The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-26 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN SUSSEX. The Sussex Advertiser gives the following additional particulars relative to the shooking occurrence reported yesterday :—" Information having at once been given to the police, Superintendent Jenner sent to the different police-stations, so that in a very short some 200 persons were scouring the neighbourhood in search of Stubberfield. Men from Ashburnham House brought a boat and dragged the ponds, and it was not till the afternoon that he was found, and then he was making his way from Cowden Farm towards home. It is supposed that he bad secreted himself in a pit where there was water, and that he had tried to drown himself, for when taken he was completely saturated with wet and covered with mud. The police took him to the farm to change his clothes. lle was then taken to Battle, where he remains at present under the charge of the superinten dent ; he is exceedingly quiet, and cannot give any other reason for the deed than that he felt compelled to do it. lie said be 'loved her so much that lie did not like to leave her behind, but now he would give the world to have bur back again.' He also states that he attempted to drown himself several times, but could not do so, for he always floated on the top of the water. The prisoner's father stated that some twelve or eighteen months ago he met with a very serious fall ; he was on the top of a ladder some 20 or 25 feet high, cutting a very Isic , ,h hedge, and ho fell backwards, falling on his head. lie lay senseless for some time, and not coming in to dinner his mother went out just as he had come to. They advised a doctor should be sent for, and that he should be bled ; but Jeremiah would not have a doctor, and they date his insanity from that time. His father and mother, and the roor wife's father, visited him on Monday morning, the interview being a most painful one." ESCAPE OF A "CA PI ÜBE" BALLON. The dwellers in the West-end of London have had a veritable sensation of late. From miles off a balloon, resting stationary in the air, might be seen on a fine day. This balloon was let up from Ashburnham, adjoining the well-known Cremorne Gardens. It was kept from travel ling where it would by a rope worked on pulleys, &c. It would hold about thirty people, and numbers have ascended in it and been brought down again. For some days past these ascents have attracted a large number of persons to the grounds, and those who paid their admission fee on Tuesday went quite unprepared to witness the monster machine get clear away from its moorings, and start on an aerial voyage amidst great consternation. The ascent of Tuesday was purely an experimental one; and it is satisfactory to state that the car was wholly unoccupied. The object sought was to test what pressure of wind the balloon would stand against ; and there being a strong southerly breeze at the time, the occasion seemed very opportune. At about quarter-past four the signal to "let go " was given, and the " Captive' gradually ascended to an -altitude of nearly ninety feet' when suddenly the pressure of the wind caused it to, descend rapidly. The cable becoming suddenly slackened, it shifted off the wheel on which it worked, the edge of which cut it, thereby causing the balloon—over which there was then no control—to shoot rapidly up. wards. There was about thirty feet of rope left at tached to the balloon when it broke away, and in its ascent a part of the wood and canvas hoarding surrounding the ground was knocked down. The course taken by the balloon was in a north-westerly direction, and in Trafalgar square its progress was watched with much interest by many persons at about half-past four ; but such was the rapidity with which it travelled that it soon passed over London. M. Yon, the proprietor, at once forwarded tele graphic messages down the several lines in the course the balloon had taken, and one reply received was to the effect that it had been seen at Reading, and a subsequent mes sage stated that it had passed over Oxford. It had been engaged by a party of twelve gentlemen for the purpose, if possible, of witnessing the running for the Derby from the car to-day. LAW AND POLICE. Docs' Etns.—At Hammersmith Police•court, on Tues day, two men were summoned by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for cropping the ears of a tezrier dog. Their defence was that the cropping was intended to beautify the dog ; and Sir Edwin Land seer's " Dignity and Impudence," was produced in court to sanction the practice. Sir Edwin was in court, how ever, and expressed his disapproval of the custom. The magistrate fined each defendant and 2s. costs. A LITERARY DIFFICULTY.—A case of considerable interest to literary men has just been decided in the Equity Courts. Vice Chancellor James has given judg• anent in the case of " Pike v. Nicholas." These gentlemen both competed for the prize offered by the National Eisteddfod for the best essay on " The Origin of the British Nation." They competed in different yearp, and their works were subsequently pun - shed ; but Mr, Pike, on seeing Dr. Nicholas's book, charged him with having appropriated his facts and theories without acknowledgment. After a long trial the Vicc-Chan calor decided in favour of Mr. Pike, granting him an injunction to restrain the publication. of Dr. Nicholas's book, awarding him costs in the snit, and ordering the defendant to account for every cot y of his book sold as if it had been a copy of the plaintiff's, and to pay the plaintiff the profit which he would have received from the sale of so many additional copies. CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—The case against Captain Hunt, of Boyton House, Wilts, who fought with the sheriff's officers that went to arrest him, and fired atone of them, has been dismissed,-on the ground that the evidence failed to prove that the pistol was discharged with intent to shoot the officer. THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IItELAND.—It is understood that their Excellencies the Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess Spencer will leave Dublin about the 15th of June for London for a brief sojourn. On Tuesday a deputation waited on the Bishop of London, at London House, St. James's-square, in refer ence to the Sunday closing of public-houses, and to solicit his lordship's assistance on behalf of the movement for that object. An autograph letter has, it is said, been ad dressed by M. Bismarck W Mr. Gladstone, introducing his two sons, who are now on a visit fronfGermany. Mr. Gladstone has invited the young gentlemen to stay with him for some time. A PRESENT FOR TEE SULTAN.—" M. Sala, a celebrated coachmaker," says a Milan journal, " has com pleted a magnificent State carriage, ordered by the King of Italy, and destined to be sent as a present to the Sultan. Bronze lanterns of rare elegance, are attached to the corners of the vehicle, and all the carved ornaments are of the highest finish." EMIGRATION. —The secretary of the British and Colonial Emigration Society reports that through its agency 1,643 persons have been assisted to leave this country for the colonies, and that the carrying out of thi.s work has exhausted the funds at the society's disposal. Many pressing applications are now before the committee, and an appeal is made for subscriptions to continue the operations which have been so well commmenced. A correspondent of the Independance Beige says that the international horticultural exhibibition, now being held at St. Petersburg, promises to be a great success. It is held in a vast room used for the exercise of troops in winter, and capable of containing 5,060 men at exercise. In this covered Epace are arranged in parteires, varied with fountains and cascades, the choicest and rarest plants and flowers of Europe. England sends a very fine collection of hot-house plane, our gardeners Meg especi ally triumphant with orchids. . . THE PUBLIC HEALTIL—Last week the annual rate of mortality was 21 per 1,000 in London, as compared with 23 in ibirteen other large towns of the United King dom. The rates ranged from 17 in Birmingham to 33 in Glasgow. In the metropolis 1,011 births and 1,281 deaths were registered. The latter were less by 70 than the esti. mated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 230, the corrected average number being 312. Three persons died from smallpox, 22 from measles, 43 from scarlet fever, 5 from diphtheria. 