The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-16 00:00:00

THE CONVENT CASE. The interest in the case of Saurin v. Starr has fallen considerably. When it was first known that a professed nun, named in the language of the convent " Sister Scholas tica," was raising the curtain and giving to the world " a glimpse of convent life," everybody began to open their eyes. People thought that some such " disclosures" as those with which the " Protestant Alliance" had tried to keep unsteady feet from straying into the errors of the Papacy, were about to be made. But they were wofully disappointed. The tale told was simply one of trivialities. Instead of romance and excitement, it appeared that the narrowing of the circle in which the sisters lived only re sulted in increasing the importance to them of small things. Nevertheless, the Court of Queen's Bench yester day was crowded to overflowing, and Westminster Hall contained the " sprinkle " of a good crowd. Mrs. Kennedy's evidence was continued. Her examiner was Mr. Mellish. She charged Miss Saurin with disobe dience to her as a superior, said the plaintiff did not teach the children properly in the school, and in the course of a few months under Miss Saurin they managed to forget their letters. Miss Saurin sent the children home too early, and neglected her work. She also ate the children's dinners sent to them from the convent. Mrs. Starr con sulted me with reference to the plaintiff's conduct. I advised the superior to ask Miss Saurin for her pocket as she came in from the school, in order to see if she brought the children's dinners home to the convent. The superior replied, "Perhaps she will only give me one pocket, and yet have three or four others that she would tot give up." After supper, about twenty-five minutes after four, the mother superior called Miss Saurin into her own room. Mrs. Starr bolted the door to prevent any one from coming in. Miss Saurin could have unbolted it if she liked. I sat down at a table to write, and the mother superior desired her to take off her veil, habit, and so on. I can't say for a fact what she took off, as I merely glanced at her once, but I know Mrs. Starr's manner was very gentle—particu larly so. I can't recollect the conversation. We went to spiritual lectures at five. Mrs. Starr took the uotes out of her pocket and read them. We understood them perfectly well. (Laughter.) The Lord Chief Justice : There is very bad spelling in the notes. Witness : She cannot spell The Lord Chief Justice : So I should think. it seems strange that she should have had to put up the schools at Clifford. Witness : I should have spoken of that if I had been asked. I saw that at one time she did not eat all her meat ; and in June 1864, after herreturn from Hull, she had less because she did not eat all that was given to her. That was mutton, and we generally at that time had mutton. It was customary when a sister did not eat all her meat to help her to less at the next meal. We all wear old clothes. As a practice of poverty we wear our clothes as long as they will keep together. This is the fourteenth year I have been constantly wearing the habit I have on. It is the practice also to take old clothes from one sister and give them to another. Miss Saurin asked for another veil. I saw that the one she was wearing was quite good enough, and was newer and better than the one I had on. Another sister, Mrs. Hewitson, is, I believe, now wearing that veil. In April 1865, Mrs. Starr consulted me about sending in her resignation. She was in delicate health. In fact, she has been so for the last ten years. I know she was really desirous of resigning. I did all I could to dissuade her from it, because I knew the community would be very sorry for it. In August 1865 I wrote to the bishop. The sisters saw that the mother superior was fretting very much. We all really felt ashamed lest Miss Saurin's taking the children's dinners should bring disgrace upon the convent, and one of the sisterhood, who is now dead, came and begged me to write to the bishop about the matter. I wrote accordingly, but Mrs. Starr did not see the contents. (The letter was put in and read. It asked the bishop under the circumstances to remove the plaintiff, and, if not otherwise, as a boarder in a convent, which could be done for £3O per annum, and that there would be no difficulty in Bagot-street returning her dowry. The letter was dated Bth August). The witness gave other evidence to the same purport maintaining that the plaintiff was not subjected to any treatment different from that of the other inmates. Mrs. M`Owne was also examined, and gave evidence much to the same effect as had been already given. At the close of the day the Lord Chief Justice asked : Holy many more days is this case likely to occupy? • `Mr. Mellish : I am afraid I shall not be able to close my evidence much before Thursday night, and it will be as much as we can do to get the rest into Friday and Saturday. The Lord Chief Justice : How many other sisters have .vou to examine ? Mr. Mellish : There are six sisters and the bishop, ana I understand Dr. O'Hanlon has arrived. The Lord Chief Justice : There is one thing to which 1 must call your attention. My judicial functions end with to-day, the time allowed for these sittings having expired. To-morrow I ought to be at Guildhall. I can only sit here to finish this case by consent. Will you both give mt power to sit on? Mr. Mellish : All I can say is, it is not my will that consents, but my clients'. The Solicitor-General : We must suffer and exercise not only the penalty of poverty, but obedience. The Lord Chief Justice : I believe this will be the longest case that has ever been known within these walls. From the mass of documents, in order to put the case in the most condensed form, and save them from being wearied by my reading over the evidence, I think it will be desirable that at the end of the case I should take s 'day to read them over and arrange them, before I procek to sum up. I will leave it to the counsel engaged whether they will go on and address the jury or take the day alsc I propose for myself before they address the jury. The Solicitor-General and Mr. Mellish said they thougnt time would be saved by their taking the day before they addressed the jury. The further hearing of the case was then adjourned. MISCELLA NEO US NEWS. A NARROW ESCAPE. Mr. Purcell, a leading barrister at Dublin, has very nearly been committed for contempt of court. When giving his decision on the petition against the return of Sir7Arthur Guinness, Mr. Justice Keogh commented on the fact that one of the revising barristers had been a member of the Conservative Registration Society, and an active agent on the Conservative side during the election. Thereupon Mr. Purcell wrote to Justice Keogh asking him if the report of his speech were correct, and controverting its statements. The judge subsequently in open court, pointed out how indecorous it was for anyone to write to a judge challenging his decisions, and asking the reasons for them, and he said that Mr. Purcell had rendered himself liable to committal for contempt. He then went on to justify the remarks which he had made, and reminded the court that Lord Chief Justice Cockburn had removed Mr. Beales from the list of revising barristers, not because he had taken an active part in the politics of the borough with which he was officially connected, but for the far less urgent reason, that he was a prominent member of a political association. The appointment of Mr. Purcell, a notorious partizan of the late Government, is only another of those nume rous acts which are constantly coming to light, and by which the Conservatives, in their straits, sought to retain power by unduly influencing the elections. LAW AND POLICE EiXITY COURTS.—It was announced on Monday thaw Vice-Chancellor James would not sit in his court for a few days, being indisposed. A DISPUTED PARTNERSHIP.—A suit has been instituted in Vice- Chancellor Malins's court to set aside an alleged part nership between the late Mr. Newman, the well-known job. master of Regent-street, and a person named Burton, who was a horsedealer. It was contended that Mr. Newman, who was very much depressed in mind before his death, had arranged the partnership under the impression that he was insolvent, and his widow argued that the consideration was inadequate. The plaintiffs' valuers put the value at £15,500, and those of the defendant at £7,000 or £9,000. The plaintiffs asked either to have the partnership set aside or the business sold. The Vice-Chancellor ordered the case to stand over with a view to some arrangement being' made. A POLICY OF INSURANCE.