The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-05 00:00:00

SPAT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times remarks that the House of Lords, without knowing it, has . been passing a great competitive exami nation. The debate on the Irish Church Bill has been worthy of a great question and of a great assembly. The topics suggested by the discussion were so various, and the possible political combinations in a struggle involving con struction as well as destruction were so manifold, that the result has been to sift and probe every corner of the political capacity of the House of Lords. The debate, besides testing the political capacity of many leadingpeers, has shed a flood of light on two constitutional questions. The country is indebted to the Bishop of St. David's for a masterly exposition of the true doctrine on State " sacri lege ;" and on the second question—the relation of the two branches of the Legislature—a substantially unanimous conclusion has been arrived at, thanks mainly to Lord Salisbury. It is hardly likely to be disputed henceforth that the House of Lords, though of co-ordinate authority with the House of Commons, must bow to the national will, and that a bill on any particular question sent up by a House of Commons elected with reference to that ques tion must be received by the House of Lords as an ex pression of the national will, and be affirmed accordingly. It is for the majority to decide bow far it is reasonable to take credit to itself for deferring to this interpretation of the national will by the Lower House to the extent of reading a bill a second time, while threatening to make amendments which will transform its principle. The Standqrd says there is much reason, from all points of view but one, to regret the defeat of the motion of the Duke of Cleveland. It may be that the so-called " endow runt of Popery," would have been obnoxious to the sen sitive and jealous Protestant feeling of the nation. It would certainly have given offence to the Orange party in Ireland. But as certainly it was approved by the general con sent of impartial and independent thinkers throughoutthe country. Men of all parties and all habits of thought, except the fanatics of Liberationism, on the one side, and of Protestantism on the other—all the men who look at politics with the eye of statesmen, and regard practical consequences rather than abstract theories—all to whom the cool judgment of the nation lcoka up for guidance—all whose opinion carries with it the weight of authority, experience, and knowledge, with the exception of a few whose peculiar position prevents their expressing, or perhaps entertaining, a calm and unbiassed judgment on such a question—approved the Duke's pro position. The only point of view from which we can discern any advantage in the defeat of the amendment is this : The Government must have refused to accept it, a collision between the two Houses must have ensued, and that on a point which the public understood and cared about, and on which they might possibly have sided with the Government. On no other amendment would it be possible to get up a show of popular excitement to support the coercion of the House of Lords ; it might be possible—we cannot say—to get up a cry against the "Endowment of Popery." The Telegraph remarks that in the midst of the political and religious storm which rages round his name, and at a time when the weight of an unparalleled power might well be expected almost to overwhelm the present First Minister of England, he calmly comes forward, among the scholars, with another volume of learned expositions upon the Homeric writings. Does any Orange gentleman wish to know what " that roLLer Gladstone " was doing with his epare hours last autumn, before he under took the Premiership of England? Has any such vigorous master of invective the idea that the great disestablisher and disendower was at that time gloomily occupied apart in meditating assaults upon religion, and undermining with sinister conspiracies ;he interests of morality and Christianity ? In that case let him send to Messrs. Macmillan and Co. fur Mr. 'CTladstone's new book, the " Juventus Mundi," and if he can but understand it he will there find upon every page evidences of a nature utterly different from the fancy portraits drawn by Tory orators and Irish clergymen. It is thus that the serious spirit of the Prime Minister con- secrates the studies of his leisure hours, and even, in the I laborious recreation of his rich mind, strives to make the past illuminate the present, and both further the " one increasing purpose" of humanity. But the major part of such a volume can, of course, interest only scholars and philosophic minds. The " Juventue Mundi" must have its popular side chiefly because it presents an example of great faculties for the course of human progress exercised with unwearied power. The people will see with admiration the spectacle of a First Minister, as true to the weighty ree•pousibr!ities of his life with the pen as with the tongue, finding his repose in studies which others call toil ; asking only that, day by dxr, in public and in private, he shall advance knowledge and elevate human ex istence —a statesman, in effect, whose immense experience and lofty thoughts give solemnity to scholaiship—a scholar whose opulence of learning and endless resources e: mind render his states manship classical and stately. Meantime, Mr. Glad stone shews those who grumble about " hard work " that men do not die of use, but of rust rather and stagnation. The Slur thinks the question raised by the Duke of Somerest, in the House of Lords on Thursday night, as to the eligibility of the clergy of the cosestablished Church of Ireland to sit in the House of Commons, is one of very great interest and importance. The only " priest or deacon" of whom the Act of 1801 takes notice as such is a peest or deacon duly ordained by the proper atThorities, according to the ecclesias tical law of the realm. From this, then, it appears that the existing clergy of the Irish Church will, even when that Church is disestablished, retain their incapacity. AS the question will be clot whether they continue to hold any particular status as priest; or deacons, but whether they have been duly and legally ordained as such, they will clearly fall under the provisions of the Act, With respect, however, to the persons who, after the passing of the Irish Church Bill, may be ordained by the authorities of the disestablished Church, the case is very different. It follows, then, that in Ireland, after that date, no person can in point of law "be ordained to the office of priest or deacon," and as the persons of whose we are speaking will not fall under any other legal in capacity, they will be eligible. No special hardship can then be said to be imposed upon the Irish clergy, either present or future. The former made themselves eligible to receive State pay by assuming an office which imposed an incapacity ; they will continue both to receive the pay and to be subject to the incapacity. The clergy of the future will be under no disability whatever. But, although the latter persons will, in point of law, be simply laymen, they will obviously, in a spiritual sense and in the eye s o f Ch urc h men, b e as uch priests and deacons as the clergymen of the Church of England. It does not appear at all likely that the Legis lature will take measures to inflict a disability on them ; on the contrary, it seems to us very probable that the fact of their being eligible to sit in the House of Commons will be deemed an additional argument for the removal of the disability from their spiritual brethren of England. The Daily News refers to Dr. Davidson's letter on the Voysey prosecution, and believes that those who, like him, imagine it impossible to effect any important change in the creeds or articles of the Church of England, and at the same time to preserve it as an establishment, are under an entire delusion. Such a work would be equivalent to re-establishment ; and these are not the days for establishing State Churches. The Church of England has incalculable advantages in its splendid history, nevertheless it will prove most difficult for her to maintain her position as an Established Church. The very serious opposition which manifests itself in the doc trines taught in her pulpits and at her altars has already made her Establishment the e q uivalent of concurr ent endowment. The position of the Church as it regards the nation is weakened, because its character every year becomes more vague and uncertain. Whether a change in the direction indicated by Dr. Davidson would be justifiable on theological grounds is a question we leave to others ; but we take it to be morally certain that such a change would precipitate that disestablish ment of the Church which its most discerning children already see to lie inevitable. It would lead to an enormous secession from the Church, convert ths whole body of orthodox Dissenters and Wesleyans into her active enemies, and greatly strengthen the Church of Rome. But it will not happen. Difficulties there are doubtless