The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times believes that so far from increasing the present inteponclerant influence of the House of Commons, the presence of life peers in the Upper House would tend to restore the influence of the House of Lords. Their numbers would, indeed, be small ; for it need scarcely be remarked that, as no man would ever be made a life peer before he had attained a considerable position, there would be generally at least a quarter of the whole body incapaci tated by age and infirmity from attending in Parlia ment ; yet, though small in number, they would be powerful in influence. They would bring the House of Lords, as Lord Salisbury has remarked, into more direct relation with the people at large. The House of Lords would not merely be open to political ability which has not bad the fortune to inherit or to amass large landed estates ; a Minister would be enabled to summon to its deliberations persons engaged in all the developments of national energy, and the conclusions of an assembly sc constituted would command a respect and confidence which has not always been given to the opinions of a House composed almost exclusively of great landowners. The coneequences we anticipate from the addition of life leers to the House of Lords are widely different from those apprehended by Lord Derby. So far from strengthen. ing the House of Commons as compared with the Lords, it would, we believe, tend to strengthen the House of Lords as compared with the Commons. So far from making the Upper House more deferential to a popular vote in the Commons, it would tend to make it more independent. It would add to the stability rather than to the mobility of the Constitution, and we are bound to approve the change for that very reason. The proposal is, in truth, another contribution to that great idea of Reform which desires to make Parliament represent the whole of the nation. The introduction into the House of Lords of a limited number of peers, chosen for their distinction and eminence in active life, must tend to supply it with ele ments which Parliament needs, and, by increasing the mental power and experience of the Upper Chamber, strengthen its legitimate influence. It is because they foresee such consequences that the votaries of those im perfect forms of democracy which have till lately seemed the final consummation of all societies of English origin look aekance upon the change. It is for the same reason that we recommend it. The Post refers to the second reading of the bill for the creation of life peerages in the House of Lords ; and says that notwithstanding a certain reservation on the part of the Conservative section of the House as to their future action after the measure has passed through committee, the introduction of life peers into the Upper House may be looked on as an accomplished fact. The bill must in due course be submitted to the House of Commons; but it may be not unreasonably presumed that no objections will be offered by it to a change which exclusively concerns the other Chamber. If the hereditary peers are content to admit to, their councils peers who have not the right of transmitting their status and privileges to their descendants, it is not for the Com mons to complain of such an arrangement. The fact that a bill in many respects so unexpected, so novel, and in its provisions so antagonistic to allthe traditions of the House of Lords, should have met in that Chamber with so ready an assent is in itself very significant. We do not apprehend that any material change in its general tenour will be made, and still less any effectual opposition to its ultimate accep. tance. The more thoughtful of the peers on both sides of the House are perfectly satisfied that the effect of the measure will be greatly to add to the strength of their House, and to increase the estimation in whiCh it is held , by the vast mass of the people. The Standard says that the House of Lords has, after a moderate and statesman.slike speech from Lord Derby, agreed to the second reading of the bill for the creation of life peerages. This step, however important in itself as showing the disposition of the Peers to conform to what seems to be a demand of public opinion, cannot be taken as implying the assent of their lordships to anything more than the bare principle of Lord Russell's bill. That prin ciple is, that it is desirable, with the view to the altered circumstances of the Crown in the creation of peers, whom it has no power to endow, as formerly, that a certain limited number of persons should be admitted to the privileges of the Upper House who are by fortune unable to sustain the hereditary dignity. Upon this point the opinion of their lordships, as signified on Wednesday night, cannot be taken as controverting the position laid down in the famous resolution of 1856. Although the House of Lords has agreed to the second reading of Lord Russell's bill, it is certain that, if the measure passes at all, it will be in some shape as different as possible from that which Lord Russell has conceived. One of the most pertinent objections against the bill is, strangely enough, one which was suggested by Lord Gran ville, who professes himself a fervent admirer of the prin ciple. In regretting that the reform in the constitution of the House of Peers should take the shape of a, bill, to he discussed by the two Houses jointly, Lord Granville expressed what is one of the strongest arguments against the measure. If life peerages are desirable, it is surely more constitutional, and more in accordance with the dignity of the peers, that the innovation should be introduced by their own action exclusively, rather than by legislation. There is, in fact, no legislation necessary upon the question. The Crown has the undoubted power, at present, of making life peers. The House of Lords has only to pass a new resolution to admit such peers to the full privileges of their order. It would be far better to do this than to consent to a bill which admits the Lower. House to an equal share of the discussion of rights and privileges which belong to the House of Lords alone, and which, for the sake of their own character and indepen dence, ought rather to be settled by the second estate for itself than by the two Houses jointly. The Star declares that the legal position of Bishop Colenso has been determined, and is no longer open te controversy. Now that this is settled the Church in Natal should be left to work out its own mission. We are informed that the laity in the colony are about equally divided in opinion; and as both parties are now in posses sion of a bishop there is no reason why they should not be allowed to compete for the supremacy by the legitimate employment of those moral weapons which alone are effectual for the propagation of truth and the refutation of error. The highly intelligent com munity of Natal are able to judge for themselves on points of doctrine without the intervention of tribunals in this country. The intellectual and spiritual forces which are at work in Natal, or in any colony similarly circumstanced, cannot be controlled by any eccle siastical machinery in this country. Bishop Gray has consecrated Mr. Macrorie, and has thus exercised a spiritual authority which, if it mean anything, means a recognition of the right of those who regard Dr. Colenso's teaching as heretical to choose their own episcopal overseer. This is an application of the voluntary principle with which the friends of religious equality will not quarrel. But we have a right to expect consistency even on the part of those who support the Bishop of Capetown's proceed legs, and consistency requires that they should concede to others the same freedom of action which they claim for themselves. The Times, in anticipating the arrival of Mr. Motley, remarks that he is said to be the exponent of the latest American ideas on the subject of the Alabama, and the war generally. It will be interesting to learn in what 1 , respects Mr. Motley considers the late stipulations tc have been. unsatisfactory. If we are invited to discuss the question of England's right to recognise the Southerners as belligerents, it will be for het Majesty's Government to decide whether, after all that has been said and written on the subject, it is worth while to revive that controversy. There are limits beyond which national courtesy cannot pass, and when