The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-20 00:00:00

VOYAGE IN A BALLOON. Youens had a balloon ascent on Saturday evening, leaving the Belle Vue Gardens, near Huddersfield, in the Aerial; which is capable of containing 20,000 cubic feet of gas, It rises to - a height of 60 feet, and expands to 100 feet in tircumference. Away floated the balloon in a westerly direc tion, oscillating for a considerable distance in a most extra ttlinary and unusual manner. Mr. Youens experienced a strorijer breeze than he had anticipated, and the current changing xi.ridly, his energy and knowledge as an aeronaut were very closely ;and_ managing the balloon. A fresh current drove the Aerial to tfie east fora time, but presently another gust, unexpectedly, in the direction of Halifax, thence towards Bradford, in a northerly course, and, after the lapse of twenty minutes, the Aerial and its mu pant pierced the clouds. Mr. Youens then began to make observations, for the purpose of selecting a suitable site on which to descend; and in a few minutes concen trated his attention upon a field iu which a fete was being held. The breeze, however, carried the Aerial some three miles further, and, a second time, jlr. Youen attempted to lower himself in a field adjoining some farmhouses at Dunholme. Cautiously opening the escape valve, Mr. Youens continued the journey downwards and threw out the grapnels. Impetuous blasts of winds increased the difficulty of bringing the Aerial' to anchor. A strong wind prevailing, the balloon became unmanage able, and drifted over fields and stone walls with amazing velocity. The flukes of the grapnels penetrated the ground and uprooted the earth as they followed in the wake of the balloon, while the Aerial chariot dashed onwards making, in its career, wide gaps in several stone walls. Mr. Youens, preparing to encounter the worst fate, wrapped the end of the cord which opens the escape valve round one of his wrists, and burying himself in the car, permitted the balloon to proceed until the breeze subsided ; when, after the car had been thrice capsized, and every article which it contained thrown out, Mr. Youens, who received no injuries, anchored, and completed a 'voyage of many miles, occupying half an hour in its accomplishment. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN IRELAND. Telegrams from Dublin, Monday night, give accounts of another attempted assassination in Ireland. One correspondent says :—" Richard Warburton, High Sheriff of Queen's County, when driving to Maryborough Assizes this morning, was shot at from behind a hedge and severely wounded in the side of the Lead. Fortu nately the heaviest portion of the charge passed through his hat. Mr. Warburton's servant drove him at once into Maryborough, where he was attended to. He lies in a precarious state, but hopes of his recovery are entertained. The crime is supposed to be agrarian, and to have arisen from something which occurred lately at Mr. Warburton's estate in the King's County. Another correspondent tells much the same story. " Mr. Warburton, High Sheriff of Queen's County, was fired at this morning while driving to Maryborough to stir car in the grand jury. The assassin was concealed in a wood at Killeen, behind a wall 7ft. high, and fired in an ob lique direction ten yards' distance into Mr. Warburton's face. The shot destroyed his left eye, and wounded the side of his Lead. The gun was raised too high, and the greater part of the charge riddled his hat. Richard Kenny, his servant, who was seated behind him in the two-horse phaeton, sprang beside his master, drove furiously into Maryborough, and placed Mr. Warburton under the care of Dr. Jacob. The constabulary searched the wood, and discovered some old clothes and two sacks, which probably formed the assassin's bed. The outrage is Agrarian. Mr. Warburton lies in a dangerous state, but hopes of his recovery are entertained. The magistrates met, and adjourned until Wednesday." LAW AND POLICE. THE NEW LAW COURTS.—In Vice• Chancellor Malins's Court, on Monday, the case of " Cr:chell v. the Commis sioners of Public Works" was heard. It was a suit for the specific performance of a contract for the pur chase of land forming part of the Carey street site of the New Law Courts. Some of the land supposed to be freehold has been alleged to be only held for the end of a lease originating in the time of Queen Elizabeth. His Honour thought the plaintiff had shewn a good title to the fee, subject only to the question of the old lease. The defendants were ordered to pay the plaintiff £l,OOO, part of the purchase money, the plaintiff undertaking to concur in any application that might be necessary to get the money out of £2,200 paid into court under the Lands Clauses Act. SINGULAR APPLICATION.—On Monday a singular appli cation was made to the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House. Four Nestorian priests from Erzeroum waited upon him, being accompanied by Professor Amenney, of King's Lollege. They had visited this country to solicit contri butions for the relief of suffering members of their com munion, whose homes and churches and cattle had been plundered and destroyed by the Koords. Since the ar rival of the priests in London they haA been supported at the expense of the Turkish Government, but the Consul now wishes them to return. This they decline to do, declaring they would sooner starve than leave England without accomplishing their object. The COnsul was, therefore, in a difficult position. The Lord Mayor said the matter was hardly one in which he could be expected to take a lead in his official capacity, but probably, if the facts were made generally known, some public sympathy for the applicants and those whom they represented might be elicited. ATTrarrT To UPSET A TRAIN.—In Hants, George Hasler, a bricklayer, was charged with attempting to overturn a train by placing two oak gates on the rails of the London and South-Western Railway. The engine driver gave evidence as to the gates having been on the line, but the case was not proved against the prisoner. The magistrate discharged him accordingly. SELF-DEFENCIL—At the Newcastle Assizes, on Monday, a pitman was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for stabbing a man with whom he quarrelled about three pence in a public-house. The jury thOught he did it in self-defence, but the judge (Mr. Justice Hayes) said that no such plea could be admitted in such a case. The prisoner was overwhelmed on hearing his sentence. The appointment of Mr. O'Dowd to the post of Deputy-Assistant Advocate•G Lneral is now placed beyond doubt. The Right Hon. Hugh Childers, First Lord of the Admiralty, will, it is understood, succeed Lord Taun ton as one of the brethren of Trinity House. THE ROYAL VISIT TO HITLL.—The Prince and Princess of Wales will not leave Hull on Thursday until 4.45 p.m. The royal visitors will return to town vid the new line from Saddlethorpe to Doncaster. The decorations of the banqueting hall in which the Prince and Princess will be entertained will be on an elegant scale. The centre or royal dais will be carpeted with crimson, and will be divided from the main portion of the hall by.silken cords and crystal mounts. The royal state chairs will be very elegant, and over each will be a silver embroidered Brunswick star. while between them will be a silver-embroidered plume. The walls will be of crimson and white, studded with fleur-de-lis and stars in gold and silver embroidery. Elegant baronial hall chairs will be provided for the guests at the royal table. The walls will be decorated with trophies of flags and bannerets, shields of the various royal quarterings, flags of all nations, banners of the Trinity House, shields of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Hull Dock Company, the town of Hull, &c. DISRESPECT TO A CORPSE.— The North Lincoln Sphinx is a periodical conducted by the soldiers of 2nd Battalion 10th Foot now at Secunderabad. The print ing, the work of the soldiers themselves, would be credit. able to professional workmen. The following story there from is worth quoting :—" The drill instructor—one of the old stamp of martinet sergeants—who was the terror of every recruit, and the remorseless tyrant of the awkward squad, was putting a sergeant's firing-party through the funeraLexercise. Having opened the ranks, so as to admit the . 1 passage of the .supposed cortege between them, he ordered the men to rest on their arms reversed.' Then, by way of practical explanation, he walked slowly down the lane formed by the two ranks, saying, ashe moved, 'Now, I'm the corpse—pay attention !' Having reached the end of the party, he turned round, regarded them steadily with a scrutinising eye for a moment or two, and then remarked, in a most solemn tone of voice—' Your 'ands is right, and your 'eads is right, but you 'aven't got that look of regret you ought to 'ave.' " DISCOVERY OF A SKELETON.