The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-26 00:00:00

THE NAILEBS' STRIKE IN WORCESTER SHIRE. The callers of Bromsgrove have entered upon the ninth lIVISk of their strike against the reduction in their wages sought to be introduced by the masters. The strike tvas for some time confined to the Bromsgrove lands, chiefly employed upon " thousand" work ; but, after great perseverance on the part of the Bromsgrove men, it extended to the other districts known as the "up country." In this part, which embraces Dudley Old Hill, Rowley, Netherton, Halesowen, Blackheath, Perry's Lake, Darley Hand, and Windmill End, many of the operatives are engaged upon "hundred" as well as " thousand" work, and hence the difficulty experienced by the Bromsgrove nailers in securing a general turn-out of the trade. They have, however, succeeded to a considerable extent, and every day would seem to add to the number of the unemployed in the nail-making districts, the Halesowen section at length yielding to the importunities of the Bromsgrove operatives. It is highly probable that unless some satisfactory settlement be speedily effected the whole body of nailers will be on strike in a fortnight, and the present season is more favourable to them than winter. During the week large meetings have been held at Bromsgrove and other places, and resolutions passed, pledging the men not to resume work until the masters consent to pay them the full 20s. in the pound. The masters of the Bromsgrove district have met, and decided to make a net list of workmen's wages to be submitted to the men, and, at what may be considered a conciliatory interview with the Nailers' Committee, the latter ex pressed themselves agreeable to the proposal on c ertain conditions. LAW AND POLICE. A PATENT CAGE.—In the Rolls Court, a day or two since, the case of " Crossly v. Dixon" was heard. The question was whether the defendants, who are carpet manufacturers at Kidderminster, were bound to pay Messrs. Crossley, of Halifax, a royalty for the use of certain looms, portions of the mechanism of those rooms being, as the plaintiffs contended, protected by patents. The Master of the Rolls decided that the defendants had not used any of the protected inventions, and the bill must be dismissed with costs. CATTLE INSURANCE COMPANY.—In the Rolls Court an application has been made to place the executors of Mr. Macnab on the list of contributors to the Agri culturalists Cattle Insurance Company. Mr. Macnab, who was a shareholder in this company, did not accept the terms of what was known as the Chippenham compromise, but, in 18M, agreed with the directors that his shares should be declared forfeited. In ISGI the company was ordered to be wound up, and an application was made to put his name on the list of contributories, but was not adjudicated on. He had recently died, and the present application was to put his executors on the list. His lordship decided that the Lames must be put on the list, as Mr. Macnab's transaction with the directors was unwarranted by the deed of settlement, and could not Alter Lis status as a shareholder. MURDER OF A CHILD.—At Worship-street Police Court, on Saturday, Levena Tompkins, laundress, was charged with the murder of a child. The child had been put out to nurse by a Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, with Mrs. Davis, who put it in bed with her own children, and went out. When she came home the infant was missing, and its body was afterwards found in the street. The prisoner lodged in the house. After a great deal of evidence had been given she was remanded, the magis trate ref vsing bail. BETTING PROSECUTIONS.—At Windsor, on Saturday, a betting prosecution came before the magistrates. Mr. Valentine, a well-known commission agent, was sum moned for being the owner of a betting-box at the recent Ascot races. He pleaded guilty. Mr. Montagu Williams, in addressing the magistrates in mitigation of the penalty, said that some persons believed the grand stand came within the operations of the Act ; but he con tended that-the Legislature never intended it to sanction such prosecutions as were now taking place. The summons, with these of seven other betting men, was taken out by a common informer, and several of the summonses had been withdrawn on payment of money to the informers. The magistrate's clefk said if summonses had been withdrawn in that manner they might order the proceedings to go on. The magistrates, having consulted, inflicted a penalty of .£1 and costs, and the chairman expressed his disapproval of these prosecutions being carried on by private individuals, The matter should be taken up by Government if it was intended to suppress the betting-houses. Six other com mission agents of London were fined in the same amount, the fines being paid, and 110 presented to the Windsor Infirmary by the defendants, in consideration of the leniency of the magistrates. Four summonses were withdrawn. ANOTHER BETTING CASE.—On Saturday, the judge of the Woolwich County Court had before him a case connected with betting. The defendant was an agent in the " Deptford Spec," who, after it was quashed by legal proceedings, refused to give up the money got by the sale of the tickets. The plaintiff was nensuited, on account of the illegality of the transaction. CHARGE OF MURDER.—At the Lewes Assizes, Jeremiah Stubberfield was indicted for the murder of his wife. A child of the prisoner cave evidence to the fact of his father having suffocated his mother. It was shewn that insanity was hereditary in the family of the prisoner, and that be had been depressed in spirits for months. The jury found him not guilty, on the ground of insanity. General Garibaldi writes to a correspondent in London that he does not intend to come to England at present. ELECTION SATIJIMAY AT ETON COLLEGE.—On Saturday, at Eton College, there were the usual celebra tions with which "Election Saturday" is annually marked. Ihe Committee of the House of Commons on the extension of the Contagious Diseases Act have completed their report. It is rumoured that the committee have re commended a return to the old custom of inspecting soldiers. William Johnston, who was indicted at the Cork assizes for distributing treasonable documents among the soldiers of the garrison there, having pleaded guilty, and thrown himself on the merciful consideration of the Crown, has been allowed his liberty ou bail until next assizes. The Congregation of the Index at Rome has just condemned "Les Questions Contemporaines," by M. 114nan, "La Bible dana l'lnde," by M. Jacolliot ; and three other works, one Italian, another Mexican, and the third Canadian. We learn from Oxford that the eldest son of the Viceroy of Egypt will commence a course of study at that university as a member of Christ Church in October Term. His Royal Highness will occupy a house at Oxford daring his three years of residence, and will be accompanied by a suite in the same manner as the Prince of Wales in 1839. The editor of the Weekly Registrar referring to Mr. Whalley's allegation in the House of Commons, that " it was the boast of the Weekly Registrar that every gentleman in the reporters' gallery, every writer in the newspapers, was completely tinder that influence," desires it to be stated that no such foolish boast has appeared in his columns. THE ROYAL AG RIC CrLT I7RAL Ex H IBITION. ;iaturday was the closing day of the Royal _Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Manchester—one of the most successful they have held. The total number of visitors admitted was 189,107, and the receipts amounted to £15,926 13s. sd. The largest show before the present was that at Leeds when £145,738 persons were admitted, and the receipts were £9,8:.9. The total entries when the show was held at Battersea were 124,328, and the receipts were £9,539. In these receipts at Manchester are not included the sixpences received for admission to the trial shows of implements, or the admissions to see the leaping of hunters, a shilling each day, besides eighteen•pence to the galleries, and to these leaping shows the visitors were on three days over 27,000. THE HAYDOCK COLLIERY CATASTROPHE. —On Saturday morning, Mr. C. Driffield, the county corol, r, opened the investigation at the Ram's Read Inn into the circumstances attending the deaths of the fifty-seven persons who lost their lives at the llaydock The scene long before the coroner arrived was very exciting. The streets adjacent to where the inquest was to he holden were much crowded. The whole of the bodies were lying in a shed close to the scene of the explosion, and were ready for the jury to view. The coroner, upon taking his seat, said the first thing he intended to do was to take evidence as to the identifica. tion of the bodies, and give orders for interment. lie should afterwards take evidence as to the cause and eir. cumstances which led to the disaster. The jury were then sworn, and proceeded with the coroner to view the bodies. Evidence as to the identification of the bodies was then taken, and the inquiry was adjourned. The Dundee Advertiser ropor - s a speech of Dr. Laing in