The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-19 00:00:00

RITUALISM IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The Sovth Australian Register of March 30 says that a memorial to the Lord Bishop of Adelaide, praying him to adopt stringent measures for the suppression of ritualistic prac tices in the English Church in the colony, is being eaten- lively signed. NEW BRONZE FIELD GUN FOR INDlA.—Further trials of the new bronze field gun for India were made on Monday and on Tuesday at Shoeburyness, with a continua tion of very satisfactory results. The light iron carriages are perfect in their endurance. Case shot was also fired from the light Abyssinian steel gun at 200 yards, the effects of the bullets being severe upon the wood targets. The report is confirmed that the accident to the mail train from Belfast to Dublin was caused by a stone placed across the track, which weighed 3 cwt., and had been so laid with the intention of making sure that the train would leave the rails. The engine and two waggons remained on the line, however, and only the end of the train Suffered. There were eight passengers, nono of whom v ere seriously in :tired. THE DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. —The Melbourne Argus says that reports of the desolation occasioned in the interior of the colony by the severity of the drought are continually appearing. The line of road from Wagga Wagga to Hay is said by a late traveller to be comparable to nothing but the Valley of the Shadow of Death. It is literally strewed with the skeletons or the decaying carcases of wretched animals that have perished from starvation or thirst. Horses, cattle, and sheep, and even the wild denizens of the plains—kangaroos, emus, and turkeys— are lying dead in all directions. VELOCIPEDES FOR RURAL POSTS.—Huntly, as the centre of a wide district, has a considerable number of country post messengers in connection with its office. Some of them have very long journeys to take ; and the Forgue runner has taken the initiative in doing the journey with a velocipede. Last Saturday he began his journey in the new fashion, and did the distance (nine miles) in about an hour. It is a double-seated conveyance, very light, seems easily propelled by two persons (who sit facing one another), and goes at a rapid rate. — Scotsman. HONOUR TO OLD AGE.—The Nord relates that a fete took place a few days back at Charleroi in honour of one Catherine Yernaux, who had reached her 100th year, end had been long known as a schoolmistress. The street was decked out with flags, and over the door of her resi. dence was fixed a large placard with the inscription— " Madame C. Yernaux, 100 years, May 13, 1869. Honour to old age !" In the course of the day the venerable lady was taken in an open carriage from her own house to the parish church, where she was embraced by her relatives amidst the acclamations of a considerable crowd, and a service of thanksgiving celebrated. In the evening the whole quarter was illuminated, and the fete terminated by a public ball. "PLAYING MITI! POWDER.--A most remarkable occurrence has taken place on the premises of Penlyan Hall, Ruahon. A young man.named Freer, who assisted Cu.! groom, had occasion to go up into the granary, which is over the coach-house, to fetch some beans. Whilst there he foolishly began to nioioe hinisf.ll with a barrel of basting powder that bad been placed in a wooden box. and actually threw a lighted match on the top of the barrel, thinking only to set fire to a small quantity of powler which lay outside. All the barrel, however, exp'oded, blowing away the roof and the s7eks of the room. The groom was cliff p'ng a horse close to the stable door ; one of the beams of the roof came through the window, but Wilcox happily escaped unhurt, and, accom rallied by Mr. Scott, the bailiff, went up into the granary, where theybound Freer lying on the floor. As soon as he heard them talking he rose, only having been frightened, and not in the least hurt. Several pieces of the roof lay near his head, but _Omae;stry Adveragr,: l_ i __lL - LAW IA. PD POLICE. RAID UPON BETTING* HOUSES IN MANCHESTER.--On Monday night the Mandhester police made a descent upon a low quarter of the citg, and Epprehended fifteen men, several of whom were beerhouse-keepers, on a charge of keeping betting-houses, or permitting their houses to be used for that purpose. Two men, who had been convicted before, named Holt anotWorsley, were fined £lOO each ; ten of the defendants were severally fined 275—three months' imprisonment to follow in each case if the fine was not paid ; and three were discharged. THE MURDER. NEAR GRIMSBY.—Two brothers, named Traves, have been charged at Grimsby with the wilful murder of Enoch Goldy, gardener to Mr. Thorold, of Cuxwolcl Hall, on Sunday. They both declared they had not committed the murder, and were remanded for a week. ATTEMPT TO MUEDEP.-At Birmingham, George Page has been charged with threatening to kill his father, the landlord of the Soho Tavern, llandsw•orth. On Saturday last he came home the worse for drink and quarrelled with his father. Ile then Ecized a large carving-knife, and rushed at his father, who had just time to run into a room and lock himself in. The prisoner burst open the door as his father made his escape by the window. He was ordered to find sureties for six months. THE NORTE . NORFOLK ELECTION PETITION. Mr. Justice Blackburn opened the inquiry into this petition on Monday afternoon. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Littler appeared for the petitioner, Mr. Colman ; Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Blofeld for Sir E. Lacon, one of the sitting members ; and Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., for the Hon. F. Walpole, the second sitting member. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, in opening the case for the petitioners, said there were charges of intimidation, of bribery, and of treating. There was also a question as to the employment by the sitting members of certain persons (twenty-four in number) who had been scheduled by the Great Yarmouth Election Commission as having been guilty of corrupt practices. The result of the contest which took place for the division at the last general election was that the Hon. F. Walpole obtained 2,627 votes ; Sir E. Lacon, 2,567 votes ; Mr. C. Wodehouse, 2,232 votes ; and Mr. R. T. Gurdon, 2,075 votes. Mr. Walpole and Sir E. Lacon were the Conservative candidates, and Mr. Wode house and Mr. Gordon offered themselves in the Liberal interest. The division comprised nine polling districts, and the majority was in favour of the Liberals in seven of the districts, the exceptions being Ormesby and Great Yarmouth. The election was entirely decided by the Yarmouth divisions, which comprised between 1,400 and 1,500 of the electors. As regards the sitting members, Mr. Walpole was the brother of the Earl of Orford, and against him personally there was no sort of imputation. Sir E. Lacon stood in a very diffe rent position, and the whole burthen of the case would fall upon him. Sir E. Lacon was a brewer and banker in Norfolk, and a man of great wealth. He had been con nected for a great number of years with elections ; he had been associated with the borough of Great Yarmouth, and he bad undergone the ordeal of four petitions, in two of which he had been petitioner, while in the other two he had been respondent, so that he must have become per fectly acquainted with election matters. Sir E. Lacon was returned for Yarmouth in 1865 with Mr. Goodson. There was, as usual, a petition, and although the members retained their seats, a royal commission was appointed, the result being that the commissioners found that very extensive corruptionhad existed. Mr. John Cooper, one of the persons scheduled as a briber by the Yarmouth Election Commissioners in 1867, was actively engaged on behalf of Sir E. Lacon in the North Norfolk election of November 1868, and he was implicated in some matters of treating. Another of the persons scheduled by the Election Com missioners in 1867 was Mr. Preston. This gentleman seemed to have been born in the midst of corruption, and, from the time he was first able to move about, to have been mixed up in corruption, in probably the most corrupt borough in England. Yet Mr. Preston was the gentleman selected by Sir E. Lacon to second him at the North Norfolk nomina tion. He was also chairman of Sir E. Lacon's committee, and took the chair at many of the Conservative meetings. A