The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-06 00:00:00

211 E ACCIDENT ON BOARD 711 E THISTLE, The inquiry into the death of the eleven men who were killed by the explosion of a boiler on board H. 31.5. Thistle, on Wednesday last, was opened on Monday at Sheerness. The eight bodies, which lay beneath the gun battery at the Naval Barracks, viz., Messrs. Roberts, Scorrer, Smithers, and Knight, engineers; John Daer, fitter; Robertson, leading stoker; and John Timson and Laurence, stokers,were then viewed, after which the whole of the party were conveyed to the Thistle, which lay moored off the dockyard. The engines and the boilers of the ship were inspected, and the hole in the boiler which exploded fully explained to all present. Mr. Walter Wilson Williamson, chief inspector of machinery at Sheerness, was the first witness examined. He said that he knew nothing of the cause of the accident. He was conducting the trials of the ship at the Maplin Sands on Wednesday, and while on deck to time the runs he heard a puff, about 4.34, and on turning round saw that steam was escaping in a large mass from the engine room. It was his impression at first that one of the steam pipes had burst in the engine-room, and he thereupon sent a leading stoker to ease the safety valves, and with the assistance of another stoker the men lashed up the levers of the valves so as to let the steam escape. He then had the large hatch removed from over the engine-room, and in a few minutes the men went below and brought up on deck the wounded, dying, and dead. John Edgar, engi neer student, the only person alive who was present in the engine-room at the time of the accident, said that the ship was about starting on the third mile with her high-pressure engines, when he saw a flash of light or flame issue from out of the stokehole towards the engine-room, which he first thought was merely back-draught. He then thought he saw some soot or ashes falling on the engine, and he stooped to evade it. He then found himself surrounded by steam, and knowing that something was wrong, he sprang up the ladder and reached the deck with only some slight scalds. He could not account for the explosion. The evidence of Dr. Prescott, R.A., as to the death of the deceased was then given; and it appearing that no evidence as to the cause of the explosion could be given until a minute examination had been made of the boiler, the coroner granted the necessary certificates for the burial of the deceased, and the inquiry was adjourned. TILE OVEBEND, GU_RNEY, AND COMPANY P:ROSECUTION. As our readers know, an application has been made tor a sum of £5,000, to enable Dr. Thom to proceed with the prosecution he had instituted against the directors of the company. The application was on Friday renewed before Vice-Chancellor Malins in Chambers. Mr. G. Lewis, jun., on behalf of Dr. Thom, said that the application was made under the 167th section of the Joint Stock Companies Act, by which the court was authorisedto grant funds out of the assets of a company in course of liquidation for the purpose of conducting a criminal prosecution against parties who had been charged with fraud on the public. In this case the six directors were charged with attempt ing to impose on the public by issuing a prospectus con taining false statements which induced several persons to become shareholders. After ten days' careful examination the directors were committed for trial to the Central Criminal Court, and were required to find bail in £90,000. The case was then transferred on application to the Queen's Bench, and the Lord Chief Justice required the directors to renew their bail. Mr. Maynard, cn behalf of the official liquidators, contended that it would be a gross misapplication of the funds of the company to grant any portion of them for the purposes of the prosecution, from - which they would derive no pecuniary benefit. Mr. Harding, a liquidator, replying to his Honour, said that there were assets to enable the liquidators to pay 20s. in the pound, with interest, to the creditors. Mr. Lewis said he had a letter from a holder of 1,900 shares, approving the prosecution by Dr. Thom. His Honour asked if there had been any meeting of the shareholders on the subject ? Mr. Lewis said there had not, and he contended it was not a question for the shareholders, but one in the intere ,ts of justice. His Honour comilained that the case had not been brought before him until proceedings had been com menced. He might not have given his sanction to them, and if they objected they might have gone to the Court.of Appeal. In one of the cases cited he had been induced to grant a similar application, because he thought thattthe directors of public companies should understand that: even if a company did not institute criminal proceed ings, in case of great fraud, they could not offend with impunity.; Under the present circumstances, however, he should not feel justified in granting money out of the assets of the company for the prosecution, while Dr. Thom had 4 :ailed to induce the Government, the public, or the sha)..aholders to take it up. There was a sum of £5,043,000 awsilable for the claims of the creditors, but the question vats not a mere deduction of £5,000, but one cf principle. I'.. Lewis might have the case argued before him in court, 'or he could give his permission to go before the Court of Chancery. Mr. Lewis declined accepting the offer of his Honour. LAW AND POLICE. ----+- THE AGRICULTURAL CATTLE INSURANCE COMPANY. — An appeal has been heard in the Court of Chancery on behalf of a Mr. Dixon, with respect to his liability as a contributory of the Agriculturist Cattle Insurance Com pany. Mr. Dixon argued that he had been induced by the company's manager in Scotland to join the board of direc tors for Scotland, on a; representation that he should not be made responsible as a shareholder until an Act was obtained to limit the liability of shareholders. Ten shares were allotted to him, but the Act was not obtained. He acted as a shareholder,but afterwards induced the direc tors to cancel his shares and remove his name from the list. This waa in 1849. In 1861 the company was wound up, and the official manager sought to make Mr. Dixon a contributory. The Master of the Rolls held this could not be done, and hence the appeal. Lord Justice Giffard, how ever, decided that the company had no power to cancel Mr. Dixon's shares, there having been no dispute or com promise, and his name must be retained on the list. A MARKET TOLL.—The right of the Duke of Manchester to demand a toll of one penny per head upon the cattle sold in the market of St. Ives, was tried recently in West minster, and a verdict obtained for the duke. The case has now been brought forward in the Court of Exchequer, and a rule obtained, on the ground of misdirection, the counsel observing that an arrangement would probably be made between the parties. TER LICENSED VlcTroLimn's FETE.—More than thirty actions for injuries received at the late accident at New-cross Station on the occasion of the Licensed Victuallers' Fete, have been brought against the Brighton Railway. Two summonses came on at the Judges' Chambers, when the Master gave the company time to plead. CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—At Marlborough-street Police court, a doctor's coachman has been fined the full penalty of £5 or a month's imprisonment for cruelly beating his master's horse in Regent-street, several persons having given their evidence against him. The case was brought by a gentleman named Hall, who, finding the man would not desist from flogging the horse, got into a cab and fol lowed him to his stable, afterwards communicating with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY AGAINST A MILITARY OFFICER. —Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Crawford, half-pay, Royal Artillery,has been re-examined at Westminster on a charge of conspiring to defraud. The principal charge against him is that he systematically drew cheques on Messrs. Cox, having no effects there, and that he induced those to whom ho gave them to hold them over for a time, saying he would have money there later A man named Penny was charged with conspiring with the prisoner, and assisting him in passing the cheques. There were several distinct cases against the prisoner, and he was remanded. He had previously an account at Messrs. Cox's, and has a pension of about £25 per quarter certain amounts being stopped by the Insolvent Court. THE EDINBURGH PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. —EDINBURGH, FRIDAY NIGIIT.