the Mordaunt Divorca ease, delivered at t!.e D. idge of Earn on the wedding celebration of Major Ar buthnot to Miss Selina Moncreiff. In proposing the toast "The married members of the Moncreiff family" he added the name of Lady Mordaunt, and, amidst loud cheers, said the cloud hanging over her ladyship would soon pass away. He Lad known her personally for many years. She was a happy, lig ht-hearted girl—just such a one as might be sometimes n et, who, though the beat of womankind, were apt to have their wiions and words misconstrued if people could be found. willing to misconstrue them. From what he knew from Lady Mordaunt herself, and from Sir Thomas Moncreiff, he believed the cloud that now hovered over that lady would soon pass away. The fact was, that Lady Mordaunt was temporarily insane, and in that state gave utterance to sen. timents that had boob taken aayantago of. THE QUARTERLIES. Biography is the predominant subject in the one hun dredth number of the North British Review. There is a notice of Henry Crabb Robinson's Diary, a contribution touching Walter Savage Lander, a review of Veitch's Sir William Hamilton, and an account of Ludwig Hol berg. Very pleasant reading all these are, and especially fresh and interesting is the notice of Holberg, the founder of Danish literature. Up to the eighteenth century - Heiberg was born in 1634—the Danes had no national literature. They could indeed boast of their ancient treasures, but they were more properly Scandinavian than Danish. In modern times intellectual barrenness settled upon the country. Some men wrote in Latin, others of rank repudiated their native language and wrote in French and German ; but nobody seems to have written well. The literary food of the middle classes up to the time of Holberg consisted of meagre sermons, chronicles, and ballads. It was reserved to the son of an army officer to achieve an immortal fame as a comic dramatist---in which department he yields, in the opinion of many persons, only to Plautus and MolVre— and at the same time to found a Danish national litera ture. How Holberg's family were reduced to beggary, how lie wandered about in different parts of the world, how hardly he struggled, and how temperately he lived, how he achieved a great fame and fortune, are all detailed in the course of an interesting narrative which is only too brief. His iniluence was of the most salutary kind. One of the chief objects which Holberg contemplated in all his writings was the diffusion of culture through the whole mass of the people. Not a little to his credit is it that he claimed to be an instructor in ethics. Add to these great qualities the merits of founding a Danish literature and of purifying the Danish language, and the good work done by Holberg may be appreciated. The article on Sir William Hamilton is an able summary of Professor Veitch's able biography, from which we are for the first time learning the career of one of the leading British philosophers. Be yond doubt the Professor has done his work excep tionally well. Those who care little for logic and meta physics—and they are many--will find this life of Sir William Hamilton one of the most interesting of biogra phies. The life of the philosopher is, as the reviewer says, the life of a man great in his domestic simplicity and worth, and Professor Veitch contrives to keep metaphysics as much as possible in the background. We have not space to notice this biography in detail ; but one portion of Sir William's history throws some light on the management of the Literary Pension Fund, and deserves to be well known. Sir W. Hamilton was never a man in very easy circumstances—philosophers, indeed, never are ; and, with the view of ekeing out his very limited income, some of the Conservative party exerted themselves to get him a pension. Lord John Russell, who was Premier in 1846, replied, however, that the miserable fund had been well nigh exhausted. He could offer Sir W. Hamilton only £lOO. But this sum the philosopher thought an unfair recognition of his merits, and, therefore, he respectfully declined it. Being advised that he was wrong, he expressed himself grateful for the offer, but thought that the grant ought not to be published without explanation that it could be no larger, otherwise it might appear that this was a full recognition of his claims. But Lord John seems to have taken offence at the first refusal, and no answer was returned to this application. At last, in 1849, a pension of £lOO was granted. Application was made for an increase after Hamilton's death. But it met with no success. Lord Palmerston, though the application was backed by some of the most eminent names in the country, "had not the money." But he had the money to give £3OO a year to Professor Wilson, coupled, as the reviewer says, with the "most gratifying" expression of his lord ship's sentiments towards the illustrious man who had, more than any writer in Britain, exerted himself to make Whig principles and Whig statesmen contemptible. But, then, did not his lordship like to bring Whig principles into contempt? It is a painful story, but it is merely one item of the numberless difficulties which await literary men in general, and philosophers in particular. The article on Walter Savage Lander is noteworthy, chiefly because the reviewer disposes of the poet's extraordinary actions by the belief that he was of unsound mind. The conclusion is a not improbable, and it is certainly an acceptable one. To get rid of Landor's painful career by pronouncing hin , mentally affected is a gratifying resource. The article on Henry C. Robinson is a light and gossippy review of his diary, suitable to the diary itself. A review of Lecky's book treats the historian of European morals rather hardly. Geological Time is all very well as an argument in favour of Sir W. Thomson's theory of the world's age ; but the style of dealing with Professor Huxley is too personal. The opening article is on Dr. Hanna's " Life of Christ," and is an excellent resu»tcs of the numerous Lives of our Lord which have made their appearance of late years in England, France, and Germany. The writer justly chews no mercy to that shallowest and most unscientific of critics, Rtnan. Need we add that the last article of this very good hundredth number is on the Irish Church Bill. TILE " QUARrEttLY REVIEW. There can, I suppose, be little doubt as to the author- ship of the first article in the Qitartcriy Review. The renders of the fnmou.e article on the Talmud, which .Rppeared about eighteen months ago, will remember that its author shortly afterwards started for Egypt and the Levant, and will have noticed the announcement of his recent return. This article is evidently the first fruits of Dr. Deutsch's visit. For th.ongh " The Eastern Chris tians " has at the head the book written some time ago by Mr. Arthur Arnold, formerly the Athens correspon dent of the Times. now the• editor of the Echo, it is not once referred to, but the whole article is a narrative of what the writer saw with his own eyes. It is a narrative, in fact, not a review. And a very sad narrative it is. The Eastern Christians are split up into numerous sects, all hating each other, and differing only in the intensity of their hatred. Nor is this all. Some are greedy, others cunning, others lazy, others all three, and not one of theni is worth the compassion which is so abundantly I:estowed in England he "oppressed'' Christia, ~ ,ets of the "Moslem tyrant." If anyone still believes that the Mahometan is a despot, and the Christian a martyr, let him read this article, and he will be abundantly unde ceived. The Copts of Egypt are the best or the least bad of the lot ; and of these Eastern Christians, as of the others, Dr, Deutsch says, "We recommend our .. own Western Christians to love their brethren at least wisely, before they love them, perhaps, too well." " Scientific versus Amateur Administration " is one long and heavy indictment against self-government, as shewn in our poor law, our railways, our municipal insti tutions, our administration of justice. It is some what startling to find the quarterly organ of Toryism denouncing amateur magistrates. We are told that they were all well enough in the old days, when the parson or the landlord was the only educated man in the neighbourhood, and when the law was much less complex than it is now. But in these days we need men trained in legal habits, men who make the law a profession, and have therefore thoroughly mastered it. In a word, the Quarterly advocates paid magistrates against unpaid J.P.'s. Cor porations, boards of guardians, railway boards, are treated with even less courtesy than the country justices. The fundamental error at the root of our local management and government is, that we are endeavouring to apply a system (admirable in the days of scattered populations and small towns) to a nation of thirty millions living in huge cities. In the United States this error is carried even farther, and the result • is such shameless corruption in all departments that Americans themselves are taking alarm, and asking what is to be done. The