The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-14 00:00:00

THE HOLY GRAIL. The new poem or the Poet-Laureate is published:`;; Its fall title is "The Holy Grail and other Poems." It is r ated that the publishers have already to meet orders for 30,000 copies. The work is another contribution to "The Idylls of the King." There aro four new idyihi in this work " The Coming of Arthur," "The Quest of the Holy Grail," " Pelleas and Ettarre," and " The Passing of Arthur." They are not arranged in order. Hence forth the Idylls must be read as follows : " The Coming of Arthur ; " The Round Tale —" Geraint and Enid," "Merlin and Vivien," " Lancelot and Elaine," " The Holy Grail." "Pelleas and Ettarre," " Guinevere;" "The Passing of Arthur." The first piece in this new volume is the shortest—" The Coming of Arthur." The story therein related may be thus summed up. Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, and father) one fair daughter, Guinevere, through divisions at home and the ravages of the heathen, finds all his land waste-- Wild dog, and wolf and boar and bear, Came night and day, and rooted in the fields, And wallow'd in the Lardens of the King. In this eistiess, Leodogran hears of Arthur—whom many affirm not to , be ITther's son, not rightly to possess the kingdom—ancl , calls him to his relief. Arthur comes ; Guinevere saes him pass tl:e castle-walls, as ho rides " a simple knight among hi i knghts," and she marks him net : But Arthur, looking downward as he past, Felt the light of her eyes into his life Smite on the sudden. Triumphant over the heathen, he returns ; but still the great lords and barons clamour that he is not their proper ruler, for he is no son of Uther ; and when he asks Guinevere to wife in reward for his services, her father is checked by the doubt of his lineage. The knights whom Arthur sends relate the accepted story of his birth; Belli cent, the Queen of Orkney, Uther's daughter, coming to Leodogran's Court, tells all that she knows of her half brother—lastly repeating what Bleys, the master of the famous magician Merlin, had told her on his deathbed. Himself, And Merlin ever served about the king, tither, before he died, and on the night When Uther in Tintagil past away, Moaning and wailing for an heir, the two Left the still king, and passing forth to breathe, Then from the castle gateway by the chasm Descending thro' the dismal night—a night In which the bounds of heaven and earth were lost— Beheld, so high upon the dreary deeps. It seeni'd in Heaven, a ship, the shape thereof A dragon wing'd, and all from stem to stern, Bright with a shining people on the decks, And gone as soon as seen. And then the - two Dropt to the cove, and watch'd the great sea fa?: Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep, And full of voices, rose and plunged Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame : And down the wave and in the flame was borne A naked babe, and rode to Merlin's feet, Who stoopt and caught the babe, and cried "The King. Here is an heir for tither!" And the fringe Of that great breaker, sweeping up the strand, Lash'd at the wizard as he snake the word, And all at once all round him rose in fire, So that the child and he were clothed in fire. And presently thereafter follow'd calm, Free sky and stars. Convinced by this and by other testimonies—chiefly by a mystic dream—Leodogran sends back Arthur's envoys answering yea ; Lancelot escorts Guin - evere to her lover; and the pair, "by Dubric, the high saint," are married be fore the stateliest of Britain's altar-shrines. "The Quest of the Hely Grail "—the next new Idyll. The supposed narrator of the story is " Sir Percival the Pure," who has " passed into the silent life of prayer." Ambrosina, a monk in the abbey where Sir Percival has taken refuge, is the listener; and contrasts his own quiet time with the more stirring life which the knight relates. The vision of the Grail is thus described as seen by Sir Percival's sister, a nun of pure heart : And so she pray'd and fasted, till the sun Shone, and the wind blew, thro' her, and I thought She might have risen and floated when I saw her. For on a day she sent to speak with me. And when she came to speak, behold her eyes Beyond my knowing of them, beautiful, Beyond all knowing of them, wonderful, Beautiful in the light of holiness. And " 0 my brother. Percivalc " she said, " Sweet brother, I have seen the Holy Grail: For, waking at dead of night, I heard a sound As of a silver horn from o'er the hills Blown, and I thought, It is not Arthur's use To hunt by moonlight ;' and the slender sound As from a distance beyond distance grew Coming upon me—O never harp nor horn, Nor aught we blow with breath, or touch with hand, Was like that music as it came ; and then Stream'd thro' my cell a cold and silver beam, And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail, Rose-red with beatings in it, as if alive, Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed With rosy colours leaping on the wall • And then the music faded, and the Grail Pass'd, and the beam decay'd, and from the walls The rosy quiverings died into the night." When Percivale told his sister's vision, among others, to Sir Galahad, His eyes became so like her own, they seem'd Hers, and himself her brother more than I. . . . But she, the wan sweet maiden shore away Clean from her forehead all that wealth of hair Which made a silken mat-work for her feet; And out of this she plaited broad and long A strong sword-belt, and wove with silver thread And crimson in the belt a strange device, A crimson grail within a silver beam; And saw the bright boy-knight, and bound it on him, Saying, " My knight, my love, my knight of heaven, O thou, my love, whose love is one with mine, I, maiden, round thee, maiden, bind my belt. Go forth, for thou shalt see what I have seen, And break thro' all, till one will crown thee king Far in the spiritual city :" and as she spake She sent the deathless passion in her eyes Thro' him, and made him hers, and laid her mind On him, and he believed in her belief. An animated scene in Arthur's hall is then described. When Galahad, sitting in Merlin's magic chair, saw the Holy Grail in " a beam of light seven times more bright than day," that struck amid thunder, and "a cracking and a riving of the roofs," into the stately room amid all the knights ; and when all present simultaneously vowed to set out on the quest, till they should see what Galahad alone had seen that day. Then follow some " daring" pictures of adventures, and descriptions: The third new story is " relleas and Ettarro." King Arthur made fresh knights to fill up the gap caused by the departure of the other knights on the holy Quest. As the king sat in hall at old Caerlcon, The high doors Were softly sundeed, and thro''these a youth, Pelleas, and the sweet smell of the fields Past, and the sunshine came along with him. " Make me thy knight, because I know, Sir King, All that belongs to knighthood, and I love." Such was his cry. For he was fain to win for his lady the golden circlet and and the golden sword which Arthur had made the prizes of a tournament. Arthur dubbed him knight; and Pollens won the circlet and sword for his lady—whom he had known but a day or two ; having found her and her suite astray in the Forest of Dean, and guided them on the road to Camelot, to the jousts. As the lady inquired the way, Pelleas stood• wrapt in wonder at her beauty, and Gazing thought, " Is Guinevere herself so beautiful ? " But while he gazed The beauty of her flesh abash'd the boy, As tho' it were the beauty of her soul : For as the base man, julgin,g of the good, Puts his own baseness in him by default Of will and nature, so did Pelleas lend All the young beauty of his own soul to hers, Believing her ; and when she spake to him, Stammer'd, and could not make her a reply. The lady is scornful and a wanton; she humours Pelleas only till he has won the prize for her, and then, returning to her castle, causes the portcullis to be thrown down in his face. He thinks this, and many other indignities heaped on him, but trials of his love; and gladly ex changes arms with the light Sir Gawain, who undertakes to win the lady for him, by telling her that he has slain Pelleas, and incessantly sounding the praises of the youth. Gawain has asked for three days "to melt her fancy," a n d has entered the castle. Pollens, meanwhile, is restless, and wanders about the castle. On the third night, unable any longer to restrain himself, he walks up to and enters the castle. The gates are wide open and unguarded. He see k s his lady-love and Gawain, at first unsuccessfully Then was he ware that white pavilions rose, Three from the bushes, gildpeakt: one, Red after revel, droned her lurikme knights Slumbering, and th e ir three white squires across their feet : In one, their malice on the placid lip Froz'n , by sweet sleep, four of her damsels lay : And in the third, the circlet of the jousts Bound on her brow, were Gawain and littarre. Back, as a hand that pushes through the leaf To find a nest and feels a snake, he drew : Back, as a coward slinks from what he fears To cope with, or a traitor proven, or hound Beaten, did Pelleas in an utter shame Creep with his shadow