The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-13 00:00:00

_..,.:. __....::.c. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, de. The literary papers contain some interesting, 'but no very important information. The Athenaum, is glad to hear" that the Rev. Alexander Dyce (notwithstanding his illness, which has been aggravated by the damp season), .is just completing his edition. of the works of Ford, the dramatist.—The hanging committee of the Royal Academy this year comprises Messrs. Watts, Leighton, and Hart— . M. Gounod's " Tobias " has been recently given in Am- sterdam, but it was indifferently performed, and made no impression. Schumann's "Faust" has also been lately " done " in the Dutch capital by one of its numerous 'musical societies.—Speaking of the death of Lady Mur chison, the Athenceunz says : " She was a very good naturalist, and it is well known that Sir Roderick was first persuaded by her influence and her accomplishments to undertake those scientific studies which have raised him to his present place. From New York the following literary news comes to us :—"Mr. Richmond introduced to the New York Assembly on the 19th inst. a bill, said to have originated with Mr. Greeley, which requires every newspaper, maga zine, or other periodical that publishes advertisements to print conspicuously in each issue a statement of the number of copies circulated of its last preceding issue.— Messrs. G. P. Putnam and Son will shortly publish an illustrated account of Admiral Farragut's late cruise in European waters, prepared by his priv ate secretary." IRISH BENEFICES. The Royal Commission on the Irish Established Church have now issued a list of 200 benefices in Ireland, in none of which did the Church population at the last census, in 1861 —men, women, and children—amount to so many as forty. The rectory of Mansfieldstown, with an income of £2lB a year, is described as having no Church population at all. Five benefices are described as having only one person belonging to the Established Church—Baldongan with an income of £39, Rochestown with £l4, Reiske with £55, Subultur with £44, Derrygalvin with £BO. Three— Kilcorkey with £3O, Templemichael (Tipperary) with £B4, and Coole with £loB—have three Church people in each, according to the census. Four livings have four Church people in each—Cahercorney with £Bl, Mace town with £7, Polerone with £192, Newtownlennan with £285. Three have five Church people each— Drehidtarsna with £4B, Grange Monk with £l3, Rath kenny with £134. Three have six Church people— Garristown with £9B, Kilconly with £9B, and Latteragh with £llO. Four have seven Church people—Ballymac william with £lBB, Kilclonbrook with £27, Killenny with £35, Killardry with £2OO. Five have eight Church people i►-Craigamleary with £9B, Dysart with £240, Killascobe with £lBO, Templepeter with £4O, and St. Michael's (Cork) with £B6. Seven have nine Church people—Cloghane With £125, Clonmult with £163, Crecoragh with £69, Kilfintinan with £44, Kilmocar with £59, Lisronagh with "2172, Templeree with £l5O. In all these 35 benefices the number of Church people is expressed without using two figures. The income of the whole 200 livings with less than 40 Church people in any of them amounts to £37,007 a year. Eight of 35 benefices above mentioned are marked " episcopally united in 1833." THE BON. REVERDY JOHNSON IN EDINBURGH. On Thursday the Hon. Reverdy Johnson arrived in ijdinburgh from Glasgow, and proceeded to the Douglas Wotel, On Friday night he was the guest of the members of the Royal Scottish Academy at their banquet, previous to the opening of the annual exhibition of paintings and sculpture. Sir GEORGE HARVEY, the president of the Academy, who occupied the chair, proposed " The health of Mr. Reverdy Johnson," and expressed the great gratification he felt at having him as their guest. Mr. JOHNSON, who was received with loud applause, rtturned thanks. It was the interest, he said, of his own country, and he was sure it was the interest of this coun try, that they should be friends ; and that was not all. The cause of humanity, of free government, and of religious liberty demanded that they should be friends. There were few, he hoped, on either side of the Atlantic who did not concur in that opinion, and of those who did tot, all he could say was, " May God Almighty have mercy upon them." If any persons present thought it possible they were to be involved in serious conflict with America, he begged them to lay their beads on their pillows that night and go to sleep in the full consciousness that there was no such possibility. They bad settled, as far as politics could settle, their differences. The Govern ment with whom he had succeeded in making a treaty had acknowledged the American doctrine, that a man had a right to go wherever his happiness would be pro moted. With regard to the American war, he said he wished he could blot it out of the memory of man. He wished, for the sake of religious and political freedom, that the world would forget it; but they could not do so soon after its termination. After dwelling on the importance of settling differences in the way which he had been advocating, instead of going to war, with great loss of money and life on both sides, and probably with less satisfactory results, Mr. Johnson concluded by ex pressing high appreciation of the works of Burns, Scott, Wilson, Jeffrey, and other eminent Scotchmen, and returning thanks for the kind manner in which he had been received. LAW AND POLICE, MRS. ELMSLEVS trial has been pending in the Eons Court to ascertain who was the heir-at-law and next of kin of Mrs. Mary Elmsley, who was murdered in Stepney some years ago by a man named Mullens. Mrs. Elmsley was a miserly and eccentric person, and left a considerable fortune. The Crown at one time set up a claim to the property, but, after much conflicting evidence, the decision of the court has been given in favour of the children of a half brother and a half sister of the mur dered woman. A WARNING TO TRUSTEES.—In the Vice-Chancellor's Court a, case has been heard which conveys a serious warning to trustees, the sons and representatives of a deceased trustee being held liable, fifty-three years after the date of a marriage settlement, for their father's omission to enforce a covenant against the husband. Vice- Chancellor Stuart held that mere length of time was not a bar to a claim of this kind, and decreed that the trustees, by not enforcing payment, had committed a breach of trust, and were liable to make good the £3,000 in dispute, with interest at 5 per cent. A BONA FIDE TRAVELLER•—The traveller question came before the Court of Common Pleas on Friday, when an appeal was heard from a judgment of the Clerkenwell police magistrate. A publican at Stoke Newington was convicted of opening his house before legal hours, and appealed against the decision. The court gave judgment in his favour, on the ground that he was bound to supply travellers, and the burden of proving that the persons supplied were not travellers rested with the police, not with the landlord. A CASE Or PARENTAL NEGLECT.—At the Lambeth Police-court, a clerk and his wife, possessing a good income, were charged with neglecting to provide proper food for the male prisoner's four children by a former marriage. They were remanded and bail refused. THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.—At a meeting of Volunteer commanding officers on Friday, it was decided that the Easter Monday Review should take place at Dover. It will be held either on the undulating ground at the rear of the Castle, or on the hills between Dover and Folkestone. It is expected that naval operations will be combined with the movement of the troops, and that the regular forces at Shorncliffe, Canterbury, and Walmer will take part in the review. CONSULAR COMMERCIAL REPORTS.