The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TAB PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times, in discussing the Par al Bull of KJ:communi cation tato sententice observes that at the very moment in which the Holy Father calls together all the bishops of Roman Catholic Christendom to devise with them what is to be the new charter cf the Establishment, he puts forth by his own undivided authority a statute trespassing on powers hitherto partly exercised by the episcopal hierarchy, and arrogating the most important of those powers exclusively to himself. All the protests of ten thousand Galileos would never convince Pins IX. that the earth moves morally as well as materially. All his old, rusty Vatican artillery is rolled out of the arsenal in which it had long lain forgotten. It is drawn up, loaded, and primed with a faith worthy of Don Quixote, when, after having shivered his helmet of proof by a single blow of his falchion, he called it up with pasteboard somehow, trusting it would stand any other test, but at all events ecte,]nairre,d not to tempt Providence by himself ruler ing the experiment. The Pope has so diligently turncl ated the cases in which the direst censures cf . the Church are called forth, that there is by this time not cne Sovereign or subject throughout the Reman Catholic world—always excepting the Pentifical dcrnit.ions—who is net excom municated over head and cars. What passed between Victor Emmanuel, his confessor, and Cardinal Corsi, Archbishop of Pisa, during the King's late illness at San Rossore, must still be fresh in every man's memory. The King was urged to make his peace with the Church by recanting all the acts of his reign ; but the King was firm, and the Church, as usual, relented. Now we learn from the Papal Bull before us, by a clausewhich seems to have been contrived precisely to meet the King'ssase, that although absolution may be given to an excommunicated and im penitent man in articulo mortis, the act is null and of no avail if the man recovers, unless he sues for a more deli berate reconciliation with the Church by restitution and atonement. So wonderfully pliant and accommodating is that wonderful Roman Church wherever she is powerless to work her will; so ruthless and relentless when she is conscious of her own power and holds her enemy at discretion! We have been reminded, rays the laity .21'eml, that boti Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli were boin in the present week—the former at Liverpool, on the 29th December, 1809; the latter in London, on the 31st December, 1805. In connection with this. r(minder, we have to point out that there is no certainty as to the place of Mr. Disraeli's birth. The biograi hers generally mention a house in Bloomsbury-square as the true spot ; but there seems to be no certainty as to what was the number of the house, and it is indeed doubtful - whether he was born in Blcomsbury s itrare at all. It is strange that there should be this iocertitmle as to the birth cf a man so celebrated as Mr. Disraeli, himself the son of a celebrated man; but he has been singularly reticent about Lis own history, rarely if ever troubling himself to disprove the fables with which the current histories of Lim abound. It was only the other day that he tardily denied the fact of his having ever written a line in the Reprcseiztative newspaper. Yet it is an article of popular belief that he wrote in it largely, if he did not even edit it. We have our serious differences with Mr. Disraeli, but we cannot be blind to his great genius, and we indulge in a curiosity which does him honour when we say that we should be glad if the place of his licth were accurately ascce.;:dned. The Fest is not going to quarrel with the address which the Irish-American Fen'an3 have published. In ono respect, indeed, we have a right to welcome this document, since it shews that the efforts we have made and are maliing to remove the causes of Irish disaffec tion have not b:en without effect. Throughout the widress wo discern a feeling of alarm lest the course upon which the Legislature has entered in regard to Ireland should cut away the ground upon which the Fenian movement is based. The manifesto is Mr. Glad stone's justification for keeling the Fenians in prison. If they spewed any ins of r.morse for the wanton d:starlaace of the public peace which they have occasioned ; if they were sensible of the folly of their con d t, to say nothing of its criminality; and if tl.ero were not, as unfortunately there is, a number of ignorant and excitalle peasants and shop-boys who would -welcome them on their re lease from prison as martyrs of the Govern ment which liberated them, they might have a claim in their insignificance to the good-natured compas sion of the Crown. But to call upon it to zelease con victed felons whose " hold upon the hearts of the people is because of the heroism With which they illustrate the Fenian idea," is ridiculous. It is much better for them selves and their dupes that they should continue to fill the 7-07: of convicted felons, and that their egotism should net be f_d by allowing them to appear in public as un justly punished patriots." The klandar,l declares that the celebration of the n^.tional festival of Christmas every year gives offence to certain of the strait sect of Pharisees, who express them selves with a good deal of scorn and disgust upon the occa sion. These are the gentlemen who periodically profess to be bored to that'll with the number and variety of the luxuries which are heaped upon them, and who are aff:ietecl with horror at the number of dinners they have to undergo, and the train of rela tions they have to feed ; who are bitter against the writers and ar:ists of Christmas books; who rail at the poor souls which take pleasure in the gushing and gustatory sentiments proper to the day, who, giving us to believe that they are weighed down and ground to earth by the complim:nts poured upon them on the 25th of December, speak of this as "the saddest season of the year "—as a " melancholy" time, which is only too faith f ally reflected by its "external gloom." It is " a defamed thing," this Christmas—but it is our own—our great English holiday—our season for merry-making. There is no reason why we should hold it with "maimed rites," or curtail it of any part of the old-fashioned solemni ties. Let those who are offended at the jollity because it is vulgar, stand apart, and let us common persons take oar pleasure. There are not =any who can pretend to aspire to the lofty, pure, and well-balanced mind of the writer who celebrates Christmas-day by a roll iu the mire of the Byron scandal. Let the simple-minded classes con tinue to eat of plum-pudding and mince-pie, and dream of wassail-bowls and good-will at this melancholy season. Those that are gloomy let us leave to their gloom, while the rational being makes cheer over incest. It is possible that Englishmen will not drop any of the celebrations appropriate to the season because of the disgust in which they are held by certain philosophers. For our part we had rather be merry with Touchstone than critical with lago. A homely figure, remarks the Telegraph, which was familiar to many thousands of people, and which no one ever saw without a smile of good-humoured recognition, will be missed next summer from its old haunt. The most universally popular of modern cricketers, Tom Lockyer, is no more—" stumped cut," at last, by that grim old wicket keeper, Death, who waits so l atiently for some of us, and snaps up others v,ith such awful suddenness. Honest Tom's career was ended two or three years before he