The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-18 00:00:00

THE TVIIITSUNTIDE-WEvTETS,", Whitenn Monday was a grand day for the vOl4nteers - Of the metropolis. Most of tile:reiiiineiits went Off eitlaeito Penshanger Park, Tooting;: or Greenwich. ' The review at l'ushange'r, the seat • of-. the Earl Cowper, in Hertftirdshire; • was :a small One.' Nine different battalions, - ;:of which half-a-dozen were metP9i2olitan corps, took part in the evolutions ; and 45;. : 2&.k . i . e the ; threatening clouds of the morning, the day turniA. out . fine, the proceedings went off with complete satisfactiOint'• to all concerned, except those rigid critics . - who •:Calinot pardon any departure from exact • military rules in the manccuvring of our ..it4en The - plan of the review was . not p*talis - all that a " real soldier!' could wish. Certain of the forces took up their position in a wood, from which it was the duty of the other volunteers to drive them. They succeeded in doing so, and the two rival 9.rmies became one, and marched past in .excellent The same kind of thing took place on Tooting botnnaOn, where Lord Truro commanded. ' We are told that "the enemy were defeated;'• and that' the march past was really well done. TJIE .F4TiLL POACI7ING AFFRAY NEAR " • • GRIMSBY. • - • The Inquest on the body of Enoch GOdly, the gardener thot dead by a poacher on Sunday morning at Grimsby, has been held. James Marshall deposed : I am game keeper to Mr. Thorold, of Cuxwold. On Sunday morning Last the deceased, Enoch Goldy, and I left Cuxwold for the - purpose of watching game. We reached Ravendale about two o'clock in the morning. About four o'clock we observed two men on'Mr.- Thorold'•s property; I saw one of the men • creeping down by the hedge-side with a gun in his hand • preparingeto- shoot • a hare. The -hare ran from them, • and .tihen-• the- men came • -towards the hedge ; when they got :opposite to us they stopped. I observed that they saw us, and I jUmped up and endeavoured to get over the hedge. I said, " Holloa, what are you doing there this morning - with a gun?" One of the men replied, "Do you mean that, you b—?" and he turned and ran back. In getting over the hedge I attempted to get - hold of him, but did not reach him. The men ran away. Deceased jumped over the hedge after me, and we both gave chase. Deceased passed me, and I said to him, "If you can catch them, run up at once while I am close to." Geld,* said, " Aye, but they have got a gun ;• I'll run them till they stop."' After running about a mile and a half,' going through a wood Goldy called out to give me an idea which way they werhoing. I. then said, " Goldy, run through a gate eteacl," when he stopped and hesitated a minute, as if .he had lad sight of the men. Goldy then turned to the right, and was out of my sight. I then immediately heard a great clap, which turned out to be the report of a gun. Then I heard deceased call out " Oh, dear ! Come 4,-Marshall ; come up, Marshall." I then saw Goldy come back past the gate etead, and run right into the hedge. I was then about 100 Yards away. Xthen saw the man that had the gun in his handnin up to Goldy, point his gun at him—not from the shouider, but holding, it with both hands—and fire at deceased.. Bt appeared as though the man put the innzle of . the gun close to deceased, who was partly down on the hedge. I only saw one man with a gun. There was time to-•re load the gun between the two reports. When I got up to Goldy he was quite dead, and I perceived there was a great hole at the back of his head. Both men rdm away, and whilst I was looking at the deceased I lost sight of them entirely. Mr. H. George, surgeon, North Thoresby, deposed that he had rria,de a postmortem examination of the deceased. Ire found a gunshot wound in the left breast, between the second and third ribs, which bad gone through the left lung, from which he eXtracted- a quantity of Aot and wadding. He also feund a wound at the back of the left ear, which penetrated the brain several incher. Both wounds were sufficient to cause death. By the advice of the coroner, the - jury returned an open verdict of wilful murder :against some person or persons unlinown; thus leaving :the matter in the bands of the uiagistrateti. ENGLISH DIFFICULTIES IN CHINA. Among the parliamentary papers just issued are some documents of importance relating to China. One of these contains the correspondence relating to the proceedings of her Majesty's ship Janus, at Sharp Peak Island, near Foo-Chow-Foo. It will be remembered that Consul Sinclair called upon Lieutenant Keppel, commanding the Janus, to employ force in the settlement of some differences between an English missionary and the natives of Sharp Peak Island, a line of conduct strongly censured by Lord Clarendon. Mr. Wolfe, the missionary, had obtained the title deeds of some land at the island, but the natives would not allusv bins to build upon it. Consul Sinclair-described a Chinaman, named Wang-Yew-Chow, asthe chief instigator of the disturbance, and recom mended that Lieutenant Keppel should land a large force of cutlass-men. This he did, and threatened to pull down Wang-Yew-Chow's house if he did not agree to the pro eosed terms, the result being that the Chinaman gave a bond for future good behaviour, of which a copy is given in these papers. Vice-Admiral Sir 11. Keppel, in reporting the affair, says that in his opinion the Chinese were the proper parties to take action in the matter, and that they had intended to do so, and the interference of the Janus was, therefore,unnecessary. Lord Clarendon, as we have said, severely censures the Consul, whose measures, he considers, " Lad a direct tendency to provoke without sufficient cause a collision with the Chinese authorities.and people," and he is warned to he more circumspect for the future. Another batch of correspondence refers to the engagement of H.M.S. Algerine with junks supposed to belong to pirates off Namoa harbour. It seems from the account given in these documents that the Algerine gunboat, with a man darin on board, encountered thirteen armed junks off Namoa harbour. The commanders of the junks refused to chew their papers, and fired on the Algerine. Lieutenant Domville engaged them forth with, passing three times along their line, and pouring In grape and shell, which, he says himself, " told with fearful effect," and dispersed the junks. Vice-Admiral Keppel, in enclosing the account of the engagement, , recommends Commander Domville for the skill and 'nary with . which he opposed a superior force. Unluckily, the junks subsequently turned out not to be pirates, tut opium smugglers, who never allow even their own vessels of war to communi cate with them, and consequently the Admiralty instead of applauding Commander Domville for " his skill and gallantry," censured him for beginning the action at all, and blamed the Admiral for giving his sanction to the affair. Orders are therefore given that Chinese vessels are not to be attacked unless there is no reasonable doubt that they are engaged in piracy. The suppression; of these pirates in the Chinese waters is a difficult and troublesome task. The correspondence respecting -the - proceedings of her Majesty's ships Bustard and Drake in assisting the Imperial troops in the river Han gives an account of some more Satisfactory exploits than those we have referred to ; though, at Lord Stanley's suggestion, a sum of £2,000, exacted from the village of Choo-Chi, was refunded. Mr. Holt, acting Vice-Consul at Tamsing, was fortunate enough to obtain the necessary reparation for an outrage on British merchants in Banca without employing force, a full account of the affair being given in these papers. The fasting girl at Ulverston, after having ab- stained from food since last October, has now, it is stated, commenced to both eat and talk. Elie Las, according to report, been twenty-five weeks without any solid food pass ing- her lips, and sixteen without having her lips even moistened. TILE APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF LORD LYTTEL TON.—The Dirininyliant Post is informed that the mar riage of Lord Lyttelton with Mrs. Humphrey Mildmay, widow of the late member for Herefordshire, will be solemnised early in June. Mrs. Mildmay is a niece of the Rev. Mr. Clive, who was sometime rector of Solihull. SALE OP THE OVERTOP ESTATE. —We (Salisbury Journal) understand that the Overton estate (near Marlborough) which was purchased about three years ago • of the Luke of Marlborough, by the late Mr. R. C. Long, at' something like '21.40,000, has just been sold by the . oxectitOrs of that gentleman to, Lord Earnest Bruce -(as the representative of Sir H. - Aleux) at a profit of nearly £O,OOO. • MR. GEORGE . ODOER..