The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-11 00:00:00

THE "QUEEN'S MESSENGER." Mr. Hughes, the publisher of the Queen's lifessenger, has obtained damages against Mr. Grenville Murray. The case was settled at the Croydon Assizes on Tuesday. frlr. Murray was undefended. Mr. Hughes sought to recover certain arrears of salary, and also damages for wrongful dismissal. It appeared from the learned counsel's statement that the plaintiff, having been formerly the publisher of a periodical called Quiz, had consented, on the application of Mr. Murray, to become the publisher of the Queen's 31csserger in the commencement of 1868. It was agreed that he was to receive two guineas per week, and that he was to be entitled to commission upon the sale of the journal and also upon the advertisements. Ulti mately the plaintiff was ordered out of the office by Mrs. Murrity, who one morning went there and abused him, and told him to he off. He did not, however, quit the employment until he was forcibly ejected by the legal adviser of Mr. Murray. - Mr. Garth admitted he had no defence to offerto the claim.—The learned judge, it ;caving, the case Le the jury, told them distinctly that the publisher of such scurrilous matter was not entitled to damages for being deprived of prospective advantages, although he might be entitled to claim for past services. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 567, that being the actual amount to which Mr. Hughes was entitled at the period of his dismissal. Upon the application of Mr. Day, the learned judge ordered immediate execution. TILE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC. One of the police cases which has been much commented upon of late was settled by Mr. Elliott, at the Lambeth Police-court, on Tuesday. George Lawrence, a police constable, No. 15 of the P Reserve, appeared on remand, charged with having, on the occasion of the visit of the Viceroy of Egyyt to the Crystal Palace, been guilty of violation of duty in his office of constable, by violently assaulting Mr. Joel Rowsell. It will be remembered that Mr. Rowsell, a bookseller, of Kim- William-street, Strand, stated that he was at the Crystal Palace on the day in question. In order to see the dis play of fireworks, he with several others got upon the tables in the third-class refreshment-room. He stood upon a chair placed on one of these tables, when the defendant came up and pushed him off, and caused him to fall backwards amongst the crowd. lie asked the con stable for his name and number, and then wrote down the latter. The defendant at the time thrust his helmet into complainant's face, and said, " Oh, I suppose you are only some hairdresser or cobbler out for a holiday." This statement was fully borne out by Mr. George Thomas l'arsons, a licensed victualler, of 150, Bishopsgate-street The wife of this witness likewise complained of the de fendant endeavouring to push her off the table. Evidence on the part of the defendant was called in the shape of Police-constable 50 P Reserve, who said defendant was on duty with him some six hundred yards from where thin took place, and could not therefore be the constable who committed the assault. —ln spector Robards, of the P Division, now stated that he bad, since the last hearing, made inquiries, and there v.-ere other witnesses present to corroborate the evidence of complainant, as well as one party whose testimony he was not aware was for one side or the other.—Mr. John Thorpe, of Lower Norwood, said on the .day of the visit of the Viceroy of Egypt to the Palace he was sta tuned at the counter of the third-class refreshment room, serving customers. The defendant and Lis brother came to him just after the fireworks had commenced and said, " We have been sent here to clear the tables." Witness said he wanted the tables cleared. The defendant, on getting to the table on which com plainant was standing on a chair, took hold of the latter, but witness did not see ee,oelt.-- Mr. Have you any doubt about the defendant being the constable. — Witness : Not the slightest.—Joseph Harvey, a waiter at the Crystal Palace, said that on the day in question he was asked by complainant to take the number of the con stable who had assaulted him. The defendant, whom he had known before, was the constable. Defendant said he had witnesses who were there ou duty, and called Police constable IL`Gillicuddy, 13 L Reserve, who said he knew nothing whatever of the affair. —Police-constable Sherring, li L Reserve, was also, at the request of defendant, examined, but denied all knowledge of the affair. —The defendant then desired his character to be put in, and it shewcd that he had before this borne an excellent one. Mr. Elliott : I have considered well this case, and have no doubt about it. You have chosen all through, instead of meeting, as you might have done, the facts, to deny every statement, at the same time calling upon others to aid that view. I can, upon the face of the whole evidence, come to no other conclusion than that of the untruthful ness of your statements, and my firm conviction that you did, as described, misconduct yourself. My general opinion of the force, as I find than, is that of a trust worthy and well•condur.ted body, and you have, it appears hitherto borne a good character. I have done all that possibly could be done to give you a fair hearing ; but when you come forward and totally deny the evidence on oath of many respectable persons, I have nothing further left me hut to convict you of the offence with which you are charg,d. You will have to pay a fine of £2, or i n default le iniprsoned for twenty days. Defendant, who made no further comment on the case, paid the money and left the court. LAW AND POLICE. ---~-- - CHARGE OF POISONING.—A man and wife, named Davy, were indicted at the Norwich Assizes with attempt ing to murder John Mayes Davy by poisoning him. John Davy had been staying for a time with his brother, at Pakefield, near Lowestoff. On his leaving to return to his own home, at Swaffham, the prisoners pressed very urgently some cakes upon him. Some of these he ate, and they made him ill. He went to the doctor, who declared he was suffering from poison. The cakes were examined and found to contain white precipitate. No motive for the alleged crime was imputed, and it was declared on behalf of the defendants that the precipitate was used in• mistake for baking powder. Professor Taylor stated that although a poison in reality, white precipitate was not classed as Inch. The prisoners were acquitted. STREET A cciDENTs.—A case in which injury and another in which death was the result of street accidents came before the notice of two metropolitan police magistrates on Tuesday. In the former a drunken porter, while curiously driving a horse and cart, ran into a waggonette, throwing out two persons and alarming several others. He was fined 40s. for furious driving, and ordered to pay £3 towards repairing the damage to the vehicle. — At Southwark a butcher was charged with causing the death of a little boy nine years of age, Lut in this case it was proved that the defendant was driving his cart at a rate not exceeding four miles an hour.—At Marlborough street a gentleman was fined 40s, for furious riding in Rotten-row, a policeman on, duty having deposed that the defendant was proceeding at the extraordinary pace of eighteen miles an hour. DISCOVENY OF 4 COINING ESTABLISHMENT 1N BIN MINGHAM.—At the Birmingham Police-court William Oram, tool-maker, of Aston-cross, and his wife, have been charged with coining. Detective-serjeant Cooper and twa other detectives visited the house on Monday morning and found there, and on the persons of the prisoners, a large number of counterfeit shillings and florins, as we'll as moulds, white metal, a galvanic battery, chemicals, and all the appliances of counterfeit coining. The woman was discharged, there being a legal presumption that she was acting under the coercion of her husband. The latter was committed for trial at the next Warwick Asizes. BaEACHES OF Plums:E.—Two breach of promise casei were before the judges at the Manchester Assizes. In the one case, a factory girl who had been partly educated by a bcershop keeper, who intended at one time to mak. , her his wife, but married another woman, was awarded £lOO damages. The daughter of a gardener obtained £2OO from a " general dealer " who had promised to marry but did not, CATTLE PLAGUE ORDEEB.