The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-10 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE. A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.—At the Mansion House, on Friday, a youth, named Ashdown, aged 17, was charged with forgery. He had been apprehended in Liverpool by A detective officer, who mistook him for another offender. Ashdown, however, at once confessed the forgery, thinking he was "wanted" for that. He was committed for trial. THE COST OF FURIOUS DRIVING.—Messrs. Pickfords. on Friday, prosecuted two of their carmen, at Southwark Police-court, for furious driving. Their solicitor stated that the firm last year had to pay £4,000 for damages done by reckless driving, and they thought it (rite time forthem to take some proceedings to check the carelessness of their servants, and to protect the public. As there was not sufficient evidence to convict the defendants they were dismissed with a caution. FREQUENT SUICIDES.—At the Thames Police-court, on Friday. the chief-constables of the London and St. Katharine's Docks waited upon Mr. Paget to receive his instructions respecting the numerous suicides from the swivel n-rr the London Dock. Mr. Paget, having alluded lo ...e great number of suicides and attempted suicides committed at this part, desired that the solicitor to the Dock Company should wait upon him. NINE PERSONS POISONED. An extraordinary case of poisoning, in which nine per sons have had a very narrow escape from death, is reported from West Cornwall. Mr. Middy, farmer, of Tredinnick, was first taken suddenly ill soon after be had dressed Ilirnself in the morning. He appeared to be wan dering in his mind. The symptoms rapidly grew more alarming, and Mr. Bennett, surgeon, of Tre;ony, was sent for. By the time he arrived Miss Buddy was also seized in a similar manner. Another sister, who was at Tregony, went to wait upon her brother and sister, but had not been long in the house when she also became ill, and the same happened to a Mrs. Crago, who is also a sister to Mr. Huddy. Mrs. Elliott, a neighbouring farmer's wife, then came to the assistance of the prostrated family, but soon shared the like fate, and the servant man and three other persons who came to nurse the family, making nine in all, were speedily seized in a similar manner. From the rapidity of the attacks and the symptoms manifested, Mr. Bennett considered that it was an outbreak of Asiatic cholera, but on the arrival of Dr. Barham, of Truro, that gentleman at once pronounced it to be a decided case of poisoning. Upon inquiry, it was found that all the sufferers had partaken of a batch of bread baked on Thursday. Miss lluddy herself made the bread, assisted by the servant Pill, who brought her the flour, &c. The girl Pill was under notice to leave. Dr. Barham, having satisfied himself that his patients had been poisoned, sent for the girl and told her to bring him the remaining loaf of bread, but she returned and stated that she could not find it. The loaf has entirely disappeared, the police, who have been investigating the matter, being unable to discover it. A striking circumstance connected with the affair is that every person who partook of food in the house, except the servant Pill, was seized with illness. It was at first feared that some of them would succumb to the effects of the poison, but all are now in a fair way of recovery, and the friends of the family have been removed to their homes. TILE PORTADOWIN RIOTS. --_--.-.,0. At the inquest at Portadown, on Thursday, a witness named Watson gave a minute account of the riots, and the firing of the police which took place on the Ist of July. He was standing at his own door when he saw a body of police coming up the road from the direction of Portadown, armed with rifles. He asked Sub-Inspector Nunan what he was going to do with his men, and the officer asked him had he not heard that the police had been cut up, and added "It is a bad business." Mr. Nunan requested him to look for Mr. Shillington, the magistrate, and say that he was urgently wanted. He could not find Mr. Shillington. Mr. Nunan expressed regret, and said that he would have to act upon his own responsibility. In a short time he heard the sub inspector order the crowd to lea;•e the road. Some one replied, " We have as much right to be here as you." The officer declared that he would compel them to leave, and ordered them to leave in the Queen's name, or be would fire on them. Several persons answered, " That is mere than you dare do." He said he could, and was told to " try his hand." He then commanded them three times, in the Queen's name, to disperse. The people replied as before, and he said, " Now, I'll fire." He said something to his men which the witness did not hear, and they then put the weapons to their shoulders. While they were in this position Mr. Nunan requested the crowd to go home. The witness spoke to him, and asked him if he really meant to fire. He replied, "I do, and lam sorry; fur see how many innocent people are about there, and they'll be shot." He asked Mr. Nunan not to fire, as he had received no sufficient provocation. He replied that be must, as his men were being cutup. The witness said, "No matter for that, don't do it." Stones were thrown, and about half-a-dozen fell in front of the rolice, and others struck them. The witirss saw the mounted constable rubbing his right elbow, and be stated that he was unable to hold his revolver in consequence of having been struck on the hand. Mr. Nunan was struck about three times, and he remarked that they were giving him sufficient provocation to warrant him in firing. While they were speaking stones were thrown. He then said rather excitedly, " I cannot stand this any longer ; my men are in danger." The stone-throwing continued, but be did not see the police struck. He again ordered the crowd to disperse in the name of the Queen, repeating the command about six times. The witness observed, " Mr. Nunan, you are only doing what will tend to exasperate the crowd." He replied, " Never yon mind, Mr. Watson ; I know what lam about." The witness said, "If you fire you are only getting yourself into trouble, as the pro vocation would not warrant you to do so." He then gave an order to the constables, who put themselves in a position to fire. The crowd, which was about seven or eight yards distant, surveyed the movement with calm indifference. He saw many of t'.em standing with their bands in their pockets, and the sub inspector was told that be dared not fire. There were no stones thrown at the frac. The witness again asked him not to fire, but he was too absorbed or too excited to hear. He suggested that it would be better to take the police home, and they immediately marched in the direction of Portadown. The crowd divided, let the police pass through, and then closed after them. Therewere stones thrown then at them by the crowd, but the persons around were in a; much danger of being struck as the police were. He say no one struck, although there might have been many, When they came to the Prince of Wales Hotel they wheeled and fired immediately. He was quite close to them at the time. The people had said to him that be might know very well the police dared not fire among them. The constables again wheeled and marched towards home. He followed, but they were lust to view. owing to the intervening crowd. Shortly afterwards he heard them fire again, and saw the people running. .Ile did not consider his life in danger from anything the crowd did. Twenty or thirty minutes elapsed from the time of the first interview with Mr. Nunan and the second firing. He heard no shouting, but the people chuckled and laughed when the police got up from the first firin position. On Friday the inquest at Portadown was continued. 11r. Farrell, proprietor of the Portaclown , News, deposed that Nunan called upon the police, in the Queen's name, to fire. He saw five policemen bleeding. No stone was thrown at the time the police fired, but stones were thrown before a at. The proceedings were adjourned until the L'rd of August. Tun (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL.