The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-08 00:00:00

At, PROVOST-PARADOL IN EDINDURGISI, Prevost-Parodol, the editor of the Paris journal Davis was entertained on Saturday evening at a dinner of the Directors of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institu tion. The gathering was large and brilliant. M. Parodol, responded to the toast of his health said lie was deeply affected by the manner in which it hid been proposed and received. However (said he) I must tell you frankly that it is not only the cordial welcome which has moved me—l was moved more deeply still when I saw you united in such concord and in such loyal feeling when the name of your Queen was pronounced amongst you. I must say that I was moved nearly to tears when I saw your emotion and your joy as the telegram was read to you describing the progress of the Queen in the midst of a loyal and contented people. I may say that I envy no other thing for my country than the state in which you can shew such feeling, and bo so united, and live as you like in freedom and prosperity, and with the honest pride of being freemen under a Queen. He concluded by humoursly threatening to introduce toastmaldng into France, and thus give fresh occasion to his enemies to accuse him of being too great an admirer of British institutions. Subsequently M. Paradol proposed the toast of "Tho Universities of Scotland," which were, he said, highly re spected in France. We have, he said, the kind of public administration which shews at once the benefits and also the defects of centralization. In France we have many Universities in the provinces, but they are not at all what the universities aro in England or in Scotland. As soon as a professor rises to some eminence in the provinces of France, he says to the Minister—l am well known ; I have become a man of note. Why do you not call me to Paris directly ? This is the way in France, Here the universities have prospered for a long time, and men find in their own districts situations and kind acknowledgments of merit, which dispenses them from going to the capital. It is much better to have your intellectual life spread all over the country than to have it concentrated in one capital. After more observations in praise of the Univer sities he proposed a toast, for which Principal Tulloch responded. Dr. Hanna, replying to " The Clergy of all Denominations," declared the clergy ought to confine them selves to teaching religion, and allow the schoolmaster to devote himself entirely to secular education. LAW AND POLICE. Tun Duu OF NEWCASTLE.—A short time since Mr. Commissioner Winslow refused to adjudicate the Duke of Newcastle a bankrupt, on the ground of his parliamentary privileges and his not being a trader. From this decision Mr. Morris, the petitioner against the Duke, appealed. The appellant's counsel has been heard in the Court of Chan cery bcfore Lord Justice Giffard, and the argument is to proceed next Saturday. IMPERIAL GUARDIAN ASSURANCE COXPANY.—A petition by a creditor of the Imperial Guardian Assurance Com pany has been ordered by Sir W. James to stand over for further evidence, the company contending that the creditor became so by fraud and misrepresentation. WINDING TIP COMPANIES.—In the Court of Chancery an order has been made for winding up the One Wine Com pany, under supervision, and for the compulsory winding up of the United Ports and General Insurance Company, and the Mattock Old Bath Hydropathic Company. THE CASE OF MISS SAunm.—lt has heen arranged that the case of " Saurin v. Starr" is to stand over till the second day of Hilary Term. The new trial is not for the purpose of re-hearing the case; but to decide certain points of law raised by the defendants with a view to reduce the costs. THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE.—Notico of appeal from the decision of Vice-Chancellor James in the case of the European Assurance Company has been given. The argu ments will be heard before the Lord Chancellor. SDI ROBERT PEEL AND TILE GAS COMPANY.—Sir Robert Peel lately brought an action, at Warwick, against the :bairman of the Tamworth Gas Company, on the ground that they had:not fully carried out the agreement which they had entered into with him with regard to part of his land. The verdict was for the defendants, and a motion has now been made in the Court of Common Pleas 1 .1 obtain a rule for a new trial. The court heard the ma ;e= at great length, but refused the rule. SINGULAR CHARGE OF FRAUD.—A very singular case oP fraud, involving a loss of nine hundred pounds,has been in vestigated at the Guildhall. A firm in Leadenhall-street had a correspondent at Berlin, who drew a bill upon them for £lOO payable at sight. On the right hand corner of the bill the figures were £lOO, but owing to a mistake of the clerk, the words in the body of the bill were one thousand. The prisoner presented the bill for acceptance to ➢lr. therbleicher, who accepted it, looking only at the figures. Afterwards two stamps were attached to it, so as partly to hide the figures. When the bill was presented at the London and Westminster Bank one thousand pounds were received, and the mistake was not discovered until Messrs. Haarbleicher, and Co., received their pass-book. The curious feature of the case was that the bill passed through the hands of six persons without one of them discovering the discrepancy between the words and the figures. The prisoner, whose counsel contended that he too had made a mistake, was dismissed. CHARGES OF FRAUD.—Thom 3.3 Rowbotham has been charged at Croydon Police-court, with fraudulently obtaining possession of a villa residence at Addiscombe. Also with fraudulently attempting to obtain a pony belonging to Lord Walter Scott. He was committed for trial. CONFESSION OF INCENDIARISM.—A man, named Hitch, has been charged with setting fire to a corn stack near Not tingham, valued at £2OO. He had been begging about the neighbourhood, and travelled to Doncaster, where the authorities sent him to Wakefield gaol as a refractory pauper. He confessed to the governor that he had fired the stack out of spite to the county, as he had nowhere to go. He hid himself in a hedge and watched it burning. He was remanded. CRUELTY TO ANImaT-q.—A young man named Perry has been charged at Stoke-upon-Trent, with cruelty to a donkey. The animal was drawing an overloaded coal cart, and was unequal to the task of pulling it, whereupon the prisoner kicked it, broke a shovel over its back, and as it staggered under the weight, pushed it down with the load upon it, which it took three men to lift off. The magistrate said there was an enormous amount of cruelty to animals in the Potteries, and he should inflict the full penalties in every case that came before him. He sentenced Perry to two months' imprison ment, or a fine of £5, regretting that he could not order him to be flogged. A horrible tale comes from Rochdale. An inctuest has been held upon a man who died from drinking gin. Re broke into his landlord's cellar, and drank gin oat of a pint measure from a nine gallon cask. Some time after the land lord found him hopelessly drunk, and though medical aid was obliged to be sought he was dead before assistance could arrive. TALES OF THE RICHEST PEER LET THE HOUSE 0 Louns.—Like a great many very wealthy men, the b.te Marquis of Westminster was rather inconsistent in 7_lis use of his immense fortune, for while occa -.4nally he gave largely to particular objects, in =any things, especially in matters of personal ~,zpense, he was strangely and sometimes amus ingly penurious. There is a story told of him that dicing some few years ago at the Mansion House, he was n•ticed, when the banquet was over, to be standing in Zront of the building, apparently on the look-out for an omnibus. Some lady noticing his lordship, and being aware of his object, said, " You are looking for your omnibus, my lord; that has passed." "No, no," said the marquis, " that was the 4d. 'bus that passed; I am looking for the 2d. one." One day he let a shilling fall down the window-sliding of his carriage, and drove at once to a carriage -maker to have the shilling got out, the charge for which was three shillings. It was no uncommon occurrence for him to do most generous and munificent things 'when occasion called for it. Of late years we have heard repeated instances related. A DUEL TO THE DEATH.