The Sun. — London, England, 1869-10-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TILE POBLIO JOURNALS, 4 The Times, in referring to the Fenian amnesty meetings, 31 : alp that when such inflammatory language is need by the ostensible leaders of the movement, and enforced by mass meetings evidently designed to manifest the strength of Fenianism, it matters little in what form the actual petitions may be drawn up. If they wero ever so cautiously worded, they would be none the less appeals to a motive very different from mercy; but, in fact, they are usually so worded as to exclude the least implication of censure upon those on whose behalf an amnesty is claimed. In short, the Crown is invited to pardon rebels who do not even pretend to be penitent, not because their conspiracy has been finally crushed, but rather because it is still for midable enough to rally large bodies of sympathisers. It is from this point of view that we must regard the difficult question now under the consideration of Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues. It is essentially and solely a question of political expediency. No reasonable person can doubt for a moment, we do not say the right, but the duty, of a Government to put down with. vigour all violent outrages against law and order. If ever this duty was imperative, it was imperative when a bans of lawless men, chiefly led by foreign adventurers, under took to found a so-called Irish Republic upon a general confiscation of property. The characteristic of that move ment is that it seeks to attain its object by arguments bordering on menace. The release of the Fenian prisoners is not solicited as an act of grace; it is openly demanded as a right. What Mr. Gladstone has to consider is, not whether the Fenians would be propitiated by the indis criminate release of these prisoners, but whether the Irish people who are not Fenians would see in it a proof of magnanimity or a proof of weakness. The more resolved we are to remove every ascertained grievance, the more inflexible we mast be in the administration of the law against the enemies of social order. We have settled the Church question, we are prepared to settle the land ques tion, but to deal with treason as a trivial crime and impiir the ascendency of law is assuredly no part of justice or kindness to Ireland. The Midland metropolis, says the Daily News, promises ence more to become the head-quarters of a powerful poli tical movement. Forty years ago Birmingham suddenly made itself a political power, and by its critical demon strations in favour of the Reform Bill, did much to secure the enfranchisement of the middle classes. The same practical common sense and uncompromising vigour are now applying themselves to the question of education. The National Education League, which now holds its meetings in Birmingham, is already a powerful body. Its object is to build up a complete national system of education, and to see to it that no child grows up untaught. It does not propose to abolish the present system, but to establish another by its side which must speedily absorb it. Starting with the principle that every child must be taught, it lays . down some points as essential to any system which even aims at so large an object. Local authorities are to be compelled to see that sufficient school accommodation is provided for every child in their district; and, where necesssary, to found schools and maintain them out of the local rates, supplemented by a Government grant. All schools aided by local rates are to be under the management of local authorities and open to Government inspection. All schools thus aided are to be unsectarian, admission to them is to be free, and local authorities are to have power to compel the attendance of children not otherwise receiving education. It remains, however, to be seen how far the public are ready to accept the principle of Local Rates, Unsectarian Schools, Free Education, and Com pulsory Attendance, which the League assumes as the basis of its action. On every one of these points conflicts will arise, and a long fight may be needful to its establishment. Yet if there were any question as to the growing popularity and power of these principles, the list of members of the provisional organisation would set it at rest. The League starts as a powerful body, with the immense advantage of a clear programme and a definite policy. Amid the discus sions to which the question of education is now giving rise, it will probably speak with an influential voice ; and whether the measure which will finally deal with the great educational necessities of the people does or does not embody the principles for which the League contends, it will certainly contain some of them, and look in the direc tion of them all. The Post thinks that the conclusions to be drawn from the disaster upon the Midland Railway would appear to be, in the first place, that if the block system had been in operation on the line from Nottingham to Trent, the:oecur renee would not have taken place, for the mail train would have been detained at the next station Lefore Long Eaton until the special train had quitted the latter. In the next place, that even without the block system being worked at all, the preservation of a reasonable interval of time would equally have caused the avoidance of the danger mentioned. We shall be told, probably, that the block system is a question of money, and that companies cannot afford to work it. But sceizig that such a large number of fatal and very ccstly disasters, that might clearly be prevented by its adoption, occur every year, it seems to us that if the amounts paid in com pensation on account of killed and maimed passengers were considered as interest on the necessary cutlay, there would ultimately* be a saving rather than a loss. Be this, how ever, as it may, the time is evidently approaching when the public will demand of the Legislature that protection which some of the railway companies refuse or omit to grant spontaneously. As to the immediate cause of the collision, the inquest will decide upon whom the blame is to rest for permitting only some ten or fifteen minutes' interval to divide a mail, travelling at forty-five miles an hour, from a heavy special train with several other trains of the same kind in front of it. The Standard remarks that the Empress of the French is a lady who, without much pretence, has played a con siderable part in the politics of Europe. All the world was interested when Napoleon 111. announced that he would lead her soon to the high alter of Notre Dame. There was a mixture of marvel with chance in the lives of both which almost betokened a future career romantic and curious. Such a reputation, so established, accounts for the interest felt in her present travels. They are of a kind not often undertaken, in our genera tion at least, by ladies of her rank ; they re semble rather the pilgrimage of an olden day. There is in her nature much of the devotee, blended with a great deal of the woman of the world; and with so many preoccupa tions engaging the supreme mind in Prance, with the health of the Emperor criticised in every public column, her son's chances and her own treated with rather offen sive freedom, and, indeed, all the predictions for or against the dynasty squandered about in random profusion, this tour is not a slight sign of good spirit, independence and resolve. In ancient times, throughout Asia, it was a custom for royal parents—at any rate in romance—to encourage their children in travel. In modern ages the principle has often been reversed. Some countries, indeed, have prohibited the sovereign, or the sovereign's consort, from going abroad. Ali this folly is abolished now. There is not a more wandering class, at present, than the Princes and Princesses of Europe ; they aro con tinually visiting one another, in far separated capitals; they are the most indefatigable tourists in Europe. And there is no justification whatever for fancying that the Empress of the French is travelling in any other than a tourist character. That her incognito should be transparent is not her fault ; that Italy should throw flowers at her feet is a sign of national and poetical gratitude ; that she should kneel among the mingled graves of ➢lagenta, and give her benediction to the dead, is simply proof that she Is a pious-minded lady. The Star says that in England we have rigs ; in America they have rings. There is very little difference in the spelling and as little in the meaning of the words. A rig is the thing done ; a ring is the people who do it. A rig, say in iron, has for its object to buy up all the iron in the market, to rule the price of the metal, and, when it has reached a paying height,to sell by a sudden and combined movement, and net the proceeds of an arbitrary and contrived rise. A r i n g, say in gold, has for its object to do precisely the same with the more precious metal. The principle of buying in combination and selling at the price thus created is common to the rig and the ring. We in England make less noise about our rigs than the Americans do about their rings. Nevertheless, the iron rig o f some years ago was a worthy predecessor in its main features of the Gold Ring which has just been creating such a