The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times. in commenting on the recent outrages in Westmeath, observes that the prophets of evil find in them cause for exultation. While the platforms of Ulster are ringing with Orange proclamations of defiance, and Fenian journalists are holding out the right hand of fellow. ship to Repealers, the Riband conspiracy has again reared its head in more formidable proportions than usual. It has been stated, however, that within the last twenty years more than sixty homicides have been committed in Westmeath, and that in no single instance has conviction been obtained. If this statement be well-founded, it goes far to justify the deplorable sense of insecurity which now prevails throughout that county. It was perhaps inevitable that partisanship should pervert the revival of Ribandism into an argument against the recognition of religious equality. Yet an argument more fallacious and more self-refuting has rarely been used in political controversy. It is said the Irish Church Bill was extorted by the Fenians, and it is denied, in the same breath, that it will satisfy the Fenians, inasmuch as disestablishment never formed any portion of their demands. With equal con sistency it is alleged that if we yield to just claims in respect of the Church, we must yield to unjust claims in respect of the land, and that keeping up one grievance is the best way of silencing all complaints about another. The real mainspring of these opinions, so far as they are sincere, is a despair of governing Ireland by justice and wisdom. All true statesmanship must be animated, and has ever been animated, by a spirit the very reverse of this—by an earnest and unswerving faith in the constant tendency of good measures to produce good results. What is most needed in Ireland is a reciprocal confidence in the desire and resolution of the Imperial Government to carry out those measures without reserve or wavering. This confidence, unless we greatly mistake, is beginning to spring up in the breasts of a people among whom confidence in British rule has been a plant of slow growth. It will require generations to mature ;itself, and there is truth in the assertion that a long period a: rest is the best cure for the ills of Ireland—only it roust be the rest of prosperity and contentment, not the rest of impotent disaffection. The most hopeful feature in the present state of Ireland is the abandonment of reliance on foreign intervention by the leaders of the national party, and their cordial alliance with the English and E'cotch Liberals. By this alliance they have already gained more in three years than had been gained by agitation and con spiracy since Catholic emancipation. The Standard declares that Mr. Gladstone knew very well, when he voted fur Mr. Goldney's resolution, and denounced the Government for not carrying it out, that any proposition for a tax upon charities would meet with a most formidable opposition from both sides of the House. What are we to think of the honesty and fairness of a public man, who votes for the imposition upon another Government, in a minority, of a task which, with a majority of a hundred and twenty, he will not undertake, and treats the suggestion that he should have done himself what he declared that Government ought to have done as the assumption that he and his colleagues are children in their business, that business being, it must be supposed, to get and to keep office? The right honourable gentleman brought upon himself sharp and severe punishment. Mr. Disraeli exposed his misrepresentations, refuted the constitutional doctrines he had " fudged " for the occasion, and rebuked and ridiculed the temper in which he had addressed the House. If Mr. Gladstone be not incurable, the lesson he received ought to result in a very great and beneficial change in his manner. We fear, however, that he is past all reformation, and that his faults of temper and his habitual recklessness of statement are too con firmed to be got rid of. But if Mr. Disraeli's speech will not bring Mr. Gladstone to repentance, it will certainly awaken the public mind to the danger of reposing implicit confidence in Mr. Gladstone's professions. The Daily News remarks that it seems to be the opinion of some politicians, in Parliament and out of it, that with accession of the present Govern ment to office the function of independent Liberal members has ceased; and that from this time forth no subject shall be raised, motions made, or question put, which may be disagreeable or inconvenient to her Majesty's Ministers. This view, we confess, is not ours ; and they are very bad friends of the Government who insist on the rule of action which it embodies. An Administration and a private member having the same end in view may, often with perfect propriety, take different lines of action in respect of it. The one may be quite right in forcing a discussion and pressing a motion which the other is justified in resisting. A Government is bound to consider questions of time and opportunity, the amount of business which engages it and the addi tional work which is within its powers, the feeling of the majority of its own supporters, and the strength of the Opposition, before it pledges itself to a given course. But an individual member who is without the responsi bilities of office has, by that very fact, responsibilities of another sort. By pressing a question at what is called an untimely period he hastens the advent of the ripe season. His impracticability is often the surest practicability. A Government which has very much to do needs more than any other to have its attention called to subjects which, in the multiplicity and absorbing character of its engage• meats, it may ahcrwi; e overlook. It is apt to go to sleep on a large and docile majority, and, like the sages of Swift's satire, it requires flappers to keep it on the alert. When there are many conflicting candidates for attention, those who make their voices heard most persistently will be most likely to have their claims allowed. A just cause or a necessary reform, which might urge its justice or necessity in vain, will often find its importunity irresis tible. The plea for a convenient season is sometimes best met by making delay inconvenient. The Telegraph says that if the Tories "cut" Mr. Gladstone and his bill, they achieve the rather difficult feat of sending all England "to Coventry ;" they treat John Bull as Beau Brummell did "Our fat friend," the Prince Regent. We hardly believe that Mr. Disraeli can give any advice that would sanction such absurd:ty. The bill is now before the House awaiting the examina tion of its clauses. The Tories have resisted the principle on the second reading. They made a fair fight in debate. They manfully mustered all their men. They were hand somely beaten. But if they could not win in a pitched battle, there is no reason why they may not gain succsss in detail. They are still free to pelt the measure with such adjectives as "undesirable," " pretna.ture," or any others that they choose to employ; but why not make the best of the situation ? They are still free to object to any " confiscation " at all ; but, if " confiscation " is inevi table, why not soften its effects? Now that the Irish Church is dead, its best friends may dry their eyes, and consider the most equitable mode of administering its effects so as to secure the remnants of the property for the natural heirs. In Ireland, to-day, the irritated Pro testants indulge in extravagant language, perhaps pardonable in the first flush of pain after their great defeat. But their English friends—above all, a man like Mr. Disraeli, who despises English as well as Irish prejudices —can afford to be calm ; can plead their cause in their own permanent interest without passion and without spite ; can, in fact, make for his enraged clients better terms than even they now demand or desire. It would be cruel kindness were he to take them at their word, and fling the bill on the floor of the House, to be practically discussed by the Liberals alone. Broadly viewed, the question of policy wii!cii will ccm b fa() them is, whether the Conser vatives shall blindly attempt a hopeless and wasteful resistance, or shall take their part in the effort so to shape the measure that it may be completely suited to the actual conditions of the day, without doing unne cessary harm to any of the grave interests which are at stake. The Star says that life peerages are on the cards. A growing sense of the necessity of bringing the House of Lords into rapport with the country has pro duced a great change, and the Peers no longer talk as they talked even so lately as 1856. Lord Cairns and Lord Salisbury agree with Lord Russell and Lord Granville that the creation of Peers for life is desirable. The Star thinks the question is one of minor importance to the nation. Lord Salisbury believes, no doubt, that there would be much more Conservative strength in a real representation of the rich and powerful classes in this country than there ever will be again in an as sembly of hereditary nobles, who are put aside as legislators whenever they have a will of their own. The tendency of rich men is to become conservative, and real social power is very apt to take good care of itself legislatively when ever it gets the chance. Lord Salisbury relies on this, and probably thinks several deluges might have been post poned if the House of Lords had been strengthened in