The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-21 00:00:00

THE ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. An application has been made to the Chief Clerk, at rice-Chancellor James's Chambers, on behalf of the liquidators, for leave to pay certain premiums on re insurances effected with other companies by the Albert Company. The question arose whether the surrender value of the policies was greater oz em than the premiums proposed to be paid, and affidavits and lists of premiums and the surrender value of the policies were produced, which showed that, with very few exceptions, the sur render value was greater than the amount of premium. It was urged that, pending the period of the reconstruc tion of the company, it was most desirable, in. the com pany's interest, not to allow any of the policies to lapse through non-payment of the premiums. The total amount proposed to be paid was £1,034. The Chief Clerk gave leave to pay the premiums falling due this mouth. It was then stated that, the Court having authorised the receipt of all renewal premiums, which were to be put aside until the reconstruction, and to be returned in full if no arrangement is mane, the questicn of the agents' commissions arose. The agents, through whom a large number of premiums are paid, usually da duct their small commission before remitting the amount, and it was proposed by the official liquidator that this charge for commission should be defrayed out of the general fund. The Chief Clerk, having said that the company would be bound to return the premiums in full if an arrangement were not made, suggested that the agents should make no charge ; but it was urged that the agents must be paid for their trouble, or they would not work ; and ultimately leave was given as desired. THE BOILER EXPLOSION ON THE THAMES. Mr. Richards, deputy-coroner, resumed an inquiry on Wednesday, at the Court House, Wellclose•square, Tower hill, touching the deaths of George Charles Evans, the master, and Joseph Williams, the stoker of the steamtug Edward, the boiler of which exploded on the morning of the 11th instant. Evidence having been given as to the finding of Evans's body, Mrs. Sarah Evans, the widow of the deceased captain, deposed to the presentiment felt by her husband that some thing would happen to him on that day. Her husband was not in pecuniary difficulties at the time of his death, and he had never directly or indirectly threatened to commit suicide. The remarks of her husband as to the pre sentiment did not appear strange to her. In reply to Mr. Lewis, the witness said her husband and she occa sionally " bad a few words." More than once he said, " I'll sleep on board the steanatug." Mr. Lewis asked the witness whether what her husband said was said in consequence of the way in which they lived together. Mrs. Evans, who cried bitterly, said that was her business, and that Mr. Lewis had no right to enter into her domestic affairs. Mr. Merriman asked the witness whether her husband gave her any reason for the presenti ment he felt on the day before and the day of his death. Mrs. Evans replied that her husband did not state the reason, but said the boat was " dickey." Thomas Dickson, a Custom-house lighterman, deposed that on the morning of the explosion he was in a boat within eight or nine feet of the steamtug Edward. He saw the deceased then standing on the deck of the tug, lying across the wheel with his arms crossed. Captain Evans was at the time looking anxiously towards the shore. The witness wished the captain "Good Morning," but he did not hear his reply. Captain Evans looked at witness for a moment, and again turned his head towards the shore. The witness then heard a hissing noise—he felt himself a corpse, and thought his wife and children were leaning over him. He had fallen into the water, and was picked up insensible. John Graham, boiler-maker, adhered to his previous statement that the boiler had been tested up to a pressure of 1241 b. to the square inch. He added that he was sorry to have to state that there was no fixed rule as to what amount of pressure a boiler should be worked to which bad been tested to a particular figure. The inquiry was then adjourned. LAW AND POLICE. AN ELECTION PETITION.—At Judges' Chamoers, on Friday, before Mr. Baron Cleasby, an application was made on behalf of the petitioner in the North Norfolk election case, that the £I,COO depu,sit fer costs should be paid to the respondents, the sitting members, Sir H. Lacon and Mr. Walpole. Baron Cleasby thought it unusual that the petitioner should ask for the money to be paid to the respondents. Evidence was produced that the petitioner's witnesses had been paid, and it appeared that the costs bad been taxed at £I,GOO and upwards, and the order was accordingly made for the payment of the money deposited to the respondents. A. similar case was afterwards heard respecting the Thirsk election. In this case £5OO out of the deposit had been paid to the petitioner, and the remainder was kept until the costs of Sir W. Galiwey were taxed. receipt for £27, the costs of Sir W. Gailwey, being produced, an order was made for the payment of the balance to the petitioner. . , OUTRAGE IN SOUTH LONDON.-At the Lambeth Police court, on Friday, the prisoner Paull was brought up on remand, charged with violently assaulting Mrs. Peake. A certificate was handed in to spew that Mrs. Peake was too ill to attend. The prisoner was again remanded. The second clerk of the court informed the magistrate that the Governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol had stated that the prisoner was convicted of a similar offence in and had been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. STRANGE CASE.-At the Mansion House, on Friday. Joseph Ray was charged on remand, before the Lord Mayor, on his own confession, with having murdered two of his children. Inquiries had been made at the prisoner's house, and it was found that the children were alive. The surgeon of Newgate reported that the man was quite sane. The prisoner, in his defence, stated thathe was under an hal lucination at the time he made the confession. The Lord Mayor discharged him with a suitable admonition. FRAUDS AT WOOLWICR ARSENAL.—At the Woolwich Police•court, on Friday, before Mr. Patteson, William M'Cubry, storeholder at the Royal Arsenal, and Thomas Wright, foreman at the same establishment, were charged with stealing 19 cwt. of paper, the property of the Crown. A warehouseman, named Jones, of Upper Thames-street, was charged with receiving the same. The case has created great excitement in the neighbourhood, and for some time before the court was opened the approaches to it were thronged. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Poland on behalf of the Government, and it was stated that an extensive system of fraud had been carried on for some time, the prisoners, it was thought, being the originators. The paper sold consisted of the cuttings, the refuse from making the cartridges, usually sold by the Government as unserviceable stores. On behalf of Wright, the foremin, it was urged that he was only /obeying M'Cubry, and had seen the bags weighed without know ing.anything more about them. For M`Cubry, the store holder, it was argued that he had merely to sign the papers passing the bags for sale, and there was nothing to skew that he had anything to do with them. He had been twenty-five years in the service. Bail was refused, and the prisoners remanded. THE SMOKE NUISANCE.—At the Gateshead Borongn Police -court, on Friday, several persons were summoned before the Mayor for causing smoke nuisance. The offence was proved against a number of manufacturers, tradesmen, and others, who were each fined 40s. and costs. The proprietors of Shipcote Colliery were summoned for the non•consumption of smoke, and Mr. Palmer, one of the proprietors, asked for a time to fix another apparatus, as they were anxious to prevent the nuisance. The River Tyne Commissioners were also charged in respect to the smoke arising from a chimney used in the construction of the new bridge. Fines were inflicted in both cases. rOACIIING AFFRAY.—At Kineton Police-Court, Soutn Warwickshire, two labourers were charged with night poaching on Lord Willoughby de Broke's estate, and assaulting his lordship's keepers. They were committed fur trial at the Warwick Assizes. CHEATING BY TELEGRAPH.