The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times, in referring to the decision of the Conserva 'dye Peers, says : We are on the eve of a crisis. Nothing since the throes which preceded the passing of the Reform Bill can be compared with the consequences which must attend the threatened conduct of the Conservative Peers. Of the -esult of the struggle there can be no doubt. The policy Df the Irish Church Bill, approved by the three kingdoms, jointly and Severally, after mature deliberation and a 3irect reference of the question to the nation cannot be lefeatecl. But there ,are other results of their action which touch us all. They put in jeopardy not only them selves and their privileges, but the peace of our great towns, and the maintenance of law and order in the country. Above all, they do their hest to provoke an outburst of passionate violence in the unhappy country the vast majority of whose inhabitants they propose to autrage by a contemptuous disregard of their wishes. The dissidents on Saturday were a very small fraction Df tbe whole, and it must be observed that few of the Cons , .s.rvatives who disapprove the policy of blind and ungovernable resistance will feel compelled to mark their disapprobation of it by voting for the bill. They will not vote at all. Tbeir absence will diminish the ranks of the Opposition, but will not add to the ranks of the Ministry. We must be prepared, then, for the rejection of the bill. It is wise to be ready to meet this issue. What must follow ? Nothing more serious than an August in London. The business of the session must be immediately wound up, and Parliament prorogued, to meet again after a short interval of rest. We shall see the bill introduced in the new session without a tittle of change, and brought up to the Lords precisely in the form it will be presented next week for its second reading. It will depend upon the Lords themselves what steps will by that time have been taken to ensure its success. But that the bill must pass then is certain. There is no other alternative. The nation has pronounced upon the question. The House of Commons reflects its opinions, and neither the nation nor the House of Commons will recede from the policy they have deliberately approved and supported. Next week the Lords will be asked to allow that policy to prevail. If they defer to the will of the people, it will be well. If they stubbornly and successfully resist, the successful majority will be overruled two months later. The Standard declares that the peril of such a resolution is too obvious to be ignored even by the least thoughtful and conscientious of our hereditary legislators ; it must have been constantly and urgently present to the minds of the tried and experienced statesmen who lead the Con servative party. The kind of popular excitement likely to be produced by a collision between the Peers and the Commons was sufficiently impressed upon their recollec tion by the result of the rejection of the Paper Duty Repeal Bill in 1861. The reasons which should lead the Peers to think deeply and hesitate long before, under any provocation or for any object, they engage in such a contest as is now impending— reasons familiar to our readers—were earnestly urged by men like Lord Salisbury, whose attachment to the Church is well known to he as fervent, whose adherence to Conservative principles is at least as con sistent and unquestionable as that of any of the advocates of a bolder policy. It must not be overlooked that a very strong pressure, much underrated by the Lateral press, has been put upon the House of Lords since it became apparent that the majority in the Lower House would listen to no argument and accept no compromise. Such demonstrations as have been made on behalf of the Church of Ireland are without parallel in recent history. The Anti-Corn Law League, the Reform League, never called forth a tithe of the enthusiasm displayed in this cause. Nothing like it has been seen since 183?. The Star thinks that in the event of the rejection of the bill by the Peers the popular menace against the Irish Church will include other institutions. It will be pro claimed on the housetops that the House of Lords is not a more logical, desirable, or excusable institution than the Irish Church ; and in the fever heat which will follow the rejection of the bill—a fever heat such as has not been seen since Birmingham threatened to march on London in the name of Reform—cries will be heard for the down fall of an obsolete Chamber, which no longer disguises the anachronism of its existence by that decent deference to the popular will which the Duke of Wellington said ought never again to be withheld. When the issue comes their lordships will probably be wise in time. If not, they must take the consequences, and those consequences cannot possibly be pleasant or safe. Most probably the resolu tion of Saturday and the dubiety of to-day will teach the English people a lesson they will never forget. It is absurd enough that in these days there should be any chamber of Legislature with a standing majority statedly opposed to the general bent of the nation's will on the most vital questions of government ; but that such a majority should give the smallest anxiety for a single day under a popular Government carries the absurdity to an intolerable pitch. The Daily Nova says that the Lords who met at the Duke of Marlborough's are supposed to have expressed a unanimous desire that within the course of the next few clays the real sentiment of the whole nation should be ascertained. This language looks like an appeal from household to universal suffrage. Is there to be another leap in the dark ? Is Mr. Murphy to perambulate the country, with a warrant from Lord Cairns to raise a No Popery riot in every town of the kingdom ? The doctrine that the sentiment of the nation is not represented by the decision of the constituen cies in a general election, and by the votes of an over whelming majority in a House of Commons upon a ques tion on which each member had, practically, a special mandate from his constituents, is more than revolutionary —it is anarchic. The fact that a number of noblemen representing the strictest Conservatism of an institution usually thought to embody the Conservative element of the Constitution should throw out ideas of this sort ought to shew them how false and untenable the position is which they have taken up. There is yet time for an honourable retreat from it, but the time is short. The Peers have consented, says the Herald, at the in. _lance of the Protestant party in the country, to take the lead in a perilous and determined conflict. It behoves those who have urged them to this venture to support them with all their energies against the storm which their resolve is certain to raise. Nor is this less the duty of every Conservative, of every Constitutionalist, in the realm. It matters not whether the decisions of the Lords be prudent or politic. We may regret or we may approve it ; but thus much is certain, that having been taken, it is of paramount importance that it should be upheld by a force of public opinion sufficient to prevent the Lords from being crushed in the struggle. If they are overpowered by the reckless and headstrong violence of the Prime Minister, their power is gone for ever, and the balance of the Constitution is overthrown ; and even those who regret that so much has been staked upon so doubtful an issue must feel that, now the stake has been laid down, all that can be done is to secure that it shall not be lost. The Post thinks that the proceedings at the meeting of Peers held on Saturday render it certain that the House of Lords is, after all, to be made the scene of an attempt to reject the Irish Church Bill; but they by no means make it necessary to believe that the attempt will succeed. It trusts that the Lords will consult their own honour and dignity by passing the bill, which has been distinctly affirmed in principle and undeniably accepted in detail by the country at large. No resolution was come to at the meeting on Saturday, and the circumstance that the Peers who attended reserved their liberty of action world seem to indicate some proper apprehension of the itupolicy of the course they were advised to take. IYe may feel assured that the Ministry, strong in their Purpose and their support, will certainly carry their measure. It may be left to their wisdom to decide on the course, to be chosen in the event of the Lords rejecting the bill. If that untoward accident should occur, it may ilelay,•hut cannot prevent, the final triumph of the decision arrived 'at last November. • Ever -since the steadfast action of Mr. Gladstone's majc.rity transferred all incertitude 'about the Irish Church 73111 to the Lipper Chamber, we have believed, says the relegraPh, and. have persistently maintained, that the Peers would pass the second reading. Our opinion was not affected' . by the rumours with which the air was filled during the pa.st.Weck ; .and.it is not shaken now . by the . proceedings of the. meeting at the Duke of Marlborough's house on Saturday. It is still ohr firin belief that the HoUse of Lords as a I.;dy--:Whatever may be done . for . the sake of party, of pledges, or of bigotry by individual politicians— will suffer the measure to go into committee. That we hold firmly to this view will explain why we have never joined in the excited clamour raised by certain of our con. temporaries about the intentions of