time, and kept thoroughly representative of powers corresponding in later times to those which it truly and solidly stood for in earlier centuries. The whole discussion is more or less chimerical ; but as the strongest House of Lords that can be devised will never again successfully resist the will of the people, by all means let the Peers take Lord Salisbury's advice, and make their House as modern and sensible a Legislative Chamber as possib!e. The London correspondent of the Birmingham Gazette (Conservative paper), Eays that there will be morf than ono vacancy en the episcipal bench icforo long. • RARE ALTTOGRAPRE. , —At a sale of interesting autograph letters and historical documents, now going on at the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, in Wellington-street, there occurred two letters that may be deemed worthy of note, viz., one by Daniel Defoe, the celebrated novelist, occupying three pages, addressed tc Robert llarley, signed "D. F.," which produced DIO ; the other by John Dryden, addressed to Lord Latimer, in which he says, " The King's Comedy lyes in the Sudds you please to semi me on to Northam t b e " brousht p ons yr THE CASE OF SHEWAID. Mr. G. B. Kennett, magistrate's clerk at Norwich, nas received a third anonymous letter with reference to tilf case of Sheward and the late Mr. Worseltine, with whon Sheward's first wife is alleged to have lived beforeher mar riage. The letter bears the Brighton postmark, April 8, but it is dated April 9, probably through an inadvertence. The writing appears to be that of a solicitor's clerk, having something of the precision and stiffness usually observable in legal caligraphy. The letter is in the following terms :—" Sir,—Noticing a letter in to-day's paper signed `A Candidate,' &c., it occurred to me that a little informa tion as to the Worseltine family may assist in un ravelling what is at present a mystery. lam convinced that the letter above alluded to was written by one, I think, William Worseltine, who was for some years clerk to the late Mr. Alfred Turner, solicitor, of Red Lion square, Holborn, and who was also an occasional lecturer on classical subjects, and who, within my own knowledge, bad the audacity to aspire to the professorship to which the letter alludes. lam not acquainted with the present whereabouts of this person, although, by a skilful inquiry, I should imagine it might be easily ascertained, and some more definite information obtained. One clue I can give you—this William Worseltine lodged atj a butcher's shop, near Boswell-court (if not the corner house), Devonshire-court, Queen -square, W.C. Hoping this information may be of use, I remain, &c., ONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MYSTERY CLEARED Ur. I may add that it is exceedingly unlikely that William Worseltine could support his brother, as I believe he was in reduced circumstances himself." Preparations are being made for his execution on the 20th inst. The alteration in the date from e 19th to the 20th inst. was made, it is understood, to s the convenience of Calcraft. Calcraft intimated to the local authorities that he had a "little job" to do elsewhere on the 19th, but that if a change was made in the date he would come and do the "little job "at Norwich. The change was made accordingly. Calcraft's letter on the subject is a curious morsel. LAW AND POLICE SELLING BAD MEAT.-The conviction of a farmer on Friday for sending bad meat to the London market, with a sentence of two months' imprisonment, was onthe next day followed at the Guildhall Police-court by a Leicester butcher being sent to prison for a month for a like offence. At Worship-str€et, on Saturday, a fine of £2O was inflicted under similar circumstances. CHARGE AGAINST POLICEMEN.-011 Saturday, at the Westminster Police-court, a charge was brought against two constables of the B division, by an officer of the Excise. He was coming out of a beerhouse in Pimlico, at two a.m., when, without any reason, the defendants attacked and beat him, calling him a thief and a vagabond. He was so seriously injured that he had to keep his bed for three days. The policemen denied the charge, but were sent for trial. THE MARQUIS DE ST. MArnrcE.—At Westminster, on Saturday, Captain Trapaud, Marquis de St. Maurice, an old officer of the East India Company's service, applied for a summons against Major• General Pears for forgery. He argued that Blackstone defined forgery to be the making or alteration of writing to any person's prejudice. The alteration of which he complained was the change of a date in the list of the company's officers, by which he lost £54 per annum, besides £2,000. Mr. Selfe said that could not be forgery, but advised him to prepare an infor mation in writing, and lay it before his colleague, Mr. Arnold. THE GRAND STAND AT ErSON.—At the Surrey ces sions, on Saturday, the adjourned appeal from the January Sessions respecting the rating of the Grand Stand at Epsom was heard. At one time it was doubtful whether the Derby would be run this year, owing to the complica. tion of affairs ; but, happily for the sporting world, arrangements have been made. The counsel for the asso ciation maintained that the Grand Stand ought not to be rated beyond £2,000 a year, instead of £4,500, as at present. After hearing the arguments on both sides, the magistrates decided that the rateable value of the stand was £4,102, and assessed the appellants at that sum, but allowed their costs. MURDER AT DOVER.-At Dover, on Saturday, a pain ful excitement was created by the murder of a sapper, named Barnes, by a comrade named Wehlryck, a lance corporal in the Royal Engineers. The murderer seems to have borne no ill-will to the deceased, but is said to be affected in his mind. He was at once taken into custody, and brought before the magistrates at the Maisson Dieu Hall. The evidence of other men in the regiment shewed that the prisoner had lately been pecu liar in his manner. One of them said that it was not safe to be in the room with him, and he had often lain awake for hours for fear of wh at he would do. He had been sent to the hospital several times, but the doctor had refused to take him in. After other evidence had been given, the prisoner, who made no defence, was committed for trial for murder, and sent to Maidstone Gaol. The jury at the coronet's inquest, held on Friday, decided that Charles Weldryck shot William Barnes, being in an unsound state of mind at the time. The Echo believes it is the intention of Mr. _A yrton, at an early day, to bring in a bill for the abolition of the security system, which will further extend the faci lities of the provincial press. A rick of hay in a field belonging to Mr. Carsley, a contractor ani town carrier, of the Letchmere-road, Battersea, was set on fire a day or two back by a spark from the engine of a passing train, and nearly destroyed. THE ITALIAN EMEASSIES.—A telegram from Florence states that the late Minister of the Interior, M. Cadorna, is appointed Italian Minister to London ; M. Barbolani goes to Constantinople, M. Bertinati to Wash ington, M. Cerruti to Madrid, and M. Corti to the Hague. kt the suggestion of a gentleman who happened by curious circumstances to know the future intentions of certain South London preachers, two of our reporters attended separate places of worship last Sunday, by arrangement, and reported the same sermon —sentence for sentence—word for word. We leave our readers to draw their own conclusion.—South London Press. DISCOVERY OF OLD COINS AT OXFORD.-011 Thursday afternoon some workmen were employed in digging the foundation of a house on the Cowley-road, when they came upon a large quantity of old coins, en closed in an earthenware pot. The pot was broken by the workmen, and the coins were dispersed and taken away by a number of persons who happened to be near the spot. They were all of silver, and of different sizes, the largest being somewhat smaller than the present shilling. The coins are said to be of the reign of Edward I. TIIE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. —There is every probability of the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society being held in Oxford in the year 1870. The formal invitation from Oxford was received and considered by the council at their last meeting, and met with such a favour. able reception that it is all but certain the invitation will be accepted. A committee of five has been appointed by the council to inspect the site for the show-ground and the other accommodation which they require. Several hundred pounds are still required to complete the fund of £4,000 which it is necessary to raise. Frederick Stewart, the landlord of the Union Inn, Wellington-road, was charged at Leeds, on Friday, with having an internal:communication between his house and a butcher's shop next door, kept by a Person called Jackson, against the provisions of- the Leeds Improve ment Act of 1842. It appeared that on the 7th of March Inspector Greenwood visited the house of the defendant, and there found an internal communication leading from it to the butcher's shop, in which he found about thirty men drinking at the expense of Mr. Jackson. Not for supplying drink, which was legal, but simply for having the communication, he was summoned, and the mitigated penalty of 40s. and costs inflicted. It was also ordered that the communication should be walled up. ORIGIN OF THE CULTURE OF THE POTATO.