— About noon on Monday the agent of the Commercial Branch Bank in Stirling received a telegram, purporting to be from tLe head office of the bank in Glasgow, instructing the agent to pay over to a Mr. John M`Kinlay, jun., the sum of £2SO. Mr. Morrison, the agent, thinking this procedure unusual, telegraphed back to the Glasgow branch, and a reply was received informing him that no such instruc tions had been given from the office. This fact aroused snspic:on. About half-pa4t two o'clock the same day a man presented himself at the bank and produced a tele gram, which he said he had received from the head office of the bark in Glasgow, and setting forth that the agent in Stirling had been communicated with regarding the payment of £2BO. The bank agent declined to pay over the cash, notwithstanding the appeal of . the indivi dual that he must get either thew Lyle or part, as it would put him to great inconvenience. - In the evening infor mation was lodged with the county constabulary, and, after inquiries, it was learned that a man answering the decription given had taken up his quarters in the Queen's Hotel, Stirling, for the night. About midnight, Chief Constable Campbell and Superintendent M`Nab, accom panied by Mr. Morrison, proceeded to the hotel in ques tion, and there found the object of their search. He de clined to furnish any information regarding himself. He was at once apprehenled and brought before Sheriff 'Sconce on Tuesday, examined, and committed. He gave his name as J. D. Russell. He called at the Golden Lion Hotel about half-past two o'clock on Monday afternoon, and asked if there was a telegram there for a Mr. M`Kinlay, jun. There was, and this wag the telegram he presented tt the baa. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE REPRESENTATIVE BODY OF THE IRISH CIIURCII. The calling - of exclusively clerical synods by the Irish bishops is now declared to be only a :prelimi nary step, rendered necessary by the urgent need there is for a reform of the representation. The Primate and the Archbishop of Dublin have issued an address to their dioceses stating this, and request ing the laity to prepare a representation of them selves before the time of meeting. Their lordships explain that they are slow in offering suggestions, as they consider it the best course not to do so. They seem to court freedom of lay action, and e-41ress their readiness to use the parochial system and diocesan conferences if the lay brethren wish it. The Dublin Synod will meet in St. Patrick's on the 14th of September. The Bishop of Down is most anxious also that there should be lay representation. At a visitation just held at Holywood, he urged a reform of ecclesi astical synods, and advocated that the laity should appoint del.-e as to form a great council of the Irish Church. t )fe would give the Church Body financial arrangeir,nts, but make it subsidiary to the general council, which would be elected every five years. He recommended that the offertory system should be more largely developed. The Bishop of Meath has likewise addressed his clergy on the subject. He advocated the raising of a fund for the Church; a million sterling, he ;bought, could easily be got together. It seems somewhat strange that he had to instruct his flock that they were not released by what the Legisla ture had done from praying for those in authority. It is stranger still that he should urge the necessity for so doing, not on the ground of Christian duty, so much as on the ground that the Church was not yet free from the State. "As the Church would not be disestablished until 1871, the Bishops would not change tl'ose prayers, and any minister who did so would violate the Act of Uniformity and his ordination vows. He had no doubt, however, that the Prayer-book would be remodelled." THE LAY VOICE. The Duke of St. Alban's proposes a very great innovation in the matter of the appointment of Ministers to the Church. The vicarage of Red bourne, of which his grace is the patron, having necome vacant, ne writes to a tenant on Ins estate " Before proceeding to fill it up, I am anxious to offer the congregation the opportunity to re commend me a gentleman for this appoint ment, as I feel that if the laity generally had more voice in the selectiol of their ministers, it would immensely strongthen the hands and materially increase the usefulness of the clergy of the Church of England." The recipient of this note convened a public meeting of the parishioners. Whether they recommended a minister for appoint ment we are not told. We only know that they passed a resolution to the effect " that the permission granted is a privilege rare and unparalleled, and merits their warmest thanks. It is eminently cal culated to conduce to a good understanding between the minister and his congregation, and increase their affection for the consideration and confidence of the t".ric.r." THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES. A. correspondent of the Standard enters into a lengthy defence of the residents and visitors at Wildbad. The Prince and the Princess of Wales have not been mobbed as was indignantly antici pated. They sit down with -- their children amongst the holiday crowd without any inter ruption whatever. The Prince takes his cigars amongst the trees without the attendance of gotemouches. The Princess walks out and is not stared at. A rather showy equipage did not attract a crowd of half a dozen. More than all, the Prince absolutely plays at skittles in an open space without a single spectator, save the vigilant correspondent who watches over his peace of mind. Nothing can be more gratifying than such reports. They indicate a marvellously sudden and complete con version on the part of our countrythen. A BANQUET TO TUE DUKE OF NORFOLK. There was much speech-maliing by titled and eminent persons at Sheffield on Thursday. A ban quet was given by the Cutlers to the Duke of Norfolk, and Lord Edward Howard, Lord Foley, Mr. Mundella, M.P., Mr. Poljambe, M.P., Mr. Roebuck, Ind nearly all the local magnates assembled to do honour to his Grace. The greatest portion of the speeches consisted of refe rences to local affairs and eulogies of the guest of the evening. Mr. Roebuck, holvever, launched out into a defence of aristocracy generally. He— " thoroughgoing Radical," though he called him self—did not agree with those who regarded distin guished families as emerescences that ought to be got rid of. his view was that they conferred a great benefit on the country. Such a one as the-Duke, for instance, could—thanks to our marvel lous Constitution—harm nobody but himself. And if he liked to do good he might, out of his great wealth and influence, shower blessings around hint. Indeed (Mr. Roebuck confesze4) if he hnd chosen his position he should have taken a similar one to the Duke's. With wealth he could have Hided the good in the battle against wrong, alleviated the ills and miseries of those who are oppressed, and removed the difficulties out of the way of I the weak. There were many ready to give the ! Duke advice, and Mr. Roebuck joined with them in warning him against succumbing to the temptations of his position. Put every ono was convinced—at least they said so—that he would not go astray, would not become a betting lord, for instance and would always do what he could for Sheffield. In the latter parti cular the Dtile promised to oblige. Mr. Mundella complained of "the painful, the almost cruel, labours of the session," but in other respects avoided polities THE BANKRUPT INSURANCE OFFICE. The Daily News again calls attention to the future of the Albert Insurance Office, which, our contem porary states, is now liable for nearly k 8,000,000. "The sums which should have been set aside to meet their obligations have been, we are assured, most shame fully used ; indeed, the affairs of the company, when they come to be known, will supply an instance of misma❑agement scarcely surpassed in associated en terprise." Letters which have reached the editor are full of harrowing details of the distress which the prospects of the liquidation are causing, and which must be aggravated when the full extent of the losses becomes known. The News declares that insurance offices ought to