07 from whooping-cough, 7 from typhus fever, 12 from enteric fever, 4 from simple continued fever, and 15 from diarrhea. Three persons were killed by horses or vehicles in the streets. The mean temperature during the week was 50 degrees, or 3'2 below the average. The entire range of temperature within the seven days was 23'0. CLTRIOSITIE3 OF C r iIEMICAL _SCIENCE.—Au atom of water sometimes makes a most extraordinary difference in the properties of bodies. Thns, to give some more familiar illustration, the addition of an atom of water t, starch converts into sugar' the suLtrztetion of c.n atom of water from alcohol converts it into ether. But perhaps the_ most curious change produced by the removal of an atom of water from a body has been recently discovered by Dr. Matthiesen. Morphia, the well known active principle of opium, is commonly wiel to allay vomiting, and very often performs the duty very effectually. But when morphia Las been heated with hydrochloric acid, and an atom of water has been thereby removed, it is changed into the most active emetic known. It is not necessary to swallow it to produce the effect; a very small quantity introduced under the skin, or even, it seems, spilt upon the hand, is quite sufficient to produce vomiting, which, however, soon subsides, and leaves no nausea afterwards. The new body introduced into medicine has been named by its discoverer EUMINI32hith. ,HSCE LLAARO US NEWS. CHURCHWARDENS' FEES. Churchwardens aro now beginning to regard church rates as virtually abolished, and as a conse quence they are resisting all the legal taxes upon them. "We have no fund," they say, except a voluntary one, from which to draw; the taxes upon us, therefore, must be made voluntary also." The Rev. Mr. Laws, the Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield, has appealed to the Primate of all England to help him. Church rates being abolished, churchwardens will not pay the diocesan fees. Diocesan officers will be minus their salaries if some provision be not made. The Arch bishop cannot help Mr. Laws much. Church rates are not really abolished, he points out, though not to Mr. Laws's satisfaction. He would be glad if the payments to officials could be made without fees, but suggests nothing. Mr. Laws suggests that the payment of the fees by the churchwardens on their admission to office shall henceforward be voluntary, and that any loss sustained by the officers of the Diocesan Courts through their non-payment shall be compensated by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Will Parliament agree to this ? EMIGRATION AND STRIKES. According to the Lord Mayor's Committee, the British public, who formerly pai so willingly for the drafting of werlimen to o er countries, is becoming more cautious, and does not pay so readily Rs it did. The Government, however, is going to provide, at least, in part for the dockyard emigrants, and so the large number of departures from this country will probably continue. The strikes, too — Preston especially—are swelling the list of the out ward bound. Another strike has commenced at Liverpool. The men object to the hour system, which the masters insist upon. They have, there fore, turned out. This will, probably, if not speedily adjusted, bring money to the pockets of the emigra tion agents. TWO-YEAR-OLD RACES. A very long letter appears in the Times, now on the eve of the Derby, signed by Sir Joseph Hawley -and „Mr. Henry Chaplin, directed specially against two-year-old racing. The letter sets forth that two-year-old racing, as at present conducted, is leading to premature training and premature old age, to short courses and the degeneration of the Turf; and it goes on to argue that it is theduty of the Jockey Club to step in and prevent theseraces on the grounds over which it has power. The arguments against the pro posed change are that the frequency of race-meetings shews the healthy state of the sport; that breeders and owners will be injured ; that the owner has a right to do as he likeSwith his own ; that the Jockey Club has no power over all races. The two corre spondents of the Times deny that the sport is healthy. Local meetinos arc often paid for by the admission fees charged to non-betting men. The horses are by no means healthy and good. Many of the foals break down altogether, and the staying power of others is open to question. Breeders perhaps may suffer a little, but not owners. The latter will only be compelled to reserve their horses. Ofiders may not do as they like with their own, if What they do is calculated to be generally hurtful. And though the Jockey Club has not power over all races, its example is generally followed, and it is its duty to set one which will be really a public benefit. CONSCIENCE MONF.Y. "The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of i from 'W. R.' on account of income tax ; and also of conscience - money.' " " Conscience money ! " and in the Derby week ! Was such a payment ever made before at such a time ? here is a gentleman who has for several years, we presume, been in the habit of returning his income probably at one-half or one-third of its real amount. Suddenly smitten with the conviction that it is as wrong to make a false return to the tax-collector as it is to make a false statem:nt in a Court of Justice, that it is as wrong to cheat the Crown as it is to cheat a private person, he chooses this very week of all the year, when the temptation to squander money is most powerful, in order to make restitution. Ilas he heard a Low Church sermon which pricked his con science? or has he been to a Iligh Church priest for confession, and been told that there can be no absolution without restitution ? Whatever be the cause, the phenomenon is worth noting. It is a hopeful sign that even in these days of "specs" and " plunging " honour and honesty are not wholly lost. THE LATE LORD BROUGHAM'. "An English Traveller" writes to the Times in praise of the "severely magnificent" monument which the present Lord Brougham has placed over the grave of his illustrious brother. It is a gigantic cross of granite between twenty and thirty feet high, with no ornament or inscription save the following (in Latin) :—" Henry Brougham ; born 1778, died 1868." The " Traveller " wishes to know if there is to be no memorial of the omniscient man in West minster Abbey ? The " Traveller" should not be impatient. We aro generally from a decade to a century behindhand. Perhaps the next generation will begin to remember that there was such a man Henry Prougham,,the Beformer, - the Anti-Slave- Trade agitator, the Chancellor, the Sayan, and the Socklogist. VAGADONrAITI IN rnANcr. Mr. Llanehard Jerrold, who is now travelling through Europe on a commisiion from our Govern ment, m order to inquire into the provisions for dealing with pauperism on the Vontinent, has sent a letter to the Morning Star, in which he describes the present law of France with regard to vagaboi:clage. lte says that a convicted vagabond may be imprisoned for pericyls vary ing from three to six m on th s . On l ib erat i on, he is placed under the surveillance of the police for apc riod varying between five and ten ye::rs. Vaga bonds under 16 years of age cannot be imprisoned ; but tiny are put under police surveillance until they are 21, or until they enlist in the military or naval services. The police have authority to put convicted foreign vagrants beyond the frontier. The commune to - which a convicted vaga, bond belongs, can, through its municipal ,council, claim him, or a solvent friend or relative may become security for him. The autho rities, being satisfied, direct him to the commune or place which is assigned to him for residence. Every person found begging in a locality in which there is a public establishment 'organised to obviate the necessity for mendicity, is punishable by impri sonment for a term of not less than three, nor more than six, months, and is afterwards conducted to the depot de mendicity. The regular beggar incurs a term of imprisonment of from one to three months. Beggars acting in concert, or using threats, or trespassing within an enclosure, a yard, or habita tion, incur a prison penalty, the extreme limit being two years. Beggars who mimic distress, or sickness, or infirmities, or who ply their trade in companies (except they be husband and wife, or parent and child, or blind with a leader), come under the penal ties of this article. Any beggar or