The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1869. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE ERNEST J O...YES DEMONSTRATION. 31ISCELLANEOUS • 'fie gaturday _Review, in contemplating the probable The Ernest Jones demonstration is pronounced a THE HABEAS CORP' consequences of the disestablishment and disendowment comparative failure. otwithstan4g that it was a The Habeas Corpus Act is no of the Irish Church, says that with many of the prophe holiday, thattheweather was fine, and at every effort had Ireland, and we have now to sl cies of; woe which have been uttered during the debate it been made to make the show d a n imposing oi one, hthe effect of the "policy of justice has no kind of sympathy. The Protestant Episcopal processions were meagre, out-door an composed which the Ministry boast they Church in Ireland is sure to get on well enough if anyon e which ended m i aterial than . any of gatherings, The first act of the Government really wants it there, and sure to fade away if it is not Fenian convicts, is not auspicious n the passing of the Tory Reform Bill ; and, so far as wanted. In half a century it will have used or neglected that we might shew our strength casual spectators could observe from the banners and the great opportunity now given it of chewing what as a sign of weakness. Set free placards incidental to the proceedings, it was the amount of stuff and life there is really in it. The Irish we had no fear of them, they ha Fenian prisoners and the defunct Reform League, Protestants will be just as loyal and industrious and indication that we are afraid to ] Jones, who energetic in two years' time as they are now. The clergy and not the memory of the late Ernestto be hoped that the same result of all denominations may be less sore, and can scarcelybe were to be glorified. For the most part Trafalgar- resumption of the Habeas Corpu of elit e of Friday on th e more sore, than they are now. But on two points the square was the receptacle THE PRESTON ST alarmists seem to us to be quite right. The disestablish- London ruffianism, although, in justice it should be The Standard recurs again 'to ment and disendowment of the Irish Church cannot fail added, from the force of circumstances appeared in an and again condemns it. Our cont to affect the English Church. The minds of men have expectant and subdued state. For two hours a shifting, that thousands will have to been turned in the-direction of leaving all religious bodies I motley crowd of perhaps 5,000 persons kept the Square this strike who have nothin, to themselves. The argument that the State can do per- alive, and of these certainly not more than 1,000 belonged with it. Thus, those who fectly well without a national religion will tell on both to the demonstration proper. There were apparently machinery must stop wh sides of the Channel. and how serious will he the discus- persons of all classes r resent, for upon glancing across the stop. Every man, woman, e mien when it is raised as to the English Church may easily fountains prominent in the foreground was to be seen a I engaged in the manufacture, yl be learnt by anyone who cares to weigh w hat Mr. Lowe notorious Fenian nho was tried along with Michael fleeted with the trade, is thi meant when he said that he objected to a disestablished Barrett for complicity in the Clerkenwell explosion, factory is compulsorily closed. Church retaining great endowments, as that would he to while the farther c:;tremity of the mass was boldly the . operatives are creating par their own , in Preston. They ai set up a theocracy in the middle of a nation. Then, again, marked by the manly presence of Sir Robert Peel. We have ' every sympathy with it is impossible to believe that this division will not I The processions started from three centres. To they will receive help in that wh inspire the Irish with hopes which must some day be dis- Clerkenwell-green, of course, was reserved the privilege of righteous struggle from their fel appointed. Mr. Bright openly and courageously avowed accommodating the forces that mustered in the East-end, same field, and the prevalence c that ranianism had been one of the most immediate causes and upon that grassless area a few hundreds of men and meat among those who are ern] of the proposal to treat the Established Church as the youths collected about three o'clock. This was the chief industry is highly creditable. . majority of Irishmen would wish it to be treated. Irish- procession. The hand was there, and Handel's well- " conciliators ?' Where are the men will certainly think that a resettlement of the land known funeral dirge was the music ; nor can it benied that people the true economy of the and probably will think that a repeal of the Union may the red "caps of liberty" were present in much force ; but argue with them that, if cotton I be obtained, if enough noise is made, and England is suffi- for all this it was a very paltry business. So evidently raw markets high, demand in ciently terrified. Sooner or later they will have to find thought the spectators, who looked on while the proces- I market depressed, business evi out their mistake, and we are not sure whether the disen. sion passed through Farringdon-street, Fleet-street, and and profits at zero, it is better fo the level of affairs than to wilful chantment may not come as soon as they wake to the fact i the Strand. Meanwhile another procession was mar that the proposals of the Ministry that has done so much I shalled in Soho-square, to reach Trafalgar-square, the workhouse? , ~,_ %....._, Ll._ rn..--1. --- -- 4- 41.- 1.-A 4- is- .lw way of Den.n.strept_ Prinnes-strent_ Cnventrv.street. PAUPERISM. The Ernest Jones demonstration is pronounced a comparative failure. Notwithstaniiipg that it was a holiday, thattheweather was fine, and did every effort bad been made to make the show an imposing one, the processions were meagre, and composed of rougher material than any of the out-door gatherings, which ended in the passing of the Tory Reform Bill ; and, so far as casual spectators could observe from the banners and placards incidental to the proceedings, it was the Fenian prisoners and the defunct Reform League, and not the memory of the late Ernest Jones, who were to be glorified. For the most part Trafalgar square was the receptacle on Friday of the elite of London ruffianism, although, in justice it should be added, from the force of circumstances=-it appeared in an expectant and subdued state. For two hours a shifting, motley crowd of perhaps 5,000 persons kept the Square alive, and of these certainly not more than 1,000 belonged to the demonstration proper. There were apparently persons of all classes r resent, for upon glancing across the fountains prominent in the foreground was to be seen a notorious Fenian who was tried along with Michael Barrett for complicity in the Clerkenwell explosion, while the farther e:;tremity of the mass was boldly marked by the manly presence of Sir Robert Peel. The processions started from three centres. To Clerkenwell-green, of course, was reserved the privilege of accommodating the forces that mustered in the East-end, and upon that grassless area a few hundreds of men and youths collected about three o'clock. This was the chief procession. The band was there, and Handel's well known funeral dirge was the music ; nor can it benied that the red "caps of liberty" were present in much force; but for all this it was a very paltry business. So evidently thought the spectators, who looked on while the proces sion passed through Farringdon-street, Fleet-street, and the Strand. Meanwhile another procession was mar shalled in Soho-square, to reach Trafalgar-square, .by way of Dcan-street, Princes-street, Coventry-street, and the Haymarket. The third procession was supposed to represent Southern London, and its route was the Obelisk, Blackfriars-road, Westminster Bridge, and Par liament-street. In Trafalgar-square there were five chair men, but the speeches were very little heard, and very little effort was made by the people to hear them. Mr. J. G. Holyoake made the speech of the day. Speaking of the claims Ernest Jones had upon the working-classes, Mr. Holyoake went on to say : " What Mr. Bright is to the middle-class Mr. Ernest Jones was to the people —to all those oft regarded as the ' insurgent classes.' It is only lately that the masses took heartily to Mr. Bright ; they always took heartily to Mr. Jones. He took more personally the part of the working people. They liked him for his defence of them ; but they knew that he was a gentleman, well born and well connected, and they liked bim better still for that. He attacked ' the Manchester School,' he hated Whigs, manufacturers, and the middle classes, who, once possessed of power themselves, forgot all their fine promises of help ing the people to political enfranchisement. But in all his fierce attacks which disturbed the peace of the Anti- Corn Law League, he did not hate these parties as the workmen then hated them—he hated them as an aristo crat bates them, Proud and brave, he spoke fiery words at public meetings. Two years' imprisonment followed, in which he was treated with indignity. The visiting justices were of the class he had outraged, and they were not inclined to make their prisoner oblivious that he had fallen into their power. Nervous, sanguine, ambitious, conscious of great powers, these were two dreadful years to pass by Mr. Jones ; but his spirit was untameable. He could not hope to escape the cholera which decimated the inmates of the cells around him. He was treated as though it was desired that he