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, respecting a connty vote. The claimant was a Wesleyan Methodist minister appointed by the conference to reside at Rother ham for three years, and had occupied the house in question from August 1867. He paid the rates. The cirfuit steward took the houses for the ministers, and the claimant made no personal agreement with the landlord. The revising barrister disallowed the vote. The court intimated that the question would turn upon whether the occupation of the house by the claimant was neces sary to the performances of the duties of his office of Wesleyan Minister, and the banister not having stated how ho found this fact, the case was sent back for amend ment. The Australians bid fair to rival the Yankees in st a g' advertisement:. The !'oll iwing frcm Melbourne is 11,,,( in th new p .2 t rc :—" The Physical Basis of Life. Huxley's celebrated essay on this subject is lectui.ed on daily by William Barton, who has made the _matter a life study. It is also illustrated daily at his tables, where the physical basis can be laid in from eleven to three, in the best cooked and most varied hot luncheon in the city." At the ga' 'tering in 0 - rinisby, upon the occasion of a presentation tofNlr. Fildes, ex-M.l'. for that borough, the Lllowing letter Yik , C apology from Mr. John Bright, M.P., was read ;—" Des r Sir,—l am sure you are not wrong in sheaving your regard for your late member, Mr. During-o.he Parliament in which ho sat, I believe, there was no member more thoroughly intelligent and conscientious 4ibtan he was. I have known Mr. Fildes, I suppose, thirt i y years, and his political career justly entitles him tottl Le confidence of a Liberal constituency. Perhaps he is avid ;e enough not to wish to go to Parliament again, but if n ot,t then we may hope to see the connection between him (ant 1 your borough restored when a vacancy Occurs. Ica 3n01.; come to your meeting on the 17th inst., for reasons w hie i yon will understand. lam obliged to decline all imvil ,ations to meetings. — l am truly y ours, . _ Jeux Bala fit': ' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1869. TVOMA,IVS RIGHTS WOMEN IN AMERICA. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It may be interesting to the women of England to learn how their strong-minded sisters are getting on in America. We can best do this by a few ex tracts from the latest transatlantic journals. The New York Citizen and Round 2 able has an article en titled "THE WILD WOMEN VICTORIOUS. " There is joy among the Wild Women of New York ; joy such as envious women experience at the misfortunes of a hatred rival, and such as female reformers feel when they scent a coming scandal. They hated t he Wild Women of Chicago because the latter surpassed them in in decency, and lo! adversity has smitten the NN estarn pan taloonatics, and their leaders are about to desert them. The Wild Women of the metropolis hungered and thirsted after scandal, and behold, the Chicago Universe, a paper which exists solely to supply this chief desire of the Wild Woman's heart, is to be removed to New York. Truly fortune smiles upon the brave supporters of those sacred Rights of Women, the right to hate successful rivals, and the right to read the most shameful of scandalous stories ! We have once before remarked upon the strange ar d morbid love of indecency, which is perhaps the most pro minent of the distinguishing traits of the Wild Woman of the Period. In the absurd burlesques of public meet ings which the Wild Women perpetrate, the favourite topic for discussion is uniformly that of the physical relations of the sexes. When they meet together, and the in evitable inspection of bonnets is ended, the minutes of the preceding meeting are hurriedly read, the preliminary business is hastily transacted, and a visible uneasiness pervades the assembly, until the looked-for moment when the presiding Wild person announces as the sub ject for the evening's discussion some such dainty topic as The Social Evil,' or The Physical Ills of Matri mgny.' Then the placid Emile of contentment softens each bony countenance, and the flush of expectant pleasure muddies each sallow cheek. With a sad perversity of taste they usually so manage their meet ings that some comparatively young and approxi mately comely woman is selected to open the debate by reading an elaborate essay. Indecency from the lips of a passably pretty woman possesses in the Wild Woman's estimation a piquancy which is wanting when an ancient and ugly female is the speaker. And if to comparative youth and beauty the propounder of prurient ideas can boast a reputation sullied by actual immorality, or well founded suspicion, the delight of her bearers knows no bounds. The Wild Women of this city, though lack ing the benefit of a Chicago education, have still been remarkably successful in the pursuit of indecency in their public discussions. Their journal, the Revolution., has, however, failed to achieve anything like the repu tation for shamelessness which the Chicago Universe has decidedly won. Not that the Revolution did not fre quently shock and disgust even the readers of the Police Gazette; but still it professed to be a decent paper, and generally managed to evade any absolute breach of the law against indecent publications. The Universe, on the other hand, conducted by Chicago women, was unrivalled in its unblushing shamefulness. It openly attacked the institution of marriage, and avowed the right of any woman to become a mother when and hew she pleased. In its language it was simply beastly. The very last number which reached this city contained an article which, for loathsome obscenity, has never, to our knowledge, bten paralleled, and which would probably disgust even the hu man ghouls who surreptitiously supply the literature of hell to prurent youth. (The Wild Women will find the article on the fourth page of the Universe). Naturally it was a great grief to the Wild Women of New York that such a paper should be published, not by them, but by their rivals in ano ther city. Their joy can therefore be only faintly imagined when the Universe last week announced the glad tidings that it would henceforth be published in New York. No longer will the Wild Women be forced to blush for the compara tive decency of their former organ, the Revolution. No longer will they consume their hearts in envy of the superior shamelessness of the organ of their Chicago sis ters. Henceforth they will proudly bear the palm of in decency, and Chicago must be content to draw her weekly supply of licentious literature from tho metropolis. We discussed in our last issue the mystery of the per sonal ugliness of the Wild Women, and gave up, as hopeless, the effort to solve it. But the mystery of the shamelessness of tne Wild Women is still darker and More impenetrable. Various theories have been pro posed by speculative persons to account for the mystery of ugliness, but no one has ventured to suggest a