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

PA TLIAMT.:‘: - TARY AND k177171 1 .'11 - -_ , IL ELEOPIONS COMMITTEr, The select committee inquiring into the mode of conduct ing parliamentary and municipal elections resumed its sitting on Tuesday. The bon. members present were the Marquis of Hartington (inthe chair), Mr. W. Hunt, Mr. G. Hardy, Sir George Grey, Mr. Bright, Sir M. Beach, Mr. E. Egerton, Mr. - Locke, Mr. S. R. Graves, Mr. T. S. Cross, Mr. W. H. Smith, The O'Connor Don, Mr. Whit bread, Mr. Dalglish. Mr. Verdon, lately a member of the Government of Victoria, Australia, gave evidence as to the mode of con dgcting elections in that colony. The Ballot was intro duced thirteen years since. The nomination was no longer public, but was done by a written paper, which was required to be cigned by ten electors and delivered to the returning officer within given dates. Each candidate had to declare that he would serve if elected ; and had to make a deposit, which was forfeited if he failed to receive one-fifth of the number of votes obtained by the successful candidate. The Government undertook the ordinary expenses of elections, the hiring of boothsand printing of notices. The candidates bore the expenses of canvassing and distributing addresses. If more persons were nominated than there were vacancies to be filled up, the returning-officer proceeded to take votes. The voting was by ballot. On the voter present ing himself at the polling-booth, if his name appeared on the roll, he received a paper bearing a number corresponding with his number on the roll. He then went into a room large enough to hold only one man at a time, and so constructed that what he did could not be overlooked. He struck out of the paper the name of the candidate for whom he did not vote, then folded the paper so as to conceal both the' names and the number, and deposited it in the ballot-box. No one was permitted to be in the room where thepolling took place, except the returning officer or his deputy, the poll-clerk, and the scrutineers, one for each candidate. After the election, in case of a scrutiny on petition, it would be ascertained how a voter voted by referring ' to the number on the paper and comparing it with the • roll. The returning-officer, however, and the scrutineers made a declaration of secrecy, and opened the voting-papers in such a way that the number (which was on the back) could not be seen. At the close of the poll the votes were counted, and the papers sealed up in parcels. They were not again opened unless a scru tiny took place. lases had occurred in which petitionshad been presented, and votes had been disallowed ; but the scrutiny was kept as secret as possible. The use of the ballot had much conduced to promote purity and order. A witness from South Carolina was called, and stated that, having seen several contested elections in England he considered the system adopted in this country far, superior to that which was carried out in the State from which he had come, both as regarded freedom from corruption and the facility with which bribery was detected. LAW AND POLICE. THE Pim= Mans.—ln the Court of Chancery, on Tuesday, the Lords Justices heard an appeal from Vice- Chancellor-James, relative to the Phcenix Mills, near Wakefield. The company of Joseph Horner and Sons (Limited), purchased the business of Messm josepli Horner and Sons in March 1E66, by a contract with Mr. Richard Horner, the vendor, the property being valued at £25,000. Mr. Richard Horner was to receive part of the purchase money in 500 shares. The company was wound up, and after some litigation between the par ties, the Vice-Chancellor ordered the purchase to be set aside, and declared the 500 shares subscribed for by Mr. Horner to be contributory shares, on which be was liable for £5,000. Mr. Horner appealed. The Lords Justices, after deciding that the contract of purchase could not stand, the valuation having been only super fcially made, held that as the contract was void, so it must be reckoned that- nothing had been paid on the shares for which Mr. Horner bad subscribed the memo randum of association, and he must, therefore, be held liable as contributory. The appeal was refused, with costs. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. —ln the Court of Common Pleas, on Tuesday, an action was brought by a master plasterer to recover compensation for injuries received on the Metropolitan Railway. The injuries *ere not denied, and the counsel agreed to submit the question of damages. to the decision of his lordship.— Damages £l5O. SHARP PRACTICE.—At Marlborough-street Police -court, on Tuesday, a broker was summoned fur neglecting to account for the proceeds of a distress. The complainant owed Ils. 3d., and the defendant seized goods to the value of £l5: He sent a claim for expenses also, which came to three times the sum for which the dibtraillt had been put ALL. Ale WaS Lin amount that the sale had realised, minus the rent, with costs. THE STRIKE AT WEARMOUTH COLLIERY.—At the Sun derland Police : court, on Tuesday, the case of the workmen at Wearmouth Colliery came en for hearing. The court was crowded to excess. The charge 'against one of the defendants was gone into, and it havinz been shown tnat ne had signed a contract, and broken it by absenting himself from work, the magistrates ordered him to com ply with the bond, or, in default, One month's imprison ment. An application for appeal laving been made Le magistrates look a furtnii,Lt to considerit Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council, to be held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, Downing-street, on Saturday. The Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has subscribed £lO to the memorial church which is about to be erected at Cowley, near Oxford, to the memory of Archbishop Longley ; the Bishop of St. Asaph gives £250, and the present Archbishop gives £lO to the same object. The incumbent of the parish is treasurer to the fund, and donations may be paid into the Old Bank at Oxford. AGRARIAN OUTRAGE NEAR MuLLIN —Two men have been arrested in Mullingar on suspicion of being of the party who on Sunday afternoon, the 13th inst., armed with heavy bludgeons, crossed Lough Owel in a small boat, and, landing near the village of Ballinatid, proceeded to a public-house kept by alfrs. M'Cormaclr, where they entered and called for drink. After a little time, and having ascertained that a servant man of Mrs. M'Cormack's, named Wm. Russell, was at the neigh bouring village of Bunbruera, a couple of miles distant, two of the party, strangers, left the house, and watched their unfortunate victim until he got . some few hundred yards from the village, when they suddenly pounced upon him and beat him in a savage manner, inflicting severe wounds on his head and other parts of his body. The origin of the murderous outrage is that Russell assisted, as far as in .his power, to describe the party who fired at a man, named Cassidy, in October last, and whose life was attempted for holding possession of a small portion of land at Walshestown. EXTRAORDINARY CONTRACTING FOR WORK.- The system of contracting for work has just been pushed to an extraordinary length in Leeds. A small society . required some letterpress printing fOr an entertainment about so be got up. Tenders for the work were asked for, and several printers sent in their estimates. One, who appeared determined to have the job, no matter at what price, saved himself the trouble of calculating the cost by offering to execute the required work at " 10 per cent. below the lowest estimate!" The committee, to their honour lie it said, declined to accept'this generous offer. They wrote to the person who made the offer, and told him that he must send in a given amount for the work. He did so. His estimate was found ten per cent. higher than the lowest of the other estimates! The inference is obvious. The committee, by their very proper conduct, prevented the printer from undertaking work by which he would have lost, according to his own spewing, twenty percent. ! Leeds Eliciting Express. SERIOD S VELOCIPEDE ACCIDENT. —A serious accident has happened at Armathwaite, about twelve miles south of Carlisle, to Mr. Whitehead, of Beechill, Saddlewortb, near Oldham. In the afternoon Mr. White head arrived at Armathwaite Castle. After tea he went out to practise a bicycle, in the use of which he was quite a novice. He was in the act of propelling the machine when his foot slipped off the crank and became entangled with the lever by which the wheels are worked. The con sequences were very serious. Mr. Whitehead's leg was violently doubled up, his ancle was dislocated, and some broken bones protruded_ through the tie:b. Mr. White head was removed to the Castle, and surgical assistance was fetched from Carlisle. Accoi dirs. to the latest ac counts- the unfortunate gentleman is progressing favour. ably. Tug PC.BLIC HEALTH, —The rate of mortality in London was 20 per 1,00 last week, rs compared with a rate of 23 in 13 other lar;.;c towns of the United Kingdom. in the metropolis 1,784 births and 1,236 deaths were registered, the latter having been "less by ;':G than the estimated nemher. The dtaths from zymotiO diseases were 230, the corrected average number being 318. Three persons died from smallpox, from measles, GO from scarlet fever, G 'rot/. diphtheria, 93 from whooping - cough, 19 iom typhus fever, 19 from enteric fever, 9 from simple tinned fever, and 17 from diarrhoea. One hundred and seventy-one deaths occurred from phthisis, (..;9 from bron chitis, and 59 from pneumonia. The correct average number of deaths from phthisis is IGS, from bronchitis 77, and from pneumonia 61. The mean temperature during the week was 51'3, or more than seven degrees below the average. Between the- highest day and the lowest night temperature there was a rangiexceecling 33 degrees. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE LATE DIVISION. The London correspondent of the Manchester' Guardian describes the Conservative party as quite prostrated by the recent division. Neither side expected anything like the majority actually obtained. Ministers, as we happen to know, did not reckon upon more than fifteen. The surplus appears to have been due to a miscalculation on the part of the Conservative Whips, •who allowed many more absentees than they ought to have done. It was intended by the Opposition that the Government should win by a nose ; instead of that it won by a neck. The cor respondent has no doubt that the retention of the glebes and parsonages by the :clergy, and the pro vision of others for the Roman Catholic priests and the Presbyterian Ministers, will be pressed upon the Government, and thinks that while Government could not consistently with its pledgei on the hustings make the proposal, it will not resist it if enforced by a majority of the Upper House. No one believes that the bill will pass in its present shape. The Earl of Shaftesbury writes to the Record explaining why he did not vote. He was kept from the House of Lords during the greater part of the week through a bereavement. When he went clown on Friday, intending to speak, he found that the list of speakers was arranged for the whole evening. Ilia intention was to record " a protest against the bill." The will of the nation, he remarks, had reduced the constitutional action of the House of Lords to nothing but a protest. TILE AMENDMENTS ON TUE BILL. Earl Grey is the first to move an amendment to the Irish Church 13i11. It is a radical amendment, and will attempt to set aside one of the primary principles of the bill, that no part of the surplus Church funds shall be devoted to the teaching of religion or to the maintenance of churches or - clergy. There is no doubt that a very large number of peers on both sides of • the House are favourable to Lord Grey's proposition. Even the Bishop of St.. David's has expressed his preference for levelling up, and so have Earl Russell, the Duke of Cleveland, and many other of the peers who supported the bill. The form that this principle will probably assume is that of giving the present glebes and parsonages to their present occupants and their successors, and pro viding others for the Roman Catholic priests. This would be thoroughly in accordance with Pitt's inten tions, who indeed was prepared togomuch farther than this. It remains to be seen if thecountry is so violently opposed to any sort of provision for the Roman Catholic clergy as to compel the Government to resist this amendment. The indifference with which the Maynooth compensation clause has been viewed would imply that there is no such strong feelina.. There is no doubt that the Government, notably Mr. Bright and Mr. Bruce, would like such an arrange ment: Meanwhile the Ministerial journals are feel ing the public pulse by suggesting the proposal, without committing themselves to it. The Irish Chure.h.Bill is still giving. active employ- ment to speculative politicians, and several correspon, dents of the Times are ready with suggestions for improvement. Mr. Tighe Hamilton notices two. features in the debate in the Lords—the absence of any serious defence of the details by thel\flnisterialists; and the . tendency, perceptible on both sides, to favour the principle of. concurrent endowment. Mr Hamilton himself strongly upholds this principle, and would give a parochial endowment to the laity of each religious creed, treating the question in an economic and social, not in .a religious, sense. He would provide a respectable resi dence and such quantity of land as will yield the comforts of life for the clergy of each religious denomination in each parish, and is especially anxious that such endowments shall be made to the laity for the use of their clergy, not to the clergy them: selves. The ecclesiastics of the Romish Church have often refused such offers, hilt the people would not, he thinks, refuse it for them. Only by such an altera ation will the Church Bill, in Mr. Hamilton's opinion, satisfy the - Irish. Sir Charles Trevelyan, writing as 'CO. - E. T.," advo cates a similar scheme. He would out of the surplus church funds assign a, sufficient sum to provide suit able houses for the clergy of the three great divisions of the Irish Christian Church.—" A Conservative Peer" thinks that any one-sided action must result in failure, and would like to .see adequate provision for the Anglican Church, full compensation for the Presbyterians, and the endowment of the Romer Catholic clergy with glebes and residences. Another correspondent dislikes the appropriatiOn of the surplus to hospitals and lunatic asylums, and would prefer to see the money laid out in official residences for the national schoolmasters, so that there is no lack of schemes and suggestions ready to be argued on the reopening of the question. A WARNING' OR A PROPHECY ? -- • The -Daily Telegraph says: " It is thouglA if the Lords should handle the details of the Irish Church Bill in a practical spirit, with a view to business-like progress, the session may be brought to a close by the first week in August. But if, on the contrary, they should - such alterations in committee as would raise comnlieqted ouestioul w; 4l - toe (louse of Commons, the session coma not pos sibly terminate until a considerably later . period.' In other words, if their lordships behave themselves they will 'be able to book themselves for the limited mail to the North for the week ending August 11th If they are frletious they will be compelled to spend the sacred 12th August (more sacred by far than the Orangemen's 12th July) in London, instead of upon the Scotch moors. A BISHOP'S PLAN FOR CHURCH F.:XTENSION. The Bishop of Lichfield on Monday addressed a meeting, at Derby, to consider the best means of increasing the number of churches in his diocese The Duke of Devonshire, who presided over th( meeting, having spoken of the want of churches in . the diocese and the need of money to build, thf Bishop, who followed his Grace, impressed upon ills bearers the value of house-to-house visitations They should go from house to house for money, and though they only got at each place small donations little things mounted up to large ones. If the plan he advocated were adopted they would soon hay, churches sufficient for their need. DISESTADLISIIMENT. ---- - The House of Oommoiis was enlivened a little on Monday night by a debate on the disestablishment of a metropolitan church. The church of All Sain Bishops gate, has a large endowment, a complete array of clergy, and next to no congregation. The extension of the Great Eastern Railway renders it necessary to remove the building • and, since the wor shippers 'dwindled down to a mere handful 11R S been proposed that th e compensation money from the railti , ay company should be levoted to the erection, not of another church, but of new schools. In order, however, that no cause of complaint may be given to the fifteen or twenty people who worship at All Saints, chapel will be added to the schools for the celebra tion of Divine service on Sundays. A bill to effect that purpose was sanctioned by the EcclesiaStical Commissioners, and by the late Bishop of Loudon, now Archbishop of Canterbury ; it was not opposed by the present Bishop of London ; and it was passed through the Upper House. But on the third read ing in the Lower House it was opposed. Somebody seems to have feared that this was but getting in the lever by which the English :Qhurch, as a whole, would be overthrown. A House, however, which has passed the Irish Church Bill would hardly be likely to be- frightened by a cry .of sacrilege when the bishops have sanctioned the proposed secularisa . F.Ln. So the bill was passed by at teverrtclming majority. . . CLERICAL PROSECUTIONS. Five members of the Episcopal Bench are 1 act indulging in the costly luxury of a cleriez.q vnsecu.