The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-16 00:00:00

THE PEILYDALE COLLIERY EXTLOSIOY. The following strange account from the Western Nail may be regarded as the latest information from the Fern dale Colliery :—" A motley multitude," it says, "gathered together at Ferndale on Sunday—from sympathy some, but more from idle curiosity, and many from the morbid taste that yearns after the marvellous and the sensational. On the authority of the police-officers stationed at the place, never was known more drunkenness, more fighting, and more debauchery than disgraced Ferndale on Satur day. There had been thirteen of the dead buried on that day, and so incapable were fellow-workmen of rendering assistance that the coffins were borne to the graves by strangers ! A collier named Thomas Jones (who escaped witli his life from the pit on Thursday) manifested his gratitude to Providence for his deliverance by drinking himself into a state of madness and engaging in a fight on Satur day. He bad been brought to the surface just after the explosion in a state of insensibility by two comrades, and was thought to be dead. LAW AND POLICE. OMNIBUS NURSING.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, a case was heard in which the plaintiff sought to recover damages for pecuniary losses occasioned by a system of "omnibus nursing" pursued by the defendants. Mr. Gill, the plaintiff, started au omnibus to run from Brixton Church to Charing Cross and Oxford Circus. The defendants, who were omnibus proprietors on the same route, began " nursing" the plaintiff's omnibus, one of their vehicles constantly following or preceding it, so as to interfere seriously with his business. Subsequently the plaintiff ran another omnibus from Brixton to the Bank, which was subjected to similar treatment. In the end he was compelled to give up running his omnibuses, after heavy pecuniary loss, in consequence, he alleged, of the defendants' conduct. The case was not concluded. A POINT or LAW.—In the Exchequer Chamber an action was tried a day or two since for breach of contract. The defendant, being mortgagee with a pbwer "of Sale, agreed to sell a certain property to the plaintiff, and the plaintiff resold it at a profit of £lO5. He could not, however, get the mortgagor to join in the conveyance nor to give up possession, and there was a breach of the contract. The question was whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover his loss upon the resale. The court thought the plaintiff was entitled to the difference in the marketable value of the property in addition to the sum he had agreed to give. The judgment of the court below was therefore affirmed. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. The Melbourne correspondent of the Times sends to the leading journal some account of emigrants' prospects in Australia. First of all, he puts the questions which be supposes require answers. What are people to expect who emigrate from this country to Australia? What kind of place is it? Is it very different from England? Are there any roads, railways, shops, churches, or schools? Is it really easy to get a living there, and can a living be found at once? Suppose an emigrant and family put on shore at Melbourne without friends or acquaintances, and with no great supply of money, what is to become of them for the first night or two or the first week? These inquiries, it is said, are constantly addressed to returned colonists by people half willing yet half afraid to try their fortunes in a strange land. And the Times correspondent endeavours to answer them. To begin with, Australia is, in all the chief centres of settlement, as civilised a country in all essentials as England itself. At Melbourne, for instance, the streets are as well paced, pitched, and lighted as at Liverpool or Bristol, the only difference being that they are about three times as broad. The shops are genuine English shops all over. The roadway is full of drays, waggons, carriages, and hansoms, just as in London, though there is less danger of your being knocked down. The rarest pineapples are ticketed at four a shilling, and an excellent hot meat dinner is offered for sixpence. If any London emigrant should have a fancy for a brass band in front of his window, that feature also of his home life is reproduced faithfully at the antipodes. But what is to be done for the first few days of suspense before employ. • ment comes in and a chance of settling is offered ? The reply is that he is taken under the care of the State; which provides for him until he can provide for hiinself; In a cheerful and healthy suburb of the 'town stands the Emigrants' Home, and in that establish ment any emigrant destitute of means is entertained until the option of work is found for him. To this place the employers of labour constantly resort, and bargains are struck without delay or difficulty. The Tunes cor respondent has known " several hundreds" of new comers engaged and disposed of in a few hours. Generally, however, the chief town is not the place for an emigrant to stay in. His aim should be the country, and from Mel bourne the country can be reached in all directions with the greatest ease. The centres of mining and agricultural indus try are connected with the capital by milli ays ; beyond the , railways are good macadamized roads, with good coaches running on them. These roads lead towan7s tl:e interior of a continent almost as large as Europe, «ith every variety of soil and climate. In some parts there are enor mous tracts of rich land with hardly a tree upon it, sc• that no clearing is required to fit it for the plough. The interior communications are remarkably- good, insomuch that, in case of an overstocked labour-market at one point, the emigrant can remove himself with perfect facility and little cost to another ; while in no place does he appear to leave civilisation behind him. The smallest towns and most remote villages are English towns and villages still, fairly supplied with all the necessaries, and not a few of the luxuries, of existence. No country in the world, adds the correspondent, could offer better prospects to the capitalist or greater advantages to the working man than the British colony of Victoria. But how. to reach this paradise? It can be reached for £lO. 'That sum will take a mechanic from an East London workhouse and place him in the Emigrants' Home at Melbourne, with a new world before him. It will be said, however, that he must carry something to the common stock of the settlement—either a modicum of capital or some available skill or labour. The Times correspon dent assumes the very case of an emigrant with nothing but labour, more . or less skilled, to contribute to the public wealth in return for a maintenance. A man who can do nothing whatever would find even Australia a bad place to live in, but there is employment, and something better than employment, ready for all who can work and save. Just now wages are " main tained"—that is, are not falling, and the rates of payment are certainly pleasant to look at. Masons and bricklayers get 10s. a day; carpenters, Os. ; builders' labourers, 7s. ; blacksmiths, 30s. a week ; wheelwrights, 355. to 40s. On the farm a shepherd may get his £4O a year ; a hut-keeper, £22 ;. a lad who can milk, 12s. a week; and a general farm labourer, 15s. " Common labour," it is added by way of summary, " may be quot e d a t 6 s . t o 7s. a day." Nor are these wages reduced in actual value by high charges of living. Perhaps lodgings are rather dear, but where a dinner of the best meat, bread, and vegetables without stint can be had for sixpence, living must needs he cheap. The Postmaster-General has been before the Lord Mayor, summoned for the poor rate on the Lombard street Post-office. Tho matter was turned into a case for the Court of Queen's Bench, the Postmaster arguing he was not liable. A shopkeeper on a boulevard was prevented by the police from hanging out the following notice the other day:—" Windows to let, at two francs the hour, to see the riots this evening." Which is the true nation of shopkeepers? CLIFTON ESTATES, NOTTS.— We Uri derst anC these vast estate; of upwards of £16,000 per annum, descend by entail to Mr. Henry Markham, of Skelton Lodge, near York, who married the only surviving sister of Mr. Frederick Bell, of The Hall, Thirsk. •Sonie of the accounts given of the morganatic marriage of the es-King, Dom Fernando of Portugal, with - Fanny Elssler, the dancer, are incorrect. The name of the lady is liaenzler. She came out some years back in the United States as a singer, and had a fair share of suc cess. In the course of her career as an artiste she visited Lisbon, and there attracted the attention of her present husband. Her age is about X/ TESTIMONIAL TO Ma. J. P. KNIGHT, LATE OF THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.