gentleman of the name of Nightingale, an intimate personal friend and partner of Sir E. Lacon, had been involved up to the hilt in the most scandalous bribery at Yarmouth, and at the North Norfolk election he canvassed to a considerable extent for air E. Lacon, and was engaged in a system of intimida tion from one end of the county to the other. The ex penses of Sir E. Lacon and Mr. Walpole were returned at £2,095. This was not an exorbitant amount if the state went were true, but advertisements were charged fur which never found their way into the newspapers, while there were two items of £2O and £3O, alleged to have been paid to one "J. Kelf," for bill posting, although no such person could be found to exist. Sir E. Lacon was charged also with various acts of bribery and treating. Evidence was given yesterday of the intimidation of a voter named Isaac Edmunds, of Caistor, who had for many years been employed to cart malt and barley for Lacon and Co. Mr. Nightingale asked him to vote for Walpole and Lacon ; he did not do so, but voted for the Liberals, and 'le was afterwards dismissed from his employment. On Mr. Nightingale being remonstrated with, he said the firm only employed their friends. Evidence was also given as to the intimidation of a farmer and shopkeeper named Grimes, living at Tuttington, who was threatened by Mr. Pestle, his landlord, that he would be turned out of one small farm, and bought out of another, if he did not vote for the Conservatives. The witness did not vote, hut he had not yet been either turned out or bought out. Grimes also stated in his evidence that several persons were treated to break fast in his neighbourhood on the polling day, on the understanding that they should vote for the Conserva- MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. REVERDY JOIINsoN s FAREWELL. Mr. Reverdy Johnson will prob a bly b e known as the " dinner-eating ambassador." His sojourn in this country has been one series of banquets. He has been made the mea ns o f d raw i n g to n o end of charitable feasts ; hardly a public meeting of impor tance, but his Excell enc y th e A mer i can Minister has replied . to toasts. H e h as , ho w e ve r, eaten his last public meal with us. The people of Southampton wanted to drink the farewell toast with him. He declines the honour in almost precisely the same terms as his first speech. There is just one differ ence. He no longer tells us that his countrymen have that fervent love for Old England which he made so much of in the early days of his mission. But else his farewell epistle is after the same fashion as his maiden speethes. He takes credit to himself—and he is certainly entitled to do so—for having from the first done his best to promote friendly feeling between the two countries. He says ho has reason to believe he has not failed. Perhaps he will come to a different con clusion when he meets with the feeling against Eng land which prevails in the United States. But he is determined to go home with a different idea. "I shall leave England (he says) with the conviction that the people and her Government consider that a war between the two countries would be as dire a calamity as could befall them ; and this, I have no doubt, is also the conviction of my Government and the people of the United States. For a few days, owing to recentocprrences to which it is only necessary to allude, apprehensions were entertained that such a misfortune might occur. 'These I am gratified to find have already ceased to exist. I shall return, therefore, to my home with the assurance that the amicable relations between the two nations are not to be seriously disturbed. This not happening. the career of both will necessarily be even more prosperous in the future than it has been in the past, and the cause of free govern. ment be placed on a firmer foundation that ever." It is noteworthy that Mr. Johnson even admits that apprehensions were entertained that war might occur. gives. THE BILL. The Conservative daily papers are still silent as to the report that Lord Derby will move the rejection of the Irish Church Bill. The Rock, however, assumes that the measure will be rejected, and rejoices with exceeding joy, heedless of the serious conse quences that would result to both the Church and the Ilouse of Lords if such a step were taken. THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. The Government Bankruptcy Bill is another mea sure of centralisation. As amended, it abolishes the country district courts of bankruptcy, and makes certain alterations in the law by which business may be conducted in the metropolis. The paid trustee ap pointed by the creditors need not himself be a cre ditor. The power of the trustee to disclaim onerous property, unprofitable contracts, unmarketable shares, is not to be lost by the trustee's taking pos session of the property, exercising any act of owner ship, or endeavouring to sell it. In regard to the status of the undischarged bankrupt, whom the original bill left liable to have his old debts enforced against him after five years from the close of the bankruptcy unless he had paid a 108. dividend, the bill, as now amended, proposes that any debt proved in the bankruptcy shall be deemed to be a subsisting judgment debt, and, subject to the rights of new creditors, may be enforced against the property of the debtor, but only with the sanction of the court, and to the extent and in the manner directed by the court. No judge, registrar, &c., is to sit in the House of Commons. The clause protecting bond fide dealings with a bankrupt before notice of an act of bankruptcy is remodelled. The clauses authorising liquidation by arrangement are now to apply where liquidation is consented to by a majority of the creditors in num ber, and three-fourths (not five-sixths) in value. THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. On the ,?)rd of June Mr. Gilpin will move in the House of Commons a resolution declaring that capital punishment oight at once to be abolished. The society of which Mr. Gilpin is a member in the meantime solicit as many petitions as the friends of the movement can supply. In 'doing so they point out many " hopeful signs." The secretary expresses his belief that the opinion of the sanctity of human life is gaining ground. The unsatisfactory character of the administration of justice by the Home Office, the recent convictions and reprieves, the state of the law as regards insanity, are all in favour of the society. THE NEW LAW COURTS. Sir Charles Trevelyan has abandoned his " splendid dream." Writing to the Times, he entirely acquiesces in Mr. Lowe's scheme. Its merit is its moderation. Sir Charles confesses that his had no such merit. EMIGRATION. Emigration has now been taken up by the Colonial Society, and a sharp discussion upon the subject took place at its last meeting. A Mr. John Robinson read a paper, in - which he said that in emigra tion was to be found the solution of the great question of pauperism. He contended that a well devised scheme of emigration should be engrafted upon the scheme of the Imperial Government, and advocated the est.iblishment of a colonial body in England which should watch over the interests of the colonies. CONSUL CAMERON. .In the Times of yesterday the Abyssinian War and its cause is discussed again at great length. Mx. Cameron writes a letter, nearly two columns, de fending himself against the charges which have' been brought so freely against him. These charges, broadly stated, are that he was officious in his dealings with Theodore; that he broke express orders in going again to open negotiations with hi m b e f ore a rep l y had been received to his Majesty's letter; and that he was guilty of various other acts, trifling in them selves, but still unwise, and calculated to foment any anger which Theodore may have felt towards England. Indeed, poor Mr. Cameron has been made the scapegoat on whom has been poured all the obloquy of causing that most unfortunate expedi tion with its nine millions of expenditure. The reply which Mr. Cameron gives entirely exonerates him from any disobedience of express orders. Earl Russell and the Earl of Clarendon evidently thought, that Abyssinia would be a good country to open up, and Mr. Cameron was given full power to carry on negotiations. Russell wanted an embassy to go to the King ; Clarendon asked for a report of the commerce of the country. To give an answer to Lord Clarendon's demands, Mr. Cameron, leaving Massowa, went into Abyssinia to get the