The Sun. — London, England, 1869-09-06 00:00:00

A LOVER'S ARDOUR `4 DAMPED," . - A case of an amusing nature has been, heard at the Drmskirk Monthly Sessions. Three young met, named Joseph Nickson, Jacob N ickson, and John Wareing, were summoned for having assaulted William torshaw, at Halm% on the 2.5 th of August e Complainant : I was going to see my sweerheart, when I met these three men. They asked me to give them a shil ling, and because I refused they put me in a sack. It wasn't big enough, and they fetched another, and put it over my head. Then they threw me into a ditch. (Laughter.) They have caught me with my sweetheart before, and threatened to " sack " me. (Laughter.) It is usual to ask for a shilling, but it is not usual to drown a chap. (Renewed laughter.) A woman standing by asked them to pull me out, but they said I hadn't been in half long enough. Mr. Dodd :—And your young lady, did she stand by this murmuring stream—(laughter)—while this was going on? Complainant :—She kneeled by the stream and watched me. (Laughter.) At last I got out and was the worst for my ducking. I was a long while before I came to myself. Only that night I had been to a doctor. Mr. Dodd :—Do you mean to say you were damaged beyond wetting ? ~Complainant : They likened to have smothered me. (Ltinghter). Mr. Dodd: -Was it not a mere lark such as young men play on each other ? Complainant :It was above fun, rly drowning a nearly chap. (Renewed laughter.) They trailed me up and down in the sack, until I was all in a sweat, and then they chucked me into the brook. (Laughter.) I've got shillings from other men when they have been courting. Complainant's sweetheart said she was in bed when the "sacking" began, but hearing the noise and her sweetheart in distress she ran out and saw the three men throw the sack over his head and trail him through the brook. Com plainant sobbed, and then they pulled him out. The defendants were told that this practical joke was a serious one, and were each fined 10s. and costs. LAW AND POLICE. CHARGE OF I'o/MERL—The investigation of the charge against William Whelpley, the young man charged with forgery and fraud by wood merchants of Cornhill, was resumed, but the prisoner was unable to appear as he was suffering from deliriumtreir ens. Mr. Lewis fertile prosecu tion, applied for the £491 found on the prisoner, and also for the jewellery, which was quite new, and worth between £2OO and £3OO, having been bought the week before his arrest. Sir J. Gabriel agreed to the money being given up to the prosecutors, but deferred to make the order for the jewellery until the prisoner was committed. He was remanded for a week. THE HIGHGATE CEMETERY. -At the Marlborough. street Police•court a curious application was made a day or two since. The owner of a grave in Highgate Ceme tery wished to erect a tombstone over his infant son, stating thathe died " from the mortal effects of vaccination." The company refused . to alloNi its erection, and the father applied to the magistrate for advice. The words, he said, were used by a coroner's jury. The magistrate suggested a verbal alteration, and said that if the dispute could not be settled in that way the applicant might give the com pany notice that he would legally test his right to insist upon the inscription. CHARGE AGAINST A BARONET.—A days or two since Sir Robert Menzies, Bart., of Castle Menzies, was charged at the Perth Sheriff Criminal .Court with malicious mis• chief. The substance of the charge was that on the 31st of last July he kicked a wooden sub scription-box, belonging to the Dunkeld Bridge Pon tage Committee, from its stand at the Dunkeld railway station. None of the witnesses would swear that the kick had damaged the box, and the sheriff accordingly dismissed the case. After the judgment, there was some hissing in Court, whereupon the sheriff said be was con vinced he was right. If he bad been applauded, he might have doubted, but none could hiss but geese and serpents, and he was therefore sure he was right. THE MURDER IN THE INTERIOR OF AFEICA. The murder of Mdlle. Tinn6, the African traveller, has already been announced. The Tiincs publishes an account of the murder. The melancholy event took place in the Ouadi Berd:;oudj, one day's journey from Scharaba, and 6ve days to the west of Mourzouk. The last letter from Mdlle. Tinn6, who left Tripoli for the interior on the .?,Oth of January, 1869, was dated from Scharaba, and received at the same time with the account of her murder, which was written soon after the occurrence by one of the Arab servants of the deceased, Mohamed Ben Hassen el Bennani. The party, escorted by an Arab, El ILA Ahmed Bu Selab, sent by El Hadj Ilcbenoulien, the chief of the Tuaregs, who was waiting at Taharat to escort her himself thence to Ghat, fell in with a party of six Aral,s and eight Touaregs, headed by El Hatij Esscheikh Bun ! Beker, another Tonareg chief, who disputed the right of escort, alleging that he bad been ordered by El ITadj Ikhe• nouken to conduct her to Taharat. On Sunday, August 1, the six Arabs and eight Touaregs pretended to dispute among themselves as to who should carry the palanquin of Mdlle. Tinn6. The Touaregs were armed with lances and sabres. The Arabs, on the pretence of defending themselves, seized the arms of Mdlle. Tinn6's servants, which were lying on the ground while the camels were being loaded. Mdlle. Tinnd and the two Dutch sailors advanced to separate the combatants. One of the sailors, named Ootsmans, was immediately run through by a Touareg with a lance, which also wounded a negro who was behind him. Mdlle. Tinn6 was stretching out her right arm in a commanding attitude when a Touareg struck off her hand with a sabre, and an Arab shot her in the breast, causing instant death. The other sailor, Jacobsi, who had rushed to her help, was then shot dead by an Arab. Thus the responsibility of the crime was ingeniously divided between the members of the two tribes. All the other servants, consisting of Arabs and negroes, were allowed to escape, except a young negress named Jasmina, who was carried off by the Touaregs. It appears that Mdlle. Tinn6 purposed making a tour in the Toureg territory, while awaiting supplies and fresh camels from Tripoli, and intendel to return to Mourzouk, to start thence for Bournou. She had met at Mourzouk Dr. Nachtingall, a Prussian traveller, who was charged with presents from the King of Prussia to the King of Bournou, and who had left on a short journey eastwards to the country of the Tibous, also intending to return to Mourzouk for supplies before proceed:mg to Bournou by the annual caravan some time in November. Baron de Testa has sent orders for the survivors of Mdlle. Tinne's party to return immediately to Tripoil. The Onadi Berjoudj is, according to Barth, in the territory of Fezzan, and conse• quently within Turkish jurisdiction ; but the Pasha holds to the contrary, alth oug h i t i s well known that h e ra i ses tribute there when he can do so. lie promises to do his utmost to bring the off en d ers to justice, but as he had previously confessed hi s i na bili ty to protect travellers beyond Mourzouk, he is scarcely responsible for the catastrophe. The Dublin Provincial Synod of the Episcopal Church has been formally summoned fcr the 14th of Sep tember. A proposition has been made that 200,000 enrolled Orangemen should, as a society, raise a contribution among 'themselves of £lO,OOO to the Church Fund. Among further subscriptions offered, Mr. Horace Rochfort, of Carlow, gives £23 a-year for five years after January, 1871. OUTBAGE BY IN ANTIC-RITUALISTIC MOB AT MAN CHESTER.—The Red. Mr. Gallagher. minister of the Pro testant Reformed Church at Manchester, followed by his congregation, went on Sunday morning to the church of St. John the Baptist, where the ritual is said to be extremely high. they were refused admission, and eventually Mr. Gallagher took his departure, leaving a crowd gehind. Soon afterwards, on the Rev. T. M. Broomhead, the curate, and some of the officials, quitting the church, he was roughly handled by the mob, and was forced to take refuge in a cab, the windows of which were broken, and a chorister severely injured. One of the rioters was apprehended by the police in the act of throwing stones. MATRIMONY IN FRANCE —A judgment of in terest to foreign families of which members have con tracted matrimonial alliances in Prance was given two days back in the Civil Court of Paris. The facts of the case were these :-2J. de Brimont married about two years ago a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Penniman, American oubjects. No contract was drawn up, but the parents of the lady promised verbally, according toll. de Brimont, to make the young couple an annual allowance of 50,000 f. as a marriage portion. The younz wife died a few months back, leaving an infant daughter, and Mr. Penni man, who until then had regularly paid tha money, re fused to continue it to the son-in-law. The last named now brought a suit to enforce the continuance of the pay ment, as alimony for himself and daughter. The parents of the deceased lady, while offering to bring up the child, resisted the