their lordships. Mr. Gladstone is to.daT 4o strong as to be simply irresistible. By.next.week he tiers parti arcancl Lord Stanhope, Lord Carnarvon, "and Lord Salisbury will have grown to a number I;uffieient, we may trust, fo rescue the Tory . forlorn long from its own rasllness. . Canada, has doubled her population once every eighteen 'Sears since 1800. A HORSEY CHURCHWARDEN. —The county of Kent has'its pecullaritiei clihracter, ; Lut we do not know whether ecclesiastical discipline is stricter or more lax there. There is one stray sheep of the Diocese of Rochester whjett` sadly wants looking after. , !the churchwarden of ,/gAI parish in Kent was not at nhurch on Sunday. It was known to the initiated — that is to say,.to . all who had bought a particular. penny „sporting newspaper—that he was at Paris, where he rode the horse that ran third for the Grand Prix, This would 49U4Y.4_41“11414 LOW ARCHBISHOP MANNING'S PASTORAL ON NATIONAL EDUCATION. Archbishop Manning has issued, on the occasion of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, a pastoral which is practically a plea for denominational education in England, not as absolutely the best possible system—that being realisable only where the whole people being of one mind in religion are religiously brought up in schools which are at once schools of the Church and of the State—but as the best of which the English people have the choice. The following passage fairly represents the import of the whole :—" Water cannot rise above its source. The State has no rights, therefore no duties, higher than those of the parents. Sacerdotalism claims no such rights against the natural rights of parents. The Church claims and possesses the right and the commission to direct, and by all moral power to constrain, its members to educate their children as Christians, and, further, to protect them in these rights and duties against all adversaries ; and of all adversaries, from Julian to Voltaire, the State, when it exceeds its rights, is the worst. A Christian civil power educating by its public action an united people in sound Christian schools, is the most perfect example of the moral character of tl:c State. A civil power holding the balance of justice even in a firm neutrality among the religious sections of a divided people, assisting them to educate their children, partly by private and partly by public means, in schools proper to their respective religious convictions, is the less perfect, but the inevitable, condition of a State which has forfeited its religious unity. A civil power rejecting all religion from its public action, and excluding it from its popular education, and nevertheless meddling with teachers, schools and books, becomes the worst of social tyrannies, the tyranny of bureaus and of pedants. In such a system the State has not only got rid of sacer dotalism ; but has usurped the parental rights of the people. Its usurpation upon the office of the Church is an usurpation also upon the authority of every father and mother in the land. We cannot be too prompt in mea suring the full extent of the conflict into which we may be entering. It is no less than a trial of strength between the traditions of Christian England and the demands of those who, while they strip the State of all Christianity, claim for it a supreme control over the education of the people. They tell us that the time is come for enlarging our conceptions of the State, by claiming for it a right to exercise those functions which the clergy have hitherto regarded as their own. But those functions are essentially and exclusively reli gious; and the clergy claim a direction of education, because education in its essence is the religious forma tion of children by the law of Christian faith and morals. This claim then of the State is equivalent to a State supremacy over the conscience. What was once claimed for Kings is now claimed for States. But Kings claimed a supremacy to direct their people in matters of religion ; the State is now to claim a supremacy to strip the education of the people of Christianity, and to exclude their pastors and clergy from directing the education of children. Now, this is nothing else than the deification of the civil power, which Christianity overthrew. It is the lrx regia of Ancient Rome, in which Emperors were pontiffs, a true tyranny over body and I , soul. LAW AND POLICE. THE CONSUMPTION of SMOKE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, a case was heard which had been stated by the justices of Halifax for the opinion of this court. The appellant, the engineer of Messrs. Holds worth and Son, manufacturers in Halifax, was convicted for using a furnace which did not consume its own smoke. No notice had been served upon the owner or occupier of the mill, and the appeal was grounded on the wording of the Act, which allows a month's notice. The court held that the month's notice required by the statute only applied where an information was laid charging any person named in the Act with con tinuing the offence from day to day, and not to a person charged with one single offence. THE RICHT OF VOTING.--At the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, an appeal was decided on the ques tion whether the members of Cambridge University who had chambers in college were entitled to vote for the mem bers for the town. The case stated that each scholar occu pied rooms in his college as sole tenant, and rented the same unfurnished at £lO a year or upwards. The Lord Chief Justice said that the Legislature had left certain ambiguous terms to the judges to decide. He had come to the conclusion that the appellants did not occupy as lodgers, and that their rooms were not lodgings within the meaning of the statute. THE CREOSOTE NUISANCE.—Mr. John Schwartz, a sugar-refiner, in Mile•end New-town, was charged with having occasioned a nuisance by burning creosote in lieu of coal. It was shewn that injury was done thereby to the health of the neighbourhood. It was stated, after a consultation had taken place, that the defendant had agreed to reconstruct his furnaces in accordance with the provisions of the Smoke Nuisance Prevention Act. THE SUSPECTED POISONING IN NORFOLK. Satur day the Swaffham magistrates were occupied for some time with the investigation of a case of suspected poison. ing of some interest. Two persons named William George Davy and Susannah Davy—husband and wife—were brought up charged with administering a quantity of arsenic to John Mayes Davy, a brother of the male prisoner, with intent to kill and murder him. John Mayes Davy is a single man, and a working miller at Swaffham; William George Davy is a baker at Pakefield, near Lowe stoft, Suffolk. The mother of the Davys lately died; she left a little property, which she bequeathed in equal portions to her sons. On the Bth ult. John Mayes Davy went to London to receive his own and his brother's share of the legacy. He returned from London by way of Pakefield for the purpose of spending a few days with his brother, to whom he paid £4O, his share of the legacy, keeping £4O, his own share. Before John Mayes Davy left his brother's house, Mrs. Davy gave him six small currant cakes, which she said she had made for him, as she knew be liked them. John Mayes Davy ate three, and felt no ill effects, but while eating a fourth cake he remarked to his landlady, Mrs. Harvey, that the cake contained some white specks in it. This was on Sunday evening, the 23rd ult. In the course of the evening John MayesDavy went to some Dissenting chapel ; but he felt so unwell that he was obliged to leave the chapel before the service was ended, and as soon as he reached home he was seized with violent vomiting and purging, which continued nearly all the night. Mr. Marriott, surgeon, was sent for, and at once pronounced the man to be suffering from the effects of poison. The remains of the fourth cake, which had not been quite eaten, were handed to Mr. Marriott, who, on analysing the contents, found a great quantity of arsenic, so much, indeed, that it could be seen with the naked eye. Th e Davys had lived on good terms ; but the theory of the prosecution now instituted against William George Davy and his wife is that they wished to obtain possession of the second share of the legacy. John Mayes Davy was confined to his bed for some days, Lut he is now recovering. The further hearing of the case was adjourned. CABINET COUNCIL —At the Cabinet Council held on Saturday, in Downing-street, the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan cellor, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. -Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartingtun, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue. THE SUPPOSED NORFOLK MIIRDER.—As already briefly reported, the skeleton of a woman of middle age and small stature has been disinterred at Hilgay, near Downham, Norfolk. The skeleton was found by some men who were digging for sand near premises occupied by a Mr. Barton. Some years since a shed stood on the site, and it is conjectured that in this shed the woman must have been secretly buried. The shed was used as a small coal depot. A woman named Archer, who had been living with a man named Smith, disappeared nearly twenty years since from the village, and has never since been heard of. Smith is now a bedridden old man. Superintendent Watson, of the Norfolk police, is carefully investigating the circumstance. The skeleton was not perfect, and perhaps it would be more correct to describe the remains found as a cluster of bones. SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN MONMOUTHSHIRE.