The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-29 00:00:00

STORAGE or GUNPOWDER IN TOWNS. In consequence of the late explosion on the Place de Ia Sorbonne, great alarm has been expressed in various 'towns of France in which gunpowder is stored fot: the army. The inhabitants of Angers (Maine -et-Loire) have sent a petition on the subject to the Emperor, the following being a passage of the docu ment:—" In this place the Grand Ducal castle contains an immenle stock of powder and a manufactory of Chasse pot cartridges, in making which numerous workmen are employed. Statistics demonstrate that on an average about ten explosions occur annually in Europe. The new inventions in pyrotechnic chemistry double the risk of accident and multiply the disastrous consequences. Undei such circumstances this town must necessarily feel re newed alarm, as it lives on a volcano. The Chateau of anmur, with which place we are connected by ter- Atorial affinities and common sympathies, runs no less danger than ourselves. Its fortress is an immense powder-magazine, and it is under the perpetual menace of real peril. The Council-General of the department and the municipal councils of Angers and Saumur have several times expressed the fears entertained by the population. We hope that the Emperor will take into account the disquiet felt by the people, and that his Majesty, who can do everything in such a matter, will preserve us from the immense dangers with which we are incessantly menaced." ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE IN LANCA SHIRE. It appears from the accounts of several correspon dents of the Manchester Courier, that another shock of earthquake has been felt in that county. On Thursday evening, about half-past eight, the neighbourhoods of Stockport, Bury, 'Oldham, Broughton, Pendleton, &c., was visited by a tolerably severe shock. The residents in Ackers-street, Oxford-road, Man chester, felt the vibration of the earth, though without hearing any noise. At Cheetham-hill the feeling experi enced is compared to the shock felt by a ship when, having risen with a wave, she sinks again. A. passenger along the road from Pendleton felt a tremulous motion of the earth, accompanied by a confused booming sound, as of a heavy weight f a lling on a well-carpeted floor. A gentleman residing near Eccles writes to the Manchester Cowie? describing the effect produced on his house as resem bling the passog3 of a heavy waggon without the noise. Several persons state that their houses were shaken perceptibly, but fortunately no damage was done beyond the breakage of some crockery. Those who experienced the former earthquake describe the shock of Thursday evening as much slighter, though the pecu liarity of the vibration and the sickening sensation pro duced were similar. The accounts all agree as to the time, and the chief difference perceptible is that some mention a rumbling noise, chile others do not. LAW AND POLICE. ROBBERY AT DOWNING-STREET.— _ illiaM Roberts was charged at Bow-street, on Saturday, with having committed a robbery at the official residence of the Prime Minister, Vo. 10, Downing-street. The accused had managed to pack up a quantity of wearing apparel, worth about £2O, and belonging to the Premier's private secretary, when he was met on the landing and pursued by one of the house maids, who seized him by the collar, and detained him until assistance was rendered. He was remanded. Prrmi AND Toss.—Several youths have been brought before the Clerkenwell Police-court, charged with playing pitch and toss on the pavements of the public thorough fares. They were fined 2s. 6d. each, but those who could not pay were discharged at the rising of the court. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—At the Thames Police•court, on Saturday, the Rev. John Popham, a minister of the established Church, was charged with assaulting a Scrip tuve-reader, named Joynt. Mr. Paget vainly urged the disputants to settle their differences elsewhere, and fined Mr. Popham 2s. A ItAFFLE.—At the Southwark Police-court a public house keeper was summoned for permitting gambling. The alleged offence consisted of a raffle for a watch, which was held for a charitable purpose. The charge was dis missed. CHARGE OF MIIRDER.—On Saturday, at the Warwick Assizes, Clare, a discharged soldier, was charged with the murder of his wife, who had been found with her throat cut. The prisoner declared that his wife had committed suicide, and the jury, believing that there was a doubt in the case, acquitted bim. THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—On Saturday an application was made to one of the Scotch judges on behalf of the North British Railway Company, for an order interdicting the Caledonian Comp Any from paying dividends on its ordinary stock for the past half-year. The cause of the application was the alleged non-compli ance of the latter with the terms of a joint agreement entered into last year. Lord Barcaple declined to make the order. BREACH or PROMISE. —At the Norwich Assizes, on Saturday, a farmer was sued by the daughter of a hotel keeper in an action for breach of promise of marriage. The case was described by the plaintiff's counsel as one of peculiar heartlessness, and the jury so far endorsed this view that they returned a verdict for £7OO damages. *New editions of Dean Milman's " St. Paul's," of Dean Stanley's " Westminster Abbey," and of Mr. Dixon's " Her Majesty's Tower," are being printed. THE MAIDSTONE MURDER. —The Government has offered a reward of £lOO, with a free pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual culprit, who will give such information as will lead to the conviction of the murderer of John Fenn. An inquest has been held upon the body of the young English officer, Ensign Whitaker, of the 53rd Regi ment, who was recently shot at Quebec by a lad named Chaloner. The verdict was an open one, and is said to have given satisfaction to the public. Chaloner is believed to have committed the murder to avenge an outrage upon his sister. Mr. Matthew Arnold's report on the normal and practising schools of the Congregational Board of Education at Homerton has been officially published. Mr. Arnold reports most favourably of the establishment, and considers that it is for the interest of public education that this insti tution and the schools connected with it should share in the Parliamentary grant, and should come to co-operate directly in the national work which, by the help of that grant, is being carried on. With the commencement of spring strikes seem to have set in at an alarming rate. One has just commenced a the Edmunds Hain Colliery, near Barnsley, in South York shire, at a moments notice. The masters threatened some time since to discharge certain men for sending dirty coals out of the pit. The coals sent up were still worthless, and several leaders of the union were given notice to quit. All the men suddenly turned out. The South Yorkshire men re in fuses to acknowledge the strike, and its secretary, very energetically, called upon the men to return to work, but they have refused. Rot Ga CRITICISM ON HORACE GREELEY.—At the inauguration ball, the venerable white head and spectacles of Horace Greeley made him a conspicuous object wherever he moved. He was continually getting in some hopeless position. At one time he was fastened upon a stairway. Slow of motion, he was continually being scrouged and bristled and crushed by the pretty women revolving about him. Heswore a good deal when jammed for two hours at the cloak-room in quest of his overcoat. One would as soon expect a bullet from a rosebud as an oath from Horace Greeley, but he cursed most ferociously.— Washington Star. THE PARIS HAM FAIR.—The three days' ham fair, which hadthis year been removed from the Boulevard Bourdon to that of Richard Lenoir, commenced on Tues day. More than 300 dealers from Belgium, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, and from about 40 of the French departments were on the ground exhibiting their wares, consisting of bacon, pork, hams, sausages, &c. On the whole, the fair is this year supplied with upwards of 300,000-kilogs of eatable produce. The prices were com plained of as high, but a large business seemed to be trans acted, and the crowd was extraordinary. DESTRUCTION OF THE SOUTH LONDON MUSIC HALL BY FIRE.