—In the Court of Commmi Pleas an action has been heard respecting a policy of insurance effected on barley, potatoes, and cochineal valued at £7,200, being part of the cargo of the Candide, from the Canaries to London. The vessel encountered bad weather, and the plaintiff's ease was that the cochineal was thrown overboard. The defendants (the Royal Exchange Insu rance Corporation) contended that it was the barley that Was thrown overboard. From the evidence it appeared that 1,200 sacks were thrown overboard in ten hours, and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, considering that the cochineal had been so disposed of. A WARNING TO SAUSAGE EATERS.—At the Worship street Police-court, two sausage makers, of Bethnal-green. were charged with cutting up two quarters of beef utterly unfit for human food. One was sentenced to pay a fine of £2O and costs, while the other was sentenced to three months' hard labour without the option of a fine. A BALLOON VOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.—A. New York paper states that the fascinating problem of the navigation of the atmosphere is about to be brought again before the attention of the public by an attempt to cross the Atlantic from New York in a balloon, which enterprise is to be undertaken by Mons. A. Chevalier, an aeronaut of extended European reputation. THE FUNERAL OF MR. CHARLES BELL, M.P. The funeral of Mr. Charles Bell, M.P. for the City of London, took place ou Monday, at Kensal-green Cemetery, between two and three o'clock p.m. He was followed tc the grave by his nearest relatives. the partners of Messrs Thomson, T. Bonar, and Co., and several distinguishes private friends. Lord Mayo's confidence in his own identity must have been a good deal shaken at Madras. To find oneself likened in personal appearance to Prince Napoleon, Pau Bedford, s;‘• John Lawrence, and Sir Robert Peel, all at once, would surely discompose the firmest mind. " Indiat politicians," we hear, "will be glad to learn. that tht Viceroy's face expresses very clearly ; Ist, a man of con victions :" this is the late Sir Robert Peel's expression, no doubt ; 2nd, "of entire self-possession :" here we reco , - nice Mr. Paul Bedford ; 3rd, "of a kindly heart :" is not this Prince Plon-Plon? Another paper, of horribly plebeian views, " thinks Lord 'fayo appears rather to resemble our well-known fellow-citizen Mr. Pritchard, with a suspicion of George IV., qualifying and refining (!) his tout ensemble;" but again there is an opinion that the earl more resembles an enlarged edition of one of the con script fathers of our Council—the Hon. J. C. Loch, in fact. After this we are gratified to learn that his Excel lency " takes well," as the photographers say. His real, indisputable likeness must be an invaluable comfort to a distracted household in Madras,--The Asiatic. PENNY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Liverpool Mercury is publishing from week to week a list of subscribers to a testimonial which has been started for Mr. Gladstone. Subscriptions, "from a penny upwards," are received and acknow ledged. An inspection of the list shews a large number of subscribers who offer the smallest sum entitling them to acknowledgment. They pay their penny and they have the pleasure of seeing their names in print. The pleasure is cheaply earned, even though our contemporary, with a wise discrimi nation, inserts only the surname of the penny sub scriber adds the initial of the christian name for the twopenny subscriber, and reserves the full glory of christian and surname for him who gives sixpence. We confess to being somewhat sceptical about testi monials of this kind. Any schoolboy will give a penny to see his name in a newspaper. The testimonial is to himself, not to the professed object of it. The penny subscriptions of political admirers are—like the "mites" of fashionable ladies— misnomers and impertinences. The Belgravian dowager seems to suppose that the value of the widow's gift consisted in its being so small ; whereas, it was the whole of her living, a million times more than the Belgravian's half-crown. So with the penny testimonialisers of Mr. Gladstone, if their admiration is to be measured by the coin which they give, it is simply worthless, not to say insulting. Of course the real admirers, those who would be prepared on a suitable occasion to make a sacrifice in order to express their admiration, keep aloof from the crowd whose vanity prompts them to deposit at a newspaper office the first stray copper which they find in their Dockets. SCHOOL ACCOUNTS. Canon Girdlestone has addressed a letter to the Times on the subject of rural schools. lie gives a summary of last year's accounts in his own parish of Halberton, shewing that while the annual working expenses of the school are £133, the Government grant, the subscriptions, endow ment fund, and school pence together amount only to about £lOO. This leaves a balance of nearly £23 to be defrayed by the vicar. The annual subscriptions are only £25, though that sum, small as is it is, shews some improvement on the state of affairs when Canon Girdlestone first took charge of the parish, when the contributions were only He thinks the case of Halberton is identical with that of many other agricultural parishes, where the burden of the school has to be borne by a very few of those who ought to contribute. The vicar of Halberton is therefore of opinion that even with im proved legislation there will still be a large number of agricultural parishes without schools in which the children of labourers can receive a sound elementary education. He thinks that sonic effective means should be devised by w hi c h a ll p ersons w h o are responsible for the education of the labourer shall be compelled to undertake their proper share of the cost. Education is an indispensable condition of the per manent improvement of the agricultural labourer, the object which the now existing Commission have especially in view. THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN AGILICIJLTITILE. The Hon. E. Stanhope is collecting a large amount of opinion in prosecution of his inquiry into the employment of women and children in agriculture. Chambers of Agriculture supply him with a means of getting at the farmer's view of things, which is both convenient and safe, and Mr. Stanhope is making good use of it. On Saturday he got from the Staffordshife Chambers the opinion that there was nothing in the system pursued in the county as to female labour which required altcratiou by law. There seemed to be g reat differences of opinion as to children's labour, but ultimately it was resolved that no child under eight years of age should be employed at all, and that the hours of children between the ages of ten and thirteen be so regulated as to afford an opportunity for attendance at school. "THE CHARITIES OF LONDON." The Times recently, with more enterprise than discrimination, published 21 pages of statistics, sheaving the receipts of "the charities of London." This formidable table included the great societies which have their offices in London, but whose oper a .. tions are spread over the whole kingdom, perhaps even the whole world. For instance, the Additional Curates and the Pastoral Aid Societies are con sidered as metropolitan charities, although the larger portion of their funds are spent in the provinces. Again, the hospitals, orphanages, a nd other similar institutions are considered to be purely for the benefit of London, although their buildings contain a large number of persons who go up from the country to receive the benefit of them. It is difficult to imagine how either the Lord's Day Society or the National Sunday League can be considered a London charity. Nor is it intelligible why the receipts for books sold by the Tract Society should be estimated as pure profits, when in the case of a bookseller (who would sell the same works at a higher price) only the difference between the cost of production and the selling price is debited to his balance. Altogether the broad sheet of figures may be taken as a specimen ofindustry, but is worth very little as a basis of argument. THE DETAILS OF THE DEER TRADE. Few of those who appreciate the eide . British beer have any idea of the variety processes through which it has to pass befeorye tilenit finds of ee the its way t o th e t a bl e . T o produce the . Double X, o r th e i n i m it a bl e Burton,requires vast veritable resources, elaborate ma c hinery, and a thorough 1 w. ledge of the whole art and mystery. The brewerdein thelives the manufactur e d ar ti c l e t o th e wholesale dealer metropolis. Messrs. Foster, of Brook-street, are_ the largest di s t r ib u t ors of b eer i n t h e wor ld. They have a railway ware h ouse at Agar-town, an d ce llars an d stores in th e M aryle b one-road an d Westmoreland street. street. The superficial area devoted to the various purposes is ab ou t 60 ,000 square f ee t, or nearly an acre and a-half. The ale remains in cask for several months before it is bottled. The ale that is intended for a warm climate is kept longer in wood than that destined for home consump tion, being held in cask for a full twelvemonth, beyond