The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times observes that a settlement of the Irish Church Bill has been effected which in form will probably be satisfactory to no one, but in fact will he satisfactory to all. The differences which on Tuesday night appeared o irreconcileable that Lord Granville summarily arrested the further progress of the discussion on the Lords' amendments, proved on examination, as we insisted they would, to admit of easy solution. We take no credit for a prescience of which every one was capable who could free himself for a moment from the heat—we may almost be allowed to say the brutalising heat—of party spirit, but we do most unfeignedly congra tulate the nation upon having escaped a grave disaster. The temper of the two houses was rapidly becoming dan gerous. The majorities in each were degenerating into mobs. It was, however, reserved for a member of the House of Commons to bring this exhibition of temper to a climax. Every schoolboy knows how the Spartans taught their children the virtues of temperance i parading before them frightful examples of excess. In the middle of the day, shortly after noon on Wedncs•iay, a re presentative of the people unconsciously perf this useful function. When members of the Commons take to asking the Speaker questions such as was pro pounded on Wednesday, it is time for the friends of order to interfere. The incident undoubtedly stimulated the desire on both sides for an arrangement, and Lord Granville and Lord Cairns, at a private meeting much in the fashion we had suggested, arrived at terms of a com promise which, accepted by the Ministry, and, with some slight hesitation, by the House of Lords, will put to rest this most difficult question. The Standard says that the Irish Church question was Or. Thursday night finally settled. The terms were the result of a negotiation conducted by Lord Granville on the one hand and Lord Cairns on the other. To understand and appre ciate the result of the arrangement entered into it is requisite to recall the position at which the question had arrived. A series of amendments had been moved and passed in the House of Lords, which had two objects— one to expurgate from the bill the declaration against the maintenance of religious worship from public sources—a declaration objectionable even more upon religious than political grounds, and as a consequence to reserve for future Parliaments the application of the surplus ; the other to preserve for the Irish Church a moderate portion of its endowments. These amendments were all rejected by, not the House of Commons, but the master of the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone. The bill without them was sent back to the House of Lords, and when the first of the disagreements came to be discussed, namely, that which restored into the bill the words pro hibiting the property being employed in aid of any reli gious ministration, the leader for the Government in the House of Lords requested the adjournment of the House to enable the Cabinet to consider their position. On the result of this consideration the country may be congratulated. The wisdom and prudence of his colleagues outvoted and overcame the rashness and self-will of the Prime Minister ; and not only was the immediate cause of disagreement yielded, but a series of concessions were made, which gives the Church a sum much less than its rightful claims, but still of an amount to enable the new Church, with the aid of the voluntary contributions which the zeal of her sons will furnish, to start on her new career under circumstances not altogether unfavourable. The Lords have done their duty ; and have prevented what would have been a national calamity, and they have reserved for a more statesmanlike Minister and a less subservient Parliament the ultimate distribution of the surplus. The Daily 2VcwB congratulates Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues on the completion of their great work. Help has come to them from a strange quarter. Lord Cairns has been the author of something like a coup d'Ctat. He has constituted himself for the moment the dictator of his party, and by his bold and his decisive con• duct has saved them and the order to which they belong from discredit and peril. On Wednesday, as we infer from the explanations offered on Thursday night in the House of Lords, he proposed to Lord Granville that they should meet, with a view of arranging the subject in dispute. Lord Granville is a diplomatist ; Lord Cairns is a lawyer; and both are versed in Chamber conferences. The terms of a compromise were arrived at. Lord Cairns on Thursday night stated them to the House of Lords, which gave its assent with effusive unanimity. The Government has, we believe, done wisely in accepting the compromise offered to it. Lord Cairns has acted with consummate prudence in making the proposal, and in per suading his party to adopt it. Between Old Rapid and Young Rapid—between Lord Derby and Lord Salisbury —the danger was imminent of a collision between the two ampief in re - c n ene FaVatire l iiikry"'etVeri l elick Lord Salisbury managed on Tuesday night to lash himself and the House will help to sober the over-sanguine esti mates which have been formed of his statesmanship and capacity as a parliamentary leader. Lord Cairns did well and wisely in snatching the reins from the political phaeton. He has rendered a service to his party which will justly confirm his title to its leadership, and will snore than counterbalance some early errors and some unavoidable defects. " The atrocious crime of being a young man" is the si n that the Telegraph impute s t o Lord Salisbury. He is too young for the House of Lords—young not in years alone, but in experience ; and this week we have seen the results of his unsobered impetuosity, his untempered bitterness, in an assembly entirely unsuited to the freaks of hot youth, and apt to be over-excited by unusual personalities. It was Lord Salisbury's ill-fortune—perhaps also his fault—that even Iris House of Commons career was wild and free. He never took office until he joined Lord Derby's third Cabinet, and his promptitude in dissenting from the Reform Bill of his colleagues soon rele gated him to that independent position which, for a man of his intellect and temperament, was especially dangerous. For a few months, below the gangway in the Lower House, he was gradually learning the practical side of politics ; his mind was developing itself, by open contact with all classes, when fate sent him to the House of Lords. Our first impression was that in that region of slumber he would catch the soft infection of the place, and sink into senatorial repose ; but, like a new and mischievous boy in a dormitory, instead of joining his seniors in the soft chorus of the night he keeps them all awake. He has i ns i s t e d th a t the Lords shall be up and doing. He has infused new vigour into our Senate. He has roused the old gentlemen to a terrible pitch of activity and vigour. A short bill, rendering peers of the realm eligible as members of the House of Commons, might be very revolutionary, and heaven knows what would happen if it were passed. But it would bring one great good : it would enable Lord Salisbury to retire from the Upper House, to be returned for some large constituency, and to resume his place in the House of Commons. There, in fresh con t ac t w ith th e mind of the country, his intellect would be developed. In that school, he would acquire new feelings ; for his temper would be subdued by the genuine discipline of the place, with the soothing effects of real, not sham, work ; and he might one day become a Liberal member with popularity and power. While such a provision is absent from the Con stitution, one of two things will happen—either the House of Lords must bring Lord Salisbury under control, or Lord Salisbury will become the perpetual enfant terrible of the House of Lords. The Post thinks there are few things in which we have made more marked progress within the last twenty or five-and-twenty years than in agriculture, whether in the growth of cereals and other food stuffs, or in the breeding and rearing of stock. The show-yards at Man chester are full of implements and machinery for enabling the farmer to modify defects and peculiarities, and to defend his operations and their resu l ts f rom the changes and uncertainties of our climate. In short, in agriculture, as in the manufactures of the towns, steam, as an agent, is taking daily more and more the place of rude and unskilled labour, and there is scarcely an operation on the farm in which, directly or indirectly, it does not take part, from the breaking up of the ground for crops to the preparation of food for the horses, the cows, and the pigs. Then comes the question, What is the moral of these great exhibitions, and of what future for fanning is the habitual application of these costly machines to the cultivation