—Her Majesty, b 7 Order in Council dated August 7, has revoked, in so far as they relate to Great Britain, Orders in Council dated July 28, 1856, and November 17, 1863, making regulations with respect to the importation of animals and things into the United Kingdom, for the purpose of preventing the introduction of contagious of infectious diseases. THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY IN THE LAW COURTS.—The North-Eastern Railway Com pany were the defendants in two actions tried on Tuesday at the West Riding Assizes. In one case Mr. Routh, sccountant, Leeds, was awarded £25, for injuries sus tained by himself and his wife, in consequence of a slight accident near the Ilkley Station, and in the other, where the claim was made by Marchant, professional jockey, for injury to his right knee caused by a collision at Arthington, the jury assessed the damages at El O. THE FIAYDOOK ExPLosToN. —The inquest into the eauBes wh7oit !ed to the deaths of co many victizos at the late explosion at the llaydock Collieries was resumed and concluded on Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict that the deaths were caused by explosion of firedamp, aggravated by gunpowder, and by care not having been taken to remove the gas out of the cavity from which it was supposed to have come. They recommended that the 'Jlasts should take place only at night, and the system should be altered as well as the ventilation. The jury re fused to consider the explosion accidental, as their opinion was that due caul badmitintil_leiceOL MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TIIE CABINET. Leaving the Black Rod to his last glad duty, Mr. Gladstone left town yesterday for Walmer Castle. There he will sojourn about a month, afterwards proceeding to Balmoral, and thence to llawarden. The right honourable gentleman is much improved in health, and needs only rest for his complete recovery. The statement that Mr. Chichester Fortescue was to be raised to the peerage, and to succeed Earl Spencer es Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, is contra dicted. THE SCOTCH F.DI - CAT:ON BILL. The last important act of the session is the refusal of the Lords to entertain the Commons' amendments to the Scottish Schools Bill.. The Duke of Argyll proposed that the Peers should consider theg,'. : amen Iments yesterday, but their lordships resented the proposition on the ground that the prorogatiort had been fixed for to-clay, thus commanding them as it were to finish off the measure in one , sittin2-. Their resolution to postpone the considera tion of the amendments for three months, that is, to put off the bill to next session, seems, however, to give no great dissatisf.Ttion to any party. The Hera.'d and the S','rtn(lai-cl thin the Upper House has justly maintained its dignity. " What her Majesty's Government asked for was a mere blind unreflecting assent, to whatever was laid before them, and it was bc - cause the Peers of England refused to submit to this insult on their understandings that the bill has fallen through." The Daily „Yews is not sorry. " The Lords spoiled the bill months ago. Next year we shall have a thoroughly good measure, which will not be sub mitted to them for mutilation before the House of Commons is permitted to see it." the Times sums up by saying that the indignation of the Peers was far from unfounded ; but adds that this incident proves the impossibility of trusting the Upper House with Liberal work. " Unless a proposal embodying a wide reform comes before the Peers backed by a large majority of the House of Commons,they reject it, or transform it so that its authors refuse to acknowledge the changeling. This is a painful fact, but it is undeniable, and—more than anything else— it is au answer to the complaints raised in the Upper House at the beginning-of every session that the Lords lave no work to do. They cannot be trusted with Liberal work." THE NEW BISHOP OF SALISBURY. Dr. Moberly has accepted Mr. Gladstone's nomi nation to the See of Salisbury, and thus a sound and moderate appointment has characterised the Premier's first exercise of high ecclesiastical patron age. The Telegraph thinks the choice does credit to the judgment of the Prime Minister, and will, doubtless, give general satisfaction. Dr. Moberly is understood to be a sound but moderate High Church man, and one " who is free from all Ritualistic ten dencies." ELECTION NEWS. Mr. Trail, M.P. for Caithness, will not, as was recently hoped, re'ain for another session the seat which he hes held since 1841. 111-health has com pelled him to resign. Mr. Traill was one of the two Liberals who got into the wrong lobby on the 4th of April, 18(18, and thus reduced Mr. Gladstone's majority by four. Lord Stanley's amendment to the first Irish Church resolution was rejected by 330 to 270, Mr. Traill voting with his parry. But when Mr. Gladstone's first resolution was passed, the member for Caithness was through a misapprehen sion led into the wrong lobby by another Liberal, and the numbers came out 328 to 272. Mr. Trail's nephew hopes to succeed his uncle. POLITIC AL C IIA;G ES. Several political on d,rt.3 are given by the metro volitan correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. _Besides the confirmed rumour that 'Air. Beaumont and Sir Shafto Adair are to be raised to the peerage, it is stated that Colonel Greville- Nugent and Mr. Moore O'Farrell are likewise mentioned as aspir ell to a similar mark of royal favour, and Lords Howth and Listowel are expected to be promoted to the peerage of the "United Kingdom. Mr. Maguire is mentioned as desirous of being nominated the suc cessor of Mr. Power who for the last twenty years has filled the office of Chief Poor-law Commissioner of Ireland ; the O'Donoghue will, it is said, be ap pointed governor of one of her Majesty's colonial possessions; and Mr. Elale is named as likely to be transferred to the Fishery Commission of Ireland. These appointments would create vacancies at Cork Tipperary, and Waterford. lIANKEY V. LOWE. Mr. Hankey, the well-known writer on finance, dis2utes Mr. Lowe's coinage theory. He dis agrees with the proposal to restore the cur rency by the imposition of a seigniorage or charge for minting. Mr. Lowe, Professor Jevons, and other authorities maintain that the present large percentage of light coins in our cur rency is owing to the number of heavy sovereigns exported and melted down. According to Mr. flanl:ey's information, neither the melting or export ing is very serious, so that a Mint charge would not effect much reform. How, then, aro we to account for the bi.cl state of our currency ? Is it or is it not a Let that one-third of the sovereigns and nearly one-halt the half-sove reigns in circulation are under weight, in spite of the millions of coins annnally issued ? Professor Jevous, who has laboriously investigated the subject, affirms that this is the state of the currency. how, then, does it arise if not by melting and exporting? UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Two highly-distinguished Catholic graduates of Trinity College, Dr. Maguire and Mr. 13rady, have written to Mr. Fawcett, M.P., thanking him for his advocacy of Catholic claims to be admitted to Trinity Fellowships. They support his policy of throwing open the University without distinc tion of creed. " Not only a large majo rity of Roman Catholic laymen, but also many of the most distinguished Fellows of our college, are in favour of your views, and wholly opposed to the endowment of any sectarian institu tion, such as it appears to be the intention of the Government to indict on this country. The only advocates of such a scheme are to be fcund amongst a section of the Ultramontane party in Ireland." Dr. Maguire and Mr. Brady seem to have judged too hastily that the Government intended to endow a " sectarian institution " instead of throwing open Trinity College. There is reason to think that no such design is entertained. A SCOTCH HERESY CASE. The Scotch Churches, especially the Free Church, are just now engaged in a sharp discussion —conducted as only Scotchmen can conduct rag -lolls debates—on the very question of comprehension which is being agitated south of the Tweed. Two young members of the Free Church, at Coupar Angus, were teaching, it was said, that the commonly-received doctrines as to our Lord's divinity, future punishments, &c.,. were