The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-02 00:00:00

SPIAIT OP TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS, . _ There isatime for all things, says the Tintea, and th 6 final deliberation on a great measure is emphatically time for a calm review of its principles and tendenciei. ~Such a review was undertaken by Mr. Disraeli on Mon day, and yet no one can read his speech without feeling that it lacks the first requisite of statesmanlike judgment —the power of realising the true nature of the crisis. In ransacking his imagination for discreditable and far fetched explanations of the introduction of the Irish Church Bill, Mr. Disraeli overlooked the obvious, honourable, and true explanation—that it was demanded by the mature conviction, in the minds of Liberals throughout the United Kingdom, that without disestablishment and disendowment there could be no peace for Ireland. In commenting bitterly on the failure of so many amendments, he refused to see in it a signal proof of the confidence reposed by the Liberal party in the conduct of Mr. Gladstone. Never, it is true, were the clauses of a bill so complicated passed through committee with so little modification by majorities so overwhelming ; but then never was a scheme more elaborately or conscientiously framed, and never was a greater mastery of detail as well as principle exhibited by a parliamentary leader. The bill has been accepted by the House of Commons, not because each Liberal member had been pledged to each of its provisions, hut rather because it approved itsolf to members and constituents alike as a statesman like and consistent solution of an Imperial question. It now awaits the verdict of the House of Lords, and we feel a strong assurance that Mr. Gladstone's closing words will find an echo.. in that Assembly. We do not claim, with Mr. Disraeli, the gift of prophecy, and, if experience proves anything, it proves that no political vision can pierce much beyond the near distance of prac tical action. It is enough that we should be able to " predict the present," and, unless we misread the horo scope of Ireland, it does not portend a new outburst of religious animosity, but a new reign of political tranquillity, founded on equality and justice. The Daily News declares that Mr. Disraeli on Monday night improvised a new theory of Irish character and history. Earlier statesmen failed to recognise the real origin of the calamities of Ireland. They.tried various remedies —parliamentary reform, municipal reform, jury reform, great schemes of national education, and great schemes of national police. These failed, because the diagnosis of the disease was wrong. The statesmen who were the authors of these measures, of which Mr. Disraeli affects for the moment to think lightly—in another part of his speech he implied a different estimate of them—failed, he says, to recognise that the cause of Irish discontent and disturbance was physical. Mr. Disraeli's philosophy of the past is not more remark. able than his estimate of the present and his forecast of the future. He contends that Mr. Gladstone has mis taken the aims and desires of the Irish people, whom he wishes to conciliate. If they were discontented with the Irish Church Establishment surely, Mr. Disraeli says, they would assassinate the Irish Protestant clergy. lie apparently thinks that shooting a man is the mode in which the Irish peasant expresses his abstract disapproval of an institution. As to the future, it is lamentable to think what the nation has lost in Mr. Disraeli. If his advice had been follov, cd, nd would in twenty years have been as loyal, contented, and prosperous as Scotland now is. lie was provided with a pill for the earthquake, like the mountebank in Addison's essay, to whom Mr. Bright once compared him. Now we may expect to see " another battle of the Boyne, another siege of Derry, and another treaty of Limerick. These things are not only possible, but probable. You are commencing a policy which will inevitably lead to those results." From the possible to the probable, and fr om the probable to the inevitable, are transitions very easily and rapidly made in Mr. Disraeli's speeches. Happily they are not so easy or rapid in history. The ,Standard is convinced that the rejection of the Irish Church Dill on the second reading by the House of Lords would be altogether disastrous both to the Church and to the Constitution. If, indeed, Archdeacon Denison believes that a new election would reverse the verdict of 1868 he is right in advising the Lords to engage in a new struggle. But if, as we feel assured, no such result can yet be expected ; if the effect of a collision between the two Houses on the principle of the bill would be to check the reaction which is in progress, to rally the multitude •ound the Liberal colours, and to make Mr. Gladstone more powerful than ever, then we cannot conceive what principle of duty or policy should induce the Peers to precipitate a conflict in which defeat is inevitable. It is impracticable for the Upper House to resist a Ministry backed by the Commons and the majority of the nation. The consequence must be either the political extinction of the Peers or a collision between the Sovereign and a popular Ministry, from which the worst consequences might be apprehended. A new election would send back a House of Commons more Radical, more resolute, and more angry than the present. A new Church Bill, worse than this, would be at once sent up to the Lords. Could they again reject it ? We have counselled that the Lords should exact all they can in the way of compromise ; but we cannot recommend them to engage in a struggle with the ultimate arbiters of national policy upon a question which does not admit of compromise. We cannot advise the Peers to measure their strength against that of a decisive electoral majority, simply because in such a conflict they must be beaten, and because they can be beaten only by means which would destroy the Consti tution. We are not called upon to say whether it is worth while to risk the Constitution for the sake of the Church, for the fact is—as all moderate men, nay, as most extreme men who retain their temper and judgment, can see— that the Lords, by engaging in open conflict with the new House of Commons, may shipwreck the Constitution, but cannot possibly save the Church. The Post says that the confidence it has expressed in Mr. Motley's fitness for the positiop he fills is encouraged by the two speeches he made last Monday in answer to addresses presented to him upon his arrival at Liverpool by the Liverpool and the American Chambers of Com merce. The tone of these speeches shews that Mr. Motley is aware of the extent of his powers, and is not likely to exceed them ; while their brevity is an indication that he does not intend to indulge in that mischievous garrulity which distinguished his predecessor. These features make the speeches themselves all the more important and worthy of attention, and encourage us to rely fully upon them, and to infer that Mr. Motley really comes here with a sincere purpose to bring to an end the differences between us. Mr. Sumner's speech was in effect an admission, and Mr. Motley must know that the real cause of the rejection of English offers has been precisely a want of friendly feeling, or rather the existence of an active feeling of enmity towards this country for old grievances. We trust, how ever, that we may infer from Mr. Motley's words that this enmity is now so far cooling down as to allow of the formation of a good understanding upon secure founda tions, for it is useless to hope for it so long as one side approaches the other with distrustful feelings and revenge. ful purposes. :From the whole tone of his speeches we m ay hope that he will be able so to exercise them as again, to bring the countries where, as he once said they should ever be, " side by side in full friendship." The Star is glad to say that the question of the Hudson's Bay Company is soon likely to be removed froni the cog nisance of the British Legislature. A bargain has been struck struck between the Imperial Government and the Hud son's Bay Company ; and M r . Mo nsel was able on Tues day to assure the House of C omm ons that this bargain would be ratified by the Dominion of Canada. To Lord Granville belongs the credit of having solved what almost appeared to be an insoluble problem ; and never did he exercise his characteristic tact with greater judgment or, more advantage to the public interest. He offered an ultimatum which has .Proved