we are asked to acknowledge that an ordinary act of national sovereignty, necessary for the due security of our own commerce, was an offence against the Americans to be expiated by apologies or payments there cannot be much use in discussion. At all events, the position of this country is satisfactorily defined. We have simply to await the overtures, if any, which Mr. Motley is instructed to make, and to consider the proofs he may adduce that the rejected treaty would have necessarily furnished an insufficient settlement. If his arguments be ea cogent as to justify the rejection of a treaty, the fruit of a long and laborious negotiation, in which almost every proposal of his own Government was acceded to by ours. then, and only then, we may fairly enter into a new inquiry: The Heroic/ calls attention to the good work just com pleted by Miss Burdett Couttain the East-end of London. The opening of the new market for the poOr of that swarming district will be a substantial boon. There would be some difficulty in estimating the advantages thus con ferred upon a long-unfortunate population. It clears cut and purifies a pestiferous locality; it creates decency in the place of disgust and discomfort ; it elevates the popular idea; and it establishes, for the humble consumer, a source of wholesome and cheap supply. More than all, it invigorates and stimulates the long stagnant guart,:r.. These benefits, bestowed in a spirit so judicionA au,l g€'ller4)ll3, will be apprcciated by all who have witnessed the incessant conflict carried on between the very roar of the metropolis and their tradesmen. But thy rivalry ; it destroys the pitiful molt , ; - oliea notori.us in low. ; it givcs ; better tone both to credit anti to cet.nt;rny ; anti it acts a! a check upon the ruinous system of OclArt incurred under the apparently easy principle of weekly payments. In addition, it gives to the population superior facilities for living. And when, in combination with this, we bear in mind the horrors that are abolished, and the squalor which is miti gated, bc.th. by the new lodging-houses and the new market, we think v,-e are only expressing the public senti. anent when We say that a debt of gratitude is due to Miss Coutts which only the approVal of her owia 5cir,4005014 " ' ' • . a. market intra,iacc3 a 1. LAW LND POLICE. THE CASE OF MD. EMIUNDS.—In the action brougnt by Mr. Leonard Edmunds against Mr. Greenwood, for alleged libellous statements made in a report to the Com missioners of Patents, the Court of Common Pleas on Tuesday made an order of reference, embodying the terms upon which it was originally agreed that the mattershould be disposed of by arbitration. Should any difference arise, it is to be settled by one of her Majesty's judges. RESCUE BY A Doo.—At Marylebone Police-court Robert Andrews, Lamb's Conduit-street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. The groom of, Captain Talbot said that he was out with the captain's dog, and going along the bank he saw a man plunging about in the water. He told the dog to fetch him out, and it dived down and got hold of the prisoner's collar. The dog pulled him up and brought him to the side, where witness dragged him on shore. Mr. D'Eyncourt asked if any cause had been assigned for the rash act, and was informed that the prisoner had had a quarrel with his parents, and thought he would commit suicide. Andrews was remanded. A ROMAXCE.A_YD A TILIGEDY. The Memphis Avalanche of the Eth inst. says : "At some distance from Grand Gulf reside two respectable families, those of Cushing and Andrews. Miss Andrews was a lovely girl of 17, well accomplished, and 9f un usually fascinating manners. Mr. Cushing's son, a youth of 20, had been attached to her from their early childhood, and as he grew older his affection became an ardent absorbing passion. A short time ago he made a formal offer of his hand, when, to his intense disappointment and mortification, his offer was firmly though courteously refused. He brooded over his ill-rewarded passion ane became a prey to jealousy, and at length left the neighbourhood, vowing madly that he would come back and take his revenge. On Sunday last he returned, and riding up to Mr. Andrews's house he begged to see Miss Andrews at the doer without alighting. ,She came out, when lie suddenly produced a pistol, fired, shooting her through the body, and she fell on her face and died without a struggle. The murderer rode frantically away, but Miss Andrews's brother, breathing fury toward the murderer of his sister, sprang on a horse and followed. He came up with Cushing as the latter was crossing a creek and fired at him. Cushing jumped from his horse, and took shelter in the bush. Andrews did the same. A parley ensued, and theiwo yottng men agreed to fight according to the code—to leave the cover, fire, advance, and fire, and again advance, firing until one of them should fall. At the first fire Gushing received a mortal wound in the left shoulder, but the men continued to near each other and fire until their revolvers were empty. When assistance arrived Cushing lay dead, with four bullets in his body. Andrews had received three shots in his breast. Ile was able to tell how the fight had taken place, v:Len Le also expired." BENJAMIN HIGGS AND THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CO.IIPA NY. In anticipation of the forthcoming meeting of share holders, the directors of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Company have prepared a report, which, so far as it relates to their absconding clerk, Benjamin Higgs, and his misdeeds, bas considerable interest. The result of a thorough investigation, they say, is that the large sum of £71,214 odd has been stolen. That this could have been effected is astounding to them. At their weekly meet ings the directors had the banker's pass-book and the company's cash-book produced and carefully called over, to see that all moneys paid to the company bad been duly passed to their account at the bank. They had also produced to them a weekly statement of the rental due, with . the sum collected and the amount of arrears, and the collectors were constantly called before the board. and examined as to their collections and the reasons of accounts being in arrear. But it is now ascertained that the cash-book was falsely made up ; that the system of check, as described by the auditors, was not carried out in the office ; that the collectors had from time to time paid their money into the office instead of to the bankers ; that the accountant the superior of Higgs whose duty it was to check the payments into the cash-book from the actual receipts, had contented himself with copying the banker's book, in which a portion only of the receipts of Higgs appeared, thus rendering the labours of the directors futile. Higgs had obtained entire supervision of the office, and being an able accountant and constant at his work, from nine o'clock in the morning frequentlyuntil late in the evening, had been allowed to control and con duct the whole business of the outer office. He had been in the company's employment seventeen years, and had served his articles with Mr. Jackson, an accountant in Guildhall buildings, coming to the company with the highest cha racter, " which he had apparently deserved up to the time of his absconding." Ills salary was originally £lOO a year, but was afterwards increased to its present amount. 