--The officials and heads of departments of the South-Eastern Railway have pre sented to Mr. Knight, the late traf£c superintendent of that line, a very handsome candelabrum, on the occasion of his retirement from the company and acceptance of the office of manager of the Brighton Line. GRIMSLIAW, THE JOCKEY, "GOING Turouarz THE COURT."—The case of jaines Grimshaw, the well-known j gley, was before the Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday. 1 he debts were stated to be £!,721, and it was added that the bankrupt had been in receipt of. £l3OO a year under an agreement with the late Marquis of. Hastings.- The case was adjourned, in order that Gritashaw might file a cash account. Great expectations are entertained at Barrow in-Furness, the centre of the haematite iron district, tha► coal will also be found there. Attention has lately been called to two old pits at Stank, near Barrow, as old, some say, as the days of the Furness monks, and in any case of considerable antiqUity. They .have been reopened and examined, and, as the water is pumpod out of them, gil • good indications of "carboniferous deposits. A seam of coal half au inch thick has alreadtbeen penetrated, and the nature of the atone which is raised:from a depth of seventy yards coUrtus the laves cri g l,ie ezPluera,- IMPERIAL PAR.LIA .IENT HOUSE OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING. The Lola) CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolfack at five o'clock. The attendance in the house this evening was quite as numerous as that of last evening. The galleries on either bide were fully occupied by ladies, and the space before the throne and the bar was taken up mostly by members of the House of Commons. THE IRISH CHURCH. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a number of peti tions against the bill. MR. BRIGIIT'S LETTER. Lord CAIRNS presented 100 petitions against the bill, and then the noble lord gave notice that on Thursday next, before the time of public business, he should ask whether the letter which had appeared in tho newspapers of that day, bet.ring the signature of the Pregident of the Board of Trade, was a genuine letter, aLd whether her Majesty's Government was prepared to endorse the statements contained in the said letter. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear," frc•m the Opposition side of the house.) THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. On the resumption of the adjourned debate, Earl GREY said he could rot say he was enlightened on the inn ortant subject they were invited t' discuss by the speech of the noble earl who introduced the bill, and although he said a great deal about the Coronation Oath he said little about the bill before them. He thought he would have stated clearly the action the Government intended to take in the event of the house rejecting the bill, and not content himself with a few observations upon the pro visions of themeasure. He felt the house was quite justified in rejecting the suspension bill last year, and if the present measure pass its second reading, he felt it would require a great deal of amendment in committee before it ought to pass its other stages and become the law of the land. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl then proceeded to state the condition of Ireland up to March, 1868, which he said was one of comparative peace, but since that time a spirit of antagonism had prevailed, and he could only attributethis state of things to party interests and party politics. The mischief had now been- done, they were called upon to say whether they would accept or reject this bill, which it was said would restore in a great measure the peaceful state of things which was so much required. (Hear.) He hoped and trusted that the house would pass the second reading of the bill, but after that had been done he hoped their lordships would make great and material alterations in the bill in committee, and thus make the bill more likely to effect the object for which it was framed. (Hear, hear.) If tho result of the general election with respect to this bill was the deliberate conviction of the country, he asked them whether it would be prudent for the House of Lords to set itself in deliberate opposition to that determination, and reject the bill. If they took that course what would be the result ? , Why, in a short time, he would say in a very short time, they would have the bill again presented to them, and they would have to accept perhaps a more objectionable measure. He hoped, therefore, as there was nothing but delay for a few months to be obtained by the rejection of the bill, their lordships would not incur the inevitable consequences of rejecting the bill and expose themselves to the disadvantages that would result therefrom. The Archbishop of DUBLIN denounced the provision of the bill as excessively and unnecessarily harsh; espe cially urging that if it were necessary to destroy the Irish Church, which he could not believe, it might have been done in a less severe manner, and that the period of transition might have been made more easy. The Bishop of St. DAVID'S had long contemplated the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and did not con sider it required the whole of is revenues, but admitting the difficulties attending any method of dealing with the question, he agreed with the Archbishop of Canterbury that their proper course was to accept and to amend the bill, which, although in many respects objectionable, was capable of material amendment. Lorn CHELMSFORD admitted the power of Paella meat to repeal the Magna Charta or the Bill of Rights, but denied its moral competence to do either, or to abolish the Irish Church, unless prepared to violate every pledge ever given by it. The measure was unconstitutional and a gross invasion of the rights of property. Lord PENZANCE urged their lordships to pause before they resorted to the extreme step, with all its consequences, of rejecting the bill ; pointing out that it was their duty, if they desired to discharge their constitutional functions in governing a great nation, to defer to the will of the people as expressed by its representatives. The Duke of RICH 110 ND confessed that be was about to adopt a course for him most unusual and painful, fax he found himself unable to act with those with whom he bad hi►herto agreed most cordially. Ile felt met strongly the objectionable character of the bill ae a measure of vio lence, injustice, and spoliation. Ile pointed out the harsh and oppressive character cf its provisions, which were the very reverse of the literal and generous treat ment which the Prime Mia.ist .r Lad promised. It was therefore with great hesitation that he had , r, solved not to suppm t the amendment ; but lie could net conceal fr. ni himself. that the country had decided upon disestablishing the liish Church, and that by reject ing the bill they would no get rid of it, but when it came back they might be less capable to &..l wi:h it in a satis factory manner. On the whole, he felt it was better to try and ameed it. If they could not, they could reject it at :mother stage. He would leave the responsibility of the measure to the GovernMent and the House of Com mons. He was sensible of the inexpediency of a popular agitation, especially on a religious question ; and he felt that be was taking a constitutional course in urging them to try and amend the objectionable features of the mea sure, leaving to the Government the responsibility of re fusing to accept them or of withdrawing the bill. The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH denied that the ver dict of the nation had ratified the bill ; that verdict was given for disestablirliment, for religious equality, and a liberal and generous treatment, but it had been obtained by most unworthy arts, and the most unfair and malignant misrepresentation of the Irish Church. The bill was supported by Earl De Grey and Ripen, and after that the debate was adjourned until to-morrow (Thursday). Their lordsiaips then adjourned. ( It was fully expected that Lord Lytton would have resumed the adjourned &Late, but Earl Grey said he had intended to move the adjournment of the debate last night, and it was only that he thought Lord Lytton was going to speak when he rose that he gave way. As the noble lord merely moved the adjournment of the debate, he had exercised his right of resuming the discussio3d HOUSE OF COMMONS.-LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock. ITHE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY STATION. After a discussion on the subject of the architectural elevation of the station of the Metropolitan Railway, during which Mr. Layard said the Government claimed, and would _exercise the right of selection. BANKRUPTCY BILL. The house then went into committee on the Bank ruptcy Bill, taking up the consideration of the measure at clause 19. The amendment proposed by Mr. Rathbone to protect settlements on or fora wife or children of the settler of pro perty, within a given term pravioue to bankruptcy, pro vided the person making it was in a position to meet all his liabilities, and was in a solvent state when the ar rangement of the property was made, was agreed to. A long discussion then followed, the object of the various amendments moved being to prevent false and fraudulent arrangements being made to the prejudice of bona fide creditors, and to abolish, as far as was possible the system of making private arrangements, which it was stated was a mode which enabled fraudulent persons to re-enter trade and carry on business to a greater extent than before, and in the event of their speculations failing involving a num ber of honest and honourable men. It was suggested that some provision might be made that all persons interested in the affairs of any person engaged in trade might know on proper inquiry the exact position the trader occupied with respect to any fernier b.u.kruptcy. The discussion was carried on up to seven o'clock, at which.hour the sitting of the house was suspended. The House resumed at nine o'clock. Mr. PEASE called attention to the necessity of an early report from the Royal Commission appointed in 1867 to inquire into the duration of the coal fields, and moved a resolution for an address to her Majesty, praying that the same might be laid before the house as early as possible. Mr. HUSSEY VIVIAN seconded the motion. The discussion was continued by Mr. LIDDELL and Mr. ELLIOTT, and ultimately dropped, the motion being with drawn. Sir W. GALLWEY was proceeding to move a resolu tion relative to the Folkestone and Boulogne packet ser vice, when _ An lox. MEMB2R moved that the Louse be " counted," and only 29 Senators bring present out of the 40 requisite to constitute a quorum, an immediate adjournment Was the result. Minister Webb sends tidings of the lost General lkit3lahon, who appears nut to be lost at all, but safe and in good health at Ascuncion. His Government know nothing of what he has been doing, for no despatches have reached them, for which they cannot account, and some have been charitable enough to insinuate that his papers have been intercepted by the Allies. Ex-Minister Wash bcrne thought there was danger that General M.Mahon might have been imprisoned or put to death by Lopez. [ADVERTISEMENT:I—HoIIoway's Ointment and fills.— Biliousness. —Dyspepsia.—There is no organ in the human body so liable to derangement as the liver. Food, fatigue, climate, and anxiety all disorder the action, and render its secretion - the bile—more or less depraved, superabundant. or scanty. The first symptoms should receive attention. A pain in the side or top of the shoulder, a harsh cough or difficulty in breathing, are signs of liver disease, which are removed without delay by fric tion with Holloway's inestimable ointment. The pills should also be taken early. For all diseases of this vital organ the action of these conjoined remedies is a specific by checking the over supply of bile, regulating its secretion, and giving nervous tone. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. - The hope that a collision will be avoided grows from hour to hOur. It is true that most of the Bishops have at the last moment yielded to pressure, and will, to the number of fourteen or sixteen, support Lord Har rowby's amendment, if it is carried to a division. It is true that the Bishop of Chester, for instance, yielding to the strong representations of the Orange party, who are so numerous in his diocese, will not vote for the bill, as he had intended. -But it is now admitted that Lord Derby does not wish to throw out the bill by only a small majority, inasmuch as that would expose the weakness of his party in their own House, while it would not suffice to de feat the bill eventually. It is also well known that the representations of many conspicuous members of his own party have not been without weight, and that he is beginning to doubt the wisdom of pushing matters to extremities. Last night he had a two hours' conference with the Marquis of Bath and other peers. It is now generally thought that Lord Harrowby will with draw his amendment, or, in case he should not be pre vailed upon to do so, that the Conservatives will, as a body, abstain from voting. It is ex pected that important amendments will he made if the bill gets into committee, and Lord Granville's promise that these should receive the most careful attention of the Government leads to the hope that no serious collision will take place between the two Houses.l THE: AUXi . - LONDOIt- WtAggSlikt tVENtNG, Jt7NE 16, 1869, THE CRISIS. The Daily Telegraph believes that Lord Derby will speak on Thursday, and since the State ball 'at Buckingham Palace takes place on the. evening of that day, the division will probably not be taken until between twelve and one on Saturday morning. Our contemporary adds :—" The general impression now is that the bill will go into committee ; and since in the present day every such assertion is ordinarily snbmitted to the test of figures, it may be worthy of record that bets of 50 to 40 have been laid on a result favourable to the Government." On the same subject the Morning Advertiser says:—" We have received intelligence from a well-informed quarter, just as we are going to press, to the effect that there is no longer a doubt that the bill will be thrown out by the Lords." The Morning Post will not venture to, prophecy, but remarks that the hearty reception which Lord Carnarvon's speech had from the Con servative benches may well make the leaders of the Opposition feel doubtful as to the result. The Morning Star lays great stress upon the speech of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and thinks that the look of things was, at all events for the first night, unmistakably favourable to the bill. The 7 imes does not repeat or revoke its prophecy of Monday; the twin Conservative journals, Standard and Herald, are so little confident of the result that they refrain from anticipating it. Though what the Lords will do is very uncertain as yet; what the Government will do in case the bill is rejected, becomes day by day more plain. There can be little doubt but that an autumnal session will be held. The _Dray Nezes declares that this is what will be done, and justifies that course as being accord ing to precedent. Earl Grey did the same thing in 1831. Then, as now, the Government had a majority of more than 100 in the House of Commons, fresh from a general election. On July 6 in that year the Reform Bill was read a second time by a majority of 116, and on September 21 it was read a third time by a majority of 113. On October 8 the Lords rejected it by 199 to 158, whereupon the Commons carried a vote of confidence in Ministers by a majority of 131. On the 20th Parliament was prorogued, and on the 12th December the Reform Bill was once more intro duced. On the 22nd of March following it was again read a second time in the Commons, by a majority of 116 ; and on April 14 the Lords read it a. second time by 184 to 175. On May 7, in committee, the Government was defeated on a motion of- Lord . Lyndhurst by a majority of 35. Earl Grey re signed, but within ten days was again in office, armed with the King's authority to create a suffi cient number of peers to ensure the passage of the bill. A correspondent of the Daily News finds prece dents later hick for the proposed course. On the accession of William and Mary, the Bill of Rights, -which fixed the succession, passed the Commons and was rejected by the Lords, because no successor to the Crown was provided in case Mary, Anne, and William should all die childless, which they actually did: Amendments were proposed, but the Houses could not agree upon them, and finally in 1689 the king prorogued Parliament from the 21st to the 23rd of October, when the bill was passed through both Houses. The next precedent of the hind is in 1707, when Queen Anne prorogued Parliamentfrom Friday, April 8 till the following Monday, on account of a bill relating to frauds on the Customs. Another pre cedent is furnshed by the prorogation of Parliament from October `_'oth to November 22nd at the time of the great Deform struggle of 1881-32. It is there fore evi.ient that this means of surmounting a poli tical deaclloc7; has been previously resorted to when the usual interregnum between twosessions threatens to be embarrelssing. Mr. Gladstone, like Mr. Bright, has been writing about the Irish Church Bill, and,. like Mr. Bright's, his epistle has been called forth by a public meeting. A meeting at Bradford passed resolutions of confi dence in tl - e Premier, which resolutions were for warded to him. In reply he writes : " So far as that resolution refers to myself personally, I accept the communication with respectful gratitude. So far as it expresses the sense of the great community of Bradford with reference to the Irish Church Bill, I regard it as giving utterance in words to that deep and intelligent conviction to which the nation gave by its acts, at the time of the general election, the most authoritative con stitutional expression, and which, I believe, it still cherishes with unabated confidence and resolution:: THE BIRMINGHAM MEETING. The town meeting at Birmingham on Monday night reminds one of Virgil's description of the letting loose of the four winds from the cave of 2Eolus. The Liberal speakers could with difficulty obtain a hearing, but when the time came for the Conservatives to speak the tumult was something frightful. The friends of this party began to peal forth Kentish fire ' and this so irritated the other side that they w ou ld not allow the Conservative speakers to say a word. In vain did the Mayor appeal to the love of fair play ; in vain did he warn the Liberals that they were the worst enemies to their own cause. Not a word could Mr. Sampson Lloyd utter. 'After attempting in vain for nearly two hours to speak, the Mayor lost. all patience, and bade him desist, in order that the motion in favour of the Irish Church Bill might be put to the meeting. The confusion then becanie wholly indescribable. Dr. Evans, editor of the. Birmingham Ga:ette, whereof .Mr. Lloyd is the proprietor, and who, with Mr. Lloyd, contested the representation of the borough in the Conserva tive interest last November, protested in behalf_ of his chief, and Mr. Lloyd himself, urged by his friends, refused to give way. The paper containing the resolution was torn up, and the Mayor thereupon ordered Dr. Evans into custody, and he was led away by the police. About the same time it became known that Mr. Murphy bad been arrested on enter ing the hall. The Mayor then put the resolution before the amendment had been put and seconded, and declared the former carried, amid loud and indignant remonstrances. LORD ELMO'S CHURCH PATENT. Lord Elcho has discovered a means for getting offer the Irish Church difficulty, and has, no doubt, taken out a patent for it. He sets out with the assumption that the Presbyterians of Northern Ireland have changed their opinions with regard to the Irish Church Bill, and are now opposed to . dis establishment. His lordship, who was always of av ingenious turn of mind, and fond of devising impos sible schemes, proposes that the Government shall acknowledge that Ulster is differently situated from. the rest of Ireland, and shall be exempted froth the operations of the bill. Lord Elcho does not say what the Dublin Protestants would think of the united Churches of England and Ulster. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. It is needless to say that .the nomination at Not tingham was a lively affair. It was very lively. Neither of the two candidates could make himself heard beyond the reporters' desk, and the affair was as great a farce as any nomination that has ever taken place, which is saying a good deal. Mr. Seely shewed plenty of good humour, and made a point by directing attention to the ruined Castle - of Ntachiloseiteurtusisicelsh scenes of discussed.-,Mr. s burnt ri during the Reform riots of thirty seven years ago, and as k e d if th e L or d s mean t t o ren e w titiayitsmtmiomtel measure, s e' thi b ar by throwing tiihoe w misfortunee or, w o n a e t n t htooet beginc Irish h his speech in a tone of great irritation. First of all. he was very angry because Sir Robert Clifton's old agent, " Jemmy " Aelind, had gone over to " No. 30," the regular Liberals. Then he was very indig nant because someon e held up a bill with the words " ls. Od. in the pound," which, be said, was a false accusation, because he had promised that if he were given time he would pay 20s. in the pound. Ile then had to explain away his former spee:hos made when he was an advanced Liberal candidate at Southampton, and which one of the Nottingham „ journals had u n ki n dl y republished that morning. Exhausted by the effort, he drank somo brandy, and this reminded him of the Permis sive Bill, and of the remarkable statement which he had made as Recorder when addressing the grand jury of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a speech in whi c h he had denounced the liquor traffic as the great source of all the misery, crime, and poverty of the land, a speech so emphatic that the United Kingdom Alliance have constantly quoted it in their publications. Claiming to be the successor of Sir Robert Clifton, the idol of the publicans, he had to explain away this speech also, and iu --doing so denounced the Maine Law, of which - he had always been considered a supporter . ,_ In conclusion. "no aclicect Luau tie eitner a tort' or . a civl.l.- serratiyp j. or (pointing to - a petticoat, 0114 i was held tp before him on a pole) that he was brought forward under Lady Clifton's influence. He concluded by demanding " the good old cry of ' Seymour, Clifton, and the indeneli.:ita,le of Nottingham ! ' MR. ItOMAINE. It is rumoured that Mr. Romaine is to resign the important post which he has so tong held at the Admiralty, and that this step has been decided upon for him because he is not sufficient of an economist. Mr. Lushington is spoken of as his successor. COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. Mr. George Fowler, writing from Hucknall Col liery, Nottingham, points out that we are altogether on the wrong track with regard to colliery explo sions. We recognise the existence of inflammable gas in collieries, and we then take every precaution against explosions. This is just as if the police were to know that a London street was full of gunpowder, and were to compel persons to wear . list shoes and prohibit- them. frpm smo!iing instead of removing the powder. Our Colliery inspectors ought to see that the gas is removed. This . is terfectly feasible by means of proper ventilatiOn. THE PURCHASE OF TELEGRAPHS. The Daily Telegraph points out what admirable bargains the Government is making with regard to the telegraphs. It is arranging the terms of pur chase upon the basis of the profits of the half-year ending June 1868. But since then the profits have increr3ed very considerably. In the case of the British and Irish Magnetic this increase is £lO,OOO, which at twenty years' purchase would be £200,000. This sum, however, the Government has not to pay, in consequence of the arrangement which was made last year. But the agreement falls through if it is not carried out this year, and so the Govern ment has every 'inducement to complete its arrange ments within the, present twelve months. The companies wiltbe worse than the Roman Sybil, for they will ask more after each postponement. THE OVEREND AND GURNEY TRIAL. The directors of - Overend, Gurney, and Co. are, with one exception; verb-backward in coming forward to prove their innoCendel. That exception is Mr. Gordon, who has done all that he can to accelerate the trial, but findS no such readiness on the part of his colleagues. OBITUARY. The death of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Garrett is announced. This distinguished officer served in the Peninsular War, and was present at all the great battles. He received two wounds at the attacks On the forts at Salamanca, on which occasion - the command of the Light Com pany of the Queen's and some Artillery devolved upon him. On that occasion he was the only sur viving. officer of his column. He was wounded again severely in the Pyrenees. For his services in that campaign he received the war medal with four clasps. Ile commanded brigade in the Fourth Division before Sebastopol, f rom N ovem b er 1854 to October 1855, when he succeeded to the command of that division, and held it until the final evacuation of the Crimea. For his services in this war he received the medal and clasp, was made a K.C.8., officer of the Legion of Honour, and received the Sardinian and Turkish medals, and third-class of the Medjidie. Ile entered the army in 1811, obtained his company in ;1814, was promoted to a lieutenant colonelcy in 1845 '' to a colonelcy in 1854, became major-general hi 1858, lieutenant-general in 1860, and was appointed to th e co l one lcy of the 43rd Regi ment of Light 'lnf an t ry in the last-mentioned year. His death took plac e a t P a ll M a ll o n Sunday. He was about 75 years old. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, May 29. There has been another grain robbery of that character becoming so common, but which will as suredly act most detrimentally to trade. Messrs. Scott and Memel), of 91, Wall-street, have been established over a year in storing grain on the North Pier of the Atlantic Docks, Brooklyn. Last week they sold and delivered a large quantity, and that grain had been already sold by its owners, the purchasers who came to inspect it being shown other or the same grain, and thus the firm were enabled to abscond with $20,000, which, however, was not one-third the loss entailed on the community. The well-known confectioner, Mr. Van Nostrand, ad vanced $30,000, :believing in the honesty of Scott and Munsen. They occupied six stores, and for the rent of these he had made himself responsible. Both Scott and Munsen were young men, hitherto of good reputation; the former is a married man, and was once a clerk with Messrs. Laimbeer, Pinto, and Co. ; the other, an uninnrried man, for years a clerk with Mr. Greenkaf. As usual, unfortunate speculations have converted these men into rascals, and thrown upon soc'ety as a nuisance and a pest two persons who, but fur the gambling habit now so prevalent in this city, might have been useful members of the community ; indeed could not have failed to be so from the fortunate start they bad obtained. The stockholders of the Atlantic Bank of Brooklyn have been equally surprised and dismayed by finding a, large deficit in the accounts ou the investigation of its affairs which followed the death of M r. W. Rushmore. It may be recollected that this gentleman wa's among those killed by the acci dent on the Long Island Railroad. After this most respectable individual had been mourned over and buried, Mr. George S. Puffer thought it about time to look into the accounts, and the further he looked the more open became his eyes. The idea of the proprietors was that next July they were to divide $35,000 of this prosperous bank's earnings, its capital of $500,000 being of course secure, and a considerable sum earned. First it was discovered that half the capital was gone, and the news spread ing abroad a run followed, which was met by the prompt action of the directors—Mr. Puffer, Judge John A. Lott, the Hon. Henry C. Murphy, Peter G. collectively Hunter, tos j u t; Connell, Henry K. Sheldon, B. Valentine, John d F i r v e i n d —who agreed in dividually the shock, and French, and d W c i carry the bank through. This quieted the threat ening storm, and on investigation it was found that Mr. Rushmore had been investing largely in real estate and speculating in railway stocks and bonds. The title deeds were deposited with the bank, labelled to secure the bank ; but as it, now stands they belong to Mr. Rushmore's estate. Mr. Catherwood, contractor of the Newark and Patter son Railroad, has largely overdrawn his account, but he maintains that the security is sufficient, al though the directors do not think so. In the pre sent stage of the probeedings, it would be unjust unreservedly to condemn the late Mr. Rushmore, who may onlihave been guilty of very great impru dence and mismanagement. On Tuesday the hun dredth anniversary of the old Dutch Church, the Collegiate North Reformed, was celebrated in ,Ful ton-street. The Rev. Thomas de Witt presided, The church maintains its old Dutch character, the services being conducted according to the Dutch Reformed. Its burial yard was once surrounded by fields, and when it was dedicated it was in the Dutch language. It is one of the few old buildings we have in America, and has a history of its own, for George was our King when first its doors were opened, and it has seen the royal troops within its walls when used as as hospital. This was the day chosen for laying the corner-stone of the new Dutch church now being erected • at the comer of Fifth avenue and * Forty-eighth-street. It will cover 12,000 superficial feet; there will be three spacious doors on the Fifth-avenue and one on Forty-eighth street, and . the tower will be at the corner, 225 feet high. A third spire, 85 feet high, will be at the Forty-eighth-streetextremity; the style is the English Gothic of the 13th century, the cost over $300,000, to be completed In two years. Last Saturday night Wallace M'Daniels murdered Thomas Corwin with an oak stick at the Rosendale House, the stopping place of the fast travellers on the Central Avenue, Morrisabia. Corwin's wife was living with M'Daniels, in whose name the Rosendale House was kept, and she being well off supplied the funds for carrying on the business. She and M'Daniels were returning from the city,and Corwin was at the house. An altercation occurred, when Corwin, ac cording to M‘Danie . ls, raised a chair to strike, and he picked up the stick, striking Corwin four blows, the first of which fractured his skull. After the act the victim was dragged through the bar-room into the hall, and Sergeant John Savor proceeded on in formation of a fight to the house, where be found M•Daniels standing by the murdered man, when he was arrested, as was also the woman. It appears that a long feud had existed between him and Cor win about the latter's reputed wife. A German cooper, named. Philip Kobel, murdered his wife and little daughter, but his two sons, seven and eleven years obi, escaped, and gave information to the police. Kobel and his wife lived on bad terms, as he believed her to be unfaithful ; and it was but a short time ago that the wife caused his arrest for violent assault. lie appears to have shot with a double-barrelled pistol his wife and little girl when asleep. This awoke the boys, who fled for their lives; but Kobel must have again loaded the weapon and shot himself in the breast, when he left his room in his shirt, and was arrested, dangerously wounded, in Norfolk- street, bleeding profusely from two gunshots. The man was evidently insane, and there is reason to hope that although desperately wounded his wife and child may recover. A feud has existed between some youngsters in Sheriff street and Pitt-street—the former led by John and William Purcell, the latter under Peter Delany. On Saturday they had an altercation; and on Mon day they again met and vowed vengeance when they next came in contact. John Purcell borrowed a single-barrelled pistol from the bar-tender of a saloon to defend himself against Delany's threats, and meeting on Tuesday night William Kiernan he had an opportunity of using his weapon, for lie was assaulted by that man, when he pulled it from his pocket and shot his assailant through the head, then ran, but was captured. The prisoners are of a low grade, two indictments for burglary being pending against Tracy, who was one of the body- guard of a city official, once an alderman, and a useful man in primary elections. Early on Tuesday morning a party of Spanish sailors were jeered at while mov ing along Oak-street singing national songs. They retorted, and a fight ensued, in which the Spaniards freely used their sheathed knives, when Wm. Bradley and Peter Brynes were dangerously wounded. The steamer Norwalk, off Pierrepont's Stores, Brooklyn, was run into by a stone-laden scow when o❑ her way to Prospect Park Races; down she went, flop ! but fortunately there were no passengers on board, and the crew could swim. Messrs. Smith, Lewis, and Wilson lose $40,000, unless they can recover from the owners of the scow, as the steamer was not insured. The Cunarder Russia, in charge of a pilot, sank.the Austrian ship Figlia