—A discovery of human remains has been made in the county Donegal. Two men, turf-cutting in a Log in the townland o Leitrim, near Moville, found the remains of a man. The clothes were filled with decayed matter, and the skull finger-nails, and hair were. the only portions of the body which could be kept for examination. Even the head crumbled into dust after a short exposure to the air. The nails and clothes are, however, in an excellent state of preservation. The former arc long, narrow, and neatly pared, showing that the person to whom they belonged must have occupied a good position in life ; and the latter are said to be in accordance with the fashion of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. In stead of the back seam on the sleeves of the coat, they aro buttoned from the cuffs to the shoulders, and the waist. coat, which was of a very fine quality, was fringed with fur, portions of which are still preserved. There was t hole in the top of the cap, and the hands appeared as if they had been grasped tightly round the head, near which there was a large quantity of congealed blood. These cir cumstances would lead to the belief that the man wa4 wounded in the skull, and that in the agonies of death by placed his hands on the spot where he received the injury. Immediately over the body there was a little bog mould, And on the top of this some large stones wero vlaced. THE AMERICAN PRESS. The St. Paul PresB says that half the css the courts iu Illinois seems to be to satisfy the ven geance of women because they can't get the men to marry them, and the other half to enable women to get rid of men who have married them. The New Fork Tribune has an article on miti- gated penalties, wherein a full, true, and particular account is given of Hiram Miller's last moments, hung at Windsor, in the State of Vermont, for the murder of fir. and Mrs. Cowing : "He was eleven minutes dying; he made no confession, and upon the gallows he only 'mumbled,' and ' was ap parently in a stupor.' He was understood, however, to say that he was innocent ;' that he bad never hurt any of those who were gazing at him,' and that he would trust in Jesus.'" If the object of hanging be retributive torture, eleven minutes was not long enough ; indeed, the Tribune argues that after the first shock the sensa tion is delightful, and therefore hanging fails to attain its purpose. While defending the (Lath punishment by Levitical law, and appeals to Ju daical practice, the Jewish system is altogether overlooked, otherwise: this should be our practice : " They stoned (lapidatio); they burned (combustio) ; they beheaded (decollatio); they strangled (suirocatio); but it must bo observed that their strangulation was not our hanging; the malefactor ' was put in dung up to the loins, a towel b ing cast about his neck, which two executioners, one on each side, plucked two and fro until he was dead.' Other capital punishments the Jews derived from foreign countries, and mostly from Rome, including crucifixion, sawing asunder, casting to wild beasts, the wheel, drown ing in the sea and beating to death." Hence, it argues, that if we adhere to the doctrine of blood for blood, the blood of the manslayer should be shed, and matters not weakly compromised by hanging him ; either that, or cease to kill altogether. It is worse than useless to talk of executing men humanely, as severity is the very essence of the law we copy, and every effort to mitijate the austeri ties is an impeachment of the Divine wisdom which framed the criminal code of the Hebrews. "One hundred years ago men were hanged the day after that of conviction. Two hundred years ago men were hanged one hour after sentence. But, true to the spirit of compromise, we adhere to a method of execution which seems to us the least cruel, and we keep those who are doomed to death for months in the agony of anticipation. Shall we ever be free from the malignant influences of the Past ?" The same paper tells an affecting story of " a Quakeresa missionary who, the other day, entered a railway office in Columbus, Ohio, and petitioned for a pass, tl:at she might do missionary work up and down the line. Getting that fur which she asked she ftll upon her knees and made a prayer—this being, probably, the first prayer ever offered in the office of a railway superinlindent. If the lady had Lut thought of a prayer against delinquent direc tors, stock-waterers, carele s switchmen, pilfering conductors, rotten sleepers, open draws, and rails full of imp( rfections, good might have come out of her petition. Some railways in this vicinity need praying fur hugely, if, indeed, any intercession, however fervent, can now be effectual ; but so long as pious people afts.r a smash hold a meeting and resolve that the directors are not at all to blame, we suppose that it would be useless for this Western Quakeress to come East." The Episcopalian has received "A most significant item of news from foreign parts, which is related to the general subject of education. A Teachers' Congress was held in Berlin in the latter part of May, 1869, which was attended by over 4,000 instructors from all parts of Germany. The principal sup ject of dis cussion was the propriety of removing scholastic institu tions from the supervision and control of the clergy. Seven teachers from the United States are reported to have been present. Vienna was selected as the place where the next meeting of the Congress should be held, in 1870." It considers the fault to lie with the clergy them selves. The New Irt:rk World Las been writing down the action of the Republican party, to which it attri butes the discredit of the failure of the Alabama negotiations. It considers the revelations made in a pamphlet, containing the correspondence which led to the Clarendon-Johnson treaty, to be a dis grace to American diplomacy. It believes the Eng Minis#ers to have been misled, and even deceived throughout, and the whole attitude in which the country has been placed is regards as a slur on the nation, affixed through the stupidity and incapacity for business of the great ruling party. IVe may here reinaik that the report lately pub lished Ly several New Yolk journals of an unsatis factory interview having )seen held between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Motley is officially denied. Ile Boston Adrertiser thus remarks on the sub ject of introducing the Alabama claims into the Ite public::n platform in the coming election :-- "It requires but t, moment's reflection to see Low utterly absurd and indecent it is at this stage of the question to use the controversy for political purposes. We do not speak of it as leading by a very direct process to war, be cause that would not be possible till we have gone much farther in the negotiations, nor without a radical change in the feelings of the people of both countries. But as an attempt to use the passions of the moment to build up an impaired political credit, it. has no merit and will find few endorsers. It will be especially dangerous for Republicans to attempt to commit their party to a war policy, even with the certainty of securing a temporary polit'cal alliance with our adopted fellow-citizens. There could be no more expeditious way of reducing the ranks of that pcwerful party than by staking its cbances upon the hazard of a war with England, and by committing it to a policy which, if it is not intended to be a cheat, must lead to a war. For this the country is not quite prepared ; and would much prefer tC see Mr. Alexander M'Clure and Governor Curtin, and even Colonel Forney himself, in retirement for a year or two." The same paper takes the following broad view of the commercial interests of the Republic : " The direct and immediate interest which we here in New England have in the successful developmmt of every great enterprise on t his continent, no matter in what di rection it apparently tends or to whose advantage it in the first place enures, well illustrates the close interconnection which exists between the different sections of the country as regards their welfare and success. That which tends to the advantage of one section is found to be to the advan tage of another. There are, doubtless, during the present week not a few of the inhabitants of St: Louis, New Orleans, and the other cities along the Mississippi here in Boston. It is greatly to be hoped that they will not return home without realising the deep interest which we hero feel in the success of their efforts to restore their great river to its position as the natural channel through which much of the production of the Missis sippi valley finds its way to the markets of the world. Perhaps no city on the whole contiuent, save St. Louis and New Orleans itself, would derive so immediate an ad vantage as Boston from the result, should New Orleans once more become a great central point of commerce, re ceiving the raw material from all the rich country lying above it, and returning to the country in its immediate vicinity the innumerable articles required for domestic con .. sumption. Boston needs for the hands and mouths of her artizaas great and continuous supplies of everything which the teeming valley produces, and the valley in return