The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-06 00:00:00

MERELY DUST. • A microscopist, Mr. Dancer, F.R.A.S., has (says the daily News) been examining the dust of our cities. The lesults are not pleasing. We bad always recognised city *lust as a nuisance, and had supposed that it derived the "peculiar grittiness and flintiness of its structure from the Vonstant macadamising of city roads. But it now Oppears that the effects produced by dust, when, as is , Visual, it finds its way to our eyes, our nostrils, and our Throats, are as nothing compared with the mischief it is calculated to produce in a more subtle manner. In Avery specimen examined by Mr. Dancer animal life was Itbundant. But the amount of " molecular activity"— Much is the euphuism under which what is exceedingly disagreeable to contemplate is spoken about—is variable according to the height at which the dust is collected. ,And of all heights which these molecular wretches Could select for the display of their activity, the height of five feet is that which has been found to be the favourite. Just at the average height of the foot aaassenger's mouth these moving organisms are always 'waiting to be devoured, and to make us ill. And this is 'riot all. As if animal abominations here insufficient, a large proportion of vegetable matter also disports itself In the light dust of our streets. And the observations !hew that in thoroughfares where there are many animals engaged in the traffic, the greater part of the vegetable matter thus floating about " consists of What has passed through the stomachs of animals," or has suffered decomposition in some way or other. This Impleasing matter, like the " molecular activity," floats tibout at a height of five feet, or thereabouts. After this, iDne begins to recognise the manner in which some diseases tropagate themselves. Take cholera for example. This disease is not propagated in any way save one —that is, by the actual swallowing of cholera poison. The minutest atom of cholera poison received into the stomach Will cause an attack of cholera. A small quantity of this matter drying on the floor of the patient's room, and afterwards caused to float about in the form of dust, would suffice to prostrate a houseful of people. We can Understand, then, how matter might be flung into the Ptreets, and, after drying, its dust be wafted through a whole district, causing the death of hundreds. One of Ohe lessons to be learn e d f rom th ese i n t eres ti ng researc h es f Mr. Dancer is clearly this, that the watering cart hould be regarded as one of the most important of our Aygienic institutions. Supplemented by careful scaven tering it might be effective in dispossessing many a terrible malady which now holds sway from time to time Over our towns. THE DOUBLE MURDER AT POPLAR. Two inquests connected with the recent double murder In Poplar were held on Friday. The first on the body of the supposed murderer, and the other on the two mur tiered women. At the first-named the woman who lived with the de ceased told the story of how he committed suicide. He was uneasy all through the night, got up earlier than he was used, and, saying he was ill, went into a room, where he was found almost dead by his paramour. The jury /returned a verdict of felo de se. At the inquest on the murdered women the following evidence was taken. Samuel Cornwell. said : The deceased woman, Mary Anne Browne, was my sister, and Ishe was in her 49th year. Her husband's name was John Brand Browne. He professed to be an engineer. She iraS separated from her husband, and had a protection from a magistrate. The deceased woman, Anne Browne, was my niece. She was a single woman, and her age was twenty-three. She lived with her mother. My sister had lodger whose name was William John Bradshaw. He in the house six years. The Coroner: lam obliged to ask you a cviestion. As Xar as you know, was there any particular intimacy to etween your family and the lodger Bradshaw ? Witness: On one occasion when I went down a year ago my sister took me into the room, and said, "Samuel, I have been honest all my life through, but Bradshaw has 4sulted me, and I have resisted him." Robert George Still: The deceased, Mary Annßrowne, was my wife's sister. I last saw them alive on Monday at their own house. I know they had alo iger named Bradshaw. The Coroner : Was he intimate with any of the Family ? Witness: Not to my knowledge. On Thursday last I Rivas passing their house. Noticing it shut, I rang the bell, but could get no admission. Subsequently I gained admis- Ilion through the assistance of a neighbour, Mr. i3ingley, 4vho lives next door. I effected an entrance at the back of the house. I got into the bedroom on the first floor. I Went upstairs. I found my niece in bed, dead. I went down stairs, and in the back room at the back of the shop I saw my sister-in-law lying dead on the floor. A surgeon and the police came, and the bodies were then in the same position as when I saw tilem. There was no appearance of a struggle. As far as I knew they were not .in pecuniary difficulties, and they lived very happily together. George Bingley gave corroborative evidence as to the entrance to the house, but threw no light on the reason which Bradshaw would be likely to have for committing the deed. Harriet Emberson, the paramcur of the deceased, was also examined, but, except that she said Bradshaw had told her that he had had several rows with 36Irs. and Miss Browne, who were both, he said, of bad tempers, she was unable to give any reason for the murder. LAW AND POLICE. CRUELTY TO POULTRY.—At Marlborough-street, on Friday, Mr. Knox inflicted a penalty of £5 each on the two Colchester farmers who were charged with cruelty to Voultry in their transit from Ireland. It will be remem bered that the birds were kept without food or water for forty-eight hours, and so closely packed that many of them died on their way. A summons was also obtained against the goods manager of the London and North- Western Railway. PBOVIDENT SOCIETIES.—At Guildhall, on Friday, George Meld, secretary to the National and Provincial Union Assurance Society, was charged before Sir B. Phillips, with assaulting one of the clerks. The case was dismissed, but the secretary had to defend another charge made. by a poor woman whose father had subscribed 20 years, but who was unable on his death to get the £0 due on his account. Sir B. Phillips ordered the full sum to be paid, at the sane time advising the poor people to invest their Savings in the Post-office savings bank or insurance office. At Westminster Police-court a similar case was heard. A man had subscribed to the West London Philanthropic Burial Society for 12 years, and his wife for 20 years, but on the death of his wife he could not obtain the money to which he was entitled. Mr. Selfe granted him a summons, and said that he wished the Legislature would put a stop to such proceedings. EXTENSIVEEMBEZzLEMENT.—At the Mansion House, on Friday, John M`Murdie, one of the chief clerks in the London Assurance Corporation, was charged with the embezzlement of £1,500. The eharges were not denied, but his former excellent character and his large family were urged in mitigation. He was committed for trial. THE DARLINGTON MURDER.—At the Durham Assizes on March 2, John M'Conville, the Fenian h ea d- centre , who has been tried for the wilful murder of Philip Trainer at Darlington, was found guilty by the jury after an hour's deliberation. Sentence of death was passed upon him. MR. TENN. YSON'S PLANTATIONS.—At the Crown Court, Winchester, Samuel Kellaway was indicted for setting fire to a plantation belonging to Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate. On the sth November, a policeman stated that he saw the prisoner fire the furze, while, on the other hand, a man came forward and said that he had done it himself. The judge remarked that it was an extraordinary case, and the jury acquitted the prisoner. The damage was estimated at £2O. HEALTH OF MR. BASS, M. P. —We regret to state that the health of our respected senior borough member is causing much anxiety to his friends. The hon. gentleman is suffering from a painful skin disease. Derbyshire Advertiser. ATTEMPT TO BLOW up A HOUSE.