thro' the court again, Fingering at his sword-handle until he steed There on the castle -bridge once more, and thought, I will go back, and slay them where they lie." And so went back, and seeing them yet in sleep, Said, "Ye, that so dishallow the holy sleep, " Your sleep is death," and drew the sword and thought, "What! slay a sleeping knight? the King bath bound And sworn me to this brotherhood' again, " Alas that ever a knight should be so false." Then turn'd, and so retuned, and groaning laid The naked sword athwart their naked thrcats, There left it, and them sleeping ; and she lay, The t it let of the tourney round her brows, And tile sword of the tourney across her throat. And forth he past, and mounting on his horse Stared at her towers that, larger than themselves In their own darkness, thronm b 'd into the moon. Then crush'd the saddle with his thighs, and ciencled 1111.haikditalaIlaaba'AYfittkiaigg ILLER4l2l9filall A burst of titter reproaciles and fiery indigration broke from his lips; and then He dash'd the rowel into his horse, And bounded forth and vanish'd thro' the night, Then she, that felt the cold touch on her throat, _ _ Awaking knew the sword, and turn'd herself To Gawain: "Liar, for thou halt not slain This Pelleas! here he stood and might have slain Me and thyself." And he that tells the tale Says that her ever-veering fancy turn'd To Pelleas, as the one true knight on earth, And only lover ; and thro' her love her life Wasted and pined, desiring him in vain. The outrageous suspicions and frenzied fury of the embittered Pelleas, in his encounter with Lancelot and with Guinevere at the close of this Idyll, lead up to the discovery, the disgrace, the calamity, and anguish, that give us the climax of " Guinevere.° The fourth Idyll is the passing of King Arthur. Inc Idylls are followed by several smaller poems—one or two of them reprints of the pieces that some time ago appeared in magazines, as " Lucretius," " The Victim," and " Wages." Among the new pieces, we find a "Northern Farmer" of the `• new style"—a sordid, hard calculator, who, in a dialect hard to read, warns his son against marrying for love, and drives his counsel home by echoing the jingle of his horse's fcet, Proputty, proputty, proputty—that's what I 'cars 'ens sa,ay, Proputty,proputty, proputty—Sam, thou's an ass for thy panins : Theer's moor sense one o' legs nor in all thy brazens. DR. TEMPLE'S FAREWELL TO RUGBY. A correspondent at Rugby gives an interesting account or Dr. Temple's farewell to the school on Sunday. It was the last Sunday of the school year. Such an occasion naturally draws together a number of old Rugleinns on their flight homewards for Christmas from Oxford and Cambridge or more distant parts of the empire. Sunday was felt to bo not only the end of a school year, but not improbably the end of a very noble tradition and work, now more than a generation old, and the elder men, at least, of those who gathered there must have felt that it would be very possibly for the last time, since all that binds them to the place is now in jeopardy. The chapel was unable to contain the crowd of old Rugbeians who attended. Amongst those who were present, both at the morning and afternoon service, were three sons of Arnold. It was Communion Sunday, and an old Rugbeian who was present, and had not been present for a quarter of a century before, remembered that in his time generally the sixth form, with one or two exceptions, and a sprinkling of perhaps from forty to fifty in the rest of the school, stayed. Tohis astonishment on Sunday some 230 boys kept their places, and it was touching to see how all of them tried to get to the end of the rails at which the doctor was officiating. He, before commencing the service, standing on the raised altar stop, upon Arnold's grave, had said, " This is the last time I shall receive the holy communion with you as head master of this school. I beg of you all to remember me in your prayers to-day." The sermon was, as usual, at the afternoon service, following the hymn for the last Sunday before the holidays, which ends— " Let Thy Father-hand be shielding All who here shall meet no more, May their seed time past be yielding Year by year a richer store." The singing of thii will not be easily forgotten. The sermon was on Gal. vi. 2, " Bear ye one another's burthens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." This (said tho rcacher) new cenananCment of Christ, this law of lgie, which Paul is hero referring to, our Lord and the Apostles place above all other commandments. How is this? The older dispensation Lad placed the fear and love cf God first, then the love of neighbours. Surely the highest rule must be to love first God, then truth, holiness, justice, and after these one another. Has the Gospel sunk below the Law? No, for under the Gospel, by the incarnation c f the Son of God the two loves are united, can no longer be kept apart. There can be no love of God apart from love of man. Christ himself has pointed out this love of each other as the special mode by which He would have us acknowledge Him. Let us help one another, then, at our Lord's call, by courage, by patience, by cordial and tender sympathy in joy and sorrow, by faithful warning, by resignation. . - There are no bounds to the help which spirit can give to spirit in the intercourse cf a ncblo life. When parted we can still bear one another's burthens by hearty mutual trust. There is nothing which gives more firm ness and constancy to the life of a man than loyal trust in absent friends. At this point the preacher paused for some seconds. In the chapel (crowded up to the altar rails by old Rugbeians, for whom rows of chairs had been brought in from the vestry) the hush was intense and painful, until, in tones which strangelybrought back Arnold to those who had heard him there as boys, the preacher went on, al nearly as we can recall words which struck like pistol shots, "The time is come when we must part. I have seen many go away from this place to other scenes and other duties, as God ordained. Now I must go my self. Twelve years of my life have been spent here on the work, the lines of which wore laid down by a great servant of God when I was still a boy, I have now done my part in building up that noble spiritual temple which Arnold planted cn this place. I leave you; but, though parted, wo can still help one another—l you, you me—by living as ho taught; by the resolute sacrifice of self to duty; by the preference, at all times and in all places, of the pure, the good; by earnest search for truth; by the single eye fixedly on one Master, Christ. This will bind us close together still. Thus we may yet bear one another's burthens and so fulfil his law. Let us pray." And so the teacher, whose loyalty to his Lord and his brethren men who call themselves Christians are impugning, left his work to be judged by his Master, careless, as all true servants should be, of every other judgment. Let him take courage. The judg ment of all who have taken part in or known that work is with him already; and, if not sooner, yet when his life's work is over, the cry will go up from a grateful and sorrowing nation, as it rose over Arnold's early grave, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." LAW AND raucE. AN ACTION AGAINST AN OAINICrS COMPANY.—An action has been brought in the Court of Exchequer by an omnibus proprietor and his wife, named Huggins, against the London General Omnibus Company, for compensation for injuries received by the female plaintiff. She stated that she was in the act of getting into one of the defendants' omnibuses at Holloway, when she was thrown off the step and her leg injured. Evidence was given that after the accident she had ridden outside her husband's omnibus to Barnet Fair, mounting and dismounting without difficulty. Verdict for the defendants. RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—Mrs. Trowbridge, the widow of a cheesemonger at St. John's Wood, has obtained £1,250 damages in the SherifPs Court for injuries received in a collision at th 3 Portland-road Station of the Metro politan Railway. The plaintif had received concussion of the brain and spine, and suffered from cataract in both eyes. The company did not defend the action, which was originally brought in the Court of Exchequer, the damages being laid at £3,000. A MAN OF FIGHTY.—Poter Ltra , , a Iran of 80 year; et age, has been sentenced to five years, penal servitude Ur stealing a quantity of black satin from a warehouse in the City. Two previous convictions were proved against him. CIIILD STEALING.