The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC 301TRNALS As was anticipated, say's the Times, the Judicial Cora inittee of the Privy Counci l have overruled the decision of the Dean of Arches, and have pronounced it incumbent upon him to accept the Letters of Request from the Bi s h o p of Bath and Wells in the case of the Rev. Mr. Bennett That, under the Clergy Discipline Act, the Bishop had power to send the Letters of Request, and that the Dean of Arches had power to receive them, was indisputable ; bnt the question was whether the Dean had any option to refuse? There is no doubt that this con struction of the statute represents the intention of the Legislature. It is certainly the most convenient con. struction for all parties. The Dean of the Arches need not be alarmed lest extra labour be saddled upon him, inasmuch as every important case of heresy like that of Mr. Bennett's which arises in his province must sooner or later come before him for adjudication, and in minor matters affecting their diocese it is not likely that bishops will care to divest themselves of their judicial functions. The Times thinks, moreover, that in the present instance the Bishop of Bath and Wells sheaved a wise discretion in transferring the case at once to the Dean of Arches. These causes of heresy, we venture to say, arc not ..roper matters for the Court of the Ordinary. They do not, perhaps, involve so much law as theology, but they need, above all things, to be adjudged by persons accustomed both to interpret documents and to lay aside personal opinions when they sit upon the bench. This must be a very difficult task for a bishop in a matter concerning reli gious belief, and it is not likely that his deficiencies will be fully supplied by his assessors. What in the eyes of one bishop is saving doctrine, to be clung to and props.- gated, is in the eyes of another a pestilential heresy, to be stamped out before it spread in the diocese. Under such circumstances, there must be risk lest the decision of the bishop seem to he rather inspired by predetermined be liefs than dictated by purely legal considerations. At all events, on such a matter an episcopal judgment could not be conclusive, for what may have begun as a mere village dispute, stirred by a single parishioner, may end in a legal settlement of the issue between the great parties of the Church. The cause, therefore, must be expected to come up to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, there to be determined by the first judges and the first ecclesias• tics of the realm. The Standard says that the destructive powers of nitro glycerine have again been exercised with fatal and tre mendous effect. On Wednesday evening two carts laden with this perilous material exploded while passing along the road from Carnarvon to Mr. Assheton Smith's quarries at Llanberis. The consequences are described as most terrific. The three men in charge of the carts were blown to atoms, as were also the horses. One of the cart wheels was projected on to a ledge of rock fifty yards high, and the shattered remains of the other wheels were found more than a mile from the spot. Car narvon was six miles distant, and Bangor perhaps a little more ; but the concussion was distinctly felt at both places. Even the giant Snowdon was made to tremble, and the mountain lakes quivered with the vibration. Men three hundred yards distant were struck down and injured. A small railway station forty yards off was thrown into a heap of ruins, and a village in the vicinity suffered considerable damage. It is stated that five cartioads of nitro-glycerine were brought to Carnarvon by a ship on Tuesday. The vessel anchored off the bar, and the cargo was conveyed on shore in boats. Had the explosion taken place in the town the sacrifice of life and property must have been enormous. So far as we can see at present, the whole consignment might have exploded in tied' midst of Carnaryon itself, with consequences equivalent to a South American earth quake. That nitro-glycerine is an extremely useful article we do not doubt ; but as it is carried about the country it seems to menace the publi~ with a terrific risk. We are not always sure where it is stored, neither are we certain where it may be travelling. An explosion of this stuff may some day fling the Britannia Bridge into the Menai Straits, or send the cupola of St. Paul's into Cheapside. It is known that seventy cases of nitro-glycerine were shipped at London on one occasion. Had one of these cases fallen to the ground, the metropolis - might have been shaken to its centre. Again we say—if nitro-glycerine can be made safe while in transit and in store, it ought to be. If it cannot be so secured, it is a question whether it ought to be tolerated. Until this matter is better under stood, the more cautious class of tourists will perhaps think well to avoid the mining districts. The Viceroy of Egypt has left our shores, observes the Daily News, and we have good reason to hope and believe that his brief sojourn in the capital has not been altogether so disagreeable to him as certain too zealous friends and admirers have anxiously supposed. No doubt his High ness, accustomed as he is to live and move in edifices more spacious than the largest of our palaces and man-, sions, to dwell in that comparative seclusion which is one of the essential conditions of dignity and of power in the East, and to gaze on boundless distances, may have suffered a little from the conCned interiors, and the earrow and clouded horizons within which British pursues its own eager and fretful existence, and practices its solemn rites of hospitality. Probably enough, the Viceroy may have caught a taste of that pleasure of business and that business of pleasure which make up the daily routine of the most prosperous societies of the Western World. But what we should like to ascertain would be the impressions of his Highness on hearing, as he surely must have heard, through some goodnatured member of his suite, of the discussions in the English papers, and in Parliament, about the proper manner of receiving and of treating him while on English ground. One can fancy Lis amusement at the anxiety of his entertainers, who, while he was actually among them, were intent upon persuading themselves and the world that he had been received at Dover by a " fly in wait ing," and smuggled into the royal palace by a back door. Surely such a sensitive national self-consciousness must have been peculiarly gratifying to his Highness. Happily, as a man of thoughtful observation and tra velled experience, he was in a cordi Aon to know that the good intentions of a great nation nad not been so grossly misrepresented as that credulous creature " public opinion" would fondly imagine ; and that the honest desire of the British people to shew every respect to the ruler of Egypt had not been on the whole inadequately satisfied by the spontaneous hcspitalities of the British Court and Government and the recognised leaders of English society. The Times remarks that the neven U 3 Returns for th e quarter and the y e a r ex hibit on the whole favourable features. That buoyancy of the public income which lasted up to the eve of the fatal Friday in May 1866 has not yet returned, but there are signs that the period of depression is coming to an encl. Great enterp r i ses are still in abey ance , b u t confidenc ( e . is slowly returning. On every side we see a clearer, l homerlot• a' cloudless, prospect. With a.strong, Government at well disposed to hus band the nati ona l resources, and wtb: peace abroad, weh ave the best conditions for a u extended trade. Our position at the present time is, on the whole, hopeful. Alth oug h vast quantities of artificial capital were destroyed by the panic, and perished, for all mercantile purposes, as if the gold which they pret en d e d t o represent had asha muchdbeen cast into the sea, there is no want o f money i n t h e country. The ordinary savings of the nation during three years a• e in themselves enough to fu r ni s h the material for a number of legitimate enterprises, and to remove that weakness and prostration which follow a mercantile collapse. Our political position is also better. The Telegraph ren arcs that Mr. Gladstone's emphatic declaration, at the Mansion House dinner, against con current endowment, was-strenuously echoed by the Duke of Argyll in the House of Lords on Thursday. In a joint amendment, the Bishop of Peterborough and the Bishop of Derry moved that the tax on clerical incomes, which is now payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, should not be deducted from the salaries of the clergy, but made payable to the new Church body, and used for the repair of the ecclesiastical edifices. A sum which, if capitalised, would amount to £200,000, would thus fall into the hands of