The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-19 00:00:00

'IBIT OF JOURNALS. ,The Times is anxious that no time should be lost in the se ttlement of the Irish Church question, since the two yea.rseit has already occupied have done much to aggra vate the land question and delay its solution. The Church has always suffered by being the Church of the landlords, and the landlords have equally sufferei by the possession of a Church which was as emblem of oppression. The landlord is generally of English extraction, a heretic in the eyes of his tenants, seldom much among them, and often disposed to take a political side against them. The law by which he lets, and they hold, his land should be well-defined and strong, yet considerate, and without needless harshness. Parlia ment will have to address itself to this task as soon as it has put its present work well out of hand. The task will not be the easier for the delay, or for the semblance of victory given to the native Irish cause; but this must not be laid to the account of those who are now doing an act of justice, but rather to those who have so long hindered and delayed it. The Times asks whether it would not be possible for Government to take up Lord Clanricarde's bill of last session without further delay. Let there be no mere " understandings," which are fruitful in misundet standings, but an actual agreement between landlord and tenant. Last year's bill aimed at simplifying, facilitating. and cheapening the legal forms necessary for a contract, which for the future was to be express, and to be in com pliance with some plain rules. With short printed forms, signed in duplicate or triplicate, duly registered, and charged with very moderate fees, it is at least reasonable to hope that dispute may be avoided for the future where there has been no intention to do wrong. It is too true that there often is an intention to overreach, or to cling to some old notion more agreeable than anything in black and white. It is also too true in Ireland, as in every other country, that the legal profession does not uniformly assist the Legislature, or anybody else, in avoiding disputes and cheapening business ; but such a measure as we have described would throw the burden of the quarrel on those who refuse to be bound by their own signature when it stands in their way. Is it impossible to make an attempt in this direction this year, with three months yet unbroken? Certainly there will be more time for it next year, but who can say what even this year may not bring forth ? The Standard says: Throughout the history of the United Church of England and Ireland there is no parallel for an assemblage like the Conference which has just closed its session at Dublin. Throughout the two meetings, and in all the speeches, there was no one to say one word in palliation of the bill—no one to whisper even the idea of compromise. Unyielding resistance to a measure of un paralleled wrong seemed to be the temper of all present in an assemblage composed of the flower of the Irish clergy and laity, and of traditional moderators like the bishops. The same spirit animated the lay demonstration at which Lord Crofton presided on Thursday. The Irish Pro testants read too truly the purpose of the bill to allow themselves to cherish any false hopes. Their Church is to be degraded and robbed, not because of its abuses, not because such a policy is just andJawful in itself, but in order to gratify a powerful and malevolent rival. This, the guiding motive of the bill, is impressed on its every clause, ill the distinction as to the mode in which the compensation money is allotted, and in the ingenious provision for the gradual extinction of the Church. They see clearly enough that the scheme of impartial disendowment" is so contrived as to become one of endowment in the case of Rome. It is "levelling downi" as regards the Protestant Church, it is "levelling up as regards the Roman Catholic Church. The one is to be degraded and plundered in order that the other ,Anay be aggrandised and enriched. Is it a thing to marvel at that, plainly discerning the ultimate purpose and result of the measure, they should prefer to offer a passive re sistance rather than be deluded into any acts of co-opera tion by which they might eventually become accomplices in the conspiracy for establishing Roman Catholic ascen dancy. The Post believes that the result of the division on the first of Mr. Disraeli's amendments augurs ill for those which follow. The point raised on Friday night was essentially distinct from any of the issues which remain to be tried, but it was also one on which there certainly was more to be said in favour of the Opposition theory than on any of the rest. In this respect, therefore, the division of Saturday morning may be regarded as a crucial test. If the Conservative party not merely failed to secure the rejection of the clause abolishing the atthority of the Crown in dealing with the Anglican Church in Ireland—for such a result must have been anticipated— but even failed to shake in any degree the strong phalanx of their opponents, or to diminish its numbers, then their cause must be regarded as hopeless indeed when they attempt to prevent the enactment of the disen dowment clauses. There was, perhaps, more to be said in support of the objection to the absolute severance between the Crown and the Irish Church than will be supplied in any subsequent stage in committee ; and no one can doubt that the defeat of Mr. Disraeli on Saturday morning was infinitely more damaging than he expected. In converting the Established Church in Ireland into a voluntary institution there must and can be no half ; measures. If that Church possesses—and no one doubts it does possess—the elements of vitaliity, it will live and flourish independently of the supervision of the State. None but those who disbelieve in its tenets can possibly bold a different opinion. The Protestants of Ireland, on the contrary, so far from being discouraged by the de cision of the House of Commons, should rejoice in it, and they may derive fresh confidence in their own strength and their own resolution when they find themselves entirely untiammelled by any vestige of State inter. ference. The Daily News calls attention to tile fact that while the war of politics has been raging with unusual violence in the House of Commons, the House of Lords has been usefully occcupying its peaceful leisure in discussing some social difficulties, the solution of which is of the greatest importance to the country. Perhaps the most important of those discussions was that which took place on Friday night, on pauperism and its cure. Lord Houghton undertook to represent to their lordships the views of those persons who would have Government endeavour to eradicate pauperism by sending away our paupers. He found no very optimist view of our national condition to prevail among his audience. The old aristocratic notion that, because the poor are always with us, it is useless to attempt to alleviate poverty, finds no spokesman among the Peers. All who took part in the discussion agreed that the question is urgent, and must speedily be dealt with. Side by side with our increasing wealth is an increasing poverty, and all congratulation at the one is dashed and mocked by contemplation of the other. Lord Overstone said he believed that we are, as a nation, saving £150,000,000 a year ; but what advantage is it that wealth accumulates if men decay ? Our wealth does not seem to cure our poverty, and the great problem of the day, as recognised by the Peers on Friday night, is to find why it does not. It is a real step in advance to have it universally recog nised that pauperism is a dis e a se , an d t h at there is some where a remedy for it. The Herald thinks that the report addressed by Colonel Rich to the Board of Trade on the subject of the great railway accident at Abergele is entitled to a good deal Itiore attention than is generally bestowed six months after the event to which they refer on ordinary documents of this kind. Accidentsof the Abergele class are attribut able to the quantity and extent of the miscellaneous traffic with which prosperous railways in this country are flooded. He points, it is true, to various regulations which are habitually disregarded, greatly to the augmentation of risk in travelling, and brings deliberately a terrible charge against railway companies in general, when he says that good rules are printed and issued to the railway servants for the sake of being produced in event of an accident, while they are systematically disregarded in practice. This charge, however, works round to the conclusion we point out. Why should the companies permit their servants to violate good rules, except that by this violation a greater quantity of business can be carried on than would be possible otherwise ? But even if all the best regula tions possible in reference to signallin.. trains and shunting the slow ones in tim e t o let the expresses pass are punctually carried out, it remains obvious that the more traffic there is on a line the more danger there is of collision. The mare railway companies try to push slow goods trains along a line while a fast passenger train fe hurrying up towards them on the same rails, trusting that the slow train will crawl off on to a siding before it is caught, the greater does the danger become. It is obviously true that while the present system prevails, closer atten tion to the existing rules would make it less hazardous than it must remain as long as the rules are—as Colonel Lich says they are—constantly violated in practice. The Telegraph moralises over the recent death of an innknown woman, aged 75, in the Westminster Work house, from opium eating, and fears that the vice is on the increase amongst us. The likelihood would seem to be, that for everyone who dies of delirium tremens from epirit-driliking, or from the breaking-up which finally kW:: the opiuin-ea:er— whatever the learned name for the disease may be—there are a hundred who are indebted to opium or gin for shattered lierves, dazed brains, and w i ld thoughts. Thev Jive at fever-beat fur an hour or, two of the day or night, and at half-stroke for the remainder, harassed, depressed, unfit to do man or womae's work _in the world. Kindly Nature_ _ steps in and the victims - di; . 