demand, on the grounds that the plaintiff was a spendthrift, that he had concealed numerous debts when he married, and had since contracted new ones, Ind, moreover, that he was young, and might by his 'abour procure for himself sufficient resources. The Tri mnal, however, decided that as De Brimont was without neans of existence, and that as his own mother was not n a position of fortune to assist her son and grand laughter, the plaintiff had a right to an alimentary pen. lion from his wife's parents ; and consequently condemned tem to pay an annual sum of 18,000 f,, of which o,ooof. yore for I% do one , d J 1,9091. tov 414 inibtgri MICELLANEOUS NEWS. THE IRISH CHURCH CO3IMISSION. The Church Commissioners kept hard at work up to the closing of the offices for the usual vacation. The Dublin Mail says that they met day by day until they had transacted every matter of business left for their decision by the late Ecclesiastical Com missioners. They then adjourned solely to enable the clerks to have their usual vacation. Even during the holiday, Judge Lawson is preparing draughts of the general rules and forms under which the pro cedure of the Commissioners is to be regulated. They will resume work on the 23rd of this month. THE LAND QUESTION. The Spectator believes that the land question of Ireland is rapidly drifting to a Thirty Years Settle ment ; that is, to compulsory leases for thirty years with rents increasing slightly each year, either by a rate arbitrarily fixed, or by an arrangement resembling the commutation of the tithes. Our contemporary not only thinks that this is the solu tion which will be adopted, but approves of it. True, it only postpones the difficulty. But a cure only postpones death, yet one swallows the doctor's stuff for all that. Besides, this dose can be repeated. "At the same time, all experience shows that a thirty years' settlement is attended with one considerable evil. For the last seven years the leaseholder will do nothing, will, in fact, rack the land all he can, so that at the next valuation he may get a low rent." THE ELECTION COMMISSIONS. More astonishing revelations' at Bridgwater were made on Friday. The Commissioners were favoured with the apparition of the " man in the moon," who turns out to be a very ordinary individual indeed — a salesman in a London . mercantile hcuse. His name is Mr. C. Lomax, and his evidence implicates Mr. Vanderbyl in much the same degree as the previous evidence did Mr. Kinglake. Mr. King lake's brother has been shewn to have directed the distribution of bribers ; Mr. Vanderbyl's partner in business is proved to have helped in dispensing " tea "to the electors. The " man in the moon " is a servant of the house of Fennelly, Redfern, and Co. In that firm Mr. Vanderbyl is a partner. On the nomination day last year Mr. Fennelly telegraphed to Mr. Redfern, " Send 1,500 bales," meaning £1,500. Lomax had to take charge of these bales, and brought them to Bridgwater; Mr. Redfern accompanied him. At Bridgwater the money was done up in parcels of £lO each, like tea samples, was called " tea," and passed round under that designation. All the money went through Lomax's hands ; he sat in a room and gave the "samples" to voters, and larger sums to can vassers. After the election he found it necessary to take up his residence on the Continent till the petition had been heard and decided. Messrs. Fenelly and Redfern are to be allowed to make voluntary statements. At Beverley, Mr. Anthony Trollope was exammea and declared that his expenses as Liberal can didate at the late election did not exceed £4OO. He had his agent's word for the statementthat none of it went in bribery. A Conservative Town Coun cillor said he had received 230 at the last municipal election for the purposes of bribery. He named those to whom the money was given. One election, he said, had cost him £35. TEE NEW CONTROLLER OF THE NAVY. The Post makes an announcement, about which hints have already been thrown out. Mr. Reed, the present Chief Constructor of the Navy, whose attempts at shipbuilding have caused so much criticism, is to leave that post for the one of " Controller of the Navy." Mr. Reed is a man whom the Lords of the Admiralty delight to honour. Only recently, hearing he was ill, they promptly raised his salary very considerably. THE SERVICES. It is simultaneously announced, with many expres sions of satisfaction by both the Broad Arrow and the United Service Gazette, that the privilege is to be granted to assistant-paymasters to count all their time, the same as officers in the other branches of the naval service. The first-named paper repeats,without vouching for the truth of it, a rumour already in circu lation, thatthe authorities intend to adopt the segment shell, notwithstanding a doubt which exists of its superiority over the Shrapnel. Other men in office have under consideration another hard question— the sale of the "Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards. Several proposals have been made in respect of them. The dress of the soldier, so continually discussea, nas again been considered, with the result oi l another reform. The new alteration is contemplated In the dress of Eitle Brigade and other regiments. It consists in the substitution of a bearskin busby with upright green plume, for the light shako and and small ball ; and an embroidered sash either around the waist or over the shoulder. The Army and Nary Gazette does not see the utility of the new arrangement; though,by the way, it seems rather designed for ornament than use. "Is (asks our contemporary) this alteration (in these days of crack rifle shooting) for the purpose of enabling an enemy to mark their man more easily? It has hitherto been considered advisable to keep riflemen from being seen as much as possible, and that was the cause of the crimson sash they formerly wore being done away with, and everything kept as dark as possible. If this change be adopted, it would appear that the reverse is now the object, and that they are to be made targets of, in place of being kept dark." _ _ Mr. Childers, it is further staled., is employing the time on his cruise in a most satisfactory manner as far as the services and the public are concerned. He is "finding leisure" to mature, by the help of the '• most experienced and intelligent officers in the service with whom he is sailing, a scheme of retire ment for the navy. The by no means Ministerial Army and Navy Gazette, prophecies that he will do well. _ _ The United Service Gazette calls 'attention to two serious evils • one as regards the health of our sol diers in India, the other concerning the morals of our borne officials. The first has attention drawn to it by a correspondent, who thus fully states his com plaint :—" The portion of the regiment stationed at Allahabad has suffered very severely during the late hot season, having lost seven serjeanfs, and eighty-five men, women and children within three months." The " big men "at the dock yards are furnished with an intimation that it is all very well for them to censure the small officials for accepting" tips," but they are not betterthan other men. They are only doing much the same thing as their weaker brethren. So long as the notorious " patronage" system continues, so long as the men up aloft, who sneer at and condemn their humbler brethren 7 make promotions and ap pointments from other motives than for the good of the services, they are not competent to call in ques tion other people's honesty. WORKING MEN IN PARLIAMENT. The Labour Representation League sent its chair man and several members to the Trades Union Congress at Birmingham. At a meeting of the former body, held on Friday, it was stated that the Leaguers had met with a favourable reception, and co-operation had been promised. It is expected that in a few weeks every thing will be in readiness for the commencement of an active and vigorous campaign for promoting the direct representation of labour in the House of Commons by means of the organised action of work ing men voters in the various constituencies of the kingdom. CIVILISATION IN CHINA. It is now certain that the Chinese Government has not repudiated the treaty which Mr. Burlinghame concluded in its behalf with the United States. The Post is authorised to state that Mr. Burlingliame has received a despatch from the Regent of China, Prince Kung, expressing his entire satisfaction with, and acceptance of, th e t rea ty. A formal exchange of ratifications will shortly take place. Whatever may be the effect of this agreement in giving America a monopoly of influence in China, it is certain that it marks an epoch in the history of the Chinese Empire. TILE TRADES' UNION CONGRESS. The deliberations of the union delegates at Bir mingham are the subject . of congrat u l a ti on on a l most every hand. Few writers seem disp ose d t o quest i on the right of working men to get into Parliament, and the Spectator thinks that the spirit evinced at the Congress will lead to success at the very next general election. But more important still i s th e admission of nearly all the delegate! that a large proportion of working class wages go in