wonderful furore in America. To parallel the excitement by anything that has happened in this country, we must go back to the railway period, one cf the few occasions on which the ordinary aspect of English society was really disturbed by the vicissitudes of pursuits usually left to those professionally engaged in them. Crowds filled the streets in the money quarter in New York, and in every great city in the lTnion. It i' s:tid that t‘'le graph wires were fused by the heat uf the currents which passed through them, and it is certain that the bank stairs broke down beneath the extraordinary load of work which the complicated transactions golog on cast upon them. Only in the gr - eat railway smash of 1647 has there been any parallel to these days in New York when the Gold Exchange liank—or Clearing House --held at the mercy of a mesh of unascertainable totals the solvency of every man directly or indirectly concerned with the price of money. .It is stated as a literal fact that numbers of men did not know whether they were rich or ruined, even long after the action of the Government had brought the Gold Rite; to a collapse. The Gold Ring has ended - in loss and ruin to individuals, as the railway mania in England ended, simply because it was unnatural, base less, and fictitious gambling, in which nothing was pro duced, and no production was encouraged. Real money making is not done in this way, as Englishmen and Americans well know, though both Englishmen and Americans aro liable to be entrapped into sudden out► bursts of speculative mania. FATAL FIRE AT NEWINGTON. A sad catastrophe, resulting in the loss of tour lives, occurred at the shop of a tailor named WMicken residing at Newington Butts, South London. On Sunday morning a police constable noticed a light and a quantity of smoke in the upper part of the premises, which were small. Suspecting a fire had broken out, he proceeded to arouse the inmates, but was unable to make any one hear, although he knocked loudly at the door. One of the neighbours procured a ladder, and on ascending to the upper floor window, found the whole of the upper part of the house enveloped in a dense and suffocating smoke. At this time an engine came, the fire escape arrived, and one of the firemen having ascended, broke in the windows and entered the front room, where he found Mr. M`Micken lying on the ground insensible, and much scorched about the shoulders and. breast. He was immediately lowered down to the street by a rope, and taken off to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was pronounced to be dead from suffocation. In another part of the room was found a little boy, George M`Micken, two-and-a-half years of age, insensible, and much burned about the body, and ho also was sent off to the hospital, where he died from his injuries at ono o'clock on Sunday afternoon. In the meantime the firemen had succeeded in extinguishing the flames, and on their entering tho back bedroom they found Mrs. M`Micken and her infant child six months old uninjured by fire but dead from suffocation. An alarm was then given that there was a servant girl still in the house, but it was afterwards found she had escaped. at the back of the house, much burned, and had been conveyed to the hospital, where she is now lying not expected to recover. It was not more than twenty minutes from the first discovery of the fire until it was extinguished, and it is only the back portion of the house that has suffered from the flames. The fire is supposed to have broken out in the kitchen, and to have been smouldering through the night. From appearances it is thought that Mrs. M`Micken and her infant were suffocated while asleep, and that Mr. M`Micken, who awoke by the knocking of the policemanovas so stupe fied by the smoke as to be incapable either of saving him self or his family. LAW AXD POLICE. Tiro Docs Hour.—Mr. James Avitt, the manager of the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs at Holloway, was summoned at Clerkenwell for allowing a nuisance to exist on his premises. The complainant, who lived next door to the Home, complained of the smell arising from the carcases of slaughtered dogs, and from the preparing of the food. He had heard that three tons of dead dogs were removed in a week, and he had known 200 dogs there at a time. Other witnesses were called who declared that they had suffered in health from the noise. The r2agistrate doubted how far the howling of dogs was contemplated by the Act of Parliament. Mr. Harris, for the defendant, contended that the place was clean and well kept, and complained that the witnesses for the prose cution were all of a low order. If the barking of dogs was a nuisance, then the cackling of a goose or the crying of a baby would be a nuisance. A veterinary surgeon, who had inspected the Home by order of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said he had found it clean, with no smell. There were about sixty-dogs, but no slaughter-houses. The vete rinary surgeon to the police gave similar evidence, and created some amusement by declaring that the neighbouring grounds were in a much worse state. He looked over the gardens of the houses that surround the area in which the dogs are kept, and found them in a very filthy and dirty state. The smell arose from the yards of those houses. The home was the cleanest place of the kind he had ever seen. In one of the yards there were fowls, ducks, fleas, and other nuisances. Mr. Pavitt, in his evidence stated that the greatestnumber of dogs he had had alive was 140. It was possible he had removed as much as three tons of dead dogs a week. On one day he killed as many as 500. The straw on which the dog slept was turned over every day and the stones washed The Hon. Captain Bying, who was one of the Council, said he visited the Home about once a week, and had never heard complaints from the better class of residents. The magistrate thought there was no evidence of a nuisance and dismissed the summons with costs. PUBLIC MORTUARIES.—At Worship-street Dr. Tripe, the medical officer for Hackney, applied for a magistrate's order. By the Public Health Act, it is incumbent on the friends of a deceased person to have the body removed to the parish mortuary within the space of 48 hours if death has resulted from an infectious disease, and the room occupied by the body is occupied by living persons. Two infringements of the Act had occurred in tho parish, and the orders were granted. CRUELTY TO CATTLE.—A Welsh drover was charged at Gloucester with cruelty to a flock of sheep. He had sent 240 sheep by rail from Hereford to Gloucester. In one truck, lift. by 7ft., there were no less than seventy-four sheep packed, and some were trampled under foot by the others. All were in an elhausted state ; ono was dead, and several appeared to be dying, but were revived by having water thrown on them. The dead sheep was a mass of Linises, and died frem suffocation. The owner was fined £5 and £9 expenses, and the drover was fined 2s. 6d. The Bishop of Lichfield is better, and hopes to leave Whitb3 for Derbyshire this week. THF. BENNETT PfIOSECUTION.—An arrangement has been made for the argument on the admission of the articles of prosecution to be heard on the 28th inst., and for the argument on the merits en the 10th of November. These days are therefore now fixed. An auctioneer was selling a lot of land for agri cultural purposes. " Gentlemen," said he, " this is the most delightful land. It is the easiest land to cultivate in the country—it is so light, so very light. Mr. Parker here will corroborate my statement ; he owns the next patch, and will tell you how easy it is worked. "Yes, gentle men," said Mr. Parker, " it is very easy to work it, but it's a great deal easier to gather the crops."—American Paper. NEW IDEA IN TELEGRAPHY. —Dr. L. IT. Everitt, of Louisiana, gave an experiment recently at the Fulton Ferry-house, Broollyn, on a new style of telegraph appa ratus, professing to transmit sound through wire and to dispense with electricity. The doctor discards the old theory of sound being caused by the vibration of air, and holds that it can bo transmitted in particles like sparks of lightning. When the doctor fully establishes his principle it will cause a wonderful revolution in the cost of tele graphic despatches. DEFOE IN THE PILLORY. It was a fine summer day, the markets were full of flowers and fruits ; and Defoe, on arriving en the scene of his punishment, saw that the pillory was decorated with roses, lilies, and ever green leaves, and heard the shouts of sympathy—not of triumph—that made him •the hero, and not the victim of a popular outburst. Woe would have betided the coward Who at that moment had hurled cabbage or rotten egg at the head of the vindicator of public opinion, or thrown anything but flowers at his feet. His friends— for by this time his brave " Hymn to the Pillory;" and his dauntless bearing in the evil day that had come upon him, had brought round many of the waverers of his own side. and converted the lukewarm and indifferent into active zealots in his cause—drank bumpers to his health and happiness, expressed their desire to see the judge and jury and all his persecutors in the pillory after him ; and when his half hour had elapsed, presented him with refreshments, and jostled round for the honour of shaking his hand. Similar demonstrations of public favour occurred on the second day, when he was exposed in another pillory opposite the conduit in Cheapside—and on the third, when he under went the same penance on the Westminster side of Temple Bar ; and all the time the " Hymn to the Pillory " sold rapitlly among the multitude, and put many welcome guineas into the pocket of the author.