The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-12 00:00:00

THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE. The success of the French Atlantic Cable may now be taken as accomplished. What now remains to be done is a mere matter of detail, about the successful completion of which it is not too much to say that no possible doubt exists ; and no more anxiety is felt about it than there would be about laying a line between Dover and Calais. The French Atlantic Cable is virtually laid ; all its deep-sea dangers are past. The line is in an unexampled condition in all its tests, and all that is wanting to complete it is to make the connection between St. Pierre and Boston over very shallow water. A matter which tends to give confidence is the perfect punctuality and regularity with which the Great Eastern has done her work throughout. With a chart of the Atlantic it has been quite easy to mark at any hour of the day or night within a mile the spot she was on, or to mark within a mile where , she would be in the next twenty-four hours. The course laid down for her has never been appreciably deviated from, and the amount of slack, calculated at 14 per cent., has been expended almost to a mile. It sync expected that on Thursday and Friday, whatever the weather, the great ship would begin to roll very heavily, ai,d on Thursday and Friday the reflecting galvanometer at Alinou shew'ed that in this as in other matters she was doing exactly what was expected and predicted of her. The Great Eastern will probably remain at St. Pierre till the end of this week to put en the paddle floats which were removed before she started, and to put out those she has in now to the full circum ference of the wheels. Then, having transhipped all the staff of engineers and electricians on board the William Cory, the great ship returns at once to England, where she is expected at the end of this month, to take in the Anglo-Indian Cable. In the meantime the staff, with the William Cory, will proceed to lay about 164 miles of cable from St. Pierre towards Boston. In this journey she will be accompanied by the Scanderia and the Chiltern. This length of cable will take the William Cory over water varying in depth from 150 to 200 or 250 fathoms, past Cape Breton to the Gut of Canso. The staff will then again be transferred to the Scan deria, which will lay 450 more miles of intermediate line of extra thickness. This will stretch from the Cut of Canso to the edge of the Brown Bank, south of Cape Table, and will be laid in water of not less than 100 fathoms ; the Chiltern then in turn takes the staff and lays the remainder from Brown Bank to Boston, a dis tance of about 150 miles, and this completes the St. Pierre and Boston section, and then all is done. Everything is expected to be completed by the end of this month, after which the whole line must remain in perfect order for thirty-one days before it is formally taken over by the French Company, which then becomes solely responsible for its working and maintenance. TRIAL OF CE,N , TRAL-FIRE REVOLVERS. On Saturday a trial Nra3 made, in the covered rifle- -round at the Crystal Palace, of improved Colt's revol vers, the improvement being one which has long been desired, and which has been under the consideration of inventors for two or three years. Since the six-chamber " Colt " was first introduced to the notice of Englishmen, At the Great Exhibition of 1;:'51, it has maintained its supremacy as an accurate shooter. But it has been surpassed by the mechanical adaptability and handiness of use ; and it was in a dangerous way of being gradually superseded and rendered obsolete, till the plan of making it a central-fire pistol was perfected. The old revolver, made on the ordinary cap and nipple pattern which was general with fire-arms of every kind before the system of breechioading began rapidly to tend towards universal adoption of central-fire cartridges, can, at a cost of twenty shillings, be converted to the new and approved form. There are about 17,000 Colt's revolvers in the service of the English Government; and it is therefore a question of some national importance whether, instead of rearming our men, it would not be wiser to improve the weapons with which they are already provided. With thofes weapons it is perfectly well known that better practices can be made, at a greater number of paces,than with anyother kind of revolving pistol. In the matter of rapidity, some of the repeating breechloaders may appear still to have an advantage over the " Colt," even in its improved shape. But the merits in this respect are balanced by the facility with which exploded cartridges are eje,:tecl from the new central-fire pistol bearing the redoubtable Ameri can colonel's name. It is an unquestionable re.oommencla tion of the improved " Colt" that its empty cartridges can be readily got rid of in the simplest manner, without aid of the lever ramrod. This appliance is used in loading just as it was used with the capped chambers of the old-fashioned pistol. That is to say, the central-fire cartridge is not inserted at the breech of the chamber, but is rammed home, and the pistol is then discharged in the usual way. The empty shells are removed I,y cocking and snapping the hammer---an operation which, with a little practice, can be performed in an astonishingly short apace of time. Another valuable quality of the improved pistol, or of its ammunition rather, is the saving of the metallic cases or shells, which can Le reloaded again and again. An interchangeable nipple cy 1 i celer is supplied with these pistols, which can thus be loaded with loose powder and ball, a matter of no small importance ir, countrioi where made-up ammunition is not easily procurable. The trials on Saturday were, without the smallest exception, satisfactory. So far from accuracy and penetration having suffered by the change of cartridge and the addition of the extracting apparatus, it was found that, if anything, the pistols were improved in these respects, as they are unquestionably improved in all others. LAW AND POLICE. AN EXECUTOR'S LIABILITIES.—In Vice-Chancellor Stuart's Court, on Saturday, a bill was filed against the executors of a deceased trustee to obtain from his estate the sum of £2,500 which, it was averred, had been lost through a bleach of trust en his part in lending it upon insufficient security. The Vice-Chancellor, on the hearing, declared the estate of the trustee liable, but the executors did not admit assets, and an account of the estate was taken, when it appeared there were assets sufficient to have paid the amount. '[he Vice-Chancellor therefore held the executors personally liable for the additional costs. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—In Judges' Chambers, on Saturday, the affairs of the Duke of Newcastle were heard before Mr. Baron Martin, and an application was made on behalf of Mr. Gladstone, as trustee, for the value of some timber. The application was opposed on behalf of Mr. Padwick, and Mr. Baron Martin decided that it was too late. PADWICK BETFUS.—Two summonses were heard at the same time on the part of Messrs. Beyfus. On a former occasion a complaint was made on behalf of Messrs. Beyfus of the trial in the feigned issue " Padwick v. Peters," and leave was asked to proceed with Messrs. Beyfus's issue, as they disputed the legality of Mr. Pad wick's judgment. Mr. Baron Martin did not see how the questionas to the legality of the judgment could be raised; but if it was thought there had been no trial, in fact, of the matter, he should give Messrs. Beyfus leave to pro teed with their feigned issue. Mr. Padwick's solicitor said that it Lad been implied the judgment was obtained by connivance, which he denied. Mr. Tidy remarked that Messrs. Beyfus's bills were discounted at CO per cent., but it was afterwards stated that it was 30 per cent. Finally, after much discussion, an order was made fur a commission to examine the Duke at Homburg. A CHARGE or LIBEL.-011 the South Wales Ciruit, week, an action for libel was brought against the Haver fordwest and Milford Haven Telegraphs by Lieut. Brand, formerly of Jamaica. It appeared that in the course of come strictures on the conduct of Lieutenant Gilmore at the late election, the name of Lieutenant Brand was men tioned, and strong language used. The defence was that the alleged libel referred to a matter of history ; but Mr, Baron Channell held that the words used passed the bounds of fair criticism. Verdict for the plaintiff— damages £5O. CONVICTION OF AN OFFICER.—At Rochester the lfayor and magistrates have investigated a charge against Lieutenant Gibson, of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry. He was accused of being drunk, refusing to leave the Bull Hotel, Rochester, and assaulting the superintendent. He was ordered to pay a penalty of £2, inclusive of costs. The money was paid by his friends. THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION PETITION.