- t:on. The Archbishop of York said the oT,nec d y that he had three in hand—that of Mr. Voysey for heresy is one of them ; the others are not stated. The •Bishop. of London is about to prosecute Mr. Lowder for non-compliance with the. Ritual judg ment; the Bishop of Bath and Wells, it is now Stated, is prosecuting Mr. Bennett, of Frome, for - t eac hing the doctrine of the Iteal Presence, though we had supposed this duty devolved upon the Bishop of London; the Bishop of Chichester is pro secuting Mr. Purchas, of Brighton, and the Bishop of 'Winchester Mr. Wix, of the Isle of Wight, for Ritualism. It will be seen that the High Church the way, set the eaamplo of appeal ing pantyto (who,the by aw courts) are having a by no means easy time. DUBLIN ELECTION. There is a very sore feeling in Dublin about the continued suspension of the writ. It appears that fifteen freemen were proved to have been bribed at the last election, and Justice Keogh intimated his belief that a good many more of the same claw of electors had been guilty of the same offence. Con sequently there are three courses open to the Government : to order the - Attorney-General to prosecute the few rascals who have been named ; to proceed by the old law of a joint address to the Grown to appoint a commission of inquiry; to. pass the bill of fir George Grey disfranchising them without investigation; or to do nothing at all. The first of these courses would achieve no perceptible good, a-nd the last wouhl be a shameful falsification of all !iie prom ises of purity made by the late Parliament. E L +. a cornmiss:on of inquiry, undsr,the old sOt e ute, wou j hardly be refused by the Upper House, and the iss:le of the writ might remain suspended until nil the d,ilinquents were discovered and struck off the electi,v roll. The disfranchisement of the al freemen en .niasse , would have a very disastrous effect just now, for they are chiefly Protestants . of the upper ana middle class, who, residing out of twin, would not replaced on the voters' list as and as parties are very householders or led E cfers; evenly balanced in the Irish metropolis. their dis- SUN, - LONDON7-417 - Mii - ESDAY -- - E VENOM, - JUNE - 23, - franchimment would give a c:ear majority to tno Catholics. Though not intended to have a sectarian effect, the bill -would certainly be so regarded by the Protestants just now exasperated beyond measure by the disestablishment of their Church. Things are quite hot enough as it is in Ireland without thus adding fuel to the flame. trotiblo sometimes, and it is a VII , tnat tno ounoxvitzo Haggerty could not have found another job, and the.. worthy Duff left in peace. LEGISLATION IN CANADA. Some of the Canadian legislators propose to try an experiment which has never found favour with European jurists. Theyhave drawnup abillto inflict thepunishment of fine or imprisonment—two years being the maximum of the latter penalty—for the offence of deceiving a woman under promise of marriage. There must be corroborative evidence, and subsequent marriage may be urged as a valid defence. ZE 69 the. Cuban Juntainieriiret favourably to themselves, and they-laugh at the: Spanish reports .of captured cannon as bearing absurdity on their face. The recognition by the Peruvian Government as belli gerents is also a matter of congratulation, as Chili, Equador,and Bolivia are likely to follow suit - . There is a rumour that an East River shipbuilder has ac cepted a contract from Cuban agents for the hulls of two small steamers capable of being turned nto gunboats. The Russia sailed on Wednes day, with 150 passengers ; in the • Allenzania, bound for .Hamburgh, via Southampton, are Mr. Thomsen, Our Consul to that port, John M. Francis, of the Troy Times, and Signor Cerutti, the Italian Minister. The Perin returned from her filibuster , ing tour laSt Saturday, though she reported herself as coming from Jamaica. The Manhattan arrived on Wednesday with 1,230 passengers ; she might have had twice the number could she have accom modated them. Although the week has been singu larly bare of "sensational" rumours affecting Wall street, - there wag g ono opt Thursday in the Evening Post, by no. means a sensational paper. Its Wash ington correspondent asserts that the Republican party in that city intend to give a spur to the autumn elections by raising a loud cry against Eng-, land 'on the Alabama question, They suppose that this will give a zest to the campaign, and drewn any cry the Democrats can raise. The Times censures such a mad project, considering the question of peace or war too serious to be played with to forward the interests of politicians. They, as a general rule, care nothing . fOrlieSults beyond attaining the object they seek ; but others! who have an interest in the honour and welfare of their country, do, and are sufficiently powerful ,to put an extinguisher over such men when they , look like making tracks in the wrong direction. A few have not forgotten what they got by their repudiation cry, and the quantity of their own words they had to swallow in the :va'Weffort to get them out of the way. We have had ,little sensational drama, or farce, or whatever it: may .be called, in which Mr. George Butler, nephewpf General Butler, took the most active part, and Mk. Alexander Hendersonthe most pasiive ; the former is the dramatic critic of the Spirit of the limes, and the other is the manager of the Lydia Thompson burlesque troupe. Mr. Butler has erected himself into the eensor of the stage,. and -has • determined, 'in that charac ter, to put down blondes in scant costume, a vicious fashion imported from England. He at tacked Mr. Henderson for what he calls his crimes' against society, as a public duty with his pen, and as Mr. Henderson answered him in much the same language in a speech at a theatrical dinner, wherein the theatrical editor of Wilkes' Spirit was termed a "liar" and a "scoundrel," he attacked him in his private behalf with, a stick. This he did last Saturday night at Nible's after the curtain had fallen, at the door connecting the stage with the oratorium... He wanted the manager to go in front of thetheatre, but as Mr. Henderson decidedly objected to go out to be beaten, he violently assaulted him there. Two actions were brought by Henderson against Butler on Thursday at the Jefferson Market Court, 'the one 'for libel, the other for assault and battery. In the,first case Butler was bailed in $l,OOO to answer at the General Sessions, and incs3oo on the second charge. Mr. Butler declares — he means.to fight:4 oat at law squarely to the end: Several editors left on a trip over the Pacific Rail ' road to San Francisco last Thursday, among whom was the agent of : the Associated Press. The-Woman movement is still active; Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Cady Stanton, - and others like it, and keep the ball rolling. A meeting was held at the Woman's Bureau, Twenty-third-street, on Tuesday, denounc ing the injustice of enfranchising negroes and igno rant foreigner. 4, and leaving women as slaves, which the adoption of the XVth Amendment would do. The fair sex were congratulated on the Methodists having'recognized woman's right to preach, a reso lution was passed favouring the education of girls as welt as boys in the Free Academy, and next day Miss Anthony waited on the Board of Eiucation, urging that New York College be thrown open to girls as 'well as boys, this fact entitling them that women paid taxes equally with men. The value of railroad freights in America- in 1867 was $10,472,250,000 ; or four times the national debt on 39,000 miles of railroad ; the average annual in-. crease for the ten years preceding was V 37,000,000. da is esmnaceu twat, in Lam, ta.tet - v,ouv miles, which will transport 140,000,000 tons of freight, valued at $20,000,000,000 ; while the pop ulati. n . will then be 50,000,000. WASHINGTON, June 4 Dr. Mary Walker and Professor Willcox have been lecturing here on the Rights of Women ; but they do not seem to make much impression, for the judges of election have, through Mr. Wilcox, in formed the delegiltion of ladies who applied to register as voters that the Board, as by law directed, refuse • their applielVion, Ivhile refraining from ex pressing any opinion as to their rights ; Mr. Cross man was; however, an exception-to this, for he pro nounced their claim just,' and thought they ought to be registered. Then the Professor with dignity desired his. name to be stricken from the list, as he felt that many of the rejected ladies were more corn pstent to vote than