-A ineeling of the Green- Ivich advanced Liberal Association was held a, day.or two back, at which the following resolution was carried unani mously :—" That the advanced Liberan of the borough of Greenwich learn with satisfaction that Mr. George Odger has allowed himself to be put in nomination as the repre sentative of the working classes for Stafford, and trust that the advanced Liberals of Stafford w ill ..end him to the Commons House of Parliament as the ad% auccd Liberals of Greenwich returned the Eight Hon. W. E.. la,dstone." Arother yeoman leas accomplikLed the clitHeul feat JP falling off h 4 s_ The01)1111119 Didtiulpti has . InCt with a selious accident at Warwick.' While at drill with the Warwickshire Yeothanry Cavalry his horse became very restive and began rearing and plunging, about in a furious manner.; Eventually -Sir Theopbilus was thrown, a: d fell upon the ground with. great force. Several members of the regiment quickly lan to his assistanee, and he was convtyed to his -lodgings in a car. Dr. Lulleck was called in, and found the hon. baronet sufferi. g from the (fleets of temporary concus sion of the brain and a severe flesh wound in the face, from which he had lost a large quantity of blood. Ile was also greatly shaken. In the covrse of the day, - however ho Wag; . I much imiDroved. T.TIE`ENGLTSH 70:TNT:STOCK BANK: . . • At the Mansion House, on Mon day morning, Mr. Samuel Greenway Finney, the manager of the English Joint stock Bank, Mr. James Abbiss, Mr. Thomas Brad shaw, and Captain C. E. Mangles, the directors of the bank, were brought before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of conspiring together to defraud the share holders by means of false representations and false balance•sheets. Mr. G. Lewis appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Met , calfe, Mr. Poland, Mr. Ormond, Mr. Straight, and Mr. Montague Williams appeared for the defendants. At the commencement of the proceedings Mr. Lewis took occasion-to explain that on a former occasion he had Stated . that 'a sum of £1,250 had found its way into the Pockets of Mr.. Bradshaw. He had since, however. ascertained that this was not the case. 7 'Mr. C. Bradlaugh, who described himself as a financial agent, of Old Bond-street, was examined, and he stated that he had had business transactions with the defendants. and among other matters he had negotiated the purchase of the Nottingham Bank for the English Joint-Stock Bank for a sum of £lB,OOO, and he received £2,250 as commission for the transaction from Mr. Finney, the manager. There were also some negotiations for the purchase . of a bank at Norwich. Witness negotiated a loan of £7'5,000 for the bank, and it was arranged that • a sum of £4,000 should be paid as commission for the loan. The directors of the 'English Joint-Stock Bank afterwards refused to carry out this arrangement, and witness was very angry, and commenced legal proceedings against them. The result was that the bank only received £25,000, and they gave £2,000 as interest on that amount, and witnesr,. in addition, received a sum of £l5O for himself. Witness was very dissatisfied with the operation. Mr. Metcalfe obierved that the transaction turned out to be a totally different one to that which was opened by the prosecution. Mr. Siebel, accountant and broker, carrying on business in the City, proved that he negotiated the loan of £25,000 with the City Bank, and it was arranged that, the English Joint-Stock Bank should give their own deposit note as security. He received the £25,000 in Bank of England notes, and took them to the English Joint Stock Bank, and witness afterwards received a cheque for £1,350 for his commission for obtaining the loan. Evidence was then. given to shew that £20,000 out of the £25,000 received under the circumstances above stated'were paid as part of the purchase-money for the -goodwill of the business of the bank of Rogers, Olding, and CO., and Mr. Lewis said he should shew that £2,000 were paid in to the private account of Mr. Tinney. Mr. Howard, a solicitor, proved the sale of the goodwill :of "the bank of Harding and Co., at Bideford, to the English Joint-Stock Bank for £12,000. The witness received £2,000 as commission for negotiating the sale of the business, and he said that a "suggestion" was made that a poition of this sum should be paid to Mr. Finney, the_manager of the English Joint-Stock Bank, and he subsequently handed one-third of the £2,000 to that gentleman. Mr. Oswald Howell, the accountant, said he had been retained by Mr. Lambert, the piosecutor, to investigate the books of the English Joint-Stock Bank, and he had been so engaged for some time. " He had seen the balance sheet as made up to the 31st of becember, 1865,13 y. which' the net profits bf the bank were stated.to be £14,173-15s: He. had carefully examined the books, and the bank had certainly not only not made this amount of profit, but, according to his calculation, it had not made any profit at all. It further appeared by the books that a sum.of_oyer. £140,000 had been expended in the purchase of other banks, fittings, &e., and the preliminary expenses were stated at £22,358 3s. 4d., and £12,500 of this amount consisted of the purchase of the West Surrey Bank, which belonged to the defendant. Captain Mangles : The books did not contain any entry of the payment of the 12,000 . to Mr. Howard, and the books did not contain any minute of the directors authorising such a payment. Mr. Howell was examined at very considerable length, and the effect of his testimony appeared to be that it was his opinien that a number of items which appeared in the books in the character of assets ought to have appeared in the profit and loss account, and he said that they were originally so placed, but the mode of keeping the books appeared to have been changed. The inquiry was then again adjourned. LAW AND POLICE. A CONTRA.PICTORT CHARGE.—At Guildhall, on Monday, a labourer, named Russell, was charged with assaulting a constable. It Le ms that the constable, whose name was Outram, was looking for a woman who had robbed a man in Barbican, and caught hold of defendant's wife, suspect ing her to he the thief. She called her husband, who knocked the constable down. The constable was in plain clothes at the time. The man Russell bore a very good character, but Sir R. Carden said he believed he knew the complainant was a constable, and sentenced him to seven days' hard labour. Afterwards, on representations being made to him, he mitigated the punishment-to 20s. fine. . . ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Monday, at the Clerkenwell Police-court, Richard Beech was charged with cutting his wife's throat. The particulars of the case shewed the evils of intemperance. Both 'the prisoner and his Nvife were drunk, and • one of the witnesses deposed that the man was usually a sober, hardworking man, while the woman pleaded for him on the ground that he did not intend to do her any harm. He was only prevented by farce from taking his own life. The magistrate committed him for trial. THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER A BIRMINGHAM TRADESMAN. --At the Birmingham Police-court, a day or two since, Baker, the young man who was'eharged with threatening to shoot Mr. WEvoy, was brought up on * remand. Mr. Duke, who appeared for Mr. M`Evoy, said there would be no prosecution, and Mr. M'Evoy was' not now in any danger. The prisoners further had arranged to send him to America, and undertook to look after him till he left the country. Mr. Cutler, for the prisoner, said that he had been much deceived with regard to Mr. M'Evoy, who had in reality befriended him. Balser was then discharged. CHILD-STEALING.-At the Liverpool Borough Police couit, a respectably-dressed woman, named Sarah Hind, - has been charged with child-stealing. On Wednesday she met a girl carrying an infant in her arms, two months old. She took the child in her arms and sent sent the girl away on some pretext, and then went away with the infant. As subsequently shewn, her object was a most curious one. She had .been living with a man named Farrel, to whom she went with the child, and said she had been conflned of it the preceding Monday, and that he was the father. Farrel gaVe information to the police, whose inquiries elicited the real facts of the case, and led to the restoration of the stolen child to its parents and the apprehension of the prisoner. The prisoner was remanded. The night mail train between Dublin and Belfast ran of the line near Portadown. The passengers escaped unhurt, but the guard and a letter sorter received injuries. A rumour, unconfirmed however, states that the engine NVA thrown off by a stone maliciously placed on the line. The Roman Catholic Bishop of 'Liverpool is not satisfied with the Irish Church Bill: The substance of a sermon delivered on Sunday was a demand for more.. Dr Goss uomplaiued that Mr. Gladstone did not do full . justice to the question. He ought to • have treated it • from first to last as a crest:ou of State. If the Prime Minister. had determined to see the. Aablsbed Church distinct from the State, it was his duty to have Landed over to the Catholic Church all endowments which it possessed previous to the Reformation. The Catholics of Ireland had been defrauded of their rights and theendowments which they possessed previous to the Refoirnation. The liberality of England deprived the Doman Catholics of liberty of action. He denounced thb bill intended to be brought forward in faVour of secular education, arguing that if such a bill were to pass tt would prevent them from training up their child ren in the proper faith. THE TREE OF LIBERTY.