The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Fbe Times is strongly in favour of the proposed transfer of the site . of the new law courts from Carey-street to the Thames Embankment. The arguments which Sir Charles Trev'elyan adduced in support of the change are con tltudia The architectural effect of the new courts will be; far finer on the banks of the river, especially as theyt form part of a grand line of public buildings, extending from Westminster to the Temple. .'hey will have better light, better ventilation, easier approaches—in consequence of their vicinity to the river *sold the Underground Railway—and more convenient entrances—from the level nature of 'the ground—than giey could possibly have near Carey-street. They will not add to the serious impediments now offered to metro politalt traffic by " the congested state of the Strand." Their erection will involve little additional delay, although ye quite agree with Sir Charles that even if the change of site dons involve delay, " it would be better that N ed+ should wait for ten years than that our descendants should reproach us for hundreds of years to come for bavinN. misused the greatest opportunity England ever had of this sort." Why, then, in the face of all these ponsiderations, should the Carey-street site still be retained in favour? When the Commissioners of 1860 had to make their selection of a site they found their choice confined to three neighbourhoods —Westminster, Carey-street, and Lincoln's-inn. Of these they selected ,the one which was probably the best, and which, as we have seen, continued to be regarded in official quarters as the best, though the case is completely changed. The Thames Embankment is no longer a more or lesspromising scheme of the future, but a present reality, and it offers petween the Temple and Somerst House a site so much more advantageous, as we have seen, than any of the three already named that it is impossible to suppose that the commission would have hesitated to take it if it had been put before them. We are thus allowing ourselves to be pound by a decision which the Commissioners, in all pro bability, would never have formed if they had had before them the evidence now laid before us. The Standard doubts whether Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Cardwell will thank Mr. Trevelyan for his recent speech ,on army reform. If Mr. Trevelyan had indulged in such wild talk under a Palmerston Administration he would certainly have received a notice to quit, but Mr. Gladstone, not being sure of his own opinions, and in accord with his colleagues upon only one or two points, will probably con. tent himself with suggesting to Mr. Trevelyan not to inter fere in matters altogether beyond his province, and repre sent the Government as struggling with the Commander in-Chief when it desires the public to believe that it is acting heartily in concert with that illustrious personage. To the Duke of Cambridge, of course, as to every Com mander-in-Chief, the efficiency of the army is the first ,pbject ; but his Royal Highness can have no objection, and ,certainly has shewn none, to a reorganisation of the seriiice which should save the public money without re ducing that efficiency. To assert that the Duke or the Court can have any desire to keep up an useless expendi ture is a gross absurdity, so gross indeed that it would not be worth noticing if Mr. Trevelyan's position as a member of the Ministry were not calculated to induce the suspicion that an attempt may be made to excuse the failure of the Ministry to redeem its rash and mischievous promises by raising a cry against the Commander•in-Cbief. It would have been better for Mr. Trevelyan's own re putation if he had denied himself the indulgence. A similar attack made by Mr. Bernal Osborne with much more reason, did its author more tarm than good. The world could not bring itself to admire the ex-Secretary of the Admiralty, who, having contentedly remained for several years a member of the Ministry, signalised its death throes by a violent diatribe against the administra tion of the sister service, and Mr. Trevelyan may be sure that his intemperate, and, under the circumstances, indecent attack upon the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, will give the public a very low opinion of the dis cretion of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty. The Daily News considers that the position of the Ritualist party is very little altered by the judgment in Martin v. Mackonochie. The effect that the judgment will have on the preaching of the Ritualist clergy is already apparent. We have spoken of the judgment in this case as the close of one stage of the Ritualist con troversy. The question that presents itself is, what course will the Evangelist party adopt. They may consider that it willbe best to endeavour to get the existing Rubrics altered. But this alternative will have its peculiar difficulties. If Parliament is to legislate, it must do so either on its own authority or with the consent of the Convocations of Canterbury and York. The Reformed House of Com mons may display an unexpected boldness in its handling of ecclesiastical subjects, but we shall be surprised if it voluntarily takes the Establishment to pieces with the view of reconstructing it on a new model. Enough has been said to justify our original position, that the Church of England is rather at the threshold than at the outlet of difficulties in regard to Ritualism. It does not fall within the province of a lay journalist to give advice to religious parties. To Ritualists and Evangelicals alike the question is one of conscience, and being such it may have to be decided with scant reference either to pru dence or policy. Our object in writing has been to state the facts of the case, leaving the application of them to those whom it may concern. If the Evangelical party think fit to continue the contest, to follow up one lawsuit by another, and, supposing this fails, to invoke the aid of the Legislature, they have a clear right to do so. Our only desire is that they should act with their eyes open, and with no more sanguine anticipations than such as are suggested by an impartial review of the situation. The Herald criticises the speech of Mr. Cardwell at the annual dinner of the Ancient Order of the Druids. The right hon. gentleman did not vouchsafe to give much infor mation on the all-engrossing subject of the army reforms, but confined his observations to some brief comments. New brooms sweep clean, but Mr. Cardwell's broom is beginning to resemble an old one portentiously early in its career. Why should not Mr. Cardwell be content with the confession that the Reform Bill has been attended with solid advantages to the country, without exulting over what he supposes to be the fact that the enactment has injured the Conservative party. If he were a little more alive to the baffled devices of his own friends, and a little less so to the successful ones of his opponents, he would have avoided that error. 'Conscious, however, of the advantages which the Reform Bill had given to the Conservatives, compared with those of their former condition, Mr. Gladstone and his advisers `raised the standard of bitter theological controversy, and swept Ireland, Scotland, and Wales for recruits to the ranks now threatened with defection. There is no denying that the trick has for the moment succeeded ; but the fact that the Radical majority in England, which alone contains one million Roman Catholics, amounts to no more than twenty-one, is enough to shew what would have been Mr. Gladstone's plight if he had not resorted to it. He struck at the religious supremacy of the Crown, and encouraged agitation in Ireland, in order to gain a greater number of adherents among Irish men and Scotch Presbyterians than Mr. Disraeli could muster among loyal Englishmen and true friends of the Church. But it is the very height of effron tery or inconsequence to argue from the result of this unscrupulous manoeuvre that Conservatism has been injured by the Reform Bill. It has been enormously strengthened by it, as Mr. Cardwell and his colleagues will find to their cost when the temporary gains won by political chicane have been exhausted, and the United Kingdom becomes more and more alive to the drift of their policy. Middlesex, Lancashire, and Kent have spoken ; and we may depend upon it such constituencies as these are likely to gain more converts in the future than intolerant Welsh hamlets, and the clamour of Fenian haunted and Rome-directed villages. The day of Teekon ' ing has not yet come ; but what the settlement will be like may already be forecast by the observant. The Star, in considering the present aspect of our English pauperism, observes that the equalisation of the poor rates is a measure of relief which is as morally and economically just as it is imperatively called for on the ground of expediency. At the same time the actual pauperism which comes within reach of the Poor Law represents but a small part of the existing evil. It does not include the patient suffering of the class who are only one degree removed from pauperism, and are removed from it mainly because they have not lest a certain noble pride of independence. What is to become of them ? How are they to be effectually reached; either by the operation of the Poor Law or the discriminating agencies which are set on foot by voluntary associative effort ? Mr. Edward Webster suggested that a system should be adopted by which