—An old woman named Mary Jones, who had several aliases, was charged at the Thames Police Court with stealing a child four months old. The maid servant who had charge of the child met the prisoner, whom she know slightly, and walked with her, the prisoner carrying the child. Jones went into a public house and told the girl to wait outside, as she had some business to do. The girl waited out, isle fir nearly an hour, and then went into the ptblic-: ease, where she learned that the woman had gone out by a back door. A search was made, and the child was found lying on the pavement in Aldgate, the shawl in which it was wrapped having been taken from it. Its shoulder was dislocated, and it was very ill. The woman was committed for trial. A memorial, signed by 29 clergymen and 300 lay men of Bristol, has been sent to the Archbishop of Canter bury. The memorialists implore his grace to consider the responsibility of consecrating Dr. Temple, and expresses sorrow and indignation at the admission to the ministry of the Church of persons who either hold Romish doctrines or question the authority of holy Scripture. Corydon, the informer, is reported to have been residing in Cork since the late mysterious murder of a Fenian, and to have now returned to Dublin, after baffling the vengeance of the brotherhood, who had resolved, if an opportunity presented itself, to take his life. They kept a holy of detectives constantly watching him, and two of them, hearing that he had gone into one of the largest hotels in the city, searched the place with great diligence without disclosing their object. THE ORKNEY ISLA NT) s.—Accoun ts from the Orkneys arc particularly lugubrious. T..e crops have failed, in one parish alone causing a lose of food to the value of 52,600. In the North Isles there is not two months' food sawed for immediate use or seed. The herring fishery has been a complete failure. One hundred and fifty boats from Unst, Yell, end Fetla only caught three barrelfuls. Six hundred men are thus thrown out of em ployment. The distress consefreet upon these lamentable circumstances is likely to be very great indeed, and will probably, unless some schemes of relief can be devised at once, constitute an urgent and heavy claim upon_the bene vaancesd niE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1869 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. GOVERNMENT MOVEMENTS. Three more Cabinet councils are announced fol this week—to-day, Thursday, and Friday. The last gathering of Ministers was held without the assistance of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, who wa: absent, together with two other members of the Cabinet. Mr. Chichester Fortescue will, however, be present at the discussion to-day. A change of personnel is announced. Mr. Ralph R. W. Lingen, Secretary of the Educa tion Office, - has been appointed Permanent Under Secretary of the Treasury, in the place of the Right Hon. George Alexander Hamilton, who was last session created one of the three commis sioners under the Irish Church Act. Mr. Hamilton made a remarkably good Treasury official. His suc cessor in due course should have been Mr. William Henry Stephenson, Chairman of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue ; but Mr. Stephenson's experience and services in his present position, says the Telegraph., are so valuable, that he retains it, "to the decided advantage of the public administration." It is to be loped that the ddyantage will be equally great to limself. PRINCE LEOPOLD. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold is still seri ously ill—so ill that the Queen has had to postpone an arranged journey to the Isle of Wight. Ho has the doctors continually in attendance upon him at Windsor; and they Five such little hope of his imme diate recovery that it seems probable that the Queen will spend her Christmas in the Castle instead of at Osborne. urging ? tne necessity of making a better commercial bargain with France—a rather naive suggestion, con sidering that a strong party in that country is agitating furiously for annulling the bargain which already exists. At the last meeting of the Chamber it was complained that several wools were excluded from France by a duty which was virtually , pro hibitive. On one yarn the duty was three-fourths of the cost of spinning. Another—in which Bradford could do an enormous business with France—is shut out by an impost amounting to four fifths of the spinning cost. The chairman is full of hope that there will shortly be an amendment. He had, he said, been speaking to several Frenchmen on this question, and he believed from his conversation with them that the trade of the two countries was distinctly separate ; that the French would, in the long run, go entirely into the short wool or fine wool adapted to their mules, and that the throstle spinning would most probably rest in England. For the present the chairman may rest assured that the manufacturing interests in France will give the Government trouble enough to keep up the concessions it has already made. fray, and made several arrests. Another disturbance was threatened, but averted by a display of military force. The Internal Revenue collector, escorted by several hun dred troops, made a sudden descent upon the fifth ward in Brooklyn, for the purpose of seizing illicit distilleries. The locality was known to be a riotous one, so sufficient force was employed to overawe the disaffected. Several thousand dollars' worth of property was seized, and although threats were freely used, no violence was at tempted. THE FIGHT AT LYNN. The Lynn Liberals announce that they are getting on nicely. Their inquiries into the cases of persona tion on behalf of the Conservative candidate have already borne such fruit, they say, that they are now in a position to reduce Lord Claud Hamilton's majority from nineteen to two. Their labours, too, are not nearly concluded. It may be well to mention, however, that the Conservatives are engaged in a similar mission. EEBLE COLLEGE AT OXFORD. Some journals, and amongst them the Time. persist in the error that Keble College is for the express purpose of educatina young men for the ministry. Mr. Talbot, the Warden designate, states that in no sense is Keble College to be a clerical seminary. It will be open to all members of the Church of England for the same purposes as other colleges. "It has been in the mind of the founders of Keble College that, whatever happens to the other colleges, there should always be a definitely Church of England education for the sons of those religious Church of England people who look upon such education as of primary importance. It is this class who are likely to be treated with less than justice by the Tests Bill, and more respect would, I think, be allowed to the moderate opponents of that measure if it was understood that they would not offer opposition to any proposal which would leave a fair portion of the Round to education of this defi nitely religious chaitcter." Kale College will, it is hoped, still represent the religious principle, but not specially the clerical interest. RIVAL LIBERALS IN SOUTHWARK. A deputation waited upon Mr. Odger on Saturday to ascertain his final decision respecting a- test ballot to decide the merits of the various Libe ral candidates for Southwark. Mr. Odger gave two reasons for refusing a test-ballot. In the first place, he considered that, as the upper and middle classes were so fully represented in Parlia ment, no independent man of any class ought to expect to be put in competition with the great prin ciple he upheld, the direct representation of labour. Were it a question between himself and another can didate he should not object to a test ballot, but they were not personal considerations, but those of prin ciple, which were involved in the present contest. In the second place, the whole of Mr. Odger's necessary expenditure is provided for, and the sum will shortly be in the hands of his committee treasurer. Mr. Odger bids for the votes of the Southwarkian Irish, of whom there are 3 , 000 , by pronouncing in favour of releasing O'Donovan Rossa and Co. TIM. MINT. The Government has come to an important deci sion touching the national coinage shop. There is to be no appointment to the vacant office of Master of the Mint. The establishment will henceforth be made an adjunct of the Treasury, and the Deputy Master, Mr. Freemantle, will preside. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer will thus have more imme diate control over the institution on Tower Hill. This step may be regarded, perhaps, as a prelude to the great manoeuvre of reducing the - value of the sove reign by two pence. A PREMATURE POLITICIAN. Those who argue that cruelty is natural, persecu tion human, and abstinence from the one and the other a conquest over humanity, are not without cer tain facts upon which to base their contentions. They will not be at all weakened in their convic tions by a recent occurrence at Blackburn, in which a boy ten years of age showed an early developed power of persecution. lle had been educated to call himself a Liberal. A. young playmate of his, named Smith, only 4 years of age, thought himself a Tory, and amused himself by shouting out the song, " llornby for ever." At this protest against his opinions, Waring, the ten-year-old boy, threatened to put Smith on the fire. But Smith did not care for that, and went on with his song. Waring then became exasperated, and fulfilled his threat—actually held the young lad on the grate and kept him there for some time over an average fire, taking no notice of his screams. lle then placed one of his thighs against the bars of the grate, and finally made him sit for several seconds upon a red hot cinder which had fallen out in the scuffle. Waring has been brought before the magistrates charged with maliciously injuring another. lle was remanded. T .IE PRIMATE. We are