The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-03 00:00:00

OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. i THE TISCHENDORF ENGLISH NEW TESTATE T. The Times considers that the new Irish Church will start with large remains of its present advantages, such as they are, and an amount of liberty and self-government which will amply compensate for whatever has been taken away. the landowners, who are almost identical with the laity of the Irish Church, will be gainers by the bargain to be made with them, and will thereby have a margin which, if they please, they may devote to sacred and useful pur poses. The clergy will have the power of commuting their life interests, and, by the action of the governing body, will be able to consult their convenience and the welfare of their congregations much more than i s possible ander the existing system. At least three-fourths of the clergy of this country would gladly welcome a change Df this character. As it is, they must grow where they are planted, whether the soil is suitable or not, whether the fruit they happen to bear is in request there or not. There they are, and. there they must remain till they die, even if they are conscious that. they do but encumber the ground. Elsewhere they might do good, but not there. For a thousand reasons they would prefer another post, even though with half the pay. Or perhaps they are poor but most willing to work wherever the labourer is thought worthy of his hire. Under an establishment this is hardly possible, unless it be in the miserably ill-paid class of curates. As for the bishops, who are commonly supposed by women and half-educated men to have almost absolute power of appointment, dis tribution, suspension, and removal, they may labour for many years, but in vain, to put a man where he is wanted, to displace a man who is simply in the way, or to make any suitable provision whatever for populations urgently wanting somebody to help them. The loss of power arising from the want of free action destroys more than the just influence of wealth and position ;ices. The governing body of the Irish Church, starting with a large amount of compensation, of which a consider able portion may be made permanent endowment, with all the advantage of position, and with the strongest appeal to the love and loyalty of the richest class, may, before long, recover more than it has lost, and find that, after all, the best endowment of a Church is its natural appeal to those who accept its teaching, love its teachers, and desire to extend to others the blessings they enjoy. Baron Tauchnitz, the eminent publisher, of Leipsic lately finding that he had carried his series of editions 01 English authors to the 999th volume, determined to marl the publication of the I,oooth by a special production. Accordingly he invited the eminent scholar and critic. Constantine Tischendorf, to prepare an edition o: the English authorised version of the New Testa ment. The result is before us in as pretty a volume as could be desired. The peculiarity of this edition may be soon explained. The English authorised version, as we may be excused for observing, was trans lated from the Greek text, as it was in use among Pro , testant theologians in the days of Elizabeth and James 1., that which Erasmus and Robert Stephens had founded upon manuscripts written after the tenth century. But since their days Greek manuscripts of the New Testament have been discovered far older than any with which they were acquainted, and scholars now for the most part agree that the older manuscripts must come nearer to the original than those which, though more numerous, are of later origin. The work of Tischendorf in the present edition has been to take the three texts which are most highly valued by Christian scholars, and to supply from them at the foot of every page translations of those readings which vary from the text from which the authorised version is translated. The texts he has used for this purpose are, first, the CodexTraticanus, which appears to have been in the Vatican Library nearly 400 years, and which is assigned to the fourth century ; secondly, the Codex Alexandrinus which is in the British Museum, a MS. given to Charles I. by the Patriarch of Constantinople, and probably written in the first haif of the fifth eentury ; and thirdly and lastly, the Sinaitic MS. obtained by Dr. Tischendorf himself, in 1859, from the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and believed to be the oldest of the MSS. of the New Testament, and of the fourth century. The history and description of these precious documents, accompanied by an estimate of their comparative importance, is presented here in a gracefully. written introduction by Tischendorf, who acknowledges the assistance he has received in the preparation of the work from our countryman, Mr. B. Harris Coss per. Facsimiles of portions of each Codex are given opposite the title-page. The volume is published for about the price of one of the cheap yellow-covered novels that we see or 6 the railway book-stalls. — Daily News. The Telegraph declares that next in interest to the character of Mr. Gladstone's bill is the probable course of the Conservative party. We do not, of course, affect any alarm. Should the Conservative party "fight to the last man," they could at the worst only " die in the last ditch;" and they have no more power to frustrate the work THE IRISH CONVENT CASE. of justice than Mrs. Partington had to sweep In answer to the writ of Habeas Corpus, the Hon. Miss back the Atlantic. "10-surrender" is a fine Eleanor Maria Ffrench was in attendance in the Court of old watchword, but it would mean nothing in Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Monday, accompanied by the this case excepting the delays caused by repeated superioress and one of the Sisters of the Loretto Convent, 'ions. We may take it, of course, as perfectly certain Rathfarnham. The Hon. Miss Ffrench had a private that the Opposition will record their hostility to the prin. interview with the Lord Chief Justice. The counsel at ciple of the measure on the second reading. There will either side (Mr. Walsh and Mr. Butler for Lady Ffrench, be, on that occasion at least, a great party division, with and Mr. Buitagh and Mr. ClirNeill Burke for Lord Ffrench) a result that can be anticipated by all. After that the and the Sisters of the convent were subsequently admitted. combat will be on points of law and questions o: The Lord Chief Justice then said he had had some detail. The considerate indulgence shewn to the dis. conversation with the young lady, and she expressed a established Irish Protestants in every line of tilt wish to go to her mother, which was perfectly natural. Government Bill indicates the readiness of the He therefore had nothing further to do than to statesmen who now rule the country to make the see that she was safely conducted to her mother. transition as smooth as .possible, and to soften the His lordship also intimated that he would punish anyone disendowment by every grant consistent with equity. On interfering with the exercise of the writ oit Habeas Corpus many questions of importance a well-managed Opposition which interference he should regard as a contempt of might be able to win for its Irish clients even a better court. bargain than that now offered by the lenient Reformer whe Mr. Walsh said Lady Ffrench was in attendance. has taken the business in hand ; and, if the Irish Church The Lord Chief Justice : Then Mr. Nagle (Clerk of the is wise, it will direct its ability and influence to obtaining Crown) will conduct the young lady to her mother. substantial concessions in detail. Mr. Disraeli's tone ot Mr. Walsh, Q.C., said it was the wish of all parties, Monday was singularly guarded; for no sustained objec• and it had been expressed to the Lord Chancellor, that Lion in principle to disestablishment or to disendowmeir the young lady should not be removed from her present need prevent him moving in committee clauses that wil residence pending tl.e proceedings in the Court of Chan. make disestablishment less immediate and disendowmeW cery. less complete. The Lord Chief Justice said ha had nothing to do with that; but he had no doubt the wishes of the young lady The Standard sa y s th a t a ft er t a ki ng am pl e time fo:r could be easily ascertained on that matter. deliberation, the Lord Chancellor has given his decisiol The Hon. Miss Ffrench was then conducted by Mr. upon that particular passage in the personal and officia Nagle to Lady