the usual period. The ale when bottled is corked by machinery, wired by boys, and packed in tiers until a stack is for me d o f 1,000 dozen. The ale remains a few months in this condition, and is carefully watched and tested until the beverage is suit able for consumption. The pale ale is sent everywhere, but the strong sweet ale is exported to Russia and cold climates. The former is sent in enormous quantities to India, where it commands a high price. The regularity and celerity with which the various operations of washing, bottling, wiring, packing, and storing are carried on are astonishing, and a million or two of bottles are filled and moved about and eventually distributed to all parts of the globe without a single hitch in the machinery. (' GREAT WITS TO MADNESS NEARLY ARE ALLIED ;" Especially if they take to drinking. A terrible illustration of this is given in to-day's papers. A. man, named Dunbar, who seems to have been of con siderable genius, having made a plaster model for a sculptor, named Lynn, celebrated the comple tion of his task by drinking several glasses of beer. Tie seems to have drunk himself into a frenzy, and soon afterwards he cut his throat, and was hacking and sawing at it when Mr. Lynn rushed forward to stop him. E nrage d at this obstacle, the dypso - maniac stabbed his would-be rescuer, and then a fierce struggle ensued ; one man seeking to save two lives, including the assassin's, the other seeking to destroy two, including his de liverer's. Eventually lelparilveede,i tip ;but Dunbarit wa i s seized and bound, and his l throat w required strong men tohuonllhinlit is supposedandpre-eiit thathim from tearing open . wounds. he will die. THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS. The same paper, which records the above horrible tragedy at length, describes at greater length the good deeds of the men who are primarily responsible for it. A list, of more than a column long, details the subscriptions of the brewers and the pub licans towards the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum. The whole subscriptions amount to £1,434. Weighed in the balances against such misery and horror as we have just described, the alms of the brewers and the publicans will seem lighter than vanity itself. And this is only one case out of thousands. The charity of the beer-makers and the beer-sellers reminds us of nothing so much as an attempt by us themto loo put which o they had set on fir pennyutwitha syril e. ige the flames in THE SUN, _LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1869. tilE LICENSING SYSTEM.. It is very clear that whatever may be the differ • ences of opinion as to the propriety of selling alcoholic liquors at all, there ought to be some revision of the laws under which they are now sold. At present there are several authorities, and some of these conflict with each other. For instance, it is stated that four of the houses at the new London Cattle Market were found to be selling spirits without hindrance on the part of the Inland Revenue Depart ment for six months before theirlicenses were granted. It was ascertained that they had ventured to do so on the strength of a recommendation from the licensing magistrates to the effect that the necessary certificate would i in all probability, be granted at the ensuing licensing sessions. The Inland Revenue Department states in answer to the secretary of the Wine Trade Society that it is accustomed to respect these recommendations. The secretary has not, however, been able to obtain from the Home Secretary an expression of opinion as to whether the licensing magistrates and the Board of lnlana Revenue respectively are acting witain ;JAW Dowers in taking the course referred to.l InATHER. ;Very much after d a t e th e re t urns o f the Rigiatrar- General for the week ending February 6th are published. They are worth alluding to, even now, on account of the extraordinary temperature which was attained during that .week. On January 31 the thermometer was 14.1 degrees above the average of fifty years and on February 4 and 5 it was 13.6 and 13.8 degrees above the average. Onthe last mentioned day the thermometer reached 61.6 in the shade, an elevation we imagine unparalleled so early in the year. The mean temperature of the whole week was 11.1 above the average. THE ALABAMA QUESTION. (From the Anglo-American Times.) As the Convention for settling the claims arising from the depredations of the Confederate cruisers will probably be rejected by the Senate, there is little profit in discussing its provisions. It does, however, furnish a striking proof of the different aspects in which the same acts appear when viewed from the United Kingdom and the United States. The Alabama gets to sea from the Mersey where she was built—cruises in the North and South At lantic Oceans, in the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and the China Seas, returns and is sunk in the English Channel. About her proceedings, being notorious, there is no dispute, but the two nations find it so difficult to assimilate their views of her depredations that the Convention resulting from years of labour and discussion is rejected by one country to the evident satisfaction of the other. Americans clearly do not like the Convention, and anxious as England is to settle the dispute, Eng lishmen do not fancy the proposed arbitration. General GRANT, both the New York Times and Tribune reported to have said " that the Treaty was unjust in measuring the injury inflicted on the United States by the money value of the ships de stroyed, whereas the chief damage was the loss of commerce through the action of the cruisers. Eng lish sympathy prolonged the war for at least a year, and England is therefore responsible for the lives lost and the money expended during that time; the Treaty proposes to settle all this by the payment of the value of a few ships." Admitting that the President Elect did say what the Tribune so positively asserts were nearly his words, another subject arises, when the discussion assumes such a breadth, for England might then assume to have the right to call in question the whole management of the war by the United States Government. The General asserts that it was English sympathy that prolonged the war for a year ; England is responsible for the lives lost and money expended during that year. Suppose that the English retort with " You yourself then commanded the United States armies, and you have been charged with recklessly sacrificing your men, as well as with blundering in your campaign against LEE are we to be responsible for your mismanage ment ?" As regards the damage to American com merce mainly resulting from the proceedings of the Alabama England might bring forward the written testimony of no less an authority than Admiral SEMMES to rebut the assertion that she was respon sible, and to fix that responsibility on the Secretary of the United States Navy. " If Mr. WELLEs," says SEMMES, " had stationed a heavier and a faster Iship than the Alabama, and he had a number of both heavier and faster ships—at the crossing of the 1 30th parallel, another at or near the equator a little to the eastward of Fernando de Noronha, and a third off Bahia, he must have driven me off or greatly crippled me in my movements. A few more ships in the other chief highways and his commerce would have been pretty well protected." Now here is a distinct charge brought against the Cabinet Minis ter of the United States, who alone held the power of protecting American commerce against this vessel. If, then, a British Minister is accused of neglect in permitting the vessel to escape from the Mersey an American Minister may be accused of neglect in not putting a stop to the depredations ; and if the neglect of the one can fasten the blame on his na tion, why should not the neglect of the other do likewise ? On this point the Confederate Captain is very clear, for not only does he say that " the o!d gentleman does not seem to have thought of so simple a policy as stationing a ship anywhere," but he adds that the plan pursued was exactly that which secured his safety, for he had only to work out with a pencil the number of days it would take the prisoners he sent off to reach their port, the news to reach Washington and the time the man-of war then sent hurriedlyoff would require to reach his cruising ground, to calculate that when it got there he might be elsewhere. Here then is another subject for discussion, which appears to have been wholly overlooked at Washington, admitting for the sake of argument that these assertions could be brought up for discussion, which is at least more than doubtful. Allowing that the United States proves the accusation of neglect against the United King Glom, aria that the United Kingdom proves the ac cusation of neglect against the United States, what i 3 to be the measure of England's liability ? 11 . 