in the position of the Church of England, but if that Church cannot stand as an institution of positive faith, it cannot stand as a mere organ of critical inquiry, for which, besides, it is not wanted. The free critical activity of an educated people is sure always to be exer cised on the greatest of all subjects. On the other band, the cause of religion in England is, under God, in the hands of the religious people of England, and we venture to think is infinitely safer there than it would be in the keeping of any Sovereign, Parliament,or Council. The Post observes that there could not be a stronger proof than is afforded by t he case of the Hu mber Iron works Company that something ought to be done to utilise the highest judicial power of the country in a way more in accordance than at present with the interests of suitors, and less irksome to the judges themselves. It is one of a class of cases, invorving intricate questions of accounts, unfitted for inves ti g ation b y a j ur y , and on which the learning and acumen of a judge are entirely thrown away. At an early part of the hearing the Lord Chief Justice pointed this out. He spoke of the difficult nature of the case, and suggested that it would i be far better to refer it. The jury. too, almost prayed teat they might be relieved of a task which was too much for them. No one can blame Sir E. Watkin for desiring t o vindicate his character as publicly as it has been impugned. liiifor tunately, it must be added that no one will blame either : of the parties for wishing to avoid a reference. Ihe custom is to refer such a case to a barrister, who, apart from the consideration that lie may not possess the special aptitude for its investigation which might, perhaps, easily be found in a layman, cannot devote his time to it continuously. To the suitor, thee remedy in this case is worse than the disease; and it is a question, under the existing , system, whether we shall throw upon him the delay and expense arising from the long intervals between the referee's appointments, or saddle judges and juries with trialson which their most valu able qualities are wasted. The extent to which the adoption of the latter alternative operates to the delay of justice partly accounts for the long interval that elapses between the bringing and the hearing of an action. This very case, though commenced so far back as th e en d o f 18 67, is not tried till July 1869. And who can wonder that the courts are occasionally overwhelmed with arrears, when their time is occupied by protracted investigations which could be far better conducted by an accountant. COLONELS IN THE ARMY. The report of the War-office Committee upon the super cession of British colonels by colonels of her Majesty's Indian Army has just been issued. It is signed by Colonel Egerton, the President, Major Marvin, and G. Cochrane, Esq., members. The committee first explain the several causes which have led to the more rapid rise of the Indian officers, and mention particularly the jealous care with which the successive authorities of the Imperial and the East Indian armies have endeavoured to balance the in terests of the two services. The committee find that the generals now in course of promotion on the Indian List were colonels of the year 1863 and lieut.-colonels of 1858-9. Tho last Indian general promoted passed over and superseded no less than 230 colonels of the British service, many of whom date as colonels of 1834-5, and have distinguished themselves in several actions. Still more anomalous are the cases of those colonels of the Braish army who com manded brigades or filled high staff situations during the Indian Mutiny, and who are now in course of super cession by officers of the Indian army, who at that date held only the tank of major. Although complete tqualization of prom otion in the two services cannot at present bo secured, the committee recommend that forty-five additional major-generals be forthwith cre ated in anticipation of the promotions which would become duo to the British establishment in the years from 1871 to 1877 on account of the Indian Staff Corps. That simultaneously with these promotions, the dates of the commissions of all the present major-generals of the British army whose colonelcies bear date on and after 28th November, 1854, should be so altered as to place them in the same relative position with the general officers of the Indian army as they held with such officers in the rank of colonel. By this means the number of senior colonels will be relieved at once from supercession, the difference of rank between colonels of the Indian list and those next them on the amal gamated list will be shortened ; and the promotion will go on with an increase of forty-five major-generals ; and when the major-generals of the staff corps come on the British list about three years hence, promotion will proceed on a total increased establishment of 95 major-generals. LAW AND POLICE. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND STRlKES.—Judgment was given in the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday in the case of " Farrer v. Clare." The question was whether,the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners was a friendly society, and within the protection of the Friendly Societies' Act, or whether it partook of the character of a trades union. The Lord Chief Justice said that it was clearly shewu the rules of the society were so constituted as to imply that the funds were available for the purposes of strikes. He held, therefore, that the society partook of the character of a trades union, and the decision of the magis trate who refused to convict on. that ground must be affirmed. Mr. Justice Mellor concurred, but Mr. Justice Hannen and Mr. Justice Hayes dissented. Mr. Justice Hannen said that there was no evidence that the society had sanctioned illegal strikes, or had interfered with men going back to work. The Act, he thought, should be liberally construed, and illegality not presumed, but clearly proved. He held, therefore, that the decision of the justices should be reversed. The court being equally divided, no legal judgment could be given, and the decision of the justices stands, dismissing the case. CRUELTY TO A. DOG.—At the Surrey Sessions a cook at the Trs.falgar Tavern, Greenwich, named Wheeler, appealed against the conviction of Mr. Woolrych, one of the magistrates of the Lambeth Police-court, who sentenced him to three months' hard labour for cruelty to a dog which lie destroyed in the Camberwell New-road. He was riding on horseback, when the dog barked at the horse's heels. Ile got off his horse, and dashed the dog against the wall, eventually killing it by trampling on it. The magistrates consulted, when Sir Thomas Tilson said that it was not a case coining within the meaning of the Act, therefore the appeal would be allowed. VOLUNTEERS SUMMONED.—At Clerkenwell, twenty members of the 40th Middlesex Rifie Volunteers were summoned for neglecting to pay the amount of subscrip. tions due to the corps. Captain Isaacs, treasurer, ex plained that the claim was exceedingly light in the case of efficients, but a fine was imposed on those who neglected to attend drill. The lieutenant-colonel determined to free the muster-roll from those members who declined to render themselves efficient or to pay the subscription. The magistrate said that he would assist the colonel in his endeavour. It was found on going over the names that the greater part had paid or arranged to pay since the summonses were issued. Orders were made in the remaining cases. _ - - A BRILERY CASE.-At the sittings in Banco of the Court o' Queen's Bench, on Saturday, a bribery case was heard in au appeal from the Stafford County Court. The defendant had promised a voter that he should be remu nerated for his loss of tune if he voted for him at a muni cipal election, and the justices were of opinion that such a case came within the meaning of the Act, and that de fendant must pay the penalty imposed-40s. ADVERTISEMENTS AND REALITY.—On Satr.rday last there were advertised for sale several estates situate in the Isle of Wight. In all these truly magnificent pro perties measured 229,9:',0 acres We were under the impression that the whole of the Isle of Wight contained only 105,000 acres. It is important as well as i..teresting to learn that it has increased so considerably. THE EFFECT OF EARTHQUAKES.—The Lima Nacional of 13th May says that the most extraordinary and unheard-of phenomenon has been discovered in the road of Locumba, worthy of being studied, and which appears to have been caused by the late earthquakes. Every beast that reaches a certain spot immediately falls dead. This has so often taken place that immense num bers of carcases are heaped on the spot. SUPPOSED MURDER OF A WOMAN.--On Friday night what is supposed to have been a murder was dis covered in an empty house at Land's End. Some brick layers found the body of a middle-aged woman with her head nearly severed from the body. It appeared that she had left her home with a considerable sum of money in her possession ; and when the body was discovered the money was gone. PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH AND THE AMERICAN PREss.