should die of it. But what occurred inside the prison was a small thing to a man of his nature, to what he knew was occurring outside of it. His wife was left with a young faMily dependent on aid which was sure to fall short of her needs, and had to be procured by means of appeals far more painful than privation to a lady of her honourable pride, and the prison authorities kept his letters back three months at a time, and he could not hear whether cholera or grief or want had killed his family and his wife. His hatred became intense, and, after this, undying, and those who are going to condemn it should put themselves in his place first. The care and sorrow of his prison years told on the health of his wife, and a few years after his liberation be found himself a widower, and his children motherless. It was hard for him to die just when the prospect was assured him of entering Parliament, the equal of those who put this malignant misery upon him, and meeting them face to face in conflict. It is clear that Ernest Jones became a poet under the influence of Lord Byron's genius. His early poems are all Byronic in form, force, and pas sion. In gaol they would not allow him ink, and he had to cut himself to get blood to write with, and he covered in that fluid the leaves of his prayer book with his poem the " Revolt of II indostan." He was kept nineteen months without pen, ink, or paper. After his liberation he became known to Mr. Disraeli, who respected him as a man of genius ; and- certainly at one time the brightest days of Mr. Jones were those when he joined his friends, after interviews with the eminent literary statesman. Thomas Cooper, another noted Chartist, who wrote a poem of mark in gaol, received honourable notices from Mr. Disraeli. Not long after his imprisonment, Mr. Jones's uncle, Mr. Halton Annersley, made him an offer of a fortune of .-c..2,000 a year if he would abandon his Chartist advocacy. At the same time Mr. Jones well understood what he was about and what his prospects were. The service of the people would not keep him in bread. The people he served never do keep any advocate of Mr. Jones's typo in bread. Indeed it was Mr. Jones's pride and policy not to receive any pay for his addresses, and this was permitted, although penury; or dependence, or debt must result, and thosewho accepted his services knew it. Ernest Jones had chosen his cause, and would not shrink from the lot it entailed. In London his life was always one of anxiety and labour. lie published newspapers which he lacked capital to sustain. People sent him orders who could not pay him, and some sent orders who never meant to pay him ; and the poet, ever dreaming of high things, was condemned to perplexity, labour, and humi liation. To the day of his death anxiety followed him. He went to Manchester with a sad heart when his career in London came to an end, and a few days before his death be wrote to me to say how he looked forward when mem ber for Manchester to come and sit by a fireside that over looks the spot where we now stand, and talk over again the long deferred dreams of bygone days. It is a proof of the gratitude that dwells in the common people that the news of his death cast a gloom of audible sorrow over all the workshops of England and Scotland, and a good way over the world the sharp grief bas travelled. Every' workman looked forward to his triumph, and was grateful to Manchester for ensur ing it. One might differ from Mr. Jones in many of his views, and not hesitate to condemn what might seem hurtful as well as erroneous ; but every publicist must respect one who gave himself to the labour of advancing freedom with all the energy of passion and courage, and whose ambition it was to put upon it the stamp of honesty and genius." it is impossible to believe that this division will not inspire the Irish with hopes which must some day be dis appointed. Mr. Bright openly and courageously avowed that ranianism had been one of the most immediate causes of the ,proposal to treat the Established Church as the majority of Irishmen would wish it to be treated. Irish men will certainly think that a resettlement of the land and probably will think that a repeal of the Union may be obtained, if enough noise is made, and England is suffi ciently terrified. Sooner or later they will have to find out their mistake, and we are not sure whether the disen chantment may not come as soon as they wake to the fact that the proposals of the Ministry that has done so much to please them about the Church are, as to the land, to be confined within the miserable limits of political economy. These are very considerable risks to run, and the division of the week may be taken as a sign that England, having counted the cost, is still determined to run them. In politics the risk of standing still is sometimes greater than the risk of moving Cu, and now the determination to move on, as the less dangerous course of the two, has been taken. It is an immense advantage that this determination has been taken and manifested with an decisiveness which will spare us further wavering, and prevent us from losing through irresolution the advantages that moving on promises to ensure us. The Spectator declares that everybody is asking, early as it is, " What will the Lords do with the Irish Bill ?" for, as politicians clearly perceive, the power of preventing, or at least of delaying, the fall of the Irish Church, now rests, in fact, with them. Mr. Gladstone's plan will probably be sent up to the Lords intact. The fight will then recom mence, and, as usual when the Upper House is in the way, . will he carried on mainly from the outside. Pressure will be applied instead of argument, and menace instead of reasoning; the Lords will b e threatened with extinction, with inundation, with popular violence, with all manner of pains and penalties borrowed from the half-forgotten Liberal repertoire of 1831, when the measure desired by the people was levelled directly at their power. We con fess that, as Radicals, we dislike this process, this eleva tion of bluster to a constitutional agency, very much indeed. It may be a very doubtful question whether the House of Lords, as at present constituted, is a desirable power in the State, whether a public meeting of one or two hundred wealthy gentlemen irresponsible to Uri nation ought to have the power of rejecting a bill like that for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, whether the day for withdrawing the veto on legislation now entrusted to the great landowners may not have arrived. It may be expedient to strengthen the popular assembly by making its decisions when affirmed by a cer tain majority, say of 100, irreversible, or to strengthen the Executive by limiting the veto of the Upper House to the bill in its entirety, as is done with money bills, or to modernise the tone of the House by introducing life peers, or to extinguish the House altogether ; but there is one thing which it is not expedient to do, and that is, to m-ak; the highest men in the realm demoralise the nation by setting the example of voting against their consciences. If the Lords are of any use at all, it is as men who can vote without fear of external compulsion, who can speak their minds without reference either to the hustings or tho mob, who can legislate, and not merely register an already pronounced decree. Some of the demands popularly made on the Lords seem to us to be demands fur the display of an hypocrisy which is just as injurious and as enfeebling in politics as in theology. They are to say they approve the bill, as some clergymen say they approve verbal inspira tion, not because they believe in it, but because, if they do not, their "means of usefulness" in other departments may consequently be lessened. The Lords are subject to just the same rules of intellectual morality as other people are. If they, in their consciences, are convinced that the Irish Bill will be injurious to the -nation, and that it is their function to give operative expression to that belief, then their duty is to throw out the bill, regardless of any consequences to themselves from its performance. It will, of course, then be a question whether the Queen's Government can be carried on with an mire) ised Consti tution ; but - better that question, with all its dangers, than legislation carried on by a Chamber intellectually enslaved. Let us have a proposal for the reform of the Lords, rather than a proposal to make either lying or cringing in the Lords a constitutional etiquette. The London Beriew thinks that the majority wnica on Wednesday morning, sent into committee the Bill fox the Restitution of Stolen Property in Ireland formed thu expected climax of a dull debate. We cannot recall any political project of similar importance the discussion of which in Parliament offered so very little of interest to the outside public. We doubt if one man out of every ten took the trouble to read those ingenious, but perfectly unnecessary, efforts of oratory which were intended to sup port or prevent a foregone conclusion. Here and there the reader of the morning paper may have been tempted to watch Mr. Disraeli's dexterous fighting in the air with invisible opponents, or listen to the stately and sympathetic periods of Mr. Gladstone, or study the valiant and un hesitating attitude of Mr. Hardy ; but any such casual scrutiny of the dreary columns of type had not for its object the obtaining of information upon the prospects of the bill. These were settled in November last. Tho parliamentary custom which ordains that before the con.. cession of the principle of a new national