beer, spirits, and tobacco, and that the beer is filth, and the spirits poison. The Saturday Review—which regards total abstinence as a " fanaticism "—is delighted with this attack upon the working man's greatest enemy. Trades unions will " receive a large measure of commendation, and even of grati tude, if they teach the English working man to shake off the hateful domination of the alehouse. The wretched stuff on which he now consumes nearly half his wages, impairs his strength, ruins his health, and clouds his intellect. Were every member of the unions to forswear this trash ?ukolly, he would save money enough to become a small capitalist himself." This doctrine of " forswearing wholly " is pretty well for a journal which calls total abstainers fanatics. T_YE ALBERT ASSURANCE COMPANY. The Solieftors' Journal thinks it tolerably plain tna,t, just as the bankruptcy of certain v.ti , l 3 ll ,\i lal a ,i Ts to a rcconsilerAtion o f the railwa y law, so the break down of the Albert lead to a better p rov i s i on against the misdeeds of assurance companies. Directors of these associations, the legal Journal thinks, must be• made to keep their accounts in a proper and intelligible form, and to make their periodical statements in such a way as to in form, not to mislead. It is all nonsense SO argue that Parliament ought..not J R interfere tens way. Every reason waicirlea to the enact ments on this subject in thq case of railway cony= panics contained in the Regu)'ation of Railways Act, 1868, applies with equal farce to insurance com panies.' But a far more serious question is that of the responsibility of directors. The policy-holders have a greater interest in the concern than the shareholders ; and it might happen that if the company were irrecoverably lost, it would be to the profit of the shareholders to get all they could, declare dividends which were never earned, and for this purpose procure insurances at any price for the sake of the premiums. The general legal rule is, that the directors are answer able to shareholders and not to customers, " but it is very questionable," says the Solicitors' Journal, whether this rule ought to be upheld in the case of assurance companies. Life assurance is a contract which depends, not upon the solvency of the company at the time such contract is made, but upon the continuance of solvency for the indefinite duration of a life." THE StiV., LONDON, Alt DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1869. TIIE RIVAL ATLANTIC CABLES. The city editor of the Times, who seems to be be getting into hot water in various directions, has entered upon a campaign with the Railway News touching the French Atlantic Cable. The latter paper a week ago said that there was a flaw in the new cable; the Times, on " high authority," declared that there was no flaw, but only " a pecu liarity incompatible with complete perfection." Most people would think that a " peculiarity " which did not admit of " complete perfection ' must • par take of the nature of a " flaw," and accordingly it is not astonishing to find that the Railway News remains unconvinced by the "high authority." That something is wrong is proven, it says, by the fact that the Construction Company have left £20,000 in the hands of the French proprietors for repairs, if needful. Perhaps this fault his something to do with the delay of messages on the line. Tho Railway News affirms that the result of the inter national boat-race reached New York much more quickly by the English than by the French cable. It was communicated to the press at New York, by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, at " four minutes past one ;" the news by the French Cable did not reach New York until " five minutes past two," or just ono hour and one minute after the message by the English Cable. " Whether this delay was owing to any ' peculiarity' in the cable we are unable to say, but at least it is but due to the Anglo-American Company that it should be known that they were the first in this telegraphic race." The railway journal proceeds to express its opinion that the cable is financially a failure. We were promised in the prospectus that the average receipts would be £1,300 a day. During two weeks a total of only £1,323 has been reached, or £O3 a day. WORKHOUSE REFORMS. Workhouse guardians are not usually impressed by vigorous denunciation, but it appears that the Clerkenwell Guardians have not been able to get over Dr. Stallard's report. This gentleman investigated the condition of Clerkenwell workhouse, and the result was published a few days ago. Dr. Stallard declared that " words fail me to describe the wretchedness of this disgraceful building, or the sad condition of its unfortunate i n mates." The Clerkenwell Board thought this rather serious. They have set to work and shut up the two receiving wards, which Dr. Stallard declared "unfit for habitation," and are endeavouring to provide substitutes. THE PARTRIDGE SEASON. The Field and Land and Water are as much at issue respecting the partridge season as they were on the subject of grouse. The prognostications of both these authorities have been " verified." But the first says that barren pairs and half-grown coveys are the rule everywhere. The second admits that the birds fall short of last year's average, but nevertheless claims that they are plentiful. " The harvest is most counties is rapidly drawing to a close, the green crops are very flourish ing, affording first-rate cover, and, altogether, sports. men have but little reason to complain of the present and may, moreover, anticipate even better sport ai the season advances." It seems clear, on the whole that the season is not all that could be wished. The coveys are small in some places, and where they are large the birds are, in many cases, late hatched and too young to kill. -------- CRICKET. Another series of international cricket matcher will be played in Australia during the coming winter. Twelve of the leading English players leave the coun try on the 20th to do battle with sixteens, eighteens, andtwenty-twos of the Australian cricket clubs. The English representatives are very strong, including Mr. W. G. Grace, Jupp, Pooley, Lockwood, and Charlwood, as batsmen, and Emmett, Southerton, and Willsher, as bowlers. This is the third time that a detachment of cricketers from England has visited the Antinodes. T 113.1 ERIE RAILWAY. The Railway News has informed us that the report of the Erie directors, to be issued at the end of the month will be of "a, highly satisfactory nature." The shares are liLely to go up considerably in a short time. To the world at large, and especially to the numerous Erie share holders in Europe, such a turn of affairs will be equally gratifying and amazing. The Erie Company, it is needless to say, is the one which, has been the subject of so many railway wars. Its history is a chronicle of commercial swindling unparalleled even in this age. THE SUEZ CANAL. An American company proposes to establish a line of steamers to co-operate by way of the Mediter ranean and the Suez Canal, with the various lines sailing to China and the far East. One of the lead- ing objects of this undertaking is to bring organised communities of emigrants from Southern Europe to settle on lands in the Southern States of America. Several millions of acres at low rates will be at the disposal of the company for this purpose. (From Me Anglo-American Times.) Mr. Peabody has improved in health during his visit to the White Sulphur Springs. At the groat ball given in his honour he was not able to attend, but it is since then (August 11th) that the improvement has been most marked. The gathering at the Virginia watering place has resumed something of its old appearance, retain ing its Southern character. Many Southern generals who distinguished themselves have there repaired, and Mr. Peabody appears to be quite at home in their society. lie had lately presented Washington College, over which General Leo presides, with the sum of $60,000, and perhaps the finest of Mr. Peabody's gifts was that designed to pro mote education in the South. There are over 1,500 visi tors at the White Sulphur Springs, among whom is Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister to the United States ; indeed, the society of that summer resort has been more than ordinarily good. On Tuesday last a message was sent from New York announcing Mr. Peabody's recovery from his recent serious illness, and the correspondents write of the intimacy which has sprung up between him and General Lee. The steamship City of Port-au-Prince brought dates to New York from Port-au-Prince to the 7th, and Cape Haytien to the 9th of August. Salnave was still en camped before Aux Cayes, and the place completely sur rounded. It was daily expected that it would surrender. Jacmel has been taken by Salnave's troops without resist ance. The Government has made a contract for the pur chase of the ironclad Atlanta from Mr. Sydney Oaksmith, a lawyer, of New York, who returns by the City of Port au- Prince. The steamers Quaker City and Florida, both flying the Haytion rebel flag, forced the Port-au-Prince away from Gonaives, to which