The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT CF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times says that the Chancellor of the Exchequer obtained from the House of Commons on Thursday night the approval of his scheme as a whole which has been already expressed by the country. But there was one question on which discussion arose, and, bad the dis putants been so disposed, they might have spent the even ing in investigating it. It was complained that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's proposals to collect the income and assessed taxes in the first:: months: of the year would alternately swell and deplete the balances of the Exchequer, and produce the most unhappy effects on the equilibrium of the money market. The Chancellor of the Exchequer protested again that it was no part of his business to look after the money market or the Bank of England, but the "approv ing remarks of Mr. Morley and Mr. Norwood must have made him somewhat uneasy about the perfect soundness of his sentiment. Neither of them appeared to suspect that the fluctuations in the rate of interest in England were due to a great economy of money consequent upon the development of banking which is the product of Free Trade. In fact, the single objection to the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is, not that he has disregarded the interest of the Bank of Eng land, to which, as he rightly said, it is no part of his duty to attend, but that he may inci dentally interfere with an economy of money in which the whole nation is interested. The less the amount of coin required for the transaction of business in England the better it is for us compared with the rest of the world, and a perfectly equable distribution of receipts and payments on the part of the Exchequer is an efficient means towards reducing the amount of money thus required. The accu mulation of unnecessary receipts in one quarter may, as we have pointed out, occasion irregularities in the circu lation of the national stock, and thus compel an increase in its amount ; and the result is to be deprecated, not in the interest of bankers and money-dealers, but rather for the sake of all the producing classes of the community. The Herald thinks Mr. Lowe is generous before he is just. He has not got a penny in the Treasury, but he coins nearly three millions in an instant by drawing bills upon the future, which the taxpayers have to discount down upon the nail. The House remains impervious to this obvious truth. It shuts its eyes and opens its mouth, and takes what Mr. Lowe sends it. The hardship to which the taxpayers are subjected was treated with equal indifference. There are thousands who find it compara tively easy to pay their contributions to the revenue in quarterly instalments, upon whom the exaction of the whole amount for the year in a single sum will be pro ductive of most serious embarrassment. It is the duty of the Government, as Mr. Hunt pointed out, to collect the taxes at the time and in the mode most convenient to those who pay them ; but Mr. Lowe's proposal will inflict upon them the largest possible amount of incon venience. Mr. Hunt calculates that the charges on the Consolidated Fund will amount in December to about seven millions, and that at that time, supposing the new system to have come in force, the balance available will not exceed a million, and he argues that Mr. Lowe can scarcely expect to retain - office up to that date with the prospect of having to go into the money market as borrower just at the time when everybody else is borrow ing to pay his demands in January. In fact, the action of the Finance Minister would exercise a most injurious influence upon the commercial classes, for it would immensely enhance the price of money, give a heavy blow to credit, and have, for the time at least, all the effect of a panic. There was no motion before the House, the bill being brought up on the report, upon which any expres sion of opinion could he challenged ; but there were abundant indications that the House is by no means dis posed to countenance the independent financial operations of the great arithmetician who has discovered that there are five quarters in a year. The Daily News says that the resistance threatened to the Budget vanished on Thursday night into thin air. In spite of the two "whips" which had been issued, the attendance on both sides of the House of Commons was spare. During the Whitsuntide recess members have been ming ling, if not with their constituents, yet with their friends and neighbours. There has been a good deal of discus. sion, no doubt, at quarter sessions, in market-places, at street corners, and over wine and dessert, on Mr. Lowe's Budget. Mr. Ward Hunt has returned from North amptonshire impressed with the wholesome conviction that it is not desirable to raise a party-fight upon it. The sense of the country has been clearly though silently expressed in its favour ; and with that instinctive perceptfon of popular feeling which is the Conservative substitute for political discernment, the Opposition have determined to acquiesce. Of course they criticise and protest. It is their business to do that, and their strictures did not overstep fair discussion. It is evident, as it has said, that the opposition to the financial scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer has disap peared, and that it will pass rapidly into law. The Government and the country may be congratulated on the proof which Mr. Lowe has given of capacity to fill one of the most critical places of the Administration in a manner not unworthy of the Government presided over by Mr. Gladstone. The Telegraph points out that, in consequence of the change in the dates of collecting the revenue, the Exchequer balances will be at some periods very large, and at others so small that they may fail to meet the requirements of the State. Should Mr. Lowe not have sufficient money to pay the public creditor, what must he do to tide over the time between the season of hard ship and that of the prosperity which will come with the influx of the next quarter's revenue? He suggests that the Government might borrow from the trustees of the National Debt ; or that it might pay the terminable annuities at seasons which would suit its own convenience ; or, finally, that it might get a loan from the Bank of England. Mr. Samuel Morley took the opportunity afforded by the discussion to attack the bank ing system of England, which, he declared, made us the laughing-stock of mercantile Europe. That theory may or may not be sound ; but the fact remains that our banking system exists, and that our money market is often so deli cate as to be thrown into a state of derangement by the withdrawal of a single million from the Bank cellars. Mr. Lowe thinks that the money market will take care of itself, and that the Government is not bound to afford it special protection. Had the doctrine been stated less curtly and contemptuously, it would have found more favour east of Temple Bar. Mr. Lowe also thinks that good management on the part of the Government will suffice to guard the money market from the perils which the City men anticipate. It does not doubt that it will ; but the discussion of Thursday night was valuable for the prominence which it gave to the fact that danger of some kind might exist, and that the statesmen of finance, both in the City and at Downing-street, must be prepared to meet any emergency. The Standard declares that the present state of the Tornado case, after more than two years of agitation and correspondence, cannot be said to be satisfactory to the British public. Out of this somewhat complicated history we may safely arrive at this conclusion, that the idea of justice which prevails in Spain is very different from that to which we are accustomed in England, and that if the Spanish municipal law has been properly carried out in the adjudication of the Tornado, that law is a highly unsatisfactory one, and contrary to the spirit of the inter national code. The difference between British and Spanish notions of justice is sufficiently indicated, indeed, in the terms of Senor Lorenzana's despatch, refusing compensation to the Tornado's crew. It waits with much anxiety to see what further action will be taken in the matter by the British Ministry. We are the more curious on this point, as we remember certain very energetic language used by the present Attorney General, in a speech, criticising the policy of Lord Stanley, delivered on the 23rd of July, 1567. On that occasion Sir Robert Collier declared that "he did not hesitate to say that the conduct of the Spanish Govern ment was entirely without excuse or palliation," and that Lord Stanley was not only justified in making a demand for indemnity, but bound to do so—concluding with the spirited sentiment that "it must be distinctly understood that there should be limits to the arrogance and imperti nence of the weaker Power, and some limit also to the forbearance of the strong." Will Sir Robert Collier persuade his colleagues to act up to the spirit of this opinion ? After discussing the results of the election trials, the Star arrives at the conclusion that the Ballot must be tried, as the only real discouragement of corruption and educator in electoral purity. It