glad to be able to report the continued improvement of the Archbishop of Canterbury. his Grace finds himself in better health daily ; and most of the anxiety as to any immediate danger is now removed. Of course he has to bo kept quiet, but is now able to be removedfrom his room to an adjoining ono daily. THE REIGN OF TERROR IN MEATH*. The Meath magistrate who wrote the remarkable letter to the Daily News last week, follows it up with a second, adducing various facts in support of his statement that the Ribbonmen and Fenians have established a reign of terror in his county. Six weeks ago twenty-four magistrates met at Bells and signed a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant, set ting forth that within the last twelve months one farmer had been murdered, three magistrates shot at—one in open day—two ladies wounded, a coach man killed, and a steward twice fired at—on one occasion receiving a serious wound. The demoralis ing influence of this state of things is such that "many well-disposed persons are tempted to join the society in order to got possession of the pass words as a protection from insult and violence." Tho writer adds further facts to this dismal record. A landlord, on dismissing a gardener, received a threatening letter which so frightened his wife that he was obliged to remove with her to Dublin. On the occasion of an auction which the Ribbonmen bad forbidden, several purchasers were met by armed men and obliged to give up their lots, forfeiting their deposits. Threatening letters, in short, are employed on the most trivial occasions. The writer concludes that a suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act would be on all accounts the best remedy for this state of things. Once armed with this power, the Govern ment would have but little occasion to use it. THE ALABAMA CLAMS,. The rumour on this side the Atlantic that the English Government is thinking of making a proposi- tion 'to the United States whereby the difficulties may be settled on a new basis, is somewhat confirmed by a statement of the New York Times. It appears that the Washington authorities have, in some sort, reopened the question. Tho Times says that ar official notification has been given to Lord Clarendon "that the United States Government was ready to receive any now proposition which the British Cabinet might choose to submit. This was, the New York Times explains, a mere formal notifica tion, necessary as a preliminary." MESSIEURS HUGO AND BLANC ON MB. PEABODY The two most noteable of the French exiles, M Victor Hugo and M. Louis Blanc, give simultaneous eulogies on Mr. George Peabody, whose body war taken to America on Saturday. M. Hugo's is after his own style. He is glad to thin k of Mr. Peabody because it turns his eyes from Franco to America from darkness to day. But he denies that he can, being an exile, speak in the name of France. In his own name, he likens Mr. Peabody to Rothschild, Vincent do Paul. and our 6aviour : to Rothschild because lie was rich ; to Vincent de Paul boc..,aire lie was kind; to Christ because "he was wounded in the side, and this wound was for the misery of others ; it was not blood that flowed from his side, but gold, 'fine gold poured from a benevolent heart." Louis Blanc's letter is less extravagant, but still in it he shows ho is what he is. Tho English nation put Mr. Peabody amongst her kings in Westminster Abbey. M. Blanc does not "complain " of this way of sheaving respect, but " laments that there was no other. For "it was not the kind-hearted Republican trader who was honoured by the fact of being consigned to rest in Westminster Abbey, but rather those who were con sidered to be worthy of sleeping there their last sleep, on account of their rank—not of their virtue." THE FRENCH TREATY. ►l`l~_ PROTECTIONIST AGITATION IN FRANCE. The able Parisian correspondent of the Times (M. Prevost Paradol) regards the position of Free Trade in France as very serious. Even if the Emperor employs all his influence for the maintenance of the 'reaty, which is doubtful, the danger must still be The Treaty is unpopular, because, firstly, e two industries which have benefited by Free mat. Trade—to wit, the silks and the wines—were pros perous before the Treaty, while two industries, which were also prosperous before the Treaty—to wit, cotton and iron—have suffered greatly from it, or, what is quite the same for the vulgar, after it. An increasing prosperity in silk and wines is as nothing in the eyes of the French public, when com pared to the real distress of the textile and iron industries. Moreover the origin of the compact between England and . France is considered bat in these days of awakemn6 liberty. " Our Free Traders did not take time to win over the French public to their doctrines ; they could not resist the temptation of becoming masters of the field by the help of the secular arm—that is, by ono unexpected and irre sistible stroke of Imperial will. They are likely to pay for it, and to see their dear work, the Treaty, sinking down wider that same weight of a bad origin which is now pressing so heavily on the Empire itself." THE BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION LEAGUE'S SCHEME. The Birmingham Education League will not wait for Mr. Forster's Bill. They are acting altogether independently of Government, though, of course, not with the idea of opposing it. A. scheme has been drawn up by Mr. Dixon and others, which will soon be put into the hands of a draughtsman, to be pre pared forintroduction to the House of Commons. Veanivhile for the information and education of the public mind, a synopsis of the contents of the measure is to be issued. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. A discussion has been going on in North Britain as to the relations of the Established Church of England to the Scotch Established Kirk. Some pf.the disputants, would have it that the Episcopal Church, with its high claims to Catholicity, looked down upon and ppurned the humble Presbyterians ; it would not acknowledge them at all. The Episco palians themselves and some Presbyterians, deny this statement, and point, in proof of its incorrectness, to the 55th canon of the Church of England, which runs as follows : Before all sermons, lectures, and homilies, the preachers and ministers shall move the people to join with them in : prayer, in this form, or to this effect, as briefly as ,conv,o-' niently they may: Ye shall pray for (*list's Holy CatWtov Church, that is, for the whole congregation of Chiista, p eo ple dispersed throughout the • whole world , arid ' especially for the Churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland. WINDING UP PUBLIC COMPANIES. Vice-Chancellor Stuart is 76 years of age, ana belongs essentially to the past generation of lawyers; but a recent announcement of his shews that he is still capable of doing good public service. He promises to reform the present long, tedious, r uinously expensivo system of winding up bankrupt joint-stock companies. With a sweeping generalisation which is a prominent feature in his character, ho brings a charge against the whole army of official liquidators : he has never yet (he declares) seen a winding-up conducted satisfactorily. No public company ought to take as long as three years to close up its accounts and settle its arrangements. The court, however, is used for a continu ance of delays —most satisfactory, doubtless, to the lawyers, but disastrous to shareholders and creditors. Sir John Stuart has determined to change all that; so he has given notice that ho will inquire into the case 3 of all the companies which ho has ordered to be wound up, and command the liquida tors ho has appointed to make a report showing the cause of their want of expedition. C 0 lIRT DIGNITY. The " scenes " at the Middlesex Sessions on Friday were not by any means the first events of that kind. In fact, the Middlesex Court is famous, or infamous, for scandalous altercations between judge and jury. Without entering into the merits of the last dispute, it is clear that it was sufficiently dis creditable to both parties. A witness answered the counsel for the defence in an assault-and-robbery cam rather smartly, whereupon Mr. Payne observed that ho thought "the witness was too strong for the learned counsel.: The latter retorted that the judge had no right to interrupt the cross-examination ; the judge said the barrister was impertinent; the bar rister employed towards Mr. Pay n e the strong word gi = f a i r ." It is evidently time that special arrange ments were made for preserving the dignity of the Middlesex Sessions. It is indecent to impugn the impartiality of ajudge; but the latter is not justified in assuming that a witness is "too strong" for a counsel. A real ettort will, it seems, Z 3 made to give O'Donovan Rossa i! supporter in the House of Com mons. The committee who manage the candidature o f M r . J o hn Martin for Lo ng f or d con t ra di c t the report that he will not stand. They are determined to go to the poll on his behalf. He is at present tra velling in America, and the a tt emp t t o e l ec t hi m w ill be made in his absence. Mr. Martin is not an irreconcil able Fenian. His advocates in the press take care to dis tinguish between his position and that of a " Natio " candidate. lle is pledged to follow out the principle that the Legislati ve U n i on s h ou ld be re pealed by constitutional methods solely. Tho priests of Long-ford, in obedience to a letter sent from Rome by their bishop, have endeavonred to dissuade their flocks from this attempt, but it seems that priest in fluence in Ireland is entirely suspended just now. The letter from the bishop exhorts the clergy to con test Fenianism by every means as inimical to religion. 