bill be granted, the foremost men of all parties shall be heard, is doubtless wise and salutary ; but in the present case it only caused a sheer waste of splendid intellectual effort. Mr. Disraeli, indeed, seemed to understand the position so thoroughly that he can scarcely be said to have dealt with the present bill at all. The man who reads the brilliant and subtle speech over which the member for Bucks had apparently spent a tolerable quantity of midnight oil, may be pleased and tickled and even struck into genuine admiration by cer tain portions of it; but if he wishes to gather from it any notion of the real points at issue—the real stumbling blocks which lie in the way of Conservative opposition to the measure—he discovers that he has been dining off air. Not even Mr. Gladstone's masterly and luminous exposition ; Mr. Bright's eloquence, just touched by official repose ; Mr. Lowe's acute critcism, and the delicate reasoning of Sir Rounclell Palmer—to say nothing of the interest attaching to some excellent first appearances— could save the general character of the debate from being tedious and dispiriting ; while the ordinary proportions of dulness with which all debates in the House of Com mons are liberally furnished were duller than ever. The John Bull thinks that the greatest wonder of the day is that the mass of people are ignorant of the por tentous crisis through which the country is passing. The ordinary Englishman eats and drinks, does his business, and indulges in social and other festivities just as if no unusual event was taking place.' But as to considering the question of the Irish Church on its merits, or in connec tion with other measures passed years ago of which it is the complement, or with others in the future of which it is certainly the forerunner, the idea never enters his head. The John Bull considers that matters are far more serious. For a few years indeed it anticipates no great cata strophe, but the work will be going on secretly. Then, as suddenly as the Irish Church question was declared ripe for decision, we shall be told that th'e hour of the English Establishment's downfall has come, or that the House of Lords must cease to exist, or that private property can no longer be respected. To those who tell us that these are visionary dreams, that such writing is dictated by mere irritated party feeling, we answer, Turn back to the records of former legislation. See Low earnestly Roman Catholics protested, when the Emancipation Act was passed, that they would not use their political privi leges to the injury of the Established Church ; how Dis senters were indignant at the scandalous libels put forth by infatuated Tories as to their desiring to hurt the Church. And where now are . these Liberal pledges? Laughed to scorn ; while those bigoted politicians who fore told that what we now sf e before our eyes would occur have been proved to Le true prophets. And none but those who refuse to see can blind themselves to the fact that far more than the position of the Irish Church is now at stake. With these convictions it is not surprising that our con temporary should advise the House of Lords to reject the bill on the 'second reading, and declare that the Conser vative party must follow Mr. Hardy on this question, not Mr. Disraeli. This was • the pith of the speech, and although it wa.. lost upon the majority, there were some present who, knowing, like the speaker, something of Ernest Jones's warm impulses, were carried away by the vivid recollec tions of the past that were called up. Amongst the other speeches there was one in French, delivered to an audience of foreigners, who, either by happy accident or appropriate design, occupied the space nearest Leicester-square. The largest and noisiest groups of applauders were to be found around four or five couples, who, personating priest and clerk, read and sold mock litanies touching the last election. These loathsome denizens of St. Giles's seemed to meet with no rebuke and no disapprobation, but uttered their profane parodies of some of the most beautiful portions of the Church Service with tokens of approval that were, unhappily, particularly forth coming when the approvers were young men of gentle manly appearance. As a c ommerc i al speculation, how ever, the venture was fruitless ; the dodge, to begin with, is an old one, and the blasphemy had not the excuse of wit and shrewd application as it had when introduced into the Hyde Park demonstrations of other days. DEFALCATION BY A RATE COLLECTOR. —Mr . Francis Durrant,latelyone of the parochial rate collectors at Greenwich, has disappeared, leaving ascertained defi ciencies in his accounts amounting to £2,818, and which are mly covered by sureties amounting to £6OO. By the 40th clause of the local Act of Parliament governing the parish of Greenwich the collectors are restricted from keep ing any sum above £25 in hand more than seven days, but are bound to pay the same to the parish treasurer, under a Penalty of £5 each day the sum should prove to have been in their possession. Surprise is expressed at the laxity of the parochial body, to whom is entrusted the auditing of accounts, in allowing so large a deficiency on the part of any official to have become possible. At a meeting of the vestry, Lcid on Thursday night, Mr. Church warden Soarnes presiding, the loss sustained by the parish was repored, and as Mr. Durrant had suddenly taken his departure from the town, it was resolved that criminal proceedings should be taken against MAI by the solicitor and clerk to the parish, and a reward offered for his apprehension. 'The defaulter's sureties complain of the utter want of supervision which has deen displayed over the receipts, supposed to have existed for some years, and it is understood their liability will be contested in one of the superior courts of law. The de cations named will, under the most favourable circ I " ,, ces, npoccuensd uponsitate th the e levying of as addition a l ra t e , • in the whole of tjoiccltpiers Q sin II- I tOWnc GARRETT V. STOWELL AND WHITWORTII.—The plaintiff in this action has, we are informed, received strong legal advice to move the Court of Queen's Bench to set aside the award which the referee who was ap. pointed under the rule of court at the last Manchester winter assizes has recently made and published, • The cause will come before the' judges in lalaco_virjzilLbii Lulu tam. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. bad recommended that the contract should be dis allowed, but that the contractors be offered the option of conducting the postal services for a shorter period. The sense of the meeting appeared to favour the conclusions at which we arrived in our article last week ; that subsidies were required to enable companies efficiently to carry the mails ; but it is clear that the Chamber was divided on the subject, as an amendment was offered, protest ing against subsidies as opposed to Free Trade. The Public Credit Bill was brought up in the House on the 12th inst., and was passed with very little alteration under the title of " An Act to strengthen the Public Credit of the United States," by 97 to 48. There is but one Democrat among the majority, Mr. Axtell ; but there were several Republicans in the minority, Beatty, Butler (Mas sachusetts), Butler (Tennessee), Cobb, Coburn, Dewees, Hawkins, Hopkins, Orth, Shanks, Ste venson, Taffee, Tyner, and Wilson, of Ohio. The Senate took it up on the 11th, but adjourned after striking out the second section legalizing contracts in gold. Mr. Thurman moved to except the 5-20 Bonds from the section retained, which was de feated by 30 to 12. Among the minority were the Republican Senators Boreman, Cole, Morton, Os born, Pratt, Ross, and Sprague, but not a single Democrat voted with the majority. Senator Mor ton made another effort for repudiation ; but was defeated by 32 to 14, when the Senate adjourned till the 15th. THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT. The Habeas Corpus Act is no longer suspended in Ireland, and we have now to see what will be the effect of the " policy of justice and conciliation " which the Ministry boast they have inaugurated. The first act of the Government, the release of the Fenian convicts, is not auspicious. Released in order that we might shew our strength, they have taken it as a sign of weakness. Set free that we might shew we had no fear of them, they have regarded it as an indication that we are afraid to punish them. It is to be hoped that the same result will not follow the resumption of the Habeas Corpus. Mr. G. W. Smalley, the London correspondent of the Tribune, has written to that paper on the American Minister to Spain, with reference to that gentleman's recent letter to a New Hampshire Con gressman, making charges against Mr. Perry, Secretary of Legation, and asking that he, Mr. Hale, be continued in his diplomatic post. Mr. Smalley has lately visited Madrid, and the opinion he formed was that Mr. Hale had been so injuri ously affected by severe illness as not to be then qualified fairly to represent America. The Minister sympathiz?s with the Queen of Spain, desires her return, and opposes the revolution. The corre spondent considers Mr. Perry to have taken the more American and correct view, indeed Mr. Smalley's letter is in condemnation of the Minister and in favour of his Secretary of Legation. At the t ame time he asserts that he formerly knew nothing of Mr. Perry, while he knew a great deal of Mr. Hale, and went to Madrid prepossessed in his favour. The Washington Government seems in clined to settle the matter by recalling both gentle