the disestablished Church ; and, in `view of that fact, the Duke of Argyll discussed the ques tion of concurrent endowment in terms which, when connected with Mr. Gladstone's speech at the Mansion House, are seen to be full of political significance. Is there any indication, asks the Telegraph, that the public has reversed the judgment which has been pronounced by_ two Houses of Commons, and the electoral body of the three kingdoms, upon the policy of " concurrent endow ment ?" We all remember the fate of Lord Mayo's scheme of " levelling up." The preamble of the Irish Church Bill reiterates in unambiguous language the same principle of disestablishment pure and simple. It declares that henceforth there shall be no permanent public provision for the Maintenance of anyclergy or the teaching of any religion. Will the House of Commons recede from that position? Will it accept amendments which virtually annul its work? It cannot be disputed that, if two-thirds or three-fourths of the surplus which the Commons appro. priated to charitable purposes are retained by the Lords for the maintenance of the freed Church, the measure will be so entirely recast and remodelled that the Lords must he regarded as its principal authors. The Commons are, in fact, asked to accept that which i eli s dberate reversal of their avowed policy respectinglhe Irish Church. The Star thinks it is.-quite certain the shall soon have an extensive recoinage, although people are hardly aware of the evils to he removed. in point of fact, as Mr. Lowe stated the other day, 31.1 per cent. of the sovereigns and 47 per cent. of the half-sovereigns in circulation are defi cient in weight, and, therefore, not legally current. At first sight it seems extraordinary why, if the facts are so, the state of the coinage is not an every da y nuisance. We might expect every third sovereign and every other liAlf-e,terein we 1,93- away to be challenged, and our tempers to be milled by petty and .annoying dcduttion.. Put the smallness el the nmsance iu general business is easily exphineJ. It is only certain- trier s and districts which sufi,e, an 1 the maul of the c(olutrY escapee I:eil wee cempanies and ethers ri ceiving infmy cuing in Fnn,ll ic:pnenti, niLliont siinitar opportunities of get ting r,d el Anent, are the. greatest losers. Directly or iudirec thy they rout forward them in 1111.32C3 to the Bauk of Englend, where the slightest deficiency is discovered. Bankers, again, are frequently victimised, though curious stories are told of the ingenuity with which they put into•circulation coin which they know to be light. Partly by the course of business, partly by contrivance, the benighted agricul turist is made to receive the largest part of the bad coin. In the eastern counties the percentage of light sovereigni in use is as high as 44 per cent. But the grievance though. partial in its effects, is serious and discreditable, and one which the Government must be anxious to spare the country. It will cost £400,000, Mr. Lowe tells us, tc set things straight ihßt the Amendment will be well weal .the arise. - - THE QUEEN AT ALDERSHOT. Her Majesty seems to enjoy reviews; we are told, indeed, that any out-of-doors amusement she 'can enter into. She attended the Windor Review, and appeared to really take enjoyment from it ; and within a very few days she has held a review of her troops at Aldershot. At one time her Majesty regarded her military encampment with much favour, and her Consort also took a lively in terest in the place, and in the welfare of the men who inhabited it. During last year, and again this season, the Queen has returned to the visitations which for a season she had broken off, and the soldiers and their families are renewing their eagerness for a recurrence of those field days at which her Majesty and other members of the Royal Family shall be present. Her Majesty left Windsor with the Princess Louise, the Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold and suite about ten o'clock on Thursday morning, and drove in open carriages to Aldershot. She was here received with great enthusiasm by the soldiers, and acknowledged the plaedits, it is raid, with more than ordinary emphasis. The Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Arthur came down by special train ; and sonic of the spectators were much amused and delighted upon seeing the Prince of Wales, rather than wait for his own horse, step into a elegy old fly, and repair to his destination. The soldiers had three miles to march to the review ground, said review being held on the wide plateau at the further end of the table land. The Queen and party arrived on the ground at half-past four, and at once drove round and inspected the troops, which probably numbered from 12,000 to 15,000. Her Majesty was attended by a brilliant staff, and the Duke of Cambridge rode by her side. The indispensable march past was the first ling done. After the march, the artillery and cavalry trotted and galloped by, and then dispositions were made by the lieutenant-general com manding and the major-generals of divisions for a sham fight. There was an imaginary enemy in possession of die Long Valley and adjoining heights ; it soon became certain he would be repelled with triumph. For some time the artillery and skirmishers had it all to themselves, but the cavalry and then the infantry appeared in different parts of the valley, occupying ground and executing movements with an ease and despatch that the most untutored civilian could not but admire. The line of advance, at length, by the junction of two grand divisions, compassed the entire valley, and after a sharply-sustained fire from both infantry and battery, and several effective charges from the cavalry, the desired issue was decided. The Queen and spectators followed the tide of battle as it rolled from south-west to north-east, and everybody seemed delighted at the grand military spectacle. The review concluded before eight o'clock. The Duke of Cambridge returned to London ; the Prince, who rode at the head of his regiment (the 10th Hussars), remained to dine at time mess ; and the Queen and the other mem bers of her family repaired to the Pavilion, there to pass the night. THE BANK OF ENGLAXD. Mr. Charles Sturge writes to the Daily News the fol lowing letter on the Bank of England :—" A little consi deration will chew every man of business that a moderate and steady rate of interest is essential to this country if our manufacturers and merchants are successfully to compete with those of France and Germany. The recent semi•panic shews how utterly incapable the Bank of England is to supply the wants of the trade of the country, as the least revival in business doubles the rate of interest, and nearly the whole of the small profit left by foreign competition is absorbed in the extra discount on the bills taken in payment. The Government advance on land, public works, drainage, &c., but not on what the nation's credit especially requires they should, that is, their own stocks. If this was done at the came rate of interest as on the above, it would, I think, be all that is wanted, but it should be in legal tender notes payable in taxes, not in gold. There is naturally a prejudice against a currency not payable in gold, but this is only an idea, as the Bank of England has never whilst the charter has existed been able to pay the amount of notes in gold if called upon to do so, consequently Bank of England nutes are only really payable in gold so long as the holders do not require such payment. The interest saved by thus advancing upon Consols would enable the Government to further reduce taxation, and serve as a step towards the ' free breakfast table,' &c., &c. It appears absurd to try to make a less currency do now than we had sixty years back, though our trade and money transactions have multiplied ten times; and the wonder is that we get along so well as we do, particularly as under the clauses of the Bank Restriction Act the supply decreases from year to year. The Bank Restriction Act and the sliding scale of corn duties were both intended to regulate commerce by law ; together they might work ; but free trade in produce and an artificially restricted currency for its pay recut must continually clash. Every now and then, either from commercial distrust or the state of the continental markets, large sums in specie are required for the ac'.justment of balances incident to our transactions with foreign countries. These are of course drawn out of the Bank of England. Under ordinary circumstances the only result would be that for a time the stock of gold in the Bank cellars would be small; but the Bank Restriction Act here steps in, and says that the stock of gold being temporarily reduced, the supply of notes, by which the internal trade of the nation is carried on, shall also be reduced ; and the