erroneous. They were called before the Ses sion, but on appearing they declared that that body had no power over their consciences, and that it had no authority to dismiss them from the Church. This question is now being discussed in the columns of the local newspaper to the length of a column and a half per diem. The well-known arguments on each side are being set forth with great " theological earnestness" (to use a euphueism), and with copious reference to creeds, confessions, &c. A FEMININE DISCUSSION. The case "Faithful v. Grant," in which Miss Faithful obtained damages against Mr. Grant for calling her an Atheist, has. given rise to some singular correspondence. Miss Faithful stated through her counsel that she had never belonged to a secular club of which Mrs, Holyoake was a member, and that she had nothing to do with Mrs. Holyoake. To. this statement Mrs. Holyoake replies that . not only was Miss 17a.infull not a member of the club, but she (Mrs. Holyoake) thought it would be detrimental to its interests if Miss Faithful did belong to it. For she does know Miss Flithful, and Miss Faithful knows her ; Mr. Holyoaße baying— at great personal inconvenience to himself—established the Victoria Press, which has given Miss Faithful the position she holds. The leaders of women's progress should remember that she who ruleth her temper is greater than he who taketh a city. REFORMATION OF CRIMINALS. IV - Tat we are so strenuously endeavouring to render criminals powerless for mischief, we must not overlook the important work of reformation. That the amendment of convicts, believed by some persons to be all but hopeless, is really practicable, a gaol chaplain, who writes to the 'limes, bears gratifying witness : " I am happily supplied with data enabling me to demonstrate that a certain number of liberated prisoners are every year justifying my belief in the genuineness of their amendment at a period of not less than si7z months after their liberation. If I hail not received some small but indulitable encouragement of this kind annnally during the ten years I have worked among prisoners. I hope I should have long ago tried to be useful some wlicre else." This philanthropist strongly advocates the increase in our counties of biseharged Priconers' Aid S,: , ieties, as the beet media for solving tin . .. dill alt problem of giving a convict a honest start in life ag,ain. It is easy, he writes, to com me nce with one ex-prisoner, to place him i n a respccta,Lle cottager' house, house, binding him strictly as to hours and habits, and making his stay for a few days dependent on his good _behaviour. 'Visiting magistrates are empowered by Sir Adderley's bill to assist such cases to the extent of :C2 per man. Even a humble beginning like this, with judicious management, may enable many a broken-down offender to retrieve himself. THE GAOL V. THE WORKHOUSE. aanittLdgurithDonald Thomson and hi* THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1869. ? Thi3 elderly inaiviaual nas just been sen. Unced by the Lord Mayor to fourteen days' irnprisonment. He was a commercial traveller nt some remote date, fell from that high estate, and for a little while lived on the charity of his friends. Then he took to begging, and lastly entered the workhouse. But this latter institution proved altogether unsatisfactory. Donald Thomp son's idea of happiness was plenty to eat and nothing to do. The workhouse met neither of these condi tions perfectly well. After due deliberation Donald resolved to go to gaol. Ile threw a stone at a lamp, for which offence he has just received the reward for which he so earnestly longed. He goes to gaol, where he hopes to find good food and comparatively nothing to do. What, we repeat, can be done with him ? Hard labour seems the only remedy, and that, it appears, the law does not Prescribe. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From he Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, July 24. Among the passengers in the Scotia, which left on Wednesday, was :2;01. Richards Muckle, well known for many years asthe business manager of the Phi ladelphia Public ledger. Mr. Childs, the proprietor of the great estallishment at the corner of Sixth and Chesnut Streets, having returned from his trip to Europe, enables Mr. Muckld to visit France and Germany for the rest and recreation he seeks. He is called the Bergl. of Philadelphia on account of the deep interest he has always taken in the pre vention of cruelty to animals, and he will attend the International Convention about to meet in Europe of the sodety of which he is so esteemed a member in America. After our spell of extremely hot weather a sudden change occurred, and it has become as unseasonably cold. The heat drove thousands from this city any where to the sea shore ; the cold detains as many thousands who would otherwise nave gone. What I had pre dicted has proved true ; the increase last week in the number of deaths being marked, and they are classified :—From small-pox, 1 ; measles, 18 ; scar latina, 13 ; diphtheria, 8 ; croup, 4; hoopiug cough, 10 ; typhus fever, 6; typhoid fever, 3 ; cholera, 1 ; cholera infanturn, 168 ; cholera morbus, 115 ; other zymotic diseases, 26; total zymotics, 373 ; acciden tal or negligence, 23. Total from all causes, 726. In the Public Institutions—Alms-House, 1 ; Belle vue Hospital, 16 ; Charity Hospital, B. 1., 10 ; Coloured Home, 2 ; Fever Hospital, 8.1., 1 ; Home of the Friendless, 2 ; Infant Hospital, Ward's Is land, 33 ; New York City Hospital, 1 ; Nursery and Child's Hospital, 7 ; Randall's Island Nursery Hos pital, 1; St. Luke's, 3 ; St. Vincent's, 5 ; St. Francis's, 2 ; Ward's Island Hospital and Refuge, 22 ; Workhouse, 1. Total, 107. Ages—Under 5 years of age, 501; under 10, 516 ; under 20, 556. Men, 80; women, 90. Whites, 609; negroes, 76. Nativities—British America, 1 ; East Indies, 7 ; Germany, 48 ; Holland, 1; Ireland, 81 ; Poland, 3 ; Scotland, 4 ; South America, 1 ; Sweden, 7 ; Switzerland, 1; United States, 565 ; unknown, 3 ; West Indies, 1. In Brooklyn the same is apparent, for, as reported by the Registrar, the deaths were 333, against 254 for the week previous. The prin cipal causes were as follows :—Cholera infantutn, 103 ; marasmus, 23 ; diarrhoea, 21 ; pneumonia, 16 ; measles and convulsions, 14 each ; dysentery and consumption,ls each; debility, 9 ; scarlet fever, 8; cholera morbus and hooping cough, 6 each; can cer and disease of the kidneys, 5 each ; disease of heart, old age, and paralysis, 4 each ; diphtheria, erysipelas, bronchitis, and accidental injuries, 3 each, &c. Under one year of age, 180. Of men there were 28 ; women, 28 ; boys, 134 ; girls, 142. So severe were the comments of the press on the dirty state in which the streets were kept that the authorities have been stirred into action. The streets have been thoroughly scoured, chloride of lime being freely used, and the threatened out break of cholera has, I rejoice to state, been checked. But what would really stop disease N . s V O h 1 c l hd is b d to b e e it possible, the stoppage of whisky, I, be at the bottom of the 1,500 offences for which persons were arrested last week. A. T. Stewart has purchased 7,500 acres of the common known as the Hempstead Flats, on Long Island, for which he paid a cheque for $112,500. Hempstead is less than 20 miles from New York, near Long Island Rail road. The citizens of the town had to decide be tween his offer and a higher bid from a less respon sible competitor, Mr. Harvey, but Stewart received 1,077 votes against Harvey's 52, because they knew that the improvements Mr. Stewart would make would be more beneficial than even the ready money he paid. Wide avenues are to be laid out, and man sions of all classes constructed for the over-crowded business men of our city and its vicinity. A bridge will soon connect Brooklyn and New York, which will enable the resident at Hempstead to drive to his office, or to go by rail if he prefers so to do, and to cross without the aid of a fe; ry boat. There are to he boulevards shaded with trees, and squares wherein fountains will play. Around, the houses will be varied in style of architecture and accom modation. Space, air, and drainage will be well considered ; and, probably, in a few years, that dreary waste will be changed into the most fashion able suburb of the metropolitan city. At the ex treraity of Fourth Avenue our wealthy merchant is erecting a huge budding