theory by which to explain the mystery of shamelessness. It is nevertheless an appalling reality. The Wild Women lay aside modesty when they speak, and defy decency when they write. Though wo cannot find the reason of this scandalous conduct, it should not be passed by un noticed. And we, therefore, beg leave to call the atten tion of the police to the frightful and iucreasiug immora lity of the Wild Women's journals. The Last Sensation was suppressed, and rightfully so; but it was prudish in comparison with the Universe. Because the latter paper veils its lewdness with the thin pretext of aiding in moral and physiological reforms, its true character should not be mistaken. Should many of its articles be printed and published in pamphlet form, the police would promptly arrest the villains who should sneak ingly venture to sell them in alleys and by-places. Why then should they be permitted free circulation when published in a Wild Woman's newspaper? We do not advocate any interference with the pleasures and tastes of the Wild Women. Let them write and print in decent journals to their hearts' content, but let them circu late them in secret, and exclusively among themselves. We do most earnestly protest against the public sale of such noxious nastiness, and insist that the modest women and virtuous men of the metropolis shall not be exposed to the contamination inseparable from the perusal of the Wild Women's favourite literature. The establishment of the Universe in this city is a step in advance of any in decency which the Wild Women had as yet attempted. To their peculiar stuns ments we have no right to object, except when they outra_e the rights of modest women. We earnestly hope that our city authorities will keep a watch upon the Universe and its female conductors, and not permit New York journalism to be disgraced to the extent to which that shameless sheet has disgraced the Newspaper world of the West." The Tribune asks— " Can the paragraph be well-founded states rim ne ng _ a herselfttii l a m t e M na r t— s M tio a Lm j o oa r ur i r bn . which we find careering through the newspapers, which ry yo a rf l e k at e ch r he t has lha b ewa e g e t n o fd fortye requiringc la - e M f f o a a r v r e o y t u h r W e years ?' Is this the kind of legislation which Madame Mary and her friends propose to treat us rnisembles when she gets into Congress ? if so (and, alas ! it looks like it), all we have to say is, that we shall regard it as most abomin able, outrageous, indefensible, and.highly exasperating. We like voluntary marriages as well as anybody. But upon compulsion —never ! We will fight, Wed. and die first." The Boston Traveller, describing a " scene not in the bills," says : "At the close of the Rev. Mr. Fulton's lecture, on Mon day evening at the Music Hall, the Rev. Gilbert Haven introduced himself to several ladies who were upon the platform, among others to Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. That lady refused to shake hands with him, and said, 'You pro fess to be a Christian minister, sir, and you have reviled woman. "Better do that, madam,' replied he, than to revile Jesus Christ."l never re vil e d Jesus hrist,' she said. You have done your best to do it,' said he. Sir,' she responded, you have pl a y e d the part of a dramatist and a buffoon.' Madam,' said he, your birth, your edu cation, and your position in society should have made a lady of you.' She replied, Do you mean to say, air, that lam not a lady ?' 1 mean to say, madam,' said he,' that you act like an outrageous exception.' At this point Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Lney Stone Blackwell took up the conversation, and Mrs. tiowe withdrew." The Daily Advertiser, of the same city, in a favour able notice of Mrs. Lucy Stone's lecture there, ob serves : "She never puts off the robe of her womanly refine ment. It is much to be regretted for the sake of decency that all the women who strut their brief hour on the lec ture platform are not made after this pattern. For Mrs. Lucy Stone will make five converts in an evening where a dozen are lost to her cause by the brazen hoyden or noisy scold who delights in flaunting her unwomanliness in the face of astonished audiences." This, we presume, is by way of "chaff":— "Mrs. Arabella Mansfield, Esq., is the beauty of the I•wa bar." In its article " On Silk Attire," the Tribune dis cusses the costume of the emancipated woman — Miss Logan having been censured for her personal splendours, now appears " in heavy rich black vel vet, heavy silk overskirt and panier, and gold ornaments." On the nth& hand, Miss Field was clad in simple white muslin, while Mrs. Pauline Davis, in the Hartford Convention, was "radiant in an overwhelming confusion of blue satin, black velvet, and white Bair ;" and Mrs. H. B. Stanton in black velvet solely. This certainly is not in the simple and useful, if unbecoming style of the " bloomer ;" and the Tribune asks, "Now, which is to be the attitude? Under which king, Bezonian, or which Queen ? Is it Eugenie or Lucretia Mott who is to regulate the costume of the platform ?" The Nation has an article on the Woman's Parlia ment, in which it discusses Mrs. C. S. Pierce's late address. The main point of the Nation's argu ment is that women are constantly claiming quali fications which in action they do not show ; that it is open to them to do what they assert they can, yet that they do not do it, and that a lady who edits a law paper in Illinois has in this bumble work done more for the admission of women to the legal profession than all the speeches ever made. The advocates of ‘V omen's Rights mistake and underrate the magnitude of their task. They re gard it as a social excrescence like slavery or reli gious intolerance, or landed entails ; whereas they are trying to revolutionize human society, " to de stroy ideas and usages which not simply have re ceived the consecration of all recorded time, but have their roots intertwined with the inuertrost fibres of the human heart. The relations of the sexes, which they are trying to change, are rela tions which, though they have been, like every thing else in this world, disordered by folly and ignorance, have supplied the race with nearly all the pure happiness it has ever known." We have said enough to show the present tend ency of this discussion in America, where the papers have lately teemed with articles on the sub ject. ~IIISCELLA NEO US NEWS. THE ABOLITION OF THE LOUD JIrt3TICESIIIP. --- - The abolition of one of the Lord Justiceships is not altogether a good thing. If it reduces the amount of State money expended on the Chancery Courts, it takes away the time of Lord Dufferin, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Last week his lordship had to sit for two days to hear an appeal of the legal bearings of which he knew nothing. He toyed with his pen, and amused himself as best he could, while Lord Justice Giffard listened to the arguments and gave pi. .. ent. The Solicitors' Journal