The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-11 00:00:00

-mail& TIES PUBLIC JOURNALS, A great Ballot meeting, according to the Star, is to take place in the Arundel Hall, on the evening of the 15th. under the presidency of Mr. Milner Gibson. That gen• tleman, in the opinion of the Star, is the very man to carry the Ballot. He is popular both in the country ani' in Parliament, and has the prestige of success. But whether Mr. Milner Gibson is to be the new Ballot leader or not—and in congratulating the friends of the Ballot on selecting him as their chairman for the 15th, there is no sort of reflection on either Mr. Berkeley, Sir Henry Bulwer, or Mr. Leatham—it is quite certain a very strong movement in favour of secret voting is about ,to begin. The late elections have not diminished, but increased, the presumptive evidence in its favour. The open adhesion of Mr. Glyn, the favourable expressions of Cabinet Ministers, and especially the significant expressions of Mr. Gladstone on the hustings at Greenwich, lead irre sistibly to the conclusion that the old prejudices and hos tilities may be .stormed with an excellent prospect of immediate success; and a hope of this sort is often more spurring than the most desperate exigencies of warfare. Very likely the Ballot may prove at the meeting of Parlia ment a foregone conclusion. In_ that the country will owe much to the Ballot Society; much to fine old Radi cals such as Mr. Grote, who many years ago supplied all their successors with abundance of missiles and the best proof armour ; much to more recent orators such as Mr. Bright, who have, in season and out of season, kept the rudder of popular opinion firmly in the direction which events are now likely to take. Liberals w:io have faith in their print plea need not hesitate to discount their triumph. Come it must some day. Come it probably will with great speed. And when it comes it will be a real and fruitful victory. To carry the Ballot will not be merely carrying a point. It will be the fulfilment of hopes as high and pure as ever inspired political action. It will be the assertion of individual liberty, the overthrow of illegitimate control, the paralysis of pecuniary corruption, the frustration of the intimidator, the establishment of order —in fact, the regeneration of our whole electoral system. These results, indeed, may be looked forward to with satisfaction by all politicians who believe in the potency of political truth--by all politicians, in fact, who do not rely on base means for the unscrupulous promotion of unworthy ambitions. But Liberals have a sound and wholesome confidence that the ultimate issues of the new and safely-secured electoral freedom will be specially in their favour. For though corruption and influence may occasionally have served the good cause, they are statedly and normally arrayed against it ; and it is corruption and influence which the Ballot is about to banish from our elections. The Daily News considers that our criminal procedure in cases of murder is hopelessly inefficient, and cites numerous instances in which innocent men have narrowly escaped the extreme penalty of the law. It sometimes happens by an unfortunate mistake that the murderer gets into the witness-box, while the chief witness against him is in the dock, when the results of the trial almost in evitably defeat the ends of justice. That the appoint ment of a public prosecutor would tend to remedy some admitted evils, is generally allowed. It is a reform which would have been made long ago had not its advocates been too lethargic, and fonder of discussion than action. If those who have made up their minds would but put their shoulders to the wheel, the work would speedily be accomplished. Other changes, such as that of permitting a prisoner charged with murder to tell his own story, and to appeal from the court which tries him to a court of criminal appeal, are still agitating the minds of professional men.. That they would be improvements is highly probable. That they would lead to grave abuses is very unlikely. Certain it is that no one defends the present system as a whole, or denies that it can be amended. The writer in the TVes minster Review does not exaggerate when he states the case in these few but pithy words :—" At present Justice allows herself to be both shackled and surprised ; she cannot pursue her inquiries effectually before the trial ; she is liable to sudden surprises at the trial ; she has no opportunity allowed her of further consideration "or investigation." Perhaps the strongest argument for change is contained in the simple statement that out of every ten murderers nine go scot free. The staunchest opponents of capital punishment must unite with its advocates in deprecating a system under which this result is possible. Colonel Sleeman broke up the organisation of the Thugs in India. If we do not provide now for the more effectual detection of murderers in Eng land, we shall perhaps be obliged hereafter to lament that Thuggee, banished from its native home, has taken root in English soil. The Telegraph, asks why the Civil Service should be associated with insolvency. The poor pay of the service does not suffice to explain the enigma, because the clerks of bankers, merchants, &c., receive lower remuneration, and yet they struggle on without paying sixty per cent. for loans, and finally clearing off their debts in the Bank ruptcy Court. Another reason often assigned is, that Government clerks are expected to keep up the manners, tone, style, and appearance of gentlemen, and are there fore driven into a rate of expenditure beyond their means, We suppose that somewhere in the archives of Downing. street may be preserved a copy of the original minute which ordains the dismissal of a clerk unless he orders his coats in Bond-street or Savile-row, lives in tolerably fashionable lodgings, and keeps himself abreast of the theatrical and other amusements of the town. We have never, indeed, seen a copy of this famous decree ; but that it exists there can be little doubt, from the creditable exer tions of the civil servants to comply with the spirit, if not the letter, of its commands. Nevertheless, there still remains the mystery why a young man employed to copy letters all day in Whitehall should be a fashionable young gentleman, while another young man doing exactly similar work in the City should be considered rather humble than otherwise ; the West-end clerk going into good society with ease, the East-ender relegated to Islington or Peckham. If we turned all Government offices into places of real work, we should not have them full of very fashionable young men, some with independent incomes of their own. These favoured persons would then cease to set their poorer colleagues an example of idleness, extravagance, and debt ; and a more industrious and more economical array of servants would supersede the present generation —many of whom are good-for-nothing gentlemen of family and fortune. A working Civil Service would be utterly unfit for men of this stamp ; they would soon vote it " low ;" and the " labour test " applied in Downing. street would induce them to resign by the score. The Herald declares that there could not be a more extraordinary example in all the history of crime than the confession of William Sheward, respecting the murder of his wife, in the year 1851. The man, accord. ing to his own showing, had been twice married, had a family, was unfortunate in busiaess, had taken to ardent liquors, and lost this wife, whoever she was, and whatever her age, exactly when she was about to enjoy a handsome legacy. Again, it is a notice able fact that, although fragments of humanity were found, and although he disappeared from the locality, nobody ever suspected him. Seventeen years after wards, when he was perfectly safe from suspicion, he comes forward and says that he committed the crime. But the people who remembered the date declare that they do not recognise him as the man. Of course, unless an individual's sanity be satisfactorily challenged his confes sion of a crime holds good ; but there are so many circum stances of mystery and even of incredibility surrounding this matter, that we do not envy the jury who will have to decide upon it, and who will have to say whether the man under remand at Norwich was or was not guilty of the crime. A PRETTY WOMAN.—A pretty woman is one of the institutions of the country—an angel in muslin and glory. She makes sunshine, blue sky, and happiness wherever she goes. Her path is one of delicious roses, per fume, and beauty. She is a sweet poem, written in rare colours and choice silk, and good principles. Men stand up before her as so many admiration points. Her words float around the ear like music, birds of Paradise, or the perfumes of the Sabbath bells. Without her society would lose its truest attraction, the Church its firmest reliance, the young men the very best company. THE HUMILITY OF TRUE GREATNESS.