—Professor Goldwin Smith has written to the New York Tribune, denying that in his recent speech at Toronto he said " the American Press was not universally celebrated for intelligence." He did not, be declares, make use of that expression, or of any expression equiva lent to it. The New York Tribune says that the American public " will be glad to recognise in this denial Mr. Smith's true character as a man of sense." THE S wiss Tit NATIONAL.—The following notice has been issued from the War Office :—" Any Volunteers who wish to obtain special privileges in passing through France to attend the Tir National in Switzerland must forward,without delay, to this office, through their respec tive commanding officers, a statement containing-1. Name and rank. 2. Purt at which they propose to land. 3. Date at which they propose to enter France. 4. Whether they propose to make any stay at Paris or else where in France. 5. By what frontier town they propose to quit France.—E. W. C. WUIGHT, Colonel. —War Office, 31e173, 1869." IMPZRIAL LARGESS.—The Emperor and the Empress of the French went dove to the river-side at St. Cloud one day last week to witness a trial of a new iron clad gunboat. When the experiments were over their Majesties returned on foot, and the Emperor, observing that they were followed by a considerable number of chil dren, looked out for a gingerbread booth, and having found one, purchased the whole stock and threw it as a scramble amongst the juveniles, who were delighted at the unexpected luncheon. Their Majesties appeared much amused at the scene. RETIREMENT OF TUE REV. T. DINNEY.-011 Sunday morning there was an impressive service in the King's Weigh House Chapel, in the City of London, on the occasion of its well-known minister formally laying down the pastoral office, the duties of which lie has discharged during a period of forty years. A very large congregation assembled, amongst those present being many from the suburbs, who in former years were amongst Mr. Binney's hearers. its The ser mon, which occupied upwards of an h our in delivery. consisted, first, of a review of the last forty years, in which the preacher touched on events national and cede s'astical, which had issued in what made the Es g%ind of to-day very different from what it was at the beginning of the period in question. Mr. Einney took a compre hensive review of the religious phenomena that have distinguished the last forty years. lie glanced at movements and upheavings on all sides among the different religious communities—in the Society of Friends the Wesleyan body, the Free Church of Scotland — at contests about Clinrc!i and Dissent, Voluntaryism, Anglicanism, Iry ingisio, Erethrenism, Gorham contro versies, Colenso controversies, and the thousand and one questions which li:td successively risen up, as new phases of thought have appeared, or old pre tensiOns had been resuscitated and revived. Finally, the preacher adverted to the changes that had occurred in his own congregation, and concluded by a touching allusion to the humble estimate he entertained of anything he had done. It may be added that, although, having attained his three score years and ten, Mr. Binney has deemed it time to retire from the regular obligations of official duty, he will retain a nominal and honorary connection with the Weigh House Chapel, with which for forty 3M141111118 name has been so honourably associated. THE -SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENINGt,- JULY 'MISCELLANEOUS NETVS. CONCERMENT ENDOWMENT. - - The Rev. H. R. Haweis, whose name was appended to the petition to the House of Lords against con current endowment, writes to the Daily News giving his reasons for signing that petition. He thinks levelling up to be opposed to the principle of the bill, as the measure denies the right of the Church or other ecclesiastical organisation in Ireland to the endowments. He urges, further, that the Romanists have not asked for the money it is proposed to give them; the Dissenters as a body are opposed to all endowments; the endowment of the Roman Catholics would stultify the position of the Church of England for the last three hundred years ; the principle of religious equality is carried out by the bill as it stands ; the measure will be rejected altogether if it is carried down to the House of Commons saddled with proposals for concurrent endowment ; it is not consistent for the House of Lords first to pass the second reading, and then to reverse their dec:sion by altering the whole scope of the bill ; it is impossible to say whether Mr. Gladstone will allow any modifi cations ; and it is the duty of those who acknowledge the justice of the measure to stand by the framer of the measure. For these reasons Mr. Haweis opposes levelling up. LORD CAIRNS. The Spectator considers that Lord Cairns is a failure as a party leader. It is no secret that the Conservatives think so too. Lord Cairns is too much of a lawyer to be a leader. True, Lord Lynd hurst was a la wyer but then he succeeded in spite of his profession. Moreover, he was educated at the Common Law Bar, which is a much better training for the Senate than the Chancery Bar. Lord Cairns is a Chancery barrister, and loves to narrow all the issues of a debate down to points on which he thinks he could convince a judge, but as to which a jury would think he had surrendered his whole case. Moreover, he has none of the fire and vigour which made Lord Derby in his best days so popular a leader. Instead of feeling in him anything of the joy of battle, instead of loving to" Drink delight of battle with his peers," he gets up at the close of a great debate with a languor and a stiffness of manner which it is utterly chilling to behold. Mr. Disraeli has never been chargeable with this defect. The time to hear him is somewhere about two in the morning at the close of a four night's debate. Lord Cairns, on the contrary, looks as if he Itished him self in bed. The difference is not so much his fault as his misfortune. lle is in bad health ; would pro bably have killed himself before now if he had continued at the Bar, making his twenty or thirty thousand a year, instead of being, as now, ex-Chan cellor with £5,000 a year. The contrast betweer Lord Cairns and Lord Granville as a leader is startling. The Liberal leader is fast becoming as popular with the Lords on both sides of the House as Lord Palmerston was in the Commons. For that very reason the Conser vative peers are, at least sotto voce, demanding a change. They would like to see the Duke of Marl borough or the Duke of Richmond at their head. The great nobles do not like to think that there is no leader among them all, and that they have to ask a Belfast barrister to be their chief. It is not, from their point of view, seemly that the great Conser vative party should be led by an Ir ish lawyer in the one House and by a Hebrew gentleman of the Press in the other. It is not unlikely that we may hear of changes before long, especially as Lord Cairns, out of deference to his Irish and Orange friends, has refused to join with his party in defeating the Govermr ent upon the concurrent endowment scheme. with the country properly developed, as it would no by the Canadian Government, the plots of land which the company would be entitled to would yield more than the whole territory had been valued at, and the business of the company would not be of the speculative character that it had been. -5, 1869, CONSULAR COURTS IN EGYPT. The Law Journal understands that the Consular Court difficulty in Egypt has been settled. Nubar Pasha, the able Minister of the Khedive, has at length succeeded in his negotiations with France in regard to the abolition of the Consular Courts in Egypt, and the establishment of local International Courts. The con currence of England, Austria, and Italy had already been secured. The main features of his scheme are the repeal of the capitulation; the organisation of courts pre. sided over by two European judges and one native judge, exercising complete jurisdiction over all causes, civil and criminal, as well between natives and Franks as between the suitors of various nationalities, and administering an uniform system of jurisprudence based on the Code NapolJon. The independent jurisdiction of the Consular Courts has been very grievous to the Egyptian Govern ment, which was often set at defiance by foreigners who claimed the protection of their Consuls. The English Government has long been convinced that the change which is now to be made will be beneficial, and the oppo• sition of France has for some time been the chief difficulty. The consent of the Porte, however, has yet to be obtained. COUNTING VOTES IN DIVISION. An apparatus for the registration of votes has been invented by an American, Mr. William Springer, and was brought under the notice of the members of the Corps Legislatif, in Paris, at their first meeting last week. The system on which this useful mechanical invention is founded is similar to that used for bell-ringing in the large modern hotels. Each deputy