vagrant found in any description of disguise, or carrying weapons (even when ho has not tried to use them) or carry ing files, keys, or any instruments usable for a burg lary or other illegal act, may be imprisoned for a term varying between two and five years. The beggar or vagrant on whom more than 100 f. are found must justify how he came by the money, or he is liable to an imprisonment not exceeding two years. Any beggar or vagrant who commits an assault is puni s h e d b y rec l us i on if th e o ff ence i s light, but with severe imprisonment when his vio lence has been serious. THE CAM. It was recently stated in a letter by Mr. Hawk shaw to the Times that for £2,700 the Cam might be relieved of its selvage, and made really suitable for boating ; without that outlay all expense on other improvements would be comparatively useless. It now appears that instead of £2,700, Mr. Hawkshaw meant £27,000, a very different figure. While we expressed our surprise that the inhabitants or Uam bridge were opposed to the smaller outlay, we can hardly wonder that they are rather shy of taxing themselves to the amount of a sovere i gn per head. Perhaps the University might unite with. the Cor poration in redeeming the Cam from being an open sewer, and in,making it a really good rowing river. TEE FALLACY OF EXAXUNATIONS. UAn Assistant Master " writes a letter to the Times with the . above heading, and condemns the present system of university local examinations. lie says that the effect of them is to induce the masters to cram a few 'boys, and to neglect the rest. The examination thus becomes merely a test of the boy's proficiency, not of the school teaching as a whole. This, however, is• something gained ; it is something to the purpose that ten, or even two, per cent. of a school should submit to a test. But "An Assistant Master " is no doubt right when he suggests that the proper kind of test would be an examination of the whole school. it was impossible to obtain this at the outset of the culmination move ment. Those who suggested it were denounced as inquisitor, and generally as objectionable characters. But gradually the schoolmasters have been educated up to this point. There is now little reason to doubt that before long the recommenda tions of the Royal Commission on Middle Class Education. will be carried out, and that most of the schools in the kingdom will voluntarily submit them selves to inspection by competent examiners. Tut POCITICAT. CRISIS. The London corresponitent of the Manchester Guardian gives an accovit of the political position, which would seem to imply that Lord Derby has thought better of his intention to throw out the Irish Church Bill. He is now said to lean to moderate counseh ; for, anxious to see what before him has eser,seen—hissldest THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, L 69. son at the head of affairs, and being well aware via% this is impossible so long as the Irish Church question remains unsettled, ho is prepared to make concessions. The same writer says that Lord Cairns has been despatched to Dublin in order to conciliate Archbishop Trench, Sir Joseph Napier, and the rest, with the promise that if the bill is allowed to pass a second reading it will be mate rially modified in committee. " But the Irish Tories have been so often used and so often thrown over, formerly by Wellington and Peel, and latterly by Disraeli and Derby, that they have no longer any faith left in parliamentary leaders. They cannot forget that it was by Mr. Disraeli that Lord Cairns was raised to the woolsack, and that it was owing to the same influence, on the break-up of the late Government, that he was placed in the position of Opposition leader in the Lords." According to the above-mentioned correspondent, Lord Cairns is not likely to retain his leadership for much longer. "Brief as the experiment has been, it has been long enough to determine that—to use the phrase current in the Tory clubs—' the lawyer won't do to lead.' lie always talks fluently and well. But he never says exactly what those behind him want him to say. They have been so long accustomed to the jaunty air and offhand style of Lord Derby that they do not understand the Calvinistic gravity and bitter special pleading of the ex-Chancellor. There is no fun about him, and, shat is worse, there is no social sympathy or political force in him. Ile creates the impression that he is always speaking from a brief, and that he is ready, if his instructions were changed, to crinnp!e up any number of his platitudes and put them in his bag. He had once the character of being a genuine fanatic, but somehow the Tory lords have come to think that his fanaticism has in it a good deal of india•rubber. Those of them that are really in earnest in their fear of the Pope or their love of the Church, like the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Redesdale, will not trust a man of this kind ; and the fast men of the party regard him simply as a bore who can neither shoot, bet, yacht, nor tell who's who behind the scenes. The end of all this is that when it comes to close quarters on the Irish Church Bill the waverers on the. Opposition benches will look to Lord Derby, and will take their cue from him." The London correspondent of the Scotsman says it is not generally believed that Lord Derby will be so rash as to move the rejection of the Irish Church Bill. The noble lord can be self-Willed on occasion, but, according to this writer, he is not likely to avow that, on this occasion, he has found a model in Sir Francis Wronghead, who liked to make up his mind first, and to hear reason afterwards, " because then it never did any harm." The stage which the bill must pass through the Commons on• Friday next is little 'more than formal. A clause imposing a stamp duty is to be added, and as that is a money clause, in respect of its imposing a new tax, it can be passed only in committee of the whole House. Hence the necessity of recommitting the bill. The amendment to be proposed by Mr. Holt on Monday next—that the bill be read a third time on that day three months—is looked upon as " more hollow and unreal than any other proceeding on the part of the Conservatives has been, and hence the desire of the Conservative Whips to limit the debate to a single night." On the Ist of June the bill will be carried to the Lords, and will, on the motion of Lord Granville, be read a first time, a day being afterwards appointed for the second reading— probably the 7th. A long and acrimonious debate May then be expected, the result of which it is at present difficult to foresee. Earl Russell is expected to speak in favour of the second reading; but t sup posing the bill passes that stage, very little help is ex pected from the noble earl in committee. On'the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Kimberley, and Lord Romilly will rest the difficult task of piloting the bill through the Upper House. smashers, have made the move of May 1, 1869, memorable as about equal to a fire or three ordi nary moves. The gale continued all Sunday, and blew hard from the west even on Monday ; vessels report very rough weather at sea, arel tome of the steamers which arrived during the storm, such as the City of Baltimore and the Minnesota, contained a thousand passengers each. The Jersey flats be hind Hoboken were inundated, and some damage done there. Among the recent arrivals is the tender frolic, absent for three years, waiting on the flag ship of the European squadron. She has just come from St. Thomas's, her crew being all well. W. 11. Mumler has been acquitted. His counsel spoke for neirly two hours, boldly declaring that he was a genuine spirit-photographer, that the likenesses were of real ghosts and not produced by mechanical agency ; and this is maintained by a photographer who writes to the Tribune the result of an in vcstigation, wherein Mr. Mumler used his apparatus in his studio ; and there, in the presence of his assis tants to whom a reward of $5O was offered to detect imposture, produced the spirit-photograph:. Libel suits grow apace. Mr. Norvell (what in London you call the City Editor of our Times) narrowly escaped a night in gaol at the hands of Fisk, with Messrs. Lane and Gould, who each bring similar suits ; the total damages exceeding $1,000,000. What Mr. Norvell asserted was that they had joined in plundering the Atlantic and Great Wes tern Railroad Company. The United States Mar shal is very indignant at the