—On Saturday this petition against Mr. Seely, jun., was ap pointed to be heard at Nottingham on Thursday, the 29th inst. , before Mr. Baron Martin. A STORY OF HAUT TON. —A topic of conversa tion in high life is the approaching marriage of an catuch of the Chinese Embassy to a Parisian beauty. The young couple met at a ball, and vowed in Chinese never to part. celestial in des: ril:cl as " to:It cc rin'il y a de plus cliinois." The parents of Cie yi7117 , z lady, who is over age, arc hi despair. A REcirE.---To CURP. LLIC SINCLR OF HOALSENESs.—The Elector of Ca,, , sel had a peract cure, which might be employed in similar cases—namely, when grand tenors and prime donne become suddenly ill just as the theatre is about opening. He had engaged a tenor, but at the supreme moment the artiste became ill. His Highness directed the head of the lunatic asylum and two assistants to visit the singer, and they proceeded to put on him a strait-waistcoat, lie having been declared mad. He said he was not so ; and to his frantic appeals as to the ',lest means to show he was in his senses, he was advised to ring, forthwitkingliis voich _ A r METROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Saturday. At the time I write great uncertainty exists as to I e intentions of the Government with regard to the exact course which they will take. That they will resist the most important of the Lords' amendments there is no doubt. The real question is, whether they will accept the others ? I have reason to know that it was the current opinion of some eminent Conservative peers this morning that Ministers had decided to reject the amendments en bloc, without discussing them, on the ground that the bill had been so radically and fundamentally altered by their lordships, that it was lost time and labour to consider it. In fact, so general was this belief among the Opposition members of the Upper House after Lord Granville's distinct intima tion that the Government must now reserve to itself the right to deal with the whole amendments, that Lord Col ville, the Conservative whip, issued a circular begging the attendance of the Conservative peers, not only on Monday, but on Monday week, when the bill would be sent back to their lordships from the Lower House. Of course this would be impossible if the amendments are discussed in detail. That would occupy at least three, probably four, nights; and as the bill will not reach the Commons until Thursday, it would not return to the Lords until the following Thursday, insteal of Monday, as Lord Colville's circular supposes. But while it was the general impression in the Upper House that the Government would decline to discuss the amendments, the contrary impression prevailed in the Lower House last night. It was there stated as probable that a very long discussion would take place, and the officials who had charge of various measures of public, but non-political, importance were warned to make their arrangements accordingly. At that time it is probable that Lord Granville's significant remark was not known in the Lower House. That remark would cer tainly imply the first course, and even independent journals like the Saturday Review affirm that it is the only one open to Ministers. But it was not to be expected that Ministers would make any explicit statement until after the Cabinet Conncilheld to-day, and which is sitting as I write. Seldom bas a Cabinet met at a more anxious crisis. The point to be decided by the Council, impor tant though it is, is only a minor one. It will not affect the ultimate event, the rejection of the bill by the Lords. The Marquis of Salisbury has determined that he will not give way upon the all-important point of the glebes ; and, as the Government are doubly and trebly pledged not to give way, there can be but one result, the loss of the bill and the loss of the session so far as this measure is concerned, with the far more serious consequences of political agitation through out the kingdom prior to an autumn session. Already arrangements have been made for demonstrations of akind that no one can misinterpret. In the first place, the National Reform Union (a very different body from the Reform League), whose resuscitation did more than anything to frighten the Conservative party into household suffrage, will hold a meeting in London on Wednesday to protest against the policy of the House of Lords. Meetings have been arranged for in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Brad ford, and other large towns ; and Ministers have only to give the word, and the machinery of the trades unions would be put in operation in order to " demonstrate." .Hitherto the country has remained quiet because it felt that it had a House of Commons which fairly represented it ; but now that this assembly has been set at naught by the House of Lords, it becomes necessary for the nation to support its own chamber. In fact, the Lords have appealed to the nation, and Ministers reply, " Unto the nation shalt thou go." Very little importance is attached to the meeting of Irish Conservative peers to-day at the Duke of Aber corn's. From sixty to seventy peers were present, and all information was rigidly refused. The anticipated meeting of bishops at Lambeth is not to take place. It is rumoured that Murphy will be present at the Protestant demonstration this afternoon on Blackheath. If so, there will probably be a row. Actions for libel are flying about on all hands. Mr. Grenville Murray has attacked the Jot z Bull, which was enterprising and valorous enough to give the first narra tive of the great horsewhipping case. The same person has threatened the Times. The Standard to-day has to ask pardon of Mr. Inman, the well-known shipping agent, of Liverpool ; and the Saturdayreview has to insert some thing very like an apology to Mr. Digby Seymour for a very unflattering article in that paper inserted with regard to the learned gentleman's candidature at Nottingham. We are having a brilliant day, and the Cobden Club, which numbers more than 100 M.P's., and a large number of literary men, will enjoy themselves right well at Greenwich this afternoon. The Club have republished, in the form of a pamphlet, Sir Louis Malet's very able article on Cobden, which appeared some time ago in the North British Review. That review, by the way, has just reached its centenary, i.e., its hundredth number; and the editor announces a great improvement in future numbers—short notices of new books such as appear in the British Quarterly and the London Quarterly. As I write, Mr. Walter Thornbury's new novel, " The Vicar's Courtship," reaches me, and I have little doubt but that it will be worthy of the writer's high reputation. The rumour that Frances Countess of Waldegrave has become the proprietor of the Morning Post, which in a former letter I mentioned without confirming, is, I am able to state, positively untrue. Equally untrue is the report that Mr. Childers has purchased that paper. The Four-in-Hand Club is becoming quite an institu tion. No fewer than fourteen drags, with their quadruple teams, were gathered together at Charing-cross this morning, and then proceeded down Parliament street. I suppose that their noble occupants were going to witness the weekly slaughter of pigeons at Hurling ham. MISCELLANEOUS NETT7S. TIIF. IRISH CIII - RCII BILL. The Irish Church Bill continues to give active employment to speculative politicians. Mr. John Ball writes to the Times declaring that it is impels sl,le to overrate the importance of carrying the Ministerial measure this session. He holds it, however, impossible to carry it without compromise, and the Duke of Cleveland's amendment nflords the most favourable opportunity for a conci liatory arrangement. The vital point at issue for the Irish Roman Catholics is the removal of the badge of conquest ; but no settlement will find favour with them which does not place them on perfect equality with the rest of their countrymen. The nee. William Arthur, late President of the Wesleyan Conference, writes to the Daily News, on the other hand, rnid is lost in wonder at thelanguage used by the Lords about concurrent endowment, and thinks Viat every week that thecontroversy about the Irish Church is pro longA shortens the leise of the Church of England. The sooner the question is settled the better for all bnt the lovers rf rgitation and hasty changes. Concurrent endow.. ent instead of being a yet lement would lead to the upsetting of Churches now endowed. "A- Liberal Peer of Ireland" is disphy.sel at the manner in which the selection of the representative peerage of Ireland is d. It has long, he says, been a sine fired non that the twenty-eight representatives must be selected from the Irish Protestant Conservative section—not one-third of the whole body ; and this re: ses Vie gulf bA.veen the Irish aristocracy and e;oi•l•", by in•lu:;ia:; yoaug Irish patricians either to ;,L.1.; ;u► English seat or to adopt Conservative • litics. 