any respectable poor man could obtain relief to the extent of his actual necessities without, being made to feel that he had lowered himself to the grade of a pauper. The secre tary of the Working Men's Union advocated the principle of well-considered loans. One gentleman put forward compulsory education as the great remedial measure. Another thought that employment on public works should be provided by the Government; while Mr. Rawlinson, who speaks with a large and valuable experi ence, was of opinion that the work should be provided by the local authorities and not by the Government, and that it should be of a productive character. All these proposals are more or less valuable, and they will doubtless be duly considered by the Economy Department of the Social Science Associa tion. But it appears to us that the suggestion which pro mises to yield the largest amount of immediate benefit is that of a judicious system of emigration. There is ample room in the British colonial possessions for the whole British nation, if it were necessary they should emigrate, and how best to enlighten the industrial classes on this subject, how most effectually to assist them to transplant themselves to a more genlal soil, is one of the eeroblaliaz Wb #_mg iCh t 4o l utiQu. _ . ": . • , THE PUBLIC HEALTH. It appeuis rrom the return issued by authority or tae Registrar-General, that in the week that ended on Satur day, 2nd January, 5,076 births and 3,429 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 27 per 1,000 in London, 30 in Edinburgh, and 25 in Dublin ; 24 in Birmingham, 25 in Bristol, 29 in Liverpool, 31 in Manchester, 28 in Salford, 23 in Sheffield, 27 in Bradford, 34 in Leeds, 21 in Hull, 32 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 34 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 29 per 1,000 during the week ending the 26th ult:, and in Berlin 31 per 1,000 during the seven days ending the 31st ult. The measures which have been recently adopted in Sheffield for the pur pose of securing more general vaccination do not appear to have yet favourably influenced the mortality from smallpox in that town. During last week no less than fifteen deaths in the borough were referred to this disease, of which twelve were reported to be unvaccinated cases. In London the births of 1,303 boys and 1,202 girls, in all 2,505 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,037. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,629. The average number is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,660. The deaths in the present return are less by 31 than the estimated amount. The births and deaths are considerably in excess of the numbers recorded in the preceding week, which is pro bably due to an accumulation of cases not then registered on account of the Christmas holidays. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 328, the corrected average number being 367. Seven deaths from smallpox - , 35 from measles, 83 from scarlatina, 10 from diphtheria, 49 from whooping-cough, 56 from fever, and 9 from diarrhoea were registered. 188 deaths occurred from phthisis, 196 from bronchitis, and 98 from pneumonia. The corrected average number of deaths from phthisis is r 176, from bronchitis 224, and from pneumonia 108. Diseases of the brain and nervous system proved fatal to 216 persons, and_ 92 persons died from diseases of the organ 3 of circulation. The deaths of 3 persons from delirium tremens, of 3 persons from intemperance, of 4 infants and 4 adults from syphilis, of 10 children and 3 adults from burns or scalds, of 13 persons from drowning, of 10 infants and 5 adults from suffocation, of 6 persons who committed suicide, and of 3 persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets, were recorded. During the year 1868 the deaths of 203 persons who were killed by horses or vehicles in the streets were registered. Sixty-five children under the age of 10 years, 18 young persons from 10 to 15 years of age, and 120 persons, aged 20 years and upwards, lost their lives. Seven persons were killed by horses, 12 by omni buses, 21 by cabs, 45 by vans or waggons, 7 by drays, 53 by carts, and 58 by vehicles not described. The ques ' tion arises, should heavy waggons and such vehicles be driven at their present velocity, often by unskilful drivers, in the streets of London ? The returns indicate bow many human lives this work will cost in the ensuing year. A CIVIL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY ON THE EXPENDITURE. At the re-election of Mr. Trevelyan for the Border Burghs, the hon. gentleman, who has accepted the office of a Civil Lord of the Admiralty in Mr. Gladstone's Government, made some interesting remarks on the present enormous expenditure of the country. He said: " You all know what Mr. Bright said at Edinburgh about a free breakfast-table. Some people called him rash, but if so it be, it is a rashness which the country is likely to prefer to other men's prudence. But, rash or not, one thing he said was undoubtedly true, and that is, that a Government which cannot carry on the ordinary normal business of the country under seventy millions a year does not deserve to exist. But Mr. Gladstone appears to have been rash too. In his speech to that great metropolitan constituency, which has in such a delicate and generous manner refuted his own old argument in favour of the necessity for nomination boroughs, he says that he for one will be deeply disappointed if in the esti. mates, which it will be our duty to present to Parliament in February, you do not already perceive some fruits of economical labour. And, therefore, following these great examples, I may say that we confidently and humbly hope that the next few years may witness a continuous and very sensible reduction in the burdens of the country. But the admirers of the late Government tell you that we shall effect this purpose by diminishing the fighting strength of the country. That is not the case. That would be the case if Mr. Childers and Mr. Cardwell were, like bad administrators, to have alternate fits of wholesale extra vagance and blind, indiscriminate parsimony. But the spirit in which they are going to work is a spirit of ever watchful vigilance, which will never miss an opportunity, and will aim not at striking the public imagination, but at saving the public money without neglecting the public security. We want men who are soaked through and through with public spirit, men who are born Radicals in V- e best sense of the word, men who have the same ingrained desire to have the public business done well and cheaply that a manufac turer has to get the best labour at the lowest rate. And, unless there is nothing in antecedents, such men you have at length got ; and we may hope that, under the blessing of Providence, the nation may learn by a satisfactory ex perience that true efficiency is identical with true economy. To take one example out of a hundred. Each of our brigade of artillery is officered to the admiration of all military Europe by fifteen officers, who have obtained their commission by merit, and who are professional men in the best sense of the word. A regiment of cavalry, which is of about the same strength t . in horses and men, is officered, not altogether to the admiration of military Europe, by thirty four officers who, though they have for the most part obtained their commissions by purchase, cost the country as much as if they had obtained them by merit. To take an example from the sister service, there is a class of vessels which up till lately were still being built in far too great numbers out of the heads of their admirers—l mean wooden broadside ships of the line. There is at this moment a ship of this class bearing the Admiral's flag on one of our principal foreign stations. She works 72 guns, is manned by nearly 800 men, costs us £t,0,000 a year, and would be sunk in five minutes by an iron ship with one 200-pounds gun on board—such a ship as the Confederate Government used to knock together in a month with the iron rails off a deserted line of railway. Ido not know much as yet about the War Office, but I know the gentlemen at the head of the War Office have a terrible task before them. They have opposed to them two tremendous influences— the influence of the aristocracy and the influence of the Court. Ido not mean by the influence of the Court to say one word against any member of the Royal Family, whom I with you affectionately respect ; but I do maintain that it is not right that a royal duke should be placed permanently in such a position as that of commander-in-chief. He is not responsible to the nation in the same manner that a peer is responsible, and goes out with the Government. He is not responsible in the same manner that a Commenner is who, if he does wrong, has a chance of being cut out of public life altogether. There is likewise the aristocratic influence, for the army has always been a favourite resort of the aristocracy, and it is in the army that we see the most important develop ment of the present state of society in England, for there you have land and wealth, barring the door very closely against merit and moderate means. But in the Admi ; ratty, by the changes now effected, we have, instead of a great board of men, with half power and half responsi bility, one great officer responsible for everything, and under him three officers who are rep , nsib!e to him for each separate department. The consequence is that I think you will see in the very . first estimates laid before Parliament a very marked indication that a change ha, taken place. No cause for anxiety any longer exists regarding the health of Mr. Torrens, M.P., who is daily progressing steadily towards convalescence. Letters from Berlin report that Viscount de Pava, Portuguese Minister in that capital, instead of dying by apoplexy, as at first announced, had committed suicide. His motive for such an act is declared to have been of a private nature. THE WELLS MURDER.