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

SPIRIT OF B JOURNALS, The Times believes that so far from increasing the present peeponderant influence of the House of Commons, the presence of life peers in the Upper House would tend to restore the influence of the House of Lords. Their numbers would, indeed, be small ; for it need scarcely be remarked that, as no man would ever be made a life peer before he had attained a considerable position, there would be generally at least a quarter of the whole body incapaci tated by age and infirmity from attending in Parlia ment yet, though small in number, they would be powerful in influence. They would bring the House of Lords, as Lord Salisbury has remarked, into more direct relation with the people at large. The House of Lords would not merely be open to political ability which Lai not had the fortune to inherit or to amass large landed cetates ; a Minister would be enabled to summon to its deliberations persons engaged in all the developments of national energy, and the conclusions of an assembly sc constituted would command a respect and confidence which has not always been given to the opinions of a House composed almost exclusively of great landowners. The consequences ive anticipate from the addition of life ricers to the House of Lords are widely different from those apprehended by Lord Derby. So far from strengthen ing the House of Commons as compared with the Lords, it would, we believe, tend to strengthen the House of Lords as compared with the Commons. So far from making the Upper House more deferential to a popular vote in the Commons, it would tend to make it more independent. It would add to the stability rather than to the mobility of tile Constitution, and we aro bound to approve the change for that very reason. The proposal is, in truth, another contribution to that great idea of Reform which desires to make Parliament represent the whole of the nation. The introduction into the House of Lords of a limited number of peers, chosen for their distinction and eminence in active life, must tend to supply it with ele ments which Parliament needs, and, by increasing the mental power and experience of the Upper Chamber, strengthen its legitimate influence. It is because they foresee such consequences that the votaries of those im perfect forms of democracy which have till lately seemed the final consummation of all societies of English origin look askance upon the change. It is for the same reason that we recommend it. The Post refers to the second reading of the bill for the creation of life peerages in the House of Lords ; and says that notwithstanding a certain reservation on the part of the Conservative section of the House as to their future action after the measure has passed through committee, the introduction of life peers into the Upper House may be looked on as an accomplished fact. The bill must in due course be submitted to the House of Commons; but it may be not unreasonably presumed that no objections will be offered by it to a change which exclusively concerns the other Chamber. If the hereditary peers are content to admit to their councils peers who have not the right of transmitting their status and privileges to their descendants, it is not for the Com mons to complain of such an arrangement. The fact that a bill in many respects so unexpected, so novel; and in its provisions °O antagonistic to all the traditions of She House of Lords, should have 'net in that Chamber with so ready an assent is in itself very significant. We do not apprehend that any material change in its general tenour will be made, In anticipation of the forthcoming meeting of share and still less any effectual opposition to its ultimate access- holders, th e di rec t ors o f the Great Central Gas Consumers' tance. The more thoughtful of the peers on both sides of ;Company have prepared a report, which, so far as it the House are perfectly satisfied that the effect of the relates to their absconding clerk, Benjamin Higgs, and measure will be greatly to acid to the strength of their his misdeeds, has considerable interest. The result of a House, and to increase the estimation in which it is held thorough investigation, they say, i s th a t th e l arge sum of £71,214 odd has been stolen. That this could have been The Standard says that the H ouse of L or d s ha s , after ! effected is astounding to them. At their weekly meet a moderate and statesmanslike speech from Lord Derby, ; ings the directors had the tanker's pass-book and the agreed to the second reading of the bill for the creation of company's cash-book produced and carefully called over, life peerages. This step, however importa n t in itself as to see that all moneys paid to the company had been showing the disposition of the Peers to conform to what I duly passed to their account at the hank. They had also seems to be a demand of public opinion, cannot be taken produced to them a weekly statement of the rental due, as implying the assent of their lordships to anything more I with the sum collected and the amount of arrears, and than the bare principle of Lord Russell's bill. That prin- the collectors were constantly called before the board ciple is, that it is desirable, with the view to the altered ' and examined as to their collections and the reasons of circumstances of the Crown in the creation of peers, whom accounts being in arrear. But it is now ascertained that it has no power to endow, as formerly, that a certain the cash-book was falsely made up ; that the system of limited number of persons should be admitted to check, as described by the auditors, was not carried out the privileges of th e Upp er Hous e wh o are by fortune in the office ; that the collectors had from time to time unable to sustain the hereditary dignity. Upon paid their money into the office instead of to the bankers ; this point the opinion of their lordships, as signified , that the accountant the superior of Higgs whose on Wednesday night, cannot be taken as controverting • duty it was to check the payments into the cash-book the position laid down in the famous resolution of 1856. from the actual receipts, had contented himself with Although the House of Lords has agreed to the second copying the banker's bcok, in which a portion only of the reading of Lord Russell's bill, it is certain that, if the receipts of Higgs appeared, thus rendering the labours of measure passes at all, it will be in some shape as different the directors futile. Higgs had obtained entire supervision as possible from that which Lord Russell has conceived. of the office, and being an able accountant and constant at One of the most pertinent objections against the bill is, his work, from nine o'clock in the morning frequentlyuntil strangely enough, one which was suggested by Lord Gran- I late in the evening, had been allowed to control and con vale, who professes himself a fervent admirer of the prin- ' duct the whole business of the outer office. He had been in ciple. In regretting that the reform in the constitution of the company's employment seventeen years, and had served the House of Peers should take the shape of a bill, to be his articles with Mr. Jackson, an accountant in Guildhall discussed by the two Houses jointly, Lord' Granville buildings, coming to the company with the highest dm expressed what is, one of the strongest arguments against racter, " which he had apparently deserved up to the time the measure. If life peerages are desirable, it is of his absconding." his salary was originally £lOO a surely more constitutional, and more in accordance with year, but was afterwards increased to its present amount. the dignity of the peers, that the innovation should be £ll5. The directors did not know, nor bad they the introduced by their own action exclusively, rather than by slightest suspicion that he was living otherwise than as legislation. There is, in fact, no legislation necessary befitted his position, and the accounts they had since upon the question. The Crown has the undoubted power, received of his wicked extravagance had come upon them at present, of making life peers. The House of Lords has with the utmost surprise. The fact of his absconding was only to pass a new resolution to admit such peers to the first notified to the chairman by the secretary on Sunday, full privileges of their order. It would be far better to do the 7th of March, and it was then supposed