7.:1'.7.T1NGS ON TEE IR:STI CHURCH BILL. P•evcr..l great public meetings in favour of the Iris!' Church Bill - have been arranged. The first of a s , r i e s against the amendments of the Lords and the policy of concurrent endowment is to be !en in St. James's Hall, London, on Wednes !.y ne%t, by the National Reform Union, the preside! y of Mr. S. Morley, my. m_y or o f i. c cal has summonel a public meeting !'or Tnesday evening. a deputation having waited npon him to request him to do so. The Mayor of '411..111;4d has convened a town's meeting for the same ,lay, and a re juisition to the same effect is in course signature to the May. it of Dewsbury. The work •ng men of the metropolis nre also making arrange ments for monster of ea-air demonstrations. PASTORAL ATD AND POLITICS. •••-,.. " Clerical ra!tening " is rather an ugly expression, —t i t i s m 11 ie witi,• best eh aycterises the proceedings of tee Church Pastoral Aid society with reference to the Rev. Philip a HaMs, the vicar of St. George's , Wigan. Mr. Hams is Liberal, which certainly is no reason why he should not be a clergyman. Mr. Hams also advocates the disestablishment of the Irish Church, in which we can see no very overpowering reason why he should not have a curate. The vicar of St. George's, moreover, does not altegether despair of a Church under the voluntary system, in which want of leaning on State endowments we confess we see no cause for the withdrawal of the aid of a voluntary sscciation. The managers of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, lic:7:ever, think differently; and th,y Lave withdrawn from Mr. Haim the aid they for merly gave him towards the support of a curate. They have done this, too, because Mr. Haim spoke in favour of Mr. Gladstone during his contest in South Lancashire. Last Sep tember the rev. gentleman was informed that if he continued to advocate the Liberal policy the grant to his parish would be withheld. Mr. Hams published the correspondence, and most people thought that that would end the matter, and that a society formed for the purpose of carrying on the holy work of spreading the truths of religion would not sink to misuse its income for political Dunaga.....—Thiuselatilmasmesmadtadownito THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1E69 aid, In spite of the fact tnat otner clergymen sup ported by it have taken a much stronger part against Mr. Gladstone than Mr. Hairs has taken for him. The only thing left to Mr. Hairs to do is to protest. Is there no Liberal member of the society who will get this matter sifted ? story in the Marlborough-street route-copra nov lean so. They are about to call a general meeting of the members to take the matter into consideration. THE " SPENDING DTPARTMENTS." The Broad Arrow states that the Secretary for War has decided on postponing all further proceed ings with reference to Lord Northbrook's committee on War Office .Reorganisation till after Christmas. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, after having made himself fully acquainted with the details of the control scheme, has given his consent to the arrangements being completed, provided the Con trollers have no voice regarding " finance." The Lords of the Treasury insist that a sufficient check and audit shall be established independently of the Horse Guards or the War Office. _ _ . —.— It is stated that owing totheimprovements introduced by Mr. Baxter in the purchasing department of the Admiralty, there will probably be a further reduction of one million in the Navy Estimates next year. It is rumoured that the Indian Navy will be re vived, at least in part. The position of affairs in Persian waters is so unsatisfactory that it is thought necessary, at all events by old Indian naval officers, to increase our strength there. The Dube of Argyll is believed to be in communication with ihe Admi ralty upon the sub:,cet. Mr. Alison, our Moister to the Court of Teheran, is now in London, and his presence there has revived the rumour that British officers are employed in drilling and officering the Shah's army. of the personal and irresponsible rule of the Emperor, was the subject of conversation at the State Ball on Thursday. The Emperor expressed himself favourable to the principle, but appeared indisposed to make any imme diate concession!. Time, he said; would bring the measure. The Sp, , S tturday Review, and Times agree not only that this reform is desirable, but that the . Emperor will find himself compelled to give ways The Saturday Review notes that the Emperor may refuse to allow this question to be discussed, but such refusal would amount to an admission that he was afraid to meet the Chamber which he himself bee created. The Spectator thinks it not improbable that the Emperor may try the experiment of a Free Executive and a Free Legislature—that is, bring the Constitution in aoconlance with that of the United States, allowing the Le.c;islAturs to propose measures, but retaining the power of veto. CRIME IN IRELAND. Ireland is hardly a crime-producing country. Were it not for political viololce, the judges would have little besides civil business to attend to. There are just now four judges who have had to congratu late four several assize districts on the small amount of business which they had brought forth. In Mayo there are only thirteen cases ; at Lon ford only three, and one of these was a remanet from the last assizes ; the county Monaghan presents only four— thirteen offences being the total number reported to the police since the judges last visited the county ; and at Limerick the judge had the white gloves presented to him. Some of their lordships could not help deploring that exterior exciting influences took from Ireland the reputation she deserved. ANOTHER ROW AT CORK. There is still a want of harmony in the Cork Town Council between the present and the late mayor. The present mayor deprecates all need less exhibltion of party feeling; the late mayor likes to have party bitterness constantly maintained. The pr.bli band iu Cork - , for instance, he would have to play party tunes continually ; not, he it noted, " The Battle of the Boyne," it would be downright treason to play that, and only serve to incite the people to riot; but" The Green above the Bed," and such like, Mr. O'Sullivan would have to be played continually. The Mayor having advised on Friday that the band should not play such tunes, he was attacked in the style peculiar to Mr. O'Sullivan. Then ensued the usual reply that insults were being used, and amid noise, confusion, and rival shouts the Council broke up. EARL GRANVILLE. We have lately seen that the generally immobile Mr. Disraeli can be moved, and that the mellifluous Sir John Coleridge can distilvinegar; and those who have witnessed these unusual phenomena have been puzzled to account for them. But a more portentous thing had happened previously. Earl Granville had sent to the unfortunate New Zealand Government a despatch which Earl Russell might have written in the palmiest days of his Foreign Ministry, and which Mr. Lowe must envy. It was not only vinegar, but vinegar and worm wood. Those who are best acquainted vith the state of New Zealand, Liberal papers though they are, predict that the result of this despatch will be the secession of the colony from the empire, and a throwing of itself upon the protection of Prussia or the United States. We learn that great pressure has been brought to bear upon Lord Granville, in order to induce him to telegraph a countermand of the order for the withdrawal of the last British regiment ; so that the order may not arrive simultaneously with the despatch, and lead to the belief on the part of the Maories that the colonists have incurred the displeasure of the Queen, and may be attacked with impunity. The strange thing about this despatch is that its writer has just given a very different answer to a similar application for imperial aid from another colony. Lord Granville has recently informed the Canadian Government that if that Government desires to construct fortifications on the American frontier the home authorities will guarantee the necessary loans, but, at the same time, the necessity of fortifying is not insisted on. Upon this a non political paper (the Broad Arrow) remarks:— " The colonists of New Zealand will hardly fail to mark the exasperating contrast between this complacency on the one hand and the refusal of a guarantee to them under pressure of actual necessity on the other. We can only account for the anomaly by crediting Lord Granvilla with a religions desire to follow as closely as possible the Gospel maxim, ' Let not your left hand know what your right hand cloeth.'" IRISH AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. There are the worst accounts from the North of Ire land as to the flax crop. Without exception, the news from all districts is that it is poor, in some cases so very bad that farmers have ploughed it up and sown othcr crops. Wheat is spoken of as good, oats much the same, potatoes backward, and the turnips suffering much from fly. In the South, wheat looks well, barley is tolerable, potatoes are backward, and turnips are bad. WELSH LANDLORDS. The John Bull "has the courage of its convictions." Referring to the recent debate on the conduct of the Welsh landlords at the elections, it says boldly : "The Conservative landlords, in self-defence, are per fectly justified in having evicted, not their labourers and honest sons of toil, but the deacons and other officers of Dissenting bodies who have