for the accommodation of working women, the object being not very dissimi lar to that of Mr. Peabody in the design of his Landon stsucture ; but it is calculated that even the outlay of $6,000,000, as proposed by Mr Stewart, will be fairly remunerative, as it will Louse 1,500 women, yielding a rental of between $2,000 and $3,000 a week, while the shops beneath will largely increase this income. The building will be eight storeys high, and the first storey as well as the basement will be given up to shops, the whole covering an immense area. In the match made to trot Mountain Boy against American Girl over the Union Course for $2,000, the latter won easily, doing the first mile heat in 2.23 3 4 and the second in 2.212 e American Girl was, however, beaten by Goldsmith Maid in the race at Phila delphia on Wednesday. Messrs. C. B. Elliott and Seymour, of the Harvard crew, left in the City of Boston last Saturday. It is said that Mayor Hall thought the yacht Dauntless had been built in New York when he ordered the salute of 100 guns to be fired in honour of her quick passage across the At lantic, but it appears that she is a Connecticut boat. Wilson, who gave himself up as one of the Ocean Bank robbers, has been turned out of prison, as thepolice do not believe in him and will have nothing to do with him ; nobody knows why he aspired to palm himself off as one of the gang, but the ambi tion of some, is beyond the ken of others. The latest robbery was at Longlsland at Riverhead in the jewellery store of L. H. Griffin. The two Prussians alleged to be fugitives from justice, Edward Lorentz and Otto, his son, have also been discharged, no answer having been received to the message to Berlin, and no charge therefore being made against them. They had been arrested among the second class passengers of the German steamer Mahn by detectives on a notification from the Berlin chief of police. The harbour police in a raid have captured several piratical boats, each containing two men, and many filled with plundered merchandise ; al though armed, none dared to fight. Five men also have been committed for counterfeiting revenue stamps, and have confessed the crime. All the Wall-street brokers indicted for usury have been up before Judge Cordoza. Emanuel Knight and Mr. Watts pleaded guilty last Tuesday. Edward R. Jones, George Phipps, and David R. Morrison also pleaded guilty on Monday, and others after wards. None of any great note were arrested, and it is even rumoured that the whole was a conspiracy of the " bears," who do not like their victims to escape when they are caught short. The death of E. P. Gibson, a well-known member of the Stock Exchange, has been announced, and the board adjourned after its 12 o'clock session on Monday on receipt of the news. An ambulance, constructed fcr the conveyance of injured men to an hospital, appeared in our city yesterday for the first time. The bottom, fitted with a soft spring mattress, slides out and in on rollers, and there is a seat for the sneon with medicines and instruments. Four of them have been made for the Department of Charities, and two are kept constantly ready. Sing Sing burst out into open revolt, and has been maintainicg a pretty game, considering that the row is kept up ou bread and water. The convicts, 1,200 in number, being confined in their cells made the prison hideous with discordant noises and fear ful imprecations. One of the chief officers has re signed, and :nquiries into the state of the prison are being prose:sited ; still the inmates continue to escape. Thccaptured Cuban fillibusters were released on parole yesterday, except two or three Irish men. The account given of their imprisonment is touching. A reporter says it threw Andersonville into the shale, the prisoners being packed, like sar dines in a fox, in dungeons the rats had long for saken, cranmed in at the point of the bayonet. No doubt the ;entleman drew on his imagination ; still Fort Lafa,:ette may not have been prepared for so sudden aninroad, as besides 124 taken on Gardi ncr's Islael, Marshal Barlow captured a camp at Hackensack, largely increasing the number. 71, Broadway put up the shutters, the Junta making itself scarce, but Leinus has been dethroned and a new agent elected. Two victories, however, are now announced as having been gained by the insur gents on the 12th, 13th, and 14th July—the one near St. Jago de Cuba, and the other near Puert o Principe. The news of a Carlist rising in Spain as well as in the Phillippines revives the drooping cause, and immediately there are reports of another effort, which we much doubt will ever be made. Senator Fenton leaves to-day by the French steamer for Havre, and notwithstanding that he declined the honour he will have a considerable escort down the bay. General Grant paid us a short visit. There is to be a great ball at Long Branch next Monday; the President and his party attended a clam cake yesterday. He is beset by tourists, who can quickly run down, but he takes the world easy, driving about behind fast trotters, his friends fur nishing the traps for him is abundance. By the way Ilorace Greeley was hurt, and had a narrow escape from a serious accident by the horses of his carriage taking fright there on Wednesday, and, talking of Mr. Greeley, you will see in the Tribune a very flattering notice of your paper, and the way in which it is conducted. He recommends it to all Americans, not only abroad, but at home, and I more especially recommend their attention to its New York letters, written by an able and talented young man, who hopes some day to " run a paper" of his own, to which those who appre ciate the merit of these letters will surely sub scribe. Yesterday the Cable from Brest was landed at lluxbury, and is generally throughout America hailed with acclamation ; and to-day the first through train from Sacramento arrives, the Pullman Palace carrying its passengers direct in six days and a half. These facts give us a very comfortable sense of progress. New York has lost an able engi neer in John A. Roebling, who died yesterday in Brooklyn. You may recollect that I reported an accident he had sustained, having his foot crushed at the Fulton Ferry slip on the 28th June, the toes being amputated, which has ended in lock-jaw and his death at the age of 63. He was a Prussian and educated at Berlin as a civil engineer, and to him had been entrusted the plans of the bridge to con nect Brooklyn and New York. WA SHINGT ON, July 23. There is to be a grand ball to-night at the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, to be present at which several of our prominent citizens have left. Gen. Lee is to be there, and Governor-elect Walker was expected, but he is in his native town of Bing hampton, New York, and cannot be at two places at one and the same time. A number of ladies and gentlemen have left for Long Branch to be present at the ball next Monday to the President and suite. Mr. Wade has returned, as he has business to trans acc about the Union Pacific Railroad. The Talla poosa is to carry the Secretary of the Navy and Ad miral Porter on a tour of inspection to the Navy yards on the Atlantic Coast. The Guerriere has arrived at New York, she was the flagship of the South Atlantic squadron, and one of the largest of our war vessels. A naval court-martial is to as semble at Pensacola, Florida, on the 2d of August, for the trial of Captain Frank Munroe, of the Ma rine Corps. The Court is to be composed of the following named officers :—Commodore Greene, and Captains Gibson and Armstrong, of the Navy ; Captains Ilibb and Bishop, of the Marine Corps, and Paymaster Wait, of the Navy, Judge Advo cate. Commissioner Delano has return xl to work up arrears of business, which accumulate very fast in his absence. Secretary Boutwell will take two weeks' leave to visit his home in Massachusetts, on the return of the President. He has put forth a notice on the new Bank-note paper, wherein one of its peculiarities is described to be the introduction of coloured silk, cotton, and other fibrous material into the body of the paper while in the process of manufacture. By the law of the United States it is made a felony for any person to have or retain in his custody or possession any paper adapted to the making of any such obligations or securities, and similar to that designated by the Secretary to the Treasury. The Secretary has been pretty well abused of late, and