The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

THE STAFFORD ELECTION PETITIO. In the matter of the Stafford election petition yester day, further evidence was given of treating at public houses where committee-rooms bad been hired for Colonel Heller. Mr. Justice Blackburn said it had been proved that there had been a good deal of drinking at public-houses, and that many of these public-houses had been hired by Colonel Meller's agent. The question would be whether the agents of Colonel Meller were responsible for the treating. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., said he was not instructed to deny that something of the sort took place, but he denied that Colonel Meller or his agents had anything to do with it. BETTING PROSECUTION AT HULL The authorities throughout the country seem suddenly to have commenced a raid on betting men, and on specula tions in connection with racing. In London and throughout the provinces the law is being applied. On Monday, at the Hull Police-court, before T. H. Travis, Esq., stipendiary magistrate, information was laid against George Hartley, landlord of the Bull and Sun Inn, Mytongate, for not maintaining good order and rule in his house, by allowing betting therein. The evidence of detective officers went to shew that on Wednesday last they, while on duty in private clothes, in Mytongate, observed a man of the name of Fent go up to a gentle man in the street and ask him what he was betting on. Suspicions being excited, the officers went into the dram-shop, where they found about eighteen men, several of whom had their books in their hands ; they asked if Mr. Hartley was in the dram-shop, and the man at the bar answered in the negative. Pre. vious to that the officers had seen several entries made by the men in the dram-shop ; and others put their hands into their pockets and handed to the man something, who made the entry. It was further stated by the officers that two-thirds of the men who went into the dram-shop bad nothing to drink. His Worship fined the .defendant 40s. and costs. THE CASE OF MADAME RACHEL. Judgment was yesterday delivered by the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench in the case of " The Queen v. Leverson." The cause was a very interesting one, inasmuch as it involved particularly the conviction of Madame Rachel, and generally the constitution of the Cen tral Criminal Court. Error was assigned on three different grounds. First, that two commissioners being necessary to constitute a court for the trial of indictments at the Central Criminal Court, the same alderman was required to act with Mr. Commissioner Kerr throughout the trial, if it lasted for several days, and not a different alderman on different days. The second ground was, that as only one court was provided by the Act there was no power to divide the court and sit in different chambers. And the third ground was that Mr. Commis sioner Kerr had ceased to be a commissioner, and was incompetent to act as judge under a Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the trial of this indictment. The Lord Chief Justice said the first was the onlyground of the three that presented any difficulty, and it was upon that point alone that the court thought it desirable to reserve judg ment. The court considered that ground of error untenable. Two judges were required to sit on the trial of every indictment, and a serious ques tion arose whether the provisions of the statute had been complied with on this occasion. They were of opinion that it had. The Commission under which the Central Criminal Court was held was one of Oyer and Terminer, and the language of the Act constituting the court was the same as that used in the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, under which justice had been adminis tered for centuries, and the Act must therefore be read by the light of the procedure adopted in the superior and other courts, held under such commissions, and in doing so this court felt warranted in assuming that in establishing the Central Criminal Court the Legislature intended that the administration of justice there should be conducted according to the universal practice of Oyer n Terminer, and general gaol delivery. Everything seemed to chew that under Commissions of Oyer and Terminer not only were the courts divided into as many as were required, but that each trial before each separate court was not only before the single judge who was sitting, but it was constructively tried before all judges acting under the commission. That practice having prevailed for centuries, the court could not suppose that it was the intention of the Legislature that a different principle of construction or course of practice was never intended to he adopted at the Central Criminal Court ; and, therefore, applying the inveterate practice of the other courts to the Central Criminal Court, the presence of an alderman in addi tion to the single judge, wasnot required, and that a second judge sitting with Mr. Commissioner Kerr was unnecessary; the court were therefore of opinion that as, by the record, it appeared that other members of the commission were sitting at the same time and place that the trial took place under such circumstances as to make the conviction good and valid. LAW AND POLICE. THE LOAN SOCIETY.—At Guildhall, on Tuesday, Rdid and Jones, the secretary and collector of the National and Provincial Union Assurance and Loan Society, of which most of the directors were gentle men's servants, were brought up on remand to answer the charge of conspiring to defraud. One witness said that about the month of September last a man was in possession of the furniture of the office for the purchase money of it. About the month of December a man was in possession for the rent, and Mr. Reid told him that he had advertised for a collector. 0 ther evidence was given, and some amusement was created by the reading of two letters from one of the so-called directors; Walter Taylor, who had given his master's address in Eaton-square as his own, a course naturally displeasing to the real As soon as the case appeared in the papers the master, who was away, sent to the ambitious servant a copy of the Telegraph, with the account of " High Life below Stairs" underlined. Taylor's letters strongly entreated his friends to make the best of his case, and to let him know what they had said, that he might keep to the same story. The case was adjourned for the production of the director Kiddie as a witness. :HIGHWAY ROBBERIES AT THE EAST-END OF LONDON.— For some time past there has been a great increase of crime in the East-end of London, and the magis atrates at Worship-street Police-court have made many remarks on the number of charges of robberies from the person, "snatches," and assaults with robbery. On Tuesday there were no less than five cases of this description among the other night matters. Three of the prisoners who were proved to have committed rob bery with great violence were committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. Two others were remanded. John M'Carthy, aged 18, was charged on remand with having stolen a watch from the person of Henry Green. Mr. Ellison gave him the option of pleading there, or going for trial. He chose the former, pleaded guilty, and Mr. Ellison sentenced him to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. owner. The Recorder of Manchester (Mr. West, M. P) made a very serious statement in his charge to the grand jury at the city sessions, on Monday. "It was a fact," h o said, "that whilst the rest of the country was improving in sobriety, and in general obedience to the law, Lancash:re was going backwards." He appears to have Lased this state ment upon "the general statistics of the country." • The excitement in Cork appears to have had the effect of hastening the voluntary departure for America of several of the Fenian prisoners lately released. Patrick Barry, of Fernley, and Michael O'Ryan, of Roscarberry, who had been in confinement under a sentence of seven years' penal servitude, have sailed from Queenstown for the United States. The Belfast rapers mention that the guns and re volvers stolen from the shop of Mr. Neill, a gunmaker in that town, have been found in the house of a man named Berry, who, along with his son, is in custody. The articles discovered were seven revo l vers, one four barrelled repeater, two double-barrelled pistols, two daggers, three gun-swords, a powder flask, shot bag, and a box of ball cartridge. Beneath the floor, in another place, two bretch ioading double-barrelled guns wets found. Both the men in custody are Protestants. The banquet to Mr. Wise anti Mr. John hardy, the ConServative memters.for South Warwicksh!re,.bas been .Exed to take place on the Ist of June. It is supposed that the gathering will be the largest of the kind which Las taken place in Leamington for many years. The Earl of Warwick having declined to preside, another eminent Co - aservative has been wkel to take the chair. All the Conservative, mem! ers in Warwick. hire, and On. Conservative cand'clates Iu the lat.) con:t t t tor Riminghan), are to he invit •elas guests. Sir John Paldngton, Gatlibrue Hardy, and other:, aro else expect( (1 to 14 , DE PA RTC LE or EMANOPATED SLAVES FROM LIVERPpOL.