The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-23 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS COMMITTEE. The select committee inquiring into the mode of conduct ing parliamentary and municipal elections resumed its sitting on Tuesday.. The- lion. members present were the Marquis of Hartington (in the chair), Mr. W. Hunt, Ms:. G. Hardy, Sir George Grey, Mr. Bright, Sir M. Beach, Mr. E. Egerton, Mr. Locke, Mr. S. It. Graves, Mr. T. S. Cross, Mr. W. H. Smith, The O'Connor Don, Mr. Whit bread, Mr. Dalglish. Mr. Verdon, lately a member of the Government of Victoria, Australia, gave evidence as to the mode of con ducting elections in that colony. The Ballot was intro duced thirteen years since. The nomination was no longer public, but was done by a written paper, which was required to be signed by ten electors and delivered to the returning officer within given dates. Each candidate bad to declare that he would serve if elected; and had to make a deposit, which was forfeited if lie failed to receive one-fifth of the number of votes obtained by the successful candidate. The C•overionent undertook the ordinary expenses of election; the. hiring of boothsand printing of notices. The candidates bore the expenses of canvassing and distributing addresses. If more persons were nominated than there were vacancies to be filled up, the returning-officer proceeded to take votes. The voting was by ballot. On the voter present. ing himself at the polling-booth, if his name appeared on the roll, he received a paper bearing a number corresponding with his number on the roll. He then went into a room large enough to hold only one man at a time, and so constructed that what he did could not be overlooked. He struck out of the paper the name of the candidate for whom he did not vote, then folded the paper so as to conceal both the names and the number, and deposited it in the ballot-box. No one was permitted to be in the room where thepolling took place, except the returning officer or his deputy, the poll-clerk, and the scrutineers, one for each candidate. After the election, in case of a scrutiny on petition, it would be ascertained bow a voter voted by referring to the number on the paper and comparing it with the roll. The returning-officer, however, and the scrutineers made a declaration of secrecy, and opened the voting-papers in such a way that the number (which was on the Lack) could not be seen. At the close of the poll the votes were counted, and the papers sealed up in parcels. They were not again opened unless a scrutinytook place. 1. ases had occurred in which petitions had been presented, and votes bad been disallowed ; but the scrutiny was kept as secret as possible. The use of the ballot bad much conduced to promote purity and order. A witness from South Carolina was called, and stated that, having seen several contested elections in England he considered the system adopted in this country far. superior to that which was carried out in the State from which he had come, both as regarded freedom from corruption and the facility with which bribery was detected. LAW AND POLICE. THE PHCENIX Mill.s.—ln the Court of Chancery, on Tuesday, the Lords Justices heard an appeal from Vice- Chancellor James, relative to the Pheenix Mills, near Wakefield. The company of Joseph Horner and Sons (Limited), purchased the business of Messrs. Joseph Horner and Sons in March IEGU, by a contract with Mr. Richard Horner; the vendor, the property being valued at £25,000. Mr. Richard Horner was to receive part of the purchase money in 500 shares. The company was wound up, and after some litigation between the par ties, the Vice-Chancellor ordered the purchase to be set aside, and declared the 500 shares subscribed for by Mr. Horner to be contributory shares, on which he was liable for £5,000. Mr. Horner appealed. The Lords Justices, .after deciding that the contract of purchase could not • stand, the valuation having been only super ficially made, held that as the contract was void, so it must be reckoned that nothing had Leen paid on the shares for which Mr. Horner had subscribed the memo randum of association, and he must, therefore, be held liable as contributory. The appeal was refused, with costs. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. —ln the Court of Common Pleas,en Tuesday, an action was brought by a master plasterer to recover compensation for injuries received on the Metropolitan Railway. The injuries were not denied, and the counsel agreed to submit the question of damages to the decision of his lord.shiy.— Damages £l5O. SHARP PRACTICF.—At Marlbori.ugh : str.eet Police-court, on Tuesday, a broker was. summoned for neglecting to account for the proceeds of a distress. The complainant owed Hs. 3d., and the defendant seized goods to the value of £l5. lie sent a claim for expenses also, which came to three times the.sum for which the distraint Lad been put in. lie was ordered to repay the amount that the sale had realised, minus the rent, with costs. THE STI:L.E AT Vi EA COLLIERY.—At the Sun derland Police-court, on Tuesday, the case of the workmen at Wearmouth Colliery came on for bearing. The court was crowded to excess. 'lle charge against one of the defendants was gene into, and it having been sliewn that he Lad signed a conti act, and Lii4:en it by absenting himself from work, the magistrates ordered him to com ply with the bond, or, in default, one months imprison ment. An application for appeal having been made tLe magistrates took a fortnight to consider it Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council, to be held at the official residence of the First Loid of tho Treasury, rowning-street, on Saturday. The Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has subscribed £lO to the memorial church which is about to be erected at Cowley, near Oxford, to the memory of ArCIMISLup tAnigiry I,IIC ...14Up US low lisapn gives £250, and the present Archbishop gives £lO to the same object. The incumbent of the parish is treasurer to the fund, and donations may be paid into the Old Bank at Oxford. AGRARIAN OUTRAGE NEAR MULLINGAR.—Two men have been -arrested in Mullingar on suspicion of being of the party who on Sunday afternoon, the 13th inst., armed with heavy bludgeons, crossed Lough Owel in a small boat, and, landing near the village of Ballinafid, proceeded to a public-house kept by a'Mrs. M'Cormack, where they entered and called for drir.k. After a little time, and having ascertained that a servant man of Mrs. M'Cormack's, named Wm. Russell, was at the neigh bouring village of Bunbruena, a couple of miles distant, two of the party, strangers, left the house, and watched their unfortunate victim until he got some few hundred yards from the village, when they suddenly pounced upon him and beat Lim in a savage manner, inflicting severe wounds on his head and other parts of his body. The origin of the murderous outrage is that Russell assisted, as far as in his power, to describe the party who fired at a man, named Cassidy, in October last, and whose life was attempted for holding possession of a small portion of land at Waishestown. EXTRAORDINARY CONTRACTING FOR WORK.— The system of contracting for work has just been pushed to an extraordinary length in Leeds. A small society required some letterpress printing fur an entertainment about so be got up. Tenders for the work were asked for, and several printers, sent in their estimates. One, who appeared determined to have the job, no matter at what price, saved himself the trouble of calculating the cost by offering to execute the required work at "10 per cent. below the lowest estimate!" The committee, to their honour be it said, declined to accept this generous offer. They wrote to the person who made the offer, and told him Unit he must send in a given amount for the work. He did so. His estimate was found ten per cent. higher than the lowest of the other estimates! The inference is obvious. The committee, by their very proper conduct, prevented the printer from undertaking work by which he would have lost, according to his own shewing, twenty per cent. ! Leeds Evening Express. SERIOUS VELOCIPEDE ACCIDENT.— A Eer.ous recident has happened at Armatbwaite, abtut twelve mile. 3 south of Carlisle, to Mr. Whitehead, of Beecbill, Saddlesvorth, near Oldham. In the afternoon Mr. 'White head arrived at Arrnathwaite Castle. After tea he went out td practise a bicycle, in the use . of which he was quite a novice. lie was in the act of propelling the machine when his foot slipped off the crank and became entangled with the lever by which the wheels are worked. The con sequences were very serious. Mr. Whitehead's leg was violently doubled up, his ancle was dislocated, and some broken bones protruded through the flesh. Mr. White head was removed to the Castle, and surgical assistance was fetched from Carlisle. According to the latest ac counts the unfortunate gentleman is progressing favour ably. THE PUBLIC ITEALTH.