The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-25 00:00:00

PRESENTATION OF COLOURS TO THE 91ST. HIGHLANDERS. An interesting military ceremony was performed on Tuesday on fhe Western Heights at Dover. The 91st Argyllshire) Highlanders, who returned home last year, after fifteen years' continuous foreign service, at the Cape luring the Kaffir war, in the lonian Islands, and in India luring a portion of the mutiny, exchanged the old :olours, which they have carried since 1844, for new ones, he presentation being attended with full military honours, /Ind the religious service in connection with the ceremony being conducted by his Grace the Archbishop of Canter bury. For the more convenient presentation of the :olours a dais was erected. The ceremony commenced by the process of "trooping" the old colours, the band first advancing in slow time along the whole front of the line and retiring at a quicker pace, adapting the musical selections played in each case to the rate of pro , :cress. They then once more advanced in slow time, on Lis occasion preceding the senior company of the regiment, to whose charge was consigned for the last time the colours about to be abandoned. The National Anthem was performed solemnly, and a general salute given. Then the custodians of the colours, musicians, and soldiers' passed slowly along and between the ranks of the different companies, which had opened out for the purpose, so that every man in the regiment might take a farewell look at the familiar staves—for colours they could hardly be called—and the renewed strains of "God Save the Queen" at the other end of the line announced that these veteran military emblems had passed out of the service, and would in future know guard-mounting no longer. Colonel Gordon said the fitting moment had now arrived to inform the regiment of the destination of the old colours. These had been offered to the Duke of Argyll by the officers of the 91st (Argyllshire) Highlanders, his clan regiment, in order that they might find an asylum in the walls of Inverary Castle. Colonel Gordon read the reply of his Grace, written from Inverary Castle, accepting the offer, adding, "We shall remember you on the 23rd, and wish well, and drink a bumper toast to the gallant 91st." A reading desk, composed of a pile of drums, was quickly raised on the edge of the dais, and upon this the new colours, still in their waterproof cases were laid. The religious service prescribed upon occasions of this kind was then entered upon. The service was read by the Archbishop. After the final prayer and benediction Colonel Gordon read aloud a letter of deputation from the Duke of Argyll requesting that Mrs. Gordon, in the unavoidable absence of the Duchess of Argyll, would be kind enough to represent her in presenting the colours to the regiment. The colours were thereupon taken from their cases and handed by the majors of the 91st to Mrs. Gordon, who in turn presented them to the junior ensigns kneeling to receive them at her hands. Mrs. Gor don then proceeded to say in tones the clearness of which suf fered little by contrast with the practised elocution of the Archbishop : " Proud as I am to-day to present to you your new colours, I would even have thought my place better filled by her Grace the Duchess of Argyll. Soldiers ! your colours have been well earned, not alone in the protracted struggle of three Kaffir wars, but also by long service in tropical claims, under burning suns. Receive these now as a sacred trust ; guard them carefully, close manfully around them whenever you are called upon to do so; be, as you always have been, foremost in the service of your Queen and country, and you 'will be their pride, as you are at this moment, of your commanding officer. It was probably not altogether an easy task that devolved upon Colonel Gordon to reply, on behalf of the regiment, to the address thus delivered. Addressing Mrs. Gordon, however, he thanked her, and assured her that from her bands the regiment received its colours with peculiar satisfaction. By many acts of unobtrusive kind ness the regiment had learnt to appreciate the interest she took in its welfare.--The Archbishop of Canterbury, next addressing the regiment, said the service in which they had just been engaged had for him very great interest, Their colonel had been his schoolfellow a great many years ago ; the regiment wore the tartan of the Clan Campbell, with which he felt it an honour to be con nected, and there were associations connected with these colours which carried him back in memory to scenes and places that doubtless were familiar to many he was ad dressing. It was not, however, in his private capacity, or of his private feelings that he was called upon to speak to them. Rather as intrusted with the chief ministry in the Church of Christ, in the district which had welcomed the regiment on its return from foreign service, he was called upon to pronounce a blessing on them and to thank God that the regiment had returned to its native land after the many dangers through which it had passed. If, in whatever neighbourhood it were called to serve, its name was known above other regiments for the good Christian conduct of the men who composed it, then not only would they additionally endear themselves to their fellow countrymen, but practical evidence would be given of the sincerity of the prayers which they had just offered LAW" AND POLICE. ROBBERY BY A GUARDSMAN.—DanieI Tood, a private in the Coldstream Guards, on Tuesday pleaded guilty at the Middlesex Sessions to stealing a watch and chain and E.; from a young man named Beeves. The sergeant of the company gave the prisoner an excellent character, and said everyone was surprised to find him in such a position. lie was entitled to a good conduct stripe. The court sentenced him to 12 months' hard labour. THE HABITUAL CRIMINALS ACT.-At the Middlesex Sessions a young man who had been twice before convicted, was found guilty of stealing a ham, and was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, to be followed by seven years' police surveillance under the Habitual Crimi nals Act. LEAVING WORK WITHOUT NOTICE.—At the Westmin ster Police-court, a boot-closer, named Macfarlane, was summoned for leaving his work without notice. It seemed that the rules of the house for which he worked required a week's notice on each side, but that the defendant left with ont any notice whatever, having the offer of more lucrative employment. He pleaded that such was the custom of the trade, but Mr. Arnold said the custom of the trade was not involved but the custom of the prose cutor's house. He ordered the defendant to pay 265. a week's wages, and £3 ss. costs, or one month's imprison ment. The defendant was taken to Whitccrozs-street Prison in default of payment. THE SMOKE NUISANCE.—At the Thames Police-court, a German, named Wagner, the proprietor of a large sugar-house, was charged with using a furnace which did not consume its own smoke. He pleaded guilty, and said the smoke was owing to the neglect of his stoker. Mr. Sandison, the civil engineer employed by the Government to enforce the Act, said that Mr. Wagner •was an old offender, and many respectable ratepayers complained of the continual nuisance which turned day into night. Mr. Benson thought that a large penalty ought to be inflicted, but as he could only double the last fine, which for some reason had been reduced from £lO to 405., be could only inflict a penalty of £4 and costs. The fine ought to have been £2O. A BAKER FINED.—At the Marylebone Police-court, William Printer, baker, was charged with having sold bread short of weight. A customer sent for two loaves, and when his servant brought them back, he found the cottage was five ounces short of two pounds, and the household two ounces short. The defendant declared that be never weighed bread after it came from the oven. Mr. D'Eyncourt said he must convict on the household loaf. lie should inflict a penalty of 40s. and Cs. 6d. costs. A DRUNKEN SIGNALMAN.—At the Hampton Petty Sessions, Charles Bradford, a signalman at Staines Station, on the London and South-Western Railway, was charged with being drunk while on duty, and neglect ing to signal a train. On the 12th of August a signalman at Ashford signalled a train to Staines, but had no reply. Sergeant Brookes, of the detective police force, was in the train, and saw that the man was drunk. The magis trates inflicted a fine of £5, or two months' imprisonment. It was stated that the man was dismissed. The Gaulois relates the following little anec dote :—A clergyman was warning a usurer against the immense interest which the latter was in the habit of de manding from his debtors. "Do you not know, unhappy one," said the faithful pastor, " that if you always insist on receiving 9 per cent. interest you will shut the door of heaven against yourself .for ever?'