stirred up so much strife. If Conservative Churchmen really believe in their principles, surely they have a right to prefer rs tenants persons of their own opinions—jest aa NOTleollfnrmisq nn equal right." To the latter part of this statement there can be no ebjection. Before a contract is made (v. hether cipreesed or implied) either party irs right to insert conflitiens :herein, becaesi_• the other party is at full liberty to decline those conditions. If a landlerd chooses to insist, as a deceased duke did, that all the firm labourers should go to church on Good Fridi,y and A3CCI18(11 Day, and that the farmers should pay them their wages all the s.ime, he Lad a perf et right to do so because it was in the F 0 .ver of the farmers to decline accept ing a tenancy with that condition attached to it. So, too, if a landlord insists beforehand that his tenants shallalways vote for a particular party he is justified in equity, though perhaps not in pru dence ; for a tenant whose convictions belong to the other side may decline to ratify a bargain involving, such conditions. But no landlord has the power to insert that or any other new condition in the bar gain after it has been made. At present the land lord too often labours under the idea that he confers a favour upon the tenant in letting his land, lie no more does this than a shopkeeper confers a benefit upon the customer who purchases his goods. The biker has just as much right to insist that the head of the household whom he supplies with bread shall always support a cand'date of particular political views, as the landlord has to insist upon that condition in letting his land. Of course the baker can do it if he chooses, but the bread-buyer can also refuse if he chooses, A DIVIDED KINGDOM. In the course of the same article there is another serious fallacy. The John Ezt. 7 l asks "if England shall allow Imperial interests to be entirely swamped by Scotland, Wales, and Ireland ? " In the first place the thing is impossible. If "England" is agreed upon one point, that is, if all the English members vote together, they would be in an over whelining majority (more than two to one) even though all the Irish, Scotch, and Welsh members voted together. But the question is really a most improper ono. It implies that England alone has the right to discuss " Imperial" questions. Such questions belong to the whole country, and when they are at issue there is no England nor Wales, nor Ireland, nor Scotland, but one united kingdom. A remark like this is really most uncon stitutional, and appeals to the worst kind of prejudices. THE EACESTAIES TO THE CONTINENT. The Spectator, in a most amusing article on the rumoured promise of Mr. Bright that he will ask the House of Commons to guarantee 21 per cent, upon £2,000,000 for making the under-sea tunnel to the Continent, parodies all the objections which that scheme should meet with from old-fashioned Tories. It will give the lie to our geography books; by con verting England from an island into a peninsula . ; it will enable the French to annex us one fine morning without our knowing anything about it; it will bring those nasty French wines into England more cheaply than ever; it will make us all one with the Con tinent, aye, and with semi-barbarous Asia and wholly barbarous Africa too. And all for the sake of the cotton lords, in order that they may get their wretched stuffs into the Continent without the cost of transhipment. For certainly no one will ever think of using that horrible hole. Better be sick in the daylight than drowned in the dark. The . only possible recommendation for this absurd scheme Is that we may perhaps entice the French army into the tunnel and then let the sea in upon them; repeat, in fact, the miracle which Moses wrought upon the Egyptians. }TRW DISCOVERY IN JERUSALEM. Those who have watched with interest the progress of the Jerusalem explorations will be glad to read the account just sent over by Lieutenant Warren. He tells us that the explorers have succeeded in driving a gallery up to the great block of masonry forming the north-east angle of the llaran wall, and have found it to be built of great bevelled stones atleast sixty feet below the surface. Through a slit in the wall they penetrated into a passage, and, further on, an aqueduct. There is little doubt, he thinks that this is an ancient . , overflow from the Birket Israil, and he finds matter for surpris© in the reflection th-lt while there is such a dearth of running water in Jerusalem, the Dirket Israil has, probably within our era, been full up to a certain point and flowing over. Lieutenant Warren states that if the excavations are to con tinue, sufficient funds must be forthcoming to com plete the work, and he acids that it will be a great mistake to stop now for want of funds—a conclusion in which most persons will agree with him. THE MURRAY-CARINGTON AFFAIR. The Murray -Carington affair is still much talked of. The Conservative Club is, of course, specially interested in the matter, as Mr. Murray is ono of themselves. To the club committee his explanation consideredinostßasAittiQctm,=llliA. aviam3Apt NEW LAW COURTS. Mr. Finlaison writes to the Telegrarh on the New Law Courts, and consideri the respective claims of the Carey-street and Embankment sites. With regard to cost, he believes the advantages to be all on the side of the Government scheme, and he makes out that there will be a balance in its favour of -,,C25000. This estimate is on the supposition that the Courts could be built on the Carey-street site for £1,000,000 equally as well as on the Embankment, but this cannot be assumed to be certain. All other diffe rences sink into insignificance compared with the question of approaches. The Carey-street site as it is would be inaccessible, and it would be necessary to have a new street; but the approaches are already provided on the Embankment site, and practically we see in the estimate the total cost involved on this site. It must also be remembered that the Howard street site will have to be used for some public purpose, and therefore on every ground the adoption of the Government scheme will be prolictive of a great saving of expense to the country. INTERNATIONAL I.X IL B. TIONS. The Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 have decided to hold in 1871 the first of a series of exhi bitions of fine and industrial art, and scientific' in ventions. The proposed international shows are to be held at Kensington. The first one will, in respect of industrial work, consist of only three classes. NITRO-GLYCERINE. We are likely to have legislation in respect of nitro-glycerine. The authorities at Woolwich have had their attention drawn to the dangerous compound by the explosion at Carnarvon, and have considered how the danger of using it may be lessened. They have embodied their suggestions in a report, which, in its turn, will probably become drafted into a bill. While the use of nitro-glycerine is not to be prohibited in this new measure, it is stated that the conditions which it will impose upon the carriage, storage, and employment are most stringent. When it will be introduced into Parlia ment is not stated. FOREIGN NOTES. AMERICAN AID FOR THE CUBANS. Colonel Ityan, one of the members of the Cuban Junta %rho were recently arrested at New York,was rescued from the custody of the United States Marshal by some of the patriots. It was afterwards asserted that he had sailed for Cuba with an expedition, and such appears to have been really the case. A band of 700 men was assembled at Long Island, near New York, and the whole number were safely taken off to Cuba by a large steamer. A great quantity of arms and ammunition were conveyed south• wards at the same time. The Cuban authorities are taking very rigorous measures t) put down filibustering. Several Americans who rcc mtly landed at Santiago do Cuba, and fell into the hands of the troop, were immediately executed. But, with this exception, the news from Cuba published in the New York papers is all in favour of the insurgents. The recent defeats of the Spaniards have encourage 1 the Cuban leaders, who are determined to force the fighting. The Herald says that the Spanish troops in the interior have their communications with the coast cut off, and are suf fering terribly from cholera, fever, and privation. Tl:e mortality is said to be very great, and medicines and food are scarce. " More than half of the main Spanish force has been lost since the commencement of the war by de sertion or disease." Against this intelligence, however, must be set the proclamation of General Caballer, de 11, Alas, to the effect that the insurrection is on the wane. Tllll NF;ROES IN VIIMINI.t. It is urnloul)tedly a remarkable fact that at the recent elec'uion in Virginia the negroes suported the Democrats, who opposed their emancipation and enfranchisement. The blncks have never deserted the Republicans before. But it appears that they took care to make a ro,l bargain for themselves. They voted fur the Democrats only on a solemnpromise that all the recent laws infavour of negro freedom and negro suffrage should be preserved intact. Ti.ey likewise, it