11 en the Commissioners get addled, we presume they will refer such a knotty point to the infallible , 4 heads or t a il s ." Of course th e U n i te d expedient of States would bar such considerations, for it is clear that they are beyond the province of a foreign power, but this is precisely the position assumed by England in her attempt to evade her liability, asser ting no one but herself can be permitted to judge of her officers, or to call in question her laws or sovereign rights. To this the reply is, that where a great wrong is inflicted those who suffer can in quire into the cause and demand redress. If it were the duty of England to prevent the infringement of her neutrality laws, it was the duty of America to protect her commerce, and when her enemy got English port t o sea—how far is the ship from the the United States bound, before she can establish her claim against Engla n d, t o s h ow that she d i d her best to protect her commerce, for, if she has no li a bility on such a point, Engla n d w ill b e i n th e to pay , no t on l y f or h er own neglect, but for that a the United Stat e s. H ere i s p os ition of having a suggestion of the New York Express :-.-‘, Should the head of the Government selected as arbiter decide that England is not responsible to the United States for releasing the Alabama, Shenandoah, Florida,mc., it will p revent a consideration of the la American citizens, and o ur G overnm e n t cics of wou ld than be placed in a position whereby all the counter-claims of British subjects would have to be paid, leaving us millions of dollars poorer than before the Treaty was made." Another paper says the claims of the Co n f e d erate b ondholders may be admitted by the Commission under the agree ment to a djudicate B r i t i sh claims against t h e United States as well as American claims against England. A third jokingly alludes to the possibi lity that SEal3lEs may cl a i m compensa ti on f or the loss of his personal baggage in the Alabama. With reference to the words attributed to GRANT the Na tion observes that, " allowing the war to have been prolonged by the recognition of the South as a bel- 1 ligerent, it is impossible to say how much it contri buted, or, what proportion of the loss sustained by the North, was due to her agency. We might as well attempt to put the Democratic party on its trial for complicity in the rebellion, and force it to pay the national debt, as to put England on her trial and force her to pay for all the damage sus- . tained by American commerce through the military operations of the Confederates." if the discussion may branch into a ny fields, what is to prevent Manchester from claiming compensation for an in dustry paralyzed by the blockade of the Southern a quantity that can b e as ports ? If sy m p a thy is sessed as damage, and lives priced, a new element will be introduced into international law, and perhaps England may be able to make out a bill for the late insurrection in Ireland. Above all things, it is necessary to be just—meting to each the same measure. For instance, as all Christen dom joined in the recognition, all Christendom is as liable as England, and it would be invidious in the United States to press the claim against any one country. The subject more than any other requires to be approached in a calm and judicial spirit, being thoroughly stripped of. sentiment, prej et dice, and bitt erness of feeling, yet it is that on e m os t wrapped in such emotions. First, there is the in tense annoyance felt in the United States at the at titude of England during the war ; next, the bitter ness caused by the loss of the ocean-carrying trade, though we have reason to believe that this was more due to other agencies than to the cruisers ; third, the dislike of ANDREW JOHNSON and his policy enter tained by the ruling party in the States; and, finally, the irritation so loudly expressed at the course taken by Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON. It is very well to tell a nation that the subject must be approached with the mind divested of all these in fluences. The Commissioners could perhaps be able so to approach it, but a boy might as well be told not to smart who had just been whipped, as Ame rica to divest herself of such natural feelings. Nor can the Senate, discussing it as a High Court, for the passionate exclamations of the people, which , finds expression in the press, must influence it, even did the Senators, who are but men, not share in the same sentiment. But what the United States re ject on one side as not conceding enough, England rejects on the other as conceding too much. All manner of exaggerations are put forth, conjuring phantasms which create alarm, as likely to be the re sult, while it is impossible for any statesman so to frame a convention that it would bar all chance of extravagant suppositions being suggested. The nations, in short, must trust to their Commissioners being imbued with moderation and common sense, and risk the result ; and why not this chance, where heads or tails are recognized ? The very action of England and America shows that these countries can never, by any amount of discussion, settle the ques tion ; nor are they fit judges, each being absolutely incapable of understanding the feelings of the other. Hence the necessity, if the dispute is to be peace ably settled of choosing men on whose judgment they can rely, and abiding the result, however unfair it may be considered when applied to the touchstone of their own heated feelings. TRADE AND FINANCE. The attention of the commercial world is now being forcibly directed to the Anglo-French Treaty, which is now about to expire. No notice having been given that it will not be renewed on either side, the two nations will continue to treat on the same terms until 1871. Manufac turers on both sides complain of the injury done to their industries by the privileges extended to opposing interests, but the trade accounts chew that, while par ticular departments may have suffered in consequence of the greater competition, the treaty has been productive of the greatest good to both parties concerned. It is not probable that a treaty which has had such beneficial results to the consumers of both capitals will ever be allowed to drop. On the other hand, the Free Trade party, which is making such head in France, will probably agitate until they arrive at an extension of the facilities granted. We notice that the ratifications of the commercial treat► between Italy and Switzerland have this week been ex changed. Under the " most-favoured nation " clause of the Anglo-Italian Treaty of 1863, several articles of British produce and manufactures will become liable to a reduc tion of duty. The prospects of the stock markets are good. Not withstanding the continued heavy withdrawals of gold from the Bank, in consequence of the adverse state of the exchanges, there is still a large amount of capital seeking employment, which is likely to be still further augmented by the payment of the dividends not yet due. Steady specula tive transactions have accordirgly taken place in foreign bonds, which, under encouraging advices respecting the Eastern question and the generally peaceful aspect of Continental politics, have gradually tended upwards. Large amounts of stock are held under advance from the Banks, who find this the intst remunerative, though not the most legitimate mode of employing their capital. The quotations have accordingly been daily on the advance, and are now higher than they have been for many months past. The same facts apply to the railway market, but here a new element comes into operation. The accounts ordered by the various companies have proved to be more favourable than was anticipated, and this has induced large purchases for bond ,ids investment. '1 he new system of accounts, as ordered by the Board of Trade, which the companies are now compelled to adopt, gives additional security to shareholders, enabling them to judge of the position and prospects of their property with some approach to the truth, and preventing much mystification on the part of directors and others with regard to the state of the finances. These circumstances will continue to act favourably on both the foreign and railway markets, and we are inclined to believe that prices have not yet seen their highest points, especially for British railway shares. There appears to be a growing impression that, under careful and economical manage ment, these securities will assume their proper position in the market as a means of investment, which should be second only to home stocks. With regard to the Consol market,liowever, the future does not appear so brilliant. Any movement in prices will probably be for the worse. The exchanges are likely to continue to rise against us. and in the face of continental withdrawals of bullion we cannot look for any improvement in the value of home stocks. The most prominent feature in trade during the