—Blackwood's Maaa tine for October 13G9. TILE PROPHET AND TILE TIDES.—We ought all to have known better than to be frightened, or even curious, about the threatened high tides.. If we had only consulted our " Zadkiel," we should have been aware that nothing of the kind was coining at present. The wizard is almost insultingly jubilant over the failure of the scientific prophecy, and tells us, in a pithy little advertisement, why we ought to have been certain that no such matter was on the celestial cards. " Dangerous high tides were not at all predicted by Zadkiel; and they came not" Clearly, there is more to be learned from the silence of "Zadldel ' than from the forecastings of lesser men. His silence is indeed golden, while the speech of others is less than silver—is brass. Why did we omit to buy the Prophetic Almanack for 1869, and learn what was sot to happen ? at us amend our error, and, by purchasing the issue for 1870, be replete with negative information. " Zadkic...l' is, perhaps. more useful for what he deem% fores co than for what he does However, he gives us gratis a piece of general information with regard to " dangerous high tides " which may be useful for the future. " Thorn never occur without the moon be in the declination cf Venus." Now the moon the other clay was not declining Venue, and so we were saved from floods. Whenever sholis disposed to any such decli nation, " Zadkiel" will let usOinew in duo time, and until then we need not trouble ourselves with approhomions of a second Deluge. In the mearlwhile, the astrologer may fairly plume himself on havinirnmele a hit in the depart ment of nonlirophoey , Ho ha 4 taken to the n - gativo ,19Fp4itif tl a hripessa akt it is likely to proyo_ p o. :0 lueeesital itiskertanbrithe 311SCELLA A EU US NEWS. TIIE EAST CILESIIIRE ELECTION. Although the Conservative candidate has triumphed over Sir Edward Watkin by more than a thousand majority, the Liberals are in no way disconcerted at their defeat. After the close of the poll, the chair man of Sir Edward's committee addressed a large crowd at Stockport, in which he asserted that their opponents had not only polled lunatics, but several dead men. He advised the Liberal party to form registration associations throughout the country; these, he thought, would have a beneficial effect uyon the Liberal cause. The defeated candidate rejoiced that though he was second on the poll, his party had achieved a victory ; they had commenced a stru g gle which he believed would ultimately result in the Liberals possessing their fair share of the repre sentation of Cheshire. On the other had, Mr. Brooks looked upon the verdict as sheaving that the men of Cheshire did not approve of the " wicked theft" Mr. Gladstone had committed. Of the six polling districts Sir Edward had a majority in two—Dukhifield and Hyde. rilE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCPOEER 12, 1869. building." - Theite - of the — infirmary was strongly condemned. The Smallpox Hospital on the one side, and the cemetery under its windows on the other, were designated a hideous mockery to the sick poor. Two speakers vouched for the fact that the buildings had been erected without drainage, and that the con tractors had been paid an extra sum to supply that important requisite. The wrath of the ratepayers was somewhat appeased when a resolution had been passed pledging support to those guardians who would oppose the completion of the infirmary and the extra vagant policy of the late board. HEALTH OF TIIE EARL OF DERBY. The Liverpool Mercury states that the Earl of Derby has been for some days prostrated by an attack of the gout more severe than any which his lordship has for years suffered. The more acute symptoms are said to be gradually subsiding under medical treatment, but the severity of the attack has rendered his lordship very weak. IRISH CHURCH SUSTENTATION FUND. The subject of a sustentation fund for the Irish Church was brought under the notice of members attending the late Church Congress at Liverpool. Some 300 signatures, clerical and lay, were obtained to the following document :—" We the undersigned, deeply sympathising with the Church of Ireland, desire to see established imme diately on her reorganization a sustentation fund, to aid in her support, and hereby promise (provided we approve of the Irish Church when so reorganised) to promote and encourage the said fund to the best of our ability." THE CHURCH IN IRELAND. An unbeneficed clergyman, who has recently - canted Ireland, sends to the Star the result of inquiries which he made with regard to the future prospects of the Free Episcopal Church in that country. Almost all the members of the Church, clerical and lay, were confident that there was nothing to fear. Speaking of the incomes of the clergy, a Roman Catholic priest said, " They will be better off than ever." Speaking of their influence, he remarked, "It will be greater." Though he did not say so, the Catholic priest in question conveyed the impression that his own Church would find the Free Episcopal Communion a more active and for midable antagonist than he had ever found it before. IRISH LAND QUESTION. The Roman Catholic clergy of theMill-streetDeanery, in the diocese of Kerry, have, at a conference just closed, passed several resolutions in reference to the land question. In the first place they are agreed that to prevent the tide of emigration from Ireland, and to develop its resources by a better system of cultivation, fixity of tenure is indispensable. In the second place they believe that the Government valuation, which is now the basis of local taxation, should be deemed a " fair letting rent." The clerics further advise that as a vast amount of the rental of Ireland is drained off by London companies and absentee landlords, and spent in foreign countries, to the great impoverishment of Ireland, and especially of the immediate localities where those rents have been raised, the Irish Liberal members should press the Government to purchase those estates and re-sell them to the present occupiers, thus creating a yeoman proprietary who would be deeply in terested in the property and peace of the country; and in order thereto, to establish land banks after the Prussian system to render the payment of the pur chase money practicable and certain. Should a disso lution of Parliament take place before the land ques tion is settled, the priests of the Xill-street Deanery, say neither they nor their people will vote for any candidate who will not pledge himself to give his support in Parliament to legalise, at least in sub stance, the resolutions they have passed. TIIE FENIAN DEMONSTRATION. All accounts agree that the Fenian demonstration. in Dublin on Sunday passed off quietly. In conse quence of the police notice, no general procession marched through the City ; but the various trades, with their banners and insignia, met at different points, and proceeded to the place of meeting at Cabra, near to the Phoenix Park. Every person in the procession, as well as those who lined the streets, wore green scarfs or ribbon, and nearly all the banners displayed had the Irish harp on them without the crown. The numbers present are estimated at about 100,000. Mr. Butt Q.C., presided at the meeting. Mr. Moore, M.P. for Mayo, was abusive as usual. The Irish people would, he said, be always in insurrection, not against the English people, but against that -vile and tedious usurped tyranny of national self-conceit and national self-will, that called itself English public opinion, which was half outward swagger and half inherent flunkeyism, which was not born in the instincts of the English people, but was the spawn and the vilest gabble of the weakest and vainest representatives of the English social system. The . bloodhounds, spaniels, lapdogs, mongrels, and turnspits of the English press who had been barking at his heels were strongly denounced. A Catholic priest next addressed the meeting in rather violent language. A memorial was adopted, praying for the release of the Fenian prisoners. WHO 19 TO BLAME P Mr. Gray, who was one of the chief spectators of the Wood-green murder, writes explaining his con duct on that occasion. It appears that he, in common with most of the passengers who arrived by the 5.10 train from King's-cross, did not see the first assault by Henson upon Boyd and the woman. But hearing that a man was dragging a woman into a house against her will, ho went to the cottage, accompanied bi a Mr. Sawyer and a Mr. Wilton. " Almost directly I heard the rsport of a firearm, saw a flash, and noticed the form of a woman fall upon the ground. Immediately afterwards I heard a violent beating, and plainly saw that a weapon was being used in a frightful manner." Henson rushed out of his cottage, and then went to Boyd's residence. Several gentlemen entreated