port she was bound. Each vessel brought her guns to bear on the ship, with all hands piped to quarters. Tbey refused all communi cation with the shore, not even allowing her to take off the American Consul. The City of Port-au-Prince towed to this port the schooner Mary Jane, bound from St. Domingo to Boston, which she fell in with on the 15th inst., in tat, 33.42 north, long. 74.05 west, with her helm lashed, and drifting about. Her captain and two of the crew had died of yellow fever, and the remainder of the crew (two men) were in a dying condition, and were un able to throw overboard the bodies of their comrades, which were found on the deck in a state of putrefaction. Another expedition is reported to have left the coast of Florida about the 12th August, and landed safely in Cuba. It numbered 75 men, with a large quantity of arms and ammunition, and was fitted out by an American speculator. The IVell Street Journal writes what it evidently intends est). warning about "Nevada Mining (Din London." A concern, it says, " is now on the London Market, under the name of the Nevada Freehold Properties Trust asking for a subscription of £340,000 in certificates of £2 cash, bearing an interest of 12 1.2 per cent par annum." After giving the chief points of the prospectus, that journal continues, "With such wonderful inducements it will no doubt be difficult for the enterprising promoters to supply the hunger of investors. Fortunate Britishers !" In precisely the same way the Ir4 l l Street Journal once be fore sounded a note of warniug, which we reproduced to the Wens) annoyance of a man who after wards proved the New York paper to be right, and its notes of admira tion on such occasions to moan a great deal. We intend always to pursue this course, for we well know that in stead of writing in malice the American papers will always endeavour to forward the success of honest enterprises brought out in London in con nection with their cc ntiuent. If wrong, it will be caey to show it, and a discussion, in stead of doing the enterprise harm, if it be really a "good thing," can hardly fail to be beneficial to it. What de stroys confidence and prevents the flow of capital from this side to the P ac ifi c s l ope i s the dangar of schemes graphically thee, des cr ib. e i "wild-cat." Men who know are apt to remain silent, as it is no business of theirs, but for every pound gained in the "wild-cat" scheme, an investment of £lOO in the country is lost, and some of the most promising enterprises which weknow to havebeen bona fide have been unable to obtain any capital in London, from the suspicion these operations engender. At the same time that we reproduce, much against our inclination, the words of the Wall-street Journal, we are bound to state that all we ltifow about the Nevada Freehold Properties Trust is in its favour; nor do we suppose that the writer intends more than the expression of his own distrust. What we ad vocated in a late issue was a London agency employing its own officers in California, Nevada, and Colorado, for the investments of such persons in London as desire to avail themselves of the enormous returns there derivable from money well laid out. After the experience of 1866 nothing less than this will carry confideuca in London, even if this could. James Renforth, the Champion of the Thames, will not row on the Thames against Walter Brown, the American Champion, alleging the distance from the Tyne as an excuse to a man who has come 3,000 miles to meet him. Renforth desires to row on the Tyne, with which he is intimately acquainted, but the American Champion be ing satisfied with tho Thames declines to give his opponent every possible advantage, nor could ho have a guarantee even if he went to the Tyne that the match would then come off. Failing to come to a Fatisfactory arrangement with Itenforth, ho has signed atticles to row Joseph Sadler for £lOO aside from the steamboat pier at Putney to a boat moored off the "Ship" at Mortlake, on Thursday, the 7th October next. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Gen. Canby has ordered the discharge from the custody of the police Capt. Callahan, who shot and killed Joseph Kelly at a registration office in Richmond, Virginia. Callahan had a preliminary exa niination by a military commission, but no trial.--Mrs. A. K. Bailey, editoress of the Decorah (Iowa) Republican, apo logizes for the detention of her paper, " because of the late arrival of an extra male."—The Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, so prominently before the public for mole than forty years, is rapidly failing, with uo hopes of recovery. — Senator Sherman has been buying land in Minnesota.— General Rosecrans meditates forming a company to build a railroad from the City of Mexico to Acapulco on the Pacific coast.—George B. Better, President of the First National Bank of Memphis, was arrested in New York, April 16, on a charge of having embezzled $600,000 of the school fund of Tennessee.—Governor Reed, of Florida, and his bride, have been stopping at the Astor House, New York.—Madame Parepa. Rosa's New York opera sea son is to begin on the 11th of September, and continue for three weeks only.—Henry Vincent writes to a friend in New York that he will leave England by the Scotia for America on the 16th of October.—Some time since a Port land man had his pocket picked of $5OO. Shortly after he received a letter from the thief, stating that he had started in business with the stolen capital, and that ho should pay interest on it until ho was able to return the principal. Two payments of interest Lave already been made.—General Hooker, Baron Kueback, of Vienna., Aus t is, Mr. Huxley, architect to the Emperor of Austria, Mr. and Mrs. P. Crane, of Bombay, India, arrived at Cincinnati Aug. 18.—Miss Cushman, the tragedienne, is lying dan gerously ill at Edinburgh.—Allen, the English prize fighter, in America, has been at it again, notwithstanding his recent experience, and has met with much the same treatment. On this occasion he fought Callagher, on Foster's Island, near St. Louis. In the third round an unsuccessful attempt was made by Callagher's friends to break up the fight, and on the 9th Callagher's second throw up the sponge, nevertheless the referee decides it a drawn battle.—The Naples and Florence Observer in forms us—" Sir Michael Costa, Mr. and Miss Costa, aro now staying at the Hotel Piccola Sentinella, Cassa micciola, Ischia. Sir Michael, who has spent the greater part of his life in England, was born in Naples, where some of his family still reside.—Mr. Bonner lately drove his famous horse Dexter a mile in 2.234 at Prospect Fair Grounds, Brooklyn. He was harnessed to a road waggon, and this is said to be the fastest time ho has made. Two years ago Dexter trotted a mile in 2.24 in a skeleton waggon. The waggon driven on this occasion weighed a hundred pounds more.—His Ex cellency the American Minister and Mrs. Motley have left Maurigy's Hotel on a visit to the Duko of St. Alban'e, at Bestwood Park, Nottingham-11.RM. the Duke of Cambridge:is laid up with gout at Homburg. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—" Avitor," or air ship stock, is now in the California market, ono thousand shares at $25 a share having been offered by the managers This is, of all stocks, most liable to inflation, to be fol lowed by collapse.--" Mark T wain" says he was present at a recent interview between ex-Secretary Stanton and Secretary Fish, and was subsequently greatly astonished to learn by the newspapers that it was a very important meeting, hinting that the Alabama question was the subject under discussion, when the conversation, in fact, only had reference to the cure of warts. -No less thin 15,712 emigrants have come direct from Scot laud to New York this year. The Japanese colonists, in California, have purchased another tract of land in Placer County for a tea and mulberry plantation. Herr Schell wiil return to Japan for the purpose of bringing a large addition to the colonists, and a fresh stock of mulberry plants.—The total taxable property in Boston for 1839 is assessed at $549,511,600, an increase over last year of $55,937,900.—A new working-men's movement is con templated. General Butler is said_to advocate " six hours" as a day's work.—The famous blockade-runner, " Let Her B," an English contribution to international neutrality, is now running on Lake Superior. Her speed is twenty miles an hour.—The steamer M. A. Starr, from St. John I to Mad tx, with a cargo of Government stores, ran ashme during a thick fog. Part of the cargo was thrown over board. 'l'h . vessel is almost a wreck. JOURNALISM IN AMEItICA.—W. Davis has sold the St. Albans Transcript to Messrs. C. 11. Baker and Joseph Montt:lllore of St. Albans.—The proprietors of the Boston Sunday Times aro soon to commence a daily, to be called the Evening Times. MAIIIIIAGES.—Miss Ada L. Rafferty Webb, one of the well-known Webb sisters, was married on Tuesday, Aug. 17,_ to Mr. Wm. M. Connor, of New Orleans. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Newton, at the residence of Mrs. Berry, No. 213, Washington-street, Brooklyn. OBlTUARY.