irresistible to both of the contending parties. A vitally important point was raised by Mr. R. N. Fowler, who urged that it was the duty of the Imperial Government.to make stipulations on behalf of the Indian population, and to secure to them!: ample reserves. • Mr. Monsell's answer was one of sympathy with the natives, but also one of confidence in Canada. The Government of the Dominion has pledged itself to do justice to the natives ; but it is not the less expedient that Great Britain should exhibit a just sense of re sponsibility towards a class of her subjects who have irresistible claims upon her consideration. Lord Bury would give them no reserves at all. This advice was dictated by no feeling of inhumanity, and yet if acted upon is would inevitably lead to a succession of Indian wars, and to the ultimate extinction of the race. Why should the Hudson's Bay Company have ample reserves o f land, while the Indians, who are the original owners of the soil, are left to starve? The fact that such a sugges tion should be offered is a justification, if any were wanted,'for Mr. Fowler's speech ; and we cannot doubt that the Government of the Dominion will take a large and just view of its obligations in this matter. The Tclegraph.. says that the matteris now, so near, tae final stage, that the Hudson's Bay Company is to sell its rights for £300,000, and that the Imperial Government pro poses to annex the territory to Canada, if the colony will' pay the stipulated s um. Heretofore, Canada has not closed with the bargain, and, indeed,• she is grumbling at the demand for so large an amount ; but there can be little doubt that she will accept the offer, and the Prime Minister evidently holds the matter to be virtually settled. confidently anticipate, the A few months hence, we may great unreclaimed territory will be added to the p ,ssessi?ns of the North American Confederation. The . fact remains that so long as the land belong s to a trading corporation, it must continue a desert. Now that the North American colonies have been organised into a Confederation, the ' time has come for transferrer a magnificent territory from ril!ers who are guided by the principles of the counting: houiB alone, to rulers who are gn:de,l by the dictates of an imperial policy. But in the - act of transfer we must not forget to guard " vested interests." We do not refer to those of the company, which will take care of itself ; hut to those of the aboriginal inhabitants, the Indian tribes. When we resigned our ancient control over Canada, and made the colony eelf,governing, we required the inhabitants to undertake the responsibilities as well as share the comforts of virtual independence. Among those responsibilities was unquestionably the fulfilment of the bargain made with the Indians ; but the colony has neglected that duty. It would be satisfactory to learn that the Imperial Government has urged the Canadians to perform it; and at least, now that, we are to place the Indians of the Hudson's Bay Territory under the rule of the Canadian Government, we - must take precautions against any _denial otjuatictotk. Iplese aborigines. I MISCE LLANEOUS [NE IPS. CLEticAL MOUBLZS IN AUSTRIA. A priest of Brejenz, in the Tyrol, was recently rose cuted on a charge of " exciting to hatred and contempt" of the Government in the pulpit. Being acquitted, he openly threatened to take his revenge upon those who had borne witness against him. He kept his word. At the very next sermon which he delivered he designated the witnesses as liars and perjurers, and invited his congrega. tion to say a pater on special behalf of these miserable sinners. It appears that his denunciation did not prevent others from appearing against him, for he was sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment. PEACE POLICY OF THE AMERICAN GOVEI!NMENT. The evidence that Mr. Motley has arrived in England to carry out a policy of peace accumulate' rapidly. The new Ambassador's speeches are quite as reassuring as Mr. Reverdy Johnson's, though undoubtedly far more temperate. All intelligence from the other side of the Atlantic shews that the American Government is equally anxious to avoid war, and that state of doubt and anxiety which is scarcely less disastrous than war. On the 18th of May a telegram from Washington, inspired by the State department, was published at Phila delphia. It announced that "no one in executive and diplomatic circl*s apprehends serious difficulties with England." The .Acw York Times says that the " President has spoken his mind pretty freely about the manner in which foreign affairs are con sidered by the Senate, and in a way not at all com plimentary to that body." It is added that the English Embassy had, up to the day of rejecting the Alabama treaty, positive assurances that it would be postponed until December. With these facts before them, it is claimed that the rejection of the treaty was the effect of temporary excitement, and not the exhibition of cool, dispassionate statesmanship. The Times Philadelphia correspondent says that the instructions carried away by Mr. Motley were very voluminous, and represented the moderate views of the Secretary of State, and not the extra vagant demands of Senator Sumner. The question of England's moral responsibility for the results of her neutrality proclamation of May 1861 is still in sisted on, however, as a proper subject for reference to arbitration, and if it is decided against England, the United States will present for payment by England the damages decided to result therefrom. THE METROPOLITAN' OF CANADA. The Bishopric of Montreal, which confers the Metropolitanship of Canada, has been offered to the Pe v. Ashton Oxenden, rector of Pluckley, Kent. Mr. Oxcnden is one of the most moderate and respected members of the Low Church party. He is the author of the Cottage Library, Cottage Sermons, a book of Family Prayers, and other devotional works. He was educated at University College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1831, but without honours. He was appointed to his pre sent living, which is worth £GB4 and a house, by Archbishop Sumner. He is an hon. canon of Can terbury, and a member of Convocation. He is, we believe, about 60 years of ago. CONSCIENCE MONEY. Mr. Lowe lamented, in making his financial statement, that the legacy duty had fallen so short during the past year because of the obstinate vitality of millionaires. He has, however, his compensation. A Thornton does not die every year, but nearly every day now the Board of Inland Revenue has the pleasure of announcing the receipt of £lOO as " con science money," on account of income tax. As every £lOO represents -.C4,000, it is clear that a good many persons have been over-modest about their incomes. It is curious to notice how contagious the present frankness appears to be. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. The Times again comes to the rescue of the old lady of Threadneedle-street against her insulter, Mr. Robert Lowe. The City editor, referring to the Chancellor's threat of borrowing and lending money under plans not yet matured, infers an antagonism on the part of the Government towards the Bank - of England. But, says Mr. Samson; it is altogether a mistake to suppose that the Bank enjoys great privileges and derives special advantages from Government favour. So far is this from being the case that the dividend of the Bank is only about 8 per cent., while other Banks divide from 15 to SO per cent., since this smaller sum is accompanied by greater security. But the Government gets " All the benefit allowed in consideration for the dignity and steadiness of the agency thus conferrei. Neither party could break up the system without damage, and it is not to be supposed there is any thought of such a step. To compensate the Bank fur the services it performs, the Government must maintain there a good average balance, just as would be required in their degree from ordinary ens. tomers. If the Government find themselves able to do more than this it is open to them to invite competition on the part of borrowers, although it is very doubtful if they would not do better by still negotiating through the Bank. Anything beyond would probably result only in speculative bids from a number of inferior institutions who would ultimately find themselves unable to alloW as much as for the sake of a continuous account as the Bank is willing to concede." Finally, the Times would have it remembered that the Bank of England is merely a private bank which has the keeping of the Government account ; and that its management has for the last twenty years been characterised by a degree of uprightness that has brought honour upon the country. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY COMPANY. Vice-Chancellor Stuart startled not a few people 1:-.Nt week. lle issued an.injunction to prevent the directors of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway . Company from pur su i ng a bill i n Parlia ment. His order would, in fact, compel the company to allow Chancery to settle its affairs. Now, explain this away as the lawyers will, ma k e conven i en t fictions as they like, they cannot get over the fact that this decision made Ch ancery greater than Parliament, and set up as a rule that a Vice-Chancellor had higher jurisdic tion and was more likely to get at the truth of matters than the highest of all courts, the Houses of Lords and Commons. The legal papers raised dissent immediately. Though they saw a reason for the decision which the Vice-Chancellor hardly re ferred to, they were obliged to consider him to be in error. They pointed out that the directors were alleged not to represent the company. The special meetings of shareholders had had before them a measure which gave power to two arbitrators—Lords Salisbury and Cairns—only to be exercised at the will of the parties to the dispute. The bill has been changed by the House of Commons to a compulsory one, and the directors are still pursuing it. But surely Parliament can decide these questions quite as well as Sir John Stuart, and can even now make the bill revert to its original form if it be necessary. The directors ap pealed, and the Lords Justices immediately cancelled the order of the Vice-Chancellor. This decision must give general satisfaction. TITE SPEAKER 'UPON HORSES. .Mr. J. Evelyn I)enson is concerned about the English breed of horses. Not about the useless 'racehorse, which has caused so much discussion of late, but about the real old English horse, the farmer's riding horse, which has declined so much since rail ways have been the fashion. The half-bred stock for road and hunting fiald threatens to become altogether extinct. Before the invention of railways, every farmer kept a horse to carry him to markets and fairs. Now, thousands of farmers have laid aside their riding. horses, and trust mainly to railways for means of locomotion. Can anything be done (Mr. Denison asks) to stimulate this reviving interest ? The means, to be successful, must, he says, be simple. He would have no faith in joint stock companies or any expensive operations. The effort should be a combined effort of proprietors and occupiers. The Speaker, therefore, suggests that gentlemen interested in the subject should meet together and form an association, and agree to place two or three good mares in the hands of t enan t s on their estates. "In a few years a great change would be effected and the of supply foundation would b e laid valuable horses." reply to TH E 46 P.R.A." ON Ills DEFENCE. Sir Francis Grant writessaytiontghtehaTtiitthwes ' r i e n iection of Lord Riblaesclale's letter, his lordship's picture could not be due " want of graciousness " on the part of the Hanging Committee, any- Committee, since the names of the artists a ' r nging known, and pictures arc .rejected upon their (' o not demerits. Sir Francis says nothing to his lordshiPn other charge, that he—the president of the 14) lordship's Academy—had eight huge pictures, the maximL n allowed to him, at a time when hundreds of other good pictures were rejected for want of room. THE WEATHER. We have happily escaped from the severest May on record for many years. In London the closing days of the month were much colder than the opening days of February. In Scotland the thermometer fell to 30 deg. during Friday night. Early on Saturday the fields around Edinburgh were white with hoar-frost, and the potato crops have suffered severely in consequence. vEL 0 CIPED OM ANIA . Velocipede riding saools are increasing rapidly, cud everything seems to be going in favour of the new vehicle, save the police and the magistrates. These do not like the machine on the footpath, and they have ordered it off. Pedestrians will be thank ful. Perambulators were bad enough, but a rattling bi c ycle running between one's legs, And producing a collision between rider and walker, is not pleasant ' - to contemplate. ~ HYMNS. The Free ChurB Assembly been gr ea tl y ex= ercised on the maff6r of palmody. It does not approve of" human hymns." Not that it , prefers inhuman hymns;, but , it . think.s that 14;4=4 couipaitiKaaxe weirshin. WerA VIA THE . SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, it 69. Wesley and Lyte, Toplady and lieble, Doddridgt and Ken, mere sinful men ? So the Kirk must fall back upon David, who, as we all know, was sinless, especially just before he wrote the 51st Psalm. But the funny thing:is that the Assembly does not like to have the Psalms in the prose version, that is, the version nearest the original, for that would lead to the prelatical and Popish habit of chanting, which is alto gether abominable, though it is true David and Asaph wrote their Psalms especially for chanting —yes, even for that worst of abominations, antiphonal chanting. So the Psalms have to go through the excruciating process of versifying. The result is a doggrel, com pared with which Sternhold and Hopkins, Brady and Tate, were charming. Besides these there are a certain number of "paraphrases," which the Scotsman divides into three classes, " ranting, namby-pamby, and milk-and-watery." We scarcely know to what class the following verse belongs, though it was considered particularly good by the " demonstration" at which a number of these non human hymns were sung : " 0 tongue to fraud inclinid, What portion shalt thou find-- What shall be done to thee ? Sharp arrows of the great, With coals of burning heat, Of juniper that be;" Mark the rhyme, " great," " heat." Funny people the Free-Kirkers. (From the Anglo -American Times.) _NEW YORK, May 15. The ATL:011(1, bound for Aspinwall with a very large number of passengers and the mails for Cali foruia, broke her shaft on the voyage, and bad to get back as best she could, transferring all to the Rising Star, which Lefton Saturday. The steamer tug Joe Bak•er exploded its boiler, and blew all its offi cers overboard, some of them severely injured. The account of the loss of the Pacific Co.'s steamship Hermann, from Yokohama on the 13th February, has reached Washington and been published. She had a crew of 80 men and 350 passengers, Japa nese soldiers. The night was dark, and Captain Newell could but barely make out the land along which he was coasting. He was giving a promon tory a wide berth, as the native pilot informed him there was a shoal off it unmarked on the charts, ashen he discovered breakers ahead, but before the vessel could be brought round she was caught by a tremendous roller and thrown bodily on the rocks, where she was quickly reduced to a wreck. The boats which were not swept away were used by the crew in their endeavours to reach the land, but were successively swamped in the breakers. Most being lifeboats they floated, though swamped, and those who clung to them were saved. The funnel fell during the night and smashed up the hurricane deck, causing great loss of life. In the morning the weather moderated, and those who remained on the wreck were taken off by the Japanese on shore. The Japanese soldiers behaved extremely well, obeying their officers with the greatest coolness to the last, while the danger may be judged, as by far the larger portion of them perished. Mr. Norvell of the Times has given hail for $25,000 to answer the charge of libel brought against him by Jas. Fisk, Jun., and the report is that the case will soon be tried. It was said that Gen. Butler had been engaged by Mr. Young of the Tribune in his case against Mr. Dana of the Sun, but this is denied, though it is as serted that half the editors here and' in Philadelphia will be summoned as witnesses. Warren and Costello are now starring it, holding receptions of their friends at Sweeny's Hotel in Chatham-street, and a grand public reception is to be immediately given them. Mr. Pomeroy will bring out his paper next week as large as the Tribune and at the same price, backed by Tainmany and other Democratic influ ences, being, sonic hint, upheld purposely against the IVor/(1, as the party do not like to be wholly in the Lands of one great daily organ. The name of Pomeroy brings to my mind a su it for divorce in which another