21-15. The directors did not know, nor had they the slightest suspicion that he was living otherwise than as befitted his position, and the accounts they had since received of his wicked extravagance had come upon them with the utmost surprise. The fact of his absconding was first notified to the chairman by the secretary on Sunday, the ith of March, and it was then supposed that he had appropriated a small sum received by him for gas pro ducts. The accounts were then thoroughly investigated with the deplorable result stated in the report of the audi tors, and the directors regret to add that, notwithstand ing the efforts of the ablest detective officers, Higgs is still at large, but every exertion is being made to bring him to justice. The directors say, however, they are glad to be able to point to the solid prosperity of the company, and they propose in order to meet the defalcations, to appropriate £lO,OOO a year out of money available for dividend. The report of the auditors (Mr. G. C. Begbie and Mr. Henry Chatteris), which is appended, states that, in ac cordance with the instructions of the board, they had inves tigated the books and accounts with a view to ascertain the amount of Higgs's defalcations, as well as the time when the frauds commenced and the method by which they were effected. The frauds, according to the auditors, appeared to have been committed in three differents ways--namely, by abstracting money brought to the office by collectors, by abstracting part of the receipts for gas products, and by applying to his own use checks given to him by the secretary to pay to creditors of the company. Instead of complying with the rule to pay all their receipts to the bankers, the collectors appeared in very numerous instances to have left both the money and lists at the company's office, and thus Higgs, having got possession of both, was enabled to, and did, appropriate to himself, in some instance; the whole, and, in others, part of the amounts of such lists. The auditors state that they are unable to suggest any improvement in the system of the company's accounts, and that the frauds could not by possibility have been committed had the very excellent rule of paying all money direct into the bank been strictly adhered to. If the company's accountant bad received the original lists from the collectors, and compared them with the rental or the banker's pass-book, the frauds must have been at once dis covered. The debit side of the cash-book was merely a transcript from the pass-book, and the object cf the weekly examination of those books at each board was thus com pb inletn business, e nh l y ee s s f d r u , esh s a t ey r n a t t it e i hrdee. orauN o ds h. i ato r r r e e g u a c l a c r o i u t n y t s h . a d T b e h e e n e d re i o s ms c p o p e v ar e no r yu e , d ss state than might have been w expected in a pectecl more so serious e r P loss. • CRIME IN BIRMINGUAM.—The local papers corn ' plain that crime in Birmingham is certainly and steadily rising. Last week, for example, the daily average number of prisoners in the gaol was 482, as compared with 369 in the corresponding week of. 1868 —an increase of 113, or more than 33 per cent. The number of cells in the gaol is only 467, so that it is no longer possible to maintain the separate system in its integrity. The i observe, extends t o b o th sexes, and to adult and juvenile we prisoners. A STORY FROM AmtiticA.—The facility with which the marriage tie_may be dissolved in some parts of the United States is illustrated in the story of an Ohio woman, as related by the Cleveland Hevald, March 26. This woman's married life began in 1861, when her husband enlisted in the Union army and was killed at Bull's R un. . Within a week she married another man, who was killed shortly afterwards in a street brawl. As she returned home from the funeral, innel admir:rg her good fortune, No. 3 proposed to her, and the next day they were married. She did not like this one, and as he seemed to be rather tardy in following the example of his predecessors, she sued for a divorce and gained i';. A few months passed and she married again, but once more the courts were invelzed to dksolve the tie. Thie brings the romance of love . down to May, lB7, when No-5 married the experienced wife, but after two months. sli s e disposed of him with the :I'd of the friendly , Divorce COurt. She remarried, was aga:n divOrced, and iin February 1838 iear.ied No. 7. This union lasted a iyear; when the persev.ering wife aepiied f o r anet b ei divorce, " and she is now an x i ous l y wa i t i ng for No. 8." -Ai better client than this no lauy er p ract i s i ng in the Divore, Courts could desire. Her daughter by adoption is said to be likely to eclipse the reputation of the mother. In 18; she married a brother of her mother's husband, " thus," as the Cleveland paper truly says, " mixing up the relation question fearfully.' But she was capricious in her tastes, obtained a divorce, and married her second husband on the day her mother married No. 7. By the last accounts she had just been left a "grass widow" at the age of seventeen. This interestiii.a family would be a credit. mu taLClticago. • • - .. __ . _ . . _ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1869 THE PR&IDEIVT S LETTER TO CONGRESS To the Senate and House of Representatives : While I am aware that the time in which Con gress proposes now to remain in session is very brief, and that it is its desire as far as consistent with the public interest to avoid entering,upon the gene ral business of legislation, there is one subject which concerns so deeply the welfare of the coun try that I deem it my duty to bring it before you. I have no doubt that you will concur with me in the opinion that it is desirable to restore the Stases which were engaged in the Rebellion to their pro per relations to the Government and the country at al early a period as the people of those States shall be found willing to become peaceful and or derly communities, and to adopt and maintain such constitutions and laws as will effectually secure the civil and political rights of all persons within their borders. The authority of the United States, which has been vindicated and established by its military power, must undoubtedly be asserted for the absolute protection of all its citizens in the full enjoyment of the freedom and security which is the object of the Republican Government. But when ever the people of a rebellious State arc ready to enter in good faith upon the accomplishment of this object, in entire conformity with the constitutional authority of Congress, it is certainly desirable that all causes of irritation should be removed as promptly as possible, that a more perfect union may be esta blished, and the country restored to peace and pro sperity. The Convention of the people of Virginia, which met in Richmond on Tuesday, December 3, 1867, framed a Constitution for that State, which was adopted by the Convention on the 17th of April, 1868, and I desire respectfully to call the attention of Congress to the propriety of providing by the law for the holding of an election in that State at some tithe during the mouths of May and June next, under the direction of the Military Com mander of the District, at which the question of the adoption of that Constitution shall be submitted to the citizens of the State; and if this should seem de sirable I would recommend that a separate vote be taken upon such parts as may be thought expedient, and that at the same time, and under the same authority, there shall be an election for the officers provided under such Constitution, and that the Constitution, or such parts thereof as shall have been adopted by the people, be submitted to Con gress on the first Monday of December next, for its consideration, so that, if the same be then ap proved, the necessary steps will have been taken for the restoration of the State of Virginia to its proper relations to the Union. I am led to make this recommendation from the confi dent hope and belief that the people of that State are now ready to co-operate with the National Go vernment in bringing it again into such relations to the Union as it ought, as soon as possible, to estab lish and maintain, and to give to all, its people these equal rights under the law which are asserted in the Declaration of Independence, in the words of one of the most illustrious of its sins. I desire also to ask the consideration of Congress to the ques tion whether there is not just ground for believing that the Constitution framed by a Convention of the people of Mississippi for that State, and once rejected, might not be again submitted - to the people of that State in like manner, and with the pro bability of the same result. U. S. GRANT. IVa3hington, D.C., April 7, 1869. CONGRESS. THE SENATE. On the 2d April Mr. Sherman introduced a bill establishing a new standard for American coinage, so as to promote a uniformity of currency among the nations. The Indian Appropriation. Bill,4as passed, with an amendment, providing for ten com missioners, to be selected for their intelligence and philanthropy, who shall, in conjunction with the Indian Bureau, under the direction of the Presi dent, supervise the disbursement of the Indian Ap propriations.