be compelled by law to publish their accounts, and in such a way as that all who are interested shall know how the companies stand. To the objection that such publication would do more harm than good, our contemporary contends that the public ought to have an opportunity of judging whether their funds are invested in Turkish stocks, Consols, or put out at mortgage. Hitherto the Legislature has refused to grant such a request. It is believed that the case of the Albert, when it ham been developed, will prove an argument which it will be impossible to resist. VOTE MANUFACTURE. Fifteen employes of the Duke of Buccleuch who have holdings in Dumfriesshire have been on the register as voters for that county. The Scotsman appears to consider this a somewhat unusual trans action. It is well known that the balance of party in Dumfries is v ery even. Sir Sydney Waterlow, who was elected in November, was defeated in March by a very narrow majority. The fifteen votes have therefore been added to the list in order to keep the seat safe for the Tories on the next occasion. And quite right too; provided that no intimidation be used, everyone who can claim a. vote ought to be on the register. THE NORWICH Er.ECTION COMMISSION. The three commissioners who on Thursday opened an inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at the parliamentary elections of Norwich, have no easy task before them. They have already discovered a disposition to concealment amongst those who can lift the curtain which always hangs with more or less blinding effect over bribery. The first day's investigation shews that either the most prominent men were not told very much, or that corrupt practices did not exist so extensively as is generally thought. Some revelations, not verystartling perhaps, but somewhat interesting, have already been made. The agent for Sir William Russell, the " Whig- Liberal " candidate at the election, admitted that it was the practice of the Liberals to buy the "show of hands." flow much was spent towards this object he did not tell the Commissioners positively, perhaps, he said, from £3O to ze4o. The item was pro bably included in a bill for labour. The deter mination to " go in for the show " was made in IBGB at a meeting attended by both the Liberal candidates. With this exception the election was pure so far as the Liberals were - concerned. Mr. Vaxs —such vas the name of the witness—thought that 'ii the Con servative side it was not altogeth-r so ; though even their malpractices had been much c:aggeratel. At the public-houses in some of the wards and around one or two of the polling- booths, a few electors lounged about waiting to be bribed; but' the number of purchasable votes was small. The majority of the public-houses in the worst NY:Lrd bad it was remarked, been used by the Conservatives. ADMUIALTY COIMI:117.0N. The correspondence between the Lori's of the Admiralty and the clerks of their department, in the matter of the charges of corruption brought ag LinFA the latter body by Mr. Ba ter, is published. The employes pray for an investigation into the truth of these statements "so that the :1 1 .le_;ed Wrong-doer; may be detected r,nd punshe , l, Lad Cult the i cent members of the Admiral. y H:;:ent be cleared." The Lo- - s of the A• - :afra!:y rep'y that they have no doubt of the tru h of Mr. I:axter's charges. The papers found on Mr. Humble pro: e them. But their lordships do not think an inquiry necessary. The great part of the service is undoubtedly free from dishonesty—a_fact that tbeii THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AVGIISI' 21, 1869. MC11171114 FOTIIISe 10 place on recurs 121 tee mos; unmistakable terms. The departmental elerla acknowledge this letter by a second memorial, in which they " trust that the means the Board pur pose adopting for placing on record in the most unmistakable terms' their lordships' conviction that the character of the service generally is bey:')lid sus picion will be such as will speedily remove :Illy contrary impression on the part of the House of Commons and the public, and that they will b pleased as early as may be practicable, without pre judice to the cause of justice, to make such use of the information in their possession as will cause the suspected individuals to be either exonerated or detected and punished, in order that all the depart ments may be forthwith effectively purged from the remotest taint of suspicion." FOREIGN NOTES. CUBA AND TEE UNITED STATES. Notwithstanding repeated denials and qualifications, the impression that the Washington Government is nego tiating for the purchase of Cuba gains ground. The Madrid correspondent of the Independance Beige says it is certain that Mr. Forbes, a Boston banker, has been at the Spanish capital above a month. Ho has been pre sented to Regent Serrano at the Palace of La Granja by the new Ambassador of the United States—General Sickles and has several times had interviews with General Prim. Finally, this writer is positive that nego tiations have been opened for the sale of Cuba. Mr. Forbes left Spain a day or two ago for the United States, but he will return to resume bargaining as soon as the Cortes are reopened. report of General M'lVlahon to form an opinion, as do many others. A writer says, in the same paper, " Mr. Washburn's old legation house is now a hotel, dubbed the Hotel del Cristo ;" far better to have called it Hotel del Diablo'—for from such fare deliver us !" The Argentine Government has en deavoured to frame a special commercial treaty with the United States, but Hamilton Fish effectually stopped all such ideas in a despatch dated May 14. There is no news of importance from other sources, except the news received at the Foreign Office of the safety and good treatment of the British cap tives in Paraguay. Professor Goldwin Smith's lecture on " Eng land and Slavery," delivered July .91, at Cleveland, has not been received with universal satisfaction in the United States. He is said to know a great deal of other subjects, but to know little of the feeling in America on the subject of the Alabama, which he persists in discussing. We all have our little pre judices, and Jonathan's toe is no more devoid of sensation when it is strod upon than is that of John Bull. The Professor denied that the Ala bama was an English ship, or that the English na tion and Government connived at her escape, and said he did not feel sure that the legal position of England in the matter was so untenable as it was generally assumed to be. The vessel, however, ought not to have escaped, and if he had any voice in the question he would, without discussion, and, if possible, without an arbitrator, pay the whole of the claims. The President's Indian policy appears to be suc cessful, the new agents working heartily to attain the object of civilizing these troublesome savages, the Comanches,Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Apaches. Two great reservations, the one north under General Harney, the other South under General Hazen, have been formed, and on the latter 4,000 persons of these tribes have been already gathered ; houses have been built, and are build ing, and the land in the aggregate under cultiva tion exceeds 1,000 acres, planted with pumpkins, melons, vines, and garden produce, all growing in rich abundance. But 2,000 or 3,000 individuals of these tribes remain outside. There was a meet ing of the Committee on Indian Affairs with the chiefs of the Osage Indians, who justly complain that white settlers in hundreds are occupying their reservations. The chiefs denounce the Sturges' Treaty as a fraud and swindle, obtained by threats and bribes to some of the chiefs. It was made with Mr. Sturges on behalf of the Leavenworth, Law rence, and Galveston Railroads. The latest telegram from New York is to Thurs day evening :—" The New York journals express much satisfaction at the treatment the Harvard crew has met with in England." By mail these papers express the same satisfaction at the reception given to the Harvardbomthough the accounts of theirpro spects did not then appear to be as brilliant as their friends expected. It was known that they had made better time with as English boat and had reorga nised their crew. The Tribune comes to this sen sible conclusion :—" Whether they win the rac3 