Ffrench who was waiting in a carriage out history of ' Mr. Edward Watkin Edwards which recently aide the Four Courts. attracted so much attention. While the case was still sub judice we felt it due to the inculpated person, and to the judicial dignitary who had to pronounce upon his. case, to refrain from all comment upon the extraordinary circum- LAW AND POLICE. stances which first became known to the world throve the institution of criminal proceedings against the direc tors of Overend and Gurney (Limited). Now that Lord 'latherley has removed the confidential friend and adviser of the great discount house from the post which, anti• Wednesday, he Lad filled with more advantage to himself than to the public, we may say that those who are conducting the prosecution of th Gurneys and their former colleagues had deemed it essential to secure the attendance of Mr. Edward; as a witness at the Mansion-house inquiry which ended the other day. The evidence which that gentleman gave, seemed to take by surprise even those who bad been instrumental in compelling its production, while, by the audience that crowded the court, it was heard, at first with undisguised astonishment, and eventually with maul• fertations of indignation, which, though out of keeping with the place or the time of their occurrence, were by no means unnatural. The dismissal of Mr. Edwards there fore is in no way affected by his peculiar arrangements for conducting business between the Gurneys and himself, which may or may not have been entirely fair and above• board, so .far as the partners were concerned. We are all willing to make every favourable assumption with respect to these matters ; but we are not surprised that Mr. Edwards's chief should have declined to accept his as= ance that he neither neglected his ordinary work nor usei his official position improperly, in order to assist Overend and Co. in their business, or in proving himself worthy of the money they paid him. NEGLECT OF CHILDREN.—At the Surrey Session?, on Tuesday, James and Amelia Beard were indicted for cruelly neglecting the children of the male prisoner and his first wife. The case was the worse from the man occupying a respectable position as clerk in a stationer's establishment, while the woman possesses landed property. They were each sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour OBSTRUCTING THE THOROUGHFARE.—SeveraI tradesmen in the Whitechapel-road have been summoned by the police for placing articles for sale outsith: their shop windows. They admitted the offence, but pleadlo that trade was so bad in the East-end that if they tltL net exhibit their wares they might as well "shut up shop." They were each fined ss. and costs. A CLERTCAL QuAr.REL.—At the Thames Police Court, the Rev. Richard Lee, rector of Stepney parish, was charged with threatening to stab the Rev. T. Hall, curate, in the vestry. The dispute arose respecting the relief to be given to an applicant. The magistrate expressed his great regret that two gentlemen occupying such a position should appear as opposing parties in a police court, an' strongly advised some arrangement. The hearing of the summons was adjourned till Tuesday next, when a hope was expressed that the matter might be adjusted. THE UNESIPLOYED.—A deputation of unemployed waited on Wednesday upon the Lambeth police magistrate, stating that although a large number of men k had obtained orders for the labour yard of Lambeto t house, they had been refused admission. It turned out that the labour yard contained accommodation for 120 only, and as it was quite full no more could be entered. Mr. Woolrych hoped the attention of the authorities would be called to the lack of proper accommodation. A SCENE ON A RACT,I'OURSE.—At the Windsor Petty Sess:ons, a private in the 2nd Battalion of Coldstream Guards was charged with assault and robbery. The pro• secutor described himself as a commission agent at races, and it seemed that the dispute arose from a disturbance at: the Windsor steeplechases. The soldier and some coin. rades .mobbed Mr. Shearn, accused him of being a " welsher," and robbed him of nearly £5O. The Chief - Superintendent:of, the Windsor police said that Mr. Shearn was well-knoWn at Tattersall's, while the prisoner and his witnesses Lore a very Lad character in the regiment The prisoner was committed for trial. A CURIOUS DISGUISE.—A singular case was beard at the Tunbridge Police -court a day or two since, when a young woman, about 21, was committed for trial for burglary. It seems that some years since she ran away from her place as nursemaid, and disguising herself as a young man, she obtained em ployment first as hop -picker, and then as groom. She was charged with breaking into a shop, and whets taken into custody was found sitting at her parent, ?souse properly dressed. Her disguise was never susnecte4 chance led to its discovery. The Daily News observes that the Lord Chancellor has dismissed Mr. Watkin Edwards, formerly the confidential adviser of Overend, Gurney, and Co., from the office of official assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy. The public Would give a Lord Chancellor of less simplicity of character than Lord Hatherley credit for sincerity when he stated that he had made an order of this kind with much pain. But in the interests of public and official morality the Lord Chancellor could cl,o no less. As he himself points out, Mr. Edward's Must have been well aware that he could not be properly performing his official duties while he wai rendering to Overends services which in his own oe,?inion were cheap at 25,000 a year. It is painful that the neces sity should arise for applying extreme measures to men who have been known in good and honourable positions but in these days it seems nothing less will suffice. 'Jet ; commercial and financial offenders will take no gentle an_ timely hint ; they rather try, as indications of dang,e: increase, to carry everything off with a high hand ane • triumphant smile. No one can look around at the prose_ moment and not perceive that public opinion has still great work to do amongst offenders of this class. Vera lately words of gravest censure, words which only came short of the imputation of a criminal offence, fell from one of the oldest judges of the Court of Chancery, relating to some highly equivocal operations in the City, one of the persons most directly affected by his censure being a mem• 3I ber of the House of Co mmons , s itti ng f or one o f t h e first LICENSING SYSTE .—A con f erence i s t o be hem constituencies in the kingdom. The public, which naturally on this subject at the Town-hall, Manchester, during expected to hear that this person had had sufficient con. Easter week, under the auspices of the License Amend sideration for the honour of the Legislature to relieve it of meat Le ague . T his association recommends, not only the his presence, has only heard that he has surround e d hi m . amendment of the beerhouse system, but a general measure self with his " friends "to accept from them the advice to calculated to remove at least the worst abuses which now brave the judgment of the country. prevail. The Post disapproves of the scheme last week laid before Convocation proposing to organise a deputation to We understand that her Majesty the Queen has the Christian Church in Abyssinia, with the view of been graciously pleased to forward the munificent donation establishing £l5O to the British and Colonial Emigration Fund, of n establishing religious intercommunication.. The Post which the Lord Mayor is president, for the relief by refers to the case of the Armenian Archbishop, who is still detained a captive in that inhospitable country suffering from want of the common necessaries .of life, emigration to British colonies of the distress existing among and s ing who Archdeacon Mackenzie can be in sober unemployed workmen and their families. THE MARRIAGE ENE F ,tTH E O R F . _VISCOUNT nuptials2l. T A of f O A N r tANDhur PhiliplS S earnest in desiring that fresh victims should be offered up on the shrine of misplaced enthusiasm. There is plenty Viscount Mahon (eldest son of the Earl and of hard work for zealous Churchmen and ardent philan- s E t v a E n e h r o x pe, p thropists without going so far afield •; and it would be he Countess Stanhope) and Miss Evelyn Henrietta Penne bad thing if more real endeavours were made to heal t celebrated t l e d d a "daughter ,eure Tuesday a the late morninglat e General G P e e o n r n o, e e , f s a , t R h e a r n ) o w v e o r r e . wounds