does not say that every kind of vote by Ballot is necessarily so secret as to prevent the briber knowing how the tempted has voted, nor that in all countries where the Ballot exists the most perfect purity is : , ecured. It is not necessary to carry arguments to extreme lengths, hut we do not hesitate to say that in all countries where a transition lms been made from open to secret voting the change has been greatly in fovour of purity. Bribery is, after all, a business transaction. The transaction is not a moral one, it cannot be left upon the basis of honour, it is purely of a business character, and that of a very indifferent kind. The introduction of secrecy in favour of the voter would destroy the only check which the briber has upon a not very scrupulous person. As regards intimidation, the remedy would be perfect. The people of Paris seem determined to copy from 1:13 the doctrine of responsible Government. It ought to he - our aim to take from them the system of vote by ballot. It is at once a protection to the dependant, a safeguard of purity, and a better check to corruption. than even the appointment of judges, the I solemn inquiries, and the explpa ive determinations, which have recently been obtained. T;;I: GO IZR.SMEN T AND 71TZ' VOLUN TEERS. On Thursday last a meeting of the Metropolitan com manding officers was held at the offices of the National Rifle Association to discuss the questions relative to the Wimbledon Review, and in the course of the proceedings there was a discussion which evidenced that the action of the Government towards the service is felt to be a very great wrong. The meeting was very large, and among those present were--Lord Elcho (who presided), the Mar quis of Donegal), London Irish ; Lord Truro, 3rd Middlesex Artillery, and West London Rifles ; Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Queen's Westminsters ; Colonel Charles Lindsay, M.P., St. George's ; Colonel Williams, 39th Middlesex ; Colonel Somerset, Colonel Silver, Colonel Darnford, Ist Surrey Artillery ; Colonel Cockrane, Colonel Davis, Colonel Wilkinson, 2nd Administrative Battalion, Middlesex; Colonel Macdow 'd, Ist Surrey Rifles ; Colonel M'Leod of M'Leod, Middlesex Engineers ; Colonel Labrow, 19th Surrey ; Colonel Money, Colonel Du Plat Taylor, Colonel Vickers, Colonel Beresford, Colonel Gray, Major Oxley, and Captain Templar. A resolution was moved that a review be held at Wimbledon on the 17th of July. To this an amend ment was moved In the negative, and the reason given was that, as the Government had refused to increase the capitation grant, the corps could not afford to expend the money at their command in attending these reviews, as the private members, by their attendance at drill for years, were entitled to have some of the cost of renewing their uniforms paid out of these funds. Several of the commanding officers were strongly in favour of these views ; but when it was explained that the Cm.. mander-in-Chief had given his sanction to a flying column from Aldershot joining in the review, the amendment was withdrawn and the motion carried. It was also agreed that Lord Elcho should be requested to communicate with the authorities with respect to obtaining the co-operation of the troops, and in orderthat the necessary arrangements may be made. - VELOCIPEDE DERBY AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The velocipede is certainly advancing at a rapid pace. Not content with the progress it had already made, it had on Thursday a Derby day of its own at the Crystal Palace. There was one terrible drawback to a full enjoyment of the occasion. It rained almost from the first moment to the last while the races were being run. Even an Epsom Derby day suffers from bad weather, and only the more enthusiastic visitors can bear up against the depressing effects of cold win d and driving rain. No wonder, therefore, that this Velocipede Derby was affected in a similar manner by a similarcause. There was certainly no lack of inducements for velocipedists to enter the lists. A gold medal, or work of art, value £lO, for the first prize ; a silver medal, or work of art, value £5, for the second prize ; and a bronze medal, or work of art, value £3, for the third prize, made up of themselves a respectable pro gramme. 'then, too, in the race which was " open to all Englishmen," a velocipede of the value of £l5 was to await the victor at the winning-post, and medals value £7 and £4 were also to be given. The first event of the day, if we may be allowed in such a case to use sporting parlance, was divided into three heats. In these subdivisions Monsieur Biot, Mr. Rowlett, and Mr. H. Edwards were returned respectively as the winners. In the final heat for the prize awarded to the victor in the race, M. Bit reached the winning post considerably in advance of his rivals. It must be remarked with regard to the success of this gen tleman that, while our French neighbours have been acquainted with the bicycle for years, the English gentle men who competed on Thursday, were amateurs, both as regards profession and practice. In the first heat of the second race, Canham, a comparative boy, who, we understand, is employed on the Palace grounds, out stripped all his competitors, but in the final heat disap pointed the anticipations of those who had witnessed his first performance. Mr. Turner won the first prize in this contest, Mr. Hook and Mr. Adams, who directed their bicycles with great skill and velocity, obtaining second and third places respectively. THE SUTHERLAND GOLDFIELDS. The Kildonan diggings are likely to assume a new phase, permission having been granted to Mr. Gilchrist to sink shafts on the level ground bordering the Helmsdale river. Mr. Gilchrist purposes selecting the narrowest part of the valley as the scene of operations, and intends sinking on the north side of the river until the rock is reached, when a drive or tunnel will be worked under the bed of the stream, where a lode of gold is expected to be met with on the rocky bottom. This mode of operating is based on the idea that a stream of gold in a molten state must at some remote period have flowed from the quartz ranges in the neighbourhood, and that of necessity it must have found its way along the surface of the rock to the low levels of the bottom of the valley. Should this be the true theory, the chances are that the search will be successful ; hut, if not, failure will be the result, which will sound the death-knell of the diggings. Shaft-sinking is attended with consider able expense, and we can only hope in the meantime that the venture may be attended with success. Operations will be commenced in the course of a few days, and we understand some seven or eight miners will be engaged in the work. Amateur and experienced diggers continue to arrive at Kildonan, but not in such numbers as last Month. To this date 240 licenses have been issued for the month, and it is now feared the number for last month will not be reached. We believe the majority of the colonial diggers by hard work still manage to keep up the average find of gold, but many of the less expe rienced hands don't snake much more than labourers' wages. Many are getting very tired of the surface work ings now that no nuggets are being found, and the fine gold only yielding average wages. All are hopeful that Mr. Gil christ's enterprise will turn out well, and should this be the case, underground mining will become the leading feature of the Kildonan diggings. The best order continues to pre vail at the diggings, and the duties of the police are quite a sinecure. Most of the counties of Scotland have sent their complement of diggers to Kildonan, and England has also contributed her share ; but the sister isle does not appear to have heard of the gold discovery yet. Highland and Lowland men mix together in the greatest friendship, and this agreeable state of matters is 'attributed in a great degree to there being no intoxicating liquors sold at the diggings.—Northern Ensign. PROPOSED NEW PRISON FOR MIDDLESEX. -At a meeting of the Middlesex magistrates, on Thursday, a special report of the visiting justices was read, embodying a presentment to the effect that Coldbath-fields Prison being insufficient for the reception of all the male con victed prisoners of the county, it is necessary that a new prison for the reception of male convicted prisoners should be built, and they recommended that the necessary steps be taken for the purpose. The report was agreed to, and a committee was appointed to consider the causes of the increase of crime in the county of Middlesex. JURISDICTION OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY OVER FOREIGN G OVERNMENTS.—A really important point was deeided by the Master of the Rolls on Thursday. In the matter " Smith v. \V eguehn," which came before him, a motion was made for an injunction to restrain the Peru vian Government from dealing with the bonds of the Peru vian Loan of 1862 in this country. The plaintiff laid down the doctrine that the Court of Chancery had jurisdictionto deal with a foreign Government in respect to loans or other obligations it might contract in this country. Some cele brated cases were cited, including that of an action against the King of Hanover, in which the court made an order in favour of a claim against his Majesty. His lordship said that it arose simply from the feeling that he had a local status in this country, and therefore was amenable to its legal jurisdiction. Had it been endeavoured to enforce the claim against him withoutsuch status it might have failed. By this motion Lord Romilly declared the court was called upon to place itself in the ridiculous position of making an order which it would be impossible to enforce; and if the attempt were made to enforce it, it might lead to an interruption of peaceful relations between this country and a foreign Government. He must dismiss the bill with costs. METEORIC STONE SnowEns.