is very angry, with t e Chancellor of the Exchequer for suppressing the post, and suggests that Mr. Lowe should be punished by being made to sit for two days in the Court of Exchequer. The right hon. gentleman would probably amuse himself by mastering the case under hearing ; and would give perhaps a "strikingly original decision based upon the dictates of common sense." There is no reason, how ever, why tho law, permitting one Lord Justice to hear a case alone, should not be extended to appeals from the Lancaster Chancery Courts. WHAT THE CONSERVATIVES THINK OF THE TEN PEERS. The John Bull accepts very complacently Mr. Gladstone's ten new peers. Our contemporary simply remarks that had ten Conservative creations been announced in one day the outcry would have been universal; and it warns the Premier against the danger of increasing recklessly the numbers of tho House. But, while doing so, it regards the desire of Mr. Gladstone to obtain more support in the Upper House as "very natural." Then, as to " the party the John Bull says :—" The new peers will doubtless soon shake off their Liberalism." Has not Lord Edward Howard already supported the Conserntive opinions on education ? years se:Tice at home, and if volunteer; Mr IMMO abroad, possibly seven,. but not to exceed ten years, and every endeavour is to be made to carry out the policy of the late Mr. Godby, Assistant Secretary of State, for War, viz., to reduce, if not entirely abolish, the pension list." Then as to the militia, the position of quartermaster is not to be filled up should vacan cies arise, and the prbsent holders are either to be , allowed to die out or to be placed on retiring allow ance, provision for which will be made in the Esti mates and the Annual Militia Pay and Clothing Act. The Permanent Staff is to be reduced by the abolition of the positions of orderly-room clerk, drum-major, hospital-sergeant, and musketry sergeant,together with one sergeant per company. It has not yet been finally decided whether these non-com missioned officers shall be at once disbanded, with possibly a gratuity of three months' or six months' pay, according to length of service, or be allowed to complete the five years' engagement now running. Against this " sad news to some " must be put tho announcement of the Army and Navy Gazette that the reductions which are to bo made in the army stationed in India will not be of such a wide or sweeping nature as was originally proposed. FOREIGN NOTES; PREIS TRAMS IN TIIE WEST. Professor Perry, General Brinkerhoff, and other apostles of Free Trade have held a meeting at Detroit to discuss Protection. The professor said that Sir Robert Peel was the great man for their imitation, because he inaugurated Free Trade in England. They wanted a modified tariff, but the Congress of the United States was not governed by motives that fitted it for the work. General Brinkerhoff, of Ohio, illustrated the subject by a practical test. He wore a suit of clothes that cost $73, but in Canada he met a gentleman who had on a better suit than ho had himself, and it cost only $l6. " See the difference," exclaimed he, "of what you would have to pay under free-trade, and what you have to pay now." The Secretary of the Free-Trade League of New York explained the object of the associa tion ; and some of the friends of American interests an nounced their readiness to meet the champions of British interests at a meeting for free discussion on both sides, but they declined the offer, and appointed a committee to form a Free-Trade League in that city. LORD DIINGLAS IN BERWICKSHIRE. The labours of Lord Dunglas to woo the fair con stituency of Berwickshire have been entirely thrown away. The old spouse of the county has not deserted her; Mr. Robertson claims her still, he is not going away to the House of Lords ; and Lord Dunglas retires in confusion. His lordship hopes, however, to win her some day, and does not intend to close all connection with the electors. He has issued a cir cular to them, in which he thanks them for their courtesy, excuses himself from public appearance under present circumstances, and says he will go on with his canvass. Every resident elector is to receive a visit, Lord Dunglas intending to come forward for the county "whenever a suitable opportunity occurs." WATERFORD NOMINATION. The nomination at Waterford was not such a lively affair as had been anticipated. Sir Henry Barron advocated fixity of tenure, and declared that he would give up He recommended the adoption of a system of tenant his rights as a landlord for this object. right, and expressed an anxiety to see employment provided for Irish labourers, manufactures established in the country, and religious differences obliterated. Referring to the political prisoners, he said his prin ciple had ever been to treat them with mercy and kindness and forbea rance . "A voice " required him jto say " ustice," and he complied ; but ventured to add that if he did not think their release would add to the power of the British Government, he would be the first to condemn them to their present exile. Mr. Bernal Osborne thought that the condition of the Fenian prisoners was an objectnext the heart of every one in the country ; and. said he would do all in his power to effect their release. He declared himself in favour of a land measure on a broad principle of freedom, let it coma from what Ministry it might. He also advocated the Ballot, a tax on absentee landlords, among whom lie included his opponent, and put a telling finish to his address by assuring the electors that if returned ho would devote his best energies to the interests of the country, and then exclaimed with stentorian energy, " God save Ireland." The gallery responded with a tre mendous cheer, and on a show of hands being taken. it was declared to be in favour of Mr. Osborne. TIPPERARY. According to the London correspondent of the Sheffield Telegraph, a curious point will arise to-day at the nomination for Tipperary. O'Donovan Rossa, one of the Fenian convicts, will be nominated, and the question is, whether the Sheriff will bo justified in refusing to recognise the nomination, or the demand of a poll, if one be demanded. At the first blush, people would say that if the Sheriff's attention be duly called to the fact that Rossa is undergoing imprison ment for felony, he must be treated as a nullity. But the writer believes that the better opinion among lawyers is that, though the election of Rossa would as a matter of course be a void one, and all votes in his favour would be thrown away, the Sheriff has merely ministerial, not judicial, duties to perform, and therefore must not presume to judge whether a candidate, duly nominated, is eligible or not. ➢TALLOW. The Irish tenant farmers aro determined to make an earnest efibrt to return a member of their own class, should a vacancy occur for Mallow. Mr. Byrne, President of the Mallow Farmers' Club, was fixed upon as a tr-nants' candidate . at a recent meet lie