weeic has been the excited state of the sugar market. Specu lators, acting under the belief that the insurrection in the island of Cuba will shorten supplies, have operated freely, and the quotations have accordingly advanced 2s. per c w t. Th e surplus in the stocks at the four prin cipal ports, as compared with last year, is now reduced to about 10,000 tons. It is more than probable that Cuba has seen the end of her vassalage to the Spanish Crown, but it is doubtful whether the prospects before her are more bril conditioniu w ofwhic h thech it i s placed. bril liant than b e f ore . Sl ave l a b our must h e a b olished, and l that the te circumstances present the cultivati on o f t h e sugar cane w il l pro b ably receive a check in consequence. W We believe,market is f u therefore, jus tEei by METROPOLITAN GOSSlP. —Monday. The Queen is holding a Privy Council at Osborne to day, where, of course, the royal ratification will be given to the Speech from the Throne, which will be read to morrow by Lord Hatherley. To-night the Speech will be read by Earl Granville to the dinner party which will be given at his house, 16, Bruton-street, and by Mr. Gladstone to his guests at 11, Carlton-house-terrace. It is usual for copies of thd Speech to be sent to the Oppo sition leaders, and I presume, therefore, that it will be communicated by Lord Malmesbury to his guests at Stratford-place, and by Mr. Disraeli to his at Grosvenor gate. To-night, by the way, is the last occasion on which Lord Malmesbury will officiate as leader of the Con servatives in the Upper House. As you are aware, the mover and the seconder of the Address in the Lords will be the Earl of Carysfort and Viscount Monck. The first named nobleman is better known as Lord Proby, under which title he represented Wicklow County for ten years, and was Comptroller of the Household in Lord Palmerston's and Lord Russell's last Administrations. He is 44 years old, and came into his title last autumn. Lord Monck is 50 years of age. He, curiously enough, is also connected with Wicklow, being a deputy-lieutenant of that county. He was formerly a Lord of the Treasury, but is best known as Governor-General of Canada. The Hon. H. F. Cowper, who, will move the Address in the Lower House, is the second son of the sixth, and brother of the present, Earl Cowper, and is closely connected with the De Greys. He but 33 years of age, and has probably been selected as the representative of the Palmerston section of the Liberals. He has fought three gallant battles in Hert fordshire, and has won two of them. Mr. Mundella, the seconder of the Address, represents the interest now represented in Parliament for the first time—the working class. He is a very able man, is closely identified with the Nottingham trade, and fought a very severe battle at Sheffield, where he beat the political Thersites, Mr. Roebuck. As regards the Speech itself, I have reason to believe that it will be rather general and vague. " There will be nothing particular in it," is what is said by those who ought to know. There will be a recommendation in favour of the reduction of the national expenditure. The Irish Church will of course he mentioned, and commended to the most serious consideration of Parlia ment ; but the nature of the measure to be brought in will not be clearly indicated. Under these circumstances, and considering, too, the largeness of the Ministerial majority, the Opposition are not likely to criticise the Speech at much length. They will do wisely to confine their strictur es t o th e f au l ts o f grammar an d punc t u ation, captain's commission for will without which no R oya l S peec h would b e per f ec t. I learn that in fut ure th e s hi ps i n th e roya l nav y w ill be commissioned yea be for year s instead le ss o than f t three, and that .a.h a n i o f years. od The Conservatives have made another failure in the election petitions. At the last moment the Liberal agents at Gloucester have been informed that the petition against Messrs. Price and Monk will not be proceeded with. This has caused some surprise, as a large number of - witnesses had been subpaanaed, and counsel had been retail ied. There is to be a great meeting of Welsh Libers Is at the Freemasons' Tavern in London on the 23rd. A large number of influential Liberal M.P.'s from W.:4les and Monmouthshire will dine together, and the Home Secretary will preside, for though he has lost Ws seat at Merthyr, Mr. Bruce is still by his prop k .rty a Welshman. It is expected that Mr. Bright will be present, when he will have an opportunity of thanking Welshmen for complying with the repiest which he made before the elections at the celebrated Liverpool. -gathering of Welshmen, that they would take a greater *interest in politics than they had taken previously. THE SOU7HERN STATES. Georgia is in a muddle ; on Reconstruction, on race differences, in its Legislature, in its Executive, and in Congress. Mr. Joshua Hill, the Federal Senator, is turned out. Georgia's vote in the Elec toral College is rejected by the Representatives, and Governor Bullock and the State Treasurer have a first-class fight. The Governor is accused by the Treasurer of unlawfully lavishing funds, and the Governor accuses the Treasurer of duplicity, and of advancing these charges for a political end. A legislative Committee has taken the matter up. The legislators of Georgia have at last discovered that they are on a wrong track, and are showing a sudden and suspicious anxiety for instruction on Suffrage. They have also taken some action upon the insecurity of life and property in that State, as well as upon the question of reseating the negro members of the Legislature, but do not succeed in making much progress in either direction. The latest intelligence denies the reported outrages by the Ku-Klux at Augusta on the railroad as base fabrications. The negro Captain Green, one of the Ogeechee insurrectionory prisoners, has been held to trial, and his will be made a test case. Eighty three other prisoners will be brought before the court, and those who can be identified by the State witnesses will be held on the same charge. The examination has occupied 13 days. The prisoners have been defended by United States District At torney-General H. S. Fitch, ex-Provisional Gover nor J. Johnson, and others. A ridiculous resolu tion was offered in the Georgia House that Mrs. Stone be sent for to instruct the committee on female suffrage, and an amendment that Horace Greeley be requested to address them on the sub ject. The Florida House of Representatives has voted 43 to five that the evidence against Governor Reed is insufficient to maintain the charge of high crimes and misdemeanours; and this is the end of the impeaching flurry there. After the adjourn ment of the morning session a majority of the mem bers of the house repaired to the Executive-office to congratulate the Governor, and raised him on their shoulders, and for some minutes cheering and sing ing was in order. The coloured members seemed the most demonstrative, though all the opponents! of impeachment took an active part in the proceed ings. The Florida Legislature is favourable to the project of transferring that portion of the State west of the Chattahoochee River to Alabama, and if the people living in that part of the State con sent, the transfer will undoubtedly be made.—The South Carolina Legislature has passed a resolution authorizing the Governor to call out the militia for the preservation of peace and order in that State ; and a resolution was introduced in the Alabama House of Representatives memorializing Congress to remove the disabilities imposed on the State by thel4 th amendinent,but it svas indefinitely postponed. Since Governor Brownlow called out the militia Tennessee has become more tranquil, and the same has been the case, though certainly after a sharp fight, in Arkansas. Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, admits that the militiamen of his State have com mitted outrages, but, he adds, the perpetrators have, as far as practicable, been summarily dealt with. Some Tennessee leaders, encouraged by the move ment in Virginia, have written to Horace Greeley in approbation of a universal amnesty and universal suffrage platform, and agreeing to go in for it iu Tennessee. Meanwhile the Republicans in Vir ginia find that the Conservatives are getting the best of them, and at a meeting of the State Com mittee, declared in favour of a more liberal policy, and appointed a committee of thirteen to visi Washington and confer with the Republican mem bers of Congress. General Stoneman has appointed Generals Wilcox and Granger, and Col. Franklin, a commission to examine applicants for office in Virginia, in order that he may fill the many vacant offices with persons who are eligible under the 14th amendment. It is thought the recent severe cold weather at the South has killed the caterpillar, and preparations for a large planting of cotton are consequently being made. Robbers attacked the house of ex-Sheriff Rueben King of Robinson county, near Lumberton, North Carolina, and mortally wounded Mr. King, and a visitor named S. E. Ward, but there is no clue to the perpetrators of the crime. Cullen Baker, the Texan murderer and outlaw, has been killed, and, strange to say, by his brother-in-law, Mr. Orr, whom he had sbortly before hanged and left for dead, but who revived, and rendered the State the service of ridding it of a most desperate ruffian. Governor Brownlow will take his seat in the United States Senate on the 4th March. He appears to be suffering from great bodily infirmity, though his mental activity is unimpaired. In taking farewell of the readers of his paper, The Whig, now in the hands of a company, with the Rev. T. H. Pearne, D.D., as editor, Brownlow says :--" In re viewing my lon g an d even tf u l career as an editor I have this to say, th a t h a d I my lif e to live over I would pursue the same course I have pursued, only more so. If in past life I have been violent on some occasions my apology is that, like the Apostle Paul, on many occasions, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus." General Beauregard's property, at Memphis, has been restored to him by the Government. The health of Thurlow Weed is reported to have benefited from his residence in Aiken, South Carolina. Five miles from Green River, on the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, a rock has been on fire in a large cut. When it became first ignited the labourers endea voured to extinguish it by throwing water on it, but in vain. They then tried to &mother it with earth and failed. It is thought to be sandstone saturated with petroleum. The New Jersey Legislature has elected Wiliiam P. M'Michael State Treasurer, and Governor Randolph has nominated for its confirmation as Supreme Judge Ed ward W. Scudder, of Mercer county, and Bennett Van Sychle, of Hunterdon, in place of Judges Elmer and Vre denburg, whose terms are about expiring. The lion. Nelson Dingley, jun., of Lewiston, was chosen permanent President of the Maine State Tem perance Convention at Augusta, Jan. 27. Mr. Dingley delivered a long address on assuming the chair, advocat ing the views of the Radical wing of the Temperance party, and urging the re-enactment of the imprisonment penalty and State Police. A sister of General Grant, Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, is the wife of our Consul at Leipzig ; she is also an amateur artist, and used to paint in the art galleries. There some of the German artists saw and admired the purely classical features of their unknown colleague, and when they were painting the frescoes in the new art museum of Leipzig they introduced her head for the Grecian goddess Diana.— Revolution. When Grant was at Baltimore he raised a laugh by saying "smoking was not a vice, or the Admiral would smoke." Farragut retorted that was "no longer a Vice-Admiral." Mr. 'Colfax is said to have popped the question when 17,000 feet above the sea. Mr. Pratt, the now Indian Senator, is 6 feot 3 inches high, and more than stout in proportion. Brevet-General Augur, who was the handsomest man in the army during General Rousseau's life, now takes full rank. The Secretary of War directs that William R. Kenney of Kentucky, John 11. Broadhead of Pennsyl vania, and Robert Flint of Wisconsin, the Commissioners appointed to reimburse the State of Indiana for moneys expended by the United States in enrolling, equipping, and provisioning militia forces to aid in suppressing the Rebellion, meet at Indianapolis oa the Ist of March and enter upon their duties. MONEY AND BUSINESS. Messrs. Stokes, M'llaffie, and Co., have received the following message from their New York correspondents ; (By Atlantic Telegragh.) " New York, Feb. 10.—Four days' receipts of cotton at all ports are 30,000 bales. Ap proximate estimate for the week, 65,000 bales; against same week last year, 96,000 bales. New Orleans, Feb. 10.—Middling costs, laid down in Liverpool, with all charges, 131(1. per lb. Savannah, Feb. 10. —The cost of middling from this port, laid down in Liverpool, with all charges, is 131-d. per lb. Galveston, Feb. 9. —Good ordi nary costs from this port, laid down in Liverpool, with all charges, 13d. per lb. Markets rather steadier." The above quotations include an allowance of 6 per cent. for loss in weight. (From the Springfield Republican, Jun. 30.) The condition of the money market is reported much the same in every commercial centre—a lively demand with a comfortable supply. At Chicago, where there is so often complaint of a scarcity of currency, the market is steadily working easier, and so in other western cities. At Boston strong borrowers experience little if any incon venience. The banks are freely meeting the applications of depositors at 7 to 7-1- per cent. (mostly at 7), and several institutions are doing something in the choicest "outside" paper at 7i to 8 per cent. The Boston market has not even winked under the windy bombardment of George Francis Train, who has been pompously advocating at the labor reform convention there his pet policy of issuing $ 20 0,000,000 of greenbacks and the abolishment of specie payments. Train, however, was quite cast into the shade by a new light in finance at the same convention, who proposed not only that the Government should issue Trea sury certificates to any amount required, but that "States, communities, and individuals" should also have the privi lege of issuing money "to any extent they deem best." The financier of Essex, thus outstripped in his own ground, will have to try again. The last reported ex ports from Now York include 3,568 bales of cotton and foot up : 1868. 1869. For the week 53,269,323 $3,080,903 Previously reported Since January 1 813,360,701 $11,071,919 The trump card of the bears at the New York Stock Exchange this week has been the bugaboo stories from the Illinois Legislature. A bill for restricting railroad freights and fares is now before that body, and is attract ing general attention in the West as well as in New York. Already it has gone through the Senate, and the House has already passed it, but with so many amendments tacked upon it that its own father wouldn't know it. There are reports that the Governor is pledged to sign it, if it should get through both houses; but as the Senate isn't likely to agree with the House, and as the Attorney- General pronounces it of doubtful constitutionality, there is no occasion for much of a scare among the stock gamblers. The movement for restriction comes very naturally from the patrons of the railroads, who are compelled to pay much heavier local fares and freights than our considerate eastern roads pretend to exact. Nevertheless the Chicago papers condemn the measure in unstinted terms, declaring that its effect would be to drive from the State foreign capital, hitherto its chief reliance is railroad building. The road which would be most affected in case of the passage of the bill would be the Illinois Central, but at the same blow this great corporation would be released from its contract to Pay 5 per cent. of its earnings to the State—an aspect of the ease whichwill tell against the bill. 'I he North-western road will suffer but slightly, should the bill become a law, as its average receipts collected in Illinois do not exceed 31 par cent, per mile, and its total loss would not be more than $200,000 a year—a small matter in view of its im mense traffic. The favourable financial reports of this road have stimulated large purchases on European ac count, over a million dollars of its stock having been bought by foreign capitalists within the last three months. The most marked rise in stocks this week has been in Harlem. It has been selling at 133 or thereabouts, but on Tuesday jumped up to 140 upon a report that the earnings used in construction and the real estate of the company are to be capitalized in the same manner as those of the New York Central have been. This road o wns consideraltle real estate in Westchester county, New York, the value of which has been largely enhanced by the appreciation of property in and near the metropolis. Another stock that is particularly firm is Pacific Mail, which company has earned, if rumour may be credited, 8 per cent. in the last quarter—at the comfortable annual rate of 32 per cent. The Californian fares have been increased so much since the opposition steamers have been withdrawn that the re port of its earnings is not improbable. The telegraph has already informed us of the completion of 1,000 miles of the Union Pacific Railroad, and of the fact that it is neces sary to build only 267 miles more to complete the connec tion of this road, going west, with the Central Pacific, coming east, and thus open an iron pathway for the locomotive across the continent. This grand accom plishment cannot be deferred beyond