The Sun. — London, England, 1869-10-19 00:00:00

SPIIZIT OP TEtE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The i inze3, in referring to the gold controversy, observes that it has not yet been shewn that the smallest fraction of a grain could be deducted from the proportion of gold in the composition of the sovereign without lowering it current value in the market of the world to exactly that amount. The British public at home are generous, easy, and confiding. They do not often ask how much a sove reign has lost by honest use, and they do not know how often the coin is really short of its proper value by several pence. But even we at home might become more particular and more sceptical if the State odiously attempted to pass upon us a coin which made no secret of a small deduction to pay for its manufacture, or rather to pay generally for the costs of the Mint. But, whatever we at home might please to do with the shortened sovereign, it is quite certain that abroad it would only change at its true value; and in all former controversies on the metallic currency it has always been maintained that there is one law for l i home and for foreign use in dealing with the stan dard coin of a country. It must be worth its weight in gold, and not a grain less upon any pretence. It is quite possible that the grievance, which is undeniable may one day become intolerable. It may be possible to devise some way to make the world pay for the manufac ture, or rather relieve the British public of a part of the cost. It is possible that some day the Bank of England may be permitted to give ingots in payment of Bank notes to a very large amount, unless a premium be paid for the more convenient form of coin. But we have not come to this pass yet, and need not yet attempt to anticipate the ingenuity, or other qualities, of our remote descendants. The Telegraph declares that Mr. Baines is a backslider from the faith of voluntaryism, His letter to the secre tary of the National Education Union is a sad example of infidelity to old teachings of sect. Only fancy the feelings of an old English Nonconformist who should come to life again and see a Baines throwing overboard the prin ciples of voluntaryism in education as coolly as if they were so much dead weight or rubbish. In such depart ments of action as national education the day of voluntaryism- has gone by, and that of the State has come. An old Nonconformist might shudder to see the multitudinous and irresistible evidence of the fact ; but, after a little study of events, he would be forced to admit the beneficence of the change; and thinking with a sigh of the New Jerusalem, which was to be built up by voluntary zeal in every Christian land, he would at last join the crowd of perverts who, led by Mr. Baines and Mr. Miall, are fervently invoking the aid of the omni potent State. Although the State must provide an edu cation free from every tinge of sectarianism, there is no reason why it should not continue to lend its aid to sec tarian schools. An Anglican, a Presbyterian, or a Roman Catholic school can obtain a grant from the Committee of Privy Council if its teachers possess official certi ficates of proficiency, if tho class memo are healthy, and if the teaching is free from the spirit of proselytism. Mr. Baines sees no reason why the system should not be upheld even when Mr. Forster shall complete his arrangements for the education of the whole people. Thus, he says, the State might pro vide " for moral and religiolis training, not by requiring it as a condition of State aid, but by aiding denominational as well as secular schools." ➢lr. Lowe, who so broadly differs from Mr. Baines in feeling and character, is entirely of the same opinion. When the representatives of the Old Secularist and the Old Denominational creeds are thus as one, the solution of the problem cannot be far off. When Mr. Lowe recognises the necessity of a modified denomina tional system, and Mr. Baines emphatically demands the intervention of the State, the righteousness and peace of politics have, indeed, kissed each other, and the day of English national education is at hand. The Standard says that a circular has been issued pro posing a scheme which it sincerely hopes will not be carried out. It has been announced that her Majesty the Queen, should her health and strength permit, will be present at . the formal opening of the new Blackfriars Bridge. A proposal is made that the unemployed and distressed working classes of the metropolis shall, in an orderly and peaceful manner, evincing a loyal spirit, assemble upon the occasion, and rank themselves along the line in order to shew the Queen what an amount of misery and destitution exists. Now, we trust that the working classes of London aro possessed of too much good feeling and good sense to take any such step. It could not possibly be of the slightest benefit to them, and the bare proclamation of such a resolve might keep her Majesty away altogether. The appearance of her Majesty in the City of London, after so many years of absence, will of itself be a certain stimulus to trade. It would be an ungracious pro ceeding to offer her, instead of a merry welcome, a scene of dismals. No doubt those who are perishing at the parish door can hardly enter into this senti ment, since they have no part in the festivity, and have only to look out through the cold windows of their famished homes upon the fortune and plenty of those around them. Still, as there could be no conceivable result profitable to them, and as the only con sequence would be that of a painful exhibition to the Queen, let us believe the idea will be abandoned. We 'would advise them, in heartfelt solicitude for their inte rests, not to make the Royal visit to tho City an oppor tmity for a demonstration which could not be otherwise than a mistake and a failure, and which, besides an afflic tion and almost an affront to the Queen, would cast a gloom over a great and joyous ceremonial, Although the summons has been circulated, we cannot imagine that the purpose it explains will ne persisted in. The Herald alludes to the recent duel between Count Metternich and Count Beaumont, and asks if it is not a spectacle to be ashamed of when an Emperor's ambassa dor at one of the highest courts of Europe provokes and accepts such a challenge ? When will this barbarous habit be abolished by the common sentiment of the world We can readily understand raw German students defying one another with their innocuous blades, having no inten- tion to kill or hurt; but that a Minister, a representative of peace, a nobleman entrusted with a lofty mission should engage in a bloody combat to defend his own wrong is a fact which seems utterly irreconcilable with his position. Who has ever benefited by a duel ? Men have earned ghastly and infamous reputations as successful duellists, or, in other words, unprosecuted assassins. But what - wife would wish her husband, what daughter would wish her father, to gain so murderous a renown ? If a man be a dead shot and matches himself against a tyro, he is a coward ; if he be a master of fence, and matches himself against a tyro, he is a coward again. If both be equal, then we must exclaim with Puck, " Lord, what fools these mortals be !" If princes, diplomatists, and noblemen tell them by example that these monstrous parodies of barbarous usages are lawful and par dona.ble, what have we to say if young students and journalists resort to the rapier and the revolver? To give such a lesson to the inexperienced and the foolhardy is a crime in itself. Without at all considering or caring to guess at the promptings of the recent duel, we submit it was an offence against the public opinion of Europe, or, if not, that• the public opinion of Europe is much cor rupted. There is an old saying—they manage these things better in Prance, and the author of it was responsible for a great deal of nonsense; but the truth is, that in these mat ters they manage a good deal worse, although in this par ticular case the scandal was transacted abroad. The Daily News remarks that a telegram is seldom pub lished which gives such universal satisfaction and relief as that which announced the recovery of Colonel Hickie's child. A loss such as Colonel Hickie and his family had sustained is the very worst form in which bereavement can come. Death rifles home of its best treasures, and friends hear and pity, but it is the common lot, and the world goes its busy way too careless to sympathise. But for a child to be stolen from the fireside, and carried out into the wide wastes of civilisation, leaving no track behind, is so dreadful a loss and so unusual, that the world stands still to hear the story, and every nurse and