requires some rest ; he has had also to contend against the fraudulent system which attained so unhealthy a growth under the late Ad ministration. There are special agents here, and other officers of the Treasury with anything but. encou raging reports ; large seizur,s of sugar have been made at St. Louis, Chicago, ani Cincinnati, which had passed the New Orleans Custom-house untaxed. In Alabama tobacco has been seized, in Louisiana a distillery, cigars and tobacco, besides sugar, valued at $lBO,OOO. The cotton brokers of New Orleans are being looked up. There is no law officer of the Government atNew Orleans, in the absence in Europe of the District Attorney, and Mr. Conk ling desires that counsel be sent to prosecute the delinquents, so he has applied to the Attorney- General on the subject. One might suppose that dishonesty was the rule, but there are some curious exceptions, if this man who styles himself "honesty" is an exception, which I leave your leaders to de cide for themselves. Here is the text of his letter which Mr. Boutwell has just received : DEAR Stu,—lnclosed please find Sl7O. This is not conscience money; but, doing a local business in a Penn sylvania town, and by care and management having made it ply, I have thought that it would be injurious to my business to have my full income published iu our village paper; therefore 1 have paid a part of my income-tax to the Collector, and the balance I send direct to you .t c., HoNESTY. _ It is not certain that General Cochrane will not accept the Collectorship of the Sixth District of New York, but there are several New Yorkers here to press the claims of a politician. There is also a Revenue Supervisorship vacant for the district, em bracing the States of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The State Department has received a peti tion from the American residents in France through the American Minister at Paris, asking that the French postal rates be reduced to those paid be tween the United States and England. This has been referred back to Senator Randall, who is now in Paris to negociate some such treaty. The Minister to England has had his attention drawn to the case of Mr. Halpine, the Fenian now held in a British prison. Ile is directed to renew the nego ciation broken off when Reverdy Johnson left. The Mayor has sent in his message to the City Councils, and a passage recommending that white and coloured children be educated together has caused much discussion. It is not generally re lished by either race, and it is easy to see why such a proposition is at least premature ; Mayor Bowen asserting that in all other respects distinc tion of race and colour having been abolished, he can see no reason why this school distinction should be maintained. The Lord Mayor of London used at one time to be considered a great man, and whether he is now, or not, I do not know, but I do know that our Mayor is not a great enough man yet to abo lish all distinctions of race and colour by a message, smart as he may be. I rather incline to the belief that our negroes will retain their curly hair and dark skin, with other trifling distinctions, notwithstand ing Mayor Bowen's edicts, and if the mothers thought that their white children were going to turn black, as the result of the contact, the opposi tion would be in no degree lessened. A coloured man, named Vassbon, has been appointed by the Mayor a trustee of the white schools. This gen tleman, for he is a gentleman, has been admitted to the bar. For some time he had practised in New York, and is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. R. A. Brown moved for his admission, and Judge Fisher took the re sponsibility, as the Criminal Court had been de cided to be a separate Court, and directed his name to be entered. Mr. Yashon is sail to be exceed ingly well read, and to have filled a Professorship in the Alleghany College. The negro Alderman, Stewart, has gone to Cape May for his summer holiday, and the names of some negroes here now find their place among the fashionable arrivals. Poor Mary Walker, after her desperately persistent efforts to get office, after going the rounds of all the Departments, as eager to put her little hand in the Treasury as to amputate a limb with the same little hand, or to dash off a despatch in the name of Uncle Sam, meeting with a final rebuff, while hang ing on to the skirts of the Treasury, burst into tears, and had a good cry over the Wrong 6 of Woman. If she had got Miss Anthony and Mrs. Cady Stan ton to let down their " back hair" and join her woman's cause would have been lost, and all the progress these ladies have so manfully gained would have been instantly and femininely lost. Fortu tunately, however, the weak and erring sister was alone, and her action will doubtless be repudiated. The demand of another woman office-seeker has dropped down to the ridiculously low point of a sum sufficient to carry her from this city home. If a good many of them could only get away without paying their board there would be less accommo dation supplied for these flats, and the departments would escape much worry. The White House is being done up during the absence of the President and his family. The public printer, Clapp, has doubled the apprentices in the Government print ing offices i❑ spite of the Typographical Union, who have just put off Douglass's:case till January. A coloured woman, named Millie Gaines, has lately been tried at Washington, for the murder of her white paramour, James C. Ingle, a Go vernment watchman, and was acquitted on account of insanity. The trial attracted special attention from the fact that the jury was composed equally of white and black men. Rumours have been re newed that Attorney-General Hoar is about to resign, and the same is said of Mr. Boutwell, but I have no reason to believe with any truth, al though one Secretary from Massachusetts may one day soon go. Official proclamation has been made of the recent Convention between the United States and Peru for the adjustment of claims of the citi zens of either country against the other. One Com missioner is to be appointed by each Government, and the two shall name an arbitrator, to sit at Lima. BUDGET OF PERSONAL. —His Excellency A. Mus grave, Governor of British Columbia, arrived at New York from Halifax, by the City of Baltimore, and is at the Clarendon Hotel.—Admiral Farragut and family arrived in Chicago, July 21, and left in the afternoon for Cali fornia.—The Hon. Ebenezer D. Bassett (Negro), United States Minister to Hayti, arrived at Port au Prince, June 14.—Viscount Adair, son of the Earl of Dunraven, is go. in; to see the States. His income is $300,000, but he is married; he must have got his income from his wife, for it is not customary even for the elder sons of peers to have an income of $300,000 a year.—Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker now wants to be made a Consul, and ex-Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, to be a Circuit Judge. Mrs. Colonel Colt's income is $400,000 per annum.—Prof. Louis Agassiz has accepted the invitation of the Boston Society of Natural History to deliver an ad dress on the centennial anniversary of Humboldt, Sept. 14. A Santo Fe despatch states that after a stormy session the Democratic Convention nominated Recente Romero for Delegate to Congress from New Mexico.—Professor J. D. Whitney, of the Harvard Scientific School, has been visit ing the Lake Superior mining region with a party of 14 students, and is now among the mines of Colorado.—The Hon. E. M'Pherson was to sail for Europe on the 28th July for the benefit of his health, and ArchLishop M'Closkey on the 7th Aug. to attend the (Ecumenical Council at Rome. — Among the fashionable visitors at the Fifth-avenue Ho tel, New York, is the well-known Chinese emigration agent Koopmanshop.—Miss Kate Field is ono of a party of 20 who are visiting the Adirondacks with the Rev. W. 11. H. Murray.—•A reconciliation has been effected between Mr. Thurlow Weed and ex-President Fillmore.—T he Hon. Henry T. Blow, Minister to Brazil, sailed in the steam ship Merrimac July 23.—The Hon. T. C. Theaker, late Commissioner of Patents, has obtained a patent on a rail road sleeping chair of his own invention, which ho will soon introduce into general use. It is said to be a complete arrangement for the comfort of railway passengers.