—On the 3d Mr. Sumner introduced a bill repealing the act prohibiting importation of slaves, it being designed to take from the statutes the only remaining law relating to slavery. Mr. Davis objecting to its consideration, it was tabled. The House resolution of adjournment was con curred in, after being amended so as to adjourn on the 10th inst. The resolution to protect the inte rests of the United States in the Union Pacific Railroad was considered.—On the sth th e bill providing an oath of office for persons who par ticipated in the rebellion was reported. Mr. SuM ner introduced a bill to prevent the United States Courts from enforcing contracts concern ing slaves. The joint resolution "to protect the interests of the United States in the Union Pacific Railroad" was discussed.—On the 6th the Defi ciency Appropriation Bill was reported ; also a bill reorganizing the clerical force of the Departments. Mr. Morton introduced a resolution directing that the Senators from the reconstructed States be paid from the beginning of the Second session of the last Congress. The reiolution was tabled. The Union Pacific Railroad resolution was considered, but not acted upon.—On the 7th the Chaplain opened with a prayer for Cuban independence. Mr. Sumner, from the. Foreign Committee, reported a bill to prevent counterfeiting of foreign trade marks. Mr. Wilson, from the Military, Committee, reported a bill to protect soldiers and their heirs in the matter of bounties. The bill amendatory of tfie judicial system was passed with amendments, and sent to the House for concurrence. The Pacific Railroad resolution was postponed, and the Deficiency Bill was considered and passed with amendments. A message was received from the President, recom mending that Congress make provision for the hold ing of elections in Virginia and Mississippi some time during May or June. After an executive ses sion, the Senate adjourned.—On the Bch the Judi ciary Committee made a report, recommending that the consideration of the President's message be postponed until December. The Whisky and To- Lacco Bill was considered, and several amendments were agreed to. The House bill for elections in Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas was tabled. The conference report on the Indian appropriations and House amendment to the bill reorganising the judi cial system were agreed to. The House amendment to the Judicial Bill provides for retiring justices at the age of seventy, after ten years' service. The House bill making an appropriation for harbour improvement was passed. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY. It seems as if all parties in the Church were beginning to , admit that the Act of Uniformity is an intolerable burden. The Broad Church party were the first to protest against it, and the one achieve ment of the Canterbury Convocation has been to relax the.terms of clerical subscription. The recent Ritual judgment has made the High Church party cry out against the measure of two hundred years ago. But the strongest condemnation of all comes from a leading Low Churchman. Mr. Ryle, writing to the Record, says : "The Acit of Uniformity was a wretched Act—wretched because it was a flat contradiction to the King's own pro mise at Breda before be returned to England—wretched because it turned out of the Church hundreds of excellent ministers 'Who might have been retained by a few mode rate concessions—wretched because it laid the foundation of an imMose mass of mineonformity, and inflicted wounds oil'. our Church which will never be healed. Against this miserable Act—miserable as a gross breach of faith—miserable for its vindictive spitefulness—• miserable-for its encrmons impolicy-miserable in its con ception, and miserable in it; consequences (he continued), lal xvays have protested and shall protest. An Act which needlessly drove out of our pale hundreds of the best Pr,,testant and Evangelical divines of the seventeenth century is an Act which deserves the reprobation of all .faithful Churchmen. We are reaping the fruits of it in the sad heresies and divisions of the present day. The Church of England lost some of her best blood two hundred years ago, and that blood has never been replaced." , _ • Of course each party has its own object in view when raising its voice against the Caroline Statute. We need hardly say that it is not with any View of admitting the Nonconformists into communion that the Ritualists desire the repeal of the law. TEE PUBLIC DELI OF AMERICA. The following is the official statement of the public debt of the United States, on tho Ist day of April, 1869: DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. Authorizing Acts and Amount Out- Accrued character of Issue. standing. Interest. Juno 16, 1858, bonds, 5 p r cent June 20, 1860, bonds, 5 per cent Feb. 8, 1861, bonds, 6 per cent. 18,415,000 00 276,225 00 March 2, 1861, Oregon war bonds, 6 per cent 945,000 00 14,175 00 July 17 and August 5, 1861, bonds, 1881, 6 per cent 183,317,700 00 2,839,461 00 Feb. 25, 1862, 5 20's, 6 per cent. March 6, 1863, bonds, 6 per cent. March 3, 18154, 10-40 . bonds, 5 per cent - 191,567,300 00 810,697 08 March 3, 1861,5-30 bonds, 6 per cent. Jnue 30,1864.5-20 bonds, 6 per cent. March 3, 1865, 5-30 bands, 6 per cent. 203,327,250 00 4,741,302 50 March 3, 1865, 5-20 bonds, 6 per cent. March 3, 1865, 5.20 Bonds 6 per cent 42,539,350 00 638,090 25 $2,107,876,650 00 $37,579,090 07 DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONEY.' March 2, 1867, July 2, 1868, 3 per cent. certi ficates July 23, 1868, navy pen sion fund 14,000,000 00 105,000 00 $38,605,000 00 $924,075 00 MATT:RED DEBT NOT PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT. April 15,1842, 6 per cent. bonds 6,000 00 360 00 April 15, 1842, 6 per cent. bonds April 15, 1842, 6 per cent. bonds Texas indemnity 5 per cent. bonds 252,000 00 15,120 00 Treasury notes, 6 per cent 104,511 64 3,135 35 Treasury notes, 5 to oi per cent 2,400 00 120 00 Treasury notes, 6 to 12 per cent 5OO 00 - 30 00 Treasury notes, 6 per cent Treasury notes, 3-year 7-30's . Treasury notes, 1 and 2- year 5 per cent 360,192 00 1 8 ,209 60 Certificates indebtedness, 4 per cent. Compound interest notes, 6 per cent 3,220,690 00 • 624,813 86 Temporary loan 188,510 00 7 ,768 55 Treasury notes, 7-30 s 1,633,100 00 119,216 30 • $6,003,403 64 $800,511 56 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Demand notes, no int $124,122 50 U.S. legal tenders 855,941,032 50 Postal currency 36,675,830 00 Gold certificates of de posit 21,672,500 00 6414,413,485 00 RECAPITAUATION OP DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. 5 per cent. bonds .. 527,022,000 CO 6337,775 00 10-40 bonds 194,567,300 00 810,697 08 6 per cent. bonds, 1881 283,677,400 00 4,255,161 00 5-20 Bonds 1,602,609,590 00 32,175,697 00 Amount outstanding 52,107,876,650 00 Debt bearing currency interest in lawful money $68,605,000 00 Debt on which inte rest has ceased since maturity Debt bearing no interest $414,413,485 00 ' Total debt Principal and interest 52,636,202,455 28 Coin in Treasury Gold certificates of deposit Currency 002;628 42 Total vebt less cash in Treasury '.......t2,525,196,461 71 BONDS ',SEXED TO THE tiNION• PACIFIC RAILROAD _ COMPANY. - ----- —Amount -- Accrued Outstanding. interest. 6 per cent bonds Union Paciflo'R. R. East ern divisi on 6,303,000. 94 r 5 4o Sioux City and PaciAc ' $389,.970 00 18,641. 03 Central Neill . **** R. ** ****** ' 2;362,000 lt. I; , ~ *** . . .. 7 J 5 , '9 6 9 2 8 8;2 ° 0 9 i . ' 24;424 80 Intro 277.615 38,732, 27 Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad, A ssig- ' - Twos of Atehinson and Pike's Peak Railroad 1,600,000 244000 00 Western Pacific Railroad 320,000 4,820 00 ' Totals ............... $56,853,320 ' $840,107 07 Interest seemed prior to January Ist and 16th, 1869, $3,300,006 05. Of this amount the United States has re ceived from transportation, &c., the sum of $1,319,352 78. Balm:lce due, 82,828,760 31.; Total; $4,146,113 12. The foregoing is a correct statetnentof tho public debt, as ap pears from the books and .Treasurer's returns in the De pattment on April 1, 1869. . GEORGE S. TIOUTWELL, Secretary of the Treasury. By comparison with the statement of March 1, 1869, it will be seen that the principal of the debt has been de creased 5,2,573,039 28, while, during the same period, 82,915,320 has been issued to the Pacift Rsilrcad Com pany, and branches, making a total reduction of debt proper of 55,507,359. This statement embraces only the receipts as shown by returns received up to noon of to-day and would have been• reduced by $4,000,000 additional had it been withheld until the 6th or 7th of the month as • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. On the 2d April the River and Harbour Appro priation Bill was reported. The Election Committee reported that J. L. Hoag is prima facie entitled to the seat from the Third District of South Carolina. The contested case of Covode v. Foster, of Pennsyl vania, was taken upand referred back to the Election Committee.