died, and ho had long been suffering from illness. Nevertheless, a feeling of sadness comes over one on hearing of his end. It is not merely that he was a popular favourite, as so many others of his class have been, but that he had a cer tAin speciality and character of his own which it is hard to associate with the grave. He was, so to speak, the low comedian of the cricket - field, always laughing himself, and the cause of laughter in others. Tom for the champ ion would have felt even his good temper rather disturbed if any one had malignantly called him Thomas—Tom was emphati cally an original. He did everything in a way of his own ; and, as every cricketer knows, there was at least one thing which he did supremely well. It is related that the veteran wicket-keeper Box, one of the old school in the days when the first Lillywhite and Fuller Pilch were the great players cf the period, and when George Parr, who is now himself sometimes confounded by very youthful cricketers indeed with the "old" Parr of history and pills, made his ap pearance at Lord's as a lad under 20—it is related that Box thus delivered himself concerning the new Surrey wicket-keeper: "That young man can do every thing with his right hand that I can do with mine, and he can do things with his left hand that I can only do with my right." Nothing, in fact, ever seemed to come amiss to Tom. Cricketers have good memories, as surely they have kindly thoughts for those with whom they share so many pleasant hours; and not a man who has ever held a bat in his hand but will feel some touch of the sadness with which wo repeat the old familiar phrase — "Peer Tom's a-cold." A philosophic editor in Atlanta remarks : "A Ku. cditor calls us a liar, but we have not sufficient con. tidence in hi 3 ward to holieve hira." The last train from Vial:, - ❑ to tlic north 1 y the Tb:rsk branch en Christmas Bye Led nn accident when about five miles en the bourn• y. Mi at ►uielwry between the ILArton-le-strcet and Sh - pley stations, two field gates bad been laid upon the rails evidently to upset the train. As tie night was dark the obstruc►ions were Lot seen, and the train went at them at full speed. The engine cut the first gate clean i❑ two; tut the s-ccond, being thicker, vas picked up by the "guards" in front of the wheels.• The train kept the rails, and the only damage done was to the engine. Two slr.►cgers were noticed in the Adds near the place at dusk. LAW AND POLICE. ;STEALING REGISTERED LETTERS.—WiIIiam Jessop, letter-carrier, lately emplcyed at the Post Office, Tun bridge, was chat gel at Bow-street with stealing a regis tered letter ecnttining a cheque for £2OO on the London and County Bank, and a bill of exchange for £359. The prisoner was charged at the same court last week with stealing £lO from a registered letter, and was remanded. In the present charge Dr. Lopwith, a gentleman residing at Tunbridge, deposed that he sent the letter to Dr. IVheeler, in Dublin, and the cheque and bill never reached him. The endorse ment on the cheque was not in his handwriting. The manager of the Tunbridge Bank proved that the pri soner presented the cheque far payment, and endorsed it, receiving most of the money in notes. A remand was granted, the witnesses being bound over to prosecute. RAILWAY TIDEYES.--Two men were charged at Marlbo rough-street with attempting to pick pockets at the Port land road Station of the Metropolitan Railway. The station plrtcr, who caught them in the act, said he had seen one of them on the platform with a pi:kroeliet the week before. Tickets were found on them, and it appeared tint several thieves hal been regularly working the 3l2tropolitan Railway, eight cf them taking tickets for short distances; and following their profession by the way. A CHRISTMAS DINNER.—A labcurer, named Hinchin, wts charged with assaulting a taker's wife. The quarrel arose respecting the priscner's Christmas dinner. He took a piece' of beef weighing Sibs. to the bakehouse, and when he brought it home it weighed only sAlbs. He - took it tack and accused the baker's wife of cutting off some. A dispute arose, which ended in the prisoner's knocking down the woman, and his Christmas dinner ended in a month's imprisonment. THE LIVELL -TRAGEDY. The "Ewell Tragedy," as it is called, was investigated by a coroner's jury on Monday. Mr. Carter had been called upon to investigate the cause of the death of Thomas Huggart, who "lost his life in consequence of the explo sion of twenty pounds of gunpowder which he first stale from Sharpe's powder mills on Ewell Marsh, awl then threw into a house in West-street, Ewell, for the purpose of killing some of the inmates," Before corn mmeing the inquiry the coroner told the jury that if the deceased was in a state of sound mind when he threw the powder on the fire, he was guilty of fclo de se. The first witness called was a Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, now living with a carman named Richardson. She stated that she had lived with the deceased as his wife for seven m - ,nths, that she left him, and that he had begged her to come back, threatening her that if she did not he would kill her. On Wednesday last, at twenty minutes to four o'clock, witness got up and lit the fire. Mr. and Mrs. Spoencr wore then in bed. The other occupanta of the house were William Smith s George Mason, anti Mr. Spooner's two children. When witness went to a shed outside the house for the purpose of getting some cords, she saw a man seated on the coals, and ho had a bag between his knees. She recognised him as Thomas Huggart, a sack and bag maker. She had known him twelve years, and while she was looking at him he passed his hand over his chest three times. As he had threatened to take her life several times, she became alarmed, and, giving a scream, she ran into the house. At the top of the staircase she saw Mr. Spooner, and she then ran into her bedroom. In about two minutes she heard the noise of an explosion. She was so dread fully alarmed that she did not leave her room until after everybody else had left the house. When she came down st drs she saw Huggart with his face blackened. The wltness further expressed her belief that Huggart at tempted to blow up the house that he might kill her. Other witnesses were called. The man who lived next door to Mrs. Smith described how he woke up in the morn in; and found part of the wall down between his and his neighbour's house. Edwin Grantham, a carpenter, said he SAW Huggart lying cn the floor just after the explosion. Near tho left side of the man was an open clasp knife. On tho left side of the breast, near his heart, was a wound fr,m which a great deal of blood flowed. There was a slight cut across his heart. lie was carried to the Hop Pole, and ho was then asked where he got the powder. H 3 replied, "I stele it; I had half-a-pound of it in my pocket." Upon being asked why he did it, he replied, "Jealousy." Dr. George R. Earns said that he was called to see the d3ccased on Wednesday last, and he found him lying in Hills's house. He was in a feeble condition. There was a w.r,lncl near his heart an inch in depth. Witness could pene tr.:te the wound with his finger. Also a wound about two in les and a half long across his throat. Witness believed that tin dez,th of the deceased, which occurred in a few hems after witness saw him, resulted from the combined effects o! the shock resulting from the explosion, and the self inflicted stab near the heart. Witness could not say wlietlicr the deceased stabbed hinrelf before or after the exdosion. The influent was adjourned. BOXING MORNING AT BOW-STREET. Mcmlay morning at Dow-street is always