—A French journal is responsible for the following :—ln a certain small pro. vincial town one of the residents, 11.1. A. 8., found that his house was rendered both damp and dark by the con tiguity of a large tree which was inconveniently near to liis windows. He would gladly have had it cut down, but the tree belonged to the commune and was not ,to be - meddled with. 'Being a 4 Alan of resources, be sent for insertion to one 'of the Paris papers'_the folleWing paragrilph There is still- in existence of the trees of lib.erty_of the date of 179 . 3. It n3ey bq- sorn at X., close to the house of M..A.13., and the passers ,by reverently uncover' their heads to - this vener'a'ble witness of our grandest struggles and-.our most, i‘ rri : v;etory." Three dai-s afterw:: - L\:,is an order came from the I . Cfeetiirb in Paris' or the,.. - .lfayorof;:y.. to cause_ the said-tree to he cut down—vhicii.wits - acCorCiiigly done forthwith. PROPOS gD ItATLIViY TUBE UNDER' THE SEVERN: --It is. stated that a sCheme 'will be introduced nat . session of Parliament to construct a subway between the .dock.' Lydney and the intended new basin of. ihe• Gloucester Canal at Berkeley Pill, by sinking in the bed of the river an iron tube, and to connect the , mouth thereof with the railway running east, to a junction with the N6dland and Great Western at Stonehouse, and the railway running west, connecting the subway with the Midland at Thornbury, the South Wales Union at Pilning,, and the' Bristol Port and Pier at Avonmouth. The Glou cester and Berkeley Canal Company contemplate an ex. tension of the canal, and the construction of a new entrance and a floating harbour fur vessels of, a much larger.cla.qs than ^.an now trade to Gloucester. THE SUN, LONDON, - i IIUE6DAY -EVENING, MAY 18, LE69. MISCELLANEOU NEWS; TIES LORDS AND THE DILL. The morning papers take little notice of the JOAn Bull's statement that Lord Derby intends to move the rejection of the Irish Church Bill. Most of them do not even publish the_,paragraph.. The Morning Advertiser prefers to wait a few days before com menting upon it. The twin Standard and" Herald are dumb, neither confirming nor contradicting the announcement. - The Alm Ball's statement seems •to be discredited by the fact that the standing committee of the Irish Church Conference have declined to recommend-the Lords to reject the bill. There was a•conference at the close - of the week between the committee and. Lord: Cairns. The result of this meeting remains "to be ascertained.' But it is scarcely likely that, in the meanwhile, Lord Derby would deCide to take the momentous step from which even Irish Churchmen shrink. between this tountry and the Unitedstates—lnr. Cyrus Field, TTIE FACTORY KING. Bradford and the neighbourhood around kept complete holiday on Saturday. The shops and factories were closed.; the workmen donned . their best 'raiment ; flags-and banners were hung from the windows in the great thoroughfares ; processions; composed in all of 30,000 men, headed by bands of music, paraded the principal streets; and the whole district turned out in vast crowds to do honour to the memory of Richard Oastler, 'the Factory King. A statue of the successful agitator. of the Ten Hours Bill was unveiled' in the town .by Earl Shaftesbury, and his lordship, Mr. W. E. Forster, - M.P., Mr. Miall, M.P., . Mr. Ferrand, and• others addressed the assembled multitude. Earl Shaftesbury, who was the member of Parliament by whom the reform which Oastler advocated was achieved, paid a high tribute to the man " whoz in the feelings of the highest humanity, and }n the true spirit of the Gospel, left his retirement to maintain the cause of the worn-out adult and cauge.,9l suffering children." . Mr. Forster counselled then) not to let the cause die, but to carry it on, not. Withstanding - that the man who had originated it was dead. The great evils to be dealt with at present were gross i g norance and intoxication. Something could be done by law to remove both; but much more could be done by the people themselves. The factory sys tem as now administered left it to a great extent in the power of the heads of families to do much fom the education of their children, and. to • put down the dreadful evil of intoxication. It was his place now, connected with the Government to consider what legislation could do for the teach ing of the children. The little connection he had had with the Education Office did not make him one whit the less determined that the State should do its duty in bringing means of education to all childrer in the country; and if the-parent either could not om would not do his duty, and if the neighbours did not or would not do their duty, then he would say that the State should step in and do it for them, and, gc far as it was possible and just, make them pay tbeim share of the cost. out anew in Rhode Island, as the following card publisliesl in the papers will show :7 TO TICE RON. WILLIAM SPRAGUE, UNITED. STATES SENATOR FROM RHODE ISLAND. "Availing yourself.of your position in the thiited States Senate, and abusing its privileges in a base ahh cowardly spirit, you have in your Speech of the Bth inst. charged me with having deserted my post in tho hour of danger, while a member of the Ist Rhode Island Regiment. Gene ral Burnside having, over his own signature, denied the truth of yonr assertions, it remains for me to pronounce you before the world, and with a full apprehension of the words I use, a liar, a caluminator, and a poltroon.—l am, &C., "FRANCIS W. GODDARD, "Late Captain Carbineers, Ist Rhode Island Regiment. "Providence, April 24, 1869." Meanwhile the National Intelligencer in which it is said Mr. Sprague has purchased a large interest, came out with an article headed, " What is IN eeded," . and answering "The spirit of a Hampden; courage, and bold championship to resist the evil influences of the party in power," showing Sprague to be the man in the Senate. This is taken to indicate that the Senator has swung round and now stands on the Democratic platform, and we confess we are not sorry to see it, as the overwhelming Republican strength in the Senate is demoralizing. That Cham ber wants a stronger opposition, and the Senator has cause enough to denounce corruption. He denies, however, having purchased any interest in the National Intelligencer. TIIE MAYOR. OF CORK. While the policy of forgiveness with which the present Government inaugurated its reign in Ireland failed most thoroughly, the little severity it has exercised seems to have had a most beneficial effect. The downfall of the Mayor of Cork has been acquiesced in by the masses of that city and an attempt to get up a demonstration against it com pletely failed. While no notice was taken of him by the higher authorities he was the popular idol. Condemned, and without office, he has fallen from his place in' the hearts of the citizens, and one of the popular journals declares " he has made an enormous ass of himself." THE COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDER. The revival of the compound householder question seems to have made confusion worse confounded. It is not very easyto understand all the grievances of which Mr. Sheridan complains so bitterly on behalf of the poorer class of 'tenants, the vestries and the ratepayers generally ; it 'is still more difficult to understand the measure by ''which the Government and the member for Dudley intend to set the matter right again. To the uninitiated there is very little difference between the two measures—Mr. Sheridan's . and Mr. GoSclien's. The Government is more care ful to abstain from altering the Reform Act of 1807 ; but in other respects the two bills when per fected by the amendments, accepted by the respective proposers, will be much after the same fashion. The anomalies to be set right were presented in one way and another at nearly all the election meetings of last year, though they were thoroughly understood by very few. The vestries complain that they cannot collect rates from the poorer tenants ; the • tenants complain of having to pay in a lump, when by a convenient