The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-14 00:00:00

VELOCIPEDING AT THE AGRICUL7 URAL HA LL. The Agricultural Hall at Islington was opened to the public on Saturday in a novel capacity---that of a veloci pede practise school and racing arena. A better covered space for this purpose could not be found, and favoured by the strong bicycle mania which has broken out amongst us, the speculation; properly managed, ought to be remunerative:- The Hall has been converted into something as near a ring as possible by enclosing in an immense oval the whole area of the Hall. A handsorrie silver cup was 'offered for competition amongst velocipedists, and all corners were invited to enter the lists. The card contained twenty-three entries, although there was an entrance fee of 10s. There were six heats, and then the competition was confined to two young velocipedists, Mr. R. B. Turner and Mr. J. Hook. Each race was nine times round the course a distance of about a mile. The deciding heat Was an exciting• one: The riders kept close together, Hook evidently running purposely a yard. in Turner's rear. In the last, round but one, however, Hook put on a tremen , :ons :punt, and shot ahead GC. his opponent amidst bud cheers. Turner soon after gave up, and it was said he had by a previous tumble injured his foot, ti,nd therefore p!aced himself at a disadvantage. Both arc excellent velccipedists, but the general opinicn was in favour of Hook. The races were run at an average rate of fifteen miles an hour, a speed which it would be impos sible to attain over a less smcoth surface. The attendance of spectators was large. It is a question whether the presence of the betting fraternity, shouting their slang from barrel heads, is likely to be an attraction for such a quiet sort of assembly, or whetlfer the tolera tion of 'ragged and unscrupulous sellers of "c'rect cards" within the Hall will invite the attendance of timid ladies and nervous gentleinen. Of course, if velocipeding is to become a new kind of "national sport," with the " national" attributes of betting, bookmaking, and welshing, these are the proper things to do, not otherwise. The proceedings were varied by nume. rous accidents. • The spectators, we are told, appeared to be on a pinnacle of delight when a velocipedist spinning along at ten or twelve miles an hour lame crash against the barricade, and rebounded head over heels, while numbers two and three, hotly pressing on behind, and too late to stop or turn aside, made rapid cannons, and, in the twinkling of an eye, became part of A singular moving mass of wheels and legs on the floor. No serious injury appeared to be sustained by the fallen. Some of the riders or fallers leaped into the saddle again at once, and hurried off upon their mission. The best riders were those who sat bolt upright, and preserved a rigid seat, leaving the legs, and especially the knee-joint, to do the work. Simultaneously with the skilled riding in the arena, ordinary amateurs and learners were rattling round the galleries with various degrees of success, oftentimes to the great amusement of the pcc tators. LAW AND POLICE. --__..._____- • A TRADE DRVICE.—Ou Saturday the Master of the Rolls heard the case of " Guinness v. M`Manus." The plaintiff, the well-known Dublin brewer, filed a bill to restrain the defendant front using labels in imitation of those used by Messrs. Guinness. The labels were alike in form, colour, and devices, the letters " A. neitli - the date being substituted in Mr. M`Manus's label fur the letter " A" and a number ; while " James Gate, Dublin;" •stood • for " James Street,' Dublin." Ins lordship granted a perpetual injunction, and ordered the delivery of all the defendant's labels. This was the last day of term. The court sits again on the 22nd inst. • TICIIBOENE CASE. —ln the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Saturday, two motions connected with the Tichborne case was heard by Vice-Chancellor Stuart. In the case of " Tichborne v. Tichborne" a motion was made on behalf of Sir Roger Tichborne, plaintiff, for an order directing that the time for retaining the bills ilea in the causes might be extended to the tast day of Easter term 1870. The Vice , Chancellor made the order. In the other case application was made on behalf of three creditors of the late Lady Tichborne for an order for an account on her personal estate, or that the receiver might be appointed administrator ad Wein of the intestate estate. The Vice. Chancellor made no other order than that the parties might take liberty to apply to the Court of Probate. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY.—In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on. Saturday, a motion was made on behalf of the directors of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway for an order to vary an order made - by this court on the 7th of May. That order provided that Mr. Kettlewell and Mr; Cadman should join, as representatives of the mortgagees, in opposing the bill now pending before the House of Lords. It was stated that hince the recent decision of the Lards Justices those gentle. - men could not now oppose the bill as representatives of the mortgagees. Vice-Chancellor Stuart declined to make an order, being of opinion that the application ougLt to be made to the Lords Justices. DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT.—In the Bail Court, the right of g noprietorship in the drama of "Tile Ticket of Leave Man" was argued on Saturday. The question was raised between Mr. Tom Taylor and Mr. Benjamin Webster, of the Adelphi Theatre, on the one hand, and Mr. Emden and another, of the Olympic Theatre. The right to the copyright was sold in 1863 to Messrs. Robson and Emden by Air. Turn Taylor ; but the question was whether such sale was limited to the period during which Messrs. Robson and Emden were managers of the Olympic Theatre. The case stood over. WEARMOUTH COLLIERY STRIKE.—At the Sunderland Police•court, the other day,William Richardson, a hewer, was charged with assaulting a fireman at Wearmouth Colliery. Defendant was one of the men out on strike, and insisted on taking coals from the engine -house. Com plainant, who was fireman, refused to let him have them, and a dispute arose, in which defendant struck com plainant with the pail he was carrying. He was fined 10s. and costs. At one of the theatres in Vienna an actress is about to appear mounted upon a bicycle, and will go through the entire performance on that animal ! THE QUEEN'S VIEWS AS TO DAMAGES BY GAME. —Her Majesty, having recently learned that one of the tenants on a property adjoining the royal estates on Deeside had been obliged, in self-defence, to protect his crops from the ravages of deer by shooting some of them, at once expressed surprise and regret that any farmer should suffer from such a cause, and gave orders for the imme diate erection of the fencing necessary to prevent the deer passing from the royal estates to his lands.—Dundee A dvertiaer. THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE. —The four oarsmen who are to represent Harvard College in the racss with Oxford and Cambridge fours of England, pull down Charles river, at Boston, every evening between 6 and 7 o'clock, stripped to the waist, in a six-oared shell, in which one or two other oarsmen assist them. The day of departure is fixed for July 10, so that the Harvard four will be enabled to practise on the current of the Thames, where the tide rises and falls 18 feet.—New Fork Times, June 2. A ROYAL GAMBLER.—The Russian Princess Suwaroff, who possesses the reputation of being the greatest female gambler in Europe,.is now irl Paris. Last summer she was to be seen at Baden-Baden playing every day for large stakes from morning till night. When the Baden season ended she rushed off to Monaco, and she there passed the winter in gambling incessantly. The Monaco season ended, she is now in Paris en route for Baden. Sometimes her losses are enormous, at another her winnings are very large. She is very rich, and has been three times married, but she lives apart from her last husband. She is still young, and very handsome. In early youth she must have been - a splendid woman. Like all gamblers she is extremely superstitious ; sometimes thinking that if her face be placed in a particular position, luck will be certain ; at others, making certain signs with her.hands.as the cards are being dealt out, or the roulette ball is rolling; at one time gravelybegging people wh o se faces. displease her to be pied enough to leave the table, at another asking perions . whose - lOoks she likes to stand by • her side. MURDER IN THE . BOROUGH OF LONDON,—An inquest was held on Saturday eVening, in the Borough,- respecting the death of Henry Johnson, aged 37 years. Martha Clayton, wife of a porter, said that the deceased was a labourer at the Eastern Counties Railway, and he lodged at. her house. _ Last Friday fortnight, at twelve o'clock, the deceased was in his room, and a man came to see him, and he remained an hour and a half. Thegi-there was a sound. of the breaking of crockery. The dccegtspd then e . xylahned, '' Oh, .pray, foi• (4.)d's salve do 'not Inil '::,, ''' Witne , ts then catere , l dr ,. -, , r;in and she saw tilc dc:::z - t ,-11 sti;C:ding c: thd. lied with Lli:oLl fiev,ing from the dile t:f his fa,',.e. '"The in tii'lial a , p:,ker; an'l he pt : oick the decea.ied on the legs and face , it!, it -e. era] tiult,9. f - :i1;e cried out. The deceased then (trawled off the bi d and ilown the stairs.