? "Oh," replied the usurer, " looked at from heaven the figure 9 presents the appearance of a 6, and that much percentage is quite lawful." M. NELATON.—Apropos of the rumour that the Emperor's confidence in M. Nast= is beginning to diminish, the Figaro tells bow the great surgeon first won his reputation at Court. When the Prince Imperial was so seriously ill, some three or four years ago, a consulta tion of surgeons was held to diagnose a certain inflamma tion of the articulations of the thigh. IsTtqaton said there was an ahsec2;i . , but he vas alone in his 01 , ini0n. This difference was of the highest moment. If there was an abscess, the knife al o ne c ou ld p reserve th e p a ti en t' s life ; if there was not, an operation might prove fatal. NtAaton was allowA to have his way. The patient was put under chloroform, and the surzeon took out bistoury. The Emperor, who was standing near the table, walked to the window, clasped his hands, and began a nervous tattooing with his knuckles. The knife bad reached the neighbour hood of the articulation with no result, and the surgeons opposed in opinion to N6la.ton began to remind him of what they had said. The Emperor walked up to him and seized his hand. "Pardon, sire," said Neaton, removing the hand, " there is an abcess ;" and with one -resolute push he buried the knife deeper, 4. discharge took Rlace, Arid the ohild_watiand. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A SERMON ON " MORE DISHOPS. •' A Layman " sends to the Daily .fetes an extract zemarkable sermon preached by a curate (of course) on the question of more bishops. The bishops themselves, says this clergyman, do not pronounce decisively touching the increase of the episcopacy, for they perceive clearly that there must be a marked difference between the prelates now officiating and any . that may for the future be created. The nation is not averse from more bishops, but it will have no more in Parliament. Any extra sees must differ in this respect from the rest. And then this outspoken curate proceeds to tell us why:— " For many generations we have had to carry out all noble and Christian legislation in the teeth of episcopal opposition. The English bishops have, as an order, ranged themselves on the obstructive, the anti-popular, the losing, the doomed side. So long as the bishops of the English Church were the virtual tribunes r-f the people, so long as they formed the democratic element in the Legislature, so long as they could count in their roll such names as Wulfstan, Langton, Beckett, Latimer, their parliamen tary might was great. The moment the bishop has become-a mere peer in the Parliament, a clerical member of the aristocratic class, his political strength has gone. He is a representative of nothing in the nation except his own order. The nation may tolerate him so long as lie offers no dangerous opposition to the national will ; the nation has no reason to desire any multiplication of this sort of legislators." THE LANCASHIRE COAL MINERS. The delegates from the Lancashire coal-pits have continued their adjourned Conference on the subject of a rise in wages and a decrease of work. These delegates represent an agitation raised by some 7 000 miners of the cotton county in favour of the eight hours' system. Most of the representatives at the conference brought reports from their con stituents, pledging themselves to " combined action" as soon as practicable; but as 7,000 coal miners represent only a fraction of the whole number, it is thought that the movement would profit by exten sion. The Lancashire men argue that theirs is a special case, their business being unlike every other. Whatever may be said of ordinary trades, eight hours a day, they plead, is quite long enough to be toiling in the bowels of the earth. The Conference decided to carry on the agitation for another month. THE GENTLEMEN OF ST. PANCRAS. The St. Pancras Guardians have long become a public nuisance; but they are working so indus triously for the reform of their order that it may bo well to keep up the record of their doings. At the weekly meeting on Monday a row took place. One of the guardians complained that when " sensational inquests are got up," no information was given to the board. This gentleman, one of the " new " members, next accused Mr. Watson, an " old" guardian, of giving evidence in cases for the pur pose of getting the board into disrepute with the public. Mr. Watson denied this. His denial, how ever, mattered nothing. Some of the " new" men declared that he had furnished information to jury men. The lie direct was given backwards and forwards. One guardian was charged with packing coroners' juries. Finally, the meeting became an impossibility, and the board separated in the midst of a furious uproar. . And what, will it be imagined, was the " sensational inquest" which had been " got up," and which led to this discredi table scene ? An old man had died in the work house of a broken heart, according to his wife, be cause the guardians insisted upon selling up the woman's little property, and bringing the whole family into the union. The wife could support her self and children, but not her half-insane partner. The enlightened board, however, adhered to the principle that if one member of a family came into the workhouse the whole number should. That the man died of a broken heart is only his wife's statement; but that these facts are correct was shown, not by got-up evidence, but by the testimony of the relieving officer himself. SILK. The silk trade of England is languishing and dying for want of supplies. The scarcity of raw material is making the manufacturers look about for some means of increasing production. Some surprise is expressed at a fact always sufficiently patent, that the silkworm might be cultivated much more extensively than it is throughout the whole of Central and Southern Europe, in India, China, and a large portion of Australia. The mischief is that a prevalent virulent disease makes the dissemination of seed a doubtful experiment; else steps might immediately ho taken to " univer salise" the silkworm. An association has been formed to help to introduce it into countries in which the mulberry grows, but the disease has made the work difficult. The co-operation of all manufac turers is, of "course, required. Mr. Dieliins is the chairman of the society, and Mr. Chadwicic, M.P. for 'Macclesfield, its treasurer. TIM INTERNATIONAL BOAT MACE. The interest in the contest between the Harvard and Oxford crews increases as the clay of the race draws near; but if we are to listen to the complaints of correspondents, the struggle will in some degree be a disappointment after all. It was exrPoted that the merits of the English end the American styles of rowing would be fairly tested next Friday. It turns out that both crews will row in the same style. The Americans came over with a method of theirown, but little by little each peculiarity was abandoned. "First, the deep dip of the oar was given up; next, the almost exclusive use of the arms went, and the English method of bending the body to the work was adopted. After this the remarkable boat, and with it the bow oar as stroke, was laid aside—and. now what is left ? " The Ilarvards have now adopted the style of Oxford, and no difference save that of proficiency remains. Mn. GLADSTONE. We are happy to announce that rest at Walmer Castle is rapidly restoring the Premier from the depressed condition of body into which the labours of the session had thrown him He has even so far recovered as to receive an address at Deal a remarkable proof of returning vigour. Address - hearing is usually not light work. Mr. Gladstone's reply was confined to local matters—to complimenting the men of Deal upon " the national importance of the commerce floating in view " of their little port, and congratu lating East Kent upon the prosperity which it enjoys through the exceptional fertility of its soil. TIPPERARY ELECTION. Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.Ci., who has been nominated as candidate for Tipperary by the Limeric!:, Clare, and Tipperary Farmers' Club is a " staunch nationalist for the cause of tenant right." The tenants of the three counties, recognising his ex tensive support of their cause, hope to derive much advantage from his presence in Parliament. If some of the candidates for this seat do not thin off the contest will probably be a lively affair. Six names besides Mr. Butt's have been mentioned; one of these is Mr. Gill, who is conduct ing his candidature under the unfavourable condition of undergoing imprisonment for debt. He believes that his arrest is an electioneering stratagem. T.T.ECTION COMMISSIONS. The commissioners at Norwich are determined to get at the whole truth if they examine every voter on the register. Their perseverance and energy are having their reward, though necf ssarily much time is wasted, so to speak by the questioning of witnesses who know nothing of the bribery which has taken place. Mr. Baron Martin's inouiry has, of course, made the way clearer than it might have been. The commissioners ore availing themselves of the information which was given before him. A man who had proved bribery on the election petition was called on Monday, and gave some details of the doings of the Conservatives in one of the public-houses of the borough. lie stated that twenty-five men who had gathered at the " Trumpet" had been supplied by Sir Stracey's agents with beer ad lib., and were paid 7s. Gd. each for their votes. They evidently assem bled in the house for the purpose of getting money. They had an interview with Sir Henry himself, and told him that they could not pay their rates ; but he replied that it was "no use." Sir Irenry,however, went out, talking earnestly with a Mr. Hunt, end when the latter gentleman came back, he bought beer in large quantities, made proposals to divide £5 among the lot, and finally paid the men 7s. Gd. each in a room upstairs. All the men, it is worthy of note, did not support the candidate on whose behalf the money was paid them. Another commission of inquiry was opened on Monday. Messrs. Chisholm Anstey, Price, and Columbe have commenced an investigation into the way in which elections have been conducted at Bridgwater. The work will hardly he so lengthy or so difficult as that at Norwich. Bridgwater is smaller; the facts are more easily obtain able than they would be in a larger place. As at Norwich, there are symptoms of hang ing back on the part of witnesses. The Chief Commissioner—Mr. Price, Q.C.,—addressing the crowd, which had nssembled on Monday, reminded the pul . di? that goin:7; away wan of no use. The Commissioner could and would adjourn for the pro duction of evidence. TIID licsir LAND QUEF=TION. has l e ft Tip perary f or The Times " Cumuli *on. r" Ci:shel, where, amid much bad farming and poverty, he f7nds abundant scope for si . e.ailation. Bele as in ether parts of Ireland, the I:.st few yeati have brought great improvements. The surplus popula tion has gone, the land has been ext. mively cleared. and on some estates, such as that of Lord Derby, the husbandry is good. This is unfortunately not the general state of affairs. Mud cabins, inhabited by a race of poor cottiers, are common. The estate of the Commissioners of Cashel is for the most par parcelled amongst small yearly tenants at a cheap rate. But the farms are with few exceptions ill-tilled and the occupiers seem of an unthrifty class. Thi maditiQn_a_ the xenle _halt yaittlyiuntruedofJata THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1869. years, and cannot, the Commissioner thinks, be de emee unprosperous. Agricultural wages, which were formerly eightpence a day, are now Bs. to Ps. a week, with plots of land added. The small farmers are not likely to hold their own unless they try spade husbandry ; but those with moderate holdings are in reasonably easy circumstances, Yet, on the whole, though absentee landlords are less numerous than in Tipperary, the landed system is of the salve char acter. The owners are Protestants, the cultivators are Catholics. Large estates are under the care of agents Most of the improvements are made by the occupiers, and in few instances has compensation been given. Most of the occupiers are tenants-at-will. Hence 7 grievous wrong, though not common, occurs sometimes. In one case a landlord allowed an occupier to pay 2600 for the good-will of the previous tenant, and evicted the new corner shortly afterwards without any just reason. The Commissioner gives one instance of the good effect produced by merely substituting a durable for a precarious tenure. Mr. Bianconi, a largo proprietor in the Cashel district, purchased two lots of the Portarlington estate in 7855. The rental of the lands was .305 ; they were held "by tenants-at-will, who formed a lazy and beggarly population," and the rents were in ordinary seasons in arrear. Mr. Bianconi increased the rental to £473; but he gave the occupiers leases for thirty-one years, and the result has been that without the expenditure of a shilling upon the part of the landlord, except in the repair of farmsteads the higher rent has always been paid, " and the tenantry are now a contented yeomanry." Mr Bianconi holds the belief that there would never have been any land question, if the owners hae . been fairly liberal with improvements and in granting leases. One of the most interesting features in the landed system round Cashel is a considerable colony of English farmers who have turned a waste covered with the wrecks of small holdings " into a scene worthy of the best counties of England." These colonists were at first met with much hostility ; but by giving good wages, and by dealing fairly with the poor, they have made them selves liked and esteemed as benefactors The Englishmen themselves admit that the Irish, if liberally treated, could compete fairly with them. "Itis a silly libel to deny the capacity of the Irish tenant to work hard—he taker readily to an improved mode of agriculture, and he brings to his aid, when fairly dealt with, the strong arms, and stout hearts, and the shrewd wit of his whole household." Tarbell, which lasted an hour and a half, ana it asserts that the report has been published by the express authority of the President himself. The subject of the conversation was the state of affairs in Mississippi. The President said his only desire was peace and unity, and he would do anything to bring that about; but he looked with suspicion on the professions of the late rebels, who seemed to aim at dividing, not aiding, the Republican party. His own sympathies were altogether with the Republicans, and he fully approved of General Ames's administration. fought a fight so gallant and determined as scarcely to be equalled, ending in a defeat such as to pros trate her at the feet of her foe, we maintain that she has little cause to complain of her treatment. Mr. KEILEY asserts that the object of the war has been attained in establishing the paramount autho rity of the Union ; in the renunciation of the right of secession; and in the civil and political enfranchise ment of the blacks ; and the Northern people hav ing engrafted into the constitution of Virginia through the vote of her citizens, the objects for which they contended, do not desire further to in terfere in State matters. But the Republican party he thinks wish to use their authority to uphold their supremacy and to enforce on the Virginians not only their principles, but to compel their aid. This he considers to be an unjustifiable use of the power the country has bestowed, which if persisted in will lead to the destruction of the party, but only through great suffering to the Virginians. To avoid that, and to put the Republican party right, he writes, while frankly saying that if it were not for those dire calamities he anticipates for his State and f.:1low -citizens he would welcome the persistent hostility of the Radical party to the moral sense of tLe people as the surest road to its utter destruction. There is no doubt that each party has endeavoured to proscribe the other, and that each with power to act used it unscrupulously to disfranchise the other side. When the war ceased, and the civil rights for a moment returned to the hands of the whites, they proceeded to re-enact slavery in a modified form. When checked in this, after the supremacy had been thrown into the hands of the carpet-bagger and the negro, 80 per cent. of the blacks, according to Mr. ICEILEY, voted to exclude from office and from the jury box nearly the entire white population of Vir ginia. The whites had endeavoured to make slaves of the newly emancipated blacks, and the blacks re turned the compliment by endeavouring to make slaves of their old masters, the whites. The African conquered in the political war which followed the contention of armies, and a State constitution was drawn up, which not only guaranteed the equal rights of the coloured men in the strongest manner, but disfranchised and excluded from office all the leading citizens of the State. The PRESIDENT or dered the Constitution thus framed by the negroes and their leaders, to be submitted to the vote of Vir ginia ; not as a whole, but in parts (we mean with reference to the contention between the races), and the people almost unanimously, while sanction ing the equal rights of the negro, voted down the disfranchisement of the white—that is, the popular voice was for equal rights to all, the races com promising the matter by surrendering their exclusive platforms. The question which has now arisen is whether the newly-elected Legislature is to be sub jected to the Test Oath. General CANDY proposes to enforce it, and this would nullify the election of the Conservatives, In case his decision be maintained the commanding General virtually again disqualifies the leading citizens of Virginia for office ; hence the bitterness of the protest against it in the South. It is a weapon in Radical hands in the event of action being taken on the impression that the late triumph is purely Democratic, to be used wholly and unscru pulously in the Democratic interest ; and in this dread Mr. KEILEY writes. It is the moving spring, too, of the numerous meetings the cable tells us are now taking place in Virginia. The feeling of the country is against General CANBY, the desire being to give Virginia and the other unreconstructed States a fair chance, the more so, as it is freely con ceded that the citizens of the Old Dominion have hitherto acted with moderation and good sense.