The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-05 00:00:00

SALMON FI-SThEI?IE.S. The Government bill for amending the law relating to talmon fisheries in England has been issued. It makes some provisions for the snore effectual enforcement of the existing law, and proposes also some alterations in the law. A penalty is to be imposed on any person fishing for salmon (except with rod and line) within 100 yards of a dam not having a legal free gap ;but if there is at present a fish pass approved by the Home Office compensation is to be made by the conservators for the expense of making, or maintaining it. Power is given to tho conservators to place a grating across the tail-race of a mill, or across any artificial channel, but not to interfere with the mill wheel or supply of water, and the grating may be removed after the Ist of June. Thep roprietor of a fixed engine tor catching eels in a salmon river must remove it between January 1 and July 1. The inspectors are to have access at all reasonable times to examine any dam, artificial water course, &c. A person illegally taking salmon in the night, or found near a salmon river with that intent, or having in his possession for the capture of salmon a prohibited instru ment, may be apprehended without warrant by any officer of the conservators or servant of a person having right of fishing. Moneys arising from licenses may be expended by the conservators in any manner they think most condu cive to the improvement of the salmon fisheries. The 64th section of the Act of 1865 is to apply to char. No person is to fish for trout or char otherwise than by rod and line in a salmon river during the time when netting is prohibited ; and between the 3rd of November and the 2nd of February no person is to buy or sell trout or char, but this is not to apply to trout or char cured, potted, &c., or caught beyond the limits of the Salmon Fishery Acts, the onus of proof thereof lying on the seller. The conservators, with the approval of the Secretary of State, are to have power to make regulations as to the de scription and use of nets for catching salmon, the cons mencement of the weekly close time, and generally the protection and improvement of salmon fishing, but there ust first be a public inquiry by one of the inspectors. it eta.tPfT iEaT 71, iitirraiirezirrTrEarine gun. of Belgian manufacture, will shortly arrive in this country for trial. 'Major G. V. Fosbery, V.C., Bengal Staff Corps, bas been employed for some time on the Continent in in specting and reporting on various specimens of this new description of arm. The Belgian mitrailleur, which is con sidered the best of its class, is the invention of M. Montigny. It consists of thirty-seven steel barrels, planed on the ex terior to an hexagonal form, so as to fit together with ease. These barrels are then soldered in a wrought-iron tube, and fitted with a sliding breech-piece, consisting of a block containing an arrangement of spiral springs for firing a central-fire cartridge in each barrel. The breech. block is moved by a lever, and the turning of a handle is sufficient to fire the cartridges one by one, the rapidity of fire being proportioned to the speed with which the handle is made to revolve. The face of the breech-block is grooved to admit the cartridge-holder and extractor, the former being a steel plate drilled with holes to corre spond to the position of the barrels and strikers. Several of these plates accompany each gun, and it is asserted they can be filled with cartridges and dropped into the proper position with considerable ease and quickness. The whole apparatus is mounted on a two-wheeled carriage. Major Fosbery appears to have witnessed a number of experiments with this arm at the Tir National, Brussels, and at the Artillery Polygone, Brasschaet, and his report is on the whole favourable. Many missfires are recorded, due, it is said, to imperfect ammunition ; but this would be unlikely to occur were Boxer cartridges employed. The experiments at Brasschaet were made at distances varying from about 430 to 1,100 yards, the target consisting of inch planks nailed to uprights, forming a screen of 97ft. in length by Oft. in height at the two extremities, and 12ft. in height over a space of 26ft. in the centre. At 430 yards 84 per cent. of the projectiles struck this screen ; 370 cartridges were placed in the gun, which was worked by one man ; of these 40 were missfires, 278 struck, and 52 missed the target. The time was about three minutes, including a stoppage during the firing of the first five plates. At 650 yards the hits were about 50 per cent. ; but at 1,100 yards it was found so difficult to obtain the correct elevation, in the absence of a properly graduated target scale, that the attempt to fire at this range was abandoned. It is said that 370 shots per minute can be fired after some practice. LAW AND POLICE. -.',.. RISK ALLAH BEY.—In the Rolls Court, on Friday Simouides's case, in connection with the Constantinople and Alexandria Hotels, was heard. He applied to have his name removed from the list of contributories of the c , >mpany, on which the ofilcial liquidator had placed it. Ills case was, that on the lith December, 1863, four days before the allotment of the Eliares, he wrote to his friend, Risk Allah Bey, at whose instance be had applied for them, stating that he had heard a Lad account of the com pany, and wished to withdraw his application. Risk Allah Bey did not,so far as Simonides could ascertain ,communicate this letter to the directors, though he was represented on the prospectus as being a director himself. The company took no steps in consequence of the letter. The counsel for Simonides argued that notice given to Risk Allah Bey, as one of the directors, amounted in equity to notice to the company. It appeared, however, that Risk Allah Hey had never been a director, though his name was on the prospectus, and the Master of the Rolls ordered that the name of Simonides should be retained on the list of contributories. THE PATENT Laws. —ln Vice-Chancellor James's court, on Friday, judgment was given in a patent case. The defendant is a gas engineer, named Stevens, who under the orders of Mr. Barry, the Government architect, supplied the lamps which are now placed in New Palace yard. These lamps, which were globular iu form, with revolving or sliding doors, were alleged by the plaintiff to be an infringement of his patent, and he filed his bill to restrain the alleged infringement. The defendant disputed the validity of the patent, and denied infringement. The Vice-Chancellor gave an elaborate judgment, holding that there could be no patent right in the substitution of a slide for a hinge, which was one of the points insisted on. A patent for a combination could not be a valid patent for a part. Judgment for the defendant. Ma. RIGBY WAsON.—Mr. Rigby Wason attended at Marlborough-street Police-court to perfect his recog nisances for prosecuting the charge against Lord Russell for conspiracy; but Mr. Tyrwhitt said, on consideration, he must decline to take them, for he did not think that an indictment would lie. Mr. 'Was= declared that the magistrate was bound to accept his recognisances, and added that he should apply to the Court of Queen's Bencb for a mandamus to compel him to do so. ESCAPE FROM A REFORMATORY. Two girls were brought up at the Hampstead Police-court, charged with absconding from the Catholic Industrial School at Finchley. Mr. Marshall said they should be sent to the Roman Catholic Reformatory at Bristol for three years, but before that they must have a month's imprisonment with hard labour in the House of Correction. A BRIBERY CASE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench the question of " ' What is bribery ?" was raised on a county court appeal. It was an action for a penalty for the alleged offer nf_a_bribe at a municipal election, and the evidence of the -- • he would be remunerated for his trouble and f time - The court were clear tnae tine lilac Lalal, - Tr Z.II! S and gave judgment for the plaintiff—that he was entitled to recover the penalty. MISSING PAPERS. —ln the Bail Court, on Friday, the case of the " Queen v. Thomas Edward Watkins " was heard. It was a criminal proceeding, but had been removed from the Old Bailey to the Bail Court. The prisoner was an attorney, and was charged with stealing some papers and documents. The prosecutor was a Mr. Tommey, who was formerly in the army, and he accused Mr. Watkins of taking from Ilia table some letters which he wanted to use in an action which was pending. Mr. Justice Hannen summed up strongly in favour of the prisoner, and the jury at once returned a verdict of Not FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—News from Bolton states that at six o'clock on Friday night Thomas Pollitt, 26, wheelwright ; John Proctor, 23, salesman ; and Jamea Lord, 25, warehouseman, were rowing upon the canal at Bolton, when another boat passing caused a swell in the water. - Proctor, being frightened, overbalanced himself, and the boat capsized bottom upwards. Lord got on to the boat, but his companions clutching it also caused it to capsize again, and all sank. The second boat then came to the rescue, and Lord was got out all% e and recovered, but the other two were dead. They were all unmarried. THE SUNDERLAND MuRDER. —A man who gives his name as Robert Jones is in custody at Abergavenny for the murder of Maria Fitzsimmons, at Sunderland, on February 20th last. Jones was drinking with George Taylor and others at the Crown Inn, Raglan, whenhe stated that there was a reward of £lOO oikred for the apprehension of the murderer, and as he should like Taylor to get the money better than anyone else he (Taylor) had better give information to the police. He stated that he was a native of Ridgway near Bristol, that he left his home in January last, and travelled northwards. At Sunderland he picked up with Maria Fitzsimmons, and because she repelled his attempts on her person he murdered her. Taylor imme diately • gave information to the police, and Jones was taken to Abergavenny to await communications with the Sunderland authorities. Jones is 23 years of age, stands 51t. Tin. high, fresh complexion, and sandy hair, and answers in every particular the de§criptir given of the murderer, - 31ISCELLANEOUS AET TIM POLITICAL CRISIS. The 77mes in its first leader makes known a won derful rumour which was prevalent in the lobbies on Thursday night. It was nothing less than that the Lords would throw out the Irish Church Bill. Rumour says that on Wednesday a select meeting of Con servative peers was held, and that, after much discussion and no little difference of opinion, a resolution in favour of the most extreme course was carried, and will be presented to the larger meeting which is to be held to-day. Lord Cairns is supposed to have yielded to the decision in spite of his absence from the Chesterfield House deputations. As regards Lord Salisbury, however, it is extremely doubtful if he has given way. Even now, in spite of the circumstan tiality of the report, the Times can scarcely credit its truth. The opposition would, the Times thinks, be so futile as regards its object, so injurious as regards its authors, that our contemporary must continue to doubt if at the last moment their lordships wlil take a course so hopeless and so hurtful. With reference to this matter, the London corres pondence of the Dublin Evening Mail, which is inspired by Dr. Ball, says that the Irish deputations have had interviews with several leading men. The Earl of Derby assured them that he was altogether hostile to the bill, root and branch ; but he thought it right to inform them that he was not now a "leader," and that he could not answer for what might be done by "the party." This would be determined at the meeting to be held at the house of the Duke of Marlborough on Saturday. He said, however, that he would be glad to co-operate with Lord Westbury if " the party " could go into such a co-operation. This suggestion was the subject of an inner-conclave consultation on Wednesday. The Archbishop of York professed a strong personal desire to throw out the bill on the second reading, but hinted doubts of the practicability of doing so with a sufficient majority. The Earl of Shaftesbury declined to receive the deputations. The Marquis of Clanricarde and Lord Westbury received them together. and evinced great Sympathy o~khor boforo or after the second reading, in order that Parliament and the country may have the whole of the Irish policy of the Government before them. Lord Westbury would look forward to a rival scheme at a future time. His main objection to the present measure is that it diverts religious funds to secular uses, while it would scatter the members of the Church hitherto established "as sheep upon a hill-side, without a shepherd." The breakfast to the Irish deputations is to come off on Wednesday. The Duke Of Rutland is to pre side, and amongst those present will be the Duke of Abercorn, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Bandon, Lord Redesdale, Lord Berners, &c. The tickets are to be 15s. each ; rather a long price for a breakfast. No doubt the meeting will be more select than numerous and thus faithfully represent the Irish Church. ANOTHER ORANGE MEETING AT DUBLIN. The agitation among the Orangemen of Ireland against the Irish Church Bill is at its height. The appeal to the people made by opposition journals has called out all the fervent partisans of the Protes tant Church ; and Irish eloquence has raised their enthusiasm to the highest pitch. Another meeting w.is held at Dublin on Thursday, and the Metropoli tan Hall was crammed to suffocation with an audience estimated by the Times as over 4,000. A profusion of Orange banners and other emblems, we are told, decorated the interior, and the great majority of those present wore the insignia of the order. Mr. W. F. Caldbeck presided. " A most spirit stirring address " was delivered by Dr. Tresham Gregg. Resolutions condemning the " iniquitous" measure in the strongest terms, and a petition calling on the Lords to reject it, were unanimously adopted. The Standard further assures us that there was no " external " disturbance, as if to distinguish between it and the internal commotion produced by the sacrilegious project of the Premier. AN IRISH LANDLORD CHARGED WITH EJECTION. An Irish landlord, one Mr. Furney, who owns property near Killinick, Wexford, has just been com mitted for trial for ejecting a tenant. Mr. Furney recently purchased some landed property in the Landed Estates Court. At the time of the purchase a man named Whitty occupied a cabin on the estate. Whitty was shortly afterwards taken into Mr. Fur ney's gate-lodge, employed as a herd. The work, however, appears to have been too hard for him, and after having occupied the gate-lodge for six weeks he and his family, without apprising Mr. Furney, removed to the old cabin. The land lord requested him to leave, but he refused until he could get some other place to suit him. On this Mr. Furney caused the cabin to be pulled down, while several members of the family still remained in it. ine prosecution was brought under an Act passed in 1848, entitled " An Act for the Relief of the Destitute Poor Evicted from their Dwellings in Ireland." THE REPORTED RESIGNATION OF THE LOUD LIEUTENANT. The report of the resignation of the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland seems to have had some foun dation after all. This much : Mr. Rounclell, his Excellency's private secretary, is coming to London with Earl Spencer, and, having resigned, does not intend to return. Out of this retirement of the servant arose the story of the resignation of the chief. THE ENGLISH CHURCH UNION. The annual meeting of this body is to take place on the 15th. The report, in spite of the Cairns' judgment, is of a very cheerful character. True, the increase of members has not been so l arge d ur i ng th e past year as it was during the year preceding—was only 1,156 against 2,999 ; but against thi s f ac t i s t o be set another, which is considered very satisfactory— the purification of the Union by the secessi on o f many members who wished to identify the Church Establish ment with the Church Catholic, and who were, there fore, bent upon making the Union a political b o d y pledged to support Conservatism. The collapse of th e weekly organ of that party is significant of the fact that High Churchmen will not consent to sink their individuality in any political party. Against the secession of certain ultra Tories and Establishment arians, is to be set the accession of the Earl of Devon (father-in-law of the President, the Hon. C. L. Wood), and Mr. Liddon. The American Church Union is about to join the English Association in an alliance both offensive and defensive, and thus the English Church Union will be " a common centre for all Catholic agencies within the great Pan-Anglican communion." As regards finance, the committee find every reason to be satisfied. The ordinary receipts have exceeded the expenditure by £534. The Defence Fund 'thews receipts to the amount of £3,033 les. ld., and dis bursements (including £2,275 16s. ld. for the St. Alban's and £762 4s. 2d. for the East Teignmouth case) amounting to £3,366 18s. 2d. At the present moment £5OO are needed to clear off all the liabili ties caused by the late litigation. COLONIAL BISHOPS. The Church Times is very severe upon the Colonial Bishops for their incessant and prolonged desertion of their flocks. It urges " that a priest who accepts a colonial bishopric has pledged himself for life to