has announced his willingness to stand. Major Knox, D.L., has been invited by the Conserva tive' s „ a i n d e pendent Liberals to stand for the borough as a Liberal-Conservative. A CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF IRELAND. A dinner was given to Colonel Dyott, M.P. for Lichfield, a day or two since, at which the hon. gentleman entertained the company with his view of the present condition of Ireland. Referring to the land question, he stated that compared with the agricultural _progress which h a d t a ken place in England during the hut thirty years, the progress in Ireland had NIA.] double. Furthermore, the gallant colonel -daelswed his belief that " there was no part of her Majesty's dominions in so flourishing and prosperous a condi tion." But there was a dark side to the question. " The people who now, unhappily, ruled the country had been agitators, and were so still, and lived by agitation." These people, in his opinion, used the Irish Church for getting into power, and they would use the land question for the purpose of keeping in power. THE BILL. That the Government have not yet completed their land bill is evident enough from the fact that the collection of information as to the number of holdings in the country, and the nature of the tenure, is still going on, and is, it is said, progressing satisfactorily. Another circular has been issued by the commis sioners, giving further information respecting the gathering of certain facts. The Spectator says the lat es t an d mos t cre dible re port about •the forthcoming ten ure bill is that -it will establishtu f twoull compensation for improvements, and principles —one, that a tenant has a right the other, that no landlord can exact without the in tervention of a tribunal. On receiving notice the will appeal to a land court, w the matter, as if it were itself thethhn which will unlessl arbitratea n d I c o o r n d contented, i nt i nv e i d, ns. compensation where it is due, or at least where it is deserved. TENANT RIGIIT AND FIXITY OF TENURE. The difference between the two popular remedies for the Irish land grievance is well set forth- in a correspondence between Dr. Taylor and Lord Portarlington. Fixity of tenure, as now defined by its chief advocates means the right of the tenant to continue in his holding, provided that he pays his rent, which is to be adjusted at certain fixed periods, according to the averag e market price of farm produce. "It is understood, therefore, by the advocates of fixity of tenure, that the tenant who pays his rent is to hold his land in dependently of the landlord, and that, consequently, the landlord is to be deprived of so much of his former rights." Such is Dr. Taylor's definition. Ulster tenant right is a very different thing. The essence of Ulster tenant right is not fixity, but a rule which implies the very reverse of fixity—a rule that when a tenant receives notice to quit, as well a s when he desires to surrender, h e s h a ll be entitled to compensa tion. Dr. Taylor is in favour of fixity of tenure. Lord l'ortarlington would prefer a more restricted remedy, securing for the tenant full compensation for unexhausted improvements, and actively promoting security of tenure by encouraging letting at a fair rent, and for sufficiently prolonged and fixed periods. THE FRANCIIISE. The appeals from the decisions of revising bar risters to the Court of Common Pleas aro not nume rous this year. There are no would-be lady voters and troublesome points of law are fewer in number. One case is worthy of notice. Last year it was held that those barristers who rented from an Inn a set of Chambers, but who under lot one or more rooms, could not be regis tered in respect of a house unless they had ex pressly reserved power to enter the rooms of their under-tenants whenever they pleased. This decision created considerable surprise at the time, and has now been revel sod. The Court holds that constructive occupation of a h ouse or se t o f c hambers with actual occupation of th e rest i s su ff i cient. Thus it appears that a perso n w h o rents w h at i s l ega lly called a house, and underl e t s vote, provided h e reta i ns possess i o n of some portion. any part of it, is still qualified for a ARMY REDUCTIONS. The rumours of army reduction have gathered strength by a week's existence . , and to-day . we have the outline of M r . Cardwell's scheme for cutting down our force by 15,000 m en . Thi s l a rge body is, according to the United S erv i ce G aze tt e , t o b e o f th e r ank and file. All regiments in future are to consist of ten com panies ; the rank of Ensign will be abolished ; and in its stead two supernumerary lieutenants alio wed. 4 _ 4 The men are _ t.Q_ be ...enlatesl hr. three NAVAL CHANGES. - The most important item of naval news is that the system of naval retirement, so long under considera tion, is matured, and has obtained the sanction of the Treasury, and is likely to be made public in the course of the week. The hope that the long wanted and anxiously expected change would be in augurated with the new year is disappointed. The April list, however, may testify to the reform. As evidence of the importance of the forthcoming alterations, it may be mentioned that Rear-Admiral Forbes was told, on the appointment at Queenstown being offered to him, he would be liable to be removed from his command in the course of a few months and transferred to a retired list. OTHER ITEMS OF SERVICE NEWS. The most important event since last week is the publication of the control warrant. It is being rapidly promulgated, and will speedily come into force. It will probably be in working order by the beginning of December.—All the divisional engineers at the seve ral ports are to be superseded on the first of the New Year.—A circular has been sent from Whitehall to all the principal officers of the Coast-guard, calling their attention to the necessity of having only able and efficient men• in the service, and ordering a return to be made immediately of the state of all under their command. It is expected that a further and very important reduction will be made in this branch of the service, and probably the force will be one thousand men less this year than it was in 1868-9. THE LAST FROM THE "RECORD." The Archbishop of Canterbury's illness is a source of regret to the Record. That expounder of the truth is kind enough to give his Grace permission to live. "5.lVe. differ from the Archbishop on some important points, but at the present eventful crisis the preservation of his life would appear, 'speaking after the manner of men' to be of much importance to the Church of England." There is a benignity in this announcement which all persons ought to appreciate. But it is clear that his Grace has had a narrow escape. had the Record differed from the Archbishop on a few more impor tant points, the regret at his illness would probably have diminished. And we are clearly given to under stand that the preservation of