the navvies who were present to "make a rush," but in vain. To break open the doorway of Do yd's house and commit the second murder was but the work of a minute on the part of Henson. Mr. Gray afterwards assisted to captm o him. Such is Mr. Gray's narrative; but it can hardly be said that he has gained much by publishing it. Every allowance must be made for the extraordinary rapidity with which lIENsON acted. But it is clear that most of the railway passengers were not to blame, for most of them saw nothing of the first assault, and those who did—rows between man and wife being common enough in London—could hardly be expected to anticipate the dreadful crime which followed. But Mr. Gray confesses that he saw the woman fall, and yet he did not interfere with the murderer beyond calling upon some navvies to "make a ruAh." Both he and the gentlemen who were with him might have set the example. It does not appear that anything could have saved the woman ; but presence of mind might have prevented the second crime. THE BYRON CONTROVERSY. Another communication on this subject is pub lished by Lord Lindsay, who has been furnished with the following memorandum :—" Six or seven years ago, when Lord Broughton's remarkable memory was as good as ever, ho said to me most earnestly, ' Mrs. —, when I was appointed by Byron to examine matters with Lady liyron's friends, 1 wrote (Low* every vice, and sin, and crime, and horror, in short, of which a human being can be capable,- and I said, "Now, I shall not stir in this business till you tell me whether you accuse him of any of these things, and which of them it is." And the answer was, "It is none of these things." Then I said, " What is it ?" But they never would say.' I also said to Byron, " Byron! what is it ?" He said, "I give you my word I don't know (or, I know no more than you do)." I said " Have you ever been unkind or harsh to her" He said, "Only once, and I'll 4 tell you about it. One day in the middle of my trouble" (" money trouble he meant," said Lord Broughton), "I came into the room and wont up to the fire ; she was standing before it, and said,' Am lin your way ? I answered, Yes, you are 1' with emphasis. She burst into tears, and left the room. I hopped up stairs as quickly as I could " (Poor fellow 1" said Lord Broughton, " you know how lame he was ") "and begged her pardon most humbly; and that was the only time I spoke really harshly to her." Lord Broughton laid great stress on the words most humbly. He spoke of Lord Byron with pity and tenderness, and evidently believed in what he told him." His lordship argues that the above is strong evidence in Byron's favour. IRATE RATEPAYERS. Between peace and St. Pancras is a great gulf fixed. Its municipal quarrels are matters of history. As the guardians do not agree amongst themselves, so do not the ratepayers agree with the guardians. A party of the former have made an excursion to the new colossal infirmary that is being erected at Highgate at a cost of something like £;50,000, which must come out of the excursionists' pockets. The scale on which the infirmary, the whole of the arrangements of which are admitted to be singularly complete, has been carried out, led to som e an g r y comment's by the visitors, many of whom declared that the infirmary was out of all proportion to tits wants of the parish, and that the provision made for sick paupers went beyond what the srate payers could afford for their own families. Thera scullery, was a roar o f d er i s i v e l au ghter when it was statedthe that th e surgeon ' s h ouse h a d twelve rooms, and an o d f contemptdryingthrough board room, storehouse, kitchen, rooms atnhtl simply expletive. Wh en the represented an ascending sca l e the chairman of th e b oar d rea d foundation stone, th e guar di ans whoehad voted for or inscription on the against the infirmary w ere ma d e k nown by the favour or disapprobation with which their names were re. reined.reined.An inclination meetinir w as held outside the TUE CHURCH CONGRESS. The closing service in connection with the Church Congress was held in Chester Cathedral on Saturday, when his Grace the Archbishop of York preached a sermon. from the words, " But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and bo ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear." His Grace touched chiefly upon the relations of religion and science, and inquired whether science and faith could not find room to dwell together? For the Church it was to be desired that the voice of her religious teachers might not be in vain against the utterances of science opposed to their teaching, and that power might be given to them to reconcile the truths of science with the truths of revela tion. 11:31. BRIGHT, M.P. The President of the Board of Trade has had a new and unexpected honour thrust upon him. He has been returned by the Kenedy district as a member of the LeFislative Council of Queensland. Much dissatisfaction has existed in the colony on account of the unfairness with which, as some of the colo nisiu allege, the Parliament has dealt with the northern and southern portions of the colony. A measure for reformation has been set on foot, and Mr. Bright is to be the champion. It is not expected that the President of the Board of Trade will go out to Queensland, but it is hoped that the interests of those who have elected him will be brought under the notice of the Queen by his instru mentality. The polling took place on the 10th of July, and 79 votes were recorded for Mr. Bright, the second candidate securing 78. No communication appears to have been had with the President of the Board of Trade on the subject of the election. REVOLUTION. The Times reporter made a shocking mistake touching Mr. Beresford Hope's speech at the Church Congress. He was made to say " Lay patronage is exclusively an evil; so is an hereditary House ofLords." The notion of the member for Cambridge University denouncing an hereditary le g islature as exclusively an evil might well excite surprise. But it appears that the Conservative M.P. meant something quite different. Speaking of lay patronage, he said it was an insular institution, but so was an hereditary House of Lords, and would it be well to pull down the Upper House because it was an insular institution ? Mr. Beresford Hope thinks that the scarcity of lay patronage pre pared the way for the disestablishment of the Irish Church by rendering the laity indifferent. He opposes the abolition of lay patronage here on the ground that it may lead to similar results. PLEURO-.PNETTMON IA. The propriety of stamping out pleuro-pneumonial,y slaughter and compensation has engaged the attention of an influential meeting of farmers in Cheshire. Regard being had to the fearful losses Cheshire had sustained by the unrestricted spread of pleuro-pneu monia, and the lessons taught at Aberdeen and throughout England by cattle-plague restrictions, which stopped the progress of pleuro-pneumonia for the time, the meeting strongly affirmed the principle that slaughter should immediately follow in all cases certificated by the chief c onstable to be pleuro-pneu monia. The establi s h m ent of an insurance fund from which compensation could be given to those whose cattle were slaughtered was also approved. TILE GOLD PANIC IN NEW YORK. Tho accounts of the extraordinary commotion in Wall-street, New York, during the closing days of September, are certainly startling oven for the excitable Empire City. A combination of unscrupu lous speculators bought up all the available gold in order to raise the price which they sent up from 135 to 165 in twenty-four hours. The commotion in the City was indescribable, and business was vir tually suspended, while men of all ranks and profes sions hurried to the vicinity of - Wall-street. The old-room itself is described as a perfect dlam—" a pandemonium ever to be re membered with terror, bringing before the mind a vivid picture of the condemned in the lower regions." That this language is not entirely hyper bole may be judged from the fact that a prominent broker, Albert Speyer, became deranged in the room, and had .to be led . away by his friends, while another broker has since shot himself. The struggle went on between "Bulls and Bears," the former being victorious until the climax which the New York Herald appropriately describes as " The Bull Run of the Stock Campaign.". A Government order to sell four millions of gold restored sanity to the - Wall-street Gold Room, and from thence to the great towns throughout the States which had all been more or less affected by the fever. The confusion had been Bo make its statements tally. however too groat to be at once tranquillised, and kept at work all night, the not gat through its work, nor t eoc h lui o e u adri gh ngthcHeleorGuks e' d could Bank alre d Everyone's affairs were consequently deranged, and no man's credit was good for anything. The American papers just arrived state that the wildness of Wall-street had not abated on September 29th. The Gold Exchange and the Clearing House were unable to still the storm, the Secretary of the Treasury having come forward so late. The Bank of New which had undertaken the task of clearing the business of the aith (when 500,000,000d015. changed York hands) gave it up