in the Corps L(gislatif has his own particular seat for the session, with his desk before him. Mr. Springer's plan is to connect every desk by wires with a platform, where the Yes or No of each voter can be noted on a board. The member sees .on his desk two buttons, one inscribed " Yes," the other " No." lie touches whichever he chooses, and at the same instant his Yes or No is visible on the board where the tellers stand to count the votes. The mem bers, therefore, need not move from their seats, and the whole process may be effected in two or three minutes, with a wonderful saving of trouble and perplexity. Such a system could not, however, be adopted in our own House of Commons until sufficient accommodation is provided for all the members to have their specified seats. THE MINT IN DANGER. Mr. Lowe clearly has a hollow where the bump of veneration ought to be. Just now he is threatening two of those " glorious institutions under which England has become," &c., &c. One is tge Bank of England, the other is the Mint. Both, he considers, are charging a good deal for the work that they do, and lie is loo!iing out for other institutions to do it cheaper. It is rumoured, for instance, that he is nego tiating with one of the great joint-stock banks to keep the Government account ; and now, according to the Economist, he is making inquiries as to the cost of keeping our coinage for us. Mr. Graham, the Maser of the Mint, and Smith, late Master of the Calcutta Mint, have been interrogated, and according to their calculations, Government has to pay for the cost of coinage and for wear and tear £1 Ss. 11d. for every £lOO ; that is to say nearly 11 per cent. Formerly coining used to be a profitable trans action, because the coiner was allowed to deduct a small quantity of gold, and so the right of coining became one of the privileges of the Crown. But modern legislation has altered all that, and the sovereign must contain the full value of gold before itismanufactured. Naturally enough other countries are making use of this fact to their own advantage, and English sovereigns are becoming more and more popular as currency abroad. Brazil, for instance, is constantly taking two or three hundred thousand sovereigns; in other words, is getting her currency at our expense. Why should not Government arrange with some of our great bullion merchants, Rothschilds, for instance, to supply us with money on commission ? THE PLEASURES OF AN IRISH TOUR. English tourists have shunned Ireland somewhat during the past seasons, as they have not cared to be kept in continual alarm by riots and outrages ; they have been advised, however, to give to the winds their fears, and to go undismayed to enjoy the good scenery of the South of Ireland. To such as love a little adventures, we can but re-echo the advice. For, in addition to the little excitements which may be obtained from rumours of disturbances in the North just now, a traveller can get in some of the villages all kinds of reputations. The police are so sharp after strangers that they will " spot" a man as a Fenian directly he enters their constable-wicks ; and he must be very demure looking indeed, and a most villanously bad actor, Who does not come within an inch of having to pass part of his touring-time in prison. A correspondent of the Star has been enjoying a walk through the country, and writes home in great wrath at having been taken up by a constable, had all his papers over turned, his pocket-book read, his income inquired into, and himself taken and examined before a magistrate. THE TRADE'S UNIONS BILL. The Beehive strongly urges the Government to allow the Trades Unions Bill brought in by Mr. Hughes and Mr. Mundella to become law. It is irgued that the bill contains the minimum which the unions would accept, and that if the Government were next year to introduce a measure offering less hhere would be a serious agitation. Consequently, Ministers would do well to spare themselves the labour which the members for ]?rome and Sheffield propose to save them. CANADIAN EMIGRATION. The Secretary of the British and Colonial Emigra tion Fund has sent a report to the Lord Mayor con cerning the operations of the committee. A favour able response from the public has recently enabled them to send 190 emigrants to Quebec, and most satisfactory reports have been received respecting the emigrants who were previously sent out. The coin nittee have resolved to assist a small party in the ship Cleopatra, which leaves on the Bth of July, but they will require funds to carry out their plans. TIIE JAMAICA CHURCH ESTABLISIIMENT. The Liberation Society give the number of mem bers of the Established Church of Jamaica as 40,000, one twelfth of the population. The coadjutor Bishop of Kingston, writes stating that this is an error. The official returns, he says, give the number of " persons generally attending," a rather ambiguous expression, but which strictly means the average number of persons attending at one time, on the Sunday morn ing ; which would be about the fourth, or at the very least the third, part of the numbers " belonging" to the Church. THE HUDSON'S DAY COMPANY. The Hudson's Bay Company having agreed to surrender their lands in consideration of - . 4 ::i00,000. are now in doubt is to what should be done with the money. The annual net tang was held on Friday, when Sir Stafford Northcote, the chairman of the company, stated that the governors had had the subject under consideration, but—not having received the money yet—had no course to specially recommend the shareholders. It is satis factory to find that the Government has acted rightly and in the interest of the company, even in the opinion of Sir Stafford himself. He gave it as his opinion that the transfer of the sovereignty of the land for £300,000 would be more to the advantage of the company than keeping their rights and being v.celled upon to provide additional capital to maintain the Government of the countrY. Re believed that THE HALFPENNY POSTAGE. There is little doubt, we believe, that the Govern ment have yielded on the question of the halfpenny postage for newspapers, though the concession is not likely to come into effect this year. The London correspondent of the Elgin Courant gives some details of the progress of this affair. " Mr. Edmund Yates was the official to whom the duty of inquiry was entrusted. Now Mr. Yates is a Post Office man, but he is also a litterateur. In the latter capacity he enjoys a stipend of some £3OO from our halfpenny friend, the Echo, in consideration of con tributing articles of the rather drearily-light stamp, for which Mr. Yates is considered to have a specialty. Now the reduction of the stamp duty is pretty nearly life or death to the Echo, and Mr. Yates has toiled like forty Herculeses for it ever since the really brisk and clever little paper came into existence. But his engagement has helped it a long sight more than a bushel of leading articles, and that gentleman has been enabled to win kudos, and perhaps a little more in the one direction, while nobody can say he has not been doing his duty to the Post Office. The only grumblers are the newsagents. It will be cheaper to post direct than to pay the trade allowance. At present the news trade is protected by a curious restriction. You cannot post a newspaper with the impressed stamp on it for delivery in London. You must take it three miles away from the General Post Office. But this absurd regu lation will be abolished." MR. NEWDEGATE AND FATHER MATHEW. The Rev. Dawson Burns has written to the Star respecting the controversy between himself and Mr. Newdegate. Mr. N ewdegate, it will be remembered, cited as his authorities for identifying Father Mathew's movement with political ends, M. Joly's " History of the Jesuits," and Sir Archibald Alison's " History of Europe." Mr. Dawson Burns disposes of both these auth o rities very briefly. M. Joly (he says) only informs his readers that the Jesuit order sought to identify itself with the temperance reform. Sir A. Alison has no proof for the piece of scandal which he relates but the fact that on some occasions certain temperance bands of music attended political demon strations. Mr. Newdegate has, Mr. Burns believes, done marked injustice, though unwittingly, to one of the greatest philanthropists of modern times. Mr. Thomas Beggs is also of opinion that Mr. Newde gate's statement is altogether mistaken. Mr. Beggs visited Ireland the year after the famine, when he investigated the progress of the temperance reform, and received on all sides ready testimony to the dis interested character of Father Mathew, and to the great good which he had effected. Mr. Haughton, a magistrate of the city of Dublin, has given Mr. Newdegate's statement unqualified contradiction. He was one of those who acted with Father Mathew until his death, and is therefore able to speak with confidence. No man, he affirms, was ever more careful to keep a great movement clear from all bias of party. Mr. Haughton was honorary secretary to the committee of noblemen and gentle men formed for the public recognition of Father Mathew's services—services by which