—Th e quiet locality of Newchurch, situate about eight miles distant from the town of Chepstow, was on Saturday morning last the scene of a horrid tragedy. A man, named John Lane, son of a farmer, appears to have cherished a feeling of animosity against his brother-in-law, Mr. William Richards, to whose dwelling he went on Saturday morning with a loaded gun , intent upon mischief. Finding that Richards and hi s wife had gone to Chepstow market he ordered the servant girl out of the house, then he went out himself and locked the door, the girl making the best of her way home in terror. tam then commenced scatter ing Richards's cattle, and at the time a labourer named William Nicholi.s, ..7^3 just going to do some work for Diehards, came up. Upon his speaking, Lane hzeit *Aim, the charge entered the head, and Nicholls dropped dead on the spot. This was no sooner done than another man, named James Davies, a butcher, came up, and whilst he was looking at the unfortunate victim on the ground, Lane reloaded his gun and shot him in the right arm and face. Davies managed to get away to the lidose of a farmer named Baglin, who immediately conveyed bim..to Chepstow Infirmary. The body of Nicholls was taken to the nearest lan to await the coroner's inquiry. Lane, it is said, is insane. There appears to have beeu Aci.prilica.tiokordbe THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Ryan, of Mauritius, - who has returnea mut ullc health of himself and his family much impaired by fifteen years in the tropics ; and Bishop McDougall, of Labuan, who lost six of his children, and was told that he could not remain in Borneo with safety to his life. There are three others ; one of than returned in broken health, but is now recovered; he and the two others have been very useful in supply ing the place of the disabled English bishops. Lord Nelson cannot see any scandal in these eases. "It can be no advantage to the Church that they should continue at their post when health has given way; and in their remaining years they may be able to do some work for the Church at home." Doubtless Lord NeLson is in the main right. The real scandal is caused by the presence of so many colonial bishops in England, while still retaining their sees. was correct. In the first place, its proposal conveys the impression to the Canadians that they are to be handed over as a sop to appease JONATHAN'S irritation at the course pursued by Great Britain during the War ; a slfficimt reason for the strongest opposition in the new Dominion. In the next place, the proposition assumes to Eng land the appearance of a threat and a bribe, as such we wrote of it when first that now celebrated article reached us, and this would be cause suffi cient to lead to its disdainful rejection by England. Nor were we wrong in supposing it would be thus interpreted on this side. In the third place, it is wholly unnecessary ; as such a cession in no way disposes of the Alabama precedent, which is the question of questions to England. That must be discussed on its own merits ; retracted, paid for, and obliterated. Our position as regards the absorption of Canada into the Union is grounded on the belief that our race is of more importance than Vie boun daries of the land it occupies. Wherever English speaking people adjoin—that is, are no separated by the sea—they ou g ht to amalgamate under cue Government. If Canada could absorb the United States (!) let that be the course ; only get rid of the ridiculous boundary, an imaginary line, en the one side of which the inhabitants of the same race are called Canadians, on the other Americans, which artificial barrier tends to generate as little love as can be between them, and in GRANT's words, "Let us have peace." Whether the Re public is or is not destined eventually to break in pieces under its own weight, we feel convinced of the advisability, in the first instance, of the Continent being united under one Government —strong, to open the waste territories—powerful to attract the immigration of mankind, to level all barriers before the march of civilization, and to protect the work from every hostile influence. When the empty places are full, and the wild tracts are subdued and cultivated, the prediction that the empire will be too mighty for a single rule may be realized ; but our reasons are already in print, and will appear next week, why we do not think so. At first, how ever, it is of great importance, for the rapid and successful settlement of the Continent, that it should be directed and controlled by one Government, and as this is clearly in the interest of the Anglo-Saxon race, whatever tends to it has our support. The long and short of it is, that our views are broader than those usually held in England, and our aim higher. We think that mankind will be benefited by the supremacy of the English-speaking people, whom peop e, whom we desire to see reunited ; and not only for their own happiness, but that they might be the better enabled to spread political and religious free dom throughout the world. TIM POLITICAL CIVISIB. The Daily News states that if the Irish Church , Dill were rejected, Mr. Gladstone would advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament immediately, begin another session as quickly as possible afterwards, pass the bill through all its stages in the Lower House without any speeches from the Liberal side of the House, and create a sufficiency of new peers to carry the bill through the Lords. The Post points out that it was the Conservatives who appealed to the country on the Irish Church question, and that they are bound to accept the verdict of the country. The Times calls upon the independent peers to oppose the fatal policy attributed to the Conservative leaders. The Advertiser fears that the threats of what will happen if the Peers reject the bill will have the effect of making them reject it. The Conservative organs this morning directly contradict each other. The Standard denies that the l'eers had come to any decision, and is scandalised at the supposition that they would do so prior to the meeting at the Duke of Marlborough's. The John Ball repudiates the Standard altogether, declares that the famous article counselling the assent to the second reading was in no wise authorised by the Conservative leaders, and that Lord Cairns would propose to the meeting of Peers that he should move the rejection of the bll. The John Bull goes on to say that the division will probably take place on the 18th, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, a clay, of all others, when Conservatives should not shew the white feather. Our contemporary may like to be reminded that it was. on that day the Russell-Gladstone Administration was defeated, and the - Constitution was saved from the ruin which would have been wrought by the passing of a £7 suffrage bill.. The seq 4. tY tnat event need not be told. It is fortunate thatflaard warns Walt no bones. If the contrary had beenv.:i . ris case. bat & Gladstone would long since have had to - abaicate his functions as leader of the Liberal party. The Orangemen of Ireland grow more desperate as the Established Church of that country gets nearer its doom. The meeting of these infatuated people at Dublin on , Thursday evening furnishes another instance of the untenable ground taken up for the defence of the Church. One of the speakers asserted that "if there were but ten men in the country that adhered to the truth of Protestantism, the Established Church should be maintained." Another stated that the endowment of Maynooth was a national sin, which had been attended with national judgment in the shape of civil war in 1798, and famine and pestilence at subsequent periods. All the speakers brought in an unlimited supply of adjectives in de nunciation of the bill, and Mr. Gladstone was styled an infidel, and spoken of as " that wretch." The Rev. Tresham Gregg, who " deeply deplored that they had met together to contemplate the lament able prospect of the decline and fall of the British Monarchy " (which dated from 1829), was especially wild in his remarks. He believed that "if the spirit of God came upon some member of the House of Commons, endowing him with courage and re solve to impeach Mr. Gladstone of high crimes and misdemeanours, the country might yet be saved." I I e suggested that Mr. Johnson, of 13allykilbeg, should be invited to undertake this agreeable duty, a pro position which was received with Kentish fire. Dr. Gregg said that if Disraeli had known his duty in that crisis he would have saved the Constitution, and become the first statesman in the world. But he missed it. He wrote to him, expressing a hope that a man who had borne the glorious name of Israel would . stand by God and the country ; but Mr. Disraehdid not. Dr. Gregg appropriately pronounced the Benediction at the close. The enthusiasm in the north of Ireland seems to ue falling off. The great Perry meeting was a complete success. But the second one, which was to be . much of the same character, has been a decided failure. While 40,000, if not more, attended the one, only some 3,000 were assembled on Friday night. The meeting was not held at Belfast, but at Cookstown, on the other side of Lough Neagh. The usual speeches, the usual resolutions, and the usual peti tions, were made and adopted. TLI:CTION NEWS. The preliminary ballot at Stafford has resulted in the election of Mr. Whitworth and Mr. Evans. The first formerly represented Drogheda, the second was defeated in South Derbyshire at the general election. Mr. Odger and Mr. Jenkins have asked their sup porters to giv9 their votes to the above-named gen tlemen. The Conservative candidates are Mr. Talbot and Captain Salt. The polling takes place on Tuesday. The Fermanagh Reporter states that, in consequence of failing health, the Right lion. Henry Corry is about to retire from the representation of the county of Tyrone, and that it is expected his son will be M.P. in his stead. Mr. Corry is, we believe, the oldest member of the House. He has sat for Tyrone uninterruptedly since 1820, when he was . 