a particular kind of work, and that by coming home to a merely parochial charge, even if he act as owl man to do stray episcopal jobs in Withaiavli ' mg ph.iefa_ not only looks back, but draws back altogether. The scandal is not a new one. In England the abuse has risen to such a pitch that it is an even chance at any moment that one-half, or, at any rate, one third of the Colonial Bishops are amusing them selves in England." Our contemporary asks the S. P. G. to shew its martyrs; and is very sarcastic upon the projected bishopric of Madagascar, which is going to be formed now that the persecution is over, and the Dissenting missionaries have sealed their witness with their blood. THE POSITION OF DISSENTING MINISTERS. The _English Independent, the organ of the Congre gationalists and Baptists, is very far from endorsing the statement that the Independent ministers are alarmed at the Vice-Chancellor's decision making a minister's appointment dependent upon the majority of his people. Our contemporary declares it to be both valuable and sensible; and enters into a long argu ment shewing that it is the only plan of ensuring • peace. WORKING MEN IN PARLIAMENT. Two " working men's " candidates are now seeking election as M.P.'s—Mr. Odger at Stafford, and Mr. George Potter at Nottingham. Professor Fawcett has been speaking in behalf of the first, and declared that if Mr. Odger were not elected, he (Mr. Fawcett) should despair of ever seeing working men in garliament. MISERIES OF FOREIGN BONDHOLDERS. The Anglo-Austrian bondholders have held a meeting to protest against their treatment by the Austrian Government. The statement of Count Beust, that the creditors might have disposed of their Austrian paper to advantage if they chose, was received with derision. It was held that no Govern ment has the right to alter the conditions of a con tract made with a foreign creditor, and that if a Government be unable to meet its engagements it must come to a mutual caTangement with its credi tors, and provide a future indemnification. The injury done to these Austrian bondholders consists in transforming their bonds into others of less value. . THE PATENT LAWS. The Beehive, organ of the trades unions, is strongly ax~.inst the abolition of the Patent Taws, believing THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, that such abolition would be most injurious to " men with full heads but empty pockets.". The PechivA says :—" There are others here and there ready to follow the example of Mr. Mundella and Mr. Morley, who, having between them enabled a poor man to bring out a valuable improvement in machinery, are equal partners with him in the pecuniary results, his third share yielding the comfortable income of 2,000 a year. The excellent member for Notting ham is an old hand at this sort of thing. During the twenty-five years of his busi ness life he has been connected with twenty patents on the same terms ; and in every instance his partner was a working man." The Patent Laws are declared to be " emphatically and above all a working man's question." Our contemporary believes that they will not be abolished yet awhile. The Engineer, which should be an authority on the subject, declares against the abolition, and for the reform, of the Patent Laws. Our contemporary declares that the present administration of the law is most unsatisfactory, wasteful, and disastrous. " There are people now practising in London and elsewhere as patent agents who do not even know the English language, who scarcely know a pump bolt from a cow's tail, and who have not the slightest idea of the laws, whether of patents, of mechanics. or of common honesty." Nevertheless, the principle of the Patent Laws is good, and the Engineer recom , mends the following alterations : - Tines' correspondent writing from Philadelphia on Wednesday evening, " shows its total on the let inst. to have been $2,505,400,000, deducting cash in Treasury Bonds and the Sinking Fund. This is a decrease during the last month of $13,500,000." We give the totals published on the Ist May, that our readers may compare the figures:—Total debt— Principal and interest, $2,635,032,888 12c. Amount in Treasury—Coin, belonging to the Government, $92,031,732 96c. ; coin, represented by gold certifi cates of deposit, $16,307,200; currency, 1(,896,564 7c. ; total, $116,235,497 3c. Amount of public debt, less cash in Treasury, $2,518,797,391 9c. We can only reconcile Reuter's statement of the cash in the Treasury with this abstract, by supposing that perhars some ten million dollars invested in the Sinking Fund are calculated therein as currency, for instead of the cash held by the Treasury being two millions less, he makes it out to be eight mil lions snore. A farewell banquet was given to General Dix, at the Grand Hotel, Paris, on Tuesday evening. His successor Mr. Wa2liburne, as well as Mr. Bur lingame were present, the unusual spectacle being afforded of three American Envoys seated at the same table. They all spoke well ; the words of Mr. Washburne having a peculiar interest, as the close friend of the President, and intimately ac quainted with his sentiments and aspirations. Of these he spoke iu terms of eulogy, and closed his speech with a graceful compliment to the guest of the evening. General Dix leaves with his family to-day for New York in the Hamburg and Ame rican Company's steamship Cinzbria. The Hon. William A. Howard, the American Minister to China, has had an interview with the Presbyterian General Assembly in New York with reference to the best means of protecting American missionaries in China. Mr. Howard may frr . - 1 confer with his to China. An effort will be made when Congress meets, in view of its growing importance, to raise the American mission to China to the first-class rank, with two additional Secretaries; and it is said the Executive favours the project. Consul-General Read was to leave New York on the 29th May in the French steamer St. Laurent, and his arrival at Brest may therefore be looked for in a few days. The President has appointed Samuel W. Hulled to be United States Consul at La Rochelle. It is re ported, incorrectly we believe, by the friends of ex-Senator Carlile of West Virginia, that the Presi dent will appoint him Minister to Stockholm, on the ground that he was once confirmed by the Senate, and that upon reconsideration he was not rejected. It was announced by the Independence Beige that the United States Minister at Brussels, Mr. Sanford, had sent his resignation to Washing ton in consequence of the action of the Senate on his nomination for Minister to Spain. Baron Wid derstedt, the Minister of Sweden, had left Washing ton for New York to meet 1113 wife on her return from Europe, and has provided accommodation at Annapolis, Maryland, where he proposes to pass the summer. Mr. Lille, Minister of Denmark, bas reached Washington, accompanied by his bri ie. E. D. Bassett, U.S. Minister to Hayti, received instruc tions from the Dep trtment of State, May 21, and took leave of the President. The alleged repug nance of the Haytian Government to a coloured Minister is authoritatively denied, the appointment being received by the Ilaytians as a high compli ment to the race. "Let there be a preliminary examination, as in America, with respect to at least novelty ; let not merely drawings, but also models, be required from the patentee ; let additional facilities be given for ascertaining the novelty, or the amount of novelty, in a patent ; let each patentee again, as in America, be required strictly to define his claims ; let every patent agent be subjected to examina tion, and be liable to disbarring, instead of, as now, allow• ing, ignorant boys or swindlers to practice." If a special telegram from New York is to be believed, the most prominent Republicans intend to make the Alabama claims their leading cry at the coining elections.in the fall of the year, and that it is expected the issue will be taken on this question. It is rumoured that Curtin, Sumner, and others are in favour of this scheme. This is a stupid piece of sensational news, for the question can be decided by no party but on its legal merits, and if the Re publicans took up such a cry for party purposes they would place themselves not only in a false, but in a ridiculous position. Judge Wilson died ou June 3. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times, on Thursday, announced— . , "General Duke, the Captain-General of Cuba, resigned his post yesterday. Don Espinar is his successor until the arrival of General de Rodas." The intelligence from Peru is that the Government, following the example of Mexico, has recognised the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. The Mahon - ing, a heavy steam cutter, has been ordered to New York to assist iu enforcing the neutrality laws, and the Washington Government have taken measures to have their orders obeyed on this subject. La Revo lucion protests against the circulars of the Captain- General, directing the seizure of the property of certain Cubans without respect to the previous rights of foreigners, a robbery it denounces in the name of charity, morality, and civilization. The English papers maintain the tone assumed on the Alabama question since the intelligence of Mr. Sumner's speech. The correspondence which led to the Convention rejected by the Senate has been published, and adds fresh fuel to the fire. There are first the negotiations between Mr. John son and Lord Stanley, interrupted by the retire ment of the Conservative Administration ; then their continuance with Lord Clarendon till their final rejection by the Senate. The more fully the his tory of the negotiations is understood the clearer it appears that young Adams, the son of the previous Minister, was right in his article in the North Ame rican Review, that that Convention was one of the greatest triumphs of American diplomacy ever ob tained, and no small reparation for the injury sus tained by the United States during the war. Of course, rumours are plentiful relating to the Presi dent's feelings on the subject, to the tone of the Cabinet, and to the instructions given to Mr. Mot ley. This was the telegram of yesterday : "It is reported that President Grant has expressed his dis approval of the terms of Mr. Sumner's speech on the Alabama claims." The reporters, however, complain bitterly of their treatment at the White Ilouse, and for lack of information have to manu facture these rumours. The following abstract of all the National Bank (more than sixteen hundred) shows an aggregate of resources and liabilities of $1,516,303,000, including loans and discounts $659,000,000 ; specie, nearly $8,500,000; legal-tender notes, $50,500,000; Three per Cent. Certificates, $51,000,000. The capital stock is over $120,000,000. Numerous bank offi cers are in Washington endeavouring to counteract Mr. Boutwell's policy, and to prevent the withdrawal of United States deposits from the National Banks, averaging from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. Four hundred of these banks are especially favoured, and they will fight hard before they lose a source of such profit. There is a double exodus now going on over the Atlantic—of the poor from Europe to America, of JUNE 5, lA9. the rich from America to Enrop, The names best, known in the United States are now to be seen on the hotel lists of those most frequented of the great European cities, and it is difficult to secure a pas sage, so great is the rush,notwithstanding the num ber of fine steamers plying from New York, Bos ton, and Baltimore. If the after part of the ships come back filled, the crowd in the steerage going out is beyond comparison denser. The Scandina vian people, whose crops have lately failed, have taken up the running dropped by the Irish, and from the same cause, and arc literally emigrating to the States en masse. They are going at the rate of 350 per week via Glasgow, and the sort of men may be gathered from this :—" Among a party of Nor wegian emigrants who recently arrived in Toledo, Ohio, was one big fellow, who stands seven feet eight inches high, and weighs 322 pounds. He in tends to settle in Minnesota." Four hundred Eng lish families from the silk-weaving districts are ex pected in America ; and an English gentleman bas purchased a block of land in Virginia for the settle ment of 800 other English families. The managers of the East London Emigration Fund are sending their people to Canada ; and a delegation saw the Home Secretary onlhursday to induce the Govern ment to aid emigration, and as far as possible to direct it to British colonies. It is a matter of no moment where it goes so long as the condition of the people be improved ; 80 per cent. of those who reach Canada cross the border into the United States, and the dockyard hands sent out in Govern ment vessels, if they are not, soon will be working in the navy yards of the Republic. A notice has al ready been posted outside the Town-hall, Woolwich, that no more would be thus carried to Canada. The Internal Revenue Department has d ecided that the Pullman's sleeping cars when furnishing linuors. wines, and cigars, to travellers, or others, are liable each wherein such undera to a snecial tax as keepers of eatina-houses tile provisions or we ita.:t Ul d 5‘.1, 101Y± also as dealers in liquors, either wholesale or retail, as provided by section 59, Act of July 20, 1868 ; and as dealers in tobacco, snuff, and cigars, if sales exceed $lOO, under the provisions of the last named section and Act. This may be news to the correspondent of the Daily News who wrote from America about the hardships of the transit across the Continent, and applied to the wrong place the story told of a party of diggers on their road to the White Pine, which by the way he dil not tell cor rectly. If he inquires further he may find that some of these cars are veritable hotels on wheels, furnished with all the luxuries of an Eastern city. Consignments of teas have reached St. Louis from Japan in 30 days. If it be true that tea is injured by the long voyages for which it now has to be prepared, we may yet have to go to America as the nearest country wherein to taste good China tea. It appears that Mr. Griffin and other sensible Fenians tried to make the best use they could of Warren and Costello, an intention only defeated by the " cussedness" of tho martyr patriots. He put them up to show at the ridiculously small Floe p-r ticket of 25 cents for the two. Here was a brace of veritable lions fresh from a British mena gerie, real, hungry, rampant, furious lions on view, and the rare opportunity was offered at the low sum of 25 cents. As Griffin shrewdly suspected that Warren and Costello would refuse to be ap praised at such a price, and further would expect the lion's share of the plunder if they did exhibit, he lid not consult them, and we are left ignorant whether he applied to Barnum for substitutes "with a little drapery," or intended to capture them on the exhibition night, or after gathering all the quar ter dollars to leave the public to discover the hoax. We have already announced what took place at the meeting, and we give Mr. Costello's explanation, one similar in purport, having been published bY Warren : "As Colonel Warren and I bad before refused to identify ourselves with any party or faction; as we strongly ob jected to attend any meeting where an admission fee was to he charged without it being specified for whom or for what the money was collected ; as we thought ourselves insulted by the attempt made to put us on exhibition for the cheap stun of 25 cents ; as we do not want to make martyr capital, and as this self- constituted committee never consulted our feelings iu the matter, but kept studiously aloof from uc, we refused to become the harlequins of any man or party." General Butler has been engaged by Mr. John Russell Young in his libel suit against the Neu, York Sun, and he acts as counsel for Mr. James Fisk, jun., in his case against the Springfield Republican. It will, doubtless, gratify Mr. Butler to have so good an opportunity of attacking the latter paper, which is amongst the most influential in New Eng land, circulating, too, among his own constituents, which did its best to defeat his election. It is as serted that Mr. Young prevented the Tribune from opposing Butler's election, which otherwise Mr. Greeley would have done. Hence he feels under obligation to his client. General Butler's boldness does much to sustain his reputation in America ; he attacks anything, no matter what its strength, and does it with a fearlessness nothing can daunt. No man during the elections was more assailed, and in his own State. He presents, too, no small target at which to fire, yet he triumphantly carried the elec tion, and they are now talking of running him as Governor of Massachusetts. But he proposes to fly at higher game, for he has entered the lists against General Wilson, as Senator from Massachusetts. The contest will take place next year, when the Legislature of 1871 will be chosen. Senator Wilson and the working men have triumphed, and the Cabinet has decided that Con gress did not mean to reduce the daily wages in reducing the number of hours for work. So the Cabinet have overruled on a point of law the opinions of Attorneys-General Evarta and Hoar ; therefore, all the mechanics and labourers in the Government employ will henceforth receive the amount for eight hours' work they hitherto got for ten, and this has been proclaimed by the President. No doubt it will give greater satisfaction to those in the service of Government than to other employers, for an element of