—At the conclusion of the thunderstorm at Wolverhampton on Tuesday, several persons noticed a large number of small dark stones lying upon the streets and roads, the drive of the London and North-Western Railway Station, Queen - street, Queen's - square, and Waterloo - road being especially strewed with them. From the peculiar character of the stones, bearing resemblance to nothing with which the roads are paved, or any stones found in the district, it was concluded that they were meteoric stones, and must have fallen in a shower during the heaviest and most alarming period of the storm. A considerable number was gathered that night, and more the next morning. Our correspondent has some in his possession, and has shewed them to several gentlemen, one of whom saw the last shower of meteoric stones that fell at Birmingham in June last, and stated that those that have fallen in Wolverhampton were precisely of the same character. They appear, however, to have been a little larger, for the record states that those which fell in Firmingham were from one-eighth of an inch to three eighths of an inch, and about half those dimensions in thickness, while some of those picked up in Wolverhampton were three-quarters of an inch in length and five-eighths of an inch in thickness. A chemist in the :,,wn, judging from mere surface examination, found that. they resembled iron pyrites. The matter is exciting a .very - general attention, and there are a great many searchers gathering up the remains of this strange] shower. Tag S 01 5 - - LoNTra: FEIbAY - E VESTING,' „ausr: 28, - 18'69. THE CASE :OF AN ALLEGED FORGED , TmL. The cause of "Dickenson v. Dickenson," in which the son sought to rovoke probate granted to his mother on the ground that the signatures alleged to be those of his father and two witnesses were forgeries, was again before Lord Per z Ince in the Probate Court oil Wednesday. John Dickenson, brother of the deceased (who was over 50 years of age when he died), first saw the will after Charles Inane said he had found it. Witness was appointed executor, and the personal property was under £4,000. There was also a copyhold field. Knew Grigg and Wilmot, He knew his brother's signature, and believed the signature to the will was his brother's. Knew that Griggs(on e of the witnesses to the will)was intimate with his brother. Witness could not swear to Wilmot's—the other attesting witness—signature. Susannah Dickenson, the defendant in the cause, said at the time of her husband's death four daughters were at home. Her nephew found the will amongst some papers in a secret drawer. She was present when the will was found in the secret drawer. In answer to the judge, the witness said that the drawer in question was used by ber husband for his papers. She bad never said anything to Blane as to searching the drawers for the will. Had not found any of her husband's writing, nor had she asked for or endeavoured to get any. Charles Dickenson, brother of the deceased, believed that the signature to the will was that of his brother. Emma Peace, daughter of the deceased, remembered the will being found, ar d believed the signature to it was her father's handwriting. Her mother might have bee g to the drawer in which the will was found. This was the case for the plaintiff, and Dr. Spinks con- tended that the other side had not either proved that the attesting witnesses were dead or produced them. He could prove that the handwriting in the will was not that of Mr. Griggs, as alleged. That person was a medical man, and yet there were many mistakes in the spelling which a 2 educated man would not make. Mr. Richard Dickenson, the plaintiff, said that the sig nature to the will was not in his father's handwriting. Before going to Australia witness had a conversation With his father, and the latter said that he (witness) was to have the farm, but that no will had been made. Mrs. Griggs said her husband died in IE6O. The signa ture to the will was not that of her husband. He generally signed his name " William Allsop Grigg," and not " Wm. Griggs." He never would have spelt Hertfordshire, " Harfordshire." He was a well-educated man. Mrs. Emma Wilmot did not believe that the signature to the will was that of her husband. His Lordship here intimated that there was good evi dence that the signatures were not good ones, and afterthis expression of opinion, Dr. Deane said it would be useless to go on further with the case. Baron Penzance said nobody could doubt that the sig natures of Wilmot and Grigg were forgeries. The court, therefore, pronounced against the will, with costs, and the nrobate would be revoked. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER, RAILWAY. Vice-Chancellor Stuart gave judgment yesterday on the motion which was made a few days ago on behalf of a large portion of the shareholders of the London, Chat ham, and Dover Railway Company, for an injunction to restrain the directors from further promoting the arbi tration bill now before Parliament relating to the affairs of the company. His Honour, it may be remembered, on the occasion of a previous motion, a few weeks ago, to compel the directors to bring into court the revenue of the company, described the unsatisfactory position of the directors. After again referring to their position on the present occasion, he pro ceeded to remark that some time ago Messrs. Freshfield, solicitors of the very highest character, were the solicitors of the company. Suddenly they disappeared, and Messrs. Baxter, Rose, and Norton, very eminent, became soli citors of the company, and prosecuted an appeal against an order of this court with reference to the appointment of a receiver. The results of that appeal were disastrous to the honest share holders and the honest creditors of the company. Sub sequent proceedings in this court had in a great degree redressed that misfortune, and if the proceedings of this court had not been interrupted, by this time a large sum would have been forthcoming and have been paid to the creditors. What bad prevented that ? It had been prevented by the Arrangements Act of 1867, in the obtaining of which Act Messrs. Baxter, Rose, and Norton were the solicitors and promoters. These same solicitors now appeared before Parliament, not as solicitors for the company nominally opposing, but in fact pro moting, a bill which sought to set aside decrees which had been made by this court, and which in the opinion of a committee of investigation appointed by share holders, until means coidd be devised to meet the obligations to creditors, afforded the Lest protection to the various classes of creditors, especially the ddidiiture holders, and a guarantee against any further improper dealing with the assets of the company. Moreover, these same solicitors, while acting for the company and promoting the Act of 1867, filed a bill against the com pany on the 27th of March 1867, as, solicitors for the General Credit Company. On the present occasion it seemed unnecessary to state any further facts as to the unsatisfactory position of these solicitors and the directors with reference to the affairs of this company. lie bad thought it proper to state so much, as it was a natter which ought not to be withheld when Parlia ment in its judicial character was dealing with the affairs ofthis company, and was asked to stop the course of justice in this court. As far as lie knew there was no case in which, pending proceedings in this court, Parliament had interfered with the course of justice in the proper tribunal, and if such a precedent were established, it did not require much sagacity to say that disastrous results would ensue ; nor did he understand that the bill in this case would have proceeded so far if the committee of the House of Commons had not been induced by a misrepresentation to believe that this court could not give adequate relief. His Honour then made am order to restrain the persons mentioned in the present application from further promoting the bill before Parliament, and from using the seal of the com pany for any such or the like purpose. Mr. Dickinson and Mr. T. A. Roberts were counsel for the applicants, and Sir R. Palmer and Mr. Kekewich for the directors. The hearing of another application to Vice-Chancellor Stuart, which has extended over portions of several days, made by Mr. Dickinson, Q.C., on behalf of the debenture holders, for an order directing the sum of £150,000 in the hands of the directors of the London, Chatham. and Dover Railway Company, to be paid into court to be invested, was concluded yesterday. The application had been resisted by Sir Roundell Palmer and Mr. Kekewich for the directors on several grounds, one of which wad