Pomeroy was concerned. Mrs. Kinnier brought her case before the Supreme Court under the following circumstances. She had married Mr. Pomeroy, and while residing in Massachusetts by mutual consent she obtained a divorce from him through the Illinois Divorce Laws, when she mar ried her present husband. She now seeks a divorce from him on the ground that the- first divorce was illegal, which, if good, leaves her the lawful wife of Mr. Pomeroy. The Court held that the Illinois divorce was valid, as both had consented; therefore, this dove, is sent back to the arms of her present spouse_ Judge Benedict of the United States Circuit Court delivered his charge to the grand jury on Monday. He spoke in very severe terms about the frauds on the Government both in the Custom House and Internal Revenue Department. Under the late Administration affairs in the Custom House were in a fearful state. In the drawback frauds alone the Government was swindled out of $700,000. To recover the draw back (taxes paid on goods not used in the country but re-export ed), four certificates, an affidavit, and a bond have to be produced, and these were all forged by the Custom house men themselves, and passed without difficulty. They described goods, swore affidavita, and brought up bondsmen, all fictitious, and got the drawbacks from the Washington Treasury. Though the certificates were forged, they bore the genuine seal of an Internal Revenue officer. In the warehouse department goods subject to duty were withdrawn without any being paid, till the Government loss in a single warehouse equalled $400,000. The judge urged the inquest to do all in their power to bring the offenders to justice. Some of the stolen Syra cuse Savings Bauk Bonds have turned up in the possession of a Philadelphia broker, who attempted to negotiate them, and he has been committed for trial. The Cuban Junta arc so annoyed with the city newsp 'per repprters, who used the information they gave for sensational paragraphs, that they re fuse to give them an y more news, and henceforward they will be silent. The Spanish Consul had-an in terview with General Barlow about the steamship Quaker City. He said he was 'instructed by the Spanish Minister to call his attention to the vespel ' as it was said to be fitting out in th e i n t erest of the fillibuster.s. The United States Marshal re plied he hid received strict injunctions to pre vent any infraction of the neutrality laws, hut he was satisfied that the report was a mere fiction of the sensation-mongers. The Anti-Slavery Society met on Tuesday at Steinway Hall, but the room was only half full, which the whites did not regret as half the audience were coloured. Wendell Phillips presided, and resolutions were passed, favouring the Fifteenth Amendment, the suppression of Southern anarchy, the condemnation of coloured people's ex clusicn from public places, and censuring the churches for their adherence to caste. Wendell Phillips expected to see the day when the Doard of Brokers would open their doors to the coloured re presentative of a sovereign State, and said the time will arrive when no difference will be recognized be tween black and white; then, with a black Senate and a black Secretary of State, Mr. Motley will be sent with very different instructions from those now provided. What these are, and what they then would be, I know not. Miss Stone invoked the day when the black man and black woman would stand at the ballot-box together. She would like to aid them to put their black hands into the Treasury. Mr. Frederick Douglass spoke well, as usual, and so did Mr. Sims. Indeed, they seldom follow the extravagant lead of some of their white friends, and, in abstaining, appear to the better advantage. The Stock Exchange and . the Open Board were con solidated in the name of the New York Stock Ex change, having a th ousan d mem b ers an d . s'Boo,ooo in its Treasury. The management will rest in the hands of 40, of whom the following 12 have been taken from the members of the Open Board :—J. I.Kennedy, L. Brownell, - ownell, Ruf us H a t c h , S . V. White C. P. re.h l e t o f b o e i r o t w Wailer, ,ina re Currie, S. B. Il ar d , D . A. Boody, A. V. B. Van 1) L. . Y l‘ ck l:ir T x, L 8.. J. Stout,. Von 0 k the officers of the Consolidated Board of Brokers : —President Williatn 11. Neilson ; First Vice Pre sident, M. A. Wheelock ; Second Vice-President, B. 0. White ; Treasurer, D. C. H ays ; Secretary, G. 11. Brodhead ; Assistant-Secretary, John-. IV Munro ; Roll- keeper, W. Weeher. Th.ey have sent a committee to Washington to have the recent cision of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue respecting the tax on broker re-opened, and they ask for an extension of time beyond the ten days in each month, wherein they are required to re port, but the department, although inclined to in crease the time, are not disposed to reconsider the decieion. A terrible tragedy occurred at No. 1, Montague-terrace, Brooklyn-heights, on Thursday morning. Mr. -Benjamin Flint, a _ retired mer chant, had been intimate many years ago with a Mr. Talbot, a wealthy Boston merchant, and when about twelve months ago, his son, Mr. Samuel D. Talbot, came to this city, Mr. Flint not only showed him great hospitality, but set apart a bed-room for him in his house. Last winter Miss Lizzie Scribner, a sister of Mr. Flint, arrived on a visit, and of course was frequently thrown into the company of Mr. Talbot, who at last, when about to commenci. business, proposed marriage. Miss Scribner re fused, and her decision did not apparently at the time cause him any uneasiness ; but early this month he requested her one evening to ac company him to the theatre, and on her politely declining he appeared greatly disappointed. About one o'clock on Thursday morning Miss Scribner was awoke by.a person'. pressing a towel violently on her face, saturated with chloroform and mor phine. She dashed it aside, and recognized Talbot by the light from the street lamp, who still con tinued to press the towel to her face, but she sprang from her bed, reached the heal of the stairs; and, calling for assistance, was told by her sister to go to her room. She did so, faint from excitement, and threw herself on her sister's bed ; but in a few minutes Talbot entered the room, whereon Miss Scribner jumped from the bed and crouched at the opposite side of the room, when he levelled a pistol at her and fired. The ball struck her cheek, near the angle of the eye, inflicting a flesh wound. She threw up her hands to her bead, and as she did so he again fired, the ball striking her hand, passing through her third finger and middle of the baud into the forearm, and passing out the opposite side to which it had • entered. Talbot then rushed up stairs and locked himself within his own room. The third report of the revolver was heard by the police in the neighbourhood, and a heavy fall on the bed-room floor by the inmates. Upon the police entering Talbot's room a six ounce bottle was found with about half an ounce of chlo roform left in it, a towel folded in many folds and strongly impregnated with chloroform, and a bottle contaihing one-sbueentle of an ounce of morphine. On the floor was the suicide, presenting a gory and ghastly spectacle. After receiving surgical treat ment Miss Scribner was removed to her bed and pronounced out of danger. During the day an in quest was held, and Coroner Jones charged the jury on the evidence adduced, when the verdict was returned that —" The said Sam. D. Talbot came to his death by shooting himself iu the head with a pistol, on the 13th of March, 1869, at No. 1. Montague terrace, Brooklyn." Mr. Flint telegraphed to the stepmother of the deceased at Boston, his parents being dead, and the reply was received in the after noon requesting that the remains should be for warded to Boston. They were accordingly sent with a burial permit by Coroner Jones, the same day. The Tribune, I regret to say, will commence a series of articles on Political Economy by its Editor on the Ist proximo. Oh dear ! Oh dear ! ! I wonder how maey subscribers this announcement will attract or the other thing. Bishop M'llvaine has preferred charges against the Rev. Colin Tait of Co lumbus, Ohio, whom he accuses of violating the doctrines and worship of the Episcopal Church in making the singing of processional hymns by choirs in surpli ces a regu l ar part o f t h e worship. The America n Ch urc h U n i on up h o lds Mr. Tait, and will supply the funds for his defence. WASHINGTON, May 14. I wish that our delega'ions would give themselves