arrangement They might contribute to the support of the GoVernment without feeling •it ; the ratepayers generally complain of having, because of alterations in the electoral law, to pay for poorer tenants who paid. for them Selves before the law was " reformed." To remedy this state of things it is proposed to allow" tenants to deduct from their weekly rent—and, we suppose - , to save in a corner for the quarterly tax•-collector the amount of money which . that functionary will demand. If a landlord chooses to become liable for the rates of his tenants he may dd so, and obtain a reduction upon them "of 25 per cent. In case he does so, he must hand over the list of his tenants thus paying rates to be enrolled upon the electoral register. So that after all the " principle " of Mr. Disraeli's bill—the personal payment of rites—is likely to stand only by the flimsiest of fictions. ANOTEER. M.P. ON EMICATI3N. The utilitarian doctrine of education, of which Mr. Lowe is the 'exponent, "finds by no means universal favour, even among thinkers who call _themselves and are regarded as advanced. Professor Fawcett, speaking a few clays - back at Brighton, attacked it very energetically. He condemned, as one of the most dangerous and, mischievous speeches he had ever read, the address delivered by Mr. Lowe at Edinburgh, in which all knowledge which was not thought to be of immediate practial utility—acquain tance with the ancient languages, with mathematics, &c.—was held lip to contempt. ProfessorFawcett pro tested earnestly against this view of things. Of v.-hat real practical utility (lie asked) was music ? It could not be turned into pounds, shillings, and pence. But it gave those who understood it a refined pleasure which could hardly be over-estimated. So with Greek and Latin, so with .mathematics. It v ia . ? not right, moreover, the member for Brighton went on to say, to calculate the good edUcation did even in this way. Training was given to the mind by subjecting it to a certain course. But still he advo cated some reform. His idea of a really properly devised system of education was one in which a boy's mind was directed to that which it was best inclined to follow. If the bent was towards abstract sciences it was not to be thought that the time engaged in them was thrown away. Knowledge ought to be loved for knowledge' sake. The greatest pleasure that could be obtained was, in the Professor's opinion, to be derived from intellectual cultivation. THE PRINCESS CHRISTIAN. The Royal Family, with the. exception of Prince Leopold, usually enjoy such excellent health that ii is qu.te a rare occurrence to bear of any among theM. It is now stated that the conlinemeni of the Princess Cbr:stian has been attended wits symptoms which tA one time gave rise to serious uneasiness. - Her Royal highness is now better, and she will as soon as possible join the Queen a' . Balmoral. • TIIE SICK BISHOPS. The health of the Bishop of Salisbury varies greatly from day to day. The latest report is very encouraging, and mentions that his lordship has made so much progress during the last few clays that lie is now •in a fair way to recovery. The Bishop of Carlisle, on the other hand, is worse rather than better, and suffers a good deal. " BISHOP TENNER. The Bishop of Dunedin is described by the Wel lington correspondent of the_ Times as thoroughly wearied and disguSted with hiS position. In a recent letter Dr. Jenner 'writes :—" The truth is, I am nearly wearied out with this business. The isolation, the humiliation of my_ position, which culminated last Sunday in my having to sit under a lay reader, have well-nigh broken me down. I feel inclined to let matters take their chance, give myself no further trouble, and ask tny friends to leaveme to my fate." His explanations have. made him some friends, but many of his. old antagonists maintain their ; opposition on the ground that he is not sufficiently candid on the question of Ritualism. A. new diocesan synod was summoned forlast month, and it would then be decided if the bishop should be rejected or accepted. INDIAN NOTES. The Indian Govcrnment ought to be much grati fied at the result of the subscription to the loan. India wanted 2 millions sterling; have been offered. This is very satisfactory. Still more so is the fact that a large proportion of the applicants for the loan, 110 out of 240, were natives. This not only spews a confidence in the stability of our Govern ment, but will tend to confirm that stability. When the natives begin to have a large stake in the Govern ment, they are not likely to assist any attempt to overthrow it. This has been the great 'source of strength to Napoleon. When the Cassandras begin. ; to prophesy misfortune and revolution, he can point to the fact that the class which supplied the revolu-1 tionists of twenty-one years ago has invested in the • IZentes. The negotiations bet Ween the Ameer of Afgha nistan kind the 'Viceroy of India, at Umballah, have being kept secret, " out of deference to the Secre tary of 'State (the Duke of Argyll)'and the Home Government," ',ord. - Mayo gives 'out. The Calcutta correspondent of the Times attributes 'this silence to a very different 'cause—the fear that a hostile Ministry in England ina,y-criticise his lordship's -pro ceedings -with some severity. The Bombay Gazette corrects- sundry statements that hare gone abroad. It ..i s : notv;true, for instance, that the Ameer asked either for the services of European- - officers or the presence of European agents in Afghanistan. On the, contrary,'Shere Ali ' hail a keen percep tion of the complications that might arise were servants of the : British 'Government to be' stationed in his country, - and had the proposal to place - 1116 ; n there been made, he would have formally expressed his dissent. Nor is it legs incorrect to say that Lord Mayo himself favoured the project. Not only did he not regard it with 'approval, but he would not have listened to the proposition for h moment had it been made by an y one , w hi c h it was not. Nor did the Ameer urge the Viceroy to notice the encroachmen,ts of the Persians in Seistan; nor he request the establishment . - of Affghart contingent, under English officers, nor the residence' of an English n g '.ant in Afghanistan.' • ' • • - - lik!ia.is now • blessed with a Divorce' Act; which came int(i operation on April- 1. -Nor .is the Act likely. to.reasain de.A.l letter. At Calcutta there has been one application and at Mad4s another. ::'The . lattet case is - said to relate'to 'pet's6ns in high society. and the . damages, arc laid at a lakh and' a :half - nt rupees. The -arrival of • the Duke of 'Edinburgh :is already talked' aboht, although : it does not, take place! till 7Decoin'ber,' It expected - that Major 'Sir:Neville Chamberlain will be attached to • the' snite 'of Highness,' and be entrusted, under the title of Special Commissioner, with all the necessary . tritingemetits.''' The 03rd Highlanders are to forth IliagnatdOf .honour at the Agra.Dtirbar: • ." • TIIJ PEACE SOCIETY. The Peace Society isohoping to riave an influential, gathering this year.. Four. DTP's.,'Mr:Pease, Mr . ': Gilpin, Mr. Fowler, and Mr. Richard, are expecied` to attend, as well as that gentlenian who, perhaps,, pore than any Q f them, has rendered war dacult THE MILITIA. " A Field Officer of Militia " writes to the Post or the organisation of the militia, which would, he thinks, under certain improVed • conditions, supply us with an • efficient reserved force at a moment's notice. He thinks that ' the first thing to be clone is to secure efficient field officers and captains, and he suggests that every colonel r major, and captain should be called upon tc perform varied and unexpected duties, in order tc .test their fitness to command: a battalion. A militia man should be thoroughly drilled for three months a, soon as he enlists, and by this mea,nsmuch of the con• fusion now arising on the assembling of a regiment may be obviated. To enable the adjutant to see after and drill the number of recruits which would be con- . stoutly coming and going, the "Field Officer' Rroposes that ,he should devote much of his time to the drilling of his staff sergeants. These are now idle for about eleven months in the year, and consequently fall into bad habits. _Alto the recruit Las -passed - his second month, the write] thinks that his clothes should be made to fit him and properly numbered, so that the absurd effect 'produced by, the reckless distribution of clothing among men of various heights and sizes would be avoided. . Several other improvements on the present system 1,r6 Suggested, with the view of enabling the regiments to :muster at the shortest possible notice. BURYING A JEW. These who have the management of the work-. house .funerals at Swindon seem to be terribly 'orthodox. Jews are treated