that the court was prevented from making the required order by the Act of Parliament obtained by the company for the purpose of " raising a sum of money for the satisfaction of certain claims and for other purposes." His Honour remarked that the Act had failed in its main purpose, and further, it did. not of course interfere with the inherent power of the court to deal with such cases as the present. It was natural that persons having an interest in a trust should desire that the money should be transferred to the company, ;f thereby they would obtain a higher rate of interest than if the money remained with the trustees ; and a trustee, it might be supposed, would be the very person to desire that such a transfer should be made. His opinion was that this application ought to have been made by the directors themselves, and he wished it had been, more particularly because it had recently been his painful duty to express his opinion of the very unadvised and improper way in which they were conducting the affairs of the company. It was admitted by the directors that in December last there was a clear sum of £150,000 odd in their hands. There was no evidence to .chew that that sum was diminished, but, on the contrary, the presumption was that the balance was by this time much increased. For the affairs of the company were only bad because of the expenses of litigation, and of extraordinary claims which bad been made upon the com pany. It was, in fact, a great and flourishing concern, and the income might to be ample, and indeed it would have afforded a considerable sum, `which ought to be in the hands of the debenture-holders and shareholders, but of the intervention of this Act, which had been passed on the faith that money would be raised.—His Honour accordingly made al , order for the payment of the sum into court, in order that it might be invested. T H E SHOCKING WIFE MURDER AT HASTINGS. Arr. Sheppard. the district coroner, has concluded the in• rue.st opened upon the body of Mrs. Matilda Stubberfield, aged 11, who was alleged to have been murdered by her husband, Mr. Jeremiah Stubberfield, a fax:mer, living at Gardene`'s Farm, Asburnham, Hastings. The facts, as reported, having bon depoied to by several witnesses, tl:e :ury retnrrsed a vercPot of " Wilful Murder," against Jeremiah Stubberfield, Nrlio has been brought before th• bench of magistrates, and committed for trial. A VICTIM OF THE DERBY.—Early on Thurs day roiorning a young man . named Daniel Andrews, who acted ill the capacity of a coachman to Mr. J. Trimmen, of Twicltrnham, was found dead in a stable belonging to his employer, withhis throat cut from ear to ear. A razor, besmeared with blood, was found lying by his side. The body of the deceased was conveyed to the Buck Inn, where it awaits an inqu,Vt ! It is stated that the cause of the fatal deed vas the fa. It that the deceased had betted rather heavily, and lost on'certain horses that ran in the Derby race on the previous day, and his consciousness thg ji_q_w_4!_unable to meet tt.ellgageMellt?, 111.1SCELL , liVEOUS ARMS. traitor, and a dunce, he was in ravour limn Lie Castle. (llere two chaplains to-the Lord Lieutenant were named). - There was one more link to the -chain—the Right Hon: Benjamin Disraeli." Here the gas suddenly went out, and for some time there was a fierce conflict between light and darkness, during the intervals of which Dr. Gregg delivered his opinion of the ex-Premier. The doctor then descended to lower game, Richard Weaver, the converted collier, whom he considered almost as bad as Gladstone, and a good deal worse than Disraeli. Mr. Spurgeon was the next victim, but was let off pretty easily, the severest punishment inflicted on him being that he was called "Sturgeon." Dr. Gregg then became excessively wild. He talked about opening a banking account with the Lord Jesus Chriet, and concluded by telling " Glodstone" that they (Dr. Gregg and his friends) "would shake England and America ; but G ladstone would not dare to be guilty of the high crime. He (Dr. Gregg) had fought the battle of the English Church ; he had fought the battle of the English State, he had grown grey in the service. Ilis reward was disqua lification and exclusion, while he saw the heretic and the 'dunce in favour." The lecturer, after nearly 160 minutes of railing accusation, began to remember the object for which he had called the meeting, and appealed for money. This does not seem to have been forthcoming, but, of course, the proceedings ended with "the singing of the Doxology." WHAT WILL THE LORDS DO? According to the organ of the °tinge party in Ireland, the Dublin Er enin g Mail, the question " What will the Lords do F" is near a, solution. A majority of peers would vote for the rejection of the bill on the second reading, but it is so small a majority that the Conservative leaders think the better policy for their party would be to amend the bill in committee, and throw upon the Government the responsibility of rejecting these amendments and prolonging the controversy upon this matter. " This tortuous policy," says our Conservative contemporary, "would give a chance to Mr.' Disraeli to secure another spell of office, which he would be able to use untram melled by a pledge of hostility to a Church Bill." The same journal goes on to assert that " The activity and growing earnestness of the Protestants in Ireland, and in some districts of England, have given matters a new turn. Many Whig and independent Peers see the collateral dangers of the disturbance of rights of property, and it begins to seem likely that a stout battle will be fought. Its success will depend upon the fidelity with which Lord Westbury, or whoever else may take the lead in an opposition covering the whole policy of the Gladstone-Bright Ministry,shall be supported. Hitherto a very suspicious reticence has been maintained by the ' leaders." ANOTHER GREAT IRISH DEMONSTRATION. The Protestants of Ulster announce another great demonstration—when or where is not yet quite decided, probably at Belfast, and before the second reading of the Irish Church Bill. The success of the last meeting has agreeably surprised the Conservatives. MR. CHARLEY ON TIIE IRTSH CHURCH. That modern Marie, commissioned to be the scourge of God upon the Liberal party—Mr. W. T. Charley—writes to the Standard once more protest ing against the despairing tones adopted by that jour nal with regard to the Irish Church. The Standard has always had the good sense to acknowledge the decisive verdict of the country at the last election, and of Parliament during the present session, with regard to the Irish Church. Not so Mr. Charley. The self-appointed execbtor of vengeance upon Mr. Gladstone declares that that verdict would be set aside by another general election. He says : " The scale was turned against us at the late elections mainly by Scotland. The 51 Liberal representatives of Scotland count for 102 upon a division, and would alone account for Mr. Gladstone's majority. The Scotch Liberal representatives voted for the bill almost as one man. - Much indignation has been excited in Scotland by the vote which they gave against Mr. Aytoun's motion, and many of them are threatened with the loss of their seats at the next election." When we find a politician expressing his confidence that Scotland will turn Conservative, verily we may say " Hope springs eternal in the human breast." THE RELEASED FENIANS. Evidently those two redoubtable Fenians, Warren and Costello, have not had their hearts much softened by their release. At any rate they do not go back to America speaking of the generosity or of the strength of Britain. They have had occasion to issue an address or circular to the citizens of New York. The need for the said circular arose out of the genuine Yankee love for receptions. One Arnbery A. Griffin issued a notice announcing that the two Irish martyrs would publicly " receive "on a date named. Messrs. Warren and Costello contradict this advertisment. " As it was the intention of the authorities of the State to welcome us, as citizens whose liberties and rights had been outraged by a foreign Government, we do not recognise any faction or party. The gen tlemen who issued the call have not received our sanc tion or consent, and we do not recognise their right to use our names. If at any time the civil authori ties, with our united fellow-citizens, conclude to carry out the spirit of resolutions already adopted by the Common Council, on proper notification of the same we shall be happy, and consider it our duty, to co-operate with them in demanding the respect to American citizenship." MESSRS. LARD AND THE ALABAMA. Messrs Laird write to the papers to defend their proceedings with respect to the Alabama. They say that from first to last there was no secrecy as to the character of the ship, nor as to her condition. The Customs' authorities had full liberty to inspect the ship at all times, and availed themselves of that liberty. The Government were fully advised that the vessell was ready for sea, and might start at any time. When she did start she had not even a musket on board. Her destination was wholly un known to Messrs. Laird, and the first news they had of her arrival and equipment at the Azores was from the newspapers. Their contract was simply one for the