—DueIs between French officers are of rare occurrence, but when a meeting takes place it is always a serious affair. There is nothing in French law to prevent officers from fighting, and under the circumstances it is exceedingly creditable to the ser vice that bullies aro an extinct race. The only for mality which an officer of tho French service has to go through previously to going on the ground is to obtain the permission of his colonel, and it is needless to add that few colonels would refuse an insulted officer leave to avenge his honour or shelter an officer from the conse quences of provoking a quarrel. A duel between two officers of the 6th Ifus3ars, quartered at Castrec, has just taken place. What the cause of the meeting was is as yet a secret. Sufficient to say that Captains Ch:mencon and Baignol went out the other morning. After fighting for about twenty minutes, and when the former officer had been wounded twice and the latter three times the seconds interfered, thinking that matters had been carried far enough, and that honour was satisfied. This, however, was not the opinion of Captain Clemencon, who, taking the affair out of the hands of his seconds, declared that the duel must proceed till one combatant fell mortally wounded. The conse qnence was, that swords were again crossed and the com bat continued. After a few passes the officer who had re fused to consider the duel terminated when the seconds of both rnrties interfered was run through the heart, and, of course, expired instantly. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. COMING BATTLES. Four of the nine seats now vacant will speedily be filled up. On Thursday next the Speaker will issue his warrant for new writs for the boroughs of Water ford, Whitby, and Hastings, and the county of Tip perary. The representation of Tipperary is vacant through the death of Mr. C. Moore ; Waterford, through the appointment of Mr. J. A. Blake as an inspector of Irish fisheries ; Whitby, through Mr. W. H. Gladstone's acceptance of office as a Lord of the Treasury ; and Hastings through the death of Mr. F. North. Besides these four there are five other seats for which an election must be held. King's Lynn wants a member because Lord Stanley has gone to the House of Lords; Chester, because Earl Gros venor also becomes a peer ; Southwark, because Mr. Layard is going to look after the Spaniards ; the Tower Hamlets, because Mr. Ayrton takes the Com missionership of Public Works, and must seek re election ; and the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow, through the elevation of Mr. Moncreiff. HA STING S. For the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. F. North, Mr. P. F. Robertson, merchant, is the Con servative candidate. This gentleman represented the borough in the last Parliament, and also from July 1852 until April 1850, in which year he was an un successful candidate. Mr. Robertson voted against the ballot in 1853. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth, the choice of the Liberals, has opened his campaign. He is a warm supporter of Mr. Gladstone, whom he considers the best statesman of late years. He will be willing to give the Ballot a trial. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth advocates an extension of the present system of education, but not so as to interfere with the rights of parents. He hopes the Irish Land Bill will provide for full compensation for improvements —a very mild assumption indeed, for it is generally concluded that any Land Bill whatever will do this much. But very few people know what they want on this difficult subjects GLASGOW AND EDINI3URGN UNIVERSITIES. Mr. E. S. Gordon, the Conservative candidate for the Scotch universities, seems to be preferred by the medical portion of the constituency. Mr. Archi bald Smith, the Liberal, has only vague generalities to offer the profession, but Mr. Gordon has precise reforms in view. He thinks that a new medical act is required in more compre hensive and clear terms for the purpose of preventing the assumption of medical titles by quacks ; that the general councils should be constituted on a more popular basis than at present ; and that medical men are not sufficiently remunerated for their services to paupers under the employment of the poor-law autho rities. Besides these reforms Mr. Gordon advocates others more especially applicable to Scotland. THE LATEST APPOINTMENT. Whatever may be thought of the appointment of Mr. Gladstone's son to a lordship of the Treasury, it is not very graceful of the Standard to call the nomination "an atrocious job." Lord Derby made his son Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1852, and then Lord Stanley was a younger man than Mr. W. 11. Gladstone is now, and had been in Parlia ment no longer. The parallel would not justify the present appointment if better claims have been over looked; but at any rate there is nothing of the "atrocious job " character about it. THE BILL. The Irish papers seem to have very precise— though unfortunately very diverse—information respecting the land-bill. The Freeman's Journal says the Cabinet are divided, one section being in favour of legalising the Ulster tenant-right, the other going in for something more extreme. The Irish Times learns that the bill will be " uncommonly mild." The Evening Mail professes to know nothing of Minis terial intentions, and judging by the mournful attempts of its contemporaries, it is wise ; but it is highly indignant with the Government for sending a circular to the boards of guardians with the object of obtaining information. This, the Mail thinks, will result only in a mass of untrustworthy statements from ignorant persons. The Government will obtain plenty of materials for a " Fixity of Tenure Bill," but no information on the other side from the land lord& REDUCTIONS IN THE ARMY. Some not very precise and somewhat contradic tory rumours are afloat about forthcoming reduc tions in the army. The matter is by no one considered settled, but we are told that Mr. Cardwell has it under consideration. The Broad Arrow says a reduction is proposed of 15,000 men. The Army and Navy Gazette on the other hand, warns its readers against relying too securely on tits numerous reports. Nothing has yet been definitely settled. Our contemporary believes, however, that some reductions are certain. "It is not at all improbable that the rank of ensign may disappear from the Army List after the passing of the next estimates. The introduction of the squadron system into the cavalry may perhaps prevent the come from sharing the fate of their dismounted brethren." OTHER HEDrCTIONS. The news of other reductions is rather scanty. We are enabled, however, to contradict a report pub lished by us on the faith of a service contemporary last week. It is not true that the Lords of the Admiralty, in their desire to effect small economies, positively ordered a captain to join his ship on a foreign station at his own expense. It is true though that the soldiers at Aldershot and their wives are to be allowed an extra blanket for the winter without paying for it—an extraordinary piece of munificent charity from the same board which charges 15s. a year for the loan of 30s. worth of bedding to married soldiers. For the report that the estimates for fittings at the Admiralty, Spring Gardens, have been exceeded by £4,000 we cannot vouch ; some comment, however, is made upon the rumour. SEILVICE ITEMS. The command of the Eastern district is vacant by the promotion of Colonel Farren, caused by the death of General Coles.—Several orders of more or less im portance have recently been issued. With one of them the press is indignant. Commanders-in-Chief, captains, and commanding officers of her Majesty's ships have been requested to prevent excessive drinking of wines and spirits on board their vessels. "My Lords of the Admiralty " say that they " have observed with regret that in many cases officers have incurred wine bills to an excessive amount."—The Duke of Can bridge has issued an order to the effect that soldhrs who have been so fortunate as to save life shall be permitted to wear the decorations they have so acquired on the right breast. It is Ruggested that Mr. Childers should follow the example which the Field - Marshal Commanding -in - Chief has set.—The much wanted medals are at last announced. It is explained that the Abys sinian medal has been considerably delayed by the death of the late Master of the Mint, and by the necessity of having the name of each individual officer or soldier engraved on the medal to be given to him. Many of them have, however, now been dis tributed, and the remainder will soon be delivered. The medals for the campaign in New Zealand will be ready for distribution in a week or two.—The control system at the War Office is still far from adoption. The Queen refuses to sign the necessary warrant until she has consulted the Duke of Cambridge ; and he is away shooting.