or not, makes little difference. In any case they will do us honour." Via Vera Cruz, the news in New York was to Aug. 1 from the city of Mexico. The examination of Carvajal Espinosa, Sanchez, and Vargas, on charges of disloyalty, was in progress. Prominent citizens and Europeans had been arrested on sus picion of being connected with a plot to assassinate President Juarez and his Ministers and pillage the city. Minister Nelson had, been appealed to, but refused to intercede in behalf of the alleged con spirators. The revolutionists in Tamaulipas have been defeated by the national troops sent against them. The Indian war in Yucatan continues and is ex tending. This is the second conspiracy of the sort since Juarez reassumed control of the Government. Telegraph are almost the only companies that in the present state of the market can be floated, as the science is new, the field open, the prospect bril liant, and the money already invested productive to an extraordinary degree. The latest is the West India and Panama line, which proposes to connect England with the West India colonies and the whole continent of South America. The company offered 65,000 shares of £lO each in the London mar ket, and we believe that the whole found eager buyers, for the faith shattered in other things grows livelier in the telegraph. The advantages offered are certainly great, but not great enough, for some time to come at least, to induce a rival project to be started as so soon followed the first cable between the Unite I States and Europe. This vir tually confers a monopoly on the company now formed, and the arrangements which appear so in viting will not le disturbed by undue com petition. Another cable will soon be laid across the Atlantic by a company to be called the English and Scotch Telegraph Company. A liar which has excited such interest in America as even to enlist the Navy in its aid, will ask for a portion of its capital in London. It proposes to carry the wire from San Francisco, through China, where it is already at work, till the lines meet which will encircle the globe. When the English Govern ment has taken over the administration of the tele graphs, the repairs, maintenance, and construction of telegraphic lines, it is thought, will be under taken by non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers, so that not only will the work be more cheaply performed than by civilian labour, but a valuable corps of efficient constructors of tele graphs will be formed to be of great service in any future campaign to lay and maintain field telegraphs. It bas long been a matter of surprise to us that companies similar to those so profitably estab lished to loan English money in the colonies have never been organized to transfer money, of which there is a plethora in London, to acti ve , th r i v i ng States of the Union, where it could be loaned on the best freehold security, at rates alike remune rative to the lender and to the borrower. Such a company would pay enormously in California, in Nevada, and even in the older States. They have answered in. Australia, and New Zealand, also in Canada, and require only trustworthy agents. The Nevada Freehold Properties' Trust is not precisely of the nature of the Trust arid Loan Companies to which we allude, but it is a step in that direction, and it offers so many advantages, that, if successful, as we believe it is, atten tion may be attracted to what we propose. That is the formation of a company having a small portion of its capital called up, but com posed of men whose names are sufficiently good to induce others to lend money to it at a fixed rate of interest for a certain period. If loans can be pro-4 cured, say at six per cent. on a term of seven years in London, and lent in San Francisco at from 10 to 12 per cent. on the freehold property of the city, and other security of a like nature an enormous margin is left, and it is on such a margin, that through all the panic, companies like the Trust and Loan of Australasia, of New Zealand, and of other colonies, paid high dividends and kept their shares at a premium. The case of Harwood, arrested in New York on his arrival in the Russia, is another instance of what betting brings a man to. On his person was found a book showing the nature of his operations on the Derby ; what the nature of his banking operations were, some institution not yet named can tell ; but Inspector Bailey, of the London police, says the amount obtained by forgery was £15,000, though the amount recovered was but. popo, nearly all of it bring in French money. Harwood admits having obtained £ll,OOO by his operations, but he refines to tell what became of the rest of the money, and though his baggage was carefully searched no trace was discovered. It was Officer Kirk whose instinct when surveying the passengers seated at lunch enabled him to put his hand upon the forgers, for there was little iu the despatches received to guide the oflic:rs, but a private memorandum book taken in their baggage revealed their true names. When Chalmers was caught, he remarked, "I am the one; I did it all." Whether they were confirmed thieves or betrayed into crime by their operations on the turf has not transpired, but an English officer has been sent. to New York for them, the necessary ex tradition papers having been procured from the Foreign-office; so we will soon know all about this little game. It is now announced that the alleged forgers were put on board the City of Wash ington, and intelligence to this effect being for warded from New York, Sergeant Webb, of the London police, proceeded to Queenstown to meet the vessel, arranging that Graham, a Liverpool detective and Inspector Carlisle should await her arrival in the Mersey. They were taken to Bridewell for the night, arrived in London on Thursday evening, and were brought before the Lord Mayor yesterday, when their case was pro ceeded with, Hatcher being acquitted. Their ex perience within a month has been considerable. Colorado is exciting considerable interest, as more than one exploring party are now floating down the rivers of that territory. It contains, perhaps, the finest scenery in the United States, as imbosomed where the Rocky Mountains attain their greatest grandeur, are magnificent valleys not un like that of Cashmere, named by the miners " Parks." Mr. Samuel Adams, with a party of 11 men and four boats, has been descending from Brackenridge, the river falling 2,000 feet in 40 miles, showing the rapidity of its rush and the danger, it being nearly all rapids. After safely passing through the Rocky Canyon of Blue River, which took him down 230 feet in 11 miles, he en tered a magnificent park which he named Pacific Park, as it suddenly burst upon their view. Mr. Adams reports the country as possessing greater agricultural and mineral resources than he expected. Nothing further has been heard of the Powell party, but both he and Mr. Adams must eventually reach the sea through the same mouth. There are many symptoms of the emigration we have so long advocated becoming general throughout England. For instance, we learn that a party of 100 was lately made up, £lO,OOO having been subscribed for the purchase of lands in Kansas, and the despatch of a preliminary party; a steam plough was procured, and all details for the settlement are arranged. The members of this little community belong to a good class, and if they find the settlement answer their expectations DO doubt their example will be followed by others. Such au emigration so conducted is what we have always urged as likely to be bene ficial both tothosewho go and to the country they go to, as well as that they leave. There are many in Eng land who would ignorantly endeavour to divert such emigration from the United States to English colonies, with the sole object of checking the growth of the Republic, and adding to that of the country con nected with England. But this proceeds from a deplorable want of knowledge of the circumstances, which, however, we hope is passing away and a better appreciation supervening. The emigrants who have arrived at Castle Gardens, New York, from the Ist January up to the 4th instant num ber 168,064, being an increase of 29,264 over the corresponding period of last year. What is now required, is more quality than quantity. The official vote of Washington Territory is as follows : —For Delegate to Congress—Garfield, Republican, 2,743 ; Moore, Democrat, 2,595; Garfield's majority, 148; total vote in the Territory, 5,238. The vote in 1897 was 4,810 —an increase in two years of C9B, and an increase of the Republican majority of 52. The vote on State Convention was very small, there being 400 for and GBB against. To judge by the telegram from New York on Tuesday, Presi dent Grant is placing himself in opposition to the new Conservative Republican movement in the South. The correspondents of the New York Evening Post and Express say he will probably oppose the admission to their seats of the Virginia members lately elected to Congress. We should be much inclined to doubt any such action of the part of the President, our belief being that ho will not in any way interfere with the elections wherever he can avoid such interference. 