—The South London Music Hal], near the Elephant and Castle, has been destroyed by fire. The building was opened as usual on Saturday night, the entertainments being of the ordinary kind, and of such a nature as not to require the aid of moveable scenes or fire of any description. At half-past twelve the gas was turned off, and the gasman as usual went round the building, which was then apparently safe. Shortly after six on Sun day morning, however, a lamplighter, named Fowles, on ascending his ladder in the London-road, saw smoke issu iog from the top part of the building, and at once com municated with the police. The manual engine from Kennington was soon followed by that of steam power ; but the flames obtained such a firm hold of the bal cony that the entire roof soon gave way. Aft er muc h exertion on the part of the brigade, the fire was ex tinguished, but not before the hail, including the stage, d reesi n g•rooms, fittings, &e., were entirely destroyed. ConsideraMe damage was also done to the refreshment bar, but the private dwelling and public-house at the north end of the building suffered but little. The place now presents a perfect wreck, composed of the remains of chairs, tables, chandeliers, mirrors, and other appliances peculiar to music-halls. The fire is supposed to hive originated in the dressing rooms, but from what cause is not known. Great preparations bad been made for the Easter entertainment, and several of those engaged—in eluding the members of the orchestra- T will, , we pyler. stand., oft 12. Y the calamity, CONGRESS. THE SENATE. On the 4th the first session of the Senate of the Forty-first Congress was called to order by Vice- President Colfax, and all the new Senators, except Hamilton, of Maryland, and Brownlow, of Ten nessee, who were absent, were sworn in.—On the sth the Cabinet was confirmed :—Secretary of State, Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois ; of War (tempo rarily), General Schofield ; Treasury, A. T. Stewart, of New York ; Navy, Adolph E. Borie, of Phila delphia ; Interior, J. D. Cox, of Ohio ; Postmai. ter-General, J. A. J. Creswell, of Maryland ; A t _ torney-General Eben R. Hoar, of Mass "-eh usetts ; The President also nominated Colurr: ous Delano, of Ohio, to be Internal Revenue Commissioner, vice Rollins, resigned ; W. T. Sherman to be General ; P. 11. Sheridan Lieut.-General; J. M. Schofield, Major-General ; and, C. C. Augur, Brigadier-Ge neral. All these nominations were confirmed with the Cabinet. In the United States Senate, yester day, Senator Brownlow, of Tennessee, was sworn , in. Bills were introduced by Mr. Wilson for a redistribution of national banking capital ; Mr. Thayer, repealing the Tenure-of-Office Act, and Mr. Edmunds, amending it ; and by Mr. Wil liams, suspending the Tenure-of-Office Act for four years. Mr. Thayer gave notice that he would call his bill up to-day. Two messages having been received from the President the Senate went into Executive session, and afterwards adjourned.— On the 6th various bills were introduced, among them one by Mr. Grimes, to reorganize the navy. Mr. Patterson introduced a bill to repeal the clause of the Act establishing the Treasury Department which disqualifies for the Secretaryship persons engaged in trade or commerce. He asked its im mediate consideration, but Mr. Sumner objected, and it was referred. After some further business a message was received from the President, asking Congress to relieve Mr. A. T. Stewart from his disqualification. Mr. Sherman offered a bill for the purpose similar to that proposed by Mr. Pat terson, but Mr. Sumner again objecting, it was not received.—On the Bth Mr. Conkling introduced a bill, which was referred, to prevent secret sales of gold or bonds by the Government. Mr. Sherman introduced a supplementary currency bill. Mr. Sumner moved that his bill giving a pension of $5,000 to Mrs. Lincoln be considered, but on the motion of Mr. Edmunds it was referred to the Pension Committee. A concurrent resolution offered by Mr. Anthony was agreed to, for a special joint committee on removal of political disabilities. On motion of Mr. Sumner, the Dis trict of Columbia Equal Rights Bill, which had been killed at previous sessions, was again taken up and passed. Nominations for Chaplain were then made, and Rev. Dr. Newman, the nominee of Mr. Cameron, was elected on the second ballot. Mr. Pomeroy introduced another Equal Rights Bill for the District, which strikes the word " male" from the charters of Washington and Georgetown. Mr. Robertson presented a Constitutional Amend ment.—On the 9th the Public Credit Bill was re ported by the Finance Committee in the same form in which it passed last session. The Supplementary Currency Bill was also reported by the Commerce Committee. Mr. Sherman moved to take up the bill to repeal the Tenure-of-Office Act. The Vice- President said it had been referred to the Judiciary Committee, and the only way to get at it would be to discharge the Committee from its consideration. Mr. Sherman made a motion to that effect, whereupon Mr. Sumner objected to its consideration, and it was laid over. Bills were introduced by Mr. Sherman supplementary to the National Bank ing Act; by Mr. Sumner, to secure copyrights for paintings, sculptures, &c. ; by Mr. Morton, grant ing right of way to Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad, and prohibiting Treasury sales of gold ; by Mr. Ramsey, to facilitate telegraphic communi cation with Europe ; by Mr. Corbett, for preserva tion of our harbours and navigable rivers against encroachments. A message was received from the President asking permission to withdraw his pre vious message in reference to Mr. Stewart's dis ability. On the motion of Mr. Sumner it was tabled and ordered to be printed ; and on the motion of Mr. Sprague the request was granted. The bill to protect fur-bearing animals in Alaska was passed in the same form as at the last session. —On the 10th Mr. Thayer called up the till repealing the Tenure of-Office Act. After some discusssion, the bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 34 to 25. Mr. Sherman offered a resolution for the appointment of a joint Select Committee on the Civil Service, which was laid over. Mr. Williams moved to take up the Public Credit Bill, so that it might come up to-day as unfinished business. The motion was agreed to—yeas 36, nays 18.—On the 11th Mr. Grimes' bill to reorganize the navy was reported and ordered to be printed. Various bills were introduced. The Public Credit Bill was taken up, and Mr. Sumner moved to strike out the second section legalizing coin con tracts hereafter to be made. He said the recent decision of the Supreme Court had made it unneces sary. A message was received from the President, and the Senate went into Executive Session. On resuming Legislative business, Mr. Sumner's motion to strike out the second section of the Public Credit Bill was agreed to—yeas 27, nays 14. Mr. Morton moved an amendment to the first section, so as to apply the exception to gold payment to the Five- Twenty Bonds. The amendment was rejected— yeas 14, nays 32, and the Senate adjourned without final action on the bill. STANDING COMMITTEES. The following Standing Committees arc an nounced (Democrats are marked thus *) : On Foreign Relations —Mr. Sumner, chairman ; Messrs. Fessenden, Cameron, Harlan, Morton, Patterson, *Cas serly. On Clommerce—Mr. Chandler, chairman; Messrs. Cor bett, Kellogg, Spencer. Conkling, Buckingham, *Vickers. On Finance—Mr. Sherman, chairman ; Messrs. Wil liams, Cattell, Morrill, Warner, Fenton, *Bayard. On Manufactures—Mr. Morton, chairman ; Messrs. Yates, Robertson, Boreman, M'Donald. On Agriculture—Mr. Cameron, chairman ; Messrs. Robertson, Tipton, Gilbert, *M'Creery. On Appropriations —Mr. Fessenden, chairman ; Messrs. Grimes, Wilson, Cole, Sprague, Sawyer, *Stockton. On Military Affairs—Mr. Wilson, chairman ; Messrs. Howard, Cameron, Mortar; Thayer, Abbott, Schurz. On Naval Affairs—Mr. Grimes, chairman; Messrs. An thony, Cragin, Nye, Drake, Scott, *Stockton. On the Justiciary—Mr. Trumbull, chairman ; Messrs. Stewart, Edmunds, Conkling, Rice, Carpenter, *Thurman. On Post Offices and Post Road—Mr Ramsey, chair men; Messes. Pomeroy, M'Donald, Harlan, oOle, Gilbert, *Thurman. On Public Lands—Mr. Pomeroy, chairman ; Tipton, Osborn, Warner, Sprague, *Casserly. On Privat e L an d Cl a i ms—Mr. Willi ams, c h a i rman ; Messrs. Ferry, Sawyer, Kellogg, *Bayard. On Indian Affairs Mr. Barlan, chairman ; Messrs. Ross, Co o rb n et r t , en T s h in a n y s e — r, NE ß r u . c E ki d n in g u h n am ds , , Pool, chairrn *D an a - Messrs. vis Tipton, Spencer, Platt, Brownlow, Schurz, *A.PCreery. On Revofutionary Claims Mr Yates, chairman ;Messrs. Pool, Fowler, Brownlow, *Saulsbury: On Claims—Mr.llowe, chairman ; Messrs. Wille y,Scott, Sprague, Robertson, Pratt, *Davis. District Columbia—Mr. Hamlin. chairman. Messrs. Pat terson, Sumner, Rice, Harris, Pratt, *Vickers. On Patents—Mr. Wiley, chairman ; Messrs. Ferry, Car penter, Osborn, * Norton. On Public Buildings and Grounds—Mr. Morrill chair man ; Messrs. Trumbu ll, Ferr y , Cole, *Stockton. , On Territories—Mr. Nye, chairman ; Messrs. Cragin M'Donald, Schurz, Ho ward, Boorman, *M'Creer y . , On the Pact tc Railroad—Mr. Howard , chairman ; Messrs. Sherman, Ramsey , Stewart, Wilson, Harlan, Drake, Rice, Abbott, Fenton, Scott. On Mines and Inning Mr. Stewart, chairinn o ; N Messrs. Chandler, Anthony, Yates, Rcss, *Saulsbury, F vler. On the Revision of the Laws of the United States— Mr. Messrs. Sumner, Carpenter, Conkling, chairman; Pool, *Bayard. To Audit and Control the Contingen t Expenses of the State—Mr. Cragin, chairman ; Messrs. Edmunds, *Davis. On Printing—Mr. Anthony, chairman ; Messrs. Harris, *Casserly. On the Library—Mr. Cattell, chairman ; • Messrs. Howe, Fessenden. _ On Enrolled Bills —Mr. Thayer, chairman ; Messrs. Pat terson, Abbott. On EnTrossed Bills —Mr. Boss, chairman ; Messrs. Buck inohorn, *Norton. On Education -- Mr. Drake, chairman ; Messrs. Morrill, Pomeroy, Sawyer, Corbott. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—M RS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S RAM RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and do lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair io grow thick and strong. It removes all tlandrliff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In largo Bottles Price Six Shillings. sold by most Chemists and Perfumers. Depot 266, EflghliolborA THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. WIIAT WILL THE LORDS DO r According to the London correspondent of the. ricotsman, Lord Derby has declared against the rejec-' tion of the Irish Church Bill on the part of the Lords. In that case, Lord Cairns would try to mutilate and mangle the bill in committee. The noble lord is exl, ec t ec l to fortify his opposition to the bill 14 the arguments of Sir Roundel" "and a scheme is being hatched for em borl:„:mk the distinction of the learned member for FAchmond between disestablishment and clisendow ment. The writer hears that an attempt of this kind will probably be made in the House of Commons, either by moving an instruction on going into committee, or by moving a clause or amendment in committee. Of course such an instruction as this would be scouted in the Com mons, but might be renewed iu the Upper House with more success. If the peers mangled the bill to such an extent, it is doubtful whether the Commons would pass the bill in that form. This assertion is partly corroborated by the TecipyTh, which " confi dently states that the Tory party, as a whole, will make no endeavour to throw out the bill, but will direct their united strength to amend it in com mittee." Our contemporary speaks only of the party as an organisation; it is impossible to forecast the action of eminent individual veers. LORD SPE&CEII. Did Lord Spencer threaten to resign ? This ques tion is still being put, in spite of, perhaps because of, Mr. Gladstone's not very precise reply in the House of Commons. It is assumed in some quarters that the Viceroy of Ireland disapproved the release of the Fenian convicts. That release meets with little approval from independent journals of course with none at all from those which represent tb Opposition. the fact that Arr. Fraser, one "or the commissioners sent over to the United States by the Endowed Schools Association, had discovered that thinking people in the States were losing faith in their system of education, because it did not secure a high moral tone and strict adherence to truth in the children. port and everywhere throughout Croatia tne emperor nu met with the most enthusiastic reception. He is much gratified with this welcome, and it is certainly no more than his due. History can scarcely furnish a more remarkable example of a sovereign retrieving his early errors and seeking the reparation of national disasters in the good of his people. One melan choly episode has occurred during this tour. The Emperor has visited Miramar, the home of the unfortunate Maximilian, near Trieste. His Majesty shed tears on his departure from the spot where he gave his last adieu to his ill-fated relative. Agram has resolved to strike a medal to perpetuate the memory of the Emperor's visit. Fiume, on the other hand, proposes to outdo this by something much more substantial. It is about t 3 offer the Emperor an armour plated ship for the Austrian navy, to be built in the dockyards of the place, and to be called The Francis Joseph. STATESMANSHIP WITH LIMITED LIABILITY. The Spectator, in a very clever article, recalls to Lord Stanley his sarcasm uttered during the Danish war, that some one should propose war alliances, with limited liability for each ally, and asks if he is not adopting the same principle in statesmanship. During the last three years we have had from him but one speech in the House of Commons on any question of the first class except foreign politics, and that speech was not an expression of his real mind on the political issue which he strove to delay, but a speech mcrely in favour of postponement,namely, his speech last year on the amendment to Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Suspensory Bill. Lord Stanley seems to be of the opinion which prevails in the City, that a ' man should try to do one thing well, and in order to do it stick to that thing alone. But this will not answer for statesmen. It is impossible fur party men to place any confidence in a leads r who keeps silence even from good words on all the great ques tions of the day. As well expect the English public to be enthusiastic about a disling%;shal foreigner who addresses us only in French, like a foreign ambassador at a City dinner, as to confide in a nobleman, however able, who ignores elr'eforrd reform and the Irish Church, and can speak only about Greece and Turkey and the Luxemburg guarantee. This conduct is not fair either to his colleagues or his s e tl fir pp st on . the question support first with his impression that he party. s n p o e vi eh uppermost, lf a n h d e r h e ne agreeso \e differs from them ; if he really does differ from ought with th t o e th them, he ought to say so, and thus help to save his party from the damaging mistake of committing themselves to an untenable defence. It is pretty well known which of these alternatives is true, and the result of Lord Stanley's taciturnity is that ho is allowing a man in every way his inferior, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, to take his position, and yet fails to secure the confidence of the Liberal party. ECONOMY AND JUSTICE. Economy is a good thing ; justice is a better. We cannot afford to be economical at the expense of being unjust. The Army and Navy Gazette publishes a story which, as told by our professional contem porary, certainly does seem very shabby. On the removal of Indian troops (much against their will) from Hong Kong—a step insisted upon by the War Department in order to save the In dian allowance—a consolidated allowance for China and Japan was substituted for In dian pay. This was represented to be insuf ficient to meet the high charges which pre vail in India for the necessaries of life ; and, after due inquiry, the War Office issued an amended . scale, guaranteeing a slight increase to officers serving in China. But in granting this increase a happy thought occurred to the ten Secretary for War. Japan is a part of the same command; he had heard that living was much cheaper there, and there was a treaty of exchange, called the Itzeboo Fund, by which the officers largely benefited. So he ordered that 25 per cent. was to be deducted from the new allowance set forth in the royal warrant. it so happens, however, that the cost of living has greatly increased of late years in Japan, that the Itzeboo Fund has a balance on the wrong side, so that the supposed advantages no longer exist. Thereupon the officers protested, but in vain ; they then took the very serious step of handing in a memorial to their general. He referred it to the Commander-in-Chief, who admitted that the complaint was reasonable, being convinced of this by th e repor t o f a roya l com mission which was appointed to inquire into the matter. But the War Office has refused to give way, Mr. Cardwell having come to th e same deci sion RS Sir John Pakington. Th