---The rate of mortality in London was 20 per LOCO last week, as compared with a rate of 2; in 13 other large towns of the United Kingdom. ln the metropolis 1,7E4 births and I,L'A deaths were r,„ . ;is'e;e.i, the latt,:r 1 avb,g been less by than the rilw sic aths frcin zymotic disc asez; 200, the corrected average number Lein4 3i3. Thi pers.on4 died from smallpox, !2 from rileasirs, CO from scarlet fever, 6 from from whooping - cough, 10 from typhus fever, hi from enteric fever, 9 from simple con tinued fever, and 17 from diarrlaea. One bundi . ,:d and seventy-one deaths cccurri d from phthisis, 19 from br•on• ellitis; and 59 from pneumonia. The correct average number of deaths from phthisis is ICB, from bronchitis 77, and from pneumonia 61. The mean temperature during the week was 51'3, or more than seven degrees below the average. Between_ the highest day and the lowest Watt tcoPeaturUhezeyno_Amtunitsiimandiaaeli weie MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE LATE DIVISION. The London correzpondent of the Mancheeer' quardigit. describes—the . Conservative party as quite prostrated by the recent division. Neither side expected anything like - the majority actually obtained. Ministers, as we happen to know, did not reckon upon more than fifteen. The surplus appears to have been due to a miscalculation on the part of the Conservative Whips, who allowed many more absentees than they ought to have done. It was intended by the Opposition that the Government should -win by a nose ; instead of that it won by a neck. The cor respondent has no doubt that the retention of the glebes and parsonages by the clergy, and the pro vision of others for the Roman Catholic priests and the Presbyterian Ministers, will be pressed upon the Government, and thinks that while Government could-not Consistently with its pledges on the hustings make the proposal, it will not resist it if enforced by a maority of the Upper llouse. No one believes that the bill will pass in its prezent shape. The Earl of Shaftesbury writes to the .T: mord explaining why he did not vote. Ile was kept from the flonso of Lords during the greater part of the week through a bereaverntnt. When lie went down on Friday, irtending to speak, he found that the list of speakers was arranged for the whole evening. His intention was to record " a protest against the bill." The will of the nation, he remarks, had reduced the constitutional action of the house of Lords to nothing but a protest. THE AMENDMENTS ON THE BILL. Earl Grey is the first to move an amendment to the Irish Church Bill. It is a radical amendment, and will attempt to set aside one of the primary principles of the bill, that no part of the surplus Church funds shall be devoted to the teaching of religion or to the maintenance of churches or clergy. There is no doubt that a very large number of peers on both sides of the House are favourable to Lord Grey's proposition. Even the Bishop of St. David's has expressed his"preference for levelling up, and so have Earl Russell, the Duke of Cleveland, and many other of the peers who supported the bill. The form that this principle will probably assume is that of giving the present globes and parsonages to their present occupants and their successors, and pro viding others for the Roman Catholic priests. This would be thoroughly in accordance with Pitt's inten tions, who indeed was prepared to go much farther than this. It remains to be seen if the country is so violently opposed to any sort of provision for the Roman Catholic clergy as to compel the' Government to resist this amendment. The indifference with which the Maynooth compensation clause has been viewed would imply that there is no such strong feeling. There is no doubt that the Government, notably Mr. Bright and Mr. Bruce, would like such an arrange ment. Meanwhile the Ministerial journals are feel ing the public pulse by suggesting the propos'l, without committing themselves to it. The Irish Church Bill is still giving active employ ment to speculative politicians, and several correspon dents of the Times are ready with suggestions for improvement. Mr. Tighe Hamilton notices two features in the debate in the Lords—the absence of any serious defence of the details by the Ministerialists, and the tendency, perceptible on both sides, to favour the principle of concurrent endowment. Mr Hamilton himself strongly upholds this principle, and would give a parochial entlewment to the laity of each religious creed, treating the question in an economic and social, not in a religious, sense. He would provide a respectable resi dence and such quantity of land as will yield the comforts of life for the clergy of each religious denomination in each parish, and is especially anxious that such endowments shall be made to the laity for the use of their clergy, not to the clergy them selves. The ecclesiastics of the Romislt Church have often r‘lused such offers, but the people would not, he thinks, refuse it for them. Only by such an akera ation will the Church Bill, in Mr. Hamilton's opinion, satisfy the Irish. Sir Charles Trevelyan. writing as " C. E. T.," advo cates a similar scheme. lie would out of the surplus church funcls.assign a sufficient sum to provide suit able houses for the clergy of the three great divisions of the Irish Christian Church.—" A Conservative Peer" thinks that any one-sided action must result in failure, and would like to see adequate provision for the Anglican Church, full compensation for the Presbyterians, and the endowment of the Komar Catholic clergy with glebes and residences. Another correspondent dislikes the appropriation of the surplus to hospitals and lunatic asylums. and would prefer to see the money laid out in official residences for the national schoolmasters, so that there is no lack of schemes and suggestions ready to be argued on the reopening of the question. A WARNING OR A PROPHECY ? The Daily Telegraph says : " It is thought that if the Lords should handle the details of the Irish Church 13111 in a practical spirit, with a view to business-like proqrcss, the session may be brought to a close by the first week in August. But if, on the contrary, they should make such alt , rations in commi.tee as would raise complic.ted questions with the House of Commons, the session could not pos sibly terminate until a considerably later period." In other words, if their lordships behave themselves .they will be able to book themselves for the limited mail to the Ncrth for the week ending August 11th If they arc fractions they will be compelled to spend the sacred 12th August (more sacred by far than the Orangemen's 12th July) in. London, instead of upon the Scotch moors. A BISHOP'S PLAN FOIL CHURCH EXTENSION. The Bishop of Lichfield on Monday addressed a meeting, at Derby; to consider the best means of increasing the number of churches in his diocese The Duke of Devonshire, who presided over the meeting, having irrlcen of the want of churches in the diocese and the need of money to build, the Bishop, who followed his Clnce, impressed upon his hearers the value of house-to-house visitations. They should go from house to house for money, and though they only got at each place small donations little things mounted up to large ones. If the plan he advocated were adopted they would soon have churches sufficient for their need. DISESTABLISII3IENT.. The House of Commons was enlivened a little on Monday night by a debate on - the disestablishment of a metropolitan church. The church of All Saints, Bishop a gate, has a large endowment, a complete array of clergy, and next to no congregation. The extension of the Great Eastern Railway renders it necessary to remove the building • and, since the wor shirm—s have dwindled down to a mere handful 1 nas been pro ... l:we:a 'wilt - Lae eonlins.a,:bn money from the railwey company should Le levoted to the erection, not of another church, but of new schools. In order, however, that no cause of complaint may be given to the fifteen or twenty people who worship at All Saints, a chapel will be added to the schools for the celebra tion of Divine service on Sundays. A bill to effect that purpose was sanctioned by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and by the late Bishop of London, now Archbishop of Canterbury ; it was not opposed by the present Bishop of London; and it was passed through the Upper House. But on the third read ing in the Lower house it was opposed. Somebody seems to have fearid that this was but getting in the lever by which the English Church, as a whole, would be overthrown. A House, however, which has passed the Irish Church Bill would hardly