— Anglo American Times. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, August 7. The President has left the Stetson House, Long Branch, after a little speech-making and a great deal of hand-shaking. He and his family are now at the house of Secretary Fish on the Hudson, whence he will proceed to Saratoga, where great disappointment was felt on receipt of a letter he bad written from Washington, announcing that he would not reach that watering place till the 18th. There he is to be the guest of Warren Lelland of the Union Hotel, one of whose prettiest cottages has been pre pared for him. General Grant's progress is marked by speech-making and hand-shaking; the latter not a bad device of the people to keep their President from swelling out with pride, the physical exercise being something, and its moral effect reminding him that the owner even of an unwashed hand is his fellow-citizen. We had a sensation in the seizure of the gunboats now being built for Spain. Mr. Delamater, shipbuilder, contracted to construct 30 ; building 15 at Mystic, Connecticut ; 8 in his own yard at the foot of Thirteenth-street, North River; 4 at Poillon's, Brooklyn ; and 4 at Stack's, Green Point. Marshal Barlow, being informed that they were intended for use against Peru, sent two depu ties to Mystic on Tuesday, having first telegraphed to the Connecticut Marshal to prevent any of the vessels he designed to seize from leaving. He then despatched others to Delamater's yard, who were met by Mr. Reynolds. The Superintendent, on learning their errand, obtained permission to pro ceed with the work to completion, the understand ing being that the boats were in charge of the Mar shal. This seizure was not under a special writ, but under the general order of the President to pre vent any breach of neutrality. The vessels are evi dently designed for lake and river navigation ; the propellers are very small ; the tonnage 188 ; length, 105 feet, breadth 25 feet, depth 8 feet; to draw 5 feet of water ; and each to carry a 100-pounder. Mr. Barlow has received a letter signed by Ryan and Currier from Niagara, asking the Marshal's permission to return on parole to appear for exami nation, promising to abstain further from violating the neutrality laws, a rather cool request, consider ing that the gentleman had already given and for feited bail, forcibly escaping from the hands of jus tice after the grand jury had found a true bill. Mar shal Barlow informed them that he could not accede to their request, their case altogether differing from the others. Last Saturday the police received a telegram addressed to Superintendent Kennedy from Inspector Bailey of the Landon City Police, asking to have three persons on a charge of forgery arrested on the arrival of the Russia. In the ab sence of Mr. Kennedy, Inspector Dilkes sent two detectives on board the steamer when she reached port, and arrested Clement Harwood, alias Charles Hope Chalmers, alias Edward Cookson ; Charles Cookson, alias John Hatcher, and the wife of the latter. They were much surpised on being taken into custody. Our authorities were referred to Mr. Miller, a lawyer of 68, Wall-street, who was to receive the necessary papers from Messrs. Tatem, Curling, and Wall of London. The first intimation, however, of the affair that lie got was from the inspec tor's visit ; but he knew the eminent London firm mentioned, though be knew nothing of the firms on whom the forged cheques were drawn, nor the banks alleged to be robbed. Harwood's money was in French notes, except a £5OO Bank of England note, twenty-one £lOO notes, and some smaller notes and sovereigns. The whole was taken possession of by the police, amounting to $65,000, and the facts were communicated to the English Consul and a despatch sent to the English firm. The men are young and gentlemanly in appearance, and the woman looks refined, all being evidently accustomed to comfort. She was allowed to depart, and there appears to be no evidence against her husband, except that he was in Harwood's society. She put up at the St. Charles' Hotel, and revealed that her husband and Harwood are cousins, and were stockbrokers of the city of Lon don. Herhusband shortly before their departure for New Yot k wen t to Paris; he iu tended to join Harwood in business in the United States, and it was arranged that he should receive from him a salary of $2OO a month. He wished her to remain for a short time in England, but she so strongly objected that within a notice of six hours she embarked in the Russia, his consent being obtained at the last moment. It was only on the passage that she learnt that their names had been registered on the steamer's books as Cookson, but this was explained by the state room being taken by persons named Cookson, who had failed to appear, and it had been handed over to them without change of name. The two men have been held by request till an English officer can reach New York. There was a meeting on the subject of the East River Bridge, at Brooklyn, last Tuesday. The half million of dollars which remain to be subscribed had been wholly taken up, with 10 per cent. in hand. Mr. Washington Roebling, the son of the engineer to whom it had been entrusted, and who is now in Europe to examine works of a similar character, is to construct the bridge. He is spoken of in the highest terms, both with regard to his ecru and great professional ability. It is probable that Mr. Horatio Allen will be selected to consult with him, and Mr. Roebling will receive the salary his father asked, $B,OOO. The work of the sparrows is in the highest degree satisfactory in Central Park, but some of• our light-fingered gentry have taken to stealing our little English pets. I believe you regard them as very common-place, grain-stealing, nest-building, feathered bipeds, but perhaps if they were all swept out of England you might begin to appreciate their value. They have cleared away a nuisance of insect vermin which dis figured and damaged the trees; and now that we see what useful arid pleasant little things they are, the wonder is that they were not long ago intro duced. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 Postmaster-General Creswell was recovering from the injury he sustained by the tilting back wards of his chair, and he is expected here on Mon day. All the other Secretaries, except Rollins and Cox, have left Washington, and it is said that there will be no regular Cabinet meeting during the month. General Cochrane has positively declined the Collectorship of the Sixth District of New York, and recommended for the post the former deputy-collector. Now that the post is open, the struggle to secure it is very hard, and, as usual, candidates present themselves bearing recommenda tions from the same influential Congressmen. No wonder Mr. Delano is puzzled, and I suppose Bluth testimonials will soon be reckoned as worthless, by the chiefs of bureaux. The Commissioner has decided on transferring to different parts of the country the supervisors of Internal Revenue, moving them sud denly from place to place. By this means he will prevent the alliance of revenue officers with the " rings," which, he believes, will greatly increase the revenue. Hitherto it has been the habit to ap point such detectives, internal revenue inspectors, and gaugers as may be recommended by the higher revenue officers, and this rule has also been abo lished. The working of