—The Derry Papers report an atrocious attempt to blow up a house near Raphoe. A tenant had been dispossessd, and the new-comer received warning that he would be visited with serious consequences if he entered into possession, and he obtained the protection of a boly of pol:c !. A few nights ago they w ere a l ai med by a tremeul t u i ex pl os i on , an d on going out to ascertain the cause, found that a barrel of gunpowder had been placed near the house, and fired by means of a fuse. Fortunately, no ii..;ury was done. THE MURDER AT WEDN EMI ItY. --There seems co be little doubt that the murderer of the woman at Wednesbury has been discovered. When arrested he sul lenly complied with the request of the police. As th y were leaving Darlastou one of the heads of the concern said to him, "Do you know anything of the woman?" and he answered, " I know her." One of the officers quickly " What woman do you suppose he means?" and the prisoner made answer, " The woman that was murdered, I suppose." His dwelling, a miserable cottage at the 13u11 Piece, Darlaston, was searched, and in a drawer there they found the greater part of a muffler, exactly corresponding in every respect, even to the number of the threads and the irregularities of their severance, with tht piece left in Mud-lane, where the murdered woman w s found. The superintendent returned to Wednesbury, aid formally charged the prisoner with the murder, to which 119 XCP.Licd. luzow nothing about it." COMMITTEE OF CONVOCATION ON INTEMPERAACE. Some months since, as our readers will probably remember, the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, becoming impressed with the great alarming evil, intem perance, appointed a committee to inquire into the subject, and to make suggestions for the suppression of the vice. The committee included four deans—Alford, of Canter bury, Hook, of Chichester, Champneys, of Lichfield, and Stanley, of Westminster; six archdeacons—Coventry, Ely, Exeter, Leicester, Nottingham, and Salop ; seven canons—Argles, Cares, Gillet, Harvey, Oxenden, Wood, and Fraser ; and two prebendaries—Gibbs and Kemp. The Rev. John Sandford, Archdeacon of Coventry was appointed chairman of the committee ; and his name appears appended to the long report which has just been published. The inquiry instituted by the committee was thorough and searching in its character. They obtained the opinions of the clergy of the province, the evidence of the au thorities in the several parishes, and the experience of persons of position throughout Great Britain. Facts were also obtained to aid the committee from the governors and chaplains of prisons and heads of constabulary, from superintendents of lunatic asylums, from judges, recorders, coroners, and masters of workhouses. Landed proprietors also were here and there consulted ; so that the committee claim the report to be rather a reflection of the opinions of those who know best about the matter than the outcome merely of their own considerations. As to the extent of the evil, the committee state that drunkenness has de creased in the upper and middle ranks of society ; but has increased amongst the lower orders, especially amongst women and children. First among the causes of the evil is placed the Act which called beerhouses into existence. Passed for the purpose of drawing men from drinking spirits, it has created a class of the lowest houses, where crime and vice are fos tered and nurtured. The Act, to all intents and purposes, has proved a failure, and Lord Brougham at one time attempted to repeal it. As a whole, the complaint of the committee is that the number of public-houses is too large, competition, instead of being good in its effects, in this case only leads landlords to hold out greater induce. ments to hard drinking. "Itis a matter of painful sig nificance that men of position, wealth, influence, and power, possess a large personal interest in the consumption of intoxicating drink-3. It is well known that large capitalists—such as brewers, distillers, and others in the commission of the peace, and even occupying seats in the Legislature —own public-houses, which they let at high rents, thereby necessitating their tenants to resort to all sorts of inducements to attract people to their houses for the purpose of drinking." Other indirect causes of evil are pointed out in the social customs of the country; that which makes the public-house the place where bargains are made, and certain meetings held ; the part pay ment of wages in drink, which is adopted in the rural districts in harvest time ; and the use of large quantities of drink on festive occasions. The committee protest against the continuance of the hiring mopps or fairs ; against the billetting of soldiers in public-houses, and against the extensive adulteration of liquor; and they call attention to the fact that policemen, who ought to suppress the evil, are often tampered with by means of treats. Tho results of the excessive drunkenness are referred to at some length. Unhappy families, shattered characters, destroyed health, full workhouses, lunatic asylums and prisons, decline in national life and character, loss of wealth and strength to the commonwealth, and consequent heavy taxes, these are among the many disastrous results of excessive drinking pointed out by the committee. " Nor can any sacrifice be esteemed too costly, or any efforts too great, to check and remedy what may b e shewn by accumulated and undeniable evidence to be sapping the foundations of our prosperity, blighting the future, and lowering the reputation of our country, and destroying at once its physical strength and its moral and religious life." In proposing remedies the committee were evidently influenced by the important fact set forth in the last paragraph of the report, which runs as follows :—"Few, it may be believed, are cognisant of the fact that there are, within the province of Canterbury, upwards of one thousand parishes in which there is neither public-house nor beershop ; in consequence of the absence of the inducements to crime and pauperism, the intelligence, morality, and comfort of the people are such as the friends of temperance would have anticipated." Briefly stated, the committee propose that all benefit clubs should be removed from public-houses ; that the practice of paying wages in them should be discontinued, that good tea and coffee-rooms should be everywhere pro vided ; that social gatherings should be encouraged, and all institutions likely to raise the minds of men above the sordid level of the beer-shop ; and that education, secular and religions, should be given to the people. Thus far the committee think the public can help themselves. To the Legislature, however, it is proposed to apply for the repeal of the Deer Act ; the closing of public-houses on the Lord's day ; the early 'closing of public-houses on week day evenings ; a reduction in the number of houses ; the placing the w hole system under one autho rity ; the rigid enforcement of present penalties, both on drunkard and seller of drink ; the prevention of licenses for music, dances, and billiards being held together with a spirit license; the closing of public-houses during the nomination and election days in parliamentary boroughs; the prevention of such houses being hell as election committee rooms ; the appointment cf special police to look after drinking houses ; and the repeal of all duties on tea, coffee, chocolate, and sugar. The last paragraph in the recom mendations in effect endorses the Permissive Bill, advo cating that a legal power of restraining the issue and renewal of licences should be put in the hands of inhabi tants. IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PEERS. - The Lord Chancellor reports that the right of the Earl of Bantry, the Earl of Shannon, and the Earl of Normanton to vote for representative peers for Ireland has been established to his lordship's satisfaction. SA URIN V. STARF'. AND OTHERS.—TIIC Tablet states that the expenses of the defendants in this action will amount to £6,000, and if they are not successful in their appeal to the judges in banco, they will also be liable for the costs of the plaintiff. Subscriptions in their aid are requested. THE SNOW IN CANADA.