The Sun. — London, England, 1869-10-25 00:00:00

VIE EDMUNDS SCANDAL. The irhitratore resumed their sitting on Saturday, when Dar. Field proceeded to read, as part of the case for the Crown, the shorthand notes taken at the "Patent office Inquiry," 18 . 64. By so doing the learned counsel N7auted to bring home to Mr. Edmunds the sum of £7,872 which the Crown has given him credit for in the total claim of £22,51 1 6s. 10d. The lirmf, George Denman, at the close of Mr. Field's address, asked Mr, §eymour if he could admit anything on behalf of his client. After a consultation, the arbitrators said that they were prepared to admit the discounts, subject to the question as to how far Mr. Edmunds was liable for the discounts received by his deputy, Mr. Euscoe. The sum so admitted would be £5,131 133. 6d. Mr. Pollock, QC.: Do you admit, then, that part of that was made out of the public money, and part from Mr. Edmunds's money ? Mr. Seymour : Oh, no ; we simply admit that the sum named was received. Mr. Augustus Gipp, finance clerk in the Patent Office, Wu next called, and having given some evidence, the court adjourned. A MYISTE.RIOUS MUBDE.R IN B.RUSSEDS. A mysterious murder has been perpetrated in Brussels. It seems that for some time the house No. 7, Rue do Bra t ant, the street which bounds the arrival side of the Northern Railway Station, has been occupied by two ladies named 'Van de Poel, mother and daughter— the former 75 and the latter 88 years of age. These ladies, though pretty well off, were somewhat miserly in their habits, and among other things denied themselvc s the com fort of a servant. They lived a very retired life, and were seldom spoken to or seen by their neighbours. Last Sunday their niece called upon them, but her appeal to the bell met no response, and she observed upon the door a paperbearing the word " Absent." She returned on Wednesday, and finding things in the same condi tion became alarmed and applied to the police. The door was broken open, and the two ladies were found dead in the drawing-room. The mother was resting on the sofa, and the daughter was lying in a pool of blood on the floor. Both had evidently been killed by blows from some heavy instrument, such as a hammer. None of the furniture had been disturbed, and although thero was a. good deal of valuable and easily removable property about nothing was missed. It is supposed that the murder was committed on Thurs day night, because in the passage of the house were found copies of the newspaper to which the deceased subscribed, dating from Friday morning. The authori ties are investigating the circumstances of the crime, but as yet, as far as we are informed, no clue has been discovered to the murderers. The neighbours beard no cries or any unusual noise in the house where the crime was committed. THE " NATIONAL" PRESS ON MR. GLADSTONE'S LETTER. The Irish " national" papers affect great anger at the refusal of the Government to release the Fenian prisoners The Nation says the decision "is not only painful, but shocking." "No amnesty!" it exclaims. " This cannot be the end of that appeal which has so moved the heart of Ireland. Far otherwise it is and must be. A momentous issue has been raised to-day, and the Irish people will not shirk it." The Flag "thanks England for the lesson. It is the last constitutional appeal that will come from this land." The Irishman heads its article, "The Oppres sor's Reply." It is only (it says) a " declaration of govern ment by terror, a defiance of the Irish nation." "If this be the rule of government in Ireland for the future, as it has been in the past, we have reason to thank Mr. Glad stone for reminding us that, thank God, Fenianism is not extinct either in the United Kingdom or in America' In its existence we have some means of openingthe prison doors and of delivering our people from Government by terror and torture." The same journal says :—" Ws listened to his (Mr. Gladstone's) promise. We offered him a test. We asked for the restoration of the victims as a sign of the abandonment of the policy to which they were sacrificed. We accepted Mr. Gladstone's justification of their conduct. We demanded from him an atonement for the crime which he acknowledged his nation has committed against the Irish race. The policy of conquest has been only abandoned to give place to a reign of terror." The People of Ireland declares that " the English people have elected to give the lie to all their professions ef sympathy with struggling nationalities, and to virtually say to .Kossuth,. Garibaldi, Mazzini, Jefferson Davis, and the other exiled revolutionists whom they feted and flattered, "Our professions of sympathy with the op pressed of all nations were hollow shams." This refusal (it adds) "has taught the Irish people, for the ten thousandth time, the lesson which they are always forgetting—that they have no voice in the Government of this country, and that the Inle of Wight has more influ ence in deciding the policy of the English Cabinet than Ireland has." "He (Mr. Gladstone) has defied Ireland. We await the reply of the Irish nation." It appears that Prince Louis Murat, who was sup posed to have slung his hammock before the mast, and who certainly joined the French Navy as a common sea man, enjoys certain privileges not accorded to tars in general ; he messes with his captain, has his own cabin, and will, no doubt, be spared every unnecessary hard ship. Four Royal accouchements are expected either next month or in December, viz.:—The Princess of Wales, the ex-Queen Sophia of Naples, the Princess Margaret of Italy, and the Duchess of Parma. The Pope has promised to be godfather to two of the expected infants, those of the ex-Queen of Naples and the Duchess of Parma Francis 11. and his Queen have been hurrying back to Rome, in order that the birth may take place on Italian soil.—Court Journal. SIGN OF PROGRESS.—A gratifying proof of the growth of Liberal and tolerant principles might have beer seen in our police-court the other day, when a Catholic, i Wesleyan, and a Quaker were the sole occupants of thy magisterial bench; and, so far as could be observed, th business of the court was conducted as efficiently, and witl as much dignity, as in the good old days of intoleranc and exclusiveness.—Preston Guardian. A GIFT FILO3I 'rug SEA.—The tidal wave, whici threatened to sweep away the Northumbrian village o' Newbiggin, threw upon the shore a splendid prize to com pensate the inhabitants for their alarm. On the tide re ceding a huge whale, measuring over fifty-four feet is length and twenty in girth, was found upon the shore. As immense• quantity of oil is expected. The monster had bees badly injured among the rocks, and had thus become power less to resist the tremendous waves which bore in upon th shore. SecretEiry Boutwell has been addressing a larg meeting in Philadelphia in behalf of the Republican can didates for State offices. The most generally interesting portion of his speech concerned the public debt, which h declared ought to be honestly paid in gold or its equiva lent. There were, he said, differences of opinion in th country as to the mode of payment, but the policy of th Administration was that it should be paid, principal an interest, according to the terms of the contract, in coin o that which men will receive as equivalent of coin. Ther was no cause to be discouraged at the amount of the deb which had been reduced several hundred millions of dollar within the last four years, and even if they had a larg reduction of taxation the interest bearing debt would b extinguished in thirty years. AN ATLAS OF THE MOON.