that he had this than to consent to a bill which admits the Lower appropriated a small sum reef ived by him for gas pro- House to an equal share of the discussion of rights and ducts. The accounts were then thoroughly investigated privileges which belong to the House of Lords alone, and with the deplorable result stated in the report of the audi which, for the sake of their own character and indepen- tors, and the directors regret to add that, notwithstand dence, ought rather to be settled by the second estate for ing the efforts of the ablest detective officers, Higgs is itself than by the two Houses jointly. still at large, but every exertion is being made to bring The Star declares that the legal position of Bishop him to justice. The directors say, however, they are glad Colenso has been determined, and is no longer open tc f to be able to point to the solid prosperity of the company, controversy. Now that this is settled the Church i n and they propose in order to meet the defalcations, to Natal should be left to work out its own mi ss i on . W e ar e appropriate £lO,OOO a year out of money available for informed that the laity in the colony are about equally dividend. divided in opinion; and as b o th p ar ti es are now i n posses- I The report of the auditors (Mr. G. C. Begbie and Mr. sion of a bishop there is no reason why they should not be Henry Chatteris), which is appended, states that, in ac allowed to compete for the supremacy by the s legitimate cordance with the instructions of the board, they had inves employment of those moral weapons which alone are tigated the books and accounts with a view to ascertain the effectual for the propagation of truth and the amount of Higgs's defalcations, as well as the time when refutation of error. The highly intelligent corn- the frauds commenced and the method by which they were munity of Natal are able to judge for themselves effected. The frauds, according to the auditors, appeared on points of doctrine without the intervention of to have been committed in three differents ways--namely, tribunals in this country. The intellectual and spiritual ; by abstracting money brought to the office by collectors, forces which are at work in Natal, or in any colony by abstracting part of the receipts for gas products, and by similarly circumstanced, cannot be controlled by any cede- applying to iris own use checks given to him by thesecretary siastical machinery in this country. Bishop Gray has to pay to creditors of the company. Instead of complying consecrated Mr. Macrorie, and has thus exercised a with the rule to pay all their receipts to the bankers, the spiritual authority which, if it mean anything, means a collectors appeared in very numerous instances to have recognition of the right of those who regard Dr. Colenso's left both the money and lists at the company's office, and teaching as heretical to choose their own episcopal overseer. thus Higgs, having got possession of both, was enabled This is an application of the voluntary principle with to, and did, appropriate to himself, in some instances, which the friends of religious equality will not quarrel, the whole, and, in others, part of the amounts of such But we have a right to expect consistency even on the part lists. The auditors state that they are unable to suggest of those who support the Bishop of Capetowu's proceed- any improvement in the system of the company's accounts, ings, and consistency requires that they should concede to and that the frauds could not by possibility have been others the same freedom of actio n which they claim for committed had the very excellent rule of paying all money themselves. The Times, in anticipating the arrival of Mr. Motley, company's accountant had received the original lists from remarks that he is mid to be the exponent of the latest the collectors, and compared them with the rental or the American ideas on the subject of the Alabama, and the banker's pass-book, the frauds must have been at once dis war generally. It will be interesting to learns in what covered. The debit side of the cash-book was merely a respects Mr. Motley considers the late stipulations tc i transcript from the pass-book, and the object of the weekly have been unsatisfactory. If we are invited to discuss examination of those books at each board was thus corn the question of England's right to recognise the pletely frustrated. No irregularity had been discovered Southerners as belligerents, it will be for . hei ;in the debenture or share accounts. The company's e Majesty's Government to decide w h e th er, after all business, say th e au di tors, was in a more prosperous srius that has been said and written on the subj ec t , i t is ! state than mi g ht h ave been expected after so worth while to revive that controversy. There are a loss. limits beyond which national courtesy cannot pass, and when we are asked to acknowledge that an ordinary act of national sovereignty, necessary for the clue security of our own commerce, was an offence against the Americans to be expiated by apologies or payments there cannot be much use in discussion. At all events, the position of this country is satisfactorily defined. 'We have simply to await the overtures, if any, which Mr. Motley is instructed to make, and to consider the proofs he may adduce that the rejected treaty would have necessarily furnished an insufficient settlement. If his arguments be so cogent as to justify the rejection of a treaty, the fruit of a long and laborious negotiation, in which almost every proposal of his own Government was acceded to by ours, then, and only then, we may fairly enter into a new inquiry. The Herald callA attention to the good work just corn pletcd by Miss Burdett Coutts in the East-end of London. The opening of the new market for the poor of that swarming district will be a substantial boon. There would be some difficulty in estimating the advantages thus con ferred upon a long-unfortunate population. It clears out and purifies a pestiferous locality ; it creates, decency in the place of disgust and discomfort ; it elevates the popular idea ; and it establishes, for the humble consumer, a source of wholesome and cheap supply. More. Alia& all, it invigorates and stimulates the long stagnant quarter. These benefits, bestowed in a spirit so judicious and-. Leenerous, will be appreciated by all who 'have witnessed the incessant conflict carried on between the very poor of the metropolis and their tradesmen. But a market introducer a healthy rivalry ; it destroys the mom :polies notorious in lo‘V loceliLiese it gives s better tone both to credit and to economy; and it acts as a check upon the ruinous system of debts incurred under the apparently easy principle of weekly payments. In addition, it gives to the population superior facilities for living. And when, in combination with this, we bear in mind the horrors that are abolished, and the squalor which is miti gated, both by the new lodging-houses and the new market, we think we are only expressing the public senti ment when we say that a debt of gratitude is due to Miss Burdett Coutts which only the approval of her 0w3;:c.94.1 Niencesal diMatto.. • CRIME IN BIRMINGIIAM.—The local papers com plain that crime in Birmingham is certainly and steadily rising. Last week, for example, the daily average number of prisoners in the gaol was 482, as compared with 369 in the corresponding week of 1868 —an increase of 113, or more than 33 per cent. The number of cells in the gaol is only 467, so that it is no longer possible to maintain the separate system in its integrity. The increase, we observe, extends to both sexes, and to adult and juvenile prisoners. A STORY FROM AMERICA.