business of the country is all at once pulled up, not because of any national loss, for our farms are as fertile as ever, our ships as good, our warehouses as full of produce ; but an old restrictive law has suddenly deprived us of the circulating medium used in the exchange of these. As the trade of the country extends, the quantities of gold required for the temporary adjustment of foreign balances will of course increase, and .panics, from this deprivation of internal currency, become more and more frequent. I could never understand why England is not allowed the cheap luxury. convenience, and advantage of one.pound notes, the same as Scotland and Ireland, instead of our clumsy, cumbersome gold currency, which, from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement, will before very long cost this nation nearly half-a-million merely to rectify." IifEETING OF CONFEDERATE COTTON LOAA BONDEOLDERS. A meeting of Confederate Cotton Loan Bondholders was held at the Cannon-street Hotel, London, on Thurs day, to protest against the speech of Mr. Sumner on the Alabama and British Claims Treaty, delivered on the 13th of April last. The chair was occupied by Admiral Sir Provo Wallis, K.C.8., and a long report was read setting forth the correspondence which had passed between the committee of the holders of bonds of the cotton loan contracted with the Confederate States of America and the authorities of the Foreign Office. The adoption of the report was formally moved by the CHAIRMAN, and was seconded by Mr. MORGAN, who intimated that not only had the most able members of the bar expressed a strong opinion upon the validity of the claims of the bondholders, but the present Lord Chancellor had also admitted it in his judgment in the case of " Prioleau and the United States of America." Were it not for the American Government he believed that every State would at once recognise the claims of thebondholders. General HOWARD, of the Confederate army, stated that during the war the cotton was absolutely stowed away for the bondholders. Even when the soldiers wanted food the Confederate Government would not touch property which they felt belonged to others. Mr. HEAD urged that the just and legal claim of the nondholders should be persistently kept before the Ameri can Government. Let them understand that the bonds had been taken, and were held by persons who took them, not out of political sympathy with one section or the other, but because they thought them a safe invest ment. - •~ The CHAIRMAN was quite sure that the time would dome when the American Government would be corn. pelled by pressure from without to recognise the bond. holders' claims. A BONDHOLDER wished to know if there was anything like an assurance that the negotiations in reference to the Alabama claims were about to be resumed. -..-- - Mr. MORGAN understood that they were to be reopened, and, he believed, on a basis that would be of advantage to the bondholders. Two resolutions Lad been prepared to be submitted to toe meeting,but the general feeling being that it was better for the bondho!ders to take no action at present, they were not put, and the proceedings were brought to a close with a vote of thanks to the 'committee. AN ASSAULT BY A " UNIONIST."—TIIO strikes at Oldham are intensifying the ill-feeling existing between the trsdes unionists and the non-unictists of Oldham. A loan was brought up there Lclore the tungiEtrates a day or two back and sentenced to two months' ir.:prion. molt Lr assaulting a " knobstlck," as he called one of the men who did not go on strike. The attack made was moat savage. TUE OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO. CASE.—The counsel engaged for the defence in the Overend, Gurney, and Co. prosecution Are—For John Henry and Henry Edmund Gurney and Mr. T3irkbeck— the Solicitor- General, Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, and Mr. J. C. Mathews. For Mr. Barclay—Mr. Mellish, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Parry, and Mr. Montague Williams. For Mr. Gordon—Sir John Karalake and Mr, Ledgard. For Mr. Rennie r. Giffard, Q.C., Mr, Poland, and Mr. fie. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1869 MEI ROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Thursday. June has come and gone, but we have had no summer. Day after day the cold north-east wind blows and carries before it an endless scroll of grey cloud, which blots out the sun and covers everything with a cheerless grey. The parks, which this time last year were burnt dark brown by the overpowering brilliance of the sun, are this year sickly yellow through the sun's absence. In fact, it would seem as if it had, like a thriftless prodigal, exhausted all its capital of caloric by last year's riotous excess, and is now left a shivering pauper. ]do not know if other places are suffering to the same extent that London is. I am inclined to think not, for spending two days in Somersetshire in the early part of the week I found the weather clear and bright. Yet even there the sun seemed to have lost its burning power, seemed to have forgotten that it wns midsummer and not early April. Nevertheless, I heard good tidings of the most abundant hay crop known for fifteen.years, and the promise of a good wheat harvest if only Phcebus Apollo will be propitious during the coming month. But what has your London correspondent to do with hay and corn, with crops and harvests? Well even in this great province of houses we miss the usual solar heat and light. There have been flower shows, for instance—none more brilliant, so far as flowers and company went, than the two held on Tuesday at the Crystal Palace and South Kensington, or than that held yesterday at Regent's Palk. But they, yesterday's especially, sorely needed brightness. The dull, iron grey of the atmosphere was painfully out of time and place, and one could not help shivering as one gazed at the scanty muslins and thought of the chilled wearers. This week is the culminatrng week of the season, and henceforward the year will decline. The Pasha has come and goes to-day, to the great disappointment of those who expected to see him at South Kensington to-night. He has had a lively time of it altogether, and will take awaypleasant reminiscences, in spite of the unfor tunate contretemps which greeted him on his arrival. The review at Windsor was a very pretty sight, more on ac count of the beauty of the scene and of the weather (it was fine, though cold) than by reason of the military dis play. That must have seemed small enough in the eyes of Ismail, who has seen reviews in the Bois de Boulogne as well as in sight of the Pyramids, where " forty centuries looked down," &c., &c. The Queen's breakfast party at Buckingham Palace wasone of the most successful events of the Court year. The gardens, which runup from the Palace by Constitution-hill, are both extensive and pretty. For instance, they contain a sheet of water large enough to boat on. The trees are of fair size, and the groups of fair women,' brilliantly dressed, set off by the surrounding dark foliage and darker male attire, were most picturesque. The most important incident was the reappearance of brass buttons. The Prince of "Wales, it is supposed, is about to reintroduce the costume of his lamented uncle, the good and great George IV. This is a subject of pro found importance, which has driven the Irish Church into the shade. The habits of our aristocracy are just now worthy of minute study. In the morning, that is to say somewhere about noon, their day begins, with a canter in the Row, if they are up to anything requiring so much physical exertion. In the afternoon the more adventurous of our golden youth go to Hurlingham Park or some other of those places which are set apart for the compara tively modern, but immensely popular, sport of pigeon-slaughter. They drive down in faultless coats by Poole, in faultless gloves by Jouvin. Arrived on the ground, they take their stand boldly like Britons, and pop away while those birds of prey, with fearful talons and cruel beaks—the pigeons—are let loose from their traps. No one flinches. Everyone remembers that the eyes of England are upon him. There they are, up in the gallery, the eyes of the fairest and gentlest women in England, raining down sweet influences, full of tenderness (for the heroes) as one fiendish bird after another falls to the ground, bathed in blood and gore. Who could feel fear, who would not peril life against the harpies themselves when British maidens are looking on? The slaughter over, the earth relieved from the presence of the blood thirsty birds, there is quaffing of wine, and heroes and spectators drive back to town, take a turn or two in the Row, go to a kettledrum, and then home to dress. The Opera has its attractions for some, but these are the old fashioned fogies chiefly. Youth