—Some com mercial reports by her Majesty's Consuls in foreign coun tries have been published. That relating to Algeria con. tains some interesting information. It states that the country has enjoyed perfect tranquillity of late, but that whilst the territory subject to European colonisation has greatly improved of late, the Arab territory is still in a miserable condition. Three years of drought, preceded by two years of insurrection, accompanied by invasions of locusts, cholera, and cattle disease, have produced intense suffering. Great efforts have been made to aid them, but still the prospect is bad. Great changes have been made in the system of government all the ports have been de clared free, and all custom houses suppressed. The popu lation has decreased. Our consul regrets that no distinc tion has been drawn between the Arab and the Kabyle, one of which is irreclaimable ; the other might be made a great element of progress. Notwithstanding all recent misfortunes, the trade and finances of Algeria have really made rapid progress. The imports have risen from £200,000 in 1830, to £7,000,000 in 1865 ; the exports from £60,000 in 1830 to £4,000,000 in 1865. Next to France, Great Britain t a k es th e greatest amount of Algerian' produce. The Marseilles report shows that the trade of that city, as everywhere else, was in a very depressed state during 1567. The port and its commerce still suffer severely from the high railway tariff, and the crimping system is carried on to a shameful extent. The trade of Reunion—the lately famous island in the Indian Ocean— consists chiefly in the importation of provisions for the supply of the inhabitants, and the exportation of sugar and coffee. It is never likely to be of much importance, •wing to the want of a port, the coast being very dangerous. The Michaelmas fair at Leipsig was favoured by fine weather. The King of Prussia had just made a pacific speech, and business assumes a new and long forgotten air of briskness. No fair for the last ten years has been so fully supplied with woollens as this last. *POTTING INTEL LIGENOE. RACING FIXTURES. PEEIIIiARY. Lincoln l6, 17 I Nottingham Spring... 23, 24 Harrow lB, 19 Chelmsford.... 25, 26 Mansfield 18 Derby Spring 25, 26 Pontefract lB, 19 CH. Liverpool Spring 2, i,:i Shrewsbury Spring 5, 6 Downpatrick 9 Warwick 9, 10, 11 Hendon l2, 13 West Somerset 15, 16 Northampton 16, 17 West Drayton lB, 19 Baldoyle First Spring 18, 19 Margate 20 Beverley. 20 Durham 29, 30 Epsom 30, 31 Abergavenny l, 2 Bromley 1 2 Aldershot l, 0 Cat terick Bridge... l, 2 Thirsk 6, 7 Eungerford 6, 7 Lichfield Cambridge 7 8 Croxt on Park .. 8 Streatham 8, 9 Newmarket Craven...l2, &c. Knighton... l3, 14 Ludlow ...15, 16 Eastbourne l9 Lewes ...20 21 Curragh ...20, 21, 22 Croydon... 22, 23 Newmarket Ist Spring 26, &c. Chester 4, 5,6, 7 Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 Winchester ll, 12 1 Don c aster 13, 14 ! West Drayton l7, 18 (Bath 18, 19 Manchester l9, 20, 21 Croydon 19, 21 Harpenden 2l Epsom Summer .....20, &a_ rNE. York 11, 12 Baldoyle 2nd Spring 11, 12 St. Albans 13,14 Salisbury l3, 14 Croydon 2,3, 4 Newton 2,3, 4 Ascot ....8, 9, 10, 11 Liverpool Summer ...15, 16 Windsor 15, 16 Hampton l7, 18 Curragh 22, 23, 24 ....... Newcastle 22, 23, 24 Oldham 22 13ibury Club 23 Stockbridge 24, 25, 26 Chelmsford Sutton Park .....29, 30 Worcester 1 2 Newmarket July 6, &c. Carlisle 6, 7 Pontefract Hendon . l2, 13 Nottingham l3, 14 AUG . Brighton 3, 4 Brighton Club 5 Lewes 6, 7 Egnam lO, 11 Wolverhairpton lO, 11 Windsor 12, 13 St. Albans 17,18 Stockton lB, 19, 20 SEPT: Warwick... 7, 8 Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9 Abingdon 9, 1(1 Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Richmond 21, 22 Lichfield OCT , Bedford 5, 6 Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester 7, 8 Bromley 7 8 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, &c. Chelmsford l9 20 Kelso 19 20 N OVE Worcester 2,3, 4 Harrow 2 3 Liverpool 9, 10, 11, 12 STEEPLEC HA! FEB R Morton-in-Marsh lB Harrow lB, 1:) Pontefract 18, 19 Boston Liverpool 3 Shrewsbury ..... 5, 6 Mal ton 9 Rugby (Grand Mil.) 8, 9 Kingsbury 12, 13 • - . - Southampton 13, 14 Reading 15, 16 Huntingdon 2O, 21 Stamford " 23 Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30 .... .. A P Aldersho 4. 1, 9 Bromley 1, 9 Abergavenny l, 2 Lichfield .6, 7 Southdown I.lunt Cambridge ... 7, 8 7 I Cheltenham 7, 8 Oxford York 24, 23, 26 Plymouth 26, 27 Scarborough 30, 31 Derby Summer _3l, Sep. 1 Weymouth 31, Sep. 1 Canterbury ..... 3l, Sep. 1 LY. ST. TIBER. Hampton 21, 22 Western (Ayr) 22, 23 Hendon 2.3, 24 Monmouth...., 23, 24 Newmarket Ist Oct 28, &c. Lanark... 29, 30 IBER. Cheltenham l9, 20 Currag,h l9, 20, 21 West Drayton 2l, 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth 23, 24 Nerrmark‘t H'ton —.25, cto. AMBER. Shrewsbury 15, &c. Leamington Hunt 23, &c. E FIXTURES. ARY Windsor 22, 23 St. Albans 9 3, 24 Derby Baschurch 26 ,CH. 31 West Somerset 15, 16 York 17 Crewkerne lB, 19 Chepstow 9 9, 30 tiL. Streatham B, 9 Royal Artily., Woolwich...B Knighton Ludlow l5, 16 Tenbury.., 91 Croydon 9 2, 23 Co. Louth & Ardeen_27, 28 A Y. Limerick Hunt 4 St. Albans • . 13 Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 I West Drayt0n.......... 17 JULY. Kingsbury 9 AL-GUST. St. Albans -- -- OCTOBER. - 17 Bromley 7 1 West Drayton 2l, 22 NOVEMBER. Harrow 2, 3 I Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 Worcester 3, 4 Liverpool St. Albans 5, 6 1 Shrewsbury ...., l5, 19 COURSING FIXTURES. MARCH. Ashdown Park, Herts - Fourth S. Lancashire (Champion) County Louth (Champion \ Ireland 18, &c Scottish National Open, Lanark 3O, &c. OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, C. Orrnesby l9, .Cc. Huntingdon Club.. ,..26, 2 i . NO Sr :MBER. Sundorne, Salop Cothan and Eaton '2,3. 9, &c. IETING FEB. 17. &ltcar.) . the Earl of Sefton. ,600 in specie, by subscription winner to receive X3OO, and WATERLOO 31] (Over Patron -Right Hon The Waterloo Cup, value .£l, of £25 each ; 64 subs; the the second £2OO. M 1. Mr C. F. Allison 33. M r J. Ingleby r R. Jardine 2. Mr J. P. A rm i s t ea d 34. 3. Mr J. B a k e 35. 31r F. Johnston 34. Mr W. J. B ar d en 6. Mr J. Johnston 5. Mr F. Bartholomew 37 Mr Legh Mr Jones 6. Lord Bi nn i ng 38. 3 7. Mr J. El ac k s t oc k 39. Mr S. C. Lis ter 8. Mr J. S. ard Bland 40. Mr J. Lonsdale 9. Mr G. 41. Lord Lurgan Blansh Mal 10. Mr W. G. B orron 42. Mr S. E. labey 11. Mr T. Bro c kl e b an k 43. Mr C. Martleot 44. 3fr W. ff. Massey 12. Mr J. B run d r it 13. Mr R. B. Carruthers 45. Sir C..Mlneux 46. tfon. CC. Molyneux 11. Mr C. J. Ch ess h yre 47. Mr T. Neville 15. Mr W. H. Cl ar k 16. Mr E. C ro ft 48. Mr R. Patorson 17. Mr J. C unn i ng h am 49. Mr T. L. Reed 18. Mr W. D. Deighton 50. Dr Richardson M 19. Mr Jam es D un l op 51. 20. Mr J. E vans 52. M r J. Savage Mr N. Saxton 21. Lord G ar li es 53. Lord Sefton 22. Mr J. Gibson 54. Mr T. Smith 23. Mr W. M. Gilmour 55. Mr J. Spinks 21. Col. Goodlake 56. Lord Stair 25. Mr A. G ra h am 57. Mr E. W. Stocker 26. Mr T. Green 58. Mr S. Swinburne 27. Mr C. A. Hailey 59. Mr G. A. Thompson 28. Capt. Hathorn 60. Mr R. Todd 29. Mr J. Haywood 61. Mr B. W. Trinder 30. Mr J. Hodson 62. Mr R. C. Vyner 31. Mr J. Hole 63. Mr R. H. Williams 32. Mr J. Hyslop C 4. Capt. Wyndham The Waterloo Plate for the 16 dogs beaten in the second ties for the Cup, amounting to £lOO, to unl2d...ervirDs: eo r eg n os n n e tdo r dtiot receivetroece iv £ o 7: X4O 10s each 7: ivid i e t i d 4. Ditto ditto 5 ditto ... '" 8 £lOO The Waterloo Purse, for the 32 dogs beaten in the first course for the Waterloo Cup, amounting to £260, to be divided as under:_. 1. Winner to receive ... ... Xl.OO 1. Second di tto so 2. Dogs to receive £oeach . ..... 30 4. Ditto ditt o 10 d tto... 40 8. Ditto ditto 5 ditto., 40 • ••• ••• 16 X 260 The Great Waterloo Cup, 64 subscribers, at £25 each— the money £l,6oo—to bo divided as under :- 1. Winner to receive • ... £5OO 1. Second ditt o • 200 2. Dogs to receive £5O each... ▪ 100 4. Ditto ditto 30 ditto... ▪ 120 8. Ditto 20 ditto._ 160 ••• l6. Ditto 10 ditto... •.... 160 32 1,240 The Waterloo Purso a n d W aterloo Plato 360 .