with an austerity worthy of the age of Richard I. Some conversation about the pauper's grave at the recent meeting of the Hoard of Guardians led to the discovery of the circum stances connected with the burial, by the parish, of a body whose owner when alive had been of the Hebrew " persuasion." The porter who had to see that the last offices were properly performed was called in aii Interrogated. - lie said that the coffin was placed its the hearse and taken to Swindon. On its arrival there three men were obtained, and they with him (the porter) carried the coffin from the hearse and put it into the grave, the dirt was at once thrown in and they all left. A Mr. Morris seems to have beer annoyed at such a very•summary method of com mitting a body to the earth. Was there, he asked "no bell rung, no religious service—nothing more, in fact, in the burying of this old man that there would have been had you been burying a log of wood. Was be, in fact, buried, as we say, like E dog ? " To which latter question the porter wat obliged to return the answer "yes." And what more could a pauper Jew, " whom nobody owns,' expect ? THE DANGER OP THE LONDON STREETS. London streets seem to be becoming more dan gerous than ever. A man who falls down ill immediately thought to be drunk by the policeman a stretcher is provided, and he is lodged in the police c3urt till the doctor can do nothing for him ; and . from a recent inquest, it seems that a man may even go before a doctor at the hospital, be markecloff there as drunk without examination, and die before further aid can be obtained. At least this was so in a . very recent case. A cabman who, falling off his ribs, was taken to the hos cab, broke several pital. The doctor saw him, and would have that he was drunk. This was, he said, the cause of his incapability. A walk would do him good. The man was m ade to walk from the hospital to the police station: The fractured ribs pierced his lungs. The next clay he was insensible in the cell in which he had been placed, and before he got to the hospital again he was dead. Nobody was to blame—at least so the coroner's jury said. But though one may escape such a fate as this, there is the ruffian on the one hand and the fastly-driven vehicle on the other, placing one's property, limb, and life in danger. What can be .done when a thief can snatch a watch from the pocket of a hirer of a hansom cab as it is bowling full speed along the street. It is satis factory to know that the police have Caught the man who tried and succeeded in accomplishing this clever trick ; and it is equally interesting to note the many suggestions and inven tions by which crossings may be rendered safe. The engineers are just now discussing the advisability of bridges. The late Sir Richard Mayne thought a semaphore solved it ; refuges in the -middle of the street - are suggested by others. • , MORE OF SENATOR SPRAGUE'S SAYINGS AND DOINGS. The rumour gained ground that Senator Abbott's colleague, Pool, was to convey a message from that gentleman demanding an explicit reply from Senator Sprague whether he was the puppy ; and if so, an apology. In the meantime the latter kept two loaded pistols handy, declaring that he would neither give nor accept a challenge, .and the only notice he would take of Mr. Abbott would be an effective defence in case of attack, while Abbott, still boiling over with wrath, refused to be com forted or to drop the affair, although Senator An thony begged he would do no personal violence to Sprague. The next day Senators, Sunaner and Sherman called upon Senator Sprague, and while discussing a basis of settlement Senator Pool ap peared, bearing this letter from his colleague : " WASHINGTON, D.C., April 26. "TO THE HON. WILLIAM SPRAGVE. "Dear Sir,—On the 22d inst., in the Uhited States Se nate, you uttered the following language : " 'Mr. President,—ln answer to the tirade of the Sena tor from Nevada and the Senator from North Carolina, lam reminded of a little illustration. In my travels from the cen•re here into the rural districts, through the woods and farms of the surrounding neighbourhood, chance at °to time brought me to a farm-house. I found, on look ing up, a larse mastiff and a mongrel - puppy ; dog. The little dog moved on me with rapidity from ; behind, bit at nay heels, and, frightened at his temerity, ran howling away, followed by his larger companion. The Senate will observe that the mongrel, whining puppy, encouraged by the mastiff, and emboldened to attackfram the shadow of his backer, ran rapidly away, alarmed at his temerity, while the overgrown cur followed, with both,ears lopped and his tail botween his legs, to a place of Way beside • his menaced companion. " This language has been understood as meant, in part, to be applied to me. lam not aware that I giwe any oc casion in my remarks for you to wish to be offensive or insulting in reply. I therefore deem it properto ask that you state distinctly whether you intended to apply any of the,ahove offensive language to myself.—l am, Sir, very respectfully, "JOSEPH C. ABBOTT." Qn this the mediators held a consultation, and the following reply was to be placed in Mr. Abbott's hand, on the understanding that the language used by him in the Senate should be withdrawn:— * “io Ti 4 HON. -JOS. C. ABBOTT. - - . 4 ‘ Sir, —I have no hesitation in' at oueo replying to your note of this9uoriiing jest received,. that the paragraph of .my speech referred to was written and in manuscript some tinisa borore,itiva§ delivered in.the.,Senate, -and ; before you participated in the debate, and therefore was not ,intonded_ to apply to y6u.---Ypny ol.)OdiCut servant, - W. SPRAGUE." i .Ttiis letter was delivereCi Abbott writing the folloWing \ f " To. JION. WM. SPRAGUE. have. pleasure , acknOwlediug. yOur ictfer, of tliill dare, wiiCh shows thatl had misconceived your lan qage•T 11Iy ow ti allusion to you afterward ix:Ole-Brunt° was founded on . fhis misconception, and I-ask you to con sider , it as unsaid.- - I am, sir, very respectfully, Jos: AI3BOTT.r. But as the turmoil subsided in Washington it burs TilE PAQII7C RAILWAY (From the Anglo-American Timis.) Simultaneously with the annountement that the fast rail had been laid on the line connecting New York and Sacramento, the Peninsular and Oriental Company advertise an acceleration in their coin muncation with Japan. Notwithstanding the pains taken by the Economist, followed by the Fortnightly Review, to re-assure the proprietors of that great Company's Stock, it is evident that the Directors feel the quickening spur to save their China trade. Their steamers now run direct between Hong Kong and YOkohama, thus dropping Shanghae, by which five days will be saved homeward and two out- ward. Unfortunately for the European traffic over the Union Pacific Line the directors of that Cor- potation, having become involved in the endless litigation, recrimination, bickering, and squabbling, the fate of everything with which the Erie comes in contact, have not been able to forward its interests in Europe, and were it nq„t for the Anglo-American nines Europeans might be left to guess that there was a shorter, healthier, and more agreeable Western route than the Eastern, now so long in operation to China.' The great railway, however, being fir fished, through tickets must be arranged to Japan and China, and we may expect that in conjunction with the Pacific Steamship Company measures will be taken to let.the public on this side know the advan tages the route offers, and the cost at which the traveller will be carried. We have alluded to an article in the Fortnightly Review, which is of much interest, writtQn by Dr. WILLIAM A. BELL, who was one of a party employed on the survey of the Kansas Pacific Line through Arizona, New Mexico, and California, of which the particulars are already in the Press, and, judging from this extract the nar rative cannot fail to be of interest. "So extensive a surveying expedition was probably never before organised. The total length of the routes, accu rately chained, levelled, and surveyed by instruments, was no less than 4,464 miles, and a considerable distance more was examined, and the various elevations barometrically obtained. And these explanations were conducted mostly through a country inhabited by hostile Indians. Every party had to be guarded whilst at work by a body of cavalry, and every surveyor carried his fire-arms by his ide, and his surveying instruments in his hands. Nor were these precautions unnecessary, for although th e sur . _ _ veyors escaped to a man, they had to fight more than once for their lives, and many of the escort were killed on the way." The first scheme to lay a railway across the conti nent followed the gold discoveries in California, which itself followed the cession of the territory by Mexica after the war. In 1850 surveys