—The facility with which the marriage tie may be dissolved in some parts of the United States is illustrated in the story of an Ohio woman, as related by the Cleveland Herald, March 26. This" woman's married life began in 1861, when her husband enlisted in the Union army and was killed at Bull's Run. Within a week she married another man, who waslilled shortly afterwards in a street brawl. As she returned home from the funeral, nine's admirirg her good fortune, No. 3 proposed to her, and the next day they were married. She did not like this one, and as he seemed to be rather tartly in following the example of his predecessors, sh e sued for a divorce and gained i',. A few months passed and she married again, but once more the courts were invoked to dissolve the tie. This brings the romance of love down to May, ISG7, when No. 5 married the experienced wife, but after two months she disposed of.him with the a'd of the friendly Divorce Court. She remarried, was again divorced, and in February 1868 married No. 7. This union lasted a year, when the persevering wife applied for anothei I divorce, " and she is now anxiously waiting for No. 8." A better client than this no lan yer practising in the Divorce Courts could desire. Her daughter by adoption is said t. be likely to eclipse the reputation of the mother. In 156; she married a brother of her mother's husband, " thus," as the Cleveland paper truly says, "mixing up the relation question fearfully." But she was capricious in her tastes. obtained a divorce, and married her second husband or the day her mother married No. 7. By the last accounts she had just been left a "grass widow" at the age of Seventeen. This interesting family woldke 4_ credit.... ~... ___._ ..... von to Mom. LAW AND POLICE. THE CASE OF MR. EDMUNDS.—In the action brought by Mr. Leonard Edmunds against Mr. Greenwood, for alleged libellous statements made in a report to the Com missioners of Patents, the Court of Common Pleas on Tuesday made an order of reference, embodying the terms upon which it was originally agreed that the mattershould be disposed of by arbitration. Should any difference arise, it is to be settled by one of her Majesty's judges. RESCUE BY A DOG.—At Marylebone Police-court Robert Andrews, Lamb's Conduit-street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. The groom of, Captain Talbot said that he was out with the captain's dog, and going along the bank he saw a man plunging about in the water. He told the dog to fetch him out, and it dived down and got hold of the prisoner's collar. The dog pulled him up and brought him to the side, where witness dragged him on shore. Mr. D'Eyncourt asked if any cause had been assigned for the rash act, and was informed that the prisoner had had a quarrel with his parents, and thought he would commit suicide. Andrews was remanded. A RO.IIA2iCE .1-YD A TRAGEDY. The Memphis Avalanche of the Sth inst. says : "At some distance from Grand Gulf reside two respectable families, those of Cushing and Andrews. Miss Andrews was a lovely girl of 17, well accomplished, and of un usually fascinating manners. Mr. Cushing's son, a youth of 20, had been attached to her from their early childhood, and as he grew older his affection became an ardent absorbing passion. A short time ago he made a formal offer of hia hand, when, to his intense disappointment and mortification, his offer was firmly though courteously refused. He brooded over his ill-rewarded passion ane became a prey to jealousy, and at length left the neighbourhood, vowing madly that he would come back and take his revenge. On Sunday last he returned, and riding up to Mr. Andrews's house he begged to see Miss Andrews at the doer without alighting. She came out, when he suddenly produced a pistol, fired, shooting her through the body, and she fell on her face and died without a struggle. The murderer rode frantically away, but Miss Andrews's brother, breathing fury toward the murderer of his sister, sprang on a horse and followed. He came up with Cushing as the latter was crossing a creek and fired at him. Cushing jumped from his horse, and took shelter in the bush. Andrews did the same. A parley ensued, and the two yotmg men agreed to fight according to the code—to leave the cover, fire, advance, and fire, and again advance, firing until one of them should fall. At the first fire Cushing received a mortal wound in the left shoulder, but the men continued to near each other and fire until their revolvers were empty. When assistance arrived Gushing lay dead, with four bullets in his body. Andrews had received three shots in his breast. He was able to tell how the fight had taken place, when be also expired." BENJAMIN HIGGS AND THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS COMPANY. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1869 CONGRESS. THE SENATE. , On the 2d April Mr. Sherman introduced a bill establishing a new standard for American coinage, so as to promote a uniformity of currency among the nations. The Indian Appropriation Bill was passed, with an amendment, providing for ten com missioners, to be selected for their intelligence and philanthropy, who shall, in conjunction with the Indian Bureau, under the direction of the Presi dent, supervise the disbursement of the Indian Ap propriations.—On the 3d Mr. Sumner introduced a bill repealing the act prohibiting importation of slaves, it being designed to take from the statutes the only remaining law relating to slavery. Mr. Davis objecting to its consideration, it was tabled. The House resolution of adjournment was con curred in, after being amended so as to adjourn on the 10th inst. The resolution to protect the inte rests of the United States in the Union Pacific Railroad was considered.—On the sth the bill providing an oath of office for persons who par ticipated in the rebellion was reported. Mr. Sum ner introduced a bill to prevent the United States Courts from enforcing contracts concern ing slaves. The joint resolution "to protect the interests of the United States in the Union Pacific Railroad" was discussed.—On the Gth the Defi ciency Appropriation Bill was reported ; also a bill reorganizing the clerical force of the Departments. Mr. Morton introduced a resolution directing that the Senators from the reconstructed States be paid from the beginning of the second session of the last Congress. The re-olution was tabled. The Union Pacific Railroad resolution was considered, but not acted upon.—On the 7th the Chaplain opened with a prayer for Cuban independence. Mr. Sumner, from the Foreign Committee, reported a bill to prevent counterfeiting of foreign trade marks. Mr. Wilson, from the Military Committee, reported a bill to protect soldiers and their heirs in the matter of bounties. The bill amendatory of the judicial system was passed with amendments, and sent to the House for concurrence. The Pacific Railroad resolution was postponed, and the Deficiency Bill was considered and passed with amendments. A message was receivel from the President, recom mending that Congress make provision for the hold ing of electio ns i n Vi rginia and Mississippi some time during May or June. After an executive ses sion, the Senate adjourned.—On the Bch the Judi ciary Committee made a report, recommending that the consideration of the President's message be postponed until December. The Whisky and To bacco Bill was considered, and several amendments were agreed to. The House bill for elections in Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas was tabled. The conference report on the Indian appropriations and House amendment to the bill reorganising the judi cial system were agreed to. The House amendment to the Judicial Bill provides for retiring justices at the age of seventy, after ten years' service. The House bill making an appropriation for harbour improvement was Passed. lIILS'CELLANEOUS NEWS. THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY. It seems as if all parties in the Church were beginning to admit that the Act of Uniformity is an intolerable burden. The Broad Church party were the first to protest against it, and the one achieve ment, of the Canterbury Convocation has been to relax the terms of clerical subscription. The recent Ritual judgment has made the High Church party cry out against the measure of two hundred years ago. But the strongest condemnation of all comes from a leading Low Churchman. Mr. Ryle, writing to the Record, says : "The Act of Uniformity was a wretched Act—wretched because it was a fiat contradiction to the King's own pro mise at Breda before he returned to England —wretched because it turned out of the Church hundreds of excellent ministers who might have been retained by a few mode rate concessions—wretched because it laid the foundation of an immcnse mass of nonconformity, and inflicted wounds on our Church which will never be healed. Against this miserable Act—miserable as a gross breach of faith—miserable for its vindictive spitefulness—. miserable for its em,rmous impolicy—miserable in its con ception, and miserable in its consequences (he continued), I always have protested and shall protest. An Act which needlessly drove out of our pale