—Lord Justice Clerk Mon croiff delivered the opening address of the Edinburgh Literary and Philosophical Society's course to-night. His topic was the union between Scotland and England, and his argument that the removal of the king from Scotland was a good thing for the progress of the country. M. Prevost Paradol was among those present at the meeting. THE PROTESTANT CII UR CH IN PRUSSIA.—His Majesty the King of Prussia has issued the following decree :—" The great movements which in our age are making themselves felt in the religi _.us life both of nations and individuals, and are pressing_ forward to a decision, and the tasks they impose on the Protestant Church of our country, are apparent to all, and admonish us to entreat the support of Almighty God. It is, therefore, my will that a day ho set apart in the Protestant Churches of my country, for special prayer that Gcd may pour cut his blessing on the present important deliberations as to the constitution of coy Church, and to implore Him tJ protect the Pro tc: taut Church fruni all dangers that threaten it,. and to strengthen the ties which unite its members to each other and to the Church universal. I have appointed the 10th November, the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther, for this purpose, and hereby commission the Minister, and the highest ecclesiastical authorities of Prussia to make the neeessery arrango;noutliluaillit.-tnicletiDaden,o4l;ter Sl. 1860."._ THE CONVENTION AT LOULsVILLE. (From the Anglo-American Tim's.) The Southern Commercial Convention met at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 12th October, organiz ing with ex-President Fillmore in the chair, and a number of distinguished men around him. He made, on election as president, a good speech, stating that he now belonged to no political party, and desired to confine the objects to the purpose for which the meeting had been called. These were explained at the session of the next day, when standing com mittees were appointed, each composed of members, one from every State represented, to consider the following subjects : " Southern Pacific Railroad, railroads generally, trade with Europe, emigration, finance and banking, manufac tures and mining, Mississippi levee improvements, Ten nessee river improvements, river navigation, canals and other improvements, agriculture, continuous water line communication between the Mississippi River and Atlantic seaboard, removal of obstruction'. and a cheap and easy outlet through Mississippi and the Gulf, and imports ; and on the motion of Mr. Hilliard, the subject of the protection of labour and the reduction of taxation was made an order of business." Mr. Loth, of Cincinnati; brought forward a re solution, censuring the Secretary of the Treasury for selling gold and buying Bonds. He considered it to be beneath the dignity of the United States to buy its currency with gold at a price below what on its face the country promises to pay, thus ac knowledging its own currency to be worth less than par. We cannot see why a Government is not to acknowledge a fact known to the whole world, nor do we perceive what good can result from ignoring that to which mankind bears witness. Mr. Loth's very crude plan for paying off the debt was referred to the finance committee ; but it might now be sup posed that men had tired of such quack remedies, these universal panaceas and pursuit of the elixir of life, that philosopher's stone which gives to irre deemable paper the value of gold. General Wal bridge, of New York, then brought forward this resolution, desiring its immediate:consideration, but the chair concurred with an objection which re ferred it to a committee : "That this Convention heartily approves the recent sale of gold in the city of New York by the General Go vernment, and the thanks of this Convention are hereby tendered to the President of the United States for his prompt authority to the Secretiry of the Treasury to take such measures as would prevent the extension of a financial crisis, which was already dragging down all the branches of trade, and but for such action would have re sulted in wide-spread commercial disaster in every sec tion of our extended country." Expression of regret on the death of ex-President Franklin Pierce forined the next resolution, and the meeting adjourned for that clay, to be preceded on the next meeting by a grand trades procession extending for nine miles, and taking three hours to pass one spot. The Committee of Emigration then submitted a report recommending the appointment of Matthew FountaineMaury, the well-known scien tific sailor and officer of the Navy, first of the United and then of the Con federate Service. The appointment acted on by the legi-latures of the Southern States will answer in Europe, where it is proposed to send Captain Maury as an agent, for be is here known and honoured as the man of science, not as the rebel officer. What the Convention advises is that a man of weight should be delegated to Europe with means to organise bureaux for spreading in formation and giving the South a fair chance of benefiting by the emigration of Europe. It is alleged that according to the first census of the United States in 1799 the population was equally divided between the North and South, while the census of 1860 showed that the North had increased to 19,000,000, and the South to but 12,000,000, a disproportion due to an immigration almost wholly confined to the North. Estimating each immigrant as worth $1,500 to the country, the gain on this bead alone to that section may be imagined. The Committee thought that Europeans are not only ignorant about the Southern States, but prejudiced through misrepresentation, and it is to counteract these prejudices and to spread truthful infor mation among the British, Germans, Dance, Swedes, and Norwegians, that Captain Maury's appointment is recommended. He will find on inquiry that whatever prejudice exists in Europe against the South has simply resulted from African slavery. It would have been almost an insult to ask a free labourer of the Caucasian race to emi grate to a country to compete against a negro slave. Where slaves do the manual labour, labour is de graded, and those whose stock-in-trade is labour will not carry it to such a market. Circumstances have wholly changed in the South, and Captain Maury will be welcomed in Europe, more especially in England, where the mass is now surging towards an exodus, and the sooner be comes with all the in formation he has to give, the better. Special refer ence was made to the Oriental Mediterranean New York Steamship Company in connection with emi gration to the South. Although the Committee on Banking and Financ3 made its Report, the discus sion was adjourned the next day, 15th Oct. After epitomising their conclusions, the following resolu tion was proposed : " That Congress be requested at once to enact a free banking law, with efficient and certain measures for prompt redemption of the currency, with a provision that currency is to be issued only as fast as the Legal-Tender notes are redeemed and destroyed until specie payments are restored. Second—That Congress direct the Secre tary of the Treasury to cancel and destroy all Legal- Tender notes that come into his possession as fast as the net means of the Government will allow; in case the Na tional Bank currency is applied for faster than it can be furnished under the conditions here stated, preference to be given first to the South, and second to the West, until the whole currency in circulation be equalised upon the basis of population. Third—That Congress direct the Secretary.of the Treasury to regulate all his action by the wants and necessities of ►he Government, and leave the people to manage their money markets and business in their own way.' _ . _ _ The improvement of the Mississippi and its tribu taries was discussed, and the memorial to Con gress adopted, as was the Report on Agricul ture, wherein Congress was requested to repeal the law enforcing the land tax in the South. A con tinuous water line from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi was approved, as was the Report on simplifying, equalising, and reducing the taxation. A full and exhaustive majority report on a railroad to the Pacific was read, when General Sprague, in an able speech, favoured a Southern line. As re gards direct trade, fleets between Europe and Southern ports are recommended, as well as the modification of the Navigation Laws, so as to allow the purchase of foreign ships, and abolish the tax on shipbuilding materials. The final meeting was on Saturday, the 16th October, when the im provement of Southern ports, especially Mississippi navigation, was pressed. A majority report fa voured Chinese immigration, the minority being in strong opposition thereto. Messrs. Walbridge, of Texas, and Massey, of Virginia, supported the ma jority, Messrs. Shorter and Hill the minority, but the whole subject was voted down. A city in the Mississippi Valley was recommended to Con gress for holding the World's Fair of 1871, and. Cincinnati, Ohio, was selected for the next Con vention. The chairman was unanimously instructed by the committee to report against any scheme for the Government to work the telegraph. In closing the proceedings ex-President Fillmore spoke of the Convention in eulogistic terms, anticipating benefit to the country, and he added that he would never again appear in a public Convention. The reports must have been of an able and voluminous character, touching on every commercial subject. 