Maggiore; the one was just from Liverpool, the other from Marseilles, when they collided off Bedloe's Island, and down went the Austrian vessel, submerged to her lower yards, whereby somebody loses $lBO,OOO. The Russia, in avoiding a small boat containing a man and woman, was caught by the ebb, and sank the ship. The steam-tug William Parkes was getting up steam at Pier No. 15, foot of Wall-street, when the boiler burst, and Captain Ramsay found him self flying through the air, under an undue pres sure of steam, in a wrong direction. I fear he is seriously hurt, as are Charles Powell and the steward, and the vessel, which belonged to Philadelphia, has had all her upper works blown to pieces. I regret to record several suicides, which are becoming an ugly feature in our society. They say that a dull November in London is so depress ing that people drown themselves like kittens i❑ the Thames ; but I incline, after some travel, to the opinion that a bright, dry, exhilarating climate leads to more suicides than your dull weather. It isnot the down-hearted man that lays violent hands on himself but the excited man, whose fit borders on insanity while it lasts. We have an exhilarating climate, combined with all manner of artificial excitement, and if our gambling mode of business leads to fraud it leads also too often, to suicide. But these remarks are general, and in ne degree have reference to re cent cases. Mr. B. 11. Val Auken was found in the office of the Durango Silver Mining Company, of which he was President, lying on the floor in a pool of blood, with his throat cur, but not deal. The razor had slipped from his hand and it lay by his side. Ile is believed to be wealthy, and no motive can be assigned for the act which has cawed so profound a sensation in financial circles and among his friends. It is feared that the wound will prove fatal. Charles Starr, 27 years of age, superintendent of the Tarry town Gasworks, committed suicide the same day. Last Saturd Ly, at Brooklyn, Thomas Leonard, a ]ad but 17 years old, hanged himself. The accidents from explosions re- e orted from all parts of the country show that we as recklessly blow each other up. The bursting of a locomotive on the New York Central at Rochester wrecked several cars, of course making a wreck of the engineer and his assistants. A number of me❑ at Cincinnati were wounded, one mortally, by the bursting of the Cincinnati g.►so meter. At Mount Holly, New Jersey, a locomo tive exploded, killing Platt and Gaskell, and wound ing two other men. It is satisfactory to record the rie Railroad had to pay Mrs. Carliart $3,250 for killing her husband, besides establishing this right of a woman, if the railway companies are thus fined for the damage resulting from their carelessness, parsi mony will be found expensi ve,and we will have fewer accidents. Cen.Robt. knderson, known in connection with Fort Sumter, sailed in the Hammonia on Tues day for Plymouth, as did our Consul for Ham burgh, E. Robin on, and Dr. Schuetz, Consul at Antwerp. The number leaving daily increases, all the steamers being full. Senator Chandler has sailed with his wife and daughter, in the hope that a European tour will benefit his health. Senator Osborn, of Florida, has left, but so nu.nerous are the departures of well known persons that I cannot attempt to particularize. Some West Point gra duates met last Saturday in the College, with Pro fessor Webster in the chair, and General Webb, as Secretary, to organize for social purposes, and a committee was elected to frame a Constitution. The Prospect Park races came off this week. This is the Brooklyn meeting, and it was well attended. Red Rover was the favourite in the trotting sweep stakes, mile heats,- in harness. His time was 2.44 Jeremiah Dacey shot John Mullady during a quarrel in a Brooklyn cigar store in llicks-street on Wednesday, and his victim died on Thursday. James S. Clarke, an actor of Tammany Theatre, has been charged with and arrested for stealing a Chickering piano. On Fifth-avenue a kerosene lamp exploded, with it is feared fatal injury to Mrs. Franica Blaum, and burnt her two children. Last Wednesday a tornado occurred between 5 and 6 p.m., enveloping the city in dust, but this was laid by the rain immediately following. It had been hot and sultry, but it immediately became cool. The Comptroller of New York accepted on Wed nesday proposals for $1,000,000 street opening and improvement bonds. The New York Life Insur ance Company takes $568,500 at 101.16. Henry Clews and Co., $200,000, at 101.50 ; the New York Savings Bank $75,000, and the remainder by vari ous individuals, at rates ranging from 103.25 to 105. A ridiculous story was in circulation that Mr. A. T. Stewart wanted to avail himself of his place as Commissioner on the site of the new Post-office, to do a good stroke of business by selling his store for the purpose, as if the most profitable business in the world was thus to be disposed of advanta geously. Mons. Chevalier makes to-day his first ascent in his balloon from Landmann's Park Messrs. Peter B. Sweeney, Hutchings, and Douglas Taylor have gone, and Judge Michael Connolly is going, to Europe. Harry Genet has retired from political life, as Tammany Hall does not approve of his way of making money. Mr. J. Townsend Con nolly, the son of the Comptroller, was married on Thursday to Miss Adrienne N. Oxnard, of Pitts burg. At Trinity Chapel, on Wednesday, Miss Clara Jaffray, the daughter of the millionaire, was married to an Englishman named Ruse ; a grand reception was afterwards given at the home of the bride, on Second Avenue. Small pox is on the increase, I fear, and it is attributed to the emigrant vessels. During the voyage of the Leo catlia, from Bremen, eight deaths are said to have occurred, and one in a vessel from liamburgh. Some steamers have been detained in the lower bay in quarantine on account of small-pox, chiefly among Swedes. The Herald is angry with the health officers, and desires to have the head of the depart ment removed. The Charles 11. Marshall was launched on Wednesday from Webb's yard, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. Mrs. Tenney, widow of Professor Tenney, has succeeded to the post held by her late husband as librarian of this State. Captain W. Taylor, with the ship Le tus, as well as the ship Margaret, both of Aberdeen, with all hands, were lost at Caribou Island, off Anticosti, with the exception of the mate, who has just arrived at New York. WASHINGTON, May 28. Perry Fuller arrived last Saturday to answer the charges of fraud brought against him by a spe cial Treasury agent. He has warned the papers in New Orleans which attacked his administration of the Custom house that on his return he will re quire them to substantiate their assertions or re- tract them. General Dyer has by order returned to his duty as Chief of Ordnance; but though the Court of Inquiry has acquitted him of the charges, considering that there was no evidence to go before a court-martial, yet his opponents, beaded by Nor man Wiatd, one of the chief witnesses against him, intend to br - ing the matter before Congress when it meets. The Judge-Advocate-General received a letter from Mr. Wiard commenting in no measured terms on the proceedings, asserting a bias on the part of the officers against him and in favour of General Dyer. Cornell Jewett had an interview with the President on Monday touching the rela tions between England and the Republic. . During the Avar he was in England, and had many inter views with leading statesmen there on the subject, more especially with Mr. Layard, then Under Sec reary for Foreign Affairs. Ile desited that jus t;ce might be done to England, as he could positively assert that the wish of the Govern ment was to maintain neutrality, and avoid parti cipation in the strife. While discussing the subject Mr. Jewett remarked on the popular belief that Mr. Motley had proceeded to London without instruc tions, whereon the President said that instructions had been given of which the public knew nothing. Mr. Thornton bad an interview with Secretary Fish regarding the Quaker City, which he represented to be of English ownership, and unjustly and oppres sively detained in New York on the plea that she was chartered by the Cubans. After some inves tigation action was stopped by learning that the New York Courts had issued a libel on the vessel. Colonel Selleck, on behalf of the Executive Com mittee of the Gettysburgh Monument Association, has secured from the Secretary of War tent