mid-summer. The five millions of dollars earned by the Union Pacific in 1868, with an average length of 700 miles of road, in operation, were derived from those sources: —From pass •ngors, $1,024,005 ; freight, 82,040,223 ; expres4, 851,423; mails, $136,235; miscellaneous, $91,626 ; Government troops, $101,077 ; Government freight, $449,410; contractors' men, £201,179; contractors' mate rial, $968,430. Total, $5,066,651. This amount is largely in excess of what was expected to be done simply front the local traffic of a new and unsettled country, and would seem to justify the estimate that the earnings of the road, when completed, will be from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 a year from the start. The " bull" cliques in Wall-street and the railway magnates on all the lines from New York to the west are predicting their operations and schemes to a very great extent on connecting with the Union Pacific on favourable terms. Their aim is to control a through line from New York to Omaha, eo as to catch some of the great trade from the Pacific Ocean and China, which will pass througL that channel ; and the importance of this con nection with the Pacific railroads to the receipts of the other roads is consequently not over -estimated. The pub lic debt, according to Washington predictions, will be con siderably increased this month. The receipts of the Go vernment from customs, internal revenue, and other sources will be about $29,000,000 for the month. On the other side of the account must be placed nearly $29,000,000 in coin expended in paying the interest on the Five-Twenty Bonds and Bonds of 1881 ; $1,500,000 paid out in interest on the Pacific Railroad bonds; and the current expenses of the Government about $13,000,000, making a total of about $ 43 ,500,000. The - increase of the national debt will be in the neighbourhood of $14,500,000. The statement for the month of February, however, will show a material reduction, as the expenditures will be much smaller than they have been this month, and the interest to be paid will be only about $4,000,000, while increased receipts are expected from the internal revenue. The following statement shoWs the sources whence the Government has derived internal revenue in the last two years : 1867. 1868. Manufactures and productions $146,223,673 $100,274,508 Gross receipts Sales Special taxes Income Legacies Successions Articles in schedule A Bank circulation and deposits 2,046,562 1,866,745 Passports, & c 28,217 28,280 Slaughtered animals 262210 6,030 Fines, penalties,and forfeitures 145 9, 170 , 1,256,881 Stam p s 16,093,718 14,852,252 Special Treasury a gen t s Total . 5265,920,474 $191,180,554 The general abstract of the quarterly statements made by the 1,626 national banks in the country, on the first Monday in this month, embraces the fallowing items under the head of resources : —Loans and discounts, $643,090,736 ; United States Bonds to secure circula tion and deposits, $372,828,300; due from banks, ex., $13,790,525 ; cash items, $142,405,590; specie, $29,590,960 ; Legal Tender Notes, $87,980,726. Among the liabilities are—capital 5t0ck,5418,858,931; pr0fit5,5116,433,650; Bank Notes outstanding, $297,000,000 ; deposits, $584,857,850 ; due to banks, &c.,5121,431,000; aggregates, $1,539,669,920. Dry goods aro rather quiet. There has been a fair trade in most of the leading fabrics, but no special movement in any department. The recent active demand has been checked in part by the comparative quietude of the cotton market, with its accompanying depression of prices of the raw material. But there has been no reaction in the prices of cotton goods,though some assortments are offered on terms more advantageous to the buyer. That sellers are more disposed to sell at the market price than they were a week ago, is evidenced by the fact that many fabrics which were then withhold from the market in an ticipation of better prices are now freely offered at prices current a week ago.—The number of buyers in the Boston boot and shoe market is constantly increasing. Prices generally are higher than last year, and unless labour or stock advances the manufacturers will realise handsome profits. The total shipments from Boston in the past week were 20,199 cases against 6,590 last year; and the ship ments since Jan. 1 have been 54,165 cases, or more than double the sales of the same portion of last year.—The Brighton cattle market ban been heavily stocked, and prices have fallen off this week, but trade has been tolerably brisk. Many drovers who purchased at prices of two or three weeks ago will find their profits small, if indeed the balance does not fall on the wrong side of the sheet. The first of a series of monthly track sales of wool took place at New York on Thursday. The sale was largely attended by the trade and by manufacturers, who bid with considerable spirit. On the whole, the result was satisfac tory, though pulled wools sold rather low. The following were among the prices obtained :—Western unwashed 32c, tub wa d/ s i lted 47c to 60c, lowa fleece 47c to 51c, unwashed Michigan fleece 29c to 34c, untnerchantab!e Ohio fleece 31-ic, lowa ditto 42c, Western ditto 38c, unwashed lowa 31 to 361 c, ditto combing 65c, Ohio No. 1 50ic to 52ic, Ohio X 51c, Ohio XX 54c, Michigan X 491 to 50c, West Virginia XX and picklark 600, Ohio No. 2 53c, coarse fleece 45c, extra pulled 41c, No. 1 scoured $l, No. 2 ditto 921 e, No. 3 ditto 80c, No 5 ditto 77c, No. 6 ditto 60c, coun try superfine pulled 45c to 47c, XX ditto 503 c, and £4llPer fine ditto 44c. (From the Wall-street Journal) - FRIDAY EVENING, January 29, 1869. The market is plentifully supplied with money on call at seven par cen t ' , with exceptions on Government securities at six per cent' Discounts are fairly active at seven to eight per cen t ', with some transactions at n i ne p er cen t. Government Bonds are steady, with a fair business doing. Gold is quiet, and for the moment there is little speculation. T he market opened to-d a y a t 136, an d c l ose d a t 1363. Foreign Exchange is qu i e t, b u t fi rm. B or d er an d S out h ern state Bonds are in fair demand, at, in some instances, lo w er a prices. In Railroad Stocks a largo business is doing, an the market is buoyant, particularly for the North-west ern i and the St. Paul shares. Ohi o an d Mi ss i ss i pp i , Clevelna and Pittsburgh, Michigan S ou th ern , T o l e d o an d Wabesb/ and Reading, are also active and hi g h er . EXPRESS STOCKS are more enqui re d f or . W e q uote Adams ... 63f to 6 , 5 American ... 44 to Merchants' Union 173 to x i United States 53i t° Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... ... ... ... 29i to 91 QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Eng. sovs 487 to 20 francs 385 ~ 3 1 , Thalers Amer. silver 95 to Hi Mex. dollars 1031 „ 104 Eng. silver 48U , 485 Five francs 951 „ 96 FOREIGN Londcn Bankers Lou:, n Prime Commercial , Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers Frankfort, 0.3 i Berlin and Cologne Antwerp Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss XCHS NOE. Sixty Days. 109i-169f 10R-109} 5.181-5.15 781-79 k 40i--41f 711 7 72 . Throe DrLY,i 110i-11($ ...... 5.14-J• 5.18-5.15 40f —4l :: I —5.15 .. /It RAILROAD MORTGA *I z• RS. ' Chi. & N. W. Ist M...••• Tol. & Wab. Ist M .... Q - 01 Gt. Western IstM '88... - Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M.. Gal. & Chic. Ext .......... Gal. & Chic. 2d ......... DZI Chi. &R. I. Ist M.. ..... Chi. It. I. & Pacific 7'5... ""' Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... N. J. Central Ist M...••• 01 N. J. Central 2d M ..... . Pitts. Ft.W. , & Ch. Ist 31. 1 ,," 1 : Pitts. Ft. W , (A L VA!. „ 7. 2 ' Pitts. Ft. W.,. & Ch. 3d M. Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. 41 Chic. & Alton, S.F. lstM.l,,l'i; Mil. & St. Paul Ist M... ' al ' Mil. & St. Paul 2d M... ° Marietta & Cin. Ist 31... Morris & Essex Ist M... 0 31 Morris & Essex 2d-M... Joliet & Chic. Ist Chi. & Gt. East'n Ist M., CLOSING QUOTATIONS F N.Y. Central 6s, 1883 901 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 87 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 87 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 102 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 Erie Ist Mort, Ex 102 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 08 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 911 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 87 Erie 78, sth Mort, 1888 851 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. lstM, '77 B9 Had. R. 78, Ist M, '69 101 Hud. 11. 78, 3d M, '75 — Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 101 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 1 1161 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 118 Mich. So., 7 p. c. 921 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 97f 111. Cen. 7p. c, '7O 1141 Alton &T. H. let M 93/ Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 84 Alton &T. H. 2d M. Inc. 77 Han.