reviewer of Sir John Coleridge's "Life of Keble" tells the story of the life pleasantly enough, but gives no new facts. The article is written from the Anglican point of view, by one who believes in a Eucha ristic presence, but not in that local material presence which is held by Mr. Bennett and others of the nec- Catholic school. The reviewer (are we wrong in guessing him to be the Bishop of Oxford?) &hews his sympathies by the passing remark that all the principal seceders from the Oxford school to Rome—Newman, the two Wilberforces, Manning, Dodsworth, Faber, and Anderdon, had been brought up in the "Evangelical" school The reviewer complains that Sir John Coleridge has not made use of more materials. There was Keble's corre• spondence with Newman and with Pusey, neither of which stores has been resorted to. The book is made up almost entirely of the correspondence with the author. No one supposes that this arises from any desire on his part to bring his name prominently format d. "But the damage to the work r:aches far beyond this. It imparts to Mr. Keble throughout these pages a mono tony of thought, feeling, expression, and view, which is the inevitaVe consequence of giving, the reach and compass of his i n t e ll ec t ua l lif e , the is of that life to one mingle friend whom he knew thurotighly, and to whose pitch of mi n d h e , for very love, when in direct commtuncatiop with him, always attuned his own. The consequence that w e h ave . a perpetual repetitiun of Keble a la Coleridge, and a great lack of Kebioae nut tird." The concluding paragraph of this critique is worth quoting : "Such he (Keble) was ; so he lived amongst us; so he passed away from us. Never aiming at acquir ing influence, he exerted it in the highest measures on everyone who came within his reach, and, widely beyond his immediate sphere, upon the Church at large. He took a resolute part in all the most stirring controversies of his time ; and yet no one could ever point to a word of his written or spoken which had inflicted (me needless wound upon anyone opposed to him. He gave England's sacred literature the high boon of " The Christian Year." He gave England's Church the learning of a deep divine, the love and trust of a loyal son, the labours of a devoted priest, and the pattern of a saint; and he died, as he had lived, the vicar of Hursley." Yes ; and that last fact will ever be a scandal and seproach against the dispensers of Church patronage, TEE SUN, LONDON ; - ONDAY EVENING i - - JULY 26, 1869 whether ecclesiastical or secular. Nevertheless, who would not sooner think of Keble, vicar of -llursley, than as a pluralist, dying, like Archdeacon Croft, after having taken nearly £200,000 out of the Church? The article on "The Argument of Design" is suggested by Darwin's theory of selection, which the reviewer does not so much controvert as slew to be imperfect. As ho says, he has supposed the truth of the theory in order to extort from it the confession that design alone can supply an imperative need in its structure, and fill up a chasm at its very foundation, which otherwise paralyses and inca pacitates it at the very outset as a working hypothesis. " The House of Cond6" is based upon the Due d'Aumale's book which, going to press in 1863, has only just now been permitted by Napoleon 111. to see the light. The reviewer can find absolutely nothing in the book to explain why the Emperor should have kept it back these six years. Surely the reviewer has forgotten that the last of the Condes was executed by the first of the Bonaparte,. What wonder if Napoleon 111. disliked to revive the memory of the Duc d'Enghien, whom Napoleon I. shot in the moat of Vincennes. The article on the Royal Engi neers and Permanent Fortifications is very interesting and very clever. The writer of it backs up Sir Francis Head in his support of a corps which has only begun to receive the recognition due to its merits ; only begun—for will it be believed that the first officer to enter Magdala and one of the only two officers who were wounded, wae the only commanding officer who was denied the C. 8.? This was done because he did not belong to what is, by an absurd and lying theory, exclusively the fighting section of the army. But this is all of a piece with the notions which still prevail both at the War Office and at the Horse Guards. In spite of the altered mode of warfare, we still adhere to our old plan of fighting in the open and there little doubt that if we were to go to war now we should be involved in some great disaster through the wholesale slaughter of our troops, who, in spite of the fact that breechloaders have converted a battle into a battue, we should deem degraded by fighting behind ramparts. At a time when the bill for our fortifications is becoming heavier and heavier, it is satisfactory to be told that they are after all much cheaper than soldiers. The reviewer reckons that the land defences when finished will cost 31 millions, which, at five per cent., makes an annual charge of £175,000. This sum represents the pay of only 2,200 soldiers. But if these fortifications did not exist we should require 100,000 or 150,000 additional men, so that the saving is enormous. The value of the article entitled "The Truth about Ireland" may be estimated when I mention that the writer supposes " concurrent endowment" to be a settled theory, instead of being hopelessly dead and buried. The other articles I must merely mention ; the subjects are "The Malay Archipelago" and "Lucan." MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE. PASSAGE OF THE BILL. The great measure of the session has passed, and opponents, agreeing to differ as to the principles involved in the policy which it inaugurates, are now engaged in the pleasant task of congratulating one another. Conservatives—though their organs in the press hardly confess so much—are happy that a subject on which they must have been defeated eventually has been removed from the region of contention ; Liberals rejoice in their success in the struggle, and everybody is glad that a question dis cussed as this has been to most wearisome monotony will now for a time be laid at rest. Even Mr. Charley, who was sent to overthrow the Premier, was paying him compliments on Friday; and the Standard, with all its dislike of the Prime Minister, catches the in fection, and has words of congratulation to Mr. Glad stone for his speech. The Liberal papers, on the other hand, are giving their thanks to Lord Cairns for what he has done. For the time we have a happy family ; harmony and love, peace and quiet ness have succeeded to the strife, anger, excitement, and agitation which so recently ruled the hour. But amidst these congratulations there is a cry of discontent sent forth from the Dublin Erening Mad. Our contemporary, heading a leader with the monosyllable " Sold ! " declares that Lord Cairns has sold the Church. Had Lord Salisbury been the negotiator, the Mail thinks a great 'opportunity would not have been thus miserably sacrificed ; but " Lord Cairns, who thrust himself into the position of parliamentaire, as it appears without authority from any one, simply gave in, and passed the bill." The measure is pro nounced " hard-fisted, and rankly unjust" as when it left the Commons. Our contemporary cannot help giving a parting fling to the Con servative party for their conduct during the progress of the bill. It says:— "The political result of the contemptible transaction of Thursday we hail with entire satisfaction. It puts an end, we trust, for ever to the delusion under which the Protestants of Ireland have now for more than seventy years allowed themselves to be dragged at the tail of a n English Tory and Jacobite faction. The natural alliance of the English settlers in this country was ever with the Whigs of England. From the epoch of the Great Rebellion, through the Great Revolution, through the short independent life of Ireland front 'B2 down to the Union, it subsisted. Th e new and fatal league then formed with the Tories of Eng. land was ever disastrous to Ireland as a nation—to Pro testant Ireland as an English military colony. It is now, we trust, broken, never to be renewed. The betrayal of the Irish Church was conceived by the Ritualist Eng lish faction. The first effective movement was mad e in it by Mr. Disraeli : it has been consummated by Lord Cairns." The Daily News points out that the Trish Church Itustionbas been Se• tied Within n . ..ther more tbau two y enrs of Earl Russell's moving for a R oyal Commission of Inquiry. On June .25, 1867, the then leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords asked the Peers to agree to an address of a commission which might furnish " full and accurate information as to the nature and amount of the property and revenues of the Established Church in Ireland, with a view to their more productive management, and to their more equitable application for the benefit of the Irish people." The resolution in this form was lost by a majority of :30 to 38, but another was adopted, pray ing simply for the appointment of a commission. tiOn Of tT4TiShops - of - Capetown - and"NataL 'Three suits has this question given rise to, and in none has the leading point —the alleged heresy of Pr. Colenso—been raised. Litigation cannot settle the merits of the case until this point has been disposed of. " We believe it is the wish of both to obtain, if pos sible, a judicial decision on the great question of 'heresy or no heresy ; ' and it certainly appears useless to continue legal proceedings on minor issues until that decision has been definitively arrived at." Francisco was assailed with stones, Deaten wren crave, ems covered with mud, amid the loud applause of the refined citizens who ga . bored round. There was no provocation given, nor could any redress be obtained. The New York papers say these disgraceful scenes are of constant occurrence. TIIE SEATS OF THE IRISH BISHOPS. The Primate of Ireland writes to the Times stating that a joint letter was written by himself and the Archbishop of Dublin, and placed in the hands of Lord Cairns, in which their Graces declared their willingness, if it were for the good of the Church, to give up their seats in the House of Lords. The two archbishops at the same time "expressed their confidence that every bishop on the Irish Bench was equally willing with themselves to make the sacrifice, if it could in any way be used to mitigate the calamities of their afflicted and deso lated Church." THE PROROGATION. The great debateable subject being settled, mem bers are asking when the prorogation of Parliament will take place. By the Star the 6th or 7th prox. is stated as the most likely time. Kn. CAWLEY, 11. P., ON THE ENDOWMENT OF ERROR. Mr. Cawley, M.P., has been addressing a working men's association at Manchester on the Irish Church Bill, He thought the religious equality talked of by the friends of the measure was not only a misnomer, but an impossibility. The Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches were so different in their tenden cies and their doctrines that there could be no equality between them. After speaking at some length on the principle of concurrent endowment, Mr. Cawley declared that, rather than pay all religions—if there was to be no Established Church—he would prefer that they should pay none. He held that the State had no right to be the teacher of error, and an arrangement like concurrent endowment would be ten times worse than secularising the property. THE QDEEN TO MR. PEABODY. In the same paper which describes the ceremony at the uncovering of a statue to Mr. Peabody, there appears a letter of the Queen to the philanthropist. It is dated Windsor Castle, June 20, 1869, and runs : " The Queen is very sorry that Mr. Peabody's sudden departure has made it impossible for her to see him before he left England, and she is concerned to hear that he is gone in bad health. She now writes him a line to express her hope that he may return to this country quite recovered, and that she may then have the opportunity, of which she has now been deprived, of seeing him a n d offering him her personal thanks for all he has done for the people." The American papers are much pleased with this epistle). PRINCE ARTHUR AND THE SUEZ CANAL. The Army and Navy Gazette, on the authority of tnat highly-distinguished officer " General Rumour," announces that her Majesty's ship Ariadne will be temporarily commissioned for the conveyance of his Royal highness Prince Arthur to Egypt on the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal. As the same authority states that Captain Sir William Wiseman, K.C.13., has considerable claims on the Admiralty which have not been recognised in the way they should have been, it is expected that Sir William will be selected to carry out this brief service. It is also stated that the young Prince is going to America; so that it would appear that he is to commence very shortly to see the world. UNIVERSITY TESTS BILL. Mr. Chase writes to the Daily News in answer to the " Seven Fellows of Colleges" on the Univer sity Tests Bill. [b contradicts their assertion that Lord Carnarvon's plan had been previously suggested by Mr. Liddon. Mr. Liddon proposed that each of the colleges might be taxed to the extent of one-half of its property for the pur pose of erecting various Nonconformist colleges in Oxford, Lord Carnarvon's scheme created a fund for " university fellowships." to be awarded by a university delegacy, and in which any man of any persuasion might engage. THE LAST COLENSO CASE. The Solicitors' Journal complains loudly of the males* litigation touching the rights and legal nazi- THE FLYING MACHINE. Is the Californian Flying Machine a failure ? The American papers seem to fear it. They do not think that the "Avitor," the San Francisco balloon, has yet solved the problem of aerial navigation. This machine is a balloon of the form of a very short and thick cigar, its extreme length being about 37 feet, its height 10 feet, and its width at the centre about 7 feet. A delicate frame work of light and strong wood passes longitudinally around it, and serves to hold the guides for regulating its movement in their places. To the frame at the hind part of the carriage is attached a rudder or steering gear, which is exactly the shape of the paper used in pin darts, four plans at right angles. This, when raised or lowered, ele vates or depresses the head of the carriage when in motion; and when turned from side to side, guides the carriage as a rudder does a boat. The propelling power is a small steam engine fixed in the bottom of the balloon. But this engine is so small and delicate as to possess little more power than an ordinary man. This is, in the opinion of a San Francisco paper, the greatest defect in the machine. "It is apparent that to give any velocity to the balloon— relative to the air through which it travels —the air in front must be removed and passed to its rear, so that a bulk of its own size mu.t be moved by its propellers in order to force it to move its own ler.gth. The scale upon which the machinery is constructed is so very trifling and inadequate to do this that its failure cannot he a matter of surprise." It seems that the balloon has undoubtedly been guided through the air in calm weather, but anything like a wind prevented it starting. On one occasion it made a trial trip of a mile, parsuin,g a straight flight, and turn ing round in obedience to the rudder, but no attempt was made to repeat the experiment in windy weather. Whether the machine will ever be able to navigate through a gale remains to be seen. The Americans claim that their machine is the nearest approach to an aerial ship ever made, and this much seems to be true. POLITICAL FEELING IN THE SOUTH. (From the Anglo-American Times.) At the celebrated meeting at the Appomattox Court House, between Grant and Lee, to arrange the terms of the Confederate surrender, the two commanders became the centre of a circle, composed of Union and Confederate Generals, sufficiently wide to be out of ear-shot of what the chiefs said. While the Commanders for hours discussed their important business, the Generals of Brigade and Division and their Staff chatted to each other, and the last scene of a gigantic civil war, fought to the bitter end, thus wore the appearance of a pic-nic. The one recognized a fair defeat in the tribunal to which they had appealed, the other a gallant and dangerous foe, and the triumphant end of a weary ing war. The tone was moderate on both sides, and, considering the occasion, singularly free from the bitterness of animosity. Old schoolfellows met; old brother officers, and old friends, for the first time for years. A Confederate brigadier even approached Grant, whom he bad iormerly known well, and congratulated him on having wound the business up ! The feeling of the Union officers at this meeting fairly represented that of the nation ; and had not the pistol of an assassin twisted it into another direction, it is generally supposed Presi dent Lincoln might have so used the sentiment as to have reunite I the Bepublic in deed as well as in word. While admitting that the bullet of Booth was the most fatal ever fired in the United States, it is impossible to predict what. the result would have been had President Lincoln lived to carry out his policy. Both sides were weary of a war it was extermination to the South to prolong, and ruin to the North. The former rejoiced iu the end of the appeal it had chosen, even though ending in its own discomfiture ; the latter was naturally delighted iu its triumph, while perhaps touched with pity for the sufferings, losses, and humiliation of its foe. At such a time, generous men feel generously incline], but these are only transient feelings super vening on a great episode, which vanish, leaving the very difficulties to be surmounted which had caused the war. An appeal to the sword settles the might of a question, but not the right. When Southerners rode an Anti-Slavery missionary in olden days on a rail, or ducked him iu a pond, they did not alter the man's opinions, although they might stop his ex pression of them. Neither did Southern defeat settle the right of any of the questions for which the