The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TRE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times thinks the Cobden Club may soon find better employment for themselves than dining together at Green wich. If the signs of the times are not delusive,- the battle of Free-trade may have to be fought over again. Associations for the restoration of Protection are actually at work publishing their pamphlets and enrolling their converts, like the Anti-Corn Law League thirty years since. One of these effusions seems to have been sent to Mr. Bright, who very naturally lost all patience at the folly of the appeal. But the matter is not to be dismissed so cavalierly. Nobody desires a duty on imported cotton, for the simple reason that cotton is a raw material ; and nobody asks for the old corn laws, because there are no trade unions among the producers of corn. The imports which our modern Protectionists would tax are imports of manufactured articles, supposed to lower the value of similar articles manufactured at home. These men would oppose and prevent any legislation tending to reduce the rate of wages current in a trade. They do, it is true, with a very edifying unanimity, still declare for Free Trade in corn, and they would atm keep bread cheap, though they would make all other product dear. But that is simply because the producers of corn are unre presented in trade combinations. Split the land up into small holdings, with TracTe Unions among the cult:- Tatars, and we shall soon hear of a demand for a duty on corn. Mr. Bright is evidently disposed to regard the whole agitation as a passing ferment, due to bad tradeand incidental suffering. It will vanish, he thinks, under the influence of a good harvest, and things will all come rounc again with the improvement of business. We doubt it that is a statesman's view of the case. The movement was perceptible before trade was bad, and it has been con tinued with little or no reference to current affairs. The principles of some new system, which, whether it be Protectionism or Socialism, or both or neither, is, at any rate, absolutely opposed to the system which Mr. Cobden spent his life in preaching, are gravely advocated by writers claiming, as all innovators do, to be in the van of opinion. Impatient as the British public habitually is of colonial questions, it must now, says the Standard, be prepared to face that first and most important of all colonial ques tions—are the colonies to remain a portion of the British Em2ire cr not? The Ministry of Mr. Gladstone hate apparently made up their minds to answer in the nega- tive. Is it true that the great majority of Englishmen arc agreed to accept this decision—to cut off their out lying limbs one after the other—to adopt as the highest wisdom that which may be called the crustacean policy, which consists in letting your members fall off lest they should be violently captured ? It will be a bad day for England —worse, perhaps, than for the colonies—if ever this relationship is forgotten or made light of. If anything ever does lead the colonists to alter their feeling towards that country which it is their greatest pride tc call " mother," in a sense which seems to be quite incom prehensible to the Liberal journalists, it will be such insolence as that which marks the whole attitu le of the present Government towards the colonial claims. Either England is or is not the "mother country" in the Impe. rial system. Is the Times prepared to accept the negative ? In that case the colonies must continue in one of two relations. If they are not our children they must either be allies or rivals. We shall not put the not impossible hypothesis that at seine future day they may be our enemies. Is it not, then, worth while to cultivate the colonies if only as allies? But are we goingthe right way to keep them friendly in the future by our manner of treating them now? Even if we should prefer to cast them off as children (for which we hold that there is not the smallest reason), it is still our duty surely to let the separation take place in such a way as not to leave behind it a feeling of bad blood. What our Liberal statesmen seem to he utterly unable to understand is, that there are two ways of turning colonies into enemies; one by foiciug them to remain in subjection as children after they Lad arrived at their full stature, which was Lord North's plan ; and the other, which is not less efficacious, by turning them off abruptly while still children, which is Lord Granville': method. The Star, in discussing the Irish land question, says there are many ways in which the State may interpose tc regulate property, and we must once for ail grasp firmly the idea that in all such dealings the State has absolute right, and is limited only by what it may deem to be expedient. We establish different rules in different locaii ties. In Kent the rule of descent is not primogeniture, but equality of inheritance more strict than in France. In some districts of our country it is not the eldest, Lut the youngest son who by law inherits. Only a few years age there were different rules of descent in the province of Canterbury and York, and in the City of London there is a special code of its own. But with all these arrangements Parliament is perpetually interfering. And as in our own country, so in India and our colonies, Persia meat daily enacts such rules as it sees ht respect leg inlittance, leasing, and every other disposition of property. Thus we must recognie that property is the creatin of the State, and subject always to State control. For the benefit of society we agree to secure to a man what he makes in his lifetime, but even that we take from him when a higher benefit to society demands Ls measure. For convenience we allow men to bequeath tc others what they cannot carry with them to tile grave ; but this privilege we are always modifying, or limiting, as we think best for the general good. There is, therefore, hardly any possible way of dealing with Irish land, Low ever radical or extreme, which is not within the confessed competence of the State, and which is not in principle asserted by Parliament every session. We repeat that we do not conceive that any measure which can justly be called extreme will be required in the case of Ireland, but it is absolutely necessary to remember that nothing can be proposed which can be said to be beyond the power and the right of Parliament to enact. The Daily NCW3 declares that the Emperor of the French has braced himself up for what possibly was the greatest effort of his reign. When he embarked in the Russian war, when he issued the manifesto which pro nounced the liberation of Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic, when he sent the expedition to Mexico. when he entered on the Commercial Treaty with England, and on other occasions, he did great and decisive things. But these enterprises cost him less probably than the resolution to undertake a six miles journey from St. Cloud to Paris, and to make a little circuit of the principal streets of the capital. On Friday the Emperor went through a kind of trial by ordeal. The irony of fortune was shewn in his melan. choly progress. Even the bitterest enemies of the man and of his rule must feel some pity for him. His posi Lion resembles that of the infirm slaves whom Roman masters exposed on an island of the Tiber to die and who, shrinking from their fate, make convul sive efforts to shew that they are yet good for something that their strength is not wholly gone, and that they can sustain the burthens laid upon them. The Emperor's health is such that a recurrence of the disease in an ag gravated form may take place at any time ; and in a constitution thus impaired and weakened, ordinary maladies, a cold or a fever, may be more than ordinarily dangerous. This being so, the re-establishment of confi dence in the durability of the present order of thing is impossible. No wonder, therefore, that every now and then startling whispers are overheard, and bold counsels are offered. The Emperor is recommended to try the chance of another coup d'etat, and the state stroke which is advised is abdication. What, however, is there for him to abdicate ? At the last general election, half France declared against Bonapartism, and many wbc voted for the official candidates Toted merely for the Government that was in possession, as they would have done if it had been Republican, Legitimist, or Orleanist. Not only is the man failing, but the system had disap peared before him. The Emperor had renounced it. The Senatus Consultum was its epitaph. The Telegraph observes that in Lady Palmerston not only a great lady, but a great political personage. has passed away from the scene. Under our system of parliamentary and party government, the influence of the sex must always be. considerable ; and no one in our day has exercised that influence to a higher degree, or more for the public advantage than the excellent woman whose death we record to-day. Lady Palmerston's was a long and a brilliant life. Take it for all in all, it might Le difficult to name any lady in English society, or in our century, who has 'played a more prominent part on the