which are now galling the Church in this lard before it is sought to establish a community of religioal sentiment with African savages. Besides, at a perioo c fa el t when even all the members of one family are seldom in square. accord as to the vital principles of their religion, it seems something like a mockery to set ourselves up as the The telegraph grossly exaggerated the account 02 reformers of Abyssinian baekslidings. the disaster at Kohat on the North West frontier of India. The Star, in commenting on the loss which France has Government has received intelligenc e t o the effect that a sustained, declares that 21 years ago no name was more lice rost at or near Kohat bad been surprised by an frequent in th e mou th s o f men th an t h a t o f Al p h onse d e po i n - Lamartine. In the early months of the world-famous cursion of ono of the border tribes, and that three of our "year of revolutions," the poet, orator, and historian of men had been carried off and one killed. A force had Republican sentiment had seemed for a moment to grow been promptly ordered out for the punishment of th ese to the p ro p ort i ons of a statesman, and as the leaditna figure in th e Provisional Goverument, to shape, diztnrbers. Our telegram states that 600 had been killed. a policy and lay the foundations of a polity at I which E urope looked with • " • varying emotions SALE OF A WIFE. —A remarkable story, with avonder, suspicion, exultation, hatred, h ope, whether true or false, is reported from Totnes, fear. A s a natural conseqi i ;, n , .e . of the revolution in Devonshire. A bachelor became enamoured of Lanaartine took a leading in the Pro visional Government. How he was overburdened with the weight of power, and how he failed to keep we have alre- - ,7 the wife of a man living at Dittisham, and negotiations reins of the State, n t i firm t grasp the were concluded for her purchase for the sum of 250. The n e between the temptation of leadi;; Yti l ocialist Demo .le wavered money was duly paid and the husband left the place, Crecy and the fear of alienatt i e nts a t l the affections promising never to return to claim his wife. Soon after of the erreeoleic l'aria ciliated neither pal to ; yet it would b waverers, be eon- however, • • l • husband at wards, the woman was missed from the house of e unjust i to deny the purchaser, hay. og proceeded to rejoin that. at a critical moment, when affainn was darkest, Latnartin e asvect Totnes, where, wit 4 the £5O. they are eniovitur a second maddened crowd, and refused to abandon'ytt e ftarciectildouar honeymoon. for the red flag at the balding of th Fur that act of civil conreg; wordes orTpiumlace. THE FIRST SH IP IN THE LEITH NEW DOCK.— t,an Le o warm. We forg ;t, in contei ia ) tin . ; this noble passage of an unecutal and chequered Through stress of v eather the new dock has been opened and we life, all sooner than was ex )ected. On Saturday morning, when the fai:ures and the errors of the an, cruel only his high as; iirations, his purity of life and integrity the gale was blow ng fiercely, the brig Sarah Ann, of Of pnrpoee, his eloquence, his poetic fervour, and his p 3 North Shields, drifed from her moorings in the harbour, -nate zeal. Larna, thee leal survived all tare glory . of f t li . and was carried int', the new basin connected with the new and had to taste its bitterest diea pPointrnenta s ; dock. In her comne she troke several Niles, and threw Yen te years were crowned with sorrows and Yet he may have found consolation in the loin staging and a pile-driving machine. So high was the h as ontained a p ermanen t p l ace i n the w i n d t h at the Sarah Ann could not be takenback to the liar ', enory of his country, and will not boor. The only way the vessel could be placed in safety was -'ten read poetry and remember by bringing her into the new dock.—Ecliezbunoit Beriew. 1 politi( a Sri while - none days of 1518. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1869. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. BRAZILIAN SLAFE TRADE. The Earl of CLARENDON moved the second reading (f the Brazilian Slave Trade Bill, and explained that the object of the bill was to repeal the Act 8 and 9 Vic., commonly called the Aberdeen Act. The provisions of that act were very stringent, and when it was first passed it was intimated to the Bra zilian Government that it would not be permanent, butes soon as the Brazilian Government took steps to check the enormous traffic carried on on their coast, it would be repealed. The time had now arrived for the fulfilment of that engagement, and to effect that was the object of the bill. Lord CHELMSFORD said he was Attorney-General at the time of the passing of the act, and had he been con sulted he should have objected to the passing of the act at all. After some discussion the bill was read a socond time, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. Mr. AYRTON gave nottce that on Thursday next, on the house going into Committee of Supply on the Supple mentary Estimates, he should move that votes be taken to defray the expenses of the Abyssinian expedition. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to Mr. RYLAND, said the Government were of opinion that the law was in a satis fact ry state, but, considering the amount of business now before the house,;he was not prepared to say that the Government would bring in a bill on the subject, but if the notion was taken un by a private member, the matter of course would be given the best consideration. CARDINAL CULLEN. Sir T. BATESON asked the Chief Secretary for Ire land whether, as was stated in some of the public prints it was in the contemplation of the Government to recom mend to her Majesty that Cardinal Cullen should be ap pointed a member of the Privy Council in Ireland. Mr. C. FORTESCUE said he was not aware that it had been so stated until he saw the hon. gentleman's ques tion on the paper, but he had to say that such an intention had not been entertained. TURNPIKE TRUSTS. In reply to Mr. CLIVE, Mr. BRUCE said it was intended, on the part of the Government, to introduce a bill during the present session; on the subject of turnpike trusts. CHURCH PATRONAGE (IRELAND). Mr. GLADSTONE said he believed the Lord-Lieuten ant of Ireland had exercised a wise discretion in filling up the vacant living of Valentia, county Kerry, in a tempo rary manner, rather than making the new appointment in the usual manner, which would have had the effect of making a vested interest for life. THE NAVAL RESERVE. Mr. CHILDERS, in reply to Mr. Hanbury Tracy, said he would state the course he intended to pursue, with respect to the royal naval reserve, when he moved the Navy Estimates. EYDE PARK, Mr. COWPER asked whether the large accumula tion of refuse from brick-kilns that now cover the green slopes of Hyde-park over the lower end of the Serpentine had been placed there in the hope that they would imitate rock work, or, if not, for what purpose it had been placed there ? Mr. LAYA RD said there was certainly no intention to imitate rock work over what the hon. gentleman in poetical language called the green slopes of Hyde-park, which were, in fact, the muddy banks of a stagnant ditch. The refuse, he.believed, was put down merely for making a good substratum for the planting of shrubs and trees, certainly not to counterfeit rock work. AUSTRALIAN BEEF. Mr. LUSK asked whether, considering the high price of the beef preserved, viz., elevenpence in the pound, and the excellence and cheapness of the Australian preserved meats, it was intended to introduce it for consumption in the Royal Navyy Mr. CHILDERS said"the Australian meat bad been fur nished to a certain number of ships for the use of the officers and men, and had heen reported on favourably. Tenders would shortly be issued fer preserved beef, but he would refer more particularly to the subject when the navy estimates were under the consideration of the house. THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT. L I. Mr. M'EVOY said be would take the earliest opportu nity of fixing the second reading of the bill for the repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, but he did not think it would be at all possible to take it before Easter. THE REPORTED MASSACRE AT COHAT. Mr. WY LIE asked what fraction of truth there was in the alarming telegram which had appeared in the papers that day from India stating that the natives had mas,acred 300 Europeans at Cohat ? Mr. G. DUFF' said he was thonkful that an opportunity had been give n Lim of immediately