—Kil syth, Stirlingshire, is famous as being the first place where potatoes were introduced into open cultivation. Thomas Prentice, a day labourer, raised a crop of them in a plot of ground attached to his garden in 1728, and by the annual sale of them he soon realised what was, to him, a fortune—a sum of £2OO. So late as 1755 this root was a rarity in %Vigtonshire, and Dr. Duncan tells the story of a lady bringing some of them in her pocket to church, to present to a friend, as something quite new ; but the string of her pocket breaking as she was leaving church, they dropped into the passage, and the sight of them led to a great many curious inquiries. It is well certified that the date of their introduction into Somersetshire counts back only a century. In Forfarshire, again, it was the year of Culloden before they were cultivated in the garden, and that as a great curiosity.—Farmer. Referring to the strong language used at the recent Exeter Hall meeting of Orangemen, the Leeds Mercury Lon don correspondent says :—" Not content with the free use of violent language on tho platform, some of the more fiery advocates of the Irish Church have not hesitated to threaten Mr. Glaatono with personal penalties. The heroic Mr. Charley has, we all know, devoted his life to the purpose of pursuing the Premier, and frustrating his unrighteous designs; and some of the Ulster men have gone so much further that they have for warded to Mr. Gladstone letters of a type with which Shef field alone, amongst English towns, has hitherto had much acquaintance. No one, of course, suspects that the persons who took part in the Exeter Hall meeting have had anything to do with these abominable proceedings; nevertheless, the Government had, on Wednesday evening, a couple of official short-hand writers at the gathering in Exeter Hall, t y whom the wl4O o: the *mhos were 4uiy report/Av. JE S H. 14()N THE IiNITED STATES AND CULL!. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The actiun of the United States towards Cuba has excited much comment in Europe, where it is considered to be inconsistent with the attitude of the Republic towards England. The same Con gress which rejects the Convention for settling the Alabama Claims, on the plea that England's pre mature recognition of Confederate belligerency was au act as unfriendly as injurious, and actuated by unfriendly motives, passes a resolution suggesting to the Executive the propriety of recognizing, not the mere belligerency, but the independence of an island, portions of whose inhabitants are in insur rection against their Government, then on terms of amity with that at Washington. In the same news papers, containing columns of denunciation of England for favouring the American rebellion, and allowing the Alabama and other corsairs to escape to sea, are columns in sympathy and support of the insurrection against Spain, detailing the aid, in arms and money, forwarded from the United States. At a glance, this is sufficiently contradic tory to shock the moral sense, but it is nc,t so when more closely examined. 'The nature of the Anglo-Saxon is to sympathize with rebellions in every country but his own. Wherever men of one nationality are in insurrection against the rule of men of another nationality, his sympathy —suppos ing that he is ignorant of the causes of the quarrel —is with the insurgents. As the mass of a nation is always ignorant of the internal affairs of another nation, it may be taken for granted that insurrec tions everywhere meet with the sympathy and sup port of the Anglo-Saxon, so long as they are not directed against himself. As a mere matter, then, of prejudice, American feeling runs in favour of the native Cubans; and, as far as England knows anything of the circumstances, her feel ing inclines towards the same groove. But this would not have excited throughout the States so warm an interest were there not Ameri can questions of deep importance involved. Cuba, though divided by a channel, is a part of the North American Continent, under a rule peculiarly hate ful to a liberty-loving people. The MoNRoE doctrine simply announces the proposition " America for the Americans ;" yet not only does a European power sway in this, perhaps the most valuable tropical island in the world, but a power marked in Europe for the despotism, both civil and religious, by which its own inhabitants have been degraded. It is, then, but natural on the Cubans rising against the Spaniards and becoming champions of the MONROE doctrine, that they should excite in no ordinary de gree the sympathy of the United States. Cuba is one of the last places of importance wherein negro slavery has been maintained. By an Act of the in surgent Government a proclamation has been issued of emancipation and freedom, to take immediate effect throughout the island. The United States has just closed a gigantic war which has enabled it to attain the same end, hence another cause of sym pathy. In freeing the slaves the Cubans are but freeing themselves, and their design is openly an nounced of establishing, as a temporary measure, a Republican Government ; and in this intention is to be found another cause of sympathy. The United States has of all countries the most complete free dom of religion ; in Spain and her dependencies there is the least. The insurgent Republican Go vernment which with emancipation proclaims free dom of worship makes another appeal, which strongly touches the Protestant community of the Union. Were there no other cause these would suffice for the great Republic openly to espouse the native and Republican side against the foreign and Monarchical ; but there remains, without disguising the fact, a very material and selfish inducement. The Republic has long coveted the Spanish island, in itself worth all the Westlntlies put together. If it gains its independence its next step will be to enter the Union as a State, and if this programme can be carried out it leads directly to the attainment of a desire, to gratify which, the American Government is said to have offered £20,000,000 sterling. Such a position differs altogether from that taken by Great Britain in connection with the great civil war. There the contest was domestic, confined within the boundaries of a Republic, and purely an American question, with which Europe had no right and no call to interfere. The Cuban affair differs in this essential, that it is the attempt of na tive Americans to free themselves from the rule of European Monarchy, and, as such, is essentially an American question, becoming when the revolt is general a (war between an American island and Spain. The main difference on this point then is that England's recognition was an interference in a domestic trouble on another Continent ; whereas, the United States recognition would be in accordance with the MoNuoE doctrine in countenancing the struggle of Americans to throw off the rule of a European kingdom. The war of the Confederacy was a struggle to establish a slave empire ; in its suppres sion four millions of men became free ; in its success over a great portion of the Continent, slavery would have become permanently established. Aid and coun tenance then tendered to the rebellion went di rectly to advance the cause of slavery, and Eng land in giving them broke away from her pro fessions, actuated, as Americans have good reason to know, by the desire to cripple the power of the Republic. The essence of that recognition was its animus, and here again the case widely differs from the attitude of America towards Spain. The recog nition of Cuban independence is the recognition of the emancipation of the negro, as well as of free dom hoosmtuold injure a powertheCubans, aeco otherwisempani friendly,withsorr whom ath o a m t it Americans have no desire to hurt. Indeed any other action would be inconsistent with the whole tenour of American diplomacy ; and if such aid and comfort were not extended the Cubans might with justice consider themselves betrayed, for a nation has no right to lay down a policy of action and , adhere to it for half a century, yet abandon it at the moment when another people calculating on it have committed themselves to a position of great peril. Americans are accused of inconsistency for attacking Great Britain for ber premature recogni tion of the belligerency of the South, while Con gress urges on the PRESIDENr the recognition of Cuban independence. But even were this grossly inconsistent, the Republic was on the horns of a dilemma, for, it would have been vastly more in consistent had she turned a deaf ear to the Cubans. At the worst, the one is but the irritability of a per son who considers he has been insulted and injured —the other would be the inconsistency of not act ing on the principles recognized since the birth of the Republic, and of the two inconsistencies (pre suming that there be any) the Republic is right in choosing the lesser. The weak point really is the prospect of gain to the Union. If through this means it gets what it was willing to pay twenty millions sterling for, it will certainly make a very considerable gain ; and we think it is a pity that Spain does not voluntarily withdraw on the guaran tee of the United States for the payment of a round sum, which, we hope, may yet be the solution of this difficulty. Twichell has been refused a new trial, and was to have been executed on the day fixed. Meanwhile, Philadelphia has been the scene of another tragedy. Joseph M. Smith, who had saved some money, was thought to have secreted it in his bed-room. Two former attempts had been made to obtain posses sion and defeated, but on Wednesday, the 24th March, he was found gagged and killed, his tin box believed to contain the money rifled of its contents as well as his pockets, and the room ransacked. It is supposed that the murderers found their victim lying on the bed, gagged and throttled hini, dragged his body to the box, and ended by firing a pistol shot through his head. Two persons are in custody on suspicion. C. Dorwin, an old and apparently respectable Mon treal banker, formerly United States Consul in that city, levanted with $lOO,OOO of the funds of the banking com pany, and with liabilities reaching nearly to $300,000, leav ing but $37,000 of assets. He fled to Vermont, and being discovered professed such penitence that ho hoodwinked a Burlington officer, who, on calling with the representa tives of the bank, fou ,, d that the man who pretended such a desire to make restitution to the bank had again levanted. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL lIAIR.—MRS. S. A. Aux/es WORLD's HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and do lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth ; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumes, Depot 266, 44111_1191b= )0N NON DAY tiAT NINO, ARM 12, 1869. jiII.SVELLANEOUS NEWS. THE MONEY MARKET. The Economist thinks that the Bank directors were fully justified in raising the rate to 4 per cent., but that it will not be necessary to continue this rate long. It will attract more capital than we want, and we shall probably go back to 3 per cent. shortly. Our contemporary does not take notice of the objec tion that these frequent fluctuations are the result of undue interference exercised in order to preserve equability ; that, in fact, if we had free trade in money we should find the same result as has followed free trade in corn, the cessation of the violent changes which •tiways occur under a protec tive system. contested If'almouth in 1841 unsuccestuily, wnen ne was beaten by Captain Vivian, now the War Lord of the Treasury; but he represented the place during its most corrupt period, from 1847 to 1857, when happily Mr. Baring (now Lord Northbrook) was successful in reclaiming the borough from the error of its ways, and rescuing it from the fate which ten years later befel Totnes. In 1859 Mr. Gwyn was only third on the poll. In 1865 he went to another very corrupt borough, Barnstaple, but in spite of a large expenditure of money, again found himself only third. On the accession of the Earl of Breck nock to the Marquisate of Camden, Mr. Gwyn stood for Brecon, and defeated Lord Alfred Churchill by twenty-six votes; and' at the general election of last year he defeated Mr. Pryce by fifteen votes and by bribery. He is now unseated. The Liberals intend, it is said, to bring forward Lord Hyde, the eldest son of the Earl of Clarendon, who fought a very severe battle in South 'Warwickshire last November, and was only forty-eight votes behind Mr. John Hardy, (whose return is now petitioned against). His lordship is rather young for these political contests, being only 23 years of age. The Conservatives talk of Mr. Baillie Cochrane, who used to represent the now disfranchised Honiton, and unsuccessfully contested the Isle of Wight against Sir John Simeon, in December, the Hon. D. Plunket, who was third on the poll for Dublin city, and Lord Claud Hamilton, who lost his seat at Londonderry at the general election. Whoever is selected as a candidate, whether Liberal or Conservative, is to bo pitied; for Brecon is what Penryn used to be, and Barnstaple is,—hopelessly corrupt, and ought to be disfranchised. THE NEW Ct2l , 6 ERVATIVE PAPER. The first number of the Britannia was issued on Saturday. This new attempt to provide the Con servative working man with a newspaper is most creditable. The editor makes no promises in his prospectus, but appeals to " intelligant Conservatism among the honest sons of toil, of which the world wots not, aye, and of which the holders themselves are but dimly conscious." There is a summary, or rather a running criticism on Liberal mistakes and Conser vative triumphs than a compendium of the week ; and the supply of news on the whole is very scarce. But this is made up for by chatty articles. In this first number there is presented the first instal ment of a popular life of the Right lion. B. Disraeli, M.P. The writer attempts to show that from the first Mr. Disraeli was in favour of reforms which he has himself adopted; and that while he is Conservative, he is not, and never was, a member of the old Tory party. The paper consists of eight ages of the same size as the John Bull. ANOTHER STRIKE IN THE COTTON TRADE. The depression in the cotton trade is bearing most disastrous fruit. Not only are masters being put into straits, but the operatives, by striking, are impoverishing themselves. The strike is spreading beyond Preston. The masters of Chorley and the surrounding neighbourhood have given notice of a reduction of from 2 1 to 20 per cent. on different kinds of work, and the men have determined to resist. The masters were prevailed upon to so modify their original announcement as to make it a 5 per cent. reduction all round, but the men will agree only to 21. Nearly 1,000 people are likely to be thrown out of employment. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN. On Friday afternoon a meeting of the Catholic clergy and laity was held at Willis's Rooms to con sider the question of the Roman Catholic children in English workhouses. The chair was occu pied by Archbishop Manning, who made an inte resting speech. Ile desired to point out the existence of an evil in the case of the children in the workhouses who were being brought up in the Protestant faith against the wishes of their parents. There were now upwards of a thousand children so situated in the workhouses within the Metropolitan district. The President of the Poor-law Board had acted in the most fair spirit in the matter, and in a short time four hundred of these children would be removed to Catholic schools certified by the Poor Law. The Archbishop called upon the meeting to provide the means of forming more of these schools. Some resolutions were passed to the effect that vigorous efforts should be made to transfer the children to schools of their own denomination, and that care should be taken to provide sufficient accommodation for all those who required it. YOUNG SELF-311IRDERElt S. Suicide is no longer confined to the old. Weari ness of life seems to come very early now-a-days. The juvenile burglar, the young forger, and the infant homicide have become so common as to be hardly subjects of wonder. Their deeds have been glorified in roman ces ; they are handed clown to the com i ng gen eration as examples of bravery and pluck. Why, then, should there not be th e j uven i le . felo de se? Whatever reasons there are for not having him, there can be no doubt that we have got him, and the class to which he belongs seems to be increasing amongst us. Only the other day a boy who did not have his dinner just at the proper time first nagged with his mother until she spoke sharply to him, and then went and hanged himself. Shortly after this the papers told the story of a girl, some 11 or 12 years of age , who was forbidden to go sweethearting with the lads in the town. She deter mined that love's young dream and her life should end together; and so went and drowned herself. Now we have quite as sad a story of two servant girls, of Easiugwold, one 14 and the other 13. After church on Sunday night they had a walk with the " lover "of one of them. They were found a day or two afterwards in a pond in the neighbourhood. They had repeatedly, we are told, threatened to commit suicide, and on the very day of the occurrence had declared, sadly, that they would never be at church again. A ver dict in their case has been returned of felo de se. Is not the newspaper press itself to some extent chargeable with being the cause of these sad affairs ? By continually having presented to it what is being constantly done, must not young minds—especially where not properly balanced by good home training —become impressed with the possibility of going and doing likewise ? THE CONSERVATIVE MEETING. There is much speculation about the Conservative meeting which takes place to-day at Lord Lons dale's. The John Bull says that many of the party are in favour of opposing the Irish Church Dill clause by clause ; but probably the most serious division will be on the glebe lands. Another account states that Mr. Disraeli and other members of the party have taken up the line laid down by Sir Roundell Palmer, and that these enter tain the faint hope that with the help of some of the Liberals "they may embarrass the progress of the measure through committee, although they cannot hope to strike seriously at Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Hardy has been definit e l y soun d e d as t o t a ki ng the leadership of the No Surrender ' faction in the event of a rupture, but he has maintained a discreet silence as to his future intentions." • A CONSERVATI V E POLICY FOR IRELAND. The Standard publishes from a correspondent, who does not agree with the Irish Church Bill of the Government, a policy w hi c h s h ould b e ; pursue d towards Ireland instead o f one i nterfer i ng w it h ecclesiastical affairs. First, he demands a royal residence. That, doubtless, ought to have been