£1.600 The Waterlos Plate, value £lOO in specie, taken from the Cup Stakes, for the 16 beaten dogs in tho first ties fov the Waterloo Cup. The Waterloo Purse, value £260, in specie, taken from the Cup Stake, for the 32 beaten dogs in the first round for the Cup; the winner to receive £lOO. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Ilgstralla and New Zealand. via Southampton..... Feb. 27 Ditto, via Yr Arseilles .• . Feb. 22 Ditto, via Pax ama ......... ....... ......... ...Feb Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Mar. 7. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verds, by Brazil packet Cape of Good !lope. Ascension. and St. Helena ....Feb. 12, China, Penang, And Sll4'l/flare, vin Southampton..leb. 13. Ibralta r, via Southanaptor India,via Southampton ......Feb. 11 Unto, Via Mama es .. Malta, E t ..Feb. 13. gyp, Ditto, Marseilles Marritius, Cape of Good Elope, and Natal, N• 1 a Scuthacci ton Ditto, Marseilles Feb. 13 .. Newfoundland F.b Portug,al .•• • liar. 7. United States, I anadr, Cali tornia, &C., by Britisb packet Ditto, by Canadian packet ... Ditto, by L cited States packet Feb 10 Ditto ditto (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 15 West; Indica and Pa ific (except Mexico and Baba to us) Feb 13 Falkii nd Islands Cuba a. td Mexico Bermuda, via ........ . ..... Feb. 10. 13shamaa, via New York Feb. _ Feb 13 -: i 1 THE SUN,, LOND6N,..„B4fURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. MISSIONARIES ABROAD. The old feeling as to the support to be given in the way of gunboats, &c., to missionary efforts abroad, is happily dying out, where it has longest survived, amongst those who organise missionary movements. Instead of the old cry for Government interference, we have in the case of the unfortunate Chinese affair an authoritative disclaimer of any wish on the part of the missionaries for the display of force. The .Evlish. Independent, which is enthusiastic in its missionary zeal, now very strongly condemns the action of the consul in bringing the British gun boats on the scene. They "were not needed or desired by the missionaries," and can only be disastrous to the cause of the preachers of the Gospel. "If once the Chinese get the idea that England is resolved on forcing Christianity upon them at the cannon's mouth the missionaries may come home. All hope of evangelis ing China will be gone." If this opinion had only prevailed a little earlier, a large amount of diplo macy, of heartburnings, and of injustice might have been saved. a scene of great excitement. This formality was th• counting of the votes given at the Presidential election—a ceremony about as incrmsicaxy raluablc. as =.:;nald day or the re-election of Ministers in England. But the two Houses quarrelled about Georgia—that erratic State which expelled the negro representatives from its local Legislature. The Senate wished to count the vote for Georgia ; the House of Representatives wished to exclude it. An excited scene ensued, and we are told by the Times correspondent that General Butler and Mr. Wade were conspicuous in the confusion. Most people would take this latter fact for granted. Ultimately the result was given both ways, Grant and Colfax of course being declared elected. Both Houses of Congress have just passed a resolution proposing an amendment of the Constitution by the removal of existing disqualifications for the suffrage by reason of race, colour, or nativity. Had the English Parliament passed such a resolution, the reform in question would follow as a matter of course ; but this is not the case in America. Each of the States has its local Legislature, and many important functions with which the central authority cannot interfere are reserved to the Provincial Govern. ments. Among these is the important proviso that the constitution of the United States cannot be modified unless two-thirds of the States individually agree to the change. Hence the resolution respecting the suffrage must be submitted to all the local Legislatures, so that the action of Congress amounts to nothing more than a recommendation that the question be dealt with. THE MINISTRY. There are various rumours with reference to the alleged split in the Cabinet. Liberal and Conserva tive journals agree in asserting that there is such a split. One of the latter class states that the Cabinet has been discussing the propriety of passing a Suspensory Bill, so that pending a settl emen t o f th e Irish Church question no fresh appointments may be made by the Crown. The English Independent attaches considerable im portance to the absence of the Queen from the opening of Parliament. Our contemporary does not accept the assigned reason that her Majesty's health will not permit her to engage in so brief a ceremony as this, but believes that the real reason why the three estates of the realm are not brought together is, that there is some want of cordiality between the Queen and her Ministers. THE REPRESENTATION OP THE CITY According to the Star it is by no means finally settled that Baron Rothschild shall be the Liberal candidate for the seat vacant through the death of Mr. Bell. No meeting has yet been held, nor will there be one until Monday, when several names will be mentioned for discussion. The Star gives those of Sir B. Phillips, Mr. K. D. Hodgson (formerly M.P. for Bridport, and an unsuccessful candidate at Falmouth, in November), Sir J. Lubbock, the banker (who was unsuccessful in Mid-Surrey), and Mr. Thomson Hankey (who lost his seat at Peter borough), as well as Baron Rothschild. A MONTH'S ELECTION PETITIONS. The Daily News publishes a list of the election petitions so far as they were disposed of during the month ending Feb. 12. Of 24 petitions presented against Liberal members, 11 were not proceeded with, 10 were not sustained on inquiry, and only three were successful. The members unseated were Mr. Devereux, through an informality ; Mr. Whitworth, for intimidation; and Mr. Ripley for treating. No election at which a Liberal was returned has yet been rendered void through bribery, and in only one instance has a peti tion presented by a Conservative petitioner been sustained—that of Drogheda. Of 15 petitions pre sented against Conservatives, nine have been with drawn, two failed, and four have been successful. Sir Arthur Guinness and Sir Henry Stracey were un seated for bribery, Sir R. A. Glass for treating, and Mr. Phipps for intimidation. THE VOLUNTEERS. The enthusiastic supporters of the volunteers have no idea of letting their enthusiasm be cooled by the refusal of the Government to increase the grant. Another deputation has waited on Mr. Cardwell to try to get his assistance in the matter, and Lord Elcho is still writing letters to the Times. The deputation, however, did not get a promise of the money the volunteers so much wish for. The War Secretary promised every help in the way of sheds, of " facilities for head-quarters," of arms, stores, et hoc genus omne ; but he could not give any largeregrant. After the answer so decisively given before, the present deputation could hardly have anticipated any more favourable reply. Lord Elcho's letters to the Times are interesting as giving one view of the way in which our national forces should be organised. He proposes that the nation should be arranged into military districts; that each district shall have a general over it ; that under him there shall be all forces, regular and reserved ; and that once a year he shall bring together all the men under his command, and train them together. Thus the volunteers would learn how to act in case of war, the forces would be com bined, and the great desideratum, local organisation, would be attained. Lord Elcho also proposes to rearrange the drill-book, to reduce the number of volunteer companies and increase their maximum strength, and to form the volunteers into brigades. lie will not hear for a moment, however, of reducing or confining the total number of volunteers, though, if that be needful, he would