stage of public life in Eng land. It requires as high and as rare qualities to be the wife of a Prime Minister, as to be Prime Minister. Lady Palmerston held her seals of office worthily. The companion of the masculine worker, who shares hie life, who knows his feelings in their full force and scope, who has the intellect to comprehend his thoughts. becomes the referee to whom his meditations are sullnitt ed in the first instance. She lends him another mind, Ail] his own, and wholly trusted, in which his own bleat are inirrinsed with a living light, and his judinent is thus doubled and corrected. Nor could any better ( - Y.:lli:pie be giv;...n we believe, than that of Palmerston, w hose manly and cordial nature was so admirably companioned. It is i(lle, then, to say that women are without influence in political affairs. So long as they have influence over the feelings and affec tions of men—and we do not observe much falling off ir that respect —so long can they be of supreme assistance Ix their husbands. The sternest philosopher who ever medi tated upon the destinies of. the race in a two-pair back, might indulge a reasonable hope of working out Lis theories in practice if he hail ail the women on his side. No woman in this century has exercised this influence ir a greater degree than the distinguished lady of whose death we make sorrowful mention to-day. Lady Palmer stun did good public work in her time ; we doubt if sh' has left an enmity or grudge behind her. yHE CHARGE OF OBTAINING £l,OOO BY FRAUD.. At the Mansion House, on Saturday, the American who gave the name of W. W. Whelpley, but who also is known by the alias of NV, A. Armstrong, was brought up for further examination upon the charge of obtaining the sum of £l,OOO from Messrs. Simpson, Mason, and Co., timber-brokers, of 4, Peter's-alley, Cornhill, by means of forged bills of lading. Upon the former examination it was proved that the prisoner had introduced himself to the prosecutors by means of a forged letter of recommen dation from a firm in Canada, with whom they had busi ness relations, and that he succeeded in obtaining bank notes to the amount of £l,OOO, upon the security of three bills of lading for cargoes of valuable timber which were repre sented to be on their way to this country, which bills of lading turned out to be forged and utterly worthless. Nearly £5OO in gold was found in the prisoner's possession when he was taken into custody. Mr. Lewis now stated that a person who had Leen concerned with the prisoner was a man named Beach, who had absconded to America, and, singularly enough, he sailed in the same vessel that contained Detective Sergeant Spittal, ho held a warrant for the apprehension of another gentleman who had atscondcd. A telegram was sent to Spittal, who searched Beach, but found no money upon him. There were in his possession, however, two letters signed by the prisoner, and addressed to creditors in London who had been on the look-out for him, and these were to have been posted in New York. Beach had also a letter of introduction from the prisoner to the captain of the Scotia. lie had, Mr. Lewis said, received £lOO as his share of the transaction, but no money was found upon him. Evidence was then given as to the bills of lading being forgeries, and the prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial. LAW AND POLICE. THE CASE or OVEREND AND GURNEY,—At the Mansion House, on Saturday, an application was made for sum monses against Mr. Barrow, the chairman of the Share holders' Association of Overend, Gurney, and Co., for a libel against Dr. Adam Thotu and Mr. Howell, the prosecutors in the original case. It was said that the libel charged the applicants with misappropriating the funds of the shareholders in order to defeat the criminal prosecution which Dr. Thom had instituted against the directors. The Lord Mayor granted the summonses. A LIBERAL REWARD.—At the Marlborough-street Police-court, a respectably. dressed man applied to the magistrate for advice. A boy, a relative of his, last week picked up an envelope containing a cheque for £lOO and a railway scrip for £OOO. At considerable trouble and expense he restored them to the owner, who gave him three shillings. The magistrate regretted he could do nothing in the matter. THREE HUNDRED TIMES IN CUSTODY.— On Saturday, at the Thames Police-court, Mr. Benson referred to the case of the woman Souter, who had been 00 times in lustody. It will be remembered that she was committed .or trial, but discharged by Serjeant Cox. Mr. Benson :cad a letter from Mr. Cox, explaining that he had dis charged the woman on the representation of the gaol chaplain, being ignorant of her antecedents. Mr. Benson remarked on the negligence of the police in neglecting to inform the judge of the history and antecedents of one of the most remarkable criminals that ever appeared in a court of justice. FIRST CONVICTION UNDER THE ANIMALS ACT.—The first conviction under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act took place at Guildford, Surrey, on Saturday. A farmer had allowed a heifer suffering from foot and mouth disease to be at large cn the com-non. The chairman of the County Bench said it was well known that the disease was highly infectious, and he could not imagine a greater wrong than farmers turning out infected animals on the Commons. Fortunately the new Act gave them power to deal with the offence. As this was the first case they would mitigate the penalty to £5 and costs, bat they had power to inflict a fine of £2O. The Privy Council rules had been circulated, so there was no excuse for offenders. T.ERMINATIOY OF TILE CiREAT DEXAB Y LOCK-OUT. On Saturday the great and prolonged dispute at the Denaby Colliery, Mexhorough, South Yorkshire, was brought to a close. The dispute has existed for twenty-seven weeks, and has cost between £1,400 and £1,500 in relief alone. The happy termination was come to at a conference which was held at the Victoria Station Hotel, Sheffield, between Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Mr. Huntress (partners in the firm), and Mr. J. Normansell, the secretary of the South Yorkshire Miners' Union. The Mayor of 6hetneld and Mr. Mundella, M.P., were also present as mutual friends. The intelligence on being conveyed to Mex. borough created unbounded joy. The tradespeople put out their flags, and in a short time the place assumed its gayest aspect. At five o'clock a large meeting was held in the Hewitt's Rooms, which were crowded. Mr. Holmes having been called to the chair, Mr. Normansell briefly addressed those assembled, who called for 2.1 r, Mundella. That gentleman, on rising, was received with applause. In the course of an able address he paid a high tulogium to Mr. Baines, M.P., and Mr. Huntress for the warner in which they had met the question. He thou read the following agreement, which hail been signed by the gentlemen present at the confercr:ce :—lt was arrangf.d that the Denaby Main Colliery workmen should be employed indifferently, whether union or non-union men, withuut inquiry and that as soon as possible old workmen should be employed. That Mr. Normansell assures the gentle. men present that the South Yorkshire Union do not attempt either to coerce workmen into joining the union, or to dictate to the employers as to the mode of conduct. ing their works ; and that he will discountenance any such proceedings, and the company on their part will not refuse to listen to any representation made to them IT the workmen, and to give it their best considera tion with a view to the welfare of all parties. It is agreed that a check-weighman shall he employed at Denaby Main, and every facility offered him for discharging his duties efficiently. That Mr. Baines and Mr. Huntress have much pleasure in promising on behalf of the com pany that the present system of weekly wages shall be continued. The parties to this agreement, desirous of preventing all future disputes, are favourable to the for mation of a board of arbitration and conciliation in South Yorkshire as soon as practicable." Yurther addresses were also delivered by Mr. Normansell, Mi. P. Casey, and Mr. Hewitt, of Mexborougb. Votes of thanks were given to Mr. Mundella and to the Mayor of Sheffield for their services, which brought the proceedings to a close. The Viceroy of Egypt has commissioned a young composer to write " The Suez Galop," which will in future be the nationaal " hymn" of Egypt ! A French journal has the following paragraph : "For several days past the celebrated English novelist, Miss Braddon, has appeared in Hyde Park in a mag• nificent equipage, with coachman and footmen in green livery, all acquired at the point of the pen !" A very distressing calamity occurred' on Friday rear Rochdale. Some men were employed sinking a well, and one of them was lowered in a windlass, but before he reached the bottom he fell as if in a fit. Another man sent down was similarly affected, and a third man was drawn up again in an unconscious state. He recovered, but the other two when drawn to the surface were dead. death having been caused by inhaling carbonic gas, which is supposed to have accumulated during the night from an old coal pit in the neighbourhood. The funeral of General the Hon. Sir Charles Gore, G.C.8., B.IL, Lieutenant -Governor of Chelsea Hospital, took place on Friday in Brompton Cemetery. At eleven o'clock the whole of the pensioners paraded, and shortly ht fore twelve the lieutenant -Governor's remains were borne from his le,idence between the ranks of the pensioners . , thruugh the great square, direct to the chapel, followed by his relatives. Among the mourners were Lady Gore and Major Gore as chief mourners, the Countess of Erroll and Captain Goro, Mrs. Rich and Hon. Captain Gore, the Earl of Erroll and Mr: , . Gore, Colonel Rich, the Earl of Arran, Viscount Sudeley, Hon. Charles Gore, and Major Rich. MR. VV. E. GLADSTONE AT BALMORAL.