Dr. Tait's life depends only upon the " present eventful crisis." Should that pass away no doubt the Record's permission will be withdrawn. THE TWELVE DAYS' MISSION. A. conference has been held of the clergy taking part in the High Church Revival in the metropolis. From the comparison of notes we learn how great an interest has been taken in this mission. There are scarcely any services that do not attract 200 people, and many two or three times that number. Considering that there are 120 churches taking part, besides congregations in schoolrooms, it may be fairly estimated that the total number daily attend ing this mission is 35,000. Of these very many are persons who aro not in the habit of attending divine service. Differences of theology had no influence upon the harmony of this conference. The greatest unanimity prevailed. SICK PAUPERS. The Poor-law Board is making an effort to get at least some sick paupers out of the hands of parish officials. According to the Medical Times, the Board has addressed the governors of certain metropolitan hospitals with the view of ascertaining whether they are prepared to receive and treat pauper patients. On learning how many can be taken, arrangements will be made between the hospital authorities and the guardians of those places in which additional provi sion for the sick poor is required. MENDICITY AND ORGANISED RELIEF. The suppression of mendicity by establishing a system of organised relief has been found so success ful in Blackheath and elsewhere that it is being adopted throughout the metropolis. The parish of Paddington is the last district which har given in its adhesion to the now cause. A meeting, presided over by the Earl of Lauderdale, has formed a committee for carrying out the plans. They simply consist in issuing tickets to subscribers for relief by a central committee, the tickets are given in answer to application at the door for money or food, and the committee then make all needful inquiries. "LADIES IN STRAITENED CIRCUMSTANCES." There is a hospital for women in London. The purpose of one wing of this institution is ostensibly to provide good medical advice and nurses for ladies whose straitened means prevent them from obtaining proper aid individually. But as fresh funds are now asked for paying off the debt incurred in building this wing, it becomes important to know on what principles the accommodation for ladies in straitened circumstances is supplted. "A Sister of Charity" writes to say that one lady is now paying six guineas a week as a patient in this department of the hos pital. Surely this is not a case of straitened circum stances. Public money can be applied to better pur poses than providing medical advice and nursing for ladies who are able to pay six guineas a week for it. TECIINICAL EDUCATION. Portsmouth has made a start in the scientific in struction of the masses. A meeting strongly attended by M.P.'s, magistrates, and other local magnates, was held on. Friday. Mr. Buckmaster urged the neces sity of education for the working population, and explained, the terms on which the assistance of Government is given. It was resolved to establish a school of Science and Art for Portsmouth, and a considerable sum was straightway promised. RAILWAY IIAyTERS. • The Railway News states that Lord Cairns and th&Marquis of Salisbury are making such progress with the London, Chatha m , and Dover arbitration that there is good reason to believe their award will be made public before Christmas. Their lordships have, it is understood, already disposed of the wh o l e of the legal points, which promised in the various courts of equity to drag on a protracted existence for the next seven years at least 2 . and so far an en d h as been put to that frightful litigation which was inflicting so much injury upon the company and upon all interests connected with the undertaking, and yielding such a bountiful harvest of fees and charges for the lawyers.—M. Boutet's plans for the construc tion of a bridge across the Channel are still attracting attention in France. A.large model of the structure which is to span twenty-two miles of sea is about to be erected in the Champ de Mars. This model will be 330 feet long. Should it stand the trials it will be subjected to, an entire revolution in the construc tion of iron bridges and viaducts will be the result. M. Boutet's system, it should be said, involves the use of only one-tenth of the iron employed in bridges constructed on the usual plan. POISONING NO MURDER. The Isle of Man must be a pleasantplace to live in. Those who are so disposed may attempt to poison their friends or enemies without the slightest danger of punishment. The woman who was accused of having . tried to murder her husband, by slowly poisoning him, at Port Erin, was put on trial on Thursday ; and although the evidence against her was almost overwhelming, the prosecution had to be withdrawn, as there is no provision under the Manx criminal code for the punishment of a person charged with attempting to murder by poison. THE PLOT THICKENS IN SPAIN. The efforts of the Spanish Government to obtain a king have once more ended in leaving the Revolu tionary leaders in precisely the position from which they started. For weeks past the Progressists have been intriguing to place the crown on the head of the Duke of Genoa. Many difficulties have pre sented themselves, but the Progressists are now con fronted by ono which they ought to have foreseen. The Duke will not have the crown. The Times says :—" We have good authority for contra dicting the assertion of the Madrid Ministerial journals, that ' the Duke of Genoa, if elected, will accept the Spanish Crown.' The young Prince has, on the contrary, expressed his firm determination not to accept the Crown of Spain, either now or at any time.' We are also authorised to deny the statement that the Marquis Rapallo has been in triping at Madrid in favour of the election of the Prince.' The Marquis Rapallo, who is now in London, has never been in Madrid nor in any other part of Spain; and both himself and the Duchess of Genoa are, and have always been, strongly opposed to the Prince's acceptance of the Crown." MARKETS.-7his Day. LIVERPOOL COTTON. Noy. 22.