his country men were incalculably the gainers. THE LATE ADMIRAL BOLES. Another veteran has departed this life. Sir W. Bowles, Admiral of the Fleet, is dead. lie had served her Majesty in the navy no less than seventy three years, and at the time of his death was in his 90th year. Born in 1780, he entered the navy in 1796, was nominated lieutenant in 1804, was made commander in 1806, and captain in 1807. During his early services Nelson was winning his mighty victories, and the Adniral was himself present in the expedition to Copenhagen. He became vice-admiral in 1852, and Admiral of the Fleet in January last. Tie married in 1820 the Hon. Frances Temple, sister of the late Lord Palmerston. For eight years he represented Launceston in Parliament. lie was given the decoration " C. 8." in 1839. THE OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. CASE. The Press is changing sides somewhat in its rela tions to the Government in the matter of the Over end, Gurney, and Co. prosecution. While the Liberal papers are rebuking the Government—and some of them severely—for not granting money, the Standard warmly defends Ministers for the course they have taken. The Times, the Daily _News, the Telegraph, and the Spectator urge that though there is no public prosecutor, the Government should do what it can to supply the want where it is most obvious. They contend that the whole case is exceptional, and that as prima .facie the defendants are guilty, the Executive should help to discover the truth, as much for the sake of the accused as the accuser. The Standard argues in a totally different way. The defendants, a-cording to it, are innocent, not having been absolutely proved guilty ; and for the Govern ment to undertake the prosecution would be to acknowledge a belief in the guilt of the directors. The Standard, moreover, points out that an application in proper form to the Court of Chancery would bring money to Dr. Thom's aid ; and draws from that application not having been made, that there is something behind which would prevent it being acceded to. Dr. Thom himself appeals from the Government to the public. Ile says positively that he has not applied for aid to the shareholders. He thinks himself perfectly competent to conduct the case, urges that he has a right to do so, but will submit to waive his right on behalf of the " community at large " which doubts his competency, if he can be supplied with sufficient funds to obtain counsel. BISHOP THIRLWALL ON SACRILEGE. The remarkable speech delivered by the Bishop of St. David's during the debate on the second reading of the Irish Church Bill led the Spectator to write an article upon the Sin of Sacrilege, which article ; though there was much in it that was metaphysic ally correct, was not altogether free from error. The Bishop now replies to that article. He defines sacrilege as " the diverting of things set apart for pious uses to purposes of an essentially different kind." The word " things" he would interpret in the largest sense, and he would include in it " all that belongs to persons not only outwardly, as their property, but inwardly, as the faculties of their nature." Thus " the satisfaction of a brutal appetite is sacrilege," because our bodies were intended for God's service. The diverting to other and entirely different uses objects set apart for pious or sacred use is sacrilege. The elevation of the human spirit to a conformity of mind and will with the Father of Spirits is the highest purpose to which any human instrument or agency can be devoted. Public worship is a peculiarly efficacious means of promoting that elevation, and all its minutest accessories may thus by association acquire a reflected and relative sanctity which may be the subject of a sacrilegious desecration. But the guilt of sacrilege is incurred in a far higher degree by those to whom the offence is never imputed. "The offence of the robber who plunders a church is light and venial in comparison with that of the clergyman or the schoolmaster who makes a sinecure of his office that he may enjoy its emoluments without fulfilling any of its duties." There are other cases more complicated, such as arise when it is found that uses once pious have become injurious, and that the object of the testator may be much better secured by diverting his bequests to other uses. Such Bishop Thirwall considers was the case with monastic endowments. To have retained them in their original form would have been the real sacrilege, because it robbed God of all the benefit that a better employment of the funds would have given to man. Unfortunately those funds in too many instances were not better employed. We have now another instance still more complicated. It is that in which a disposition of Church property is productive of much good, but is, nevertheless, found to be at variance with the welfare of the community, and to endanger its safety. In such a case " all private and particular interests, though in their several spheres each of the highest order, must give way to that which is the common ground in which they all take root and find their sustenance." That such a case has arisen in Ireland the Bishop considers may fairly be judged differently by different men ; but the problem " cannot be brought nearer to a solution by denunciations of sacrilege, or by a repetition of texts, which—to say nothing of a leap in the dark out of the Old Dispen sation into the New—are utterly irrelevant, unless they are supposed to contradict home of the clearest Dassazes in the Bible." DEATH OF A NEWSPAPER. The Public Schools Ch ron i c l e , a wee kly newspaper conducted with considerable ability, and sufficiently of a class journal, we should have thought, to supply a definite want, has ceased to appear. We fear th a t the only newspapers for which boys at our public schools care are Bell's Life and its congeners. A KINGDOM TO LET. The Spectator has good news for those who are looking out for a kingdom on moderate terms. One hundred and eighty miles south of New Zealand lies the island of Auckland. It belong - 8 to the Colonial Office, which some years ago leased it to Messrs. Enderley, who leased it again to a company. The company failed to pay the rent, and Government retook possession. Earl Granville will be very happy, however, to let it to any responsible person of a Robinson Crusoe turn of mind. It offers great advantages, and, chief among them, it possesses no Maories. GARIBALDI. A correspondent of a Paris journal, who has been acimitt(d to an interview with General Garibaldi, gives a most distressing account of his appearance. "The General's features appeared contracted, his body emaciated, and he was lying on a sofa suffering horribly from an attack of chronic rheumatism. The ex-Dictator, bent like the tower of Pisa, is but a shadow of the past, and with difficulty one recognises in the trembling and delicate old man the 'fierce Republican of former days." • • - THE LOSS OF THE BLUE JACKET. It appears that the boat belonging to the Blue Jacket, which was picked up by the ship Antonio Vinent, was only one of three, the other two being yet missing. A large sum in gold—the captain says £4,ooo—v. as deposited in each of the three boats. The accounts of the number of men saved by the Antonio Vinent vary ; but it seems that there were thirty-one men in the two boats of which no news has yet been obtained. 71W ALABAMA CONTROVERSY. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Senator SUMNER disclaims, through the New York Evening Post, any intention of making the relations of his country with England the basis of a political movement in the autumn elections. No one who knows the Senator supposed he would, although the abuse heaped on him here may have misled the English into doing him that injustice. Public opinion on the subject in America remains the same, and nothing in the way of argument is likely to change it. English papers notice that New York is furnishing abundance of parallels to the case of the Alabama so far as her escape is concerned, but it is not the mere escape with which Americans find fault, and the damage, had England not been mali ciously inclined, they could well have thrown into the huge destruction account made out for the war. A gentleman, by standing on another's gouty toe, may hurt infinitely more than if he gave the other a slap on the face; but it is the insult, and not the pain accidentally caused which demands reparation. Throughout the States generally, American opinion remains unchanged on the Alabama question, and it would be a mistake to lead England into the be lief that any decided change had taken place, or that the calmness of the people is indicative of abating their pretentions or yielding any point, although the nation will not press the matter to a war, but quietly await events. Touching the finan cial effect already produced, a leading New Eng land paper observes— There is a sequel to the London panic about Five twenty Bonds, that the English newspapers aro not in a hurry to tell. In the last days of April they stood at 80i in London, but in the first week in May they fell to about 77. Very few of them