of the soil significant? They indicate most surely this—that the days of small farms and farmers with small capital are passing away, and will become as much a matter of history as the stage coach man and the postboy in the traditional blue jacket. The occupation as well as the ownership of land must pass into the hands of capitalists, for to them alone can it he profitable, and by them alone can competition with foreign producers he successfully maintained. How can a small farmer possibly afford to buy for use the machinery displayed at Manchester, or how could it answer any landowner to put up for small occupations the yards, the homesteads, and the buildings necessary to carry on the manufacture of food under the present and coming sys tems ? The only small farmer who could live, and he would live but poorly, would be the yeoman who cultivates his own land, and is with his family his own market. The Star observes that the present weather, for three days of last week really more than tropical in its heat, makes the streets of the m e t ro p o li s a terror to all who ' have not robust health and unexcitable brains. There are some thoroughfares where the "cool, shady side," as in Pall Mall, to wit, enables the pedest r i an t o move along without any imminent risk of a coup de :Weil. But the streets perhaps the most frequented leaves the wayfarer, e when the sun is at a perpendicular height, no alternative but the use of an umbrella, and even that scarcely shields us from the scorching god of day. Now, would not our best device for keeping ourselves cool be an alteration in our outdoor apparel ? If the 'English summers are be coming tropical, we must adopt tropical costume. .A white hat is this season somewhat o f a rara arts; but a straw hat, especially among the upper and middle classes,, is ono of the very rarest phenomena of London civilisation. Why is this? Why do we, a sombre and serious people, make ourselves more gloomy than we need? We add, if possible, a shade tc blackness by our funereal style of dress. The fact of the matter is, that we are very slow to learn from travel, or even to sec by the reflected light of the customs of other l';rile the advantages of light, coil clothing. There is, eve!' in eeeie! matters and fashions, an essentially conser vative eletnetit. The ladies certainly are to be congratu lated upon the lightness of their attire. But the other sex are still covered with- the Lideone black hat, the in e vitehle black or da r k bl ue coat, an d i t is only in waist -coats and trousers that the slightest liveliness is orthodox. If you wear a straw hat or a ‘vb:te cent, say linen, or any such material, it is not improbable that yon will be stared at, if not mobbed. Eccentricity is unpopular in this steady and most conventional land. We are a great people, but we have a vast deal to learn in a hundred ways. Some modifications and reforms in the integu ments of our outer man are demanded ; and sensible men, not terrified by the fear of being pointed at, should take upon themselves to save their heads and bodies from the Present I4dian beat by an Indian style of apparel, EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES. In a paper addressed to the French Academy of Sciences, M. F. A. Abel examines the rapidity, greater or less, with which, under different circumstances, explo sive substances will change their state. If, for instanct, gun-cotton be set fire to in the open air by the action of Vt source of heat exceeding 135 deg. Centigrade, at a small distance, the inflammable material being uncompressed, in a woolly state, the deflagration is rapid, and almost instantaneous ; a dull sound accompanies it, together with an evolution of gas and steam. If, on the contrary, the gun-cotton be spun or woven, or in the shape of paper, the combustion in the open air is much slower. If by pressure the pyroxyle be transformed into a compact i.nass, its consumption by fire it still more retarded, and it may be even reduced to a smouldering state without any production of flame. If it he lighted in a rarefied atmo sphere, the same causes will render its decomposition slower in proportion to the degree of vacuum effected. If, on the contrary, the evolution of the gaseous sub :tances be retarded by enveloping the cun-cotton in paper, or in a vessel iinperfe , :tly closed, 1. , « of heat until the vapours have attained a sufficient pressure to pen a passage through the obstacle, whereby an is obtained, the violence of which is in proportion to the time employed. Similar phenomena are observable in other detonating substances. A small quantity of fulminate of silver enclosed in a thick metallic box will explode -with much greater violence than if it he wrapped up in tinfoil, or left in the epen air. If iodide of nitrogen be Lal:en, its power will be immensely increased by enclosing it in a sort of plaster of-Paris howitzer shell. Chloride of nitrogen will explode Lut feebly unless protected from contact with air ; and if this agent is universally con sidered to be the most dangerous of all detonating sub stances known, it appears that this opinion is owing to its haying hitherto been always manipulated under water. Put three or four drops of it in a watch-glass, cover them with a thin film of water, and you obtain, by contact with a little turpentine, so violent an explosion as to reduce the glass to powder. Repeat the same experiment without the water, and the glass will scarcely ever be even cracked. 717 E MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SHOW. Among the implements now being shewn at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show, Manchester, are same worthy of notice and description. Messrs. Coleman and Norton, of Chelmsford, for instance, exhibit a " horse pitchfork," a remarkably clever arrangement of poles, ropes, and pulleys, and a mechanical fork, by which hay may be unloaded from carts on to the stack with great expe dition. A similar invention, patented by Mr. ;lames Adams, of Fenchurch-street, manages the raising of hay or loose barley on to the loftiest ricks by the power of one horse, so that a man and boy can keep four pitchers going in the field; and the pole, rope, pulleys, and fork cost under a £5 note. Mr. R. W. Thompson, of Edinburgh, exhibits a handy little road locomotive, remarkable for being constructed with an upright or " pot " boiler, and with indiarul,ber tires to the wheels for neutralising jolts and jars. Mr. T. Fisken, of the Britannia Steam Cultivating Company, Leeds, has at work in a field en the Stretford-road a set of machinery in which a portabia steam-engine stationed at one end of the plot drives two self-shifting windlasses by means of a manilla rope running at a high velocity and mounted upon friction rollers upon rope-porters. A ten-horse engine was to be seen driving an eight-furrow balance plough, and snaking excellent work. In another field of lightish land Messrs. John Fowler and Co., of Leeds, are at work with sets of tackle from 10-horse up to 20-horse engines, and in the show-yard is one of a pair of o•horsc steam ploughing engines made for Mr. Campbell, of Buscot Park, Berk shire. In point of attendance the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Old Trafford, Manchester, has been successful up to the present time beyond any precedent. On Tuesday, when the Prince and Princess of Wales were present, 20,000 persons entered, of whom upwards of 14,000 paid ss. entrance-fee, and 10,000 went to see the leaping of hunters, at an extra fee of Js. On Wednesday, when the royal visitors were also present, 40,547 persons entered, paying half-a-crown each, exclusive of 2,347 season-ticket holders ; and on this day again upwards of 10,000 paid the extra fee to witness the leaping. Thursday was the first shilling day, and the numbers who entered were very great. LAW AND POLICE. DIS2UTED GUARDIANSmr.—In Vice Chancellor Malins's Court, on Thursday, the case of " Burton v. the Earl of beard. An order was made some time ago now 14 years ialCl,Thie child Lavin a g en s p by her mother in a. sam - The order was resisted, but it was upheld %' the French courts, and Mrs. Burton then took her daughter to Spain. Her solicitor admitted that she had been lately residing in Oxford-terrace. The Vice- Chancellor said this lady had set the order of the court at defance in a manner - which had never come within his experience. The order of the court had been contumaciously resisted for two years, and the lady must now Le ordered to deliver up the child by the next day, or stand committed. THE NOTTINGHAM SILK ROBBERY.