lookLd for ward to by a section of a certain class cf people as some thing like a gratuitous exhibition ; but the persons wl:o visited it—and there was a vast crowd of thcm— yesterday had a very long entertainment, if that term can be .applied to such a scene of misery and dissipation as was there presented. In the majority of cases the offence charged was drunkenness, and where there was no previous conviction the accused wag let go, on the promise of not appearing in such a posi tion again —a promise that past experiences teach, will, in a great majority of instances, be totally disregarded. Amongst the drunkards was a solicitor who was mulcted in a penalty of ten shillings, and having suffered a night's im2risonment was probably sufficiently made to feel that being " drunk and incapable" is scarcely the position for a professional man to fill. Of cab-drivers there were five charged with being inebriated, and as in all cases the accused were unknown to the police, they ware discharged with one exception, and that where the the driver by his negligence had done some five pounds worth of damage to another vehicle. A class of offences that is frequently before the notice of metropolitan magistrates is Sunday gambling in the streets, an I for this infraction of the law, fines of a shilling were inflicted. In another case a lad was fined five shillings for pelting a scripture reader on Christmas Day. The boy, in a pitiful tore, assured the magistrate that it was only " a tater that he threw at the gentleman." but all the evidence proving that this was false, the • mscrcant, in default of payment, was committed for a week. Another prisoner was a youth of 16, who assured the magistrate that he was too drunk to know whether he made a disturbance or not; and, after being reminded that he was rather young to refer with pride to the fact that this was his first appearance, he was disch rged. The most serious charge brought forward was that in which a man named Johnsen and a woman named Banks were charged with robbing and assaulting a Mrs. Crawley. The parties lived' in the same house, and on Christmas night the complainant said, she was putting her child to bed, when the accused followed her to the bedroom, and belaboured her most unmercifully with a life preserver, and then took from her pocket some eight shillings. Mrs. Crawley exhibited wounds of a most fearful description. Her eyes wore so discoloured that it was almost impossible to see whether she possessed those organs or not, her arms and neck were covered with bruises, and the police surgeon deposed that her ear had nearly teen severed from her head by seine sharp instrument. On the other hand, the prisoners appeared the dock with their heads enveloped in surgical bandages, and the medical testimony was to the effect that they had suffered nearly as much as the complaining party. It was clear that, to use the magistrate's expression, there had been a " drunken general fight," and the only question was how it began, and to gain additional information on this point, the accused were remanded. In all there were over forty night charges, independent of the remands and summonses; and most, if not all, arose from too much indulgence in intoxicating drinks. On Christmas-day evening the lamps on the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, off Land's End, were lighted for the first time, to test their qualities.. They burned with remarkable brilliancy, and gave perfect satisfaction. The lamps will be lighted permanently from the Ist of January next. A PItOFESSIONAL EPITHET.—SOIIIO doubt was expressed the other day as to what Sir J. Karslake could mean by describing Dr. Thom as "an adamantine and granitic man." Sir J. Karslake, if he is reported correctly, was rather too brusque in his phrae; but we dare say that we can trace his expression to its source. About ten years ago the late John Leech was accustomed to describe with humcurous bitterness h,w, i t a ieligious perioed:al cf that time, he was characteri , :cl as " a cruel and granite hearted " man." Nothing, a coarse, could he More f.dso than the epithet as applied to John Leech, but all his largo circle cf friends were much amused at its would be severity, and it was constantly iu their mouths. The ernrcssion has since then been bandied about as one of the stock phrascs of humourous talk, bc:ng generally thrown at men to whom it could have no sort of just application. Sir John Karslake has at last picked it up, has varied it, and ha , , in all seriousness, and with not a little clumsiness, hurled it at poor Dr. Thom. We, in turn, now rick it up, and write its history, for the benefit of future dic#94449#,—,P0 1 .2/ 2rev. rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1869. MI.SCELLANEUUS NEWS. Chrenigif has become an institution. it is the parent i i of the many cheap dinners for the young which have since been established. He himself boasts that its fame is world-wide. On Saturday last, in his speech to the ladies, who came to see his annual dinner given—and the attendance was both numerous and distinguished"—he announced that he had re ceived two letters congratulating him on his work. They were two amongst many ; but they im pressed him more than the others, for they came the one from Cuba, the other from Hayti. Of course, though none but ladies were present, M. Hugo must needs talk politics, and his politics are always revolu tionary:—" Permit me (he asked) as the occasion presents itself, of sending a word of sympathy to those two gallant peoples which have raised the cry of liberty. Cuba has delivered itself from Spain, as Hayti has delivered itself from France. Hayti, in 1792, in freeing the blacks, secured the triumph of the principle that one man has not the right to possess another : Cuba will effect the triumph of the other principle—not less great—that one nation has not the right to possess another." M. Hugo made one very bright remark. He went on to preach the beauty of assisting children. The true succour for the unfortunate, he said, was the abolition of misery, and that would be attained. "Let us, then (he exclaimed), aid progress by assist ing children. Let us assist children, by all means, by good nutriment and by good instruction. Help to children must be, in our troublous times, one of our principal considerations. The child must be our care. And why ? Do you know his true name ? The child is called the Future." had abused him, he managed to say something both being there little better off than ten years ago. to the world and against those papers. At present, ho Georgia and Tennessee have tripped the Republican observed, nobody knows the truth except that one party and the true Union people, and he (Butler) woman, and it was not for him or for his congrega- intended to aid in preventing more trickery from time for enemies or friends, to sit in judgment upon any State. A delegate then read a memorial set the case. He avowed then as now that the relation j ting forth how completely Virginia had complied between that man and woman was honourable and ; with every requirement, and therefore asking for ad innocent. At the trial the truth may be elicited, i mission as a State of the Federal Union, the Senators but it is a maxim in law that people are to be held and Representatives chosen by her to be adMitted innocent until they are proved guilty, as well as a to their seats in Congress. The General desired maxim in justice, in religion, the maxim being that the addition of three or four lines to the Report, charity covers a multitude of sins. He was very pledging the Legislature and the people that the severe on the