contradicting a rumour which must have produced so much anxiety to many homes in England. The Government had a telegram from fur.ia, which stated that the natives had surprised a police post, carried off three 'Len, and one unfortunately had been killed. Colonel Pears and a number of men had marched in pursuit with a view of punishing those who had com mitted the outrage, aad the latest item mentioned was that Colonel Pears had been successful in carrying out the orders given him. (Hear, hear.) AGRICULTURE. Mr. ACLAND then rose to move for a select committee to inquire into the actions, with reference to agriculture, of various public authorities, with a ♦iew to consider the expediency of recommending that some one department be made responsible for dealing with administrative and legislative questions affecting agriculture. The motion for an inquiry was supported by Mr. Pell, who thought the sewage question of itself justifie•l it; by Lord Henley, who laid principal stress on the road ques tion ; and by Mr. Corrance and Lord F. Cavendish ; but Mr. Newdegate, on the °tinr hand, treated it as entirely unnecessary. • Mr, BRIGHT, in reply, pointed out that agriculture and trade were pretty much in the same condition of having their interests looked after by different offices. Tuis wns not a very defensible thing, but he doubted whether a committee would discover so satisfactory a remedy as a consultation of the heads of departments among them selves. Agriculture, however, in Mr. Bright's opinion, bad ❑ever less to complain of, and the notion of agriculturists • applying to either the Board of Trade or to the House of Commons reminded him of the lady who sent for the doc tor "because she felt so well she was sure something was going to happen to her." Sun and shower and industry would do more for agriculture than Government or Legis lature, and his advice to farmers was to come as little as possible to any Government office. The Home Secretary was even now considering whether there could be any interchange of functions between the different offices; and if anything could be done in furthezance of the objects of the motion it should be carried out. Satisfied with this assurance, Hr. Acland withdrew his motion. Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN bronght in a scheme for remedy ing the ratepaying grievance by repealing altogether sec tion 7 of the Reform Act, which extinguished the corn pounder. Mr. Gladstone offered no opposition to the introduction of the Lill, hut Mr. Hibbert regretted the form iu which it was framed, and announced Lis intention of opposing it at a future stage. A first reading was given to bills brought in by Mr. Hadfield to amend the law regulating the burials of Dis senterr, and by Mr. M'Lagan to amend the Game Laws fn Scotland. The House adjourned at half-past nine o'clock. COURSE U F EXCHANGE.—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short ... 12 ... 12 1 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 11 ... 12 21 Autwerp — ... 25 35 ... 25 40 Brussels Ha mburgh — ... 13 10/ ... 13 11 Paris Ditto Marseilles .. 3 . 3 ...1 Frankfort-on-the-Main V ienna Trieste Petersburg Copenhagen, • , Berlin , Madrid.. Cadiz Leghorn , Milan Genoa , Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro.. New York 121 -120 i 12 45 ... 12 55 12 43 ... 12 55 31f ... llf 9 20 9 24 ,• • 6 26} ... 6 'l7 ... 481- ... 48k ▪ 4ei 26 35 26 40 ... 26 35 '26 40 - 26 35 ... 26 40 - ... 35 '26 40 - 26 35 ... 26 40 - 26 33 26 40 - 52.1 ... 521 - s*.k ... 523_ The Trice of Gold. tie quota i 01 gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange ou Loudon is VA. per £1 sterlin;:. ;neoniparing these rates with the Ein;liaii Mint price of 100. per wince for standard gold, it a;,p,.'s tl~ it ..4 - o:d at the above price is abut 140th p:r ceat. dearer iu Celts Chu In London. The course c f exchiuge at New York on London for bills f.O days' was on the last date about 1 Si percent. At this rate !:,.re Is profit on the itadortntioo of gold 1.1,1! DUNVILLE an•! Uu., Beita,:., a.e the largest ..-.ilders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky bi re •.rnuteuded by the medical profession in preference to ierene,, :randy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exocria, don. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville ana Co. Belfast; cr 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Loudon WA: —[Ad• vvrtisement. MISCELLANEOUS IVEIVS. CONSERVATIVE JOURNALISM IN SCOTLAND. Conservative journalism does not seem to prosper in Scotland any more than in the provinces of England. The Scotsman, as presenting the latest news and as the organ of Liberalism, is almost universally read. Because it gives news which its contemporaries do not have till next day, newspaper readers are obliged to take it in, spite of its opinions. But the Tories of the North have at last discovered a plan by which they can overcome the " fause Wheegs." They are going to start a halfpenny Conservative paper, which they do not expect to pay, bnt which those who love the cause are expected to pay for. They do not think the venture will be a commercial success ; but they hope to obtain from those who have money to spare, and whose sympathies are with Mr. Disraeli, a subsidy sufficient to pay all costs. We thought that, in this country at least, free trade was the acknowledged principle so far as newspapers were concerned. But Sir Thomas Gladstone and Lord Dalkeith do not think so, and so we are likely, though nothing is settled to have a subsidised newspaper in Scotland. ATHLETICS. The authorities at Oxford shew themselves rather hostile to the athletic sports which have lately become one of the chief events of the University year. The leading journal is inclined to support the authorities. It believes that too much attention is now being given to athletics, that we have, in our adoption of the new religion of muscular christianity, rushed into an extreme by no means desirable. Athletics now encroach upon the time which should be given to mental education ; a serious fault, because athletics have necessarily a somewhat coarsening effect upon the mind, which can be counteracted only by good mental training. And after all what is it that athletics do for us? Take the crucial test, the march of an army on a campaign, and we shall find that the Prussians, during the campaign . of 1866, marched as well as our troops can do. So did the Americans under Sher man in his famous march through Georgia. The higher French officers are in great part highly instructed men, and no class of them, any more than Prussians or Americans, have given themselves up to rowing and jumping from boyhood to manhood. But they march, and they make their men march with far more alertness and agility than is shewn by an English regiment, whose officers have been athleticising all their lives. The truth is, that in foreign countries athletic exer cises are practised sufficiently for the development of the body, but they are not allowed to invade the more serious province of education. With us there can scarcely be a doubt that this limit has been passed, and that, under the pretence of healthy exercise, a devotion to a too engrossing class of pursuits has become general. THE EVILS OF COMPETITION. The exceedingly old discussion on the merits or the prize system at public schools threatens to crop up again. Instead, however, of the old ground being taken, the effect of strife on the morals and disposition of the scholars, the disputants have chosen a new battle-field, and are now fight ing on the question of health. Dr. Bence Jones, writing to the Times, pointed out that boys and youths were continually failing in body and mind in consequence of over study. To this " A Head-' " replies that the effect is such in a school th•'s now-a -days cannot afford to dis pense with the system Dr. Jones condemns. "If a master gives prizes, not only to the first or second boy of a moderate form who has distinguished him self in classics, but also for mathematics, for history and geography, for modern languages, for natural science, and for Scriptural knowledge, there are a very few boys in a well-worked school who do not feel the effects of such encouragement, and who do not in their time gain, or, at least, come near to gaining, aprize in one of these subjects. Thus the general spirit of wak is awakened and encouraged, and is felt even by those who fail of gaining the first place." The fact is that life in this country of late years has be mile terribly in earnest; the passion