men, which we believe is the course most likely, indeed certain, to be pursued. The Senate Committee of the New York Legis lature on legislative corruption reported to the Senate on the 11th inst. Tho document is very long, and ought to be carefully read before au opinion is given. The Chairman is Matthew Hale, and the members Francis S. Thayer and Asher P. Nichols. It is natural for the members of a Legis lature, whose conduct was impugned, to report as favourably as possible; and we must therefore ac cept what they say with a liberal discount. It is very difficult for men earnestly desirous of extract ing the truth to ascertain whether bribery has been practised, became there are two guilty parties only to the contract, neither of whom can convict the other without disgracing himself. It appears evi dent that the charges have been exaggerated, but it is equally clear that they are grounded on truth. We will endeavour to give the pith of the report next week. The Tribune asserts that there is a delegation from Nova Scotia at Washington, who " represent the people of that colony as about to ask England for a release from all political connection ; they will at the same time send a delegation to Washing ton to ascertain upon what terms they can be re ceived as a State into the American Union. The feeling in the colony in favour of the measure is intense and widespread. The subject is advocated by the leading newspapers in the colony, and by pamphlets prepared and published in Halifax, and extensively circulated over the province. A pro minent gentleman in Washington has commenced the preparation of a pamphlet on the subject, in which he proposes to show that very great good will result to both countries by the annexation, not only of Nova Scotia, but of all the maritime provinces." If the Tribune is right, which we doubt, the sooner Nova Scotia settles the matter with Canada and enters the Union the better. We have persistently maintained that the best move England could make would be to sever her political connection with North America, and establish a commercial and friendly alliance with the whole continent, organizing a broad, comprehensive plan of emigration. If this policy were carried out, what England really desires, and what would tend equally to the advantage of both countries, would happen. The whole race, although under two separate Governments, would become firmly knit together, and the power and prosperity of each be enormously strengthened thereby. Ex-President Johnson left Washington by the 9.30 morning train for Baltimore on the 11th March in a special car, wherein were ex-Secretary Browning, General Trimble of Kentucky, the Hon. C. A. Eldridge of Wisconsin, the Hon. S. S. Ran dall of Pennsylvania, Judge Gooding, late Marshal of the District of Columbia, R. 11. Slicer of Balti more, Mr. J. F. Coyle, and others, escorted by a Committee of the Baltimore City Council. Go vernor Bowie welcomed him on arrival at the Cam den Railroad station. Andrew Johnson received for two hours in the Rotunda of the Exchange, and so blocked the street that it was.impossible to get about. Over 200 persons sat down to the dinner. In response to the toast of his health, Mr. Johnson alluded to the encouragement, peculiarly sustaining in its character, he had received from Maryland during his hard struggle for the Constitution. He declared he felt more pleasure in being an American citizen than to be inaugurated President over the ruins of a violated Constitution ; a bit, we presume, at Grant. His deliverance was the greatest case of emancipation since the rebellion, and he would rather be a free man than a President and be a slave; —another hit. If a Radical report of the entertain ment be true, the Hun. S. J. Randall of Philadelphia assaulted Judge Geary, of Baltimore, under the impression that he was in some way connected with Governor Geary of his State. Although in a con dition in which men are supposed to see double this gentleman could see but one Geary, and enter tain but one impression, that Geary was his enemy. A discussion has been raised on the question of the French withdrawal from Mexico. It was origi nally suggested by an article in the New York Tri bune, " On the Alabama Wrong," wherein a para graph hit at the feeble policy of ex-Secretary Seward towardsthe French in their connection with Mexico. This produced a reply from Mr. Bigelow and a re joinder from the Tribune, and another letter from Mr. Bigelow, who, in our opinion, has the bed of the argument, though his open sneer at the men whose notion of foreign policy consists in cramming down the throats of nations the eagle—talons, feathers, and all—is resented by the Tribune. The Nation alludes to the circumstance, which has not, we be lieve, been denied, that the French Marshal obtained the Mexican maps and plans procured for and used by General Scott during the invasion of Mexico by the United States. In the meantime another candi date for the honour of having persuaded the Emperor Napoleon to withdraw his troops has appeared in the person of General Webb, Minister to Brazil, and an article was published in the New York Times of the 10th asserting that Mr. Seward's letter to Count Montholon had not been written until after General Webb had assured President Lincoln that it would be all right. Poor Mr. Seward thought he had re tired in peace ; but here is a hornet's nest raised about his cars touching his most celebrated de spatch, before he reaches Auburn ! The third party of middle class emigrants de spatched by the Minnesota Land Association leave to-day by the .13eIlona from the Victoria Docks, London, for St. Paul, Minnesota. On arrival at New York, the agents of the Association will re ceive them, and they will proceed by express train to their destination, making but two changes in a run over 1,300 miles. The cars are fitted with sleeping accommodation and other conveniences, which enable the party to do this with comfort. The emigrants consist of farmers, tradesmen, and artizans, for the most part small capitalists. This is the proper way in which to conduct emigration, and in a few years its effect will be seen in Minne sota and felt in Congress ; and this is the true re medy for the ill blood generated in the United States by Irish immigrants, and a very different cure to that proposed by many wiseacres, of di verting in every possible way emigration from the Republic to strengthen the colonies. Juarez appears to be in a tight place. His situa tion by the latest advices is described as critical, without money in the treasury, with limited and unreliable troops, with a country in a state of an archy, open outrage stalking unpunished, and fierce and undisguised hostility to him even in his capi tal. There is much abuse in Mexico of the United States, which is always accused of having designs on Mexican territory. The best day Mexico ever saw would be that in which its beggarly inhabitants were annexed to the Union ; but, however benefi cial for the Mexicans, we have . grave doubts re garding the benefit the great Republic would de rive. The Department Commanders have been de prived of the power of inflicting capital punish ment at will. General Alvarez evinces no inclina tion to put his head intep the lion's mouth, which the lion has invited him to do. Juarez has directed him to proceed to the capital and give an account of the large sums he abstracted from the Acapulco Custom-house, but he says he will see Juarez somewhere !—first. Professor Agassiz arrived at Havannah in a sur veying ship, and obtained permission from the Cuban authorities, by whom he was most courte ously treated, to make surveys of that harbour. Admiral Hoff, in command of the West India squa dron, bears testimony to the desire of the Cuban Government to protect American citizens and their property. There has been some fighting, in which the insurgents were defeated ; but the insurrection is spreading, and if the Spanish authorities ever re gain possession of the island, it will be only after a long and bloody struggle. Dulce has written home for more troops, for artillery and for a fleet, also for money, and he will need al! he can get of these supplies before he can put down the rebellion. The insurgent General, Juan Capote Lopez, being taken prisoner, was shot on the 9th inst. at Cien fuegos; and many other captured Cubans were slain on the spot by the Spaniards with their knives. An expedition from Nassau had landed, conveying aid from the United States. It consisted of four steamers, which landed cannon, arms, ammunition, and recruits for the insurgents. The Spanish war steamer saw the Peruvian monitors pass the Cuban coast on their way to St. Thomas's when she re turned to Havannah. We fear a long and disas trous war, for Spain will never voluntarily surren ner her hold on Cuba while not sufficiently powerful to crush out the insurrection. Several engagements are reported . in the neighbourhood of Sagna. The views of President Grant relative to the Cuban question are the subject of numerous reports and considerable discussion. The Government on Thursday published in the daily papers a melancholy list of the fate of British subjects who took service with Lopez. Two were shot by order of the Dictator, and most of them are known to have died of ague and cholera. Knowing the character of the man, it is gratifying to learn that General M'Mahon is in good health n the hills, not far from the miserable mountain hamlet called Pirabebui, which Lopez has made his head-quarters. On the morning of the 30th Jan. an expeditionary force of 500 men left Ascuneion to look up this position. Some