do substantially the same thing by increasing the strength required for each company, so that a weak corps should be expunged from the Army List. CORPORATION PROPERTY. Lord Derby, in his speech on the Irish Church, laid down the principle that any argument tending to the disendowment of the Irish Church would apply with equal weight to the "confiscation " of the property held by the corporations of the City of London. Mr. Maguire, M.P., appears to have been convinced by the Earl's argument. But instead of concluding that it would be wrong to take away the property of the Irish Church, his " current of thought" led him to regard corporation , property as being misapplied; and therefore as being ' worthy of confiscation." At the Ministerial banquet the Prime Warden of the Fishmongers called attention to Mr. Maguire's motion for a commission of inquiry vn the subject. He declared that the funds were not misapplied. " The company was never intended to supply fish to the people. The charter does not impose any such duty. It empowers us to seize and condemn unwholesome fish, for which purpose we keep three officers constantly, and large quantities of unwhole some fish are seized and condemned by them. The charities and aid in support of the members of the company and their widows and children, which were the main objects in the establishment of the company, have been carried out on a very extensive scale. Our estates in Ireland were purchased with our own funds, and were not a grant from the Crown. The price paid wasthe fair market value of the estates at the ti me o f th e i r purchase. " Nevertheless, it is a fact that a larg e por ti on o f t h e corporations spend their money in f eas ti ng an d " good living, " having no other us e f or it , w hil e t h e i r schools are totallyinadequate to present wants. METROPOLITAN PAUPERISM • The statistics of our metropolitan charities which have lately been laid before the public have naturally attracted a good deal of attention. The Times thinks that a survey of the figures must produce mingled disgust and despair, but at first sight the state of things seems beyond the reach of remedy. Much of the money would never be subscribed if the fancies of the subscribers were thwarted; and as regards one of the worst features of the case, the cost of collection, it must be remem bered that much of the outlay is necessary to bring in the subscriptions. The cure must rest with the public itself, and the Times takes credit for having supplied it with information enough to set it thinking. The Daily News is more sanguine as to our social prospects, and believes that the worst of the crisis in the East-end has passed. Pauperism has undoubtedly decreased in Poplar and Stepney, though something may be due to the migration of the vagrant population to more liberal parishes. The state of wretchedness in many parts of the East-end, where the mania for drink ismost strongly developed, is past description. Men working in the stoneyards spend their few pence in beer and tobacco, and have been known to barter some of the loaves they receive for pints of ale. The women are not always better, but often spend some of their weekly dole on glasses of g in. When we find the receipts of the publicans undiminished by the severe distress, we must acknow ledge the fact to be startling. The whole sues , tion is surrounded by difficulties, and it is encouraging to find that a conference has been held at the Adelphi, consisting of persons interested in the administration of our charities, to consider the best means of obtaining united action. The Bishop of London presided, and the chief points connected with the subject were dis cussed. The most unsatisfactory part of the matter is that all our immense expenditure, private and paro chial, fails to attain its object. We pauperise those whom we endeavour to assist ; we encourage the worthless, and we leave many really destitute unrelieved. Our boards ;of guardians certainly deal with the question in a narrow spirit. Either people do not require assistance, or they are really in want which calls for relief. In the one case, they should have no aid from parish money; in the other they should have enough to live upon allowed them. Sevenpence and 41b. of bread daily for a man, his wife, and two children, as proposed to be granted by the guardians of St. Pancras, serves neither to discourage the idle nor to relieve the honest poor. THE PFJULISSIVE BILL. The United Kingdom Alliance is promoting the trepaektion of petitions in favour of the Permissive Bill which Sir Wilfrid Lawson will ask leave to introduce during the coming session. The object of 'hi. hill i s t o ena bl e th e ratenavers o f any parish to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquors within that parish. The Alliance News gives a list of 550 parishes with a population of nearly 90,000, in the ecclesias tical province of Canterbury, which contain no public houses or beershops. In these cases it is the landowners wi29, on their own authority, prevent a traffic which the Alliance seeks to enable the r a t e p ayers t o pre vent. rri so me "ounties the numb er o f par i s h es i s very large ; thus, in . Herefordshire, the land of cider, prohibitory pari s h es ; i n there are ni ne t y - n i ne ' Leicestershi re an d Li nco shire th e num b er i s not e' much smaller. Derbyshire .h.." only one, an d Corn wall only three such parishes: The difference between Cornwall and llereford is very remarkable : the first is the most temperate, and !'he second one of the most drunken counties in En land. This would seem to imply that where the evil of drunken ness is most felt, there the landowntrs are most earnest in putting it dow.n. On the other hand, where the people are naturally temperate, the land owners do not think it necessary to interfere. A letter from Portland (Mai:n.o states that the Maine Law is now being enforced with great vigour. The Falmouth Hotel, which beloligs to one of the richest men in the United States, the orm. ler of one eighth of the city of Portland, has been fined thrice for violating the law; amid as the pert conviction would involve imprisonment, the barkof the hotel has been closed. " TELEGRAPHS. The order has been given to the Telegraph Con struction and Maintenance Company for the manu facture of the cable which is to be laid next cola season between Suez and Bombay, and the work will be commenced as soon as the Franco-American cable is finished. The two cables are of exactly the same length-3,600 nautical miles. The Hon. R. Grimston, chairman of the Electric and International Telegraph Company, has been criticising the article in the Edinburgh Review. He said: " I will assume that Mr. Scudamore's estimate o f £6,000,000 for the purchase of the telegraphs is the correct one. It is very well known that the Government would have no difficulty in raising £6,000,000 at 31 per cent. per annum, which would amount to £210,000 a-year. Now I have only to refer you to the printed accounts of this company and of the British and Irish Magnetic Company, for the year ending 31st December, 1868, to prove that these two companies alone shew a net profit available for dividend of £171,843 IBs. 11d. and £65,582 ss. 9d. respectively, and that these two sums added together amount to £237,426 4s. Bd l a sum sufficient to meet the whole of the interest incurred in raising the £6,000,000 estimated to be necessary for the purchase of the entire telegraph system of the United Kingdom, besides leaving a handsome surplus (some £27,000) by way of profit on the transaction." A NEW CLASS OF TAXPAYERS. It is not generally known that dogs not only are liable to duty, but have to pay that duty q'n proprid perscnici. The terms of the new dog license are as follows :—" I, being duly authorised by the Commis sioners of Inland Revenue, do hereby license A. 8., residing at ---, to keep one dog, from the date hereof until the 31st day of December, 1869, he having paid the sum of five