—The Prime Minister—who, up till Thursday, was the guest of the Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle, near Darlington, in the county of Durham—arrived at Perth, ca. route for Balmoral, on Friday night, at half-past eleven oclock, by the London mail. Mr. Gladstone, up to the time of his arrival at Perth, was accont parried by Mrs. G . ladstone and the Misses Gladstone, and proceeded by the northern mail train to Aberdeen, on arrivin:; at tvhich place it was his intention, it is said, to proceed ;nintediately to Balmoral on a Visit to the Queen. No one except the guard of the mail train knew that Me. Gladstone was a traveller by the mail. WHAT BYRON MIGHT HAVE iIEEN.—In the. life of Dr. Lyman Beecher, written by his children, that patri , arch is reported to have said : " If Byron could only have talked with Taylor and me, it might have got him out of all his troubles." People may smile at Ulla as the simplicity of an ardent minister of religion, yet we are by no mans sure that Dr. Beecher was wrong, for Byron lik3 all great poets, was naturally religious, so much so, indeed, that but for his early death he might have lived to be an ascetic, and even bigoted devotee. His infidel opinions, as they are called, were not worthy to be caked opinions at all. They were partly reaction front Scotch Calvinism, and partly mercii brag Alla InAtc2 t , •7IVCIO fork Tribune. Augu3t 3). THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1869. MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,) ROME, SEPT. 8. I am induced to take up my pen sooner than I should have otherwise done, by the increasing gravity of the situation of the Italian Cabinet, and its consequent and necessary reaction on Roman affairs. The council of Ministers, held on the 3rd, was a most stormy one. The whole of the Cabinet, save Ferraris, was strongly in favour of a dissolution as the sole means of avoiding the impeachment of the Ministry. The King, however, was extremely unwilling to resort to this measure, fearing a Mazzinian Parliament, and being, moreover, desirous to recall Rattazzi to office. Menabrea, however, and his colleagues are said, on good authority, to have carried this point, and a dissolution has been resolved on. The corruptions of Piruti, the Minister of Justice, were among the scandalous disclosures most dreaded, and the report of his mental alienation is being industriously spread to stave off further inquiry. In the meantime there is no doubt that a formidable agitation is setting in against the shameless corruptions of the Cabinet and its employ6s in nearly every department of the Administra tion, and that a formidable list of derelictions of public honesty can be framed against them. The "Legs degl 'Onesti," or League of Honest Men, is becoming a sort of rallying point in Italy, and it is a good sign that it is so ; not that its members are much more respectable than those they are attacking, but that hitherto public virtue has been a very jest and mockery in Italy since 1860. Every successive party has gone into office poor and left it rich. The treasury has been considered the lawful plunder of every needy official. Politics have become a trade, patriotism a speculation, and the only persons found to attack the abuses have been those who hitherto have not enjoyed an opportunity of doing likewise. The shameless system of incerti, maucie, and every courteous term for theft under trust has passed into the Italian character so deeply and fixedly that it is difficult to uproot it, or make the nation take a pride in honesty. A poor gentleman is the most despised of beings in Italy, and a man leaving office with empty hands is written down as an ass. It is this which renders every administration suspected and odious to the people. Not that the Mazzinians would chew a better example, as the immense fortunes amassed by Bertani, Crispi, and others plainly sbews—fortunes squeezed from the subscriptions of the Roman committees, and from the spoils of the Neapolitan Government. A man like Nelson, Pitt, or Disraeli, would be simply impossible here, and the one maxim is "Fate Quatterini" —put money in thy purse. You must make a new tradi tion, a new race, and a new people before public virtue is possible to the present Government. There were two influences in past generations which counter acted the love of money in the Italian character; religious and local attachments. An Italian in the last century would do far more for Florence or Milan than he would do for Italy in the present day, and every hour confirms the wisdom of the municipal institutions by which Italy became great, and which were far more adapted to her people and their habits than parliamentary ones, which have simply fallen into the hands of adventurers, and alienated (as in the United States) her noblest and best citizens from public life. I have dwelt on this, for a crisis is advancing with giant strides on Italy, and those far off will seek for the cause, which will long have been patent to those who have studied her social and moral condition on the spot. Garibaldi has been called on by the different societies of working men to take an active part in the new elections, and seems to have consented, and should the Chamber be dissolved, you will hear of him in the central and northern cities, the southern part of Italy being already sufficiently devoted to the Republican party. The truth is that the clerical party will give a passive support to the Mazzinians, or to any party who will upset the Italian monarchy, so far as abstaining from action goes. They will not vote for Garibaldian candidates, as it would be against their principles and conscience to do so, and they will not vote for the official candidates, and this neutrality will probably turn the scale. At Catania, and indeed in most towns in the south, the authorities have begun to attend public religious functions, which they had formerly ceased to do. This is owing to the sort of understanding existing between the Bourbonists and the Republicans. The Farnese Palace is being prepared for the royal "couches." Her Majesty returns on the 15th of this month, and is in excellent health, according to letters received from Schon Staremberg yesterday. The Nea politan noblesse will come from Naples in great numbers for the occasion. The birth will take place in October, and will be, if it be of a prince, of very great political importance in Italy, especially taken in connection with the present unpopularity of the House of Savoy. 4 O'CLOCK, P.M. Letters received since I begun this speak of the possi bility of the Crown deciding on callirg on Eattazzi to form a Cabinet. If so, he is certain of a defeat ; and a Cabinet must then be formed of which the editors of the Ficcanaso and Cazetlino Josa will be the most re spectable and the most Conservative members. Mena brea is seeking the support of the clergy, but they have resolved on entire abstention from the affairs of the whole of the Conservative classes.' Official notice has been received in Venice of the pas sage of the Empress of the French. She will arrive on the 15th or the 17th, and embark at once for Alexandria. Trains and steamboat passages to Suez are being orga nised all over Italy. A new canal from Ostia to Ancona, right across the Peninsula, is talked of in connection with the opening of the port of Ostia and the new rail way. It is said by several eminent engineers to be perfectly practicable. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. - - 411.