Pharisee, decked in whitest robes, provisions of the Constitution as it stands will be sweeping through the streets with the proudest faithfully carried out, and without trickery, as in the mien, making his philanthropies very wide and cases of Georgia and Tennessee. Such a pledge he conspicuous, while dropping his bitter scorn on and the Committee would accept as sufficient from innocent and harmless people. He was accused of Virginian gentlemen, and the State would be in the breaking up the foundations of society, but they Union before the week expired. That pledge being break up the foundations of society who break up frankly given, General Butler expressed his satis the foundations of confidence, who make people faction, and desired the Committee to meet that on distrust one another, who fill the air with malig- Reconstruction, of which he is chairman, and Vir- Dant rumours of poison. At the inquest Daniel giuia will be admitted almost immediately. '.l he M'Farland said that he was 49 years old; born in Committees have been very busy. That of the Ireland; by profession a lawyer; residence 50, East Census has decided to report an amendment to the Twenty-sixth-street; and he reserved his defence by bill before the House, fixing the members in Con advice of counsel. The notorious John J. Eckel gress at 300. There will be a hard struggle oa died on the 3d instant in the Albany Penitentiary, the subject, but it is likely to be carried, being where he was serving out his three years' sentence favoured by both the West and South. It will give for illicit distillation. The remains were brought to each Representative a constituency including here on Monday evening, and Mr. M'Alister, a men, women, and children, of upwards of 130,000 Methodist preacher,performed the service in an un- persons, as information points to the fact that the dertaker's shop, none of the relatives, and a few . population will go rather over than under 40,000,000. friends being present, mostly attracted by curio- The Committee on Indian Affairs has a bill to abo sity. Eckel, many years ago, was accused, in con- lish certain unfair treaties with Indians now in junction with Mrs. Cunningham, of murdering Dr.: operation, and to prohibit the making of such Burdell, but even on his deathbed he made no treaties in the future. Congress will be asked to allusion to that tragedy. At the funeral, however, take the matter in hand to provide for the support it is said that two ladies, shrouded in deep mourn- of Indian tribes, and it will be shown that not only ing, followed the remains to the grave, and that are the Indians shamefully swindled by the agents, these ladies were Mrs. Cunningham and her daugh- I but the Government as well. A New York paper, ter Augusta. I gave you an account of a shooting alluding to the Revenue frauds perpetrated in affray in the Eighteenth Ward in my last. Florence Alaska immediately on the Stars and Stripes flat- Scannell, the candidate for Alderman, who was tering over Sitka, asks if the flag is the em shot, was elected, but has died, and disturbancea blem of dishonesty, as thefts and frauds not are anticipated in revenge. At a meeting, one of only follow, but flourish under it. General Tho. his friends declared they would elect his body, if he died, to the office of Alderman, and then they would tell all the world that Tammauy murdered him. In Ninth-avenue, last Tuesday, there was a row in Dwyer's saloon. Burke, a leader in the great riot of 1863, was shot by Donahue, the Democratic candidate for Alderman. Donahue, who sent two bullets into his opponent, by way of settling the argument, was arrested, but discharged by Jestice Dodge, as Burke could not be found, and would not g►ve evidence if found. It is the Irish way of finishing a discussion, with which the law has nothing to do, having no business whatever to in terfere with it; still I must say were it not that ruffians spring, fully fledged, into the vacant places caused by each other's pistols (and it is as well to have one ruffian as another), the mode they adopt of killing each other off would not be without its advantages. If they would keep their pistols with the contents wholly for themselves the law might, with a grim satisfaction, allow them to work tbeir wicked will ; but, alas ! it is only in their convivial moments that they thus act, or when squabbling over the plunder. The police have been ou the watch to prevent mischief. Among the serious failures is that of the importers Messrs. B. Falconer and Co., a firm occupying a high position both on this and on your side. The indebtedness is, I be lieve, entirely in England, and the firm offer to settle on the basis of 13s. 6d. in the pound. Ido not know what the English creditors will say to this ; but under the circumstances it is thought to be the best that can be done, for the fact should not be unknown or overlooked in England that the firm suffered a disastrous shrinkage iu the value of their assets through the extraordinary and uulooked-for fall in the value of gold. The liabilities of Ben jamin Loder's house reached $250,000, and a meet ing of the creditors has been held. I should not neglect to add to my letter Recorder Hackett's opinion, as given in his charge to the Grand Jury on the Richardson-M'Farland case. On its coming up he animadverted severely on the journalists, the ministers of the gospel, and others, who gave a benediction to bigamy, and consecreted lechery by prayers at the bed of death ; adding, if there has been bigamy, fearlessly investigate the matter, no matter how elevate 1 in life the eiders and abettors may be. The immigrants from European ports, from the Ist Janu iry to the first week in DdCeM her, have been .251,162 against 203,101 for the corresponding period of last ye :r. There has been another accident on the Erie Road. A pas senger train at the opening of the Bergen Tua nel came into collision wish a cattle train, to the loss and mangling of the poor sheep, though fortunately no passengers were killed. A Mr. St. John, of Mobile, has given notice to Fisk, Gould, and Co., that he has filed papers as proprietor of 300 preferred Stock, preparatory to an application to restrain them from using the net earnings of the road, except in payment of dividends, according to the original contract,on that stock. Mr. Blaeh field, a well-known Boston artist, left in the Sco!ia, com missioned to paint 16 pictures from original models. The Mediterranean fruit steamers appear to be doing well, the Northumbria with a very valuable cargo having arrived here on Wednesday evening from Messina Nov. 8, L'alertno 10th, and Gibraltar 18th. Two Wall-street bankers have been arrested for snaking a fraudulent statement of their business to escape charges by the Internal Revenue Assessors. They are Messrs. Julius and Woolberg, of No. 6; and Connnissioner Wells held them to bail in $5OO. I cannot tell what the end wi►l be of the Custom house drawback frau - ls. It is rumoured that if the prosecution against Blatchford be pressed some sensational revelations against persons in high posi tion will be the result. Caldwell has been arrested at Prescott, Canada, and Colonel Whitby, with several Government witnesses, has gone there to give evidence against him. The absence of the District- Attorney, at Washington, has prevented a decision by the United States District Court on the Spanish gunboat case, but the Mosquito fleet is likely to be discharged from custody, and, in anticipetion of this, the Junta, and friends of Cuban independence, are getting up indignation meetings. John King, an Arkansas lawyer, committed suicide at the New York Hotel on Thursday