—A despatch from Montreal states that the snow in the streets of that place is eight feet deep, and some streets are almost impassable. A statement had been published shewing that the fall of snow during the winter had been about 118 inches, which exceeded by 38 inches the total fall in any year for twenty years past. There are rumours afloat in the north 'of England that the North-Eastern Company are about to run to Edinburgh this season, thus exercising their long dormant running powers over the North British Railway. It is also said in well-informed quarters that another attempt is to be made to fuse the North Eastern and North British. " The East Coast Railway" is suggested, and the open sto c k s o f b oth companies, when fuse d , would bear that de s i gnat i on. It is very confidently ex pected that a bill for this purpose will he advertised in November. We give the rumours without being in a position, at present, however, to say that they are well. founded. They are at least probable.—Railway News. THE MINISTRY AND THE UNIVERSITIES. —The Oxonians beat the Cantabs in the Ministry. Cambridge can only claim four of the Cabinet —Lords Clarendon, Hatherley, Hartington, and Mr. Childers. Oxford has Messrs. Gladstone, Lowe, Cardwell, Fortescue, Goschen, Lord Kimberley, and Lord Granville. " England never before," says the Athenceunt, "had a Ministry with so strong a force of brilliant Oxonians. In addition to this affluence, the Cabinet has an abundance of literary laurels. The Premier is a premier amongst men of letters ; Mr. Lowe forced his way into public life by his pen ; the Lord Chancellor and the Indian Secretary are writers of high mark." TRADE AND COMMERCE OF NEW YORK. The report of Mr. Consul Archibald on the trade, navigation, and commerce of New York for 1867 is not without its lesson for the American Protectionists. The coal trade to New York continues to decline, owing to the operation of the high duty. In 1865 there were 355 British vessels employed in this trade, while in 1867 there were but 189. The trade in all British ships to New York, indeed, decreased about 14 per cent. from 1866 to 1867, but the trade in British steamers steadily increased. The burthens onshipping still prove very vexatious to shipmast ers , and the State Legislature seems indisposed to remove them. The statements of the whole trade of the port of New York for 1867 skews a diminution of 208 vessels entered, and 179 cleared with proportionate tonnage ; an average decline of about 4 percent. from the pre cedingyear. The foreign commerce fell short both in exports and imports. The foreign wool trade is much depressed, and it is said that under the existing tariff the importation of foreign, wools must almost cease. This is the more to be regretted as the finer wools, such as those of the Cape, Australia, and South America. cannot be produced in the United States, and the American manufacturers are conse quently unable to compete with the European manufac• turers in the better kinds of cloth. The exports of petro leum have again been very large, and the supply has been more than equal to the demand, without signs of a failure. The statistics of emigration shew that the number of emigrants who arrived at the Port of New York during 1867 was 242,731 shelving an increase in alien emigrants of 0.313 over the preceding year. Of thse 33,712 came from arrived Germany , i sent 117,591. England, 6,315 from Scotland, and G 5,10-1 from Ireland. however, steamers, altogether u ty pe o r f 3e t d h i e v s g e ilie vefisels in the emigrants favour. THE SUN, LONDON, SAT EJ RDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1869, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. inE BEWDLEY WRIT. By a majority of two to one the House of Corti mons has declared that it sees no reason why the writ for Bewdley should be suspended for twelve months. But although the majority is large, it is conclusively proved that there is a considerable number of members of the House who will endea vour to punish corrupt constituencies, although the question is not taken up by the Government. There is no doubt that the strongest argument brought against Mr. Muntz's amendment was the fact that the Bradford writ had been granted without opposi tion. If, therefore, the writ for Bewdley had been withheld, it would have looked too much like party spite. The Government found themselves—for the first time this session--on the horns of a dilemma. With scarcely an exception, the Liberal's who gene rally station themselves below the gangway were heartily in favour of the amendinent. Indeed, when Sir Roundell Palmer was speaking, hewas continually interrupted by the " independent " men, whilst not a sound of approval or otherwise came from the Treasury bench. Both Sir Robert Collier and Mr. Bruce endeavoured to throw oil upon the troubled waters, but they signally failed, and the Government were obliged to vote against their own party. It was some time before the division was taken, great laughter being indulged in by the " noes " at seeing Mr. Glyn and Mr. Noel working together. It must be confessed that the Government—Mr. Gladstone included—appeared to feel the humiliation of allying themselves with the Conservative party in order to defeat their own supporters. Altogether, instead of the Government being victorious, they certainly received a well-merited rebuke from the men below the gangway. The division list shews that not a single Conser vative voted against the granting of the writ. But the Liberals who recorded their aversion to such a course represent some of the largest constituencies in the kingdom. These were Mr. Bazley, Mr. Jacob Bright, Mr. Alderman Carter, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Dilke, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Graham, Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Law rence (London), Mr. Locke, Mr. M'Laren, Mr. Morley, and Mr. Mundella. The members of the Government voting with the Ayes were Mr. Adam, Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Chil ders, Sir Robert Collier, Mr. Forster, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Glyn, Mr. Goschen, Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, Mr. Otway, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Trevelyan. Mr. Bright was in the House during the discussion, but absented himself from the division. The most prominent Conservatives voting with the Government were Mr. Russell Gurney, Sir John Hay, Mr. Henley, Mr. Ward Hunt, Lord Robert Montagu, and Sir John Pakington. Sir Roundel' Palmer also went into the lobby with the majority. Colonel Dyott and Mr. Goldney acted as tellers for the Ayes, and Mr. Muntz and Dr. Brewer for the Noes. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOITSE Ol' LORDS.-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY laid on the table a bill to amend the law relating to clergy discipline and ecclesiastical coui ts. The University College of London Bill was read a second time. Lord REDESDALE moved for a return of the acts of Parliament to which any individual corporation or trust were deprived of their property for any purpose without full compensation or offence alleged to justify such deprivations. He believed there would be found to be no precedent for the manner in which it was proposed to deal with the Church of Ireland, and argued at some length that disendowment was neither more nor less than confisca tion, and the Government was the first to enter upon a course which was revolutionary, and destructive to the security of property. In Ireland untilling it would lead to the belief that all property was held at the will of the ma jority, and would lead to a most dangerous agitation. He ould only apply to the whole proceeding that the terms which he used last year that it was not only confiscation but sacrilege. After some discussion the motion was withdrawn. Tho Habitual Criminals Bill having been moved a second time by the Earl of KIMBERLEY, Lord PORTMAN expressed his approval of the mea sure and suggested that it might be usefully extended to misdemeanants. The measure was then read a second time, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. • THE NORWICH ELECTION. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that on Friday he should move the issuing of a Royal Commission to inquire into the corrupt practices which it was said took place at the last election. GREENWICH HOSPITAL. In reply to Mr. PEASE, Mr. CHILDERS said it was quite true that he had formerly objected to the filling up of the sinecure office of Governor of Greenwich Hospital, but his opinion had been overruled. It was also true the office had lately been filled up, but not at the salary of £1,200 a year, the salary now attached to the office was only £430, as the name of the officer getting the appointment was kept on the active list. There was no truth in the statement that some of the pensioners had not received their pensions. One of his first Ministerial acts was to inquire into the circumstances relative to the matter, and finding there was some irregularity he had the matter thoroughly inquired into, and now every per son received his proper pension. With regard to the medical officers he did not intend to increase the number of those officers merely for the purpose of giving addi tional employment. THE POST-OFFICE. In reply to Mr. BAZLEY, • The Marquis of HARTINGTON said the contracts for carrying the American mails 'terminated in December, 18G7, and in the August of last year tenders were sent out for a renewal of the service. It was not correct to say that the contracts were renewed by the late Govern ment, as the arrangements for carrying the mails to America by the Cunard, Inman, and North German Lloyd companies for the year 1868 was merely temporary. However, the contracts had been renewed with the before-mentioned companies before the present Government took office. The only Governmental act they had to do with the matter was the laying a copy of the contracts on the tab's of the house, which they had dno already. If these contracts re maiued unquestioned for the period of a month, then they would be considered complete, and the matter would be at once closed. He was glad the hon. gentle man did not press that pert of his question, as to whether the signing of the contracts was not an infraction of the promise made by the late Gpverr. ment with respect to the establishment in future of self-supportidg ocean postage. Ho thought the proper time to consider the matter would be when the debate, which he felt would be taken on the contracts he had mentioned, arose. If the present arrangement was adhered to, it would render the establishment of an ocean penny postage an impossibility for some time to come at least. ADULTERATION OF FOOD. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Lord E. CECIL called attention to the state of the law as regarded the use of false weights and measures and the adulteration of food, and concluded by moving the follow ing resolution—that in the opinion of the house it was expedient that her Majesty's Government should give their earliest attention to the wide spread and most repre hensible practice of using false weights, and of adultoring food, drink, and drugs, with a view of amending the law as regarded the penalties now infrcted for tht.se offences, and of providing more efficient means fur the discovery and prevention of fraud. Mr. URQUHART said the chief cause that 1,,d to adul teration was the dearness of food generally; and the great object of all adulteration was the desire to sell that which appeared as good au article at a less price. He thought the best thing the house could do was to reduce if they could not altogether give up, the duty laid upon the importation of articles of food. He Lelieved all police regulations and inspections would fail, and therefore the best thing to do was to remove all temptation to adulteration by cheap ening the cost of the genuine article. (Hear, hear.) Mr. POIXHIN said it was much to be thankful for that in all the articles of food analysed very few were found to contain matter antagonistic to human life. Those articles which contained the most dangerous adulterations were pickles, sweetmeats, and Cayenne pepper. (Laughter.) The others being so adulterated as to make it more an attempt on tho pockets than the bodily health of the public at large. M BRIGHT stated that her Majesty's Government were inquiring into the question of the standard of weights and measures, but they could not promise a bill on that subject this session. If tradesmen—men of business—were to be dogged by Government inspectors every hour of the day life would hardly be worth having. Such subjects as these were the least advantageous that Parliament could possibly entertain. After a few words from Mr. BENTINCK and Mr. H. W. PEEK, the motion of Lord Eustace Cecil was withdrawn. Mr. SELWIN-IBBETSON inquired whether the at tention of the Board of Trade had been called to the in creased number of railway accidents during the past few months. Mr. BRIGLIT denied that railway accidents had in creased, and affirmed that there could be no greater secu rity offered to passengers than the damages so often awarded by juries, and the acknowledged liability of rail way companies in courts of law. In Committee of Supply the Post-office Packet Servico Estimate (Excess), £6,989 Os. 6d. was voted, and also the Civil Service Estimates (Excesses), and £400,894 12s. 4d On the resumption of the house, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained leave tc bring in a bill to consolidate and amend the Law of Bankruptcy, shadowed forth at some length a somewhat complex scheme. Its more prominent features were that no per son shculd become bankrupt on his own petition ; that aL post-nuptial settlements made within two years of bank ruptcy should be void unless the bankrupt should prove that he was solvent at the time of the settlement ; the county court judges would exercise more extended jurisdiction in bankruptcy ; a chief judge would be appointed, not a fresh one, but a learned member of the present staff of judges ; his functions would be to form rules and regulations, to order the practice in his own and local courts, and to exercise a supervision over the whole of the officials of the court. There would also be power to remove causes of great importance, and too heavy for the county courts, to the superior judge, who would also have the power of summoning a jury to try issues of facts. A. new writ was issued for Drogheda. The House then adjourned. LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAncx 5. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Corporal-Major Robert Steen Gray to be Cornet 6th Dragoon Guards—John Moore to be Cornet. 86tthh Dragoons —s—LCieournteentan Henryt lle ny Norris M r illstoh to b e Lieute Captainenant. Cornet James M'C a l mo nt to be Lieutenant ; William Abbott, Gent. to be Cornet. 18th Hussars —Thomas Hope to be Cornet. 4th Foot —Francis Harrison to be Ensign. 15th Foot—William Franks to be Instructor of Musketry. 27th Foot—William Craufurd to be Ensign, William Scott to be Ensign. 28th Foot—Lieutenant Gerard Thorpe to be Lieutenant. 46th Foot—Lieutenant George Thomas to be Lieutenant. 54th Foot—Ensign Charles Ibbertson to be Lieutenant ; John Macartney to be Ensign. 70th Foot -Lieut. Augustus Munsey to be Lieutenant. 78th Foot -Staff-Surgeon Valentine McMaster, M.D., to bo Surgeon. 91st Foot—Ensign William Craufurd to be Ensign., 98th Foot—Ensign Osmond Johnson to be Ensign. Rifle This-win—John Mansel to be Ensign. 2d We,t India Regiment—Lieut. Augustus Rolleston to be Lieutenant. LADTERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment.— Sure Cure. Be the ailment external or internal, chronic or acute, inflammatory or otherwise, a certain remedy may be found in one or other or both of Holloway's pre parations. In the nursery and th e to il ette th'y are equally in place. The use of them involves no danger, the employment of them will not cause the most timid any appreliensions. They always relieve, and by their cor rective, purifying, aid healing powers, invariably prov e Leuelicial in every disorder incident to the human frame. In wounds, sprains, glandular swellings, enlarged veins, and diseases of the skin, Holloway's medicines may ha used with safety and certainty, without weakening the system, or traneferr:BE, the disease to ether parts. THE TRISH ELECTION PETITIONS. All th e Irish election petitions have been tried. Thero were 15 constituencies affected ; and the result is that Mr. Devereux (L.) was unseated on an infor mility, and has since been re-elected ; that Mr. Whitworth (L.) has been unseated for intimidation, Mr. O'Beirne (L.) for bribery, and that two Conser vatives, Sir A. Guinness and Major Knox, have been unseated for treating. Seven Liberals who were petitioned against have been declared duly elected. The Youghal petition remains undecided, some points of law being reserved. Four petitions have been withdrawn. Omitting Youghal, the result has been to leave the relative strength of parties what it was, two members on each side having been unseated. LORD SALISBURV'S BILL. Whatever theoretical or constitutional objections there may be to Lord Salisbury's bill for allowing the Lords when they have not been able to pass a measure in one session to take it up in the next at the stage at which it dropped, there ought to be no room for jealousy between the two Houses. The Commons always must have the chief place in the Legislature so long as they retain the power of the purse. Therefore it is not fair to taunt the Peers for indolence, which is for the most part involuntary) nor to hinder the efforts which the Peers are making for improving their own efficiency. The true cause of such jealousy as does exist seems to, be that the Peers take their places in Parliament without trouble or expense, while the Commons have to go through the unpleasant and costly ordeal of a contested election. TEE BALLOT. '• Wintoniensis," writing to the Telegraph, opposes the general opinion that the Ballot is American in its origin. In proof of the error of that notion he pro duces a transcript from the Archives of Winchester. The document is dated 30th October, 1056, and pro vides for the election of mayor and all other officers of the city "by pewter." It sets forth that whereas the municipal elections had formerly caused clamour and ill-blood, for prevention thereof in time to come, and for the end that the citizens may be more free in their votes, it is ordained and established that there "be forthwith provided One hundred Bullets, of colours Bed and White, in equal proportions, and that the said Bullets be kept in a fit box, to be pro vided for that purpose. And that at all such Public Assemblies and Meetings, one of each of the said Bullets be delivered to each citizen then present, and that the Mayor for the time being do declare in writing, under his hand, for what Person or purpose each of the said Bullets shall stand at every Nomination or Election ' • according to the dictates of his conscience; and that the Mayor put in two Bullets for his cast ing Vote (in case the Bullets so put in as aforesaid shall happen to be even) ; and that upon view of the said Bullets, the Election to pass, stand, and be deter mined, according to the major part of the Bullets." This curious resolution is followed by a provision " That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Citizen, if he think fit, openly to publish and make known his Vote, and to declare the reasons and inducements leading him thereunto;' TIIE ENDOWED SCHOOLS BILL. ---- If we may gather anything fr om t h e hints t h rown out by the Opposition papers, the Governm en t Endowed Schools Bill is likely r to be res i s t e d on th e old question of religion. The measure contains a attendance at daily prayers conscience clause, maling and religious instruction optional on the part of the parents. The Standard publishes a petition from the trustees of Chesterfield School upon the sub ject, in which it is urged that the enactment " would inflict a very severe blow on the religious teaching, discipline, and moral tone of schools throughout the country, and have the effect of lower ing the value of religious worship and instruction in the eyes of the rising generation." The old objections to the Conscience Clause have lost much of their force since the publication of th e re p or t s o f th e Educational Committee. It Is no longer considered impossible to allow such as do not wish to receive religious teaching to withdraw from the classes in which religion is being Imparted. But, on the other hand, the question has passed into a party one, and party is a great enemy to any practical discus sion. SIR GEORGE JENBINSON. If Devizes has lost its Darby Griffiths, North Wilts (of which Devizes is the capital), has its Sir George Jenkinson. lie rushes in where states men might fear to tread. He could not wait to see what his chiefs were going to do about the Irish Church Bill, but must place a notice of his own on the paper. It will, of course, have to be withdrawn now that Mr. Disraeli has given notice of his amend ment, but it has served the purpose for which it was intended, and has made the world ask who Sir George Jenkinson is. During the discussion on the Abyssinian extra estimate, the same pushing member came to the front, and when Mr. White proposed a com mittee to enquire how so much money had been spent, the Wiltshire baronet proposed that the committee should inquire by whose blundering the expedition had been neces sitated. These are by no means the only occasions on which the hon. member has delivered his soul. Now that Mr. A Yrton is in the fetters of office, Sir George Jenkinson will a s s ure dly be the most frequent speaker in the House. Frequent does not mean forcible. THE INLAND DEvElc"' The twelfth annual report of the Inland Revenue vr— Commission, h; c- , was delivered yesterday, does notshew thelarge increase which the statements of the commissioners have been wont to shevr. To the writers the mass of fi g u res is not satisfactory; to ourselves there appears to be more cause for gladness than for sorrow. There has been no actual decrease of the Inland Revenue ; indeed, in 1867 the sum total a reached only £39,159,781 •st £39,268,782in 1868, a difference on the right side of £109,000. But this is not equal to the larg e i ncreas e which has been re ported year by year. An inquiry into the items, however, will chew that this is caused by what is encouraging rather than the contrary. True, had it not been for the increase of the rate of income tax, the balance would have been on the wrong side, but the decrease is mainly shewn under the headings " spirit" and "malt." In the former there was a decrease (in round numbers) 9f £344,000 and in the latter of nearly £514,000, a total decrease of more than £858,000. The other chief reduction is that of Marine Insurance £318,00 0 , which is due to Mr. Disraeli's Budg e t. Increases are shewn in licenses 43.5,000 (caused by the dog license), legacy and succession duty £314,700, and income•tax (caused by the addition of one penny to the ordinary rate of 4d.) £514,800. OLD ATZTAGONISTS. Twenty-two years ago Lord Shaftesbury(then Lord Ashley) and Mr. Roebuck were engaged in a very bitter election Contest A Bath, the result of which was that his lordship succeeded in ejecting the old member of a dozen Years' standinst, Who left .the place, snaking off the dust Of Jal3 rest agsumrd it. They have now just met together in order to take part in the same work, the laying of the foundation stone of some almshouses at Sheffield, which are to be built at the cost of the Master Cutler. Both spoke on the same subject—the necessity of main taining good relations between capital and labour if the country is to continue prosperous and united. Lord Shaftesbury said that as Whitefield had appro priated secularmelodies to divine worship, because the devil ought not to have all the best tunes, so Euh men might appropriate to good uses the demofttic cry of liberty, fraternity, and equality. "We shoald have the same and equal liberty for all, no tyranny of trades unions, no private tyranny, but full, complete, and equal liberty for all. Equality we could have without disturbing any social arrangements—equality in rights and in law, which ' the law would recognise ; and as to fraternity, there was no reason why we should not be a nation of brothers, having such a Constitution as that which we enjoyed." Mr. Roebuck said that British trade had two dangers ahead—foreign competition and internal discord. Competition was inevitable, and the only way to prevent discord was for the capitalist to consider the well-being of those in his employ, and for the labourer to remember that without capital there could be no trade, and, there fore, that he ought to assist, instead of making war upon, capital. LORD BROUGHAM AND THE " TIMES." One of the most curious incidents told by Lord Campbell in his Life of Lord Brougham relates to that celebrated man's relations with the Times. For a long period the " Thunderer," as it was then popu larly called, used to eulogise the Chancellor in terms which the better taste of to-day would think intolerably fulsome. Some coolness sprang up between Mr. Barnes, the editor, and certain of the Whig chiefs. One day while Brougham • was sitting in Chancery he received the following letter from Lord Althorp :—" Dear Brougham,—What I want to see you about is the Times—whether we are to make war on it, or come to terms.