-At Nottingham, at the assizes, the investigation into the great silk rob bery has been concluded. The four men who were con victed of the theft have been sentenced to penal servitude for five, seven, and ten years. Mr. Samuel Macdonald, the lace manufacturer, who was charged with receiving the stolen property, was acquitted. The result of the trial was received with much applause. MURDER AT PORTLAND CONVICT PRISON. —At Dor chester, on Thursday, Jonah Detheridge, a convict under sentence of seven years' penal servitude, for larceny, was charged with the wilful murder cf Joseph Trevett, assistant-warder, last . March. The prisoner, who declined the aid of a counsel, manifested great indifference through. out his trial. The warder found some fault with the manner in which Detheridge was doing his work, and the convict, who had a grage against him, attacked him most savagely with his pick. The warder died in a few hours. The jury without hesitation returned a verdict of guilty, and sentence of death was passed in the usual form. CHARGE OF )MURDER,-At the Lewes Assizes, Lucy Miles was charged with the murder of her nephew, aged 2 years. She" was walking on the cliffs at Rottingdean, when she suddenly seized the little boy and threw him over. The child died the same night. It appeared that the prisoner had been at one time in a lunatic asylum, and that there was a stray taint of mania in the family. The jury acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and she was ordered to be confined during her Majeaty's pleasure. FRACAS IN A JEWS' SYNAGOGUE.-At the Newcastle Police-court, David Shaperio, formerly minister of a Jewish synagogue in Newcastle, summoned four Jews for assaulting him during divine service. The prosecutor was officiating at the new Hebrew synagogue, and the defendants were members of the congregation. They took his book from him, and assaulted him, finally compelling him to leave the place. In defence one of the defendants, who was the treasurer, said that Mr. Shaperio had been discharged by the Chief and as - he had no right to conduct the service, they had put out the gas and desired him to leave. The case was ultimately dismissed, Alderman Bell saying that the bench could do nothing in th. matter. THE HOLBORN VIADUCT.—In the City of Lon don Court of Common Council attention has been drawn to the delay in the opening of the Holborn Viaduct. Owing to the viaduct being now in the hands of the Pneumatic Despatch Company, who are laying their tubes along its whole length, it will not be opened before the middle of October. THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.—A melancholy little incident is related of the ex-Empress Charlotte. This unfortunate Princess has been staying for some time at Spa. The other day she insisted with such vehemence on playing at roulette that it was impossible to restrain her. On approaching the table she deliberately placed a gold piece on the number 19. The Emperor Maximilian was shot on June 19. The wheel turned, and, though thirty-seven chances were against her, she won. She smiled sadly, took up the money, and quietly left the room. On her way out a poor man passed by. She gave him all the money, with the injunction that he was to " pray for him." It is known that the Empress Charlotte never pronounces the name of Maximilian. TIIE PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND SICK VISIT INC.—The London correspondent of the Irish Times sup plies the following :—" A little incident which occurred last week in London throws fresh light upon the genuine interest which Mr. Gladstone takes in works of charity and mercy. My informant is a gentleman who is inti mately acquainted with the Premier, and who could not possibly be mistaken. Ire was walking through a street in the neighbourhood of Holborn, and saw Mr. Gladstone talking to an old TriAwoman, at the door of her house. At first he was considerably astonished, because he knew that the house was let out to poor Irish labourers, and he was at a loss to understand what new argument the Premier could obtain from such a source. In a momene or two Mr. Gladstone left the woman, and walked away. My friend then crossed the street and asked the wornanwho die gentleman was to whom she had been speaking. Si ll replied, ' Shure, I don't know ; but the gentleman's beet visiting a poor Irish labourer who lies sick in the I a;`. room.' Everybody knows that Mrs. Gladstone takes * most active interest in a charity for the relief of the destls tote, and in all probability the Premier had undertaken A little Ilia Yinitiu on her behalf.! ~.. .._ .....- 01E7ROPOLITAN GOS6IP-71rurs(hty. Whatever happens to the bill, Parliament is not likely to continue sitting more than a fortnight, or at the utmost three weeks. The 10th of August has been named as the date of the prorogation by those who are well informed. Thus M.P.'s will getaway in time for grouse-shooting, and the capacities of the limited Scotch mail will be tested to the uttermost. Should the bill be rejected after all, an even earlier prorogation may be looked for. Already the Row has lost its summer look, and the long lines of carriages are wonderfully thinned. It is on Sundays now that one must look for a crowd, and then it is a very different sort of crowd from that aristocratic aggregation to which London has been accustomed for the last two months. It is the " Middle Million," not the " Upper Ten Thou sand," who then throng grassy slopes and green shades. " Green" is scarcely a correct expression just now. In sober truth, parks and gardens are very brown. For nearly a month we have had scarcely any rain, and we have had some days of tremendous heat, worthy of comparison with this time last year's. Then, too, the constant tramp, tramp of the Guards, who every morning perform their evolutions in the open space between the Marble Arch and the Corner, has helped to convert what shou!d be a soft sward into a hard, dusty waste. One of the most pleasant signs of summer is the long troop of cara vans full of schoolchildren out for a holiday. To-day I passed about forty of these in one long procession, and the volley of cheers and the waving of flags were inspiriting enough to brighten the dullest and the weariest of us who looked on. How different is the idea conveyed by the same names at different times. I have just been speaking of the dis trict now known as Tyburnia, which extends along the north side of Hyde Park. It was once a name of terror and horror ; it was to London what the Tarpeian Rock was to Rome, the slaughter-yard of condemned criminals. It is now associated with gay equi pages, brilliant parties, and all that is rich and beautiful. I will now take your readers to Millbank. There of old were the grassy banks of Father Thames in his old silver pre-sewage days, and on those banks stood a mill. Altogether for, so near London, it was a pleasant rustic spot. To-day it is what Tyburnia was—a place of evil omen to the criminal. The old gal lows at the corner of the road to Edgware has long ago disappeared ; the prison on Thames bank glooms, large and ugly enough, to-day. This prison is now about to undergo an important change. Hitherto it has been used for civil prisoners spending the first nine months of penal servitude. Here they had to undergo that worst of horrors to an uneducated demoralised human being—soli tary confinement—and very narrowly bad they to be watched, in order that they mightnot sink into imbecility. But the War Office has always claimed a right to this prison, and that claim has recently been pressed. Arrangements are, therefore, now being made for using a portion of the wing for military prisoners. The "Goodwood" Cup is being shewn this week at Mr. Benson's, in Bond-street. It is modelled by Mr. Boehm, who has taken for his subject Frith's picture of the Derby Day. The body of the cup is in high relief, and amongst the incidents represented are the thimblerig table, the gambling booth, the man with the "correct card," and the group of acrobats. In the distance are the grand stand and the racecourse. The lid is surmounted by three horses with their jockeys. All this is very good so far as it goes. But in truth, Mr. Frith's picture is now out of date. It is about ten years since that work was painted, and in that time the Turf has made very rapid progress indeed. When the artist sketched his group, the word " plunger" was unknown. Yet the " plunger "is now the chief personage at the Derby. In next year's cup the artist should represent some noble duke, seedy and disreputable-looking, gambling in a German kursaal, while his old castle and ancestral estates are being sold by auction in the presence of a Padwick or a Beyfus. Marriages are not yet extinct. Last week I mentioned that of Viscount Cole, who is one of the co-respondents in the great Warwickshire divorce case, " Mordaunt v. Mor daunt, Cole, and Johnston." The nuptials were graced by the presence of the Prince of Wales. This week mar riages of a more satis!actory kind are announced. Mr. G. 0. Trevelyan, one of the Lords of the Treasury, son of the well-known Indian statesman, and author of the " Competition Wallah," " Cawnpore," &c., is to be married to the daughter of Mr. Phillips, M.P. for Bury. Major-General Francis Seymour is to be married to the daughter of a Somersetshire clergyman, Wickham by name, but in consequence of the death of General Seymour's brother, the Governor of British Columbia, the marriage is not to take place till the end of August. The son of another ex-Finance Tml;,.. 