- - ME3IBERS OUT OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. Howard, M.P. for East Cumberland, noted an interesting fact at an agricultural dinner at Brompton the other day. He believed that the " statesmen " of Cumberland were diminishing in number ; or, in other words, that the practice, so long honoured, of the son succeeding to his father's acres was disappearing, and that the son very often was tempted by considerations of greater profit, and for various other reasons, to withdraw his interest in the cultivation of the land, and take his capital elsewhere. Mr. Howard is sorry for this, because he is a firm believer in the theory that land is better cultivated by the owner than by the tenant. The Cumberland representative hopes that the land question in Ireland will be settled, not merely by giving the tenant security and compensation for improvements, but by devising fume means of rendering the occupier in due time a proprietor. Mr. Henley, M.P., at Thame, and Mr. Reed, M.P., at Attleborough, both adverted on Thursday to the present outbreak of foot and mouth disease. The latter gentleman feels confident that the malady is imported from abroad, and that every precaution against receiving diseased cattle ought to be taken. He denies the assertion that the English farmers are wishing to revive Protection. All they desire is to preserve their herds from contagion. Mr. Henley, too, hoped that there would be no cavilling over remedial measures. Prevention and cure ought to be aimed at by all parties concerned, in the best spirit and with the purest intentions of doing good. Colonel North was present at this dinner with Mr. Henley. He " spoke, but said nothing." OMINOUS. The Spectator is inclined to place a sinister Inter pretation upon the speech of the Marquis of Bar tington at Sheffield. The Postmaster-General's principal point was an entreaty to all parties to lay aside their political differences on the Irish Land question. This subject must, the Marquis thinks, be taken out of the region of party politics. And why ? The better to secure the defeat of all doctrines and principles, " hostile not only to the interests of landowners, but of capitalists of every description." This is certain to be inter preted, however it was meant, as a signal of distress from the high landed interest in the Cabinet to the same interest on the opposite side of the House. In short, the Spectator calls this the first ominous crack in the cohesion of the ruling party. It is curious that whilst Lord Ilartington is talking in this strain, Sir John Gray is appealing to Irishmen to bury their diff erences an d un i te i n favour of f i xe d tenure in the shape of the Ulster tenant right. THE HISTORY OF A CORRUPT BOROUGH. --- The Election Commissioners at Beverley had high hopes raised on Friday, and wore grievously disap pointed as to their fulfilment. They had to examine a witness named Boyes. Mr. Boyes is thought in the borou3l to be particularly given to bribing ; he himself ccnfesses that he has been in the secrets of the Liberal party since 1847. In nearly every contest he has taken a very active part ; he is a town councillor, was at one time clerk to the pasture masters, and has hanging over him a verdict of bribery obtained by his political opponents at the York assizes. When he told the commission that he would reveal all he knew, they began to expect tales of corruption, of personal undue influence, of so many bzing bribed at this house and so few at that. But as the e-amination went on they discovered that he knew of no such things, that he could speak only of the amount of money expended, of the numbers bribed—and these statements were based on very little better than hearsay ; so that, in fact, they bad an interesting and lively history of the borough, but nothing very important to them. his evidence will be read with more interest perhaps when it is known that he thinks Beverley, on the whole, a very pure borough ; there are only about 400 men who do not make uu their minds till the Polling-day. Towards the - instruction of these voters, Mr. John Townley spent £6,000 in 1841; Sir James Weir Hogg and Mr. Fox spent on the same occasion £7,000 or £B,OOO. In 1847 Mr. Goldsmith spent a large sum in opposing unsuccess fully Townley and Fox. In 1852 there was little money paid on the Liberal side before the polling day ; but about noon, it being stated that the Tories were bribing, and Liberal votes being scarce, Messrs. Lawley and Wells, the candidates, began paying from £2 to £3 to some 200 electors. In 1854 there was purity. In 1857 there was another pure election ; but a second election in the same year seems to have again given scope for bribery. In 1850 Mr. Walters came to the town with the avowed purpose of bribing, and bribe there is no doubt he did. Mr. Boyes refused to answer any questions on the subject, however, as the verdict suspending against him had reference to the elections from 1860 to 1868. Mr. Boyes kept quiet from 1800 to 1868. The 1808 election was pure on the Liberal side. FAGGOT VOTES. The Scotch Liberals arc about to try the legality of manufactured votes under the Reform Act. In Mid Lothian the balance of parties is very even. At the last election the Tories were defeated by no great majority, and in order to make things right ne:t time a number of proprietorships worth £lO it year have been created. It is thought doubtful whether these faggot votes can be sustained, and the Liberals mean to try the point. If beaten before the tri bunal they will appeal to Parliament. THE LAND QUESTION. The Earl of Portsmouth, as an Irish landowner, fully endorses Colonel Greville-Nugent's statement of the difference between English and Irish tenants at will. In England the landlord finds buildings ; in Ireland he finds none. The law in Ireland ought to accord with the custom, and should allow the tenant liberty of removal. This would practically award compensation to the tenant for buildings erected by him. There can be no doubt that in many cases Irish owners refuse leases in order to gain political influence over their tenants. His lord ship adds : Since 1822 the experiment of thirty-one year leases, with free liberty to sell them, and practically vesting all buildings in the tenant, has been tried on my estates in the county of Wexford, with the following results : Badly cultivated patchesof land, with wretched hovels on them, have been changed into well-cultivated farms with first-rate homesteads. The rental has more than doubled, is punctually paid, instead of irregularly paid. With such results, are not landlords blind to their own interests who refuse to their tenants the common justice of leases with equitable covenants? By what law of right can buildings which a tenant built and paid for belong to his landlord? mr, BYRON SCANDAL. The Rev. Francis Trench contributes to the Byron controversy in a letter which is like most of those coming from parties who ought to be able to throw some light on the matter. Ile protests against Mrs. Stow's disclosure of the horrible secret, but he does not impugn its truth. Mr. Trench is quite sure that to Lady Noel Byron this publication would have been most objectionable:— • " - It is desirable to obviate the impres.4on that Mrs. Beecher Stowe was anything like an exclusive or ev en a rare depositary of the statement winch she has made, so as to obtain any title to publication on this account. At many successive periods Lady /\ oel Byron had frilly stated the cause of her separation to many . of her r e l a ti ves and intimate friends. But in all these instances she knew whom she could trust • and, so far as I know, not one of them, much to their honour, judgment, and propriety, has broken that profound silence and secrecy which, so far as the public is concerned, should have been continued for ever." " THE PRODIGAL SON." Mature consideration of the merits of Mr. Sulli van's cantata " The Prodigal Son " only strengthens the good opinion which the critics first expressed. The Times has no hesitation in pro nouncing it not merely the best and most carefully finished work of its composer, but a work that would do credit to any composer now living. The music is of sustained excellence throughout, and some of the selections remarkably fine. Moreover, the strains are almost always characteristic and ap propriate to the beautiful parable which it illus trated. " The Prodigal Son " has in it the stuff which endures. TIIE COINAGE. The currency controversy still rages, though the limes has reduced even the most redoubtable com• batants to the ignominy of unleaded small type Without inviting the public to sup too full of these financial horrors it may be pointed out that Professoi Jevons is generally allowed to have established on* point. Melting heavy sovereigns, the prime cause of the bad condition into which our money has got. goes on. Indeed, melting is inevitable so long as it pays ; and it does pay to pick out the heaviest sovereigns for export. As a contemporary points out, when the coin goes abroad it is treated as bullion, and the heavier the sovereigns colleeteo the better. The practice of picking and melting might be prevented by issuing no sovereigns except of standard weight, but this would add to the expense of coinage. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. We hope to meet with a speedy contradietior to an unhappy telegram which appears in ill American papers. Those journals receive news from Tahite to the effect that the Duke of Edinburgh was splendidly received at the French possession—for so it must be called—but " his uncourteous behaviour to the French authorities and the officers of the United States steamer Kearsarge provoked the indignation of even the English residents." It may be remembered that the Australians made similar complaints of the Prince's conduct towards the New Zealand chiefs. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Army and 11 7 avy Gazette does nob believe, evidently, in the suppression of the Lieutenant- Governorship of Chelsea Hospital. Our contem porary attributes the delay in the filling up of the office to the absence of the Commander-in-Chief-- who, by the way, has just returned home—and sets down that Sir William Codrington will have the offer. Nor has the Gazette any information as to the sup pression of the colonelcy of the Gth Foot, for it says:— " It is very likely that Lieutenant-General Sir John Michel, now colonel of the 80th, may desire to be again associated with the corps which he so long commanded, in which case it is to be supposed that the 86th Regiment will be given to Major-General Robe, who is next on the list, and who, after a mili tary career of fifty-two years, much of which was spent abroad, may, at least, look to have his reward in his turn." The following promotions are announced : Lieutenant-General 11. E. Porter to be general ; Major-General John Longfield, C. 8., colonel of the 29th Foot, to be lieutenant-general; Colonel T. Tapp, C. 8., 103rd Bombay Fusiliers, to be major general; Major Sir John Cowell, K.C.8., Royal Engineers, and of her Majesty's Household, to be lieutenant-colonel ; and Captain R. D. Astley, 40th Foot, Chief Inspector of Musketry in the Bombay Presidency, to be major in the army. ECONOMY. The service papers are again alarming their readers by predicting the suppression of various offices. The most important of these prophetic ruminations this week is the Broad Arrow's by no no means confident statement that it is " just possible" that the colonelcy of the Gth Foot and the lieutenant governorship of Chelsea Hospital, both ♦acant by the death of General the Hon. Sir Charles Gore, G.C.8., K.H., may fall a prey to the reducing tendencies of the Government. From other sources we learn that the First Lord of the Admiralty, during his stay at Gibraltar, made a close inspection of the Naval departments there, " with the view of effecting considerable reductions in their personnel and materiel." We are al so informed that gunnery sergeant instructors and sergeant instructors at the various gymnasia have had the pleasing intimation conveyed to them that their staff pay for Sundays will in future be stopped, as the Government gets nothing from them on that day. The United Service Gazette (and this is the end of our economic list) says, amidst expressions of regret, that the rumour of the suppression of the Chatham division of the Royal Marines gathers force. Our contemporary does not give absolute credence to it, however. THE ALBERT ASSURANCE COMPANY. Our weekly contemporaries with ono accord con gratulate the Albert policy-holders on the prompt decision they showed in getting rid of the liquidators' scheme of reconstruction. The Spectator is delighted with the style in which the wonderful project of getting the policy-holders to form a new com pany, and presenting 20 per cent. of the profits to the shareholders who had ruined them, was knocked on the head. If there is to be reconstruction at it will now be for the policy-holders themselves to bring it about, with no friendly liqui dator to overlook the commissions and gratuities by which the bankruptcy of the office w.ls so greatly accelerated. The Remioniist is equally pleased with the results of Thursday's meet;ng; but is not sm ,- Yiline for the future. It is still to be feared that before any reconstruction can be agreed upon, the Albert will have lost its best bminess by the insurance of its young lives with other com panies. Ordinary prudence would counsel these policy-holders to withdraw at once, and of the remainder it will hardly be possible ever to make a good business. The Railway 11 errs regards the scheme of recon struction proposed by 31r. Sprague, Nice President of the Actuaries' Institute, as the best that Las been put forth. This plan is that the policy-holders should insist upon having the whole of the assets of the company, both those at present realised and all that can be obtained from the sareholders, handed over to their sole management, wholly free from the control of those persons who have got the office into difficulties. Then there will be divers courses open. But the best, Mr. Sprague thinks, will be to make an arrangement with some office of st'bility to administer the fund for the exclusive benefit of the policy-holders themselves. It is probable that such an arrangement could be made on the terms that the office should receive a small percentage of all the renewal premiums payable, this sum to cover all charges. Such a plan will be better than found ing a separate office on the ruins of the old one, involving cost of clerks, secretary, directors, &c. The goodwill must be lost in this way ; but then the goodwill of the Albert is worth nothing. DOINGS LN GAMBIA. Another call has been made for inquiry into the conduct of Admiral Patey, administrator of the English settlement in Gambia. Some little time ago several of the leading inhabitants of Bathurst, on the river Gambia, made several serious charges against the Admiral. They affirmed that by the severity of his discipline, the prisoners in the gaol were subjected . to unreasonable hardships r and that the treatment in one remarkable instance occasioned death. The pri soners at Gambia are turned out of bed at half-rtst five, and commence work immediately, not tasting food until half-past nine. At that hour they get a breakfast of plain boiled rice. They then continue work until five, and after dinner are locked up in their stifling cells—Gambia is within the tropics—at six. This account, if correct, does indeed represent hard treatment for petty offences. In addition, the inha bitants charge Admiral Patey with gross misconduct on the occasion of a cholera attack. Owing to his wilful neglect, the malady carried off one man in ten amongst the troops and one in three of the natives. The Colonial Office, when the complaint was made, did not institute all inquiry, and consequently the outcry is repeated. It i s c l ear enough that Admiral Patey has either done wrong or has been grossly maligned. TITE TRANSIT OF CATTLE. We are glad to be able to announce that the Committee of the Privy Council appointed to take into consideration the transit of cattle, from and to foreign counties, and to frame rules to make the treatment of animals being conveyed from place to place more humane, has not gone altogether asleep. The tale recently told by the Times spewing how a herd of sheep was brought across from R otterdam, had led us almost to conclude that the Privy Council had overlooked the duty imposed upon it by the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. From a letter written by Arthur llelps, Clerk to the Council and chairman of the cattle committee, we learn that it was thought 'inadvisable to frame rules hastily ; but that circulars have been issued to railway company directors and to all persons likely to give information. These circulars ask what rules are best to ensure a proper treat ment of cattle in transit by rail or water; and how means should be taken to ensure the proper supply of water and meat to the annuals. It is suggested that the steamboat companies, who are the flagrant offenders, should have this application made to them. They might then (perhaps) emulate one another in humanity. CATTLE DISEASE. The foot and mouth complaint has appeared in the populous borough of Chelsea. The disease, according to the medical officer of the neighbour hood, has broken out in an aggravated form, many animals having died. It is much more infectious, too, than usual. The great difficulty in such a dis trict as Chelsea is to secure the removal of diseased animals, so as to prevent their being sold for food. This has so far been accomplished, that "not a pound of diseased meat has been disposed of in the neighbourhood." TllE GREAT LUXE3IIII:RG RAILWAY. That funny difficulty—the Belgian railway ques tion—has come up again, though in a pleasing manner. The origin of this dispute was a proposi tion that the Great Luxemburg Railway should be leased to the East of France Company, the scheme being opposed by the Belgian Government, w' ich passed a law enabling it to forbid the transfer of any Belgian line to a foreign firm. France bullied, but the little State held out, and finally won. It was agreed that the lease should be set aside and an arrangement for through traffic made instead. We are now informed that this agreement has been com pleted, and that it pleases all parties. The Belgian Government approves of it. France, at all events, raises no objection. And the arrangement is said to be very favourable to the Great Luxemburg share holders, many of whom aru Englishmen. FOREIGN NOTES. WORKING CLASSES IN TIM UNITED STATIS. Mr. Robert Coningsby has furnished the Spectator with another letter on the working classes of America. Cali fornia has found great favour with the working men, and those who leave it are generally anxious to get back again. The climate is pleasant, while wages are high and the food is cheap. The great want of California is female labour. Men are frequently employed in occupations that ordinarily belong to females. ome facts taken from the Californian Labour Exchange ,hew that rough and unskilled labourers got upwards of :fifty shilling a week besides their beard and lodging. Engineers were provided with work at rates varying from fifty to eighty &liars per month with board. Carpenters found work at wages