e f ac t th a t th ose Ministers are agreed seems to imply th a t th ere i s another side to this matter. The one side which w have seen bears a very ugly look. NAVY RETLIMMENT. Mr. Childers appears to be more successful than his colleague in satisfying the service over which he presides. "At first," says one of the professional papers, " his acts were not only vigorous, but appa rently arbitrary." Now the First Lord has offered most liberal terms for the retirement of the necessary number of officers. It is said that not only will the officials of over twenty years' service get ten years' additional service allowed them in computing their superannuation, but each year in excess will be allowed to count in addition. It is expected that a large number of officers will take advantage of this offer, and so make room for a return to active employment of the great bulk of those who have been placed on the redundant list. QUARRELLING IN HIGH PLACES. - ------- The India Office and the Admiralty have quar relled. The result is that the public suffer. It has been usual for the admiral commanding at Malta to fill up the Indian troopships as they pass with time expired men and officers returning to England. But a dispute having arisen between the two depart ments as to the price to be paid for the service, the Crocodile lately returned home empty, although a major and his family and some invalids were about to return to England. These will now have to be conveyed at a largely-increased expense to the nation. ARMY REFORMERS. Army reform has lately been discussed in several quarters, and as usual there are plenty of non-pro fessional advisers ready to solve all the problems that perplex the initiated. " A Private Dra goon," in the current number of St. Paul's, undertakes the task of examining their various specifics, and declares that the general feeling of the barrack-room is altogether opposed to the theories of Sir Charles Trevelyan. He objects to the suggestion of "nationalising" the army, that is, of making it reflect the various classes of the nation, which he declares to be impracticable. Colonel Baker of the 10th Hussars, in a pam phlet on "Army Reform," complains that during the last ten years our military expenditure has been greater than that of France and Prussia combined, while we could not maintain 35,000 men through a campaign. Colonel Baker thinks the remedy is to be found in a better system of organisa tion, and he suggests several plans for reinforcing the army from the militia. Should it be necessary to fill up the ranks of the militia faster than the voluntary system w^uld supply the want, the Colonel would have us resort to the ballot under modified conditions. More immediately practical and important is the reform which is being pressed forward by Mr. Myers, assistant-surgeon of the Coldstreams, who is anxiously endeavouring to obtain a change in the clothing of the British soldier. There is no doubt that great sickness and mortality exist among our troops from disease of the heart and. the great blood vessels surrounding it, and it is positively stated that the prevalence to this particular class of disease is duo to the pressure of the uniform. The tunic collar, in particular, is very injurious ; and evidence is given by Mr. Myers show ing that while one regiment stationed in India wore a different collar no cases of invaliding or of death from aneurism occurred during a period of eight years. With the usual accoutrement the com plaint is so common that during the last twelve months the mortality at Aldershott from that cause has been 21 per 1,000. The strain on the organs of circulation by undue constriction and pressure during exercise inevitably produces evil effects ; and while we are debating how best to recruit our army, we shall surely be wise, as well as humane, in removing a cause of needless danger and suffering. THE EDUCATION QUESTION. Lord Sandon, M.P. for Liverpool, recently address ing a meeting of the Industrial Ragged Schools in the town he represents, spoke decisively against a compulsory system being established until the Partially compulsory plan contained in the Work shops Act had been tried. Ile was strongly in favour of the Government adopting the sug gestion for carrying oat the powers already conferred by Act of Parliament for compelling the , children of out-door paupers to attend school, the necessary fees to be paid out of the rates. He warmly urged the importance of denominational education in order to secure religious instruction for ilikirinual_filleiarY DM% _a_ 4 Fefe rred to 2 THE SCOTCH EDUCATION BILL. The Commission of the General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland has at last considered the Scotch Education Bill, and has condemned it. The members almost unanimously denounced it as an attempt to introduce the secular system - into Scot land. By forty-eight to six, a series of resolutions was passed objecting to the bill, because it made no provision for securing religious instruction, which the Church had ever held to be an essential element in the eclucation'of the young ; because it not only made no such provision in regard to the new schools, but endangered the provisions already existing in the parochial schools ; because there was no reason why persons who had attended the university should not compete for their certificates along with those who had been taught at the normal schools; because sufficient consideration was not shown towards the teaching body, in respect of provision to secure in the school committees the presence of men specially qualified to judge of the teachers' work; because the bill arrested the progress of the denominational system, by means of which the wants of the country had been met, without that collision which would be the almost certain result of the diffe rent religious bodies obtaining the control of the proposed national system ; because the cost of the new system would be so exorbitant, from the with drawal of voluntary contributions, that in many instances districts now supplied by these means would be more inadequately provided for than they have been. Thus both the Free Church and the Establish ment in Scotland have condemned the bill, in each case because of its religious provisions. IRISH AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. Ex-Governor Sir G. Grey has written to the Daily News on the subject of the Agricultural Labourer in Ireland. He refers to Mr. Trench's book as a source of valuable information for those who would acquaint themselves with the historical part of the question. He attributes much of the evil that now exists in Ireland to the fact that the landlord is often a being o a different sphere from those who toil for him, and is unable to undertake the duty of attending to their interests through the pressure of ,his business in another country. Atter drawing a sad picture of the state of the Irish pea santry at home, Sir George Grey declares that they as a race possess faculties in an equal degree with any other nation on earth. In the colonies and elsewhere they have proved themselves to be of great ability, and rendered services to the society they have entered into. The Irish naturally have a tendency to seek other countries, and they often interfere with the English labourers, who are sub jected by their employers to more restrictions. It follows that two p o p u l a ti o ns are brought into hostile competition with each other, and are forced into a dangerous position from causes over which they have had no control. During the last election it was seen how bitter a spirit prevailed between the two races in some parts of England. The settle ment of the Irish Church question will not relieve Ireland nor help the English labourer, and the same evils will exist while the present land-law and cus toms regarding the tenure and entail of land remain in force. GOOD FRIDAY IN LONDON, The Good Friday services in London were attended by probably larger congregations than at any time since the Reformation. At a large number of churches there was an almost uninterrupted series of services throughout the day. In addition to the ordinary morning prayer and Communion office (there was no celebrati on ), there were the Litany and the " Reproaches," and between the hours of twelve and three a very solemn service, con sisting of the chanting of the last seven words from the Cross, each being followed by a short discourse delivered from the altar-steps, an appropriate hymn, and silent meditation and prayer. The solemnity of the service was