were com menced, but it was not till March-, 1853, that the War Department was directed byAct of Congress to cause surveys to be made from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, to report on, and recommend to the Legislature, the best route. Under the authority of Mr. JEFFEP.SON DAVIS, then Secret'try of War, eleven bulky volumes were published with the re sults, tracing five paths, of which that gentleman favoured the last, the most Southern, as might have been expected. Dr. BELL thinks Mr. DAVIS had, however, many excellent grounds for preferring the road from Preston on the Red River, in Eastern Kansas, to San Francisco, which would ernphat tally have made the Pacific Railway a Southern the line. The political troubles which culminated in rebellion radically changed this with many oth3rques tions, for the idea got into the Northern mind that it was necessary to bind California to the Eastern States by iron ways if the Pacific slope was to be preserved to the Union. Had the line Mr. JEFFER SON DAVIS favoured been constructed before the war, California in all probability would have been added to the seceded States ; and the North not only saw the necessity for a railway, but that it should pass through the heart of the loyal States. While the war was at its height, and the Union armies in a train of disaster, a bill was introduced which char tered three companies, after a fierce contention be tween striving interests whereon money was lavishly expended ; the Union Pacific working west from Omaha, the Central Pacific east from Sacramento to meet it, and the Union Pacific (Eastern Division), now called the Kansas Pacific, to connect with the first before entering the Rocky Mountains. The last road was commenced in 1863 ; the Union Pacific broke ' ground in July, 1865, but at first got on so slowly that only 40 miles were constructed up to February, 1866; while the Central Pacific began work in June, 186 i, their operations being characterised by extraordi nary vigour, stimulated by a. lavish a hg n e d n o e f ro t s h it e y, s b ta o t t e. h on the part of private individuals The litre now opened is the junction of the Union Pacific and the Central; an d it illustrates the The stru Newateggl s, y St superior energy of the Nort herner. was Chicago and the north-west, m ck i e d l e b York, against St. Louis and backed by Philadelphia; and it is the former com bination that has achieved a rapid success, while the Kansas Pacific, though first commernaclead,ll:aansthaugnegfiwraes. This instead of resulting fromnatud a, of f of th i e r m re , cl f a o i r m t a h b e le O d m es a e h r a ta ß o o r a e d r accomplished inh a sp se it r e ie passed throng an eleiation more than 7,000 feet above the sea, blocked, as is now certain, for winter weeks together by snow drifts. Nor that only. So rapidly did the Central Pacific push its work, that it dashed over the Sierra Nevada regardless of grades, protecting the line from snow by sheds extending twenty miles, leaving the surveyors to discover a pass, showing this labour to have been worse than ill directed. It is asserted that so expensive is the task of convey ing goods lip steep inclines that it will eventually be necessary for the company.to carry their line through this pass, abandoning the . expensive work already completed. Dr. BELL considers the road the sur veyors have.traced for the Kansas Pacific by way of New Mexico and Ariidna to be in every respect supe, rior. lie says it will be shorter than that Salt Lake, without a tunnel, or obstructions, from snow in the winter ; the highest range can be crossed 'at an elevation of 4,008 feet above the sea, and the steepest grades are but half those ,of the Central Pacific; the country instead of desert, being fertile and rich in all that gives wealth to settlers. But it is the Northeria * Pacific that offers the gre.ltest alvantage.:=. The report to Con.zress describes the . territory west of Minnesota as the finest,land on the Ainerican continent, alike superior in climate and soil, and 'possessing advantages over even s u c h r north rich States as Illinois. That a line so fa should passthrough 'so genial a climate may surprise, 4 b 8 u t t h f o p r a s r o a r l e e l u h n a s e x n p o l t a t i h n e e w d i r n e t a e s r o s n e v i t e s r t l y i m o a f t t e he along s the. t e rn States much further south. It' would be possible to proceed from New York 2,480 miles by steamboat towards Portland on the Pacific, leaving but 82a — miles to go by rail. Near the border of the British pos sessions the line' will run for 1,500 miles to Puget's Sound, opening Territories surpassing iu natural ad vantages the rich Prairie lauds. Dr. BELL accepts the statement made by the Economist of the time to Hongkong by the Eastern route via Bombay when the railway system of India is completed; and he believes that though some passengers may prefer to proceed to China via New York and San Francisco, the opening of the Suez Canal would not only pre vent any chance of the transport of goods that way, but were it not for the enormous duties levied in New York would still keep for the Eastern road the carriage to America of silks and teas. What is meant by the completion of the railway system across India we know not, but some confusion appears to exist in the mind of the original writer about a road from Bombay across Hindoostan as a link to China. We cannot see how this would materially economize time, but were a few hours saved, it would be at such a cost of health, com fort, and money, as to make it a dear bargain. Dr. BELL says New Zealand will be brought within 37 days of London ; San Francisco being 700 miles nearer to' Wellington than is Panama. He adds that the line running from New Zealand to Panama has been discontinued, and a new one opened with San Francisco. We were not aware of any such arrangement, for, although the line between Pa nama and Wellington has failed, no new one that we know of between San Francisco and Wellington has as yet been opened, and in this respect Dr. BELL is, we believe, premature in his statement. But our proposition made long ago has been discussed in San Francisco, and will probably be carried out, of connecting both Auckland and Sydney with the Feejee Islands, and the Feejees with the Sandwich Islands, to which a regular line has long been ply ing from San Francisco. This is the true road to the Southern Pacific, and mint quickly be brought into operation. The effect of the opening of the Pacific Railway will soon be shown, and there is little use under the circumstances in speculating thereon, but we believe the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company have good reason for advertising extensively the reduction in time to Japan, and working to make people believe that the Eastern route is still superior to the Western, notwithstand ing the opening of the Pacific Railway. A weekly emigrant train will, in the first instance, be estab lished across the Continent at low rates, to be in creased with the demand. These charges are given— from New York to Chicago, 960 miles, £3 15s. ; Chicago to Omaha, 496 miles, £3 10s. ; Omaha to Salt Lake, 1,070 miles, £8; Salt Lake to San Frm cisco, 775 miles, £l5 10s.; total, 3,299 miles, £3O 15s. ; from Oaklands to San Francisco being 6 miles, the total distance is 3,305. It is, more over, said, that on the Ist July the cost of the through ticket will be reduced to £23. The Panama route from New York to California is cheaper and easier travelling ; but, although the charge must be considerably more, those who can afford the splen did accommodation provided by the cars the rail way company are now procuring, will not find the jourrey so fatiguing as an English journal predicts, and already passengers are announced to have tra velled from Washington to Sacramento in eight and a half days. UiVITED STATES SECURI7IES. " The policy of the London Times, followed by other papers, is to hit the credit of the United States where most vulnerable. All weapons are said to be fair in war, and we do not deny that the Republic does much to provoke the British lion. Yet we hold these to be mean, dastardly attacks, calculated, even when most effective, to foster and perpetuate that very feeling it is the interest of all to eradicate. In some papers this is openly avowed ; as for instance in the Morning Advertiser, where the writer of the City Article, as well. as of a letter, perhaps from the same hand, advocates the inaugu ration of a financial war which will interdict Ame rican Securities of all sorts; bankers and money lenders being advised to make no advances on such property. The writer truly asserts that the first fruit of Mr. SUMNER'S speech was to throw down American Securities five per cent., depreciating their value £30,000,000 sterling. 