likes something more elevating. It goes to St. James's Theatre and sees the adorable Schneider display her legs in a manner that must make her humbler rivals of the Alhambraready to die with envy. Pall-Mall has outdone Leicester-square. Cora Pearl and the " Can-can" are surpassed. After the play there is the ball and the rout ; or, as men don't dance much now-a-days (dancing being beneath the dignity of pigeon-slayers), there is the club ar d the gaming-table. There is plenty of mcney lost and plenty of scandal talked. And everyone asks who will be the next owner of a coronet to go to the dogs, or the hbrses, or the Jews. Such is life in what penny-a-liners call the " highest circles." ' On Saturday I spent a very charming evening with the members of " Our Club." This club consists of some of the best-known literary men in London, who meet every Saturday at a hotel in T.ondon and dine together without formality. Last week was the closing dinner of the season, and was eaten at the Star and Garter, Richmond. Hepworth Dixon was in the chair, and had on one side of him Storey, the sculptor, and on the other Dr. Richard son, the well-known scientist. Mr. Eastwick, M.P., was vice-chairman, and among the other guests were Dr. Doran, Horace Mayhew, Ff azlitt, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Charles Dickens the younger, and other well-known literati, barristers, and professional men. It need hardly be said that the talk was of the best, and that this and the charming view made the evening worthy of being marked with a white stone. The Spiritualists are just now making strong efforts to convince an unbelieving world that they are the people, and that wisdom dwells with them. Wherever you go you are told wonderful stories of wonderfulfeats performed by mediums under the influence of spirits. One of the most celebrated of these is said some time ago to have taken a red-hot coal out of the fire with his hand, and to have placed it in the hands of the rest of the company in suc cession without the slightest harm resulting. O ne o f them, a well-known literary man, who had held the coal innocuously at first, afterwards touched it incautiously, and got burnt. So runs the tale. There are others not quite so wonderful, but a good deal more credible. Take the following as a sample. An artist friend of mine, very sceptical so far as regards spiritualism, attended the B:ance of a well-known lady medium. He sat with the rest of the party round a table, and soon there was the usual performance of knocks and raps, and fiddles playing in the air, and convulsive tables, and revolutionary chairs. The company were convinced ; not so the artist. He determined to do a little spiritualism on his own account. Noticing that opposite him there was a charming girl who was evidently a devout believer, he gently stroked her foot with his. The result was magical. " Sweet spirit, kind spirit !" exclaimed the young Pythia, in a state of rapture, to the great astonishment of the presiding spirit hostess. She called for the alphabet, and the spirits rapped out not ricks," which the artist rightly enough interpreted to be "no tricks." Suspicion fell upon the next been m l e a r y r e o a d u k tongw ag bes a m ma e oorf trueet htehsoapnni one, ,its. andTh convinced e man; worthyif e was s o t a f teai enthusiastic, n tche w up a st neighbour of the prophet es s, w h o s t ou tl y d en i e d t h at s h e h a d e hen dEevc s i a a a t t and ready to go to the stake in testimony to the reality of the spirits and their doings ; everyone except the artist, who at last confessed what he had done, to the indigna tion and wrath of the mistress of the ceremonies. I do not think velocipedists need fear that the omnivo rous Mr. Lowe will tax their vehicles. A. little while ago the Chancellor of the Exchequer was himself receiving lessons at a velocipede school. The teacher did not recog nise in the white-haired, pink-faced man the arbiter of our taxes, bat another pupil did, and communicated the secret to his master. If any of your readers cares to see the celebrated pictures at Venice before they are utterly ruined, he had better go there this summer. They are just now undergoing the process of restoration. A little while ago a man, apparently belonging to the house-painter class, was seen operating upon one of these grand works, with a potfull of vermillion paint by, his side. Fortunately, Titian's great work, " Peter Martyr," escaped this degradation by being burnt two years ago. One of the most remarkable works now going on in London is the construction of a second Thames Tunnel. But so great is the advance which has been made in engineering since the days of Sir Isambard Brunel that no one takes much interest in this wolk. Hitherto it has progressed most satisfactorily. The ground has turned out to be firm clay, and so impermeable is it, so dry is the tunnel, that the water used by the masons in erecting the brick work has to be brought to them. The "Tower -Subway," as it is called, is being completed at the rate of nine feet a day, and will be an immense con venience when it is open. The book season is still lamentably dull. There are few new works, fewer announcements, and the literary journals never had so small a show of advertisements as at the present time.' Ainmg the few books coming out this month are Mr. Walter Thornbury's new novel " The Vicar's Courtship ;" Mr. .Toeeph Ilalton's " Christopher Kenrick" is just out. Mr. Anthony Tiollope's story, "The Vicar of Bull hampton," which was to have appeared in Once a Week, will be published in monthly parts, with illustrations. Tinsleys are about to publish a volume of travels by Mr. and Mrs. Pethe rick ; Mr. Petheriek was our consul at Khartoum, on the Nile. Mr. Bosworth has just published a volume of poems by Charles Edward Stuart, a gentleman well known to - readers at the British Nlusetun, and otherwise known as a claimant to the British Throne by virtue of hii descent from James 11. I have left political news till last, for there is little definite to say. Mr. Gladstone's speech last night at the Mansion House is this morning generally considered as a proof that he will not accept the Duke of Cleveland's pro posal to grant glebes to the Roman Catholic priehts and Presbyterian ministers, and that if the Lords insist upon making the change in the bill, the Commons will dissent from it and throw upon the Upper House a responsibility which they are scarcely likely to incur—that of allowing the bill to fall through. The fact is, though the opponents of State Churches have been very quiet about the matter hitherto, they do not intend to remain The parliamentary inquiry into the conduct of elections, now going on, is likely to lead to an action for libel. A gentleman who supported the Conservative candidate for Cardiff at the late election, and was stoned by the mob, gave evidence before the committee as to the riotous con dition of the town. For doing so he was accused by a, Liberal paper of stating what he knew to be false. An apology was demanded, but not being rendered; an action has been instituted, and the Solicitor-General and other eminent counsel have been reta'ned for the plaintiff. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Uhler Judge would be made; the bill, "by an un worthy trick," proposes to give no additional salary to Mr. Commissioner Bacon, who, by the universal voice of the House, was pronounced to be the best man for the office of Chief Judge. This omission, our contemporary thinks, may endanger the success of the measure. MR. GLADSTONE AT THE MANSION HOUSE. "The eye sees only that which it brings with it the power of seeing." The morning papers interpret Mr. Gltdstone's speech at the Mansion house each according to its wishes. The Daily Telegraph, which has all along declared against any form of concurrent endowment, sees in the speech a promise that there shall be none. The Daily 21 - eies, which feared that Min isters would yield to the combination of Whig and Conservative peers, and give glebes and parsonages all the way,round, is glad to hare its anxieties dis pelled. The Star derives the same consolation, and infers that the Lords will, therefore, refrain from pressing the amendments threatened by the Duke of Cleveland and other peers. The Morning Post, always uncertain about the future, is uncertain still ; thinks, for instance, that these amendments will be carried by the Peers, and hints that possibly they may be accepted by the nation. The Vines, which has advocated the giving of glebes and parsonages to the clergy of the three Churches, will not see in Mr. Gladstone's speech any obstacle to the fulfilment of that pro gramme, but asserts that there is Only the faint shadow of a prejudice against it, which will be dis persed as soon as it is brought to the broad daylight of common sense. The