building of a ship of war, to be delivered in the port of Liverpool. Of course they knew for whom it was intended, and they therefore took the opinion of Mr. Mellish, Lord (then Sir Hugh) Cairns, and Mr. Kemplay as to the legality of building the ship, and were advised that the transaction was perfectly legal. This opinion was confirmed subsequently by Chief Baron Pollock, in the trial that arose out of the seizure of the Alexandra, and by Lord Palmerston. The result of that trial was that the Government had to pay Messrs. Laird £3,700 damages for detaining the Alexandra; and inferentially they would have had to pay as much it they had detained the Alabama. Messrs. Laird contend, therefore, that the building of a ship of war was a perfectly legal transaction, and cannot expose this country to damages in favour of the United States. They add, that when in 1864 other questions had arisen as to the rights of neutrals and belligerents, they declined to build another ironclad for the Confeder a t es , although it was not to be delivered until after the war was over, and although payment was to be made by instalments in the interval. Finally, they wish it to be understood that Mr. Laird, M.P., had left the firm before the Alabama was built. Altogether, these gentlemen assume quite a different tone from that taken by Mr. Laird himself, when he declared in the House of Commons, amid the enthusiastic cheers of the Oppow sition, his pride in having been connected with the Alabama. THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER. The Liverpudlians wish to speed tie parting, and welcome the coming, American Minister. At the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday the members determined to present an address to Mr. Motley, They seemed to have rather a liking for Mr. John son, but hoping that Mr. Motley would come here with reasonable instructions, they would give him a hearty welcome. MP. ItEVERDY JOHNSON. The - London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian mentions that although Mr. Reverdy Johnson was accredited by an Administration which had only six months to live, he was so sanguine of remaining in London that he took for five years the house in Upper Portland-place occupied by his pre decessor, but at a greatly-advanced rent. The house-agent was shrewd enough to insert a clause in the lease to the effect that if the Minister should leave England before the expiration of that period, be should pay compensation. Under this clause he had to hand over the substantial amount col £2,000. BANQUET TO HER MAJESTY'S JUDGES. The Lord Mayor ohose the day of the Derby to entertain her Majehty , ,, judges, and he got a very fair listof gnests. All three merb, irpre absent. Neither Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, thi Chief Baron of the Exchequer, nor Sir W. Bovill, who presides in the Common Pleas , res p onded to his invitation. The Lord Chancellor was also absent, and Mr. Baron Bramwell stood ~111 or zunoug the common law judges, while Lord rustic° :elwyn represented the equity lawyers. Mr. !:iron In well, in replying on behalf of his brethren, paid he thought that there was never a better bench than at present. Ile expressed great 'Satisfaction the people thinking so highly of the judges. They .night have been more divided in opinion. The mdgcs could not decide in favour of both parties, ml the result was that they occasionally gave dissatisfaction. It did not much matter , s between the honest man and the rogue, for i:he rogue generally got the worst of it ; but Lhe difficulty was where there were two honest litigants who both thought they were in the right, and the one that lost alWays thought that if the judge had only had a little more law or brains, or patiene ' or something else, he must have succeeded. \Vas it thought that the other suitor was obliged to the judge?. Not the least in the world; for he would tell them that the judge would have had very little sense if he had not decided in his favour. It was gratifying, however, to think that whatever might be the opinion of the suitors, the public thought the judges did their duty: CHARITY. Dr. Tresham Gregg, a more remarkable person even than his namesake, the Bishop of Cork, of ``—" notoriety, h as b een making a speech of two hours and a half in behalf of the resuscitation of an old Dublin charity. The speech and the object of it were grotesquely dissimilar. The text was love to men, the sermon ws a long curse of all and sundry. The following Will serve as specimens :—" Gladstone is a criminal - assailant of the honour of the Queen." The "delinquency" of Gladstone and his adviser; Sir John Gray, " will be published in the four quarters of the earth-until they are ashamed." " The fens et .orillo makrum " is Trinity College, Dublin, because it dares to doubt if the Church is unanimous in considering the Pope to be the man of sin.. "For twenty-five .years Archbishop Whately had attenu ated the powers of the Irish- clergy, and when he found any - than of power he marked him as a man to. be trampled down, If any man_weXa a berQtic..a LAY HELPERS IN THE CHURCH. The annual conference of the Association of Lay Helpers for the Diocese of London has just been held. It would seem that this movement, which would have been thought a revolutionary innovation thirty years ago, is making way. It was stated that eighteen applications for help had been received from clergymen in the diocese, and had been met by thirteen offers of voluntary help. The Bishop of London said that, in issuing commissions to lay readers, there was no intention whatever of constituting anything like minor orders in the Church ; such an intention was never entertained, and, indeed, could not have been acted upon by the bishops. The office of reader could be exercised only in unlicensed rooms, and must be undertaken only by unpaid agents. In the course of the meeting Dr. Barry, the Principal of King's College, said that " the Church of England was now most emphatically on its trial. It was being closely scrutinised, to see if it were able to perform the work entrusted to and looked for from her. Her internal quarrels were mere misunderstandings, and many apparent differences would be removed by cordially working side by side towards the attain ment of the great objects which all true Christians must have at.heart." Clearly Dr. Barry does not read the " religious " papers. COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. We yesterday published a special telegram of the loss of seven lives at a Monmouthshire colliery. This is, unfortunately, only one of a regular succes sion of accidents which happen throughout the year. The number, too, during the past year was considerably above the average, and the reports of the inspectors of mines set down the great majority of these fatalities as the result of negligence, want of thought, and general carelessness, produced by ignorance. As a comment upon this, a case of gross neglect of duty is just pub lished. Of all collieries this occurred at the Oaks, so well known already for its danger. Here a man was caught with his gauze lamp full of fire. The gauze was fast getting red-hot, and had not the workings that day been exceptionally free from gas, the result, according to the deputy, would have been another explosion which might again have buried a hundred men or more. The man, we are glad to see, was brought up before the Barnsley magistrates, and sentenced to two months imprisonment. If there could only be produced a healthy opinion amongst the men, these constant negli,Tences would cease. But such can be obtained only by education. Edu cation can be made complete in that district only by compulsion. - At least so says Mr. lhigson, the Mines Inspector. OTHER GEO:3S C IItELESSNESS. But it is not in collieries alone that this disregard of human life exists. Another often-denounced breach of the law was before the Liverpool Police court on Wednesday. The keeper of a licensed lodging-house was fined 40s. for knowingly causing a female lodger, who was suffering from smallpox, to be conveyed to the workhouse hospital in a cab. A further penalty of 10s. was inflicted for neglecting to report the case to the medical officer of health. Such cases as these arise from simple selfishness. While there is a chance that they may remain undetected, there is only one way of preventing them—that the people should be taught unselfishness, the essential spirit of Christianity. OBITUARY. We regret to nun - nice the death of Admiral Sir Charlei Howe Fremantle. This event took place in London on Tuesday. Sir Charles entered the navy about fifty-five years ago. He was appointed Admiral Commander-in-Chief at Devonport in 1803, he had one medal, and was a G.C.B. He was at the time of his death in his COth year. FOREIGN NOTES. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS Mr. Sumner's speech, after enjoying the brief popu larity which it was so well calculated to secure, is visibly going down in the political market. It caught the ear of the multitude, but on careful consideration it has evidently had little weight with men of position. 