night. It is said that he was suffering from delirium tremens. Inas states that the Treasury agents for the pro tection of the fur trade islands of St. George ' and St. Paul prevent the Government from get ting $lOO,OOO per annum, excluding traders for the benefit of privileged persons. Awo , g the claims submitted to the Mexican Commission are the registered" Woodhouse Bonds" of the Mexican Government held by American citizens. A reason urged why they should be paid is, that o❑ them Juarez supported the Army operating against Maximilian. Mr. Paul Gerard, a Frenchman of good family and means, was married on Tuesday to Miss Mary B. Wormley, a handsome Washing ton lady, having a tinge of colour. M. Gerard has to settle a libel suit before he takes his bride to Paris, where the same prejudices do not exist as here. At the tasteful dejeuner some of our first citizens appeared, and everything was conducted on a libe ral scale. Special Commissioner Wells will send in his Report next week, and it is looked for with interest, as his conclusions exercise great influence on a powerful section. The Reconstruction Com mittee will meet daily until the case of Georgia is decided, that of Virginia being now as good as settled. The Committee on Ways and Means is considering the President's and Secretary Bout well's Report. The arsenals, at Watertown, New York, and near some other great cities where land is valuable, are to be sold, and, with the proceeds, a large arsenal is to be constructed ; at least, so it is proposed, and two thousand five hundred acres of land are to be purchased in the mountains of New Jersey, within five miles of the Erie Railroad, as an Army Eastern powder depot. Twenty of the new torpedo boats have been ordered by the Govern ment, the recent experiment being considered highly satisfactory. Military cadets and midship men are to be instructed in the system of signal ling introduced by General Myers, and found ser viceable during the war; by day it is worked by flags, and at night by torches, and is used by the army as well as the navy with secret cyphers for communications between them. The Colo - redo, carrying 44 guns, with the flag of Com modore John Rogers, is Ala to sail for Singa pore to relieve Commodore Rowan, in command of the United States fleet in Asiatic waters. Commodore Charles Steednaan succeeds Rogers in command of the Boston Navy Yard. The disputed relative rank of the navy, line, and staff callers is still undetermined, but will be set ;Jed ty the House Navy Committee, who are uneasy under the pressure of interested parti,s. Senator Grimes, the former Chairman of the Senate Committee, was the champion of the line officers, and the staff officers rejoice in his having been suc ceeded Ly Senator Cragin. RAILIVAY INTELLIGENCE. BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON. The report of the directors states that of the amount announced in the last report as paid by the Grand Trunk Company, in settlement of the sums due to the company up to June, 1868, £12,500 had been paid to the bondholder& trustees. After pro tracted uegociations, conducted in a firm yet con ciliatory spirit by the present directors of the com pany, Messrs. M. H. Maxwell, S. It Healey, A. Ashton, and J. J. Stitt, they were now happy to report that such modifications and concessions had been secured as enabled them to recommend for adoption a new arrangement in lieu of the exist ing Parliamentary agreement, and in settlement of all questions in dispute between the two coin. panics. The agreement provided a rentcharge, payable by the Grand Trunk Railway to the Buffalo and Lake 1-luron Company in per petuity, by half-yearly instalments within two months after the Ist of January and the Ist of July in each year, say—for the year ending the Ist of July, 1869, .£42,500 ; ending the Ist of July, 1870, £45,000 ; ending the Ist of July, 1871, £50,000; ending the Ist of July, 1872, £55,000 ; ending the Ist of July, 1873, £60,000 ; ending the Ist of .July, 1874, £65,000; ending the Ist of July, 1875, £66,000; ending the Ist of July, 1876, £67,000 ; ending the Ist of July, 1877, £68,000 ; ending the Ist of July, 1878, £69,000 ; and for every subse quent year £70,000. To the amount of £12,000 per annum the rent-charge was to rank next before the First Equipment Bonds of the Grand Trunk Company, and the balance would rank next after the Second Equipment Bonds, which the Grand Trunk were now authorised to raise. The ordi nary shares of the Buffalo Company were to be exchanged--one-half, or say £615,000 for the like amount of Grand Trunk Fourth Preference ; one half, or say £615,000, for the like amount of Grand Trunk Ordinary Stock. The £42,500 of the rent charge payable for the Year 1868-9 was to be liqui dated in Grand Trunk Second Equipment Mort gage Bonds at par, but available only upon the New agreement being ratified by the Canadian Par liament. The formal embodiment of the agreement was now being prepared by the solicitors of the two companies, and would be submitted to the pro prietors at meetings specially called for that pur pose. The terms now proposed might be considered far short of what this company believed they were fairly entitled to, still, in view of existing circum stances, and to avoid, if possible, a harassing and Costly struggle too likely to follow their rejection, the board unanimously advised their acceptance. The injury which the two companies had it i❑ their power to inflict upon each other would be poor compensation for the indefinite postponement of any share iu the prosperity which appeared again about to dawn upon Canadian enterprise. The capital account to the 30th of June last showed that £1,701,056 had been expended, leaving a hilance of £74,015. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The great feature of the week here has, of course, been the opening of Congress. Unfortunately the day was very stormy, half rain, half snow, with plenty of wintry gusts, but it was remarked how hearty and cordial in their greeting of each other, the members were. Most of them met for the first time since they separated in the Capitol, and they had to aiscuss distant travel, for many of them have been to Eu rope or across to the Pacific, or roaming over the mountains of Colorado. Samuel S. Cox, and George W. Brooks, who fills Secretary Boutwell's place, 11. C. Burchard, who takes that of Mr. Washburne, and W. H. Barnum have been sworn in, making up the roll to 201. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, has been chosen Chairman of the Committee ou Appropriations ; Mr. Cragin, of New Hampshire, is the new Chair man of the Naval Affairs Committee, and Mr. Schurz takes the late Senator Fessenden's place on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The death of the Senator from Maine is to be announced on Monday next, and many of his friends will speak on the occasion. The nomination to the United States Circuit ju•lgeships have been presented to the Senate. Among them is a relative of Mrs. Grant, who is strongly favoured by Western Penn sylvania. The mines are George Shepley, First District ; Lewis B. Wooiruff, Second ; William bl•liennan, Third ; George A. Pearl; Fourth William B. Woods, Fifth; George H. Yeaman, Sixth ; Thomas Drummond, Seventh ; John F. Dil lonof lowa, Eighth ; and Lorenzo S iwyer, Ninth. General Butler received a committee of the Virginia Legislature at hi; house, as Chairman of the Reconstruction Committee. He denied that he was opposed to the admissio❑ of Vir ginia, but he is cautions, Georgia having broken faith, which gained admission by a fraud, which can. and will be summarily deal with. Cons►ress