disorder has been introduced, the effect of which will very soon begin to be felt. Senator Wilson addressed the Charleston Navy - y ard work men, and attributed to the President w hat he called a sensible interpretation of the law. H e denounced the antagonism fostered between capital an r dl n a , aboundr, ridiculed the prophecies of approa ch _ denied the cry that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer, assserting, o n the contrary, that gra ilia itare79fg-Sena.lor said : "Poverty sat by my cradle. Want was often an un bidden guest in the home of any childhood. At ten years of age I wont forth to earn my bread, served an appren ticeship on a farm for eleven years, and received for those years of hard toil $B4, a sum less than many Massachu setts mechanics received for their last month's work. That was within 80 miles of Charlestown. The people then had little money. I was not the possessor, in the aggregate, of the amount of two dollars till I came of age, and I had not bpeut the amount of one dollar from my birth to my majority. When I came of age I hired myself out for a month, drove teams, cut and hauled timber and wood, worked from twelve to fifteen hours a day, and all for six dollar) a month. I then worked seven months on a farm for nine dollars a mouth. I then walked for days to seve ral manufacturing villages to obtain from my fellow-men leave to toil. Not finding it, I put my pack on my back and tramped from my native town, a distance of 100 miles, to my present home to learn a mechanical trade. I have worked in the field in long summer days hoeing and mow ing with some of the best men who ever handled a hoe or swung a scythe, and they received fifty cents, sometimes four shillings a day—not money, but corn at a dollar a bushel. and pork at a shilling a pound. I have seen young women do house work, milk cows, spin and weave, for fifty cents and four shillings a week." From Utah it is announced that Brigham Young, on the morning of the 18th May, broke the first ground for the Utah Central Railroad, near Weber River, immediately below Ogden City. It is ex pected the road willbe completed to the Mormon city by October next. Whether the Mormon Chief fully realizes what the effect will be on the seat of his dominion and accepts the inevitable, we cannot tell ; but it is highly probable that so clever a man who led his people into the wilderness, knowing:that the only hope of Mormonism maintaining itself as a separate religious community, lay in isolation, must be aware that its destruction is involve.] in the railway on which he has so vigorously com menced work, and in accepting the inevitable de sires to make the most of the circumstances. Mr. Foote, an American missionary, has success , fully commenced his labours in Salt Lake City. Senator Sumner meets the treatment always ex perienced by the man who draws on his head the hostility of a nation. The Boston Journal pub lishes a letter which it received from its Washington correspondent. In an enclosure, addresed to Sena tor Sumner, with a leader from the Spectator, was this letter the coireszmisn L agrrt. to be one of many "Condon, May G.—Sir,—l enclose ice_ opnion c.--- ` — e c.--- ` — of one of the leading journals of this country as to your conduct, and have only to add my own, which is that you are a mischief-making, ill-conditioned Yankee scoundrel.---Your obedient servant, AN ENGLISIIMAN." The correspondent, by way of show ing what his own feelings are, alludes to Professor Goldwin Smith, as amimated by a vindictive hosti lity towards the Massachusetts Senator, who has placed the conduct of John Bull in the true light before the civilised world. We can assure that cor respondent, however that Jonathan's conduct to wards England, iu the negotiation for redress, gets a far wider publication, and is placed much more fully before the civilized world. In fact, the civi lized world is being taught that America is very unreasonable, and that John Bull is patient, endur ing, and forgiving ; and instead of having the effect the correspondent supposes, Senator Sumner's speech has really given the civilized world an erroneous impression, that America was not so much in the right as before supposed. Pushing to extremes is, as a rule, a mistake, and England appears for the second time to be getting off the course in the other direction. ••• He reports, within the last 16 months, 41 confirms- 11111)} 1 RII AItLIAVENT tions, 31 ; communicants, 44 ; Sunday school scholars, 150 ; teachers, 13 ; grammar school scho lars, 100 ; teachers, 6 ; contributions for church purposes, $3,970. The Harvard University crew will leave New York on the 10th of July in the Royal mail steamer City of Paris, so as to have at least five weeks train ing over, to them, the novel English course. Mean while they are actively preparing under Mr. Loring, whose ability to train a crew inspires such confi dence that it is at least sure that Oxford and Cam bridge will have a hard tussle. Alden P. Loring, of Boston, pulls the bow oar; he is 25 years of age, and weighs 1551b5. George Bass, of Chicago, aged 23, weighs 1631b5. Sylvester W. Rice, of Oregon, is 26, and weighs 1851bs. William Ilammatt Simmons, of Concord, Massachusetts, the "stroke," weighs 1701b5., and is considered the most rapid amateur oarsman in America. The four are now in daily practice, and are said to be splendid oars men. The race with Oxford will take plac ‘, the American papers say. about the middle of August or the beginning of September, and perhaps may be rowed on Bala Lake. Arthur Burnham will probably go as coxswain. "The Indian war has recommenced. There has been a battle between the United States troops and the Indians in Texas, near Fort Griffin, in which the loss of the latter amounted to 14." These are the words of a telegram received this week, and it but confirms the news by mail. An Omaha de spatch reports a fight between a cavalry force under General Carr and 500 Cheyennes. The Indians lost 25 killed and a large number of wounded. Three of the cavalry men were killed and three wounded. A band of Indians killed four settlers, and drove off one hundred cattle and horses in Wind River Val- HOUSE OE LORDS.-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at live o'clock. _ Viscount STRATFORD DE REDCL [PPE moved for copies of any treaty concluded between this country and the United States relative to the Alabama claims. The subject led to a short discussion. The Earl of CLARENDON said he did not know what were the instructions of Mr. Motley, but he was quite certain there was every disposition in this country to enter into the negotiations in the most friendly manner. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF cosinoNs.—LnsT EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. THE NAVAL RESERVE. Mr. CHILDERS, in reply to Mr. Gourlay, said there was every reason to be satisfied with the conduct and ser vice of the naval reserve. The late First Lord of the Ad miralty had substituted three iron-clads for three wooden line-of-battle ships, and he proposed to give directions for the change of four more, so that by the eud of the year the Channel Fleet would be strengthened by the addition of nine powerful ironclads of the Reserve and Coastguard service. ley, Colorado, on the 9th May. At Fort Hayes, where numerous Indians are watched by the troops, there were sins of a growing restlessness. The vcuucuuy wag :I*Ejoat with the approaching summer. On the 10th ay this ended in a tragedy, for Chief Cardigan then led au attack on the guard and was knocked senseless by the butt-end of a musket, and being disarmed was carried in this state into the guardehense, but not before Sallie, a squaw, had been shot dea3, as well as Big Head, who managed first to stab the sergeant. Dull Knife, badly wounded with bayonets, was carried into confinement with Cardigan, and it is clear that the wretched Indians came but badly out of that melee. The fight originated from an order to the chiefs to remove in charge of the guard from the corral to the guard-room, when they raised the death whoop, and, drawing knives, went at the soldiers. It is easy to appoint Quakers as Indian Commissioners, but we fear the President's efforts and appeal in behalf of peace meet but sorry en couragement in the wild West. Mr. Vincent Colyer, with his escort, a detachment of company " E," under Lieut. Jacobs, was reported to have been cap tured, but the following letter shows that this was not the case :-- "Los Vegas, New Mexico, May 20. "We arrived at Fort Bascom all well, walking across plains, 435 miles in 31 days, resting on Sundays. The Indians met me with much hospitality. 