'The press are gradually discarding it; there is now not a single American paper of influence which supports it to the full, and many treat it with ridicule. The Daily News correspondent says that whatever may be the basis on which Mr. Motley will be charged to negotiate, it will not be Mr. Sumner's speech. " I believe lam within the mark when I say that there is only one opinion amongst the lawyers and politicians who have given any attention to international law as to its extravagance and inaccuracy. I know that two of the foremost jurists in the country repudiate Mr. Sumner's statement of the law, and there is no shrewd or sensible American who expects serious consideration for his ' rate of damages.' " Sir Francis Head writes another letter to the Tinle3, comparing the injuries of which the Americans now com plain with their own conduct in the Canadian rebellion of 1837. In a previous letter he spewed that the Americans, though protesting against the Queen's proclamation of neu trality in 1861, proclaimed a Canadian citizen, of the name of M`Kenzie, as a belligerent in 1837, though this man bad only a wretched half-armed force at his back, which was dispersed at once without the aid of troops. In his third letter Sir Francis endeavours to prove that whilst Mr. Sumner complains of the escape of the Alabama as due to the British Government's neglect, his own countrymen did worse in 1837. The Canadian " rebellion "of that year was aided by an American steamer, named the Caroline, which—far from escaping by stealth, like the Alabama—was cut out of the ice at Buffalo, in the presence of thousands of Americans, and deliberately sailed away, making three trips to Canadian territory with men and munitions of war. Afterwards, taking refuge at a port on the American shore of the Niagara river, the Caroline was captured, removed, and destroyed by an English officer on the order of Sir Francis. For this pro ceeding, the Caroline being taken from an American port, the United States Government demanded an apology, which was given, though the capture was morally, but not legally, justifiable. The neutrality laws were clearly flagrantly violated by the Americans allowing and abet- Ong flee firob dopmtuio uC Liao Clcyrormo from latzgolo. The, chief grievance which the Americans lay to our charge is the moral one—the ill-feeling, the animus, which prompted our actions during the civil war. But surely these chapters from Canadian history, without making too much of the comparison, reveal precisely the same feeling on the part of the Americans towards us. Tait INSURRECTION IN CUBA. The precise state of the insurrection in Cuba appears to be an absOlutely insoluble problem. The reports of officials and of other persons who ought to be well informed exhibit the most startling disparity. A n agent, specially sent over by the Washington Government, declared that the rebellion was almost extinct, that the insurgents consisted of a few scattered bands, that a few weeks at most would restore the island to Spain. An American merchant, resident in Cuba, says that the insurgents have from 15,000 to 20,000 men in the field. The American Consul at Havannah—who ought to be an authority —gives a medium report. He does not fix the number of the Cuban force, but he is positive that it exceeds 1,400, and he adds that "there is not a man, woman, o r c hild o is s til l doubt yaj t t tuitstl hlth t ee h sr genta n e ws,d teah factsna the island who does not sympathise with. then insurrection." There sitsiohnonama c t bgb atahnt od setnlheead :i v i ea s t n h s e t m agnitude recentrcle n Cubans fi i vf nreeoslrudi from g rsa e e np n s ida t ) en cti ths f ah o i bs r sl c oec e uos rnt cac o eln f sud, cannot be held to invalidate the decision carefully arrived at by the American Government, that the insurrection is on the wane. The country, however, is so extr emely difficult that a very small force may hold out some time. TIE ASSASSINATION AT LEGHORN. The . assassination of the Austrian Consul at Leghorn has been met with a general expression of indignation throughout the country. General Menabrea has expressed, in the name of the Italian Government, its great sorrow at the murder of an Austrian representative on Italian ground. He has assured the Austrian Ambassador at Florence that every effort will be made to discover the assassins. The Consul was murdered in mistake for General Crenneville, who was in his company. It is supposed that vengeance was designed on the latter for his harsh conduct during the events of 1849 ; but the Italian nation, now on the best of terms with Austria, will, beyond doubt, reprobate equally the crime that was committed and the crime that was designed. General Crenneville has escaped with a slight wound. THE CHINESE IN CALIFOIZNIA. A gentleman recently from California discusses the future of the Chinese race in America in an article extending over five closely-printed columns of the New York Tribune. The connection so ra pidly growing intimate between the Pacific slope with its virgin lauds and China with its 400,000,000 of inhabitants renders this subject one of enormous importance, not to the Pacific shores of America only, but to the whole continent. If all mankind were marshalled, every third man would wear the queue and the blouse of a race which could annually deport emigrants in millions without even causing a vacuum. As yet it is butfrom the province of Canton that they come, leaving untouched the remaining seaboard of China, including Mauchooria and Japan. Hitherto California has exerted a repelling power for their exclusion. They are unduly taxed, they are the victims of unequal laws, and too f, equ aitly the objects of ill-treatment and oppression ; yet nearly every place of any importance has its China town, the meanest and filthiest quarter, and where ever a new district is opened the inevitable Celestial appears. The potency of the reasons for the en couragement of Chinese immigration is so apparent that those who run can read, and must outweigh other considerations and every opposition. The broad fact is clear that no tract on earth equals in climate and resources the country, between the Sierra Ne vada and the Pacific, stretching from the Gulf of California to the north of Vancouver's Island. With unbounded fertility, with extraordinary mineral wealth, with a genial climate, that almost uninha bited region smiles along an ocean which laves the shores of densely peopled Japan and China, iuvit ing their overcrowded inhabitants to come. On the one side are nature's untouched treasures stored in abundance ; on the other labour in over flowing masses—the s'lorehouse, and the key which those in possession have but to apply. The won erful resources of California, the cheapness of the labour furnished by the swarming hives of China are equally well known, and in this rare com bination the Anglo-Saxon settlers of the Pacific slope possess the only royal road to wealth we know of, which lies through the Golden Gate and leads to San Francisco. At first the Chinese were met with a universal antipathy, but gradually working men have grown used to them, and employers have dis covered their value. Of course the repugnance of the white labour which they supplant has beosme more intense, but the Anglo-Saxon settler in Cali fornia either is, or in the iminediaienture aspires to be au employer; therefore the capitalist is backed by a large class who in other countries would be ranked among working men, in importing labour which at a glance might be supposed to compete against itself. The Chinese work more patiently and steadily than any other race. If their spades ful are less heavy thin those thrown by the Irish navvy," they are more continuous. They are willing and reliable, requiring less watching, with out strikes, sprees, and holidays. They are good gardeners, supplying San Francisco and Sacra rnento with the fiue'A vegetables. The railroads on the Pacific slope are graded by them, they cut wood, pick fruit, tend stock, weave cloth, drive en ines, and are firemen on steamers. The hotel work and household duties are nearly all performed by them, so they have supplanted washerwomen and chambermaids, as well as the Irish navvy. Much of the heavy work of the farms is in their hands, while the superiatendenta of the woollen and cotton mills, as well as railway contractors and others, prefer their labour. They keep small shops, and may be seen casting up their accounts and making entries in their ledgers with a brush from right to left. Even type-setting is performed by -them swiftly and correcly, considering their ignorance of the meaning of the words. Thus by degrees they have displaced white la bour, notwithstanding its opposition, for the simple reason that they can exist on less, and therefore can work cheaper. Sheep being able to live where oxen starve, the weaker animal des,,roys or drives out the stronger. The former nibble close and fatten, where the great mouth of the ox re quiring a substantial tuft, can get nothing. SJ with Chinese labour; patient, industrious, ever at work and always nibbling, they undersell the white la bourer, and al-sorb every field of manual toil and handicraft. A hundred thotpand are already on the Pacific slope, and every 'effort to bar any branch of industry ag tinst them has as rot faired. Ten years ago the manufacture of cigars, a branch of white industry in San Francisco, was invaded by Chinamen. Alarm was taken, unions formed, appeals published, cigar, dealers