-:. Ifer husband wrenched the poker out -of the hands of the strange man and held him until the police came. He had often called upon the deceased about money scatters, and he had often threatened " to do for. him." Mr. R. C. Lucas, house surgeon at Guy's Hospital, &poked that he saw the deceased when he was brought to the hos pital, arid he found a large deep lacerated wound on the right cheek. It was three inches long, and it went down to the cheek bone. There were also several other wounds on the body. They were all the result of separate blows, caused, no doubt, by a blunt instrument. The jry u re• Maud 6 yexclict_9f Wilful)Jurder against JameiDalton, 1 ME7ROPO. 'P —Saturday Great excitement prevails in political les. . The Conservatives still confidently maintain that the bill will be thrown out, but they admit that the majority will be very small, for the Conservative Cave is far larger than the Liberal party have any idea of. Lord Derby is described as furious at the opposition which has sprung up among his party with regard to the proposed rejection of the bill, and it is expected that he will make a most impaassioned speech winding up the debate. Lord Cairns has been an unwilling convert to the policy of "No Surrender," lie has been influenced by the overwhelming number of letters from Conservative leaders in the provinces, declaring that they will never support the party again if the Lords do not now throw out the bill. Up to Thursday night the Government did not believe that the Conservative Peers would divide. It was only when a circular by Lord Colville (in which the names and the authority of Lord Cairns, Lord Derby, and Mr. Disrae;i were used in order to urge the Peers to vote against the bill) fell into the hands of a Ministerialist, that Ministers became convinced the opposition WEB serious. A third circular is to be issued 1 y Lord Colt ille on Tuesday. The Bishop of Oxford is using all his influence to induce Conservative peers to support the bill, and he has made a surprising number of convert.. On the otl:er hand, a considerable number of 'Whig peers will, it is said, vote with the Opposition. Lord frou,ghton, it is believed, will at all events not support the bill. On Thursday night Lord Colville and the Bishop of Oxford made, up their lists, and it was found that they agreed within two as to the majority that there would be against the bill. But as there were at that time seventy-eight peers who voted against the Suspensory Bill last year, but who had declined to pledge themselves on the present occasion, these estimates are of comparatively little value. So urgent is the "whip" on the Conservative side that four peers who have not been in England for eleven years are coming over from Ireland on Monday, sorely against their will, in order to oppose the bill. The debate id expected to last the whole of the week, awl the division may even be postponed till Tuesday, 22nd, so great is the number of peers intending to speak. One of the most powerful speeches against the bill is expected from Bishop Selwyn, who has had experience of free churches. Bishop Magee will vote against the bill reluctantly. There is to be a deputation of Yorkshire Conservatives cn Wednesday, to protest against the bill. Letters from Ireland declare that the Ulster Protestants are preparing to resort to arms in the event of the bill passing. The course which Mr. Gladstone will take in the event of the bill being defeated is variously announced, but nothing definite is known, nor is likely to be until after the Queen's return on Tuesday. It is quite under-. stood that if the bill be presented to the. Lords a - second time it will be rejected again. The Conservative peers affect to believe that an appeal to the country, which must then follow, would spew a.strong reaction in their favour. In the meanwhile the advanced Radicals are preparing for a formidable agitation, and a well-known leader of the trades unions was heard to say. last night, in the lobby of the House of Commons, that he bad an organisation ready, so that in 24 hours after the Lords rejected the bill a campaign against the Upper House would be opened all over the country. It is almost certain that Lord Russell's Life Peerages Bill will be rejected, Lord Malmesbury having persuaded the Conservative peers to oppose it. The Queen's Messenger, a very scurrilous paper, started apparently to worry Lord Stanley, has happily come to an end, after a few weeks' discreditable existence. There are placards on the wall announcing the publication of another journal by the conductor of the deceased journal. The cause of the death of the Messenger appears to be an action of law which is now threatened. MISCELLANEI'US NEWS. GOSSIP IN HIGH QI7ARTERF. "Oxoniensis " writes to the Dai'y News that the . debts of the Duke of Newcastle have been exagge rated. The Duke owes Mr. Padwick £89,000 ; he also owes a Jewish gentleman £123,000. But if for the next three years, he is content to live at the rate of £lO,OOO a year—his wife's income—all these debts will have been paid off ;- the estates bringing in £70,000 a year. He has, unfortunately, backed up heavily another nobleman ; but the result of this gallant act remains to be proved.—The rumour is revived that a notable divorce case connecting a lady of rank with an unlimited number of gentlemen, also of rank, has been abandoned on account of the lady's insanity. Our readers will no doubt recognise the case referred to under . the cautious periphrasis which we have borrowed from a con temporary.—The following marriages in high life are arranged : Those of Captain Grahame and Miss Gathorne llardy; of Viscount Petersham and the Hon. Eva Carrington • Baron de Teissier and Miss lloratio Westby ; between the Earl of Eldon and Miss Turner, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry and the Hon. Mrs. Turner; between Sir Robert Cunliffe and Miss Egerton Leigh ' • between Lady M ar y St op f or d , daughter of th e Earl of Courtown, and Lieutenant Shelley ; and Captain Ernest Villiers and Miss Ada Ibbetson, grand-daughter of the late Lady ; Jersey. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The weather has changed wonderfully within the last few days, much to the joy of the farmer. Especially does the gralier rejoice. He has had wet in abundance to make his grass grow, and to make it Succulent ; and now, when the time comes for ripening and harvesting, dry weather has set in in his favour also. The reports from the country as to the hay crops are that there is great abundanc e , the earlier varieties are ripe, or nearly so , but that' others are not yet ready for the rick, wanting more heA to bring. them- to maturay. The. improved weather is also good for our wheat crops,.whieh were in great danger from cold and,excessive wet. before the chaarve. While the Scotsman believes that the Irish uhurcb Bill is now'nearly certain to pass the Lords, the Dublin Freeman and the Leeds Mercury, both, like the Scotsman, Liberal papers, believe that the bill will be thrown out. A communication, says the London correspondent of the - Leeds paper, has been made to the Ministerial Whip in the Lords by the other side, that there will be a considerable majority against Government. Ministers are already preparing for this, and will prorogue Parliament almost im mediately, begin another session after about a fort night's recess, lay the Irish Church Bill on the table without saying a_ word, create, about_ sixty new peers,- and so ensure the carrying of the bill through the Upper House. The . London correspondent of the Conservative Manchester Courier confirms this state mitt, so far . as the resolution of the Conservative Peers is concerned. The majority is expected to be fifty. Sir. G. B. Gleig, Chaplain-General of the Forces, writes to . the herald on the pOlitical crisis, and declares that ho for one cannot affect indifference to the possible consequences of the rejection of the Irish Church Bill by the Lords. He is not alarmed by the virulence of the Liberal press, or by the threats of angry mobs, but he is seriously , uneasy at the nature of the advice now being ten dered to the Prime Minister. The House of Lords have, he maintains, a perfect right to act according to the dictates of their own judgment, and their re jection of the bill would not be an outrage to the nation, nor a wrcng to the House of Commons, but simply that to which all Governments are in free countries liable —a defeat of the Administration. In the event of such a defeat the Ministers will have three courses open to them. By the first and, as Mr. Gleig holds, the most Patriotic, they will finish the business of the session as if no such check had met them, and allow the vexed question to stand over until next year. In the interval a vote of confidence is to justify their retention of office ' and cartl oa d s o f petitions may be sent from a ll parts to support the bill. The Lords, with such evidence of the popular feeling before them, will not venture to repeat in 1870 the move of 1869, and the Minister win carry his point with honour to himself, and without giving any shock to the portion of the Consti tutian. A second course, not quite so patriotic, but still- constitutional, is -to resign, trusting to the nation to bring them back again to powe r without delay. The third course is to prorogue Parliament for a fortnight, reintro3.uce the bill, and try the House.of Lords a second time. To stop the supplies without proroguing, to coerce the Peers by violence from without, or to create a large number of new peers, would, in Mr. Gleig's opinion, surely produce a crisis, and he asks whether any man not insane would assert that the game is worth the candle. MP. GLADSTONE. Several . Conservative. journals speak of Mr. .Gladstone as being in a bad state of health. One says that he is sutryting from bronchitis, another from a disordered liver. They leave it to the clergy to suggest that he is a prey to a tortured conscience. ILECT.ON. The complicated Nottingham election is simplify ing.itself, and the contest now seems to lie between Mr. -Digby Seymour and Mr. Seely, jun. The Conservatives—or A large section of them—are by no means enthusiastic in favour of their candidate, And his committee is likely to advise him tp retina. Mr. Potter also-is out of the field, and ii.net expected to go te. the poll. The moderate Con servatives:andnioderatfli Liberals--the Independent party as it is called - in N:Oginghain —n re enthusiasti tally-in favour of Mr.