311. Laing, is to be married to the daughter of a Scotch gentleman named Webster. a rnre elifitNiXTre§t ti Mtay,Mmeittleat,'.th. saint. Incessant services, costly banners, and beautiful flowere are among the "notes" of the festival. It may interest your readers to know that the offertory for the half-year is about £1,709. The Church holds somewhat over 500 persons, but, the services being very numerous, is available for a much larger number of worshippers. The Dramatic Fete is to be held at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, and the two attractions especially mentioned are the Princess of Wales and Mdlle. Schneider. The latter person, whose improprieties have been most severely rebuked by the dramatic critic of the Times this week,has just had a narrow escape from being burnt to death. Her gauzy dress caught fire as she was acting, and but for the energy of some of the spectators, who rushed forward and extinguished the flames, the indecorous drama would have had a very tragic finish. The determination of the magistrates to put down the betting-houses has interfered with the prosperity of the newly-established sporting club, the " Bentinck." It was opened but a few months ago, but it is now to be converted into a theatre, and thus another of those establishments will be added to the multitude which now fill the Strand. It is to be leased to Miss Litton. The " Oxford " Music Hall is to bet, con verted into a café chantant, which is not exactly a French synonym. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews are to act at the Princess's. The new mansion of the Marquis of Salisbury, which overlooks Green Park, is being rapidly pushed on, no doubt with the idea that before long its owner will need it for State dinners. Lord Hohnesdale's magnificent house in Park-lane is finished so far as the exterior is concerned, but the interior goes on slowly. No doubt, when furnished, the noble lord will have some trophies of his conquests over the pigeons to exhibit. Ches terfield House, which has for twenty years been inhabited ny the Duke of Abercorn, is about to be pulled down, and its site used for building purposes. It was erected by Ware, for Philip, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, —the author of the celebrated " Letters "—just 120 years ago. The chief rooms are still pretty much in the same state as that in which he left them. The library is—or at least was till of late years—the finest room in London ; and over the bookcases are elegant classical mottoes from Horace, expressive of the Epicurean tastes of the founder of the house. The fine pillars and still finer staircase were brought from Canons, near Edgware, the princely seat of the Duke of Chandos. The house belongs to Lord Chester field, and stands on land belonging to Earl Howe. An interesting incident is told of a lately-deceased peer. It is that, like Lord Overstone, the late Lord Taunton owed the first step in his upward course towaris the peerage to a lucky marriage contracted by his father, the late Mr. Peter C. Labouchere, of Highlands, near Chelmsford, Essex. In early life this gentleman, then a clerk in a bank at Amsterdam, won the heart of the wealthy daughter of one of the millionaires of the city. The father objected, as he was a clerk, not a partner. He solicited admission as a partner, and was refused. " But will you take me as a partner if I marry Miss A—?" " Yes, that is quite another thing." So he gained a rich wife on the faith of a promised partnership, and became a partner on the faith of his intended marriage. Sir Francis Head's strong representations as to the value of the Royal Engineers, and the necessity of making our troops acquainted with the art of throwing up defences in the field, seem to have had some effect. The committee engaged in revising the drill code for the army will recommend the introduction of a com prehensive system of intrenching drill. Each man of the infantry will probably be required in future to carry, as part of his ordinary personal equipment, some one out of a set of very light, handy, intrenching tools. This arrangement will render the corps tolerably independent, and give them the means of obtaining slight cover with great rapidity at any time required. Of literary news there is almost none. It has been the dullest season known for many years. The dullness ex tends to New York as well as to London. From thence I hear that the widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne has a work in the press, and that a new volume from Mr. Bryant, " Letters from the East," may be expected shortly. In London the publishers are withholding their new works for the present, in the hope of better times. "George Eliot" is, I hear, writing a new novel, which will be out next year. The sale of the new edition of Carlyle's works has been remarkably large considering the dullness of the times and the costliness of the edition. Of " Sartor Resartns" there had been more than 1,100 copies sold many weeks ago. There is still talk of fresh newspapers, but the most important projects are not yet sufficiently developed for me to mention them. Two new comic papers, the Sparrowhawk, and TVit of the Week, have ap peared. Punch, as you know, has been sold; Judy is for sale. The latest novelty is a paper called the Credit In ternational, It is an Anglo-French commercial journal THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1869. of twelve pages, each page containing two columns, one of which is in French, the other in English, the news being the same in each. It is published at twopence. MISCELLANEOUS NETVS. THE CIIUD.CII INSTITUTION AND THE IRISH CHUILCH DILL. The members of the Church Institution have been summoned suddenly to protest against the Irish Church Bill, and they have obeyed the summons. This association is a political rather than a religious body. Its guiding spirit is Mr. Raikes, M.P. for Chester, the projector of the defunct Imperial Review. THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. The most important of the Dissenting bodies is now holding its annual gathering. Hull has been chosen for this year's Wesleyan Conference. One hundred and seventeen years ago Wesley visited Hull, was stoned, and had to take refuge in a coach which was protected on each side by other coaches. That was on his first visit. On his last, about three-quarters of a century ago, he found a wonderful change, for Methodism had so flourished that there were four settled dis tricts in the neighbourhood of the Humber. There are now sixteen. As usual, great interest is felt in the " coming man." The probability is that the President will be found either in the neighbour hood of Leeds, or at the Book Room or the Mission Rouse, London. Special interest attaches to this year's Conference, because the Irish Church question is sure to be discussed. There is less unanimity of opinion upon this subject among this body, perhaps, than among any other of the Nonconformist com munities, but on one point the Wesleyans are entirely and emphatically of one mind—that there must be no concurrent endowment. In the list of meetings recently given in favour of the Irish Church Bill it was stated that Mr. Glad stone had received " resolutions in favour of the bill as it originally left the House of Commons from the Wesleyan conferences in London, Plymouth, and Cork," and " from the Wesleyan Methodist Society of St. Neots." Mr. John Chubb, the 'Wes leyan who presided at the metropolitan meet ing of Conservatives, some time back, now writes calling in question the truth of these state ments. The Wesleyan Conference has not yet begun actual business. What is meant by the 'Wesleyan Conferences (plural), Mr. Chubb does not know. It is true that the Exigency Committee of the Wcsleyans has declared its opposition to concurrent endowment ; but no opinion is offered on the bill itself. There is no such body as the Plymouth Wesleyan Conference. The Irish Conference said nothing about the matter, and the only declaration in favour of the bill came from St. \ eots. Mr. Chubb is probably right, so far as the body to which he belongs is concerned, but he forgets, or suppresses the fact, that there arc many bodies of Methodists which hold conferences. It is from some of these that the petitions have come. NONCONFORMIST DEPUTIES. The half-yearly meeting of the deputies of the three denominations of Nonconformists was held on Wednesday in Cannon-street, London, Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., being in the chair. He observed that two or three measures of importance had been before Parliament since they last assembled. Sir J. D. Coleridge's Tests Abolition Bill had passed trium phantly through the Commons, and though it was rejected