— A convention of American philologists was to be held in Poughkeepsie, beginning on the 27th July, and continu ing several days. The names of nearly all the leaders of education in America appe ir in the list of the Committee on Organization.—Robert Toombs is practising law in Georgia.—Bonner has offered $30,000 for ' American Girl," now that "Dexter," considered the fastest trotter in the S tates,has been withdrawn.—Commodore J. W. Living ston, of the United States Havy, arrived at Plymouth last Saturday in the Allenmania.—The following New York artists have started on their holiday :—De Haas has gone to Lake Mohouk, and Hows to the Adirondacks ; J. D. Barrow is at Skaneatles Lake; E. W. Hall and J. A, Parker, junr., at the Catskills ; John Williamson and David Johnson aro sketching on the banks of the Hudson ; Jervis M'lntoe is spending the season at his country home at Rondout. Captain Shaw, the chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, leaves London, for New York, to-day, to inspect the new fire establishment recently formed in that city, as also those in Canada.—A subscription has been started in Bos ton to secure a colossal bust of Henry W. Longfellow, by Miss Edmonia Lowis, in {tome, for Harvard University.— Captain General do Rodas and General Butler are said to bear a remarkable resemblance to each other.—A woman in New Orleans was arrestod for throwing a pail of boil ing water over a man. ller defence was that she mistook him for her husband.—Professor S. F. B. Morse lately met with a serious accident at his home iu Poughkeepsie—a fall, which caused a compound fracture of the leg. —.A letter has been received at Toronto from Rome, urging the formation of another corps of Zouaves for the Papal service.—Admiral Hoff is expected home early in August, and Admiral Poor will succeed him at once.—Horace Greeley was thrown out of his carriage at Long Branch in consequence of his horses taking fright and running away, but he did not sustain any serious injury.—Pro fessor Roswell D. Hitchcock, of Union Theological Seminary, has been elected a trustee of Amherst College, in place of the late Rev. Dr. Vaill, of Palmer, Mass.— Conductor Bangs, of the Vermont and Massachusetts, has run on that road 17 years.--A few friends of the late Ball Hughes, the sculptor, recently presented his widow with $35,000 in Government Bonds, at her residence in Dor chester, Mass.—Governor Stearns, of New Hampshire, has appointed the following gentlemen as the members of his staff, with the rank of colonel. Mason W. Tappan, of Bradford, chief of staff; E. A. Straw, of Manchester; Samuel M. Wheeler, of _Dover ; Charles IL Bell, of Exe ter ; F. A. Faulkner, of Keene ; L. B. Hoskins, of Lyman. Ex- Governor English is about to build a five-story iron front building on Orange-street, New Haven. It will have a front of 21 feet and a depth of 45, and will cost $25,000. The First National Bank will occupy the first floor.—Rev. Dr. Holman, of Milltown, Connecticut, who combines the practice of theology with that of physic, an nounced from his pulpit a few Sundays since that his medical services could be obtained at any hour by those in need of them.—lt is said that Madame Anna Bishop intends to retire into private life in the United States.— The American Roman Catholic bishops are now ordering in Lyons the robes and head-gear to be worn at the Pope's Grand Council, September 25. The cope is made of lama d'or or lama d'argent, and casts from $4O to $6O in Lyons. The cappa magna costs the same amount without furs, but $l2O if trimmed with ermine. The Archbishop of Lyons kindly offered his cope and cappa as patterns. DECIMAL COINAGE AND THE METRIC SYSTEM.— The second report of the Standards Commission published yesterday states that in the unanimous opinion of the Com missioners the time has now arrived when the law should provide, and facilities be afforded by the Government, for the introduction and use of metric weights and measures in the United Kingdom. For this object metric standards, accurately verified in relation to the primary metric stan dards at Paris, and deposited in the Standards Department of the Board of Trade, should be legalised; and verified copies of the official metric standards should be provided by the local authorities for inspectors of such districts as may require them. The Commissioners think that the French nomenclature, as well as decimal scale of the metric system, should be introduced in this country, but they are of opinion that the general introduction of the metric system should be permissive only, and not made compulsory by law after any period to be now specified, so far as relates to the use of metric weights and measures for weighing and measuring goods for sale or conveyance. Considering that during the concurrent use of the metric and imperial system, it will be expedient to prevent as far as possible imperial and metric weights and measures from being accidentally or fraudulently substituted for each other, the Commissioners are of opinion that authoritative regulations should be established under which each series may be readily and easily distinguished, by the adoption of conspicuous distinctive forms or marks for the several weights and measures, and by such other modes as may be determined upon after due inquiry. It is thought ex pedient that Customs duties should be allowed to be levied by metric weight and measure,as well as by imperialweight and measure ; that the use of the metric system, concur rentlywith the imperial system, should be adopted by other public departments, especially the Post Office, and in the publication of the statistics of the Board of Trade, as well as for the admeasuremont and registration of the tonnage of shipping. As to decimal coinage the Com missioners say that, eve❑ if the difficulties of establishing an international unit of coinage cannot be at present over come, vet the decimalisation of our system of coinage, which is in the power of the Government, would be very useful to the public.. News from Baltimore, July 19, states that Chas. the lion tamer, travelling with Thayer's Mena gerie, was actually eaten up by the lions on Friday, July IG, in a small town in Michigan. Ile is said to have been struck on the shoulder by the same lion that so nearly killed him at Rochester, knocked down, and the others at once sprang on him, and before they could be beaten off had torn him to pieces and devoured the greater portion of his body. I)uNvILLE 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 Messrs. Dunville and Co , Belfast; or 4, Beaufort - buildings,Strand, London, W,C.—[Ad vertisexent PUBLIC MORTUARIES. Will the " dead-house," with its harsh name, calling up so many prejudices, ever give place to the public mortuary, to which the poor can place their dead ? Social reformers have advocated the mor tuary long and earnestly, coroners have been con tinually recommending them, and sanitary officers have over and over again called attention to the evil effects of a dead body corrupting the living in t:ie one room of the very poor. Dr. Hardwiclie, the deputy coroner for Middlesex, once more called attention to the subject on Monday. Ile denounced the state of the parish dead-hous( x throughout his district, pointed out that in Germany mortuaries had been adopted ; re marked that the Liverpool one had overcome the pre judices even of the Irish ; and declared that what was wanted in every considerable parish was a proper receptacle for the deadof an ecclesiastical appearance. CATTLE DISEASE. The foot and mouth disease which has broken out in the South London suburbs is serious enough to demand attention, although it has not spread far. It is not very fatal, but it inflicts heavy losses. Moreover, it is exceedingly contagious, so much so that the measures taken with foreign cargoes lately imported are powerless to intercept it. The Chamber of Agriculture Journal thinks that Parliament ought to deal boldly with all importations. " There is little use in butchering animals actually affected if otheib brought by the same vessels, or walking over the same loading or landing-places, are permitted to travel inland." Is it quite certain, however, that this disease is imported from abroad ? The suf ferers, of course, think so. DOCK PEOPERT 'Z. That unhappy corporation, the Millwall Docks Company, met on Monday to consider the issue of new debentures to meet various engagements. As a matter of course the doings of the Customs' Commissioners