opinion of Messrs. Stern and Had, who objected to making their reports in writing.. As Mr. Cameron had no answer yet to the letter which Theodore had addressed to the Queen, it would, perhaps, have been better to have delayed his expedition of inquiry. But Theo dore was not known then as a capricious, half-mad, and cruel siirage. And though Mr. Cameron com mitted an undoubted mistake, as after events shew, the blunder was not a very great one, except in its effect. THE CONSERVATIVES AT DERLY. On Friday Mr. Cox, of Spondon llail, near Derby,. was entertained at a grand banquet in that town. The Conservative electors of Derby presented him with a testimonial forhis services as their member for three years. Mr. Cox made an appropriat e sp eec h, i n which he said that he had committed political suicide in assisting to pass the Reform Bill, but he did not repent the course he had taken, as he believed it to be a wise and just measure. He trusted that good might come out of evil, but he had his forebodings about the spoliation of the Irish Church. The con dition of Ireland was niost unsatisfactory, and he did not think they would escape a revolution if Mr. Bright's land scheme were carried on as well as the disestablishment of the Irish Church. THE DEANS. The Dean of Carlisle gives his version of the recent meeting of Deans. Dr. Close says that— " So far from any attempt on the part of the Deans to resist the reforms proposedby the two Archbishops, while was passed, if not unanimously, nl m c le er b ta y in sc l i y m i e l — em a . resolution was qualifying observatims were both necessary reformatory measures of s e fin writingite propositions.from allthe After uean further r a B V- n o l u i r e r o t r P ee q r c u e t i and expedient ; and for acme e 3 of making some dln n committee t T e l e re (as sp,; ( s n e l state) was formed, and has actually commenced opera tions with a view to adopt some suitable reformatory measures." Dean Close adds his personal conviction that if the proposition for reducing the ,staff of canons in each cathedral to two, and compelling constant residence. had been put to the meeting, it would have b een ' carried by a large majority. But it vas unanimously agreed that further investigation and consideration were preferable before any definite measure should be adopted. lle trusts that this incident will dis prove the accusation that the bishop will make no sacrifice for the benefit of the Church, for if the above plan were carried out, " half the episcoiral patronage in each cathedral would be lost to them." In other words, the bishops surrender the right to appoint a friend to a canonry, in order that they may retain their own incomes of from £5,000 to £lO,OOO a year with all their diocesan patronage. It is a very small tub to throw out to the whale. A FIRST PREFERMENT, Archbishop Tait has conferred the A HiflPfl.o,lllll7 of Canterbury, vacant by the death of the late Archdeacon Croft, upon the Rev. Edward Parry, rector of Acton, Middlesex. Mr. Parry was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, and obtained a first class in classics in 1852. He was tutor of Durham University from 1853 to 1850. During 1850 Mr. Parry held the curacy of Sonning, perks (under the Rev. Hugh Pearson) and on the elevation of Dr. Tait to the see of London, at the close of that year, became his domestic chaplain, re siding with, and working actively at his lordship's side for three years. For the ten years which fol lowed Mr. Parry has taken an active . part in all Londoa diocesan matters, a nd assisted in the large ordination examinations at Fuluam Palace. Per has hald_thezreJsny of Acton idolsigsu,since THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1869 .1003, where ne nas been instrumental in rebuilding, on a large and handsome scale, the parish church, and in building spacious schools, and also two school churches. He has been for the last five years rural dean of the rural deanery of Ealing (comprising twenty important parishes), and in that capacity has likewise rendered the public much service. Mr Parry is the only surviving son—and the biographer —of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Parry, the well-known Arctic traveller. The archdeaconry, together with the canonry attached to it, is worth £l,OOO a year. Mr. Parry will resign his living, hich is worth £l,OOO a year. The latter prefer ment is in the gift of the Bishop of London ; so that both Bishop Jackson and his predecessor are called upon to select for two important preferments simultaneously. be paid on the moderate and rational Sumnerian Dams. And with this assurance the Herald and the Tribune com fort themselves. GENERAL LEE AND THE SOUTH. May Day in the United States of AmericS was marked by a most auspicious incident. General Lee, after emerging from the retirement of Lexington, and visiting Boston for the purpose of promoting a railway to his native town, travelled onward to Washington. On the Ist of May he visited President Grant at the White House. The interview, which lasted an hour, was cf a " strictly private character," but it is confidently affirmed that the final conciliation of the South was the topic of discussion between the two great antagonists of the civil war. It is noteworthy that the meeting has taken place just at the time when Virginia is again about to resume her constitu tional position amongst the States. It is also noteworthy that a paper, bearing the title of Southern Opinion, and representing the principles which gave rise to the civil war and which prevented reconciliation after the struggle came to an end, has died of inanition. The proprietor explains that there is now no " Southern opinion." The principles which the paper represented are no more, and their organ must vanish with them. is designed to ply between San Francisco and Hong Kong, and she sails for her destination ahont the Ist June. Horace Greeley has been asked to be come Government Commissioner to inspect the Pacific Railroad ; but he has followed Mr. Dana's example,and declined on account of literary engage ments, and General Hiram Walbridge, of this city has been nominated in his stead. Mr. Greeley is one of our new Postmaster's sureties, who is to get bondsmen for the tidy sum of $1,000,000. Horace Greeley of this takes $lOO,OOO for his friend General Jones, who is said to owe the ap pointment to his influence. Samuel Sinclair goes in for another $lOO,OOO, and the third share is taken by James B. Taylor, who shoulders the huge balance of $BOO,OOO. On the subject of Mr. Greeley, although you will doubtless desire fuller reports than the cursory notices of a correspondent of the Young-Dana affair, I may here mention that Mr. Greeley, like a good employer, upholds his man, and against the wish of some of his ass iciates, it is believed, sustains Russell Young in his post until the charges preferred against him can be substantiated. I think in this Mr. Greeley not only shows his kind ness of heart, but sound common sense. The work towards removing the obstruction at Hell Gate entrance to New York harbour has been abandoned for the present. There is some talk of Sheriff O'Brien's fees, as the Sheriff boasts that Governor Hoffman has promised to sign the Bill now before the Albany Legislature to increase the " miserable" stipend of that post, which the New York nines estimates at $300,000 a year. The poor incumbent would, if it passed (I believe its defeat is certain), receive the moderate income of $1,000,000 yearly. O'Brien's Ludlow-street Gaol is let at $15,000, and the prisoners are squeezed to enable the tenant to pay up his rent promptly. WASHINGTON, April 30. Senator Wilson has been the hero of the hour, for his letter on the Eight-Hour Law and his vigorous effort to upset the ruling of Attorney- General Hoar. Telegrams, letters, thanks, arrive from all parts of the country. lle has been sere naded, meetings got up in his honour, grand recep tions tendered as he travelled. The effort now is to get the President to suspend the order until Congress meets in December, but the President declines to interfere. Reports have been busily circulated at the end of last and early this week of Cabinet contentions and changes. It was said that not only Secretary Borie, but Fish and Hoar were about to tender their resignations. There is cer tainly no truth about the two latter, but there may be about the former, who never desired to be trans formed into a Cabinet Minister, and finds himself out of his element. The President will