4 some lisease which, though painful and sad enough, 's not so awful as the delirium produced by spirit drinking, or as the possibly more ago nising despair of the opium cater. In England, however, the use of the drug is as yet a secret vice ; and to compare like with like, we must take the opium den of the East with the drinking slum of the West. It seems a pity that we should unite the vices of both hemispheres. We have our brewers and distillers—why call in the druggist? To chew how people can live who do not poison themselves with gin or opium, we should add that the deaths of thirteen persons were recorded last week who had reached 90 years of age and upwards. Those persons must have been poor dull people without a notion of fast life • for it is not everyone who takes to laudanum and gin that can hope to reach the years of the opium -eater of St 411 • THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TEE LATEST CANARD. The TDekly Register says : " 'Chat some remarkable change in the political horizon may shortly be expected seems to be pretty certain. Tl'.ere is no doubt but that Ministers—at least many of ti.,"ein—are most anxious to get the Irish Church Bill passed and done with, and yet to do so without a com promise appears t o be impossible. In what people call the best informed circles' it has been rumoured during the past week that the Lords will agree to disesta blishment, but not to disendowment, and that the Ang,lican Church in Ireland will be left with allits present worldly goods, although no longer a State establish. ment. This, it is said, has disgusted the more liberal members of the Cabinet. and that a break up, followed by a remodelling of the Ministry, is likely to take place. Rumour even goes further, and says that Lord Stanley is not unlikely to take office under Mr. Gladstone, and that the new Ministry will be formed of the more con serva-,ive Liberals and the more liberal Conservatives." There is not the smallest sign of any such confede racy as our contemporary supposes. The increasing majorities of the Ministry are certainly not a sign of a Ministerial rupture. They are far more likely to indicate the determination of the Lords not to resist a measure which becomes more numerously sup ported every wee' , . And yet we are told the rumour was very current in the lobby of the House on Friday night. DR. LIVINGSTONE. What has become of Dr. Livingstone P The rumour of his murder everybody thought had been sufficiently cleared up in the autumn, and Sir Roderick Murchison was expecting him in England to eat his Christmas dinner. But Christmas has passed, and we have gone through winter into spring ; but there is no Dr. Livingstone. His con tinued absence is beginning to cause great interest, if not anxiety. His scientific friends, how ever—and they may be supposed to know most about him—feel quite hopeful as to his safety. His ambition to explore as much as possible, his absolute determination and indomi table perseverance will lead him, they say, to go on until he shall have a tale to tell worth the hearing. It is now hoped that Sir Samuel Baker, in his Nile expedition, will meet him. Livingstone has evidently taken another route than through Zanzibar, and it is conjectured that lie is following the course of the mighty river of Egypt. women. copy as the standard predicting that America will re quire a century to grow to it, for although she has the wealth and luxury, she has not as yet had the time. Congressmen might employ the interval till the Gth December (the next session) in practising the epigrammatic style in society, and as Americans do things in a month which would require a decade with other nations, they may come out full-blown "aristocrats" with the New Year, now that they know the distinguishing mark. The Pall-Mall traces some of the habits which prevail in the Republic to the early necessities of a young country. American hospitality and the self-devotion to the guest, are derived from the times when the stranger was guided through the impervious forest and his host considered his duty towards him only ended after he had placed him in safety, either at his destination, or in a neighbour's charge. The gran•i son of the man who so acted conducts his guest through the labyrinth of his city, showing him everything, and permitting no expense to fall on him. The habit of " treating," comes from the time when the backwoodsman shared his last ration with his mate ; and from something similar is derived that self-denial in trifles, mutual consideration in stead of the " devil-take-the-hindmost" system, ten derness for the weak, above all, chivalry towards women, merely as women, which distinguishes Ame - rican society. The American correspondent contrasts the American snob abroad with the Bri tish snob abroad, and his argument is simply un answerable. In no country in the world are there SO many nouveaux riches as iu the United States, and it is their habit when they acquire the means to take a European tour ; consequently, not only are there more of them, but that more is more seen by foreigners ; hence, it is to their good sense in the main, as well as to the institutions of the country, the nation owes the fact that they hare not made the American naMe - a by-word of vul garity. It is surprising, under the circumstances, that there should be so little under-bred ostenta tion and diSplay, not that so much is to be seen. In the Republic the difference between the poor and the rich is not marked asin England; that Americans are not separated by such an almost impassable gulf is shown by the numbers who cross it; and as wealth does not create such social distinctions it is less valuable, while all grades are more on a par. Hence when a man does scramble across, he is not con scious of having accomplished any marvellous feat ; to him it is the mere reward of sobriety, industry, and good judgment. It can readily be believed that such a case will contrast favourably with the purse-proud arrogance of the Englishman who has achieved the wonderful task of crossing the gulf. He has one of two objects, both equally offensive ; either to obliterate every trace of his ever having been on the other side, or to take all to the brink that he may indulge in self-glorification ; the first is a pretender and his life a lie, the second is an egotist and an unmitigated bore. The nouveau rich Ame rican has then the great advantage of not being to the same degree in a false position, and therefore carries his wealth with more grace and ease. Sup pose these things were reversed, and that a vast crowd of Englishmen, suddenly enriched from the mills of Lancashire, from the furnaces of the Black Country, from the meadows of Leicestershire and the mines of Northumberland, as well as from the workshops of London, Birmingham, and Manche& er, were without any previous training to inundate Europe and America, where would the horses be driven which carried these beggars? As what here is termed the lower class, is in America brought up socially and the upper class brought down, where members of the one get into the other, they are akin, and assimilate the more readily, that socially but little difference has ever been acknowledged, and politically none. In another column of the same number of the Pall Mall Gazette. which contains the article to which we have referred, is a good illustra tion of the manners and customs of Americans. In an " Occasional Note," that is, among the para graphs coming from the hand of one of its writers, a story is told as having occurred at Lebanon, In diana, intended to illustrate the necessity for civilising the States in the Union before the Re public endeavours to add to its territory. A file of persons there passed through a church, each in turn touching a corpse laid on the communion table, the object being to discover at whose touch the corpse would bleed. When this is the sort of information supplied to the upper classes of England about America, who can be surprised at the ignorance with which they go there? and it is vain to say it was merely copied from an American paper—for there are no men who more amusa themselves by .