The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-09 00:00:00

THE IRISH CHURCH TEMPORALITIES SURPLUS. It will be of interest to recall some information obtained at the taking of the last Irish census in 1861. It was ascertained that there were at that time 4,930 deaf and dumb persons in Ireland—that is to say, one in 1,176 of the population. It appears also that there were 723 persons dumb but not deaf, making, with the former number, 5,653, or one in every 1,026 of the population ; and 6,542 other persons were deaf only. Official returns obtained from 21 countries in Europe and North America shewed a mean of only one person deaf and dumb in 1,526 of the population. There were 6,879 blind persons in Ireland, being one in 843 of the popu lation ; the mean of the returns from 21 countries was only one in 1,267. The number of lunatics in Ireland was 7,065, or one in 821 of the population ; the mean of returns obtained from 19 countries was only one in 1,036. The number of idiotic persons in Ireland was 7,033, or one in 825 of the population ; the mean of returns obtained from ten countries was only one in 1,261. Persons who are idiotic and also dumb, or deaf and dumb, have probably been here reckoned in two classes ; but it seems plain enough that Ireland has a large share of persons in a state of affliction and destitu tion, which people of every faith feel it a religious duty to relieve. There were 4,120 persons in Ireland lame or decrepit, one in 1,40 S of the population ; but it does not appear how many of them were prevented from earning their living. There were 28,193 persons sick at their own homes, being one in 203 of the population ; and 26,699 of them were prevented by their illness from following their usual occupation. THE DECAY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. It is very unsatisfactory to find that before the new Houses of Parliament have been fully completed, they are actually decaying in parts ; and the same estimates include votes for the building itself, and for the appliances to arrest the progress of destruction. The stone of which it is constructed was taken from a Yorkshire quarry on the recommendation of a commission appointed to inquire into the subject, but almost immediately after being placed in position, this particular stone began to shew signs of decay. The facade of the building was marked by large patches, and the Gothic tracery of the architecture was sadly disfigured. So far back as 1857 various processes for preserving the stone were tried on different parts of the building, and subsequently Professor Faraday and Sir Roderick Murchison were requested to give their opinions on the relative merits of such methods. They concurred in awarding the pre-eminence to the process of M. Szerelmy, of which. the particulars arc, of course, a secret. Professor Faraday, in his report, said that so far as a judgment could be formed upon two years' experience, he believed that the process would sustain its character for a lengthened period of time. " I do not find," said the learned professor, "in other parts of the building, where M. Szerelmy's application is more than two years old, any signs of exfoliation, or de fection of the prepared face of the stone, or any grounds for fear in that respect." The process has been applied with equal success to the iron of the roof, which was deteriorating at an equally rapid rate. Part of it had been coated with zinc or galvanised iron. This had scarcely been fixed when it shewed signs of premature oxydation. M. Szerelmy's preparation was applied to one of the affected parts, and also to the gilding of the clock tower. On a careful examination last year, it was found that the portion treated with the preservative material was perfectly sound, while the rest of the roof had suf fered more or less from atmospheric influences. The First Commissioner of Works has accordingly directed that the remainder of the roof should be covered with the composi tion. Meanwhile the stonework chews signs of disintegra tion, and there is some ground for the anticipaticn that, so far as external appearances are concerned, the new Palace at Westminster will shortly look as ancient as the venerable Abbey, which reckons as many centuries as Sir Charles Barry's costly building can reckon years. M. Szerelmy's process is capable of application to many kinds of building materials. Experiments have been tried on stone, brick, iron railings, and timber, with very gratifying results. Pieces of timber coated with the preparation have been sunk for two years in the water at Portsmouth, and are now perfectly sound. Textile fabrics are also rendered waterproof and indestructible by it. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. The several opportunities of judging of their relative capabilities that have been afforded by the daily per formances of the University eights since their arrival at Putney have revealed two facts. The first is, that in point of form the Oxford men are not nearly up to the standard of last year, and the second, that the Cambridge crew exhibit a marked improvement in their style of row ing. This statement must, however, be taken with this saving reflection, that the time between this and next Wednesday week will probably do more in the way of remedying the defect of the former than it will in intensi fying the good quality of the latter. The idea conveyed to most people by a careful scrutiny of the two eights is that the latent power of the one (combined with the use of that long, sweeping stroke for which the Isis is pro verbial) will, if it can be licked into shape by the day of the race, make it a hard tussle for the other to redeem for Cambridge the honour of holding the blue riband of the Thames. There are some who affect to see already a great improvement in the Oxford men, but it cannot be said that this is apparent to the generality of the spectators who watched the boats from the banks. To them it seems that the respective position of the crews is much what it was when they first put in an appearance on the London river last week. The manner in which those who have trained on the Cam lay themselves down to their work, and the firm hold they manage to get of the water, makes their every stroke tell. They have been, and still are, admirably coached by Mr. Morrison, and if they are fated to be beaten again, it may be predicated', that it will only be after a thoroughly game race, and one in which they will have displayed a degree of scientific rowing much in advance of that which has characterised their efforts for some years past. Of the betting little can be said with certainty, except that Oxford has the pull. Times are early yet for the registration of any extensive transactions, opinions on the merits of the crews beingof necessity somewhat crude. Each day will tend to the true settlement of the odds. At present the ruling figure is 7 to 4 on Oxford. LORD MILTON, M.P.—Lord Milton, M.P., has been obliged to withdraw temporarily from parliament a• y life in consequence of a severe attack of inflammation in the eyes, which has required him to confine himself to a darkened room. His lordship is progressing favourab'y towards reCoverY.. At the Warwick Board of Guardians Lord Leigh introduced his proposal for establishing a central union school for the permanent pauper children of that county, provided the other unions in Warwickshire concur in the scheme. His lordship mentioned that it would be conducive to economy and efficiency in the training of children. The result of the decision will be an application w the boards of 'the various unions in the county asking them to co-operate. THE COURT OF CHANCERY AND ITS FUNDS...—. :Returns issued on Monday shew that in the year ending October 1 last the total payments from the "suitors fund" of the Court of Chancery were £51,583 35., and the sale of stock (to raise 206,000, pursuant to the " Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865 "), £222,608. The surplus tereat carried over to the "suitors' fee fund account" was £56,468135. 6d., and the balance on the Ist of October, 1868, was £16,023 19s. 3d. cash, and £3,513,111 Os. 6d. stock. The total payments from the " suitors' fee fund account" in the year ending November 25, 1858, were £164,231 10s. 3d., and the balance left after deducting that amount from the total receipts was £181,998 15s. 6d. THE OPERA.