—Under a recent Admiralty circular sailors, while their ships are in port, are to be allowed to attend Divine service on Sundays, as they wish. The senior officer of the port is to give them information as to the various churches and chapels ; and it is directed that "all possible facilities" shall be aftbrded to the men ; leave being granted from Saturday to Monday. THE BISHOPS OF THE IRISH CHURCH. The bishops of the Irish Church are determined to keep their power intact. They have met to consider the position they will take in the new Church body, and have unanimously determined to vote as a sepa rate order whenever desired by themselves or either of the other orders—the clerical and the lay. Thus in matters of discussion the Convention will form one house ; but when a division is called for it will divide into three, and each order will have the veto. DU. TEMPLE AND CONVOCATION. Much has been said in the Temple controversy about the condemnation of "Essays and Reviews" by Convocation. But, after all, that condemnation was left incomplete. It is quite true that a " s y nodical judgment" was given by the Upper House and concurred in by the Lower although on different grounds in the two cases; but in order to render the whole proceeding a form al act it was necessary that the two Houses should have been re-united—in reality they are but one House—and the " judgment" formally drawn up and signed by the president and all members of the Synod present, as the act of the thole body. This proceeding is of constitu tional importance. Why, then, was it not gone through? "A Hertfordshire Incumbent" suggests as the only reason that the step would have involved those who took part in it in responsibility to law. This point was raised in a protest addressed to tho Primate. It is true that the .censure was only tech nically defective ; but Dr. Temple's connection with the other contributions to "Essays and Reviews" was only technical. DR. LIVING STONE. The last letter from Dr. Liyingstone, dated July ith 1863, will be read before the Royal Geographical Society to-day; but Sir Roderick Murchison makes the preliminary announcement that the earlier telegrams respecting the safety of the traveller were correct. The president of the society likewise com municates the following outline of Dr. Livingstone's doings:-- Dr. Livingstone had traced a chain of lakes, connected by rivers. from the tracts south of the Lake Tanzanvika to THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, INOVEMBER 8, ISO, Eltitiio 10 deb. to Mag., an 4 he Conjecture's that these numerous connected lakes and rivers are the ulti mate southern sources of the Nile. When he wrote he was about to travel northwards to Ujiji, on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, where he expected so find some infor mation from home, of which he had been entirely deprived for two years, as well as to roceivo provisions and assistance. We may infer, Sir Roderick Murchison adds, that before this time the great traveller will have satis fied himself whether any of the great South African waters flow into the equatorial Albert Nyanza of Baker :—" If this determination has been arrived at, Livingstone will have gloriously solved the great problem of African geography, and will have proved by actual observation that Ptolemy, seventeen cen turies ago . , really placed the sources of the Nile in about their true latitude, a view which has of late years been sustained by Beke, Arrowsmith, and Findlay." in the production of which the United States would seem to have a speciality." The idea that a nation in such financial prosperity should repudiate its debt, Herapath's Journal considers absurd. Englishmen will begin to believe in Five-Twenties and Ten- Forties when they are all paid off. FOREIGN NOTES. THE EMPEROR OP AUSTRIA AND THE RING OF ITALY. It seems pretty certain that an interview will take place between the Emperor Francis Joseph and King Victor Emmanuel. It is expected to come off on the 22nd of the month, at Ancona, where the Emperor will stay on leav ing Egypt, before he proceeds to Trieste. In the event of this meeting, Count Beust and Count Andrassy will accompany their imperial master, and Victor Emmanuel will be attended by General Menabrea and the Minister of War. After this first step has been taken, the King of Italy will pay a visit to the Emperor at Vienna in the course of the winter. see the United States misrepresented, bad it not embodied another popular error. The Republic does desire to have meted to her what she has meted to others. No community will be coerced into her fold, for only on the.voice of the inhabitants themselves can their fate be decided. Her object is noble, be- ing calculated to injure the present generation for the good of unborn millions. What citizen expected to derive any advantage from the purchase of Alaska? A present outlay, a prospective expense, its icebound mountains utterly valueless to a nation possessing millions of fertile acres unoccupied ; yet it is purchased, and the expense cheerfully borne, because it is a step towards the completion of the United States of America. The writer alludes to the discreditable means by which the United States acquired Texas and other parts of Mexico, showing that both Texas and California proved a source of weakness in time of trial, but not of strength. Texas entered the Union by the free vote of its in habitants, after its own independence of Mexico had long been proclaimed and established. We cannot see what there is discreditable in the tran saction, while we admit that Texas has been a source of weakness to the Union. But so is Alaska, and so must all additions to a domain which► tend to scatter, not to concentrate, the inhabitants ; and these extensions must remain a source of weakness, for generations, when they will change into a source of strength. But does not the writer see that this assertion destroys the other ? The boy put his hand into the jar of sweetmeats, but the present genera tion of Americans give, instead of take, and accept what to them are hard bargains and a source of weakness, that their great grandchildren may pos sess a continent without a hostile border. The Pacific Railway he asserts to have been built at an enormous expense to secure California to the Union, while it will be useless in protecting that State in case of foreign war, or of coercing it in case of its rebellion. The writer does not appear to be aware that the line is a highroad of the world ; that it opens out vast tracts of land, and is beneficial to the whole Union. One would think he was writing of a Russian province, or the territory lately annexed of an Indian Rajah, and that the Pacific Railway was constructed for military purposes. Where Europeans so err is in bringing the state of things which prevail in old feudal Europe to Lear on Ame rican questions, when they must, starting from false premises, arrive at false conclusions. The man who glibly talks of the disruption of the Union cites the Roman Empire to show what the end is to be, while he might as well attempt to show the connection between the career of the lion. East India Company and the Fenians ; thus also he associates in his mind as part of the same, two things equally dissimilar. The progress of American extension over the Continent is wholly unlike that of the British in India, or of the Muscovite in Europe and Asia, and when men persist in connecting them, and write with this association strongly im pressed on their minds, they reach the sort of con clusions arrived at by the Albion. Can they not see that settlement and colonization differ very widely from conquest, and to these, almost wholly, is due the progress of the Republic? May we ask the writer in the Albion to consider this subject, and give us the benefit of his conclu sions ? England has discovered, as has the Union, that distant tracts are rather a source of weakness than of strength, at least for the present generation, whatever they may be to posterity. Acting on this new revelation, England withdraws, abandoning her far-away children and leaving them to take care of themselves. The Republic, equally recognising the fact, adopts the opposite policy, and makes the present sacrifice for the benefit of those who come hereafter. Will the writer in the Albion tell us, arguing out the question honestly and fairly which is the greedy, which the noble course. We may help him to his conclusions by a little illustration from which perhaps he may deriie a better notion of the American character. England began with William 111. to contract a debt, which bas gone on with scarcely a variation upwards, increasing in magnitude till now it stands at £800,000,000. The United States contracted a debt in the War of In dependence, and after a little breathing time to re cover from the desolating contest, began to pay it off. Another great war suddenly burdened the country with a debt of over £600,000,000, but without pausing to recover breath from that strife, the nation set to work, and iu little over four years reduced it to something under £500,000,000, con tinuing thereductiun at the rate of nearly £1,500,000 a month. Perhaps the writer may find impatience, even greed, in this, but it cannot be denied that the present generation of Amiricatis are making a sacrifice which Englishmen never dreamt of making fur the benefit of their descendants. It is hard to misrepresent this act, while it is easy to misrepresent the greed for territory, though both spring from precisely the same source, which, in truth, reflects honour on the country. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Oct. 23.) Money continues very easy in New York, as well it may in the almost entire absence of the speculation that has heretofore occupied the funds of the metropolis. The de mand from the South and West has slightly increased, but is easily met, or could be met, if it were not for the scar city of small bills, as those are most wanted in those sec tions. The Treasury will hardly be able to issue small notes before November. Those friends of the contraction of the currency, who have been at all puzzled by the co existence of the two contradictories, high rates of interest and superfluous money, may now see the explanation of the paradox. The speculation that an inflated currency breeds, or one branch of it at least, being in abeyance, money loses all the value that these fictitious dealings have at tached to it and takes only that which the actual de mands of commerce confer. In the endeavour to find the causes and remedies of the late gold rebellion (for though a month old it is still a standing editorial topic), the ex tent of the field that has been groaned over, and its dis tance from the object sought, would afford painful reflec tions to a man of close habits or thoughts, if such a one should perchance tram his attention to the subject at all. Some have declaimed so loudly against the gold room that the Nation felt called upon to enter into an elaborate apologia of that institution. Brokers as a class were also loudly maligned, and the New York Times came to their defence in an editorial. Again, brokers, as in dividuals, have acquired fame as the prime cause of all our woes, and fame of a pretty good quality, too, at least with the rising generation, for very few young men are taught to see the distinction between the man who buys and sells with intent to confer value meantime and him who buys and sells without such intention ; in other words, between the merchants and the speculator, the man of business, and the idle gambler But the gold room, the fictitious dealings, the crowd of brokers, Jim Fisk, all these are the children of specula tion, the inseparable paramour of an inflated currency. Speculation being for the moment fairly exhausted and taken from the ring, all her numerous family follow her, and the commercial community, so long in a state of delirium tremens, is now fairly sick with sobriety. In providing a remedy for these troubles, that may at any time be upon us again, and in all our thought upon the subject, it is highly important that this fact should not only be admitted, but should constantly assert itself in our minds that speculation and, back of that, redundant money is the cause of the disease. Any such plan, therefore, as that said to have been proposed by Senator Wilson, making sales of gold illegal, except in cases of actual delivery (it is almost impossible that he should have thought of such a piece of nonsense) or the indictment of Fisk and Gould and the whole of Wall-street before a grand jury, or the abolition of the gold exchange and its bank, or any process of " weeding out" all of these rags of prevention tied together wouldn't be half so efficient against the speculative spirit as Partington's mop against the Atlantic. The present state of financial affairs in this country has had many parallels, not in degree of de bauchery perhaps, but certainly in all the elements that produce intoxication. In the crisis year of each decade, since wo have had a financial history, money has been as abundaut as bank-bill printers could make it, and, never theless, interest has been high, and speculation growing reckless has embarked in wild-cat schemes that speedily went to wreck w hen terrafirm t of specie payments hove in sight. Just so now, specie payment is the land of promise on which th ) people of this ecuntry must keep their eyes fixed. We may get a grand jury to punish spaculators and usurers if we can, but lot us not suppose for an in stant that we aro by that means reaching the root of the evil. It may be a qu3stiou whether those petty prosecu tions, taking their hazardous nature into account, do not more harm than good by diverting attention from the true issue. The statement of the New York bank for the past week is unexpectedly favourable, the reserve being in creased 697,460, against a reduction of liabilities of over half a million. But, as the Evening Post well says, the " present plan of statements affords no guide to the true condition of the banks." The gold market for the past week, in the language of Wall-street, has been " dull," but it was the dullness of a patient who pro tempore is not " active" with excruciating pain. All accounts agree that the gold room has been visited only by those who wenteA coin for the legitmate demands of business. What the legitimate demands of business are in comparison with the demands of speculation may be learned from the fact that the business of the gold room is now only five per cent. of what it was in ordinary times. Here is an insd tution, 95 per cent. of whose character is purely faro bank, and yet the whole country is accustomed to write and to read long telegrams and articles on its daily doings, to look to it hourly for business advicos, and to smile and grow sad according to the humours of its index ! The affairs of the Gold Exchange Bank have been so far settled as to allow of the payment of a dividend of 25 per cent to the creditors. Last week was disgraced by a personal difficulty between the house of Unger and Co. and Receiver Jordan. The former had had dealings with this bank since, and entirely distinct from the panic, and having waited three weeks for settlement, on Saturday put their case into the hands of the United States Bankruptcy Court. This horribly honest proceeding excited a vast deal of indignation, it being considered dishonourable for a man to patronize any but the corrupt local judiciary. Jordan freed his nsind of his opinion of Unger and Co. in the gold room, but sent a note of apology on Monday, and smoothed the affair over. Foreign exchange was easy through the early part of the week, but on Wednesday cotton and produce bills were scarce, and the rates went up to 1094 to 109 k. Govern agents continue steady, both at home and abroad. The Government proposal to buy $2,000,000, Wednesday, drew out offers of $8,271,150, a stock in the market that forbids anyvery great fluctuations in the upward direction. Up to October 14, the secretary had purchased bonds to the face value of $57,773,000. The total amount offered at the sales must have been nearly three times this amount. The coupon bonds of 1867 have been purchased more largely than any other class, and constitute about one quarter of the whole amount. The coupons of 1865 stand next ($11,418,850), and the registered issue of 1862 next ($6,355,050), while the coupons of the same year show the lowest figures ($113,000.) The whole list includes registered and coupon bonds of 186`2,1864,1865,1865 new, 1867, and 1868. The stock market has been recovering somewhat its speculative tone. It begins to be pretty well believed that Vanderbilt, instead of Fisk, has got control of the Lake Shore Railroad. It is said that the tumble in New York Central was even encoutaged by the Commodore, who was well aware that the whole list would come down in sympathy, and that, when this effect actually did follow, he stepped in and bought enough of Lake Shore to secure to him the balance of power in that company. That road is certainly a very natural and powerful ally of the New York Central, and would be very danger ous to the latter in the hands of a rival. By the belief that it has become a Vanderbilt road, its stock has appre ciated from 854 last week to 93. New York Central within 12 days has risen froM 1774 to 193, Hudson from 159 to 1744, and Harlem from 140 to 1494. It is noticeable that the London papers continue to advise investment in Erie stocir, evidently not aware what they are about when they give such cruel counsel, such as it would be difficult to find in any American journal, however high or low its character. The New York Custom returns for September have just been rendered. Specie imports reached $1,864,904 against $906,558 a year ago. Tho amount of specie received during the past nine months is $11,738,578, or double last year's amount. The amount of specie ex ported for the same time is much less than half of last year's, or $26,717,628 against $66,333,870. Thus more than double the amount of gold is coming in and not half as much going out as last year. The entries of merchandise for the month of September were $22,979,489, only $600,000 more than last