—The following are said to be the subjects that will be discussed at the (Ecu menical Council:-1. Pantheism, Naturalism, and Abso lute Rationalism. 2. Modified Rationalism. 3. Indif ferentism and Tolerance. 4. Socialism, Communism, t . iceret Societies, Bade Societies, and Clerical Liberal Societic. Errors with respect to the Church and her G. Errors with respect to Civil Society in itself, and in its Relation to the Church. 7. Errors with respect to Natural and Christian Morals, 8. With respect to Christian Marriage. 9. With respect to the Sovereignty of the Roman Pope. 10. With respect to Modern Liberalism. LOSSINI'S USE OF BRASS INSTRUMENTS.—It was not for nothing that he and his father had played the horn together when VIE. young Ros.,ini was gaining his ear:i(st experience of orchestral effects. He was always faithful to his tart instrument. "The art," says M. Fki4, "of writing parts for the horn, with the develop merit of all its resources, is quite a new art, which Rot sini, in some sort, created." In looking over thl: score of "Otello," with . Donizetti, Sigismondi, the librarian of tho Conservatory at Naples, is said to have complained of the prominence given to the clarinets, and to have exclaimed with horror at the employment of horns and trombones without number. " Third and fourth horns !" he cried ; " what does the man wart:' The greatest of our composers have always been content with two. Shades of Pergolese, of Leo, of Jomelli ! How they must shudder at the bare mention of such a thing ! Four horns ! Are we at a hunting party ? Four horns ! Enough to blow us to perdition !" The old professor was still more shocked by " 1 0 . 21, 30, tromboni," which, according to an anecdote, the authenticity of which can scarcely t,v guArtulteed, ljd mistook for " 123" trorabouca. itr,StAhl iiadiraland Elite/pa& - 1111SCELLAYEOUS NEWS. TRE CRISIS. Neither the Times nor the Telegraph has anything definite as to the intentions of the Government with respect to the Irish Church Bill. The former paper is for once entirely silent about the bill; the latter dwells upon. the stultification of the measure by the Lords, and leave it to be inferred that Ministers will be no party to a settlement which settles nothing. The Daily News is far more explicit. As the mouth ' piece of the thoroughgoing Liberals, it points out that the Lords have refused to accept the decision of a House of Commons elected upon that very subject as representing the opinions of the people, and 'appeals from that constitutional body to outdoor clamour ; and, therefore, if the appeal from Parliament and Mr. Gladstone to Hyde Park and Mr. Beales is answered by the last named gentlemen end his friends, the Lords must not complain. The same journal intimates the absolute necessity of .eopularising the House of Lords, so as to deprive it of that power to obstruct important legislation which is so invariably and mareilessly used. The Morning Pod is silent. The :11canzvy Star refers to the matter obliquely in relation to Earl Russell's Life Peerages Bill, and laughs at all the pother about the introduction of two life peers a year when everybody is thin:iing about other changes of a far more extensive charaAcr. The Morw . ng Advertiser believes that a conflict between the two Houses is imminent, and that in the midst of it the Irish Church Bill will founder and be lest, and be re-introduced next November. The &andard believes well founded the rumour that the Government mean to reject theLords' amendments, and is, by anticipation, very int - lig-mint at the affront about to be offered to a body of ••'..Tli-spirited gentlemen. The herald thinks that the ,rds did very wisely in throwing out the Life Peerages Bill, because if such a measure were sent down to the Commons at this juncture, it would be almost a provocation to the Radicals (just now " furious with the Peers") to discuss and revolu tioniSe the constitution of the Upper Chamber. The Irish 7imes says that when Mr. Gladstone heard that the Lords had, on the motion of the Opposition leader, topped all their previous per formances by inserting with a majority of seventy, in a House of 250 Peers, that for some time no arrangement should be came to as regards the appropriation of the Church surplus revenues, he sarcastically rcrruired that it would not surprise him if the Upper House ignored altogether the preamble and omitted the title of the bill. Five of the, eight important amendments which the Lords have made are to be disagreed to, so that it now appears tolerably certain, if the followers in combi nation with Lord Cairns and Lord Salisbury remain resolute, as they say they will, on the main pro visions they have introduced, the session of 18C9 may pass over without any Irish Church Act. Some leading Conservatives of the house of Lords are, in spite of the changes which they have made in the bill, so little satisfied with it that they have induced a summons of Irish peers to be issusd for a meeting to be held at the Duke of Abercorn's to-day. These peers are anxious to reject the bill altogether on the third reading, which takes place on Monday. There is also to be a meeting of Arch bishops and Bishops at Lambeth to-day, to con sider the bill before it reaches its final stage. The Birmingham Post says that " the temper or Conservative peers is so unconciliatory at the present moment that grave apprehensions are entertained of a collision between the two Houses, and loss of the bill for the present session. The Liberal party will hear with satisfaction that a considerable creation of Liberal peers will take place during the recess." This extensive use of the royal prerogative is said to be absolutely necessary to overrule the antagonistic atti tude of the Upper House. A DISIIO r ON IRISH EDUCATION. The Bishop of Tuam does not like the national system of education as carried out in Ireland. Precisely what he wants is not quite clear ; but at an Irish Church Education meeting held in the metropolis, he very vigorously denounced the present plan. Its effect, he declared, was to keep the Bible out of the hands of the people. How to obviate this difliculty he did not say. Perhaps he would wish for all education to be in the hands of the Episcopalian Church. Evidently he thought that the Roman Catholics ought to have as little as possible of it in their hands, for he went on to com plain that as statesmen had already granted to the Powanists privileges in the matter of education, so they were doing in all other matters. Should 3lr. Gladstone's plan for appropriating the surplus be carried, the Bishop thought the Roman Catholics would have the bes t of it. THE RIOTS AT PORTADOWN. The second day's inquest, at Portadown, on the body of the lad Watson, shot by the police in the late riots, does not tend to remove the impression that the sub-inspector committed a very grave indis cretion in ordering his men to fire. He did so in direct contravention of the opinions of a magistrate, and at a time when, to all appearance, there was noboay in great danger. The mob does not seem to have been by any means a formidable one. It consisted mainly, so one witnea said, of boys and girls, rather nosy somewhat excited perhaps, but by no means inclined to any very serious rioting. The sub-inspector hin'self—an officer named Neman— said that he was i:eting on his own responsibility. 