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This arrange ment has been frustrated by the proceedings of Dr. Thom and the Defence Committee : They attempted to repudiate their liability, they adopted various proceedings, and set the creditors at defiance, with what effect is well known, but with what pecuniary result is hardly appreciated by the shareholders. Exasperated by this opposition, and successful on every occasion when the matter came to the test of judicial decision, the creditors then refused all terms, and their claims will have to be met and will be paid in full. Thus the shareholders have lost a sum of five shillings in the pound on liabilities amounting in all to four millions sterling. purpose of supporting Herr Virchow's motion on dinar• mament. LIBERALISM IN GERMANY. The popular party has just achieved a fresh victory in Stuttgardt. Herr Neuffer, who once said that ho would rather become French than Prussian, has been elected deputy, sc that another formidable member of the Opposi tion will augment the Ministerial difficulties it the Prussian Chambers. The Chamber of Depu ties at Carlsruhe has passed the law extending the right of trial by jury to political and press offenders, with only two dissentient votes. A Liberal meeting has beer held in Munich to determine the programme of the party for the next elections. One of the speakers having pro posed the question whether it was desirable to joir the Progressist party, the meeting replied unhesi tatingly in the negative. The Progressists demant the immediate admission of the Duchy into the Confedera. tion of the North, and its subordination to Prussia. The intermediate party will only consent to a reunion on r Federal basis. A resolution was passed by the meeting de daring that the Liberals, while desirous of preserving their national independence, Which they considered would be compromised by the entry into the North-German Confe deration, as at present constituted, were anxious for federal union between North and South Germany, whicl should guarantee the national interests. We have returns up to October 22, when the amount of gdld in the Treasury was $114,673,489 ; of Currency, $4,970,072 ; total, $119,643,561 ; less gold certificates . outstanding, $26,690,980 ; total amount of gold and currency, $92,952,581 ; show ing that the Treasury has gained since October 1, beside paying for $7,000,000 bonds purchased, the difference between the net amount then in the Trea sury and the amount there on the Ist of October, viz., $2,001,392. It is true that $25,846,000 in gold had to be paid out of the Treasury imme diately on account of the half-yearly interest on the Five-Twenty,Bonds, but no other payment will be required till the Ist of January, and as a large and increasing balance still remained, the Secre tary held a commanding position. Mr. Boutwell's statement, coupled with his announcement that the usual purchases of bonds and sales of gold are to be continued during November, have had a beneficial influence on the market, the Securities being rapidly on the rise, having now attained to a price they never before touched. As usual, the Times is occupied in an attempt to prevent this upward ten dency, bringing the New York Journal of Com merce to aid it in warning all concerned that the day of reckoning will surely come. Our London con temporary is, however, compelled to admit that the export of produce from America shows a consider able increase, owing to the great shipment of grain ; but it adds that the increase in the imports into America are even greater in proportion, the balance being adjusted almost wholly by the bonds, as there is a steady diminution in specie remittances from New Yoik. We need scarcely say that the only question for the European purchaser of the bond is his belief in the power and disposition of the Re public to meet its obligations ; whether Americans are living too fast or not is nothing to him, and however emphatically the New York paper might warn its readers against extravagance, the Times would not thereon trouble itself did it not wish in an underhand way to cast doubts on Americas credit, to prevent English investment, which in creases English interest in the Republic, and would soon be followed by a knowledge which would effectually explode the limes as an authority on transatlantic questions. The following table furnishes matter of interest to the holders of the various national debts of European countries and of the United States : ~ o ~ 'w ~~ ' -- 6 . .4 ~Dl4 CD= co ti -4 rq ol co oo CN (7) CO 'NO 00 CA 06 NI: ."'; O c 3 co a, QD CQ CD C,D NV r, rH r, 4 I. A a, U ' c4 pa 4 ' IN- C . - ^.": tC: 1,- L.- OCV L , 0 0 CO L.Ca CO co 1.1%ti":.-c co - ,c-S . ,-4" . r—l c",sl •—• WMTISY. Mr. W. H. Gladstone announces to his constituents that he has been appointed to a Lordship of the Treasury, and that it is therefore incumbent upon him to seek re-election. He will be guided in future by the same views and principles as those upon which he has already acted. The Conservatives declare their intention of opposing Mr. Gladstone. They will bring forward either Major Wrorsley or a son of Mr. G. Elliot, who is now member for Durham. MR. LAYARD. The enemies of the late First Commissioner revive against him the Fresco-Mosaic scandal. So persistently do they keep the matter before the public that Mr. Layard has at last replied in the Times. It will be remembered that before Parliament had granted the neces sary funds for completing the works in the Houses of Parliament, Mr. Layard, knowing how apt frescoes are to decay, entered into arrangements tor certain mosaic workings in the central hall. For this ho was censured mildly by the House of Commons, and the matter ought to have dropped. There were some further remarks, however, about the architect making a contract with a com fany—of which Mr. Layard was a shareholder— ormed to bring into public notice an invention of Dr. Salviati. Mr. Cecil Raikes brought the matter before tho House. His charges, however, collapsed utterly, it being shewn that Mr. Layard had no knowledge whatever of the contract, that he had sold his shares directly he hard of it, and that the company was not a commercial speculation, but one formed of lovers of art, to bring out an architectural decoration. WORKING ➢LEN CANDIDATES. The working men have quarrelled about weir representation in Parliament. The delegate* I , ' divers trade and co-operative organisations London met on Thursday night to consider the prospectus and rules of the newly-formed Labour Representation League. It was explained by the chairman and secretary of the League that its object was to watch over working-man interests in general: to bring about such united action as would secure a genuine representation of labour in Parliament; to collect information on ques tions affecting the working classes ; to promote registration ; to draw up measures in the interest of labour ; to watch the progress of bills ; and—it may be presumed—to watch the working men representatives who have charge of those bills. Mr. Odger then moved a resolution approving of the objects of the League. He said that the direct representation of labour in Parliament had been advocated in both