—The respite of Bisgrove, which has caused some dissatisfaction in Taunton and the neighbourhood, is said to have been granted by the Home Secretary through well-founded representations that the criminal's intellect was impaired, a clergyman having for warded a communication enclosing statements to that effect. A medical certificate was also forwarded by a surgeon of Charlton, to the effect that he had attended B:sgrove for epilepsy and for an attack of sunstroke, and that when under the influence of drink the convict was not responsible for his actions. DEATH OF THE BARONESS VON MOLTKE. —The Baroness Von Moltke, wife of the celebrated general of that mime, died on the 24th ult. She caught gold while riding, about three weeks ago ; acute rheumatism followed, and eventually reached the heart. She was not only universally loved and re spected for her amiable character and quiet unassum ing manners, but was also a woman of considerable intellectual attainments, and frequently assisted her hus band in work connecter] with his profession. Her maiden name was Burt, and her father, who was an Englishman, mud resided in Holstein, married the general's sister as his second wife. Few men are regarded in Prussia with treater respect than General Moltke, and his bereavement gmeizalgurpniatbY magma all clapaeat. Uri: SUN, LONDON, IVEDNSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1869, MONDAY MORNING AT BOW-STREET. xtegular passers-by of certain London thoroughfares— the lawyers, merchants, Government officials, and mis cellaneous workers whose business carries them down particular streets during the few minutes preceding ten a.m.—become acquainted with a queer procession which meets them punctually each morning at that hour. Men, women, and boys—frowsy, draggletailed, and forlorn ; or flaunting, brazen, and with a tar nished smartness—walk in single file, each by the side of a policeman ; and looking in the aggregate like an academy of vice and crime and folly taking its formal " constitutional" between school hours. They are the night charges being conveyed from the police cells in which they have been confined since the day or night before to the police court, where the sitting magistrate will dispose of them according to law. It would be invidious to point out Bow-street as pre-minent for the discipline and order which it shares with some other of the metro politan headquarters. But it is safe to say that the morning procession there is among the most characteristic of all. The proximity of Covent-garden and Drury-lane, the guilt-gardens of Endell-street, the foul tributaries of the streets between Long-acre and Seven Dials, all help to tincture it ; and the moment at which it crosses the road and passes from the station to the court gives the bystander or pedestrian a glimpse into some of the worst phases of metropolitan life. The charges were few last Monday. Christmas and Boxing-day, and the drunkenness, violence, and indolence which followed them, had, in the opinion of the inspector, some what exhausted the capabilities of the district. " They'd most of them spent their money, and couldn't get drunk in consequence," expressed a fact and a deduction which were verified by the morning's proceed ings- These were infinitely dull. The amiable gentle. men who discharge the duties of metropolitan magistrates go through an amount of tedium and vilely uninterest , ing drudgery which can only be comprehended by those who have made our police-courts a. study upon off-days, and when no case of special interest was anti cipated. The constable who states his name and number, and relates his evidence as if he were repeating a lesson got by rote, or reading from a school-book ; the defendant who equivocates, or pleads utter ignorance, or is sorry for being in such a position, but was overtaken, as he may say, and has never been drunk before, were both represented. These are general types ; but there were special ones as well. The man who, like the workhouse inmate in Mr. Dickens's essay, insisted that he was a Freemason, and wished to put in his greasy and well-thumbed parchment certifi cate of membership as evidence that he could not by any possibility have been drunk ; the valiant greengrocer from Clare Market, who heard a noise on Sunday morning, and left his bed to disturb a burglar in the act of packing up portable property, and to subse quently chase him into the street and capture him near the Strand, adding deprecatingly, as he told his story, that he would have had him earlier if he had had anything on but his shirt ;" and the ruffian who, with four companions, knocked a peaceful workman down, bruising and kicking him out of sheer wantonness, were all figures slightly out of the common run. But the people representing the general public who stood in the body of the court to laugh admiringly when the " only in my shirt" story was told, and to be peremptorily snubbed by usher and officers, ought to have been in the dock, unless physiog nomy is a delusion. Some of the friends and relations of those tried, others mere idlers, fascinated by the Lucretian notion of seeing others in trouble while safe themselves, they recalled street outrages, public executions, and the ragged fringe which hangs about our racecourses. The men and women who come into the dock one by one, moat of them with the sawdust of their cell clinging to their clothes, and all bearing traces of the night's confinement, seemed of a positively higher order than the miserable on-lookers, who represented the people of England watching the administration of Eng land's laws. So with those lounging about the rooms and corridors outside. Wrists made for handcuffs, lowering faces one longed to crown with a prison cap, and uneasy shambling figures which rubbed uneasily against wall or chair while chatting with the policemen—made up the bulk. A decent-looking brewer's drayman, with his decent wife, both in a high state of nervous anxiety, whose appearance suggested some mishap connected with driving athwart crowded crossings, and a woman with an infant, who was bathed in tears, were the only unofficial people to whom the word "humanised" could be applied ; and the stranger to whom last Monday was his first morning at Bow-street probably left the court uncertain whether to be impressed most with the sordid pettiness of its pro fligacy and offences or the apparently unredeemed bru tality of the offenders and their friends.—Daily News. THE GALE. The severe south-westerly gales which have swept over the coast of Kent during the last few days have been fruitful of disaster. On Saturday night signal guns were heard from the North Sand Head Lightship. The lifeboat Bradford promptly put to sea, attended by the steamtug Aid, and on reaching the Goodwins they found a large ship, which had grounded but had got off, and was out of danger before the arrival of assistance. On Sunday, about eight o'clock, the gale had increased to great violence, sudden gusts of wind frequently sweeping upon the coast with terrific force. Signals of distress were heard proceeding from the Gull Lightship, and a vessel was descried on the Goodwins. The alarm was quickly given, and the lifeboat again put off to render aid to the unfortu nate vessel. The tide was ebbing fast, and the sea was very rough. On reaching the sands, the crew of the life boat found that the distressed vessel was a French schooner, named the Gaspard, Rouse' master, of and from St. hialo for London, with a cargo of oats. The vessel was too deeply imbedded in the sand to be rericued from her peri lous position. The 1 feboat was run ashore on the Goodwins in order to reach the vessel. When boarded only one man, the master, was found. He stated that while he bad left the deck to go down into the cabin, the boat con taining the crew, four in number, had put off from the vessel, leaving him behind either by accident or design, and they had not since been seen or heard of. After taking the master from the wreck, the crew of the lifeboat had a long and arduous task to extricate their boat from the sands. After persistent efforts for between two and three hours, however, they succeeded, and once "lore put to sea on their return to the harbour, which they reached about half-past twelve noon, and were warmly cheered on landing by the crowds who thronged the beach and the pier -head. In Yorkshire, early on Sunday morning a S.W. gale, at times blowing with the violence of a hurricane, with very heavy rains, set in, and continued until about nine a.m., when the weather moderated, and ultimately became quite summer-like. The effect was magical. On Saturday the whole country was deeply covered with snow, but at noon on Sunday not a trace of snow was to be found. So rapid a thaw was, of course, expected to cause floods, and on Alonday all the Yorkshire rivers were, for the fourth time in as many weeks, over their banks, and a very large tract of country is flooded, roads and houses in some places being inundated. A narrow escape occurred at Newsham Bridge on Monday, when a man on horse. hack, in fording the flood water, got off the road into deep water, and had great difficulty in regaining it. Various works and mills near rivers are flooded and stopped, A contemporary cataloguing a series of disasters which attended the keeping of New Year's Day in various parts of the country, says that in Glasgow, a tailor, excited by drink, threw himself out of a window three stories in height, and was killed; and a woman cracked another's skull in a by-road known as " the Havannah." The same night an Irish Yankee, drunk and riotous, murdered a police inspector iu Greenock while the officer was taking him into custody. TIIE MURDER OF Mn. DARCY M‘GIEE.