—During the lat meeting of astronomers in Vienna, eight leaves of J. Schmidt's new atlas of the moon were submitted to thei inspection, and highly approved of. They are the result o nearly thirty years' study, commenced at Hamburg, Bonr and Olmutz, and completed at Athens, after the astrono mer whose work they are had accepted the position o director of the Observatory at that city. The atlas is t consist of 25 plates, which are six Paris feet in diameter twice the size of Lohrmann's and Madler's lunar map, Nor is their size the only point in which they excel th earlier work. While only 5,000 craters are marked on th latter, from 20,000 to 30,000 are to be found on th Athenian map, and a proportionate number of mountain hills, &c., have been exactly determined. Since the dif appearance of the crater, Linnaeus, which was confirmed i 1806, has proved that changes take place on the moon' surface of dimensions great enough tole observed on on earth, the want of a large and enlct lunar map has bee keenly felt, and this want M. Schmidt has now supplied. Before the Bir►uinghatn rnagi-4ratts on Friday flecego B. Norman, hdely manager ar.d traveller t Messrs. Louis Keller and Co., dealers in precious stone! Birmingham, was charged with tint ezzling sums money amounting, Mr. Keller said, to £2,000. Fo three or fcur years back transactions of a fraudulen nature have been traced. As the books were entirely i Norman's hands, he Las been enabled to elude detectim and to maintain a highly resp etalle position till noi , Ho was most respectably connected; his father WO lately a member of the Town Council. On Fliday fewer than two ald, rmen, two town councillors, and fit or six other gentlemen of position in Birmingham spoke i the highest terms of the character he has always borne. Mi Cutter, who prosecuted, said that in consideration for th prisoner's family he would ask for a summary convictio cnly. Norman, who felt his position keenly, pleaded as i the beach took time to coxiaider their aontencd. CIIEBTER CATHEDRAL. Very interesting and peculiar facts are coming to light in the course of the restoration of this cathedral under the superintendence of Mr. G. Gilbert Scott. For a considerable time after tho beginning of the work, last midsummer but one, very little progoss was visible. The walls of the Lady Chapel and choir tisles were found to be in a dangerous state, with an utter absence of any true foundation. Thus several months were spent in the process of underpinning. This has now been accomplished throughout the eastern part of the mthedral, from transept to transept. Now the progress ,f restoration begins to be very manifest. The exterior uart of the Lady Chapel is completed as far as the cornice, the roof remaining unfinished till all available evidence of •.ts original form is obtained in a thorough examination of the walls of the eastern end of the south choir aisle. Here it has been ascertained, not only that the termina tion of the aisle was apsidal, but that the apse was carried up to a great height in a most singular pyramidal roof, luite unique in England. This will Le restored to its original form, the south side of the Lady Chapel, with its three early English windows and a toothed ornament of extraordinary boldness in the lower hollow of the cornice, being at the same time brought to view, and relieved from the inferior architecture which has concealed it for nearly 300 years. The restorations of the south side of the nave, the south porch, and the west end, with the groining of the south nave aisle in stone, and the complete renovation of the tower, have now made considerable pro gress both at the south porch, which is of perpendicular lharacter, and especially in the tower, the rich decorated panelling of which will soon assume its primitive beauty. rho entire restoration of the cathedral, including the - :loister on the north and the great south transept, cannot be finished in less than four years; nor can the total cost be estimated at less than £60,000. Of this about £31,000 has been subscribed, including the grant of £13,000 from the Ecclesiacstical Commissioners. I IVOTHER IRISH AGRARIAA MUIWER. The Dublin Evening Mail expresses its disgust at the latest agrarian murder in Ireland. This result (says our contemporary) "marks the bloodstained course of the vagabond preachers of sedition and internal discord in Ireland. Mr. O'Brien's mangled remains are but one more natural symbol of the Ribbonman's interpretation of Mr. Bright's suggestion, that the proper remedy for Irish grievances is to sweep away existing owners of property; of Mr. 'Gladstone's `lrish ideas; and, above all, of the decree that murder is only wrong when the wrong man is murdered." It would appear that Mr. O'Brien left for his own house about eight o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, and walked into Mohill, for the purpose of transacting some business, which occupied his time until eleven o'clock, when he left for home, little expecting the melancholy fate that awaited him. When on the Hill of Drumdoo, within sight of his own house, and also of the police barrack of Curraterriff, and not quite a quarter of a mile from either, he was brutally murdered. His body was not discovered until about ten o'clock on Friday morning. It was then found in a grass field, about one hundred perches from the road which leads from Mohill to his own house. It presented a most fearful spectacle, the head and face having been beaten and mangled in a shocking manner. The murderers, it is thought, lay in wait for him on the roadside, and attac!:ed him there— that he must have struggled to escape from them, and that they came in with him at the end of the grass field, where his progress was impeded by a large quick-set fence. It is also supposed that he must have been fired at, as, there is a small opening under the right ear into which the finger can be introduced. There was a small pistol, loaded, the stock broken from the barrel, discovered at the scene of the outrage. "That the outrage is agrarian," says the Mail, " there is not the slightest doubt. Mr. O'Brien had had some difficulties with tenants upon a property over which he acted as agent for his cousin, Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, of the county of Sligo." LAW AND POLICE. THE GRENVILLE-MURRAY* CASE.—Mr. John Hill, pro prietor of the Flying Horse Tavern, in Oxford-street, has been charged, at Marlborough-street Police-court, with perjury in the Grenville-Murray case. Mr. Hill was bail for Mr Murray, and charged Rosekelly, one of the war rant officers of the court, with inducing him to become bail by saying it was for a common assault, whereas it was for perjury. Mr. Hill has forfeited his £5OO by the non appearance of Mr. Murray, and Rosekelly was summoned some time since for violation of duty by the inspector, on the complaint of Mr. Hill, but the summons was discharged. The summons against Mr. Hill was for p.rjury when making his charge agninz:t. Ttoe'.:elly.. Mr. Knox, after hearng the evidence, thought the case must be dismissed, but 11.0.7.eke11y intimated his intention of carrying it te another court, and the evidence, which was very volumi nous, was read over preparatory to sending the case for trial after the ether evidence is added. Mr. Hill, it was said, intends to proceed against Rosekelly for perjury. SUNDAY TRADIICI,--A greengrocer living in Paddington was fined ss. at the Marylebone Police-court for exposing vegetables and fruit for sale on Sunday. A SUPPOSED FENIAN.-A man named Dolan, who had been for some time employed by the Cunard Mail Com pany, has been brought before the Liverpool magistrates on the charge of being a suspected Fenian. Documents of a treasonable character, and a book of rules for the Fenian brotherhood, were found in his possession. Some of the papers had been taken to Dublin Castle, with the view of obtaining a warrant from the Lord-Lieutenant for the transmission of the prisoner to Ireland. Under these cir cumstances the prisoner was remanded. FOOT AND Mouvrn DISEASE.—A farmer, of Isleworth, has been fined £5 for sending cattle affected with the foot and mouth disease along the public highway, and a farm labourer in his employ was fined 103. for driving them. CHILD STEALING.—WiIIiam Taylor, a labourer, has been charged at Portsmouth Quarter Sessions, with abducting a little boy 5 years old. The father of the boy is a publican, living in High-street, Portsmouth, and the prisoner was a lodger in his house. Taylor disappeared with the boy, and was found a day or two after trying to force him to beg at Fareham. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months hard labour. TiE CAM.BIIIDGE HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—A young man, who gave the name of Charles Trevor, but whose real name proved to be Horace Wright, has been charged, at Cambridge Petty Sessions, with highway robbery. It will be remembered that some time since he stopped a carriage in which a lady was riding near Cambridge, and threatened her into giving him a sovereign. He afterwards stopped some other per sons, and was apprehended. The prisoner admitted the charges against him, and said that last November he had done the same thing in Oxfordshire, and if he was liberated ho should do the same again. He made no concealment, and said he wished to be put under restraint. He was committed for trial. The horse on which he rode was, according to his written statement, hired from a riding-school pear Grosvenor-square, London, and he intended to ride to York, believing he was " riding to deathless fame." " I was dragged on," he adds, "by an irresistible fate to achieve the purpose settled in my mind, and I declare on my oath that I would rather have sacrificed my earthly existence than given up the idea so firmly stamped upon my brain; and now I would rather die the death of a mad dog than that it should have occurred." The prisoner's story has been sub stantially confirmed in these particulars. He was formerly a medical student. SIR CHARLES DILKE.—Sir Charles Dilke re amed to London last week from Russia, in which country ie has been travelling for the last two months. He will probably return there shortly to continue his inquiries into the political and social condition of the Russian people; and particularly into the working of the emancipation measures of 1863, and of the extensive system since inau gurated for diffusing instruction among the agricultural population.