—On the 3d the Judiciary Commitee re ported a bill allowing criminals to testify in their owu behalf in cases in the Federal courts. The Miscel laneous Deficiency Bill was passed. It appropriates $ 2 ,563,951. The Senate amendment to the adjourn ment resolution, changing the day to the 10th, was concurred in. Mr. Garfield, from the Census Com mittee, reported a bill providing for taking the census.--On the sth a number of bills were intro duced, among them one by Mr. Judd, to amend the bankrupt laws ; one by Mr. Stevens, giving full wages to Government employes for eight hours' work ; and two by Mr. Witians to provide for funding the debt, and to amend the laws taxing spirits and tobacco. Mr. Coburn introduced a Supplementary Currency Bill, which went over until the 12th inst. The Indian Appropriation Bill was reported. Mr. Farnsworth introduced a reso lution providing for an election in Virginia, which was referred.— On the 6ththe Census Bill was consi dered and passed. The Election Committee reported a resolution giving the seat from the Third Pen nsyl vauia District to Leonard Myers; also one declar ing that M'Crune, electe 1 from the Fifth District of Louisiana, is ineligible. The Indian Appropria tion Bill was cousidered.—On the 7th a bill was reported from the Ways and Means Committee and passed, repealing the act allowing the carrying of suits to - the Supreme Court in revenue cases id volving small amounts. The Election Committee reported a bill to enable John B. Rogers Wassurite his seat as Representative from the Third Tennes see District. Mr. Butler, - froth the Reconitiuction Committee, reported the Georgia Bill, but the House refused to second,the previous - question on its passage. A bill appropriating $2,C00,000 for har bour improvements under the direction of the Secre tary of War was reported and passed. The Judi ciary Committee repotted a. Naturalization Bill. A message from the President, asking' Congress to provide for elections in Virginia and Mississippi, was received, and motions were made to refer it to the Reconstruction Committee and to the JUdi ciary Committee, pending which the House ad journed.—On the Bth the President's Message was referred to the .Reconstruction Committee. The resolution declaring S. L. Hodge entitled prima facie to the seat from the Third District of South Carolina was adopted, and he was sworn in. Mr. Butler, from the Reconstruction Committee, re ported a bill, which was passed, providing for elec- Mississippi, an d Texas, with an tions in Virginia, amendment, to enable voters to reject obnoxious portions of the proposed constitutions. Mr. Lynch introduced a bill to amend the Currency Actj A resolution from the Election Committee declaring L. A. Sheldoia entitled to the seat from the Third Louisiana District was adopted. The conference re port on the Indian appropriations was concurred in. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotalion of geld At Paris is about at par, • and tee short exchange on London is 25f. 171 e. per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Hint price of Es Os. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appers that gold at the above price is of abJut the same value in Lon , don and Paris. The course of-ex . elsange at New York on London for bills at CO days' sight : Was on the last date about 1 8f percent At this rate there is no profit on the importation of:gold from the Uni cd ,ttates. Missouri Pacific Railroad Bonds, California Pa cific Railroad Ronde, and Rockford, Rock island, and St. Louis Railway Bonds have lately been introduced in the Frankfort Exchange. The two former are 'as good seem ity as can ba found anywhere, and meet with ready sale. The price of Missouri Pacific are at present 71k. W. and J. Seligman and Co., of New York, have been appointed United States Government Bankers to transmit funds to Europe for diplomatic and consular officers. This is quite a compliment to this rich and re spectable fifth, who dO probably the most general business in American stocks of any house - in Europe.' They :have a house in London, one in Paris, Seligman Brothers, and oue iu Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Seligman and Stittheimer. LAD vEensEmENT.J—henceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabic& Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeliss, wo may now add that of his Holiness the Pope , whose health has been perfectly restoreaby it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment: We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 25th Rome, July 21, 1866. -. The health of tho Holy Father is ex cellent , especially dillee, abandoning all other retire dies, he has confined, himself entirely to Du Barry's Revtilenta Arabic°. Food, of which he consumes a plizteful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health,.and his Holiness cannot pra i se .thi e , excellent food too highly." We extract a few out ofmera than 68,000 cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver, complaint wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervouS palpitation, all over, bad digestion, constant slpeplessnees, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: LOrii Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation; flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomitine —Maria Joly " Cure No. 46.270: Mr James Roberts, of Fri&ley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, 'I/Jilting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial deafness. Im portant caution —Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.. In tins, at Is. lid.; 1 lb. 28. ed.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d ; 5 lbs. lls. ; 12 lbs, 225. ; *, 4 lbs, 40s. Alec Du BARRY'S BIVALENT . ..I. AF RI.CA CHOCO LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 25., for 21 cupsat.3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at 303., for 576 cups at 55 s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office 0r der. —BARRY DU BARRY and Co., NO. 77, Regent stmt., Lon and all Girixtre and Chemists. THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY. The Rev. 11. P: Liddon writes to .the Times to correct the statement of the Pall gall Gazette that the Bishop of Salisbury has " broken down both in mind and body." 'Mr. Liddon says that throughout his long and painful illness the Bishop's mind has been perfectly clear, although he has not been allowed to attend to business. It is also untrue, so far as Bishop Hamilton is concerned, that " persua sion- and remonstrance have been exhausted in a fruitless effort to induce " the Bishop and three other prelates " to resign in order that. efficient successors may be appointed." No such' remonstrance from any quarter has reached the Bishop or those about him. Mr. Liddon adds : "The simple fact is that the Bishop of Salisbury is a man in the prime of life who has been struck down in the midst of his work by a fatal illness. In resisting its ravages his lordship's constitution has discovered a strength and resources for which his mediCal advisers were unpre pared. More than three months ago it seemed as if the struggle could only last a few days at ..most ; and if the Bishop had not insisted upon continuing to work in his diocese in the autumn of last year, when he ought to have been in bed or at the seaside, it is, humanly speaking, at least possible that his life Might ha ve b een spared for many years to come." The case of the Bishop of Salisbury has always, except by the Pall Mall Gazette, been treated diffe rently from that of the other southern bishops— Exeter, Winchester, and Chichester. It does not follow that because a man has been struck down by a severe illness that he ought to resign his post, whatever it be. If there is hope of recovery within a reasonable time, no one would ask him to resign or blame him for not resigning. But what does Mr. Liddon mean by a - " - fatal " illness ? If the