The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-21 00:00:00

A JERSEY JUDGE AND HIS FEES. The straits to which Jersey officials, owing to the empti ness of the island exchequer, are driven for money have been repeatedly referred to. Last Saturday the Jersey Jurats sat as a Court of Admiralty, when they gave judg ment in several cases against the South-Western and Wey month and Channel Islands Packet Companies for har bour dues which both companies allege to be excessive and unwarranted, but which the States have determined to enforce. A characteristic conversation was originated by the bench. Judge Le Montais asked why his fees had not been paid for attendance on the bench in the last South- Western Steam Packet Company's case. He added, "In all Admiralty cases we are entitled to two shillings fees." The Attorney-General (who appeared as counsel for the States): I am not going to advance money for the public ; I cannot get paid my own fees.—Judge Le Montais : But the harbour. master should advance the money; he is continually receiving harbour dues. The Attorney-General said the money could not be advanced without an order from the Committee of Harbours. If the judges wished, he would apply to the committee, but unless provided by the com mittee nth cash, he would not advance a single halfpenny for the public.—Judge Le Montais : But the G reffierinforms me his fees have been paid. The Attorney-General explained that this was by mistake. Ile should nut in another case pay the fees.—The Greffier: In that case the cause would not be inscribed on the list. The Attorney eneral : I will not advance money for the public.—Judge Le Montais : The harbour-master must pay our fees. The Harbour-master: You must make an order to that effect as my discharge.—Judge Le Montais : You don't want anything of the kind. Shall we not be in the States to vouch for the order we now give you? The harbour. master assented. In order to appreciate the conversation fully, it is necessary to bear in mind that the judge, who seems apprehensive of losing his 25., sat in a case equiva ,ent to a Crown prosecution, and the insular resources are his security for the fees. The Attorney-General, who de clined to advance a halfpenny for the public, was at the time the advocate of the public, that if., of the States. Confidence in the future finances of Jersey, therefore, is eq a low ebb. LAW AND POLICE. Mn. GRENVILLE MuRBAY.—At the Middlesex Sessions, in the case of the Queen on the prosecution of Grenville Murray against Lord Carington, a bill has been presented to the grand jury against his lordship for provoking Mr. Murray to fight a duel and for assaulting Mr. Murray. The grand jury have returned the bill, ignoring the count for provoking to fight a duel, but finding a true bill as to the count for assault. SINGULAR CHARGE.-At the Mansion House, on Tues day, Robert James Brown, merchant, of Cornhill, and Charles Stanbridge, bill-broker, were charged with conspiring to defraud. Mr. Blythe, a young man, under age, who will be entitled to a fortune of £lOO,OOO in a few months, had had certain bills drawn for £l,OOO, £2,000, and £3,000 respectively, and placed in the hands of a bill discounter without receiving any conside ration for them. He found soon afterwards that they were being circulated, and the defendants were charged with fraudulent dealing. The prisoners were remanded, bail being accepted. Mn. BRIERLY.-At Guildhall, Mr. Brierly, the barrister who has frequently disturbed the quiet of the courts of late, was charged with assaulting a telegraph clerk, and bound over to keep the peace for six months. TRIAL OF A SCHOOLSIASTER.-At the Newcastle Assizes, on Monday, a schoolmaster, named Hodkinson, was indicted for wounding a boy. It seemed that some bailiffs were trying to effect an entrance into Mr. Hod kinson's house, and that a crowd of boys were in the garden. Mr. Hodkinson threatened the boys with a pistol, which he afterwards discharged, when a boy was wounded The jury found the prisoner not guilty. A MURDER AT ALDERSHOT. On Tuesday afternoon a shocking murder was committed At the South Camp. Corporal James Brett, of the 2nd Battalion ith Royal Fusiliers, which are quartered in the front lines of the South Camp, was shct dead by a private soldier of the regiment, named William Dixon. The deceased and the murderer lived in the same hut, No. 1, A Lines, South Camp. It appears that the company to which both belong was engaged during the afternoon in emptying and refilling their beds at the bar rack stores, near the lines. It is stated that Corporal Brett, who was in charge of the men in the room, ordered Private Dixon to fill some extra beds, or spare ones, to which Dixon objected, stating that he had done more than his share of the work. Corporal Brett on this left the room, with the supposed intention of reporting Dixon's conduct to a superior non-commissioned officer. During ais absence Dixon was seen to have laid hold of a breech toader, and to be meddling with the breech (evidently loading it), when a man in the room remarked to Dixon, " What are you about ?" to which Dixon replied, " Mind your own business, or you will get it." Immediately after corporal Brett was seen entering' the hut, and was told . .)37 one of the men to go back. However, he appears not to have heard the man, or else not to have heeded what was said to him, for he at once came into the room, and on his doing so Dixon raised his rifle, which he had loaded with ball cartridge, and shot Brett dead. '1 he bullet entered the right side of the head, near the temple, and passed out at the opposite side, shattering the poor man's head in a most frightful manner. Death was instantaneous. The bullet, after going through Brett's head, passed out of the window close to some married women living in the next hut, who narrowly escaped being shot. The only cause that can at present be assigned for tl:e terrible deed was the trifling dispute about the bed-filling. Dixon was at once made prisoner, and walked to the guard __ Jom in the coolest manner. Corporal Brett was highly . ...-:_spected in the regiment, and Dixon, on the centrary,is a an of bad character, and has been several times tried bya court-martial On leaving the hut in which he had com mitted the murder, Dixon is reported to have said, when :ze found that Corporal Brett was dead, that "he was mite satisfied now ; he did not care." Late in the even .ng Dixon was handed over to the civil authorities. ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The Journal de Geneve publishes the following :—" We are requested to announce that the Chamber of Commerce aas received, through the English Consul here, different documents relative to an International Industrial Exhibi tion, to be held in London in IS7O. The object proposed by the Committee of Organisation, comprising some of the leading public men in England, is to make of this exhibi tion a sort of school of technical instruction, by a com parison of the methods employed in different countries for the production of the same articles." SHAKESPERIAN QUERIES.—The most learned Shakesperian commentators seem to be ignorant of the meaning of some of the most common phrases used by the ?get. What does Ophelia mean when she says to the Queen, " Yen may wear your rue with a difference"? What was the precise significance of the crants laid upon. Ophelia's bier? What does Beneclick mean when he says that if a lady is not virtuous he will never "cheapen" her? What does Lear mean when he describes Regatt as being of a " tender-hefted nature "? What does Fistol mean in the much quoted saying—" Under which King, bezon ion, speak or die "? What is the exact meaning of the phrase used by Tranio, to " balk logic "? What is a hilding ? What is a zany ? ARMY FINANCE. —We have reason to believe that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has him self taken the question of army finance in hand. The grand project of placing the whole ex penditure of the army in the hands of military officials, who would check their own accounts and be a law unto themselves, free from the impertinent super vision of civilians, may now be regarded as knocked on the head. Mr. Lowe, we believe, insists that the authority of the Treasury shall be rigidly upheld. Special arrangements are therefore, we understand, under consideration with a view to the separation of the stores and cash departments. The latter will be strengthened and simplified so as to give the Secretary for War effectual aid in revising and reducing the expen diture of the army.