despair. After much terrible excitement and many fruitless efforts at settlement. the Gold Exchange Bank was placed in the hands of a receiver, Smith and Gould, two prominent speculators, having obtained an injunction against it, confessing that forty millions of gold were bought and sold on their account in one day. Universal indignation is expressed outside the ring of speculators at tbe unscrupulous ccraibinationa which have produced such disastriputeffects. AsCEDEACON DENISON. When it was announced that Archdeacon Denison was to preach in two of the Liverpool churches, the rector of the town deemed it necessary to write to the editor of the Liverpool Courier announcing that the Archdeacon was not an untiring advocate of Ritualists, had never worn the vestments, and that the only weakness he was guilty of with respect to Ritualism was that he thought it would be the best policy to "let them alone This has called forth a letter from the Archdeacon himself in which he says : "I have" never worn the vestments.' If I officiate or preach in a church where coloured stoles are. worn, I wear the stole belonging to the season eccl esiastical. If it is the practice of the church to preach in a g own, I mach in a gown. When I said to the rector that I had always counselled letting Ritualists alone, I did not say so so as resuming to blame 6 Ritualists,' or as not sympathising with them upon the principle of their movement ; nor no I plead guilty . to any weakness' in this latter particular. What I mean by letting alone' is, that there is no more room for those who prefer a low ceremonial to interfere with those who prefer a high ceremonial than there is for those who prefer a high ceremonial to interfere with those who prefer a low ceremonial. The last, indeed, is never done. The first is being done continually." Referring to the opposition offered to his speakin g at the working men's m eetin g , the Archdeacon says the disturbance was got up by some persons who, knowing nothing of the facts of his life, persuaded a few men of Liverpool that he was not true t o the Church of Eng land. On Sunda y , in the ordinary Archdeacon D en i son preached twice. At the church where high rit ua l i s a dopted, the co n g re g ation is said to have been s ma ll, w hir () a t the church where service is conducted way there was an over flowing congregation. FOraziort rrt War-IVOR:XN /14.1-'51~1`741 iteNgeunis toot= s'..vain an , 141911% 32a11-"1" saes len IL kti.M et tieb itrotans cooalnitliwa lk T°`Abkkk l g-t lnli a , Its eery ecrtAin mat en'A reig,"Calv*t is kl!tea ( irAr, :.44A4 1 1 titli the inuirmtien has asszowea. Urger ystoetitiVOlE: re Catalegals„ whz.re elghtem &Vales Ittlxi iaxkl gents„ the the 4 , l7sEt - ction is f eral. The invalnailea h rcgi" ' 751 is Fsznakta can the oczasien At dis asicounzat 113£ 2).44 It en V ) .1 ' l ' °v-11 Inrl * ' ""4:1 sappezetl, and the cesnmuni.caticn tevfn End ataria hay ten stoppta. 11113 z 3,0 n iutcrapiti. Iztatita Madrid and 'Valet:cis. The nx‘st losewntionary uhasurvi have been adopted at 31sdri,!. All the agents of polke are conmniratea a t th a api :r dstry of the Interior, armed with revolvers and carbines, while the - troops ere esatrableci in the hnzreas. A battalion from Telale has I , een Nut for to reinforce the garrison. A revolutionary bulletin is regularly published at Barcelona, which is at great pan to deny the intelligence transmitted by the //pace "r am , Republicanism has beau proclaimed in many 'AAA of the country. It has bren said of the SUfa pensary Law that it is a two-edged swa r d which can strike at the same time the revolution and the liberty of the country, unless the Government conducts itself with meat prudence and_ deiteritz The measure authorises arrest and imprisonment at rho aiscreathii of the Ministers, domiciliary visits, press interference, and other arbitrary regulations. So far as can be learned from the partial reports which arrive, it would seem that most of the 'en gagements have terminated in favour of the Govern ment—albeit the ground over which the insurrection extends has become so much wider. As a correspon dent of the limes says, it is hardly to bo expected it Call be otherwise, unless the .Republicans get possession of some stronghold, or are able to bring into play some largo body of men at one moment. For the present they seem rather to be going about in detached parties of from thirty to forty up to 300 or 400. " They may keep up the struggle a long time in this manner, but, having poor arms, no money except what they can force out of the populations as they pursue their march, no discipline, and no military leaders whatever, they are sure to be beaten in the end, unless the troops 'pronounce,' which they would do in the twinkling of an eye if their officers only gave the signal. Prim is very determined to crush the rebellion, and, his military reputation being at stake, he is sure to adopt energetic and severe measures." AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. Rumours of an alliance, or at least of a reconciliation between tho rulers of Austria and Prussia, are still rife on the Continent. An interview between the Emperor Francis Joseph and King William is, it is said, to take place at Baden, that spot having been chosen as neutral ground in preference to Gastein, which had unpleasant associations for the Emperor. Count Beust and Count Bismarck will, it is thought, accompany their respective sovereigns, and the heads of the Bavarian and Wurtembcrg Cabinets, who represent the policy of the Southern States, will be present. The Liberte doubts the report of an Austro-Prussian alliance, and asserts confidently that at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs no faith was placed in it. The pacific language of King William is believed to be due to French diplomacy, which, by isolating Prussia from Russia, has forced the conqueror of Sadowa to adjourn indefinitely his projects of annexing the provinces of Southern Germany. The Journal de Frankfort publishes a letter from Southern Germany, in which it is stated that the Grand Ducal Government made an official demand on Prussia at the beginning of last month, with a view to opening negotiations for the immediate entry of the Grand Duchy into the Northern Confedora tion. Prussia, according to this statement, declined the overture for the time being, setting forth her reasons in a note to Count Flemming, of which an analysis is given. The Gazette de Carlsruhe denies the whole statement, and declares that no such overture was made. The Vienna Frondenblatt hopes that the visit of the Crown Prince will inaugurate the esta blishment of pacific relations between the two Powers. Nevertheless, the Fremdenblatt believes an alliance between them is impossible. The idea of attaining German unity by the subjugation of all the States to Prussia is losing ground in Germany, according to this journal. Meanwhile the fortifications in the regions os the Lower Elbe and Weser advance rapidly, and the works near the embouchure of the Elbe will be finished next year. TUE VICEROY'S ANSWER. The Presse of Vienna publishes a despatch from Con stantinople, announcing that the Porte had received a satisfactory reply from the Viceroy. The Paris Constitu tionnel, in commenting on this news, believes that in any case no further complication need be feared while the members of several royal families aro present in ,gypt, and that when the truce occasioned by the inauguration of the Suez Canal is over, matters will be easily arranged. GENERAL SICKLES. The .2Vcw York. Tribune refers to the rumour that General Siskles has withdrawn his note, and remarks that if it be true it bids us expect some unusual concession from Spain, rather than surrender from the United States. It has no reason to think that the general has threatened the Spaniards with wrath if they do not come to terms within a specified time. It is possible that Spain may have pro posed that Cuba should elect deputies to the Cortes, but the Cuban leaders would have rejected the scheme, under the conviction that no fair election in Cuba is possible. THE FAMINE IN INDIA. The Times of India reports most favourable results frOm the welcome rain which has fallen throughout the North- West provinces. From Rajpootana, however, a territory of 100,000 miles square, the accounts are still deplorable. Tho vast herds of cattle which formed the mainstay of the people two years ago, are reduced to a miserable remnant, and the rain cannot now enable the cultivators to raise moro than a few patches of cereals; there will be no autumn crop of grain. The Times insists on an immediate import of grain if a remnant of the population is to be saved. It is no time to count the cost when human beings aro dying by hundreds Four men, it avers, are on their trial in this emergency, and those four are the Viceroy and Sir William Muir on the North, and Sir Seymour Fitzgerald and Colonel Kent age on the South. On them rests the responEibilitv of the issuo. CHINESE LABOURERS IN CALIFORNIA. Although there has been great opposition raised to the introduction of Chinese labourers in California, it is expected that a largo influx will set in to that and the adjoining States, and tho cotton-growing sections of tho Union. It is understood that the