Houses; but when the Reform Bill afforded an opportunity for putting theory into practice, the claims of the four working men who presented themselves as candidates were studiously ignored. The workinc , classes had come to the conclusion that the middle classes were but sorry representatives of labour in Parliament, and for the future intended to look after themselves. — But the working men at this meeting found some little difficulty in looking after themselves. After Mr. Odger's speech came the deluge. A Mr. Young, who may be known to fame as the president of a congress of workingmen latley held in Switzerland, insisted that the League should publish "a distinct platform." What he wanted was by no means clear, nor dill the speakers who supported him, Mr. Mudge, by any means mend matters. This gentleman, who mingled his discourse with the choicest specimens of blasphemy, denounced the rules of the League as despotic, violently attacked trades unions, moved an amendment hostile to the League, and demanded " a broad principle of demo cratic equality." There, was, however, some common sense present, for one working man wanted to lmow whether such rubbish was " to go on ;" whereupon a great tumult arose, and the cause thereof speedily revealed itself. There was a malcontent party in the room, headed by that seeker after truth—Mr. Brad laugh. Mr. Bradlaugh is not a member of the Executive Committee of the League, neither are his associates, and hence the row which they con trived to raise. The Executive, they declared, had "elected themselves." But, satisfactory to tell, the i 3 rad lau g, hite s came off second best. The chairman stated that the meeting would be formed into a council, and that it would, therefore, have the power by its votes of guiding the policy of the League. Mr. Odger's resolution was carried, and Mr. Bradlaugh and his party withdrew. If the working men wish to prosper in this movement, they will do well to get rid of these allies. THE TENANT BIGHT AGITATION. The wild proceedings of the tenant-right agitators will certainly not have the effect of lightening the labours of the Government. Nothing can be more truly Irish than some of the doings at the meetings in various parts of the country. One assembly declared in favour of fixity of tenure, and then affirmed that no Land Bill could be satisfactory. "in which equitable provision is not made for the labouring classes of the community." How, asks the Times, can these two objects be reconciled, unless the wages of labourers are to be regulated by law ? The farmer only is interested in fixity of - tenure; con tinued possession, in fact, must have the effect of excluding the labourer from any chance of obtaining land which he may have now. At the same meeting Sir John Gray, M.P., "ridiculed the mockeiTof leases and compensation for improvements as wholly in sufficient.' Is it likely, asks the "leading journal" that this advocacy of impracticable claims will aid Mr. Gladstone in his task. " Such a lack of moderation and foresight on the part of persons who ought to guide pop u l ar opinion in Ireland can have but one result—it must inevitably weaken the hands of those, both within and without the Cabinet, who are prepared to grapple boldly with Irish Land Tenure, and strengthen the hands of those who share the fears avowed by Lord Har tington." Judging by the extreme pledges which are being made by Irish Liberal M.P.s and candidates— witness such a man as Mr. Heron—it looks as if the Government would have some trouble with its Irish supporters. The Times affirms that the agitators are fruitlessly disgusting their best friends. The Govern ment measure will include a right of compensation for improvements; it will very probably recognise the right of the tenant to compensation for his good-will, and encourage voluntary leases ; but "it cannot and will not outrage every rule of law and justice by rrranting indiscriminat e fixity of tenure at a per petual rent" THE TEMPLE CONTROVERSY. In less than a week Dr. Temple will be the elected Bishop of Exeter, and will require nothing but con secration to make him the head of the diocese. It is therefore to be hoped that the controversy about him will soon end. It can now, it is obvious, lead no whither ; no result can be served by continuing it. The correspondence which has passed between the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Premier ought reasonably to be regarded as the end of the question. Earl Shaftesbury, while professing every respect for the talents and personal character of the Bishop designate, declared on behalf of numerous memo rialists that a share in the composition of such a work as "Essays and Reviews" was by them regarded as an absolute disqualification for the sacred office of bishop. To this memorial Mr. Gladstone replied, " with sincere respect" to the memorialists, and full admission as to his responsibility in the matter, but assuring his lordship that the advice to nomi nate Dr. Temple was not given to the Crown " without a full consideration of the t3pics urged in the memorial and a firm conviction that the appoint ment of Dr. Tomplo to the epiecorate would thnd to promote the truest interests of religion." DEMONSTRATIVE PROTESTANTS. The fourth of November is a great day for Protes tants on several accounts. It is the birthday of William 111., the eve of the day on which he landed at Torbay, and likewise the eve of the Gunpowder Plot anniversary. To commemorate all these great events, a grand Protestant demonstration was held in Exeter hail on Thursday evening. What kind of a meeting it was may be inferred from the fact that Mr. Charley, M.P., took the chair. Ho delivered a truly Charleyan speech. The remembrances of that night were melancholy as well as joyful. The Gunpow der Plot had, indeed, been gloriously frustrated in 1603; but a worse plot had been hatched and suc cessfully consummated in 1869. Mr. Glad stone, said Mr. Charley, had destroyed in Ireland the union of Church and State, the Royal supremacy, and the spiritual peerage, while he had endangered the Protestant succession to the Throne, and made that once august assembly, the House of Lords, the laughing-stock of Europe by con verting it into a mere registration office for recording the votes of a tyrant majority in the House of Commons. Then there was the Dr. Temple affair. Clearly there was reason to bewail present woes, as well as to rejoice at past victories; and the meeting bewailed accordingly. It was agreed, however, by more than one person that Dr. Temple's poison was better than Dr. Pusey's syrup, and there was some consolation in that. Moreover, though the spirit of Protestantism had been damped by the spa and ignominious sur render of the House of Lords, yet it would revive ; and another general election would put all things right. THE OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. PROSECUTION. The Committee of Supervision have issued a circular to the shareholders of Overend, Gurney, and Co., respecting Dr. Thom's application that the liquidators may conduct the prosecution which he has commenced against the directors. The Com mittee oppose that application. They affirm that the proceedings of Dr. Thorn and those who have acted with him, have had a lamentable effect upon the liquidators. There was a time when the creditors, sympathising with the calamity which had befallen e sbarelioldcres were willing to _receiyo a compost- COTTON SUPPLY. Mr. Cheetham, president of the Cotton Supply Association, takes a gloomy - view of our American prospects. We are now in the fourth year of peace, and yet the American supply is not greater than it was in the first. We used to get from four to five millions of bales from the Southern States. Since the war the supply has never attained two millions and a half; this year it was not more than two millions and a quarter. It will be well, Mr. Cheetham thinks, not to place further reliance upon cotton from across the Atlantic ; but to develop our Indian re sources. The Indian crop is steadily improving ; within a few years it has advanced from half a million to two million bales. The president of the Cotton Supply Association gives it as the unanimous opinion of his brethren that the chief want of India is agricultural improvement. In the United States an acre of ground yields 4001 b. of cotton ; in India it yields 701 b. ".The common-sense view of the matter is evidently to make the Indian 701 b. per acre into 1401 b.; that accom plished, the whole of our work will be done.'