'I his, however, would not have occurred had the Times not aided the damaging effect by insinuating that the bonds were passed to Europe to be ultimately repudiated ; that having got rid of an amount of more than one hundred and fifty millions sterling, another hundred and fifty millions were ready on the same terms, and that the money so obtained was used in unscru pulous speculation, which would end the moment it ceased to be thus procurable in a national smash. Here was the cue for thd other journals, and - the notes of warning sounded over the land so as to make the hair of the English bondholder rise in terror. We know not how many were frightened out of their property, but no sooner did the "bears" see the drift than they ran to the Stock Exchange to sell, and the drop with which last week closed must have made many English investors, who be lieve in the faith of the United States, spend an unhappy Sunday. On Monday there was a rally, due to the Germans taking advantage of the low rates in London, and to the news that Secretary BOUTWELL had commenced the long-proposed plan of purchasing the bonds as a sinking fund, at the ,rate of $1,000,000 a week. The Times could not allow even this to pass without that subtle manner of insinuation by which it - has done so much to injure American credit, while writing plausible leading articles seemingly in the interests of peace. The WaShington Treasury, it says, is enabled to invest $1,000,000 weekly in bonds at the present moment, owing to the unusual Customs Receipts on the excessive importations of foreign goods. This likens.the Republic to a German town, making the very excess of the importations which must ruin it the means - of a temporary prosperity through the imposts collected at the gates. In the English at tempt to damage American credit may be recognised precisely the-same folly as in the American attempt to damage English commerce through Protection. Suppose the Times, and those journals which aid it, succeeded in creating such a scare as to bring about the commercial crash in New York they predict, who would be the next greatest sufferers to the Americans themselves ?—why, the English. Is that shopkeeper a wise man who, by underhand rumours affecting the stability of his best customer, attempts to drive him into bankruptcy ? The first effect of a panic in America would be to shut up numerous founderies and other manufactories in England, to throw bands by the thousand for support on the ratepayers, -to leave ships to rot in dock, and to tax to the uttermost the homes provided for unemployed sailors. SiippoSe, too, that the desire to lessen the value of American Securities met with the most complete success. According to the calculation of these very people, one-third the loss would fall on Europeans, and half that third perhaps on the Bri tish. The point of our argument is, always has been, and always will be, that no nation can in jure another without the recoil hurting itself'; and where the two nations are so intimately con nected as the United Kingdom and the United States, the loss of the one must be severely felt by the other. Admitting this, and it must be admitted, for it is an undeniable economic fact, what can we say to the wisdom of a race that is always cutting off its nose to spite its face? The effect of Senator SUMNER'S speech will be felt by the United States in a financial way for a long time. It has given a tremendous shock here to the growing confidence of investors. The belief in England is that United States Bonds would not be worth more than French assignats in the event of a war with England, and that that event is in a high degree probable. In Germany the confidence is so great that these Securities are to some extent upheld, otherwise there would have been a still more disastrous fall following the" speech. We regret , this, as there is..nothing- like investment for giving an interest in any country, and 'if these Securities are ever' to rise baoYantly it must be by growing into la - vour on the London 'Stock Exchange. It is easier to break down than to build up, it is easier to weaken than to 'strengthen credit, : and Senator SUMNER in two bolus managed to produce a fall as great as was the rise which followed GRANT'S elec tion. That speech was merely intended to help the desire for a union with Canada, and as such it was wholly unnecessary, being only calculated to defeat the object by the bitterness it creates, and by generating the belief in England that the Republic intends aggression, which England must stand prepared to repel. The train being thus laid, an accident might precipitate the explosion ; or either of the nations, taking a false step, may find itself in a position from which it can )not retreat with honour. Thus though the United . --~...~ s--~ States does not intend war, and will be surprised at the attitude assumed by England, that speech, backed by some unfortunate contretemps, might c-iuse war; and the Times, believing in American hostility, considers it fair to dam ige to the utmost American credit in Europe. One of its cards, by the way, was Mr. GoLDWIN SMITH'S letter to the Beehive, a production written from Senator SUM NER'S town, with earnest voices so.mding in his Eng lish ears-praising that eloquent exposition of Ame rica's wrongs, and denouncing English " cussed ness." • 'The effect is not calculated to make a man write in the coolest temper, and he naturally ex aggerates the importance of what grates so hars!lly on bis tympanum. But this letter aids in preventing English emigration to the States, so hateful to some, and it therefore gets an undue importance and the widest circulation.--A nglo-Anierican Times. The Hon. 0-. B. Washburne, ou the 29th April, two days previous to his departure, was'accorded a grand reception by Mrs. John A. Dix, at her residence, No. 3, West Twenty-first-street, New York, and a very laro number of his friends assembled to bid him " good bye: Mr. Frank Moore had Lot arrived from Washington, but he alone accompanied the Minister, whose family remains at Galena till the autumn, when they will join him in Paris. BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—The President has recognized Charles EL Hagan as Consul of the Turkis h Empire in Philadelphia. It is tho first time the Sublime Porte has been represented there.—Speaker Blaine arrived at Washington, April 26, and left for Boston next day. — Mrs. Senator Sprague and Miss Chase are in Augusta, Georgia.--Capt. Warren Gardner and Henry Brown, both of Gloucester, Massachusetts, were committed to gaol in Boston, April 26, by U. S. Commissioner Hallett, charged with purposely casting away on the high seas the schooner Fairlight, an offence punishable with death. — Colonel John W. Forney and party arrived in at Wilming ton, North Carolina, April 27, and left next day fur Charleston.—The captain and mate of the ship Richard Robinson, on board of which it is alleged most brutal atro cities were committed on a late voyage, have not yet been arrested. The ship has been libelled for wages due the sailors, and a criminal action will b 3 entered in the United States Court.—The Hon. Henry Dalton, formerly Go vernor of the State of Connecticut, died at New Haven, April 26, aged seventy-three years. Mr. Dalton was the defeated Whig candidate for - Governor in 1865, but was elected in the following year.—Ex-Senator Doo little has opened a law office in Chicago. This gentle man is misnamed, for it is his nature to "Do - much." — John C. Breckinridge is to be chosen member of the len tucky Liegislature.—Mr. Clay, coloured, of New Orleans , declined to be Minister to Liberia, for he has an incotn o of $30,000 year.—The body of Miss Sophia A. Howe, who disappeared from Springfield, Massachusetts, last Janu ary, has been found in a pond near that city, but bora no signs of violence.—The Alta Californian has "positive and authentic" information that President Grant wil l " certainly" visit California during the coming summer.- - ' Ex-Governor Henry Dalton, of Connecticut, died at Nevi Haven, April 26, aged 73.—Adelaide Greenman, a doctres:; , has been appointed examining physician at St. Louis for 5 New York insurance company. It is believed to bo fh° first appointment of a woman to such a position.—Edwin M, Stanton returns $10,664 income. —. Amongst the disc tinguished foreigners in New York is Major Hunsen, of Norway, eight feet high.— Horatio Seymour, according to a western paper, has boen buying extensive tracts of land in lowa.—The Pope was 77 years old last Thursday' —The Cornell University, at Ithaca, N.Y., is said to he negotiating with John Stuart Mill to get him to accept a professorship.— F. G. Jewett, the long-missing banker of Skaneatles, N.Y., has returned home.—Mr, Hotley ha s been elected a member of St. Petersburg . Academy 0l Sciecces.