—WouId the fashionable and music loving world grieve very much if, after all that has been said 'and written of the fusion of the two Operas, the arrangements to that effect were to break down? Not much, we fancy. But if, as we believe, we are correctly informed, this is precisely what has already happened. We might do an unintentional injustice were we to give the explanation which has reached us of the circumstances which have led to this failure. Enough that certain con. ditions were put forward on the one side which could not be accepted on the other, and that, as the nett result, the public will get the hellcats of competition instead of those of monopoly. It is raid that Mr. Mapleson will have the great advan!: g: of Mr. Costa's sup port as c mdL•tor at Her Majesty', theat re, which will lie ready for opening eery early iu the season. • MR. MUCH; SHELLEY, AND CHARLES LAME. The new President of the Board of Trade once expressed to the writer of this notice his wait of sympathy with Shelley, which, doubtless, he k hares with all th,3 " friend ;;" but the literary portion of the society, we believe, have always felt an interest in that poet, and it was 'Arr. Bright's Navin;; quoted him in one of his :Teed es that led to the disavowal of sympa',lly reLrred to above. Apparently Mr. Barton had made some inquiry about him of Lamb, for tl.e later says, " Shelley.l saw once. Hit:. voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with, ten thousand times worse than the Laureate's whose voice is the worst part about him except his laureate! ship. Lord Byron opens upon him on Monday, in a parody, I suppose, of the ' Vision of Judgment,' in which latter the poet, I think, did not much spew his. To award his heaven and his hell in the presumptuous manner he has done was a piece of immodesty as bad as Shelleyisna. The Churclonares Shielding Magazine. THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION PETITION Mr. D'Eyncourt has just given his decision on the appli cation made on behalf of Colonel Dickson, late candidate for Hackney, for a summons against a solicitor named Jenkins, for having, by means of corrupt practices, con spired to procure the return of Mr. Smith, the Conserva tive member for Westminster. A written information, signed by Colonel Dickson, was laid before his worship. It stated as follows :—" On the 16th of October last, after a public meeting in Hackney, for which place I was also a candidate, I was informed by some of my committee that a gentleman had been clown that day in the borough for the purpose of seeing me, as he had sum of money to hand over to me—they said some £soo—to assist me in paying my expenses ; and he wanted to know my address, which they gave him. On the following morning a gentleman called on me, giving the name of Howard. This gentleman told me he bad been down in Hackney the day before, and that he wanted to see me, and to know if I would allow myself to be put in nomination for another metropolitan borough. I told him that I thought standing for one was enough at a time. I asked him what borough he meant. He at first said he would rather not say, and then said, What do you think about Westminster ?' I said, I would not go against our friend, Mr. Mill. He then said, ' What do you say about Grosvenor ?' I said I should not mind if it did not hurt Mr. Mill, as I had no love for the Grosvenors, having suffered enough wrong and injustice by my connection with Lord Wilton. He then said £5OO was at my service if I consented to stand for Westminster, and £5,000 to pay the expenses if required, and he added, Will you think about it?' I told him I would, and he said a deputation would wait upon me if I would allow them. I said the following Thursday would suit me best. I said the deputation could meet me at the Adelphi Club, Adelphi-terrace, but he said they had better meet at my house. I asked him his name and address in town. He said his name was Howard, and that he did not reside in London, but bad come that morning from Weybridge, where he had been fishing. The whole of this conversation was heard by a gentleman who was present. I appointed some of my committee to meet at my house on the follow ing Thursday (October 22nd). Also Mr. Edmond Beales and Mr. Odger. They came on the Thursday, and remained some considerable time, but Mr. Howard and his deputation never put in an appear ance." The information then went on to say that Mr. Jenkins accosted the Colonel, and spoke to him on the same subject on the 26th of January. He said Mr. Howard had so styled himself, but that in reality he was his (Jenkins's) father. Light now seems to have beamed on the Colonel. Was not Mr. Jenkins one of Mr. Smith's agents? Would it not be for Mr. Smith's benefit to divide the Liberal party in Westminster ? So Mr. Jenkins was called upon for an explanation of the matter, but (according to the information) refused to give any, saying, "He should deny having had anything to do with the matter." I Colonel Dickson, however, having first spoken peaceably to him, received the offer of another borough. "Mr. Jenkins," the information concludes "admitted to Mr. ' Cobb that be had sent his father to me under the name of Howard, and it has been proved on the trial that Mr. Thomas Jenkins, also his father, Mr. William Jenkins, alias Howard, were agents for Mr. Smith. Also that Mr. William Jenkins, alias Howard, produced a bundle of bank-notes to my committee. In giving judgment, Mr. D'Eyncourt said he had been carefully through the declaration as set forth, and he had quite come to the conclusion that the offence it charged the party with—supposing it to be an offence—did not come under the cognizance of the Act (the Act for the Preven- ! tion of Bribery and Corruption). He could not see how 1 it could be construed into bribery where a person offers money or gives money to a candidate to procure his return. Suppose a man having a son a candidate, and he chooses to supply money to that son for his expenses, that could not be termed bribery. The offer of money in this case was to procure his (the Colonel's) own return. He (the learned counsel) says the offer of money was to procure the return of Mr. Smith. He could not say whether it was a case that came within the intention of the Act. He did not think the Act contemplated such a case as this. Then as to conspiracy and mis demeanour, there was not sufficient evidence for him to grant summonses for these. He declined granting. the summonses. Mr. Littler : I wish to say that the imputations against Colonel Dickson have been disproved. Mr. D'Enycourt considered he was clear of all imputa tion. After thanking his worship for his trouble, all parties left the court LAW AND POLICE AN INDIAN TITLE.—A case is now before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in which the question involved is the title to the throne of Tepperah of the Hills and an income of £60,000 a year. The appellant, who brings the case from Bengal, claims the disputed property from a younger brother. The discussion on the case will probably occupy the week. TfIE LANGIIA3I HOTEL COMPANY. —A case connected with the Longhorn Hotel Company was heard before the Master of the Rolls on Monday. It will be remembered that some time since the company was ordered to be wound up under the supervision of the court, when three gentlemen were appointed liquidators. Summonses were taken out on the apportiontment of the remuneration which, by agreement, the new company, who have bought the hotel, and are now carrying it on successfully, have contracted to pay. His lordship thought no order could be made on the summons as to the appor tionment of the remuneration. When joint liquidators were appointed for the winding up of a company, their interests were those of a partnership, and must be left to their own arrangements, otherwise litigation would follow wherever there was a joint apportionment of liqui dation. A CRICKETING DIFFICULTY.—A case interesting to .ricketers came before Vice-Chancellor Malins on Mon day. The plaintiff, a cricket bat and ball manufacturer, of Kennington-road, named Page, filed a bill to restrain Messrs. Wisden and Maynard, cricketing outfitters, of Coventry-street, from publishing and selling a cricket-scoring sheet, invented by the well-known Frederick Lillywhite. The plaintiff affirmed that he had purchased the scoring -sheet from Lillywhite's assignees in 1866, but after some evidence had been heard the Vice-Chancellor decided that the defective registration was fatal to the plaintiff's title, and as the defendants offered to cease publishing the sheet in question, the bill must be dismissed with costs. AN ELECTION RIOT.-At the Worcester Assizes six persons were indicted for a riot and assault on the Rev. Martin Amphlett during the late election at Evesham. A verdict of not guilty was taken under an arrangement by which the defendants apologised to Mr. Amphlett and vaid over R. 50 to the local charities. SELLING BAD SEEDS.—At the Dorchester Assizes on .'.March 6, a farmer, named Warwick, residing near Romney, somebroughty,of his an action to recover damages for injury done m to land by bad swede seed sold to him by the defendant, Toogood, a large seed-dealer at Southampton. The defence was that the seed was good but that the plai n tiff h ad sown it too thinly. The jury ultimately returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £l2. TELEGRAPH EXTENSION.