by the Lords, the time was not far distant when the great universities of the country would be thrown open to all classes. After alluding to the Endowed Schools Bill, the Burials Bill, and the Sunday Schools Exemption Bill, Mr. Reed referred to the action of the Noncon formists with respect to the Irish Church Bill, which he hoped would now be withdrawn, and the fight re newed in the autumn. Mr. Glover thought it would be better to have the question settled now. He was amazed at the course pursued by the House of Lords, since the greatest enemies of the Church, and, indeed, of Protestantism itself, could not have done more to injure it. Resolutions supporting the Government and expressing the thanks of the Non conformists to Sir J. Coleridge and Mr. Forster for their Parliamentary labours wero unanimously agreed to, UNIVERSITY TESTS BILL. A letter has been addressed to some of the papers by seven Fellows of Colleges on the rejection of the University Tests Bill. They declare that the House of Lords is avowedly at variance with public opinion in this matter as in some others. They have refused to discuss a proposal of University Reform made by University men ardently attached to the institutions they are desirous to amend, and it remains to be seen whether it would not be easier to force on the Peers a measure for the sweeping abolition of all tests than to induce them to accept the mildest com promise. tne same subject,. and considers thatthe question m i g ht have rested for some years had the present bill been carried, but that we must now look for a much more logical bill next year. The measure to be intro duced should be compulsory, and all dignities and preferments thrown open. Many reforms can be carried out only by a parliamentary commission, but he thinks that the removal of obstructions which now restrain all progress must be the work of a thorough Act of Parliament. TIIE UNIVERSITIES AND BETTII G. "An Oxford Tutor of thirty years standing" writes to the Telegraph about the spread of the betting mania in our Universities. Ile says that there are no eminent scholars at Oxford now; the undergraduates do not care to read much; the class lists are shrinking deplorably; the whole tone of the Universities is lowered. This deterioration is brought about by the love for betting and sporting, rather than learning and thinking. Men at Oxford learn how to do that which is sure to lead to their ruin. They are allowed to possess Derby favourites, and their friends support their horses. The Marquis of Has tings, the Duke of Newcastle, and another nobleman, whose name has come more recently before the public, learnt at Oxford from the "horsey " firms into whose hands they fell that which has since caused their sad circumstances to be so often discussed. Cannot something be clone to alter the present state of things The "Oxford Tutor" thinks there can. " Let a statute be passed to the effect that any under graduate who is found to be in possession of a race horse shall instantly be expelled the university, and the common sense of undergraduates will at once tell them that this is a law which they must not transgress. In the meantime, so low has our disci pline at this moment fallen, that, for the first time within my recollection, the recent Commemoration was not permitted to proceed, but was summarily suspended by reason of the insubordination of the undergraduates." MR. AYRTON ON EMIGRATION. In addressing the National Emigration Aid Society a day or two since, Mr. Ayrton said that it was a compliment to a man to point out to him the benefit of emigration. It was a difficult question to decide whether the Government should aid emigration or not. The metropolis was quite rich enough to do all that was required, only the rich had contrived to drive all the poor to the East-end of London. He thought there were grave objections to Government aid; it would create fresh taxation, and degrade intending emigrants to the position of Queen's beggars. FORTIFICATIONS. The Government bill as to fortifications has been issued. It authorises the payment of one million, five hundred, and ten thousand pounds out of the Consolidated Fund, for the completion of such forti fications as have been commenced at the Royal arsenals and dockyards, and the harbours of Dover and Portland ; and it authorises the abandonment of such works already sanctioned by Parliament which have not been commenced. IN HONOUR OP THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. The Lord Mayor of London gave a grand banquet to scientific men, artists, S:c., on Wednesday even ing. He got together such men as the President of the Royal Society, the President of the Royal Academy, the President of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Sir Michael Costa, &c. Admirals, M.P.'S, engineers, architects, authors, journalists, and the poet Tupper responded to his invitation. The learned societies, literature and art, were toasted. The most noticeable speech was given by Lord Houghton. Ihe Lord Mayor with great tact had proposed the Houses of Parliament, coupling the Lords with the Commons. In reply Lord Houghton said be recog nised in the H ouse o f C o mmons a desire to do ho nour to a great p r i nc ipl e a nd to a sense of historic justice in which he agreed; and he saw in the House of Lords a perhaps pardonable desire to adhere to old traditions. In a society like this he might remind his hearers that the statesman who had, in the lan guage of Parliamentary debate, been spo':en of as the " arrogant man" was the sAin e man who had lately giv en to us a book on the gods of Homer, in which he had clone his best t o reconc il e the di v initi es o f th e past— let him call them the House of Lords—with those of • the present—let him call them the House of Com mons. When, too, he knew that the noble duke who had so well described the great meteor which passed through the heavens on the nth was the same who, in the House of L or d s, h a d b een , no t l ong ago, seen holding an energetic, clear, and fiery course of his own, ho was proud to remember the name in the presence of so many scientific celebritio3. LOST SIIIPS. Four vessels have been given up for lost at Lloyd's, and notice has been given to the underwriters to pay the insurance on them. The United Kingdom, the steamer which left Glasgow for New Yorx on the 19th of April, and has never been seen sinco, is one. Thahcidtklaisg.the diau toast trim one _of the late cyclones, Is anotner. me otner two are me Bombay, which left Greenock for Bombay on the 12th of last November, and the Golden Pledge, from Liverpool for Gastine, on January 26. Nearly 400 lives have been lost on board these four ships. AN EPISCOPAL EXAMPLE. It is noticed that the Bishop of Oxford has since the Cairns judgment always celebrated the Com mimion facing the altar, as is done by the High Church party generally. In order to comply with the rubric, that the elements shall be consecrated before the people, he inclines a little on one side in ,consecrating. AN INCENTIVE TO CHAitITY. The Morning Star calls attention to what is certainly a piece of thorough flunkeyism, and one which is becoming very common now. At the Dramatic Fête which is to be held in the Crystal Palace, the Princess of Wales is to receive purses of in aid of the charity. The money will be given by young ladies into the hands of the Princess. The inducement to give is, it will bo observed, not the excellence of the object, but the opportunity of touching the kid gl oves o f royalty. In fact, it is not charity, but flunkeyism, which is appealed to. TIIE DUDLEY 3IUDDER. The extraordinary conduct of the murderess, Fanny. Oliver, when the verdict of guilty was returned against her on the charge of murdering her husband, must have . caused a very painful impression upon those who listened to her. It is very rare for such passionate adjurations of innocence to be made. The woman, whether innocent or guilty, seems to have been wrought into a state o f religious frenzy, which was not quieted by the lay sermon that was delivered from the bench. As the jury appended to their verdict a recommendation to mercy—on what ground does not appear, since the charge was that she had poisoned her husband in order to marry another man—it is not probable that the woman will be hanged. By a strange incon sistency men are always ready to give verdicts against their own sex in actions for breach of pro mise, and always ready to deal tenderly with the women who murder their husbands. The women who aro agitating for perfect equality between the sexes would not find success all gain. But then most of them do not expect to be jilted or to bo hanged. POULTRY PLUCKING. The manly pigeon slaughterers have been very bold in their denial that they are cruel. 