shillings for this license. —Wm. CORBETT." MR. REVERDY JOHNSON ON THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. - - - His Excellency the Ambassador from the United States to this country does not spare us his eloquence. If the differences between our own country and his might be set aside by much talking, he would certainly succeed. lie has been speaking very freely again at Glasgow. It seems that Lord Stanley rather complained to him of " letting the cat out of th e bag " in his speeches. To which Mr. Johnson retorted that it was not right to put a cat into a bag, or to use a bag to put a cat in. Mr. Johnson has also had some conversation with Lord Russell about the Alabama. The noble earl assured him that he had tried to stop the vessel from going out, but he could not. Mr. Johnson naturally wanted to know why. The one time Foreign Secretary replied that the American Ambassador had not the slightest idea what a red tape set we English were, and " stuffed" Mr. Johnson with st or i es o f l aw officers and an " insane gentleman." This said insane gentleman was the only one who could prove that the Alabama was going on an illegal voyage, and Earl Russell had to wait until he got sane before he could act; and he did not get sane until the Alabama was on the high seas. Mr. Johnson congratulated everybody that he of the United States, and we of G rea t B r it a i n , had resolved " that, instead of referring the existing or future contro versies to the God of battle, we will refer them to the God of justice." hie further assured his hearers that there was nothing in the much-talked-of Con vention which would sully the honour of England. FOREIGN NOTES, THE EASTERN DIFFICULTY. Very dangerous has been the Ministerial crisis at Athens, and very narrow has been the escape from war. In fact, King George's necessity has been the Greek's Opportunity ; the young sovereign has avoided the loss of his crown only by yielding up some of his privileges. Zaimis, the new Premier, is unknown to fame, Ebut he appears to be a personage of whom Europe is likely to hear more. When the King first sent for him, he accepted the task of forming a Ministry, and succeeded ; but " at half-past nine in the evening" he received a letter informing him that the sovereign declined his services. It now transpires that the astute Zaimis laid down as indispensable conditions that the Chamber of Deputies should be dissolved if it still disavowed adhe sion to the protocol, that the Administration should be carried on free from all Court influence, that a proclamation should be issued to the people justifying the Ministry in yielding to the Great Powers, and that a memorial should be addressed to the various Courts proving that Greece had received scant justice at the Con ference. The King declared that he could not accept these terms. Nevertheless, a Zaimis Ministry has been the only resource, and it remains to be seen whether Georgos I. had to give way after all. The excitement at Athens has been intense. Those who had the courage to oppose the current opinion were threatened. Bodies of troops constantly patrolled the streets. The Times publishes an important document—a minute of the Ministerial Council at Athens, dated Dec. 1, 1864 which singularly exemplifies the radical change that has come over Greek policy during the last four years. Then Bourdoures and Comoundouros were in power, and at the meeting of Ministers the latter made a statement to the effect that the Cretans had offered to take up arms in the coming spring. They hoped to effect one of three objects : union with Greece, Cretan autonomy, or a reduction of their taxes by the Porte. The Greek Cabinet refused to support this movement. They recommended the Cretans not to take up arms, but confine their demands to petitioning the Sultan and the Great Powers that the promises given to them concerning the diminu tion of their taxes should be carried into execution. There can now be no doubt, Boudoures says, that the Cretan insurrection was a spontaneous movement, not fomented either by Russia or France. The annexation of Crete, according to the ex-statesman, is the constantaspi ration of Cretan patriots , as well as many si ncere th oug h reckless politicians in Greece. But if the attempt was imprudent in 1864 it is not less imprudent in 1869, and where are the statesmen who formerly declined the "policy of rashness ?" Comoundouros has no party in Greece, and Boudoures emerges from obscurity only to publish this document. _ _ _ The Pesth correspondent of the Temps says that the sympathies of the Servians are all on the aide of Greece. It is little likely that the Danubian State would remain neutral in case of war, and the Porte is fully aware of this. It has sent a commission, at the head of which is a German officer of great ability, to carefully examine all the passes which lead from Servia into Montenegro. This latter State is even more ready for insurrection, and Roumania could be counted upon in case a reverse befel the Turks. The writer concludes that a war would almost infallibly result in the destruction of the Ottoman power by the disaaffected races. GERMANY. The Vienna journals state that the efforts of King Lieorge of Hanover and the ex-Elector of Hesse to gain Prince Adolphus of Nassau to their cause, and to persuade him to join in their intrigues against Prussia, have failed. The ex-King, too, has vainly attempted to procure the mediation of the British Government in his quarrel with the Prussian Court. The Duke of Cambridge, has, how ever, undertaken to furnish his good offices, on thb condition that King George puts an end to all intriguing and come to reside in England. SPAIN. The Assembly elected by universal suffrage has made a lively beginning. The meeting a ppears to have been less a gathering of the national representatives than a popular demonstration at which parliamentary precedent was utterly set at nought. At the opening of the chamber the crowd rushed in regardless of admission by ticket, which had been laid down as the rule. After Marshal Serrano had read an address and declared the Cortes open, twenty-mr: guns were fired, and the head of the Government called upon the Assembly to give three cheers for the national sovereignty, a Legislative performance in which all present took part. Then, according to the Daily News correspon. dent, the crowd took the business of the nation in hand. It began to cheer lustily for Prim, the Pro- visional Government, and things in general. Unanimity led to strife, and rival cheers for the Republic and the Monarchy brought about great confusion. "Cries of ' Order !' and ' Silence !' arose on all sides, and the President rang his bell anti struck the table for several minutes." At the first meeting, therefore, the mob has done the " business," and the deputies have looked on. When the Provisional Government gets more experience in these matters it will reduce the number of non-members to but a small fraction of the whole House. The Temps says that out of 346 elections the result or which is known, the Progressists number 129 ; the Unionists, 89 ; the Republicans, 7C ; the Democrats, 37; and the Absolutists, 24. This estimate may be taken as substantially accurate. AMERICA. A formality in Conaresq on Wectnetalay - brouzbt about THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The treaty concluded between Lord Clarendon and Mr. Reverdy Johnson is still the great topic of discussion in the United States. The New York Round Tob'e publishes an article which differs greatly from those of most of its American contemporaries in "considering the treaty a triumph for the United States. It urges that the acceptance of arbitration is in itself a recognition of the justice of the claims, because in the first instance England refused conference or arbitration. The umpire provision, which is objected to on both sides the Atlantic, is the only *leans of supplying a defect of inter national law. Finally, it is impossible that English claims against America should be of such a kind as to outweigh American claims against England. The damage done to American shipping by the Alabama and other ships is calculated at one thousand million dollars ! One-fifth of this sum would pay off the American debt in forty years. The Round Table urges the American people to accept the friendly advances on the other side of the Atlantic. So do we ; but we hope that the Round Table's estimate of the damage I, not auite correct. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Last Wednesday Congress met in joint assembly to count the Presidential electoral votes. By the twelfth amendment to the Constitution, the certi ficates of the electors' votes in each State are trans mitted to the President of the Senate at Washing ton, and on the second Wednesday in February they are opened and counted by him in the pre sence of the Senators and Representatives. A ma jority of the whole number of electors is necessary for a choice, and should there be many scattering votes by which there was a failure in any one can didate to secure that majority, the Representa tives select the President from the three having the highest vote. One would suppose it was plain sailing last Wednesday, as Grant car ried nearly all the States; but where But ler comes on the stage a row is the usual consequence. The House voted to exclude Georgia, but the Senate voted to admit that State. An ex cited scene ensued, says the Times' correspondent, General Butler and the Hon. Ben. Wade being conspicuous in the confusion. It was a mere ques tion of principle whether Georgia was to be counted or not, for either way it had no effect whatever on the business in hand. It was Mr. Wade's duty to count the votes and to announce the decision, and thus perhaps he became conspicuous. As to Butler, we may be quite certain that he was the prime mover of the distgrbance. Mr. Wade seems to have settled the dispute by declaring Grant and Colfax elected, with Georgia included, and then declaring Grant and Colfax elected, with Georgia excluded. The Secretary of the Treasury has made his usual monthly statement of the public debt of the United States, which shows that its total amount on the Ist of February was $2,662,400,000, being an increase of $9,800,000 during the month. Ano ther telegram, however, puts the figures at $2,662,250,000, against $2,652,500,000 on the Ist ult., being an increase of $9,750,000. The cash in the Treasury amounted to $106,250,000—viz , $88,750,000 in coin and $17,500,000 currency, against $111,750,000 last month, being a decrease of $5,500,000. The Government expenditure dur ing the month of January was in excess of the re ceipts $16,000,000, but the sender of the telegram does not state that the whole month was devoted to the enormous payments required to meet much of the interest due on the national debt. The Copper Tariff Bill, which has now passed both Houses of Congress, and is before the President, as introduced, provided the following increase of duties : Regulus: black and coarse Present duty. New duty. copper ... nc. per lb. 4c. per lb. Old copper... per lb. 4c. per lb. Copper in plates, pigs, &c. 2c. per lb. sc. per lb. Copper in ore per lb. 3c. per lb. On copper ore the effect of this increase is to add $5O 40c. in gold duty upon the ton of 2,2401 b. But we are not aware what modifications were made by the Senate when they sent it back to the House. The battle was between the Lake Supe rior miners and the Atlantic shore smelters of the metal. The former quarry and extract pure copper from quartz ; the latter smelt the eulphuret ores of the United States, which they are compelled to mix with carbonate ores imported from South America, on which latter the increased imposts will be levied. The annual consumption is 24,000,0001b5., of which Lake Superior supplies 9,000,000 and the smelters 15,000,000. The latter, then, is the greater inte rest, not only more cheaply producing the ore (for the smelters thrive while the miners starve), but their industry adds to the revenue. Htsce arises the question whether it is wise, even from a protec tion point of view, to sacrifice the more important native industry to the less important. The result will be that ships at least will get their bottoms sheathed in foreign ports, and one source of de mand will be got rid of. The telegraph is now occupying much attention both in England and the United States. We do not doubt that the French line will receive permis sion to land their shore end in the United States as they proposed, though Mr. Reuter's name is one of the worst to be attached to any petition to the Federal Legislature. A bill has been reported, and the Committee on Foreign Relations discharged from further consideration of bills upon submarine cables. The provisions of that bill appear to settle all doubt, and the line will be immediately laid. That to India by the Red Sea is likewise progressing, the British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company having given an order to the Telegraph Con struction and Maintenance Company to proceed' with the manufacture of their cable from Suez to Bombay, via Aden. The length, 3,600 nautical miles, is to be sumerged during the next cold season, and the work will be taken in hand im mediately on the completion of the Franco-Ameri can cable, which is of exactly the same length. In the United States a warm discussion has been car ried on relating to the transfer of the telegraph from private companies to the Government, and that discussion has been fatal to any such change. Mr. George B. Prescott, one of the district super intendents, has given much information in a book and in some articles he has written. He shows the enormous growth of the agency in the United States, and how cheaply and efficiently the work is done. This comes out very forcibly in a compari son between the Republic and the countries of Europe. Indeed it contrasts favourably with any thing else done in the United States or anywhere else, and there is a good old proverb upon which the public feel induced to act—" to leave well alone." Governor Brownlow resigns on the 26th Feb. his Governorship of Tennessee, so as to be in his place in the Senate on the 4th March, as Mr. Pat terson's successor. The lion. De Witt Senter, the Speaker of the Tennessee Senate, will succeed Mr. Brownlow as Governor for the unexpired term. Mr. Senter has been for many years in public life in Tennessee, is a man of good ability, and if he turns out well he may be re-elected next August, though Colonel Stokes is talked of as the Repub lican candidate. Andrew Johnson will, it is thought, certainly run as the Democratic standard bearer, and he is expected to arrive at Nashville about the end of March. His platform, according to a Nashville correspondent, is universal amnesty and impartial suffrage, and his ultimate aim the seat in the Senate in succession to Mr. Fowler, whose place will be vacant in 1871. The bill introduced by Senator Yates for abo lishing the probationary feature, which, in the Naturalization Act, stands between an immigrant and his right as a man when he gets ashore in the States, shows the length to which some legislators of the United States are prepared to go. Each State now has its own laws for regulating the rights of the foreign born to claim its citizenship, as well as to vote as an American. These Senator Yates would abolish by an Act of the Federal Legislature. Ile thus explains in a letter to a friend the principle of his bill—" That the probationary feature of the present law was born of fear, and the false idea that the measure of men's rights is a certain standard of intelligence, that we must arrogate to ourselves certain pecaliar privileges on account of birth. I am opposed to all such ideas. Manhood is the magic word which opens the door to all progress, all ex cellence, all privileges." He then goes on to meet the emigrant with the following address :-- " You have Coandoned the home