111AllICE7 S-7 MS DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Aug. 21.—Sales probably . 12,000 bales. The market firm. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY BOAT- RACE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Pall Mall Gazette appears to think that a miracle only or a beige across the bows of the Oxford boat can settle the race in favour of Harvard. It asserts that the style of the American crew is the same as that of all in experienced crews on the Thames, that there i 3 nothing peculiar in it, what are considered peculiarities being mere faults developed by all tyros. The Gazette was for a moment posed by this fact it had to record; both boats were timed over the course, the Oxford did it in 2 7 min. 15 sec., the Yankees in a few seconds longer, bu t with a weaker tide, which made them at least equal, giving per haps the advantage to Harvard. The Gazette got out of its difficulty by discrediting the accuracy of the figures, maintaining it to be impossible for the Harvard crow to row over the course within a minute of the time of the Oxford crew. However, as the race is to come off on Fri day, the 27th inst., not oa Wednesday, the 25th, as first arranged, the matter will be decided before we next go to press. Meanwhile, in spite of what the London press says, there are many boatmen about Finney who feel inclined to put their half-crowns on the American side. And the change in the English press, though gradual, is marked. At first there was a sort of contemptuous patting on the back, the expression of an earnest desire to get these rash but sporting young fellows into the right way, to put them into the right boat, and to show them the science of the thing to which they must conform before they could hope to row even a respectable race. The form of the crew, the style of No. 1, the stooping of No. 3, how No. 2 carried his head, were duly commented upon, imperfections freely pointed out, and corrections suggested. But gradually "a change has come o'er the spirit of the dream." It has been discovered that the Americans "shuffle" along re markably fast, that they have extraordinary endurance, that they can row the whole way, notwithstanding their faulty i style , their imperfections, and their want of oases in train ing. Not only do the Thames boatmen believe in them, but their time has been actually found to be shorter over the course than that of the Oxford crew. This is sadly puzzling some of the London papers, who can only ac count for it in the same way as the Pall 31211 Gazette. On Wednesday the time of the Harvard craw was 22 min. 20 secs., the Oxford time being 22 min. 27 &ice., the circumstances, as regards the water, being almost similar. But these time-keepers are in such a flurry that they overlook the minutes and only count the seconds ! such being the explanation. Since the Times announced that the 4 o'clock train from Waterloo station would bring passengers down in time to see the crews at practice,numerous spectators have assembled, but Harvard keep their rowing as dark a 3 they can. They have got a new boat built in Salter's yard on Mre Warre's designs, a foot shorter, with rather flatter floor, narrowing rapidly towards the stern, after the manner of a sculling boat, and they appear to fancy her. Alderman Elliott, of New York, will turn out another for them from Symond's yard, so it is by no means certain in which beat the race will be rowed, as in all they will have six. Their oars are by Ayliug, well balanced in the rullocks, light, with broad blades. One of the correspondents writes some rubbish on what is said in American jeurnala about the 11 trvard crew, but he appears to know as much about the American presses Englishmen generally know about Harvard. A gen tleman in a letter to us said "it was unfair to select from a na tion like the United States a crew to coin') 3 - to with a mere University," thinking, we presums, that Harvard was the name of a professional crew, selected from the Continent, something like the Wards. In respect to numbers to choose from the advantage is in every way with Oxford, as Harvard has but 15 buildings, containing,' on an aver age, not more than 800 students. It i 3 the oldest Univer sity in tho United States, having been founded in 1838 by the Rev. John Harvard, a Cambridge University man, we believe, in Cambridge, a town so nearly adjoining Boston as to b 3 really a part of that city. The correspon dent discusses their black cook, " whose head is sometimes seen over the wall of the garden, his face lit up with smiles in happy ignorance of the excitement he creates" He is supposed to grind up bones to invigorate the American giants, and the curiosity to know what they do eat is general. If the correspondent announced that they lived on babies there would be a stamp eta of women and chil dren from Putney, and after the experience of the English lawyer, Mr. Henry Jenckeu, in Spain, who was almost murdered a few weeks ago because the people imagined ho stole children to grease the telegraph wires, we may readily believe anything. These quiet, unassuming young fellows would feel indebted to the imag.native correspon dent if he ceased to make them the theme of his specula tions. They have come hero to row a race against a sister University, that is all ; and they came fully impresse3 with the conviction that the olds were against their beat. 'we so renowned a crow as that of Oxford on their own tours:', and they have seen nothing as yet, we dare say, to alter this opinion, although they have some quiet con edence left which they have no desire to thrust on the public. Reg ,rding style there seems fo be . a wide discrepancy between American and English expermnce. The system 40 fat d to the English Cambridge gave success and triumph to Harvard, and an old Yale trainer says that Yale beat the liarvarde w:ion they mei 43 strokes a minute, and that they were beaten so soon as they adopteCl ilia long swoop and left the quick, short j3rk to the Cam hridge boys. Tho following particulire of the members of the Llarvar.l cr w, published by the Beaton Journal, wil now be read with interest; though it w:11 bo soot that some changes have been made: —"Alden Porto; Loring, captain of the crew and bow oar, is well known tc the public, having held Vie position of stroke oar at the University Regatta last summer, when the unprecedented time of 17 tufa. 481 secs. was made over the three mile course of Lake Quinsigamond. He is of the senior or graduating class of the present year, and is a resident of Boston. His 'points,' if the word is allowable, as an o ars. man have already been faithfully described on the occa sion of the regatta just mentioned. His present weigh t is about 163 pounds, which in training will probably 11° reduced to 153 pounds. His age is 23 years. He is of s high, strong, delicate organization, and of great ' staying ' powers when he is all right. He pulled number five in the University crow of '66. This was Lis Freshman yea r s and he held the position of stroke in the class crew of the same year. In the University crew of '67, as well as lest year, he was stroke oar. A competent critic says of —'Of a temperament like a hot-blooded Moor, whonl somewhat resembles, he knows how to use all that is in to better advantage, to our eye, than any oarsman on tbis Continent. Free, like all his men, from every sort of dis