every mother joins the search. Such a loss is worse -than death. it makes a vacant place, but fills it with vague apprehensions and the heart-sickness of hope deferred, instead of tender mem ories. In the absence of evidence as to a lost child's fate, imagination sees it in all conceivable circumstances of degradation and distress. Colonel Hickie and his family have been saved this misery, and as they appealed to the public to help them to find their child, we may on behalf of all the fathers and mothers in the country congratulate them on its restoration. It is satisfactory to know that, even at such a distance from home, the child has been so speedily found, and that the nurse who stole it had treated it kindly. But the public will not be content even to know that the little one is restored. It must be clearly shewn that such a theft cannot be perpetrated with impunity, and therefore Elizabeth Barry must be made an example of. It does not at present appear that she stole the child for the sake of a ransom ; but this makes the crime none the less, and certainly cannot be urged in mitigation of punishment. The Times thinks the on,gagement ferried by an insurance company with au insurer—to pay au much on the insurer's death on cendition cf reecivieg sr, much from him annually duriag his life—is a harg,in which can be struck witlitut the slightest ri,k - uf loss on either silo. The tr nth of the :natter is. as we sugi:ested on rrevi , uts cc:!asiii, that the WIS ;Una proporti,“ t.f ho;ur:lure loisho.ss, wha tcvcr that may be, is 1111'.! to oxen-ave C011111,1:tiOn. Three yrays ago it war argued, on liehalf 1 f r:ertain titainei,l ccinpanie.s, that is all the good hu,iness men in their line hail been fore stallcd by tither estahli,d,ment.4, tiny bail only the option of more doubtful business (ii no business at all. .Now, it is one of the privileges of life insurance business that there can be no such thing, as a Lad costumer, except in the form of an unsound life, which can always ii rejected ; and the competition, therefore, took place in bindings for custom itself. Too much money was, perhaps, paid to another office for its good will, or too much to an agent for a fresh customer procured by his reetrninendatious. hut. except fur such mistakes, it is hardly too roach to say that no insurance company with a given numbei of policy holders should ever be otherwise than secure. In a few words, insurance business itself is infallibly safe; it can only be retitle:oil unsafe by the anti ctpation of its necessary profits iu the acquisition of the custom w4ich brings them. MR. OLIPHANT'S COLONY. " Vevax" writes to the Daily News on Mr. Oliphant's :olony. He thus speaks of it :—" This ' colony,' styled 'The Brotherhood of the New Life,' was originated and '.ounded at - Wassail nearly eight years ago by the Rev. T. L. Harris solely, Mr. Oliphant being then in' the world,' and unknown to Mr. Harris for some years after. Some gear relatives of mine were among the first of Mr. Harris's band of sympathisers,' leaving home, friends, and country to follow him and his teachings, attracted first by his writings and eloquent preaching in London nine years %go. The society, always under the sole inspiration and guidance of Mr. Harris, moved to Lake Erie about two years since, before which time, however, Mr. Oliphant had felt the power of tho spell exercised by this extraordinary man, and yielded himself up to his training, becoming in time one of his most devoted disciples. The principle of all conventual and monastic life is the principle of this brotherhood — ;elf-renunciation, running into asceticism, and a putting %way of the natural affections. The mode and manner in which this principle is to be worked into daily life arc to be learned from or " through " Mr. Harris. I could give facts in detail to prove this, but those who know anything of the brotherhoodwill not dispute this statement. Instead of being a leader of this new expression of an old idea, Mr. Oliphant has, with all Mr. Harri S's adherents, " sat at his feet," listening to him as to one inspired, because they believe him to be the man of the age, and the true prophet of the nineteenth century. LAW AND POLICE. A DAIIING STREET ROBBERY.—At the Middlesex Ses sions, a youth named Williams, 19 years of age, was charged with a dai:ing street robbery. Mrs. Massey, wife of the Right Hon. W. Massey, was walking near Cavendish square, when the prisoner snatched her bag from her arm, and made off with it. He was sentenced to nine months' hard labour only, having a previous good character. STABBING A CONSTABLE.—A man named Scott has been charged at Highgate with attempting to stab a constable who tried to apprehend him for drunkenness. The weapon used was a bayonet. The prisoner was remanded. STEALING THE AMOUNT OF A BET.—A dyer, named Booth, was brought up at Bradford, charged with appropria ting £39 10s. The money was due as the result of a bet made for ilfr. Wright, Another dyer, by the prisoner with another man in favour of Lord Lyon, the winner of the Derby in IS6&. On the sum of £39 10s. falling due to Mr. Wright, the prisoner was sent to receive the money, and absconded with it. He was committed for trial. ASSAULT BY A CONSTABLE.—A constable, named Morris, belonging to the Windsor force, has been sentenced to a month's hard labour for savagely attacking an old man 78 years of age. The prisoner it seemed was drunk, and the bench remarked that he was not fit to be a police officer POACHING BOLTON.—Another man, making the fifth, has been apprehended on suspicionof being concerned in the desperate poaching affray near Bolton. Evidence was given against him, and he was remanded. The two wounded gamekeepers are worse, and fears are entertained for their recovery. A MODERN HIGHWAYMAN. About half-past four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, whilst it was still broad daylight, a lady named Perkins, the wife of Mr. H. Perkins (a magistrate for the county) was returning from Cambridge to Triplow, about twelve miles from Cambridge. She was being driven by a man-servant in a brougham. Just after turning off the high road into the road leading thence to the village of Triplow, a man of genteel appearance, booted and spurred, and mounted on a powerful black horse, rode swiftly past the vehicle. When a little ahead he stopped, took off his hat, and then returned, having a species of black mask over his face. He rode across tho route of Mrs. Perkins' vehicle, and so close as almost to come into collision with the horse in the brougham. He then drew a fully cocked pistol from his pocket, presented itlkat the driver, and intimated that if he moved he would blow his brains out. Having thus enforced obedience, he asked who was inside the vehicle. The servant replied that his mistress was. The robber then rode up to the window, which Mrs. Perkins, thinking some acquaintance desired to speak to her, let down. Her assailant then said, "Give me something!" Mrs. Perkins now perceived his disguise. She answered that she had just returned from shopping at Cambridge, meaning the robber to imply, that she had not much money with her. He replied, "It you do not give me something, I'll blow your servant's brains out," and again presented the pistol at the servant's head. Mrs. Perkins then took a sovereign from her pocket, and gave it him, and he then rode off. After this he would seem to have ridden about the neighbourhood for from two to three hours, as he was seen bypersons who can identify him in several different directicns. He passed Hauxtcn-turnpike, about throe miles from where stopped the brougham about ten minutes past seven, fine, inquired there whether ho could get to Huntingdon with out passing through Cambridge, in which direction, how ever, lie proceeded. Between Hauxton-gate and Trumping ton he met Mr. French, a bricklayer, of Melbourn, who, accompanied by his wife, was on his return home from Cambridge in a cart. He stopped them, and presenting a pistol at Mr. French's head, exclaimed, " Your money or your life!' Mr. French said he was a poor man, and had got nothing, upon which the robber replied, " Well, then, you may go,' and rode off in the direction of Cambridge. The police were communicated with, and the result was that shortly after seven on Sunday morning the fellow was apprehended at a public-house known as the King William, about six miles from Cambridge, on the Huntingdon-road. He had passed the night there, and was dressing for departure, his costume being in the regular Claude Duval style. Upon him was found a single-barrel pistol, capped, and fully loaded with large shot ; a case of lancets and some other surgical instruments, a pocket microscope, and a pho tograph of a lady. He objected to a constable looking at this latter, saying it was not for the gaze of the vulgar. In money he had a half-sovereign and a few shillings. A species of black netted necktie, found in his pocket, is sup posed to have been what he used to conceal his face. He said that he should not have been captured, but that he found comfortable stabling at the King William, and stopped there out of consideration for his horse. He is tall, fair, and about twenty-three years of ago. Ho gives the name of Charles Trevor, wind says he is a medical student, the nephew o' Dr. Smith, " a learned physician and fellow of many learned societies .