obtained long ago, and will b e prov id e d ere l ong . Next, he asks for a ,ust settlement of the land question, but what a ",lust" settlement would be ho does not tell us. The O'Donoghue and Mr. Disraeli makes a claim for capital, the sp en di n g of Govern wmoeunitdmmoonsety l o i l k i e l ly ris d h is N a v gr or e k e about that. Then he s. Perhaps that might have a good effect, but is England th us to be asked to pay for everytmg that i s d one in the s i ster isle ?.11 Fourthly, he advises secular education ; maybe the Standard would rather have that than no Irish Establishment. By looking after the Irish fisheries and the mercantile marine, by purchasing the railways and reducing the army, h e wou ld satisfy se n ve t. ralAonthderhe would radicall c iasses, and so prevent their di s con- J te reform the Church by turning out clergy not wanted, and by re arranging the benefices. Let th e St an d a rd take its choice. it R a dical " reform of the Church, the settlement of the land laws so as to prevent the dis content amongst tenantry, and secular education, is offered on the one hand; disestablishment is held contemporary like better ? out on the other. Which doe s our Conservative POSTAGE ON PRINTED IkIATTER. The Dundee Advertiser announces that the Govern ment have been so impressed by the facts and ex pressions of opinion on Mr. Graves's motion for the reduction of the postage on printed matter to a half penny for two ounces that the reduction may now be considered only a question of time. OPEN COMPETITION Pon THE CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC SERVICES. The large majority by which Mr. Fawcett's motion was defeated on Friday night is a conclusive proof that the House of Commons is satisfied with the amount of work already taken in hand by the Government. The Conservatives voting with the hon. member for Brighton were Sir William 13agge, Mr. Charley, Mr. Tom Collins, Mr. Mellor (Ashton), and Mr. M. W . Ridley. The most promi nen t Liberals who were in the minority were Mr. Clay, Mr. Dillwyn, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and Mr. Maguire. Two young members acted as tellers—Mr. Dilke and Mr. Edward D en i son. T h e majority in c l u d e d th e chiefs on both sides of the House. BETWEEN TWO STOOLS. Sir Sydney V world knows, an d at the same time has lost his \ate;low h a s lost his seat, as all the part nership, and, according to general rumour, the double loss has befallen him through excessive caution. But thi s i s no t the only loss he has sus stained. The Elgin Courant says : " His name is clown on th e list of candidates for admission to the Refo rm Cl u b . A s an M.P. he would have taken his r egu l ar t urn an d been balloted for on Thursday, and equa ll y as a Liberal M.P. he would have been a l most certa i n of admission. Now that he has b een re j ecte d , hi s for more th an a name falls back into its original sequence, and he will not be balloted for where in th e i n t er i m . He is an idle man now year, unless he finds a seat some between his two ' lost loves.' Ile is out of the firm which under him has so rapidly risen in repute and success, and he is out of Parliament also, where he had really set his heart on being, and where ho would have made, not exactly a figure, but a member far above par, although ho is not quite certain about his h's." BRECON ELECTION. AIL 'lowa Gwyn, w ho has just been unseated at -Bresan. has 114..0,,saried, autrivisakik. POLLING PLACES. A correspondent of the Morning Post hopes that the committee now sitting to inquire into the mode of conducting elections will direct its attention to the need which exists for a greater number of polling places. Voters in boroughs have always a polling place within easy reach, while voters in rural districts have perhaps six or eight miles to travel. The carrying of voters is prohibited in boroughs, and ought not to be allowed in counties. This reformer thinks that every parish should have a polling place, and he suggests that the largest school room might be used for the day. The carrying of voters exposes all parties to suspicion, and the con gregation of men from different localities at one place leads to riot and disorder. Those who live at a great distance, and who now come by rail, might have voting papers sent to them. By these means some of the evils of the present system might be modified, if not altogether removed. ARMY AND NAVY ITEMS. The Broad Arrow states that the " heroic efforts" of the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War are still being continued in the direction of reductions both at Somerset House and at Pall Mall, although the final arrangements have not yet been promulgated. The same paper complains that the Military Train is still in a state of suspense as to its fate. The warrant sealing the doom of this corps is known to have been in the hands of the printers three weeks ago, yet the corps still appears in the April Army List, and officers are unable to exchange or to sell. The blame is attributed to the military officials at the War Office. The Army and Nary Gazette says the channel squadron may be expected in England about May 3. The same paper mentions that Dr. Bryson will, on his retirement, be created a K.C.8., and complains that " a vein of interest is running through many of the present Admiralty appointments," and is manifested in the appointment of Captain Hopkins as flag captain of the Flying Squadron. ECCLESUSTICAL ITEMS. The John Bull says that " the Irish archbishops nave been over in England this week. It is thought that at a conference on the 13th, a standing com mittee will be adopted." The same paper states that an arrangement has been made between the Episcopal Bench and the Earl of Shaftes bury, whereby his bill and that of the Primate's on the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts will be referred to a select committee. We learn also that Mr. Raikes will move the rejection of the Dissenters' Burial Bill on Wednesday ; and that the Ritual Commission have got nearly thro ug h th e book of Genesis in their revision of the Lectionary, and have recommended the omission of the 34th chapter, which relates the story of Dinah. APPOINTMENTS. The Gazette announces that Mr. F. A. Weld has been appointed Governor of Western Australia, and Mr. W. A. Parker, Chief Justice of St. Helena. Mr. Homersham Cox is rewarded for his very c l ever history of the last Reform Bill, which was so favour able to Mr. Gladstone, by being appointed on e o f the commissioners to inquire into the electoral mis conduct of Beverley. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Sir Edward Cust, who claims to have been the pioneer for the reconstruction of the Houses of Par liament after the great fire, writes to the Times on the subject of providing a new Chamber. He remembers that a suggestion was made at that time to the Crown Commissioners, of whom ho was one, that the architects should pro vide for two separate Chambers for the varied busi ness transacted in a House of Commons. Sir Edward Oust thinks this idea a good one, tough it was put aside at the time. The present House is not large enough to afford a seat for every member, but it is amply sufficient for the ordinary daily business of the session. A Chamber large enough to hold 600 members would be very inconvenient for the 100 or 200 gentleman who take part in the details of ordinary legislation. The writer is of opinion that it would be well to have a larger hall of assembly, to be used on extraordinary and special occasions. It is not, he reminds us, an un common occurrence at public meetings in the pro vinces for the assembly to adjourn from one building to another larger one. If the power to order such a removal in the House of :Commons were vested in the Speaker absolutely, he thinks all possible objections to the scheme would be removed, and great advantages would be ga ined. The acoustic properties of the new Chamber should, he thinks, be tested for a session or two before the amendments were tried in the dining-rooms and other parts of the House, as, if too much is attempted at once another failure is probable. _ MORE SHADOWINGS OF THE PURPLE. - ~- (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Democratic party have taken up a strange position ; asserting that the Republicans desire to transform the Union into an Empire, they are array ing their forces for the protection of the people against the anticipated thraldom. Ex-President JOHNSON openly states his preference for.a Prince to a usurping Congress, and plainly hints that in a Prince it will end. The World, the exponent of the party, writes that " the Radical party has set a train of causes at work, which tend irresistibly to the establishment of a Monarchy, and by the shortest and speediest route by which that result could be reached." Other papers follow suit ; and Americans are everywhere warned that the Rump Parliament at Washington will end as the Rump Parliament ended in London, by breaking down the Commonwealth and erecting on its ruins the supre macy of a successful soldier. The New York Citizen asserts, in its delightfully sensational article, " What does it Mean ?" that a paper was to be started in Philadelphia to advocate an Empire, with GRANT for the purple. A gentleman representing the movement visited NOW York and Albany to feel the pulse of the Republican leaders, and he stated that the Union League of Philadelphia having been enlisted in the cause