year. The value of foreign mer chandise of the previous importation withdrawn from bond is $11,121,143, or $2,281,084 more than went into bond during the month; so that the amount of merchan dise actually marketed during the month, dutiable and free, is $25,260,578, on which the gold customs collected amount to $11,975,805, being at an average rate of duty on all the marketed imports (including free articles) of 474 per cent. The amount marketed in Septem ber, 1868, was $26,509,857, and the customs collected $12,916,782. The exports of produce for the past nine months amount to $134,728,340 against $113,707,570. Dry goods have been reasonably active through the week, the far west purchasers being the most numerous. Un bleached shirtings and shootings have been irregular, with a pretty well defined decline of half a cent on a yard. Indian head and Appleton A are held at 164 cents and Amoskeag Aat 16. Bleached have been well sold out ; New York Mills is held at 21 cents. Prints have not been so active as they were expected to be even at an estab lished reduction of half a cent, and a further decline is probable. Ginghams are very active and prices are firmly maintained. Muslin de laines are in good demand and have not fallen With other goods. The demand for woollen shawls is falling off, but prices are kept up and domestic woollens are well sustained. Foreign goods are in fair demand, and importers appear quite willing to dispose of their stock at ruling prices. The imports of the past three weeks declined considerably, and it is net likely that there will be much more done for the present season. (From the Wall-street Journal.) FRIDAY EVENING, October 22. Outside of the Vanderbilt stocks, Wall-street continues prostrated, and generally Vlore is very little doing. Since our last, the expected failure of L. M. Hoffman and Co. has occurred, but, on the other band, the resumption of business by the respected firm of Chase, M'Clure and Co. is announced. The Gold Exchange Bank has also com menced to pay off their indebtedness. Money on call con tinues easy at 6to 7 per cent. Discounts are readily ob tained at 9to 12 per cent. on first-class names. Gold has , been moderately active, opening to-day at 131, thous() rising to 1311 and closing at 131 a. QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Amer. silver... 971 , to 981 I Eng. soya 484 to 486 Mex. d011ar5...103-} „ 101 20 francs 384 „ 386 Eng. silver 470 , 480 Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 96 Foreign Exchange is active, with a restricted supply of bills. Sixty Days. Three Days London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lOB-}-109* Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 34-86 Frankfort, 0.3,1 404-41 • Berlin and Cologne _ 7q-70}.. — Antwerp 5 214-5.1761 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 5.21; —5.161 The Sub-Treasury have purchased the following Five- Twenty Bonds since our last:— On October 20th, $2,000,000 from 115.68 to 115.71. - The total amount offered was $8,271,000 at prices varying from 115.68 to 117.73. On October 21, 81,000,000 new 1865's at 115.20 In one lot from Messrs. Fisk and Hatch. The total amount offered was $5,034,000, at prices varying from 115.20 to 117.64. Government Bonds are generally firmer sixes, 1861, registered ll9l to 1191 Sixes, 1881, coupon ..... 1191 to 1191 Sixes, 1868, coupon• - U.S. Gs. Pacific Railroad Five-twenties, 1862, registered Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1855, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 .... 1171 to 1171 Ten-forties, coupon lOBl to 108 Ten-forties, registered Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to State Stocks are inactive, Old Tennessee's selling at 62 ; Old North Carolina's at 471 New North Carolina's at 40, and the Special Tax Bonds at 44. The Committee on Securities of the Stock has made the following report in regard to the North Carolina State Special Tax Bonds : First, That those bonds Only which have been passed by the Committee are good delivery, either as New Bonds or Special Tax Bonds. Second, That until further notice from the Committee all North Carolina State Bonds must be dealt in according to the standard of the Old Bondi, and carry the Coupon of January, 1869, or be made to con form thereto. The Committee likewise decide that North Carolina State Bonds issued to the Atlantic, Ten nessee, and Ohio Railway Company are not good deli very, either as new bonds, or Special Tax Bonds. They may, however, be oalled up separately on the free list The following North Carolina New State Bonds have' been passed by the Committee : North Carolina State Bonds, issued to the Western North Carolina R.R. Com pany, dated October 1, 1868. North Carolina State Bonds issued to the Western North Carolina R.R. Company, dated April 1, 1869. Williamaton and Y arboro R.R. Com pany, dated October 1, 1868. Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford R.R., dated April 1, 1869. Western RR. Com pany, dated April 1, 1869. All the above bear the imprint (in medallion) that the special tax required by the Con stitution has been ordered to be levied by the act of the Legislature authorising the same. The Legislature of Tennessee has taken decided ground against repudiation, as will be aeon by the following reso lutions which, on October 18th, passed the Senate by a unanimous vote :—Whereas, Previous legislation on the part of those who have heretofore controlled the State Government, in pledging the public faith by the in surance of State Bonds, has tended greatly to impair the public credit and impart distrust to the minds of the many as to the ultimate payment of our public debt, and, whereas a people who, in all •their history, have shown scrupu lous tidolity commercially and otherwise, to private cbli , gations, must consider justice to all public creditors as essential to the honour and dignity of the State; therefore —Resolved. By the General Assembly of the State of Ten nessee, that the people of Tennessee will a'ver- stigma tize their restoration to the control of public affairs by sanctioning in any matter indifference to public oLliga tions. Resolved, That expediency, together with honour and good faith of the State, demands that the interest on the public debt be paid at the earliest practicable moment, and its principal security provided for at maturity ; and to those ends, under a careful ret ench meut and rigid economy in all other respects, the entire available revenue and resources of the State should be faithfully applied, as they in honour are bound. Railroad Stocks aro generally lower, and, excepting on --~....~ i.~ the clique stocks, transactions are few and far betWeeu; Railroad Bonds sell steadily and continue to be taken _.,f° investment. We quote Union Pacifies at 831 bid and 841 asked, and for Central Pacifies 921 bid and 931 asked. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 90 Tol. & Wab. Equip...... N..Y. Central 6s, 1887 871 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M.. as NY. Central 6s, R Est 871 Gal. & Chic. Ext. ......... 93 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 871 Gal. & Chic. 2d M......•.• N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 Chi. &R. I. Ist M.. . ...... N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... Erie Ist Mort, Ex 9B Cleve. & Tel. S. Fund... 7.. Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 95 N. J. Central Ist M....•• Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B3 N J. Central 2d M.....• Erie 7i3„ 4th Mort, 1880 BO Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch.lst 7e Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 771 Pitts. Ft. W., & Oh.2d 31. Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. lstM,'77 B4 Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M..: 99 Hud. R. 7s, Ist 31, '69 99 Chic. & Alton, S. F. In_c• Hod. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 103 Chic. &Alton, S. F. lsta• gg Harlem Ist Si, '6B '72 100 Mil. & St. Plul Ist 31... Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 — Marietta & Gin. Ist 31.- to o Mich. So., 7p.c.2d Si 9l Morris & Essex Ist 31.-'O.l N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex 2d Si ..• Ilieh.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 981 Joilet & Chic. Ist g••• c ./ 111. Cen. 7p. c, '7O 117 Chi. & Gt. East'nlst3l... 01 Alton &T. H. Ist Si Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 80 Dubuque &S.City,lst 31. 91 Alton &T. 11. 2d M. Inc. 76 Peninsula Ist M......••• Han.& St.J.LandWrntslo2/ Ohio & Miss. Ist M....•• :5 Han. & St. J. Con 100 Ohio & Miss. Con ......... 'A Chi. B. & Q., Ist M — Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. P. .... Chi. & N. West, S. P._ 921 Atlantic & G. W. '2d 14 '. 9 2 Obi. &N. W. Con Cony. 92 Del., Lack., & W., 2d 3 1 . 8 4 Chi. &N. W. Int B BB/ Lake Sbore Div. Bond° , ('hi. &N. W. Ist M — Cleve, P. & ash. N. 1 3." , Quincy & Tol, Ist M, '75 75 Do. 0.1 1 .