he, andit_Would be unfair in him to exercise a power unjuStlMenied to them. A circu lar is going about invitingsdiatinguished women to organize a Parliament wili7)lF. would legislate on subjects of vital interest CO' iliern and their children. Among these objects are public education, prisons and reform schools, hygienic and sanitary reforms, female labour, domestic economy, and dishonesty in public life: It will have nothing to do with " Woman's Rights," directing its attention to wo men's duties and the best way to perform them ; any woman can become a voter on the payment of $1 as a pOll-tax to defray the expenses. Dr. Mary Walker called on Mr. Tullock, appointment clerk of the Treasury ; hence, I presume-, she was not successful in her late efforts with Gen. Sickles to be appointed Secretary of Legation to Spain. It is a pity she did not get the post Professor Willcox has resigned in the Treasury Department, that his in dividual attention might be given to Woman Suf frage.. On this occasion Mrs. Dr. Walker took the precaution of being accompanied by Mrs. Dr. Lock wood,, and she was therefore ready for battle had another Mrs. Gaines appeared. Mr. Borie has issued an order.prohibiting subjects of a politi cal nature to be discussed by visitors to the navy yards.: He has-sent instructions to Admiral Rowan, commanding our ASiatic squadron, to give all the aid and protection he can in laying the cable of the East Indian Telegraph Company, and Captain Alexander Murray proceeds to China to help in taking sound ings, and making preliminary surveys. Despatches from the Rear-Admiral have been received to 15th April,-wherein is announced the death of the Eng lish o:fficer commanding in Canton, his funeral being attended by all our naval officers on the spot. Henceforward a captain is to wear four half-inch stripes of gold lace on his coat sleeve, commanders three, and staff officers according to their relative rank. An English ex-M.P., an earnest friend of the Union at all times and seasons, wrote some time ago from Manchester to the Treasury Department on the subject of the high rate paid for the Five-Twenty Bonds. Considering Six per Cent. gold inte rest to be twice as much as ought to be given, and being Willing to take half, he sent fromPenunsylvania, where he now is, a $l,OOO 5-20 Bond, and seven $3O coupons as a rebate to Government, desiring that the interest should be hereafter adjusted to what he thought right, namely, Three per Cent. Sec retary Boutwell, in reply, thanked him for his ge nerosity, and invited him to Washington to consi der the subject; but the New York Herald, with cha racteriitic impudencs, calls our English benefixtor a lunatic. '1 he registration list of voters was com pleted on Tuesday, and it is evident that the Republi cans will be successful, although a close contest is ex• pected. The officers to be elected are a register, a collector, and a surveyor. The Republicans have nominated a coloured citizen of considerable means, for collector, and an Irishman named Donegan for surveyor. The National Committee appointed last winter by the Coloured Convention are at work, and have prepared an address to the Rhode Island Legislature on the ratification of the XVth Amend ment,and letters to Hayti and Liberia urging the moval of the word " white" from their Constitutions and laws, whereby white men are prohibited from becoming. citizens or holding real estate, no injury to be mourned over by the descendantS of 'Japhet. A resolution of sympathy with the Cuban Repub licans was also passed. The case of Douglass (Ju nior) and the Printers' Union has not yet been set tled, but it is likely soon to be decided in his favour, for a reply has been received from the Denver Typo graphical Union (to which the objection to him raised was that he had been refused admission), that he was considered respectable, a good cit izen, and a good prin ter, though working in an anti-Union office, and not belonging to that Union. Fifteen more composi tors have been discharged from the Government Printing-office, in consequence of the growing scarcity of work ; all the correspondence and papers relating to the Alabama claims will soon be finished, making up 16 books of 400 pages each, including three British Blue-books, and containing also all about other claims. Robert Penman (despairing of a printer's future), in view of this end of the Ala bama correspondence, jumped into the canal in Sixth-street, and drowned himself ; he belonged to the Printers' Union, and was a Knight Templar. Colonel R. M. Douglas, of the President's Saff, - lef ton Monday evening to attend the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs. Granger, who died at that place on Saturday, aged eighty years, The steamer Tallapoosa has returned from Fortress Monroe, with Gen. Sherman and party,and sailed again on Thursday for Annapolis with the Presidential party. The Hon. Ben Wade, who has been at Boston attending the election of the Directors of the Union Pacific Rail road, remained here for two days, but left on Tues day evening. He accepted the Directorship of the Union Pacific Railroad offered to him by the Presi dent some time ago, and came here to look after some Ohio appointments. The incumbents of the remain ing two places appointed by Andrew Johnson left in New York City, are Supervisor Dutcher and Collec tor of Internal Revenue Fields. First, there h the pressure to get them ousted, but not waiting till they are out, there is a greater pressure from those striving to get into their places. George Wilkes, the editor of the Spirit of the Times, was once thought to be the most prominent candidate for the latter post. Touching the Spirit, I may remark that young Butler, its dramatic critic, a nephew of General Butler, collided with Henderson, the entre preneur of the Lydia Thompson troupe. Mr. Butler used rather strong language in the columns of the Spirit on Henderson, who. gave back what he got in a speech at a theatridal dinner, whereon Mr. Butler beat Mr. Henderson at Niblo's theatre. The Butlers come of a fighting stock, and naturally in .cline towards hot water. One of the office-seeking gang having failed in securing a place, called on the President to frank him back to Chicago, not a bad precedent to establish, that uncle Sam should pay for the return of these failures, after entreating them not to come; it would be like hiS redeeming the bad money put into circulation. 24 proposals for furnishing envelopes to use in the post-office De partment were opened last evening by the Postmass ter-General. The lowestbiddei W:1:2: Geo. F Nesbit of New York. Samples will be examined, and the contract shortly awarded. The settlement of Perry Fuller's case has disappointed.the scandal-mongers, as an exposé of the lobby was anticipated. Gen. Ew ing, since the arrival of the ex-Collector from New. Orleans, desired to settle the matter out of Court. to - which Fuller at first strongly objected, though be . appears at last to have succeeded, for Judge Olin dismissed the case, ordering the $82,000 to be deposited with a trustee for distribution. That sum was the amount of vouchers for Indian goods sold to the First National Bank of Arkansas, 'of which Gen. Thomas Ewing, his brother Charles, and other partners claimed $51,C00. The Ewings agreed to take, it is said, $6,000, abandoning seven ,, eighths of their claim. lam glad to inform you of the success of Mrs. Wood, the lady who made' the journey across the Continent in her husband's behalf, for Brevet-Major Charles 0. Wood, United States Army, recently sentenced to six months' suspension for striking a brother officer in Alaska, has been reinstated in the service by order of the 'President. There are rumours of a disagreement between the President and Commissioner Delano ; although doubtless untrue, it would not be asto nishing, considering the pressure to which he has been subjected for the post of Commissioner for Internal Revenue for the Sixth Congressional Dis trict of NT,nw VArk and 1- ?