23 years old. Ile is the second son of the Earl of Belmore, has been a Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of the Admiralty, and First Lord successively. He is one of the most poputir members of the House, and will be much regretted. Nottingham politics are always past understanding. As our readers are aware, a seat has become vacant by the death of Sir R. Clifton; and it is now stated that the other member, Colonel Wright, is going to retire, and that thus this excitable borough will be plunged into all the turmoil of a fresh elec tion. In that case it is likely that the two hostile Liberal sections will unite, and return Mr. B. Osborne and Mr. Seely, who was rejected last autumn. Should they not unite, the Conservatives will pro bably retain one seat. The probability of a Liberal reunion would, in an ordinary constituency, prevent a Conservative M.P. from retiring. But then at Nottingham nothing is so certainty happen as what is sure not to happen. THE SUNDAY QUESTION. The press, as a rule, shuns the discussion of the Sunday question, raised by Mr. Gregory on Friday night, preferring rather to demand that a public opinion should be formed upon it than to lead that opinion i n any way. Th ey d ec l are th at w hil e a l arge clam are rel i g i ously and enthusiastically opposed to the openi ng of museums on the Sunday, those who desire them to be accessible on that day are very apathetic about the matter. Something of the same feeling evidently moved M.P.'s on Friday night. They knew that they would, by counselling the pro posed change, offend a large portion of their con stituents; and by the other portion a vote in favour of Mr. Gregory would hardly be counted unto them for righteousness, and so they cheered when Mr. Hadfield divided, and prevented Mr. Gregory from pressing his motion. 13y the news papers, however, two general principles seem to be generally accepted. First, that the religious question must be kept out of sight, and the pro posal discussed as one of moral expediency ; secondly, that if the change is to take place, it may and must be limited. As heretofore, no exhibition should be allowed to be opened for which money is taken. The parks, not the Crystal Palace; the museums, not the Polytechnic ; the National Galleries, which are free, not private collections of paintings, which require a money fee for admission ; the concerts of the Recreative Religionists, not the theatres, are those to whom the privilege of opening on Sunday should be allowed. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. " A Peer," writing to the Post, wants to have certain points settled with regard to the Life Peerages Bill. lie wants to know what title the wife will take, what rank the sons, the daughters, the widow of a life peer will claim—questions, he says, which are deeply agitated among the young ladies. The Pall Mall Gazette raises a much more important question in connection with the bill. it points out that a barrister who disgraces himself can be disbarred, an attorney is kept in order by the Law Society, medical men have their own tribunal, and the clergy of every denomination are kept in order by ecclesiastical superiors. The. House of Commons- possesses the power of expulsion, and the bankruptcy of a mem ber vacates, or at least suspends, his seat. The House of Lords alone has no power to mark its sense of conduct which may put an indelible stain on the character of the most ancient houses represented in it. This the Pall Mall Gazette declares to be a significant fact, and one specially significant at the present day, when so many circumstances are warning the Lords to put their House in order. Could nothing be done in this direction ? THE BISHOPS. Another colonial bishop has left his sheep in the wilderness, while taking his pastime in England— the Bishop of Nassau, in the Bahamas. Dr. 'Venal,les was consecrated in 1803, and is only. 41 years old, so that he can hardly yet be invalided. The Bishop of Honolulu has been heard of in - South America. The Bishop of Mauritius leaves England on the 10th. Earl Nelson sends some statistics to the Times with regard to the colonial bishops now permanently resident in England. Excluding Bishop Selwyn, whom Mr. Gladstone specially excepted from his remarks, there are twelve retired colonial bishops now in the country. Of these, two are receiving part of their stipend, one of them having served as a missionary and a bishop thirty-seven years ; and the other was biihop in an unhealthy island of the West Indies twenty-six years. There are two Indian bishops who have served the full time, entitling them to a pension, and have retired, as men in the civil !service do. Dr. Smith, of Hongkong,. has retired also on a pension, after eighteen years' service. There are three bishops who hold preferment in this country, but no pension—Bishop Nixon, who served twenty two ears -in Tasmania, and is in such. a state of b.~~~_h®j j:Ilload to jive jxjteiv; BISIIOPS, DEANS, AND CANONS. Under this head " Ancona" writes to the Times complaining that the two English Archbishops who enjoy respectively £15,000 and £lO,OOO a year, should have led the assault against the capitular bodies. lle argues that since a canonry is rarely more than i!000 and never more than £l,OOO a year, and since it is bestowed as the reward of learning or hard work, this attack is extremely indecorous. " Ancona' adds, "It is, no doubt, natural that' more bishops, and such bishops as the present, should appear to the episcopal mind the one thing need ful. But the educated laity will rather incline to think that to diminish the few modest rewards which fall to the lot of scholars, in order to multiply prelates in purple and fine linen, is anything but wisdom at a time when the numbers and the quality of candi dates for orders are notoriously deteriorating." He points to the spectacle of four prelates' wives at the late Drawing-room, suggests that they did not, perhaps, altogether eschew " broidered hair, gold pearls and costly array," and argues that it is not well to make the contrast too great between Dives in the palace and Lazarus in the parsonage, but that there should be some sort of social bridge between the two extremes in the shape of minor dignitaries. CHURCH CONGRESSES. Archdeacon Denison complains in the John Bull that Church Congresses are becoming a sham, because they always exclude 'from discussion the matters most needing it. Thus, the programme of the intended Liverpool meeting contains not a word about Establishments, episcopal destitution, diocesan synods, or the discipline of the clergy. Supposing these subjects were included, and that there were many Archdeacon Denisons,we wonder how long the Congresses would last. CLERGYMEN'S RIGHTS. A clergyman has been made a " C. 8." The most honourable Order of the Bath is invaded by the spiritual element of society. The Rev. Robert Mills Inakip, Chief Naval Instructor of her Majesty's training ship Britannia, for naval cadets, allowed himself to be beguiled by worldly vanity, and is now an ordinary member of the civil division of the third class of the Order of the Bath. The much coveted decoration is for the first time worn over a surplice. The ri g ht s o f the diplomatic officers, of soldiers, and statesmen are thus clearly invaded, and that to a very serious extent. For if a clergyman may have the honour, why not a bishop ? And where will the clai m s of the prelates end? The Colonial Orders, the great Knights of the Garter themselves, are threatened. They should look to it that they repudiate the tyranny of the Church. MILITARY ITEMS. The Army and Navy Gazette would not be sur prised to find further considerable reductions in our colonialgarrisons carried out next year.—lt is believed that Lord Frederick Kerr will be the successor as Director of Naval Ordnance to Rear-Admiral Key, who has been appointed to Portsmouth Dockyard.— The victualli ng department of the Navy is to be removed from Somerset House to Whitehall. — Colonel Wardlaw is likely to succeed Sir A. Little in the command of the cavalry brigade in Ireland, and Rear-Admiral Chads to succeed Rear-Admiral Ryder as second in command in the Channel Squad ron.