not make further foreign appointments until the Secretary of Foreign Affairs returns, Mr. Kelly's nomination for Post master of New York City was among those left over by the Senate on adjournment. It had been urged against him that he was not a Republican, that he was in sympathy with Andrew Johnson, that he opposed Impeachment, and that the representa tives of his own State did not recommend him ; so General Patrick Henry Jones got the place, sup ported as he was by Mr. Horace Greeley and Senator Fenton. Mr. Wadsworth has left for Kentucky. His commission to adjust the claims with Me'ico . were to meet in July, and then adjourn till the fall. Judge Fisher, Commissioner of Patents, and General Parker, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, have qualified and assumed charge of their re spective Bureaus. Choctaws, Cherokees, Chicka saws, and Creeks in swarms have waited on the new Commissioner, the first of their race. Attorney- Gen. Hoar has just started on a short visit to Mas sachusetts, and Senator Sherman has gone to Ohio. Secretaries,Boutwell and Fish areto be back to-day. Secretary Creswell returns from Baltimore soon. After our exciting Session, commencing with the in auguration of the new President, and the frantic rush through the city of office-seekers, we are having a dull time at present. The halls, lately resounding with the hum of excited crowds, are now silent ; the bars, whence so many derived their inspiration, are deserted. Still we are not altogether desolate and alone. The weekly receptions of Mrs. Grant continue to be well attended ; Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Brie, and many other ladies, whose husbands hold high positions, are still here to support her. General Sherman himself is at Fortress Monroe to present the officers, who have gained them, with their diplomas. He visited the Portsmouth Navy. yards, and will return via Richmond. Speaker Blaine, in preparation for next winter, has bought a handsome house here. The President notifies that he will receive general visitors on Mondays and Thursdays, between 10 a.m. and noon ; but on other days only by cards, appointment, or special cases. lie went down the river on a cruise in the steamer Tullapoosa with Secretary Boric and other gentlemen, and inspected the improvements going on under the recent appropriation in the mansion and ground. Cornelius Vanderbilt has declined Mr. y Borie's nominatio n as a mem b er o f the Board of Visitors to the N ava l A ca d em at Annapolis, and S. B. Chitte n d en i s name d instead. The following naval officers and civilian s w ill constitute the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, to report on the 20th of May next :—Rear-Admiral Paulding, the President ; Commodore J. R. Goldsborough, Cap tain ; E. G. Parrott, Surgeon ; William Maxwell Wood, the Hon. J. R. Hawley, the Hon. 11. 11. Wadsworth, Dr. E. D. Kittoe, George H. Stuart, Esq., and Judge Humphrey. General Howard is about to make a tour to raise funds for continuing the work of education at the South. He hal just left for Hartford, and will shortly go to Albany, and he has my sincere wishes for his success. His .is a really noble enterprise, and he is a Howard worthy as a philanthropist, of his great namesake. It is education that can alone elevate the African race. The franchise may be a weapon of defence, but no men can be fitted to exer cise it who have not been trained. Texas resists every effort,. the prejudice being so strong that sixty school-houses have lately been" closed. I have great confidence that the energy and per severance of General Howard will overcome all difficulties. The unfortunate clerks, more espe cially of the Treasury, have been kept in hot water for weeks ; the vital question before them being no thing less than "dismissed" or "retained." First one batch are discharged, then another batch. People are continually looking them up—their qualifica tions—who appointed them—their political procli vities. Five hundred have already been discharged from the Treasury-office alone, and the Post-office department is retrenching in a like degree. Bad as has been the case for the unfortunates before Congress adjourned, the rumour is that the Secre taries only waited till their Senators and Repre sentatives hail gone, in order to complete the busi ness in an effectual manner, and the trepidation and outcry, more especially in the Post-office, is consi derable. The Postmaster-General Iris been look- ing up the contractors too, who in distant places receive enormous sums for carrying mail matter, and shamefully neglect their work; indeed refuse to carry anything bulky. I have no doubt his at tention has also been given to the innumerable thefts perpetrated almost with impunity along these lines. The present Assistant Secretary of the Trea sury, Mr Richardson, has been offered the vacant Massachusetts judgeship, which, if he accepts, Thomas L. Tulloch, will succeed, but it is rumoured that he has declined the judgeship. Senator Fowler has been the centre of a free fight, and that he maintained the contest with vigour and was successful may be supposed from the fact that the attempt was to replace his father-in-law as postmaster at Nashville by Mr. Hopkins, the Tennessee delegation having succeeded in getting that gentleman nominated to the place. Mr. Fowler, however, took such strenuous measures that he got the President to withdraw the name be fore the Senate acted, and a sharp tight followed. General SAenck and many others pushed Judge Mills for the place, the founder of Antioch College, who once held it for five years. I extract the fol lowing from the General Despatch News:—" Bobert B. Randolph, who, in 1832, was dismissed from the navy by President Jackson, and who pulled the General's nose in retaliation, recently died in Wash ington, aged 78 years." Commodore Daniel Am men assumes charge at once of the bureau of yards and dooks in the Navy Department . from Adpairal. Joseph Smith ; the Commodore has recently re turned from the Asiatic squadron. Minister Motley is here, waiting the return of Secretary Fish, to receive his final instructions previous to his depar ture for the Court of St. James on the 19th May. The Diplomatic row in Madrid continues, Mr. Hale having sent the following cable message to his friend Senator Sumner :—" The attack on me by Perry in his letter, March 2, is false. I have the documents to prove it, and in a few days will send them to you." If Mr. Hale succeeds in clearing himself of the charges made against him by Mr. Perry and others, it will give intense satisfaction here, for, - although we are accustomed to queer transactions at home, we prefer to keep our dirty linen there, instead of exhibiting it in Europe being washed. Colo nel Charles C. Crowe has puzzled the Execu tive, as it was discovered after his appointment as Governor to New Mexico had been confirmed that he was ineligible ; having been a Colonel in the Con federate army he cannot take the oath until Cmll - relieves him of his disabilities by passing a measure expressly for that object. The President will leave General Mitchell undisturbed until Con gress meets in December, when the necesi•ary mea sures can be taken. Senator Sprague goes home on Monday, and perhaps little " Rhody" may there be able to keep up the excitement. He has had a lively time of it lately, and people consider it for tunate that he has escaped being shot or " wal luped ;" perhaps little " Rhody" may get walluped when he gets home ; but if he has many enemies, he has also a strong party in his State. Stories are leaking out about the Boanerges. On the eve of his marriage it seems that he desired Bishop Clark to follow him to Washington, there to await his plea sure in performing the ceremony. Having fixed his Royal Highness the Bishop returned empty handed, with pockets lightened by his travell ing and hotel expenses, much to his own asto nishment. The story, however, reached the ears of Mr. Sprague's agent, who hastened to the Bishop with a cheque for $l,OOO. In answer to the Bishop's objection that it was too much, the agent observed that it was the sum Mr. Sprague would have given had he thought of the matter at all, and would thank him on learning his action. Mr. Frank Moore, previous to his departure for Paris (and he is expected to accompany Mr. Elihu Washburne) has been prosecuting a suit against the Corporation of this city for an an undue assess ment of his property. Commissioner Parker is off to New York to make Spring