-"Dikly . Seymour, ;who has; the 211efit—of 3 1 .113i.r. „Wart airanfi.Jzgbuldariiir ; it a TilE SUN, LDND - MONDAY E-VGNE-.NO,- JUNE 14, t. 6). time when its hold would be strongest. me iearned gentleman dates his address from Clifton llall, declares the identity of his opinions with those of the deceased baronet, and has the support of Lady Clifton herself. Lady Clifton—to whom Mr. Bernal Osborne attributed his defeat at the last election— has written a letter in favour of her husband's friend, in which epistle occurs the following pas- Aage notice. 1n tnat respect Air. Lowuei. says he is more fortunate than his friend, Mr. Wig, of Swan nore, Isle of Wight; who first found he was in court on reading it in the papers, FOREIGN NOTES. Tim RIOTS 2N PAM The disturbances in the streets of Parrs have grown gradually worse since the elections terminated. On Monday there was nothing more serious than a crowd to com plain of ; on Thursday thaeseape from a collision between the people and the troops was very narrow indeed. Nobody seems to quite undealtand this effervescence. The Liberal leaders all repudiate the riots ; they are discountenanced even by the Rappel and the sup porters of Bancel, Rochefort, and Gambetta ; and yet they, have been renewed night after night. The Daily News correspondent is inclined to apprehend serious results. He is positive that if. the Emperor attempts to treat FrancAs he did after the coup d'etat there will be a revolution. "lib and his dynasty and his system of government are execrated by the country. The difficulty of getting rid of him, and the sense of the necessar:- evils of any violent change, may enable him to make himself tolerated as a; pis alley, but any attempt to reverse the ver dict 'of the elections by violence will drive the people to desperation." T'ie correspondent of the Standard expresses precisely the same belief. The Parisians would never tolerate another Second of December, open boulevards, guns, and troops notwithstanding. This is, perhaps true ; but the welcome which the Emperor and Empress have received when they drove out on the boulevards on Friday spews that there is a eltss in France which doesnotdesire revolu tion. The correspondents of the Standard, Daily News, and Part Mail Gazette all agree that if the police had not behaved so roughly on Monday the riots would never have taken place, If my assurance to your society- will aid Mr. Digby Seymour's cause, I tell you now, as I al re ady h ave d one , that it was my husband's repeated wish that Mr. Seymour should stand as an independent member for the town he loved so well. Mr. Seymour was his true and tried friend, as he is mine, and he has my sincere wishes. It would be some consolation to me to see' Sir Ilobert's friend returned because he was his friend. Trusting it may be so, I am," &c. The resign 'ion of Colonel Wright, which some of the papers have demanded, does not seem likely to take place. The Colonel now writes that he never promised to resign. What he did was to remark., when talking with Mr. Seely about the election petition, that " One thing is certain—petition or no petition—l shall not remain long in Parliament, probably, not more than a session ; as the report I have just received from my physician is such that I should be a fool to disregard it." POST PRANDIAL ORATORY. The Bishop of Oxford attended on Friday the banquet of the Merchant Taylors'• School, is‘nd re plying to the toast of the " Bishops and . Clergy," told the company what he thought a bishop should be in these times. '• He should be a man who•feared God, who honoured the Queen in truth and righteous ness, and who was not given to change." Lord Stanley responded at the same meeting .to the toast of " The House of Commons," "and made allusion in his speech to the present constitution of the Lower Chamber of the Legislature. It would be idle, he declared, to say that the result of the late election was altogether satisfactory. Personally, he confessed he was somewhat disinterested in the matter, for it was far pleasanter to have the agree able duty of criticising the performances of other people than to be called upon to •do that which was calculated to excite criticism against oneself. More over, he believed there was just as much public use fulness to be shewn by those who were ready to put on t_ie Crag, it necessary, as by those who were trying, as national coachmen, to driVe on faster and faster every day. If they could only manage to keep out of foreign trouble and to lessen their debt, or, at least, not to increase it, the differences Which . now existed would doubtless be settled somehow, and the country would, he trusted, rapidly increase in material prosperity. The Earl of Sandwich, on the same occasion, referred to the action of the Lords on the Irish Church Bill, and expressed his belief, that the Peers would do their duty firmly, and hoped that in so doing they would have the support of the country. • ment, in opposition, the Court reserved its decision. The Michigan Southern and . Northern Indiana is likely to give rise Oanother railroad war. John S. Prouty and other holders of construction Clock to the amount of some millions, applied for an injunction restraining the direc tors from disposing of the property until the plaintiffs t►e paid arrears of interest on the shares. The application was made to Judge Clarke, in the Supreme Court Cham bers. dently bent on battle, and is determined not to be taken alive, and his whoops and s h r i e k s corns over the o cean on every blast that blows." President Woolsey, of Y a l e College one of the be s t authorities on international law, delivered two lec tures to the senior class on th e su bject of Mr. Sum ner's speech. He denies the existence of any con nection between theNeutralitvProclatnatiOn and the escape of the Alabama. lie pronounces the the ory of "ocean belligerency" to h ave an existence only i u Mr. Sumner's imagination. lie .considers that the holding that English Government had groun d s for issuing Proclamation free from all un f r i en dly bias, that a neutral might infer, from the condition of things at the time in America, that a state of war did exist, : Stripping, then, the - question down to its pith, he. declares that th e d eparture of the ve-sel was illegal, both municipally and internationally; and such was Lord Russell's culpable negligence that; on reading the evidence , he felt I;ke s hak ing him. WO recommend this id ea to ou r pictorial conternporaries.who arc now busying their brains so much on American subjects; "Little Johnny being well shaken by Dr. Woolsey , ' m i g ht form an interesting cartoon. The professor thought-it neces sary to remind his bearers that he had not been bribed by British gold. • It was announced last week that Sana'or. Stunner, Governor Curtin, and other leader's of the Republi can party, intended to make the Alabama claiois the party cry in the autumn elections. If they would do so they at least are assured of the Irish vote, to get which the least American and most revolution ary cry has. always to be raised, That Mr. Sumner would approve Of any such course is highly im probable, for it plainly bears all that is objec tionable on its face. The Executive alone has the authority to take the initiative on such questions, I (From the Springfield Republi can , M ay 29 . ) The Money Market continues well suppli e d w ith f un d s, and a most popul a r Ad m i n i stra ti on i s now i n o ffi ce and the rates of interest are equable and moderate. Two at Washington. The Alabama of tim is not a or three heavy failures at New York, nd the quarter of a domestic qut scion, and cann o t be settled by the million deficiency in the Atlantic National Bank of Brook triumph of any political party in the United States, lye, eatised a little tightening up of rates, and temporary nor could thattriumph influence the President to do caution among capitalists, but aside from these episodes has marked the no decisive event what he thought unjust. To ma k e a p ar ty c r y i s week. The call for money has not, however, been excessive, and, on the whole, to split the nation, not to combine it w he r e it ought to be combined for it is a