—Pall 111cdl Gazette. Saw WMAN ELOQ UENCE. —The following is the latest piece of showman eloquence :—" Gentlemen, this is the celebrated boa constrictor; the finest, largest, longest, strongest, and prettiest animal of its species on exhibition in this country. He was caught in South Africa (as he lay torpid after swallowing two oxen and a drove of sheep) in a wire net, his capture affording a beautiful illustration of successful wire-pulling. It was supposed that the sand where he was found was hot enough to boil eggs, and that his skin was at least well done ' there is proved by its highly-finished appearance. his colour is supposed to com bine all the hues of all snakes that ever hissed or bit from the ' old serpent' to a conger eel. His s'ze is variable, as, like most other objects in- nature, he cxpands with heat and contracts with cold. For every rise of five degrees in the thermometer, he gets a foot of longitude. In his native sands he is a hundred and fifty feet long. The warm sewon of our own country stretches him twenty-five feet. Last January, when the thermometer fell to sixteen degrees, he shrank into such trifling dimensions as to be invisible through a microscope. His present length you can see for yourselves. His temperance principles are of the Goughist kind. He is a dozen cold-water societies rolled into one. His drink at his present dimensions is three gallons of water per week, his food three m - .re gallons. He has great natural talents for politics, which he chews by changing his coat four times a year. Price of aclui4sia_tailatY•ATC_mate."="ew N IMPERIAL PAPUA IENT.. HOUSE OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Brean Down Harbour and Docks Bill was read a third time and passed. COMMITTEES. The Charity Commissioners Bill, the Special Bails, and the Assessed Rates Bill passed through committee. SECOND READINGS. The Endowed Hospitals Bill, the Seamen's Clothing Bill, and the Fines and Fees Collection Bill were severally read a third time. IRISH CHURCH BILL. On the order of the day being read for the considera tion of the Commons' amendments to the Lords' amend ments, and the Commons reasons for disagreeing to the Lords' amendments. Earl GRANVILLE moved to agree to the Commons' amendments made to the Lords' amendments, and also that the Lords do not insist on the amendments to which the Commons have disagreed. Ire said about five weeks since he advised their lordships to give their assent to the measure, and at that time no organised scheme in opposi tion to that courso was known to be in existence,-but tiu co that time such an organization had become known, and a degree of bitterness had been introduced into the debate towards the close, that was wry much to ba re gretted, although he was bound to say that the noble and learned lord (Cain's) had spoken with a degree of moderation that was worthy of so dis tinguished a member of their lurdships' house. The result of the deliberations in their lordships' house had been, that a large, number of amendments, some of them good, some bad, and some indifferent, but the effect of those amendmonts were so to alter the provisions of the bill that the House of Commons had altgether refused to accept them eNcopt in a very limited degree. He thought it a most remarkable thing that not withstanding the altered aspect of the bill not one word discorteous to their lordships' house was to be heard in another place, and instead of, as had been said of their amendments having been superciliously and contume lously rejected by the advice of her Majesty's Government, they had been considered in the most attentive and re spectful manner. The noble earl then referred to the alterations that bad been made by their lordships in the money part of the bill, which he said the Com- mons bad objected to, and although those alterations had not received the consent of the House of Commons yet their amencisnente, to the extent of aug menting the suns to be given to curates and others to the extent of £BlO,OOO, had been agreed to, so he did not think that that fact in any way corroborated the statement that their amendments had been coutume lously rejected. With respect to concurrent endowments the House of Commons supported the objections of her Majesty's Government on the ground that it was utterly impossible to give its assent to such a proposition, and that position was strengthened by the fact that there had been no great demand on the part of the country for such a'proposition, and to have assented to such a proposition would have been, on the part of the Government, a viola tion of the promises made to their constitutencies. The noble earl then moved that the Commons' amendments to those their lordships had made in the preamble be agreed to because the greatest amount of evil could only re sult from the keeping of millions of money dangling without a set purpose to which it was to to devoted. He thought the house would hesitate before it said the proposal for concurrent endowment was in accordance with the national will, and therefore ho asked their lordships to support him in the proposal he had made. Lord CAIRNS defended the course that had been taken with respect to the bill. The bill, on its first introduc tion, was held by a majority of their lordships not to be in consonance with the wishes of the people, and they had come to the conclusion not to read it a second time, but as it had been said by the Government that the bill was open to amendments, their lordships at once took the course of accordingly making those amendment•, and the bill so amended went down to the other house, a message had_been received by their lord ships relative to those amendments—(hear, hear) — and that was all they were supposed to know. But he could not say how strongly he wished to mark his disapproval of certain observations made by the Prime Minister that their lordships in acting as they had done must necessarily be ignorant of the feeling of the country. The noble lord had informed their lordships of the number of amendments that had been made to the bill, but there was one thing that admitted of no dispute, and that was that some of their lordships' alterations were really imperative in order that the bill might be framed in good English. (Laughter.) As to the Ulster glebes, he had always been in favour of maintain ing them, though ho did not think they were of such exaggerated importance, because the money amount was not so large as had been represented. He, however, thought that the amendment of the right rev. prelate was one which their lordships ought to give their adhesion and support. Earl GREY considered that as far as the claims of the bill were considered the words of the preamble were im material, and they certainly could not bind future Parlia ments. If they were unable to pass the bill and bring the whole question to a happy conclusion this session, the fault would rest with the Government, and with the Go vernment alone. Earl RUSSELL w.►s in favour of the disestablishment of the Irish Church and of its disendowment subject to existing rights. The Dnke of ARGYLL denied indignantly the allega tions of Earl Grey that the Government desired to pro voke a collision between the two houses of Parliament. The Marquis of S AMSBURY said he regretted very much the effort made by the Government and their sup porters to prefer a charge of some sort of conspiracy, on the part of noble lords on that side of the house, to get a vote on the question of concurrent endowment. Let no one talk to him about the verdict of the country. It was the Prime Minister who had resolved that their lordships' arrangement would not be accepted if it opposed the ver dict of the House of Commons. But it was not the verdict of the House of Commons, but the arrogant will of one man. (Opposition cheers.) The house divided, when the numbers were— For the Loris' amendment Against it Majority —7B Their lordships, therefore, insisted upon retaining their amendment to the preamble. 