purchases for the Indians. The Quaker Agents will be commissioned next week. Frauds have now come to light perpetrated by a Claim Agent against Indian soldiers who served west of Arkansas. Two thou sand two hundred of these men were discharged from the Indian Brigade, their back pay and bounty of $lOO being pail by the Government. It has now transpired that only $60,000 had been paid to the Red Men, while 1,800 claims passed into the hands of one agent connected with a Washington law firm, of which one member held a post under the last Administration. A store was established at Fort Gibson, and half the pay, was there given in goods, against which the chiefs protest, alleging that the agent in question is the owner. The Ca binet meeting held to-day was assembled by order of the President, who telegraphed to request the attendance of the Secretaries, as the matters to be discussed were important. The large reduction in the number of employes in the Public Departments, more especially the Treasury, has induced bitter complaints, which Congressmen have taken up. In the Conservative Convention of Virginia, as sembled in Richmond, April 29, it was decided to run no party candidate, and to withdraw the old ticket. The Democrats will, therefore, support Walker, the Conservative Republican, against Wells, the Radical. A delegation was appointed to wait on General Grant to urge an early day for the election. A Congressional Committee is to visit San Domingo, St. Thomas's, and Cuba during the recess. The reason of the order reopening re cruiting stations was the discovery of a consider able deficiency in the number of men in the amal gamated regiments, while this was decreased every month by the term of those enlisted, expiring. The order has given rise to sensational rep( its re lating to prorarations for invasions of Cuba and Canada, but without a shadow of foundation. BALTIMORE, April 29. Events occasionally occur here of sufficient inte rest to your readers, among whom I have lately had a place while traveling in France and Italy. To those unable to get the papers of their own town I found in Europe the Anglo-American Times the best substitute, although a shade too Radical, to suit my taste. We are a Conservative pepple here in Balti more, and do not assimilate ; in fact, there is rather a repulsion between our ideas and your New Eng land proclivities. However, it is not an easy thing for an editor to hold the balance between us, and I must do your paper the justice to say that it is as moderate as on the whole could be expected. General Robert E. Lee has been here, and met with a warm reception ; for rebel or no rebel, the great majority of my townsmen regard him as the most eminent of living soldiers. There is a deep respect entertained for that man which no other American can command, and all the heartier, because his military career closed in mis fortune, and that he bore the reverse as became him. His business here was to raise funds for a branch line from the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail road to Lexington, where the college over which he presides is situated. The distance, though only 18 miles, is such a barrier as the English, with their good turnpike roads and cross roads intersecting the country in every direction, little know of. The ' Washington College would derive a great benefit as well as Lexington in his success. It is rumoured that the President sent for him to confer on the feeling of his State, for the reconstruction of which the President is very anxious. There is no State more rapidly advancing than Virginia, although I am happy to say we are doing pretty well in M try land. Numbers of a good class are seeking homes in the Old Dominion, and the completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad will greatly help the State. The climate answers for European set tlement, and taking the situation and the fertile land open it is the State to which I would direct attention if asked my opinion about emigration. Political feeling certainly runs high, but it is dying out with the returning prosperity, and there is an evident desire t 3 turn their energies to more pro at able account. Mr. James L. Ridgeley, Grand 'Mas ter of the Order of Odd Fellows in the United States, visited Philadelphia, in company with se veral other members, to celebrate the fiftieth an niversary of the establishment of the first Lodge in the United States, which was founded by Mr. 'Thomas Wildey on the 26th April, 1819. He was an Eng lishman, and the Lodge, which was named Wash ing'on, worked under a charter from the Unity Lodge, Manchester, England. It was deeided to celebrate the half century anniversary at Phila delphia, and a glorious day the Odd Fellows had in the city of Brotherly Love. Philadelphia was beautifully decorated, and the procession was per haps the greatest ever seen in that city. Mr. Ridgeley, the orator of the day, after referring in appropriate terms to the occasion, gives this history of the Order in America :—Four lodges had existed in the city of Baltimore anterior to 1830. One room was occupied by all of them, and at a public-house; but after the erection of the Odd Fellows' Hall the Order pro gresse d w i t h rap idit y . I u 1834 . it was introduced to Mi ssour i ; i n 1836 to Mississippi and Illinois; in 1837 to Alabama and Texas, thea an independent Republic ; in 1839 to Arkansas and Connecticut ; in 1840 to Tennessee and South Caro lina; in 1842 to Georgia; in 1843 to Maine, New Hampshire, and British North America ; in . 184 . 1 to Vermont, South Wales, Great Britain, Michigan and lowa ; in 1846 to the Sandwich Is . lan Is ; 1849 to Minnesota and California; in 1851 it was established in Mexico ; in 1852 in Oregon ; in 1855 in Nebraska and Washington Territory ; in 1857 in Kansas and Nevada; in 1864 in Colorado; in 1865 in Utah ; in 1867 in Montana ; in 1868 in the Continent of Australia. Referring to the revision of the works . of the order in 1835 and 1845, he said that its career was thenceforth onward and upward. Twenty Grand Sires have occupied the chair of the R. W. Grand Lodge of the United States, In half a century the Order has increased the number of its lodges from 1 to 3,200, and of its members from sto 600,000. In Pennsylvania, the Order has in . I creased to 6,000 lodges and 70,000 members; and in this State, since 1842, 17,000 widowed families and 143,000 sick brethren have been relieved at an expenditure of over $3,000,000. The aggre . gate accumulations since 1837 exceed $9,000,0 00. 1 What an offering upon the altar of humanity ! COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short ... 12 21 ... 12 21 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 4 ... 12 4 1 Antwerp — ... 25 d7+ ... 25 521 t Brussels ..- --. 25 4if 25 521 ...... ••• .. ... Harnburgn — ... 13 12i ... 13 1 3 1 Paris Ditto •. - ... 25 50 Marseillos Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 121 i ... 122 Vienna — ... 12 6;1 ... 12 721 Trieste — ... 12 67.1 1 ... 12 ;21 Petersburg Copenhagen.. - 9 29 Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz Leghorn Milan — ... 26 70 ... 26 7 7 4 Genoa, .. Naples P:11,1'1110 — ... 26 70 ... 26 771 11-ssina. Lisbon — 3 ... 51 4 . bli Oporto — ... ölf ... 51k Itio Janeiro - ••• a•• --- New York Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... May '2 l . Ditto, via Y .- truffles .04R O May 1 7 Brazil. Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video June 4 Ditto, by French packet . . moy 16. Cape Verds, by Brazil packet ...... Cape of Good 11.pe. Ascension. and St. Helena May 2 3 . China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May bibraltar. via Southampton India, via Southampton . . May 11 vitto, via MarsciLes Malta, Egypt, &o. May 15 Ditto, Marseilles May ewfoundla c May 1 9 Mat cities, Cape of Gcod Hope, and Natal, via 6( uthairi ten I' it to, Marseilles , June 1 6 Portugal • •• • • • United States, anada, California, (irc., by British packet ... May 1 5 Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by L Lited States packet Ditto, by Inman packet May 1 1 West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ......May 1 7 B aha:nas, via New York West Indies and Pazific (except Mexico and Baha mas) May 11 The Watchman and Reflector gives the followiq account of the last soldier of the revolution ; -- ,, Dan ie ; Frederick Beekman, who died at Sandusky, Cattaraug li : County, New York, on the morning of April 5, at the ac t vanced age of 109 years 9 months. He was born in I 4ei Jersey, in 1760. Wheu he was a child his parents eI grated to the Moha w k V a ll e y, N ew Y or k , w h ere t/' , lived during the revolutionary war. In 1778, just f r , vious to the skirmish of Fort Pl a i n , h e was enro ll e d in t b ; militia, and took part in that battle, in a company tido the command of a Captain Vanarnun. About the 1828 Mr. Beekman removed to Arcade, Wyreo ili ; County, New York, and resided there till 1845, 'li b° , he removed to the town of Freedom, Cattare4th County, where he has since lived. His wife, ll' whom he lived 85 years, died six years ago at the ag' of 105 ; and a few weeks since he buried his two oldest who were over 80 years of age. Mr. Beekman did n ot re' ceive a pension till 1867, when Congress passed an OP; cial Act, giving him during his life $5OO per annum. 