accom modation for 4,000 persons, to be erected at Gettys burg on the 4th of July, so as to help in housing the visitors on that anniversary. Thirty supernu merary officers of the 17th and 44th Regiments have been sent to Virginia as officers of registra tion, whereby the Treasury saves the salaries which would be paid otherwise to civilians. General and Mrs. Grant, accompanied by a large party, will leave next Thursday in the Tallapoosa, to reach Annapolis in time for the Grand Ball which will take place next Friday evening. Baron Watterstedt, Minister from Sweden and Nor way, is to go home for the benefit of his health ; he is now atAnnapolis. The ball to come off there on Friday is to be given by the officers and midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Admiral Porter gave up the superintendency of that institution on accept ing his present position, and this is a farewell enter tainment to Mrs. Porter. Generals Grant and Sherman, Secretary Borie, and other distinguished persons will attend. Mr. S. B. Ruggles his been nominated by the President as delegate to the In ternational Statistical Congress at the Hague. The Hon. B. F. Wade has not yet replied to the offer of director of the Pacific Railroad. A Northern route is to be explored, and the party is now being orga nized to pass from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound. Mr.-Caufield, as agent of the Northern Pacific Rail road Company, asked General Sherman for a mili tary escort to protect the party while mapping out the course. 'The Indian Commission met on Wed nesday to consider how best to dispose of the $2,000,000 allowed by Congress to forward the in terests of the Indians. Colonel Parker was present yesterday, but not at the first meeting. Mr. Arney, formerly Governor and Indian Agent in New Mexico, thinks all Indian children, from 10 to 16, should be placed in the industrial schools or the reservations. The legal status of the Indians, the advisability of making treaties with them, the cLange in the laws relating to the purchase of provisions, and the pay ment of annuities are being discussed ; $25,000 are to he set aside for the expenses of the Commission. There has been a great dinner over Mr. Corcoran's gift, and I say over, for it was given at Georgetown Heights, in the house of Henry D. Cooke, one of the trustees. With the exception of General Raw lins, who is, I fear, really ill, so much so indeed that he may have to retire, all the Secretaries were present at the banquet ; as were also the President, General Sherman, the lion. Charles SuMner, Pro fessor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, Quar termaster-General Meigs, and Mr. J. W. Forney. Colonel T. P. Ochiltree, once editor of the Houston Telegraph, and afterwards a gallant though a rebel officer, and lastly a repentant, reconstructed, and loyal Southerner, is to get the Ttxas supervisorship of Internal Revenue. Mr. Reverdy Johnson's household was sold yesterday in his house on Ver mont-avenue, without reserve, and the house, as I before informed you, has been bought by Mr. Corcoran. Slll,—lf an American were to look through the address books at the various Continental banking houses, he might be led to think that the greater part of the military forces of his country were engaged in travelling over Europe. He might also imagine that the New York SESOSTI: IS had commenced already the reformation of America, by sending a large delegation of females in the service of Mars. At least, be would find the initials U.S.A. after the name, and upon the baggage, of nearly all his country people; and he might not be aware of the ridiculous mistake that is so frequently made with regard to their meaning. U.S.A. means nothing else than United States Army, and is generally used throughout the military branch of our Government as the abbreviation for the same. One finds it stamped upon army goods and equipments ; it is also printed in official documents. Those who are members of the army usually place it after their names ; and they only can lawfully use these letters.. When, therefore, Americans go trailing over Europe with the army mark upon their baggage, they both show_.their ignorance regarding a subject on which they ought to be informed, and also make themselves invariably an object of ridi cule to those who have the right to use U.S.A. If the New Yorker or South Carolinian imagines that the stranger will be at a loss in what country to locate his little city or State, he might enlighten him by writing U.S. of A., but not U.S.A. It is the little word " of " which distinguishes between the country and the army. But even this would be laughed at by foreigners as a provincialism. A Parisian would think the idea of writing the name of France after that of his city ridiculous. An Englishman never writes London, England; a Ger man, Heidelberg, Baden; an Italian, Naples, Italy; or an Egyptian, Cairo, Egypt. Surely our large cities and States are well enough known to render the addition of United States of America unneces sary. It is purely an Americanism, and the sooner we are rid of it the sooner will there be one subject less regarding which foreigners can smile. For my own part, I have always found that giving the name of my State was sufficient to mark me as an American, and I have no desire to become ac quainted with an IGxortamus who locates Minne sota in any country but the right one. A correspondent raises Mr. Forster's query, "Why did not the English Government at the outset of the whole affair issue a proclamation denouncing all who should engage in fitting out vessels, man ning and sailing than ou the high seas, who if detected or caught should be tried and punished as pirates ?" lie adds that Lord Palmerston had established such a precedent in 184 G or 1847 when the boundary question ran highbetween Englandand America, and George Bancroft was United States Minister. A foolish gunmaker on Tower-hill then stuck a notice in his window, something to this effect—" Antici pated war with America ; a vessel sailing under Mexican colours will ship effective seamen ; good pay and chances." An AmeriCan happening to see it, brought the circumstance to the notice of his Minister ; and our correspondent believes that about the month of July or August of that year a proclama tion appeared in the Times and other papers warn ing all taking an interest in such matters to beware, for if caught they would be punished as pirates. There would be little difficulty, he believes, in look ing up this proclamation, and in verifying the facts. Our correspondent does not perceive that the Ala bama and other cruisers were commissioned ships as alleged, the property of a belligerent Govern ment. The Richmond Government, being recog nized as belligerent, once their vessels fully coin.. missioned got fairly to sea, they could not be treated as pirates like his instance wherein the vessel would begin to capture and destroy on her own account. The Queen's proclamation denounced all interference, warning her subjects to abstain from all hostile acts against either belligerent; every act infringed that Proclamation, which enabled the Confederates to make a naval base of England. Whether England ought, at every hazard, to have declared the Alabama a ship outside all law, we do not pretend to say ; but it may be doubted whether, if she had beet' captured by a Uninn vessel instead of sunk, her crew could have been treated as pirates. This was certainly not the case with any vessel armed and commissioned in a Confederate port. The peculiar character of the Alabama and one or two others was, that they had never entered the harbour of a country whose flag they flew, and this is the dan gerous point, and the ruinous preceient established if it stands against England. But, although a most injurious one for England, it would bea very bad one for the United States, and the sooner itcan be oblite rated the better,and the international law establisLed that no ship of war can be recognized as belonging to a Power which is not commissioned in a port of that Power. It is a pity that the United States did not join in the Declaration of Paris, fur then the illegal character of such vessels would have bleu placed beyond all doubt. " A Regular Subscriber" asks, " Is there any treaty between England and America by which the English Government can legally claim in America a British subject guilty of fraud committed in this country ?" [Certainly; the Extradition Treaty provides for the surrender of criminals. A curious point was raised during the Canadian rebellion, as narrated in the letters of Sir Francis Head. At'Kenzie, a Bri tish subject, committed robbery, arson, and, we be lieve, murder, and fled to the United States. Under this Treaty, then just brought into force, Sir Francis demanded his person, but Air. Marcey, the Governor of New York, acting under the advice of the At torney-General of that State, declined to comply' on the plea that, although guilty of these crimes, his acts were those of rebellion, and therefore he Wag a political offender. Sir Francis argues that any thief might rob a bank with a grcea banner or something in his hand, and calling this rebellion on reaching foreign territory escape the consequences of his crime. Orsini, for instance, in the atrocious at tempt to murder Napoleon, could he have crossed the frontier of France, might have got off on suc h a plea ; and even John Wilkes Booth might bit" raised it on escaping into Canada when his person was demanded. British subjects accused of tunrde r . and felony, who are not able to raise the political plea, will be arrested in America, as was Muller, and handed over to English officers of justice.