attempt made by these gentlemen to defeat the dodge by which they suc ceeded in keeping Mr. Samuel Bowles of the Spring field Republican in gaol for the night. One of the deputies of the Marshal in their. interest is in structed what to do, and he does it, but orders have been isssued that no arrests are to be made except on the warrant of the Marshal himself or his as sistant. James Smith has been committed to gaol for forging the signature of Jay Cooke and Co., and defrauding the National Bank of the State of New York of $9,000, in default of bail $lO,OOO. Mr. E. L. Plumb, our Consul to Flavannah, sailed on Thursday in the steamer Colombia. His task is difficult, but he knows the Spanish cbarac'er well, and is a man of sound sense as well as firmness. The fillibusters who left in the Perit to cross from the Florida Keys in small boats to Cuba were under the command of Domingo de Goicouria, well known for such expeditions ; indeed he was one of Walker's gang in Nicaragua. Though the speculators failed in making a sensation out of the departure of that expedition sufficient to affect the prices of gold and stocks, yet the savage threats uttered on your side against poor Jonathan because he asks to be reim bursed for the heavy losses indicted on him in a very spiteful and very wilful way through the means of John Bull, have caused a scare in the mar ket. Great excitement prevails to-day, and sensa tion rumours are flying about while. I write. It is evident among all the untruths told that there has been a serious fall in our bonds on the Lyndon Stock Exchange, but why is the puzzle here. If Senator Sumner's speech is the cause, that fail should have occurred sooner. The rise in the Bank rate cannot account for it, and there was nothing in London, according to our best lights here, to pro duce another panic since that most disastrous of all which occurred on the 11th May, 1866. We have adopted the waiting motto, and I suppose we will learn the reason in good time ; but there will be some lame ducks about Wall-street, I guess, unless there is a sharp rally, for people's breath has been taken out of them by the quick, unexpected, and heavy fall. Our Chamber of Commerce had its annual meeting on Thursday, and among the re solutions adopted, congratulated that of San Fran cisco on the completion of the railroad between the cities. Mr. Lowe remarked that the mail has just arrived in China in 47 days, the most rapid trans port ever achieved to New York. Another little resolution went to the Secretary of War, asking for some of the two millions of dollars appro- I•riated by last Congress for our harbour, to be applied to removing the obstructions at Hell Gate, and improving the navigation of East River. The following gentlemen were elected for the ensuing year :—President, William E. Dodge ; First Vice- President, George Opdyke ; Second Vice-Prezi dent, It. Warren Westcn ; Treasurer, Francis S. Lothrop ; Secretary, Geo. Wilson. Executive Committed, Walter S. Griffith, Chairman.; Abiel A. Low, Samuel D. Babcock, Philo C. Calhoun, IVilson G. Hunt, A. R. .Wetmore, William M Vermilye, Cliarles 11. Marshall, George W. Line, Jackson S. Schultz; Chairman of Committee of Arbitration, Joseph 0. Low; Member of Corn- inittve of Arbitration, Joseph Stuart. The Stock Exchange will not call the speculative shares after the 11th inst., operations being transferred to the Long Room. Hereafter there will be at 10 a.m. a call for Government bonds, bank shares, State and railway bonds, and investment stocks, con cluding with a second call of Governments. At 21 p.m. Government and State Bonds will main be called, and the separate room will be discon tinued.. The Sub- freasuier on Thursday sold $1,000,000' of Government gold. Proposals were made for $7,030,000. The lowest bid was 135.76, and the highest 136.22. The awards were as fol lows :—Henry Clews and Co, $250,000, at 136.18 ; $250,000 at 126.20, do. ; $250,000 at 136.22, do. ; and $250,000 to Adams, Kimball and Moore, at 136.17. The payments for this gold were made yesterday in National Bank currency exclusively to avoid any disturbance to the market. The Ariel, of the new line from Copenhagen, arrived with 1,550 emigrants, many of whom go South. Passengers of this class pour into New York, while every steamer leaving our ports is crammed with first class passengers, and every good berth secured for weeks, mostly by American tourists going to Europe for the summer. Some failures have occurred, and there are rumours of others, among them the dry goods house of 11. E. Dibler and Co. Five seamen have been brought from Batavia in the New Orleans for trial, charged with• murdering the first and second mates of an American whaling barque. The funeral of Broome Livingstone, only Eon of Commodore Livingstone, took place at Grace Church on Monday. He died in Germany, in Brunswick, I believe, last month, and his remains were carried here for interment. The reports for last week show 473 deaths (an increase of 58 com pared with the preceding week) ; couples married, 192 ; births, 179. At the 30th anniversary of the Magdalene Society, held at the institute situated at the corner of Eighty-ninth -street and Fifth-avenue, the Rev. Dr. Ward, of the Board of Missions, stated the receipts of the year to be $6,993 15 ; expen li tures, $7,614 62. Present number of inmates, 37. During the year 131 were received ; of these 36 were placed in situations, 30 returned to friends, 43 discharged at their own request, 6 left without permission, 7 expelled, an - I 7 transferred tempo rarily to hospitals. Mr. George Francis Train has left the Re vohttion with Mrs. Stanton after him, who denounces him as a source of grief to numer ous friends and an annoyance to herself. Mr. Train calls himself an obstacle ; his practical truths g , made discord among theoretical reformers. 1 was in earnest. They were not. The Revolution is a grand thing; but in my programme it does not look so large as a peanut on a snow drift !" So you see the indefatigable Train has lost no time in getting into trouble after, to the inexpressible relief of the Marshalsea and its Go vernor, they had routed him out of those snug quarters. The coroner's jury attribute to the care lessness of the company the accident ou the Long Island Railway, but three of its members dissent, holding the officials not to be responsible. IVASIIINGTON, May 7. General Lee has been the lion of the week, and he leaves to-day for his college at Lexington. His interview with the President was at the White House last Saturday, and occupied an hour. It is described as being of a dignified and reserved cha racter, confined to the condition of the South gene rally, and esrecially in Virginia. In reply to the President's questions, the General advised giving the people a separate vote on the disfranchising clause, as well as on clauses where local interests were affected, and railways and other important in ternal improvements are to be made. He favours the Fifteenth Amendment, and the recent action of the Conseryatiyes at Richm on d, a discussing the inter view with a gentleman who immediately after had called on him, General Lee said he was also of opinion that it was of the utmost importance that the several States should be brought into practical relations with the Federal Government at once, in Order to secure representation in both branches of Congress, and when that was accomplished he was, sure all other questions would readily adjust them selves. He said he had informed the President that he did not look upon the a loption of the Fifteenth Amendment with such forebodings as had been done by leading men of the North and South. He described the interview as an exceedingly pleasan t one, and the President assured him he would always be glad to see him. We learn here that Mrs. Lincoln has taken private apartments in Frankfurt, to which she has proceeded from Geneva. A lady has made a splendid rush across the Continent. Her hasband, who is an officer at Sitkn, was tried by court martial for striking another officer, and the pro ceedings of the court were foll )we I altnaat inn nc ly by his wife, who hurried from Sitka'to ple LI his cause, and arrived by the mail. I.h )pe M ijor Woods will get off for the sake of his wife's action, although this is a bad principle on which to f it it is not every man who has a wife who would do the same, and if. he had, it dies not excuse infrac tions of law. Chief Justice Chase left on Monday to hold courts