appears, secured a private promise of sf,f ty from the armed bands which now threaten them, and considering that the negroes are in a minority in the " Old Dominion," they certainly acted sagely in making peace ivlt.h the predominant party on these substantial ternv. TILE RECIPROCITY TREATY. The renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty between Canada and the United States will greatly benefit one institution which needs •benefit —the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. By the terms of the former treaty, which expired in March 1866, wheat, grain, and live stock of all kinds were admitted into the United States duty free, and as these commodities are the stapleproduce of Canada, the Grand Trunk akt an immense business in transmit. ting them to the frontier. The suspension of the treaty stopped the traffic, and loet the company several thou !ands a week, which it will now regain. Assuredly tho prospect of this railway getting a little relief from its miseries is gratifying. TIIE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILROAD. Mr. Thomas Magee, who has been a traveller by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Railway, contradicts the state m nts which have been published respecting the fatigue of a journey across the North American continent. The weakest invalid would, he thinks, be strengthened by. the delightful expedition, in which there is a constant succession of novelties. lie describes with enthusiasm the beauty and variety of the scenery through which the railway passes. Even on the great plains, the home of the wild buffalo, where there is a sameness about the journey, the air is peculiarly exhila rating. After leaving the plains, the Rocky Mountains are reached. The sceno from Sherman, the point of greatest altitude on the. entire line, which is 8,212 feet above the level of the sea, is one which can never be for gotten. Further on is the great valley of - Utah, with its shining Salt Lake, the Sierra Nevada mountains, in r,ro..sing which an altitude of over 7,000 feet is attained in a distance of 112 miles, the descent of which is so rapid that steam is altogether shut off and the breaks partially applied. The cars are most comfortable, the sleeping arrangements in perfect order, and forty-eight persons can dine at one time in the elegantly fitted dining car. A compact kitchen is fitted up with every contri vance for preparing food quickly and well. There are ice -boxes and provision- cellars, in which fresh meat and other edibles are packed. Wine, tea, coffee, and fresh milk are at command, and, at the reduced rates. The ourney from New York to San Francisco can now e made for £25. £5 will cover all incidental expenses. Mr. Magee, who has several time■ made the journey via Panama, declares the railway to be far less fatiguing than the steamers of the tropics. TERPERANCN IN 31AINE. A political party bas been formed in the State of Maine, America, on temperance principles. A candidate Las been nominated by this Dsrty for the office of State Governor. GREAT BANK ROBBERY AT NEW YORK. One of the toldest and most successful robberies on record was committed at the Ocean Bank, New York, on Sunday, June 27. This establishment is situated above a broker's office, and the thieves, getting into the latter, knocked a hole through the ceiling and ascended. The vault, defended by three doors, was entered, and two safes forced open, th . whole of QIN long task being accornplisl e I in the most businesslike manner. The burglars got cle& off with property to the value of not lees than half million dollars. TIIE wrixrs BOOTH riot It appears that the assassin Payne, who attempted the murder of Mr. Seward, made a diasciosnre to his lawyer which throws some light on the plot which too success fully ended in the assassination of President Lincoln. Payne said that the scheme originally was to carry off President Lincoln, and deliver him to the Confecle rates. That plan was abandoned, and then Booth pro• posed to kill the entire Cabinet. This was actually done in the case of the President, and very nearly accomplished in the ease of Mr. Seward, but the rest of the conspirators lost courage, and rune no attempt to do their part of the bloody work. REFORM IN FRANCE. The Paris correspondent of the Telegra . ph sends a despatch stating that the demand of the French I.lwiAryta ifar.lanirtc.kg j,f3p9ll9il?4it_klac9 BELGIAN RAILWATS, The Railimy News is very severe upon the Belgian Government for its conduct in the railway diffiJulty. The shareholders of the Great Lux e inburg Company proposed to lease their line to the 7:rot of France Company for a minimum payment of £2l;-;,000 a year, which would return a dividend of -11) to 5 per cent. on the three millions < f bonds, an.! of 3 per cent. on the two millions of s t oc k. Just as tl.e arrangement was in progress the Belgian Governme7 , t pawed a measure giving them power to stop such leases, and by this ex. pest . facto legis'ation a com patty in which shareholders wwe largely into. rested was matt-x:3lly injured. Their line was at first offered to the Belgian Government, but the Ministry would neither take it themselves, nor allow tl French company to take it. This is the complaint of the Railway Nines ; but, on the other hand, it is argued that the jealousy of the weak State at the project i f leasing a Belgian line to a French Company is n t unnatural. Moreover, though the a:ringement, actually come to seems to be involved in great obscurity, yet it is generally understood to imply such an international system of traffic as must prove advantageous to the Grand Luxemburg. MILITARY TRAINING IN FRANCE. The Army and Navy Gazette mentions a very remark- able fact in connection with the French Garde Mobile. This body is not a reserve, but a supplement to the resery and the active army, and it is ordained that every Frenchman, of 21 years of age who is not drawn for the regular forcr. must serve in the Garde. The drilling of these citizen soldiers has commenced, but the work of organisation doe not go on very rapidly. In order to l ighten the burden for the rising generation, the Minister of War has had cases of Chassepots despatched to the various schools all over France, and the young Gallic idea will learn to shoot at an early age. If found proficient when the time arrives for entering the Mobile, his services will be dispensed with except in case of war. Thus not only are the French to be made a nation of soldiers, but they are to be trained to war from childhood. MODEL LEGISLATION. It is refreshing to turn from the wearily slow progress of great reforms in the British Legislature to the brisk style of transacting business in semi-barbaric lands. But a few days ago the Parliament of Servia was opened and immediately went to work upon a new Constitution. This formidable measure, involving a radical change in the organisation of the country, consisted of 133 articles, and prescribed amongst other trifles the equality of all citizens before the law--thus protecting the Jews, who Lave been so severely persecuted in these regions of late. But the Servian legislators have got through it all ; it is done with, and the Constitution is ready for the country. May the country prove ready for the Constitution. The whole lob has occupied about four days. TII E CRISIS IN EItAN CE. FRIDAY. It is very remarkable that up to this evening no rumours of war should have been got up, no disquieting state ments made during this great political crisis. It is the current idea that a war is a ruler's best resource in a time of domestic trouble ; but thcugh we have lived for the last twelvemonths in a constant dread of war, during the last few days nothing has been said about it. The Patric, however, of to-day comes out with a statement which, appearing in an official paper, will give rise to great trouble. It assures us that the understanding, or alliance, or whatever it may be, which was spoken of between France, Italy, and Austria, is gaining strength, and that the three Governments are now on the best of terms. This good understanding applies to religious as well as political questions, and on the subject of Rome it has been decided that the status quo shall be main. tined. " Italy and er two friendly rowers," says th e Pah*, " in view of the eventualities which may arise from th's triple alliance, have no interest in raising a question which might, without any advantage, bring about an agitathn in the Catholic world." The meaning of this is plain enough. The semi-official journal gives it to be under stood that France, Italy, and Austria have concluded an alliance, that something is going to happen in consequence, and that, therefore, it would be unwise to get into trouble about the occupation of Rome. Like many more of its race this alarmist statement nosy be groundless ; but its appearance in the Patric will cause no little exeitemcn+. Some of your contemporaries, I sea, have estimated the number of signatures to the demand of the Moderate Liberals for Ministerial responsibility at 125. This is an error. The total number is 116, one more having fin, - ;i1 since yesterday. The list will