—The Court of Queen's Bench has refused to grant a new trial to Whelan, convicted of the murder of Darcy M`Gee. Chief Justice Richards and Judge Wilson sustained the verdict of the Ottawa jury, while Judge Morrison dis sented. The prisoner was remanded. He will appeal against the ruling of the court to the Court of Errors and Appeals. LEICESTER RAMS FOR PRUSSIA.—SOMO months ago Mr. Robert Metcalfe, of Mahon, was commissioned by one of the largest landowners in Prussia to send out two Leicester rains for the first season. These sheep did so well that Mr. Metcalfe has received a similar order. He has again selected two rams from the well-known Barton flock (Mr. John Barton?. The sheep arc this time the descendants of t he famous Sir Talton, which won thirty. six first premiums. MISCHIEVOUS FREAKS OF SERVANT GIRLS.— On Saturday two servant girls were charged on suspicion, before the Merthyr Tydvil magistrates, with being con- cerned in a series of acts of wilful damage in the house ~ f their master, Mr. Davis, the proprietor of the Crown Inn. On Tuesday morning a bedroom was discovered to ho on fire, and the flames were not extinguished until considerable damage had been done. The same evening another fire broke out in another bedroom with the same zesults. A watch was set, but during the night the wine cellar was entered, and the taps of four spirit-casks turned on, by which liquor of the value of 250 WAS wasted. On Thursday morning, about half an hour after the detectives left the house, two upstair bedrooms were dill. ' covered to be on fire, and another was lit close to a wooden partition. The evidence against the girls was not copsidiged alit kciarren MISCELLANEOUS AEIVS. SID CHARLES TBEVELYAN ON THE EASTERN QUESTION. Sir Charles Trevelyan has been attempting to rind a solution of the much-vexed Eastern question. He asks what is to become of the Eastern Empire which was conquered 500 years ago by the Turks, and observes that a similar question has been solved in England, France, Spain, and Italy by the absorption of the conquering minority into the conquered majority. In the Eastern Empire this solution has not been possible, because the conquerors were not only Turks, but Mahomedans, and their absorption into a Christian population could not take place. A possible solution was the absorption of the Eastern Empire into Russia ; but at this point Europe interposed. Constantinople occupies an imperial position, and its possessor can exercise a wide influence. Russia could not be allowed to re-establish in Europe an empire of the Ofesars more dangerous and enduring than that of the First Napoleon. The third and actual solution of the question is the internal disintegration of the Eastern Empire, and its recombination in new auto nomies. This was begun in the last generation by the war of independence, but by a cruel kindness Greece was only half reconstituted. Even Metter - nich, her consistent enemy, admitted that the new State should either be larger or should not exist at all. Two successive dynasties have been powerless to restrain the national sympathy for their countrymen and companions in arms left under Turkish rule. In point of fact, it is not Turkey, but England herself which is menacing Greece. Hobart Pasha's fleet is composed of ships built, armed, and equipped in England, commanded by officers and petty officers of the British navy, and paid for by British money. Strip off this thin disguise, and the utter helplessness of Turkey will appear. If we merely assume a neutral position, and enforce the Foreign Enlistment Act against both parties, the whole thing will collapse, and return into the hands of the Congress, to be settled at their discretion. Greece has a right to demand that the question shall be settled. If by war, then let all foreign assistance be withdrawn, and let them fairly fight it out. If by mediation, the settle ment must be based on the real justice of the case. If the progress of the next twenty years at all keeps pace with the growth since the Crimean war, there will be no difficulty in determining at a future date how the central State of the new Eastern Confede ration is to be constituted. TA Increase Tan cerrsanty or ana LO marcn public security additionally sure. Mr. Tallack con cludes by urging the importance of making every effort to secure the end in view, and declares that the friends of abolition should use their influence with their parliamentary representatives to support the object they have at heart. LITTLE ECONOMIES. The employ6s of the Admiralty and the War Office must be having an uneasy time of it just now. Every . morning sees some new order directed against some little extravagance which is henceforth to be cut off, much to the chagrin of the few, much to the advantage of the many. A few days ago an order was issued forbidding the excessive multiplication of telegraphic despatches ; then came another for bidding dockyard employtis to use Government vessels except in the Government service ; and now comes a very significant notice :—" Losses having occurred in conse quence o f champagne and other articles, not u sua ll y prescr ib e d for the sick in military hospitals, being ordered in unnecessarily large quantities, it has just been notified in a War-office circular, for the information and guidance of purveying officers and others, that demands on contractors for supplies of such medical comforts are to be limited as far as possible to daily requirements, as shown by the patients' diet sheets. Any loss arising from neglect of this order will be chargeable to the officer by whom the supplies have been demanded." Surely old officials will be swearing that "the service is going to the dogs, sir," when they are thus deprived of all their perquisites. Life is hardly worth having if all these little luxuries —unlimited telegrams, excursions in Government ships, and a liberal allowance of champagne—are cut off. Alas for the good old days when Tories adminis tered the army and the navy without stint and grudging, and when we could count the Radical economists on the fingers-of one hand HEAVY RIFLED GUNS. Major Palliser writes to the Times with reference to the bursting, at the first round, of the Royal Gun Factory 0-inch 12-ton gun. He says that this acci dent is in accordance with the principle he has always maintained : " that in welding wrought iron into the huge mass necessary to form the casing of the gun its properties become quite destroyed, and that the iron is rendered worthless for resisting - the impulsive strains of gunpowder. It has shewn that such guns depend for their safety upon a single steel tube, and that should an accident happen to the tube the guns will burst with awful violence. The results of mechanical experiments of this nature will always recur under similar conditions." Maj or Palliser appears to have found, what every other inventor except the lucky Sir Wm. Armstrong has found, the greatest possible resistance on the part of the Ordnance Select Committee. In fact, their resistance appears to be in inverse proportion to the resistance of their guns. Major Palliser says : "The net cost of 0-inch 12-ton guns made in considerable numbers in the Royal Gun Factories upon my system, with two in terior barrels of coiled iron, would amount per gun to about what is paid for purchasing the steel block wherewith to form the barrel of the Gun Factory gun. Further, about half the cost of my guns goes to direct labour, and, therefore, into the pockets of the Government artisans, who at present are in great distress for want of work." Unfortunately, he has spent so much money upon the converted guns that .he has not been able to push his experiments on the new heavy rifled guiis so fast as he could wish. REFORM OF HIGHWAY BOARDS. Agriculturists generally are dissatisfied with the present Highway Act, and are determined, if possible, to get it reformed. To , this end a number of pro posals have been broached by the various Chambers of Commerce. The last comes from the North Riding Chamber, and is warmly supported by the Association for " Disestablishing and Disendowing the Highway Act in the North Riding." It is suggested that the parish be the boundary of the highway dis trict, and every person in the parish rated at ;ClO annually be by right a member of the parish high way board; that the surveyor of the parish be elected by the board, and receive his orders from the board or from a committee ; that one of the members of the board be appointed clerk, and the accounts be audited by two members ; and that to secure good roads it be made the duty of th e c hi e f co nstable, on complaint, to direct the superintendent of the district to report, in order to proceed in his official capacity against the parish highway board. One of the members for th e North Riding will introduce a billinto Parliament on