—Yours ever, ALTHORP." Brougham tore up the letter and answered it. A reporter picked up the fragments, pasted them together, and took the restored letter to Mr. Barnes. He, having occasion to ask for some special news that same night, and it being refused him, took for granted that Brougham had decided upon " war." Barnes lost no time in opening fire. He began by publishing rumours un favourable to the Chancellor, expressing an earnest wish that they might receive an authoritative denial. Soon this masked mode of attack was exchanged for open hostilities, and it was not long before the fault less Minister of a few months before was held up to ridicule and contempt, Brougham, who had been almost suffocated with praise, felt the change acutely. Some time afterwards he caused it to be rumoured that he was dead, hoping that on the principle of de mortuis nil nisi honum the papers would come out with panegyrics, and restore his reputation. He was grievously disappointed. His eccentricities were too recent, and he was severely handled. The Times did not credit the report, and some days afterwards insinuated that Brougham had originated it. The only result of this manoeuvre was such ridicule and sarcasm as few men but Brougham would have survived. CHURCH PLURALITIES. Attention is again called by " A Cambridge M.A. and a Lincolnshire Rector" to the case of pluralities held by the Dean of Lincoln. Dr. Jeremie is dean of Lincoln, rector of Somersham, and Regius Pro fessor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. For the deanery he gets £2,000 a year, for the rectory k,1,770, and for the professorship k4O; for which modest sum the following work is expected, according to the laws of the Church and the University—eight months at Lincoln, nine months at Somersham, four months at Cambridge the work of twenty-one months to be got into twelve. And yet the very rev. doctor holds on to all three posts, working Somersham by curates, and, if all tales are true,- doing the other work but indifferently. " A Cambridge M.A." says : " I have heard (though I don't vouch for its truth) a report that the Dean justifies his retention of the Professorship by the plea that there would be a difficulty in supplying his place, and that Cambridge could not provide one fit to succeed him. Unhappy university ! (ex claims the correspondent), wherein this Elijah of her divinity schools has been labouring for eighteen years, without having trained an Elisha worthy to take up his mantle—a Jeremiah without an Ezekiel. If this be true, it is a more damaging estimate of the value of the Professor's work than his worst eneniv could wish to form." EMIGRATION TO CANADA. Mr. Frank Lynn writes to the Star on the subject of his tour in Canada, when he paid a visit to the free-grant territory of Muskoka. He affirms that, in order to succed, the settler must be strong, and also energetic. If he be possessed of these qualities, a knowledge of agriculture is secondary to success. In selecting a location, it is wiser to go farther back in the forest to secure good land than to stay near the towns, where the best has been already taken. Clearing operations are conducted in the winter, and the next autumn's crop is supposed to cover the year's expenditure. But a poor emigrant must either have some capital, or else hire himself out in waiting till that season comes round. Mr. Lynn thinks that would be a good thing for parties of twenty emigrants or so to club together, and employ experienced men to select good lots before they started on their expedi tion. MILLINERS ' JARGON. There has been another Viceregal Court at Dublin, and the Dublin papers again contain some columns of small type, in which the ladies' dresses are de scribed. The language used seems to be a cross between English, French, and Italian. For instance, take the following, and then say if it is not worse even than heraldry :—Tra in of white poult de soie, trimmed with bouillones of t u ll e ill us i on, nceu d s of satin ribbon, and rouleaux of same ; cor sage to correspond trimmed with Marie An toinette berthe, with a handsome fall of fringe and blonde, and fastened at back with a handsome camargo sash to correspond ; petticoat of rich white glace under a jupon of tulle plissed, and trimmed with rouleaux of satin en tablier, and agraffed with nceuds of satin ribbon. Headdress, court plume and lappets, placed on a band of velour bist, en bias. FOREIGN NOTES. THE UtiITE•D STATES. Mr. Andrew Johnson will not retire from public life. The accounts from Tennessee are all positive as to his intention to " run " for the governorship of his native State, and the Nation believes that he will be successful. He has the advantage of not being mixed up in the recent State quarrels, whilst his view on the public debt will be very popular in Tennessee. Many of his friends, however, desire that he should return to the Senate. THE cs ALABAMA." TREATY. A clear majority of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations expressed itself opposed to the provisions of the treaty as soon as it came under discussion. Mr. Sumner, the chairman, was of opinion that Minister Johnson, in negotiating the treaty, bad lost sight of the real points at issue between the two Governments. Too much bad been conceded to Great Britain ; and in vi ew of the fact that a par tial acknowledgment had already been made by the English Government, too little Government attention had been paid to American interests. On Feb. 18th the treaty was reported back with the recommendation that the Senate should not confirm it. THE WAR OF 1866. Two articles by Signor Borghi, in the Nuova Angologia of Florence, contain some revelations which do much to clear up the intrigues which preceded the war of 1866. Signor Bonghi says that the Emperor of the French was the only European sovereign to whom the secret alliance between Prussia and Italy, concluded on the Bth of April, was communicated. He approved of the alliance as the means of obtaining Venetia for Italy by diplomatic means, but he did n o t di ssua d e th e Fl orence Government from it even when it was seen that a war must be the result. On the 4th of May Austria formally offered to give up Venetia to Napoleon, to be ceded by the latter to King Victor Emmanuel, but on the condition that France and Italy should remain neutral in a war with Prussia, and permit Aust r ia t o com p ens ate herself by conquering Silesia. This proposition was rejected, and then Austria offered to give up Venetia unconditionally provided Italy would remain neutral. Resolved to abide by the faith of her treaty, Italy also declined this offer. THE PARIS CONFERENCE. The history of the Paris Conference is well-nigh corn. plete ; but the papers laid before Parliament prove that though the Conference was in the first instance suggested by Prussia, and then supported by France, yet the inter. vention of England was the direct means of securing a successful issue. From the first Lord Clarendon defined a line of policy, which was accepted by Turkey, and rigidly adhered to afterwards. The British Minister urged that the discussion must be strictly limited, or delicate questions, more likely to endanger than to secure the peace of Europe, might be raised. In another despatch he suggests that the Powers should not go beyond suggest. ing the bases of reconciliation to the disputant States. This proviso, together with the remarkable firmness of the Porte, prevented any dangerous complication. Itwas a happy thought of the French Government to call to the Conference all the Powers which took part in the Congress of 1856. The Time thinks it may be taken for granted that henceforth the concerns of the East will be regulated by a council of the six leading States. The Independance Belge states that not even a change of ambassadors will be required for the resumption of diplo. matic relations between Turkey and Greece. Photiades Bey will return to Athens, and Delyannis to Constan tinople. GERMANY. Tno Prussian monarchy will shortly he enriched by the incorporation of the Duchj , of Lauenberg. 