hundreds of the best Protestant and Evangelical divines of the seventeenth century is an Act which deserves the reprobation of all faithful Churchmen. We are reaping the fruits of it in the sad heresies and divisions of the present day. The Church of England lost some of her best blood two hundred years ago, and that blood has never been replaced." Of course each party has its own object in view when raising its voice against the Caroline Statute. We need hardly say that it is not with any view of admitting the Nonconformists into communion that the Ritualists desire the repeal of the law. THE PI?E - SIDENTS LETTER TO CONGRESS To the Senate and House of Representatives : While I am aware that the time in which Con gress proposes now to remain in session is very brief, and that it is its desire as far as consistent with the public interest to avoid entering upon the gene ral business of legislation, there is one subject which concerns so deeply the welfare of the coun try that I deem it my duty to bring it before you. I have no doubt that you will concur with me in the opinion that it is desirable to restore the States which were engaged in the Rebellion to their pro per relations to the Government and the country at a 3 early a period as the people of those States shall be found willing to become peaceful and or derly communities, and to adopt and maintain such constitutions and laws as will effectually secure the civil and political rights of all persons within their borders. The authority of the United States, which has been vindicated and established by its military power, must undoubtedly be asserted for the absolute protection of all its citizens in the full enjoyment of the freedom and security which is the object of the Republican Government. But when ever the people of a rebellious State are ready to enter in good faith upon the accomplishment of this object, in entire conformity with the constitutional authority of Congress, it is certainly desirable that ba a s l l spchaoeus possible, o en ,fd thatir ri the t a ca t o i o nul u no s tr h rey o p u re l e d rsfte b oc e rt removedunion ma a ca s ey pryabnoedme pro sperity. sperily. The Convention of the people of Virginia, which met in Richmond on Tuesday, December 3, 1867, framed a Constitution for that State, which was adopted by the Convention on the 17th of April, 1868, and I desire respectfully to call the attention of Congress to the propriety of providing by the law for the holding of an election in that State at some time during the months of May and June next, under the direction of the Military Com mander of the District, at which the question of the adoption of that Constitution shall be submitted to the citizens of the State; and if this should seem de sirable I would recommend that a separate vote be taken upon such parts as may be thought expedient, and that at the same time, and under the same authority, there shall be an election for the officers provided under such Constitution, and that the Constitution, or such parts thereof as shall have been adopted by the people, be submitted to Con press on the first Monday of December next, for its consideration, so that, if the same be then ap proved, the necessary steps will have been taken for the restoration of the State of Virginia to its proper relations to the Union. I am led to make this recommendation from the confi dent hope and belief that the people of that State are now ready to co-operate with the National Go vernment in bringing it again into such relations to the Union as it ought, as soon as possible, to estab lish and maintain, and to give to all its people these equal rights under the law which are asserted in the Declaration of Independence, in the words of one of the most illustrious of its sons. I desire also to ask the consideration of Congress to the ques tion whether there is not just ground for believing that the Constitution framed by a Convention of the people of Mississippi for that State, and once rejected, might not be again submitted to the people of that State in like manner, and with the pro bability of the same result. U. S. GRANT. Washington, D.C., April 7, 1869. 7'llE PUBLIC DEB? OF AMP:RICA. The following is the official statement of the public debt of the United States, on the Ist day of April, 1869: DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. Authorizing Acts and Amount Out character of Issue. standing. June 16, 1858, bonds, 5 p r cent June 20, 1860, bonds, 5 per cent Feb. 8, 1861, bonds, 6 per Accrued Interest. 18,415,000 00 '276,225 00 cent. March 2, 1861, Ore g on war bonds, 6 per cent... July 17 and August 5, 1861, bonds, 1881, 6 p , r cent 183,317,700 00 2,839,461 00 Feb. '25, 1862, s•2o's, 6 per cent. March 6, 1863, bonds, 6 945,000 00 14,175 00 75,000,000 00 1,125,000 00 per cunt. March 3,18 C-1, 10-10 bonds, 5 per cent 3larch 3 ; 1864,5-30 bonds, 6 per cent. June 30,1861, 5-20 bonds, 6 per cent. March 3,1865, 5-30 bands, 194,567,300 00 810,697 08 6 per cent. March 3,1865, 5-20 bonds, 6 per cent. March 3, 1865, 5.20 Bonds 6 per cent 42,539,350 00 638,090 25 $2,107,876,650 00 $37,579,390 07 DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONEY. March 2, 1867, July 2, 1868, 3 per cent, certi ficates July 23, 1868, navy pen sion fund 14,000,000 00 105,000 00 54,605,000 00 819,075 00 $38,605,000 00 $924,075 00 MATURED DEBT NOT PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT. April 15,1E42, 6 percent. bonds April 15,1842, 6 per cent. bonds April 15, 1842, 6 per cent. bonds ............ Texas indemnity 5 per cont. bonds Treasury notes, 6 per cent Treasury notes, 5 to 54,- per cent 2,400 00 Treasury notes, 6 to 12 6,000 00 360 00 48,850 00 2,931 00 134,050 00 5,36 G 00 252,000 00 15,120 00 104,511 61 3,135 35 120 00 • per cent Treasury notes, 6 per cent Treasury notes, 3-year 7-30's „ Treasury notes, 1 and 2- 500 00 30 00 3,300 00 198 00 37,300 00 2,720 80 year 5 per cent Certificates indebtedness, 4 per cent. Compound interest notes, 6 per cent 3,220,690 00 6 24,813 86 Temporary loan 18 8 ,510 00 7,768 55 Treasury notes, 7-305.., 1,633.100 00 119,216 30 3G0,192 00 18,209 GO 12,000 00 720 00 $6,003,403 64 $800,511 56 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. • Demand notes, no int $124,122 50 U.S. leg:11 teb dor , 355,941,032 50 Postal currency 36,675,830 00 Gold certificates of de posit 21,672,500 00 $414,413,485 00 RECAPITAUATION OF DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. 5 per cent. bonds .. 527,022,000 CO $337,775 00 10-40 bonds 191,567,300 00 810697 08 6 per cent. bonds, 1881 283,677,400 00 4,255,161 00 5-20 Bonds 1,602,609,590 00 32,175,697 00 Amount outstanding 52,107,876,650 00 Debt bearing currency iutcroot inn la.vv ful Luu.,, eicia,son,nnn nn Debt on which hate rest has ceased since maturity Debt bearing no interest $414,413,485 00 Total debt Principal and interest 52,636,202,455 28 Coin in Treasury Gold certificates of deposit Currency 6,802,628 42 Total $111,005,993 54 Lebt less cash in Treasury 52,525,196,461 74 BONDS ISSUED TO IHE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. Amount Accrued Outstanding. Interest. 6 per cent. bnncl6 Union Pacific R. R. East ern division Sioux City and Pacific R. 11. ..... . Central PacitiC ****** Ditto Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad, A ssig nees of Atchingou and Pike's Peak Railroad.., Western Pacific Railroad 6,303,000 94,545 00 1,628,820 24,424 80 2,362,000 18,641 03 277,615 38,732, 27 1,600,000 24,0.00 00 320,000 4,820 00 Totals ............... 856,853,320 $846,107 07 Interest accrued prior to January Ist and 16th, 1869, 53,300,006 05. Of this amount the United States has re ceived from transportation, &c., the sum of $1,319,352 78. Balance duo, $2,828,760 31. Total, $4,146,113 12. Tho foregoing is a correct statement of the public debt, as ap. pears from the books and T reasurer ' s returns in tho De partment on April 1, 1869. _ . GEORGE S. TIOUTIVELL, Secretary of the Treasury. By comparison with the statement of March 1, 1869, it will be seen that the principal of the debt has been de creased $2,573,039 28, while, during the same period, $2,915,320 bas been issued to the Pacific Railrcad Com pany, and branches, making a total reduction of debt proper of $5,507,359. This statement embraces only the receipts as shown by returns received up to noon of to-day and would have been reduced by $4,000,000 additional bad it bees withheld until the 6th or 7th of the pa 03413 as HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, On the 2d April the River and Harbour Appro priation Bill was reported. The Election Committee reported that J. L. Hoag is prima facie entitled to the seat from the Third District of South Carolina. The contested case of Covode v. Foster, of Pennsyl vania, was taken upand referred back to the Election Committee. —On the 3d the Judiciary Corumitee re ported a bill allowing criminals to testify in their own behalf in cases in the Federal courts. The Miscel laneous Deficiency Bill was passed. It appropriates $2,563,951. The Senate amendment to the adjourn ment resolution, changing the day to the 10th, was concurred in. Mr. Garfield, frGm the Census Com mittee, reported a bill providing for taking the census.