1 to urges, however, that there was great provocation, and that he had ordered the people to dis2erse in the Queen's name. The representatives of the deceased press fur a verdict of " wilful murder" against Neman. TILE ALABAMA QUESTION. Mr. Gladstone's statement in the House of Com mons on Thursday evening acids nothing to what we have already announced on the subject of the Alabama claims ; but it may be regarded as officially disposing of the subject. The American Govern ment desire that the question should rest awhile, and their Envoy has been instructed to make no fresh proposals. This policy has been concurred in by the British Ministry. General Grant's Cabinet thinks it desirable that public feeling should have time to calm down before negotiations are re-opened ; and the English Government has met this wish by appealing to Sir 11. Bulger to forego the parliamentary discussion which he designed to bring about. A telegram from New York states, on the authority of several Wash ington newspaper correspondents, that the• new American Ambassador has had an interview with . I_lr. Motley, the result of which was not satisfactory. This must be incorrect. Although the question is not dropped it is very clear that negotiations have not yet been resumed. The only proposal which Mr. Motley could have made w;:s the proposal to let the difficulty rest; and es the English Government has " felt it their duty to concur in that sentiment of the United States," it is not possible that any incident of an unsatisfactory character could have taken place. 01711 COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES. On Thursday, several members of Parliament and other gentlemen representing the Chambers of Com merce throughout the country entertained Mr. Hamilton Hill, Secretary of the Boston Board of Trade, at breakfast, at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Mr. Hill, besides his official position, occupies the post of Secretary of the United States National Board of Trade, which is a voluntary organisation of the local chambers and. boards, embracing in the aggregate 16,000 mem bers. Several addresses were delivered by the gentle , men present, Mr. Bazley, M.P., who proposed the first sentiment, seizing the opportunity to enlarge on the advantages which England had derived from free trade. Mr. Hamilton Hill, in speaking of the task undertaken by the National Board, said that its first object had been to bring together representatives from all parts of the country, and at one of its con ventions the late brigadier-general of the North and the late brigadier-general of the South met together. One of the first questions which came under discussion by the Board was how to meet the national obligations, but the senti ment unanimously expressed was, that the good faith of the country must be sustained at all hazards. The internal improvements of the country engaged much of their attention, and two more Pacific railways would be constructed at no distant time. The National Board had not yet taken up the question of Free Trade, and public opinion in the States was hardly ripe for it, but when it had been matured by discussion they would be in a position to take it up. THE PRINCE OF 11-41,ER. The Prince of Wales, whose seat at Sandringham is now b e i ng rebuilt, has been staying at General Knollys's house, and was to have remained there for some clays. But owing to the receipt of a telegram from London he set out s::ddenly, and returned to Marlborough llouse on Thursday night. air. Xi TA.. Mr. Mill hr.s Lai a sharp attack of cholera at Paris, but having fortunitely sent for medical aid in time, he is now convalescent. TIIE LONDON FREE AND OPEN curnen ASSO- CIATION. At the monthly meeting of this society, just held, it was resolved to start a Free Church Penny yazi'ne, is orar to spread the principles of the association. It was also e.e..i(led to draw up a memo r:al to the City clergy, as!:ing that their churches might be open for some hours clurhig the daytime for private prayer. It wr.s mentioned that during Lent St. Lawrence's Church, Gresham-street, was open, and was frequented by a considerable number of men of business. Since Lent it has been closed, and the only church throughout the whole City availablein this way is St, Ethelhurga's, Pialausgate , street, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, J ULY 10, 1869. DR. LEE ON ANGLICAN ORDERS. Dr. F. G. Leo writes to the Tablet to decline, on the ground of parochial work, to enter upon a con troversy as to the validity of Anglican orders. He adds that more than 100 pages of his work on the subject are printed, and that the book will be pub lished in the autumn. The testimonial to Dr. Leo, by way of acknowledging his services as secretary of the " A.P.U.C.," has proved a failure. not be an unmixed good for San Francisco, for the products of the mines are now being despatched direct to the Mint and Assay offices of Philadel phia and New York, yet it is an unmixed good for the State generally, and likely to give a great spur to its wine-growing interest. A cargo of 24 tierces, or about 1,000 gallons, of California wine was re cently shipped on the Pacific Railroad for the At lantic ports. The wine and brandy product of Cali fornia now reaches 8,000,000 gallons, and it is esti mated that in ten years' time the annual value of the crop will amount to V 0,000,000, and equal in value the present gold product. We regret to hear of the feebleness and poor health of Mr. Peabody, at Salem, Massachusetts. He has just added another million dollars to his Southern Education Fund, the amount of the fund being now two millions of dollars, yielding au an nual income of $130,000. The philanthropist at tended the Peace Jubilee, and on being introduced to the audience during au interval of the perform ance by Mayor Shurtleff, who spoke of him as the benefactor of mankind, be said—" My friends, — Your mayor has indeed said well that I am your fliend, and has kindly announced toe as the friend of the whole world. However true this assertion may Le—and I think he has praised me too highly —yet, I assure you, whatever may be said in regard to my friendship for the old world, can never ex ceed that which I have for the new." After a long interview with Secretary Boric and Admiral Porter, on June 24, the President next dtty announced the resignation of the Navy Secretary, and the appointment of Geo. W. Robeson, Attorney General of New Jersey. From the beginning Mr. Boric was reluctant to accept the post, but the Pre sident over-ruled his objection by stating that Ad miral Porter would be associated with him to do all the Navy work, while Grant only desired to have the benefit of his advice in council. Experience showed Mr. Boric the disadvantages of having to bear the responsibility of the acts of others; the Admiral carried out his own notions perhaps the more readily, as the blame would fall on the shoul ders of the Secretary, who was denounced in the Navy for many unpopular orders, and in the papers for all the blunders ; for neglecting the business ; and for accepting a post about the work ing of which he knew no more than did Secretary Gideon Welles, his predecessor. Mr. Robeson's appointment created much more surprise than Mr. Borie's retirement. Ile is the son of a leading New Jersey W hig, Judge William P. Robeson; born about 1828 ; entered Princeton College 1814, graduated in 1847, studied law under Chief Justice Horn blower, practised in 1850 with the Hon. C. M. Remington, appointed Prosecutor of Pleas for Camden county in 18,9, and on the election of Senator Frelingbuysen, in 1867, promoted to be Attorney-General by Governor Ward. He is a strong Republican, and supported the election of General' Grant. During the Impeachment Trial, which he advocated, he became acquainted with the President, and his appointment is not repug nant to his party, although he is little known beyond the limits of his State. It is said that the Secretary of IVar, General Rawlins, is in very delicate health, and will soon follow Mr. Boric into retirement. A grave question came before General Grant relative to General Sickles' appointment as Minis ter to Spain. The law relating to army officers was discussed, when he decided that the restriction, which prevents these officers from holding civil office does not apply to those placed on the retired list. Though relinquishing armypay, whiledrawing diplo matic pay, the General retains his name ou the army