hanging out s . gos No Coolies employed here," but in vain, for that industry has entirely passed into the hands of the Chinese. The Pioneer woollen mills employed coolies, and were burnt to the ground ; they were rebuilt, and, like other woollen mills, now employ few other hands. Irishmen mobbed the first Chinese navvies, but they were supported by a strong force of police, and when the Central Pacific worked up to the Union Pacific, the Californian line was being run by Chinamen, while the Omahaline was being laid by Irishmen, a veritable meeting at the Salt Lake of the East and the %Vest. The Pacific Mailship Com pany had to smuggle on board cooly firemen, with whom they replaced the discharged white men, but now the Chinamen come and go unmolested. All this is in obedience to the economic law which settles such questions, and the influence will extend as the Chinese increase, till but two classes will exist in California, the labourer and the employer, not of one but of two races, not graduating into each other, but separated by a chasm. Such a state of society is a reproduction of that in the Southern States; a new phase of the Negro question on the Pacficslope.The opposition of the white working man, who sees in the Celestial a mortal foe, is neutralized by the growing favour with which he is regarded by capitalists, and crushed by the sentiment now..per vading the nation. If the cheap labour of serfdom is degradation as well as annihilation- to white labour on the Pacific slope, it is unbounded wealth and in fluence to the Anglo-Saxon settler with means. A virgin country of unequalled resources, with an un limited supply of cheap, patient, enduring labour form an unparalleled combination considering, that so happy a conjunction is in the hands of the most energetic and materialistic of...this world's races. That they will avail themselves of it regardless of any considerations cannot be doubted, and with what result ? On the Pacific slope an oligarchy will grow with a marvellous speed more wealthy and powerful than that which nearly shattered the Republic into ruin. With an unbounded supply of serfs, with a country of greater wealth and better climate, with that situation of all others an ambi tious community would select, for it dominates the greatest of oceans, and is strong , in a position most difficult to invade;—resources so placed can be used to build up a powerful oligarchy resting on a great substratum of Chinese labour. They can cultivate all the fruits of the earth so as to compete with Euro peans even in European markets ; they can under sell the mannfactures of the Atlantic seaboard, they command the markets of the Pacific ports, and they possess the richest of all mines of the precious metals. The effect of bringing the white labourer into com petition with the Chinese is to degrade manual work as in the Southern States. The country will be possessed by estate holders, great manufacturers, and merchants, and they will rule even more thoroughly than did the Southern planter, for they will not, in the same degree, come in contact with white immi gration, reinforcements of the negro being wholly excluded, as was the case in the South, but be inti mately connected with their storehouse of work men in China, repelling poor whites in the same degree that it draws rich whites, barring Cali fornia to Anglo-Saxon labour, while inking it the paeadise of the capitalist. It is a singular fact that this formation of society, so wholly opposed to American principle, will be fostered in a measure by the American sentiment of the day. The United States is the asylum of the poor and the oppressed, alike open to all, and where the law treats all alike. Legislation calculated to shut the country to any nationality would be insufferable to New England. The white workman of California may earnestly desire it, but it soon will be opposed to the Consti tution, which, in the Fifteenth Amendment all but passed, provides that no such prohibition shall be made. The capitalist , will naturally avail himself of this, and the effect will be to generate the very state of society t °defeat which that and other Ainendmeuf g were proposed. Indeed it is not easy to estimate the effect Chinese immigration is likely to work on the Union. If it flows in the abundant stream anticipated to the shores of the Pacific, it will rise over the Rocky Mountains and pour down y a the Eastern States. In truth, the Mongul invasion once begun c tunot be controlled, a China tore being the result in every great city of America, ana who can tell with what effect. This meeting o f , the East and West, of th e y ounges t an d o ldest of nations, of the petrified Chinaman and the rest' less, energetic, brain-working Yankee, will Le the great problem of the next generation, and perhap s prove a harder nut to crack than was ever offered by the simple, docile Negro.—Anglo-Ainerica o Times. BUDGET OF PERSONAL--The Governor-Genera' of Canada costs the Dominion 852,000 a year salarY."" William Pitkin, merchant and ex-Mayor of Rochester, New York, died in that city, May 3.—A statue of George H. Stuart is to be placed on the Lincoln monument e t New York.—An Indian Chief has turned up out We st named White Feather." He is going on a lecturing, tour. Boutwell is turning out" badly, the discharge d clerks say.—Boston Post. —lie is proving himself a refer' mer, as he intends to prohibit smoking, chatting, visiting , and drinking among the Treasury clerks during business hours.—Madame Parepa-Rosa is rehearsing for perfor mances in Oratorio.—Hon. Eugene Casserly, Senator from California, is a five millionaire.—Senator Pomeroy is going to preach famale suffrage in Brigham Young's tabernacl e at Salt Lake.—Senator Sprague was at the Fifth-avenu e Hotel, New York, May s.—The Hon. George Villiers, O il of Lord Clarendon, left New York for Washington May —The Hon. J. Lothrop Motley, Minister to E n gland, la' the Hon. Samuel Hooper, M.C., left New York for Boston' We learn by telegraph that he sailed for England lel Wednesday.—Lord Berkeley Paget, Lord Waterpark, aD Mr. Wigram, from England, arrived at New York by the Scotia, and are stopping at the Brevoort House.—Jam es Hunnewell, a merchant, of Boston, identified 'with the Sandwich Island and California trade over half a centurft died on Sunday May 2, at the age of 70.—Mr John Hooper! born in Oxford, England, in 1802, and for more than 30 ye o a resident in New York, has just died.—Gen. John Ely, r e ' cently appointed United States Marshal for the East+ V l ' -trict of Pennsylvania, has died suddenly in Philath jphia. Hon. Henry L. Dawes, M.C., celebrated his silver wedding at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Monday, May 3.—The Ignatius Donnelly, known for his attack on Mr. Was h ; burns, will be an independent candidate for Governor 0 ' Minnesota at the next election.—President Grant return s an income of $560. This is independently of his salmi . ' from which the tax is deducted b e f o re payment.—V Edward Cunard left an estate valued at $3,300,000. N his will 81,500,000 goes to his eldest son, Back e Cunard; $700,000 each to his second and third sons' and $lOO,OOO each, and the accumulation thereof, t° his four daughters, all quite youn g . —Willi am E. PAO has been re-elected President of the New York Chai r her of Commerce.—John Destonet of Philadelphia, f° r merly of the firm of Destonet, Brothers, a French fe y porting house, fell dead in Chestnut-street, of heart diseas e ,' —J. J. Atkinson, treasurer of the Baltimore and Ohm Railroad, died suddenly in Baltimore, on Saturday n . g 11 .1 4 May I.—J. Lothrop Motley has been elected a member the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.-- lion. Alexandra H. Bullock, late Governor of Massachusetk and the C. H. A. Dalt of Boston, were present at the 53d minive r ,' sary of the Peace S o ci e ty l as t T ues d ay i n London.--' Republican State Convention is to be held -at Bange r ,' Maine, on the 24th of June, to nominate a can al ; date for Governor.- Mr. D. D. Y oung , President of the Quebec Bank, is dead. E x -P res id en t Pierce has e °l,l his " Boar's Head" farm on "Rye Beach," New BOW shire, but reserves his private summer residence there."... Preparations ar e m a ki ng t o conve y th e E mpress Charlotte to Baguet% s-de-Luchon, iu France, where sh e w ill pass t h season.—Baron Gerolt, who has safely arrived iu Enroe:t had continuously r e present e d th e P russ i an G ove rnal° . for 22 years.— G enera l H ancoc k i s reporte d to b e discon t tented with the command assigned t o hi m .—S amu el has just returned to Greenfield, Massachusetts, California, after having been mourned by his parents dead for seventeen years.—Dr. Brewser, what died et Pittsfield, on Monday, May 3, was born in. Becket to 1789, and was a lineal descendant of one of the in the Mayflower. v— D. W a ld o Li nco l n, o f Iv °"/ tester, Massachusetts, has been e l ec t e d one ° the trustees of the State Agricultural Coller.; John P. Hale's mansion at Dover, N ew H am pehire, l .. being put into complete order, in anticip a tio n o f his retu r `: from Madrid. - Professor C. 11. Hitchcock, of New Har °l ' shire, state geologist, and son of the President Hitchcoc w of Amherst, has been elected Hall Professor of Geologrij and Mineralogy in Darmouth College.