will compel Georgia to keep her plighted t a li h. Ten nessee has also broken every biond and pledge, set ting at naught the principles of the Republican party and the laws of the laud, the coloured man O'DONOVAN ItOSSA. Mr. Gladstone has definitely refused to liberate O'Donovan Rossa, M.P. He will himself, he says, take the responsibility of the denial of the request of the Fenian convict's friends. The Premier is likely ere long to have another question to answer, as the prisoner has informed the public that he intends writing to the right hon. gentleman, suggesting to him the propriety of a removal to Millbank prison. "Those lodgings are within view of the Parliament House, and if he complies, I will be able to do my bit of oakum and my bit of Parliamentary business with more convenience. I may offe ; r him a suggestion, too, towards having the tenant-right bill regulate the rents according to Griffith's Poor-law Valuation, and no eviction except for non-payment of this rent." THE 111-STEIL TENANT-RIGHT. The Times' commissioner, who has investigated the whole of Ireland, writes guardedly, but on the whole favourably, on the Ulster tenant-right. It cannot he denied, he argues, that the system has great advantages. What t heoretically see :ns a confusion of titles, and even a probable source of discord, is converted by the opera tion of custom into a mole of tenure by which the dominion of a landlord is not ill reconciled with an all but proprietary right on the part of the tenant, which ivsures and maintains the just claims of both, and which is found to conduce to goodwill be . ,wocit them. In districts where tenant-right flourishes, without a suspicion of interruption, landlords usually have very great influence ; their rents arc invariably well paid, and- are guaranteed by tenant's inte rest. Experience proves that they are less reduced by the charge on the fee than might be supposed; and a fair use of the rights of property of course within the limits of the custom, is found to be com patible with the rip,thts of the tenant. On the other hand, in virtue of the hold he has acquired through tenant-right on the soil, the tenant practically enjoys security ; be is not sensible of the worst effects of a tenure legally, usually at will ; he is not discouraged from improving his land by an apprehension that an unjust superior will despoil him of the fruits of his industry ; he feels reasonably safe and free, and cultivates his farm with a sense of property. 'Con sidering that twenty millions sterling now depend upon this custom, it is surprising that it has never attained the sanction of law. Indeed, - the want of such sanction is now producing an evil effect even on Ulster ittelf, where occasional instances of infringe ment of the custom are rapidly producing a sense of insecurity, and, in short, a " land question." On the whole, the Times' commissioner undoubtedly enter tains a high opinion of the good effects which must follow the legalising of this custom. TIIE LAND BILL. The rumours as to the land bill are still very vague. The Observer would have people believe that it has authentic information ; but the amount of light it gives to the world on the subject is by no means large. According to our contemporary, the bill will be mainly declaratory. It will not attempt to reorganise or .regenerate the country on any ideal system or by any artificial process. It will simply recognise things as they are, and embody notorious facts in a convenient legal foul). The Irish judges, who have hitherto held themselves debarred from enforcing what they con fessel to be, in the abstract, just principles of equity in respect to the relations between the landlord and the tenant, because they conflicted with certain pre cedents and traditions of an opposite character, will find the way cleared for them. The assumption of the Act of 1862 that the tenure of land in Ireland 16 based on contract will be qualified and corrected by the recognition of implied contracts, resting on old custom or tacit assent. THE PETITION AGAINST DR. TEMPLE. "A. London Clergyman " gives a very severe account of the petition which was got up by the opponents of Dr. Temple against the consecration of that prelate. Several weeks have been spent in can vassing for s'gnatures.4, and the result is two and a half folios of printed names. The total. number is about 1,500. Of these, says " A London Clercu man," 700 ar3 clergymen, of whom not twenty are known beyon 1 their own families, five are peers, and ten are members of Parliament. "Beyond these I cannot find the name of any layman of note; but I find whole columns filled with the names of labourers, blacksmiths, tavern-keepers, tailors, shoemakers. hairdressers, beer retailers, and the like, with crowds of women in the same class of life. It is evident that in many parishes the incumbent went round and wrote down the names of his pari shioners indiscriminately—young men and maidens, old men and children—just as they came. The whole list of signatures, for instance, occupies some what less thanlB columns, and of these, two columns are taken up with the parishioners of Bishop's Wal tham." Kimbolton furnishes a long list of labourers, men-servants and maid-servants. Southsca and Port sea each occupy a column_ The chaplains of gaols, workhouses, &c., have been very influential in pro curing signatures. "A London Clergyman" makes a still more serious statement. Several names are repeated twice, some three times over ;" and that this . is not an accident is clear from the evident attempts to conceal the repetition." The names are not ar ranged in any sort of alphabetical order. The Writer calls upon Bishop Trower, who signs the memorial, for an explanation. THE LATE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER. The death of the Bishop of Manchester deprives the Episcopacy of an energetic member. Dr. Lee was a very hard-working, persevering, industrious, and " determined " prelate. He was also a learned man ; was Fellow of Trinity College, Cam bridge, and noted for his classical attainments. He was born in 1804, and was son of the Librarian to the Royal Society. His first post was Assistant- Master of Rugby School, under Dr. Arnold. From that position he went, with Dr. Arnold's warmest com mendations, to the King Edward's Grammar School at Birmingham. From thence he was transferred to the then newly-formed bishopric of Manchester. He owed his preferment, it is thought, to the recommendations of the Prince Consort ; but few men would have accepted the spiritual supervision of "Chartists," and " Radicals" then in Manchester so fierce and feared. His . appointment was opposed in the Law Courts, charges being made against his private character ; but they were not substantiated. The late right rev. gentleman did not work altogether without difficulty in his diocese. His very earnestness carried him into frequent dis putes. The dogmatism of his nature asserted itself continually against those opposed to him ; and there were unfortunate bickerings and unpleasantnesses constantly arising. Ritualism he systematically opposed. In politics he took very little part until lately. The passing of the Irish Church Bill, how ever, roused his ire, and his denunciations of Mr. Gladstone were as extravagant as any that have been sent forth from the possessors of the lawn sleeves. THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION DIFFICULTY. Mr. G. J. Holyoake writes a somewhat remarkable letter to the Daily New& He will not think it libel if we describe him as an Atheist; and yet he pleads earnestly for sectarian education. The wonder does not remain so