be likely to be frightened by a cry of sacrilege when the bishops have sanctioned the proposed seoularisat:.ca. So the bill was passed by ar. •_ovcrenclming mai ority. CLERICAL PROSECUTIONS. Five members of the Episcopal Bench are apt nv, indulging in the costly luxury of a clericai rosecu tion. The Archbishop of York said the (Maar ct,y that he had three in hand—that of Mr. Voysey for heresy is one of them ; the others are not stated. The Bishop of London is about to prosecute Mr. Lowder for non-compliance with the Ritual judg ment; the Bishop of Bath and Wells, it is now stated, is prosecuting Mr. B enne tt , of Frome, for teaching the doctrine of th e B eal Presence, though we had supposed this duty devolved upon the Bishop of London; the Bishop of Chichester is pro secuting Mr. Purchas, of Brighton, and the Bishop of Winchester Mr. Wix, of the Isle of Wight, for Ritualism. It will be seen that the High Church party (who, by the way, set the example of appeal ing to the law courts) are having a by no means easy time. D t I3LIN ELECTION. There is a very sore feeling in Dublin about the continued suspension of the writ. It appears that fifteen freemen were proved to have been bribed at the last election, and Justice Keogh intimated his belief that a good many more of the same class of electors bad been guilty of the same offence. Con sequently there are three courses open to the Government: to order the Attorney-General to prosecute the few rascals who have been-named ; to proceed by the old law of a joint address to the Crown to appoint a commission of inquiry; to peas the bill of George Grey disfranchising them without investigation ; or to do no thi ng at all. The first of these courses would achieve no perceptible good, and the last would be a shameful falSiticatiOn of all the But purity made by the late Parliament. commission of inquiry, under th e o ld statute, p a r om i o f would hardly be refused by Cie Upper House, and the issue of the writ might remain suspended until all the delinquents were discovered and struck _ off the electoral roll. The disfranchisement of the freemen en masse would -have a very disastrous effect just now, for they are chiefly Protestants of the upper and middle class, who, residing out of town, would not be replaced on the voters' list as and as parties are very householders or lodgers; THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE - 23, L 69. franchisement would give a clear majority to me Catholics. Though not intended to have a sectarian effect; the bill would certainly be so regarded biiiith.ft. Protestants just now exasperated beyond measure by the disestablishment of tiheirChysch.AThingL ate" quite hot enough" as it is in Ireland without thus adding fuel to the flame. trouble sometimes, and it is a pity that tne °ono/iv/um Haggerty could not have found another job, and the worthy Duff left in rreaeb. ' " j — . LEGISLATION IN witat..... " SOll3B ' of the Canitan legislators propose to try an experiment which has never found favour with European jurists. They h ave drawn up a bill to inflict the puuishm en t of fine or imprisonment—two years being the maximum of the latter penalty—for the offence of deceiving a woman under promise of marriage. There must be corroborative evidence, and subsequent marriage may be urged as a valid defence. the Cuban Junta interpret favourably to themselves, and they laugh at the Spanish reports of captured cannon as bearing absurdity on their face. The_ recognition-by - the Peruvian nceliiineiii - as — beilf:: gerents is also a matter of congratulation, as Chili, Equador,and Bolivia are likely to follow suit. There is a rumour that an East River shipbuilder has ac cepted a contract from Cuban agents for the bulls of two small steamers capable of being turned nto gunboats. The Russia sailed on Wednes day, with 150 passengers ; in the Allemania, bound for Hamburgh, via Southampton, are Mr. Thomson, our Consul to that port, John M. Francis, of the Troy Times, and Signor Cerutti, the Italian Minister. The Perit returned . from her filibuster ing tour last Saturday, though she reported herself as coming from Jamaica. The Manhattan arrived on Wednesday with 1,230 passengers ; she might have had twice the number could she have accom modated them. Although the week has been singu larly bare of "sensational" rumours affecting Wall street, there was one on Thursday in the Evening Post, by no means a sensational paper. Its Wash ington correspondent asserts that the Republican party in that city intend to give a spur to the autumn elections by raising a loud cry against Eng land on the Alabama question. They suppose that this will give a zest to the campaign, and drown any cry the Democrats can raise. The 'limes censures such a mad project, considering the question of peace or war too serious to be played with to forward the interests of politicians. They, as a general rule, care nothing for results beyond attaining the object they seek ; but others, who have an interest in the honour and welfare of their country, do, and are sufficiently powerful to put an extinguisher over such men when they look like making tracks in the wrong direction. A few have not forgotten what they got by their repudiation cry, and the quantity of their own words they had to swallow in the vain effort to get them out of the way. We have had a little sensational drama, or farce, or whatever it may be called, in which Mr. George Butler, nephew of General Butler, took the most active part, and Mr. Alexander Henderson the most pas,ive ; the former is the dramatic critic of the .Spirit of the limes, and the other is the manager of the Lydia Thompson burlesque troupe. Mr. Butler has erected himself into the censor of the stage, and has determined, in that charac ter, to pub down b/unde6 iu zonnt cooturno, vicious fashion imported from England. He at tacked Mr. Henderson for what he calls his crimes against society, as a public duty with his pen, and as Mr. Henderson answered him in much the same language in a speech at a theatrical dinner, wherein . the theatrical editor of Wilkes' Spirit was termed a "liar" and a_ " scoundrel," he attacked him in his private behalf with a stick. This he did last Saturday night at Niblo's after the curtain had fallen, at the door connecting the stage with the oratorium. He wanted the manager to go in front of the theatre, but as Mr. Henderson decidedly obj ec ted to go out to be beaten, he violently assaulted him there. Two actions were brought by Henderson againg Butler on Thursday at the Jefferson Market Cotirt; the one for libel, the other for assault and battery. In the first case Butler was bailed in $l,OOO to answer at the General Sessions, and in $3OO on the second charge. Mr. Butler declares he means to fight it out at law squarely to the end. Several editors left on a trip over the Pacific Rail road to San Francisco last Thursday, among whom was the agent of the Associated Press. The WOman movement is still active ; Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Cady Stanton, and others like it, and keep the ball rolling. A meeting was held at the Woman's Bureau, Twenty-third- street, on Tuesday, denounc ing the injustice of enfranchising negroes and igno rant foreignen, and leaving women as slaves, which the adoption of the XVth Amendment would do. The fair sex were congratulated on the Methodists having recognized woman's right to preach, a reso lution was passed favouring the education of girls as well as boys in the Free Academy, and next day Miss Anthony waited on the Board of E lucation, urging that New York College be thrown open to girls assvell as 'boys, this fact entitling them that women paid taxes equally with men. The value of railroad freights in America in 1867 was $10,174250,000 ; or four times the national debt on 39,000 miles of railroad ; the average annual in crease for the ten years preceding was $737,000,000. It is estimated that in 1880 there wi 1 be 70,000 miles, which will transport 140,000,000 tons of freight, valued at $20,000,000,000 ; while the p n will then be 50,000,000. WASHINGTON, June 4 Dr. Mary Walker and Professor Willcox have been lecturing here on the Rights of Women ; but they do not seem to make much impression, for the judges of election have, through Mr. "Wilcox, in formed the delegation of ladies who applied to regi•iter as voters that the Board, as by law directed, refuse their application, while refraining from ex pressing any opinion as to their rights ; Mr. Cross man was, however, an exception to this, for he prci= nounced their claim just, and thought they ought to be registered. Then tri b e Professor with dignity desired his name to be stricken from the list, as he felt that many of the rejected ladies were more corn potent to vote than he, and it would be unfair in him