• invention, who make more wonderful discoveries in their sanctums, and describe with more elaboration of detail the marvellous remains of extinct animals, cities, curious antiquities, and subterranean works, with an occasional three-headed birth, an eagle that flew away with a team of oxen, or the detection of a murderer, by the corpse announcing who did it. But we must add, in justice to the Pall Mall, that if quick to pick up JONaTIIAN'S shortcomings, it does not spare JohIN Buhr,. " A Bloated Aristo crat.," from the House of Commons, writes to that journal in strong terms of censure of a member whom he must have bad before him at the time. He had settled himself in the reading-room of the House to enjoy his book, and as a preliminary had taken off his shoes! Nor does it less censure im morality, as the account it gave of the " Ladies' Mile" testifies. It is to be hoped that women of rank in London will take the hint, and if they can- not suppress such action on the part of young men at least drive them out of the society of virtuous TTIE IRISH cHuncir DILL. 1 The unanimity of the Liberal party on the Irish Church question was once more conclusively shewn 'on Friday night. The hope that as soon as the bill got into committee the party would break up into " a disorganised rabble,' has not yet been fulfilled. Of the 344 members who supported the retention of the second clause—which may be aptly termed the clause of the bill-34] were Liberals. the Conserva tives voting against their party being Lord Bing ham, Mr. Orr-Ewing, and Colonel Vandeleur. It will be remembered that all three hon. members have gone in favour of the bill in each division. The Liberals who voted against the clause were also three—Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Saunderson, and Sir R. Clifton. The two former gentlemen were not present on the second division. Although Sir Roundell Palmer spoke against Mr. , Disraeli's motion, he did not record his vote ; Lord Stanley, however, went into the lobby with the minority. Mr. Dalway, who on the two previous occasions went against his party, now supported the Government ; and Colonel Grant, the Conservative member for Elgin and Nairn, who voted for the bill going into committee, now went into the lobby with the Opposition. Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Butler- Johnstone formed part of the majority. The number of members in the House was 570, or nineteen less than on the previous evening, and fifty-three fewer than those present on the 24th of March. The absentees from the Conservative side again outnum bered those of their opponents. The regular Whips on both sides acted as tellers. ' THE SCOTCH PRESBYTERIANS AND MAYNOOTH. An attempt has been made in the Edinburgh Presbytery of the Scotch Free Church to condemn the Irish Church Bill in respect ofas Maynooth pro visions. A warm discussion took place on the subject, and in the result the condemnatory resolu tion was rejected by more than two to one, and an amendment carried approving the arrangement sought to be carried out by the measure. When it it is remembered that this was done by the ministers of an extreme anti-Romanist Church, in the most Protestant country in the world, one can but fee] how completely the " No Popery " cry has perished. MR. WHALLEY AND TIIE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION. Mr. Whalley recently denied very indignantly that he had been induced by pressure from his con stituents to vote for the disestablishment of the Irish Church. A member of his election committee, how ever, declares that the hon. member did have some gentle pressure put upon him by the electors of Peterborough ; and that this pressure caused him to deviate from the line which lie seems to have marked out for himself. Mr. Whalley says that for a long time he had felt the Irish Church to be a but tress of Popery. But if we may believe a correspon dent of the Telegraph, it was not long ago that he thought that the disestablishment of the Irish Church would be prejudicial to the English Establishment. The account of Mr. Whalley's conversion is a curious insight into the psychological workings of the mind of a member of Parliament when in the right path. Mr. - Whalley's committee, we are told, were afraid that their member was not " sound," and so they telegraphed to Mr. Whalley that they wanted to see him. He met them, and they set before him that he must—if he would continue member for Peter borough —vote for Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions. " I can't," Mr. Whalley is reported to have exclaimed, Accounts have been received of a great robbery which " What would my Orange friends think of me ?" " What they like," replied his committee; " b u t y ou took place at Philadelphi a b e t ween six o'clock in the must vote straight, or we shan't think you worthy of morning and four in the afternoon of the 4th inst. The building occupied by th e Beneficial Saving Fund Society support at the poll." Mr. Whalley, as th e H ouse of Commons knows too well, can talk long of Philadelphia, situated at the south-west corner of and fast, and he was about to enter Twelfth and Chesnut-streets, was entered by robbers, and into an argument to show that with the Irish must completely stripped of everything valuable in the shape go the English Church. But his committee would of money, bonds, Sze., that the institution had on hand. hear no argument. Would he vote for Gladstone or A rough estimate places the value of money, bonds, &c., not 9 lle would abstain altogether. But with that carried off by the burglars at 1,300,000 dollars, of which even the committee were not satisfied. And the about 400,000 dollars were in the coupon bonds, which are hon. member for Peterborough at last gave the cot registered, and w hi c h can , o f course, b e eas i ly cold fur required promise. What d o M r . Wh a ll ey ' s O range 9 ca =h by the bur g l ars . Ab ou t 8 , 00 0 d ollars i n breen backs friends think of him were carried off, and the balance was in untransferable 1 CIII7IICII ITEMS. bonds, dzc., which will be of no use to the robbers. The rob- The John Bull states of the private meeting of hers effected an entrance through a window, encased with the Irish Church Conference, held this week, sheet iron, and on the discovery being made everything about that the Primate presided, and there was the the room was in a state of confusion. A large vault fire. - greatest unanimity as to the course to be pursued to proof safe was broken open, and its entire content; con.- insure the present and future welfare of the Irish aisting of all the bonds, money, &c., in charge of the Church. The Bishop of Derry made a long society, were abstracted. These valuables were contained speech, which our contemporary publishes in full. in numerous tin boxes, which were taken out one by one, One of the arguments which he used in favour and broken o p en , an d th e i r contents secured. A small of maintaining th e E s t a bli s h men t was th at safe stationed within the large one, having four locks, and the Roman Catholic clergy got so much more money out of their people than the Protestant clergy which contained papers of the greatest value, was lifted got out of theirs. To most persons the argument would shop out into the floor, the lock picked, and every paper taken se u m exa to nd tend er . in the contrary directioil ; but from it. The carpet of the room was torn up in diffe rent places, and torn envelopes that contained valuable the other speakers were s sl'erdie eloquentArchb i s i l n i o s p n .of Dublin, mo ng bonds, &e., were strewed around in all directions. The who declared that they might be vanquished, but robbers had evidently b een a t wor k for several hours, for it they would no t b e accomplices in their own over was found that a large piece of timber, evidently prepared throw ; and the Bishop of Cork, who said for the purpose, had been fastened in an upright position on that he would fight so long as ho had two the floor, near the safe door, by means of iron hinges screwed legs left to stand upon, and when he had no legs to the floor, and behind this was a prop, securely planted he would fight upon his stumps. Bishop Gregg is fond of homey language. With reference to his previous against this upright post. This contrivance was used to afford a sort of support to the drill used to dill a hole into a papei n .s o in oriu o s rk sp a ew r h, four . reporters of different Bishop said that the safe door, by which the burglars (who evidently knew the nicc Bill Gladstone and t pub d licly that his bill their business thoroughly, and were professional hands),were may go to the —." The most• s e r n e e ver a c n md enabled to pick the lock. The combination lock of the safe : did not add the word " devil." He left that prelateor i was knocked off, and a hole drilled through the chilled steel , hearers to do. Ile knew that they were quite s forming the panels of the safe door, about three inches to capable of doing it. the right of the place where the combination lock was. This } With reference to what Mr. Gladstone calls the hole was drilled to the depth of about three inches. A paper " absence of responsible episcopal Government " the containing powder, and diff eren t s i ze d . "bi ts, " a large b race , i Church Review says : " The grieva nce and scandaltie.edilthdat the bishops are being consu lt e d as to ssthne and a bottle of alcohol, wer e f oun d i n t h e room , wh i c h had o f the a b eyance of episcopacy in so ma n y E ng li sh been left behind by the daring ro bb ers . Th e on l y b on d left dioceses inparlil at t men h t e p a r n e d se A nt ir. m c o li m ds e t n o t ne ha h s beeiti.li mentioned best ia behind by the robbers was a 51,000 one, whi c h w as f oun d on the floor. The mortgages that the saving fund had on ha n d f or a li a bili ty to which, under the present sy s'teel were not carried off by the robbers, and a number of certifi- we must always be ex p ose d . Thi s is a satisfactory ' cates of shares of stock were left behind. In a box i n th e a nnounc eme n t. Al ong w i t h th i s question we hope safe was a largo quantity of silver ware, consisting of knives, that an increased normal episcopacy will be com forks, spoon s , &c., and which belonged to different de- bined, and that the Government will accept the positors. Th e scoun d re l s l e f t t hi s b eh i nd, i t b e i ng too b ulky . opportunity of compensatin g i n some way in for them t o carry off in addition to the large bundle of England for the hard measure d ea lt t o the sister " bonds, &c., t a k en. Nothing of value was left in the Establishment in Ireland. safe except a few pennies. Among the losers is ex-Judge Campbell, who had a box on deposit that contained over 4,000 dollars. A lady named Al.Caully had a box in the safe which contained diamonds valued at from 15,000 dollars to 20,04 dollars, ono solitaire having alone cost 5,000 dollars. Other depositors had silver and gold coin and silver plate on deposit, and until the books of the institution are examined it will bo difficult to aggre gate the value of the property carried away. It is almost incredible how the robbery could have been committed. It was done in broad daylight on the great thoroughfare of the City, and on a clear day, u hen hundreds of persons were passing to and fro. In emerging from the building l the robbers must have had a large bundle of papers, and how they could have b een engaged for hours at their nefarious work and then escaped with so much plunder un observed, is difficult to underetancl. The institution was used to a great extent by servant girls, &c., to deposit their scanty means, and many hundreds have lost all they pos sessed by the robbery. The immediate effect of the robbery was to cause the bank to susprd payment. TIIE OPERATIVE BRICKMAKERS.