* 9,9} 111. & So. lowa Ist M — Union Pacific Gold 13... 9 21 Gt.Wesl. Ist M, 'BB B2l Central P.RR. Gold IL.. ,0 Gt. Western 2d M '93 B2f Pacific RR. guar. by 3 1 °' Tol. p ci Iu Miscellaneous Stocks the feature has bow' -$66 9 Mail, which has ranged to-day between 62/ and 60. 1011, understood that an agreement has been made beivie en t i l e h i company and the Panama Railroad Company, by vi"' e „ b poi latter are to take a rateable part of the California bran i t io the Pacific Mail business. On freight the share ° 1 ,, to Panama Railroad will be 25 per cent. We were u1,31)i-vdi ascertain the share on the passenger traffic. Th° ll :,, i 6 o of the company claim that the arrangement will ins or the company's receipts, and that it will enable it to pets more favourably with the Pacific Railroad. 211 N. Y. Central xd 189 Fort Wayne ............ 0 Erie Hudson Reading Mich. Central — W. U. Telegraph ...... 'l6l Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 100 1; Ohio and Mississippi.'' 1 4 North-West North-West Preferred 84f Cumberland ............. , Canton.. Rock Island Jleveland and Toledo IM & St. Paul Preferred Express Stocks are generally slow. 661 Adams 56 to 3 6 h American Merchants ' Union 36 to , 0 Merchants' Union, old Stock 9l to 1,-/ United States ! I I Wells, Fargo, and Co 20i to rer o Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia banker s, as follows on Oct. 24 : —Pennsylvania Railroad shares, 56; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 97 97i ; Sixes, 31()Ii° 'WOMEN AS VOTERS. Joy for the Conservatives ! Tho women are on their side. At least those of Salford are. An olficial return published by the Manchester Courier, showing the way the female voters of the borough behaved, makes it appear that the number of them on the burgess roll is 1,283 ; of these 414 voted for Conservative candidates, and :302 for the Radicals. The number of women who split their votes between Conservatives and Radicals is stated to be twenty seven. THE OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. PROSECUTION. In another column we give the result of the appli cation by Dr. Thom to the Court of Chancery for money out of the estate of Overend, Gurney, and Co. to carry on the prosecution of the directors. Vice- Chancellor Malins refused the request; and the Economist, the organ of the commercial world, ap plauds the decision. Our contemporary thinks the possibility of the application being granted ought to be removed. It is clearly an abuse (it says) to throw expenses of the kind on a bankrupt estate. "Those who have suffered already by the crime are the last persons who should be victimised to punish it." But (as our contemporary adds) the whole criminal law generally throws the duty of prosecuting on such sufferers; the result is that crime is imperfectly Punished. RAIL AND ROAD. The Railway News repeats, on what it considers trustworthy authority, the statement that the Government has decided upon not proposing during the next session any general plan for the purchase of the Irish railways. A. scheme is, however, under consideration for giving assistance to the larger com panies for the purchase of the smaller lines, and promoting the working of the system as a whole. The outlay . will be advanced on the security of the districts concerned.— The Brighton Company have under consideration a general revision of the fares over the whole system, principally in connection with the charges for return fares. The other Southern railways will no doubt have to revise their tariffs, and thus the policy of increased charges adopted last autumn will be in part revoked.—Bonds to the extent of 21 millions are about to be issued by the Metropolitan Board of works, in order to complete the improvements they have in hand, and others about to be commenced, WORKING MEN'S CLUBS. The Rev. 11. Solly has been trying an experiment in the Black Country. He has been holding a series of meetings at Birmingham, Wolverhamp ton, and very many other places, in promotion of social clubs, and he has met with much assistance from M.P.'s, employers of labour, and working. men themselves. Mr. Solly proceeds on the system of allowing beer, wino, &c., to be sold in these clubs, whereas hitherto nothing of the kind has been permitted. The Birmingham press states that this innovation has been successful in attracting large numbers of men who would never come near the ordinary working man's club. " The operatives are beginning to see how largely their welfare as a class would be promoted, and their social status generally improved, as well as their pecuniary interests, by meeting in their own club-houses instead of at the public-house." TRADE UNIONISM IN EARLY DAYS. To Sheffield, " the home of trades' unionism," com binations of workmen are by no means new. So early as 1814 the manufacturers were complaining of the tyrannical pressure of their men for , more wages, and were combining to resist them. In that year the poet Montgomery edited a Sheffield newspaper. In one of his issues he pub lished a circular, " on behalf of the ' General Committee of the Sheffield Mercantile and Manufacturing Union,' Peter Brownall chairman." The circular is addressed to customers, and it sets forth that the combinations of workmen to advance their wages have been raising prices at an " alarming" rate. In order to stay "this evil" steps were taken by the masters, "of which one of the first has been a general suspension of their purchases, and stoppage of their manufactories." The manufacturers appeal th their customers therefore not to press for orders. This identification of public interests with those of the masters was a good dodge, and it answered woll for a time. THE LA ST DOI LEH EXPLOSION. The remarkable catastrophe at Sheerness has naturally given rife to much comment. The facts are indeed amazing. The gunboat Thistle was fitted with engines of 120 nominal horse power, and with three perfectly new boilers, made at the Sheerness Steam Factory. Of these boilers one appears to have been used for superheated steam of rather high pressure, while the two others contained steam of ordinary pressure only. The vessel was making her trial trip over the Maphn Sands on Wednesday last, and while she was "on the mile," the high-pressure boiler seems to have cracked across one of its plates, and to have discharged the whole of its steam into the stokehole and engine -room, killing or maiming everyone found there. What was the origin of such a disaster ? Tho Daily News remarks that it is simply idle to attribute the explosion to causes beyond the power of human foresight. "Amongst boiler-makers of good standing it is the practice to test most carefully, and indeed most minutely, every plate of iron before it is used in a boiler. Is a similar plan followed in the Government service ? " Were the boilers, too, tested by hydraulic pressure ? for it is not to be thought that a boiler which had stood such an experiment—generally carried to at least three times the working pressure—should have burst in the man ner stated. The catastrophe ought to be the subject of a most searching investigation. THE GAME LAWS. The Fieid takes part with the landlords in the con troversy on the game laws, which has been raised so suddenly and vigorously by the Chambers of Agriculture. The farmers demand that at least ground game should be eliminated from the protection of the laws • the landlords think that the matter is not one for legislative interference, but for agreement between landlord and tenant. The Field agrees with the latter view. "Many a farmer refuses to let a man in his employ keep a pig, and the pressure of competition compels the labourer to submit ; but it is not a thing which the Legis lature can remedy. When labourers are scarce, they may insist on an improvement of their condition ; when would-be tenants are few in number, the demands of landlords will diminish, as well in an agricultural county as in an overbuilt suburb of London. At present the rule is, that where game is preserved, the rents are much lower than they would otherwise be. Annihilate the game, and the tenant will be in a condition to pay more ; and he may rely upon it that he will then have more to pay. LONDON TO PEKIN BY RAIL. The time when an unbroken journey can be made from London, or at all events, from Calais to Pekin by rail, is, the Railway News thinks, distant only a very few years. That enterprising journal makes light of the difficulties yet to be overcome; but they certainly appear somewhat formidable. The first stage of the journey—from Calais to Constantinople, 1,700 miles—is not yet complete; but no doubt it soon may be. But from Constantinople to the Persian - Gulf, through Asia Minor, not a rail has been laid. The Turkish Government is willing to grant land; . but it has not the money to co n s truct, and it deli cately