the Internal Revenue since the inauguration of the present Administration has furnished abundant evidence that the measures adopted to prevent fraud and honestly to collect the revenue have been attended with good result. The morale of the service is improved, and the increase in the collections is a matter of surprise and con gratulation to the officials. Especially is this the case in New Orleans, and generally along the Mis sissippi ; but it is marked as well throughout the South, where it is believed that illicit distillation has been nearly broken up, and Custon House frauds, and collections on tobacco, though on a smaller scale, show the same improvement. The seceders from the Congregational Church have or ganized themselves into a Second Church with Dr. Boynton as pastor. The money has been sub scribed for a year's expenses. General Howard is at the head of the First Church. There was a great fire at Philadelphia yesterday morning, which destroyed the United States Bonded Warehouse on Lombard-street wharf, better known as Patterson's storehouse, a six-storey brick building, 250 feet by 150 feet, and containing 40,000 barrels of whisky, and other goods, valued at ten or eleven millions of dollars. The whisky was carried flaming through the streets, destroying the hose used by the fire men, but happily a heavy thunder storm set in at the time. As the liquor streamed on fire into the sewers, it exploded the noxious gases generated there and caused great panic. it appears that the portion of the building over the engine room was over-weighted with the whisky, which falling through to the furnace set the building in flames. It was considered fireproof with 18-inch walls be tween each of the eight stores, with iron doors and sbutters,but they burnt up as if constructed of wood. They were built 15 years ago, and were used till recently for Government stores. The principal losers arc the limeys, Catherwood, and J. Gibson's Sons ; four children were reported killed and several injured. Some time ago I mentioned that the Pre sident had shut out the public from the grounds be hind the Executive Mansion, consisting of some 10 or 12 well-wooded acres, with comfortable settees, to which those unable to get away from Washington much resorted during the hottest months. The marine band played there oa the afternoons of Sa turdays, and numbers rested themselves on the iron seats, enjoying the cool breezes of the Potomac till sunset, when the grounds were closed. The con servatories and gardens of the White House are railed off, so far preserving its privacy. The last day on which they were opened to the public was the celebration of Independence Day, when they were especially made over for the enjoyment of the coloured inhabitants of Washington ; but next day two policemen were stationed, one at the Fifteenth and the other at the Seventeenth-street entrance, to enforce the President's order closing the grounds against the public. Horses have been turned in, and the substitution of these interesting quadrupeds for themselves has been taken in high dudgeon by our citizens, one of whom is reported, I hope untruly, to have in spite administered to a favourite steed of the General a doze of arsenic, which finished its career, and mulcted the owner in a sum of $3,000. I am glad to say Grant can afford this, for be is the recipient of so many gifts that he is becoming almost wealthy ; the last was a present of 50 acres of land at Bricksburg, which a gentleman presented to him during his stay at Long Branch. Probably this gen. tleman designed that the President should build on these acres which might have the effect of running up the value of the surrounding property which he bad laid out in building lots. Although the Pre sident may not look his gift horses in the mouth the people are pretty sure to do so, and such is the notion that presents itself to your correspondent.* The contention between Mr. Roberts, the Spanish Minister, and Colonel Freyer, the Peruvian Minis ter, over the gunboats seized by Marshal Barlaw, amuses us all. The one strives for their release, the other for their detention, and both have hurried to New York to see the matter out. The trial of Surgeon Green closes to-day, but the verdict will not be given till next week. Much interest has been excited,. as it is a test case between the line and the staff involving their rights. The orders changing the relative rank have caused great discontent ; one would think the Government worked up and down in the premises so as to dis gust the greatest possible number. Yesterday and to-day the chief excitement has been the election in Tennessee. Memphis has gone for Senter 2,000, and with Memphis went the hopes of the Radicals, for though a Conservative city its negro vote was heavy, and the Radical probability of success lay in the solid vote of the coloured population for their candidate. This shows a division among the negroes, and on that division the Conservatives will not only be successful in Tennessee, but in other Southern States. A National Convo,ntion of liquor dealers is to be held here in December to get the old tax of $2 per gallon re-imposed. They are very patriotic these liquors dealers, and are only anxious that the revenues of the country should be increased. But your correspondent has a fancy on this point also, which is that they find the present tax leaves no margin to the " ring" on which to work for the corruption of the more honest officials of the present Adminis tration. It is not surprising that liquor dealers should hold that all men have their price, the dif ference between a Grant man and a Johnson man being that the form er is a higher - priced official than the latter; I hope that Congress will put an ex tino•uisher over them. The public sale in Baltimore sotne three weeks ago of the Temple Farm is of in terest, a 3 it is the spot whereon Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army. It consists of more than 400 acres, well cultivated and well situated, yet it only brought $B,OOO. * Our correspondent is mistaken ; he is not aware that the Presidout declined the gift.—(En. A.A.T.) DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are: the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re 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. Dunville and Co , Belfast; or 4, Beaufortrbuildings,Strand, London, W,C.—[Ad vex tinzent_ THE FENIAN PRISONERS. A demonstration was held on Sunday at Drogheda for the purpose of " bringing public opinion to bear" upon the Government to effect the release of the Fenian convicts. The managers did not seem to care much for the quality of the public opinion they got together ; for of 8,000 sympathisers, the majority were youths and gamins. The " City of Dublin Chimney Sweepers " figured largely. The Rev. ➢lr. Mackey, one of several priests who attended, opened the proceedings with a speech well fitted to enhance the character of the public opinion which was that day " brought to bear." It was said that the• Fenians had done nothing. Mr Maskey maintained that they had got themselves in gaol, and was that nothing ? Then they were the real and substantial cause of the Irish Church Act Without Fenianism the Government would never have attained that salutary condition of fear which led to disestablishment and disendowment. In order that the prisoners might complete the good work they had so nobly begun, the meeting, with great enthusiasm, demanded their immediate release. BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT. As the new bankruptcy law involved the winding up of the late Insolvent Debtors' Court, it was neces sary to pass an Act repealing all the statutes referring to that institution. A clean sweep which will gladden the hearts of law students is thus made. On the Ist of January next, thirty-seven Acts, from Edward I. to the 31st and 32nd of Victoria, will be either in part or wholly repealed, and the Bankruptcy Act of 1861, which abolished the Insol vent Debtors' Court, will also be null and void. The Bankruptcy Act of 1861 got rid of the principle of payment to creditors out of subsequently- acqu i re d property, but it is revived by the new law, and until 10s. in the pound is paid subsequently-acqui re d property is liable. Thus the jurisdiction of the late Insolvent Court, which was abolished in 1861, is preserved, but transferred to the new tribunal created by the Act of this year. COINAGE. Professor Stanley Jevons keeps up the currency discussion by a reply to Mr. Hubbard's strictures on certain calculations made by the former. The Bank director was rather guilty of wandering in his late letters. Mr. Lowe's proposal is that a mintage should be charged and that this mintage