° He adds that his residence is in Albany-street, Regent's-park. The horse is supposed to love been obtained at some livery stables. There is not the slightest symptom of insanity about the prisoner, who has behaved very coolly since he has been in custody. Ho was charged formally before a county magistrate on Mon. day and remanded. Two more young Hindoos have left Calcutta for England, to study for the Indian Civil Service. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—AII accident of a singular nature is reported. A journeyman tailor, while in the ac'.; of pressing a coat which he had been making, knelt on a needle, accidentally left in the garment. It entered the knee, and broke in two pieces, one of which remained in the limb until it was extracted at the hospital. lle seems not to have taken any alarm at the occurrence, and went about his work as usual ; but in a few days violent inflam mation set in, followed by erysipelas, and his death was the result. The Elberfieid Gazette remarks that, though Count Bismarck is ready enough to impose new taxes on tho people, he is very reluctant to pay taxes himself. His income, it adds, is composed of 4,000 thalers (£600) as Minister for Louenburg, 12,000 thalers (£1,800) as Presi dent of the Prussian Cabinet, 6,000 thalers (S 900) table money, and a free residence ; and if we add to this' £3,300, the , interest on the gratuity of 400,000 thalers (160,000) which he received at Christmas 1567, his wannest friends need not, be anxious about his expendi. tore. Yet, proceeds the Gazette, Count Bismarck has addressed a long petition to the revenue department, in which he not only appeals against being charged income tax on more than one-half of his official income, but asks that fifteen thalers (12 55.) which he paid during the yea. for receipt stamps may be exempted from the tax MR. CUNLIFFE BROOKS, M.P., AND THE EGO-' BESMEARED LADY. —The Preston Herold says:—"A matronly Hyde lady, writing to a female relative in Preston, record' the following incide n t w hi c h cccurred wt the hustings Macclesfield during the declaration of the poll :—" I, :ion% with a party of ladies and gentlemen, visite,' Macclesfield on Monday ; it was the day on which the vll Av't declared. We were 011 the hustings, and I had the plea sure of shaking hands with the member. Mr. euntitfe Brooks. We stood close to him during the time he spolA Miss Emma Turner was . neAt to hint. Avb , :n some one in the crowd below thi otr an egg, .vita th. intention, it is supposed, of hitting Mr. Brooks. The egi broke, and besmeared Miss Turner's dress, when the galiap. member politely drew forth his pocket- haLdketchief and removed the offensive matter. We dined At the sans' hotel Mr. Brooks was staying at, and during the time tau were there Mr. Stanley Egerton came into the room t acertain the name and.addreas of the young lady who dress had been soiled, wad on Monday Miss Emma had ti.e pleasure of being pre: vented with a very handsome btu) orded Zreas!" THE SUN, LO3NDON, TUESDAY EVENII , ..IG, OCTOBER 19, 1860. MISCELLANEOUS NE JVS. /NVESTIGATION Al' BRIDGWATER. The Commissioners who have been probing the depths of electoral iniquity at Bridfrwater have been subjected to some criticism. Nobody denies that their work has been thoroughly done ; but it is com plained that they were too rough in the performance, that they used harsh expressions, and delivered their opinions on the disclosures before them with unwar rantable freedom. No doubt it is a sad thing that a rich voter should be exposed to plain speaking ; but it 'appears that the "World, the Flesh, and the Devil," as the Commissioners are called, have been credited with some sayings which they never employed. They never used the terms " liar," " scoundrel," or "thieves.' But they did give vent to some straightforward opinions, and, as Mr. Price says, "persons who heard the evidence could not be surprised that any honest man should express himself in terms of indig nation at the disclosures which had been made." A. very interesting and instructive ceremony took place at the last sitting. Certificates of indemnify were granted to the bribers and bribees at the last election to the number of 60 oil - 70. Mr. Lovibond did not apply for one of these appropriate rewards, and for an excellent reason—he would not have obtained it. An unhappy grocer, one of the great bribers on the Liberal side, was also refused. The weary reader will be glad to learn that, after this touching ceremo nial, the inquiry was adjourned sine die. So also has that at Norwich. ANGLO-SAXON UNION. being adopted in several pansnes, anu as yeti the fratricidal war from the memories it must leave, good results. The Warwick Union resolved to try it than by the knife eradicated, which, if given its way, yet it was a cancer, which could not be otherwise on Saturday, after a long discussion. They will pay th® ; cost of schooling and medical attendance, and 3s. a week with each child. They also provide an , might have carried the continent back into barbar outfit, and allow Gs. 6d. a quarter for renewal and ism. Yet thousands of good men so abhorred the repair. The opposition to the proposal was altorrether weak. The poor-law inspector of the district, Mr. Peel, thought no workhouse child should be better treated than a labourer's child. The labourers, he said, often had to bring up half-a-dozen children on 14s. a week; and yet here the guardians were going to pay nearly 4s. a week for each child ! The labourer's child (we will suggest to Mr. Peel) often gets no schooling : would he keep a pauper child without education ? The labourer's children are often attired in rags : would he put the children of the State in rags ? They are herded together disgracefully in unhealthy cottages : would he provide such lodgings for the boys and girls thrown upon the parish ? There was greater force, perhaps, in another complaint of Mr. Peel, that the steps taken would lead to more child desertions in the district, but that is by no means proved. prospect of such a strife that they almost preferred to see a slave nation created along their frontier, and carved out of their own territory To sup pose that the very people who thus reluctantly, and impelled by all the political considerations they held most dear, as well as by motives of humanity, would insidiously provoke a war with a weak brother to grasp the territory of their neigh bours, is to imagine that Americans are both knaves and fools, and those who attribute to them such mo tives ought not to be surprised at getting a reply they may not like. Canada will require no guarantee for its independence, for the destiny of Canadians, as far as the Republic is concerned, will always remain in their o wn hands. Someof the States might dislike Ca nadian annexation on any terms, but none of the States would like it except with the assent of nearly all the inhabitants. Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH asserts that by entering the Union Canada would be placed in relations to other countries and especially to Eng land, such as few Canadians would desire ; and we would wish to learn what Mr. SMITH means ? Are the relations of the United States with any country such as Canada would not desire ? We believe the case to be exactly the reverse ; that these relations are such as Canada or any inde pendent nation might eagerly wish to secure. There is a general feeling of friendship on the part of other nations towards the United States, and if the Pro vinces entered the Union, the votes of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rho.le Island, would be all the less likely to lead to a fratricidal war with Eng land, although we are not aware that the,,ferocious Senators from these States, Mr. SPRAGUE included, expressed any desire for flaying alive the British lion. Less likely, because Canadian Senators would be introduced into the Chamber, because there would remain nothing on the Continent to fight about, while the war, which involved Canada on either side, would be neither more nor less than fra tricidal; and less injurious too in case of war, because the combatants could scarcely come into contact ex cept on the ocean. Supposing Mr. S3IITIi'S assertion to be true, that Canada was required to preserve De mocracy in its integrity on the continent, acting as a check to the speed with which the Union travels, it would be all the better to get the break so as to act directly on the train, and we in vain strive to see the force of the Professor's conclusion admitting his pre mises. We believe in a Pan-Britannic Council, and hold, notwithstanding the history of the past, that it is still feasible for all English-speaking people. Had the thirteen colonies remained British they would have insured the transfer of British power and the seat of the Imperial Government to Ame rica. Wherever the larger interests of the people exist there the Government will have to be adminis tered, and England was saved by this disruption from seeing the Imperial Parliament seated on the Potomac instead of on the Thames. If England's colonization ends in creating several distinct and equal nations, we cannot see any insuperable bar to a Council. which might direct the foreign policy of all, and perhaps in a small degree modify the home policy of each. Bat unless all be embraced, such a Council can only be a vanity of vanities, for it will still be the United States versus the British Em pire. We would ask the Professor if he cannot enlarge his ideas and grasp the whole, not leaving I the weightier part outside. (From the Anglo American Times.) Professor GOLDWIN SMITH, in his letter to the Daily A ews, as well as the commentators on it, dis cuss the question of the Canadian connection with Great Britain in a sectional, not a general way. It is this sectional feeling that is the real bar to har mony ; and, although plainly in the way of the material interests and well-being of the Anglo- Saxon race, whether in America or in Europe, yet so strong are prejudices, that the last thought with either section is to remove it. A small portion of the colo nists regard the Professor as a pest, terming him an anti-colonialist, and they foresee ruin to the British Empire in the policy designed to sever the political connection with North America. While Gots)wisT SMITH desires to have the Dominion erected into an independent Power, he yet hopes to see a Pan-Bri tannic Council for the preservation of intimate re lations between the scattered members of the race. Still, as he would broadly separate Canada from the United States, this excludes half the English speak ing people and leaves untouched the real bane of the whole race—its division into rival communities. had England grasped the opportunity opened by the war she might have used it as a powerful at traction to cement a close alliance ; but her action was the reverse, her effort bein g to split the rival por tion of the race into further fragments, though it failed. Webelieve the opportunity to be still open in the entrance of Canada into the Union, coupled with a large and well-directed emigration from Great Britain. and a free outlay of English capi tal on such States as Minnesota and Kansas, as well as in the re-settlement of Virginia and others. This, if practicable, may be regarded as beyond comparison of more importance than a political alliance with Canada or the erection of the Dominion into an independent Power, and it is the great principle which GOLDWIN SMITH and his commentators overlook or dismiss as imprac ticable. Few give it a thought, though nothing can be achieved of true importance which ex cludes the general alliance. It must be acknow ledged that England's advisers have not been happy in their advice on American affairs, nor has the ship of State been well steered among American shoals. This has been mainly caused by an ignorance which is almost laughably displayed in the Saturday Review ; for instance, in its re marks on this very letter. It declares that the Canadian connection with the Crown alone prevented Canada from being swallowed up by the Union, whether the Canadians liked it or not ; that in3ependence would be instantly fol lowed by an unjust and encroaching policy on the part of the Republic, which, if resented, would end in conquest ; and, if not resisted, in absorption. The fact i that the United States i nvaded and conquered its Southern neighbour, wresting from a sister Repub lic half its richest territory, is brought forward as con elusive evidence, the purchase of Alaska being as con elusive of the design of Northern conquest. There is here the ignorance coupled with the perversion of facts, which have done so much to mislead the English people, and they, in their turn, to create a dangerous spirit of ill-will in America. In the first place, if any country in the world ought to know the diffi culty of maintaining intact a border on the other side of which is a semi-civilized nation, it is the British. They established in India a trading com pany that detested war and abjured conquest, for its object was only to make money, not to create an empire. Yet its march from Cape Comorin ended bat at Cabul, its annexations extending crossways from Scinde even to Burinah. That is, it swallowed up every existing thing, from impassable deserts to impassable mountains, while there was scarcely a foot of this territory for which it had any desire. Yet, because in little short of a century the United States becomes involved in a war with as uncivilized a community as any absorbed by the British in India, which results, as such wars always must, in a cession of territory, this is -brought forward as a proof that the Americans are as ready to conquer as they are to purchase provinces. Since that war was in augurated, too, the whole government of the United States has changed. Then the dominant power in the councils of the nation was the slave-holding interest ; aggressive on a principle of self-preserva tion. It would be unjust to judge what the United States would do now, from what it did do then, for the spirit of the Government is altered. Strong as this is, yet it comprises only a small part of the mis representation. The Mexicans were profoundly igno rant, vain-glorious, aggressive, unjust, provoking this war at the time when the helm of State affairs at Washington was in the hands of comparatively un scrupulous men ; while the ease of the Canadians is altogether different. Descended from the same stock, speaking the same language, with no marked difference in government, laws, habits, and inte rests, a war of aggression on the part of the United States would be little less than fratricidal. And for what ?—to add soil to a country of already over grown extent inhabited by a people in all respects like unto themselves—but conquered. So tremen dous are the interests that the United States would in such a course jeopardise,so wholly is it opposed to the spirit of their institutions, that it appears to Ame ricans almost incredible that any respectable Eng lish paper could publish as its opinion that the United States on the birth-day of Canadian Inde pendence would commence towards her a policy of aggression, in view of its leading to a war of con quest. Mr. SMITH gives a colouring to this fallacy by talking of a guarantee of Canadian independence to be given by England. The largest hole picked in his letter was on this point, for, in one breath, he asserts the danger of such a guarantee, as it is, of course, implied in the connection now existing, which he gives as a reason for its severance ; and on the other he prop oses to sever that connection, and after give that guarantee to renew the very danger he advises England to avoid. But Mr. SMITH knows enough of the Republic to be deluded, and we ven ture to assert that, paradoxical as it may appear, he had a truer conception of America generally, before he left England, than he has now. Of this, however, he is aware, that if the Republic swallowed the Do minion, the meal would disagree with her, which the Republic knows. The English papers constantly allude to the tempting bait to aggression which would be offered by Canada's helplessness as an independent Power. They appear to have no conception of American aim and aspiration, nor in any way to understand the position. Conquest, Americans well know to be little less dangerous to the liberties of the conquerors than to those of the conquered. Theaspi ration is to rule by the will of the people from one end of the continent to the other. The principle of the Government is the equal rights of all. Now, we ask any European how conquest can be harmo nised with this doctrine ? Conquest implies a war, a subjugated country, an army of occupation. To conquer and to hold the South was a hateful task ; more hateful as