The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

TILE MURDEILOF A FAMILY. Ihvestigazione are still beinq made into the murder of a family in thi - City of London; - "Rome facts have now been discovered of the ante,edents of the murderer. Walter James Duggin was a member of a well-to do familyliving at Bristol. When he was fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to a silversmith, and when he was twenty-four years of age he met a young German woman, who was two years older than himself, and after a short courtship he married her. They lived happily together for four years in Bristol, but business there failing, they came up to London, and took lodgings in Smithfield. The man obtained employment at Mr. Adams's, a master silversmith, in Hosier-lane, and in order to be near his :Jusiness,..he took apartments two doors off. A short time ..go it was suspected that some property had been stolen at his master's, and it is stated that one of his fellow employe's was dismissed: That fact preyed upon his mind very much, and since then some of his neighbours noticed his anxious looks, but as he appeared to have the confidence of his employer, it was never thought that he was engaged in anything dishonest. On Saturday evening he ii turned from his work and he then looked rather sad, and his wife told a female neighbour that her husband had been dis missed from - his employment, and that they had also received notice to leave their lodgings at 15, Hosier-land, at twelve o'clock on Monday. The way in which the murder was committed seems pretty clear. Duggin got two ounces of prussic acid from the chemist's on Saturday, probably assigning his business as a use for it. He also bought on Sunday night a quart of ale, at the Wheatsheaf Tavern, in Hosier lane, and it is most likely that he caused his children to drink the ale with the poison in it. Dr. Wilson, of Farringdonstreet, made a post-mortem examination of three of the bodies—namely, the mother, the eldest girl, Emma Duggin, 13 years, and the youngest boy, George Henry Duggin, aged about 3i years. In the intestines large quantities of prussic acid were discovered, espe daily in the stomach of the mother, which con tained no food. This poison was easily traceable in the bodies of the children, who had taken food evidently late on Sunday night. The letter which was written to the inspector of police of the Smithfield station, stated that full particulars would be obtained upon application to Duggin's brother at Bristol. Mr. Superintendent Foster, of the City police, at once telegraphed to Bristol, and ascertained that the brother of the deceased man did live in Castle-street, Bristol, A reply was received in London later in the afternoon that the mother of the unfortunate woman, Mrs. Duggin, would be in town in the even ing. It is thought that the children were first poisoned, Dr. Wilson giving it as his opinion that some of them were poisoned whilst asleep. This conclusion is arrived at in consequence of the peaceful expression of their features. When discovered the mother and children were all found undressed and in bed with the clothes over them. Duggin was also undressed and in bed in the back room. In the sitting-room was found on the table a Bible opened, which it is supposed he had been reading before going to bed. It is said Duggin was a Unitarian, and that he was a kind and loving husband and father. Whether the wife aided in the commission of the deed is not ascertained: One account states that the facts tend to shew that she did. The doctor says, for instance, that the bodies of the woman and the - man were both warm when discovered ; but the truth of this can only be settled by the evidence given at the inquest. LAW AND POLICE. • THE CASE OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. —At the Judges' Chambers, on Monday, an application was made to Master Pollock, in the Teigned issue, " Hope v. Beyfus," to amend the record by introducing the name of the Duke of Newcastle as one of the trustees of the property claimed by Mrs. Hope, at Carlton•house terrace. - The application was made by Mrs. Hope's solicitors. Master Pollock said that as the case had been before the judge he declined to hear it Sub sequently the parties waited on Mi. Baron Pigott at Chambers, and the attorney for Messrs. Beyfus, the execution creditors, objected to the applica tion. On the other side it was stated that the Duke was one of the trustees. Mr. Baron I'igott endorsed the sum mons "No order," without prejudice to an application to Mr. Baron Martin, who had settled the terms of the issues directed to be tried. LORD HENRY SEYMOUR'S WILL.—In the Rolls Court, on Monday, the cause of " Wallace v. the Attorney- General " came on for hearing. The suit was instituted to administer the trusts of eighteen testamentary documents in the French language, executed by the late Lord Henry Seymour, who was born, lived, and died in France. He gave all his personal estate, net otherwise disposed of, to "les hospices de Paris et de Londres," a gift which has occa sioned great litigation in this country. There were nearly 180 applicants for it, of which eighty-four were selected, and the fund awaiting distribution among the claimants amounts to £-16,C00, which will be much increased as the life interests created by the will fall in. The Master of the Rolls directed £l,lOO to he'remittcd to 'France, and, after providing for the costs of the suit, cirected the residue of the fund to be divided among the eaimants in equal proportions. There was a reversionary interest in a sum producing 10,100 f. a year, left to the " Lovdotr Hospital for Lunatics," which, his lordship held, St. Luke's and Bethlehem Hospital were entitled to share between them. ILL-USAGE OF A CHILD.--At the Newcastle Police court, a woman named Ann Kearney was charged with cruelly ill-using her child. A woman living near her stated that she heard cries proceeding from the house of the prisoner, and going there she found her beating the child with a poker. The child afterwards came to witness and chewed that her arm was broken. The prisoner was sent to take her trial at the sessions. The child was removed to the workhouse. A conference on working men's clubs was held at the Society of Arts on Monday. The case of the Duke of Newcastle, which was to have come before the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday, was postponed for the production of witnesses. A douLt is enter tained as to whether his grace, as a peer of the realm, is amenable to the law of bankruptcy. A painful accident occurred on Friday afternoon at the Aberllyfeni slate quarries, Iferiormthsire. A mass of rock and earth fell in, burying two of the quarrymen. The bodies were recovered after au hour's latour. A coroner's inquest has been held, and a verdict of aceiden!al death returned. _ The death is announced of Sir Irenry Boynton, Bart., which took p'ace on Friday, at his scat at Burton Agnes. The deceased was born in 1811, succeeded his father as the tenth baronet in 1854, and had been twice married. He is succeeded in the title and estates by his only son, Sir Henry Somerville Boyntcn. A RUMOUR CONFIRMED.—It is now confidently stated, as rumoured some time since, that her Majesty has signified her pleasure that Lord folio, a Scotch noble man, should be raised to the Peerage of the United King dom. Lord Rollo will sit in the House of Lords as Lord Dunning. On the nights of Saturday and Sunday 208 pus ms were booked at the various bridewells in Liverpool on charges of drunkenness. Of these 57 were found to b.) iu possession of various sums of money varying from 2d. to £3 10s., whilst no fewer than 151 were absolutely pennilt.ss. The question is, had this large number of pereous f , pcnt their last penny in di ink, or, if not, how had they obtained the drink ? DEATH OF Da. TODD.—The Rev. Dr. Todd, Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, died on Mon day morning after a short illness. He was about 65 years of age, and obtained his Senior Fellowship in 1831. He was distinguished as an Trish scholar and an antiquary. He held the office of Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Dublin, and was . a precentor of St. Patrick's Cathedral. • A GOOD OLD CUSTOM REVIVED. —We are very glad to hear that her Majesty the Queen has revived the good old custom of Ler predecessor,William IV., and has invited forty of the Blue Coat Boys, belonging to the Royal Mathematical or Naval Foundation, to visit her at Windsor Castle. Aftei presentation of their charts and drawings, a substantial luncheon will be proVided for them, at which her Majesty most probably will be present.