for getting on has seized most powerfully upon all classes ; and he who will not recognise this, and strive to his utm os t, finds himself er e l ong behind those who are really his equals. The passion, good in many respects, most disastrously evil in others, is inculcated with the first lessons in reading and writing. Maybe, as the Spectator has predicted, the passion, havuig reached its height, will soon begin to decline. THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL. Though it is open to serious question whether we ought to spend £lOO,OOO on a memorial to a deceased prince, however noble his life may have been, yet we have this satisf ac ti on , that the monum en t t o be erected in Hyde Park is likely to be satisfactory as regards artistic design and execution. The Post an nounces that it will be impossible to " inaugu rate " the memorial, as was originally in tended, on the Ist of May. So far as the structural portions of the monument are con cerned, they may be said to be complete, but the proposed decorations and sculpture have not kept pace with the building, owing to their magnitude and the wonderful care with which they have been exe cuted. The memorial has been so often described that we need not enter into detail, more than to observe that, according to the Post," th e sp i re , w hi c h f orms a guide to its site from almost any part of the park and rises high above the surrounding trees, is perhaps the principal feature of the whole. From its cross to the base is exactly 120 ft., and the metal used in its construction weighs over 200 tons. This enormous weight is supported by four massive crossed wrought an inadequ a t e id ea can b e con iron girders. Only veyed of the mag nificence with which this s pir e h a s been decorated. There is not an inch of space which is not covered with a scroll wor k, a p i nnac l e , or figures." THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. Ex-Governor Sir George Grey has addressed, another letter to the Da Views respecting the con dition of the agricultural poor. The recent legislation of Parliament with regard to the employment of children in agricultural gangs has, he fears, done more harm than good. The public gangs are likely to be improved in character, and the worst of the gang-masters are unable to obtain licenses ; but owing to these restrictions the private gangs have increased in number, and those who cannot get the necessary li ce nse for a public gang form a private one, The worst evils of the system have always existed in these private gangs, and th e y are not, we f ear, l i ke l y to improve. The cruelty practised on the little ones, who are at the mercy of these reckless taskmasters, i s ver y great, and it is a scandal that it should be longer tolerated. Children of 8 and even 0 years old are compelled to work from 8 a.m. till 6 p. m ., being kept up to their work by the blows and threats of the gang-master, and in addition to this excessive exertion they have often to walk several miles to and from their work. One little girl of G had to walk eight miles in the morning, to work from eight to half-past five, and then to get home as best she could in the evening. The report of the . Parl iamentary Comm i ss i on reveals some startling facts as to the physical suffering and the moral degradation which this evil system entails on those engaged under it. DISHONEST PANVNI3ROKEIIS. The Earl of Shaftesbury spoke very severely a night or two back in the House of Lords on the sub ject of dishonest pawnbrokers. llis lordship did his best to make his hearers understand that these arethe men who foster our criminals, and that as such they art enemies of society. Nor did he confine his remark) to the very lowest class, but expressed his opinion that more respectable men, as the world goes, were amongst the delinquents. For this he was called to account by the first pawnbroker of the metropolis—Mr. Attenborough—who defended his cloth with ardour. Lord Shaftesbury, in reply, say* he has no doubt the majority of the pawnbroker? carry on their business uprightly. lie referred . moreover, in this particular speech to general dealers as well as to Pawnbrokers. Ile declines to retract hi: statement, as he thinks it to be true. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORE, Feb. 13. We are in Lent, and the gayest season known in New York for a long time has come to a close. ' Masquerades ha ve b een the or d er of the night, about a third of the hundred great public balls having been in fancy dress. If New York now puts on sack ' cloth and ashes, it will not be before it wants some such covering, but I am pretty sure it only intends to go from one extravagance into another, and when the first lady with a Grecian bend is offered this attire, may I be there to see. One extravagance I can tell you about, and that was at St. Albans and Chrit-t Church, Fifth-avenue, on Ash Wednes day. Our St. Albans has just imported a reverend gentleman from Your St. Albans. What he did I do not know, for I was not there, as I did not care to see. We have another little sensation at the same time to keep us alive. Notwithstanding the Vigilance Committee the thieves are carrying all before them, and the audacity of some of their operations is almost ludicrous. Not long age a clerk put a large bundle of greenbacks on the counter of the bank into which he was paying them. Down came the hand of the loafer next him, and away they all went before the astonished eyes of the crowd. Then commenced the chase now so com mon in New York. On the morning of the 16th such a chase was maintained from Mr. Davies'a house at the ceri.er of 'Troop and Myt tle-avenue after a burglar Wh o fi re ,' zix patul Z.: huts (luring the pursuit, but when running not being the time to make good practice, so the pursuer escaped harm, and the burglar was captured. The Oriental Bank was nearly robbed by two nice boys who got in through the basement from a liquor saloon ; but the janitor interrupted their operations. General Grant has arrived and departed. On the 4th he was to have been the guest of ex-Governor Fish, but be passed the day in looking over Messrs. Appleton's publishing establishment, and in the evening was at a great reception given by Mrs. M'Kean, 445, Second-avenue. On the sth he dined with Mr. Grinnell, and afterwards went to J ,, hn Brougham's theatre. On the 6th he went to Brooklyn accompa nied by General Badeau and staff, and dined with ex-Governor Fish. On Sunday he made one of St. Paul's Methodist Church congregation. Next day the Union Republican Committee waited on him at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. It was headed by Charles Spencer, Dennis Burke, and John Cockrane, but Mr. Spencer's speech only elicited the words, " Good day." Some people even assert it was " Get away." The President was prepared for their attack, as what was in store had been made known to him, when he dryly remarked that he had half a mind to get New York to run the whole Govern ment by contract. He had received an Irish dele gation, who told him they numbered seven millions, and should not be overlooked in the distribution of the plunder. After getting rid of his persecutors, and handing a large pile of cards, which they in sisted on thrusting on him, to his aide• de-camp for a bonfire (an individual left two cards, drawing Grant's special attention to his place of business in Broadway) he went out with Mr. Bonner for a trot behind Dexter. He dined with Mr. Chittenden in Brooklyn, and afterwards left by special train for Philadelphia, where he arrived at the Continental Hotel about six o'clock a.m. on the 9th inst. He did not there receive visitors, though most prominent citizens called, and dent in cards. The General would be fed to repletion if he went everywhere he is asked. The Army and Navy officers of Burnside's expedi tion have formed a permanent organization, with Gen. Burnside as President, and their first annual dinner was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the Bth inst. Edwin Booth's► acting on the night of the 4th inst. was a " sell" to the speculators who had purchased two-thirds of the seats, which the public showed no disposition to occupy, and therefore the house had but 75 in the dress circle and 500 else where, though made to accommodate 1,700 persons. Indeed this actor was influenced by malice afore thought, for be allowed the speculators to buy as many seats as they chose, but refused to let them sell to the people entering the theatre. These middle-men are a nuisance, besides