case is hopeless, surely the BiShop of Salisbury ought to be included in the same list at his other incapable brethren. The Morning Herald asserts that the Bishop is so much better within the last few days that it is hoped he will soon be able to resume his clerical duties, but Mr. Liddon, who is the Bishop's examining chaplai n , oug ht to know. What, too, about the Bishop of Carlisle, who seems to be quite incapacitated for work ? Is this only tem porary, or is this northern diocese to be added to the list of southern dioceses, which are without "respon sible episcopal government," whose people are in the condition of sheep without a shepherd ? ODIUM RITSTICTIM. It is not only the Church papers that fall foul of each other; the agricultural papers are accomplish ing the same satisfactory feat. There is ,a feud, for instance, between the Math Lane _Express and the Chamber of Agriculture trournal, because the former cries down the Chambers of Agriculture which the latter was started to represent. The first declares that the Chambers are likely to do . great mischief, because they are composed of the landlords who will advance their interests at the expense of the tenants, awl whose one.great object is to get into Parliament. The second denies both assertions, and contends that the Chambers, especially the Cen tral Chamber, are obtaining for the agricultural class generally an influence upon the Legislature which that class never possessed before. At the next meeting, to be held on May 4th, several Most important subjects will be disciissed---the Adultera tion of Seeds Bill, the•malt tax, local taxation; the Valuation of Property Bill, county financial boards, and the over-preservation of game. The agricul turists are very sanguine that now Mr. Lowe has pro . - posed to:take . the shilling duty off - corn, he will be compelled by: thelogic of his own arguments to at least modify the malt tax. The Chamber will Sup port the recommendation of the Select Committee that " until the :amount of the malt duty can be spared from the revemie considerable benefit would ensue from repealing the tax on malt,: and obtaining an equivalent in the least objectionable manner from beer." The resolution prefers that the tax should cease to be imposed upon the raw material, barley, and that ft should:be levied instead upon the :manufactured article, lieer ; but it leaves, the question open, whether " in - . the least- objectionable manner" Would be by a direct duty upon each barrel. of beer brewed for sale, with graduated licenses - for private brewers, or by licenses altogether for both public and private breweries. 3f ArNOOTIL Mr. Layar(l, 3.1 r. Glad Stone,. is called to account for his opinions on the Maynooth clauses. A Mi: . PoWell, - 'who writes from Glebe -terrac e , Bermondsey, is the examiner. Mr. Powell asks Mr. Layard whether he did not pledge himself not to hand over any moneys of the • Irish Church to " Roman Catholicity;" and if he did, whether he is going to break his pledge by voting for the re= endowment of Maynooth. Mr. Layard replies that, in his opinion, the Maynooth clauses are j ust, and he breaks no pledge in voting for them. Mr. Powell retorts td this that opinions are not facts. Maynooth belongs to the Roman Catholics. Mr. Layard pledged himself to hand over no Irish Church money to the Roman Catholics. The 39th and 40th clauses of the bill provide that money " stolen" from the Irish Church shall be given to Maynooth. This is handing money t o the Roman Catholics. Mr. Layard is about to vote for it. " Therefore," exclaims Mr. Powell triumphantly, "I distinctly charge you (Mr. Layard) with the violation of the pledge you have given, which, in my opinion, mate rially detracts from your position as an honest legis lator." To this very energetic charge the First Com missioner of Works makes no reply. ANOTHER ARCHDEACON ON STATE CHURCHES. Archdeacon Sinclair, v i ca r of Kensington, in his annual charge. to the clergy of Middlesex, took up that irresistible subject, the Irish Church. His sub ject was "Progress." After referring to thodifferent kinds of progress, literary, scientific, and political, the Archdeacon turned to the question of Church Establishments, and denied that the State establish ment and endowment of Churches was at variance with the spirit of Christianity. From the earliest times the Church had accepted endowments in money and land, and the propriety of doing so was never called in question. - When Constantine placed the, Christian Church in union with the . State,. no one thought .it a retro gressive measure ; nor was -the voluntary prin ciple. contended for in. later days, when .i the era of the Reformation the different . schools of Protestantism in England. Scotland, - and . on'the Con tinent had the option of establishment or dis-establish mentVWeii them. The ArchdeaCon quoted froth the "Westminster Confession of Faith," the "Bohemian Confession," the " Confession of . Saxony," &c., to shew that the reformers both .at home and abroad, did not discover in Holy Scripture any recommen dations of disendowment and disestablishment.. TILE SCOTTISH PEEILA(P. That the House of Lords must soon- be reformed is becoming ever - ,,7 day more apparent. The exclu sisystem of the English peerage 'is hardly hereditarydlylike to • survive many years. The hybrid hereditary-repreientative plan . of the Irish and Scotch peerages, , with its -anomaly-. of.. onesided representation, can hardly hold its own much longer. And if these blots are not speedily wiped out, the larger one of whether. it is expedient that Men who " spend their days in riot most uncouth" should because of an accident of birth have the power of controlling legislation be fully discussed. " II." who is evi dently an enthusiastic Scotchman, complains of another anomaly. 't The Scottish n o bility," h e says, " are now, probably, as a body, the oldest in respect to title, and the greatest in . respect to wealth in the country, yet do they not sit as peers of the realm in it very invidious way? The Duke of Buccleuch sits there as Earl of Doncaster; the Duke of Argyll as Baron Sundridge, and others in a similar way; their great historic names ignbred in Parliament in favozi of English baronies (given them to secure an entrance): fames such as the Earls of Morton, of Moray, of Home, of Airlie, with which the whole history of our land is illustrated, sit but by occa sional representation. Those whore deeds have ennobled their country, so to speak, are not them selves counted noble, or have no 'permanent place among our senators, while those who have . lyat , achieved a personal success in la w , i n commerce; or political 'Service of a secondary order, are freely :"adnaitted and perManently enrolled." 31,1ILITARY Y.NLISTDIENT AND SERVICE. clearly' his scheme for the rerorm Oi ofZ 07 - fincca, CY military enlistment and service. His idea,' like Sir Charles Trevelyan's, is that of a popular army, with advantages to the soldier, a certain amount of free dom, and short service. But in giving, his opinion of enlistment to the House of Lords, he appears to have been misunderstood. His proposal is to have the regular army and the militia brought as far as possible into connection. He would have tha same period and mode of enlistment in both, would train the. soldier. apart from either, and then give. him the choice of which he would serve in, the one being a home army and the other intewled for foreign service. CROSS-CUPPING IN TEE ARMY. - &onie correspondents of the Telegraph continue the discussion on the subject of cross-cupping in the army. One of them declares that he has himself ~ performed th e " barbarous operation by order in cases where it was not only unnecessary, but posi tively injurious. That this operation is done chiefly as a mar:, is known to the men themselves, and some objected to it strongly on that score. An excellent suggestion is made by one writer, that a member of Parliament should move - for a:return of the number of soldiers discharged from the army during the last live years who had previously undergone the operation of cross-cupping. It isuselss asking questions on thesub j ect, as equivocation in replying is too often resorted to. "A Pensioner" proposes that Mr. Cardwell should attend a pension ollice any pension day and improve his knowledge by ocular demonstration. Some details are given by one who was stationed in Ireland many