46 Be prepar e d t o d e f ea t F en i an ism in whatever form it may manifest itself—either in violence or secret machinations. Rally together the people under the leadership of the priests. Organise all thin , rs in time. FOREIGN NOTES. THE BISHOPS AT THE COUNCIL. A correspondent of the Berlin Post says that the mode n which the votes of the bishops are to be taken is now acing warmly debated by the prelates at Rome. They lave not yet come to a clear understanding. The Italians Ind the foreigners are opposed to each other, as the Italians wish to make numbers the criterion; the foreign oishops wish to vote by nationalities. The reason of this lifference is that if the votes go by numbers, the numerous Italian Episcopate will secure the Popo a majority. The Bishop of Briinn, who is prevented from being present at the Council by ill-health, has issued a pastoral in which he declares his conviction that the discussions of the Council must be free, as otherwise the assembly would be useless. The Council, he says, will not elevate into dogmas new and strange doctrines unknown to revelation, because " nothing must be made an oracle of belief which has not been at all times universally accepted and acknow i [edged by the Church." This language is thought signifi ;ant. An amusing account of the difficulties experienced by the foreign bishops in using the Latin language, is given in a letter from Rome. A deliberation took place in the Chambers of Cardinal Alfieri prior to the opening of the Council, on the subject of an address to the Pope, when everyone tried to express his opinion in pure Ciccronian Ind the result was akin to the display at the Tower of Babel. Tho American bishops gave up the attempt, and began to speak French, which everyone understood ; but the Bishop of Reggio objected, and declared that all ecclesiastical matters must be discussed in Latin. The victory was accordingly won by those who had not for gotten their conjugations, and the rest signed their names resignedly without attempting to take part in the debate. DISTURBANCES IN PORTUGAL. The last accounts from Portugalspoke of the disturbances which had taken place when Marshal Sablanha's probable elevation to the Miniatry was known. The ca.u.,:e of hi 3 unpopularity - is Laid to have been that he and his frieudA are in favour of the establishment of an Iberian kingdom, and public opinion is strongly opposed to the scheme. Petitions against the project are being signed in all the provinces, and many have already reached the capital, and have been presented to the King. DISTURBANCES IN NEW YORK. New York has been the scene of a serious disturbance. A candidate for the alderrnanship of tho Eighteenth Ward got into an altercation with an adherent of his rival. Both parties were accompanied by their friends, and a tight ensued, in which pistols, knives, and bludgeons were freely used. The candidate, whose name is Florence Scannell, was dangerously wounded, another man was fatally injured, and several others more or less hurt. The noliaa great diffiQuiti. _ _to the THE MORMON SCHISM. The seceding Mormons who repudiate polygamy have left Salt Lake and settled in Jackson county, Missouri, where they formerly resided. They have recovered their old property, and propose to erect a new temple. A long manifesto stating their reasons for leaving the main body, their views, and intentions, has been published in the Utah Magazine, and reprinted in the Arew York Illrald. It is signed by Messrs. Harrison and Godbe, who appear to be the leaders of the movement. TITE RED DIVER REVOLT. The Ottawa Government is al'out to send a spe cial messenger to the Red River country to conciliate the half-breeds. Various opinicns prevail as to the num ber of the insurgent forces, and some accounts say that they will never submit to Governor McDougall. A dis patch from Ottawa states that important dispatches are expected from England regarding the revolt. THE TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES. Treasurer Spinner, of the United States, has issued his annual report. He gives an encouraging account of the American finances, and says that if matters go on as at present, the whole national debt will be paid off in thir teen years. He felicitates himself on the fact that ho has had charge of the Treasury for eight years, during which time not a cent has been lost by mismanagement or fault, though so many millions of dollars have passed through the hands of himself and his cingoyt.s. THE DUKE OF EDINBIJUGH IN THE EAST. The Duke of Edinburgh reached Hongkong on the 31st of October. The inhabitants made enthusiastic demon strations of welcome. The natives of Bombay have resolved .0 pay special honour to the Queen's second son when he visits India. A meeting has been held, attended by 400 native gentlemen, and a committee was appointed to carry out the resolutions which were passed. They were to the effect that the visit of his Royal Highness was an event of great interest and importance, and that the Western Presidency desired to testify its loyalty to the Throne. It was also resolved that an address should be presented to his Royal Highness, giving expression to the sentiments which prevailed. In the event of the Duke of Edinburgh not visiting Bombay, the address will be forwarded to him. The most elaborate preparations are being made at Singapore to afford the Royal Duke a warm reception. In Calcutta all classes seem to vio with each other to do him honour, and the season promises to be one of the gayest ever known on the banks of the ItoogillY. • AN AUSTitAiTAN The Inquirer, a West Australian paper, gives an account of an expedition to the North-East Interior, led by Mr. Forrest. It is satisfactory to the colonists to know that the geographical results of the expedition are of substan tial interest, and serve to break into the terra incognita of interior Australia. Dr. Mueller and other gengeMen. in Victoria are anxious that- the search should "be'fkrose cuted.lurtlor,.and that an *expedition should be started from tbd Murchison River, tracing out its sources, and passing toCargentaria. in reference to these expeditions, it has been pointed out that the . camel, and not the bone is the:an,llollPeciallY-Si4e4tr the ta.gk ef.lpelletpting, intzi il*fh"l4vilkinit.ric4rind 'a : typber -9f :these bcAte -14;i-OittAkiect Sfr9ni - Victolia to tiie 'nue plored retioilkof rekt.:itiStr'l4.a.' 'The Mahon:LTC pre:Si speak highly of the caPabilfties of the camel, both from colonial experience and that of America, to which it was introduced a few years ago. The results have been satisfactory even beyond expectation. VOLUN7EER MOVE.MEN7S. LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE. The intimate association of the London Rifle Brigade with the city of London imparts a certain historic interest to every episode in its career. How- ever fashionable it may be to deride the social attri butes of municipal authority, it is indisputable tha it is often advantageous to obtain the assistance of its influence, and of even the cumbrous properties of civic magnificence. So at least it has appeared to those to whom the command of the London Rifle is entrusted, for on every recurring occasion on which the distribution of prizes to the members of the regiment who may have distinguished them- selves during the previous year has taken place, they have invited the Chief Magistrate of the City and his colleagues in office to denote the civic re cognition of the Volunteer movement. The merit of discretion must be amply credited to those in command for selecting the Crystal Palace as the scene of this annual display. When its members are assembled in the grandest theatre in the world, the ceremony is performed in the midst of picturesque surroundings, the aesthetic character of which cannot possibly be rivalled in any of the other enclosures in which such presentations are usually held. A certain interest, not altogether pleasurable, attached to the distribu tion of this year on account of the fact that an attitude of circumstances now exists with regard to the brigade which must result in somewhat seri- ous consequences however it eventuates. That con sideration, however, in nowise interfered with what may be fairly called the festive attributes of the annual gathering which took place on Saturday at Sy denham. The aspect of the centre transept when the pro ceedings commenced was most animated and im posing. The orchestra, which had received a par of its Christmas decoration, was crowded to its uppermost bench, and the variegated costumes of occupants were thrown into conspicuous prominence by the long lines of light which ran round the spacious amphitheatre. In that part of the audi torium next the stage of the