had furnished the means for the publication of the paper. Secret societies were to promulgate the doctrine, and a second organ was to be established in New York, called the Em pire, with the well-known words of NAPOLEON and GRANT for its motto, " The Empire is Peace," and "let us have Peace." It would endeavoured to prove that the Republic was a failure, that a monarch was a necessity, and that GRANT was the best man the sheet only awaited the word from those orga nizing the Societies to remove the mask and to come boldly into the light of day. If the Citizen is not misinformed, a paper came out last Saturday in New York under the title of the Imperialist, and it asserts that the prospectus had already been issued, wherein the journal is announced as long ex pected. It says, "The creed of the imperialist is revolutionary ; its mission is to prepare the minds of the American people for the revolution that has already begun throughout the country." All along the bondholders have been declared to be the prime movers in this conspiracy, which may indeed be gathered from ANDREW JOHNSON'S last Message to Congress. " We believe," says this prospectus, " that the national faith, if left in the keeping of the populace, will be sullied by sure repudiation of the National Debt, and that an Imperial Govern ment can alone protect the right of. national credi tors." Then, again, it is stated that "the Republic means lawlessness. corruption, insecurity to per son and property, robbery of th e public creditors and civil war; that the Empire means law, order, security, public faith, and peace." The movement is asserted to be no mere sensation , but to be backed by a powerful organization, bearing: the mysterious title "T. 1. 0.," under which Societies are everywhere arming throughout the mall. General GRANT is declared to be in sympathy and accord with this movement, and office-seekers are advised to become members as a recommendation and qualification for place. It is alleged that the Republican programme is to centralize the Government ; that the annihilation of States Rights means a strong Executive at Washington ; that the burden of the National Debt touches a powerful section, whose interest being to fix it permanently on the community would support such a change ; that the army of officials necessary to collect the taxes to pay the semi-annual dividends strengthens this section, and that the cor ruption which has resulted from universal suffrage shows the necessity for the change. GRANT is said to have made all his selections from men strongly at tached to himself and his relatives, and that he is backed by the ablest generals, such as SHERMAN, SIIERIDAN, and even LONGSTREET. In short, if people want to find out ample confirmation of the wildest theories they propound there islittle difficulty, considering that the Devil can quote Scripture. FRANK P. BLAIR announced that if GRANT was elected he would never leave the White House alive, meaLing that he would take up his residence there permanently, as Dictator or Emperor. Now that we know the tack on which the Democrats are we may expect some further " Foreshadowings of the Purple ;" nor would we he surprised at the ap pearance of the Imperialist, for so good a story as this, and one calculated to create such an excite ment, is not likely to be dropped by such clever riders for the want of a little jockeying. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, March 27.) The money market continues stringent, and the banks have many more applications for loans than they are able to fill. At Boston they are supplying regular depositors at 7 to 8 per cent., while outside quotations for paper with unquestionable names run up to 9 and 10 per cant. The same stringency extends to the Western money market. Undoubtedly the tightness is increased somewhat by the new arrangement for making bank statements. The banks, not knowing now precisely when they will be called upou to exhibit their financial condition, are with holding funds to a certain degree, so as to make their exhibit as strong a one as may be. There is some un easiness among bankers in this section over the plan for the redistribution of the currency which Secretary Boutwell has endorsed, and which is liable, if not likely, to be carried through Congress. A committee of the Boston banks, who recently visited Washington to ascertain what could be done, were told that New Eng land could choose between two propositions, either to sub mit to a reduction of about one-half of her bank circula tion— the Boston banks have over 25 millions ($25,359,311) —or to go in for an immediate increase of twenty mil lions in the national currency, for the benefit of the South and West, and also for authorizing those sections to make it fifty millions at their pleasure. A meeting of the Boston banks was held on Wednesday, but no final action in the premises was taken. What the banks complain the most about is that the Eastern states are to be the heaviest losers under the proposed arrangement for redistribution ; but they should not, nevertheless, lend their endorsement to the financial folly which would further inflate the currency and postpone still further the day for resuming specie pay ments. And the new Secretary should sot his face firmly against any such new issue of paper,whatevor he may think of the proposed redistribution of the volume of currency now afloat. The gold market has been without special feature : the price all through the week has been 131 with fluctuations of scarcely 1 per cent. either way. The ex port of specie for the last week has not been heavy, while there has been an importation of $1,000,000 from Europe. The total arrivals of gold at New York since Ju!y 1,1868, have been $16,122,167 against $23.573,010 for he cone spending period the previous year, being a decrease of $7,450,843. The exports of specie from New York in the same period have been $29,177,865 against $41,681,748, a decrease of $12,503,883. The Customs demand at New York last week was $3,101,162. —Secretary Boutwell has announced that he shall permit no more secret sales of gold, yet Senator Fenton of New York, to make sure of it, will try to get a bill through Con gress expressly prohibiting such sales. This fea ture of the new Finance Minister's policy gives, very properly, more general satisfaction than the an nouncement of his further determination to clean out the hundred millions of gold in the Treasury, by ap plying it to the purchase and extinguishment of bonds. The Government has never been able to do this because its currency revenue has always been insufficient to meet its expenditures; but, in spite of dull times, the receipts from internal revenue for the current fiscal year are likely to overrun the estimates, and Mr. Boutwell, for this reason doubtless, thinks it safe to " sell gold" in the manner indi cated. We fear, however, that he does not fully appre hend the potent conservative influence of the gold in the Treasury. It is not idle and useless, as many seem to suppose, and it would be a bad stroke of policy for the Secretary to allow it to pass out of his bands as he proposes to dr, especially until the new Adminis tration has succeeded in reducing its expenses and increasing its revenue, so as to be more sure of its prospective financial status. Secretary Boutwell is authorised, but not compelled, by law to make the exc h ange proposed. Let him not be too hasty about it. Government Bonds have been dull, but steady. The apprehension that the foreign markets were rather overloaded by the recent heavy purchases on European account seems to have been well founded ; and of course hesitation and a trifling decline abroad at once affect the home market. Holders, however, do not press sales, as the belief is quite general that prices ero long will be higher. Probably there will soon b 3 a considerable foreign demand for the Five-Twenties of '65 and '67. The Pacific Railroad Sixes, especially the Union, are specu lated in a good deal. A few days ago there was quite a panic in them, and they sold down to 89, but since then they have rallied, and now stand at about 95. The gene ral tone of the New York stock market has been that of dullness, relieved by occasional siesses of excitement. The principal interest has been centred in New York Central and Pacific Mail. The former was depressed severely early in the week, but subsequently became very buoyant upon the removal of the Jenckes prose cution. On Wednesday the payment of the dividend on the 80 per cent. scrip was begun, but after $11,000,000 had b3en served, another of those handy in junctions which the New York Courts grind out with such facility, was sprung upon the officers of the com pany, who, of course, had to stop where they were. It is said, however, that the injunction is based upon trivial grounds and cannot hold good. Pacific Mail has been hammered by the bears with unmerciful persistency, and pushed far down among the eighties. Nevertheless, if we may credit the New York Independent, which mixes the things of this world and the next—finance and piety—with such admirable adroitness, the affairs of the Pacific company are in a good condition, and it is getting ready to pay another 3 per cent, dividend. The real bug bear, however, concerning the stock is the approaching completion of this Pacific railroad, as it is apparent to every one that, with that great enterprise consum mated, few passengers and only slow freight will be left for the