'They, for pleasure, shoot at and sometimes only maim birds which are provided, clipped, and trimmed ready for them. Would the gallant young gentlemen stand up for picking the same pigeons when alive ? Yet live poultry is not picked for mere pleasure; it is picked that the poultrymen may gain money on which to live. What would the Ilur lingham sportsmen say for instance of a man brought before the magistrates at Devizes last week ? He had stripped a living, quivering duck of every feather, and then, without breaking its neck, placed it on the ground, from which it vainly attempted to fly. Much the same thing, we are told, takes place every day in the poultry markets of the metropolis, and in some of the provinces. The poulterers answer, when charged with cruelty, that by taking the feathers from the live bird they give the skin a healthy look ; and they are able to sell more quickly. The only reply the sportsmen can give is, that they like what they do. ANOTUEIt WAItNJNG. Another warning is given to theatrical managers and actresses. Will they take knowledge of it ? On Wednesday night the dress of Mdlle. Schneider took fire, and the actress narrowly escaped death. Thus, once again managers are told, and actresses are reminded, that they should make their flimsy dresses fireproof. But it seems likely that this, as all similar occurrences, will be generally disregarded, and these unrehearsed scenes will be repeated once too often. BANKERS' LIABILITY FOR SECURITIES DEPOSITED. A correspondent of the Tinzes writes on the recent decision of the Privy Council removing from bankers all liability as holders of securities. The bankers say that this judgment will cause no incon venience, as the risk of loss is so infinitesimally small that it will not affect security owners in any appreciable degree. If that is so, says the Times correspondent, why do not the banks relieve the anxiety of their clients and take upon themselves the responsibility ? By so doing they will incur, according to their own statement, very little risk, and they will be restoring what they themselves have thought till now existed. AMERICAN CELEBRATION IN VIENNA (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Americans in Vienna dined together on A -- - (7 1 1?R d tlie n —j A l ie= and Austrians flags around a beautiful portrait of the Empress and one of Presi dent Grant, and the table was adorned with flowers. The ladies who graced the assemblage represented the families of the retiring Minister Mr. Watts, of the Consul, General Post, and others well known in Boston and New York. Among the guests were Messrs. Webb, Fitch, John Griswold, Fish, FiFchel, Michaels, Graham, Herschel, Mr. and Mrs. Crow niushield of Boston, Smith, Lafee, Guitermann, Haydter, General Post, Mr. Tiffany of Baltimore, Delaplaine, Vanderpool Eaton, Leo Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Field, New York ; &c. His Excel lency John Jay presided, assisted by General Post and Mr. Delaplaine as vice-presidents. On the conclusion of the dinner, Mr. Jay, in pro posing the toasts, said : My fellow-countrymen, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—ln rising to fulfil the duties imposed upon me by your com mittee, I beg to congratulate you very cordially upon so pleasant a gathering on such an occasion, in this charming city of Vienna. We are met to celebrate in the manner approved by long custom the 93d anniversary of the birthday of our Republic, and at no one of the ten thousand commemorative dinners that have been eaten by Americans on previous anniversaries, at borne and abroad, have our countrymen had more reason than we have at this moment to thank God that they are Ame rican citizens. Meeting as we do in the very heart of Europe, this anniversary appeals especially to our pride of country. It finds our Republic, which but the other day European Cabinets believed to be hopelessly dis solved, bound by bands of steel from the Atlantic to the Pacific. (Ch eers .) Instead of growing small by degrees, it is gradually, peaceably extending itself until it has reached the northernmost part of Alaska. One can scarcely look at the map of America, and think of the past, the present, .and the future of the Republic, without recalling the deiCription of its boun daries given by an enthusiastic but rather irreve rent Yankee, who said it was "bounded on the east by the Atlantic, on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the west by the setting sun, and on the south by the Day of Judgment." (Laughter.) If this seems extravagant, take the picture drawn by the cool judgment of that great representative of the English people—John Bright, at a time when some were rejoicing at what seemed to be the dark shadow of a slave-empire. He said, " I have another and a brighter vision before my gaze. It may be a vision, but 1 will cherish it. 1 see one vast Confederation stretch ing from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see ono people and ono language, and one law and one faith, and over all that vast continent the home a freedom, and a refuge for.the oppressed of every age and of every clime." (Applause.) But, whatever may be our future boundaries, the Republic, as it stands, is more firmly based, more vi gorous, and more united than ever before, and throighout its broad extent there is, thank God! universal freedom, without a master and without a slave. The toast which I am now to offer you is one which has been drank for nearly 90 years, since the adoption of the Constitution, the first person whom it honoured being the father of his country. The toast brings to Us' thoughts sinitlar to those which it must have brought to our ancestors in the last century when it was associated with the name of Wash ington. It recalled to them the events of the Revolution. It recalls to us the battle-fields of the South, and that eventful conference at Appomatox between Grant and Lee, when the Generals and soldiers of the two armies who had fought FO long and so bravely took each other by the hand, as thenceforth friends and fellow-citizens of the same Republic. It is certainly not for me, it is needless for any one, to pronounce an eulogy upon General Grant. The American people have expressed their appreciation of his services by placing him in the chair of Washington. I give you—" The President of the United Stites." The whole company rose and received the toast with three cheers, waving of handkerchiefs, and great enthu siasm. Mr. Jay continued—The next toast is in accord ance with a custom long sanctioned by the courtesy and sense of propriety of Americans in foreign lands. It is in honour of the Sovereign in whose bmutiful capital we aro assembled, and the protect'ou of whose laws r and the benefit of whose institutions, so alley of our countrymen are enjoying, tut in this case there are reasons why the toast should be received by you,. not as a matter of mere etts'om or c.mrtesy, but with the heartiest good-will. Americans, with their eyes always on the futurc., are not apt to magnify the difficulties of the past ; they look back upon the steepest obstacles, when once surmounted, with an indifference akin to that of the western traveler who, when asked if he had crossed the Alps, said he believed he had passed over some rising ground. (Hear, hear.) But if we can afford to undervalue difficulties that we have conquered, and to forgive injuries that we have received, we are not accustomed to forget our friends, and the favours they have rendered ; and that you may understand what our country owes to Austria, let me read you a single passage from a despatch of Mr. Seward, in 1862, to one of my distinguished pre deemoro, Mr , IL ptley. Mr. fseward said the dignity, ills tice, forbearance, and moderation which the Austrian Go vernment has practised in regard to the unhappy civil war in which we are now engaged, will be preserved among the grateful incidents of the most critical era in our national life. It will be strange if it does not result in the establishment of a permanent friendship between the two countries. With that reminiscence fresh in our memories and our hearts, I give you " His Imperial ML jesty the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary." The company again rose and welcomed the toast with enthusiastic cheering. The 3d toast," The day we celebrate" was responded to by Gen. Post in an elaborate and eloquent speech,which elicited great applause. The 4th toast, "The memory of Washington, Lincoln, and our Heroic Dead," was drank standing and in silence. The sth toast, " The Army and Navy of the United States," was responded to by Mr. Orowninshield of Boston, two of whose brothers fell in the late war. The 6th toast, "To American Science," coupled with an allusion to the medical profes sion, which is largely represented by Americans in Vienna, was responded to by Mr. Eaton. The ith toast, "To American Enterprise," by Mr. Herschel. The Bth toast, " Our Countrywomen," by Mr. Delaplaine. The health of Mr. Watts, the retiring Minister, was drank with cordial applause. Other remarks were ►nade, and Mr. Tiffany responded to a toast in honour of the committee