- r.sf These lastremns.nts of good things are being fought over and struggled for by the hungry crowd who daily arrive to push claims. Mr. Spaulding, who was appointed Consul at Honolulu, as a reward for his father's services to Andrew Johnson against Impeachment, has been superseded by Mr. Adam • son, of Louisiana. The President long refused to remove Mr. Spaulding, and when Senator Cole, of California, but the other day urged the appoint ment of a San Franeisco journalist, Mr. J. H. Riley, the President, again asserted that as Mr. Spaulding's record was good he would retain him. This action is likely to give offence in California, where they consider the appointment to be one belong ing to the Pacific slope. Five other Consuls were appointed yesterday, as well as Oscar H. Lagrange, Superintendent of the Branch Mint at San Fran cisco. Norman Wiard has eight cases before the Court of Claims, amounting to $1,200,000, and has employed Caleb Cushing and J. T. Drew as his attor neys, demanding that sum as damages for contracts arbitrarily annulled by the Government during the war. The model of Vinnie Ream's statue of Lin coln has been shipped in the New York steamer from Georgetown. Its ultimate destination is Italy, where it is to be turned into marble; our artists there will form a fine group around it, and learn valuable lessons in art. There is a §report that a bill for $60,000 was paid by our Government through the Barings for telegraph messages, $40,000 of it being on account of the Alaska pur chase. The company charged for each figure now used as cyphers, the full sum for a word, a charge the Government disputed. The Jubilee Coliseum in Boston is rapidly ap proaching completion, and will be in readiness some days before the Jubilee. The large room at the north-east corner is to be appropriated to the use of the Executive Committee, and the Secretary of the Jubilee Association, Mr. Henry G. Parker, is to have an (Ace adjoining. The apartment at the north -west corner will be a reception room for distinguished guests. The press head-quarter tors comprise very spacious accommodation at the left of the St. James-avenue entrance, on the east side. One end of this room will be used as a telegraph office, and Colonel Wood has men at work preparing for its early occu pancy. Four wires will be introduced, and messages may be sent during the Jubilee in any required direction. The arrangements for the reporters will be of the most ample character, and probably a. larger number will be pre sent than ever before assembled in the country. Tables will be provided with every convenience for writing, a registry kept of the representatives of the press in attend ance, and liberal provision made to enhance their comfort. The four largo apartments in the south end of the building, two of which are extremely spacious, will be used as retir ing-rooms, &c., for the chorus and orchestra, the two upon the east side by the ladies, and those upon the west side by the gentlemen. A large room upon the Dartmouth street side, about midway of the building, has been fitted up for the steam fire engine, and sleeping accommoda tions will be given the firemen (who will be in constant attendance during the five days and nights of the Jubilee), in an apartment connected therewith. Horses will be kept in readiness in an adjacent building, not more than 50 feet distant. A hose carriage, with 600 feet of hose, already occupies a place under the rear balcony, at the right of the main entrance, in readiness for instant use. Four gas meters, each of which is almost large enough for a tenement, were placed in the building on Tuesday, Juno 1. To afford additional light, two circular windows, 18 feet in diameter, have been placed -in the ends of the building at the height of nearly 100 feet, which gave a more finished appearance to the structure. The lower range of windows are already in, and also some of the upper range. Workmen have been engaged in" flock ing" the glass where the sun's rays arc likely ti strike through to the interior, which has the effect of ground glans. The chorus seats are being constructed, which will con sist of settees, made on the s?ct. Cltir 3 will be p rovided in the parquet, and also in the balconie s. as far as practic able. The paiuters are at work upon the outside of the building, but have nearly completed their task. The up right walls aro painted a neutral tint, and the pilasters, win dow-caps, and sills. the brackets and the eaves, forming the projection, are a darker tint, which throws them into bold relief.' The only painting inside is upon the central lines of pillars, which have been given a salmon tint to harmo nize with the decorations. ei ri n ' g he co l n s s ft. promenade ti.uc upon ed,andonb t completed. Coliseum--is nearly side— thatg is upon , outside of t t i h te e (.3 b l u s i t ld o i f n An extensive village of temporary wooden structures of all sizes and of all forms of ugliness have sprung up around THE CROPS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. In the Noah of Ireland this year the potato crop promises to be one of the finest since 1842. Very little disease, and a heavy and healthy crop, make the lands in which this -root is growing the most 'encouraging of all the farmer possesses. The wheat in the North is also very fine. Tho Northern Whig says that throughout the counties of Down, Antrim, and Armagh, which produce two-thirds of all the wheat that is annually-raised in the province, the prospects of ample yield are exceedingly favour able. No complaints are heard of the oat crop, which was got in at a good time, and is now doing well. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The meeting of the Itoyal Agricultural Society takes place this year at Old Trafford, near Man chester. For nearly three months past a corps of seventy or eighty men have been employed in the construction of the wooden and canvas town destined for OccupatiOn during, single - week in July. These men will still bo busily employed for one or two weeks, and before they have • finished their labour will have constructed nearly 20,000 feet of 20-feet wide shedding, in fitting, up which more than a thousand loads of timber have been used. About 12,000 feet of shedding will be contained in the implement blocks, about 3,000 feet will be devoted to cattle, and upwards of 2,000 to sheep and pigs. EXEMPTIONS FROM RATES AND TAXES. Mr. Hare, well known in connection with a scheme for parliamentary representation, writes to the Daily News on the taxation of Sunday-schools. He thinks it important to examine the principle of the measure that was lately before the House of Commons on the subject. Many people seem to consider taxation to be a sort of penalty on those who are charged, rather than a contribution to the general expenses of the nation. the effect of the measure for exemPting Sunday and ragged-schools from parochial rates will be to impose the rates upon the rest of the property of each parish. Mr. Ham thinks that this is unjust, because people must share the burthen, whether they will or no. 110 believes that it would be better to give the money in the shape of a national grant, and it might then be ascertained how far the schools merited aid. He also states that every session will witness fresh exemptions for favoured institutions if a precedent is established. Another evil is that the representatives of the people will deceive themsolVes, and think they are assisting the poor by such trivial legislation. They will find the true policy to consist in abolishing all exemptions whatever, national or local, leaving it for Parliament to vote the necessary support to those institutions which are of national benefit. THE MAINE LAW. It was recently announced that the Maine Liquor Law had been thrown out in the Upper Chamber of the Massachusetts Legislature. This statement was incorrect. The law has passed both Chambers. It is nearly identical with that which was repealedin - the Legislature of 1807-8. A DISAPPOINTMENT FOE. MIIILDEREILS. Mr. Gilpin, 11LP., States that he has been obliged reluctantly to postpone the second reading of his bill for the abolition of capital punishment until July 28. Even if it should not be rejected then, rs is most probable, it will scarcely pass a third reading this session in the Commons, much less get through the House of Lords. • Intending murderers will do well. to bear this in mind. SPIRITUALISM. That such a man as Professor Varley, the elec trician, should declare his belief in spiritualiSm, has surprised slot a few, and.called forth many comments from the Press. The professor writes, vindicating his belief. He commences by the statement that there are very few,families some members of whom have not received .an, unaccountable, intuitive com munication announcing: the death of some near relative who has. departed this life, far from the friend who.has received the notice of his removal. There are great number of men, moreover, he goes on to say, - who - - will whisper privately of manifestations' which they have witnessed, but who do not care to become food for laughter by making their experiences public. Joan of Arc died declaring that she had heard voices from God spealc ingto7her. 