in Virginia, and North and South Carolina. Consul-General Plumb started the same day for New York with full instructions. Senator Sprague has gone to carry on the war in Rhode Island. Ile will stay some days in Philadelphia, and you may know that it is the thunder of Boanerges when you see scathing denunciations of corruption, and the prediction that the end of the Republic draws nigh, as he has declared his int .n -tion of spending large sums for disseminating through the press his peculiar views of the situation. The Hon. Walbridge A. Field has taken the oath of office asAssistant Attorney-General, and will per form Judge Hoar's work while he is in Massachusetts. President Grant, accompanied by Mrs. Grant and two of their children, and his father-in-law, Mr. Dent, visited Brady's gallery a few days ago, and sat for their portraits. The President then pro ceeded to the State Department with Mr. J. Russell Jones, lately nominated as Minister to Belgium. Governor Scott, of South Carolina, is here, en route to Cincinnati. Judge Busteed and G-enerd John Cochrane, of New York, are also here. Mr. Ely, United States Marshal of Pennsylvania, died on Wednesday; but scarcely had the breath left his body before telegrams began to pour in asking for his place. The Attorney-General's office was be sieged ; Colonel Forney was of course there. George Loman and Major John Heistand were the candi dates of the Republican sections, as they had been when the late Mr. Ely received• the appointment; but the President appointed General Gregory, who commanded the 91st Pennsylvania Regiment dur ing the war, and was Commissioner of the Freed men's Bureau. The Peruvian Minister, Garcia, has taken leave of the President; the Secretary of State accompanied the Minister. The interminable Dyer Court has adjourned sine die. General Thomas has left for San Francisco, and General Terry for Atlanta. The finding of the Court has not yet transpired. The President has been severely pressed to rescind the order of Secretary Borie on the Eight Hour Law, but he declines, although the speeches of Senator Wilson against the ruling of Judge Hoar have had the effect of exciting the labouring men, and the matter has been much discussed is the Cabinet. Commissioner Delano has made out a list of supervisors appointed by President John son for removal, and he has submitted to the Presi dent those recommended for the positions. No removals for political opinions have been, or will be, made in War and Navy Departments ; but the dis missal of clerks from the Treasury still continues, and some appointments will there be made. Mr. E. Curtis has been appointed Secretary of the Territory of Idaho, vice J. R. How lett, suspended under the Civil Tenure Act. Among the numerous appointments were those of four women, at a salary of $1.,200 each, for the pleasing office of searching la-lies arriving at New York from foreign ports. Over 700 applications were made for the positions. Mr. Robert C. Kirk, of Ohio, appointed by the President Minister to Uruguay, had a few days previously_ been appointed Minister to - the . Aigentine flepublic, but the-order. was revoked. Mr. Robert Kirk was appointed by Mr. Lincoln Minister to the Argen tine Republic, and served until about a year and a half ago, when his resignation was accepted by Mr. Seward, under misapprehension of facts. About eightyears ago Mr. Kirk served as Lica -Governor of Ohio. Mr. Welsh, of New York, hasseen the Postmas ter General on taking a contract for carrying the mails from New York, Boston, and Baltimore to Europe.. He would have one line from New York, another semi- weekly from Boston, and a third every fort night from Baltimore. Under the recent Acts of Congress Secretary Cresewell can carry into effect such a contract. Among those received at the White House was Dr. Mary Walker in her trousers, and other garments, of course ; it was reported that the President would not receive her till properly dressed, and if this be true he must have changed his mind, and thinks her costume the correct thing. Among those who did not get an audience was Gen. Logan, in company with Mr. Fakeus, who claims to be the commercial agent of the Government of San Domingo. THE PROBABLE POLICY OF THE AMERICAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN RELATION TO THE "ALABAMA." , SIR,—If public opinion is stronger than armies or navies, the question may appropriately be asked —What policy will the public opinion of the United States require the Federal Government to pursue upon the above question ? Must not the merits of the question be publicly discussed ? and if so, must not the discussions secure an amicable settlement of the points in dispute ? Would not public dis cussion have prevented the war between England and America in 1812 ? Would it not have prevented the civil war inAmerica? The slaveholders ruled the Suuth because public discussion on slavery was pro hibited. In the Slave States it was a word and a blow, and usually the blow came first. When Presi dent Lincoln made his first call for troops no mem ber of his Cabinet advised it. lle wrote the pro clamation, read it first to Mr. Chase, then to his Cabinet, and then published it. No,v, however, the case is altered. President Grant and his Ca binet, notwithstanding the speech of Senator Sum ner, will carefully look at the state of parties throughout the country in deciding -ott-their policy ; and if they do not sail very near the popular—feel ing the wind will be taken out of their sails. What, then, would be the popular feeling of the white people in the Southern States as to the right of England to acknowledge the Confederacy as having belligerent rights? Would not Jefferson Davis be delighted to hold a public meeting at Richmond to show that England was justified in the course it bad taken ? Is it not likely that enthusiastic meet ings of a similar character would be held through out the Southern States? Would not these meet ings weaken the hold—now not very strong—which the Federal Government has on these Status ? The South has proved as great a trial to the Federal Go vernment as Ireland has to the British Government. The ex-slaveholders are chiefly distinguished for their love of power. Once they wielded the destinies of the Republic, and they would be delighted to do so again. This is the ruling passion, and the Fede ral Government wilt be slow to take any course which would call into exercise this passion. The ex-slaveholders to a great extent control the press and the.pulpit of the Southern States. They would be glad to make as their rallying cry E ng i .m .r, right to do what it has done in reference to the Con lederacy. ft would be a stepping-stone to the re gaining of their power. To do this they would avail themselves of every means possible, even t) the granting legal and social justice to the coloured population. If these views are correct, the present state of the South will be regarde I by the Federal Government as a strong reason for arranging amicably with England an y po i nts now in dispute.° —Yours obediently, THE FATHER DICKSON OF " DRED.77 Manchester, May 15, 1869. Mr. James Sinclair has forwarded to us a copy of a letter he add/cued to the Manchester Examiner is answer to that ill-advised production of Mr. Goldvvin Smith, which, he says, misrepresents American feeling. Imme diately after Senator Sumner's speech he passed through Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Wash ington, and with his acquaintances and means of obtaining information, he arrived at the conclusion " that, under neath the bluster of politicians and the sensational writ ings of correspondents of the American press, there is a sound friendly feeling towards England, which, if better understood by us, would prevent much irritation and the periodical panic we are thrown into about our relations with that country. On passing through the above-named cities, and visiting many places of public resort, I endea voured on many occasions to elicit public opinion on the most salient points of the speech, and .1 entirely failed to discover that any importance was attached to it at all, and I dare to assert that there is not the slightest ap proach to anything like a feeling of hostility on the part of the people of America towards this country. When any expression of feeling is made it is rather that of sorrow than anger, that England should have inflicted a wrong upon them when they were in the throes of their gigantic struggle, but to