—On the sth a number of bills were intro duced, among them one by Mr. Judd, to amend the bankrupt laws ; one by Mr. Stevens, giving full wages to Government employes for eight hours' work ; and two by Mr. Winans to provide for funding the debt, and to amend the laws taxing spirits and tobacco. Mr. Coburn introduced a Supplementary Currency Bill, which went over until the 12th inst. The Indian Appropriation Bill was reported. Mr. Farnsworth introduced a reso lution providing for an election in Virginia, which was referred.—On the 6th the Census Bill was consi dered and passed. The Election Committee reported a resolution giving the seat from the Third Pennsyl vania District to Leonard Myers ; also one declar ing that M'Crane, elected from the Fifth District of Louisiana, is ineligible. The Indian Appropria tion Bill was considered.—On the 7th a bill was reported from the Ways and Means Committee and passed, repealing the act allowing the carrying of suits to the Supreme Court in revenue cases in volving small amounts. The Election Committee reported a bill to enable John B. Rogers to assume his seat as Representative from the Third Tennes see District. Mr. Butler, from the Reconstruction Committee, reported the Georgia Bill, but the House refused to second the previous question on its passage. A bill appropriating $ 2 ,C00,000 for har bour improvements under the direction of the Secre tary of War was reported and passed. The Judi ciary Committee repotted a Naturalization Bill. A message from the President, asking Congress to provide for elections in Virginia and Mississippi, was received, and motions were made to refer it to the Reconstruction Committee and to the Judi ciary Committee, pending which the House ad journed.—On the Bth the President's Message was referred to the Reconstruction Committee. The resolution declaring S. L. Hodge e n titl e d pr i ma facie to the seat from the Third District of South Carolina was adopted, and he was sworn in. Mr. Butler, from the Reconstruction Committee, re ported a bill, which was passed, providing for elec tions in Virginia, Mis 3 lseiPPl, and Texas, with an amendment, to enable voters to reject obnoxious portions of the proposed constitutions. Mr. Lynch introduced a bill to amend the Currency Act. A resolution from the Election Committee declaring L. A. Sheldon entitled to the seat from the Third Louisiana District was adopted. The conference re port on the Indian appropriations was concurred in. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotatim of gold at Paris is about at par, and Vie short exchange on Loudon is 251. 170. per LI sterling. Oncomparing these rates with the English Mint price of zi iis . 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.srs that gold at the above price is of about the same value in Lon, don and Paris. • „,”. &ay Ul v. 14..e10 Irk f .•• 161110. at 60 days' bight was on the last date about . 1' 8f percept At this rate there is no proflt on the importation of gold from the Uni' cd btates. Missouri Pacific Railroad Bonds, California Pa cific Railroad Fonda, and Rockford, Rock Island, and St. Louis Railway Bonds have lately been introduced in the Frankfort Exchange. The two former are as good secut ity as can be found anywhere, and meet with ready sale. The price of Missouri Pacific are at present 71i. W. and J. Seli gman and C o., o f N ew Y or k , have been appointed United States Government Bankers to transmit funds to Europe for diplomatic and consular officers. This is quite a compliment to this rich and re spectable firm, who do probably the most general business in American stooks of any house in Europe. • They have a house in London, one in Paris, Seligman Brothers, and one in Frank fort - on -the-Maine, Seligman and Stittheimer. L A-DYERTlSEM ENT.l—fieneeforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Di Barry's health-restoring Revs.lento, Arabica Invalids' and In Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already r eived front Invalids whose position had been deemed hopelest, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it of ter thirty years of unsuccessful metical treatment We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th Rome, July 21,1866. The health of the Holy Father is excelleat, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has coillned himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, o which be consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced t surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness camot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out ofmore than 68.000 cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness. de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint wasting away, tbbility, nervousness, with .a nervous palpitation, all over, bail ditestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervels agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Leutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Efty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, Dame, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and , omiting Joly " Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberta of Frimicy, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of bloco, liver derangement, and partial deafneits. Im portant Cautior—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitatits to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most 4daciouslv attached. In. tins, at lslid. ; 1 lb. 2s. t•cl. ; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d ; 5 lbs. lls. ,• 121bs, 225. ; o4lbs, 40s Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTAAF/ rticA CHOW. LATE POWDER I packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups as 25., for if - cups at 3s. 6d., or 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups arliOs., fot 576 cups at 55s.—being bout one pennytper cup. The 30s. and 555. tins are sent free f carriage in ngland on receipt of Post Cake Order.—Rkalv. DU 1431.i.Y and. Co., NO. 77, - Itegent Met, Lou doui awl-allCiocers aa4 Chalk*. TIIE BISHOP OF SALISBURY. The Rev. 11. P. Liddon writes to the Times to correct the statement of the Pall Mall Gazette that the Bishop of Salisbury has "broken down both in mind and body." Mr. Liddon says that throughout his long and painful illness the Bishop's mind has been perfectly clear, although he has not been allowed to attend to business. It is also untrue, so far as Bishop Hamilton is concerned, that " persua sion and remonstrance have been exhausted in a fruitless effort to induce " the Bishop and three other prelates " to resign in order that efficient successors may he appointed." No Ruch remonstrance from any quarter has reached the Bishop or those about him. Mr. Liddon adds : "The simple fact is that the Bishop of Salisbury is a man in the prime of life who has been struck down in the midst of his work by a fatal illness. In resisting its ravages his lordship's constitution has discovered a strength and resources for which his medical advisers were unpre pared. More than three months ago it seemed as if the struggle could only last a few days at most; and if the Bishop had not insisted upon continuing to work in his diocese in the autumn of last year, when he ought to have been in bed or at the seaside, it is, humanly speaking, at least possible that his life might have been spared for many years to come." The case of the Bishop of Salisbury has always, except by the Pall Mall Gazette, been treated diffe rently from that of the other southern bishops— Exeter, Winchester, and Chichester. It does not follow that because a man has been struck down by a severe illness that he ought to res i gn hi