shorter names. Yesterday one called on the Pre sident and was announced as " the National Exe cutive Committee of the Coloured Men of the United States" to return thanks for a newspaper report they took as trustworthy that it was the in tention of the Executive to appoint coloured men in the Northern States to important posts. Their fitness for office had been proved by their manhood, and therefore taken out of the arena of debate. Such appointments in the Noah would destroy the oljeetions in the South, where it would show the untruth that the North wished to force oee policy on the Southerners accepting another for itself. The action of Rhode Island would solve the question in Georgia. It would also have another effect, for if the North showed a liberal disposition to the Ne groes where they were numerically weak, in the South where they were numerically strong they would be lets unwilling to share their politi cal immunities with the whites. What would a Southern planter of the old school ten years ago have thought of such a delegation in the White Clouse thus addressing the President? They con cluded by expressing their sense of gratitude for the rebuke General Grant had given to the preju dice against them by the numerous negro appoint ments he had made, contrasting the fact that the action of the late lamented President was under the necessities of war for defence, while his was the sense of right during the calm influence of peace. The President received them cordially, assuring the delegates that important points were raised which should have his serious attention. I may here state that the Fifteenth Amendment having been ratified by Connecticut makes in all 22 States. The difficulties in Indiana when the ques tion was brought before the Legislature were re peated, the Democrats leaving, so that the Legisla ture should be without a quorum. Under these circumstances the objectionable course is likely to be taken, which must eventually much injure the Governmentof this country, that is, legalizing illegal acts required by the immediate necessities of a party. 'the Democrats strain the law to 'defeat a measure approved by the sense of our people, yet they act within the law ; the Republicans unable to thwart the Opposition have ratified the amend ment, at least in the Senate, in spite of the quorum not being present, and if necessary, Congress will legalize their course. General Lee, who arrived at Lexington last Saturday, expresses much gratifi cation with the result of his visit to Baltimore and Washington. Mr. Howard has had an interview with the President previous to his departure as Minister to China, as had also Colonel Markbreit, before leaving for Bolivia. Mr. Whitely, the new Chief of the Treasury Secret Service Division, arrived on Wednesday and took charga of his office. The Government despatched an agent to Cuba to gather information independently of its Consul- General, and his information is not encouraging to the insurgents. The Consul cannot tell what their force is ; merchants estiruate it at from 15,000 to :10,000 men ; while others, equally reliable, place it at 1,400, but the Consul does not believe either to be correct. This, however, he asserts, that there is not a Cuban man,' woman, or child on the island who does not sympathize with the revolt, and he adds his own opinion that if the insurgents can hold out for six months more Spain will be compelled to abandon her effort to subdue them. The cruel action of the Spanish Government aids the insur rection, and has created such a feeling of intense hatred that Spain will never recover a strong foot ing in Cuba. Nor is this its only ill effect, for it has generated a disgust of Spanish rule far and wide iu our country. I regret, however, to learn that Admiral Hoff, as- -well as Consul-General Plumb, and other good authorities, consider that there is no chance for the present of over throwing Spanish rule, and the Cuban agents here are evidently discouraged. Mr. Allison is to meet the Committee of Ways and Means at New York to begin their investigation. Senator Fenton is expected to make a stay of a few days. Ihe way our people bring themselves prominently before the public as an advertisement for their goods is quite as ingenious as anything gotten up in Europe. To makers of hats, boots, cigars, and sticks, the Pre sident is mainly uieful for bringing forward their wares. One sends him a cigar that would require two men to hold it for six weeks while he smokes; then flaunts a sign, " Maker to the President." What they would like is to get U. S. Grant tick eted with their goods, but as they cannot succeed in this they do all they can. Mr. Joseph M'Cord, of Boston, has presented to the President a rose wood baton mounted with silver, inscribed " Joseph Nl`Cord, inventor. Let us have Peace. Pre sented to to U. S. Grant, President of the United States, Aprill7, 1869." The invention consisted in a whistle and rattle combined, and I hope Mr. M - Cord has received his reward, in numerous orders for ditto ditto. The Comptroller's abstract, showing • - the condition of the Southern banks on the 17th April, in accordance with the recent order, has been published. In North Carolina the aggregate of resources and liabilities of its six banks is $2,675,913 ; in South Carolina, of its three banks, $2,629,383 ; in Alabama, of its two, $1,239,205 ; in Louisiana, of its two, $4,189,809. It is said that smuggling is active and increasing on the Canadian frontier. The regulations on what is termed the hand-luggage of passengers passing into the States by the Great Western Railway have been altered, as they are found, while onerous to the company, to be inefficient. The inspectors accompanying the trains between Suspension Bridge and Detroit are to be discontinued from the 25th inst., and instead the Customs' officers will affix to the hand baggage of the through passengers, from point to point in the United States over Canadian territory, a stamp, which w:llenable the officer on the other side to pass the package without examination. The railway people are asked" to assign to the through passengers a car to themselves by way of facilitating the examina tion. We have settled down in Washington into a state of utter stagnation, from which the New York Tribune's sensational telegram gave us a momentary relief. A few Congressmen, like stray swallows or the last roses of summer, hang about, looking after minor appointments. The post vacated by Judge Edmunds, when promoted l'ostmaster of the City from being Postmaster of the Senate, excites a slight contest between Dr. Taft and Major Fares. Mrs. Scott Siddons is acting the character of Beatrice, and every one in Washington goes to see her, Mrs. Grant among the number. By the way, I hear that an action has been brought against Miss Kellogg's agent for $2,000 for failing to sing at some concert, for which, it is alleged, she had been engaged. A correspondent from Madrid, describing his trip over Spain, says :—" We have met very few Ame ricans or English; most have been unnecessarily kept out of Spain from fear of political troubles, of which we were not a little apprehensive. We have found no trouble anywhere from this source, but travelling is not yet so pleasant in the Penin sula as on most parts of the Continent. Hon. S. S. Cox, late a distinguished Democratic member of Congress, from Ohio, now of New York, was here last week from a long trip through Algeria; also Gen. Darling, late chief military engineer of New York. We spent several days with our Minis . er to Spain, John P. Hale, then at Seville, with his family, but who are now on a short tour in the South of Spain. Mr. Male's health has been bad for a year, but is much improved of late. Spain, I hope, is on the road to im provement, but the work must be slow. The people are too ignorant and too indolent., too poor and too proud to get or. fast in the way of political, moral, and social progress. But free discussion and a free press are making mach' visible good, and I hope such seed is being sown as has not been sown in Splin for long ages, and as will bear good fruit, and place the country among those enjoying civil liberty and a good goverumait. Ido not be lieve a Republic is now the best government for Spain. The people must be better educated to be pre pared fur it—a constitutional monarchy is preferable, with a new Monarch, free from all Bourbon or other old alliances and associations. A man of the pre sent, with a responsible Ministry and free elections, a free press, toleration and protection of all re ligions, and a government promptly settled upon, would, I think, be best for Spain. Of one thing I think you may be assured, viz., that th e s t ep for ward in the way of toleration will never be retraced. On this point I believe there can be no mistake, and that is much for Spain and mankind. The Cortes is a fine-looking body of men, though th , y are pro ceeding rather slowly. The course of our Govern ment towards Cuba seems to meet with general ap proval so far, and the impression •is that the Go vernment is acting in good faith, while it does not seem to be expected that sympathies will not be ex pressed by individuals. I find in fact the name of a citizen of the United States well received every where in the South of Spain. TIIE UNITED STATES• CONSUL-GENERAL AND Mu. SMALLEY.