battle was fought, and Southern sentiment was the same after as before. What it did settle was the power of the North to preserve the Union, to free the slaves, and to make citizens of those thus emanci pated, in accordance with the method the Constitu tion had prescribed. Any one could foresee that although the South no longer opposed these mea sures by the force of arms, a sullen opposition would afterwards be experienced, which perhaps would strengthen as the country began to revive. It could not be supposed that a Southerner would regard a negro office—holder with affection simply because he had been whipped out of his determina tion not to regard him as anything but a slave. The natural effect was indeed to make the African in that capacity more hateful than before, as setting up conspicuously the badge of South ern defeat and humi liation. Those who imagine that the satisfaction felt on both sides at the close of the war could have been engineered by skilful hands into a hearty re union know little of human nature. The South was the same South after as before the war, which only effected material changes all bitterly hos tile to Southern feeling, making the immediate re sult a more direct antagonism than ever. Doubt less generous legislation on the part of the vic tors might do much, as well as the working of the new order of things on the rising generation, but this could only be looked for in time, the immediate influence rather increasing hostility. Bydisfranchising those who had borne arms against the Union, political power could be and was with drawn in a direct way from the men who had striven for the " lost cause ;" but the really im portant question for the North ever since Lee's surrender has been the sentiment instilled into the rising generation, from whom such privileges could not be withheld. It was possible, at least for a time, to deprive the unrepentant rebels of political power, but it was not possible to deprive their sons of the ballot as they became of age, and the actuate ing motive of these young men is growing every day into a more serious question. Upwards of four years have elapsed since the war closed, and the lads, even the mere boys of that turbulent period, are now reaching the stage of manhood in such n umbers that the aspect of political affairs in the South is change ing. Several of the leading newspapers have endea voured to ascertain what the real feeling is in these States, as have also the Government, and full reports have been given enunciating all shades of opinion. However uniform opinion maybe, so secret and gene ral is organization, that it is not easy to get at the geit nine sentiment of the South if the people are deter mined to disguise it from prying Northern eyes. A great man, travelling about the country, can only see what the inhabitants show him. Commissioners may be made to look through colouredspectacles fas tened over their eyes by the people, and even re porters find it impossible to get at the truth. The weight of testimony, however, is not reassuring so far as the rising generation is concerned ; and the bad blood, although almost inevitable, is greatly to be de plored. '1 he election in Virginia is a proof that the Southerners have adapted themselves to the changed order of things with the intention of making the most of it, but it is no proof that they have essen tially changed in sentiment. They are wise enough to see that they would be playing the game of their adversaries by obstinately refusing the reconstruc tion pror °sal by Congress, that they could never by such a course hope to gain the control of their States, whereas by taking what Congress givss they might make better terms for themselves after reconstruction. By adopting the proposed Consti tution they were enable I to throw out the disfran chising and prospective clauses, accepting negro suffrage, that such of them as had been disfran chised might be remitted, whereby 15,000 white voters were restored. By this means the whites secure the control, and Virginia being assured of a more stable Government, and the risk being lessened of a clash between the races, immigration is encou raged, and material prosperity is likely rapidly to increase. The same, though in alesser degree, is likely to be the case with Mississippi and Texas when recon- struction will be complete. The time approaches when the genuine Southerner will again be heard in the halls of . Congress and in the councils of the land, and in view of this it is interesting to learn not only what he thinks, but what political aid he is likely to get in the Northern States. The Tribune's correspondent, sent to the South expressly to report on the tone of feeling, and the condition of the inhabitants, has written a series of letters, the last a long one from Atlanta, dated singularly enough June 1, the rea son for it being so old, we believe, is that it would have been unsafe to publish letters, while the cor respondent was among the men of whom he wrote, at least, so it was reported before the letters ap peared, the delay being asked for by himself. He says that he had conversed with many intelligent Southerners, who asserted that they remained as good rebels as ever, and expected to die such. AI hen war with England was talked of they spoke with disdain of the idea that they would engage in it. They knew what war was, and they did not intend to fight for a Government which had op pressed them insupportably. He complained of the cold politeness of business men towards him, of an absent-mindedness, in cases amounting to ill-con• cealed contempt and disdain. While considering tt is manner injudicious, he accounted for it by the terrible losses in fortune and friends that these gen tlemen had sustained. What seemed most to annoy them was the appointment of negro legislators and postmasters, men who could not read being en trusted with letters, some having money enclosures, many mistakes being made, to the great inconveni ence of the community. When the correspondent de sired to discuss farming, politics would be thrust on him, and the Government abused without reserve. He was asked how Northern men would feel if treated in the same way. Generally the desire was ex pressed to be left alone ; that they wanted neither Northern capital, settlers, nor legislation. Others, however, entertained the reverse opinion, inviting the immigration of Northernmen. It is evident the rela tion with the negro will rather grow than diminish in difficulty, but the fact should not be overlooked that the Georgian negro, of whom the correspon dent mainly wrote, is not a fair sample, that a large proportion of those who live on the low land bor dering on the coast are of a very degraded type, and though perhaps true of them that they make the worst servants and the greatest thieves, it might not be, and is not true generally, of the coloured people elsewhere. The opinion of the correspondent evidently is that the Southerners will never tolerate an equality. They can sympathise with the blacks and treat them well, but by no legislation can an equality be esta blished. It was a sad day, says the correspondent, when no more whipping could be done, for the coloured women have set up to do what they please, and the only remedy now is to reconstruct on an entirely new basis. " But for all these difficulties, and for all the barbarities and horrors herein related, as well as much more, there are, I think, remedies, and the great problems of the negro race can be solved, as I shall attempt to show iu the concluding letter of thisseriesunder the title of The Black Belt.'" It is evident that Congress has been played out, and that the relations between the races will de pend on those races themselves, together with the moral influence Northern opinion can bring to bear. But the failure must be acknowledged of the attempt to transfer by proclam ttiou a community of slaves into one of free and enlightened ci izens, which can be done only by time and teachable qualities in the negro, wbo will have to trust to himself for a future position, which must mainly hinge on his own power of organization and the use he makes of the machinery given to him by Congress. It is now more than probable that the Democratic party, aided by a reconstructed South, and freed from the incubus of Andrew Johnson, will jeopardise Republican supremacy, and it will be interesting to watch the spirit the genuine Sout eruer will manifest on re-entering the political stage let us hope if a sadder also a wiser man. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, July 10.) The two national anniversaries (for the fiscal New Year's-day promise to become a formidable rival to the Glorious Fourth in securing public attention) have added another derangement to the complicated course of mone tary affairs during the week. The debt statement showed for the month of June a diminution of the national liabili ties, over its cash assets, of $16,410,132 and a decrease for the last quarter of $36,460,779. It will be noticed that the reduction of the debt for June exceeds by about $7,000,000 the average monthly reduction of the preceding three months. This extraordinary and gratifying exhibit is due to the fact that the currency balance in the Treasury, July 1, amounted to the unprecedented sum of $37,097,819. The currency balances on hand at the beginning of the preceding mouths were as follows: —June 1, $19,984,555 May 1, $7,896,564 ; April 1, $6,802,628. Thus it is seen that the amount on hand at the beginning of July was more than equal to the amount of the preceding month since the advent of the new Administration. While all will rejoice that the Government has at hand so much ready money, it cannot but be regretted that that money was so seriously needed at the same time in the business circles of the country, especially of New York. The telegraph informs us that Secretary Boutwell himself was surprised at finding the Govern ment so flush, and that he was so is further evidenced by his change of policy in regard to the buying up of Go vernment Securities—not change of policy, but change of the degree to which he propcses for the present to enforce his policy. For it will be remembered that only a few days ago he proposed to purchase a million of Govern ment Securities fortnightly instead of weekly, but after the debt statement he issued special instructions for the im mediate purchase of $3,000,000 on Saturday of last week, and now he has issued a similar order for this week. He is said to have expressed the hope that he should be able to redeem $75,000,000 of bonds during his first year in stead of $25,000,000 as at first proposed. These movements have afforded an excellent opportunity for the Wall-street cliques to depress money, bear stocks, and then hold fo the rise. As reported last week to the disappointment of the operators, prices, except in particular cases, did not go down as money wont up, though the week ending July 3 is likely to be remembered for many years as the stringent week. Those who have bought stocks at low rates in expectation of selling them at an advance have had their profits seriously curtailed by the rates of interest they have had to pay meantime. By the first three million sale on Saturday (at which $5,000,000 were offered, and in accordance with instructions, only $3,000,000 taken) the market seems to have been eased but slightly, the disbursement; had been so com pletely anticipated. On Tuesday, after the holiday, money continued tense, tightening up at the close of the day to 3-16 to fof one per cent. per diem for call loans. Many old brokers, who had hitherto refused to charge the ex treme street rates, at this hour seem to have succumbed to the continued pressure, and notified their customers that they were compelled to raise their prices or demand the Payment of their due-bills. Some of the bulls, too, that up to this moment had hung to their cheaply purchased stocks, waiting for an advance with a patience truly bovine, were now forced to let 'em slide. At Boston the Banks were seriously cramped by their efforts to boost their customers over the crisis. On Wednesday the rumour of another three million purchase of bonds obtained currency on Wall-street; money at once fell to 7 per cent. per annum, amid an excitement that showed the expediency of a more regular system of operations on the part of Mr Bout well. It is useless to expect, however, that a strin gency of so long standing is to be dispelled by the change of a few millions of bonds into greenbacks. That much of the money usually centreing at New York has gone South is doubtless both true and gratifying. if this rarification of the monetary atmosphere, by expansion over a larger surface, produces a little excited breathing at New York and other points, it is not to ha wondered at. Nei ther must it be supposed that there is therefore not money enough in the country to perform tie ordinary, or indeed any extraordinary, exchange work. The money that, under the favourabl e aus pi ces o f G en . Grant's administra tion, has gone South or elsewhere, and been invested in business, will in duo time be multiplied and returned. As far as the volume of currency is concerned, everybody is i glad to see Secretary Boutwell steadily contracting t ; and by this policy he is winning not only new laurels from those who knew him before, but words of tardy but sincere commendation from his former detractors. By neglecting, as he legally may, to issue new notes for the worn-out legal tenders and fractional currency returned to the depart ment, and by reducing the three per cent. certificates, he has actually contracted the currency $9,833,399 less than it was four montns ago. This is a simple method of doing it, and is susceptible of being carried to astill greater extent without detriment to the business interests of the country, judging from the present experiment. The money market on the Pacific slope, where, in spite of their boasted and boast-worthy bullion currency, they have been having a little monetary pinch, is easier, and business in San Francisco is looking up decidedly. The wealth and sinew of the east is pouring through the Golden Gate, one steamship alone recently bringing from China and Japan 1,300 passengers and 1,500 tons of tea, coffee, and spices. Governments have been steady during the week, though very little has been doing in this class of business. At home, with our faith in the entire payment of the debt, the favourable character of the July exhibit did not very much increase the previous general confidence in these THE SERVICES. The Broad Arrow announces that negotiations are in progress between the Admiralty and the India Office, and arrangements are very nearly com pleted for sending a fleet into the Eastern waters. The Persian Gulf is to be provided with a certain number of vessels, part of the expenses of which is to be borne by the Indian Treasury.—The same authority does not take kindly to a proposal which has been made, but not yet adopted, that a system of piecework should be introduced at the Admiralty.—An order has been issued by the Admiralty that no women are to live on board any of her Majesty's ships or vessels, whether they be in harbour or at sea.. TIIF. FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE. The Railway _Yews publishes an important letter written by Mr. Secretary Fish, of the United States Government, to the Ministers of England and France, on the subject of the landing of the French cable on tha shores of the United States. Mr. Fish states that " the projectors of the enterprise now in progress have not received orawaited the permission of this Govern ment, either to the establishment of this telegraphic connection or its use for intercourse with the coast of France ;" and he distinctly notifies that "in the absence of the consent to or concurrence in the pro posed telegraphic connection of the Government of the United States, the proceedings of the parties interested must be taken in submission to the autho rity of the Government." The bill regulating the landing of cables will probably be passed by the House of Representatives as well as by the Senate. The bill provides that its privileges "shall not be enjoyed by any company whose lines terminate in a foreign country by which similar pri vileges are not extended to companies incorporated in this country." Our contemporary thinks the shareholders have just ground of complaint against the directors of the company, who, in the face of difficulties which they knew to exist in the way of landing the cable, still pushed on with the work, leaving it at the eleventh hour to be announced that they had not obtained the necessary authority for landing the cable in the United States. It is, how ever, generally believed that no substantial difficulty can be experienced. SLIGHTLY INCONSISTENT. The Lords of the Admiralty are very anxious that the anchors.of private ships belonging to companies should be safe. They insist, for instance, that " Trotman's anchor " shall be one of the fittings to those mail steamers to which they have to give their imprimatur. The same anchor is used for their own yacht, and they are careful to have it affixed to her Majesty's yacht. But for the vessels of the Royal Navy the invention which they force upon other vessels is not thought necessary. One of the Service papers suggests that it is "too much trouble for their lordships to accept" thci anchor for the navy. AGRARIAN OUTRAGES. Mr. Brinsley Marlay writes to the Times to suggest that the best remedy for the Irish agrarian murders would be the temporary suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in some districts. The head Ribandmen are, he says, as well known to the police in Ireland as the leading thieves are to the London detectives, and if they were in prison the underlings would either leave the country or come forward to give evidence against their leaders. The present sense of insecurity has created intense bitterness of feeling, every effort and every hope being crushed by the fear of the Eibandman. The Fenian conspiracy itself was less destructive. Less stringent measures will not, in the opinion of this writer, be of any avail. The hidden murderer, if left unchecked, will