intrusted with the celebration. The health of the American Minis ter having been offered by Gen. Post, and drank with cheers by the company, Mr. Jay, in returning thanks, said :—" I beg to thank you very sincerely for this compliment, and for the kindness with which you have received it. I certainly esteem myself happy both as re gards the Government which I represent and that to which lam accredited. The Administration at Wash ington embodies the national idea of justice and of honour. It is observing with impartial strictness the international neutrality which we demanded from other nations, and its national policy is peace. (Applause.) I have been re ceived by a Minister whose enlightened and liberal policy in regard to religious freedom, to public education, to liberty of speech and of tho press, and to the progress and harmony of this great empire, with its numerous nation alities, is to-day the admiration of the world. (Cheers.) I think that I may without impropriety blend iu one toast the names of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs in both countries, and ask you to drink to The Honourable Hamilton Fish and his Excellency the Count de Beust. The company rising greeted the toast with the heartiest cheering, and they separated about 10 o'clock on a motion to adjourn, and au amendment which was unanimously car►ied, that the adjournment be until the next recurrence of the National Birthday." THE FOURTH OF JULY AT FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE. Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Germany, July 6, 1869. The Fourth of July was selected by the citizens of Frankfort-on-the-Maine as a day appropriate for expressing the deep personal regard and esteem which they entertain towards the Hon. William Walton Murphy, United States Consul-General of that city, who is just about to leave his post after eight years of Consular service. Consul- General Murphy has gained during this period not only the greatest good-will of the citizens of Frankfort by his actions, especially during the German war of 1866, but he also at that time gained an enviable notoriety by his energetic mea sures in protecting American citizens from hay ing troops quartered upon them by the Prussian generals who invaded and commanded the city in that year. He also used all his influence to urge in Berlin the injustice of a second war contribution of t wenty five millions of guilders levied upon the Frankfort citizens by General Manteuffel, after General von Falkenstein had already obtained the payment of one levy of six millions of guilders, and had said that no further contributions would be demanded. Manteuffel not only threatened to take the money from Frankfort citizens alone, but swore that he would take it wherever he could lay hands upon it. Consul-General Murphy had an interview with Man teuffel, and told him that he must be answerable for all and every damage done to American citizens. He also telegraphed to Governor Wright, American Minister at Berlin at the time, who at once com municated Mr. Murphy's protests to the Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs, Von der Heydt, who said that the second levy was perfectly unjusti.. fiable, and the order was sent to countermand it. This action on the part of our American Consul- General was the subject of praise by the whole of the South German press, and the people of the city of Frankfort felt more than ever personally attached to Mr. Murphy, and consequently to the United States Government, whose representative he was. To miir t +l.s~-/lad been exceedingly displeasing, and though the Consul-Ge neral was confirmed: in his appointment by the new Administration at Washington, he has been subse quently recalled; and, it is said, on official authority, Count Bismarck himself was the one who requested it. The Frankfort people naturally see Consul-General Murphy's departure wit h unaffected sorrow • for they lose in hi m one o f t h e i r best friends, and a true-hearted representative of the American people. The Frankfort citizens determined to present Mr Murphy, on this National Day, a token which should show the world at large that he had won a warm and lasting place in their hearts. The presents were a beautiful silver goblet, valued at more than 800 florins, and a magnifient diamond ring, valued at about 800 dollars. On the morning of Sunday he 4th, a meeting was arranged to take plac in the Consular Bureau, 54, Mainzerlandstrasse, when the caenaonies of presentation were t) take place, and the day to be suitably celebrated. At half-past 11 the deputation from the citizens arrived, and were cordially received by a number of promi nent Americans, who, too, had come to honour the day, and the man. The deputation consisted of Herren Manskoff-Sarasin, G. Rittner, Dr. med Bardorff, Alex. Scheidel, and Professor Hamburger, and among the most noted Americans may be named Dr. and Mrs. H. Tappan of New York, Gen. Lefevre, United States ex-Consul of Nuremberg, Fletcher Harper, Esq., jun., Captain Fell, U.S.A., besides the Consul-General. and Mrs. Murphy, the Vice- Consul and Mrs. Glaeser, and the correspondent of the New York Evening Post, Mr. John P. Jackson. The Consulate room was tastefully decorated with German, American, and Frankfort flags, and por traits of Washington, Lincoln, and Grant, pre senting quite a Fourth of July appearance. The presents were exhibited on a flag-coloured table at one end of the room, and were greatly ad mired. The silver goblet rests upon a case orna mented with the Frankfort eagle and rich laurel and oak leaf wreaths, and having the character istic form used by the Romans for the German Rhine wine. • At the base of the goblet, or cup proper, are entwined vine-creepers and down-hang ing clusters of grapes in -beautiful chased work, while the body of the cup it in pleasing contrast in its simplicity of design, showing upon its polished surface merely four medallions, the front one pre senting the arms of the city of Frankfort—the eagle—in chased elevated execution, with the device, " Stark im Recht" (Strong in the Right) ; the op posite one the American eagle, with the motto, " E pluribus unum," in similar execution ; and the two side medallions contain the dedication in Gothic characters. The inscription upon the one is " Dem General-Consul der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika, Herrn William Walton Murphy " (to the Consul-General of the United States, Mr. William Walton Murphy) upon the other, " Ueberreicht am Festtage des 4 Juli, 1869, von dankbaren Bur g= der Stadt Frankfurt am Main " (presented on the festival of the 4th of July, 1869, by thankful citizens of the city of Frankfort-on-the-Maine). The diamond ring has, on the inside, the inscription " From citizens of Frankfort aM, 18th 4-7, '69." (The presents were manufactured in the atellier of Herren Hessenberg and Co. of this city.) At half-past 11 the deputation took their places around the table containing the presents, when Professor Hamburger spoke in English the following address : "To William Walton Murphy, Esq. "Most honoured Sir, —We feel ourselves highly honoured in having been chosen from among a numerous body of the most respectable and distinguished citizens of our town to bring you proof of the deep esteem and respect we entertain and of the unalterable attachment and regard we shall ever feel for you. And this we bring you en that memorable day, the fourth of July, a day so dear to your native land, to every North American, and we avail our selves of this opportunity to express our sincere felicita- tions to you and your countrymen on this happy festive day. Sir, as Consul-General of the United States, you have at all times and on all occasions, in the days of our prosperity, and in the days of our sorrow, evinced so warm a sympathy for us, and all most dear to us, that we could not see you depart from u 8 without presenting you a token of our gratitude and esteem, and the kindly senti __ ments we shall ever cherish towards you. Sir, you are kindly begged to accept this goblet and this ring, as . . pledges of our grateful feelinge towards you ! May they . _ at all times, and from your justly acknowledged urba nity, affability, and goodness of heart, we feel assured they will, call to mind all those who regret as deeply as vr do yourarture from among us, your leaving us, aid our still so dear Frankfort-on-the-Maine. Sir—Our wishes, our best wishes, will always accompany you and your family wherever you may go, and " Though absent to sight, yet to memory's eye The friend, the faithful friend, is ever nigh !" The other members of the deputation then banded the presents to the Consul-General, who received them with a slight bow, and said, t 4 I feel myself proud. I thank you very much !" words which said more just then than a long speech. After he had recovered self-possession enough, he replied to the address of the deputation, his voice at first faltering