s post, whatever it be: If there is hope of recovery within a reasonable time, no one would ask him t o res i gn or blame him for not resigning. .But what does Mr. Liddon mean by a ":fatal " illness ? If the case is hopeless, surely the Bishop of Salisb ur y oug ht to b e included in the same list ash's other incapable brethren. The Morning Herald asserts that the Bishop is so much better within the last few days that it is hoped he will soon be able to resume his clerical duties, but Mr. Liddon, who is the Bishop's examining chaplain, ought to know. What, too, about the Bishop of Carlisle, who seems to be quite incapacitated for work- ? Is this only tem porary, or is this northern diocese to be add e d t o th e I:st of southern dioceses, which are without "respon sible episcopal government," whose people are in the condition of sheep without a shepherd ? ODIUM lIUSTICUIf. It is not only the Church papers that fall foul of each other; the agricultural papers are accomplish ing the same satisfactory feat. There is a feud, for instance, between the Mark Lane Express and the C'hamber of Agriculture Journal, because the former cries down the Chambers of Agriculture which the latter was started to represent. The first declares that the Chambers are likely to do great mischief, because they are composed of the landlords who will advance their interests at the expense of the tenants, and whose one great object is to get into Parliament. The second denies both assertions, and contends that the Chambers, especially the Cen tral Chamber, are obtaining for the agricultural class generally an influence upon the Legislature which that class never possessed before. At the next meeting, to be held on May 4th, several most important subcts will be discusse&—the Adulteia tion of Seeds Bill, the malt tax, local taxation, the Valuation of Property Bill, county financial boards, and the over-preservation of game. The agricul turists are Very sanguine that now Mr. Lowe has pro posed to take the shilling duty off corn, he will be compelled by the logic of his own arguments to at least modify the malt tax. The Chamber will sup port the recommendation of the Select Committee that " until the amount of the malt duty can be spared from' the revenue considerable benefit Would ensue from repealing the tax on malt, and obtaining an equivalent in the least objectionable manner from beer." The resolution prefers that the tax should cease to be imposed upon the raw material, barley, and that it should be levied instead upon the manufactured article, beer ; but it leaves the question open, whether "in the least objectionable manner" would be by a direct duty upon each barrel of beer brewed for sale, with graduated licenses for private brewers, or by licenses altogether for both public and private breweries. MAYNOOTTL Mr. .Layard, like Mr. Gladstone, is called to account for his opinions on the Maynooth clauses. A Mr. Powell, who writes from Glebe-terrace, Bermondsey, is the examiner. Mr. Powell asks Mr. Layard whether he did not pledge himself not to hand over . any moneys of the Irish Church to " Roman Catholicity;" and if he did, whether he is going to break his pledge by voting for the re endowment of • Maynooth. Mr. Layard replies that, in his opinion, the Maynooth clauses are just, and he breaks no pledge in voting for them. Mr. Powell retorts to this that opinions are not facts. Maynooth belongs to the Roman Catholics. Mr. Layard pledged himself to hand over no Irish Church money to the Roman Catholics. The 39th and 40th clauses of the bill . provide that money " stolen" from the Irish Church shall be given to Maynooth. This is handing money to the Roman Catholics. Mr. Layard is about to vote for it. "Therefore," exclaims Mr. Powell triumphantly, "I distinctly charge you (Mr. Layard) with the violation of the pledge you have given, which, in my opinion, mate- . rially detracts from your position as an honest legis lator." To this very energetic charge the First Com missioner of Works makes no reply. ANOTHER ARCHDEACON ON STATE CHURCHES. --- Archdeacon Sinclair, v i c ar of Kensington, in his annual charge t o th e clergy of Middlesex, took up that irresistible subject, the Irish Church. His sub ject was " Progress." After referring to the different kinds of progress, literary, scientific, and political, the Archdeacon turned to the question of Church Establishments, and denied that the State establish ment and endowment of Churches was at variance with the spirit of Christianity. From the earliest times the -Church had accepted endowments in money and land, and the propriety of doing so was never called in question. When Constantine placed the Christian Ohurch in union with the State, no one thought it a retro moasure ; nor was the voluntary "grin ciple contended for in later days, when at the era of the Reformation the different schools of Protestantism in England, Scotland, and on the Con tifielit•had the option of establishment or disestablish ment given them. The Archdeacon quoted from the " Westminster Confession of Faith," the " Bohemian Confession," the " Confession of Saxony," &c., to spew that the reformers both at home and abroad, did not discover in Holy Scripture any recommen dations of disendowment and disestabliihment. THE SCOTTISH PEERAGE. That the House a Lords must soon be reformed is becoming ever; day-more apparent. The. exclu sive hereditary system of the English peerage is hardly likely to survive many years. The hybrid hereditary-representative , plan of the Irish and. Scotch peerages, with its anomaly of one-sided representation, can hardly hold its own much longer. And if these blots are not speedily wiped out, the larger one of whether it is expedient that men who " spend their days in riot most uncouth" should because of an accident of birth have the power of controlling legislation will be fully 'discussed. "H.,." who is evi dently an en th usiastic Scotchman, complains of another anomaly. "The Scottish nobility," he says, "are now, probably, as a body, the oldest in respect to title, and the greatest in 'respect to wealth in the country, yet do they not sit as peers of the realm in a very invidious way? The Duke of Buccleuch.sits there as Earl of Doncaster, the Duke of Argyll as Baron Sundridge, and others in a similar way; their g reat historicnames ignored in Parliament in favour of English baronies (given them to secure an entrance). Names such as the Earls of Morton, of Moray, of Home, of Airlie, with which the whole history of our land is ....illustrated, s :t b ut b y occa sional representation. Those whose deeds have ennobled their country, so to speak, are not them selves counted noble, or have no permanent place among our senators, while those who have but achieved a, personal success in law, in commerce, or political service of a secondary order, are freely admitted and perzhanently enrolled." IiZITADY ENLiSTILENt AND SERVICE 3 .-I , 6xcllfiaudc.TritiaglQ..tzaL ex njAim - - clearly - his scheme for retorm 01 zna syurszn military enlistment and service. His idea, like Sir Charles Trevelyan's, is that of a popular army, with advantages to the soldier, a certain amount of free dom, and short service. But in giving his opinion of enlistment to the House of Lords, ho appears to have been misunderstood. His proposal is to have the regular army and the militia brought as far as possible into connection. He would have the same period, and mode of enlistment in both, would train the soldier apart from either, and then give him the choice of which he would serve in, the one being a home army and the other intended for foreign service. CROSS - CUPPING IN THE ARMY. - Some correspondents of the Telegraph continue the discussion on the subject of cross-cupping in the army. One of them declares that he has himself performed the " barbarous operation " by order in cases where it was not only unnecessary, but posi tively injurious. That this operation is done chiefly as a mark is known to the men themselves, and some objected to it strongly on that score. An excellent suggestion is made by one writer, that a member of Parliament should move for a return of the number of soldiers discharged from the army during the Ltst live years who had previously undergone the operation of cross-cupping. It is useless asking questions on thesub j ect, as equivocation in replying is too often res-Jrted to. "A Pensioner" proposes that Mr. Cardwell should attend a pension