1 arl GRANVILLE said that he could not take on him self the responsibility of proceeding with the bill without communicating with his colleagues. He would, therefore, at once move that the debate be adjourned, which was agreed to. The house adjourned at twenty -five minutes past eleven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. THE IRISH CHUHOII BILL. The LORD 31Avor. of DUBLIN presented a petition from the corportion of Dublin praying the house to support her Majesty's Government in their endeavour to pass this bill. SCHOOL OF MUSIC. Sir J. PAKINGTON presented a petition from the Society of Arts, praying for the foundation of a public school for the teaching of music. FEMALE SUFFRAGE. Sir C. DILKE presented a petition signed by 10,713 women, praying for the extension of the elective franchise to women. CAST IRON GUNS. Mr. CARDWELL, in reply to Mr. MILLS, said that there would be now no further delay in making compensa- tion to Mr. Parsons, the inventor of the method of strengthening cast-iron guns, as the report of the arbitrar had been received that morning. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. GRANT DUFF said, in reply to Mr. GRAN -Es, said he regretted, in the present state of public business, he could not fix a day on which the bill would bo taken. COURTS-MARTIAL. Mr. CARDWELL, in reply to Sir J. Pakington, said he intended to give the report of the Royal Commission on court-martion his serious consideration, with a view to legislation METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS (LOANS) BILL. Mr. AYRTON moved the second reading of the bill the object of which was to enable the Board of Works to aise money by way of loan, secured upon the revenue de rived from other sources. _ _ The bill was strongly opposed by several of the metro politan members on the ground that the raising loans as proposed by the bill was highly objectionable and inex pedient. The motion for the second reading was then agreed to, and the bill referred to a select committeo. The other orders were disposed of, and the house ad journed at ball-past two. LADVERTISEMENT.f—fIenceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope. whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette do Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21,1866. - The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out ofmoro than 63,000 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 sleeplessness, and the most in tole/able nervous agitation. Cure No 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years ' dyspepsia. No 9,832:4 "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms. sick ness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " C ure N o. 46,270: Mr James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 33 years' diseased lungs. spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Im portont Cau , ion—Beware 6f the many unsavoury and mor e th at sloply imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's narn• is most audaciously attached. In tins, at ls lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s 6d ; slbs 11 s; 12 lbs 220; 21 1133 40s.— Also Dtr BARRY'S REYALENTA ARABI€A CHOCOLATE PoWYEB is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at is, for 2+ cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 308, for 576 cups at .55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Order.— RAltia Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, iiegent-street, Lyndon; and all Ozocera and Chemists. "THE MIDDLE PASSAGE." Two hundred of the steerage passengers who sailed, a week or two ago, from Liverpool to New York, in the Inman steamer City of Paris, have signed a protest against the treatment they experienced during the voyage They affirm that the accommodation was not nearly equal to the number of steerage passengers—above 1,000 — taken on board. The provisions were bad ; the bread not half baked ; fresh meat was served out only once ; the fish was salt and badly cooked ; and the potatoes " were of the worst possible kind." The passengers affirm that only one cook and one assistant were furnished to cater for this army of people. Since the recent impulse given to the emigration movement, instances of overcrowding have become very common. The subject deserves investi gation. AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. The Americans have undoubtedly gone ahead of us in their university system. Whilst we in England are slowly and laboriously" throwing our universities open" and bringing them within the means of the poor, the Americans have adopted the opposite principle. They have decided to found establishments for higher education which from the first shall not exceed the means of the poor. The p:an seems to work well. Very favourable reports are given of Cornell University, which was esta blished on the principle of educating young men, and yet allowing them to earn their living at the same time Some of the most successful students are to be found amongst the humblest grades. One lad, who has taken the English prizes in the scientific course and in German, supported himself by earning porter's wages in one of the University buildings. Another, whose average attainments exceeded those of any other student, was a librarian's assistant and waiter at the students' table. The New York Tribune says there is work about the farm and grounds for all who want to do it, at a fixed sum per hour. Still better, perhaps, there is an opening here for mechanics and skilled artisans, who, while following their respective crafts, can at the rame time pursue any branch of learning for which they have a fancy. There are carpenters working early and late with the chisel and the plane, and going to class with the young men of independent means. There are masons, plasterers, cabinet-makers, painters, farmers, who come to the recita tion mums fresh from the manual tasks by which they earn their subsistence, and printers who set type at all spare hours in the Ithaca printing offices, or the rooms of the University press. There are two workmen from England who have even built themselves a cottage in the intervals of their studies. COMSIERCE AND CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. French politics are just new watched with the greatest interest by commercial men. Should the Emperor make up his mind to firmly establish Constitutional Govern ment, and to adopt a really liberal policy, there can be no doubt that the result will be an immense increase of con• fidence in commercial circles. Enterprise of every kind would receive a decided stimulus. The Daily News, in its money article, says that it is difficult to form any adequate conception of the vast amount of money lying dormant in France through lack of confidence. Some idea of what is possible in the future may be gathered from a review of the vast strides which Austria has made under a constitutional system. There the money of the people Las flowed out in a volume that is perfectly astonishing. The Austrians are now constructing all their railways and public works without the aid of foreign capital. They profess to be altogether beyond the necessity of raising more foreign loans. A SCANDINAVIAN UNION. A great demonstration in favour of a union or alliance between the Scandinavian States of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway was held near Copenhagen a few days ago. Ten thousand Swedes, Dane; and Norwegians assembled. This great meeting was in every sense a representative one. There was a delegate from the extreme west of Jutland, another from the far north of Norway, and three Danish patriots came from Schleswig. Speeches were delivered in all three languages. The necessity of a political union between the Scandinavian States was urged as the only means of insuring them from the aggressions of their powerful neighbours, and the expediency of developing their naval and military forces was strongly insisted on. The Scandinavians, like the more southern peoples, are be ginning to learn that unity is strength. Sweden has suffered from the encroachments of Russia, and Denmark from the rise of the Prussian monarchy. The experience does not seem to have been altogether lost. A FIRE IN SWEDEN. The greatest fire ever known in Sweden has just taken place at Gefle. Half the town was burnt down, the loss amounting to £6oo,ooo—a catastrophe hitherto unheard of in that country. The local insurance companies, which are a comparatively recent institution in Sweden, will suffer heavily. Some English companies also arejnvolved. IN EXPLANATION. Mr. Melly, M.P. for Stoke, has been publishing in the Times some severe remarks upon certain of the