offers " special securities" for the repayment of a loan if the British Government will be kind enough to guarantee the sum. To which offer the British Government is very likely to answer that the Turks have offered " special securities" so often that they aro now . pretty well without any security at all. If the project of a trip to Pekin by rail depends upon England guaranteeing the cost of a line through Asia Minor, the Railway 21rews is further from the realisation of the scheme than it imagines. Without considering the distance from the Indian frontier to Pekin, it is 4,000 miles from Calais to the Indian frontier, and of this s-ace scarcely 1,700 miles have been spanned by rail. THE AMERICAN DEBT. HerapaA's Railway Journal is one of the authori ties which strive to counteract the distrust felt by the English middle classes in American bonds. Why the central Washington treasury should be suspected of dishonour because Pennsylvania aid a few other States suspended the payment of interest on their bonds, the railway journal cannot toll. All the facts point to tho other conclusion. The Americans are, paving off their enormous debt with the utmost rapidity. Whilst most nations spend more and receive less thita they calculate on; the American Treasury for the year 1868-9 has a surplus of not less than ten millions sterling, although the yearly interest on the national obligations amounts to 130,000,000 dollars 1 " That such a result should have been achieved within four years of the close of a great civil war which convulsed American society to its centre, is one of those marvels THE CHINESE IN AMERICA. Whether the negroes of Louisiana like the importation of the Chinese or not they will have to submit to the infliction. Five shiploads of Celestials are on their way to the State, and they have agreed to do any kind of work which happens to come first. They only stipulate for nine dollars a month and rations. It is not abad bargain for the employers, as the Chinese have also agreed to refund the money paid for their passage to the United States, and bind themselves over for a period of five years. The Chinese are to be set to work on sugar and rice plantations. The negroes have called a Convention at Baton Rouge to consider the pro tection of their own interests, and they are evidently a little afraid of their new competitors. TIM PRIVATEER CUBA. The spy Gordon, late one of the crew of the man-of-war Cuba, has given evidence at Wilmington. He stated that the steamer was three miles from " Noman's Land" when the men, arms, and supplies were taken on board. He boarded her in the steamer Petrel. After taking the men, arms, and supplies from the Petrel, the Hornet went nearer shore and anchored. It was about dark on Saturday night when the unloading began. Arms, shot, and shell were first taken on board, and then guns, after which he saw the smoke of a steamer,supposed to be a revenue cutter, andthe Hornet made for Fire Island. The case of the officers of the Cuba was resumed on the 26th of October. The counsel for the defence wanted to introduce some of the officers as wit nesses. Mr. Phelps, for the Government, objected, and after some discussion the commissioner decided that they were competent as witnesses. By order of the authorities at Washington parties are engaged in taking the stores from the steamer. TILE CUBAN QUESTION. The action of the United States in regard to the seizure of the privateer Cuba is regarded with great satisfaction in Havana.. The Havana press is very indignant with the correspondents of the New York papers in that city for commenting so freely on the condition of affairs in the island, and say they have lost the right to remain there as impartial foreign correspondents. The Spanish resi dents in Cuba would not fail in their duty to their Government in the event of a war with the United States. The Spanish decree establishing religions liberty throughout the colonies has been promulgated in Havana, and received with much favour. Mr. Wade has expressed his opinion on the state of affairs, and thinks it high time that the Administration took some decided action with regard to Cuba. He declares that it is not a question of the Neutrality Laws, and the only point is whether the revolution has sttained such propor tions as to warrant the belief that the majority of the Cubans are in favour of it. Mr. Wade and several senators are of opinion that Congress will certainly take action with regard to Cuba. The Cuban steamship Lillian was seized by the British authorities at Nassau. The case was laid before the Attorney-General, who de cided that the Government could not legally hold the vessel, and she was accordingly released. The last accounts state that the vessel was getting under way, and that the Cuban flag was flying at her peak. TILE ERIE STRIKE. The difficulties in Jersey City have come to an end, and the struggle has resulted in the triumph of the 'workmen. An interview took place between the workmen's delegates and the directors, at which it was agreed that the men should be paid by the 15th of each month . The object of this strike was not an advance of pay or shortening of *ours, but that the money earned by the men should be paid at a stipulated time, so that it could be relied upon. TIIE ZERGER CASE. Great excitement has lately been created in Washington by what is known as the Zerger trial. The interest in this case arises from the question whether a civilian can be tried and sentenced by a military commission, and the old antagonism between North and South is con cerned in it. Mr. Zerger, a private citizen of Mississippi, was tried and sentenced to death by a military commis sion, without a jury, for the murder of a United States military officer. The finding and sentence were approved by the President, but execution was suspended by his order. The reconstruction law of 1867 admitted the legitimacy of trials by military commissions in States under martial government, but Congress added a clause repealing so much of the Act establishing judicial courts as authorised an appeal from the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court. Nevertheless the Zerger case came up on appeal from the Circuit Court, asking for a writ of Habeas Corpus to release Zerger from military custody. Chief Justice Chase has decided that the Supreme Court has jurisdiction in the case, and the decision has greatly incensed the Radicals, who declare that it will place a premium on the murder of Union men in Missis sippi and Texas. Threats of impeachment against Mr Chase have been uttered, and one Radical declared that the Supreme Court, instead of being the strong sight arm of the Government, was a paralysed member which em barrassed the whole ' constitutional machinery. Efforts will be made to delay the elections in Mississippi and Texas until Congress has taken further legislation, as the Radicals believe the decision will affect the votes. TILE ISTinars CANAL. News from Panama to the 15th of October states that the friends of the Isthmus Canal scheme are growing sanguine. The Legislative Assembly of the State is now in session, and it is believed that they will instruct their Senators and representatives at the Congress at Bogota to vote in favour of any reasonable concessions being granted to its projectors. The President is very anxious to have the scheme carried out, and all who are interested in the prosperity of the State share in his wishes. ANOTHER POPULAR ERROR. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Europeans who do not understand the object the Americans have in view in their United States of America attribute to them a greed for territory, such as European Powers display when they endea vour to annex the adjoining districts. This mistake furnished the groundwork of a late article in the Liverpool Albion " On the Effects of Annexations on the United States." The Republic is there likened to the greedy boy, who, obtaining access to a jar of sweetmeats, grasped so large a quantity that be could not withdraw his hand, yet would not let go any part. The writer dwells on this greed as surprising, considering the magnificent territory of the Union. " More than she can either use or properly govern, the cry is still for more. With hundreds of miles of excellent land still unsettled, having within her boundaries produc tive mines and noble r i v ers, convenient harbours, and bounded in great part by that un i ve rsal hi g hwa y , the ocean, giving convenient facility for acc ess and de p arture ; yet cursed by th e i m moral craving to remove h e r neigh bours' landmarks." Then he weeps, and raising his voice in sorrow, warns the Republic against violating the moral law in "following a course which must of necessity bring her to the ground, and that, as she metes now to others, even so will it be meted unto her." All this is the expression of the error to which we