— The Britannia. MARRIED IN A T UGBOAT. —A young couple were married in the Bay of San Francisco, on the 3lst of May, under rather trying circumstances. The girl father objected to her marriage, but she was of legal age- Dreading an interruption if the ceremony was conducted in a church, the couple hit upon the idea of hiring a tug boat, and getting the minister on board and pitting out on the bay, and there have the ceremony performed. This was accomplished, and while secure from the annoyance of parents or the importunities of friends, the ceremony was begun, when suddenly a p,rtion of the tugboat's machinery gave way with a terrible crash. The wedding party was startled, and confusion prevailed far a moment. The tug was so injured that she could not move. A signal of distress was hoisted, and the wedding party finally returned to the city. J. 11. Hall, a member of the Farmers' Club ar.d New York State Poultry Society. .has varcha,led farm on Long Island for the purpose of tes - dog general qte,,tions of interest in agriculture. Ono ~f those is the value of artificial manures, the profinalo groxvit , of ported seeds fr o m Washington and the fease,ility of rais ing poultry on a large scale. Dr. Pratter,e, of the Eccaleo bion celebrity, has kindly consented to aid him in the hatching of eggs by the hundred with his imported and improved machine. MISCELLANEoUS NEWS. - • The opponents of State Churches do not like the way matters seemed to be tending a day or two back —towards concurrent endowment. The Rev. J. Baldwin, the eminent Congregational minister; writes answering the attacks which it has recently been so mucii the fashion to make on voluntaryism. He recounts the virtues of an Established Church— order, dignity, propriety, sweetness, and light— and admits that there is something to admire in them. But he is charmed more by vigour, vivacity, and vitality. He loves life better than order, and he thinks that dislikers of voluntaryism sacrifice the former to the latter. But though Christian politicians and spiritual peers do not care to adopt voluntaryism, he protests that they should not speak of it with scorn, seeing that it was the plan upon which the Church was first promulgated. Mr. Baldwin, moreover, con tends that the age of endowment is passing away. "The end aimed at by the establishment of religion is already attained ; society is fairly leavened 1 4 Christian ideas— that is, the substratum of Christian thought and purpo3e which is the common heritage of all the Churches—and it no longer needs clerical influence in Convocation, in Parliament, or anywhere else, either to represent or to defend it. We are coming to disendowment simply because we have become a Christian people in a far deeper sense than can be expressed by the establish ment of religion. What is needed now is not a great national organisation (which once,l believe, was in a sense needed) to keep Christian ideas before the intellect and conscience of the State, but rather Christian men and women, who will addict themselves wholly to Christian work." THE RELEASE OF THE FENIAN PRISONERS. The promised meetings of the advocates for the release of - the Fenian prisoners took place on Sunday. At Cork, Limerick, Ennis, I%lullingar, and other places demonstrations were held, and each of the assemblages passed a resolution declaring they had no confidence in any message of peace which was not brought by the men now held in prison for political offences by the British Government. The most important of these protests was made at Cork by some 5,000 persons. The trades of the city marched in procession, headed by three bands. • Mr. .Healy, a publican; presided. Mr. Merriman, of London, sup ported the resolution. He said English people desired the release of the prisoners, and charged Mr. Bruce with misrepresentation. Mr. O'Sullivan, another publican, said if the Government did not grant a relase now, they would be obliged to do so when the opportunity came. In Dublin, on the same doy, the funeral of the wife of one of the Fenian prisoners was attended by some 2,000 persons. THE ORANGE FESTIVALS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. The apprehensions of a disturbance in the north of Ireland during the July anniversaries of the Orange body seem to be shared by Orangemen themselves. It is creditable to them that they are taking means to prevent any uproar. All their organs counsel moderation of demeanour ; and the question is raised whether all banners and scarves shall not be abandoned for the time. An address to the Orangemen of Pomeroy, a district in the county of Tyrone, has been issued, in which the writer advises his brethren—because "in these times it is most necessary to exercise forbear ance "—to abstain from any vain display of colours or music. He counsels them to meet in numbers to protest and to shew determination ; he warns them that they may yet have to fight for the temples of their God, but he calls upon them to meet in humi -I:ty, to be cautious, and to drop at such a time the " vaunting emblems of triumph." THE VISIT OF TEE VICEROY OF EGYPT. The visit of the Viceroy has, happily, roused the Court some:Nhat. The Windsor Review, given in honour of his Highness, was attended by the Queen, by the Prince of Wales and his Princess, by the Princesses Christian, Louise, Beatrice,and Mary of Teck,byPrince Arthur, and by lords and ladies in strong force. The fine weather and the distinguished visitors made the review one of the most successful displays which have been held in England of late years. Nor did her Majesty's movements end with the review of Saturday. The following clay she visited the camp, where the sol diers who had been inspected on the previous day were " dwelling in tents," and she attended divine service with the military. In the evening of the same day her Majesty re-visited the camp, and seemed most in terested in all that was going forward. The Viceroy was taken to the Zoological Jardens, and dined with the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Wales. Meanwhile some warnings to persons in high pieces are being utt( red by the press. It is stated that the Sultan was actually applied to for presents when he visited this country. That such things should be on the part of menials is bad enough, but when gentlemen and men of title demean them selves in such a way, they ought to be smartly informed that they are compromising the nation's hospitality. It is to be hoped that they will not serve the Khedive as they did the Sultan. DISEOP JENNEIL " Bishop Jenner survives ;.but there is no Bishop of Dunedin." Such is the mplanclicily annotmc-Incat of the Church rme,l. The unfortimat'.: prelite having spent Vie Eris,!,- two or Vireo years of his episeop:lte in England, bad no sooner set foot in his dioceso when he I..inal that he mi.2,lit just as well have spared himself the journey to the Antipodes. Ills flock would - none of him. Perhaps the last man to regvet that result will be the rejected Bishop himself. He will now be able to return to England with a clear conscience, and to travel about the country the chief performer in impressive and highly ornate functions. BANQUET TO HEIL MAJESTY'S JUDGES. The Sheriffs' banquet to the Lord Chancellor and her Majesty's judges was given on Saturday at thellall of the Haberdashers' Company by Mr. Alderman Cotton and . Mr.Hutton. In proposing the health of the Lord Chaneellori Mr. Alderman Cotton said it was interesting to remember that the father of that dis tinguished individual had been an alderman of London. The Lord Chancellor, in responding:, declared that he was proud of being a native of the city, which he believed to be . more remarkable than any that had ever existed. It was worthy of notice that the Norman conquerors had never interfered with the liberties of London. The noble and learned lord then referred to the great improvements which had taken place in the administration of the law since his early days. He concluded by expressing a hope that the social, civic, and corporate privileges which had been inherited from our fathers might be.preserved for the .benefit of those who were to follow. PUBLIC SECURITIES. An: announcement of great importance to the holders of Government securities is made. It is stated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to propose that the interest on the said securities, hitherto paid half-yearly, shall in future be paid quarterly. This, it is thought, will be advantageous everyway. Holders will receive their incomes more frequently; the Bank will be relieved of the pressure which such large payments involve ; the Govern ment will have less trouble as to the pay ment.'of the National Debt ; and the country will gain from the cessation of the. fluctuations which, in consequence of the long stretch of pay ments, now