office any pension day. and improve his knowledge - by ocular demonstration. Some details are given by one who was stationed in Ireland many years ago. The damp atmosphere affected his health, and the doctor subjected. him to cross-cupping to cure him of his supposed partiality for the hospital. THE REPRIEVE OF CHARLES WILTSHIRE. Sir George Senkinson opens a letter to the Times with the complaint that the forms of the House prevented him from speaking in reply to Mr. Bruce in the matter of the reprieve of Charles Wiltshire. Seeing that the member for North Wilts has spoken during his brief Parliamentary life more than older members do in several sessions, it may be looked upon as rather good than evil that an accident of form should shut his mouth, even though he be never so eloquent. But Sir George will not be cheated out of an opportunity of laying his opinions before the country. If his name cannot be found under the head " House of Commons," it shall be seen in the correspondence column. We are, therefore, treated to a letter from the hon. baronet. He charges Mr. Bruce with hav ing altogether avoided the most important part of the question put to him, whether Wiltshire endeavoured to murder his warder, and hints that this circumstance ought to have prevented a reprieve. "It may be right," he says, " that women are never hung for the murder of their children, but I doubt the wisdom of such an ' announcement being made in Parliament by the Home Secretary. It may be right that juries should convict pro forma and say' Guilty' in public, but ' Not Guilty' privately. It may be right that judges should sentence convicted murderers to.be lung in the same way—with a private reservation; and it may be right that, out of eleven mur derers so convicted and so sentenced, six should be hung and five reprieved, some being alleged to be innocent and some insane, though not so found at the - trial, and on no subsequent evidence that anyone has ever heard of. It may be right that Sheward should be hung on his own sole confession, unsupported, for a murder done, as he says, eighteen years ago, and that this nice man, C. Wiltshire, convicted of rape, a murder, and attempted murder since, should not be hung. But all this, if right, should not depend solely on the private decision of any one man, be he Home Secre tary or anyone else, but should be decided by some tr.banal, on some evidence which should be made public, and which could bear the test of examina tion." THE HULL CONVENT CASE. It is well known that the defendants in this case have made an application to set aside the verdict on technical grounds. But, looking at the state of the cause list, it is not likely that this application will be heard for several months. Meanwhile, Miss Saurin has filed a bill in Chancery, praying that it may be declared that she was improperly excluded from the convent, that the rights of the defendants in the convent may be ascertained, that the property of the convent may be realised under the directions of the court and divided between the plaintiff and the other persons entitled to it, that the defendants may be restrained from selling their property, that some proper person may be appointed receiver of it, that in addition to a substitution for any part of the relief hereby prayed, damages may be awarded to the plaintiff, that the defendants may be ordered to pay the costs of this suit, and that the plaintiff may have such further relief as she may require. The bill then goes on to relate the history of Miss Saurin's connection with the convent, and asserts that just before the late trial Mrs. Starr and Mrs. Kennedy, knowing that they had no good defence to the action about to be brought against them, surrendered to two of the Sisters.their share in the convent property; further, that in order to render nugatory any appeal on behalf of the plaintiff to the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church, the defendants have since the trial determined to break up the convent, and are realising the property Of course this is Miss Saurin's version of the facts, but it is stated that by filing this bill the completion of a sale of land belonging to the convent, and valued at £6, 000, has been prevented. DEATH OF AN OLD M.P. The death is announced of Mr. Henry Binghain Baring at Nice. Mr. Baring sat for Callington in the Parliament of 1831. In 1832 he was elected for Marlborough, and continued to represent that borough until the dissolu tion of 1868, a period of thirty-six years. Under the late Reform Bill, Marlborough lost one of its members, and this was reserved by the Marquis of Ailesbury, the lord paramount, for his own family, Mr. Baring did not offer himself for any other constituency, and was, therefore, not in Parlia ment at the time of his death. He was a Liberal- Conservative, and a Lord of the Treasury in Sir Robert Peers Administration. His first wife was the sister of the late Earl of Cardigan, and through her he was connected with the Marquis of Ailesbury. Mr. Baring was born in 1804. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.-_IEBS Kellogg receives, it is said, £5O a night, which some papers appear to think a large sum, but which we do not, considering her talents —General Simon Bolivar Buckner has gone into the life assurance agency business at New Orleans. —Anna Dickin son is lecturing in Kansas, the favourite ground for Woman's Rights' Women.—A subscription is being taken in Kentucky to buy John C. Breckenridge a residence at Lexington; the rebel generals certainly require houses more than their conquerors, who get Executive mansions andquarter themselves generally on the country. The Hon. Luther Dixon was re-elected Chief Justice of Wisconsin on Monday, April s.—Gao. F. Nesbitt, the well known printer and publisher, died April 6, at his residence in Lexington Avenue, New York.—The law which kept Alexander T. Stewart out of the Treasury Department is said to have been written by Alex. Hamilton.—Ambrose Monell, son of Judge Monell of the Superior Court, was 3d April, on motion of Commissioner Owen, admitted to prac tise in all the degrees in the U.S. Circuit and District Courts. —Brigadier General Burton, commanding at Fort Adams, New York, died on Sunday, April 4, aged 51.—A cutlery firm at Sheffield, England, have sent ex-Secretary Seward an elegant penknife with a star for each State of the Union set in gold upon the ivory handle.—A wealthy San Fran cisco Chinaman has becOme a Fenian. His countrymen say he is insane and have locked him up.— Ossian E. Dodge has been elected secretary of the St. Paul, Minne sota, Chamber of Commerce. By the recent death of James Harper the partnership of the great publishing house is dissolved, and the rule abrogated which prevents the entrance into the firm of any of the partner's children. They who are :now salaried clerks will probably be read mitted and the firm reconstructed. —Spangle and Arnold the Lincoln conspirators, reached Baltimore on Tuesday from the Dry Tortugas.—John B. Felton, brother of the late President. Felton of Harvard College, and a leading San Francisco lawyer, has been chosen Mayor of Oakland, the suburb city of San Francisco.--William P. P. Longfellow, a nephew of Henry W. Longfellow, will soon be offered the place of Assiiting Supervising Architect of the Trea sury Department, a position for which he is admirably qualified.—The funeral of Grenville Winthrop, a New York banker, whose death occurred recently in the south of France, took place at Trinity Church on the 9th inst., the Revs. Messrs. Vinton, Ogilbie, and Soabury officiating. —The German actress, Madame Olga Von Plittendorff, committed suicide at San Francisco, April 7.—Mr T. G. Appleton, of Boston, while in ROMP, purchased Cardinal -Tosti's collection of engravings, 10,000 in number, and has presented them to the Boston Public Library,—Ez-Secre tary Stanton is extremely ill, and has recently received church baptism —Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, after several applications for offica, has received an answer from Presi dent Grant that she might have an interview when dressed as becomes her sax.--.The i bursting of a steam pipe of the lumen steamer City of New York, at New York, April 3, killed ono man and injnred three others, all of them em ployds on the steamer.—Mr. Cox, the Commissioner of Pensions, has been asked to resign, and it is likely that either Mr. Perham, of Maine, or Mr. Van Aernan, of Now York, will succeed.