calls for all the results of our eastern labour. A great and valuable direct commerce would there spring up between the two regions, and contribute largely to the pros' erity of each. On the one hand we hero should receive cotton and food directly by water from the place of production, and on the other New Orleans and the region above it would enjoy those advantages which have never failed to spring from direct and unrestrained exchange cf commo- dities." The Journal of Commerce prints tables, showing that " The imports at New York for the month of May are nearly $5,000,000 greater than in 1868, and more than $5,000,000 above those of May, 1867; while, at the same time, the next export of specie was but about $2,100,000, against nearly $15,500,000 in May, 1868, and more than $8,600,000 in May, 1867. For the first five months of 1869 the total imports amounted to $146,567,411, against . - $107,169,285 in 1868 and $115,608,385 in 1867 ; the export of specie in the same months being about $4,000,000 this year, against $34,000,000 in 1868, and $16,800,000 in 1867. For the eleven mouths since July 1, 1868, the relative in crease of imports is much less than since 1869 began ; but the net export of specie in that period is scarcely more than a third of what it was the preceding year, and consi derably less than in 1867. The largest amount of imports on record in the month of May was in 1866—about $29,000,600, while now it is a little more than $27,000,000." j The Rev. C. E. Cheney, of Chicago, is to be tried for violating various articles of the Church consti tuCon, the particular charges being that he omits the words "regenerat," and "regeneration" from the baptismal service, and makes other variations from the liturgy in condt.cting divine service. DoNviLLE ant Co., Belfast, •are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to Frencl Brandy. Supplied iu casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to DI cssrs. Dunville and Co.. Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Loudon, W,O. - [Ad v use nent THE SIT_N _LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, LE69. AIISCE NEWS. MR. BRIGHT ON TIM LORDS Mr. Bright has sent another letter to Birmingham on the House of Lords, and, like the former, it was read at a public meeting on the Irish Church Bill held in that town. But the two epistles are as dis similar as can be. The " John -Bullism " of the famous letter is noways apparent in the present ono, though the President of the Board of Trade expresses almost identically the same opinions. He commences with an excuse for not being at the meeting, and then goes on to say :—" From what is passing in the House of Commons, you will see that tb e Government and the House are anxious to act upon the principles upon which the one was formed and the other elected." The House of Lords, however, refuses to act upon those principles, and Mr. Bright declares it is a great grief to him that the Upper House does not more clearly comprehend the wishes and interests of the country. " But I cannot but think" Mr. Bright goes on to say "it will have learned much from the dis cussions which have taken place in both Houses on this Irish Church Bill. To me it seems of first importance that more harmony should be established between the two branches of the Legislature." and -if any one had offered him - Tor being .. in at the death he would have Irnocked the offerer down. The son drives down to Hurlingham in a drag, stands still and pops away, and, provide he does a certain amount of butchery, he is paid a handsome amount. It is a novel idea to be paid for amusina ? , ourselves. But then we are with out question a nation of shopkeepers. Hurlingham will bear witness to that. THE OPINIONS OF THE EX-PRESIDENT. Andrew Johnson left Washington for Tennessee ,on the evening of July 2. The previous night be was serenaded at the Metropolitan Hotel, being in troduced as the great champion of Democracy, who on behalf of constitutional liberty had fought many battles and won many victories. He thanked the people for their cordial welcome, and observed that the time would come, ere long, when the nation would recognize the importance of the great prin ciples trampled under foot so long. He would sc.y, let us have faith ; it was not necessary to do more than point to the tyrannical body called Congress, which attempts to absorb every single power of the President, standing on the necks of Americans, endeavouring to blot out the lines which separate the States, to wipe out the other two co-ordinate branches of the Government. " I tell you here, my countrymen," he said. "that if I were compelled to make a choice (and, thank God, I am not so com pelled as yet), I would take one individual who was honest, wise, patriotic, and just, as my ruler and master, in preference to a Congress so usurping, capricious, and corrupt. 'We even find a difference among them whether they would take such a Go vernment as an omnipotent Congress would impose or an Imperial Government. Such feelers have been sent out. Take a paper, published in New York, and which, no doubt, is the emanation and reflection of a certain combination of individuals, some of them perhaps residing in Washington, and when we turn to the title-page, what do we see? On one side, The Empire is peace,' and, on the other side, the quotation, Let us have peace !' The meaning of this is, Let us have the Empire with Grant at its head, and we shall have peace.' Behind is a debt of two and a half billions ; the fear is the people will not pay it, hence the necessity for a strong Go vernment to coerce them. I know what I say, aad not being egotistical, I know what is being pre pared for the American people. It bas been said, I remarked that no nation had everyet paid a national debt created in war except by repudiation. If I stated a fact, is there any harm in it? What poli tical economist dare deny the proposition ? I also state there is not another nation on earth that made a debt interminable or permanent that is free. Is there any harm in stating such facts and great truths ?" After discussing all he did for the Union in the war, Mr. Johnson alluded to the slave pro perty as three billions of dollars, which walked off and disappeared in one section, just as it appeared at the other end of the line in Government Stocks and Bonds, instead of existing in an institution which wasproductive to the nation and the world. Mr. Johnson then, soaring into the heroics, exclaimed-- " You may erect your altar and lay your Constitu tion upon it, and if necessary, as an evidence of de votion to my country, lay me also upon it, and the blocd that now warms and animates my exist ence shall be poured out as a last libation." His account of the Civil War and estimate of the great General now occupying the White House was at least brief :—" Bodies of men and munitions of war started in a certain direction ; those columns never tutned until they conquered. And because some little fellow walked with a supply train he is a 'second Washington.' " Mr. Johnson was also interviewed by a herald reporter, when he warmed up to a full description and an accurate estimate of General Grant ! We do not intend to follow Mr. Johnson through his ravings, and the officer selected for Chief Magistrate by the people can well afford to treat Andy's comments with indifference; but it is marvellous to see a man give expression to such con centrated hate ; and we learn, as we read, one of the chief reasons why Andrew Johnson so lames ably failed. That Grant has as bitter an enemy as any man in the world we dare say he has long known, but although it has been the fashion of late to allude to Mr. Johnson as a failure, very properly consigned to insignificance and obscurity, we will be much surprised if he does not yet become a thorn in some sides, unless, indeed, he goes mad, and they can transfer him to a lunatic asylum, for even now he says that "he often puts his hands to his head and wonders if he is sane." PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. The Representative Reform Association have met to o,nsider the communications they have held with the Committee on Parliamentary and Municipal Elec tions. Mr. Hare, tile president, had made a tender of evidence on his own behalf and that of Mr. Ilowell, the secretary of the association. Lord Hartington, the chairman of the committee, had declined to receive the evidence, on the ground that it was not within the order of reference for the committee to consider the question whether certain classes or opinions were adequately represented in Parliament.' Mr. Hare said it did not appear that the inquiry was to be of a comprehensive kind. He feared that our leading politicians relied more on territorial and moneyed influences than on intelligent individual effort. The impossibility of labour being represented in the House of Commons was also deserving of grave inquiry. It was resolved that the correspon dence laid before the meeting should be printed; and further action deferred until the committee should report to the House. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND. A statement, not supported by any very good authority, is published in the Dublin papers, to the effect that the Queen intends to visit Ireland next year, and to remain there for some little time. The date is a long way off, but, nevertheless, much con gratulation has already been passed. Those who believe all the ills of Ireland to spring from absen teeism, and absenteeism to be caused by the neglect of royalty, are in ecstasies. PRINCE ARTIIER. Prince Arthur, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger, is about to visit America. A passage to Halifax has been engaged for him and his suite in the Inman steamer City of Paris. This vessel is fixed to leave Liverpool ou the 14th of next month. THE CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY AND MR HAINS. The secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society has been called to account for his treatment of the vicar of Wigan—the withdrawal of the society's grant on account of Mr. Hains's support of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Speck replies that the grant was not withdrawn because the vicar adopted this or that particular view, but because the spiritual work of the society was not done in the parish. No details are given, and Mr. Haim speaks of the charge as evasive and unsatisfactory, and denies the charge brought against him. SF.A FISHERIES. Another trade, the means of sustenance to a large body of men, threatens to become extinct. The oyster and mussel fisheries of the Wash, at one time the most prosperous in thp East of England, have become very poor of late, through the exhaustion of the dredging beds. There are now very few mussels left, though only five years back so large a sum as .1.,000 was paid for the mere year's carriage. The cause of this decline is that there has been no close time ; during the spawning season no restriction has been exercised, and young mussels have been carried off in great loads for nrinure. Thus gradually the whole bed is being c: ha 3ted, and unless measures be soon taken, it may become entirely destroyed. A Board of Trade inquiry has been held, so that it seems likely that something will be done; but how soon, with parliamentary business in its present state, is not very clear. Probably not this year, though a bill creating a close time, which is the suggested way out of the difficulty, would not take up very much time. CRICKET PHENOMENA. The most remarkable cricket match on record was played at the Kennington Oval last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, between the Gentlemen and the Players of the South. The Players made the monster score of 475 in their first innings —a number which had never been excelled in a first-class match but once. The Gentlemen, however, excelle , l it. They obtained 55:3—the highest score ever known. The first two batsmen, Messrs. W. G. Grace and B. B. Cooper, scored 283 before they were parted—likewise a feat without precedent. It took nearly the whole of the three days to play these two innings. The Players went in for the second time, and were as busy as before. They got 108 for the loss of only one wi:ket, and then time was Hied. The unheard of total of 1,136 runs was obtained, and the match after dire:: clays' play was little more than half finished. THE INDIA COUNCIL. The Duke of Argyll's new India Bill is likely to cause considerable changes in the Indian Council. The resignation of at least four members is spoken of. Two successors are already named, the Hon. Le Madre, the great Indian jurist, and Mr. George Campbell. BEWARE OF LEGACY ENDOWMENTS. If some of the men who made the quaint old wills leaving £5 per year towards this and that seemingly good object were to see what trouble their legacies have cost, how little real good they have accomplished, and how much lamentable evil they have done, they would have bitterly regretted their so-called benefaction. And if other of these donors could have found out for how many years their money would have lain idle,like the talent hid in the napkin, they would hardly have put it where they did. Every inquiry into charities brings to light some cases shewing how utterly futile these bequests have proved, simply because the testator, giving according to his light, could make no allowance for the progress of centuries, and often seems, according to our light, to have made express provision against any kind of progress whatever. Sometimes he has made inadequate provision for a large purpose, sometimes the very opposite. A case in point has just been made public by a charitable inquiry at Bolton. The 131ackrod Grammar School in that town has nearly £4,000 with which the trustees do not know what to do. The property consists of a school, with master's residence and garden, lands at Bedford, near Leigh, and the sum of £3077 19s. Gd. in Three per Cent. Consols The income for the year was £247 Os. Cd., the ex penditure £ll4 7s. 11d. They had now a balance at the bank of £1,213 4s. Some 300 years ago the sum of £5 yearly was bequeathed for an exhibition, which had been vacant nearly the whole of the time and the money had accunmlated until it had reached nearly £4,000. Only 47 boys and 17 girls were receiving education there. No Greek or Latin war taught, and the Rev. Mr. Swallow said the standard was below that of a national : school A NEW TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Falmouth aspires to become a point of departure for submarine telegraphs. And there is good geo graphical reason wily it should do so. It is propose(' to lay a cable from that port to Gibraltar, 1,451 miles, and from Gibraltar to Malta, 1,025 miles. The work is to be completed by May 31, when the entirt line between Falmouth and Bombay will probably be completed. By this time the vexatious delays now caused by transmission over 2,000 miles of land lines in France and Italy will be avoided. The capital is £OOO,OOO, in £lO shares. THE WESTERN ➢TAILS. Another port is bidding for the Western mails— Milford Haven. An influential deputation has waited on the Post Office authorities, including Mr. J. H. Scourfield, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. W. Edwardes, M.P., Mr. Thomas Meyriek, M.P., Mr. Charles Reed, M.P.. Mr. J. Freeman, Mr. J. Scott, and Mr. William Thomas, Mayor of Pembroke. They set before the Marquis of I fartington that a saving of time and money would be effected if that port were selected, and that greater safety and certainty would be ensured in the haven than in any other harbour. A promise was made that "in any future specifications for contracts it should take its place among the better known ports." TIURLINGHAM. "On Saturday the membars of the Hurling-ban' Club shot a handicap of five birds each, £3, and there were twenty-four entries. There was as usual a very large assemblage of rank and fashion. Of the two dozen who shot no less than eight, being exactly one-third of the number entered, killed all their birds, and had to shoot off ties for the two prizes into which the money was divided, viz., VA) and £22." In other words, the pigeon-slayers were so skilful at massacring their victims that more victims had to be massacred in order to determine which was the most expert butcher. Captain Shelley killed five, and was rewarded with a present of £5O ; Mr. I)illwyn, M.P. for Swansea, killed four, and had £22. Among the other chief butchers were Mr. Monck, ALP., the Earl of Gcsford, and Sir Hugh Campbell. Our readers will notice the new feature which has been introduced into the sport of the modern gentleman. Ills father used to risk his neck in hunting the fox : 711 E PEACE JUBILEE. The great Jubilee at Boston to commemorate the return of Peace commenced on the 15th June and lasted five days, during which the city was thronged, visitors from all Parts of the country flocking to Boston to evince their interest in the object of the celebration. Mayor Shurtleff, in his opening ad-. dress, said "Iv this national festival, instituted to Commemorate the return of peace to our country, the restoration of our ancient liberties unimpaired, our national bonds of union unbroken, and our honour and credit unsullied, Boston wolcomes you all most sincerely and cordially. Let this welcDme extend as widely as the beneficial and glorious effects of our happy peace can reach and be felt, that all nations and all tongues may join in the joyous strains, and let the gladsome mus:c of this jubilee resound in one ac clamation throughout the world, and be echoed and re echoed to the remotest regions of the universe. Domestic strife bas ended ; peace and harmony prevail. The sons of the Union rejoice in liberty and friendship. All, then, are welcome to join with us in singing the praises of the great Ruler of events, who has vouchsafed to us the most estimable of blessings. May the harmony of the occasion strike deeply into the breasts of us all, and leave within our nature the most sacred and lasting impression, and may peace and good will forever reign triumphant. Welcome, thrice welcome, are