—Daily News. THE JUNIUS CONTROVERSY. — The title of the new book on the Jnnius controversy—an allusion to which appeared in Mr. Murray's new literary paper—is now offi cially announced. As we inferred, it is by penmanship chiefly that this famous " sole depositary of his own secret " is to be brought to light. In fact, the. Hon. Edward Twistleton, originally announced as the discoverer, now stands aside, or merely offers "a preface and collateral evidence," the chief title of the book win,g "The Han:lwiiting of Junius Professionally Investi- sated. ry Charles Chabot, Expert." If Mr. Chabot suc ,eeds in convincing opponent; by this method, he will „:ertainly bo more fortunate than his predeces3civ. A. WILD BOAR WANTED.—The following letter is published in a weekly contemporary :—"Having received in order to model an Italian wild boar, for the completion •f a work of art, intended for presentation to an officer in 'me of our East India regiments, I visited the Zoological • lardens, British Museum, and various other places, hoping meet with a specimen, living or otherwise, but I find dlero is no such animal in this country. If you would kindly mention this fact in your valuable paper, I have no doubt but that some Indian officer would speedly present the "Zoo" with a living specimen, which would undoubtedly be a very valuable addition to their present extensive and varied collectini , EDwl W. ITP.V.ETER." THE SUN, LONDON, A! ONDAY EVENING, OOTOBER 25, 1869. METROPOLI7AN GOSSlP—Saturday. Yesterday's anti-Temple meeting was a signal failure. Very few persons attended it, and scarcely any well-known High Churchmen were present. In spite of all the agitation and advertising, the John Bull of to-day is able to give only fifty clergy who (besides the leaders) have notified their approval of the opposition. The list is a most undistinguished one. The London clergy are almost entirely absent, and the only person of any note among them is Dr. F. G. Lee. Among the country clergy the most able man is Archdeacon Freeman, of Exeter, and be, a very High Churchman, finds himself almost lost among a crowd of Low Churchmen, such as Mr. Clayton, of Stanhope, Archdeacon Prest, and Dean Law. Mr. Archer Gurney, the well-known English chaplain at Paris, writes to the John Bull to protest against the present agitation, - and calls upon constitutionalists to take no part in that repudiation of the royal supremacy which has been suggested because "the most highly esteemed and universally popular of the Broad Church party is recommended for the see of Exeter." It is stated by the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian that Bishop Wilberforce and Archbishop Tait were consulted by Mr. Gladstone at Walmer before the deanery of Durham was offered to Dr. Temple, and that even the first said he could see no reason to object to the Master of Rugby's promotion. Mr. Gladstone is said to be both surprised and pained by the fierce language of his cld friend, Dr. Posey. Lord Derby died at seven o'clock this morning. The Daily Telegraph issued a special edition, containing a long biography. Minute critics will notice that the death is referred to as having taken place "yesterday." In the hurry of getting to press the necessary alteration was for gotten. Through Lord Derby's death the House of Commons will lose one of its ablest men. Lord Stanley follows Lord Cranborne to the Upper House. Thus the Co - servative party in the Lower is losing - its leaders one after another. A long biography of the deceased nobleman had been standing for eighteen months in the Morning Star office. But the peer outlived the paper about a fortnight. The private view of the Dudley gallery exhibition of paintings took place yesterday. The number of works is much fewer than in previous years, but as there was for merly much rubbish hung, the exhibition has materially improved. The place of honour is given to Mr. Field Talfourel's " Waterlilies of the Tiber." A number of little Roman boys are bathing in the river and gathering water lilies ; other boys are running naked on the bank. It is a very clever picture, but the bank looks too much like a wall. The other principal picture is Mr. Lionel Smythe's " A thick night off the Goodwins." It represents two sailors in the cabin of a ship poring by dim lamplight over a chart. Lovers of music are looking forward to a rare treat. Madame Lind-Goldschmidt--the Jenny Lind of old days— is announced to sing on November 17th in her husband's oratorio, " Ruth." Another piece of musical gossip is that we are to have two Italian operas next year. The Hon. Mrs. Norton has written a letter indignantly denying the generally-received statement that she was the author of the first article in the [Times on the Byron controversy, which accepted Mrs. Stowe's charge as true. Mr. Stephenson, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, is said to have been selected for the permament Secretaryship of the Treasury, vacant by the promotion of Mr. Hamilton as one of the Irish Church Commissioners. It is thought Mr. Stephenson will be succeeded by Mr. Scudamore. But that gentleman will be sorely missed from the Post Office, especially just now that the telegraphic arrangements have come into operation. Mr. Ayrton and Mr. Stansfeld are spoken of as the successors to Sir R. Temple in the post of Financial Minister for India. It is reported that Mr. Gladstone contemplates the abolition of tax-collectors. In that case the taxes will be paid at a regular office, just as the dog tax now is. The Pre mier will probably be able also to prevent the taxpayer's affairs from being known to his neighbour in the way that they now are. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. tonversion of all regiments of Yeomanry, and ll Light Horse Volunteer regiments, into mounted rifles. THE INDIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. A pfetty general belief is held that Lord Napier will be the new commander-in-chief for India. his lordship himself, it is :stated, expects th© post ; the public, by rumour, assigns it to him ; and he tells those about him that ho is sure of the appointment "if no .other hero turns up." But the matter is not so certain as it seems to be regarded, for it. is announced that Lord Mayo wants Sir William Mansfield with him, and has gone so far as to write home asking his continuance for another year. The reason assigned for this course i s th a t Sir William is well known to be an able financier, and it is just possible that the Indian Government may require his services in connection with the severe financial crisis which looms a-head." ITEMS OF " SERVICE " NEWS. The Army and Navy Gazette 01N-es its readers the in formation that Mr. Lowe is now b the person with whom the question of naval retirement rests. The matter (it says) is still under the consideration of the Admiralty : the Lords would willingly listen to the urgent appeals made to them; but they must get permission and the money from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. "It is now admitted on all sides that it is monstrous a captain should have to wait for nearly five years from the date of his commission for a ship, and a commander to be ahnost similarly treated."— A reward of £lOO a year is vacant by the death of Colonel A. B. Montgomery, C. 8., formerly of the Ist Royals.—ln furtherance of the intentions of the Lords of the Admiralty to have armour-clad vessels stationed along the coast as district guard-ships, so as to habituate men and officers to live with " our iron walls," it has been decided that her Majesty's ship Resistance shall shortly replace the old wooden screw-frigate Dauntless in the Humber. ments to whim they naa not the SIMCIOW or a claim, while I have been made aware of others in which jealousy and ill-feeling, veiling themselves under the thin (T rinse of a chivalrous candour, have slurred over undeniable qualifications in an ungenerous silence." When the post competed for is small, and the candidates unknown, it is, perhaps, impossible to dispense with testimonials ; but surely, says this writer, in the case of the better class of schools, it ought to be sufficient for any candidate to send in his name and leave his writings, university career, pre vious experience, and public reputation to do the rest. In many professions testimonials are seldom sought, and it does not appear that anything is lost by the omission. THE LATE EARL OF DERBY. Sir Edward Geoffrey Stanley, fourteenth Earl Derby, Baron Sttinley of Bickerstaffe, the great leader of the Conservative party, is no more. Little over four months ago he raised his voice for the last time in the House of Lords in protest against the Irish Church Bill. On that occasion, with much dignity and pathos, he prophesied