—Sir Henry Keppel is going to send the Rodney back to England, and to hoist his flag on board the Ocean. TEE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE. Attention was recently called to a monopoly granted by the French Emperor to an Atlantic Cable Company for their line from France to the United States. It was pointed out that such a grant was hardly justifiable, and not within the competence of Napoleon, inasmuch as it would prevent United States citizens from laying an opposition cable, and place an indefinite amount of power in the hands of the French Government. The Attorney-General of the United States having had his attention called to the subject, is said to have given as his opinion that the cable of the French Telegraphic Company cannot be connected with the territory of the United States without the permission of Congress. It is to be hoped that no " difficulty " 'will arise about the matter between the two nations. THE GOVERNMENT AND EMIGRATION. The Government seems to have given up helping emigrants to leave this country. The Crocodile was placed some time since at the disposal of the dock yard emigrants, but has now been withdrawn ; why, it is not very easy to say. The committees in London and elsewhere had no money to send out the several families, but many were preparing to leave by paying their own expenses. And just now after preparation had been made they are told they cannot go. This certainly wants explanation. THE APPOINTMENT OF CORONERS. Mr. Goldney's bill for vesting the appointment of coroners in the Lord Chancellor has failed. The alterations made to it in committee turned the bill entirely from its original object. But some reform is yet made in the law. The bill as amended pro vides that where the election is by law in the free holders of the county, it shall be by such freeholders only as are on the parliamentary register and reside within the county. A new clause is added, providing that a coroner dissatisfied with the schedule of fees settled by the justices may apply to the Home Secretary, who is authorised and empowered to revise it in such a manner as he shall deem fit. MORE MISERABLE BONDIIOLDERS. As previously announced, the Government of the Ecuador Republic has finally resolved to give up the virtue of honesty as obsolete and inconvenient in State transactions. That remote State has long been unable or unwilling to meet its obligations. The full interest of the Republican debt has not been paid for many years past, but the Government of Ecuador a long time ago hypothecated certain Customs' duties in part payment. This small attempt to keep up appearances has now been abandoned, with the remarkably neat comment that " inability to comply with the conditions of a contract cancels the obliga tion to fulfil it." The holders of the Ecuador Bonds have met, and declared that this proceeding "is at variance with the principles which regulate the trans actions of civilised nations, is dishonourable and disastrous to any State, and cannot fail to meet with universal reprobation." - Unfortunately this prospect of " universal reprobation " is not likely to bring about repentance, ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the Anthropological Society was held a few evenings since, when the subject of discussion was " The Mental Distinctions between Men and Women." Papers were read by Mr. Harris, F.S.A., and Mr. Al ‘Grigor Allan, F.A.S.L , whose views A's ere somewhat different. Mr. llarris was more inclined to favour feminine claims; and though he considered: that -great natural differences existed between men and women, he thought it did not follow that the question was one of actual mental or moral superiority on either side. Mr. Allan was only willing to allow women pre eminence in the dramatic profession, since all women, he thought, were by nature actresses. Thousands of years had simply demonstrated the mental supremacy of man, and we must- not ignore the lessons of ex 'perience. - CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. (From the Anglo-American Times.) We find in the Diplomatic Review an extract from the Nova Scotian, which shows that paper to have m'sunderstood us on an important subject, the absorption of Canada into the Union : " The Anglo-American Times, stepping in a footpath, prepared by many writers, before him, and encouraged by not a few statesman and legislators, and among them an in fluential member of the present British Cabinet, has lately (March 13) endorsed an opinion with regard to . the .ad justment of ' an unsettled question,' which the New York Tribune had offered for English, American, and Canadian consideration. The substance of that opinion is that the ' voluntary cession of the British rule in North America (with the consent of the colonists) where it has ceased to be advantageous to England, or beneficial to its matured colonies, would be an imperial gift, which England might with dignity tender, and America gracefully accept,. in full satisfaction of the English indebtedness." —Nonce Scotian, April 26, 1869." Oar American contemporary would not have fallen intuthe error of supposing that we had endorsed the opinion of the - New York Tribune had it derived its information direct from the Anglo-American Tines. On the contrary, we separated the settlement of all disputes .between the Republic and the Monarchy from the action of the latter on the Canadian matter, as in no way connected. Nor that only ; for we condemned the Tribune's manner of in termingling them 'as a blunder calculated to defeat a desirable objeet ; and .the Tri4ne has by this time -revered ample• evidence 'that our Tim GENER.4L DYER. The Court of Inquiry, which fur so long a period has been sitting at Washington, to investigate the charges brought against General A. B. DYER, Chief of Ordnance, has closed its proceedings in the full and honourable acquittal of that officer. These seri ous charges were grounded on the Report of the Joint Select Committee on Ordnance, of the Se nate and House, submitted to the Senate, on July 17, 1868. They mainly had reference to the official misbehaviour of General DYER, as Chief of Ord nance, in the purchase of projectiles, and the Court composed of Generals GEORGE 11. THOMAS, WIN FIELD, S. HANCOCK, A. H. TERRY, and JOSEPH lIOLT, Judge Advocate, finds these charges either grossly exaggerated or utterly unfounded. The last Re port of this Committee " On Ordnance" has lately excited no little attention in England. Some days ago there was a paper in the Pall Mall Gazette, which alluded to the articles on the subject published in the Anglo-American Times, and, following this, the report in full, with the E litor's comments thereon, appeared in the Globe. Considering that months have elapsed since the American papers gave that document to the world, discussed it and dismissed it ; considering that - we reflected what they said and the United Service Gazette reflected us ; consitha.- - ing, too, the importance , of the matter discussed, to all nations, yet remembering what a heavy bodr the Loudon press is, we may congratulate it on reaching the subject iu the unusually short space of two months. These articles, as well as the termina tion of the DYER' proceedings, have recalled an almost furgotten topic, fur, although the inquiry did not arise out of that report, it was connected with the investigations made by and the evidence taken before the Joint Committee. We may then be excused for reverting to both as connected. General DYER is exonerated from all accusations concerning projectiles and arms. There were other charges connected with the dismissal of Mr. TAYLOR for not allowing the Government the free use of an invention made while lie was in Government employ. The displacement of General RAMSAY as Chief of Ordnance, followed by DYER'S succession, was brought against him as an intrigue, but proved to be wholly without foundation. Other charges were preferred for falsely claiming inventions, such for instance as the plan for casting soft metal sabots on the iron bodies of projectiles, and an expression that he was entitled - to a royalty on the DfoKENsorr and ZANE shell, but it appeared that if not the first inventor of both, he was among the inventors. We cannot estimate the exact value to be attached to the extraordinary Congressional Report, not only condemning the ordnance of the United States, but the Scientific Corps also, which followed that out of which these proceedings arose. But one fact is beyond question—the record given of the guns bears out the remarks harsh as they are, even adalit ting that many of the witnesses were inspired by jea lousy and enmity, feelings, which more particularly characterise rival inventors. Perhaps no task could be more embarrassing than to sit in judgment in an American capital on American inventions to award impartial justice ; and it need not surprise that this inquiry should have been the result of General DYER'S holding a post rendered more than ever difficult by the rr.pid change progressingin 'ordnance, towards which the attention of inventors was directed to the exclusion of other subjects, in consequence of the conflict then raging.tehnaetnitil,l. weree n e r a a b l l e made i m bitter e e r . e e s ;i d t e h n t a c i t e s theseclear force e p a e n r d t l e v ff a e s c b t a o s n s e d t 1: bye i t ; l l l .o af c e e e n d c i e n g c s o thenuld notofhave this beeninquiry w s h h o o w l y t c h r a ae t rg l i t a l eb i s a l e t w, e ef v or i er - d though the report on which these charges that t a t t e d o i t i o o t r l d i e n a S n e e n e a t N e v a o s n the n ot 5 1 0 7 1 t ) h_ July,grounded 1868, waswhile s u b n t i m m i l t i t g e i r n l e t b il u l t t s h u o p 11.15etmhenFtesbtrhuea r o y tho la r. sL A t i h irj e lo o -A n e ine 7 can Times. DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is to commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville .and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort -buildings, Strand,„London, W,C.