-- 011 r rlieklay th,: , Aft Royal Mail stcanier Athenian left the Mersey with the mails, pas.F.;etigcrs, fur Madeira, Teneriffe, and tl:e Went {'oast of Africa. Among the passengers on board the Athenian were several Legroes and negresses, who, after a long term of servitude in Cuba, are now returning to the newly-formed free colony of emancipated slaves at Lagos. The released slaves, so far as the female portion are concerned, are clrtainly above the ordinary standard of their type, so far 113 intelligence and attire go. They, by industry and fru gality, purchased their freedom in Cuba ; and are now, with a good competency, going home to Lagos to commence business in the new colony. Mr. Edward Button, from the Anti-542y ... Society, Loadori, and aszsg, THE TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE IN VADA It is thought that the fire in the Yellow Jacket Mine, Nevada, was cAused by a candle left care lessly sticking against a timber by some one be longing to the party on work at night, who leave off at 4 a.m. ; those for the- day commence at 7 o'clock, three hours later. During the kterval, on April 7, no workmen, except carmen, were in the.mine, but before the danger was discovered many had been lowered into the Yellow Jacket, Crown Point, and Kentuck Mines. As soon as the alarm was given, the fire companies 'of Gold Hill and Virginia City brought their engines, but the first effort was to save those underground. At about 11 o'clock a cage was sent down the Crown Point Mine to the 1,000 feet level, where it was known several miners were at work, with a lighted lantern upon it, a small box with candles,and the following despatch written by Superintendent J. I'. Jones :—° We are fast subduing the fire. Is is death to attempt to cme up from where you are. We will get to you soon. The gas in the shaft is terrible, and produces sure and speedy death. WI ite a word to us and send it up on the cage, and let as know how you are." No answer war: returned, and those addressed must have been all dead before it reached'thetn. The scene that followed when the terrible news be came known was heartrending. The wives and children of those imprisoned in the burning mines crowded to the works ; but there was no comfort for them, as a stifling column of smoke rose from the shafts, charged with pungent gases from the burning wood and heated ores below. By closing the shafts and turning down into them the steam from the hoisting works the fire could have been extinguished almost immediately, but this would have been equivalent to saying all were dead b low, for it must have caused the death of any one who survived. At the Crown Point the men so crowded the cage that it was detained five minutes, the station man fearing to give the signal to hoist, while so many were in danger of being torn to pieces. One man, unable to find room to stand upright, thrust his head between another's legs and begged to be allowed to remain there and go up; his He was thus saved; but as the cage ascended those left behind were heard to throw themselves into the shaft, and some were heard falling back on the floors. At one lowering of the cage, a man who had gone down to rescue the sufferers, finding that there were more s persons than could be brought up that trip, got off ti.:e drift, and put. a young man on instead, who was already too suffo cated to stand. here was heroism ! his name has not transpired, but it has been ascer tained that he was among those saved. The body of one man in Crown Point was found doubled up, his head resting on his knees immediately under a trickling stream of ; another was embracing a blow pipe, but all presented a shocking appear ance. The features were so swollen and distorted that the wives and relatives were not permitted to see the faces of the dead. Amongst them are John Hallisey, of Wisconsin, aged 35, t elatives unknown. John Hogan, of New York, aged 22, parents at San Francisco. Joseph M‘L.2llan, County Derry, Ireland, aged 36, relatives unknown. George Tompkins, of Canada, aged 29, mother in San Franei-eo, a brother in Virginia, and a sister in Gold Hill. Richard Bickle, of Cornwall, England, aged 33, father and mother living in Cornwall. George Peters, of Crowan, Cornwall, England, aged 26, only relative known is an uncle residing in Cornwall. 711 E PUBLIC PRESS. The New York Tribune has written a dignified reply to some comments of the New York 7 lines on the President's ostentatious neglect of the public press. The 7 imes sass :—" No editor of an influen tial newspaper has been appointed to public office, with one exception, and in that case it was promptly declined. Whatever may have been the motive of this exclusion, the fact is eminently serviceable to the profession which it somewhat contemptuously ignores." Alluding to itself, and the fact that for twenty years those who had conducted the leading journals were still the conductors. the Tribune asks: Where are those who were leaders in our politics twenty years ado —the Presidents, Cabinet Officers, Senators, Govervors,Ministers —the buddingand ripened Statesmen? All along since gone to flower and seed—their fame, ashes; their power vanished into the mists. General Grant is the tenth President the Tribune has known! Ten Presidents—seven full Administrations and two wars, and great renown and pageantry, and end less companies of great Statesmen ! All so many ghosts to day - end occasionally a rusty ex-President, or forgotten Senator, or neglected Minister (no:longer extraordinary or plenipotentiary), elbows his way up Broadway unknown even to the policeman. Yet such influence as the Tribune may possess—its power for good or evil remains with it—greater, we think, then it was under Polk or Pierce or Johnson —still to be with it, we trust, when t his Administration joins the ghosts of its predecessors, and General Grant is crowded from his seat by some " indispensable" warrior or statesman. We sometimes feel like Hamlet when he walked among the graves and the bones of the di ad men. If considers that the Press pays those really valu able to it better than the Government, and valtrible men only the Government should require, but not requiring them, the journalists are better placed as they are, and ought therefore' to be grateful for being let alone. The Press will uphold Grant's Administration where right, and oppose it where wrong, whether he appoints one, or a hundred editors; as it did when he was an unknown officer without power, so it will do now that he is a Presi dent with 50,000 offices to bestow. To show what position the Press ought to take, the following letter, which will explain itself, is given : To THE EDITOR OF TIIE " TIMES." "Sir,---Having this day delivered into the hands of the King the seals of office, I can, without any imputation of an interested motive, or any impediment from scrupulous feelings of delicacy, express my deep sense of the power ful support which that Government, over which I had the honour to preside, received from the Times newspaper. If do not offer the expressions of personal gratitude, it is because I feel that such exptessions would do injustice to the character of a support which was given exclusively on the highest and most independent grounds of pub lic principle. I can say this with perfect truth, as I am addressing one whose person even is unknown to me, and who, during my tenure of power, studiously avoided every species of intercourse which could throw a suspicion upon the motives by which he was ac tuated. I should, however, be doing injustice to my own feelings, if I were to retire from office without one word of acknowledment, without at least assuring you of the admiration with which I witnessed, during the ardu ous contest in which I was engaged, the daily exhibition of that extraordinary ability to which I was indebted for a support, the more valuable because it was an impartial and discriminating support. - I have the honour to be, Sir, ever your obedient and faithful servant, " Whitehall, Ap r il 18 , 18 35. " " ROBERT PEEL. To which the editor returned this answer : "sir, It gives me sincere satisfaction to learn from the letter with which you have honoured me, bearing yester day's date, that you estimate so highly the efforts which have been made during the last five months by the Tel nes newspaper to support the cause of rational and whole some Government which his Majesty had intrusted to your guidance, and that you appreciate fairly the disin terested motive of regard to the public welfare, and to that alone, through which this journal has been prompted to pursue a policy in accordance with that of your Admi nistration. It is, permit me to say, by such motives only that the Times, ever since I have known it, has been in fluenced, whether in defence of the Government of the day, or in . constitutional resistance to it; and indeed there exist no other motives of action for a journalist, compat ible either with the safety of the press, or with the poli tical morality of th 3 great bulk of its readers. The Boston hotels are already receiving nume rous applications from all pacts of the country for accom modations in June in anticipation of visiting the "National PCP.OO Jubilee." Effutts are being made by the Execu tive Commit tce to scent., the ztttentlauce of Strauss's famous b:.11,1 from Vienna. An election for director ..3 of t'ie Panama Railroad Company was hold at Tom ke-httilding on - Monday, Apr'l 5. with the following result :—William 11. Atqiinwall, Jos. W. Al op, James M. Prown, Henry Chauncey, Edward Crunarcl, Frederick G. Fo:der, David llondley, Gouverneur Kemldp, Charles P. Leverich, flow:iril Potter, David Ste watt, Theo. W. Riley, Wm. Whitewriglit, jun. LUXURIANT AND .13EAUTIFUL HAIR.—SIRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to Its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil uor dye. In large Bottles— Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfutners. Depot 266, High Holborn THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1869. MISCE rLANEous NEWS. the question" Which is the better, one large or several small establishments ?" The decision of the over ruling authorities has been given in favour of union, both on account of economy and because the machinery is so much more " workable " in a large institution than it is where the various schools and houses are scattered about very few know whither. But there are disadvantages in large schools. The Lancet points to one of these in a report upon the Hanwell Schools. Here everything appears to have been done that could be done to make the children comfortable. Yet the institution can scarcely be described otherwise than as an expensive machinery for patching up unhealthy material. Twenty two per cent. of the children admitted require to be sent at once to hospital ; and there are few indeed who could be fairly entered as per fectly clean and well. Every van-load of children needs to be kept separate until all fear of the deve lopment of contagious diseases is at an end. If the children are not infected before their admission to the workhouses, they are liable to become so in their journey to the school ; and it is obvious that the large size of the establishment and the number of admissions make it all but impossible to exclude disease. Vi l lpecially does ophthalmia rage. Alto gether the "health is very bad. Low stature marks most of the inmates. Not long ago a naval officer offered to take 150 of the boys, but upon careful examination only three were found to fulfil the con ditions of ordinary physical health. IMPERTAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. LODGERS' PROPERTY PROTECTION BILL. The Marquis of TOWNSHEND moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to protect the property of lodgers froth being taken for any de fault in payment of rent or taxes by the landlord. The noble marquis said it was a great hardship upon the lodger that his goods should ever be seized for non-pay ment by a superior landlord. Oue of the proposals of the bill was that on the lodger procuring a certificate from a magistrate that the goods represented were his property, that they should thereupon bo secure against the claims of the superior landlord. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the bill dealt with a power that had been experienced by the landlord from re motest time. The subject was one that ought not to be lightly treated, and ha was sure the present bill was not at all calculated to effect the object in view. The noble lord, finding the measure opposed by the Lord Chancellor, at once withdrew it. Lord ROSSE moved for a report of the proceedings taken with respect to the death of Mr. Lisle on the North British Railway. The report was ordered, and their lordships shortly afterwards adjourned. ALARMING. Two things have alarmed the Rock very much this week. One is that the Bishop of London's Fund has been used for other than Low " Churches. St. Chad's Haggerston, the trustees of which are pro nounced " Catholics," has been raised almost entirely on the fund. The other symptom of degeneracy is that " the pest of Ritualism " is shewing itself among the orthodox Dissenters. On Monday evenings the Psalms are chanted, and the prayers are intoned at Surrey Chapel—the Rev. Newman Hall's. Both are doubtless very dreadful, the former especially unfair, the High Churchmen having themselves contributed towards the fund; the latter, a particular encroach ment of modern times, the Psalms having been sung by David himself. SICK BISHOPS. The Bishop of Salisbury is still in a very pre carious state. Ile is better one day, and worse the next. The Bishop of Carlisle is also much out of health, and his condition gives rise to anxiety among his friends. The Record announces that " the prayers of Christian friends that in patience he may possess his soul are valued and desired by him.", EVIDENCE BY THE PARTIES TO A SU IT. The Central Criminal Court h as occu pi e d a l ar g e part of its time this session in h ea ri n g charges of perjury. They arose out of the long-drawn case which was decided by Si r J ames Wild e some ti me since. A Dr. Godrich sued to be divorced from his . wife, and p resen t e d ev id ence w hi c h (supposing to be true) undeniably proved adultery. Mrs. Godrich brought a recriminatory charge, and shewed unmistakably that the petitioner had done that which disentitl e d hi m t o th e b ene fit of the law. Sir James refused to make any decree. Then Dr. Godrich instit u t e d p rocee di ngs f or p er j ur y against the chief witness against him. He proved that he had been grie vou sly wro nged, and the jury, agreeing with him, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to twelvemonths' imprisonment. Now Mrs. Godrich hastaken the same means of freeingher self from the charges cast upon her. She has in her turn shewn that the evidence against her was false, in some respects at ]east 3 and another witneza has been accommodated with lodgings in gaol for a while. Is there no way of. lessening the chances of the recurrence of trials such as this—real in nothing but their effects upon innocent persons ? The Daily News says ," Yes." Had it not been for the rule which seals the mouths alike of the accuser and the accused, the first jury might not have believed in the guilt of Dr. and Mrs. Godrich, nor might these witnesses have been tempted to. perjure themselves. If such a change were made in the law as would enable the several parties to give upon oath their version of their stories, and to withstand the searching examination which would test their veracity, the facts would in many cases be i sifted with a thoroughness which is now mpos sible. Such a change has been provided for in a bill which is under the consideration of the House of Commons. That bill, as introduced by Mr. Denman, was calculated to remedy a crying evil. It has been mutilated by rendering its provisions i na pplicable to such a case as that of Dr. Godrich and his wife. Yet it is in cases like these that the salutary effects of the reform would be the most marked. There is yet time to make its operation general. THE SUCCESS OF THE BURGLAR. Punch some time back gave an amusing prophetic sketch of the strife between nations to obtain the best armaments. A ship being invented calculated to assist the gun of to-day would be rendered prac tically useless by the discovery of a machine which would totally destroy any vessel within a few miles of it. Very much the same thing seems to be taking place in the light between society and the burglar. The burglar opened the door and walked in very un ceremoniously. We put bolts and locks. lle despised our bolts and manipulated our lochs. Better locks were invented. These were found in sufficient. W e obtained safes which could not be battered open, and had such elaborate machinery for opening and shutting that it required a mechanic to understand it at all. But now an instrument has been invented in Paris by which safes can be noiselessly opened. It will be no use locking them ; to do so will be like trying to keep a bird in a room by shutting the door while the window is open. The safe man must try his hand again. THE AGONY COLUMN. The Warminster advertisement, imploring H. P., H. F. P. to write at once because " everything is in great confusion," is repeated. At the same time we read in the Salisbury Journal that Messrs. Pullen and Son, one of the oldest and most respected firms of solicitors in the town, had suspended business and are missing. The firm, having enjoyed the confidence of the Warminster public, had become possessed of a large amount of trust money. The amount of their defalcations is at present unknown, but it is expected it will be many thousands of pounds. Mr. Pullen had left the town for several weeks and gone on the Continent, avowedly for the benefit of his health. His son left last week, and nothing at .present is known of his whereabouts. The advertisement is scarcely likely to lead to any result. YOU GHAL ELECTION. There seems to have been at Youghal more even than the ordinary excitement of an Irish election. At the nomination the Hibernian love of physical force arguments