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. The market firm. SPECIE PAYMENTS IN NEW YORK. The New York Chronicle states that the Northern cotton merchants are very desirous of introducing a gold basis into that business. The shipper already has to adjust his currency prices to the gold value, and he might as well deal in gold while a gold basis would produce a greater equality in prices at the American ports and at Liverpool. In California the whole business is conducted on a coin basis, and in the South there is a desire to attain the same result. Measures are being taken to establish banks on this principle. It was resolved by the late commercial convention at Louisville " that planters sell their cotton, hemp, tobacco, and sugar for coin only, and that they make their labour contracts payable only in specie." ANOTHER STRIKE ON THE ERIE RAILROAD. It was reported in Jersey city, on the Bth of November, that all the brakesmen on the eastern division of the Erie Railroad had struck in consequence of the discharge of three of their number. At Port Jerois a meeting was called, and the immediate restoration of the discharged men was demanded. The request not being complied with, a strike was resolved upon, and as each train ar rived the brakesmen were informed of the state of affairs, and at once left their trains. The company have resolved to employ new hands, and Controller Fisk has proceeded to Port Jerois to pay off the strikers and to employ " green " men to run the freight trains. A large number of recruits was obtained in New York, and 150 men in the lower parts of Jersey. CUBAN AFFAIRS. The Cuban Junta in New York has been reorganised with Mr. Miguel Aldama, the wealthiest of planters among its members. The other members are men of practical rapacity, and there seems to bo a good understanding between them. General Cespedes promises to give to each family of which father or brother have fallen for Cuban freedom thirty-three acres of land till his estate is exhausted. As Cespedes is an extensive landowner, the gift must be very considerable. Seven of the officers of the privateer Cuba arrested at Wilmington, were brought to Brooklyn and delivered to United States Marshal Dallor, for trial before the United States Circuit Court of that district. The men were all attired in the full uniform of the Cuban Republic. Intelligence has been received from the interior towns of Cuba that the cholera still prevails there, and at Puerto Principe the yellow fever has appeared. ENGINEERING IN SOUTH AMERICA. The Engineer remarks upon the recent rapid develop ment of engineering enterprise in South America. Rail ways and steam navigation are being pushed forward with vigour, while gold and gas companies are in course of formation. The project of piercing the Andes is now seriously entertained, and a railway line is in contemplation - which will enable Peru to reach the upper waters of the Amazon. Chili has devoted a new loan of £300,000 to the continuation of railways through its southern agricultural districts, and in the northern mining districts the wire tramway has been taken up by the copper smelters, who, owing to the depressed ,tate of their trade, aro averse to the outlay of a railway line. A large public works' loan raised on guano is talked of in Peru, where every available engineer is employed on railways, piers, and tramways. A large quarry has been opened at Quassaquit, Ecuador, and in Bolivia a project !las been set on foot for reworking the famous mines of Potosi. All through the Southern continent engineering enterprise is busy both above and under ground; but in the five States of Central America there is still great room for improvement, though even there plans are being formed for intcroceanic railways and canals which will, if carried out: greatly benefit the country. TILE PRUSSIAN MINISTER OF FINANCE, The new Prussian Minister of Finance has laid before the Chamber of Deputies the draft of a measure relating to the conversion and reduced liquidation of the national debt, the profit derived from this scheme being Li plied towards the extinction of the deficit with >ut an increase of the public burdens. Another measure deposes to transform the duty on grinding and slaughter ing, which weighs so heavily upon the centres of population, into a tax on the revenue. The number of towns which will profit by the change is not largo, and some disappoint ment is felt at what is considered a half measure, especially as the chamber last year passed a resolution in favour of the entire abolition of the tax in question. Thelaw respecting debt will not admit of a long discussion, and the Budget, which will probably be modified in any case, depends upon its fate. A very voluminous measure on public instruction threatens, however, to engross a great deal of time. The impression as yet made by it isnot favourable. It is considered too much a matter of routine, and is in many respects inconsistent with public liberty. As the Prussians pride themselves upon the high value which they set on national education, they are somewhat indignant. It is singular that while the Government proposes to the Chambers the suppression of that article of the Constitu tion which provides for gratuitous popular instruction, a special commission of the town council at Berlin have decided in favour of the absolute freedom of instruction. The capital would thus renounce a revenue of 40 thousand thalcrs. MONEY AND BUSINESS; (Front the Springfield Republican, Nov. (l) Wall-street continues so dull that, according to a New York commercial paper, many of the brokers are actually forsaking it and engaging in other fields of enterprise, as we expressed the hope that they would bo obliged to do. The legitimate business of the brokers, as lubricators of exchange, could be done by one-tenth of those who now make that vocation the cloak of mere speculation. The two stock boards and the gold board comprise iu all over 2,000 members, for every one of whom it is estimated there are at least six street operators and runners. This vast community ought not to find support as the mere go-betweens of legitimate merchants and stock dealers, and no one will mourn at any amount of "weeding" it may suffer. Though the actual condition of the present money market is so flattering as to excite little comment, the near approach of a session of Congress creates no little financial discussion and writing, in which the amount of thought expended bears a very small proportion to the magnitude of the questions involved. Recent ad. vices from Washington indicate that a free banking law will be one of the measures proposed to Congress, though we cannot but think that the strength of its advocates has been over-estimated. It is difficult to see the exigency that calls for such a measure at the present time. The National Bank law allows perfect freedom in the manu facture of money so long as the issuers thereof can fur nish a certain proportion of Government Securities as guarantees of their solvency, and the very liberal profit which the national banks are able to divide on this basis shows that the amount cf security required by the Government is not excessive or even onerous. This is tolerably free banking, and when even freer freedom is asked for, the demand may mean nothing more than an unlimited volume of paper currency. Another subject that is exciting attention is the probable action of the Supreme Court on the constitu tionality of the Legal Tender Act. After the decision establishing the authority of the Court in the Yerger case, and the one legalising contracts in rebel shinpasters, people are preparing their minds for any dispensation of constitutional lore from that august body. The New York Commercial, after suggesting the