Standard has nothing to say to the speech. On the whole, the balance of opinion is strongly ngainstthe probability of Ministers accepting the Duke of Cleveland's amendment. It is difficult to understand what Mr. Gladstone meant by his repetition of last year's pledge, and by his gentle intimation that the Commons might reject the Lords' amendments if they were incompatible with the principles of disestablishment, disendow ment, and the non-application of the surplus revenues to the purposes of any other Church or clergy, if he did not mean that concurrent endowment in any form would not be permitted. THE CLERGY AND THE IRISH CHURCH. Not all the clergy of the Church of England who were in favour of the Irish Church Bill now support concurrent endowment. Three well-known clergy men write against the proposed endowment. The Revs. Stopford Brooke, 11. B. Ihweis, and T. B. Green send to the Daily News a petition, and invite signatures of clergymen thereto, said petitioners setting forth that the Signatories are opposed to any moneys of the Irish Church going towards the teaching of any other religion. If, as is contemplated, glebes be handed over to the Episcopalian clergy, the Presbyterians will demand 'hat the same provision should be made for them. The Moderator of the Irish General Assem bly declares, on behalf of a deputation of Presbyte rian clergymen now in London, that the Church he represents " positively expects to be placed in every particular in a position of equality with the Irish Epiw!opal Church. The principle of ecclesiastical eln.dity requires that neither of the two disendowed Chlrches, whose numbers in the - population of the country are about equal, should have in perpetuity an advantage, over the other." THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The system of the Free Church of Scotland has been said not to be founded on the 'voluntary prin ciple. Much difference of opinion has been expressed on the subject, and, to clear up all doubt, a member of the Free -Church gives "the true facts of the cass." - Ile informs us that there is .no total dependence of a Free Church minister on . his congregation. The greatest portion of the clergy-798 of them—draw an equal stipend from the Sustentation Fund of £l5O per annum; that payment they receive as a matter of right, uncon trolled by congregations or committees. Congrega tions at the same time are encouraged to make supple mentary grants to their ministers, bat 186 of the 708 did not do so.last year. Beyond these 708 who receive regular asi.stance, there arc other. " stations') that do not. New stations are tried for some timi to see if they are likely to be useful. If they turn out well they are given funds. There are 79 of this class now in existence ; one-half of them alt under 5 years old; all with two exceptions are underi 10 years old. PRIVATE CONCURRENT ENDOWMENT. The principle of levelling up is being consistently :tarried out by one of its advocates. Mr. Charles Bianconi, D.L., a landowner of Longfield, Tipperary, is endowing, concurrently, the Protestants and Roman Catholics on his estates. lie is now, a Dublin :orrespondent informs us, engaged in building a handsome glebe-house and suitable out-houses upon an enclosed glebe of nine acres. When completed it will be conveyed by a trust deed for the perpetual use of the parish priest of Boherlahane. lie has already built a mortuary chapel and belfry near the parish chapel.- ANOTTIER ORANGE DEMONSTRATION IN IRELAND Another anti-Gladstone demonstration •was held on Wednesday in the North of Ireland. In a field near Lurgan (a town midway between Belfast and Armagh) some 4,000 or 5,000 Orangemen protested against the Irish Church Bill. The policy of levelling upwas condemned as emphatically as the bill ; indeed much impatience was exhibited at any attempt being made to amend the bill. But on the whole the speeches were moderate. This circumstance was most sAtisfactory on the eve of the much-dreaded " anniversary " month of July. THE CORK MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES. The Cork municipal authorities seem to be per petually in hot water. Mr. Daniel O'Sullivan having got over the depression caused by his deposition from the office of mayor, is now avenging hinwlf by attacks on Conservatives, Orangemen, Protes tants, and on moderate men generally. • Hardly municipal meeting is held but the ex-mayor causes a row. There was another " stormy scene" on Wednesday at the meeting of the guardians. ,On some subj ect or another, a difference arose between this chairman and his . predecessor, whereupon the latter denounced, most offensively, all the Protestants of Ireland. The Mayor then left the chair, and' has since, it is stated, sent in his resignation. TIM CHURCH IN JAMAICA. A deputation of gentlemen interested in tne affairs of . Jamaica waited on Wednesday upon Lord Granville. Their object was to induce the Govern ment to extend the policy of disestablishment to Jamaica. The Clergy Act of 1858 will expire next December, and it is thought that a favourable oppor tunity will then be presented to reconsider the eccle siastical position of the island. A. memorial was read by Dr. Underhill giving some statistics as to the comparative extent and influence of the several religious bodies in the island, from which it appeared that, according to the census of 1861, only one eleventh of the population avail themselves of the services of the Church of England. The Nonconformists had made three times as large a provision for religious worship, I and there were more than two Nonconformists for every Episcopalian. In the matter of education, also the memorial maintained that the Noncon formists of Jamaica had completely outstripped the Episcopalians, and they showed that the ecclesiastical charges of the Jamaica establishment exceeded £45,000 annually, while therevenue for 1865-6 sheaved a deficit of £60,000.. The Nonconformists further urged that the position of the English Church was substantially the same in Jamaica as in Ireland, and that the former could be disestablished without any difficulty. Lord Granville said that he entirely agreed with the general principles of the deputation. He had communicated with the Government of Jamaica on the subject, and could give no specific answer as to details until he had received a communication from them. TILE ItEVENUE. The quarterly returns of the revenue aro consi dered satisfactory. There is an increase of .t.'iG3loo, and on the year of nearly two millions. The incJme tax is the ..larg,est contributor to this result ; yet, even leaving that out of the account, there has been an augmentation of revenue to Ur) ex - .- tent of nearly a million. This fact seems to show that though the nymey marlict continues depressed, there is not the same amount of distress that there was during the two years preceding 18(18-9. Au increased consumption of articles liable to Customs and Excise duties implies a larger amount of available money among the working claEses. TEE BANKRUPTCY BILL. The Post is fearful for the success of the Bank ruptcy Bill in the Lords. It especially denounces the way in which the Government have dealt with the salary of the judges. Notwithstanding the assurance given by the Attorney-General that satis tictau_nrayisiox.for titt salsav tuaßoailicui.a_the THE GREAT UNPAID. The honorary magistracy of this country are being gradually supplanted. Stipendiaries are succeeding them in the administration of justice; elected members are to help them to control the county business. The magistrates themselves are consenting parties in many cases to the first-named reform. in Liverpool, for instance, the borough magistrates have been the first movers in suggesting a second stipendiary for the town. Crime at Liverpool is very rife. There were more than 60,CC0 cases decided there dur'ng the past twelve mont' s. CANADA AS A FIEI.D FOR EMIGRATION, Mr. John White, special commissicncr from Ontario, delivered a lecture - on Canadian emigration, in Liverpool, the other day. Ile declared that his object was to put forward the advantages of his native province to persons desirous of emigrating. Ile stated that in a short time the dominion of Canada would be within a few hundred miles as large as the entire continent of Europe. The lecturer quoted statistics to shew the great strides the country was making in agriculture; and manufactures, and as a -maritime country the Dominion stood first in the list of American communities. Railways had made great progress of late years, and many more were . being proieeted. They were proud of their religious equality in Ontario, and their voluntary school system was an excellent one. , The climate had been abused. But the number of deaths to every ten thousand in Ontario was 71, and in Great Britain 211. In conclusion, be said that no man should emigrate