to exercise a power unjustly denied to them. A circu lar is going about inviting distinguished women to organize a Parliament which would legislate on subjects of vital interest to them and their children. Among these objects are public education, prisons and reform schools, hygienic and sanitary reforms, female labour, domestic economy, and dishonesty in public life. It will have nothing to do with " Woman's Rights," directing its attention to wo men's duties and the best way to perform them ; any woman can become a voter on the payment of $1 as a poll-tax to defray the expenses. Dr. Mary Walker called on Mr. Tullock, appointment clerk of the Treasury ; hence, I presume, she was not successful in her late efforts with Gen. Sickles to be appointed Secretary of Legation to Spain. It is a pity she did not get the post Professor Willcox has resigned in the Treasury Department, that his in dividual attention might be given to Woman Suf frage. On this occasion Mrs. Dr. Walker took the precaution of being accompanied by Mrs. Dr. Lock wood, and she was therefore ready for battle had another Mrs. Gaines appeared. Mr. Thrie has issued an order prohibiting subjects of a politi cal nature to 1:e discussed by visitors to the navy yards. He has sent instructions to Admiral Rowan; commanding our Xsiatic squadron, to give all the aid and protection he can in laying the cable of the East Indian Telegraph Company, and Captain Alexander Murray proceeds to China to help in taking sound ings, and making preliminary surveys. Despatches from the Rear-Admiral have been received to 15th April, wherein is announced the death of the Eng lish officer commanding in Canton, his funeral being attended by- all our naval officers on the spot. Henceforward, a captain. is to wear four half-inch stripes of gold lace on his coat sleeve, commanders three, and staff officers according to their relative 'rank.' An - English ex-M.P., an earnest friend of the Union at all times and seasons, 'wrote some time ago from Manchester to the Treasury Department on the subject of the high rate ph4l for the Five-Twenty Bonds. Considering Six per Cent, gold inte rest to be twice.as much as ought to be given, and being willing to take half, he sent frornPennsylvania, where he now is, a $l,OOO 5-20 Bond, and seven pc) coupons as a rebate to Government, desiring that the interest should be hereafter adjusted to what he thought right, namely, Three per Cent. Sec retary Boutwell, in reply, thanked hina for his ge nerosity, and invited him to Washington to consi der the zubject but the New York fie ru id, with cha racteristic impudence, calls our English benefactor a lunatic. The registration list of voters was com pleted on Tuesday, and it is evident that the Republi cans will be successful, although a close contest is ex• petted. The officers to be elected are a register, a collector, and a surveyor. The Republicans have nominated a coloured citizen of considerable means, for collector, and an Irishman named Donegan for surveyor. The National Committee appointed last winter by the Coloured Convention are at work, and have prepared an address to the Rhode Island Legislature on the ratification of the XVth Amend ment, and letters to Hayti and Liberia urging the re moval of the word " white" from their Constitutions and.law, whereby white men are prohibited from becoming citizens or holding real estate, no injury to be mourned over by the descebdants of Japhet. of sympathy with_the_Cnbgai Repub 7 licans was also passed. The case of Douglass (Ju nior) and the Printers' Union has not yet been set tled, but it is likely soon to be decided in his favour, for a reply has been received from the Denver Typo graphical Union (to which the objection to him raised was that he had been refused admission), that he was considered respectable, a good citizen, and a good prin ter, though working in an anti-Union office, and not belonging to that Union. Fifteen more composi tors have been discharged from the Government Printing-office, in consequence of the growing scarcity of work ; all the correspondence and papers relating to theAlahanza claims will soon be finished, making up 16 books of 400 pages each, including three British Blue-books, ar,d - containing also all about other claims. Robert Penman (despairing. of a printer's future), in view of this end of the Ala bama correspondence, jumped into the canal in Sixth-street, and drowned himself ; he belonged to the Printers' Union, and was a Knight Tetnplar. Colonel R. M. Douglas, of the Presideat's S'aff, left on Monday evening to attend the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs. Granger, wh3 died at that place on Saturd.'y, aged eighty years, The steamer Tallapoosa has returned :ron Fortress Monroe, with Gen. Sherman and par ty, and sailed again on Thursday for Annapolis with the Presidential party. The Hon. Ben Wade, who has been at Boston attending the election of the Directors of the Union Pacific Rail road, remained here for two days, but left on Tues- Ile accepted the Directorship of the day evening. Union Pacific Railroad offered to him by the Presi dent some time ago, and came here to look after some Ohio appointments. The incumbents of the remain ing two places appointed by Andrew Johnson h f t in New York City, are Supervisor Dutcher and Collec tor of Internal Revenue Fields. First, there is the pressure to get them ousted, but not waiting till they are out; there is a greater pressure from those striving to get into their places. George Wilkes, the editor of the Spirit of the Times, was once thought to be the most prominent candidate for the latter post. Touching the Spirit, I may remark that young Butler, its dramatic critic, a nephew of General Butler,' collided with Henderson, the entre preneur of the Lydia Thompson troupe. Mr. Butler I used rather strong language in the columns of the .spirit on Henderson, who gave back what.le got in a speech aim a theatrical dinner, whereon Mr. Butler beat Mr. Henderson at Niblo's theatre. The Butlers come of a fighting stock, and naturally in cline towards hot water. One of the office-seeking gang having failed in securing a place, called on the President to frank him back to Chicago, not a bad precedent to establish, that uncle Sam should pay for the return of these failures, after entreating them not to come ; it would be like his redeeming the bad money put into circulation. 24 proposals for furnishing envelopes to use in the Post-office De partment were opened last evening by the Postmas ter-General. The lowest bidder was Geo. F Nesbit of New York. Samples will be examined, and the contract shortly awarded. The settlement of Perry Fuller's case has disappointed the scmdal-mongers, as an expose of the lobby was anticipated. Gen. Ew ing, since the arrival of the ex-Collector from New Orleans, desired to settle the matter out of Court, to which Fuller at first strongly objected, though he appears at last to have succeeded, for Judge Olin dismissed the case, ordering the $82,000 to be deposited with a trustee for distribution. That -sum was.the amount of vouchers for Indian goods sold to the First National Bank of Arkansas, of which Gen. Thomrs Ewing, his brother Charles, and other partners claimed $51,C00. The Ewings agreed to take, it is said, $6,000, abandoning seven eighths of their claim. lam glad to inform you of the success of Mrs. Wood, the lady who made the journey across the Continent in her husband's behalf, for Brevet-Major Charles 0. Wood, United States Army, recently sentenced to six months' suspension for striking a brother officer in Alaska, has been reinstated in the service by order of the President. There are rumours of a disagreement between the President and Commissioner Delano ; although doubtless untrue, it would not be asto nishing; consithring the pressure to which he has been . subjected for the post of Commissioner for Internal It-!venue for the Sixth Congressional Dis trict of New York, and that of Supervisor Butcher. These last remnants of good things are being fought over and struggled I,r by the hungry crowd who daily arrive to push cia:ms. Mr. Spaul.li g, who was appointed : Consul at ilonclulu, as a reward for his fa'.her's services to Andrew Johnson against Impeachment, has been superseded by Mr. Adam son, of Louisiana. The President long refused to remove Mr. Spaulding, and when Senator Cole, of California, but the other day urged the appoint ment of a San Francisco journalist, Mr. J. H. Riley, the President, again asserted that as Mr. Spaulding's record was good he would retain him. This action is likely to give offence in California, where they consider the appointment to be onebelong ing to the Padific slope. Five other Consuls were appointed yesterday, as well as Oscar H. Lagrange, SUperintendent of the Branch Mint at San Fran