increased by the vesting of the altar in crape, and the tolling of the minute bell before the commencement of the service. In the district of St. Peter's, London Docks, which was recently formed out of the well-known parish of St. George's-in-the-East, Mr. Lowder led a procession through the streets, stopping at certain points to represent the " stations of the Cross," and at each delivered a short and fervid address, and sang a hymn. There was a large crowd of the very lowest of the population, who behaved with at least outward reverence ; and it was noticed that some of the leaders in the riots during Mr. Bryan King's time took part in this procession. The Three hours' Meditation was con ducted at Alban's, Holborn, by Mr. Mackonochie • at St. Barnabas, Pimlico, by Mr. White ; at St. dary Magdalene, Paddington, by Mr. Cleaver; at All Saints, Lambeth, by Dr. Lee • at St. Michael's, Shoreditch, by Mr. Stanton. The last-named gentle man, at the conclusion of the service, held up a large crucifix, which he kissed, and then called upon the congregation to do so. Many persons responded to this certainly extraordinary request. • TILE EPISCOPATE. The Rev. William Garden Cowie, who has accepted the bishopric of ' New Zealand, was edu cated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduated without honours in 1855, but was a prizeman in 1854. Ile was formerly chaplain. to the late Bishop Cotton, of Calcutta. Latterly he has been rector of Stafford, and in that capacity no doubt Bishop Selwyn has had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with his fitness for his new post. :W e need scarcely add that it N e v i lber f presentor. e Bishop, is very arduous, responsible , . and . ill-paid. An attempt is being made to establish a. bishopric in Madagascar, and is supported by Archbishops Tait and Trench, andßi sh theop s l atJackson,e and Atlay, Wordsworth, thof Mauritius. There are 10,000 native Christians in the capital of Madagascar alone. SIR JAMES WILDE. A correspondent calls attention to the fact that Sir James Wilde is not the brother of the late Lord Chancellor Truro, but was his nephew. Our corres pondent is correct. The new peer is the son of Mr. E. A. Wilde, who was the first Lord Truro's brother. OBIT uarey. Another baronet is dead—Sir George Chetwynd, who has died at the age of GO. He was the third baronet, and succeeded his father in 1850. He mar ried a daughter of the third Marquis of Downshire, and by her had five children. His eldest son is just 20 years of age. The death also of Mrs. Routh is announced. She was the widow of Dr. Martin Routh, who was for so many years President of Mag dalen College, Oxford, and will be well remembered by Oxonians of some 15 years ago. She was then a very old woman, and could not at her death have fallen far short of the years of her centenarian husband. We regret also to mention the death of a well-known and promising officer, Captain Roderick Dew, C. 8., of H.M.S. Northumberland. Captain Dew obtained his seniority in 1858. He died of disease of the heart, at the early age of 46. FOREIGNERS TAKE NOTE. The judge of the Liverpool County Court recently had a very queer case to decide. An outfitter, named Woolf, sued a German, named Rothe for work done and goods sold—£ll4s. The story Woolf told dis closed the fact that the work done was procuring Kothe a wife, and the inference was that the goods sold was the wife herself. Kothe, having long sighed for a partner in life, and being out of that rabble rout which he would - faiti bein, applied to the outfitter (whose trade would seem to b e very general indeed) to be supplied with a lover. Woolf had one to hand, and the languishing swain was introduced to a Mrs. Clarke, who boasted of having been five times widowed. For this introduction Kothe wrote out for Woolf an I. 0. U. for £lO. But after marriage he changed his mind about the value of his new wife, and refused to pay the money he had formerly intended to do. Woolf had to sue. The learned judge laid down most solemnly this dictum : the I 0 U being substantially a marriag e brokerage contract, was void, for marriage was too holy and sacred a thing in the eye of the law to be the subject of sale and. barter. Foreign papers please copy for the infor mation of those who still believe in the wife-market at Smithfield. NEWSPAPERS IN THE STATES. - - - --- That the Yankees are ahead of all the world in the number of their newspapers has long been a well known fact. In this country the newspaper has not yet become a necessary in every house ; in America, be a man never so poor, he must have his journal. According to a return, ju s t compiled by a well-known Anglo-American publishing hoes; • oni the lists of Messrs. Collins and ITLeester, the number of periodi cals, newspapers, and magazines published throughout the forty-six different states and territories of the Un ion now reaches the enormous total of 5,734, as against 2,027 in the United Kingdom. Of this immense mass of literature about one-tenth, or 542 different publications, are daily newspapers, 4,425 weekly, and 277 monthly. In addition there aro LO tri-weekly and 63 semi-weekly papers. Of periodicals of various kinds, chiefly of the magazine class, there are 40 fortnightly, 297 monthly, 4 bimonthly, and 24 quarterly. In the United Kingdom, with a population differing from the States by little more than one-fifteenth, there are only 80 daily papers, and only about 1,200 weekly or occasional papers. The English pride themselves on the superior "tone" of their journals. This they may perhaps do without presumption ; but, with all its faults, the Aim York Herald stands alone as a specimen of the most extraordinary enterprise and success which has yet been witnessed. FRANCIS JOSEPH'S TOUR. It was feared that tho Austrian Emperor would be greeted by hostile demonstrations at Trieste, but the event hattsihollzkelleithia juggejminsiop.: At the Adriatic Beet GERMANY. The Prussian Crown Advocate has not been fortunate in his appeal against Professor Ewald. This scholar was lately prosecuted by the Prussian Government for high treason, and acquitted. The Court of Appeal has again acquitted him, amid very general rejoicing. The Pro fessor's offence was the publication of certain pamphlets, violently denouncing the annexation of Hanover. It is said that he is likely to be elected to the North German Parliament by the City of Hanover. TILE RECENT FIGHTING IN SPAIN. According to one account the good behaviour which characterised the Spanish soldiery at Malaga and Cadiz vanished entirely at Jerez. The troops committed gross excesses after their victory. Great numbers of them be came intoxicated, pillaged private houses, and "killed everyllody they found in them." This brutality has, however, been suppressed, the dead have been gathered up, the barricades demolished, and the last signs of the struggle are disappearing. Meanwhile, according to a tele gram received at Paris, the Carlists have sustained a very heavy blow. General Miramon has been arrested at Paterna. It is added that the ill-success of this Jerez insurrection has greatly discouraged the Carlist party. ANARCHY AT HAVANNA. Havanna presents many advantages to the tourist in search of a warm climate, and a more than usual propor tion of excitement. The insurrection is being fought out in the streets of the Cuban capital. Scenes of riot and bloodshed occur almost daily. A theatri:al representation was recently given for the benefit of Madame Camps, a Creole. It was made no secret that the sum realised was intended for the support of the insurrection. The proceed ings were so "successful" that another performance of the kind was given, but this time the theatre was partly filled with Spanish volunteers. Before the curtain was raised revolutionary addresses were delivered from different benches by Creoles. 