well as dangerous to hold by military force than to conquer. Not only did Unionists ad mit this, but the burden of all their speeches was the danger; indeed,tbey were only spurred on by a greater danger still, and never since the affairs of man began to be told for the instruction of coming gene rations was there an instance recorded of a sovereign government dealing with a suppressed revolution so mildly, using only legal efforts to re-erect the subju gated States on the same footing of self-government as that they had so foolishly attempted to destroy. , the Northern States all the more bitterly regretted MONEY AND BUSINESS. (Front the Wall-street Journal.) FRIDAY EVENING, October 1. The Financial Tornado last week was followed by se veral days of excitement, unparalleled even in Wall street, culminating in the usual New York style, by the issue of innumerable injunctions. The Gold Exchange Bank is injunctioned—the New York Stock and Gold Exchanges—also the leading bulls and bears, in fact every one on whom the expense of an injunction was thought to be worth the cost. So facile, indeed, has the obtaining from our incorruptible elective judges of an injunction become that this little luxury is indispensable to a New Yorker's existence. It is as yet impossible to know who, among the dealers in gold, have or have not failed, although it is absolutely certain that many good houses have foundered. The excitement in the Gold market has naturally extended to stocks, resulting on Wednesday in a fall of 20, 30, 40, and 50 per cent. in many of the leading securities. Of course several stock houses had to succumb, prominent among whom are Lockwood and Co., one of the most ituroitant and honourable firms in the market. We expect, however, that this suspension will only prove to be temporary, and that this long suc cessful firm will shortly resume their position. Charles C. Meigs and Son, a house of the highest integrity, has also been dragged down, and having always enjoyed the confidence of the community, have the utmost sympathy of all parties. Among the minor failures, we note those of Fuller, Treat and Cox, Julian and Co., Keep and Co., &c. &c. To-day affairs in Wall-street show a rapid recovery; the reaction if anything being too speedy. Money on call is easily obtained on ordinary collaterals at 7 per cent. in currency to 7 per cent. in gold, and on,Povernments at 7 per cent. in currency. In discounts there is little change, prime names passing at 12 per cent. Gold is quiet, and closes at about 1301. The notice from the Sub-Treasury for the October sales of bonds, indicates the easy condition of the Treasury finances, and the confidence of the Ad ministration in the continued success of its efforts to in crease the revenue. Tho sale of gold is to be $2,000,000 per week, and the purchase of bonds $2,000,000 per week, the latter in addition to the fortnightly purchase of $1,000,000, which will make an aggregate purchase of bonds for the mouth of October of $10,000,000. The dis bursement of $8,000,000 of gold during the month, with $30,000,000 more for interest on the Ist of November, ought to make the gold market easy for the balance of the business season. Quotations for Specie : Amer. silver... 96 to 98 I Eng. sovs 4BO to 484 Mex. d011ar5...102 „ 104 20 francs 380 „ 384 Eng. silver 470 , 480 I Thalers Five francs .... 95 „ 96 I Foreign Exchange is firm, but the transactions are few, Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lO6l-107 Paris, Bankers 5.271-5.20 5.20-5.171 Bremen, Bankers Hamburgb, l3ankers 34f —354 Frankfort, O.M. 894-40 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.27i-5.20 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 5.27k-5.20 Government Bonds are firm, and show an improvement from 1 to 2 per cent. on the general run of tho list; the demand for currency bonds is especially strong at an ad vance of 3 per cent. on the price of yesterday. Sixes, 1861, registered — to Sixes, 1868, coupon „ . Sixes, 1881, coupon ll9l to 1191 U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lO9 to 1091 Five-twenties, 1862, registered l2Ol to 121 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1855, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 6-20 Coupons, 1868 ll7l to 118 Ten-forties, coupon .. lO9 to 110 Ten-forties, registered — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to Southern and Border State Bonds aro strong, especially North Carolina's and Tennessee's, which have rapidly re covered from the lowest decline. Railroad Stocks aro very active, the heavy fall having brought in large purchasers at advancing prices. Railroad Bonds have, owing to the excitement in the Street, been in better demand, affording to investors, as they do, an absolute security, uninfluenced by the variations of the market. A mong others we direct special attention to the First Mortgage Thirty-Year Seven per Cent. Sinking Fund Bonds of the Southern Central Railroad Company of New York, which are offered for sale by Vermilye and Co., at 871 and accrued interest. N. Y. Central 6e, 1883... Tol. & Wab. Equip 79 N. Y. Central Gs, 1887... 87 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — N. Y. Central Gs, R Est.. 87 Gal. & Chic. Eat 97 N. Y. Central Gs, Sub'n.. 87 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 95 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876... Chi. &R. I. Ist M 97 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76,... 97 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 92 Erie Ist Mort Ex 9B Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... 99 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 95 N. J. Central let M 99 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883... 86 N. J. Central 2d M 100 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880... 851 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M 100 Erio 7s, sth Mort, 1888... 77 Pitts. Ft. W, & Cli. 2d M — Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M, 77 B7 Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M 73 Ilud. R. 7s, Ist AI, 981 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. 99 ILA. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B3 102 . Chic. & Alton, S. F. lst3l. •99 Harlem Ist 31, '6B '72 Mil. & St. Potul Ist 31... 90 Mich. C. Ist 31, 69'72 Mil. & St. Paul 2d M... Mich. new Ist 31 Bs, 'B2 Marietta & Cin. Ist 31... Mich. So., 7p.c. 2d M._ 92 Morris & Essex Ist A 1... 99 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex 2d 31 ... 90 Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 98 Joliet & Chic. Ist n... - 111. Cen. 7p. c '7O 1193 Chi. & Gt. East'u 15t31.... 83 Alton &'l'. If. let 11 921 N. Y. &N. 11. Os .. ... 96 Alton & I'. IL '2d pfd 80/: Dubuque &S.City,lst M. Alton &T. li. 2d 31.1nc. 75 2 . , Peninsula Ist M. lian.& SU. LandWrntsloB - Ohio & Miss. Ist 31 92 Han. & St. J. Con Ohio & Miss. Con. B2 Chi. B. &Q. Ist M 106 'l'ol. P. W. Ist ALE. D... Chi. &N. West, S. 90 Atlantic &G.W. 2d 31. Ohi. AcN. W. Con Cony. 87 Del., Lack., & W., 2d 11. 90 Clii. &N. W. Int B B5 Lake Shore Div. Bonds Chi. & N..W. Ist 31 BB Cleve, P. &t 1 sh. N. 8... Quincy & Tol, - Ist AI, '75 Do : 0.13... 111. & So. lowa Ist 31 - -Union Pacific Gold. 8... 81 , O.Wet. Ist 31, 'BB — Central P.IIR. Gold 8... 92 Gt. 'Western 2d 31 '93 Bl Pacific 1111. guar. by Mo. 90 Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex B4l Express Stocks are steady. Adams American Merchants' Union Merchants' Union, old Stock — to United States 'ill to 521 Wells, Fargo, and Co 172 to 18 Miscellaneous Stocks do not show much activity, ex cepting Pacific Mail, which has advanced 10 per cent. from the lowest price. N. Y. Central xd 1721 Erie Hudson ~ 158 Reading Mich. Central 123 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 94 North-West North-West Preferred 83i Canton 54 Rock Island :Neveland and Toledo Fort Wayne Pacific Mail Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 27} Boston Water Power l3 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers — M & St. Paul M & St. Paul Preferred 81. STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES. The following is the recapitulation of the Troasury Statement issued by Secretary Boutwell on the Ist instant : DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN COIN. Bonds at 5 per Cent. $221,589,300 00 Bonds at 6 per Cent. 1,866,847,500 00 Amount outstanding $2,107,936,800 00 $42,213,660 83 DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONEY. Certificates, 3 per cent. interest Navy Pension Fund, 3 per cent. interest 14,000,000 00 50,545,000 00 Amount outstanding $64,545,000 00 $1,242,262 50 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Demand and Legal Tender Notes 530,114,643 50 Postal and fractional currency 33,001,298 50 Certificates of gold deposited 24,412,720 00 Amount outstanding 413,528,662 00 Debt on which inte rest bas ceased since maturity ... 