sixty Paraguayan families, protected by Rio Grande cavalry, were massacred on their way to Ascuncion by a raiding party of their countrymen, as Lopez has decreed death as the award of all who submit to the in vaders. The escort fled, and on their return found the women, old men, and children with their throats cut. The gunboat Wasp was on her way back to Paraguay. It is supposed that the despatches of the American Minister have been intercepted. From all accounts it appears that the Paraguayans have been nearly exterminated ; but so devoted are the people to the Dictator that it is thought, even in his present extremity, that Brazil will be forced to make peace with him. If the latest rumour from the seat of war be true, Lopez has played a most extraordinary card, and one that will cause no slight embarrassment to the Allies and to Mr. Hamilton Fish. The Buenos Ayres Standard thus announces it : "The news from Paraguay is of the most unlooked-for character: nothing 1 ss than the cession of Paraguay by Lopez to the United States. At first few credited the re port, but yesterday there was some importance attached to it at Montevideo. Our brother editor informs us that the story is not believed. It is impossible at the present juncture to offer any opinion on the matter, and we therefore await further advices. We regard it as a bola." A report is about to be laid before the Legis lature of Prince Edward Island in relation to the subject of reciprocal free trade between the island and the United States. AIR. MONCURE D. CONWAY.—The London cor respondent of the Tribune writes as follows :—" Our good Virginian Radical, Moncure D. Conway, was last week elected a Fellow of the Anthropological Society of Lon don. I know not. how many years Mr. Conway has been a resident in England, but it must be six or-seven at least, and his history is a remarkable one. He has achieved a kind of success difficult to an Englishman, and doubly difficult to an American in England. There is no place where competition in literary work is so keen, where the supply is so much greater than the demand, as Loudon ; and where one man succeeds in a purely literary career, there are scores who fail. Mr. Conway, without any other aid than his own energy and genius, has made his way into the front rank of writers in the periodical press. There aro three daily journals in London so supe rior to the rest as to constitute a class by themselves, and to two of these Mr. Conway is a regular contributor of leading articles. His work is equally sought for in such re views and magazines as the Frazer, the Fortnightly, and the Westminster. In the midst of all this labour, he has found time for independent scientific pursuits, and for• regular discourses on Sunday in South Plane Cha pel, to which he attracts a large audience of thought ful hearers. He has also a wide acquaintance am-mg scientific and literary men—with Huxley and Tyndall, Carlyle, Fronde, Browning, and many other names well known in America—with whom, as well as in general society, he is a great favourite. Secure in his position, he has settled himself comfortably in a house in Notting hill-square, with all the air of a man to whom London has become a permanent home, but who is thoroughly Ame rican spite of his long exile, and who does good service to America in many ways ; not least by the example of a successful career due to that kind of culture and ability in which Americans are supposed to be most deficient." THE AMERICAN NATIONAL DEBT AND THE LONDON TI3IES" CORRESPONDENT.—A subscriber of ours, at Frankfort, writes as follows : —The London Times corre spondent, writing from Philadelphia, says, the United States national debt has only been diminished for the month of February to the amount of $1,448,013. Now the report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows a reduction of $10,868,753 07 as follows :—Debt for February, $2,556,205,653 08; ditto for March, $2,515,336,904 38; reduction, $10,868,753 70. This, of course, includes the cash on hand reported for each of the months. SPARROWS IN CANADA.—The imported sparrows at Quebec are good colonists. In spite of the tremendous E now storms they still manage to keep up undiminished numbers. There are now about twenty birds, which may be seen daily in and about the Artillery Barracks. The utility is more particularly observable at this season of the year; the hot sun vivifies insect life for several hours of the day, when from their semi-torpid state they become an easy prey to birds; the eggs, too, of the caterpillar tribes are approaching maturity. A little bird, therefore, such as the sparrow or the black-taped titmouse, can commit groat havoc among what will become insects at a later period.—Canadian paper. RAPID STEAMING.—SOUTHAMPTON, March 19. The Hamburgh American Company's steamship .Holsatia, Captain Ehlers, which arrived here last night, made the voyage from New York to the Needles in the remarkable short time of eight days twenty-two hours. This is be lieved to be by some six hours the quickest passage on record. The following copy of the Holsatia's log shows the distance run to be 3,105 miles, giving au avera ge speed of 141- miles per hour. She left New York at 4.10 p.m. on the 9th to the 10th noon, steamed 252 miles, lat. 40.36 N., long. 68.28 W.; on the 10th to the 11th noon, steamed 335 miles, let. 42.8 N., long. 61.17 W. ; on the 11th to the 12th noon, steamed 368 miles, Lit. 43.43 N., long. 51.11 W. on the 12th to the 13th noon, steamed 352 miles, let. 45.19 N., long. 45.20 W. ; on the 13th to the 14th noon, steamed 840 miles, let. 46.47 N., long. 37.22 W. ; on the 14th to the 15th noon, steamed 332 miles, lat. 48.19 N. long. 29.40 W ; on the 15th to the 16th noon, steamed 352 miles, lat. 99.15 N., long. 20.54 W.; on the 16th to the 17th noon, steamed 348 miles, let. 49.10 N., long. 12.4 W. ; on the 17th to the 18th noon, steamed 342 miles, lat. 56.6 N., long. 3.31 W.• ' to Needles, steamed 84 miles. Tim e , 8 days 22 hours; distance run, 3,105 miles. DuNvILLE and C 0.,? Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is ro commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buillings _bum). lendon:, - W.9...[Ad- Tertisement. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, March 13.) The Boston Post says that at that city "money is easy enough for those who owe nothing—with others who have payments to meet the case is quite different," and the market seems to be in a similar condition at New York and in the Western business centres. The ruling rates of loans " on call" at New York and Boston is below 7 per cent., while outside paper and of a good quality is only taken at au advance from that figure. There is a short supply of money in the market, although the banks gene rally accommodate their regular customers without diffi culty. The shipments of merchandise to the South still continue on a large scale, and a return of currency from that quarter is looked for at an early day, and a revival of the western trade is also expected as soon as navigation opens. The farmers on the prairies have become tired of waiting for a rise, and are bringing their produce to market in quantities, which must compel an early transfer to New York. The recent act of Congress prohibiting the certifica tion of cheeks, by banks, except where the corresponding amount of funds is actually on depo-it, ii making the New York bankers some trouble, as they hive not yet united on a mode of everting it. Various methods have been tried, but none with complete success, and some of the banks threaten to return to the old system if the Act is enforced. The law was designed to prevent a "lock up" of currency at the pleasure of the speculators, and, of course, the brokers are more eager and industrious than the bankers to discover an evasion of the law. The re sult of this attempt to correct the evil by special legisla tion, however, only proves more clearly the necessity of the only efficient means of defeating and destroying specu lation—return to specie payments. The new law, also enacted at the last Congress, which releases the na tional banks from their obligations to make a quarterly report to the Controller of the currency is, however, as acceptable as the other is distasteful, and the periodical stringency to get over "quarter day" will henceforth be avoided. The demand for money at Chicago slackened in the early part of the week, under a disposition to wait de velopments at Washington, and most of the loans were for use in the country, where money is still scarce and collections difficult. The price of Government Bonds has been unsteady during the week, and the tendency of the market has been downward, the decline in Five-Twenties ranging from one to two per cent. The cause of the depression has un doubtedly been the unsettled condition of things at Wash ington in reference to the Treasury Department, and the general hitch in the affairs of the new administration. Quotations in the foreign markets have also been lower, and of course exerted au unfavourable influence on the situation in our home market. The orders from abroad have fallen off within a day or two, and the active demand is apparently suspended until the events of the future are a little more clearly seen. The market in New York since the inauguration has been weak and vacillating, though there appears no particular disposition on the part of holders to sell, and of some of the later issues of Five- Twe n tie s quite a scarcity prevails. The fractional currency issued last week amounted to $411,461, and that re deemed and destroyed to $369,185. The National Bank currency issued for the same time amounted to $129,600, and that returned, redeemed and destroyed, to $13,150,693, leoving $299,905,083 still iu actual circulation. The gold market has been without special interest, though manifesting more than its usual sensitiveness, in consequence of the uncertainties of the situation at Wash ington. On Monday the price went below 130, the lowest for three years, but it speedily recovered itself, and has since ranged at 131 to 131 k. The expectation of the sud den and surprising reform which the administration of Grant would work, seems not to have been wholly realized, and the gold speculators are content to hold on and await developments. The imports for.the week at New York show a very large increase, both of dry goods and general merchandise, the total being seven and a quarter million dollars in foreign gold value, aggregating an amount for 1869 in excess of either of the two previous years, for the corresponding time since January 1. The figures for the three years are as follows : —For the week ending March 6, 1869, $7,455,411; 1868. 