should be such as to render the English sovereign equal in value to a French twenty-five-franc piece, which it exceeds at present by tenpence. Professor Jevons% calculations, on the other hand, had reference only to the amount and condition of oi:r gold coinage—a qumtion Which has but a collateral bearing upon Mr. Lowe's scheme. The Professor, however, strongly upholds the change recommended . by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Tho present free coinage system works to the advan tage of a few great bullion dealers. A small charge for coining is "a most sound aid rational measure." At the same time, the Professor supports his own cal culations, though these have no direct connection with the mintage proposed. Ile brought forward figures to prove that a certain proportion of our gold coins were light, and he still maintains that these_ figures aro correct. TUE ALBERT ASSURANCE COMPANY. One of the effects of the policy adopted by the Albert Office in incorporating numerous other assu rance companies was that large sums of money were paid as compensation to the servants of the offices which were swallowed up. In the amalgamation of the Bank of London and National and Provincial Insurance Office with the Albert, the officers of the former received nearly £30,000 as compensation, of which sum Mr. Clench got £B,OOO. This gentleman writes defending the transaction. lle was manager of the company, his appointment was for life, and his salary was £1,500 a year. Surely, he argues, £B,OOO was poor compensation for the surrender of such an income:— " Mr. Gladstone, in a recent valuation of salaried inte rests, asked the people of this country, through their representatives, what they considered fair compensation for the loss of office ? The House of Commons has said, in reply, that they were entitled, on an average, to four teen years' purchase of their salaries. Taking, therefore, the amount of compensation sanctioned by both Houses of the Legislature, I should have been entitled to fourteen years' purchase of my £1,500 per annum ; this would have amounted to £21,000." This is all very well, but Mr. Clench omits to con sider one or two important points. What does he think of amalgamating assurance companies as a system, and of paving compensation, not to one officer, but to scores ? What can he say in favour of the principle of appointing " life managers" to offices, especially when the " life manager" is also the founder of the company, as Mr. Clench was ? And can he give us any information about the position of the com pany to which ho was life manager at the time it was united to the Albert? Some of these amalgamated companies not to mention Mr. Clench's—were worthless at the time of their incor poration. If they were worthless, what was the value of the interests of their officers, " life managers" or otherwise? On all these pertinent matters Mr. Clench leaves us in darkness. FOREIGN NOTES. THE SULTAN AND THE VICEROY. It Is reported that the Viceroy will pay a visit to Con stantinople by the middle of September, and that the Sultan will give him a brillant reception. The reconca tion between the sovereign and his powerful vassa f is understood to be quite complete. The arrival of the Khedive will have been preceded by his explanatory letter in reply to the Sultan's note, of which some parts have been made known, and which is said to have been most satisfactory to all parties concerned. The Egyptian difficulty is thus disposed of for the present. BOHEMIA. Bohemia is full of electoral excitement. The eighty one Czech deputies who resigned their offices when they addressed their protest to tho Diet against tho Con stitution of 1867, are to be replaced. The Czechs are making every exertion to procure their re-election. Some violent displays of feeling have talcen place, and the police are daily seizing placards calling for a repeal of th• taxes. A grand fête is to be held on the Bth of September in honour of John Huss, and to this Ma zzini and Garibaldi have been invited. THE EXHIBITION AT LEIPSIC. The Industrial Exhibition at Leipsic has been carriedon with spirit. Its chief object was to challenge competition in objects of substantial value. With regard to the strno ture, all was arranged in the most artistic fashion, and the building was of ample dimensions. The Palace was crowded with visitors from the first, and the Exhibition was popular in consequence of the moderate rate of charges. Ore circumstance worthy of notico in the Leipsic Exhibition was that ftw individuals figured in more than one department in the list of exhibi tors. The Leipsicers have complaincl that they had not much time to prepare, and that sufficient support was not given to them ; but, on the whole, the affair has been most creditable. The exhibition kept steadily to its purpose. GENERAL GRANT'S POLITICAL VIEWS. The new American President has always been remark. able for his reticence, and he has repeatedly baffled the curiosity of those who- tried to elicit his views on general - politics. "According to the New Yale Timm, he has now become more communicative. That journal retorts the subatance_of a__COlLYeriAtiol3 with .clentral THE AMERICAN RAILROAD WAR. The war of the railway companies in America has already produced an open collision between the contend ing parties. Frem twelve to fourteen hundred men are gathered along the line, and a battle royal was fought between the Erie party and the Albany party on the 10th of August. The scene of action chosen appears to unprejudiced readers needlessly dangerous and perplex ing, for it is located in a tunnel. The battle Wal pre ce led by an intentional collision between two loco motives coming in opposite directions with the mcn of the rival parties. Happily the engines appear to have been the only sufferers by this collision ; but in the fight which ensued, and in which the Albany party was vic torious, several persons were seriously injure 1. Governer Hoffman, however, intimated to the combatants that if the riotous proceedings did not end, lie would declare the district in insurrection and take possession of the road. If they thought such a course advisable for the stockholders, and wished that the State should be put to the expense of a quarter of a million ( f dollars to enforce his proclamit:oa, they m'ght take tic responsibility, but his course was clear. This firmness producei an immediate effect, and the counsel of the opposing parties united in requesting the governor to appoint a superintendent for the road', which he accord ingly did, directing Major•Geneial M'Quade to assume the control of the road, and to make arrangements for the immediate running of regular trains. The public will at all events have reason to rejoice at this interference. Messrs. Pruyn, Ilanasey, and Von Valkenberg, of the Erie party, were arrested in the Executive Chamber for contempt of court. Fisk, understanding, it is said, that a warrant would be i s sue 1 for his a-iest, chartered a steamboat, and started for New Yolk. STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. The advocates of the Temperance cause are bestirring themselves actively in America, and a State crnvention of temperance men has been formed in Connecticut, to con sult upon the organisation of an independent political temperance party. Several re ;olutions embodying their principles and endorsing the Prohibitory Laws were valued after some discussion. POLITICS IN VIRGINIA. Although there still are doubts as to the nature of the triumph in Virginia outside the State, there are few inside the State. The Radicals declare that there is no more proscriptive party than this one now triumphant ; that no true Republicanism will be tolerated by them. They " proscribe, ostracise, and cordially hate," -says a Radical writer, " and, left to themselves, will divest the present Constitu tion of every Republican feature, and will act with the Democratic party in the next Presidential elec tion." This is the key-note to much of the enmity against the Conservatives. The party which most loudly professes liberty is frequently the most narrow and exacting as well as intolerant of the opinions of others. What the writer desired was so to frame the laws that he could force Virginia if permitted to vote at all into voting as he and his party dictated ; that is, he required, on high moral grounds of course, that what once was a great State of the Union should either have no voice in the affairs of the nation whereof it formed part, or that its voice should be a mere echo of his own. Can he give any fair reason why Virginia should not support the Democratic ticket at the next Pre sidential election ? how does he even know that he will not support