all, to this our Festival of Peace." " The Star-Spangled Banner" was sung by the full chorus enthusiastically, with chiming of bells and artillery accompaniment, the guns being fired by electricity. An additional verse was written ex pressly for the occasion by Mr. W. T. Ball, as follows : War's clamors now o'er, with her mantle hath Peace, Again in its folds, the nation enshrouded ; Let no fratricide hand uplifted e'er be, The glory to dim, which now is unclouded ; Nat as North or as South, in the future we'll stand, But as brothers united throughout our loved lanc4 Ar d the star-spangled banner for ever shall wave O'er the laud of the free and the home of the brave. On the third day the " Overture Triomphale," the only strictly American piece, was performed, com posed for the Festival by Mr C. C. Converse, which was greatly admired. Mr. Converse is a native of Massachusetts, but studied music on the Continent of Europe, pursuing the usual course at the Leipsic Conservatorium. The overture is an elaborate composition, in D minor, on " Hail, Columbia." Mr. Gilmore proved himself to be a masterly con ductor, and was warmly praised by the performers. Great order prevailed, and as the weather was pro pitious every one enjoyed the various amusements provided. On the first day, at the ticket office on the north side of the Coliseum, over a bushel and a half .of greenbacks were taken. Some were disappointed that they were not conscious of more noise from the ten thousand voices, but it must be borne in mind how gigantic was the hall which hail to be filled with the volume of sound. People are surprised to find that by multiplying instruments and voices a multiple of the unit is not gained, and that beyond a certain limit the conductor is powerless to achieve a great noise. Some assert that the Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace was even more imposing in volume of sound although with not half the number of per formers. The original idea, and the marked fea ture in the Festival, was the " Anvil Chorus," as it was accompanied by sounds never before intro duced into a musical performance—the blacksmith's hammer ringing on the anvil, guns giving their thunder for bass notes, and bells chiming in, made up a chorus worth going some distance to hear. The artillery was fired by electricity, and beau tifully timed on the first performance, though the encore was not quite so good. Everything was on an imposing scale of magnitude, impressive to the eye if disapnointing to the ear. One Ame rican critic says, " there is no reason why a n o t e struck on an hundred instruments should make more noise than the same note struck on one. The sound is the result of a certain number of vibra tions, and the number of these vibrations is deter mined not by the number of instruments, but by the note. The reason why a thousand instruments do make more noise than one is that the distance of each from the ear is slightly different, and there fore the vibrations interfering with one another confuse and multiply fly:3 sound. Besides this, the time grows more imperfect as the number of instru ments increases ; if a thousand violins were arranged THE LAST OF CONCURRENT ENDOWMENT. This time last week the Daily News remarked that it did not attach the smallest importance to the arguments of the 7imes in favour of concurrent endowment, because, if it were found desirable, the limes would, at a few hours' notice, be provided with arguments against concurrent endowment. Events have fully justified our contemporary's esti mate. On Tuesday the leading journal published a very strong article in favour of that scheme. On Wednesday it published Mr. Gladstone's decisive letter refusing to have anything to do with it; and the leader writers were for that day told to keep silence. On Thursday the Times declared that "it was too late." Yesterday the Times not only forgot that it ever advocated that policy, but argued against it. The Lords are rebulied for the way in which they have " haggled" about every sixpence and thereby rendered inevitable the proposal which our contem porary forinerly urged, but of which it now speaks as follows : "Whatever chance this proposal might have had under different circumstances, the great obstacle to it on this occasion has been that we were called on to endow simul taneously a Church of the people and a Church not of the people,_ and to endow each, not for it s own sa k e , but because we were endowing the other. At a great probable cost, and yet charged with sacri legious confiscation and every other enormity, we were to create several new establishments, for which the nation is either too old or not yet old enough, and to repudiate as to their control that responsibility which we certainly could not escape as to their principle. . . . On the present occasion, as the Lords shaped this measure, there was everything to excite suspicion. The Irish Church was to be emancipated from its State bondage, and re-endowed with nearly the whole of its public endowment upon the express con dition that something should be done for another Church —indeed, for two other Churches, as independent, and more or less hostile. . . . It (the Irish Church) could not succeed. It could not hope to obtain terms which would, indeed, have stultified the whole measure, and made Mr. Gladstone the most ridiculous of poli ticians." Rather hard upon the Peers, this, considering that they supposed the Times represented the opinions of the nation. At the same time they ought to have known better. They ought to have remembered this time five years, when the Times declared in favour of war against Prussia on Friday, was doubt ful on Saturday, • because the rumour was that Ministers would decide against war at tlie Cabinet Council that day: and denounced war on Monday because Ministers had so decided. FOREIGN NOTES. MR. PEABODY'S GIFT TO TILE SOUTII. The Southern Education Fund, established by the munifi cence of Mr. Peabody, who has just raised the total of the gift to two million dollars, is administered by a board composed of the leading men in America. General Grant, Mr. Fish, Admiral Farragut, and the Episcopal Bishop of Ohio are amongst the number. The plan pursued is to give aid to the support of normal schools for educating teachers, and to make small grants for elementary education to communities which promise to raise as much more by voluntary effort. Hitherto four of the Southern States have received no aid from this fund. The Board decided that those States which had suffered most from the ravages of war, and were most destitute of educational means, ought to be assisted first. Mr. Peabody concurs in this policy. He says he has the same sympathy with everyone of the States, and were all alike needing assistance, he should wish each to share alike in the benefits of the trust. As the portions aided respectively grow in prosperity and become self-sustaining in their systems of education, their respective allotments of the fund are to be applied to other destitute communities, and thus its benefits will, he earnestly hopes, reach every section of the vast field committed to the care of the trust. For the present, however, the greater part of the fund must in fairness be continued to those States who have received it hitherto, and who most need it. But when the final dis tribution is made, Mr. Peabody hopes that Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas will share according to their needs. FILIBUSTERING AT NEW YORK. t r. Though Colonel Ryan, the filibustering leader, with a certain number of men, seems to have got clear off from New York, his regiment was broken up, a large number captured, and the rest prevented from getting away. One hundred and thirty-eight were taken prisoners. These have since been released with the exception of two leaders, who are still in gaol. Two hundred others took refuge in Long Island, opposite New York. These committed great excesses, slaughtering cattle for their subsistence without granting any compensation to the owners, and indulging in violent quarrels and fights with each other. It is uncertain how many got away with Colonel Ryan, but as an effective reinforcement to the insurgents, the expedition has been a failure. The Cubans at New York are much depressed with the result. They declare that the fitting out of Colonel Ryan's regi ment cost them $200,000, and that had it been landed in Cuba, it must have gone far to turn the tide against the Spaniards. It is not likely that they will try any further experiment of the kind. REFOR3I IN FRANCE. According to the able Parisian correspondent of the Times, the Emperor has undone all the good effect of his reform programme by the prorogation of the Corps L6gis latif before it had finished its work. The change in the Constitution ought to have pleased all France; it has gratified nobody. The Reds, of course, are as "irrecon cilable" as ever. The ultra-Imperialists are angry because it is in their ranks that the deputies, whose elections have not been verified, are to be found. Not only have they lost the day without