being a heavy tax on the public. Apropos of theatricals, Mdlle. Nilsson is expected in New York during the spring. Mr. Fisk received a message from London stating her terms, and an answer was returned,l believe, accepting them The Elevated Railway in Greenwich-street is proving satisfactory. It runs in a line with the second storeys of the houses, the wheels being covered with wood to deaden the sound. The principal daily journals report the following receipts to the Internal Revenue Office fur the last three months : The Herald, $189,645 ; Times, $130,038 ; Tribune. $131,859 ; Journal of Commerce, $24,500 ; Express, $24,106 ; Evening Post, $28,106 ; the Commercial, $6,844 ; and Pomeroy's Democrat, $10,658. A terrible tragedy occurred before day-break last Thurslay fu No. 116, Seventh•avenue. Sarah Boerd, a young servant girl there employed, ap- pears to have excited the love and jealousy of Peter Bomberger, a tailor, in the establishment of John Rhodes. Both the girl and her lover were found in the hall insensible and bleeding profusely, with a six-barrel-revolver, contents discharged, lying near. The girl's examination acquits Ban berger, stating that he had not shot her, and all sorts of wild rumours are in consequence afloat, but there was a letter found on Bamberger's person which shows how jealous and desperate he had grown. The talk of Vit , ilanze Committees is, I believe, unfounded, though the Rogers and other murders, together with these hints, have had a stirring effect on the judges. The hardihood of the thieves arising from the impunity con ceded in this city to theft, has la'ely re ceived A shock. They used to walk through the courts of justice with the policeman's hand on their collar as they entered, and their finger at their nose and their tongue in their cheek and the police man as they left. Recorder Hackett and others have been taking the shine out of them within the last few days. Pat Martin got 10 years for bur glary ; Pat Moore 20, for robbery ; Johnson 20, for larceny; Maguire, ditto ; and two others, sen tences scarcely less severe, this in one day. There will be little necessity for vigilance committees, if the judges do their duty. John Real, who mur dered policeman Swedick, is to be hanged on the 2d April ; the court stating that too much time had been lost already iu that and other cases. John Trimble and Maurice Leonard have been ar rested for the daring burglary at the Messrs. Bene dict's jewellery store. I told you the circumstance attending the smashing of a window of the Broad way Bank cashier's desk. Well, the instrument for breaking the jeweller's window was similar, and the jewellers in alarm are protecting their glass with wire netting. A dinner was given to Senator Casserly, of California, at Delrnonico's, last Mon d .y. The chairman, Charles O'Conor, proposed— " The States of California and New York, gene rous rivals ; one welcoming from the Atlantic, the other from the broad Pacific, the commerce of the world—who can foretell their wondrous future ?" Au American Press Directory is about to be pub lished. Mr. Bowles's account of California, its Irocks and mountains, as it came out in the Spring field Republican, will also be given to the public. Mr. E. P. Whipple has left the Boston Transcript, but the literary news which excites most interest is the rumour that the President Elect and his supporters, desirous of controlling a New York journal, are about to purchase the Mild, of which Mr. Marble is now sole proprietor, having lately bought out other interests. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. Yesterday the Alabama Claims Treaty was under consideration by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and on all sides strong objection was taken to it. Whether it can be amended so as to satisfy England and at the same time pass the Se nate is at present a doubtful question. As it stands the Committee is sure to report against it, but the protocol relating to the rights of naturalized citizens and the treaty with regard to the boundary of San Juan are viewed with favour. Indeed the Com rnittee have authorized Mr. Stunner to report them for ratification. An inauguration ball will after all be given, but in the new Treasury building, where there is excellent and ample accommodation. Both th e President and the Vice-President with their families will attend, and the tickets at $lO each are going off like hot cakes. They will admit one gentleman and two ladies to the dance and s►ipper, for which several bands have been engaged, and an accomplished caterer. The pend ing nominations by President Johnson are 188 for civil offices, ranging from Smythe and Cummings down to justices of the peace for the District of Columbia. There are also 8 naval and 495 military nominations, two-thirds being brevet appointments. A bill for securing equal rights in the District of Columbia has passed the Senate. It strikes out the word " white" from the laws of the District of Columbia and the charters of Wash ington and Georgetown. Though before twice passed, it was in each case within ten days of the end of the session, which enabled the President to defeat it. The House Committee on Elections have dccided the contested election for Louisiana by declaring that Colonel Mann, the deceased member, was duly elected, and that neither Bunt nor Menard were legally chosen, which disposes of the Afri can on the floor at least of this Congress. General Grant returned on Wednesday, and as the time is so short for nominations to be made the office-seekers broke through all re straint, swarming through every cranny into his presenee4Nor is the contest for place confined only to the public service, Er there is a rail) for the White 'louse kitchen, as well as for the Government de Parttnents. The competing chef., are black, 'and three in number— Geo. T. Downing, Henry Johnson, and AV. S h. P,o, to be promoted from Vice-President Colfax's kitchen to that of President Grant's; and Mr. Downing considers that $2,000 salary, with the eclat of the position, to be better than the House Restaurant at the Capitol. Both Grant and Colfax will be officially informed of their election to-morrow, and the Speaker has appointed Mr. Wilson, of lowa, and Mr. Pruyn, of New York, on the part of the House, to announce the fact to himself ! Andrew Johnson's life was sought by a crazy woman--Anne O'Neill—who was actually arrested in the White House on Wed nesday, armed with an unloaded pistol. She asserts that war is declared, and that she has a Divine commission to kill the outgoing President. The family are already making way for their successors Mrs. Stover and her children have already left for Tennessee, and the White House will soon be empty. Baltimore has tendered Mr. Johnson the hospitalities of the city. Secretary Seward is still at work on his guano islands ; those belonging to the United States in the Carribean Sea, he thus enumerates : —North Keys, two islands ; Northeast Key : Triangle Keys, three islands ; Anchor Key ; Sand Key ; Booby Keys ; North Rocks ; Serrana Key. All these islands are situated in latitude about 14 degrees 20 minutes north, and longitude about 80 degrees 15 minutes west. Yesterday the Sub- Committee having favourably reported to the Ways and Means Committee on a Treaty of Reci procity with Canada, the subject was considered. It has confined itself, however, to requesting the President to open negotiations with the Canadian Government for the free navigation of the river St. Lawrence, the protection of the Fisheries, and for general commercial intercourse. The Canadian people desire some such treaty, and as General Schenck will report it to the House its passage is probable, and is likely to be immediate, if it is to be passed this session. The Senate Judiciary Committee have agreed upon a Naturalization Bill, somewhat similar to that introduced into the House. The Dyer Court of Inquiry has finished the examina tion of Colonel Balch. Lieutenant-Commander John S. Barnes has resigned. General Thomas S. Leslie is appointed Chief Paymaster of the Pay District of New York. General Fremont, General Heintzelrnan and others have been examined before the House Committee on the Pacific Railroad on the advantages of the 32d parallel for such a line. A bill is about to be introduced, pro viding that hereafter brevet commissions shall only be conferred in time of war, and only for distin tinguished conduct in the military service of the country. In the U.S. District Court at Richmond, a nolle prosequi has been entered