possibility of legal ten ders being outlawed, makes some observations on the fea sibility of returning to specie payments, which are very encouraging on general grounds. Supposing the Court should deny tho legality of the so-called legal tenders, the Secretary of the Treasury would have no other road to pursue than to ask Congress to enact the return to specie payments, or perhaps this would be effected by the deci sion itself without Congressional aid. In either event, observes the Commercial, the effect on the country would depend largely on the action of the New York banks, which, by presenting at once their $20,000,000 of green backs to the Treasury for redemption, could produce an overwhelming and disastrous run on the Government, or by withholding their greenbacks could inspire confidence in the community, and largely check that drain from the gold in the Treasury, which in any event would be to a cer tain degree inevitable. The banks would be led t ? adopt the latter course, not only from motives of patriotism, but from self-interest; for, if they should adopt the Corm and even fill their own vaults with the Government gold, they would be seriously embarrassed by the worthlessness of the greenbacks consoluent on their own " run" . upon the Treasury. If, however, they will consent Ie hold the greenbacks as the representatives of so much the con re v s e u c r u l t t r current withouthe large. n s l a w n iitl Ear et t dh ic ie . a le tee say i°‘ : lll' - nt s.-- Would the banks be disposed to take a course so inimical to the return to a sound monetary basis, to the good credit of the Government, and to the safety of their own W lts of operations ? We think not. On the contrary, there is , the strongest probability that, alike upon grounds of patriotism and of sound financial policy, the banks would unanimously resolve, upon the Government resuming V id payments, to send in no greenbacks for redemption, bn rather to hold them, first as representing so much gold in the Treasury at their instant command, an d next, as far more convenient for handling than coin, intending per subsequently to increase somewhat their gold reserve. cr al the event of the banks taking this course, public would take confidence, and the demand up on the Treasury for the redemption of greenbacks would be con fined to a few small hold er s more timorous than sag aciou, who, finding that their gold was worth no mor e than greenbacks and much less c o nvenient, would soon become ashamed of having done the little within their po wer drive the Government into perpetual suspension. i 115 far the injury to the debtor class by return to specie pliYin etl f: to a certain degree it cannot be avoided, and perhaps nil justice ought not to be, for the debtor class during ri n g the ger these years of inflation have been iu clover, an d 1111° expect retribution. But the f a ct is, that the whole.conn" try, debtors and all, has hell itself in readiness to re l . ' sumo, and the actual damage would probably be inu cl less . than is apprehended certainly much less th 33 continued postponement of specie payment. The W. 0.0: market during the week has been easy, the only activit.) being on Monday, which, besides being Vanl,.- bilt day, was the occasion of the withdrawal of three . O' four millions by the City of New York for the redeneP ti°3 . of a portion of her debt. Commercial paper, howevel'o passes with difficulty. The pork packing trade calls ° i n money to the West, but the supply at New York has boo thus far kept up by. the remittances from other parte the country. Foreign exchange is kept down by the sq. ply of cotton and produce bills, some of which, h ow l; aro met by the payment of the November coupon of °iog held in Europe. Gold has very sensibly declined du the week, the announcement of the sales by the 1.11318 1 through November amounting to $11,000,00 0 , being an assurance . of a good supply, while the demand for eit:P . ° .. is very small. The currency withdrawn from circulatides,'i to pay . for this gold will be offset by the purchases of h c)n „ r .. which amount to $10,000,000, or over $11,000,000 in c '',, rency. Governments continuo their apparent decline• gold is going down at the same time, a nd the bonds do 110, ri depreciate as rapidly as g o ld, b on d s a re really rising is price. At the Ist of Septemb e r th e i ssue s of 186 7 Wer.eirt 121, or with gold at 131 where it then was, amts° in gold. At the present time, with quotations of 9 3 116 and of gold at 128, the price of the former is ors . ; in gold. The quotations are maintained in the fer sig o marxets, though the demand for bonds from .ah,,r,°-to has almost ceased for the time being. Southern °13., Bonds have been rather active, th e North Ca r°ll„ l . o specisl tax bonds having risen 2 1 to 431, a nd rr t o . new bonds of the same State rising '. I to 3 8 i• nessees are 511. and 50 for new and old respec't,—,-1.. Old North Carolinas are 47, Missouri sixes Bn , "ta isiana levee sixes 90, new Virginias 53, Alabama ei g." - t 91. The stock market has had one most st dismal I °, °l ; merit during the past week, in the consolidation of . 0 " t York Central and Hudson River Railways. Th is o. 4 4 Te t ;' has been on the tapis for years, fathered numberlesa.%- tg tuitions, and been responsible for enough to invalid a whole community. And yet when it wa s 3 1 0 flounced on Monday that the consolidated capital OA sleepless n i g Iv be $45,000,000, Central to go in at 207 and Hudson a t A l th e everybody was disgusted without knowing why , 3 .,,, , a " g of shares of both roads fell off 10 per cent. The to i l for the agreement were about what was expecteil, out for reason everybody was anxious to sell, and - ", i n djea but was unpopular even with his friends. This s- ,,,, depreciation occasioned a temporary activity in al' i c e e e a and at times symptoms of a panic. Stocks ha lir° li - re generally depressed throughout the week. Lak e maintains its advance very well. "Reliable genti°—.Keear from the W e st i n f orm th e fi nanc i a l re porters 01 New that the grain crop has started, an d that 00 . 