that it would be the last time he should address his peers. And his words have proved true. He voted against the second reading of the great measure of the session ; protested against its passage ; and thus ended his political and public life. He was so weak when last he appeared in Parliament that his speech was feeble, and his voice at times almost inaudible. Though he was happy in much of his rhetoric, he hardly made an argumentative point, and he went away disheartened at an overwhelming defeat—discouraged that on the last occasion of calling together the forces he had so repeatedly led to victory his trusty friends had forsaken him. The depression caused by the Liberal victory made him weaker. With his spirits sank his bodily life. He never recovered. An attack of gout coming upon him took away the remaining strength lie had; and after lingering—at times painfully, at others unconsciously—for nearly a week, he has at last succumbed. One of the most noble and honourable of England's statesmen died on Saturday morning at seven o'clock. THE REPRESENTATION OF KING'S LYNN. The death of Lord Derby, and the consequent ele vation of Lord Stanley to the Upper House, creates a vacancy in the representation of Lynn. The noble lord who now takes leave of the little Norfolk borough unsuccessfully contested Lancaster in March 1848, and was first elected for Lynn in the December fol lowing. Although he was put forward as a candidate for Marylebone in 1859, it was without his consent ; and it will be remembered that he refused to stand for Edinburgh at the last general election. As we announced by Central Press telegram on Saturday morning, the Conservatives of Lynn will bring forward Lord Claud John Hamilton as a candi date for the vacant seat. The noble lord, who is the second son of the Duke of Abercorn, has already been defeated once since the general election. Having been ousted at London derry by Serjeant Dowse, he contested Brecon on that seat becoming vacant by the unseating of Mr. Howell Gwyn for bnlery. His ononent was Lord Hyde, eldest son of the Earl of Clarendon, who won by a large majority. Lord Claud will probably stand a better chance at Lynn, which returned Lord Stanley and the Hon. Robert Bourke by over a hundred majority last November. The Daily News states that the Liberals will contest the seat, but does not say who is to be brought forward. The late member, Sir Thomas Powell Buxton, who is exceedingly popular, is mentioned in some quarters. INDISPOSITION OF EARL GRANVILLE. It is stated that Earl Granville is at present lying very ill at Walmer Castle. The noble earl appears to have caught a severe cold whilst watching for the high tides recently expected all round the English coast. "AND THEY ALL 'WITH ONE CONSENT." Several letters have been published protesting against the insertion of the writers' names in the list of the committee appointed to oppose Dr. Temple. The Earl of Shaftesbury says he is not the chairman of the committee, nor even a member of it "Feeling very strongly on the subject of the appointment of Dr. Temple, I was prepared, acting separately for a common end, to advise my friends to do the same as Dr. Pusey's friends, and present a remonstrance to the Prime ➢tinister. I had no intention of going any further." This settles the question of the Earl's co-operation. Earl Nelson says his name was inserted without per mission. Dean Close makes the same complaint, and adds :—" No one can deplore the appointment in question more than I do, but I cannot see the wisdom or consistency of joining with the chief representa tives of one class of error in order to put down another." The Rev. Daniel Wilson has declined to join the committee. The Rev. Hobart Seymour also refuses to act under the leadership of Dr. Pusey. "A Member of the Chapter of Exeter" contributes an important letter to the discussion. He stigmatises the agitation against Dr. Temple as unjust and un- Christian. The Bishop Designate is not to be uded by the sayings of his companions in the production of " Essays and Reviews," simply because he knew not what they had written. " The worst that could be said of Dr. Temple is that ho is what is styled a "Broad Churchman;" and, as so much has been said lately about the expansiveness of the Established Church, I consider that we have no right to condemn him on this score." The refusal to elect, too, would be useless, for it would not delay the consecration a single day. ECONOMY. Several announcements are just made of more changes in our Government services, consequent oa the economical policy of the Ministry. The Indian Office is, according to the Broad Arrow, to undergo reform—which is, by the way, much needed in the department. The United Service Gazette tell us that the Admiralty have determined to reduce the coastguard service afloat, as well as on shore; ten cruisels at present employed are to be sold. The Army and Navy Gazette states that one of the recommendations of the Royal Com mission on Military Education will, if followed, have the. effect of abolishing:, or of very greatly reducing, the establishment ofthe Council Ot Military Ed ncation, And finally it is said that one of the principal features of Mr. Card.well's scheme for the reorganisation )f the Reserve Forces next jar w be the TEE IRISH MASTERSILIP OF THE ROLLS. According to the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland will be conferred upon the Attorney- General, Mr. Sullivan. his predecessor in office, Mr. Lawson, is likewiss spoken of. On the formation of the . present Government he was created a common law judge, and subsequently one of the three commissioners to whom is entrusted the dis pensation of the sequestered property of the Establish ment. It is thought that Mr. Lawson possesses a knowledge of equity practice much greater than that of Mr. Sullivan. The salary is £G,OOO a year. CUBAN INDEPENDENCE. On the 10th of October the Cubans in New York cele brated the first anniversary of the declaration of Cuban Independance. The flag of Cuba was seen flying upon the Metropolitan, Grand and other hotels, and at the rooms of the Junta in the Broadway. Later in the day many other Cuban flags appeared, but the celebration was deferred until 'after the funeral of ex-President Pierce which took place on that day. The prominent Cubans held receptions at their houses in the course cf the day. The demonstration in the park took place in the afternoon and was intended to consist of music and a salute of 100 guns. About 3,000 persons assembled, but the rejoicings were brought to an abrupt termination, after twenty-five rounds had been fired, by the premature discharge of the gun, injuring the right arm of one of the gunners so badly as to render amputation necessary. The event cast a gloom over the assemblage. THE STORMS IX AMERICA. The town of Eastport, in Maine, was visited on the 4th of October by a fearful hurricane, which destroyed vessels, wharves, and stores. Great quantities of fish and oil were also lost. A large part of the town is said to be a total wreck, and the damage is roughly estimated at half a million dollars. The destruction of life and property at sea was very great. The steamer New York narrowly escaped being driven ashore without either anchor or rudder. Twenty-seven vessels were on the following day ashore in Rumney's Bay, and a schooner was lost with all on board. Seventeen persons also went down with a barque at New River. The neighbouring towns suffered severely, and the Swift River, in Oxford County, Maine, rose thirty-six feet in twelve hours, doing immense damage. The people living near barely escaped with their lives to the moun tains, carrying their children in their arms. THE " TIMEB " AND TEUPERANCE. The leading journal is getting anxious about the temperance question. The Archbishop of York's admonition to the clergy to exert themselves in checking the national vice, Dr. Temple's presence at the Alliance meeting, and the Bishop of Ely's visitation charge are very serious symptoms. It would not do for a journal which aims at keeping pace with public opinion to be backward in a move ment which is taking such a prominent position. Accordingly Saturday's issue contained a temperance feeler. Tho Times agrees that the object of the United Kingdom Alliance is worthy enough; but objects to the means by winch it 1. plupuava W Leauli the end. Men ought not to bo " debarred at the will of others from their right to a useful, and perhaps necessary, product of nature. There is good reason for thinking that, without putting it in the power of a majority to banish public-houses, they might be more proportioned to the number of the population, and their use might be in some further re spects limited." It may be as well to observe that the primary object of the Alliance is not to forcibly debar men from the very beneficial and useful article alluded to ; but to debar them from obtaining it in a manner which is a public danger and