now be closed, and no more signatures sought. The party of reformers who hay.: afli:. - ed their names has been dubbed the Cent-sc.ze. This proposed constitutional change is literally the only topic of discussion here. Paris, and indeed the entire country, is agitated with rumours touching the great question of what the Emperor will do, but nothing beyond rumour is yet known, and it ie extremely unlikely that the Sovereign has as yet made up his mind. He must decide very shortly, but there is no necessity for him to come to P. conclusion just at present. As I have before mentioned, the Chamber is yet only verifying the elections ; it is not yet " constituted " by the election of secretaries and other formalities, and consequently no public business can be brought before it. It is true that t he Chamber might be constituted at once, and begin this momentous discussion. But this the Ministers refuse to do until more of the elections are validated, for they not only gain a little time, but increase the number of their own cup porters. Of the elections yet to be disposed of not more than a dozen are Opposition seats. The remainder are all Imperialists, and none of these can vote until they are " confirmed." This is a resource, however, which can prove only temporary ; indeed, it is generally expected that the ceremony of constituting the Chamber will take place to-morrow (Saturday). The Emperor then must face the demand for Ministerial responsibility. What will he do ? Rumour to-day is rife that he will give way, and that all the Ministers have already resigned at his request. Other reports are very different. The first and second articles of the Sdnatus-Consulte of 1866 pro vides that the Constitution cannot be discussed by any public body except the Senate. Now, the demand for Ministerial responsibility involves a discussion on the Constitution, and the Government can strictly refuse to allow it to come before the Corps Legislatif. Some believe that the Corps L6gislatif will certainly be forbidden to enter upon this question, but that the Senate will be con vened at once and set to work to discuss it. The Petrie of to-day affirms that this is the course which will he taken. The Senate, it adds, will be instructed to grant the most important demands of the Moderate Liberals ; and thus a compromise will be effected which will unite all the parties in the Chamber, except the extreme Imperialists on onehand, and the extreme Radicals on the other. In short, the semi-official Patric gives us to understand that Ministerial responsibility will be granted, but that the concession will be made by means of the Senate—a hum drum collection of old men, all nominated by the Emperor himself— and not through the Corps Ugislatif, chosen by the people. It will be seen that nothing is certainly Known to far, and this hesitation on the part of the Government is eviu. a',le. For, in fact, the demand of the Moderate L'l seals means nothing less than that the Emperc r should surrender the supreme control of affairs to the Parliament. If his Ministry were answerable for their doings to the Corps L6gislatif, instead of being respon sible only to their master, as at present, the French Par liament would little by little become as powerful as the English House of Commons. Such a result would be a work of time, indeed ; but once let the deputies obtain control over the acts of the Executive and arbitrary power must vanish little by little. To English notions this power of the Parliament is right ; but it is not to be expected that the Emperor will make the surrender very readily. The doings in the Chamber continue to be very die turbing. There was a violent row yesterday about the Nantes election. M. Pelletan complained of the manoeuvre I have before alluded to—the swamping of the town voters by adding a large piece of country to the election district. Thus, though every circumscription ought to contain at least 35,000 electors, the equilibrium at Nantes was so disturbed that one district contained many thousands more, and another many thousands less, than that number. The Government Commissary, in reply, charged the Opposition with unfair practices, the Left thereupon getting into a great rage, and calling upon him to name them. The Commissary stated that a report had been spread that the daughter of the official candidate had died, and that he was induced to go to Paris in con sequence. To this M. Jules Favre retorted that the officials had represented him to be dead, and M. Pelletan, another Liberal, said that he "had been killed" several times. The fight grew in intensity, until at length M. Raspail, the newly-elected Red, got up and charged the priests with telling lies from the pulpit in order to further election purposes. He declared that the bishop of one district had given an order to all his curds to preach against the independent candidates, and they had done so. The tumult, grew until the deliberations merged into a - _ _ • comiliotft MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, June 26.) The stringency in the Money Market, unusual at this season of the year, is unrelaxed and unchanged except by slight and temporary fluctuations. The peculiar situa tion is attracting very general attention and comment in financial circles, and in all quarters there is solicitude for the future. The scarcity of money is an encouragement to the Wall-street speculators, and an undefined dread of a "lock-up" of greenbacks, at some unexpected moment, or of the springing of some new and unknown strategy upon the market, tends to increase the contraction and check all permanent investments. The smaller the amount of money, the easier it can be controlled, and the reduction of nearly a million a week in the loanable resources of the New York banks, for the last month, is a fact more plea sant to the speculators than to their helpless customers. The causes of the scarcity are still variously stated, and no two authorities agree in their theories. The de mocrats and inflationists arraign the Secretary of the Treasury, as the cause of all the woe, and bitterly up braid him and his actions. The aggregate reduction of currency, during the first part of Mr. Boutwell's admi nistration was something over $10,500,000, and since June 1 the process has boon going on at about the same rate. Something of the money pressure may be due to this influence, but it is scarcely possible that our circula tion should be restored to a sound basis, and a return to specie payments effected, without producing a sensation somewhere, and the present situation of affairs proves nothing except that there is an executive officet•'at the head of the Treasury Department. Mr. Boutwell, how ever, shows no disposition to establish settled opposition between the Government and the bankers, and has accord ingly crdered that, after July 1, the sales of gold and pur chases of bonds shall be reduced one-half—•to two millions of each per month. This will tend to an even and steady state of affairs during the summer, and afford ample time for preparation for the more active business and em ployment of money which will come with the autumn. There is a greater supply of money in the westward markets, and the flow of money will soon be reversed —from West to East. The Chicago banks are loan ing money freely, and the country orders for cur rency have greatly fallen off within the last fortnight. There is no excitement and scarcely any change in the Market for Government Securities, which hold up firmly under the scarcity of money and the weakening stock market. The Assistant-Treasurer at New York bought $1,620,000 in bonds on Wednesday, at 115 31.100 to 115 52-100, and will buy $1,000,000 on Tuesday next, which which will complete his purchase for the month, and will bring up the total amount for the four months of the ad ministration of its proportion for an average of 1 per cent. per annum of the total debt. Hereafter, however, until further notice, only $2,000,000 of bonds will be pur chased monthly, or $1,000,000 on each alternate Thurs day. There is talk in some quarters that Mr. Bout well is bound to atone for all the neglects and omis sions of his predecessor in office, and that he should proceed to augment the sinking fund by the purchase of bonds equivalent to 1 per cent. per annum of the total debt, since the passage of the Sinking Fund Act in 1862. This would require about $70,000,000 in gold, which the Tribune says the Secretary can spare just as well as not, his coin surplus, June 1, having been some thing over $105,000,000, and probably not much re duced since. The Independent, also, which has "full faith in the purity of his motives," approaches Mr. Boutwell from an opposite quarter, and urges him to the same ac tion, telling him that if he don't increase his weekly pur chases of Government Bonds after the close of the present month, " the mercantile community had better prepare at once for financial earthquakes, and the Secretary may as well make up his mind before Congress meets in Decem ber that he will be required to vacate his place by a loud call from the people." The Secretary, however, appears willing to take