-- Ed. A.A.T.] BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—CoI. Freyre, th e new Peruvian Minister to the United States, arr ived by the Arizona, May 25, a t N ew York, and went to the Cl - re . ndon Hotel. Senor Garci a y G arc i a, late Peruvia n Mi nster, was also at the Clarendon.—The Hon. S a muel Shel labarger, Minister to Po r tu ga l, arr i ve d i n E u rope by the Australasian.—The Hon. Wm. A. Richardson, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury, arrived at New York, 31 1, 9 25 ' from Washington, and left f o r B o st o n th e same evening .-- Lieut.-Gen. Phil. Sheridan and J o h n C. Breckenridge were in Cincinnati, May 25.—Ex-Secretary Seward arrived at New York from Philadelphia, May 25, and Vat in the af ternoon by the Hudson River Railroad to visit his sou, Mr' Frederick W. Seward.—Professor Blaser of Berlin ha s completed the model for a colossal bust of Alexander von Humboldt for a committee in New York. It has been sent to Hanover to be cast in bronze under the superin tendence of Howaldt. --The naturalist James IleP burn died at Victoria, British Columbia, on the 15th of Mr. James M. Mason reluened to his home, Winchester, Virginia, on the 15th of May, after many years' absence, and was met at the railway station by numerous citizens. —Major-General George H. Thomas arrived in New York, May 22, from West Point, and went to Washington in the evening, whence he goes to California by the Pacific Rail road, to assume command of th Department of the Pacific. —The Hon. F. W. Seward, son of ex-Secretary Seward, and lato Assistant Secretary of State, has purchased 3 place at Irvington, and proposes to reside in it permanently. —The Hon. John Worth, United States Consul at the Sandwich Islands, arrived at New York, May 23, by the first train that came home direct through from San Fran cisco.—General M'Clellan contemplated purchasing a home in the neighbourhood of Morristown.--Mr. M'Ettrick, May 25, accomplished the feat of walking in the Boston Skating Rink one hundred miles within twenty-four hours, winning a purse of $350. This time, including rests, wa g 23 hours, 42 minutes, and 45 seconds.—Alfred died on May 21, at West Point. He was one of the or ganizers of the Free Trade League, and for many years at the head of the Loudon and Liverpool Insurance Com pany. The Executive Committee of the Free Trade League held a meeting on the afternoon of the funeral to pay a tribute of respect to his memory.—General Grant's house, in Quincy, Illinois, was lately entered and robbed' The General is credited with the epigrammatic remarkthat "office-seeking was fast becoming one of the industries of America." Ex-President Johnson meditates another speech at Clarksville, Tenn., Saturday, May 2 9 . —E1- Senator Morrill is named as the probable candidate for Governor of the " Temperance party" in Maine' °f General Dulce, of Cuba, is so dangerously ill cancer, that he is hourly expected to die.— Jos. liPLeali,°' the firm of Grant and M'Lean, leather dealers, Illinois, has been appointed collector of Customs in Chicago:- Secretary Seward owns the horses and carriage wineh were the property of President Lincoln during his ad of nistration. They occasionally appear in the streets o Auburn, and Mr. Lincoln's coachman still holds the reins. —Stedman, the poet, is now a broker, a nd h . s! an office at 48, Broad-street, New York.—Spea ker passed through New York, May 28, on his way fr° A 0 . i t Maine to Washington.—S. S. Lewis, forme rl y t b3 the Cunard Steamship Company, at Boston, d ied in s, city on Thursday night, May 27.—Alexander licdille formerly President of the Old Colony Railroad, died at l his residence in Kingston, Mass., May 27. —Major -Genera Thomas L. Crittenden, Colonel of the lith fantr Y arrived, May 28, at Richmond, Virginia, eig ht days California.—Young Talbot, who attempted to murder 1:t Scribner, was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery, Boston, his native town, May 15.—Mr. J ohn - " u-- .s ra , Young, late managing editor of the New York; Tribune , i' l a it is said, coming to Europe as Messrs. Jay o°°ke atbo Co.'s financial agent.—Charles W. Eliot has accepted .on Presidency of Harvard College, and resigned his P s ,' to ol the Board of Overseers.—Miss Kellogg is sh ? rt ‘ take a farewell benefit at the Academy of Music in York.—A. A. Folsom, superintendent of the Boston an Providence Railroad, has been tendered the dency of the Atlantic and Great Western by the I j . ri ng i which has leased it.—Hon. Ebenezer D. Bassett, VII I Ir. States Minister at Hayti, has had a reception at New rte" —Mr. Motley paid a visit to Chatham with a party of J an rary friends, and was entertained by General Free 8e Murray, the commanding officer, on Wednesday. „jil witnessed . the trooping of the colours by the Regiment, and the gymnastic exercises of the garrison•ife The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says that Mrs. Adkins, superin_tau.o of the State Senator recently assassinated, has been rested on the charge of being concerned in the murder of bee s husband.—Prcfessor Young, of Dartmouth College, ha ~. been engaged by the Nautical Almanac Office to assist be to n' taking observations of the coming sun eclipse, and wd l , stationed at Des Moines, lowa.—Speculation leads to In en " t results than ruin, fraud, and suicide ; for two Prn inli ' operators in the New York Gold Room had a fight aP inter might have damaged each other had not friends on fered.—The General Assembly of Rhode Island met Tuesday, May 25. Berry T. Eames of Providence was elected Speaker of the House, and J. M. Addeman war Charles P. Robinson, clerks. Sumner V. Sherman v i elected clerk of the Senate. The votes for gen° l.3 _ officers were counted, and the usual proclarnat,tioah_ made. Governor Padleford took his seat as p c ' . ing officer of the Senate, Ex-Governor Burnside re tiring. Newport is getting thronged with visitors:— Genre tiring. Joseph E. Johnston is named as a candidate Mayor of Savannah.—Mr. Booth, the tragedian, Pl a Y e .,. lago at the Matinee on May 29, and then retired from stage, at least for a time. — The sailo rs indicted fo b ee nl murder of J. W. Jones, mate of the Tav a 11., haVs discharged. BIRTHS. ArsTr , t—On the 14th inst., at Bickley, Kent, Mrs. NV . • Austin, of a sen. 11orE—On the 15th inst., the Lady Ida Hope, of 7, Caven dish-square, of a daughter. Al A RRIAG ES. BLAGRAVE —THORNTON—On the 12th inst., at Tilehu J. IL Illagrave, Esqof 01 t •ks to Agg es ' aco Park, Jet , widow of the late George Smith Thornton, of Marsden' hill, Herts. MN - I'OUL —GARBANATI —On the 12th inst., at St. Jaines'si, Piccadilly, F. Adrian, youngest son of Alex. N. ltiutou Esq., of 24, Great Percy-street, to Frances AfArianne, eldest daughter of Paul C. Garbanati, Esq, of 3(1, Glass house-street. o r es; DEATHS. CROSSLEY —On the 13th inst., at Broad Carr House, Elland, near Halifax, Wilkinson Crossley, Esq., aged 42. lito—O n ci t t l 3, e a l g 4 ed 14th 3 in G s . t., Mr. Geo. King, of 50, Gresham street,LAFONE—On the 14th inst., at Hastings, Alexander Ross Lafone, Esq., of Thingwall Hall, Cheshire , aged 61. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, btrand, Printer, at THE Sox Office , N 0.112, Strand, in tte Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of aidale s "'" . Wednesday, June 16, 18E2.