—We believe that Mr. Smalley, the London correspondent of the NOV fork Tribune, is now aware that he was misled in Lis statements regarding Consul-General Morse, and will take an early opportunity of explaining this in his journal, and correcting whatever was errone ous. The charge of being a "Johnson" man was, we thought, ono of the last that could have been brought againtt Mr. Morse, fur, although it is not his habit to pro claim his opinions from the housetops of London, his views on the quarrel between Congress and the late Pre sident were pretty well known, and we could, had we chosen, have given the most unqualified contradiction from our own knowledge. But we refrained from preju dicing one statement by showing another to be a mis take. It has, however, since reached us that the post held by the Hon. Freeman Morse is in a pecuniary point of view one of the worst in Europ->, and that he cer tainly has not made a fortune either by it or through its means, nor does he, as the correspondent affirms, own a single ton of shipping under any foreign flag. Mr. Morse has given his whole time to the duties of his office, and as they involved difficult and intricate inquiries he has been fully employed. Mr. Sumner, in his celebrated speech, quoted largely from one of the Consul-General's Reports, which has furnished matter for the discussion of Congress and of the American press, and ha , occupied space in our columns. His qualifications for this office could not be called in question as regards ability. The Fraser and Trenholm settlement we do not profess to understand; but the Government, we believe, are satisfied, and we have heard one who did understand the question assert that the appraisement made by Mr. Morse was fair and prop;3r. . Mr. Ashley had an interview with the Secretary of State previous to his departure for Montana, and Mr. Fish addressed him in a very complimentary way. The new Governor intends to forward the colonization of the territory by Germans, so as soon to bring it into the Union as a State from which he hopes to be returned as Senator. If he can push up the value of tho lots he may safely be left to do so, for he is known to have taken a genuine inte rest in real estate in territories, before ho was appointed Governor of one of them. He has named Mr. Benno Speyer, of New York, Commissioner of Emigration, and he will establish an agency in the Empire City. A. deputation of bankers have had a conference, at Ottawa, Canada, with Hon. John Rose, Finance Minis ter, in regard to the Government currency question. A series of resolutions were read, the purport of which was that the circulation ought to be preserved on its pre sent basis, and that the bank charters ought to be re newed with certain amendments calculated to give greater security to note holders and depositor he ©b anks. Thes ers e, a mendments had been agre ed to by nearly all t of the Dominion. Mr. Bose said he was not able to enter into a statement of his intentions, but would be prepared alter the budga was dicynsed of to dieeuso the matter. The bankers replied that they bad no doubt they Would be able to meet the views of the Government, provided they were still permitted the privilege of issuing notes ati at present. The Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, made a sensible speech in that State on his return from Europe. It was their d uty - , he said, to accept the failure of their attempt to establish a separate Government by force of arms. That defeat decided that the people of.-the United States were to be one, now, and for ever. They had elected the trial, and must abide the result ; struggling with a hearty good will to restore the waste places it had made. Mr. Frederick Werner, one of the oldest mem bers of the Turner Society of Cincinnati, is having made at his own cost a monument in memory of the 18 former members of that Society who were killed in the Union army during the late war. Tile names of the fallen are: W. , W —F. Borg, F. Biery , A . Beyland, Wm. BelserDreve H. Elsner, Philip F ueller, F. Hildebrandt, G . Harmer, G. Kiefuss, F. Ludwig, F. Mueller, H. Heintanz. P. tier, H. Tafel, G. Vonan, F. Voll, J. Weiss. The monl ment is to be the work of C.L.Fettweie, a sculptor in 0" 1 l ". l .be: placed in one of the large rooms i c iunati, and will of Turner Hall there. The only collegiate institution founded and owned by coloured men in North America is Wilberforce Uni versity, at Xenia, Ohio, founded in 18133. Although hav ing a coloured man (bishop D. A. Payne) at its head, and two coloured professors, it has two white professors, and admits blacks and whites to its classes with equal free dom. The college building, erected with great sacrifices, was burned to the ground, April 11, 1865, by an inczndiary. The trustees aro labouring to tebuild it at a cost of about 635,000, which they look to the-friends of negroes to give them. [ADVERT/SEMENT.I Holloway's Pills.. —The slightest indisposition, to prevent its rapidly running from bad to worse, demands immediate attention fro )4 the afli:cted of all classes. A few doses of these thoroufhly purifying and strengthening pills will always be beneficial when tho least disorder reigns, or when nervous fears oppress. Two or three pills at bedtime have the happiest effect in pro- Moting perfect digestion, whereby the muscles are ren , . dared more vigorous, the spirits more buoyant, and the entire frame more hardy. Holloway's medicine increases the quantity of nutriment derivable. from a given quantity of food, whereby the quality of the blood is improved, the tone of every fibre throughout the body is heightened, and the disposition t 9 fall into disease is reduced te' a mini umm, TILE ENGLISH PRESS. (From the .Anglo-American Times.) The attitude of the Anglo-Saxon race, as repre sented by the English and American press, is worthy the attention of foreign nations. If two nationalities, speaking the same language, nearly related, and in intimate connection, cannot understand each other, how can communities widely differing in language, institutions, tastes, and habits? The London Times argues plausibly, with seeming impartiality, but, in truth, as an advocate skilfully disguising his true character of a hired pleader. The papers favouring Northern sentiment, among the most able in Eng land, are angry with their American friends for putting forward such extravagant demands, based on reasons they consider unfair and even untruth ful. Thus the Star and the News among the dailies, and the Spectator leading the weeklies, assume one attitude of wronged friendship, with another which ought not to be overlooked. These papers are equal in literary ability to any of their opponents. With consistency, through good and evil report, often against the feeling of the majority of their readers, they adhered to their principles, and not the less resolutely when threatened with and even suffering severe pecuniary loss. But it is not to such organs of opinion that the Americans turn ; for they with avidity seize on the journals of the party they call the oligarchy, attaching an importance to what they say which amazes their allies in England. The Daily News, in disgust, asks, are tuft-hunting pro clivities most developed in Republicans ? Indeed the question is pertinent, for, setting aside the ably expressed opinions of organs representing the Eng lish people, they snatch at those uttered by the papers of the Upper Ten Thousand, and justify an El-feeling against the English people, not for what is said or done by the English people, but by the class they affect to denounce and despise. In the American papers of the 12th inst. will be found a summary of an article in the Standard of the pin ceding day on the Alabama question. Now the idea of sending out at so much per word an article of the Standard as an expression of English feeling is almost laughable, and the best of the joke is that its own correspondent, writing on the 12th, alludes to that article as setting forth as by official authority the ultimatum of Great Britain on the Alabama imbroglio ! So that even Granny's own correspondent forgets, that she is in opposition to the Government, expressing the very reverse of official opinion. In astonishment, Englishmen see such importance attached to what this respectable old lady says, and find the Pall Mall Gazette most quoted, not because of its undoubted ability, but be cause America recognizes in it most directly the organ of the oligarchy. On the 10th the most bel licose of the Gazette's leaders was published in the New York Tribune with a long commentary from its London correspondent, and it furnished the text for the letter writers of other papers, as well as of leading articles.