sipation, he is a man in ten thousand for such a posi ti°ll , as he now h o ld s , an d every man i n H arvar d may b e prole of such a splendid representative of his alma mater he L b° contest in which he is now about to engage.' " William Hammett Simmons, the stroke oar, is the youngest as well as the heaviest of the four. In the win ter of '67 and '6B he weighed 185 pounds, which last sunk' mar's training brought down to 168 pounds. He is 20 yeah of age, and hails from Concord, Mass. He is of the cla ss of '69. It will bo regarded by our cousins across the wat er as an interesting circumstance, in connection with the proposed friendly contest between the athletes of the chief literary institutions of each country, that 'our 1-let cules,' as he has been termed, has his home in the identi cal Old Manse' which the genius of Hawthorne I'9 made familiar wherever E ng li s h lit era t ure i s read. 4) ' his qualities as an oarsman it may he said, as shandy intimated, that he is a He rcu l es i n s t reng th. Indeed 1 -, is reported to be difficult to provide him wit 11 an which does not soon span by good, honest pulling' Though heavy, he is as easy and handy in his moveineUte as a much smaller person. It is safe to say that he 01 pull a stronger oar than any one Harvard has ye t PL duced. His position in the regatta of J u ly last wag of third oar. Ho has been a prominent man in nearly all the important races which have taken place during college course, including the Fourth of July regattas ° 1868-69, in which Mr. Loriug also participated. "Francis Ogden Lyman is stroke oar, and held the Ot t !! position in the winning boat in the Juno race of last Yew' He is also of the class of '7l, and hails from almost as tar n off as possible, namely, Hilo, in the Sandwich or Ilayrs ie Islands. lte "Joseph Story Fay, of th e S c i en tifi c S c h oo l, and Sf re oar of the Scientific crew, is unqu es tio na bly a strong' ee o and a man of experience. He c a me over as one of the tsc., spare men, as did Mr. Lyman, b u t on arr ival at ru tlici both wore incorporated in the crew. "Arthur Burnham, of Chicago, Illi n ois, and a the ol ie l of '7O, is the probable coxswain of the crew. I t ti re , 'eerily be stated that avoirdupois lightness is the prime- 0 quieite iu the man occupying this position. Burnhaulla is estimated, will train down t o , a t mos t, 108 pounds; ° although there are several candid a t es o f l e ss weigh t, „:, being a man of coolness of tempera men t and exper'e the chances of appointment are in his favour." f th e The work of Edward Bing, special corre s pondent ° Boston Journal, whose presence at Putney we last yr° ,o, announced, is beginning to appear in the American 1 15 1 3 ' 5 ,1 He thus describes the town :—" Putney is a very larg' 33 . o „ thriving town, not lacking a certain flavour of ant ic e;er Not far from the race course the house which {land Cromwell inhabited for a long time is still pointed ou t ' :d e underneath it are wonderful subterranean passage s ' ° yet' for the safety of the Pretender. The house itself is grown with vines, and surrounded w ith a luxuriant libvueat which is always so refreshing to au American eye' to r by stands an unpretending mans i on , i n which e ue t ee celebrated Englishmen—the hist or i an Gibbon —first 5° tha t light ; and in still another, one of th e gr eatest Spir it] jo ti England ever produced, that of William Pitt, wa s . g leie back to its Maker. Pitt's de a th occurre d h e re in 1 806. ro es old Putney bridge,' just above whi c h the universi t i e aft generally start, is not a remarkably picturesque ef ere iv er, able affair, but a very fine iron b r id g e over th e l ion' carrying the water of the Chel s ea aqueduct leo ° tru es ward, compensates fur th e ug li ness o f the wooden e be telS ture. The streets are narrow an d an tique, and th e ~ o r( 15 are all in the good old English style, with nuilr'a the overhung with vines—with a p o rt e r's lodge, a ° 30.1' 0 spirit room,' where a blushing barmaid servos t he ho es, ing ale. Here, from the parlour of the by the way, I can now hear the bells of Panel c' u s sounding with mellow tones of the evening hour ; the look up and down the ' course' from the Ben d eig. bridge. The panorama is lively as well as cha se tee There is no such scenery around the Charles river 0 50 c1 Harvards are to have about them on this race -o°ll ', s erf few such lovely towns in which to rest. On the 101 t as one drives from London by the river, is t he sloping hill on which Putney is built, and s O the the volunteers are now pouring down. it. a shore, only a few rods above high water ma r ell the dozen of boat houses, of more or less, fu°1;01.0- decorated with the flags of their respective vW spo t ' On English boats he writes : —". . . A c rew clad 1° t otts less white hurrying to the river with their hea v i s h d° behind them—l say heavy b oa t s , b ecause the V°l' l 4 e s i n not seem to cons:dor light dr a ft or l eng th re.lu' e. in elta their race boats. We boat whichsaw—exact l Y to that used by the Oxfords at the last university f ti °'; 0 ro' nearly twice as deep as that in which the pose to row at the coming race. All the boats a t r top e seem of heavier build than those we are a ccustorn , ec t ' ip foul iu America." And thus he c o ntinues :—" Wal hi t velv et ' the Bells, the principal one is the so-called 'Se" city Boat-house,' in front of which the owne r, ra i e n ° Styles, who has been for the last nine year s g u :, tlt P rr, the Cambridge Club boat at the University race), ';' lso o' sent varnishing a shell and whistling bo F etes Under the guidance of the cordial Mr. Styled, out Delft sists that he can't 'for the life of him' mu ke ° I eu the 'Flamerican crew menage to gat their sP . °, b e a 5 5 of such a boat as the one ho 'as seen dese°:ooo, theirs,' I made the tour of the boat houses this af , tv` a tee , and received the cordial assurance that `'u Yankees would win, but 'e'd ley a penny th e y 'Lot r e ; The Harvard boys will certainly carry away P le : se ss h et collections of Putney, whether or u. the race ;„yr), (even now the Oxford men are not decided on Pu t e - oefef'; `Rule 13 cause they will be most hospitably received. T h il e O it a crew at the University races always stop at Star * ll l , Lion Hotel,' and th e C am b r id ge cr ew at 01 %0 rig thl ol Garter,' which is decid e dly a f a i r specinl3ll cre w %%- country inn, and where, I judge, tho Americ an t he r a c e. finally decide to stop. Both houses overha n g , bes ig ° o i course, and the boat houses are only a sten ea e itie de o , The common course for all regattas is from the eo se, e „ 0 bridge at Putney to the ' Old Ship' —a publi c e p et called, at Mortlake, The river is about the sanror 12 eighth of a mile, all the way, and perhap s 1 DSO " deep. The tides in August are so arranged berteroeou' Moon that the race will doubtless occur in the u` THE COINAGE PROBLEM. Mr. Hubbard continues his examination of Mr. Lowe's coinage proposal. The main proposition put forward by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was that, by charging something like 1 per cent. for converting gold into coin, the exportation and melting of sovereigns would be prevented, and a " sustentation fund " would be provided, by the help of whicli light coins could be withdrawn from circulation and heavy ones issued in their stead. Is it intended, asks Mr. Hubbard, to receive and replace all light coins whatsoever, or only those which have attained the age of eighteen—the limit at which a sovereign becomes light by wearing if not unfairly dealt with F If all light coins are taken, it is clear, argues Vie Bank director, that persons will make a trade of sub tracting a portion of gold from heavy coins and then returning them to the Mint to be replaced by new ones. If only those which have been in use eighteen years are received, the " heavy for light" system will not prevent a good deal of light money from. circulating. Further, these eighteen-year-old sove reigns can be "sweated" with impunity before being taken for exchange. The plan, then, in either sense, must tend, Mr. Hubbard thinks, to encourage the maltreatment of the Queen's coin. But it may be pointed out that this indiscriminate exchange of light money for heavy is not a necessary