—It was announced some time ago that a telegraph cable was about to be sent out to Tasmania. Intelligence has been recently received that the steamer Investigator, with the cable on board, safely reached the Cape Verd Islands on the 24th of February. On the 100, of January interruption oceurr.a. in the Cyan and Otranto cable. The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company's ship Chiltern was forthwith despatched to repair the line, and on the 25th ult. corn munication was restored. The recent accident to the Calcutta has induced the promoters of the new Persian Gulf cable to postpone the proposed expedition until after the cessation of the monsoon. The Tweed will leave pro bably about the end of May, and will be followed by the Calcutta, which is being repaired at Plymouth. The Caroline is being fitted out to recover that part of the cable which was payed out: from the Calcutta. DEATH OF GENERAL SIR ARTHUR CLIFTON. The death of General Sir Arthur Benjamin Clifton, G.C.8., K.C.H., took place on Monday, at his residence, 52, Old Steyne, Brighton, in his 98th year. Sir Arthur was the lineal descendant of Avaredus, a follower of Wil liam the Conqueror, whose services were rewarded by the manors and estates of Clifton, and 'Wilford on the Trent, near Nottingham, and whose name then became Avaredus de Clifton, and under Peverell of the Peak was Warden of Nottingham Castle. Fourteenth in descent from Avaredus was Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton, styled Gentle Sir Gervase, for his courtesy and affability. He was born in the reign of Henry VII., and was a person of great consideration and distinction, both in statecraft and mili tary service, in the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, by which latter sovereign he was knighted. His grandson was the first baronet. The father of General Sir A. Clifton, j ust deceased, was the sixth baronet Sir Gervase, who dying, left three sons, Sir Arthur being the youngest. The eldest, Robert, succeeded his father, but laaving no issue, was succeeded by his brother, SirJuckes, who left one son, the present Sir Robert Clifton, ninth baronet, M.P. for Nottingham. Sir Arthur was educated at Rugby, and entered the army in 1794. He served with distinction in the Peninsula and at the battle of Waterloo; and was decorated with a medal and three clasps for Talavera, Busaco, and Toulouse, and was Grand Cross of the Bath and Knight of the Cross of Hanover. He was gazetted general 1354, and was colonel of the lat Royal Dragoons. THE SUN, _LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 169. THE UNITED S7A2ES DEBT. (From the Anglo-American Times.) We have become so accustomed to the careless writing of English papers on American subjects that it occasioned no surprise to read the article in the Times of Tuesday following the telegram from 'Wash ington, dated Feb. 28—" The Senate has passed by 30 votes against 16 General SCHENCK'S Finance Bill amended. The bill now declares that all the national obligations shall be payable in coin, unless the law under which they were issued specifies payment in cur rency. The bill also legalizes contracts containing special provisions for contracts to be made in gold. The Senate rejected the article of the bill which proposed to prohibit the payment of bonds before maturity, unless currency should have previously been rendered convertible into coin at par. The bill returns to the House of Representatives." On the next day this was followed by a leader, wherein the subject was thus discussed :--" These views, however, will be hardly compatible with General SCHENCK'S Finance Bill; it contains a stipulation that the bonds of the United States, though ruled to be payable in gold and not in greeub ,cks, should not be paid off at all till greenbacks and gold shall represent equivalent values. It would follow, in fact, that the whole currency question of the Union must be successfully settled before payment of the public debt on that footing could so much as begin." The writer evidently had not read the telegram, which showed that the very clause he had taken as the subject for discus sion had been stricken from the bill by the Senate, though the intelligence had been published in his paper of the previous day; and it was not till Tlaurs• day that Reuter announced that the Representa tives did not concur in this amendment, and asked for a conference, which ended in the dis puted clause being retained. Nor is the argu ment justified by it, for the words "before ma turity" ate overlooked. The Times is much im pressed with the report of Mr. FORD, the British Secretary of Legation at Washington, on the Financial Condition of the United States, who alleges that " The majority of Americans would appear disposed to endure any amount of sacrifice rather than bequeath a portion of their debt to future generations." This must necessarily, he continues, long constitute America as it is at pre sent one of the dearest places of residence in the world, and in this the Times agrees. It asserts that however widely President JOHNSON and Secretary M'Cleeeocit may differ, they are of one mind in refusing to recognize the debt of the United States as are those of Europe, a permanent burden, adding that " so far as our own observation goes, no Ame rican statesman has suggested that the country should content itself for the present with paying interest on its debt, and leave the principal to be dealt with in easier times." Now it is because the observation of the Times goes but a very short dis tance that it makes such au assertion. Indeed had its observation extended even as far back as last summer it would have known that strenuous efforts were made in Congress by more than one American statesman to lower the rate of interest by very ma terially increasing the period over which the bonds were to run, grounding the calculation on this prin ciple that the longer the time the lower ought to be the semi-annual percentage paid. While recognizing its truth we pointed out that it might go to the ex treme of a vanishing point ; for some of the argu ments used would have reduced it to this absurdity, that by making the debt permanent the interest should cease altogether. We believe the financiers of the United States to aim at raising the national credit till the Federal Bonds go above par in gold, with the object of pursuing the system adopted by Great Britain in paying the holders of the Six per Cents. off who will not take Five per Cent. Bonds on a longer term, and eventually reduce the Five per Cents. to Four as the debt diminishes and the credit of the country rises to what it ought to be. These English conjectures as to what Americans are going to do are grounded on the false supposition that they will do what no other people would de, something eccentric, opposed to reason, and founded on spread eagle sentiment. This is farcically enough asso ciated with a firm belief in the shrewdness and in telligence of the people. If they be shrewd and in telligent is it not reasonable to conjecture that they will act an intelligent part, which many in Europe seem to doubt; though why can be easily explained. As a rule those who write thus are ignorant of the real bearings of the question; arguing front false pre mises they arrive at erroneous conclusions, while filled with the happy conceit that they are showing an obstinate and vain people the way they ought to go—who, however, knowing the road better, go another way, and are pronounced to be eccentric. When the circumstances are really understoo 1 in Eu rope, and the argument. is just, they suppose the course they indicate will be avoided, as the people are thought, like Irish pigs, to insist on taking the wrong road ; and perhaps theyconsider it " pure cussedness" when they see them on the track pointed out. NO coun try so rapidly grows as the United States, and the heavy burden of to-day will be the light load of to-morrow. If it be wise to leave the debt till the re sources of the country enable the citizens with ease to expunge it, that most likely will be the course pursued , ho wever strong maybe the sett ti mental objection to saddling posterity with such a load. The system of taxation has lately been modified in ac cordance with this policy, and a vast proportion of the Internal Revenue imposts removed. The Times is mistaken in considering the public expenditure to be growing like that of England in all directions. While granting that it is four times the sum re quired before the Civil War, the reductions in all departments have been very large within the last fiscal year, and although it may be necessary to in crease the salaries of the Civil servants, in view of the important interests now confided to their care, and the immense advance in the cost of living, yet the most vigorous efforts at retrenchment have been and are being made. It will not do for the country to continue as the most expensive on earth, for two injurious effects will quickly follow; the one that families with realized means will leave it to reside in Europe, just as English families did when Eng land as the dearest of lands, contrasted strikingly with the cheap living of the continent ; the other that it must deter immigration, causing an exodus of employers, and checking an influx of the em ployed. America has no right to be an expensive country, nor will this artificial state long con tinue. Why should the land of corn and meat be the dearest? Why should the land of cotton and sugar, rice and tobacco, bacon and eggs, be the most