steamships to carry. Tho quotations for dry goods have undergone very little change during the last week, and the market continues rather dull, as is usual at this season. In shirtings and sheetings there has been but slight activity for unbleached, while the demand for bleachei has been rather better, yet quite mo derate. - In both classes the market is much firmer for heavy than for light goods. There has been a larger call for prints, although it has not been loud enough to affect prices any for the better. The new and fashionable styles sell well, but other kinds are generally sacrificed at a de cline of half a cent. In ginghams also the more ordinary qualities are not so firm, while the bettor styles are in fair demand. There is a very lively competition between the foreign and American manufacturers of muslin delaines, and like goods, with the advantage all in favour of the home manufacturer so long as the present tariff con tinues in force. The very best class of goods, how ever, still come from abroad. Although the supply of foreign goods of various kinds is quite large the im portations conhusse to be heavy, and that, too, in the face of the fact that the importers are not having so good a trade as they..expected. But livelier times are expected soon, when thq spring trade has opened in good earnest. The aggregate imports of foreign merchandize at New York since July 1, 1868, are $187,295,711; $19,956,731 more than for the corresponding period of tho previous year. The exports from that port of domestic products and all other, gold excepted, including foreign goods re-exported since July 1, 1868, are in currency values, $112,279,790, being $17,844,502 less than for the like period the previous year. What with an overstocked and falling market and a storm of snow and rain the cattle trade at Cam bridge, this week, was dull enough. At Brighton the trade was firm, without a strong demand. The supply at the Albany market was not so large as it was expected to be, and there was consequently a better feeling and more disposition to speculate. But the tendency of all the cattle markets is downward. Every week brings lower prices, and there is no indication yet of a reaction. Feeders of cattle this season will be obliged to look to their manure heaps for their profits, as well-fed bullocks are not as high now as they were in September. There is no change to notice in domestic wool. Manufacturers have purchased moderately during the week, and feel rather despondent about the goods market, but, as stocks of wool are reduced materially, purchases cannot be made except at full pre vious prices. (Front the Wall-street Journal) FRIDAY EVENING, March 26. To-day being Good Friday, has been observed as an holiday by tho Stock Exchange Boards and Gold Room. The Long Room has also been closed. The banks and insurance companies have remained open, it not being a legal holiday. To all intents and purposes, the market closed yesterday, as although a snail knot of brcilcers assembled to-day in the v i c i n it y o f the Exchanges, under the friendly sh a d e o f um b rellas, tho transactions have o° t been of sufficient importance to establish quotations. Quotations for specie:— Amer. silver... 95 to 951 I Eng. soya 486 to 41 Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 1 04 j2O francs 384 ,7 Eng. silver 480 ~ 485 Thalers Five francs .... 951 ~ 94 Foreign Exchange is quiet, at the maximum figures ° a losi for the be s t b an k ers ' 60 days sterling bills, and of iv y for short sight ditto. Sixty Days. Threo DA9' Londcn Bankers Lor...d. n, Prime Commercial lO 7 l-108 2 Paris, Bankers 525 - 5.181 5.20 --5• 14 Bremen, Bankers Frankfort, 0.3/ 4O —4Ol .. •...... Berlin and Cologne Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss ENpress Stocks are generally dull. We quote : ~ 0 to 59 1 , 41 to 41 ' . 16 to 161 ~ 561 to s' , 301 to 51 Adams American Merchants' Union Do. Old Stock United States Wells, Fargo, and Co. PUBLIC FUNDS OP THE UNITED STATES. Sixes, 1861, registered Sixes, 1881, coupon * 116 to 1104 Sixes, 1868, coupon - U.S. 6s. Pacific Rail. oad lOl to le4l Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon i, Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll3k to 1131 Ten-forties, coupon .. losf to 1051 Sevon-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series — to --- Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. N. Y.:Central Gs, 1883... 91 Chi. &N. W. Ist M...... 91 N. Y. Central Gs, 1881... 80 TOL & Wab. 2d M Ex. Q, N. Y. Central 6s, R Est.. 871 Gt. "Western lstM '88... 8 ' N.Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 871 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M.. "5 4 N. Y. Central 75,,1876... -- G a l. & Chi c . E x t 913 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 1 ._ Gal. & Chic. 2d M 9 N. Y. Ceu. 7s, '65-'76 ... Chi. &R. I. Ist M -- Erie Ist Mort, Ex 931 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 — Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... ~— , - , 1 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B9 N. J. C en t ra l I s t M .... •. , T Erie7s, 4th Mort, 1880 — N. J. C en t ra l 2d M .. .... 89 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 — Pitt s . Ft. W., & Ch. Ist M.lO, Lono 2 Dock Bowls — Bufe.N.Y.SzE.lstM,'77 87 Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, Had. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 1021 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 101 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 113 Mich. new Ist M 85,'82 -- Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2d M. — Pitts. Ft. W., &Ch.3d M.. 4 Cleve. & Pitts. 3d M 1 1, „ Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. " Chic. & Alton, S.F. lstM.lt ); ',' Mil. & St. Paul Ist M.•.. Mil. & St. Paul 2d M... °' Mich. So., 7 p. c. 931 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd 7p.c. 981 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O llB Alton & T. H. Ist M• 92 Alton & T. H. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc 7Bi Han.& St.J.LandGrants Han. & St. J. Con 112 Chi. B. & Q., let M 111 Chi. & N. West, S. F 95 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 94i Chi. & N. W. Ex'n B B5 Marietta & Gin. lst M -- rm, Morris & Essex Ist 31 1 , 1 ,7 Morris & Essex 2d M "" toilet & Chic. Ist M , 1 , Chi. & GLEast'nlstM °" N. Y. &N.H. 6s ..... 9ll Dubuque &S.City,lstM "'s Peninsula Ist M -- Ohio & Miss. Ist M 9l Ohio & Miss. Con -- Tol. P. W. lst M. E. D Atlantic & G: W. Ist bi ' 4 RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. tt N. Y. Central 1621 F or t W ayne 86 2 3 1 1 Erie Hudson 3 0 Reading Mich. South. &N. 1.... 96; W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B7 Ohio and Mississippi... North-West • B4l Boston Water Power... ga North-West Preferred 92 Cumberland Canton... 69 Bankers and Brokers l°3 7 0 Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 106 IM & St. P au l P re f err ed Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report that March 26, the latest sales in Pennsylvania lia,ilro a a ' Shares were 57; 57* ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 991 991; 2 Mortage, 971 98. The following communication was received by the House Of Assembly at Albany, on March 23, from JaS Gould, in answer to a resolution calling for information ' "Ist. That the outstanding Common Stock of the 9.1 f Ralway Company was $57,765,000. 2d. The amount ° Preferred Stock was $8,536,000. 3d. Th a t th e f un d e d of th e company is as follows: First Mortgage Bonds, $3,000, 000 Second ditto, $4,000,000; Third ditt o , $6,000,000; Fourth ditto, $4,441,000; Fifth ditto, $926,500. B u ff a l o Bran° o Mortgage Bonds, $186,400 ; Sterling Convertible Bond'; $4,844,400. 4th. That the floating debt of the con2P 3 ' l 9 is so fluctuating and uncert a i n f rom d ay t o d ay, from `,: obligations due for supplies and labour, that it is impoe•sr ble to state the amount with any degree of accuracy', Signed, JAY GOULD, Pr es id en t an d T reasurer Erie 11°1; way Company. New York, March 22, 1869." Erie AO has greatly fluctuated mainly on account of this return. The office-holders in Washington, according /`; the Blue Book, are divided among the principal States ' l , follows :—New York, 790; Pennsylvania, 465; Ohio, 24j; ti'jr , Maryland, 212 ; Massachusetts, 201; Illinois, 138 ; , ginia, 116 ; Maine, 111; Vermont, 94; Michigan, 89 ; Io diana, 88; Wisconsin, 88; New Jersey, 86; New Er slllll l shire, 86 ; Connecticut, 81 ; l owa, 65 ; Kentucky, 39' Minnesota, 37 ; California, 35 ; Mi ssour i , 34; TennefSee', 32 ; Delaware, 22 , Kansas, 22 ; an d W est Virgin i a: 1g 0 The other States and T e r r it or i es h ave representatives f the public offices from Ito 7 in number. The District Columbia has 1,115 employes in the different depart:lld' 221 of these are day labourers, and 586 are in the Tress° It is stated that many families iu Washington have f ° , s , and six members in the diff eren t departments. —l)B6''' Ledger. The President of the Illinois Railroad Comps makes the following report of the business of the r°, for the year ending th e 31 s t o f D ecem b er, 1868' 0 " The gross earni n g s f or th e year 1868 amount $7,817,629 24, the o p era ti ng expenses to $4,590,681 nt State taxes to $444,597 57, rent of leased line in 10 0 ,61 $370,365 18, leaving net $2,414 , 984 58 , aga i nst $2,480,'d, 72 in 1867. The equipment has been increased by the' dition of three new first-class locomotives built at our 51 04 4 at a cost of $10,289 42 ; sleeping cats, $40,050 ; 10l v e . t i stock and three new grain cars, c os ti ng $80 , 342 35, 1v„110 other expenditures on shop ma c hi nery an d tools. , bridge across the Mississippi, between Dunleith and De v l quo, was completed and opened for t ra ffi c ou t h e 15t obe January last, and great benefit i s f oun d i n operating "ig line. The company reports a traffic gain of $116,0 00 , the first two weeks of March, over the correspond la' weeks of last year. A sensible Irish scheme, is a movement now foot in St. Louis to call an Irish National Conventiov o f delegations from the Irish religious benevolent societie s the United States, the object being to form a celltr t r b o bureau in New York, with auxiliary societies through all o o States, for the purpose of furnishing aid and informattj to Irishmen in regard to the price of land, labour, Scc., to render any other assistance necessary to procure t ' benefits of Irish emigration. FADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Stomach.