members who took part in the debate on Friday night upon the Irish Church Bill. He supposes that they accused their brethren of a liking for con current endowment which they did not dare exhibit. In ether words, he charges them with charging him and other Liberal M.P.'s of hypocrisy. Mr. Torrens, M.P. for Finsbury, and Mr. Morrison, M.P. for Plymouth, write to deny this accusation. Both agree in stating that the phantom of concurrent endowment . having been effectually disposed of, the House was free to consider if there were not other better means of disposing the Pri rplus than that proposed by Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Torrens siys he " could not remember hear . ng any one in private on either side of the House defend the giving of £200,000 or £300,000 a year to the land lords under the name of county rate." Mr. Morrison de clares that he decidedly obi ects to any part of the surplus being devoted to the relief of the rates of the Irish landlords and tenants. He adds, that it is notorious that a large number of Liberal M.P.'s object to any such api , lication ; that at a meeting of Irish Liberals held on Thursday Clause 68 was almost unanimously condemned, and a resolution was agreed to, with only one or two dissentients, in favour of appro priating the surplus to the development of the in dustrial resources of Ireland, and the postponement of the matter for a year. As for concurrent endow ment, Mr. Morrison has always been most resolutely opposed to it, and he has voted against it on the only two occasions when the question arose. A SLIGHT D FFERENCE. Two very different reports appear in the papers of a meeting at Chelsea addressed by Sir Charles Di M.P. The reporters seem to have gone with the intention of hearing only those things which were in accordance with the principles of the respective papers they represented. The Daily News report, for instance, tells us that Sir Charles especially ap proved of the way in which the Commons bad dis posed of the surplus. The Times, on the other hand, represents the member for Chelsea as being very angry at the surplus being handed over to the land lords, and as ridiculing the notion of the landlords being "poor and afflicted." When two suchauthorities as these differ, how can one tell what Sir Charles Dilke really did say ? Still another account is to the effect that the hon. member was in favour of the disposal of the surplus being postponed, so that it might be used for Mr. Bright's land scheme if he brought one in next year. Putting all these accounts together, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that Sir Charles thought the lunatic scheme bad, concurrent endowment worse, and advocated the postponement of the question. This construction, however, is open to correction. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, EAR; AND VALUABLE are the properties of Lamplongu's Pyretic Saline, cur;ng the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or binary affections. Pleasant palatable, and invigorating. Sold by all Chemists.—[Advt.] [ADVERTISEMENTJ.—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Coughs, Influenza.- The soothing properties of these me dicaments render them well worthy o trial in all diseases of the lung=, in common colds, and influenza. The pills taken internally and the ointment rubbed externally are exceedingly efficacious. When influenza is epidemic this treatment is easiest, safest, and surest. 11. lloway's pills and ointment purify the blood, remove all obstructions to its free circulation through th 3 lungs, relieve the over gorged air tubes, and render respiration free without re ducing the strength, irritating the nerves, or depressing the spirits. Such aro the ready means of saving suffering when afflicted with colds, coughs, bronchitis, and other complaints by which so many aro seriously and perma nently aglictsd LA most countries. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1869. FOREIGN NOTES. EMIGRATION TO CANADA. The committee of benevolent persons who attempted to solve the emigration problem by assisting distressed families to Canada have met with very encouraging suc cess. They sent out East-end workmen, men of good character who had been reduced to poverty through in sufficient work, with their families, to the number of 608. All these are doing well in Canada. Without exception they obtained work on their arrival, and the letters re ceived from them are described by a lady member of the committee as "full of gratitude and happiness." One poor woman who went out with her daughter is now in a situation with a farmer. She writes that there is no want in the country except the want of labour. Three hundred girls now earning a scanty livelihood in London might find employment in the neighbourhood of Kingston alone. A jeweller who could find nothing to do here obtained employment at six shillings a day in Toronto. His wife writes that though some necessaries are dear in Canada, others are cheap ; and on the whole the cost of living is lower than in London. Similar letters are received from other emigrants. The East London Family Emigra tion Committee seems to be doing a very good work, and it is quite certain that the work is being done in the best possible way. " expenses" of the society are only £8 for printing, no office or paid agency being thought needful. Here is a model society. The ME7ROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Tuesday. The debate on the University Tests Bill shewea a remarkable degree of progress on the part of the P eers. Though the bill was lost it was not rejected, Lord Crainar von moving only the previous question. The speeches delivered by the Conservative peers, even by that most Tory of prelates, the Bishop of Gloucester, were remarkably conciliatory, and there is reason to hope that a settlement of this vexed question may be obtained next year. The Bishops were conspicuous by their absence. Only four were present during the debate— the Archbishop of Canterbury, who left the House with out voting, and the Bishops of Gloucester, Bangor, and Lichfield, who supported Lord Carnarvon. Lord Stanley's long absence from the House of Corn. mons is causing much comment. He is believed to be thoroughly disgusted with the "no surrender" policy of his father. Two important club meetings are to be held on Thurs day : one at the Reform, to consider the resignations of Mr. Bright and Mr. Forster; and one at the Conserva tive, to discuss Mr. Grenville Murray and his doings. The last-named person has sent an elaborate defence of his conduct to this morning's papers. It is thought not improbable that, in the event of the Deanery of Durham becoming vacant, it will be offered to Mr. Liddell, of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. Mr. Liddell, differing from the rest of his family (Lord Ravensworth's), has always supported Mr. Gladstone at Oxford, and belongs to a stock which has great influence in the northern counties. At the same time there are other men who have even stronger claims upon the Premier. I believe I am right in saying that the author of the first and very remarkable article in the Quarterly Review on "Eastern Christians" is Dr. Deutsch, author of the famous article on the Talmud which appeared in 1867. This morning's London papers confirm the statement which I made about three weeks ago, that Mr. O'Dowd, sub-editor of the Army and Navy Gazette, has been appointed Deputy Judge Advocate General, at a salary of £l,OOO a year. Mr. O'Dowd formerly edited the defunct Sunday Gazette. AMERICAN A FFAIRS (From the Anglo-American Times.) WASHINGTON, July 2. Ex-President Johnson has been , 4 interviewed," and the reporter finds him little changed, only more outspoken than when he ruled in the Executive Mansion. Andy has read President Grant through and through, and knows him thoroughly ; and modest as the President is, if Andy really does know him so well, yet expresses so low an opinion both of his intellect and person, even the little pride inseparable to humanity, which Gen. Grant, little as he is known to possess, still must have, would be shocked. Johnson's successor, accord ing to him, is without substance, opinion, faith, creed, or policy ; he bad no military ability, be ing " a mere incident of the war, as a baggage waggon or an ammunition train would be ;" he reiterated his former charges against Grant in the quarrel, growing