from three to five dollars a day, and so on through sheets of official figures vouched for by the Governor of the State. It is not surprising under these circumstances that during the season the labourers af Europe pour into the United States at the rate of over 1,060 a day. When strikes take place in the United States, the working men generally get the best of it. In Philadelphia the gasmen cut short the dispute with their employers by turning out the light, and the masters had to give in. There were two nights during which not a dollar could be turned after dark in a city of 800,000 souls. There is not the same facility for combination for the purposes of a strike in America as in England and the men do not possess funds like those of our trade societies. It is to be observed that the trade societies in America mix them selves up more in political matters than ours do, and a secretary of a union declared that if they had wealthy Lodies like our Amalgamated Engineers, they would elect their own President and appoint working men as Foreign Ministers. Although trades unionism is rapidly spreading in America, it is not likely to have much influence on the future of the Continent. Men of sufficient ability to officer societies can generally find in America some more profitable employment. Sydney Smith said a Bishop should never argue with a Dissenting minister, but invite him to dinner ; and Columbia appears to do this with her trades union secretaries. A VALUABLE DISCOVERY. Professor Davidson, of the United States Coast Survey, has just made a valuable discovery. While visiting Alaska during the late eclipse he came upon a mountain range of iron ore of great extent, having an elevation of 2,000 feet. It caused a local variation of ten degrees in the compass. SPAIN AND CUBA. According to American papers the real proposition made by the American Government to Spain respecting Cuba contained no guarantee forithe payment of the bonds in case the, sale was made. The offer was that if Spain would sell the island to the Cubans, the American Government would act as a kind of trustee, pledged to retain the greater part of the revenue from the Customs as an indirect guarantee for payment. It was this proposal which Spain rejected ; but it is said that General Sickles intends to make another. In this Spain is to grant the Cubans the full rights of Spanish citizenship, including representation in the Cortes. A general amnesty is to be immediately granted, and Spain is to undertake the suppression of slavery on the island. If these propositions are acccepted the Americans will endeavour to have peace on the island. It is believed that Senor Robeits, who relresented the Government of Isabella at Washington, will:remain as the representative of the new Government. THE AMERICAN RAILWAY WARS• The American railway wars still continue and the latest phase is rather threatening. Some fifteen hundred men have arrived at Scranton, from the neighbouring coal- fields, their object being to prevent the miners of the Delaware and Western Railroad Company from continu ing their work, No actual collision has yet occurred, but volunteers have been enrolled to protect the miners. A STAMPEDE OF CATTLE. A serious accident is reported from Buffalo. A drove of Texan cattle that bad been landed from a ferry-boat stampeded and ran in every direction through the streets. Many persons were severely injured, some of them, it is feared, being fatally hurt. Five or six of the infuriated animals were shot by the citizens and some of them swam the Niagara River and dispersed on the Canada side. Others, when the accounts were written, were still running in the suburbs. About forty of the cattle, which originally numbered ninety, were missing. The stampede occurred about seven in the morning ; had it been later in the day the consequences must have been still mere serious. A CANADIAN STORY. A curious story is told in the Hamilton Tinto (Ontario). On the night Preceding Dominion Day, some one climbed the lofty flagpole erected at Woodstock in honour of the Prince of Wales's visit, and nailed to it an American flag bearing the word " Annexation " in black letters. The Canadians were highly indignant, but no one could be found to take it down, as the pole was rotten, It accordingly fluttered there for two months, when one of the telegraph workmen offered to climb the pole and fetch it down. He got frightened in the middle of his task, and abandoned it. Shooting was then resorted to, and the obnoxious word was at least obliterated. Finally a youth and etranger in the town ascended to the dan• serous elevation and brought down the rags of the banner, The question now being asked is, Who put it up? MONEY AND BUSINESS. (Prom the Springfield Republican, Aug. 28.) Money continues obstinately easy. The very men who have been imagining and predicting a crisis on account of the southern and western demand are surprised to find money lying on their hands. Nobody wants it or is will ing to pay more than than five or six per cent, for it on Government collaterals. It is singular that this night mare of the vast amount of money required to move the crops should annually tako such a hold not only of money dealers, but of money writers, after it has been so often etripped of its reality by the experience of successive years. 'What we said last week about the theoretical effect of increased production to render the exchange of com modities easier and thus relieve the call for money, the in strument. of exchange, has bean thoroughly borne out by the traffic of the past week. The purchases of merchandise on western account in the eastern cities has been enormous. And notwithstanding the metropolitan notion that the West was cashless and hungering for money in exchange for wheat, a large part of those goods was paid for in law ful tender on the spot. The stockholder toile of single salesmen making sales of $lB,OOO a day for the past week in boot and shoe houses where a full score of them are employed, and thinks that the dry goods traffic must have gone above these figures. Tho lines of carts headed to ! ward the three great western freight depots in New York were miles in length, and the police have been I put to their wits' end to keep the streets passable. This acceleration of business is almost appalling, hut it is not much more than acceleration. These goods must all have been bought sooner or later during the autumn. The feet that prose the prairies must all be shod, and none of them will be likely to wear two pair at once, be cause of the present low freight rates. But when it is crowded into a few weeks, as it has been, even New York can see that the East has a crop to move as well as the West, and that the two move together so harmoniou ly that no extraordinary call for money is made. We have said that this activity was not much more than an accele ration of business, a buying up before hand, in order to take advantage of the low rates of carriage. But the con sequent lower prices of the things carried, when arrived at their destination, will create scso new demand for them. The abundant harvest will moreover make the buyers feel rich, and those who have been content with their barnyard boots will now invest in a better pair for Sunday wear. In view of these considerations, we con clude that the West is much more likely to come to our markets as a merchant, legitimately tendering value for value, something to eat for emoting to wear, instead of personating the " your money or your life" appari tion that disturbs the dreams of some financiers. As for the South, the 2,000,000 of its 3,000.000 cotton bales will go abroad, and square up our foreign ac count by the addition of $160,000,000 to our credit. The other third will come North and go on to the spindles of New England. It is alleged also that the South for this 1,000,000 bales will demand the money. It is diffi cult to see why. We fail to hear of any monetary strin gency in the Southern centres, and incline to the belief that they have as much money there as they can use. A country that has been devastated like the South needs most anything else more than it does money. In point of fact, remittances of coin from the South to New York are now of frequent occurrence. How can a country so poor as the South afford to have a dollar of its scanty wealth invested in that most unproductive and most seductive form, gold coin? The sooner their cotton, and bullion, and greenbacks are converted into shoes and spelling books, the more speedy and ample will be the return for their toil. Gold has kept well down during the week, notwithstanding some efforts of the bulls to give it a toss. On Saturday the quotations ran as low as 1311, to which point it has not dropped since March, when it touched 130 k. On Tuesday it was assumed that Bonds and Consols were drooping in the London market, and that gold must be exported in consequence. "Assumed," for the regular quotations of 1862's in London on that day was 84/, a most gratifying figure. But that was not the matter. A combination of $7,000,000 was at work for a rise ; in other words, the bulls were endeavouring to buy up that amount of coin, hold it back till everybody was