—Professor Charles Dexter, of Cleve land, died suddenly in Philadelphia, Aug. 18. In 1830 he was elected Professor of Latin and Greek in the College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and in 1832 Professor of the Latin language and Literature in the University of the City of New York. During the Administration of Presi dent Lincoln ho acted as Consul at Cardiff, Wales.— Commander Jarvis, United States Navy, died at Geneva, Missouri, Thursday, Aug. 11, tyged 74. He entered the Navy in 1812, and has been on the retired list for many years.—Mrs. Gifford, of Manor County, lowa, died on Sa turday, Aug. 7, from the effects of a fright on viewing the solar eclipse.—James E. Worshom, brother of J. J. Wors horn, of Memphis, died of apoplexy at St. Louis, Aug. 16. 711 E "SPEC7A7OR" ON 711 E CHINESE MISSION. The Spectator of last week prematurely began its exulting crow on the bursting of the Chinese mission bubble. While reading its article, in surprise we glanced back at the title to ascertain whether it was the Spectator, the consistent (as we supposed) ad vocate of wronged races and nations, the upholder of the broad principles of justice, the contemner of all injurious class privileges handed down by the feu dal ages, and the exposer of prejudices where they stood in the way of equity and national progress. What bad the Chinese done that the shelter erected by the Spectator for other races should be denied to them ? nor denied only, for at the head of the pur suing pack is found the others' watch-dog. If Sambo, wherever he shows his black face, is to be guarded by the shield of the Spectator, if the Red Indian, the Maori, if the oppressed of Europe, and the world generally, are to be by it shielded, why should the almond-eyed Celestials, who form so large a proportion of human kind, be thus vigorously at tacked? What arguments can be used for the negro inapplicable to the Mongolian, where the rights of man are concerned ? It is strange to see how completely the Liberal Review, when it gets on the platform of the Standard, takes up that old lady's arguments ; adopting the reasoning by which Governor El RE's conduct in Jamaica was defended. It is true that the Spectator denounced and exposed these arguments when applied to the negro, but it considers them good logic against the Chinese. It is not that the refusal of the - Peking Government to ratify the convention with the United States so completely justified its predictions that it rejoiced at the result announced, that the bubble had burst, but that a policy should not be framed on un truth from which it would be impossible to extract good. If it felt such confidence that Mr. BUR LINGAME and his mission were only moonshine, in tended to amuse and delude the outside barbarians, a mere bubble which would shortly burst, our contemporary need Lot have taken the trouble to waste ink and paper on a subject which could in that case only mean a show, and articles might as well be published on the fireworks fizzing for the entertainment of the Viceroy of EGYPT. But the ,Spectator lead an idea that the mission, though a mere bubble. meant a policy injurious to the in tercourse of China with foreign nations. Now tl& is really but the intercourse with China of the fo reign communities residing in China ; and on these articlesbeing analyzed it will be found that their tone is taken from the matter furnished by these com munities. What the Spectator desires, is, for a com bination of the great Powers to dictate their deci ,ions to Prince KUNG, and the two middle aged ladies who rule in China. The great Powers, as we before observed, mean the foreign communities trading with the country on behalf of their respec tive nations—i.e., the party directly interested on the • one side claims to frame the terms on which a quar- rel is to be settled with the Peking Government, the party interested on the other side. The Spectator can see that it may be very galling and painful to the pride of Prince KUNG and the middle-aged ladies, but it is a necessity, being the only way of dealing with these Chinese ; hence these deci sions must not only be formed, but be sternly enforced—precisely the argument that was used by the Southerners to keep negroes in slavery, or by any person who desires to cover an in justice—it is a necessity, which those who own them or deal with them best know, PROVIDENCE has so constituted them, and so on. One of the great Powers finds that it can grow a hurtful drug prohibited in China, though eagerly pur chased there, and it decides, acting through its foreign community, that the poison shall be intro duced and sold in the Celestial Kingdom, no matter what its laws or the edicts of its EMPEROR. No doubt Prince KUNG and the two middle-aged ladies would, on a repetition of this act, feel aggrieved ; but then the Spectator asserts that it is the great Powers which know what is best for the Chinese, and their decisions—each and all, we presume— must be sternly enforced. It is a false policy, ac cording to the Spectator, to treat the Chinese as a nation having equal rights ; yet it admits that the Peking Government is one of great power, its man dates being readily obeyed over a vast portion of the earth's surface. On the face of all this is stamped injustice, to insist on trading with a na tion, to dictate the terms on which that trade is to be conducted, and to make these terms exceptional, not those enforced between other countries. Bearing this stamped on the surface it requires something more than the ipse dixit of the Spectator or of the other organs who write in the interest of the foreign com munities in China, to show why the policy of the foreign Powers should be dictated on sulh prin ciples, or why the overtures matte by Chlmulu this mission should be rejected. It has become a habit of many who can control the telegraph to use it un scrupulously in forwarding their designs by send ing false communications. It was done to the greatest extent possible at the time, during the Civil War in America, the news being picked up where the mail touched at Queenstown, falsified, and flashed over Europe. Though it gained but a day or two that was sufficient to make the required im pression ; but now that ocean lines are everywhere laid, if the enemy can work the cable, telegrams will be flashed and eagerly used by those in the same interest as the texts of leading articles which will effect the mischief before the falsehood can be exposed. There is now reason to believe that the telegram announcing the definite rejection by the Peking Government of the treaty with the United States was a pure invention ; that the Chi nese text of Mr. BURLINGAME'S credentials do not represent him as being sent on a mission to a tribu tary nation, and that the whole message is one of these numerous fabrications in the interests of the foreign communities lately sent from China. Mr. BUR LINGAME appears to have received a despatch from the Government of Peking expressing its cor dial recognition of his treaties with the European Powers and the United States ; but, as arranged before he left, these treaties were not to be definitely ratified, or indeed officially discussed until the re turn of the mission. From the United States it is announced that no intelligence had been received of the alleged rejection, and Mr. Ross BROwNE was not likely to have delayed in forwarding so congenial a piece of intelligence could he officially have done so. Our contemporary, therefore, is rather prema ture in the bursting of its bubble, and in taking cre dit on the accuracy of its own predictions. The Chinese may be very great liars, but if this sort of thing continues, it is just possible that the foreign communities may carry off the palm in this respect, when it might be worth the Spectator's while to in quire into the propriety of the Great Powers com bining to enforce a policy on a people so little to be trusted, which may touch their dignity and hurt their pride also. At any rate the Spectator has good cause to resent the blunder into which its friends in China have betrayed it, but if it will get on a plat form, every plank of which is so unfamiliar, it ought not to be surprised if it should fall through and bark its shins. PORI HURON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD LINE. A NEW ROUTE BETWEEN NEW YORE AND CHICAGO. Ritihwul Jortrnal says the work on this line is being pushed in good earnest. Eastward from Battle Creek, and westward from Port Huron, ilia ham mers of the track laying parties are resounding incessantly, and the iron to keep them supplied is constantly going forward—more than 2,500 tons having been shipped dur ing the past month. Engines and cars are already ou the line, and are now being manufactured. At the present rate of progress the line will be complete from Port Huron to Flint (65 miles), and in operation, in season for the Fal 1 business this year, and through toßattle Creek before Jan. I. Westward of this point the road is ready foi the super structure, and track laying will follow in due course. This line comprises four roads, viz.: the Port Huron and Lake Michigan Railroad, the Peninsular Railwayof Michigan, and the Peninsular Bailronds of Indiana and Illinois, running from Chicago to Port lluron, and there connecting with both the Grand Trunk and Great Western Railway of Canada, for Buffalo or Suspension Bridges; thence over the New York Central or Erie Road, making the shortest of the through routes between New York and Chicago. In addition to its through travel the local business of the line must be very large. The western part of the route is through an agricultural district as rich as any in the West, and it passes many large and prosperous towns. The eastern portion will transport the limo, salt, and gypsum from the Grand River and Saginaw, and it brings within reach of a market the vast forests of pine and hard wood timber which exist in this part of Central and North-eastern Michigan. Better than all, the line is in the hands of shrewd and practical men, who know how to push through such an enterprise, and who, knowing how, are determined to do it. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the New York Tribune.) WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18. Gold opened at 132 f, sold at 133, 134 133/, closing at 133/ to 133 f. The clearings at the Gold Exchange Bank were $85,221,000, and the balance $2,413,599 31. The Government was unable to purchase the $2,000,000 bonds authorized by the Secretary cf the Treasury to-day in cunsequence of the light offerings, which amounts to only $1,136,200. The Assistant Treasurer took all that was offered, and will receive proposals for the balance ($863,800):to-morrow. The market was dull until the pro posals were opened, when there was a sharp rally of to 14 per cent. in prices, with an active demand for all classes. The stock of floating bonds on the market is very light, and investment holders appear unwilling to sell at present prices. Considerable sales have been made for speculative account., based upon the decline in gold. As it was anticipated that this decline would bring out large offerings of bonds from investment holders, this has had the effect of creating a large short interest that must be supplied in a great degree from in vestment holders, as the Government will take nearly all the bonds now in the street during the present month. At the close the market was bouyant, and at an advance of to 11 per cent from the lowest prices of the day. State bonds were dull and steady. New Tennessee 6 per Cents sold at $5ll 52 ; Virginia New 6 per Cents, $6O ; North Carolina New 6 per Cents, $5O; North Carolina Special Tax 6 per Cents, $55 551; Georgia 7 per Cents, s9li 92 ; Missouri 6 per Cents, sB6i 87 ; Louisiana 6 per Cents, $72 ; California 7 per Cents, $126 127 ; New-York State Bounty Loan, $lO9l. Railway bonds continue in demand for investment. Bank shares were steady ; Fourth Na tional sold at $lO5 ; Bank of Republic, $121; American Exchange, $ll5 ; Tenth National, $lO7. Miscellaneous shares were dull ; Wilkesbarre Coal sold at $65 ; Delaware and Hudson, $127 ; Pacific Mail was excited, selling at $B5/, 81f, 83i, closing at $B3. The directors of the company have declared the usual quarterly dividend of 3 per cent, payabl) September 1. The transfer books will be closed on the 20th instant, and reopen September 2. The railway share market was dull, with the exception of Toledo and Wabash, which changed hands in large amounts at prices ranging from 771 to 79, finally closing at. 73 to 781. The Vanderbilt stocks wore dull and wea k. ' the delay in perfecting the consolidation schem e h as checked operations, and the transactions were unusually small. Michigan Southern was steady at 100, to 106. The North-Western and St. Paul shares were dull at a frac tional decline. Fort Wayne sold at 1514.; Chicago and Alton, 157 ; Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy, 195 ; Dela ware, Lackawanna, and Western, 1111,-; New Jersey Cen tral, 106 ; Morris and Essex, 88 to 871 ; New York and New Haven, 1.45; Dubuque and Sioux City, 111. The street continues to be deserted by the heavy operators \vim usually manipulate the market, and there is an en tire absence of any largo movement in the stock or Go vernment bond market at present. At the second call prices were steady, but without activity. Aftter the Board there was more activity, and prices advanced from 1- to por cent. on the general list. The rally was only temporary, however, and at the close of business the market closed dull and unsettled at the lowest prices of the day. :Peen the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Alsg.; 18.) . _ If there is any ono class of projects which always finds favour in Now Jersey, it is consolidation. The refitcads of tho State get absorbed in a gigantic corpora tion, and combinations are made in every department of husiness and politics. The plan to unite Jersey City Hudson City, Hoboken, and a dozen other places into one great municipality is just now receiving attention. At first it was treated with some ridicule, but now as it is considered, the advantages, in a Jersey point of view, be come more obvious, and there is every reason to believe hat when the people come to vote next March, on ac cepting the Act of the last Legislature, the scheme will be carried by a largo majority. The entire district has a population of about 150,000, so that if the Act goes into effect, Jersey City will become a city of the first class in the country, and it will have a commercial importance vastly overshadowed by that of New York, to be sure, but very much larger than the other out lying city of Brooklyn. It is thought that the change will greatly enhance tho trade of the consolidated city. The Susquehanna Railroad war, as far as its appeal to brute force is concerned, has ceased, but the contest for the possession and control of the road is still going on, the lawyers on either side being busily engaged in preparing for further legal proceedings. The argument before Judge Peckham has been postponed until the close of tho present month, and it is thought that the shower of orders from Albany has ceased. The course that will be taken by the other side is, of ceurse, unknown, al though it is anticipated that Judge Barnard's mill will speedily grind out something. Many of the writs of attachment issued by him have failed of effect, owing to the inability of the sheriff to find the parties named in his bailiwick. We find cora= piled the prices of wheat from 1825 to August, 1869, as follows :—ln 1825 the highest price paid for North River wheat was in May $l. 06 per bushel. In December, 1827, it reached 1 25 per bushel. In December, 1831, it sold for 1 35. In January, 1838, it sold for 2, and in December for 2 10. It did not reach this price again until 1855, when it sold in January for 2 60. In May for 2 20_ In 1857, the year of the financial crash, it sold for 195 in July. In April, 1864, it sold for 2 00. In July for 2 73. In December for 3 30. In May, 1867, for 3 50: and in August, 1869, wheat sells in Chicago from 1 42 for No. 1 spring to No. 2 white winter at 1 37. These prices show the fact, gratifying to all, that we are getting back to the prices for flour which pre vailed before the rebellion. NEW YORK, Wednesday, Aug. 18, p.m. The following were the ly Stocks:— ids for Now York City Bank Merchants' Exchange 117 Ocean Merchants' Mechanics' l4O America Phenix* lO9 Manhattan Seventh Ward State of New York Commerce American Exchange ll5 Bank of the Republic l2Ol And the following for Rai N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 91 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... 91 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est.. 89 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 89 N. Y:Central 7s, 1876... 961 N. Y. Con. 7s, con. 76.... • 97 - Erie Ist Mort, Ex Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 96 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 9O Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 B2 Erie 78, sth Mort, 1888 77 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. St E. lstM, '77 B9 Hurl. R. 7s, Ist M, '69— 99 Irving Nassau lO6 Commonwealth ll2 Importers and Traders' 1381 Metropolitan Central National Fourth National .. 105 Ninth National Oriental Bank l5O Hanover Corn Exchange l3O Chatham 165 [road Bonds : Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex. ,831 Tol. & Wab. Equip 761. Gt. Western 2d M '93 BO Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — Gal. & Chic. Ext 97 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 95 Chi. & R. I. Ist M 100 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 95 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 99 N. J. Central Ist M 99 N. J. Central 2d M 100 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. lst M 102 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2d M. 97 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M. 95 Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M 731 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. Chic. & Alton, S.F. lstM. 99 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M 101 Mil. & St. Paul 2d ff._ 861 Marietta & Cin. Ist M 9O Morris & Essex Ist M 9Bi Morris & Essex 2d M... 92 Joilet & Chic. Ist M... Chi. & Gt. East'n Ist M B3 N. Y. &N. 11. 