warm as be did so, and rehearsing the controversy at length. He has as little respect for Grant's Cabinet as kir himself ; he considers the coun try to be tending towards Imperialism and a bond bolding aristocracy, and the only return to Consti tutional Government was to make the Southern States a neucleus, about which when power de veloped itself the North-west would join hands as against the East and protective tariffs. As regards himself, he had nothing to ask from the Administra tion ; he had reached the summit of his ambition, and only desired to see the country fixed on a solid foundation. Of Tennessee he observed that Sena tor Brownlow was acting with him ; he had no confidence in the Parson ; but that gentleman was too shrewd not to see the change of sentiment in his own State. Mr. Johnson is in Washington to col lect materials of private, and copies of public docu ments necessary either for him or his biographer in writing the history of his Administration. Mr.Reverdy Johnson is also here; both have been serenaded, and both attended the examination at the George town College on Thursday. Andrew Johnson leaves immediately, as he is to speak at Green castle on Monday. He feels confident of Senter's election as Governor of Tennessee ; and it is as serted that the Administration has thrown its in fluence into the scale with Stokes, who is thus strengthened by the Federal patronage. Senator Brownlow, in advocating Senter and opposing Grant has 1, st his influence with the Government here. People are amused with the report of an Italian paper that Andrew Johnson had arrived in Italy, as nothing can be further from his thoughts than to abandon the contest by which be hopes to secure Tennessee to his party, placing Senter in the chair of the Governor and himself in the Senate in succes sion to Fowler. His influence would, if it could, have resuscitated the intelligencer, which has ceased to exist, notwithstanding the efforts of many leading Democrats to keep it afloat or to revive it. As a great paper, it is universally regretted here, but although its historical name sounds well in the ears of our citizens, they have confined themselves to thinking highly of the paper, leaving it steadily to go down hill till smothered in a bog of debt; for its liabilities are over $40,000. It has lived close on the span of man's life, 70 years, for it was born in 1800, indeed it is coeval with this city itself, and quickly became the organ of the leading old Whig politicians. As the first men in the country con veyed their opinions through its columns it obtained a large circulation, and had great weight and in fluence throughout the Republib. Clay, Webster, and Calhoun wrote for it, and the number of historical names on the long line of its contribu tors is far larger than that of any other paper in America. It is this connection with the past which endears it to so many, and the fact that in its files, is history. No man should write an account of the Administration for the last 50 years without consulting its columns. Unfortunately, for a paper so old, it has not within late years been conducted with tact, for since the death of those under whom it prospered it has persistently been on the losing side, advocating, often virulently, opinions dia metrically opposed to those of the majority ; it may be honest in the individual writers, but such a system is not that on which a great organ can be upheld, and it has broken down in spite of its advantages ; at a meeting held on _ . Tuesday, the effort failed to raise $lOO,OOO, al though some of the money was subscribed, and Colonel Berret was proposed as manager. The Morning Chronicle has been doing a nice business, which I fear Secretary Rawlins will interrupt. It is asserted on behalf of the proprietors, in support of a bill for $lO,OOO against the Government for advertisements, that the paper has the legal right to print every advertisement issued by the War De rartment, or by any one connected with the army. The amount has swelled up in consequence of the present Secretary of War declining to adopt the system of his predecessors, and issue special orders in payment of advertisements never sent to the paper, and which could in no way benefit the coun try. If the Commandant at Sitka advertised the sale, in an Alaska paper, of used-up military stores, the Chronicle would reprint it, and charge the re gular advertising rates, a privilege which General Rawlins, in that blunt, soldier-like way he has, calls a swindle be is determined to suppress. As the wheel revolves every one's turn comes round, and now the turn of thepress has arrived, and the Morning Chronicle is likely to feel it disagreeably. It is very pleasant for a paper to be nourished with Govern ment pap, but experience, after all, shows that there is nothing like independence, and some of your Washington contemporaries and others, may learn that these artificial stimulants are liable to be sud- denly withdrawn, whereon ensues a very unpleasant depres3ion. There was a great outcry arising from ;be discharge of a mu!titude of women scrubbers and cleaners who have been reduced to 70, 126 out of the 196 having been paid off. The enormous number of persons whose services have been disponsed with throughout the departments has made the work most disagreeable to the chiefs ; for it is a rule of the Administration that no deficiency bill is to be presented, by means of which every previous effort of Congress at retrenchment has been dtfeated. Letters purporting to be the resignation of Mr. Boric, late Secretary of the Navy, and its accept ance by General Grant, have been published in the New York papers, and on the cold formality which marked these locuments the rumour spread that the writers were not upon friendly terms, and that 11r. Borie's resignation was consequent on the President's application for it. It quickly transpired, however, on inquiry that the letters were not copies of those which had passed, that Mr. Boric had pressed upon the reluctant President his resigna tion, - which the latter, unable to avoid, had accepted in a short note, of which no copy was kept, and it was necessary to correct the false rumours to ap ply to Mr. Borie at Philadelphia for a copy of the original. On such foundations canards circulate of splits in the Cabinet, which almost invariably turn out to be the mere inventions of mischief-makers, or more probably of speculators. Secretary Robeson, Mr. Borie's successor, is fairly installed, and has taken over the quarters his predecessor vacated in a private restaurant ; he has suspended further inves tigation in the case of Paymaster Washington Irving on account of that gentleman's insanity. Mr. Boric left Washington shortly after giving over his office, and Secretary Robeson started for his home last Tuesday on a week's absence. During Attorney-General Hoar's absence a vast amount of work has accumulated ; opinions and decisions on various subjects being required. We get our laws into an inextricable muddle by legislating not on fixed principles, but to meet momentary exigencies. After Congress had shackled President Johnson by passing the Tenure -of Olce Act, it repealed some of the clauses most objectionable to Grant's Administration, leaving in his bands powers of suspension, and renewal, and reap pointment during its recess. It is, however, an open question whether the President has the right to appoint foreign Ministers and Con suls to vacancies existing in consequence of the Senate not having acted on the nominations sent to them. Several of these vacancies remain to be filled, and Mr. Fish, strengthened by the opinion of the late Attorney-General, Mr. Cushing, holds that the President's right to make such appointments is clear, the power being distinctly vested in him alone by the Constitution. Judge Hoar has not yet re turned, but he is expected every day, and as this question has been before him for many weeks, he will deliver an early opinion, and set many minds at rest. Albert C. Mackey, lately collector of cus toms in Charleston, South Carolina, is to be one of those appointed, and the President has nominated George W. Clark as his successor in the Customs. Secretary Boutwell is about the only member of the Cabinet at work here for the last two or three days ; Secretary Rawlins, with Commissioner Parker and our Mayor and City Councils, left for Gettys burgh to attend the ceremony