disco. Norman Wiard has eight cases before the Court of Claims, amounting to $1,200,000, and has employed Caleb Cushing and J. T. Drew as his attor neys, demanding that sum as damages for contracts arbitrarily annulled by the Government during the war. The model of Vinnie Ream's statue of Lin coln has been shipped in the New York steamer from Georgetown. Its ultimate •destination is Italy, where it is to be turned into marble; our artists there will form a fine group around it, and learn valuable lessons in alt. There is, a !report that a bill for $60,000 was paid by our Government through the Barings for telegraph messages, $40,000 of it being on account of the Alaska pur chase. The company charged for each figure now used as cyphers, the full sum for a word, a charge the Government disputed. • The Jubilee Coliseu m i n B os t on i s rap idl y ap proaching completion, and will be in readiness some days before the Jubilee. The large room at the north-east corner is to be appropriated to the use of the Executive Committee, and the Secretary of the Jubilee Association, Mr. Henry G. Parker, is to have an office adjoining. The apartment at the north -west corner will be a reception room for distinguished guests. The press head-quarter tors comprise very spacious accorninodalion at the left of the St. James-avenue entrance, on the east side. One end of this room will be used as a telegraph office, and Colonel Wood has men at work preparing for its early occu pancy. Four wires will be introduced, and Messages may be sent during the Jubilee in any required direction. The arrangements for the reporters will be of the most ample character, and probably a larger number will be pre sent than ever before assembled in the country. Tables will be provided with every convenience for writing, a registry kept of the representatives of the press in attend ance, and liberal provision made to enhance their comfort. The four large apartments in the south end of the building, two of which are extremely spacious, will be used as retir ing-rooms, &c., for the chorus and orchestra, the two upon the east side by the ladies, and those upon the west side by the gentlemen. A largo room upon the Dartmouth street side, about midway of the building, has been fitted up for the steam fire engine, and sleeping accommoda tions will be given the firemen (who will be in constant attendance during the five days and nights of the Jubilee), in an apartment connected therewith. Horses will be kept in readiness in an adjacent building, not more than 50 feet distant. A hose carriage, with 600 feet of hose, already occupies a place under the rear balcony, at the.right of the main entrance, in readiness for instant use. Four gas meters, each of which is almost large enough for a tenement., were placed in the building on Tuesday, Juno 1. To afford additional light, two circular windows, 18 feet in diameter, have been placed in the pads of the building at the height of nearly 100 feet, which gave a more finished appearance to the structure. The lower range of windows are already in, and also some of the upper range. Workmen have been engnsed in " dock ing" the glass where the sun's rays are likely to strike through to the interior, which has the effect o f ground glass.. The chorus seats are being constructed, w con sist of settees, made on the spot. Chairs will which providedwillin the parquet, and else in the balconies, as far as practic able. The painters are at work upon the outside of the building, but have nearly comple ted their task. The up right walls aro painted a neu tral tint, and the pilasters, win dew-cities, and sills. the brackets and the eaves, forming the projection, aro a darker ' tint, which throws them into bold relief. The only painting inside is upon the central lines of pillars, which have b een g iven a salmon tint to harmo nize with the decorations. The 15ft. promenade up on th e outside of the build in g is being constructed, and one side— that upon the east of the Coliseum—is nearly completed. An extensive village of temporary wooden struct ures o f a ll sizes gad o f A n forms of ughwon have sprung up around THE CROPS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. In the North of Ireland this year the potato crop promises to be one of the finest since 1842. Very little disease, and a heavy and healthy crop, make the lands in which this root is growing the most encouraging of all the farmer possesses. The wheat in the North is also very fine. The Northern Whig says that throughout the counties of Down, Antrim, and Armagh, which produce two-thirds of all the wheat that is annually raised in the province, the prospects of ample yield are exceedingly favour able. No complaints are heard of the oat crop, which was got in at a good time, and is now doing well. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society takes place this year at Old Trafford, near Man chester. For nearly three months past a corps of seventy or eighty men have been employed in the ccantruction of the wooden and can•. as ;own de3tiaed for occupation during a single week in July. These men will still be busily employed for one or two weeks, and before they have finished their labour will have constructed .nearly 20,000 feet of 20-feet wide shedding, in fitting up which more than a thousand loads of timber have been used. About 12,000 feet of shedding will be contained in the implement blocks, about 3,000 feet will be devoted to cattle, and upwards of 2,000 to sheep and pigs. EXEMPTIONS FROM RATES AND TAXES. Mr. Hare, well known in connection with a scheme for parliamentary representation, writes to the Daily News on the taxation of Sunday-schools. Ile thinks it important to examine the principle of the measure that was lately before the House of Commons on the subject. Many people seem to consider taxation to be a sort of penalty on those who are charged, rather than a contribution to the general expenses of the nation. The effect of the measure for exempting Sunday and ragged-schools from parochial rates will be to impose the rates upon the rest of the property of each parish. Mr. Hare thinks that 'this is unjust, because people must share the burthen, whether they will or no. Ile believes that it would be better to give the money in the shape of a national grant, and it might then be ascertained how far the schools merited aid. lie also states that every session will witness fresh exemptions for favoured institutions if a precedent is established. Another evil is that the representatives of the people will deceive themselves, and think they are assisting tho poor Ly smell trivial legislation. They will find the true policy to consist in abolishing all exemptions whatever, national or local, leaving it for Parliament to vote the necessary support to thoss institutions which are of national benefit. TIIE MAINE LAW. It was recently announced that the Maine Liquor Law had been thrown out in the Upper Chamber of the Massachusetts Legislature. This statement was incorrect. The law has passed both Chambers. It is nearly identical with that which was repealed in the Legislature of 1807-8. A DISAPPOINTMENT FOR MURDERERS. Mr. states that he has been obliged reluctantly to postpone the second reading of his bill for the abolition of capital punishment until July 28. Even if it should not be rejected then, as is most probable, it will scarcely pass a third reading this session in the Commons, much less get through' the House of Lords. Intending murderers will do well to bear this in mind. SPIRITUALISM. That such a man as Professor Varley, the elec trician, should declare his belief in spiritualism, has surprised not a few, and called forth many comments from the Press. The professor writes, vindicating his belief. He commences by the statement that there are very few families some members of whom have not received an unaccountable, intuitive com munication announcing the death of some near relative who has departed this life, far from the friend who has received the notice of his removal. There are a great number of men, moreover, he goes on to sly, who will whisper privately of manifestations which they have witnessed, but who do not care to become food for laughter by making their experiences public. Joan of Are died declaring that she had heard voices from God speak ing to her. Wesley w:ls a witness of the phenomena. called " raps," and some of his family were rapping media. Swedenborg was also a conscious clairvoyant. The Indian " mesmerists" have been proved to be true men; and there are many medical men who at the present discuss these matters seriously, but who, from business considerations, do not c..re to tell to their clients or to the world the whole truth. COMMON-LAW BUSINESS. The pressure of common-law business has increased so greatly that the