who was afraid of hard work. In going to Canada men did not change their allegiance; they remained members of the same British family. THE LOCK-OUT OF COAL MISERS. "Two thousand men and their families out of employment" is the sensation-1 heading to a cir cular issued by the South Yorkshire Mil:ers' Association. South Yorkshire has long beer' agitated by strikes of all kinds, and just now there is hardly a district where there is not a dispute between masters and men ; so that the trades unions are having a hard pull for it. The South Yorkshire miners are particularly unhappy in respect of strikes, and as their union has to p y large death claims in respect of deaths caused •by colliery accidents, it has issued an appeal to friends of trades unions to help. The appeal sets forth that the masters are endeavouring to destroy the union by refusing to employ union men, and that it must succumb unless it receives kelp. THE POOR-LAW AITTLOPITIES°IAND EMIGRATION. On Wednesday a meeting of gentlemen interested in the question of cmio - ration was held in the Sessions House, at Wcaminster. Lord Alfred Churchill presided, and stated that their object was to agree upon a memorial to Mr.G oschen on the ex pediency of dealing with some part of the poor by means of emigration. Pauperism had advanced during the last few years at the rate of 110 per cent. in London, and he proposed to assess a r ate of a penny. on the rateable property of the metropolis, and to continue it for ten years. This would raise £79,000 annually, and 5,000 persons could be 'sent to Australia at one rata. Mr. Talbot, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, moved the adoption of the memorial. The Rev. Mr. Kitto, of Poplar, said he represented the only parish from which emigration had been largely c :rried out, and the results were satisfactory. The Duke of Manchester thought the Government should share in the expense of emigration, and Lord Houghton said he wished to promote the emigration of very poor persons. The meeting was adjourned for a fortnight. TIDE TtRF. The cry for the same dealing with Tattersall's as with minor betting institutes is becoming louder daily. Mr. Mansfield, a police magistrate, has joined in it; the largest portion of the Press has advocated that "the Government sh .11 deal equally with rich and poor ;" and among betting men, the strongest argument against the recent action cf the Government is that the great centre of betting is allowed to continue, while smaller imitators of larger folk are seized. A correspondent of the Times joins in this demand. He does not, hlwever, attempt to remove the real obstacle to the prosecution of Tattersall's. The only argument teat ne can see against the course he pro poses is that the institution is a private club, and that eontenion he regards as worthless ; the Government, which suppressed Crock ford's and the gaming hells of St. James's street, might, he considers, suppress Tattersalrs— much more noxious than any mere private gaming ' table. But in case the larger clubs are not made to cease, they should—the Tines correspondent says— be made legal, and the country should obtain benefit from them. In other words, these places should be licensed, just - as public-homes are now. MR. NEM - DI:GATE AND MR. DAWSON BURNS. Mr. Ne..vdegate has addressed a letter to the Star enclosing extracts from M. Cretinem Joly's " History of the Jesuits," " History of Europe," Vol. VI, which, be thinlis, justify him in his assertion that the temperance movement originated by Father Mathew was latterly converted to political objects. Ile entirely exonerates Father Mathew from any such design but thinks it was carried out by others who joined the movement after it had com menced. Mr. Newdegate is very desirous that these facts should be known bythose engaged in the present temperance movement. THE BRITISH IiIISEITDI. The British Museum is likely to be divided. The parliamentary committee appointed to consider the subject, and that of the Thames Embankment, has reported against the national collection of natural history objects being sent to the South Kensington Museum. The committee recommends the erection of a Natural History Museum on the land reclaimed by the Thames Embankment. If this recommenda tion be properly carried out, and the Government succeed in getting the House of Commons to agree to the Thames Embankment site for the New Law Courts, the banks of the Thames will be noted for its public buildings. THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND, The society whose aim is to teach the blind to read is, we are glad to learn, progressing. Its supporters aro most earnest. Sir Charles Lowther, for instance, has recently set aside £O,OOO, the interest of which is to be employed in the distribution of bibles for the blind of Yorkshire. Sir Charles was the president at, the annual meeting of the Society for the Education, of the Blind, held on 'Wednesday in 'Willis's Rooms. The report spoke of progress, and dwelt especially on the fact hat the price of Moon's Bibles had been reduced . ;.-om £8 to £4.. The Rev. W. 13. Milburn, the late thaplain to the United States Congress (himself Br. Gale. nnfl others. naAressed the meeting. [hid), (Iron the Anglo-American Times.) WASHINGTON, June 11. Last Monday our city elections came off. The City Register, Collector, Surveyor, Board of Al dermen, and Board of Common Councilmen were returned. The Republicans swept every ward with a majority of 5,000 on. the general ticket; that of F. A. Boswell over J. H. Semmes for Collector, 4,539; J. F. Cook over E. C. Eckloff for Register, 4,412 ; P. H. Donegan over"W . Forsyth for Surveyor, 4,613. Among those 'elected the Register is coloured, so is an Alderman and seven members of Council, and such aresult could not be achieved without being mixed up with a disturbance. A negro attempted to vote the Democratic ticket, and a riot ensued ; indeed, throughout the day the " coloured cusses" were most demonstrative and behaved very badly, while the police acted with great forbearance. The city was the scene of shouting and yelling, stone throwing, and threats of hanging ; butt the main fight was over Charles Stuart, a leader in the, coloured citizens' movement some of the mob saw sitting in Mr. Given'sstore in Twelf th-street. Imme diately the crowd gathered, and it was with great difficulty the police saved Stuart from being lynched. They got him out and conducted him to the. polls in the centre of a hollow square, when he cast his vote for the Democratic ticket. It was on the way back that the stone-throwing assumed a form of such violence that Major Richards, Superintendent of Police, was compelled to fire on the crowd. A few were badly hurt, one negro, William Smith, among the foremost in the attack, was mortally wounded ; the excitement, dicd out, and was not received during the night, although trouble was anticipated on the reopening of •,the theatre, as the law of the City Council was to take effect prohibit ing any distinction on account of colour, but as no coloured people presented themselves for admission there was no /meas. A despatch has been rec. ivel from Santa IN., New Mexico, that Mr. J. L. Col lins, receiver of Public Moneys, was killed hi i►is office on the sth inst., and the depository robbed. A considerable amount of the treasure had lately been paid away, and it has been discovered that the notes stolen were not of large denomination, and did not amount to poomo. The latest despatch Treasurer Spinner received says that $65,000 of notes hid away in an outhouse had been recovered, leaving $31,000 Still missing. A clue has been obtained to the mur -4 derersomact a detective has been despatched at the request of the New Mexican authorities. Mr. Col lins would, in a short time, have been superseded by E. C. Little. Miss Vinnie Ream got a Trea sury warrant for $5,000 in advance for her model of the martyred President, but the young lady lost it at New York just after taking her passage in a steamer for Europe. In great grief she telegraphed to General Spinner, by whose instructions a dupli cate was issued, and mailed that night. He took the opportunity, however, of impressing on her the necessity of being more careful, and getting up in time. Miss Ream goes with her model to Italy, accompanied by her parents, and Miss Fuller, the daughter of Colonel Perry Fuller. The feeling engendered by our elections is bitter, and se veral coloured men have been discharged for not voting in conformity with the political opinions of their employers. Advantage has been taken of the President's absence to renovate the White House, to improve some of the interior arrangements, as well as to get it ready for the summer. Matting has replaced carpets in the Green, Red, and Blue Rooms, as well as in the hal's and passages, an I the heavy curtains will give