? Indian agriculture may be improved by healthy seeds, good manures, irrigation, and the like. Let the supply be thus increased, and the price of cotton will fall— which, in the opinion of the Association, is all that is needed. THE LIVERY COMPANIES OF LONDON. It is the fashion to sneer very cruelly at the metro politan livery companies. The attacks upon them have not always been undeserved. The City corporations are very wealthy; they hold public money in trust; they have had great opportunities of doing good ; yet their educational institutions have, in too many instances, been restricted by ancient and obsolete provisions, and the great funds at the disposal of the liveries have been used merely for great and sumptuous dinners. It is to be hoped that the era of somnolent wealth has passed away. The livery companies are up and doing. The present Lord Mayor has called them together, and warned them that unless they use their money properly they will lose it altogether. The force of the caution was acknowledged, and when Mr. Alderman Lawrence went on to advise the companies to promote technical education, the meetinr , took the matter up warmly, and a committee i s to be appointed to confer upon the matter. A wiser course could not have been taken, or a better time chosen. The country will not have corporate property lyi ng idle or misapplied ; and at no time was there su c h a g eneral demand for education. We hope the corporations will continue in their pre sent good mind, and that the efforts they may make may be successful. That Mr. Lawrence should have originated such a movement will be much more honourable to him than his reception to-day of the Queen; though the latter, and not the former, will win him a baronetage. M. VICTOR HUGO ON "L'IIOII3LE QUI lUT." M. Hugo seems to be highly satisfied with his latest production, "L'Homme qui rit." He not very long since wrote a letter expressly for Englishmen about this new work of his. Now the critics have said since this letter was written, but before it appeared that the history in " L'Homme qui lit" is execrable. But the writer of the book shows us how much superior he is to such attacks; he claims for the work that it has laid bare " a certain side almost unknown of English history," and he expects his revelations to " startle " England. The sticklers for purity amongst us have charged M. Hugo's work, more over, with impurity. But he says, in a com placent reply, " I am not responsible for that ; to Stuartism and Catholicism the blame must be imputed," " I am but an historian and philosopher." And then M. Hugo goes on to claim for his novel that it is a " human book," that it rises as he himself does "above the old jealousies of races ;" it deals impartially. There is " romance "in the book—or in other words, there is "drama and history." "I love England," M. llugo adds, " and my work will prove it to her." A PROFESSOR'S BROTHER. Professor Max Muller is blessed with a " brother " who is a decided credit to the family. The Professor's relative has attained considerable academical distinctions, for he has taken, as the German scholar says, a double first in the schools of mendicity and 1 mendacity. It is the practice of this person to call upon some friend of the Pro fessor, state that he has been robbed on the way, and that he wants some money to enable him to go to Oxford, the sum to be returned immediately. In this way the worthy "brother " has deceived a con siderable number of persons. Professor Max Muller has more than once announced that he never had a brother, and that the man is, of course, an impostor ; but this warning . does not seem to put an end to the flourishing trade in fraternal affection. SHE CRISIS IN SPAIN. The situation at Madrid becomes more and more serious. Admiral Topete, the only Liberal-Unionist who remained in the Cabinet, has positively resigned, and thus the whole of his party withdraws from the Government. The Progressists and the Democrats— the other sections of the mo narc hi ca l p ar ty— are now left alone. Prim 'will probably form another Ministry, but it is clear that he must finally break with the Unionists, or give up his idea of offering the crown to the Duke of Genoa. It is this proposal to place a boy of 15 on the throne that has caused the present difficulty. But if Prim abandons his youthful cant didate, who else can be chosen, save the Duke of Montpensier, to whom the Progrosaist leader has the strongest antipathy ? FOREIGN NOTES. TUE TROUBLES 111 DALMATIA. Some uneasiness exists on the continent with respect to the ultimate consequences of the Dalmatian insurrection. One particular subject for anxiety is the rumour that Austria has asked permission from Turkey for the passage of her troops over Turkish ground, and that Turkey, in granting this permission, extended it to the Montenegrin territory, over which the Sultan has always claimed sove reignty. The Russian Gsvernment,according to the story. protested against this, and Count Stackelberg has made an official communication to the Prince de la Tom d'Auvergne, setting forth the objections of Russia. This report has been categorically denied in several of the French papers, nevertheless it keeps reappearing in one quarter after another. Great hopes are expressed that the question of the independence of Montenegro will not be discussed. The Patrie remarks that it forms one of the most insoluble of the numerous small problems which together make up the insoluble Eastern question. A correspondent of the Steele, writing from Vienna, says that the participation of the Montenegrins in the Dalmatian insurrection becomes more and more manifest and unless the movement be shortly checked, it may become the signal for a general uprising among the slaves of the South. The Greek clergy in the district of Cattaro have declared for the insurrection, and the priests are to be found in the first ranks of the combatants. The real leaders of the movement have not yet come forward, but St if. kuown they are forming a provisional government Some young men in Herzegovina have joined the insur gents at Badua, and at their head is a relative of the Prince of Montenegro, named Radonic. The Montene grins, by this account, have procured a large quantity of breechloading gu ns and ammunition. The Senate of Montenegro, lately reassembled, has resolved upon sending a circular note to the governments of Western Europe declaring that the Prince cannot undertake to prevent his subjects from taking part in the insurrection, unless it be speedily suppressed. The insurgents, it is said, continue to receive reinforcements from Herzegovina , and Montenegro, and it is, therefore, necessary to carry the military opera tions into Turkish territory. The North-East Correspon: deuce states that the plan of the Austrian coin wander is not to attack the insurgents in their mountains, but isolate them from Montenegro and Herze govina, so as to compel them to submission by famine This plan of operations is less formidable than a campaign, in which it is necessary to take each mountain and defile by assault. The insurgents according to the Wanderer, of Vienna, are well pro vided with food, though they have sent all their cattle to Grahavo, which is on Turkish territory When the soldiers approach them they hurl clown stones on their assailants, many of whom have perished in this way. TrIE DISAITNAMENT QUESTION. The proposition for disarmament which has been made In the Prussian Parliament by the Progressist member, Herr Virchow, has produced some effect in Dresden. A despatch states th a t thi r t een Saxon deputies of the Progressist school have laid down a similar plan, which is more precise in its form. The Prussian deputy was hindered by the incompe tency of the Pris i m Parliament to deal with the mili- tary question. the Saxon deputies have forestalled thie objection by eimply requesting the Government to use its influerce with the Northern Confederatior to obtain a ;eduction of military expenses, and to work with a 'view to a general disarmament The Prussian Government seem to be annoyed with these economical projscts, and they are rather sharply dealt witb in the Berlin Cerrespondenee. On Sunday next there will be a meeting ef delegates from all parts of Berlin for the OVERFLOWING OF THE :STEVA. St. Petersburg iS just now threatened with a complete inundation, through the overflowing of the waters of