--J re member once on a time a shopkeeper of a town in the north of Ireland, within which it was my province to reside, rose to the dignity of mayor. In the freshness of my youthful feelings, and in a sense of gratitude for the excellence of the pale ale he dealt in, I ventured to congratulate him. Touched, not impossibly by confusion, and the difficulty I experienced in conveying my compliments :vigil t, he stopped me suddenly by saying, " No matter, Mr. O'Dowd. It is a very great and lofty eminence, no doubt, but it shall never make any difference between you and me."—Blackwood. GOLD IN SUTII ERLANDSHIRE. —Every clay serves to show that the gold diggings at Kildonan are an un doubted fact, and that the precious metal is to he found in such abundance as to repay the labour oF searching for it. A great many individuals from Ifelmsdale and neighbour hood, and some from Caithness, have been at Kildonan " propecting," and all have brought home quantities varying from a pennyweight to an ounce. Nearly an ounce was collected by two pers , ms in a couple of days, by simply washing the sand on the banks of a burn. A good many people were inclined to be sceptical about the exist ence of gold in any quantity at Kildonan, but the fact of so many persons finding it almost on the surface has con vinced the most unblieving. Finding gold to the amount of from ss. to 20s. a clay is certainly a convincing argument. But the existence of gold in the North is not confined to Kildonan alone. It has been ascertained that it is to be found on the slopes of the Scarabens and other hills in the neighbourhood, and permission to search for and work it is all that is needed. By all accounts, the hills in the Reay district are equally auriferous.--Forthcyn Ensitnt. THE. NORWICH MURDER. it appears to be now supposed that William Sheward, who is charged on his own confession with the murder of nis first wife, Martha Sheward, at Norwich, in June 1851. will retract his confession, and that he and his friends will endeavour to shew that when he made his statement he was labouring under a kind of monomania. The confession of Sheward seems to be verified by the facts which have been bronght to light, except in one particular, and that is certainly a material one. At the time of the murder Mrs. Sheward must have been approaching her 60th year, and the witnesses examined on Friday, barore the Norw:ch magistrates, referred to her as "an old woman." But the medical gentlemen who examined the remains found near Norwich in June and July 1851, came to the conclusion that they were those of a young woman. This will be seen by the annexed copy of an official placard issued at Norwich towards the close of June 1851 :--" Several parts of a human body belonging to a person supposed to h4ve been recently murdered, and to be that of a young woman between the ages of ' and 26 years, having been within the last few days foul 1 in the environs of Norwich, information is r, (poste 1 to be given to the chief constable, at the police-office, Guildhall, Norwich, of all femal s who have been recently missing, together with any parti culars which may lead to the detection of the person cr persons who committed the supposed murder. The por tions of the body already found comprise the right hand and foot and several bones, with numerous pieces of skin and flesh. Further search is making for the head and remaining parts of the body.—H. WOODCOCK, Mayor, Guildhall, Norwich, June 27, 1851." It is obviously most important that this discrepancy in the evidence should be explained away if possible, and that the best medical testimony on the subject should be obtained. The remains will be disinterred from the collar or vault, in the Norwich Guildhall, in wh'&l they have been so long buried ; whether it will be possible to solve the questions as to the age of the woman of whom they formed a part I remains to be seen. A shirt much smeared with blood was found on Mousehold Heath, near Norwich, contem poraneously with the discovery of the remains ; this shirt was taken to the Norwich police-station, and was kept for some time, but after some months it was unfortunately destroyed, and no evidence can be consequently produced as to whom it belonged. With reference to the ' neglect of the local authorities to hold an inquest, it may be remarked that a theory gained credence at the time that the remains had been distributed by some medical students, and that they formed part of a corpse which had been experimented upon. Dr. Ranking, a medical gentleman now dead, who also looked at the remains, stoutly, however, opposed this conclusion at the time, as he thought that the bones, flesh, &c., had been carelessly hacked asunder, and had not been sepa rated in a scientific manner. Of the medical gentlemen who were officially consulted by the magistrates in 1851, one (Mr. B. H. Norgate) is dead, and the two others, • Mr. W. P. Nichols and Dr. Donald Dalrymple, are still living, and residing in or near Norwich. Dr. Dalrymple, it may be added, is now member for Bath. THE IRISH PAPERS ON THE MURDER OF MR. BAKER. The position taken by the " patriotic " papers of Ireland en the murder of Mr. Baker is rather peculiar. This time they disagree very materially. The Weekly Yews expresses unaffected horror at it, as utterly destitute of extenuating circumstances. The Irish man regards it with characteristic complacency. The spirit in which the tragedy is noticed appears in the following extract :—" The advent of our new Viceroy has been ominously heralded by one of those occurrences which a cant phraseology des'gnates as ' agrarian crimes.' A landlord has been shot. He has been put to death because there were men who believed that in his dealings with his tenants he had violated the great laws of justice and humanity in such a manner as to demand retri bution. They believed, further, that there was no. human law to enforce retribution or to give redress. They took the law into their own hands, or, rather, they inflicted punishment without law. This is the whole and the naked truth. It is so as to the killing of Mr. Baker— it is so as to all the killings in which vengeance has been executed upon landlords. It were very easy to involve and obscure the plain truth by unmeaning phrases upon one side or the other. Nothing is easier than to declaim against assassination, to write fine sentences about 'the mysterious behests of a secret Legislature.' Words like this may obscure, but they cannot alter facts. Landlords in Ireland are shot because the people believe that they do acts which ought not to go unpunished. The law is on the side of the landlords who perpetrate these acts. The popular conscience is against them. More than this—not only the popular conscience but the popular instinct of self-preservation calls for a penalty that may deter men from acts which aim at the very life of the people. This is the whole philosophy of agrarian crime.' • Agrarian crime is the necessary, the inevitable result of a system which places the very lives of the people at the disposal of a few men. Mr. Baker is the most recent victim of this system. If that system be not speedily changed, he will not be the last." The following is the moral which the Irishman draws :—" It is the wicked and tyrannical system of our land laws which is responsihle for every event like that of the killing of Mr. Baker. The law that vests in the landlord the power of capricious eviction drives the tenantry into those leagues of self-defence which visit acts of extermination with a retribution that is in reality protective. If we desire to put an end to such retributions, there is but one way of doing it, and that is by putting an end to the power which provokes them. . . . . This is the Irish question with which Lord Spencer has to deal lf he attempts to govern Ireland while he leaves the land question' unsettled, he may rest assured 'hat the deed of blood which has so unfortunately marked the commencement of his government is but the prelude and the warning of many more. The real Ties* 'ion between the Irish people and the English Govern ment is the right to the Irish soil. Until this is adjusted the attempt to pacify Ireland by the settlement' of any other question is but a mockery, a delusion, and a snare.' No matter what is done upon other questions, behind them all stands the great question which must one day be decided—the great question which is one of the existence of the Irish nation. Is the land of Ireland to he held for the purposes of the interest, the tyranny, or the caprice of a few individuals, or are proprietary rights in that soil to be so modified and controlled as still to leave the land of Ireland a property to which the mass of the Irish people may assert some claim—at least the claim of having a right to live in their native land?" LAW AND POLICE - ~- TAE EPSOM GRAND STAND.-At the Surrey Sessions on Saturday an appeal was made by the Epsom Grand Stand Association against the assessment to the poor rate. In :846 the stand was rated at £450, but since then the assess ment has been repeatedly raised, until in September last it was raised to £5,400 gross rental, and 24,590 rateable value. It was contended that the assessment was £2,000 in excess. The case was adjourned to the Easter Sessions. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A CONSTABLE.-At Rochester, to Saturday, a pilot named Wm. Kingsworth was charged with stabbing a police constable. The .prosecutor, who was dangerously wounded, found Kingsworth making a dis turbance in Eastgate, when he told him to go away. The prisoner walked along the street, the constable being by his side, when suddenly he turned and stabbed him with a large knife in two places. Kingsworth has always borne a good character, and was lately rewarded by the Admiralty for his energy in assisting the great floating dock Bermuda when dragging her anchors in a gale. The Mayor committed him for trial, refusing bail, as the constable, whose life was at first despaired of, is not vet out of danger. A HARD CASE.—A few days ago two men of respect. able appearance were given into custody for having knowingly uttered a counterfeit half-crown over a public house bar in Westminster. The coin was sent to the Mint to be tested, and found to be genuine. The men, after having spent two days in the House of Detention, were liberated on Saturday, and on applying to a magis trate for compensation were told that he had no power to grant it. POLICE PROSECIITIONS.—On Saturday the conductor of the "Judge and Jury" establishment in Leicester•square was summoned at Marlborough-street for having kept a disorderly house. The defendant pleaded that his enter tainment had been carried on for twenty years without complaint. He was fined 40s. A RAID AMONG THE SILVERSMITHS.—Mr. Greig, in spector of weights and measures for the Brentford district, instituted a prosecution against several sdverstniths for using troy weights not he'ng :tamped or marked in accordance with tho standard of her Majesty's Exchequer. The defendants questioned the right of the inspectors of weights to visit their peculiar• description of shops ; but the Brentford magistrates said they were clearly of opinion that they came within the Act. Mr. Honeybone, who acted as the spokesman of all the defendants, then objected to the jurisdiction of the magistrates, under the Bullion Act, and contended that if troy weight were intended to be meant in the sth and 6th Wm. IV., c. 63, it was confined in its application to bullion and not to manufactured articles, such as those sold in jewellers' shops. The bench, however, ruled that as silversmiths sometimes bought and sold gold not so made up, the Act applied, and the defendants were each fined 205., a case, however, being granted on the objection raised by Mr. Honeybone. THE SUN, LONDON, :MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS IVEWS. whether we could do without the aid of lawyers in deciding this knotty point ?" Mr. Jebb considers Dr. Pusey's letter a most unhappy one ; admits that we want a better Court of Final Appeal ; denies that any doctrine, or anything more than the right to use symbolism, was involved in the judgment; and strongly deprecates the idea of disunion or secession resulting from the judgment. THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE. The New York Herald, a good authority on yacht ing matters, considering the younger Bennett's in terest in it, has fully reviewed American and British yachts in connection with Mr. Ashbury's challenge, the owner of the Cambria. The Herald denies that the America was the fastest yacht which ever left American waters, asserting, on the contrary, that swifter and more capable craft are now owned by Americans. Allowing that vast improvements have recently taken place in England in the con struction of yachts, the American yachts have at least reached an equal state of perfection. It is denied that the Sappho is a fair criterion, for while her capability as a good sea boat is acknowledged, there are other American yachts superior to her. She ought not to have competel, but having done so she deserved her defeat, which is in no way regretted in the States. Emboldened by this doubtful triumph, Englishmen, freed from the nervousness which followed their extraor dinary defeat by the America in 1851 have sent this challenge, which the writer considers frank and fair, and thinks must be accepted by the New York Yacht Club. The experience even of the past season proves that American yachts can hold their own against those of any other nation. " Be,ides, such an event as an international yacht race will give additional energy to all our yachtsmen, will increase that spirit of rivalry productive of all good and beneficial results, and will raise the standard of yachting to a pitch not yet arrived at. We can afford to yield patiently to a defeat, but we may rest assured that the American schooner, which ever it may be, will be selected with care and judg ment, and that her performance will afford just cause for satisfaction. If vanquished, we can sail again and again, until the time when fearlessness, skill, and gallantry—the proven characteristics of American yachtsmen—must bear with them their own reward before the world." THE COST OF THE ABYSSINIAN ETPEDITION. Several weeks ago our London correspondent stated that the cost of the Abyssinian war would prove considerably over the £5,000,000 estimated by Sir S. Northcote, and that it would be between six and seven millions. We now learn from the Friend of India that the exact amount is £6,589,100. All of this has been met by the Government of India, except some three-quarters of a million sent out by the Secretary of State in specie, the greater part of which was subsequently sent on to India. England is still owing India a sum of 23,089,100. THE REDUCTIONS. The " service" papers are become suddenly interest ing. The alarm with which notice' of a general reduction in each department was received appears to have subsided somewhat. The expression of it does not seem to have been altogether without effect. Opinion was so dead against the reduction of the Royal Marines that it has sent that matter into the livnbo of uncertain possibilities. The United Service Gazette, indeed, states that no such reduction was contemplated. The Saturday Review speaks of the re-arrangement of the Admiralty under Mr. Childers as " absurd in its inception." But that department seems determined to reduce expenses—which is its great duty for the present. In addition to the abolition oT Master Attendant at Chat ham Dockyard, it is said that the Executive Superintendent of Hospitals, Victualling-yard, Steam Reserve, &c., will be suppressed, the work being taken by the medical officers, the Victualling Store keepers, and the Machinery Inspectors. Great changes, too, are taking place in the "Steam Depart ment," now removed to the central building at Whitehall. Two chief clerks of Navy Control and the Steam Offices are to be superannuated. Writers are to be thinned wherever practicable. Both Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards are, accord ing to the Army and Navy Gazette, to be eventually closed. In the military department great changes are to be made. Though the reduction of the marines is abandoned pro tem., the Broad Arrow states that our troops are to be recalled from certain foreign possessions. The depot battalions also are to be gradually annihilated, and the strength of the other battalions equalised. Altogether, the papers seem satisfied with the work that is being done, and the way in which the Government have set about it. But it by no means follows that every one else is. Rumour says that H.R.H. " the Duke " is much dissatisfied. When Mr. Cardwell sent to the Horse Guards to ask him to agree to certain reductions and alterations, " George " replied that the reductions were impossible. They must be made, nevertheless, was the effect of the rejoinder given by the Secretary of State for War, and made they were, in spite of the royal non possumus. The Telegraph, speaking as if inspired, points to the manufacturing department, storehouses, and arsenals, as affording scope for re trenchment. " When we look at the army estimates, and find that out of a total of £15,455,000 only £5,749,200 go to the soldier, it is easy to perceive that the real field for great reductions lies in the administrative services." The volunteer force have been begging for more money, and there seems to have been a gene ral impression that they would have a chance with a new Government. Mr. Cardwell, however, is too busy paring down to accede to an increase of the capitation grant just now. So he told a deputation which waited on him on Friday that he thought th e volunteers had enough. THE BALLOT. The agitation for the ballot is to commence in real earnest on Friday next, when a great metropolitan demonstration will be held at the Arundel Great Hall, Arundel-street, Strand. The chair will be taken by Mr. Milner Gibson, and the following members of Parliament have promised to attend :—Mr. Berkeley (Bristol), Mr. C. Buxton (East Surrey), Mr. H. Edwards (Weymouth), Mr. Fowler (Cambridge), Mr. Gilpin (Northampton), Mr. Holms (Hackney), Mr. Hardcastle (Bury St. Edmunds), Mr. Harvey Lewis (Marylebone), Alderman Lusk (Finsbury), 'Mr. Guildford Onslow (Guildford), Mr. Reed (Hackney), and Sir Sydney Waterlow (Dumfries shire) EXCLUSIVE DEALING. ---- - The suggestion which was first published in a High Church paper that those w ho voted against the. Conservative candidates should not be . favoured . with the support of Tory partisans, is being pract . carried out in Scotland. At the recent election fox Roxburghshire Lord Schomberg Kerr ca . n:ie forward in the Conservative interest, opposAion to Six NN illiam zeutt, the former Liberal member. in spite, however, of the territorial influence of the noble lord's brother, the Marquis of Lothian, the Liberals won a decisive victory. Its effects are now being felt in the county. According to an influential Scotch journal, a meeting of disappointed Conservatives was held about the beginning of last month, when a question of making their displeasure felt by with drawing their custom from Liberal shopkeepers was considered and resolved on. The commencement of the new year, when accounts are generally settled, hrs shewn this to be the case, and many trades men have received formal notice from several Tory landlords and farmers that their accounts are closed. One ludicrous instance occurred of a little country laird calling at a village tailor's door and announcing that he was not to get " the flun key's breei.s to make this year for voting against Lord Scontbert This is one more argument which will be used in favour of the Ballot. LEGAL ITEMS. The Law Times states that owing to the large amount of work arising out of the election petitions, the common law courts will be deprived of the ser vices of three of the ablest judges for the remainder of the judicial year.—The same journal mentions a rumour to the effect that Mr. Knox, the police magistrate at Marlborough-street, wild succeed Sir Richard Mayne, and that Mr. H. F. Lewis will go to Marlborough -street. The state ment is confirmed that Mr. Wickens, who has long been the Attorney-General's " Equity devil " (the two words will sound incongruous to lay ears) has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the place of Mr. James, who has been appointed Vice-Chancellor in succession to Sir G. M. Gifford, now Lord Justice.—The Solicitor's Journal censures Mr. Bruce's respite of Bisgrove, and says " such a course is calculated to render the pre rogative, with the administration of which the Home Secretary is entrusted, a curse instead of a blessing to the country." CHURCH NEWS. The John Bull (which paper, by the way, appears in an enlarged form, with new type, and otherwise im proved) gives the following items of Church news : Bishop Trower, on resigning the temporary charge of the diocese of Lichfield, after the return of Bishop Selwyn, wrote an address to the clergy of that dio cese, in which he says that two facts have impressed him deeply : " the one, the crying want of the diocese in its mining and manufacturing districts; the other, the zeal of the ill-paid clergy, who from the pure love of souls are doing our Master's work in localities where they can be enabled to persevere in their most faithful labours only by the highest pos sible motives."—A letter is published from the late Archbishop Longley to the Bishop of Illinois, thank ing that bishop for the great assistance which he rendered with regard to the Lambeth Congress, " For myself," says the Archbishop. " I shall always look back on the Conrerence as an important era in my life and arcahiepiscopate. Oneof the actsof SirS• Northcote, before leaving office, was to appoint the Rev. C. R. Tollemache, senior curate of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington (formerly curate. of St. Stephen's, Devonport), to an Indian chaplaincy.—The Vicar of Dymock, the Rev. W. Baird, has said that in order to comply with the judgment of the Privy Council, he will omit the hymn before the sermon and the collect before and after the sermon, and will conclude the service at the Holy Table with the prayer for the Church Militant, the concluding collect and blessing. —The Rector of St. James's, Westminster, a Low Churchman, celebrated on Sunday standing east wards.—The Archdeacon of Taunton was to arrive in London on Friday night, to draw up a report to be submitted to the adjourned meeting of Ritualists. It will probably counsel submission to the judgment under protest, and will be, no doubt, generally accepted. This statement of the John Bull's bears out the anticipation of our London correspondent. The Star also believes that our correspondent is right in stating that the costs on both sides in the recent suit amount to £20,000. TICE RITUAL JUDGMENT. Dr. Irons, of Brompton, writes to the John Bull to say that he thinks too much importance has been attached to the Ritual judgment. lle has no sympathy with those who are for ever declaring that doctrine is being attacked. The judgment "would probably have fallen harmless on Hursley had it been issued three or four years ago, and it may fall harmless on us also, if we will. It seems, indeed, almost neutralised, ab ivitio, by the impossible dicta which accompany it." Dr. Irons thinks it hard that "we may not continue to believe as John Keble and Charles Marriott believed and acquiesce if so be in the ritual that sufficed for them, and even for Dr. Pusey." Ile reminds his readers that the ornate ritual of to-day was not thought of a few years ago. Mr. Jebb writes a very long letter to the same paper, denying- that any point of doctrine has been touched by the judgment, and urging that the wnoie question to be decided was one of " dry law," which " conies legitimately under the province of lawyers," and that "were the Church now free'' (as it is falsely termed; that is, were it dissociated from the State, and sub jected to the slavery of imperious voluntary associa tions and the dictation of extreme parties) but did it still retain its Litunry intact. I wgultl fairly Ask IRISH MATTERS. The wise among the Irish people are trying to invent some plan for the total suppression of land lord murders and agrarian outrages. Whether the most elaborate machinery could prevent a sulky tenant from taking revenge is at least a matter of doubt ; but there are many who place their faith in " prompt measures." One landlord writes from the south to the Dublzn Mail, suggesting that a man's property destroyed should be appraised under Lord Campbell's Act, and the amount leviedin the form of a county cess from the district in which the crime has been committed. Where murder has been done the widow shall be compensated in the same way as in the case of fatal accidents on railways. Thus, by making every man in a district interested in the prevention of crime, our" Landlord " hopes to suppress it. It is hard to believe, however, that people in a district have so little notion of public morality that their pockets must be touched ere they will try to prevent crime. Mr. Disraeli in one of his stories is extremely severe on the notion which some people have that " the world may be ruled by pamphlets." If the world is not ruled by them we seem just now to be flooded with these interesting tractates. Another is mentioned to-day from Dr. Andrews, vice-president of the Queen's College, Belfast. He considers the Irish Church a real and substantial grievance— " the greatest ecclesiastical abuse now existing in Europe "—and that its removal is imperatively called for in the interests of Ireland, of the empire, and of religion itself. Er. Andrews is not, how ever, in favour of total disendowment. He would extend the principles of the Itegium Donum to the different Churches, and leave them free from State control, except in requiring " that the money should be strictly applied to the spiritual benefit of the people." Following out his own theory, he is ad verse to the withdrawal of the grant from Maynooth. The Northern Tfrluq, in dealing with Dr. Andrews's endowment scheme, says the people would not tolerate it. LORD DARBY'S LAST JOKE. It is reported of Lord Derby that on hearing the conundrum propounded, " Why is a bald head like Paradise ?"—the well-known answer to which is, " Because it is a bright and shining place, where there is no parting nor dyeing "—his lordship added, " And, thank Jove, no more Whigs I" This is not a bad pendant to Mr. Disraeli's riddle, " Why is Mr. Gladstone like a telescope ?"