1 ,4 ' to roads in that section are burdened with freight. It 1-,,0r0 be hoped that the depression in the West will Non. hie way to business, but the farmers have been prettl b : e g re their demands, and very likely are not yet read)" r . :3 spend. Tho exports for the week ending Nn venl o o'2 s were $4,13',157 against $3,121,997 last year, and 5 1, ': ‘'der in 1867. The receipts of cotton at the various p or ' s ing October were 445,421 bales, against 319,5.31 1 ass Y 0 570 Tho exports for the week ending October 2 9 were ' s of bales against 32,455 last year. Tho floods and storinboo September, and the low price of grain in the W est ' a oa had a very depressing effect on the dry goods trade) the general market has been dull and uusettled. The Monarch, now in the Portsmouth doG s •J‘-gr• coaling and fitting to receive the remains of the late and Peabody, is an armour plated turret ship of 7 ge l-15 '00 is being put into mourning with grey painted masts' the stern cabin on the main deck has been set aside fotarci; body. As soon as it is received on board, the -11°# ore will steam slowly out of harbour, while minute gnen;e front the ships and garrison saluting the battery. Th e for of-war will then anchor at Spithead, and finally leavr'tico- America on the morning of the 2:th inst. Som e P 5 boa Lars showing the simplicity of Mr. Peabody's habit s i „,IIY been published. At the grand dinners he gave h e 11 , tio. confined himself to a plain mutton chop. He li sr° l l the quiet and retired manner, occupying only a rooe t house of his old friend, Sir Curtis Lampson, wile° 11:0 he Though suffering much during the l a st four Y e ` th en seldom would allow a doctor to be sent for , su lle neither obeyed his orders nor took his medicines,' jo ith disliked " fuss," and hated to be asked about his 11 of It is related of him and Sir Curtis, that thinking %v .: pet some American - railway they not only invcsted te l og lish spoke favourably of it, and in consequence sonic' tr oy ironmasters supplied materials, for which it soon ise not pired they were not likely to be paid, the enterPr schen being of the character these gentlemen suppose d ,' a bedP this was made clear, Sir Curtis called on gr. and declared that these men should be paid by t be e ithe t though no responsibility whatever rested on then' , aid legally or morally to do so, the ironmasters were P:et itS them, but fortunately in the long run the railerg liabilities. 01' 111° The collapse of speculative operations in g coeso had an unexpected effect, showing how widely' th e eo ,-):0 0 ' quences spread. Many who deal in foreign goods in 14 01 ,0 10 had laid them in when they had to pay the heasTY c i s ar e duties in gold at a high price; consequently the s°° , l con' ticketed at a corresponding rate, but the steo.dY at' s , 30 0 tinned fall has lessened their value, and e nable tija „ had not laid in a stock to import cheaper and unue°,o, t he others; hence a heavy loss where not anticipated,f'oeia storekeepers after holding on in the expectat ion ° t: a reaction upwards must ore this have been e°P3P e e enti eli t give way. The order of Secretary Boutwell to oug hoe the sales of gold, and the purchase of Bonds Or to pri ol o November, has taken another " bull" clique 11 , ha d as they anticipated a different line of policy ; the 'red t ij turn round, and in their endeavour to unload loW° market. ifePi th 'ADVERTISEMENT. Holloway'S Pills.--ad st t st° made Good.—Thousa n d s h ave di e d during the ;: a d rat months in excess of the average because they r b ° glected to purify the blood after the la te start'ertues Every invalid should be acquainted with the Holloway's inestimable pills; their purifying , reg t ried strengthening, and aperient qualities should he of b olt' all persons in a delicate or precarious stat e s yste e ; These pills expel all noxious humours from t : 133 to improve the appetite, amend the digestion, pr e u i : 1 00 secretions of healthy bile, and regulate the W t. wit e ,, / loway's pills att admirably as a tonic to fren resse cl nerves have been over-wrought by study or deP excessive indulgence. LAD WERTISEMENT.I-11eneeforth no one will dot:t a t e v ;r:si i i gl properties of Du Barry's he a lth- r estoring Itev s ,4 - efbe e " Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousalii n n h ai ler,,/ it has already received from Invalids whose P°e, l . — es s deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Ilear,i r ty9'oo.; whose health has been perfectly restored by it after "„ paSe ijob unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote frora tig ia o f tiO re tair Midi," July 25th:—" Route, J uly 21,1866. -The ilea o the,r,ieS t r Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning 5 , s fie; fi en d dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Bari r ev erS„ t oi Arabica Food, of which he consumes a pla teful s.is „ he alr'lBr‘; It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food toohighlyZ • 011' • 111 extract a few out ofmore than 68,000 cures or e i ,•o o °, the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven yeare',., - Q v as "' s `ost . J lj o wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a ' the Hart all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, Sr!. ord S e ps? tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1,771: dYe,P e ps7 Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of m a " Yeora clle„rs,s.,ter: No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable ago n oy, • ilatule 6 1 /0• fi gs. nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, 4 lt: if y sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Curo t' cuseo ,se 0. t io James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 Ye_., ar .' nl °rig spitting of blood, liver derangement, and Pa."_, - a nd "iieh'` portant Caution—Beware of the many unsa voury 130 90 ; sloppy imitations to which, without authority, v.ll bs AT° name is most In attached. tins, at ls lad; audaciously Ilb 2s 9d ; 2lbs 48 6d 5 lbs 11 ,,,e110C ° o1: 24 lbs 40s. —Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA. 0 1 ' 2 '; for „tdil d , PowDEn is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups tt r yl, enP: r e, at 3s 6d, for 483 ups at per 288 cups at 30s, f.,,4 pr.,* c l —being about one penny cup The 30s and '`;,0 0 43 , - ,; free of carriage in England on * receipt of Pcis t-v i - ond ° ' BARMY Du BARRY and Co., No 77 Regent street' all Grocers and Chemists don Ole BIRTHS. 1) / Coormt On the 18th hist , at Th e Firs, W in 3 le wife of Hay Cool - K.*, of a . laughter. STANLEY —On t 1.3 18th inst., at The Grove, Lady Constance Stanley, of twin sons. A tiO wai f or-I MARRIAGES. DrY ° : r r v's, ;p 0 CRIP' 3 —CLAGETT—On the 18th inst., at St- l‘i' . ". C r b rat ston-square, Joseph B. Cripps, eldest, son of t do git lsq., of Davenport-street, to Fanny, yonnqro. i 6, Yo f the late Thos. W. Clagett,O''' . ~ .fo' i t o wEn—O'REILLY—On the 18th in at Brigh t . ° ,4 i to o, ,h , second son of Nicholas Power, Esq., of Boh o f Brity Diary, eldest daughter of John O'Reilly, of tcn. BA 4 R 3 R O li►to of , ON S — tra O n n a, ti l i v e . 2 , o a t g h e i d fs:t 9 .,.. l F l r li a Bl :eis 13'ul°13'1.0, tArltS , ° EATwAnu—On the 19th inst., at Rushall, `Q. Ila , yward, Esq , aged 45. , n rao SOINES —On the 19th inst., at Etreatham, Soanes, Esq., aged 79. , kNIPV'Sg'a Lo o N ln(on: Printed and Published by WILLIA, i r the f o. I p l t 2 .e , e s t t n r e a t n e d f , P th r e in Savoy ,ter at, sthSeurtc(C)3.taillnet; 0 1 ' 1 !i °%. 'dal ° in Monday, November 22, Iso9. on i Z 4.2 T its r IC T.O pr!zo. Sal he A ObF 1 nos ;~ ADV hold able For' T 1 fo; a OR IC Cons llor 1 Whi, also numl of otl Dev( PAC Rail end this boat fron The fessi Wee bine esta nise and Lad Can T rece and Pup man Whe 130 SE oth( Fire The Bon valu rene leav thin roai this anal nun hell stre