'The volunteers inter fered, and finally charged the audience at the point of the bayonet. A desperate fight took place, rifles resounded on all sides, women were trampled upon, and a heap of dead and wounded was accumulated before the police could restrain the volunteers. Similar scenes have been enacted at the threatres, cafés, and even private houses. THE CANADIAN TRAGEDY. A day or two back we published a terrible story from Canada. Lieutenant Whitaker, of the 53rd Regiment, bad ruined a girl, named Chaloner, of very respectable family, and had been mortally wounded by the young lady's brother, a lad of 17. The Army and Navy Gazette learns by private accounts from Quebec that the " circum stances have been grossly exaggerated, &-nd that the graver charges against Lieutenant Whitaker are unfounded.' What, then, is the true story? Lieutenant Whitaker died on the 10th. POLICY OF PRESIDENT GRANT'S CABINET. Mr. Boutwell is the new Financial Secretary of the United States Treasury. This statesman is thoroughly at one with General Grant on the subject of financial policy. Some remarks which recently fell from him are of great interest. lle says the new Cabinet does not propose to permit the issue of demand notes, payable in coin, to be exchanged for the time bonds of the United States. "We intend to limit, and, if necessary, to dimi nish gradually the volume of paper money, until it approxi mates in value to the standard of coin. We intend that there shall be one currency for the bondholder, the merchant, the farmer, the pensioner, and the labourer. That currency shall be of the value of gold." General Grant's election, Mr. Boutwell Clinics, will do much'to restore the national credit ; but it is also essential that the people should dispel by their votes the apprehension of national dishonesty in the public finances. " The Republican party knows no policy in finance but honesty." GENERAL JOMINI. The veteran writer on military tactics, General Jomini, who has just died, began life in a counting-house, and afterwards became secretary to Marshal Ney. He rose to the rank of brigade-general, but Napoleon, through j a'ousy, refused to give him a division, and he went over to the Russians, and served on the Emperor Alexander's staff. He was a Swiss by birth. The great military writer preserved his faculties to the last, and at the age cf nearly ninety was able to write a criticism on the manoeuvres of the war in 1860. He considered it fortunate that King William was not opposed to a general like Napoleon. The remark is not very profound, for it would have applied to almost any commander ; but Jomini pro bably thought that a smaller man than Napoleon might have given the Prussians trouble. ROEBUCK'S GIFT TO THE NA7ION. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Mr. ROEBUCK, late M.P. for Sheffield, has left something valuable to the English people. Mr. ROEBUCK is still in the land of the living, but fol lowing, and perhaps stimulated by the example of Mr. PEABODY, he bestows his benefaction while yet alive. He does not give sordid gold like the American philanthropist, for though he takes it, he soars above such dross, but he tenders to the nation his political testament, his solemn warning, " beware of Trades' Unions, beware of Ireland, beware of America." The time draws near when the foot of the United States will be on the neck of England. It is a time Mr. ROEBUCK has long foreseen, and which he en deavoured, to avert during the great civil war by urging Lord PAL3IERSTON to recognize the South and aid in the establishment of its independence. Then it would have been comparatively easy to oppose Americans ; now, it is more difficult ; soon, it will be impossible. " They are determined to be dominant on the earth, and they will be; our only chance is to oppose them now. Whatever we do or say to conciliate, no conciliation, no prostration on our part, can satisfy them. One of the points of my political testament is, Beware of the people of the United States." This is a valuable donation, and though the money-loving people of England may prefer the golden god erected by PEABODY, there are some less grovelling in their propensities who will be able to appreciate the worth of ROE BUCK'S gift. It was some such great statesman who got up the war with France, arguing precisely on the same grounds. " Beware of the French, they will put their foot on your neck; now is the time when you can get up a coalition to cri , sh them.;" and hence a quarter of a cen tury of slaughter, and an additional six hundred millions • sterling to England's debt, making it a public burden that never can bo lifted from her shoulders. Time has soothed the asperities thus generated, and the France, Europe attempted to conquer, still as free and great as ever, is the friend and ally of the England at whose cost she endured so much. Mr. ROEBUCK mistakes in imagining there is anything original in his political testament. It is the principle upon which CAIN slew ABEL, and its discord has agitated the world from that time to this. Cannot he see that Irishmen are actuated by the same feeling towards England that he desires to excite in Englishmen towards America? but against the Irish his political testament is, "Be firm, and suppress them." The combination of labour against capital he regards as the mutiny in the citadel, the struggle of the poor against the rich, which ought at any expense to be put down. Mr. ROEBUCK, being an advanced Liberal, his political creed is worth considering, and a casual glance fills us with amaze ment, if his, represents, even in a remote degree, the Liberalism of England ;—jealousy as regards America; tyranny as regards Ireland; injustice and oppression as regard the labouring classes of Eng land ; this is the sum total of ROEBUCK'S testa ment. His Liberalism would have aided a slave holding oligarchy to establish an empire founded on slavery on the ruins of a Government, built on the broadest principles of liberty ; indeed aid expressly given to break down that Government, actuated by the mean motives of fear and jealousy. As a man of ability, and a member of Parliament, being able to impress a section of his country men with his own ideas, he, iu conjunction with Mr. LAIRD and Lord WHARNCLIFFE, did much to generate that ill-feeling in America, which he now declares no consideration or prostration on the part of England can satisfy. The very . animus thus created by himself he nses to excite the dread and dislike of England towards the United States, and urges, we cannot see what else he can mean, an immediate war, by way of checking the progress of America " The Northern States said that I was a wild enthusiastic," exclaims ROEBUCK; " that I was worse than that ; that I wanted to do something very bad." If the Northern States had insinuated that he ought to change his name from the grace ful, bounding ROEBUCK, to an animal with very long ears and a very loud bray, and added" vicious" before it, it would have been about right. Cuba may furnish, if we understand this Liberal, the plea for war, as resolutions have been introduced into Con gress to recognize the independence of that island, "although the rebellion is without an army and without a Government"—" What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander ;" and Mr. ROEBUCK maintains that England's right to recognize the South ern States with a powerful army, a Government, and victory in the field, was far greater than the right of America to recognize the independence of Cuba. Of course that goes down with people who neither know nor care about the difference between the goose and the gander. A cook may tell them that a tough old gander requires a different sauce from a tender young goose; in fact a different swt of treatment altogether. The American people openly advocate the independence of every nationality ear nestly . and patriotically seeking independence. If the Irish people, as a body, were to rise against England, they would attract the sympathy and aid of America. If England were conquered by France, and rose against the French, the English would have the hearty support of America ; the Cubans in insurrection against their Spanish rulers at once command sympathy throughout the States. This sym pathetic principle is largely shared by the English also. But the case of Cuba is peculiar, for it em braces the Monroe doctrine, dear to the heart of Americans. That island is American territory under foreign dominion, and the Monroe doctrine is the assertion of " America for the Americans," Not only then does the cause of Cuba involve the principle of upholding the rights of people to self government, but it also involves the liberation of American territory from European thraldom. Eu ropeans may see little difference between the recog nition of States struggling to found a Slave Em pire by splitting the American Republic, thereby introducing the division 9f the Continent into hos tile Governments (which scores of thousands would rather die than see realized), and the struggle of a nationality for freedom from the grinding domi nation of oppressors they detest ; but in America the difference. is considered very wide indeed, and the people who use these arguments, or are impressed by them, are held to be very