'Wesley was a witness of the phenomena called " raps," and: some of- his family were rapping media. Swedenborg was also a conscious clairvoyant. The 'aim " mesmerists ", have been proved to be true men; and there are many medical men who at the present discuss these matters seriously, but who, from business considerations, do not care to tell to their elientg or to the world the whole truth._ _ . _ COMMON-LAW BUSINESS. The pressure of common-law business has increased so greatly that the judzes arc looking about them fur means of relief. To get rid of special business they Itadd n a t eub d rai a . tigiaTir;l l 6 - 1 - 1 - foTtlie chief of the (Vitt of Queen's Bench to try all special jury cases. But now a puisno judge is engaged in doing half the work. Clearly some means must be taken to shorten the law's delays.. THE BING= BOILER "EXPLOSION. The Times has a very strongly-worded leader on the Bingley boiler explosion. It points out that there was a double culpable negligence. The boiler was so faulty that the only wonder is the explosion was delayed so long, and the person in charj, - e of it was quite incompetent. It is almost certain that nearly all the boiler explosions are pre ventable, and that thus well-nigh eighty lives a year are sacrificed by the negligence or the parsimony of manufacturers. THE PREVENTING OF COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. The herald contained a good piece of news yester day morning. A Mr. Arthur Gilmore writes from the Carlton Club that he has discovered a lamp whose lock cannot be tampered with without causing the instant extinction of the light. If this should prove simple and cheap enough for adoption, it will be one of the most beneficial discoveries in the present decade. OUR HER 0 E£'. The Prince of Wales has joined the noble army of heroes who so gallantly do battle with pigeons. This fine, manly exercise having now received the approval of royalty, will become more popular than ever. The Prince's courage enabled him to kill five birds out of six. At the same time a match was played between the peers and the Commons, in which the first won by two birds. Cest magnitique, male ce ilest pas la guerre. BETTING IIOrSES. The Te.legraph investigates the question whether the betting agents now charged with committing an offence against the law ate or are not guilty. 'With out giving any opinion on a matter which is now sub judice, the bearing of the case may be pointed out. Messrs. Wright, Smith, and Morris, who aro charged with illegal gaming, are betting agents, i.e., they receive mon e y from certain clients, withinstruc tions how to lay, and at the post on the racing day they stake this money for their clients. If the horse on whom the stake is laid loses, of course the client loses all his money ; if the horse wins, he receives the olds, less commis sion. The section under which the agents are prosecuted prohibits the keeping of any otlice " for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of such owner, occupier, keeper, or person aforesaid, as or for the considera tion for any assurance, undertaking, or promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing, on any event or contingency of or relating to any horserace." The question is whether the agents, according to the Act, agree to give or pay anything contingently on the event of certain races. The men argue that they do not, and that they only agree to hand over money won by their client, and never in their own possession. FOREIGN NOTES. AMERICAN AID TO CUBA. The other day we announced by cable telegram that thirteen expeditions bearing aid to the Cuban insurgents had left American ports. It appears that seven of these sailed from New York. Some never reached their desti nation ; Lut the net result has been that very material assistance has been afforded to the insurrection. _Thirty thousand stand of arms, six batteries of artillery, and a large quantity of ammunition and commissary stores have been safely transported to the revolutionary camps. Some good authorities aver that the insurgent army contains snore Americans than Cubans. Well may the creoles take heart. A FENIAN CONSUL FOP. OLASCOW. Mr. James Hagge: ty, a Fenian, and not the least noisy of . that noble race, has been appointed United States Consul at Glasgow. This bestowal of an important office upon a Fenian nut unnaturally gives rise, amongst the loyal Scotch, to much wrath. Against this excitement, how ever, the New York Times protests. It . does not precisely see why the present consul, Mr. Duff, who served under General Grant, should be replaced ; but it presumes that the President knew nothing of Haggerty's antecedents, and is certain that his appointmentis no insult. "If ever Grant should intend to ' insult the British nation, he will be likely to take some other way of doing it than by sending an objection. able man to a secdnd-class consulate. Nor will General Grant take it as an insult if the British Government, for any good reason, refuse to give `'Mr. Haggerty his exequatur." Very good; but little things do give rise to REFORM IN FRANCE. " 'What will the Emperor do ?" is a question which acquires increasing interest in France, and according to those who profess to know the inner life of the Tuileries, nobody pays greater attention to this problem than the Emperor himself. The Daily News correspondent is " credibly informed" that at a Cabinet Council held on Saturday the political situation was the chief topic. It VMS agreed that the Empire had a difficult future before it, but that further concessions would be inconsistent with the safety of the Government. "However, as an effort mutt be made to rally the working classes in the large towns, M. Rouher proposes as his panacea what he terms free trade a l'interieur. The big questions of octroi duties and a redistribution of imposts hinge upon this pro gramme, which chimes in with some financial schemes over which the Emperor has been for some time ponder ing." Of course, the great difficulty to be overcome arises from the fact that the expenses of the Empire - are much greater than its receipts, and that burdens cannot be taken off one class without throwing them upon another. THE DUCHESS D'AOSTA. The wife of the young Duke D'Aosta, second . son of King Victor Emmanuel, is dangerously ill of biliary fever. She has received the last rites of the Church. Her Royal Highness, nt Princess Cisterna, has one child. THE ITALIAN REPUBLICANS. Our Rome correspondent states that Garibaldi's health is completely restored, and that he has been able to resume his agricultural employments, in which he takes great interest. A French man-of-war put into Capreia the other day, and the officers wished to visit the General, but he declined receiving them. Mazzini is said to be in Italy again- of course, in disguise ; but of this no certainty exists. Anaiglioni, the notorious conspirator, who planned the Serristori mine explosion, has been assassinated at Florence. As this patriot betrayed his comrades to save his own life, and as he has ever since 'been in hiding on the Italian frontier, it is believed that he has at length fallen a victim to Republican vengeance. THE OCCUPATION OF ROME. The issue of the French elections seems to have caused quite a panio. at Rome respecting the probable withdrawal of the French troops. Our Rome correspondent.writes that a few days ago it rose to such a height that Cardinal Antonelli telegraphed to the Nuncio in Paris for a specific answer as to the Emperor's intentions regarding the future. The answer was clear and concise. :" His Majesty contemplates no present change of policy in regard to the noly See." Notwithstanding this, there exists very little confidence in the continuance of French protection. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN ITALY. The attempted . murder of Major Lobbia remains an extraordinary mystery, even for Italy. It is alleged that the crime was instigated in order to get rid of the Major's disagreeable testimony in the affair of the Tobacco Con tract Scandal ; but there are difficulties in the way of this theory. It is true that when this scandal first arose, the Major produced in the Chamber of Deputies two sealed packets, declaring them to contain proofs of corrupt practices on the part of certain deputies, and pledged hinaSelf to give up this evidence to a committee of inquiry, if the Chamber would vote one. Since that time his steps were constantly dogged by strangers, and he received anonymous and threatening letters. But these facts do not explain the affair. The inquiry which Lobbia bad asked for had been granted, the. names of the witnesses had been disclosed, anal, in.short, the Major had done all that the corrupt deputies—if there are any— had occasion to fear previously to the attempt. There was nothing to be gained byputtinglim out of the way, for he had already done his worst. The crime remains a mystery, but it is a mystery which greatly discredits the Italian Parliament. As yet the facts respecting the corrupt practices in. connection with the tobacco monopoly negotiations have not been disclosed, and public opinion naturally paints them much blacker than perhaps they really are. Some very high personages are