prevail in the money market. It is also stated that the Government is considering a re arrangement of its connections with the Bank of England, other joint-stock banks having offered to do, at a much smaller price, the work now accom plished by the Bank. MIL EDISIOND LEALES IN A NEW CAPACITY. Mr. Edmond Ileales, M.A., has come forth in a new capacity—as a preacher. On Sunday last he delivered what is called "an able practical religious address " to a crowd e d audience at Limehouse. Taking for his text the words "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," he contrived to put into his sermon his - opinion on most of the topics of the day. He wanted, he said, a Christian league, something after the style of the Reform League, banded together for the purp ose o f spread ing the truths of salvation. Ile condemned the mixing of religion with cruel laws. He spoke very strongly against war, as being unchristian, and asked if it were not inconsistent that the Pope, who pro fessed to be the representative of Him who proclaimed peace on earth, should call together an army from all parts of the earth. II e reproved the tendency of modern times to make money everything; declared the Scrip tures to be higher than any other kind of literature, and counselled that they should be read more. He corn plainedthat children were allowed to grow in ignorance, and then punished for doing that of the wickedness of which they had never been taught. He censured bribery and corruption in onr parliamentary and municipal elections ; and concluded by declaring the teachings of the Bible to be eminently practical, easily understood, and necessary to be followed. ANOTIIER PEER IN DIFFICULTIES. The series of disasters to the aristocracy is not yet complete. Another name has just beau add«l to those freely mentioned as in difficulties. Messr3. reyfEs, wlpse connection with the _Duke of Newcastle was not of the most pleasing character, so far as his Grace w•as con cerned, are now having equally unpleasant transactions with another peer. They have, it is stated, entered an execution for ,11,000 upon tho property of the Earl cf Westmoreland, at Apethorpe Hall, in Northamptonshire, The Earl is known as ;ti racing man, but 117:s certainly passed the time cf impetuous yol - ,th. He is 4.3 years of age, and is not known as a plunger. TR li T:ClIBOIINE BAI:ONETCY. It 3s stated, " on the best authority," that the claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy and estates has obtained such evidence as to make his case complete.' As the " best authority " is probably sore friend of the soi-diBant Sir Roger Tichborne. the story muat be neeived with much caution. It is, nowever, very dis tinctly given forth that the vessel which .picked up Sir Roger at Sea off Itio Janeiro. and took him natty Melbourne harbour, has been aiscovered, and the mate of the ship admits a clear recollection of having handed the baronet over the side of the vessel in an exhausted condition. The claimant has been iden tified by nearly every officer, non-commissioned officer, and private in his old regiment, the 6th Dragoon Guards, who have seen and conversed with him. Twelve county magistrates have sworn to his identity, in addition to the sworn evidence of his mother and that of three of his cousins. Ile also holds the sworn evidence of 200 of his former friends, tenants, and servants. The other side is quite as confident of success. They assert that the claimant is a sailor of the name of Arthur Orton. The Australian commission, however, will soon re turn, and then the cause will be ripe for hearing. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1869, NEWDEGATE AND FATEED. MATIIEW. A correspondence has just been published between Mr. Dawson Burns and Mr. Newdegate. Mr. Burns calls Mr. Newdegate to account for his statement that Father Mathew's temperance movement in Ireland was turned to the account of political agitation. No one, says Mr. Bums, could have been more careful to avoid the character of a political agitator than the late Father Mathew, and he does not believe that either before or after his lamented death the tem perance movement in Ireland has been made subser vient to political partisanship. Mr. Newdegate replies that he did not assert that Father Mathew himself had any political object in his undertaking, but that the organisation which grew up with the movement was used for political purposes. He de clines, however, to give the information upon which this statement is based, unless in answer to a question in the House of Commons. Mr. Burns, in reply, reininded his correspondent that O'Connell declined to take the pledge for years, so that the temperance movement might be entirely dissociated from the Repeal agitation. He adds that the friends of temperance reform throughout the whole of the United Kingdom have never detected any trace of such an alliance. THE COTTON SUPPLY OF INDIA. The disCussion on our Indian cotton supply was resumed a day or two since at the Society of Arts. Lord W. Hay strongly advocated the establishment of a separate department of agrieultUre in India. Mr. Birley, M.P., who was the principal speaker, men tioned that thirty years ago he had himself grown some cotton plants in Manchester itself. His plants grew to the height of six or seven feet, and produced pods in abundance. Surely, if this was the case, with all the disadvantages of Manchester soil and climate, it is possible to improve the quality and increase the growth of the plant in a climate where it was indigenous and has been grown for some 3,000 years. EMIGRATION TO CANADA. The lion. Mr. Hobart writes to the Timeg to acknowledge some more contributions to the East London Family Emigration Fund. The intention of this society is to give direct assistance to the poor, and to afford relief to the overcrowded labour market in the East of London. Mr. Hobart adds that he has met with a most satisfactory letter from an emigrant sent out by the fund last April. The man declares that there is plenty of work in Canada for all who like to go out there, and that all seem to live well. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS. The Times, in stating that the Government are taking active precautions to adopt the telegraphic system, says that the question of which signalling instrument shall be adopted has been under con sideration. It was stated some time since that Government had decided upon adopting either the Morse or the Bright system, but it has been rumoured recently that a preference will be given t) the Wheatstone instrument. CHILDREN ON THE TRAPEZE. Certainly we have had enough "frightful ex amples" of the danger -of trapeze performances. Men's performances are questionable enough, though there is hardly much to fear where practice had made perfect, as in the case of Leotard ; that women should take the dangerous flights is most reprehensible, but what shall be said of a child suspended at the height of sixty feet, and compelled to go through the usual swinging and standing. to the " amuse ment "of the spectators ? Such a spectacle is 3 nati now to be witnessed at Cheltenham. In that town a child, advertised as 4 years of age, thouga probably a trifle older, hangs nightly by its heels, by the back of its head, by one arm and one leg, to a bar suspended twenty yards above ground. A correspondent writes :—" As a father, I indignantly protest against the cruelty, cupidity, and demoralising_ tendency of such a sight ; and, as a medical man, I cannot but express my conviction that the unhappy child, by such a performance, must end its clays in a very few years, even if it escapes the all but certainty of an immediate fatality." MANUFACTURING DRUNKAWDS, The power of making anybody drunk has not yet been granted to the publicans, as one of their number recently discovered. The magistrates of Liverpool found themselves compelled to draw the Lue last week. They had before them a licensed victualler, one Caroline Hammond, charged with permitting drunkenness. The prisoner had served three girls, of 13 or 14 years of age, with three pints of beer. One of the girls was found by a police constable, soon after being served, very ill in the street. The magistrates, we are told, " severely censured the keeper of the public-house" and fined her ..