Pacific Mail Company of New Yolk intend to put on weekly steamers to China to import labour at a low price, rendering it entirely feasible for Southern planters to procuro hands directly from China, rid the Pacific, Railroad, which will co-operate with the company in the project. Even in New York a strong feel ing is manifested in favour of a supply, and it is said that ten thousand freshly imported Chinese would have no difficulty in finding work in tho city. A New Orleans merchant has set out for China to establish an agency at Pekin, or some other point. Other Southern agents are already in China. THE SECRET OF SPIRIT-RAPPING. A remarkable letter has been addressed to the Standard by Mr, W. C. Faulkner, philosophical instrument maker. He states that for many years he has had a largo sale for spirit-rapping magnets and batteries expressly mado for concealment under the floor, in cupboards, under tables, and even for the interior of tho centre support of large round tables and boxes. He has supplied also quantities of prepared wire to be placed under the carpets and oilcloth, or under the wainscot and gilt beading around ceilings and rooms. All these, he says, were obviously used for spirit-rapping; and the connec tion to each rapper and battery was to be made by means of a small button, like those used for telegraphic bell ringing purposes, or by means of a brass-headed or other nail under the carpet at particular patterns known to the spiritualist. These rappers, ho adds, when carefully placed, aro calculated to mislead the most wary. Then there are spirit-rapping magnets and magnets constructed expressly for the pocket; and these he tolls us, will of course rap at any part of tho room. He has also made drums and bells which will boat and ring at command; but these two latterare not so frequently used as the magnets are, because they aro too easily detected. A STORY OF LITTLE EMIGRANTS. A few weeks .gO, says the Irish Tintei, our Mayo cor respondent gave an account of three little children, aged respectively 11, 6, and 4, who were about to set out from the neighbourhood of Louisburg, a petty town, the very existence of which is hardly known out of Mayo, and make their way, yid Dublin, Liverpool, and New York, to Chicago, with no earthly friend or protector in their company, and their sole viati cum 10s. to pay their way to Liverpool, and a ticket to carry them thence to their destination. • To English readers the tale must have sounded incredible. But, to our personal knowledge, tho resolution was not only seriously taken, but it has been since literally carried out. A gentleman who had read our commissioner's letter happened to travel up to Dublin in the same train with the three children, spoke to them, found them shoeless and stockingless, found them without a wrapper from the cold and rain and storms of the Atlantic in the late months of autumn, found them without as much lug gage as the fancy little bundle which Linda carries across the stage in the opera. He gave them his railway rug, and took them to some friends, who equipped them in somewhat better plight for their long journey. But these acts of kindness were accidents on which the children had not reckoned—could not have reckoned. They only knew that from beyond a wide ocean a father's voice summoned them, and they obeyed the call. They were bright, in telligent children, ono of them a remarkably intereating one. The death of a man, ulto during a life of great vicissitude obtained some distinction in the world of science and letters, is reported from Floronco. M. Libri, an Italian, became a political refugee some thirty years ago, and was elected a member of the French Academie des Sciences through the influence of Arago. lie afterwards obtained some valuable appointments.. In his official capacities he had to visit the public libraries of Paris and the provinces, and fell under the suspicion of purloining some valuable works. M. Bously the Procureur du lioi, drew up a secret report, which he laid before M. Guizot, and which estimated the value of the public property thus purloined between 1846 and 1847 at about £20,000.. The report foil into the hands of the victors of the subsequent February, and M. Libri, who had escaped to England, was, after a long trial, sentenced to ten years imprisonment, degradation, and the loss of his civil rights. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Wall-street Journal.) FRIDAY EVENING, Sept. 24, 1869. The financial equinox has suddenly burst on the street with unexpected violence, and for the past three days a tornado of unexampled extent has raged. The prompt action to-day of the United States Treasury has, how ever, squelched the raging elements, and this evening in the market closes with quietude. Money on call is in de mand at 7 per cent. and 1-16 per day, and on miscellane ous collaterals at 4 to I per cent. per day, with a very wide margin. Discounts aro for the moment scarcely spoken of, but good, sound paper can be passed without difficulty. Gold yesterday and to-day has been exceptional to its usual movements, having fluctuated violently culminating to-day on an advance from 150 to 1621, when the Assistant Treasurer stepped in with the following notice : United States Treasury, New York, Septomber 24th, 1869. Notice.—The Treasury will sell at . 12 o'clock to-morrow four millions gold, and buy four millions bonds. Proposals will be receivud in usual form. DANIEL BUTTERFIELD, Assistant Treasurer. This promptly and effectually collapsed the price to 133, at which figure the market closes. Government Bonds early in the day were dull and weak, but after the announcement that the Treasury will buy four millions of 5-20 s to-morrow, there was a sharp ad vance of one to two per cent. on the entire list. Sixes, 1861, registered to Sixes, 1868, coupon .. — to Sixes, 1881, coupon l2Ol to 121 U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lO7 to 1071 Five-twenties, 1862, registered l2O/ to 121 Five-twenties, 1862 coupon Five-twenties, 1864 , coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll9l to 120 Ten-forties, coupon lO9 to 109} Ten-forties, registered — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to - QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE Amer. silver... 97 to 98 I Eng. sovs 482 to 485 Mex. dollars...lo3i „ 1011 20 francs 383 „ 386 Eng. silver 475 , 480 I Thalers Five francs „ 96 The market for Foreign Exchange has been thoroughly demoralized, and the quotations merely show the nominal market, premising that at .he close leading drawers are asking for 60 days' b". 18 on London, 106 to 107. _ _ Sixt o ir Days. Three Days, 105 —lO6 1061-107 , 1 —lO5 ,5.324-5.30 5.274-5.25 , 761-774 , 841-341 ; , 394-39 f , 69 —69 f , 5.35-5.324 , 39-39 f 5.35-5.32 to sell steadily, and among lot this week, we notice those road Company New York, r on sale at 874 and accrued London Bankers London, Prime Commercial Paris, Bankers 5.321-5.30 Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 341-34 1; Frankfort, O.M 391-39f Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.35-5.32' Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss Railroad Bonds continue those int . oduced on the mar of the Southern Central Rai $1,100,000 of which are noN interest. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 90 N. Y. Central Os, 1887... 87 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est.. 87 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 87 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876... N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76,... 97 Erie Ist Mort, Ex 9B Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 95 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B6 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 B5l Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 — Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. lstlVl, '77 B7 Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 991 Hud. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 102 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 — Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 Mich. new Ist M 85,'82 — Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 92 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 98 Cen. 7p. c '7O 121 Alton & T. li. let 11/ 921 Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 801 Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 751 Han.& St.J.LandWrntsloB Ran. & St. J. Con Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 106 Chi. & N. West, S. F 93 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 931 & N. W. Int B — ('hi. & N. W. Ist M BBl Quincy & Tol, Ist 31,'75 111. & So. lowa Ist Gt. West. Ist M, 'BB B4l Gt. Western 2d M '93 Bl. Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex B4l Railway Stocks have been terribly exercised all the week, especially the watered stocks, some of which in a single day have varied over 20 per cent. ! The market, howeve closes steady at a general decline. In Miscel laneous Stocks the leading business has been in Pacific Mail, which has fluctuated considerably, but has closed to-day at 731. N. Y. Central xl 1 184! Erie lir dson Resding Mich. Central 125 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 107; North-West North-West Preferred 8 .1 Canton ss} Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo Express Stocks ere genera' Adams American Merchants' Unic Merchants' Union, old Stet Ur lied States Wells, Fargo, and Co Tol. & Wab. Equip 79 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — Gal. & Chic. Est 97 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 95 Chi. & R. I. Ist M 100 . Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 9-11 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 991 N. J. Centralist M 99 N. J. Central 2d M 100 , Pitts. F t.W., & Cb. Ist M 100 Pitts. Ft. W., & C11.2d M 95 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M 94 Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M 731 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc 99 Chic. & Alton, S. P.l stM 99? Mil. & St. Paul Ist M 9ll Mil. & St. Paul 2d M — Marietta & Cin. lst M., — Morris & Essex Ist M 99? Morris & Essex 2d M 9 O. Joilet & Chic. Ist M — Chi. & Gt. East'n lstll B3 N. Y. & N. H. 6s 97 Dubuque &S.City,lst M. Peninsula Ist ...... 90 Ohio & Miss. Ist M 92 Ohio & Miss. Con B2. Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D Atlantic & G. W. 2d M. Del., Lack., & W., 2d M. 90 Lake Shore Div. Bonds Cleve, P. & Ash. N.B — Do. 0.8 — I Tnion Pacific Gold B B5 Central P.RR. Gold B 92 Pacific RR. guar. by Mo• 90 Fort Wayne Pacific Mail 7l Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 29 Boston Water Power— 16 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers M & St. Paul & St. Paul Preferred 83; ily lower. 541 to 55 )n 3 oto 32 A lO to 10} 531 to 51 181 to 18f (From Henry Clews and Co.'s Monthly Circular.) The Monthly Circular of the banking house of lenry Clews and Co. is a docament worth the attention of the English Stock Exchange. Tho celebrated " bull" fight which caused such destruction eight or nine days after the date cf the Circular from which we quote, 15th Sept, is thus foreshadowed: The Gold Market has, for some time, been controlled mainly by speculative movements. The decline h the premium to 1311, with a strong ten dency toward a lower figure, has been checked through a combination of speculators gaining the control of nearly the eptire supply on the market; an operation which has been facilitated by the comparatively light supply from the Tre3SrV, at a tine when the stock upon the market is always light. The market has thus been kept in a constant appre henslon that gold might be made artificially scarce and borrowers be compelled to pay enormous rates of interest. The objects of the clique appears to be to familial.:ze the public with the advanced premium and thereby facilitate their unload'ng. Apart, from this artificial condition of the mr-ket, there are causes strongly favouring a steady decline in the premium. An active condition of the money market naturally operates in that direction. The supply of gold in the country has been augmented during the last few months, owing to the unusual light ness of the exports of specie. The surplus of products avaih.ble for exportation, there can be no doubt, will be larger than at any time within the last ten years, and the exports of cotton are especially likely to prove exc)p -t. °nal y valuable. For several weeks past there has been a marked increase in the value of the exports from this port, more than setting off a slight average gain in the amount of the i sports. On the Ist of November the Go vernment will appropriate about $30,000,000 for the parment of interest ; the effect of which must soon be anticipated. The Treasury held on Sept. 1 $10,200,000 more Gov. n ment gold th-n at the same date of last year, show'ng an increased ability on the part of the Sacre ;7 to supply the ma-ket, end foreshadowing a probability that he may soon f id it convenient to extend his sales beyond the present limit of $1,000,000 each alternate week. Beyond t"...obu 6141ug0, tho oconou;aing of the public a - pertdi tures, the steady reduction of the public debt and the enforce ment of the sinking fund, together with a substantial nprovement in the business of the country, and a growth of American credit in other countries, are considerations wl , :ch aro constantly, though quietly, tending to moderate the premium. We are disposed to rely upon influences of tb's character for producing a strong downward reaction gold when the market is released from the speculative position in which at present it is firmly held. Until the November interest, however, is paio, the supply of gold on the ma bet wi'i be so low as to place the premium wholly ruder the control of a few speculative holders, a very nu des' able condition of affairs. It is to be hoped that the Secretes of the Treasury, in order to prevent any unna tural advance in the promirm, may either pay the interest on the November coupons before maturity, without rebate —a course which would involve no loss to the Treasury— or use a pot „ion of his gold in the purchase of bonds. Upon the policy of adopting the latter expedient we request at tention to a subjoined communication addressed to the Soc2etr.7 of the Treasury : i G r r F g e e e n . g B o a u s t s N uo v rf e e l l da , S r N e teawt/Yoofrkt City, r Aug.e asu / 2 . 3 — * I n c a o r n that you are at all Vmes ready to receive suggestions work ing c o t i f c t a h l o c h p r u r b a t c e r, intended finances, to take promoteth the liberty t l h i b e efficient erty o of ewa calling your methods of marketing th e nwhtoaet,narsesit appears to me, would be an your attention to improvement upe surplus of Government coin and pur t c h h o as G in o g v ebronueti nd i sf t or g t o h ld e Sinking Fund. The exchange of for currency, in the open market, as heretofore conducted, is liable to be attended with more or less monetary del ange meut, which at times becomes a matter of public complaint, and although the method you have adopted in distributing the gold sales as evenly as possible and announcing them in advance, has materially mitigated this inconvenience, yet 1 world respeetfrly suggest that a further mitigation might be effected through making your purchases of bonds for the Sinking Fund directly in gold. That course would be in conforroly with the letter of the law of February 25th, 1862, section 5, which expressly appropriates the Customs' revenue for this among other purposes ; while it would also have a very favourable effect upon the public credit. Congress having declared the principal of the bonds to be payable in coin, it would be apparent that the Government was nct only keeping good faith rela tive to the sinking of the debt, but that it was doing so in the k!ud of money proscribed by law, and further that it was effecting an important Wing on the principal ; whereas, to a large Portion of the public Lot versed in finance, the purchases effected in currency appear to be mado at a large premium. Under such a policy the public would be more apt to estimate the valu e of the bonds upon a gold basis, which would tend to materially improve their value, and would greatly aid in bringing them up to par in gold. Ido not assume that the whole of your purchase of bonds could be made in coin, for you have also a surplus of currency revenue, for which you have no other use than buying the public obligations ; but it does not appear a valid reason for declining th e method suggested, that part of your purchases would re quire to be made in another currency ; tho transactio ns in paper would, I think, to soon regarded as a necessary exception, while the purchases in could would be viewed as the proper and lawful rule. This course would na" questionably modify one important source of extrauee ° interference with the money market ; while, on the other hand, it would have a beneficial effect, as showing a dis position on the part of the Government to conduct it 9 transactions, so far as possible, in gold.—l am, dear, with much respect, yours, &c., HENRY CLEWS.o Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia bankers, relO t as follows on Sept. 24 : Pennsylvania Railroad shares, 56} ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 98-i 99 ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage°, 98 98i. tAIVIERICAN AFFAII?S. (From the Anglo-American Times.) BUDGET OF MICELLANEOUS.-The first piano forte imported into America from Europe is owned by 2.1 r-C. M. Loomis, of Newhaven, and bears the date of 1786.-Sitka already experiences the blessings of anee: i tion to the United States. Her population has incres to 680, and the number of her groggeries to 60.- P li m , ° Walla, Washington territory,reports marriages anddiVerre" in equal numbers ; alternating with astonishing regulo.ritP St. Louis has a female physician, who makes $lO,O OO year.-The New York elevated railroad is pronounced : success.-Madison-square, New York, is to have tit large hotels.-St. Paul, Minnesota, had a fur trade 1 7 0 , year amounting to $500,000.-A. Cincinnati paper the editors of a contemporary a "congregation of a sses' / Georgetown, D.C., has had a "tournament," at which ii . ," " gallant knight who won crowned Miss Lillie Rice as Get -The ship Baltic has loaded her cargo of wheat at P; Francisco for Liverpool. It consists of 3,400 tone, 1 , largest ever loaded at San Francisco.