register. He had left Washington for New York, where he was presented with an address, and a warm invitation to a banquet at the Everett 11Juse on June 30, which he as cordially accepted. The list of names appended to the invitation is the best answer that could be given to the stories circulated detrimental to the General. Among them is that of the late Henry J. Raymond, and we may add all the leading journalists, Horace Greeley, Dana ; the great lawyers, such as Evarts ; men like Cyrus W. Field, and nearly all the best known citizens of New York. There is no chance of Secretary of Legation Perry being retained, although there had been a rumour at Washington that he might be. It would take a great deal to make Mr. Andrew Johnson change his tune, indeed strong opinions persistently held seated him in the chair of the President. When serenaded at Washington on the night of the Ist inst., he made a speech wherein he deplored the political condition of the country, and declared that it was tending to a military dictator ship or a monarchy. There are those who assert that Andrew Johnson swung round the circle, that he got in to the State ship disguised as a Italica), and went out in his true colours, as a Conser vative. Yet we believe that he was obstinately consistent, though he could not make his views harmonise under changed circumstances with those of the party which had brought him into power. As a Southerner he held Southern opinions, while as a Union man he held Northern opinions. When the question was simply Union or Secession—and side-issues, even such a mighty subject as emanci pation being but one, were almost lost sight of in the clash of arms which settled it—Andrew Johnson was a foremost man, and it was on that main issue alone that he rose. When the war ceased and he indi vidually became a power in the nation his Southern opinions cropped up, and were hateful in the sight of an uncompromising faction, while he was as obstinate and unyielding as they. Consequences that any one who knew the circumstances could have foretold followed, and after waging a furious war for years a 13 chief magistrate, Mr. Johnson is now carrying on the contest as a private individual. Those who expected to hear little more of Andrew Johnson when in dudgeon he absented himself from the inauguration of his successor, and left Washing ton almost unnoticed, will soon discover their mis take, for his are qualities which make him formid able as a partisan leader in a hot strife, while un fitting him for the exercise of power. Conservatism is growing strong in the South, be cause Conservatives are growing more moderate and gaining - political wisdom, and the effect will soon make itself felt in Congress. In the Virginia elections the Conservative candidate, Gilbert C. Walker, defeated the Republican candidate, IL 11. Wells, by a majority of some 40,003 votes, obtaining control of the Legislature and electing six Conserva tives against two Radicals to Congress. The Con serval ive majority in Virginia is announced by every authority as 40,000, including 30,000 negroes; in deed, the number of coloured men who cast their votes on the Conservative side appears to have created general astonishment. One of the Radi cals elected is a negro ; the new constitution was adopted ; the test oath and disfranchising clauses being defeated. In Tennessee the Republican party have split, to the great satisfaction of the Democrats. Governor Seater and General Stokes are on the stump, and their speeches afford no small amuse ment to all classes of citizens, as they have very awkward questions and antecedents to deal with, from which they generally escape by pointed per sonal attacks on the adversary who occupies the same platform. For instance, Governor Seater, in his speech at Knoxaville, accused Stokes of having sold the last slave ever exposed in irons in Tennes see. The other retorted by bring forward instances of Government corruption in railroad matters; but after this sort of mutual recrimination the candi_ dates fraternize, going away arm-in-arm to the next district they are to "stump," where they set to work again. In Mississippi, Judge Dent, President Grant's brother-in-law, has been nominated by the Republicans as their candidate for the Governor ship. In the Nortb, the Republican State Con -ention of Maine met at Bangor, June 24, when 1,172 de legates from all sections of the State were present. Lot M. Morrill took the chair, and mad e a good speech, asserting the history of the It Ipublican party to be the most memorable epoch in the pro gress of the human race. Development is now the recognised principle, not expansion, which is only the incident, that to be safe must be hoir.ogeueous. He censured the desire rashly to anticipate " the manifestdestiny," waiting being the true policy. He associated equality of human rights and the inviola bility of the national promises with the ft tture of the Republican party. Resolutions were a dqpted, hailing peace yith joy, thanking soldiers, co gfiding in the National Administration, approving of the State policy in developing its material resources, declaring for the strictest personal accountability in State expenditure ; emphatically renewing the adhesion of the party to the doctrine of prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drink, and finally com mending Governor Chamberlain to the suffrages of the people, the platform adopted being but an en largement of these resolutions. The nomination of Governor Chamberlain was received enthusiastically, and Speaker Blaine, A. G. Jewett, and Gen. Hall, ably addressed the meeting. The vote for Cham berlain was 694 to 375 for Sydney Perham, of ex treme temperance views. At the Ohio Democratic Convention, which met last Wednesday and nomi nated General Itosecrans for Governor, resolutions were passed advocating taxation of the debt and payment in greenbacks, others denouncing a pro tective tariff, and the National Bank system, but nothing was said about the Alabama question. The unexpectedly large negro conservative vote in Virginia will haveatellingeffectiu Mississippi, where the election is to take place o❑ the 15th September, and in Texas a fortnight after. Southerners are beginning to find that they have been on a wrong tack in resisting negro enfranchisement. When the census of next year is taken the redistribution of rept% sentation in harmony with population wilt strengthen the South, as it will throw numbers of negroes hitherto uncounted into the scale ; so while New England loses, the States on the other side of Dixey's line gain. If leading Democratic Southern ers can carry the negroes with them they will soon be able to strengthen the Democratic party in Con gress, and it is highly improbable that this will be unacceptable to the Administration, for the more nearly Farties are balanced the more independent becomes the President, and the more effective his veto. It is a subject of dispute, but on the whole the testimony is in favour of the increased value and economy of free negro labour. Very strong evidence is given from nearly all the States to this effect, some even asserting that many planters are DOW sa tisfied that slavery was an economic blunder to which they would not return were the option given. In proof of that value the reviving pros perity which is reported—with one marked excep tion the State of Georgia —may be taken as the best proof. Political feeling has in Georgia assumed its bitterest form, and the Supreme Court of the State has decided that marriages between whites and blacks are illegal ; that the clause in the Constitu tion denies to the Legislature even the power of regulating the social status and intercourse between the two races; the assertion being that as the social relations of citizens are not a proper subject on which to enact laws, the Constitution wisely denies such power to the Legislature. Georgia cannot continue to be an exception, and it is pro bable that it will gradually fall into