of your youth, the graves of your sires, the associations of a lifetime, to join the grand army of this progressive Government. Wel come ! The same Creator who gave us this fair land sent you, though a Hale later than our fathers came, to the Western wilderness, to join us in the great march to glory and renown." Remarking on this gushing salutation the Nation says—" Most emigrants, on hearing this discourse, would either button up their pockets or make pre parations to join the Senator on a spree. It has no more bearing on the " probationary feature" than on the resumption of specie payments. Such an address would do no more to prepare the emigrant ' for his new duties and responsibilities than an invi tation from the quarantine officer " to meet him by moolight alone," or " come to his bosom" in the character of a " stricken deer." The whole per formance deserves attention, we repeat, as an illus tration of the state of mind in which many of our legislators approach some of the most serious ques tions of the day." Whatever.may be tbevalue of the proposed change in the naturalization laws, it is certain that unless measures are taken to check the growing frauds in voting, that the genuine sentiment of the country will be defeated by that party which produces the most skilful wire pullers and is least checked by any scruples. From evidence given before a Pennsyl vania Legislative Committee it appears from one witness who spoke, as if claiming praise for a day's work, so energetic, that he voted 20 times between 8 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. He was followed by another, whose exploit was as great. Eliott also contrived to cast a score, while Rowan only managed to throw ten ; but the latter was one of ten voters who meandered about all day, voting the ticket for which they were paid. As fast as they arrived each was served with a slip of paper, whereon was written his name, resi dence, and occupation ; everywhere in due course be found a new slip with a fresh name, residence, and occupation. One paper suggests how the repeaters could add greatly to their utility by the simple ex pedient of learning to get over the ground quickly on velocipedes. After Mr. Washburne's speech we last week con densed against the indiscrimate railway grants of Congress, it is not surprising to find the Senate, though with two votes only, throwing out the grant of $2,400,000 to the Central Pacific. A strong effort was made by the lobby to get the bill through, but it failed, though we suppose it will soon reap pear in a new form. The Alaska business seems to have satisfied the citizens of the Republic that other means must be found for increasing " the area of freedom" than by wrenching from the country the gold it can so ill spare. Mr. Seward has distinctly denied that there are any negotiations going on for the purchase of Cuba, though he admits that six or eight months ago overtures had been made at Madrid, through the American Minister, to purchase the island. A party of the revolutionary officers have landed in the States to buy arms and ammunition, and no doubt the Government at Washington is in posses sion of all they can tell, and this has left the im- pression that the insurrection will be successful, in which event Cuba will apply to the Union for ad mission as a State. But, successful or not, the people have emphatically condemned these purchases as not only a waste of money, but derogatory to the dignity of the Union ; in fact, the Republic ought to be paid for taking these wretched communities under its protection instead of paying to add them to its territory. The claim to the island of Alta Vela has been thoroughly investigated, and will soon be pronounced upon. Mr. Washburne of Illinois came out strongly in the 1-louse on Jan. 27th on its expenses. He be lieved that the constituents of members if fully acquainted with their extravagance would run the whole lot of them into the Potomac. He would tell them what the expenses of the House were— Capitol police, $65,000 ; clerks, $BO,OOO ; Ser geant-at-Arms, $6,000 ; post-office, $20,000 ; labourers, $16,000 ; folding-room, $60,000 ; door keepers, $44,000 ; Clerks to Committee, $36,000 ; pages, $B,OOO ; total, $335,000. Referring to other items for the Capitol police, Mr. Washburne said there had been a howl got up last session that Andrew Johnson was about to take possession of the Capitol. He was called to order for charging mem bers with howling, when he went on to assert that the House had then armed a little brigade of police which cost $65,000 a year, making up $335,000 annually, to keep up the machinery of the House of Representatives. There are three American steam lines in contem plation to be established between New York and Europe. Mr. Bushnell of Connecticut represents those interested in the bill passed last session, and he was lately at Washington to give evidence to the Postal Committee. He then explained what additional legislation the company required before they could complete their steamers and get them into operation. The President of another com pany was also before the Committee with a bill for the establishment of that line, which, it is said, has been favourably received, though none, we feel sure, will pass without close investigation. The first of the three propositions now before the Committee was presented by Mr. Darby, of Boston, who represents the merchants of that city. He desires a subsidy of 3 per mile to establish a line to run alternately from New York and Boston to European ports. He claims that they have a portion of the ships necessary to establish the line at once. The second was presented by General Rufus Ingalls and Gene ral Pleasonton. They desire a guarantee of the interest and principal on the bonds they ask for. They also desire entire control of the emigrant business, and that it be placed under their jurisdic tion—nothing to be paid, however, on the bonds until the ships are constructed. The third proposi tion was presented by Mr. Barney, claiming to be the representative of a proposed line which has already a contract with the Belgian Government for carrying the mails to the United States. His re quest is for a similar contract for ten years from the Government to carry the ocean mail, and claims to be ready to commence the service in two months with such steamers as the Arago and Fulton. He asks that the material for building new ships for the line be admitted duty free. The San Francisco journals have taken up the subject, about which we lately wrote, of a line of steamships to Australia, via the Sandwich Islands. They maintain with us that it is the true route, assert ing that passengers from the Atlantic coast will be able to reach Sydney on the completion of the Pacific Railway, and the establishment of such a fleet, under a month. If so, as they can get to New York from London in ten days; the time to Sydney from the metropolis will be but forty days. The Athericen trade with the Sandwich Islands now employs over a thousand vessels, and is rapidly in creasing in the one item of sugar alone the im port for 1868 was 20,000,0001b5. The Australian trade employs 1,100 vessels, and both combined for the last fifteen years represent a sum of $38,000,000. The Feejee Islands will soon fur nish a considerable exchange of commodities with Australia, and a line that picked up the trade of both the Sandwich and Feejee Islands, as well as the through route, could scarcely fail to do well, as, we endeavoured a year ago to point out to the Panama and New Zealand Company. It was last week announced that the stock holders of the Columbus, Chicago, and Indiana Central Railway Company had refused to ratify a lease of their road and property to the Erie com bination. It now appears that the Pennsylvania Central has beaten the Erie in this particular, as, on the 29th Jan., the stockholders agreed to a lease of their road being granted in perpetuity to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and