—In the Court of Queen's Bench'an action was heard concerning a deposit-note for £B7 is. lid. given by the Barnsley Banking Company to the Barnsley Society of Operative Brickmakers at a time when there were three or four more members than those who were joined as plaintiffs. Those persons had given notice to the bank not to pay the note without their assent. The case was tried at Leeds, when the plaintiffs were nonsuited. Mr. Seymour, Q.C., now moved for a new trial, but the Lord Chief Justice said all the parties to the contract must be joined as plaintiffs. He thought there would be no difficulty in the bank paying over the money. Rule refused. GREAT SAVINGS BANK ROBBERY IN PHILADELPHIA. THE REFORM OF ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. The objection chiefly urged against Lord Shaftes bury's bill for the reform of procedure in cases of complaints against " criminous clerks " has been that any irresponsible persons might, for the sake of harrassing a clergyman, institute frivolous suits against him. The slightest deviation from the letter of the law would bring down law costs, if nothing else, upon his head. Lord Shaftesbury, writing to the Times on the subject, points out that he has pro vided against that. lie has inserted a clause making the petitioner liable for the whole or any part of the costs of the respo silent. In the case of unfounded charges this woul i be a severe fine —severe enough, Earl Shaftesbury thinks, to deter men from vexatious cases, A painful case of elopement has been reported to the Liverpool Courier from Manchester. A magistrate and lady, the wife of a brother magistrate, have fled to the Con tinent together. The lady is said to be the mother of four young children. Her husband and his brother havo left England in pursuit of the fugitives. RFPRLEVE OF THE CONVICT WH.TsuutE.--On Saturday morning Major Cartwright, Governor of Gloucester Gaol, received a communication from the Home Secretary, directing a reprive of the convict Charles Wiltshire, who was sentenced to death a fort night ago fur the:murder of Harriet Nurse, at St. George's, Bristol. This decision, it ?I presumed, has been arrived at solely in consequence of the medical evidence given at the trial, and apart altogether from the prisoner's attempt on the life of the warder. AN AMERICAN GRACE DARLING.—The happily named Grace Darling, in England, made herself immortal by her heroism in rescuing the wrecked. Rhode Island has a similar heroine in Miss Ida Lewis, daughter of the keeper of the Lime 'Rock Lighthouse. Dy day or night, in storm or breeze, she springs alone into her boat to save life. She is said to have saved the lives of a dozen persons—twc of whom, soldiers, she rescued a few days ago. All honour to her. As we cannot give her an obelisk or a statue, we give her a paragraph,--ive w y ork AMC& APTii SIR CULLING EARDLEV. Some months ago Sir Culling Eardley was t r i e d for bigamy, a n d, b e ing found guilty, was sentenced to two years' imprisoment. Recently he has been set at liberty, ostensibly because his health was seriously affected. Since his release the bigamist has appeared particularly jolly. The Pall Mall Gazette, in calling attention to the circumstance, by innuendo, ascribes hi s lib era ti on t o th e f ac t th a t Si r Culling is a near re l at i ve of Mr. Childers. It may interest our contemporary to know that the bigamist baronet's liberation was ordered by Mr. Hardy,. ELECTION PETITIONS. The Daily NewB summarises the results or thQ election petitions. Since the judges commenced tho hearings on 12th January 08 cases have been digs posed of-54 agai ns t Lib erals and 44 against Von' servatives. The withdrawals have numbert3d 44, ir4 the proportion of 24 against Liberals, and 20 agflingt Conservatives. Thirty-five members have been declared duly elected -22 Liberals and 1:1 Conserve- tives. _Nineteen have lost their seats-8 Liberals and 11 Uonservatives. The proportion of Liberal members unseated to the number of petitions originally presented is 14 per cent., whil e t h e pro portion of unseated Co ns ervatives is 25 per cent. The petitions which have not yet been taken involve the fate of three Liberals and seven Conservatives, exclusive of Mr. Birley, whose return for Man chester is complained of on the ground that he was a Government contra c t or a t the time of the election. The Boston petition has been withdrawn, the same course is about to be taken with regard to the South Durham case. Another petition is anticipated arising out of the Hereford election, THE NORWICH MURDER, Up to Saturday no reprieve bad been received for the convict Sheward, now lying under sentence of death at Norwich for the murder of his first wife, Martha Sheward. There bas been an impression in some quarters that this reprieve might possibly be granted in consequence of the state of the convict's health. He is not looking so well as when he was first brought down to Norwich after his first confession early in January, and he is also suffering from rheumatisAi in the ankles, which renders walking a matter of diffi culty to him. The prison surgeon (Mr. Day) has not deemed it necessary, it is understood, to make any special official report upon the case. Since his conviction Sheward has been attentive to the religious instruction which he has received from the chaplain (the Rev. R. Wade), and his - general conduct in the prison has been quiet and docile. In his amplified confesssion he states that he and his wife had a violent quarrel on Sunday, the 15th June, 1851, and that the quarrel ended by his cutting her throat, so that the act.was unpremeditated, and the culprit sought to lead the public to suppose that be had not committed a wilful, deliberate murder, although lie had been hurried on by passion to`perpetrate a frightful crime. The house in which the convict and his first wife lived in June 1851 is rather a large one, and it has only a dead wall opposite, so that it would not be much observed. Further, the con vict and his wife kept no servant, and had no child, while Sunday was probably a day of the week on which the neighbours would be many of them away from home, either at church or on some pleasure excursion. Sheward statetl that he kept the body of his murdered wife until it began to become offensive, and then he cut it up and distributed it about the suburbs of Norwich. To avoid identification of the features of his wife, he cut off the " golden hair " (of which so much has been said durir g the progress of the case) and burnt it. He also boiled the head, smashed it up into small pieces, and distributed it about the town. The convict further states that. he burnt the clothes of the murdered woman, and so destroyed all - traces of her. The execution will be carried out to-morrow according to present arrange ments. LAW AND POLICE. - 1. - A THEATRICAL DISPUTE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, an action was brought by Mr. Dominick Murray, the comedian, against Mr. Webster, of the Adelphi Theatre, for a breach of contract during the time that Mr. Webster was lessee of the Olympic. Mr. Murray agreed to play " first low comedy" and Irish characters, and was to have a clear half benefit during the season. Towards the end of the season Mr. Murray was called upon to play the part of Buffies in " The Two Puddifoots " but he declined, on the ground that the character did not belong to " first low comedy " but to "old man." Mr. Murray complained that Mr. Webster did not allow him the clear half benefit, and had refused to pay him his last week's salary. Mr. Webster relied on the rules of the theatre, which provided that anyone refusing to perform any part at the appointment of the manager shall forfeit six nights' salary. The case was tried in the Bail Court, when a verdict for £7 upon the money counts, and . £5O damages for the loss Of the benefit was given. A new rule was obtained on the ground that the verdict in the first count was against evidence, and also that the defendant had made the plaintiff an offer of a benefit. After the case had been argued on both sides the Lord Chief Justice said he thought the best thing would be for the plaintiff to give up the .£5O on the defen dants paying the costs of this rule, the plaintiff keeping his verdict for the .f.. 7. The plaintiff's counsel accepted those terms, but the defendant's counsel asked for time to consult his client. BACKSTIEESH. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says that a friend of his, who acts as secretary to one of the Government departments, had to check the delivery of .k 200,000 worth of iron supplied by a Northern firm. Before he began his task, he was asked, " I suppose you will require the usual com mission of 21 per cent ?" In other words, the firm proposed to bribe the servant o f th e pu bli c w i t h a gift of 175,000, in order to pass goods which were no doubt worth, not only 175,000 less than the contract price, but a good many five thousands. How long has this sort of thing been going on ? How many undiscovered Gamblers and liumbolds are there ? VICARIOUS GENEROSITY. The Broad Arrow says there is a rumour that It the Government should increase the grant to the volunteers the addition will assume the form of a regulation great coat the necessity of which was apparent at th e D over Review. The same paper states that the War Office Committee is still engaged in its labours, which daily tend to prove the advisability of simplifying the machinery in several of the depart ments. The probability is that the Commander-in- Chief will be made solely responsible for a conside rable amount of routine details which are now unnecessarily,and merely as a matter of form, referred to the War Office. The Army and Nary Gazette says that Vice-Ad miral Sir G. Mundy will be succeeded in the West Indies by Rear -Admiral Wellesley. GOOD NEWS FOR THE OVEREND AND GURNEY DIRECTORS. Dr. Thom, the prosecutor of the Overenct and Gurney directors has, as we have already mentioned, given notice that he will himself conduct the prose cution. Dr. Thorn is a very public-spirited man, and cannot be censured if he declines to spend any more of his money in conducting a case which it is a scan dal to the country has not been undertaken by the Government. At the same time we cannot but feel dismay in learning his intention. It would be a grievous and almost national calamity if the case should break down through want of skill on the part of the prosecution ; and as the defendants will have the most eminent counsel to represent them, it can hardly be expected that Dr. Thom, who is not a lawyer, will be capable of meeting them. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MANNERS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Some ten or twelve days ago the Daily News published a letter from its American correspondent —as usual, with him, an essay—the subject being English and American Dlauners. The Pall Mall Gazette, taking a long time for reflection, pursued the theme in an article last Wednesday, and al though we must trust to the impression left by a hurried reading of the American correspondent, we will endeavour to give the gist of what both these writers say. The American correspondent notices two classes of Englishmen who visit the United States, both producing a disagreeable impression on the American mind. The one is the simple snob ; supercilious, condescending, and showing in every word and action his belief in the inferiority of all around when compared with his belongings. Such are more or less common to every country, but per haps assume the most disagreeable type in the British specimen. But the impression they create is neither deep nor lasting ; for offensive and dis agreeable persona can easily be dropped, while ex cuses are made for ignorance and narrow-minded ness ; the other, moreover, creates real annoy ance, and the more as he does so unconsciously. Englishmen of culture and refinement find their way into American homes refined as theirs, and occupied by people as culti va t e d as t h ose w i t h whom they have been bred. Their astonish ment is the more freely expressed, as they think it impli e s a compliment, while Americans receive it with ill-disguised annoyance. If the English man does not say so, still he means that he came to America expecting to find civili za ti on a d vance d but a few stages from life in the Back Woods. Instead of well-read, nurtured, and travelled ladies and gentlemen, with tastes cultivated as highly as in any European so c i e t y, h e looked for good honest men and women, who understood how to buy and sell, crops and herds, wooden houses, and labour-saving machines. That the man should be surprised, is not surprising, when in stead, he meets people who know Europe better than he does, whose pictures and statuary are of a higher order of art, whose library embraces a wider range,whose dwellings are superior, and where the cookery and wines are at least as good. Ameri cans say their visitor ought not to have been so igno rant of American society. had it been of French, of Italian, or of German society he would have been ashamed to let such ignorance appear, and in openly announcing it in America he shows that it is com mon to his whole class. What right have these who profess to know the world to be thus complacently unacquainted with a community now exercising upon it the greatest influence of the age ? The Pall Mall Gazette, limiting the discussion to the wealthy of both nations, takes this strange ground. What most distinguishes the aristocracy of Eng land is their epigrammatic mode of expression. The effort is to give the pith of stories, cutting away heads and tails. Not to be concise is to be a bore, and instead of the full meaning the terse sentences are only intended to convey an outline of it or hint. With those in the lowerstation the reverse is the case. They follow to the end the thought, argue out their assertion, and tell the whole story, while the hearer may vainly suggest that he has anticipated the point. Now Americans being our offshoot, says the Gazette, derive their origin from the middle not from the highest class, and the difference chiefly dis tinguishing all even the most wealthy and refined in America, who are precisely on the same level as to externals with the wealthy and refined in England from them, is the same, as between the aristocratic and the middle and lower classes here. Americans are long-winded in conversation, in speeches, and even in wit. The American correspondent allows that the English used to be considered in America the guide and model in manners, though this is be coming an exploded error. What Englishmen consi der essentials often taking them as tests are generally mere conventionalities to be found in no other coun try, a habit or perhaps a necessity of Great Britain. Mixing a good deal on the Continent, Americans have discovered that other Europeans re gard the English as any NIT but refined, and when the only true test is applied to some of their con ventionalitiel it is found that these are not signs of good manners, have nothing to do with manners, or may be really bad manners. The true test is simple kindliness, and the manners which embody most consideration for others, are the best. Now, may not the Pall Mall's marked differene3 be a mere conventionality in imitation of the sparkling mode of conversation cbaractcristic of Frenchmen fos- .ered by thei r ep i gramma t ic language, but which comes out as a bad copy when tried by the English ? A. Frenchman conveys more in a shrug and a grimace than an Englisman can do in a long winded sentence, but the Pall Mall takes this servile Among the Civil Service Estimates there is an item of £3,500 for gifts and presents made by Prince Alfred while touring in Australia. The gifts were, no doubt, duly appreciated, and the generosity of the giver highly extolled. Only one would like the givers to know that it is we, the .British tax payers, not the Prince, who have paid for the presents. In India, of course, this sort of thing is understood. All the world knows that the magnificent presents which Lord Mayo has just made to the Ameer of Affghanistan do not come out of his lordship's pocket. But the other case is rather different. We give Prince Alfred a handsome allowance, we have given him the command of one of the smartest ships in the Biitish navy, but we did not contemplate having to pay all the " tips," which, in the fullness of his bounty, he chooses to make. TEE MILITARY SERVICES. 7RAINLVG REPORTS. Epsom, Thursday.—Nightingall sent Sarcolite, Elector, Glen Stuart, Arcanum, Agate, colt by Vedette, colt by Caractacus, colt by Amsterdam, and Leveret twice about a mile and a quarter, while Forster's King Richard, Nannie, Chivalry, and colt by Blair Athol were going good half speed for a mile, and S. W. Reeves was doing good work with Sir Oliver, Cheddington, Honor, Nanny Thor manby, Conservative, Fiona, and several others. Marsh did plenty of long steady work with Powderham. Hughes sent Redcap, Lopez (both engaged in the C h ester Clip), Standard Bearer, colt by M. Phillippo (4 years), Candidate, Bonnie Lass, and Music a nice steady gallop for a mile and a half, all going in good style Glengarnock and Shamrock, in Stinton's stable, were in physic. Sherwood sent Vanbrugh, Sea Serpent, Master Dick, Temple, and Claribel a good gallop for a; mile, and Bonnie Katie was striding along in excellent style.. Searle, Potter, Tomlinson, and W. Reeves were mefeFy giving their lots healthy exorcise, while Bentley's Laird, Kowrnam, Aeronaut, and Dido were sent twice a little over a mile. Friday—Despite the bleak and showery state of the weather, Tomlinson had out twenty of his string. After the preliminary canters, Rampart, Mercury, David, and Tott did a good steady gallop for a mile and three-quarters, while Polls sone, Aurifera, La Marquise, Birdie, Tito Hogan, Ben_ forth, Mathesis, First Duke, and several others went twice little over a mile. W. Reeves sent Catalogue and Seagull a good gallop about a mile and a quarter ; and Sherwood, with Vanbrugh, Bonnie' Katie, Sea Ser pent, Master Dick, Temple, Claribel, and Mrs. Jones did the mile thrice, all moving in fine style. Hughes did some rattling work from a mile to a mile and three-quarters with Redcap, Lopez, Standard Bearer, Can didate, colt by M. Philippa (4 yrs), Bonnie Lass, Music, Seringapatam, colt by Wild Dayrell (2 yrs), and colt by M. Philippa (2 yrs). Nightingall sent Sarcolite, Glen Stuart, Elector, and Little Go a good half-speed spin for a mile and a half, while Arcanum, colt by Amsterdam, colt by Vedette, colt by Caracticus, and a few others wore doing a nice gallop of a little over a mile, and Forster's King Richard and Chivalry had a good gallop of nearly a mile and a quarter. Reeves, Martin, Carter, and Potter did some good work from a mile t o a mile and a half, while Stiutou and Bentley 's strings only oval ked. ITEDNEsronn.