the advancing line of Southern prosperity. Secretary Boutwell's sudden order to purchase $3,000,000 of Government Bonds on the 3rd inst. was in all probability intended to give ease to the increasing stringency of the money market in New York, as was his order to purchase another $3,000,000 on the 9th instant. The policy which compels the Secretary to reduce his balance in green backs to the lowest point is more necessary now than ever it had been during Mr. M'Culloch's adminis tration, and the reason is that already given by us, which increases instead of dminishes. The South is a hungry reservoir in the process of being filled ; the currency which amply sufficed for the Northern States may prove insufficient when a considerable demand for the circulating medium has arisen in the South, as well as the power through increasing pro duction of attracting it into the country. Presently the South will begin to buy as well as sell ; but now, as for some time to come, the money received will be retained. Of course this must be felt in New York, and is likely to cause even greater incon venience. Mr. Boutwell's action is probably in tended to do what he can to furnish relief by throw ing three million of dollars on one day into cir culation in exchange for Government Bonds, and repeating the operation the next week. A Radical journal expresses its annoyance at receiving a South ern exchange with a Confederate postage stamp at tached. If the Macon Telegraph had designed to caricature the position, it could not more effectu ally have done so than by sending its bad Confe • derate money North, while drawing the good Union money South, to such an extent as considerably to embarrass commercial transactions in the metropo litan city. Who pays for such a Cable telegram as this ? "Mexico has failed to pay the interest of her national debt." Were it announced that Mexico hal paid, it would, indeed, be worth the expenditure. The proceed ings of Mexican bondholders are about as impor tant as those of Confederate bondholders, for it is enough to know that anything is bogus to take all the interest out of it, and has mugh the same influence on a journalist that " five-water grog" has on a tar. A committee has waited on President Juarez to confer on the sad condition of their State, but if this State were not in a sad condition, it would be very unlike the other States which form that charming Republic. The experiments in colonization of the Latin race are not such as to encourage their repe tition, and they may as well desist, leaving the in habitants of the States they have founded "to improve each other out of creation," and make way for the Anglo-Saxon. Should Cuba hereafter, when free, become different from Mexico, it will be be cause the inhabitants are wanting even in that kind of energy which prompts the Mexicans to cut each other's throats. If the ghost of Maximilian h ov ered about Queretaro, it would find other gar risons with other besiegers, with new conspi rac i es; and yet again new garrisons, with new besiegers, accompanied by all the treachery, the lying, thiev ing, and shooting with which, in his brief experience of Mexico, that Prince became so familiar. No one cares who now bolds Queretaro, or why it is le sieged. England is blamed by some of the Ame rican papers for not sending a representative, but she might as well despatch an envoy to the King of Dahomey. If the United States desire to learn what America really owes to England, they should con trast Canada with Mexico, and appreciate what has been done by Britain to smooth the path of the eventual North American Republic north of the S. Lawrence, and by the Latin race to impede it south of the Rio Grande. The news from Rio up to the 10th June is that General M'Mahon had reached Buenos Ayres on his way from the camp of Lopez, and was on board the steamer Aunis. bound to Rio en route home. The State Department at Washington had at last received despatches from him up to May 21st. The American Envoy strongly favours Lopez, and the cause for which he struggles, maintaining that his Government ought to show its sympathy for Pa raguay and against Brazil. Ills relations with Lopez he described as being cordial, and he asserts that it was the Allies, and not Lopez, who attempted to impede his free communication with Washington.; declining to send on his despatches under a flag of truce, and firing on that forwarded by the Para guayans. His position is endorsed by General Webb, late Minister to Brazil, who gives it as his opinion that the Allies will fail in their attempt to overrun Paraguay, that the stories circulated against Lopez are manufactured by the Brazilians, and that Lopez accuses them of the very crimes they attribute to him. Ile thinks that Brazil ought to get a good thrashing, to reduce the pretensions of the slave power. As Ex-Minister Webb's action has been endorsed, the new Minister, Mr. Blow, who was to sail by the next steamer from New York, was instructed to continue the negotiation for the. claim on the basis indicated by Mr. Seward. The cable also tells us that the revolution in Uruguay continues. The Census Committee, which sat at Washington up till the 19th June, adjourned on that day till Congress meets. No rchedule has yet been decided on, but it is believed tEe Committee will recommend that the forms to be sent in advance, to be filled in prior to a named day whereon the eensit3 taker will call. A decrease will be advi ei by it iu the ratio of representation throughout the whole country, with a corresponding increase in the Representatives. Congressmen even now complain of the magnitude of their constituencies, alleging it to be impossible fairly to do the work. If the number of Repiesen tatives is to remain the same, as the population has within the last decade enormously increased, and as it will in all probability in a much greater degree increase during the next ten years, it follows that what is now found too burdensome will then be beyond the compass of human labour. To meet the growing requirements, the addition to the Representatives must be considerable. The application of the 14th Amendment will benefit the Southern section of the Union by largely increasing its representation, while the Northern States, where the franchise is not impartial, will suffer. But in case the Fifteenth Amendment be adopted ere the Census is taken, only those States will suffer wherein there are pro perty or educational qualifications. General Gar field, the Chairman of the Committee, will devote his summer travel to making himself as familiar as possible with the requirements of the Cen , us, and its relation to the people and their industries. If the Government desired to being the system upon which appointments in the Civil Service are made in Washington into disrepute, they could not more effectually have done se than in adopting a rule to the effect that members of Congress and others are to be bound in their several recommenda tions by the priority of their d ►te. It is asserted t hat the Administration is so frequently puzzled by the course of men in high position in recommending several persons for the same post,that it is compelLd to adopt this rule. Hitherto these influential parties have been able to satisfy all by recommending all, by which the good-natured shuffled off the disagree ables of resisting a pressure, and left to the Depart ments to siftand appraise at their true value, a dozen recommendations of different persons for the same post from the same Senator. On the desk of a Secretary may lie two letters from an influential person publicly recommending a candid Ate for a post, the other marked private, telling the Secretary that the applicant is not a fit and proper person, and not to attach importance to his signature. Then those who permit such a system to continue in force, censure the President for making had appointments, as if Grant and his Secretaries knew all the men in the United States, aye, and the women too, for