the subject. PAUPERISM AND THE POOH LAWS. The second conference on :the above subject, held under the auspices of the Social Science Association, provoked an animated discussion. The chairman was Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., and the avowed object of the meeting was, not to abuse or praise the poor law system, but to consider whether there was not a large amount of suffering which the present poor law system did not reach, and how it could best be dealt with. Amongst the remedies suggested were the abolition of all notion of a right to relief, efficient and comfortable out-door relief, improved educa tion for the children of the poor, well-considered emigration, public employment by Government, and an equalisation of the poor rates. The debate was cl ose d by Dr. Stallard, whose paper at a former meeting had given rise to it. He warmly defended his proposal to offer the desti tute labourer relief in the form of employment, and eventually the following resolution was carried : "That Dr. Stallard's paper be printed and circulated, and that the council of the association be requested to take such steps as they may think best calculated to promote reform in the administration of the poor laws, and that a further conference be held on the subject on an early day." 11 PRESSION OF VAGRANCY. --- -- The subject of vagrancy has been under discussion by the magistrates and others interested in the ques tion, at a public meeting held in Bedford. After a long conference it was agreed that the Poor-lawßoard should be requested to make a compulsory order for the uniform treatment of tramps throughout England and Wales ; that the relief of vagrants should be. transferred altogether from the board of guardians to the police ; and that adequate accommodation, on the separate system, should be provided for them at the police-stations, and that the expense be defrayed partly out of the county rate and partly out of the Consolidated Fund. ABOLITION OF CAPIT 4 .L PUNISHMENT. Mr. Tallack writes to the Star on the subject of the abolition of capital punishment, and mentions that Mr. Charles Gilpin will give notice of a motion on the subject when Parliament reassembles. Though immediate success may not attend the efforts made in the matter, much good may be done by persistence in the work, if only by renewing public attention and reflection. The first result of the Capital Punishment Commission was the Private Execution s Bill of last session. The " great moral lesson question " was thereby done away with. The danger of hanging innocent persons ought, in the opinion of this writer, to furnish a conclusive argument against the capital penalty. Experience shews that in the continental and American States the extreme measure can be dis pensed with without lessening public security, and with no increase of crime. The condemna tion of men to death on circumstantial evidence is not justiEel by Scripture or justice. We may look at the case of Pellizzioni, who was sentenced to death for a murder which it was afterwards found he had not committed; and that circumstantial evi dence cannot be depended upon was fully proved by the case of Smith, in 1865, in the trial for th , Cannon-street murder. The advocates for the abol,- tion • of capital punishment seek no impunity for rwinus but. an. the. .coutrary i tbiek Abject lias been .~ ~ t- r ~ .=. CANON MILLER ON THE RITUAL JUDGMENT. Canon Miller has written an admirable letter to the Record on the Ritual judgment. He says he has for some time . been coming to the conviction that the Low Church party must make concessions in order to obtain a greater approach to law and order in the Church than has been the case of late. The great evil from which the Church has suffered is lawlessness. The late „judgment will put an end to that, if it is carefully obeyed by all parties. .Happily, this is possible without any sacrifice of. principle. Let, then, the clergy of the school to which he belongs confer together, in order to see what the judgment involves, and having ascertainedthat, let them obey it, without waiting for a monition from the bishops. At the same time, let them remember that the clergy do not constitute the Church, and that their people ought to be considered. ; and, in making any changes, let it be clearly ex plained that they are made, not out of any sympathy with Rome, but in loyal obedience to the law of the English Church. It is to be hoped that this letter will serve as an cirenicon. One is much needed just now. MR. GLADSTONE'S FIRST CHURCH PATRONAGE The first piece of Church patronage which has fallen into the hands of the Premier is rather impor tant—it is a canonry of Worcester, worth £BOO a year. The late holder was the Hon. John Fortescue. uncle of the present Earl Fortescue, and who was born in 1790. The late canon was a pluralist, having held the rectory of Poltimore, near Exeter, which was worth about £590 a year. The latter prefer ment is in the gift of Lord Poltimore. THE NEW LAW COURTS. Now that the Thames Embankment has made such rapid progress, the question about the site of our new metropolitan law courts has been re-opened. A. large class of persons believe that it would be far better to abandon the Carey-street site, which has many drawbacks, and to take advantage of the fine position offered by the Thames Embankment. Sir Charles Trevelyan belongs to this party, and he has put himself forward as their spokesman in a letter to the Times, in which he sets forth all the arguments in favour of the proposed change. In the first place, he considers that the great number of steps which will be necessary at Carey-street from the rise in the ground will prove formidable to all parties. On the Strand side the number of steps will be about eighty, and the very persons whose time is most valuable—the barristers and solicitors in full practice, for instance—would have to make the ascent and descent many times in the day, thereby losing much of what they would gain by the junction of the courts. The Carey-street site, too, is hemmedin by large buildings, while the embankment has an open space that cannot be curtailed. Immediately in front is a road 100 ft. wide, with a railway underneath ; beyond the road is the river, with pas senger steamboats constantly plying to and fro. Thus the facilities for rapid and constant conveyance to and from all parts of the town would be unceasing, while the City communication would be far more conve nient than the old Strand and Cheapside route, as the new street goes direct to the Mansion House from the end of the embankment. The connection with the Houses of Parliament and the public offices would be supplied by the embankment itself. On the southern side there are also great facilities for easy communications, while a new street on the north might readily connect the courts with Holborn. On the Strand side the courts might be on a level with the main thoroughf are, and full advantage might be taken of Mr. Street'sfacade. The site already occupied is seven acres and a half ; the Thames Embankment is nine: and a half. The £BOO,OOO already paid for the Carey-street site has been declared insufficient, and the commissioners have recommended that application shall be made to Parliament for nearly C - 00,000 more. The estimated cost of the embank ment site would be about a million and a half, so that there would be little difference in the outlay, as it is not likely much loss would be incurred by the sale of the Carey-street site. THE GOOD OID TI3IES. We have all heard of and sighed for the aaya when it used to be an article in the indentures of apprenticeship that the tv prentice should not be required to eat salmon /Wre than twice a week. The C'hanzler of Agriculture Journal mentions that in 1512 a partridge could be bought in London for 2d., whereas the price now varies from I s. 3 d. to 2s. d. ; and a pheasant cost ls. which now fetches from 2s. 6d. to ss. In reality, however, the price is less now than it was 350 years ago, for money was worth about ten times its present value. The marvel is that game should be sold at its present price. We have heard a nobleman's steward sly that every pheasant had cost his employer ..C.ts before it was killed. A costly dish this, even though the consumer paid but half a crown for it. HAUL-WASH. Beware of hair-wash, or at least of such as is used to prevent the hair from becoming grey, and is declared by the vendor to be perfectly innocuous. ig W." writes to the nines that several of his friends having complained of indisposition which they con nected with the use of a new hair lotion, he caused it to be analysed, and found it to contain rose water, sulphur, and sugar of le a d, th e l a tt er in sufficient quantity to cause either para lysis or painters' colic. Th a t i s to say, the purchaser of this precious stuff wishing to destroy one sign of age, is in danger of exhibiting another and far worse. Better b e grey-headed than paralysed ; hoary hairs are sometimes a crown of glory ; is difficult to imagine the palsy to be so. FOREIGN NOTES, SPA/N. The fight at Malaga shews that' the confidence of the Spanish people in its own force is diminishing, and that this second triumph of the Provisional Government will go far to secure the quiet of the country. The rising has been less general than at Cadiz. Indeed, when General Caballero de Ttodas arrived at Malaga to disarm the militia, after successfully accomplishing that task at Seville, the majority of the volunteers consented to submit to the