1 leave for the Navaja and Apache country to-morrow. " VINCENT COLTER." In Arizona the savages murdered Milton S. Hadley, a pioneer citizen of the territory, on the 18th of April, near Prescott, and also captured and de stroyed the mail from California, near Tucson, the mail rider barely escaping. The latest intelligence is that the Indians of the West are perpetrating numerous massacres among the settlers, the out break having with the summer, as anticipated, be come general. BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—Mr. A. R. Corbin, a retired millionaire of New York, was recently married to Miss Jennie Grant, sister of the Presideneof the United States.—Ex-Secretary Welles has just invested.a portion of his earnings at Washington in a $40,000 house in Hart ford.—General Lee is a delegate to the Virginia Episcopal Convention.—Major Fry, a leading citizen of Rye Neck, New York, died on the morning of the 17th May, after a brief illness.—Andrew Johnson is said to be worth s7s,ooo.—The Hon. J. L. Thomas, Collector of Customs at Baltimore, appointed two coloured men to positions in the Custom-house, May 19.—A. T. Stewart's income is sixty thousand dollars per week, or over three millions per year.— The Hon. Z. Chandler, the Hon. T. W. Osborn of the United States Senate, and the Rev. Dr. Osborn of St. Louis, arrived in the Inman steamship City of Brook lyn, on a tour in Europe.—The Hon. Wm. H. Seward, late Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, late Assis tant Secretary of State, arrived at New York, An May 21, from Auburn, and went to the Astor House. The ex-Sc cretary proceeded to Philadelphia next day.—Gen. Robert Anderson, so well known in connection with Fort Sumter, is about to make a - short tour in Europe. His handsome private library has just been sold by auction.—Senor Ro berts, the Spanish Minister, and Senator Cragiu of New Hampshire, went to Washington May 21. —lt is reporter: that the Hon. William M'Dougall is to bo appointed Governor of the new Province of Assiniboin, Canada.— Professor John Bascom has resigned the professorship of rhetoric in Williams College, Massachusetts, to recruit his health.—lt is said that Walter Brown (Massachusetts) contemplates a visit to England, with the intention of ac cepting any challenge of single scull rowing for the cham pionship of the world.—Edwin F. Waters, of the Boston Advertiser, and a party of ladies and gentlemen, left Bos ton, May 18, for a trip to Omaha, and over certain sections of the Pacific Railroad.—Judge John D. Nor ton, of Tisbury, died May 15, aged eighty-one years.— Charles W. Rand of Littleton, Maine, is about to resign the place of United States District Attorney.—Miss Emma A. Hamlin of Dover, New Hampshire, has been engaged as soprano singer at Dr. Bellows's church at New York, with a salary of $1,200 a year.—Rev. Theodore 11. Barton, a retired chaplain of the United States Navy, 65 years old, died suddenly at Concord on Tuesday, May 18.—Vice- President Colfax and wife will be the guests of Thomas Coggeshall, Postmaster at Newport, a few days, after June 25.—The project of taking the Empress Charlotte to the thermal waters of Bagnere-de-Luchon has been aban doned for the present, owing to the low mental state of her Majesty.— Chief Justice Chase, who arrived at Charles ton, May 21, presided next day in the United States Cir cuit Court. He made a brief speech to the members of the Bar, indicating that he would remain there about two weeks.—The British Minister and the American Secretary of State had a long interview on May 17.—General Han cock has arrived at St. Paul, where he will establish the head-quarters of the Department of Dakota.—A family of the name of Turnbull have filled the position of clerk of Brunswick county, Virginia, for 133 years. Gen. Stone man removed the last of them from office. Daniel Boone discovered Kentucky, June, 1769, and the Kentuckians propose a centennial celebration this year.—The new State librarian of Michigan is a lady (Mrs. Tenney, wife of Professor Tenney, the former librarian.)—Commodore M'Caulay, one of the oldest naval officers in the service, died at Washington, May 21. He bad been in the navy more than sixty years.—Sir Stafford Northeote has been appointed one of the trustees of the Peabody Fiala for the benefit of the r . 0., au Hie room of ow _mann-sou fantry, has bean detailed to execute the duties of Indian Agent, and is ordered to report without delay to Commis sioner Parker. Commander Bayse N. Westcott is detached from the Pensacola Navy Yard and placed on waiting orders. Tho President has made the following appointments :—Felix Coste, to be Surveyor of Customs at St. Louis ; James E. M‘Lea.n, Collector of Chicago ; Edward Giddling, Assessor of Internal Revenue for Washington Territo►y ; Alfred . Sanford, Supervising Inspector of Steamboats for the Fourth District ; Charles 11. Boyce, Consul at Prague ; William M. Mor rison, Postmaster at Cedar Falls, lowa ; G. M. Sheib ley, Postmaster at Rome, Georgia.—Miss Bateman is expected to appear at the Haymarket Theatre, June 21, to fulfil an engagement for 17 nights, after which she will return America.—Miss Blanche Ellerman, a pupil of Signor Arditi, has signed au engagement for ten months with Mr. Richings Bernard to sing as prima donna in a series of operatic performances to be given in the princi pal cities of the United States, and to commence in Sep tember next. The Rev. Charles G. Williamson, an English clergyman, from the Sandwich Islands, arrived at Niagara Falls, en route for England, May 20. He was one of the first through passengers from San Francisco on the Pacific Railroad, and witnessed the ceremony of laying the last rail. He describes the road as in excellent order, and the route a delightful one. Mr. Berdan, an officer in the United States army, has just left Berlin for St. Petersburg, where a breech loading rifle of his invention has been adopted for the equipment of a portion of the army. The relatives of the late R. M. Evans, formerly of New York and San Francisco, are requested to com municate with his sister (who has valuable papers) at 27, Sussex-street, Stainsbury-road, Poplar. It is denied that Mr. Reverdy Johnson was mulcted in £2,000 on account of a clause in the lease of the house he took in Loudon, but it is not denied that it was taken for a period of five years. Mr. George Peabody does not intend to remain in Anierica, but simply went to carry out a philanthropic object. Ho was accompanied to Liverpool by Sir Curtis Lampoon, and looked very well. DuNvILLE 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, Straud,„London, W,C.— [Ad- Terme:ilea] THE SALE OF LAND. Sir George Bowyer read a paper which created some stir at the last meeting of the Juridical Society. He con tended for the total abolition of the law of primogeni ture, denounced trustees in the case of property as use less, and propounded a scheme whereby land could be sold before a County Court judge. The distinction between realty and personalty should be abo.lisiied, follow the adoptioli of such a pia, haidniFfEw"vridlA be simplified. THE COST OF IMPROVING THE IIETROPOLIS. The public will, as Mr. Lowe points out, have to pay heavily for improving London. it is estimated that the buildings in contemplation will cause an expenditure of at least ten, and probably twelve, millions sterling. For the new law courts ;C1,600,000 is put down—an estimate which is hardly likely to be a farthing under the mark. Then there are the new public offices, around the Parliament Houses. These are rather elastic as to size, and nobody seems to know where the line will be drawn. A new National Gallery will take up another pretty little sum. The long talked of Natural History Museum, if it comes to anything, will add another item—and not a small one—to the expense. And no account has been taken of the remodelling of the Admiralty, the completion of Burlington House, the furnishing of the Record Office, and the embellish ment of South Kensington Museum. DUCAL STUDS UNDER THE HAMMER. The racing studs of the Dukes of Hamilton and Newcastle have just been sold at Tattersall's, both noble owners having come to grief. The Duke of Hamilton's horses, twenty in number, which were sold under Lord Exeter's conditions as to engage ments, made 7,600 guineas, or an average of 353 guineas ; whilst the Duke of Newcastle's, which were sold by order of the sheriff of Cambridgeshire, and included several cele brities on the Turf, owing to their being sold with their engagements—about which, however, there is some probability of an arrangement being made by the Duk e,if possible—made 0'11;4,240 guineas, or an average of nearly 250 guineas. The highest prices were the Duke of Hamilton's Pibroch, by Trumpeter, and Wave, by Stockwell, which were bought by Captain Machell for 1,000 and for 800 guineas, and his Grace's Baron, by King Tom, bought by Mr. Foy for 1,600 guineas. The highest price fetched by one of the Duke of Newcastle's stud was 740 guineas, given