a fight, and have witnessed, without being able to interfere, the fall of their leader, but they are personally in danger as to their contested scats in the House ; and certain as they are to see the validity of their elections questioned by the Left and Left Centre, they can have no confidence whatever in the help and protection of the new Ministry. Nor is the Left Centre—the Moderate Liberals, who have brought about these changes—better pleased. It is stopped in its reforming course, and, moreover, the Ministry has not been substantially changed. This unlucky prorogation has undone everything. THE GENERAL COUNCIL. A letter from a well-informed quarter at Rome says that the Papal Government is decidedly opposed to the admission to the General Council of lay representatives from the Catholic Governments. The Court of Rome will prefer to hold the Council at the risk of coming into serious collision with the civil powers rather than ensure the co-operation of the crowned heads I,y tolerating their interference. The Pope, however, is not indisposed to follow a middle course. He will have no direct lay repre sentatives at the Council ; but he would not object to the respective Ambassadors of the Catholic Governments fol lowing the discussions with power to make suggestions. But the writer thinks that many of the Governments will not be satisfied with this indirect representation. They will either send special envoys, or abstain altogether, and leave the Council to its fate. THE MASSACRE OF ENGLISHMEN IN ABYSSINIA.' All doubt as to the fate of the English — hunting party in Abyssinia is now set at rest. Mr. Walter Powell, M.P., a brother of the gentleman who was murdered, brings news that Mr. Powell and party were attacked and massacred by the Tekah tribe and not by the Bezan tribe as first reported. The Bezans afterwards came upon the murderers, and compelled them not only to relin quish the booty, but to deliver up the bodies, which were conveyed to the Swedish missionaries, by whom they were properly buried. Mr. Henry Powell and Mr. Jenkins, also relatives of the ill-fated family, have gone in search with a strong military escort provided by the Viceroy of Egypt. ABYSSINIAN POLITICS. The Abyssinians do not seem disposed to part with the notoriety they acquired during the late war. Kassa, or Kassai, the Prince who was so friendly to the English, has obtained the services of an Englishman, Colonel Kirkham, who is drilling the native troops in anticipation of war operations, which are expected after the rainy season is over. Prince Kassa, who is certainly far supe rior to the other Abyssinian potentates, desires to promote foreign commerce with his people. He has abolished all duties on the goods of foreign merchants, and has given his chiefs strict orders to protect the persons and property of traders. Colonel Kirkham reports that he is making great progress in the work of drilling the troops. He xpects that the Prince will become master of the whole Of Abyssinia, which may then be transformed into an im portant commercial country. NAVAL ITEms.—The United States steamer _Mohican sailed from San Francisco, June 30, for ports on the :Mexican Pacific Coast. It was announced that she would leave Beliring's Sea with a scientific expedition, but in the meantime orders wore received for her deten tion.—The steamer Narragansett arrived at Key West, Jute 27, with six officers and three men sick with yellow fever, but they are loing well. She was to sail for Ports mouth, N.' 11., Juno 28. °Bum:kr:Y.—The Hon. William Gray died at his residence in Detroit, Michigan, Juno 29.—A San Fran cisco despatch states that J. G. Sheldon, formerly of Al bany, was murdered May 13, by Indians, near Prescott, Arizona.—The Hon. Geo. Briggs died at Saratoga Juno 30, in his 64th year.—John McCartney, one of the pioneer machinists front England to Russia, in the earlier part of the reign of the Emperor Nicholas, has just died at Eliza beth, New Jersey. in a circle around a single listener, and the same note struck at once on each, the listener would bear nothing more than one note." The laws of sound have been practically impressed on the people by this monster concert, and as it is shown that the mere multiplication of instruments will not produce the effect anticipated, to achieve it other means must be adopted, or the attempt relinquished. HONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Spiny&ld Republican, July 3.) A great and violent unlocking and locking up of funds has been the leading feature of the market during the past week. Ordinarily the operations of honest thieves do not affect the bankers and brokers, though there seems to be no reason why burglars should not appear on 'Change with other rogues ; but the robbery of the Ocean bank was such a triumph of the kleptic art that it has made a profound sensation, not only in Wall-street, but through- la out the country. The other rascality of locking up green backs has been expected and dreado all through the strin gency of the money market. On Monday morning, mono)* was easy in New I'. ork at 7 per cent. currency, but tightened in the afternoon to a greater degree of tension than had been before experienced. Tuesday was a wild day, and the fluctuations were from I to z per cent. per diem commission. Borrowers wore surprised at the sud den reaction from the ease of the day before, and after in vestigation found that it was due to the manipulation of funds by clique combinations to influence the prices of speculative stocks, as there were evident indications of a more liberal supply of currency seeking emplOyment through the customary channels. The lock-up, which covered about $5,000,000 of greenbacks, culminated on Wednesday, but failed to affect prices generally. The stock and gold markets continued firm, to the evident sur prise, and in spite of the parties who wore flattering them selves that they held the key to the situation. Finding that their little game to " bear " prices didn't work the conspirators began to break with each other, and to appear on 'Change as buyers. At the close of the day, money was easier. The stringency was also relieved by the regular purchase of $1,000,000 of bonds by the Govern ment, and the imminent disbursement of $15,000,000 of interest and dividends in addition to the July coupons The currency value of the amount of these last to be paid at New York, Philadelphia, and Boston is estimated at $42,000,000. There is also an unusually large sum to be distributed among the Eastern money centres under the appropriation Acts of Congress. All these influences are expected to at least prevent the Eastern money market from growing more stringent. The New York Times, speaking of the respectable fractions of one per cent. that are paid as a per diem interest in Wall-street, says : " Some of our neighbours, by multiplying these rates by 365 days, figure up enormous rates for money per annum. This cannot be called a fair criterion. The extra rates paid for a few days are nothing more than commissions to carry over the railway stocks, many of which, singular to say, advance in price Ito 2 per cent., while paying to per cent per day. The practice recently introduced of buying and selling money for a day in front of the Exchange is, in one sense, a vicious and demoralizing plan to depress or advance the price of money for effect on the stock market, and it already begins to be so understood and appreciated that stocks are constantly bought on dear and sold on cheap money by the rule of contraries, and most frequently with profit to the operators in either case." The misciaief is not confined to the brokers, however, for the banks are also disturbed, not being able to rely on the brokers' balances through their ups and downs. It really operates more efficiently and perniciously than a re gular "lock up." Gold opened the week rather dull but closed firm and steady. It has been little affected by the stringency in the money market, fictitious or otherwise, and has stood on its bottom with a security that encour ages a hope that it is not the toy of speculators to such an extent as formerly. The lowest point was 137 on Friday and the highest 137 f on the following day, the change being due to the Treasury movements and not to specu lative excitement. It closed firm on Wednesday at 137 f. The Treasurer has been taking receipts for the July regis tered interest and Issuing for them gold checks payable July 1. Bids for the weekly sale of gold currency were accepted' from H. Clews and Co., for $BOO,OOO, at from 137 47-100 to 137 54-100, and the remainder to various par ties at nearly the same rates. The correspondence in the case of 'the resignation of Mr. H. H. Van Dyck, for four years assistant United States treasurer at New York, has been made public, and is highly creditable both to Mr. Van Dyck and to Secretary Boutwell. As a proof of the arduous duties of the post, it is mentioned that there were very few applicants for the office, and that several men who were requested to take it very peremptorily declined. General