that ticket himself ? If he were not so absorbed in his own little issues he might see the changes occurring in parties. The objects contended for, perhaps even the names, may all be re-cast before the President is elected for the next term, while nothing in the future is more probable than that the change will date from the re-entry into the Union of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, with the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. Most men, aware of what is going on around, would like to await events before committing themselves to any course ; but a Radical of the War-horse school in Virginia can only see the negro and the unrepen tant rebel, no issues apart from them being to him visible. A Jesuit arrives at something like these opinions, and would justify them by the same rea soning as the Virginia Radical, though the two are at the extremities of the line, proving the truth of the old saying that extremes meet. Mr. KEILEY, a dele gate to the new Legislature, who describes himself as an unrepentant rebel, his written an able letter, giving the Conservative view of the situation in Virginia. lie enumerates the hardships the Old Dominion has had to endure from the hostility of the Republican party for the last four years. But one native Judge ; her three Judges of the Court of Appeal, strangers, as well as her Governor; her Public Auditor an Army Quartermaster, her Secre tary a Staff-officer of the General ; without, Lieut.- Governor, Attorney-General, or Legislature ; trial by jury at the General's will ; the municipal officers everywhere turned out to make room for carpet baggers ; the Post-office given to a lady as a reward for being a spy in their midst during the war ; the Treasury department under a man indicted in the United States Circuit Courtfor perjury, and UNDER WOOD in the Judicial department. Many counties are without a sheriff, a clerk, or a constable ; for six months, no Circuit Court could be held in Pe tersburgh for want of a clerk. Notwithstanding throughout the whole Union there is no more orderly and peace ful community than that of Virginia, an assertion Mr. KELLEY thus aptly illustrates. A New Yorker, a Circuit Judge, by military appointment, lately re turned to Richmond after a tour of his circuit, hav ing found but one criminal in custody in all the counties, and him he could not try because there was no clerk of the Court. This he holds effectually to settle all pretence "about the guarantees for public order," as no proof could more completely show how thoroughly the people restrained themselves, resist ing the strong temptation to take the law into their own hands. 'rho only case of lynching was by blacks upon their brethren who voted the Conser vative ticket, while a man guilty of an aggravated felony in a certain county who could not be al.- rested, as there was no legal machinery there to do so, was allowed to escape, rather than that the law, even in its mere forms, should be violated. While we admire this attitude of the citizens of Virginia little le - ss than we do their gallantry and efficiency in the field, we maintain that Mr. KELLEY is not justified in advancing such trials as an almost intol erable grievance. It may appear intolerable to such a self-willed people as Southerners iu general, that they should thus have to endure ; yet we venture to assert that no great war ever cl.osed in so com plete a defeat without the vanquished being com pelled to submit to much more than has been in flicted on the Virginians, and of this Mr. KELLEY, unconsciously to himself, furnishes a very forcible example. Ire writes to the leading Radical paper, proclaiming himself to be " an unpardoned and un repentant rebel," yet he it a delegate elect to the new Legislature ! That is, a man who not only was in open rebellion, workinghis worst for the destruc tion of the Union, after fcur years when elected to the State Legislature, writes to advise the trium phant party, prefacing bi 3 remarks by the state ment that they are from ore, still a rebel. Let peo ple in Europe realise this case, and they will cease to talk in England and elsewhere of the cruel injus tice, of the rule of tyrann3 and oppression to which the Southern States have leen subjected. If Euro peans want to know how tie Russians suppressed a rebellion they ought to vish Poland ; how the Aus trians crush a revolt, they should look up their re cords in Italy ; how the Sptniards act, may now be seen either in Cuba or in S)ain ; and what the vir tuous and enlightened Engliali do under these cir cumstances can be gathered from a truthfully writ ten history of the Indian Uutiny. It appears in t .ilerable to such a community as the Virginians to be denied the rights to wlich they were born, and exercised till thus interrupted ; but when they made their appeal to arms sow , of them must surely have calculated on what would follow a defeat, and if they expected to get of at less cost than they have after expending their last man and musket, their faith is great in hum) nature in general, and in Yankee nature in particuar. The war may have inflicted a terrible punishmtnt ; the Southern cause may have been just or unjist, this we do not now discuss, but taking the kW fact that Virginia OM THE PUBLIC DEB OF AIIEI2IO. Decrease since July 1, $7,435,741 sinco March 11 1869, $43,896,523. The following is the official s t a t emen t of the Ploil, debt of the United States, on the Ist day of Augus t ' :o compared with the figures given at the correspond'ug last year : - DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. 0569. Aug. 1, 1868. Aug' 5 89,0 Five per cont. bonds 5221,588,400 6221,6..760 Six per cent. bonds of 'Bl 283,677,300 2 3,1'6 ' 64, 0 Six per cent. 5-20 bonds ---- - Total bearing coin in. DEBT BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST. 510 , 00 a r 0 Three per cont. certificates $50,000,000 , P d- ' , •,•„09, Throe year coin. in. notes 21,601,890 110"' Navy pension fund - - „ --- „ I 10, 0 ,, 1 ' i1 y Total bearing cur'cy ie 584,601,890 V''''- 8 40 0 " 4, 1 - ' Matured not paid DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. 10 , , a 3 5 6, AP Unite:l States Notes 5356,021,073 w - ,,i 0307 - gt o Fractional Currency ,I -, Gold Certificates -------.. 0 3 , 4 1 3 Total bearin g no i nterest $410,302,891 6 2 ' ( /' n RECAPITULATION. 1 flei 93 , 1 Debt bearing coin interest $2,088,371,8C0 s 2 ,', - - 1 1 810,'1 Debt bearing currency int't 84,604,890 , 0 ": 1 1 872,„'74 De'ot bearing no interest -7 Matured ilubt not paid __-- -- 4, 90 601,40 .20 Total $2,601,378,75 6 $ 2 7 , 0 860,° , Bonds issued to Pac. RR Co 32 210,000 v ' ~., . -----,, 6 1 , b9 Grand Total ...... ... $2,633,588,73 6 $ 2 7" - ' g o AMOUNT IN TILE TREASURY. ~h 3.1 31,„v0 Coin Currency 26,644,3 38 , 1 931 ,1 0 9 Sinking fund 1 1 1 , 1 5 7 4' Other purchased bonds ---. -- -- 156,t3 Total in Treasury "4 2 - 6 s ls '7os s' $llO,OO , , -08 Debt less cash in Treasury 2,523,534,480 27D ' „4/ Decrease of the National Debt since August l', A , Of ' 1, 1868 VARIATIONS FROM LAST YEAR. pe e. llo Increase. Debt bearing coin interest.... $19,559,50 0 14, 0 Debt bearing currency irate- 6191 1 ,.' rest Debt bearing no interest 13,569, 968 •13,3 00 4 o f Matured debt not paid ............... ~,te o ,0. The following table compares the Augusta o 1 6 . the public debt with the previous one made on " July:- 1 IF 69 ' DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. , tie .,,,300 July 1,186 9 • '. 2 11,5P600 Five per cent. bonds 5221,589,300 TD,,53671,09 Six per cent bonds of 'Bl Six per cent 5-20 bonds ------ ,07,931, Total bearing coin interest $2,107,930,600 s 2 7' ,003 DEBT BEARING CURRENCY I NTEIiEs%O,3F„ , O9 O Three per cent. certificates $52,120,000 u 1.4,00" Navy pension fund 14,000,0 00 ...... .„.. -- 0 , .00 0 ____---- 87,496 Total bearing curr'cy int't $66,120,000 P 4,7 9 ' 4 Matured, not paid t 16,1 0 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. , 9 56,- 40- United Status notes ~ eV, Fractional currency 32,062, 027 96, 7 Gold certificates ....,...<08,59 -.------ ~,103,815, Total bearing no interest $418,608,40 V „, 900 ,9 0 ,„,,0 RECAPITULATION. a g 101 1 gi Or . , Debt bearing coin interest $2,107,930, 600 iP - ' 6 4 7 ° ,1" , 26. 7 ," Debt bearing currency inte't 66,120,000 423,5.,,-'95,, .9,,, Debt bearing no interest 418,608,09 4........,>/ Matured debt not paid ------- :, 6°1, 1 Total Bonds issued to Pacific Rail road 6'l 31° 60, 86° % road Company __„----,-,4.936 _----- - ~.6 , , 6 " Grand total 52,656,461,303 $2 0,01 AMOUNT IN TREASURY. ^03, 1 16 01 Coin Currency Sinking fund 6 1 3 1 7 8 0 ,:0 2 8 9 0 6 7 2 7 ,: 87 3 1 8 192 2 2 1 3 3 , c 9 41 _ , 2 0 1: 011251 94 (11. Other purchased bonds ------- 6 . 