costly to dwell in ? Why should the birth-place of invention and the home of contrivance, where forests spread in their primeval growth, and prairies stretch in boundless extent, the one giving the material for houses, the other the supply of the larder, be the dearest of countries ? Ought the neighbourhood of a river swarming with fish, and a lake covered with wild fowl, to be expensive as a place of resi dence ? The fact is, that society in America has not yet settled down from the artificial state created by the war, and prices are maintained, it is asserted, and with good reason, as we showed last week—by speculators. The Times may make itself easy about the course likely to be pursued by America with regard to the future payment of the debt; but as yet it is too great and Lew a subject to have been so thoroughly discussed and considered as to enable the people to make up their minds. If they were as averse to a permanent debt, as the Times and Mr. FORD appear to think, some of the individual States would be less ready to raise loans and more anxious to pay them ; and although fburden,rnnted with 7 tahne unexpected liability, a the Union m i g h t f eel under the unaccustomed family 8u d 1 e y n e l a y r n e in n ; desire to get quit of it, yet the Republic is no more likely to damage its estate than wont! the in dividual blindly t o se ll o ff at any sacrifice to rid himself of an encumb rance out of which his pro perty would grow if only carefully managed. W e hold to the belief we have always expressed, that the United States will, when able, fund the debt at a reduced interest for an increased term, the main object of the people being to get hack to a less costly rate of living, when the States will again be come, as they not long ago were, the cheapest instead of the dearest place of residence in the world. A new paper is to be started in Chicago, entitled The British Mail. It will be made up of .clippings front English journals. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. TEE OPPOSITION AND THE BILL. The rumours are that the Government will have a majority of from 100 to 120 on the second reading of the Irish Church Bill. There is some hope among the Conservatives that they will materially reduce this in committee. They mean to make a strong attack upon the proposed compensation to Maynooth, which, they say, is a violation of Mr. Gladstone's promise. The money is given really, not to establish, but to disestablish Maynooth; and if compensation is not given out of the Irish Church surplus fund, it must be paid out of the consolidated fund, an arrangement which English and Scotch and Welsh taxpayers will scarcely approve. It is hoped by the Ministerialists that the bill will reach the Lords by June 1. At present the Lords have not yet determined what course they will take. They wait in the hope that the Commons will insist upon amend ments which Mr. Gladstone will not be able to accept. The Dublin correspondent of the Times notes, with some surprise, that although the Ministerial scheme has been made known, "no general movement has been made on the part of those who are deeply inte rested in the maintenance of the Established Church." The opposition journals are, indeed, full of letters, written in the strongest possible language. Yet nothing is being done, and the only practical measure suggested is to hold prayer-meetings. A declaration against the Government mea sure is being promoted by the Protestant Defence Association, and is signed by forty-two noblemen and some M.P.'s. The Dublin Mail, the organ of the Orange party, apologises for the present inaction, and draws from the rejection of Mr. Faw cett's Election Expenses Bill a faint hope that the Irish Church Bill may be rejected by the present Parliament. As the Government have resolved to devote the Church funds to a religious purpose, and there is, therefore, no opportunity for raising the cry of sacrilege, the snot d'ordre of the Opposition is to complain that too large a sum is to be given to Maynooth. not see why the _tree Church should 8e canea to give up, perhaps, 2150,000, which it had employed towards the education of the country, without receiv ing any compensation. It seemed to be a matter for general congratulation that the Duke of Argyll, a Scotsman, who proved by his speech that he well understood the Scotch system, was to have the conduct of the bill. The Standard is admitting correspondence to its columns in which the religious question, the con science clause, &c., are being discussed, in some respects unfavourably to the measure. Virtually, however, we believe a conscience clause is not needed for North Britain, as it is carried out under the present system. ELECTION NEWS. As we anticipated, Mr. E. Cecil Guinness, brother iof the unseated member, s to be the new Conserva tive candidate for Dublin, and when the writ is issued there will be a severe fight between him and Sir Dominic Corrigan. Major Anson, who has come forward as the Liberal candidate for Bewdley, appears to have entirely abandoned Adullamy. He is prepared to give the present Government a cordial support, and will be found going to the right when the division on the Irish Church Bill takes place. The Bradford poll comes off on Friday. Mr. M. Feilden, one of the defeated candidates at Black burn, has withdrawn from the petition against the sitting members, but the other Liberal candidate, Mr. J. G. Potter, has d e t erm i ne d t o p ersevere w ith it. The inquiry opens on Thursday. TILE BRIBERY ACT. The Standard is concerned for the good name of Mr. Disraeli's Bribery Act. It has been hinted that a corrupt candidate may escape all the punishments which that measure see k s t o i n flict, 1 y paying no suspicious bills until after the time for lodging a petition against his return. The Standard points out that the Act has not left this matter unprovided for. It gives power to question a return at any time :c upon an all ega ti on of corrupt prac ti ces, and speci fically alleging a payment o f money or other reward to have b een made by any mem b er, or on his account, or with his privity, since the time of such return, in pursuance or in furtherance of such corrupt practices; in which case the petition may be presented at any time within twenty-eight clays after the date of such payment." How is such a payment to become known ? Neither payer nor payee is Ikely to proclaim it from the housetops. CONSERVATIVE JOURNALIS3I. The Pall Mall Gazette vouches for the following fact : "At the time of the general election an advertis ing agent was instructed by a Government depart ment to send advertisements to a certain provincial journal. This journal was so excellent a medium for the purpose th a t the agent, w h ose b usiness it is to know these thi ngs, was quite unaware of i ts existence. rfe had to m a k e i nquiries as to whether there was filch a newspaper or not. His investigations were .isuccessful. It turned out that the influential and widely-circulated print had been started a few weeks previously to serve the interest of the Tory rt candidate fo r th e b orough in w hi c h i t was published. Accordingly th e Government a d ver ti sements were sent for the suppo of the paper; and there we have seen them, column after column, week after week. To crown all, the newspaper thus placed under Government patronage, and fed out of the Treasury . for the ben e fit o f a Government cand i date, was an illegal publication ; the ephemeral thing had never even been re g istered." Our contemporary, challenged to give particulars, has no hesitation in doing so. Windsor is the town referred to, the Windsor and Eton Herald the journal, and Colonel Gardner the candidate. PARLIAMENTARY BETI7IINS. A correspondent of the Times c)Ils attention to the abuse which members make of their power to move the House of Commons for returns. Any private member will, on the slightest provocation, rise in his place, and move that a mass of some unimportant statistics be produced. If the Govern ment refuse the production i of the information re quired, it is inferred that it s not to their advantage that the subject should be investigated. But this ought not to be so. AN e are told by "An Official Reformer" in the Times that " the compilation of a parliamentary return of any magnitude is most dis turbing to the department charged w ith th e d u ty ; and, in fact, in order to provide agai ns t an y suc h dis organisation, it is the practice of many departments to keep most elaborate records, not because they are mplay in order to be pre pared informati on in any shape in which it may be called for by a parliamentary a to administrative readily furnishuse bu i t n simply i o m r return. Thus these returns, directly and indirectly, are very costly to the public." The correspondent proposes two remedies—that the mover for a return should state his reasons for requi r i ng w h a t h e as k s, and that a standing committee should be appointed to report to the House such returns as may be really wanted. OFFICIAL RESPONSIBILITY. - - - The Lord Chancellor of the Derby G ove rnment it sh ou ld b e