the gentler sex are as hungry appli cants. If they do, we may casually observe they have an extensive acquaintance ; but, as they do not,they can only trust to such certificates, aud by this time the President must have a shrewd idea of their value. Whatever may be the demerits of competi tive examination it is better than this, while the only cure for a very grave and growing malady is permanency in office, and promotion by merit. The Swedish settlements in Kansas have been so unfortunate as to furnish au illustration of the pro verb that " Misfortunes never come singly." They were the victims a short time ago of some fearful Indian raids ; now they are the victims of inunda tions; in one place 20 settlers being drowned. In Northern Missouri, as well as in Kansas, the loss of life and property resulting from the late heavy rains has been great. The latest tidings of the Indians give an account of their attack upon Colonel Greenwood's surveying party, which was made about 15 miles west of Sheridan. Howard Schuyler was by himself, 20 miles in advance of the main body, when a party of 50 Cheyennes made at him, and he commenced a running fight. One Indian got so close that the muzzle of his gun was withiwa few inches of Schuyler's side, who, at the momentlitizturned and shot the Indian through the body, received a lance wound. Four Indians fell before the accuracy of his fire, and his horse, covered with wounds, sank exhausted on reaching the main body. The surveyors, well armed, soon drove back the Indians, but a brother of the gallant Schuyler was so severely wounded that it is doubt ful whether he will recover. In Arizona the aspect is dreadful, op all sides the depredations being carried to such an extent that it is probable the ter ritory will be abandoned. Unfortunately the Indians have selected the time when the troops are being relieved ; but, on the arrival of the military now marching for Arizona, it is Doped that active opera tions will be conducted against the marauding tribes, and the savages effectually checked. Gen. Caballero de Rodas has commenced his Go vernment of Cuba by conciliation mixed with a firm determination to suppress the insurrection. He urges a more moderate tone on the press, and he has released a number of political prisoners, Nc bile reorganizing the Spanish forces for a vigorous cam paign, if necessary. That the insurrection is still alive is s hown by the capture of Helguin by General Jordan. All Colonel Ryan's filibustering expedi tion have been captured, and it was reported in New York that the Spanish squadron had shown increased activity in intercepting filibustering ex. peditions, having sunk twain their attempt to land. The last proclamation of the new Governor was issued on Wednesday, and he therein declared the insurrection to be reduced to such an extent as only to maintain a guerilla warfare. All persins arrested for robbery, arson, or murder will be tried by court martial ; other cases by civil tribunals. The Go vernment promises impartial justice to all. Some consider that the insurrection never assumed the important character attached to it by the Ameri can press, who took it up as a good sensational subject. The action of the Government against the Junta's organisation in New York has effec tually broken it up, but, as usual, the selfish motives are ascribed of doing nothing to injure the position assumed on the Alabama question. Admiral Hoff, commanding the United States squadron in Cuban waters, sent a vessel of war to Santiago to investi gate the outrages which it is reported have been perpetrated on American citizens. The Declaration of Independence was this year celebrated on the sth July, as the Fourth fell on a Sunday--enthusiastically in the North, but with apathy in the South. One of the strangest meetings was in London, where a considerable crowd assem bled in Finsbury-circus to do honour to the day Americans honour so much, though probably there was not an American among them. The Times predicts that the day, overshadowed by the events and achievements of the recent war, is losing its importance ; and it hopes, as the cause for self assertion has now wholly passed, that the occasion will henceforth be marked with less animosity to wards and as well as criticism on Englind, in all which, for once, we are able to agree with our great contemporary. Dean Stanley improved the occasion, as the real anniversary was Sunday, in the greatest of pulpits, under the most noble and ancient of Abbey roofs, and over the graves of the most renowned, to discuss the' great event the day commemorated, taking for his text, " Whosoever is angry with his brother and whOsoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." Let English hearts, he said, sincerely wish the Americans rejoicing over that anniversary, joy : " What American is there that does not long to tread the shores of England, to worship the God of his fathers in her venerable abbeys, to visit her well-stored galleries, to rest in her academic groves, and to enjoy her triumphs, whether of science or of art ? On the ether hand, what Englishman does not rejoice in every success of American genius—in her miracles of invention, of architecture, and song ? Woe, woe to those on either side who would go down into the valley of darkness, where ancient feuds lie charred and buried, and bring forth again the old offal to poison the air! Blessings without number crown the heads and cheer the hearts of those who labcur to main tain our natural and God-given brotherhood !" At Vienna the anniversary of Independence was celebrated on Monday ; his Excellency, John Jay, being present; the room was tastefully decorated with flowers and flags, as well as with the portraits of the Kaisers, and of President Grant. New York papers to the 29th June have been re ceived just before going to press, and from them we learn that John P. Delaplaine, of New York, was appointed by the President, June 27th, Secretary of the United States Legation at Vienna. Andrew Johnson arrived at Washington, June 27, and went to the Metropolitan Hotel. His mission is to se cure certain private papers in the departments there, and copies of public documents, to enable him or his biographer to write a history of the late Administra tion. The Tribune says the latest returns from the vote on Lay Delegation in the Methodist Episcopal Church develop a more serious opposition to the movement than has been heretofore exhibited. The returns now show twenty-seven thousand for Lay Delegation to ten thousand against it. The Booth family have been interred at Green Mount Ceme tery; Baltimore. Mr. De La Roche, the Ibytian . _ Minister, was at Washington on Saturday, June 26, and had an interview with the Secretary of State. Ex-Secretary Borie has returned to Philadelphia. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—WiIIiam H. Hanley, an artist of celebrity, died in Boston on Saturday, June 19 —Ex-Secretary Seward and party arrived at Denver on the 17th June. They were serenaded by the Grand Army of the Republic. Ho was to have a public reception at San Francisco, and deliver au oration at Sacramento on the 4th of July.—General William T. Sherman arrived in New York, Juno 19, accompanied by his wife and children, passed the day at the Astor house, and loft by the evening train for Washington.—The funeral of Frederick Sey mour, late Governor of British Columbia, took place June 10, at Esquinault, Vancouver's Island. Sir James Douglas, Chief Justice Needham, and Captains Edie and Mist, of the Royal Navy, acted as pall-bearers.— The Hon. James A. Bayard, of Delaware, late United States Senator, and father of his successor in the Senate, is just recovet iug from the small-p)x. —Among the passengers by the Umbria were the Hon. A. Ramsey, United States Sena tor and Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Mails, to negeciate a postal convention between France and the United States, and Bishop Aratia of Honolulu. Mr. Hooker, American partuer of the Roman banking house, proceeded to Now York in the Scotia last Saturday. Mr. Maguey, of the Florence firm of Messrs Maquay and Pa keubam; has been in London during the week. —Henry J. Raymond's grandfather and grandmother on his mother's side, and one of his uncles, died of apoplexy.