a nuisance, and of their neighbours. repugnant to a majority BOGIES. The Railway News has reason to believe that the Fairlie system of railway carriages will be practically tested on the London, Chatham, and Dover line in a few days. The manager, Mr. Forbes, has offered the inventor every facility for a fair experiment. The railway journal is a strong advocate of the new system of mounting the locomotive and carriage on "bogies," small four-wheel trucks, instead of the present rigid wheel system. If a saving of a penny on all the miles of railway run in the United Kingdom, in the course of a year, would gi ve an additional £lB,OOO to distribute among the ordinary shareholders, it is ( easy to calculate how much a saving of ls. 64., or even half that sum per mile, would yield. And though it would be premature to speak• too confi dently, yet there is at least hope that some such result may be attained. Mr. F a i r li e con t en d s that the weight of locomotion may be reduced to the extent of 30 or 40 per cent., and the cost of renewing the . permanent way diminished about 70 per cent. If savings like these can be effected, the problem of making railways pay a fair dividend is solved at once. RAILWAY NOTES. of the in eLa din g Wales, has so grea tl y impresse d some The success of the two-feet guage railway at proprietors of the \Vold Valley that they contemplate following the example. They are seriously considering, says tie Railway .News, the propriety of constructing a line upon the same system from Bridlington to Malton.—The same journal under stands that the report shortly to be presented to the Belgian Government, on the working of the railways for the last two years, will show somewhat discour aging results from the great reduction made in the rates and fares. It is probable that there will be a return to higher rates. THE. LONG EATON ACCIDENT. We have not yet hoard the last of that strange coroner's inquest on the victims by the Long Eaton railway accident. The Rev. F. Atkinson, vicar of Long Eaton, who was present at the inquiry, adds his voice to the general complaint. Three stationmasters must have had more or less knowledge of the acci dent and its causes, and yet none of them were called to give evidence. It is doubtful whether the arrangements with reference to the times for starting the various trains from Not tingham on the night of the accident had not been left to the discretion of the Nottingham station; master. In any case, this official would probably have been able to give some information as to the cause of the remarkable knot of four trains being brought all together on the line. But neither ho nor the stationmaster at Beeston, nor the one at Atten borough, were asked a question. The pointsman at Long Eaton Junction was not examined respecting the cause of the obstruction which stopped the excursion train. The Vicar complains that, though the com pany were represented at the inquest by their solicitor, yet certain officials, and especially the general manager, were present, and took a peisonal part in the pro ceedings. Their wishes respecting the selection of witnesses to be examined were allowed—the rev. gentleman thinks, more weight than was consistent with due impartiality. The Vicar states that he him self was summoned to act on the jury, and presented himself accordingly, but was rejected by the coroner, on the ground that his clerical office was a disqualifi cation. If this be the case, the law has been grossly violated by coroners in other parts of the country. Not Jong ago a clergyman acted as foreman at a very important inquest. TESTIIIONIALS. Amid a vast chaos of private speculation on bishops, beggars, and steam-rollers, the Tunes finds room for a letter on an important subject, which has scarcely received the attention it deserves. " A Public School master," in view of several high scholastic appoint ments becoming vacant, writes to protest against the system of testimonials. Tho practice of de manding such credentials is ignominious to the sufferer: and injurious to the public interest. It is a degradation to a scholar and a gentleman to bo compelled to beg his friends to praise him. The system is no safeguard, since the wording of a testi monial depends much more upon the character of the writer than on the merits of the receiver. People who are insincere or complaisant will write any sort of praise ; those who aro narrow-minded or ill-disposed may often suppress really just testimony. "I have read scores of testimonials, and in not a few of them I have seen . men accredited - with virtues and acquire- COMMERCIAL CHRISTIANITY. The fever of speculation drove more than ono broker mad during the strife of that memorable Sep tember day in the New York Gold-room. Some such misfortune, too, seems to have befallen the journalists who have been reviewing the battle and the combatants. The editors of the .New York Herald in particular ought all to be subjected to the salutary influence of strait-jackets. Nothing that was ever penned in America, not even by the men of the Herold themselves, can approach the extrava gance of these ct•mments on the late speculation. The Herald terms one speculator, Gould, a " gold-jobbing gorilla." Fisk is a "ring-tailed orang-outang ;" whilst nothing in nature can l)e compared to Corbin— he is an "outrageous freak," a "perplexing nonde script." Mr. Fisk himself designates a brother-specu lator as " the biggest toad in the puddle," which, considering that Mr. Fisk himself was in the puddle, is rather a candid admission. THE MIGHTY FALLEN. A. significant item of intelligence comes by Atlantic Cable. Mr. Andrew Johnson, ex-President of the United States, has stood for election as Senator for the State of Tennessee, and has boon defeated by Mr. Henry Cooper. Mr. Johnson himself had great hopes that he would be able to re-enter public life in the United States Senate • but though he "st um p e d " with indefatigable zeal, he has been rejected. His political career must surely be finished now, for if his native State will not have him, where can he hope for success ? THE " TIMES." (From the Anglo American Times.) Mr. HENRY SEWELL forwarded a letter to the Standard, addressed to the Times, with this remark, " I am doubtful whether that paper will insert it. I have been unable to obtain admission to former letters correcting the misstatements of that journal." The facts are, that Mr. SEWELL, a well-known lawyer, learned in Constitutional questions, and a leading colonist, has taken ground in favour of New Zealand, and in opposition to the Times. A letter lately appeared in the leading organ from an anony mous correspondent directly intending to show that Mr. SEWELL had misquoted, and in a way very disin geutions, a despatch of the late Duke of NEWCASTLE. Mr. SEWELL'S letter in reply, among other objects, aimed at clearing himself from such an imputation; but he had learned by experience that while the anonymous writer, perhaps someperson in Printing.. house-square, had the entree to attach an imputation against a gentleman of high character, the Times would find it difficult to make space for a reply, covering the signature of the individual maligned. He knew this, and wrote his letter in duplicate, sending one copy to the Standard, but the circum stanc suggests this moral :—Let no country ever permit one newspaper to acquire a preponderating circulation and influence. If it does, it sets up a power enthroned on a despotism, whose tyranny it will sooner or Teter be made to feel. Instead of blaming the Times for its use of the extraordinary power it has weilded, we consider, on the whole, that it deserves credit, even allowing it has been kept in check by the large and growing circulation of one or two " penny" papers, and lately through the in fluence exercised by the Pall Mall Gazette. In many ways it is convenient to the community to have one great organ. If recognized abroad as a true inter preter of the general nationalseutiment, foreign Ad ministrations will be guarded from dangerous mis takes and often saved much trouble. An English Mi nister can, through a communication, reach all the people at once, and so can each of her MAJESTY'S sub jects. There is a class of advertisemeuts useless to pub lish except in a paper everybody sees and glances at; such, for instance, as appear in the 7 imes' second co lumn. The first column even more forcibly furnishes au iii..trecuu of our meaning, for through it each family announces to its acquaintances scattered over the cvnrici those domestic occurrences it is desirable to make known. AL Mlles, 1.1, is usetuL have an organ which can by an article stir the British heart, to sound a note of warning, to arouse in the people that spirit of resistance which cows the combination till then all powerful; and its influence has often been most beneficially felt in times of dis tress, in directing into the best chanue's an over flowing charity. But there is, as