place to light ones. Before the President's departure Colonel Manuel Freyer - was presented as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary from Peru. lie referred to the hold Democratic institutions had obtained on the American Continent in the great and powerful , Republic, and the constant desire of his country to draw closer those tics which had always been main tained between them, more especially now that his country had entered on the paths of progress and of true liberty. The President welcomed him, as suring him of the correctness of the picture he had drawn of the friendly relations between the coun tries, his desire to perpetuate them, and his confi dence in the Minister's co-operation towards that end. The Convention of the National Division of the sons of Temperance auspiciously commenced its 25th annual session on Tuesday. There were dele gates from nearly all the States and Territories, as well as many from the Dominion, while Dr. Leo represented England. Among the decorations of the room was a picture of Queen Victoria, and ano ther of General Grant. The principal speakers were from New York ; Dr. Lord delivering a humorous address. The Convention called at noon on the President, whose time, just before he left, was too much occupied to receive many visitors. Admiral Porter is about to take up his residence in the bonse formerly occupied by Lorl Lyons, which he has purchased and refitted. General Dent is on a visit to his family, and during the absence of the President his private secretaries will remain at the Executive Mansion to transact the private business. The Report of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy at Annapolis has been received by Secre tary Bode, and is flattering to the school, as you may gather from what they say :—" That they have overlooked nothing, and have stood ready frankly to criticise and recommend changes, if occasion should offer ; and that, with all heartiness and sin cerity, they report the Navy Department and the country have just reason to be proud of the Naval Academy." A case has been laid before the Attor ney- General showing the following circumstances : A negro having left his employer, Mr. Weaver, in exas, to work for another, returned for his wages. After beating him with an ox-box, Weaver went into his house, got his gun, and in the presence of his wife shot the negro labourer. As trials before Texan juries result in nothing, Weaver was brought before a military commission by order of General Reynolds, and sentenced to be hanged. The ques tion before Mr. Hoar was as to the validity of such a trial, and he upholds it on the ground that civil government is not established in Texas, and until it is restored military courts are constitutional ; that it is for Congress to say when war exists and when it ends, and although for certain purposes it has dc- Oared the rebellion closed, it has not declare 1 it closed as regards the restoration of civil government in Texls, and the sentence is therefore legal. THE AMERICAN PRESS. The Baltimore Gazette, alluding to Mr. Reverdy Johnson's recall, says : " We have reason to believe that the resignation of Mr. Johr son was tendered less from his anticipation of that fact than from his unwillingness to be a party to demands upon the British Government which have no foundation iu either decency or justice." The Halifax Chronicle, in an article on Manifest Destiny, contends that it is useless to atte►npt the erection of such an independent power on the Con tinent as the Dominion. It thinks that such a design could not be successful : "Daily it is becoming more and more certain, not alone on this continent, but in Europo as well, that not great countries, but small countries, are an impossibility. With regard to America, it is every day becoming M 3.0 and snore patent to all that there can be but ono Government on all this continent. . . . The Latin Empire in Mexico crumbled into dust at the frown of the Republican giant ; and the same fate is in store for the Dominion. It could hope for no other consummation. If it wore even pros perous it could never afford to compete with the United States in commerce, manufactures, mining, and in military pre paration. But it is not prosperous. We would ask any man would it be a good thing to belong to a Dominion which, with impoverished resources, would have to construct men-of-war, each costing a private fortune ; which would have to maintain the dignity of the nation out of the narrow means of a province, and do desperate battle against desperate odds, with painfully insufficient means for a life which can only be at bast but a burden to it ?" 'The Montreal correspondent of the Tribune wrote on the- same subject, June 3, under headings as follows : " The Question of Independence—Actual Names and Hard Facts—The Trade-Exodus of Canadians -New Light on the Subject -The Policy of the lion. John Rose and Members of Parliament. . . . To-day comes a rumour that •the Hon. John Rose, the Finance Minister of the Dcmiuion, has resigned. it is not true. But the Hon. John is too able a man to remain long with the fossils who constitute the present Government, and is restive under the existing state of affairs. He will take an early opportunity of resigning -probably when the new Banking Bill comes up for discussion. The Hon. John Rose is the Gladstone of Canada, and - shall I whisper it?—is said to be thoroughly in accord with the Independents. I scarce dare assert that the Hon. James Young and the lion. Mr. Galt aro Indepen dents at heart, but such are the facts which a little bird whispers to me. . . . The unsettled nature of our future political status is engendering a chronic timidity— approaching to dread -which has the effect of shackling energy and destroying business. Conspicuous in every street, highway, and byway aro dwellings and stores, workshops. and manufactories 'to let,' or, what is worse, ' for sale,' by order of the official assignee. Every em ployer is discharging hands, and the exodus is but in its infancy. The rush has heretofore been from the sparsely settled rural districts; now it has reached, and is making startling headway amidst our skilled artisans, who cannot remain workless dwellers in our towns. One firm, em ploying almost exclusively skilled labour, has discharged over 150 hands within the last three weeks. More than half of these mon have already gone West." The New York Evening Post of the 7th inst. favours Secretary Boutwell's policy. That journal had opposed his appointment, and had maintained its opposition till experience satisfied it that Mr. Boutwell was a safe man in his important post. "Greenbacks and fractional currency wear out, and no law requires him to print more when the worn ones are re deemed. Three per cent. Certificates occasionally come in for payment, and no law requires him to reissue them. The practice under the former administration seems to have been to keep the place of the notes withdrawn sup plied by new ones. But Mr. Boutwell has wisely avoided this, as it seems, and the results attained are important, although the process has been so quiet as to attract no at tention and produce no disturbance. Thus, the three per cent. certificates in circulation were, at Mr. Boutwell's ac cession, March 1.. April 1, after one month 5t:7,140,000 51,605,000 Alay 1, after two months June 1, after three mouths Thus he has teduced these certificates $4,065,G00 in three months ; an average contraction in this one item of $1,355,000 per month ; or at a rate which will extin guish this most objectionable form of the public debt be fore the Ist of May next. Inasmuch as this amount is t then directly out of the Bank reserves, which aro iu the aggregate less than 20 per cent of their contribution to the general inflation, the actual contraction represented by this movement is not less than $6,000,000 per month iu the eirculatiug medium of the country ; .and is pnitaps as great as can take place without seriously disturbing the money market. The same process is taking place in the Treasury money, the figures being as follows: Fractional Greenbacks. Currency. Total. March 1, 856,021,073 36,781,517 892,802,620 April 1, 355,941,032 36,075,830 392,616,862 May 1, 355,941,032 35,350,323 • 851,291,355 Juno 1, 355,936,431 33,452,323 339,388,754 Here is a further contraction, therefore, as steadily and quietly carried on as the former, and amounting to $3,413,866 in three months, or at the rate of $1,137,955 per month. To complete our view of this movement it is only necessary to look at the currency balance on hand in the Treasury. Mr. Boutwell's first statement of the debt on April 1 showed this balance to be $6,802,628 ; on May lit was $7,896,564; os Juue lit was $19,981,555. This increase shows a withdrawal of $13,181,927 from the cir culation of the country in two months. But this increase