-Twenty-one 1) ,, e1 ;1 e sons belonging to Rockport, Maine, were probably 1", during the gale on the Bth Sept. Seven bodies have b , , e p, recovered. All were engaged in the fishing busines s ' a . , reward of $5OO has been offered by the Mayor of rt - t j delphia for the arrest of Hugh Maree, Neil DoughertY,''ol John M'Loughlin, parties who are believed to have s ll lO revenue officer Brooks. This reward is offered oe l eo strength of affidavits made.-lowa expects to gain t 4l : it Representatives in Congress by the next apportiooZ; -Three negroes have been burned in the dismal svP w o fire.-The Pacific Railway route abounds with 11 °, 1 0 but has no song birds.-An Indiana family in nine tee rl- d has had three births, four weddings; and two deatho;„ Mr. Coe, at San Jose, has one hundred Chinamen new gaged in picking hops, which are dried in a kiln in eight to twelve hours, and are cured much more eirede io ally than in the open air.-Minnesota has complete wheat harvest, and estimates the quantity at 22, 00 u! e i bushels, of which only 6,000,000 bushels w ill be retell'ot in the State.-A New York druggist gives cream of ° c o l to would-be suicides who ask for arsenic. -The lle tl o/ Capital Convention at St. Louis is to meet on Octobe r A State Fair is to be held at Jackson, Miss., boginuOited Oct. 26. -York State has 345 cheese factories suP P ,a, with $106,000 cows.-Governor Geary, of PennsYlloo gave $5,000 to the Avondale sufferers, and PaA l3 , l ; l millionaire, $2,500. The fund thus far amounts to B''' -Caleb Cushing's fee as counsel for Mexico before te t Mexican Claim Commission is $30,000 in gold. 5 0 04 and Co., the celebrated English thread makers, e re to erect a mill at Providence, Rhode Island, and Wil;,•gso ploy 800 operatives.-Three individuals in 31i '' ) . , e got lost in the woods. They told their dog W../ home," and got there themselves by following n O O O, Harvard College has 577 undergraduates-12 8 sen 160 juniors, 134 sophomores, and 155 freslanie ° ' 1( 0 foreign imports of Boston up to Saturday, Sept- 18, 0 4 nearly thirty-eight millions of dollars, about seVeu .... ., half millions more than last year at the same time. 009 Ham Johnson, of New Haven, has given the Yale Se ie o o. 4 l School $5OO, with which to buy geographical sel3stfe, in which department Yale has 52 new students. F rll g efr Brewer has just returned from a trip to the liocki tains, and Messrs. Wright and Gale, of the class of 000 i appointed tutors at the close of last term, have t iec oofir the positions.-The Mississippi Valley TelegraP o o f pany have sold their lines to the Pacific and Atlanti c po ell pany for $260,000 in stock.-Various relics have j O3l sold at auction at Newport, among which were a em ir lr o'l belonged to Cotton Mather, a clock 237 years ° ii 7 o o l4 various pieces of furniture that date back to a periodoof the revolutionary war. An iron hammer that '`ce ll:l- in the Mayflower" was also disposed of. 1 to Colonel J. H. Grover, United States Cons";,/e4 Ancona, Italy, has arrived in London en route to York, on two months leave of absence. nSa Mr. Hooker, of the American banking - h °- Rome, Messrs. Maquay, Pakenham, and Iloel‘ er ' passed through London on his way from America. _OO OBITUARY.-Dr. S. D. Townsend a , physician of Boston, died on Monday, Sept. 28, a g e mor cih The Rev. Benjamin Darr, D.D., rector of Chri st Philadelphia, died on Saturday, Sept. 18, a t G 0110,11004 aged 73.-Archibald W. Oxendine, one of "Ma rina j3%r, during the Revolution, and for 40 years of his life i‘vt preacher, died recently in Missouri, at the ag e ° mo ck!, Rev. Loran Thayer, pastor of the Presbyterian m l 9, P Windham for over 20 years, died on Sunday, Sep o f POI was a native of Thetford, Vermont, a gradua te I' 4 mouth in 1840, and of Andover in 1843, and had 11 `" t o i" ous civil offices, including that of Represenistisre Legislature. A PI PARTNERSHIP CHANGES.-The „la" - Commissioner of Internal Revenue has recently 14'001 under consideration the liabilities involved by °b o a Ijl o the members of business firms during the years 4 P„, I rule laid down by him may now be considered e'.000)0t and imperative decision. The commissioner deci tir o every change of firm whereby a former partner r e 1 51 0 1,/ a new partner is admitted, constitutes in contev 3 p cot ia r . law a new firm, liable, in addition to the 15% ,ed the old firm, to new special tax for the unta tion of the year, which should be assessed frora day of the month in which the change occur s ' decides that there is no provision in the lay/ 11. 0 „ i0 1 :4) person retiring from business during the year:,-,0 Pol he has paid the tax can transfer his receipt to succeeding him. St .4 iota • p LADTERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's pills affordo l ' 4 lief. Indigestion gives rise to a large share of th the e tdo of mankind ;it occasions more miseries than o' l . 1 tiO knows names for. Indigestion springs from m k t 13, ice over which Holloway's pills exercise the y: 100 co' control. They act at once on the stomach, li sf . ° 0 , a ti o and kidneys, and correct their torpid, Wen ° igi ° „ o f ordered functions. They restore the wet , '" dfol' 6 strengthen the feeble stomach, and spare the Tli e rr Y Pli sick-headache, and many naa.eless tormente• 11011°4 call every organ to a true sense of its duties. 140 pills have with facility cured cases of bad dig e l t had existed for a long time and baffled t r j a tioo ° V d skill. They are reliable remedies for all gate "- o e e ° gestion. 91 1 „ 4 1 '0 LADTERTISEMENT. Consumption, a nd . 0 4-,,60-. 1 e1 , 4 0 bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in everY,L s cry aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every d i n $ t o o perfectly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restorilileu ;of, Arable& Food, as proved by thousands of cases W ep slivii considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dY s r v as,! i gei asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarr,stal,estodeiti derangements, hremorrhoids, liver complaints, vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, dipb,t' o ns t V } o l l colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rut i iitP, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irrit!Lpiiio;efo a t so ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache , ii - or ot o s '4 spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnang s t, ing tits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the el C` ll , n ey pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders , few: —The Pope's health restored by Du BarrY' 0405 , e c el 68,413—" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the ep ieW_Aiq excellent, especially since, abandoning all other r. )0 11 :40° 0 1 confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revaleu t it of which he consumes a plateful at every meal a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, a i. r osi r trh A cannot praise this excellent food too highly.-- iloVoe" du Midl, July 21. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. Janie°, disc' e ss• e rf; i t+ merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty yea rs desr ° o;o9 spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partia ot of, ipo No. 1,77 • . Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-LieutellootiN of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83 0 . "Fiftlioaa: ems, fif° able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, as co ot 0 ,0 00 0 stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, an, d ,, i nao ) ; 49; Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of t.` iihou e o, l f, and more than sloppy imitations to which, cl• 'eov ii Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attsThgeli°'CO°,;i ell In tins, at ls 1 lb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s 6d ; ; e d o 2i lbs 40s.—Also lid; VA Du BARRY'S R E ARe 51 PoWDER is packed in tin ca n i s t ers: f o r 12 OW; r 51v for , a s 1 0 , at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 305, l o s ti ce ef, ; —being about one penny per cup. The 308 sg ciust,eOLl a 9 free of carriage in E ng l an d on rec eipt of g., '- BARRY Du BARRY and C o., N o. 77 R e gent-- all Grocers and Chemists 0 1° -------- BIRTHS. , al Ii f °. 1 , CUSLIFFE—On the 9th inst , at Witha m P l, ofr Brooke Cunliff3, of a son. . 1 c e 's STANLEY—On the 9th in A,at 8, Ches hara-P Sloane Stanley, of a son.. JO AY MARRIAGES. vA torriA l ; ill CoDßlNGToN—AncitisoN—At St. peter $, Co l ,:e . Admiral Sir Henry Codrington, K. 0.8 ., L° 00 1 v j , widow of the late Admiral Aitchison, a f Pio Lyndhurst. ,-., Job ° , VI wA_LTON—CorLAND—On the 9th inst., at Dl,', r ee" 01 dington, Joseph Platt Walton, Esq., lan d , °JO' Diana S., elder daughter of David Cop park-terrace. A CV tl° D EA TB S. ofol i' GUMM—On the 9th inst., at Whitehall, Ohil l o fo f €63, Gumm, EFq., aged 62. , el' d HARVEY—On the 10th inst , Mr. J. S. trariel' V f tti' 3s road, Bermondsey, aged . 63. 1. , .r0 ER—OnOLIV the Bth inst ,at Basford, ne ar 4 B. S. Oliver, aged 50. • s'; o' o' ~. p,Al«tr,/ London : Printed and Published by ISILL'"'"< o.llllooo' of No. 112 , Strand, Printer, at Tits SUN Office `; OP' in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Coup Tuesday, °- Tuesday, October 12, 1802.