orchestra the men of the regiment were drawn up within barriers, so that their movements could be performed as expediti ously as if they were on the field at Wimbledon, whilst above, around, and behind them, were dense crowds of spectators, the extreme contingent of which seemed to have taken up its position in those recesses which in another fortnight will be dedicated to the honour of Dick Whittington and his traditional companion. Tastefully con structed trophies of flags, and gracefully designed groupings of bannerets, constituted the characteris tic decorations for the time. In the centre of the raised dais on the stage chairs had been placed for the most distinguished visitors, and at each side of these the prizes were displayed, with manifest re gard to artistic arrangement. At five o'clock pre cisely the Lord Mayor arrived on the dais, accom panied by the Lady Mayoress and Lady Harriet Warde, who graciously divided the duty of pre senting the prizes to the successful competitors. The programme was opened by . Col. WARDE, who, in addressing the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, said that, on behalf of the regiment, he thanked them most heartily for the honour they had done the regiment in honouring the 10th annual distribution of prizes. He esteemed the recognition of the corps by the chief civic dig nitary .as of inestimable value. Having graciously thanked the ladies for their presence the gallant colonel proceeded to state that the parades of the regiment had been very well attended dur ing the past year, and that whenever the Lon don Rifle Brigade bad to take part in a field-day, whether at Brighton, Dover, and elsewhere, it had done credit to its commander and honour to itself. • 1,056 men represented its present strength, which was less than he was able to indicate last year. Every regiment, like every house, had a skeleton in its cupboard, and the London Rifle Brigade con stituted no exception to that rule. There had been a falling off in the number of extra efficieuts, and also in the number of efficients. People should not, however, therefore urge that the corps was in an unsatisfactory condition, for a simple explanation could be afforded fur the deficiencies specified—the. regiment bad lost its range. He approached the second subject, which embarrassed him, with much greater regret. They knew what he referred to, and he could only say that he was willing to furnish the matter in dispute to some high authority in the War-office. There had never been greater unan imity in the regiment, and whatever might be the decision it would be ratified by himself and the men under his command. Tho prizes were then distributed. When it was stated that the list constituted a small pamphlet the impossibility of enumerating the winners succes sively will be obvious. WllO tho' Cpxnoy preniatQd cup,which they had won to Col. Warde. Capt. Goodliffe offi ciated as spokesman, and Col. Warde replied in a brief and neat address. A vote of thanks to the civic dignitaries having been proposed by Col. WARDE, The LORD MAYOR, who, with Sir J. Vallentin, proceeded to the front of the orchestra, said that he hag always been favourable to the Volunteer move ment, which be considered to be of the utmost na tional importance, and he would support it by every means in his power. He believed that he might make a similar promise for the City of London. They must get a better range, for efficiency was only to be acquired by practice. The little diffi cultly to which their Colonel had alluded would, no doubt, be soon remedied, and he trusted its settlement would be followed by a better state of feeling. w o The proceedings then terminated, and were fol lowed by the inevitable sequence at the Crystal Palace—a promenade and a performance on the organ. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Sprineield Republican, Nor. 27.) The situation in the money market has not materially changed during the past week, and presents still the same elements of caution, expectation, and resultant strength. Money is abundant at the financial centres for all legiti mate purposes, but the inevitable tendency of events to ward specie payments, the uncertainty as to the action of Congress on the subject, and the possibility of a decision by the Supreme Court on the Legal Tender Act, and which will undoubtedly be adverse, all combine to render banks and capitalists cautious and circumspect about investments or entrance on extensive financial enterprises. The ruling rates of interest at New York and Boston are from 7 to 8 per cont.,, and good customers on first-class security get accommodation for less. Ths last weekly statement of the New York banks shows a reserve of $27,929,071 in specie, and of $19,455,121 in legal tenders, an excess of over $21,000,000 above the legal limit, and all the while the surplus is rather increasing than diminishing. The de mand for specie for export is falling of, and the remit tances of money to the interior are smaller than usual. There are some calls for currency from the South and West to move the cotton and pork crops, but only enough for actual necessity is demanded. One New York bank shipped the other day $275,000 to Louisville, Ky., and $50,000 to New Orleans, while another has a standing order for $50,000 daily from New Orleans. Small bills aro becoming a little more plenty with the banks, and the inconvenience of their absence will be guarded against in future. The western market is still suffering from its chronic stringency, and there is no very cheering prospect of relief. Tho city merchants are obliged to sell on credit, and the coun try morelaants are compelled to both buy and sell with out the cash. The low price of broadstuffs undoubtedly is the efficient cause of the state of the Money Market at the West, Mid - as the East yields in turn to the influences tending toward specie payments, we shall undoubtedly ex peri4te in greater or less degree the same effects. The law of facts and the force of events will bring us to this experience -if the acts of; Congress do not, and there is no good reason for attempting by legislation to hamper or', obstrueThae natural results of the business of the country. , The present situation Of the Money Market will most likely be without. ; essential' change until the meeting of Congress, and the deVelopment of its financial policy. The country no - ve waits for more light, and when that is ob tained it will take courage and go ahead. The Gold Market has been calmlY subsiding, and on Wednesday went deiwn to I`2Ssx.tho'lowest,pe.int since the spring of 1806. ' 'sitAkeried:, again, and after the GoverOitent ba4 t .sekrii:4lo6o,boo for 1.24:, it' dropped , to,l244o , lli;Vlt4iet-' . WaS witleOtit life . or excitenient. T legt4iie 4i;&d.:tni• gold is' not largo, and there is no deSire on the part of speculators to risk any more in the pools just at present. The shipments of specie from New York during October were less than the imports, and our foreign trade for the same month presents a very gra tifying exhibit. The total of our exports, exclusive of specie, from January 1 to November 1, was almost as large as the total last year, inclusive of specie, and the returns for November will show a still greater gain. The following tables present a comparison of the aggregate imports, ex ports and customs at New York, for the ten months ending Nov.l, as compared with those of the corresponding periods in the two preceding years : Year Imports. , Exports. Customs. 1867 $223,401,888 $195,270,663 $101,878,476 1868 218,869,427 202,612,630 99,660,324 1869 268,653,975 189,323,541 109,887,984 The cash duties paid thus show an increase this year of over ten millions, and in the month of October our ex ports of domestic produce were four and a half millions greater than in the corresponding month last year. The currency value of all our exports, exclusive of specie since January 1, is $171,573,476, showing an increase of over $32,500,000 over the first ten months of 1868. When the difference in the premium on gold is taken into con sideration, the amount of the exports will be seen to be much larger than appears from a mere comparison of their values. The tendency of our foreign trade and the gold market is on the whole favourable, and the state of affairs healthful and encouraging. We are accumulating strength, and with a prosperous business and a wise administration of our finances, may be able next year to keep at home tile gold which we prod ice, and finally get back some of, that which we have been sending abroad so liberally for the past few years. Governments have a downward tendency, though the movement is not very marked, and they hold their own very well in the general depreciation of all paper certificates of value. The steady reduction of the debt, which has reached nearly $75,C00,000 in the last nine months, and the strong pro bability that the remainder will bo funded, perhaps at an early day at a low rate of interest, undoubtedly reduce the market quotations of the public stocks, although there is no real depreciation in their value. They are mor than ever sought for abroad, and the demand for them on the continent is steadily increasing. A recent private letter from a well-informed American