from the emotions of the moment. The Consul- General's speech is at the same time an explanation of his own course during the German war of 1866, and deserves to be given in full. He said Gentlemen of the Committee,—My feelings are so overcome that I can hardly express my thanks. I have lived among you for eight years, having arrived here, I believe, on the Ist of November, 1861. You all remember that it was a dark period in the history of ourocountri* We were then waging a war for the Union, a war against slavery, a war for progress, a war of humanity, against despotic influences, against six or seven States, banded together for the perpetuation of one of the greatest curses which ever afflicted - our country, and which we had in herited from our ancestors from Great Britain. It was a dark period iu our history, and no one could tell wha t would be the results. Large armies were on one side ; large armies on the other. Ou ono side vast prepara tions had been made for years ; our army, our navy, wer e scattered everywhere by the bands of the rebels who had held their offices during the term of the pre decessor of President Lincoln, Mr. Buchanan, and we were not at all prepared for the defence of our country. But we had a just, a righteous cause, and God prospered us and gave us the victory. During the darkest times c d our Civil War, when the result was, indeed, extremely doubtful, while France and England sided against us and lent all the weight of their influence against our cause in favour of our enemies, the c:ty of Frankfort-on-the-Mai ne ' and some of the neighbouring countries, alone stood true to us, faithful to our free _Republic. Then the little 11 ° - public, the glorious imperial City of Fraukfort-on-th e- Maine, was as free as we were ; then it had liberty of sVe ch ' the freedom of the press, and perfect freedom of action ; now, unfortunately, the scene is changed on one side, while on the other was victory and renown. Our armies-I'o° - seated here by Gen. Lefevre and Capt. Fell—accomplish ed , glorious feats of valour ; but the unfortunate city a' Frankfort never waged war at all, and, after all, lost he r independence. And I must say that the sympathies f our whole country were with Frankfort for the loss of her freedom and the blotting out of a sister Republic in Be" rope. During the dark and dreary period of 1861, 1 862 ' and 1863, when the end was not yet visible, F r anfort - e w the-Maine never fretered in her regard or her friends hiP for our country, but the whole time she bought our se w ewes, and, by so doing, her citizens made themselves the laughing-stock of Eu ro p e . B u t th ey h ave prove d to he wiser and more far-seeing than their enemies. It wa le e ! profitable und er t a ki ng f or th em. E ven the re b e l s of t a " South would laugh at the Germans here who were " 6° foolish as to invest in American securities." And during' all this period I was with you, and did what I could t° sustain the good opinion that the Frankfort people eater': tained of our country ; and I never found that they f a ltere . d r in the least in th e i r f ee li ngs o f f r i en d s hi p or in theit wishes of success to the cause of the Union. 1 have sP°5 ofl a very pleasant ti me h ere , an d I s h a ll l eave thi s city vi l very deep re g r e t. It i s one o f th e mos t b eau tif u l cities d the Continent, with most enterprising and cultivate, citizens. No on e can p ass th roug h it w ith ou t being a t 0 tracted to it, and th e l onger one res id es i n it the will he be pleased with it and the hospitality of the citizen; So far as know there is not a city i n G e rmany tha t e d.. compare with it. Your houses are all strongly and 119 1 . 0 .. comely built, your bea u tif u l p ar k s an d your Aulargen sent everything to delight the eye and taste, an d d can assure you that there is no place in the Is' ° ' that I leave with so great regret as Frankfort. ,th have become acquainted, at the least calculation, le t or half or three-fourths of the whole population of Y . . ° o . eity. I know nearly everybody, and can call them by n7 sto Consul-General Murphy then went into an el ab ,. tica l explanation of the peculiarities of the American P° 11 , 110 .. system, the embassies and consulships in foreign e u _ efe tries being affected by the character of the political P'i t e o coming into power, though in regard to the dipl oma and consular posts he ventured to remark that it was ot 00 a good policy. To my right, continued the Consul-9:0700ral, ral, is a friend, General Lefevre, formerly United S s e f Consul at Nuremberg, who fought through five ye ar the war, and who has now been recalled, I think, v,°e•' • unjustly, as he has never given -any cause for the :seri In regard to my own removal, it has, perhaps, been c e ll o by events transpiring during the war of 1866, in W so y I think I did my duty to my country without having yo e feelings for or against tie- a-e - ee-eeeet of -Peeeeia- r e e ve. ed utter any opinions as to its cou rse or it s ac t s , annl 4 ,,, I fered in nothing but w h a t, as C onsu l o f my eena` l. l: t had a right to do. I m a y h ave en t er t a i ne d opiniaus' relic! I did not spe a k of th em pu bli e l y. B ut I en deavo a " to do my duty in that war in preventing the ria tering of troops upon American citizens, hec e l s or ieg our own country wo w ill no t a ll ow th e guar, o r of troops upon ou r p eo pl e , e i t h er i n times o f kfort or peace. (Applause by th e D e p u t a tion.) F ran c iti' was treated by Prussia as a c o nq uere d city, and her p a tens, and the citizens of other countries residing thero4fog troops quartered upon them. I was successful in reel ed 1 the attempt to quarter them upon American citizens., ::`:,so believe I had something to say against a war contribvitlivoll of 21 million guilders out of the people, an attempt for I considered as perfectly uncivilised, barbarous; 11 !,, foil knew, at the time, that the first contribution of six k a i ort, guilders demanded had been promptly paid by Fr an , t ee and the larger expressement was a direct v iolation: l ' 4ler promise given by the Prussian General that n o f contribution would be levied. On no other occasion c_ne intermeddle with the management of the politics tool the Prussian Government, knowing well my duties ow country I represent, and her citizens here. I have e _, vowed to discharge my duties to the satisfaction F . ' 46 , country, and I have the endorsement of the former Oheo'uo tary of State of the United States. And I think I , B _ we re have had of the present one, but it seems that iie efor ot e i t o f made, and with success, for my removal, on a ce en" the occurrences in the German war of 1866. Nan",, g for tlemen, accept, if you please, my heartfelt tha 1;04 your beautiful presents. I think I can never forcoele friends, and I am sure I can never forget this Me"' occasion." Co. in- In Paris Messrs. Bowles, B r others, and to s q. vited a party to meet Mr. Curtin, the new Minister g w ee Petersburgh, and his Secretary, Mr. Coffey. A m p °P rog el ef present were the Hon. Anson Burlingame, Mr' Philadelphia, Senator Chandler of Michigan, a nd eae qu t e General Read.—Silas C. Herring presided at A hastily got up at Peters' Restaurant. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. ..• 1* tt Amsterdam • Short ... 11 191 ••• 1 2 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 2j ••• 25 4 . Antwerp — ... 25 AO ••• 25 4d Brussels — ... 25 40 ... 13 ilk Hamburgh Paris Short .., 25 171 ... 25 40 Ditto . 3 Ms. ... 25 35 *** 25 40 Marseilles 5 Frankfort-on-the-Main: ... 121} ..• 1 2 1 e _, Vienna ... • 12 70 •••2 70 1 Trieste — .... 12 70 *" *291 Petersburg Copenhagen Berlin ... 6 28} ••• 481 Madrid.. ~ Cadiz - ." 26 -1 ° •.• Leghorn Milan — •.• 26 35 *" 26 •" Genoa ..,., — ...... 26 26 35 35 6 26 ~4:0 Naples Palermo — ,„26 35 "• 26 100 Messina - •• 26 35 "' 5 2 , Lisbon ••• sli •-• 52; Oporto ..• Of Rio Janeiro . New York 4 •• • ''.... tot ....... ---- „d Pi lls *' - [ADVERTISEMENTI.—HoIIoway's Ointment 0 , -- s veal Danerous diseases would not present theinselve t {eel of life-long ten attention toms! t The pimple re P a r d in il g y ings which betray a departure from health. . Er r s pa; maladiestte:tion were bestowed on the flrs ol d lough carelessness the irremediable torment 0, f gol l3- f life. With a knowledge of the curative po wer 0 safety o way's ointment and pills, and the facility and ' their cfurormablneeignietchlnguVerYlecartee rapplication, those who fail to use them f" sselitoirber6i4tt ing the first seeds of hereditary ailments will b a ilor/al? the i' unishment resulting from their folly I : ', u tio cl' remedies will remove eruptions of the skin, scor ease,• and scrofula, and heal every description of sore, wound, or abrasion. ___-...-•••••---- ulcer, —On the 18th inst_ B . Hoyle, • vil ° HOYLE It H f Sir. ROBINS 'ON- On the 21st inst .. 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