{3 and costs; tbserving that " but for her previous good character a heavier penalty would have been inflicted." FOREIGN NOTES. THE lIAZZINI PLOT. Amongst the papers found on one of the persons re cently arrested at Milan is a letter by Mazzini, which has just been published. Judging by this epistle it would seem that the hopes of the Mazzini party are not in the ascendant at present. The outbreak which recently took Place at Milan was a Republican scheme, but the mine was exploded too early. Mazzini regrets this premature action in his letter. Still more seriously does he com plain of the dissensions amongst the memberi of his party. It appears that several military men who had been won over were by no means disposed to submit to the control of the arch-agitator. They aimed at taking the direction of the movement, and they held to the belief that the best policy would be to wait for some home or foreign event in order to commence the work of insurrection under favourable auspices. Mazzini is not of that opinion. Though he thinks the raising of the standard at Milan was badly concerted, he is not the less convinced that the time is ripe for the overturning of the monarchy. He suggests an agitation on the sub ject of Rome in all the chief cities, with a view to prompt and decisive a , ...tion. A. hearty initiative, he says, would upset the monarchy which has lost its two strongest sup ports—the inertia of the agricultural population and the confidence of the army. From this it is clear that the recent outbreaks were due to Mazzinian influences. The Constitutionnel attributes the riots in Belgium and France to the same cause. THE STRENGTH OF THE DEMOCRATS IM FRANCE. The war between Imperialism and Democracy may be said to have fairly commenced with the recent general election. Imperialism has many advantages on its side ; but democracy has one most formidable plea, which the Parisian correspondent of the Times points out. The policy of the Empire is armed peace ; the Democrats, on the other hand, arc shrewdly preaching reduction of forces and economy. One idea the French peasant is undoubtedly gifted with : he knows the burden of paying for war, and be knows the value of peace. Universal su ff rage, the P ar i s i an correspondent thinks, will at least be a pacific rule. "There is some comfort in the -humane thought that war will probably become less frequent when the power is lawfully vested in our lower and rural classes, who pay most heavily— that is, bodily—for it. But there is also some ground of alarm for the patriot in the undoubted fact that our villagers—having no idea whatever of the general wants of the State--begin to lend a willing car to those sweet and alluring articles of faith in the Democratic creed,. 'No army, and almost no taxation.' The Socialists cannot find much favour among our peasantry of freeholders, incited, as they are, to hard work by an indomitable love of property ; but a much better reception is insured to any preacher against the taxes and the army, those two hereditary and perpetual scourges of the French peasant." The Democrats know this, and are making the most of it. PRUSSIA AND HANOVER. The High Court of Berlin has just given judgment on 3 charge of high treason against eleven Hanoverian!. Three of these, V.lio had been guilty of recruiting for the Hano verian Legion which King George had established in France, have been condemned to fifteen months' imprison ment ; the others to a year. ALERICAN AID FOR CUBA. The irrepressible Yankee is not to be kept in order by I his own Government nor by ally other agency. In spite of the vigorous measures taken by the Washington Cabinet, assistance still continues to leave the '.American ports for Cuba. Colonel Ryan has escaped the vigilance of the authorities, and sailed for Cuba with 1;00 men. The , American papers just arrived are fall of news, real or apocryphal, respecting the Fail gor preparing of filibus tering .expeditions. Some of these accounts arc doubt less untrustworthy—in fact, if all the expeditions talked of had landed in Cuba, the /ecus standi of the Spaniards I would have become precarious 'ndeed. But it is clear that support from the TToited .1;!es has given the Cuban revolt quite a new aspect. ' IiTSTERIOIIS DISAEFEARA3CES AT NEW YORK. Strange stories or ttunerciug - indriiduals spirited away in an unaccounto,ble manner appear in the American papers. The Philadelph= Pu7lic Ledger says that not fewer than twenty-four persons vanished during the fort night ending June 12. One was Mr. Steadman, a wealthy Englishman, who arrived in New York a few days before bis disappearance. Another was a young lady of beauty and wealth. One of the New York papers seems to make light of these stories, but they deserve at least inquiry. THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT. The ocean steamers are doing a tremendous business through the great emigration revival. The Minnesota arrived at New York from Liverpool on the 15th with 1,238 passengers, and the City of London from the same port brought 1,181. Some of the Few York papers are crying out against the overcrowding which these enormous figures seem to indicate. The New York Quarantine is troubled with numerous cases of smallpox. AIIIIIY REFORIf IN AFFGHANISTAN. The news from Afghanistan remindsus of a remote and momentous epoch in our own history. We have all read a. f the time when the English army was composed of the retainers of the noblemen, when each lord brought his own petty force to the help of the sovereign, the discordant and motley elements forming an army, and when the arms of these local magnates were often turned against the monarch. The Wars of the Roses broke the power of the nobility, and the jealousy of Henry VII. forbade the aristocracy maintaining any longer their armies of retainers. It is precisely in this stage of progress that Shere Ali finds himself. His army is now made up of the petty bands of countless chiefs, each supported by a grant of land from the ruling power. Shere Ali has been struck with the unity and power of the State paid Anglo-Indian army, and he wishes to put an end to the existing Affghan system. He has resolved to make all the soldiers his own, and to con fiscate the land belonging to the chiefs, recompensing them by grants of money. In short, they are to be die established and disendowed. It remains to be seen whether Shere Ali is strong enough to - Upset this feudal system. The attempt is interesting to us, for it is quite on the cards that the Ameer's endeavour to overturn the power of the chiefs may end in the collapse of his own. CHRISTIANS IN CHINA. From a proclamation recently issued in China, it appears that the natives, at all events in one district, have been ordered to moderate their hostility to the Christians resident in the Celestial Empire. The mandate, which is drawn up with the most celestial serenity, states that foreigners who propagate religion are doing so with authority at the Treaty Ports. If the people become converted it is of their own free will. To post anonymous placards of any kind is a practice which the authorities condemn, but to post placards stating that all persons who join the Christian religion will be injured is false and in every way reprehensible. The proclama. tion winds up by enjoining the people to mind their own business, and not talk of things vain and to no purpose. DUTIES ON BRITISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES. The first of a series of returns on the import tariff levied on the produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom furnishes some interesting facts relating to the different rates in different countries. The duty laid on woollen and worsted yarns, for instance, is highez in the United States than in any continental country except Portugal. The American duty ranges from lls. to £ll 9s. per cwt. ; in Greece it varies from £1 Bs. to £5 13s. ; in Russia it is uniformly £2 4s. ; in France the tariffs run from 4s. to £2 (round numbers) per cwt.; in Austria, from ls. Cd. to 12s. 2d.; in Switzerland, from Is. 7d. to 2s. 10d.; in Belgium, from Bs. 2d. to 12s. 2d. in the States of the Zollverein, from ls. Cd. to 12s. 2d. The duties of silk threads are much higher, but those levied in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and the United State: are the highest. On cotton yarns the tariff in Greece it moderate, but high in Russia. Portugal. and Snai• COMMERCIAL IMMORALITY IN LONDON AND NEIV YORK. (From the Anglo-American 2 ime.s.) The commercial immorality of New York and of London might be taken as signifying such quanti ties as six of this and half a dozen of the same. Nevertheless there is a marked difference, not in ! the degree, but in the quality of the article. Lon ' don is essentially a society of wolves and sheep, while in New York the wolf element more or less prevails throughout the community. Some there are of surpassing wolfishness—regular Philistines who c in devour Philistines—men so well known in New York as to be needless to name, but they fur nish us with excellent illustrations to show the difference between commercial immorality in the Empire City and in London. Throughout