years ago. The d,inp atmosphere affected his health, and the doctor subjected hnii to cross-cupping to cure him of his supposed partiality for the hospital. THE REPRIEVE OF CHARLES WILTSHIRE. Sir George Jenkinson opens a letter to the Times with the complaint- that the forms of the House ' prevented him from speaking in reply to Mr. Bruce in the matter of the reprieve of Charles Wiltshire. Seeing that the member for North Wilts has spoken during his brief Parliamentary life more . tban older members do in several sessions, it may be looked upon as rather good than evil that an accident of form should shut his mouth, even though he be never so eloquent. But Sir George will not be cheated out of an opportunity of laying his opinions" before the country. If his name cannot be found under the head " House of Commons," it shall be seen in the correspondence column. We are, therefore, treated to a letter.from the hon. baronet. He charges Mr. Bruce with hav ing altogether avoided the most important part of the question put to him, whether Wiltshire endeavoured to murder his warder, and hints that this circumstance ought to have prevented a reprieve. "It may be right," he says, " that women arc never hung for the murder of their children, but I doubt the wisdom of such an announcement being made in Parliament by the IlOrne Secretary. It may be right that juries should convict pro forma and sly ' Guilty' in public, but Not Guilty' privately. It may be right that judges should sentence convicted murderers to be lung in the same way—With a private reservation ; and it may be right that, out of eleven .mur derers so convicted and so sentenced, six should be hung and five reprieved, some being alleged- to be innocent and some insane, though not so - found at the trial, and on no subsequent evidence that anyone has ever heard of. It maybe right that Sheward should be hung on his own sole confession, unsupported, for a murder done, as he says, eighteen years ago, and that this nice man, C. Wiltshire, convicted of rape, a murder,. and attempted murder since, should not be hung. But all this, if right, should not depend solely on the private decision of any one man, he . he Horne Secre tary or anyone else, but should be decided by some tr:banal, on some evidence which should be made public, and which could bear the test of oxamina tion." THE HULL CONVENT CASE. It is well known that the defendants in this case have made an application to set aside the verdict on technical grounds. But, looking at the state of the cause list, it is not likely that this application will be heard for several months. Meanwhile, Miss Saurin has filed a bill in Chancery, praying that it may be . declared that she was improperly excluded from the convent, that the rights of the defendants in the convent may be ascertained, that the property of the convent may be realised under the directions of the court and divided between the plaintiff and the other persons entitled to it, that the defendants may be restrained from selling their property, that some proper person may be appointed receiver of it, that in addition to a substitution for any part of the relief hereby prayed, damages may be awarded to . the plaintiff, that the defendants may be ordered to pay the costs of this suit, and that the plaintiff may have such further relief as she may require. The bill then goes on to relate the history of Miss Saurin's connection with the convent, and asserts that just before the late trial Mrs. Starr and Mrs. Kennedy, knowing that they had no good defence to the action about to be brought against them, surrendered to two of the Sisters their share in the convent property-; further, that in order to render nugatory any appeal on behalf of the plaintiff - to -.the authorities of the Boman Catholic Church,. the defendants have since . : the trial determined to break up the convent, and are realising the. property. Of course *this . is Miss Vaurin's:Version of ,the facts, but it is stated that by filing this bill the completion of a sale of land belonging to the convent, and valued at £5,000, has been prevented. DEATH OF AN OLD M.P. The death is announced of Mr. Henry Bingham Baring at Nice. Mr. Baring sat for Callington in the Parliament of 1831. In 1832 he was elected for Marlborough, and continued to represent that borough until the dissolu tion of 1868. a period of thirty-six years. Under the late Reform Bill, Marlborough lost one Of its members, and this was reserved by the Marquis of Ailesbury, the lord paramount, for his own family, Mr. Baring did not offer himself for any other constituency, and was, therefore, not in Parlia- Ment at the time of his death. He was a Liberal- Conservative, and a Lord of the Treasury in Sir Robert Peel's Administration. His first wife was the sister of the late 'Earl of Cardigan, and through her he was connected with the Marquis of Ailesbury. Mr. Baring was born in 1804. BUDGET OF PERSONAL—Miss Kellogg receives, it is said, £5O a night, which some papers appear to think a large suni, but which we do not, considering her talents —General Simon Bolivar. Buckner has gone into the life assurance agency business at New Orleans. —Anna Dickin son is lecturing in Kansas, the favourite ground for Woman's Rights' Women.—A subscription is being taken in Kentucky to buy John C. Breckenridge a residence at Lexington ; the rebel generals certainly require houses more than their conquerors, who get Executive mansion's andquicter themselves generally on the country. The-Hon. Dither Dixon was re-elected Chief Justice of Wisconsin on Monday, April s.—Geo. F. Nesbitt, the well known printer and publisher, died April 6, at his residence in Lexington Avenue, New York.—The law which kept Alexander T. Stewart out of the Treasury Department is said to have been written by Alex. Hamilton.—Ambrose Monell, son of Judge Monell of the Superior Court, was 3d April, on motion of Commissioner Owen, admitted to prac tise in allthe degrees in the U.S. Circuit and District Courts. —Brigadier General Burton, commanding at Fort Adams, New York, died on Sunday, April 4, aged 51.—A cutlery firm at Sheffield, England, have sent ex-Secretary Seward an elegant penknife with a star for each State of the Union set in gold upon the ivory handle.—A wealthy San Fran cisco Chinaman has become a Fenian. His countrymen say. he -is insane and have locked him up. Ossian E. Dodge has been elected secretary of the St. Van], Minne sota, Chamber of Commerce. By the recent death of James Harper the partnership of the great publishing house is dissolved, and the rule - abrogated which prevents the entrance into the firm of any of the partner's children. They who are :now salaried clerks will probably be read mitted and the firm reconstructed. —Spangle and Arnold the Lincoln conspirators, reached Baltimore on Tuesday from the Dry Tortugas.—John B. Felton, brother of the late I'resident Felton of Harvard College, and a leading San Francisco lawyer, has been chosen Mayor of Oakland, the suburb city of San Ftsanci(co.—William P. P. Longfellow, a nephe'w of Henry W. Longfellow, will soon be offered the place of Assisting Supervising Architect of the Trea sury Department, a positron for which he is admirably .qualified: — The funeral of Gr env ill e Win t h rop, a N ew York banker, whose death occurred recently in the south of France, took place at Trinity Church ou the 9th inst., the-Revs. Messrs. Vinton, Gable, and Seabury officiating. —The German actress, Madame Olga Von Plittendorff, 'committed suicide at San Francisco, April 7.—Mr T. G. Amsleton, of Boston, while in Rome, rnrchased Cardinal Tosti's collection of engravings, 10,000 in number, and has presented them to the Boston Public Library,—Ex-Secre tary Stanton is extremely ill, and has recently received ehm-ch baptism —Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, after several applications for.offies, has received an answer from I'resi dent Grant that she might have an interview when dressed as becomes her sex.—The.bursting of a steam pipe of the Inman steamer City of New lurk, at New York, April 3, killed one man and injured three others, 'all of them em ploye's on the steamer.—Mr. Cox, the Commissioner of - Pensions, has been asked to resign, and it is likely that either Mr, Perham, of Maine, or Mr. Yap Aernan, of New York, will succeed.