—" Because you can draw him out, see through him, and shut him up ;" or to Archbishop's Manning's, who, on hearing some body sneer at " the right hon. member for Green wich," said, " Why should we not do as we have always done, take the time of day from Greenwich ?" FENIANS IN PARIS. Mr. Bruce will have to ask the help of Lord Clarendon, if report be true. It is said that there is just now a gathering of Fenians in Paris. Mr. John Savage is there, the man whom Mr. Seward lately appointed consul at Leeds, and Mr. Stephen Meany. The latter worthy has fortified himself with docu ments to prove that he was a naturalised American at the time that he was apprehended here. He is plaguing Mr. Reverdy Johnson to take up his case, but the American Minister seems to have doubts about the authenticity"of Mr. Meany's papers. OUR ERRATIC TENOR. Mr. Sims Reeves has at last tried the patience of musical impressarii too far. The lessee of the Cheltenham Theatre arranged.that a concert should be given 'in that town on December 17, at which Sims Reeves was to sing. There was a very large attendance, and very deep and loud indignations when, as not unfrequently happens, the chief English tenor was not forthcoming. The usual plea of illness was put in ; but, as Mr. Reeves sang at Worcester the following night, Mr. Hodgson would not accept the excuse, and has now sued Mr. Reeves for damages. Wh en th e ca se came on it had to be adjourned, for it had been found impossible to serve the notice of trial upon the defendant in consequence of his uncertain movements. Why not serve him when he is singing ? THE WEATHER. The meteorologists are fairly puzzled. What does this-weather mean ? On the Ist of January we had frost; not many days ago snow fell in some parts of the country; and this is followed by weather warmer than we generally have three months later. How does it all come about ? Mr. kllnatt, the scientific correspondent of the Times, can throw no light on the mater; only he makes some very dreadful hints, which we would advise the nervous not to read. " Whence," he asks, in bewilderment, "do all these manifestations arise ? Are they cos mical, and do they emanate from consequent changes in our elemental electro-dynamical conditions ? Or has the Gulf Stream broken its accustomed bounds ? Or have the late earthquakes so attenuated the floor of our globe as to have brought us into closer proximity with its central fires ?" Mr. Allnatt cannot —or, at any rate, does not—give an answer. Will especially about the , a , n a y tt o e n n e ua r t e i l o i l e i s;e” our anxiety, THE "COUNTESS OF DEIMENTWATER." "Amelia, Countess of Derwentwater," has addressed a letter to the Northern Daily Express, emphatically contradicting the statement . that she had given per mission for the publication of her biography and of letters addressed to her by continental statesmen. Such letters belong to the archi ves o f h er f am il y; an d so far as her own history is concerned, she has nothing but " barbarous treatment and cruel chroni cles " to relate of England. The lady is highly indignant with the speculators who, she says, are endeavouring to make money out of the public with her property. MR. THOROLD ROGERS ON FREE BANKING. Mr. Thorold Rogers has given the public his views on free banking through the columns of the Star. Ile holds that . the . power to iss ue paper money with out giving valid evidence that the notes will be con verted into cash at the holder's pleasure, is not neces sary fnotrutryhe p u rposes of hone s t an d l eg iti ma t e t ra d e . ago the London b an k ers vo l un t ar ily ren ounced the privilege, and the rev ersa l o f that part of the Act of 1844 , which prohibits the creation of new banks of issue, will never be effected unless differ enc e between the position ignorance ministers to fraud. Th ere i s, h owever , as 11 lr. Rogerspoints out, amarked of the ordinary trader in a time of pressure and that of the Bank of Eng land. If the reserve of a trad er i s f ar l ess th an his liabilities he is obliged to strengthen his position by sales of property, in order to avoid bankruptcy.into When the Bank of E ng l an d i s b roug ht position, ' as i happened i n 1866 an d h a lf a nto this dozen times before, its profits became enormous. As a trading company it derives the largest advantages when it ought by all rules of trade to get the least. In short, the Bank of England gets an unnatural advantage out of a public calamity. One of two remedies should therefore be adopted. The incon vertible issues of the Bank—th ose w hi c h are b ase d on public securities—should be p ermanen tly re d uc ed themselves with gold by the sale of stock as soon as their bullion falls below a certain b c o y m o p n e e ll e li d al t f o ; supply or else the Bank di rec t ors s h ou ld be amount. The first of these remedies is, in Mr. Rogers's opinion, the most advisable, since the existent privilege of the Bank is periodi cally mischievous to trade and unfair on principles of equity. lie thinks it, moreover, worth remembering, that the pressure of a discredited currency falls heaviest on those whom the law is most bound to protect, those to whom money is not a commodity, but wages or income. ALMSGIVING AND MENDICANCY. Some letters have appeared in the Times during the last few days on the subject of the increase of pauperism in ce,nnection with the thoughtless system of almsgiving which prevails. At Blackheath a mendicity society has been established, which compels all applicants for charity to receive alms through authorised modes of relief. The result of • the experiment has shewn that the " really deserving " do not solicit relief, that out of 400 cases 190 were impostors, and only 16 deserving poor. Another suggestion respecting the most desi rable mode of giving relief is that doles and giftsshould be done away with, and some establishment be set up in a central part of every district, where food and requirements for the sick can be served out to the really deserving. An instance of the practical good to be thus gained h as b e en met with in a south-west district of London, and successive investigations confirm the judgment of those who censure the very indiscriminate relief now given in too many 'places. INTERNATIONAL P ILOTAGE. —An interesting meet. ing of the pilots of Liverpool was held on Thursday even ing in the Bee Hotel, Queen -square, Liverpool. The occasion was the arrival at Liverpool of Mr. Geo. Osgood, a pilot of New Orleans, who had been brought involunta rily across the Atlantic, owing to stress of weather, on board the ship Expounder, of Boston (Captain Irvine), bound from New Orleans for the Mersey. An event such as this occurs at intervals of a few years, and the pilots at the port to which one of the same profession may be brought invariably treat him with the greatest hospitality. Toasts expressive of mutual friendship between the two countries were proposed and heartily received. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. • Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co. Belfast; or 4,, Beaufort-buildings, Strand,..Loudon vortisement. TREE CULT URE• A startling fact is brought out in the last report of the United States Department of Agriculture. Indisputable facts and figures there show that un less new forests are planted there will, from the destruction of the old forests, within 30 years, be a scarcity of timber amounting to a wood famine in the Union. Last summer hundreds of square miles of forest were in flames, and the destruction must have been enormous, though we do not see this waste alluded to among the other causes. In New York, from 1850 to 1860, nearly two million acres of forest land were reclaimed, and in the same period it is estimated throughout the States that fifty million acres of new land were brought under cultivation, two fifths of it being tim ber, and in the ensuing ten years, ending in 1870, the calculation is that a hundred millions of acres will have been so reclaimed. The value of the farms of the United States in 1860 was $6,654,045,700, while the value of the lumber improvements was $3,322,522,000. All this has been cut from the soil, and most of it within thirty years. Not a single thing has been done to replace it. Again in a single year there was used for repairs of rail roads, and railroad- buildings and cars, in the United States, no less thin $38,000, 0 00 worth of wood; while the wuod fuel consumed for locomotives for the United States reached the enormous figure of $57,000,000. There are no less than 476,623 artisans in wood in America. If we estimate the value of their production at the low price of $l,OOO each per annum, we have the still greater aggregate of an industry of five hundred million dollars annually dependent solely on wood. From 1850 to 1860, 65,897,000 sleepers were used on the railways, all of hard wood, and requiring to be replaced under five years. The consequence is that the black walnut has almost disappeared from the eastern and middle States. Much of the pine sold in New York comes from Michigan and Wis consin, carried more than a thousand miles. The hard maple and hickory are nearly gone, and the wild cherry and cucumber tree rarely seen, while large sections have been swept bare of the hemlock and pine. In consequence the climate is changing, and the country experiences extremes of tem perature formerly unknown. There is no bet ter established fact than the influence of tree covered tracts on temperature, and if all the States are cleared of the primeval forests which formerly covered them their chilli tte will -change. In the Eastern States at least, and in the Prairie States, every encouragement should be given to planting, and laws ought to be passed to check, as far as legislation can, the wanton and reckless destruction