— [Ad v,t taaement.) PROPOSED MATCH BETWEEN ENGLISH AND AIi2DICAN lionsEs.—A proposal is on foot to match an American horse named Bayonet against our Knight of the Garter. Our transatlantic cousins appear to desire that " the Knight" should be sent over there, and that the Snatch should be run within a few miles of Now York. The owner of Bayonet also proposes to run another animal of his, Cettrill, against any English three year old a mile and a half. • L ADVEnTISEMENT.I---Aftiid Iti44lEttla,t try alWays aggravate h c onie complaints: but Du Barry's 00114$141tta litidlth‘festoring Revalenta r Arabica Food, .which yields three times tits nontish ment of the best meat, saves 50 time; .its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong `ernes, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fa/5et..2.' 41 regularity, anc' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few oat cf 63,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. " Rome, July 21, 1863. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entire]) to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of Which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It , has prodtced a surprisingly bene tidal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' lives complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agov" from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure No 46,270: Mr. James Races, of Fernley, Surrey, of 30 years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and parthtl deafness. .Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without ...uthorit) - , Baron_ Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. at IS lid; Ilb 28 9d; 2lbs 4s 61 5 lbs lla 1211)e 228 ; 24 lbs 40s. - Also Du RAMIE'S REVALENTA. ARABIA CHOCOLATE POWDER, is packed in tin canisters for 12 cups at Is, fort cups at 3s 6d, for 48 caps at 'as, for 288 cups at 80s, for 578 cups at 558 —being about ono penny per cup, The Its and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Po4-Office Order,— ' BARRY Du BARRY and C 0 .., No. 77, ttegeut-street, Loncipn and all9rwers utOlieutists. MONEY AND 13USINESS. —4- (From the Spring field Republican, May 22.) The call for money during the week has been only mo derate, and, as a consequence, the supply has been abun dant and the rates easy. Six per cont. with Gove:ntheut security, and 7 on good paper, have procured loans with out difficulty, and the situation generally has been quiet and uneTentful. The fluctuations in gold, and the irre- gularity and uncertainty in stocks, have checked the tend ency to speculation, and the demand from that source has been smaller than usual. Permanent investors also hold off until affairs appear more settled, or a legitimate 'em ployment for their capital is offered. The flow of cur rency is still from the rural districts to Now York, and the weekly statement of the banks shows an increase of over five and a half millions in deposits during the week. The loans have increased only one million, so that their posi tion is stronger and their ability to supply their customers with funds greater than a week ago. The indications fa vour continued ease in the market during the summer, unless some artificial combination is effected to force a stringency. At present, however, the speculators have all they can attend to in the fluctuations of gold and stocks, and the summer vacations and holidays will soon draw the bulls and bears of Wall street to their country pas tures and watering-places. Tho supply of money in the Western market is more than is' needed, and the Chicago banks are complaining of dull times. There is no activity in the breadstnffs market, and the ap proach of libirvest tends to check speculation in the stcck now on hand. The country makes no demand on the grain centres for money, and there are conse quently few borrowers. Gold keeps steadily advancing, amid rejoicings on one side, wailings on the other, and all sorts of expressions from the speculators. On Wednes day the price reached 1441, the highest since September, 1868, and an advance of over 9 per cent. since the first of May. Nobody doubts that the rise is engineered by specu lators, and oven the few who regret the fact unite in the general satisfaction when one of them comes to grief, as has the heavy German house of Schepeler and Co. This extensive concern, one of the heaviest foreign bankers in New York, failed on Monday, for a large amount, vari only stated at from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, and during the rest of the day the gold market was excited and un settled in consequence. Other failures were feared,' and expected, but, except two small houses, none occurred, and the creditors of Schepeler and Co. aro all sound, and able to sustain their losses. The Schepeler house stood well at New York and in the European markets, and de spite one or two cases of rather sharp practice, just before their suspension, will be aided by their associates and go on in business. The public., however, have no reason to be discouraged or dissatisfied with the increase in the pre mium on gold. It simply means that the financial condi tion of the country is coming to be better understood, and that gold is no longer to be in a great degree ex empted from the operations of an inflated currency, and enjoy immunity as the cheapest commodity in the mar ket. if the price of gold were controlled like the average price of other articles, it would be nearly or quite 200 per cent. The real lesson of the situation is thus clearly and concisely stated by the New York Ecening Post:—" Were the price of gold raised to the gene ral level of prices, without serious disturbance to trade in general, the export of bonds and the increase of our. debt abroad would be checked, foreign markets for surplus crops and manufactures would be opened, and greater stability would soon be given to the financial condition of the coun try. We could then measure our means and face our diffi culties, without the thin disgrace which now blinds so many to them both ; and the country would see the essen tial truth, that the really weak point in the situation is our inflated currency, and that until that is disposed of neither the credit of the nation nor the industry of the people can be established in a satisfactory condition." An incidental advantage resulting from the rise in gold is secured by the Government, which is now selling gold at a million a week, and purchasing bonds with tho proceeds. Tho higher the premium of course the mot o bonds it will buy, and of course the difference is profit to the Government. Imports continue heavy in New York, and the receipts of the Trea sury for customs are largo. The exports of specie have been limited during the week, and the coin balance in the Assistant Treasurer's hands keeps constantly up to high water mark. Government Bonds have lost their old characteristic of declining with every advance of gold, and now do exactly the opposite. Secretary Boutwall got 1164 to 116 k for his million on Wednesday, and the demand has been uniformly strong and active. London prices have also appreciated, and the reported threat of the great Bank of England to raise its rate of discount to 10 per cent., if necessary, to stop the speculation in foreign securities, has had no depressing effect on the price of our Five-Twenties abroad. That plethoric in stitution may drive Spain and the begging German pro vince from out of its markets, but it can hardly extinguish or expel the faith in a good bond of the United States bearing six per cent. interest in gold. Secretary Boul - has removed all doubts of his intention in paying Governments by an explicit declaration that ho is going to enforce the long-neglected Sinking Fund Act, and that bonds which are applied to that purpose will be legibly stamped, for the purpose (S . distinguiThing them from all other bonds, and preventing their sue iu the public mar ket. It seems that the Secivt try has had no doubt or he sitenoy in adopting this rd:cy, and that all reports to the effect that he was confused and perplexed into his sense of duty wore altogether unfounded. The course of the Secretary meets with all sorts of criticisms from the emi nent financial doctors, who speak through the press, each ono of whom is the sole discoverer and possessor of the only absolutely perfect and adequate policy. Whatever the discussion of their sapient theories may amount to, a few facts,.which are quite apparent, afford considerable aid in judgment of the Secretary's action. All the Demo crats, papers, and politicians, with scarcely an exception, oppose it. The Government is not speculating in its own bonds; those which are now purchased will not again be for sale the re-issue of bonds being expressly for bidden by the law of 1817, and punishable by fine and imprisonment. Mr. Boutwell is only executing a law, enacted by Congress in 1862, and neglected ever after by Secretary M'Culloch; if the law is unwise or undesirable, Gen. Grant's view of the case is correct, that its faithful enforcement is the best and speediest way to secure its re peal. With these facts to sustain its present course the Trea sury Administration can well afford to wait the results, and by them stand or fall. A reduction of the debt $13,000,000 per month is an assurance of integrity and ability which appeals more strongly to the popular appre elation than any finely-spun theories on abstract prin ciples of finance. The New York Stock Market has been uncomfortably disturbed by