0 , religion he was a Lutheran. In politics he was a Den' s , crat. He cast his first vote for Washington, the fat her of his country, and his last for General Grant, the ,e liverer of his country. His descendants of the 0 , generation were present at his funeral. The sera )° , on the occasion was preached by the Rev. A b ro Morrill, of Arcade." A wr it er i n th e L on d o n T' t asks if there is a Briti s h s o ldier o f th e R evo l u ti on ary 1V6 4. still alive? We do not think it likely, for those reasoeir While boys freely joined Washington's Army from tb e o adjoining homes in the States, none but well-grown 19 ,ie were sent from Europe to c arr y on th e campa i gn . A PeAti'4ll in revolt send masses of their population into battle, arn'io able to bear arms partake in a lesser or greater dee'r,e, c s the strife. Compared with that numbe r th e arm i e s of George were very small, therefore the American sold' j were not only younger, but more numerous. A letter. yesierday's Times informs us that there is such a sold' o a pensioner of the 62d Regiment, named Jonathan Bee" io 5, George's-buildings, Walcot, Bath. He was hor ll o 1761, and is therefore in his 105th y ear , b u t thi s exceP th e proves no rule, for he was a drummer-boy born in regiment. A rt . At the meeting of the A mer i can A ca d emy of )f and Sciences in Boston, on Wednesday, April D'Avizac of Paris, D. Waldo Lincoln of Worces" - 0 1 Revs. Henry M. Dexter of Boston, and E. M. stone o e Providence, with oth ers, were c h osen mem bers.,„l, t deaths of Mr. Ber genro th o f M a d r ii , o f D r . Parsons, of Rh o d e I s l an d , C o l one l T . Big e l ow Lawret'd. of Boston, nud George Folsom, of New York, were n°te irg Rev. Dr. Brewster, of Worc e ster, o pp ose d he new theef il j of the pro-historic man, and argued that tb's human has not chanaed in character or grown in acuteness th,„. 1 " 0 ; 1 :'e the recorded cAlturies. Charles G. Junes, of New 1( . 0 f read a paper about the mounds and their unknown rec u builders in Georgia. if° Vice-President Colfax, accompanied by his /!' o r, and a party, will next week make a tour of Cour:tele), Rhode Island, Massachusetts, a n d V ermon t, w hence " 0 0 will cross the Continent to California in August. A t Die time it was thought that the President would look oft ' ,,,r old home in California, but th a t h o p e h as b e en d pointed. General Raaslaeff, Danish Minister of War, s t ‘ t o at a Copenhagen banquet, on Thursday, that the 8 1.0 would probably ratify the purchase of St. Thomas ° il i a they understood the nature of the negociations• 0 3 delay arose from the fight b e t ween th e l a t e Presider,' ` Congress. Mr Sumner favoured ratification. ; te General Patrick H. Jones has been apPc hil , c he Postmaster of New York City. It wa s th a t gen tletran ' O ll served during the remaining portion of the term of Ge l ' t o'e Halpine, "Miles O'Reilly," to secure f or th a t gentler family the emoluments of the Recorder's-office, whit a , O ll't i e held. He was a resi lent of C a tt a r augus county,, Bll ( 10' 1863 was elected Clerk of the C o urt o f Appeals. b e el' tinguished himself during the war, was promoted f 01 :705 lantry at Allatoona, and was h onoura bly men ti o ned ( 1 " 1 St erman's celebrated campaign. FOC • Edward Monement, the surgeon of the A ,„ O , James Foster, Jun., was arrested by Officer Romer at f it "ts water, S.L, April 28, on a charge of felonious assan, oo o. ill-treating persons on the vessel of which he was surg e t he The accused has been sick at Ward's Island sin e ' s joe arrival of the ship, which prevented his apprehe n co 4, before. The warrant was issued by Coroner Her.o,,or who committed the prisoner to the coun ty g aol a P mond, 5.1., for examination. 1111 HOLLOWAY'S PILLS are decidedly the best remedy for neY' diso• ders of the stomach and bowels, the li v er and hia 4 1 6 They act with so deciled an effect, and yet so gently, that P s . , - 00 $ of the moat delicate constitutions may take them with the Ter' perfect confidence. They do not contain a s i ng l e gra i n of 1101 cury or other noxious substance, being composed exc l u si/elOOO, rare balsams. They are therefore equally safe and eflies c , 0 0 and as a family medicine n o thi ng yet invented or discove red be compared with them for a moment. With these inesa a :ell pills at hand, togethe r w i t h the printed directions affixed ° l'll box, no other medi ca l a d v i ce or assistance can be neede d hi ordinary case of sickness ei .,, ng tg LADVERTISEMENT.]—Ayoid Medicines: they always ag 't ri— chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-res i f r i ;,9 l !" Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times then ° edies meat of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other ren3,,001 and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves , c 7i o :l 6 lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fu n , A. ‘ r S t o regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeeble'• to extract a few out of 68,000 cures ;—.." The Pope's health res . 6 6 by Da Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, ,l o c?, —The health of the Holy F a th er is exaellent, especially abandoning all other remedies, he has confined hunself a soon to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which he e t Deey e i a plateful at every meal. It has_prc,doced a surprising,l s eX i t io ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise t" 4 C lent food too highly." From the "Ga z ett e d u Midi, July -4 % , 100 No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Yes:; e rve . ,,t complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a OP..t palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessile,.. yor2.; the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,7' yea; Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many, fr c i, dyspepsia. 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BIRTHAI t le 11 - ADDAX—On the 18th i ns t., a t 21 , L upu s-stree ., Herbert Haddam, of a son. the MooRE —On the 18th inst., at 8, Kensington-sel lare ' wife of J. C. Mo ore , o f a son. r r f ELLis—BROWNE—At Christ Church, Surbiton, A 1 ' 01 : 1. 01.9 eldest son of T. Ellis, Esq., of Itileston to Mars' Stir third daught er o f E. Browne, Esq , of ' Oak. biton. GILMAN—BARROW —Or. the 15th lust., at St. lifars;? , „. 3 tts dingtun Mr. W. A. Gill - ruin, of Wray Park, I '7 the Surrey, to Barbara Catherine, youngest daughter late Thomas Barrow, Lq., of Southall, Middlesex. DEATHS. „; cl 5, CULL—On the 1311 1 inst., dely regretted by all bis for: 10 e, Mr. Robert C u ll, o f 1, Georgestreet, Man si°u-liu and Jersey Lodge Norwood. DYCE—On the loth , inst Lower at 33, Oxford-terra ce, the ReF AL-xander Dyee, aged 71 Eaw 64 RICHARDSON On the 17th inst., a t Brighton , .. ew ood Richardson, Esq., late of Mellury-terrace, Ha square, London, aged 57. \O. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM `~ l4' gtran d i o n f No. 112, strand, Pri, at SUN Office N 0.112, he Precinct of the nter Savoy Tut in the County , of I*lid ales Wednesday, May 19, 1869 BY ACCIDENT 011 ON PURPOSE ? Mr. Brewin Grant, a Congregationalist minister, finds to his surprise that his name is struck out from the Congregational Year-Book for 1869. This omission amounts to deposition, and Mr. Grant does not like it. He declares that his exclusion is a " reward for his temerity in opposing, by public lectures, before and during the elections, Mr. Gladstone's misappro priation of the Irish Church property." It is certainly somewhat startling to find a Nonconformist minister objecting to the Irish Church Bill. But of course he ought to be at full liberty to hold and to express his convictions. The committee of the Congregational . Union have, according to Mr. Grant, resorted to a not very creditable evasion in order to avoid the oppro brium which such a strong measure would be sure to excite. They say, according to him, that they have not expunged Mr. Grant's name, they have simply omitted it. Every year a new-year book is published and it is for them to determine who shall be enrolled in it. This is manifestly no satisfaction to Mr. Grant, and, indeed, leaves the whole of his fellow ministers at the mercy of the committee. The committeee deny that the omission of Mr. Grant's name was due to any such cause as he supposes, and say that it arose from his delay in sending in his name. That explanation he will not accept. GIRL GRADUATES. The "honours division " of the list of successful women candidates for examination by the London University has just been published. It contain six names, one of them a German name. Fou r o f th e candidates were educated under private tuition ; of the two others one studied at Bedford College, and the other at the Ladies' College, Cheltenham. CLEANSING OLD TOMBS. Amongst announcements interesting to archeolo gists it was recently stated that a process had been discovered whereby the old monuments in West minster Abbey might, without injury to their form and beauty, be cleansed from the crust of dirt which has " disfigured " them for so many years. The archeologists have, indeed, been interested. They have become alarmed. Lovers of ancient monuments love Westminster Abbey because it is old. If the things do not look old, one cause of interest will be removed. Moreover, a dignity of aged repose marks the place where our mighty men lie dead. To cleanse and scrape, to modernise And paint, will be to spoil. The Times, therefore, is beseeched to protest against this new proposed reform. THE DEATH OF MOLIQUE. Everyone will regret to hear of the death of Herr Molique, the composer. He was born at Nurnberg, in 1803, and was the son of the Stadtmusikus in that city. He soon learnt all that his father could teach him, and by the time that he was 13 sheaved such a preference for the violin that his education was devoted entirely to the study of that instrument. Ie went to Munich where King Maximilian took much interest in him, and before he had emerged from boy hood he took a pla c e in the orc hestra at one of the Vienna theatres. Thence he went to Stutt gart; thence he came to London in 1849. In our capital he obtained a considerable reputation. One of the most exquisite songs ever written, " Could I through tether fly," we owe to him. His more important works are a Mass in B minor, and an oratorio entitled " Abraham." This last work was produced at the Norwich Festival in 1860, but never became popular. It was the intense labour attendant upon the writing of this oratorio, amidst many other occupations, that undermined a consti tution previously robust enough. Molique gradually became unfit for work, and at length, som e t wo years since, he retired to his native land, there to breathe away in peace what remained to him of life. THE GUANO ISLANDS. The guano on the Chincha Islands is nearly exhausted. In a few months these islands will be deserted, and then all the ships now engaged in the trade will make for the Guanape Islands, five degrees south of the equator. There is a supply of guano at Baker's Island, in the Hawaiian group, estimated at from 250,000 to 2,000,000 tons, and worked by the United States. It is, perhaps, not generally known that there is .also a small deposit on some of the islands off the north-west coast of Norway. Pro bably by the time all the deposits are exhausted we shall have come to the conclusion that it is wiser to use the manure at our own doors than to transport, at an immense expense, manure from the other side of the world. THE WESTMORELAND SERVANTS' HIRING FAIR. A writer in the Times gives an interesting account of the Westmoreland Servants' Hiring Fair, held annually during Whitsuntide, at Kendal, the chief market town of the county. On White Saturday lads and lasses pour in crowds into the town from all parts of the county, and take up their position by the market-place, exhibiting them selves as for hire. The masters come to town also, and going in and out in the dense crowd, pick out those wbo are strong enough and reasonable enough in their demands. The two parties to the contract then adjourn to a stone in the midst of the place and ratify their agreement. No characters are asked for or given ; little inquiry is made on either side. After the hiring, Sun day, Monday, and the following days are considered a holiday. During the daytime shops are visited, walks are made, beer is drunk, shows and the lions of the place are seen. Then follows dancing in the upper rooms of the low public-houses. The demo ralising effect of the fairs, the vice that prevails, has often been commented upon. Is there no way of suppressing them AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. The agricultural prospects have by no means been improved this past week. The continued wet and the continued low temperature are gradually spoiling the wheat crops. We shall have a bad harvest if this weather continue lone. FOREIGN NOTES. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Mr. Motley, the successor of Mr. Reve - rdy Johnson, was to set sail for England yesterday. On the 2nd inst. he had a long interview with President Grant, and another with Mr. Fish, who has taken Mr. Seward's place. Some specific information as to what transpired at these final conferer is given in various quarters. The Times Philadelphia , respondent is very precise. This authority telegraphs that, Mr. Motley has been entrusted with power of direct action, but only in case the Alabama question is again brought forward by England. "It is understood that they (the Ambassador's instructions) maintain the ground here tofore assumed by the American Government, avoiding the extravagance of Mr. Sumner's propositions. The question of England's moral responsibility for the results of the Neutrality Proclamation of May 1861 is still insisted on for reference to arbitration, and if decided against Eng land, then all damages resulting therefrom will be pressed for payment. For the present Mr. Motley is not himself to take any steps towards reopening the controversy." The New York Herald says that the policy of the new Ambassador is to be based on Mr. Sumner's speech ; but " there is to be no hurry in reopening negotiations." The London correspondent of the Ind4endance Beige deems himself authorised to affirm that Mr. Motley's instruc tions are based upon a thorough spirit of concilia tion, and that no demand in any way likely to lead to war will be made. The writer adds that Lord Clarendon, after the rejection of the treaty, and before Mr. Motley received his directions from General Grant's Cabinet, wrote to Washington desiring to be informed as to the nature and extent of the conces sions which the American Government was disposed to make. 'fh - e British Minister very plainly left it to be inferred that any negotiation on the basis of Mr. Sumner's demands would be mere waste of time. The information of the Times and the New York Herald, it will be seen, support the statements already made that Mr. Maley will come to England with virtually no policy at all. He will, indeed, have his terms ready in case the English Government desires to treat, but he will not reopen negotiations unless England take the initiative. America will preserve an attitude of " masterly inactivity." On this important point the New York journals are pretty unanimous. The Tribune remarks that Mr. Motley will do nothing more than " tell the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs that we are assured in our position, and can afford to wait." America does not threaten war, nor raids upon Canada and the West Indies, says the Tribune—as if anybody in England needed such an assurance. The Herald, as is the custom of American papers, sent a correspondent to "draw Mr. Sumner out." The journalist found the senator busily engaged, but though "delving at a mass of letters and papers," he had yet time to entertain the representative of the Herald, and allowed himself to be " drawn out" to the extent of well nigh a column of print. But it does not appear that anythingof particular moment was elicited. Mr. Sumner was very hard upon England and upon Mr. MacCreery, the unhappy Democratic senator who voted alone for the