—Gov. Ran dolph, of New Jo soy, it is said, will probably succeed A. G. Cattell as United States Senator from that State.— An American paper says, " An American wadding is soon to come off in l'aris, a clergyman having been imported from this side expressly to tie the knot," while another announces a gentleman front St. Louis as about to marry a rich widow in Paris.—We are glad to learn from a con temporary that there is little chance that Gen. Schenck, now travelling on this side "the pond," willfield to the blandishments of the corrupt aristocracies of Europe Nevertheless, we hope that he will keep his eyes open as well as his heart steeled.—Wm. Cullen Bryant is to be made an honorary member of the German Free-Trade Association.—Hester Vaughan, pardoned by Governor Geary, after conviction of the crime of infanticide, writes to Philadelphia that she is in great distress; that she was sick during the entire continuance of the voyage to England, and that tho little money she had has been exhausted in the purchase of necessary medicines. —The Washington Intelligencer announces the death of General Terry, one of the heroes of the late war, who first attracted notice as an officer of Michigan Volun teers, and distinguishedhimself for gallantry in Virginia— Colonel W. S. Ashby, who was leader of General Wade Hampton's scouts in the late rebellion, arrived at Nassau last Monday, on his way to Cuha.—Tho flon. John Young left Montreal, Juno 25, for England. His mission may have a political tendency, as he is foremost advocate of Canadian independence.—Lieutenant 11. C. Raebel, of the United States ship Saratoga, died at 2 a.rn., June 25, on board the hospital ship Minois.—George F. Train, Anna Dickinson, and Doctor Major Mary Walker are all an nounced to speak at Stockton, California. The Gazette of that place complains of too much oratory, and burls anathe mas at the Pacific Railroad.—General Buceta is the third prominent commander who has had to fly for life from the anger of the Spanish volunteers in Cuba.—Gene rid Carl Schurz has been invited to deliver an ora tion in German, at the great international Saengerfest, in Baltimore, in July.—Miss Sallie It. Banks has been ap pointed Deputy-Collector of Internal Revenue for the Dis trict of Sumter, S. C. Miss Banks has been for some time teaching a coloured school.—Mr. M. Smith, Mr. L. Baker, and several other theatricalpersons have arrived in England. —The Rhoda Island Dictator, Senator Sprague, has selected J. Y. Smith as his candidate to succeed Senator Anthony,of Rhode Island, who desires to succeed himself.—General Frank Blair has gone into the life insurance agency busi ness in California.—Some of the New Orleans papers aro disgusted because ex-Confederate General Longstreet, Surveyor of the Port, is turning out so many of Lis subordinates, who are Union men.—J. D. Farnsworth, a wealthy Bostonian, has given $3,000 to Amherst college as a fund for two scholarships, to be called the Farnsworth scholarships, for talented and worthy young men.—The artist Biorstadt is expected at his home in Now Bedford early in September. Postmaster-Gene ral Croswell has established a post-office at Gouldsville, Vermont, and appointed Rollin B. Fay postmaster.— Captain W B Eaton, of the steamer De Soto, running be tween New York and New Orleans, died suddenly at his house in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on Tuesday night, Juno 27, frcm the effects of a virulent spider bite.—Pardon Saylos, an aged banker of Rhode Island, died at his home in Bank Village, on Monday evening, June 21. — Intelligence has been received in New York of the death of Sir Arthur Rumbold, Governor of the Virgin Islands, which took place on the 12th ult.—The Governor of New foundland has been promoted to the vacancy caused by the death of the Governor of British Columbia. General Daniel Butterfield, who succeeds Henry 11. Van Dyck, is a war Democrat ; who raised a regiment of Volunteers, and at its head gained the post of Major- General, being now Colonel of the 12th Regular Regiment, a commission he will have to resign in accepting the ap pointment. During the war he was offered the post by the then Secretary, Chase, but he declined till the sup pression of the rebellion. The late Charles llalpine's grave is slid to be neglected, and this is mentioned as an instarce how soon even the most brilliant of editors inly be forgotten by the public. From Mr. Reverdy Johnson's accounis, lately • audited by the Washington Treasury, it appears that Ilia telegraph bill for the three months ending March 3 1 amounted to $98.0 in gold. This was exclusive of the large bill which was presented some time ago for cable telegraphing in reference to the celebrated protocol which the Senate rej)cted, and which has been paid by Baring Brothers on the order of the State Depart ment. Mr. Johnson's contingent expenses during the same period amounted to $1,567, which is consHered moderate. The contingent expenses of Minister Dix, at Paris, for a similar period amounted to $2,900. The following is extracted from the Boston Post : "Baltimore, June 19, 1869. My dear Sir, - I have your note of tho 16th, and thank you for it. I think I shall write upon the Claims Convention; but if I do, I shall certainly not offend diplomatic propriety. Mr. Sumner's unjust and unkind insinuations in his speech as to the motives of Mr. Seward and myself, in hastening the nego tiation, I cannot suffer to be unanswered. Nor can I fail to let the public know what his opinion upon the subject was when I was appointed. if I write anything, I Will send you a copy. lam gratified to know that my course in England has your approval, and remain, with sincere regard, your obedient servant REVERDY JOHNSON. Geo. W. Searle, Esq , Boston." The funeral services of the late Henry J. Ray mond were hsld at the Presbyterian Church, corner of Tenth-street and University-place, New York, on Mon day, the 21st June. A large concourse of the most promi nent members of the journalistic and other professions was present. 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Gardiner, Esq., of Essendene, Caterham. GOOD NEWS FOR CONVERTS. The Tablet states that many " convert ladies are thrown on the world helpless and friendless," and that for these a home has been opened at Haver stock-hill, London, where for a small payment they can be received for a "time." It is worked by mem bers of a Dominican order, and connected with it is a home for Roman Catholic servants out of place. ABUSE OP BISHOPS. For thoroughgoing vulgar abuse of bishops we commend --- readers, not to the Dissentiii.., papers, but to those which are supposed to express the views of ultra High Churchmen. The Church Times, whereof Br. Little&lc is the editor, affords the latest instance of that reverence for the episcopate which used to be, but has long ceased to be, one of the " notes "of Anglo-Catholicism. The matter which calls forth the subjoined attack is, indeed, one that deserves consideration ; but to make out the bishops fools is not the way to obtain their desired aid. The following is the paragraph in question :---- "It Lai been said that it requires a surgical operation to get a joke into the head of a Scotchman, but we ques tion whether even such an extreme measure as this would avail to introduce a new and practical idea into the minds of some of our Bishops. For years the literary trephine has been at work in the hope of bringing our )fathers in Cod to see the cruelty—to say nothing about the ille gality—of refusing to confirm children who have not reached some specified age which they are pleased to define." A NEW RELIGIOUS SOCIETY. On Thursday afternoon there was a remarkable religious