ignorant. %Viser men than ROEBUCK have failed on erecting themselves into a little Providence ; and that he and Mr. LAIRD made so much mischief, bringing humiliation, loss, and suffering on their own and another great coin try, might have taught Mr. ROEBUCK the danger of imitating the fools who rush in where angels fear to tread. Even - his late speech on the " fecculent torrent " helped materially to thwart Mr. REVKRDY JOHRSON'S diplomatic efforts, and to re-kindle American irritation. After these disastrous results, it is surprising that the English press should give prominence to what is said by such a person ; but, as it has done so, it is natural that we also should discuss the value of this political testament which he deposited with the Sheffield people on receipt of three thousand guineas. THE COMING SILVER MANIA. The Anglo-Saxon race, however phlegmatic, is more liable than others to fits of general excitement, most noticeable in religious movements and revivals, and only in a lesser degree in rushes after the pre cious metals. " A gold mania " has become a com mon phrase, and words expressive of the necessities of the miners have changed meanings and been adopted into the language. The greatest of gold manias were the Californian rush and the Australian rush ; but both include numberless minor excite ments. A gold rush built up with a magic speed the State of California, twenty years ago a waste, now the Empress of the Pacific. A gold rush changed the squatter village of Melbourne into a grand city, and intersected a vast province of Aus tralia with railways. Along the west coast of the Southern island of New Ze,aland lay an unknown territory, separated from the known by a huge barrier of snow clad mountains. The ceaseless western gales which blow around the globe in that latitude dash with fury on the exposed coast, drift ing in, the moisture of a literally world-wide oc.e.,n, which, gathering into clouds along the base of the huge mountains, fall in endless rain. Without a harbour along that storm-racked lee-shore, without a road through the mountain barriers, the golden magnet so quickly peopled Ilokatiki, the chief town of the district, as in two years to make it the largest in New Zealand. Another great excitement looms like a storm in the Rocky Mountains, and it is pro bable that before this year closes a city will have arisen in a place whose latitude and longitude are now difficult to define, with its telegraphs, its rail ways, its waterworks, its four daily papers, its theatres and hotelS, its courts and municipality, and its 100,000 inhabitants. To the English reader this may appear like reckless long-bow drawing— something in the MUNCHAUSEN line ; and while we write we can scarcely persuade ourselves that it is anything else ; but the facts come too well authenti cated to permit us to doubt. The broad territory between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Moun tains has few marks even in the latest official maps of the United States. The Great Basin, as a vast portion of it is called, is to the geo grapher as yet unknown ground, though here and there towns arise, and scattered in little clumps are parties of miners, whose work is scarcely no ticeable in the vast solitude around. This region has been penetrated by the Central Pacific Rail way, and travellers who pass down the Valley of the llumboldt see from the cars the smoke of camp fires arise here and there in the bleak, uninviting 1 ooking country. One of the stations along this line is Elko, 460 miles east of Sacramento. If the traveller stops there he will be enabled to get a seat in a conveyance to Silver City, and thence to Hamilton, in the White Pine district. Elko is a mere collection of tents, but it is the nearest point on the Central Pacific to (lying nearly due north of) Treasure Hill, the new mines being but 115 miles by a toll road now building. The station is at the junction of the South Fork Humboldt, a branch of the Humboldt, and as the mountains of Nevada run north and south, as if the country had been wrinkled up by a lateral pressure east and west, there is no difficulty through the dry valleys, with the high mountains running parallel on either hand, in driving to the White Pine dis trict. Nor, indeed, judging by the little forked flames which cover some maps, ought there to be much need for fires in cooking, for much of the water to be found in Nevada, Nature has decreed should be hot. The cold water from the hills everywhere dis appears, perhaps to make Mr. CATLIN'S huge sub terranean river, but scattered about bubble up hot springs ; nor need the traveller carry salt, for if nature has been generous in supplying the means of cooking, she has been lavish in tendering salt. During the winter 3,000 miners have been at work on Treasure Hill—a place un known until an Indian and a man named Ebenhardt spoke of their discovery last September. Those who take an interest in the White Pine District will find some details of the locality in our issue of March 6, and in former numbers. The news of its extraordinary wealth spread quickly into the neighbouring territories, where it continued to increase until it rose into the height of a furore, and promises to take its place with the gold manias of California and Australia. Nothing but White Pine is talked of on the Pacific Slope, and all classes are abandoning their employments to join in the scramble. Eastward the mania has spread to St. Louis and Chicago, and thousands are beginning to pour through the passes of the Rocky Mountains to dive into the riches of Treasure Hill. In San Fran cisco 54 companies have been organized to work these mines, with a capital of more than twelve millions sterling. The Bank of California is re ported to have bought one mine for upwards of £1,000,000 sterling, and a son of Admiral DAHL GREN is estimated to have made £200,000 from his operatinno, Men are eQuotantly turning up in San Francisco with a realised £20,000 ; not of course by extracting that amount of silver, but by selling claims and availing themselves of the rapid rise in property. Five persons were mentioned by the San Francisco Times as having just arrived, each with that sum. Already the first symptoms of the mania may be seen in New York. Several news papers contain advertisements of persons offering to give information, and such information is now eagerly sought. It is more than probable that the first business of the Pacific Grand Trunk Line will be to aid the rush, and pour the stream both from the Atlantic and the Pacific through the valleys of Nevada. The specimens of the silver ore shown are almost pure; some running up in value to $20,000 per ton, while the general range is from $5OO to $5,000, a marvellous wealth of mineral. These, of course, are the richest lo les, but all over the district, in quantities said to be un limited, the yield is from $5O to $lOO. This, as the Round fable remarks, is exceptional, for experience has shown that silver deposits in limestone have proved limit.d in extent, which is notably the caso in the Comstock lode. The White Pine ore is a chloride of silver in a limestone formation, in pockets or great masses, which in Chloride Flat seems to'be a lake of molten silver cooled. The Round 7 able says, as an earnest of increas ing interest and confidence in the doctrine of free trade, we are glad to chronicle the decided success of the meet ing held last Saturday at the Merchants' Exchange, New York, "to devise means of support for the efforts now being made to overthrow the present irrational and unjust tariff, and thereby to lesson the costs of the necessaries of life." The meeting was called to order by Mr. Alfred Fell, jun., at whose motion Mr. James M. Brown took the chair. Addresses were made by Mr. William C. Bryant and Mr David Dudley Field, and the following resolutions, presented by Mr. Robert B. Minturn, were passed " Resolved, That free trade (by which we mean an ex emption from taxation, except so far as may be neces sary to pay the debt and defray the expense of Govern ment) is in accordance with the theory of American insti tutions, and is demanded by the best interests of the coun try, Resolved—That we will do our utmost to dissemi nate the principles and promote the practice of free trade, as thus defined. Resolved—That a committee of five be appointed by the chair to co-operate with the American b'ree-Trado League in promoting the objects of the fore going resolutions." Mr. Mahlon Sands then came forward and announced that he would give $5,000 toward the cause. His example was followed by many others as follows: — Charles A. Marshall, $5 000; Robert B. Minturn, jun., $2,500 ; Thomas Holland, $l,OOO ; Wm. Jessop and Sons, £500; W. D. Morgan, $500; Jas. M. Brown, $1,000; Alf. ed Pell, jun., $250 ; H. W. and T. Malley and Co., $5OO ; Dan. C. Rogers, $250; Louis Windmuller and Roelker, $100; "A Poor Mae," $5; Fleitman and Co., $250 ; Henry Dickin son, $lOO ; Charles Congreve and Son, $lOO ; T. li. Misr rick and Co., $lOO ; J. E. Miller, $lOO ; Cartwright and Harrison, $lOO. The President announced the following committee, provided for by the resolutions; Howard Potter, George Cabot Ward, Robert B. Minturn, Charles H. Marshall, and Mahlon Sands. The President also stated that Mr. Charles H. Marshall would be the treasurer of the association, and that any further contributions might be sent to him at 38, Burlington-slip. The meeting was then adjourned to meet at the call of the chair. BOARD OF TRADE, March 22.