St. Louis and the Pennsylvania Railroad Companies. It is evident that the great lines are girding up their loins for a tremendous struggle to absorb the lion's share of the traffic over the Union Pacific Railway. The English shareholders as yet have little idea what 3 grand future is before these lines ; honest ma nagement only being required to place them among the best investments open. Although we dare say that Congress will even tually grant a pension to Mrs. Lincoln, yet the report of the Committee on Pensions, to which the resolution was referred, is unfavourable and against it. It is opposed to the letter and spirit of any existing law, and the committee state that no evi dence or reasons have been furnished why the pro vision should be made. If the intention be to pro vide for the lady, under the guise of a pension, it should have been referred to another committee. That on pensions had not thought it compatible for years to recommend special pensions, or of greater amount than allowed by law. Had the Committee considered that amount too small, their course was to report a bill affecting all similar cases, but for a spe" cial increase on account of extraordinary military or naval services the proper reference would be to the military or naval committee. Although they reported against the general resolution, they leaving the amount blank, as they have no authority brought forward a bill granting a pension, while for going beyond $3O a month. Mrs. Lincoln wrote a letter, which was read in the Senate and has been published in the papers, asking for the pension, as necessary to enable her to live, but this is consi dered to have been ill advised and prejudicial to her case. It frequently happens. in the United States that some family falls into a great estate in Europe, but it more frequently still happens that a United States family pursue vigorously a Will-o'-the-WisP estate to Europe. The Ingrahams lately made 3 claim in the city of Leeds, valuing the estate they were after at £20,000,000. The heirs of Nicholas Albertson, who lately assembled at St. Charles's Hotal, Pittsburg, were not in pursuit of so big a fish , but still the estate they claim in the city of Amsterdaalt Holland, now in the hands of that Government, is valued $50,000,000. Can we wonder that the pro ceedings of the twenty heirs assembled were ener; getic and harmonious. C o l one l W m . B. Okison, Pennsylvania, was selected as an agent to look afte r the property. Two thousand dollars was raised , with the promise of more, to defray his expenses' all to be ready by the Ist of February—to be lodge' in the Exchange Bank of Pittsburg, subject t° order. Nicholas Albertson landed in America iu 1730, and the family trace their origin to lit° They are sanguine of success, and their agent S' to prepare at once to start for Europe. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short ... 11191 ... 12 1 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 1 . 121 1 1 Autwerp — ... 25 35 ..... 25 40 Brussels ' ... 25 35 ... 25 4 0 Hamburgh — ... 13 10 ... 13 10i Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 12 0 1 - ,: Vienna ." ... 12 27 ... 'l2 .3 2 1, Trieste — ... 12 27 ... 12 3 2 1 Petersburg Copenhagen., ..... -- , 9 20 .•• 9 24 Berlin Madrid.. Cadi7 — ... 481: ... 48k Leghorn Milan — ... 26 35 ... 26 4 5. Genoa — ... 26 35 „. 26 45 Naples Palermo — ." 26 35 ... 26 43 Messina Lisbon — ... 52 1 ... 52 Oporto s2_t ... ... 521 Rio Janeiro New York — - - __ -- The Transcript, Nevada county, Dec. 3, says " Some time ago a company of Chinese bought „a mine at Manzanita-bill, Sweetland, and commove' work. The " Melican" Miners had been runnliT , ', for the lead on the west side and s o uth e nd of the hill. The Chinamen made a verage runs , taking „It about $3,000 at each clean up, and started in on t' east side near Wo o d' s h o t e l . A s h ort t i me si l : l6a 0 . they struck the t rue lead, and have since been taking out from $12,000 t o $14,000." November 300:6'; A correspondent, wri ti ng f rom Whi te Pi ne , says - " The mill of th e Whi te Pine M. and M. Compnl3.l erected at this place by Jeremiah Miller, commove% operations about ten d a y s ago , s i nce w hi c h time l a has been ru nn i ng w i t h grea t success, cril , b j r, small lots of o re , mos tl y f rom Chl or id e Flat. Vfc'.od t out knowing exac tl y w h a t t h ese ores have yieA";s in every instance it may he stated that they 115 , milled from $250 to $3OO p er t on , th e resu lts beles highly satisfactory to the miners. The Oasis 1131 cit at Shermantown is running again on the Eberha rd ores, having lately co m plet e d a cons id era bl e crush ingt. fr om t h e S tonewa ll c l a i m on C hlor id e Fl, O The ores from this claim yielded from $3OO to $ 4 ,1 0 per ton, the Eberhardt a verag i ng a b out $BOO. th Treasure Hill mill, being erected about a mile sou„ of this town, is now being pushed rapidly forward t° wards completion, and it is expected will be runnle.l; before Christmas. The machinery for anothei, mill to be put up at Shermantown has Ps rt b l o arrived, that for one or two others being on t,, way. Still additional mills are talked of ar to be brought into the district during the wiv i t i e ; and it would not be su r p r i s i ng if we had ha i t' v ., dozen or more running here by the spring.. Greely, the assayer to the White Pine Mill a' o , Mining Company, to-day ca s t f our s il v er ing° t 1 . 0 weighing 1,236 ounces each, being the first bath ever produced in Hamilton. They are fr ° fi a amalgam turned out by the co m p an y' s mill, 9- 0 , are the product of miscellan eous l o t s of ° l 'd, With the present favourable weather a g oo deal deal of work is being done upon t h e nin e The Eberhardt Company, h av i ng comp l e t e d the; .. ore-house and new hoisting shaft, are again 1.3 1 ,0 ing ore from their mi ne . Th e K eystone is aTs yielding ores freely, while from various otbol; such as the Hidden Treasure, the two Auro r t; Genesee, Stonewall, & c ., considerable quantit l is are being taken out d a ily. G r e a t a ctivity preva% on Chloride Flat, two-thirds of those sinking shaf!' ll in that locality having found good millable, and many cases very high grade, ore. LADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and -.-, - „at Conclusive Evidence.—Scarcely a day passes w"'" - o f leaving behind it some plods of the curative power ia di Holloway's world-esteemed oi n t men t an d pills. A, .`„h, writes from New 011erton, N o tt s , o n th e 7th Dian 1864 :—" I beg leave to state that a few weeks ago 1 la the misfortune to bruise my leg most severely. 1° r iot great surprise and inexpressibl e d e li g ht your won se , remedies were no sooner appli e d th an th ey ga ve ° jo stopped inflammation, and made a perfect cure in an •g, credibly short time." T es ti mon i es suc h as th e foregel o p o which might be multiplied to any extent, should eeu, s ar a the afflicted, and giv e h ope t o t h e d espa i r i ng, when w - out by maladies which seem unrelievable. Births. t he FREMANTLE —On the 11th inst., at 5, Tilney-street, do, wife of Lieut.-Colonel Fremantle, Coldstream OLIO of a daughter, stillborn. GODFREY —On the Bth inst., at 29, Spital-square, "-' gate, Mr. Valentine Godfrey, l3j9 aged 43. ,fitirt aL RUSSELL—On the 12th inst., at 26, Curzon-street, ki - the Lady Charlotte Russell, of a son. Marriages. G . MANLEY—DARTON—On the 9th inst., at SheernoSs7 N. Manley, Esq., V.G., Royal Artill er y, to Maria -",, of both, eldest daughter of the late T. H. DilrtoD7 Es`o Temple Dinsley, Hertfordshire. , Pie', WALTON—GORDON- -On the Bth inst., at St. James 51 1 , 0 d0 cadilly, Oriel Parnell Walton, eldest son of Thos. iciest Walton, Esq., of Clifton, to Katharine Augusta, el daughter of Lord and Lady Cocil Gordon. eahs. ~'t CASSELS - On the 6th inst. D , at t Oporto, John Cass°''' , ' Sq aged 56. par aoo Goss—On the 10th inst., at Clapham_ k, JAW° Esq., aged 75. 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