—Tho following of Cliff's have been doing good work:-- Dunce, Lady, D 9 Trafford colt, Royal Lad, Messenger, Ettrick, Troubadour, Albion, Venice, Kidder minster, Master Willie, Vermicelli, Pyrenees, Uncas, Melody, Orion, and Barnabo. Hunter, in Palmer's stables, is doing good mile and a half work, and Fan is doing long gallops. Pantaloon is fit, but William and Alicia are not doing much work. Saunders's President Lincoln, Abbots ford; Catamaran, and Ocean Wave are doing mile work and Merry Horn and Knight of Kars horse are doing well. _r. 11. Millar's colours are—Buff body, blue cap and sleeves. The filly by Newminster out of Mrs. O'Rourke (3 yrs) has been named Miss Edie. Mont Blanc (2 yrs), after winning a selling race at New market on Friday, was claimed by Mr. Clay. Spider, after winning the Subscription Plato at New market on Thursday, was claimed by Mr. York. The colt by Thunderbolt out of Khadidjalt (2 yrs) has been named Tangerine. • MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, April 3.) The tightness in the money market shows few signs of abatement as yet. In fact the stringency is greater and more troublesome than it was a week ago, and it is causing borrowers much inconvenience. At Boston the bank rate is still 7 to 8 per cont. for liberal depositors, but outside the very best double-name paper is cashed for nothing short of 9 per cent., while for good notes, having three or four months to run, as high as 10 to 12 per cent. is de manded and paid. Probably easier times will come before long. Although the Ist April has lost its terrors as a bank quarter day, it remains a settling time in the interior of New York and many other States, and currency is there fore drawn away from the large cities. Besides, the banks are still in a state of uncertainty as to the date when their returns will be called for, and are keeping under close sail until time shall have passed. It was expected that the change of the requirements commencing bank statements from regular ones quarterly to irregular ones five Hines a year, would alleviate or prevent the usual stringency at this time of the year, ha' the expectation has not been realized. The uncertainty of the present ar rangement seems to operate disadvantavously to the money market, at lea , t. The question of the redistri bution of currency is attracting a good deal of attention, and it is very probable that a new deal will ho made, whereby the eastern banks will lose thirty or forty mil lions, and the South and West g tie as much. Some of the Boston banks, fearful that their profits will be dimi nished, have declared for an expansion of the currency to meet the Southern demand, as if we had not already enough paper afloat. Mr. Goo. Walker of this city, in a sound aid Sensible letter,reminds them that as the national bank bills are current almost all over the country, they will find their way wherever exchanges carry them; and he shows that the proposed redistribution, instead of cur tailing the banking facilities of this State, would in reality increase them. The Boston banks seem to be more alarmed about the matter .ilan they have any occasion to , be. The plan of Mr. Amasa Walker for bring ing tho country gradually baek to specie payments has been commented upon very generally in approval or dis approval by financiers. The old Journal of Commerce frowns upon it, and the New York stockholder calls it a plan to make people pay interest on their own money, and thinks that the proposed funding of the legal tenders into compound interest notes, and the notes into forty year bonds wquld impose a burdensome and unnecessary tax upon the people. The stockholder's plan would be to have the Secretary of the Treasury hold on to his gold, instead of buying up and cancelling bonds with it. Then, starting with a hundred millions in coin free from pre sent demands for interest on the public debt, it would have the treasury offer to redeem all legal tender notes which might be presented and thus make a paper dollar perforce equal to a gold dollar. This might ba very well so long as the gold lasted, but what then ? The stockholder anticipates this objection by adding, "Not a hundred millions, not fifty millions of legal tender notes could be returned into the Treasury without creating a scarcity which would render the remainder as valuable as gold for all purposes, and for the special purpose of sus taining the banks, more valuable." And so much accom plished, the demand for coin in place of paper would cease. This plan, it will be observed, does not diminish the volume of currency beyond fifty millions (supposing that it operates as predicted), and the special merit claimed for it is that it does net, the stockholdtir asserting that there is no more money afloat than the business of the country demands, while it is not difficult to demonstrate that the contraryis true. The scheme proposed is not,likeMrWalker's, a new one, but neither, we apprehend, is likely to be adopted by the administration, at least for some time to come. The New York stock market has been dull and heavy during most of the week, as might be expected along with the present scarcity of money. There was a curious exception to the rule on Wednesday, when, not withstanding money was as tight as ever, New York Cen tral and most of the other stocks became suddenly buoyant. The cliques have obtained possession of most of the lead leg stocks, in the expectation that there will be a specula tive furore and higher prices as soon as money is easier, when, of course, they will be ready to " unload." Govern. went bonds have been weighed down heavily by the strin gency of the money market, and are a little lower than they wore a week ago. Many weak holders of stocks have been obliged to sell bonds, but few shrewd investors, however, are doing so, except upon compulsion, as it is very evident that money will shortly be easier and bonds higher. It is estimated that foreign houses are now holding $20,000,000 in bonds, at New York, waiting for thelime when they can get better rates on their bills. The foreign exchange market has been badly demoralized, and is somewhat lower.—Gold is scarce and firm, but without any marked advance in rrico. It has been reported that $4,000,000 in specie is to be shipped at once from London to New York, but the rumour is probably untrue, as such an importation could not be made, at the present rates of exchange without positive loss. It may be true, as reported, that $1,000,000 in small coin has been shipped from London for a New York house, in payment for bonds, owing to the difficulty of settling bills against the bonds, but this transaction must be regarded as exceptional. The receipts of specie at New York, last week, amounted to $1,999,945, but $809,060 of this amount arrived from Hamburg one day and was shipped for Havana the next. The exports from the same port for. the week were $3,085,395 against $2,440,120 fur the week previous. The dry goods market has been much unsettled, some styles of goods being scarce with an upward ten dency, while others have shown a marked inclination the other way. But wholesalers are hopeful of a steadier and better condition of the market very soon, as the spring trade has fairly begun. Unbleached shootings and shirtings are half a cent lower with a chance for still lower figures ; bleached are generally firmer, although the less marketable styles are weak. The recent decline of a cent a yard in prints has made buyers plenty and trade lively, but the market has not been buoyant enough to war rant higher prices, and quotations are more likely to go down than up. Desirable styles of ginghams are in fair de mand at steady prices. In other domestic cotton fabrics there is little noteworthy change. The importations of foreign goods in March were very heavy, and the auction rooms are crowded with them. The market, however, is overloaded, and prices are inevitably going down. The wool market is dull again, in sympathy with the goods market, and while holders are very firm, manufacturers are buying cautiously and only in such lots as their im mediate business demands. The cattle market is also dull. Indeed dull is the word in all the markets this week except the money market. The decline at Brighton and Cambridge this week has been about half a cent a pound, and trade was very backward, (hovers selling their stack with difficulty even at the concession. Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report that on April 2, the latest sales in Pennsylvania Railroad Shares were 58k 58k ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 994 991; 2d Mortage, 911941. (From the Wall -street Journal.) Friday Evening, April 2d, 1869. Money continues very stringent, and borrowers on call are compelled to pay seven per cent. in gold, with a com mission of 3-16ths to -} per cent. on railroad and miscel celaneous collaterals, and seven per cent. in currency with 1-16th commission on Government bonds. We regret to announce the failure of the old and well known firm of •L. and B. Curtis, importers of British and Continental goods. This was one of the oldest and most respected houses in the trade, and it is to be hoped that their em barrassments may prove but temporary. It is understood that their liabilities are chiefly in France. Discounts are generally dull, with some sales of first-class acceptances at 10 to 12 per cent. The gold market opened to-day at 132, and after some fluctuations closed at 1311. Foreign exchange is dull and prime bills to-day are freely offering, even below our quotations. Sixty Days. Londcn Bankers Lot.c:. n, Prime Commercial lO6l-107 Paris, Bankers. , , 5.281 5.n1 5.231-5.211 Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 341-351 Frankfort, 0.4 ' 391-401 Berlin and Cofd g ne ..' 70_70; t Antwerp 5.30 —5 .25 ...... Amsterdam, Bankers ...... Swiss ...... Quotations for specie:— Amer. silver... 95 to 951 I Eng. sow; ...... 486 to 489 Mex. d011ar5...103/ „ 104 j2O franc 5,....... 384 ~ 386 Eng. silver 480 ~ 485 J Thalers ......... 711 „ 72 Five francs 951 „ 961 I Express Stocks are dull, but steady : Adams ... ... ... •• ... ... 571. t o 58 American Merchants' Union ... ... •.• 4(4 t o 40/ Do. Old Stock ... ... ... ... 15 United States ... ... .., ... ... 56 .t056t0 15 Wells, Faxgo, and Co. ... •.• "' •.• 3 4 to 30 In Miscellaneo us St ocks a good business is doing in Canton, Mariposa, Pacific Mail, and Union Telegraph:— E N. Y. Central ............ 1. 9* Fort Wayne rie ........................ 33/ Pacific Mail B9i Hudson .................. 1381 Atlantic Mail — Reading ................. 91 Quicksilver Mich. South. &N. 1.... 951 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pit tsbrg 864 Ohio and Mississippi... 32 North-West North-West Preferred 931 Cumberland Canton 69 Bankers and Brokers... 108 Rock Nand Cleveland and Toledo 106/ M & St. Paul Preferred 79f Government Bonds are lower on the entire list, some of the weaker holders, in consequence of the severe strin gency, having been forced to realize ; the market, how ever, shows great firmness : Sixes, 1861, registered ll5 to 1151 1 Sixes, 1881, coupon ll5 to lloi to Sixes, 1868, Fouen Three Days. 108k--1091 ...... t U.S. 6s. Po'cific )lailioad lOl to 104/ Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865 coupon Five-twenties, 1835 , coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll2/ to 112 Ten-forties, coupon lO5 to 1054 Seven-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to 11alroad Stooks, considering the eat(' of tho Money and are not forced for olle Chi. & N. W. Ist ...... Tol. & Wab. 2d M 91 Gt. Western 2d M '88... 'Mil. & Pr. du Ch. let M.. "9; Market, are generally strong, Mortgages closed as follows : N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 91 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887 N. Y. Central 6; R Est 871 N.:Y. Central 6; Sub'n 871 N. Y. Central 7; 1876 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 — N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 — Erie Ist Mort, Ex Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 — Erie 78, 4th Mort, 1880 B6 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 — Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. & E.lst M, '77 B7 Hurl. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 1001 Hud. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 100 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 102 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 - Mich. new Ist M 8..,'82 117 Mich. So., 7 p. c 2d M 94 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 99 111. Cen. 7 p. e, '7O Alton & T. H. lrt M Alton &T. 11. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc 791 Han.& S t.J. Land Gran tslo2 Mtn. & St. J. Con 112 I Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 111 i Chi. &N. West, S. F 95 ' Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 94 ('hi. & N. \V. Ex'n B — A ' The following notification has been published in Nlc York :—Erie Railway Company, Lessees_Notice is -errre by given, that the Coupons of the Pennsylvania and 'c o First Mortgage Bonds o f th e Atl an ti c an d G rea t We s i t t Railway Company, due on the Ist of April, 1869, 1,4 4 1 , paid in cash on p resen t a ti on a t the office of the Erie way Company in the city of New York. For the e v . e s t due Coupons of Fi rs t an d S econ d M or t gage B on ds, Fl o/ Mortgage Bonds of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie,Rai lw Conan,, carrying seven per cen t . i nterest, guara nteed l il l the Elie Railway Company, in sums of 81,000 each, li t , be issued, and Scrip Certificates for s ums o f l e sser anl c :f f —JAY GOULD, Preside n t E r i e R a il way Company, I'B York, Mar :h 30, 1869. Gal. & Chic. Est ........•• Gal. & Chic. 2d 1T.....••" Chi. & R. I. Ist M..••;•'•• Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7 , Cleve. & Tol. S. Funct" 991 N. J. Central Ist M..•••• N. J. Central2d ...... Pitts. Ft. W. & Cb. Ist 3 1 . Pitts. Ft. W. & Oh. 2d M. 01 Pitts. Ft. %V.. , & Ch. 3d M. 9'o Cleve. & Pitts. 2d 31•••• 90 Chic. & Alton, S. F. i nc. loll Chic. &Alton, S.F. lsal. 39 Mil. & St. Rtill Ist 3 1 .- Mil. & St. Paul 2d 3 1 ... Marietta & Cin. Ist M... 1 03 Morris & Essex Ist . 1 4••• Morris & Essex 2d 3 1 :•• Joilet & Chic. Ist Chi. & Gt. East'n N. Y. & N. 11. Gs ....• Dubuque & S. City,lbal. Peninsula Ist M ........ . Ohio & Miss. Ist M•••••• Ohio & Miss. Con ......••' Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. Atlantic & G. W. Ist N• ite We extract the following from Messrs. S a tterthy% and Co.'s Circular, of Ap r il 14 , L on d on :—ln U n it e d St7 o f Government Bonds there has been an average arne oP ` o business during the p as t wee k , an d quotat i on s It , slightly advanced on th e l ower rate o f gold exchange;-,,, ported from N ew Y or k . 5-2 0 ' s of 1862 and 1865 haw '-; proved about k p ar cent., wh i le 10-40 ' s and the 1867 i6stiej of 5-20's have not maintained the highest point touc h 0 during the week. The latter Bonds aro now quoted ° 0 the Official List of the Stock Exchange. Illinois Sb 3l 4, remain steady at 961 to 97, but Eries are flat at 231 to There was a marked d ec li ne i n Atl an ti c an d G reat iVeste' o ft , Consolidated Bonds d u ri ng th e wee k , b ut on t h e anne°l'6-5 ment to-day that the Erie Company are paying the couP u tl o of the first Mortga g e B on d s ma t ur i ng on April 1, there P be been an improved feeling, an d th ey c l ose 31 to 32. beet Divisional Bonds are entir e ly neg l ec t e d . There has be,,,t rather less doing in Sterli ng R a il roa d B on d s genera lly, v ii . , Camden and A m b o y B on d s h ave b een i nquired for, aficit, market is clear e d o f all offering under 87. By the Sib e ' o o our New York advices are t o th e 30th March. Gl er f t ment Bonds were steady, b u t th e increased demand money restricted the demand. State Bonds from the 53.- 0 cause were gener a lly quo t e d l ower, w hi le Railroad sb sr , , were firm, a n d i n some i nstances showed a slight imP rl p ment. New Y or k C entra l , Chicago and North W r e st°- ' and Rock Island being the most active. BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—MT. The- Tilton has returned to New York, after a succesfel 1248 Luring tour.— The l ea di ng o ffi ces of the Freedmen's Bane, have memorialized General Howard to withdrivr 1118 signation, and to continua at the head of the Freedte e Bureau till the dep ar t men t i s a b olished.—Genera l d ene bert Ames h as b een appointed Assistant Freednie Bureau Commissioner for Mississippi, and Genera ./ . ' 5l l Reynolds As s i s t an t C omm i ssioner for Texas.— g s rs e b T 0. Roberts -h as p resente d to the Central Park Core'cl, sioners Miss Stebbi ns ' ce l e b rate d colossal stat u e of lumbus.—Delmonico pay s M oses H . Grinnell $27,5vi, q year rent for his Fifth- avenue mansion in Now Vfrior Neal Dow is recommended by the Maine Cougressree%ii a foreign mission.—General Robert E. Lee has . visited New England, and has returned to the Soll'''' o f The late James Guthrie of Kentucky left an estst e t ii $1,000,000. Ex-President Pierce has recovered suffie iell er o to visit Boston. Benjamin Miller and Clay Matthevr.e o de committed for extradition at St. Catharine's, Ca lla o , liaro '27, on the charge of highway robbery in P 1 3 01? town, New York.—Thomas S. Woods, editor of the 0 , Patriot, and a prominent local politician, died at Ss:d Ohio, on Friday, M arc h 26 . —Th e death of Captain Wier, A. Wise, of Virgi n i a , a t th e H otel de Rome, 14,,,,,5Pi5;, is announced. He was re l a t e d to Governor 'eo of Virginia.—Mr. Longfellow and family have ' D ot stopping at the Hotel Tramontana, Sorrento , b e are expected back in Naples immediately.—Ad olll of Rodewald, many years a member of the firmo Rodewald and Winterhoff, di e d M arc h 27 , a t his 13° 0 0 Now Brighton, Staten I s l an d.—Ply mou th c h urc h is -t0 to be raising a fund to enable Henry Ward Beeche r 00 , take a foreign tour.—A lady in Waterville, Maine, 1055 ,c , covered $1,641 from a physician, in law suit, for nit l V A r tice in reducing a dislocated limb.—General R o bert ' ,ed; derson contemplates a foreign tour.—The surplus pro h os e of the Inauguration Ball are to be devoted to the W e ld, of Clark Mill's statue of Lincoln.