the Neva. Guns have been fired to warn the population, anc already those who live on the ground floors have sought the upper storeys. In many parts o• the town the inhabitants have abandoned theie dwellings altogether. The catastrophe with whict St. Petersburg is menaced is not without precedent In 182-1 the capital was submerged by the floods of th Neva, 462 houses were completely destroyed, and 3,60( greatly damaged by the inundation. From 15,000 tc 20,000 persons were left without shelter, and six hundred perished in the floods. The municipal authorities of St Petersburg are now adopting all the precautionar3 measures that they can to mitigate the effects of th inundation, which is looked upon as inevitable. AMERICAN The ilretv limes publishes a long article on thi decline of American shipbuilding. In 1856, the year it which wooden shipbuilding reached its climax, an Americas wooden ship rating first-class for ten years, cost sixty-fiv. dollars per ton, just about the present cost of a British built iron ship rating first-class for twenty-five years. Th great depreciation which has taken place in the marke value of wooden ships has not attracted so much attontioi in the United States as in Germany and England, in conse quence of the disturbance in its values and industries The shipowners of New York know too well the merits o iron ships over wooden ones. The value of the latter lowered below the cost of their construction, and iron ship at £ll per ton are taken as the standard of valuation fOi new ships. If the call of the Government had bees responded to at the beginning of the war, America wouli have one of the most magnificent navies of the world, ba the shipyards had not the facilities for answering tha call. The business has gone into other hands, tho me chanics have gone into other vocations, and the leader spell that rests upon the workshops cannot be broken a . once. It is believed that the American builders can corn pete with England, if relieved of some of the burdens tits. now press heavily upon them. (From the Anglo- American Times.) Our papers by the Holsatict are to the 26th Oct., and by them we learn that General Butterfield, in a letter to Secretary Boutwell, denies the Gould charges, and demands an investigation. Two of the men accused of shooting Revenue Officer Brooks in Philadelphia have been found guilty. General Spinner, in his Annual Report, recommends an in crease of salary for the clerks of both sexes. Go vernor Holden is arming a company of negroes to suppress the Ku-Klux bands in North Carolina. Father Hyacinthe having visited Plymouth Church, has been taken in hand by Mr. Beecher. Sixteen sailors of the British war ship Charybdis went ashore in a launch at Victoria, on October 20th, when twelve of them mutinied, overpowering the others, and escaped to Washington Territory. Gen. Spinner's Report for the six weeks ending Sept. 30 will show an increase of revenue of more than $50,000,000. A divorce case is before the Superior Courts in which a wife divorced without her know• ledge has applied for redress. Special Commissioner Wells is in Connecticut, busy on his Annual Re port, which will contain valuable tables and new and important features. He takes the same ground on the Public Debt as indicated in his letter to Con sul Dudley. General Butler and his nephew George had arrived at Washington ; Andrew Johnson was expected there, where the Republicans had expressed joy at his defeat. Mr. Hart has written from Peking endorsing J. Ross Browne's address at Shanghai, excepting what was said about Mr. Burlingame. He considers that Minister's policy not to be working satisfactorily, alleging the Chinese Foreign Office to become more illiberal each day. The Hon. Thomas Ewing is recovering. Ex. Governor Pratt of Mary land is ill. Ben Wade has visited the President, who, with Mrs. Grant, had proceeded to Philadel phia to attend the wedding of Bishop Simpson's daughter. There was a report in Boston that Gene ral Babcock had succeeded in purchasing St. Do mingo, the United States flag flying over the har bour, and that General Banks was about to visit the island. The Special Committee of the Representatives on the Navigation interests, after taking evidence in Boston and Portland, will turn back to Philadel phia ere it adjourns to await the meeting of Con gress. It is said that the Committee will not favour the shipowners' request for an American registra tion of foreign-built vessels, nor the proposition of bounties on American ships, but that it will recom mend a rebate of the tariff on foreign materials used in shipbuilding. The Committee is said to have secured very full and valuable statistics ; the leading shipowners, builders, and merchants having readily responded to its call. As an historical sum mary of English and A merican legislation on the sub ject its report will be exhaustive, but whether it will end in legislation to resuscitate the shipbuilding and the ocean carrying trade of the United States is another question. There is a want of liberality in all American legislation in its trade connection with foreign countries, which was sooner or later likely to lead to the depression now prevailing, and is as likely to continue it. In the day of American ascendancy in shipbuilding and ocean carrying Ame rican ships were freely chartered by the English between Britain, her colonies, and India, thatis, from British port to British port, in American bottoms flying the Stars and Stripes, with captains as well as crews citizens of the Republic. But the United States will not even permit a foreign built vessel to •be purchased by one of its citizens and registered as American, and no vessel not American can trade between American ports. Had the United States preserved the pre-eminence, a considerable portion of its carrying trade would have been at the mercy of the British Parliament, for every one knows that in Bombay, Calcutta, Sydney, Melbourne, and other great ports, American ships were freely chartered with produce to England, and one of the regular rounds was with goods to the Australian colonies, thence to India, and back to England. It is announced that the Pennsylvania Central, as it is generally called, though the real name of the railway is the Pennsylvania Railroad, has de clared a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent. We desire to attract our readers' attention to a remark about the Erie, in the money article from the Springfield Republican, which we to-day publish. We offer no opinion on what the writer says, but he is well acquainted with his subject, and what he does say ought not to be lightly dismissed by those interested. Mr. David Chadwick, M.P., is about to leave for New York in the interest of the bond and debenture holders of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, whose chairman be is. Legal proceedings have been instituted in the Em pire City through one of its most influential firms, and Mr. Chadwick will he on the spot to render every assistance, in a matter which is of no small interest to America. According to the monthly statement of the Pub lic Debt, issued on the Ist inst., the decrease for the month of October is $7,360,000, making the total reduction from March Ist $64,300,000. The total Debt now is $2,461,001,300, and the value of the Bonds, with accrued interest, purchased by the Treasury, is $64,000,000. On the Ist of Septem ber the coin in the Treasury was $108,801,658 ; the Currency, $6,559,004 ; the Sinking Fund, $16,125,158 ; other Coin interest bonds purchased, $34,626,652 ; making a total in the Treasury of $166,114,783 ; and we presume no great variation from this will be shown in the October account. , E 77 1 . E-, '4+ W '7l 0 r-4 N. 0 0 •t 4 CC) OCO •-4 00 r. , 1 CO GNI •••••• C, 00 00%,7 I C., CI, CZS r-I r-4 CO iiiiiiai cA I 6:l ~, f.l —°c' .-. .zi i g (c . 6 -4 -0 E. cll. .Z 1 .. 1 Cn ;,.1 z c- , e 5 P ^=, °' /2 a 3 '=4 O 00 — z 8 ... 0 br •- . -_,, . O ''' 4-1 • ;:. e g 7.: -5 -..,E ro', ,ri ..;.. .2-2, a . —. 