suggest that war may arise from tip! infliction of that wrong, or the impossibility of Eng land to acquiesce in the cla'me set forth by Senat.m Sum ner, you gt. t laughed at Per your fears, and advised to g;va as little heed to the mutterings Of the Senate as they do themselves, as no Government can go to war without the people, and the people have certainly no inclination that way." Mr. Sinclair adds, "I am persuaded that if two or three cf our statesmen, such as Lord Stanley, Jolin Bright, and W. E. Forster. were to go to the United States with a view to the settlement of this question, we would soon see the end of a controversy that threatens such mischief and fosters such misunderstanding between two nations who-e whale interests, commercial, social, and religious, depend upon peace unbroken by alarms and undisturbed by fears." Senator Chandler's speech he treats with the utmost con tempt, and he actually heard it delivered. A well-known Senator told him, it was for the sixth time in five years. Even the vehemence and gesticulation that accompanied it could not attract the other Senators, and in America it is ridiculed and treated with the contempt it deserves. Though these speeches attracted so little notice in the rail way cars and steamboats, the question Mr. Sinclair did hear everywhere discussed was Free Trade, which he evi dently considers to be the question rising into most impor tance in the United States. Mr. Sinclair expresses so comprehensively the feeling now prevailing in America that we regret we are only able to give it in this abridged fo:m. THE IVAI7 ING GAME. (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is strange to watch the effect of a cry from an influential quarter, when echoed all over a country. The people often accept it as an axiom, as a saying embodying concentrated wisdom, deep thought, a compression of the results of elaborate arguments and reasoning into a sentence; in a word ; a proverb it is profane to call in question. The Alabama difficulty in America has resolved itself into one of these profound sayings, which the nation feels in clined without discussion to accept—America can wait. We can understand the boy who replied to his enraged father's statement that but for time he would give him a severe thrashing, " Don't hurry yourself father ; I can wait." NV e can understand the debtor playing what BUTLER calls " the wait ing game," but we doubt the wisdom of the cre ditor in following suit. A hungry man, eager to have his dinner served, does not ostentatiously parade his ability to wait ; an angry man, smarting under an insnit, must have no small command over himself if he proclaims his desire to await the ag griever's expression of contrition and reparation. Such cases are better settled at once, or the naughty boy gets off his whipping, the debtor never pays, the hungry man's appetite turns to faintness and sickness before he is served, and the angry man's injury be comes lost in the mazes of the controversy which fol lows. Time helps the wrong-doer ; burying under accumulating dust the real injury, and blunting the sense. If England acted on the " waiting game " her reasons would be sufficiently obvious ; but it is not easy to understand why America does, reiterating this saying,, as if time was the Re public's friend and Britain's foe in the matter. In the first place, the reasons must be grounded on the war principle while the nations are at peace, and therefore in the attitude there is an ob vious inconsistency. The object being to damage the enemy, the Republic must survey the position as does an Admiral or General with a hostile line before him. It is the business of a commander in such cases to accept or force on an engagement if the balance of probability be in favour of inflicting on the enemy a greater injury than he is likely to receive. If bur definition of " the waiting game" be correct, the Republic assumes the position of a commander, and calculates that in the engagement involved in " the waiting game " that England will sustain the heavier loss. If General BUTLER 1)0 interpreted aright by the papers, lie considers that " the waiting game" will eventuate in Great Britain's being engaged in hostilities with another formidable power, when the Republic will proci.ol to reap the benefit by annihilating her commerce, or by enforcing such terms as she desires. '1 he ob jection we take to such dicta is that people who so act make a Providence of themselves ; they sketch out what is to happen to another, and are amaied to find themselves tumbling into the very trap in tended to catch their enemy. The trap is there for any who blunder into it, and is most likely to re ceive the most incautious and reckless nation. Her MAJESTY'S world-wide possessions, and the proxi mity of the scat of her dominion to the great Powers of Europe, together with the complications grow ing out of an eventful history and many treaties, leave the chances against England of first getting 44 into a row," but they are qualified by the extreme caution of her Governtnent and the national desire for peace. As regards home complications, which means a rebellion in Ireland, the position is not fully under stood iu America. Great Britain proper, with its 25,000,000, is the most united population on earth, its force being wielded like the arm of a single man. Ireland, with its 6,000,000, is in such a state that if left without English interference a civil war would probably result, when the party Americans suppose to be dominant would be annihilated by the Irish themselves. If as between the United Kingdom and the United States the precedent of the Alabama is to be followed in case of the war of either with another power, the chances are not so unequ 11 as to make the prediction safe, that the PRESIDENT'S Government or the QUEEN'S would first fall into the difficulty, which might induce it to cry, 'Peccavi!" But Americans argue that England, with ;he result of theAlahama experiment before her, dare not repeat it in case the Republic again found itself at war. This would be an unsafe position for any nation to assume, aud it would be trusting to the clemency of an enemy, over whose head the Repub lic expressly held that threat. There are thousands in England who would assert. thi s .riglat, as the "wait ing•_ gatn"6'Would be unfair if the two engaged did not play it out on equal terms. It means, then, that future English Alabamas are to prey on the re viving commerce of the Union in ease she becomes involved in war, or American Alabamas to burn and destroy British merchantmen if England drifts into hostilities. We confess our inability to see the sense in this respect of the "waiting game ;" but it involves consequences even worse. A nation that deliberately, and with malice aforethought, kept in reserve such a plan of action and put it in force on the opportunity offering, would simply make a declaration of war; hence the logical conclusion of "the waiting game" is that the one may attack the other on its going to war with athirdPower. Beingevenlymatched theirgreat ' strength is neutralized, and instead of their strength exercising the influence it ought legitimately to give these leaders in freedom and civilization, they may sink into a place it would be gall and worm wood for either to hold. Aided, their influence would be overwhelming : with the Alabama ques tion open that influence declines to a still greater extent in the opposite direction; but though this is the strongest r..tason Americans give as against England, yet they cannot apply it to themselves, for they seem to be unable to see more than one side of " the waiting game." Viewed from this point England has the worst of " it, and it is more likely to be fatal to her than to the Republic, while in the highest degree damaging and dange rous to both. But in its other aspects the waiting game is more injurious to the United States than to the United Kingdom. First, as regards its credit —the riso in gold, the fall in the National Secu rities following• the speeches in the Senate, prove how weak and sensitive as yet is American credit. America pays double the interest paid by Great Britain for loans, yet there is no other nation in the world with such resources ; indeed it may be A ULSTER AND THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. The Orangemen have made up their differences. The Orange democrats and the Conservative Pro testants have joined hands, in order to protest against the