ratification of Mr. Reverdy Johnson's treaty. lie was quite sure that Eng- land was in the wrong, and that she would at length be b=azilt JaaslaulathiubisamiumgiatAlita THE CANADIAN TRAGEDY. The circumstances of a remarkable murder which took place in Canada some time ago will not yet have passed from public remembrance. An Ensign Whitaker had wronged a young lady, named Chaloner. The brother of the girl—a mere lad—deliberately laid in wait for his sister's seducer, and mortally wounded him with a revolver. The trial of Cbaloner for this crime terminated on the 4th. There was no doubt whatever as to the circumstances. The life of the Ensign had been deliberately taken by the lad whom he bad injured; but the jury, after a long deliberation, found a verdict of Not Guilty. Whether this decision was according to law is more than question able, but the jury were supported by the sympathy of the audience, who attempted to get up a demonstration in the court, and loudly cheered Chaloner when he was set at liberty. Juries will take the law into their own hands in cases of this kind. In France they do so with the sanction of the law in cases of murder by an injured husband ; in England and America the law is simply set aside. GERMANY AND HOLLAND. The Patric states that Prussia, acting on behalf of the North German Confederation, has entered upon negotia tions with the Dutch Government for the cession of the Banda Islands. These are situated in the Great Archi pelago of the Indian Ocean, and have been deemed favourable by the Prussian naval authorities for the esta blishment of a station to protect the rapidly-increasing commerce of the Confederation. BAVARIAN ELECTIONS. The elections in Bavaria are conducted on the "indi rect" principle; the voters nominate direct electors, and these choose the members of the Chamber of Deputies. The first and primary process has just been completed, and the result is a great triumph for the Liberal parties. At Munich, the choice fell on 255 of the Progressist and GG of the Middle Liberals. At Augsburg, Wurzhurg, and Nuremberg, the result is nearly the same. The clerical party is nowhere in this contest. At Munich it has carried only twelve direct electors. TILE SUEZ CANAL• Some important negotiations relative to the Suez Canal have recently been concluded between M. de Lesseps and the Viceroy of Egypt. A treaty has been signed, defining the canal as nothing more than a great commercial enterprise on Egyptian ground, to be subject to the local laws and institutions. Every endeavour has been made to prevent the possibility of a political significance being attached to this great work. Port. Said has been declared an Egyptian port, and will be subject to the same Customs dues as Alexandria. The plots of laud skirting the canal are to be sold, and the title•deeds drawn out by the Egyp tian Government, which will also retain half the amounts of the sales. The hospitals, homes, and other buildings, with the exception of those retained at Suez, Isnialia, and Port Said, have been handed over to the Egyptian Government. For these and other concessions a sum of £1,200,000 is to be paid by the Viceroy, not in money, but in relinquishing the interest of the shares which he now holds. The France states that the Empress of the French will positively be present at the opening of the canal. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, May 1. The railway accident on Long Island caused a strong feeling of indignation, mainly along the line, as the company are accused of carelessness, but it has gradually, as is usual with us, died out, and affairs relapse into their old course, which is to sacrifice any anraunt of life to cheap rails, bad boilers, inefficient service, and the other expedients by which the companies save money at the passea , uers' risk. There was the Uselda coining down the Missouri River when she struck a snag, the rush of water into her exploded the boilers, the boat was shattered to pieces, and more than fifty were killsd, many of them United States soldiers ou their return from their Indian service. Two days after, the steamer .ct. Elnzo blew up in Mobile Bay, killing and wounding seven passengers. But these are every day occurrences, and tend, 1 fear, to add to the recklessness of life which has become an American characteristic. Mr. George T. Dalton, once promi- nent on our Stock Exchange, committed suicide last Saturday. lie was but 35 years of age, and leaves a widow and three children. It is thought that heavy losses had affected his mind, and when in a state of aberration he got into a carriage from the New York Hotel where be was stopping, and directed the driver to the Manhattan Club House. On his way the driver heard the report of a pistol, but not dreaming that it proceeded from his own vehicle he drove on to the Club House at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth -street, when on opening the door the truth was revealed, Mr. Dalton being dead, with an empty revolver at his side. One of our most eminent physicians, Dr. Minturn Post, died on Monday in his 61st year. He studied at Columbia College, and after going through a course of lec tures in New York and Philadelphia, completed his medical education in Paris under Dr. Broussais. For a quarter of a century he held the post of medical examiner to the Mutual Insurance Coin pany. Another cue is progressing in our courts which reveals the brutality occasionally practised by officers of merchant ships against their crews and steerage passengers. The Richard Robinson, from Liverpool, recently arrived here under her Captain, William 11. Robinson, and chief mate, Richard Hoffman, against whom charges of cruelty were preferred by the sailors. The vessel left Liver pool on the 2d February, and had to put into Holy head for repairs, where it is alleged a sailor was drowned in his attempt to escape maltreatment. The captain fearing an arrest put to sea, and the ship, under his charge and that of his mate, both drunkards and armed to the teeth, became a charm ing abode. The captain, not knowing bow the way had been smoothed for him, I bad almost said to the gallows, by the proceedings of the James Foster, Junior, and other ships placidly came to anchor in our port, but affairs then took a very rapid turn, and he, cs well as the mate, thought it time to skedaddle. But though the master and mate have disappeared the ship remains, and the sailors are prosecuting their action against the owners. The public recognise the fact that the employers MIRE be made responsible for their agents, and if they select such brutal officers they will stand a dis agreeable chance of having to pay for the injuries inflicted by the fiends as well as bear a share of the odium attaching to their acts. Secretary Bout well has attracted much attention here, for his business being the sale of Government Bonds ex cites great interest. Bankers, brokers, and mer chants visited him freely, fully discussing the sub ject; and his appearance on the Stock Exchange called forth the usual complimentary notices. He was introduced, and delivered a brief address, reite rating the assurance he has already conveyed that he would do his best to have the revenues collected honestly and expended to the national advantage ; and he was emphatic in his closing remark, that his attention would be especially given towards admi nistering the finances so as not to embarrass general business. The large reduction in the num ber of employes is good proof that he means what he says about instituting economy, and his last remark is interpreted into taking action on the Sinking Fund Act of 1862, so sour readers may expect soon to learn that the United States Govern ment are purchasing in this market the national bonds. The effort at amalgamation between the open board of brokers and the Stock Exchange has been unsuccessful, owing to the indifference of the former. The special committee appointed by the Stock Exchange to effect the purpose advised the matter to be dropped at present, but think that the Government Department might be consolidated into the Exchange. The largest of wooden steam ships built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company was tried , on Wednesday, with ..a large party of guests, including ladies on board. • The America INAtifi This celebra Prize M e d a l, Pure, MI Sold in Bottl he Agents in tl 8, GRE. Observe the hatt's LL Whig KEAT relieve E A'l' Import TION.—Sold lls each. EATII , . 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