—The late Major Charles 0. RogerS, of Boston , left an estate valued at $BOO,OOO, independent of The Jour' nal establishment, which is said to be worth $500,000.-- Mrs. Tom Hood, the younger, has written a cook-book, t' ) which her husband has furnished a preface., It is called " Tib's Tit-bits," and has over two hundred recipes.-' General Sherman has advertised for sale his residelac° at St. Louis, Mobile, which was presented to him by leading citizens.—Senator Fessenden, of Maine, was present in the Canadian House of Commons dur ing a debate on Reciprocity, on Thursday night" Mr. Dana, who was recently arrested by Mr. Young, give s the Deputy- Sheriff who did the business a first-rate notice, as he is described as a "perfect gentleman," and the notica. concludes, " e cordially recommend Mr. l3ancker to al l persons who wish to bo arrested."—The New Herald thinks the recent extensive publications is the Congressional Globe show Sprague to be a "man `letters.'"—Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, retarn' $11,618 income.—A clergyman has just been turned out of the Boston custom-house to make room for a one-legg ed negro soldier.—George W. Paschall has issued a pamphlet in Washington, announcing himself as a candidate t° ' United States Senator from Texas, and favouring A. ; Hamilton for Governor.—Jay Gould r e t urne d an incona° ° ` $150,000 for 1868.—Victor Hugo will come to Amair during the present year.—G eorge L un t i s l ec t ur ing' Boston on "New England, past and present.":—Attor ne; General Hoar has appointed as his first assistant in the Government law office at Washington, Walbridge A. of Boston. Mr. Field was formerly a member of the 1 5 firm of Jewell, Gaston, and Field.—Walbridge B. ° Boston, had succeeded J. Hubley Ashton as Assistant- Attorney General, the latter having returned to priv ° practice. Mr. Field will act as Attorney-General during Mr. Ho ir's visit to Massachusetts. -Messrs. Henry Cle° o and Co., the New York bankers, were the chief purchaseici on the first Thursday's sale of the million dollars in g o y offered by the United States Treasury.—Mr. H. St, r leaves Liverpool in the City of Paris next Thursday l ° 4 New York, but he will only be absent from his busic °- in Moorgate-street for a few weeks. Ex-Governor Henry Dutton, who died at Nevi Haven, Connecticut, on Monday, April 26; was born 5 t Plymouth, Litchfield county, in 1793. He was a lavd, 6 by profession, and was formerly an anti-slavery W ij o iv 4 In 1853 he was nominated by the Whigs for Gover ll re and was elected to that office by the Legislature, tb e to being no choice by the people. Governor Dutton bed.,l an ardent Republican, when that party was formed, !0, remained so thereafter, although never an active polit i01 :0 He was Associate Judge of the State Court of Errors . fr o 1861 to 1866, and for a long series of years has been at head of the law department of Yale College. Joseph Howe, of Nova Scotia, has been re-electerli, to the Parliament of the Dominion, and his return is o° 9/ 1 sidered as a triumph by the consolidation party. S°e A n d to resign Isis seat on accepting a place in the Cabinet, r 13 . was therefore necessary for him-to appeal again to hi s u° stituents. Major 7 Gen. Woodward, commanding the Sec°illoci; -AA . ) • Division NG S. N. Y has announced the folloivi`;, appointments upon his staff :—Col. George C. Hall, E col. neer ; Col. Henry J. Cullen, jun., Judge Advocate; tiop Joseph M. Homiston, surgeon ; Lieut.-Col. John B• Ati ar' Ordnance Officer; Lieut.-Col. Charles P. Gulick, '„dal termaster ; Lieut.-Col. Robert B. Woodward, Conlittai? of Subsistence • Major Henry L. Cranford, Aide-de-u. r i e til The Philadelphia Public Ledger says ":—Pres- 11 ! s t e l Grant appointed General Quimby to an office 10,.; j e, York; the Senate, owing to a clerical mistake, coau'J!' Quinby ; Quimby can't qualify on Quinby's papers, 7 10 in solicitude, as Quinby's pr os p ec ti ve sa l ar y will r-° undrawn by Q yuimb. • 0 1/ ' The Governor of Ceylon, Sir Hercules Rob'° Of the Hon. Lady Robinson and family, leave to-dsi o ie Paris.en route for Ceylon after a few months soi°9.;iae; England. The heavy bereavement They have in the death of their eldest daughter has called fort Sil 'deepest sympathy in their large circle of friends. ofili Hercules was Governor of Hongkong during the l a e: in China, when he and Lady Robinson, by their utta courtesy and kindness and unbounded hospitalitl, cols' golden opinions from all with whom they came r Lii o g tact, and he is at present , considered to be the most to governor in the service of her Majesty. PP I , The body of Mr. Peter B. Van Houton was o ot a on the 28th April in the North River, off the foot Of t. street, with some money and his watch in his poclVdoll,t' left his home on the sth March with eight hundred K ir in Treasury notes and seven hundred in certified cb e d 4 4 since which time the efforts of his family have prod availing to find him. Ofe° V 171 r LADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. -- bo te h e Existence.— This medicine el-braces every attri ,04 quired in.o. general and domestic romedy,.it overtworo foundation of disease laid by defective food and pa t , air. In obstructions or congestions of the livefl ii .sel bowels, or any other organ, these pills are espe c 4o /Of ) , viceable and eminently successful. They should o wit o , in readiness in•every family, as they are a medici ii „oti t s i , out fault for young persons and those of feeble C' t s eP to tions._ They never cause pain, or irritate the mo o 010 l' f , o: live nerves or most tender bowels. HollowaY'sP„ s t 11 the best known purifiers of the blood, and the ' - '„, - o vefld motors of absorption and secretion, which l ' e- ;wit; poisonous and obnoxious particles from both S 0 fluids.. CARMARTHEN' -Ou the 17 B t r i f i T n / s / t AY ;at 58, , • . at,' Lovnc leS4 . , tLe Marchioness of Carmarthen, of a daughter. sok DUNMORE- On the 18th inst at 40, Great Con'l?el. place, the Countess of .Dunmore, of a daughter. " - • .21IARRIAGES. •, 4 f' tj' CHAN , TE . L - °turns -On the 13th inst., at St. Mali •-,,,,, jil ilington, Frederick William, youngest sou of t' t i i ir Pike Channel!, Esq., of 2ocklim, to Mary Avri; • 1001 daughter of the late William N. Curtis,E - °` - (1 14, ,Essex. i , il : \\Toon-Mx-On the 15th inst., at llornsey C.-;7ll,rectiolgo gustus Alfred, sou of E. G. Wood, Esq • of Cu a, of side, E.C., to Annie Isabella, youngest daughter late John Rix, Esq., of Watling-street, E.G. DEATH S. ust., at the II - rtird 'lt ALBEMARLE -Oa the 16th i tel do r— o , j' Lyons, Frances, Countess of Albentarle. Vi lla ° GROVE -On the 14th iust at Upper Norw o od, V' .7 of Grove, aged B, the TommssoN-On the 16th inst., Col onel Tom Llwyudu House, Monmouthshire, aged 6 5 • A DSV s'I S: London : Printed and Published by WILLIA -„ f .- --, i 2. stra°, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tail SUN Office, No u • 7 in he Precinct of the Savoy, in the CountY °dalook Tuesday, May 18, 1869 T 'G THE ftbov Lnneheor frr deviling Les ORIGINAL AI A SIILE Very Fine Pale Old Crumbed Pc Shipping), Vi Sparkling Char lairs, Qualite E Sample cases bottles Sherry, GAR B. ID 1 P• next t Consignee for celebrated PAL Bordeaux Wine Whiskies, fron also he seen at number of Hots of others mate' SOIENTIF ORNA.Mi and Dii sprtm ent of lisks, Inkstan &c., in Italian shin:. Spar, Sr( TENNANT, W. 0., Lender Mr. Tennat MINERALS of Lyell' s Elei tate the into GEOLOGY, guineas each. PRAOTIO, MINERALO' 149, Strand. THE IA ( Offices -1, The Invest Piro Revenue The moderate Bemis for th value as SP render them leave is grant thirty days at NATIO Itichmc Under the catr Whereby a ho Girls of all a, thekingdom- The oblelto: hall education, and laundry, t wise 'Provided suitable eituat The Commit entirely Bustai Office, 121, I ORIT P . -RAP acket Patron— For tbe destituto or F p and of all Prosperous c 000 bund] shtution ; a n Increased endendowed, an ass istance, Subscribe ] Institution,its peculiar c The las . t I Secretary Offices, 73 Bankers— lane; and Ai ZEALTIT RE BAI -a— , and I . . 1.1!A HAN - This celebrated prize M Pure. Mild. P,01.1 in ot,: - .les, he Agents in the 8, GREAT Observe the Red LL Whisky. EATLI •• relieves tl • = -It , E A TIT Important ' llO N —sou in I 11s each.. EATING Loti dou UTU A L ancor 14, RUSSELL ADVANCES A • O: he'd or L M easeliol Able weekly, root . • mania freo on rei YAL AN ENT I Mr BARRY RIC , • .Mr FRED. COY: Mr LTSIC & RD, tl The M Ala ENS' Miss A NM AD Miss RAT VI RE I 'Miss JEANIE Fl MACLAGAN, T Notice—: NI A D AiNIE --/- Bake - -strc (of Norwich) ha mission, is. ; eh the morning unt ARGYLL The ex traordi of the Shadow 1 the electric lii h ppate u nsie Se it e , eon have had „the most extensiveb celebrated Oreli, chef, Signor Lu positions of all 8 Reigned to the W. Graves, L. S Thomas Pitts. sltrc