accompaniment of Mr. Lowe's plan. The chief argument for levying a mintage of one per cent. is, that it will prevent people from melting down sovereigns in order to make a small profit on the heavy ones. With a mintage charge this would be useless, for the quantity of gold in a sovereign could not by any chance exceed the value of the twenty shillings. But it does not follow from this that every person who chooses to mutilate a coin can bring it to the Mint, and straightway get a heavy one in return. TEE COMTE DE DARTS AND TRADES UNIONS. The Comte de Paris, in his work upon trades unions has, by implication, condemned the Working Men's Association, of which Mr. George Potter is the President. The Count speaks of it as fomenting disputes between men and their masters ; says it encourages strikes by holding out promises it can never perform ; and remarks that it lengthens the time of such strikes by giving help to men, thus preventing a speedy settlement, and causing men to insist to the extremity of their demands. For this statement "his Royal Highness Louis Prince of Orleans " has been called to account by Mr. George Potter. That gentleman declares that the society of which he is the head never encourages strikes ; does not interfere in any way between master and men until a strike has actually commenced; and then holds out no aid to the men except the masters have uncon ditionally refused arbitration. In reply, the distin guished author expresses his regret that he has omitted to mention the testimony to arbitration made by the society ; points out, however, that ho was led into error by the evidence of the leaders of trades unions; and promises that he will expunge in a future edition of his work the note in which the objectionable passage occurs, and will add an explanation in the appendix. THE HABITUAL muumuu BILL. On the same clay that the new Act for dealing with habitual criminals was published it was first brought into operation. The magistrate the most prompt to take advantage of its provisions is Mr. Paget, of the Thames Police-court. Under its twelfth clause he was able summarily to convict and send to prison a " pest of society," who of late has been amusing himself by assaulting the police. Mr. Paget sentenced the man to three months' hard labour. THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN. The University of Dublin has followed the example of London and Cambridge in establishing examinations for women. The Irish scheme happily avoids the absurd severity of the metropolitan pro ject. Like that of Cambridge, it is practicable, and therefore likely to be useful. The Dublin authorities will allow an examination to be held in any town where not fewer than twenty candidates present themselv es. Juniorsbetw cen 15 and 18 years of age must pass in elementary subjects. English history. geography, and one lan guage. Seniors above 18 must qualify in religious knowledge, English history and geography, English language and literature and history of France, one modern continental language and corresponding history, arithmetic, and one other subject. Some of the Irish ladies have taken up the matter. "WHIPPING TILE WILLTICG lIORSF.. Mr. Mason, a Birmingham gentleman, has lately followed the example of Mr. Peibody by giving shout a quarter of a million sterling to his poor fellow countrymen. Since his munificence his become known, Le has been pestered ►with innumerable applications for money, which have reached him from all parts, not only of his own land, but from the Continent. Mr. Peabody had to endure the same nuisance. This begging is really too bad, though it is carried on upon the principle of whipping the willing horse. Another munificent benefactor, Miss Burdett Coutis, is in the same plight. But she pays no attention to these requests unless, upon examination by her own confidential adviser, they appear to be deserving of a favourable reply. DR. CUMMING AND TILE GENERAL COUNCIL. Whilst Dr. Cumming proposes to present himself at Romo to regenerate the Church whose utter ruin he has prophesied so many times, some little con troversy has arisen as to the natur3 of the invitation held out to Protestants. The question is, Did the Pope ask Protestants to be present at the Council, in order to promote their union with the Church, or did he only pray for their incorporation without inviting their representatives to St. Peter's ? Dr. Cumming, of course, understood the former inter pretation to be the correct one, or lie would not have opened negotiations for going to Rome. And it would appear that he is right. Last autumn we published the Pope's Apostolic letter, in which his Holiness announced that, as universal pastor, he had convoked a General Council, and prayed earnestly for the union of all non-Catholic bodies with the true Church. Archbishop Manning, in his letter to Dr.'Cumming, speaks of this as an " invitation," and adds that he is unable to give any information as to whether Protestants would be allowed to speak. Most people seem to have understood that Protes tants were to be present. Whatever doubt there may be will, however, speedily be cleared up when the answer of the Pope arrives. LADY BIRDS TO THE BESCUE. Kent and Sussex have been invaded by a swarm of lady-birds. They seem to be the antithesis of the locust. Both are voracious; but whereas the locust devours all the green things upon earth, the laly bird devours the devourer in the shape of aphides, plant-lice, and other destroyers of the hop-plant. The sparrows used to perform this task, but we have shot the sparroWs, and so Nature is giving us one more chance in the persons of these little red-coated black-spotted crea tures. They have come in millions, spreading from Regent's Park to Ramsgate. On the walls of houses they have gathered in red patches, "as if (says the Standard) all the house-painters in the town had been at work in a state of lunacy." They have covered the roadsuntil they have been ground into the dust, giving the highways the colour of freA)-strewn gravel. On Sunday the church-goers were decked in scarlet, so covered were they with the insects dear to little children. Ilere is a problem for the silvans at Exeter. Is the low temperature of the mouth due to the spots in the sun, as the astronomers have been saying, or t.) the fact that the sun has been hidden by a 'cloud of ladybirds ? A MONSTER GAS-WORL Barking, on the Thames, already celebrated by its "northern outran" end its patent sewage factory, is to become still more famous by the presence of the largest gas-work in the world. As we mentionei sonic months ago, the Chartered Gas Works are about to remove from their present position, in the heart of the metropolis, to Barking. The new works aro on a scale of extraordinary magnitude. They cover 160 acres of ground. The four retort-houses are each :;GO feet in length. There will be 1,080 retorts, capable of producing 1,000 tons o; coal daily, and producing 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas. There will be four gas-holders, each capable of holding 1,000,000 cubic feet. There will he 11A miles of main from Barking to Westminster, and for SI miles of this length the inain will be of no less than 4ft. diameter. A town will no doubt spring up around the works, and it has already received its name, Beaton ; in honour of Mr. Beck, chairman of the company. It may, perhaps, seem scarcely fa'r to expote the unfortunate inhabitants of Barking to a fresh stench; but it must be remembered that the smell of a gas work is not unhealthy, and is even supposed to be a valuable remedy in whooping-cough. Mcrcover, this odour has th e p ower of neutralising ether odours. ilt s the application of the.honiceopathic principle, like is made to cure like. The King of Sweden is expected to al live at Pee Side at the end of the mouth. BEFOItif IN RUSSIA. The Muscovite Empire continues to march with the times. That valuable bulwark against arbitrary rule—trial by jury—a reform which is rapidly spreading throughout Europe, is now under the consideration of the Russian Government. The Department of Justice is making researches in foreign countries respecting the effi cacy and working of this institution, and so soon as the reports are received, and the opinion of the Russian jurists taken, a special commission will