the failure of a young and growing firm of brokers, in consequence of the flight of its junior member with nearly all its fuuds, and the situation of gold and Governments has made the speculators rather -timorous. Business is fair without special excitement, and prices of standard roads have been well sustained. ' The Vanderbilt roads have steadily appreciated under 7 1 - hi - hours from Albany that Governor Hoffman would soon sign one or the other of the scrip and consolidation bills, that ho would sign both, that ho would do it forthwith, 'that :he had already gone and done it, &c.,—the whole course of affairs showing, if not actual collusion of the governor with his confreres of Wall-street, at least a very close mutual understanding. Now York Central sustains every advance in prices, and is steadily above the " 80's.' Harlem, Hudson River, and Lake Shore, of course, go along in the ascent. Rumours aro afloat of another grand outpouring of water in the Vanderbilt roads, Lake Shore, Toledo and Wabash, and others, which will enormously swell the aggregate of their capita). In which connection it is interesting to know that since July 1, 1867, twenty-eight of the leading railroads of tho country have increased the total of their united capital from $287,036,000 to $400,681,000 or over $113,000,000. If there is no limit to this process, and every expansion will be legalized by corrupt legislation, there is no reason to expect that the railroad companies will `change their policy: The reports of a perpetual lease of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway to the Pennsylvania Central are confirmed on good authority, and there is no deubt that a large increase of capital is contemplated. The terms of rental will probably be 12 per cent. annually on the present capital, or 7 per cent. on the new capital— s2o,3l2,soo - free of Government taxes and all contingen cies. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has declared a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent., payable June 1, and its stock is among the foremost in the market. Trade in dry goods is light, and wholesales and jobbers are com plaining of a dull spring, and one heavy Broadway house went under last week iu consequence of losses in outside speculation to make up for the depression of business. The tendency of prices is also downward, and the pros pects for the - future are not particularly bright. Cotton in the Southern markets has improved a little, but the de mand for staple manufactured goods is small and easily supplied. Wool in the seaport market is dull, but reports of business in the interior manufacturing cities are more favourable. The flour and breaclstuffs market has been more active, in consequence of favourable advices from Europe, and the reports of a large harvest in prospect, stittattlating the.. desire to work. off the present stock No w York has begun to receive ,shipmentit by the ,canal, ,the supply auts h l • on . band will doubtless come forward rapidly. . ..,. ~.l (From the Wall-street Jour.— , Friday Evening, May 21, Money on call shows rather more activity, but dealers find no difficulty in supplying themselves at 7 per cent. on stocks and bonds. Discounts are active, at 7to 9 per cent. for first-class paper. Gold is decidedly lower on the re cent advance, having opened this mottling at 144 and subsequently declined to 1111, closing at 144. This fall has been in some measure aided by the Secretary of the Treasury, ivh, has issued proposals for the sale of $1,000,000 gold on each Monday, until further notice, ad ditional to the usual Thursday sales, making a total sale of $2,000,009 per week. At t4e fourth Treasury sa l e o f go ld yesterday bids were filed fer $2,100,000 ; the highest bid was 143.91, and the lowest 143.52. The awards were 'made as follows :—5100,009 at 143.91, $250,00p at 143.85, $250,000 at:143.81, $50;000 at 143.81, $50,000 at 113.80; $250 3 000 at 143.79, $50,000 0 - 118:77.• goterwitint b oners 1 Q69 are weak, and show a general decline from to per cent. on last evening's official prices. _ _ _ Sixes, 1861, registered 122/ to 1224 Sixes, 1881, coupon 122/ to 123 Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. 6s. Pacific Hailload lO7/ to 1074 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon - to 120 f Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon : ... 119 f to 1191 Five-twenties, 18'35, coupon, now Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 l2O to 120/ Ten-forties, coupon Seven-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to - CEVOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Amer. silver... 95 to 95 1 Eng. sovs 486 to 488 Mex. d011ar5...103 „ 104 1 20 francs 383 „ 38 5 Eng. silver 475 , 430 1 Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 95 I _ • The reported pending negotiations between the Pennsyl- - v.inia Railroad Company and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Company, for the perpetual lease of the lat t,,r, we have rot:son to suppose have taken Ho form of a dittinct proposition from the Pennsylvania Company to pay 12 per cent. per annum in quarterly dividends free of Government tax, upon the present capital of the Fort Wayne—sll,soo,ooo—and the interest upon its whole funded debt, including the yearly contribution to sinking the principal of the debt ; leaving to the Fort Wayne Com pany to determine the new basis of capital upon which the lease is to be paid; that is, if 50 per cent. should be added to the present capital, calling the whole 817,250,000, the quarterly dividends to be at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum ; or if 711 per cent. should be added, calling the whole capital 820,312,500, the quarterly dividends to be at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. The last proposition, we believe, is received with most favour. It makes a 7 per cent. investment, free 'of Government tax and all con tingencies. Railroad Bonds are active, and on the better known securities there is.a good demand for investment. Am9ng the railroad bonds now offered on this market we note those of . the St. Louis, Vandalia, and Terre Haute Railroad Company Seven per Cent. First Mortgage. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 91 N. Y. Cantral . 6s, 1887 93 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 851 N.Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 851 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76: N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 — Erie Ist Mort, Ex Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 92i Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B7l Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 79 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 771 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 B9 Ilud. IL 7s, Ist M, '69-1031 Had. IL 7s, 3d M, '75 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 991 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 120 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 121 Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 93 N. lud. Goshen Line 7p.c. 991 111. Cen. 7 p. e '7O 120 Alton & T. H. let M Alton & T. H. 2d pfd 84 Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 76 Han.&St.J.LandGrantslo6 Han. & St. J. Con 117 Chi. B. & Q., Ist 31 112 Chi. & N. West, S. F 971. Chi. & N. W. Con Conv 100 4 Chi. & N. W. Ex'n B 95 Clai. & N. W. Ist M & Wab. 2d M Ex. 83 Gt. Western 2d M '93 79i Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M Gal. & Chic. Eat 97 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 96 Chi. & R. I. Ist M 99 Chi. R. I. & Pacific - 7's_ 98 Cleve. & Tol. S. nand_ 99} N. J. Central Ist M OB l J. Central 2d M 99 Pitts. Ft.W., & CI). Ist M 105 Pitts. Ft. W , & 011.2 d M 99 Pitts. Ft. 'W., & Ch. 3d M 94 Cleve. & Pitts. 3d M 95 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. & Alto; S.F. lstM.lo o Mil. & St. Paul Ist M 93 Mil. & St. Paul 2d M , 83 Marietta & Cin. Ist XI B7 Morris & Essex Ist Xt 99 Morris & Essex 2d M 9 1 Joilet & Chic. Ist M Chi. & Gt. Easen lstM B5 N. Y. & N. H. 68 ..... -- Dubuque &S. City,lst Al 92 Peninsula Ist M ssi Ohio & Miss. Ist M -- Ohio & Miss. Con Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D B5 Atlantic & G. W. 2d M --- Express Stocks sell steadily, and we quote : Adams American Merckants' Union 4O to 401 Merchants' Union, old Stock l5 to 15} United States - Wells, Fargo, and Co 33 .1 to 33i Foreign Exchange is strong, and much discrimination is shown on commercial bills, owing to the failures above noticed. Sixty Days. Three Days. Londcn Bankers Lor.d. 13, Prime Commercial 1081 — :1091 ...... Paris, Bankers 522 5.15 5.15 —5.14 Brenien, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 352-36 Frankfort, Oil 4Ol-401 ..... Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.221-5.15 ...... Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss Bank Stocks are in good demand, and prices steady Miscellaneous Stocks show a good business in Ceuta , ' Mariposa, and Pacific Mail. N. Y. Central l9ll Fort Wayne Erie llud'son t l6ll Atlantic Mail -- Reading Mich. South. &N. 1.... 1061 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 931 Ohio and Mississippi... 0, North-West North-West Preferred 1041 Cumberland 1 Canton 63 Bankers and Brokers... 