31,753,533, and 1867, $4,806,103 —since January 1, 1869, $48,614,304; 1869, $38,190,551, and 1867, $48,942,601. The entire gold value of the imports at New York since July 1, 1868, are $170,856,203, an in crease of $45,267,723 over the amount for the correspond ing time in the previous year. The exports of specie from New York since July 1, 1868, are $128,692,304, and the receipts of California gold silver for the same time $ 1 5,382,508, a decrease in the first case over $1,000,000, and in the latter of over $7,500,000 from the amounts in the year previous during the similar period. The demand for gold for duties at New York is thus shown to b 3 greater than usual, and with a short supply from Cali fornia, even with the specie export diminished, the market price will be well sustained and hold its place firmly. The stock market has been dull and without excitement or heavy business. The pendency of the investigation into the operations with the stock of the New York Cen tral Railroad last fall, undoubtedly checks operations in that direction, and only a few of the Western shares seem to be much sought after. The roads radiating from Chicago are in good demand, and the outcast and exiled Erie has at last found a home in the new National Stock Exchange, which began business on Thursday. It is doubtful if this new movement will have the effect of restoring business confidence to Wall-street or pro duce any decided increase in the value of the securities in which it deals. The Stock Exchange as at present. managed is a machine of doubtful value to the public, and its blessings are solely bestowed upon the favoured few who are within the inside ring. The New York Stockholder, the highest authority, thus remarks upon the present and future of the share market: " A few concerns control the Railway Share Market, leav ing no chance of profit to the general operator. The money of the public, therefore, no longer seeks invest ment in the securities dealt in in the Stock Exchange. It turns to other speculations, more deleterious and quite as dangerous, to speculative operations in merchandise and in real estate. These are full as hazardous as are dealings in stocks, and so far as merchandise is concerned, they are much more damaging to the public at large. It would seem to be worth the while of the Stock Exchange houses, which are counted by hundreds, to consider if some means may not be adopted to make the dealings in shares once more a fair and legitimate resort of the general public. It is plain that the cliques,' as they are called, do not find themselves under the necessity of providing support for the brokers at large. Each clique has its own set of agents at the Stock Exchange, thus employing but few firms. The operations of these cliques drive general business from the street, and accordingly the whole machinery of the Stock Exchange, which, expensive to maintain, might be of great value to the public at large, is turned to the benefit and profit of a few." The meeting of the Pacific Railroad Stockholaers at New York, Wednesday, for the choice of director; was brought to nought by an injunction from Judge Barnard, forbidding proceedings until the rights of James Fisk, jun., whatever they are, are recognized. The votes, how ever, had already been cast, and the injunction will pro bably result in nothing mere serious than delaying the count, although Judge Barnard ordered six or eight of the directors. to appear before him on Thursday for contempt of his process. The Erie Express Company was adver tised to,go into business March Bth, and it is reported that the "Vanderbilt" roads will adopt the same plan of transacting their own express business as soon as the present contracts expire. Express stocks are not ad vancing. The general market for dry goods is active and steady, and the opening of the spring trade seems promising and favourable. The influence of the new Administration, influencing the business of the whole country, is more decidedly and more powerfully felt than in the contracted circles of Wall and Broad-streets. The tone of the coun try is one of confidence, and the business of 1869 will un doubtedly be heavier than that of any year since the war. The stock of cotton goods now in market is not large, and as the supply of the manufacturers is limited, an active demand would undoubtedly produce an advance in prices. The now styles of prints aro going off well, and at good prices, as is the case with all seasonable fabrics of cot ton. The woollen market is also active and firm, and the demand from the manufacturer has decidedly improved of late. (From the Wall-street Journal) NEW YORK, FRIDAY EVENING, March 12. Money on call is easy at 7 per cent. on Stock Collaterals and at 6 per cent. on Govarnments. Discounts are quiet, and first-class paper passes at Bto 10 per cent. Govern ment Bonds are very strong, and higher prices are expected. The appointment of George S. Boutwell as Secretary of the Treasury, vice T. Stewart resigned, is much approved of in financial circles. The opinions of the newly appointed Secretary on the necessity of the payment in Gold of United States Government Bonds are unques tionable, as the following remarks made by him, in the Republican State Convention last fall will show:—" We do not propose to tolerate, sanction nor permit an issue of demand notes payable in coin, to be exchanged for the time bonds of the United States. We intend to limit, and if necessary to diminish gradually, the volume of paper money, until it approximates in value to the standard of coin. We intend that there shall b 3 one currency for the bondholder, the merchant, the farmer, the pensioner,aud the labourer. That currency shall be of the value of gold. When this is done the public debt will be paid, as the re sources of the country may permit, and to the satisfaction of those who pay and of those w-ho receive. When the credit of the country is restored, as it will be by the single fact of the election of General Grant, we can issue bonds payable after 10 or 20 years, bearing a lower rate of into rest, and thus save annually the sum of twenty or thirty millions of dollars. tint, first of all, as a means of restoring the public credit, the people must dispel by their votes the apprehension of national dishonesty in the public finances." Railroad Stocks are steady, but the business is small. Railroad Gold Bonds are enquired for, especially those of the Union Pacific and the Rockford, Rock Island, and St. Louis Companies. First-class Railroad Bonds continue to sell readily, and there is a steady demand for investment. Among those lately introduced on this market are the First Mortgage Adams ... ... ... American Merchants' Union Do. Old Stock ... United States ... ... Seven per Cent. Bonds of the St. Louis, Vandalia, and Terre Haute Railroad Company, which are guaranteed by the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad ; the Columbus, Chicago, and Indiana Central Railroad ; the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad ; and the Pennsylvania Railroad Companies, presenting thereby a desirable in vestment of unquestionable security. We will in future quote the Pennsylvania Railroad shares from the actual business done as reported by Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, No. 34, South Third street. On the 11th March the latest sales of shares were at 581 ; Sixes, Ist mortgage, 98*, and 2d mortgage, 961. Express Stocks are steady, but generally lower. We quoto:— THE PRESTON STRIKE. The Standard recurs again to the Preston strike, and again condemns it. Our contemporary points out that thousands will have to pay the costs of this strike who have nothing whatever to do with it. Thus, those who work the steam machinery must stop when the weavers stop. Every man, woman, and child indirectly engaged in the manufacture, yet not exactly con fleeted with the trade, is thrown out when the factory is compulsorily closed. This being true, the operatives are creating pauperism, other than their own, in Preston. They are ready to endure. We have every sympathy with them. Doubtless they will receive help in that which they regard as a righteous struggle from their fellow-labourers in the same field, and the prevalence of a common senti ment among those who are employed in the same industry is highly creditable. But where are the " conciliators ?" Where are the men to teach these people the true economy of their lives ? Who will argue with them that, if cotton be dear, prices in the raw markets high, demand in the manufactured market