of timber. Nothing could tend more to beautify a bare country than to plant along the railways ; and the Legislatures at least could have some control over laud granted for railway purposes. The effect will also be to establish a fashion, for man is au itnita- Live creature, generally seeing beauty when it is pointed out to him, and learning to appreciate it. But it is not beauty alone that makes this subject of such importance. The Independent says, " It is now a noteworthy fact' that wood in all its branches of manufacture and use pays more than one-half the entire internal revenue of the United States, and no less than sixty-six trades depend upon wood as bare material for their labour. Again, there are needed upon every farm, improve ments in the shape of buildings, fences, and imple ments, which in their first cost form a very large comparison with the actual cost of the farms ; these are decaying every year, and must be renewed." MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Dec. 26.) The New York money market, which was fairly tense at the close of last week, has experienced a sharp turn, and is now uncomfortably stringent. This has been in part caused by the approach of quarter-day, but chiefly by the speculative disturbances of the week and by the distrust occasioned by two or three failures at New York, followed by suspensions at Louisville and St. Louis. Sev en p er cent. in currency is now the minimum, and seven per cent. in coin not infrequently on cable loans. In many cases a co mmissio n of per cent. has been paid on round amounts. The pinch was particularly severe n 'Wednesday , a nd the weaker classes of borrowers found great difficulty in getting what they wanted. The 'pressure is not owing to any scarcity of f un d s, b ut to an i n di s p o sition to lend . It is not considered improbable that in a few dass-it - InaY be worth while to hive money on hand, and that holders may be enabled to pick up s ome good things that will be lying loose should the stringency pro ceed to extremities. Money has come into New York freely from Boston and the country during the week, and except for the approach of quarter -day, and the stimulus given to stock operations by the rise in New York Cen tral, there would be no reason for anything more than legal rates in money at the present time. The demand from the West has entirely ceased; and the cotton crop at the South has already been in great part moved. At the West the complaints still are of slow and painful cou ntry collection. Debtors in the interior are taking their own time pretty much ; and the demand in the large centres is constantly being increased unexpectedly by the failure of correspondents to remit. Eastern exchange is firmer, with small supply. This week and the next have been or will be much broken up monetarily—Christmas and New Year's-day coming on Friday. This, as Satur day, is always a broken day, and causes the week to end practically with Thursday. The gold market closes dull for the weak, under more peaceful advices from Europe. There is an abundance of cash gold, and yet * high rates are paid for" carrying"— the reason being found in the general desire to keep hold of the greenbacks. The January disbursements of coin interest will be unprecedentedly heavy, reaching the enor mous figures of $30,000,000. Formerly, the gold interest paid in January and July was insignificant as compared with that of May and November; but the conversion during the year of the Seven-thirties into the bonds of 1868 has brought it up to the present enormous aggre gate. The bonds which now bear January and July in terest, are the 6's of 1861, the loans of 1558 and 1860, and the Five-twenties of 1868, 1857, and the " new" bonds of 1865. The payment of this interest will, according to custom, be anticipated by the sub-treasurers, as indeed it already has been by the market;and, the effect on prices fully discounted. It will be observed that the January and July are not held abroad to the same amount as those of May and November interest bonds. Consequently, only a small portion of the interest will go abroad, or be avail able to buy new bonds on European account. The origi nal loan of 1862 embraces the great proportion of the debt held abroad—although the bonds of 1867 became quite the favourites in the German market this summer, and were exported very freely. The payment of the interest will still leave considerably over seventy millions of gold in the sub-treasury. Governments have been dull and lower during the week, partly from the stringency of the markets, partly from a speculative disposition to be ahead of a possible fall and to have the money in hand. Very likely, too, the public mood has bad something to do with it. At any rate, we find the fact of slightly lower prices, the bonds of 1861 holding their own best. At the close there is more buying, and greater firmness in the market. The New Fork Herald seriously attributes this improve ment to a general disposition on the part of certain classes, especially the banks, to purchase just before the Ist of January, in order to escape taxation. The article in the _Herald is a little confused by the subtlety of the distinc tion between taxes imposed by State, and those imposed by national authority, and between those laid on property and those which are laid on income. The desire to escape taxation is a great force and an important fact ; but it is a constantly operating rather than a spasmodic or periodical force. The number of those who purchase Government bonds a week or so before assessment day, just to hold them over, is probably not as large as the Herald tries to make out. Tho event of the week is, of course, the scrip divi dend of the New York Central. We have previously dis cussed the morals and the methods of this high-handed outrage. The effect upon the price of Central stock, and on the rest of the market, has been much more striztly limited than would have been anticipated, and than otherwise would probably have taken place had not the old Commodore readily manifested the good sense to let his victims off "easy," and settled gener ally at 150. Had he kept the screws on, and sought to run the stock, of which he and his family aro said to have held from ten to fifteen millions, up to Harlem prices, he would have driven the bears to desperation, and very likely not have realised as much in the end. It is under stood, however, that there are certain parties with whom, on account of old scores, Vanderbilt declines to settle, and prefers to hold them over the fire and toast their heels a while—perhaps also with a view to keeping them on their good behaviour when the matter of legalizing the issue comes up in the Legislature. The question on which side the Erie clique were in the battle is settled. That re markably long-headed young financier, Mr. Jay Gould, was one of the largest holders of the stock; and has cer tainly made his pile, This might have been accident or shrewdness ; but the fact that the Erie suits against Van derbilt are to be withdrawn, and that a friendly under standing has unquestionably been established between them, shows plainly enough that Gould was " let in" to this thing, even though some of the closest of Vander bilt's associates, and even stock-jobbing members of his own family, were kept completely in the dark till the memorable Saturday night which brought the explo sion. It shows another thing, too, namely, that the two forces, Erie and Central, will appear on the same side in the Legislature at Albany, and press the legaliza tion of the issue of certificates together. As to the exact worth of these certificates opinion is divided. The refusal of the stock boards to call the stock, ex-dividend, is a per manent stamp of inferior or questionable quality, and must have a decided influence upon their value. The certificates, when detached from the stock, cannot be negotiated or hypothecated, which limits their uses and restricts their price. The dealings in them for some time must continue to be comparatively limited—at least until public opinion has manifestly settled down to some general opinion con cerning them, and it becomes evident whether the courts will act in the matter, or no. Thus far the operations in them have been small ; and the clique remains pretty generally in possession of the stock. How they will finally dispose of it remains to be seen. There is a great deal of bluff and brag on both sides, besides a good deal of honest uncertainty in the minds of the community, in re gard to the stock. To show how widely opinions are apart, it may be mentioned that on Wednesday one per cent. was paid to call the stock at 160 in 30 days, and the same was also paid to call it at 140 in 30 days. Other stocks, particularly Rock Island and Pacific Mail, which have been held in huge blocks, shared in the good fortune of the Central; their holders have unloaded at a hand some advance, Rock Island reaching 1141 but closing at 112—the Pacific Mail closing at 1191. Toledo and Wabash improved several per cent. under reports of nego tiations with