6s .. ... 36i Dubuque &S.City,lst M 9l/ Peninsula Ist M 9O Ohio & Miss. Ist M 92 Ohio & Miss. Con B2] Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D B3 Atlantic & G. W. 2d M — ud. R. 7s, 2d M; 'B5-1021 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 101 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 l3O Mich. new Ist M Bx,'B`2 Mich. So., 7p. c. 2d M 93 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 97 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 120 Alton & H Ist M 9l Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 81i Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 76 Han.& St.J.LandWrntslo7i Han. & St. J. Con Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 108 Chi. & N.-West, S. Y 921 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 95 Chi. & N. W. Int B 9O & N. W. Ist M 9O QUOTATIONS Amer. silver... 961 to 97 Mex. d011ar5...1041 „ 103 Eng. silver 475 , 480 Five francs 96 „ 97 FOREIGN FOR SPECIE. Eng. soya 486 to 488 20 francs 386 „ 388 Thalers EXCHANGE. itiisty Days. . 109/-110 . 1139-1-109 f .5.18-5.13/ 5.13/-5.1 Threo Days. 1101-110} London Bankers London, Prime Commercial Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers Frankfort, 031 . Berlin and Cologne Antwerp Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 781-79 —35 i 40-1--40 f 5.181-5.131 , 401 —4of ,5.181-5.131 RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. Fort Wayne Pacific Mail B4 Atlantic Mail Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 32 Boston Water Power l5 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers M & St. Paul M & St. Paul Preferred 90 N. Y. Central 2OBl Erie Hudson .. lB3 Reading Mich. Central ... 131 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg lO7l North-West North-West Preferred 971 Canton 59 Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia bankers, report as follows on Aug. 18 : Pennsylvania Railroad shares, 57 571 ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 98 98i ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage ; 971 (Franz Henry Clews and Co.'s Monthly Circular.) NEW Yonx, Aug. l( The gold premium exhibits a decided weakness. The , decline from 137, at the date of our last advicos, to 133-3- to-day, and the continued weakness of the market, even at the reduced figure, are due, to a large extent, to the dis appointment of expectations based upcn the course of our foreign trade. For some months past there has been evi dent a large excess in the imports of the country over its exports ; and Government statistics just issued show this course of our foreign trade to have resulted in a balance against us of $97,000,000 in gold, for the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1869 ; adding to which, say $65,000,000, for interest due on our securities held abroad, we should have a total indebtedness uncovered .by exports of produce or specie of over $160,000,000 in gold. The fact of our foreign exchanges having taken such an irregular and apparently threatening course naturally induced the ex pectation of an unusually heavy export of specie during the summer months; but, so far from this anticipation being realized, the whole shipment of specie from this port, from the Ist of January to the 14th of August, has amounted to only $24,200,000, against $63,200,000 for the corresponding period of 1868. This very unexpected result has demonstrated that the exports of bonds and other securities, within the past twelve months, have far exceeded the estimates or oven what was sup posed possible. The low rates of interest in Europe, and the high rates obtainable here, have induced an extensive borrowing by New York capitalists abroad ; and these loans have, for the time being, set off our accruing in debtedness. The disappointment of these calculations of a heavy shipment of specie has left the market free to re spond to influences which have a legitimate tendency to depress the premium ; while, under the circumstances, the supply cf gold on the market has naturally increased, the amount of gold deposited in the Treasury against certificates being, on August 1, $30,700,000, against $22,400,000 at the same date of last year. The improving condition of the national finances has very naturally en couraged the expectation of a more or less permanent re duction in the premium. The revenues have largely in creased, not from the imposition of heavier taxes, but from a more faithful collection, and from the improved condition of trade, while the materials have been mate rially curtailed ; the result being a very large surplus in the Treasury, which the Government has no alternative but to employ in the purchase of so much of the public debt; and the consequent improvement in the pub lic credit finds a corresponding expression in the reduction of the gold premium. At present the crop prospects are in favour of our being able to export a much greater value of produee,than last year. The grain harvests of Europe, according to the latest accounts, are deficient ; while ours is likely to leave us an unusually liberal surplus. The stock of cotton throughout the world is very low ; and yet the Southern crop now gives reasonable promise, the picking season proving favourable, of a yield of 2 to 3 millions of bales. And while our exports, for the next year, promise thus well, our current imports aro upon about the same scale as a year ago. The inference, from present indications therefore is that our foreign trade movement, for the next few months, is likely to be regulated upon a more conservative basis than during the past fiscal year. The Stock llarlitt is at this moment unsettled, owing in part to the competition of the trunk roads for freights at nominal charges. There is beyond this, however, a some what general disposition to discount the probabilities of a close, not to say stringent, money market during the next few weeks. There appears to be little doubt that the roads generally will have liberal earnings from moving the abundant crops of the country; but misgivings aro felt as to whether the condition of the loan market may favour a corresponding speculation for higher prices in stocks. Very large amounts of stocks are being car ried by a few prominent speculators, and in some cases at prices which do not command confidence. The consolidation schemes lytve had their full effect in inflating values, and the holders of such stocks now wait an opportunity for unloading upon the market ; the con sciousness of which makes operators cautious about par ticipating deeply in any movement for a rise in prices. These circumstances combined produce a predominant inclination to co-operate hereafter with movements look-. ing to a decline ; as, however, the money market is likely to show no symptoms of special activity within the pre sent month, operators are, for the moment, willing to follow the fluctuations of the market in either direction. A steamboat captain on one of the lakes was re cently feeling his way along in the dark, when the look out ahead cried out, "Schooner without a light." It yrs^ l a narrow escape, and as the steamer passed the schooner, the captain demanded—" What are you doing with your infernal schooner hero in the dark without a light ?" T o his dismay, the skipper, who was a Frenchman, answered, " Vat zo diablo you do here viz your ole steamboat in three feet of water, eh?" and just then the steame r landed high and dry on a sand bank. To illustrate the precision of astronomi cal science, it may be seated that another eclipse of the BO will take place in 18 years, /1 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, and 3.648 seconds—that is, on the 19th of August, 189 ' , It will be visible only in the Eastern hemisphere. T he next solar eclipse visible in the United States occurs on the 28th of May, 1,900. The Futon, a steamer which is destined to open the direct steam communication between Stettin an d New York, has compl e t e d its freight, consisting of resin a nd tallow, and is expected at S winemilnde shortly. Sever al hundred persons have taken their passage for New irs r ''' and part of the cargo for the return voyage has also hes e freighted already. BICYCLES FOR POSTMEN IN ENGLAND.—Tbe 2- office authorities at Ashford, Kent, have resolved to ill the experiment of mounting the rural postmen on bieyels e ' in order to facilitate them in delivering their letters. 13° ,, of the machines has been ordered, and the Hamstreet an W arehorne postman is to commence using it next wee k ', TURKEY AND TILE UNITED STATES.—Accor ding to the Levant Herald, the negotiations between the Turkish Government and the United States for a /111' ttonality treaty have come to nothing, owing to the pre visions of the new Ottoman law, that no Turkish subject can become naturalised abroad without express porolis sl ii ° o of the Porte. "The Washington Government," sai s , t 4 Levant Herald, " refuses to accept this limitation al With itS right to naturalise any foreigner who complies W laws." Phil& HARVARD UNIVERSITY.