allude. Instead of craving for more territory, the United States rather incline to regret the burden of earth which has fallen to their lot. Instead of hundreds of miles the writer should have said millions of square miles of unoccupied land, embracing every description of soil, scenery, and climate. When the United States are represented as desirous of annex ing neighbouring territory, Europeans suppose they covet it as Prussia does a slice of Denmark, or Rus sia to push her frontier to the Bosphorus, or France to the Rhine ; that is, to strengthen the Treasury by a revenue-paying soil, and increase the levy for military p urposes t h roug h an enlarged population. This is the source o f th e e rror ; greediness being the incentive i n t h e E uropea n Powers, hence it is sup posed that gr ee di n ess is the spring which moves the Republic. Yet there is a wide difference; for the United States, instead of wanting more land, would not accept such an increase as a gift; bat what they do want, in consideration of coming generations, is to knit the whole Continent into a link of States, hav ing one Federal Government, with all the blessings and advantages flowing therefrom. The writer of the article in the Albion is determined that it shall not be overlooked, so he has printed it on slips, one of which he has transmitted to us. But we would not have noticed it, so accustomed are we to 94 94f. 2HE AMERICAN PRESS. o ff Our old friends the Citizen and Round Tab le come out in another garb, the third t ra nsform s o First there was the Round Table, in form P er , a little larger than this paper, and the Cltt~aPel gigantic sheet, bigger than " The LargestNew'' se lf in the World," as the London Standard calls I ,io' Next, the New York Citizen swallowed the 00,01 Table, as it jokingly said, without altering i ts ai or shape. Then it assumed the Round TabLe , oy es r only more numerous in leaves; finally, it ha s — Ol up again into two, coming out now on Wedo e 'dil and Saturdays, though with leaves reduced, la j v even threatens to transform itself into a daily/ se 101 9 come a great prop for Tammany. It is a - do' welcome paper notwithstanding its Tan r umanw 1 1 bets clivities ; so the oftener it comes out, the bct p , will please us. Here is a hard, and we da re 0 ,/ well deserved, hit, from its first Wednesday's ° s c ot, "A NulsANcE.—Several of our journals have ells the frequency of the 'Hogg family' . 7. all public 1 )1t o 0 resort; yet holding them up to view, through the 13 1, 3 1 0 i, of the press, evidently failed to make. th em 'see thud, DP as others see them,' or to lessen the evil, which, lo d e ,, pr°' become a 'crying' one. All enjoyment is posiat T ot' . hibited, and the whole object which induces Ma% ro c!, , tend lectures, conceits, operas, &e., is greatly rs" re tfr not entirely frustrated. Anywhere and everr i t e l o numerous representatives of this unwelcome 9'l on hand to exhibit their selfishness and rudeoes°.os 0; attended a Patti matinee a short time ago members of this annoying blood were scatters a of the audience, making themselves obnoxious i 4 o t e tr Ironic to the real lovers of music. We had oe /r ,, e ,,a Carlotta, and a combination of circumstances R'-‘,10,' vented us from listening to any fine music for tie, time, and thus we expected a great treat at the 115 1 :, 1 Our pleasure was sadly interfered with by th °l° „o almost continuous conversation of two ladies (s ° c ot e or • deferentially call them) who occupied seats veloteg, f , In the midst of the most beautiful and delicate' which the songstress is so justly famed, and hes e 1 ,1 faint, lingering sound, as of some far-off bird, t' . t tb , iss idu!ged ia such expressions as these oc la o r lo n vely ?" What a wonderful tions, in perfect discord with the sweet ton e of I to be ii tt ;mg cantatriee. Of course, those ladies, and an w .dieg',4 a similar want of polite manners and good bre o v - e floYo' utterly ignorant of music. Tho sound of as old fu lli je d would be just as agreeable, we presume, and in thy!' preciated by them. To suppose that they fil e li o o• for alive to harmony and melody is out of the clos s „ h then, do they trouble themselves to sit throlt s 15 ,,, d'‘ formance, and spend so many hours, which M g : ' ing and wearisome ? Because they must do e il o „ e P; and appear to understand the entertainment, as us ot sire to see and be seen. It is a pity there s cen t tbaa arrangement made to accommodate this class Vttiot 0 43 gallery so high and remote should be Pi oc itr botts e : tb e " chattering would not disturb the rest of the any ol r fec t have no doubt—in fact, we know—that r °B , ;‘ ,oo, qt) 1 , 6 1 / vexatious persons reside in brown stone 013 0 _,'; er fs$ 0 t1 0 , haps 'dwell in marble halls, with vassals ao"" a 14 or if side ;' yet they are not ladies. Fine array a f 0, 1 0 1 wealth will not constitute them as such• apl gentleman will be recognized in the plainefooooi,De their unostentatious manner and. politeness. rid e 0 0 0 appear at operas, concerts,Arc.,in splendid dry to ' pociOd and home in elegant carriages and yet who 1 ., 0 :4 11 q around and about them by loud'oonversatio n- 7 ( 0 0 just as disagreeable, loud whispering and i n ee dilt foLi —are vulgar, and have no idea of gond D 5 P ti f hope our remarks may fall on good ground ''''3 o '„ fruit, and that those who read them and tp tio s low apply may learn a salutary lesson, and that „,t gD even in some degree aid in abating th is endured nuisance." liervo tt: o o t l ADVERTISEMENT. I—Hollowai's — Pills• Atti re he'd bility.—No part of the human machine 113,000 watching than the nervous system • upon 1/ „, g als ll3 o ?„ 1 / 1 ; and life itself. These pills are the beet 4 . l. 7.see i r alro' strengtheners of the nerves, and the safes' .7 ite" Ap9i fiors. Nausea, headache, giddiness, n umboe s „ o o! . .4o , apathy yield to them. They despatch in s s o " ott c l Tos, l o ,J nor those distressing dyspeptic symptoms, s. t s i dis c , of fulness at the pit of the stomach, abdotro° ca•leaf and overcome loathings, capricious apped te -f cle fe .too l !iv , bowels, the commonly accompanying signs u r , p9P deranged nervous power. Holloway's Pill s l a ittsr,Y o ci recommended to persons of studious and se 40" zoo 'who gradually sink into a nervous a nd de. oc cv unless some restorative, such as his pilltlbeCups tiepo taken. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Dyspepsia (Indigestipe).2 at ° _ ° . ,4 e4 l) l Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilioeNel 0 9 `,O liver complaints in every stage, are only agg r ly c °4 pt ° rated by drugs of:every description, but perfec a 08 000 ,0,6 , Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabia" Fn o pel e sO„re v e ir thousands of cases which had been considereo we t 0 a —cough. asthma, also diarrhcea, htemorrhoidst. wog; 00 4. 000 flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore a A ao l gitioc ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the le°', e art l iie e ' f cOA znatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hystell r o3o','o. 4 l) o l ),' bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation , b e d F iclo4l,lo, 15 {N, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, IT „ c rokpti' o fey" pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronehitts,zso ?ties! of the chest, pains at the pit of the stollial ic alti4 , l,o shoulders, &c. We quote a few e Pope p ly. , c o, Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" " 111 1' 11Y foci health of the Holy Father is excellent, esP e :' - olf e t - 0 0,w ing all other remedies, he has confined ho t ' c oos ut ycul; Barry's Revalenta Arabia" Food, of which be r i s iog t o j!; ful at every meal. It has produced s urP roilFt effect on his health, and his Holiness cannoLPoi,- vi food too highly.—From the "Gazette du AL ,cut ot., 1,1 , 2 V No. 46,270-Mr. James Roberts, timber ittinß Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lunge, 1,7 r o' - Or / derangement, and partial deafness! Cure 1 ,1) 1 ,, yea 0 1 . , 0: d de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of W a on y f r f e t4 l etra' No. 40,832—"Fity years' indescribable fig litt te nervousness, asthma, cough, constintiotsr„rig, ~et sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly. 0 10 P.!," te" Beware of the many unsavoury and more I.` ia ' o pe 1 " 1 19 0 ,,,f e 1/ CO ti to -which, without authority, Baron LiebiB 8 llo;c11°,450 ciously attached Ad 511) leA for ; ° l O , In tins, at ls lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 21bs 40 - AD O 0, 2 lbs 405.-Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA as, / 6 c- g e v ,p POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1 2 ,, c o rfor ‘ 41jecf , 011 at 38 6d, for 43 cups at Os, for 288 cUPe a ijd '001 0 :0 01 —being about one penny per cup. 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