Central, but closes lower. Hudson River, in sympathy with Central, rose to 135, but closes 131. Mil waukee and St. Paul is more active. The steady improvement in the price of cotton has given a decided upward impulse to cotton goods, notwith standing the difficulty of the money market, and a consi derable advanc) has already been realized, with every prospect of its being made good. In domestic cottons the advance has been from lc to lie a yard, with a strong de mand for the finer grades of bleached shirtings and sheet ings. The sales have been very large, an 1 the stock in first brands has been pretty much cleared out. Printing cloths have partaken of the excitement, and shared in the advance. Prints aro generally a cent higher, and prices are firm at the advance, with still an upward effort. This. condition of things is what the trade have been waiting for with immense patience, and now it has come they are en joying it greatly. The uncertainty in regard to cotton and cotton goods has been a very unpleas.int feature of business this season ; and something positive and definite will be welcomed by all classes of dealers. The parties that sold cotton for December delivery at 23 cents are now settling by paying 2to 21 cents. The arrivals are not as free as heretofore, and whereas last week the ex cess of receipts over 1867 was 14,000 bales, it is this week but 127,000 (895,000 bales against 768,000). Low water in the creeks and bayous is assigned as the cause. Messrs. W. P. Wright and Co., in their Wednes day circular, say, "We have reason to believe that in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and in the country of which Memphis is the centre, planters are hold iug back their crops. Under these circumstances, we re peat the opinion that our present scale of receipts is very liberal." The New Orleans Price Current of the 16th inst. announces the first killing frost of the season—a very good reason for not trying to raise cotton in the Connecti cut valley. So much for the crop of 1868-9 (the cotton year, be it remembered, begins September 1). The crop of 1867-8 proves, as was anticipated, greatly in excess of that of 1866-7. The receipts at the ports foot up 2,240,284 bales, against 1,951,988 the year before. If we include the increase in cotton consumed at the South, and that sent directly to the North from Tennessee, we shall find the crop of 1867-8 nearly, if not quite, half a million bales better than that of 1866-7. Considering that cotton is now selling at ten cents a pound higher than last year at this time the increase to the wealth of the South can easily be seen, and promises nobly both for the rehabilita tion of that section and for our trade with it. At the West, the grain markets have been quiet during the week, and prices have declined materially on cereals. This is due to the falling off in shipments; the increased receipts from producers who are about tired of holding for "that rise," and no less favourable advices lrom the East. The folly of the " holding-back" policy is, we trust, sufficiently man ifest by this time. The provision trade is ve r y ac ti ve ; sa les have been unprecedentedly large, and prices have advanced on all articles of hog and beef product. CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 91 Chi. &N. W. Ist M N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... 90 Tol. & Wab. Ist MEx 92i N. y. Central 6s, It Est.. 86 Gt. Western 2d M '93 76 N. Y.:Central 6s, Sub'n.. 86 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M N. y. Central is, 1876... —Gal. & Chic. Ext N. Y. Gen. is, cop. Gal. & Chic. 2d M N. Y. Cen is, '65-'76 Chi. & It. I. Ist M.. 98 hile Ist Mort, Ex 101 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 971 Erie 78, 3d Mort, 1883 92 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 86 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 36 Long Dock Bonds Buff.N.Y.StAlstM,'77 B2 Hud. R. 78, Ist M, '69 100 Hod. IL 7s, 3d M, '75 — Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 99 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 1.13 Mich. new Ist M 85,'82 — Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 96 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Micb.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 9G 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O ... . ll4l Alton & T. H. lEt 92 Alton & T. H. 2d pfd 831 Alton & T. H. 2d M.. Inc. Han.&St.J.LandGrants 103 Han. & St. J. Con Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 1111 Chi. & N. West, S. F 96 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony — Chi. & N. W. Ein B — Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 100 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 98i N. J. Central Ist M — N. J. Central 2d M — Pitts. Ft. W.,1& Ch. Ist M 1031 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch.2d M 97 Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3d M 93 Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc & Alton, S.F. lstM 102 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M 102 Mil. & St. Paul 2d Nl_ 82 Marietta & 'in. Ist M — Morris & Essex Ist M 95 Morris & Essex 2d M 92 Joilet & Chic. Ist M — Chi. & Gt. East'n Ist M 731 N. Y. & N. 11. 6s Dubuque &S. City, 15t3.1 — Peninsula Ist M Ohio & Miss. Ist M 96 Ohio & Miss. Con B5 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D — Atlantic & G. W. Ist M — (From the New York Tribune, Dec. 24.) Money opened in sharp demand at 7 per cent. in gold and 7 per cent, in currency, with a commission added. The rates for carrying stocks show the activity in money ; } was paid for one day, and from 1 to lf per cent was paid for thirty days. At the close of basiness the rates were less firm, and loans on Government and miscel laneous securities were made at 7 per cent. in currency. Sterling Exchange is steady at quotations : London, 60 days, 109}; London, sight, 110} ; Paris, long, 5 15 to 5 13/; Paris, short, 5 12} to 511}; Antwerp, 17} to 5 15; Swiss, 5 17} to 5 15 ; Hamburg, 36 to 36} ; Amsterdam, 41 to 41} ; Frankfort, 41 to 41} ; Bremen, 78} to 79 ; Berlin, 71-/- to 71-1. Freights to Liverpool by steamer, 40,000 bushels wheat at Sid, 7,000 bushels corn at B}d, 500 bales cotton at id, and 500 boxes bacon at 45s ; and to London by sail, 1,000 boxes cheese at 32s Gd ; a ship to Antwerp with petroleum on private terms. - The following is from the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Dec. 24 :—" The general stock list shows noimprovement in the volume of business and prices generally are un changed, closing rather heavy. State and City loans were in moderate request, but not quotably higher. Reading was off a fraction, and for the moment while the conduct of New York and Erie and New York Central aro fresh in recollection, there is au indisposition to go into the stocks of the large corporations. Canal shares, Bank stocks, and Coal Company stocks are dull, with more disposition to sell than to buy. The present con dition of monetary affairs would aprear adverse to a re vival of speculative schemes, especially such as have so signally disgraced Wall-street, and yet we hear that some of the clique are even now engineering other schemes, no less villainous, so confidently do they rely on the short memories of tbeir victims." The Chicago Republican of ltiondny, Deo. 21, says : "Local Monetary affairs have undergone no material alteration. A very good, we may say pressing, demand has existed for loans, and the market has worked close and firm at 10 per cent. por annum. Nearly all of the larger institutions have been ordering currency from Nevi' York, large amounts of which have arrived daily, and are still being received. Interior bankers have ordered large amounts from the city, and balances are now very low, and some accounts have been overdrawn — indeed, the currency received from the East has been little more than sufficient to meet the calls from the country, so that no great relief has been afforded to the city banks. Country collections are still made with difficulty, and merchants are quite out of patience with interior debtors, as they are obliged to borrow from the banks here, which tends to increase the stringency. Eastern exchange was firmer to-day, as the supply is not very large, and it is predicted that rates will be better next week. Transactions between city banks were made at $1 to $1 .50 off, closing at tbo inside figure. Over the counter bankers were making remittances on account of interior banks, and selling to customns at par and buying at 1 discount." New York, Jan. 6.—According to Messrs. Neill Brothers' report the receipts of cotton at all ports for the past four days have been 40,000 bales, against 46,000 the same time last week. Exports to great Britain, 9,000 bales, against 25,000 bales the same time last week. Ex ports to France, 4,000 bales, against 5,000 the same time last week. Exports to other foreign ports, 4,000 bales, against 16,000 the same time last week. Total export for the four days, 17,000 bales, against 46,000 the same time last week. Middling upland, laid down in Liverpool per steamer, a decline of 8. New Orleans, Jan. s.