were displayed to the utmost. After Mr. Montagu Guest, the Liberal candidate, had been heard, and allayed the suspicions of his orthodoxy, which were no doubt due to the fact that he comes of a Conservative stock and has a Conservative brother in the House of Com mons, Mr. Green attempted to make himself heard. Although, perhaps because, he was a local man, he could not obtain a hearing. At first two combatants began to fight upon a table, then more joined the fray, until at last the oppor tunity of cracking a skull became irresistible, and the whole mass of people fell to with the utmost ferocity. The excitement during the polling day was immense. The two candidates had a neck and neck race, an d just before four o'clock there was a tie. But at the last moment two voters polled for Mr. Guest. Naturally enough in such a constituency as this, it is supposed that they were " influenced," and so Mr. Green promises a petition. THE MURDER OF MR. BRADSHAW. The Limerick, Chronicle is informed, " upon the most reliable authority, that the murder of Mr. Bradshaw was one of an agrarian and not of any other character." The same journal states that " one of the leading solicitors of this city has received instructions to take legal proceedings against several English and Irish journals for libel contained in inuendoes in leading articles and correspondence in those newspapers having reference to members of ➢lr. Bradshaw's family, and that the necessary briefs to counsel are in preparation." ENGLAND AND AMERICA. Twe letters have appeared in the Star respecting our relations with America. Professor Newman writes from Clifton to give his impression of Mr. Sumner's recent speech, in which he does not see any menace of war, direct or indirect. He justifies Mr. Sumner's arguments, and declares that Mr. Reverdy Johnson altogether misrepresented the feelings of his countrymen. Mr. Newman mentions a• singular fact which he has recently heard from the report of the Paris Anti-Slavery Conference of 1867. Mr. Seward, it seems, in 1861 assured the European Cabinets that the President willingly accepted the doctrine " that the Federal Government could not reduce seceding States to obedience by conquest." Mr. Newman thinks that Mr. Seward must therefore bear the blame of that recognition of belligerency which he now condemns. Mr. W. S. Lindsay, on the other hand, thinks that American politicians are too ready to identify the acts of individuals with those of the Govern ment, and wishes to explain that he alone was responsible for the motion in favour of recogni tion, which stood so long in his name, though it was never submitted to the House of Commons. He quotes the opinions of many leading men in the Northern States at the time of Mr. Lincoln's elec tion to the Presidency. The recognition of the Confederacy was then openly discussed in the North, and Mr. Lindsay reminds us that the war had been waging for three years before he gave notice of his motion. He was urged by many members of the Administration to withdraw it, and he did not receive the slightest encouragement from any of the leading members of the Opposition. He therefore took no action upon it, and he was con vinced there was on all sides a determination not to interfere between the contending parties. In con clusion, Mr. Lindsay denies that any of the blockade runners were his property, as stated. TILE ADMIRALTY. the Admi r o a r l r t e y sp a o r n e d e “ n i t n o a f the p S e t r c a nt d e /a 7; 11 1 g declares d t a h r a e t in a thoroughly confused an d disorganised' state." The writer declares that Mr. Baxter has far too much power. The other day h e wou ld h ave a b ol i shed the invoice branch had nut Mr. Walker (auditor of the dockyard accounts) interposed and " soundly rated " Mr. Childers, who expressed his regret- and total ignorance of the whole affair. The same correspondent affirms that the system of sup plying coal to the Admiralty by contracts has been abolished, and that a Mr. M'Uulloch has be en ap pointed purchaser with a commission of threep ence per ton and all his travelling expenses, which for two months amounted to £O5. The correspondent says that Mr. M'Culloch is making £3,000 a year. With two Scotchmen at the India Office and a Scotchman at the Admiralty it would be strange indeed if North Britons did not prosper under the present Govern ment. COMPACTNESS V. DIVISION. _Poor:lase guardiansiat now are gteatly jigitatini PREVENTION OF CATTLE DISEASE. The agriculturists have been battling this long time for a separate cattle market for foreign beasts, and they have carried the day at last. They failed while they made it a party question ; but having appealed to the Government through Mr. Gladstone, having consulted Mr. Forster instead of Lord Robert Montagu, they have obtained their desires. Mr. Gladstone writes, in reply to a petition asking that separate arrangements should be made for the sale of foreign cattle, " Under all circum stances, it would be my duty that such a document should have the careful consideration of the Govern ment ; but on this occasion I have the satisfaction of hoping that the arrangements to be embodied in the Government bill, should Mr. Forster be able to com plete them, as is desired and contemplated by us, will meet all cases of 'suspicion or danger in impor tation from abroad, and will give content to every reasonable expectation." AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. The week's reports as to the agricultural prospects are not encouraging. Too wet and too cold, the farmers complain. The wheat in some places has already suffered damage, but, happily, it is not very serious. If the weather which is prevailing in most parts of the country just now—a humid atmosphere, with occisional very cold showers—continue, vege tation will be thrown back considerably. It is rather early, however, to cry out as yet. On light soils things have gone favourable on the whole. Even the heavy groands have received no very important injury. THE WOODMAN'S BAROMETER. The Chambers of Agriculture Journal notices that the oak is getting into fine foliage, whereas the ash is quite bare, and that this circumstance is an indica tion of a fine dry summer. "Had both trees presented the same appearance as regards folia ge , th e chances are that the ensuing season would have been neither particularly wet nor dry, but cold and unproductive throbghout. A few selected cases will tend to strengthen, if not to confirm, the observa tion. In the years 1816, 1817, 1821, 1823, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1838, 1840, 1845, 1850, and 1859 the ash was in full foliage more than a month before the oak, and many of our readers will recollect the cold and unproduc tive seasons which succeeded. Again, in 1831,1832, 1839, 1840, 1853, and 1860 both these species of vegetation began their race at about the same period, and the summers which followed were neither one way nor the other. Whereas in 1818, 1819, 1820, 1.822, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1840, 1842 1846, 1854, and 1868 the oak displayed its umbrageous foliage weeks before its companion of the forest, and these years were particularly distinguished for fine, dry, and warm weather, and subsequently by the most abundant h arves t s recorded , in the annals of our country." Of course no one supposes that the earlier foliation of the oak has any causative connection with the summer dryness. Rather both are the result of the same cause —a damp, warm winter and spring, There i s just the same connection between the twc events that there is between the weather and the rim and fall of the mercury in the barometer. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The Inciependance Edge publishes a telegram from London containing intelligence which, if correct, is of the highest importance. It says the English Government has officially informed the Cabinet of Washington that the principle of arbitration must apply to all claims arising out of the civil war, whether preferred by English or Americancitizens. Oneof the leadingarguments broughtby Mr. Sumner against the Clarendon-Johnson treaty was that it allowed the counter claims of English citizens to be brought before the mixed commission, and that it was therefore possible for the damages awarded to English men to exceed the damages conceded to Americans. According to the Independance Edge, the British Govern. ment is resolved that if the claims of one country be sub mitted to arbitration, those of the other must be dealt with in the same way. If General Grant's Government will not allow English claims to be considered, the British Ministry will decline arbitration altogether. This is the meaning of the telegram published in the Belgian paper, which, it may be remarked, is a highly respectable authority, and is the only continental paper well informed on English affairs. SEIZURES OF AMERICAN VESSELS BY SPANIARDS. It is satisfactory to learn that the Spanish Government not only disapproves of the arbitrary conduct of its repre sentatives in the West Indies, but has in one case, at least, taken a step towards reparation. Two American vessels