reorganisation peacefully, and a strong body even offered their assistance for the preservation of order; but about 700 held out. These would not deliver up their arms, and General Caballero would take no other terms. The insurgents raised barricades, and the commander of the Government troops declared the place in a state of siege. Proposals for a surrender were made, but they were inadmissible ; and on New Year's Day the struggle began. It was exceedingly desperate. The insurgents were amply suppli e d w i t h wea pons and ammunition, and fought well, as Spaniards invariably do in an irregular conflict. The barricades were most of them carried at the point of the bayonet. The slaughter was great on both sides, and though the attack commenced at ten in the morning, the regular troops had not com pleted their victory when darkness stopped the fighting. An American family escaping from the place under their national flag were fired upon, attacked, and plundered by the insurgents. They ware, however, rescued by the troops, and the fullest satisfaction was given by the Government authorities to the American Consul. Next day served to finish the work. These abortive attempts to resist the Government only strengthen its posi tion. The possibility of resistance diminishes with each defeat. The general opinion is that the remaining work of reorganisation—the disarming of the mob-militia and the enrolment of a new force—will be accomplished with little difficulty. The wonder is that the resistance under the circumstances should have been so desperate. It is still matter of doubt how far party influence has prompted these risings. The Independence Beige still maintains that large sums were distributed amongst the Cadiz insur gents by the agents of Queen Isabella. The Times correspondent gives a gloomy account of the anarchy in the rural districts, especially in Anda lusia. The olive harvest has been good, but it seems to have been regarded as common property. There is no. security 'for horses and cattle ; not only are the herds of wealthy people robbed, but even the cows which supply the only means of sustenance to poor cottagers are stolen or forcibly taken away from them. The public revenue fares no better than private incomes. Tobacco is freely and openly sold in the streets, as if it were mere fruit and vegetables, in contempt of the Government monopoly. Household suffrage in England is a trifle compared with universal suffrage in Spain. The total number of Spanish electors is now 3,600,000, whereas under the old franchise it was only 166,000. formerly the payment of £4 a year in direct taxation was the minimum qualification ; now anyone may vote, provided he is not less than twenty-four years of age. One province, which h ad 300 electors before the revolution, has now 24,000. Madrid has risen from 9,100 to 131,000, and the Seville district from 6,000 to 122,000. The young men under 25 clamour for the suffrage. To reduce the age qualification to 21 would in crease the present enormous total by 600,000. The Madrid papers are jubilant at the chance of England exchanging Gibraltar for Ceuta. The Emperor of Russia is said to be an attentive reader of American books. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and do lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth ; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles— Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists anti Perfumers, Depot, 266, High Holborn MONEY AND BUSINESS. (Front the Springfield Republican, Dec. 19.) NEW YORK, Dec. 19. The money market exhibits increased activity, with a' more general demand for loans upon call. At New York seven per cent. is the uniform rate on all classes of colla terals, both with banks and private lenders. Discount for first class papei at short date ranges from 7/ to 9 per cent. The supply of pork paper is large, and helps to keep up the rates on all classes of ;discounts. The move ment of currency South and West continues. There is no stringency, however, and good commercial houses have no difficulty in getting all the money they need. The present rates are likely to hold steady until after the January statement. Cincinnati and Chicago report a very active market, money flowing in freely from New York, and going out at once to pay for the bog product. Country collections, which have been very tardy this year, are beginning to improve, and help to relieve the market somewhat. Sterling exchange has been high, and firm during the week in the deficiency of cotton bills. The approach of a quarter day" has started again the question of abolishing the present system of mak ing bank returns on a fixed date. The business commu nity is almost unanimous i❑ the opinion that the present plan works only mischief ; that it fails wholly of its pur pose as a check on the operations of the banks, and has its whole effect in producing a painful stringency four times a year, by which the commercial public is greatly incommoded. Congress ought to take a tion before the recess, and thus save the community from the otherwise inevitable squeeze as the Ist of January approachei.' If anybody pretended to show how the quarterly statements as at present managed, serve to keep the banks within bounds, there might be some excuse for continuing the system, even to the annoyance of the business public. During the early part of the week gold tended downward, and accomplished its full fall from the rise of the week be fore. Senator Morton's bill was regarded as looking to a rise in the premium by forbidding further Government sales, and a slight advance took place, limited, however, by the general scepticism as to the success of the bill. It does not seem to be the feeling in mercantile circles that any important measure will be adopted at the present ses sion. As the Treasury receives for duties $40,000,000 a year in gold more than it disburses for interest, and as the New York banks have only nineteen millions on hand, it is evident that a bill to forbid sales must have the immediate effect to raise the price of gold. This in itself is no ob jection to the bill, for Secretary M'Culloch's persistent po licy of " bearing" gold has had only a mischievous effect upon the market. The approaching January disbursements for interest (mostly on new bonds held at home) hasa ten dency to keep down the price, nor has the premium been appreciably affected, except for a few hours at most, by the rumours in regard to the action of the Supreme Court on the Legal-Tenderquestion. There is almost a certainty that no decision at all will be reached at the present term of the Court, nor is there any good reason to assume that, if such a decision were made, it would be adverse to the con stitutionality of the Act of 1862. The • week closes with gold still lower, the effect of the Morton Bill proving to be of the most temporary character. Governments show rather more firmness. A sharp contest is going on between the bulls and the bears, and the bulls seem at the present to "have it," Prices are generally higher, with large amounts bid for buyers' options. There is also a heavy investment demand, and large amounts are being taken on country orders. A rise is generally anticipated after the January interest is paid. The Five-twenties of 1865-66, January and July interest, are being purchased more largely for the German market, in preference to the bonds of 1862. The resolution to 'declare the bonds payable in gold is to come up in the Senate to-day, and should it pass may hay some slight effect upon prices ; though the practical re sult has been pretty nearly anticipated before this time. State Bonds are again attracting attention. The de feat of the "Omnibus Bill" (railroad) in the Tennes see State Legislature sent the bonds of that State up nearly five per cent. in one morning. This measure de feated, the creditors feel reasonably confident of the January interest. The North Carolina interest has also been in doubt, but the State Treasurer telegraphs that it will surely be met. The debt of Pennsylvania has been reduced by $2,000,000 this year, and Michigan announces a surplus for the year of more than half a million. Her debt is now reduced to three millions and a half. The market for rail ways and miscellaneous stocks at New York has been unusually calm during the week ; but preparations are going on actively for another grand attack by the bears. This time the Erie combination are the parties interested to hold up the market, while the bear clique contains many of the strongest operators. A new lock-up of greenbacks is intimated in connection with the ap proaching quarterly statement, which regularly fur nishes occasion and active assistance for some rascality or other. Thus far only Pacific Mail and Rock Island have suffered—the latter severely—but the plans of the clique are laid to embrace many of the leading stock. Of railways, the Western stocks are favourites, in the cer tainty of a heavy business during the winter and spring. Judge Nelson has set aside the order of Judge Blatchford appointing Jay Gould receiver of the Erie Railroad. Tho opposition to the present direction of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Road has apparently ceased. Cumberland coal stock is advancing, and arrangements are contem plated for consolidating it with several of the coal com panies of that region, for the purpose of preventing competition.