gentleman in Paris, says:—" One thing is patent to everybody here, Ameri can Securities, and especially Governments, are rapidly growing in the public favour, and a new funding loan will go at 41 per cent. with a rush. The French and English papers are discussing funding question daily, and I have not yet seen an article (and I have read fifty) in which our ability to fund our debt at that rate is oven questioned." In the action of Congress on funding of the debt, the rates of interest to which it will limit Secretary Boutwoll will, of course, be governed by the prospects in the European markets, and a figure near the lowest at which it is pro bable that it can be placed abroad will be adopted. It is more and more apparent that the larger proportion of our public interest is ultimately to be paid in Europe, and, to gether with the current saving to the Government in the matter of interest, it is also desirable to disburse no more of our national revenue to the foreign capitalists than is absolutely necessary. In the prospect of a lower rate o Government interest, many holders of five-twenties are selling out and transferring their investment to railroad and other securities, of which there are a number of vary good ones now in the market. There is also a good and growing demand in Europe for our Pacific Railroad Bonds, which will be more desirable than Governments after the debt is funded, because of their higher rate of interest. Secretary Boutwell will buy more bonds in December than in any previous month—the amount is named as high as $25,000,000, and whether he sells as much gold, which is not unlikely, will have $32,000,000 in coin to put on the market in January, in the shape of the semi-annual coupon interest. The interest in stocks has been confined to the western railroads, the Chicago and North Western and Milwaukie and St. Paul being the centres of attraction. The speculators are discounting in ad vance on the December dividend of the North Western, which will be 31 per cent. on the common stock and son the preferred. The St. Paul dividends will not be declared until February, but will be the same as for the whole year 1869. The Erie and all the Vander bilt roads have been comparatively deserted by the brokers, and the entire transactions of the week have been much imaller than usual. The business of the railroads is gene rally improving, and the receipts of the roads for Novem ber show an increase in the corresponding month for last year. The settlement and cessation of the rivalry in freights between the West and the seaboard is one pro minent cause of the inoreaso, as might be expected, when it has doubled the rates for the transportation of wheat and raised the price on other articles in similar proportion. One result of the movement will be to drive wheat and flour back to the water routes, and strengthen the movement for congressional aid to the system of proposed canals through Illinois and Wisconsin, to connect the lakes and the Alissis- Sippi. There is no important change in miscellaneous stocks. Pacific mail steamship keeps steadily declining, and will go lower, unless a speedy announcement is made of the payment of the next quarterly dividend. A move ment is on foot for a watering of the Wells, Fargo, and Co. express stock to the extent of five millions, in order to get control of the Pacific Express Company, now ontrolling the Central Pacific Railroad. A. 11. Bar ney, president of the company, heads the hydropa thic scheme, which is resisted by a large party of the stockholders, uuder the lead of Mr. Eugene Kelley. Meanwhile the stock of the company is down to 19 to 191, and to an outside spectator it would seem that one of the first things for the company to do would be to restore its impaired credit and bring up the market value of what stock it already has, instead of still further expanding its nominal and unproductive capital. General trade and business is dull and limited from the same causes which affect the money market. Merchants and produce dealers are awaiting developments, as they can better afford to do, now that the bulk of the fall trade is over. Prices of cotton, raw and manufactured, are tending down 'wards, and the receipts at the Southern ports, continuing large, will undoubtedly prevent any rise at present. The stock of goods on hand is not as heavy as usual at this season of the year, but there is uo disposition among menu- JacturerS to press sales, while in woollens the state of 'affairs is vory simi'ar. The foreign goods importing are Mostly sent to the warehouses in bond, as there is no market =opt Ow auction room. Who del:Tool= IA Dread- - - stuffs continues, and numerous failures in England are reported, which bring sharp warning to our dealers on this side the water. Flour has fallen steadily at New York, and wheat and corn aro completely stagnant at Chicago' on the whole, the situation is especially unfavourable for the farmers and producers who have raised the manufac tured crop at paper money prices, and are now compelled to come down to the specie hardpan. But that's what we d are all looking to and coming to one of these da y s, an then we shall be on solid equality again. The auction sale of coal at Now York on Wednesday resulted in wer prices, and the cattle markets at New York, Cambridge and Brighton follow the universal law. (From the Wall-street Journal.) FRIDAY EVENING, November 26. Business continues very slow, and ,in and out of til e street there is little doing. Clark Brothers and Co., Of St. Louis, Missouri, one of tho oldest houses iu the Wes t, have suspended. Money on call rules at 7 per cout., whit some exceptions at 6 per cent. Discounts show little change, with a small inquiry for paper. The gold mrk't is heavy, and opened this morning at the smallest price quoted since the conclusion of the war —l24 l —cl°sing' however, at 124 f. Quotations for specie : 488 Amor. silver... 97i- to 98 J Eng. soya 486 to Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 101 20 francs Je6 „ 388 Eng. silver 470 , 480 I Tinders ....... ......... t , Five francs 96 „ 97 I w i t h ,11.0 - Foreign Exchange is firm at our quotations, aver, a small Lusiness. Sixty Days. Thr e° , l3 l 9l B. London Bankers 1084- 1081 109g- 14 i London, Prime Commercial lOBl-1081 :::..L . .141 Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 351-35i • ...... Frankfort, O.M. 4Ol-401 ...... Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.221-5.171 ...... Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 5 221-5.171 6 ..... Government Bonds are heavy, the Banks and Sari°6 Banks being free sellers. Sixes, 1861, registered Sixes, 1881, coupon Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad Five-twenties, 1862, registered Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon k 1 Five-twenties, 1865, coupon : Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new .. . 1 : 44272 1 Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll4l to 11 4 } I ° 7l Ten-forties, coupon lO7l to Ton-forties , registered Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 cin ll l Railroad Gold Bonds are in active demand , esPe ro by European capitalists, who aro now purchasing i : ill freely than over of the new issues, largo blocks being " Or" secured by their agents here, affording a gratifying i ts ;„.. ance of the growing confidence abroad of American ''' vestments. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 88 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... 88 N. Y. Central 6s, R Eat.. 851 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 851 N.Y. Central 7s, 1876... N. Y. Con. 7s, con. 76 ... 99 Erie Ist Mort, Ex — Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 — Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B4l Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 7l Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 72 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. lstM,'77 B4 Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 1001 Hud. 11. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 1031 Harlem:lst M, '6B '72 97 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 118 Mich. new Ist M 85,'82 — Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M B9 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B ktich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 95 ill. Oen. 7 p,. cf!7o 115 Alt= &T. 11.1.5 t M Alto'n* 'T. H. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 70 Han.&.St.J.LandWrntslo7l Tol. & Wab. 76 Mil. & Pr. du Oh. Ist 31.• '"- Gal. & Chic. Ext.......... Gal. & Chic. 2d M ....... • , Chi. & R. I. Ist 31 .......... 1004 Chi. R. I. & Pacific Vs... ~,•:,4 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund..• ' N. J. Central Ist M ..... . 99 N. J. Central 2d 31 ..•••_ . " .. , f , Pitts. Ft.W., &Ch.lst.3l.l„u", Pitts. Ft. IV., & Ch. 2d M• ~1 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. ad M• f,',,,, Cleve. & Pitts. 4th AL , 1 " Chic. & Alton, S. F.loc. " Chic. &Alton, S. F• 15t31.1001 Mil. & St. Paul Ist 31••• S9* Mil. & St. Paul 2d M••• , - 5 1 Marietta & dn. Ist 31••• „'" A ' Morris & Essex Ist M. "" Morris & Essex 2d 31 ••• -- Joilet & Chic. Ist M. , , 6 Chi. & Gt. East'n Ist 31.•• "- N. Y. & N. 11. 6s . 