—Tlao gift of Mrs. Eliza Sutton to the Peabody Institute, in Peabody, of a $20,000 fund in memory of her son, to be used in buying a refe retee library, is about to be put to its destined use. 'The room for this library, fitted up by Mrs. Sutton at a cost of $13,000, has just heen pompleted.—The effort of the counsel to obtain a new trial , for Charles Steadman and Harry Jennings, convicted at Boston - of the Godding robbery, was overruled by Judge Lord, and they were sea tencedto four years' imprisontiaent in the State prison.-- •;--14`. -- W: Thompson, Of Boston, cashier of - Wells - Fargo - - and Co.'s express company, and an officer in the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, died at Portland, April s.—Brevet Brigadier-General Burton, Colonel of the sth Regular Artillery, commanding at Fort 'Adams, Newport, died at that post all Sunday, 4th April, of apoplexy, aged fifty-one. -- A purse of $3OO is being made up for Miss Ida Lewis, the "Grace Darling" of Lime Rock Lisht, by the officers and soldiers of Fort Adams.—Aaron Quackenbush, formerly slave, and a servant in the army of 1776, died at Sharo n April 2, aged).os years. Mr. Longfellow and his three daugh ters have arrived in Rome ; they intend to make a short stay iu Florence, Switzerland, Paris, and England pre vious to returning to America in August.—We regret to say that Charles Dickens was suddenly taken ill and unable to give a reading at the Preston Town Hall on T h ursd ay. IMPERIAL PABLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. The LOUD CHANcELLon took his scat on the woolsac , c st five o'clock. Their lordships were engaged the whole of the earl,' part of the evening in discussing the merits of the Lif e Peerages Bill. The Earl of DERBY thought the hill involved certain important provisions, which would require to be duly con sidered. He did not object to the princ!plo of the bill. Alto- some discussion the second reading was a greed t ° ' The second reading of the Representative Peers for Scotland and Ireland Bill having been moved by Lord GREY, The Duke of BUCCLEITCH proposed as an amendm ent the appointment of a sel&ct committee t:consider the status of the representative peerage and the laws relating to it, which, after some discussion, was agreed to. The Militia Bill was read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—LAST EVENING• The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. THE IMPERIAL GAS The consideration of this bill was postponed until to morrow in order to allow time to members to consider tho effect of the clauses proposed to be introduced by 31r ; Locke with respect to the appointment of profession' auditors. SCHOOLMASTERS IN IRELAND. Mr. C. FORTESCUE said it was not the intention of the Government to propose any revision of the'sale °f salaries of schoolmasters in Ireland. The subject, how ever, was an important one, and would be fully con" sidered. DISEASED SHEEP. Mr. C. FOSTER, in reply to Mr. Corran, said it was tal e that on the arrival of a cargo of sheep from Hamburgh t he custom-house officers found that some of the animals w ere diseased, and they were at ono: killed, and steps were at once taken to disinfect both the ship and th e w h a rf. o° ll a few, however, of the sheep co m p r i s i ng the unrg ° , were found in a diseased state, and a dou bt arose as to whether the dise as e wa s sheep' pox, or another disease not of so f a t a l a c haracte r, but it was thought that if any doubt existed it v ie° best to err on the side of precaution, so the sheep wer e killed, although he (Mr. Forster) believed the disease 1.09 not what it was supposed to be. With respect to another cargo arriving from Antwerp, comprising 1,800 sheep, only five were found to be diseased, and these five nal/ from a portion -of th e cargo, v i z., 219 shippe d by one of the parties sending the animals to 14° ' don. The whole of that portion of the WO, was, however, killed, and in another cargo coral" from Hamburgh only f our ou t o f 351 sheep were found W d be suffering from di sease , ye t a ll were kill e d. Lor , Defrey had the whole of the circumstances fully cone,' dered, and it was not thought necessary to re-enact the order with respect to the slaughtering sheep on their ar rival from any foreign countries. The effect of re-enact ing the order would most materially affect the c onsula r ; of mutton in this country, as a very l arge per ten t a ge the mutton consumed was. foreign. He thought it would be a great hardship to the metropolis to re-enact the order, the more so as it h a d b een prove d th at s h eep-pox - could ` 1 ", quickly and efficiently crush e d ou t w ith out th e ne cessity for such extreme measures as were required to stop t he cattle plague. With respect to the question as to whether the Government were aware that sheep-pox prevailed 08; tensively at Holstein, be bad to say that he had receive.e, information from Antwerp that sheep-pox did not prevall in Belgium ; from Rotterdam information had been recet ° that the disease did not prevail either in South Holland °r Zealand ; and f r o m H am b urg it was s t a t e d th a t no ease °f such disease had been reported in Holstein. EMIGRANTS 10 CANADA. with Mr. MONSELL, in reply to Mr. Kinnaird, said, respect to the emigrants who had formerly been in the employ of the Royal Dockyards and ordnance factorie that on their arrival in Quebec the Governor-General 114' ordered that the utmost assistance and facilities should be 'given them. The Government of O n t ar i o h a d- offe red them land, and he believed other matters would be do ne which would be highly advantageous to them. THE NEW LAW COURTS. Mr. LAYARD, in reply to the question of Mr. GregorYl as to whether the Government had decided finally on d ie site for the new law courts, suggested by t ie ithancellor of the Exchequer in his speech 'on t ie 20th hist., said the Government had finally decide' to apply to Parliament to acquire the site mentioned II his right lion. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The site required was bdtween Somerset-house and th e Temple, at the end of Howard-street. It consisteil of si ci acres of ground, and Mr. Street, the architect; had sta te , that it was quite possible to er e ct the w h o l e o f the courts and offices on that site. The Govornment intended t t apply for a bill to acqu i re th a t s it e , an d o n tb s occasion he should be able to sh ow th a t i t p ossess ed gr et ', t advantages over every other site which had been piepon (Laughter.) There was anoth er a d van t age t o b e attaine d with such a proposal, as the whole building could b° erected at the cost mentioned by the hon. gentleman ( 31r. Gregory), viz., £l,6oo,ooo—(hear, hear)—which was a v eri d great advantage compared with the costly scheme which 11 , ° ' been advocated in the h ouse by th e suppor t ers o f the Car e i street site. had received a communication from el l ' e t Baron Sir Fitzr o y K e ll y on th e su bj ect, an d h e sa id ti nt all the judges were unanimously in favour of the new site, and that it was their opinion that it would be for the C Or venience of the bench, the bar, the solicitors, the and the public that the proposed change of site show take place. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUNT wished to know whether the neeesstirl notices had been given to the owners of property. . 0 Mr.LAYARD said when he applied for leave tobring the bill, which he hoped to do before Whitsuntide,he w° ll enter at length into all the details of the matter. • be An HON. MEMBER wanted to k n ow w h a t was to done with the Carey-street site. ,rone Mr. LAYARD must ask h on . mem b ers t o postr - , 0 their enquiries until he applied for l eave t o i n t r oduce I' bill. THE COVICT WILTSHIRE. for Mr. BRUCE had to apologise t o th e h on . m ember „ s Wiltshire for not answering the w h o l e o f hi s questi ° ; the other evening. He had asked whether Charles shire was the same person who had attempt e d to ulti ru ,. e t one of the warders in Gloucester G ao l. H e b e lieved t'; s one of the warder s w h ose d u ty it was t o wa t c h Wiltshire after et after the conviction f e ll as l ee p, an d th e CO'ur i be seized that opport un ity t o ma k e a v i o l en t a tt ac k on s man, but on the arr i va l o f th e n i g h t watc h man he sae quite calm. He hoped the hon. member would feel tbera was a great diff erence b etween an attempt to murder AT3„ a violent assault. 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