— The report of a dividend, both of cash and scrip, in Milwaukee and St. Paul, is revived The stock is at present considered a little too solid for specula tive purposes, and, it is thought, will bear watering. —Work on the Iron Mountain Railway is progressing rapidly, and cars will run through to Belmont by June. Rumour makes Vanderbilt make an offer for a ten years' lease of the Great Western Railroad of Canada, with pri vilege of purchasing.—A tunnel under the Hudson River, as a joint enterprise of the Erie and Jersey Central Roads, is among the latest sensations.—The Leavenworth and Des Moines Railroad is shortly to be completed to Chicago. Ohio and Mississippi Railroad certificates have improved in consequence of the lease of the Atlantic and Great Wes tern to the Erie Road. (From the Wall-street Journal.) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, Dec. 18. Petroleum stocks are quiet, with, however, a fair busi ness doing. Express stocks are in better demand, being looked on more favourably. The consolidation of the American and Merchants' Union will reduce the expenses of the new company fully $1,000,000 per year. The con version of Merchants' Union into consolidated stock is going on rapidly, and the heaviest stockholders have already made the payment of the $5 assessment. We quote : Adams ... ... ... ... 451 to 451 American ... ... ... ... ... ... 44} to 45f Merchants' Union ... ... ... ... is to loi United States ... ... .., ... ... 46 to 46f Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... ... ... ... 241 to 25 Foreign Exchange is slightly easier, the demand being legs urgent. Theyare quoted as follows : Sixty Days. , Londcn Bankers Lor_c:.n, Prime Commercial loBi-1091 Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 351-36f Frankfort, 0.51 4Ol-41f Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.20-5.16f Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Three Days. 110i-1101 5.131-5.121- N. Y. Central l3Ol Erie 4O Hudson Fort Wayne Pacific Mail lll/ Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred 19 Ohio and Mississippi 291 Boston Water Power l4 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers lO7 M & St. Paul M & St. Paul Preferred 831 FOR SPECIE. Reading Mich. South. &N. I B6l Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B2l North-West North-West Preferred 77! Can ton Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 1011 QUOTATIONS Amer. silver 95} to 061 Mex. dollars 1031 „ 1041 Eng. silver 480 , 485 Five francs 96 „ 97 Eng. sovs 489 to 493 20 francs 385 „ 386 Thalers on RAILROAD MORTGAGES. CLOSING QUOTATIONS F N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 91 N. Y. Central 65,1887 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 N. Y. Con. 7s, con. 76; N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 lO7 Erie Ist Mort Ex 101 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 Erie 7e, 3d ltlort, 1883 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 84 Erio 7s, sth Mort, 1888 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E.lst M, '77 — Bud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 101 Had. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 — Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 100 Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 1141 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 114/ Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M — N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 97 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 1141 Alton & T. H. let M Alton &T.H. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc — Han.& St.J . Land Warts lO5 Han. & St. J. Con Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 1111 Chi. & N. West, S. F 96 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony — Chi. & N. W. Ex'n B.- - PUBLIC FUNDS OF Sixes, 1868, registered Sixes, 1868, coupon Sixes, 1881, coupon ll4i to 1141 U.S. 6s. Pacific Rail oad — to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon lO5l to 105/ U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 llO/ to 110/ Seven-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to Mining eltknka are dull, and the businesz is principally Chi. & N. W. Ist M Tol. cw Wab. Ist M Ex 93 Gt. Western 2d M '93 761. Mil. & Pr. du Ch. .I.Bt. M & Chic. Eat ~ & Chic. 2d M Chi. & R. I. Ist M 9B Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's — Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund — N. 3. Central Ist M — N. J. Central 2d M — Pitts. Ft.W., & Ob. Ist M lO3 Pitts. Ft. W., & Oh. 2d M 9B Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M 93 Cleve. & Pitts. 4th M Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc 9O Chic. & Alton, 5.F.1801 102 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M 93 Mil. & St. Paul 2d. M B7 Marietta &Gin. Ist M — Morris & Essex Ist M 97 Morris & Essex 2d Ii 93 Joilet & Chic. Ist M — Chi. & Gt. East's Ist A 1::. 73 N. Y. & N. 11. 6s 95 Dubuque &S. City,lst M 93i Peninsula Ist M B5 Ohio & Miss. Ist M 96 Ohio & Miss. Con B5 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D — Atlantic & G. W. Ist M 75 !HE UNITED STATES. confined to Consolidated Gregory, Montana, Quartz Hill, and Smith and Parmelee. Latest prices of Silver Mining Stocks, by telegram from San Francisco, dated Dec. 16, 1868: Gould and Curry Savage ••• Chollar-Potosi Ophir ~, Hale and Narcross Crown Point Yellow Jacket Belcher ~, Alpha Kentuck Bullion Overman Empire Mill ... Imperial Confidence Amader Exchequer Quartz Hill Lady Byron Sierra Nevada.. ... $456 per foot ... 1,700 „ ... 168 „ ... 1,610 ... 1,070 „ 1,348 „ .. 183 „ ... 900 „ ... 252 ••• ••• •7 ... 119 pr sharo ... ... „ ... ... „ 25 (From Messrs. henry Clews and Co.'s Monthly Circular.) NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 1868. At the date of our last advices the large amount of funds held out of circulation for speculative purposes was being returned into the banks. About $15,000,000 of tied-up money was released ; with the result of a sudden ease, extending to the close of November, during w hich call loans ranged at sto 7 per cent. The panicky F tiln gency- growing out of the "locking up" of currency caused an interruption of commercial operations through out the country and postponed the forwarding of products to the ports; and the restoration of con fidence in the money market has therefore been at tend d with a brisk renewal of the demand from the com mercial cities of the interior; so that, at the middle of December, instead of having money flowing in upon the banks, we are sending currency in large amounts to almost every section. This efflux has reduced the legal tenders in the banks $8,400,000 within the last two weeks, and has advanced the rate on calls to full 7 per cent., fulfilling the anticipations expressed in our letter of the 10th ult. As we are having virtually a November money market in December, the influx of funds which usually occurs at the opening of the new year is not to be expected so early e 0 usual ; and any decided ease in money is hardly to be looked for until far into January. The payment of pre'' bably not less than $50,000,000 of dividends and interest at the beginning of January will afford a freer circulation of currency ; but the relief from that source is perhaps usually overestimated. A really easy market is not likely to be realized until the currency sent West for moving the hog crop and South for the purchase of cotton begins to flow back in settlements with those sections. THE CAREER OF AN AIIIERICAN AD FES, TUBER. Captain Walter M. Gibson has returned to NO York as Agent of the Sandwich Islands after career of adventure- in the Far West and among the Pacific Islands. Some twenty years ago, fired by the example of Rajah Brooke, he started in hi° own schooner for a cruise among the Dutch East India islands. His negotiations, however, aroused Dutch jealousy and his vessel was captured, an d with its cargo confiscated, and he himself throW o into prison at Batavia. It was only through a bit of thin paper scrawled over with strange ink and thrown in a ball of bread from his prison that he re' gained his liberty, for it reached New York, wag published in the papers, and attracted the attention of the Government, who pressed the matter in Hot' land, and an order for Gibsou's trial was sent to Batavia. The Java Government had to bring wit' nesses from a distant coast, and the native i° whose boat they were conveyed being friendly ! Gibson capsized her, and drowned them all, so th; trial was postponed ; but he escaped through ti l o attachment of a Malay girl, who furnished him with disguise, and he got on board a vessel bound 0 America, which he reached with nothing but a clain: for a million or two from the Dutch Governroen which is pressed through the American Secretary °, State. One of his grand sch e mes w as to transfr ii the Mormons o f Ut a h, t h en a l mos t a t open wa r Nvi g. the United States, t o th e i s l an d o f N ew Guine which he describes as a paradise, and the idea vv , ' ; actually adopted by Brigham Young and the hets; of the Mormon Church to whom it w as propose' The Mormons commissioned Gibson to sell the 14 1 ; provements in Utah for 65,000m0, and on t" ii , payment to transfer the people to New Guine_,, Gen. Cass favoured the scheme, as did many state', men at Washington ; but President Buchanan ci e d dined to engage in it, as it exceeded the bound' Federal authority. However wild and visiongij the European reader may consider this scherae , o , is highly probable that President Buchanan's opP o sition foiled the establishment of this Morri l l