usual, another side to the picture. The power is enormous ; yet the per sons exercising it are irresponsible. We do not mean to assert that they are wholly irresponsible, for the law bids them to keep clear of libel, and the common sense of the nation bids them beware how they abuse the national confidence, for the limes, living at their breath, is one of the finest properties in the world, to wreck which would be indeed to make a mighty wreck. Still, experience shews these to be but in effectual checks. Wliat instance could be more in point as regards the latter, than the case of OVER END, GURNEY, and Co., and so regularly does this happen, that it appears to be almost a natural law regarding private enterprise that at some period or another an hallucination must set in to break down the finest business ever established. The Times is notoriously open to the charge brought against it by Mr. SEWELL, and therein lies no small measure of injustice. It is a fixed rule of that paper never to correct a blunder, never to acknowledge an error. When wrong on subjects, wherein, if adhered to, the masses can detect the error, it swings round with an audacity so grand as to make JOHN BULL scratch his head ; but where the people have not theinformation necessary to see the error, the Times persists in it with a brazen impudence which has already done much to injure its influence, and will yet do more. On no other point has this been so openly displayed as against America. It is admitted that the English blundered terribly in their action as well as in their talk during the American civilwar, and it is generally recognized that they were most misled by the Times. That paper up to this day has continued in the same course, writing opinions to be disproved by the current of events, yet holding on to old errors till they exploded, and then replacing them with new fallacies. It has cost England too much not to feel acutely that the Times in this deeply injured the nation, hence that the nation owes little on this point to its favourite journal. With the growth of knowledge of America also grows that knowledge, and as American influence becomes more and more felt, this fact is the more forcibly brought home,toEnglishmen thatthe part taken by the Times was fraught with evil to both countries. It might suit the leading organ quietly to let this drop into oblivion, but it is not likely to be gratified ; on the contrary, like the ghost in " Hamlet," this shadow will at the most unwelcome seasons appear on its path, refusing to be laid. If we required an in stance to show how much injury may be done by lodging in a single newspaper a preponderating power, we would take this. Indeed that power cannot fail to work more evil than good, for the Times is no more infallible than—we had almost said--the POPE ; and as it is a platform from which no dis senting opinions are allowed utterance, it ought not to be permitted to stand indefinitely higher than any other. If the writers were infallible, or if their opponents were freely admitted to its columns, the higher it stood the better ; but as it is not infallible, as it never corrects its errors, as it does not admit adverse criticism, as it even refuses a place in justi fication for a gentleman whom one of its anonymous correspondents has misrepresented, welnaintain that the sooner that platform comes down to the level of the other dailies the better for the country. The following is by P. R. L. Pierce, one of the State Senators from the State of Michigan, on Senator Chandler's Alabama speech in the 'United States Senate : —" Decidedly, it was an oration whose combination of inflammation, illumination and thunderation, will put consternation and trepidation in the imagination of the entire population of that conglomeration of geologic con formation, whose proper appellation is tho home of tho British nation. It was an operation which must command admiration for its bold enunciation of the final emanation of the long deliberation of this generation on the question under consideration, and deserves commendation as a de claration of our determination." "Decidedly " this Mr. Pierce is a good deal of a wag. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (Front the Springfield Republican, O c t. 9) Money has again declined to the eau figures of C and 7 per cont. on Government collaterals, with an occasional demand for the same rates in gold. It is now about a month since it began to be held at higher rates in New York, though a belief in a coming stringency has been steadily encouraged by certain parties for a still longer time. Looking back over the period of turmoil that has intervened since the beginning of the stringency, and re garding especially the means by which it is now being al leviated, no fact is more prominent than that the whole performance is the product of speculation, and that mcstly in stocks. Stocks have been persistently advanced for the past few months, New York Central and Erie especially, and most other roads to a certain degree, for all of Ai hich appreciation the management or earnings of the road fur nished no excuse. The brokers have kept buying stocks and demanding higher prices for those they had, and at the same time demanding money. They have endea voured to eat their cake and have it at the same time. And because the unspeculative and more temperate holders of money throughout the country declined to send it to New York to be invested in stocks at exorbitant prices, the New York brokers began to suppose that there was no money in the country, and that there was actually a scar city of the exchanging medium. When the crash came, however, and they were forced to put their railroad wares down to reasonable rates, money came in from the country in small parcels, but large quantities in the aggregate, and has produced an ease that is as real and healthy as any that has pervaded the metropolitan atmosphere for many months. That such should be the result seems plain enough now that it is all over, but it will be remem bered that this stringency that was being fermented in New York was attributed to the demands for money from the South and West, while at the same time all confessed that those demands were light. The lesson to be learned is, that when the country at largo is prosperous and the legal currency so redundant as to be worth but 75 gold cents on the dollar, a stringency is a pretty strong indica tion somebody is holding his wares (whether wheat or stocks) at too high a price —is attempting to carry too large a load, that sooner or later must bo "unloaded" at panic prices. Considerable discussion, by the way, is going on as to whether the recent panic affected business widely or not. One prominent paper declared that the New York speculators had a rope around the neck of every business man in the country, and drew a most dismal picture of the result of future attempts in this direction. In support, however, of our position last week that business was slightly affected, there have come to light too facts, that the business men of New York have of late mostly with drawn from the stock and gold exchanges on account of their scandalous dealings, and that they have also been led to depend less upon the banks on account of the sub jection of those institutions to speculative influences. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, after setting forth these changes in the habits of merchants, says:—" The most singular thing about this catastrophe is its local character and limited extent. Nobody has been prostrated by it, or almost nobody outside of a very narrow and con fined area. Hence general business has not been affected by it to any serious degree. It is true that our banks have been more cautious and timid, but their dealers, the merchants, have been long taught by bitter experience not to rely on the banks. These institutions have, many of them, been too busy lending money to the cliques and speculators in the Gold-room at the Stock Exchange." Gold has been pretty much let alone since the collapse of the 24th ult. During the past week it has been down be tween 128 and 129, and up again to 130 and 131, the former being probably a lower point than the-present relations of currency and specie will justify. It would be a satisfac tion to every student of political economy, as well as every business man, if gold could be for a few weeks freed from speculative influence., and allowed to assume that position in the scale of value which the demands of commerce would confer upon it. For the week ending October 2, only $262,196 of gold was exported from New York. The gold that started from Europe the panic week is beginning to arrive, the first shipment arriving on Sunday, and amount ing to $355,000, a second on Monday of $1,100,000, and another on Wednesday of $BOO,OOO. This is more than was exported during the whole month of September. Foreign Exchange is decidedly firmer, and the export trade in produce