of dedicating the monument. Mr. Creswell is at Baltimore, whither Grant is gone to inspect the workshops of the Balti more and Ohio Railroad and their European wharves at Locust Point; he goes about more than any Pre sident within living memory. Mr. Cox accompanied him, and goes on to Ohio. Mr. Fish is in New York, Mr. Robeson in New Jersey, and Judge Hoar in Massachusetts. Gen. Horace Porter, the President's Private Secretary, went with him, as did also Mr. E. M. Stanton. After inspecting the works the party sailed down the bay in the steamship Columbia some 20 miles. Admiral Porter, Governor Bowie, Mayor Banks, and others, with a large gathering of ladies, met him on the steamer, and he returned by special train that evening to Washington after a pleasant trip. One of the difficulties which Judge Hoar must decide is on the appointmeatof army officers to civil posts. General Butterfield is a colonel on the active list, and refuses to resign his commission. The law lays down that officers accepting diplo matic or consular appointments must surrender their commissions, but it says nothing about other appointments. Those who anticipate promotion de sire to sec his resignation sent in, but even if it were, there is little chance of promotion, as he is only a supernumerary. The libel case of Bradley against Judge Fisher has terminated, so far as the Circuit Court and Judge Wylie are concerned. You may recollect that the case arose at the trial of John H. Surratt, wherein Bradley was barred from further practice in a Criminal Court by the order of Judge Fisher, who alleged a gross contempt of Court against him. Judge Wylie said it was useless to proceed before him, since the authorities were uniform, and his own opinion settled that on a judicial order no action for libel could be based against the judge who made it, and he advised the plaintiff to save himself further expense and trouble by taking the case up at once to the Supreme Court. In the trial of William T. Smithson against the Secretary of War, Judge Wylie has delivered an opinion overruling the plaintiff's motion for in spection, and copies of the evidence referred to upon getting which only his case could hope for success Senator Cattell, General Forrest, Emerson Ethe ridge, Governor Stevenson of Kentucky, and Sena tors Nye, Abbott, and Cole are here. United States Treasurer Spinner hasreturned, and resumed his work after the death of his wife. It is said that the President will shortly pay St. Louis a visit. He had an interview with some Georgian representa tives on the subject of the negro postmasters, whom he informed that he was not prepared to remove until they proved incompetent. Senator Morton is expected here. General Cochrane has accepted the post of collector of a district of New York. Mr. Samuel Ward was to have given a dinner to Mr. Reverdy Johnson, to which twelve prominent men of each party bad been invited, but in consequence of a death in Mr. Johnson's family it has been post poned. Report says that he has prepared a reply to the speech of Senator Sumner to be issued in a few days. The police have been active in breaking up gambling houses, though a want of business, since Congress adjourned, has had a much more consi derable effect. Fifteen were suppressed since the Ist April, and twice that number were voluntarily closed by the proprietors. There is to be a reunion in New York of the Army of the Potomac, and the following, among other gentlemen, will leave on I Sunday for that city :—Secretary Rawlins, Com missioner Parker, General Porter, Private Secre tary to the President; General Emory, Majors Leet and Webster, and General Humphreys. NEW YORK, July 3. The Dauntless has started under Vice-Commo dore James Gordon Bennett (junior). On board with him are Mr. L. R. Jerome, Mr. Wright Sand ford, Dr. Chicerini, and Mr. Melvin Knapp. I sup pose they will reach Europe shortly after this letter, as they started last Saturday ; but Ido not think Mr. Bennett will crack on as he did when running his yacht in the celebrated race to Cowes.* The Bristol, a steamer of the Fall River Line, ran into a barge in a fog and sent her to the bottom. We have many very dense fogs, and the heat lately has been overpowering ; cases of sunstroke occur every day, and this is the list of one spell of 24 hours : Isabella Vanderbilt, of Hudson City, corner of Elm and Worth-streets; Louis Buslig, of No. 6, First avenue, while at work upon the roof of the Waver ley Theatre ; Thomas M'Carthy, of No. 91, Charl ton-street, and an old lady of No. 618, East Ninth street, at Houston-street, ferry. It is rumoured that yellow fever is increasing, and the quarantine offi cers, more especially from Cuba, are keeping a sharp look-out. Intelligence has been received about the young Englishman, 11. Percival Stebbing, who left Brevoort House May 31, and did not return. Last Sunday evening a note was received signed by him, addressed to Messrs. Clark and Waite, proprietors of the Brevoort House, in which he requests his letters to be sent to the New York Post-office, that he may get them. He promises to call "on Wed nesday, at the latest," and settle his bill, and apo logizes to the proprietors for "keeping them in suspense," but does not offer the slightest explana tion as to his present whereabouts, or the cause of his prolonged absence. Sir John Barrington was merely a fellow passenger of his in the steamer, and knew nothing more about him. Stephen Powers, who arrived in the steamer Helvetia, June 23, left No. 72, Eldredge-street, on the 25th, and has not been seen since. The missing man is about 45 years of age, somewhat bald, and wore black clothes. The body of an unknown man was picked up in the water at the foot of Van Prunt-stre3t, last Wed nesday morning. Deceased was about 5 feet 6 inches high, stout, dark hair, and bald on the top of the head. llad on a dark corded jacket, light vest, blue and green striped woollen shirt, brown pantaloons with patch on each knee. A one-dollar * Our correspondent is out in his calculation, as the Dauntless has, we believe, made even a faster iun across than the Llenrietta.—ED. A. A. T. lics. bill and some currency was found in his pocket. The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop and R. M. Mason, of Boston, are at the Westminster Hotel, and sailed for Europe in the steamship China last Wednesday. The Ocean National Bank was entered by burglars on last Sunday night, and about $75,000 of the bank's funds stolen, besides money, bonds, and other secu rities, belonging to depositors. A portion of the missing property has been returned. A rush to the Safe Deposit Companies ensued, and at the office of the Safe Deposit Company of New York, at 142 and 146 Broadway, a larger number of boxes has been taken since :Monday last, by persons who have hitherto deposited their securities with banks, than within the same period since the organisation of the company. General Sheridan is expected here to-day, and Vice-President Colfax passed through yesterday. Minister 'Thornton also left for Massachusetts, and General Banks for Boston. Mr. Thornton had been stopping at the Clarendon Hotel. Fifth Avenue is to be covered with asphalte, and thework has been begun between Thirty-Second and Forty-Second-streets. It had been partially laid down inTompkins - square, but the appropriations being exhausted when the work was three-quarters finished, it was therefore delayed till next year ; the finished portion looks smooth, and has stood several severe tests. The concrete is composed of gravel with pine and coal tar for the first layer, with pine tar, rosin, and fine sand mixed for a top finish. Union-square has had the side-walk around it thus laid down, and it is about to be done in the City Hall Park. The concrete has been well tested at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Central Park by a month's trial,and is now as perfect as when first put down; the cost for laying down the whole of the Fifth Avenue and at the City Hall will come out of the $250,000 of the last tax levy for the re pair of streets. Columbia College celebrated its 115th anniversary at the Academy of Music, and distributed its honours and degrees. Fordham Col lege has also conferred its degrees under a big tent in the college grounds. Archbishop M'Clonskey, Bishop Lynch, and other Roman Catholic digni taries, with many thousands of persons, were pre sent. Cornell University, at Ithaca, also held com mencement exercises, the class graduating on Thurs day, of which we have had long accounts in the papers. Harvard graduated on Tuesday, a class of 107 in the academic department, 77 in the medi cal, 66 in the legal, and Bin the theological. Yale began on Monday with the six Townsend prize orations for the De Forest prize medal,whicb,strange to say, was won by Edwin I'. 