empire. The men who b a d f oun d e d Ut a h tnig well laugh to scorn su c h diffi cu lti es as p r esent o l iu the settlement of New Guinea. A g', friendship was formed between Gibson and 1 30 ) ham Young, for they were men of much the salt, tone of mind, and impressed with the same atlv 3 tious notions ; and so congenial were Gibson's id e . o to the Mormon prophet that be commissioned to visit the coasts and islands of these seas, and r port everything of special interest to the , L sail b; He sailed from San Francisco about 1862 for Sandwich Islands, where he found many Morn l . ° ,,b in Lanai, a lovely island 30 miles long and ele o , wide, of the richest soil. Whether Gibson ever a Mormon is not known, but his conduct in Pacific drew on him the hostility of that sect, 4 1 , he managed to clear them all out, and they ntt o bute the fact to him that they have now no foot' s in that ocean. Aware of this hostility, when ing through Salt Lake City the other day on , way to New York he took care not to show b' to self to his old friend Brigham, who, we are sorri,i learn by late accou n t s , h as b een s t ruc k by parail'e He speaks in the highest terms of the resoLlr fl and growing wealth of the Sandwich Isla 0 ; , the rapid progress of which he atiributes to the ' 4 troduction of the sugar-cane. He will soon go no when he intends to proceed to Singapore for coo to aid in the sugar cultivation. l9f, FADVERTISENIENT.I—HoIIoway's way's Ointment and pil t ot Systematic Treatment.—Few statements are more wide of than the assertion that for the cure of disease the &ilia fd alone demands attention, whereas both local and genera l chief requires redress. These medicaments boldly face th e ... e O4 they profess to remedy. Local relief and general purill74ol! progress toge - ..her, the diseased portion is cured, the foul is cleansed. Holloway's ointment rubbed on the thrO t,o chest exercises the most benelcial influence over sore il9O diphtheria, and cough, whether resulting from catarrh, O or bronchitis. This unguent acts m;raculovsly In arresti a 0 0( extension of sores, healing ulcerations, curing skin diseas es ' completely stopping all destructive inflamman. f0r.,0 lth Ile [ADVERTISENENT.J—Du Barry's Delicious Il tio ea s v.l Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains three time nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its cost in e g` remedies, restores perfect digestion, strons nerves, sounc ,s o o, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and„, e . to the most disordered or enfeebled, removing speedf4ti j . effectually indigestion (dyspepsia). habitual consYov, diarrhoea, haemorrhoids , liver co m praints, fiatu lency, n„, e „ r ef f nese, biliousness, fevers, sore thr oa ts, catarrhs, colds, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, imprrities, tions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, drops y, cramps, sroU , nausea, and sickness, sinkirg fits, coughs, asthma, br n o t incipient consumption, s cri fula, ti g ht ness o f th e c hest, Pl io to o the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. WenDl few out of 68,000 cure. :—The Pope's health restored ./ .1, Barry's Food.—Cu re 7 (0. 68 , 413 . "R ome, J u ly 21, 186 6 . or, health or the Holy Father is excellent, especially Boning all other remedies, he has confined himself en. ea Du Barry's Revaleata Arabica Food, of which he cous u r,eri plateful at every ,neat. It has produced a surprisinglY 9 au cial effect on bis health, and his Holiness cannot pry „ excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du ftv i 25. Cure No. 49,832.—" Of fifty years' indescribable agoaiielp dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiat! I° o spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting." DlaV>i t , Wortham, Ling, near Dies, Norfolk.—Cure N o . 47,121 kiet. Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, W a lth am C ro ss, Acfr, of extreme nervousness, indigestio n , ga th er i ngs, l o w s lo' and nervous fancies Important Caution.—Beware of the.o l o, unsavoury and more than sloppy i m it a ti ons t o w hi c h, IA authority. Baron Lie - Jig's name is most audaciously attach In tins, at Is. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. 9d. ; 2 lb s . 4 s. 6d. ; 5 lb s, lls.; 225. ; 24 lbs., 40a.—Also Du BARRY'S RRYALRNTA ArtAutCA. '01,4 LATE POWDER is packed in ti n can i s t ers; f or 12 cups at 2 s::60: : ? cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cup s a t 6 5., f or 288 cups a t 305., for 6 4 at 5511.--being about one pen n y p er cu p. Th e 30s. and 5„ 'of,, are sent free of carria ge i n E ng l an d on rece ipt o f Post 1' Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and C o ., N o . 77, Re ge nt-stree t ' don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. C 11 FEATIIERSTONHA UGR —On the Ist inst., at the Cumberland, the lion. Mrs. Featherstonhaugut sou. 01 PRYSE—On the 4th inst ') at Gogerddan, Lady Prit 3e ' 4 daughter. A r WIELAND —On the 4th i ns t., a t St. Joh n ' s - woo d, "h.`"t, of Major Wieland, of a daughter. Marriages. xf o lf e GORDON—YOUNg—On the let ult., atlurno o l, I 1 Presidency, George Gordon, 0.E., to .B.ice Stavele" m ° third daughter of the late Lieut.-Coloul li. You" Bradford. MEACOCK—LUETTEB — On the sth inst., it St. Lavir ,0 1 St. Lawrence, Mr. William Meacock, I Bentisb - %4 4 to Elizabeth, third daughter of Edwal Luettebi of St. Lawrence. Deaths. -06 01 ' FLEET—On the sth inst., at Dartford, Kat, Wra• ' Esq., aged 85. eft GODFREY—On the 4th inst., a t Ryde, Cptain 0 0- , R.M., aged 35. , i)l l B' GODDARD— On the 3d i ns t ., at Windsor, (ptain 0 5- Goddard, aged 75. i ftoN LEADER— On the 3d inst., at 9, New-inn-ye, Shole -/ Robert Leader, aged 40. ~, o li SOMERSET—On the sth inst., at 5, Cadogt-placel '' Granville Somerset. of 5$ WALKER—On the sth inst., Francis Walla Esq., St. Martin's-lane, city, aged 38. _....d London : Printed and Pabliehed by WiLLIA.3IIIO2 : , 11f; Tit -of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Sun o° ti Strand, in the Precinct of the Se roy, in tl 003." aiddlesex t —Wednesday, January K INAHAN'! This celebrated prize Medal. It Pure, Mild, 31 Sold in Bottles, 3 the Agents in the pr 8, GREAT N Observe the Red F. ban's LL Whisky.' itrIITUAL IV I 14, RIISSELL-S' ancorPo And ADVANCES MON} hold or Leasehold] able weekly, month Forms free on recei MADAME kr 1 BAKER-S' A PORTRAIT 3 added.—A.dmission, ROYAL N Proprietor Christmas' folk change of Compan D. Davis, Mr. A. LI rington, Miss Kate . and a host of other Mr. g- Mr. JOE James's Hall), Char will shortly appear. ANTERBLI lJ Sole Prop.; Attraction for th George Leybour Franks, the mo termed the Sam of French Femak Performance of every evening. - scenery, supports England ; and the THE FAIRY H King Catechemal Prince Pretty Pei Butterflies, Miss Buil3r ; Attends Rosalind. The and Mechanical Caney, and W Italian Opera He entire Ballet invf new and origins] Director. Actin Stage Manager, 1 Stalls, ls.; Reser ARGYLL EVENING Rooms have been n and Co. The cele an attractive Prof Dance Music. WIND Musical Dime TOHN BUR V Superior ESS PATENT PICKLE had of all dealers SON, 107, Strand 0 Ty. KING' LIV BILE, WIND, And acknowledge( and in In boxes at 1: COUNTEI ['HE only ari ss. 6d. per 105, Fleet-street, GLASS CLOT VICTUAL V ILL lAM Fleet-str The Pavement, C TABLE CL( expressly fo for Tray Cloths, every description, pARDIGA.N l_./ use, Warm wadies' and Gen and Co., LimNes street, City, and 2 XTILLIAM VlcruAL . Fleet-street, City ment, Clapham-cc with Price List. TO LIC WILLIA LICENC 105, Fleet-street, 5, The Pavement HOTELS, DISPOSAL Advances made 13; the whole amount full particulars of at all prices. Api orders for which r trade travellers. I House-square, E.C., Co , Distillers, Dub ' SEAMEN'S N.-/ off Greenwic Nations, who are The receipts fr X 879 less than SUBSCRIPTI Williams, Deacoi the Secretary, at street, London, I Qualification Governor, £lOlO, ESTABLIST during The relatives fessional Men, G weekly paym en t, billed with the bi establishment, 9( This establish! nised by her Ma and it is manag Lady Lanra Pal Caroline Russell, All informatic ten or personal a Subscriptions Treasurer, at IL NA'FIONAI Richmond, Under the patron* whereby a home Girls of all ages , c the kingdom. The object of the lish education, an( and laundry, to fit wise provided for suitable situations The Committee I entirely sustained °Moe, 111, Pall-i azAvrn Rum 1 BARRY A-, and Infant saves fifty ti mes perfect digestion refreshing sleep, most disordered effectually indigi gumption, habitt rangenients, bee nervousness, bill catarrhs, colds, rheumatism, go' ralgia, irritabil heartburn, head nausea and sick! fits, bronchitis, g the pit of the si the most digestil for invalids and IMPORTART CA and more than rit7, Baron Lieb Henceforth na Du Barry's heal and Infants' Foc has already roc( been apeddee hoi fleas th by it afte r mk Si t We quot e , f ren ? 18,418) R em Holy Father is other remedies, carry's Bevalenl plateful at every ihneficial effect praise this excel' Cure No. 58,21 r nsfdn y oeti e irgsu a vde z a ut si g irritability, i e uDe r Atoeaßct iT o sieot a r Cure N 0.78, o ford :—" I have Waterford." Cure No. 49, from dyspepsia, flatulency, spasn of Lynn, Norfoll Cure No. 47,1; nervousness, ind vous fancies. Cure No. 56,81 years diarrhoea. The Food is a lb., 4s. 6d.; 121 canisters, carriaF .arrY a Reval en i its canisters : F( cups at 65., for 2 about cne penny free of carriage i BARRY DU BA also at Portnut Graceehmeh-stri Now Nortia.rwl Doors