0 .6 , 1, yoo, Total cash in Treasury 5156,167,813 „,508,1 Debt less cash in Treasury *lncrease of the National Debt since JOY' 814 1, 1869 ............................................. VARIATIONS FROM LAST MONTIi• p ac ,,-. 45° ' 0 10 Increase. IA Debt bearing coin inte res t s 7oo 81, , Debt bearing cur'cy interest ...... .. , •.:'lO Debt bearing no interest 5,264 ,369 21 'to' i li Matured scat_ *ln this statement no mention is made 01 10 0 coo, pi terest, and the bonds issued to the Pacific 63 . 1 Ae eor. o , pany are calculated as part of the public debt-dst;erneteot,l to the report of Treasurer Boutwell, who ad ~,d, the tin; terest and ignores the bonds issued to that IZeteotl" debt exibits a decrease during the past 1 1100 t to $7,435,744. ___„,....," i ,, - g,o 6. , The question who loses by the great 11 0 L rie „, an d i v poolaQu Queen's, e t l e n an c n, e sd, of of London Lon do London,na, n ladelphia is one exciting much interest in A ni . 1 f' V e . v or not without some interest here ; the loir e a l o s oo J o l o ooi widBGlsl6lo:obtoeio,s;ssaalniBddo,o:o:o:36; 1113`11;1111j3f5riltids;105::, Nort vii 0 0 0 4 Mercantile, $12,00v. The Wall Street . 1014 r i o fol l° o° among other insurance companies we no te t 0 eee n ' es os , $ $5 15 ,0 ,0 0 0 0 0 ; ; C N on or ti t n h e Now York institutions which are unfortlo, i i ' o, ltict n A t a m l , s 3 r s i c l a o n ,O , 0 8 0 be hit : -Homo, $22,000; Germania, s l s s ' , 0 00 ; ~6'000; tic, 90 0,0 00; Atl V to, st for Metropolitan, $31,000; Citizens, $20,000; 1 : ,0 00; 1 :0,0 0 . 13 ,' Commonwealth, $lO,OOO ; Corn Exchange/ S li " at io, / 1 1 ,1,1 ,1 16,11000 r - men's, $15,000; Firemen's, $15,000; Isie rc ot t:, oohet S ' Irving, $5,000 ; Market, $5,000 ; Albttn.r ,060 '; 1:010f1 $20,000; Niagara, $35,000; Loullard, s:"' 00 • ' 410 ° ' 0 $31,000 ; Excelsior, $21,000 • Fulton, 4, ' , 0 NO. , 1 16 +1- $10,000; Relief, $15,000 ; Republic, B' 2 ' , - s gS : iiite l a A letter from Richmond, Virginia , os iouil o oo title to the ownership of the Jeff. Davis T t : o f iiie.,,,,sti; soon to bo brought into litigation. The ci e l tod t °l- s , (;1 4 claims the building, and a committee aPP °I ,4 I 0 0 ' jo s 1 gate the matter reports that it is undoub'tav so t cl A tto oS S the other hand, the United States GoVe l , ll 00 , 0; 0 01 as captured property of the Confederate S: - oil t 0 1 1 ' was purchased in 1861 for $47,00 0 by t u a pr ese . ll o , clr with the view of making the Confederll }te ll pirtS, g o and it was offered to Congress, but by then',shi i t oti, v ide 4 dined; the Government thou being `:' / „ oo i oll !atifi', determined to accept of no such gratuities s , a .. ` a ideut_' ov W .. or corporations, but agreed to rent it for - 0. ',,,, / 00 11 „ 1 0 iD ° , ti l er 5' , ,./ ii s e term of office. It did rent it, but Iv.° i n iS* ' O As t, really collected for it we are not informed•ra ,- 4 . l :plaa o erit ,l organization of General Rosser's Southall° t/ a3t osi ii t ee n , ciation, an offer was made to purchas e , t he cotW e a prsP. t h o a view of raffling it off in the scheme. t ie wore a pt ' o " t i to sell, but all proceedings further than l u to s urr! ,e doe,,, terminated by the Government declining it es , au ri i b s t l. ,' property, and asserting its legal claim t ° ,,,,, te s: ', 4 0 0 , , property of the so-called Confederate 0 "; 300 del' a ° i f V. b , l t , matter has stood for some time. It ha' s ,t, lOl dOti , 0 00° i ' I, I et) to serve a bill for rent upon the to ° etineat D e n 9 is , merit is refused a motion fora writ of ele, oril i e b S_ at jot less be made, when the whole question t, _„ lo yete iii , plain) may be argued before a court o , t uv 0111401 diction and the matter finally settled:;is °re 01 ) c: 30 0 0 0 d t [ADVERTISEMENT. I -Holloway's r' s o Con a til 3 o LI „ vernal medicine of the present daY• . 0 . reg, o se to 0' fyino/ o tp ~e Is drugs can excel it in cooling, Pur l sets ° Pl' 34 se ~e .. 1 .' 40 operative qualities. The snn never the g low, a r oe , . of e its beneficial influence. No part of _ e diciae i it9e fotoli, cord its voluntary testimony to this w oe i neu ae oa (I t a lands, both civilised and savage/ it is ®f the D to i' tbe.'4 million for the internal complaints 0 1 , v igour sa lty to 4o This famous medicine gives tone au s u tores to i h o, wi l3 P o t ad tated constitution, and immediately re , .„,o , „ es t who suffer from sick headache, loss olSr d isetw t iotij of the blood, or in fact any of the interuzd. ... 00 1 q e , not utterly beyond the reach of but: o , l % oo w, a t ' lo ol 4 o ec e ol [ADVERTISEMENT.]-llyspepSia andige b iliou te d 1 0 1)5: 1 1 Debility, Consumfotion, and all ner vorp, ao , gr avit, 0 0 1 . 0 _ 0 I ; liver complaints in every stage, are only : r feetil tr o P 0 eliV rated by drugs of every description, batP s p - '00':„ 0 10,; 0 1?olf, Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arttsu-ered cv 411) 4 0, thousands of cases which had been con!os ho er ,,,ter o , , io htei norruly• N OP d D er -cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, , ors , so a ill , l e iiv i 0 flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, ie._ th , bea aeo rs , 0 ,0 0040 rig, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises u l byster iA ' 0;1 0 ' 5 , e j l tli C 't matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, ..___. h ear.,, o es t ig , ill, bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitatuotr and Slitoislalool'al6L debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, na use d l itisr s e w ' I,,of e rftly pregnancy or at sea, sinking tits, brolA- ..sm k a . ,, th re, 56 6 0 1r. of the chest, pains at the tof the s.,,,v ops 's 1 1 ,er, Or ',e n p;. shoulders, &c. We quote a few:-T he 1 ,,,,,,,,, ~ ~ ii:tqi . e i f "16 1 5 Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,41 3- q„ c cialq f 0 0 _ 0 6 P o et t health of the Holy Father is excellent, e, e,, i.in se o ; „,000_ 4 ,, c0 1, ing all other remedies, he has co nflq,u oli m be cT o °o_7 s cel . Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of r a l s urP%s thl° 0. „ll; ful at every meal. It has produce ca _ no t pl'', pill yrw„,t effect on his health, and his Holiness.7tclui sa_tr ot . 0 400 cl t e food too highly.-From the Ga l , l ,', r tr ie . re!„, of !rilf, tr ell No. 96,270-Mr. James Roberts, tullu,, sp ittl.7 7 l---t' d yor,po B : Surrey, of thirty years' diseased 1u1a,c;,,D70. 1, ,,,5rs ci yer„ . 9, derangement, and partial deafness. .. o ,ol.7 fr otli c „.Bl:'o(., de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, ofagony ble s ul e° il",o;tily No. 49,832 -"Fifty years' indescribr?: atio , ort ot o. o r nervousness, asthma, cough, cupsy v Prr TOT s lop i poo' ,; sickness, and vomiting.-Mari a jd°/il'ore th an is .. i re %;91 Beware of the many unsavoury an , i oig'S '-• , l'; ?V,/ to which, without authority, Baron ..-. ibe 11° ' O ° ri 'ohs ciously attached 48 0 ; 5 .r9 3l° Cy r *O t 6 1 In tins, at l s lid ; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21ba ~1 0. . A. AR 0 •.'B , co re, e, 21 lbs 40s.- Also Du BARRY'S BSVA I ' 1/ ctlll or hi6 tio oi le r Po wpka is packed in tin canister cups at sos„ 5 50, ce er_,, 6 0 at Is 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288.3-30811,30"5t../loodou -being about one penny per cuP• ; t BAR ti YDu BARRY and Co., No. 71/ ,'" all Grocers and Chemists der free of carriage in England on receo.ol°ft.streetr Ef t j l , If 0 1,15° ' 0 8/RV/S. ~,1 d .. oh t "rof ' 0 E.ETEn- on tho 23d inst., a , ) -_ete / IA Isle of Wight, the Marchioness of th e 11 01/ ' born. t 1 301t°n PowLETT-On the 21st inst., 0 d heir. ee b, che,,ll' 11' 5 Or f Algitha Orde Powlott, of a son tut MARRIAGES' , it it ° o f C ll OOO DANIEL-JAY-On the 24th ty°_ L ' A. panie 3 . ooo l ~t , hanger-lane Stamford -hill, lur late J0 1 3 4 0t 4 . s t t fs(l: i .ce 21st ins" o rtht 0 C , ' lIOLDSWORTH-SEARLE -OR the Jay, street, o f t; i j A i i n u n p , . l o a n n l e y , snugri°t o b n t ()r a i o n f . the Br folde s l o Ol e Redland, Bristol, Charles J q p Sea rle, Arol line, daughter of the late Jo ~.. 0 - ,9 Eil T ll3 OM Bush-lane, Canon-street, anirreto. kenbau sl 1 j Lin, t Twic FnasEn-On the 22d inst., a , _ __. 0 .....,0rt James St cart Fraser, Madras Arly.Y of oii .7 06i" r, h Lowe/ ee - LOWE-On the 20th inst., JoseP 010 coin's-inn, aged 71. Coac t ' t llanbarn WHITE - On the 23d inst., a aged 7 5 . 0 , shire, Thomas White, Esq., ag 1 0 ct , O P t ° 10 2° s/ by WI LL IA 'disoe London: Printed and PublisheTdas _ _ g offiee f _ id of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at . County 0 D I in the Precinct of the Savoy, tu the 4 , xtoill, t,,a1.. Wednesday, August 26,_1869. 40' I :__~