in the treason cases of Davis, Lee, Breckinridge, Hampton, Longstreet, Wise, Early, and others, and the sureties of Davis have been discharged from their responsibility. Two students of the university over which General Lee presides have been turned out for going about in a threatening manner and discharging pistols, thereby wounding a negro. THE GREAT W/NE CASES": We reprint from the New Orleans Republican, of January 29, an interesting article in relation to the controversy which has now been pending for three years between the United States Government and 3 large number of French wine merchants. Thi s con troversy has been the subject of a vast amount of newspaper comment on both sides the Atlantic, an d several efforts have been made to make the quar rel a diplomatic one. After much correspondence be tween the representatives of the French and Aw e- Heart Governments, it was concluded to allow the courts to determine the important questions at issu e. The result, invol v i ng over 40,000 packages of French wine, valued at half a million dollars, is a waited with much anxiety by the parties interested. l‘ re shall be able to state the result in an early issue " We have taken pains to examine the records which show how these cases, which have excited s° much attention in this community and througho ut the country, origi na t e d, w h at i s the theory o f W e Government in their prosecution and the defence interposed by the defendants. In 1862 the atten tion of the Government was called to the extensiv e under-valuations of imported goods, from whi ch . , under. valuation s th e S ecretary of the T reas ury state ( ' to Congress resulted in an annual loss of m ore than twenty million dollars of revenue. Aetiug upon the recommendations of the Secretary of th e Treasury, Congress in 1863 passed the present boy requiring copies of all invoices of goods shipped to the United States to be filed with the Uni te States Consul at the po r t o f s hi pment, an d i ut posed heavy penalties for the falsification of invoices' New and stringent regulations were made requiring all Consuls to examine such invoices, and after comparing the pri ces a t w hi c h goods were invoiced, to compare the prices as therein stated with th e real market prices at their respective parts, and to report to the Government any under-valuatio ns. To better secure the execution of these laws an d regulations, and to supervise the action of t he Consular corps, an agent of the Treasury was sen t , to reside in Eu ro p e . A mong t h e mult i tude of alleged fraudulent und er - va l uat i ons reported to this anen t ' were those in the invoicing of Bordeaux wines" The shippers of th ese w i nes were requ i re d , like as others, to present to the Consul true invoices an descriptions of their wines, and to declare befor e the Consul that th e i r i nvo i ces were in all respects true.' While this f orma l ev id ence o f t h e ki n d acid description of wine s hip pe d over t h e signature of shippers, the Consul undertook to compare invoiced m values with th e va l ues we ll k nown i n the open arket of Bordeaux. the bulk of the wines shipped t° New Orleans were described in the invoices on the bottles and on th e cas k s an d b oxes as pure wines of well known growt h s an d years, and o f well known values. B u t i ns t ea d o f the real m arke t n vulues, those put down in the invoices, and 0- which duty was t o b e pa i d, were greatly bel° such market value. The wines in the cams now °ll trial were invoiced, for example, as Blaye W e ; rior,' and at ninety-th ree cents t h e case o f twel s bottles. Many win es o f we ll-k nown growt hs wer e invoiced for entry a t th e C ustom -h ouse as low us eighty-five cents th e case . Th e well-esta b l i s h e d and authenticated quotations a t Bordeaux Pr °l ' e t 'l most of these invoi ces t o b e f a l se. ExPer ,, were sent to Bordea ux care f u ll y to examine into the matter. The i nvo i ces were d eclare d by thet a to be false, and th e i r reports, w i th the e videnc e ' were forwarded to th e agen t o f t h e T reasur y P t ', partment at Pa r i s , an d b y hi m to the Secre tary the Treasury, who thereupon directed the seitiares; The Government, i n th e case now on tria l , alleg es that the wine i s i nvo i ce d at much less t h a n its real market value, and is liable to forfeiture. To prove this the prosecution proved by ts , c c 7 foreign experts that Blaye Superior of IS in cases, was wort h e i g h t to nine francs r case, and that th e w i ne actua l ly shippe- A 0 " e b subsequently sei ze d, was good wine an d N or' , at least, eight francs and a half per case. It is im portant here to m en ti on t h at w i nes i n cases v alue d at less than five f rancs seve nty-five centimes P er ° case are subject to a d u t y o f twenty cents per g3 llo th and twenty-fi v e p er cen t . a d valorem ; those W°ll more than that su m are li a bl e to a duty o f fitt it cents per gallon an d twenty-five per cent. ad ar /or e° An advance i n th e va l ue of these wines of on franc: or say 19 cents, per case, would have placed V iet ; in the second category. After making out a P riin t facie case as provided by law, the G o vereal .. rested, and th e d e f ence was comrnencA by an e the mission that the i nvo i ce was not true ; that r wine invoiced and described as 'Blaye Superl u ; of 1865' was really a common mixture or low grid 0, —common wine falsely named and branded to he present a good natural - wine. Mr. Fuentes, the first witnes s f or t h e d efence, a large importer of wines, testified that th e w i ne was a cheap inixtere, and that it was not such wine as is described in the invoice up on w hi c h i t was entered at t h e Cus tom-house. He further testified that !W ile the high gr a d e na t ura l w i nes are shippe d in iceig 0,1 Orleans ; that the bulk of the wines received u es, sold here are n o t na t ura l w i nes, b ut cheap mix which are lab e ll e d 'Medoc," Margaux," St- Jai,p .. &c., and th a t w i nes w i t h a ll these labe l s are so fill here ' out of th e same cas k . ' The de f enc e is s engaged in exa m i n i ng w it nesses. S om e o the f the ablest counsel i n th e country are engage d in re , case. The United States Government is reP o f sented by the Hon. M. Gibbs, a gentlema ti the exalted character and legal abilities, who special counsel of the Treasury Departmen ie t i u t, sisted by District Att orney M organ, R an d e ll or o f H. C. Judd, and M r . Billings ; while the Nes tor the New O r l e a ns b ar , the Hon. Christian Rciseiitts, represents the defence." L A DVERTISEMENT.I—HoIioway's Ointment an. s ra Instant relief—Sores which are daily extending, ulcers w hic- re ss, hourly deepening, may be arreste d i n the i r tortur ing Pr ()g ling and induced to take a healthy action by applying this ointment and taking these purifying pills. It soothes all dis Ala pers of and extracts all morbid humours from the sh in. and ulcers of the leg, inflammations caused by varicose veh i , s ' or tlY cramps of the lower limbs can sensibly be eased and eh ,es cured by Holloway's never-failing ointment, which rePr ,tion• excessive and stimulates sluggish vascular and nervou s % t tler In consiitutions breaking down under piles, fistulas, an d -oiat similar riainfnl maladies a few applications of this cooling if et it ment will give comfort, and a persistence in its use Wil l c'^e cure. o,lo ble [ADvEnT isENENT.]-13enceforth no one will doubt the Ar abic, properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Reval ents hiessD ig a Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of - a been it has already received from Invalids whose position L i t, ?on deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness " e ars °, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty to d unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " G a ti z ie 10 11 Midi," July 25th :—" R ome, July 21 , 1866 . The hea l t h of _ r r oe: Father is excellent, es p ec i a ll y s i nce, a b andon i ng a ll etr oa lee' l. dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barr Y's er y ule t 'a Arabica Food, of which he 'consumes a plateful at ev_ alt b, l a tg e It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his, V ' o f his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too ing"• 7 2ld , it s extract a few out ofmore than 68.000 cures :—Cure NO • O ,OIS, the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver c t opitat%.. wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous P mart all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and tneZiart tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lon! ,"., s peP% Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years ,epsi ' No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from' p rs o p Y as o nl: nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatulen c, 2 7o: sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' disc 0 11 deaf wore • Oft spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial de wore 4 ,'s portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and ~., yien'y sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Bare. name is most audaciously attache& 2 1 1 " Ba.; e 0 In tins, at Is. 1f d. ; 1 lb. 2s, "d .; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 CO" 24 225. ; ••• 4 lbs, 40s, --Also Du BARR'S REVALENTA ARAD: - 20 ., fOr LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups ';'" i 5 76 eqg cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at 305., 555. 