will doubtless be directly resumed. The Government sales of gold on Tuesday were made at from 129.70 to 130.01, one million being disposed of. Affairs in Wall-street are still unsettled. The Gold Exchange Bank is in the hands of a receiver and cannot liquidate, much to the annoyance and distress of its patrons. The Stock Boards have made arrangements to deal in gold, and the Gold Board is doing without a clearing house and con cocting plans for a new ono. Fisk and Gould have been exposed by President Grant, in making attempts to filch from him such financial information as would forward their schemes of private gambling, and have in turn joined in a crusade to blacken the name of Abel R. Corbin, whom Grant has bad the criminal audacity to harbour as a bro ther-in-law since last March. Corbin, however, seems able to preserve his hitherto honourable name from such fellows as Fisk, and wo doubt not deserves the good opi nion of honourable men. Government bonds have lost caste among American brokers, not having the requisite instability to . rm,le.r., dsality,ri in Vinin t xBfttlg their present healthy condit.iou. The rates for them seem to have got down to hardpan, the Government demand for them being offset to a considerable degree by the willing ness of bondholders to exchange them for cheaper and more profitable railroad stocks now being put in the mar ket. The foreign market, therefore, is the truest index of foreign credit, and in London and Frankfo t our securities are indisputably advancing, slowly but steadily. It is but a few weeks ago that we were heralding with sonic flourish their quotation in London at 83, but now they are above 84, and we take it as a matter of course. At the Govern ment purchase of two millions in Now York on Wednesday ten millions were offered at from 115.68 to 118.25. South ern State bonds as usually dull. The State of Arkansas, which in 1837 and 1838 issued bonds to the amount of $1,772,000 to furnish capital for its banks, and which has disowned these bonds since the failure of the banks in 1842, has recently issued new bonds in payment of the old, with interest, and Governor Clayton announces that they are now ready to be exchanged. This is honourable and en couraging for a reconstructing state. The stock market has hardly recovered from the terrible blow of the panic. Mr. Vanderbilt by the most assiduous nursing has got his stock up to 1781 for New York Central, and 163 for Hud son. Michigan Southern, and Lake Shore, the foot-ball over which this tremendous bout of New York Central and Erie has been fought, is very badly off. On Wednesday following the Friday, its stock, which has been above par, sold down to 75, but has since recovered somewhat. It is difficult to ascertain how much the road is involved in the failure of Lockwood and Co., whose head man, Le Grand Lockwood, was its treasurer. The directors have been in session at New York this week, and have elected George' B. Ely of Cleveland treasurer in place of Mr. Lockwood, and Alauson Robinson of New York in his place as director. It has not yet transpired whether Vanderbilt or Fisk has gained a majority of the direction. The New Fork Times has an exhaustive review of the fall trade, from which one cannot fail to gain a cheering impres sion of the state of business throughout the country. In dry goods the South and South-west were first in the market, and they were the most important purchasers, duo to the large compensation obtained for the cotton crop, which, this year, was received by the planters themselves. The year before they sold their cotton at low prices, so that brokers and others availed themselves of the subsequent large advance. The South was bare of goods, and were liberal purchasers, not, however, on a scale that partook in the least of speculation. In boots and shoes, clothing, hats and caps, and hard ware, especially agricultural implements, the South is a very liberal and ready-money purchaser, and what is significant in every case demands the first quality of goods. The negroes who now purchase their supplies have outgrown the planters' notion that any garment or any tool is good enough " for a nigger." In the language of oue firm : " Send us on, as soon as possible, twelve cases of brogans, men's wear, and be sure and send the best quality, for, as every negro in this neighbourhood expects to go to Con gress, none others are saleable." Western merchants are less numerous than usual in New York this year, but for the very satisfactory reason that Eastern goods are be ginning to feel the competition of Western manufacturers. The trade in dry goods, for instance, has fallen off 30 per cent., though this will be partially recovered, probably by later trade. Agricultural implements, too, have lost most of their Western purchasers, and find a good market at home, but builders' hardware is still sent West largely. The trade in mechanics' tools and in table cutlery is very brisk, and the South gets a very large proportion of these shipments. Strange as it may appear, a trade is growing up with Europe in regard to these articles. Owing to the fact that American tools and cutlery are finished in a superior manner to those made in England, while, at the same time, they are tempered fully as well, European dealers are sending orders here to be filled, and an impor tant commerce is being established in this respect. Within a very short time orders for tools have been sent here from hardware merchants in Bremen and Sheffield, and the goods have beensent by return steamer. (From the New Fork Tribune.) FRIDAY EVENING, October 8. Money was easy on call, lending in many cases upon Government bonds at sto 6 per cent. Op Stocks 7 per cont. was generally exacted, although houses in first-class credit had large amounts offered at 6 per cent. Commer cial paper continues dull, and is unsaleable except at high rates. Primo names pass at 10 to 12 per cent., but are not in demand, lenders declining to make long engagements, and prefer to have their money on call at low rates. Sterling Exchange is steady at quotations; London, 60 days, 109 to 1091 ; London, sight, 1091 to 1094; Lon don (prime commercial), 60 days, 108 to 1081 ; Paris, long, 5.181 to 5.171; Paris, short, 5 161 to 5.15 ; Antwerp, 5.20 to 5.181; Swiss, 5.20 to 5.181; Hamburg, 351 to 351 ; Amsterdam, 401 to 401; Frankfort, 401 to 401 ; Bremen, 781 to 781 ; Berlin, 701 to 701. Railway Shares have been strong but dull; tho trans actions were well distributed, and in the Western list a large short interest gave a firm tone to the market. Michi gan Southern, North-Western Common, and Rock Island were in demand for delivery, lending in many instance 6 without interest. Fort Wayne Guaranteed sold at 851 to 85a ; Chicago and Alton, 1351 to 138 ; Chicago and Alton Preferred, 137 to 137 - ; Chicago, Burlington, and Quin* 165 ; New Jersey Central, 1011 to 1011 ; Morris and Essex, 88 to 871. After the second call prices were a fraction weaker, but at the close the market rallied under moderato purchases. New York Central was strongly supported and was strongly dealt in. Hudson and Harlem were dull. Reading continued firm. There has been but little buying with the exception of purchases to cover short contracts, and the street has presented a dull appearance throughout the day. GOVERNMENT BONDS U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 llB to 11 8 1 Sixes, 1861, registered — to --- Sixes, 1868, coupon .. -", Sixes, 1881, coupon ll 9l t o 1191 U.S. Gs. Pacific Railroad Five-twenties, 1862, registered l2Ol to 121 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon ' to 1 . 201 Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, n ew Five-twenties, 1867, coupon to 1 10 Ten-forties, coupon Ten-forties, registered - Oregon War Loan, Sixes. 1881 118 QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. 48 4 Amor. silver... 96 to 98 E ng . sous 4BO „, s4 Alex. d011ar5...102 „ 101 20 francs 380 ' 7i Eng. silver 470 , 480 Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 96 NEW YORK cri State of New York l3O Merchants' Exchange 117 Ocean Merchants' Mechanics' America Phenix llO Manhattan Seventh Ward Commerce American Exchange ll6 Bank of the Republic llB EXPRES! V BANK STOCKS, , 11 3 Irving Nassau • 11° Commonwealth ... . .... Importers and Traders' fl o Metropolitan .. 1 1 Central National 3 10 Fourth National • 113 Ninth National ......... lb° Oriental 8ank............ I.s Hanover Corn Exchange Chatham STOCKS. L 51 to 55 in 3Ol t o 504 ;k - to 511 to qi 7to 1 0 1 'ELLANEOUS STOCKS. Tol. & Wab. Equip ..... . Mil. & Pr. au Ch. Ist M.. 91 Gal. & Chic. Ext .......... 9 5 Gal. & Chic. 2d M......••• Chi. & R. I. Ist M......... f," 3 1 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... ', 9 N. J. Central Ist M...••• N. J. Central 2d M...... Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. lst Pitts. Ft. W., & Oh.2d IIL ;" 4 . Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M. 13 Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M... 99 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. Chic. & Alton, S. F. lstM. 99 , 00 & St. Paul Ist M..d . „, Mil. & St. Paul 2d - Marietta & Cin. Ist M... 9 9 Morris & Essex Ist M... 9 0 Morris & Essex 2d Id Joilet & Chic. Ist M..• 8 3 Chi. & Gt. East'n lstM... 96 N. Y. & N. H. 65..... Dubuque & S. City, Ist M. 9 0 Peninsula Ist M . ...... Ohio & Miss. Ist M..•••• 8 9 Ohio & Miss. Con .......•• Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. P.,••• Atlantic & G. W. 2d M. 9 0 Del., Lack., & W., 2d AL. Lake Shore Div. Bonds ~ Cleve, P. & Ash. N. 1 3.•• Do. 0 IL.' 811 Union Pacific Gold 8... Central P.RII. Gold ~D•" 90 Pacific 1111. guar. by ito• Adams American Merchants' Unioi Merchants' Union, old Stoc; United States Wells, Fargo, and C 0.., RAILROAD AND MIS N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887 90 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 87 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 87 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76; 97 Erie Ist Mort Ex 9B Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 95 Erio 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B6 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 B5l Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 77 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 B7 Hod. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 99 Hod. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 102 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 — Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 — Mich. new Ist M 85 , '82 — Mich. So., 7 p. c. 90 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 98 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 1191 Alton & T. H. let M Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 80 Alton & T. IL 2d M. Inc. 741 Han.& St.J. LandWrntsloB Ilan. & St. J. Con Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 106 Chi. & N. West, S. F 9O Chi. kN. W. Con Cony B7 Chi. & N. W. Int B B5 Chi. & N. W. Ist M BB Quincy & Tol, Ist M, '75 & So. lowa Ist 111 — Gt.Wesi. Ist 'AT, 'BB — Gt. 'Western 2(1 .41.1 '93 BO Tot. & Wab. 2d 31 Ex B3l Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia bankers, re g6{ as follows on Oct. B:—Pennsyl van i a R a il roa d shall: 4 E4' 4 561; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 98 981; Sixes, 2d Mortg tl / 4 94 94k. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at P ar :4 11 0 g, the short exchange on L on d on i s 25f . 15 a. per £1 st e '" e of On comparing these rates with the E ng li s h Mint Pr' e tto t £3 us. 100. per ounce for standard told, it appe. r t o gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris u L London The course of exchange at N ew Y or k on L on d on for bale , ere days Bight was 1071 per cent. on the 19th inst. At this rate t: se d would be a loss on the transmission of gold from the 11 States. The case of Assistant-Su rgeon Ch ar l e s L. Grefehlis continuos to excite attention. The facts elicited by t he evidence were:as follows:—" On the Ist February lest' T. assistant-surgeon was ord ere d b y Lieut.-Corucnae States 0. Selfridge, the co mman di ng o ffi cer o f th e United t steamship Nipsic, to whi c h th e accuse d wa s attache d ' 4 take off the binnacle list th e name o f J o h n Sirowe esi n i r ordinary seaman of that s hip, w h o, b y season of the e tinuance of his name on th e li st, was entirely o°°°,.er f rom duty. Th e crow o f th e s hi p being sma ll , her ty ° ' • - Onon on the Mere l l iNSN'il'ette / Mdllfltirleftfraif ,fr by the admisiion of th e accuse d , a bl e to d o light il e 'a On receiving this positiv e or d er, t h e acc used r eti e s without refusiv to obey, and the commanding ofl o a rested, during the day, under the impression that lt dsf , been complied with. In the afternoon of the sam e t {of however, finding that this was not the case, he eat the accused to the shore, whither he had gone W" ri pal obeying the order previously given him, and on his er- Ilie the commanding officer explicitly repeated the orcl er 'oeP accused refused to obey, and persisted in his refusal' co p , for the first time, alleging as a reason, that he could ne t co d scientiously obey such an order. He was thereupon die wa s to consider himself under arrest, and the original or der aeil given to, and obeyed V, another officer. M cur re pe r are aware, Mr. Green was sentenced to two years tba / sion, and the question which suggests itself is , c3-,•tioa law be right which puts a professional man into a p o s th e which makes him responsible for the health, Perh il ' il o his lives, of the sick, yet compels him to discharge ft % the treatment ono ho still considers to require his car e O d tl l° order of another officer not educated to under e/ " v e sti e° consideration upon which the surgeon acts. This (11l cannot be lightly dismissed. th e A Mississippi Judge has just decided tha t Stat e termarriage of whites and negroes g 4 is lawfuli nthetwitiV of Mississippi, the law of the State to the contrail' ° ro es 9/ standing." A case touching the sooial status of ot o ti° l3 likely soon to be tried at Washington. The c orr a ds passed an ordinance that no distinction should t'o r o f re el places of amusement or of public resort on accone'ajor or colour ; yet, in spite of this, three negroes we ce a oia: from the dress circle of the National Theatre at " ton on the night of the 2d inst. during the progr ee° 01 44 f play. They were i n vit e d t o t a k e sea ts in th e 4 0 t o assigned to them, but refused, and th e ir money vi test °- tiered and likewise declined, but they retired to legality of the manager's conduct in expelling thellji tb d The preparations in the Navy-yard s o s i e United States do not slacken. The steamers Y , ii oJ, Kansas are fitting for sea at the Washington ' jo s; ',"; though both have but lately returned from long Cr . 1 : 0 t o i' t #, deed in the case of the former there has been but r oa Assistant surgeon Green by Court-martial, for re ,lo c ot; take a sailor off the sick list at the dictation of the mender. The Nipsic is now ready, and the g , a ,,,biel i k t io be so in a week more. The frigate Sabine about op tor : e j false story of a mutiny was spread, was about t° „ Or° navy-yard of Washington to have her repair' if: through, that she may be again prepared for See' ,iOSP, Here is Mark Twaiu's latest account of "1 have but little character, but what I have 16131nitiss.„t to part with for the public good. 1 would have hee" or-0 alioel man if I had had a chance, but things have , i0 11),„og against me. I never had any parents, hardly net, father and mother—and so I have had to stregeligaeo the best way I could. Ido not boast of ad° „ ar isg,ol further than I built it up myself, at odd hours:4l3o,P' last 30 years, and without other educationa l alc 00: able to pink up in the ordinary schools and CO 119 h8 v o ; The news received in New York f rom foijoilo, of Mexico is, to the 30th September, and to th e tbe 4 10 0 effect : The rumours in circulation regarding. o utP tion of Minister Romero from the Cabinet of Pre el on to ° f or were pronounced to be incorrect. The pronuncls c oifs 0 0 State of San Luis Potosi was instigated IV . e f oe o . 0 0 l ove ioc' Bustamente, and, according to reports, the , a s o 0 0 gaining'ground. The Mexican Governmen t ha d to s a l t er number of troops en route to San Luis Potosi_ i fini° 4 of the movement. In London it is stated thattbeairotht,',stl to be sent to Spain, and he will probably be o tesee, 4o Senor Romero, at the head of the Finance DO to 00 1 that a Minister will be sent from Ma drid Mexico, diplomatic relatio ns b e ing reserae-- ~...-::------- a tl 6 BIRTHS. O len' GREVILLE—On the 14th inst ,at 14 Beaufort -g rtts , To r , Lady Violet Greville, of a inst . n u tbi ri ,' dt e WiLuams—On.the 17th inst , at Plas Drawl -- f A dt , "v Wales, the wife of Watkin . Williarns , M.F. ° Jones Esq., Q.C., Ti" MARRIAGES. JONES—On the 17th inst., ao.ed at 1, Craven-hill -gal P t ' • 'ete lls ' a, era 01) lieFts-- , GRAHAm—en the 19th inst., at W e f i 0 00' Captain C. L. Hockin, Royal Navy, to C . ,,, 5 ' scl', i l i' l4, __youngest daughter of the late John Grab st. '''ile; MLASIIAN—CROOK -On the 16th inst., a', yt ig , - we ll Pi ' A te hackney, John M‘Glashan, Esq., Croro f tb© ley, to Adelaide Louisa, fourth daughter o oa J. Croak, Esq., of Tho Five Houses, Clapt• HAmivroN—On the 20:fhgAinTstn.,&at arw ick os' 00 00 , 1 Major W. Finlay Hamilton, aged 5 1 . 0 00: PARKER —On ije the 20th inst., at Freelands, 011' ford, m. Parker, Esq. aged 75. til e TORRENS W —On the 19th in ) st , at Sundridge 11"—' of Captain A. Torrens, of.a son• p - d. A g AS" stro n , ' London: Printed and Published by' .os , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUB SUN Office .o'ooo' in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cows/ °I Monday, October 25, 18u9. ~~