k nown th a t made some curious admissions in th e H ouse o f L or ds the other night in the Aberdeen A c t d e b a t e . He seemed to be most eagerthat Sir Robert Peel in 18 45 disregarded and rejected his advice about the Aberdeen Act, preferring the predecessor,lS i fe r ss that, being Solicitor- William Follett. Lordo Chelmsford h i i s irent o on to co General,he put his doubts or objections in his pocket, and spoke from Sir Robert Peel's bri e f i n eef once of the bill. Then, seeming to und ers t an d th a t his conduct might not be considered to be altogether sans reproche, he defended himself by holding forth on the doctrine of official responsibility. As Solicitor- General he said he was responsible, and therefore he spoke against his own opinion on a legal question ; but his o ffi c i a l r esponsibility having cease d, he now comes out with his deliberate convictions. Com menting on this rather strange doctrine, the Pall Mall Gazette says 7" . One would have thought that offi c i a l res ponsibility required of a law officer in such a matter a conscientious opinion. It so happ ens , h ow ever, in disparagement to some extent of these candid expressions, that Lord Chelmsford stood up for the bill, not only in 1845, when he was Solicitor-General, but also in 1849, when he was a private member of the House of Commons, and had no official responsibility. Any reader may see the speech of the unofficial Sir Frederick Thesiger in" Hansard," April 24,1849. The bill was defended on the same occasion by Sir Roundell Palmer." HABITUAL CRIMINALS BILL. Lord Mr. ---- Mr. Bake r wr it es to the Times on the subject of law is the bold es t and a l so the most beneficial reform yet att emp t e d for t h e r epression of crime. bill, and considers that the new The chief object o f t h e bi l l i s to discard the simple element of pu n i s h ment on which too much reliance has hith er t o b een ' place d, a nd to prevent the education of skill e d thi eves. M r . Baker thinks that the real agent in preventing will be th e seven y ears ' supervision for a secon d , an d the penal servitude for a third offence. ' He believes that skilled burglaries will become very rare when this Act is in practice. Il e sugges t s , however, that it would be advisabl e t o inquire into a prisone r 's ante cedents on a first conv i ct i on t a king place, and he thinks that an auth or it y m i g ht b e appointed to com mute the sentence o f penal serv itude on a third con viction, in those cases where it might press hardly on the offender owing to pecuniary circumstances. Mr. Baker believes that the Criminal Justice Act should be amended, and that magistrates should deal summarily with any cas e of muchimpor tance and commit the more hardened offenders for trial. This would abolish the three-month sentences which have manufactured all hardened offenders. Another improvement would be to enact that the repetition of misdemeanours should be considered felony, and thus prevent the scandal of the same person being committed a hundred times. Atilt SCOTCH EDUCATION DILL. The Scotch Education Bill was considered a day os two back by the commission of tho Free Church Gene ral Assembly, Professor Douglass, Dr. Begg, Dr. Candlish, and others being among the speakers. On the whole, the expression of opinion was favourable to the measure. Complaint was made, however, that the board pioposed to be established would have no representatives of the Scotch Churches in it, especially as these Ch urc h es had always b een energet i c in furtherance of education. It was also very strongly the speakers, urged that th e b oar d should meet i n pu bli c. O ne of schools, and the ar rangements to b e ma d e i n f u t ure i n referring to th e question of the normal connection with the_traiain g of teacher& Mid_ acould RATING ASSESSIWZNTS. A deputation has waited on Mr. Goschen to urge on him the advisability of making rating an imperial matter, and of taking the matter out of the hands of local guardians. In reply, the President of the Poor-law Board said his pro posed bill would, he believed give the just assess ment which the deputation desired. The surveyor of taxes would have a locus stand/ given him, enabling him to raise the rating of any tenement or property which he considered not adequately assessed. h i answer to questions, Mr. Goschen said he could sPe no objection to a parish having the option to be assessed on the baths of the property tax. TEE OFFICE OF CORONER. The Walsall Board of Guardians have been con sidering a memorial to Parliament asking for an inquiry into the utility of coroners. Certainly the whole question wants inquiry—the manner of appointment, the class of persons appointed, the order of proceedings, the place where the court is held, and the legal effects of a verdict. Is it expedient for the due admi nistration of justice that county coroners should be elected by the votes of householders ? Should a doctor, who has no legal knowledge, preside over such an inquiry ? Medical evidence is always given, and it would seem easier to make a lawyer understand the cause of death than to infuse into the mind of a doctor all the technical details of the laws of evidence. Why should the public-house be patronised on such occasions? It was only a short time back that we had a jury unable to proceed to business in consequence of the amount of liquor they had imbibed. Then there are other outlyinr , matters which have not yet been fully considered, such as the expediency of appoint ing a chief coroner to investigate more important cases. Questions in themselves much more impor tant than the greater proportion of those decided, in all the glory of purple and ermine, by four or five of her Majesty's superior judges at Westminster, have now in some instances to be settled by a local doctor. THE NEW DOMINION. A very important telegram has been received in London stating that the Newfoundland Assembly have decided in favour of union with the Dominion of Canada by 20 to 8. This, of course, will involve the accession of Prince Edward Island, so that the whole of British North America east of the Rocky Moun tains will then be under one Government. Nor is it likely that the Confederation will stop there. It will now in all probability cross the mountains, and in clude British Columbia, so that there will be but one Government from the Atlantic to the Pacific. THE INCOME TAX. It appears from a comparison of the claims for compensation arising out of some recent demolitions by the Metropolitan Board of Works, with the income tax returns made by the claimants, that 40 per cent. of the persons assessed had understated their incomes to the amount of 130 per cent ; that is, they had paid on only £lOO out of every £9.30. It further appears that tradesmen filling the office of collectors of assessed taxes are in the habit of allowing gentle men to go untaxed, lest if they should tax them they —the assessors—may lose the gentlemen's custom, THE WEEKLY OFFERTORY. The Bath Exp-ess states that the weekly offertory has been tested for four years in one church in Bath with satisfactory results, and in Bathwick—where the parish church is unfortunately under a special Act of Parliament hampered for some years to come by the worst form of pew rents, viz., the existence of pews owned by private persons, who derive all the benefit of the rents and contribute nothing towards the church expenses—. the parishioners have unanimously declined to adopt the new Voluntary Church Bate Act, which gives litigious parishioners as many opportunities of factious opposition as under the old ref/ inze, and throws obstacles in the way of the expansive action required to suit the wants of an earnest Church feeling. Instead of adopting the Church Rates Act, the Bathwick parishioners have wisely advised the adoption of the weekly offertory at the parish church, a course cordially acceded to by the rector and church wardens. AN IMPORTANT ECCLESIASTICAL DECISION. Everyone, whether Low Churchman or High Churchman, should rejoice to learn that the Arch bishop of York has censured, though he has not the legal power to reverse, the sentence pronounced by the Bishop of Manchester against the Rev. Mr. Sedgwick. Dr. Lee, who wants only the opportunity to be a Low Church Laud, had summarily dismissed Mr. Sedgwick from his cure, because he had introduced certain practi , xs which the Bishop disapproved. One of these prac tices was then sub judice, and though it had been declared legal by the Court of Arches, Mr. Sedg wick discontinued it out of regard to his diocesan. Another practice is expressly authorised by the Prayer-book. But submission and legality were alike unavailing ; the Bishop absolutely refused even to give Mr. Sedgwick a hearing, and peremptorily dismissed him. He thereupon appealed to the Archbishop of York, who, though certainly as little of a High Churchman as any member of the bench, has advised that the Bishop of Manchester should reconsider his decision and give Mr. Sedgwick a hearing. The Archbishop described a considerable portion of the evidence brought against the incum bent, as " utterly worthless." It is to be hoped that Bishop Lee will remember in future that he is no longer a schoolmaster presiding over schoolboys, but the overseer of grown men. He has been twenty-one years learning this lesson, and he has not learnt it yet. NON-COLLEGIATE STUDENTS AT CAMBRIDGE. The Cambridge Senate have been discussing the advisability of following the example of the govern ing body at Oxford, by admitting to the benefits of university teaching students unconnected with, any college. There was a long discussion on Satur day, and the result was that a general approval was expressed of a scheme which had been drawn up for carrying out this idea. THE LATE Silt JAMES EMERSON-TENNENT. Most of the obituary notices of the late Sir James Emerson Tennent omit to state that he was the author of a book called " The Story of the Guns." This book caused a considerable sensation at the time ; for it was a severe attack upon the mode in which the Armstrong guns had been introduced into the service, and also upon the gun itself. The force of the attack was, however, somewhat neutralised when it became known that Sir James was a partner in the rival Whitworth Company, whose gun was extolled as much as the Armstrong gun was con demned. The book was a piece of literary sharp practice that was very unfavourably criticised. 