depressed, business everywhere depressed, and profits at zero, it is better for them to float upon the level of affairs than to wilfully sink down towards the workhouse ? Pauperism still occupies a certain amount of atten tion. At a meeting of delegates from the several vestries and district boards of the metropolis, held on Thursday, in the: St. Pancras Vestry Hall, a dis cussion took place on the increase of pauperism in the metropolis ; and with the view of exercising a more strict supervision over the expenditure, it was resolved that a Standing Metropolitan Vestry Com mittee should be formed to watch the proceedings in Parliament of those public bodies which have the control of the taxation, and to report the results of their labours from time to time to their several boards and vestries. " CONSPIRACY" IN FRANCE. The new law of public meeting in France is admirably calculated to develop the Government's powers of " repres sion." Its provisions give opportunity for license, and are yet far from rising to the standard of liberty as recognised in England. The law allows public meetings to be con vened freely, but no politics must be discussed, and a com missioner of police must be present. This functionary has power to dissolve the meeting whenever politics are infringed upon, or it becomes in any way dangerous to public order. The result has not been satisfactory. Possibly it would not have been safe to have conceded full liberty to discuss political affairs, but this half measure has decidedly given rise to abuses. The speakers trench upon the domain of politics at every possible oppor tunity; every chance is embraced of casting odium upon the Government, and the Emperor and his family are con stantly alluded to by innuendo. The most violent Socialist speeches have been made. The law at length promises to bring matters to a crisis of some kind, for of the various meetings which have been convened in Paris during the last few days, a large majority have been dissolved. Finally, three persons were arrested on Wednesday charged with delivering seditious speeches ; and one journal even hints that the arrests were made in consequence of the "discovery of a conspiracy against the State." This looks rather ominous. GREECE. The project of cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth has again come on the tapis at Athens. It is thought that the completion of the Suez Canal will be a favourable time for commencing this work, as a large body of skilled men will then become dis engaged. The fact that public attention is being turned to such topics speaks well for the revival of a peace feeling in Greece. No such favourable opportunity of constructing a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth is ever likely to recur. A glance at the map of the Mediterranean shews how important such a canal would be for the trade of all the ports of Vrance, Italy, and Austria with Smyrna, Constantinople, and the Black Sea. The ports at both ends of the canal would not require any very great expenditure, and the canal, if made, could be kept open at very little cost. Its length would be three miles and three quarters. The Times correspondent observes that this work would cost no more than a fleet of ironclads to drive the Ottoman navy out of the Mediterranean, for which the Greeks are raisin.. subscriptions. (From the Anglo-American Times.) By the cable we learn that Mr. Moses 11. Grinnel has been nominated by the President Collector of Customs at New York, and the nomination has been confirmed by the Senate. Rumour had so positively assigned the appointment to this gentle man as to make it almost certain. It is important to the Treasury that this post should he filled by a man whose energy and honesty are unquestionable, for the funds there raised, and the taxes gathered, are enormous, greater by far than in any one office in any other city of the globe. Mr. Smythe, having failed in his diplomatic object, is now quite out in the cold, and meets the fate he lately meted to so many of his subordinates. The President has ordered the following assign ment of Military Commanders :—General Meade, to the Division of the Atlantic ; Terry, Depart ment of the South ; Sheridan, Department of Loui siana; Hancock, Department of Dacotah ; Canby, First Military District; Reynolds, Fifth Military District ; Emory, District of Washington. General Gillem is ordered - ;i3 turn over the Fourth Military District to the next senior officer and rejoin his regiment. 'I he World thought the appointment of Hancock to Dacotah due to spite on the part of Grant. Hancock was urged on the Democratic party by his friends as a candidate for the Presidency, and the World thinks that Grant pays him off by posting him to such au outlandish place as Dacotah—un aware that the Department comprises the State of Minnesota, as- well as the Territories of Dacotah and Montana, with head-quarters in the most charming town on the Mississippi, St. Paul. The Hartford Courant, in allusion to the World's re marks, states that Grant met Hancock in Wash ington after the Tammany Convention, and, cor dially accosting him, was passed unnoticed, or, in other words, " cut," by his junior officer. Whatever truth there may be in this, and we doubt if there is any, Gen. Hancock has been assigned a pleasant com mand. In New Orleans there was tremendous ex citement when it was known that their old enemy, Phil. Sheridan, was coming back in triumph. The annual election in Connecticut takes place on the sth April, and the following are the can didates Republican. Democratic. Governor ... Marshall Jewell. James E. English. Lieut.-Gov. Francis Wayland. Ephraim H. Hyde. Sec. State... Hiram Appleton. Leverett E. Pease. Treasurer... David P. Nichols. Edward E. Moseley. Controller... James W. Manning. Jesse Olney. Congress. District 1. Julius L. Strong. James Dixon. 11. Stephen W. Kellogg. James F. Babcock. 111. H. H. Starkweather. Abiel Converse. IV. Sidney B. Beardsley. William H. Barnum. The election in New Hampshire came off on the 9th March, showing a Republican majority of about 4,200. Her three members were all re elected, and though the vote does not equal that cast for President Grant, yet it is a Republican gain on all other elections. Maine, South Carolina, and Arkansas have rati fied the Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment, mak ing twelve States that have done so, as far as we know. Two have rejected it, Georgia and Dela ware. The value of Georgia's vote, however, we are unable to decide, as it has fallen back into an unreconstructed condition, and under military rule. A delegation from that State had an interview with the President, and in reply to his question " What Georgia would do about this amendment," one said, " Pass it, of course ;to give the d—d Yankees a taste of negro rule." One branch of the Georgian Legisla ture ratified it, and then repenting, re-considered the vote when Mr. Joshua Hill triel to lobby it through, fur he knew that if the Legislature did not swallow that pill, he and his coll eagues m i ght knock in vain a p tt l he doors for admitta nce i nto C ongress. The Cunard and Inman contracts have been ratified, as Mr. John Burns declined to modify the terms arranged with the late Government. A meeting was held by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday, to discuss these con tracts. It was there announced that the Select Committee, by the meting Tote of the Chairman, -. 601 to 60i ... 41f to 43 -. 16f to 16i ~ - tu -- 30i to 301 Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... ... _ _ Quotations for specie : Amer. silver... 95 to 951 1 Eng. sous 436 to 489 Max. d011ar5...1031 „ 104 1 20 francs 381 „ 3 86 Eug. silver 180 , 485 I Thalers Five francs .... 951 „ 961 Foreign Exchange is dull, and rates are easier. Sixty Days. Three Dal' liondcn Bankers Lca.e.. n, Prime Commercial lOB —lOBl ...... , Paris, Bankers 5.2 0. 5.171 5.161 —5. 10 ___ —...„.. Bremen, Bankers Jl;unburgh, Bankers 3s}-36 Frankfort, 0 M 4Ol-40k Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.20 —5.171 ... Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. N. Y. Central ll 9l Fort Wayne ..., llBi Erie Hudson - Reading Mich. South. &N. 1.... 971 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B9l Ohio and Mississippi... 30 North-West North-West Preferred 91 Cumberland Canton.. Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 1051 IM & St. Paul Preferred 78} CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 92 - Chi. &N. W. Ist M...... 91 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887_ 91 . Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex. 90 N. Y. Central Gs, It Est.. 87 Gt. Western lstM '88...105 N. Y. Central Os, Sub'n.. 87 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M.. N. Y. Central 7s, 1876... Gal. & Chic. Ext 9B N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 ... Gal. & Chic. 2d M -- N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 ...110 Chi. &R. I. Ist M 99 Erie Ist Mort, Ex 1031 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... 9 1, Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... 9 "7 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 891 N. J. Central Ist M...... --- Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 861 N. J. Central 2d M ...... 102 Erio 7s, sth Mort, 1888 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M. 1 02 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 B3 Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3d 11. -- Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 100 Cleve. & Pitts. 