set to work to elaborate a project of law. THE SUEZ CANAL. A despatch from Suez says that a splendid fête took place on the 35th to celebrate the union of the waters of the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the Bitter Lakes. The canal runs through these lakes, which up to the present year were but swamps. It was necessary that they should be filled with water before the canal could be opened, and this work is being rapidly completed. COLONIAL POLICY. Amid the reproaches levelled against Ergland for her supposed " abandonment " of the colonies, it is refreshing to find a colonial journal which takes a moderate and rational view of the relations between the mother country and her dependencies. The Toronto Globe has no sym- pathy with the principle of gauging the obligations between England and the colonies by the price current, and of regulating policy according to what does or does not " pay." But it is unworthy of colonists who have grown rich and powerful under British care to grum ble when called upon to bear a hand in their defence : " It is worse than folly to talk of Britain having been a harsh step-mother to her colonies. She has been the very reverse ; but the whole colonial sisterhood will be the better for fully understanding that, if wars with the natives in the different territories are provoked through land squabbles and local jealousies, the particular colony will have to see to it, and that in order to obviate such colli lisions as far as possible, the best plan is to carry out a system of rigid justice and fair dealing between man and man, whatever be the colour of his skin or the character of his ancestors." THE CHINESE IN AMERICA. Referring to the hostilityexei ted a mongst... American lal. our ers by the introduction of the Chinese, theDaity News corre spondent points out that there is room enough and to spare for all. There are certa'n kinds of industry for which the yellow immigrants are specially fitted, and to which they are likely to give a great impetus. Of these cotton culti• vation is the chief ; and it is not improbable that cotton manufacturing in the Southern States may flourish if cheap skilled labour can be found to carry it on. Market gardening is another opening for the Chinamen. Wide as are the fertile plains of the United States, it is remarkable that there is a great scarcity of vegetables in the land. The farmers proper may be said to raise none, not even for their own use. They have no labour to spare for vegetables from the heavier and more important work of the farm, and have to go through the year, as far as their own families are concerned, on potatoes and beans. The markets of the chief cities are well supplied, but the country towns could hardly be worse off. EXECUTION AT TAIIITL An extraordinary story is published in the French papers respecting a recent execution at Tahiti, now under French protection, or rather Frerch rule. There had been a disturbance amongst the Chinese on one of the plantations, and a superintendent had been killed, and another severely wounded. It was determined to make an example of some of the rioters, in order to intimidate the Chinese. Eight of them were arrested and tried. Two came off scot free, two were condemned to five years' imprisonment, and four received sentence of death. The Governor, Count de la Ronc b.e anxious to promote the cause of progress, thought it well to introduce that precious instrument of civilisation—the guillotine, in order to execute the Chinese. The apparatus of death was erected, but nobody knew how to use it. It was necessary to practice. Accordingly, banyan trees, then dogs, pigs, and finally sheep were decapitated in order to get the guillotine into good winking order. At length it was thought that the doomed Chinaman—for three were pardoned— might be executed. The procession set out, but when it arrived at the fatal spot it was found that the wrong man had been taken out of prison. One of the Chinese why had been sentenced to death and pardoned, bad in en snbjected to the agony of supposing his pardon reversed. Ile was taken back, however, and the wretch 11 bo bad been really left for execution was brought up. When everything bad been made ready it was discovered that the blade of the knife would not work, and it had to be slided up and down before the eyes of the culprit, in order to make it descend with ease. At length the end came. Tahiti must be given the credit of outdoing the worst execution scenes of the French Revolution. (from the Anylo-American Times.) The great event recorded by mail was the total eclipse of the sun on the 7th August, the American press being full of diagrams and maps, sketching the course where the eclipse would be total, and where partial. The citizens of New York who wished to see the total eclipse were directed to take the train for Raleigh (North Carolina), so as to reach at 4.45 on Saturday afternoon, which they could do by leaving New York by the 8.45 a.m. train on Friday. The eclipse would begin at Raleigh at 4.58, but wuuld not be total until 6 o'clock. This was nicely working out the time. Wilming ton is described as about the centre, thence the track of the total eclipse proceeded, sloping up the continent till it passed from United States territory in Dacotah, through the liaison Bay Territory into the newly-acquired Alaska, thence crossing to Asia. A telegram of Wednesday says:— " Chief-Justice Chase has written a letter declaring that the mission of the Republican party has been accomplished, and advocating the formation of a new party, to be com posed of the Conservative elements of existing parties." There are many signs that this is what is about to happen ; and they have not been passed over un noticed by us, as our readers are aware. The exist ing organisation has become a mere combination of office-holders, and the time approaches when the principles having live issues involved (not accom plished, or dead ones) will be demanded. It is not a little singular that a General Press despatch, from Washington, under date, Aug. 6, says:— " Admiral Dahlgren will sever his official con nection with the Ordnance Bureau, as its chief on Tuesday next, on twhich day ho will assume command of the Navy yard here, in place of Admiral Poor, who takes command of the squadron in Cuban waters, relieving Vice-Admiral Hoff." We presume the °Lang° must kayo boon 11MA4.10 from Adiniral Poor to Admiral Porter, as the telegram announcing it bas been repeated. We can only fall back to our observation of last week, that this change, if true, to an Admiral in Porter's position has an ominous look ; but his orders are to pro ceeed to assume command on the Ist September. General M'Mahon was received with distinction by the Allies on his recall from the headquarters of Lopez, wbo, however, regarded the amount of his baggage with some suspicion. The report was, that the fortune Lopez had conferred on Mrs. Lynch bad been entrusted to General M'Mahon's care, and that in that baggage there was some £200,000. The Buenos Ayres Standard publishes the General's address to Lopez on his presenting his letters of recall, in which he compliments the Dictator, speaks of the heroic sacrifices male by his gallant people, whose heroism and noble perse verance have filled him with profound respect. He expresses the sincere desire of the President for the friendship of Paraguay, and devoutly hopes that nothing may occur to alter this feeling, asserting that nothing had occurred to interfere with these friendly relations during his r,sidence, and he closed by thanking hint for his personal courtesy and kindness. We ma y here mention that General M'Mahon alluded to the autograph letter of the President announcing his recall, which disposes of the report that the letter emanated from Mr. Elihu Washburne, who used his brief tenure of office as Secretary of State to recall the man who had suptr sesled his brother. The Standard is full also of the reception of the llon. Robert Kirk, the new Ame lean Envoy to the Argentine Republic, an 3 the de parture of the Hon. Henry G. Worthington. All the letters appear to be autographs of the President. He addresses President Sarmiento as " great and good friend," and subscribes himself "Your good friend." 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