gold-hungry, and then sell at a great advance. Fortunately, honest tradesfolk do not feel very dependent on gold just now. Wheat and cotton bills on Europe aro so plenty that it is almost a dead loss of freight and insurance to ship gold, and nobody cares to ' do it. The importers who have coin duties to pay will not pay much of an advance on present rates. Commerce settles back in her easy chair and assures the speculators that, if they want to get up a corner or a lock-up, "it is none of her funeral," and the bulls and bears will probably have their little scuffle at their own expense, paying mean , time a good carrying rate on their metal. For the week ending August 21, the decrease in specie in the New York city banks was $2,559,989, which is fully accounted for by the export, customs demand and transfers to Cali fornia, in excess of the amount sold by the Treasury. The Government disbursements for coin interest were $315,179, and at the regular sale $1,000,000. There was transferred to the San Francisco account of $ . ),000,000, taken in for customs duties nearly 53,500,000, and exported nearly $500,000. The balance against New York was there fore over four and a half millions, and that the pre mium was not more affected by such a drain speaks well for the confidence of the market. Another feature of the bank statement, to which we may advert in this connection, was a decrease in deposits of $6,928,165, and in legal tenders of $1,659,258. The decrease in cash was therefore largely in National Bank notes, which have been unusually plenty, the Governmeht having paid for its bonds almost entirely in them instead of greenbacks. Government bonds during the week have been steady. A comparison of the quotations of Wednes day and the preceding Friday show a slight falling off. It will be remembered that Mr. Boutwall's purchases of last week, Wednesday, were not met by sufficient offerings. On the following day the deficiency was easily made up, nearly three times as much being offered as required. On Wednesday of this week $2,000,000 more was taken out upon an offering of nearly $4,000,000. Tho purchases of the month were completed by the regular sinking fund purchase of $1,000,000 on Thursday. So easy is the money market that the utmost leisure is manifested in taking the bonds to the Treasurer's office to be cashed. Indeed, if the holders of them were at any time desirous of "realis ing," they of course would find it easy enough to do so by putting their bonds down a very slight fraction. The New York Times professes to know' positively that the Secretary of the Treasury will continuo to buy bonds through the remaining quarter of the year, probably at the rate of ten millions a month. He will, it is thought, be able to do this with his ordinary greenback revenue receipts and the proceeds of the fortnightly sale of one million of gold, drawing a little perhaps on the gold customs receipts, which are likely to exceed the out going gold interest by $15,000,000. Southern securi ties have been dull, now Tennessoes rising one per cent. In the Stock Market the consolidation of the Wabash and Lake Shore Roads has formed the chief topic of conversation. The consolidation took the public gene rally by surprise, as it was expected that the Wabash Read would only be leased. The combination now com prises the following five roads and capitals : —Buffalo and Erie $9,700,000 ; Cleveland, Painesville and Ashland, $11,447,650; Cleveland and Toledo, $9,399,185; Michigan Southern, $32,461,633; Toledo, Wabash, and Western, $22,928,000 ; total capital, $8,936,468. This road has 1,120 miles completed and 105 miles building. A stock dividend of 20 per cent. on the shares of the consolidated Lake Shore will eventually bring the grand capital of the new consolidation up to about $93,000,000. Tuesday seems to have been quite a frisky day for the stook bears Wall-street was the scene of considerable animation, and it looked as if cool weather had brought back all the old operators, full of fresh ugliness. The bears threa tened the Vanderbilt stocks, and by selling largely in duced a decline of from two to four per cent. The loss was recovered on Wednesday, however, upon the report that the long-expected consolidation of New York Cen tral and Hudson would immediately take place. So long as such a consummation is possible, and is ready to be rumoured upon the slightest excuse, the bears may as well not hope for any extensive triumph over Van derbilt. Orders were also received from Saratoga et buy for the Commodore, and complete confidence was thus restored. North-western, which is still speculating over the Presidential canvass, sympathised with New York Central and Hudson, and rose. Pacific Mail was suddenly inspired with activity on the report that a "retired Com modore, formerly in the direction," was buying stock to get control of the company. Life on the ocean wave seems to have been generally adopted as a preparatory course to a career in Wall-street, probably because one thus gets accustomed to fluctuations. In dry goods there has been a fair business, and prices have maintained their firmness, notwithstanding some manufacturers begin to talk of running their mills on half time. The activity of the trade has been considerably stimulated by the very low prices of freight, and it is by no means certain that these will immediately be succeeded by combination prices. Unbleached shootings and shirtings have been more active, and there aro no indications of a yielding market. Not so much has been done in bleached. Prints are the most animated, the demand being confined mostly to the new styles. Woollen goods are perceptibly improv ing, shawls, overcoatings, cloths, and flannels having a good trade. The importations of foreign goods aro large, but the trade iu these is dull. Breadstuffs aro dull again. The groat crops of the West are being cut early, and the farmers are ready to get rid of them, fororunning the de mand somewhat. The buyers of early lots lost consider ably on their first shipments East. Provisions aro un changed. (Front the Albion.) WALL STREET, Friday Evening, Aug. 27, 1869. The unfavourable bank statement of last Saturday, the third of its kind in succession, exerted a depressing in fluence on . the Stock Exchange, and prices which had previously been reced:ng declined rather sharply during the early part of the present week, the Vanderbilt stocks being the most yielding, and particularly New York Central, which sold down to 195 k on Wednesday morn ing. This was in the face of the announcement that the recent severe railway competition for westward bound freight had terminated by an agreement between the Erie and the Hudson River companies to advance their tariff largely, which went into effect ott MO!, morning last. The decline was doubtless assisted by t ' failure of the recent Vanderbilt meetings at Saratoga t : result in the long-talked-of consolidation of the Nov Ir °fr Central and Hudson River lines, and also by the animal], meat on Sunday of the Commodore's marriage, the inf' r ence drawn from which was that the prop,sed consolidr tion would be shelved for a while. This depression N 8 not allowed to continue long, however, f o r befJre nesday night New York Central sold above 9 04 and y e s, terday it touched 205. Erie, too, long dormant and Int le tabooed, which, driven from the Stock Ex c hange, is call d d only at the National Board, suddenly became buoyant l f active, selling as high as 351- ou Thursday, an advan ce ", seven per cent. upon the quotation current fora 11 1 time past. The rise was attended with a rumour ths, the stock would soon be registered at the offica Trust Company, and that a third rail, to connect with t". Narrow-gauge lines was to be laid. It is possible, h ° ' ( l; ever, that the movement is merely a transient one due be the opening of the " short cut" line, running from Erie on the other side of the Hudson, and the fe Stl : , speech made on that occasion by Mr. James Fisk, lnn who is getting to be looked upon as a sort of financial J U at whose nod the railway world tr e mbl e s, or is 195 : happy. The wh o l e ma r k e t at th e same ti me showed siderabla improvement, and the bearish feeling wbiel l generally prevailed gave place to one of an opposit e c , h e i rector. so easily is the tide of opinion and the carrea' speculation turned iu Wall-street. The Philadelphia Public Ledger, of August 27, SsY s. t o " There were sales of small lots of State Gs, Ist series , %t decline of City Gs, untaxed, sold to a fair extes' t, 1111—no change. Company bonds, under a fair ill meat demand, were steady at quotations. 