popularly accused. The riots at Milan seem to have been an indignation protest against this attempt. Eleven persons were arrested, and three guards and a citizen slightly injured. Quiet has, however, been restored, and several attempts to pro voke riots iu other towns have failed. THE GENERAL COUNCIL. Austria has signified her intention of allowing all the bishops to attend the Council, and has communicated this decision to Bavaria, advising her to do the same. Mgr. Fessler, Bishop of St. Ilippolyte, near Vienna, and Chief Secretary of the Counel. arrived in Rome a day or tw (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YoRK, June 5. We have experienced one of the most ridiculous positiGns in a strike among the waiters in the hotels for higher wages. At present their pay is $3O a month, and they want $35. The Brevoort, the Al bemarle, the Gramercy Park, and the Union Place Hotels have been obliged to give way, while the Fifth-Avenue, the Clarendon, the Astor, the St. Nicholas refuse, and 309 waiters have struck, their places being taken by any that could be got in the highways and byways. The men belong to a trade union numbering 1,800 members, and they are powerful enough to keep up the strike for an inde finite period, in which they have been joined by the coloured waiters. They had a meeting on Wednes day, when-a. Conference Committee Woo voted down by a large majority, as they thought tlienrst steps towards a compromise should come from the pro prietors. Even the head waiters of the Sr. Nicholas have joined the movement, and messages have been sent to Philadelphia, Boston, and Albany for waiters, while the boarders in some of the hotels had to go out for breakfast to the restaurants. About 80 men were secured by Mr. Borrow for his hotel at Long Branch. The smallpox is on the increase at Black well's Island, and people along the shores opposite the island have moved away. Rumours prevail as to the progress of the disease, but the health officers say it is • decreasing in the public institutions, and that there have been but few cases in the tenements. We have had bad .weather ; much rain, and great variation in the temperathre, which add to the death return, and tell severely on the delicate,and was parti cularly unfortunate for the Jerome races, which took place last Tuesday. Mr. Jas. Fisk (jun.) is as usual in the courts on charges of libel against Mr. Bushell, director of the Pacific Railway, and others. The slander was contained in the complaint filed by the Directors against the Erie Railroad Company. The point 'of the defence was that Fisk cannot take as against himself the libel against the Erie Corpora ' tion, and the Court ha - s reserved judgment. The President has pardoned • George Myers, who has been in Sing Sing for four months, under a sen tence to pay a fine of $250 f or p ass i n g a counterfeit greenback ; as there is little chance of his earn ing the money in Sing Sing, he has been let out. Concerning th ese par d ons an interesting case is to come before Judge Blatchford. You may remember that the Dams, the whisky thieves, were par doned by President Johnson, shortly before - he left the White House, but before it could be brought into effect General Grant succeeded, and revoked it. The Dupnys h av e sued out a writ of Habeas Corpus, and t h e quest i on w ill b e argu ed in the United States District Court whether President Grant could legally set aside his predecessor's official acts of clemency. The Grand Opera House closes to day, and oth er th eatres w ill a l so soon do so for the summer; the French piece Patrie was not the success anticipated. I n th e f a ll, it is said, a ll the places of amusement will open on a lower scale for admission. Commodore Meade has recommenced proceedings against those whom he alleges were instrumental in confining hi m i n a l una tic asylum in October, 1868, laying damages at $200,000. The case of the Quaker City continues to be agitated. The owners filed their answers to the libel on Monday, denying that she was to be fitted out as a privateer. On Thursday the owners renewed their application for the rekase of the vessel, asserting their loss by her detentiont.to b e $l,OOO a day. The matter is to be brought by th e di s t r ict attorney before Judge Blatchford, and it is thought that when the required bonds are filed the vessel will be released. The United States Marshal Barlow denies that the Arago aided in conveying the Perit's filibustering expedi tion-to Cuba, but he acknowledges that the latter vessel did carry unarmed men as passengers, and arms and ammunition as freight. This the Spanish Consul thinks to-be an admission in effect, not un like that made by the Lairds, as it concedes the matter in dispute. The action at the Bay of Nips the Coliseum. Some of these, and theta are !least n hundred, are leased at'extravagant rates, and i) °CCU- I ahts ha'-e already, in numerous instances, - o j:tied busi ness as vende r s o f so d a , b eer, and other refresi n ents. An auction sale (A l eases t oo k p l ace J une 1 . h o Morris Brothers are buildi ng a Mi ns t re l O pera H oui upon a lot northof Boylston-sareet, di rec tly oppos it e ho main en trance to the Coliseum, w hi c h w ill b e i n tb centre of the long shed-like struct ure, w hi c h i s to co t a in 13 or 20 refreshment elands. 'The building will irform be some thing like the Coliseum, and is theignecto accommodate about 1,200 persons. The bridge across the railroads at Dartmouth-street will be completed befire the opening of the Jubilee. The huge organ, which Messy. E. and G. G. Hook have built expressly fpr the Boston Peace Jubilee, was tested at a private exhibition at the Whiffs' factorY, June 1. Dr. Willeox, who is to play it in tze Coliseum, and Ole Buil, who went to hear it, express g eat delight at its marvellous capacit3 and beautiful c(ostruction. In the exhibition room it -was perfectly overpowering in the loudest passages, andthere is ne fear but that it will fill the Coliseum. The with across its front is 22 feet, and its height is 30. The plunking of th) air-will be p)rforrald by relays of a dozen men. The player will sit with lrii back to the organ au.gems 20 fact from it, the actioa being reversed. The tone is aid to be by no m?ans harsh, but wonderfully rich and dee., We hear by cable that the festival commenced last Tlursday, and that Presid)ut Grant -attended the Jubilee. FIVE-TWENTY BONDS AS ExclIANGE.—The. Times continues to remark on the excess of the imports into the United States over the exports, the balance being raajo i l settled by Five-Twenty Bonds, to prove that an undue amount of the Republic's Netioual Debt finds its way to Europe, and that trade is in an unhealthy state at New York. "Although the shipments of produce from Ne w York during the first four =tette of the present year were less than usual, and the imporetions of foreign goods were. £7,000,000 in excess of thos6of the corresp-ondhag period of last year, and X 12,300,00011 excess of the same four months of 1867, the shipments of euilion femn Ne w York to this side have been only £2P0,000, again st £7,400,000 last year, United States' bonds hiving continu ously supplied the means of meeting the heavy balanc e due in the course of trade." This statement is infair ; be cause it does not tell all, and leaves an untruthful impres sion on the mind. No doubt it is calculated to lave the effect the Times desires, but if the writer wished the readerto understand the subject he would have added that a large quantity of silver finds its way direct to Chinafrora Sau Francisco, which formerly passed through England and appeared in the reports from which, the Times quoto English and Germans make their chief American invest- ments in Five-Twenty Bonds, but it is necessary to show that what the United States gets is re I as productive 10 them as what they give, if the writer's object is to proco that the exchange is injurious to either side. At this moment railway construction is more active than eve r before known in America. It might pay an American to subscribe. largely to secure a road that would enhance the value of his property, or having confidence in the manage merit of a board and a knowledge of the ground over which it was to pass, he Might conclude that the stock was worth more than Five-T vv;?irty Bonds at the present price . Why then should not the bonds be converted into the rails and material for the road, which might best bo suppl ied f ron t England? If the English „manu f ac t ure r takes F iv° Twenty Bonds, and the, Am oilcan landowner g ets the rails, who . can say that' either IiTS made a b ad el ; change, and we venture to assert that such trens actio ; account for a vast proportion of 'the discrepancy• a . It 1 true that the States will find themselves saddled. with , large foreign