'Wilder, of Kolapore, India. As you, Mr. Editor, know something of India, perhaps you may be aware who this gen tleman is, but I confess 1 do not know even where the place is.* The wooden spoon presenta tion took place next evening, and the farewell poem and oration of the class '69 on the following morning. Princeton College, New Jersey, likewise graduated a class on Wednesday of 52. There has been another revolt at Sing Sing, where seven con victs captured a boat, and were rowing away when they were fired on from the shore, one wounded, and the whole batch retaken ; the wounded man after lingering two or three days has died. It was long a mystery where the steamtugs had gone that left with the fillibusters last Saturday evening, big t it was cleared up on Wednesday by their capture in Long Island Sound, being overhauled at Gardener's Point by the revenue cutters Campbell and 111' C'ulloch. There were three small steamers, carrying 300 or 400 men, including a lot of übiqui tous correspondents, without whom no fighting can nowadays be done. They were in a deplorable state, and gratified at their capture, blaming their leaders, to whom they attributed the grossest mismanage ment. Of course,. Secretary Fish is denounced, but he who had arrived at New York took the oppor tunity to express his unqualified satisfaction with the proceedings of the United States Marshals; the Secretary had been very indignant on learning the manner of Ryan's escape, regarding it as a gross outrage on the law, and the Colonel, when recaptured, is not likely to have another chance. From Boston it is reported that a special messenger had arrived from Serrano and Prim to President Grant, an nouncing that the Madrid Government intended to adopt a policy for Cuba, which will prove satisfac tory to the Cubans as well as to the United States. The accounts from the island are deplorable, sick ness and disease thinning the ranks of both sides and adding to the misery. The Cubans are in the woods and mountain fastnesses, and the Spaniards, unaccustomed to the climate, are in the hospitals, about one man in three only being fit for work. The rains have set in, and active hostilities have ceased. I was sorry to hear that Mr. Roebling, engineer of the East River Bridge, lost four of his toes by am putation, in consequence of a bad accident to his foot at the Fulton Ferry. General Butterfield in sisted on a full inventory of the assets of the Sub- Treasury, the money being carefully counted be fore he assumed charge. Secretary Bout well, in com pliance,appoiuted a commission, and the work began on ilredneday under the manager of the Clearing House, Mr. Camp. What that work is may be ga thered from the fact that nearly all the clerks of the departments, with 40 more selected from banks, had to be supplementd by a number sent from the Washington Treasury; yet several days must elapse before the work is finished, as $85,000,000 in coin have to be weighed piece by piece and placed in bags, as well as $20,000,000 in greenbacks, besides a quantity of fractional currency. The New Hampshire House of Representatives have adopted the 15th amendment by 183 to 130. The Canadians have chosen the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, the Ist July, as the anniversary of the Do minion, but they have been recommended to change it to the 4th July, as it will disgust the Irish Catho- The New York Times rejoices at the suppres• sion of the English blondes, Niblo's Garden only being open to them, and that is likely soon to be closed. It hopes that having freed our city from the imported indecency, we may set to work as re solutely to get rid of our own considerable native crop, always in rapid growth. BUDGET OF PERSONAL—Mr. Wm. H. Spencer and Miss Julia Tyler, daughter of ex-President Tyler, were married in the Church of the Ascension, in Now York, on Saturday, June 26.—The Lincoln Club, Mr. John V. Gridley, President, and Messrs. Allan Cooper and William H. De Camp, Secretaries, gave a grand reception at their rooms, No. 37. Union-square, on Saturday after noon, June 26, on the occasion of a formal opening.—Gen. M'Clellan is to pass the summer at Long Branch; and Gen. Meade and George Peabody will also pay that place a visit.— The Hon. Ben Wade thus " does" the Pacific Railroad of which he is a Government Commissioner—" When the train is in motion he sits at the door of the rear car and watches the track as if he had lost something valuable and expected every moment to discover it. On one occa sion, night coming on, Mr. Wade ordered the train to run on a siding and leave his car until morning, as he wished to go over the road in daylight. As soon as he could see, a special engine was sent up and attached to his car, and having properly adjusted his spectacles, he set sail west ward." He has returned with Senator Conkling, having left San Francisco on the 29th June. On that day Mr. Seward proceeded from Promontory Point to San Francisco, declining the invitation of Sacramento City to speak on the Fourth of July. Ho arrived there on the 30th June, receiving a salute of 50 guns, colours flying, and all with out reference to party uniting to do him honour. A grand dinner was given to him at the Orleans Hotel ; he left the next day for San Francisco ; and the Cable announces that he has proceeded to investigate his new purchase of Alaska, and cool himself on one of the icebergs, for which he has paid so much of Uncle Sam's money. We may here add that the Chicago excursionists arrived at Truckee, June 30th, and at San Francisco on the Ist July.—Anna. Dickeson is lecturing in Salt Lake City. Brigham Young is asserted thus to have answered the constantly repeated question, " How many wives have you?" Artemus Ward declaring, that most of the Mormon girls married young. "To tell the honest truth, 1 never thought enough about it to stop and think. But I will get up the facts in the case and tell evers body, so that they may stop asking these questions. I sup pose I have a dozen or fifteen that I sin Liking care of perhaps a few more, I do not know, and I care nothing about it. I try to do good, and I try to save the peopl.3:; and I say, do not let a lady come to destruction."— Colonel William Ward, who commanded the Bth Now Jer sey Infantry, and lost an arm at the second battle of Bull Run, has been appointed Postmaster at Newark, New Jersey.—Mr. Ilaucabe, Charge d'Affaires of the Greek Go vernment at Washington, is soon to be married to a daugh ter of Baron Gerolt, the Russian Minister.—The Russian-- *lt is in the Southern Mahratta country, south of Bom bay, between Sattara and Belgaurn. It was the theatre of war with the British troops a quarter of a century ago, and the scene of some stirring incidents during the laUtbiy.—(ED. 4,. 4, W.) American Company has commenced a suit against Hiram Ketchum, jun., Collector of Customs at Sitka, for the ille gal seizure of the company's ship Czarowitch, claiming $200,000 damages.—Charles A. M'Laughlin, of Brooklyn, who has for some years filled the position of Superinten dent of Records in the Adjutant-General's Office, has been removed by the President, on the request of the Grand Army. Chief Justice Chase has gone to the White Sulphur Springg for the benefit of his health. When discussing the ironclad oath at Richmond, he expressed the opinion that there was no authority in the laws of Congress to exact it of members of the Legislature.—G. C. Reiffenstein, Chief Clerk in the Receiver-General's Department in Canada, has been arrested, charged with appropriating public money.— Senator Grimes is said to contemplate • esigning. —Mr. George Peabody has given $5OO to help to build the Bunker Hill Memorial Hall.—Commodore Vander bilt is in Buffalo, looking after railroad interests and horse trots.—The Rev. Mr. Murray, of Boston, announces " that he is not afraid to enter the dens of any theological lions that ever howled." lion. R. B. Hayes, just re-nominated for Governor by the Ohio Republicans, is said to be a Free-Trader. -- Moseby, Beauregard, Jo. Johnston, and several other Confederate Generals aro at Syracuse, New York.