'rho shar ° o l was generally rather firmer. Of Reading, 3,800 OA sold within the range of 18 to 481—opening and c 1°5 ,1 at 48i. Pennsylvania holds firmly up for investm ent 3 57i to 57i, with sales of GOO shares. Catawissa pref er d was steady at 37±-, and Camden and Amboy decline b 0 123. Lehigh Valley was firm at 56i. This comps''y oil laid its last rail on its northern extension, and the r°,lbe now finished to the New York State line, and n o . ready to transport coal over by the middle of t o tember. The entire list of Canal stocks was Wel'S only sale of them being 50 shares Lehigh Navigst le ' at io 3Gi. Susquehanna Canal 6's were offered at 57, an tiro 10 was the best bid for the shares. We observe a 13 4 - 01 0 —The capital invested in railways in the United St B til nearly four times that doing business in banks. Th °- for of this latter is $493,000,000-8436,000,000 in 1,630100 nal Banks; $67,000,000 iu 240 State Banks—the ear f rom from which are from 10 to 12 perct. on their capita''' . $50,000,000 to $60,000,000. The cost of tho 4 3 , 00° , 11) 5 0 of railway in operation has been $1,870,000, the aggr-gIA earnings on which were, in 1868, $400,000,00 0--fre oek $280,000,000 ; passengers, $120,000,000—a suna t4 f c e ro , ing the gross annual revenue of the general g ° 111 1 ment.—The Fort Wayne (Ind) Democrat, of the 00 says:—" Officials of the Central Transportat ion pot s have arrived here, to contract with the Pittsbill%,Sif Wayne, and Chicago Railway at this point, to 11'°;ile now palace cars built on an entirely new pattern, 01 0 ,11 11 Hor to any yet built in this country. The cars s re o - lioef over the Pennsylvania and Fort Wayne and C lll l OO OO from New York to Chicago, passengers going t 00' without change of cars. The above cars will each c° sum of $25,000." r NEWYORK, og p,' YORK, Aug. ''' - FOREIGN EXCHANGE. t, roe Dl r i l , I Sixty Days. "-L' - '" ~.., 1 1 "' London Bankers - 109; . London, Primo Commercial EN . 1 —lO9l ...• 6 131 1 Paris, Bankers ... Bremen, Bankers •..". Hamburgh, Bankers 34-351Frankfort, OM 4O-±-40i Berth- id Col. - -- - 7 1+ ...". Jerlin an. Jologno Antwerp 5.20-5.14 '''''' ' Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCS:S. 0 1 Fort Wayne ............ SI Atlantic P Nv a . ci u fi . c Telegraph QuicksilverM aila il . . ... ...... . .. ............................ 5 1., 1/4 1 5 1 Mariposa Preferred :" 1 Ohio and MississipPl". I,' 1 -1. , . pi Boston Water POW' Cumberland ............ t A B_ l a scnkse St. Paul an d B . r . o . . k .. e . r . s : 1.a.: 7391 M & St. Paul Prefer N. Y. Central 201,1 Erie Hudson .. lB6 Reading Mich. Central l3O Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg lOBl North-West North-West Preferred 953 Canton_ 6O Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo EXPItE; STOCKS. 56 to 661 3 , to ill Adams American Merc!4ants' Uni( Merchants' Union, old Sto , United States „ il to 53 to 19 ISi t ° 'BANK STOCKS. Irving ..................... Nassau ................... 114 Commonwealth 1J” Importers and 'rraders 137 11 Metropolitan ........ Central National •••"' 1 0 , 5 i Fourth National ..... • 11:n Ninth National ...... " jr a Oriental 8ank....... .."' .130 " Hanover ...... •••" Corn Exchange ........ 1 6 ' 7 Chatham ............... rt . ter Wells, Fargo, and Co NEW YORK CIT' State of Nov York 112 Merchants' Exchange 117 Ocean Merchants' Mechanics' 1403 America Phenix lO9 Manhattan Seventh Ward Commerce American Exchange ll5 Bank of the Republic l2Ol rs,'" Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia ban ks „05, be as follows ou Aug. 27 : Pennsylvania Railroad ' ' P o rto‘ 57i ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 98 99 ; Sixes, 2a 97198. tel/ 30 NAVAL ITEms.-The Naval Department ill s 0 0 ; soon to commence building ten wooden vosa°ls' isfjeo ships for the Admirals of the different stations' . 0 f og 0 l a yet known what model is to be adopted, but tcaoai sax will be built so as to carry a large amount of be of 0 0 sail or steam well, as required.-Commander As / 10 1 0 , Royal Navy, one of the Quebec party to 100' t i th e e t " eclipse, has returned to Quebec and annonnee'r r ye P ro , pleto success of the observations. He says af t , e , tto sP iy , tographs are compared with those of Am eriv i jog . oj , nomers, much additional information regs'ruotoOve physical condition of the sun will be . gi tited i General Sherman, Admiral Porter, and Sa c ", .o°os son arrived at Boston in the steamer Ta//aP oos ;vj oi 25. -Rear-Admiral Poor has gone to take coe i°3 ., l i 5 for North Atlantic squadron.-The Lancaster, 011 13,0 1 " r- v eti the flagship of the South Atlantic Squadron, bag of ral Joseph Lanman, commanding, and Wil i° ' oG are it l i ef delayed at Norfolk for some weeks, owing t° seamen, was commissioned Aug. 26, and will s° oo oo, departure for Brazil.-Brigadier-General Jo be.. mandant of the Marine Corps, has returned to "bioaille sfl from his tour of inspection of marine ports a t fr r i asil it .,l:ol New York, Boston, and Portsmouth, NOW of which he found in excellent order.-W er ' - e loP l ;efl t , Yard, Brooklyn, is bri s k, 2 , 300 wor kmen beingver'oreol A rule has been pro mu l ga t e d b y the Navy t o i ri o o i ' that no foreign officials or civilians be allovr e tbo Ph special inventions without the authority of ti oe/ meat. 1 1 5 [ADVERTISEMENT. I-Holloway's Pills. -oSpheredlO tions and stomach complaints induced by atni tto cl o c l or too liberal diet, if not early checked, o ften o le g . s r serious consequences. When any one finds his o.f, OAo ve than usual, his eyesight dimmed, and his head d i © o al .111,, indisposed for all exertion, physical or mental, b° sure that he is in immediate need of some 00°I f f i g n ii0 01 . ' 4 ," medicine. Let him send at once for a box o f after a tow dozes of which his head will be clear ssitiote elevated, and all his energies will bo restored. ads 0 tions for the guidance of patients in the uso ° f tl medicine aro affixed to every box. Co sec 119 00 c ir o [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Dyspepsia (Indige stffi) ; °-° ri cl D el P i Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, biliouled O v ie liver complaints in every stage, are only agrITI ear t t,ro9 rated by drugs of every description, but perfee' Y, 0,4 Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Fo t t ;pel°o6 o , thousands of cases which had been considered t o r ef c 19,„ -cough. asthma, also diarrhcoa, haemorrhoids, tbrostiarcylA flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, s oro oavi„, to ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the lra ije urc' matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria,roarS;o, . 0 1 ,; 1 ;d bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, "I' o ool.. ug o o,o debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, p.m' er ofw'i t ic r eape pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronclutis,29,o Dre02,,10, of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomas h e alth iSKpi`7o shoulders, itc. We quote a few :-The Pope 0 tA i ly 1 1, 0 '0 1 Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—"K 0111, 1b , pl o cl ,l health of the Holy Father is excellent, 091 39ja e lf o ' l o :oil oi l ing all other remedies, he has confined Inuis cos a , r e ce ll Barry's Revalenta Arabic.% Food, of which h° ris ingli is qd, ful at every meal. It has produced a au t r „P ro ise3rl: l 4o ti ‘el effect on his health, and his Holiness of food too highly.-From the "Gazette du ..i cio nt. D io No. 46,270-Mr. James Roberts, timber r° l3 . r ttin g of I,c, o ef Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, O P i 1 .771 -, tin p ey derangement, and partial deafness! Cure No. .001,, di" de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of 11 103 'Wfro7; e i, ° o oor o ol No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable ag° nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa , tiolp,, o rtii.- g iw i r sickness, and vomiting.-Maria go; Beware of the many unsavoury and more than ' gs to which, without authority, Baron Liebig 9 18 0 0 0 0 e 110;00 ~,0 ciously attached d . obs r In tins, at ls lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2lbs 4s , 0 01 f 0 2 lbs 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA sat 'oi 0740/ f r e u P 0 19 Powrotri is packed in tin canisters: 0 300 , fo tot o f at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups a' an d 5 , ft ico -being about one penny per cup. The 300,, pose free of carriage in England on receipt o . 4 43t resi , BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Reg , " all Grocers and Chemists BIRTHS. , Co ffe r DUFF -On the 9th inst. at Reiter, the Fife 1 / f G. Graham Duff, R.N., of a son. ,rosei 13 1i KisLocit -On the Bth inst , a t Goodrich the wife of Colonel Kinloch, 8.A., o f 0 0 1 ' 1 ,0 9 .0 1, AIIARRIAGES la st., sl o 00 4 CAMPBELL—MACNAGitTEN—On the 9t l , 11,(1 , 0 01,.„ co. Antrim, Colin Glencaiin Camplp-2,:r Helen, only surviving daughter ci co , A- cle0! 0 9 man Ala naghten, Bait., of Dundarave st , d ilet u o vel TIMOBALD-JONES-OR the 9th infit! ba jd, of a 11,. 1 Ilanover-square, Mr. George J. TatebONicbar Harts, to Susan, widow of the ja r Esq., of Lewisham. 2 icATlls. Lsto KINGSTON-On the Bth inst. , a t Alitche,W° otier land, James, Earl of Kingst on, aged l o t otige' 13'1 OPl° 4 R O DW E LL-On the 9th inst., at Caldic ,DaS'63, heath, Harts, Henry Rodw oll, Esq., tionly, VEITou -On the 10th inst., very n . House, Chelsea, James Witch, aged A. 101 1 651 • 1,1.0 .- gee London: Printed and Publis hed by ,Nr of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at TuE So x Ogle° iu the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cai rn Monday, September 12, ISO:. 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