debt, but, with their p o p u lation inc reasaa the faculties of travel multiplied, the value of Pr °2(q. , t i i a raised, and the means in a great measure furnished 11 '— Five-Twenty Bonds, it will, at least, so far, be to the g aia and not to the lose of the Union. Much of the imports are mere luxuries to gratify the palate, or to decorate woman kind with silks and laces, which they could as we ll (1:i without. In such cases the Union loses, an d p ublic writers and speakers do their best to discourage these ha; portations. They are thankful to the Times for the a'(.l that paper gives, while fully appreciating its motives, BSr they have no fancy for exchanging their solid Bonds fo r the hollow trumpery Supplied to their people. Iteeth e we leave the dealers. la _these articles to estimat e, but 0t this we feel certain, tket it is- not. the United St ates that would be hit hardest if tlie exChange ceased to-morrow• According to therePOrt of the Crefeld C hanl-er of Commerce, - which is based on the register of t he North- Americanconeular agency in Crefeld, the value o f . the e ports from that place to the United States in 1868 reached the sum of 2,253,013 thlrs., cf which 689,59 4 thl rs. rePr :; seated silk or half silk stuffs ; 705,691 thlrs . velve ec America or Europe would lase rime. by stopping th e tra 730,910 thlrs. velvet ribbons ; 78,416 thlrs. silk and ba" silk ribbons. The exportation of black silk st uffs to th ci e Union has almost entirely ceased, but on the other 11°A the Crefeld silk manufacturers are rapidly gaining groat; in Great Britain. The general velvet trade with .' es America was not profitable last year, as only low Prl.e_s e' could be obtained, but velvet ribbons brough t fair Pric :t both in America and England, In other respe cts the 1-3. r year was very favourable tO the silk industry sta ge woollen ana nail woollen dors with satin prOcured the manufacturers so many 0 1 563 that they could not execute them all. In the y th an 0.7,0001 U. silk 07,000:b. more than 1867), worth 103 millions of thalers. mot We have reason to know that the extract we ``' from the Baltimore American, and upon which we c t u a mented in our issue May 29, is not true. At the time t. , asked our readers to accept it for what it was wo rth, sta t,. ing that it had been already contradicted. We uO vri°3 o from a good source that there was no truth whatever, 'to it. The extract had reference to the influence broteY bear upon the President by Mr. Morris to be r etained 0 ; the United States Minister to Constantinople, for which ject he had had a petition drawn up and signed hY urrtehis and Russian merchants and bankers in that city. Itstory has no foundation in fact, it is surprising how suc h 3 could have been invented, and we are glad to be en s " to give it this unqualified contradiction. It appears extraordinary to those acctistOtned t° s°lll .. ° every-clay habit to hear of others losing their live.; by t a t : ignorance to them almost incredible, though really os. ral. We find it hard to understand ourselves divestea • oj ee a knowledge aequired by use; thus it appears almost or siblo for an Englishman to realize what anew countrye l!et. to conceive the great. spaces of the American Colts ,e.its. But it is in the homely instances which most impres:beir A short time ago a newly-married couple nearly I°sL .,, er of lives because the necessitydidnot strike the hotel-1081'1,4e telling them how to extinguish the gas light in t he A r o ding . room. The man by a vigorous puff blew it out, but,,eot the the result disagreeable he got up, and tried to pre' , __ f i c e, ea - cape of gas by tightly tying his stocking over the ,e o " s ibee and in the morning he and his bride were fouud hi, S e e for am' almost dead. Nancy King, however was o ° ',. s , o ung termite at Syracuse as to escape with her fife. Tba," ie w to girl wsts brought there on a pleasure trip, an d tolo , t , d, bu t put the gas out. She did this before go i n g to _ on ce turned it on again at the same time, and the consedfotes, was that when the door was broken open in the In. as the.girl did not appear, she was found to be &allo IIS ws. -- [ADVERTISEMENT. }—Holloway's Ointmen t and These harmless yet potent remedies work a n ear ri_tita change for the better in those weak and wornout 7 1 ; bet dens which are always sorely tried by a eu dd ., ll o dai l Y summer. The ointment assiduously rubbed 0 1 „ es sive over the pit of the stomach and liver restrains actions in those organs, and prevents the nausea, raver ness, and indisposition for food, which leads on te ,sl. th eir consequences unless early attention bo bestowed Y o t t eeat removal. Rubbed upon the abdomen Hollowa9's orhotera. represses irritation, the forerunner of , diarrhcei t and doing dies ointment and pills should be the Ve B "/c doing dies of every household, where they are incapable eLittetive mischief, and by attention to the directions are pe' of the utmost benefits. WO , ete netiea ea d (ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), o ch, Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stoni, sco ote_ liver complaints in every stage, are onlaggravated DiT e by Pe rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curAm ror° cl bi a s Barry's health-restoring •%e'valenta Arabica, Food, es, P s oh thousands of cases which had been considered hoPelelaplaintS' —cough. asthma, also diarrhcea, htemorrhoids, liver co , „hte: flatulenCy, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, rag a catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head anti, matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neual,adocbn bility, aleeplessneFs, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, % v on 11 , debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness,„`",,b.toest,' pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ' , T en tho d betw' b e of the -chest, pains at the pit of the stomach store e shoulders, ttc. We quote a few :—The Pope's health Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413— ,, Rome, July 12, Iniodoe.. hea'th of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since,_ l 2;', I; e 'L . L . ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entif e ,,'• 7 is Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consunic,!_„eticie_ ful atevery meal. It has produced a surprisingls: Pf.'coluee! effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise thiS,p: 0 re "I',.', A m . lep food too highly.—From the "Gazette du M," Mo. 98,270 -Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant. 0‘.r.,„:-.(i.,0 Surrey, of thirs,y years' diseased lungs, spitting a ;.' l ,;',.d,Sti lB . l „ derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No: 1,771 dysp ep sia , de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many Year ° c f',i,ipeP° l nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatulenc3c',ortiop.o-'s No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from 5 . ,,,0,50 ° sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Importa nt boitati e d , Beware of the many unsavoury and more than stopPY_ es t au which, wzh, without authority, Baron Liebigs name is ; ciously attached. 12 LOCO 20 ' In tins, at Is 11d; Ilb 2 s 9 d; 2 lbs 4 s 6 d 5 lbs lls „,0. 21 lbs 40s. - Also Do BARRY'S REVALENTA ARAIROs- clg s PoWnEn is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at ' 8 : I gat s at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, f o r 288 cups at 30s, for 576. tins . re see Order' d —being about one penny per cup. The 308 a nd 55s free of carriage in Eng l and on receipt of Post-Oflicedon ; BARky Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lou all Grocers and Chemists. ' BIRTHS. LAMIITON —On tho 20th inst ,at 47, Eaton - pl ace, Mrs' ITY.' Larubton, of a daughter. . . squa re, t he MONCRIEFFE—On the 21st inst , at 14, Belgrave Lady Louisa Moucri:•ffe, of a .son. ABBOTT—Au -DIED _ o / n .l R t /i. l.o ,l 2 G 2 E d 'S. inst., n t st. , v;. _ - c i i 0 , r,nes '6 l I'iccadhly, Thomas, the only son of T. Abbott, I ' 6 'llo Lower James -street, Cloblen-:zquare, to GeoginBo4 second daughtor of John Alldred, Esq. , of Dulce-er Grosvenor-;quire, W. • - Ni rc ' 6 U} U `PINDELL —DOBLET—On the 19th inst., at St. --- 4 lb, Great Ilford, Charles E. Uffindell, lI.N of Ports m r ou _ to Lucy, second daughter of Mr. T. lioublet, a )3 1 ° gate-street, city, and Ilford, Essex. DEATIIS. MONCRIEFFE—On the 22d ins .1 , , Claude, infant son of sir Thomas and Lady Louisa Moncrieffe. ni ile o TOWNSEND--Un the 22d inst., at Hatfield, Herts, ,-,•'4". Townsend, aged 60. __---.-•••••"----' London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDOSI; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, Str4l73--' in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Miadle sel-' Weluesday, Juno 23, 18C9.