'fins lime terri tory was ceded by Denmark by the treaty of October 1864, and was acquired by Prussia, along with Schleswig-Holstein, in 1866. King William thus became Duke of Lauenberg instead of the King of Denmark, but the duchy has not yet, owing to some scruples, been incorporated in the monarchy. The Prussian Chambers have repeatedly urged that the formal act of annexation be made, and at length the Representative Assembly of the Duchy itself has preferred the same request, which will now be granted. Another item of annexation has been completed. The principality of Waldeck has ceased to exist. The Prince who ruled this territory had leased to Prussia the care of his 60,000 souls for a term of years. He has now sold them. TURKEY AND SERVIA. The Liberte gives no sufficient account of the difficulty which, according to its infofination, has sprung up between Turkey and Servia. Some Servian subjects have made " grievous complaints," but the injury they have sus tained has yet to be learned. The note which the Servian Regency has addressed to the Porte is " very summary and very menacing." The Servian Government must be allowed the credit of considerable courage in making such a demand, notwithstanding Turkey's recent triumph. SPAIN. The correspondent of the Constitutionnel says that the adhesion of Prim to the Montpensier candidature is no longer matter of doubt. Another scarcely less im portant accession has been gained in the person of Rivero, leader of the Democrats, and President of the Cortes. This influential politician has, like Prim, joined the Montpensier party, because he can perceive no other resource for the country, and thus all the sections of the majority—Progressists, Unionists, and Democrats—are united. The semi-official Paris journal would not be likely to announce the probable success of an Orleanist unless there were good reasons for the belief. The same journal states that the Duke of Montpensier, if made King, will renounce all pretensions to a civil list, and support his state upon his own income until the Spanish Budget shews an equilibrium. This is a patriotic determination, especially as his income is likely to be called into requisition for many a year to come. Several representatives of the higher clergy were elected to the Cortes, and form part of the small Absolutist party. These ecclesiastics have written to Rome for instructions as to the line of policy they ought to pursue. The Pope has informed them that they can take part in the deliberations of the Assembly, but only on religious questions, and that they are to obstain rigorously from joining in any discussion relating to politics only. This is an exceedingly satis factory and moderate response, but it would be more con venient if the party had lay representatives who could express its opinions on all topics. (From the Anglo -American Times.) It is very strange to see how Reuter and the Times' correspondent invariably differ in the simple figures published by the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the monthly statement of the public debt of the United States. That for the Ist March is thus 1 announced byßeuter :—" The total debt amounts to $ 2 ,661,000,000 against $2,662,250,000 on the Ist ult., being a decrease of $1,250,000. The cash in the Treasury amounted to $115,500,000 namely, $ 9 8,500,000 in coin, and $17,000,000 in currency, against $ 1 06,250,000 last month, being an increase of $ 9 ,250,000." The Philadelphia correspondent makes the decrease i❑ the debt $1,500,000, and the receipts in excess of expenditure $11,000,000. This revenue statement is very satisfactory. Last month we pointed out the cause of the de crease in the United States Treasury, and the in crease in the debt, to correct the impression which the correspondent of the Times endeavoured to C onvey- Ris nabit of putting these figures ix a light to damage the credit of the nation has been the more persistently exposod by us that we were alone in these efforts. For months and months we have given our readers the opportunity of testing the value of the predictions of that dweller in the city of " Brotherly Love," but it affords us some gratification to see a powerful advocate range alongside. An excellent letter, signed " Five-Twenty," askicg—" Are there two Congresses in America ?" appeared last Thurs day in the Daily News. Let any one read that, written, as it evidently is, by one who thoroughly understands his subject, and they will see a forcible expose of the man in Philadelphia. The fact is that his predictions, his careful surveys and minute analysis, have been so wholly belied by the results, that public attention is now directed to a subject we have so long discussed, and the holders of United States Securities, particularly those who were alarmed into selling, are beginning now to learn what they owe the Times. Mr. Johnson issued a valedictory address on re tiring from office, defending his administration, and stating that the motives by which he has been actuated during his term of office have been those of honesty an'l sincerity. That they have, few doubt, for Andrew Johnson has not been con demned for lack of either, but for pugnacity, obsti nacy, and want of judgment, amounting, in a man so placed, almost to a crime. Whatever might be the true value of the policy he advocated, finding that it was impracticable, he ought to have dropped or modified it getting as much of his own way as he could, and not sacrificing all because he could not get all. President Johnson has nominated General Smith as Consul-General to Cuba. The selection is not considered a good one, as he is said to have severely attacked Grant's character as a General. Consi dering the position of Cuba, and the troubles aris ing from the harsh treatment of American citizens the person appointed ought to have the in-coming President's confidence. The revolt has grow❑ into very serious dimensions, as the insurgents have cap tured and fortified towns, and a proclamation has been issued by the Captain-General, closing ports east of the Bay of Cadiz Lighthouse, and other parts of the coast, except where Custom -houses are provided. One hundred and thirty-seven Cuban refugees arrived at Key West on one day. So numerous are they in New Orleans that the Spanish Consul has asked the Governor to protect Spaniards from their assaults. Senior Mauricio Roberts, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain to the United States, who arrived at Havannah on the 19th Feb., from Cadiz, was to leave for Washington in the next steamer. Ex-President Johnson and his family were to vacate the White House on the 3d March, and to leave Washington two days after. One paper as serts that he has accepted the offer of a free passage to Europe of a steamship line embarking after a brief visit to settle his affairs in Tennessee. The same paper says that no steamship line will risk the unpopularity of offering him a free passage back to America. The Hon. De Witt Clinton Sentor, be came Governor of Tennessee on the 25th February when Governor Browniow resigned. After the ex piry of the term Andrew Johnson is most likely to be his successor, for it is now certain he intends to run for the post, backed by a party in all proba bility too strong for the Loyal League to defeat. His views on the