—Middling, 111, laid doll n by sailing vessels. Weather rainy, checking deliveries. Messrs. Stokes, Millaffie, and Co. have received the following from their New York correspondents :—" New York, Jan. 6. Pour days' receipts of cotton at all the ports, 39,000 bales. Approximate estimate for the week, 86,000 bales. Same week in 1868, 86,000 bales. Market quieter. Good ordinary Texas costs 111; middling, Or lenas, 111; middling from Savannah, 111. These prices are for cotton laid down in Liverpool, including all charges and allowance of six per cent. for loss in weight." Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DIIE. ustrana and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 30. Ditto, via VArseilles Ditto, via Pa,. arna ...... ......... ...Jan 28 1.,z11., Buenos Ayres, awl Monte Video Feb. 3. Ditto, by French packet Jape Verds, by Brazil packet .... . Feb. 3- 'ape of Good [lupe. Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 12. ;irina. realm:, and Singapore, via Southampton.. Jan. 16. iibraltar, via Southampton I ndla, via Southampton Ditto, via MarseiLes n.:gypt, &c Jan 15. Ditto, Marseilles Jan. 12 Irani - 10ns, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Sc u aro/ ton Ditto, Ramifies Jan. 13 , exvfoundla Lc ...... ........... . ....... Jan 13 t'ortugal •• • • •-It‘tes - anada, California, Ste., by British Jan . : 13 Ditto, by Canadian packet .... Jan 15 Ditto, by 1. Mind States packet Ditto ditt ( (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ......J an. 17 Wept Indies and Paz,ific (except Mexico and Baha- mss) Falkland Islands ....... Cub i and Mexico Bermuda, via nalifax... .. Jan 11. B.naahas, via New I . ork Chief Justice Chase went to Rhode Island to sp nd Christmas. His son-in-law, Senator Sprague, has bought an island containing 9,000 acres on the coast of Georgia and Florida, near the mouth of the St. Mary's River, over which his influence will be more dominant than even over Rhode Island. The Secretary of State, accompanied by the English and French Ministers, proceeded to Auburn for the Christmas holidays. Commissioner Rollins left Washington Dec. 22 for New Hampshire, where, we regret to say, his wife is dangerously ill. Senator Henderson left Wash ington on the 23d December for Missouri, to forward his re-election, and ho is backed by the President's journal/ the National Intelligencer. That piper recites his services in a leader, and urges the Legislature of the State not to deprive itself of so valuable a representative. Henderson professes to be a Republican, but the advocacy of the Intelligencer makes the party to which ho belongs doubt his soundness. Carl Schurz, an able editor, is more likely to be elected, notwithstanding the advocacy of the Intelligencer. One good reason is advanced in his favour, which is, that in the Senate there is not a single Representative of the Germans—a strange fact that, and one which more than any other supplies an answer to those who affirm that the Anglo-Saxon race is not the ruling element in America, for, from beginning near to the end, the Senate is composed of the descendants of Bri tishers. Gen. Schurz will be an admirable Representative for the great and thriving German section of the Republic. THE UNION DEAD.—" Roll of Honour," No. 16, has been published by the Quartermaster-General. It contains the names of 20,500 soldiers buried at Gettys burg, City Point, Danville, Glendale, Richmond, and at various barracks and forts in New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Ia former lists the proportions of un known occupants of graves was one-third, but in the pre sent list it amounts to more than one-half. The total number of graves now recorded in printed rolls reaches 155,000, of which 55,000 are unknown. It is con" jectured that the records of about 150,000 more grave; of deceased soldiers and prisoners of war are yet to be printed, making 305,000 to be the whole number of graves of soldiers who lost their lives during the rebellion, and of these about 100,000 will re main nameless. The whole number of soldiers who fell in the contest is estimated at 355,000, leaving 50,000 un accounted for. This discrepancy is explained as follows —Killed in battle and never buried, 25,000; drowned, 5,000 ; graves in remote localities and not yet found 15,000 ; graves covered by deposits of gravel by floods 2,000; graves carried away by the caving in the river banks, 3,000. The number of soldiers who died at bonas after having been mustered out, from wounds or disease contracted in the service, is not embraced in any of the above rolls or estimates. At Manchester, New Jersey, C. Bristol has been appointed Postmaster in place of the Hon. John Torrey, jun., Senator elect. _ • Governor English, of Connecticut, has given all railroad conductors commissions as special policemen/ thus enabling them to m)re completely control the conduct of passengers. riinvEßTisEmEvr.l —Holloway's Ointment and Chest Complaints.- It is a source of the highest satisfac tion that an easy and expeditious mode of checking and conquering these constantly occurring affections has been, discovered. The propriety of disturbing the nervous and vascular system, in pulmonary maladies, by administering internal medicines, was long questioned before Professor Holloway was enabled to prove the practicability of reliev ing over-gorged lungs, and relieving and restoring their natural action by external means. His ointment thoroughli rubbed on the walls of the chest twice a day gives ate utmostsecurity and comfort in influenza, acute and chronic' cough, bronchitis, pleurisy, stitches in the side, shortness of breath, and palpitation, with other allied and daneroxi 9 diseases. [ADVERTISEMENT ) Consumption, and all bilious, nervous, stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravatea and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta. Arabica, Food , as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, nO O sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea., all gastric derauge ments, hEemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness , biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impo • rides, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness , acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, drops* cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness o f the chest , pains at tho pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, 8 r?„ We quote a few.—The. Pope's health restored by Du Barry ; Food. Cure No 63,413.—"R0me, July 21, 1866 .—Th e health i" . ` 11 the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other emedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a platen' , at every meaL It has pro laced a surprisingly beneficia l effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise fe, excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber Ma' chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs , spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. -- ; Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant or Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,/ asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the maul unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at ls. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. 9d. ; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs, lls. ; 12 MS. 225. ; 24 lbs., 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTA ARAB lOA CHOCOi LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 25., for 2 , cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at fs., for 288 cups at 305., for 576 cuP B at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post MO urder.—BAßßY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lou' don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. BOLIDN—On the 7th inst., at Notting-hill, the wife of Car tain C. J. Bolton, of a daughter. CLEAVE —On the 9th inst., Mrs. John J. Cleave, Acacia House, S.W., of a son. SHIELDS—On the 6th inst l at Durham, the wife of Joh° Shields, Esq., of a daught,% Marriages. ALLPRESS —DuKEs—On the 7th inst., at St. Matthew' Redhill, Surrey, Frank 4llpress, of Islington, and 1 1 1 St. George's Villas, Tuf2nell-park, to Ada, daughter oI Dr. Dukes, M.A., of the Manor House, Upper Kollo" Wan London. GRENFELL—PYNE—On the sth inst., at Marylebov e Church, John G. Gronfell, Esq., late of Pembroke Col" lege, Oxford, to Alice, the second daughter of H. Pyre► Esq., 18, Kent-terrace, Regent's-park. Deaths. ARMSTAONG —At 4 Westbourne-grove-terrace, Bayswater/ Mrs. Anne Maria Armstrong, aged 76. ELLIOT —On the sth inst., in London, Captain Amyand B. Elliot, late sth Bengal L. 0., aged 45. GORDON-o,n the Bth inst., at the Royal Hospital, Green' wich, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jas. Alexander Gordo ), G. 0.8., aged 86. OWEN—On the Bth inst., at 15, Lower Pembroke-street: Robert H. Owen, Esq., Q.C., aged 54. SIMSON —On the 7th inst., at his residence, Ely, joseP l2 Siinson, aged 68. 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