have been seized by Spanish war-ships within the last few weeks. One of these—the Mary Lowell— was captured in British waters, and is yet the subject of a curious diplomatic cmbroglio, in which all three nations —England, America, and Spain —are involved. The other ship was the Galvanic, taken off the coast of Cuba, on the supposition that it was bearing aid to the insurgents. No proof that the passengers and crew were guilty of this breach of international law is, however, forthcoming. The revolutionary Government has, therefore, expressed its disapproval of its officers' conduct, and the crew and passengers of the Galvanic have been set at liberty. This prompt justice contrasts favourably with the endless delays of Isabella's Government in the cases of the Tornado and the Mermaid, and affords ground for the expectation that the Mary Lowell dispute also will be speedily settled. The Americans claim this vessel because she is an American ship ; we have suffered injury inasmuch as the capture took place within British waters —off one of the Bahamas ; whilst the Spaniards hold that the seizure was not made in British waters, and that the capture is legal, as the Mary L owe ll was carrying contra band of war. THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND THE HANOVERIANS. King William will start in a few days fora tour through his lately-acquired provinces of Hesse and Hanover. Tht Parte says it has been decided to hold no public care. monies, for the disagreeable news has been received at Berlin that a large number of the Hanoverian aristocracy quitted the city of Hanover as soon as it was known that the King was coming. This shews that Prussian rule is far from popular in the upper grades of the kingdom from which King George was expelled. King William's visit will last only a few days, and the time will be devoted ex elusively to the inspection of military works. EXTRADITION. The Governments of France and Belgium have agreed upon a new extradition treaty, which has just been signed. This compact is much more comprehensive than the old one, which dates as far back as 1833. At that time the principles of extradition were, so to speak, in a raw state, and the old treaty therefore provided only for the gravest crimes. The one just con cluded comprises many more offences of the more serious character. Similarly comprehensive treaties between France and other neighbouring countries are under con sideration. TERRIBLE COLLISION. A most disastrous collision in the Mediterranean is reported by the French journals. The steamer General Abbatucci, on a voyage from Marseilles to Civita Vecchia, came into collision with a Norwegian brig on Friday last, and was sunk. Forty-nine seamen and passengers perished. Fifty-five persons, including the captain, were rescued, and have been put on shore in a destitute condition. Amongst the passengers who lost their lives were the Consul-General of the Pope at Marseilles, and another official of high rank. The remarkable feature of this catastrophe is that the vessel which was run down was a steamer, whilst the other was a small sailing ship. GENERAL LEE. For the first time since the civil war General Lee has crossed the frontier of Virginia. He did indeed visit Washington in 1866, but he was called there as a witness. He has never left his State voluntarily. But as a railway was sadly wanted from Lexington, where the General's col lege is situated, to oneof the main lines, the great Southern commander felt it his duty to go to Baltimore to raisefunds for the purpose. Lexington is only a village, containing two institutions of learning—Washington College and the Virginia Military Institute, where Stonewall Jackson was a professor. But the roads leading from Lexington to more populous towns are mountainous, bad, and in winter impassable. Hence the need of a railway. General Lee, says the correspondent of the Standard, was enthusiastically received at Baltimore. The demon strations were strictly limited by the ordinances of good taste, and the General's wishes were affectionately com plied with. No public honours were accorded him. But " all Baltimore" crowded to his drawing-rooms, the ladies waited upon him with bouquets, and little child ren came in troops to greet the soldier whose name will 41'9 fox 9/9 • ell • • • • • .• .. • . . HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING. The proceedings relative to the Mayor of Cork being fixed for to-clay a large number of persons assembled in Westminster Hall to witness the arrival of the members at the House of Commons. Within the house the strangers' gallery was fully occupied, as was also the ladies' gallery. 'I he SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock, at which hour there was a very full attendance of members, and the utmost interest prevailed. THE PERMISSIVE BILL. A great number of petitions were presented from all parts of the country in favour of the Permissive Prohibi tory Sale of Liquors Bill, against which was one by Mr. Baines, from 1.0-edq, hearing 11,800 signatures. THE ABYSSINIAN WAR. Mr. CANDLISII gave notice that early in June ho should call the attention of the house to the excess of expenditure ever the estimated cost of the Abyssinian war. THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply to Mr. Morley, said he hoped to be able to go into committee on the bill immediately after the holidays. BRIGADE FIELD DAY. Lord ELCHO gave notice of his intention of calling attention to the facilities for holding brigade field days for volunteers in Hydo Park. REMOVAL OF MAYORS. Mr. BRUCE, in reply to Mr. Eastwick, said it would require very great consideration before a general measure was introduced to deal with mayors who might be guilty of conduct calculated to bring the administration of the law into disrepute. • PROCESSIONS IN CORK. Mr. C. FORTESCUE, in reply to Col. Fordo, said he had not received the report he had sent for from Ireland with respect to the reports of party processions with banners having taken place in Cork. O'SULLIVAN'S DISABILITY BILL. On the order of the day being read for the second read inn this bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, in accordance with the directions received, he had taken care to provide wit nesses to support the preamble of the bill, and that they were row in attendance to be called in. He bad also ap pointed the Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, and Mr. Barry to represent the Drown, and he begged to move that the witnesses ba called in. Mr. MAGUIRE rose to meet the motion with a direct negative, but before doing so he would read a letter from the person most deeply interested in the proceedings. The hon. member then read a letter he had received from Mr. O'Sullivan in which he stated that the language he had used did not represent correctly what he meant to convey, that he would be the first to aid the saving of human life, that under the peculiar circumstances he would retire from and resign the office of mayor of Cork, and he had taken the necessary steps to carry out that intention. Under such circumstances he hoped it would not be thought necessary to go on with the bill. The O'DONOGHUE said Mr. O'Sullivan had under taken that night to write to the proper officers at Cork placing his resignation of the office of mayor in their hands, and he felt quite sure that Government might rest certain' that the purpose of Mr. O'Sullivan, guaranteed as it would be by himself, and the hon. member for Cork (Mr. Maguire), would be fully and honourably carried out. (Hear, hoar.) Mr. GLADSTONE said be felt it right to say that until that moment he was totally unacquainted with the contents of the letter just read, but as he understood it was to be clearly taken that Mr. O'Sullivan bad absolutely, though not technically, resigned the office of Mayor of Cork. He could not distrust the statements of Mr. O'Sul livan, even had it not been supported by the unimpeach able guarantee of the two hen. gentlemen who had just spoken ; and under such circumstances he did not think it would be desirable to prosecute the measure against the gentleman who had volun tarily divested himself of the office of Mayor of Cork. But it would be wise to consider the bill with respect to future Mayors of Cork, and, if on the resignation of Mr. O'Sullivan he should again be re elected, they would then be again in the position in which they then stood. Under such c:rcumstances he should pro po,e to postpone any further consideration of the bill until a successor to Mr. O'Sullivan as Mayor of Cork had been elected. (Rear, hear.) The object of the Government had been fully attained, and as that was so, he would move the postponement of the consideration of the bill. (Hear, hear.) Mr. NEWDEGATE said had the bill he had submitted to the house some time ago been passed, the state of things that then existed would have been fully provided for. Under the present circumstances it seemed to him highly advisible that some general measure should now be passed, in order that in the event of .motions like the present one arising there might be a means of ade quately meeting them without bringing