31n. ALFRED TENNYSON. The Court Journal says that Mr. Alfred Tennyson has again refused the offer of a peerage. The truth of the whole statement is very much to be doubted, especially since, as far as has been made public, the Poet-Laureate has never previously had a peerage offered to him. It was stated some months ago that a baronetcy had been proffered and refused. The Poet-Laureate would be wholly out of place in the Muse of Lord % FOREIGN NOTES. PRESIDENT GRANT'S CABINET. The composition of the new American Ministry, if not all that was expected or desired, is at least another proof of the President's moral courage. It is not every repro 'mutative of the dominant party who would have ventured to pass by so many of its recognised leaders. There is no reason to doubt the ability of, General Grant's Cabinet, simply because the capabilities of its members are com. paratively untried ; but many of the best Republicans are passed by. Adams, Sumner, and Motley, the historian of the Netherlands, were each considered tolerably safe, whilst McClellan and Stanton held good popular positions. But not one of these figures on General Grant's list. It is essentially a new Ministry. Mr. Elihn Washburne, the Secretary of State, is the President's most intimate friend. He is an advanced Radical, strongly opposed to slavery, and a good speaker. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Stewart, is a "dry-goods" merchant, a self-made man, of great wealth and reputa tion as a merchant, though untried as a, financier. He nobly supported the Nwth at the most critical period of the civil war, though large debts were owing him in the South, which his creditors repudiated. The Postmaster- General, the Hon. G. H. Cresswell, is a Radical, an admirable scholar, and one of the best orators in the United States. Two gentlemen of the name of Hoar have been telegraphed as the Attorney-G eneral, but both are amongst the most eminent Republican lawyers. General Schofield is retained as War Secretary. The appointments of Sher man and Sheridan to the military commands speak for themselves. After Grant, they are the two ablestgenerals of the North. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Bowrie, is altogether a new man. The composition of the Cabinet will cause much dissatisfaction ; but it is strong, thoroughly repreientative of the Republican party, and can hardly fail to work well. TAE WAR IN PARAGUAY. Private letters by the last mail unhappily strengthen a /snorts ofihe iybolesAe shootipg of prisoners by order orLoPez. Two Englishmen, one a merchant and the otner an engineer, several ladies, and the brothers of Lopez, were amongst the victims. The Dictator has still a con siderable number of men with him, hut he is destitute of resources, and is hampered with a host of women and children. AUSTRIA. The trial of Prince Karageorgeovitch, for instigating the assassination of Prince Michael of Servia, still lingers on at Pesth. The Hungarian tribunal evidently considers the case against him a serious one, for it has just refused to release him from confinement on very heavy bail. THE ROYAL TOUR IN EGYPT. The progress of the Prince and the Princess of Wales up the Nile is very leisurely. The arrangements are so elaborate, the cortege so formidable, that it is impossible to get on very quickly. The royal party are on board the Viceroy's steamer ; but, besides this, there is a large vessel which serves as a refectory, and accommodates some of the suite, a third for her Majesty's agent and consul-general, a fourth for the remainder of the suite, and a fifth for the Duke of Sutherland and party. The meals are taken on board the kitchen steamer, which necessitates a general stoppage of the fleet, besides other delays. Navigation, too, is difficult, if not out of the question, at night. The habits and formalities of Court life are not easily thrown aside even in Egypt. TURKEY AND PERSIA. The Presse of Vienna announces that the complication which has arisen between Turkey and Persia is no longer dangerous. An envoy of the Shah has arrived at Con. stantinople, and will open negotiations. He is charged with full powers, and it is hoped that his mission will be successful. SPAIN. The commission appointed to draw up a draft of the new Constitution has commenced its task. According to intelligence received by the Moniteur, the commission has decided upon universal suffrage and a monarchical form of government as the principles by which its labours will be guided. Freedom of worship will be finally established, but the Roman Catholic Church will be the only religiou3 body recognised by the State. The completion of the draft will, however, be delayed somewhat. Three members of the commission have declined to take the responsibility which has been offered them. They refuse to assist in drawing up a democratic constitution " which may be of but short duration." There are other signs that the conflict of parties is about to begin in earnest. Some of the journals, especially the Iberia, vigorously denounce the candidature of the Duke of Montpensier. Petitions are being signed against him. A day or two ago an amnesty for all political offenders was pro- posed, but the Ministry declined, because Carlist conspi- racies were still on foot. The majority, however, is so large that only prompt action can be required to finally extinguish opposition. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Feb. 20.) The principal feature of the money market, this week, has been a growing tightness, which has made borrowers some trouble'. The ruling rate at New York has been 7 per cent. for call loans, and rather close at that, although the market was easier on Thursday. It is surmised that the stringency was artificially produced in the interest of the bear operators at the stock bnard,with a view to the depres sion of prices; and it is said that the combination com prises two large banks, a prominent dealer in Govern ments, two or three stuck houses, and several speculators. The course of the market, however, male the undertaking comparatively an easy one for them. The flour and dry goods trade require a fair amount of currency ; the " carrying" of sugar and molasses perhaps makes larger borrowers than usual in that branch of trade ; the pork crop, as well as a portion of the grain crop, has yet to be moved to the seaboard ; and a great deal of currency has been sent South where the people are in a condi tion to hold on to it longer and stronger than for several years past.