subject involving feeling things have been pretty evenly balanced The general among bankers seems to ba that they'have got. the danger of a foreign war. To combine it down to the summer rates, std that affairs will be quiet would be simply to proclaim that war if the party and easy for some time to come. The receipts of .cur could carry its platform into practical effect, while ' rangy at Now York from the interior are fallingbut off,, to take such a course is to r e mov e th e su bj ect out the payments of the income tax will continue large for of a Court, and to make th e pl a i nt iff j u d ge on hi s several weeks, affording a deposit for considerable surplus cash, which it is not expected Secretary Boutwell will put own case. Mr. Sumner is not the man to perpe- back upon the market. Messrs. Henry Clews- and Co;, the' trate such follies, nor is the Irish party one likely well known New York bankers, in their last public circu to commend itself to the Senator. The following Jar thus express-their views on the immediate future of the was one of yesterday's telegrams.:—:‘ , The Irish Money Market :—" It may be assumed that we have now Republican Association at Philadelphia has issued an fairly entered upon the usual summer period of ease, and a •• may therefore• be addresgstrongly approving of Mr.S urnner ' s speec h on , std decline in the rate of interest • • anticipated. In some quarters, a nee demand or the Alabama claims. The - address calls upon all true money has been expected from the West, in connec- Irishmen to join the Rep u bliC an par t y in aiding the tion with grain movements at the opening of naviga enforcement of Mr. Sumner's views." Toivhing , tion ; but, for obvious reasons, no such movement has • this subject generally, a telegram f rom New Yindt • 'occurred; the greatly reduced prices of western pro states that the preposition recently put forw:ircl by dude .having rendered it difficult for that section to some of the Republican party that the Alabama settle its .deferred ; obligations for winter pure .axes of question should be male a party issue at the corning merchandise at the East. The Secretary of the Trea sury has adopted a policy, relative to the currency hal elections in the autumn has been widely discussed. ante of. the Treasury, which is well calculated to con- As yet, however, no decision has been arrived at, tribute to a steadier condition of the money market, and Jimmy of the leading Republicans 'being divided on to obviate that dependence of the banks upon the Tree the question, and there will be moie discussion be sury, which has been equally indefensible in principle and fore a proposition so idiotic could be decided on. unwholesome in its results. Mr.. Boutwell very properly considers that there is no necessity for the Treasury ho RAILWAY ITEM .--•--Cincinnati has awoke to a ing from 20 to 40 millions of currency in its vaults. We grand idea, nothing less than a direct railrdad from that.. believe this policy has been 'adopted after consultation city to Mobile through Chattanooga. to vain :has Cin- with the Committee of Ways and Moans, and that it may cinnati contended against Chicago and St. Louis for the I now be considered as a settled feature of Mr. Bout-well's North-West and West, for the onward stride of events has administration. The banks will in future undo stand converted Cincinnati into an Eastern city. So she has • that it will be useless to expect any special consideration turned her eyes southward towards .the• Gulf of Mexico. from the Treasury in periods of pressure, and will there The Ohio is a treacherous, snaggy, ill-conditioned river, fore anticipate future wants with less dependence upon now running almost dry, then furiously and 'difficult to ' extraneous relief, an independence as salutary to the pub,. stem, and Cincinnati .does not approve of New Orleans, lie as it is convenient to the Government. There is no so it proposes to continue the 112 miles of the road already especial change in the financial situation at the Western constructed through Kentucky to Nichola-ville for 249 money centres. Chicago is well supplied with money, miles further to Chattanooga, at an outlay of $9,000,000. and the banks are loaning freely at 10 per cent, per annum, It is thought that such a road running l arallel with, and with an improved demand from the country forcurreticY. midway between the Atlantic and Mississippi through the The tremendous pressure brought to bear on Secretary fertile States of Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, would Boutwell to force him to stop the sale of Treasury gold, itself create a large traffic, and be alike profitable having proved fruitless the premium has steadily fallen, to the shareholders and the cities it thus brings and is still receding. The weakening began on Monday, into direet communication with the Gulf.—From Bos- and the subsequent tendency has been all ono way. The ton it is announced that the Board of Directors have efforts of the speculators to frighten the Secretary out of been elected for. the Union Pacific Railroad. Judge his policy, by forcing up the price of gold, having only Barnard's processes have had the effect of placing an uu- resulted in doubling the amount of Lis weeklo sales, they due number of Massachusetts men on the board to free have apparently concluded to turn their attention to the Directors from that persecution. The following gen • some more inviting field, and of late have quite neglected 'lemon wore elected :—Oliver Ames of Maesitchusens, the gold market. The Treasury sales will hens-forth President; Benjamin, E. Bates of Massachusetts; Sidney occur on Mondays mid Thursdays one million on Dillon of Now York; John Duff of Massachusetts, Vice- each day, until further orders. Last Monday's sale. President ;C. 11. strieemiek of New York ; W lliam T. real'sed 142 k -an advance of 8 per cent. over the pre- Glidden of Massachusetts; 0, H. Bushnell of Connecti- vious one, and immediately after -,,he 11 , ..ic--a or gold cut; F. G. Dexter of Massachusetts; R. P. fia 2 z trd of fell newly 1 nor pee+. Tee foreign imperts continue to be Rhode Island; H. Atkins, C. A. Lantherd,l). S. Chapman, enormous, and the firmness of the gold premium is un- E. IL Baker, John R. Duff, and F. Nickerson of SI issa- doubtedly due, in great measure, to the general expecte chusettin. J M. S. Williams of Massachusetts was elected eon that our exports of specie during the summer will be Treasnron; and E. U. Rollins of New Hampshire, Assist- unusually heavy. The imports fur the week ending Sa ant TreaOrer. Vin•e-Presiiltit Decant,. in a grac .ful let- turday, 22d, amounted to the enormous sum of $7,071,090 ter, tendered-his resignation, while announeing that he in gold, against $3070,371 for the corresponding time last would retain his interest as the largest stockholder, hay- year. The dry good s i mports i ncreased 50 per cent., and ing faith in their econo nical man &gement. John J. Cisco those of general merchandise 119 per cent. While this and William •U. Macy have also tendered their resigna- increase is going - on, another unfavourable process is in tions, theit business tyieg them to New York, while, as they progress in our export trale, which ie steadily diminish - say, theioffice has very properly been removed to Boston.— ing, almost in equal ratio to the increase of iinports. The' The Erie ; Cenpany has taken the receipts Of th e Atl a ntic difference for the last week between the exprots and hu mid Great Western Company, an-I kept them ; and it must ports was $1,300,010 in gold, in favour of the latter, arid be satisfactory at least to Messrs. Fisk, Gould, and the at that rate the climax of the process must soon be reached. other directors, to find that the business of the roe(' hes This state of things, with the fact that, our shipmei,t of greatly improved, .and realizes every anticipation. It is bon& abroad must soon diminish, from a scarcity of sup announced mrbehalf of too Pennsylvania Railroad that the ply, if from no othsr reason, fully justifies the expectation stockholders registered on April 30, 1869, will be entitled of a heavy shipment of gull and an appreciation of its price to take up•2sTer cent, of their respective interest in the in our market. Sensational rumours of Cuban independence new stock as follows :-First, Fifty per c iat, at the t:mo and of triple alliances may have something to do with it, but of subscription, b a ween the kith day of 11 , /a5 , , 1869, an d th e i r influences will oo but slight compared with that of the 30th day of June, 1809. Second, Fif ty per cen t b'- this enormous indebtednes s which we are daily accumn tween the 15th day of November, l 83:), ash the alst .1 : m y latine against us. The situation is, however cleary appre of December, 1869, or , i' stoc kh o ld ers ssoLtio prefer, th e heed( dby the bast informed bankersaild importers of the whole amount may be pail up at the time o f siit , criptlon, country , and there is no reason why, ferewa rne d, they and eaeh instal m e n t so p od s h a ll b e entitled to a pro rata should not b forearmed. G ivermisint Bonds have been of the dividend th a t may b e seciassi of fi s t share s . ra ther dull and inactive under the decline in gold, and Third, That every stockholder holding less than four a falling eff of the foreign demand. The sensitiveness shares shall be entitl e d t o su b scr ib e for one