England are scattered a vast number of families, each pos sessing a small realized competence. They consist of profe&ional men ; sons who have inherited euffi cient for their wants, clergymen, widows, retired officers of the Army, Ni.vy, and Civil Service, re turned colonists, and merchants established in foreign countries; but more than all, those who have succeeded to an income, often unexpectedly. As a rule they arc ignorant of business to a degree difLult for an American to comprehend, nor is tne reas m hard to discover. Professional walks are hedged in and narrowly circumscribed in Great Britain. A man pursues a speciality, even sub d,vidin g his calling, S) as confine him to one particular branch ; and though he may excel in that, it is at the cost of his genera: knowledge. A doctor, an officer, a clergyman, knows nothing of trade, either theoreticallyof thelawsthatregulate it or practically of the probable action of mankind when with ill-con trived checks some are intrusted with other people's money. Thos who havetried their hands at all things, from peddling nutmegs up to building a Union Pacific Railroad, from a revival to commanding a division in the field, have no notion of the innocence and gullibility of such English lambs. For ten years they grow up and accumulate, when the periodical slaughter of the innocentscommences. A new crop of retired officers and clergymen, and professional men and widows, occupy the houses of those im molated in the last battue, who with their sorrows and experience lie buried in the old churchyards. On the arrival of that 10th of September, the most vulgar and least imaginative liar and blackguard can riot in spoil. Offensive things, men with tainted character, notoriously unprincipled, become sur feited with plunder, and to gorge each, the number of stricken deer sent to weep, is enough to make the heart bleed to calculate. The simple plan in London, when the helpless multitude catch tile ma nia to increase their means by investing in good things—be they South Sea Bubbles, Itailwayfurores, or a Joint-stock Limited Liability saturnalia—is for one cf these wretches who may be in waiting, out at elbows up alleys, or keeping up a dignified ap pearance in a mysterious way, to catch a few of the best-known victims as decoy ducks, coupled with some ruffians as unscrupulous as themselves, with whom Rotten Row is thronged, and the game throughout is played with an ease and safety little creditable to the laws of the country, or the under standing of the people. they thus plunder: Mixed with pity one cannot, even when a victim oneself, but feel a shade of contempt for the poor things thus robbed as shamelenly, as mercilessly, for it is both shameless and merciless from the issue of the first lying prospectus to its last stage in Chancery—. alike dishonourable and disastrous to the commu nity. But the scene is wholly different in New York, where the fight is between strong men, and the victor is a giant in ingenuity, in energy, in cou rage, iu rascality —aye, and he has defeated giants, for even- the " lame ducks," after a hot contest in 'Wall-street, are found to betnen of no mean capacity, but those who battled bravely against a Napoleon in strategy. The bloated English thief is a sneaking wretch, aping respectability and fashion, it may be religion.; or else an outcast of society living luxu riously, but despised ass convicted blackguard, and shunned and insulted wherever he goes, for lie is recognized only as the thing he is, the man who basely availed himself of a weak moment to plunder the poor trusting victims who had confided in him. In New York, however, he who has conducted to a brilli int success a campaign of speculation while heartily abused, while called every name by which the gradations of blackguardism are defined in Eng lish, commands a certain sort and degree of admi ration and respect. Fortune is pitted against for tune ; combination meets combination. Doubtless, the innocent are stricken down in the fight, but that is by the bursting of stray shells and the explosions of magazines where the people have been warned to take care. In New York no Philistine approaches the sheep clad in robes of respectability, with verses of Scripture and cut and dried texa; of the moral duties of man, to steal the widow's pittance, to ap propriate the hard earnings of a life, to send the father to suicide, and the daughters to seek their bread as housemaids and nurses. We grant the unscrupulous character of the New Yorker as well, and allow that circumstances only may have saved him from being as detestable a thief ; he has none of the.opportunities for such cheap fattening as his Cockney prototype, and the qualities which make him the animal he is may be developed by the cir cumstances in which he is placed. Though the general run of English and American merchants are the same, speculation enters more into the business of the New York firm. This isin the nature of things, for the American deals in a paper currency subject to violent fluctuations, which means some such thing as that his dry-goods may at random turn out to be measured by a yard of four feet or of three, and his possessions are greater or lesser on the chance. An importing merchant may have to buy the gold by which he clears the goods invoiced at a price equal to half their foreign value—at 30 or 50 pre mium he can only guess at the cost. If he buys in ad vance he is neither more nor less than a "bull," for he has made money by anticipating the rise; if he waits, he is a " bear," for he speculates for a fall, and delays his operations to avail himself of his calculation. Thus he is placed in the position of one having a time-bargain with the Government, and being compelled to speculate whatever course he takes for the fulfilment of his contract. A European merchant can readily understand how it may become an easy step from this involuntary act to an habitual gambling in gold. Even a retailer who buys his goods from the importer is materially affected by the rise or fall of gold. If his store is full of imported goods and gold rapidly rises these goods appreciate in value, that is, he will get more currency for them than he calculated on when he made his purchases. Thus the element of chance is largely increased by the paper currency, and gambling becomes the usage, bringing in its train all its demoralizing consequences. The root of all speculation is the desire to gain speedily and with out labour, to take the honey and expel the hive ; and nothing can be more fascinating to human kind ; for, if the delusion really existed, it would be in deed a royal road to wealth, but it does nut exist ; for wealth is the product only, of well applied, con tinuous, and successful labour, and the exceptions but give point to the rule. When gambling be comes general its first effect is to check labour, for many who otherwise would work and honestly em ploy their means, prefer to speculate for their wealth, and therefore it draws to the large cities both men and money at the expense of the rural districts. Its next effect is to increase crime, in what degree the recent criminal records of New York can show ; and its sure end is a smash, for it breeds an hallucination, an intoxicating atmosphere, through which things are seen magnified, distorted, or turned upside down. The tulip mania was in appearance a greater absurdity than the Limited Liability mania, though in reality not nearly so great an absurdity, for, at worst, the tulip was worth nothing, but the limited liability share ge nerally represented a heavy debt to its owner. The speculator in the first had bought a palpably worthless bulb, but the purchaser of the last had bought a crushing liability and encumbrance, still neither could for the moment see what was after wards so plain. The gambling atmosphere at the time breathed by both classes of speculators had the effect we describe, and so it will always be found, but in young countries the general form is a real estate or laud mania. Gambling exists then in a chronic state in New York, based on the paper currency, and as business is carried on by men who better uuderst nd what they are doing, and are not of the gullible nature to be found in England, while the property whereon the operations are based being of a more substantial character, the climax takes longer to reach. But it is perhaps on this account all the more injurious to the community, and to the country ; for people, instead of being soon " choked off" as in London, become confirmed in this vicious mode of business, and the instances of success have a demoralizing influence on the inhabitants, persuading the young and inexperi enced that there is a royal road to wealth, which