out the full ma jesty of the State and giving importance to motions that ought to be treated in a very different way. In answer to a question from Colonel WILSON PATTON, Mr. GLADSTONE said he meant to have said that on Mr. O'Sullivan ceasing to be the Mayor of Cork the Go vernment would abandon the bill of pains and penalties. The measure was not introduced against Mr. O'Sullivan as a private individual, but as a public functionary, and in order to secure a proper administration of justic.). Mr. MAGUIRE said he could assure the house that the resignation that had been tendered by Mr. O'Sul livan was a full and entire one ; and he felt quite certain that the gentlemen had no intention of again coming forward to seek a re-election ; he might further say that in the event of his being re-elected he would most positively refuse to fulfil the office. Mr. DOWNING said there need be no fear that Mr. O'Sullivan would ever again be Mayor of Cork after the course he bad pursued that day. (Loud laughter.) Sir P. BURRELL wished to know who was to pay the expenses that had been incurred in providing counsel, and for the attendance of witnesses. Mr. GLADSTONE, amidst some laughter, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had the means to pay with. The bill was then ordered to be read that day four weeks. • REVENUE BILL. This bill was then read a second time. SUPPLY. The report on supply was brought up and received. The sitting of the house was then suspended until nine o'clock. _ _ On resuming at nine o'clock, Mr. KNATCHBULL-FIUGESSEN moved for leave to bring in a bill to establish county financial boards. Col. W. PATTEN approved of the bill so far as it was based upon the report of his committee, and bore testi mony to the efficient manner in which the magistrates in Quarter Sessions now performed their judicial and admi nistrative duties. Mr. WARD HUNT thought the cry that had been raised for the introduction of the representation principle in the management of county finances was due to the ignorance on the part of the ratepayers of the fact that the discretion in the hands of tha magistrates was of a very limited extent. The better course would be to make ar ra, gements for separating the, collection of the county rate from the poor rate, and allowing the occupier to de duct the county rate when settling with his landlord. By that means the necessity for an alteration would no longer exist. Mr. HIBBERT concurred generally in th• 3 views of the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but Mr. Secretary Bruce, who answered the few objections advanced against the measure, aFsured the House that an examination of its details would convince them that all these were satis factorily met. Leave was then given to introduce the bill. Mr. TORRENS moved for the appointment of a select committee to inquire as to the desirability- of examining upon oath persons called to the bar of the house to give evidence in support or in disproof of the preamble to a bill of pains and penalties. 11r. GLADSTONE assented to the appointment of a committee, beliering that it was eminently desirable that the house should have the power of examining witnesses on oath, and cease to depend exclusively upon the reso lution which it passed annually in defence of its own au thority. He suggested, however, that the terms of refer ence to the committee should be to inquire into the expe diency of adopting any further measures for the exa mination of witnesses upon oath by this house or by its committees. The original motion being withdrawn, the words sug gested by Mr. Gladstone were substituted and agreed to. The remaining orders were disposed of, and the Louse adjourned at a late hour. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (Front the Springfield Republican, April 21.) The money market has shown a decided improvement for the week past, both in the abundance of its supply and the regularity of its demand. Seven per cent. in currency his been the ruling rate at New York, and there has at no time been any mat ked or sudden variation from that figure. The supply has been sufficient for all needs, and the stock market, quickened by the facility with which capital could be procured, has steadily atsorbed all that offered. The tendency of currency during the week has been from the country, towards the New York banks, and this movement though of usual annual occurrence, is fully a week earlier than last year. The den:and for shipment South still con tinues, but there is no difficulty in meeting it, and no re luctance to stimulate the rapidly increasing and important trade with that section. of the country. The banks are generally in a strong position atd will make a favourable exhibit in response to Controller Ilulburd's order for a re port of the condition of their business on the 17th instant. This will be the first of the reports under the recent Act of Congress, which are to be made when called for by the Controller, and not quarterly, as under the old law. The order relieves the banks from the partial contraction which they have maintained for some time in its anticipation, and many predict an easier market after it is over, though pro bably it will not have any material effect upon the situa tion. Tl►c: western money markets have experienced uo essential change ; they are easier than usual, especially at Chicago. An abundance of money and a short supply of coin have caused an advance in the gold market of three per cent. in less than a fortnight, and this too in the face of the most favourable financial advices from Washington, consider able receipts of specie from Europe and California, and a steady advance in the price of Government Bonds. The increase has been mainly gained during the past week and on Thursday the price closed at 1331. There are rumours of a speculative " corner" in preparation for the disburse ment of the May interest on the Five-twenties, and the short supply of cash gold now available in the market favours the success of this project . The sensation stories of a possible war with Spain for the sake of Cuba, and our delicate relations with England, on the subject of the Ala bama claims, increase the sensitiveness and uncertainty of the market, and speculators are never slow to improve the advantages of such a situation. The prepayment of the May coupons does not require any cous!derable amount of gold, and so far those who have hell on to their coupons have been the gainers. The premium seems likely to be higher before it is lower. The receipts of gold from customs, Lowe rer, continue quite heavy, and the aggregate accumu lation of gold in the New York Sub-Treasury for the last fortnight is over $1,000,000. The European steamers have landed $1,500,000 in gold at New York during the week, and the Arizona, from Aspinwall brought $532,883 on Wednesday. The itnports . at New Yurk for the week ending April 17 wore $7,558,167, gold value, and since July 1, $223,016,462, an increase of nearly $33,000,000 over the corresponding time in the previous year. The exports also show a corresponding but similar decrease. For the week ending April 14, they amounted to $3,617,388, currency value, and since July 1 to $124,714,134, against $144,917,280 for the similar time in 1838. The specie ex• ports of New York, since July 1, were $31,524,940 $15,550,245 less than in the same months of 1867-8, and the specie receipts from California $16,798,343 —510,325,956 smaller than for the corresponding months of the year previous. More than twice as much foreign specie has, however, been brought to New York than during the first nine months of the fiscal years, 1867-8. Foreign exchange has been much firmer than usual at New York, and has advanced 1 to 11 per cent., varying at 108 to 1081 for prime banker's sixty-day bills. Government Securities have been firm and prices have generally advanced. The foreign demand is unsatiatei and German brokers are picking up all the odd lots of the earlier issues which they can find, and quietly laying them aside for a further rise. The decline of our bonds in Lon don has neither affected their price in Now York nor at Frankfort, and in spite of the dim possibility of trouble with England, Spain, or anybody else who infringes on our national rights or honour, our public funds seem to be a favourite investment for capitalists of all countries. The earlier issues of the Five-Twenties have become scarce to find in the market, and there is a good demand and steady advance for the Pacific Railroad Sixes. The advance pay ment of the May and July interest on the Five-Twenties amounted to very little, and would have amounted to still less had not the advance in the premium on gold tempted some holders who would not otherwise have presented their claims. There is a probability that the Secretary of the Treasury may order the closing of the transfer books for the registered bonds on the 30th inst instead of May 31 as usual, in preparation for the payment of the July in terest, and should such an order be issued it would un doubtedly stimulate the anticipation of the interest on the July coupons. Railway shares have been generally appreciated