—The Boston money market has been closer than New York's, and is quoted "decidedly tight." Prime business paper is discounted at rates varying from 7 to 9 per cent., but the transactions have been very largely re duced. The New York stock market has been heavy, and has been kept from going into a decline only by vigorous efforts on the part of the bulls. They have produced an occasional firmness, but the downward tendency of the market has been unmistakable. The principal feature of the market has been Pacific Mail, whose fluctuations have kept Use whole list feverish and unsettled. Notwithstand ing a 3 per cent. dividend was declared on Tuesday the stock continued to settle. The bears say that the China line so far has not met the expectations of its projectors, and is not a source of profit. The stock is depressed from the fact that many of the oldest stockholders have sold out. foreseeing an immense loss of revenue as soon as the Pacific Railroad is completed. The New York Central dividend, expected to be paid on the 20th of this month, has been deferred until the 15th of March, on account of the recent litigations and the long time in which the transfer books have been closed. The Chicago and Alton Company have declared a half-yearly divivend of 5 per cent. on both classes of their stock. The Mo bile and Ohio Road is about to pass into the hands of the Illinois Central Railroad on a lease for a term of years. The bears have been industriously hammering away on the Government Bond market, the result being only a fractional reduction in price. But the firm quota tions received from foreign markets and the demand for export make their undertaking a difficult one. Pro bably ten million of dollars in bonds have been sent abroad within the last month. The bill pending in Con gress, which proposes to put an end to the issuing of any more bonds, ought to become a law; it would give great confidence to the holders of bonds at home and abroad. The exports from New York (exclusive of specie) for the week and year are $3,228,065 and $20,665,571 against $3,686,417 and $22,143,310. The export figures for the last seven months are $118,756,464 against $140,147,823. The import entries for January were $22,321,251 against $15,281,997 ; for seven months (gold values) $151,398,208 against $138,688,570. Gold has been dull and has hardly maintained its price, although the market was a good deal excited on Thursday. The report of specie in the last week amounted to $927,839, making $36,877,171 since • July 1, 1868, against $36,968,565. In the same period the deliveries of gold and silver at New York were $15,008,144 against $19,967,774; while the receipts for customs were $75,050,739 against $68,703,123, and the gold interest paid out by the Government in that city was 62,743,131 against $50,871,520. The official recapi tulation of gold and silver coin sold on account of the United States from January, 1863, to January, 9, 1869, shows $238,500,000. The largest sales were in 1860 namely, $59,000,000 at New Y or k. I n 1868, over $33,000,000 n w r were sold at New York an d S t. L ou i s. The near taxes on the entire amount sold in those years were $148,000 ; commissions, $263,000 ; premiums $108,222,000 ; net receipts about $346,500,000. The de cision of the Supreme Court, that contracts specially made payable in coin are valid, is a very important one, and will lead to an increased business by importers, who desire to make their sales in the same currency in which their commodities are bought. It is looked upon as the first step in advance toward the resumption of specie payments. The dry goods market is not so lively as was generally anticipated would be the case at the opening of the season. Jobbers, however, are not inclined to give way on the prices of any line of domestic cotton fabrics, as they think the advance of tho raw material will soon send up the price of goods. The Boston market re plains quiet, with the wants of the jobbing and retail trade temporarily supplied. But all staple and seasonable geode are firmly held, and there is no disposition to force the demand or anticipate the regular business season ; neither is there any anxiety on the score of prices being sustained when the exigencies of consumption shall bring in buyers. Notwithstanding the receipts at tide-water thus far of the current cotton crop are nearly 200,000 bales in excess of the amount received at this date last year, there still re mains a large quantity to come forward (nearly a million bales if the highest estimate of the crop be allowed), re quiring something like $100,000,000 for its purchase. Pay ments a re made to s ome ex t ent through pork and corn ac counts i n the West, but a large amount of cash is requisite. The South is taking merchandise more freely than of late years,but the habit is again setting in in some description of goods of giving southern dealers four and six months credit. There is more excitement in the sugar market than we have had occasion to notice for a long time, and prices have further materially advanced on account of unfavourable advises from Cuba, where wet weather and revolutionary movements have seriously interfered with the production. To what extent the Cuba crops will be reduced isjet un certain, but as about one third of the entire production of the world is raised in Cuba, even a reduction of 10 to 20 per cent. of th a t crop would have an important bearing-on prices. The sales have been quite large, speculators, re finers, and the trade buying all lots offering at prices about 2c. higher for raw, and full 3c. per pound higher for re fined. The highest prices touched have been 20c for crushed and 19 to 19ic for granulated and powdered. The market, however, is very unsettled, and prices are almost entirely nominal, with very little sugar of any kind offering. The molasses market is also firm and unsettled , except at pri ces a b ove t h e v i ews o f b uyers. Molasses and sugar are not scarce, but those who hold them ex pect they will be ; hence the high prices asked for them. The demand for fleece and pulled wool has continued quite active throughout the week, and full prices are readily obtained for all kinds. The sales at Boston have been considerable, and comprise 1,100,000 pounds of fleece and pulled, and fleece at prices ranging from 45 to 62 cents for common and XXX, and the pulled from 28 to 55 cents as to quality, choice Eastern super selling at the latter rate. The demand is principally for the finer pr dos of Ohio and Pennsylvania and choice medium and X Michi gan. The Cambridge and Brighton cattle markets have been even more unfavourable to the interests of drovers than they were last week, and farmers who have been feeding meal liberally ever since the snow flew, as well as drovers who purchased stock with the expectation of realising last winter's prices, are alike greatly disappointed. The market has been unusually dull for the season, and low prices have not been the only trouble, as the drovers were at one time afraid that they would not be able to sell at all. At Albany, hewever, the receipts were smaller and prices about half a cent a pound higher than last week. (From the Wall-street Journal) FRIDAY EVENING, Feb. 1 9 . Railroad stocks are generally firm, with an active busi ness doing at higher prices. Railroad gold bonds con tinue in good demand, but with the exception of those of the Union Pacific Company, which are going off rapidly, the market is bare. There is therefore a fine opening just now for the bonds of a first class legitimate company Southern State Bonds are weak, particularly Tennessee's and North Carolina's. Miscellaneous stocks show an im proved demand and activity, especially for Pacific 3 13 U and Mariposa. Quotations for specie:— Amer. silver... 941 to 951 I Eng. sous 486 to 48 2 Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 104 20 francs 385 „ 38 ' Eng. silver 480 , 485 I Thalers Five francs 951 „ 961 I FOREIGN EXCH3NGE. Londcn Bankers Sixty Days. Three DOI 109 —1094 1094- 1091 1..6t.c:. n Prime Commercial 1081-108 k ...... .... Paris, iinkers 5.181-5.17i 5.161-5. 0 Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 354-35} ...... Frankfort, OM 404-404 ...... Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.184-5.174 ...... Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. N. Y. Central 163 Fort Wayne Erie Hudson - Reading Mich. South. &N. 1.... 95 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 9Ol Ohio and Missi ss ippi... 3 , 5 11 North-West North-West Preferred 911 Cumberland Canton 6Ol Bankers and Brokers... 10 661 Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 1051 1 M & St. Paul Preferred 79 PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATES. Sixes, 1868, registered — to --- Sixes, 1868, coupon ... — to -- Sixes, 1881, coupon ll2l to 113 i U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lOll to 10 1 1 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon • U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 lll to 111 Ten-forties, coupon lO9l to 1091 Seven-thirties, 2d series — to --- Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes. 1881 — to --" CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. N.Y. Central Os, 1883... 911 Chi. & N. W. I s t M . .._... 9 u, N. Y. Central 6s, 1881... 911 Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex. n B ,l n. N. Y.,Central Os, It Est.. 87 Gt. Western lstM 7 00.- lu. N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 87 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M.. -- n ." N. Y. Central 7s, 1876...1001 Gal. & Chic. Ext ......... . 0 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 ... Gal. & Chic. 2d Ai ......... - 2: 1 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 ...115 Chi. &R. I. I s t M.. . ..... - . l Uul Erie Ist Mort, Ex 100 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... 9! ) Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 100 Cleve. & T o l. S. Fund... 9 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 92 N. J. Central Ist M...... --: Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 871 N J. Central 2d 31 ...... 1 0 n 1 , 1 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 851 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist 81. 1 •,'' Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M, '77 B9 Pitts. Ft. W.. &Ch. 3d M. 9 5 Hud. R. 7s, Ist Al, '69_ 991 Cleve. & Pitts. 