by Captain Machellfor Silenus, by Claret. A few horses of the notorious Mr. Padwick's were also sold, but at low figures. The total amount realised at this one sale was 12,015 guineas. The commission upon that sum must have been a good day's work for Messrs. Tattersall. We suspect that their horse-selling business is more profitable even than the vestment business of their namesake, in spite of the " Catholic revival." HORSEFLESH. The London papers teem with letters about horse flesh. The Speaker's suggestion, that noblemen and gentlemen should keep thoroughbreds in their neigh bourhood, is taken up, and will, it is to be hoped, be carried out in some cases at least. But the point on which the greatest interest is excited is the racing of two-year-olds. On this point the Tinies censures the Jockey Club, and combats Admiral bouts. It declares that under the present system what is striven for is good young horses, no matter that they are soon exhausted. Such a state of things is bad for horseesh. Mr. II.: Chaplin writes contradicting Admiral bus. The Admiral stated that in future horses would register their age on the Ist of May. Mr. Chaplin declares this to be an error of no small moment. No altera tion in the date from which they take their age was (he says) either made or intended. But the resolution which was carried, and which will shortly be pub lished, does say very distinctly ' That no two-year old shall run before the Ist of May.' The first rule of racing, on the other hand, viz., ' That race horses shall take their age from the Ist of January,' stands still unaltered, nor can it be repealed without due notice being given." TIIE DOCTORS AND THE VELOCIPEDES. The velocipedes, the Lancet informs us, are bringing work to the doctors. New kinds of strains and novel injuries come before the surgeon, caused by falls from the bicycle and over-exertion upon it. General shocks to the nervous system have been sustained by some in consequence of a complete capsize, the bicycle running backwards down an incline, unseating the rider in a manner directly the opposite of a head pitch. But as the leading medical journal finds the subject rather one for joking about than otherwise, there can be very little serious in connection with velocipede accidents. A PIIQPIIETIC BUSINESS. There is a certain T. G eorge B e ll, L.L.D. ( o f w h a t university we do not k now ) w h o h as a prop h e ti c establishment in a back street of M ar yl e b one , w hi c h, however, his powerful imagination has converted into a Mount Carmel, if we are to jud ge f rom th e title of the periodical which he publishes there, " The Voice upon the Mountains." Probably " The Voice upon the Housetops " would have been too suggestive of cats on a serenade. One of the chief objects of the Voice appears to be to entreat the readers to offer up their petitions to the Throne of Grace that the number of the sub scribers may be increased. One lady purchaser has been greatly shocked because the Voice contained an advertisement of a sale of ladies' work for the benefit of the good cause. Against this she bears her faithful testimony as fostering " woman's peculiar tendency to follow in the way of her first mother's transgression." Dr. Bell re ceived the reproof with all meekness ; but at the same time justified himself. The thought of holding anything so carnal as a bazaar never entered into his head. NP rnlir sells dress and other articles which are sent Elijah's mantle. He rejoices, howevet,urzne " itope's End," price sixpence. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Mr. Motley arrived at Liverpool by the Cuba, and was welcomed by the American and Liverpool Chambers of Commerce, who sent deputations, with addresses, to which Mr. Motley replied intones marked byextreme friendliness towards England, and an earnest wish for peace. He especially mentioned that the President was animated with the desire of maintaining sincere and amicable relations with this Empire on the basis of entire justice, and dispas sionate regard for the rights and duties of both countries. "The happiness of the world, the ad vancement of civilization, and the best hopes of humanity are dependent upon concord among all the branches of the human family, but more espe cially between two such leading nations -of the earth as the British Empire and the American Republic, so nearly allied by blood, so closely con nected by so many public ani personal interests, so addicted to commerce, and to the cultivation of the arts of peace." „His remarks, when reported in America, were favourably received, and led the Times correspondent to send the following mes sage :—" The address delivered by Mr. Motley at Liverpool has been favourably received here. The New York Tribune says Mr. Motley has given a right expression to the friendly desires animating the United States, and ventures to hope that Eng land will not underrate them in considering the Alabama claims." From Washington Renter's telegram, dated June 2, gives thcTredsury report as follows : —"I he debt of the United States on the Ist June amounted to $2,631,750,000, being a decrease during the pnst month of $13,250,000. The cash in the Treasury is $2,000,000 less than on the Ist ult. ; amounting, namely, to $121,000,000, of which $104,000,000 are in coin and $20,000,000 in currency." The THE BANK OF BENGAL Mr. G. DUFF, in reply to Mr. George Gregory, said no actual order had been sent out for the closing of the agency established by the Bank of Bmgal within the Presidency, but the Government of India had given direc tions for the closing of the agency, whether it had finally been done he could not then say. MAGISTRATES' CLERKS. Mr. BRUCE, in reply to Mr. R. Gurney, said it was most desirable that all justices' clerks should be paid bi salary, but as 30 counties had availed themselves of the act which had been passed, he did not think there WAS any reason to bring in a bill to make its provisions compulsory. PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX. Mr. STANSFELD, in reply to Mr. Pollard-Urquha rt said a tenant or cccupier could not deduct any payme o of income tax from the landlord's rent before the tax La d been actually paid. They could only ba deducted after the amount had been actually paid, and then the who le ." " .--ument he was called upon to pay his landlord. THE CONVICT O'DONCTVAN ROSI. Mr. BRUCE said he was very much obliged to Sir John Gray in giving him the opportunity of making a statement relative to the treatment of the treason felony convict O'Donovan Rosa, who, it had been stated, had been treated with undue severity by laving his hands manacled for 30 days and nights,and that he had been coin' pelled, to escape starvation, actually to take his food like a beast of the field, on all fours. (Laughter.) It Wag most important, if the statement was true, that it should be explained, and if false that it should bi denied. The O'Donovan Rosa was convicted of treason felony in 1865, and in usual cases convicts were general sent to Pentonville, but in these particular casee it area thought best for the health of the prisoners that they should be at once sent to Portland, which was, if he migh t use the term, one of the most pleasant of the convic t prisons, but in April, 1866, his conduct became s e violent, and had such a bad effect upon the other prisoners, that it was thought advisable to send him back to Millbank. Messrs. Knox and 1 901- lock had reported that Rosa was one of the most dan gerous of men, and that it was not safe to leave him to guarded for a moment ; as a day never passed without bi / being guilty of some act of insubordination. Since ltosa . removal the conduct of the treason-felony prisoners Portland had greatly improved. After lie had been 100 12 months at Millbank he was sent to Chatham in the re f 1868, and then he began to repeat the conduct to had been guilt; of at Portland ; on the Ist of June he We e reported for refusing to clean his cell, which was then i e a very filthy conditiou ; on the sth of June he sve ° again reported for insubordination and wilfully de stroying the prison property ; on the 9th of June he was again r, ported as refractory and insulting conduct towards the Governor of the prison, but on the 15th of June, on the Governor visiting him in his cell/ Rosa threw the foul contents of his cell utensil into the face of that functionary. N,w, for such an AC ' , ordinary prisoners would have been flogged, but b e was only ordered to be kept in another cell out 1 his On' duct could be brought before the directors of the prison . A person at this period obtained an interview with tlie prisoner on the slowing that he was about to defend his claim in some law suit ; and it was thus, th at the statement got publicity about his b ping confined for 35 days„ in manacles, which were