share; an d of the London and Frankfo: t markets, while it does those holding more than a multiple of four snares shall be not amount, to a positive uneasiness, is plainly ape entitled to subscribe for an additional share. Fourth, All parent, and the securities of the United States are taken shares upon which instalments are yet to be paid under with a little more caution than heretofore. Secretary resolution of May 13, 1863, will be entitled to their allot- Boutwell continues his purchases of ono million in bonds meat of the 25 per cen t. a t par, as t h ough t h e y were paid weekly for the si n ki ng fund, hut has given no indication in ful—eThe directors of the Michigan Southern and for the intentions to double the amount as compared with Northern Indiana have issued their report to March 31. his increased sales of gold. The purchases of Wednos- The road, 521 miles long, is in good order, and well sup- day were mostly Five-twenties of 1862, and were secured plied with rolling stock; capital being $21,000,000; the at 1161 to 1.61. All the purchases thus far male will go earnings for the year were $5,000,000; the expenses, to the credit of the sinking fund, and - this department will $3,000,000, of which $1,200,000 were spent in repairs and , appear in the next monthly statement of the debt. The $361,461 in now and re-rolled rails. Eight per cent. has opposition to the Secretary'a policy of purchase has gene been paid on the common stock, free of tax, and regular rally subsided,, and most of the advice now furnished him dividends are assured on common and preferred stock; gratuitously relates to the expediency of retiring the Three 85 miles of road have been relaid; 107 miles havenew ties; ; per Cent. Legal-tender Oertificates, of which the banks 139 miles ballasted, and 59 miles re-fenced. The elevator held, on the Ist of May, $53,097,000. To this action the burnt at Toledo has been rebuilt.—The survey of the Secretary is advised by some of tho best bankers and Southern.branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, which is . fi nancers o f the country, but the experience of his self to run from Fort Riley, Kansas, down the Neosho Valley appointed counsellors on the sale of gold will probably to Fort Smith, Arkansas, was commenced last December. I render them more modest in the future expression of their Sixty miles are to be constructed' by next September, opinions. The chief objection to retiring the certificates and the 'whole road is under contract. Tee Com ,is that it would be "contraction," of which the West and pany have a grant of. 1,310,000 acr e s of land, and its C ongressmen h ave so much terror, and that Congress $BlO,OOO in County Bonds_ have b on , subscribed by at its next sessi o n Mi g h t i n correction interpose some new the COMA:O3 through which it passes.. Five thousand s fengled scheme, which would seriously impede the opera emigrants from Copenhagen have paid their pas- ' tions of the department. On the other hand, tho redemg sage and 30,000 Swedes are expec t e d during the sea- I tion of th e d eman d f or cert i f i cates would relieve the Go son, to settle on the lands belonging Io the company.— vernmeut from all danger of f u t ure t rou bl e b y the i r Ten freight cars have been built to run between Chicago i presentation at an unpleasant juncture, and any • con and Boston—changing twice on the route from ono I traction which would ensue could be relieved by reducing gauge tO :the other. o The de lice- is ,simple--consist- the currency 'balance of the Treasury. Redemption and on the inside of the wh e el ing of a tube or 'sleeve' contraction, both are most desirable and both would have and holoogeneons therewith, through which th e ultimately a most advantageous effect, but if both are iin axle passes, being fastened 'thereto by keys dropped practicable, then one is better than neither. The Five into the axle, which aro held in place by a longitudinal i twenties, which the Secretary is now pirehasing, do not pin, itself secured by a screw. A car ca n .be changed mature for years tO come at the earliest, and the holders from one gangs to the other in twenty minutes, the keys can at no time. force the Government into difficulty, being taken out, and the cars three at a time being run which is not altogether impossible for the possessors of along a widening o r narrow i ng track. --Buffalo has con- the Three per Cent. Certificates, should the present large ceived-the idea of a ra il wa y di rec t to Portland, Maine, outstanding amount continue undiminished. The railway which would bring it into communication with the At- and general stock market has had an unusually quiet week !antic at a distance only of 480 miles. A meeting was of it, and soma days have been positively dull. The Van held at Buffalo, May 27. Charters have been granted by. derbilt Roads have successfully pushed through all their the States of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, schemes which were in the New York Legislature all and a pyrtien of the lino is al te „i s in progress, winter, and consolidation of the New York Central and Messrs. John Wilkinson, J a mes 0. Putnam, and A. P. Hudson River Roads, on the basis of a hundred millions Nichols were: appointed a co-operative committee.— capital, is the next stop on the programme. The Central Fifteen hundred mil es o f srailinaci are under contract in Stock, which now sells for 190 odd, is to be further wa- Indiana.-The chi c e go, Rock Island, and Pacific Rail- tered up , to 200 and as the dividend 'en the Consolidated road is now , completed to Coun c i l Bluffs, an d w i ll be Road will not be less than 8 per cent., the ultimate value opened immediately for - busine ss .— The certificate of the stock will not probably be less than 215 or 220. of incorporation o f the straitsville and Hocking The shares of the Chicago and North-Western Railroad Valley Railroad Company was Mod at the Secr etary are also coming rapidly up in the market, in consequence of State's office, May 10th. The pro posed ra il roa d i s to of the opening of the Pacific Railroad, and its prospective extend from the aqueduct at the m on th o f M on d ay Creek, la r ge increase of freight and p a ssenger traffic. Its dail y in Athens County, to otraitsein s, io P erry county, the earnings now amount to the co mfortable sum ofss o , o O l o e , line to pass through Hocking county, with several and its gains for tde last four months Lave been t 0 lub branches in Athens and Hockin g sioal [toad ' tax stock is s2oo,ooo,comities. The mad , those of an y o th er W es tern Road. It will sown f however, in sit en s of $5O. Th e have to fight sharp competition by the hock i completed, and corpor a tors are Willi am T. Ackler, irimet Hamlin, J o h n whose track to Council Bluffs , Indiana, is E. Riach, F . ttleis* . J. Kri eg , tins t,ewis Zinimi3rman will soon b e open f o r business. The Pacific Mail Steam- The• Fort AWayneYne road has been lees - ship ei by the Pennsyl Company suffers by th e inauguration of the great vania Central, the latter paying 12 per cent. on the pr e - overland al l ra il rou te, and in spite of it three per . _Ji_no 1, 'its stock has sent capital of the Fort Wayne. The Atlantic and Great eont, quarterly dividend, pay r a. , h h i e e 9aa•year lease of the Western litigations(Angel plaistiffs cone before Judge f a sten nearly 10 per cont. 1 a Clarke on May, the 27th,- on •plai nt iff's motion to fore- Pittsburg-, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Road to the Penn lg Penn close the second divisional niortgage on the ground sy l van i a Central, has not yet been fully consum- - of non-payment of interest. effort was made to mated, but is reported to be . favourably progress have the case transferred tc Ch au t auqua C 0. ,• t h e ing. D u ll nes s still reigns in the dry goods ma r k e t, mortgaged property Wizefs located there. Alter argu- _ and now that the spring eemou ie over will probably THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE.—A farewell en tertainment was given on..!Thursday on board the Great Eastern, now lying off Sheerness, where she has shipped her portion of the French Atlantic Cable. A special train took d'iwn from Charing-cross to Stroud a large party of guests, who were conveyed by boat to the ancho rage of the big c hip 14 or 15 miles down the Medway; and the assembled company on board the Great Eastern., included Lord Houghton, Sir Samuel Cr nning, Sir Jame, Anderson, Sir Wm. Thompson, Baron d'Erlanger, Baron mill Baroness de Stern, Lord William Hay, Cap'aln Sherrard Osborne, Ptofessor Jerkin, Mr. Renter, Ur. henry Clifford, and Mr. Cromwell Tarley, who acelm paLies the expedition as consulting eng'neer is place Of Sir Wiliam Thompson. The - Great Eastern kayo:, Portland to-day, awl proceeds to BreSt, where the . operation of laying the cable will have been com menced by the. Chiltern, a vessel entrusted with a few miles of the heavy shore end. The ships will meet at an appointed . spot; and the Great Eastern will pick tp the buoyed cable at sea. •Then, after spicing and testing, she will continue the work begun by her. at- : tendant ship. She will have other attendant ships in this dritieal voyage_ the StAnderia- and the William Cory ; or rather they will have preceded her across the Atlantic, to lay the American shore end of the cable. - at St. Pierre. Sir Samuel Canning has charge of the expe dition, and Capt. Halpin, who was chief officer under Sir James Anderson, will, in consequence of that officer's re signation, take the command of the ship. MONEY .IAD BUSINESS. DOCKYARD EMIGRATION. The Admiralty seems to be vacillating very much in the matter of dockyard emigration. The offer which they recently made to facilitate the emigra tion of discharged workmen they subsequently withdrew. Now, in consequence of unfavourable comments, they revoke the withdrawal, and renew, with some modifications, their former offer. In an official letter read to the Woolwich Relief Committee at their last meeting it was stated that the Admiralty were prepared to send out a limited number of discharged dockyard emi grants who have- been in the Government service one year, and who .can pay, either by-them selves or-the Relief Committee, the sum of 455. per adult head. For this purpose her Majesty's troop ship Urgent is to leave Portsmouth on the 24th of June, for Quebec. THE: GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS: The Railway .News strongly upholds the Govern ment • policy in the purchase - of the telegraphs. It believes that the Ministry is acting in a fair and liberal spirit towards the companies, and is at the same time securing a very good _bargain for the country. This journal urges that twenty years' purchase—excessive for a mere goodwill—is, but fair terms when the plant is given in and the seller of the business is not able to resume that form of investment. It is certain that the income which the Government will derive will be equal to five or six per cent: on the whole sum laid out, and even . this satisfactory return must be largely increased by the progress of the business. The ,Railway News like wise urges strongly that the purchase be completed this year. "If the arrangement is not carried out this session the companies will have the right, and will be fully justified in availing themselves of that right, to claim the greater profits of the present year as the basis for the estimate of purchase, and in the case of the Electric Company the increased profits of the last year were £15,000, and twenty years' purchase of this will add £300,000 to the sum re quired for the purchase of this company alone. The delay of another year - in the settlement of this question will cost the country an additional £1,000,000 for taking over the telegraphic business." THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION INQUIRY. The Army and Navy Gazette does not expect to get • much from • an inquiry. into the . Abyssinian expedition. At the same time the extraordinary costliness of the war is fairly puzzling, considering that only a very small portion of the force went up to Ma g dnla, and that these for some time suffered "cruel privations." Is Lord . Napier to be sum moned from India as a Witness ? "On looking at the returns, it appears that . three fourths of the money was spent in India—that our War Office ha•l only the end of its little finger in thepie, and that the Admiralty hail only.one. hand in it .up to the knuckles. Does any one expect we shall recoup a farthing from India? The little items mentioned by Mr. Mundella—such as the NO women sent from India to grind corn for the sepoys' who never grind anything— are but drops in the bucket. There seems—we can say no more than that—as if the selection of. the Bombay Government as the organisers was, at all events, not an economical choice." THE ALABAMA QUESTION. The London correspondent of the Scotsman says that the -. great obje3t of our Government at the present time is t o se c ure s il ence i n Parliament with regard to the Alabama question. Lord Clarendon's speech was so cautious and so discreet that Lord Cairns, who had intended to speak- on the matter, decided to keep silence. It is possible that Sir 11. Bulwer also may be induced to refrain. Mr. Motley's instructions are not to reopen the question. It is believed by the best diplomatic judges that the AMericans will neither settle the Alabama question nor revive it. They like to keep up an even sore, and they are indisposed, after the late exhibition made in their name, to press the Alabama question upon us till it has got, probably some time hence, into a new phase. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND UNIFORMITY. - - - Archbishop Tait has, in reply to an address from the Rural Deanery of Shoreham, made some remarls upon Ritual and Uniformity. Ile says that, in his opinion, the recent judgment - in " Martin v. Maclionochie " affected only the precise actions referred to in that suit, the lighting of candles and prostration during consecration. He believes that it would be very unwise to lay down one invariable rule with regard to Ritu a l f or a ll congregat i ons. Even if such uniformity were attainable, more might be lest than gained by enforcing it. He adds : " It has been the wisdom of the Church of England to leave much in such matters to individual discretion, in sisting only that all things should be done decently and in order, and providing that if any question arises in a parish as to the use of such discretion, recourse shall be had to the bishop, subject to an appeal to the arch bishop if the bishop think fit, that thus steps may be taken to• order and appease any difficulties; Where dis sensions have unfortunately arisen on such subjects in our Church, I attribute this evil in a great measure to the unwillingness of the parties who differ to have recourse to this reference to authority prescribed by the Prayer book. But it is through this careful attention to each case c.niidered on its own merits, and not by laying down fixed general rules which the Church has not invested him with authority to enforce, that a bishop is empowered to settle such matters concerning public worship as those to which your address alludes." A NEW BISHOP. The Rev. Samuel E. Marsden, grandson of the well-known Australian missionary of that name, has, on the recommendation of the Archbishop of Canter bury, been appointed to the bishopric of Bathurst, Australia. Mr. Marsden graduated 8.A., at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1855, coming out among the junior optimes. He was ordained deacon in 1855 and priest iu 185 G. He was first curate of St. Peter's, Hereford, then of Lilleshall. In 1861 he wr . is . ap pointed b y hi s relat i ve, Mrs. Marsden, to the perpetual ccuritcy of Bengeworth, near Evesham,. worth £175 per annum. He is Diocesan Inspector of Schools. THE BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER AND CASHEL. The rumour that the Bishop of Winchester was going to resign his preferment is contradicted officially. There was scarcely need of the contradic tion. The Bishop is quite a young man, only in his 80th year, and being paralytic, needed the £10,417 a year which he gets to console him. The Post says that Dr. Sumner is quite able to transact his episcopal duties. eela ra sans dire. The theory among bishops of the good old school is that, like port wine, they improve by age. After all Bishop Sumner's case is not so remarkable as Bishop Daly's. lle is 85 years o1:1, has no family, and has a good fortune. It is his turn to sit in Parliament this year, where, of course, every vote is of importance to save the Irish Church from what lie considers ruin. He might by resigning List year' have secured the appointmeat of another and young bishop, and the continuance of £5,000 a year for perhaps a quarter of a century. Nevertheless he continues to retain his .preferment, that is, to sacrifice what he believes to be the interests of the Church in order that •ho may enjoy f r o e r v - e a m p ie e s ri o o f d h w is hi s c e h e. can only be a very few years the THE PROSECUTION OF DIR. LOWDER. The Rev. O.T. Lowder writes that the proceeding s against him have not yet commenced, and that the Disko 4L lioncl9p 4ak japAkcljzgiy_e Jahn dut THI NEW FRENCH PARLIAMENT. As announcedby telegraph, it has been decided that a session of the French Corps Idgislatif shall be held at the end of the present month, commencing on the 28th. It was for some time matter of doubt whether the new Chamber should neet at once or in November, as did the last Parliament. The former course has, however, been determined upon. The session will last about a month, and will be devoted to theratifying of the various elections. The .Patrie has created some excitement by a paragraph to theeffect that the Chamber has been con vened, not so much for the purpose of ratifying the powers of the deputies, as to be in readiness for any " extraordinary event s ' ' By. the Voniteur and other papers this declara tion of the official journal is interpreted as a prophecy of war. ThiPatrie.aowever, stoutly maintains its assertion, and leaves the interpretation to those who chose to under take it. It is pretty certain, however, that if there be no war, there will be at least a great uproar, and for the reason we have previously mentioned. Several seats won by the Imperialists will be stoutly contested by the Opposi tion, on the ground that the manoeuvres of the prefects were illegal. Never, indeed, before have the authorities made such an unsparing use of their opportunities as this election. The prefects have clearly acted on the motto of " Get the official candidate in—by fair means if possible ; but get him in, let the means be what they may." The riots at Nantes were owing entirely to