4 ti LI i'—' —6 7 $ '6' if, 'it . - 4' "I .4. - 41- , ,C.:h—.1 1 4P-1 cr.; On the 18th Oct. the New York Times published six columns in proof that Assistant-Treasurer Butter. field had nothing to do with the gold plot, that the ring was and did everything disreputable; among others, that it tapped the Washington telegraph wires, by which means Fisk, Gould, and Co., who composed it, obtain6d early in formation of the Treasury intentions. Mr. Corbin and Gen. Butterfield were represented as of lamb-like inno cence, but as their careers were not of this pastoral cha racter tho public seems inclined to smile. Gould and Fisk, however, viewed the matter in another light, and state ments, affidavits, letters, and cheques, some of them pro fessing to be fac-similes, appeared in the Neu, York Sun. Iu consequence they are deeper in the quagmire than ever. At Washington the firing took effect against Gen. Butter field, for after the subject had been earnestly considered by the President and Cabinet, it was decided that he should be called upon to resign, and under any circumstances a change will be at COLIC.) made in the office. The Executive has not, however, condemned him on such allegations as those of Fisk and Gould ; but enough has transpired to shake public confidence in an officer filling so responsible a post. Secretary Boutwell has been deluged with anony mous communications making charges against him. The following paragraph gives a summary of the most impor tant statement made by the ring. The disappointed gold gamblers have followed up the attack on the President, who burst their bubble by a statement from M. Gould, purporting to be a history of the plot, and the President's connection therewith. We have already freely given our opinion on this infa mous attempt to defame a great American name and in jure the prestige of American institutions, but we sum marize this story for the information of our readers, merely calling their attention to the improbability that Mr. Corbin should have begun his acquaintance with Mr. Gould in the manner the latter alleges, who says it was in the latter part of May he first met Mr. Corbin, who sent for him about the appointment of a New York Sub-Trea surer. Corbin desired to learn how money could be made out of his control of the appointment. Mr. It. B. Gather wood,son-in-law of Corbin, a friend of Gould's, he supposed, was to got it, but he then learnt that Gen. Butterfield was fixed on A. T. Stewart's reccmmendation of him, making things appear easy and natural. Butterfield ho Corbin owned, and Catherwood was to receive a fourth of the profits from the financial operations. After all had been ar ranged, Gould met tho President at Corbin's house, and accompanied him to the Boston Jubilee. On the way Butterfield was recommended, and on the President's re turn the appointment was announced. He had an other interview in July at Corbin's house, when the President assured him that no gold beyond the regular sales would be offered till November, as he wished high prices for farm produce. In answer to Gould's question, how then were the bonds to be bought, the large internal revenue receipts, the President said, would be sufficient, and money would be kept easy by the twelve to fifteen millions of dollars for pensions, while the fractional currency was to be increased from twenty mil lions to fifty. On this Gould purchased $1,700,000 Bonds for himself, Corbin, Catherwood, and Butterfield. Corbin informed him that he had just received a margin of $12,000 from the President to carry $300,000 in Bonds held for Grant by Messrs. Stone, Nichols, and Stone, and as Corbin wished to show a profit on the transaction, he directed Gould to pay the brokers 1 per cent. over the market rate, carrying the Bonds till they reached 125 without security. To this Gould agreed, reserving the right to sell, and he then paid $3,000 more than they were at the moment worth, but the transactions eventuated in a loss of $50,000. Fore seeing a rise in the price of gold to be inevitable Gould and Corbin entered into a speculation for the advance. They visited daily, and sometimes twice a day, to consult en the subject, meeting at Corbin's house always Mr. Catherwood, and Oen. Butterfield occasionally. Mr. Cor bin gave Mr. Gould orders to buy several distinct lots of gold, besides taking a joint interest in the other transac tions. Among other lots he directed Mr. Gould to pur chase $500,000 in gold at one time, which he did, at the price of 132. When the market had advanced to 13?, Mr. Corbin directed him to sell that lot, which he said was for the account of Mrs. Gen. Grant. This was the first inti mation that Mr. Gould had received that the President or any of his family was interested. He sold and gave Mr. Corbin a cheque for $25,000 on Sept. G. In that month they discovered that influential bankers and brokers were about to bear gold on a large scale, and after some enor mous short sales a banquet at the Union League Club to Mr. Boutwell was planned, when every influence was to be exerted to make him sell gold ; but Corbin procured a letter from the President instructing the Secretary not to sell. This letter was first given to Gen. Butterfield to present to the Secretary ; afterwards Mr. Corbin conceived the suspicion that the Sub-Treasurer was playing him false, and a special messenger was sent to the President to deliver a letter be had read to Gould. Mrs. Grant wrote to Corbin, anxiously desiring these speculations to be closed, advancing as ono reason the difficulty of ascertaining what might be the effect of Cuban affairs ; another being the Reesident's fear that these spe culations might influence him, notwithstanding his resistance. When gold reached I it, M. Corbi❑ sent a latter, as ho reported, telling the President that ho was out of all speculations, gold or bonds; adding to Gould that lie thought it dangerous then to sell gold, and as the present price would leave $150,000 profit, he asked a cheque for that, deducting the $50,000 before lost. Gould advanced him $lOO,OOO on account, remarking that Corbin could not wholly free himself from the speculation till others inte rested had also sold. Corbin replied that he would write private letter to the President, explaining his real position, the:other being intended for use in the Cabinet. 11. Gould had been previously informed by Corbin that the Secretary had actually ord,red sales of gold which had been countermanded by the President on the receipt of a letter from him. The United States will probably take action on a subject of universal interest—the protection by law °I , telegraph cables. A resolution is about to bo introd uce(' into Congress to call the attention of the Executive to 0 ° subject, pointing out that no law now exists to protect those lines from wanton and malicious destruction or in jury, and suggesting that steps be taken for a convention of nations to provide the necessary protection. and to puntsil persons who attempt to injure the cables on the high seas In the event of war the question would arise how far a gel ligerent was justified in dredging up and cutting a cable Suppose hostilities to break out between Use United Blab" dom and the United States, in what position, i n regard t o France, would Great Britain place herself, if s h e fished u p the Brest cable more than a marine league from the French coast and cut it. This must bo her action, unless diate and full information was to bo transmitted front Europe to her enemy. It is better to settle in anticipation such questions than whoa the emergency arises, whe n ae tion becomes alike necessary and dangerous. - Florida has risen against the execution of the Raven no laws, at least the counties of Jackson and Washing ton being under the control of an armed mob led by B. Caker, a wealthy and influential man. Assessor Loge f of Martina writes to the Supervisor that ho is in danger ° his life, which Calker threatens, and challenges Ith tl t : fight. From Jacksonville we learn that the State I'3- Col lector and his wife had been brutally murdered 111 Washington County, adjoining Jackson- and that theta had been seven murders in Jackson Count y since th e October, and that the Deputy Collectors and Ass ists Assessors of Internal Revenue were in imminent danger' Tho Supervisor has called for troops. The Duke of Edinburgh had been very cordi al e received at Yokohama. On the Ist of September lilt Royal Highness drove to Yeddo, where he was the g il° . s i of the Mikado. The road the entire distance wa s br „ 1 : liantly illuminated with native lanterns.. A fleet of I'l'l Japanese war vessels wore at. Yeddo. Heavy rains V t , vailed at the time, which prevented the anticipated °e door festivities. On the 4th, the Duke, Sir Harry 1' 3 1, e ; and Admiral Keppel paid a state visit to the Mikado. Duke returned to Yokohoma on the Bth, where the f . e % tivities were continued for several days. He paid 