came back here, however ; they went back to Germany by the million, and the foolish Londoners who sold are now buying them back at the old rate or something above it ; 80 being the last quota tion we have seen." his but too evident to all concerned that:heavy losses on every side resulted from Senator SUMNER'S speech, and no one attempts to disguise the fact. The main loss was not in the direction the New England paper supposes, but in the check given to the up ward tendency of United States Bonds. They were arrested at the very moment when, in response to Secretary BOUTWELL'S policy, the accumulations in the Treasury consequent on the buoyancy of the Revenue Returns and the retrenchments of the ad ministration, they would have had a rapid and con tinued rise. Supposing that they would (as they ought) to have gone over 90, and that the European holding represents nearly £200,000,000, the gain which would have accrued but for the political atti tude assumed, equals a sc)re of millions of sove reigns. There can be no doubt that numerous English holders sold out, while intending buyers all over the kingdom were dissuaded from investing by the changed aspect of affairs, and whatever may have been the loss to the Republic, which must of course have been heavier, the loss thus incurred on this side was unquestionably enormous. The present aspect is simply this—money in England is a drug ; people everywhere are at their wits' end to know how to invest their savings, while the best security in the world lies in the heaps of A tnerican Bonds now neglected in this market. The position is an absurdity, but a sad one to both nations ; and if either can rejoice at the loss inflicted on the other they may derive therefrom no small amount of pleasure. It is not the panic through which the United States Bonds were temporarily depressed whereby that loss was incurred by the holders of these secu rities, but the effectual way in which English in vestment in them was stopped. The injury to the Republic nationally is felt most directly in retard ing the rise, for when the bonds go above par, which otherwise they would have quickly done, a loan can be issued at a lower rate of interest. Judging from the tone of the market there appears to be no chance of a rise at present, for the intelligence from Ame rica, as regards the Treasury and the financial policy of the Secretary, was all that could have been de sired, and no more favourable news can be looked for ; yet there is no response, the market being glutted with Five-Twenties, while money cannot be loaned at three per cent. ! Had the Alabama question been decided on as the party-cry for the next elections in JOHN BULL'S present mood to respond with an iron-clad fleet to any threats, the fall in Five- Twentieawould be sufficient to effectually settle "the bull" speculators. The necessities of the Republican party, and the chronic hostility of the Irish to Eng land, might have led to the war-cry ; and the cable informs us that Irish Republican Clubs are being organized all over the country, in the hope, we pre sume, of raising the shout. But the nation will not give its countenance to such party tactics, ref use ing most distinctly to be made a cat's-paw of for the gratification of Irish hate ; and nothing can be more pointed than the utterances of leading Ame rican papers on this subject. We fear that the true loss in keeping open the Alabama dispute is not, and has never, been understood in America. Of course, it is more or less conjectural, and therefore cannot be announced as a positive fact. There are certain intelligent persons who make money by early and correct information, and, having mas tered their subject, act on the conclusion they de duce therefrom. It was these who were the chief purchasers in Europe of 5-20 bonds before Mr. SUMNER'S speech, as they knew that the investing portion of the English public were moving steadily in that direction, whose great weight, when it be gan to tell, would raise the bonds far above par, and place the ball at Secretary BOUTWELL'S foot. They bought with the intention of anticipating the rise inevitable when the people learnt that the Union was the finest country in the world to mortgage ; offering, if the inhabitants were peaceably and honestly inclined, the best and most reliable of all securities. That it could pay with ease these per sons knew ; and they saw that this fact would be come more apparent every day; that the inhabitants were wearied of war, having but just reaped a har vest of its baneful horrors, they also knew ; and that these inhabitants were honestly inclined was un mistakeably shown by the fate attending the re pudiation cry and those who raised it. Never before had men speculated on what appeared to be so dead a certainty, but " a little cloud no bigger than a man's hand" was in the heavens which they had not Perceived, and they found all their calculations most effectually marred by a tempest it is idle to say does not even yet threaten. The movement of the investing public was turned aside by the storm, and the impression is now strong in the English mind that if they build their house on that ground they are likely to have it shaken down over their heads by an earthquake ; an impression, however untrue, most injurious to the finan cial interests of the United States. Therein lies the heaviest loss, oneof credit which has been very gene rally overlooked, for it is either unseen or not believed in by those who desire to keep the quarrel open. While discussing in a general way this subject, we may allude to a most insolent and pernicious error ,;) so repeated by the Spectator that it evidently de way to attain the object ; while the effect on this side is to impress on England the false conclusion that she has only to appear ready and willing to abide the issue of war to ensure a peaceable and fa vourable settlement ; the surest means that inge nuity could devise for drifting the nations into hos tilities. On the other hand, journals of weight in America with as little taste or truth represent the English as toadying the American Minister in fear, and hoping to conciliate him by good dinners and affectionate greetings. The attitude of England is simply this. A war with America is regarded as the greatest calamity that could befall the country, but it would require very little indeed to persuade the people as one man that a war with America was inevitable, that nothing they could do would conciliate or satisfy the Republic, and that the sooner they fought the better, for the nation Ras, and never could hope tobe more powerful and united than at present. The moment that conviction is fixed in the English mind, the storm will burst, for it will be deemed to be the national interest to fight at once, and it would be a thunderbolt that would astound the world ; for those who suppose that Great Britain is weak are madly ignorant. Nor ought Americans to cherish the delusion that the decision of peace or war remains only with them. Nothing more surely averts war than the plain, unvarnished truth, than dispelling those illu sions through which nations drift inch by inch at first, but more:quickly afterwards into violent con tact, and a review of the Spectator's standing ought to be cautious how it gives publicity to an impres sion so injurious to the honour of the United States and so untruthful, as that the Republic had abandoned her position in fear of the con sequences, and alarmed by the attitude of England. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, June 19.) The stringency in the money market is steadily in creasing, and as high as 7 per cent. gold interest has been paid in New York this week, though 61 to 7 in currency are the more common rates. The pressure is remarkable at this season of the year, when there is usually an over supply of money on the market, and naturally creates a good deal of comment and some anxiety among capitalists. The political opponents of Mr. Boutwell charge the whole responsibility of the stringency upon him and his admin istration of the Treasury, and warn the country that this is only a sign of the times we shall have, if the secretary goes on with his sale of gold and purchases of bonds. The reserve of legal tenders in the New York banks is steadily diminishing, and the currency balance in the Treasury is also growing smaller, with a fair prospect of further re duction. Undoubtedly the policy of the administration affords, at first sight, a ready and easy solution of the present stringency, but there are other causes °porta ng, which aro also new and quite likely the more effec tive ones. The South has drawn from New York and the North, during the last winter, a large amount of money—sso,ooo,ooo, it is estimated—and has kept it. The opening of the Pacific railroad has called large amounts of capital from New York to the West, and given it dis tribution and employment. The Chicago Tribune says that the bankers of that city have drawn not less than $6,000,000 in currency from Now York within the last three weeks, and sent nearly all of it into the country be yond, whence it will not return. Add to these