service at the well-known London church St. Laurence's, Gresham-street. It was to com memorate the first anniversary of the " Guild of the Most Blessed Saviour (Natal)," established in order to maintain the orthodox faith against the teaching of Pr. Colenso. The service opened with a proces cional hymn, sung by priests and choristers, who accompanied the preacher, Bishop Claughton, of Colombo, to the altar. The "Te Penni " was then sung, and the Bishop was afterwards attended to the pulpit by two choristers. Dr. Claughton preached from the words, "If ther3 come any unto you and preach not this doctrine receive him not into your house, nor bid him God speed." After adverting to the various legal and ecclesiastical proceedings which had been taken against Bishop Colenso, Dr. Claughton referred to the mission of Bishop Macrorie. lie said that the scandal which Bishop Colenso's teaching brought upon the Church was very inadequately appreciated in England. He explained the objects of the guild, and expressed the hope that that erring pastor, with whom he (Dr. Claughton), when Bishop of St. Helena, had for merly worked, might return to the fold whence he had strayed. OXFORD COMMEMORATION. The Pall Mall Gazette has done wisely in calling attention to the altered character of the Oxford Commemoration. About twenty years ago the festivities of the week were confined almost entirely to the conferring of degrees in the Sheldonian,.to the procession of boats, and, we believe, to a flower show in the gardens of WorceAer College. But now every day of the week has its Etc, every night its ball. Consequently for the week Oxford is invaded by ladies, who expect to be treated by their brothers, cousins, and, still more, by the men who are to become very ne.tr relations at some future day; and, as the tickets are never tinier a guinea, and in one instance, according to the GazeVc—we think our contemporary is mistaken—the charge is five guineas, men of moderate means dread that week and run away from Oxford at the very time that it is most attractive. Fortunately the new arrangements in the schools allow them to do this. But it is a little hard that young men should not be able to share in the gay doings of their own uni versity without being compelled to treat any number of fair friends. Even the breakfasts and luncheons in their rooms, and the dinners at the Randolph, cost no small sum, and when to these are added flower shows, masonic fetes, and balls, the total is ruinous to a man of moderate means. Moreover, the temptation to ex trava - gance takes its strongest and most seductive shape. Oxonians are fond of Ldies, bate shabbiness, and would die or, at all events, leave their tailor's bill unpaid rather than receive payment from the bright beings who honour them with their smiles. The dons must look to ths, or else fathers with small incomes must order their sons home before Comme moration begins. THE CROPS. A Wiltshire correspondent informs ns that the crops, with the exception of peas, are looking very unfavourably in that county, and that however line the weather may be during the next few weeks there cannot be an average yield. THE TRADES UNIONS BILL. The Beehive says that the tmles unions have no resource but to accept the arrangement between the Government and Mr. Hughes. The fact that the Ministry have on hand a measure of almost unpre cedented magnitude and importance is a reason for postponement. But it must be understood that th© Government will deal with this question in a broad and liberal mmucr next session. THE LAND QUESTION. The Beehive publishes a letter, signed "Andrew Reid, Temple," which slims how generation by generation the people have become more and more divorced from the lend : "From 1760 to 1827, it was stated by Mr. Wills before a select committee of the House of Commons, that the agricultural cottagers had lost about 4,000,000 of acres of common, which they had formerly the privilege of using for their pies, gees; and a variety of other things.' From 1800 to 1845 there were no less • than 2,000 Enclosure Acts passed. In the period between the passing of the first Enclosure Act, 1710, and the year 1867. no fewer than 7,660,413 statute acres in England and Wales had been enclosed, and of this quantity of land but a Very inadequate proportion came to the harms of the working classes. Of 484,893 acres enclosed in England and Wales between 1845 (the date of the General Enclo sura Act) and 1867, only 2,119 acres were assigned to the labouring poor,' not so much as a two•hundredth part of the whole." THE ARCFIDISHOP OF TORE ON SUCCEF:S. The advice given to most young men is generally to the effect that they must strive to succeed ; " the greatest merit," they are too often told, " is success." It is refreshing to turn from this to a totally opposite doctrine held by the Archbishop of York. His Grace addressed the students at King's College on Thursday night, and he told them to get rid ns much as possible of the trouble about success. It was well that they should forget the banker's book for a time, and that they should strive rather to obtain happiness from doing lovingly and willingly the work which lay nearest them. There was time enough for the other thing by-and-bye ; and the weight of it would fall upon them heavily enough when the time came. Coming from the most suc cessful clergyman in the kingdom these words will of course, have additional weight. GIIENVILLE MUM: AY. Mr. Grenville Murray obtains little sympathy from the press. '1 he Times very strongly denounced him. Ile has acknowledged his connection with a print which all unite in speaking of as seaudalous, and is, therefore, said our con temporary, deprived of the respect of gentlemen. At the same time the leading journal denied that Mr. Murray had ever contributed to its own columns. Mr. Murray writes back threatening the Times with an action for this comment. He says he never acknowledged that he had contributed to the Queen's Messenger ; ho would (on principle) neither acknow ledge or deny; he, therefore, insists that the Times shall withdraw or apologise for the insinuations made. " Failing which," Mr. Murray adds, " I shall instruct my solicitor to write to you." It may be added that Mr. Newman, the solicitor who had possession of the tin box which caused the struggle in the police-court on Wednesday, writes to several of the papers to the effect that the documents which it contained, and which were used at the hearing against Mr. Murray, were not stolen, but were delivered up by one in whose lawful authority they were, after mature consideration and legal advice. DANGEROUS COMPOUNDS. There was issued yesterday the amended bill now before the House of Commons for the safe keeping of petroleum and other substances of like nature. This measure has been pointed out as a precedent for surrounding the carriage and storage of nitro-glycerine with conditions which shall make such carriage and storage safe. The Liverpool Mersey Docks and Harbour Board have had the latter sub;ect under consideration. There are very few conditions imposed upon the article as to its transport or shipment; it in:ly byi taken through the streets without notice, and is often stored negligently in buildings. The Board thought this was allowing such a dangerous article too many privileges, and it was agreed to apply to Parliament for an Act—such as the Gunpowder Act of 1865—t0 'prevent the passage of nitro-glycerine through the streets. (From the Anglo-American Times.) • Even London begins to feel the effect of the Pacific Railroad, for gold ba - s from the Pacific Slope conic in through Liverp:ol and Southampton, and are constantly received in Europe under 20 days from California. Tea, fresh from Japan and Shanghai, is consumed at Chicago and St. Louis, and the miners of Nevada get it as speedily as on an average it can reach non-producing districts in china. Though a ttan'ipcontihelital railway may DEATIIS. 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