some day have the country to himself. THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT-RACE,. The .New York Tunes, in an article on the forth coming race between the Oxford and Harvard Universities, expresses a fear which ought to be regarded here as a warning. The American journal has no fear that Oxford will not give her young rival a fair chance ; but that the London men, whose business is betting, will do the same, is not generally believed. "We send over a cool and self reliant crew; one that has twice in succession beaten the Roahr crew of professionals, which latter in their turn have once beaten the Wards ; but what chance coolness, or skill, or pluck will stand against that maelstrom of unfriendly boats and tugs veering in and out, on the margin of the course, and against the yelling men who have their money up and must win it, we cannot predict." The Times further notes that all the odds are against the American crew. The Oxonians have all rowed in races for many years, and have never been beaten, whereas two of the Harvard men have never been in a university crew before this year. Then the Oxford men, their boat and their stroke, have been selected with special reference to the Thames course. THE CONDEMNED WOMAN, FANNY OLIVER. The Teegraph, commenting upon the case of Fanny Oliver, whose speech, at the Worcester Assizes, after she had been found guilty of murder, created such a sensation, weighs the evidence, and finds it wanting. Our contemporary asserts that there is no absolute proof of poison in the deceased. The chemist admits that there might by a very remote chance have been evolved from the instru ments he used in making the post-mortem exami nation a grain of arsenic; and this very remote chance is such that the Telegraph thinks it would be wrong, without further inquiry, to hang the woman. The purchase of arsenic under a false name, the symptoms of poison• ing shewn by the deceased for some time previous to his death, the love of the prisoner for another man, are counted as very little by the Telegraph. It may be added that the chemist who sold the arsenic to the condemned woman has been fined £1 for a breach of the Apothecaries' Act. THE POLICE AS WITNESSES. The Law Journal has some remarks upon the evidence of policemen, which are rather startling as shewing whither the legal mind is tending, and as indicating the weight which in the future will be attached to what professional thieftakers say. Policemen, says our contemporary, are frail creatures. They have a business to do ; they are rewarded if they obtain a conviction. It cannot, therefore, be wondered at that they should colour their evidence. The truth is, we like, and lay too much stress on, police evidence. • What we rather ought to do is to lower our estimate of it, t o require corroboration in nearly every case, and to regard the policeman in every instance—whether the case be his own, or be he supporting a brother constable — as a biassed and prejudiced witness. AN 110NOTJRABLE ARRANGEMENT. Sir Charles Eastlake, as director of the National Gallery, had to provide pictures for the nation. During the time he held the office he was not to be expected to refrain from buying for himself, and did not do so. But, seeing the position he held, Sir Charles thought it right to give instructions that on his decease all pictures which he had bought during his tenure Crf 'office should be offered to the nation at the price he originally gave for them. This offer has been made by Lady Eastlake, and the National Gallery now possesses several paintings originally private property. Mr. Layard writes explaining this, and remarks on the extreme delicacy and the high and honourable feeling which such an arrangement reveals. At the same time the member for Southwark states, in answer to Mr. Bentinck, that two other pictures which had belonged to Sir Charles Eastlake long be fore he held the office of director were purchased b 7 the trustees from his representative at their fair market value. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The paper war between the journals of Austria and Prussia has broken out again. This is the third distinct renewal of this pen-and-ink strife during the last twelve months. The taste of the Austrians and Prussians for abusing each other amounts to an incurable disease. Doubtless it would be of no importance were it not that the contagion spreads to much higher spheres. The despatches in the Austrian lied-book, just published, are full of recrimination against Prussia. There is too much ground for the fear that the hostility between these two nations did not end with the Treaty of Prague. THE CUBAN INSUURECTION. The American filibusters, anxious as they are to get to Cuba, are by no means satisfied with that paradise when they actually arrive. On the 23rd of June an expedition of 120 men quietly went oft' from New York to Cuba. About a fortnight ago they quietly came Lack again. The men landed and had a slight brush with the Spaniards, but cholera and yellow fever were prevailing so badly in the insurgent camp that all hands concluded to return home while it was yet in their power to do so. THE CHINESE IN AMERICA. A convention to consider the project of encouraging the immigration of the Chinese to America met at Memphis, in Tennessee, a few days ago. There is everything to be said in favour of this scheme. The Chinese, as we have before shewn, are excellent labourers. They are too numerous in China, whilst there is room for millions on the America plains. But before the people of the 'United States determine to import any more cargoes of Chinese they should take care to secure the new corners good treatment on their arrival. At present this is far from being the case, A detachment recently landed at Sax securities. Abroad, however, the effect was noticeable, Five-Twenties rising from 804 to 81 in London. This produced a heavy shipment from New York, and there was a temporary advance of I to 1 per cent. on Satur day. It would not be surprising if the bond export should supplant again, for a time at least, the gold ex port, though the London Tines of the 26th June has Frankfort advices to the effect that the German market was at that time overstocked with American securities. The same paper states that Mr. Walker, the financial agent of Massachusetts, is at Frankfort negotiating the five per cont. loan. Objections were made to the prices upon which he insisted. At home, Southern State securities are dull. Comptroller Blackburn of Tennessee has published a card setting fcrth th 3 poverty of that State, he being obliged to borrow in order to pay the ordinal' militia and educational expenses of the Slate, to say no thing of the interest on its own bonds. On the other hand , lowa has paid most of her debt outright, and has money enough on hand to settle the rest as soon as it b e comes due. Indiana also has reduced her debt from $9,000,000 to $1,800,000. Gold has shared the general depression throughout the stringency, getting down to 135, and even 1311 on Tuesday. On Wednesday, when the report caln o of another three million sale it experienced a relief wit h everything else, and rose to 135 g. Rumours of heavy ex ports tended also to increase its buoyancy. During th e 27th week of 1869 the specie exports from New Y ork were $852,957 against $3,227,532 for the same week Lis t year, and the whole amount for the year thus far is about $15,000,000 against $51,000,000 last year, a little more than we sent out in 1858, and a little less than in 18b5 " The New York city bank statement shows an increase 1 4 circulation of only $3,188 , an d i n specie of $1,263,121. This large amount of bullion is the July gold interest on United States Bonds. It is said that several Now Fork bank officers have been summoned before a grand jury f or the rascally lock-up of greenbacks last week. It Nv rumoured at the time that the subject would be brough t before the district attorney. It is doubtful if anything comes of it, but all honour should be given to the me n who are willing to do as much as try to bring such gaol, biers to justice. There has not been much of interest : 4 the Stock Market during the week, except the bulling and bearing on the probabilities of easier money, itV l f described. There was a sharp upward turn on Wednese day, dun, as i n th e other cases, to the prospect of m ore greenbacks f rom M r. Bontwell. The railroads are getting more in the habit of showing their books than they use d : be. The Mi c hi gan S outhern earned $108,139 in At% $43,000 more than it did last year. Proceedings b 3v ,i ; been commenced to for ec l ose th e t hi r d mortgaged b°4,u., of the La C rosse an d Mil waukee Railroad. The eonsntils dation of the New York Central and Hudson River ros4o has not boen compl e t e d , th e j o i nt committees of the 04 corporations not yet having m e t. Th e propose d ca pital j 3 $100,000,000, of which the Hudson will have $30,00 0 , ° to The opening of the Lebanon Springs through ro to Montreal is a great railroad event for the Goth. 4% ites. Dry g oo d s cont i nue act i ve, notwithstand i ng the season when they should be full. Buyers are caution`' but holders con fid en t , an d pr i ces f i rm. There is a genet conviction that all domestic fabrics, woollen as We ll ea cotton, will range s till hi g h er next month. Bleacha, sheetings and shirtings are i n b e t ter d emand than bro e ~i vi t but prices are fir m f or b o th , espec i ally for the latter . business in prints is confined to the lighter s hades, l darker ones for the f a ll t ra d e h av i ng not yet appear°ci t io o d the market. Ginghams are inactive but firm, and prig lawns and percales in f a i r d eman d . W oollens are i n e ing, and the clothiers are early laying iu large s tocks . . 