0() Rock Island Jleveland and Toledo 1061 IM & St. Paul Preferred S 6l Railroad stocks are strong and buoyant, especially 0 ° the Vanderbilt stocks. Governor Hoffman yesterda signed four bills connected with the extension and con° solidation of the leading railroad lines of this State. Tile first is entitled "The New York Central Railroad Scril: Bill," which authorizes the enlargement of the capital of the company by an addition of 80 per cent. ;" the secon d " The Consolidation Bill," which sanctions the consoli ,l4 ; Lion and continuation of the Hudson River and New Y ork Central Company, so as to form a continuous line betweeil New York and Buffalo, the third " The Erie Lagrone' Directory Bill," which provides that the directors of th: Erie Load shall remain in power three or four Ye 3r t longer • and the fourth " The Harlem Railroad DeP°, .. Bill," directing the construction by the company of afil°' .. ; fitting depot for passengers and baggage at the steam c'''' terminus in New York. ' 718 Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report a 8 lows:—Pennsylvania Railroad were 58 58+ ; Mortgage, 100 ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage, 95. Messrs. Henry Clews and Co., in their circular of g e l 15, state : United States Bonds continue to exhibit or markable firmness, prices being now far above all jere c°- dent. For some months past the foreign market has bee il f the main support of the domestic ; within the last P I/ weeks, however, the extraordinary buoyancy of the Tie don market has been checked by political events. ~ rejection of the Alabama protocol by the Senate, tog ether with the speeches of Senators Sumner and Chandler, 1431 e wounded the susceptibility of English investors, and Per, haps excited temporary prejudice against our secu rities; while the supposed possibility that we might become 1.02"0 broiled with European powers on the Cuban question h e also induced a decided caution abroad relative to our boo °. The Bulk of England apparently is disposed to di scour d " age the speculative importation of foreign securities , 8° especially American, the recent advance in its rate discount being mainly attributable to that motive. ru t these circumstances, the shipments of Bondi to Eur° l . o have declined to a nominal amount, and quotation s on ti n foreign market rule lower. At home, however, prices The improved in the face of a declining tendency abroad. .„ purchases of bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury, s; 'furtherance of the provisions of the Sinking Fu nd, h' had a marked effect upon quotations ; but rather at 11°111., than abroad, where the significance of the operation perhaps not yet fully comprehended. 0 wing to the cote' parative lightness of the supply on the market, the drawal of $1,000,000 bonds per week has a very direct tee' den cy to strengthen prices; and as these purchases are to be continued through a period when money is usual l f abundant and financial institutions and private invest °/.4 are free buyers, th's result is likely to be still further 'l' parent. The effect of the Secretary's purchases LlP °ll ,, t , b q t? public credit is very directly f avo uraFle, inasmuch as t",; not only reduce the p r i nc ip a l an d i n t eres t o f th e debt, 11-t t also indicate the financial condition of the Governnielit and its good faith i n f u lfilli ng a ll th e con ditions. Ol e o which its bonds were issued. Th e s t oc k market exb ib e a high degree of sp ec ul a tiv e activity. At no period si r `"a the Wall- stre e t i n fl a ti on o f 1864, h a s speculation sb e%cc o such a reckless disregard of the proper corresPondeo, between values and prices. The stock " watering" r esl3l ,l has led operators into extensive purchases of stocks , I t the consequent advance in prices appears to have bterigo, a large supply out of the hands of more permanent bola lug Schemes of consolidation or of " watering" are belff, worked out upon several of the leading roads, and sLi ve t clout is communicated respecting these projects to w o f the appetite of speculators. A strong feeling, however, t 4 distrust of the high prices induced by these "0n !to beginning to appear in some quarters, which is like') 0- develope into a severe reaction when the schemes are co summated. ae_ 3 , LADVERTISENIENT.I--Holloway's s tew Comfort.--A disordered stomach throws the whole 09,5e 0ut of gear, and renders us unfitted for work and a rl3 „ - ta ment. A few doses of these pueifying and strengtll?::,oo, pills, taken according to their accompanying direol'on will, however, speedily restore order, and re -enabl e ,„ es' stomach to digest its food without difficulty. The e '",oet; cellent pills are suitable alike to the peer and the pea ouch the soldier and the sailor, and particularly for haul ill for e ign colonists. Holloway's pills are very us e checking feverish attacks, bilious complaints, and te,..4si =Um They have also made most si g nal cures of (. "'"thi s a nd diseases of the kidneys, heart, and lungs vib e° sufferer seemed past the reach of medicine. BIRTIM. BURY— On the 4th inst., at Whetstone, the wif e of Goo Bury, Esq., of a daughter. .1J zl) .' STORMONT —On the 4th inst., at 28, Charles-stre et fair, the Viscountess Stormont, of a son. MARRIAGES. r'e• c; re t6 4 ,4 BAZ ALGETTE —CULT —On the 4th inst, —•• Ca w Caversham, James Arnold Razalgette, Esq., , 010 13 ; 42d Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) to Sarail rreeli?,,till.the late A. J. Ceel,y, Esq., Lieut. of the . patl l On the 3d inst., at All Sainte : le er. Isitcuous - ut , — dingtou, Samuel i54...1" 11 . 5 7 u ber EN., 0 youngest daughter of Joh.? u 7 of_ lierks ect to lo b tle ote road, Regent's-park. DEATBS. os lll# HAMMOND-0u the 3d inst., at Leamington, Pater mond, aged 78. fi 1001 KIDD— Ou the 3d inst ., et the Alba ,wo ny, . John M'Mahon Kidd, late 87th Regt. . , 10 5. SRUTTLEWORTH—On the 4th inst., at Rollo/EL.,' ' l° Shuttleu ortb, Esq., aged 82. ANa 4, DlO stria' 11: „ London Printed and Published by WILLIAM 0%.! of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TH E SUN Office, NO . _ in tri3 Precinct of the Sayoy, to the County or siv Am 7, 180. I Z NA 'IAN'S F. , . nix celebrated OLI prize Medal. • Pere, I .‘lctl 1( Sold in Bottles, 3s. 8 be Agenta in the princi 8, GREAT WES Observe the Red Seal LL Whisky. relieves the dr 'l7 EATINCr?! Imnortant rem Its TIO V Sold in Boxes each " each. EATING, Ch Loudon, E.C. UTUAL 1,4 (' EIIL S rrir g 14. Buss : od !;,S, hDVNNCES 'NfrINEY , n l rl or tomsehold Pro 12'11"htuak1v monthly. *-,,)Ms free on receipt .11,1 , OVAL- 1 A 13 . Propri (7(INT! ‘1.7E11 Sr IT \ TIITY TITCW, AI FRED r, , )l' NE. t ~lr L A SE .‘lll3. the IT' GEOTI(1- • 1,1 7 .YRC l 'l'sf= A NIE ADANS RIT7sTA n LF°RI . 1 " T 1 , 1 BELL RA CIAGAINT, THE WORI • Full Mr. P. • • 11t33'-Spt',.clal A T D E , Bake -street less bee Mission.l ; Chembe :• the morniu; until 10 ARGYLL ROI The extraordinory of the Shadow Dan, the electric livht nn 1 'ruele SelemionA pre! hare bad the ,era.tir rnoat extensively Pall celebrated Orrheßtrl , chef. 'ffnor Lnlui Cu P o aitiong of ad di , -(!n, n "'itned to the entln Graveq. T.. Silbert Thomas Pitts. Profe Admiss] I , PA! THE above Lnneheon. Bre: f or deviling Legs of '1 ORIGINAL AND S To IY. 0 1, ' JOE 1 . 3 13. II A LL. r , • next the "' °7lB 2'nee for NICE ,' e,,ebrated PALE anc Bordeaux Wines and W hiskies. from se v' also he seen nt the T' hurn`ler of Hotels, Pi or °there wonted in tc ROTENTIFIiI A ORNAMENT and Dininz-* sorttnent of VASE li nks. Inkstands, 1 )4" 4- 's, in Italian, Ala RlirA Rprtr. &c. I' T ENNANT, Min( 0., London. Mr. TPnnant arra 241 P ,, TERALS, and of Lyoil's Elpnvnt tho interests (l EOLOGY, and gnin..R. pact,. Pit to AL I MINERALOGY is 149 , Strand. TaE LTVF,T GLor Dices -1, ThD Inv , stecl F F ire Ilevrmito to Zi Thrt moderate rate! tones for thr L7f, ` , A111.1 fts SPEC" , , otvior -thPrn nirti blu e is Kra ntn , l or thirty days after to NATI( }N A Ti Richnion I. 5 t) irr t 7,4? ,itrona w lerw‘ v 1; 111 . 9.11 11 , 013. toe ,1, 01 fhn ant laurrii, to fit tl Woe nrcsvfo e .l f.r suitable pltuae'n'' Th n e, 3tltirely sustained °l ke, 121. 'a!l-m! SEAMEN'S ] ,- off Grpenwich ir.ns, who are The rec e ipt s fr o t 879 !PPR than the BU HI P I BSCTC Dea.cou, Lho geeretars-, at I street, T,011.1;41, E. Qua] ificatlon c. Governor £lo lOf jRITISII ilaaeuzie-p Patron—Her For the gratui destitute orphans a nd of all denon PPDgpernus eircun One hundred at stitution ; ample ri In eres sed sup eth io wecl and is i a s`istancP. Subs6ribors I nstitution, and j 1 nAculiar claim: Tho last Report secretary. Offices, 73, Che Bankers—Mess ` 4110 ; and Afescrs trEALTII RESTOR 'TT BARRY and Infant' THE %yes fifty times Perfect digestion r efreshing sleep, Most disordered e ffectually iodize fr UmptiOn, habitue rangernents, 1 eel terYousness, c atarrhs, colds, t bentnatism. g(2 l . ] !Rift, irritalult eearthurn, beach ti .ausea and sickn k 'lts, bronchitis, a, she pit of the sti th e m ost digestib' 'or invalids and i IMPORTANT CA 44 c1 more than s ti tr Baron Liebi Ifenceforth no: Be. Barry's heal arid Infants' Foo bag already rocs been deemed her `Peas the Pope, 19 alt after thirty e quote from L8113):—" Rom, 401 3' Father is other remedies, arry's Revalent laterul at every b Ineficial e ff ect Prlise this excel] Cure No. 58,21 Years' 1'72- ne%q, ' , • ~ n.r,h,r4o ~itn . rt de Decies, :—" I linve STI7A.IIT aterferd." I:l : 'l l °'C C ti :1 : 3 ; 1 rt: r cit ' e nTnes N l.7l:ll' ;: o . P: 4 )Bri 7 4: l l;' ' ,ness, " faneie. 5 . 6,R• 1 , 1 e nod s 4n. 6d. •; 121 earrinl t; Y s Ilevalen 1' at Cs., for al.out cne penn , i 0 of carringel. 1 1 ' 4 MY Du itn Gat re orttill' c--'chulei-st• "uw ~.