the risk of the situation, and understanding the Sinking Fund Act to require only that he shall set aside 1 per cent. annually during his own Administration, he will wait the authority of Congress before attempting to correct the failures and omissions of Mr. M'Culloch's regime. The current finances of the Government are in good condition, the receipts both from revenue and cus toms being large, and the expenditures not above the ordinary amounts. The next statement of the debt, which will close the fiscal year, will be a favourable one, and is already awaited with a good deal of inte rest. Gold is declining quietly and unobserved, and the market is almost entirely free from speculation. The boar movement is undoubtedly in anticipation of the July in terest, of which over $30,000,000 will soon be put upon the market, and which it is important to take at as low a figure as possible. The chief feature of interest connected with the gold market market is the continued increase of importations, and the augmented balance of trade against us, while the premium declines, and the foreign shipments of specie amount to only a nominal sum. For the first five months of the current year we imported, at Now York, nearly $40,000,000 worth of merchandise more than last year for the corresponding time, and for the same months our exports, specie included, were over $28,000,000 less than in 1868. Tho trade of all the other Atlantic ports has been similarly unfavourable, and the shipments of cotton and Government Securities have done but very little toward restoring the equality. The last monthly circular from 11. Clews and Co., New York bankers, says of this balance against us and its future effect on the gold market : —"lt would appear then that we have outstanding a heavy amount of postponed indebtedness. It is the very general testimony of foreign bankers, that the im porters have freely deferred their remittances, probably under the usually fallacious hope that gold may decline after tie" payment of the July interest. Their payments, however, cannot be much longer postponed. Foreign ex change now rules at rates close upon the specie shipping ' point; the supply of cotton held in the South has been re duced to a low point, and is little more than will be re quired for home consumption ; while our surplus of bread stuffs, if sent freely to Europe, would realize comparatively little at the now reduced prices. Thera remains there fore but one circumstance which may prevent free ship ments of gold during the summer and fall months, viz., the continued large export of bonds, a contingency too un certain to admit of definite estimate. The bears have been masters in the stock market for the past week, though their authority has not been wholly undisputed. The general in flationtnd watering of stock, actual and prospective, has nearly expended its effect, and the speculative tide now sets the other way. The Vanderbilt roads are the strongest, and the western roads are also pretty firm, under the in fluence of a good business and a handsome increase of receipts over last year's figures. The returns from all the leading railways are favourable, and the summer travel will swell the receipts to still higher figures for the next three months. Tho July dividends will nearly all be larger than those for July, 1868, and there is no doubt that, despite the slight failing off in the market quotations, the stock of the roads is actually more valuable than it was a year ago. The Southern State Securities are get ting in bad odour at the stock board. Tennessee announces that she cannot pay the July interest on her bonds, which amount to $1,100,000, and the report that Missouri had decided to redeem her bonds in gold turns out not to be true. South Carolina, however, promises to pay her $700,000 July interest promptly on maturity, and will raise the necessary funds by taxation. Dry goods have been very active, and have advanced to a state bordering on speculation. The heavy dealers in staple fabrics, cottons, and domestic goods, have been steadily increasing their stocks, in anti cipation of the early fall trade, and there is no apparent probability that prices will be any lower at present. The result, however, depends considerably on the state of the money market and the abundance of capital, for with a tight market, and no money available, a crisis might be forced, whioh would cause a general tumble in the prices of, cottons and all other goods. The prospect, as far as it is visible, is strong and confident. The activity in cot tons has produced a corresponding movement in woollens and flannels, both of which have advanced slightly. In grain and breadstuffs more business has been doing, and prices for flour and wheat have appreciated considerably at New York, and somewhat less in the Western markets. The foreign demand stimulates the movement, and prices will undoubtedly be higher; until the new crop is delivered in market. The weather for the last few days has been quite unfavourable for the growing crops, and the effect is perceptibly felt in the quotations. Live stock, as is usual at this vegetable season, is dull and heavy, with little doing either in the Eastern or Western markets. (From the ►Wald-street Journal.) Friday Evening, June 25, 1869. Money on call is easier, an d a lth oug h th e arket is active, borrowers are freely supplied from 7 per cent. cur rency to 7 per cent. gold. In discounts there is little doing, the rates being 9 to 12 per cent. prime paper. Gold is strong, in sympathy with the business in Foreign Ex change, having opened to-day at 1371, thence rising to 1371, and closing at 1371. At the 13th Treasury sale of gold on the 21st June the total bids submitted were for $3,870,000, at prices ranging from 136.03 to 136.76. The whole amount, $1,000,000, was awarded to Marvin, Brothers, and Co. at 136.76. At the 14th Treasury sale yesterday the bids were for only $1,625,000 ; the gold was awarded in $25,000 at 136.59, $lOO,OOO at 136.61, $lOO,OOO at 136.63, $lOO,OOO at 136.65, $lOO,OOO at 136.67, $lOO,OOO at 136.71, $lOO,OOO at 136.65, $lOO,OOO at 136.70, $lOO,OOO at 136.87, $lOO,OOO at 136.68, $5O l OOO at 136.62, $25,000 at 136.62. The Philadelphia Public Ledger, June 25, says—" There was no marked movement in Government Bonds yester day. The market has been exceedingly dull here for all i•lasses of our national securities since their decline from the highest point three or four weeks ago. Holders here were then sellers, and while they are not disposed to con tinue sellers at the present lower prices they are not buyers, restrained probably to some extent by the Wall street stringency in money, which to a considerable eldest controls all stock prices. There will probably be soma improvement shortly. The July dividends upon the stocks of the United States and the bonds of the Pacific road in gold will be larger than last year, and the currency divi dends upon bank stocks, railway bonds and shares, and various other investments, it is thought, will also be in excess of the corresponding dividend period of 1868. At the earn time, it its believed that the currency balance in the Treasury Office will be made more available for relief to the market by substituting newly printed greenbacks for a large sum of the original issue of 1862, now assorted and sealed up for this exchange. The following were tho quotations as compared with those of the previous day:— CITOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Amer. silver... 95i to 96 I Eng. sovs 486 to 488 Mex. dollars-103f „ 104 20 francs ... 384 „ 386 Eng. silver 475 ~ 480 y Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 96 Foreign Exchange is stronger, and is generally ith higher. . _ Sixty Days. Three Days. Londcn Bankers Lor.d:n, Prime Commercial lOBl-1091 Paris, Bankers 5.211— 5.16} 5.15 —5.131 Bremen, Bankers 4 Hamburgb, Bankers 351-351 Frankfort, O.M 391-40i Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.211-5.16 1 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 5 2ll-5.161 Government Bonds are buoyant, the advance in Lon don of 1 to 1 on hive-Twenties stimulating prices. Sixes, 1861, registered ll ‘l l 2l to 117 Sixes, 1881, coupon l2ll to 121 i Sixes, 1868, coupon .. — to U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lO6 to 1061 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll9 to 1191 Ten-forties, coupon lOBl to 1081 Ten-forties, registered Seven-thirties, 3d series Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to Railroad Stocks are active, with a large business doing, especially in New York Central, Hudson River, Michigan Southern, Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and Milwaukee and St. Paul. Railroad Gold Bon3s of the better class continue to be sought after by investors. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 92 N. Y. Central Cs, 1887 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 98 N. Y. Central Cs, Sub'n 88 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 N. Y. Con. 7s, con. 76 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 — Erie Ist Mort, Ex 9B Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 93 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 BB Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 Bl Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 75 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. lstM, '77 — Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, Hod. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 1011 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 100 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 l2B Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 128 Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 93 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 96 111. Cen. 7p. e '7O 1201 Alton & T. H. lst M Alton &T.H. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc 77 Han.& St.J. LandGrantsloB Ran. & St. J. Con 107 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 118 Chi. & N. West, S. F — Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 99 Chi. & N. W. Ist M 9ll Express Stocks have been much excited throughout the week, under the completion of new arrangements as to routes and rates, but to-day have not maintained the ad vance of the past few days. Adams American Merckants' Union 4l+ to 411 Merchants' Union, old Stock l5 to 15+ Chi. & N. W. Int B — Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex B3l Gt. Western 2d M '93 77 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. lst M — Gal. & Chic. Ext 100 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 96 Chi. & R. I. Ist M 101 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 99 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 101 N. J. Central Ist M 100 N. J. Central 2d M 100 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. lst M 105/ Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch.2d M 9B I Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3d M 66 Cleve. & Pitts. 4th M 76 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc 97/ Chic. &Alton, S.F.lstM 104 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M 931 Mil. & St. Paul 2d 83 Marietta & Cin. Ist M B9 Morris & Essex lat M — Morris & Essex 2d M 961 Joliet & Chic. Ist M — Chi. & Gt. East'n lstM — N. Y. &N. 11. 65..... 951 Dubuque &S. City,let M. Peninsula Ist M Ohio & Miss. let M 95 Ohio & Miss. Con B4 Tol. P. W. let M. E. D B4/ Atlantic & G. W. 2d M. United States Wells, Fargo, and Co 3ll to 32 Miscellaneous Stocks do not show much activity, ex cept in Pacific Mail, which continues to show much variation. N. Y. Central l93} Erie Hudson Reading Mich. South. & N. -- Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 9B+ North-West North-West Preferred 96 Canton... 621 Rock Island Jleveland and Toledo Fort Wayne Pacific Mail B6i Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 331 Boston Water Power l6 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers lO9l M & St. Paul M & St. Paul Preferred 861 THE EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN RAILWAY. — Thirty-five miles of rails are laid, so that cars will run this week over the entire line to Hart's Mills, 42 miles from St. John West, where the Frederickton branch con nects with the main line. This branch is being rapidly completed. From Hart's mills to the line of the New Brunswick and Canada Railroad Company, to Woodstock, a distance of 40 miles, the grading is so far in progress that the rails will be laid the present year over the entire distance, and to within six miles of the Maine boundary. This will leave about 60 miles of new line to build next year to connect the two ends of the link remaining, be tween the mouth of the Mattawankeag and the line of the Canada and North Brunswick Railroad, which now runs from Calais to Woodstock. This line is to be oprned through from Bangor to St. John in the Fall of 1870. Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia bankers, report as follows on June 25 : Pennsylvaniaßailroad shares, 561 56i ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 100 100; ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage, 951 96. MR. MORRIS, DR. HO [PE, AND THE EDITOR O 1 THE "DIPLOMATIC REVIEW." Our attention for the first time was yesterday called to an article headed "Russia, England, and the United States," which appeared in this paper on the 29th May last. The article was grounded on matter furnished by the Diplomatic Review, one portion of which was a letter, with out address or signature, with which we did not conned. the American 61inister at Constantinople, though the text might be construed as alluding to him, as the article com menced with a quotation from the Baltimore American, re flecting on the conduct of Mr. Morris. That item was a pure invention, and was contradicted both in the number of this paper wherein it was copied, and more pointedly afterwards on attention being attracted to it. We cannot understand why the Diplomatic Review published its letter without the address, as its readers might infer that it wag intended for the American Minister at Constantinople. The letter was written to Dr. S. G. Howe, the well-known Philhellenist of Boston, and had nothing whatever to do with his Excellency the United States Envoy, nor could he in any way have been connected with it had the Diplo matic Review added the address. In the June number of his paper, the Cretan, Dr. Howe thus answers the editor of the Diplomatic Review : " You inquire, if I' have asked myself several ques tions, as 'For whom am I working ?' I answer 'No I' for Ido not care, so that I work in the cause of freedom and righteousness. I hate not the Turks, but the oppressor. I love not the Greeks, but the oppressed. You ask, Whet business had 1 to meddle ?' In the name of humanity, what excuse, what justification, could I have had for not meddling in such a strife as tht between the oppressor and oppressed in Crete ? The a spirit which animated you in old Pelopenessus had not died out in me. It never will." From the following extract it may be gathered how highly Dr. Howe thinks of the gentleman who thus catechised him, one whose singular fidelity to an idea and energy, and persistency in working for it has made his career in life remarkable, and will yet leave a curious tale to be told by a biographer. Alluding to the generous and gallant Philhellenists, with whom were Hastings, Gordon, and Byron, he says : "Distinguished even among this band of enthusiast° was a youth of great personal beauty, intense tempera' silent, brilliant talents, and turbulent bravery. He survived the hardships of killing campaigns, and of a ghastly wound , to become a distinguished writer, and defender of Turkel , a member of the British Parliament, and editor of the Diplomatic Review." As it has appeared to some, though not to the editor of the Diplomatic Reriew himself, or we presume ho would have corrected us, that our application of his letter was to the American Minister at Constantinople, we the we! e pointedly draw attention to our own article, desiring " show that the letter had no reference at all to Mr. Morris , while the intelligence extracted from the Baltimor e American was invented, we presume, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Baltimore, though it is said that it came from Washington, but certainly it was not news froo Constantinople.—Anglo - American Times. [A DVER TISEMENT. ]—Holloway's Pills.—lmpurit i es 01 - the Blood.—To ensure health it is absolutely nocessarl that the fluids and solids of the human body should be kept from those impurities which are continually getting admission into the system by erroneous living, unwhole: some atmosphere, or disordered stomach. The only se ie and certain way to expel all impurities is to take way's Pills, which have the power of cleansing the blood from all noxious matters and at the same time removing any irregularities which their presence may have alreaqi produced in any or gan . H o ll oway ' s Pill s ex pel n' h. humours which taint or i mpover i s h th e bl oo d, vt,„, ll , i t they purify and invi gora t e an d g i ve genera l tone. are applicable to all alike—young or old, robust or ' la licate. BIRTHS. t a TOWER— On the 9th inst., at Thremhall P r i or y, Stane d . e- Essex, the wife of Major F. Tower, of a son. et/ WYNDHAM —On the 10th inst., at 42, Charlwood-B,,tr South Belgravia, the wife of Fl orence W yn dhatn, x' s " . " of twin sons. AIARRIAGES. HARDCASTLE—CAMPBELL—C ti the Bth illSt , at Ob ri D St Church, Mayfair. Joseph Alf re d H ar d cas tl e , Esq. , Ltt for Bury St. Edmund's, to the Hon. Mary Scar Campbell. t O'CONNELL —SITAR.T—On the Bth inst , at Batharergir Wm. B. O'Connell, s on o f th e l a t e Lieut.-Genera of Maurice O'Connell, KAI, to Mary Janet, daughter the late Gen. the lion. Sir Patrick Stuart, G.C.3I•G" DEATHS. Ect. MAINWARING— On the 9th inst., at Christ's Hospital , win George Mainwaring, Warden, aged 38. of TINKLER— On the Bth inst., George Joseph Tinkler, In a t ' years of the late fi rm of Tinkler and Co Old Bon -0 London, aged 80. ;Eng W S ' London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM - of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office N 0.112, in the Precinct of the Sayoy, ii the Gpuuty Qf Aitcl4l/," MAW, Ally 12, 1869. ~ t. -