0 overcoatings. For e i gn t ra d e i s li ght and impor t.,t; small. In pr o d uce t h e b utter b usiness is light an d quid, one of the events of the week being the first s o went to San Francisco from Chicago ; factory uh ee r r ieo bringing 15 c . t o 16 c., an d i t i s thought that private ds'ijet, may be held till fall w ith a d vantage. Tobaccos are to with sales of common leaf at 8 1 c. to 91c., fine leaf 1 -2 .s' 2ct 13c., Conne c ti cu t an d M assachusetts fillers Bc. to ~ wrapping lots 18c. to 45c., fine wrappers 50c. to 70c. We regret to state that the Wall-street Journal has-T,,4 T., • failed to reach us by the Inman steam r sailing on day. The prices on Friday evening, Jul 9, closed e 9 New York as follows: - American gold 1351 y, United s CoupCDS Sixes (1881) 1171, United States Five-To'lte e i (1862) 1214, (1864) 1171, (1865) 1181 (18:;5, new),`,;•g; (1867)116i, (1868) 116 1 , United States 10-40's 108, 14 , 1 -I 'o Railroad Sixes 106, New York Central Railroad 193, a do 28, Hudfon River 1644, Reading (ex div) 901, Milw' u T -e cr and St Paul 75i, Milwaukee and St Paul Preferred 86, 0 5, ledo, Wabash, and Western 731, Michigan Central do Michigan South ern an d N ort h ern Indiana 109 1 , Central 144 asked, Cl eve l an d and P i ttsburg 107, Ch c "; Rock Island and Pa c ifi c 1161 , Chi cago and North-Wrepst.ett -801, Chicago and N or th-W estern Preference 9511 rie burg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 1511-, Hartford an,,," i o d 22, Ohio and Mississippi Certificates 37i, Western v ij o i Telegraph Company 374, Pacific Mail Steamship C -On: or 901, Mariposa P re f e r re d 15 , B oston Water Powe r C'° pany 15 to 16. stt ll6 On the previous even i ng W a ll- street had been in ,1 e d of excitement over the large number of brokers sunil - t V before the grand j ury i n regar d to the violations 6.1 usury laws. ep r or` Messrs. Drex e l an d C o., the Philadelphia bankers, of as follows on July 9 : Pennsylvania Railroad sh ai t gc le 56,1; Sixes, Ist M or t gage, 97i 971; Sixes, 2d 31°'''' 96 97. THEATRICAL ITEMS.—The Loudon correSP°n(l-Alfr of the New York Herald wr it es th e f o ll ow i ng of a sq- 13 '9 known Philad e lphi a actor At Mrs. Swanboroug it bright little theatre in the Strand, Mr. J. S. Clark(' 1/3 ., 5 ' all his own way , or ra th er hi s face has. Of pure l y "fag of comedy we have had no such master since the da9is $ Liston. So old playgoers assert. Mr. Clarke's face bag comedy in itself, the features being so many acts. ' a ria given up the redoubtable Major Wellington De 1300ts ' o cli' now appears as a young scamp in the most elated c l . O O tion of comic ineb r i e ty i n a rev i se d version o f an Allier play." cv Of OBITUARY.—Mrs. Margaret S. Worth, wi", °. Major-Gen. W. J. W or th , di e d i n St. Augustine, Fo - e %ies v June 21, at the resid ence o f h er son- in-la-1 1' , i Gen. SPra 04h, - in her seventieth year.-Mr. Jacob Cram died suu the Gth inst., at his residence Union-square, New Y° 'ors a ripe old age—R ev . L orenzo Bolles, formerly of 1- '''' l3 ,,se Massachusetts, died at Utica, N.Y. ' June 25, of (lig 5 e contracted at the si ege o f Vicksburg Merriam, who di e d i n G ra ft on, M assac h use tts, to! , 1 0' day, July 7, at the age o f 98, was the oldest inhabw;"a o f the town.—Rev. Dr. P. B. Day, of Honig Maine , c11 :09 , paralysis of the brain o n T ues d ay, J u l y 6" aged 60I tila: He was a graduate o f A m h ers t College, and ' at t 'iles" of his death:was a truste e o f Dartmo u th.—Larkin who died at Brattlebo ro ', on Tuesday, July 6, W r o t g li e duate of Dartm ou th C o ll ege o f the class of I °' - 'o o ` leaves several childre n , among are C . L . M e ad, tre3 , t ica t i of the Stanly Rule Co m p an y o f N ew B r it a i n , C o Larkin G. Mead, the s c u lpt or; W. R . M ea d, gn lT uti os peil ° ' Amherst College, and Mrs. H owe ll s,w if e o f WT. D. '- editor of the Atlantic Monthly. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills are d fcif el : ( l the best remedy for all di sor d ers of the stoma ch 90 ", fe r b 9- / the liver and kidneys. They ac t w ith so d ec ided an eOO Sal yet so gently, that peopl e o f th e most d e li cate constitUtiv of GO" take them with the most perfect confidence. They "Lce , tain a single grain of mercury or other noxious anb s , - „ref ° ' e : ing composed exclusively of rare b a l sams. They are , "";013 1 ", equally safe and efficacious, and, as a family medich ,e e , O for . 11 yet invented or discovered can b e compare d with t e t h er g l moment. With these inestimabl e p ill s at h an d, top r o t ecl' o f the printed directions affi xe d t o each box, no other c os advice or assistance can b e nee d ed in any ' ordinate sickness „,,„tiP ° o, i l 3lll4 (ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), Debility, Consumption, and all nervous bilious, s t° o cl o 'l7 l liver complaints in every stage, are only ' aggravated %tell IV, rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur".,oo, 0 0 Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, 0 1 thousands of cases which had been considered holle` e i c orl —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, hemorrhoids, liver te, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore thro , ,, o re,, r itly ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head an r " s i g ia, o roll,e; matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, ne u ..„ 14 0 , 0 0 / 6 bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartbiu-'O, .0„ o es, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and siolr f ri u e i „ tir, Ol d ” pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitisl,3:: beti:e,Ociclol7o. an. tor of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach h res shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—The Pope' July Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, . 00 ,9 , 0 , health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially si . , t i r ell AP I ing all other remedies, he has confined himself !los f"ifie o t Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he collbl y ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingtbis effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot prain„w 2, 5 40 11% food too highly.—From th e "G azette d u Midi, J uly No. 46,270 —Mr. James R o b er t s, t i m b er mer chant Surrey, of thirty ye ars ' di sease d lungs, sp itting derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. s til s rept o de Decies, Lord-Li eut. o f W aterford, of ma ny yea clllsw No. 49 ,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony I ', h ey, ' 3 0%4 • gatuo , ca. At nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ~o t ita sickness, and vomiting. —Maria Joly." A ti • Beware of the many unsavoury and more than 0 01 '4 00' 1 0 1 1 to which, without authority, Baron Liebig ' s I D9 ciously attached. lg ODA 0 In tins, at Is ld; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21b 4 Gd; 5 lbs llsl cog - &P ig 21 lbs 40s. — Also . Du BARRY'S REVALENTA S ARA BI . € 9 A s at e 6 io POWDER is packed in ti n canisters: for 12 cups i cu re at 3s lid, for 48 cups at Gs, for 288 cups at 30s, for 4 iiu,Srde;o4 5, —being about one p enn y p er cup: Th e 30 0 and "offico, o ; free of carria ge i n E ng l and on rece i pt o f Post Lori' BAR.. Y Du BARRY a n d C o., N o. 77, R eg ent-stree t, all Grocers and Chemists 00 BIRTIIS. KIXTORE —On the 20th in st at Edinburg h, th° C°ll '7 1,0 e j9 of Kintore, o f a d aug h ter. MARSHALL -On the 22d inst., at Cookridge Mrs. Reginald D. Marshall, of a son. 00 0 M A RRI G ES. tljA Rea t 01 ATKINSoN—WELCII— On the 2Cth r). l 'atholic Church of St. Mit.rv, Croydon, j o ° l7 l Y r C 4 lj * l s r ' kiuson, 11. N., to Augusts H. G. Scott' .... at -1. . 0 e the late Montague S r) . Welch, Esq., barri s it ef o T FISIIE —LEE On the 22d inst., at St. square, Charles Caulfeild Fishe, Esq , square, Westminst3r, to Margaret Lee, Ventuor. -4 DEATES. $c I , BRUNT—Onp it At,Lx Augusta. Bo t rn h u e tuht 2 ,o 2 a d 2gt i e n dt s . t s . i.t at A t lb E er . t- terrace, Wl° Suutharopton, W. 11 ,s 1. 112 P s rLu a lx, ca Villas, ~ A d+ WATsoN - On the 21st inst., at Toutley 0 311 ' " Berks, James Watson, Esq., tined 19. Al oft di London: Pm' ted and Published by WILL Office 6tf ekes/ of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tau SuN f in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Lounty °- Monday, July 26, 17169.