never removed del nor night, and that he had been kept in a dark cell for e' number of days and his food given to him as though 1 1 were a dog. Now, it was not the fact that he h ad been kept for 35 days in a dark cell, but he had been s e confined for part of a day in consequence of his outrageoe° conduct. With respect to the manacles being kept on the whole of the long period both ni g ht an d d a y, the tru th was that the handcuffs were removed always to allow W s : to take his food, and that they were never kept on s ; night ; and instead of its being true, as had been state d ' that Rosa was broken down in bodily health in coos sequence of the inhuman tr ea t men t t o w hi c h 1 7 had been subjected to, he had ac t ua ll y i ncrease d i n weigh t very sensibly since his ad m i ss i on t o th e p r i son . (H est, hear.) He could not imagine that any one, excepting Irish member of Parham entconld believe thatsuch t re atine e as that stated had been inflicted by the writer of the let ter upon which the hon. baronet had evidently founded hie question. Rosa had nobody but himself to blame for the hardships he had had to undergo, but lie had the satis faction of stating that he had improved in his condor" which had formerly ex erc i se d suc h a b ane f u l iuflunali upon his fellow prisoners. THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT. i j Mr. OT WAY, in reply to Mr. D a l g li s h, sa id he en "d not say what course the Portuguese Government propn Be , to pursue with respect to tho claims upon it. In on t ease Mr. Lindsay, who h a d f ormer ly b een a mem ber of 0; 0 house had a claim upon it, and a proposal had been 0 .„ for its liquidation. Sir G. Mu rra y h a d b een i ns tructed ' t urge the settlement of those claims, but with what elle° he could not yet say. THE STATUTE LAW. n sa Mr. HADFIELD then called the attention of the to - y to the condition of the statute law, which he said was in most objectionable state. Mr. GLADSTONE said a ll the a tt en ti on that at t b l i period could be given would be giv en t o t a k e steps f °l. revision of the statute law. 10 Mr. GREGORY then brought forward his model' favour of the opening of the national museums on Stalci l4 i the debate on which continued for some time, till a C Oull out took place during the speech of Mr. Chambers. The House then stood adjourned till Monday. a LITERARY ITEDlS.—Senator Wilson is Writ,Ogro history of Congress during the war.—A publishing f e y recently wrote to Mr. Spurgeon, and made him e ' liberal offer for a life of the Saviour. Mr. Spurgeon po plied, " Such a work is beyond my ability ; I h a ve n , f" , ,te ; time at my disposal; and thirdly, it would not b e t o DV The only life of Christ worth a cent is the New Testaln e que —ln 75d libel suits pending against American editore , „ o o. aggregate damages to character are esti ma t e d at $47,500•;‘,4 —The annual meeting of the N ew Y or k State Asencii'tel. , Press commenced May 19 a t th e Metropolitan ill"- Twenty-nine papers wer e re p resented out of the thil: four composing the As soc i a ti on. T he following or tion was effected for the en su i ng year : President, JO-'l., Warren, of the Buffalo Courier; Secretary and Treasilqt, Ellis H. Roberts, of th e U t i ca H erald; Executive Cornc li d tee, Henry C. R. Tucker, Troy Times; J. C. Cuyler, Al`M. Express ; Carroll E. Smith, Syracuse Journal ; G e orge A d,. Cooper, Rochester Union; James S. Thurston, Ebrdra_ ti qw! vertzser.—The New Fo r k T r ib une scan d a l. w ith Nyili c .u" g was so intimately associated, has resulted in some c t od, to the management of that journal. Hereafter, we are Reid Mr. Hazard will have charge during the day and 111 r• at night, while Mr. M'Connell will act as city editor. right to employ and discharge is vested solely . in o p Greeley and Mr. Sinclair. The office of managing gr, tor is abolished, and the late occupant of the chniF , ig Young, has resigned the position. The follownl o g the material portion of an order, in the handw rl t he of Mr. Horace Greeley, which has been posted in vi a Tribune editorial rooms :—" John Russell Young 11 n is resigned the position of managing editor, that posilt° ep henceforth abolished. Mr. Whitelaw Reid will railA e cy the schedule, and will take care that my orders goal; it are obeyed. Those who are in doubt as to their duo,. any time may, in my absence, inquire of him."-- 4 —Thurlow Weed has retired from journalism and po l3o —The Grand Army of the Republic will bring out a g 70 0- monthly magazine called the Grand Army Record. ', ir is! rado R. J. Hinton is to edit the new volume of " by Services" authorised by Congress, and that prepar e 0 Frank Moore is going through the press.—The A'eir te tt Citizen has become altogether the property of Mr. B? it 4 B. Rosevelt, a well known sportsman and writer o g columns. The Citizen announces the ch a nge in a lea tsi fl article, and we hope that the new proprietor will nial° he d the independent Democratic tone which has distingo e tt his journal and always made it so read a bl e a paper ° lll of all shades of opinion. BIRTIk. 0 g GUTHRIE—On the 3d inst., at 30, Portland-plac" ,, Guthrie, of Craigie, o f a eon. / j ag SPEIRS—On the 3d i ns t., a t 14 , E aton-p l ace , the Anne Speirs, of a son. AIARRIAGES. , stir FLETC HER — BARRON— On the 3d iust , at Richinoeu,, , „os, rey. Captai n Ch ar l es W . Fletcher, Bengal Staff real to Clara, wid ow o f Ed war d Barron, Esq., of the o e-r Civil Service. LuNAu—EfAYTON —On the 3d lnst., at Holy Trinity, o fia Hill, Fred e ri c k Win. Lunau, of Elderslie Villa , tpDr No. wood, to Ifalen, youngest daughter of Danl. WI Esq., of Oakland Rouse. DEATLIS. CHURCH - On the 3d inst., at Colchester, John H. CL Esq., solicitor, aged 72. ca ber HODGSON —On the 3d inst., at Nowby Grange, Cti land, Mary, wife of W. N. Hodgson, Esq. M.P. f 49, WALKER—On the 4th inst., William Adam Walke r, Fulham-road, aged 69. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN D° t3J , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 11 ' l. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cuunty of laiel die3c Saturday, June 5, 1809. ~~ INAfIi This celebra prize medal :Pure , : MI he Agents hrtl - .8, GRE. Observe the ban's LL "Whir' T T EAT lek_ relieveF EAT.Ti Import TIO i Its each. EATITS Loud uTu A % an , 14, IWSSE] ADVANCES IV hold or-Lace} 1 11 , 'e weekly, n Fo=rce free on .OYAL CONTIvIT Mr TT ITITIX I FR.T.ID fin Mr T,IST( ,AR P ITT GEORG '' Miss A. ' NTT , : Miss .FI A I MACLAGAN, pod' M ADA - N 1 Bake - -s (of No ,- wich) 1 mission, lg.; ( the morning u ARGYLI . The extraor4 •Of the Shadow the electric pate in it, cot lusic Selectioi have had the I Most extensive celebrated Ord chef, Signor L positions of all assigned to th, Rt Graves. L. Thomas Pitt S. ITHE abOi Luneheo for deviling Le, ORIGINAL A PB. EU . next 1 Consignee for celebrated PAI Bordeaux Win( Whiskies, fron also he seen at number of Hot of others wante SOTENTIF RNA: 1 and nit aorttnent of V Inkstan Ate., in Italian ahire Spar • licc TENNANT, Londor T en nail MINERALS, of Lyell's tato the int( GEOLOGY, guineas ench. PR~GT 1Q: MINERALO( 149, Strand. THE LI Offices-1, . Tim Invi)stl Piro Revenue The moderate Bonus for the value ae SP' render' them leave is grant 4 thirty days art - VAT ()N tinder the natra Whereby a hot Girl. of all ageE the kingdom. The obje tof High eitioation. all laundry, to Wine nrovidocl Suitable sitnatic Tho Committ 51 :alrely sustain once, 121, Pa SEAMEN' „. off Green Diaiicne, who The receipts 079 legs thnr SUBSCIIIP Nt r iMame, Den the Secret.) 7, Street, London Qualificatioi Governor, £lO MaCken Z Patron—i For the g; destitute orph. and of all de Prosperous cir One bundre stitution ; amp Increased s endowed and assistance. Subscribers YlStitlltiOD, RI Its poenliar The last Ite Secretary. lane 1 0 1a M ; : ka e ne a rd , s 7-131, REALTH RESI nU BART -4 - 9 and Inf Ti eaves fifty tim perfect digesti refreshing s'ec most disorder effectually Ind sun3ption, hat rangem Ants, nervousness, i catarrhs, cold rheumatism, ralgia, irrita heartburn, he nlusea and sir fits, bronchia 030 pit of the tLe most diges fur invalids at itiPOUTANT and more that tit:v. Baron LI Ileneefolih Dll Barry's h and Infants' nag already r been deemed 1 ROBS the Popp by it aftor this 0 quote frc te,4l . 3) : —"R Itcay Father other remedi( arry's Reval latoful at ovi beneficial offe Praise this ex, Core No. bE Yoara' liver c 4 ess, irritabili digestion, con n 3 rvous agital Cure No. 7E Stuart do Doc ford bai t ° o 4.—S TrAll Virlaerf ord." Cur,;Yo. rT d'repepsi flatulency. (4 Lynn, Nor Cura No. 4' nervou.nos, vows fancies. °ore No. 51 Years diarrh ce The Food i lb., 4s. 6d. ; anistere, can Berry e Itsva] zutnistere : '`MPE3 at 6s fc about cna ~ oi free a carrial b aARY DII also a Tort 2. l itoechntA 'LW" ticrthq