they take, and find that instead of Jew:ling to the White House, it conducts them straight to Sing Sing. The main difference between commercial immorality—meaning thereby a rage for specula tion—in London and New York is that, in the former, it is intermittent, coming on iu fierce fits ; in the Litter it is chronic—the fixed habit of the patient, generated by peculiar circumstances, which indeed may be said of both. PROFE.SSOR GOLD IVIN S3IITIL Professor Gold win Smith male a speech at the ' annual dinner of the Toronto University Associa tion, and it is clear that he has to a certain extent realised the sneering prophecy of some Tory journals when he left England far his chair at the Cornell University. He spoke of Cornell as in a rude, un finished state, and of the habit of the American eagle to open and boast of its institutions before they are "quite fixed up." Nevertheless, he paid a high compliment both to the college and its foun der, though he questioned whether Greek iambics would ever be so correctly recited within its walls as at the Toronto University. He then turned to his opinion, so generally censured, of the precarious position in which he thought he was lately placed. "lie stated the case of England, and for this had re ceived a pretty full amount of abuse, and especially from the press. But as he was here under the safe protection of the British flag, he might say that the American press is not universally celebrated for its intelligence; and one of the papers that had been particularly fierce in its denunciation of him had the day before a brilliant article bearing on the hat and boots of a rival editor. He sincerely hoped the storm would blow over, and the more he saw of the American people the more he was con vinced of their readiness to meet every other people in a fair and honourable spirit. All he feared was the extreme virtue of some of the politicians. It was possible that they might do something too dis interested and sublime. He was afraid of this, for hasty progress in that direction would lead to con sequences. We, the English, were ready to repair any wrong we might have committed, and if we had done any injury to any other people, let that people come in a proper spirit, and we would at once ac knowledge it. We are ready to do that, but we are not, by any means, ready to allow any one to have the honour of trampling our flag under foot. . . Social and commercial intercourse were the great cords which must ever bind nation to nation, and these intertwined with intelligence and religious sentiments, and feelings of common brotherhood, must ever prevent any serious breach between the peo ple of the United States and the people of England." Professor Gold win Smith has published in pam phlet form his late address on English and American At:airs. In the preface he shows what induced him to consider the state of international relations so criti cal, which called forth theletter so much commented on in England, and which caused great surprise in America. — He truly remarks that there are two sides to a quarrel, and it is a mistake to suppose that it rests with Americans alone to settle whether to fight or not. Mr. Smith says : "An Englishman resident in America may be an imper fect judge of the indications of American feeling, but he has the ad7antage of knowing something of both sides ; and the danger was to be measured, not by the feelings or intentions of the American people alone, but by these combined, w i t h t h e genera l t em p er an d present mood of the powerful nation against which Mr. Stunner's speech was made." In reply to the remark that he was the incumbent of a fat professorship, he adds this explanation : The impression appears to prevail in some quarters that the author of the address is receiving a salary as Professor in an American University ; whence it is in ferred that ho has lost his right to speak as an English man, and to plead the cause of England. He is receiving no salary or emolument whatever. His connection with the Cornell Universit, - , though greatly prized and cherished by him, is merely honorary, and ca❑ in no way interfere isith his nationality or Lis allegiance. His positio❑ is simply that of an Englishman residing in the United States for I:t, , rary purposes, and enjoying, in common with mans other foreigners, the temporary protection of A uteri can law." DuNvit.t.F. and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to 3lessrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W,C.—[Ad useatent. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (Front the Springtielh?epublican, June 12.) An increasing stringency, which a variety of causes combine to produce, is apparent in the money market. Large shipments of currency have lately been made from New York to the banks in the country, the Government continues its sale of two millions of gold weekly, the rem nant of the grain crop of 1868 tlirosghout the West is being forwarded to market, an .I the producers of the wool clip of the present summer will soon be seeking to ex change it for cash—all facts which stimulate the demand for money and increase the rate of its interest. The pay ments of revenue and of the income tax create a consider able call for money, and in many districts it will continue through the current month. The last weekly statement of the New York Banks showed a decrease in their re sources of 54,500,000 in the single item of legal tenders, which indicates to some extent the greater employment for funds, and caused an immediate advance in the mar ket. The currency balance of the United States Treasury is now about twenty-three millions, of which nearly two thirds are in tho New York sub-treasury. The demand for money for purely speculative uses has been percep tibly checked, in consequence of the dullness and decline in the stock market. Chicago is leaning money on considerably higher rates, and the farmers of the in terior country are hastening their stocks of wheat to market, to make way for the growing crop. The movement is fully a month later than usual, and cur rency will soon be flowing from New York to Chicago. San Francisco has quite a scarcity of money, and 1 per cent. a month is readily paid. The stringency is partially owing to the recent heavy demands of the Central Pacific Railroad, but more, it is thought, to the hoarding and biding of the Chinese labourers and small dealers. The gold market has been quite steady through the week, and almost undisturbed by speculation. The high price of foreign exchange holds the premium firmly at about 138, which is 1 per cent higher than the average for the year, thus far. The Treasury sales are well patronized, and the assistant treasurer receives bids amounting to five or six millions, from which to select the purchasers of the one million, to which his semi-weekly sale is limited. The Government is also disbursing about a million of coin weekly, in payment of interest, some of it in advance on the July coupons, and there is apparently no difficulty about an adequate supply of gold for all demands. The heavy payments of coupons which will begin July 1, will set quite a quantity of geld on the market, and shipments to Europe, which have of late been quite limited, will undoubtedly bo increased. Our bills for foreign imports aro steadily swelling, and at the dose of last week amounted to $110,339,004, since Jan 1, or about $34,000,000 more than those for the corresponding time in the previous year. The export of specie for the same time has been only 513,613,623, leaving a heavy balance against us, to bo defrayed in some way or other, and to which our foreign sale of bonds will hardly prove adequate, and in deed at the present quotations there is no profit in ship ping any bonds to Europe for disposal. Government securities have met with scarcely any noteworthy change in their market value. The greatest demand in the New York market is for the Currency Sixes of 1881, which are a thirty-year loan, and on the resumption of specie pay, ments will be one of the most valuable securities issued by the Government. They have been comparatively neglected by speculators in the popular Five-twenties, but have been quietly absorbed in large quantities by per manent and steady-going investors. This issue is not negotiable in Europe, and is also of limited amount. The foreign demand for our bonds has again revived, and at London and Frankfort prices are higher. The loss to London dealers by the recent decline in American and other stocks, in consequence of the raising of the rate of the Bank of England, is estimated at £30,000,000 sterling, and in the light of this experience, it is unlikely that the operation will be soon repeated. Continental brokers took