disendowment and disestablishment of the Irish Protestant Church. The Presbyterians also have joined with the Episcopalians, though it ie difficult to see what locus standi the first have, con sidering that they will receive an adequate compen sation for the annual grant now made to them under the name of the Regium Donum. Anyhow, the union and the protest are rather late. If they had taken place two months ago the Opposition in the House of Commons might have received an encouragement which they sorely needed. But repeated adverse majorities of over 100 have taken the heart out of them. It is to be presumed that these Ulster protests are intended to embolden the Peers to throw out the bill. THE ELECTION PETITIONS. Baron Martin and Justices Blackburn and Willes are to be congratulated. When they under took to try the election petitions they had 111 of them to go through, Fifty-nine Liberals and 52 Conservatives cases were attacked ; and to the adjudication of these, not without some protests and a great many grumblings, they set themselves. They were, however, speedily relieved of 44, for 24 Conservative petitions against Liberals and 20 Liberal petitions against Conservatives—were withdrawn without being brought before a court. The Daily News gives a list of the members seated and unseated by the judges. The LiberalS declared duly elected number 24, the Conservatives 17. Nine Liberals have been unseated and 18 Conservatives. B'sides these there were four special eases. Sire Sidney Waterlow (Liberal) iias unseated, and was supplante 1 by Major Walker; Mr. Birley's seat at Manchester was declared good ; Mr. Hamilton at Salisbury was duly elected; and Mr. Devereux was reelected for Wexford after being turned out on account of an informality on the part of the returning ollicer. Against the gain of a Conservative seat in Dumfriesshire, the Liberals are enabled to spew the substitution of Mr. Miall for Mr. Ripley at Bradford ; Lord Hyde for Mr. Gwyn at Brecon ; Major Anson for Mr. Cunliffe at Bewdley ; and Mr. Henry James for Mr. Serjeant Cox at Taunton. In the case of the double return at Horsham the Conservative withdrew, and left the seat to Mr. Hurst, the former Liberal member. PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS. Our parliamentary literature costs the country no little sum. Ninety thousand pounds were spent in the session 1807-8 for returns of different kinds, blue-books, &c. It was suggested some time since that private returns should be refused unless the Government felt that they were of real importance. But though private members swell the list consi derably, they do not use their power of moving for returns to a very exorbitant extent as far as printing is concerned. Two hundred and fifty-six non-official returns were issued during the session, but these were mostly one and two-page papers ; and as only from a thousand to two thousand copies were printed, 'the total cost did not reach five thousand pounds. Where the outlay occurs is rather in the different Government offices. Things are overturned, old books have to be searched, extra clerks have to be employed, and a most elaborate and time-consuming system of account-keeping has to be used because, perchance, some day Mr. Figuremad may ask to have some unimportant statistics laid before Parliament. THE PRINCE OF WALES. According to the Irish Times, the Queen has placed at the disposal of the Prince of Wales services of gold and silver plate suitable for royal entertain ments, and from her private purse has increased his income by £40,000 a year. This is said to be due to a division in the Cabinet in reference to the proposal of an application to Parliament for such a purpose. It is added that Mr. Bright declared his dissent, unless accompanied by an equivalent reduction in the allowance to the Crown. The story is evidently one of the class called " shrewd guesses." THE TORNADO CASE. What will the Government do about the Tornado case ? It is many months since the present Attorney- General, then out of office, asked Lord Stanley this question, and urged active measures if the Spanish Government would not grant a new trial. Sir Robert Collier is now in office; the offence he com plained of has been aggravated by still further delays. Is he prepared to recommend his political friends to take the same course as he recom mended to his political opponents ? Lord Stanley settled the matter with regard to the Victoria by letting the Mediterranean squadron steam from Malta to Gibraltar,. and of course by the most undesigned coincidence in the world, Queen Isabella's Government gave us the satisfaction we asked. Is the Prim-Serrano Government open to the same kind of argument ? and is the chief law adviser of the Crown prepared to counsel oux Government to try it ? What, too, is this we he ti about Sir John Cram ton? A fortnight ago the Owl stated th a t h e had " resigned." The Madrid correspondent of the Hominy Star, who has all along been particularly well informed, says there is a the ROWS u aants rumour that our Minister too ini good to b sterhasbeen eu recalled," ear b i u; there is need of some decisive action on our part, either diplomatic or naval. (From the Anglo •Agnerican Times.) Ni:w YOPai, May 8. As luck would have it, it rained heavily and blew hard on May-Day to catch the unfortunate people on the move to Brooklyn, Staten island, WeL,tches ter, and, in fact, all the country around Manhattan, which is nearly abandoned to the gods and their wor shippers —meaning thereby t lie rich and poor, the dwellers iu marble halls and in tenements, in Fifth Avenue and Water-street. The carters have had a fine time, and so have the ducks; but the te.lrs dropped by the unhappy families compelled to cross the water, while literally under water, for the deluge left only a slight difference between the solid element below and the element diluted with air above, added to the downpour which drenched their goods and chattels. This, together with the treat meat, the furniture experienced from - the baggage- , said to be the only great Potver that can and will, within a given period, pay the principal of its debt. The unbridled liberty American politicians givo themselves so shocks the confidence of the world in the wisdom of American statesmen that the credit of the country improves but little, for every in crease is followed by some act which creates alarm, plays into the hands of " bears," and drives the timid to sell at a loss. Senator SUMNER'S speech had a more damaging influence on American Securi ties than the nation could readily believe,andAmeri can credit will not tend upwards inEurope so longas " the waiting game" is played. A rise would have followed on the news of the increasing revenue, and the measures of Secretary BOUTWELL to decrease the debt had it not thus been effectually stopped. A financier in New York stated in a leading daily paper some days before a fall in Europe of 5 per cent. on the National Bonds, that the action of the Treasury would send them up on this side ten per cent., whieli would bring theta to par in New York, and the time would li tre arrived when long-dated loans at a lower interest could be issued. He had no notion what the effect would be of re-opening this question, and, if it is to be kept open, there is no chance whatever of such relief to American tax payers. It entails then heavier taxation; a decrease in the value of all American Securities, private as well as public; it checks the growing desire for investment in the United States ; and, worse than all, it deters English emigration. Now on all these points America chiefly suffers, for English credit is too well established to be thus injured, and she neither looks for nor requires the introduction of capital to develope her industrial resources, nor for immigrants. In a material way, then, America is the loser, and her loss is direct and instantaneous, the cost of Senator SUMNEICS speech being already estimated at millions sterling. There is yet a third aspect of " the waiting game" which the Republic ought not to overlook. Unless waiting is eventually to lead to a settlement it is little less than idiotic for America to play it, presuming the case to be so bad against England that a heavy bill of damages would probably be awarded. When a credi tor finds he cannot get all he claims he tries to ac quaint himself with the full amount he can get, and when satisfied nothing more will be forthcoming he takes that. By "the waiting game" America de clines to receive that only, England will give in corn' pensation of the injury. So long as the Republic waits, for that period the British gold will be in the British pocket, and as a debtor can wait better than a creditor, waiting must so far be to America's loss and to England's gain. To value the open question as 3 good ground for a future quarrel would be to plac e American ingenuity at a low ebb ; for a nation can, whenever she pleases, pick a quarrel with an other proud, haughty people. The Republic then could have the money the arbiters might ad judge, and the luxury of a war with England when the time suited her, and a "smart" nation putting it on the lowest grounds of smartness, would sho/ little astuteness in paying dearly for what could be got for nothing. The length to which we desire to play the " waiting game" is till the present irrita tion has cooled, and not a moment longer. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.—The last ti e of the Central Pacific, Railroad was of polished California, laurel, silver mounted, and has a gold spike, in honour el the completion of the road.—At San Francisco vessels are built without bowsprits, and are said to b 3 much safer and cheaper.—The Cuban Ladies' Relief Association of Ne vi New York have delivered to the Junta Cuban, No. 69 , Broadway, through its President, Senor Jose Moralos Letnus, the sum of $1,300, making up a total of $3,000 eat" tributed by the society for the relief of the colonists ill Cuba.— The St. Louis grain merchants are working fn such a practical way to divert the great Western shipri 4 business from Chicago to their own city that we shall ne t he surprised if they soon win a fair share of success. They have set about proving that grain can be shipped to lie": lork by the Mississippi cheaper than by the lakes an d canal, not by writing letters and making speeches, but bi purchasing a cargo and trying the experiment. They have bought No. 1 spring wheat at $1 25, and expect to be able to deliver it in this city at $1 40k. Similar grades are quoted in our markets now at about $1 60, which cer" tainly leaves the enterprising shippers a handsome prat."' New Porn.. Tribune.—Ex-Fire Marshal Baker announce° that the losses by fire iu New York during the month of April amounted to $461,630, an increase of $33,850 over March. Four hundred and thirty French Canadian s left Montreal, April 26, for Boston and New York. -- On the 30th April a severe gale at the mouth of the M' sissippi sit ept away the galleries of the lighthouse and th e lightkeeper's dwelling at South-west pass, destroyed the lighthouse boats, and blew five feet of water into the lighthouse and dwelling. The buildings settled one foot. The storm also damaged the rigging of vessels at the Pass' —A steamier has just bean completed at Pittsburg, Penn" Sylvania, for the navigation of the Magdelona liver, i° South America.—Nineteen-twentieths of the rice raised in the United States is grown within a narrow limit 1 1 1 ) ° n . the seaboard of the Carolinas and Georgia. —P . great International Plant and Flower Show will b ; held at Hamburg next Septemb e r, during the sitting °f the he Congress, by botanists, gardeners, and horticulturists . '" Five years ago no white man lived within 6 miles of Ottasf ° ' Kansas. Now the place has 3,000 inhabitants.—Pasee °- - gers arrived at Sacramento, California, from Washington, April 30, having made the trip in eight and a half days , Pardee College, Pike county, Missouri, confers the degree of M.A. (Maid of Arts) upon young ladies.' There are eight tunnels on the Pennsylvania Railroat ranging from two hundred to th ree th ousan d s i x hundre d and twelve feet.—The big ship Great Admiral Iv ; al rived at New York from Boston.—" Lady Thorn" b ea t " American Girl" in the trotting match at Fashioa:, Course, Long Island. Tuesday, May 4, "Lady Thorn won all three heats ; her be s t time b e i ng on the first 2. 21 i. —At the White Pine mines a man was recently hired l c) dig a grave. When the funeral procession arrived tb ° digger was in it, and refused to leave, declaring that b ° had " struck a fine lead," and could not think of allowit*:.; the body to be buried " in the hole."--The MOunt Verne,' estate, consecrated by the memory of George Washingt7 is advertised to be sold at auction on June 10th.—A ( 131 paper, with $200,000 capital, to advocate "Free Trade, is said to be contemplated in Boston.—A Newcastle Pu t ; nal states that it is not unlikely a direct line of stearne r may shortly continence to run bet ween th e Ty ne and lie', v York.—A party of GO immigrants f rom H o ll an d arr ived a' Richmond, Virginia, April 30. 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It has produced a surprisingly b e cel tidal effect on his health. and his Holiness cannot praise this eg ur e lent food too higl , ly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 2 5 , vet No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous nes s, with a ne* D • aa palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessnesB,l4ol the most intolerable nervous agitation.." C u re N o . 1,771 ; ‘ ,, A rs' Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of maai fon' dyspepsia. No 19,832: " Fifty years' indescribable ago dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatu" k • fe spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria ear l 46,270: Mr. James Roterts, of Frimley, Surr e y, of 30 9 0 6 diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangeroon".og partial deafness. 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Kieloeh, En' Park, Aberdeenshire. neo r KlLLicx. - FISON—On the 25th inst , at Rawd on ' ie, Leeds, H enry Fi son Ki ll i ck, Esq., o f B ra dford, to An u third daughter of T. S. Fison, of Rawdon. _DEATHS. 11AY— On the 23d inst John Hay, Esq., of Lathan,' 111... — broatb, aged 73. HoorEit - On the 2.5 th inst., Henry Hooper , of Saber dasher's Hall, aged 79. SAMMB —On the 23d inst., at New North-road, Itaingtovt John Sams, Esq., aged 92. _ O r s' London: Printed and P u bli s h e d by WILLIAM A ll- ." of No. 112, Strad, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.1 12, o'" - in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Mid dle°l - Wednesday, Alay 26, 1668. t INABAN'S This celebrated OL prize Medal. Pure, Mild, Mel , Sold in Bottles, Is. he Agents in the prim 8, GREAT WI Observe the Red Sea tan's LL Whisky. EATING _fix. relieves the d I TSN. E s A od iN Importanta i l ni3 o re x G n e lle each. -K EATING, C' London, E.( lIITUAL I ancor 14, RUSSELL—ST] nd AD VANCES MO NES bold or Leasehold Pr le weekly, monthl3 t 'crizs free on reoelpi ROYAL M Pror IMMENSE SU Mr HARRY RICKA Mr FRED. COYNE. Mr LTRK AHD. the Mr GEOROM LEYE Miss A NIE ADAM Mbas KATE AFLt, Miss JEANIE FICA', lIACLAGAN, THE WOI Fu Mr. I WO" Notice—Mr( M ADAME Bake -street.- (of No• Rich) has bi mission • Is.; Muni the morning" until 1( ARGYLL R( The extraordinar or the Shad ow D an the electric lieht of Date in it, combino M usic Selections To have had the grail ruost extensively pi ce lebrated Orcheeti chef. Senor Luigi () Fiitiolll3 of all dit:t t'itrned to the ena Oraraa. L. Sill) , Thomas Pitts. Pet Admi THE above Luncheon. 13 for deviling, , Legs of ORIGINAL AND To be ASHLEY V eil' Fine Pale, Dr 01 ( 1 trashed Port Shippi ng), p intas Sparkling Champs I frY, Qualite Sup k{ntnple easee of bottles; Sherry, twc GARRIC p B. HAL] next the Consignee for DTII celebrated PALE t nordeanx Wines a, .!Y his kies, from s( —BO be seen at the number of Hotels, of others Wanted in gerENTTPIO ORN AMEN and Dinh); sort ment of VAS. licks, Inkstands, me : , in Italian, 8 11h.e Spar. &C. TENNANT, 31E W. 0., London. Mr. Tennant al MINERALS, an of Lyell'e Elemoi tate the intere' GEOLOGY, ani guineas each. PR A.OT TO AL MINERALOGY 149, Strand. THE LIVI GLI 0 flices-1, 1A The Invested Fire Revenue to The moderate re Bonus for the I value as SPEC r ender the m p a leave is granted thirty days after INndeAr 'brelt)°ati4OA.nr' o wb o t _ e i reb il y iel : n l:o ° m ud e Th ob . ii.. ..:s e or aj u e.: _ ct the kingdom. awr.. — :;t4;b 4l ": : : : : l i t tle n: ltio a fla : laundry, to n e Committee enThtirely austaine( Office, 121, Pall ORITISE -111-3 Mackenzie atiuPtaiotrno;na—mH or th e gra asstitute orpluv an d of all (lox I l a rQtanlsa P ei Increased. t b e a r n c s e . e hundredriasr endowed, and , Institution an de 1 3 eeuliar Oa het last Bet eCra ry. - Offices, 73, C , taLke rs —M ' 4llO ; and Meq