judges are looking about them for means of relief. To get rid of special business they have introduced a reform which will male 'men of the old school sigh. It has .been the custom - for the chief of the Court of Queen's Ilene: to try all special jury cases. Put now a puisne judg►e is engaged in doing half the work. Clearly some menn3 must be taken to shorten the law's delays. • TIIE BINGLEY BOILER EXPLOSION. - The Times has a very strongly-worded leader on the Bingley •boiler explosion. It points out that there was a double- culpable negligence. The boiler was so faulty that the only wonder is the explosion was delayed so long, and the person in char,-;,e of it WS quite incompetent. It is almost certain that nearly all the boiler explosions are pre ventable, and that thus well-nigh eighty lives a year are sacrificed by the negligence or the parsimony of manufacturers. THE PREVENTING OF COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. The Ircred contained a good piece of news yester day morning. A Mr. Arthur Gilmore writes from the Carlton Club that he has discovered a lamp whose lock cannot be tampered with without causing the instant extinction of the light. If this should prove simple and cheap enough for adoption, it will be one of the most beneficial discoveries in the present decade. OUR lIEEOES. --- The Prince of Wales has joined the noble army of heroes who s• - ) gallantly do battle with pigeons. This fine, manly c.:ercise having now received the approval of royalty, will become more popular than ever. The Prince's courage enabled him to kill five birds out of. six. At the same time a match was plAyed between the Peers and the Commons, in which the first won by two birds. Crest magniliquc, mais ce West pas la tiuerre. BITTING HOUSES. The Tel'egraph investigates the question whether the betting agents now charged with committing an offence against the law are or are not Nulty. With out giving any op!nion on a matter which is now subjudiee, the bearing of the case may be pointed out. Messrs. Wright, Smith, and Morris, who are charged with illegal gaming, are betting agents, i.e., they receive money from certain clients, with instruc tions how to lay, and at the post on the racing day they stake this mon e y for their clients. If the horse on whom th e s t a k e i s laid loses, of course the client loses all his money ; if ,the horse wins, ho receives the odds, less commis sion. The section under which the agents are prosecuted prohibits the keeping of any office " for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of such owner, occupier, keeper, or person aforesaid, as or for the considera tion for any assurance, undertaking, or promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing, on any event or contingency of or relating to any horscrace." The question is whether the agents, according to the Act, agree to give or pay anything contingently on the event of certain races. The men argue that they do not, and that they only agree to hand over money won by their client, and never in their own possession. FOREIGN NOTES. AMERICAN AID TO CUBA. The other day we announced by cable telegram that thirteen expeditions bearing aid to the Cuban insurgents had left American ports. It appears that seven of these sailed from New York. Some never reached their desti nation ; but the net result has been that very material assistance has been afforded to the insurrection. Thirty thousand stand of arms, six batteries of artillery, and a large quantity of ammunition and commissary stores have been safely transported to the revolutionary camps. Some good authorities aver that the insurgent army contains more Americans than Cubans. Well may the creoles take heart. A FENIAN CONSUL FOR cr,Ascow. Mr. James llaggei ty, a Fenian, and not the least noisy of that noble race, has been appointed United States Consul at Glazgow. This bestowal of an important office upon a Fenian nut unnatm . allygives rise, amongst the loyal Scotch, to much vaath. .A gain2t this ex.;itement, how ever, the New York 2'inics protests. It does not precisely see why the present consul, Mr. Duff, who served under General Grant, should be replaced ; but it presumes that the President knew nothing of Ilaggerty's antecedents, and is certain that his appointment is no insult. "If ever Grant should intend to insult' the British nation, be will be likely to take some other way of doing it than by sending an objection able man to a second-class consulate. Nor will Generiil Grant take it as an insult if the British Government, for any good reason, refuse 'to give Mr., Haggerty his areaWait4r." Very good but little thins do give rise to• REFORM IN FRANCE. " What will the Emperor do ?" is a question which acquires increasing interest in France, and according to those who profess to know the inner life of the Tuileries, nobody pays greater attention to this problem than the Emperor himself. The Daily News correspondent is " credibly informed" that at a Cabinet Council held on Saturday the political situation was the chief topic. It was agreed that the Empire bad a difficult future before it, but that further concessions would be inconsistent with the safety of the Government. "However, as an effort must be made to rally the working classes in the large towns, M.. Ilouher proposes:as his panacea what ho terms free trade a riaterieur. The big questions of octroi duties and a redistribution of imposts hinge upon this pro gramme, which chimes in with some financial schemes over which the Emperor has been for some time ponder ing." Of course, the great difficulty to be overcome arises from the fact that the expenses of the Empire are much greater than its receipts, and that burdens cannot be taken off one class without throwing them upon another. THE DUCHESS D'AOSTA. The wife of the young Duke D'Aosta, second son of King Victor Emmanuel, is dangerously ill of biliary fever. She has received the last rites of the Church. Her Royal Highness, ne Princess Cisterns, has one child. THE ITALIAN REPUBLICANS. Our Rome correspondent states that Garibaldi's health is completely restored, and , that he has been able to resume his agricultural employments, in which he takes great interest. A French man-of-war put into Caprera the other day, and the officers Wished to visit the General, but he declined receiving them. Mazzini is said to be in Italy again— of course, in disguise ; but of this no certainty exists. Ansiglioni, the notorious conspirator, who planned the Serristori mine explosion, has been assassinated at Florence. As this patriot betrayed his comrades to save his own life, and as he has ever since been in biding on the Italian frontier, it is believed that he has at length fallen a victim to Republican vengeance. THE OCCUPATION OF ROME. The issue of the French elections seems to have caused quite a panic at Rome respecting the probable withdrawal of the French troops. Our kome • correspondent writes that a few days ago it rose to such a height that Cardinal Antonelli telegraphed to the Nuncio in Paris for a specific answer as to the Emperor's intentions regarding the future. The answer was clear and concise. " His Majesty contemplates no present change of policy in regard to the Holy-See." Notwithstanding this, there exists very little confidence in the continuance of French protection. TUE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN ITALY. The attempted murder of Major Lobbia remains an extraordinary mystery, even for Italy. It is alleged that the crime was instigated in order to get rid of the Major's diiagreeable testimony in the affair of the Tobacco Con tract Scandal ; but there are difficulties in the way of this theory. It is true that when this scandal first arose, the Major produced in the Chamber of Deputies two sealed packets, declaring them to contain proofs of corrupt practices on the part of certain deputies, and pledged himself to give up this evidence to a committee of inquiry, if the Chamber would vote one. Since that time his steps were constantly dogged by strangers, and he received anonymous and threatening letters. But these facts do not explain the affair. The inquiry which Lobbia had asked for had been granted, the names of the witnesses had been disclosed, and, in short, the Major had done all that the corrupt deputies—if there are any— had occasion to fear previously to the attempt. There was nothing to be gained byputting him out of the way, for he had already done his worst. The crime remains a mystery, but it is a mystery which, greatly discredits the Italian Parliament. As yet the facts respecting the corrupt practices in connection with the tobacco monopoly negotiations have not been disclosed, and public opinion naturally paints them much blacker than perhaps they really are. Some very high personages are