2d AI ... --- Had. R.,75, 3d M, Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 1014 Chic. & Alton, S. F.lsol. loo} Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 — Mil. & St. Paul Ist M... - 7; Mich. new Ist a Bs, 'B2 118 Mil. & St. Paul 2d M... 9 " Mich. So., 7p.c.2d M. 93; Marietta & Gin. Ist M... —," N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex Ist M... I ,LI . Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 961 Morris & Essex 2d M... 111. Cen. 7p. e, '7O 118 Joilet & Chic. Ist H..• Alton &T. H. IFt M 93 Chi. & Gt. East'n 9 ,f., Alton &T. H. '2d pfd 821 N. Y. &N.H.6s .. . ... . Alton &T.H. 2d M.lnc. 7' Dubuque &S.City,lst .. --- Han.&St.J.LandGrantslos Peninsula Ist M......... 85 Han. & St. J. Con 109 Ohio & Miss. Ist M...... 9 9 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 110 Ohio & Miss. Con .... ... &N. West, S. F 95 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. .... Chi. &N. W. Con Cony 931 Atlantic & G. W. Ist 11. Chi. & W. Ex'n B 88 PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATES. „, Sixes, 1881, coupon ll6} to 1 1 or U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad log to 10 2 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll2l to 113 Ten-forties, coupon lO5l to 1001 --- Messrs. Stokes, M'llaffie, and Co. have received the fol.- lowing messages from their New York co r respondent: - ", New York, March 24.—Four days' cotton receipts at ell ports are 18,000 bales, against 21,000 in four days l a s t week. The total receipts for the corresponding weak 1 , 1 1 1868 were 44,000 bales. Middling upland, including all charges and costs, laid down in Liverpool, by steamer' 12/d. per lb. Markets are all stronger. New Orleans, March 24.—Middling Orleans, laid down in Liverpool / 1 sailing vessel, costs, with a ll c h arges , 12id. per Savannah, March 24.—The cost of middling from tul port, laid down in Liverpool, with all charges, is 121cli per lb. The above quotations include an allowance of 6 per cent. for loss in weight. --- The Austin Reveille, of Jan. 7, says_....“ During the period of 90 days the 5-stamp mill of the Wr ite Cristo Company at White Pine reduced 125 tong of ore, the yield of which was $97,700. In the lot 53 tons averaged $1,455.50 per ton ; 53 tons ave: raged $251 per ton ; 13i tons averaged $326 P e i ton ; and 5 tons averaged $383 per ton. Ten bar s °f fine bullion were brought into this city yesterd a i morning fram White Pine. Seve n of the bars we re from the White Pine mill at Hamilton, and are valu e l at $12,370.26. Jan. 12.—The following arnounts ° t bullion were shipped by th e b an ki ng houses 3 White Pine since their e s tabliSh men t th y! John A. Paxton, in Novemb er an d Decemb. e ' t ' 1868, $96,711,28 ; by the agency of the Fl f s i National Bank of Nevada, $33240,45 ; shipment, $129,951,73. The Virginia Enterpris e of January 16 informs us that, at the assay office the Bousfield and Co , there was a gold bar front , Sierra Nevada mine, weighing 492 40-100 ou nce f; and worth $5,971.96. About the first of ° a i l month, stages were to run from Carlin, Cent r A i Pacific Railroad, to White Pine—a distance of miles. tan The Boston Journal says of a recent inapor s -- decision :—" The Supreme Judicial Court of Mase3c, ~ ``„-; setts has just decided a case of considerable interest 5' importance, in which the parties were Henry K. ° , li ;j el; treasurer, and the Liverpool and London Life an' rei Insurance Company. The suit was brought by .‘",. f ,,f it ver in behalf of the Commonwealth, and the obj ecb was to recover a tax authorized by a State statute, of in s d ` e per cent. upon all premiums received on contnicts 01%, within the state by the agents of incorporated foreignl.o surance companies. This company has done busin ess Massachusetts since 1854,and the taxesrequired by the Cri; mouwealh have been annually paid, except for th e r s de question, when Mr. Oliver was State Treasurer. The the feudants claimed exception from the State t ax °-n l ove ground that they were associated together und er thesorns of Great Britain, as a partnership of natural person s ' eiti of them citizens of Great Britain and some of ther t l on, if zees of New York, and that the statute in q uestl . o - ii of made to apply to them, would violate the Cons tituti A Brit'' b the United States, and also the American an - t sue' treaty of 1815. The defendants' grounds were on s oar tained, and the Court decided that the statute in c l ue applied to them, and ordered the tax to be paid. d Pills LADvErvrisEmENT.l—Holloway's Ointment an-, „nee, Much watchfulness must be exercised as winter aat:,-edi and the earliest evidence of ill-health must be irnr"-esult ately checked and removed, or a slight illness ale/ Lt beria, in a serious malady. Relaxed and sore throat , diP",, most quinsey, throat cough, chronic cough, bronchitis, 0_11,04 other pulmonary affections, will be re li e ved' by r7ieable this cooling Ointment into the skin, as near a s p ia le and to the seat of mischief. This treatment, so sin npf these effective, is admirably adapted for the removal invalids diseases during infancy and youth. ' Old as thmati c will derive marvellous reli e f from the use of g ufferer remedies, which have brought round many such means had and re-established health, after every other wean signally failed. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion) , C °ll- e b, Debility, Consumption, and all nervons, bilio us, storat '.N(O- liver complaints n every stage, are onlagg r avated by Da rated by drugs of i every description, but perfectly curao'° ro„ad bY a s Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic& Food, p s uch thousands of cases which had been considered hopelasswiaiota, —cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver coa dphthe flatulenCy, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throsts,ar_, ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and io : rrits matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, nears ac he bility, sleeplessneFs, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, Thev-e, is debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickn?ss,,%tsesa pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofbetween tho of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach andstod bY shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health rE2,„ .. ..gbe Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413—,' Rome, July 12, i s T aa do health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially entirelyiac? ing all other remedies, he has confined himself _ ate- Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he conso.uple,se7i;gelat fnl at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly it f e o ff o e d ct t o o n o h h i t s gh h l e y a .— lth ir a o n in d htisheHo"liGnalestcatendnuoltiptrair thlia2esl.ceourene ju lf No. 46,270 -Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, d S e u rs rr n ey g , em of en th t, ir a t n y d y p e a a rt rs i de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' I :7epsia , No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony i_,Y4„'soras, a diseased eaf nes s lungs, Cllr e spitting .1 l°l nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulen Y t °Cauion. sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Iports!, most Beware of the many unsavoury and more than slo PiPYniost soda' to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name ciously attached. s igiba, In tins, at ls. ; 1 lb. 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 51b ' 00 00: I,bljf_rodds,tl;i alers:. 225. ; •i 4 lbs, 40s, -Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARA: t L y s., for 2! LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cgs fat 576 CUPg cus at 3s. 6d., for 48 cus at 6s. for 288 at 3u 8 . , at p 55s.—being about one penny , cups per cup. The 30s. &ullest pole, are sent free of carriage in England on receipt o stree t. Order. BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Reg don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. BUCKSTONE— On the 24th inst., at Peak-hill, Sydenbara' Mrs. Buckstone, of a daughter. th t : WREy—On the 25th inst., at 5, Ilydespark-gate a 5° wife of Charles Wrey, Esq., Comma nder R.N.' °f Marriages. ARNOLD —SKEFFINGTON—On the 18 th inst., a t l'ifarY le ..-r 1) 1 Henrietta Arnold, Catherine Skeffington, fourth daugher ef late Lord Dufferin. LEE—SHAW—On the 24th inst.. A r thur, son of the late, 'l'. M. Leo, Esq., of Leeds, to Maron, eldest daug hte r of T. G. Shaw, Esq., of Gipsy-hill, S.E. Deaths. BARTLETT—On the 22d inst., At his residence, Portsegi John Bartlett, aged 80 . LUCAS —On the 23d inst., at New Wandsw or th, Ch itrie° Lucas, Esq., aged 61. v ‘ i w ard WELCH -On the 24th inst. , at Downte n, A. K. Welch, Esq., M.D., 61 ~„7-Evirp 1 London : Printed and Pablished by WILLILtiq 1 j° 1.2, strand, of No. 112 the in , StrandPrecinrc, Pinter of t the Baron at Tan Su t o the q °- n OilleN a :, 8144dlesex,-saturday, DlArch 27, 1869, Ti . INA — This cel prize Merin Sold in 7 the Agents Observe han's LL 1M lIT 14,17 A.DVANG bold or Li sble week' rorms fre R OY Mr. AR o'clock—] Arab Con Evening I day. Open at private b 4 traction. Ear 1 April 21. EA. TU Attractiv Porrait tuns. A 6d. Ope AR( } Rooms II Slid CO. an attra Dance 31 THE t L' for devil ORIGIN As Very F Old On Ships Sparkl lery, Sami bottles - Consik celebre Borden Whisk also be numbe of othe P. 130 I: OR sortm Eska, &c., ii shire TEN: W. 0., Mr. MIN] of Ly tate GEO: One PR MIN] 149, r Th Fire The Bonn vain , rend leave thirt: SE, Nei( TI £879 SI Will the F. stree Q 1 Gov( Undi whel Girll the I lish and wise suit!