5 fi b S i9 l to Osaca, and while returning had a narrow escaP e i„," l , o vessel, the Salamis, colliding with a Japanese steamer, "--,0 Galatea, with the Prince on board, left Yokohama on t , " it 16th for China. It was understood the Prince would 01, Pekin as a private individual, the Emperor of Chi" ha i. ing refused him a State reception. An attempt to assassa. nate the British Minister at Yeddo has been frustrated, Sir Henry Keppel, the Commander of the British sell)/ ron in China and Japan, was entertained at a baticlu et n , the English residents of Yokohama, previous to hi 44 .T . - 0 , partme for Europe. The Duke of Edinburgh, Sirs 7„ce Parkes, and numerous naval officers were present. "io Todo, a powerful Daimio, had been assassinated. Icier Prince was a staunch ally of the Tycoon, and his was on account of some political differences. Fria° suma and another Prince had quarrelled, and wa r likely to result from it. The Japanese Parliame nt h ut s voted to surrender all their estates, retainers, and ref e ll 7 o belonging to them as Daimios to the Mikado, and rece'ria from him honorary titles instead of that of Daim i° ' an allowance of one-tenth of their revenues, Wit h b ee n from the support of th e ir old retainers. There 113(1 - ht al numerous executions at Yeddo. Admiral Enema°, had been sentenced to death, but his lif e will prob ably spared. 13. In our Correspondence His Excellency 1-7" ip - Washburne is represented as having applied for 313 03 • crease of salary for himself a n d mem b e rs of the L e g' The General Press De s patch has, however, corrected co rumour, getting its facts from an official source. Insbei-ca of soliciting an increase, that Minister, since he bas up til in France, has declined to receive certain allowaucee ho became satisfied that he was entitled to them by will Unfortunately then for the Government clerks tbel A to not be able to quote a case on which they re lie ' t leic strengthen their application for an increase tc",, ; e rr salaries. It is true that the London, Paris, a nd St. Y 1 Wed burg Legations, being out of pocket by the sun' a 1• teat for rent of office, have applied for an increase in 019 to the extent of $3OO to $4OO annuall The Tribune's Washington correspondent tell the a story of Frank P. Blair, sen., of Silver Spring:l've great American Warwick, as he calls him, make r ,t, or sidents and un-maker of Cabinets. The point of l',""6011g respondent's sarcasm is that Mr. Blair occasion the the surplus produce of his farm. In England thie 1 ; 6 its practice of Princes, who sometimes consider theinseicroot honoured by getting the highest price. The corresP° Nag says that as a huckster or produce broker, Mr. 131'iroiet, assessed for the special Internal Revenue tax, an d ,„ ao dg to pay, the usual notice was served, but fell into tbe eat of his son, ex-Postmaster- General M. Blair as his fatbert.etoo torney. He was somewhat indignant, but the recent de 4, ! ta o f of the Commissioners took his father beyond the lira:ricet the tax, as only those hucksters who have permanentl that stands are liable. Hence the correspondent coneleuei F. P. Blair of Silver Springs is an itinerant vendor duce. This shows how hard it is to eradicate from t l e itic" of what our correspondent, Capt. Williams, calls th e 42 ,0 Saxon race, the idea that the sale of produce lowers.;afleg according to the scale of the transaction. TheyPrzuti GO' Republican hits at James Fisk, jun., as the pedl ar, a aet ios s ' tainly the advantages of good birth, of good co n e d rhe a of old family, are now more frequently eiai'setAine ever in America. Some say, perhaps with truth, tit AO ,llO rica is running up to aristocratic caste, while W'g running down to Democratic equality. The Buenos Ayres Standard of the 25th SeP 00 0 ber is full of romantic stories of the ParaguaY"n E ri geL o to relates the adventures of Charles Crane, in the service of Lopez. In this there is ne ill-treatment, while there me many allusions t° co o , a ree rar ' gallantry of the Paraguayans, and once to T ye ferred on him by Lopez for his services in a batti ci e' rag ed sufferings of a Correntino lady are told, who W A !, r 0 011 into confinement by a Paraguayan officer, but n" e o f the hardship she was at last released by the adyeu i ce do se who ' , a u ra , an' A Allied army. An Argentine gentleman, best to supply her necessities, was shot by 14° .„'" al iss ie 7 when she was liberated with other women, manse with felons chains, she had been throe day.° ed fon; allas be food. Her Majesty's ship Cracker had arr father 11 Ascuncion with two English orphans, wh °6e 001 mother had both succumbed to the hardships Ayres endured. The census had been taken of Bue n a ° toe isli" and the provinces, and the result had create d e s e ' ree er bt e ment, and will lead to considerable chang e in 11 co ; tation of districts. The city, according t o the cen t 320'00120,0At tains 180,000 inhabitants, and the camp nb,1 0, 000. The estimate for the thirteen provinces is bu t at t to present Buenos Ayres returns only 12 naereb erB ; ba bite ° 6 prescribed ratio of one deputy for every 20,000 lu P roviaag e 6 it will in future become entitled to 25, while the pal will rather decrease than increase their nunibe r ,looo I° o the proportion in future at five for the fo rmer and tuote/8 the latter. This the Standard considers to be rod eye nearly all the wealth and intelligence are c entri' ooo fe it, great city. Congress has authorised the faro £BOO,OOO for the extraordinary expense ° ° „,,y, as ! c o , guay war, which it hopes to raise in G" In ; ar ia ' A t precluded, by an agreement with Messrs. 51100;4 thers, from raising another loan in Englan d ' s od d . ..., e° t 1 6 - news from Paraguay is to the 19th SeptembEr!i s o Pe o , of importance. Lopez is somewhere beYe nt ,t on of P nislao, with the remnant of the male populati oci it I to guay, some 3,000 half-starved men and boy e e, 0 ileit b/!_ te pieces of wtillery. The Brazilians have 13 .. c am e follow him up for want of horses. Co unt D with 'A Asuncion on the 13th, and had a conferene;rovistoa; Brazilian Envoy, Sor Paranhos. The ne w vib iell ol , Govrnnt is endeavouring to clean the ci:Y± soid c still me in a shocking state. Thousan ds of Wener ge 101 /30 dren continue to arrive from the interior, a u n,„. ir ie. „ ig in tents put up for their reception in the o i'L o t triumvirs are said to be constantly vat-031111i will urged that the new order of Clings in Persg rein only so long as the bayonets of the Allied er"'s there to maintain peace and quiet." By the annual report of the Second 15- 11 ;: t s ireP se la the United States Treasury we learn the es' ° of dace!: v i disbursed in bounty and back pay on accoun t _.. 0 pale de , soldiers in the late war. Discharged soldierSwa,"onfill,i, another department, hence these figures are 0..... /0 !, 11 pendent of them. The sums are as follovr10,9•70,6281, $249,180 64 ; 1863, $2,443,293 39 ; 18 64, $ 7 1 7; !' t i t s 1865, $14,047,599 35 ; 1866, $1 6 , 189124 re port C4 O he $10,638,782 78; 1868, $19,598,445 88. The ende d t present year will show the amount 1 18 12 1 3 , 1. 31, $8,355,618 22, which, added to the $74,13111:492,69e, ously disbursed, will make the amount sf utho riSe ci ce lo Mr. It. D. Mussey is taking testimony ass T he ire ° t i l e the court about the Farragut Bounty Clainloi pa rt in of the West and Gulf squadrons whichiU' attack on New Orleans is to be decid ed by v ; 0101 be' We learn from Messrs. Macmil lan's ne Aye 1 0 0 weekly journal Nature, that M. Louis l'_ c ‘ , f„ o ofs queathed to the French Academy of Scien ce ; o f 10, v o f necessary for the foundation of three prize jeoc e° • hese sic each, to be awarded every second year. ph ysi_ which these prizes aro to be given aro and chemistry. TologYlPlll AUGENER ~ , ,utoo ' BIRTHS. , Orly AI-- ins t., 11... ilr t.. Mrs. Georgo Augenor, of a son. qpiens ..,,, MYIIURGII—On the 4th inst , at 6, Palace-g.,arriste' sington, the wife of Philip Myburs Is, Esq. , — On the 3d ' t ' blorpeth goose law, of a son. lit° ill ARM - A G ES. ~ , e W il ift l3 GODFREY—HEADLAND —On the 4th inst., •-,e11.50 ,:tee• Godfrey, Es;., of the Admiralty, to AffOltioclP' 'di daughter of Edward Headland, Esq., of r °l. st. 1%1 56 t0 STRANGE - ORMSBY—On tho 4th inst., at t13".0%, s trai C o Sill P,ryanston-square, Colonel Henry F. Frances a Henrietta, the only child of the General Ormsby. 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