—Major W. M I F 3I. „r• Corps Engineers, has been assigned to the charge o f 0 0. ' 4 / hour improvement of Lake Erie west of Cleveland, Oh i O 4. Mr. George Douglass died suddenly, March 29, at his r e olt dence, 35, West Sixteenth-street, New York, in tbe n . year of his age. A. and E. Amos, leather dealers of lt or tree', Canada, hav e f a il e d f or a l arge amount. lii' „00 lingame's Chinese Embas s y, it i s sa id , w ill ma k e s P o ol tour to Berlin, St. Petersburgh, Stockholm, Spais' tt eJ Italy. Judge S. W. Brockway, a prominent 10,111 0 6,e politician of C a lif orn i a , di e d at S an M ateo, M arc h 2 / The Rev. Ambrose O'N e il di e d a t Albany, Afarch 0 o f . The Hon. Thomas C. Acton, President of the Boa', lc Police Commissioners, has returned from the s°ll , t ie New York.—The P res id en t h as nominated Di li ' l ot chester to be Consular Ag en t a t B remen. T he P r eelo w , has nominated George E ar l e Fi rs t A ss i stant P os trees t ot General, vice Gen. Skinner.—J. Townsend Conno/1970 son of the Comptroller, of New York, is aunounee'of the engaged list, and is to be married early in. to a Miss Oxnard of Pittsburg, Pennsylvanis." lo o Fire Marshal Baker a nnounces th a t th e t o tal 0 9 fires in New York, fo r th e mon th o f M a rch, ri a $427,850, an increase of $154,000 over the losses cis o f the month of February.—The Hon. Benjamin F. W ade sf l Ohio has written very warmly in reply to an au" , e o from the National Executive Committee of Coloelip Mon. He says nothing has giv e n hi m so m uch P r e and satisfaction as their appreciatio n o f his CT ; o DO —Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins has resignn i office as Chief of the Bureau of Na v i ga ti on . Ile ° l o' assigned to other duty.—David Clark, of Hartford , sit' ', necticut, after a personal insp ec ti on o f H owar d U n iver has given $25,000 towards it s en d owment. —Rich° a did Wood, one of the oldest merch an t s in Philadelphia, on the Ist inst. He was 70 years of age.—Harrie °/j itii Turner, aged 51 years, a commission merchant of a j j i# more, committed suicide on the Ist inst. by cutting s. / throat with a razor. Th e cause was b us i ness m i s f o rtueeltel The Memphis C ommon C ouncil has appointed a Con°3lsoo' of Arrangements for the reception of ex-President Jobs ill y —Governor Morton, on account of illness, has he e° o° able to be present in the Senate for .two days.'" Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge is seriously ill s t 0 8 9 home in Danvill e , K entucky. General Ths sed recently had a pu rse o f $lOO,OOO tendered him and r efu ol , , it.—The Buff a l o man who made the $2OO pair eo 130 for the President now swings a sign, "Bootmaker l ° , 00 t Excellency t. S. Grant."—By di rect i on of the Presei'teo Brevet Major-G enera l George Stoneman, Colonel of rod 21st United States Infantry, is relieved from the tow e r command of the First Military District, and will sc e .6e pany his regiment to the Military Division of the P s . c o l go —J. Tobens h as arr i ve d at Washington from St. Don ll 4 ",/ with power to a n nex th a t Republic to the United Stanlo John W. Johnson, Esq., recently appointed Judge ° f e l 3 Abingdon Di s t r i c t , i s no t a b rot h er o f General .1°'1". E. Johnston. He is a nephew of the general- - 915' Raymond is at Washington working up Tracy fief t oP trict Attorneyeee.Ex-Congressman Tom. Stewart le, e oo there pressin g I ns p ec t or Dilk s -f or th e M ars h a lship i °,,a ~ Southern Dist r i c t.—M r . F os t er Bl o d ge tt, suspesafe o f the late Administration from the Postmasterslor Augusta, Georgia, has been re-instated. • I w Ali; rADVEßTlSEMENT.]—Holloway'sPills.—Con ee , A Pills . — Confidentia l vice.—To all persons who suffer from bilious heat re biliousness, or flatulency, these pills are mos t s trongl commended as the safest, best, and quickest m ode taming ease without weakening or irritating the o S, l „, e iee, system. Holloway's pills are especially useful in e' s i. tit i o away any excess of bile, which usually produces W . f.,. '4 less remedial measures be adopted without del asthma, bronchitis, and congestion of the lungs thq u ior be relied upon for removing all danger, and by Pul i t and regulating the circulation they effectually presTe and lapse. By rousing the liver t o a f a i r secre ti on o f bil e ' • quickly carrying it off from the system, these off low spirits, listlessness, and those distressing often called nervous. Births. We rt GREER—On the 16th inst., the wife of Thoma s Esq., of Sea Park, Belfast, of a son and heir. test i s WEBB—On the 14th i ns t., a t 7 , Belstzo-square, 113°P the wife of Henry Webb, of a daughter. Marriages. 1 fe d lIUGIIES—WARD—On the 14th inst., at Croydo n , V vi :,l t Lund Hughes, Esq., of St. L eonar d' s, Mortlake, t ° f13 ,5 " ' both, fifth da u ght er o f t h o l ate Joseph Ward, Esq'' bill House, Epsom, Surrey. SV ir NORTITIVICK—WARI3URTON-011 the 13th hist t r '.; iirP e t don, tho Lord Northwiek to the Hon. Mrs. G. 11. 0 0 ell burton, daughter of the late and sister of the P Lord Bateman. Deaths. f o bs ANGrs—On the 16th inst., at 40, Burton-crese ew, Angus, Esq., aged 55. l4e RAJIV/ELL —On the 17th inst., at 20, Gl a s s house-str ee t ' gent-street, Mr. Walter Barwell, aged 75, , -- ------ ---.-- -----:----- 40 London : Printed and Pablished by 'WILLIAM All p y r o 1/ A f g ' k of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THIS SUN 0111 C% f 1 SUN "- Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy to the v 2 Miciclleoexe.:ll9nday, April 19, 1869. MAHAN' S I PriThiq celeb rated OLD zo It pure, Mild:11611°1N 4a;boBldervtB,newcl:thilhoetitsitekAyT4, Bwsse.nsza.Bldijl the Agents in the princloF 111 SAL LOA! (Incorporated 14, IttISSELL-STREE b /7411 0 An d 28 , Qi P , S MO NEY np, bo ie ld or Leasehold Propel ab For ms freeweekly, monthly, or on receipt of 1101-AL At US Propret( Great Success of the 31 uet.--Atr. Arthur L'0341 tones in the Original ( Rreatest Ventriloquist of wonderful Illusions (11a,?, Actresses - -Mr. 0 Burton ten characteraMiss reel, s'llarrY and Rattle talented artistes. Mace Notice. —Mr P. Corri's on Wednesday Al ,12. q., will take the chair. Ivo St. Johnstreet-road, Wel with Mr. P. Corr!. 111A. 0 L &GA IVIADAME TUB A !ways Tlettotift; New and Ileautlful Cost; RAORRL, and numetom Under ten, 6d.; extra roe! AR(IY LL RVENING for In. .00Ina have been magnin ana Co. The celebrated an attractive Progranaro Dance Music. Doom open Admix W INDMILL Musical Director an, ,‘ PATE THE E ab ove Paste above Le eon, Br ea k fa °RI GINAL for deviling gs of Turk , AND sr To be obtaiMno JOHN L .n i ASHL EY A Very Pine Pale, Dm or ( Old Crushed Port (Dow's, b'hipping), VintageWh I)aritling etiornpane, I lery, Qnalitd Supergieure Sarnple case s of bottles Sherry, two the al Char CIARRICR-ST. B . 1 .------------- 1 7 -- -- 1114, of X he " Titn, Consrgnenee ftortNICROLf celebrated PALE and otl Bordeaux Wines and C l Whiskies, and several 418 0 be seen at the Times number of 'Hotels, Public of others wanted in town —......______ AND ORNAMENTS fc and Dininz-room ,89ttrnent of VASES, F oaks, Inkstands, beauti 43 t,0 : , in Italian, Alabast Eihtre Spar, ttc. Irapo i I;3I%INANT, 11ineralc w.O London. E ...Mr. Ten nant arrar zei -'IINRA.LS, and FOE of Lyell's Elements of t ate the interesting' GEOLOGY, and can gilineas each. ~PRACTICA.L INS'] 4INERALOGY is give 149, Strad. THE LIVERPC GLOBR I Offices -1, Dale-str( Chari t Fi h e Invest e d F und: re The mode Re venue to £836,8 to of gnus for t a he rates Life Po N ile an SPECIAL rende i them pa r ti ou l a leave s granted on rem. thirty days after admisE RING'S C OLLI A PPEAL e f t 'or FUND na ; -48 es. AssistancA is F. AL FRE JAMES 131 SEAMEN'S HOS tlati c off Gre enw i c h , f or ns, who are receiv The receipts from all 079 less than tha Axix „ S U BSCRIPTIONS " a liarns, Deacan, and the Secreta ry, a t t h e S, street, Lonion, E.C. Qualification for a Governor, £lolos. NATIONAL OR] nd, Sarre. Under beamonage of I whereby a home has be Girls of all ages, clas ses , the kingloal• The obje2t o the Mrti lish ed ucation, f and pra a ct and laundry, to fit them I wise provided for when The u suitable situa ottint tion, f or t h e rst, entirely sustained by don Offlaa, 121, Pall-mall, 1/RITISH -LB Mackenzie-park, - Patron —Her M os t For the gratuitous destitute orphans from and of all denominat prone perous eireurnstan h undred and se stitntion ; ample room Incr e ased support i assistanc endowed, and is in the f3ubscribers and the Institution, and judge its Bee Peculiar claims. The last Report can retary. CHAS. AIJBRI C faces, 73 AL , Messra. N Cheapsid t atkers l ane ; and Moasrs. 11}1ALTR RESTORED N I)I)IBARRY'S dE and Infants' Fa THE RE' saves fifty times its Perfect digestion stro] refreshing sleep, fund most disordered or effectually indigestion snmption, habitual c rangements, hmmorr nervousness, biliousn catarrhs, colds, in& rheumatism, gout, it ralgia, irritability, heartburn, headache nausea and sickness for invalids and infai tt fi iih t ee s , Inv ot r s o ot n f d c IMPORTANT CAUTI( hs, and more than 810P37 g hi e tei : s ib ts fe mam s f r i' city, Baron Liebig's Renceforth none v Du Barry's health-r and Infants' Food, si has already receive( been deemed hopeles noes the Pope, who& by it after thirty yea is Iftsfistoat i cult aeyu q f itr;:eiiioaltiaNtateiheetyonee. every r ffs yeia6xtom:ehne, sacs: flan il Other suo:' F athe r remedies, b i l emvalea:vr‘ e c i Rome n m o t n ah p 1 A l a excellent ji e s e s u , irritability Cure No. 78:90, fB w 3d2 i t . digestion, Constant E o. C of a ford :---"I have den Food.---STtrAuT ViratArford" DE from dyspepwa of Lynn. Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121.-- nervousness, indigo! vous fancies. Cure No. 56,814.-- years diarrhoea. The Food is sold 1 b., 4s. d , ; 121 b., aisters, carriage fi Birry itevalenta tin canistera : For 1 °uPsat 68., for 288 c about cna penny poi f i res of carriage in E ba.ttßY DIJ 8.A.8R also at P ortnum a Grseeehnush-street NW bleak -road, L JOlll