was exceptional, the currency balances having Leen volun tarily reduced in March and April to a point too low for safety or convenience, in order to relieve the stringency of the money markets. It is chiefly significant in two re spects--First, as showing that Mr. Boutwell means to hold a large legAl tender reserve in the Treasury ; and then as a practical demonstration that even the necessity of accumulating the reserve so rapidly does not prevent him from permitting the contraction of the currency to go on naturally and steadily at the same time. The actual contraction of the circulation, by the increase of his cur rency balance, since the let of March, is only $3,131,027 ; or at the rate of a little mote than $1,000,000 per month." The New York Nation seems also in some den e at least to have changed its opinion regarding Mr. Boutwell. It observes— " If there bo anybo,ly in the country who does not un derstand the condition of the public debt, certainly Mr. 13outwell is not to blam3. Ms monthly statements aro almost ingeniously clear ; that is to say, ho Makes plain a great many things which none of his predecessors, in spite of their good intentions, ever made p!ain." If things are not going on well in the Treasury it cannot be said they they are going ill, except in so far as there is as yet no sign of specie payment ; that we believe is held by Mr. Boutwell's friends to be at the end of a coming loan to be contracted at four per cent., if in the mean time we have no more speeches. The same paper, alluding to Mr. Sum ner's speech as slowly passing from the public mind, which has now turned to the renewal of the negotia tions by Mr. Motley in England, says : "The various ' war speeches' by which Mr. Sumner's have been followed up, such as General Butler's and the Rev. Dr. Sunderland's, ap?3ar to have fallen quite flat. We asked a distinguished engineering officer the other day who knows exactly how things stand, whether our naval and coast defences were in a condition to justify the bloody tone of some of our most gifted popular orators with reference to foreign powers. The man of war an swered us with a melancholy smile, and communicated to us some particulars on the state of our armament which we withhold for the present. He was, however, very em phatic in expressing his opinion that, should any trouble come, the Rev. Dr. Sunderland, the Hod. Benjamin F. Butler, and the Hon. Zechariah Chandler ought to be stripped to tLo waist, and put in charge of a barbetta gun lon one of our most exposed forts." In a- teading article it strongly censures what it terms " Instruction" for the Administration, which means making the Alabama Claims a plank_ in a party plAtform for the coming election. The re port is that the Pennsylvania Republican State don vention, on its meeting, will endeavour to make the Administration feel the force of its opinions pn the Alabama Claims, which, whether true or not, it considers extremely probable : "Those who, like ourselves, only desire a settlement honourable to both countries, and one likely to strengthen the obligations of international law, are probably already agreed that the administration is the proper agency for the conclusion of this difficult and irritating business, and not caucuses and conventions of 'the men inside politics.' The President and Senate are the logally constituted treaty-making power in this country; and until the Con stitution is changed so as to give authority in foreign affairs to mass-meetings and managing men who serve on executive committees, these latter can do nothing better than leave them alone. We can imagine nothing more in decent than the spectacle of the politicians •of Pennsyl vania or New York —most of them steeped in ignorance of law, statecraft, history, and in fact of everything except that worse side of human nature out of acquaintance with which they get their living— attempting to incorporate their passions into the code of international obligations, and to force upon the Government a foreign policy dic tated it may be by local jealousy, it may be by mere igno rance, it may be even by a desire to involve the Adminis tratiou itself in difficulties which shall inure to the advan-: tage of some 'statesman' or other in '72 or '76. There is probably no political body in the country which knows so mc.ch the Alabama controversy, and the legal bearing of the various questions arising in it, as the Cabinet." On the same subject the Springfield Republican notices : " That the war horses of Pennsylvania politics propose to respond to the ridiculous fury into which the English people have lashed themselves over our rejection of the Alasanza treaty, and Mr. Sumner's speech, accepting their interpretation of both, and doubling up our fists in return, was quite what might be expected in so barren a summer as this of political issues ; but that Mr. Sumner himself should respond to the proposition to make an issue in this country over our relat'ons with England is quite too pre posterous. His vanity is capable of a good deal, but we are sure it will not yield to this transparent piece Of cam paign jugglery, Besides, who differs here with Mr. Sum ner on that question? We are all agreed; and wh3 'should one party more than another claim the credit of being espe cially sound upon it ? Nothing could belittle America or degrade our claim against England more than to intro duce them into our village and State polities and lash our selves intc, a fury over them. Lot us not repeat the folly from which England is just recovering." Johannes losing, Consul-General . of the North German Confederation in New York, denies in a letter the truth of the Cable report received in America that the Federal Parliament of Germany was about to introduce a bill taxing capital in vested in foreign securities. The project is ,to tax sales of stocks and bonds generally, without dis crimination between foreign or domestic paper, and even that met with so little encouragement as to enable him confidently to predict its failure. Mr. hosing thus continues— ,4 Inasmuch as the party of repudiation in this country may avail themselves of the false announcement referred to, with a view to recommend their scheme of taxing the United States Bonds contrary to the terms of contract, I felt callod upon to make this correction in the interests of the hundreds of thousands of small German capitalists, who had confidence in the Republic during its darkest days, and continue to trust its Government uow that it has been firmly re-established." ' The Washington correspondent of the Philadel phia Post, writing June 9, says : " Governor Geary of Pennsylvania left this city in, the afternoon train to-day for Harrisburg. During his short stay here he was'closely engaged with President Grant, and there is good authority for saying that within 30 days the Governor will succeed Mr. Borie as Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Borio had several times lately declared to his friends his intention of retiring from the Cabinet, and from information derived from a well-informed source there is no doubt that Governor Geary has been tendered and has accepted the position. Admiral Porter is to be continued in his present official relations with the De partment." The Albion says,— " Among the leading yachts at present in this port un dergoing repairs, and being generally fitted up for the sum mer campaign, are the Rambler, Palmer, Eva, Fleetwing, Sappho, Alarm, and Meteor. The best of accounts are given respecting these and other craft that will soon spread their sails to the breeze, and yachtsmen are eagerly anticipating the coming struggle. With reference to the international contest, it is to be hoped that good feeling and an earnest desire to raise this manly diversion to a still higher level, will mark the friendly rivalry between the two countries. The English yachtsmen believe that their craft are novr superior in sailing qualities to those built in the United States, and this superiority has not baen reached by blindly following the model of the America, but through the genius and originality of English shipbuilders." [ADVERTISEMENT. J—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.- - Ulcerous Sores and Scrofulous Eruptions of the worst kind, for which all sorts of established prescriptions haYe been tried in vain, have been thoroughly cured in an almost incredibly short time by Holloway's ointment. The com mon topical applications are mete palliatives; but this un rivalled unguent penetrates the source of the evil, de stroys the secret virus, and gets rid of the disease for ever- In ordinary cases the ointment should be rubbed into the parts affected ; but if they are too tender or irritable fo r this process, they should be gently smeared with it et least twice a-day. 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