turned up in the course of the pro ceedings. The chairman stated that the company had to pay £1,400 a year to the Customs on account of the expense of collecting the duties. This impost, which is not required of any other dock company in the inttropolis, is levied in return for bonding privi leges which the Customs' Commissioners granted on condition that this sum should be paid. The directors complain that they had no choice but to agree to this bargain , which is un reasonable and unfair. The Millwall dock rather relieves than acids to the labours of the Customs' department. It is, however, quite in accordance with the spirit of Customs' traditions that the London Company, which is most heavily weighted w ith financial embarrassment, should be subjected to such an impost. A 'MODEL VOLUNTEER CORPS. The 4th Middlesex Artillery is in a curious plight. It was formed about two years ago, and mustered some 130 strong. But one commander gave offence at the War Office, and was ordered to resign ; another resigned without ordering; and a third thought it best that the corps should merge itself in the 3rd Middlesex, and give up its separate existence. In order to secure this consummation Captain A'Beckett, the third commander, who appears to have inherited the mantle of his great namesake, went and did duty with the 3rd Middlesex. The result is that the 4th have had no drill; the Government guns are rusting, and the Government harness rotting in a livery stable; the carbines are scattered all over London; the members of the corps have not been inspected this year, and have therefore lost the capitation grant ; and the debt is gradually increasing, without any means of paying it. The mystified members have met and passed divers resolutions, censuring the 'War Office for removing Commander No. 1, requesting Captain A'Beckett to resign, and resolving to break up the corps if he does not. A FLOWER-GIRL BRIGADE. The daily papers being just now open to offers of all kinds, they teem with correspondence contain ing- suggestions good, bad, and indifferent. Out of a mess of proposals, one by a correspondent of the Daily Te'eyraph deserves notice. Ile asks those who are wont to expend their surplus energies in writing letters to the papers to help towards the formation of a metropolitan flower girl brigade. As in one direction City Arabs of the dirtiest class have been turned into neat, comparatively clean, and decidedly useful members of society, so he would turn another section into something other than miserable, raged, untidy, police-hunted creatures. 'The boys have been shewn the way to work, taught to respect themselves, and lept from degradation by being made shoe bl tells. Why, then, should not the girls be given a dress, made to look happy, and go forth known. as flower-sellers They now make benevolent men, whenever they want an ornament for their button hole, sad and uneasy, for they look degraded and unhappy. Taking the lowest, the selfish ground—it would be good to turn these into " ornaments of London." FOREIGN NOTES. E7IIGRATION TO CANADA. The Canadians seem pretty well satisfied with the quality of the emigrants we have been at such pain 9, to send out to them; but in respect of quantity the supply is deplorably insufficient. Notwithstanding thelarge numbers of work people who have gone to Canada during the past few month; the demand is still as great as ever. The emigra. tion agent at Toronto says there are fifty applicants for every man who arrives. "At any hour of the day when one happens to drop into the Emigration Office," says the Toronto Globe, "he is pretty certain to find one or more disappointed farmers anxiously asking when any more will arrive ; and letters are continually being received eagerly enquiring for hands." THE FENIANS IN NEW YORK. The Fenians, notwithstanding the collapse of their schemes, are still busy in New York ; and although they are by no means formidable in numbers or character, they are able to do mischief by enticing the newly-arrived Irish emigrants to join them. A pub'ic meeting with this object has just been held at the Garryowen Circle. Several of the principal Fenians delivered addresses, and united in advising Irishmen not to be "humbugged" by the disestablishment of the Irish Church, which, however, they declared to be the first great triumph of the Brotherhood. The usual diatribes against England were indulged in, and it was stated that during the last outbreak in Ireland a Fenian ship, loaded with arms, lay about the coast for twenty days, and afterwards returned to America. No immediate action was talked of, but a great many Irish emigrants were present, and twelve new members joined the Circle. In the trial for the 20,000 dols. gold which the Fenians under O'Mahony have claimed from Belmont and Co., a fresh difficulty has arisen, A Mr. Bailey, described as a holder of several Fenian bonds, has obtained an injunc- tion from the Superior Court forbidding the payment of the money by Messrs. Belmont until the bonds arc re deemed. The Fenians are not to be allowed to repudiate their debt. THE CARLISTS. Another centre of the insurrection has been formed in the environs of Ramales. The movement has spread rapidly in Castile, and the agitation has increased in importance in Leon, and thus it appears probable that the Carlist forces in La Mancha will soon have direct lines of communication with the sea. A battalion of Chasseurs from Barcelona has gone over to the Carlists in La Mancha. Calatrava's regiment has declared itself Carlist, and, according to some accounts, it has been surrounded and the whole regiment captured, while others say that it has gone over to the insurgents. General Prim intends to change the officers of the Civil Guard as quickly as possible, in consequence of the sympathy they have shewn with the Carlist movement. A NORTHERN CONFEDERATION. The cordial satisfaction which has been manifested in Stockholm and in Copenhagen at the recent royal marriage has given rise in some quarters to speculations concerning the possibility of a union between the three Northern kingdoms. A congress of philologists has met at Stockholm to examine the orthography of the three languages, and to harmonise them as much as possible without interfering with the genius of the indivi dual languages. Seventeen members have already arrived at the Swedish capital, and have succeeded in fettling some doubtful points. The c mute is to he suppressed in the Dano-Norwegian language, as well as the double vowel. The unanimity of the public feelinz, as shown by the press cf the two countries, regarding the marriage which unites their reigning dynasties, is regarded as significant of a future confederation of the North similar to the Union of Calmar in 13:j7. A CONGRESS OF WORKMEN. A working-men's congress has assembled at Eisenach within the last few days. It includes representatives of all the socialist and democratic parties in Germany, and the chief object of the meeting is to fuse the several sec tions into one democratic party. The members are busily discussing some questions of theoretical and prac tical ramp. IMPERIAL PARMA DIEN HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CirANcELLon took his seat on the wool BO at three o'clock. The Commons' amendments to the Presentation of notices Belonging to Roman Catholics Bill, and to, Charity Commissioners Bill, were considered and acre el The Sanitary Act (1866) Amendment (Ireland) )3 `" the Canada (Rupert's Land) Bill, and the Motrop Board of Works (Loans) Bill were read a third titau passed. Lord DENMAN called attention to the report , of select committee of the House of Commons on the ne ev I s , courts, deprecating the removal of the courts from 'W minster and Guildhall as unnecessary, an entirely, az'l it seemed to him, a useless and wasteful expenditure. y Lord REDESDALE moved that the Parochial S cb (Scotland) Bill be re-presented with the atuendinentS troduced by the Commons, in order to show what Fit that each house had introduced into the bill. The motion was agreed to. el Lord DENMAN then called attention to the ste to Ireland. Ile could not un d ers t an d th e i mpor t an ce of iy laud questi3n. After the transaction of some genera l b us i ne ss, the 7aC .01 adjourned. HOUSE OF COININIONS.