&St.J.LandGrants Han. & St. J. Con Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 110 Chi. ez N. West, S. F — Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 93 & N. W. Ex'n B 9O PUBLIC FUNDS OF Sixes, 1868, registered Sixes, 1868, coupon Sixes, 1881, coupon 112; to 1 1 “ U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lOO-1 to 101 j Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon 0° 1 1 1 Five-twenties, 1865, coupon .00 Five-twenties, 1805, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll O B ll to t (-10911 Ten-forties, coupon lOB/ to Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties, 3d series ... Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1 RAILROAD AND MISC N. Y. Central 163/ Erie fludson Reading Mich. South. &N. I 95/ Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 9 North-West North-West Preferred 91; Canton Rock Island Dleveland and Toledo 106 I N.Y. &N. H. 6s .. . . Dubuque ScS.City,lst .. Peninsula Ist M.. ....... - Ohio & Miss. Ist M...••• gG Ohio & Miss. Con.: .. ... Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. .... Atlantic & G. W. Ist )31' 'HE UNITED STATES. 1881 'ELLANEOUS STOCKS. 12,11 Fort Wayne ............ - ;1 ; Pacific Mail ............... Atlantic Mail ............2 1 Quicksilver ............. W. U. Telegraph ..... • 0 Mariposa Preferred •••• 331 Ohio and Mississippi." Boston Water Power. , f i lik Cumberland ............. 107 Bankers and Brokers... & St. Paul ..... ...... 96 M & St. Paul Preferred S S tANNUAL SWORN REPORT OF SOME OF T- 5 p o. , YORK PETROLEUM COMPANIES.—The Cli n t on Oil C °l9 ,,i report that they have n o d e bt s; th e N or thern Lig';, e tro' Company, that they owe $662.29 ; th e W e bster x ooor leum Company, $2,000 ; the Allen Wright ' Oi l 5 00 ; pany, $3,100; the Guild Farm Oil Company lotS; the American Oil and Mining Company, 11 0 tea the Bliven Petroleum Company, $1,200, and 61 ; s . i) a , li tea claims amounting to nearly $60,000; the Coue°' l : t ro" , Petroleum Company, less than $5OO ; the Everett 00 leum Company, not over $8,500 ; the Buchanan Fa Vicar. Company, not exceedi ng $2OO ; th e R yn d Farm 00 140/ pany, $3,205 and a disputed claim of $15,000 ; th e 0 00; York and Pennsylv a ni a Oil C ompany, a b o ut s' 7, ' (ia the French Creek P e tr o l eum C ompany $30, 5A3; sa il litigation) ; the lleydrick Oil C ompany, $21,0' the Bergen Oil and Coal Company, $113,000. The Tribune is trying to force Mr Co' o w Smythe into a fight with Mr. Pollard, who has bg ° tbo ing something very severe about the cioadidato iS Russian Embassy. The Tribune's way of putt', P, (the rebel "carpet-bagger" bein g Mr. Pollar"i' 6 o'°' Smythe first wont out of his w a y— neg l e cting 03 , 4 1) 1.4 of wounded a Idlers seeking such appointments 'viol, hands—to confer a place upon a noted and in° st ,.., 1' 01 : lent Rebel carpet-bagger. Th en , ac cording '; t , o' lard, Mr. Smythe sanctioned the taking of e oath by this rabid Rebel e dit or . Next, v s ig°' t Id, Mr. Smythe persuaded P o llard to e r 0 ° on the ground that his appointment was too odietisdlstiO collector to bear the burden of it, and with the at promise that his salary should be continued vol° l° oo ,ati doing any work ! I have a plan," said the d i P' , , ta i Stnythe, according to Pollard's report ; "resig n request—be particular to put it at my reques t Ea dot , shan't appoint any successor to your place, and you r do OA can go on." As to putting in any substitute t o work, Pollard could do as he pleased ; " but resign `; ing his lye), you see the game I s h a ll m ake no 11/es f o r, lows." But the game was made on another victi ra olsl . " the faith of this promise to cheat the Governraou t ' was himself cheated into resigning. rea l° gap - An order has been served upon the w, or e o , Court of the District of Columbia, by order of the p 'h Court of the United States, commanding thati° S s e o lici t h ° , Bradley be restored to that Court as attorney en u in all his franchises. Chief Justice Carter P b : l : s , mandate, rescinded the order debarring Mr. Bra" practice in the Court, but held that this, under alteroste; of the Supreme Court of the United States, di d , l3 ,, 0 511e g , Mr. Bradley to the Criminal Court whence Ju d i 01 ", expelled him. He then announced a rule that 11 ° is pended in one Court of the District shall practi°jA of the branches of the Supreme C onr t o f the Di str Wro practically leaving Mr. Bradley where he Was United States Supreme Court i ssue d the manila [ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (Indigestion), ` - ', o ° ,,:ac h col e :, Debility, Consumption; and all nervons, bilious, 0 " o d liver complaints in every stage, are only aggra pated raii ie 0 , ;: i rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly ou P rot' , L s' 4 Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic& Food, q'te,s, tits: thousands of cases which had been considered We - oaeotir —cough, asthma, also di arr h oea, haemorrhoids, diP,4,er flatulency, nervousness, biliousness fevers, sore threl ria, catarrhs, colds, influenz nois , 'n the head anu ig ia,tel),,,e' matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, es bility, sleeplessnees, acidity, palpitation, heartbu r ' debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickpe a s tio tvi pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofuLioreo„4 of the chest, pains at the pit of , the stomach and 15 0 t0 . r . ",0 1 shoulders, &c. We quote a few:—The Pope's health,,Als6b„joS; Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413—" Rome, Ju13 1 . 14, e D" health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially futleti;•ell ".plate' ing all other remedies, he has confined himself o[ool, Barry's Bevalenta Arabica, Food, of which he cons . 10_, ° , 0 1110 ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisn„ h is o>" effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pratr," iv 2 6 . food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi, , u 6' f ft' l ife, No. 46,270-Mr. James Roberts, ember merchanti 1,10 03 40,, r , Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting T ,ork„'er derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,77 1- 7,rewSpo o : . de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many clYsfro Tr-s 0) No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indescribable agollY „,1 8 001 7, Nor t o o nervousness, asthma, coiigh, constipation, ita' - aa t 05 0 i5, , sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Import , VW * Beware of the many unsavoury and more than slolfr', : aos' to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name 11 1 ,7 ) , ciously attached. lbs. i 10. ;00'4 In tins, at Is. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. 91; 2 lbs. 4s. ; . 0 0 tor 225. ; lbs, 40s, -Also Du BARR Y's Ii,EvALBsTe. t e to , LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cuPs g i or 57; :W e cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cu p s a t 6 5., f or 288 cups at 30s 1 n d 00 0 , at 558.—being about one p enn y p er c u p. The 30s• Post are sent free of carria g e i n E ng l an d on receipt tCstreet, Order.-BARRY DU BAR R Y and Co., No. 77, IWO' don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. tro t ' P o LINDSAY—On the 14th inst., at 31, Bru to n Jane Lindsay, of a daughter. st SY' S LYTTON—On the 12th inst., at the British 1,11113 a the Hon. Mrs. Lytton, of a daughter. e SCARSDALE—On the 13th inst., at Kedles t on, D rbis Lady Scarsdale, of a d ughter. 'Of Marriages. t St. Jua t c b° NEWCOMBE-11DBIE -On 'the 13th inst., 3 " r. , lo o° ' C' Mildmay-grove, John Newcombe to Georg' J:%sq . ' second daughter of the late Goorgo Ilu ble ' •':. l York. t . rc t te ,o: WATSON—BONYWOOD -On the 9th inst. at S a SV'i s o t liP' Eaton-square, Pimlico, the Rev. John ' V" Sir" to Marion Grace, fourth daughter of E. Houywood, Bart., of Evingtou-placol l'"11. P 4 '' Deaths. lc GY °l thel3th inst. at Brighton, Frederic GTE—O n formerly M.P. for Cli ' ipp h d 89 ' °et° en atn, ag , , 'for 11 ' EBDE N —On the 13th • 'at Brighton,NJ' i''' just., Hebden, Esq., aged 62. ' c f h:lii rei HAY—On the 12th in t B dSt ill s., at rewoo , LAO ic- Hay, aged 64. T Vil s tr STRICK ' LAND— On the 13th in t John .., ()sex oil' I .l ' Esq., of 11, Kensington-gate, s" the ~ll;~t© Hyde-parl" rote, " ' WOOLLEY—On the 13th just., at Westbrook, 1g.3 Woolley, Esq., aged 61. _ _ f --- - 77 O f° -- , ,0110 3 I? 9 ' London i Printed and P.iblished by Virtl4 l,l.6 '„ - ',,i:, 14° .1 Qi of No. 112, Strand, Printer, M t" TSB SUN ''''' 000 - Strand, in the Precinct of tho Se coy, J P Iliddleaol.--Tuesday, February 16, 186 xa This Prize i E Tt p the A Sold i ger 8 Obser ban's LI U ADVAN hold or able Wee Forms fi ATA GE NER tinder to a•m. till Ito' 11.-ent ia.rgmv Vocal i R emtahlifzh Sherrinl the ch a Prim. D. PrivAt e aUr bronlay. 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