- The newspapers most quoted in the United Sates are those Most hostile to Ame rica, and which most directly and avowedly repre sent the class Americans persist in considering the rulers of Great Britain—the Pall Mall Gazette, the Standard, and the Saturday Review. In this we recognize some of that feeling described in the parable of the lost sheep, which induced the shep herd to leave his ninety and nine, and run after the one that was lost. The Standard last Monday thus accounted for the importance at tached to its opinions : The educated classes are, in truth, the nation ; it is the organ of the educated classes, therefore it represents the nation ; and it might be supposed that Americans arrived at the same conclusion from the same reasoning. The tone of this portion of the English press reflects the Upper Ten Thousand only, on the Alabama ques tion, but it is therefore entitled to a considerable, though not to an undue, attention. Its design ap pears to be to cloak England's sin, while bringing into the strongest light America's extravagance, ' with the object of inducing the nation' to occupy this position—nothing we can do, will induce Ame ricans to be oar friends ; they hate England with a deadly animosity, root and branch, lord and pea sant; we must resist and prepare for the inevitable conflict, and as America is a rapidly growing corm , try, but now weakened by the strain of a terrible war, the sooner that conflict comes the better for us. It is on this text that their lea ling articles are written, and what so annoys and distresses the English friends of the Republic led by such men as BRIGHT and FoasTER, is, that Americans play into the hands of this section. Nothing can save privilege but a war between England and America; nothing is so hateful to Americans as privilege—legal and social distinctions born with the individual--yet they do their best to place the nation behind that class, to maintain for another age the institution against which they have warred from their Declaration of Independence. Take the .Standard's article of Mon day, and see how this tone pervades it, as well as that on Tuesday and others. In the first, such men as Mr. FORSTER are denounced as the un-English worshippers of the Republic, who reverse the Ma hommedan rule, and pray with their faces to the West. It is not our object to show the Standard's ridiculous mistake in this ; but we may observe, en passant, that Mecca is to the West of the vast mass of Mahomtnedans who pray, therefore, look ing to the West, as do the Republic's adorers. The assertion is, that America is insolent in direct proportion to the meekness and adoration of her British worshippers who have brought about the present complications by generating the false notion that England would meekly endure insult and humbly submit to chastisement at ber hands. It appears then that the nations owe the difficulty to BRIGHT, FORSTER, and their followers, and not tOLAIRD,WHARXCLIFFE, ROEBUCK, and their's. It maintains that the sympathy of the nation was with the Confederates, and this it will never have the meanness as well as the folly to deny, and it tells Mr. FORSTER to get out of the way, and not attempt to screen the upper classes from American anger behind the manufacturing mobs assembled to cheer Northern zealots. In its Tuesday's article it goes further, taking up much the same ground as the Pall Mall Gazette. A coal reception is to be ac corded to Mr. MOTLEY, and the charges preferred by Mr. SUMNER are to be brought to his notice at once for settlement. It may or may not suit America to delay, but it will not suit England. The former may have ulterior objects to serve as a burglar who pays a visit to a family with his eye on the plate, and Granny wants to tackle the burglar at once. Were it - not that Americans attach such importance to the organs of the oligarchy we would not devote this space to the Standard, and the sooner they can learn to treat these opinions with the indifference or the amusement they create among the masses in England the better. On the other side Americans so allow sentiment to inter mingle with their wrong that it is difficult to get at it, diluted as it has become. A journal that heads its article " Canada or War," and fires off in that line, " Your money or your life," does all it can to damage the case. Nor is it wise in men who ap peal to the equity and common sense of mankind, at the same time that they make claims for an 'infrac tion of international law, to announce their intention hereafter of. setting aside the whole international code, and to do that, to a far greater extent, which they condemn in others as against themselves. The precedent created by the Alabama is the real matter to deal with ; shall it or shall it not henceforth be a rule of the sea that a belligerent can build, equip, man, and commission a ship-of-war in the port of a neutral; is that ship to be regarded as a vessel of the navy of a Power at war, which has never been in a port beloaging to that Power ? If so, so be it ; America's claim against England falls to the ground, and as sure as her MAJESTY sits on the throne of Eng land has England established that law which will drag her from her eminence. Froin such insignificant per sons as the Messrs. LAIRD, and such a place as their shipbuilding yard, will'date the decline of what was once the greatest empire on earth. The premature concession of belligerent rights , the deadl y hostility of a large and earnest section of English society are in. truth little more than, matters of sentiment, but the other is a hard, dry, horrible fact, looking uglier and uglier from every aspect. In vain does the Times attempt to qualify it by the action of a few filibusters on the Canadian frontier, or by the tone of feeling during the Crimean war and the Indian mutiny, for neither- by act nor. through feeling was I anything done by Aragic4 approximote to the injuries and insults arising from the action of a certain section of the English throughout a war that rent the Republic asunder, that was no struggle in a far-off land, but the enemy in your house, at your throat. No, no; let the Times and these journals honestly admit the measure of the wrong, and we will not have leading orators and journalists in the United States balancing such arguments with as plausible exaggerations in the other direction, whereby both nations are led further and further astray—further and further from the real matter in dispute, and further and further into the region of mystification and sentiment. IMPERIAL PARL I A MEN HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LeED CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. In reply to the Earl of LONGFORD, Earl URANVILLE said there was no desire to pass by any military officer in the appointment of the permanent Under Secret ar) ship for Ireland, the only reason why tt military man had not been appointed was because it was difficult to find the necessary civil qualifications in mili tary men. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. This bill wits brought in by Earl URANVILLE, read a first time, and the second redding was fixed for the 14th inLtant. Their lordships shortly afterwards adjourned.- HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PARK-LANE IMPROVEMENT BILL. On this bill being further considered, The Marquis of HAMILTON moved the insertion of the following clause, " That the Park-lane Improvement Bill be recommitted to the former committee, in order that a clause might be inserted declaring that the lessees and occupiers of property in Hamilton-place were within the provisions of the filth section of the Lands Clauses A , •t, 1845. with resnoct to land injuriously affected." Mr. BOUVERIE, as Chairman of the Committee on Private Bills, opposed the motion. The clause had been rej cted by the committee on the ground that the proprie tors and owners of houses in Hamilton-place should not be treated differently to other owners of property. Mr. STANSFELD said it appeared to the Govern ment that a diAincti ,, n should be drawn between the Crown as a landlord and others, but the Government bad come to the conclusion to leave the matter to be dealt with by the house. Mr. TIT E said it was thought by the Metropolitan Board that to introduce into a private bill exceptional legislation would be highly dangerous. Mr. BALL supported the insertion of the clause. Mr. LOCKE did not think the aristocratic residents IA Hamilton-place had the right to ask for exceptional legis lation in their favour, when such a proposal by the more common people would be looked upon as a piece of presumption. 'The ratepayers had already been burdened enough, and it was too much to ask that they should be further pressed for the benefit of the Crown and the fashionable residents in Hamilton-place. If the clause was not withdrawn he should give his vote against it. Mr. HENLEY thought it would be wise to withdravt the clause ; h_t could not give his assent to it. The clause was negatived without a division. VISIT OF THE VICEROY OF EGYPT. Mr. GT WAY, in reply to Mr. Gourley, said the Go vernment had received intimation that it was the inten tion of his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt to visit this country about the 22d of this month, and arrangement s would be made to give his Highness a suitable receptio n upon his arrival in this country. (Hear, hear.) POLITICAL PENSIONS. Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to Mr. Fawcett, said that a person deserving a pension from Indian or Colo nial revenues would not, as matters now stood, 10 prevented horn receiving a political pension ; but in order that the whole subject might be fully considered, he would move the postponement of the consideration of the bill, which stood fer to-morrow, until Monday next. (Hear•) FARM. SERVANTS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in replf to Viscount Galway, said it would make no differenc e whether a person reside in the house or out of it, but if 116 was purely a farm servant he would be exempt from the tax, but if he was engaged partly in farm work and partly in other business then he would be taxed to the amount of 15s. Viscount GALWAY inquired whether he would be so if he was employed as under gardener. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied ill the affirmative. THE ACCIDENT ON T ITE GOVERNMENT INDIAI4 RAIL WAY. Mr. G. DUFF, in reply to Sir S. NorcTJecoTF, said a re port had boon received, and that certain inquiries with re spect to it had already been instituted. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. On the motion of Mr. GLADSTONE it was agreed tha t the house at its rising would adjourn until ThursdO, to-morrow b2ing the d a y s e t a p ar t f or th e ce l e b ra tion ° I her Majesty's birthday. HUDSON'S BAY. Sir IL VERNEY called attention to the result of the negotiation of the Government with the Hudson's D'O f Company and the Government of Canada, and moved fo r an address for any papers on the union of British Columbia with the dominion of Canada. After a few observations from Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Kinnard► and Mr. Samuelson. Mr. MONSELL said he could assure the hon. gen tle ' man who had moved for the papers that the greatest pr e ; caution would be observed with respect to the traatme li and the land occupied by the aborigines in Hudson's DI territory. The Indians would be amply providad for, an everything possible done for their safety and p r otectio o : There would be no objection to give the papers if desir oa ' The motion was agreed to without a division. Mr. VANCE moved for a return of the petitions pre sented on the subject of the Irish Church. Mr. GLADSTONE opposed the motion, on the grollaa that the information was already accessible. Upon a division it was rejected by CO to 32. The other business was rapidly disposed of, an d the house adjourned. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at raris is about at par* aDd the short exchange on London is 251. 2710. per £1 sterllol On Comparing these rates with the English Mint pricof lis.loid. per ounce for standard gold, it appe..rs t% gold at the above price Is of higher value in London thi‘ in Paris. al The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at days' sight was ou the 31st ult. about 109; per cent. At this raw there is no profit on the importation of gold from the 'Uni ted States. The United States District Court of Illinois bas recently decided that a colportour is not required to t 3l ' ° Out a pedler's license, since the re li g i ous works distribute t by him are partly given away and partly sold under c° price, and the occupation is not conducted as a menu s ° profit. 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From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 , wer No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years vOO complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a ' le a nd palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness', or 4 f unctiownito the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; ' o rs Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many /fora dyspepsia. No 19,832: " Fifty years' indescribable ago i r i od• dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flsr° SO spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Clir e , e o o 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 3 ° 0 6 , diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangemen t ' ,03 partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the . . At boir unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which , authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously str22o • In tins, at is 1-1 d ; Ilb 25 9d; 21bs 4s 6d 5 lbs lls: 12 lb! v al% 24 lbs 40s. Also Du BA,RRI"S REvALENTA kRABICA C I4OC UP ° POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at as, for :0,50 at 3s GI for 48 cups at 6s, f9r 288 cups at 30s, for 57 6 cups :opt —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins sr7, er .-- - free of carriage In England on receipt of Post-Office Or. 0 4 BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTILI. rA lli EHLERS —Ou the 31st ult., at Tulso-hill, sm ., IvlrS• Ehlers, of a sou. I STAPLETOI4-0a the 31st ult., the w if e o f John SW °toy, M.P., of a son, 111 ARRIAGES. 0 9 9 THOMAS —MATrocts—On the 29th ult. at Sf- Church, Piccadilly, George E. Thomas, solicitor, (? of St. James's-squ r e , P a ll- ma ll , t o Eli za beth Matto nA 26, Aundel-ardens, Kensingtn-ark. Slum r —Wrw g s —On the Ist inst., ,at p lobn P a ddington, - o ot• Covington, eldest son of John Smith, Esq., of New„ jo bd• lane, Richmond, to Blanche, younger daughter of 1 . 1. Willis, Eq., of Clifton-gardens. 11DATES. MORRIS—On the 31st ult., E Post-Captain W. Morrill, - ' aged 76 SOLE—On . the 30th ult., Wiu. Charles Sole, Es(l, of 4(4 Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, aged 58. ~r e eolt WRIGLEY - On the 29th ult. , at Edge-lane, LiP David Wrigley, Esq., aged 43. • London : Prin' ted and Published b ILLIAM AP4'-'—ct,.. 0? No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE } SUN W Office, N 0.112, in the PrOcinCt of tho Savoy, is the coati of Dlid cliege - .140_4(fi1d.7) ;11110 . 1869. K IN A ILI This eelebra prize...ll ed.+ I, Pure, Mi Sold in Bottl he Agents in tl 8, ORE: Observe the han's LL Whis] TEAT: relieves EATI? ■ Import tIO v. —Sold i Ils each. yEATIN X_ Lond A . V UTTJA 14, ircssEl ADVANCES TO bold or Lenp-eli %H weekly, rn F 4 Ims free on : ROYAL IMIATF.NS Drr TTAnuy Ti Mr FRET) el() Mr M r GEOR(I Ass A NTE A Miss EMMA. A Dli e KAT 13 MACLAGAN, 15 4 4 ADAM " Bake -st (of 'No with) C the rnorninz ut A RGYLI The extriaort of the Shadow the electric lir! 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P SE AMEN off Greer aticns, who The receipt £879 lees the SUBSCHII Willia reg, De the Secretary Street, Lonio Qualificatic Governor, £1 JU blacken Patron— For tho g destitute orpl and of all d prosperous c One hundr atitution ; am Increased endowed, any assistance. Subscriber Institution, I its peculiar c The last P Secretary. Offices 73, Bankers lane ; and M REALTR RE! DU BAT and II