—The lecturers on = - „ m ap soppy for the ensuing year are John Fiske, Ralph Emerson, and J. Eliot Cabot. Those on literature Will W. D. Howells, Ferdinand Bocher, and W. D. Ifi r b jt ho n i i Prcfessorships of Mathematics and Palaeontology area ":g. to be established. The academia year begins on T s :: 00 day, September 9. The sccond examination for adniis' i j, to the College will take place on September 9, 10, an on beginning at 8 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 9. Attendalleu the three days is required. A Washington correspondent, who never 100s1110 opportunity of having a fling at the President, %I'll the strong censure of the state in which the grounds s a es, Smithsonian Institute are kept. They comprise 5 2 : 1 and are in a condition alike disgraceful to the Fed er 0$ vernment and discreditable to the official in c harge% `be re the trees are placards, "Keep off the gress,,, but 1 0 ,. j o r is as much grass on the walks as anywhere else, it ":„0" possible to remain in the grounds and observe the islt:oo4 Lion. It is the grass which the correspondent uses i sg eo t at the President. Last year it was sold standing, an% 60 1(1, the expense of the purchase-. This year it was 11 S s od but cut at Government expense, for whom, his noel may•guess. Touching the Smithsonian grounds , well of the building the land is artistically laid out, 811 00 shaded, but has been greatly neglected. There ar e 'i s • or eight vile wooden benches. In rear the groua s '„diag state of nature, a frame stable and stacks of hay 4 %19 0 immediately behind the institution, while the res t l ' yo gr an extensive barn-yard. Hordes of idlers, assassin% twobonds, bonds, thieves, and bummers, control, and the poli c ' t bess, old and decrepit men, are a mere laughing-stock t__°,ollcs rowdies. The park is enclosed by a common white"farlaer frail fence, which the most parsimonious Jersey would scorn and reject. ni tn 2ell" v'4 'ADVERTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Pills and --„- 1 A great and p - mcious property possessed by loi a is re' inestimable remedies is that no skill or experies c i y e ati°: quiled fcr their successful administration. No S, L o ot:Ig„" or intelligence is necessary for rsing them to ni o tel"; beyond the capacity of understanding the plain al t. fo, giblo instructions accompanying each box and P o so r P c i the sure of all internal or external alments Prafe s ' s rou e loway has considerately placed such printed r ul a v e bee s his remedies that error is impossible after they 11 JO: read with attention. In these pills there is nothla7. dell: seous to the taste or trying to the most lerder age ° a ttic' rate constibution; they purify, regulate, and Ar e the entire human system. mea ts Du Balmy's Delicious Health Bestor;ng Arabic& F ood, which contains three times the notuashras;:osto'ir best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies,liTer, per:ect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthY the r freshieg sleep, functional regularity, and e nergY t° o o (g e r enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually incligesY cle , 1 1 :o pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhcea, bmcnorrhtrs, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fe;',lo throats, catarrhs, colds, in quenza, noises in the bee" " ea rsl''l , rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, %, De , irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpits,tlon, ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, an", o aflo, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, incipient coa' oo o,,, e : scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of to esiko. between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few out of e 3 + cure jot —The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's F00a..,.. f , " hearttr e;e ita e o , Ge 68,413. Rome, July 21, 1866. tie health of the 11°;•dics;, i . is excellent, especially since, aba adening all other roil, Are g 9 has confined himself entirely to Da Ban Is Revel . 7 It: D IS Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every 111 , e , g ,, * produced a surprislngly beneficial effect on his he1ur, , ...-P 4 O Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too hitglA, 3 :iftY the Gazette du Midi, July 25. Cure No. 9,832: "0' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousnes s, st oiu o lW corgh, eonstipatiun, flatulency, spasms, sickness at ;h e sa aril vomiting. Maria Jolly. Wo.tham, Ling, near D is 'ilcs'noo' Cure No. 47,121: Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of N a zis' lig eo-,0 Waltham Cross, Hells, of extreme nervousness, etls - 10' nt as' $ gatherings, low spirits. and nervous fancies. Irmporls „y ) 0 —Beware of the many unsavoury and more than slop e 0 0 lions to which without authority, Baron Liebig's tla vi 03; audaciously attached. Ills ; r f In tins, at Is 114; 1 lb 2s 9d; 21bs 4s 6d; 5 lbs 1 1 s ;cone 64 , 23 lbs 40s.—Also Do BARRY'S REVALENTA ARAMS'S. for 24 05 9 POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at IS: cups %els at 3s ad, for 48 cups at as, for 288 cups at 30s, ft,r 57' ti00 01 0 ,1 —being about one penny per cup. The 3Us and Os„, eo Of 1/ 0 free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-0V neon' BAItt,Y Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, J-" all Grocers and Chemists 821 COURSE OF EXCHANGE' Amsterdam Short ~. 11 193: Do 3 Ms ~. 12 11 *" iI 471 Rotterdam — ~. 12 11 ". '2 6 47 Antwerp — ~. 25 42 1 ". 2 6 11 Brussels flamburgh — ... 13 11± ". 2 5 sal Paris Ditto - .P, ..' Marseilles .• Frankfort-ou-the-Main: . 121 ••• 0 "6 , ,,); Vienna — ... 12 47,i "' j 2 , Trieste — ... 12 45 ••• 2 9 5/ Petersburg Copenhagen, ' — ~ 9 2 4 "' 6 ', t 4 Berlin •. ~ 8; O.l . VI Madrid.. ... 481 Cadiz — ... 49 "• 1 6 41 Leghorn Milan — ... 26 971 "• 2 6 41 Genoa' — ... 26 871 o' 26 4 1 Naples Palermo '.— ... 26 3 7 k ". 1 6 Messina Lisbon .. — ... bli ''' s LIST FOR THE USE OF J71.511.°1fr THE METROPOLIS. i me li 1 , MUSEUMS. o APP ~ Antiquarian—Somerset House. Admission 1)./ pt:i to the secretary .1 i ., OP Botanic—Royal Botanic Society of Lorlu e ,,;;o. 4, park. Admission daily by orders from fe"" d eoijo Gardens, Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6, free. n life '09.1 British—Great Russell-street. Open free ' 9 ; eleg, r Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10 to 4 ; sumer °in )0,10 , 0; ? , till 7. Closed Ist till 7th January, Ist 0 1 ' :,,ins "00' Gel l oo s l t ot t gi i li l lea l s 7 l._ th j S enu ept y e u m . ber; also on all than, ,4) City—Guildhall. A collection of antique °o' 'pi t r o street. Open daily (e iceP 1 1111' fre 3. ti Attil4Otie e India—lndia Office Charles-street. . 6-sif ".i e li .11° tory, antiquities, kc. Open ree on Mon orders, 0 0 days, and Fridays, and on Thursdays 1:1• ~j eo . Y ~ King's College—Strand. Anatomy an d curie otiOF 10 till 4. a io ~,,,IP Patents—South Kensington. Models S il- A' Open free daily. . e . r iot ls " i ifl' Royal Institution-21, Albemarle-street. "• i fer) o Daily, 10 till 5. „„d legal Royal Military Repository—Woolwich. -el": P- ; a ' cations, cannon, and warlike appliance' 00-i1 till 4. et. ,t W i g A de Royal Polytechnic Institution-309, Reg e ""t ',:i ''f i r` i tific, with lectures. Open daily, till 10 PT,„, O A ' d, - , 0 0 Soane's-13, Lincoln's-fun-fields. Antiqui t :i il'•o,, vl3/ and pictures. Open Wednesdays, f il lurs ,i: o ° i'' to t days in April, May, and June ; and lr''- iict itio ° ~ia' February to August. Admission on ePP - g. rd Curator. v otie 9 6 , Society of Arts—John-street, Adelphi. ; 1 ,1 a 111 JB°+! tures, curiosities, &c. Daily: eciel iSew— 4 051 70 i order. n oe flier" 1 South Kensington—Cromwell-road. Open on ° 5 ' Tuesdays, and a Saturdays, ett 10 till 1 0 , f ree; alli' 10 till 4,5, or 6. 6d. ON Tower of London—Ancient tum our, ere' .0. 1 1 0 cle - t o till 4. is. Trinity House—Trinity-square, Tower -11l pill lighthouses, 4:c. Daily, 10 till 4. over' Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker - s treet. 10 p.m. is. 1 0 Nam., i ll 40' c to 0 BIRTHS. , „,. Ai . Se, Jo A CommcGwoon—On the 3d hist ,at 150v1...910,-t ,of A r wife of Captain IL C)llingwo.od, 28th -R e b . ric o . ter. 'if C l/$ STIRLING- On the 4th iust the wife a $ c' el ' . , Stirling, Bart., of a son and heir. Cl ° lo l MARRIAGES. Aa r , 01 Thi psWP.,,,r" A O Tr BOYD OITORD -Ou the 3d inst., at ." - 105, . 1 '1 w " V , Queen's-road, Richard Wade Boyd, of 105' l a ce ' tie' street, to Amy Ellen, daughter of the„ ter . Afo OtTord, of 37, Perobridgo Villas, Ilayswt-.(0).'0,, 1411 Qu s a i d y e ' : n j — an y e s s itE s t . t— Q t O m n y i t e h , 0E2:14.,i n i s t ot.y, aaLS3i.i;ijoir:er, I/ Mary, second daughter of the late J"' - ' Lyuedoch-place, Edinburgh. 0 3, il DEATBS. (3 5°4 ' CA B R . T C M a q i tI t G w I r IT i i it O , Il E t s h i e . ) , a3gdeln,t.., at Ti le Fie ' ' .0 , r TM cO. LAYTON - 011 the 3d inst., George Spell late of the Bauk of England, aged 62. 0 1 .1 1, 4914 0 , / ...,,TT.T,VO' - ; L ilt " o pt London : Printed and Published by IN ."---- ~. DN.'. oje of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tait SUN Ofil e° 4 0). in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Count , ' ' I Monday, September 6, 18139.