prefectoral manoeuvres. A number of the citizens have signed a protest, in which they urge that the return of the official candidate was wholly illegal. The townspeople voted for the Liberal, but the country votes overpowered them. Now, as the principle of electoral districts is carried out in France, every town must have a certain portion of rural territory included with it in the electoral circumscription. But such circumscription ought to be a compact district, 'whereas In the case of. Nantes the authorities expressly and arti ficially arranged matters so that the votes of the country should outweigh those of the town. The Constitution of the Empire" prescribes that the departments shall return members in the proportion of one to 35,000 inhabitants. But the, authorities have so distorted the districts in the neighbourhood of Nantes that one circumscription con tains 45,200 inhabitants and another 32,800. On this account some of the leading men of the town demand that the election be annulled. It is strange that the . Govern. ment should lower its dignity in the eyes of the French people by such a palpable fraud as this. M. HENRI ROCHEFORT. One of the most remarkable features of the last election was that M. Henri Rochefort, the satirist, of Lanterne fame, obtained above 14,000 votes. He was not returned, but it is by no means certain that he will not ultimately find a seat. No fewer than four of the Paris deputies have been elected in two places, and all of them, says the Independance Beige, have chosen to sit for the country. Thus four more elections will be needed in Paris; and Rochefort, who has declared that he will get up a revolution at the first opportunity, may step in some where, especially for the extremely Red first circum scription. THE MASSACRE IN EAST AFRICA. Two orthe- relatives of the family who have been mas sacred in Dattm have set out for Egypt to investigate the circlunstarxes of the outrage, They are Mr. Henry Saint John Powell, I,rothcr of the unfortunate gentleman, and Mr. Jenkins, brother of tbe lady who shared her husband's fate. 'Their mission is to obtain the assistance of an Egyptian force to punish the murderers. APPREEIENDED LOSS OF AN AMERICAN LINER. Great anxiety is felt respecting the fate of the - United Kingdom,, one of the Anchor line of steamers. This vessel is much overdue, and the premium upon her had risen some days back to as high as £5O. A catastrophe would in this case be exceptionally deplorable, for the American liners, and the Anchor series especially, are always crowded at this time of the year. It is remarkable that two vessels of this line have already been lost during the last few months. There is unfortunately too much reason to fear that the United Kingdom may be the third instance of disaster. SIR S. BAKER'S EXPEDITION. T h Baker'se Army force forn d N avy i Gazette states that Sir Samuel his expedition to th e Whit e Nil e will a consist of two, infantry regiments, each 600 strong, one regiment of irregulars, GOO strong, 900 cavalry, two light and one heavy battery—in all some 3,300 men. The Gazette expresses itself interested—not without doubt, apparently—as to how Sir S. Baker, who is not a soldier, will handle his little army. The country is difficult, and the climate damp and feverish. A NEW PROJECTILE That mysterious place—the Camp of Chalons—is once more the scene of experiments with a new and, we ara told, deadly invention. The last hobby was the mitrail leuse, now it is the Mancourant projectile. This novelty is of the form of an ordinary cylindro-conical ball, and its chief advantages are that it can be made to bunt at a given distance, or directly it touches the ground or any other object. The shell appears to be ready fitted with fuses of various lengths, and the operator has only to remove a cap, apply a match, and fire, and the shell bursts either at a thousand, or two, or three thousand yards. By another arrangement the instrument can be made to burst on encountering any obstacle. The.military men of Chalons are much pleased with this plaything. They believe it will prove too delicate for campaigning, but it may do great things in siege operations. (From the Anglo-American 2 Ernes.) It is remarkable that a portion of the settlement on the West Coast of the United States will be due to political cause; as were the early settlements on the East Coast. The Europeans fled from persecution westward, the Japanese and Chinese are beginning to fly from perse cu ion eastward, and, like the Pacific Railway, they will meet some idly at Ogden. '1 hret Japa nese families arrived at San - Francisco, May 27, thirty-seven rr.•,re are on their way ; and eighty other families are preparing for the voyage. This exodus is in consequence of t he defeat of the North ern Princes, but these fugitives will Lot come empty-handed into the States, for they bring tea and bamboo • plants and mulberry trees, and will buy land whereon to establish new and productive industries. The Sprintifeld Republican calls its MassachuSetts Cougressm: n—Banks, Butler, and Butlinton--the busy B's (bees). The Herald's .correspondent, a gentleman of gr6t imaginative power, skilful be. y,md everythin g i n " i nterv i ew i ng ," an d w h o s e pen is as facile in romancing as that of any lady novelist, says that the two Massachusetts' Cabinet Ministers will be driven out of office by furious Congressmen, chief among whom are those from .Massachusetts, and the Republican supposes that this refeis to the busy We. Attorney-General Hoar is condemned for the abruptness of his manner towards those with whom he h*Lusiness to transact, which, be ing interpreted into plain English, means offices in his department to ask for. These Congressmen have sworn a great oath that he must go. back to Con n.)rd. The cause of the storm against the other, Secretary Boutwell, may easily be guessed by those who have been "bulling" gold and "bearing" stocks. Th . e, Tribune considers Mr. Laird's letter to be a full acknowledgment of the culpability of the Eng lith Government in the Alabama affair. He has laboured hard, it states,to prove both connivance - and liability,...aud from .his own stand-point has eminently . succeeded. The .Nation says : " There is no Sign 'of war that we kuow of anywhere but in. ; London ; and there it will prol-ably be confined to the Troops' 'on one side and the correspondent of the New York Tribune 911 the other. The latter Le 011' •var.ao , continue supreme until fall. The general but indistinct prospect for that distant day is enceurkting, and the situa tion of affairs hopeful. The crop reports from all parts of the country are favoUrable, and should the promises of the harvest be. realizad, the business of the autumn will nndoubt , dly he large and l uc t ar i ve . Th e A me rican DI Goods Company, organized with a capital of 510,000, 000, under the laws of Pennsylvania, have just commenc ed operations at New York, and promises advantages to the country merchants which aro well worth their examina tion. Domestic cotton goods have been inactive, even under a desperate attempt by jobbers to force sales, by offering goods at less prices than they could be bought at the manufacturers' agents. The Southern cotton markets are dull, but firmly sustained. The market for wheat tad breadstuffs has been fair, without marked changes, whi le the cattle and live stock markets at Chicago, Now Ye rk ' stud Brighton have all been over-supplied, and prices ha' e generally declined. • (From the Wall-street Journal.) Friday Evening, May 28, 1869. Money is generally easy, and loans on stock collatera ls are readily made at 7 per cent., and on Governments at 6 p!! cent'. Discounts are promptly met at 7to 8 p('r c ent ,: an first-class commerc'al bills and on No. 2 paper at 9 to lu per cent. The suspension which wo noticed in our last issue of James Patrick and Co. will probably turn out fe e different to what was then exp ec t e d, as th e c onfident hop e of the senior partner is, th a t 100 per cen t . w ill be paid o n all liabilities. Schep e l er an d C o. ' s failure. i s e xpected , however, to turn out w orse th an an ti c i pa t e J, and the dead will protably prove to be very small. Ia goll °° have had Many changes throughout the week, opening tie 9 morning at 1391, whence it advanced to 1391, and closed at 1391. At the fifth Treasury sale of gold, on May 21 ' the number of proposals i.i currency for gold received at the office of the Assistant Treasurer: was seven ; amo unt : . ing in the aggre ga t e t o some thi ng over $2,000,00 0, et prices ranging f rom 1411 t o 142 32-100 . Th e a wards we re —to H. Clews and Co., $400,000 a t 142 01-100; to 31 n1 and Co., $ lOO,OOO at 142 20-100, and $ lOO,OOO at 14 :: 21-100; . to Lewis Daniels and Co., $lOO,OOO at 14 ' 121-10 C ; to others six sepa ra t e sums of 550,000 each from 142 09-100 to 142 32-100 ; i n a ll, $1,000,000. At the si xth sale yesterday th e A ss i s t an t T reasurer re ceived sev c° proposals for the purchas e of go ld f or currency, aninupt,il in all to a b ou t $3 , 000 , 000 , at prices ranging from 26-100 to 139 13-100. Th e awar d s of $1,000,00 0 o'e r° . made in several sums (th e l owes t o f w hi ch was $5000)1 at rates ranging from 138 76-100 to 139 13-100. Foreign Exchange is generally strong, and a fair 1)1151- ness is doing : London Bankers n Prime Commercial S l ix o l B : f 93 l -13 1 1.3 0 °y 8 91 : T10197—e1)119°11:: Eiris, Bunkers Bremen, Bankers 4 Hamburgh, Bankers 351-35k .... " Frankfort, O.M 391-401 ...... Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.25-5.164 ..... Amsterdam, Bankers - 401 ..... Swiss ~ Government Bonds are' quiet, excepting for 6, for a Welt there is an actfve demand at 1194 to 11 9 1 Sixes, 1861, registered Sixes, 1881, coupon l2l to'l 2l k Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. Os. Pacific Railroad lO6l to IC 6 I Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon 11" to 1"/ Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new' Five-twenties, 1867, coupon ... - U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 Ten-forties, coupon Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties, 3d series - Oregon War Loan, Sixes. 1881 excepting Miscellaneous Stocks show a dull business, ex° e .' on Mariposa and Pacific Mail—the latter, after in . 1 01 9 99 1 tt t t 00, to . 0 1 liv 9 1 any Variations, has fallen to 781 but closed to-day at 811 15 8 3 N. Y. Central• • 1921. Fort Wayne .....••••• .. 1 "a , Erie Hudson Reading Mich: South. &N. I.W. • 1101 U Telegraph - •••• 51} 11 1 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 971 Ohio and Mississippi... 161- North-West ' 9ll Boston Water Power... „a North-West Preferred 1021 Cumberland ............. 107 Canton 65 Bankers and Brokers... 77 Rock Island • :Z)leveland and Toledo 106} I M & St. Paul Preferred 87 QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. to 4 88 Amer. silver... 95 to 951 Eng. sous ......486 385 Mex. „ 104 20 francs ........ 383 ?? 701. Eng. silver. ....475 , 480 1 Thalers ......... 7 0 1 'Five francs 93 „ 96 Railroad Bonds do not sho' are generally firm : N. Y.lCentral Gs, 1883... 11 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... 93 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est.. 851 Y. Central Gs, Sub'n.. 851 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876... -- N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 ... N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 ... Erie Ist Mort, Ex 99 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 93 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 BB Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 BO Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 79 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. lsr-M, 77 B9 rr..l. It. Ts, .Ist M, 't 9 101 Mid. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 1034 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 994 Mich. C. Ist M, G 972 121 Mich. new Ist M 'B2-1211 Mich. So., 7,p. c 2d M 933 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Itich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 99 111. Cen. 7p. e, '7O 1191 Afton &T. 11. Ist DI 91 Alton &T. 11. 2d pfd Alton &T. H. 20 M. Inc 76 Ilan.& S t.J. La it dGran tslo6 Han. & St. J. Con 117 Chi. B. & Q. Ist M 112 Chi. & N. West, S. F 971 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 991 Chi. & N. NV. Ex'n B 951 1 as fol- Messrs. Drexel and C o . Ist , Philadelphia, rePT.' ,as, lows:—Pennsylvania R a ilroad were 574 5 8- i ; Mortgage, 101 ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage, 961 97. , wmuc h animation, but price Chi. & N. W. Ist M . ... 9 0 4 Tol. & Wab. 2d M Gt. Western 2d 3.1 '93... 791 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist DL" g 6 . 6105, r 8 , n, Gal. & Chic. 2d ......... 9° Cleve. & Tot. S. Fund...lri. N. J. Central Ist ... Pitts. Ft. W & Cleve. & Pitts. 3d Chic. & Alton, S. F. In. 9 ' Chic. & Alton, S.F. 180000 94 MSt. P il. & l Ist • . .• 82 Mil. & St. Paul 2.1 c.; Marietta. & Cio. Ist M... Morris & Essex Ist. 31..• , Morris & Essex 2d 31... Joliet & Chic. Ist N 1... & Gt. East'n N. Y. & N. H. 65..... M. :94 D u b uque &S.City,lst ~ Peninsula Ist M.. ....... Ohio & Miss. Ist 11I.••••• Ohio & Miss. Con... ••••" 8 5 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. 1).- Atlantic & G. W. 2d M. 9 6 Restitution, who accomplished for Baron Rothschild one of his Ascot coups by winning the Alexandr a Plate ' won but two races during his eareer—the race in ques tion, and the Newmarket St. Leger Stakes last year. Sian SUTTON PARK SUMMER MEETING.—The F l y ing with 40 sous added, half a mile ; the Great a 13arr Cul ) 100 sov,,, for ll aes, 6 fur. ; the Nursery of 50 sos,st; three-quarters of a; g mile, and the Erdington Plate 01 , sovs, I Utile, close on Tuesday next. The betting men at Manchester have ed 3 ' commodious club in the Car enters'-hall, j u st oPer i . cons ,, quence of the recent prosecutions against the 11 keepers. ' hit ber• FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.—" The Spider" to v.- n au gentle 1' It is currently reported that the honourable gee sulfated, observed when some opposition was EU soon let nu know that I am master here." ~,r u t 01 LADVERTISENIENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills. —Ellie. , - en the Life.—When the blood is pure, its circulation Perfect' and nerves in good order, we are well. These pills possess a war. e re .. can r b d e e c r o e confidently t ld digestion,en tly recommended coormm worriede power in securing these great secrets of health by Purify ills filS Brook-street,.sin_ gulating, and strengthening fluids and solids. IfollovaY °," ..., . They correct acidity ._- fro.- d p i ains :_ ,cable quicken the action of the liver, and act as alteratives am. _ _,.. ol aperients. The weak and delicate may take them without let,°_ cons ° tl w tu a t Y i:) B n, as they raise the action of even' organ nanddedhbyetaonrteabrluvl nolie,sdrfsiasopLesilesseffc:rhruieue:uv, 1 gi: pills ar e eminently serviceable to invalids of irritarale. standard, ani universally exercise . fluence to its nett. I dative 01- age ate LADVERTISEMENTI—Avoid Medicines : they MINI'S' a "' tnag chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-resirish_ Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the 11 19 ±,; s s, ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other rem o , and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nervfeus,c c, '"..1 lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sl"Th blend.' IV° restor ed regularity, anc , energy to the most disordered or enfee by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rom e, extract a few oat of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's Jul, 0 . 6 6. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, j ii sioc 6 abandoning all other remedies, he has confined hims elf e nsi onet to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which h e e l belie a plateful at every meal. It has produced a s arprisin chines,i flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pro ile 25 coo especia Yntirel, lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, Jul ears' lira No. 53,216, of the Marchioness do Brehan, of seven Y:,, e rvoc. s _, complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness , palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplesT 7l; Lord the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No- 1,1 years' fro+- Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many ..,.., dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable ae,ulency. dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipatitr 'lire Na spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria JolY. ~,, ~,s a rs 46,270: Mr. Tames Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of " ~.7 . , s od diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangennu'rouy partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of te. wt hout unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, cue d , uthority, Baron Liebig's nae is most audaciously a lbs 22° ; In tins, at Is 1.4 d; Ilb2s 9d 2lbs 4s 6d 5 lbs lls r i2 0C0 1 . 05 24 lbs 40s. -Also DII BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA -1 1 00 POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for _' at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cuP_anent —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins, er. _... With 'ess, and free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Officeon; v r a nd BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, R ege nt street, Lo n d all Grocers and Chemists. _____--------- BIRTS. R' KEKEWICH—On the 12th inst., H at 94 , Park - sM are ' ba r g ,nt's-park, the wife of Arthur Kekewieh, .b 61 .17 rister-at-law, of a daughter. IrmAN— On the llth inst., a t 5, Buckingham - gat e, l' adi Augusta Vivian, of a son. MARRIAGES. ch LYNNE —PHILLIPS —O R the 10th t, at Christ ~/hur Rexl ,, y-heath, Mr. William C. Lynne, of Wood-greee• Middlesex, to M ar y S o phi a , eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Phillips, of 196, Regent-street. WHITMARSH— BLUNDELL-0 u the9th inst., at St.Georg e l Hauover-Fquare, William Michael Whit in arsh, M.D. , 0 Hounslow, W., to Harriett Jewell, daughter o f the late John Blundell, jun., Esq , of Timsbury, Hants. • DEATHS. MEADOWS - On the 12th inst., at Barnes, Surrey, Drink water Meadows, aged 75 . PARSONS On the 11th inst., at 10, New Cavendish -street, Dr. Samuel Parsons, agorl 61. SETON - On the 11th inst., at 9a, Upper Brook - str eet, Sir Charles Hay Seton, Bail., of Abercorn, aged 72. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, StrAnd, Printer, at TUE SUN Office, N 0.112, Strand in tte Precinct of tho SaToy, 111 tho county of lkilddlose x. " l I,l9nday, Juue 14, 1569.