the stocks as fast as the prices declined, and now the Lon don dealers are compelled to buy in again at a consider able advance. The home and foreign markets have been altogether undisturbed by any warlike reports or sen sational rumours, and the tone of the Euglish press is remarkably mild and lamb-like. The favourable debt statements of Mr. Beutwell, which grow better every month, and more favourable the more closely they are examined, undoubtedly have a powerful influence in sus taining our national credit at home and abroad. Railway stocks have been generally unsettled and declining, and the market has a squally lock ahead. The absence of many leading railroad men from Wall-street last week to attend the stockholders' meetings at Cleveland and Chi cago afforded the " bears " an opportunity for a raid on the market, which they made with considerable success. The Vanderbilt scheme of absorption and consolidation of roads from New York to Chicago, by way of Albany, Buf falo, and the Lake Shore, does not seem to prosper quite so well just now, and the advance in New York Central and associate roads has been seriously checked. " Old chigan Southern" has been "hampered" repeatedly and suffers under its attacks. The general tone of the market is heavy and lifeless, and if a panic is avoided a term of inactivity and suspense seems probable. The Western Union Telegraph stock holds up strongly under the influ ence of a 2 per cent. semi-annual dividend and a generally flourishing condition of the company. The company last year earned 6 11-100 per coot. on its nominal capital, equal to 13 per cent. on the present market value of its stock, and transacted 93 per cent. of the business of the country. Pacific Mail stock has recovered from its extreme depres s'ea ou the opening of the overland railroad, and ha managers expect to reap a profitable business iu the freight traffic, for a long while to come. Its passenger business also continues good—the last beat from New York having taken over 800 passengers.—Mariposa mining stock has been sent tumbling from its recent ascent, and is settling rapidly back to its old rates. Decrease in the products of the mines is said to have caused the decline. Trade in dry goods had considerably improved, and many purchases are reported, to be held over until the fall trade. Those transactions have already sufficiently reduced the stock in first hands as to relieve the manufacturers of any embar rassment and to ensure the disposal of their products dur ing the summer months. Prices have not materially ad vanced, but the tone of the market is stronger and more confident. Cotton in the Southern ports is, however, per ceptibly higher, and the reports from the interior,which do not indicate more than average crops, will probably keep up prices for seine time to come. In all kinds of manu factured fabrics business is better, but for imported goods a dull time is prevalent and likely to continue. —The live stock markets, west and east, show a falling off in the supply,an o da y moderate imp rovement i n the prices. The :Mon ey Article of th e P hiladelphia Public Ledger, June 11, denounces the misrepresentation by which agents secure the sale of American railway bonds in Europe. It g i ves a long extract from a leading French journal L'Eclaireur Financier, and concludes by regretting that there is not some official power in the United States to examine and expose the m any e ff orts made to palm off speculative stock, " as i t may aid in protecting Ame rican credit abroad if villainy cannot be prevented at home." The same article contains the follow ing The London Times' Money Articles are watched w i t h more than usual interest here since the avowal by that journal that the Bank of England had de termined to stop the very large speculations there in United States bonds. In this connection, in its issue of the 13th ult., it says it is e s ti mated that 'the amount of f or eign securities sold by English holders to foreign buyers within a week or two previous bas been more than a mil lion sterling'—'sufficient to exercise a very distinct effect on the money market,' and lessening the probability 'of any further immediate action by the Bank of England.' This information, if verified in fact, will remove the only apparent obstacle in the way of the success of the bull' movement in all stocks, inaugurated here a month since, and for a time held in check by the threatening announce ment that the Bank of England had determined upon a course that might send our 5-20 Bonds home. This ap prehension removed, a huge stock excitement seems pro bable. (From the Wall -street Journal.) Friday Evening, Juno 11, 1869. The Money Market shows increased activity, and bor rowers at the banks are glad to be accommodated on call at 7 per cent. in currency. On the street the same rate is readily paid in gold. Discounts aro neglected, it boing just now more profitable to employ money on call. Thu gold market is firm and higher, having oponod at 138 i, and closed at 1391. At the ninth Treasury sale of gold, on June 7th, the bids were for a total of nearly six mil lions, at prices ranging from 138.76 to 138.38. The awards were as follows:—$50,000 at 138.76, $250,000 at 138.66, $300,000 at 138.65, $250,000 at 138.63}, $150,000 at 138.63. At the tenth sale of $1,000,000 yesterday the amounts bid for were over two millions, and the awards were as follow:—$100,000 at 138.921,5250,000 at 138.911, $lOO,OOO at 138.921, $50,000 at 138.921, $50,000 at 136.46, $50,000 at 139.12, $lOO,OOO at 138.96, $lOO,OOO at 138.95, 8100 000 at 138.95. QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Amer. silver... 95 to 951 I Eng. sovs 4BG to 488 Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 101 j2O francs 381 „ 386 Eug. silver 475 , 480 I Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 96 Foreign Exchange is quiet, but steady. Sixty Days. Three Days. Londcn Bankers Lc,Lc:. n, Prime Commercial lOBl-109i Paris, Bankers 5.221-5.161 5.161-5.134 Bremen, Bankers liamburgh, Bankers 351-35i Frankfort, 0.111 394-40-1 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.22;-5.161 Amsterdam, Bankers Swis s 5 4.) 5.1.61 ...... In Government Bonds there is riot much ci,ing, tho unsettled state of the market checking purchases. Prices are, however, firm. Sixes, 1861, registered Sixes, 18E1, coupon l2li to 1211 Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. 6s. Pacific ltaihead lO6l to IC7 Five-t weLties, 186 -, , coupon Five-twouties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 18.15, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 lln t o IN Ten-forties, coupon lOBB to 1084 Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 Railroad Gold Bonds contii will find, in another column, in reference to the Seven Missouri Valley Railroad Co, N. Y. Central Cs, 1883 98 N. Y. Central Gs, 1887 N. Y. Central Cs, R Est 87 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n ;88 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 78, 3d Mort, 1883 B9 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 BO Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 75 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. & E. Ist M,'77 B5 Hud. R. is, Ist M, Hod. R. is, 2d AI, 'B5 1031 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 1001 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 125 Mich. new Ist AI Bs, 'B'2 125 Mich. No., 7 p. c. 2d M 94 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 98 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 119 i Alton &'l'. 11. let 31 Alton & T. 11. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc 77 Han.& St.J. LaudGrantsloB Ilan. & St. J. Con 117 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 112 & N. West, S. F 9B & N. W. Con Cony 99 ('hi. & N. W. Ex'n B — aue to sell steadily. Investors , soma interesting particulars er Cent. Gold Bonds of the mpany. Chi. & N. W. Ist M 93 Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex B3 Gt. Western 2d M '93 79k Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — Gal. & Chic. Est 100 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 96 Chi. & R. I. Ist M 1001 Chi. H. I. & Pacific 7's 9Bi Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 100 N. J. Central Ist M 99 N J. Central 2d M 100 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M — Pitts. Ft. W , & Cli.2(111 9B Pitts. Ft. W. & Ch. 3cl M 9 5 -1 Cleve. & Pitts. 3d AI 95 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. 