4,522,696 61 9620,774 62 Total Debt— Principal outstanding 52,590,533,158 61 Accrued interest to date and coupons due not presented for payment 44,076,687 45 Total debt, principal and interest... $2,634,609,856 00 AMOUNT IN THE TREASURY. Coin Currency Sinking Fund in U.S coin interest bonds, and interest col lected and accrued thereon Other U. S. coin in terest b nds pur chased, and ac crued int'st there on 34,625,962 50 166,114,783 98 Amount of public debt, less cash, Sinking Fund, and purchased bonds in Treasury 52,468,495,072 11 Amount of public debt, less cash, Sink ing Fund, and purchased bonds in the Treasury on the Ist ult 52,475,962,501 50 Decreaso of Public Debt during the past month Decrease since March 1, 1869 BONDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES, INTE s REST PAYABLE IN LAWFUL MONEY. Amount interest accrued Character of Issue. outstanding. not yet paid. Union Pac. Co., 6 . p. c 526,638,000 00 8400,548 97 U. P., East Div., 6 p. c 6,303,000 00 94,545 00 Sioux City & Pee., 6p.c 1,623,320 00 24,424 80 t Central Pacific, 6p. c ... 2,362,000 00 29,444 22 {22,009,000 00f 329,549 86 Central Branch U. P. to • assignees of Atchinson and Pike's Peak, 6 p.c 1,600,000 00 24,000 00 Western Pacific, 6 p. c. 640,000 00 6,272 88 Total issue 861,180,320 00 $903,785 73 :nterest paid by United States $4,984,822 54 nterest repaid by transportation, &e 1,643,952 15 Balance of interest due United 5tate5...53,340,870 39 NOTE. —The $3,000,000 United States Bonds purchased on the 29th (Wednesday) and the $1,000,000 coin sold on the 30th (Thursday) have not been included in the above statement, the details of the transaction not having been received at the Department. The Assistant Treasurer at New York has redeemed $1,451,487 77 Three per Cent. Certificates out of the Reserve in his hands for that pur pose. The item is not included in this statement. The foregoing is a correct statement of the public debt as appears from the books and Treasury returns in the Department at the close of business on the last day of September, 1869. GEORGE S. BOLTTWELL, Secretary to the Treasury. MR• BOUT WELL'S DESPO7ISM. (From the Anglo-American Times.) A controversy has arisen on the subject of Secre tary BOUTWELL'S use of the Treasury gold in break ing down the " bull" clique, and many condemn his course as an unjustifiable interference on the part of the Government. Into this question Eng lish as well as American papers have entered. The Times considers that had the lesson been carried to its end its precepts would have been made the more im pressive, their value being enhanced by their higher cost. It calls the interference a glaring departure from all the sound rules of public economy, while admitting that Mr. BoUTWELL may be authorised by circumstances in the financial position of the United States. The Economist regards the Secretary of the Treasury as a financial despot such as the world has never seen. It is in his power completely to control the market, to make his own fortune and that of his friends, or to mar the operations of others by a whis per. The Economist holds this to be an improper and dangerous power in the hands of any man, while assured the present Administrationwill only use it in what they consider to be the country's good, though that paper does not favour Mr. BOUTWELL'S views on finance. The Philadelphia Ledger entertains quite a different opinion as regards the. Secretary's power. For instance, it calls his sale of 41,000,000, which was generally supposed to have broken down the gold clique on the celebrated Friday, a mere drop of water on a hot brick. It is preposterous, says the Ledger, to suppose that it is possible for the Secretary of the Treasury to control the gold. market, or, what is popularly termed, to put down the gold " premium," where the operations are of such magnitude, and it evidently regards the attemp t to do so as in a high degree improper as well as useless. The Nation strenuously condemns the in terference of the Secretary, asserting that should he take any part he will be made in a large number of cases the mere tool of speculators, or the public will suspect him of being so, which, considering the magnitude of the interests committed to his discre tion, would be a calamity only second to the real loss of his integrity. The World earnestly warned Mr. BOUTWELL against the doctrines of Mr. Ho- RACE GREELEY and of Mr. BIGELOW, particularly in allusion to a meeting these gentlemen were to hold on the arrival of the Secretary of the Treasury at New York, whom it terms " the loyal league bears' in gold ;" Mr. BOUTWELL being urged not to institute inquiries touching the alleged conspiracy, and even if a conspiracy exists, not to notice it as being no business of his. The Evening Post took strong ground in censuring the action of the Secretary, terming it " the greatest defeat the Treasury had met with under the present Administration." The Post writes in grief over what it regards as a grave blunder, believing that in taking this part in a bear and bull contest Mr. BOUTWELL has stimulated in stead of checking the pernicious gambling practices. Most of the New York papers take the same view, though his action is strenuously upheld by the 7ri bune. There is much contradiction in the opinions expressed; for instance, nothing cap, be further asun der than those of: the London Economist and the Phila delphia Ledger. According to the one Mr. BOUT WELL holds the financial affairs of the Union by his control of the gold market within the hollow of his hand; according to the other, his power of selling gives him no control whatever, being swamped in the mag nitude of the operations. Of the two, the Ledger, we believe, to be furthest astray, while considering that both are in error. Where the former errs is in put ting on a par the bona fide transactions of the Secre tary with the paper work of the speculators ; at the same time, too, it clearly and forcibly points out the difference. The nature of such speculative operations may be gathered from these facts. From the Wed nesday to the Friday, during which the battle raged, a good deal over $1,000,000,000 in gold were bought and sold. There is not in the United States a third part of this quantity ; indeed it is said that there could not be obtained in New York outside the Treasury enough to make up the sum of twenty millions. While these gentlemen were buying and selling thus furiously the transfer of the metal at the day's end seldom reached to a couple of millions. When then genuine business was done, the actual gold being thrown on the market, its weight even in comparatively smallquantities was instantly felt, for literally men who did not want it found it a great deal too heavy to carry. At the time the " bull" opera - tions were at their height small parcels poured out in various directions, and men hawked the gold about TENANT-RIGHT. The Irish movement in favour of "fixity of tenure and fair rents" is increasing in proportions. A requi sition mustering 1,000 signatures has been put forth in favour of a series of county meetings, and these are accordingly to be held. Sir John Gray heads the list of names. The Freeman, which is the pioneer of the agitation, writes with increasing boldness and -vigour ... . One class of property, the improvements made by the tenant, is created by him as he would create a hat, a watch, a pair of shoes, and to rob him of that property is a moral felony of the deepest dye. The other is a property inwhich society as well as the tenant is interested—his moral right to continue in occupation of the farm ho cultivates. The power to evict capriciously is incompatible with the existence of this solid marketable property—the occupancy right. That power must cease to exist, and the tenant must by law have his property in the occupation of the farm he tills as securely protected as is the landlord's pro perty in his fee simple. The battle is not, however, to be a one-sided affair. The landlords have met at Cork to consider the means of meeting this assault ; andit is understood that they have resolved to set up a defensive organisation. MR. MOOR E, M.P. The Amnesty Committee in Dublin have given up their functions. This news is all the more satisfac tory because Mr. Moore, M.P., thereby pales his ineffectual fire. What has led him to come down from his eminence is not quite clear, but the deter ruination is wise, both for himself and the incar cerated Fenians. A member of Parliament who declares that we rule by the sword, and that the gal lows and the dungeon are