2d Xi - • Hud. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 — Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc- Harlem Ist IM, '6B '72 1011 Chic. &Alton, S.F. lstM•i` o ' f 4 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 719 Mil. & St. P au l I s t M... " th Mich. new Ist 31 Bs, 'B2 1191 Mil. & St. Paul 2d 11... `- Mich. So., 7p.c.2d M 93 Marietta & Cin. Ist M... 0 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B M orr i s & E ssex I s t M... '" Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 961 Morris & Essex 2d M... 111. Cen. 7p. e, '7O — Joilet & Chic. Ist 51... 8 31 Alton &T. H. let Al ...: Alton &T.H. 2d pfd n 9 Alton &T.H.2d M. Inc 7B Dubuque &S.City,lstit. f r , , Han.&St.J.LandGrants Peninsula Ist M. . ...... . °Z, fl an. & St. J. Con 120 Ohio & Miss. Ist M...... 7.' Chi. B. & Q., Ist II — Ohio & Miss. Con... ....•• 8 6" Chi. &N. West, S. F 93 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D... Chi. & N. W. Con Cony Atlantic & G. W. Ist 31- ('hi. & N. W. Ex'n B B5 (From Messrs. Henry Clews and Co.'s Monthly Circular of Feb. 16.) Large amounts of securities have been sent to Ear o oo within the last six weeks, includi ng , p er h a p s , $20,000,' of United States Bonds and several millions of other ,ye' curities, especially the Preferred Sh are s o f the ChLknse and North-Western Railroad, the stocks of the O v i l ; Island, Fort Wayne, and Illi no i s C en t ra l R oa d s , and L A bonds of the Central Pacific Railroad. Sufficient iraP °— the ance perhaps has not been attached to the fact that, beginning of the year, European investors have, in 14 years, been free buyers of our securities for the re , t investment of interest ; and he nce this movea len d has contributed to the weakness of gold bey0:11 what the facts of the ca se rea lly j us tify. The fo r g o , trade movement, however, at this p or t, f or the ias tf ' be weeks has not been of a conservative character. imports from January Ist to Fsbruary 13th have am 'n ut f to $29,100,000 agninst $22,500,000 for the same peri ° ,f l : o last year; while the exports, including specie, have '" r only $20,400,000 in gold valu e , ag ai n st $26,700,000 wo the same period of 1868. Nor have the exports of sotto from the Southern ports b een o f a vo l ume sufficient ta compensate for this unusual deficiency in the local e: 4 1 ,° %, as compared with the imp o rts. F or th e l as t f our weeks foreign shipments of cotton to the south have been - 80,000 bales, against 190,000 bales at the same peried.,; o last year. If this falling off indicates an exhalls i , s s of the supply in the interior, the n we h ave so loud' — re to rely upon fur making exchange during the next L g months; if it means only that the So u th is lank' ai a back the supply, then the large amount remaining toy °osr forward, at a period when the extent o f planting ", ac i foreshadow a greatly enlarged crop next year, Will tend iP to depress the ultimate price of the staple ; so th B ri etv any event, the value of our cotton ship men ts, from de' to September, may easily be over-estimated. The „ i t cision of the Supreme Court of th e U n it e d States in /Or l i of the legality of contracts ma d e p a y a ble specifi c : is in coin may prove to have an important inflno,°" a tb, encouraging transactions o f th a t c h arac t er i n the ° I) a re where legal tenders and national bank not es Log unpopular; which w ou ld h ave th e e ff ec t o f dra ar t gold from this centre. At the same time, it may ° wit an inducement to foreign capitalists to allow . . 4 , 0 0 balances to rem a i n he re f or emp l oyment , a t pe riods l'oe the rate of interest here favours such operations• to present dow nwar d t en d ency i n t h e prem i um aPPO the grow out of the large shipments of bonds to Europ e, an d more conservative tone of Congressional leg i s l a tion r of the emphatic decl ara ti ons o f G enera l G ran t in hase t ba d it public economy. A v er y genera l con fid enc e is fel t upon his inaugurati on as P res id en t, General GOT" par gather around hi m men ca l cu l ate d to carry o ut h.a t on poses of retrecchment and honest administration; tlO which nothing could more contribute to strengthen public credit. These considerations have a mate7iony fluence in determining the present sourse of the go , • mium. ‘,.10-ne 5 [ADVERTISEMENT.] v Holloway's Pills and ti io Unparalleled popularity. Lives are constaet'Y bich through inevitable accident or culpable negligenc e ' 6 bed might have been saved if these powerful curativecoic-, been at hand and applied unhesitatingly under the c ,, 0 110 tion that the wonderful cures effected by these ueecl-theit remedies in all parts of the world have won for th eo se a , present favour. Both pills and ointment are coroPl thel ingredients which purify at the same time tile pOO strengthen. No one can deny that health depen d 1 .0,0 pure blood, and the natural action of the animal ° t oile Both objects are effected without risk or danger W o e pc way's medicaments, which are as innocent as the' o we tent. Internal disorders and external blemishes 00 to their power. apa tio i fj [ADVERTISEMENT.J— Dyspepsia (Indigestion), C 0 2, 9 9 ,c1a, !le Debility, Consumption, a n d a ll nervous , bilious, ate'''d fi ce' p o liver complaints in every st age , are on ly aggravate' I t i ;ie bY, rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur' ro ve , t a s Barry's health-restori ng Revalenta Arabia). Food, ea P such t g, thousands of cases which h a d b esn cons id ere d hopeless , —cough. asthma, also diarrhcea., hemorrhoids, liver con!!'„htifo, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, ars`,Yril.eoll, ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and W i tte, matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neural eat iac;o bility, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, e cee,, s o debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, pregnancy or at sea, sinking flts, bronchitis, scrofula , o ea l a y of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and W r od es te shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health r T he Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 12 2bae c1( 1 - ,nl health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially slec,":„ly ing all other remedies, he has confined. himself en ti ce 0 , pl: 10 ,1 Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consirr i ' b ooti% o t fal at every meal. It has produced a surprising l Y e oel'!„. 0 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this 25. C' s 4 food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," Ja l Y ( Frixt, l .for No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant. °, 400 (1, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of Lord derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,7 71 , dyspep s ia. de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years dysPePioS, No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony fren , pAS nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulenes;;„titioP:„o sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important i-iin'itotfcry Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sIePPY„, O Ot a u to whith, without authority, Baron Liebig's name i 8 ciously attached. In tins, at Is. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. Od.: 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 1b 5 •,,`,4 C 1,1° ,:24 225.; 4 lbs, 40s, —Also Du BARR Y's BE VALENTA. AILAPi f°4o LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 51 6 c ol cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at 300., A 555. ce at 55s. — being about one penny per cup. The 30s. 0 : 1 ;,` os t are sent free of carriage in England on receipt er st ' re et, Order. -BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent don; and all Grocers and Chemists. ths. CUBITT—On the 7th in ßir at st., Walmer, sent, the w if, Of Charles Cubitt, E sq ., C.E., o f a son. JostT U DowNiNG—On the 7th inst., at Epson)) Mrs. Downing, of a son. Marriages. ~. a org,e' 9 ' Dnum ' . MOND—GREAVES -On the 4th inst ,atD. - e n. 9 , ' Bloomsbury, Joan Edward, son of the late John '' G oi, Drummond, Esq. of Finchley, to Theodosia An° 'l o ot , eldest daughter of W. (heaves , Esq., of Bernard -8 Russell-square. t 00: °1 (1 COUR TNEY —T URNER —On the 6th iust ., a 2 3 r reg , t Herts, Mr. G. Harvey Courtney , of Brixton, Purroraeri Annie, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Jo se f li ' of Chingford-green, Essex. Deaths. L JO b li lli BREEZE—On the 6th i n set., a t Charlton ICen^ 11 S Breeze, Esq., late of the War Office,' Pall - rn a ' 76. Welli a' HANBURY —On the 7th inst , at The Firs, near aged 7g; ton, Somersetshire, Cornelius Millbury, e S ALT—On the 2d inst., suddenly cf disease of a te of tbB at Newcastle - on-Tyne, Mr. Philip ow/ ~9 . . „_,, late General Post Office, London, aged 56. ... fled ..„, sret TENNENT —On the 6th inst., at 66, Wary/lex-on° f Tom suddenly, Sir James Emerson Tennent Bart./ c '' ~ 9 Manor, co. 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