Butterfield, the• new treasurer, entered upon the duties of his office on Thursday. Governments have been quiet but healthy, the market being a little stronger at the close of the week. The assistant treasurer purchased $1,000,000 at prices ranging from 115 48-100 to 115 90- 100. Coupon or registered bonds of every date were bought, the accrued interest being paid in gold as a sepa rate transaction. Hereafter the purchases will be fort nightly. Southern State securities have been unusually quiet with the exception of Teunessees, which were quite active on Saturday, but have fallen since, so that holders are urgent to sell. The Stock Market was unfavourably affected by the monetary stringency ou Monday and Tues day, and there was a general decline of 1 to 2 per cent., most marked in New York Central. On Wednesday, however, when the cat with a green bag appeared under the mea the Stock Market became active and buoyant, the upward turn being so sharp that there was an impression that. the bears had been buying. The leading features were New York,Central, Pacific Mail, Michigan, Southern and North western stocks, Erie seems to be severely lot alone. The Reading Railroad has declared a stock dividend of 5 per cent. The Western Telegraph Company has made its semi-annual exhibit, showing that the gross receipts have been $3,558,408, and expenses, including repairs and re. construction, $2,221,923, leaving a net profit of $1,346,484. Out of this profit a semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent. will be paid, and the remainder will be.applied to the construction and purchase of new lines, the reduction of the debt, &C. The last Now York bank statement, though not calculated to send anybody into ecstasy, is ea the whole satisfactory. The banks hold $14,423,690 in excess of the legally required foundation, being about $1,000,000 more than they held last year at this time, and have de creased their liabilities $4,453,450, and their total reserve only $226,872. The tone of the dry goods market has been honester and healthier than during last week, and the speculative feverishness has given way to a firmness that is quite decided. The stock has moved along ono stage, from the hands of the commission merchants and manufac turers' agents into those of the jobbers, and the prices with which it started are likely to cling to it. Great ex pectations are entertained of a heavy fall trade, though the demand from the West thus far has been less than was an ticipated. Notwithstanding the small demand for bleached shirtings and sheetings they have advanced one cent a yard.—The advices of the Financial Chronicle show that the receipts of cotton at all the Southern ports for the week ending June 25 were 9,440 bales against 2,615 for the same week last year ; the total receipts since September 1, 1868, amount to 2,310,702 bales, or 20,741 less than during the previous season. The exports for the week were 8,101 bales, 301 less than the same week a year ago. Cassimeres and satinets, and other woollen fabrics, are thought to have a better day in store than they have had for some ,ime. The trade in foreign trash is happily slack. The buoyancy in breadstuffs continued nearly through the week, but experienced a collapse under the influence of unfavourable European advices. Winter wheat has im proved steadily, and the advance has been sustained. Pro. visions are heavy under a large shipment of hogs east. Butter is lc. to 2c. higher, and cheese similarly lower. At New York, American gold 136 k, United States coupon sixes (1881) 117, United States Five-twenties (1862)121x, (1864) 117, (1865) 118, (1865 new) 11t: (1867)115x, (1868: 1151, - United States Ton-forties 108;, Pacific Railroad Sixes 1051, New York Central Railroad 1941 Erie 30}, Erie Preferred, 531 Hudson River, 1.644, Reading 98, Mil- waukeo and St. Paul 75k, Milwaukee and St. Paul Pre- feried 85k; Toledo, Wabash, and Western 72i, Toledo, Wabash and Western Preferred 78, Michigan Central 128, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 1081, Illinois Central 143, Cleveland and Pittsburg, 1021, Chicago Rock Island and Pacific 1171, Chicago and North-Western 811, Chicago and North-Western Preferred 951, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, 1561, Hartford and Erie 221 to 23:, Ohio and Mississippi Certificates 33, Western Union Telegraph Company 381, Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany 891, Mariposa Preferred 15, Boston Water Power Company, 151 to 17. (From the New York Tribune.) FRIDAY, July 2, p.m. Gold opened at 1371, sold at 137, 1361, 136}, closing 136/ to 1361. The clearings at the Gold Exchange Bank $85,047,00e, and the balances $3,430,079 66. The pay ments to-day on account of July interest amounted to • $3,978,021. The announcement that the Secretary of the Treasury would release a portion of his currency balance by purchasing $3,000,000 of Five-twenty Bonds gave ge neral satisfaction to the public. This action sets at rest the report that he would hoard currency to the damage of legitimate business. This amount, with the July dis bursements, will reduce the Treasury balance fully sic and a half millions, and will no doubt give the required ease after to-Morrow. The fact of two holidays falling together will have the tendency to increase the ac tivity iu commercial circles, as merchants have to pay their maturing obligations for Monday on Saturday. The Government Bond market was stronger, advancing from to I per cent. from yesterday's closing quotations. The withdrawal of four millions of bonds by the Govern ment, in addition to those purchased for investment and shipment, will leave but a small amount cf bonds in the hands of the largo dealers. The currency 6 per cents issued to the Pacific Railroad were in request from in vestors, and are now relatively the lowest priced Govern ment bond in the market. The increased purchases of bonds by the Government has had the effect to advance the price in London to 81/ an advance of 1 per cent. since the morning quotations. This advance had no effect upon bonds here, but had its effect in the Gold-room, where gold fell to 136}—a decline of per cent. from the opening prices. The market closed firm, with few bonds - offered at quotations. State Bouds were dull, and the transactions were for small amounts only. Tennessee ex Coupons sold at 62 ; New Bonds, 58 to 571; Virginia 6 per Cents. ex Coupon, 58 ; North Carolina New 6 per Cents., 521 to 52; Missouri 6 per Cents. sold at 87 ex Coupon ; Alabama 8 per Cents., 96 ex Coupon. Railway Bonds were spariningly dealt in. Express shares were dull, with sales of Wells-Fargo at 311 to 311; Adams, GOl 611 ; American, 42}; Pacific Mail was active, selling at 90 to 91, closing 901. The stock was firm under large purchases made in anticipation of upward movement, based upon the heavy outstanding short interest. Cus toms receipts, June 21 to June 30, inclusive—Boston, $301,615; New York, $2,752,000; Philadelphia, $230,628; Baltimcre, $236,151; New Orleans, June 1 to 19, $202,306; San Francisco, Juno 6 to June 19, $301,365. Total, $4,024,065. Receipts of internal revenue to-day, $1,250,000. The Philadelphia Public Ledger,July B,thus answers tho following question :—" Will the editor of the Ledgerplease state the law relating to notes falling due the sth of July ? Are they payable on Saturday or Tuesday?—AN IN QUIRER." The notes falling duo on the sth of July are, under the law of this State, payable on that day. Notes falling duo on the 4th of J uly are payable on the 3d, an ticipating by one day the legal holiday. But the sth of July is not a legal holiday, nor has it any of the privileges of a legal holiday by reason of the 4th coming ou a Sunday. The banks of this city, we are informed, have arranged to have one competent clerk in their respective institutions remain in bank during the usual hours of business on the sth instant to attend to such business as cannot 1 e legally anticipated or postponed. The Stets of New York has made special provision that when any hereafter prescribed holiday shall occur on a Sunday, then the ensuing day thereto shall, for all purposes whatsoever, as regards the presenting for pay - went or acceptance, and of the protesting and giving no tice of the dishonour of bills of exchange, bank checks and promissory notes be treated and considered as is the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday. And any bill of exchange, bank check, or promissory note which but for this act would fall due and be payable on any of the days herein mentioned, shall, when said days fall on Sunday, become due and payable on the Tuesday next suc ceeding such days. Under these provisions the New York Banks on Monday next will hold commercial paper having days of grace, and falling due on Sunday, July 4, 1869, payable on Tuesday, the 6th of July ; commer cial paper without day of grace, due on Sunday, July 4, 1869, will be payable on Tuesday, the 6th of July, commercial papers having days of grace, and falling due on Monday, July 5, 1869, will be payable on Saturday, the 3d of July; commercial papers without days of grace, and falling due on Monday, July 5, 1869, will be payable on Tuesday, the Gth of July. The financial agents of the State of Tennessee at New York have been advised by the State Comptroller that the July interest upon its tondo will not be paid on July 1. We are not aware whether this notification is to be construed as implying that the interest is to be entirely passed, or that its payment is only temporarily postponed until arrangements can be made for borrowing the means. essrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia bankers, report as follows on July 1: Pennsylvania Railroad shares, 561 561 ; Sixes, Ist Mort6age, 100 100} ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage , 96} 97. PRICE OF GOLD. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 63 days' sight was on the 10th inst. about 109 per cent. At this rate there is no profit on the importation of, gold from the United States. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25i. 20c. per LI sterling On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of .£3 *a. 100. per ounce for standard gold, It appears that gold at the above price is dearer in London than in Paris. Joseph Kelly, shot on the 24th June at the Registration Office, Virginia, by Captain Callahan, died two days after. It is said he was held by three policemen while Callahan, who was his personal enemy, shot him• Callahan is an ex-Confederate officer, and had charge of a Confederate prison, but he had joined the Republican party. Kelly was vice-president of the Seymour and Blair club during the Presidential election. Callahan was bailed, but has since been re-arrested, as General canbi has ordered him to be tried by a military commission. A very distressing account is given of Mrs. Crane's agony on discovering the dead body of her husband. If 'lilies() high-toned gentlemen would but think on the conse quences of these acts, such hideous murders would be of more rare occurrence. B UDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—The official Gazette of Canada contains a proclamation setting apart the First of July, "Nomination Day," as a grand public hOliday for the present and subsequent years.—The American Ueographical Society have adjourned until the first Wed nesday in September, and the Lyceum Society of Natural Hiztory have adjourned until the first Monday in October• —Arrangements hate been completed for the erection of a monster hotel in San Francisco, to occupy two entire blocks, the intervening thoroughfare to be bridged at each story.—The corner-stone of the Second Church of the Evangelical Association was to be laid on July 4, at 3 p.m. The services will be in German and E ng lish. The church is in Fifty-third-street, between Eighth an d Ninth Avenues. The Hudson River Ferry Co. is co nstruet iiuBgB a b t y D s e o s f b e r e o t s . se s T - s h t o r e e a n t ; r N a n . Y e 0 . , will i s l substantial ferry ti n height, e iandn the wings, having four arches, each 25 feet hi g h. The columns will be of iron, supported by clusters of five an d seven piles of white oak. The entire dock timber and flooring will be of yellow pine, —A company is being formed in Guatemala to put a line of steamers between Sa e Francisco and Central American and Mexican ports: Ti le intention is to have the line in operation by February. -- The Georgia Courts are soon to decide the question whe ther a person may give dancing parties late at night by which the neighbours may be disturbed.—General HO" ley's report from the Board of Visitors of the Naval Aca demy, at Annapolis, shows that the students are required to study on Sundays the same as on week days; there fore, with the exception of the service at the chapel, the routine of the entire seven days is the same. The Vial; tors very properly recommend th a t S un d ay b e a day °, rest from all unnecessary labour, alike on religious an d physiological grounds.— The Boston Journal supports the proposition to hold the Massachusetts Mechanics' Fair , next September, in the Coliseum, and the business ni ce of Boston are freely signing a petition to that effect. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—MRS. S. A' ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails t; quickly restore Grey or Faded Hai r t o it s youthful co l o ur and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair froze falling off. It prevents baldness.' It promotes luxuriant growth, it causes the Hair to grow thick an d strong. I t removes all dandruff. It contains neither 'oil nor dye. In large bottles--' Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfuiner o • Depot, 266, High Holborn. [ADVERTISEMENT J.—Holloware Ointment and Bad Legs.—When from injury, feeble circulation, f° ll blood, or neglected chill, inflammation, succeeded by ulce ration, has attacked the lower limbs, the sufferer m a y turn for a cure, witho u t f ear of disappointment, to Iloilo way's celebrated Ointment, whose fame for such d is i orders has resound e d throughout the habitable globe, a n testimonials in all languages have been received, univer sally praising this c e l e b ra t e d Oi n t men t . I n a ll o ld ease.: Holloway's Pills should b e t a k en w hil e hi s ung uent 1 ; used ; both together are most effective, and the cure, i t accomplished painlessly and readily. Under their join curative influence the worst woun d s o f u l cers assume.. more healthy character, and shortly begin to fill up contract, and soundly heal. [AuvEwrisEUENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach. an liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and aee e p ti rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by DI Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as rovedp, thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, sat - 0 , —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea , htemorrhoids, liver coulPin27, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, risen_ Constipatil matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, ir ri t,t, batty, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headaeTti debility,' dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, eve n pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightnlo of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between'by shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—The Pope's health restored „ be Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 12, 185 6-- ,, 0 . health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, aball o u; a ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely t te- Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Pr ch o ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly exec le nt effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this ex ee f , d re food too highly.—From the " Gazette du Midi," July 25. No. 46,270-Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of r - i i c er Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitti ng o f blood, a r t derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N o . I , 77l—Lord S.' it de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of m an y years ' dysPeP, No. 40,832 —"Fifty years' indescribable a gon y f ro m dysPePs sioo nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important Cautions Beware of the many unsavo u ry and more than sloppy tiouda' to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is mos t a ciously attached. 2 0 ; In tins, at ls lid; 1 lb 2s 9d ; 21b s 4s 6d ; 5 lbs lls; Ribs 2 00 2l lbs 40s.- Also Du BAany'S R EVALENTA ARABIC& CROCOL, POWDER is packed in tin c an i s t ers: for 12 cups at is, for '!' mip 5,50 at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups an en t —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins a • re free of carriage in Engl an d on receipt of Post-Office Rauh Y Du BARRY and C o., N o. 77, Regent-street, London; '- all Grocers and Chemi s t s Order ~d BIRTHS. FILMER—On the 17th i nst., at 61, Eaton-square, the 1100' Lady Filmer, of a daughter. 1,. oarde° l TRENCH —On the 19th inst ,at 32, Hyde-parw.P - n ail the wife of Captain the Hon.. William le Peer Tre - RE., of a son. MARRIAGES. chur BING — BYRNE—On the 17th i ns t , at Marylebone Richard Hen r y Bi ng , of Dorsel-street, Portman-squire' to Susannah, eldest d aug ht er of the late T . Byrne, E s q'' of St. ia Paul's-road, Camden-lown. t BORRADAILE —BORRADAILE—O n th e 15th inst., at s 3 tO Luke's, Cheltenham, John Henry B o rradaile, Esq"• 10 Emmeline, the se ;on d daughter of George Borroda ,, Esq. DEATHS. GB.ANT—On the 17th inst , at 3, Jewin-court, CriPP legaie' Francis W es t Grant, aged .60. Goonwm— On the 17th inst , at Hampton Court, Williams Joseph Goodwin, E sq ., A.1..R.C.5., aged 71. STYLE---On the 16th iust. , at Grove-hill,Tunbridg e- - Charlotte Styl e , age d 90. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN 1 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Office N 0 .112, Still — in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of IMiddlese Tuesday, July 20, la6o.