our chief supporters, is not likely to achieve much in the interests of his impri soned brother patriots. Mr. Moore holds that "the time for talk is past, and the time for action not yet come." What performance is to intervene between talking and acting it is not easy to guess; in most affairs of life, when the one ends the other beg,ins. Nevertheless, • the member for Mayo is quite right. The time for action has not yet arrived. But it will come. When the sentences of the prisoners are fulfilled, and they walk out, Mr. Moore may take useful action by transporting himself and his amiable protégés to a land where tyranny is less severe, and where the gallows is not yet an institution. COMPTTLSOInt EDITCATION. Mr. Mundella regards the present state of educa tion in America as a strong argument in favour of enforced attendance. The United States have made munificent provision forp üblic instruction; it is offered gratuitously to every child, and public opinion is very strongly in its favour; but yet the result is not satisfactory. Education in America is better than here, but a large class of the community is gradually sinking into ignorance. The efforts made in the Republic are, indeed, immense. To fourteen States and territories of the Union, Congress had, up to 1866, given 53,000,000 acres of public lands for the support of sch ooLs ; and at least 50,000,000 doll. bad been given for the same object by private persons. In several States more than 50 per cent. of the local taxes are imposed for the maintenance of common schools. All this, however, does not avail. There are above a million white persons in America who can neither read nor write, and most of these aro native-born Americans. Many of the best authorities in the States declare that enforced attendance is the one thing needed. Ono says : " I shall refer to the Prussian system of education only so far as to call attention to that familiar feature cf it which makes the education of the whole people compul sory, and I do this because I believe if wo shall ever hope to derive the best possible fruits from our own munificent system of education this feature must be incorporated iu it." If this bo the case in America, asks Mr. Mundella, how must we in England be situated, for undoubtedly our educational provision is much less ample ? CATTLE DISEASE. Whatever may be the value of the Contagions Diseases (Animals) Act, it is, at all events, not allowed to remain a dead letter. One thousand six hundred and two animals suffering from foot and mouth complaint have been slaughtered at British ports under the Act. Most of them were sheep, and the great majority were brought to London. The farmers have long complained of the want of a plan to check the importation of diseased cattle. A stringent system is now getting a fair trial. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT LONG EATON. Tho dissatisfaction with the coroner's inquest touching the railway accident which occurred a week ago on the Midland line is by no means on the wane. The jury themselves complain that the inquiry was unfairly conducted, and that the coroner showed a decided bias in favour of the railway company. A railway official was present during the proceedings, and frequently interfered. No evidence of import ance was taken except that given by the company's servants. The jury were driven, at least so they say, into giving an ill-considered verdict, by the threat of the coroner to lock them up all night if they did not come to an immediate decision. Under these circumstances. they recorded a verdict of "Accidental Death," although the evi dence sheaved that a loaded excursion train had been sent off only five minutes before the fast mail. The matter, however, is not to rest with this result. On Saturday a Government enquiry was held, but the proceedings were private. ANO l'ilk:8 ABDUCTION. The abduction of Colonel Hickie's child by its nurse is not, it appears, the only event of the kind that has happened recently. "Pater " comes forward with a recent occurrence somewhat similar in its type to that related by Colonel Hickie. The sub stance of his tale is that his child, while playing on his doorstep in the metropolitan village of Tedding ton, on Thursday afternoon last, was invited by a tramp to take a walk, and refusing, was carried off forcibly ; quieted by a threat of instant death if he cried out ; prevented from struggling by the fear of a knife which was several times drawn across his throat, and thus con veyed ten miles from home; finally escaping while the ruffian—confident in the child's inability to 6:tt back—was regaling himself at a public-house. The Telegraph makes this story a peg upon which to hang an appeal for a more efficient police. THE ANTI-PICKPOCKET SOCIETY. The imagination has given to London much that it does not possess ; but does not often bestow upon it a more interesting profession than that which has been discovered (probably in his inner consciousness) by an artistic correspondent of an Anglo-French journal. We are by him informed of a new association, one formed, it would appear, to raise the dead level of the labour depres sion. The society calls itself "Anti-pickpocket,' and its object is to keep the public thoroughly awake to the danger run in the streets. The modus operandi is as follows :—A young man—the operator—takes away a gentleman's handkerchief from his pocket if possible without his knowledge; returns it to him; and in so doing opens his coat showing by a label on his breast that ho is an anti-pickpocket. The gentleman may be supposed in honour to pay the man who has roused his wits ; and thus while the real pick pocket's work becomes more difficult, his opponent obtains a living. There is, no doubt, something to'be said on the part of this new " honest trade ; ' still we would rather keep our handkerchiefs in our pockets, and decidedly object to be taxed for having our own things given back to us. It is with relief, therefore, that we learn that nobody knows anything of the new association but the writer in the Inter national. TURNED OUT TO DIR. There was a curious story, one hard to pass judg ment upon, related on Saturday last before one of the metropolitan coroners. A woman, the wife 61 L labourer out of employment, was confined oh the 30th ult.. in the City of London Hospital. Sho was seized within a few days with puerperal fever—an infectious disease—and became very noisy, so that those with her in the ward were not able to rest. She was kept in the hospital until the fever left her, but was then as quickly as possible dismissed. The removal to her home was too much for her ; she relapsed into a state of coma, never rallied, and died insensible. The hospital doctor defended the removal, though what his defence consisted of does not appear. The jury, however, were convinced by it, and returned a verdict of " Death from natural causes." TUE BOARDING-OUT SYSTEM'. The svatkun of boarding: out workhouse children is striving in vain to get any price for it apptoacbing to that shouted in the Gold Room. In Phi ladelphia about 15 per cent. less than the New York quotations was offered for the actual coin, yet in half an hour the man who bought it was a heavy loser. Orders came from California to sell whatever gold was then at the disposal of the San Francisco mer chants, but during the frantic purchasing momenta illy progressing in the gold mart, 1411, just 20 per cent. less, could only be got for the genuine article. The bogus nature of the transactions play be gathered from this, and it is evident that although the bull operators were compelled gradually and for many days before the real fight to buy up all offering, even when most of the floating gold was in their hands, and they were declaring their inten tion to send the price up to 200, a genuine seller could not secure for his gold much beyond the or dinary price, from which the clique had pushed it up. Nor could these transactions stand without the 1 11 ; terference of the Treasury the test of a few dais trial, and when the Treasury became the seller they could not stand at all. They were merely directed to catch and to corner the known operations of the " bears," who bad sold short at 131-2. Fisic an d GOULD, and the other leaders on the "bull" side, Wer e 'aware that such a contest could not be prolonged for many hours, and they only hoped to outlast the Pe riod when the " bears" had to settle, and even that they could not do, although they frightened many who were operating against them into a settletneti at from 148 to 150, but at the time when they h ad run the price up to and over 160. Gold is a unive rsal ' commodity, and if its value in New York rises abov e its value in London, Paris, and India, and