—The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for 'Dade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Washington, enclosing a copy of an act recently passed by the Congress of the United States for "regulating the duties on imported copper and copper ores." By this act the duties hitherto levied on copper imported from foreign countries have been raised to the following rates :—" All copper im ported in the form of ores (per lb. of fine copper contained therein), three cents ; all regulus or copper, and all black or coarse copper (per pound of fine copper contained there), four cents; all old copper, fit only for remanufacture , per pound, four cents; all copper in plates, bars, ingots, pigs , or other forms not manufactured, or herein enumerated' including sulphate of copper, or blue vitriol, per pound, fiv ° cents ; copper in rolled plates, called braziers, copper sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, eyelets, and all manufac tures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component Of chief value, not otherwise herein provided for, ad valorem, 45 per cent. Provided, that the increased duty imposed by this act shall not apply to any of the articles therein enumerated which shall have been in course of transit to the United States, and actually on shipboard on the 19th Jan., 1867. Their lordships have also received through the same chan nel copy of a despatch from her Majest'ys Minister at Madrid, inclosing an order issued by the Finance Minister of the Provisional Government of Spain on the 3d March. 1869, extending to the ships of every nation the power—hithert o enjoyed under articles 8 and 260 of the Customs Ordinances by Spanish vessels only—of going on to foreige ports with cargoes from foreign America (by the term foreign America" is meant all parts of America not belonging to Spain), and with cargoes of dried fish from the same ports with a consular register, under the same rates and formalities as are established by the aforesaid articles. Their lordships have also received from the Secretary o f State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch from he r Majesty's Consul-General at Lima, reporting the expira tion of the Treaty of Friendship and Navigation between Peru and Italy. In conse q uence of the cessation of this treaty Italian ships will be subject to the same fiscal a nd municipal duties as other foreign ships trading in the Re public of Peru. Intelligence has also been received from her Majesty's Consul in Crete that the blockade of that island has been raised, and that consequently all the ports in Crete will henceforth be free and open to commer ce ' conformably with international maritime regulations . The 7 ribune tells how Grant received his first appointment in the War destined to place him in the Pre sidential Chair. Mr. Washburne carried his Congressional District in his pocket, just as great lords in England did in olden times. Grant was a clerk in his father's leather store, living in an airy little cottage on the top of a blu ff ' to reach which he had to ascend a stairs of 200 ft. first war meeting held in Galena, to muster volunteers' Washburne offered resolutions and engineered the meet ing, and Rawlins made a spe ch. Captain Grant we el present, but seems to have been too inconspicuous vitc!... be called on to take part. At the second meeting, 1', ° , 30 ever, Captain Grant was nominated for chairmen. first company raised, however, elected one Chetlaiii tai,, and Jesse Grant's partner, Collins, a Peace Dem,,i ers sai to Washburne, "A pretty set of ellows you see-`,,, , At the are to elect Chetlain for captain !" When auestioned sv".;‘, he answered because they could have got Grant, vih,_, o:l educated at West P,int, served in the army years, :Ltd came out with the best reputation shu was after. Grant expressed his doubts whether heo,.. one of the few men competent to command a sand soldiers. Washburne, however, who then kneYr pressed his claims for a brigade, and President Lune who had sent a printed notice to each of the Nino? se nators, asking them to nominate four Brigadiers, la wnl6 an d sponse promoted Grant, Hurlburt, Prentic e, ash' M'Clernand. It was not till October, 1861, that " burne paid Grant a visit at Cairo, where be comm an , d . e ".ll and foresaw that he was the coming man from W O time he had " Grant on the brain," and his infinea c necessary till the capture of Fort D one l son placed his putation on a basis of its own. • • s nervous, [ADVERTISEMW ENT ]— Consumption, and all hen , ou ted stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are onlY and accelerated by drugs of every description, but pe curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic°, ct as proved by thousands of cases which had been consiaoe'o'n hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, as.thnn.nge sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric (IT - s oss, ments, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner w n s , biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, !° l `l, :a ptl. fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism , goLt seu ess rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleePi. dropsy, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debihtY, 2.?0r at sinkingssms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnaT's/ ch SC E sea, g fits, bronchitis, scrofula, "glitness °f the So pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoo ~s , rry's We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du health of —The Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866. the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abanDdcu Bar , ' - laiug all other comedies, he has confined himself entirely to Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes at every meal. It has pro laced a surprisinglY . se this effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot PZ excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette ber tri er July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, tun ed lungs . chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' discageafness.-- spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial. of Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Li n l.l , "„ tl Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 4 3 , 3 ' 3 2' less, years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nerve and asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, re si of the wall a plateful vomiting.—MariaJoly.' ImportantCaution.—Bewa _ ~it h eut unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to vfhlent::, e d. authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciouslV In tins, at Is. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. ad.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs. rr).2lbs , 225. ;54 lbs, 40s, —Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTAARABIU go sor 2 4 LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups cl o t cu ps cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 283 cupsfa . 1 " s. tiffs at 55EL—being about one penny per cup. The 305. b , a Wet. Lon Order. BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Rego' , " are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. PARRY— On the 22d inst., at 20, Uppe r Gloucester •plao, Dorset-square, the wife of Mr. Serge ant Parry, of daughter. le of TnßlsG—At the Chantry, Bradford - on - A von, the wife the Rev. J. C. Thring, of a daughter. Marriages. GYBBON-SPILLSBURY--FURNELL —On the 27th inst., at St- John's, Fulham, J. 11. 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