—The erratic Ryan, Fenian Cuban filibuster, who recently escaped from the law officers in New York, has written a touching letter to Gen. Barlow, "exonerating" the deputy who had him in custody at the time. —Mdme. Parepa-Rosa is going to St. Catharine's, Canada.—Ex-Senator James Guthrie left an estate of 5843,278. Mr A. S. Abell, owner and manager of the Baltimore Sun, and formerly an owner of the Public Ledger, has come to Europe for rest after 50 years' labour. — Mrs Maria N. Pollard, the wife of E. A. Pollard, has been sent to jail in Baltimore for 30 days, for shooting Dr. George A. Moore through the hand, in January last. The scene in court when she was sentenced was highly excit ing.—Lieut.-General Sheridan, Major-General Meade, and Secretary Rawlins were to be present at the reunion of the Army of the Potomac on the sth. Governor Hoff man had promised also. The President and Chief Jus tice, with the Cabinet, have been specially invited.— Cap tain Brine, of the Royal Navy, was present at the Feast of the Alumni of Harvard University on the 29th June, and returned thanks in response to the toast of his health. —lt is said that Hon. John P. Hale is a candidate for Senator Cragin's seat in the Senate after 1871.—William. Dwiggons of Benton county, lowa, is fifteen years old, thirty-five inches high, and weighs a pound for each inch of length. He will exhibit himself as a rival to General Tom Thumb and Nutt.—Dr. Platin, of St. Louis, Missouri , states that on the 20th of June ho was called to attend a man at the point of death, and who subsequently died, who he understands was no other than the outlaw Hildebrand , who has murdered no less than 80 persons, and has been s terror in his neighbourhood for years.—The Rev. Wm' Quinn, pastor of St. Peter's Church, Barclay-street, and the Rev. Mr. M'Nierney, of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, will acc om p an y A rc hbi s h op M'Cl os k ey, as hi s pri vate chaplains, to the (Ecumenical Council to be held at Rome.— General James Watson Webb, late United States Minister to Brazil, is visiting his son-in-law Colonel Ben ton at the armoury of Springfield, and is said to be as wel l and vigorous as ever.— General John M. Brown has bee° been appointed Inspector-General of the Maine State Militia.—Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Stone, of the regular ° and son of General Stone of Boston, has been appointed Adjutant-General for the department of California, under General Thomas.—Ex-President Hill, of Harvard College, has returned from hi s v i s it t o t h e R ocky Mountains la much improved health.—Rev. Washington Gladden, of North Adams, will d e li ver th e a dd ress b efore the Berkshire Agricultural Society, at the cattle show at Pittsfield fa October.—Rev. Dr. Roswell D. Hitchcock, the eminent scholar and divine, of New York, has been com p.iled, by impaired eyesight, to suspend his pro fessional labours.--Union College, at Schenectady, 11° held its 73d commencement and turned out 18 A. B ° ' During a bitter dispute among the alumni as to the election of a president, ex-Senator Ira Harris, the act ing. president, was s t r i c k en d own w ith w i t h a para lY" shock, which was serious, though not fatal. The elee" tion of a prosii:ent still remains undecided, and a com mittee was appointed to settle the irritating question. NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7'ELLIGENCE. The screw steamship London, Captain W. G. S• Hail, belonging to Messrs. John Hall, jun., an d Co., from Gibraltar, arrived at Spithead early on Sunday morning, with the following:—Captain G. Onslow, Ist battalion, 13th Regiment (in com mand), 47 invalids, three time•expired men; ni ne women, 18 children, and Mrs. Onslow. The troops disembarked this morning at nine o'clock, and the ship sailed for London. Her Majesty has been pleased by her Order in Council of the 9th inst. to grant a special pension of 2s. a day to Mr. H. C. Jones, engineer, R.N.' in consideration of injuries received on duty in 1862, when serving in her Majesty's ship Spitfire. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam , Short ... 11 194 Do Rotterdam ,4 Antwerp —o ... 25 4? Brussels Hamburgh — ... 13 111 „. 13 11 1 lads Short 25 171 25 22f Ditto ,• 3 Ma 2i 7: 25 40 Marseilles ... 25 35 . 25 4 0 Frankfort-on-the-Main, -, . Vienna .. 121} 121 k •.• ... 12 70 ... 12 7 f Trieste — ! ... 12 70 ... 12 7 ° Petersburg ... 29/ ... 1 29 1 - Copenhagen.. ~. 9 24 ... 9 21 Berlin Madrid.. „. 481 ... 48} Cadiz— ... 49 ... i 49 Leghorn Milan — ... 26 35 .., 26 0 ••• 26 .35 ... 26 40 Genoa — ... 26 35 .... 26 4() Naples Palermo — ... 26 33 ... 26 4 ,°, Messina Lisbon ... 511 ..,. 52 Oporto ... 511 ... 5 2 1 Rio Janeiro - -- -- New York - Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampt o n..... Aug 14. Ditto, via VArseilles Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Vid . e . o ". • ****** Aug. 9 A u g 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde. by Brazil p a ck e t Cape of Good Hope. Ascensio n , an d St. Herena .. .... ... ... i .T a u ul l gY. Y 2494 31. China, Penang, and Si nga p ore , v i a S out h amp t on . • July ok b lbraltar. via Southampto n .. India, via Southampton ''''' joy 24 vitt°, via 31arseil C 8 • • ' J u ly 26 . , Y Malta, Egypt, &a. J 423 Ditto, Marseilles... July . Newfoundland July 28 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Lieu tharei ton , Ditto, Marseilles ~ Aug 1 Aug ' Portugal United States, ( anada, California, 4c., by British WY 21 pack e t ... •J Ditto dittc (Baltimore) Ditto, by L lifted States packet 4-1 Ditto, by Inman packet July 4 West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- 29 mas) JUIY PRICE OF GOLD. The course of exchange at New York on London for b ills t u t° days' sight was on the 10th i ns t . a b out I on per cent. At this ate d there is no profit on the importati on o f go ld f r om the or States. e par' a The quotation of gold at Paris is about at P a ' l the short exchange o n L on d on i s 2 5f . 20 c . per Xi st erl ' - 0 1 On comparing these rates with the English Mint Pr ic t e b o £3 rrs. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it aPPe 4 „., rs ,,ig . gold at the above price is dear e r in Lo n don than in ra"- ANCIENT TEMPLES.—The Pantheon and 5 013 ; henge are older than St. Peter and St. Paul ; and i n ti r t tl great temples of Italy and England something of the originle l l° genius of their people may b e rea d. Th e Pagan te was of marble, the Druidical fane of roc k. One rose in heart of a capital city, the other in the midst of a ai l % waste. The Pantheo n was th ronge d w ith s tatues, S ion henge was thronged with skulls.—Athenxum. then A CLIMAX.—" My son," said an affectionate fa at the foot of the stairs, " arise and see the no vri l -rile te luminary of day, an d h ear t h e sweet b i r d s singing' 11 Wll ll6 matin song of praise t o their great Creator ; co n- e '„z when the dew is on th e grass, and tender lambs are bleating is b, the hill side ; c ome, I say, or I ' ll bo there w ith a sW'au and give you th e soun d est thrashing that e ver you bi"' all your born days." _American paper. BITHS. ik 7 the PARKER—On the 18th intl ß M Hat ord Hall, s uffol wife of Sir William Parker,' Burt., e of a son. the lloll' WELLS—On the 19th in s t., a t 55, Ch es ter - Equate , Mrs. Grenville Wells, of a son. BEALE —EDMESTON-OAInARthReL4I7GtEhSi. inst., , • n itf at noiy lrlizb bOubruy7tho, A V u e n n a tn m o u r, ria, Samuel seuu Page Beal,. E Il i . I s f F7u,Ge n d daughter of eon, Esq , of Bayswater. oh, CHUBB —ROACII - On the 19th inst , at All Saints . C hu o bo- Norwood,lJames Carpenter Chubb, of 102, St• ' Roach,street, of South n i l , a rle. ut t h o A N g ur n i e v s uu J d a . ne, daughter of gr. *-,--- DEATES. CHAFFEY—On tho 17th inst., at Ventnor, Francis Cl°gel' of Aldersgate-street, Londou, aged 60. FARRELL —On the 17th inst., at Winchester, Lieut. - ear F. T. Farrell Bombay Army, aged 70. FURZE—On the , 19th inst., at Lewisham. Thos. nol l°l°l Furze, of John-street, Crutchodfriars, aged 47 32,70. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN Dil , tro xicl of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office N 0 .11 2 ,, in the 'Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Mid we " - - Wednesday, July 21, 1868., r 1