other countries, the yellow stream would quickly flovr to New York from all directions, even FISK'S On tions being responded to by the Banks of Eng l3l3 , and of France, as well as by San Francisco, while l ittle boards were unearthed in many parts of the Unl el3 ; Mr. BOUTWELL'S power is limited, for although , may command a momentary control over the Ne" York market, yet, as he could not outlast a few days' he is not the financial despot the Economist imagin es • We grant that nearly £lOO,OOO a day are requir ed by the import merchants to pay the Customs' to that they have also to export a considerable Sura ut foreign merchants to pay for those goods, b . , neither the one nor the other is at any moment Inl i f perative unless the merchant has committed Win% by contract to the delivery of coin. He can settle w i l' er the foreigner by transferring 5-20 Bonds or cter, disposable securities to be sold in the foreign u` 3 ,a ket for gold, with which to pay his creditor ; he can delay passing his goods through the Cast t e is House till he can get the gold from Europe, i f 1 4. procurable there cheaper than at home. Mr. Beet WELL'S power to paralyse the New York war up rather consists in his selling gold and locking 04 , currency, whereby he could produce a string? ~*:1 But he could not go beyond half the sum con tatou bieh in the Treasury, a considerable portion of w does not belong to the Government, and of th e P oi to tion which does, a part must always be retaine the meet the accruing interest on the Bonds. 0 ! t o, V 700,000,000 in notes passing in the United Sta _ii , Mr. BOUTWELL could not lock up one hundred 'to lions, and although in doing what he could be webo materially fetter trade, yet we maintain he ti) nothing like the power attributed to him by gat Economist. What greater power has be O lg a than his predecessor had ? who, it is a.sser t r e iroa , America and generally believed, ran the tor s ; Bury, in conjunction with a knot of spec ula oo nevertheless, we have not learnt that h e el s e. a fortune either for himself or for anybody i ou t The truth is, that fortunes are not to be create' of of airy nothings ; and although the Seeret arl i At the Treasury, if he were a dishonest man , .T:hi plunder the people out of a considerable PlOO operating in Wall-street in anticipation Of hi oa c• transactions, yet it could not be done as ral rule, and what could be done would requir e lcor l delicate handling. Men learn daily in New o r• the vanity of these operations in gold, an d the tainty that, if persisted in, they will bring theica, ruin but it is painful to observe how little e ais o lated the experience of others is to prove thi s tr ov er to each individual. Fathers of families bur r y tell breakfast to get down to " business," a s they old their wives, which consists in speculating iu1:84,0 and stocks, and both they and the wornee tort trust in them actually believe that they are et:ge'arcl in business. So does a gambler prickingh ls . , a sl at a roulette table at Baden-Baden, and Wit h " truth. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—DeIte r 1:1 „,11 ° , l Friday, Shit. 24, at a New York race-courso, 8 111— j e s cli`' stable door, but did not hurt himself. He afterw Br i , a mile in 2.2l.—There is an old lady in New I. , °r ;frl e thinks she owns the City Hall, and every month ' ° l3 . Of / ral years has made a formal demand for the rent" b irth tells the story of a man, aged 104, who, on his in ° . a th e f: day, ordered a pair of shoos, saying he Want stoutly built. The shoemaker remarked that Votoiftea r not live to wear them out, but he sharpllthanll° that he began this 100 years a good deal 15 trOng er 1 4 1 did the last one.—A domestic romance com es fr,„°,93- York. Twenty-two years ago a couple wer e ma ter one son, lived together ten years, and then, al% t , all their property, procured a divorce. The W °l3l- 01 r e ; ried again, and got a fortune : the husband didn't , VG mained poor. And now that the woman hau pec lr e esef widow,she has re-married her first husband. c, —.A c ", E re' deuce published in a Washington paper shows 1 1° vr natera•s pnmleeaostuisnse g e n n ga t e h rr u ett s ou i argsnemth' up i mp s manufactured. f a rs n oe u mr f e a nc c aa t d u pe r c: e d. A Connell ° 1313 ' ur"e' ll w a ith 'w " :° W te e sloe°tille t ° hr °l) % l; transparencies, he, the Councilman, to pal °ll ..relle d '-a0 The serenader and serenaded having since Dy .,. ory correspondence is exposed to an admiring wort erg works were the most popular books at the p e r t" ; a 0 8( trade sale, thanks to Mrs. Stowe.—A Texall I)rha9-4# the Byron controversy, which was a bore at 11i t s i t a"g ciTtb e become an " artesian well of the most excrucla den sions."—The 10 acres allotted for a botan ic g ar r , r P 1 ' 3 0 41 Amherst Agricultural College will be laid out b y l,7 r i Ce rt il beir of New York the chief gardener of the Ne w Ctrs ° e ra park, and the junior class will devote the work "qi ie r term in removing rubbish preparatory to f tions. It is proposed to grow all plants which ea no ornclai, vated in Massachusetts grouping those of the su Fr 00 Deluging rains fell in Minnesota on Thursdal.'soipPirtioll nights, the 23d and 24th Sept., and the 3. 1 2 65 r 1 0at P,, ° o Minnesota rivers were again overflowsd. by sP O, OOv of the hay crop is ruined. The loss of wlle t `i Ar ° o lo.: cent storms in Minnesota is estimated 1 bushels.—Two of the highest peaks of the Pock p ris° 3 tot talus have been named Yale and Ilarvard.---`,l" cl 9 1 0 11 ' in Ludlow-street Gaol, New York, contribll4o to the Avondale sufferers.—The Israelites 01 oc ietll o ,l cisco have organised an immigra tion °motile aid their brethren in Europe to go to 4 : 0 .0 ° 10' The Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco 16'0000; in favour of a postal telegraph system — T he Wasp il sit.i i) ; guage is to be taught in the public schools of ~e OO l, e j I —The Pioneer Association of California have been Philadelphia. It is composed of gentlemen WP" ,ot ge , California in the years 1849 and 1850, who t wo East since then. The association has about. e a 0, 0 56 members.—Mrs. Eloisa Hoffmann has obta ll 'a st. ' s ogg amounting to $12,000, from the Hannibal al l , o year,. V I Railroad, in Missouri , for injuries received thr;l —The steam collier 'Rattlesnake, sunk a 11 , ?;,...100vi, been raised and towed to New York for rePla a ci Sylvanus Thayer, of South Braintree, has . fii t 8` of ' making $60,000 in all, to his endowraen , cl i e g • 1, , 0 School of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth I„iie a t zog, the famous running horse that made the best time on record, died at Cincinnati, for tied% Buckeye track. Ills owner refused 61 5 , 0 , 00 I° D ' eao,i i ° o 6e c f, a week before his death.—A seminary "a s s for near Berlin to educate preachers and teach,;rd " t „,,t0 5 •„0 man emigrants in North America. It is oat'? ft ed haus (star house), after the banner of the .. 11 ,,,„ 0 10 ;1 lj ,4, President Grant has issued a proclamation 4"iviege .i 18th November as a day of national thart"B 1111 ' f 0 311:i d$ captain of the United States steamer .ne on f oe feted at Sydney. It is reported that the oe ived o f Ne an American protectorate.— Dr. Kirk has Fr sth , l b ," from Dr. Livingstone, dated Lake Bangllite t ° 0 1 '40 1868, saying : —"I have found what I b e e i deg ' i on sources of the Nile, between 10 deg. a, 11 „„i r it5:: „.,,,, , Dr. Livingstone was in good health all ( ' letter was dispatched. E R A Y I,KL A aLy N riak — On Gibraltar, on tfoß7Ttlflitt the W if° °f Alseli : : of a daughter. lAms— '7 f Cie , 0 a daughter. 4c , t ' l. the 18th inst. Mrs. Theodora italli, 0 1., ~ f l i ia, D tc WILL Hoiosvav, O l n v t i tte 17th inst., at Plas Dra , v , I '? — CO \Vales, the wife of WatkinWilliami, 31. r., of 6 n er MARRIAGES. ~, 1:11/rto HARRIS—POTTER—On iittni Faun •' y Potter, of Gorringe Park, Mitobare• ~. e,,,l''' ; ‘ , M'GLAsHAN—CROON. -On the 16th inst., at P` t i g o,.l4 ., Ilackney, John M'Glashan, Esq., Cromwell ii ii ° ,, lel ° jthoehnl6tihdrnrsits7 aotfStis.,Jootrio's'o3l,o, lay, to Adelaide Louisa, fourth dau,hter of t J. Croak, Esq., ' s ' Five c ' t°°. of alio Lfouses, Clap.. T DEATDS. it dieoel(s lIAr " FENDEN -On the 18 th inst at 'Unwell, A-i'l . „ato ol KINGSTON—On the 18th i Haenden, Esq. aged Bus 3 . f .15.1.0e .t aged 65. ' Robert, 31•1 ° r t tla ca' 11:013:400 11 NEEDIIAM—On the 17th inst ., at 3, gardens, Mrs. Mary Needham. vto rs' AND- foilf London: Printed and Published by WILLIA3„.' 01, 6 " - , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN °Rice '' ° m i . cial°v in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of '- Tuesday, October 19, 18j2. ~ ~ 4 j