11 0 Of l V at 555.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. n p oe t, 00 . No. need are sent free of carriage in England on receipt Of Regent stye don; Order. BARRY DU BARRY and Co ., No. 77, Reg-- don; and all Grocers and Chemists, Births. ALDRIDGE —On the 25th ult , at 29, Eccleston-square' Co wife of Major Ald r id ge, M:P , of a son. „,-,, u lsei ' DAWSON—On the Ist i ns t at . Madoc House, Ater.' the wife of Osborne Dawson, Esq., of a daug Marriages. MALLOCK—HART—On the Ist inst , All Souls' C i P j -ter, Thomas Mallock, Esq. of Millba:nk-street ,Westmie tr b e et, p an o d rt o la f n W a- e p s l t a C ce r , o i y , d o o n n d , o t n 'o . Sarah Hart, of Langh Bru-s SlmPsoN DALE On the 23d ult , George SimP s li" r thaf of Earby Hall, B arnar d l'asq:A, Y or kshire, t o 1110 - only daughter of JostTli Laughain Dale, Esq. , ° rington-Equare, London. Deaths. Pe ti CALVERT—On the 25thlult. a t 48 Gloucester" creSc John Calvert, Esq., aged 6'2.. ' t iv aef HYDE—On the Ist inst., at 13. Maids-hill West, John " ...d Esq., aged 64. Viipli c°l Ico tt l RIDLEY-0 n the let inst ,at 11, St. George's-Mt , (II t he Hon. Mrs t . Ridley.. 1 1,1/4 WALCOTT —On Esq., so, d 78. he 28th ult., at Clfton, Win. 11. A " . ' .......*:.--°' _____ • ~...10w.,, c ,ondon : Printed a n d P l bli s h e d b y WILLIAM . / 0 " J , i /' s of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at ,:fti; SUN UV-"e, 1:/ 0, Strand, in ties Precinct of the Se voY, in th e Middlesex.—Wednesday, Match 3, 18t9. lIENI?,Y COOKS I.IIPROVED TELEGRAPHY. We translate the following from a French P aper : —New System of Telegraphy. —This morning the Emperor Napoleon 111. condescended to examine at the Tuileries the new telegraphic system invented by the late Mr. Bonelli, and Mr. Cook, partner of the American bank ing house of Messrs. Norton and Co. After a practical and complete examination of the now apparatus, his Sfajesty expressed his swisfaction on all points, and invited the inventor to come the following day at noon to show the Empress the rapidity and accuracy of the in struments, which Jar surpass all yet seen in telegraphy. The advantages of Mr. Cook's system consists in the absolute exactness of the messages transmitted, and we need not point out this value to men of business who are aware what errors are committed with the instruments in use,occasioning inconvenience and pecuniary loss. MrCook's system also enables three messages to be transmitted in the time now taken for one. In short, his Majesty con sidered the benefits of the now system so important that be has authorized M. the Count do Vougy, Director-Gene ral of Telegraphs, to give the inventor every facility necessary to bring his telegraphic apparatus into gene ral use. Mr. Cook, in connection with the celebrated Italian telegrapher, M. Bonelli, bas devoted many years and very largo sums money to the perfection of Bonelli's system. Since the decease of the latter the im provements made by Mr. Cook have been so satisfactory as to attract much attention to the system, not only in Europe, but in the United States, where plans are ba - ing arranged for its general introduction. For Great Britain it bas been most favourably considered by Lord Cla rendon, who has had an opportunity for a careful ex amination of its merits. At the second interview both the Empress and Priuce Imperial were present. The printing and autographic instruments were t , sted with great success. The special objects of the improve. meets of Mr. Cook are perfect accuracy and great rapidity in all seasons. No action of temperature or climate have any detrimental effect on these instruments, which so far have worked better in bad weather than in fair. The special importance of positive accuracy cannot be denied, and with these instruments it is insured. Mr. Cook is an English gentleman, and a partner in the banking-house of Norton and Co., Paris. His system is grounded on Che valier Gaetono Bonelli's patent, which he purcha se d i n 1860, and by years of labour and outlay improved into the instrument just submitted to the Emperor. Th e or i g i nal i ns t rumen t constructed from this patent was automatic, and required 50 wires working simultaneously, yet inde pendently, while the present needs but one. The first improvement was the production of a telegraphic machine, reducing the number to 11 wires, then to 5, though even this number barred its general adoption, notwithstanding its power to print 40 messages par hour, insuring ac curacy, acd being independent of synchronism. The present instruments were further modified by Messrs. Bonelli and Hipp, but to Mr. Cook is due the final improvements which now make them so nearly perfect. The machinery is simple and stro ng , th e parts delicate in substance, are of steel, and there is:nothing which with ordinary wear should get out of order. The instruments are said to be capable of transmitting 16u messages per hour, but in reality they can accomplish from 80 to 100, the maximum of other instrument s b e i ng forty. Tho system also permits greater speed in delivery. The address is first printed, and the envelope can be addressed while the rest of the despatch is printing off. When finished the:paper is passed between rollers of blotting paper, and despatched—no need to rea d i t —its accu racy is sure. The simplicity of the plan enables the authors of the system to engage to send messages cheaply, childr..n, boys, or girls being soon able to set up the typa. Experiments prove that 14-.1 words per person per minute can easily be attained ; thus machines, at the rate of 80 messages per hour, would transmit 1,600 words per hour; two type-setters would compose 1,740; one machine clerk and two type-setters can therefore keep the instrument at the maximum pace of work. During the interruption of a line the time by existing systems is now lost ; by Mr. Cook's apparatus the messages are set up as they arrive. The moment a line is reported good the mes sages are sent through at the utmost speed, and lost time may thus to a great extent be retrieved. ANNUAL REPORT OF SOME OF THE NEW YORK MIRING COMPANIES.--The New York and Boston Silver Lead Company, report that they have no debts ; the Keystone Silver Mining Company of Nevada that the amount of existing liabilities are, $501,594 52 ; the Benton Gold Mining Company of Colorado, about $9,000 ; the New York and Eldorado Mining Company, about $1,200; the Church Union Gold Mining Company $60,000 ; the Hope Gold Company of Colorado, $130,000 ; the Briggs Gold Company of Colorado, 135,000 ; the Chase Gold Company of Colo rado, $15,C00 ; the Eagle Gold Company of Colo rado, $lOO,OOO ; the Ophir Gold Mining Com pany of Colorado, $185,826 ; the Black Hawk Gold Mining Company of Colorado, $215,000 ; the Casco Gold Mining Company of Idaho, XO,OOO ; the M en d o t a Mi n i ng C om p an y o f Lake Superior, $lB,OOO, and Mortgage Bonds $117,000 ; the Sherbrooke Gold Mining Com pany of Nova Scotia, no debts ; the Alameda Silver Mining Company of Nevada, $150,000 ; the Lehigh and Susquehanna Coal Company, not ex ceeding $175,000 ; the Owyhee Mining Company, $30,612 ; the Manhan Lead Company, $225,000 ; the Smith and Parmelee Company, of Colorado, $23,836 ; the Corydon Mining Company of Colo rado, $35,200; the New York Gold Mining Com pany of Colorado, $34,796 ; the New York a n d Silver P ea k Mi n i ng Company, $100,646 ; the Plea sant Valley Gold Company of Colorado, $7,000 ; and Waddingham Gold ani Silver Mining Com pany, $36,000. 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