1 . . „; Dubuque & S.CitY ,ls. ''' ra It Peninsula Ist . ~..... - - 911 Ohio & Miss. Ist 31 ....... Ohio & Miss. Con ..• . .... 8" 711 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. .... Atlantic & G. W. 2d M „ --- 4. Del., Lack., & W., 2d M. ', -. 1 Lake Shore Div. Bonds B's Cleve, P. & .A sh• 14 • 13 '" ..-' Do. 0.13... 80. --- tTnion Pacific Gold 13. Central P.IIR. Gold 13; ? jII t Pacific RR. guar. by MO• B an. Ji St. J. Con 109 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 1071 Chi. & N. West, .S. F 94 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 871 Chi. & N. W. Int B B4 Chi. & N. W. Ist M B9i Quincy & Tol, Ist M, '75 70 111. & So. lowa Ist M — Gt. West. Ist M, 'BB 7B Gt. Western 2d M '93 7Bl Tol. & Wab. Ist 3I Ex BO I Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks : N. Y. Central 1761 Fort Wayne ............ 621 Erie Hudson Reading Mich. Central l2O W. 11. Telegraph ...... 16 Illinois Central Cleveland & ; Pittsbrg B2/ Ohio and Mississippi... or..• 14 N or th-West North-West Preferred 84 Cumberland Haven...* ............. 16/i 4 1 Canton Rock Island • lO3l M & St. Paul ........... ! 8 31 Cleveland and Toledo & St. Paul Prefe rred Express Stocks are heavy, with a small business. ~1 571 to 5 / 1 Adams American Merchants' Union 35 10 Merchants' Union, old Stock 9l to ~t ' to d„l..' United States 521 Wells, Fargo, and Co lB' to I'3 At the meeting of Wells, Fargo, and Co , held P3sle,g day, the stockholders voted to issue $5,000,000 of ne,, stock, and to buy out the Pacific Fxp-eqs C° nl -o 3 : . Judge Cardozo granted an absolute iujunc-t'ion on t he „; -° oi sident, Secretary, and Treasurer, restricting t he ios" the new stock. o il a, i The Erie Railway Company announces divide r y per cent. on the Preferred stock, i n interest -bearing 6c-ri having five years to run! which will be ready for deli:reos at the Treasurer's office, Bth Avenue and 23 d Str°, ° " fg of and after December 15th next, to the registere d the stock. „ c ort Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia banker 0, as follows on Nov. 25: —Pennsylvania R a ilroad S o r t' 54-1 54/; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 97f 98-; Sixes, 2a gage, 941 —. ts Of INTERESTING POSTAL STATISTICS.—The rece'Ped, the United States Post-office Department for the Y e ' for for ing last June were 918,314,540, against $ 16 , 29 !' ° ,%pa 11 : the previous year, an increase of 121 per cent.: the - 0 . las' ditures for the same time were $23,608,131, For $22,735,965 for the previous year, or an increase 0 ' ;0 0 cont. The number of stamps issued during the Y ea Po of nearly half a million, valued at 912,722,568, o%c ors' wrOPP 1 ,0 $2,355,493 worth of stamped envelopes an d The present number of mono order offices is 1,6' ofloes amount of money that passed through the 1, 465 a bou t that were in business during the past year sfaS 0 11 $25,000,000. The receipts from fees were s l76 ' ea' an excess over the expenses of 965,553 —a r o per ticeable Balance, when we remember that the itS order Department ran behind over $7,00 0 duril dead, first year, 1865. Nearly 4,000,000 letters went to the pebis, letter Office last year, of which 361,984 were 11 0111 , e' ad" 33,000 were registered an d 17,417 were fictitious, 01110 dressed to boxes and pseudonyms. There W e f a. sai 70,429 letters, of which the address was incoallinirec; 2,678 which their careless authors had f o rgotteu e l l eA oo o ' at all. The amount of money in these letters wa s ? no s W i tt of which $82,000 has been returned to the por n i sent it. The rest is retained for redemption altd„ W ; e xei; the appearance of its owners for four years, at 0 J e d tion of which time, whatever is unclaimed wolortl3-4 the Treasury. There was also found 93,000,00 olio° drafts, deeds, bills of exchange, &c. The a moUnt feu to. from the sale of waste dead-letters was $2,067, whtlooter morly was a perquikite of ;he third Assistant Po n , general. but now gdes to the Government. (inn tilA ti 'o [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Dyspepsia (Indigestion), o h, ',40-• Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, Sto d A ccv vi i liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated a ble bl, v y rated healthdrugs of every description, but perfectly otirt r on Barry'srestoring Revalenta. Arabic& Food, a°,„,' s to, thousands of cases which had been considered hoPo'"'"iiipl''''he —cough. asthma, also diarrho3a, ha3morrhoids, liver co flatulenCy, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore thro,'"ars,,fills ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head an d i e da, ba naatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, nenr'lie`",-, e bility, sleeplessnefs, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, eva-es debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sieltno,ssliglit"too pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofts;toeclia by of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach ana.,",'", o tor c T ue shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's heallt,'ls6 6- ;,ao 0 " Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, July 0 ,10.„' D a health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially sil 1 „1- 0 11 late ing all other remedies, he has confined himself 0 ".,„ - , 0 Y fie lt o Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he COnsur b eoe'l e ut ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisieggis o°o l o° effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pruis,e;,, w 1 101, 1 . food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi; """,-;'t No. 46,270-Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant; - 000" , , to or' Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting ?' derangement, and partial deafness! Cure No. 1-, 77 dY°P„ - e p . de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years,,,, No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agony nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, itatulell 6ioD ~0 05 sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Importan' Beware of the many-unsavoury and more than sleleyaost , to which, without authority, Baron Liobig's name ciously attached 121 0, In tins, at Is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 21bs 4s 6d bibs 01 10 09 ,04, 24. Pm 40s.—Also DII BARRY'S ItHVALENTA Alar g , e .r. (4) 1. POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups 0A :,,""A on: 0e; at 3s 6d, for 48 c ups at 6s, for 288 cups at 300, fur n'" ft" —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and go tuicer 1004 free of carriage in England on receipt' of Post- 0 . 1 ,7 1 ,,d0n; BAR ItY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77 lgent street , -Ls" - all Grocers and Chemists t i BIRTHS. 1 , DENNIS—On the 12th inst., a t Hill-side, Strea 4 ilit ii wife of John D enn i s, E sq., o f a son . 10 °. .1 WRITE—On th e 12th inst. , at Bedford Park , Cr°l"°l3l William White, of a daughter. {be' MARRIAGES. I _ill' ig , Gliossz—RlED—On the 11th in t at St. gartin 5 131 0 Fields, Maximilian CI rosce, Esq . , s" of La Bagatelle, ii ..th e ' heath, to Susanna Kathinka Hit(l ,of Fraukfort"° Kilt Main, Germany. a d 004 g r NEAME--LLOYD —On the 9th inst., at Ball s "".- - Imo '" -- 0 Austin Nearne Esq., of Sutton, Surrey, to JJ" - 0. 4 shall, y,ver ' daughter of Howard Lloyd, BE II Dominica, West Indies. DEATBS. Or ie6 BRYSON —On the 12th inst. , °0 at The Hermitage' 13 Alexander Bryson, M.D.0.8., duo, aged 67 ' 10 1 °AFFIX —On the 12th lust. , William Oamn, Bcl.l Villa, Blackheath, aged 92. b li O sage' LAWSON—On tho 12th inst., at Hildenboro u g h,lll Wm. Lawson, Esq., aged 84. e visl . pl 49 d d i London : Printed and Published by WILLI/01 ti--1, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Ofilce 1 0 0 .,•!,000 0. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cOunti a .- 1 Wat 3 .daY/ DMIZIAQT 14,.;1509. 1(I A] Tliie Celt: P 'Us Medal. Pure, Sold in 11 t 'le Agents I 8, G/ ObsetrvEl tt 11'8 W un 14, RUSE ADVANCE bold or Len able weekly Forma free rrITFI I Lane' for deviling ORIGINAL I nes Consignee celebrated 1 - Bordeaux Whiskies, i also be sees number of of others WE ANG A Devoted ti PAG/CA, Railroad, and thoee thfa rewsi Fablie] LISTA] J) The rel fossional ] weekly ra bincil witt establishn This esi rased by 1 and it is Lady Lai Caroline 1 AU id; ten or per Subscri Treasure! FrHE : JEI receive A: and DUN The s 3 manual al A publi when the flossed. Applies other part THE Offices The In Fire Rove Tho mod( Bonus or value as render ; ti leave is gi thirty day k of UpwarC this Hosp The CO enable the numerous helpless b Bankers street; ai Wato,rl( NATI Wel Under the whereby a Girls of all the kingdo The obie lish edueat and lanais wise provi Imitable sit The Con entirely su °taco, , G" This 11 establisbe fres. Banker street, M( Soo., 1, 9 ORI'l L bloc For tb destitnto and of s prosperot One hi stitntion Increa endowed assistrtne Subset Institutiq its poculi The la Secretor: Offices Banke ane ; an LIFE of boat Insl from var The Ins on its L £4,250 h The I its mans Contri and cow Esq., at HEALTt DU 1 Cure S .iart farl: foo Cure from d • flatulor of Lyn Curs nArvon vole fa Cure yeara' 1 21h., hs li•trry'• tin axs oip3+l iron 3A,ltt algo Grxcec No 't road. Patrc The