—LAST ETENINCI. The SPEAKER took the chair at threo o'clock. _ WEST COAST OF AFRICA SQUADRON. Mr. CIIILDERS, in reply to Mr. Rylands, said it the desire that this squadron should bo curtailed as 1321 ;" as possible, and that arrangements had b e en going 0u . ,',) some time. The present force was 12 ships, each ",0 the usual crew. The reduction would be carried e a far as possible, but it would always be requisite to ke e p,„ o certain number of vessels on the station for the prote cia " of commerce. BRITISH PILOTS. Mr. LEFEVRE said that the complaint of British P l ' d visiting Falmouth and taking ships from that port ha d be t o inquired into; but the Trinity Board did not think Oleo was any necessity for interfering, as there was no aide ° that vessels were in consequence of such a step detail"' off Lundy Island. THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. Mr. LAYARD, in reply to M r . Willi ams , sa id the rae - iit politan Railway had the right to erec t a : station, Vi! is the centre of the land reclaimed from the river; b u s the event of the Courts of Justice being erected on to Embankment, the railway company had consent ed t; move their station higher up near the end of Esses-str-0 but, in either event, the erections would not interfere the space devoted to recreative purposes. THE COINAGE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in /eP ,P , to Mr. Lawrence, said in what he stated the other e a 04 ing, he meant it to be understood that in the sugg e t i t to he then made that a bar of gold was taken to the be coined into 100 sovereigns, those sovereigns 54° 1 - 0 0 each be a grain lighter than the present coin rthe of the 100 grains being paid to the account of the o ° c° . p g ment. The object of such an arrangement , cf cours e, be t. l bol to lighten the weight of the sove re i gn a : grail), bu ' t would prevent its being melted down, as was 13°11 common on the continent. FOREIGN OFFICE AGENCIES. L tUa Mr. BRUCE app ea l e d t o th e r i g ht h o n. baroo e log member for Tamworth, to postpo n e hi s i n tention of ° e V the attention of the house to the subject of the V r ol Office agencies until after the orders of the day had disposed of. Sir H. BULWEII said looking at the latenes s " ot to session and the appeal that had been made to bin' 13,-jat It proceed with the notice he had on the paper he the would be useless to proceed with it, but he hope d 7 t i:ie the recess that some alteration would be made spoct to the appointment of Foreign Office agenc ie6 , o o l : what had been done dissatisfaction had become g',. - 0 11 0 : Mr. OT WAY said the Foreign Office agencies We ' D ie in a satisfactory state, and before Parlia men t re- o°ll ,oo he hoped there would lie a change which would satisfactory. 10 EPPING FOREST. 0. Mr. LOCKE gave notice th a t nex t session b a be ° ia bring in a bill to prevent th e r i g ht s o f the Crown assumed by private persons. SCOTCH EDUCATTON. The LORD ADVOCATE, in reply to gr. " e : pec / said the unlooked for result in an otherplace ithrt—bo/ to the Parochial Schools Bill had caused much regr",losll what would be done on a future occasion he could n°4lloo beyond that they were not dispirited by the Pr°°e in another place. R i psi° The Lords' amendments to the Bishops' es Bill and Titles to Land Consolidation (Scot ia "' Amendment Bill were considered and agreed to• The house then adjourned. i;OURSE OP EXCHANGE• ii 1. i Amsterdam Do .0 Rotter(ltm _..., 4 5 Autwerp — ... 23 40 ••• .25 i ll Brussels Hainburgb. Paris - 0 Ditto . 3 Ms. ~. 25 34 ... 0 ,I, Marseilles I Frankfort-ou-the-Main: ... 1214 ••• oed Vienna — ... 12 65 ••• 0 , Trieste - ••• 12 65 ••• 2 9 W3 Petersburg Copenhagen... Berlin 4 4 4 1 Madrid.. - , lo -- ... .. • . 0.,. 481- - Cadiz.. Leghorn - . 26 273 '" 2 6 52 Milan 26 2 7 i• 26 0, 26 2i, -7 1 •js, Genoa Naples .:. 26 27i ..• ii; ;, :?1 ... 26 27i ..• %6 ° Palermo I . Messina Lisbon — ... 511 Oporto — ... 511 ••• -" Rio Janeiro ___. .. 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Sold by all Cheraists.`a POO9O I AnvERnsEmENT. j —Holloway's Ointmentfft Alleviation and Cure.—The most loathsono r ioa lta, l " s of 0 ulcers, and most hopeless bad legs assume a ; ool' ° ,•0 0 ,1 pearance after a very few applications ° tiy cleansing and healing unguent. it prolaP of q e O r . the aspect, and soon, reduces the irritabilitYsted oto sluggish ulcers, which have fruitlessly 0111 +o u li tiol l of ' ll' 3 geon's skill and patient's endurance. (JO - e , directions round each pot, the afflicted oli l n iy O' 02, fearlessly guide their own ailments to a il i T, l giets', o 3 t ,„ P e remove all „further cause of trouble and 3 _' - icia t . gratifying to watch the subsidenc of inflam";. - thro i t s l ; Ol gradual decrease of swellings, w hic i h ler : l : l ; T iopre.oite.fol,te r , cooling and sedative properties of this 'II ° men; aided by Holloway's pills. . „. p-„to Du BARRY'S Delicious Health Arabica Food, which contains three times the nounsn,cdies,liferlo best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other re,,,,,,ithY 0 0 ?r, perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, totio freshing sleep, functional regularity, and en e ,g l 4S, or ° enfeebled, removing speedily and effectuallY 1 01 - o rrh e ro, e gts' pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhcea , lue o s rh com eu p ra la a i ti n s t m s, , fi g a o tul ut, ency, nervousness, bilious n ,, e he 3 ',o o l,e o irritability, sleepless im nes p s u , throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in t' te rio,,,,o"o o ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, pa t ', s ,r o jt ce° F, 4 02,,: scrofula, tightness of the chest sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, ine'P l of 0 100' in rltteiiedis,tye,ruppatiipoiutashono, artys,lo,--tipoweiso, between the shoulders, &c. sins s e a at —The Pope's health restored by Du Barry s, the fe th w e p P u i rt 000 f ci F il 3, o gi ocp e e 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health A n i e is excellent, especially since, abandoning all 4 ?„;:01.1' 1 „'i. has confined himself entirely to Be Barry 's f e d sl , erov, Food, of which he consumes a plateful at ,his produced a surprisingly beneficial effect 01 1 , 0 Holiness cannot praise this excellent food t °o the Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure No. gel 9,Ba ry ougl an indescribable agony from dyspepsia n e 0s a t 0 1 41, Lingue Dio cough, constipation, flatulency, spawns' n ee • o g ~e 0 ! and vomiting. Maria Jolly, Wortham , of N in Lisa Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs , osn oss , t ot Waltham Cross, Herta, of extreme ner t : julP °r ocpo:o gatherings, low spirits. and nervous fancie ri ot 0 , P -Beware of the many unsavoury and Inorioig's i n 1100f tions to which, without authority, Baron . ,0 audaciously attached. 110 , 00 v c tir, 51b A Ko In tins, at ls lid; d 1 lb 2s 9d; 2lbs 40 0 u; g osie for t ,t , „s 21 lbs 40s.—Also BARRY'S REVALENTA ?og o po r , POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 o c c r . f o r 5 ' t ire, 0 0,,4 at 3s ad, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups fit,' s , 5 5 S f nco —being about one penn land cu. The roct free of carriage in Eng on receipt T otre et BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Reg eu all Grocers and Chemists a, Si3' t r-r°S eDter. DICKENS —On the Bth inst ,at 18, Gloucesf e 6 a t oo ,tie gent's-park, Mrs. Charles. Dickens, _jun ., ° Do dge , KFNWORTHY —On the Bth inst., at Nerrisogter. Park, Ealing, Mrs. Kenworthy, of a (W i g BARRY did ° MARRIAGES. Ca c i f 4 at 01° Vo r Church, —SOUTHWELL— On the 6th ins., - dish Doti Banybrack, co. Dublin, Chirles Stali fire t vir 131;BREroEolr--LYNCH— only fon of Henry S. Barry, to the non. lOrtt goo' well, fourth and youngest sister of the Big re ll, count Southwell. . cb s. vei natholle .134,t green, James W. Burke, eldest .:),' ° i oeh' s ti ' d " 'coo Esq., barrister-tit -law, to Isa'bella, soca „op On the 9th inqt.. at the ‘-, f Ja s. , er 4, Thomas H. Lynch, Esq., J.P., late of 14°' Roscommon. BIRTHS. Drummond, 11 014 .0 11 DOBSO TALBOT— 11 0 Dobson, —On the Bth inst., at Eastbourne, .1° , On' t E sti 7 6 . at 1 17 19. " Ditu mmoND—On the sth inst., suddenly, -e0 v cha r Clle On the 9th inst., at Oxford, Charlesltr-- wyud Talbot, Esq., of Aston flail, Cheshire' vire' ovoo,oi, London : Printed and Published by WILLIA3I ° it % S t ./ of No. 2, S, Prter, a t TUE SUN 0/3108 Dircolle° in the P 11recincttrand of thein S a voy, in the CoulltY °` Wednesday. August 11, 15,:9. of IV