facts, the unusual demand for money to move the large surplus of last year's grain crop, and the wool clip of the present season, and these are reasons enough for a scarcity of money and high rates without accusing Mr. Boutwell as the sole cause of the disturbance. The tightness is, how ever, rather encouraging than otherwise. Much of the money is finding employment in legitimate and reliable business, and the resources of the speculators aro by so much curtailed and diminished. If Mr. Boutwell will hold on steadily with his policy of moderate contraction and the business of the summer realises its present prospects, we shall have an autumn freer from panics and specula tions than we have known for years. With an active mer• cantile and commercial call for money, Wall-street M ill find it impossible to send the whole market "up in a bal loon" every few days, and we may hope for a steady and even course of affairs. Boston has been completely ab sorbed in the peace jubilee this week, and takes but little notice of what is going on outside. Business has been very slack, and there is no marked change in the situation of the money market. The western markets, for the causes already alluded to, are quickening and active, and money is scarce and difficult to obtain. There will be no surplus of capital during the summer months, and the banks are already making discriminations in favour of their preferred customers. Gold and governments have had no changes worthy of mention. For both the demand is steady and the price firm. Gold has not varied 1 per cent. from 138, and the market has been entirely without speculation. The scarcity of money has strengthened the tone of the Stock Exchange, and has probably been the mainstay of gold during the week. The demand for foreign exchange is good, but for specie for shipments abroad there is little call. Exchange, however, is scarcely up to the point at which it will pay to export coin, and the shipments, if any are made, will not be until late in the season. Gold is now coming into New York over the Pacific Railway, and it is probable that it will all be sent that way before long. The last steamer from Panama brought only $75,000, and it is suggested that the same cause may diminish the re ceipts of gold at San Francisco, by diverting the bullion and crude gold from the mines of Nevada and the interior directly to the Philadelphia Mint or the New York Assay Office. The foreign news has been entirely destitute of elements of speculation, and the market has been undis turbed by a single warlike or sensational rumour. The balance against us in our foreign trade is, however, steadily increasing, and the conviction that there's a day of future reckoning is unavoidable. For the eleven months ending May 31, the imports of merchandise at New York amounted to $270,120,382 in gold, an excess of over $166,000,000 in gold over our exports for the same time. This excessive importation has been exceeded only once in our history, in 1866, when the figures reached the enormous total of $281,239,651. The only particular item of interest in the Government Bond Market is Secre tary Boutwell's order to buy before July 1 $620,000 of bonds, in addition to his regular purchase of $2,000,000, in order that the Government Sinking Fund may be brought up to its proportionate amount of 1 per cent. a month of the national debt during the first four months of the present administration. The order is an indication that Mr. Boutwell does not intend to abandon his present policy of the purchase of bonds—if that can be called policy which is but the simple execution of the express provision of the law. The debt statements are the best justification of Mr. Boutwell's conduct of the Treasury affairs, and the public are willing to give the policy a fair trial so long as its results are so satisfactory. The stock market has had several very bad turns during the week, and the whole course of its movements has been a decline. Mariposa dropped lifeless, on Thursday or Friday, falling nearly 30 per cont. in one day, and ruining a number of its friends in its fall. Pacific Mail also weakened considerably in sym pathy, but held its own pretty firmly, and has since re covered its lost ground. All the railway stocks have de clined 4 to 6 per cent. on account of the tightness in the money market, and the prospect is not favourable for an advance. The prestige of Vanderbilt holds up the New York, Albany, Buffalo, and Lake Shore chain of roads, and they have been particularly exempted from the de pression. The speculative spirit is, however, much less rampant, and the uniform tone of the market has been quiet and subdued. Chicago and North-western stock is in good demand, in consequence of a recent dividend of 5 per cent., an an increase of over $1,325,000 in its earnings last year, over those of 1867-8. The business of the Pacific is beginning to tell on this line, and also on its rival, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, which now joins the Union Pacific at Omaha. The results in Rock Island have fully justified the expedie ency of the sudden issue of 49,000 shares of stock by its officers 18 months ago, from whose proceeds the road through lowa has been built. The Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad has re-elected its old officers and divided 5 per cent. semi-annually, while the Harlem has done the same and divided 5 per cent. Hudson River has also re-elected its old officers. The dry goods business seems to have touched bottom two or three weeks ago, and since that time the ma r k et has bean firmer and butter. Considerable activity has prevailed during the past week, and a general advance in prices has been'realised. The manufacturers' demands for cotton have stimulated busi ness in the Southern ports, and the quotations are 1 to 2 cents higher all along the coast, while in New York the appreciation has been still more marked. There is some thing of a speculative movement afoot, and the heavy dealers in sheetings, skirtings, and £ taplo goods aro stock ing up quite largely. There are indications, however, of good business in the fall, which will probably enable them to carry the load without difficulty, while the scarcity in the market will be gratifying to the manufacturers. The grain market bears up well under its immense receipts from the West, which aro almost unprecedented. The shipment of wheat from the lake ports for the week ending Juno 5, were 1,497,000 bushels, or more than three times as much as for the corresponding period last year, and the largest on record of any week at this season. Provisions, west and east, are dull and heavy, but the live stock mar kets at Albany, New York, and Cambridge are active and higher. (From the Wall-street Journal.) Friday Evening, June 18, 1869. Mono on call continues very stringent, and rates on sires to thrust the opinion on the public. It states ' railroad stocks have varied from seven per cont. gold to that there has been a total change in the tone of 1-16th of one par cent. rer day flat, being nearly 20 per cant. per annum ! a n d on G overnmen t B on d s f rom seven America, caused by the warlike attitude assumed by England, while there is n o c hange at all, and per cent, currency t o 1-32 d o f one per cent h as b een freely paid. Discounts are almost suspended, prime paper that attitude only surprised and amused Jonathan. passing with groat difficulty at 10 to 12 per cent. We We call the error pernicious, for if the Spectator note the failure to-day of a dry goods jobbing-house, with desired the Republic to assume abullying and threat- liabilities of over $500,000. At the eleventh Treasury ening manner, this would be the easiest and best sale of gold on Juno 14th bids were opened for nearly three millions of dollars, at prices ranging from 139 33 to 138 138 90. The awards wore as follows:—$165,000 at 139 14 $200,000 at 139 15, $lOO,OOO at 139 20, $1,000,000 at 139 18, $lOO,OOO at 149 16, $lOO,OOO at 139 14, $30,000 at 130 20, $30,000 at 139 14, $50,000 at 139 28, $50,000 at 139 32, $35,000 at 130 33, $50,000 at 139 33, $50,000 at 139 29. At the twelfth Treasury sale yesterday the bids were for a total of about seven and a half millions. The awards were as follows :—5250,000 at 137 79i, $lOO,OOO at 137 80, $lOO,OOO at 137 95, $lOO,OOO at 137 96, $50,000 at 187 871 $50,000 at 137 93, $50,000 at 138 01, $50,000 at 137 97, $lOO,OOO at 137 85, $50,000 at 137 97, $50,000 at 137 83, $50,000 at 138 02. QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Amer. silver... 95 to 951 I Eng. sovs 486 to 488 Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 104 120 francs 384 „ 386 Eng. silver 470 , 480 I Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 96 1 Foreign Exchange is inactive and rates easier. Sixty Days. Three Days. Londcn Bankers Lou:: n, Prime Commercial lOBl-109k Paris, Bankers 5221-5.16 1 ; 5.161-5.131 Bremen, Bankers Harnburgh, Bankers 351-35i Frankfort, O.M 39k-40. Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.221-5.161 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 5.2'4-5.161 At the sixth purchase of Government Bonds by the Assistant Treasurer on Juno 16th, the tenders amounted i) nearly five millions. The awards were at the follow ing prices : —5250,000 1867 coupons at 115 31; $250,000 1866 coupons at 11 30 ; $250,000 1867 coupons at 115 29 ; $250,000 1867 coupons at 115 28. Government Bonds are dull and heavy, with a general decline in prices : Sixes, 1861, registered llgl to 116 Sixes, 1881, coupon ]2l to 1211 Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. Gs. Pacific Railroad lO6 to 1061 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 18:35, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll9 to 1191 Ten-forties, coupon loBk to 1081 Seven-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 Railroad stocks are generally lower, and the business has been all the week on a limited scale. Railroad Gold Bonds continue to be readily taken by investors. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 91 Chi. &N. W. Int B — N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... Tol. & Wab. 2d MEx B3l N. Y. Central 6s, It Est.. 89 Gt. Western 2d M '93 7B N. Y. Central Os, Sub'n.. 89 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — N. Y. Central 7s, 1876... Gal. & Chic. Ext. 991 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76:.... Gal. & Chic. 2d M 96 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 Chi. &R. I. Ist M 1001 Erie Ist Mort, Ex 99 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... 981 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 931 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund...loo Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B7 N. J. Central Ist M 99 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880... 81 N. J. Central 26 11 100 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888... 75 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist 11 101 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist 11, '77 — Pitts. Ft. W. & Ch. 3d M. 95 Hod. R. 7s, Ist M, 't;9 101 Cleve. & Pitts. 4th 11 76 Tied. R. 7s, 26 M, 'B5 1031 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. 971 Harlem let AI, '6B '72 100 Chic. & Alton, S.F. lstM.lol Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 128 Mil. & St. P•tul Ist M... 93 Mich. new Ist 11 Bs, 'B2 1301 Mil. & St.. Paul 26 Nl_ 83 Mich. So., 7p.c.2d M 94 Marietta Sr. Cie. Ist M... 89 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex Ist M... 991 Alich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 98 Morris & Essex 2d Al 951 _ _ 111. Cen. 7p. c, '7O Alton & 'l' . 11. let M 93 Chi. & Gt. Easel:11801._ Alton &T.H. 2d pfd ... 83 N. Y. &N. 11. Gs 95 1 Alton &T. 11. 2d M. Inc. 70 Dubuque &S.City,lst M 92 Han.&St.J.LandGrantsloB Peninsula Ist M 95 Han. & St. J. Con 120 Ohio & Miss. Ist M 95 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 112 Ohio & Miss. Con B4 Chi. &N. West, S. F.... 98 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D B4 Chi. &N. W. Con Cony. 99 Atlantic &G.W. 2d M & N. W. Ist M 93 Miscellaneous Stocks do n, the exception of Pacific Mail, N. Y. Central lB7 Erie Hudson .. 155fl Reading Mich. South. & 1151 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 9sf North-West North-West Preferred 951 Canton 62} Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo Express Stocks are fairly Adams American Merchants' Unit Merchants' Union, old Sto. United States Wells, Fargo, and C 0.., tot show much activity, with Fort Wayne Pacific Mail B9l Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi, 321 Boston Water Power l6 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers._ 119 M Sc St. Paul M & St. Paul Preferred 84k fictive and firm : 591 to GO m 394 to 40 3lc l5 to 151 69i to 69i 31-1 to 311 The New York bankers, Messrs. Henry Clews and Co., in their Monthly Circular of June 15, say—United States Bonds are, at the moment, steady, notwithstanding the depression in the general stock market. Among the in fluences operating adversely upon the market have been the activity of money , 'nhich has held in check the specu lative demand usual in June, in anticipation of the pay ment of the July interest ; and the interruption of the foreign demand, consequent upon the large supply re cently sent to Europe and the disturbance of confidence in the foreign markets growing out of the result of the elec tions in France. For the last two clays, the recovery of the tone of the London and Paris markets has induced a partial revival of purchases by the foreign bankers, who appear confident that Europe will continue to take liberal amounts of our bonds. The market has been steadily sus tained by the weekly purchases of $1,000,000 5-20's by the Government. Already $5,000,000 bonds have in this way been taken permanently off the market, absorbing any supply that may have been drawn out under the in ducement of comparatively high prices and the adverse influences above noted. The advanced scale of prices may be considered now to have been fairly tested ; and the fact that Europe has taken increased amounts at the higher figures, and that there has been no extensive realizing by domestic holders, shows that the rise has been based upon valid grounds, and may therefore be expected to prove permanent. The future of the mar ket must depend very much upon the course of money, the continuance of the Government purchases of bonds, and the condition of the foreign demand. With a steady course of the money market, it would seem almost inevitable that there should be a considerable speculative demand in connection with the payment of the July inte rest. The total payable upon coupons and registered stock is $31,810,000 ; and experience has shown that a large proportion of these disbursements is usually reinvested in bonds. It is, in fact, this habit of the bondholders which, perhaps more than any other cause, has contributed to the steady advance in bonds to figures which formerly would have been deemed impossible. The present supply of bonds upon the market is quite moderate, and appears to be about evenly distributed among domestic dealers and foreign bankers. Under all the circumstances, therefore, assuming a steady course of the other markets, the proba bilities appear to favour firmness in this class of securi ties. The Alabama question has ceased to be an influen tial consideration bearing upon the premium ; and there is reason to hope that the new phase of the negotiations may be characterized by calm and moderate discussion. The result of the French elections, though a new element of distrust in European finances, is not likely to affect directly the value of our bonds abroad or our financial relations with the Continent. So far the aspect of Euro pean affairs is favourable to steadiness in the premium. At the same time, it is felt that the continued free ship ment of our bonds is increasing our dependence upon the uncertain movements of European finances, and enlarging our interest obligations, without any corresponding gain in our ability to liquidate them in products ; a course of affairs which inevitably tends to keep the gold market feverish, and to check the conservative tendences arising from an improving condition of the national financier and a steady recuperation in domestic industries. Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia bankers, report as follows on June 18 : Pennsylvaniaßailroad shares, 561 57 ; Sixes, let Mortgage, 1011 ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage, 36i. [ADVERTISEMENT. J Holloway's Pills.—Bilious affec tions and stomach complaints induced by atmospheric heat or too liberal diet, if not early checked, bre often attended with serious consequences. When any one finds his ideas less clear than usual, his eyesight dimmed, and his head dizzy, while he is indisposed for all exertion, physical or mental, he may be quite sure that he is in immediate need of some cooling and purifying medicine. Let him send at once for a box of Holloway's pills, after a, few dozes of which his head will be clear again, his spirits elevated, and all his energies will be restored. Printed direc tions for the guidance of patients in the use of this admirable medicino aro affixed to every box. BIRTHS. BLois—On the 2d inst., at 5, Queensgate-place, Ladyßlois, of a son. LovELL—On the 2d inst., the wife of George Lovell, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. LITTLE—WALKER—On the Ist inst., at St. Paul's, Peng° the Rev. James Little, of Warrington, to Emma, eldest daughter of the late John Walker, Esq., of Arlington House, Upper Norwood. NOBLE—LENTIIALL--On the Ist inst., at St. Luke's, Mel-. se-, Robert Noble, lis q ., o f Belvidere, Kent, to Lucy Doggett, eldest daughter of 11. Lonthall, Esq., Oakley' street, Chelsea. DEATHS. llooPEß—On the 2d inst., at Portswood Lawn, Southamr ton, Edward Hooper, Esq., aged 47. HOLWORTHY - On the 30th ult., at 2, Finchley-read, Chas• W. Holworthy, Esq., aged 77. JONES --On the Ist inst., at Pantglas, David Jones, late M.P. for the county. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office N 0.112, Strand , in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex• Monday, July 5, 1669. 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