—The gift of Mrs. Eliza Sutton to the Peabody Institute, in Peabody, of a $20,000 fund in memory of her son, to be used in buying a refe rence library, is about to be put to its destined use. The room for this library, fitted up by Mrs. Sutton at a cost of $13,000, has just been completed.—The effort of the counsel to obtain a new trial for Charles Steadman and Harry Jennings, convicted at Boston of the Godding robbery; was overruled by Judge Lord, and they were sen tenced to four yeare imprisonment in the State prison. -_ W. Tkilakson, of gootoa t walla of Wblioaargo„ and Co.'s express company, and an officer in the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, died at Portland, April s.—Brevet Brigadier-General Barte l ' , Colonel of the sth Regular Artillery, commanding at Fort Adams, Newport, died at that post on Sunday, 4th April, of apoplexy, aged fifty-one. — A purse of $3OO is being made up for Miss Ida Lewis, the " Grace Darling" of Lime Rock Light, by the officers and soldiers of Fort Adams.—Aaron Quackenbush, formerly a slave, and a servant in the army of 1776, died at Sharon April 2, aged 105 years. Mr. Longfellow and his three daugh ters have arrived in Rome ; they intend to make a short stay in Florence, Switzerland, Paris, and England Pre vious to returning to America in August.—We regret to say that Charles Dickens was suddenly taken ill and unable to give a reading at the Preston Town Hall on Thursday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOITSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Their lordships were engaged the whole of the earlY part of the evening in discussing the merits of the Lilo Peerages Bill. The Earl of DERBY thought the bill involved certain important provisions, which would require to be duly con sidered. He did not object to the principle of the bill. After some discussion the second reading was agreed to. The second reading of the Representative Peers for Scotland and Ireland Bill having been moved by Lord GREY, The Duke of BUCCLEUCH proposed as an amendment the appointment of a select committee to consider the status of the representative peerage and the laws relating to it, which, after some discussion, was agreed to. The Militia Bill was read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. TILE IMPERIAL GAS BILL. The consideration of this bill was postponed until to morrow in order to allow time to members to consider the effect of the clauses proposed to be introduced by Mr. Locke with respect to the appointment of professional auditors. SCHOOLMASTERS IN IRELAND. Mr. C. FORTESCUE said it was not the intention of the Government to propose any revision of the sale of salaries of schoolmasters in Ireland. The subject, how ever, was an important one, and would be fully con sidered. DISEASED SHEEP. Mr. C. FOSTER, in reply to Mr. Corran, said it was true that on the arrival of a cargo of sheep from Hamburgh the custom-house officers found that some of the animals were diseased, and they were at onee killed, and steps wore at once taken to disinfect both the ship and the wharf. Only a few, however, of the sheep comprising the cargo were found in a diseased state, and a doubt arose as to whether the disease was sheep pox, or another disease not of so fatal a character , but it was thought that if any doubt existed it was best to err on the side of precaution, so the sheep were killed, although he (Mr. Forster) believed the disease Irge not what it was supposed to be. With respect to another cargo arriving from Antwerp, comprising 1,800 sheep, only five were found to be diseased, and these five came from a portion of the cargo, viz., 219 shipped by one of the parties sending the animals to Lon don. The whole of that portion of the cargo was, however, killed, and in another cargo coming from Hamburgh only fuur out of 351 sheep were found to be suffering from disease, yet all were killed. Lord, Defrey had the whole of the circumstances fully consi dered, and it was not thought necessary to re-enact the order with respect to the slaughtering sheep on their ar rival from any foreign countries. The effect of re-enact ing the order would most materially affect the consumers of mutton in this country, as a very large per tentage of the mutton consumed was foreign. He thought it would be a great hardship to the metropolis to re-enact the order, the more so as it had been proved that sheep-pox could be quickly and efficiently crushed out without the necessity for such extreme measures as were required to stop the cattle plague. With respect to the question as to whether the Government were aware that sheep-pox prevailed ex' tensively at Holstein, be bad to say that he had received information from Antwerp that sheep-pox did not prevail in Belgium; from Rotterdam information had been receivd that the disease did not prevail either in South Holland or Zealand; and from Hamburg it was stated that no case of such disease had been reported in Holstein. EMIGRANTS 10 CANADA. Mr. MONS ELL, in reply . to Mr. Kinnaird, said, with respect to the emigrants who had formerly been in the employ of the Royal Dockyards and ordnance factories, that on their arrival in Quebec the Governor-General bad ordered that the utmost assistance and facilities should be given them. The Government of Ontario had offered them land, and he believed other matters would he done which would be highly advantageous to them. THE NEW LAW COURTS. Mr. LAYARD, in reply to the question of Mr. Gregory, as to whether the Government had decided finally on the site for the new law courts, suggested by th e chancellor of the Exchequer in his speech on the 20th inst., said the Government had finally decided to apply to Parliament to acquire the site meetioned by his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The site required was between Somerset-house and the Temple, at the end of Howard-street. It consisted of siX acres of ground, and Mr. Street, the architect, had stated that it was quite possible to erect the whole of the courts and offices on that site. The Goirornment intended to apply for a bill to acquire that site, and on that occasion he should be able to show that it possessed great advantages over every other site which had been proposed' (Laughter.) There was another advantage to be attained with such a proposal, as the whole building could be erected at the cost mentioned by the hon. gentleman (gr. Gregory), viz., .£l,6oo,ooo—(hear, hear)—which was a veil great advantage compared with the costly scheme which had been advocated in the house by the supporters of the Carer street site. He had received a communication from Chief Baron Sir Fitzroy Kelly on the subject, and he said that all the judges were unanimously in favour of the new site, and that it was their opinion that it would be for the con venience of the bench, the bar, the solicitors, the suitors, and the public that the proposed change of site should take place. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUNT wished to know whether the necessary notices had been given to the owners of property. Mr.LAYARD said when he applied for leave to bring in the bill, which he hoped to do before Whitsuntide,he would enter at length into all the details of the matter. An HON. MEMBER wanted to know what was to be done with the Carey -street site. Mr. LAYARD must ask hon. members to postpone their enquiries until he applied for leave to introduce the bill. THE COVICT WILTSHIRE. Mr. BRUCE had to apologise to the hon. member for Wiltshire for not answering the whole of his questions the other evening. He had asked whether Charles Wilt shire was the same person who had attempted to murder one of the warders in Gloucester Gaol. He believed that one of the warders whose duty it was to watch Wiltshire after the conviction fell asleep, and the convict seized that opportunity to make a violent attack on the man, but on the arrival of the night watchman ho Ws ° quite calm. He hoped the hon. member would feel there was a great difference between an attempt to murder and a violent assault. The circumstance; however, had been fully considered, when the fate of the convict was decided . The Beerhouses, Sce.,tßill was read a second time. Several measures were advanced a stage, and the house adjourned. " COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short ... 12 1i ... 12 21 Do Rotterdam ... 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