popularly accused. The riots at Milan seem to have been an indignation protest against this attempt. Eleven persons were arrested, and three guards and a citizen slightly injured. Quiet has, however, been restored, and several attempts to pro voke riots in other towns have failed. THE GEZNIt.iL COUNCIL. Austria has signified her intention of . allowing all the bishops to attend the Council, and has communicated this decision to Bavaria, advising her to do the sa.m( , . Mgr. Fessler, Bishop of St. Hippolyte, near Vienna, and Chief Secretary of the Council, arrived in Rome a day or twa ago. (From the Ang!o-American Times) N}:W Yoinc, June 5 We have experienced one of the most ridiculcus posi , it ns in a strike among the waiters in the hotels for higher wages. At present their pay is $3O a month, and they want $35. The Brevoort, the Al bemarle, the Gramercy Park, and the Union Place Hotels have been obliged to give way, while the Fifth-Avenue, the Clarendon, t'ae Astor, the St. Nicholas refuse, and 309 waiters have struck, their places being taken by my that could be got in the highways and byways. The men belong to a trade union numbering 1,800 members, and they are powerful enough to kepp up the strike for .n inde finite period, in which they have been joined by the coloured waiters. They bad a meeting on Wednes day, when a Conference Committee was voted down by a large majority, as they thought the first steps towards a compromise should come from the pro. prietors. Even the bead waiters of the St. Nicholas have joined the movement, and messages have been sent to Philadelphia, Boston, and Albany for waiters, while the boarders in some of the hotels had to go out for breakfast to the restaurants. About 80 men were secured by Mr. Borrow for his hotel at Long Branch. The smallpox is on the increase at Black well's Island, and people along the shores opposite the island have moved away. Rumours prevail as to the progress of the disease, but the health officers say it is decreasing in the public institutions, and that there have been but few cases in the tenements. We have had bad weather ; much rain, and great variation in the temperature, which add to the death return, and tell severely on the delicate,and was parti cularly unfortunate for the Jerome races, which took place last Tuesday. Mr. Jas. Fisk (jun.) is as usual in the courts on charges of libel against Mr. Bushell, director of the Pacific Railway, and others. The slander was contained in the complaint filed by the Directors against the Erie Railroad Company. The point of the defence was that Fisk cannot take as against himself the libel against the Erie Corpora tion, and the Court has reserved judgment. The President has pardoned George Myers, who has been in Sing Sing for four months, under a sen tence to pay a fine of $250 for passing a counterfeit $5 greenback ; as there is little chance of his earn ing the money in Sing ,Sing, he has been let out. Concerning these pardons an interesting case is to come before Judge Blatchford. You may remember that the Dupuys, the whisky thieves; were par doned by President Johnson, shortly before he left the White H ouse , b u t b e f or e it could be brought into effect G enera l G ran t suc ceeded, and revoked it. The Dupuys have sued out a writ of Habeas Corpus, and th e quest i on w ill b e argue d in _the United States District Court whether President Grant could legally set aside his predecessor's official acts of clemency. The Grand Opera House closes to day, and other theatres will also soon do so for the summer; the French piece Patrie was not the success anticipated. In the fall, it is said, all the places of amusement will open on a lower scale for admission. Commodore Meade has recommenced proceedings against those whom he alleges were instrumental in confining him in a lunatic asylum in October, 1868, laying damages at $200,000. The case of the Quaker City continues to be agitated. The owners filed their answers to_ the libel on Monday, denying that she was to be fitted out as a privateer. On Thursday the owners renewed their application for the release of the vessel, asserting their loss by her detention to be $l,OOO a day. The matter is to be brought by the district attorney before Judge Blatchford, and it is thought that when the required bonds are filed the vessel will be released. The United States Marshal Barlow denies that the Arago aided in conveying the Perit's filibustering expedi tion to Cuba, but he acknowledges that the latter vessel did carry unarmed men as passengers, and arms and ammunition as freight. This the Spanish Consul thinks to be an admission in effect, not un like that made by the Lairds, as it concedes the matter in dispute. The action at the-Bay, of Nipe the Coliseum. Some of these, and there are at least a hundred, are leased at extravagant rates, and the occu panti have already, id numerous instances, opened busi ness as venders of soda, beer; and other refreshments. An auction sale of leases took place June 1. The Morris Brothers are building a Minstrel Opera House upon a lot north of Boylston-street, directly opposite the main en trance to the Coliseum, which will be in the centre of the long shed-like structure, which is to contain 15 or 20 refreshment stands. The building will in form be some thing like the Coliseum, and is designed to accommodate about 1,200 persons. The bridge across the railroads et Dartmouth-street will be completed before the opening o f the Jubilee. The huge organ, which Messrs. E. and G. G. Hook have built expressly for the Boston Peace Jubilee, was tested at a private exhibition at, the builders' factory, June 1. Dr. Willcox, who is to play it in the Coliseum, and Ole Bull, who went to hear it, express great delight at its marvellous capacity and beautiful construction. In the exhibition room it was perfectly overpowering in the loudest passages, and there is no fear but that it will fill the Coliseum. The width across its front is 22 feet, and its height is 30. Tho pumping of the air will be performed by relays of a dozen men. The player will sit with Uri back to the organ and some 20 feet from it, the action being reversed. The tone is said to be by no means harsh, but wonderfully rich and deep. We hear by c a , ,10 that the fo:Cv commeneed last Thursday, awl th .t PrJsid •ut Grant attended the Jubike. _ FIVE-TWENTY BONDS AS EXCHANGE.—Tke Tila s continues to remark on the excess of the imports into the United States over the exports, the balance being main]'' settled by Five-Twenty Bonds, to prove that an undo' amount of the Republic's National Debt finds its Iva)" t° Europe, and that trade is iu an unhealthy state at Ness' York. "Although the shipments of produce from Ne w. York during the first four months of the present year wer e less than usual, and the importations of foreign ru de were £7,000,000 in excess of those of the corresponding; period of last year, and £12,300,000 in excess of the seve ° four months of 1867, the shipments of bullion from Ne w York to this side have been only £2,600,000, again st £7,400,000 last year, United States' bonds having continu ously supplied the means of meeting the heavy balance due in the course of trade." This statement is unfair; be cause it does not tell all, and leaves an untruthful irePres sion on the mind. No doubt it is calculated to have i ll° effect the Times desires, but if the writer wished th e readerto understand the subject he would have added that a large quantity of silver finds its way direct to China fre ul San Francisco, which formerly passed through Ecg leua : and appeared in the reports from which the Times quot e s English and Germans make their chief American invest ments in Five-Twenty Bonds, but it is necessary to sh° v( that what the United States gets is n, ,t as productive t 0 them as what they give, if the writer's object is to prove that the exchange is injurious to either side. At this moment railway construction is more active than eve r before known in America. It might pay an Atnerican t° subscribe largely to secure a road that would enhance the value of his property, or having confidence in the manage ment of a board and a knowledge of the ground over which it was to pass, he might conclude that the stock was wor th more than Five-Twenty Bonds at the present price. Nhf then should not the bonds be converted into the rails an material for the road, which might best be supplied fro° England? If the English manufacturer tak es Fiv°- Twenty Bonds, and the American landowner g ets t h e rails, who can say that either has made a bad change, and we venture to assert that such transaction.; It account for a vast proportion of the di sc repancY- p' true that the States will find themselves saddled With a large foreign debt, but, with their population inc rease the facilities of