—Few persons, save those who have long v ro dured the hydra-headed disease called dyspepsia, can f° any notion of the great expense chronic indigestion eu,,t ' •e 4 on muscle, nerve, mind, and temper. In th e early r,,,5-of of this Protean malady the purifyin g , regu l a ti ng, a 1 the rient Pills invented by Professor Holloway, most wholesome power, by accurately adjustLig the f un to Lions of the stomach, liver, bowels, and 0-, minor org 4 e 4 subserving thi solution of man's dail s'od. In confiritio debility of digestion Holloway's isu are likewise reli 3 t v o , remedies, which may be conficl.dtlY resorted to in all 5 i t machic, hepatic, renal, and srvine derangements, witho .. t et the slightest doubt of theOr ability to release the suffer' .xert e, from almost insupportable misery. [AnvtansEntENT I —Consumption, and all bilious, ner f° « l o s j stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are only aggray . lif and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfee4 curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica as proved by thousands of cases which had been conside r s hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, cu e ' sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric deriwoo ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousnew biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, I ;i i . fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, g out, i lO ,-9 rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessnil, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, drop cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy ~r„ o t e sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrof u l a, t i g h tness of the c'' "go pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders. 3r .1 We quote a few.—The Pope' s h ea l t h restored b y Du Ba rr d Food. Cure No 68,413.—"R0me, July 21, 1866.—The healthy the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning,4 other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Bar iO l Revalenfa ' Arabica F oo d , o f w hi ch h e consumes a pla t - tol at every meal. It has pro laced a surprisingly bone/ 3 .1,1 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise .du excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du . 101 et July 25. Cure N o . 46 , 270. Mr. J ames R o b erts, t i m b e r P _ ' g s chant, of Frimley, S u rrey, of thirty years' di sease d spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafne7 of Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieuteleod Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. ,e 5; years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervous'o , asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness,yl vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Be ware of them unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, vn ,ol) , authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attacile In tins, at ls. wt.; 1 lb. 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d ; 5 lb s. lls. 225. ; 24 lbs, 40s, Also Do BARRT's REVALENTA AF =TOL O F LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cu p s a t 25.. , „ 0 4 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at Sr., for 283 cups at 30 8 ., for 57 6 'OO at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 5. 5 ' 4 301 0 are sent free of carriage in England o n rece i pt o f Post 1,0, Order.— BARRY DO BARRY and Co., •No. 77, Regent-street. don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. 11 1° CHAMPAIN—On the 6th inst., at Ashford, near Stain€sl wife of Major Champain, lft.E., of a son. Cox—On tho 10th inst., at Grove-hill, Dulwich, the 1., of Charles Cox, E sq ., o f th e Ad m i ralty, of a daughte Marriages. t ot LEES—GRIFFITHS —On the Bth i ns t., a t St. MarYASir 0 . Church, Major W. M. Lees, Bengal S.C. son of P lat e Campbell Lees, t o J ane A ugusta, daughter ' of th e Lient.-Colonel Edwin Griffiths. S TONEHAM —RussELL--On the Bth in s t., 1= at Swans- ,..6 - 017°,0 t Kent, Frederi c k S tone h am , E sq., of Crayford, e1:, 6 4 1 .1 Martha, third daughter of the late W. E. Russell, of Swanscombe. Deaths. Aumsntoso—On the 7th inst., at Garry Castle ",- o vk Banagher, Kin g ' s County, Carteret Andrew Arno' Esq., aged 72. KEWNEY—On the 7th inst., at Rock Park, Rock k'ert , Cheshire, Charles G. K ewon y, E sq ., age d 61. 4001' WATERFIEth:- On the 9th inst., at 2, Rectory-place, '' wick, Wm. Waterfield, Esq., aged 69. London : Printed and Pabliehed by WILLTAIK AND S P i ct of No. 112, St ran d , P r i nter, at Tan S UN oino r' , so - ty Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy In tin 0° Aprill; 1068. IV--NAHAN'S Thi s celebrated 0 Prize Medal. It Pnre, 31114,14 Bold in I3ottles, 3s the Agents in`the prix 8 Se , GREAT W Observe the Red han's-LL Whisky. Tit TJTIJAL I 14, llllTSSaEncorporl LL -ST] And 3 A.DVANCES Leasehold hold or Leasehold Pi able Forms weekly, o monthll free n roooip ROYAL AI Prot - . C ontinited S t Mr. Arthur Vey(' Original Christy 'a 14fi , ( Mist of the drty--proi Magic)—Lella and F C. Pinion, the ori ri n •--MiFig Packer. from )4188 Lizzie Reed. Se t Duettists —and a host Notice. -31r. P. (im Place on W,dnesdal, Ulan will take the Chf AIACLA ADAME 'll - I lway s • Beal New and "Beautiful it I CU EL num' un det ten,. Gd.an d extra A Rcly fo 'EVENING Rooms have been ma : and Qo Tho celebr an attract alc. ive Progra Nalco Ilu Doom Director "PA THE above Pa Lurie hel, Bre for deviling Legg of 'I ORIGINAL AND E To b o h JOE A . B IIL E y Very Pine Pale, Dry, 014 Cru shed Port (1), Shi pping), Vintage Sparkl ing Champagr lery, Qnalite Super' Sample cases of th bottles Sherry, two GARRICH D B. }TALL, Co . next th e nsiee for NICI celebratgned PALE an, Bordeaux 'Wines and Whiskies; - from sevi also be seen at the T number of Hotels, Pi of others wanted in tc SCIENTIFIC A nRNA.MENTi v-• a nd Dinine-r sort of VASE Rek, Inkstands, be & c., in Italian, Ala shire Spar. Sm. It TENNANT Mime W. 0., London. Mr. T ennant arra MINERALS ad of Lyell's Elemennts tate th LO e interestit GEO, and ( gtlinAas GY each. MPRACTICAL Il I NER ALOGY is .__, Strand. fa,, GLOB O —B-1 , Dale. The Invested Ft Fire R evenue to sz The m oderate rates Bonus for the Lif e Value as SPEOIA render them partic le ave is granted on thirty days after acli RING'S COI street, Line APPEAL for Fll Penses. Assistanef F. ALI JAME SEAMEN'S I-1 off Greenwich, lia+icns, wh o are re 4 The receipts from 4879 less than the S ITBSCRIPTIO;) 'Williams, Deacon, si the Secretary, at street, London, E.O Gov ualification for ernor, £lolos. NATIONAL Richmond, Si tinder thepatrouage Whereby a home hai C hris of all ages, clas the kingdom. The objelt of the el lish education, and p and laundry, to fit th, Wise provided. for Nr• suitable situations foi The C ommittee eat entirely sustained by °toe, 121, Pall-mal .115 Mackenzie-pa. Patron—Her II For the gratnit4 destitute orphans f and of all denomi Prosperous circum One hundred anc etitution ; ample ro Increased suppo endowed, and is in assistance. Subscribers and institution, and ju, its peculiar claims. The last Report Secretary. Offices, 73, Chen B ankers-31088 r lau e ; and Messrs. REALTFI RESTORE 1-111 BARRY' and Infants' THE I eaves fifty times i s perfect digestion a refreshing sleep, ft most disordered effectually indigos, sttmption, habitual rangements, beam nervousness, bilio, catarrhs, colds, 1 rheumatism, g oa t ralgia, irritaUilit heartburn, heads, nausea and sickne fits, bronchitis, ec the pit of the stol the most digestible for invalids and in IMPORTANT CAI and more than sic rity, Baron Liobig Henceforth non Du Barry's bealtl and Infants' Food has already reed been deemed hope tees the Pope, wh by it after thirty 3 BWe quote from t 1 8):—" , Holy F a th er ism el other other remedies, 13 I hrrY's Revalenta p l ateful at e very 3neficial effect c Praise this excelle Cure No. 58 , 2 16 years' liver comp neEls, irritability digestion, constan nervous agitation. Cure N 0.78, of Stuart do Decio s , I ford I have lit food.--STUAItT DI Waterford." Cur() No. 49,8: from dyspr_..psia, flatulency apn.srns O f Lynn. Norfalk. Cure No. 47121 nervou sness, indi volts fancies. Cure No. 56,8 U years diarrhoea. is aol 1215 a l ab b n T l us k 4 tt e o S cr .: B 6: a d ° :. i pae ; trry s Rev:tient till canisters : Poi cape at 6a., for 28 free of carriage in bAttRY 13A.1 also at vortnurn GraCeChttligl-Strei Licrth-road, CTTI AU]