in mar ket value during the week, owing in part doubtless to the greater abundance of money. New York Central still leads the advance, and though there is rumour of another war between Vanderbilt and Jay Gould, Gould and Erie will inevitably suffer, long before Vanderbilt and his roads can be affected. The report goes that the steady advance in Central stock is proving disastrous to Gould, and lhat he va'nly implores Vanderbilt to put the prices down, that he may escape without loss. Vanderbilt isn't so to ider hea.ted as all that by any means, although he has lately sold out all his Staten Islard property, worth over a mil lion, and given its titles to his eldest son, William, for $l. The official report of the Fisk-Goull adininistiatiou of the Erie Railway for the year ending Sept. 30, 1868, has lately made its appearance, and has many curious and in structive features. The total increase to the stock and debt of the road during the year was $44,209,592, the gross receipts of the road $14,311,213, and the expenses $10,311,217, of which $1,040,5?4 appears as net profits "for dividends." The amount of money paid in dividends was probably much less than a million. The administration profess to he ve spent $7,238,136 on the road and its equip ment, yet their report shows only 14 miles of track added to the road, and a reduction of the passenger cars from 190 to 187, and of the emigrant and baggage cars from 450 to 300. The New Yoilc Times thus concludes its review of the report :—" The reasonable conclusion would seem to be that such a condition of affairs, must of necessity, sooner or later, come to an end ; but the time will depend upon the ability and assurance of Gould and Fisk to grab all the cash receipts of the road, and of the Atlantic and Great Western lease, and to run and buy supplies for both lines on credit, including the $150,000 per mouth pro mised to the mortgage bond and debenture holders of the Atlantic and Great Western, and now very conveniently' tied up in chancery." The Atlantic and Great Western road has lately lapsed into its normal state of receiver ship, though the matter has ben quietly brought about with Jay Gould as one of the receivers. The Western Roads all stand favourably in the market, and the Rock Island is perceptibly enhanced in value by its prospective speedy completion to Omaha, and connection with the Pacific Road. The annual report of the Michigan Southern and North Indiana Road, for the year ending February 28, shows as a total of year's earnings, $3,024,108, of operat ing expenses, $2,028,028, and of net earnings, $2,816,029, an increase in the three items, respectively of $276,889, $111,691, and $165,198. The surplus remaining after pay ing all expenses, dividends and taxes, is $50,835. An improvement in the dry goods market for a day or two, last week, promised better times, but the season is too far advanced and trade too nearly completed to expect a permanent change in the situation. Cotton goods, par ticularly new styles of spring prints, are considerably sought after, but woollens of all descriptions are heavy, and there is little demand for them. The price of the raw materials, both cotten and woollen, has declined, and the cotton trade in the Southern ports is dull. Foreign goods, though imported in smaller quantities, are not readily put on the market, and a large portion on arriving are placed in bond, while others are sent to the auction rooms. A heavy defalcation in the New York produce exchange un settled business for a day or two, and the subsequent price of flour and wheat has been declining, and a continued in crease of the stock on hand. The Cambridge and Brighton cattle markets, this week, presented the usual condition of an over supply of heavy fat beeves and a scarcity of poor animals, with a decline on the former and an advance on the latter, until the extreme prices were within $1.50 per hundred of each other. Sheep and swine are dull and lower. (From the Wall -street Journal) FRIDAY EVENING, April 23. There is an active demand for money on call which has been promptly met at the legal rate. Discounts are mode rately active at 9 to 12 per cent. for first-class names. Gold is generally steady, the sales to day having been at 1331 to 1331, at which latter price the market closes. Government Bonds are generally strong at an advance of I to over yesterday's rates. . . Sixes, 1861, registered ll7 to 117/ Sixes, 1881, coupon ll7i to 117 i Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lO4l to 1041 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon 1 Five-twenties, 1864, coupon 1 Five-twenties, 1865 coupon .. to 1181 118 Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, now Five-twenties,'lB67, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 llll to 115 k i Ten-forties, coupon lO6 to 106 Seven-thirties, 2d series to -- Seven-thirties. 3d series . Oregon War Lan, Sixes. 1881 The Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company has passed into the control of receivers—one of whom is Mr. Jay Gould. Payment of tho coup)ns on the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Bonds was stopped 03 the 16th instant, and the published notice dated March :30 re specting coupons due April 1 has been revoked. It is stated that it is the intention of the Panama Rail road Company, on the opening of the Union Pacific Road, immediately to reduce the present fare ($25 in gold for 47 miles), so as to aid the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in competing with the Union "Pacific Railroac. The Steamship Company will doubtless likewise cut down its own-rates of fare so as to retain a considerable portion of travel. Furthermore, the water route will, for some time to oome, retain the bulk of all but fstet freighte, owing to the heavy tariff which rail transit for so long a distance would necessitate. The Meadville Republican says :—" Some time in March, Mr. John R. Penn, Trustee of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, in behalf of the bondholders, applied for an injunction to restrain the Erie Railway Company (les sees of the 4tlantic and Great Western Railway) from paying moneys to the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Contpany. In accordance with the applicatidn an injunc tion was granted, and under this Messrs. Jay Gould and W. A. Doherty were appointed receivers of the Atlantic and Groat Western Railway Company and all its property. The order for their appointment was issued by the Courts of the different States through which the railway passes, and the object is to prevent the money being paid to the Atlantic and Great Wegtern Railway Company, to the de triment of the claims of the bondhulden." A meeting of the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad Company was held iu Boston yesterday, at which Mr. Oakes Ames presided. Resolutions were adopted, providing for removing the office from Now York to Bos ton, approving the acts of the board of directors, and can ceiling the seal of the company. It was stated that the balance of the first mortgaL;e bonds of the compny, and also $10,000,000 of land grant bonds, were taken by the shareholders. The proceeds of this sale will enable the company to pay all their floating liabilities, build a branch road to Denver, and fully equip the main track with all the roiling stock needed, and have a balance in the trta sury. By an Act of the Legislature of Illinois, which has just passed over the Governor's veto, the Illinois Central Rail road Company have acquired a water right into Lake Michigan, fronting the City of Chicago, equal to a thou sand acres square, and with a frontage of about one Hire. Under this grant they will be privileged to build clocks and piers, to facilitate the commerce of the city, and to lease the same in their own right, besides greatly accom modating their own rapidly increasing business with the lake. The whole consideration paid to the City of Chicago is $BOO,OOO for a station property fronting the lake, to the cost of which two other railway lines will contribut 3 $:00,000, without acquiring any interest in the above" mentioned water right. Railroad Stocks are in the main strong, with a large business in New York Central, Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, Hudson River, Chicago and North-Western, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and Philadelphia and Reading. R•dlroad Bonds, both gold and currency, continue to be largely dealt in. CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 92 Chi. &N. W. Ist M 9l N. Y. Central 6s, 1887.. . 911 Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex B6 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est.. 88 Gt. Western 2d M '93 B O7 N. Y. Central Os, Sub'n.. 881 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M N. Y. Central 7s, 1876... -- Gal. & Chic. Ext N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 95 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 Chi. &R. I. Ist M 99 1. Erie Ist Mort, Ex 100 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... 