public debt and the martyrdom he has endured for the South will make him popular in Tennessee, and the Governorship is but a step to the Senate, at which he aims. The Fortieth Congress adjourned on the 4th March sine die, and the new Congress then assem bled. Mr. James Blaine, of Maine, who had been nominated by the Republican Caucus, was then elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in succession to Vice-President Colfax, now President of the Senate. It has been long evident Mr. Blaine would be the successful candidate, although he had some powerful Republican competitors. Latterly, when Mr. Colfax temporarily vacated the chair, Mr. Blaine always took it. The first case touching the Constitutionality of the Legal-Tender Act has been decided in the United States Supreme Court in a way curiously to affect the future payment of the Five-Twenty and other Bonds, if a question about their payment ever reaches the Supreme Court. The Oregon Legisla ture enacted that the State taxes should be paid in coin, and the collector refused greenbacks. In this he was upheld by the Courts of Oregon, and the citi zens, interpreting the United States law to bear them out, appealed to its Supreme Court. The Federal Justices ruled that the Act making greenbacks legal tender for all debts, public or private, with certain specified exceptions, did not make greenbacks a legal payment for what was not a debt. This involved the question whether taxes levied by a State are debtp, which was decided in the negative, as the grounds differ of an obligation to support the Government expenditure and a sum due for value received, a difference recognized very distinctly by the laws, which enforce payment in each case. The Supreme Court, therefore, ruled that the State had the right to collect taxes in coin. The way this deci sion affects Five-Twenties is that the United States have undertaken the obligation to pay the principal at their option, after five years from the date of issue, but in any case after a further term o f 20 years. The Bonds, therefore ; are not a debt until after the twenty years have expired, and as the Supreme Court asserts that greenbacks are a legal tender only for debts, it follows that they cannot be legally offered in payment of the principal until the period expires after which it becomes a debt, while the payment in gold of the interest, which is a debt after it becomes due, is provided for. An interesting case was lately decided by the Maryland Court of Appeals. A Mr. Hillan depo sited on account, wi t h th e C ommerc i a l an d Farmers' Bank of Baltimore, a cheque for $1,600, drawn by Horace Abbott on the first National Bank, pay able to Milan's order. The first National Bank credited the Commercial and Farmers' Ban k with the amount, the cheque having reached them through the clearing-house, and its cus tomer, Mr. Abbott, was debited with the amount. Two days after Hillan called at the Commercial and Farmers' Bank with his cheque for $4,500, which the Bank paid, taking as granted that that sent through the clearing house was good, for otherwise , according to usage, it would have been returned. A week after, on balancing Abbott's account, the First National Bank discovered that the cheque was a forgery on which it paid Abbott, and suc cessfully sued the Commercial and Farmers' Bank. From this the latter appealed, and the Court re set ved the decision on the ground that the lavr fastens the obligation on the receivers of deposits of knowing the signatures of their own customers' maintaining " There is no reason why the loss, a° between parties equally innocent and equally de ceived (but where one is bound to know and act upon his knowledge and the other has no means of knowledge), should be thrown upon the latter ja exoneration of the former." The New York Yacht Club accepted Mr. Ash bury's challenge to race for the Queen's Cup, Pt °- vided that an organized yacht club of any foreign country accredits him as its representative, as the challenge cannot be accepted from him in his indivi dual capacity. The diflicultyabout the ocean race was the difference in the mode of measuring the yachts. By the Thames system the Dauntless is nearly doub le the size of the Cambria, but by New York measure ment the Dauntless would be 246 and the Can Orin 222 tons. The English system is derived from the old style, which ignored depth ; and as the Englis h yachts are narrow in the beam, but very deep, they are measured at less than their real tonnage. T he American, on the contrary, are shallow a3:l broad in the beam. It certainly does appear more equit able to measure the actual space ; indeed the ma i° interest in the contest is between the style of build ing adopted in America, and that in England, th e two now differing widely. Most of the American newspapers have been be labouring Butler for his Wednesday's proceedings in the Hall of the Representatives on the counting of the electoral vote. It Is said that 4 , bluff Ben Wade" has scarcely recovered the scare. Ever sinc e Butler has been very piano, as instanced by his &In a ' sion to Grant's sp ee d y i nsta ll at i on, when he c owl give Congr ess di rec t a d v i ce, wh i ch, he said, " will be heeded by me with that respect, that honour' and that loyalty which is due to General Grant as the head of the n a ti on , an d w i th that cor di a l and earnest support which I propose to give him as t he head of the Republican party of the nation." Among the items of State news the West Vir ginia House of Representatives on the 17th Fe b ', passed a bill m a ki ng P ar k ers b urg the cap i ta l n' that State. The Louisiana Legislature has pas sed a Civil Equality Bill, similar to that vetoed by the Governor last year. The Lower House 11 33 also passed a School Bill providing for 3chn° l Commissioners to be appointed by the Governor. In the United States Court, at Richmond, cVir ginia, Jud ge U n d erwoo d pres i d i ng, a negro, named Stevens, was awarded $1,600 damages against th e Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad ComP 3 l for the forcible placing of his wife in a second class car, after she has purchased a firJ-el°1! ticket. The Judge's charge to the jury, was of mixed colours, was strongly in favour a' the plaintiff. The news from the British possessions by ' 3ll Francisco, under date Feb. 18, was that the Legi s. lature of British Columbia, after a long debate, de cided against c on f e d erat i on, T he vote stoo d 1 against it to sin fa vour o f i t. T he appropr i a tion f or the encouragement o f f ema l e i mm i gration to 130".5,1 Columbia was unani mous l y passed by the C o uncil' There is nothing by the last mail to indicate all change in feeling regarding the Alabama " wrong' as the New York Tribune calls it in an able article published in its edition of Feb. 20. The Sena te Committee were unanimous in condemning th ° Convention, and although strenuous efforts be" been made to secure the two-thirds majority in the Chamber, eve n M r. S ewar d d espairs of accomplish' ing this, and is said to have telegraphed to 311 '' Reverdy J o h nson t h e unanimous decision of t he Foreign Affairs Committee to report adverseli . What Mr. Johnson said at Manchester tallies s ° little with our information, that we would hesitat e to accept the l a tt er . Th e Mi n i ster there as serted that he had tele gra ph e d on M on d ay, the 22d Feb . ' c to his Governme n t f or i n f ormat i on as to t h e allege", report of the Senate Committee on the Alab°'' question, and th e answer was t h at no repo rt h a d been made, though the majority it was r umogr e t were opposed to the C o n ven ti on . A t Washingte ° i was known on the 18th Feb. that the Cliairm3°l Senator Sumner, was dead against the " letter spirit" of the document, and that Senators Aler t° ; Harlan, Patterso n , an d C ameron h e ld the sam e view, and had in s t ruc t e d th e Ch a i rman to repo rt adversely, and believed that this decision was CO T it municated to M r . S ewar d , w h o immediatelyse:, a telegram to the Mi n i s t er i n L on d on, him to communicate th e f act to the Br i t i s h Gov . er ° merit. authoristoli. „re,Vilt! 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