travel multiplied, the value of proeer t i raised, and the means in a great measure furnished by the Five-Twenty Bonds, it will, at least, so far, be to the gene and not to the loss of the Union. Much of the imp orts more luxuries to gratify the palate, or to decorate ivornaU: kind with silks and laces, which they could as lie without. In such cases the Union loses, and P u . writers and speakers do their best to discourage these 11 1; portations. They are thankful to the Times for the 8 that paper gives, while fully appreciating its motives, ,a: they have no fancy for exchanging their solid Bowls I° . the hollow trumpery supplied to their people. America or Europe would lose most by stopping weetlift. the Va c ' wo leave the dealers in these articles to estimate, b ut ° t this we feel certain, that it is not the United States Oa would bo hit hardest if the exchange ceased to-nnorroW• er According to the report of the Crefeld Chamber of Commerce, which is based on the register of ti's North- American consular agency in ()refold, the value of the d ports from that place to the United States in 1868 reach': the sum of 2,253,013 Vars., cf which 689,594 thlrs, reprt; sented silk or half silk stuffs ; 705,691 thlrs. ve lve well au l f 730,910 thlrs. velvet ribbons ; 78,416 thlrs. silk and ha — silk ribbons. The exportation of black silk stuffs to tu a . Union has almost entirely ceased, but on the other 113°, the Crefeld silk manufacturers are rapidly gaining gr°unt(iii in Great Britain. The general velvet trade with Nor rieeS America was not profitaMe last year, as only lows p could be obtained, but velvet ribbons brought fair eri c e e 4t both in America and Eugland. In other respects the P• - j. year was very favourable ,to the silk in lastry of ti''ef° stuffs The fashion of trimming woollen and letlf woollen s with satin procured the m inufacturars so nit:MY 13rc t i pt et 6 3 ihat they could not execute them all. In the yea r '` - lo they consumed 657,6331 b. silk (67,000:b. more• than 1567), worth 10i millions of thalers. we took We have reason to know that the extract from the Baltinwre Alneriemt, end upon which lye c°"l- mowed iu our issue May 23, is not tr.:e. At the thee cone asked our readers to accept it for what it was wo rth, t -t` jog that it bad been alreadf contradicted. We now i c°l : from a gocj, source that there was no truth -whatever ' t° it. The extract hilt' reference to the infl uence brough•• hear upon the President by Mr. Morris to be retained ti -80 b the United States Minister to Constantinople, for which u ei , ject he had had a petition drawn up and signed 11 Gr t e h i 6 and Russian merchants and bankers in that city .isb'etory has no foundation i n f ac t, it i s sur p r i s ing bow su ch could have been invented, and we are glad to be ecu to give it this unqualified contradiction. It appears extraordinary to those accustonied to sou l ! every-day habit to hear of others losing their lives ignorance to theta almost_ incredible, thoug h really a s ; of ral. We find it hard to understand ourselves divest a a knowledge acquired by use; thus it appears almost I's ss, or sible for an Englishman to realize what a new coun tr L o t, to conceive the great spaces of the America n Cent o . But it is in the homely instances which. most impress A short time ago a newly-married couple nea rl y lost tarot lives because the necessity did not strike the hotel-keepbed, telling them how to extinguish the gas light in ibetdieg room. The man by a vigorous puff blew it out, but , n u t the the result disagreeable he got up, and tried to Pe e rifle, escape of gas by tightly tying his s t o cking over t!lo and in the morning he and his bride were found l_n t e s for" and almost dead. Nancy King, however, wag ~o t ing; tunate at Syracuse as to escape with her life. Tha, , z w to girl was brought there on a pleasure trip, and tolc, l _ ll , , be& put the gas out. - She did this before going to lb turned it on again at the same time, and the coa se o li n ingt was that when the door was broken open in the In d. as the girl did not appear, she was found to b e de , a pfll9." [ADVERTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Ointment st,. velloll4 These harmless yet potent remedies work a met _stile change for the better in those weak and wornout bet. lions which are always sorely tried by a sad d e r ' ,Dill summer. The ointment assiduously rubbed tvileceeseive over the pit of the stomach and liver restrains eilioue.• actions in those organs, and prevents the nausea , u_ ra ee . r ness, and indisposition for food, which leads on, to 7 6 3 . the ir consequences unless early attention be I:estowea eint,oo removal. Rubbed upon the abdomen, Ilollowafe,Ajelere' represses irritation, the forerunner of di arr heea nu' r ectig - Holloway's ointment and pills should be the readY f d o ing dies of every household, where they are incapabl° %oaf° mischief, and by att en ti on t o th e directions are Pr° of the utmost benefits. „ n stilki ti f u n d [ADVSRTISEME.iT.]— Dyspepsia (Indigestion) , D eb, Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, st.Ttd 0 by by ce liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravat ed „tbie rated by druls of every description, but perfectly as Barry's health-restoring Itevalenta Arabic& Food, O' S s ae" , ' thousands of cases which had bean considered hope —cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, htemorrhoids, liver ??udr o btlie . , flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throft%ri: ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head anu i `, o , Wit; matism, gout, impurities , eruptions, hysteria, netint 7_„ o. ,dteb! bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and siclcti%ss,,,`„bute! pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, 0,01), of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and b r e 'r to red). 73 ". shoulders, ex. We quote a few :—The Pope's health_ !,46--Tlf . . Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Borne, July VI, " Etb odg t hea'th of the Holy Father is excellent, especially sinc!'' e ly to 1 lug all other remedies, he has confined himself COW' a p l o t!, B efuff a ie r ac ry tt ' eo s vn lt ehry c i v s alente , Arabica, Food, of which tie coris u gleaet ie t i ,o w t mheeaallt.h, a I t n d h h a i s s ol produced inesse s a rm s o u t r p p r r food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi,is'si'n:nllll:2Fs.rinCl.l77; No. 96,270 -Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant. ° Wood , D a rt Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, 'Witting of fxrc i ste derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,771—, dysPep s i t ,,. de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many Years dys peli g `, No. 49,833 —"Fifty years' indescribable agOnY spas, • eatuiencY, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , t coo > liitat.oo sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." IMPo rtan , Beware of the many unsavoury and mo re than slopp3r_ ost o to which. without authority , Baron Liebi,,s's name is lbs ciously attached. 2 I In nb tins, 40s. Powosa is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at . 14 , A t .t -Also Ilb2s BARRY ' SdR; E 2 ‘ I , I3 I I4 E S N 6 T d A A 5 B ib A S l3 l e ll A , .1 ,_, r 2 v 1 OL-A ctip:s o at 3i 6d, for 43 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for VS . : , Y ia ., Feu —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55sAL:1Yorder.Icti free of carriage in England on receipt of Post -0111c' RARIIY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, all Grocers and Chemists. London g e ffte r. e o. ,fa s. BIRT HS. O n . L i t i :t aa 7 y o b N tLo - 013: On faa t: r : i : an 2 uc O gri t i h i in s t . , at 47, Eaton-Plac e ' Mrs ' ill. MONCRIEFFE—On the 21st inst at 14, Bel rave -Square' tba MARRIAGES. AB p il i O L T_ T-- . -A LLDRED —On the 22d inst., at St. -rani- peso Piccadilly, .cadilln Thomas, the only son of T. Abbott, Esq"to Lower James-street, Golden-square, to Georgina,. e t, second daughter of .Tohn Alldred, Esq of ulco-stLe ~ Grosvonor-tqur re, W. UF - FIN DELL -DOUBLET - On the 1911 inst , at St. 31311:5: Great Ilford, Charles E. "Modell, R.N., of Portsmoutir'... to Lucy, second daughter of Mr. T. Doublet, of i g°° gate-street, city, and Ilford, Essex. MONCRIEFFE—OnOa DEATHS. Thomas and Lady Louisa Moncrieffo. th t e he 22 22 d d in in st s . t t ., at C H la a u t d fi e e , l i d n , fa n n e t a s s o , n u o u f tl. slr rit., rleS TOWNSEND-- Townsend, aged 60. -------...-"*" • London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDIIE‘Id, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TECE SUN Office, No. 112, Sm al .. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Co unt y of Midales°. W 01101 977 Alllo 23, um