97k Chic. & Alton, S. F. lstM.lo-1 Mil. & St. P•tul Ist M 93 Mil. & St. Paul 2d NI B3 Marietta & Cin. Ist M B7 Morris & Essex Ist M 9B} Morris & Essex 2d M 95 Joilet & Chic. Ist M & Gt. East'n N. Y. & N. H. 6s 95 Dubuque &S.City,lst M 92 Peninsula Ist M Ohio & Miss. Ist M 94 Ohio & Miss. Con B5l Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D B4 Atlantic & G. W. 2d M — Miscellaneous Stocks show much activity, more espe cially Pacific Mail, which has been largely dealt in at advancing rates. Mariposa has, like Humpty Dumpty, had a great fall, the common stock having suddenly dropped from 23 to 5, the Preferred Stock from 491 to 15, and the 10 per Cent. Certificates from 811 to 35. To-day, how ever, the market shows slight advances on these securi ties. The rapid decline in Mariposa knocked over some half-dozen bankers and brokers, but they were mostly of the smaller fry, and not much harm has been done. N. Y. Central lB7a Erie 2 29* Hudson Reading Mich. South. &N. I llsa Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 951 N urth-West North-West Preferred 99i Canton G3I Rock Island Jleveland and Toledo Express Stocks are dull an Adams American Merckants' Union 391 to 40 Merchants' Union, old Stock l4 to 111 United States Wells, Fargo, and Co 3O to 30i Fort Wayne Pacific Mail 844 Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred 474 Ohio and Mississippi 324 Boston Water Power l6 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers lO7 M & St. Paul M & St. Paul Preferred 854 td neglected : Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report as fol lows :—Pennsylvania Railroad were 57 57-1,-; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 101; Sixes, 2d Mortgage, 96 97. LITERARY ITEMS.—Mr. John Morley, editor of the Fortnightly Review, is to assume the editorial chair of the London Star.—Alexander IL Stephens published a letter in one of the Washington papers, Wednesday, June 9, in reply to some criticisms on his history of the rebel lion. He takes a very gloomy view of the situation, and argues that wo are drifting lo consolidation and empire. Not hing, he thi❑ks, can prevent the final establishment of imperialism but a determined effort on the part of the people to preserve free institutions. The remedy, he says, is not in secession. That was tried and found insufficient. It must be at the ballot box. He calls upon the people of the several States to seriously consider whether they will maintain free institutions or accept imperialism.—The Pall Mall Gazette announces a reduction it price to one penny. We Lope it never will be reduced to the standard of the Echo, and become a nuisance. After all the organ for gentlemen has discovered that there can be respectability in a penny, a fact it professes its sorrow not to have known from the beginning. It will be the cheapest paper in London, indeed the cheapest thing in Loudon, if main tained up to the present mark. The Pall Mall, in an nouncing this alteration in price, insinuates a delicate compliment to the public. Those who started the gen tlemen's organ had no idea that such a recherche article as they were about to prepare could bo relished by such chaw-bacons as the common people, and are agreeably surprised that they have only to reduce the price to what these can afford, to find their paper read over the kingdom. — Amongst the most beautifully illustrated of trade circulars arc those of the publishers and the stationers. Of another order, yet of singular artistic merit, is ono by Messrs. Hailes and Co., illustrating the articles turned out of the manufactory of Messrs. J. Drew and Co., 33, Rege❑t's circus, Piccadilly. The advance in taste of the British public is as noticeable in this respect as in the decorations of the parks and the improved style of architecture. By degrees it will be carried into such trifles as match-boxes, and the thousand little nick-necks of every-day life, when England may challenge comparison with Prance in taste. If continental manufacturers now compete with English manufacturers in cottons and iron work, the English people have so far invaded the Continental domain that they now compare with the most tasteful i❑ design. Some of these catalogues deserve more notice than they get, but newspapers naturally object to giving advertisements for nothing, otherwise they could scarcely fail to receive more attention. The Messrs. Drew invite gentlemen to design their own trunks and camp furniture, s hich they will exe cute according to pattern, and certainly in the book before us they show how these designs should be drawn. NAVAL ITEMS.—The Iron steamer Shamokin, ad vertised for sale by the Navy Department, was to be disposed off by auction at Washington on the 19th inst. The Go vernment steamer hornet was to be sold in Philadelphia on the 21st. The Hornet was formerly the Lady Sterling, built in England, and captured from the Rebels during the war. The Algonquin will also be offered for sale during the present month. Those vessels have been appraised by a competent board of survey, and will not be sold un less the bids reach the amounts sot by the board. Thero are a number of interested parties in America toascertain the value of the vessel, in order that they may range their bids accordingly.--Rear-Admiral Hoff, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, in the U.S. flagship Contocook, left Havannah on the 20th May for Matanzae, Cuba, where she arrived May 27. The following political conventions will be held during the months of June and July:— Date of Con- Politics. Location. vention. June 10—Iowa Rep..... Des Moines. June 10—Iowa Temp... Des Moines. June 1 6—Vermont Rep. ....Rutland. June 17—Vermont Dem....Montpelier. June 23 —Pennsylvania Rep, ....Philadelphia. June 23 -Ohio Rep. ....Columbus. June 24—Maine Rep..... Bangor. June 29—California Dem.... Sacramento. June 29—Maine Dem. ...Bangor. June 29—Maine Temp... Portland. July I—Mississippi Rep..... Vicksburg. July 7—Ohio Detn.....Columbus. July 14—Pennsylvania Dem. ....Harrisburg. July 21—California Dep. ....Sacramento. .... [ADVERTISEMENT. J —Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— The friends of the afflicted should try in their trouble these purifying remedies. For more than the third of a century have these medicaments been before the public, by which their merits have been universally recognised and commended. In all ailments they prove useful. In debilitated constitutions they act as preventives to disease; and where maladies have manifested themselves the afflicted can resort to no remedies at once so efficient and harmless as Holloway's. They keep the blood pure, and preserve the stomach in a sound state; they cool and cleanse the whole system. These medicaments should be possessed by all. They will confirm good health, and prove serviceable under any infirmity that can ailict mankind. LAD VERTISEMENTI—Henceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta. Arabic& Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866. - The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabi= Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out ofmore than 68.000 cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation, all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, 0 spitting of blood, liver derangement, and par ti fi r a y l d a e n a d fn n e lo ss r .. th an portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury n sl a o m pp e y is i m m o it s a t ti a o u n d s ac t i o ou w .l h v ic a h tta , without ched. authority, Baron Liebig's 5 N 6 4 I A A 5 n i b A s n e l A -11 s 12 lbs 22s ; 000LATRI 2 tllabsti4noss,. t-Also 1 1 D d u ; I BA lb ß 2 u s y 9 ,s cl it ; 13 2 ‘ 1 , b A s 4 LE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at s, for cups at Is 6d, for 48 cups at Gs, for 2 88 cups at 30 s , fur 5 76 cups at 55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Order, — RAE. Y Du BARRY and Co, No. 77, Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTIIS. RU.SELL— On the 27th inst., at 10, Jamos-street, Bucking ham-gate, the wife of Calonel Sir Wm. Russell, Bart., M.P., of a son. TILDESLEY—On the 25th inst., at Barnsbury, Mrs. T. H. Tildesley, of a son. MARRIAGES. ITT:six-wool) SWINDLEr -On the 2Gth inst, at liove, Briglito . n, Edw ar d E rnest Hoselwood, Esq , of Hessle, Yorkshire, to Fanny, youngest daughter of the late Cap tain Swindley, of Maidstone. OSWALD -- ElcirAnDsox —On the 24th inst., at Perth, the Rev. Henry Murray Oswald, vicar of Aluwick, to Eliza beth Charlotte, second daughter of Sir John and Lady Stewart Richardson. LEATIIS. CAMPION—On tho 27th inst.,William John Campion, &1., of Danny, aged 64. DoxNE Oa the 27th last., at Peckham, Mr. Wm. Donne, aged 82. - ROWLAND —On the Tath inst., at Champion Hall, Lower Syd(nham, Alexander W. Rowland, aged 61. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, strand, Printer, at THE Sue Office N 0.112, strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.--. Tuesday, June 29, 18C9. 14.