—General B&W ° f M. Lee, of Guildford, lately co n fi rme d as S e creto9 ` Wyoming territory, left on Friday, April3o, for Cheye une, —Mr. C. E. Daelong, of N e v a d a , has received three ; 0 months' leave to settlo his affairs More proceeding to w mission in Japan. orknun Mai' l'aciio - , La:: MAILS DUE. - ustratia and New Zealand, via :lout hainctoa..... June ...iitto, via trseilles , . Juno 14 Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Juno 4 ' .73 Ditto, by French packet , . Julio Cape WI-cis. by Brazil packet • • Cape of Good EL T°, Ascension. and St. Helena._ Juno 5, +.:lalna, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton . Ja ne 3tbraltar, via southanapton india,via Southampton MAY 29 ...... uitto, via M . may arselltes !Italia, Bgypt, Ste. IlttY 29 ••• .•• Ditto, Marseilles UsY •evrfoundla ...... ..... 3 11),i:tidos, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via uthamg ton Ditto. Marseilles , June eortugal June 4 ' United States, i anada. California, &c., by British oacket MAY 29 Ditto ditt. (Baltimore) Ditto, by l ited States packet Ditto, by Inman packet Dfay 28$ West Coast of Africa, siadeira, and Teneriffe • J une Bina lass, via New 1 - ork West Indies and razific (except Mexico and Baba- 3,129 man) Cube and lexico llaY - Bermuda. via II [ ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. —Safe, yew f •lPv 11.1fy tive.— No other medicine combine s th e same / , t hee alterative, amd tonic properties, which h ave ra ise d _ fir Pills so highly in the estimation o f th e pu blic. In I ' o, l eases arising from unhealthy s it ua ti ons, c l ose apart and sedentary occupati ons , no means so po t en t f o r colle ct e° cleansing, and regul a ti ng th e h uman b o d y can be foa Holloway's Pills wonderfully i m p rove wea k di ge sti°t g augmenting the gastric secti on an d mo d erate l y roue; oe er the function of the liver ; hence th e i r we ll-k nown P° r of removing tainted breath, a n d reme d y i ng every °th dyspeptic unpleasantness. Th ey ent i rely overcome to lethargic symptoms attending bad digestion, and for years been esteemed as the best and safest i no aperient; they are particularly suitable for youug l and children. 60 11 : [ADVERTISEMENT.]— Dyspepsia (Indigestion), Constie oc Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stoma s 'liver complaints i n every stage, are onlia ggrava t e d and a .. "' vtl rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable bi d IV Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as prove ch thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, fLite , — cough. asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver coniKe l er flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, d i P:heir ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears,jr`riDs matism, gout, impuriti es , erupt i ons, h yster i a, neura lgia,cife, bility, bleeplessne as , ac idi ty, pa l p i tat i on, heartburn, hea ds 01 ia debility, dropsy, cra m p s, spasms, nausea, and sickness, ciriel pregnancy or at sea, sinkin g fit s , b ronc hi t i s, scro f u l a , fig „ of the chest, pai ns a t th e p i t of the stomach and bet 3—" vree - dl3l shoulders, Etc. We quote a few :—The Pope's health rest ore Du Barry's Food. C u r e N o. 68,41 Some, July 12, 1 8 , 6 „ i dolr health of the Holy Father is exce ll en t , espec i ally since, a.% 9 1 ing all other remedies, h e h as con fi ne d h i mself ent i re ly Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes e'erooliti t ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beo,,,lieu effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this el' cur ° food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2, 6 . „ o wl; No. 46,270-Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of -r rd. lite r Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitti ng o f bloc!, , tu cf , derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N o . 1 , 771—L cr a :psio de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterf o rd, o f many years' dr;;sio" No. 49,832—" Fifty years' indes cr ib a bl e agony from dYB,-,,, sms nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulencY , s rdee• - ', sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important C l %,, t ioe' Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy j itaj * to which, without authority, Baron Liebi,s's name is mos t ciously attached. ‘..r 2 ° In tins, at Is lid; Ilb 2s 041: 2lbs 4s &I Ms II s lbB _ n ot , 24 lbe 40s. -Also Du BARRY'S REVALEN TA ARARIcA. C.- LI% POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at ' f°r „. St s i t at Is 6d, for 48 cups at Gs, for 288 cups at 30s, fur 576 eur„ - re se-, —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tine a r d o r, free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office Of BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lond" all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTIM. , tl l6 S LAMBERT—On tho 25th i nst., at 37, -ussox-gara enS, wife of Alan Lambert, Esq., of a son. Old Moltßis—On the 27th inst., at 9, Manchester-squar e ' wife of Henry Morris, Esq., of a son. EARRIAGES. HATSE —WESTA LL —O n the 28th lust , at St. l - . rob o ; Church, by th e Rev. A.J. J Cachou:mile, o' eldest son of John liaise Esq., of Acton, form er ithe St. James's Palace, to Frederic.,, ' eldest daughter (). re et, late S a m ue l IVestall Esq of 108, G u ildford - b t Ilu4sell-Equ u r e , formerly of " Nen'r-ine. No cards ,100, M 'Kutuow—BRUNLEES - On the 27th inst., at ICenb ui e jd e st Alexander fil‘lierrow, E q. C.E. to Mary •T daughter of James Brunlees, C.E., Argyle Ls ° dD Wimbledon. DEATHS. RADCLIFFE —On the 27th inst, at Surbiton - h ill, ll se t• MI Admiral Wm. Radeli9, age,' . 72 tb Su -On the 26th inst ff . , Robert . w Ed i n Smith, o f - Br e d' WALsit—At South , Lambeth, J. W. 4 Walsh, Esq . ! street, Oheapside so:ietor. • d 8 . 801 1610t1 aged 52. -....1 ste, London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN D 7.; r 9,13c 1, of. No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tun SUN Office , N 0.112, in . t..ue Precinct of the Savoy, in the County o f Middle ' Fnday, May 28, 1569. KINAHAN'S This celebrated OLI prize Pure, Mild, Sold in Bottles as. Melt E he Agents in the princi 8, GREAT WI/ , Observe the Red Seal lan's LL Whisky. KEATING' relieves the di EATING'IftTIO Important rein lls each. ' . — Sold in Bows yEATING, Ch London, E.O. Vi UTUAL LI ancorporm 14 , RIISSELL-STII AIYrANCT And :IS ".R MONEY bold or Leasehold Prc o .le weekly, monthly, V , .rins free on receipt 11 OYAL M Propr IMMENSE. SU( Mr TIMMY RTOKAI Mr FRED (DYNE, t Mr L's &RD. the M Mr GEORG-F, KYR( Mißs A \ NTE AT)A3TS KATT: BELL • ,Miss JEANIE FRAM' MACLAGAN, THE WOR Full Mr. P irdr Notice-31r G M A DAME llake - -street.— . (of No, with) has be' Chamht the morning' until 1.0 NRGYLL RO The extraordinary of the Shadow Dane the electric liAt on Pate in it, cornbine Il usic Selections pre have had the gratif3 roost extensively pat e Vf'brated Orchestra ''''er• Signor Luigi ci Dositions of all 1 .:1 1 '4 , , , "gigried to the emu, Graves, L. Silher Thoma s Pitts. Prof • RA THE above P Luncheon. Br( For deviling Legs of ' ORIGINAL AND To be ol JO A SIILE Y Very Fine Pale, Dr! Old Crushed Port (I 8111 Plaing), Vintag SParlcling Charnpftf lery, Qua.lite Supe sample eases of !potties Shrry, two GABRIO B. HALT Consi P• next the ee for NIC eelebrat gn ed PALE a Bordeaux Wines at W hiskies, front Re alBO be seen at the number of Hotels, of others wanted in SCIENTIFIC , ORNAMENT and Dinine sort rnent of VAS leaks, Inkstands, ke.i in Italian A shire Spar. &c.' 'PENNANT, Mi W. 0., London. Mr. Tennant at MINERALS, an of Lyell's Elemer tatn the intereE GEOLOGY, anc guineas each. PR A.OT MAL MINERALOGY 149, Strand. T HE LIVI GL( Offices-1, II The lovestce Fire - Revenue to The moderate rn Bonus for the T value :IR SPEC retpler them Di leave ie granted thirty days after NA'rioNA under Richmond 1711 r e uatrone Cll; 3 le, 'th ,7 .if .hgome the kingdom- Els' .• T he °hie ,t of ugh education, ar and laundry, to wise nrovided to suitable nitration The Committee sntirelY anattlinei Oftea, 121, Pall IaRTTIST bitvck©n zj Patron—TT, For e gra d estitute th orpha an d of all del Prosperous circ .One hund re d s htution ; ampl Increased st e ndowed, and assist ance. Subscribers In stitution, an tts Pr'culiar cla The last Eel Secretary. Offices, 73, tikers-1:1 14110 ; rola I►to% R EALTIT RESI 1)IJ BARI and In! T] MeS fifty tim Perfect digesti refreshing sic' most disorder effectually in, sumption, hal rangements, nervousness, catarrhs, eoh rheumatism, r,ftigia, irritf ueartburn, h t‘usea and si fits, bronehif the pit of the tlas most dige for invalids a - - - IXPORTATI and more thv ritY, Baron I Ileneefortl Du Barry's arid Infants' has already been doomed tees the Pop by it after tip We quote fi l ielY Father other remed arrY'9l - 1 - e - Y; lateful at o beneficial of Praise this e Cure No. Years' liver "Bs, irritah digestion, cc nervous agit etre No.' Stuart de D( fiord ;_<<l b r ` oo 4.—Str., Waterford." Cure No. fro m d yspei flatulency, ei Lynn: N, Cure No. ervousnes Yens fancie. Cure No. Years diarri The Foof 11,,, 45. 6d. Mlisterp c lrry la canister `:ape at Cs. ao n t e„ ; free of cart brutßy also at t i - '( GracechutNom . Ncrtl