9 1 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 94 Cleve. & Tel. S. Fund... 9 8 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 89 N. J. Central Ist M ...... .9 8 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 81 N J. Central 2d M B9 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888... Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M 1 01 1 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 BB Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M. 91 ; Hurl. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 1001 Cleve. & Pitts. 3d Hod. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 - Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. 9 0 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 102 Chic. &Alton, 5.F.1501.101 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'W2 118 Mil. O'c St. Paul 2d M.., 8 2 Mich. So., 7p. c. 24M. N. Ind. Goshen Line Morris & Essex Ist M... 91 .: 1 Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd 7p.c. 981 Morris & Essex 2d M ... 91 111. Cen. 7p. c, '7O Joilet & Chic. Ist M.... Alton &T. H. let M Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 82 N. Y. &N.H.Gs.. . .. .!• t Alton &T.H.2d M. Inc. 80 Dub uque &S.City Ist M. 90 Han.&St.J.LandGrantslo3 Penin;ula, Ist M B3 Han. & St. J. Con 112 Ohio & Miss. Ist M...... 92 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M - Ohio & Miss. Con B3l Chi. &N. West, S. F.... 95 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D Chi. &N. W. Con Cony. 95/ Atlantic & G. W. Ist M Chi. & N. W. Ex'n 8.... 92 In Miscellaneous Stocks a large business continues to be done, especially in Mariposa Securities, Pacific Ma° , and Western Union Telegraph. RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOTJS STOCKS. N. Y. Central l67f Fort Wayne Erie Hudson - Reading Mich. South. &N. 1.... 98 1 W. U. Telegraph .. lit Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 92f Ohi o and Mississippi... ° a t North-West North-West Preferred 961 Cumberland Canton.. Rock Island jleveland and Toledo 98t IM & St. Paul Preferred 8 I Quotations for specie are : Amer. silver... 95 to 951 Eng. soya 485 to . 48 8 Mex. dollars...lo2i „ 1031 20 francs 382 ~ 3 ., 1 Eng. silver 475 ~ 480 Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 96 Foreign Exchange is stronger, and a fair business is doing : Sixty Days. Three WV,: Eondcn Bankers Lot.c:. n, Prime Commercial lO7l-107f Paris, Blinkers 0-5." Bremen, Bankers Hamburgb, Bankers 3sk-351 ...... Frankfort, 0.11. 4ok-40i ...... Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.25-5.20 .... Amsterdam, Bankers S wiss Express Stocks are steady : Adams ... ... co to 0 American Merchants' Union ... ... 41 to 411 Do. Old Stock ... ... ....: ... 15 to 1 , 6 , United States - 671 to t '' ••• •.• •• ••• ••• • , Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... ... ... ... 33} to 34 BUDGET OF ITEMS.—The telegraph line from Stn ei Francisco to Hamilton and Treasure City, White .• v •ti country, Nevada, is completed.—A destructive five coo' surned nearly all the l usiness portion of Cherry valleit Illinois, cn Sunday morning, April 18. The loss is esti mated at over $300,000. A severe storm prevailed the sn' u° day throughout Illinois, doing great damage to prop arid causing the death cf Mr. Kniester, besides injuri e g several others.—The State Blind Asylum at Jacksouvi ll ' Illinois, was burned on Tuesday, April 20 ; loss, ss o ( o°os' —The Boston Transcript says :—" Sh e ep- ra i sars living ne at the sea shore have discovered that fish mak e a s good fee d as hay." The British ship Coldstream left San Fr ancibeQi. • for Liverpool, with 20,000 sacks of wheat, on S a turdN April 17. The stolen registered Bonds have been retwe c to the officers of the Beneficial Savings Fund at rn ilu ; delphia by "express." It is suppos e d that the thie ve ,: who are still undetected, found that they w er e of 110 us to them, and showed they had this amount of considerati n„, i The skating rink situated on Washington-street, New 3r i c , has recently been changed into a velocip e d r ome.—Fr 3-„ 0 Swift having accepted Fred. Union's challenge to ric h . velocipede one mile for $l,OOO aside and the ch a mpionsb i s articles of agreement have been drawn up and signed, s u e $lOO deposited by each as forfeit. The race is to tt, place on the 23d day of June of earlier, either in 14 t 1; York or in Brooklyn.—The long pending case of a v United States versus M'Ra© was decided on Thur-ib,'ft ag Just the United States, the bill being dismissed W" costs. LA DVERTISEMENT.I Iloilo vray's i n tment.—All 12 ? r p i° s : ties of ulcerations, bad legs, sores, wounds, and eruPtl? vg , can be cured by the dilig e nt use of this c ooling, sooth i i and healing unguent. The old and often f a iling fas b i fo of strapping the edges of ul cers t oge th er w i t h plasters t entirely given way before the more reasonable treatteeupi by Holloway's ( iintruent, which builds up from the bet, W s e of the wound with sound and healthy granulations ; ,t' , e , gradually grow till they reach the level of the stn' ',. - ,,c1 then contract, harden, and immediately becom ) cove: o ', l with a new and wholesome skin. The proper applic 3t3 the of this Ointment diminishes the inflammation, causes 0 . unhealthy discharge first to grow thick, then to ne';he The Pills should be taken so as to act in unison with Ointment. IADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always gg r6r il chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restar.-st, Revo.lenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the 110 186 + meat of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other rella e „, o 4 and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves , u yl lungS, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshinc , sleep, I . :ma i- we regularity, am , energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. 04 extract a few out of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health re st fs66. by Du Barry's F oo d . C ure N o. 68413, ',Rome,specially r e ly July a . 0 0 —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, e abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself ° o ctet to Du Barry's Reval en t a A ra bi ca F oo d . o f w hi c h Ire c0r1a,,,,,e a plateful at every meal. It has produ ce d a su rprising,lY exce l 1168.1 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise tills Ca fe lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 , No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Yea' .. '„ r voa l , complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a 1 1 - palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessne ss ') t the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1, 7 ' ' v eart' Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of rnanc"froto dyspepsia. No 49,832: Fifty years' indescribable agnr! .l , o cl , dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ila t '„,Ao spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Job , "—Ca r ' ettll, 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, •of 30 5• ito u diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangenienloanY, partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the t hou unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, 'Lore", authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously a t " - VP In tins, at Is lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21bs 4s 6d; 5 lbs 11s; 12 , 1bs oyA 11 0 24 lbs 405.-Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTA ARAIDCA 0 1 .?, POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at as, for at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cuPP,„ s ett —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins 6' l . * c ief"" c i free of carriage in England on rec e ipt o f P os t-Office ; so BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, R egen t- s t ree t, Loud° , all Grocers and Chemists. lat e REID—On the 9th inst., th e w if e o f F ranc i s Reid, D s ' l „ ' Capt. Carabineers, of a daughter. It " ROBSON—On the 11th i ns t., a t 413 , G rea t Marlbor o ' street, the wife of Dr. Hope Robson, of a son. MARRIAGES. es 'et CAMPBELL —TENNENT— On the 11th inst., at St. Mr' Piccadilly, R. F. F. Campbell, Esq., of Craig ie ' o esti shire, to ..krabella Jane, the widow o f Charies-r e Esq. bsc " 11thSINGTON—CUSSANS —On th frig., at St vri t '. e Oakley-squa re , J u li us T. Si ng t on t o Georgia:A. °f t he sill( youngest daughter of Thomas Cussans, lots DEAHS. . DILKE —On the 10th inst., T at the Hotel de Frattei:„ a s r, Petersburg, Russia, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilkel aged 50. D irer DAVIES —On the Bth inst., at Hi g hmead. Car The, n , s ilier Delete Seymour D a vies, late Captaia Scots Guardq. . PAINE—On the 10th inst., suddenly, Cornelius Paine,_, of Kemp-town, Brighton, and formerly of Mincing London, aged 85. n nt STi". London: Printed and Published by WILLIA 3I of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the County of blicili cse Wedneoclay, May 12, 1669. Ti' This prize M( Rohl 1 the Age, Obser 'tan's LI Nit 14, li ADVA - N bold or ILIO Wel Formal+ 1 IR. 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