great, however, when it is remembered that all parties profess to allow the teaching of sonic religion ; and Mr. Holyoalre believes none. He denies that " unsectarianism" is possible There is no such thing in England, because one can not eliminate the special distinction of all the sects without taking away everything. There is no agree ment in our country except upon points of practice. If the League scheme were carried out—the reading of the Bible without explanations enforced in schools—pure Deism would be taught. Mr. Holy oake is not a Deist. He sees no beauty ; therefore, in that special teaching. Rather, lie says, let secular and religious education be given in each school and allow the latter to be optional with the parents. For unsectarian religion is " un-English." No such creed was ever drawn up ; no such worship was ever devised in which all the sects could join. but where two-thirds of the people belong to one belief, then sectarian education is a possibility. In Ireland it is an "imperial necessity ;" in Scotland an " intellectual preference." Where is the objection to it so long as a conscience clause is enforced ? Mr. Holyoake, how ever, would have the secular instruction divided very distinctly and sharply from the religious. The one and the other should in no case be joined. At the same time ministers, masters, teachers should have given to them the power to give such religious instruction as they like to their children. DR. GUTHRIE ON THE RELIWOUS DIFFICULTY. If the question of education were left to Dr. Guthrie, it would speedily be settled one way or other. He has ion , been a believer in compulsory education, and he finds equally little difficulty in dis posing of the religious question. Nothing, he said at the annual meeting of the Edinburgh Ragged Schools, had distressed him more than the manner in which religious people had managed to obstruct the realisa tion of the greatest blessing the country could receive. He (Dr. G uthrie) considered it easy to pre pare such a catechism as would embrace all that is needful for children to learn. "I think that to draw out such a catechism would be the easiest thin.. in the world ; and that if you were to shut up the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev. Dr. Taunton, and John Angell James in one room together, if you were to shut up the heads of the Episcopal, the - Wesleyan, and the Independent bodies, and tell them that they would not get out until they prepared a catechism - for use in the schools of the country they would accomplish the task in five hours." Still, seeing how the country is divided, he would be willing, ho said, that there should be no catechism, but not that children should be without Bible teaching. M. VICTOR lIUGO ON TUE FREEDOM OF NATIONS. ClhriQtmasa nartv. to fortY FORMS FOR TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES. The Government are completing their arrange ments for taking the telegraphs, to the smallest detail. In one little point an undoubted change for the better has been accomplished. The forms for filling in messages have been much improved. A separate space in lines is allotted to each word, and the corresponding charge is printed clearly on the margin; so that the sender can see at a glance how much he has to pay, and the receiving clerk need be at no trouble in calculating how much he has to charge. Each of the forms thus divided into spaces is prepared for a message of fifty words, which is assumed to be suffi cient in the great majority of instances. In the right hand upper corner of the page a blank space is left for the stamps which will probably be almost exclu sively used to cover the charges of transmission. Attached to the form are directions for the guidance of the sender, with a tariff of charges, and full infor mation as to the arrangements for porterage. TIM BOARDING-OUT SYSTEM. The boarding-out system of dealing with pauper, or, rather State children, is coming into rapid favour. Protests are still made against it, but the fact remains that it has succeeded in Scotland, and hitherto it has invariably worked well when properly tried. The Wrexham Board of Guardians is the latest which has adopted the new plan. It proposes to " a llow three shillings per week with each child. The Telegraph, caffing attention to the shallowness of the sum, attacks 4arming-out " altogether, and puts the objections to it about as strongly as they can be put : - We may take the Wrexham alimony for young paupers as fivepence and a fraction per diem. To say nothing about lodging, how much in the way of board could be given to a young pauper down Wrexham way for fivepence and a fraction a day? Bread, fortunately, is cheap just now ; but we suppose that even infant paupers are not to be exempted from the universal law, that man shall not live by bread alone. The guardians, of course, will clothe and educate the unhappy little urchins whom it is pro posed to "board out;" but we may, with all due deference, ask whether the terms of three shillings a week are to be, in all other respects, inclusive ? And how about the profit to be made by the people who take these pauper boarders ? We have great faith in human na t ur e ; we believe in the beautiful ; we can imagine that sweetness and light may be found in dulcet and lustrous sublimation under the roof of unless h ys e lowly n Cottage. But we do not believe that there are people who would take young paupers to board could make something by it; and we do believe t and individual inspection of each "boarding many constant tnohsoray out" case would be at once impracticable and ruinously expensive as a process. Yet, without constant and indi vidual inspection, the boarding-out system would open the door to the worst kind of baby-farming and Browmiggism. TRE INTERNATIONAL BOAT-RACE. The contest between Oxford and Harvard seems strangely out of season ; but the American crew have themselves i revived the topic by a generous dis avowal of insinuations as to unfair treatment on the part of their opponents, or lack of courtesy on the part of the British people. This candid statement leads the 7'imes to once more notice that the Ameri cans rowed against great odds and were yet not easily beaten ; and that the comparative efficiency of the two crews cannot be decided until both row after their own fashion. The Enolish take the additional weight of a fifth man in their boat, in order to do the steering. The Ame ricans do their steering by the bow oarsman, and thus save the weight of the coxswain. The latter gain a hundred pounds or so on the gross bulk of the boat and its cargo; the former have the advantage in every oar being free to work at full power, whereas the American bowman is hampered by an additional duty. If it be said that these assumptions would leave the Americans with an advantage, the result could only chew that the Americans were our superiors in the art of rowing. In other words, if the bow oar of an American boat can really do all the steering with out losing a proportionate amount of power, the sooner our bow oars learn to steer the better. To economise twenty per cent. of the weight in a four oared boat is to effect an important saving of power, and if the Americans could do it and without loss in any other direction, their example is certainly worth imitating. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN FRANCE. The reports by various journals of new ministerial combinations at Paris, and their denial from official quarters, have been such an invariable ingredient in each day's foreign telegrams as to forfeit all claim to attention. But it seems certain that a - new Ministry is actually in existence. It is a Right Centre com bination, and includes MM. Emile 011ivier, Louvet, and, perhaps, Segris, of the Moderate Liberals, whilst MM. Magne, Onasseloup-Laubat, and one or two more of the present Ministry, will be retained. Thus AI. Emile 011ivier reaps what the Times' Parisian correspondent calls the reward of his cleverness, but which is really the reward of his great ingenuity in adapting himself and his principles to any circumstances. The leaders of the Left Centre, who uphold a more advanced Liberal programme, have . all been left out. M. 011ivier tried to get them in, but in vain ; and the coming plan had no hesitation in finally leaving his old companions,and dra win g still nearer to Imperialism. 11-11ERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Angles American Times.) NEW YORK, Dec. 11. The late A. D. Richardson continues the topic of the day, but people are begin n i ng to tire,knowing that the affair will be served up again on M'Farland's trial. For the lime it has created a furious excite ment, as it combined elements to suit the tastes of all; ascaudal, atragedy, ceremonies of a doubtful mo rality, and religious observances calculated to cause fierce discussions, the more so as names such as that of H. Ward Beecher were involved. That reverend gentleman, however, " sold" his congregation last Sunday, and others besides. It is said of him, when a stranger asked the way to Plymouth Church, he replied, " Cross to Brooklyn and follow the crowd ;" and on no other occasion could he have given a better direction, for the stream flowed to that build ing. Certainly Mr. Beecher preached, and, his text was suggestive of the subject occupying the thoughts of all, " 0, wretched man that I am ; who shall de liver me from the body of this death ?" but not a word did he say on the subject, indeed he had done it in the funeral address iu the Astor House when the body was removed to the boat for Boston. On that occasion he not only defended the deceased, the widow, and his own course, but denounced in scathing language the public animadversions ; " beetles and carrion birds assailing the wounded victim, who, when down, swarmed by flies; a shame, bitter and disgraceful, that such should be the case." Mr. Beecher was, however, compelled to come out with a card, when he stated that he knew but little of Mr. Richardson or the circumstances, that lit tle he had gathered from friends who might be misinformed, but the truth would come out on the trial, and he would bow to it, and if the opinions he still held proved erroneous, he would make such reparation as he could to Mr. M'Farlaud. The Rev. Henry M. Field also published an explanation of his part in the affair, which was merely that of a spectator by the accident of being in Mr. Beecher's centrally when sent for to the death-bed. Dr. Field takes the boll ground that the marriage was right from every point of view, whether the two were innocent or had sinned, that it was a repara tion on the part of the man, and tended to benefit innocent children ; that the woman was between two husbands, occupying a very painful position, and one under any circumstances fraught with a sadness she must carry to her grave. Charity alone too was sufficient to dictate the course, and ought to silence the libellers. The Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, however, acted up to the desires of his congrega tion, and made an example of all who took the other ?side. Although he maintained that he had nothing to say to the world or to the papers which DUNADURG AND WITEPSK. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the mouth of November last amounted to 182,280 roubles, against 65,625 roubles for November, 1868, showing an increase of 116,655 roubles. BRYNMAWR AND BLAENAVON. This line has been opened for passenger traffic, a delay of three or four weeks having intervened in consequence of certain requirements of the Board of Trade having to be carried out. The line is an extension of the Merthyr, Tredegar, and Aber gavenny section of the London and North-Western , and a cousiderable mineral traffic is expected to pass over it, from the Blaenavon and other iron and coal works in the district. Bans of France. PARIS, Dec. 23. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Dec. 16. Dec. 23. - fr. c. fr. C. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 -- Profits in addition to Capital (Art. 8, Law, Juno 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at sight 47,365,401 95 46,271,819 62 Treasury account cur rent creditor 219,870,156 42 231 458,259 57 Current accounts, Paris 363,35x,747 90 361,360,028 8 5 Do. branch banks 44,554989 • 43,650,081 Dividends payable 825,004 791,076 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 4,000,000 - 1,318,369,150 - distributed Sundries Total CREDITOR. Dec. 23. Dec. 16. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- counted, not yet due 310,082,089 19 302,625,805 Do. branch banks 287,275,214 292,125,580 Advances on deposit of bullion 22,577,300 22,457,800 Do. branch banks 1,725,900 1,699,880 - • Do. on French Public Securities 22,410,100 22,642,700 Do. by branch banks 9,089,900 9,051,800 Do. on railway shares and debentures 39,095,800 39,380,10 -- Do. branch banks - Do. on Credit Fencier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 1,118,209 - 1,12i,900 - 1,131,800 - 1,299,000 -- 60,000,000 - servo Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisdes 12,980,750 14. 12,980,750 14 80,595,187 21 80,593,187 21 (Law, June '2, 1857) 10,000,000 100,000,000 gotel and furniture of tho &uk and landed properly branches Expenses of manage ment Sundries 9,053,892 - 9,048 897 2,948,103 50 2,554,010 93 6,873,520 63 9,995,002 42 Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Baui; of FraL ze. (Signed) ROULAND. 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Amsterdam , Short ... 11 181 ... 11 19 Do Rotterdam ..._ — ... 12 1 1 ... 12 1 1" Antwerp — ... 25 371 ... 25 421 Brussels — ... 25 37i ... 25 421 Hamburgn — ... 13 lq ... 13 11 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1204 ... I'2ol Vienna —. 12 65 ... 12 7 ° Trieste - -. ... 12 65 ... 12 70 Petersburg Copenhagen. .... ~ 9 18 ... 9 2 2 Berlin .. — ... 6 271, ... G 28 Madrid.. - ... 481 Cadi7 Leghorn Milan — ... 26 75 ... 26 7 . 1 .! Genoa .. - -... 26 75 .. 26 7 'l Naples Palermo -... 26 75 ... 26 44 3 , Messina ... 26 75 ... 26_2'3 Lisbon Rio Janeiro New York Oporto PRICE OF GOLD. Ine quotation of gold at Paris is about at pa r ' ! it' : V ', Vic short exchange on Lo n d on is •fit 151 per ..£1 sterlin;t oncomparing these rates w ith the English Hint pri ce , , t xs ria.loid. per ounc e f or standard gold, it appe.. ,- . 4 " . 0 gold at the above ',condor. Price is slightly fdearor :in iParis that' BIRTHS. TT HALLoN— On th e 22d i nst., at 4, L e i nster-gar d en s, i.3 7do ' i! park, Mrs. Eldred Halton, of a son. o - NICHOLSON —On the 26th i ns t., a t 4, S usssx - s quaie, Tl9 f , park, th e w if o o f W . N icholson, Esq., ALP* ? ° daughter. ALIRRIAGES. • HILL —WlLaos On the 27th inst. at nolyTrinity Ch um t i Knightsbridge, George WooA Eq., to Elizab e p Eleanor, oldest daughter of the Rev. John Wilson, D. of Durham Rouse. Chels( a. N o tre, JEBB G IRADOT On th e 21 st inst., at Car Colston, 0 Fred. W. Jebb, Major 37th Refit., to Mary Cha rlott second daughter of the Rev. J. C. Girsdot, of Car Co l " ston. D EA TB S. DYER—On the 24th inst., George Dyer, Esq., of itornsel and Lower Thames-street, aged 83. RONALD—On the 26th inst., at 5, Manchester-square, --11°°- land Ronald, Esq., aged 84. 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